The Chicago White Sox are 25-24, they current hold the second wild card spot, and their prized free agent acquisition, Munetaka Murakami, has a 157 wRC+ and 1.7 fWAR. We may be back?

This episode, Fumi Yoshinaga's Ōoku: The Inner Chambers published by Viz and Chiyu Amairo's The Otaku Love Connection published by Square Enix.

Ōoku: The Inner Chambers credits:

• Translation and adaptation: Akemi Wegmüller
• Touch-up art and lettering: Monlisa De Asis
• Design: Frances O. Liddell (volume 1, 3-6), Fawn Lau (volume 2, 7-12), Yukiko Whitley (volume 13-14, 18-19)
• Editor: Pancha Diaz

Join the unofficial Taiiku Podcast discord, the OSMCast discord. Or the second unofficial Taiiku Podcast discord, the Third Impact Anime discord. Both used with permission.

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Show notes:

1:26 - We talk about Ōoku: The Inner Chambers

24:57 - We talk about The Otaku Love Connection

Next time is Talk to My Back and On and Off: Work-Life Imbalance.

It is 1990 and we are engaged in a questionable war in the middle east. It is 2001 and we are engaged in a questionable war in the middle east. It is 2003 and we are engaged in a questionable war in the middle east. It is 2026 and we are engaged in a questionable war in the middle east.

This episode, the fourth of Light Novels In Your Ears, we're talking about Iori Miyazawa's (with illustrations by shirakaba) Otherside Picnic published by J-Novel Club.

Otherside Picnic credits:

• Translation: Sean McCann
• Editor: Krys Loh

As always, you can find me on bsky @nidokorn, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) and the podcast on bsky at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen’s writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post and Awko Tako.

Read Helen's review of Otherside Picnic over at The OASG.

Join the unofficial Taiiku Podcast discord, the OSMCast discord. Or the second unofficial Taiiku Podcast discord, the Third Impact Anime discord. Both used with permission.

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Show notes:

No show notes. We just talk about Otherside Picnic.

Next time is Ōoku: The Inner Chambers and The Otaku Love Connection

The last time I brought up the PWHL, I said go Frost. And I'm here to say, I lied, go PWHL Seattle.

This episode, we're talking about Yama Wayama's Let's Go Karaoke! and Mokumokuren's The Summer Hikaru Died, both published by Yen Press.

Let's Go Karaoke! credits:

• Translation: Leighann Harvey
• Lettering: Chiho Christie

The Summer Hikaru Died credits:

• Translation: Ajani Oloye
• Lettering: Abigail Blackman

As always, you can find me on bsky @nidokorn, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on bsky at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen’s writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post and Awko Tako.

Join the unofficial Taiiku Podcast discord, the OSMCast discord. Used with permission.

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Show notes:

1:17 - We talk about Let's Go Karaoke!

16:53 - We talk about The Summer Hikaru Died

Next time is Catch These Hands! and This Monster Wants to Eat Me

I need to watch more KBO, but they're on so early, and I forget to watch the ESPN on demand streams. Someone's gotta remind me, so I can properly root for the Giants.

This episode, we're talking about Syundei's Total Eclipse of the Eternal Heart and Kodama Naoko's I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up, both published by Seven Seas.

The song you heard in the episode was Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

0:43 - We talk about Total Eclipse of the Eternal Heart!

9:59 - We talk about I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up!

Next time is Demon Slayer (if it ends) and Saint Young Men! Failing Demon Slayer ending, we'll talk about In Clothes Called Fat instead.

I am extremely open about this, but it's not like I yell "I AM KOREAN" at the top of every episode, but I am Korean. I was adopted too, and I don't know much about Korean culture, history, or anything else. Which is why I'm glad books such as Banned Book Club exist, so I can read about some history by way of comics.

This time, I'm doing something a little different; I'm interviewing Ryan Estrada, one half of the writing team for Banned Book Club! Here's what the publisher, Iron Circus Comics, has to say about Banned Book Club:

The gripping true story of a South Korean woman’s student days under an authoritarian regime in the early 1980s, and how she defied state censorship through the rebellion of reading.

If you want more interviews with Ryan, and including Kim Hyun Sook, here's two cool interviews, one from Foreword Reviews and one from Rich in Color.

The song you heard in the episode is "Noonside" by Yaeji.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

And you can find my review of Banned Book Club on the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

There are no show notes; I just interviewed Ryan about Banned Book Club.

Next time is Total Eclipse of the Eternal Heart and I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up, actually.

The Busan Lotte Giants are 5-0 baby!! Top of the KBO, the hometown team finally comes through. Can't wait to be disappointed at some point this season.

This episode, I have a special guest, Chris (@gokuffy), talking about two adaptations of No Longer Human! The first is Usamaru Furuya's, published by Vertical, then it's Junji Ito's, published by Viz.

The song you heard in this episode was "Human After All" by Daft Punk.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

You can find our guest Chris on Twitter and at his YouTube channel, Cups of Knight Films.

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Show notes:

0:41 - Chris breaks down Osamu Dazai's version!

13:17 - or hereabouts, we meander into talking about Usamaru Furuya's version!

41:37 - We talk about Junji Ito's version!

Next time is an interview with Ryan Estrada, co-writer for Banned Book Club!

The KBO is slowly coming back with no fans preseason games, and I cannot wait to try to stay up until like midnight or later to watch my beloved Lotte Giants play baseball.

This episode, we're talking about KAITO's Cross Manage and Blue Flag, both published by Viz.

The song you heard in the episode was "The Girl" by Run River North.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

0:55 - We talk about Cross Manage!

13:32 - We talk about Blue Flag!

Next time is Total Eclipse of the Eternal Heart and I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up! The relatively long titles episode.

Going out is hard now, not just because it is relatively anxiety inducing, but because the masks fog up my glasses and the bandanas keep falling off, so it's a lose-lose-lose proposition no matter what. My only release is running, which is a different kind of lose.

This episode we're talking about Natsume Ono's Ristorante Paradiso and Inio Asano's Downfall, both published by Viz. It's also more spoiler-y than usual, so heads up.

The song you heard in the episode were "Marigold" by orange pekoe and "Suteki na Kajitsu" by Lisa Komine from the Ristorante Paradiso anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

You can watch Ristorante Paradiso free and legal on Nozomi's YouTube channel (as of this posting).

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Show notes:

0:39 - We talk about Ristorante Paradiso!

9:05 - We talk about Downfall!

15:57 - Downfall spoilers.

Next time is Cross Manage and Blue Flag! The KAITO episode.

Podcasts are a good way, during this time of stay-at-home orders and global pandemics, to have real human interaction with real other humans, and not just coworkers over IM or email or gritting through your teeth at the other folks in line at the grocery store, praying they don't cough. Anyway, stay safe everyone, and wash your hands.

This episode, we're talking about Shinobu Ohtaka's Magi published by Viz and Asumiko Nakamura's Classmates published by Seven Seas.

The song you heard on this episode is "The Bravery" by supercell from the Magi anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

0:34 - We talk about Magi!

14:50 - We talk about Classmates!

Next time is Ristorante Paradiso and Downfall!

I, as my Manga In Your Ears co-hosts, have been working from home for the past few days in an attempt not to spread a pandemic. Sports has stopped in the US and Canada, so I can't even talk about my newfound fandom of the Vancouver Canucks (not that I know anything about hockey still). On the plus side, the air quality in LA is GREAT. Ban cars.

This episode, we're talking about Riyoko Ikeda's Rose of Versailles published by Udon and Taiyo Matsumoto's Cats of the Louvre published by Viz.

The songs you can hear in the episode are "Bara wa Utsukushiku Chiru" and "Ai no Hikari to Kage," both by Hiroko Suzuki from the Rose of Versailles anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

Also check out Helen's reviews on Cats of the Louvre and Rose of Versailles. And this great piece by Jocelyne Allen on Cats of the Louvre, which is where I got all of the information I said on the podcast.

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Show notes:

0:39 - We talk about Rose of Versailles!

14:47 - We talk about Cats of the Louvre!

Next time is Magi and Classmates!

Mookie Betts was traded to the Dodgers! Except maybe not because of medical particulars surrounding Brusdar Graterol, the greatest name in baseball, but also a fireballing probably reliever when the Red Sox wanted a starter. I sure hope this trade still goes through, because I will be a very sad Dodger fan if it does not. If they can keep Kenta Maeda, though, that'd be cool.

This episode, we're talking about Keiko Tobe's With the Light and Afro's Laid Back Camp, both published by Yen Press.

The song you heard at the top of the episode was "SHINY DAYS" by Asaka from the Laid Back Camp anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

0:55 - We talk about With the Light!

15:21 - We talk about Laid Back Camp!

Next time is Rose of Versailles and Cats of the Louvre!

We're back from holiday break! The Astros cheated to win the World Series and get to another one, and also in the season in between. The players should be much more punished than they are, but labor negotiations maybe?!?!

This episode, we're talking about Yuki Midorikawa's Natsume's Book of Friends published by Viz and Akiko Higashimura's Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey published by Seven Seas.

The music you heard at the top of the episode was "Issei no Sei" by Shūhei Kita, the opening from the Natsume's Book of Friends anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

0:54 - We talk about Natsume's Book of Friends!

10:29 - We talk about Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey!

Next time is With the Light and Laid Back Camp!

I think I mentioned somewhere in these ramblings that I became a Clippers fan the moment Kawhi signed and Paul George was traded there, and with that has apparently come a passing interest in shoes. So RIP me for an added random fandom.

Also my audio is still weird and wonky and not great, so apologies for that. Hopefully I have fixed it for the next podcast...we'll see.

This episode, we're just counting down three (each) of our favorite manga we read in 2019!

The song you heard at the top of the episode was "Juice" by Lizzo, and the song at the end was "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

Listen to Helen on Shadow Particles talking about His Dark Materials.

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Show notes:

0:38 - Number threes!

4:47 - Number twos!

10:25 - Number ones!

15:48 - Also rans!

Next time is Natsume's Book of Friends and Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey!

This week, baseball nerds across the internet (there are ones of us!!) are participating in a fan exchange, just to see how the other side lives. As a die hard and lifelong fan of the White Sox, Mariners, Padres, Dodgers, Brewers, Giants fan, I am too, but just by switching who's number one. Go Brewers. Love Salvatore.

This episode, we're talking about Kurano's I Cross-Dressed for the IRL Meetup published by Kodansha and Sumiko Arai's The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All published by Yen Press.

I Cross-Dressed for the IRL Meetup credits

• Translator: Jocelyne Allen
• Letterer: Paige Pumphrey
• Editor: Tiff Joshua TJ Ferentini
• Editorial Assistance: Naseem Alavi
• Managing Editor: Dasia Payne
• Production Manager: Angela Zurlo

The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All credits

• Translation: Ajani Oloye
• Lettering: Brandon Bovia

As always, you can find me on bsky @nidokorn, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on bsky at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen’s writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post and Awko Tako.

Join the unofficial Taiiku Podcast discord, the OSMCast discord. Used with permission.

Forgot to mention this on the podcast, but The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All has an official playlist on Spotify.

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0:58 - We talk about I Cross-Dressed for the IRL Meetup

13:36 - We talk about The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All

Next time is Let's Go Karaoke! and The Summer Hikaru Died

Whoops, it's been two week and I completely forgot to edit this episode, so here's what's about to be two episodes in quick succession! Hope you don't mind.

Also I got a new motherboard and reinstalled windows, so my audio may be of very questionable quality. Apologies in advance.

This episode, we're talking about Akimi Yoshida's Banana Fish published by Viz and Kaori Ozaki's The Golden Sheep published by Kodansha.

The song you heard at the top of the episode was "found & lost" by Survive Said The Prophet from the Banana Fish anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

0:50 - We talk about Banana Fish!

15:20 - We talk about The Golden Sheep!

Next time is our favorite manga in 2019! (not of)

Per Helen...The Washington Nationals are World Series champions! I personally couldn't root for them during the NLCS, having defeated the Dodgers in a full NLDS, but they put the Cardinals to rest in a short four games and then faced the biggest villains of them all, toxic masculinity—I mean the Houston Astros. And they were defeated, thus finally given them their just dues. Between the NHL Capitals, the WNBA Mystics, and now the MLB Nationals, beltway sports is a bunch of success and also the football racists still.

This episode, we're talking about CLAMP's Wish published by Dark Horse (formerly Tokyopop) and Yuki Suetsugu's Chihayafuru published digitally by Kodansha.

The songs you heard in the episode were "Colorful" and "Youthful" both by 99RadioService and both from the Chihayafuru anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

You can listen to Taiiku Podcast's Chihayafuru episodes here (but please don't, the audio quality is very bad), here, and here.

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Show notes:

0:55 - We talk about Wish!

12:25 - We talk about Chihayafuru!

Next time is Banana Fish and The Golden Sheep!

It's playoff time for a lot of things! LAFC has the first round bye in MLS, the Chicago Red Stars just won their semifinal match in NWSL, and nothing is good about baseball. Also basketball is about to start again, and I'm looking forward to jumping onto the Clippers x Kawhi bandwagon.

Also, and I can't believe we're already here, but this is our 50th episode! I want to thank everyone for listening to us through this point, and thanks to Helen and Apyrll for joining me on this journey through manga. I've read or reread a lot of great manga, and I'm glad to be able to do this with friends.

This, our 50th, episode we're talking about Haruko Kumota's Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju published by Kodansha and Tatsuya Endo's Spy x Family published by Viz.

The songs you heard in the episode were "Imawa no Shinigami" by Megumi Hayashibara and "Kawa, Taredoki" by Kana Shibue, both from the Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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0:35 - We talk about Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju!

19:37 - We talk about Spy x Family!

Next time is Wish and Chihayafuru!

Playoff baseball is here, and I couldn't be more pleased. I can finally watch Dodger baseball without going to Dodger Stadium! Sports blackout rules are dumb.

This episode, we're talking about CLAMP's Legal Drug published by Dark Horse and Mari Okada (writer) and Nao Emoto's (illustrator) O Maidens in Your Savage Season published by Kodansha.

The song you heard at the beginning of the episode was "Otome-domo yo" by CHiCO with Honeyworks.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

Read Helen's interview with the Promare people!

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Show notes:

0:40 - We talk about Legal Drug!

12:30 - We talk about O Maidens in Your Savage Season!

Next time is Wish and Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju!

Forgot to write a whole thing until I was already done, so just here to say the Bears squeaked by in a game they should have lost and the White Sox season means NOTHING. Also looking forward to following the Clippers for the first time ever.

This episode, we get closer and closer to the New World, first finishing off Thriller Bark, then arriving on the Sabaody Archipelago, and finally landing on Amazon Lily.

That song you heard at the start of the episode was "Share the World" by TVXQ from the One Piece anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

You can find Patz on Twitter @PatzPrime and hear him talking about robots @CockpitPod, and you can find Grant on Twitter @grantthethief and hear Grant talk about various things at Blade Licking Thieves and The Super Sentai Podcast.

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Show notes:

I say we talk about Thriller Bark to Amazon Lily, but we do delve some into Paramount War and New World, but none of it is spoiler-y. If you're especially averse and haven't read yet though, just be warned.

0:48 - We start the show and talk about Thriller Bark!

11:10 - We talk about Sabaody! Which is apparently pronounced sha-bon-di.

28:12 - We talk about Amazon Lily!

38:47 - We answer questions from you, our listeners!

Next time is Legal Drug and O Maidens in Your Savage Season!

College football is back, and NFL football is about to be back, and while I have just about every problem one could have with a particular organization, I still love football as a sport. They just need to...make it safer. Anyway, Iowa State grabbed their first win against fellow statesmen UNI in a thriller, so I'm glad for the distraction from White Sox baseball.

This episode, we're talking about Yusei Matsui's Assassination Classroom published by Viz and Kamome Shirahama's Witch Hat Atelier published by Kodansha.

The song you heard at the top of the episode is "Seishun Satsubatsu-ron" by 3-nen E-gumi Utatan.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

You can listen to Taiiku Podcast's Assassination Classroom episode too. You can also read Helen's Witch Hat Atelier reviews at The OASG. And here are some cool threads on the cosplay Helen was talking about.

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0:34 - We talk about Assassination Classroom!

13:29 - We talk about Witch Hat Atelier!

Next time is I dunno yet.

Helen here; in hindsight it may not have been such a good idea to read three, long manga series back to back to back for this show but in my defense, I actually approached Dee about doing this episode a year ago and then graduate school kicked my ass! What the hell grad school!!

In any case, Pandora Hearts is rad y'all and could some con in the the U.S. please please PLEASE bring MochiJun over as a guest? Thank you!

This episode, we're talking about Jun Mochizuki's Pandora Hearts published by Yen Press.

Those songs you heard in the episode are "Parallel Hearts" by FictionJunction and "Maze" by Savage Genius feat. Tomoe Ohmi.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

You can find our special guest Dee (@joseinextdoor) at Josei Next Door and Anime Feminist.

For a transcription of the episode, you can read it at Josei Next Door. Unfortunately, we do not have the time or resources to transcribe all of our episodes, but if that is of interest, reach out and we'll consider all options.

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Show notes:

0:45 - Introduction and semi-non-spoiler section!

21:18 - S P O I L E R S

Next time is Assassination Classroom and Witch Hat Atelier!

I usually reserve this space for my random ramblings about sports, but sports is pretty sad right now until my old flame the Chicago Bears start up, or until my new flame the Los Angeles Clippers start up. So I'll just drop in that I contributed to the OASG's AX, SDCC, and Otakon licensing round up, and you should check that out.

This episode, we're talking about Yuhki Kamatani's Our Dreams at Dusk published by Seven Seas and Okura (story) and Coma Hashi's (art) That Blue Sky Feeling published by Viz.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

1:01 - We talk about Our Dreams at Dusk!

14:20 - We talk about That Blue Sky Feeling!

Next time is Assassination Classroom and Witch Hat Atelier!

It's the G1 Climax, which means I'm watching a lot of wrestling and, relevant to this episode, seeing a lot of buff dudes that are definitely into each other. Go Sanada and ZSJ.

This episode, we're talking about Hiromi Takashima's Kase-san published by Seven Seas and Gengoroh Tagame's My Brother's Husband published by Pantheon.

The song you heard at the top of the episode is "Asu e no Tobira" by Minami Takahashi and Ayane Sakura from the Kase-san anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

1:01 - We talk about Kase-san!

14:35 - We talk about My Brother's Husband!

Next time is That Blue Sky Feeling and Our Dreams at Dusk!

The Women's World Cup is going on, which is about the only time I am openly supportive of US sports, because the women's national team is so good. And also the KFA blew it with some legitimate talent on their squad...

This episode, we're talking about Kou Yaginuma's Twin Spica published by Vertical and Hiroyuki Asada's Pez published by Denpa.

The song you heard at the top of the episode is "Feel so Moon" by UNICORN from the Space Brother anime. What a twist!

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

This should have been the 6/20 episode, and now I'm all caught up on Manga In Your Ears episodes (for now).

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Show notes:

0:48 - We talk about Twin Spica!

21:32 - We talk about Pez!

Next time is My Brother's Husband and Kase-san!

Congrats to Son Heungmin and Son Heungmin only.

This episode, we're talking about Ai Yazawa's Neighborhood Story published by Viz and Jun Mayuzuki's Kowloon Generic Romance published by Yen Press.

Neighborhood Story credits:

• Translation: Andria McKnight
• Touch-up art and lettering: Michelle Pang
• Design: Shawn Carrico
• Editor: Karla Clark

Kowloon Generic Romance credits:

• Translation: Amanda Haley
• Lettering: Abigail Blackman

As always, you can find me on bsky @nidokorn, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on bsky at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen’s writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post and Awko Tako.

Listen to our previous Ai Yazawa and Jun Mayuzaki podcast episodes: After the Rain, Last Quarter, Paradise Kiss

Join the unofficial Taiiku Podcast discord, the OSMCast discord. Used with permission.

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Show notes:

1:37 - We talk about Neighborhood Story

0 - We talk about Kowloon Generic Romance

Next time is

The NBA draft was yesterday as I type this, and while I have no true team beyond the Iowa State Cyclones, I do have favorite players. and I support all Cyclones on their endeavors in the NBA. Now with LeBron, AD, and THT in LA, maybe I'll go see a game.

This episode, we're talking about Hiroyuki Asada's Tegami Bachi published by Viz Media and Nemu Yoko's Delinquent Housewife published by Vertical Comics.

That song you heard at the top of the episode was "Hajimari no Hi" by Shikao Suga feating Mummy-D from the Tegami Bachi anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

This should have been the 5/22 episode.

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Show notes:

0:45 - We talk about Tegami Bachi!

18:47 - Tegami Bachi spoiler section!

34:21 - We talk about Delinquent Housewife!

Next time is Twin Spica and Pez!

The joy was short lived, the White Sox dropped the next day's game against the Cubs behind the worst game in a while for Lucas Giolito. Sports is rough.

This episode, we continue our journey across the Grand Line with the Skypiea through the Thriller Bark arc of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece published by Viz.

The song you heard at the top of the episode was "Kokoro no Chizu" by BOYSTYLE, and the song you heard at the end of the episode was "Dreamship" by Aiko Ikuta, both from the One Piece anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

You can find Patz on Twitter @PatzPrime and hear him talking about robots @CockpitPod, and you can find Grant on Twitter @grantthethief and hear Grant talk about various things at Blade Licking Thieves and The Super Sentai Podcast.

This should have been the 5/1 episode.

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Show notes:

0:51 - We talk about Skypeia!

25:01 - We talk about Water 7/Enies Lobby! And also the Davy Back Fight, which I forgot about.

1:15:28 - We transition seamlessly to Thriller Bark around here!

Next time is Tegami Bachi and Delinquent Housewife!

The White Sox win at Wrigley Field behind Eloy Jimenez's two-run home run in the top of the ninth, and that's all I'm really thinking about right now. Also Zeno from Yona of the Dawn, coming sometime to Manga In Your Ears.

This episode, we're revisiting Natsuki Takaya's Fruits Basket published by Yen Press and Taku Kuwabara's Drifting Dragons published by Kodansha. You can listen to our first Fruits Basket episode here.

The song you heard at the top of the episode was "Again" by Beverly, and the song you heard at the end of the episode was "Lucky Ending" by Vickeblanka.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

Read my Fruits Basket reviews on the Fandom Post. Read Helen's Drifting Dragons reviews on The OASG.

This should have been the 4/10 episode. We gave ourselves some extra time to read all of Fruits Basket.

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Show notes:

0:46 - We talk about Fruits Basket!

27:58 - We talk about Drifting Dragons!

Next time is One Piece with Grant (@grantthethief) and Patz (@PatzPrime), from Skypeia to Thriller Bark.

I tweeted earlier that all the Manga In Your Ears episodes were done and edited, then I went and recorded another one, so all but one are recorded. Also I still have three Taiiku episodes to edit, RIP me.

This episode, we're talking about Beck and Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card, both published by Kodansha.

The songs you heard at the beginning of the episode were "Hit in the USA" by Beat Crusaders, "Brainstorm" by Beck, and "Moon on the Water" by Koyuki and Maho, the latter two from the Beck dub and the former is the opening to the anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

This should have been the 3/13 episode.

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0:39 - We talk about Beck!

14:00 - We talk about Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card!

Next time is Fruits Basket and Drifting Dragons!

As I edit this episode, the White Sox are playing the Orioles, and it really feels like some terrible exercise in futility to root for either of these teams to win.

Also I delayed on editing this long enough that I could use the actual Kimetsu no Yaiba OP! Hooray?

This episode, we're talking about Hico Yamanaka's The Prince in His Dark Days published by Kodansha and Koyoharu Gotōge's Kimetsu no Yaiba published by Viz.

The songs you heard in this episode are "Gurenge" (Red Lotus) by LiSA and "from the edge" by FictionJunction feat. LiSA both from the Kimetsu no Yaiba anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

This should have been the 2/27 episode.

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0:44 - We talk about The Prince in His Dark Days!

12:34 - We talk about Kimetsu no Yaiba!

Next time is Beck and Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card!

As I get back to posting episodes, I can get back to randomly rambling on these posts, which I've honestly missed. I don't know who reads this or who cares, but here I am, rambling about Eloy Jimenez hitting below expectations and having bad defense. White Sox baseball looks up.

This episode, we're talking about Yuki Urushibara's Mushishi and Haruko Ichikawa's Land of the Lustrous, both published by Kodansha.

I said Land of the Lustrous was published by Yen at the beginning of the podcast, and I have no idea why, but I keep thinking that it is published by Yen even though it's not. I regret this error.

The songs your heard in the episode (in order) are: "The Sore Feet Song" by Ally Kerr from the Mushishi anime, "Kyoumen no Nami" by YURiKA from the Land of the Lustrous anime, and "Fude no Umi" by Masuda Toshio also from the Mushishi anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

This should have been the 2/13 episode.

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Show notes:

0:42 - We talk about Mushishi!

14:28 - We talk about Land of the Lustrous!

Next time is Prince in His Dark Days and Kimetsu no Yaiba

We're back after a long absence. It feels like it's been forever, but also no time at all because I've just been recording along while the website was in stasis the whole time. Got a bit of a somewhat dated backlog to start off with, but after that, it's content as usual!

This episode, we're just talking about our favorite manga of 2018!

That song you heard at the top of the episode was "United State of Pop 2018 (Turnin' It Up)" by DJ Earworm. It's a mashup, like this episode.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

This should have been the 12/19 episode.

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0:40 - Number threes!

5:42 - Number twos!

14:43 - Number ones!

25:50 - Also rans!

Next time is Mushishi and Land of the Lustrous.

The hot stove, just before the winter meetings, is not something that should be touched. Paul Goldschmidt to the Cardinals? Nathan Eovaldi back with the Red Sox? Manny Machado and Bryce Harper to the White Sox??? I can only dream... But the first two definitely happened. I live off these rumors.

This episode, we're talking about Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind published by Viz and Fujita's Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku published by Kodansha.

The song you heard at the top of the episode was "Fiction" by sumika from the Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

I wrote about the first volume of Wotakoi for the Fandom Post, if you like reading.

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Show notes:

0:41 - We talk about Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind!

13:58 - We talk about Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku!

Next time is a year end round up episode!

I had a whole thing written, but then I accidentally closed the tab before saving anything and lost it all, whoops. Anyway, the Bears are good, Iowa State football and basketball seem to be good, and the White Sox should do anything interesting this offseason.

This episode, we're talking about Kaori Ozaki's the gods lie. published by Vertical and Yupechika's Satoko and Nada published by Seven Seas.

That song you heard at the top of the episode is "Raingurl" by Yaeji.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

0:41 - Kory and Apryll talk about the gods lie.!

12:55 - We talk about Satoko and Nada!

Next time is Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (for real this time?) and Wotakoi!

Baseball season is over, the Dodgers suffered a heartbreaking "gentleman's sweep" (sort of, but not really, an 18-inning marathon can basically be won by anyone on luck. more than usual!), and the offseason has already started. I can't wait for the winter meetings. Rick Hahn, please do something.

This episode, we're talking about Hajime Segawa's Tokyo ESP published by Vertical Comics and Gengoroh Tagame's My Brother's Husband published by Pantheon Books.

The song you heard at the top of the episode was "Guze Άργυρóϛ" (救世Άργυρóϛ; Silver Salvation) by Yousei Teikoku from the Tokyo ESP anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

0:56 - We talk about Tokyo ESP!

15:35 - We talk about My Brother's Husband!

34:18 - We talk ALL SPOILERS on Tokyo ESP!

Next time is the god's lie. and Satoko and Nada!

The White Sox are already running into random wins that didn't seem to happen in 2024, so we're well on our way to a normal extremely bad season instead of historically extremely bad season.

This episode, we're talking about CLAMP's Legend of Chun Hyang published by Tokyopop and Spica Aoki's Kaiju Girl Caramelise published by Yen Press.

