AoY Podcast #79 – Con-O-Ween Special (Comikaze & BanzaiCon 2015 Report)

Also known as: “Dude, it’s Ultraman, you know how to say it!”

Download Episode HERE! (Total Time: 2:05:27)

Halloween is celebrated differently by people every year. So what better way for the podcast hosts to have their own different Halloween experiences than to travel to different conventions across America. This time we have Dustin spending a few hours at Banzaicon, and Jonn spending the day at Comikaze.

(0:00 – 48:49) Con-O-Ween Part 1: Comikaze at Los Angeles, California – Jonn and his dad trekked from Arizona to the golden state to hit up Comikaze. Jonn talked about getting exhibitor passes from a local comic book shop, SJW tumblr hate speech, how Stan Lee promotes himself at his own con, the differences between comic vs. anime conventions, comic book vs. video game collecting, Jojo’s talk, partied out Ninja Turtles, the wrong directors for live action anime adaptations, anime to live action talk (mostly about Akira), Demon City Shinjuku, Harmony Gold hate, and much more.

(48:49 – 51:06) Podcast Promo’s – We want to give a personal shout out to Alpha Counter, as their latest episode #150 might be their final podcast episode. But in tribute to this, Dustin brought back an old friend to wish them a proper farewell. Fast Karate should be back eventually with new stuff, but not after streaming twitch things. Anime World Order decides that their next episode is to cover Initial D (“BUT WAIT DARYL, YOU TOLD ME YEARS AGO IN A PAST EPISODE COMMENTS THAT NO ONE ON THE AWO CREW WOULD EVER REVIEW INITIAL D BECAUSE YOU GUYS ALL HATED IT!! OH WAIT, SOMEONE PAID YOU TO REVIEW IT? NOW I SEE WHAT IT REALLY TAKES TO COVER SHUICHI SHIGENO GRAND MANGA MASTERPIECE CGI ANIMOO SERIES!!” – Inner 18 year old “die hard Initial D fanboy attitude” Dustin responding out of spite).

(51:06 – 1:36:50) Con-O-Ween Part 2: Banzaicon at Colombia, South Carolina – Across the great America’s, Dustin was taking his sweet time to get to Banzaicon, which resulted in describing what a convention looks like past 7:30 pm on a Saturday Halloween night. This of course contains how to sucker  convince the con staff to let you and your “panelist” partner in for cheap, playing some well deserved Initial D, guests at the con that Dustin never saw, 1990’s USA Network cartoons, Ani-Monday talk, how to give a yaoi panel some late night competition, and much more.

(1:36:50 – 2:05:27) Closing Remarks – This just continues into Chris Chan PSA on Halloween trans talk, Dustin explains his experience with audibly reading the Lensmen series, Dustin jacks Golgo 13 M-16, book to movie adaptations, and much more.

Music Selection:

OP – It was the Con-Ster-Mash…

ED – How to keep in shape, the government way…

List of anime/clips shown at “What the Heck? Moments in Anime” Panel:

Daicon 4
Bring me the head of Charlie Brown!
Frozen vs. The Thing
Unico
Dominion Tank Police
Fist of the North Star
Wheels of Fire
Project A-Ko
Moldiver
Sailor Moon?
Do or Die
Golgo 13
Sakigake! Otokojuku
Legend of Black Heaven
Sexy Commando
Prince of Tennis
Nissan Cup Noodle Commercial
Bite me Chameleon
Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals
Battle Royale High School
Mighty Mister Titan
Victory Gundam
3D Gundam
Doozy Bots
Techno Police 21C
Space Runaway Ideon
Cream Lemon (Pop Chaser/Star Trap)
Minna Agechau
Nissan Cup Noodle Commercial
Space Adventure Cobra
Goku: Midnight Eye
Crying Freman
Wrath of the Ninja (Yotoden)
Robo-War
Angel Cop
Violence Jack
Amon: Apocalypse of Devilman
Short Peace
Japanese Drink Commercial

Un-shown:
Tie Fighter Story

This show has:

Good ‘ol USA Network cartoons…

The animatic of a Micheal Bay “Akira” movie…

YOU AIN’T NOTHING BUT A PUNK WITHOUT YOUR M16 GOLGO 13!!!!

Something Chris Chan does to occupy his time during Halloween…

Your typical, run-of-the-mill, Tumblr SJW responses…