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’s Ristorante 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