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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222 – 2018 Year End Review with Morgana Santilli
222 – 2018 Year End Review with Morgana Santilli
Welcome to our special year end episode! This year returning guest Morgana “Manga Maven” Santilli joins us to pick our favorite manga & anime from 2018!
Check out Morgana’s website and follow her on twitter!
Continue reading212 – Anime Interlude 8 – Mr. Tonegawa: Middle Management Blues
212 – Anime Interlude 8 – Mr. Tonegawa: Middle Management Blues
On this episode Miki’s Stopwatch is here to talk about anime, again! We pick our favorites from both summer and fall of 2018!
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Mr. TONEGAWA: Middle Management Blues
A comedy spin-off of Gambling Apocalypse: KAIJI that follows the hardships of Yukio Tonegawa as the 2nd in command of an evil corporation run by the crazy old coot Kazutaka Hyoudo.
My initial reaction to this was “another spin-off?” but I was shocked at how great this is. Taking the aspects of KAIJI and turning them on their head for laughs works amazingly. The creators Tensei Hagiwara & Tomohiro Hashimoto do a perfect copy of Nobuyuki Fukumoto’s art style and storytelling. I laughed so hard at the parody of the inspirational ‘Brave Man Road’ monologue that I was crying.
The anime adaptation is even better with the narrator being my favorite character. If you’re a fan of KAIJI than you should definitely check it out!
~dakazu
199 – Anime Interlude 7 – Megalo Box
199 – Anime Interlude 7 – Megalo Box
It’s once again that time of the year for our anime expert Miki’s Stopwatch to join us and review the last season of anime. We pick our favorites and also give quick takes on some of the new summer anime as well!
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099 – One Shot 2 – Misu Misou
On this episode Seamus explains the relevance of certain characters related to Norse Mythology in Vinland Saga, dakazu loves the Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji comedy spin-off about evil organization middle management in Mr. Tonegawa: Middle Management Blues(Chuukan Kanriroku Tonegawa), and we catch up on another chapter of Billy Bat! Then for our One Shot retrospective, we look at Rensuke Oshikiri’s tragic tale of murderous middle schoolers in Misu Misou!!!
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