247 - Manga in Motion 38 - Mind Game

It was a surprise that Seamus was available this week so we changed our schedule around to bring you another Manga in Motion instead! We take a look at the trippy avant-garde animation sequences in Masaaki Yuasa’s directorial debut, Mind Game!!!

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Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “VIVA!” by Fayray from Mind Game, Opening, Introductions, Social Media, Upcoming Retrospective on Tokyo Tarareba Girls
• 00:02:42 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, *SPOILERS* Seamus is enjoying some more To Your Eternity
• 00:10:01 - dakazu thought To Your Eternity was doing poorly with popularity because of it’s position in Weekly Shonen Magazine
• 00:11:39 -  dakazu pours one out for the end of Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma
• 00:14:55 - The current arc of My Hero Academia seems to be struggling
• 00:18:11 - dakazu loves the serious comedy and unique panel perspectives of Jun Hanyunyu’s Koi no Mon
• 00:21:29 - Misakigaokaite is a lovely collection of stories about different people living in the same city
• 00:26:19 - dakazu takes a look at the listener suggested Nameless Asterism for it’s unstable love triangle structure and LGBTQ+ themes
• 00:30:04 - News: In/Spectre will be adapted to an anime for winter 2020
• 00:31:06 - Boruto: Naruto Next Generations will be moving from Weekly Shonen Jump to V Jump
• 00:33:37 - Funamation will be putting out a Blu-ray/DVD collection of Tatami Galaxy
• 00:35:12 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: One Shot Retrospective on Abara, we will review this sci-fi series by Tsutomu Nihei 
• 00:35:54 - Main Segment Manga in Motion: Mind Game, Transition Song: “MIND GAME” by Fayray from Mind Game, we review the 2004 anime film directed by Masaaki Yuasa based on the manga by Robin Nishi
• 00:40:28 - Seamus thought this was the anime equivalent of a spotfest in pro-wrestling
• 00:42:09 - Some of the musical sequences remind dakazu of Disney’s Fantasia movies
• 00:43:17 - Darfox and dakazu praise the ever changing imagery of God
• 00:44:32 - Darfox points out that Yuasa retells the same overall story with Tatami Galaxy and The Night is Short, Walk on Girl
• 00:44:58 - dakazu thinks the intro/outro montage is brilliant
• 00:47:27 - We agree that the sex scene is one of the most impressive animation sequences in the whole movie
• 00:48:53 - Logic goes out the door with running on water during the ending climix
• 00:50:11 - Seamus might have been numb to the movie because he considers Yuasa’s other works to be superior in contrast
• 00:52:23 - The montage of possible futures of the main characters reference earlier events that happened
• 00:53:34 - The scene of future Nishi as a successful manga artist has similar comedy to the Principal of Prison School
• 00:54:53 - After rewatching Darfox thinks that the sexual assault by Atsu could have been handled better
• 00:56:08 - dakazu thought the mix of photos of the voice actors on top of the animation was a little off-putting
• 00:56:54 - We discuss how Yuasa put everything he could into this movie because it was his directorial debut
• 00:58:25 - We compliment the eclectic soundtrack
• 00:59:41 - Darfox explain the significance of Diego Maradona’s Hand of God from the film
• 01:03:56 - Next Week’s Topic: Abara, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster