Backlog Dialogues

Humans are weak on their own. No single person has all the answers. People need to turn to each other for support, no matter what. As Keiichi and Friends discover, it takes many voices speaking in unison to get the gears of society turning. With a simple marching tune, they raise a chorus to defend their friend, and give Rika a fleeting hope once more.

This week on Backlog Dialogues, we make our voices heard.

The human heart is fragile, and must guard itself with the armor of hope to endure hardships. Rika has strengthened her armor, as she finds more and more cause to hope... only to have that armor stripped away. As if to mock her, the world has set up hope after hope, just so that it can lead to her deepest despair. When faced with this reality for a hundred years, who could blame anyone that wants to abandon the fight?

This week on Backlog Dialogues, we face the harshest reality.

Ah, you're finally aware of where we are. This infinite expanse of possibilities across time and space has brought us together here and now. As we travel it, it falls to us to understand not just what is happening around us, but who is impacted by it, as we are the only ones truly aware of it. You are almost at the truth you seek, but there is still much to learn before it can make sense. Come, let us see the world finally through Rika Furude's eyes, as she repeats the same month of her life for hundreds of years, struggling desperately with one simple question - who wants to kill her?

This week on Backlog Dialogues, we find a small hope.

It's time once more for a Minilog, this time covering the first season of the anime Re:Zero Starting Life in Another World! Join us as we go over this time looping isekai that defies the usual expectations of isekai by not being a total power fantasy! We talk about Subaru and his persistent inability to die, and how that does very little to actually help him solve the issues he faces in Lugnica which mostly stem from him having to get over his own shit that he brought with him from earth. 

Another arc, another godcast! This week we look at Ryukishi's impassioned plea to those struggling to reach out, go over the Manga and Anime adaptations, and once more go over what we learned.

And for those who have seen all things, in the spoiler section of the Godcast, we discuss the impact of this work on Ryukishi's future writing.

And I face you now tonight,

(Filk of Total Eclipse of the Heart, by Bonnie Tyler)

This week on Backlog Dialogues, we tear through fate.

Ninety-nine City PD

(Filk of 99 Red Balloons, by Nena)

This week on Backlog Dialogues, we reveal the 'truth.'

I went to a nurse

Sometimes that van gives me the creeps

Grasping to control

This week on Backlog Dialogues, we search for the truth.

Somewhere in this little town.

The world's kyutest violin really needs an audience.

I'll cut my problems into bits

(Filk of World's Smallest Violin by AJR)

This week on Backlog Dialogues, we forgive our sins.

No one knows what it's like

To be the bad girl

To be the sad girl

Behind Kyute Eyes

And no one knows what it's like

To be hated

To be fated to hearing only lies

But my dreams they aren't as icky

As my heart seems to be

I have hours only lonely

My love is kyuteness

That's never free...

(Filk of Behind Blue Eyes, by the who)