It’s the classic ISP birthday special: birthday twin Natalie joins to celebrate the closing of another year on planet Earth as Zach turns twenty nine and Natalie hits thirty.

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A live recording of the I’M SO POPULAR FIFTH ANNIVERSARY PARTY from Koenji, Tokyo, Japan.

Ending the endless time loops of Evangelion, Maggie returns to celebrate the fifth anniversary of ISP with a discussion of the REBUILD OF EVANGELION film franchise: EVANGELION 1.0 YOU ARE (NOT) ALONE ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:序 [2007年] + EVANGELION 2.0 YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:破 [2009年] + EVANGELION 3.0 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:Q [2023年] + EVANGELION 3.0 + 1.0 THRICE UPON A TIME シン・エヴァンゲリオン劇場版: 𝄂 [2021年].

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Continuing our month long celebration of ISP’s fifth anniversary, Deniz joins to discuss one of the best films ever made: THE END OF EVANGELION (1997年) + its experimental prelude EVANGELION DEATH [TRUE]² (1997年).

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(ISP S5.E34)

To celebrate the fifth anniversary of I'M SO POPULAR, Russian genius Sascha Amato joins to revisit the most important anime of all time: NEON GENESIS EVANGELION + its manga adaptation.

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(ISP S5.E33)

Discussing the seminal anime adaptation of HIGURASHI: WHEN THEY CRY ひぐらしのなく頃に by 07th Expansion + contesting with fate and will + friendship and love in the tragedy of an ill-fated and never-ending June…

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Question Arc

Poems of Frederica Bernkastel read by Skye

Discussing Mishima Yukio’s THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA 午後の曳航 (1963) + the pinku eiga gay pornographic parody of his life BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY 巨根伝説 美しき謎 (1983) + intellect vs. corporeality + sex over politics + romance in the face of philosophy.

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We discuss the iconic films CRAZED FRUIT (1956) and SEASON OF THE SUN (1956) from the Japanese Sun Tribe movement: postwar nihilist youths dressed in aloha shirts and fighting to the death with boats over women. Beautiful male chests, cuckoldry anxiety, ultranationalism and hot young lust.

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ISP S5.E29

Inaugurating the official start to a very I'M SO POPULAR summer, I'm discussing the debut album by Addison Rae ADDISON (2025) + Stephen King's IT (1986) + the loss of innocence + sex as a rite of passage + fame and TikTok.

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