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Show 6 sees the triumphant return of Matt after his mighty American conquest, he speaks a bit about his amazing journey into the heart of the new world. We also had Jade and Louise with us to discuss anime and other otaku related stuffs. Darlo was supposed to join us but was unfortunately cut short by noisy children and left us before we had a chance to speak with him. I chatted a little about my new website (http://ukotaku.net/rokaru) and we also launched our brand new karaoke competition!

UKotaku is currently running two, yes two, glorious competitions!

Comp 1: The UKotaku Pika Pika Drawing Comp

Send us your pictures of the UKotaku gang (Myself [John], Jade, Matt, Louise, Emily or even Darlo) and stand the chance to be awarded the extravagant prize of “some manga that Jade doesn’t want any more”!!! It doesn’t matter if you don’t know what we look like, in fact that is even better, draw us how you think we look. Or if you do know what we look like draw us as you think we should look.

Send your entries to: podcast@ukotaku.net with the subject “drawing comp” or something similar.

Comp 2: The UKotaku “OMG, WTF WAS THAT?” Karaoke Competition

Simply tell us what anime we are singing the opening or ending of at the end of each podcast, if you get these consistently correct for an as yet undefined number of shows (probably 10 or something) you will win a prize constructed entirely out of epicness* (we haven’t decided what the prize will be yet).

* Actual prize may not be made of epicness

Send your entries to podcast@ukotaku.net with the subject “karaoke” or something similar.

Music Credits

Tune 1: Riyu Konaka - Hiccups

Tune 2: EEE - Theme of EEE

Tune 3: Suiren - Manmos no Ashiato

Tune 4: Plastic Soul Band - Somehow

Sweeper, Stabs and BGM by JiLTED

Dont forget to leave us your comments and feedback!

General (and comps): podcast@ukotaku.net

Voice Mail: 0208 1337 502 (internationals call: 0044 208 1337 502)

Jade: girutaku@ukotaku.net

John: n00j@ukotaku.net

Matt: sum0@ukotaku.net

Louise: shoujo@ukotaku.net

Emily: selph@ukotaku.net

Enjoy the show! Byeni!

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Another show for you! Matt is away in America right now so he was sadly absent from the show, however Jade, Louise and myself filled the void with our usual blend on nonsense and the occasional fact.

Jade gave us her extended report on the recent Miyavi concert in London and I talked a little bit about the upcoming game release Mirror’s Edge, amongst other things. Thanks to Louise being present this show also saw the welcome return of “Weeaboo Word of the Week”.

We also launched the first official UKotaku Competion: The UKotaku Pika Pika Competition.

Despite the title this has nothing to do with Pokemon but is in fact a drawing contest. The challenge is to draw you favourite member (or all members) of the podcast, if you don’t know what we look that’s even better! The best entries will win a prize of somekind, either a chance to be on the podcast, a manga Jade doen’t want anymore or maybe even a KitKat! With prizes like that why wouldn’t you enter?

Send your entries to: yukotaku@googlemail.com

Music Credits

Tune 1: Frogtrippers - Yaruki No Nai Kousaten

Tune 2: Fumitaka Anzai - Credo

Tune 3: JiLTED - Waiting for Her(mes)

Tune 4: K Juno - Lorelei

Sweepers, Stabs and BGM by JiLTED

Don’t forget you can send us you feedback by email: yukotaku@googlemail.com 

Leave us a voice mail: 0208 1337 502 (or 0044 208 1337 502 for callers outside of the UK)

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We finally managed to get show 4 online. And we think this ones a good ‘un! We talked a bit about undubbing and alot about Mika Nakashima. We also discussed some  news about gaming, tech, UK anime releases, stabbings (thanks Matt) and a load of other interesting stuff too. Plus some awesome new Japanese tunes from the pod safe music network.

So join us on a journey through the United Otakudom and be sure to send us your comments and views.

By email: yukotaku@googlemail.com

Or leave us a message: 0208 1337 502

(for callers outside of the UK: 0044 208 1337 502)

Music Credits

Tune 1: 346 Batting Centre - Violent Fellow on the Way

Tune 2: EEE - Jungle Beat

Tune 3: Frogtrippers - Robot De Baba

Tune 4: Shinichi - Tokyo Gyangstar

Sweepers, Stabs and BGM by JiLTED

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It Came From Japan

This show has taken along time to produce as we (myself and Jade) have been moving in to our new house. Now we are settled and are ready to bring you more otaku flavoured goodness from the heart of the UKotaku.

This week we had a fairly short show. Due to no internets at the new UKotaku HQ (should be installed next week) we had not Skype-ins or Podsafe Music for your listening pleasure.

We did however cover the “It Came From Japan” UK tour and we even managed to grab some sound bites from the bands! We also chatted our usual mix of sometimes informative otaku related rubbish.

Rest assured, dear listener, that the next show will see us back on form and will be jam packed with music, action and much otafun. We should also be able to get Louise and Emily involved again once we have our internet up and running.

So a big thanks to the It Came From Japan guys: Kevin, Mami and Mayuki and the bands: Vola & the Oriental Machine and Bo Peep.

Interwebs / Links

UKotaku / It Came From Japan

MySpaz / It Came From Japan

MySpaz / Live House Movie

Vola & the Oriental Machine

Bo Peep

Sweepers, Stabs and BGM by JiLTED

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This show we discussed the infamous Shop 99, Japanese movies, music, games, anime and food. Plus we had an exclusive con report by Emily direct from the Collectomania Convention. We even managed to bag ourselves a super special celebrity guest (honest!) We also played some music and chatted about life, the universe, paint in vaginas and everything.

We recorded this weeks show at the CME offices, and I promised a link so here we go: http://www.cme.org.uk/

Music Credits

Tune 1: Insist - Peace

Tune 2: Ammuff - Time Travel

Tune 3: 4 in the Moonlight - Kaipirinya No Moto E (I got song name and artist the wrong way round during the show, sorry guys!)

Sweepers, Stabs and BGM by JiLTED

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So this is it, Show 1, PROPER.

We had a hell of a lot of fun making this one, it was alot less fun to edit but I did it, >1hour of UKotaku for your listening pleasure.

We talked about all kinds of stuff: anime, video games, music, general Japanese flavoured geekery and we played some tunes as well (courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network.) Plus we give you this years con schedules for the UK and Europe and oh so much more!

Music Credits

First Song: Sumo Sisters - Girls Do It Best

Second Song: 16ambianceur - The Source of my Blood v1.1

Third Song: Polysics - Married to a Frenchman

Fourth Song: Ame One - HS of Alpha

Sweepers, Stabs and BGM by JiLTED

Please drop us an email and let us know what you think!

yukotaku [at] googlemail [dot] com

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The final fail testing show.

Due to unforseen circumstances we failed to secure a studio space for this weeks show. We ended up recording a show with everyone on Skype instead, which was not ideal but didn’t turn out half as bad as I expected.

We talk about the future of Yuko and we try to encourage you, the listener, to contact us and let us know your feelings on the show. Plus chatted to John “Darlo” Darlington and discussed his website, Lotaku. This show also included more music than the previous shows thanks to the Pod Safe Music Network.

Unfortunately Jade couldn’t wouldn’t join us for this one, but everyone else came along and made this great show despite all odds, thanks guys! This show ended up running very long (over an hour) but despite the shitty sound quality of Skype this is probably the best show yet!

Links mentioned are given during the show as Shortner URLs, so no need for a massive list in the show notes this time (thank god).

Feel free to send us your comments: yukotaku [at] googlemail [dot] com

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So, the second UKotaku testing show, Show 0.2: Self (and Selph) Introductions.

We had some major technical issues this time round but we managed to overcome and produce over 39 minutes of otaku based awesomeness for your listening pleasure!

This time round we had a fair amount of content so I have provided some show notes with links to further reading and music credits.

n00j’s Article

Sonic, Final Fantasy, Pokemon, Takashii Miike, Azumanga Daioh, Lolicon, Lain, Trigun, Ghost in the Shell, Adam and Joe Go Tokyo, Japonorama, Docomo “Flip n Spin” Phone, Japanese WIFI Satellite, Fansubs, JPOD101.

Music: Capsule – Samurai Logic

Matt’s Article

Nintendo, Sega, Pokemon, Dragon Ball Z, Tenchi Muyo!, Ranma, Dominion: Tank Police, Akira, Gundam Wing, Card Captors , Adventure Duo, Oh My Godess, Eva, Nadesico, Blue Gender, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Pizzicato 5, Battle Royale, Cowboy Beebop, Yugioh, .hack, Azumanga Daioh, Lost in Translation, Matt Goes to Japan.

Music: Fantastic Plastic Machine – Mr. Fantasy’s Love

Jade’s Article

Sonic, Transformers, Action Man, Pokemon, Digimon, Eva, Nadesico, Hentai, Legend of the Overfiend, Gravitation, Yaoi, ERECTION, Japanese Pop Music, Visual Kei.

Music: JiLTED – A! (Darkbeat Remix)

Emily’s Article

Pokemon, Card Captors, Yugioh, N64, Playstation, Final Fantasy, Shaman King, Burn Up, RayEarth, Chobits, Fansubs, Full Metal Alchemist, Sgt. Frog, Air, Weeaboo, Japanese Tradition, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Classic Japanese Literature, Wappanese, Naruto, Pocky, Polysics.

Music: JiLTED – An Eastern Western

Other Stuff

N64 Kid, Angry German Kid does Hare Hare Yukai, Lazy Town, AMV Hell 3 – Osaka PIPIPI, CaramellOsaka.

Feel free to send us your comments: yukotaku [at] googlemail [dot] com

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The testing show for the UKotaku podcast. Basically we got together and messed around for a couple of hours in the studio. We managed to produced half an hour of unstructured otaku based silliness for your listening pleasure. After some initial drama caused by my screw up and the loss of the audio file I have recovered the data and uploaded the finished product.

Interwebs / Links: Photos on Picasa

Please note: this is a test recoding and does not represent to quality of the final show, which should be released in the next two or three weeks.

Feel free to send us your comments: yukotaku [at] googlemail [dot] com

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