Topics discussed: Kino and Hermes are funny little guys; the philosophical allegorical mode of Kino's Journey; Kino's shifting and poorly-maintained position as an observer who does not intercede; Kino as a stateless, detachged party; Kino's gun rituals; the philosophy of altruism and society; Niamh's proposal for a NANA Festival; the Land of Sad Bangers; the functions of religion in society; the melodramatic humor of Kino's Journey; Gender Is Happening; Kino's ring of keys moment; Kino's gender as one aspect of their intentional taking on of the role of the Other; the constructed worldviews of societies and Kino's potential position as a corrective perspective; humans' relationships to work; fully-automated capitalism; the concept of utopia in Kino's Journey; the two-episode tournament arch; Shizu, the older sword twink Kino; Samurai Jack; Niamh just doesn't care about fight scenes in manga and anime and that's why fae thinks Berserk is kinda mid; envisioniong the fighting tournament arch of NANA; the Midwestern fine and the British quite; a sixth kind of animal; and safe-for-work Sasuke.

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Animal death
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Transphobia and childhood trauma
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“Someone once told me that watching anime made them want to record a podcast.”

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Release Schedule

[S11E1] Intro to Kino's Journey: December 9, 2022
[S11E2] Kino's Journey, eps. 1–7: December 23, 2022
[S11E3] Kino's Journey, eps. 8–13 + ep. 0: January 6, 2023
[S11E4] Question Bucket: January 20, 2023

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Violence and gore
Suicide
Slavery
Cannibalism
Genocide / massacre
Animal death
Misgendering

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Topics discussed: Once Again, Shōnen Bat is a Stand Alone Complex; Someone Actually Asks Niamh to Talk About NANA; The Forbidden Sixth Route in the Five Kinds of Animal You Can Date Otome; We Have A Very Broad Definition of “Game Show”; The Thematic Pairing of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and Jackass Forever; The Teleological Fallacy of Pizza; Niamh Desperately Trying to Get the Podcast Back on Track; and Connor’s Disgusting Recipe for Fast Tea.

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Topics discussed: There Needs to be More Maromi Merchandizing; the Shockwaves of the First 7 Episodes; Collective Narratives of Shared Truth; the Hell of Animation Production; Overcoming Modernity; the Conservativism of Paranoia Agent; the Return for Traditional Japanese Values with Misae as a Traditional Japanese Mother; the Cyclical Nature of Paranoia Agent; the Power of Ideas and Their Emergence from the Social Consciousness; the Balance of Maromi and Shōnen Bat; the Double-Edged Sword of Modernity; the Restoration of the Traditional Passing Down from Mother to Daughter; the Resolution of Sagi Tsukiko’s Trauma but not the Mass Trauma of Society; Tempering Our Reading of the Series with Communism; the Animation Episode; the Full Deconstruction of the Animation of the Show; Hating on Persona 4 Golden; Fiction, Cycles, and the Constructions and Articulations of Ideas and Identities; the Suicide Episode; Detective Fiction as a Mode of Existentialist Fiction; Questions About Tokyo Godfathers are Banned; and the Five Kinds of Animals.

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Works Cited in this Discussion

Excerpt on “Detoxifying Culture” by the prominent literary critic Kamei Katsuichiro from the Overcoming Modernity Symposium of July 1942 organized by Kamei and two other major literary critics, Kawakami Tetsutarō and Kobayashi Hideo, published in Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook edited by James W. Heisig, Thomas P. Kasulis, and John C. Maraldo, 2011

Quote from “On ‘Overcoming Modernity’” by Odagiri Hideo originally published in Bungaku (Literature), April 1958, quoted in the chapter “Overcoming Modernity” published in What Is Modernity? Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi, edited and translated by Richard F. Calichman, 2005

Content Warnings for this Discussion

Mental health crises, self-harm, and suicide
Unreality
Sex and sexuality
Fascism
Alcohol (post-ED section)

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Topics discussed: Breaking the Pattern of Paranoia Agent in Episode 7; Repression and Alienation; It’s ‘Cause You Be On That Phone; The Tsunami as Lil Slugger; Issues of Victimhood; Shōnen Bat is a Stand Alone Complex; Harumi and Maria; Niamh is Still NANA Brained; Announcement of Our Next New Year’s Special; Josh Says the Wildest Thing About Tokyo Godfathers; Crises of Childhood, Femininity, and Masculinity; The Worsening Effects of the Sluggings; The Animated Being of Maromi; Lil Slugger as Another Mascot Character; The Existentialism of the Detective Fiction Framing; The OP and the ED; and Critiquing Maromi Plushes.

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Mental health crises, self-harm, and suicide
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“To begin, a rabbit jumps behind the moon. What is it that the black rabbit sees on the horizon with his big red eyes? A fish on the land has trouble when he is stepped on by cows. The playful palace where the butterfly dances vanishes away. At twilight, the cows starts it by chance and the goodness continues. The golden fox grins at you. And then…”

Dive into Paranoia Agent!

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Release Schedule

[S10E1] Intro to Paranoia Agent: October 14, 2022 [S10E2] Paranoia Agent ep. 1–7: October 28, 2022 [S10E3] Paranoia Agent ep. 8–13: November 11, 2022 [S10E4] Question Bucket: November 25, 2022

Works Cited

Excerpt on “Detoxifying Culture” by the prominent literary critic Kamei Katsuichiro from the Overcoming Modernity Symposium of July 1942 organized by Kamei and two other major literary critics, Kawakami Tetsutarō and Kobayashi Hideo, published in Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook edited by James W. Heisig, Thomas P. Kasulis, and John C. Maraldo, 2011

Quote from “On ‘Overcoming Modernity’” by Odagiri Hideo originally published in Bungaku (Literature), April 1958, quoted in the chapter “Overcoming Modernity” published in What Is Modernity? Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi, edited and translated by Richard F. Calichman, 2005

Content Warnings for the Anime

Depiction of mental health crises
Self-harm and suicide
Stalking, sexual assault, rape, child abuse
Blood, violence, murder, and death
Sexuality and sex work
Fatphobia
Depiction of an animal death

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“Most games are mid.”

Topics discussed: The Wired vs. Kingdom Hearts; The Ricola Incident; Forever Anime; Things That Are Mid; Kissing and/or Tucking; Coffee Orders; Super Bowl Commercials; Gamer Moded Opinions; and Coffee In General.

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Alcohol
Food

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Topics discussed: Connor Gaslights Niamh; Connor and Autumn Call Lain Mid; Lain and Alice Enjoy Some Eggo Waffles; Digging Into the Ending of Lain; Comparing Serial Experiments Lain with Neon Genesis Evangelion; The Suicidal Reading of the Ending of Lain; How Lain Tempers Its Bleakness with Love; Connor Brain Dumps His Reading of the Series as a Whole; Is Lain a God, a Little Girl, or a Yokai?; Comparing Serial Experiments Lain with Akira; Tremors is a Libertarian Wet Dream Movie; The Horror of Right-Wing Radicalization Online vs. the Affirmation of Positive Identities Online; Why Does Batou Criticize the Major for Going Diving?; Lain Game Dot Net; Autumn and Niamh Record a 40-Minute Podcast About Manga and Chrono Cross Where They Get Quieter and Quieter as They Talk; Searching Tongue on Eat Out.

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Suicide
Sex and sexuality
Depiction of a young girl fantasizing about an adult teacher
Childhood estrangement
Queerphobia
Public shootings
Food

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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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Suicide
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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

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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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