Anime Genesis has 5 copies of the Suguri Perfect Edition DVD-ROM’s to giveaway! What do you have to do to win a copy of this fantastic doujin game? All you have to do is comment on this post! Yes it’s that easy! I will pick 5 commenters at random. The contest starts now until Friday, August 7th when I will announce the winners! Only one comment per person will count! So get to commenting!

For more info on Suguri check out Rockin’ Android.

The contest is now over! Thanks to all who entered! Now to announce the winners! I assigned a number to each of the names that entered and used a random number generator to pick five random numbers. Congrats to those who won!

Winners

1. Jesus159159159

2. Ecks

3. Reactive

4. Luna

5. Math

If you won, please contact me at animegen@gmail.com with your address and I will ship out the game to you as soon as I can! Thanks to all who participated, and thanks to Rockin’ Android for providing the copies of Suguri! When you get your copy of Suguri please let me know what you think of the game.

So with the last podcast officially kicking off the Anime Expo 2009 coverage, here is the panel everyone that went to AX can’t stop talking about! The Indecent Otaku Comedy Hour in it’s full HD glory with Benu from Anime Genesis, Dancing Queen from How A Girl Figures, and Mike, Jeremy, and Ray from Anime Diet! You can now see the panel that was so full people had to be turned away at the door! See what you missed!

The long awaited Anime Expo episode is here! Benu and Dancing Queen from How A Girl Figures disscuss the epic happenings of the biggest con of the season! They talk about all the crazy things that happened, the guests, the panels, the excitement and more!

Here’s a video of Dancing Queen Singing at the Macross Frontier Cosplay Gathering!

Here is a report on The Indecent Otaku Comedy Hour from The Fan’s POV!

You can also now see The Indecent Otaku Comedy Hour in it’s entirety!

Remember that we do want to hear from you! So leave your comments below or send your comments to animegen@gmail.com

In this hillarious video Conan O’Brien visits Bang Zoom Studios and dubs some scenes from Ghost In The Shell. If you haven’t seen it yet watch it! I would love to see Conan and Andy do some real dubbing for anime though.

Should Conan O’Brien Dub Anime For Real?

Anime Gen was able to get an interview with HYDE and K.A.Z.’s new band VAMPS who are currently touring the US. HYDE is best know for being the vocalist of L’Arc~en~Ciel and K.A.Z. is best know for being the lead guitarist of Oblivion Dust. Anime Gen was able to ask them a couple questions about the band, their musical influences and styles, and what they are looking forward to on the US tour.

Anime Gen: How did you come to choose the name VAMPS?

HYDE: It’s from vampire. I like mysterious women, too [laugh]. I love vampires. I’m intrigued by its never-ending life. I like horror.

Anime Gen: Do you think that VAMPS differs musically from anything else you have done before?

HYDE: I think I am making the music that I used to dream of making in my teens. When I started the band, I liked hard-core bands with some horror taste. I feel like I am expressing the stuff I felt back then—maybe not really hard core.

Anime Gen: Who are some of your musical influences?

HYDE: Probably, Mötley Crüe.

K.A.Z.: I used to watch and got inspired by King Crimson, Cheap Trick, and TOTO.

Anime Gen: What message do you want people to take away from your music?

HYDE: We made the album that includes songs used effectively in our lives—many songs that create excitement in lives and a couple of songs that the audience can listen to rest a little bit.

Anime Gen: Do you compose the music first or do you write the lyrics first or a little of both when you write songs?

HYDE: K.A.Z. plays the guitar and I do the singing.

Anime Gen: Hyde, I read an interview with you awhile back when you released your solo album Faith, that you were trying to do spiritual rock. Will there be elements of this in any VAMPS music?

HYDE: There is not much difference from my solo album “FAITH,” in terms of musical pieces, but we created music especially for cool lives as VAMPS, so we have a lineup of good live songs.

Anime Gen: What is your biggest inspiration for writing songs?

HYDE: We consider how to involve the audience into our songs.

K.A.Z.: We both went through the golden age of Rock n’ Roll in the 80s and 90s, so we have absorbed various tastes. I think we created our own mixture by going though that era.

Anime Gen: What are you looking forward to the most during the American tour?

HYDE: I’m excited to visit cites for the first time and try new things. First of all, I look forward to lives in front of the American audience. Our objective is to show that we have such a cool band in Japan, even more amazing band than American ones. There is no point of doing the same things that American bands are doing. I believe our band will be appreciated—judging from my own sensibility.

Anime Gen: Do you have anything you would like to say to the American fans?

HYDE: Can’t wait to see you. Wait for a little bit more; I will bite your neck!

K.A.Z.: Let’s have a fun party!

Check out the offical website for VAMPS here for more info on the US tour and where you can see them live!