070 – Goodnight Punpun part 3
Welcome to part 3 of our continued retrospective of Goodnight Punpun! We’ll be discussing the truth behind God and the eccentric Pegasus ensemble!!(covers chapters 57-78) Also, Seamus gets to the twist of orange, we look into the science of ‘shipping’ characters, and we breakdown the next chapter of Billy Bat!!!
Continue reading069 – Goodnight Punpun part 2
On this episode dakazu is in love with a Edo period Japanese astronomer in Tenchi Meisatsu, Billy Bat starts its final arc, we lament the 3D animated BLAME! movie coming out this year, and spend lots of time getting into dark topics for our continuing retrospective of Goodnight Punpun!!!(covers chapters 35-56)
Continue reading068 – Goodnight Punpun part 1
This week we discuss the holiday break for manga magazines, darfox8 explains why he didn’t start Fairy Tail at the beginning, and dakazu talks about popular manga getting bloated. Then darfox8 revisits A Silent Voice, Hajime no Ippo, and Berserk from Triple Dip 9. Finally, we begin our retrospective read-through of Inio Asano’s Goodnight Punpun and discuss everything from the dark plot to the crazy side characters.(covers chapters 1-34)
Continue reading059 – Blame! part 5
On this episode we welcome the return of the mangaka in Billy Bat, then we reach the ends of the Megastructure and Killy’s journey as we finish our Blame! retrospective and we give our final thoughts on the series and the cyber dungeon.(covers chapters 51-65)
Continue reading058 – Blame! part 4
Get ready for tales of a 40 year old slacker dad in I’ll Give It My All… Tomorrow, mysterious dream sequences in new chapters of Billy Bat, and the biggest appearance of characters with actual names in our penultimate discussion of Blame!!!!(covers chapters 38-50)
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On this episode Seamus finds more teenage drama in orange, dakazu finds another cooking manga with single fathers in Papa to Oyaji to Uchi Gohan and then rants about the horror of Shiritsu Hakanai Gakuen(Hakanai Private High School; No Pants, No Problem). Then it’s another epic discussion of Blame! as we wrap up the Toha Heavy Industries arc and discuss the possible connection between Killy and Seu!!!(covers chapters 25-37)
Continue reading056 – Blame! part 2
This week we start off with a Billy Bat update hour, Seamus continues with Planetes, darfox and dakazu discuss the ending of the Blood Blockade Battlefront(Kekkai Sensen) anime, we talk about the One Punch Man anime, and end with a long recap of the next set of Blame! chapters in our Retrospective!!!(covers chapters 12-24)
Continue reading055 – Blame! part 1
On this episode Seamus talks about the space garbage men of Planetes, darfox goes deep into Prison School, and dakazu follows teenage serial killers in Kamisama, Kisama wo Koroshitai.(God, I want to kill you)! Then we discuss the mystery and lore of the world of Blame! and determine that protagonist Killy is a wizard!!!(covers chapters 1-11)
Continue reading050 – Akira part 6
Get ready for a mega sized 50th episode! We have big discussions about new chapters of Billy Bat and the conclusion of the modern SF classic, Akira!!!(covers volume 6)
Continue reading049 – Akira part 5
This week Seamus dives into some non-fiction with Showa: A History of Japan, dakazu gives love to the well designed main character from Tensai Yanagisawa Kyouju no Seikatsu(The Ingenious Life of Professor Yanagisawa), and we discuss the downfall of Tetsuo in our Akira retrospective!!!(covers volume 5)
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