OSMcast! & The Carbuncle Chronicle

Alcolla: Worst alarm clock? Or BEST ANNOUNCER? I think we all know the answer! In a stunning return of returningness, Lee has returned! Returning with him are Sooz and Basil as we talk about a bunch of webcomics we read! _EXCITEMENT! SHOCK -AND- AWE! _ PS: Did we say a bunch? We meant millions . OSMnotes The orginal plan was that we had this great written list that we were going to use make a virt...

Boom. This week we decided to change things up a bit and talk about a video game! You kids like video games, right? The game in question is Sucker Punch’s inFAMOUS on PS3. And with all the goofy capitalization that it implies! Not that the OSMcast_!_ knows anything about that… Well, about as much as we know about being punctual lately. OSMnotes You know I was going to be responsible and get some s...

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Okay so it’s slightly late but here’s our podcast all about Mobile Suit Gundam 00 .  It’s got giant robots and stuff! And space elevators . Joining us is Richard from Akihabara Renditions . OSMnotes You can watch the show on the Sci Fi Channel! Or I’m sure DVDs exist. Chances are you know what this show is if you want to see or not and probably already have. Oh well! We have...

Let's News Crappy! Never has the saying “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” as this episode. Four from the crew of the OSMcast combines with three of the members of Akihabara Renditions to deliver a massive recap of the news from past couple of weeks in Anime Land. What actually happens, however, is something else . Hopefully it still ends up entertaining on some level. OSMnotes We ha...

This is a mecha show. No, really! We thought we’d do something special for our 50th episode*. But I doubt anyone has ever heard of the Sunrise show we decided to talk about. It’s an extremely unknown show called Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. I mean it’s not like  it wasn’t the new cock of the walk or anything as anime goes. But we talked about it anyway! Special Bonus Guest Star Buy Her Bo...

Soul Eater This time on the OSMcast! we decided things were getting little too old in the mix, so we thought we’d review something a bit newer. So here’s a podcast all about the anime adaptation of Soul Eater by BONES, from the original work by Atsushi Okubo. OSMnotes Rail kept complaining that the opening wasn’t HARDCORE enough. So hopefully it sufficed. While Funimation has the rights to the Sou...

No seriously, plug her in. You'll like it. We’re back in the groove! We decided to kick things back into second gear with our take on the ADV release of My Dear Marie , the 3-part anime OAV adaptation of the manga by Sakura Takeuchi. Musical Interlude: The Phenomenauts . If you could somehow define the word awesome as a band, you’ll be hard pressed to find a better one. I mean, there are the guys...

Blah. Well, the original plan was to have this last week and a full lenngth podcast this week, but at least this gets us back on track. And this tracks starts off with Basil and Kevin half-heartily discuss that live action film Dragonball Evolution while all the cool kids talk about the new Transformers movie. Whatever! OSMnotes If you were hoping for something more scathing, you can go read this...

No other self-respecting podcast would even attempt something THIS real! Man,  just when you thought it was safe to listen to podcasts, we had go and post this. It’s our long lost MTAC episode! Okay, so it was never really lost, but I guess it is kind of long! It’s also REALLY keeping it real. How real? Well it’s a collection of interviews we took as ran around like idiots as we talked to any atte...

No really. They're terrible at math. Here on the OSMcast, we thought what better way to celebrate Memorial Day than to remember all those wonderful, brilliant thoughts and dreams that were snuffed out so many years ago when we all thought Episode One was going to be good. That’s right, we are talking about the movie Fanboys . It’s a (totally not true) story about some dudes that were so hyped to s...

Star Trekkin' across the universe... It’s taken a few movies this year to get to it, but we finally got it. A _really _good geek film. Perhaps you’ve heard of it? It’s called Star Trek , and it’s the topic of this week’s episode of the OSMcast! Promo: Black Flower Music ! We met this wonderful individual at the podcast panel at MTAC this year, as he was the guy running the panel. It turns out his...

Hell yes it's "engaging!"Oh Animerica, the world is a sadder place without you. Since out last podcast was on stuff that was really new, we decided to check out something that’s a little bit older. So in honor of Cinco de Eleven we talked about They Were Eleven*, an anime adaption of the manga by Moto Hagio. *Hey it was this or Ocean’s Eleven. Which begs the question, if they ever did a...

Sanada Yukimura and Date Masamune are about to each other's ass in Sengoku BASARA. Hint: It's great. So we heard that a whole bunch of new shows just started airing in Japan last month, so we thought we’d talk about the shows we’ve started keeping up with. Hence, the Spring Anime 2009 Preview. Or as Inubito called it,_ “Desu in Springtime.”_ Promo: Akihabra Renditions ! We first met these guys at...

Fallout 3 In this week’s episode of the OSMcast, we’re joined by the Anime World Order ‘s Daryl Surat to talk about Fallout 3 . It’s  Bethesda Game Studios’ take on the classic video games series Fallout by Black Isle Studios. So of course we talk about those too. All in all it’s a very Fallout-y podcast. Except when it’s not. Spoiler Alert: After the podcast Inubito and I did leave to try and see...

Sonny Strait, being awesome This week we bring you our_ super-short_ interview with voice actor and artist Sonny Strait that we got at MTAC. He’s done many roles, like Krillin from Dragon Ball Z, Maes Hughes from Fullmetal Alchemist, Lupin the 3rd from… Lupin the 3rd,  as well as the current voice of Usopp from One Piece. On top of that he’s also done directing work for FUNimation. Oh by the way,...

The DeJesuses... Or is that DeJesusi? Either way I'm pretty sure this image is made by Robert DeJesus. This week we decided to kick it off with our epic-ly long interview with two of the hardest working folks in anime fandom today:  Robert and Emily DeJesus of Studio Capsule . They talked about all sorts of things with us, like what it takes to make it out there as an artist and the Best Con Sloga...

Middle Tennessee Anime Convention It’s the Monday after MTAC Ninja but the OSMcast must go on! Speaking of the Middle Tennessee Anime Convention, here’s a chat we had about the con with Christi Binkley, MTAC’s Director of Media Relations and Advertising.  In other words, “Press Wrangler.” We talk a bit about the con and what it takes to make one of these con things happen. Also joining us was the...

It's like the Eighties... but BETTER. The OSMcast goes forth once more as Basil, Kevin, and special guest commentator JP grapple the numerous and awesome 8-bit modern games that comprise one of the best DS titles to come out in years: known only as Retro Game Challenge! Protip: So okay I said that it’s the 31st when it _actually _released on the 30th. Whoops. OSMnotes WHY HAVEN’T YOU BOUGHT THIS G...

More like Street Fighter: The Legend of CRAP-Li HUR HUR HUR A coworker asked me over this past week: “So what happened to the Survivor Horror in Resident Evil 5?” I told him: “It’s now called sitting through Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.” I know this, because I have sat through this movie. This episode is pretty much just a PSA to the world that no one ever should go see Street Fighter: T...

I wonder if this is a spoiler? Deep within the underground (and also echo-y) OSMbunker, keeping the awesome alive, we decided to talk _not _about the movie adaption of  Watchmen , the amazing graphic novel by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins, but the graphic novel itself . Promo: Dead Workers Party Network ! We are actually a part of this network, but we have never...

Full Metal Panic! We had made plans. Awesome plans. But then those plans were dashed! So we made new ones. BETTER ONES. Then those were dashed and we said NAY SIR and to prove it we did a podcast on the anime adaptation of Shoji Gatoh’s Full Metal Panic! by GONZO. Protip: This may be one of the few times we actually say something good about a show that GONZO has touched. I was amazed too. Promo: R...

Slayers Revolution In this episode of the OSM cast_!_ we decided to throw down with the latest adventures of Lina and the gang by talking about Slayers Revolution! OSMnotes Right now Slayers Revolution is kind of hard to get to at the moment. When the series started up a small while back, you could find fansubs of it. But with a _quickness _Funimation grabbed up the rights to both it _and _Slayers...

Street Fighter IV Hey kids! It’s the OSMcast_! _And tonight/today/whenever you are listening to this, we’re talking about Capcom’s latest fighting game, STREET FIGHTER IV! And other stuff, too. Like God Hand, Lost Odyssey, Shiren the Wanderer, Senko no Ronde… and Superman 64. (Sorry about that.) OSMnotes Street Fighter IV is out on Xbox 360 and PS3, and in fact is _so _brand new it hasn’t even bee...

Gunsmith Cats Look out because the OSMcast_!_ is updating on time! For this episode we decided to tackle the manga and anime series by Kenichi Sonoda,_ Gunsmith Cats._ Protip : Ignore the fact that I think the music that we ended up playing was from Riding Bean. We can’t help the fact that we’re hustlers . Promo: Anime World Order! These guys certainly don’t need any of our help finding listeners,...

Raven is probably going, "You guys are idiots, and coming from me that's saying something." So since schedules did not align to their proper alignments this past week, we decided to show you a different side of the OSMcast. The side that shows that not all recordings are good ones. Some… can be very bad. This is one of those recordings. I apologize now, and promise a real episode next we...