252 - Tokyo Tarareba Girls part 3

On this episode we celebrate with Morgana “Manga Maven” Santilli about Tokyo Tarareba Girls winning the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material-Asia before we continue with our Retrospective review into volumes 6 & 7!!!

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Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “TOKYO GIRL” by Perfume from Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Opening, Tokyo Tarareba Girls won an Eisner
• 00:04:19 - Reminder about our BEASTARS vol. 1 giveaway commemorating the official English release
• 00:05:22 - Correction for news about Funamation getting exclusive streaming rights for Revolutionary Girl Utena, Boogiepop Phantom, and Sweet Blue Flowers, Introductions
• 00:07:23 - News: Tokyo Tarareba Girls wins the 2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material-Asia
• 00:11:15 - We celebrate other Eisner winners
• 00:13:13 - Kodansha will be publishing an digital English edition of Smile Down the Runway
• 00:16:36 - Tokyo Otaku Mode and Otaku-Coin are hiring translators and paying them with cryptocurrency only redeemable to purchase their own products
• 00:23:53 - Warner Brothers has pulled production on the live-action Akira movie
• 00:27:02 - The tragedy of an arson attack on Kyoto Animation studio is the worst Japanese mass killing in decades
• 00:34:29 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, Darfox enjoys a drama-free story in Natsume Ono’sRistorante Paradiso
• 00:43:13 - Morgana dives into the life of Akiko Higashimura with Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist’s Journey
• 00:45:15 - dakazu and Morgana discuss the supernatural element in Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare
• 00:47:15 - The characters in Asumiko Nakamura’s Classmates: Dou kyu sei looked a little weird for Morgana 
• 00:51:48 - dakazu was all about the old school delinquents in Matsuri Akino’s Colorful Crow
• 00:57:40 - dakazu was singing along while reading a manga adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables
• 01:01:54 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Anime Interlude where we’ll be discussing the past Spring 2019 season of anime and some of our early impressions for Summer 2019
• 01:03:00 - Main Segment Retrospective: Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Transition Song: Opening from Tokyo Tarareba Girls, comprehensive review of Akiko Higashimura’s manga
• 01:03:41 - We talk about the bonus Tarare-Bar segments found at the end of the volumes 
• 01:11:40 - We recap the events of volume 6
• 01:16:25 - dakazu thinks Seamus is psychic for accurately predicting the false pregnancy of Kaori
• 01:20:38 - dakazu is disappointed that Ryo is not an evil genius and just an idiot
• 01:22:54 - The reoccurring visuals of the fake Eiffel Tower(Tokyo Tower) represent romance for Seamus 
• 01:25:50 - Koyuki getting caught in bed with Yoshio breaks our hearts
• 01:28:55 - Seamus wonders about the significance of pregnancy because it was involved in the end of both Kaori and Koyuki’s relationships
• 01:30:17 - We ponder if Ryo or Yoshio will return before the end of the series
• 01:33:10 - We recap the events of volume 7
• 01:36:30 - Rinko repeatedly saying she loves Hayasaka makes us question if she really does
• 01:40:54 - Morgana and dakazu share stories about making comments to their significant others about hairstyles
• 01:45:25 - Seamus likes a joke that was used in Princess Jellyfish
• 01:47:09 - We groan at the grooming-like trauma that was revealed about Key’s backstory
• 01:49:51 - We agree that Yoko was not visually similar enough to Rinko for us to understand the connection they were supposed have
• 01:52:54 - We think Key fits exactly into the tragic archetype love interest
• 01:54:59 - We debate how we feel now that Higashimura is leading the story into a rote romance ending
• 02:01:38 - We compare the possible rote ending of Tokyo Tarareba Girls to the open ended conclusion of Princess Jellyfish
• 02:05:12 - We make our final predictions for how the series will end
• 02:07:45- Next Week’s Topic: Anime Interlude, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster