Vrai, Peter, and Toni look back at the anime adaptation of Inio Asano’s sapphic apocalypse, a series that couldn’t be more timely in its exploration of genocide and an “everyday apocalypse.”
Episode Information
Date Recorded: September 23rd, 2024
Hosts: Vrai, Peter, Toni
Episode Breakdown
0:00:00 Intro
0:01:28 Also there’s a manga
0:03:11 Spoiler warning
0:04:09 Content warning
0:04:29 Content vs tone
0:07:41 Anime vs manga
0:10:12 Oba and the aliens
0:17:34 Fascism, colonialism, the military industrial complex, and corporate complicity
0:22:14 Activism and futility
0:28:13 Kenichi and Hiroshi
0:30:29 Collective vs individual action
0:35:21 Kenichi by way of Naomi Klein
0:39:28 Dostoevsky has entered the chat
0:40:23 Time for metatext
0:46:35 Watchmen-like narrative structure
0:51:25 The anime is gayer?
1:01:37 Makoto appreciation
1:06:39 The English dub
1:09:37 Adaptation quality
1:15:05 Final thoughts?
1:19:29 About the title
1:21:22 Outro
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