Topics discussed: Vibes Are Happening; Lain’s Position in a Cultural Conversation; Assigning Emotions or Motivations to Characters in Lain is an Interpretive Act; soi soi soi soi pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch; Making Autumn Explain the Plot of Solid State Society, A Movie They’ve Never Seen; The Visual Aesthetics of Lain; The Mediation of All Conversation; The Disconnection of Temporal and Physical Space; The Audio Aesthetics of Lain; The Tech Aesthetics of Lain; The Influence of the Internet on Identity and Its Tension Between Liberation and Corruption; Alienation and Horror; We Will Sell Out to CrunchyRoll If They Pay Us Enough; A Preview of Who Kisses and Who Tucks; Niamh Gets Mad At Funko Pop for Their Ghost in the Shell Funko.

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Content Warnings for this Discussion

Suicide
Public shooting
Childhood estrangement
Mental illness and loss of sense of reality
Alcohol and drunk driving
Horror

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“When it's all said and done, podcasts are just a medium of communication and the transfer of information. You mustn't confuse them with the real world. Do you understand what I'm warning you about?”

“You're wrong. The border between the two isn't all that clear. I'll be able to guest on one soon. In full range. Full motion. I'll translate myself into it.”

Dive into Serial Experiments Lain!

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Release Schedule

[S9E1] Intro to Serial Experiments Lain: August 19, 2022
[S9E2] Serial Experiments Lain, eps. 1–6: September 2, 2022
[S9E3] Serial Experiments Lain, eps. 7–13: September 16, 2022
[S9E4] Question Bucket: September 30, 2022

Content Warnings for the Anime

Suicide
Body horror
Loss of self
Dread and horror
Unreality, representations of mental illness
Sexuality
Depiction of a young girl fantasizing about an adult teacher

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“This 35mm screening of Ingmar Bergman’s Persona is mine. I think this entire theater may even just be a long, long dream I’m having. Everyone on the screen and in the rows of seats may just be illusions, and it can’t be proven whether or not you really exist either. In other words, this screening was created with me at the center. So what will happen if the reel runs out? I don’t know. My imagination isn’t very creative; I just can’t imagine the film ever ending. In other words, there is no way this screening can completely disappear. But if it does end, then everyone will disappear. I am the only one in this theater who won’t disappear. The rest are just people I see as if in a dream.”

Topics discussed: The Iron Giant; Incriminating Ourselves; Claire Stanfield’s Trans Man Swag; The Ronnie Chronicles a.k.a. Ronnicles; Who The Hell Are These Guys?; Anime Sickos Boyfriends; Getting Negged Into Dating Byakuya; The Pulp Fiction of Anime; Pitching the Baccano! Cinematic Universe (BCU); Running Through Our List of Guys to Determine Who Kisses, Who Tucks, MCU Feelings, Missed the B&N Criterion & Arrow Sale Angst, Cup Song Cup Thing(?????), and Food Court Selections; Derek the Ghost; Glyph Catchers Bonus Content; Today's Teens are Flocking to the Secret Hidden Nier Church.

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Content Warnings for this Discussion

Lots of food talk
Mention of drug use (post-ED)

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"Long podcasts are such a crime. They take the limited amount of time that is given to man, and rather than spending it in indolence or drowning it in pleasure it just sits there sucking, eating it up. I can't put up with that, long podcasts are a crime! Death to long podcasts! Die!"

Topics discussed: Oops! All Anime Sicko Murderers; Using Non-liner Storytelling to Tell Jokes; Bill Gates; Destabilizing Anime Archetypes; Yum Yum Time to Eat Your Shōnen Anime; Czes Has Been Waiting Centuries to be Called a Good Boy; The Protagonist of Baccano! is Graham Specter; Casting Timothée Chalamet in the Live Action Baccano!; Watching Baccano! with Your Girlfriend; My Hero Academia; Upholding Traditional Family Values by Stealing Cellphones; Understanding the Philosophy of Graham Specter; Ronny I and Ronny II in the Notorious B.E.Ginning; Post-ED Games Talk; Biblically Accurate Bill Gates.

Also, don't forget that we will be recording the Question Bucket soon. The deadline to write into our Question Bucket for this series is Thursday, July 28, 2022. You can write into ghostdiverspod@gmail and follow us on Twitter!

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Content Warnings for this Discussion

Discussion of gore, torture, and dismemberment
Manipulation and control
Alcohol talk (post-ED)

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"It might be a good idea to start from within the ship Advenna Avis, which was crossing the Atlantic. It might also be a good idea to start with the tragic event that occurred on the transcontinental train Flying Pussyfoot, and was secretly swept under the rug. Regardless of all that, you have chosen 7 July 2022 as the start of this podcast…”

Topics discussed: The Ruckus of Episode 1; Orson Welles Despises Men Like Jacuzzi Splot; [extremely Jacuzzi Splot voice] The Rail Tracer!!; Doing a Handstand on the Edge of a Ship to Try to Stop a Demon, Somehow Still Impressing the Demon with Your Stupidity; Ronnie………; The First to Eat, The First to Share; The Themes of Knowledge and Truth, Heroism and Protagonists, The Constructed Nature of Narratives; The Static, Unchanging Sitcom Quality of Isaac and Miria; Is Maiza Boruto’s Dad or Hank Hill?; Truth in Fiction; The Mystery of Dallas; Light Novels; The Multiculturalism of the United States; The Western, the Train, and the Construction of Nation; Isaac and Miria and the American Fantasy; The Robot Girl Who Learns to be a Human; Isaac and Miria’s Worldview; The Tension Between Worldviews of Fantasy and Reality; Our Favorite Characters So Far.

(I'm trying a new way to handle episode descriptions, let me know if you like it or hate it.)

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Content Warnings for this Discussion

Gore
Sexual assault
Manipulation and control
Stealing memories
Racist caricature

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Continuing the Yazawa Ai train, Niamh once again calls in friend-of-the-pod (and kinda just the co-host of this sporadic new manga talk show) Em Marko to talk about Paradise Kiss!

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Content Warnings for this Discussion

Abusive relationships (briefly)

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“Let me tell you how important it is to keep your mouth shut. Me, I’ve seen so many damn people going on and on about ‘these are the important themes in this show’ and “take these words with you on your commute”, and then that gives whoever they’re talking to an opening to get bored. Crazy, isn’t it? I see it all the time, in books, in plays, even on podcasts! I don’t even know why, but somehow the more comfortable someone is with podcasting, the more they flap their mouth when it comes time to do the deed, yakking on and on and on. As you might have guessed, I myself happen to be such a person!”

Dive into Baccano!

Also, for those of you watching along, this is a rare one where the dub often comes recommended over the subs, so feel free to try it out even if you're usually a subs person.

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Release Schedule

[S8E1] Intro to Baccano!: June 24, 2022
[S8E2] Baccano!, eps. 1–8: July 8, 2022
[S8E3] Baccano!, eps. 9–16: July 22, 2022
[S8E4] Question Bucket: August 5, 2022

Content Warnings for the Anime

Violence
Blood, gore, and dismemberment
Torture
Violence and torture against a child
Guns, smoking, and alcohol
Horror violence
Demons
Suggestion of sexual assault (episode 7)

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We’re here to talk about depressing work lunches and answer all your questions about our own Ghost in the Shell AUs, kissing and tucking, soft drinks, Tony Hawk Pro Skater, art, and NANA.

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Content Warnings for this Discussion

Food, just a lot of food talk

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Just as a heads up: Connor’s connection was dropping out a bunch, especially at the beginning, and was a bit laggy as well. Niamh wasn’t trying to just talk over him so much!

We start off with a weird digression into looking into Sci-Fi Channel’s Ani-Mondays block and then getting a rant from Niamh about Chrono Cross Remaster. After that we get into topics like the Japanese political dynamics in the film; whatever the fuck Togusa is doing; parallels being drawn between Kusanagi, Kuze, and the Puppet Master with the final reveal of the Puppeteer; the failure of the neo-liberal imagination and the Major’s eternal cop brain; the failure of imagination in the breaking down of family structures in order to simply rebuild them as a reambulated corpse; reproductions of the state; the surveillance state; placing the movies and show in a chronology simply as a thought experiment.

Also, don't forget that we will be recording the Question Bucket soon. The deadline to write into our Question Bucket for this series is June 4, 2022. You can write into ghostdiverspod@gmail and follow us on Twitter!

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Content Warnings for this Discussion

Brain hacking / possession
Suicide / forced suicide
Child abuse / forced child surgery
Manipulation of parental feelings
Elder abuse / poor quality elder care
Brainwashing / indoctrination
Racism, including ideas of a nationalist “pureblooded” race
Alcohol talk in the post-ED section

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Niamh decided to have on friend of the pod Em Marko to talk a little about the NANA manga, since we both recently read through all of it!

I'm also considering the first of what might be an ongoing series of bonus episodes where we talk a little about a manga series related to a show we've either done on the podcast or plan to do in the future!

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Content Warnings for this Discussion

Abusive relationships
Compulsory heterosexuality

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