Anime Is For Jerks

In which Cass & Alex discuss Penguin Highway, directed by Hiroyasu Ishida and produced by Studio Colorido, based on the novel by Tomihiko Morimi. 

Next month we will be discussing Kare Kano, directed by Hideaki Anno and Hiroki Sato and produced by Gainax and J.C. Staff. 

Discussed: facing the firing squad, Alex Did Not Like This Movie, The Book Of Henry, a nerdy fourth grader with a harem, Alex And Cass Actually Yell At Each Other and Get Into A For Real Fight, Alex And Cass Consider Not Doing The Podcast After All, Andre Breton, heterosexual romance, the end of Parasite (no spoilers), The Ghost of Anime Past, defensive pessimism, defensive optimism, "i don't hate children! i don't hate children!" alex continues to insist as she slowly shrinks and transforms into a corn cob, That Fucking Social Link In Persona 3 Where That Teenager Wants To Fuck His Teacher, wish fulfillment, Bridge to Terabithia, metaphysical ambitions, ahoge, earthbound dad, Haruki Murakami, Cass realizes that it's more than an hour into the podcast and they haven't even begun to summarize the plot,the very very old Ashens POP Station video, "Seaside Town" by Baths, The Evangelion Extended Universe, Kiki's Delivery Service, Chrono Cross, kids who wore a suit to school, fedoras, people wearing zoot suits and chain wallets in the 90s, the 90s swing revival, the terrible Baz Luhrmann Great Gatsby, how Penguin Highway compares to other racing anime, Free!, Haikyuu!!, Hanebado!, Ping Pong: The Animation, don't make video games, Bertrand Russell, Paul Feyerabend, epistemological anarchism, Cantor's Diagonal Argument (great explanation by vi hart), What The Tortoise Said To Achilles by Lewis Carroll, David Lewis, Ludwig Wittegenstein, Cass left in the long deliberation about what to watch next month because they just don't care anymore, One Hundred Years Of Solitude

Cass's book recommendation: The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View by Ellen Meiksins Wood

Alex's book recommendation: The Plague by Albert Camus

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In which Alex and Cass discuss Mirai, directed by Momoru Hosoda and produced by Studio Chizu.

Next month we will be discussing Penguin Highway directed by Hiroywasu Ishida and produced by Studio Colorido.

Discussed: an elementary school book report, useless dads, hating these people and their beautiful house, shitty Totoro, being born, a dog with the face of a man, an extremely long very stupid conversation about what we would do if one of our nonexistent children tried to kill another one of our nonexistent children,  celebrating girls, marriage prophecy, the temporal metaphysics of what happens if you don't put away the Girls' Day dolls on time, gremlins,  the mystical forces which govern the gremlins, particle man, dad ass, a spectre haunting japan, the spectre of Evangelion, the Evangelion extended universe,  The Catcher in the Rye, sengouku jidai, bill wurtz history of japan, jello cake that looks like a minimalist Dutch sculpture from the thirties,  rainbow jello vodka cake, stained glass jello cake, anime is for jerks bake-off, skirt-chasing American bimbos, the yellow pants we've been alluding to,  what's more important, your pants or happy memories, Scott Benson ass lost and found man, the Wallace and Gromit short "A Grand Day Out",  The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System, Lonely Land, The Hell Machine For Killing All Human Beings, The Book of Disquiet, imagining your own burial

Cass's book recommendation: The Trouble With Being Born by Emil Cioran

Alex's book recommendation: The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gómez

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In which Cass and Alex discuss Akira, directed by Katsuhiro Otomo and produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha.

Discussed: whether we are more jerks together than we are apart, pure experience, identity theft, adult babies, how much fucking money japan had in the 80s, the far off future year of 2019, harvey birdman looking at calendar dot jpg, the box art for streets of rage, the fundamental dishonesty of 80s nostalgia, 1812 nostalgia, going to war with canada, the black plague, the insane clown posse, a death grips/akira mashup that cass made like five years ago, muppet babies donald trump, what if donald trump got into the machine from the fly with a rat, if a grapefruit was a person, incel kaneda, volcel kaneda, the surgery that gives you a galaxy brain, lying on the floor face down with your titties out, the #resistance, crashing your dead friend's bike into a wall, everyone comes in for a huge party, what it all means, Michel Foucault, biopolitics, biopower, Achille Mbembe, necropolitics, cass trying to explain necropolitics while incredibly distracted by a wisdom tooth abscess, Help! The Military-Industrial Complex Made Me Into A Gross Flesh Mass!, facts not caring about your feelings, Richard Feynman, worrying about whether or not you could before you worry about whether or not you should, living in a society, The Evangelion Extended Universe, Tetsujin 28-Go, The House That Anno Built

Cass's book recommendation: Angels in America by Tony Kushner (Millennium Approaches, Perestroika)

Alex's book recommendation: Unclay by T.F. Powys

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In which Alex and Cass discuss The Animatrix, directed by Koji Morimoto, Shinichiro Watanabe, Mahiro Maeda, Peter Chung, Andy Jones, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and Takeshi Koike, and produced by The Wachowskis with Madhouse and Studio 4°C.

Next month, we will be discussing Akira, directed by Katsuhiro Otomo and produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha.

Discussed: Cass watched the matrix for the first time ever, Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard, is the matrix actually a smart movie or a dumb movie, The Matrix Is Not Actually About What If We All Live In A Computer Simulation, TV and the nuclear being of the same nature, Marshall McLuhan, "Minisode - The Medium is the Message" by Dan Olson, Marshall McLuhan's hot and cold media, Cass trying and failing to summarize Baudrillard, "HyperNormalisation" by Adam Curtis, Cass trying to and more successfully summarizing The Matrix, the red pill, blondes, brunettes, redheads, dying in the matrix, dying in real life, ejecting a flash drive, They Live, Fight Club, a clear indictment of everything that Brad Pitt stands for, American History X, the sad filmography of Jim Uhls, The Three Kinds of 90s, Kevin Smith Big Jorts, "Do You Want to Believe?" by PBS Idea Channel, the reason why you're miserable, "Capitalist Realism" by Mark Fisher, Cass Completely Loses Their Train of Thought,  Ben Pack's tweet about The Matrix, Cass completely loses the plot of the podcast and talks about Hypermarket and Hypercommodity for way too long, the Oculus, Hudson Yards, Actually Talking About The Animatrix Fully An Hour And Ten Minutes Into This Podcast, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Code Lyoko, SHOW US MORPHEUS' DICK RIGHT NOW, getting a boner in the construct, Enter The Matrix, The Matrix Online, "Endurance Run: The Matrix Online: Not Like This", canon is an abyss, lore is terrible and must be destroyed, robot israel, The Young Pope, the kessel run, Star Wars prequel defenders, Karl Popper, gross muscles,  jumping off the roof to self-actualize, oh lawd he comin, too old for this shit, teaching robots about humanity using Kanye West and Jay-Z's "Watch the Throne", alexa, pull my consciousness into your hardware, going back in time to smash the utah teapot

Alex's book recommendation: Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler

Cass's book recommendation: Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher

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In which Cass and Alex discuss The Tatami Galaxy, directed by Masaaki Yuasa and produced by Madhouse.

Next month, we will be discussing The Animatrix, directed by Koji Morimoto, Shinichiro Watanabe, Mahiro Maeda, Peter Chung, Andy Jones, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and Takeshi Koike, and produced by The Wachowskis with Madhouse and Studio 4°C.

Discussed: how many tatami our rooms are, manic pixie dream girls, yōkai, aka manto, kuchisake-onna, betobeto-san, the black thread of fate, birdman,  the art of lewd jokes and avoiding the library police, proxy-proxy-proxy-proxy-proxy war, a cube of cockroaches, kuudere,  a mystical cleaning weapon created from the fibers of a palm that grows in taiwan, purging all of your thetans by eating honey, baseball, bee missionary, the time of judgment is coming: 2012, anime characters speaking english, twenty-thousand leagues under the sea, "like this", reverse sapiosexual,  raven-haired madens, a silly little young adult novel, castella, an insane callback, live-action spam, buddhism follow-up, Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me"

Cass's book recommendation: The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

Alex's book recommendation: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris

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In which Alex and Cass discuss The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, directed by Isao Takahata and produced by Studio Ghibli.

Next month we will be discussing The Tatami Galaxy, directed by Masaaki Yuasa and produced by Madhouse. 

Discussed: how to pronounce "Ghibli", what you would do if you found a tiny person in the woods, bamboo socialism, a range of chobe, being born a thousand years too early for the invention of hip-hop, a picture-perfect dickbutt, :3, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, being both a liar and an asshole, the mysterious identity of this angry old woman, full holden caulfield mode, moon powers, cat face polearm, moon buddha, this movie is real fuckin' bleak y'all, the fact that we didn't talk about saṃsāra or nirvana at all in this episode is a tremendous failing that occurs to me only in retrospect, Big Bird In Japan, Big Bird In China

Cass's book recommendation: Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts by Julian Rubinstein

Alex's book recommendation: The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner

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In which Cass and Alex discuss Night Is Short, Walk On Girl, directed by Masaaki Yuasa and produced by Science Saru.

Next month we will be discussing The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, directed by Isao Takahata and produced by Studio Ghibli.

Discussed: the most difficult thing you can do for love, secret mormon underwear, medieval japanese pornography, the FBI (female body inspectors), sophists, the volatile utopian koi farm market, being nude from the waist down, being nude save for a cowboy hat, being nude save for a cowboy hat and socks, Ra Ta Ta Tam by Peter Nickl, Rug Quest 2019, a pizza hut lamp smashed to pieces in a green plastic bag, The God Of The Used Book Market, demanding reparations, ice kotatsu, spicy food, geurilla theatre, The Swift-Footed Kotatsu, Don Underwear Must Not Take The Stage At All Costs, noted crossdressing idol "Wax House, Baby", hot orangie, the ultimate himbo, glomping, the manic pixie dream girl, the lego cowboys in your dick, incels, emotional labor

Cass's book recommendation: If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino

Alex's book recommendation(s): The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck, Life after Life by Kate Atkinson

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In which Alex and Cass discuss Wolf Children, directed by Mamoru Hosoda and produced by Studio Chizu. 

Next month we will be discussing Night Is Short, Walk On Girl, directed by Masaaki Yuasa and produced by Science Saru.

Discussed: why nobody in anime goes to college, monsterfuckers, awful 3d people, edgar wright, landlords, secretly being a wolf as a metaphor, feral hogs, centipedes, being kind to each other, tsundere old men, a cool wolf club in the city, frolicking amongst glossy jpegs of trees, narration, "Wolf Children (2012) - The Lateral Tracking Shot" by Every Frame A Painting, piggy promise, check out my gross ear, furry sasuke OC do not steal, The Importance of Being Earnest, the duties of fox sensei,  how babies work, terminal plot brain, a bear with no face

Alex's book recommendation: The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell

Cass's book recommendation: Death Comes For The Archbishop by Willa Cather

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In which Alex and Cass discuss A Place Further Than The Universe, directed by Atsuko Ishizuka and produced by Madhouse. 

Next month we are going to be watching and discussing Wolf Children, directed by Mamoru Hosoda and produced by Studio Chizu.

Discussed: an emotionless husk of a human being, Tetris the Grandmaster 3: Terror-Instinct, inside baseball mahjong jokes, Chekhov's envelope full of ¥1,000,000, the economics of buying a business class ticket from singapore to australia, how you can just go to antarctica, japanese fascism, twee, being terrified of teenagers, the power of fwiendship, #IFollowEveryoneWhoFollowsMe, durian jokes, the government being stupid, seeing an anime opening so bad you are forced to immediately go to sleep, "Fledgling" by Octavia E. Butler, a place further than the universe as a stealth prequel to neon genesis evangelion, huffing and puffing on the treadmill, the jurassic park theme, the true meaning of christmas, please explain mahjong to us, Limmy's Show - "Water", cutting your hair as a metaphor, the babe ruth of antarctica, the anime penguin cinematic unvierse, anime openings is the same, the antarctica, lo-fi hip hop beats to study and relax to (cass was wrong about this btw, the gif on the chilledcow stream is not from wolf children)

Alex's book recommendation: The Big Bang Symphony by Lucy Jane Bledsoe.

Cass's book recommendation: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

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As a follow up to last episode, Cass and Alex discuss The End of Evangelion and The Rebuild of Evangelion, directed by Hideaki Anno and produced by Studio Gainax. 

Next month we are going to be watching and discussing A Place Further Than The Universe, directed by Atsuko Ishizuka and produced by Madhouse.

Discussed: Bad synchronization, Hideaki Anno's vendetta against otaku, being put in a lake, Bakelite, genericized trademarks, making out with a 14-year old and then exploding, having mama with you, hoping the entire world will be destroyed so you don't have to make a decision, late 90s alternate universe nicktoon staring Kensuke and Toji, Chekhov's lance, wallowing over men, sucking his hand clean off, the Michelin man, weird Kabbalah shit I don't understand, being chewed out by every woman you've ever met,  melting into Tang, the Chamber of Guf, virtue signalling, The End of Evangelion and the Audience-Author Membrane by Dan Olson, Futura Free by Frank Ocean, Friends at the Table, SSSS.Gridman, Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo, the live action content we've been craving, The End of The End of Evangelion, why people hate this movie, homeless shinji, 3d animation,  gamer catgirl, Animal Collective, Neutral Milk Hotel, Phil Elverum, being mocked for your small areolas, the wisdom of Kaji, watering your crops in the geo-front, going berzerk, plonking on the ivories with your boyfriend, the #resistance, what if the monolith from 2001 was a gaming computer, taking in lore, No More Birthdays by Sound Team

Alex's book recommendation: Slow River by Nicola Griffith

Cass's book recommendation: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

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