Check out this episode of Anime Pop with Stephanie Yanez and keep your eye out for a familiar looking guy. More Anime Expo coverage coming!

This is the Anime Genesis/Anime Diet Live panel from Anime Expo 2008! Experience the madness in audio and video! Pay no attention to me saying this is Episode 5, it is Episode 4. Also it’s anime-gen.com not anime-gen.net. More Interviews, an Anime Expo wrap up episode, and pictures, as well as a day by day recap of AX coming soon!

 

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I Benu, am announcing my entry into the 2008 presidential race. Gendo “Mike” Ikari may offer a change you will believe in, but I offer change that will actually happen. I am very honored to be the chosen candidate for the Haruhiist party.

I just saw this so called documentary on fansubs. I was expecting this to be something on the history of fansubs but instead it’s just an excuse to complain about how horrible modern fansubs are as opposed to fansubs back then. The host “Otaking”, apparently a professional translator, takes us through why he thinks modern fansubs are horrible by trying to point out how the translations are horrible and far from anything of professional quality. He does this by taking clips from various fansubs and trys to point out mistakes and things that fansubbers do that distract your eyes, such as drop down translation notes. Some of the points he makes about translation are also highly debatable but is right on with some of the things he says about them.

He makes some good points overall, but I don’t think we need a 30 min. video trying to tell us what most of us already know.

What do you think about subtitles in fansubs compared to professional ones?

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I never really got the point of these automatic Super Mario World videos. These are made by hacking a rom of the game and placing things in the exact place so Mario bounces, lands, and hits things exactly. Akasha posted this awesome video set to Nico Nico Douga on the fan site today. It reminded me that someone showed this to me the other day and I was going to post it here but I forgot. This video was so well done and awesome that I couldn’t ignore it.

Do you like these automatic Mario videos or do you think they are stupid and pointless?

The Ramen Revolution video report is finally here! Watch as I take you backstage before I go live! I also throw in some clips and pictures from some of the other awesome stuff that happened at the show! A huge thanks to the whole Ramen Revolution crew! I had alot of fun being a guest and hanging out with you all! Remember to watch Ramen Revolution Saturday nights at 12:30 on LA 18 KSCI-TV.

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I’M STILL CRAZY ABOUT AYA HIRANO!

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