284 - Girls’ Last Tour part 1

On this episode Darfox rejoices in the English release of Blood on the Tracks while dakazu checks out a new manga made by an Osamu Tezuka AI called Paidon! Then we begin our retrospective on the empty world of Girls’ Last Tour by Tsukimizu and discuss it’s themes of finality.

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Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “More One Night” by Chito & Yuuri from Girls’ Last Tour, Opening, Introductions, Heavy Irish accents
• 00:01:45 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, Darfox is excited about the English edition of a Manga Machination favorite, Blood on the Tracks
• 00:08:28 - *SPOILERS* dakazu finished Devil’s Line and enjoyed it
• 00:12:48 - Satoko and Nada creator Yupechika’s one shot Marin no Uchuu Ryokou is about a girl who meets her dead mother on a space simulator ride
• 00:14:42 - News: Paidon is a manga created by an AI that studied Osamu Tezuka manga for the TEZUKA2020 Project
• 00:20:54 - Shuho Sato hypothesizes that Kodansha’s low quality of their digital editions are from scanning print images
• 00:26:34 - Public backlash about the name of a character in My Hero Academia makes creator Kohei Horikoshi issue an apology
• 00:33:25 - Japanese blu-ray of High Score Girl II will feature a bonus manga chapter with a reveal of Ono’s mother
• 00:34:14 - Glacier Bay Books will be publishing a collections of works from 12 indie artists called ~Glaeolia~
• 00:35:44 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Retrospective on Girls’ Last Tour, we will be finishing this series by Tsukumizu about two girls wandering through an empty city(covers volumes 4-6)
• 00:35:54 - Main Segment Retrospective: Girls’ Last Tour, Transition Song: “Ugoku, Ugoku” by Chito & Yuuri from Girls’ Last Tour, comprehensive review of Tsukimizu’s manga about two girls surviving in an giant empty city structure(covers volumes 1-3)
• 00:39:08 - We explore the obvious similarities between this manga and BLAME!
• 00:41:06 - We discuss the themes of finality and the melancholy tone that resonate in the longer story arcs
• 00:52:36 - Seamus points out the re-occurrence of fish throughout the story
• 00:55:49 - We talk about our favorite single chapter episodes
• 00:57:36 - We speculate on why the girls are dressed in military garb and drive around in a World War 2 era motorcycle tank Kettenkrad
• 01:01:41 - We praise Tsukimizu’s art style and compare her character work to Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction
• 01:03:13 - Darfox doesn’t want a lore dump about the history of the world unless it’s discovered through the eyes of the girls
• 01:07:44 - Seamus explain how the philosophical dialogue between the girls are a staple for dying earth science fiction stories
• 01:12:18 - Darfox and Seamus can’t give specific predictions about how the story will end because the title implies the girls will die
• 01:14:23 - dakazu is happy to hear Darfox and Seamus are both enjoying this series
• 01:15:30 - Next Week’s Topic: Girls’ Last Tour, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster