254 - Tokyo Tarareba Girls part 4

On this episode we reach the end of our Tokyo Tarareba Girls Retrospective! The hosts and Morgana “Manga Maven” Santilli discuss the ending and how they feel about the series as a whole!!!

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Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “TOKYO GIRL” by Perfume from Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Opening, Announcement about our new website, Introductions
• 00:05:56 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, dakazu checks out some questionable modern military fiction with Marginal Operation
• 00:22:18 - News: Digital archives were miraculously saved from the Kyoto Animation arson attack
• 00:23:22 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Manga in Motion for Mirai, we’ll be reviewing Mamoru Hosoda’s latest anime movie
• 00:23:59 - Main Segment Retrospective: Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Transition Song: Opening from Tokyo Tarareba Girls, comprehensive review of Akiko Higashimura’s manga
• 00:25:22 - We recap the events of volume 8
• 00:28:35 - We express our disappointment at the abundance of the Codfish Milt and Liver in these final volumes 
• 00:32:59 - We recap the events of volume 9
• 00:36:57 - We feel conflicted about the ending
• 00:42:51 - dakazu doesn’t feel like Rinko and Key ending up together is earned throughout the series
• 00:45:06 - dakazu is amazed how accurate Seamus was with his story predictions
• 00:47:14 - We talk about how Higashimura’s sharp commentary on women’s hardships raised our expectations for what turned out to be a typical drama
• 00:55:24 - dakazu checked out Himawari: Kenichi Legend and Mama wa Tenparist that are about Higashimura’s father and her son.
• 00:57:34 - dakazu picked up on Higashimura’s blunt tone after checking out her advice podcast
• 01:01:22 - dakazu points out a translation from Act 15 that made Key come across harsher in English than in the original Japanese text.
• 01:04:30 - dakazu thinks the TV Drama adaptation did a better job setting up the relationship between Key and Rinko
• 01:05:41 - Morgana shares how she still liked Tokyo Tarareba Girls despite it not having a satisfying ending
• 01:06:37 - dakazu runs down game changing story changes that were made in Drama adaptation
• 01:11:53 - The Drama gave a hopeful epilogue for Kaori and Koyuki
• 01:15:10 - *SPOILERS* Darfox compares the ending montage to the montage from Gone Girl
• 01:17:00 - Key’s comment about Rinko needing to be a “Cool Woman” confused us and added to the conflicting final message of the series
• 01:19:11 - We’re glad that Hayasaka was a good guy til the end
• 01:24:25 - We share our thoughts about the series as a whole
• 01:28:42 - We comment on the Tarare-Bar where a woman is in love with an anime character 
• 01:31:46 - We give our final thoughts on Tokyo Tarareba Girls
• 01:35:32 - Morgana will be joining Manga Machinations as an official host
• 01:36:53- Next Week’s Topic: Mirai, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster