Manga Café vol. 2: Paradise Kiss (with special guest Em Marko)

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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Abusive relationships (briefly)

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[S8E2] Baccano!, eps. 1–8 (with special guest John-Charles Holmes)

"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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Gore
Sexual assault
Manipulation and control
Stealing memories
Racist caricature

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[S8E3] Baccano!, eps. 9–16 (with special guest John-Charles Holmes)

"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.

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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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[S8E4] Question Bucket: You wouldn't take this anime boy home to meet your mother (with special guest John-Charles Holmes)

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

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[S9E1] Intro to Serial Experiments Lain (with Special Guest Star Autumn Blake)

“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.”

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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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[S9E2] Serial Experiments Lain, eps. 1–6 (with Special Guest Star Autumn Blake)

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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Mental illness and loss of sense of reality
Alcohol and drunk driving
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[S9E3] Serial Experiments Lain, eps. 7–13 (with Special Guest Star Autumn Blake)

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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[S9E4] Question Bucket: Danza Kuduro (with Special Guest Star Autumn Blake)

“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
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[S10E1] Intro to Paranoia Agent (with special guests Josh McKenzie and Craig Neeson)

“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…”

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[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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[S10E2] Paranoia Agent ep. 1–7 (with special guest Josh McKenzie)

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
Dissociative identity disorder
Stalking, sexual assault
Child sex abuse, invasion of privacy, suggestion of pedophilia
Sex and sex work
Sexism and patriarchal roles
Violence, home invasion
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