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And now your helpful bartenders at The Speakeasy present your drink:
Absinthe Minded
Ingredients:
3 oz Bombay Saphire gin
1/2 oz Absinthe Original
1/2 oz Grand Marnier orange liqueur
dry vermouth
1 orange peel
Properly chill 1 cocktail glass. In mixing glass with ice, pour gin and absinthe, and stir. In your cocktail glass, roll 1/2 oz of dry vermouth and throw away the excess. Strain other ingredients into cocktail glass and float 1/2 oz of grand marnier over top. Garnish with orange peel.
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Opening song: The Sherlock Hound Opening: Sora Kara Koboreta Story (A Story that Fell from the Sky) by Da Capo.
[00:26] Intro: Just in case you wanted to know who we are and what we are about. We also give all the standard contact info as we introduce ourselves.
Including:
- Our Blog: Reverse Thieves
- Our Host Site: Anime 3000
- The Podcast’s Website: The Speakeasy
- The Reverse Thieves e-mail: reversethieves@gmail.c
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- Alain’s Twitter – HisuiRT
- Kate’s Twitter – NarutakiRT
[00:02:55] News
- The implications of the VIZ iPad application.
- Our guest appearance on the OSMCast where we talk about Cross Game.
[00:14:04] The Happy Hour Promo Break
[00:16:18] The Cocktail: Gainax, Absinthe Minded
- The odd phenomenon of people always assuming Gainax anime will be awesome. Is it a deserved reputation?
- How this phenomenon does not readily occur with other studios.
- The extremely long memories of the anime community.
[00:23:00] A Not-So-Brief History of Time: Focused on Gainax
- The otaku identify Gainax as a studio for otaku by otaku.
- Gainax making what they want and Gainax making what pays the bills. Also their ability to get blood from a stone in the field of merchandise.
[00:32:15] A choice menu of Gainax shows (wherein we don't really talk about Blazing Transfer Student and get angry emails)
- Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise: The greatest science fiction movie ever made as long as you are not us.
- Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water: Fun for the whole family. (No really.)
- Top o Nerae! Gunbuster: An otaku love letter.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: Do I really need to say anything here?
- His and Her Circumstances: Its importance is its unimportance.
- Oruchuban Ebichu: An important note that they have done rude and crude shows in the past and will do them again.
- Mahoromatic: It was a very standard harem show despite its jarring ending.
- FLCL: A fondly remembered, artistically crazy robot show.
- He Is My Master: I just mark it as something to remember.
- Diebuster: An interesting note on how the company has changed.
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: A modern classic? Maybe?
- Rebuild of Evangelion: Going back to the well.
- And all their newest works like Shikabane Hime, Hanamaru Kindergarten, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
[00:58:15] Get a Second Drink Musical Break
- Food for thought: What is your favorite and least favorite Gainax work?
- "Otaku no Miyoimichi" by Toshiharu Sakurai and Kikuko Inoue
[01:01:32] Now we do some analysis on the crazy people
- Apparently some people thought Hanamaru Kindergarten was going to change your world.
- He Is My Master is utter crud that people seem to forget. This is the Fast Karate review of the show.
- The Melody of Oblivion and Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi and This Ugly Yet Beautiful World are the mediocre trio.
- Why can't other studios have this reputation despite having as good or better track records?
[01:26:30] Final Thoughts
- Gainax makes many great things but also many horrible things and everything in-between. Let us just remember that.
[01:29:01] Ending
Ending song: Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century
