Project Haruhi
13Jul/106

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:

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.

About Stilts

Stilts (aka Dustin) enjoys playing (and yelling at) video games, especially RPGs. He also likes super robot shows... the more outrageous the plot, the better!
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  1. I used the word ‘cliche’ WAY too much in this podcast. >_<

    It’s not my fault! Blame Japan for making all this bad anime!

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.


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