After talking about Black Lion and Brutal Legend we felt, “Why stop here?” So we decided to watched what on it’s DVD box cover proclaims as “The most violent, action packed animated film of all time!” And that is the 1986 anime film adaptation of Fist of the North Star by Tetsuo Hara and Buronson. OSMnotes Savvy shoppers [...]

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While a day late and a dollar short, the OSMcast! returns with some slightly less than hot off the presses podcasting action! Since the latest season of anime hitting Japan pretty much blows, we’ve discovered that we’ve ended up playing a lot more video games than usual!  So we took the whole Moment of OSM/Whatcha [...]

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A podcast that primarily deals with anime (and video games) talks about a anime? Shocking! This time, we take on Go Nagai’s BLACK LION! OSMnotes Black Lion is cheap as hell online. Just check the Amazon listing. Really, unless you hate violence and gore, why aren’t you buying this right now? Next week’s episode is up in [...]

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Once again we bring the real scoop on what really goes down at anime cons. This time we went to the fifteenth Anime Weekend Atlanta. We talked to lots of people! And yet, only 24 minutes came out of it. So next time I guess we need to talk to more people. OSMnotes Due to technical-ish things [...]

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This latest podcast is all about the anime con that just happened. It’s called Anime Weekend Atlanta. It was pretty awesome. And so here are two nightcap sessions we recorded on Friday and Saturday night. Aside from the usual crew of OSM Central, we also have our ever-present buddies over at Akihabra Renditions. And add [...]

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From our long and toilsome journey into the VERY HEART OF GEEK MEDIA MAYHEM we bring you, dear listeners, the SEEDY UNDERBELLY of the BEAST known as DRAGON*CON. But only 20 minutes of it. OSMnotes AWA IS THIS WEEK HOLY SHIT. SO NOT READY. So anyway, the OSMcast is going BACK to Atlanta this weekend for Anime Weekend Atlanta! [...]

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In a stunning return of returningness, Lee has returned! Returning with him are Sooz and Basil as we talk about a bunch of webcomics we read! EXCITEMENT! SHOCK -AND- AWE! PS: Did we say a bunch? We meant millions. OSMnotes The orginal plan was that we had this great written list that we were going to use make [...]

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This week we decided to change things up a bit and talk about a video game! You kids like video games, right? The game in question is Sucker Punch’s inFAMOUS on PS3. And with all the goofy capitalization that it implies! Not that the OSMcast! knows anything about that… Well, about as much as we know [...]

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Okay so it’s slightly late but here’s our podcast all about Mobile Suit Gundam 00.  It’s got giant robots and stuff! And space elevators. Joining us is Richard from Akihabara Renditions. OSMnotes You can watch the show on the Sci Fi Channel! Or I’m sure DVDs exist. Chances are you know what this show is if you [...]

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Never has the saying “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” as this episode. Four from the crew of the OSMcast combines with three of the members of Akihabara Renditions to deliver a massive recap of the news from past couple of weeks in Anime Land. What actually happens, however, is something else. Hopefully [...]

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We thought we’d do something special for our 50th episode*. But I doubt anyone has ever heard of the Sunrise show we decided to talk about. It’s an extremely unknown show called Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. I mean it’s not like  it wasn’t the new cock of the walk or anything as anime [...]

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This time on the OSMcast! we decided things were getting little too old in the mix, so we thought we’d review something a bit newer. So here’s a podcast all about the anime adaptation of Soul Eater by BONES, from the original work by Atsushi Okubo. OSMnotes Rail kept complaining that the opening wasn’t HARDCORE enough. So [...]

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We’re back in the groove! We decided to kick things back into second gear with our take on the ADV release of My Dear Marie, the 3-part anime OAV adaptation of the manga by Sakura Takeuchi. Musical Interlude: The Phenomenauts. If you could somehow define the word awesome as a band, you’ll be hard pressed [...]

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Well, the original plan was to have this last week and a full lenngth podcast this week, but at least this gets us back on track. And this tracks starts off with Basil and Kevin half-heartily discuss that live action film Dragonball Evolution while all the cool kids talk about the new Transformers movie. Whatever! OSMnotes If [...]

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Man,  just when you thought it was safe to listen to podcasts, we had go and post this. It’s our long lost MTAC episode! Okay, so it was never really lost, but I guess it is kind of long! It’s also REALLY keeping it real. How real? Well it’s a collection of interviews we took [...]

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Here on the OSMcast, we thought what better way to celebrate Memorial Day than to remember all those wonderful, brilliant thoughts and dreams that were snuffed out so many years ago when we all thought Episode One was going to be good. That’s right, we are talking about the movie Fanboys. It’s a (totally not true) [...]

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It’s taken a few movies this year to get to it, but we finally got it. A really good geek film. Perhaps you’ve heard of it? It’s called Star Trek, and it’s the topic of this week’s episode of the OSMcast! Promo: Black Flower Music! We met this wonderful individual at the podcast panel at MTAC [...]

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Since out last podcast was on stuff that was really new, we decided to check out something that’s a little bit older. So in honor of Cinco de Eleven we talked about They Were Eleven*, an anime adaption of the manga by Moto Hagio. *Hey it was this or Ocean’s Eleven. Which begs the question, if [...]

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So we heard that a whole bunch of new shows just started airing in Japan last month, so we thought we’d talk about the shows we’ve started keeping up with. Hence, the Spring Anime 2009 Preview. Or as Inubito called it, “Desu in Springtime.” Promo: Akihabra Renditions! We first met these guys at AWA in 2008 [...]

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In this week’s episode of the OSMcast, we’re joined by the Anime World Order’s Daryl Surat to talk about Fallout 3. It’s  Bethesda Game Studios’ take on the classic video games series Fallout by Black Isle Studios. So of course we talk about those too. All in all it’s a very Fallout-y podcast. Except when [...]

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This week we bring you our super-short interview with voice actor and artist Sonny Strait that we got at MTAC. He’s done many roles, like Krillin from Dragon Ball Z, Maes Hughes from Fullmetal Alchemist, Lupin the 3rd from… Lupin the 3rd,  as well as the current voice of Usopp from One Piece. On top [...]

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This week we decided to kick it off with our epic-ly long interview with two of the hardest working folks in anime fandom today:  Robert and Emily DeJesus of Studio Capsule. They talked about all sorts of things with us, like what it takes to make it out there as an artist and the Best [...]

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It’s the Monday after MTAC Ninja but the OSMcast must go on! Speaking of the Middle Tennessee Anime Convention, here’s a chat we had about the con with Christi Binkley, MTAC’s Director of Media Relations and Advertising.  In other words, “Press Wrangler.” We talk a bit about the con and what it takes to make [...]

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The OSMcast goes forth once more as Basil, Kevin, and special guest commentator JP grapple the numerous and awesome 8-bit modern games that comprise one of the best DS titles to come out in years: known only as Retro Game Challenge! Protip: So okay I said that it’s the 31st when it actually released on [...]

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A coworker asked me over this past week: “So what happened to the Survivor Horror in Resident Evil 5?” I told him: “It’s now called sitting through Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.” I know this, because I have sat through this movie. This episode is pretty much just a PSA to the world that no one ever [...]

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Deep within the underground (and also echo-y) OSMbunker, keeping the awesome alive, we decided to talk not about the movie adaption of  Watchmen, the amazing graphic novel by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins, but the graphic novel itself. Promo: Dead Workers Party Network! We are actually a part of this network, [...]

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We had made plans. Awesome plans. But then those plans were dashed! So we made new ones. BETTER ONES. Then those were dashed and we said NAY SIR and to prove it we did a podcast on the anime adaptation of Shoji Gatoh’s Full Metal Panic! by GONZO. Protip: This may be one of the few [...]

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In this episode of the OSMcast! we decided to throw down with the latest adventures of Lina and the gang by talking about Slayers Revolution! OSMnotes Right now Slayers Revolution is kind of hard to get to at the moment. When the series started up a small while back, you could find fansubs of it. But with [...]

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Hey kids! It’s the OSMcast! And tonight/today/whenever you are listening to this, we’re talking about Capcom’s latest fighting game, STREET FIGHTER IV! And other stuff, too. Like God Hand, Lost Odyssey, Shiren the Wanderer, Senko no Ronde… and Superman 64. (Sorry about that.) OSMnotes Street Fighter IV is out on Xbox 360 and PS3, and in fact is [...]

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Look out because the OSMcast! is updating on time! For this episode we decided to tackle the manga and anime series by Kenichi Sonoda, Gunsmith Cats. Protip: Ignore the fact that I think the music that we ended up playing was from Riding Bean. We can’t help the fact that we’re hustlers. Promo: Anime World Order! These [...]

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So since schedules did not align to their proper alignments this past week, we decided to show you a different side of the OSMcast. The side that shows that not all recordings are good ones. Some… can be very bad. This is one of those recordings. I apologize now, and promise a real episode next week.

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After way too long, we are now able to post our take on Namco Bandai Games’ latest game in the “Tales of” series, Tales of Vesperia! It’s our actual original recording too! We (aka DJ Inubito) were able to salvage it after all.  (Which is good because our attempt to rerecord was not so good…) Protip: We’re [...]

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It’s a better late than never podcast as the crew at OSM Central takes a crack at our favorite Japanese animated things for the year 2008! The EPIC CONCLUSION of the 2008 OSMawards! Yay! OSMnotes I’m kinda tapped out of things to say, so we’ll just repeat the contest again and call it a week. Next week’s [...]

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What’s an easy way to kill time on the mic when a new year arrives? You talk about the previous year! So here’s our OSMawards! for the video games of 2008. Protip: We had to rasie the gain in order to get this podcast listenable. So it might get static-y at times. OSMnotes So I guess Bob’s Game [...]

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Because we just weren’t done talking about hot chicks blowing up robots, we decided to continue forth with our opinions on Mamoru Oshii’s movie adaptaion of the Masamune Shirow classic, Ghost in the Shell! Spoiler: We lied! The movie is actually about basset hounds. OSMnotes One of the pluses on reviewing a hallmark of Japanese animation, especially as [...]

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Tonight  we dethrone the AWO’s “Last podcast to podcast about Bubblegum Crisis” crown with our our podcast about Bubblegum Crisis! … Mostly. Okay sometimes we talked about Mega Man 9. But it’s usually about Bubblegum Crisis, really! OSMnotes Looking at the various places one can buy the boxed set of Bubblegum Crisis, I discovered that the best place was [...]

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It’s all about high flying, mecha, idol sings, and guns, lots of guns in this episode of the OSMcast! Of course, the topic is the latest Sh?ji Kawamori epic, Macross Frontier. OSMnotes Okay I think we are back on track and ready to rock. Inubito’s actual main computer should be arriving this week, which means he won’t [...]

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The OSMcast rises from it’s grave of computer woe’d-ashes to deliver unto you our take on one of the most awesome, trippy, postmodernist, animated movies ever: Adolescence of Utena AKA The Utena Movie. Protip: And while I know that this is technically the 15th of December, this was recorded with the intent of getting up on [...]

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Over two weeks past due, we bring you our Nekocon 11 con report! Short version: Totally fun. Long version: Listen to our podcast! /Basara (We also complain about Gonzo and how much Rosario + Vampire sucks.) Protip: We had to use the travel mic and it so happened the room we were in was really echo-y. You [...]

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In a strange twist of fate, our shortest episode actually has the longest title. Go figure! At this recently past Nekocon we got the chance to chat with three awesome voice actors: Troy Baker, Aaron Dismuke, & Jerry Jewell. Protip: Since it was the portable microphone, you’ll need to turn up the volume to hear us. [...]

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In tonight’s episode of the OSMcast! we talk about J.C. Staff’s adaptaion of Kiyohiko Azuma’s awesome series: Azumanga Daioh! With special guest star DJ Inubito as “The guy playing Fable II while we talking about stuff.” OSMnotes Thanks to ADV’s awesome habit of making collections of stuff they make, you can not only now own the entire anime [...]

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Expand your horizons, your world, as it were, with our latest podcast all about Square-Enix/Jupiter’s awesome game for the Nintendo DS: The World Ends With You! And also where we try not to talk about the World of Warcarft! … Too much. OSMnotes This game is in steady supply, but sadly no matter where we checked, the “Square-Enix [...]

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To conclude our October extravaganza of Octoberness, we’re finishing out with another set of three with a podcast all about the latest take on Kouta Hirano’s epic tale of vampires, Nazis, and blood, lots of blood. So yeah, Hellsing Ultimate. OSMnotes As it turns out this time Buy.com has the best deal on Hellsing Ultimate, with all the [...]

