I love acronyms. And so, I managed to shoehorn a series of words into RAGEcast to make it a proper acronym, which I felt represents our podcast a bit more accurately. Because we always seem to be charging our masers for subsequent firings. This word was also coined during our third podcast by Koda-P, and I ended up loving the word.

And thus, I present the renaming of our previously horribly titled podcast:

(R)elevant (A)nime & (G)aming (E)lucidation Podcast

Yay. I feel like I did something today.

wonderful touhou image above done by haniwa

-maserbeam

Nyoron.

An interesting post by omo about the usage of the phrase ‘slice-of-life’ sparked a small chain of responses. So we did it the way we can, with our podcast. It’s not a breakthrough in thought exercise, but we’re happy enough to hopefully inform people about the rather ambiguous slice-of-life phrase we tag onto anime. If anything, we manage to add more criteria which lets one be more accurate when pinning an anime as slice-of-life.

And the image above is nekomimi mold. Of all the images I could have used, we went with an idea from the podcast. I’m too lazy to color it the proper cheese-yellow color, so you’ll just have to make do with a bad sketch.

I must know about this nekomimi-mold.

-maserbeam

This post is brought to you by a single hand. No, I’m not fapping to hentai while writing this. I managed to re-injure my left arm, which I had broken years ago.

But I have something to say.

There’s this Korean drummer.. he is awesome.

Wait. Who and why? (CLICK ME.)

-maserbeam

My favorite characters, Perrine (left) and Yoshika (right). A Lynette (center) is fine, too.

Oh man. Where to begin? I absolutely loved Strike Witches, so I was super hyped for season 2. In order to prepare for it, the crew here at Maserbeamdotcom decided to marathon the entire first season the day before the first episode of S2 aired. It was a good 6 hours of pantsu and plot. For those who wrote off the show as mediocre, they are mistaken. It is pure win. I’m not biased, honestly.

I don’t like thinking to deep or analytical about anime, when it comes to the type of show that Strike Witches is made to be. It’s rather cheeky fanservice, but not so blatant and crass as Queen’s Blade or Seikon no Qwaser. Those shows just felt so revolting. So what’s different with Strike Witches? For one, Strike Witches doesn’t have any girls with disgustingly large breasts that would be physically impossible. And the premise: A foreign invader with overwhelming power suddenly hikes up the intensity to conquer Earth, and the only thing we could think of to defend ourselves with is a jury rigged mechanical device made to augment and convert witches’ latent magical power for use in military applications. The details behind this odd idea is actually fairly interesting.

Orly?

-maserbeam

I finally got the idea to use my dynamic compressor that’s actually meant for my guitar. Plugged it into the recording chain, and it seems it’s allowed us to be more relaxed about sound levels, instead of being paranoid that it’ll clip at any moment. Yay!

Normally I’d have to subject you to a long list of items that we talk about in the podcast, but since we’ve been largely talking about the 2010 Summer Season of anime, I can just link you to a site that contains a brief synopsis of the show alongside a preview image. Quite convenient if you just need a quick reference. And if you haven’t noticed the Black ★ Rock Shooter image, yes, we talk about the OVA. We also snuck in a gaming tidbit of a doujin game called Recettear, which I’ve blurbed about before already.

Capitalism, ho!

-maserbeam