It's Monday again and we have a new episode of the podcast

This episode is another gem in the ESH podcast cap people. We change up the order this week and kick the episode off with MagicMysticGrl's review of the anime series Kamichu!, a series that focuses on the main character learning one day that she's a god while Pandalicious and NinJaSistah compare and contrast their respective rocking experiences with Guitar Hero II on the PS2 and XB360. It's fun and full of tangets... it's Episode 50: Anything Stiff Can Be Broken!

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Do I even need to tell you it's new podcast episode day? I didn't think so, but I did it anyways, because that's the way I roll here at the sistahood. This weeks episode just happens to be titled, "Episode 48: I French Fried When I Should Have Pizza'd" and is ready for a listen.

In this episode of the podcast Pandalicious tackles the tricky subject of Jesus in anime as discussed by a panel she went to at AB2k7 while MagicMysticGrl shares some cosplay "Do's & Don'ts" with you lovely folks in hopes of making your con experiences [and ours] better. And bringing up the rear as always is NinjaSistah with her take on the Wii game SSX Blur by EA Big. The conversation is deep at times, and for the other sixty minutes it's the usual laugh riot that you're used to.

All in all it's just another funMONday here in the hood, so grab your morning cup o' joe and enjoy the show.

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It's new podcast day again and with Monday comes a new episode of the Electric Sista Hood podcast.

This week, we have a "My Top 5" from Pandalicious, and she's pretty proud of it.

In this podcast episode Panda shares her picks for Top 5 Anime Men. I could give away the whole list, but then you'd have no reason to listen to the episode... so I won't.

Just do yourself a favor and get on board with this weeks episode, "My Top 5: Anime Men."

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With a new Monday nearly upon us it seems only fitting to hit you up with a new episode of the Electric Sista Hood podcast.

This week, the whole gang gets together to chat about [among other things] Yaoi vs. Yuri [wikipedia that stuff if you don't know what it means] MagicMysticGrl shares with us one more example of where the manga version of a title is better than the anime version with her take on Air Gear. Then NinJaSistah brings the show home with her 40 second review of Virtua Fighter 5 for the PS3 and then dives head first into her latest anime obsession, Phantom Memory Kurau.

It's a fun episode. We yell at each other as usual, and maybe have a profund-ish thought or two. But let me assure you, it's not about a chicken.

So grab a fresh cup of joe, and enjoy Episode 47: The Physiology of Donuts.

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Since it's Monday an all we figured we better keep to script and give you guys a new episode of our podcast. It's with great pleasure I give you Episode 46: Care Bears Are Racist Bastards.

In this episode of the ESH podcast Pandalicious shares the first of her "A Thought, by Pandalicious" series. You might be asking yourself, "...what could that girl be thinking about now?" Well, she wonders about what the western world would be like if it was more anime in nature. Yeah, wrap your mind around that. Deep, man. Just deep.

MagicMysticGrl jumps into the mix with her take on Saiunkoku Monogatari a.k.a. Tale of the Land of Many-Colored Clouds. Saiunkoku is the tale of a girl pursuing a path of enlightenment that is not afforded women in her country and the trouble and hijinks that unfailingly follow on such a journey.

Then NinJaSistah brings home the show with her take on the new PSP push by Sony to save a sinking mobile gaming device ship. Will the new price point, ad campaign, and re-focusing of the target demographic help or hurt the so called killer app?

All you can do is take a listen and share your thoughts. So grab a cup of joe and a bagel, it's time for Electric Sista Hood podcast episode #46, Care Bears Are Racist Bastards!.

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Hot and fresh for Monday comes a new episode of the ESH podcast, would you like a piece?

In this episode Pandalicious and NinjaSistah go over the anime series Kyoshiro and the Eternal Sky, a series that is both wacky, sad, deep, and shallow all at the same time. Don't believe us, just listen to the synopsis... then you'll be in the group of the knowing!

After that, NinJaSistah shares her thoughts on the Tekken 5 game on the PS3... you know, the one that's a port of the PSP Tekken Dark Resurrection game.

New for you: Episode 45: I Must Tell You Everything, Let's Go Bathe!

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Another Monday, another new episode of the Electric Sista Hood podcast. This time MagicMysticGrl and NinjaSistah go it alone to talk of things manwa and PC gaming in nature.

Well, not literally nature as is grass and trees and earth, but I'm sure you get the meaning. MagicMysticGrl shares some insights on the manwa title Can't Lose You by Wann which has the making of a great movie or at least daytime soap opera. Can't Lose You starts off like the Prince and the Pauper, but adds a layer of "say what?" and "you're related to who?" to keep the reader flipping through each volumes pages ferociously.

NinjaSistah kicks off the newly sponsored PC game title reviews thanks to Velocity Micro with, amazingly enough, World of Warcraft! Shame it had to be on a week where Pandalicious couldn't join the crew. If you want to know if WoW has a new addict fan or not, you're just going to have to give this episode a listen.

Submitted for your approval, is Episode 44: Pointing Out My Inadequacy.

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It's happens like clockwork around here... Monday comes and brings with it a new episode of the ESH podcast.

In this very special episode of ESH podcastopia MagicMysticGrl goes over the anime series Bleach with a fine tooth comb, and you're going to love it. And if you don't, Bob will kill a starving kitten in France.

Seriously, you don't want that on your conscience... so take a listen to this weeks podcast episode.

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What starts out as a normal episode of ElectricSistaHood becomes something completely different just a few minutes into the podcast.

With classic overtones inspired by Orson Welles' broadcast of War of the Worlds, this week's episode morphs into a history of modern music. We think you'll enjoy it.

For those of you interested in learning how this week's episode was created, please read on...

THE MAKING OF EPISODE 41

When Ninjasisth and Pandalicious' father died a week ago, there was a question about how the next episode would be handled. It was debated whether we should have MagicMysticGrl do her long-awaited Top 5 show, a clip show of past episodes or take a week or two in hiatus.

The hiatus was ruled out almost immediately -- the Sistahs' fans needed their weekly fix of the electronic goodness. MagicMysticGrl wasn't finished with her notes on the Top 5 episode (it will air next week instead), so fashioning together a clip show was the order of the day.

As the producer of the shows since Episode 32, I was assigned the task of putting together a clip show. I have been planning to put together a clip show to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the show in May, but didn't have anything prepared at such short notice.

So I took a different direction on a clip show. With the Sistahs' proclivity toward singing on the show, I thought I should put together a musical clip show, featuring the Sistahs' singing along with samples of the original songs.

I collected various clips of the Sistahs' singing songs ranging from Eric Carmen's classic "All By Myself" to one of many Ethel Merman renditions of "Everything's Coming Up Roses" to the Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop title theme from their 1990s PBS show. To tie the songs together, I collected a variety of those cheesy Ktel music album commercials -- pop, rock, disco, country, soul and even a collection of Jim Nabors cover songs.

All that remained was to include never-before-heard clips at the beginning of the podcast. Luckily, there were a few to be had. The intro of the episode was taken from an out-take from last week's episode. Ninjasistah had recorded three intros for Episode 40. If you listen closely, we changed the word "forty" to "forty-one" in the episode number by carefully cutting the syllables "ty one" from episode 31 and pasting them in place of the last syllable of "forty". This was the kind of stuff I learned all those years ago in college.

For the opening sequence itself, I stole an out-take from Episode 32. The Sistahs had originally recorded it 10 weeks ago, but an errant cell phone went off in the opening minutes, so they decided to record it again from scratch. We ended up using the second take in the Episode 32 podcast.

The rest of it was just cutting and pasting. Basically, interspersed between a bunch of old Ktel promos for record albums of the past was clips of the Sistahs singing. When possible, I added sequences of the actual song they were (trying) to sing.

I had a lot of success finding these songs. The newer ones were the easiest to locate. There were just a couple that posed some problems finding. The hardest to find was the opening of "Lamb Chop's Playalong," which I finally found on a website devoted to theme songs of kids shows.

There are a couple of corrections that have to be made about the Sistahs' comments on this show. First, Ninjasistah is incorrect about the copyright nature of the song "Everything's Coming Up Roses." Although Ethel Merman is, indeed, dead, that doesn't affect the copyright nature of the song. The song is still under copyright protection -- it has not fallen into the public domain. Heck, it's not even that old. It comes from the musical Gypsy, which was first produced on Broadway in 1959.

The second correction has to do with the song Return to Innocence. On the podcast, Pandalicious says it was done by Enya, but she is mistaken. It was actually done by Enigma (an easy mistake to make).

Please enjoy this week's podcast and please come back for a special Top 5 episode on Bleach, presented by MagicMysticGrl. We hope you enjoy them.

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The theme of this week's podcast is summed up by MagicMysticGrl: "We feed you. We clothe you. We amuse you." And it contains dozens of memorable lines you'll be repeating for weeks to come. Click to get episode 40: I Want to Be In a Vending Machine

Pandalicious starts things off with an anime called "Air," which is derived from, of all things, a dating Sim. And although the universe of Air is populated by dozens of girls and just one guy, Pandalicious finds it surprisingly good.

MagicMysticGrl can't pronounce the name of the movie Banlieue 13 (it's French), but under the Americanized name District B13, she was really taken with it and gives it very good marks.

NinjaSistah comes to the realization that the Internet is killing the lone gamer -- the pimply-faced kid sitting in his basement battling against the computer. PC games started the trend and consolers are increasingly making the switch to multi-player games and enjoying the interaction among gamers from all over.

It's an hour and 17 minutes of pure fun and we think you'll agree.

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It's new podcast day here at Electric Sista Hood... and this week brings us to episode 39: Alligators Should Not Hump Children!

In this episode Pandalicious gives us the low-down on the wacky, weird, and well, bestial nature of the anime He Is My Master. She says it's only slightly pornish, I reserve my judgement until episode two gets reviewed. MagicMysticGrl tries to untangle the woven path of the manwa Priest and NinJaSistah talks exclusivity [or lack there of] between game developers and the PS3.

Another fun episode wrapped up and delivered with a bow: Enjoy!

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Fresh from Electric Sista Hood podcast oven is Episode 38 of our weekly podcast.

In this episode Panda shares some thoughts and insight into what gamers want [and don't want] to see in the coming [we hope] Kingdom Hearts 3 game, MagicMysticGrl makes it back to the group session to share some Legend of Black Heaven info with you, and NinJaSistah brings a Gears of War/Crackdown demo compare and contrast to the show to end it.

We can't forget our new candybitch: Arrot! You rock man!

Oh yeah, the girls also chat about the march of the skanks, selling teapots into slavery, buying Keyblades at Wal-Mart, Pandalicious' shrub versus NinJaSistah's goomba, and a few other tangents. Made for you with love, [or something like it] Episode 38: This Isn't Marriage Counselling.

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As the beginning of the work week rears it's ugly head once again we deliver unto you a new episode of the Electric Sista Hood podcast. Rejoice!

In this episode of the podcast, Pandalicious talks about her disappointments with the World of Warcraft expansion pack The Burning Crusades while NinJaSistah delves into the simulation video game genre that she believes may be life draining. Along the way they talk about interventions, skipping work to play games, and how sleep is for the weak. The sistahs even break from the norm and give a shout out to the fine folks over at TokyoPop, purveyors of fine anime and manga.

So grab that first cup of mornin' joe and saddle up for Episode 36: You'll Believe a Pig Can Fly.

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Confusing title eh? All apologies, but I think you are going to like what we are up to this time.

After recovering from my trip to CES last week I realized that we needed to add something to the regular content roster here at ESH. If you listen to our podcast then you already know that we don't just talk about video games and anime on the thing... we all let our gadget geek and puter geek show from time to time. As I was listening to the last few podcast episodes I found myself asking why we seemed to only let those sides of ourselves show during podcast recording sessions. As mom would say, "dat didn't make no sense!" So then I started a dialog with myself [as I often do] and after a few harsh words and a round of fisticuffs it came to me: we need to add gadgets to the roster on a regular basis, duh!

And lo, "Gear Up 4..." was born, sort of. We are starting to pull together the list of the type of items we want to feature in our new column and will [hopefully] be launching it fairly soon. Consider this our official letter of intention. Yeah, I like that. Welcome, to the new ESH! Home of the BEST gaming, gadgets, and anime reviews and podcast, ever.

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You know you want it, the new episode of the Electric Sista Hood podcast... hurrah!

In this episode of the podcast Pandalicious and NinJaSistah talk about the super sweet, super saccharine anime series SuperGals and it's ability to pick you up when you are down then proceed to break down some of the super sweet things electronic in nature from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Luckily for you what happened in Vegas, didn't stay there.

So pick up the new podcast episode and share in the joy... and don't forget to bring a towel!

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In the year of our Bob two thousand and seven, ESH is proud to gift upon the world a new podcast episode

The first of it's kind this year. Kneel before Zod the awesomeness that is Electric Sista Hood!

All bombast aside, the ladies talk mostly about themselves in this episode... how they got into gaming, anime, manga, Trek, you name it! [That means there are tangents, enjoy em'] And since it's the only first podcast of the new year you are going to get from ESH we figured since you guys and gals always want to know more about us, we'd tell ya. You wanted to know more about the ladies of the sistahood, and so now you do, er, can, um, I mean, will?

Oh just listen to the episode and get to know our sticky balls. [It will make more sense once you listen to the episode]

Other than that, may your frags be bountiful, your life meter never empty, and your lag be nil.

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Ok, I'm going to make this quick because I have to get to bed... you know, Santa won't blow up my spot until I'm "asleep" and all. [I'm really hopin' that mofo will give a sistah what she's so desperately been needin'... a new 5.1 surround sound system from Logitech]

So here's the new podcast episode.

In this episode MagicMysticGrl talks about the importance and relevance of bloodtypes in anime and manga, Pandalicious shares His and Her Circumstances [Kare Kano] and NinJaSistah kicks the hour off with her final thoughts on the PS3. PS3 fanboys that think I'm a XB360 fangirl have your keyboards at the ready. Episode 32: It's In The Blood is my gift to you.

Congrats to our Candy Bitches Mike Costa and Tooky!

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Finally one of the folks that previously got free candy from us has graced us with an image...

PhreakMac [who is the MAN!] was able to take some incriminating photos of his debug kit eating his candy reward! All I can imagine is Cartman from South Park yelling out, "NOOOO XBOX 360, THAT'S MY CANDY BITCH CANDY!!!!"

Anways, pop yer ass over to the candy bitch gallery and check it out.

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