252 - Tokyo Tarareba Girls part 3
Manga Machinations22 Juli 2019

252 - Tokyo Tarareba Girls part 3

On this episode we celebrate with Morgana "Manga Maven" Santilli about Tokyo Tarareba Girls winning the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material-Asia before we continue with our Retrospective review into volumes 6 & 7!!!

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Timestamps:

  • 00:00:00 - Intro Song: "TOKYO GIRL" by Perfume from Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Opening, Tokyo Tarareba Girls won an Eisner
  • 00:04:19 - Reminder about our BEASTARS vol. 1 giveaway commemorating the official English release
  • 00:05:22 - Correction for news about Funamation getting exclusive streaming rights for Revolutionary Girl Utena, Boogiepop Phantom, and Sweet Blue Flowers, Introductions
  • 00:07:23 - News: Tokyo Tarareba Girls wins the 2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material-Asia
  • 00:11:15 - We celebrate other Eisner winners
  • 00:13:13 - Kodansha will be publishing an digital English edition of Smile Down the Runway
  • 00:16:36 - Tokyo Otaku Mode and Otaku-Coin are hiring translators and paying them with cryptocurrency only redeemable to purchase their own products
  • 00:23:53 - Warner Brothers has pulled production on the live-action Akira movie
  • 00:27:02 - The tragedy of an arson attack on Kyoto Animation studio is the worst Japanese mass killing in decades
  • 00:34:29 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST "Prologue", Darfox enjoys a drama-free story in Natsume Ono'sRistorante Paradiso
  • 00:43:13 - Morgana dives into the life of Akiko Higashimura with Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey
  • 00:45:15 - dakazu and Morgana discuss the supernatural element in Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare
  • 00:47:15 - The characters in Asumiko Nakamura's Classmates: Dou kyu sei looked a little weird for Morgana
  • 00:51:48 - dakazu was all about the old school delinquents in Matsuri Akino's Colorful Crow
  • 00:57:40 - dakazu was singing along while reading a manga adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables
  • 01:01:54 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Anime Interlude where we'll be discussing the past Spring 2019 season of anime and some of our early impressions for Summer 2019
  • 01:03:00 - Main Segment Retrospective: Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Transition Song: Opening from Tokyo Tarareba Girls, comprehensive review of Akiko Higashimura's manga
  • 01:03:41 - We talk about the bonus Tarare-Bar segments found at the end of the volumes
  • 01:11:40 - We recap the events of volume 6
  • 01:16:25 - dakazu thinks Seamus is psychic for accurately predicting the false pregnancy of Kaori
  • 01:20:38 - dakazu is disappointed that Ryo is not an evil genius and just an idiot
  • 01:22:54 - The reoccurring visuals of the fake Eiffel Tower(Tokyo Tower) represent romance for Seamus
  • 01:25:50 - Koyuki getting caught in bed with Yoshio breaks our hearts
  • 01:28:55 - Seamus wonders about the significance of pregnancy because it was involved in the end of both Kaori and Koyuki's relationships
  • 01:30:17 - We ponder if Ryo or Yoshio will return before the end of the series
  • 01:33:10 - We recap the events of volume 7
  • 01:36:30 - Rinko repeatedly saying she loves Hayasaka makes us question if she really does
  • 01:40:54 - Morgana and dakazu share stories about making comments to their significant others about hairstyles
  • 01:45:25 - Seamus likes a joke that was used in Princess Jellyfish
  • 01:47:09 - We groan at the grooming-like trauma that was revealed about Key's backstory
  • 01:49:51 - We agree that Yoko was not visually similar enough to Rinko for us to understand the connection they were supposed have
  • 01:52:54 - We think Key fits exactly into the tragic archetype love interest
  • 01:54:59 - We debate how we feel now that Higashimura is leading the story into a rote romance ending
  • 02:01:38 - We compare the possible rote ending of Tokyo Tarareba Girls to the open ended conclusion of Princess Jellyfish
  • 02:05:12 - We make our final predictions for how the series will end
  • 02:07:45- 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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009 - Billy Bat part 9

009 - Billy Bat part 9

We've finally done it this week! In our final episode of Billy Bat discussion, we catch to all current chapters released, hypothesize about where the story will go next, and solve the mystery behind the Black & White Billy Bats!!!(covers chapters 118-125)

27 Okt 20141h 35min

008 - Billy Bat part 8

008 - Billy Bat part 8

This week we continue to give Junji Ito love with discussion about his Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror horror series and take a look at his comedy Ito Junji no Neko Nikki: Yon & Mu(Cat Diary)! Afterwords, we carefully dissect the wealth of new information in Billy Bat given to us by the Kurusu Moon arc!(covers chapters 106-117)

20 Okt 20141h 2min

007 - Billy Bat part 7

007 - Billy Bat part 7

This week darfox rants about the ending of Claymore, we lament over lackluster manga endings, and dakazu recommends Jisatsutou. Then we dive deep into the true protagonist of Billy Bat with the Golden Bat arc! Also included: rants about factual errors of New Jersey!(covers chapters 93-105)

15 Okt 20141h 20min

006 - Billy Bat part 6

006 - Billy Bat part 6

Even though we say 5 in the intro, this is indeed episode 6! This week dakazu rants about Naruto(AGAIN!) and we dive deep into speculation over the mysteries of Billy Bat while finishing the Bat Village arc!(covers chapters 78-93)

10 Okt 20141h 17min

005 - Billy Bat part 5

005 - Billy Bat part 5

This week we darfox continues to rave about Junji Ito, dakazu discovers the most amazing webcomic ever by Ishida Sui of Tokyo Ghoul fame, and we rant about the cutthroat business of Popularity polls in manga serialization magazines. We also continue our Billy Bat analysis as we begin the Devivie/Bat Village arc!(chapters 63-77)

6 Okt 201459min

004 - Billy Bat Part 4

004 - Billy Bat Part 4

Sit down for a megaton of an episode! Seamus raves about farts after finishing Gyo: The Death-Stench Creeps, darfox gives Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror some love, and dakazu is squeamish over the hyper violence of Magical Girl Apocalypse(Magical Girl of the End). Then the hosts dive deep into Billy Bat and spend over an hour discussing minutia in the conclusion of the JFK assassination arc!(covers chapters 42-62)

3 Okt 20141h 42min

003 - Billy Bat Part 3

003 - Billy Bat Part 3

This week we get into mecha sharks running on gas with Junji Ito's Gyo: The Death-Stench Creeps, complain about how we can't remember who's who in Claymore, and we continue our Billy Bat analysis with the JFK assassination arc while fact checking Wikipedia against the new main character Lee Harvey Oswald!(chapters 28-41)

29 Sep 201439min

002 - Billy Bat Part 2

002 - Billy Bat Part 2

This week Seamus gets spiritual with Budda, dakazu gets real angry about Naruto, and we try to work our way through the dreaded 'Ninja arc' of Billy Bat(chapters 16-27)

22 Sep 201452min

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