Bakacast Briefs – The Saga Begins
Hey, look! It's the debut episode of Bakacast Briefs! As always, you can download it directly, subscribe to our RSS feed, or let iTunes do all the work for you. So, what is Bakacast Briefs, you ask? Basically, we've resigned ourselves to the fact that Bakacast will only update once a month. However, we wanted to give our audience something to listen to during that large gap of time. So we figured we'd try doing mini-episodes that ditch our typical news and in-depth review format; instead, Bakacast Briefs will feature Jon (aka Ritsu), Chris (aka Kagami) and me giving our brief thoughts on each week's new anime episodes. Unfortunately, Chris is unusually busy with something called "real life", so it's just Jon and me in this episode. We discussed:
- Highschool of the Dead
- Occult Academy
- Mitsudomoe
- Okamisan to Shichinin no Nakamatachi
- Seitokai Yakuindomo
- The Legend of the Legendary Heroes
- Digimon Xros Wars (yeah, I actually watched this)
I was hoping to add Sengoku Basara 2 to this list, but Funimation still hasn't put the first episode up (so much for a "simulcast"). I'll talk about it on next week's show, I promise. Also, this list is likely to change as we drop shows we're not interested in. So by the time we're a few weeks in, we'll probably have narrowed it down to a few shows that all of us are watching. In the meantime, tell us what you think of the new style. It's very much in the "experimental" stage, so we'd love to know what you like or don't like about it. The music used for this episode is "Colour Television" by J. Arthur Keenes.


July 13th, 2010 - 05:53
I used the word ‘cliche’ WAY too much in this podcast. >_<
It’s not my fault! Blame Japan for making all this bad anime!
July 13th, 2010 - 06:44
I don’t think that HOTD is a bad anime, the only thing is that its been hyped up a bit too much. I do agree that the anime ISN’T scary at all, but it cannot be called bad. You do get excited at some point of time. The manga of HOTD is better than the anime though.
July 13th, 2010 - 10:26
I must say, you guys are ruthless. You ripped apart shows that I was loving. But you did bring valid reasons though. HOTD did have too much fan service, and Seitokai Yakuindomo did overuse whatever that thing was.
I do have to agree that Ookami-san is on thin ice. So far it’s just not that good.
July 13th, 2010 - 16:57
QUICK. I NEED SOMETHING TO REPLACE FULL METAL ALCHEMIST FOR AWESOMENESS. I’M BEGINNING TO LOSE MY MINNNNNNNND~
July 13th, 2010 - 21:15
OCCULT ACADEMY
July 13th, 2010 - 14:15
Thought I’d hop in to say that I am really liking this Bakacast-Briefs idea. It is short, punchy and to-the-point. Also, Great commentary. I look forward to listening to future bakacast briefs too (as well as the main episodes) thank you.
Astounded you guys aren’t covering Amagami. I really liked the realistic reaction of the main lead and the way they explained the quirky senpai so far.
http://hashihime.blogspot.com/2010/07/summer-2010-anime-first-impressions-of.html
Also Hashihime managed to pick out a few positives that I honestly did not see, even from Seitokai Yakuindomo.