This week, it’s new contributor Carol Haggerty’s debut, as she explains to us some of the ways that those clever Japanese stay warm during those cold winter months. Plus, impromptu beverage reviews!
Every week, Dai-Cast Supplemental will give you a chance to learn a little something more about Japan, and allow us to clear out our archives of old topics which didn’t make it into the full length show. All in 3-5 minute easily digestible chunks!
This week on Dai-Cast, it’s an all testosterone three-quarter hour, with Ian, Beej, and Jason Hill as “Black Santa”. On the show, we receive new spam for the site in Japanese, examine the idea of Cat Cafe’s and Rental Girl’s Bedrooms in Akihabara. Plus, a Japanese company comes up with the idea of “Heartache Leave”, and examine the validity of the top photos foreigners take in Japan.
This week, we’re back with the bare minimum needed for the cast, trading Jason for the double X that is Eryn Derden. We’ve roped her in to talk about learning English from Cosplayers with Cosplish, then it’s on with the Rape Whistles! Plus, cosplayers invade Osaka’s airports, and you too can now racially (?) profile otaku! All this plus Beej’s final “Webcomic of the Week” on Dai-Cast.
This week on Dai-Cast we have a guest host, in the form of a mysterious stranger! In reality, we just had issues with microphones, and decided to tweak the audio, as we didn’t want to leave you without a Dai-Cast this week. It’s barely listenable, but if you feel brave, soldier on! If you’re still here, you can hear us rant about robot suits for farming, real life Gundam Costs, Bags of Rice, Japanese Dialects, and Osakan Amphibious Taxis. Plus, the Japanese Government tells us that UFOs are real, and need to be shot down. And finally, a tribute to our favourite (not) childhood toy M.U.S.C.L.E. Men.
And after a long holiday break, we’re back, with our usual disjointed mix of topics on Japanese popular culture from a western perspective. This week, we take on the top 10 Ways Foreigners Perceive the Japanese, and the new trend of Otaku Hunting by the Police (ed. not including Sting). Then, we examine the non-news of the end of Newtype Japan, and we discover MAD videos for the first time (ed. not featuring Alfred E. Newman). All this, plus Beej’s patented Webcomic of the Week on this week’s Dai-Cast!
This week, Ian talks about the recent METI 2007 robot awards, the Keta Shrine 2008 cormorant prediction ritual, and challenges your morals and sensibilities with an examination of advertising tactics against the yearly dolphin hunt in Japan.
Every week, Dai-Cast Supplemental will give you a chance to learn a little something more about Japan, and allow us to clear out our archives of old topics which didn’t make it into the full length show. All in 3-5 minute easily digestible chunks!
New and Improved! Or at least new, The 99 Yen Challenge is a brand new comedy game show brought to you in partnership between tiltyhouse, and Synaptic Chaos Theatre. Join your host Mark Nguyen, as he challenges contestants Brendan “Beej” Dery, Ian Horner, and special guest The Digital Dolphin, to come up with the wackiest answers to Mark’s zany scenarios; all for the chance to win the hefty sum of 99 yen!
This episode taped before a live studio audience at Anime Evolution 2007 in Vancouver, Canada.
Every week, Dai-Cast Supplemental will give you a chance to learn a little something more about Japan, and allow us to clear out our archives of old topics which didn’t make it into the full length show. All in 3-5 minute easily digestible chunks!
This week on Dai-Cast Supplemental, Ian brings you his take on Philip Pullman’s “Golden Compass” in Japan, teaches you a bit about Shinto, and examines the poses and prose in Yakusa 3 and it’s rap music. Plus, mentions of our new website features, and why you should never vote for Beej in our Dai-Cast host poll.
[editors note: The rap song that Ian “performs” are actual translated lyrics from the hit rap song “Kudan” referenced in the episode…]
This week, on Dai-Cast it’s “Dai Cast Zeta”, where we pick one particular topic on Japan or Japanese pop culture, and stick with it, exhaustively expressing our opinions for your education, elucidation, emancipation, and mental emolument, to summarily beat it into the ground, so that we never need to revisit the topic again.
This time around we go into the new immigration practice in Japan of fingerprinting and photographing all foreigners upon entry to the country. We go into what this means to you, and your civil liberties, and then launch off in all directions of personal freedom, security and surveillance.
So sit back, and prepare to be educated at!