Hikikomori

One Piece is not only the most successful manga of all time, it's also the most successful comic of all time. Starting when Oda was only 22, this means that he has spent the majority of his life as highly famous, successful and rich. He is also... a man-child.

Today's guest is Kieran Bennet! You can find him via his Twitter page, and can listen to his excellent podcasts For Crits and Giggles and Inks and Issues!

For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodcast on Instagram where I'll be posting photos relevant to this episode!

You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.

Sources:

• The One Piece Wiki
• Interview with Oda - The Grand Line
• "I sleep from 2 to 5am" - Anime News Network
• TV Tropes
• Biography - Otaquest
• Problematic Faves: One Piece - Michelle Villanueva
• Wikipedia

Each year (that does not take place during the global plague) in Himeji, the Nada no Kenka Festival is held on October 14th and 15th. It's extremely loud, colourful, fun and drunken. It can also be rather intensely dangerous to both participants and spectators alike...

Today's guest is Tony Srimongka! You can find him via his Twitter page, and can watch him play games over on his Twitch channel.

For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodcast on Instagram where I'll be posting photos relevant to this episode!

You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.

Sources:

• These "Mikoshi Dako" are the badges of honour from a Japanese festival - Sora News 24
• Nada Matsuri
• Breathtakingly Dangerous: Nada Kenka Matsuri in Himeji - Zooming Japan

This is the story of Chukaku, a far-left organisation that seeks to overthrow the capitalist structure of Japanese society. After several schisms in leftist groups, Chukaku decided to do what many others would not, and became militant.

Today's guest is Michael, aka HumanFilthXVX. You can find them via their Twitter page, and can watch them play games over on their Twitch channel, and I highly recommend doing both!

For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodcast on Instagram where I'll be posting photos relevant to this episode!

You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.

Sources:

• October raid on Chukakuha Headquarters - Spoon & Tamago
• Throw Out Your Books - Japanese Radicalism and Counter-Culture blog
• Hidden for half a century - Sankei
• Ultra-leftist fugitive wanted for 1971 police slaying captured - Japan Times
• Terrorist Research & Analysis Consortium
• Wikipedia

In the early morning of May 27th, 1997, a janitor of Tainohata Elementary School discovered a disembodied head of a child in front of the school gates. The perpetrator would turn out to be... a massive fan of true crime...

Today's guest is Nika Howard . You can find her on Twitter @nika_howard, and all of her wonderful content can be found on her Linktree Page.

For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodcast on Instagram where I'll be posting photos relevant to this episode!

You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.

Sources:

• Murderpedia
• South China Morning Post article
• The Kobe Child Killer - Emily Thompson, Morbidology
• The Kobe Child Murderer Has Launched a Website - Bizarrepedia
• Kobe murderer writes ambiguously of regret and pleasure from 1997 child killings - Tomohiro Osaki, Japan Times
• Japan's Notorious "Boy A" Killer Now Has a Creepy Vanity Website - Cheryl Eddy, Gizmodo
• Weird IMDb post
• Wikipedia

A quiet, close-knit village became the unlikely site of wide-scale arsenic poisoning. Today's guest is Josh. You can find him on Twitter @josketh, and he co-hosts the podcast Naruto Reviewto.

For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodcast on Instagram where I'll be posting photos relevant to this episode!

You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.

Sources:

• Japan Times articles
• The Little Bowl of Death - Richard Lloyd Parry, The Independent
• Murderpedia
• Japan Innocence & Death Penalty Information Center
• Interview with Masumi Hayashi's son
• Stampede at Curry Poison Trial - BBC

This is the second of our two-parter on the crypto-fascist author Yukio Mishima. We cover Mishima's private fascist militia, and the fascinating, bloody and highly confusing end to his life. Today's guest is Josh Scalf. You can find him on Twitter @jwscalf, you can find his beautiful bird family @SomeRowdyBirbs, and you can find his viral video content on his YouTube page. For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodcast on Instagram where I'll be posting photos relevant to this episode! You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app. Sources:

• The Strange Tale of Yukio Mishima - 1985 BBC Documentary
• Yukio Mishima: The strange tale of Japan's infamous novelist - Thomas Graham, BBC
• The Political Afterlives of Yukio Mishima - Gavin Walker, Jacobin
• Wikipedia

This is the first of a two-part series on the author, poet, actor, model and crypto-fascist Yukio Mishima. Today we follow Mishima's early life and career as a national, and eventually international, sensation. Today's guest is Josh Scalf. You can find him on Twitter @jwscalf, you can find his beautiful bird family @SomeRowdyBirbs, and you can find his viral video content on his YouTube page. For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodcast on Instagram where I'll be posting photos relevant to this episode! You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app. Sources:

• The Strange Tale of Yukio Mishima - 1985 BBC Documentary
• Yukio Mishima: The strange tale of Japan's infamous novelist - Thomas Graham, BBC
• The Political Afterlives of Yukio Mishima - Gavin Walker, Jacobin
• Wikipedia

Aum Shinrikyo, the doomsday cult, is well-known for being responsible for the '95 Sarin Gas Attack on the Tokyo subway. Their list of crimes, however, does not end there. Another heinous act of the cult was the home invasion and murder of an entire family in 1989.

For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodcast on Instagram where I'll be posting photos relevant to this episode!

You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.

Sources:

• The National Network of Lawyers Against Spiritual Sales
• Destroying the World to Save It by Robert Jay Lifton
• Aum Shinrikyo cult members a step closer to execution 23 years after deadly Tokyo gas attack by Jake Sturmer
• Cult attraction: Aum Shinrikyo's power of persuasion by Masami Ito
• "The time has come": AUM victims' kin voice mixed feelings over executions by Kyodo News
• TV Station Comes Under New Fire in Cult Scandal by Joseph Coleman
• Murderpedia
• Wikipedia

In 2007 the body of Lindsay Hawker, a British teacher working in Tokyo, was found dead on an apartment balcony in a bathtub full of sand. The suspected killer, Tatsuya Ichihashi, managed to evade police capture by living on the fringes of society for two and a half years. This is that utter bastard's story.

For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodcast on Instagram where I'll be posting photos relevant to this episode!

You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.

Sources:

• The Lindsay Hawker Case - Media (J-E)
• Japan Times - Ichihashi given life
• Japan Times - Interview with Dean Fujioka
• IMDb - I Am Ichihashi
• Wikipedia - Nova
• Wikipedia - The Murder of Lindsay Hawker

We explore the links between the subcultures of Yankii, Bosozoku and Sukeban before watching an elderly Australian man dance in his driveway. For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodcast on Instagram where I'll be posting photos relevant to this episode! You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app. Sources:

• Delinquent Anime Girl Guide by Worst Waifu
• Sukeban Deka clip
• Dazed Digital
• Perspex
• Vice
• Groovy History
• Next Shark
• Vintage News Daily
• Japanese Schoolgirl Inferno
• TV Tropes: Japanese Delinquents
• Gyaru Wikia
• Gaijin Rider