265 – Anime Interlude 12 – Fire Force

265 – Anime Interlude 12 – Fire Force

Miki’s Stopwatch returns to join us for another episode of Anime Interlude! We discuss our favorite series from the summer 2019 season and our impressions of new anime from fall 2019. Also dakazu won’t shut up about his man-crush Kenjiro Tsuda!!!

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264 – dakazu diversions 4 – dakazu’s Trip to Japan

264 – dakazu diversions 4 – dakazu’s Trip to Japan

On this episode a very jet-lagged and lethargic dakazu has returned to talk about his vacation to Japan! dakazu rambles on about disposable manga magazines, Japanese bathrooms, going to the Shonen Jump bar, and the aggressive animals at the famous Nara deer park by the Great Buddha Hall!!!

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262 – Triple Dip 38 – Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare, Erased, O Maidens in Your Savage Season

262 – Triple Dip 38 – Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare, Erased, O Maidens in Your Savage Season

On this episode as we have a great time discussing Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami TasogareErasedO Maidens in Your Savage Season for an epic episode of Triple Dip!!!

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261 – Manga in Motion 40 – A Letter to Momo

261 – Manga in Motion 40 – A Letter to Momo

This week Darfox explains why he didn’t finish the graphic novel Lighter Than My Shadow, Seamus catches up on more To Your Eternity, and dakazu enjoyed the colorful web manga Mousou Telepathy! Then our hosts discuss themes of rural romanticism with the anime film A Letter to Momo!!!

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255 – Manga in Motion 39 – Mirai

255 – Manga in Motion 39 – Mirai

This week we take a look at Mamoru Hosoda’s latest anime movie, Mirai! Tune in to hear what we thought about this story about a boy learning to accept his baby sister and how it compares to Hosoda’s other films!!!

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253 – Anime Interlude 11 – Sarazanmai

253 – Anime Interlude 11 – Sarazanmai

This week our buddy CrossXhunteR joins us as we talk about Sarazanmai and other anime from the 2019 spring season along with new series from the 2019 summer season like Vinland Saga!!!

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252 – Tokyo Tarareba Girls part 3

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!!!

Make sure to follow Morgana on Twitter and check out her website!

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234 – Give My Regards to Black Jack part 2

234 – Give My Regards to Black Jack part 2

This week we continue learning about modern Japanese medicine through the lens of Shuho Sato’s Give My Regards to Black Jack!

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229 – Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection part 2

229 – Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection part 2

On this episode we continue our review of Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection with stories about Toru Oshikiri, a scary doll, unfortunate face clamps, and the Ito family dog Non-non!

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