211 - Manga in Motion 33 - Animal World

Manga Machinations

Apologies in advance as Seamus had to skip this week’s podcast so we changed from our planned retrospective to another Manga in Motion instead. So at darfox’s request we look at the Chinese Animal World based on Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji!

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Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “Mirai wa Bokura no Te no Naka ” by Kaiji and the Redbound Cherries from Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor, Opening, Changes in scheduling, Introductions
• 00:02:32 - Listener Emails: Manga introduced through the podcast that we love
• 00:12:44 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, darfox agrees with Will Eisner’s Comics & Sequential Art that comics count as reading
• 00:15:15 - dakazu dove into the manga and life of Taeko Uzuki, Shin Kazoku Keikaku may be fiction but Uzuki created it from real personal experiences she went through
• 00:20:29 - dakazu is moved from learning about Taeko Uzuki’s life as a cult porno star, her struggles with Schizophrenia, multiple suicide attempts, and her hallucination laden recovery back to health that are covered in her memoir Ningen Karimenchu
• 00:33:21 - dakazu checks out Prison School creator Akira Hiramoto’s Me and the Devil Blues and his brand new RaW Hero
• 00:39:11 - News: My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness wins the 2018 Harvey Awards for Best Manga, Harold Sakuishi wins the International Spotlight Award
• 00:42:22 - NANA creator Ai Yazawa drew illustrations for Street Tradition: Men’s Fashion is Learning from the Past
• 00:44:00 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Anime Interlude where we’ll be discussing the past Summer 2018 season of anime and some of our early impressions for Fall 2018
• 00:45:29 - Main Segment Manga in Motion: Transition Song: “Bad Ass” by Red Light Saints from Animal World, we explain how closely this mirror’s “Kaiji”, ponder why they made the changes from Kaiji to Kaisi, examine the need for the high budget special effects & action scenes, praise the production values of the gambling part, disagree with making some characters more pure good/evil, wonder if Michael Douglas will be in the sequel, and complain about the complete lack of zawa-zawa
• 01:16:40 - Next Week’s Topic: Anime Interlude, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster