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<author>ninjaconsultant@gmail.com (Erin and Noah)</author><media:content url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/p5j-_hQl91k/Ninja_Consultant_S2_75.mp3" fileSize="21226717" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Show #075 - Direct Download: </itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Erin and Noah</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Show #075 - Direct Download: </itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>anime,,animes,,manga,,mangas,,AMV,,anime,music,videos,,otaku,,japan,,comics,,ninja,,ninjas,,Naruto,,cartoon,,cartoons,,Adult,Swim</itunes:keywords><feedburner:origLink>http://ninjaconsultant.livejournal.com/35022.html</feedburner:origLink><enclosure url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/p5j-_hQl91k/Ninja_Consultant_S2_75.mp3" length="21226717" type="audio/mpeg" /><feedburner:origEnclosureLink>http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/Ninja_Consultant_S2_75.mp3</feedburner:origEnclosureLink></item>
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  <description>&lt;b&gt;Show #074 - &lt;/b&gt;Direct Download:  &lt;a href="http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/Ninja_Consultant_S2_74.mp3"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/podcast-mini2.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;OP:&lt;/b&gt;  &amp;quot;Christmas Wrapping&amp;quot; by the Waitresses&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;ED:&lt;/b&gt;  &amp;quot;Welcome Christmas&amp;quot; from the 1966 How the Grinch Stole Christmas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&amp;amp;id=14573"&gt;The difference between criticism&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&amp;amp;id=15370"&gt;reviews&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.crunchyroll.com/library/Hanasakeru_Seishonen"&gt;Hanasakeru Seishonen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Manga-Illustrated/dp/0470823380/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1261700314&amp;amp;sr=8-1-spell"&gt;The Five Disfunctions of a Team - Manga Edition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Detective Loki Ragnarok&lt;br /&gt;Bastard!&lt;br /&gt;K-9 and Company&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage#Opponents_of_Primitivism"&gt;The Myth of the Noble Savage&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the movie Avatar.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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<author>ninjaconsultant@gmail.com (Erin and Noah)</author><media:content url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/3oIej5r57OI/Ninja_Consultant_S2_74.mp3" fileSize="22919207" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Show #074 - Direct Download: OP: &amp;quot;Christmas Wrapping&amp;quot; by the Waitresses ED: &amp;quot;Welcome Christmas&amp;quot; from the 1966 How the Grinch Stole Christmas The difference between criticism and reviews. Hanasakeru Seishonen The Five Disfunctions of a </itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Erin and Noah</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Show #074 - Direct Download: OP: &amp;quot;Christmas Wrapping&amp;quot; by the Waitresses ED: &amp;quot;Welcome Christmas&amp;quot; from the 1966 How the Grinch Stole Christmas The difference between criticism and reviews. Hanasakeru Seishonen The Five Disfunctions of a Team - Manga Edition Detective Loki Ragnarok Bastard! K-9 and Company The Myth of the Noble Savage&amp;nbsp;and the movie Avatar.</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>anime,,animes,,manga,,mangas,,AMV,,anime,music,videos,,otaku,,japan,,comics,,ninja,,ninjas,,Naruto,,cartoon,,cartoons,,Adult,Swim</itunes:keywords><feedburner:origLink>http://ninjaconsultant.livejournal.com/34812.html</feedburner:origLink><enclosure url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/3oIej5r57OI/Ninja_Consultant_S2_74.mp3" length="22919207" type="audio/mpeg" /><feedburner:origEnclosureLink>http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/Ninja_Consultant_S2_74.mp3</feedburner:origEnclosureLink></item>
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  <description>&lt;b&gt;Show #073 - &lt;/b&gt;Direct Download:  &lt;a href="http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/Ninja_Consultant_S2_73.mp3"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/podcast-mini2.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;OP:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mym-FZ6DCQI&amp;amp;feature=PlayList&amp;amp;p=6B44DD0C645515EB&amp;amp;playnext=1&amp;amp;playnext_from=PL&amp;amp;index=3"&gt;Kanon 2006 OP&lt;/a&gt;, "Last regrets" by Ayana&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;ED:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItUsvC-eoI"&gt;Clannad After Story ED&lt;/a&gt;, "TORCH" by Lia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this episode we interview Caleb, an Otaku USA writer. Here&#8217;s his personal blog, &lt;a href="http://animegeijitsu.wordpress.com/"&gt;Anime wa Bakuhatsu da!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; For a better definition of moe, &lt;a href="http://ninjaconsultant.livejournal.com/20624.html"&gt;listen to Dr. Weeaboo&#8217;s 2007 panel recording we did.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt; Caleb saw &lt;a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8264"&gt;Cencoroll&lt;/a&gt; at NYAF but we missed it.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt; You can read &lt;a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2009-02-06"&gt;more about Caleb&#8217;s opinions here&lt;/a&gt; and also &lt;a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2007-08-24"&gt;over here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;It&#8217;s insulting to the entire human race to put someone down because you think the anime they watch is trashy compared to what you watch. It&#8217;s rude, it&#8217;s annoying, and it&#8217;s an embarrassment to any fan community. It&#8217;s perfectly okay to not like a series; no one&#8217;s expected to like everything, but insisting, even in jest, that someone who watches Kanon is suffering from severe autism (just like the characters! truly I am a comedy genius!) is just taking the extra step from "having a different opinion" to "being a jerk". it&#8217;s common Internet behavior, true, but the Internet at large is another huge embarrassment to humanity.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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<author>ninjaconsultant@gmail.com (Erin and Noah)</author><media:content url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/iy7gkGPOreA/Ninja_Consultant_S2_73.mp3" fileSize="32826652" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Show #073 - Direct Download: OP: Kanon 2006 OP, "Last regrets" by Ayana ED: Clannad After Story ED, "TORCH" by Lia In this episode we interview Caleb, an Otaku USA writer. Here&#8217;s his personal blog, Anime wa Bakuhatsu da! For a better definition of moe, li</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Erin and Noah</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Show #073 - Direct Download: OP: Kanon 2006 OP, "Last regrets" by Ayana ED: Clannad After Story ED, "TORCH" by Lia In this episode we interview Caleb, an Otaku USA writer. Here&#8217;s his personal blog, Anime wa Bakuhatsu da! For a better definition of moe, listen to Dr. Weeaboo&#8217;s 2007 panel recording we did. Caleb saw Cencoroll at NYAF but we missed it. You can read more about Caleb&#8217;s opinions here and also over here:It&#8217;s insulting to the entire human race to put someone down because you think the anime they watch is trashy compared to what you watch. It&#8217;s rude, it&#8217;s annoying, and it&#8217;s an embarrassment to any fan community. It&#8217;s perfectly okay to not like a series; no one&#8217;s expected to like everything, but insisting, even in jest, that someone who watches Kanon is suffering from severe autism (just like the characters! truly I am a comedy genius!) is just taking the extra step from "having a different opinion" to "being a jerk". it&#8217;s common Internet behavior, true, but the Internet at large is another huge embarrassment to humanity.</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>anime,,animes,,manga,,mangas,,AMV,,anime,music,videos,,otaku,,japan,,comics,,ninja,,ninjas,,Naruto,,cartoon,,cartoons,,Adult,Swim</itunes:keywords><feedburner:origLink>http://ninjaconsultant.livejournal.com/34339.html</feedburner:origLink><enclosure url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/iy7gkGPOreA/Ninja_Consultant_S2_73.mp3" length="32826652" type="audio/mpeg" /><feedburner:origEnclosureLink>http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/Ninja_Consultant_S2_73.mp3</feedburner:origEnclosureLink></item>
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  <title>I am the new Bamboo Dong</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/shelf-life/2009-10-12"&gt;It&#8217;s official.&lt;/a&gt; Starting next week I&#8217;ll be taking over Bamboo Dong&#8217;s&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; "Shelf Life" column on Anime News Network. I&#8217;ll be reviewing anime on a weekly basis, for &lt;a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/faq#what_is_ann"&gt;"...the #1 English language source for anime and manga news on the Internet"&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Five years ago, when I was reading Bamboo&#8217;s column, I never thought, "Oh, I bet someday I&#8217;ll be writing this!" I really liked her &lt;a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/images/SHELFLIFE/38/Nightshift.JPG"&gt;Nightshift Nurses 2&lt;/a&gt; comic strip - and apparently so did everyone else, it&#8217;s her "longest viewed" column.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2004-12-17"&gt;Back in 2004 I also asked the Answerman a question&lt;/a&gt;. I couldn&#8217;t really imagine that there would come a time in 2009 when I would be randomly hanging out with ANN staff over lunch at Tokyo Big Sight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So next week please look forward to my review of &lt;i&gt;Black Lagoon&lt;/i&gt;!  Hopefully Noah will get his &lt;i&gt;Black Lagoon&lt;/i&gt; podcast ready soon, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&#8217;m trying to figure out what this will mean for the podcast. Our pace of shows is already really slow, (averaging once a month) so I can&#8217;t imagine it getting any worse. We will certainly be watching a lot more anime. Maybe we&#8217;ll give away DVDs once in a while.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Yes, that is her real name.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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  <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:04:31 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Show #72 - NYAF 2009 Part 1: The Rough Guide to Anime</title>
