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
Slavery and cannibalism
Suicide
Transphobia and childhood trauma
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