Note: In support of the ongoing strikes in Hollywood and the guidance released by SAG-AFTRA regarding rewatch and companion podcasts, we have decided to postpone coverage of Psycho-Pass: The Movie until the strike resolves. We will be back in two weeks with the Question Bucket for Psycho-Pass instead.
00:23:57: Discussion for episodes 9–11
01:14:08: Discussion for episodes 12 & 13
01:53:12: Discussion for episodes 14–16
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00:22:41: Discussion for episodes 1–3
01:20:18: Discussion for episodes 4 & 5
02:11:26: Discussion for episodes 6–8
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Our bucket is overflowing with questions this week! Thank you to everyone who wrote in. We try to get right to the emails... but end up talking about overall feelings on the show for a while first...
Anyway, we have a good mix of serious questions and jokey ones and have fun bouncing
a.k.a. Iron-Blooded Orphans 2, eps. 20–25
Topics discussed: Once again Niamh has not been able to finish the notes in time. Expect them sometime this weekend. Sorry!
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a.k.a. Iron-Blooded Orphans 2, eps. 14–19
Topics discussed: Revealed Intentions; the people making IBO love Victory Gundam; how to say Dáinsleif; someone really needed to warn all these characters about death flagging; Iok Kujan continues to survive out of pure stupidity; Hush’s anime rival to gofer lackey arc; the Dáinsleif as an escalation of medieval warfare into modern weaponry; Gjallarhorn’s
a.k.a. Iron-Blooded Orphans 2, eps. 8–13
Topics discussed: Iok is a Jerid; Vidar, Gaelio, Ein, and the Norse god of vengeance; the myth of Ragnarök and its significance in Norse mythology; McGillis as a Loki; the patriarchal systems throughout the world of IBO; sacrifice; McGillis’s promise to pass on the colonial apparatus to Orga; an appraisal of Kudelia and the limits of her ability to
a.k.a. Iron-Blooded Orphans 2, eps. 1–7
Topics discussed: Niamh’s new way of doing synopses; Julieta is the weird girl to Ple’s silly girl, cyber new type vibes all around; Montag goes masked off and just becomes McGillis; the new yakuza motherfucker; the potential identity of the mysterious masked man; the new state of the world and the lack of significant improvements in the wake of Makanai’s
Topics discussed: Trying to imagine the position of being completely unmoved by anything except Biscuit; spending over a half hour to synopsize three episodes; Connor figured out why he was trudging through Victory; Victory and disgust at the Earth and the ocean; abjection around the Alaya-Vijnana system and cybernetics in general; IBO’s belief in the