And Then, An Aeroplane

A week later than expected but that’s what happens when you have to go to that job and deal with that sadness. Our Kiki talk veers all over the place as we confront the reality of one of the warmest films we’ve ever seen also being an advocate for some ideas that fill us with disquiet and frustration. Truly, if a bag can be mixed, this is one. Thankfully it is in safe hands as it goes towards its destination—you, the listener.

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You can listen to and support Autumn’s work at Export Audio and the Export Audio Patreon, and find Em mostly talking Gundam on The Great Gundam Project.

This Week’s Film:
Kiki’s Delivery Service

Next Time:
Only Yesterday

It’s time for the second half of a double feature of sorrow as we find My Neighbor Totoro surprisingly sad as adults who understand that children are right to be afraid of what might go wrong even in the warmest of tales. Also, an announcement about our schedule going forward. Let’s all wish for the seeds to sprout together!

Please send all your questions and comments about this game or anything else to [email protected]!

You can listen to and support Autumn’s work at Export Audio and the Export Audio Patreon, and find Em mostly talking Gundam on The Great Gundam Project.

This Week’s Film:
My Neighbor Totoro

Next Time:
Kiki’s Delivery Service

We take on the tragedies minor and major in one of the most heart-wrenching films either of us has ever seen with Grave of the Fireflies. The joys of life, the sorrows of death, and the failures of community and country both wartime and not take the center stage in this beautiful movie.

Please send all your questions and comments about this game or anything else to [email protected]!

You can listen to and support Autumn’s work at Export Audio and the Export Audio Patreon, and find Em mostly talking Gundam on The Great Gundam Project.

This Week’s Film:
Grave of the Fireflies

Next Time:
My Neighbor Totoro

Studio Ghibli is now a real thing and we watch their first film in this, the third episode of our rewatch podcast. Today we discover that everything that isn’t a Nausicaa is instead a Laputa, we discuss the limits of a setpiece first storytelling method, and we love us some adorable robots. Truly we have reached the end of the beginning!

Please send all your questions and comments about this game or anything else to [email protected]!

You can listen to and support Autumn’s work at Export Audio and the Export Audio Patreon, and find Em mostly talking Gundam on The Great Gundam Project.

This Week’s Film:
Castle in the Sky

Next Time:
Grave of the Fireflies

There are classics and then there are classics, and this week we watch arguably the most important work of Hayao Miyazaki as we delve into our pile of emotions around Nausicaa. We talk Miyazaki’s already apparent tropes, ecology, politics and war, depictions of women, voice acting, fatalism vs hope, and so much more in this monster bug of an episode. Thank you to all our new listeners for an amazing first episode and hopefully many more!

Please send all your questions and comments about this game or anything else to [email protected]!

You can listen to and support Autumn’s work at Export Audio and the Export Audio Patreon, and find Em mostly talking Gundam on The Great Gundam Project. Listen to them discuss the Nausicaa manga on Your Uncle’s Beach House!

This Week’s Film:
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Next Time:
Castle in the Sky

Welcome to the premier of And Then, An Aeroplane! Hosts Alison Autumn June and Em Marko begin their year long voyage to the bright shores and high skies of the films of Studio Ghibli, bringing you a new movie every two weeks. This time, we begin with the first film by Hayao Miyazaki, and the second film of the gentleman thief Lupin the Third. What does it mean to be a dashing hero? What mysteries can we solve and do they matter? Why even include Goemon if he’s just going to stand around? All this and more in this first, action-heavy episode!

Please send all your questions and comments about this game or anything else to [email protected]!

You can listen to and support Autumn’s work at Export Audio and the Export Audio Patreon, and find Em mostly talking Gundam on The Great Gundam Project.

This Week’s Film:
Castle of Cagliostro

Next Time:
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind