Manga Mavericks EP. 194: My Alcoholic Escape From Reality

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, we're joined by founder of Okazu and yuri scholar, Erica Friedman, to once again revisit the works of Nagata Kabi with a discussion of another one of her self-reflective personal memoirs with My Alcoholic Escape From Reality! In which we visit Kabi during her time recovering in the hospital from severe pancreatitis due to her excessive drinking, as well chronicling through her artist's journey of deciding between working on either fiction or non-fiction. We discuss our thoughts on this book in particular and once again grapple with the difficult and complicated feelings we get from reading Kabi's works as pieces of entertainment, as well as her journey as an artist up to this point.

This discussion was one we originally recorded around the time of its English release last year and uploaded exclusively on Patreon as a bonus podcast, but have made it available to the public in time for our upcoming episode on Kabi's newest memoir with My Wandering Warrior Existence, coming next week! But if you can't wait until then, its already available over on our Patreon at our $2 tier for those who want to listen to it early! Or if you sign up for the next tier up, you can listen to more exclusive bonus podcasts like this one! Whatever tier you choose, we appreciate any support you give us!!

For a complete list of links and Community Shout-Outs mentioned in this episode, please visit this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2022/manga-mavericks-ep-194-my-alcoholic-escape-from-reality/

PODCAST BREAKDOWN:

00:00 - Intro

05:03 - Our discussion of My Alcoholic Escape From Reality

1:19:51 - Community Shout-outs!

1:37:48 - Wrap-up

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