
Encounter #24: Angel Beats Backdoor
Slashers, toy inventors, and the gift of vandalism.
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Show Notes
Slashers, toy inventors, and the gift of vandalism.
Show opening theme: Droopy
Baltimore explosions

Mayor of Shin Megami Tensei's uh... Baltimore.
21 people injured in explosion at BGE offices in downtown Baltimore; workers rescued from dangling scaffolding - Baltimore Sun
Wikipedia begging

2% of Wikipedia readers donate? Sounds suspiciously high.
Eddy Goldfarb, toy inventor
Creator of Yakity Tay Teeth, KerPlunk, and Battling Tops -- the predecessor of Beyblade.
Eddy Goldfarb - Wikipedia
The Man Who Invented More Than 800 Iconic Toys | Eddy's World | The New Yorker - YouTube
Anime
Season wrap-up.
Journey of Elaina
Majo no Tabitabi (Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina) · AniList
Iwa Kakeru! Sport Climbing Girls
Iwa Kakeru!: Sport Climbing Girls (Iwakakeru -Sport Climbing Girls-) · AniList
Strike Witches
Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko
This was a nice but forgettable adaptation.
Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko (By the Grace of the Gods) · AniList
The Day I Became A God

Before...

... and After.
Prisma Illya
Should we thank or blame JCD? You decide.
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma?Illya · AniList
Jūden-chan
Juden Chan - Wikipedia
This series contains some explicit fanservice, including omorashi (panty wetting).
Fight Ippatsu! Juuden-Chan!! (Juden Chan) · AniList
Visual novels
Riddle Joker
Available on JAST, Denpasoft, and Fakku. Also on Steam but don't buy there.
Riddle Joker | vndb
NekoNyan
Riddle Joker publisher.
Light novels
Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World
Kimi to Boku no Saigo no Senjo, Aruiha Sekai ga Hajimaru Seisen (Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World) · AniList
Media Blasters – Independent Film Distributor
These guys are still around, somehow. Probably because they're doing more than just anime these days.
Shadow: Dead Riot (2006) - IMDb
Death Stop Holocaust (2009) - IMDb
Media Blasters - Wikipedia
Gemini: the new lightweight internet
Project Gemini
Takes the middle ground between Gopher and HTTP/HTML. Certainly a lot nicer than all these top-heavy, overloaded graphical abominations that are collectively known as Web 2.0.
Gemini is a new, collaboratively designed internet protocol, which explores the space inbetween gopher and the web, striving to address (perceived) limitations of one while avoiding the (undeniable) pitfalls of the other.