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First up in the news was anime eyes.

Best before and after pic ever.

In the reviews first up was Scott with Maris the Chojo. From Rumiko Takahashi (yea she can make short stories too). We get girl type ranma only with 10% more buff. Find out if itâs any good.

Next up was Ed with Kilico. The cover screams bad assory but can its cash the checks its writing find out in the review.

And to close things off was Dan doing Cat Eye Boy. I think Kazuo Umezu is like the Chibi Tokyo dead horse. What is there to say about him that hasnât been saidâ.. find out!!

First off was Scott with his review of Black Magic M-88. Find out what he though about this mech filled anime. Also hear him as he discusses the sexuality of Massamune Shirow.

Next was Ed with Moetan. So being in the game for a while Iâm sure you seen more then enough lilocon shows. So whatâs going to make Moetan different? Well listen up and youâll find out.

Finally Dan talks about the book. âThe Astro Boy Essaysâ by Frederik L. Schodt. A book about Astro Boy and Osamu Tezuka.

Osamu Tezuka will always be an OG. Let us spill our 40s on the sidewalk, straight pimping fo life.

I could explain why it took so long to get this episode out but I think this picture and 2 words would make my point.

WEâRE LAZY

-  Chibi Tokyo Staff

All news is pretty much old still listen its funny

Ed Starts the reviews off with Dear mine. Ed really loves Sappy ribbonest love stories. Find out what he thinks of this one.

Next Dan gives it a go with Bus Gamer. Nor in the review I heard nothing about buses or video games. Funny side story I used to be a Bus gamer, playing my ds on the metro.

Scott was next with Luna Varga. Now we make jokes about Scott just talking and talking about his review this one he must of gone on for 30 minutes lucky for you most of that is edited out.

To close things off was Dan again with Gyooooo!!. If the picture below doesnât make you want to read it Dan review might. 

Instead of filling a whole Chibi-Tokyo show with ax news. Weâre going to spread them out with Chibi-Tokyo news bites. Get the first mini episode here

Proof that to heart started the sucking of anime.

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Scott talks about Iczer one. Which could be the god father of tentacle porn.

Ed Talks about D-ash. A manga about running ( I know you canât tell from the name) if you like what you hear from the review you can download the manga from anime waves.

And Dan finishes things off by talking about our buddy our homi g Kazuo Umezu. Hereâs the youtube clip we were talking about in the show.

In this episode we talk about why the Japanese get a cool google page.

And the coldness that was sakuracon, like we said in the show hereâs Ed first time in the snow.

Scott tells us about a Wind Named Amnesia. And how Mad Houseâs bizarre ending didnât start with Ninja Scrolls TV.

Ed talks about the anime Human Crossing. With such a true to life series the boys here at Chibi Tokyo will ones again bring you a hard hitting serious review. That means no fart jokesâ.. well maybe just one. See if they can hold it together.

Oh well at lest we tried to be serious.

After a run of laziness weâre here to bring you anther show. Even though this show was record a while ago (so most of the news must be old) have fun with our show dedicated to suicideââ. Yeahâââ

 
First up was Dan with his reviews of Blue Spring. Now we all know Tekkonkinkreet was messed up. So now Viz is striking while the iron is how with another of Taiyo Matsumotoâs books Blue Spring. Find out in the review if Viz knows what its doing.

Next was Ed with Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. In the time after the review was done Del Rey got the rights to the manga for this find out if its going to be worth buying when Ed talks all things suicide.

Next was Dan again with The Push Man and Other Stories. Probably the best thing about Yoshihiro Tatsumi Push Man is it gives you a really good look at what was going on in Japan during the time they were having their economic boom. Both books that are out the second being Abandon the Old in Tokyo give you a gridy look at Japan that not a lot of people get to see.

First up on the show is our interview with people from Tokyopop. Yes we did talk about more then just Futari Ecchi, and Scott just couldnât stop talking about Gravitation.

First up on the reviews was Scott and he talked about an old oav and by old (we mean in the 90s, I know thatâs not really that old) called Ruin Explorers. A story with a fantasy setting, hey it was the 90s they all had a fantasy s settings.

 And Ed talks about the nerd loving fest that is Genshiken. Find out how enjoyable it is to read about nerds and there daily livesâ.. of reading porn and playing porn gamesâ. Good times!

Chibi Tokyo goes out to the movies this episode first up was Scott talking about the late and great Isao Takahata World War II movie Grave of the Fireflies. Form what I like to call the least popular member of Studio Ghibil (everyone talks about Hayao Miyazaki)  takes a look at not by the people fighting it but by the people that have to live in the war torn towns. Is this all gum drops and lollipops how fun could war really be well find out what Scott has to say about it.

Reviews:

Scott Talks about the Studio 4ÂC Princess Arete a very old and non Japanese looking movie Princess Arete is neither both of those with a very unusual art style for an anime movie find out what Scott thinks about the movie.

Howdy, Dan here.

Maybe you're wondering what happened to the latest Chibi-tokyo since it's much (alot) later than our regular posting. Well... here's the skinny.

 Ed's computer died. Well....really, a computer can't die...it was murdered.

Y'see, we HAD an episode recorded and it was on the later stages of editing. Ed turned off his computer and when he turned it back on... something went horribly wrong. His entire HD was wiped clean. Everything, 200 gigs of anime, porn, music, porn, movies, h-games and porn... gone. I blame all his porn (yaoi) H-games. He insists it was a virus that came with some software.

 ...you be the judge.

Anyhow, jokes aside. It really sucks. That episode was a really good one (not to be full of myself, but it was... honest). So I'm here to say that the next episode will be out in a week or two... likely going to be 2. Our schedules between the three of us haven't been convenient. Well. not Scott's. Ed and I have been trying to figure out how to get everything back now....over a game of football~!

My crappy artsy shot of FC Dallas whooping our LA Galaxy 2-0

"alll byyy myyy sellllf"

Galaxy finally put one in... too late though. They lost

Ed likes to brag how he can get box seats... but they ARE badass though.

And that's it. I can safely say that we got it together and we're gonna work hard and fast to bring back Chibi-tokyo for another *badass* episode. We won't dissapoint.

dm

Just Ed and Scott for this show and all we did was talk about the shows we want to see this coming winner season although not many good shows are coming out find out which ones were looking forward to watching.

Reviews:

Scott talked about Pretty Face a Shone Jump manga being brought here my by Viz. It being a Shone Jump you already kind of know what going to be up with this story. Itâs aimed at young teen males. A story about what happen when you lose your face and get of a hot chick find out what Scott thinks about this manga.

Ed keeps up the Digi Charat talk and talks about Winter Garden. So what does happen when Dijiko and Puchiko get old and stop using there eye lasers? Will it be a good story who knows may you should listen to the reiviewâ

Anime you shouldnât watch:

Now we all know that The Last Unicorn isnât an anime so really it canât be under anime you shouldnât watch but it was animated by a soon to be Studio Ghibli so wellâ.. find out why Dan hates hates hates this so.

News:

Viz has death note even though thatâs pretty important whatâs more important is this is going to be the flag ship title for Vizâs online distribution. Also we talked the 3 big trends in of manga in Japan for 2006, and how the Jp is really big on online manga distribution. And lastly we ragged on the American Anime Awards.

And for the rest of the show we talked about the 2006 anime year

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News:

Not really a lot of news this week and when I say this week I mean a few weeks ago cuz it takes me longer to get these episodes out. You can tell there wasnât a lot of news due to the fact that we reported on the eva stamps. But either way we can now run out to Circle K (in Japan) and pick some Poring buns. If you eat enough you will lv up. And one of my favorite shows of last year will get a second season.

Reviews:

Scott talked about the doomsday like anime Jyu Oh Sei. Peg as a survivor by Scott watch kids beat the hell out of each other to become the beast king.

Ed talked about the old OAV series Moldiver. A magic girl show with no magic in it at all. Watch them save Tokyo about 6 times in this 6 episode OAV. Also I forgot to say on the show but the sub kind of sucks in this dvd, everytime someone talks it says there name right before the text which get really irritating after the first time you see it. I know who talking but there voice I donât need extra words to read while Iâm reading the subs.

Dan finished up talking about Noein. Did he like it did he hate it even more well I guess you guys just have to listen up. And Dan Also talked about the fist movie but he said only for 5 mins please time him and tell us if he went over his 5 mins

Chibi Tokyo loves to hear what you think so let us know chibitokyo@gmail.com

News

Here at Chibi Tokyo we always say Naoki Urasawa = good so hopefully the live action movie based on his manga series 20th century boys will be good. Also we talked about top selling magas of Amazon jp and why Japan canât get let Nauisica of the valley of the wind die. And ADV gets Ah My Goddess season 2. and maid cafes.

Reviews:

Scott talked about the anime good Witch of the West. At first he was expecting an anime with magic girls. What he got was a serous love story and men suduesing find out what else he thought of this show.

Ed talked about the manga Eagle âThe Making of an Asian American Presidentâ? loosely based on the election here in the US of 2000 find out what it takes to be the president of the US. And thatâs not even the main story line. All the drama of the campaign trail told though the eyes of a report of Japan.   

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News:

Well good news Agent Aika the show we give way to much attention too has another oav coming. New characters meaning brand new panties to look at!!! Also we didnât talk about this on the show but Ikkitouse is also getting a news series. Itâs basically the same joke about the panties as Agent Akika. New cast new panties I tend to repeat my funnier jokes. And Dan and South American can rejoice Fist of the Blue Sky got fansubbed. I was really expecting to see a Spanish fansub for this show before the English one.

Reviews:

Scott talked about the uber sad anime Now and Then, Here and There. Akitaro Kaichi worked as the Camera guy for Grave of the Fireflies. Thatâs where he must have learned the art of telling a story where the characters get fucked around a lot. Sure not as sad as Grave of the Fireflies (few things are) the anime will leave you with a lot of (ah crap I canât believe they did that) moments.

Dan and I caught the last showing of Paprika so to kill two birds with one stone I thatâs what I reviewed. From the looks of the trailer was expecting some kind of cyber punk action. What I got was further from that. Paprika mostly deals with dreams and a devise called the DC mini.

Dan talked about the beginning of the anime noein. Heâs going to break this show into 2 parts so find out what he thinks of being of the show. Oh yea the show is really weird. Also the main character looks like the âfatherâ? from Azumanga Daioh.

Let us know what you think about our podcast, blog, or how we dress (that last one is a joke) at chibitokyo@gmail.com

Hi this is Ed no show last week weâre using a combination of thanksgiving and the fact that the Wii came as to why that happen. But really itâs because we did do a show it just sucked really bad and decided not to release it. (I mean it sucked a lot). So for the 2 people that go to the website. I though I would leave a blog post. 

The fall season has really let me down from the look of our fall preview show it was going to be good, but from most of the shows Iâve seen I canât really get into many of them. Shows I was really jazzed about like Kanon and Death Note Iâve stopped watching. Kanon Iâve seen already so there is noting really new about it and like Dan said on Death Note its just like the manga so nothing new about that show either. The Wall Flower aka Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge aka Perfect Girl Evolution aka has to many dam names is still my favorite show to have come out this season. Hataraki Man is also a very good show now sub ep 4 already! What this show has done more for me is got me really excited in the manga. Which is doing really well in Japan right now. I hope all this gets entropy to scan more of it. And Historyâs Strongest Disciple Kenichi rounds out all Iâm really watching. Which is a good thing because I can caught up on my old dvds. After so much fanfare from Scott and Sal Iâve been watching Macross. I have had the bug to watch it for a while now, but I wanted the AnimEigo dvds so I have the first 2 boxes. Also specking of AnimEigo Iâm also trying to finish up my Urusei Yatsura dvds only to have to go back and buy moreâ. I donât think Iâm ever going to finish watching this show.  

Now for some follow-ups on reviews we have done in the pass. In the podcast it self we donât really do follow-ups on anything my whole logic behind that is we have already talked about it one time people donât want to hear about it again, but I did plan on following up series on blog post like this one. Hot Gimmick which we talked about in episode 5 volume 12 came out sometime ago it had the parental sticker and was wrapped in plastic I knew shit was going to go down in this book. Now I like to retracted my statement about Hatsumi being the dumbest girl of anime/manga that tilted now goes to Shinju from Tor iko ~Aigan Shoujo~ (read the manga if you want to know why). Still I found Hatsumi extremely stupid so much so that towards the end I was more into the Akane/Subaru love story then the main story line. As far as her hooking up with Ryoki (the dude I was rutting for anyways) Azusa was a jerk and Shinogu was a pussy. I rather have he go to the dude that you knowââ beats her and puts her downâ. But the love is there right? Or maybe Miki Aihara secretly made me hate Hatsumi so much that I wanted the worst match for her. I think I heard for the true ending I have to read the Hot Gimmick novel and read another manga, then kill the giant spider and answer thee questions 3. so looks like no true ending for me. The reason I read all the way to the end was I couldnât stop with the shoujo smut. And oh this had a lot of that. I still found the book as a whole enjoyable but really lags a lot in the endâ. Maybe not so long next time. 

Now if you listen to our reviews it clear that I am more of a manga fan then anime fan. So in this last part Iâm going to talk a little about the titles hyped up about this December: The Drifting Classroom (3) its part lord of the flyâs part battle royal. Ever since volume one I have been hooked on this manga it doesnât take very long for the story to settle in the only turn off to people might be the old art. Naruto (12) even though we donât seem like it on the show Iâm a big fan of Naruto I love the manga the only thing I donât like is how slow it takes each volume to come out. Beck (6) I love music and I love mangas which is why Beck is a defendant pick up for me this month. Crying Freeman (4) we talked about this manga on show on episode 18 so of course right after that I had to buy the manga. Golgo 13 (6) I saw the movie a long time ago on Showtime (yes Showtime shows anime) but after listing about it on anime world order Iâve been really turned on to this book. Monster (6) Scott can not stop talking about it and I canât stop reading the manga for it. With volume 6 we are really getting deep into the story now. O-Parts Hunter (1) aka 666 satan (how can you not love that fucken titled) done by the twin brother of the guy that did Naruto and I have already read some of it and I like it. Gacha Gacha (6) we talked about in episode 2 all I can say about this series is I love the fan services in this. I love Hiroyuki Tamakoshi art. Thatâs enough for me to keep reading this. And the Wallflower (10) yes I know I canât stop talking about it. So I wonât. And just to make this post longer then it should be. My new obsession Eiji Ohtsuka (Iâm reading and digging all his work) he has a manga called The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. Which Iâve been trying to get for some time now Dark Horse manages arenât easy to find in Borders. So I went to a comic book store near where I work. And all man did they have some hard to find stuff there. KCDS was there, but I also found a lot of out of print Viz books that I though I would never be able to read like: the first 2 volumes of Phoenix and the only Mitsuru Adachi work even brought over here Short Program. Itâs great because both of which I though I would never read. 

 Questions about the podcast or blog let us know at chibitokyo@gmail.com also let us know if you like this blog thing.if itâs to long or to short or if I misspelled a lot of words. The next show should be coming out in a few days. And of course you canât have a blog post with out the you tube video! taken from our trip to AX

News:

Well this week w elcome to the NHK volume 6 came out in Jp land but why this is cool is it comes with a free pc game with art by the artist and written by the writer of NHK. So not only do the people of Japan pay like 4 bucks for there manga but now there coming with free goods too. Man Tokyopop take note with you release Welcome to the NHK volume 6 also in case you didnât hear the US release for this is out so pick it up. New Comic Imprint called Yen Press coming. Now lets see how big of a slash they came make in the manga world of course not being back by already exciting Japanese company could really hurt them. Weâll see as soon as they start putting shit out. We make fun of the A merican Anime Awards and like Scott said in the show American Anime Awards is an oxymoron. And we talk about Ranma  ending in manga form. After so many different kinds of release for this manga it finally ended in the started 10 bucks small book form. If anything this is a good indicator of how the release of manga has change through the years. From the comic book style release to the big and over prices books manga has gone though a lot in the USA

Reviews:

Dan Talks about First President of Japan I want to say itâs a book about people getting shot in the face (even though it happens a few times) this is a look at how government works in Japan when shit is going down.

