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225 - One Shot 17 - An Invitation from a Crab
Category: Games & Hobbies
Duration: 01:12:23
Publish Date: 2019-01-13 18:00:00
Description: On this episode we review the surreal stories in "An Invitation from a Crab" by panpanya! Remember to send us emails! manga@alltalkpodcast.com Follow us on Twitter! @mangamacpodcast Check out our tumblr! http://mangamachinations.tumblr.com Join our Discord server and come talk to us! http://discord.me/mangamac Time Stamps: 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “New Stranger” by sora tob sakana from "Hi Score Girl", Opening, Introductions, Pepsi vs. Coke 00:02:44 - New update on Manga Machinations podcast hosting 00:04:02 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: "Dragon Ball Z" OST “Prologue”, darfox is interested to read more of the brand new "Chainsaw Man" 00:09:03 - we give quick impressions of "Mob Psycho 100 II" and "The Promised Neverland" 00:11:05 - "Boss Renoma: Shuujin Riku Gaiden" is a prequel that dakazu liked but ultimately didn't really need 00:13:08 - Seamus checks out vol. 3 of "Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction" and has some wild speculations about where the plot 00:25:08 - News: We discuss some highlights from Inio Asano's manga exhibition "Ctrl+T2" 00:28:18 - Seven Seas Entertainment publishing announcements for "Nicola Traveling Around the Demon’s World" and "The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms" 00:30:06 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Manga in Motion, reviewing the studio Ghibli's "From Up on Poppy Hill" 00:30:50 - Main Segment One Shot: "An Invitation from a Crab", Transition Song: “Book-end, Happy-end” by TECHNOBOYS PULCRAFT GREEN-FUND feat. Hiroshi Takano from "Skull-faced Bookseller Honda-san", we discuss panpanya's "An Invitation from a Crab" 00:33:29 - Seamus explains how the stories all presented "as is" without context or explanation 00:36:13 - dakazu theorizes that panpanya takes real-life photographs and then deconstructs them to create the unique backgrounds 00:39:45 - darfox compares THE PERFECT SUNDAY to "Wallace and Gromit" 00:40:54 - dakazu explains why he feels this manga is closer to fine art than commercial entertainment akin to movies like "Under the Skin" and "Upstream Color" 00:42:30 - Seamus explores how this manga uses defamiliarization to give the reader an emotional reaction 00:45:33 - we praise the shifting art styles that sometimes occur from panel to panel 00:49:39 - darfox explains how after he stopped trying to find consistent themes he enjoyed the book as an emotional trip with some reoccurring images 00:53:03 - Seamus compares the surrealist themes of this book to other alternative manga 00:54:37 - we talk about the numerous written passages scattered within the book 00:57:24 - dakazu expresses his struggle with the kindle browser reader 00:59:41 - we discuss the Index and Table of Contents in this book 01:03:32 - we each give our final thoughts 01:06:41 - Seamus wants to know about manga that satire manga genres 01:10:32 - Next Week’s Topic: "From Up on Poppy Hill", Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from "Beet the Vandel Buster"
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