It feels in many ways like the entire season was building to this episode, though I’m sure we’ll feel the same way in two weeks. A harrowing show today, and then we enjoy talking about some manga and some books, before Em gets heated about Online and we reflect on the Autumn months (months with Autumn as co-host, not the months of fall).

Things Discussed: balancing act of doing stuff, Honey and Clover, currently running and long running manga, X/1999, Wotakoi, How Do We Relationship, Dune, Gundam Seed, some thoughts on the Andor BDS boycott and criticism at large, winding down the Autumn season, picking songs for the podcast

Non-Autumn Zone: Hokuto and Kamiya's Pondering Pootan: A Podcast within a Podcast, Pondering Proctors

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 bluesky at foxmomnia.exportaud.io and on twitter @foxmomnia

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

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 13 "Das Äußere und das Innere und das Geheimnis der Angst vor dem Geheimnis"