ScreenTone Club

In this episode of ScreenTone Club Elliot and Andy dive into a double billing of intense fashionable Shoujo works by Ai Yazawa! Will they Measure Up or get marked down as Seconds?

TIMECODES:
0:01:00 - Programming Update!
0:02:00 - A Double Feature on Ai Yazawa!
0:03:30 - Elliot’s Pick: Paradise Kiss
0:06:00 - “Legs for Days” 
0:11:30 - The “Problem” with Isabella, Narratively 
0:13:00 - The Second Series within This Series
0:16:45 - Absolute Nightmare Characters (In a Good Way?) 
0:26:00 - Everyone Treading Water
0:32:45 - End-of-Series Spoiler - Skip Ahead 30 Seconds!
0:33:30 - Sex and Fucking 
0:36:45 - PEAK TEENAGER
0:44:30 - “Face Tank Your Mum” 
0:49:15 - “Plot Critical Auntie”
0:55:00 - “Nourishing”
0:56:30 - Andy’s Pick: Neighborhood Story
0:58:30 - “Childhood Friend Crisis”
1:10:00 - Smoking? And Drinking? In My Manga??? 
1:14:00 - WAAARP
1:18:30 - Remember When People Didn’t Have Mobile Phones and if You Wanted to Talk to a Friend You Had to Call Their House Phone? Wasn't That The Worst?
1:20:15 - Our Picks for Next Episode! Elliot Gets the Name of His Pick Wrong! 
1:21:00 - 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 round out the season of episodes with questionable romances and a very questionable setting- a Magical High School! Don't groan, you know you love it.

TIMECODES:
0:03:15 - Elliot’s Pick: Reign of the Seven Spellblades (Manga)
0:07:45 - “Chekov’s Wands” 
0:14:30 - “Be Sugoi Or Die” 
0:21:15 - The Manga Metronome
0:22:30 - Dammit Elliot, Stop Mentioning Big Order 
0:25:00 - Andy’s Pick: One More Step, Come Stand By My Side  
0:27:30 - “Masterful-ness” 
0:30:45 - “Awooga” 
0:36:15 - Please Supply Your Own Foley 
0:43:45 - Lucasarts Hint Helpline For Manga 
0:48:45 - “Sexy Fun Knife Times” 
0:51:45 - Our Picks for Next Time!
0:52:45 - 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 good and comfy and discuss the joys of manga which feature two of the most vexatious kinds of people in real life: Children and Landlords.

TIMECODES:
0:01:45 - Andy’s Pick: Monthly in the Garden with My Landlord
0:05:15 - Moderate Volume 1 Spoilers Start here!
0:06:00 - Spoilers End!
0:08:15 - Character Interactions 
0:12:30 - Sofa Dynamics  
0:18:45 - “Awards” 
0:23:00 - Elliot’s Pick: Yotsuba&!
0:26:45 - “Enjoy Everything” 
0:30:15 - Aliens???? 
0:35:30 - Boxersman 
0:40:30 - Imprinting 
0:45:30 - talking about Yanda here 
0:47:45 - No Anime Forthcoming? :< 
0:50:15 - Revisit Potential 
0:54:30 - Our Picks for Next Episode! 
0:55:15 - 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 discuss Social Anxiety and how it drives main characters to do very silly things, like joining a band and solving gruesome murders! Just not at the same time, that would be silly.

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TIMECODES:

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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 discuss Samurai Flamenco. And some manga, I guess.

TIMECODES:
0:01:45 - Genshiken: True to Life?? 
0:03:00 - Elliot’s Pick: Go! Go! Loser Ranger! 
0:03:15 - Quints = Bad 
0:07:30 - “Shower Thoughts Sentai”
0:09:45 - Andy Sez: “Watch Samurai Flamenco!” 
0:13:00 - “Here Are All Our Freaks!!” 
0:17:15 - One-Upping the Reader 
0:20:00 - Anime Incoming!
0:22:00 - Andy’s Pick: Glitch
0:26:00 - Allegory! 
0:29:45 - Extended “Plate of Chips” Metaphor
0:31:45 - Vampeerz: Very Good 
0:37:45 - “Where’s The Juice??”
0:44:45 - Our Picks for Next Episode!
0:46:30 - 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 Elliot and Andy discuss the importance of Scatman John to the music landscape. Oh, and review some manga.

TIMECODES:
0:01:00 - Elliot was Not Successful
0:02:00 - Elliot's Pick: Wandance
0:05:00 - Funny Face Charm Point
0:07:15 - Comparison with "My Dress-up Darling"
0:12:30 - "Flow and Snap"
0:16:15 - "Oh, That's Really Smart"
0:23:15 - Heart
0:24:45 - RIP Scatman John
0:26:45 - Andy's Pick: Helck
0:28:45 - This Is The One Thing We Didn't Want To Happen
0:32:30 - Slightly Missing the Mark
0:35:00 - Remember Ani-Manga?
0:38:30 - "Losing top" as in losing temper, not losing the item of clothing
0:45:30 - Yay Demons!
0:47:15 - Anime Version?
0:50:00 - "Heh"
0:51:15 - Our Picks for Next Episode!
0:52:00 - 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 talk all about ill-advised relationships, the benefit of having a stable polycule, and how cute it is when a character searches blindly while whimpering "megane, megane".

TIMECODES:
0:02:00 - Elliot’s Pick: The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses
0:05:30 - Wet Rags and Jellyfish 
0:13:00 - “Megane, Megane” 
0:14:30 - This is the Comic Strip in question and here is an interesting article about how the author vanished
0:21:45 - “Oh No, GoHands!”
0:22:45 - Andy’s Pick: Marmalade Boy: Collector's Edition
0:31:00 - TITLE DROP YEAHHHHH 
0:33:00 - Elliot Sez Parental Polycules are Fine 
0:37:15 - Maid-Sama  = Sewage 
0:41:00 - Characters that Write Themselves 
0:44:30 - “DO NOT SMOOCH” 
0:47:15 - Trusting the Series
0:53:00 - Our Picks for Next Episode! 
0:54:00 - 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 discuss a pair of autobiographical essay manga from non-binary authors and find a lot to discuss and contrast between their very different approaches.

TIMECODES:
0:01:45 - 301 Redirects!  
0:02:30 - Elliot’s Pick: X-Gender 
0:03:00 - Apologies up front
0:05:30 - “The Tyranny of Classification” 
0:10:45 - “Warts and All” 
0:16:45 - Personality Conflict 
0:22:15 - “All Heads” 
0:28:00 - The “Essay Manga Ouroborus Moment” 
0:29:00 - Andy’s Pick: Until I Love Myself: The Journey of a Nonbinary Manga Artist
0:33:15 - Relatable, Even Without Direct Comparison 
0:38:00 - Running Around in Your Own Head
0:42:00 - Uncle Elliot Stories 
0:44:15 - #MeToo 
0:49:15 - Jigsaw Puzzle  
0:57:30 - Horror Flashbacks 
1:00:00 - “Parasocial Manga”
1:00:30 - Our Picks for Next Episode! 
1:02:15 - 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 discuss the tyranny of over-achievers and how they can blight your life by either punching you or by being overly houseproud!

TIMECODES:
0:02:00 - Andy’s Pick: The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again Today
0:03:00 - GOHANDS PSA 
0:08:15 - Not Enough?
0:10:30 - Title Localisation? 
0:14:15 - “Niece Delivery System” 
0:21:00 - 3DMark2000!!! 
0:25:15 - “Gumption” 
0:26:30 - Elliot’s Pick: Teppu 
0:28:00 - “Je Ne Sais Quoi” 
0:34:45 - Villian Rehab - Why Bother? 
0:38:30 - “Nailing it” 
0:45:30 - “The Normal One” 
0:52:30 - Visual Appeal 
0:54:15 - Our Picks for Next Episode!
0:55:15 - 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 try and discuss a Yuri manga without mentioning "How Do We Relationship" and fail miserably. Also, Salaryman Cardcaptor Sakura?!?

TIMECODES:
0:01:30 - Ice Cream! 
0:02:00 - Elliot’s Pick: Magical Girl Incident 
0:03:00 - Salarymen: What Do They Do???? 
0:05:15 - Ikemen Tomoyo 
0:10:00 - Avoiding Grimdark 
0:17:45 - Final Fantasy IX Reference???
0:22:45 - Andy’s Pick: Assorted Entanglements
0:25:15 - ILLEGAL YURI??? 
0:27:00 - “Uncomfortable" 
0:29:15 - “Shock Yuri” 
0:33:00 - Toxicity Handling
0:37:45 - Elliot’s Research Corner 
0:43:00 - Sexiness??? 
0:47:45 - Our Picks for Next Episode!
0:49:00 - !!GOHANDS WARNING!!
0:51:00 - Closedown!

If you enjoy this episode, please consider backing us on Patreon - from only US$3 a month you get bonus episodes and other perks as well, including the ability to vote on topics for us to cover!

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