Legend of Chun Hyang credits:

• Translator: Ray Yoshimoto
• Retouch and Lettering: Jose Macasocol, Jr.
• Cover Layout: Gary Shum
• Editor: Jake Forbes

Kaiju Girl Caramelise credits:

• Translation: Taylor Engel
• Lettering: Lys Blakeslee

As always, you can find me on bsky @nidokorn, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on bsky at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen’s writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post and Awko Tako.

Join the unofficial Taiiku Podcast discord, the OSMCast discord. Used with permission.

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Show notes:

1:01 - We talk about Legend of Chun Hyang

12:11 - We talk about Kaiju Girl Caramelise

Next time is Neighborhood Story and Kowloon Generic Romance

The Dodgers are headed back to Milwaukee with a 3-2 lead and nothing bad will happen don't ruin this for me podcast audience.

This episode, we're talking about Natsume Ono's House of Five Leaves and Tony Valente's Radiant, both published by Viz Media.

The song you heard at the top of the episode is "Sign of Love" by immi from the House of Five Leaves anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

0:45 - We talk about House of Five Leaves!

11:51 - We talk about Radiant!

Next time is Tokyo ESP and My Brother's Husband!

I did not get this episode out before the anime aired, but that's ok! The manga still exists, and is probably better than the anime because it isn't on HIDIVE.

This episode, we're talking about Yumi Unita's Bunny Drop published by Yen Press and Nio Nakatani's Bloom Into You published by Seven Seas.

That song you heard at the top of the episode was "Sweet Drop" by Puffy AmiYumi and the song you heard at the end of the episode is "High High High" by Kasarinchu, both from the Bunny Drop anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

0:35 - We talk about Bunny Drop!

18:10 - We talk about Bloom Into You!

Next time is House of Five Leaves and Radiant!

The White Sox could avoid 100 losses this year, so some things are good.

This episode, we're doing a special episode on Douman Seiman's The Voynich Hotel published by Seven Seas. It is a manga I do not think my regular podcast co-hosts would enjoy. So I bring on some good friends instead.

The song you heard at the top of the episode is "Mayor Bloomberg (Giant Margaritas)" by Awkwafina.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

You can find Chris on Twitter @gokuffy, and you can find Patz on Twitter @PatzPrime. You can find Patz' podcast @CockpitPod or at The Cockpit.

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0:58 - We just talk about The Voynich Hotel. Nothing else, though lots of digressions.

Next time is still Bunny Drop and Bloom Into You!

Football season has started, the NFL is still a terrible organization, and the Chicago Bears couldn't pull it off against the greatest quarterback to play, Aaron Rodgers. Sigh.

This episode, we're talking about Shigeru Mizuki's Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths published by Drawn and Quarterly and Akiko Higashimura's Tokyo Tarareba Girls published by Kodansha.

That song you heard at the top of the episode is "The Weapon" (Part II of "Fear") by Rush.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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0:49 - We talk about Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths!

14:11 - We talk about Tokyo Tarareba Girls!

Next time is Bunny Drop and Bloom Into You!

This is the first of hopefully a series of episodes about the One Piece manga with Patz and Grant! This time covering from the beginning of One Piece through the end of Alabasta. Grant, as you may know, is tweeting two tweets per chapter in this thread, and it's fascinating watching it unfold.

The song you heard at the beginning of the episode was "We Are" by by Hiroshi Kitadani, the opening for (at least) the first 47 episodes of the One Piece anime.

You can find Patz on Twitter @PatzPrime, and you can find Grant on Twitter @grantthethief.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

0:37 - Introductions and how we got into One Piece.

8:05 - We talk about One Piece.

1:25:01 - We take your questions.

Next episode still as schedule. This was special!

The White Sox have a winning record in August and have taken the season series against the Red Sox. Baseball is good.

This episode, we're talking about Hokusei Katsushika, Takashi Nagasaki, and Naoki Urasawa's Master Keaton published by Viz and Ryoko Ikeda's Claudine published by Seven Seas.

The song you heard at the top of the episode was the opening theme from the Master Keaton anime I think? I've never seen the Master Keaton anime and can neither confirm nor deny that it is since ANN only lists it as "Opening Theme." I'm pretty sure that's correct though.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

0:49 - We talk about Master Keaton!

17:17 - We talk about Claudine!

Next time is Onward Toward Our Noble Deaths and Tokyo Tarareba Girls!

Crazy Rich Asians is...everything. It's just everything. Please go see it.

This episode, we're talking about Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's Mobile Suit Gundam: the Origin published by Vertical and Satoshi Mizukami's Spirit Circle published by Seven Seas.

The song you heard at the top of the episode is "Old Town" by Say Sue Me.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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0:59 - We talk about Mobile Suit Gundam: the Origin!

20:39 - We talk about Spirit Circle!

Next time is Master Keaton and Claudine!

I went to my only White Sox game of the year, since I moved to LA and they only play in Angel Stadium within reasonable distance now. I didn't realize how nice it was to have Kauffman Stadium, Target Field, and Guaranteed Rate Field all within six hours of each other until moving away. But on the flip side, it's way less humid here, and thus usually more livable even at disgustingly high temperatures.

This episode, we're talking about Moto Hagio's Heart of Thomas published by Fantagraphics and Syundei's Go for It, Nakamura! published by Seven Seas.

The song you heard at the top of the episode is "Who We Are" by A.W.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

0:36 - We talk about Heart of Thomas!

15:34 - We talk about Go for It, Nakamura!

Next time is Gundam: The Origin and Spirit Circle.

I was recently at Anime Expo, and I ran a panel highlighting some shonen and seinen manga written or drawn (but usually both) by women. Here's the audio from that panel.

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The White Sox won a game today, so it was a good day.

This time we're talking about Milk Morinaga's Girl Friends and Chii's The Bride Was a Boy, both published by Seven Seas.

The song you heard at the top of the episode is "Born This Way" by Lady Gaga.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

0:38 - We (mostly Helen and Apryll) talk about Girl Friends!

15:16 - We talk about The Bride Was a Boy!

Next time is Banana Fish and Go for it Nakamura!

Helen here folks, I know Kory normally starts off the episode notes with something sports related so uhhh…. I saw that the 2025 “City Connect” designs were unveiled recently, and the DC ones look pretty; I might need to buy one of the hats to add to my collection of “cherry blossom themed hats for DC sports teams” (especially since I lost my Caps hat in that vein last year, noooo).

Now that that’s out of the way, no Kory or Apryll this time but I am joined by Justin (@kami_nomi) of The OASG, who is my cohost on the other podcast I, uh, cohost, “It’s Not My Fault The OASG Podcast Is Not Popular!” We’re talking about the J-Novel Club (Heart imprint) release of Trials and Tribulations of My Next Life as a Noblewoman, which is a big and plot heavy series so we have both a spoiler-free section and then a spoiler-filled section about why the nickname “josei Game of Thrones” is VERY accurate for this series!

As always, you can find me on bsky @nidokorn, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on bsky at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen’s writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post and Awko Tako.

Join the unofficial Taiiku Podcast discord, the OSMCast discord. Used with permission.

Read Helen's review of volume 1 at The OASG.

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Show notes:

0:45 - Spoiler free discussion

34:05 - Spoiler-full discussion

• Content warning (in the spoiler section) for mentions of an attempted sexual assault, since it’s a plot-triggering event we couldn’t talk around.

Next time is The Legend of Chun Hyang and Kaiju Girl Caramelize

I just watched the White Sox give up three runs on two wild pitches and a walk, but Korea still beat Germany in the group stage of the World Cup and that can never be taken away from me.

This episode, Patz and I are talking about Kohei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia published by Viz Media. Unlike usual episodes, Patz and I just dug into everything up to the school festival stuff, so spoilers abound. Listen at your own risk if you aren't caught up!

The song you heard at the beginning of the episode is "Peace Sign" by Kenshi Yonezu and the song you heard at the end is "Datte Atashi no Hero" by LiSA, both from the My Hero Academia anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post. And you can find Patz on Twitter @PatzPrime as well as on The Cockpit podcast.

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It's just Patz and I talking My Hero Academia. No show notes this time!

Next time is still Helen, Apryll, and I talking about Girl Friends and My Bride Was a Boy.

I should edit this episode...after Pride Month...because I have good foresight and planning and such. Also the Lakers are making a super team, and Golden State is like, "Hold my beer."

This episode, we're talking about Fumi Yoshinaga's Antique Bakery published by DMP, Nagata Kabi's My Solo Exchange Diary published by Seven Seas, and Inio Asano's Solanin epilogue published by Viz Media.

The song you heard at the beginning of the episode is "Life goes on~side K~" by CHEMISTRY from the Antique Bakery anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

0:40 - We talk about Antique Bakery!

20:05 - We talk about My Solo Exchange Diary!

37:01 - We talk about the Solanin epilogue!

Next time we're continuing our late Pride Month manga review with Girl Friends and My Bride Was a Boy!

It's World Cup time, and I'll be watching a few matches contemplating the sheer horror and corruption that FIFA and Russia are while cheering for my beloved country of origin, the Republic of Korea (colloquially South Korea). They will be utterly destroyed by Mexico and Germany, and it will hurt my very soul. At least there's still LAFC and baseball.

This episode, we're talking about Seimu Yoshizaki's Kingyo Used Books published by Viz Media and Natsume Ono's ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Department published by Yen Press.

The song you heard at the top of the episode is "Shadow and Truth" by ONE III NOTES from the ACCA anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

0:47 - We talk about Kingyo Used Books!

13:52 - We talk about ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Department!

Next time is Antique Bakery and My Solo Exchange Diary, plus a special on the Solanin epilogue from TCAF!