241 - One Shot 19 - Maiden Railways

This week we read about relationships that meet and travel at trains and train stations in Asumiko Nakamura's Maiden Railways!

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Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “New Stranger” by sora tob sakana from Hi Score Girl, Opening, Introductions, Social Media, Update to our RSS feed
• 00:02:14 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, Seamus gets to talk about Kiss and White Lily for My Dearest Girl because dakazu started reading it
• 00:07:08 - *SPOILERS* dakazu breaks down the entire story of Boku no Namae wa ‘Shonen A’
• 00:14:11 - Fukushuu no Miboujin goes to a darker place that dakazu wasn’t expecting
• 00:17:13 - dakazu loved the short series about the world’s luckiest girl trying to save a boy who’s misfortune is causing the moon to fall on Earth in Yakubyougami to Baka Megami
• 00:20:19 - News: The conversation about Crunchyroll’s translator fee takes us into tangents of wrestling and Walmart
• 00:33:10 - Denpa Books will be distributed by Consortium in September 2019
• 00:33:54 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Manga in Motion for The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl, we’ll be reviewing Masaaki Yuasa’s 2017 movie about a girl who likes to drink and read books
• 00:35:00 - Main Segment One Shot: Maiden Railways, Transition Song: “Catch up, latency” by Union Square Garden from Run with the Wind, we review this collection of stories about relationships and trains by Asumiko Nakamura
• 00:36:55 - Darfox really enjoyed this manga
• 00:38:03 - Seamus noticed the characters all had long bodies 
• 00:39:51 - dakazu was surprised to see how much of a train otaku Nakamura was
• 00:41:23 - dakazu explains how shoujo magazines often release one shot stories that are later collected into a volume release
• 00:43:09 - dakazu liked how Nakamura used atypical shoujo-style backgrounds in panels
• 00:44:15 - We love the ghost story Night after Night
• 00:46:41 - We compare the husband and wife relationships of Savarin Thursdays and All Aboard for a Romantic Getaway
• 00:48:45 - We discuss He Lives in Iriuda
• 00:50:32 - Seamus really liked Overpass Crossing and Blue and White Ream
• 00:54:04 - Darfox and dakazu learn's that they're at bad at picking up queer ques from LGBTQ+ relationships
• 00:56:08 - dakazu thinks A Day Off was and extra chapter Nakamura added to the volume release
• 00:56:58 - Seamus notes how trains and train stations are used to help represent the status of relationships
• 00:58:15 - dakazu points out the significance of the Katase-Enoshima train station
• 00:59:49 - We give our final thoughts
• 01:01:56 - Next Week’s Topic: The Night is Short, Walk on Girl, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster