Anime Is For Jerks

In which Cass & Alex discuss REDLINE, directed by Takeshi Koike and produced by Madhouse.

Next month we will be discussing Porco Rosso, directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. 

Discussed: the last film we both hated, this movie is the fast and the furious, the absurdly long plot synopsis of this movie on wikipedia, funky boy, a chocolate cake with a steak inside it, an extremely pedantic complaint about internal combustion engines, Wipeout 2097, F-Zero, wishing this movie was a video game, yanki paul walker, "roboworld", febreeze, getting eaten out by dr zoidberg, getting damseled, riverdale, topless for no reason, bimbos in fur coats, basically jackin off, @thomas_violence:  "the year is 3403 AD, crime is legal and cop's are illegal, only one man is willing to break the law to make the law legal again: Crimecop", funky boy's gone rogue, funky boy is illegal, funky kong, divorced energy, we can't let funky boy destroy roboworld, the platinum nitro charge, the most coked out motherfuckers you've ever seen, the weird donald trump rat man from akira, no rules just right redline, edward scissorhands film analysis, jon hendren on HLN, attack emails off the shoulder of orion

Alex's Book Recommendation: Corregidora by Gayl Jones

Cass's Book Recommendation: Mort by Terry Pratchett

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In which Cass & Alex discuss Devilman Crybaby, directed by Masaaki Yuasa and produced by Science Saru.

Next month we will be discussing REDLINE, directed by Takeshi Koike and produced by Madhouse.

Discussed: this show is secretly a sports anime, ass-first introduction, divorcee horny, The Male Gaze, blasting cum onto your ceiling, FLCL, boobs in the thumbnail, ecstacy, stabbin motherfuckers, watching porn in the auditorium, gay little weirdos, buckminster fuller, involuntary rapping, dying to slam a demon, blasting porn at the track meet, drug lady, an extended rap about the circumstances,  locke and demosthenes, the departed, 気持ち悪い, murakami for lesbians, The Shape of Infinity by Jacob Geller

Alex's Book Recommendation: Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight

Cass's Book Recommendation: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

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In which Cass & Alex discuss Carole and Tuesday, directed by Shinichirō Watanabe and produced by Bones.

Next month we will be discussing Devilman Crybaby, directed by Masaaki Yuasa and produced by Science Saru. 

Discussed: 24 episodes of boring, Whiplash (as reviewed by a jazz musician) by Adam Neely, this is a sports anime, mars republican convention, thundercat, charlie puth, 21 savage, lil uzi vert, denzel curry, mars ICE, fka twigs, a softer world 478, mononymous pop stars, BoJack Horseman, tfw your ai manager runs off with your cryptocurrency, nord electric pianos, Making a NEVER-ENDING Neural Net Bass Solo  by Adam Neely, Instagram, Wikipedia, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, South by Southwest, The Mars Grammys, FOXDIE, martian holidays, "weather plant", the welcome to city 17 m&m in times square, the Mountain Goats, it's not funny Denzel Currys only write bars this bad when they're VERY DISTRESSED, FDT by YG, Alright by Kendrick Lamar, Thank You For Using GTL by Drakeo the Ruler, making up a new type of guy, the pentagon papers, stay salty gamers, mars Joe Rogan, Live Aid, We Are The World

Alex's Book Recommendation:  Possession by A.S. Byatt

Cass's Book Recommendation: What Terrorists Want by Louise Richardson

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In which Cass & Alex discuss Ping Pong: The Animation, directed by Masaaki Yuasa and produced by Tatsunoko Production.

Next month we will be discussing Carole and Tuesday, directed by Shinichirō Watanabe and produced by Bones.

Discussed: cass and alex both liked a show for once, oh he gaming, game boy advance, neo geo pocket color (which are not black, cass was thinking of the neo geo pocket and the regular neo geo), milk gives you diabetes?, bread makes you fat?, being a connoisseur of trash, the true heady pleasure of the 100-yen bar, pips-in rubber on both sides, pips out,the defensive backspin counterpart to the offensive loop drive, what table tennis and english vocabulary have in common, let's fuckin, northernlion, buff northernlion, the virgin northernlion vs the chad northernlion, no game no life,high school DxD, code geass, a league of their own, extreme ping-pong paddle closeups, @ja2ke: "I have no memory of writing this, but there it is, in the game data.", depressing christmas montage, Spelunky 2, hundun, wonton, the undifferentiated soup of primordial chaos, 17776 by Jon Bois, it's dangerous to swim with your clothes on, that man's name? albert einstein, a 16-year-old capricorn with type-O blood, big brain hours, me absolutely twisted coming home with four ping pong robots,me waking up the next day with a room full of ping pong robots, don quijote, big steppy, table tennis is a freaking blast, english loanwords, complaining about everything being the same, 428 Shibuya Scramble, Pathologic 2, Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass, Deadly Premonition, Ode To A Moon, just hit the ball 4head, a miserable city lesbian

Alex's Book Recommendation:  Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw

Cass's Book Recommendation: Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash

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In which Cass & Alex discuss Grave of the Fireflies, directed by Isao Takahata and produced by Studio Ghibli.

Next month we will be discussing Ping Pong: The Animation, directed by Masaaki Yuasa and produced by Tatsunoko Production.

Discussed: the saddest movie of all time, september 21st 1945, mom's dead parkour, lazy slut, if it sucks, hit da bricks, the one good cop, the world's worst funeral practicioner, "there is no such thing as an anti-war film", "The unsung genius of Studio Ghibli’s risk-taking realist, Isao Takahata", ping-pong spreadsheet, frege in space

Alex's Book Recommendation:  Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Cass's Book Recommendation: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

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In which Cass & Alex discuss Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales, directed by Tetsuo Imazawa, Kouzou Nagayama, and Kenji Nakamura and produced by Toei Animation.

Next month we will be discussing Grave of the Fireflies, directed by Isao Takahata and produced by Studio Ghibli.

Discussed: dan savage, whether the opening theme to this anime is good, Run Away With Me by Carly Rae Jepsen, nice bird, bird friend, bird fucker, macbeth, the lowest key fish person, kekekekekeke, horny bandits, the reverse persephone, free rat, oshizu did nothing wrong, *looks at kaliedoscope* god i wish that were me, ringu, Iemon, Lemon, Othello, Richard III, Throne of Blood, ghost hands, thinking that you've been killed by bandits, edutainment, the scottish play, mackers, feminist beowulf, seinfeld, medicine seller i am going into battle and i need only your strongest medicines, a drawer full of pornography, death: the final chill, Emily Wilson on the impossibility of translating Homer into English

Alex's Book Recommendation: Alcestis by Katharine Beutner

Cass's Book Recommendation: The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson

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In which Cass & Alex discuss Kids on the Slope, directed by Shinichiro Watanabe and produced by MAPPA and Tezuka Productions.

Next month we will be discussing Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales, directed by Tetsuo Imazawa, Kouzou Nagayama, and Kenji Nakamura and produced by Toei Animation. 

Discussed: The Gang Forms A Polycule, jazz, catholicism, 1960s japan, a spasm of chivalry, the beginning of a beautiful friendship, homoeroticism, how kyūshū girls behave, intense jazz drumming, upright bass, full ragtime, donkey kong getting pogged out of his gourd, a pigeon with a first and a last name, you don't deserve this giant onigiri, winter temperatures in kyūshū, love triangle, love heptagon, love snake, sadly looking at onigiri, making girls cry, my [16M] mom [48F] hooked up with the drummer in my jazz band [16M], making like a tree and getting out of here, clamming, dying on the cross,  the fantasy of a jazz nerd, 1968 and the Japanese Student Movement,  a spiral directly into the toilet, Junichi Katsuragi Scissors Truther Minute, yeet, teey, visiting someone while they're sick, the jazz wars, You Must Believe In Spring by Bill Evans, alex abandons cass in their time of need, Keanu Reeves, blood quanta, Light in August by William Faulkner

Alex's Book Recommendation: Passing by Nella Larsen

Cass's Book Recommendation: Twentieth-Century Harmony by Vincent Persichetti

Cass said they would provide links to their favorite recordings of the jazz standards from the episode titles so:

• Moanin'
• Summertime
• Someday My Prince Will Come
• But Not For Me
• Lullaby of Birdland
• You Don't Know What Love Is
• Now's The Time
• These Foolish Things
• Love Me Or Leave Me
• In A Sentimental Mood
• Left Alone
• All Blues

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In which Alex & Cass discuss the last 16 episodes of Revolutionary Girl Utena and Adolescence of Utena, directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara  and produced by J.C. Staff.

Next month we will be discussing Kids on the Slope, directed by Shinichiro Watanabe and produced by MAPPA and Tezuka Productions. 

Discussed: alex has been hoisted, the exact definition of ghost riding, Empty Movement, expressing that akio is an adult, buying coffins in bulk, the biggest fucking mood of all time, making it naughtier, nine billion fold homoeroticism, taking horny pics with the bros, in bed shirtless with the bros, gondola, cable car, aerial tramway, aerial lift, cass was bumping their desk and they tried so hard to make the sound go away in post with filters and multiband compression but it just didn't work so sorry, this show has a bit of a problem with race, The Egg Episode, The Godfather, egg jail, Most Likely to Bowl Award, tradcath touga, having an egg fry by yourself in the middle of the woods, "eggs are normally something you eat", gay bed, gene, meme, scene, ligma, badminton content, candles, phallic symbol, anime feet dot blogspot dot com, big titty goth milf, spoon bending, horatio, hot boys are assholes, kare kano, something eternal, nihilism, absolutely inexplicable that we did not bring up kirkegaard at any point in this episode,what's up doc, a pincer attack on her feminine sensibilities,  living in a society, the world is a vampire, saionji t-posing to assert dominance, allegory, allegorier, allegoriest, hermaphroditism, tradcath akio, pretending to care about stars to pick up chicks, canned coelecanth, memory as a kind of immortality, Pathologic 2, The Bob Emergency by Jon Bois, Bob Cyclone, Bob Bob, Sophocles, 17776 by Jon Bois, Buddhism, impermanence, Utena as a bodhisattva, THE MILLION SWORDS WHICH SHINE WITH HUMAN HATRED, The Matrix Reloaded, disappearing when you can't pay your debts back, Linda, Christy, Sven, Japanese Student Movement, the difference between romance and romantic, a girl venturing into the world, different ways of conceputalizing revolution, Shit Life Syndrome, utena as a bernie bro, the folly of digital effects in contemporary anime, Every Frame A Painting - What Is Bayhem?, trying too hard to look like a lesbian, jumping out of the window because you can't find your car keys, if it sucks hit da bricks, Initial D, assuming you're the only one who can turn into a car, the power of friendship, bone wizards in the future, the most wonderful novels written by dan brown

Alex's Book Recommendation: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Cass's Book Recommendation: Little Fish by Casey Plett

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In which Alex & Cass discuss the first 23 episodes of Revolutionary Girl Utena, directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara  and produced by J.C. Staff. 

Next month we will be discussing the rest of Revolutionary Girl Utena, as well as Adolescence of Utena.

Discussed: we did not finish watching this show, friend of the show Bobby Newmark from the William Gibson novel Count Zero, comparing this show to evangelion, weird shit, air bud, when this show takes place, ancien régime, golden girls anime, anime about old people, 90s ass portable tvs,  ⟨th⟩ as /θ/ vs /ʃ/ in Japanese, absolute destiny apocalypse, cambrian, oldovian, silurian, devonian, dna, molecules, anthropocentrism,  baby boomer beatnik bullshit, alex and cass try to remember the word "boutonnière", taking the black pill, this show's awkward relationship with race, being disappointed continually, vaguely incestuous dynamics, knowing what i mean, The Curry Episode, nine billion fold curry, cowstian dior, telling your problems to the elevator, having no choice but to revolutionize the world, a planetarium projector, venting your spleen, certain things, not knowing what i mean, saionji and touga as right-wing youtubers, mean girls, one hundred strapping young lads, one thousand strapping young lads, one billion strapping young lads, nine billion fold strapping young lads, being imprisoned by the past, having dread, The Great Gatsby  

Alex's Book Recommendation: All Men Are Mortal by Simone de Beauvoir

Cass's Book Recommendation: Into The Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro by Rachel Slade

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In which Alex & Cass discuss Kare Kano, directed by Hideaki Anno and Hiroki Sato and produced by Gainax and J.C. Staff. 

Next month we will be discussing Revolutionary Girl Utena, directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara and produced by J.C. Staff.

Discussed: emphasizing the comedy and not the romance, Japanese test taking culture, Cass doesn't understand the stakes of this show, wearing sweatpants at home as a character flaw, the false self, the true self, embracing your asshole, Brahms, wish fulfillment, tragic backstory, J.D. Salinger, hitting a rock on your skateboard, my name is Inigo Montoya, you stole my boyfriend, prepare to die, weird high school girl council hivemind, giving a thousand paper cranes to your girlfriend's boyfriend, stanning a short king,  oh my god that is the worst possible answer in the universe, twilight, cw for sexual assault discussion from 55:00 to 60:00, "20 Years Of Kare Kano" by Cailtlin Moore from ANN, "My Fave Is Problematic: Kare Kano" by Jacqueline-Elizabeth Cottrell from Anime Feminist, Polyphemus' bed, a play about androids on the moon or whatever, having no talents whatsoever, pokemon shock, thinking you're the only one who can turn into a car

Alex's Book Recommendation: A Place Of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel

Cass's Book Recommendation: The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale (get the ebook for free from the publisher!)

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