Happy Alita-versary!
01/31 will mark the one year anniversary of the world premiere of the inimitable, improbable Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron film Alita: Battle Angel. This movie is, of course, an adaptation of a manga that began in 1990 and is...still going, actually!
Doc and Shadon watched the film for the first time and have a lot to say about it. They discuss the setting, world-building, characters, themes, adaptational choices, mood and more. How did they feel about the film? Click play, and find out!
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Alita: Battle Angel - One Year Later

"Warui Deshou" is a Japanese phrase that roughly translates to "It will be bad." And, we believe we make bad content...but we also believe that very thing can be good when there's enough love and fun put into it!

Hosts and friends Doc and Shadon love anime and really enjoy talking about it. For hours at a time. Each episode they will discuss a different anime show/movie and will aim to make you think and make you laugh. They're just as likely to unabashedly gush about how cool a character is as they are to launch into a long aside of thematic analysis. Bad puns and impressions may also appear Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waruideshou/support

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Animation & Manga

Welcome back, folks! Apologies for the overly long time away; we've been super busy with our day jobs. Hopefully, since we're covering an absolute gem of a movie, you'll forgive us. Enjoy our discussion of Tomas Alfredson and John Ajvide Lindqvists' romantic horror film, Let The Right One In.
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Let The Right One In

All aboard, anime fans! Join us as we punch our ticket to space adventure, science fantasy, and beautiful melancholy. Listener, you're on a one way train to a three hour discussion of 1979's Galaxy Express 999 The Movie! We talk about Leiji Matsumoto, the Leijiverse, Rintaro, and some of the notable seiyuu. We discuss Maetel, Tetsuro, Emeraldas, Harlock, and all your favorites. We get into this film as a story about class struggle, Matsumoto's depictions of women, and how certain scenes affected us now that the original creator of the Leijiverse is sadly no longer with us. 


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Music:
Jimi Hendrix "Hear My Train A Comin"
Nobuo Uematsu "Phantom Train" (cover by Sean Schafianski)
Lumi Athena "XVI Ultima!"

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Galaxy Express 999 The Movie

Hello, friends! We actually released two pods this month! Who'd have guessed it could happen again? This episode we are talking about the 2019 Noah Baumbach film "Marriage Story" starring Matoko Kusanagi and Kylo Ren! In all seriousness, we both really liked this movie and we hope you enjoy our chat about how it goes in on the American legal system, what we thought of all the performances, how the film is disarmingly funny at times (often because of its subject matter rather than in spite of it), stimulates reflections on relationships and fatherhood, and just generally creates awareness and empathy in us.


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Music:
Bibio "Lovers' Carvings"
Lumi Athena "XVI Ultima!" 

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Marriage Story

Hello, friends! We are back are far too long an absence to discuss the seminal 1980s OAV, Megazone 23! Parts 1 and 2 only. In this episode, we chat about the creators of the films, articulate our own experiences with them in 2023, attempt to understand them from the mindset of the 80s fandom unto which they were released, answer listener questions, and more!


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Music:
H.E.A.T. "One By One"
MACROSS 82-99 "Perfect Blue"
JPEG Mafia x Danny Brown 'Lean Beef Patty"
Lumi Athena "XVI Ultima!" 

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Megazone 23 Parts 1 & 2

Doc & Shadon break down Hong Kong action director Benny Chan's final film, Raging Fire! Donnie Yen and Nicholas Tse tear it up in this high-impact revenge story. We talk about our favorite scenes, discuss whether the film is copaganda, talk a bit about moral luck, and count suplexes!
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Music:

Junior Murvin "Police And Thieves"

The Clash "I Fought The Law"

Scooter "Fire"

Nicholas Tse "謝謝你的愛1999(國)"



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Alita: Battle Angel - One Year Later

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