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

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!

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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.