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The last but certainly not least of Kyrie's interview series at Otakon 2022 concludes with an interview with Tiana Camacho. You can check her out in the latest season of Jojo's Bizzare Adventure as Ermes Costello, and is absolutely a talent to keep an eye out for.

Be sure to follow her on Twitter or keep up to date and buy signed prints on her Streamily page!

Kyrie's interview series continues with her talk with Toshio Furukawa and Shino Kakinuma! Having countless roles over their combined decades of experience, it was an honor to sit down with two legends of the Japanese voice acting world. 

Be sure to follow Toshio Furukawa on Twitter! 

After twenty-eight years, one of the most influential JRPGs of all time finally has an official English release. With seven heroes on seven journeys, it was (and is) incredibly narratively and mechanically ambitious, while also surprisingly restrained in scope. We never played it ourselves, but with the remake out, Jen and Six have finally filled this gap in their knowledge. And folks? Its reputation is well deserved.

If you want to find us on Twitter, Jen is @jbu3 and Six is @sixdettmar. There is too much music to list, but it's all from the Live A Live 2022 remake OST by Yoko Shimamura.

Kyrie's interview series from Otakon 2022 continues! She got a chance to speak with composers Kaoru Wada and Yuki Hayashi! They discuss inspirations, challenges, and much more. Huge thank you to Mr. George Endo for providing translation! 

You can find out more about Kaoru Wada on his Twitter and website and same for Yuki Hayashi on his Twitter and website. 

Stay tuned for more interviews later this month!

This is the start of Kyrie's interview series based on the people she got a chance to speak with at Otakon 2022!

First, Kyrie spoke with Kaho Shibuya, the multitalented streamer, model, and singer! She sat down with me to talk about her current and upcoming projects. If you would like to follow her, be sure to check out her Twitter, Twitch, and Instagram! Or, you can always check out her website for more details. 

With Kyrie still away, we turn to friend and capital G Gamer Lotte to fill in our third chair! that's unkind. don't call Lotte a Gamer. that's mean. Jen has brought Who's Lila?, an unsettling point and click about trying to convey emotions. Lotte has been watching Birdie Wing, and "boy is it Girls." And Six has brought a Three Kingdoms double (triple?) feature, and none of the works involved are particularly stellar.

If there is a strange silence in your track around the discussion of River City Saga: Three Kingdoms, please delete and redownload your track! There is a version 2!

Welcome to the renamed Playlist Podcast! That name? Not very good. This one? Better. And what better way to inaugurate the new name than by expanding our scope as well? We have our games coverage- Six is talking Neon White, as is a lot of the internet lately, while Jen has brought Card Shark, a game by the developers of Reigns that has our cast a bit divided. But we're not just doing games anymore, as Kyrie has brought the Indian action film RRR to the table as well.

Our intro music is 8bit 23 from Demon Souls, a Japanese royalty free music site.

It's another month, and we're back to talk about more of what we've been playing lately! Jen is indulging in her FMV love with The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story, a Japanese mystery game from the writer of 428: Shibuya Scramble. It's less wacky comedy than Shibuya, however, focused more on Japanese history and classic mysteries. Kyrie is happy to revisit Chrono Cross, one of the games from her youth that left a big impression. It isn't the world's greatest port, but it's still a reminder of this strange and special game. And Six? They brought... Total War: Three Kingdoms again. This time they're upset at it. That's novel, I guess.

Our intro music is 8bit 23 from Demon Souls, a Japanese royalty free music site.

CONTENT WARNING: Non-graphic but emotionally charged discussion of fictional violence, abuse between partners, sexual abuse, and familial abuse, as well as trauma that stems from the above.

At a patron's request, we checked out a visual novel neither of us had ever heard of, called Ochitsubaki. It's a quick playthrough, clocking in at 60 to 90 minutes based on your reading speed. We couldn't have anticipated the strength of its writing, and how hard it would hit us.

If you want to find us on Twitter, Jen is @jbu3 and Six is @sixdettmar. Our intro music is Yuugaoshiro, and our outro music is Tsuki ga Daroshima. Both are by FEYXUAN, and are from the Ochitsubaki OST. You can find more of FEYXUAN's music here, their itchi.io page here, and the page for their artist collective oneiro here.