279 – Triple Dip 39 – Classmates: Dou kyu sei, I Hear the Sunspot, 10 Dance
On this episode we’re doing a special Boys’ Love edition Triple Dip! Morgana leads the charge as we dive into sweet romances and problematic troupes in the first volumes of Classmates: Dou kyu sei, I Hear the Sunspot, and 10 Dance!!!
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Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 – Intro Song: “Massara” by KANA-BOON from Sarazanmai, Opening, Introductions
- 00:02:17 – Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, Seamus has finally caught up to the most recent volume of Ooku: The Inner Chambers
- 00:11:50 – Seamus can’t continue with Knights of Sidonia after revisiting BLAME!
- 00:12:40 – After last week’s episode dakazu decided to finally finish reading Biomega
- 00:16:38 – Playing Anime Music Quiz lets Darfox and dakazu be nostalgic for old anime shows
- 00:22:40 – Morgana has been playing Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution on her Switch
- 00:25:05 – Our Dining Table is a sweet BL story about a lonely salary man who befriends two brothers over meals
- 00:27:33 – Morgana loves Cross because it’s a Catholic supernatural garbage shoujo romance from the 90′s
- 00:31:54 – dakazu can’t really talk about Hi Score Girl DASH because it would spoil Hi Score Girl
- 00:34:11 – News: Square Enix Manga & Books puts out lengthy previews of the upcoming releases of A Man and His Cat and Hi Score Girl
- 00:36:41 – My Anime List adds The Island of Giant Insects to it’s free manga service
- 00:39:55 – Kojima Productions is interested in developing anime, manga, and smaller games along with their big blockbuster game projects
- 00:44:57 – E-book Japan shares their best-selling shonen manga of the 21st century along with best manga of 2019 lists
- 00:47:48 – Comics Beat posts the 500 top-selling graphic novels and comics of 2019
- 00:57:17 – Comics Beat had ended it’s deal with Lion Forge and will be independent again
- 00:58:47 – Vertical is being consolidated under Kodansha USA
- 01:02:41 – Live-action film adaptation of The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese will be premiering June 5th in Japan
- 01:03:58 – Rumors circulate that BEASTARS will be ending soon
- 01:08:19 – Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Prose Picks, we will read and review the light novel Last and First Idol by Gengen Kusano
- 01:10:40 – Main Segment Triple Dip: Classmates: Dou kyu sei/I Hear the Sunspot/10 Dance, Transition Song: “Fiction” by sumiko from Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku, we read the beginning of each BL manga for discussion and to see if we’d continue reading it before picking our favorite of the three
- 01:11:49 – We each share our various experiences with BL content
- 01:20:13 –Classmates: Dou kyu sei by Asumiko Nakamura
- 01:39:37 – I Hear the Sunspot by Yuki Fumino
- 01:59:21 – 10 Dance by Inouesatoh
- 02:15:55 – *SPOILERS* for 10 Dance
- 02:21:43 – We pick our favorite manga out of the 3 BL manga
- 02:27:13 – Next Week’s Topic: Land and First Idol, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster