This week, John Wintroub and Sean Clark discuss episodes 13 & 14 of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean and Danganropa: Trigger Happy Havoc.

0:00 - Intro

0:35 - JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean episodes 13 & 14 discussion

29:25 - Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc discussion

1:07:48 - Outro

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John Wintroub is joined by Devlin Nipper on the first part of a series discussing each member of One Piece's Straw Hat Pirates, beginning with Monkey D. Luffy and the Marineford Arc.

0:00 - Intro

3:10 - Discussing Luffy’s character arc from the Sabaody Archipelago to Marineford

38:50 - Outro

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John Wintroub and Sean Clark discuss the character development, themes and historical references of NieR: Automata.

0:00 - Intro

2:31 - Ghost in the Shell; Machines With Souls

11:11 - Pascal; No Courage Without Fear

16:20 - Become as Gods; Misplaced Faith

18:27 - Adam & Eve; Two Sides of a Broken Coin

27:20 - 2B; Avoidance of Pain

36:18 - 9S; Loss

39:37 - A2; A Tragic Existence

45:29 - 9S Reprisal; Seeing Red

52:27 - Ending C & D; The American Monomyth

55:39 - Ending E; Living Redemption

1:08:10 - Outro

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John Wintroub and Sean Clark are joined by Michael Manny to discuss how Obi-Wan and Stranger Things could learn from each other's successes and failings.

0:00 - Intro

2:06 - Obi-Wan Kenobi series general discussion

5:18 - Bridging the gap with Obi-Wan and Vader; where the man ends and the monster begins

24:24 - Obi-Wan rediscovering his humanity through Leia

30:02 - A series of sacrifices; the importance and disappointment of Tala’s death

32:56 - Reva & Redemption Without Death

42:55 - Renewed Love for the prequels

54:13 - Stranger Things 4 general discussion

1:04:57 - Steve Harrington; the heart of Hawkins

1:07:48 - Eddie, the lifeblood of Stranger Things 4; Stranger Things 4 and the American Monomyth

1:17:50 - Comatose Characters; the Schrodinger’s Cat of storytelling

1:22:13 - How the final season can learn from the prior’s failings & the unlikelihood of that lesson being learned

1:36:08 - Outro

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John Wintroub and Sean Clark discuss the reveals at Star Wars Celebration - Anaheim 2022.

0:00 - Intro

2:16 - Star Wars Jedi: Survivor receives its first teaser trailer

25:53 - How Mandalorian Season 3 can write Din Djarin’s redemption & how Star Wars handles character redemption compared to other fantasy stories (such as Avatar: The Last Airbender, Full Metal Alchemist and Re:Zero)

55:46 - Ahsoka news discussion and how it will act as a sequel to Rebels

1:05:16 - How Andor might enhance Rogue One

1:12:44 - What is Star Wars: Skeleton Crew?

1:19:11 - Tales of the Jedi’s exploration of Dooku, Qui-Gon and Ahsoka can feed into the failures of the Jedi

1:27:40 - The Bad Batch season 2 trailer discussion

1:35:45 - Star Wars Visions returns in Spring 2023 featuring stories from animation studios across the world

1:44:08 - Which future Star Wars story announced at Celebration are we most excited for?

1:46:35 - Outro

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John Wintroub and Sean Clark are joined by Michael Manny to discuss Multiverse of Madness and our complicated relationship with modern Star Wars.

0:00 - Intro

1:13 - Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness discussion

40:52 - Kenobi Anticipation & the successes/failings of Disney Lucasfilm

1:40:10 - Outro

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John Wintroub and Sean Clark are joined by Michael Manny to talk about our disappointment with Warner Bros over the cancellation of DC's Legends of Tomorrow and Batwoman.

0:00 - Intro

0:44 - DC’s Legends of Tomorrow cancellation discussion

32:00 - Outro

The GWW's article "The CW's Diverse Shows are Not Disposable": https://thegww.com/the-cws-diverse-shows-are-not-disposable/

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John Wintroub is joined by comic book writer and metalhead Markisan Naso to discuss the first volume of his latest comic series, By the Horns, and some hints at what is to come in the next volume.

0:00 - Intro

0:57 - Interview with Markisan Naso, writer and co-creator of By the Horns

50:28 - Outro

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John Wintroub discusses his first time watching One Piece with longtime fan Devlin Nipper and more on this week's episode of Nerdsplosion!

0:00 - Intro

0:26 - One Piece discussion (spoilers for the first 32 episodes) and why it is the king of Shonen storytelling

34:59 - How Arcane has changed the landscape for storytelling in animation

48:46 - Outro

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Devlin's Twitter: @Trackie_D

John Wintroub and Sean Clark discuss Netflix's mishandling of the release of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean and the first episode of Marvel's Moon Knight Disney+ series.

0:00 - Intro

0:51 - Episodes 13-24 of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean to premier on Netflix Fall 2022

17:12 - Moon Knight episode 1 discussion

43:49 -Outro & Sean discussing the FIFA World Cup 2022 groups

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