225 - One Shot 17 - An Invitation from a Crab
Manga Machinations14 Tammi 2019

225 - One Shot 17 - An Invitation from a Crab

On this episode we review the surreal stories in An Invitation from a Crab by panpanya!

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Time Stamps:

  • 00:00:00 - Intro Song: "New Stranger" by sora tob sakana from Hi Score Girl, Opening, Introductions, Pepsi vs. Coke
  • 00:02:44 - New update on Manga Machinations podcast hosting
  • 00:04:02 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST "Prologue", Darfox is interested to read more of the brand new Chainsaw Man
  • 00:09:03 - We give quick impressions of Mob Psycho 100 II and The Promised Neverland
  • 00:11:05 - Boss Renoma: Shuujin Riku Gaiden is a prequel that dakazu liked but ultimately didn't really need
  • 00:13:08 - Seamus checks out vol. 3 of Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction and has some wild speculations about where the plot
  • 00:25:08 - News: We discuss some highlights from Inio Asano's manga exhibition Ctrl+T2
  • 00:28:18 - Seven Seas Entertainment publishing announcements for Nicola Traveling Around the Demon's World and The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms
  • 00:30:06 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Manga in Motion, reviewing studio Ghibli's From Up on Poppy Hill
  • 00:30:50 - Main Segment One Shot: An Invitation from a Crab, Transition Song: "Book-end, Happy-end" by TECHNOBOYS PULCRAFT GREEN-FUND feat. Hiroshi Takano from Skull-faced Bookseller Honda-san, we discuss panpanya's An Invitation from a Crab
  • 00:33:29 - Seamus explains how the stories all presented "as is" without context or explanation
  • 00:36:13 - dakazu theorizes that panpanya takes real-life photographs and then deconstructs them to create the unique backgrounds
  • 00:39:45 - Darfox compares THE PERFECT SUNDAY to Wallace and Gromit
  • 00:40:54 - dakazu explains why he feels this manga is closer to fine art than commercial entertainment akin to movies like Under the Skin and Upstream Color
  • 00:42:30 - Seamus explores how this manga uses defamiliarization to give the reader an emotional reaction
  • 00:45:33 - We praise the shifting art styles that sometimes occur from panel to panel
  • 00:49:39 - Darfox explains how after he stopped trying to find consistent themes he enjoyed the book as an emotional trip with some reoccurring images
  • 00:53:03 - Seamus compares the surrealist themes of this book to other alternative manga
  • 00:54:37 - We talk about the numerous written passages scattered within the book
  • 00:57:24 - dakazu expresses his struggle with the kindle browser reader
  • 00:59:41 - We discuss the Index and Table of Contents in this book
  • 01:03:32 - We each give our final thoughts
  • 01:06:41 - Seamus wants to know about manga that satire manga genres
  • 01:10:32 - Next Week's Topic: From Up on Poppy Hill, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: "wish men" by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster

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