165 - One Shot 8 - A Distant Neighborhood

Seamus is out sick this week but it isn’t stopping us from doing a One Shot retrospective on A Distant Neighborhood!

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Time Stamps:

• 00:00:00 – Intro Song: “Back Alley Space Boy” by The Cobra Twisters from Daiguard, Opening, Introductions, Social Media Rundown, Listener Emails: Seven Seas Entertainment licensing My Solo Exchange Diary, best of the year podcast, our goals for 2018
• 00:14:48 – News: death of voice actress Hiromi Tsuru
• 00:16:09 – Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, darfox catches up on Blood Blockade Battlefront & Beyond, we discuss the bullying arc of March Comes in like a Lion
• 00:22:10 – dakazu explains the significance of the Iyami character in Naoki Urasawa’s new series Mujirushi
• 00:28:54 – dakazu is getting frustrated with the main character of Land of the Lustrous, dakazu loves how Akiko Higashimura splits the page layout between serious history and comedy in Yukibana no Hana
• 00:34:44 – Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Triple Dip where we read the first volume of three different manga including: Mardock Scramble by Yoshitoki Oima, Shigurui by Takayuki Yamaguchi, and Coppelion by Tomonori Inoue
• 00:39:13 – Main Segment One Shot: Transition Song: “Free Bird” by New Cinema Tokage from Project ARMS, single episode retrospective on A Distant Neighborhood by Jiro Taniguchi, we examine the story and discuss the simple art style Taniguichi uses
• 00:53:53 – Next Week’s Topic: Triple Dip on Mardock Scramble, Shigurui, and Coppelion, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: wish men by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster