250 - Tokyo Tarareba Girls part 1

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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017 - Slam Dunk part 2

017 - Slam Dunk part 2

We took a week off for the holidays but now we're back! On this episode darfox continues to find his inner worm with The Flowers of Evil, Seamus becomes our official Shoujo(girl) manga specialist by reading Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, and we discuss the Ryonan practice match arc of our main series Slam Dunk!!(covers chapters 26-48)

5 Jan 201540min

016 - Slam Dunk part 1

016 - Slam Dunk part 1

After last week's anime talk, Seamus was inspired to start watching Kill la Kill but also found the time to read about preteen romance in Love at Fourteen. dakazu talks about Survival by the author of Golgo 13 and giant high school girl soldiers in the sci-fi manga Joshi kouhei. Then we begin discussing our new series Slam Dunk and the origins of the Naruto vs Sasuke rivalry with Hanamichi vs Rukawa!(covers chapters 1-25)

22 Dec 201444min

015 - Anime Interlude 1 - Parasyte -the maxim-

015 - Anime Interlude 1 - Parasyte -the maxim-

This week darfox learns about survival in Jisatsutou and dakazu thinks manga Wozniak is cute in Steve Jobs. Then we're joined by our anime expert kenzo to talk about all the anime we're watching: including Broken Blade, From the New World, Gundam: Reconguista in G, Psycho-Pass, Yowamushi Pedal, World Trigger, SHIROBAKO, Parasyte, Rage of the Bahamut: Genesis, The Seven Deadly Sins, and much more!

16 Dec 20141h 4min

014 - Parasyte part 5

014 - Parasyte part 5

After missing a week due to technical issues(Ireland internet), we're back! Darfox shares tales of creepy teens in The Flowers of Evil(Aku no Hana) and then we wrap up our Parasyte read through of the final chapters and review the series as a whole!(covers chapters 49-64)

8 Dec 20141h 23min

013 - Parasyte part 4

013 - Parasyte part 4

This week we have a quick Billy Bat update with new chapters 126-127, dakazu gets hungry over Nobunaga no Chef(Nobunaga's Chef), and we finish off the Tamiya Ryoko arc of Parasyte!!(covers chapters 32-48)

24 Nov 20141h 15min

012 - Parasyte part 3

012 - Parasyte part 3

This week we have a long discussion/rant about the end of Naruto. We also extend our Parasyte discussion because darfox can't get enough tentacle action!(covers chapters 17-31)

17 Nov 20141h 7min

011 - Parasyte part 2

011 - Parasyte part 2

This week we discuss the creepy live-action Nana to Kaoru movie, dakazu tries to explain what Ikigami is, and we catch up on current Naruto & Bleach. Then we jump into our Parasyte read-through by discussing the Mom arc(covers chapters 9-16)

10 Nov 201446min

010 - Parasyte part 1

010 - Parasyte part 1

On this episode darfox reads Nana to Kaoru to learn about doms and subjects(?), dakazu rants about the downfall of Bleach, and we start our read through of Parasyte and learn to love tentacle gore!(covers chapters 1-8)

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