Anime Jam Session

DJ Ranma S, Mako-chan, and Ari Rockefeller sit down with Kinmoku Revolution and the webmaster and webmistress of missdream.org over tea and scones to discuss the new musical "Sailor Moon: La Reconquista" in full detail.

As the show begins, the staff pays tribute to Hiroshi Yamauchi, as they discuss their favorite NES games... And is anime getting worse? A feminist group wants to ban adult games... Carpet designer hits cosplayers with a C&D, new Yamato movie airs in the US... New Lupin III / Detective Conan movie... And then on the Japanese news front, dealers busted for selling porn to police chief, illegal us streams overseas, and Vegeta's Japanese VA starts a new band?!

Ranma breaks down episode five of Heroes Of Cosplay, followed by him, Ladyhawke, and Ari talking about Nauticons. Then a quick news recap. This is our Nauticon podcast review episode, so if you want to hear about a 21+ anime con, listen in!

Mako-chan talks about the hypocrisy of slut shaming, followed by a review of Heroes of Cosplay! Then Ranma talks about Anime News Network's article, "Five Things I learned from Heroes of Cosplay"... Mighty No 9 nears the 2 million mark... More info on Pokemon X/Y... An anime gets into the Guiness Book of World Records! And in kindness, a local man in Japan donated money to repair an elementary school... And did Akira predict the 2020 Olympics?

The staff discuss the issues with Heroes of Cosplay, such as the lawsuit for using copyrighted photos, and that the winning team from Anime Matsuri didn't get their prize money. Also, Ranma discusses his review of episode 3, who in turn tells everyone what he thinks of cutthroat cosplay. Also on the Japan front topics about a wife killing her husband with a coffee cup, a man stole 200 bike seats for a "scent of a woman", and finally, the top 10 Japanese surnames.

This week, the hosts talk about Mighty No 9 Kickstarter, Attack on Titan series finale, Pokemon X and Y, The Boondocks Season 4, Miyazaki's retirement, another anime license saved, our "WTF are they serious out of Japan" segment, and much more!

Ranma kicks the show off about talking about the new maid cafe in NYC's Chinatown, along with his thoughts, which is followed by his ereview of epsiode 1 of Heroes of Cosplay (start your drinking). Then the team discusses Pokemon sales and new anime, Attack on Titan merchandising... Brand new Vocaloid anime, and major censorship in Thailand... Japan Society pissed at Studio Ghibili, and a man catches a panty thief!

Ranma and Ari sit down with Mako-chan as they discuss their adventures in Baltimore in regards to Otakon! With all of the press releases, Ranma gets VERY ecstatic about his all time favorite anime with a blu ray release! All this and much much more!

Ranma and the crew discuss the badly written New York Post article on Heroes of Cosplay, followed by a discussion with a counter article on Yaya Han being a hypocrite. Also, Ranma briefly discusses the Cosplay 4 A Cure event in Brooklyn... Then the hosts congratulate Cupcake Cosplay for coming in 2nd place in the World Cosplay Summit. Makochan steamrolls a fat shaming, lose weight app for ladies in Japan. And then Linwood and Jamie break down Bronycon for us, in conjunction with The Outhousers!

Ranma and the crew dissect Yaya Han's post on a cosplay and calls her out for not keeping it real, the director of Lain and Sakura Wars dies of colon cancer... New Rozen Maiden anime, and they're doing it way differently and it works! One of the original magical girl animes, Creamy Mami comes to the US! One Piece's creator is back, 8 lesser known anime titles, anime themed hotel rooms, and Quincy Jones to promote K-pop globally?!

Funimation saves the .hack series, Mako-chan goes ballistic about a top20 Sailor Moon list... Ranma discuss about a cosplay article about a girl who keeps it real, something he's been advocating forever, then everyone talk about the Free! controversy. Ari takes to heart about the writer who opens up about Attack on Titan. And finally, the team discusses Pacific Rim and how it's NOT Evangelion.

This week, the team jumps deep into the trenches as they talk about the AX hidden camera incident. And this time, what they have to say is quite different from what other people are voicing. Also, they discuss the dyfunctionality with a Japanese couple... The woman threw out his anime! James Cameron still wants to do Battle Angel, and the top 25 influential anime in the USA!

On this week's program, Luna Lady of Light, one half of Karmaluna Cosplay joins Ranma, Ari, and Mako-chan as they talk about Heroes of Cosplay, the new SyFy Channel reality show! And listen in as half the hosts lose their shit over this. Also, they also rage tableflip over the TLC Waterfalls remake too! Trust me, this is one episode that you don't want to miss!

On this week's Sailor Moon themed episode, the whole gang is here, along with Angel and Lexi, friends of the staff as they kick back and talk about Senshi Matsuri 2013! FYI, it's not a con, but a celebration! What did they discuss? Well, you'll have to tune in and listen!

On this week's Super Sentai themed episode, Ranma, Mako-chan, Ari, Yunie, and Jen/DJAJ discuss Denver Comic Con, PortCon Maine, and an article named "Why Guys Secretly Want to Date Otaku Girls"... And it gets deep! And Mako-chan discusses MLP: Equestria Girls- The Movie... SOBER!

On this week's show, we intervew Christa Morris, the genius behind The Cosplay Studio Project. We then follow up talk about CLAMP who said they wouldn't mind a remake of Card Captor Sakura, and the team talks about animes they'd like to see a reboot of. Discussion of yet another possible Gundam series. And then the team pays honor and tribute to seiyuu Kenji Utsumi who passed away, known for voicing Roah from Fish of the North Star and Armstrong from FMA.

This week's podcast was to discuss Denver Comic Con and AnimeNEXT. Due to audio recording difficulties, the part on DCC was not recorded, alogn with a certain part on AnimeNEXT. The podcast was edited together to discuss the rest of the weekend, along with masquerade and body pillow controversies. Wanna know what happened? Take a listen!

This week, we bring on special guest Elly Winters, webmistress from Miss Dream Subs (www.missdream.org)! She brings us all the great news about the new SeraMyu musical! Ranma brings to the table information about a new maid cafe in NYC. We then discuss The Cosplay Studio Project, a mobile cosplay photo studio! And then the hosts discuss the elephant in the room... Liz Katz and her cosplay fundraising project... Listen how DJ Ranma S once more, give her hell for it!

So last week our own DJ Ranma S calls into the Black Girl Nerd podcast about racism and cosplaying. After listening to their podcast, he needed to get some things off his chest and pretty much counter their podcast, explain things that he felt were half truths and whatnot. Listen as he, Ari, and Mako-chan break it down and tell you how it really is! And after that, the team discusses about a man's job is in jeopardy due his love of anime, Sword Art Online's retail pricing and airing on Toonami... And what if there was a Big-O season 3!

The team sits down and interviews up and coming voice actor Mario Bueno. After that, it becomes a podcast roundtable of articles about Anime Boston cancelling the dance... A discussion about the cosplay culture in Japan, the 10th anniversary of Saint Seiya... Could Goku be coming to the new Smash Bros game? And information about the new live action Black Butler surfaces, but could it also make the fangirls go squee? Plus the team hits up Clovercon, a local convention, hear what they thought.