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In Memoriam

eeeper — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:33:58 +0000

Satoshi Kon (October 12, 1963 – August 24, 2010)

A great man, a visionary director and a masterful storyteller. He showed us at Eeeper’s Choice that you could mess with an audiences head, entertain them, get your point across and STILL not talk down to them or treat them like imbeciles. Myself and Oni are saddened by the world’s loss of Kon-senpai and wish to take this opportunity to extend our condolences and sympathies to his wife, family, friends, work colleagues and, indeed, his fans wherever they are right now.

We were going to tackle some of his works on the show, always with a “we’ll get round to it soon” attitude, but now instead of just celebrating his works, we’ll be celebrating him as a filmmaker and person as well. We hope when these shows DO come out, that we’ll do Kon-senpai justice. I will not be posting any links regarding his death or any of his works as I know the people who already know about him don’t need them and for the ones who have never encountered his works, go discover them for yourself. They’re all good, all of them.

I know that some of our friends on Twitter and in the blogging and podcasting realm are hurting right now at his loss, especially the ones who actually had the privilege and honour of meeting him (God, how I envy you), so I can only sign off with these words of Percy Shelley, speaking of the death of his friend and fellow poet, John Keats. Given the nature of Satoshi Kon’s works, I thought it appropriate.

“Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep –
He hath awakened from the dream of life…”

Harry and his bucketful of dinosaurs

eeeper — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 03:44:00 +0000

And so it is with a glad heart and hefted swords that we return to centre stage. On the show we chat about the recent statement from Shueisha in regards to raws being posted online (http://bit.ly/aGU5XP), review the 2009 anime TV series A Certain Scientific Railgun (http://bit.ly/9v9ngH) and talk about the streaming online service Crunchyroll (http://bit.ly/a5SMXZ)

Download audio file (ECP_Season_2_Official_01.mp3)

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Hope you guys enjoy the show. We’re finally back having fun with the show and not treating it like work or a college assignment. Please note this uses explicit language

Promos played:
The Speakeasy Podcast (A great podcast run The Reverse Thieves, NarutakiRT and HisuiRT, if you can figure out who’s who )
Weeaboobies(Come on, girls! Release another show!)
Dave and Joel(They invoked Vernon Wells on their latest show. Yep, Vernon Wells)

Oh, and don’t bother asking about the post title. I’m not telling you.

More ECP goodness

eeeper — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:43:58 +0000

Review up on OtakuNews: http://www.otakunews.com/dvdreview.php?DVD=146

Guest podcast appearance on anime3000. ~~I’ll post the link later today.~~You can find it here It was good hanging out with Michael from Anime Diet and Gia from Anime Vice with Sean Russell from Anime3000 moderating the madness. Check out the links in the sidebar for the addresses.

Audio Interview with Helen McCarthy

eeeper — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:59:09 +0000

Today Phillip interviews author and Japanese Culture Detective Helen McCarthy in conjunction with the Japanese Anime Weekend at the Irish Film Institute <www.irishfilm.ie>.

Helen is an absolute goldmine of information and anyone with an interest in Japanese pop culture or anime should really attend.

The weekend runs from Sat March 28th-Sun March 29th.

Direct Download

Download audio file (ECP_Helen_McCarthy_interview.mp3)

This audio pertains to:

Daryl Surat: Prophet or Doom-Lord?

God

God Mark II

Extra links:

Helen’s website

Text Interview with translator Andrew Driver

eeeper — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:44:25 +0000

Hey again. Just wanted to repost this article I wrote for otakunews.com. It’s an interview with Andrew Driver, the translator for Alma Book’s English language release of Yasutaka Tsutsui‘s novel Paprika. It’s very short but I had fun doing it. Have fun, kids.

LINK

For those who think Bandai Visual USA is too expensive…

eeeper — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:09:25 +0000

Some good news in the form of Beez Ent, Bandai’s European house.

Beez Entertainment is proud to announce the release of GUNBUSTER 2 to the UK as of March!

The series will be collected in one Digipack release, shipping for an RRP of £24.99 and spread over 2 DVDs Extras include long interviews with the creators, interviews with the Japanese voice cast and Beez trailers.

The series features a young girl named Nono has left her home behind, to come alone to the big city. She has a grand dream of becoming a space pilot. But reality is harsh, and she spends every day instead at the diner near the spaceport where she lives and works. Then one day, while being harassed by one of the regular customers, a real-life “Topless” pilot named Lal’C comes to her aid. Nono, who is deeply impressed, starts on her own accord to call Lal’C “Oné-sama,” and volunteers herself by saying, “I want to become a space pilot like you!”

Thus begins Nono’s journey, to battle the space monsters and to discover more about her abilities!

Coming to the UK in March 2008!

When I worked it out, US fans would pay about $50 and that’s without deals from online shops. Remember that Beez sells to all of Europe so you can pick this up online from German, English, Irish and French sites, to name a few.

Now I still haven’t seen Gunbuster 2 but this is good news for anyone put off by BV USA’s pricing structure.

Well, laters.

P.S. Show proper up next week!

Eeeper’s Choice 2007 End-Of-Year Review

eeeper — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:14:30 +0000

This week we talk about the highlights of year that was 2007. From Justin Sevakis’ open letter to the anime industry and the destruction of Geneon USA and the problems with releasing anime in a timely fashion, myself and Oni let rip. So join us for the last Eeeper’s Choice for the year and also hear what we thought about our personal year in review plus the plans we have for 2008.

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Eirtakon 2007 Fan Subbing Panel Special

eeeper — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:04:59 +0000

Well it’s that time again. This is where I make excuses about the show being late. Well to hell with that. It’s Christmas after all. Season of Good Will and all that, right? RIGHT?? Ah, forget it. Anyways, this is the audio from the fansubbing panel at Eirtakon 2007. Present at the panel was Pazuzu from SD Project, Hybridchild from Shin-Getter and CuLT from Studio ADTRW. Also if at times the panel and ourselves are laughing out loud for seemingly no reason, it’s because CuLT kept typing jokes with the running PowerPoint presentation at the panel. They talked about the ins and outs of fansubbing and also talking about Bandai’s troubles with the dub-title fiasco with Gundam Zeta.

Download the show here

If you don’t want to listen to me then the panel itself starts at 01:45 and runs until 58:14.

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Till next time, have a good one!

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