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

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 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!

What in the name off all that it is sacred is this? Warning: this video is totally fucking stupid.

This Japanese MaccyD advert is living proof that too much MacDonalds melts your brain. Poor Mikuru-chan got totally violated, I feel like I have just been McMind-raped.

 Archive article from former UKotaku blog - First posted: 29/01/08

 For just a few hundred thousand dollars you can be a sad as this guy:

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These things are insane, thank you 7chan for introducing me to the bizzare and yet stangely attractive world of super-realistic Japanese sex dolls.

More here: http://www.dollmate.jp/report/level-d/ayana/index.html

Interwebs / Links

Archive article from former UKotaku blog - First posted: 30/04/08

 So, the other day I was asked by a Japanese girl on Facebook a simple question: "What is DESU?"

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

Archive article from former UKotaku blog - First posted: 19/02/08