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

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!

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)

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 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 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.

Just a quick post for anyone who hasn't as yet seen this amazingly stupid and insanely catchy craze. A silly SWF featuring a few frames of Anime from the visual novel, Popotan. This has been made famous all over Japan (and now the world) by Nicovideo and other sites. Below is the orignal opening of Popotan, with plenty of PANTSUUUUU!

Archive article from former UKotaku blog - First posted: 01/04/08