ScreenTone Club

In this episode of Screentone Club, Andy and Elliot are joined by an all-girl cast as they peruse the Suzunaan bookshop in Forbidden Scrollery before getting all embarrassed and lovey-dovey with Kase-San and Morning Glories!

Timecodes:
0:02:00 - August Bonus Episode Title Announcement! 
0:03:00 - Want to be on a Manga Panel at Hibanacon 2019? Get in touch! 
0:04:15 - Returning Champions: Our Dreams at Dusk Vol.2! 
0:06:00 - The Tyranny of Labels
0:11:30 - “oh no”
0:16:30 - Elliot’s Pick: Forbidden Scrollery
0:17:00 - Touhou Bullshit! (Probably the best short explaination of what the hell Touhou is)
0:20:30 - Fatally Undercut
0:25:00 - “Oh, its over?”
0:31:15 - “Laser Time!”
0:35:00 - IF YOU HAVE EVER SEEN THE DOUJIN OF TOUHOU CHARACTERS PLAYING AGE OF EMPIRES ON A LAN PLEASE CONTACT ELLIOT
0:35:45 - Andy’s Pick: Kase-san and Morning Glories! 
0:38:00 - “Doushio”
0:40:45 - Snack Manga
0:43:15 - “Fluid Misunderstanding States”
0:50:00 - Refreshing and Wholesome! 
0:50:45 - Our picks for next episode! 
0:52:30 - 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 episode of Screentone Club, Andy and Elliot go undercover with the Spy x Family in order to capture the (Blue) Flag in a double-bill of titles available on Manga Plus!

Timecodes:
0:00:45 - REAL LIFE PROBLEMS
0:02:30 - Returning Champions! Dead Dead Demons DeDeDeDe Destruction (Volume 6)
0:03:30 - Grilling?
0:07:00 - Chainsaw Man! Big Big Stuff! 
0:11:00 - Manga Plus Double Bill this episode! Notes on the service.
0:13:30 - Andy’s Pick: Blue Flag! 
0:14:00 - Whoa Andy
0:19:00 - Internality and Externality
0:22:00 - “Dense and Meaty”
0:25:00 - Tweeting as a conversational method
0:29:30 - “I hope everyone is okay!”
0:31:45 - “Remember Kids on the Slope?”
0:33:45 - Natural continuity
0:39:45 - Full Blown Release Please! 
0:43:00 - Elliot’s Pick: Spy x Family! 
0:45:15 - Elliot bad at names again, sorry
0:48:30 - Only nine chapters, so quick to catch up on! 
0:50:30 - Getting stuck in your own storyline
0:55:00 - Localisation weirdness??
1:00:00 - “Chunky!”
1:01:30 - What are we reading next episode?
1:02:30 - Closedown

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In this episode of Screentone Club, Andy and Elliot settle down in their Very Fairy Apartment to enjoy some delicious pancakes, courtesy of Kaiju Girl Caramelise!

Timecodes:
0:01:45 - Bonus episode voting IS IN! 
0:03:30 - Returning Champions: Dead Dead Demon’s DeDeDeDe Destruction! 
0:05:45 - Hot off the press! ANOTHER volume of Dead Dead Demon! 0:10:00 - “Yes, I get it”
0:12:00 - Elliot’s Pick: A Very Fairy Apartment! 
0:12:30 - Discoverability gripes, what a shock
0:15:15 - Going Blue
0:16:15 - “Fairy-riffic”
0:21:00 - “Wait, is this a webcomic?”
0:25:30 - “Finger food Manga”
0:26:45 - Andy’s Pick: Kaiju Girl Caramelise! 
0:32:15 - “Adorable idiots”
0:37:45 - JUMBO KING
0:41:45 - Our Picks for Next Episode! 
0:42:15 - Closedown!

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In this episode of Screentone Club, Andy and Elliot take a running dive into titles adjacent to the mind of Hideaki Anno by first invading his private life in Insufficient Direction and then taking a look at the manga re-imagining of Neon Genesis Evangelion!

