The hosts have some special guests on – you listeners! We take listeners calls on the fly and let them chat with us. Then, all listeners were challenged to a trivia question. It’s listeners versus hosts trivia, who wins?
We discuss alcohol in anime, who drinks it, what are the character archetypes who drink? What alcohol is most common in Japan and what do you see in anime? We also reveal our own anime cocktails, click for our recipes!
Bartender anime- Created to honor the 200th aniversary of the brith of the “cocktail”
Suze Gimlet
Martini
Pousse Cafe style grasshopper
Side car
Drunken anime mother or mother figure
Air
Evangelion
Yusuke’s mother in YYH
Holo drinks her ass off in spice and wolf
Drunken badasses only. You’ll never find a magical girl guzzling beer. Cute anime characters don’t drink and if they do, they get tipsy and red after 1 sip
Gene starwind (bounty hunter) gets drunk a lot and shows off for the ladies and prostitutes
Melissa (soldier) from FMP loves her alcohol.
Ryoko (pirate) from Tenchi Muyo
Onizuka (biker gang leader)
Spike (bounty hunter)
Berserk
Black lagoon
Beer – as seen in: Lots of Anime! Everything from Wake Up Girls to Space Brothers to Hajime no Ippo
Kirin Iciban
American Pale Lager
5% ABV
Asahi Dry
Japanese Rice Lager
5% ABV
Sapporo
Japanese Rice Lager
5% ABV
Preston Ale
English Pale Ale
Has a Moyashimon line of beers.
Brewed in Utsunomiya
Yebisu Beer
Dortmunder
5% ABV
Drank by Misato in Eva
Sake – as seen in: Lots of anime also!
Nihonshu
This is what Westerners commonly call ‘sake’
A Product of brewing
Made from fermented rice
Despite sometimes being called “rice wine” the process is more similar to beer
Most sake is about 40 proof
Can be served hot or cold depending on type and flavor
Featured in Moyashimon
eyeshield 21, their coach is a big alcoholic and is always drinking sake out of a jug
Jiraiya from Naruto
Awamori
Unique to Okinawa
Made from long grain rice
Not a product of brewing but of distilling
Featured in Moyashimon
60-86 Proof
Brewed in clay pots for a mellow flavor
Souchu – as seen in: Vocaloid
Vocaloid 2 Lily is featured on a bottle of alcohol “Mou Souchu Lily” in a courtesan costume
Distilled beverage from barley/buckwheat/rice/sweet potatoes
Normally 25% ABV
Chiaki’s Anime Inspired cocktails:
The Life Fiber (Inspired by Kill La Kill)
Cinnamon Vodka
Grenadine
Sprite
1 strand of a twizzler licorice for garnish
The Paralyzed Moe (Inspired by Brynhider in the Darkness)
Cake Vodka
Baleys Irish Cream
Kalua
1 Scoop Vanilla Ice Cream
1 Small Slice of Cake
3 Tablespoons Rainbow Sprinkles
Blend Together adding cream/milk as necessary, serve with whipped cream on top and garnish with more sprinkles and a cherry
Apple of Fate Martini (Inspired by Mawaru Penguindrum)
Green Apple Vodka
Cinnamon Sugar Vodka
Apple Juice
Serve in a martini Glass rimmed with cinnamon/sugar, garnish with apple if desired
Mitsugi’s Anime Inspired cocktails:
Bloody Moe (sponsored by the church of mitsugi)
Tomato juice
Blood of moe girl
2 lashings from the church to remind you of the evils of moe
One celery stick
spices
The Zatoichi – drink so stiff it makes you blind
Straight gin
roots of a gnarled tree from aokigahara
mandrake root extract or if you’re a pussy, ginseng
We pretend we have $300 to spend on whatever we want – that’s anime related of course! The internet is our limit and we tell you what goods we would most want to buy. Perhaps you’ll find something you need to add to your collection. After all – we give away $20 every month for winning trivia!
A $300 shopping spree of anime related merchandise
The Anime Addicts Anonymous Podcast look at Studio Bones and their most prolific anime to date. They’re a busy studio with five anime coming out this season alone! What of your favorite anime was released by this studio?
Impressions: Still World is Beautiful, M3, Break Blade, Knights of Sidnoia
The Anime Addicts attempt to purge Chiaki’s soul by demonstrating the dangers of “cake eating”. We also dive into a mailbag “catchup”, tackling about 40% of our overflowing mailbag. We continue our impressions with Mushishi Zoku Shou, No Game No Life, Akuma no Riddle, and Abarenbou Rekishi!
Impressions: Mushishi Zoku Shou, Akuma no Riddle, No Game No Life, Abarenbou Rekishi!
Live action adaptations are always a popular thing – hit or miss. The AAAPodcast talks about the anime casts they would love to see if they could make adaptations with any actors they wanted. Who would you have in your dream cast?
Our dream casts for live action adaptations of our favorite shows.
Lupin the 3rd
Lupin –
Joseph Gordon Levitt, 50/50 (Kram)
Mark Wharlburg, Boogie Nights (Mitsugi)
Jigen – Jackie Earle Haley, WATCHMEN (Kram)
Fujiko – Katherine Zeta Jones, THE MASK OF ZORRO (Kram)
Zennigata –
Ron Perlman, HELLBOY (Kram)
Kevin Spacey, House of Cards (Mitsugi)
Goemon – Ken Watanabe, INCEPTION (Kram)
Seconded!
Thirded!
Space Brothers
Apo
Otis, Milo and Otis (Mitsugi)
Kill la Kill
Satsuki Kiryuuin – Lizzy Kaplan, MEAN GIRLS (Kram)
Mako – Ellie Kemper, THE OFFICE (Kram)
Ryuuko – Anna Kendrick, TWILIGHT (Kram)
Ragyou Kiryuuin – Julianne Moore, CHILDREN OF MEN (Kram)
Gamagoori – Chris Evans, CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (Kram)
Black Lagoon
Rock
Ron Livingston, Office Space (Mitsugi)
Revy
Michelle Rodriguez, Fast and the Furious (Mitsugi)
Dutch
The Rock, Professional Wrestling (Mitsugi)
Cowboy Bebop
Jet –
Sean Connery, Hunt for Red October (Chiaki)
Bruce Willis, Die Hard (Mitsugi)
Tom Hardy, BRONSON (Kram)
Vicious –
Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Carribean(Chiaki)
Michael Pitt, BULLY (Kram)
Spike –
Christian Bale, The Dark Knight(Chiaki)
Keanu Reeves, The Matrix (Mitsugi)
Benedict Cumberbatch, SHERLOCK (Kram)
Julia –
Kristin Stewart, Twilight(Chiaki)
Random whore, Street Corner (Mitsugi)
Scarlett Johansson, THE AVENGERS (Kram)
Faye –
Olivia Munn, MAGIC MIKE (Kram)
Princess Jellyfish
Tsukimi –
Jennifer Lawrence, Hunger Games (Chiaki)
Ellen Page, HARD CANDY (Kram)
Kuranosuke –
Jared Leto, DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (Kram)
Mayaya –
Tina Fey, SNL (Chiaki)
Space Dandy
Dandy –
Robert Downey Jr., Iron Man (Chiaki)
Young Henry Winkler, Happy Days (Mitsugi)
Matthew McConaughey, DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (Kram)
Howl’s Moving Castle
Howl –
Liam Hemsworth, Hunger Games (Chiaki)
Sofie –
Natalie Portman, Thor (Chiaki)
Calcifur (voice) –
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Gendo Ikari –
Bryan Cranston, BREAKING BAD (Kram)
Shinji Ikari –
Michael Cera, SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (Kram)
Rei Ayanami –
Summer Glau, SERENITY (Kram)
Asuka Langley –
Emma Stone, EASY A (Kram)
Misato Katsuragi –
Zoey Deschanel, THE HAPPENING (Kram)
Impressions: Black Bullet, Ishuukan Friends, Haikyuu, Ping pong the Animation, Brynhildr in the Darkness
Its time for half of the podcast to move back to America. We’ve had a great time in Japan and now it’s time to reminisce about our favorite things from our time here. That and our first round of impressions on the new Spring 2014 Anime!
Musings on Japan:
Gyoza Museum – Nanjatown
Using two of Japan’s current most popular anime as publicity
Yowamushi Pedal and Houzuki no Reitetsu food items!
Andy and Frank gyoza
Houzuki Parfait
Yowamushi Pedal and Houzuki no Reitetsu exhibits!
Mostly girls at the exhibit. Could be that girls are the main followers of these two anime.
Based on the popularity of Houzuki, don’t be surprised at a sequel
The Anime Addicts Anonymous Podcast discusses anime cliches and what would happen if these were to take place in real life. What if girls ate cake all day? What if men really fell face first into boobies? We discuss this and more!
