Returning to our roots for a true, Akihabara Renditions tradition! Join Richard and Drew as we first subject ourselves to the pain of terrible Japanese cartoons then review and discuss them all for your listening, uh, pleasure? We've alerted the authorities and have sent the Kraumpus to Japan for the production crews responsible. Be warned, we've got some real coal for your stockings this year.

Hosts: Drew and Richard

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Richard and Drew sit down and have a very brief discussion about Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: December Sky. A little bit of podcast rust and remnant tryptophan from the holidays, we'd mistaken Side 5 (Texas Colony) for Side 4 (Moore's Colony) when discussing this piece. Just the quality you'd expect from Akihabara Renditions!

Hosts: Drew & Richard

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We're back for another episode of Akihabara Renditions! In this episode, we're going to talk briefly about a subset of anime fandom that is near and dear to our hearts - Plastic Modeling (PlaMo), particularly of the Gundam variety. It's a quick episode where we talk about some of the history, some of the different "lines" of GunPla and some build discussion. 

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In this episode of Akihabara Renditions, we continue the life and work of Tomino Yoshiyuki. We're picking up in 1985 and working our way up to 2017. Please let us know in the comments, via email, Facebook and Twitter how you liked this pair of episodes! Thanks for listening!

Hosts: Drew & Richard

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Show Notes:

Our show's opening is the same though our ending this episode is Hoshizora no Believe, the ending theme to Mobile Suit Z Gundam.

Metadata tagging is still wonky at the moment. 

General Research provided by Wikipedia (and ウイキペデイア) because Internet but corroborated by ANN Encycplopedia and Sunrise Ainme 2001 (Tatsumi, 2000, ISBN 4-88641-496-6 C9476).

In this episode of Akihabara Renditions, we explore the life and work of a creator, in this case, director, whose work is near and dear to us: Tomino Yoshiyuki. We're test driving a new format that we hope to expand into other episodes. Once we sat down and did our notes for this, we figured that this would be best split into two episodes. The show notes below contain some links for further reading!

Hosts: Drew & Richard

Show Notes:

Our opening theme remains the same as always; our ending theme this episode is Uchuu no Hoshi yo Eien ni, the ending theme to Invincible Superman Zambot 3.

The quote we used regarding his time as a freelancer was found this article via Forbes.

General Research provided by Wikipedia (and ウイキペデイア) because Internet but corroborated by ANN Encycplopedia, Sunrise Ainme 2001 (Tatsumi, 2000, ISBN 4-88641-496-6 C9476), and Mobile Suit Gundam Spotlight Article in Animerica Magazine (Vol. 6, No. 10).

In this episode of Akihabara Renditions, Drew and Richard sit down to talk about some of those first series of anime they saw that really drove them over the edge -  those shows that went beyond just being cool cartoons but really encouraged us to dive really deep into the backgrounds of those shows. It provided for some great commentary and hope you enjoy listening! Feel like getting involved in the conversation? Leave us a comment on our site at akibaren.net, on Twitter or Facebook about those first shows that drove you over the deep end!

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Hosts: Drew Sutton & Richard Hoelsher

On this episode of Akihabara Renditions,Drew and Richard discuss current anime distribution and compare pros and cons to "The Old Daze" of anime fandom and whether we are now in a golden age of fandom as far as availability and price.

Richard and Drew come back for the first episode of Series 2 of Akihabara Renditions! This episode will introduce a little bit of a new format as Richard and Drew dust off some of the podcast rust and discuss what's been going on the last few years and the show topic.

Hosts: Drew Sutton, Richard Hoelsher

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