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Dustin (aka Stilts) enjoys playing and yelling at video games, especially RPGs. He also likes super robot shows... the more outrageous the plot, the better!

Bakacast – The Pacing of Evil

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Even fairly intelligent commentary can only get you so far when your show is about terrible people taking forever to do terrible things to each other.

Now that our start-of-season grace period has passed, it’s time for us to get brutal on the surviving series. The first to be executed is Valvrave, a show that couldn’t manage to be good at anything. If Aku no Hana and Maou-sama aren’t careful, they’ll be next on the chopping block. At least we’ll always have Titan and Gargantia to pick up the slack.

We hope, anyway.

Please email listener questions to bakacast[at]projectharuhi.net or leave them in the comments below.

Time Index

  • 00:39 – What’cha Been Doin’?
  • 16:07 – Chihayafuru 16 (CLIP SHOW; NO SCORES GIVEN)
  • 17:28 – Hataraku Maou-Sama 4
  • 23:08 – Aku no Hana 4
  • 34:08 – Attack on Titan 4
  • 40:15 – Suisei no Gargantia 4
  • 44:39 – Valvrave the Liberator 3
  • 52:08 – Dual! 3 & 4
  • 57:54 – Listener questions
  • 1:23:12 – Hana (by Asa-Chang and Junray)

FUN FACT: Despite the slight format change (and lack of OreImo), we started our Dual review at the exact same time (to the second) as last week.

Bakacast – Team Pirate’s Blasting Off Again

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I don’t know about you, but the Team Rocket-style exit will always get at least a chuckle out of me.

In this episode, Maou-sama surprises us all by making us emotionally invested in all the characters, we finally get fed up with OreImo, and Titan gives Scamp a new waifu to pine after. Also, we start our retro review of Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure.

Please email listener questions to bakacast[at]projectharuhi.net or leave them in the comments below.

Time Index

  • 00:41 – Chihayafuru 15
  • 06:47 – Hataraku Maou-Sama 3
  • 13:41 – Aku no Hana 3
  • 25:43 – OreImo 3
  • 31:25 – Attack on Titan 3
  • 39:37 – Suisei no Gargantia 3
  • 44:55 – Valvrave the Liberator 2
  • 52:08 – Dual! 1 & 2
  • 1:21:14 – Listener questions
  • 1:55:32 – We Are One and All (Persona 4)

Oh, and here are those Titan mashups Scamp and I were talking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvq0RaaMck8

Bakacast – Endangerment

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Guess who overslept by three hours and still feels a little sick and exhausted?

This guy.

So here’s the podcast. Sorry it’s late. Now I’m just gonna bury my head in pillows.

Please email listener questions to bakacast[at]projectharuhi.net or leave them in the comments below.

Time Index

  • 01:03 – Chihayafuru 14
  • 05:07 – Hataraku Maou-Sama 2
  • 12:14 – Devi Survivor 2 2
  • 13:38 – Aku no Hana 2
  • 30:27 – OreImo 2
  • 37:40 – Attack on Titan 2
  • 44:43 – Suisei no Gargantia 2
  • 52:36 – Valvrave the Liberator 1
  • 56:31 – Mushi-shi 25 & 26
  • 1:08:26 – Listener questions
  • 1:12:53 – [Song Title Redacted] by Rie Tanaka and Megumi Toyoguchi

Bakacast – Ass Flyover

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NOTE: If you downloaded this episode before Monday, April 15 3 P.M. PDT, then you got the version where I forgot to edit out a couple lengthy sections of me on the phone and other boring stuff that interrupted our discussion. Please replace that version with this one.

It’s time once again for the start of a new season, and this one ends up being surprisingly positive. With some notable exceptions (OreImo, Red Data Girl, Majestic Prince, Karneval), the handful of shows we decided to watch fell into the good-to-great category. It’s unlikely that we’ll be dropping many more shows after the second and third weeks.

Another positive is that this seasons finally gives Scamp, Megan and me opportunities to go on rants again. It’s been too long.

Please email listener questions to bakacast[at]projectharuhi.net or leave them in the comments below.

Time Index

  • 01:06 – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure 26
  • 09:55 – Chihayafuru 13
  • 15:01 – Death Billiards
  • 21:25 – Little Witch Academia
  • 28:13 – Red Data Girl 1 (DROPPED)
  • 37:50 – Karneval 1 (PROBABLY DROPPED)
  • 44:58 – Hataraku Maou-Sama 1
  • 54:08 – Majestic Prince 1 (PROBABLY DROPPED)
  • 58:23 – Devi Survivor 2 1
  • 1:03:46 – Aku no Hana 1
  • 1:15:31 – OreImo 1
  • 1:24:01 – Attack on Titan 1
  • 1:32:19 – Suisei no Gargantia 1
  • 1:39:49 – Mushi-shi 23 & 24
  • 1:53:42 – Listener questions
  • 1:59:00 – Coolish Mashup (by nakinyko)

Aku no Hana – Episode 1

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Quiet and bucolic reader,
Upright man, sober and naive,
Throw away this book, saturnine,
Orgiac and melancholy.

If you did not do your rhetoric
With Satan, that artful dean,
Throw it away, you’d grasp nothing,
Or else think me hysterical.

You’d never understand the literature I read. It’s not for you.

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When I read it, I see her jet black hair caressing her shoulders, resting on them like a lover. I see an ivory smile and playful eyes, beckoning me closer. Come. Come closer. I see red ribbon, slightly crooked, concealing the loosened collar of an untucked shirt. Explore, the eyes say.

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When I read it, I feel rough cloth sliding through my fingers, giving way to soft skin. I feel the smoothness and contours of this body carved from dreams–the bumps and the dimples. Sink in, they say.

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When I read it, I smell the sweat on her skin, taste the balm on her lips and hear a gasp as quiet as a whisper yet glorious as the trumpeting of the heavenly host. This is for you, they say.

You’d never understand this book.

It would not speak to you.

But if, without being entranced,
Your eye can plunge in the abyss,
Read me, to learn to love me;
Inquisitive soul that suffers
And keeps on seeking paradise,
Pity me!… or else, I curse you!

~Epigraph for a Condemned Book (by Charles Baudelaire; translated by William Aggeler)

Bakacast – The Ultimate Lifeform

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I have a new mic now! Hurray! I’m sure you were waiting to finally hear my voice in its full glory.

Anyway, our plate is a little light this week thanks to three shows ending the previous week. Yet we still manage to clock in at over an hour by talking about the spring season and answering a few listener questions.

Please email listener questions to bakacast[at]projectharuhi.net or leave them in the comments below.

Time Index

  • 04:46 – Girls Und Panzer 12
  • 09:02 – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure 25
  • 15:05 – Maoyuu Maou Yuusha 12
  • 19:41 – Chihayafuru 12
  • 22:55 – Mushi-shi 21 & 22
  • 35:41 – Spring Preview
  • 1:09:01 – Listener questions
  • 1:20:27 – Star (Chihayafuru S2)

Bakacast – We Recorded This in a Yellow Submarine

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I apologize for the audio quality in this episode. The wiring in my headset was starting to cleave, so I decided to use a backup headset rather than fuss with getting the normal one into just the right position to work properly. Meanwhile, Scamp’s internet connection was a bit strained. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much I could do during the editing process to ameliorate either of those problems.

In this episode of Bakacast, the gang and I have extended discussions about why, exactly, the endings of Psycho-Pass and Shin Sekai Yori and good and actually pretty satisfying. We also talk about why the ending to Robotics;Notes is neither of those things. Other topics include: tank battles and tonal whiplash.

Please email listener questions to bakacast[at]projectharuhi.net or leave them in the comments below.

Time Index

  • 01:43 – What’cha Been Doin’
  • 17:38 – Girls Und Panzer 11
  • 25:34 – Shin Sekai Yori 25
  • 32:59 – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure 24
  • 39:53 – Psycho-Pass 22
  • 53:28 – Robotics;Notes 22
  • 1:04:39 – Maoyuu Maou Yuusha 11
  • 1:12:43 – Chihayafuru 11
  • 1:17:18 – Mushi-shi 19 & 20
  • 1:41:02 – All Alone With You (Psycho-Pass)

Bakacast – Lisa Lisa Gets Fridged

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Well, so much for having a cool fight scene, huh? I guess the male protagonist will have to do all the work. As usual.

Megan’s phone wasn’t updating its email app properly, so she never saw our recording schedule. Hopefully the problem won’t repeat itself and she’ll be back with us for the next episode. In the meantime, we bring back the What’cha Been Doin’ segment to talk a bit about Macross and Fire Emblem.

Please email listener questions to bakacast[at]projectharuhi.net or leave them in the comments below.

Time Index

  • 00:48 – What’cha Been Doin’
  • 19:34 – Shin Sekai Yori 24
  • 26:07 – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure 23
  • 33:35 – Psycho-Pass 21
  • 40:55 – Robotics;Notes 21
  • 45:47 – Maoyuu Maou Yuusha 10
  • 49:42 – Chihayafuru 10
  • 56:20 – Mushi-shi 17 & 18
  • 1:05:40 – Listener questions
  • 1:41:02 – Youthful (Chihayafuru)

Bakacast – Ben Hur: Vampire Hunter

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If vampire horses catch on, the next season of My Little Pony might be subtitled “Blood is Magic. It goes without saying that we’d review it.

On this episode of Bakacast, we breeze through the (mostly positive) reviews–briefly lingering on JoJo’s to again discuss how amazing it is–and deal with our backlog of listener questions. I also decide to sprinkle in listener comments with the review segments when appropriate, which is something I probably should have been doing a long time ago.

Better late than never, I suppose.

Please email listener questions to bakacast[at]projectharuhi.net or leave them in the comments below.

Time Index

  • 00:51 – Shin Sekai Yori 23
  • 07:05 – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure 22
  • 11:53 – Psycho-Pass 20
  • 19:20 – Robotics;Notes 20
  • 24:53 – Chihayafuru 9
  • 28:01 – Mushi-shi 15 & 16
  • 34:08 – Listener questions
  • 1:05:49 – Living in the City (Mad Bull 34)

Bakacast – It Gets Worse

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Look, I know you’re basically swimming in bat poop right now and leeches as big as dogs are falling from the ceiling, but this is easy mode.

The real Dark Souls Shin Sekai Yori starts when you get to Anor Londo.

Sorry for the unexpected hiatus, everyone. We tried to get a recording done last week, but all three of us had our own, unique real life complications that made getting all of us on Skype at the same time impossible.

Please email listener questions to bakacast[at]projectharuhi.net or leave them in the comments below.

Time Index

  • 01:11 – Shin Sekai Yori 21 & 22
  • 06:46 – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure 19-21
  • 14:56 – Psycho-Pass 18 & 19
  • 24:17 – Robotics;Notes 18 & 19
  • 31:54 – Maoyuu Maou Yuusha 8 & 9
  • 37:13 – Chihayafuru 7 & 8
  • 44:39 – Mushi-shi 11-14
  • 55:49 – Listener questions
  • 1:08:41 – Bloody Stream (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)