Third Impact Anime Podcast

#49 - My Conquest is a Sea of Episodes - An Overview of Legend of the Galactic Heroes

Yes, we are tackling the impossible! This week, Bill and special guest Ryan (not the same Ryan from before) discuss their fandom for the true leviathan of anime fandom, Legend of the Galactic Heroes. 

Austin and Tobias join in to ask questions and be the ignorant fools they are. 

Please listen and enjoy! Are you an LOGH fan? Let us know how you got into it and how best to get new fans into it as well. 

(0:00-5:27) Introducing special guest, Ryan W!

(5:27-35:16) Legend of the Galactic Heroes franchise discussion

(35:16-50:48) Legend of the Galactic Heroes in the west

(50:48-53:48) How do you say "Kircheis"?

(53:48-1:12:56) Legend of the Galactic Heroes reboot

(1:12:56-1:24:11) Wrap up and social media junk.

And that's it! We hope you enjoyed the show. Please feel free to follow us on social media, and if you could give us a star rating or review on either Facebook or iTunes, that really helps the show out and we would really appreciate it.

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#48 - BONUS EPISODE - "100 Years of Anime" with Masuo Ueda and Guests (Animazement, 2018)

This is a very special bonus episode that we put little to no effort into creating!

At Animazement 2018, Tobias and I attended the "100 Years of Anime" panel hosted by Producer Masuo Ueda, animator Kazushige Yusa, director Akitaro Daichi, and curator of the Tokyo Anime Center, Asaba-san (I couldn't make out his full name). They discuss the most influential anime on their life and work, how anime has changed over the years, their struggles and successes as creators, how anime works in the west, and then took some audience questions at the end.

It was incredibly fascinating and the whole panel was just hilarious. 

Sorry for the audio quality being garbage, this was recorded on my phone afterall. So sorry about that!

Here's the video Ueda showed before the panel. It's amazing and beautiful and just WOWIE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t-GV4XcJak

As always, keep up with us over at Third Impact by following us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/TI_Anime

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You can follow me (Austin) on Twitter at www.twitter.com/bebopshock

Check out the Tokyo Anime Center here https://animecenter.jp/

#47 - Con-versations - Animazement 2018!

Another year, another AZ down. This was a good one, folks.

Tobias, Austin, Tori, Marisa, and Ryan chat about panels, guests, dealers, dinosaur volunteers, UMD disks, bootleggers, and all those wonderful things you find at cons these days. 

This episode is a little bit dated as we recorded it about 2 weeks ago and I mention being excited for E3 which has now passed and BOY there were some choice announcments there, and they were all Kingdom Hearts III related ;) 

Anyways, we hope you enjoy the episode! Please leave us a comment, like, or send us an email at thirdimpactanime@gmail.com

You can find us on basically any and all podcasting services, also check us out on twitter at www.twitter.com/ti_anime and on Facebook a www.facebook.com/ThirdImpactAnime

Next up for us is HAMACON in Hunstville, Alabama from June 22nd through the 24th. We'll be bringing some awesome panels down there and hopefully doing some interviews as well. 

#46 - Interview with JP Yates at Animazement, 2018

Austin got the chance to sit down with Animazement 2018 guest of honor and Director of International Recruitment at the University of Akron, JP Yates!

Mr. Yates is an educator, anime fan, cool dude, and professional Japan enthusiast. Austin picked his brain about his work in international education, living and working in Japan, panels, language, embarassing inter-cultural escapades, working for Epcot, celebrating Shinichiro Watanabe's birthday, hanging out with Masuo Ueda, and much, much more! 

Here's JP Yates' full bio from the Animazement website: 

"JP Yates has nearly 20 years of experience in international education, with a special focus on Asia. His positions have ranged from coordinator at Epcot, to eikaiwa teacher in Japan, to head of admissions forjTemple University, Japan Campus. When not travelling the world in search of students as Executive Director of International Recruitment for The University of Akron, he leads workshops in Japan on studying in the United States and vice versa. Yates is a graduate of Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC, and is the father of two dual Japanese/U.S. citizens. He enjoys frequent trips back to Japan for both work and pleasure, and feels strongly that Japan is the best option for both studying internationally and as the safest place to be an idiot (which he has proven on many, many occasions)."

Thanks so much to JP Yates for coming on the show and thank YOU listeners for listening. 

Keep up with Mr. Yates on twitter @J_PYates

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Enjoy the show! Please drop us a rating and a review, we'd really appreciate it. 

#45 - Tengen Toppa Batman's Bizarre Adventure - Reviewing Gotham Knight and Batman Ninja

"Why so serious, Batman-kun?"

This week, Ryan, Austin, Marisa, Sully, and Bill discuss the insanely fun BATMAN NINJA!!!

We also take a look back at 2008's anime anthology Batman: Gotham Knight, discuss the history of Batman in Japan, and breakdown the historical parallels hidden between the whacky layers of Batman Ninja.

This episode is NOT SPOILER FREE so GO WATCH THESE THINGS. 

Audio clips used in this episode: 

-The Japanese OP of the 70's Batman cartoon

-Batman: The Brave and the Bold's homage song to the Batmanga

-Batman Ninja trailer

-Jotaro vs. Dio clip from the finale of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders

Thanks for listening! 

(0:00-13:04) Introduction and catch-up

(13:04-20:08) The history of Batman in Japan

(20:08-42:42) Batman: Gotham Knight discussion

(42:42-1:27:22) Batman Ninja discussion

(1:06:16-1:14:24) Ties to Japanese history

(1:14:24-1:16:44) Wrap-up and social media plugs.

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#44 - KonMari Damashii - Tidying up your Otaku lifestyle

Sully, Bill, and Austin discuss Marie Kondo and her interesting theories on cleaning up your space, decluttering your lifestyle, only keeping things that spark joy.

We start off with some catchup, Sully talks a little about Kirby: Star Allies and checking out My Hero Academia for the first time, Bill and Austin talk about Avengers: Infinity War, and then we introduce the KonMari method, discuss it, then examine how it can apply to otaku/fan culture. Then we go off on related topics like ethical consumption under fandom, how KonMari applies to our backlog of things to watch, and generally how we express ourselves as fans. 

The audio clip in the show is from this video from NHK World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6BkvPWaCnI

Listen to Marie Kondo discuss her method and take audience questions in her "Talks with Google" forum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1-HMMX_NR8

You can find Marie Kondo's book on Amazon but definitely try and find it at your local used bookstore first! 

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#43 - Spring 2018 Anime Impressions and The Death of Tobias (2018-2018)

Back at it again with some seasonal anime impressions and BOY are there a ton this time around. 

In this episode, we take a look at an ABSURD amount of shows including:

-Umamusume: Pretty Derby

-Cutie Honey Universe

-My Hero Academia Season 3

-Golden Kamuy

-Comic Girls

-PERSONA5 the Animation

-Magical Girl Site

-Magical Girl Ore

-Aggretsuko

-Lupin the Third Part 5

-Caligula

-Tokyo Ghoul:re

-Gegege no Kitaro

-SAO Alternative: Gun Gale Online

-Libra of Nil Admirari

-Wotakoi: Love is Hard for an Otaku

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Sarah @uniquexharmony

#42 - Winter 2018 Season Breakdown Kinda

After everyone already discussed this weeks ago, here we are rolling up to class 15 minutes late with Starbucks to discuss Winter Anime from 2018! 

Also, please give a warm welcome to our newest Third Impact Anime crew member, Sarah! 

In this episode, we recap what we've all been doing lately, then discuss some season highlights from Winter including:

-Laid-Back Camp

-Takagi-san

-A Place Further Than the Universe

-Darling in the Franxx

-Basilisk II

After we discuss the series' we move into Twitter questions and thank you very much to everyone who submitted!

We went right from the ending of this episode into an episode about Spring 2018 that will be uploaded seperately. 

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#41 - Anime Masterpiece SWORD For TRUTH

Bill indoctrinates Jon and Tobias into his favorite anime OVA ever, Osamu Dezaki's SWORD for TRUTH a.k.a. Shuranosuke the Demon: Man of the Death Scythes Crest.

One of the BEST anime EVER definitely NOT joking. Even better than M.D. GEIST! Fun for the whole family! 

[No tigers were harmed in the making of this podcast.]

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#40 - Sports Go Sports!

YAY, SPORTS! WOO TEAM! SCORE THAT BALL. GOAL and stuff. 

Bill and Marisa discuss some of their favorite sports anime series', discuss the genre at large, why it's had a recent boom in the last 5 years, and YES THEY TALK ABOUT PING PONG BEFORE YOU ASK. 

Shows discussed in order:

Free!, Bamboo Blade, Haikyuu, Kuroko's Basketball, YURI!!! on Ice, and Ping Pong The Animation

Other series mentioned: 

Big Windup, Initial D, Slam Dunk, The Prince of Tennis, Ace of Diamond, and Yowamushi Pedal

Did we talk about one of your favorites? Did we miss one you really love? Send us an email at thirdimpactanime@gmail.com and we'll read it on the show! 

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