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  <description>&lt;b&gt;Show #072 - &lt;/b&gt;Direct Download:  &lt;a href="http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/Ninja_Consultant_S2_72.mp3"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/podcast-mini2.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;OP:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;a href="http://ghiblicon.blogspot.com/2009/07/omohide-poro-poro-2005-review.html"&gt;Only Yesterday&lt;/a&gt; clip&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;ED:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5a8DXGbCaI"&gt;Multilanguage version of Ponyo end theme&lt;/a&gt;, including the abysmal English language remix.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An interview with &lt;a href="http://www.roughguides.com/website/reference/AuthorPage/author.aspx?authorID=68"&gt;Simon Richmond&lt;/a&gt;, author of &lt;a href="http://www.roughguides.com/website/shop/products/Anime.aspx"&gt;the Rough Guide to Anime&lt;/a&gt; (and the very useful &lt;a href="http://www.roughguides.com/website/shop/products/Japan.aspx"&gt;Rough Guide to Japan&lt;/a&gt;) conducted at NYAF 2009.  Here&#8217;s my &lt;a href="http://www.otakuusamagazine.com/Events/Public/News1/2009_New_York_Anime_Festival_1616.aspx"&gt;Otaku USA NYAF coverage&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Here&#8217;s my &lt;a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6698046.html?nid=2789&amp;amp;source=title&amp;amp;rid=398544032"&gt; PW interview with Simon&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anime influenced &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyHaqEK394I"&gt;Madonna video&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DdCFczrodc"&gt;Britany Spears video&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href="http://helenmccarthy.org/0/The%20Anime%20Encyclopedia.html"&gt;Anime Encyclopedia&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://helenmccarthy.org/0/Home.html"&gt;Helen McCarthy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Justin Sevakis&#8217;s &lt;a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/buried-treasure"&gt;Buried Treasure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jai2.com/"&gt;Fred Schodt&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.koyagi.com/"&gt;Gilles Poitras&lt;/a&gt; also writes for Otaku USA magazine.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ani.seoul.kr/"&gt;Seoul Animation Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.koreanfolk.co.kr/folk/english/index.htm"&gt;Korean Folk Village&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lotteworld.com/"&gt;Lotte World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-05-10/planned-anime-museum-panned-as-national-manga-cafe"&gt;Planned Museum Dedicated to the New Arts in Odaiba&lt;/a&gt;, in Tokyo&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkzYssPZ9Rs"&gt;Starcraft Players in Korea&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Starfighter"&gt;The Last Starfighter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.animecons.com/events/info.shtml/1574"&gt;Ame Con&lt;/a&gt; in Leicester, U.K.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Smallest U.K. Con: &lt;a href="http://www.animecons.com/events/info.shtml/1420"&gt;Minami Con&lt;/a&gt;, 300 Attendees&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/horses_for_courses"&gt;&amp;quot;Horses for Courses&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;, an idiom we had never heard before.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.roughguides.com/website/shop/products/Manga.aspx"&gt;Rough Guide to Manga&lt;/a&gt;, October 2009, by Jason Yadao&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;img src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/roughguide.jpg" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="right"&gt;&lt;a href="http://animeworldorder.com/"&gt;Daryl&#8217;s&lt;/a&gt; comment is worth noting in the show notes:  &lt;i&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;In my review of the book in Otaku USA, I said that if I had to pick *one* book that every anime fan should read, The Rough Guide to Anime was it. It&#8217;s not just because I briefly met Simon at Anime Boston thanks to your interviewing him, either. If everyone knew (or at least read through and partially retained) the information contained within it and watched the 50 recommended anime titles (well, you can skip Steamboy. And if you absolutely MUST watch Evangelion, save it for last so you can properly contextualize it), then anime fandom would be substantially better off for it. It&#8217;s not a big book, it&#8217;s not expensive, and despite being really information-dense it&#8217;s got a lot of pictures and sidebars so as not to overwhelm people.

&lt;p&gt;At every con I go to where I do some sort of anime recommendations panel (such as this weekend&#8217;s upcoming EXPCon in St. Augustine, FL!), I tell people to go out and get this book. My actual success rate is unknown, as I&#8217;m still the only person I know to have read it, but it&#8217;s simultaneously "newbie-friendly" while containing more worthwhile, lasting information worth retaining than pretty much any other anime book on the shelves.

&lt;p&gt;If there ever came a day when 1. I figured out what the heck I&#8217;d write a book about, and 2. I managed to actually write said book and get it published, key in my mind would be "does this book I&#8217;m writing handle [whatever its subject material would be] as good as if not better than The Rough Guide to Anime?" Were that day to ever come, I&#8217;m not fully sure the answer would be "yes."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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<author>ninjaconsultant@gmail.com (Erin and Noah)</author><media:content url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/9Pn5c_jZvgw/Ninja_Consultant_S2_72.mp3" fileSize="21342484" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Show #072 - Direct Download: OP: Only Yesterday clip ED: Multilanguage version of Ponyo end theme, including the abysmal English language remix. An interview with Simon Richmond, author of the Rough Guide to Anime (and the very useful Rough Guide to Japan</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Erin and Noah</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Show #072 - Direct Download: OP: Only Yesterday clip ED: Multilanguage version of Ponyo end theme, including the abysmal English language remix. An interview with Simon Richmond, author of the Rough Guide to Anime (and the very useful Rough Guide to Japan) conducted at NYAF 2009. Here&#8217;s my Otaku USA NYAF coverage.&amp;nbsp; Here&#8217;s my PW interview with Simon. Anime influenced Madonna video, Britany Spears video.The Anime Encyclopedia by Helen McCarthyJustin Sevakis&#8217;s Buried TreasureFred Schodt!Gilles Poitras also writes for Otaku USA magazine.Seoul Animation CenterKorean Folk VillageLotte WorldPlanned Museum Dedicated to the New Arts in Odaiba, in TokyoStarcraft Players in KoreaThe Last StarfighterAme Con in Leicester, U.K.Smallest U.K. Con: Minami Con, 300 Attendees&amp;quot;Horses for Courses&amp;quot;, an idiom we had never heard before.Rough Guide to Manga, October 2009, by Jason Yadao Daryl&#8217;s comment is worth noting in the show notes: In my review of the book in Otaku USA, I said that if I had to pick *one* book that every anime fan should read, The Rough Guide to Anime was it. It&#8217;s not just because I briefly met Simon at Anime Boston thanks to your interviewing him, either. If everyone knew (or at least read through and partially retained) the information contained within it and watched the 50 recommended anime titles (well, you can skip Steamboy. And if you absolutely MUST watch Evangelion, save it for last so you can properly contextualize it), then anime fandom would be substantially better off for it. It&#8217;s not a big book, it&#8217;s not expensive, and despite being really information-dense it&#8217;s got a lot of pictures and sidebars so as not to overwhelm people. At every con I go to where I do some sort of anime recommendations panel (such as this weekend&#8217;s upcoming EXPCon in St. Augustine, FL!), I tell people to go out and get this book. My actual success rate is unknown, as I&#8217;m still the only person I know to have read it, but it&#8217;s simultaneously "newbie-friendly" while containing more worthwhile, lasting information worth retaining than pretty much any other anime book on the shelves. If there ever came a day when 1. I figured out what the heck I&#8217;d write a book about, and 2. I managed to actually write said book and get it published, key in my mind would be "does this book I&#8217;m writing handle [whatever its subject material would be] as good as if not better than The Rough Guide to Anime?" Were that day to ever come, I&#8217;m not fully sure the answer would be "yes."</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>anime,,animes,,manga,,mangas,,AMV,,anime,music,videos,,otaku,,japan,,comics,,ninja,,ninjas,,Naruto,,cartoon,,cartoons,,Adult,Swim</itunes:keywords><feedburner:origLink>http://ninjaconsultant.livejournal.com/33836.html</feedburner:origLink><enclosure url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/9Pn5c_jZvgw/Ninja_Consultant_S2_72.mp3" length="21342484" type="audio/mpeg" /><feedburner:origEnclosureLink>http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/Ninja_Consultant_S2_72.mp3</feedburner:origEnclosureLink></item>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:39:33 GMT</pubDate>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:55:46 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Show #71 - The Webcomic Episode</title>
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  <description>&lt;b&gt;Show #071&lt;/b&gt;Direct Download:  &lt;a href="http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/Ninja_Consultant_S2_71.mp3"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/podcast-mini2.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;OP and ED:&lt;/b&gt;  &amp;quot;Theme from &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpH1yMGxh5E"&gt;Mega Force&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; by Movie Night: The Band&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hetalia - began as a webcomic, and was collected into manga volumes, then adapted into an anime series which was streamed online for free in Japan.&lt;br /&gt;Tonari No 801-chan was similarly a webcomic, and I think it was adapted into a live action drama series.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="+1"&gt;At 1 h 9m 35s - we talk about Japanese comics some more, and it&#8217;s historical and informative.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Guest:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;a href="http://doctorsquid.com/"&gt;Chris from Ego and the Squid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.doctorsquid.com/images/The_Commodore_med.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If my hotlinking crashes your server let me know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chris&#8217;s Favs:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://qwantz.com"&gt;Dinosaur Comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://isotown.net"&gt;Isotown&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://overcompensating.com"&gt;Overcompensating&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://penny-arcade.com"&gt;Penny Arcade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinkdresson.blogspot.com"&gt;New Feelings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://achewood.com"&gt;Achewood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://americanelf.com"&gt;American Elf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://scenelanguage.com"&gt;Scene Language&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://starshapedrock.com"&gt;Star Shaped Rock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://daisyowl.com"&gt;Daisy Owl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://doctorsquid.com"&gt;The Ego And The Squid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://giantitp.com"&gt;The Order Of The Stick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fartparty.org"&gt;Fart Party&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://harkavagrant.com"&gt;Hark! A Vagrant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://catandgirl.com"&gt;Cat And Girl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://creasedcomics.com"&gt;Creased Comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://buttersafe.com"&gt;Buttersafe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nedroid.com"&gt;Nedroid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nataliedee.com"&gt;Natalie Dee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://marriedtothesea.com"&gt;Married To The Sea&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://toothpastefordinner.com"&gt;Toothpaste For Dinner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Noah&#8217;s Favs:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Penny Arcade&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.skin-horse.com/"&gt;Skinhorse&lt;/a&gt; (by the author of Narbonic)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.erfworld.com/"&gt;Erfworld&lt;/a&gt; (dude is cool)&lt;br /&gt;Order of the Stick&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Erin&#8217;s Favs:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kickinthehead.org/"&gt;A Kick in the Head&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.xkcd.com/386/"&gt;XKCD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pbfcomics.com/"&gt;Perry Bible Fellowship&lt;/a&gt; (retired)&lt;br /&gt;Fart Party &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://jerkcity.com/"&gt;Jerk City&lt;/a&gt; (NSFW)&lt;br /&gt;Dinosaur Comics&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Old-Timey Comics:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://wondermark.com/"&gt;Wondermark&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Married to the Sea&lt;br /&gt;Edison Hates the Future&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some Other Mentions:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alien Loves Predator&lt;br /&gt;Idiot Comics&lt;br /&gt;Irregular Comics&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Webcomic Cons:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conneticon&lt;br /&gt;MoCCA&lt;br /&gt;Stumpytown&lt;br /&gt;APE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mindpollution.org/2009/03/22/webcomics-weekend-day-one-ish-in-review/"&gt;New England Webcomics Weekend&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Goodbye Kim&#8217;s Video Underground!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now Syndicated: Diesel Sweeties&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paper Comics:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ted Rall of Tom the Dancing Bug&lt;br /&gt;Ernie Pook&#8217;s Comeek by Lynda Barry&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://topatoco.com/hey/"&gt;Topatocow Store&lt;/a&gt; for the coolest shirts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Drama Webcomics:&lt;br /&gt;Voids&lt;br /&gt;Scene Language&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eventually we talk about manga again - around 57-1 hour in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sigikki.com/"&gt;Viz&#8217;s IKKI&lt;/a&gt; - titles for free&lt;br /&gt;Rin-E - Rumiko Takahashi&#8217;s bland Bleach rip-off&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Garfield Without Garfield&lt;br /&gt;Arbuckle&lt;br /&gt;Lasagna Cat&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flethcher Hanks reprints - Super Wizard Stardust (recommended!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 h 9m 35s - Japanese strip comics&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Drifting Life - read it!&lt;br /&gt;My Neighbors the Yamadas - based a newspaper strip - recommended!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4-Koma strips in translation:&lt;br /&gt;Azumanga Daioh (recommended)&lt;br /&gt;Lucky Star&lt;br /&gt;Shoulder a Coffin Kuro&lt;br /&gt;S.S. Astro&lt;br /&gt;Cosplay Kurumi-chan&lt;br /&gt;Sazae-san&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although not a strip comic, High School Girls is recommended!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;60 Ways to Leave Your Mother&lt;br /&gt;Star Shaped Rock&lt;br /&gt;American Elf&lt;br /&gt;Creased Comics by Brad Neeley, who did Wizard People Dear Reader, and a hilarious short about George Washington&lt;br /&gt;Overcompensating&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;e-sheep&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Promos:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://gammaquadrant.libsyn.com/"&gt;Gamma Quadrant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://animeroundtable.wordpress.com/"&gt;Anime Roundtable&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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<author>ninjaconsultant@gmail.com (Erin and Noah)</author><media:content url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/x7Dc7kW08Vo/Ninja_Consultant_S2_71.mp3" fileSize="53052104" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Show #071Direct Download: OP and ED: &amp;quot;Theme from Mega Force&amp;quot; by Movie Night: The Band Hetalia - began as a webcomic, and was collected into manga volumes, then adapted into an anime series which was streamed online for free in Japan. Tonari No 8</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Erin and Noah</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Show #071Direct Download: OP and ED: &amp;quot;Theme from Mega Force&amp;quot; by Movie Night: The Band Hetalia - began as a webcomic, and was collected into manga volumes, then adapted into an anime series which was streamed online for free in Japan. Tonari No 801-chan was similarly a webcomic, and I think it was adapted into a live action drama series. At 1 h 9m 35s - we talk about Japanese comics some more, and it&#8217;s historical and informative. Guest: Chris from Ego and the Squid If my hotlinking crashes your server let me know. Chris&#8217;s Favs: Dinosaur Comics Isotown Overcompensating Penny Arcade New Feelings Achewood American Elf Scene Language Star Shaped Rock Daisy Owl The Ego And The Squid The Order Of The Stick Fart Party Hark! A Vagrant Cat And Girl Creased Comics Buttersafe Nedroid Natalie Dee Married To The Sea Toothpaste For Dinner Noah&#8217;s Favs: Penny Arcade Skinhorse (by the author of Narbonic) Erfworld (dude is cool) Order of the Stick Erin&#8217;s Favs: A Kick in the Head XKCD Perry Bible Fellowship (retired) Fart Party Jerk City (NSFW) Dinosaur Comics Old-Timey Comics: Wondermark Married to the Sea Edison Hates the Future Some Other Mentions: Alien Loves Predator Idiot Comics Irregular Comics Webcomic Cons: Conneticon MoCCA Stumpytown APE New England Webcomics Weekend Goodbye Kim&#8217;s Video Underground! Now Syndicated: Diesel Sweeties Paper Comics: Ted Rall of Tom the Dancing Bug Ernie Pook&#8217;s Comeek by Lynda Barry Topatocow Store for the coolest shirts Drama Webcomics: Voids Scene Language Eventually we talk about manga again - around 57-1 hour in. Viz&#8217;s IKKI - titles for free Rin-E - Rumiko Takahashi&#8217;s bland Bleach rip-off Garfield Without Garfield Arbuckle Lasagna Cat Flethcher Hanks reprints - Super Wizard Stardust (recommended!) 1 h 9m 35s - Japanese strip comics A Drifting Life - read it! My Neighbors the Yamadas - based a newspaper strip - recommended! 4-Koma strips in translation: Azumanga Daioh (recommended) Lucky Star Shoulder a Coffin Kuro S.S. Astro Cosplay Kurumi-chan Sazae-san Although not a strip comic, High School Girls is recommended! 60 Ways to Leave Your Mother Star Shaped Rock American Elf Creased Comics by Brad Neeley, who did Wizard People Dear Reader, and a hilarious short about George Washington Overcompensating e-sheep Promos: Gamma Quadrant Anime Roundtable</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>anime,,animes,,manga,,mangas,,AMV,,anime,music,videos,,otaku,,japan,,comics,,ninja,,ninjas,,Naruto,,cartoon,,cartoons,,Adult,Swim</itunes:keywords><feedburner:origLink>http://ninjaconsultant.livejournal.com/33502.html</feedburner:origLink><enclosure url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/x7Dc7kW08Vo/Ninja_Consultant_S2_71.mp3" length="53052104" type="audio/mpeg" /><feedburner:origEnclosureLink>http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/Ninja_Consultant_S2_71.mp3</feedburner:origEnclosureLink></item>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Last minute Otakon roommate?</title>
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  <description>Hey guys, we could use one to three more Otakon roommates. We&#8217;re staying at the Brookshire, which is not the cheapest, but has &lt;i&gt;free breakfasts&lt;/i&gt; and free microbrew beer on Friday night.  I arrive Thursday night, we&#8217;re leaving Sunday afternoon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contact: ninjaconsultant (at) gmail (dot) com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And no, we don&#8217;t want to move to another hotel to stay in your room.  We love breakfast.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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  <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:07:46 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Otakon 2009 - Booth R12</title>
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  <description>&lt;img src="http://pics.livejournal.com/ninjaconsultant/pic/0000etkt" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I only made a few of these. You can get &#8217;em at Booth &lt;a href="http://otakon.com/showfloor/ifloorplan.asp?showExhibitorID=3789&amp;amp;booth=R12&amp;amp;Map=4"&gt;R12 in Otakon&#8217;s Artist Alley&lt;/a&gt;. I&#8217;m making buttons that say the same thing as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All our panels got rejected :( but I might be on the "Review Anime the Right Way" panel tentatively scheduled for Saturday at 7 PM, with other Otaku USA writers.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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  <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:01:31 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Show #70 - 20th Century Boys</title>
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  <description>&lt;b&gt;Show #069&lt;/b&gt;Direct Download:  &lt;a href="http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/Ninja_Consultant_S2_70.mp3"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/podcast-mini2.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;OP and ED:&lt;/b&gt;  "20th Century Boy"" by &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/musica?aid=EPiGSQ8EJuK"&gt;T. Rex&lt;/a&gt; in reference to &lt;a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=3424"&gt;20th Century Boys&lt;/a&gt; by Naoki Urasawa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We totally saw &lt;a href="http://subwaycinema.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=124&amp;amp;Itemid=93"&gt;these two movies&lt;/a&gt;. And &lt;a href="http://subwaycinema.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=150"&gt;the Korean Antique Bakery movie&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check our &lt;a href="http://zerogravitywedding.com"&gt;wedding website&lt;/a&gt; for all the videos we&#8217;re talking about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to everyone who donated towards our wedding!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/ThankYou.png"&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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<author>ninjaconsultant@gmail.com (Erin and Noah)</author><media:content url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/4-xGuz2A2oU/Ninja_Consultant_S2_70.mp3" fileSize="36734987" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Show #069Direct Download: OP and ED: "20th Century Boy"" by T. Rex in reference to 20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa We totally saw these two movies. And the Korean Antique Bakery movie. Check our wedding website for all the videos we&#8217;re talking about. T</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Erin and Noah</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Show #069Direct Download: OP and ED: "20th Century Boy"" by T. Rex in reference to 20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa We totally saw these two movies. And the Korean Antique Bakery movie. Check our wedding website for all the videos we&#8217;re talking about. Thanks to everyone who donated towards our wedding!! </itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>anime,,animes,,manga,,mangas,,AMV,,anime,music,videos,,otaku,,japan,,comics,,ninja,,ninjas,,Naruto,,cartoon,,cartoons,,Adult,Swim</itunes:keywords><feedburner:origLink>http://ninjaconsultant.livejournal.com/32686.html</feedburner:origLink><enclosure url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/4-xGuz2A2oU/Ninja_Consultant_S2_70.mp3" length="36734987" type="audio/mpeg" /><feedburner:origEnclosureLink>http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/Ninja_Consultant_S2_70.mp3</feedburner:origEnclosureLink></item>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:56:53 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>No, we haven&#8217;t retired from podcasting!</title>
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  <description>We&#8217;ve just been too busy, you know, appearing on Adult Swim and stuff:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;lj-embed id="7" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://zerogravitywedding.com/"&gt;More info on our wedding website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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  <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 18:49:47 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>News:  Ninja Consultants At Anime Boston 2009</title>
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  <description>&lt;img src="http://pics.livejournal.com/ninjaconsultant/pic/0000d2pw"&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noah and I will be at Anime Boston but we won&#8217;t have an artist alley table this year.  You might be able to find us bumming around &lt;span class=&#8217;ljuser ljuser-name_ali_wildgoose&#8217; lj:user=&#8217;ali_wildgoose&#8217; style=&#8217;white-space: nowrap;&#8217;&gt;&lt;a href=&#8217;http://ali-wildgoose.livejournal.com/profile&#8217;&gt;&lt;img src=&#8217;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&#8217; alt=&#8217;[info]&#8217; width=&#8217;17&#8217; height=&#8217;17&#8217; style=&#8217;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&#8217; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&#8217;http://ali-wildgoose.livejournal.com/&#8217;&gt;&lt;b&gt;ali_wildgoose&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&#8217;s table.  Erin will be on both of the following panels, but Noah is only on the Manga Genre Madness panel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even if you&#8217;ve attended my Manga Genre Panel before at AnimeNext or MangaNext, you should go again this time because I&#8217;ve added new content about &lt;a href="http://www.otakuusamagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=9B6FFC446FF7486981EA3C0C3CCE4943&amp;amp;nm=Articles/News&amp;amp;type=news&amp;amp;mod=News&amp;amp;mid=9A02E3B96F2A415ABC72CB5F516B4C10&amp;amp;tier=3&amp;amp;nid=F5EA8BD6580940D9999E4435584B431D"&gt;political mahjong manga &lt;i&gt;Legend of Koizumi&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, more manga about cats, more scans from &lt;i&gt;Drops of God&lt;/i&gt;,  and Chloe will help us translate the weird foods of &lt;a href="http://mangacast.net/?p=2143"&gt;Kishoku Hunter (Junk Food Hunter)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Please Save My Manga!  Friday 10:00:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Panel Room 202&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Underloved? Overrated? Or just plain out of print? Join a crack team of &lt;a href="http://popcultureshock.com/manga"&gt;PopCultureShock.com&lt;/a&gt; reviewers as they discuss everything manga, from classics and favorites to overlooked gems and over-read failures. (Disclaimer: starry-eyed abandon, the occasional mean right hook may ensue.)&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Manga Genre Madness 5:00 to 6:30 PM on Saturday in Panel Room 202&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Manga covers every genre imaginable - and unimaginable!  Thanks to the importing of manga you can read veterinarian manga, salaryman manga, fishing manga, manga about economics, and manga about baking bread!   Erin and Noah from the Ninja Consultant podcast and special guest Chloe from &lt;a href="http://popcultureshock.com/manga"&gt;PopCultureShock.com&lt;/a&gt; present the absolutely most insane manga titles available in English - and a few titles which won&#8217;t be translated anytime soon (wine connoisseur manga, for example).&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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  <title>Show #69 - The Wedding Episode</title>
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  <description>&lt;b&gt;Show #069&lt;/b&gt;Direct Download:  &lt;a href="http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/Ninja_Consultant_S2_69.mp3"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/podcast-mini2.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OP:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Tom_(Coming_Home)"&gt;Major Tom (Coming Home)&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schilling"&gt;Peter Schilling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ED:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WMjC7cjN2s"&gt;Paul Simon sings Scarborough Fair&lt;/a&gt; on the muppet show (featuring Miss Piggy), and&amp;nbsp;the relevant excerpt of &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q87_PtxnBOA"&gt; Scarborough Affair&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_(band)"&gt;Scooter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This episode does not have anything to do with:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=910"&gt;Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex&lt;/a&gt;, Terrorism and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radicalization"&gt;Radicalization&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 120px; "&gt;or&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6159"&gt;Black Lagoon&lt;/a&gt;, piracy and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_generation_warfare"&gt;the decline of the state&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But those shows are on their way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Erin went to Japan!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Remember when &lt;a href="http://ninjaconsultant.livejournal.com/25896.html"&gt;we got engaged???&lt;/a&gt; That was over a year ago! &amp;nbsp;Well, now we&#8217;re getting married... &lt;a href="http://www.gozerog.com/"&gt;in Zero-G&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;But it&#8217;s not like some impossible task, like in the song &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_Fair"&gt;Scarborough Fair&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;We will be the first couple to get married in zero gravity!&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;...or one of two couples if the Canadians go up with us.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Right now it looks as if our wedding will be&lt;strong&gt; &lt;strike&gt;JUNE 13&lt;/strike&gt; JUNE 20th, 2009!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Which we have been planning, which is why Erin went to Japan...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;to get this dress from &lt;a href="http://www.erimatsui.com/"&gt;Eri Matsui&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://erinfinnegan.com/sam/images/WeddingFinalDress01_small.jpg" /&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://erinfinnegan.com/sam/images/WeddingFinalDress02_small.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Erin also went to &lt;a href="https://www.tokyoanime.jp/en/"&gt;Tokyo Anime Fair&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hung out with &lt;a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/"&gt;Anime News Network&lt;/a&gt; peeps.&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;and, of course, &lt;a href="http://mangacast.net/"&gt;Ed Chavez&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Meanwhile, Erin will NOT work on the &lt;a href="http://www.tmnt25.com/"&gt;TMNT 25th anniversary thing&lt;/a&gt;... which will&amp;nbsp;probably be awesome.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Who cares though??? &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/erinfinnegan/3366649397/in/set-72157615511273763/"&gt;BEAN DOGS&lt;/a&gt;!!! Or mameshiba - &lt;a href="http://dogatch.jp/anime_kids/mameshiba/nakama.html"&gt;here&#8217;s the official site&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evQc3_7CMiE"&gt;some of the commercials&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Neither a bean, nor a dog. &lt;a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liminal"&gt;Liminal&lt;/a&gt;. Kind of like &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natto"&gt;natto&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;lj-embed id="4" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Noah has no facebook account, although there is a &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=62620793007"&gt;Friends of Noah facebook group&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Soon we will be married in space. Well... Zero gravity... Well... &lt;a href="http://www.gozerog.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Experience.How_it_Works"&gt;SIMULATED zero gravity&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Erin had a good experience working with Eri Matsui!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;How does the &lt;a href="http://www.gozerog.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Experience.How_it_Works"&gt;zero-g work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look at this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img width="300" alt="" src="http://erinfinnegan.com/sam/images/parabola.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&#8217;s like a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller_coaster_elements#Zero-gravity_roll"&gt;roller coaster&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img width="200" alt="" src="http://erinfinnegan.com/sam/images/roller_coaster.png" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As seen here: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;lj-embed id="5" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are selling things! But first --&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We pitched &lt;a href="http://www.mystyle.com/mystyle/shows/whosewedding/index.jsp"&gt;Whose Wedding is it Anyway?&lt;/a&gt; On the Style network. But... they turned us down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So. &lt;a href="http://tinyurl.com/dxkmzk"&gt;We are selling things. &lt;/a&gt;Like these things:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;iPod Touch&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Kindle II&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Yaoi&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;Disappointing&amp;quot; (non-pornographic) Code Geas dojinshi&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Do you want to come to our wedding? If you want to, maybe you can!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or, if you want to give us a wedding gift -- &lt;a href="http://www.erinfinnegan.com/sam/?page_id=17"&gt;you can do it here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;There will be receptions in NY and Michigan (and &lt;strike&gt;Boston&lt;/strike&gt; Florida, for that matter).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Horrible Michigan Traditions, some of which are wedding-related:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Dance"&gt;Chicken dance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_dance"&gt;Dollar dance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/sfelshin/recipe-book/main-dishes.html#glumki"&gt;Glumkis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://culture.polishsite.us/articles/art346fr.htm"&gt;Punchkis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;As featured in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deer_Hunter"&gt;Deer Hunter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hey! &lt;a href="http://www.weeklyanimereview.com/"&gt;Weekly Anime Review&lt;/a&gt; People! You are totally invited to our Michigan reception!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Glumki sounds gross. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierogi"&gt;Pierogi&lt;/a&gt; sounds delicious.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goulash"&gt;Goulash&lt;/a&gt;... is ok, maybe. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigos"&gt;Bigos&lt;/a&gt; is pretty good.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wedding stuff email address: noahanderin@gmail.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...and, in Japan, Erin also bought &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_(TV_series)"&gt;24&lt;/a&gt; cologne for &lt;a href="http://daveandjoel.com/"&gt;Dave Riley&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Take risk! Be sexy!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img align="absMiddle" alt="" src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/24cologne.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br type="_moz" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;lj-embed id="6" /&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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<author>ninjaconsultant@gmail.com (Erin and Noah)</author><media:content url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/tss43ZsIRws/Ninja_Consultant_S2_69.mp3" fileSize="27481661" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Show #069Direct Download: OP: Major Tom (Coming Home) by Peter Schilling ED: Paul Simon sings Scarborough Fair on the muppet show (featuring Miss Piggy), and&amp;nbsp;the relevant excerpt of Scarborough Affair by Scooter This episode does not have anything to</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Erin and Noah</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Show #069Direct Download: OP: Major Tom (Coming Home) by Peter Schilling ED: Paul Simon sings Scarborough Fair on the muppet show (featuring Miss Piggy), and&amp;nbsp;the relevant excerpt of Scarborough Affair by Scooter This episode does not have anything to do with: Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex, Terrorism and RadicalizationorBlack Lagoon, piracy and the decline of the state. But those shows are on their way. Erin went to Japan!Remember when we got engaged??? That was over a year ago! &amp;nbsp;Well, now we&#8217;re getting married... in Zero-G.But it&#8217;s not like some impossible task, like in the song Scarborough Fair...We will be the first couple to get married in zero gravity!...or one of two couples if the Canadians go up with us.Right now it looks as if our wedding will be JUNE 13 JUNE 20th, 2009!Which we have been planning, which is why Erin went to Japan... to get this dress from Eri Matsui: Erin also went to Tokyo Anime FairHung out with Anime News Network peeps.and, of course, Ed Chavez.Meanwhile, Erin will NOT work on the TMNT 25th anniversary thing... which will&amp;nbsp;probably be awesome.Who cares though??? BEAN DOGS!!! Or mameshiba - here&#8217;s the official site and some of the commercials.Neither a bean, nor a dog. Liminal. Kind of like natto. Noah has no facebook account, although there is a Friends of Noah facebook group.Soon we will be married in space. Well... Zero gravity... Well... SIMULATED zero gravity.Erin had a good experience working with Eri Matsui!How does the zero-g work? Look at this: It&#8217;s like a roller coaster! As seen here: We are selling things! But first -- We pitched Whose Wedding is it Anyway? On the Style network. But... they turned us down. So. We are selling things. Like these things: iPod TouchKindle IIYaoi&amp;quot;Disappointing&amp;quot; (non-pornographic) Code Geas dojinshiDo you want to come to our wedding? If you want to, maybe you can! Or, if you want to give us a wedding gift -- you can do it here. There will be receptions in NY and Michigan (and Boston Florida, for that matter).Horrible Michigan Traditions, some of which are wedding-related:Chicken danceDollar danceGlumkisPunchkisAs featured in Deer Hunter.Hey! Weekly Anime Review People! You are totally invited to our Michigan reception!Glumki sounds gross. Pierogi sounds delicious.Goulash... is ok, maybe. Bigos is pretty good. Wedding stuff email address: noahanderin@gmail.com ...and, in Japan, Erin also bought 24 cologne for Dave Riley. &amp;quot;Take risk! Be sexy!&amp;quot; </itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>anime,,animes,,manga,,mangas,,AMV,,anime,music,videos,,otaku,,japan,,comics,,ninja,,ninjas,,Naruto,,cartoon,,cartoons,,Adult,Swim</itunes:keywords><feedburner:origLink>http://ninjaconsultant.livejournal.com/31786.html</feedburner:origLink><enclosure url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/tss43ZsIRws/Ninja_Consultant_S2_69.mp3" length="27481661" type="audio/mpeg" /><feedburner:origEnclosureLink>http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/Ninja_Consultant_S2_69.mp3</feedburner:origEnclosureLink></item>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:34:45 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Wrong Number?</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Ugh! The wrong voicemail number was listed in our sidebar for months! Our current voicemail is: 206-338-3790.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also I think skype voicemail is working again. We are "ninjaconsultant" on skype.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well, I&#8217;m off to Tokyo for my wedding dress and to go to TAF. Read about it at noahanderin.com when I get around to blogging.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;small&gt;Posted via &lt;a href="http://community.livejournal.com/cosysoftware_en/"&gt;LiveJournal.app&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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  <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:13:28 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Manga Recon Show #009: Schedule of a Weekly MangaKa</title>
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  <description>Direct Download:  &lt;a href="http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/MangaRecon_Show_009.mp3"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/podcast-mini2.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OP &amp; ED: &lt;/strong&gt; Theme from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazing_Transfer_Student"&gt;Blazing Transfer Student&lt;/a&gt;, "Blazing Transfer Student" by Toshihiko Seki.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/Manga%20Recon%20009/weeklyscheduleofamangaka.png"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/Manga%20Recon%20009/weeklyscheduleofamangaka_large.png"&gt;View Larger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manga Adaptations Discussion:&lt;br /&gt;- Haruhi Suzumiya &lt;br /&gt;- InuKami&lt;br /&gt;- .hack//XXXX&lt;br /&gt;- Gurren Lagan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Family Complex has a great description of eye surgery, couched in a very boring regular story.  Here&#8217;s &lt;a href="http://www.popcultureshock.com/reviews/family-complex/"&gt;my review&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Peach Pit was hospitalized recently&lt;br /&gt;- Who is Kazuo Koike?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/Manga%20Recon%20009/manga_universitycover.png"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dai Gaku Manga&lt;br /&gt;Published by:  The Osaka Institute of Art&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/Manga%20Recon%20009/BurningPen_small.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/Manga%20Recon%20009/BurningPen_Page.png"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Burning Pen!  Screaming Pen!  Blue Flame!&lt;br /&gt;by Kazuhiko Shimamoto&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://users.skynet.be/mangaguide/au1729.html"&gt;http://users.skynet.be/mangaguide/au1729.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sporadicsequential.blogspot.com/2007/10/spotlight-comment-of-month.html"&gt;Blog post about the horizontal gutters being wider than the vertical gutters in manga.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was talking about good and bad paneling examples from One Pound Gospel and S.A..  I can&#8217;t find the S.A. example, but here&#8217;s a nice sequence from One Pound Gospel:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="cutid2"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/Manga%20Recon%20009/OnePndGospel_pg1.png"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then on the next page:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/Manga%20Recon%20009/OnePndGospel_pg2.png"&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. X talks about Mampu&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="cutid3"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/Manga%20Recon%20009/HikaruNoGo_Spaceshot.png"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hikaru No Go paneling where the "camera" is placed below the board.  In this sequence, Akira is playing Go on the internet.&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I mention the School of Visual Arts.  (Pratt is also good.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unimpressive art in an autobiographical comic that made all the critics&#8217; top ten lists:  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="cutid4"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/Manga%20Recon%20009/mylifewithoutmuchhope.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/Manga%20Recon%20009/mylifewithoutmuchhope1.png"&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Japan, a bad run is a circulation of 50,000.  In the U.S. a great circulation for manga is 5,000 - even though we&#8217;ve got four times the population.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Yasha Craig Ape is from Grappler Baki.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://animeworldorder.blogspot.com/2006/11/anime-world-order-show-38-rape-is.html"&gt;Link to AWO&#8217;s coverage of Lady Snowblood.&lt;/a&gt; It&#8217;s at 37:28 - 57:52 in their show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kochikame has been around forever!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are ikimen?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bakuman&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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<author>ninjaconsultant@gmail.com (Erin and Noah)</author><media:content url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/L9vA65vlU3o/MangaRecon_Show_009.mp3" fileSize="45208225" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Direct Download: OP &amp; ED: Theme from Blazing Transfer Student, "Blazing Transfer Student" by Toshihiko Seki. View Larger Manga Adaptations Discussion: - Haruhi Suzumiya - InuKami - .hack//XXXX - Gurren Lagan - Family Complex has a great description of eye</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Erin and Noah</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Direct Download: OP &amp; ED: Theme from Blazing Transfer Student, "Blazing Transfer Student" by Toshihiko Seki. View Larger Manga Adaptations Discussion: - Haruhi Suzumiya - InuKami - .hack//XXXX - Gurren Lagan - Family Complex has a great description of eye surgery, couched in a very boring regular story. Here&#8217;s my review. - Peach Pit was hospitalized recently - Who is Kazuo Koike? Dai Gaku Manga Published by: The Osaka Institute of Art Burning Pen! Screaming Pen! Blue Flame! by Kazuhiko Shimamoto http://users.skynet.be/mangaguide/au1729.html Blog post about the horizontal gutters being wider than the vertical gutters in manga. I was talking about good and bad paneling examples from One Pound Gospel and S.A.. I can&#8217;t find the S.A. example, but here&#8217;s a nice sequence from One Pound Gospel: Then on the next page: Mr. X talks about Mampu Hikaru No Go paneling where the "camera" is placed below the board. In this sequence, Akira is playing Go on the internet. I mention the School of Visual Arts. (Pratt is also good.) Unimpressive art in an autobiographical comic that made all the critics&#8217; top ten lists: In Japan, a bad run is a circulation of 50,000. In the U.S. a great circulation for manga is 5,000 - even though we&#8217;ve got four times the population. The Yasha Craig Ape is from Grappler Baki. Link to AWO&#8217;s coverage of Lady Snowblood. It&#8217;s at 37:28 - 57:52 in their show. Kochikame has been around forever! What are ikimen? Bakuman</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>anime,,animes,,manga,,mangas,,AMV,,anime,music,videos,,otaku,,japan,,comics,,ninja,,ninjas,,Naruto,,cartoon,,cartoons,,Adult,Swim</itunes:keywords><feedburner:origLink>http://ninjaconsultant.livejournal.com/31433.html</feedburner:origLink><enclosure url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/L9vA65vlU3o/MangaRecon_Show_009.mp3" length="45208225" type="audio/mpeg" /><feedburner:origEnclosureLink>http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/MangaRecon_Show_009.mp3</feedburner:origEnclosureLink></item>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:06:56 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Show #69 - Coming Soon.  I mean this isn&#8217;t it.</title>
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  <description>&lt;b&gt;Not really a show. &lt;/b&gt;Direct Download:  &lt;a href="http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/February2009_nonshow.mp3"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/podcast-mini2.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;OP &amp; ED:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYX7CFQ2hpI"&gt;"Chocolate Disco" by Perfume&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color="red"&gt; Not so much a show as an announcement and an apology?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ninjaconsultant?a=bDYzQjeOMV8:952uWnI3zQo:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ninjaconsultant?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ninjaconsultant?a=bDYzQjeOMV8:952uWnI3zQo:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ninjaconsultant?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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<author>ninjaconsultant@gmail.com (Erin and Noah)</author><media:content url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/PF_byGfd424/February2009_nonshow.mp3" fileSize="1656747" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Not really a show. Direct Download: OP &amp; ED: "Chocolate Disco" by Perfume Not so much a show as an announcement and an apology?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Erin and Noah</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Not really a show. Direct Download: OP &amp; ED: "Chocolate Disco" by Perfume Not so much a show as an announcement and an apology?</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>anime,,animes,,manga,,mangas,,AMV,,anime,music,videos,,otaku,,japan,,comics,,ninja,,ninjas,,Naruto,,cartoon,,cartoons,,Adult,Swim</itunes:keywords><feedburner:origLink>http://ninjaconsultant.livejournal.com/30987.html</feedburner:origLink><enclosure url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/PF_byGfd424/February2009_nonshow.mp3" length="1656747" type="audio/mpeg" /><feedburner:origEnclosureLink>http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/February2009_nonshow.mp3</feedburner:origEnclosureLink></item>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:54:01 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Show #68 - SITACon 2008 Podcasters Unite - Part 2 - Otaku Shame</title>
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  <description>&lt;b&gt;Show #068&lt;/b&gt;Direct Download:  &lt;a href="http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/Ninja_Consultant_S2_68.mp3"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/podcast-mini2.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;OP:&lt;/b&gt;  &amp;quot;Fushigi Purupuru Pururin Rin!&amp;quot; by Shishido Rumi from the Welcome to the NHK OST&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;ED:&lt;/b&gt;  The first Welcome to the NHK end theme, &amp;quot;Odoru Akachan Ningen&amp;quot; by Kenji Ohtsuki and Fumihiko Kitsutaka&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color="red"&gt; This show might count as explicit. But maybe not? Let&#8217;s call this episode &amp;quot;OT,&amp;quot; for &amp;quot;older teen,&amp;quot; 14+.  Part 3 will be explicit.  I mean we literally discuss hentai in part 3.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hi this is Alain from the anime blog Reverse Thieves. As a regular listener to your podcast I was wondering if you could do us a favor and mention a project we are currently recruiting for. If you find our project interesting could you mention the Otaku Diaries on your next podcast and/or post our project information and contact information on your website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We at Reverse Thieves are looking to do something a little different.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are proposing a project called the Otaku Diaries. We are looking for people who consider themselves otaku to participate in an anonymous survey. It will be profiling the lives, loves, and losses of these individuals and how their hobby has related to shaping them. We will also be looking for patterns as well as differences in the cases. We are looking for diverse people who are not afraid to get personal, questions will include topics like prior relationships, profession, and sexuality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are interested here is how it is going to work. Send us an email at otakudiary@gmail.com  with a brief description of yourself include your age, sex, and location. No names need be exchanged and your anonymity will be protected, create a separate e-mail account just for this survey if you wish. If you are selected to participate, you will be given a case # to which all your answers will be attributed. After all the data is collected we will be doing several blog posts about the results.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We hope to start at the end of February, depending on the number of responses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Hisui (Alain)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.reversethieves.com"&gt;www.reversethieves.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;reversethieves@gmail.com &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Promo:  Happy House of Hentai&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We talk about nerd shame, how to extra XP by turning Noah red, and reviews of:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bondage Game (a hentai)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Negima&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Fate/Stay Night&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lunar Legend Tsukihime&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Genshiken&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Welcome to the NHK&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ressentiment&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Densha Otoko gets another mention&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- The strip Noah mentions is from Chugworth Academy http://www.chugworth.com/ , and not Short Cuts, as we suspected.&lt;br /&gt;- Noah makes sweeping generalizations about Japan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ninjaconsultant?a=zk0ocMLOOkc:7BSLzArYtoM:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ninjaconsultant?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ninjaconsultant?a=zk0ocMLOOkc:7BSLzArYtoM:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ninjaconsultant?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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<author>ninjaconsultant@gmail.com (Erin and Noah)</author><media:content url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/GNrFGdR8--c/Ninja_Consultant_S2_68.mp3" fileSize="23714340" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Show #068Direct Download: OP: &amp;quot;Fushigi Purupuru Pururin Rin!&amp;quot; by Shishido Rumi from the Welcome to the NHK OST ED: The first Welcome to the NHK end theme, &amp;quot;Odoru Akachan Ningen&amp;quot; by Kenji Ohtsuki and Fumihiko Kitsutaka This show might c</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Erin and Noah</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Show #068Direct Download: OP: &amp;quot;Fushigi Purupuru Pururin Rin!&amp;quot; by Shishido Rumi from the Welcome to the NHK OST ED: The first Welcome to the NHK end theme, &amp;quot;Odoru Akachan Ningen&amp;quot; by Kenji Ohtsuki and Fumihiko Kitsutaka This show might count as explicit. But maybe not? Let&#8217;s call this episode &amp;quot;OT,&amp;quot; for &amp;quot;older teen,&amp;quot; 14+. Part 3 will be explicit. I mean we literally discuss hentai in part 3. Hi this is Alain from the anime blog Reverse Thieves. As a regular listener to your podcast I was wondering if you could do us a favor and mention a project we are currently recruiting for. If you find our project interesting could you mention the Otaku Diaries on your next podcast and/or post our project information and contact information on your website. We at Reverse Thieves are looking to do something a little different. We are proposing a project called the Otaku Diaries. We are looking for people who consider themselves otaku to participate in an anonymous survey. It will be profiling the lives, loves, and losses of these individuals and how their hobby has related to shaping them. We will also be looking for patterns as well as differences in the cases. We are looking for diverse people who are not afraid to get personal, questions will include topics like prior relationships, profession, and sexuality. If you are interested here is how it is going to work. Send us an email at otakudiary@gmail.com with a brief description of yourself include your age, sex, and location. No names need be exchanged and your anonymity will be protected, create a separate e-mail account just for this survey if you wish. If you are selected to participate, you will be given a case # to which all your answers will be attributed. After all the data is collected we will be doing several blog posts about the results. We hope to start at the end of February, depending on the number of responses. Thanks! - Hisui (Alain) www.reversethieves.com reversethieves@gmail.com Promo: Happy House of Hentai We talk about nerd shame, how to extra XP by turning Noah red, and reviews of: Bondage Game (a hentai)NegimaFate/Stay NightLunar Legend TsukihimeGenshikenWelcome to the NHKRessentimentDensha Otoko gets another mention - The strip Noah mentions is from Chugworth Academy http://www.chugworth.com/ , and not Short Cuts, as we suspected. - Noah makes sweeping generalizations about Japan </itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>anime,,animes,,manga,,mangas,,AMV,,anime,music,videos,,otaku,,japan,,comics,,ninja,,ninjas,,Naruto,,cartoon,,cartoons,,Adult,Swim</itunes:keywords><feedburner:origLink>http://ninjaconsultant.livejournal.com/30783.html</feedburner:origLink><enclosure url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/GNrFGdR8--c/Ninja_Consultant_S2_68.mp3" length="23714340" type="audio/mpeg" /><feedburner:origEnclosureLink>http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/Ninja_Consultant_S2_68.mp3</feedburner:origEnclosureLink></item>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:25:45 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Show #67 - SITACon 2008 Podcasters Unite - Part 1 - Trivia</title>
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  <description>&lt;b&gt;Show #067&lt;/b&gt;Direct Download:  &lt;a href="http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/Ninja_Consultant_S2_67.mp3"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/podcast-mini2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;OP:&lt;/b&gt;  Black Lagoon OP&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;ED:&lt;/b&gt;  Ghost in the Shell; Stand Alone Complex OP&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color="red"&gt;Maybe Noah will add some links later!  Also, &lt;b&gt;this show might count as explicit.  But maybe not?  Let&#8217;s call this episode "OT," for "older teen," 14+.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Podcasters Present:&lt;br /&gt;Anime World Order&lt;br /&gt;R5 Central&lt;br /&gt;Happy House of Hentai&lt;br /&gt;Ninja Consultants&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This podcast is about:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/Show_67/Totoro.jpg"&gt;&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/Show_67/Jojo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/Show_67/Char.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/Show_67/PodcastersUnite1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/Show_67/bewbs.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gerald&#8217;s Hobby is taking pictures of Mike Dent:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/Show_67/mikeswig_smaller.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Nick and Nora&#8217;s Infinite Playlist is a reference to The Thin Man&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/Show_67/RockHolmes.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://tezukainenglish.com/?q=taxonomy/term/36/0"&gt;Rock Holmes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Captain Hitler&lt;br /&gt;- No one should ever watch Eiken, ever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/Show_67/Chi_peed.png"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Chi&#8217;s Sweet Home&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/Show_67/owlbear.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- "You don&#8217;t mess with owl-bears... unless you&#8217;re 7th level or higher."&lt;br /&gt;- What if 4-chan answered Densha Otoko&#8217;s messages instead if 2chan?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Podcasters We Mentioned:&lt;br /&gt;- Ed from the MangaCast&lt;br /&gt;- Dave and Joel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Promo:  &lt;a href="http://www.anigamers.com/"&gt;Ani-Gamers podcast&lt;/a&gt;.  Here is a picture of Evan:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/Show_67/Evan.jpg"&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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<author>ninjaconsultant@gmail.com (Erin and Noah)</author><media:content url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/_mlpsvzvrmE/Ninja_Consultant_S2_67.mp3" fileSize="25201139" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Show #067Direct Download: OP: Black Lagoon OP ED: Ghost in the Shell; Stand Alone Complex OP Maybe Noah will add some links later! Also, this show might count as explicit. But maybe not? Let&#8217;s call this episode "OT," for "older teen," 14+. Podcasters Pres</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Erin and Noah</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Show #067Direct Download: OP: Black Lagoon OP ED: Ghost in the Shell; Stand Alone Complex OP Maybe Noah will add some links later! Also, this show might count as explicit. But maybe not? Let&#8217;s call this episode "OT," for "older teen," 14+. Podcasters Present: Anime World Order R5 Central Happy House of Hentai Ninja Consultants This podcast is about: Gerald&#8217;s Hobby is taking pictures of Mike Dent: - Nick and Nora&#8217;s Infinite Playlist is a reference to The Thin Man - Rock Holmes - Captain Hitler - No one should ever watch Eiken, ever. - Chi&#8217;s Sweet Home - "You don&#8217;t mess with owl-bears... unless you&#8217;re 7th level or higher." - What if 4-chan answered Densha Otoko&#8217;s messages instead if 2chan? Podcasters We Mentioned: - Ed from the MangaCast - Dave and Joel Promo: Ani-Gamers podcast. Here is a picture of Evan: </itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>anime,,animes,,manga,,mangas,,AMV,,anime,music,videos,,otaku,,japan,,comics,,ninja,,ninjas,,Naruto,,cartoon,,cartoons,,Adult,Swim</itunes:keywords><feedburner:origLink>http://ninjaconsultant.livejournal.com/30489.html</feedburner:origLink><enclosure url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/_mlpsvzvrmE/Ninja_Consultant_S2_67.mp3" length="25201139" type="audio/mpeg" /><feedburner:origEnclosureLink>http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/Ninja_Consultant_S2_67.mp3</feedburner:origEnclosureLink></item>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:21:40 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Show #66 - Christmas Episode 2008 Part 1</title>
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  <description>&lt;b&gt;Show #066&lt;/b&gt;Direct Download:  &lt;a href="http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/Ninja_Consultant_S2_66.mp3"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/podcast-mini2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;OP:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Y6--DjMKg"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Y6--DjMKg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Music:&lt;/b&gt;  ??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;ED:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afIZapZNh_Q"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afIZapZNh_Q&lt;/a&gt;  Denki Groove "Shonen Young"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.livejournal.com/poll/?id=1320825"&gt;View Poll: What show do you want to hear next?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color="red"&gt;Come back later for more show notes!!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4Kids cuts Staff&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/13943.html"&gt;http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/13943.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My post on ANN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=671137#671137"&gt;http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=671137#671137&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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<author>ninjaconsultant@gmail.com (Erin and Noah)</author><media:content url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/H-5-DQPdqnU/Ninja_Consultant_S2_66.mp3" fileSize="22540340" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Show #066Direct Download: OP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Y6--DjMKg Music: ?? ED: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afIZapZNh_Q Denki Groove "Shonen Young" View Poll: What show do you want to hear next? Come back later for more show notes!! 4Kids cuts S</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Erin and Noah</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Show #066Direct Download: OP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Y6--DjMKg Music: ?? ED: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afIZapZNh_Q Denki Groove "Shonen Young" View Poll: What show do you want to hear next? Come back later for more show notes!! 4Kids cuts Staff http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/13943.html My post on ANN http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=671137#671137</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>anime,,animes,,manga,,mangas,,AMV,,anime,music,videos,,otaku,,japan,,comics,,ninja,,ninjas,,Naruto,,cartoon,,cartoons,,Adult,Swim</itunes:keywords><feedburner:origLink>http://ninjaconsultant.livejournal.com/30349.html</feedburner:origLink><enclosure url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/H-5-DQPdqnU/Ninja_Consultant_S2_66.mp3" length="22540340" type="audio/mpeg" /><feedburner:origEnclosureLink>http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/Ninja_Consultant_S2_66.mp3</feedburner:origEnclosureLink></item>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:06:49 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Show #65 - NYAF 2008 OtakuUSA Magazine Panel</title>
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  <description>&lt;b&gt;Show #065&lt;/b&gt;Direct Download:  &lt;a href="http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/OtakuUSAPanelNYAF008.mp3"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/podcast-mini2.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Music:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.otakuusamagazine.com"&gt;OtakuUSA Magazine&lt;/a&gt; theme song by &lt;a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;amp;friendid=77201677"&gt;Marxy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Recorded live at New York Anime Festival 2008. My computer crashed mid-way through our already short panel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/OtakuUSADec08.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Be sure to check out this month&#8217;s issue, where Erin has a &lt;em&gt;Claymore&lt;/em&gt; feature, a review of &lt;em&gt;Blue Dragon&lt;/em&gt;, and a couple of paragraphs on &lt;em&gt;Death Note&lt;/em&gt; merchandise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/SDCC2008_panel02.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Erin and Jeff Knight&amp;nbsp;(not pictured), the ad sales guy, at the OtakuUSA panel at NYAF (not pictured).&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/SDCC2008_panel01.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can&#8217;t believe you missed the Ninja Consultant panel at San Diego Comic Con!&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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<author>ninjaconsultant@gmail.com (Erin and Noah)</author><media:content url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/KnV2V1Hyb5s/OtakuUSAPanelNYAF008.mp3" fileSize="10262186" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Show #065Direct Download: Music: OtakuUSA Magazine theme song by Marxy Recorded live at New York Anime Festival 2008. My computer crashed mid-way through our already short panel. Be sure to check out this month&#8217;s issue, where Erin has a Claymore feature, </itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Erin and Noah</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Show #065Direct Download: Music: OtakuUSA Magazine theme song by Marxy Recorded live at New York Anime Festival 2008. My computer crashed mid-way through our already short panel. Be sure to check out this month&#8217;s issue, where Erin has a Claymore feature, a review of Blue Dragon, and a couple of paragraphs on Death Note merchandise. Erin and Jeff Knight&amp;nbsp;(not pictured), the ad sales guy, at the OtakuUSA panel at NYAF (not pictured). I can&#8217;t believe you missed the Ninja Consultant panel at San Diego Comic Con!</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>anime,,animes,,manga,,mangas,,AMV,,anime,music,videos,,otaku,,japan,,comics,,ninja,,ninjas,,Naruto,,cartoon,,cartoons,,Adult,Swim</itunes:keywords><feedburner:origLink>http://ninjaconsultant.livejournal.com/30046.html</feedburner:origLink><enclosure url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/KnV2V1Hyb5s/OtakuUSAPanelNYAF008.mp3" length="10262186" type="audio/mpeg" /><feedburner:origEnclosureLink>http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/OtakuUSAPanelNYAF008.mp3</feedburner:origEnclosureLink></item>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:21:19 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>MangaNext 2008 Panels!!</title>
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  <description>&lt;img src="http://pics.livejournal.com/ninjaconsultant/pic/0000ccp9" border="0" align="right" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.manganext.org"&gt;MangaNext 3&lt;/a&gt; is this weekend!  Noah and I won&#8217;t have a table, but we might be hanging out at Alison Wilgus&#8217;s Artist Alley table on Saturday.  Actually Noah won&#8217;t be there Saturday at all.  If you want to hang out, email ninjaconsultant (at) gmail.com.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our panels are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Culinary Manga&lt;/b&gt;  Sunday, Panel 1, 11:00 AM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Crazy Manga Genres&lt;/b&gt;  Sunday, Panel 1, 1:00 PM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you went to AnimeNext this year, and attended our panels - I&#8217;ve added to the Crazy Manga Genres and spun off food manga into it&#8217;s own panel!  It&#8217;s slightly improved content!&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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  <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:08:01 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Show #64 - Guin Saga Roundtable</title>
