Anime News Network's ANNCast
By Zac Bertschy & Justin Sevakis
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Podcast Description
ANNCast is the official weekly podcast from Anime News Network, the internet's most trusted anime news source since 1998. Hosted by ANN's senior staff (each with over a decade in the business), the show is a laid-back, fun and frank discussion about Japanese animation, its audience and its industry -- often revealing secrets about how things really work. Guests include prominent figures in both the business of anime and the fan community.
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ExplicitANNCast - Super Manga Pals Kick Back | Deb Aoki, Ed Sizemore and Inebriated Batman reconvene and it's time for another installment of Super Manga Pals! We talk about the industry, what we've been reading and then take a ton of Twitter questions! | 6/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Men of Inaction | Zac and Justin are killing time before Memorial Day weekend, and what better way to do that than to take some super fun Twitter questions? | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - FUNi Games | Lance and Adam return to the podcast to talk all things Funimation! Simulcasting, those Dragonball blurays on hiatus, the relative success of Princess Jellyfish and oh, so much more! | 5/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Poke-Maughan The Movie 2000 | Returning champion and author of Paintwork Tim Maughan rejoins Zac and Justin for about 90 minutes of nonsense! We talk Kimi Ni Todoke, Kids on the Slope, Tenchi Muyo, Alien vs. Aliens and oh, so much more! | 5/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - 3-2-1 Let's Jan! | Industry legend Jan Scott Frazier stops by the podcast to chat about what it was like actually working in anime production back in the 90s! | 5/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Spring The Pain | The Spring Preview Guide is over, and that means an extremely exhausted Zac, Bamboo and Justin have a little time to chat before collapsing in an anime-addled heap! | 4/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - 16-Bit Glory | Working Designs honcho and Gaijinworks president Vic Ireland and the former head of Hudson Soft, John Greiner, stop by the show along with X Button author Todd Ciolek to chew the fat about JRPGs then and now! | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Revenge of the 80s Part II: You've Got To Have Power | This is it! The second and final chapter in our big 1980s extravaganza with Tim Eldred and Daryl Surat! RADICAL! | 4/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Revenge of the 80s: It's All In The Reflexes | It's the first in our series counting down the best anime of the past 30 YEARS! Climb inside your Turbo Trans Am and blitz some wasteoids on your way to our REVENGE OF THE 80s show! | 3/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Hope, For All Mankind | Sit back and relax with video reviewer and occasional ANN writer Hope Chapman as she and Zac navigate 2 solid hours of Twitter questions! | 3/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Podcast of 1000 Questions with Jason Thompson | Author of Manga: The Complete Guide and King of RPGs Jason Thompson drops by to talk about his long career as a bonafide manga editor, creator and all-around fanatic. | 3/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Stream It Again, Sam | Translator and simulcast guru extraordinaire Sam Pinansky drops by the show to tell us what it's like to supply pretty much every streaming site with their product! | 3/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Jellyfish Princes | Justin and Zac slow down, turn on some relaxing music and chat about all the anime they've been watching lately: Initial D, Rebirth of Buddha, B Gata H Kei and Princess Jellyfish. Then it's Twitter time! | 2/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Savage Tweeting with Erin and Noah | It's free and easy fun times when Erin Finnegan, author of Shelf Life, and her cohost-slash-husband Noah drop in to shoot the breeze about what we've seen lately and then take a ton of twitter questions! | 2/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - S-E-X-X-I-S-M | Bamboo Dong, Lauren Orsini and Courtney Kraft stop by the podcast to chat about sexism in anime and anime fandom, and the results are EXPLOSIVE! | 2/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Horn in the USA | Manga editor for Dark Horse and industry legend Carl Horn stops by the podcast to regale us with tales of the old days. It's history-riffic! | 2/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Viewers Like You: I Think Therefore I Rant | It's a call-out show! We tackle a bunch of hot-button issues like negative fan reaction to same-sex relationships in anime, the fate of Gundam after Bandai and why everyone wants you to be so positive all the time! And if that isn't enough, there's more!! | 1/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Mission Critical | Zac and Justin weigh in on the Funimation vs. ADV lawsuit - of course - and then ANN staff critics Theron Martin and Bamboo Dong stop by to talk about reviewing anime! Writing about it, tolerating it, appreciating it... even LOVING it. | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Challenge of the Super Manga Pals | Justin and Zac take stock of the bad news this month, and then it's fun times with Super Manga Pals Deb Aoki and Ed Sizemore! We talk the best of 2011 and what 2012 might have in store! | 1/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast Holiday Special The Third: Part Deux | Justin and Zac forced eachother to watch 3 anime and 3 movies that they've never seen. This show is the result of that experiment. | 12/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast Holiday Special The Third: Part One | It's the ANNCast Holiday Special! In this first installment, Zac and Justin run down their Top 5 Anime and Top 5 movies of 2011, along with some of the worst of the year. | 12/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - A Peek At Chu | Former Marketing Manager from Bandai Entertainment USA, Jerry Chu stops by the podcast to reminisce about the good (and occasionally bad) old days. | 12/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Supernerds: Crisis on Infinite Podcasts | It's our 100th episode! What better way than to bring back our pals Mike Toole and Daryl Surat and chat up all things anime! It's two hours and 30 minutes of PURE FUN! | 12/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - It's Kind of a FUNi Story | Our buddies from Funimation, Adam Sheehan and Lance Heiskell return to the podcast for another 90 minutes of insider chat! | 12/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Game Show II: Sons of Liberty | Todd, Dave and Joel return to ANNCast this week for nearly 2 hours of nothin' but videogame chat! | 11/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Gym, TAN, Laundry | This week we sit down with Stacy Dodson, Executive Vice President of The Anime Network! She talks about the channel's early days, the stuff they're streaming now and the future of the network. | 11/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Viewers Like You: The Brave and the Old | It's a Call-Out show! You remember these! We chat it up about Gundam, Evangelion, good endings vs. bad endings and a whole bunch of other stuff, because that's what we do around here! | 11/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Guy Kiley | Former Senior Vice President of Tokyopop Mike Kiley is our special guest this week, and he runs us through his long and storied career. | 11/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Tarboxed and Feathered | Veteran manga translator and editor Jonathan "Jake" Tarbox walks us through his long history at Raijin Comics and CMX! Also: Interstella 5555, Oscar season movies with Justin Sevakis and oh, so much more! | 10/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Omega Men at Work | Everyone's at New York Comic-Con - except Zac and Justin, who hang back to talk about movies and anime and take your questions! | 10/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Learning by Osmond-sis | UK news editor and author of Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist, Andrew Osmond, stops by the show to chat us up about his career, his writing and a whole load of other stuff! | 10/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Warriors of Plasm | Zac chats it up with Gia Manry, Brian Hanson and Hope Chapman about what they've been watching lately, including No. 6, Casshern Sins, Guin Saga, One Piece and Legend of the Millennium Dragon! | 9/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Rambling Men | Zac and Justin sit down guest-free to chat about what they've been watching: Eden of the East: Paradise Lost, Mardock Scramble, Trigun: Badlands Rumble and more! | 9/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Mastering the Universe with Clarine and Matt | We sit down with Funimation's Director of DVD, Bluray and Video production Clarine Harp and the Manager of said production Matt O'Hara to chat about all things video! | 9/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - The Shojo Must Go On | We chat about the history of shojo in the west and the future of the genre in both Japan and America, and then take your questions via Twitter! | 9/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - All-Star Supernerds | The League reconvenes! Mike Toole and Daryl Surat join Zac and Justin to shoot the breeze about Redline, Spice and Wolf, Rurouni Kenshin, anime clubs, and Otter Pops fanfiction! | 8/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Super Manga Pals Tokyo Drift | Ed Sizemore and Deb Aoki stop by to talk all things manga for the third time! We talk about Jmanga, digital buying habits, and for some reason discuss The Catcher in the Rye. | 8/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Piece Out | Zach Logan and Ed Lang from the OnePiecePodcast drop by to talk about luffies and namis and zoros and other things related to Pieces of One! | 8/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Omega Men | Everyone's at Otakon right now! Except for Zac and Justin, who, abandoned on the west coast, decided to tape an all-fun, mostly-Twitter-time-podcast! | 7/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitANNCast - Viewers Like You: Emergency Edition | Two solid hours of Viewers Like You to the rescue! This week: Canadian convention crowds, price complaining, Makoto Shinkai and 30 minutes of Harry Potter chat. | 7/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 40 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Well, this is nice.
It's a pleasant surprise to see a podcast that discusses today's anime and its culture run by such witty, smart and sensible people. The hosts, and often times the guests, have been in the industry for quite a while and thusly know the ins and outs thoroughly. Their experience lends an authenticity to the program, and at the same time, their fandom allows anyone who is into anime even moderately to relate to them and the topic at hand. It also helps that there's a heaping of cynicism and humor to make it all even more palatable. This is definitely a podcast that I look forward to every week and would recommend to others.
Smart and funny
Smart, candid commentary about anime and the industry from two dudes (and gals, on occasion) who really know their stuff. But what really makes this podcast worth listening to is the hilarity that results when the inevitable codgery cynicism that lies quietly beneath the surface of every long-time anime fan manifests iteslf in the form of razor-sharp wit, ready to hate on dumb things... which happens especially often with Zac and Justin. It's quite entertaining. Listen!
Cynical humor and nerdiness abound
ANNCast is a very entertaining and informative podcast, worthy of inclusion in most anime fans' podcast subscriptions. It is definitely not the most family-friendly production, but so long as a little foul language doesn't bother you, each episode is lots of fun. Zac and Justin are great hosts, and their weekly guests are consistently excellent contributors to their discussions on all things anime, manga and whatever else happens to tickle their fancy. For any anime fan with a mature, critical mind, this contribution from ANN is a welcome counter to the immature, ignorant trends that now plague anime fandom. I hope it stays in production for a long time to come!
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