198 - One Shot 13 - My Solo Exchange Diary with Jocelyne Allen
Manga Machinations9 Heinä 2018

198 - One Shot 13 - My Solo Exchange Diary with Jocelyne Allen

Special episode this week as returning guest translator Jocelyne Allen joins us! She back to answer more questions about translating, help us discuss LGBTQ+ representation in manga, and review the recently released My Solo Exchange Diary which she translated!

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Time Stamps:

  • 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “More One Night” by Chito & Yuuri from Girls’ Last Tour, Opening, Introductions
  • 00:03:09 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, darfox is excited about getting his Spanish edition of BEASTARS
  • 00:06:26 - We discuss why a manga like WOMBS may never get an official English release
  • 00:10:40 - Questions: Jocelyne explains the process of translating for simultaneously published manga
  • 00:21:17 - News: Publisher Kodansha joins Shogakukan in putting anti-piracy ads in their manga magazines
  • 00:27:28 - We discuss how LGBTQ+ representation in manga has changed over the past 20 years, how the TV drama of My Brother’s Husband brings LGBTQ+ to the Japanese mainstream, how getting more queer creators helps with better representation
  • 00:45:28 - Listener Quetions: Jocelyne picks her favorite manga she would want be translated into English immediately: including Witch Hat Atelier, Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan, and Akachan Honbucho
  • 00:51:12 - Jocelyne tells us which manga was most difficult to translate and what manga are easy to translate
  • 00:58:55 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Anime Interlude where we’ll be discussing the past Spring 2017 season of anime and some of our highly anticipated picks for Summer 2017
  • 00:59:29 - Main Segment One Shot: My Solo Exchange Diary, Transition Song: “Shadow and Truth” by ONE III NOTES from ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept., we talk about Kabi Nagata’s follow up to My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, explore the themes of expectations vs. perception, dive into what makes Nagata’s manga so relatable to the reader, ponder what effects putting out autobiographical manga might have on the artist, explain the stigmata towards mental health in Japanese culture, praise the visual representations of Nagata’s explanations, and take a trip to bummertown
  • 01:30:43 - Next Week’s Topic: Anime Interlude, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster

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045 - Akira part 1

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