#1) Moe girls eating cake and candy
Mitsugi’s
If moe girls ate cake, candy and parfaits all day, you’d end up with a whole
bunch of obese girls who wouldn’t be moe anymore because they probably
wouldn’t be nearly as cute. You’d have a pockets of diabetes springing up all over Japan and the anime would surely either take place in a hospital, or a fitness center. You could call the anime “the biggest loser”.
Alternatively, you could make an anime series that’s a documentary study about what happens when all you do is eat cake and parfaits. Kids slip into a the bowels of sickness as they one by one come down with various nutrition deprivation diseases including
SCURVY – VITAMIN C – the “grey death” – we’ll see how cute the girls are with spongy gums, blood spots under the skin, no teeth, and halitosis.
RICKETS – VITAMIN D – Rickets is a condition of children, as the deficiency’s most severe effects are on developing bones
BERIBERI – VITAMIN B1 – beriberi means “I can’t” so we can call the anime “I can’t”. Particularly relavant because it is most prevalent in rice consuming Asian countries. Inability to perform even the simplest of tasks once the polyneuritis (nerve inflammation) caused by the deficiency of vitamin B1 (thiamine) has permanently damaged the neurons.
#2) Mecha pilots always being children/Never wanting to pilot the mecha
Mitsugi’s
Young children are supposed to pilot these mecha to save humanity from giant monsters but upon seeing the monsters, they wet themselves, and run away, leaving the earth to be ravaged by giant monsters.
Chiaki’s
The children are forced into slave-labor like conditions
eventually human rights groups form unions for the workers to make laws
They deploy teams of psychiatrists to help them cope – they give blankets
#3) Guy falling with his face in girls lap/boobs OR Girl and guy fall on each other and kiss
Mitsugi
There is a sudden demand for the field of dentistry in Japan (which is very lacking) becuase when two people fall on each other and kiss, they end up breaking each other’s teeth out.
Chiaki’s
It results in a number of facial brusing and battery claims which involve the police
this then turns into a sexual assault/self defense in which the guy is locked away
he is then in the shower in prison and slips, falling face first onto a man’s chest
YAOI!
#4) If 10 girls really did want to hook up with the same guy (i.e. harems).
Mitsugi
You end up with an anime in which multiple girls scheme and backstab each other in an attempt to win the heard of the boy. In the end, you end up in Jerry Springer in an episode involving a pregnancy test to determine which of the many girls is the mother of the child.
Chiaki’s
The first anime about the mormon religion
#5) tsundere, yandere, dere dere derp!
Mitsugi
Tsundere – person is a bitch and then shows her soft side – The girl acts like an asshole to the boy and eventually the boy tells her to go fuck herself. The girl ends up alone because she has no friends and her life spirals down a dark path of depression and sadness
Yandere – person that loves someone dearly and then that love becomes mentally destructive – A wonderful marriage turns into a messy divorce as the violent party begins to show violent and brutal behavior towards the other party. — A woman gets her child taken away from her because of psychotic violent behavior towards her child, jail and/or child services.
#6) When something embarrassing happens and everybody falls down
Chiaki’s
They’re all raced to the hospital where they learn they have brain tumors from long-term esposure to something in the anime
The continual falling results in severe brain damage that only serves to aggrivate the problem
The anime becomes about their struggle against gravity and the remaining weeks on their lives.
#7) Guys getting nosebleeds all the time
Chiaki’s
Leads to severe anemia
Nose has to be cauterized
Can’t go anywhere without a large pack of tissues
#8) Girls that want to sleep with their brothers (incest)
Chiaki’s
The world is full of incest babies
People end up being stupider and less mentally stable
The anime addicts anonymous talk about their favorite opening and closing songs. Will your favorite anime’s song make the list? Listen in and get some good ideas for your ultimate anime playlist.
Mitsugi:
“Violence of the Flame” by Hironobu Kageyama from the anime M.D. Geist(OP)
Noir, Le Portrait de Petit Cossette, My Hime, Tsubasa Chronicles, First of the North Star, MAdoka Magika, Fate/Zero, Sword art Online, Kara no Kyoukai, Boogiepop
She has produced 10 musicals
15 produced albums many of which are with her band Kalafina, whom many people know because they perform much of the music produced by Yuki Kajiura
“Roundabout” by Yes from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (ED)
Kram and Mitsugi talk about what is hot in Japanese schools with regards to anime. They polled their students and talked about what anime the kids liked and why. Will your favorite show be on there? The results may surprise you.