Berlin Alexanderplatz keeps cooking, we chat about a bunch of this and that as this episode it’s quite as full of Things We Finished as last week, and we get back to Metaphor: ReFantazio with a huge update as the plot really begins to pick up and Niamh makes a bunch of predictions that all instantly come true. We’ll talk about it next week.

ALSO NOTE: Autumn’s audio is just going to have radiator hiss until winter breaks. It’s fine.

Things discussed: RS/OS Crossovers, Werner Herzog movies, Eureka Seven, Music Listening in 2025, Cyberpunk 2077, Clamp's X, Honey and Clover, Pondering Pootan, Pondering Pokémon, therapy talk, Em trying to destroy Coffee and Comic Books, surprise cameo, Raising Cane's orders, a huge Metaphor minute at the end! We get Bas and Del mixed up, which is very funny given how much stuff happens with them we'll talk about next week

The opening theme this season is “Das lila Lied” sung by Ute Lemper

See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week.

Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells. Fae posts on twitter @foxmomnia and on bluesky at foxmomnia.exportaud.io

Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. They post on twitter @em_being and on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online

Autumn podcasts on on Export Audio with Coffee & Comic Books and Ornate Stairwells. They’re on bluesky at autumnalcoffee.exportaud.io

Next episode: Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) part 2, "Ein Hammer auf den Kopf kann die Seele verletzen"