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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Following Maggie’s recent travels to Bejing China, we discuss THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA at large, its scope and influence and uncanny vision of a globalist future + the 1996 Chinese gay romance EAST PALACE WEST PALACE + the troubling art world of boomer activist/reguee life jacket stylist AI WEIWEI.

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ISP S5.E27

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Chi Chi presents two numbered lists of intriguing topics, ranking my top ten most listened to artists and the ten most obscure films I’ve ever seen.

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Discussing Orson Welles’ CITIZEN KANE (1941年) + John Waters’ A DIRTY SHAME (2004年) + the doomed world of language + hedonistic catharsis + the asexual regime queerness + the legacy of Patricia Hearst across a century of film.

ISP S5.E26

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