Episode 146 of Key Frames, a podcast about anime. Did you know it's been ten years, give or take, since we started this podcast? Ten years! So much has changed in anime, in our society, in ourselves... Anyway, we decided that the best way to celebrate (or at least reckon with it all) was to focus on one of the rarer joys of anime, which is watching with friends. Ben finally got Jon to sit through X/1999, perennial spotlight pitch and previous subject of a tween, while Andy and Duncan did a double feature of Princess Mononoke and Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era. Are these all movies we've talked to death already? Yes. Are they worth talking about even more with the spice of in-person viewing added? Yes! So settle in for a double feature of our podcast, and don't stop playback when Ben and Jon sign off, because we've got so much more to offer. Here's to ten more years!
Discussed:
X/1999 (movie) (0:55)
Tenchi Universe (35:11)
The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All (manga) (53:24)
Uzumaki (1:03:58)
Princess Mononoke (1:05:00)
Takopi's Original Sin (1:24:06)
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era (1:36:38)
BanG Dream! Ave Mujica (2:22:40)
One Piece (2:23:36)
Related Links:
They're cutting Frieren up into five movies for theatrical release? Why?
Ben's old blogpost on becoming too knowledgeable about a subject to enjoy fiction about it
Who was the recording artist Sophie?
The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All is indeed getting an anime
Who is Miwa Akihiro?
Shiratani Gorge in Yakushima is one of the inspirations for Princess Mononoke's primordial forest
Peleliu: Guernica of Paradise is getting adapted into an anime film
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse used machine learning for tweening but not wholesale generation of images
There is a My Neighbor Totoro play in the UK and it looks like a trip
This profile of Umamusume on Sakuga Blog also includes details of how Cygames built and grew their studio system
That documentary on Haru Urara (RIP), as promised
Jump racing does sound pretty dangerous and awful for horses
Who is Anthony Fantano?
It seems impossible that people don't know about Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon syncing up with Wizard of Oz, but...
Congrats on your 10 year anniversary! And thank you so much for doing the podcast and putting in all the extra work providing the timestamps with the links to the shows talked about, really appreciate that.