Today we're interviewing Sam Pananski and I guess one of the benefits of being located in Japan

is that we have you here live in the flesh in our Japan studio.

Welcome to the podcast. So Sam you are a very

accomplished individual besides having a PhD in string theory physics and being an employee of the Yomi-Udi Telecasting Corporation.

You have recently launched a project called Aname Sols, a new anime initiative on the website

www dot anime soles dot com

first I have a very fundamental question

so by now half people that are listening have probably typed anime soles.com into their

web browser.

And they go to the website and as a person who doesn't, I'm pretending, pretend that I know nothing

about anything and I'm just the casual

listener I go to the website and to me it looks very similar to kickstarter so I'm

sure you've heard that before so in what ways would you say that it's similar and different than from

Kickstarter just to people that are looking at the site as they hear this can...

Well, Anime Souls is a combination of Kickstarter and anime streaming.

So what our website is, if you go to the website you're gonna see a bunch of shows some of the you know the latest shows that have just uploaded most recently and then we're gonna see like the some sets and how they are currently being supported, the ones that need the most money to go,

and then you also see the most popular series on our site. And clicking any of those, you're going to get to

a list of episodes or to episodes to watch.

And then you can basically just, you know, if you want to watch an episode, click on it and

assuming you've registered and signed up and signed in, you'll be able to watch the episode. You can, and for free.

Our streaming is 100% free.

We'll probably put in some ads for ad support.

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