Timecodes:
0:00:30 - Podcast hijack! 
0:02:30 - Its our Podcast Anniversary! 
0:04:45 - Trip Report: “This is Manga” at Japan House, London! (Naoki Urusawa)
0:06:45 - Elliot Pedant Corner
0:13:15 - Elliot Manga Market Prediction Corner! 
0:15:15 - Andy’s Pick: Insufficient Direction! 
0:19:15 - Havin’ a good old time! 
0:22:30 - Co-habiting and loss of shame
0:26:00 - “oh no, did I get used to this?”
0:29:45 - An Embarassment of Availability! 
0:30:45 - Elliot’s Pick: Neon Genesis Evangelion 3-in-1 edition
0:32:30 - Notes on the reviewer’s experience and pre-disposition! 
0:37:00 - Thoughts and how they are shown
0:39:45 - How to Watch “The End of Evangelion”
0:42:15 - The Importance of being Shinji
0:49:15 - Is it worth reading if you have already watched the anime?
0:54:45 - “The stink of otaku-dom”
0:55:15 - The Art
1:02:30 - “Easing into it over Time”
1:04:45 - Evangelion newbies please get in touch! 
1:08:15 - Our Picks for Next Episode!!

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In this episode of Screentone Club, Elliot and Andy brave the unseasonably warm weather and hellish technical difficulties to record this bumper episode focused on Akiko Higashimura! Plus, Returning Champions!

Timecodes:
0:02:00 - Bonus episode Live Drawing!
0:03:15 - Returning Champions: Dead Dead DeDeDeDeDestruction! Vol.5
0:06:45 - The Power Couple
0:08:45 - “Social Reset Button”
0:13:00 - O Maidens in your Savage Season Vol.2
0:17:00 - Akiko Higashimura Spotlight! 
0:17:45 - Elliot’s Pick: Tokyo Tarareba Girls! 
0:19:30 - Elliot is forgetful again
0:23:15 - “A big mess of emotions” 
0:26:30 - Friendship in your 30’s
0:29:45 - Elliot still bad at names
0:33:00 - Baps and Visual Metaphor
0:37:15 - Still great on re-reading!
0:39:00 - WHAT IS TIKTOK????
0:40:00 - Personal tension as a character facet
0:42:30 - Andy’s pic: Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artists Journey
0:46:00 - Bamboo Sword Teacher Actually Exists!!!
0:49:30 - The Problem with Chapters
0:54:00 - Small Town Hell
0:55:30 - Regarding Fishes and Ponds Therein
1:01:15 - Exam Fraud!
1:05:30 - Series Points of Interests
1:07:30 - 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 BONUS episode of Screentone.club that has been specially unlocked for non-Patrons, Andy and Elliot journey to the frozen land of Hokkaido to eat minced squirrel and try not to get skinned alive as they take a look at Golden Kamuy!

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Timecodes:
0:01:30 - Patreon updates a-go-go! 
0:02:30 - Our topic for this month: Golden Kamuy! 
0:05:00 - Where the gold at
0:07:30 - Our first mention of Full Metal Alchemist (won’t be the last)
0:08:45 - Ainu One Piece?
0:12:00 - The Power of Lovable Idiots
0:15:15 - Not for the Squeamish
0:18:15 - Ainu Cultural Education and why that is badass
0:23:45 - Magical backstory~ 
0:25:00 - Callback to ACCA! 
0:28:15 - “Scary Numbers”
0:34:45 - “Adult Murder One Piece”

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In this BUMPER episode of Screentone Club, Elliot and Andy get in deep in discussing Our Dreams at Dusk before collecting their limited bravery to ask "Are you Lost?"
PLUS! Elliot reports back from the Manga exhibition currently ongoing at the British Museum, as well as some primo Returning Champions! Wow!

### Series Discussed: Are you Lost?, Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare

### Assignments for next Episode: Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey

Timecodes:
0:01:45 - PATRON ALERT
0:02:00 - Bonus content! 
0:02:30 - Trip Report: Manga exhibition at the British Museum
0:03:45 - Who is the Exhibition for?
0:09:00 - What would we like to see “next”?
0:12:15 - Elliot losing his mind over “To Terra”, a very good series that is criminally out of print
0:14:45 - Returning Champions: My Solo Exchange Diary! 
0:18:00 - The dangers of getting invested
0:21:00 - “The Beautiful Flower that Blossoms”
0:22:15 - Also: Girls Last Tour! 
0:24:30 - The importance of Ending a series
0:27:00 - “The author knows they have you”
0:28:00 - Elliot’s Pick: Are you Lost?
0:29:45 - Four Girls on a Desert Island
0:33:30 - Cold openings
0:36:30 - Balance of power
0:38:45 - Male Gaze
0:41:00 - Importance of characters and how the series realises this
0:45:30 - Andy’s Pick: Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare
0:47:30 - Crushing on the ultimate untouchable person
0:50:30 - Sometimes, life is going to be a struggle you cannot escape
0:52:30 - The power of visual depiction
0:57:00 - Cat Map! 
0:59:00 - Elliot’s “Social Disenfrancisment and ostracism explainer for utter beginners” moment
1:03:00 - The impact on “Straight* White Dudes” (*Well, one of us)
1:05:00 - SOMEONE-SAN
1:08:15 - “Oh thank goodness is relatively short”
1:09:00 - Our Picks for next episode! 
1:10:15 - Closedown

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In this episode of Screentone Club, Elliot and Andy go on a gap year with Saint Young Men and then make it permanent with the Girls Last Tour!