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  <description>&lt;b&gt;Show #064&lt;/b&gt;Direct Download:  &lt;a href="http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/Ninja_Consultant_S2_64.mp3"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/podcast-mini2.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Music:&lt;/b&gt;  Conan the Barbarian theme by Basil Poledouris,  Berserk music &amp;quot;Forces (God-Hand Remix)&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/guinsaga.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.japanreview.net/interview_mentzas.htm"&gt;Ioannis &amp;quot;Yani&amp;quot; Mentzas&lt;/a&gt; from Vertical&lt;br /&gt;Serdar Yegulalp from &lt;a href="http://www.advancedmn.com/"&gt;Advanced Media Networks&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.genjipress.com/"&gt;The Gline.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Erin and Noah&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Read &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vertical-inc.com/guinsaga/roundtable.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a transcription of the show on Vertical&#8217;s site here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vertical-inc.com/"&gt;Vertical&lt;/a&gt; has published the first 5 novels of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guin_Saga"&gt;Guin Saga&lt;/a&gt;, the 120+ volume fantasy series that inspired &lt;a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=2298"&gt;Berserk&lt;/a&gt; and other Japanese fantasy in a Tolkien-esque way (that is to say, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaoru_Kurimoto"&gt;Kaoru Kurimoto&lt;/a&gt; inspired Japanese fantasy as much as Tolkien inspired the genre in the West, but Guin Saga is not in itself Tolkien-esque).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;3-4 Guin Saga volumes come out every year in Japan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The author also publishes a few other books, cleans the house, and is a regular on a quiz show (Specifically &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vVW85lNYkU"&gt;Hinto de Pinto&lt;/a&gt;). And she&#8217;s a literary critic. And she&#8217;s a composer. And she composed a musical based on the Guin Saga that has been performed in Tokyo.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Kurimoto-san married the editor of the sci-fi magazine that first published Guin Saga.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Noah vocab: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phatic"&gt;Phatic&lt;/a&gt;. &amp;quot;A Phatic Experience.&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Guin Saga is the &amp;quot;Mother of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_novels"&gt;Light Novels&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;quot; along with the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Vampire_Hunter_D_light_novels"&gt;Vampire Hunter D&lt;/a&gt; novels.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;What is a light novel anyway?&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Short and Fast read&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Has illustrations&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Usually &amp;quot;genre&amp;quot; but not always&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;There&#8217;s often a psychic&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;Feats of the imagination&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Guin Saga is soon to be an anime series from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniplex"&gt;Aniplex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Guin Saga is translated by Harvard graduate and fantasy fan &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_O._Smith"&gt;Alexander O. Smith&lt;/a&gt;  (&lt;strike&gt;who probably edits his wikipedia page about himself&lt;/strike&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://ninjaconsultant.livejournal.com/29567.html?thread=304511#t304511"&gt;retracted, see below&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;We&#8217;re all glad about the &lt;a href="http://www.scifigenre.com/itemDetail.aspx?nItemID=60817&amp;amp;sid=G"&gt;Viz Big editions of Vagabond&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshitaka_Amano"&gt;Yoshitaka Amano&lt;/a&gt; got famous in part for his Guin Saga covers!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Noah and I recommend &lt;a href="http://www.subwaycinema.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=71&amp;amp;Itemid=80"&gt;King Naresuan 1 &amp;amp; 2&lt;/a&gt; (but mostly 2). We&#8217;re looking forward to part 3.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Finally at about one hour and 17 minutes &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_and_Dragons"&gt;Dungeons and Dragons&lt;/a&gt; comes up. That&#8217;s one hour and 15 minutes longer than it usually takes for Noah to start talking D&amp;amp;D!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Is the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_(Tekken)"&gt;leopard headed fighter in Tekken&lt;/a&gt; a Guin reference? Or a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Mask"&gt;Tiger Mask&lt;/a&gt; reference?&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;UPDATE: Since Guin was first published in 1979, it post-dates Tiger Mask by 11 years.  HOWEVER, as it turns out, before Tiger Mask was a Japanese pro-wrestler, it was actually a MANGA!  Who knew???&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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<author>ninjaconsultant@gmail.com (Erin and Noah)</author><media:content url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/VQB8d7F9snw/Ninja_Consultant_S2_64.mp3" fileSize="57016399" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Show #064Direct Download: Music: Conan the Barbarian theme by Basil Poledouris, Berserk music &amp;quot;Forces (God-Hand Remix)&amp;quot;. Ioannis &amp;quot;Yani&amp;quot; Mentzas from Vertical Serdar Yegulalp from Advanced Media Networks and The Gline.com Erin and Noah </itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Erin and Noah</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Show #064Direct Download: Music: Conan the Barbarian theme by Basil Poledouris, Berserk music &amp;quot;Forces (God-Hand Remix)&amp;quot;. Ioannis &amp;quot;Yani&amp;quot; Mentzas from Vertical Serdar Yegulalp from Advanced Media Networks and The Gline.com Erin and Noah Read a transcription of the show on Vertical&#8217;s site here.Vertical has published the first 5 novels of the Guin Saga, the 120+ volume fantasy series that inspired Berserk and other Japanese fantasy in a Tolkien-esque way (that is to say, Kaoru Kurimoto inspired Japanese fantasy as much as Tolkien inspired the genre in the West, but Guin Saga is not in itself Tolkien-esque).3-4 Guin Saga volumes come out every year in JapanThe author also publishes a few other books, cleans the house, and is a regular on a quiz show (Specifically Hinto de Pinto). And she&#8217;s a literary critic. And she&#8217;s a composer. And she composed a musical based on the Guin Saga that has been performed in Tokyo.Kurimoto-san married the editor of the sci-fi magazine that first published Guin Saga.Noah vocab: Phatic. &amp;quot;A Phatic Experience.&amp;quot;Guin Saga is the &amp;quot;Mother of Light Novels,&amp;quot; along with the Vampire Hunter D novels.What is a light novel anyway?Short and Fast readHas illustrationsUsually &amp;quot;genre&amp;quot; but not alwaysThere&#8217;s often a psychic&amp;quot;Feats of the imagination&amp;quot;Guin Saga is soon to be an anime series from AniplexGuin Saga is translated by Harvard graduate and fantasy fan Alexander O. Smith (who probably edits his wikipedia page about himself&amp;nbsp;retracted, see below).We&#8217;re all glad about the Viz Big editions of Vagabond.Yoshitaka Amano got famous in part for his Guin Saga covers!Noah and I recommend King Naresuan 1 &amp;amp; 2 (but mostly 2). We&#8217;re looking forward to part 3.Finally at about one hour and 17 minutes Dungeons and Dragons comes up. That&#8217;s one hour and 15 minutes longer than it usually takes for Noah to start talking D&amp;amp;D!Is the leopard headed fighter in Tekken a Guin reference? Or a Tiger Mask reference?UPDATE: Since Guin was first published in 1979, it post-dates Tiger Mask by 11 years. HOWEVER, as it turns out, before Tiger Mask was a Japanese pro-wrestler, it was actually a MANGA! Who knew???</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>anime,,animes,,manga,,mangas,,AMV,,anime,music,videos,,otaku,,japan,,comics,,ninja,,ninjas,,Naruto,,cartoon,,cartoons,,Adult,Swim</itunes:keywords><feedburner:origLink>http://ninjaconsultant.livejournal.com/29567.html</feedburner:origLink><enclosure url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ninjaconsultant/~5/VQB8d7F9snw/Ninja_Consultant_S2_64.mp3" length="57016399" type="audio/mpeg" /><feedburner:origEnclosureLink>http://ninjaconsultant.com/podcast/Ninja_Consultant_S2_64.mp3</feedburner:origEnclosureLink></item>
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  <description>&lt;a href="http://sitacon.com/"&gt;&lt;img align="right" alt="" src="http://ninjaconsultant.com/images/Banners/SITACON2008.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; We&#8217;re leaving in the morning for &lt;a href="http://sitacon.com/"&gt;SITACon 2008&lt;/a&gt;, where we are guests!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are some panels we&#8217;ll be on!  (Schedule not final.)&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40px; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Friday, October 10&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;6:30 PM to 7:30 PM &amp;ndash; Opening Ceremonies&lt;br /&gt;11:00 PM to 12:00 AM &amp;ndash; Japanese Commercial Apocalypse!&lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40px; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saturday, October 11&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;12:00 PM to 1:00 PM &amp;ndash; Manga You Should Read (with &lt;a href="http://animeworldorder.blogspot.com/"&gt;Gerald, and Clarissa)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2:00 PM to 4:00 PM &amp;ndash; Podcasters Unite  (with &lt;a href="http://r5central.wordpress.com/"&gt;R5&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://animeworldorder.blogspot.com/"&gt;Gerald, and Clarissa&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;5:00 PM to 6:00 PM &amp;ndash; Manga Madness&lt;br /&gt;7:00 PM to 8:00 PM &amp;ndash; Comiket Survival&lt;/p&gt;          &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40px; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sunday, October 12&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;10:30 AM to 12:00 PM &amp;ndash; Ninja Consultant Live Podcast&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 40px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We&#8217;ve never done a live show before... at least, not in such a formal setting.  I mean it won&#8217;t be live after I edit it in post.  We&#8217;ll probably give away whatever T-shirts we haven&#8217;t sold in Artist Alley.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My panels for &lt;a href="http://manganext.org/"&gt;MangaNext&lt;/a&gt; got approved, so look forward to more Crazy Manga Genres and Culinary Manga at the end of the month!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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  <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:34:11 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Noah and I will be at NYAF in the Artist&#8217;s Alley, table number 15!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will be on the &lt;a href="http://otakuusamagazine.com/"&gt;OtakuUSA Magazine&lt;/a&gt; panel at 3 PM on Friday!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We&#8217;re sharing the table with the folks from the&lt;a href="http://www.animepodcastnet.blogspot.com/"&gt; A!Pon vidcast&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://chaoticunicorn.com/"&gt;Chaotic Unicorn&lt;/a&gt;, this &lt;a href="http://tasayutasnaphun.com/"&gt;guy named Taz&lt;/a&gt;, and maybe even &lt;a href="http://chaoticunicorn.com/dookie/dookie_index.html"&gt;Dookie Poo&lt;/a&gt;.  The Angry Otaku, whom we&#8217;ve had on our show in the past, will also be there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3026/2880492831_af1096357d.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A slight word of warning:  Although I will be at the con on Friday, Noah will not, and I won&#8217;t be at the table much.  Your best bet is to try to catch us on Saturday or mid-day on Sunday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The T-shirts we have left are all Youth or XXL.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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