250 - Tokyo Tarareba Girls part 1
Manga Machinations8 Heinä 2019

250 - Tokyo Tarareba Girls part 1

We're joined by the awesome Morgana "Manga Maven" Santilli as we jump into a full Retrospective on Akiko Higashimura's Tokyo Tarareba Girls!!! How will we feel about Higashimura's meta-commentary about women in their 30s needing love and marriage to find happiness?

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Timestamps:

  • 00:00:00 - Intro Song: "TOKYO GIRL" by Perfume from Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Opening, Introductions
  • 00:01:18 - Morgana catches us up on her new life as a freelance writer
  • 00:05:46 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST "Prologue", Seamus reports on his visit to the Manga Exhibition at The British Museum
  • 00:14:50 - Morgana enjoyed more Satoko and Nada and Asumiko Nakamura's Classmates
  • 00:17:35 - Morgana picked up POPOCOMI went she went to the Toronto Comic Art Festival
  • 00:22:43 - News: Kodansha will be putting out a Katsuhiro Otomo Complete Works Collection
  • 00:25:21 - Katsuhiro Otomo's next movie is Orbital Era
  • 00:26:33 - Akira will be getting a 4K remaster and Katsuhiro Otomo is working on a new Akira anime project
  • 00:32:10 - Dark Horse Comics is finally releasing the 5th omnibus for Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service
  • 00:36:03 - VIZ Media will be releasing KAITO's Blue Flag and Inio Asano's Downfall
  • 00:38:19 - Dragon Head is now available digitally from Kodansha
  • 00:41:07 - The success of digital sales helped Saint Young Men get a physical release
  • 00:41:52 - Serial Experiments Lain will be open source for the next 9 years
  • 00:44:28 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Retrospective on Tokyo Tarareba Girls, we will continue our comprehensive review of Akiko Higashimura's horror comedy manga(covers volumes 4-5)
  • 00:44:56 - Main Segment Retrospective: Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Transition Song: Opening from Tokyo Tarareba Girls, comprehensive review of Akiko Higashimura's manga
  • 00:46:51 - We recap the events of volume 1
  • 00:49:17 - We discuss Higashimura's anti-romance themes
  • 00:53:16 - Darfox and Morgana talk about how they each related to Tokyo Tarareba Girls differently as a man and a woman
  • 00:56:51 - Morgana shares moments from the book that hit her hard
  • 00:58:31 - Seamus points out the brilliance of using baseball as a metaphor for the girls missing their chance at love
  • 01:00:24 - dakazu thinks the imaginary Codfish Milt and Liver are the comedic stars
  • 01:01:39 - We praise Higashimura's use of visual analogies to better represent the internal state of the girls
  • 01:03:35 - We recap the events of volume 2
  • 01:06:55 - Morgana talks about how the men are taking advantage of the girls
  • 01:09:34 - Seamus notes that Key fits into a character type often found in Japanese novels
  • 01:10:48 - Kaori perspective as the woman who was with an unsuccessful man was something Darfox hadn't experienced before
  • 01:14:05 - We explain Higashimura's use of boxing as the girls act like sandbags for the men
  • 01:15:32 - We love the analogy of conveyor belt sushi
  • 01:18:02 - We comment on how the bonus Valentine's Day story is more like an extra episode for a television drama
  • 01:22:20 - Morgana really doesn't like Key
  • 01:24:00 - We recap the events of volume 3
  • 01:26:53 - We don't trust Mr. Okuda
  • 01:28:53 - We think Yoshio is a manipulative scumbag
  • 01:31:33 - We explore the meta-commentary made by Higashimura about media for women through a manga for women
  • 01:34:22 - Seamus comments that Rinko's concern about career or marriage make sense for a woman in modern Japanese society
  • 01:38:21 - dakazu points out more visual analogies through roller coasters and talk shows
  • 01:39:18 - Darfox compares Tokyo Tarareba Girls as a story about Shoko from Princess Jellyfish
  • 01:44:13 - Seamus predicts Mr. Okuda will be like Trent from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
  • 01:46:00 - The lack of different body type representation in the series concerned dakazu
  • 01:49:07 - We comment on the hilariously bad advice given in the bonus story Tarare-Bar
  • 01:50:46 - We make some predictions about what will happen next
  • 01:53:16 - News: Vertical has licensed Shuzo Oshimi's A Trail of Blood
  • 00:55:23- Next Week's Topic: Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: "wish men" by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster

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