This week I’m talking to Phuong Pham, an editor at Digital Manga, Inc and Project Director for the English translation of Captain Ken. We’re talking about Kickstarter, specifically the campaign her company is doing (and which you should visit and fund right now!)
We also discuss yaoi, hentai, and then …
Triton of the Sea, Unico, and Atomcat
Make sure you have all the numbers figured out
Osamu Tezuka, author of Astroboy and the God of Manga
The Astroboy movie?
Can two species co-exist with each other?
He would devote several pages to one moment in time.
Takarazuka (and kabuki and noh)
Westerns based on samurai movies and did the reverse ever happen?
Godzilla, King of Monsters!
The more anime I watched, the more those cultural traits started to stick.
How the English dubbing of Furi Kuri said “niisan” although come to think of it, I think it was actually “sempai”
You might remember my friend Emil
Itadakimasu and ohayou
Nande ya nen (I said “Nande yo ne” in the podcast because I don’t speak the heathen drawl of western Japan. Not because I made a mistake. No no.)