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