241 – One Shot 19 – Maiden Railways
This week we read about relationships that meet and travel at trains and train stations in Asumiko Nakamura’s Maiden Railways!
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Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 – Intro Song: “New Stranger” by sora tob sakana from Hi Score Girl, Opening, Introductions, Social Media, Update to our RSS feed
- 00:02:14 – Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, Seamus gets to talk about Kiss and White Lily for My Dearest Girl because dakazu started reading it
- 00:07:08 – *SPOILERS* dakazu breaks down the entire story of Boku no Namae wa ‘Shonen A’
- 00:14:11 – Fukushuu no Miboujin goes to a darker place that dakazu wasn’t expecting
- 00:17:13 – dakazu loved the short series about the world’s luckiest girl trying to save a boy who’s misfortune is causing the moon to fall on Earth in Yakubyougami to Baka Megami
- 00:20:19 – News: The conversation about Crunchyroll’s translator fee takes us into tangents of wrestling and Walmart
- 00:33:10 – Denpa Books will be distributed by Consortium in September 2019
- 00:33:54 – Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Manga in Motion for The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl, we’ll be reviewing Masaaki Yuasa’s 2017 movie about a girl who likes to drink and read books
- 00:35:00 – Main Segment One Shot: Maiden Railways, Transition Song: “Catch up, latency” by Union Square Garden from Run with the Wind, we review this collection of stories about relationships and trains by Asumiko Nakamura
- 00:36:55 – Darfox really enjoyed this manga
- 00:38:03 – Seamus noticed the characters all had long bodies
- 00:39:51 – dakazu was surprised to see how much of a train otaku Nakamura was
- 00:41:23 – dakazu explains how shoujo magazines often release one shot stories that are later collected into a volume release
- 00:43:09 – dakazu liked how Nakamura used atypical shoujo-style backgrounds in panels
- 00:44:15 – We love the ghost story Night after Night
- 00:46:41 – We compare the husband and wife relationships of Savarin Thursdays and All Aboard for a Romantic Getaway
- 00:48:45 – We discuss He Lives in Iriuda
- 00:50:32 – Seamus really liked Overpass Crossing and Blue and White Ream
- 00:54:04 – Darfox and dakazu learn’s that they’re at bad at picking up queer ques from LGBTQ+ relationships
- 00:56:08 – dakazu thinks A Day Off was and extra chapter Nakamura added to the volume release
- 00:56:58 – Seamus notes how trains and train stations are used to help represent the status of relationships
- 00:58:15 – dakazu points out the significance of the Katase-Enoshima train station
- 00:59:49 – We give our final thoughts
- 01:01:56 – Next Week’s Topic: The Night is Short, Walk on Girl, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster