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The Speakeasy: A Reverse Thieves Podcast – Drink #009

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Anime 3000 presents The Speakeasy Podcast:
Drink #009: The Bloody Caesar, Anime Licensing and the Future

The U.S. anime market of 2000 was clearly not the same market of 2010 no matter how much some people would like that to be the case. A lot about how anime is brought over to the U.S. has changed in the last few years. We talk about how we got to this point and then at the myriad of ways the remaining companies are innovating to respond to these trends. Which of these new methods of distribution will be able to coexist and which will die out? Whose licensing methods will pick profitable shows and who is still picking Rozen Maiden and Heat Guy J style bombs? And most importantly who thought that picking up Blessing of the Campanella was a good idea?

(Listen) (Show Notes)

And now your helpful bartenders at The Speakeasy present your drink:

The Bloody Caesar
6 oz. Clamato Juice
1½ oz. Vodka
2 Dashes Hot Sauce
2 Dashes Worcestershire Sauce
Celery salt
Freshly Ground Pepper
Lime/Lemon wedge
1 Crisp Celery Stalk

Served on the rocks in a highball class. Rim the glass first with a lime wedge and then with celery salt.

The Speakeasy: A Reverse Thieves Podcast – Drink #008

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Anime 3000 presents The Speakeasy Podcast:
Drink #008: The Joker, Making sense of humor.

We are talking about comedy this month. We are not talking about the Shakespearean comedy, the Divine Comedy, or the Studio 4C short film but comedy as it relates to anime. So often anime comedy strikes viewers as quite different than the comedy they are used to but why is the question. What about the aesthetic makes it so different from the comedy we know? What makes it so different from the comedy you see on Japanese dramas as well? We will also examine the different styles of humor you see in anime. Plus the most important question: Why do people think K-ON! is funny?

(Listen) (Show Notes)

And now your helpful bartenders at The Speakeasy present your drink:

The Joker

2 shots vodka
2 shots cointreau
2 shots advocaat
6 parts orange soda
Top up with lemonade

Mix together with lots of ice and stir.

The Speakeasy: A Reverse Thieves Podcast – Drink #007

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Anime 3000 presents The Speakeasy Podcast:
Drink #007: Official OUFC (Oxford United Football Club) Drink, Get into the game!

Sports manga and anime are some of the most popular staple series in Japan along side such institutions as shonen fighting and school romance. Almost any sport has at least one series centered around it with many sports like baseball, boxing, and soccer getting several every year. The classics of sports titles are influential on Japanese media and culture as seen by constant references, parodies, homages, and allusions. But why are sport series so well received in Japan but essentially ignored in the U.S.? What about the genre as a whole is so poorly perceived when it contains such a wide variety within? And we hopefully give people some good series to start watching/reading sports series!

Plus, a second giveaway for our birthday! Listen to the episode to learn how to enter! This contest is over.

(Listen) (Show Notes)

And now your helpful bartenders at The Speakeasy present your drink:

Official OUFC (Oxford United Football Club) Drink

1 part Aperol
1 part Pisang Ambon
1 part 7-up

Shake ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into Highball glass.