256 – Triple Dip 37 – Gunjou, Area 51, No. 6

256 – Triple Dip 37 – Gunjou, Area 51, No. 6

On this episode Darfox and dakazu spend a ridiculously long time discussing Garth Ennis’ The Boys. Then we dive into another round of Triple Dip with GunjouArea 51, and No. 6!!!

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Timestamps:

  • 00:00:00 – Intro Song: “New Stranger” by sora tob sakana from Hi Score Girl, Opening, Puck Fair, Introductions, Social Media
  • 00:03:37 – Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, Seamus went to Worldcon and attended Ada Palmer’s Gender in Anime and Manga panel
  • 00:12:43 – We discuss the stigma against female manga artists who continue to work after having a child
  • 00:17:41 – *SPOILERS* Darfox and dakazu both watched The Boys on Amazon Prime
  • 00:22:42 – *SPOILERS* dakazu is really impressed with this adaptation of The Boys and compares how it differs from the original comic
  • 00:29:08 – *SPOILERS* Darfox and dakazu breaks down the brutal airplane scene 
  • 00:34:54 – *SPOILERS* Darfox makes predictions for season 2 and dakazu shares the ending from the comics
  • 00:39:33 – *SPOILERS* Seamus praises Garth Ennis’ run on The Punisher and his WWII series Battlefields
  • 00:49:40 – Kazuo Koike’s Razor is one of the worst and ill-researched series dakazu has ever read
  • 00:54:57 – dakazu wasn’t impressed with the Netflix Original anime Cannon Busters
  • 00:57:52 – News: The 2019 Harvey Awards nominees have been announced
  • 00:59:07 – Next Episode Preview and Rundown: One Shot Retrospective on not simple, we will review Natsume Ono’s tragedy about the life of a man named Ian
  • 00:59:55 – Main Segment Triple Dip: Area 51/No. 6/Gunjou, Transition Song: “Spell” by LAMA from No. 6, we read the beginning of each manga for discussion and to see if we’d keep reading it before picking our favorite of the three
  • 01:01:03 – Area 51 by Masato Hisa
  • 01:09:06 – No. 6 by Atsuko Asano & Hinoki Kino
  • 01:17:07 – Gunjou by Ching Nakamura
  • 01:30:40 – Next Week’s Topic: not simple, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster