Anime-Zing Podcast

This week, Tristan and Christina discuss Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira (1988)

Topics of conversation include: The Olympics, Stranger Things, and 1980s Japan

Track of the Week: Kaneda

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1990 Review

Freida Freiburg, Akira and the Postnuclear Sublime  in Hibakusha Cinema

David Desser, Consuming Asia in Multiple Modernities

Susan Napier, The Dystopian Imagination in The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature

Susan Napier, Panic Sites: The Japanese Imagination of Disaster from Godzilla to Akira

Thomas LaMarre, Born of Trauma: Akira and Capitalist Modes of Destruction

Video Essays:

AKIRA: How To Animate Light 

The Impact of Akira

Understanding Disaster: Akira and the Postmodern Apocalypse

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Our theme song can be found here and is a remix of One Summer's Day by A June and J Beat.

This week, Tristan and Christina discuss Episode #12 of Kids on the Slope: All Blues

Topics of conversation include: Django Unchained, Graduation, and 70s haircuts

Trope of the Week: Meaningful Echo

Track of the Week: Altair

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Shinichiro Watanabe Interview (2013)

Music Guide (Kotaku)

Freedom and Guilt in Sakamichi No Apollon

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Our theme song can be found here and is a remix of One Summer's Day by A June and J Beat.

This week, Tristan and Christina discuss Episode #11 of Kids on the Slope: Left Alone

Topics of conversation include: High School Graduation, The Will to Power, and Good Will Hunting.

Trope of the Week: It's All My Fault

Track of the Week: My Favorite Things

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Our theme song can be found here and is a remix of One Summer's Day by A June and J Beat.

This week, Tristan and Christina discuss Episode #10 of Kids on the Slope: In A Sentimental Mood

Topics of conversation include: Japanese colleges, Duke Ellington, and Kaoru's low self-esteem.

Trope of the Week: Oblivious to Love

Track of the Week: Float

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Our theme song can be found here and is a remix of One Summer's Day by A June and J Beat.

This week, Tristan and Christina discuss Episode #9 of Kids on the Slope: Love Me or Leave Me

Topics of conversation include: Terms of Endearment, Love, Actually, and Arranged Marriages.

Trope of the Week: Race for your Love

Track of the Week: Four

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Our theme song can be found here and is a remix of One Summer's Day by A June and J Beat.

This week, Tristan and Christina discuss Episode #8 of Kids on the Slope: These Foolish Things

Topics of conversation include: STIs, Cyberchase, and Jeopardy

Trope of the Week: Important Haircut

Track of the Week: These Foolish Things

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Our theme song can be found here and is a remix of One Summer's Day by A June and J Beat.

This week, Tristan and Christina discuss Episode #7 of Kids on the Slope: Now's the Time

Topics of conversation include: KISS, the term "weaboo," and Across the Universe

Trope of the Week: School Festival

Track of the Week: Sentarou and Kaoru's Medley 

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Our theme song can be found here and is a remix of One Summer's Day by A June and J Beat.

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Culture Festivals in Japan

This week, Tristan and Christina discuss Episode #6 of Kids on the Slope: You Don't Know What Love Is

Topics of conversation include: Fauvism, the Japanese school system, and Old Nuns

Trope of the Week: Freudian Excuse

Track of the Week: You Don't Know What Love Is

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Our theme song can be found here and is a remix of One Summer's Day by A June and J Beat.

This week, Tristan and Christina discuss Episode #5 of Kids on the Slope: But Not For Me

Topics of conversation include: Jeopardy, love triangles, and missing moms.

Tropes of the Week: Missing Mom

Track of the Week: Lullaby of Birdland

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Our theme song can be found here and is a remix of One Summer's Day by A June and J Beat.

This week, Tristan and Christina discuss Episode #4 of Kids on the Slope: But Not For Me

Topics of conversation include: American occupation of Japan, Christmas, and Twilight (2008)

Tropes of the Week: Christmas in Japan

Track of the Week: But Not For Me

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Our theme song can be found here and is a remix of One Summer's Day by A June and J Beat.

CORRECTION: Sentarou's mother died when Sentarou was young, leaving him without biological parents. She didn't go to America or leave with his father.