247 – Manga in Motion 38 – Mind Game
It was a surprise that Seamus was available this week so we changed our schedule around to bring you another Manga in Motion instead! We take a look at the trippy avant-garde animation sequences in Masaaki Yuasa’s directorial debut, Mind Game!!!
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Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 – Intro Song: “VIVA!” by Fayray from Mind Game, Opening, Introductions, Social Media, Upcoming Retrospective on Tokyo Tarareba Girls
- 00:02:42 – Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, *SPOILERS* Seamus is enjoying some more To Your Eternity
- 00:10:01 – dakazu thought To Your Eternity was doing poorly with popularity because of it’s position in Weekly Shonen Magazine
- 00:11:39 – dakazu pours one out for the end of Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma
- 00:14:55 – The current arc of My Hero Academia seems to be struggling
- 00:18:11 – dakazu loves the serious comedy and unique panel perspectives of Jun Hanyunyu’s Koi no Mon
- 00:21:29 – Misakigaokaite is a lovely collection of stories about different people living in the same city
- 00:26:19 – dakazu takes a look at the listener suggested Nameless Asterism for it’s unstable love triangle structure and LGBTQ+ themes
- 00:30:04 – News: In/Spectre will be adapted to an anime for winter 2020
- 00:31:06 –Boruto: Naruto Next Generations will be moving from Weekly Shonen Jump to V Jump
- 00:33:37 – Funamation will be putting out a Blu-ray/DVD collection of Tatami Galaxy
- 00:35:12 – Next Episode Preview and Rundown:One Shot Retrospective on Abara, we will review this sci-fi series by Tsutomu Nihei
- 00:35:54 – Main Segment Manga in Motion: Mind Game, Transition Song: “MIND GAME” by Fayray from Mind Game, we review the 2004 anime film directed by Masaaki Yuasa based on the manga by Robin Nishi
- 00:40:28 – Seamus thought this was the anime equivalent of a spotfest in pro-wrestling
- 00:42:09 – Some of the musical sequences remind dakazu of Disney’s Fantasia movies
- 00:43:17 – Darfox and dakazu praise the ever changing imagery of God
- 00:44:32 – Darfox points out that Yuasa retells the same overall story with Tatami Galaxy and The Night is Short, Walk on Girl
- 00:44:58 – dakazu thinks the intro/outro montage is brilliant
- 00:47:27 – We agree that the sex scene is one of the most impressive animation sequences in the whole movie
- 00:48:53 – Logic goes out the door with running on water during the ending climix
- 00:50:11 – Seamus might have been numb to the movie because he considers Yuasa’s other works to be superior in contrast
- 00:52:23 – The montage of possible futures of the main characters reference earlier events that happened
- 00:53:34 – The scene of future Nishi as a successful manga artist has similar comedy to the Principal of Prison School
- 00:54:53 – After rewatching Darfox thinks that the sexual assault by Atsu could have been handled better
- 00:56:08 – dakazu thought the mix of photos of the voice actors on top of the animation was a little off-putting
- 00:56:54 – We discuss how Yuasa put everything he could into this movie because it was his directorial debut
- 00:58:25 – We compliment the eclectic soundtrack
- 00:59:41 – Darfox explain the significance of Diego Maradona’s Hand of God from the film
- 01:03:56 – Next Week’s Topic: Abara, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster