279 - Triple Dip 39 - Classmates: Dou kyu sei, I Hear the Sunspot, 10 Dance
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01/27/20 • 148 min
On this episode we’re doing a special Boys’ Love edition Triple Dip! Morgana leads the charge as we dive into sweet romances and problematic troupes in the first volumes of Classmates: Dou kyu sei, I Hear the Sunspot, and 10 Dance!!!
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Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “Massara” by KANA-BOON from Sarazanmai, Opening, Introductions
- 00:02:17 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, Seamus has finally caught up to the most recent volume of Ooku: The Inner Chambers
- 00:11:50 - Seamus can’t continue with Knights of Sidonia after revisiting BLAME!
- 00:12:40 - After last week’s episode dakazu decided to finally finish reading Biomega
- 00:16:38 - Playing Anime Music Quiz lets Darfox and dakazu be nostalgic for old anime shows
- 00:22:40 - Morgana has been playing Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution on her Switch
- 00:25:05 - Our Dining Table is a sweet BL story about a lonely salary man who befriends two brothers over meals
- 00:27:33 - Morgana loves Cross because it’s a Catholic supernatural garbage shoujo romance from the 90′s
- 00:31:54 - dakazu can’t really talk about Hi Score Girl DASH because it would spoil Hi Score Girl
- 00:34:11 - News: Square Enix Manga & Books puts out lengthy previews of the upcoming releases of A Man and His Cat and Hi Score Girl
- 00:36:41 - My Anime List adds The Island of Giant Insects to it’s free manga service
- 00:39:55 - Kojima Productions is interested in developing anime, manga, and smaller games along with their big blockbuster game projects
- 00:44:57 - E-book Japan shares their best-selling shonen manga of the 21st century along with best manga of 2019 lists
- 00:47:48 - Comics Beat posts the 500 top-selling graphic novels and comics of 2019
- 00:57:17 - Comics Beat had ended it’s deal with Lion Forge and will be independent again
- 00:58:47 - Vertical is being consolidated under Kodansha USA
- 01:02:41 - Live-action film adaptation of The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese will be premiering June 5th in Japan
- 01:03:58 - Rumors circulate that BEASTARS will be ending soon
- 01:08:19 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Prose Picks, we will read and review the light novel Last and First Idol by Gengen Kusano
- 01:10:40 - Main Segment Triple Dip: Classmates: Dou kyu sei/I Hear the Sunspot/10 Dance, Transition Song: “Fiction” by sumiko from Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku, we read the beginning of each BL manga for discussion and to see if we’d continue reading it before picking our favorite of the three
- 01:11:49 - We each share our various experiences with BL content
- 01:20:13 - Classmates: Dou kyu sei by Asumiko Nakamura
- 01:39:37 - I Hear the Sunspot by Yuki Fumino
- 01:59:21 - 10 Dance by Inouesatoh
- 02:15:55 - *SPOILERS* for 10 Dance
- 02:21:43 - We pick our favorite manga out of the 3 BL manga
- 02:27:13 - Next Week’s Topic: Land and First Idol, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster
On this episode we’re doing a special Boys’ Love edition Triple Dip! Morgana leads the charge as we dive into sweet romances and problematic troupes in the first volumes of Classmates: Dou kyu sei, I Hear the Sunspot, and 10 Dance!!!
Remember to send us emails! [email protected]
Follow us on Twitter! @mangamacpodcast
Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com
Check out our tumblr! http://mangamachinations.tumblr.com
Join our Discord server and come talk to us! http://discord.me/mangamac
Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “Massara” by KANA-BOON from Sarazanmai, Opening, Introductions
- 00:02:17 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, Seamus has finally caught up to the most recent volume of Ooku: The Inner Chambers
- 00:11:50 - Seamus can’t continue with Knights of Sidonia after revisiting BLAME!
- 00:12:40 - After last week’s episode dakazu decided to finally finish reading Biomega
- 00:16:38 - Playing Anime Music Quiz lets Darfox and dakazu be nostalgic for old anime shows
- 00:22:40 - Morgana has been playing Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution on her Switch
- 00:25:05 - Our Dining Table is a sweet BL story about a lonely salary man who befriends two brothers over meals
- 00:27:33 - Morgana loves Cross because it’s a Catholic supernatural garbage shoujo romance from the 90′s
- 00:31:54 - dakazu can’t really talk about Hi Score Girl DASH because it would spoil Hi Score Girl
- 00:34:11 - News: Square Enix Manga & Books puts out lengthy previews of the upcoming releases of A Man and His Cat and Hi Score Girl
- 00:36:41 - My Anime List adds The Island of Giant Insects to it’s free manga service
- 00:39:55 - Kojima Productions is interested in developing anime, manga, and smaller games along with their big blockbuster game projects
- 00:44:57 - E-book Japan shares their best-selling shonen manga of the 21st century along with best manga of 2019 lists
- 00:47:48 - Comics Beat posts the 500 top-selling graphic novels and comics of 2019
- 00:57:17 - Comics Beat had ended it’s deal with Lion Forge and will be independent again
- 00:58:47 - Vertical is being consolidated under Kodansha USA
- 01:02:41 - Live-action film adaptation of The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese will be premiering June 5th in Japan
- 01:03:58 - Rumors circulate that BEASTARS will be ending soon
- 01:08:19 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Prose Picks, we will read and review the light novel Last and First Idol by Gengen Kusano
- 01:10:40 - Main Segment Triple Dip: Classmates: Dou kyu sei/I Hear the Sunspot/10 Dance, Transition Song: “Fiction” by sumiko from Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku, we read the beginning of each BL manga for discussion and to see if we’d continue reading it before picking our favorite of the three
- 01:11:49 - We each share our various experiences with BL content
- 01:20:13 - Classmates: Dou kyu sei by Asumiko Nakamura
- 01:39:37 - I Hear the Sunspot by Yuki Fumino
- 01:59:21 - 10 Dance by Inouesatoh
- 02:15:55 - *SPOILERS* for 10 Dance
- 02:21:43 - We pick our favorite manga out of the 3 BL manga
- 02:27:13 - Next Week’s Topic: Land and First Idol, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster
Previous Episode
278 - Retrospective Redux 2 - BLAME!
This week we revisit the cyberpunk world of BLAME!. It’s Morgana’s first time reading a manga by Tsutomu Nihei and she has a lot to say about the impressive artwork and confusing story. How does returning to this sci-fi adventure hold up for the other hosts? Tune in to find out!!!
Remember to send us emails! [email protected]
Follow us on Twitter! @mangamacpodcast
Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com
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Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “Megastructure” by Onogawa Hiroyuki from BLAME! Salvaged Disc, Opening, Introductions, Social Media
- 00:01:40 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, Seamus has decided to drop Requiem for a Rose King because of an unfortunate shojo troupe
- 00:03:50 - After checking out Knights of Sidonia Seamus was disappointed by the fan service and audience surrogates
- 00:07:53 - We discuss the risk aversion of the current manga industry
- 00:12:23 - Darfox watched the French live-action adaptation of City Hunter called Nicky Larson and Cupid's Perfume
- 00:17:44 - Darfox and dakazu saw Dragon Ball Super: Broly but Darfox was distracted by Goku’s titty muscles
- 00:27:01 - *SPOILERS* dakazu was happy to find out there was a new volume of The Full-Time Wife Escapist to read
- 00:29:13 - Butakai Ouji to 100 Kai no Kiss starts off as a fun take The Swineherd fairytale with modern twists but becomes extremely problematic with it’s treatment of the young princess
- 00:37:35 - dakazu gives a quick rundown on the anime adaptations of In/Spectre, Smile Down the Runway, Dorohedoro
- 00:41:18 - News: BEASTARS anime will be available on Netflix March 13th
- 00:41:44 - Koyama Press started a monthly program of giving
- 00:44:39 - Chiyahafuru creator Suetsugu has setup a 1 million yen grant to help vitalize the Karuta sport
- 00:48:55 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Triple Dip where we read the first volume of three different BL manga, including: 10 Dance by Inouesatoh, I Hear the Sunspot by Yuki Fumino, and Classmates: Dou kyu sei by Asumiko Nakamura
- 00:50:46 - Main Segment Retrospective Redux: BLAME!, Transition Song: “Cibo” by Onogawa Hiroyuki from BLAME! Salvaged Disc, we revisit Tsutomu Nihei’s sci-fi series about a man traveling through an endless city structure
- 00:51:17 - dakazu explains the basic plot of BLAME! and the various factions within the world
- 00:55:51 - Morgana was confused by the story but appreciated Nihei’s amazing artwork
- 01:00:10 - Morgana and Darfox talk about how Cibo is pronounced in Italian and Spanish while dakazu questions to choice of using the name Kyrii
- 01:02:31 - We discuss the change of tone in the story as Kyrii changes and how other characters change allegiances
- 01:05:50 - Morgana noticed Nihei use of interchangeable female bodies
- 01:12:26 - Revisiting BLAME! made Seamus connects the series to video games and literature while finding the core nature of Kyrii’s character
- 01:18:05 - Morgana questioned if the world was actually a digital reality or the far future while reading
- 01:22:19 - Darfox explains how you can find anti-technology themes in BLAME!
- 01:27:51 - We try to parse Kyrii’s morality by examining his actions throughout the story
- 01:34:15 - We rip on the BLAME! anime movie and talk about the experimental OVA shorts
- 01:38:40 - We discuss Nihei’s Marvel comic Snikt!
- 01:40:46 - We talk about Nihei’s background in architecture and how he applies that to his designs and action scenes
- 01:44:23 - Darfox is disappointed after dakazu shares the origins of the silicon life from the prequel manga NOiSE
- 01:51:01 - BLAME! Academy and So On is filled with hilarious parodies and an epilogue chapter about Pcell and Kyrii
- 01:54:45 - We theorize about the happened in the ending
- 02:03:01 - Morgana can see why Nihei’s creative process starts with panel layouts
- 02:06:12 - None of us know why Dhomochevsky placed that vial in that small room
- 02:09:36 - Morgana was pleasantly surprised that there was no romantic relationship between Kyrii and Cibo
- 02:12:14 - We share our final thoughts on the series
- 02:20:41 - Next Week’s Topic: 10 Dance & I Hear the Sunspot & Class...
Next Episode
280 - Prose Picks 1 - Last and First Idol
Morgana and Darfox are out this week so Seamus leads the charge into the uncharted territory of light novels this week! We’ll be reviewing Gengen Kusano’s award winning Last and First Idol to see how dakazu handles reading a book without pictures!!!
Remember to send us emails! [email protected]
Follow us on Twitter! @mangamacpodcast
Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com
Check out our tumblr! http://mangamachinations.tumblr.com
Join our Discord server and come talk to us! http://discord.me/mangamac
Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “Massara” by KANA-BOON from Sarazanmai, Opening, Introductions
- 00:01:00 - Revealing our fantastic new host avatars by Chess Albaneze
- 00:02:47 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, *SPOILERS* dakazu finished the epic sci-fi war series Juuza no Ulna
- 00:10:44 - dakazu is excited for Boys Run the Riot with its trans-man narrative
- 00:15:38 - News: Editor-in-Chief of Jump+ tweets about the increase in readership for Manga PLUS after major scanlation groups stopped working on Weekly Shonen Jump manga
- 00:23:20 - Netflix officially announces the live-action One Piece series with Eiichiro Oda overseeing production
- 00:27:05 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: One Shot on Ghost in the Shell: Global Neural Network, we will review this anthology of stories by Western comic creators that take place in the world of Ghost in the Shell
- 00:28:04 - Main Segment Prose Picks: Last and First Idol, Transition Song: “Fiction” by sumiko from Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku, we read and review the award winning hard sci-fi tales by newcomer Gengen Kusano
- 00:29:07 - Seamus explains the connection between this book and the British science fiction novel Last and First Man
- 00:30:44 - dakazu explain why he doesn’t like light novels in general
- 00:33:32 - We breakdown the plot of the first story Last and First Idol
- 00:36:56 - Seamus thought this story was trying to take the piss out of Last and First Man
- 00:40:26 - We discuss how the creative and transcendental ideas fall flat from the lack of interesting plot or characters to connect them
- 00:42:52 - We breakdown the plot of the second story Evolution Girls and compare it to Spore
- 00:47:59 - We breakdown the plot of the third story Dark Seiyuu and how its main concept of aether has been scientifically debunked
- 00:51:24 - dakazu notes the inclusion of casual cannibalism that adds to the edgelord factor of these stories
- 00:54:48 - Seamus explains what Jainism is until dakazu recognizes it from Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha
- 00:55:48 - We discuss the prose filled with casual swearing that gives the book a juvenile tone
- 00:58:50 - dakazu doesn’t understand why certain words weren’t translated for a better explanations
- 01:03:58 - We share our final thoughts on the book
- 01:11:00 - Next Week’s Topic: Ghost in the Shell: Global Neural Network, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster
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