Category Archives: 2013 Spring Season

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)