Show 6 sees the triumphant return of Matt after his mighty American conquest, he speaks a bit about his amazing journey into the heart of the new world. We also had Jade and Louise with us to discuss anime and other otaku related stuffs. Darlo was supposed to join us but was unfortunately cut short by noisy children and left us before we had a chance to speak with him. I chatted a little about my new website (http://ukotaku.net/rokaru) and we also launched our brand new karaoke competition!

UKotaku is currently running two, yes two, glorious competitions!

Comp 1: The UKotaku Pika Pika Drawing Comp

Only me and Jade available to record this week but we still managed to inform and amuse for almost an hour. Jade talked about new music and anime while I enthused a little about Mirror's Edge and robots.
We also included our usual mix of new Japanese music for your listening pleasure.

UKotaku is currently running two, yes two, glorious competitions!

Comp 1: The UKotaku Pika Pika Drawing Comp

Send us your pictures of the UKotaku gang (Myself [John], Jade, Matt, Louise, Emily or even Darlo) and stand the chance to be awarded the extravagant prize of “some manga that Jade doesn’t want any more”!!! It doesn’t matter if you don’t know what we look like, in fact that is even better, draw us how you think we look. Or if you do know what we look like draw us as you think we should look.

Send your entries to: podcast@ukotaku.net with the subject “drawing comp” or something similar.

This show featured n00j (John), Girutaku (Jade) and sum0 (Matt) in a state of some confusion due to extensive drinking the night before and lack of sleep. Never the less we manged to produce just under an hour of otaku style jibber jabber for you. Jade even managed to sing some Karaoke for us at the end!

UKotaku is currently running two, yes two, glorious competitions!

Comp 1: The UKotaku Pika Pika Drawing Comp

Send us your pictures of the UKotaku gang (Myself [John], Jade, Matt, Louise, Emily or even Darlo) and stand the chance to be awarded the extravagant prize of “some manga that Jade doesn’t want any more”!!! It doesn’t matter if you don’t know what we look like, in fact that is even better, draw us how you think we look. Or if you do know what we look like draw us as you think we should look.

No girls around for this show so myself (n00j) and Matt (Sum0) took the opportunity to talk about the important stuff: hentai, sexy video games, fap toys and computers. We also briefly mentioned some things that were not directly related to masturbation, sorry.
As usual we played our eclectic mix of Japanese music to break up the drivel.

Needless to say this show is NSFW!

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John: n00j@ukotaku.net

Matt: sum0@ukotaku.net

We had some trouble uploading this file, sorry to anyone who listened to the quarter of a file that got uploaded originally, this is now the full show...

Series 2 Xmasu Special! We talked about our expected / known xmasu gifts, packed in two whole in-depth anime reviews and talked at great length about Fallout 3.
We also introduced out newest member of the ota-crew; Monty. This probably female welsh-taku astounded us with the size of her ota-brain providing in-depth insight into anime and general otaness. Monty we salute you!
And as always we played a selection of Japanese new-music, not forgetting a cheesey xmasu number of course!

Interwebs / Links

Welcome to the NHK
Claymore
Fallout 3
Daggerfall

This episode I left the good ship Yuko in the capable hand of Captain Briggles who a good hours worth of meandering otaku based chit-chat. The show was harder to edit than usual (thanks guys) and plagued by some very odd technical difficulties, that will teach me to skive off...
The guys (and gals) chatted alot about games and a little about manga and anime too, plus we broke the chatter with our usual choice pick of the PSMN.

UKotaku is back after a million years of slackness and failure to produce... But we are back on form (despite some more bloody issues with Skype) to bring you a rip-roaring new ep!

Music Playlist: http://yukoplay.tumblr.com/post/133409461/ukotaku-s2-e5-playlist

Shortners

http://www.shortner.com/2oj - Phantasy Star Zero Press Release
http://www.shortner.com/2ok - Phantasy Star Zero Official Site (Jap)
http://www.shortner.com/2ol - SCHTHACK Server: PSO Private Server
http://www.shortner.com/2om - The Path
http://www.shortner.com/2ou - Wiki / Pretty Face
http://www.shortner.com/2ov - London Film and Comic Con
http://www.shortner.com/2os - Tertrong

Just n00j and Captain Briggles this week but just because we are short on staff doesn't mean we are short on content.
We chatted at great length about ALcon 2009, Elfen Lied (cos it's bloody brilliant), the Monkey Island remake and about lots of other cheeky geeky stuffs. Plus our usual round up of the latest anime releases, game releases and some great music and other chit chat too.

Warning! This podcast contains excessive use of the word "poo."

Enjoy!

Music Playlist: http://yukoplay.tumblr.com/post/155823993/ukotaku-s2-e6-playlist

Shortners

http://shortner.com/2re - ALcon 2009
http://shortner.com/2qr - Elfen Lied Wiki
http://shortner.com/2rb - Shintaro Kago Wiki
http://shortner.com/2rc - Abstraction by Shintaro Kago
http://shortner.com/2rd - Tales of Monkey Island

UKotaku back once again with some ill behaviour from myself (n00j), Monty and Captain Briggles. We talked this show about oh so many things, including Fallout 3, Harry Potter, iPhones, Banksy and of course our usual array of anime, manga and other Japanese flavoured goodies. Plus Briggy has managed to get his sweaty mits on Batman: Arkham Asylum and gives us the low down on this much anticipated game.

Music Playlist: http://yukoplay.tumblr.com/post//ukotaku-s2-e7-playlist

Shotners

http://www.shortner.com/2rm - Zenonia Demo for iPhone
http://www.shortner.com/2rn - Hōrō Musuko Wiki
http://www.shortner.com/2ro - Charlie Brooker on Banksy
http://www.shortner.com/2rp - Banksy Website
http://www.shortner.com/2rq - District 9

This show is special for oh so many reasons! And not just cos of our usual "special" cast, we had a brand new member in the form of Thom Sweeting! 
Plus this is the last podcast before our live show at ALcon and marks the official running out of Japanese podsafe music, seeing us move into the realms of some excellent British and American bands.
Not only that but this show is the first show since the new UKotaku website design and we talk about that too! Wow, so much special in just one download...
Don't worry about all this change though; we still have out usual mix of anime, manga, gaming and general geek-chat interspersed with nonsense and music for your listening pleasure.

This show was a super special report on the ALcon happening at this year's event. Myself (n00j), Briggy and Monty invited a whole load of people to chat with us including staff, gophers and attendees.
We hope that this show will be fun for those that attended and a call to all our no attending listeners to get themselves to ALcon next year, or pop down to AL Club London and see what all the fuss is about for yourselves.
Due to the clusterfucky nature of having so many ppl on Skype audio quality is a little lower than usual, with some glitchy bits (but hey, that's better than itchy tits!)

Thanks to Kanada, The Failed Ninja, Mex, Tsunade and Yukito for joining us!

Music Playlist: http://yukoplay.tumblr.com/post/190472485/ukotaku-s2-e9-playlist

Links

http://animeleague.net - AL
http://animeleague.net/london - AL Club London

This show Briggle, Monty and myself (n00j) talked about training wheel series; manga, anime and movies that we would recommend as a taster of Japanese media.
This topic really got us going and we talked at great length about essential anime, manga and movies we would recommend to our non-taku pals. We, of course, had a few disagreements and played some awesome tunes along the way.
We also covered the latest anime, manga, gaming and tech news plus I reviewed District 9 and threw in a few other bits and pieces too!

Music Playlist: http://yukoplay.tumblr.com/post/217078808/ukotaku-s2-e9-playlist

Links

http://www.shortner.com/2w9 - Touchable Holography
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6PDlMggROA - District 9 Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNReejO7Zu8 - Alive in Joburg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxdvGO1oOF0 - Halo: Landfall (short film)
http://www.shortner.com/2wb - Negative Happy Chain Saw Edge

Mentioned "Training Wheel" Anime, Manga, Games and Movie Wikis

This show was an RPG through the ages special. We talk at great length (for over two hours in fact) about everything from the dawn of the RPG era to present day and from East to West too.
Plus Briggy gave us a super in depth review of Dragon Age: Origins and we had our usual mix of awesome, quirky music and of course some down right silliness.

Music Playlist: http://yukoplay.tumblr.com/post/242994470/ukotaku-s2-e11-playlist

Mentioned RPG Wikis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrono_Trigger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Winter_Nights
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur's_Gate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_(series)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Knights_of_the_Old_Republic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Empire

This show was a creepy horror special! Myself (n00j) Briggy and Monty talked about the Japanese culture of horror: from ghosts of the past to the films, manga, anime and games of the present.
We also had our usual selection of dubious facts, stupidity and general tom-foolery plus some awesome tunes too!

Music Playlist: http://yukoplay.tumblr.com/post/258199789/ukotaku-s2-e12-playlist

n00j's List of Related Wikis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_Pig_(film_series)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairo_(film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Miike
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noroi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Missed_Call_(2004_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grudge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_(film)

Our roving reporter Monty B headed over the new Otaku Zoku shop in Cathays, Cardiff to glean insight and opinion from the shop's proud owners, Russell and Hayden.
And behold! This is not just a shameless plug but 30 minutes of our usual brilliant level of anime based chatter from Monty and the new boys on the block, and ok maybe a little bit of shamless pluggery, enjoy!

Check out Otaku Zoku online or in store!

We talked this week about Kyoto animation, mostly Lucky Star, Haruhi, and the beauty of Aya Hirano.
As well as that Briggy gave us his first impressions of the new Bioware Epic: Mass Effect 2.
Plus we had some of our usual silly banter, great tunes and some hilarious iPad jokes too!

Music Playlist: http://yukoplay.tumblr.com/post/369518150/ukotaku-s2-e13-playlist

Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Animation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_effect_2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipad