OSMcast! & The Carbuncle Chronicle

Tales of Vesperia After way too long, we are now able to post our take on Namco Bandai Games’ latest game in the “Tales of” series, Tales of Vesperia ! It’s our actual original recording too! We (aka DJ Inubito) were able to salvage it after all.  (Which is good because our attempt to rerecord was _not _so good…) Protip: We’re still using the travel mcrophone, so the audio isn’t at it’s best yet....

Yep, still gold-colored! It’s a better late than never podcast as the crew at OSM Central takes a crack at our favorite Japanese animated things for the year 2008! The EPIC CONCLUSION of the 2008 OSMawards! Yay! OSMnotes I’m kinda tapped out of things to say, so we’ll just repeat the contest again and call it a week. Next week’s OSMnotes will be more awesome, I promise! The rules for this contest...

Because awards have to be gold-colored! What’s an easy way to kill time on the mic when a new year arrives? You talk about the previous year! So here’s our OSMawards! for the video games of 2008. Protip: We had to rasie the gain in order to get this podcast listenable. So it might get static-y at times. OSMnotes So I guess Bob’s Game isn’t . Oh well! We talk about it and then what happens? It’s GO...

Everyone is CAH-RAZY over those zany robots! Because we just weren’t done talking about hot chicks blowing up robots, we decided to continue forth with our opinions on Mamoru Oshii’s movie adaptaion of the Masamune Shirow classic, Ghost in the Shell! Spoiler: We lied! The movie is _actually _about basset hounds. OSMnotes One of the pluses on reviewing a hallmark of Japanese animation, especially a...

Bubblegum Crisis Tonight  we dethrone the AWO’s “Last podcast to podcast about Bubblegum Crisis” crown with our our podcast about Bubblegum Crisis! … Mostly. Okay _sometimes _we talked about Mega Man 9. But it’s usually about Bubblegum Crisis, really! OSMnotes Looking at the various places one can buy the boxed set of Bubblegum Crisis , I discovered that the best place was actually AnimEigo themse...

Macross Frontier It’s all about high flying, mecha, idol sings, and guns, lots of guns in this episode of the OSM cast_!_ Of course, the topic is the latest Shōji Kawamori epic, Macross Frontier. OSMnotes Okay I think we are back on track and ready to rock. Inubito’s actual main computer should be arriving this week, which means he won’t have to try and hack at editing this podcast on his laptop....

Adolescence of Utena The OSMcast rises from it’s grave of computer woe’d-ashes to deliver unto you our take on one of the most awesome, trippy, postmodernist, animated movies ever : Adolescence of Utena AKA The Utena Movie. Protip: And while I know that this is _technically _the 15th of December, this was recorded with the intent of getting up on the 1st, so it’s still dated for that time. OSMnote...

This is the con we are talking about! Over two weeks past due, we bring you our Nekocon 11 con report! Short version: Totally fun. Long version: Listen to our podcast! /Basara (We also complain about Gonzo and how much Rosario + Vampire sucks.) Protip: We had to use the travel mic and it so happened the room we were in was really echo-y. You have been warned. OSMnotes So yeah, we had fun! We total...

Troy Baker, Aaron Dismuke, and Jerry Jewell In a strange twist of fate, our shortest episode actually has the longest title. Go figure! At this recently past Nekocon we got the chance to chat with three awesome voice actors: Troy Baker, Aaron Dismuke, & Jerry Jewell. Protip: Since it was the portable microphone, you’ll need to turn up the volume to hear us. But there’s not a whole lot of backg...

Azumanga Daioh In tonight’s episode of the OSM cast_!_ we talk about J.C. Staff’s adaptaion of Kiyohiko Azuma’s awesome series: Azumanga Daioh! With special guest star DJ Inubito as “The guy playing Fable II while we talking about stuff.” OSMnotes Thanks to ADV’s awesome habit of making collections of stuff they make, you can not only now own the entire anime in a Thinkpack box set , you can also...

The World Ends With You Expand your horizons, your world , as it were, with our latest podcast all about Square-Enix/Jupiter’s awesome game for the Nintendo DS: The World Ends With You! And also where we try not to talk about the World of Warcarft! … Too much. OSMnotes This game is in steady supply, but sadly no matter where we checked , the “Square-Enix tax” is in full effect and you are looking...

The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me blah blah blah To conclude our October extravaganza of Octoberness , we’re finishing out with another set of three with a podcast all about the latest take on Kouta Hirano’s epic tale of vampires, Nazis, and blood, lots of blood. So yeah, Hellsing Ultimate. OSMnotes As it turns out this time Buy.com has the best deal on Hellsing Ultimate, w...

Shop smart... shop S-Mart! Kicking reason to the curb once more we take on a terribly terrific trilogy of movie-ocity with Sam Raimi’s and Bruce Campbell’s epic cults classics, The Evil Dead, The Evil Dead II, and Army of Darkness. Oh, _and _the musical. You can blame Eric for that one though! OSMnotes Right now Best Buy has all three movies on sale for $6.99 a pop! The Evil Dead The Evil Dead II...

Silent Hill 2 To further our Halloween tendencies, we decided to rock out with a crazy-long podcast all about Konami’s uber-creepy video games series Silent Hill. Lee takes us on a course of wonder and horror as he details the first four games, while we chime in like the silly fools we are! This is also the podcast that Refused to Upload, but that’s a story for another time. OSMnotes October 31st...

Gina Biggs © Gina Biggs Here’s our first ever OSMinterview with one of the most awesome women in webcomics, Gina Biggs! She’s the creator of the romantic drama Red String (now being published by Dark Horse Comics) as well as the Grand High Poobah of Strawberry Comics . Protip: We ended up recording right outside the dealer’s room, so the audio quality isn’t that great. You’ll probably have to turn...

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 We’re kicking off October in _style _with a three man tag team take on Atlus’ Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3. Start updating your podcasting Social Links now! OSMnotes You should own this game. See here even GameStop has it new online RIGHT NOW. And Wal-Mart . And Target . Best Buy . Amazon . Let's see Zenigata try to catch this! They all have it and they are waiting f...

In our first true post-AWA podcast Basil and Lee weigh in on the 1980’s anime classic, Kimagure Orange Road (KOR)! OSMnotes: Fun Fact #1: Basil’s first ever anime soundtrack on CD was bought during AWA 5. It was a KOR soundtrack and costed him around $30 for a second-hand copy. Later on he ended up buying another several soundtracks from another dealer but it only costed him like $12 a disc. He wa...

It’s only the first day back from the Anime Weekend Atlanta 14 and we’ve already got our podcast up and running about it! Listen to us talk about standing in line for things and panels we attended! And eating Stir-fry! The alternate title for this episode is “Should Have Spanked Me With an Asteroid.” OSMnotes I... Don't even know. But no, really, AWA was a ton of fun. We got to meet the folks behi...

Because one game just wasn’t enough, we decided to tackle three Xbox Live Arcade games for this episode of the OSM ast_!_: Castle Crashers, Bionic Commando, and Braid. Check it out! OSMnotes That’s right, we’ll be at Anime Weekend Atlanta this weekend, so you should track us down and say hello! Also, if you happened to head this direction by way of the AWO , hello and welcome! Hope you enjoy your...

Finally our current tagline will now make sense as the OSM cast_!_ tackles Gainax’s Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann! OSMnotes Image of the hottie whiskey bottle © Go Nagai/Dynamic Planning, Honey Production Committee Now this podcast really isn’t a day late or anything. I mean, it’s not like _a bird hit a plane _causing Inubito’s friend’s flight to be delayed so he was busy entertaining his guest to mi...

WARNING: We talk about Eiji Nonaka’s Cromartie High School in this episode of the OSMcast_!_ There…  YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! OSMnotes We talk about a lot of stuff that’s actually kinda out of date! But that’s OK, because it’s all still awesome.  And so is Cromartie and you should buy a version of it right now . Also: Best. Trailer. Ever. Check back with us next week when we take on Gainax’s Tengen T...

We aren’t dead yet! In this triumphant return to the OSMcast Basil, Eric, and newcomer Lee tackle Tetsuro Takeuchi and Guitar Wolf’s wild and crazy “Jet rock ‘n’ roll”/zombie horror/comedy/cult classic/movie thing , Wild Zero! And succeed with marginal success! WARNING: Guitar Wolf’s music can be _really loud. _ OSMnotes We actually recorded this a week or two ago, so the Wold of OSM news is kinda...

We’re rollin’ into the month of August with Christopher Nolan’s latest take on the Batman, The Dark Knight. And more! OSMnotes First off, you can now see Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog once more without buying it off iTunes! You  just have to deal the occasional commercial. You know, like _regular _TV. And you should go buy some Freakazoid RIGHT NOW. Really this is the best week for super heroes a...

Mushishi, by Yuki Urushibara is the topic of tonight’s OSMcast_!_ And it’s definitely awesome . But don’t take our word for it! … Well, actually _do _take our word for it, but listen to us talk abut why first! OSMnotes Really you should go buy a copy of Mushishi in one form or another right now. Though you’ll probably have to special order it. But that’s okay because this manga and anime _is _pret...

Okay so for the past two weeks we’ve skipped out on the World of OSM… And it kind of built to a great big pile of stuff that needed to be caught up to . So here it is! OSMnotes So we talked about this stuff (more or less): Chrono Trigger DS! Slayers Revolution! Rock Band 2 DCvsMK fatality correction FF13 on Xbox 360!! OMG SQEENIX YOU COMMIT SUDOKU!!!11! Xbox Live + Netflix = Win! (However it was l...