Timecodes:
0:00:45 - Excite! 
0:01:15 - The May Bonus Episode topic announcement! 
0:03:00 - Shoutouts! 
0:03:30 - Returning Champions: Chainsaw Man! 
0:06:30 - Manga Redshirts
0:08:45 - Neon Genesis Evangelion Reference
0:12:45 - Elliot’s Pick for this episode: Girls Last Tour! 
0:13:45 - “Girls doing a BLAME!”
0:16:00 - “Healing Emptiness”
0:19:00 - The joy of discovery
0:23:00 - Urban Archeology
0:29:00 - “Beyond Moe”
0:33:45 - “Luxuriating in it”
0:37:30 - Andy’s Pick: Saint Young Men! 
0:39:30 - Gap Year Gods
0:40:45 - Excellent Buddy Comedy
0:44:15 - “Erring on the side of being nice”
0:48:45 - Watching the art “bed in”
0:50:45 - Good Translation notes
0:53:30 - “Did It Make Me Laugh?”
0:57:15 - Our Picks for next Episode! 
0:58:45 - Closedown!

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In this episode of Screentone Club, Elliot and Andy get in the way of commuters on the Maiden Railways before taking a trip back in time to the blood-soaked Edo era with Lone Wolf and Cub!

Timecodes:
0:01:15 - Pizza Comas and Holidays
0:02:30 - Join the Patreon! 
0:03:30 - Unreturning Champions
0:04:30 - Elliot’s Pick: Maiden Railways
0:11:15 - Conspiratorial Train set
0:12:00 - Spoilers for one of the short stories in this collection! 
0:13:15 - Spoilers over! 
0:16:30 - “The REAL Story”
0:18:45 - Nerdy Train Endings
0:22:45 - So what did we actually think?
0:25:30 - Andy’s Pick: Lone Wolf and Cub
0:27:15 - “Watch him do some Murder”
0:30:30 - Finding the flow
0:32:30 - “Idiot Small Landlord Drama”
0:37:30 - John Wick Comparison
0:41:00 - Digital version complaints
0:44:45 - Would we keep reading?
0:47:15 - “A lot of murder for your money”
0:48:00 - Our Picks for Next Episode!

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In this episode of Screentone Club, Elliot and Andy discuss the perils of being Reverse Isekai'ed in Dead Mount Death Play before moving on to the even worse perils of ex-say with those Maidens in their Savage Season!

Timecodes:
0:00:45 - Two rules for life
0:02:00 - Patreon Plugging! Join up! 
0:02:45 - Returning Champions: Golden Kamuy! 
0:03:30 - Mature manga for Mature people
0:06:00 - Now in Shonen Jump Subscription! 
0:09:00 - Minor Reader Issues
0:13:15 - Andy’s Pick: Dead Mount Death Play
0:15:15 - Child Murder!! 
0:18:45 - Lemmings?
0:23:15 - Ryohgo Narita Secondary Cast
0:26:00 - “Buy an Allotment!”
0:27:00 - “Baps flapping about”
0:30:00 - Tone Whiplash
0:34:30 - “The Crunch Point”
0:35:30 - “All Polka Time”
0:39:00 - Elliot’s Manga Accidents
0:40:30 - Elliot’s Pick: O Maidens in your Savage Season
0:42:15 - “Oh Snap, Hormones!”
0:44:30 - Male Gaze 101
0:48:30 - “Ridiculously good”
0:49:00 - Livestreaming + Puberty = Oh Nooooooooooo
0:52:15 - Finally, a GOOD childhood friend angle
0:54:45 - Pizza and “Whacking it”
0:56:00 - Anti-Scums Wish
0:57:00 - “Sex Delenda Est”
0:59:15 - Elliot loves panelling
1:00:00 - Excellent Translation Notes! 
1:04:15 - Elliot is a massive baby/ manga dad
1:07:00 - Our picks for next episode
1:09:00 - Closedown

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