305 – Kasane part 2
On this episode Morgana joins Deb Aoki’s Best & Worst 2020 Comi-Con panel, we celebrate the 2020 Eisner awards manga winners, and we discuss the newest volume of BEASTARS! Then our Retrospective on Daruma Matsuura’s Kasane shocks us with a new character and we compare this tale of misery with spoilers from The Last of Us Part II!!!
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Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 – Intro Song: “Black Bird” by Aimer from Kasane, Opening, Introductions, Morgana on Best & Worst Manga 2020 panel
- 00:03:04 – News: Cats of the Louvre and Witch Hat Atelier win Best U.S. Edition of International Material – Asia award
- 00:08:57 – Potential live drinking episode of Manga Machinations
- 00:10:25 – The Way of the Househusband wins Best Humor Publication category
- 00:15:35 – Junji Ito in conversations with Hideo Kojima about working on a horror-based game
- 00:22:47 – Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, *SPOILERS* We breakdown everything inside BEASTARS vol. 7
- 00:33:54 – dakazu checks out Sumomo Yumeka’s drama Watashi to Watashi that was released under her seinen pen name Mizu Sahara
- 00:40:06 – Boku to Sanbon Ashi no Chiyonpi is a cute series about Doragon Odawara’s three-legged miniature pinscher Chiyonpi
- 00:44:03 – Morgana reads Matt Alt’s Pure Invention: How Japan’s Pop Culture Conquered the World
- 00:49:32 – Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Fantasy Magazine: Science Fiction, a new podcast format where each of the hosts will pick 5 unlicensed or out-of-print series to create their ideal science fiction themed manga magazine
- 00:51:19 – Main Segment Retrospective: Kasane, Transition Song: “Dance of Salome” by Yugo Kanno from Kasane, Comprehensive review of Daruma Matsuura’s dark fairy tale about a girl with an ugly face who uses a magical lipstick to swap faces and become an actress like her mother(covers volumes 4-6)
- 01:31:43 – *SPOILERS* We discuss the discourse over the revenge story of The Last of Us Part II & The Last of Us compared to Kasane
- 01:37:57 – End of *SPOILERS* for The Last of Us Part II & The Last of Us
- 01:58:09 – Next Week’s Topic: Fantasy Magazine: Science Fiction, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster