AGP#016 – Pinoko Is A Creepy Stalker

Hosts: Evan “Vampt Vo” Minto, Mitchell Dyer,
Elliot Page
Topic: Black Jack (Manga: JP-1970, NA-2008)


In this episode, Mitchy reappears to talk about Osamu Tezuka’s
Black Jack manga, which we’ve wanted to review since
last fall when it began its English language publication courtesy
of Vertical, Inc. Our second guest, Elliot from Luke and Elliot’s
Bearfighting Extravaganza, was invited onto the podcast between
the first segment and the review, so he joins us for the
remainder of the episode.


This episode was recorded the weekend after the last episode was
released, which seems like a fairly reasonable schedule for the
podcast going into the future. Maybe we’ll end up doing that.


Or maybe I’ll just end up not having enough time and the episodes
will come out weeks late like usual. Which would be terrible. So,
look forward to an attempt at a regular, every-other-week
schedule from now on, but don’t be surprised if we have to skip a
week sometimes.


Show notes and links can be found after the break.


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(Runtime: 53 minutes, 58 seconds)

[0:00:00] Intro: Time to sync up our claps![0:00:09] Opening
Song: “R.O.D Theme” by Taku Iwasaki (R.O.D. OVA
opener)

[0:00:25] Evan begins the show by shamelessly pimping his
appearances on the Anime3000 Panel. He was on both parts of the
Gaming episode: part 1 and part 2.


[0:01:30] What’cha Been Doing? Evan has been
watching the 1980 Astro Boy anime remake, reading
volume 3 of the Astro Boy manga in preparation for
reading Naoki Urasawa’s Pluto, and playing more
Far Cry 2. Mitchy has been playing UFC
Undisputed and Red Faction: Guerrilla.


[0:14:16] Promo: The Big Bald Broadcast


[0:15:35] Discussion: Elliot of Luke and
Elliot’s Bearfighting Extravaganza podcast makes a surprise
appearance, and joins Evan and Mitchy for their Black Jack
volume 1 review. But since he has read into the later volumes,
Elliot provides some much-needed temperance to some of the
generalizations (and Pinoko-hating) that come up. Highlights of
this segment include: Having sex with 12-year-old elves,
operating on a self-aware computer, and a child constructed out
of jumbled human organs. One of those things doesn’t happen in
Black Jack. We’ll let you be the judge of which one.


[0:42:41] Break: SushiTV pilot


[0:43:23] Links of the Day: Elliot stays on
for this segment, where Evan begins with the pilot for the
failed anime TV block SushiTV (provided to the Internet by
Justin Sevakis). Then Mitchy suggests a Wired article about
Catan. And finally, Elliot has the announcement of, and video
footage from, the new Team ICO project, dubbed “Trico.” An
argument between Mitchy and Evan about Shadow of the
Colossus ensues. They once recorded a similar argument
about the game that never made it to the podcast due to
technical problems.


[0:48:54] Mitchy was writing one-paragraph reviews last month
over at DownWriteFierce, and Luke and Elliot have been talking
about silly things like Angels and Demons and
Star Trek over at their podcast. Here at
Ani-Gamers, Ink is continuing his column, Fullmetal
Alchemist: The Brotherhood Diaries.


[0:52:05] This ending is SO GAY. And we’re all good with that.


[0:53:30] Ending Song: “WORLD END Instrumental” by FLOW
(Code Geass R2 second opener)


[0:53:46] Outro: Protip – It’s alwaysEvan’s fault.