Anime Is For Jerks

In which Cass & Alex discuss Kaiba, directed by Masaaki Yuasa and produced by Madhouse.

Next month we will be discussing Only Yesterday, directed by Isao Takahata and produced by Studio Ghibli. 

Discussed: this show sucks, midgar (i cut a tangent about barrett calling midgar a rotten pizza in the japanese version of ffvii, if you want that content go watch Let's Mosey: A Slow Translation of Final Fantasy VII by Tim Rogers) , the finger on the monkey's paw, bobs big boy burbank, mf said skonk, a graph theory themed fertility tattoo, extreme looney tunes shit, xkcd 483: Fiction Rule of Thumb, the second matrix sequel, the cursed horny, fucking yourself to death via inflation, fucking yourself to death being a crime, big titty goth gf memory smuggler, azumanga daioh, releasing your  brain eggs into the hypersphere, a smoking baby in a tall robot, Just A Baby by Neil Cicierega, how penises work, hundreds of tiny robot dogs, t-posing to assert dominance, who in this show invests in crypto, bioshock infinite, "me: i am fundementally opposed to the monarchy and the church as ruling powers. history is a record of their atrocities" by @headfallsoff

FINAL SCORES:

Walking Around: 0/5

Fellowship: 0/5

Deliciousness: 0/5

Transcendence: 0/5

Goofing: 0/5

Amelioration: 0/5

Coitus: 0/5

Enthrallment: 0/5

Fuck You: 0/5

Eat Shit: 0/5

Alex's Book Recommendation:  Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn

Cass's Book Recommendation: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

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In which Cass & Alex discuss Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, directed by Sayo Yamamoto and produced by TMS/Po10tial.

Next month we will be discussing Kaiba, directed by Masaaki Yuasa and produced by Madhouse. 

Discussed: friend of the show takeshi koike, the sensuality of monkey punch, the dizzy dizzy drug, the giant buddha statue made out of drugs in the basement, the cat pronoun, that picture of john lennon, goemon baths, unmotivated camera movement, getting a real girlfriend, bees, magnum dong, crossdressing: it's free and the cops can't stop you, fiadel kestrel, antiques roadshow, @dril "THERAPIST: your problem is, that youre perfect, and everyone is jealous of your good posts, and that makes you rightfully upset. ME: I agree", lupin's interiority, doing a terrorist attack to get dick, one half of a split fucking second, withered wojack, three years of this podcast

FINAL SCORES:

Walking Around: 4/5

Fellowship: 2/5

Deliciousness: 1/5

Transcendence: 3/5

Goofing: 3/5

Amelioration: 4/5

Coitus: 3/5

Enthrallment: 3/5

Owls: 5/5

Boobs: 5/5

Alex's Book Recommendation:  Pity the Beast by Robin McLean

Cass's Book Recommendation: The Panda's Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould

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In which Cass & Alex discuss Cowboy Bebop, directed by Shinichiro Watanabe and produced by Sunrise.

Next month we will be discussing Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, directed by Sayo Yamamoto and produced by TMS/Po10tial.

Discussed: the netflix live action cowboy bebop, @TomatoGrandpa: "Reading the Bebop reviews and yea,  this is exactly what I expected.", "Why Does Everyone In Netflix's Cowboy Bebop Talk Like That?" by Gita Jackson, @NotBrunoAgain: "This is bait but whatever: the truly stupid thing about this attitude is that there is a CEASELESS TORRENT OF GREAT ART you could be enjoying instead, more than you could ever possibly get to", relentless american cultural hegemony,  "The Genius Design of Cowboy Bebop's Titles" by Linus Boman, "Martin Scorsese - The Art of Silence" by Every Frame A Painting, the knife's edge of being stupid, Dirt on the Camera Lens by Mike Rugnetta, faye's outfit, the conceptual definition of the himbo, the boob situation, the great gatsby, tokyo godfathers, The Gun That Makes You Old, touching computer, a gay alien, 17776 by Jon Bois, leaving things in the fridge, gender, star wars, spike's big coat, jet's cop outfit, what guys looked like in the 70s, beta and vhs, LET'S GO TO HELL!!!, the space shuttle columbia, a perfectly spherical dinner suit, the clown as the very image of christ, the young men's cowboy association, "A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is '100 percent fatal'", Marshall Banana, eating two dozen hard boiled eggs with your bro, the loser bar, Uzumaki, Dragon Quest XI: The Kotaku Review, ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS The Final Fantasy VII Remake

FINAL SCORES:

Walking Around: 5/5

Fellowship: 5/5

Deliciousness: 3/5

Transcendence: 5/5

Goofing: 5/5

Amelioration: 4/5

Coitus: 1/5

Enthrallment: 5/5

Cyberpunkness: 5/5

Cats: 4/5

Alex's Book Recommendation:  She Rises by Kate Worsley

Cass's Book Recommendation: Babel-17/Empire Star by Samuel R. Delany

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In which Cass & Alex discuss Tokyo Godfathers, directed by Satoshi Kon and produced by Madhouse.

Next month we will be discussing Cowboy Bebop, directed by Shinichiro Watanabe and produced by Sunrise. 

Discussed: satoshi kon tried to make a coen brothers movie, the most terrifying baby in the universe, transphobia, the police, your boobs being poggers, stabbing your father who is a cop, primer, getting rid of some trash, shoplifters, slipping on a bar of soap in the shower, calling an ambulance, a police sketch of a baby, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Little Fish by Casey Plett, Nevada by Imogen Binnie, the relationship between trains and cinema, hell of SEO

FINAL SCORES:

Walking Around: 5/5

Fellowship: 4/5

Deliciousness: 1/5

Transcendence: 0/5

Goofing: 4/5

Amelioration: 2/5

Coitus: 0/5

Enthrallment: 0/5

Winter Vibes: 4/5

ACAB: 1/5

Alex's Book Recommendation: Tiny Pieces of Skull by Roz Kaveney

Cass's Book Recommendation: The Anime Machine by Thomas Lamarre

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In which Cass & Alex discuss Mononoke, directed by Kenji Nakamura and produced by Toei Animation.

Next month we will be discussing Tokyo Godfathers, directed by Satoshi Kon and produced by Madhouse.

Discussed: pure vibes performance, being pressured to watch something for a podcast, a newgrounds meet 'n' fuck game, @mcclure111: "There are certain kinds of visual-- mostly things involving small dots, dithering, complex patterns-- that the video codecs we've adopted everywhere are just plain bad at representing. Without any conversation, we've culturally decided those types of art will simply not exist", "Why Snow and Confetti Ruin YouTube Video Quality" by Tom Scott, the mononoke wikipedia article, impossible geometry, being trapped in a room with a bunch of spirits who have strong feelings about abortion, giving birth to who knows how many ghosts, turning into dust, being cleansed of your sins by an evil cat, a weird fish with a shamisen, paul rudd's computer, boat ufos, who hasn't been dead the whole time, the interpretive equivalent of that bit from wallance and gromit where gromit is laying the train tracks down in front of him, a 30 episode shonen sports anime about the world of competitive incense smelling, the three japanese arts of refinement, genjiko, taikyoku shogi, swooping owl, cat sword, evil wolf, blind dog, flying horse, poisonous snake, wrestler, pig general, reverse chariot, mountain witch, gliding swallow, vertical horse, left dog, right dog, a piece of wood that grants you power, braktheman, the oldest elementary schooler in history of the world, more being worse when it comes to coitus, revisiting utena's (and our) problems with race, "Disturbing, Traversing, Borderless, Shaking Sexuality: The Place where Revolutionary Girl Utena was Born"

FINAL SCORES:

Walking Around: 2/5

Fellowship: 1/5

Deliciousness: 0/5

Transcendence: 5/5

Goofing: 2/5

Amelioration: 5/5

Coitus: 1/5

Enthrallment: 5/5

Alex's Book Recommendation: The Manningtree Witches by A.K. Blakemore

Cass's Book Recommendation: Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

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In which Cass & Alex discuss Evangelion: 3.0 + 1.0 Thrice Upon A Time, directed by Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Katsuichi Nakayama, and Mahiro Maeda, and produced by Studio Khara.

Next month we will be discussing Mononoke, directed by Kenji Nakamura and produced by Toei Animation.

Discussed: why we are watching this instead of tokyo godfathers, nausea of the soul, a movie about how you should stop watching anime, a glossy jpeg of paris tinted red, Michael Bay - What is Bayhem by Every Frame a Painting, おっぱいメガネ, chapter 5 of kentucky route zero, why there are brands after the apocalypse, i have nipples greg can you milk me, trying mindfulness, the hedgehog's dilemma, shinji's iconic walkman, a dad is a cop with laser eyes, demi adejuyigbe's ready player one theme song, dudes named ryoji, exposition, gyarus after the apocalypse, nice face for a clown, getting a haircut in a squash court, the chamber of guf, the thirteenth man-made ultimate multipurpose humanoid decisive weapon, using the key of nebuchadnezzar and abandoning your humanity, Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Had A Great One-Liner, sunny-place, an eva that is both imaginary and fictional, Têtes à claques, man pain, being a wife guy to such a degree you have to destroy the world, being fine, destroying evangelion, touching grass

FINAL SCORES:

Walking Around: 0/5

Fellowship: 0/5

Deliciousness: 0/5

Transcendence: 0/5

Goofing: 0/5

Amelioration: 0/5

Coitus: 0/5

Enthrallment: 0/5

Alex's Book Recommendation: Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

Cass's Book Recommendation: The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa

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In which Cass & Alex discuss the second half of Mobile Suit Gundam, directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino and produced by Nippon Sunrise.

Next month we will be discussing Tokyo Godfathers, directed by Satoshi Kon and produced by Madhouse.

Discussed: job john, bathing is counterrevolutionary, chads on both sides, sitting in a dive bar drinking whiskey in a white linen suit for several months, donkey kong forward aerial, "witness the fate of a soldier!" i throw one leg out and fall on my ass. it's not clear what kind of move i was trying to do, naked snake, venom snake, someone finally bought a copy of your book, sir!, seaplane fishermen(?), flanagan boone and his mad angler squadron, the world being this awful forever, capybaras, my "they told me i'm physically healthy and mentally sound" t-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt, delicious juice, anomalously pointy teeth, shower with the lads simulator 2016: do you still shower with the lads, rick doms, fuckdads.com, getting zodiac'd, the aviator, show me all the gundams, char aznable steely dan amv, fancy baroque ladies, a big football with legs, A Planet For Texans, jerking off a weird crystal bong, adolf hitler, buttsham, tricorn hat, brain moment, the light of hatred, hitler and proud of it, gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss, the mask stays on during sex, the nine delights, estonian military rations

FINAL SCORES:

Walking Around: 4/5

Fellowship: 5/5

Deliciousness: 0/5

Transcendence: 3/5

Goofing: 2/5

Amelioration: 1/5

Coitus: 0/5

Enthrallment: 3/5

*WILDCARD* Cool Robot: 3/5

*WILDCARD* Gay Shit: 2/5

Alex's Book Recommendation: Little Drummer Girl by John Le Carré

Cass's Book Recommendation: City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis

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In which Cass & Alex discuss the first half of Mobile Suit Gundam, directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino and produced by Nippon Sunrise.

Next month we will be discussing the rest of Mobile Suit Gundam.

Discussed:  getting in the gundam, why anime is like this, seinfeld, the history of giant robot shows, super robot, real robot, malthusian overpopulation, the population bomb, o'neill cylinder, fraw bow, Turn A Gundam, sweatson stero, merrybell gadget, agrippa maintainer, cancer kafka, meme midgard, bobson dugnutt, the great gundam project, minovsky physics, tiny little angels, the tommy westphall universe, minkowski sausage, a harrowing window, grape ape, wow cool robot, sunshine ages, sayla sus, g-forces, g-trousers, the type of guy who wears a suit to school,  Gundam's Yoshiyuki Tomino Reminds Us All That Char Definitely Has Sex, dick extended universe, new yark, being calm, dave lang, lavish french rococo ballrooms, r/malelivingspace, going back in time to play ruff ryders anthem for teddy roosevelt, antebellum lawyer char, fortunate son, your only crime was violating us law, doing sidequests, tom bombadil, mobile suit martial arts, the scent of battle, seeing a bra for the first time in your entire life, your responsibility as an adult being to pilot a giant robot, the kind of face mask that screams "i have an onlyfans", witness the fate of a soldier! i jump out of the white base and create a huge cloud of smoke. when the cloud dissipates im lying completely dead on the pavement, good quality and competitive price

Alex's Book Recommendation: Ways of Seeing by John Berger

Cass's Book Recommendation: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion  by Yukio Mishima

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In which Cass & Alex discuss Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, directed by Masaaki Yuasa and produced by Science Saru.

Next month we will be discussing Mobile Suit Gundam, directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino and produced by Nippon Sunrise.

Discussed:  the least interesting thing we have ever seen masaaki yuasa be involved in, yo-kai watch the movie, masaaki yuasa heard you talkin shit like he wouldn't find out, the fancy milk they sell at the laundromat, that meme with the guy talking to the lady at the baseball game here demonstrated by twitter user northernlion, our orders are to keep you from joining the anime club, a healthy marriage, the leon the professional extended universe, producing garbage and making people miserable, the word 映像研, knowing enough japanese to be dangerous, the honorific "氏", The Anime Club by KC Green, a moment of silence for our comrade the 30000 yen, two bottles of milk, seven croquettes, one red bean bun with smooth paste, big smoke's order, david mamet again, shirobako, the carbohydrates revolution group, the only way in which this show is like carole and tuesday, ira glass, dying in front of your television, 30 minutes of wow cool robot, using the word "simp" for the second episode in a row, robot crime, crabtle, the oatmeal dot com, greatest strongest robot song, akihabara culture and fermented foods advocacy club, drone photography club, messenger pigeon club, man faced fish investigation lab, hundred eye demon, the least erotic bathhouse scene in the history of anime, the HVAC club, sepak takraw, witnessing the death of a liquor store, fretting your weird head off, having a vision of a sauna floating in outer space, education, marathons, future, e-mail, cryptocurrency, abusive workplaces, trash, don't rock the boat thinking, ransom, PTA, camraderie, cancel culture, overachievers, cyber education, monster parents, mom friends, gender, poaching (cooking), poaching (killing), Otaku: Japan's Database Animals, The Anime Machine

Alex's Book Recommendation: The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

Cass's Book Recommendation: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

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In which Cass & Alex discuss Porco Rosso, directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli.

Next month we will be discussing Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, directed by Masaaki Yuasa and produced by Science Saru.

Discussed: maximum hangoutitude, air piracy, the mama mia auto gang, the Rubacava section of Grim Fandango, Casablanca, in love with the pig, awooga, air pirate wrestling promo, pure professional wrestling, everybody wants to fuck the pig, a pig's gotta fly, Piccolo Day, Eagleland, a sexist pig, you need sleep to do good work, better a pig than a fascist, desertion, treason, pornography, being a lazy pig, laws don't apply to pigs, an insult to life itself, Goro Miyazaki, The Earthsea Cycle, chekhov's ass, Redline, David Mamet, why they call it money, the frenchest looking man of all time, simping, "I'm Waiting For The Pig" by the Velvet Underground, Hayao Miyazaki invented Twitch chat in 1992, The Trojan War Will Not Take Place, no moral, Beauty and the Beast, Zootopia, dogecoin

Alex's Book Recommendation: Cassandra by Christa Wolf

Cass's Book Recommendation: The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

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