This week, Ian and Carol go hunting the elusive Noda Chikan, or pervert.  Stay tuned for tantalizing beauties, pumping action, and Cute with Chris references galore!

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!

And for more of Carol, check out http://www.youtube.com/user/mplstokyo.

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This week on Dai-Cast, we’re full of anger once again, and you know what that means!  We’re talking about copyright.  Specially this time, it’s Cruncyroll.com getting $4.05 million in venture capital funding.  Related, we get into an interview with a Fansubber, and the 4 major ISPs in Japan banning torrent users.  And finally, we delve into the dark world of child pornography, and how Unicef wants to ban it in Japan.  All this, and not much more, on this weeks Dai-Cast.

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Hosts: Ian Horner, Jason Hill, and Eryn Dearden.

Topics Covered This Week:

• Cruncyroll.com gets $4.05 Million in Venture Capital – animenewsnetwork.com
• Interview with a Fansubber – animenewsnetwork.com
• Japanese ISPs set to Ban Torrent Users – torrentfreak.com
• Unicef Aims to Ban Child Pornography in Japan – kotaku.com

NOT Beej’s Webcomic of the Week: What the Duck & Truck Bearing Kibble

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This week on Dai-Cast, it’s a surprise!  But seriously (Are we ever?) we discuss the recent trend of Butler Cafes catering to young women in Shibuya, new Korean space kimchi, Toshiba robot phones, an HD-DVD exchange program, and the greatest thing Japan will ever produce: Smoke on the Water.  All this, along with our usual derailments and ratholes for your listening “pleasure”.

Hosts: Ian Horner, Jason Hill, and Eryn Dearden, with Special Guest Courtney Hawkeye, and Brendan Dery as “Beej”.

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Topics Covered This Week:

• Shibuya Butler Cafes – japundit.com
• Kimchi.  In.  SPAAAAAACE!!! – nytimes.com
• Toshiba’s Robot Phones – engadget.com
• Great Japanese Customer Service – japundit.com
• Smoke on the Water, The Greatest Thing Japan Will EVER Produce – japanprobe.com

This week on Dai-Cast, we’ve got two new guest hosts in the form of Brian Derkson, and the mysterious Mr. Dai-Cast.  So what do we talk about?  We look into the arrest of a man being arrested for sending spam.  9 Spam messages…  Then we look at a new variant on the electronic bubble wrap craze, with Moé sound effects.  Plus, we talk about the recent workplace validation of a teachers suicide, inciting a discussion once again inciting a discussion on the working conditions of Japanese workers.  And we join Japan in denoucing the rape by US Marines.  Also, HD DVD is dead, says Japan…

Hosts: Ian Horner, Jason Hill, Bryan Derkson, and Mr. Dai-Cast, with Brendan Dery as “Beej”.

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Topics Covered This Week:

• Man arrested in Tokyo for sending spam – japantoday.com
• Moé electronic bubble wrap variation – dannychoo.com
• Teacher’s suicide officially designated “Work Related” – japantoday.com
• 2002 Massey Lectures with Margaret Visser – cbc.ca
• Denounce the raping by US Marines – japanprobe.com
• HD DVD Dead – elctronista.com

Beej’s Webcomic of the Week – Microbe!

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.

Hosts: Ian Horner, and Eryn Dearden, with Brendan Dery as “Beej”.

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Topics Covered This Week:

• Japan learns English from Cosplayers – kotaku.com
• Korea learns English from Starcraft – kotaku.com
• Rape Whistles! – tokyomango.com
• How to Spot an Otaku – whatjapanthinks.com
• Welcome to Japan, With Cosplayers! – dannychoo.com

Beej’s Webcomic of the Week – Megatokyo

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.

Hosts: The Mysterious Stranger, and Jason Hill, with Brendan Dery as “Beej”.

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Topics Covered This Week:

• Robot Suit Aids Japanese Farmers (Not for Combat, Really…) – japanprobe.com
• The Cost of a Real Live Gundam – pinktenticle.com
• Baby Bags of Rice – boingboing.net
• Osaka Amphibious Taxis – japundit.com

• Japanese Government to World: “UFOs are Real, and we need to shoot them” – japanprobe.com

• M.U.S.C.L.E. Men 29th Anniversary – japanprobe.com

Beej’s Webcomic of the Week – MALIKI

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!

Hosts: Ian Horner, Eryn Dearden, and Jason Hill, with Brendan Dery as “Beej”.

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Topics Covered This Week:

• Top 10 Ways Foreigners Perceive the Japanese – The Daily Top 10
• Taco and “Fie-ay-sta” References Throughout Show - Higurashi Parody, “Casey and Friends”
• Police Now Hunting Otaku – dannychoo.com
• Newtype USA to Cease Publication – dannychoo.com
• MAD Movies – wikipedia.org
  • 1000% Puting (Negima!? vs. the Russian Federation) – youtube.com
  • Lucky Star Bebop (Lucky Star vs. Cowboy Bebop) – youtube.com
  • Goodbye Mr. Turnabout (Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei vs. Phoenix Wright) – youtube.com
  • Kirby + Zetsubou Sensei (Self Explanatory) – youtube.com

Beej’s Webcomic of the Week – The Rack

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!

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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 the 404s Improv Comedy Troupe. 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.

This week, we’re introducing a new feature here at tiltyhouse.com, Dai-Cast Supplemental. 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, Ian brings up the Japanese rejection of robots as caregivers, and talks about the rise of Canadian music in Japan. Plus, Jap-Snacks brings you ナンデスカ？

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