244 – Manga in Motion 37 – Tekkonkinkreet 

244 – Manga in Motion 37 – Tekkonkinkreet

We follow up our last episode by checking out the 2006 anime film adaptation of Tekkonkinkreet! We compare the anime to Taiyo Matsumoto’s manga and talk about why it looks like so much like a Masaaki Yuasa film!

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242 – Manga in Motion 36 – The Night is Short, Walk on Girl

242 – Manga in Motion 36 – The Night is Short, Walk on Girl

On this episode we check out Masaaki Yuasa’s The Night is Young, Walk on Girl! Will we be able to spot all the references to Tatami Galaxy?

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230 – Manga in Motion 35 – Alita: Battle Angel

230 – Manga in Motion 35 – Alita: Battle Angel

This week we check out the 2019 Alita: Battle Angel: a live-action adaptation of Yukito Kishiro’s Sci-Fi seinen series! Have dakazu and Darfox finally found a good manga movie adaptation?!

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226 – Manga in Motion 34 – From Up on Poppy Hill

226 – Manga in Motion 34 – From Up on Poppy Hill

This week we watch Studio Ghibli’s From Up on Poppy Hill to see how Seamus and Darfox fare with their first Goro Miyazaki film.

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211 – Manga in Motion 33 – Animal World

211 – Manga in Motion 33 – Animal World

Apologies in advance as Seamus had to skip this week’s podcast so we changed from our planned retrospective to another Manga in Motion instead. So at darfox’s request we look at the Chinese Animal World based on Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji!

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210 – Manga in Motion 32 – Bleach

210 – Manga in Motion 32 – Bleach

This episode we look at the recent live-action adaptation of Bleach and ask ourselves the question “was this ever good to begin with?”

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207 – Manga in Motion 31 – Little Witch Academia

207 – Manga in Motion 31 – Little Witch Academia

This week we look at the 2012 anime project that grew into it’s own full television show, Little Witch Academia! We’ll be looking at the original short and the crowd funded movie!

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202 – Manga in Motion 30 – Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise

202 – Manga in Motion 30 – Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise

On this episode dakazu present’s Gainax’s first feature film Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise to Darfox and Seamus!

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188 – Manga in Motion 28 – Pom Poko

188 – Manga in Motion 28 – Pom Poko

On this episode we watch Pom Poko in honor of the late Isao Takahata!

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