Ed talks about the not to funny but still entertaining Momoiro Sisters. 5 minute long episodes wonât really kill anyone to watch this not much else to say about it thatâs not already in the reviews. So listen up.

And of course you can always bug us at chibitokyo@mail.com

Dan here.

 Here is that music video with the world's greatest guitar (at least until the Kenshiro SG comes out)

And here are our PMX photos... blame me if you think they look crappy.... SCOTT...

Every morning... this was our breakfast... if we were lucky...

Our new friends, The Shitty Cosplayers.

One cool guy, Kapitan Kartoon displaying some of his work.

The lovely Lolitas. (Don't call them cosplayers)

And the charming ladies who made off with my hamster ...

(No coincidence that I had to sneak in a shot of the KOF machine in the back too...)

 We'd like to thank everyone who we've interviewed.

Live in the Los Angeles area and wanna get a hold of Kapitan Kartoon? kapitankartoon@yahoo. com 

And check out our new pals, the shittycosplayers at www.shittycosplayers. net

dan wants to be nice he can link to all the pics of the people we interviewed 

This week we talked a lot about PMX not just an anime con but a con about all type of media from Asia. So listen up! We did say on the show we would post some video we put from the con. 

 Ed playing the fist game. 

After that we meet the Shitty Cosplayers. Coolest group of people at that con also check out there myspace. Hopefully we will see them again in other cons. 

We also interview a lot of people at night. 

Review: 

Scott talked about the anime Rozen Maiden which seems to have a very comical plot. Yet Scott seemed to really like it. Even though everyone in the room was laugh hysterically at the major plot points. I guess Dan and I just couldn't take this show serious. 

I talked about the live action movie and manga for Kamikaze Girls. There is also a novel to this all owned by Viz. The creator of this Novala Takemoto was at PMX at an event called the twisted tea party, this was a high class deal and had to dress the part. As it was heard in the interview with the young lolitas my outfit total $45 bucks including part of which being my $30 dollar shoes and other 15 on the rest of the clothes.  Needless to say they were not going to let us in there to meet him, but you could listen to the review to find out what we thing of his work. 

This week we did the Halloween theme show. Yeah,  I know its a week past Halloween but we recorded this days before.

 Reviews:

 First up was Ed with Jigoku Shoju aka Hell Girl. A story about a revenge for hire website. Revenge for the price of your soul. Which Ed thinks is a very good idea but after watching it 26 different times... the novelty kind of wears off. Aside from that, Ed likes stories about revenge and this is a series you want to keep around and watch an episode ever so often. Ed wouldn't recommend you watch them all at once unless you want to go mad. By the way Ed wonders if this really works.

Scott talked about the very weird manga Pet Shop of Horrors. 10 volumes about a guy named Count D (enter random "nuts" references after that if you want) who owns a very strange pet shop and the twisted stories that come out of that pet shop.

Dan talked about the manga Uzumaki. To really understand what Uzumaki is about, first you must know a little about Junji Ito. Good thing Dan gives us the lowdown on both him and Uzumaki so find out what the swirl filled manga is all about.

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Reviews:

Scott talked about the soon to be on DVD Fate Stay Night. Themes taken from S&M we can only assume and one person takes on the role as Master and Servant.... well really its about the quest for the Holy Grail (for some reason it's not the mug Jesus drank his morning coffee) so if you're in the mood for a show where people with weird names fight each other for a mug .... You know what to watch. If you really want to know what the show is about listen to Scott.

Ed talked about the manga Othello (no relation to the play). Yaya is just your normal school girl with a secret (of course there's a secret or no one would want to read the book) on Sundays she goes out in full Goth Lolita cosplay (which I learn at PMX you're not supposed to call them Goth Lolita cosplay because there not cosplaying but more on that when we talk about PMX)

Anime You Shouldn't Watch:

Dan, a big Ninja Scroll OAV fan, and I'm (Ed) using OAV cuz thats what it fucken is, talks about Ninja Scroll TV. Find out why a big Ninja Scroll OAV fan hates the tv show so much.