The first Stand battle of Stone Ocean is an instant classic. We have returning guest Elliot (@nameoftheyear) on to talk about Episode 2, "Prisoner FE40536: Jolyne Cujoh." We also talk about Blaseball, truck driving, loan words, FREEDOM as identity, Disneyland's bird population, The Nutty Professor, and the new character in the JoJo battle royale game.

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JoJo's is back, baby! We finally sink our teeth into Stone Ocean and remember what we love about JoJo's. We'll be doing one episode a week, so this time it's just JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, Episode 1 - Stone Ocean. We also talk about achieving your dreams, the plea bargain system, Weezer, cups on strings, "fap fingers," and what to expect from the rest of Part 6.

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[Ranma 1/2 talk starts at 35:24]

One more blast to the past before getting back into JoJo: we watched Ranma 1/2 for the pod this week. We also talk about gender switcharoo movies, tsundere characters, True Detective Season 2, Tom & Jerry, Gremlins, and old dance music.

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Perhaps an appropriate run-up to JoJo's return, we watched the ridiculous, muscle-bound anime Baki (2018) this week. We also talk about coaching trees, '90s sitcoms, jungling, boiling crabs, and Speculoos.

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Lots of good stuff this week on the pod - we start out by covering the flood of JoJo news that has come in, and then we take a look at popular 2016 time-travel anime, "Erased." We also talk about what makes the Mad Hatter mad, what the most popular animes are, what makes something "trashy," The Butterfly Effect, The Gorillaz, and what "toggle coats" are.

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The gang gets some 00s fansub nostalgia this week, as we discuss the entirety of the series "Rec" from 2006. We also talk about the Spanish horror movie REC, Mikey of Life cereal fame, Audrey Hepburn movies, romanization of Japanese, Sylvester Stallone, fansub translator's notes, and the size of homes.

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The JoJo's Bizarre Podcast gang knocks out another Studio Ghibli movie this week, as we discuss our feelings on Whisper of the Heart, from 1995. We also talk about how Halloween went, donut-hole towns, The Jungle, and the Japanese' dislike for freckles.

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[Warning: We discuss sexual assault in media quite a bit on this episode]

Something decisively different this week - we checked out modernized, '80s crime manga adaptation, Banana Fish, on the pod this week. We go over its B-Movie leanings and try to figure out if it's a yaoi work or not. We also talk about FMKs, the Biggie/Tupac beef, obsolete problems on Seinfeld, how many people are needed to form a gang, foreigner names in Japanese, and the film Blood In, Blood Out/Bound by Honor.

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This week, the pod gang talks about the super weird and kinda dark anime from the Fall 2012 season (the one that isn't JoJo's), "From the New World," AKA "Shin Sekai Yori." We also talk about Halloween plans, how to depict telekinesis, camping hygiene, how hands feel, and if this anime is really Stone Ocean.

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[Content warning for suicide, bullying, ableism]

It's a long one this week, and it's also an episode that is about as serious as we get. We watched 2016's A Silent Voice for the podcast this week, and we also talk about musical greeting cards, Krillin onesies, Squand, Clark Westfield, Marlee Matlin, and if women talk about each others' boobs.

Deafness in Japan links mentioned by Marc:

Japan: An insight from the Japanese Federation of the Deaf

How does the Japanese society see and treat deaf people in Japan?

Silence is Golden: A Silent Voice, Discussed by Someone Who Lived It

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