Tony, Caitlin, and ANN’s Sylvia get together to talk about Paru Itagaki’s madcap dystopic LGBT romance battle shonen featuring a sexy Santa Claus, Sanda!

0:00:00 Intro

0:01:53 Paru Itagaki

0:07:07 Whomst is Santa

0:10:21 Wish fulfillment

0:14:35 Black Santa

0:18:50 The “Trauma-free Curriculum”

0:31:08 Oshibu

0:34:55 Puberty and body horror

0:37:59 Furuyama’s Body

0:42:04 All the metaphors

0:45:41 Enforced heteronormativity

0:48:44 Bury your gays?

0:56:59 Bury your gays

1:02:39 Itagaki’s unpredictability

1:04:33 Hopes for season 2

1:08:49 Closing thoughts

1:09:24 Outro

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Recorded Thursday 29th January 2026

Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

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