Thoughts from a Postmodern Weeaboo
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https://media.blubrry.com/daladybugproductions/content.blubrry.com/daladybugproductions/3S_Special_3-Monogatari_Interview_with_Josh_Dunham.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadAlmost a year and a half ago, I had my first conversation with Josh Dunham, which I used as material in the first episode of Spiral Radio. It was heavily pared down and I didn’t want the conversation to just go unheard, so I’m releasing the unedited audio for…
For better or worse, Crunchyroll is perhaps the biggest face of anime fandom in the English-speaking world. They currently have the largest catalogue of streaming anime, they provide news articles and blog features, and they have a heavy social media presence, to the point you could argue it’s much too heavy. They have their detractors,…
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https://media.blubrry.com/daladybugproductions/content.blubrry.com/daladybugproductions/MT3.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadHero kenzan! Hero kenzan! Hero kenzan! The hero appears, bringing you a new episode of MeganeToast straight from Planet Ping Pong! In this episode, Chris and Buggy break down one of their favorite anime: Ping Pong the Animation
Boy, piracy sure has been a hot topic in the anime community lately, hasn’t it? Hulu has removed their free subscription option and removed much of the anime from their back catalogue. Anime Strike’s double paywall and inaccessibility in regions outside of America causes controversy. Many people were forced to actually confront Netflix’s model of…
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http://media.blubrry.com/daladybugproductions/content.blubrry.com/daladybugproductions/3S_Episode_5-Everyone_s_A_Critic_And_So_Can_You_.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThe Subtle Doctor joins Buggy and Chris to talk about critical analysis in the anime fandom, how to get into it, and where it’s succeeding and failing.
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https://media.blubrry.com/daladybugproductions/content.blubrry.com/daladybugproductions/Digicast9.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadBuggy passes the goggles. Maddy is hospitalized. Tom complains about animation. Chris does an old-timey radio voice. And everyone complains about how badly Sora seems to get shafted.
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https://media.blubrry.com/daladybugproductions/content.blubrry.com/daladybugproductions/3S_Special_2-2016_Retrospective.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadBuggy and Chris reflect on what they both consider to be a fantastic year in anime, talking through all the big anime (as well as others they enjoyed) and various events that happened throughout the year.
When rereading Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” for my first Philosophy and Psycho-Pass post, I rediscovered a quote from it that stuck with me the first time I read it and that stuck with me again: “The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and…
Sometimes you write things because you have something insightful or meaningful to say. But sometimes you write something that you know everyone else always writes and that you know people are still going to click on for the sole purpose of hoping you reinforce their own opinions. And you feel a little shame at selling…
Perhaps the most common misconception about Psycho-Pass is that it depicts a dystopia. A dystopia, by definition, is an unpleasant or undesirable society. Perhaps a select few lead good lives, but in a dystopia, the majority of society is in ruin. It is easy to mistake Psycho-Pass as depicting a dystopia, as it focuses on…