Hello Ocasters! We are back after a short hiatus to bring you the latest and greatest diatribes about none other than Wondercon 2011. We bring you our impressions about the convention in general, cosplay, guests, and panels like the Green Lantern. We also dig deep about the Priest panel and our video interview with Min Woo Hyung, the creator of the original manwha. All that and more await you! Stay tuned for our Fanime 2011 discussion, and a special discussion between David and I about Sucker Punch and live action adaptations of anime. Coming soon!

Hello, O-Casters, thank you for checking out the latest edition of our little podcast. Today David Ben and I talk about the Japan earthquake and tsunami, how it affects the Japanese entertainment industry at large, and how you can help. As of this posting, the quake is roughly three or four weeks gone bye, but there are still rippling concerns and the yearning to help out a nation which produces many of our beloved comics, cartoons, video games, and music. Check out the links below to help you get started: 

MSNBC: General information about helping.

Gizmodo: News about which donations actually reach Japan.

Philanthropy: List of charities to help Japan.

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If you're on this website, I'm assuming you're an otaku. Okay, maybe you aren't strictly from Japan and don't have encyclopedic knowledge on anything, but we're using this term loosely, people. This weeks OCast is about us, otaku! We mingle three personal stories from yours truly Ben and David with in-depth analysis of how our very culture works (or, at times, doesn't).

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We are BACK! Or, rather, rescheduled. Due to the overbearing pressures of school life, job life, life in general, we will not be strictly adhering to a weekly schedule for each Ocast, but rest assured this means we'll be upping the quality for each release.

This week: stories in games! The elite commenting crew of yours truly, Davis Fan, and David Chang all debate the existence of stories in video games and how they should be treated. Do we need stories at all? Should the bad ones just get cut? Would you love Street Fighter characters nearly as much if they didn't have backstories? All this and more await you!

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