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Kicking reason to the curb once more we take on a terribly terrific trilogy of movie-ocity with Sam Raimi’s and Bruce Campbell’s epic cults classics, The Evil Dead, The Evil Dead II, and Army of Darkness. Oh, and the musical. You can blame Eric for that one though! OSMnotes Right now Best Buy has all three movies on [...]

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To further our Halloween tendencies, we decided to rock out with a crazy-long podcast all about Konami’s uber-creepy video games series Silent Hill. Lee takes us on a course of wonder and horror as he details the first four games, while we chime in like the silly fools we are! This is also the podcast that [...]

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Here’s our first ever OSMinterview with one of the most awesome women in webcomics, Gina Biggs! She’s the creator of the romantic drama Red String (now being published by Dark Horse Comics) as well as the Grand High Poobah of Strawberry Comics. Protip: We ended up recording right outside the dealer’s room, so the audio quality [...]

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We’re kicking off October in style with a three man tag team take on Atlus’ Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3. Start updating your podcasting Social Links now! OSMnotes You should own this game. See here even GameStop has it new online RIGHT NOW. And Wal-Mart. And Target. Best Buy. Amazon. They all have it and they are waiting for [...]

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In our first true post-AWA podcast Basil and Lee weigh in on the 1980’s anime classic, Kimagure Orange Road (KOR)! OSMnotes: Fun Fact #1: Basil’s first ever anime soundtrack on CD was bought during AWA 5. It was a KOR soundtrack and costed him around $30 for a second-hand copy. Later on he ended up buying another [...]

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It’s only the first day back from the Anime Weekend Atlanta 14 and we’ve already got our podcast up and running about it! Listen to us talk about standing in line for things and panels we attended! And eating Stir-fry! The alternate title for this episode is “Should Have Spanked Me With an Asteroid.” OSMnotes But no, really, [...]

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Because one game just wasn’t enough, we decided to tackle three Xbox Live Arcade games for this episode of the OSMast!: Castle Crashers, Bionic Commando, and Braid. Check it out! OSMnotes That’s right, we’ll be at Anime Weekend Atlanta this weekend, so you should track us down and say hello! Also, if you happened to head this direction [...]

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Finally our current tagline will now make sense as the OSMcast! tackles Gainax’s Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann! OSMnotes Now this podcast really isn’t a day late or anything. I mean, it’s not like a bird hit a plane causing Inubito’s friend’s flight to be delayed so he was busy entertaining his guest to mix down the podcast [...]

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WARNING: We talk about Eiji Nonaka’s Cromartie High School in this episode of the OSMcast! There…  YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! OSMnotes We talk about a lot of stuff that’s actually kinda out of date! But that’s OK, because it’s all still awesome.  And so is Cromartie and you should buy a version of it right now. Also: Best. Trailer. [...]

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We aren’t dead yet! In this triumphant return to the OSMcast Basil, Eric, and newcomer Lee tackle Tetsuro Takeuchi and Guitar Wolf’s wild and crazy “Jet rock ‘n’ roll”/zombie horror/comedy/cult classic/movie thing, Wild Zero! And succeed with marginal success! WARNING: Guitar Wolf’s music can be really loud. OSMnotes We actually recorded this a week or two [...]

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We’re rollin’ into the month of August with Christopher Nolan’s latest take on the Batman, The Dark Knight. And more! OSMnotes First off, you can now see Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog once more without buying it off iTunes! You  just have to deal the occasional commercial. You know, like regular TV. And you should go buy some Freakazoid [...]

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Mushishi, by Yuki Urushibara is the topic of tonight’s OSMcast! And it’s definitely awesome. But don’t take our word for it! … Well, actually do take our word for it, but listen to us talk abut why first! OSMnotes Really you should go buy a copy of Mushishi in one form or another right now. Though you’ll [...]

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Okay so for the past two weeks we’ve skipped out on the World of OSM… And it kind of built to a great big pile of stuff that needed to be caught up to. So here it is! OSMnotes So we talked about this stuff (more or less): Chrono Trigger DS! Slayers Revolution! Rock Band 2 DCvsMK fatality correction FF13 on Xbox [...]

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And we’re back! This week DJ Inubito and Basil talk about Nerdapalooza 2008 and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. OSMnotes So it sounds like Nerdapalooza 2008 was pretty bad ass! If you want to check out CSHC with our man DJ Inubito on the plates, check out their YouTube page. And like we said, MGS4 [...]

