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Caption Battle: Imitations Not Flattering...

(Sorry for the slight delay; I can quite literally blame China for that.)

"It's that time again..."
"To set our TiVos for the Beijing Opening Ceremonies?"
"To get set to protest the Beijing Opening Ceremonies?"
"No... it's time for this week's caption battle!"

But first, last week's winners:

In third place, reaffirming the classic storytelling trope of "why don't they just shoot him: Sage of Magic!

When auditioning for the part of 'Jessie' in Pokemon only one girl provided an interesting twist to capturing pikachu.

In second place, being crude as always but making me snicker all the same: schultzie!

Guy in glasses (thinking): "If she farts, it would totally ruin the moment."

And in the coveted first place, being funny in the black way (and apparently convincing several others along the way)... master hiko!

At 8:52 her mother in law is supposed to drive into the drive way.

Regardless of what the podcasters thought, there were many amazing captions this week. I definitely had a hard time picking the final three. That's a good thing; now let's see if we can keep that up, eh?

This week involves another chance for me to clear out the old screencap pile, so we're going with a shot from Ranma 1/2 this week. Ranma is the one on the right; Akane is the one on the left. Give it a shot:

You know the drill: type up the funniest, wittiest, most original caption you can think of for the screencap above in the comments below. Also, if any of you would like some tips on writing a great caption, you can find those here.

And like always, theOtaku is open to all submissions and suggestions for weekly feature content. You have a screencap you want used, you can PM me and we can do somethin' about it. For now, let's see what you can do with this bad boy...

One New Quiz

Have you ever wondered what your sanity level is? If so then Guru has just the quiz for you. Go and take it and then let him know just how 'sane' you really are.

• What Is Your Level Of Sanity?

theOtaku.com Anime Podcast IV - Ep. 21

Ichigo and Batou once again demonstrate their ability to fail. They fail for not knowing the Philadelphia Cream Cheese commercials, for not knowing the game was called "DrumMania" (among other rhythm/music game failures), for almost forgetting who "Vicious" was in anime... and above all, for making Timechaser cry by not knowing who the band Rush are. Brutal, guys. Brutal. Your sound quality is excellent, however.

Music - Chousai Kenbo Sengen by MOSAIC.WAV from Kyouran Kazoku Nikki

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As this week's feature, you can find Cassie's "Parent's Guide to Anime, Part 3" here.

And finally, you can find Ichigo's travel log over at the Anime Pulse website (under the "features" tab). He's gettin' some crazy adventures over there. Go read. Right after the podcast.

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32 New Categories

Once again it’s time for the weekly update with all the new categories that have been added. If you'd like to recommend a category simply comment here or send me a pm: SabrinaM. Just remember that in order to recommend a category you first have to make sure there's at least one submission for it.

Anime & Manga:

• 009-1

• Akuma na Eros
• Area 88
• Bitter Virgin
• Blood Reign: Curse of the Yoma
• Densetsu Kyojin Ideon
• Detonator Orgun
• Dominion Tank Police
• El Cazador de la Bruja
• Fairy Cube
• Grenadier
• Kimba the White Lion
• Paaman
• Samurai Pizza Cats
• Sekirei
• Seigi wo Aisuru Mono Gekko Kamen
• The Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye
• Tosho Daimos
• Yakitate!! Japan

Video Games:

• ArchLord

• Dance Dance Revolution
• Diablo
• Tatsunoko Fight

Music:

• Arashi

• KAT-TUN
• MUCC

TV:

• Boondocks

• Chowder
• Mystery Science Theater 3000

Books/Comics:

• Exiles

Movies:

• Beauty and the Beast

• Hellboy