ScreenTone Club

In this episode of ScreenTone Club, Elliot and Andy explore the joys of punching things with a pair of Shounen Jump works- the Classic Fist of the North Star and the currently ongoing Kaiju No.8!

TIMECODES:
0:02:00 - Elliot’s Pick: Fist of the North Star!
0:06:30 - Kenshiro the Shapeshifter
0:11:00 - “Laugh out loud power trip”
0:17:30 - “I’ve seen what I came for now!”
0:23:00 - Andy’s Pick: Kaiju No. 8
0:26:45 - Hogging all the good storyline ideas
0:30:15 - “Starship Troopers Comradery” 
0:33:30 - “Pitch-Perfect”
0:37:45 - Balanced Tension
0:41:30 - Confidence
0:47:00 - Superpower: Life Experience
0:51:30 - Evangelion vibes
0:56:30 - Available! For Free!!!
1:00:45 - Our picks for next episode!
1:01:30 - Closedown!

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The intro music is Track 8 on Resting State by HOME, used here under the CC-BY 3.0 license.

In this extra episode of ScreenTone Club, Elliot talks to Evan Minto of azuki.co about the imminent launch of their manga subscription service!

TIMECODES:
0:02:15 - Conflict of Interest Statement!
0:03:45 - How did Azuki Start?
0:06:00 - What sets Azuki apart?
0:07:30 - Worker-owned business?
0:09:00 - How does Azuki support creators?
0:10:15 - Price and Currency
0:11:00 - How did Kodansha get on board?
0:13:15 - Kaiten Books on board also
0:15:15 - Content Availability - Free vs. Premium
0:17:45 - Offline Reading in the apps?
0:18:15 - Will the Worldwide (minus Japan) availability be for all titles?
0:19:00 - Non-English Languages?
0:20:00 - Whats next after the launch is done?
0:22:30 - Getting in the weeds about the App!
0:27:30 - Shoutouts to Mutual friend Ink
0:28:00 - Any lessons you learned from other manga services?
0:29:15 - Which titles do you want to highlight on the service?
0:32:15 - Elliot feels old!
0:36:00 - Outro Plug!

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In this episode of ScreenTone Club, Elliot and Andy hang out with a pair of awkward teens and their pet alien before heeding the Call of the Night and having silly adventures with a vampire!

TIMECODES:
0:01:45 - Woodworking?
0:04:00 - Returning Champions! Girls Last Tour (anime) (again)
0:05:30 - Tokyo Revengers (anime)
0:08:30 - Elliot’s Pick: Call of the Night
0:10:30 - Vampire Rules!
0:14:15 - Already spinning wheels?
0:19:15 - Intimacy
0:28:30 - Andy’s Pick: Adachi and Shimamura (Light Novel)
0:30:15 - Boredom as an elemental force
0:32:45 - Alien?????
0:36:45 - Why??????
0:39:30 - Good People Watching
0:41:00 - Good Balance
0:44:45 - Awkward Teeeeeeeeeeens
0:48:15 - Our Picks for Next Episode!
0:49:30 - Closedown!

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In this episode of ScreenTone Club, Elliot and Andy check in on Nagata Kabi before joining a bunch of misfit kids in the back of a broken down saloon car for a merry old trip back to the 70's!

TIMECODES:
0:01:30 - Be a Patron! 
0:03:00 - Returning Champions: Girls Last Tour
0:04:45 - A Bride’s Story
0:12:00 - Andy’s Pick: My Alcoholic Escape from Reality
0:15:15 - “Clinical”
0:22:00 - Structure and Panelling changes
0:26:00 - Existential Crises!
0:31:30 - Shibuya Meltdown
0:35:45 - Next Work and Interview!
0:39:45 - Nagata Kabi Food Manga?
0:41:00 - Elliot’s Pick: Sunny
0:44:30 - Stench of Authenticity
0:46:30 - Furiously Moving Camera
0:50:00 - Complex Lives
0:57:30 - Michael Arias!
1:01:00 - Sporadic Digital Availability
1:04:45 - Our Picks for Next Episode!
1:05:15 - Closedown!

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In this episode of ScreenTone Club, Elliot and Andy go to two alliterative extremes - the heat of a burning fire and the deep cold of darkest space!

TIMECODES:
0:02:00 - Kentaro Miura: in memorium
0:06:15 - May BONUS Episode Announcement!
0:07:00 - Returning Champions: Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro Vol. 7
0:12:30 - Sachi's Monstrous Appetite Vol. 2
0:17:45 - Hair Intakes
0:18:45 - Elliot’s Pick: Fire Force Vol. 1
0:22:30 - Getting in its own way
0:36:15 - “Hey, I am not a running joke”
0:40:00 - Andy’s Pick: Dai Dark Vol. 1 
0:43:00 - Difficult to escape comparisons to Dorohedoro
0:46:15 - EDGE
0:51:15 - Fun! Also Chainsaw Man comparisons
0:58:45 - Our Picks for Next Episode!
0:59:45 - Nagata Kabi Interview
1:01:00 - Closedown!

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The intro music is Track 8 on Resting State by HOME, used here under the CC-BY 3.0 license.

In this episode of ScreenTone Club, Elliot and Andy have a card-slapping, raingun-firing good time!

TIMECODES:
0:01:00 - Answers on a Postcard!
0:04:00 - Nagatoro Warning!!
0:04:45 - Elliot’s Pick: Chihayafuru Vol. 1
0:09:00 - “Easy to lie to”
0:11:15 - “Its like Berserk”
0:15:30 - “Everyone has something going for them”
0:18:00 - “Teenagers are shits”
0:25:00 - A love letter to a dying form
0:28:15 - Machine Learning Karuta
0:35:45 - Andy’s Pick: A Certain Scientific Railgun Vol. 1
0:40:30 - Politics and Worldbuilding
0:43:15 - “Really steams her hams”
0:45:45 - “Really Really Anime”
0:49:00 - “Dances around the margins” 
0:55:00 - “File off the pervert part”
0:58:30 - Massive Caveats!
1:01:00 - Looks Cool
1:03:00 - Our Picks for next Episode!

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The intro music is Track 8 on Resting State by HOME, used here under the CC-BY 3.0 license.

In this episode of ScreenTone Club, Elliot and Andy get locked in a school and forced to learn about exercise! How will they survive???

TIMECODES:
0:02:00 - Patreon Plug!
0:02:45 - Returning Champions: The Girl from the Other Side Vols. 9 - 10
0:05:00 - “Is this what I wanted to see?”
0:11:45 - Excited for a re-read from the start
0:13:15 - Elliot’s Pick: How Heavy Are The Dumbbells You Lift? Vol. 1
0:14:15 - Spotty Availability Notice
0:17:00 - “Muscle of the Week”
0:19:00 - “Horny, but not too horny”
0:22:00 - How to inject the educational element
0:25:45 - Actual Research!
0:28:30 - Teetering on the edge of being respectable
0:32:00 - Ring Fit Trauma
0:34:45 - Saki and Chihayafuru comparisons??
0:36:45 - Andy’s Pick: A School Frozen in Time Vol. 1
0:37:15 - Correction!
0:39:30 - WELP
0:41:30 - “Doesn’t have anything interesting to present”
0:42:30 - “Don’t mention a better thing in your thing!”
0:48:00 - Aggressively turned off
0:51:00 - “Does not reward digging”
0:55:00 - Will you be picking this up? Let us know!
0:55:45 - Our picks for next episode, Closedown

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The intro music is Track 8 on Resting State by HOME, used here under the CC-BY 3.0 license.

In this episode of ScreenTone Club, Elliot and Andy get a hankering for the most dangerous of appetites: Revengering!

TIMECODES:
0:00:45 - Buffmaster Supreme
0:03:45 - Returning Champions!
0:04:15 - With a Dog AND a Cat, Every Day is Fun Vol. 2
0:07:00 - A Bride’s Story Vol. 6
0:11:00 - Kaiju Girl Caramelise Vol. 4
0:15:45 - JUMBO KING
0:17:15 - BL Metamorphosis Vol. 4
0:24:15 - Gift Giving is Hard
0:31:00 - Elliot’s Pick: Sachi’s Monstrous Appetite Vol. 1
0:34:00 - We are both Bad at Names
0:37:45 - Getting a grasp on the volume
0:40:45 - “Deleted Scenes” / Doujinshi pedigree? 
0:50:30 - Andy’s Pick: Tokyo Revengers Vol. 1
0:56:30 - Troubled Progression
1:00:30 - “You would think he would remember that!!!”
1:09:30 - Hope for the anime version
1:14:15 - Subscription Service?
1:16:15 - Our Picks for Next Episode
1:17:15 - Closedown

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The intro music is Track 8 on Resting State by HOME, used here under the CC-BY 3.0 license.

In this episode of ScreenTone Club, Elliot and Andy go down to THE HOLE for a delicious serving of Gyoza and Violence in Dorohedoro before having a nice long discussion about The Seven Deadly Sins!

TIMECODES:
0:02:15 - Returning Champions: Don’t Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro Vol. 6
0:08:30 - “D’awwwww!”
0:09:15 - A Couple of Cuckoos Vols. 2 + 3
0:10:30 - Spoilers start!
0:14:30 - Spoilers over!
0:15:30 - Andy’s Pick: The Seven Deadly Sins
0:18:45 - Editor Note: There are No “Good Cops”
0:25:00 - Elliot goes on a tear from here
0:30:00 - “Charmless”
0:33:30 - Elliot’s Pick: Dorohedoro
0:38:30 - Lives on the line between “Gross” and “Coooooool”
0:41:30 - “Like a Sitcom”
0:45:15 - “The Hole is Going to Explode!
0:48:45 - Skate Punks
0:50:00 - How is the Anime?
0:53:00 - Death and Murder: It’s Part of Life!
0:55:45 - Our Picks for Next Episode!

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In this episode of ScreenTone Club, Elliot and Andy settle down with a basket full of goodies to have an Otherside Picnic before being rudely mobbed for their sandwiches by A Couple of Cuckoos!

TIMECODES:
0:03:15 - Returning Champions: Btooom! Vol. 2
0:07:00 - Star⇄Crossed!! Vols. 2 - 4 (END)
0:09:15 - “Wet Noodley”
0:11:15 - Eniale & Dewila Vol. 2
0:18:30 - Elliot’s Pick: A Couple of Cuckoos Vol. 1 
0:21:15 - Best Girl Likely Won’t Win!
0:25:00 - “Teflon Coating” 
0:30:00 - “Uh Oh”
0:37:15 - Wait, tell me about these other Characters!!
0:38:00 - Andy’s Pick: Otherside Picnic Vol. 1
0:40:00 - “Friends!?”
0:41:45 - “X-Files x Doctor Who”
0:46:00 - Dense!
0:50:30 - Elliot getting Nitpicky
0:53:00 - SCP Foundation
0:59:00 - Rad Character Interactions!
1:09:30 - Ragging on Lovecraft
1:14:30 - Our Picks for Next Episode!
1:16:00 - Closedown

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The intro music is Track 8 on Resting State by HOME, used here under the CC-BY 3.0 license.