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So how about that “On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness” stuff eh guys and gals? Pretty good stuff! You should totally buy it. Or at least try the demo. You could also go buy Commando 3 on the XBLA while you’re at it so you can try the new SFII: HD Remix beta going on. Or [...]

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In this episode we decided that box anime is cool. And by “box anime” we mean, “Kekkaishi.” Also, ice cream. OSMnotes Okay so admittedly I just beat MGS4, so at the moment I’m busy going “OMG MGS4 MGS4!!!!” therefore actual show notes aren’t exactly on my mind. Though I am sad to find out the Wal-Mart [...]

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Are you read for some unbridled passion as two souls burn brightly about Grand Theft Auto the Fourth? Well too bad we’ve already recorded it! OSMnotes Though to be fair, we ended up playing Street Fighter III: Third Strike afterwards instead. Will there be another Inubito/Basil podcast about the upcoming Street Fighter TV once it releases? Oh [...]

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Tonight on the slightly delayed OSMcast! we talk about Baccano! And it’s many, many crazy characters. OSMnotes We also talk about Tokyopop’s current reshuffling as well as Rock Band’s attempt at taking over Japan. But it’s mostly about Baccano(!). And also beer. But really Baccano(!). In other news, we now have Promos! Check the sidebar to your right and check’em out! Trivia: [...]

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In this episode of the OSMcast! we plunge into the depths of the Cosmic Tribe Tarot set and explore the ruins of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. OSMnotes Seriously guys, that tarot deck is pretty terrible. But don’t take my word for it! Check it out for yourself with this handy-dandy so very [...]

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THIS IS THE MOST METAL OMSCAST EVER THIS IS METAL EVERYTHING WE DO WILL NOW BE METAL OSMnotes The World of OSM games we talked about were Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes, Lost Winds, On the Rain-slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One, and Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. The anime is Soul Eater, based on [...]

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Tonight on the OSMcast! we go go go after the latest movie adaptation by The Wachowski Brothers, the Tatsunoko Production’s classic anime hit Speed Racer. OSMnotes Also in case you hadn’t notice, Inubito thought the remix of the Speed Racer theme was so awesome, he included all of it. Be forewarned! Or not! However this does [...]

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We’ve gone back in time to olden days of April for this OSMcast! where Basil and Nobody have a conversation about one of the longest named games on the DS: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates. OSMnotes We also talk about games like FF7: Crisis Core and Lost Odyssey, though not for long. Friday we’ll be [...]

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In this episode of the OSMcast! The gang’s all here as we talk about the 2004 OAV Re: Cutie Honey! And also a little bit of Rock Band. OSMnotes If you’d like more info on Re:Cutie Honey, there’s always the ANN Page, as well as the Gainax Page’s, um, page. More importantly, you should also check out [...]

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Tonight on the OSMcast! nerds go out to movies as we talk about thew Marvel Studios movie, Iron Man. OSMnotes It’s Nerd Movie Box Office Domination Month here at the OSM Central! What this means is that during the month of May, we’ll be doing our best to bring you two podcasts a week this month: The [...]

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Tonight on the OSMcast!, Basil and buds reminisce about their previous Saturday, at the Middle Tennessee Anime Convention. OSMnotes Yeah, it was a pretty swell con. The Cosplay Picture Gallery Thing we promised can be found by clicking these words! Definite shout outs go to froggyfluf who we thought was cosplaying Simca, but as it turns [...]

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In this episode of the OSMcast! Basil and Eric discuss the wonders of Nintendo’s latest entry in their flighting/platforming/party game series, Super Smash Bros Brawl! OSMnotes Again, we’d love to hear your comments, suggestions, and other feedback! Juts post down in the comments, or throw us an email at osmcast@KILLCAPSgmail.com. This Saturday the good DJ Inubito and [...]

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Ladies and gentlemen I present to you, our first podcast. Recorded on 3-08-2008, this is a podcast about music games, particularly Rock Band. OSMnotes Other games we talked about in this podcast are: Audiosurf Battle of the Bands Disney’s Ultimate Band Patapon All Star Cheer Squad Some of these games are actually good. Some… probably not so much. If you want to know, [...]

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