Episode 142 of Key Frames, a podcast about anime. Watching Medalist this season and pondering the bluntness of its title made me realize that we don't give out enough recognition and awards for the accomplishments that make up our day-to-day life. Ben finally finished Mobile Suit Gundam: 08th MS Team? Bronze medal. Duncan found something philosophically moving in Orb: On the Movements of the Earth? Silver medal. Andy only saw the Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle- movie in theaters once, instead of four times like his wife? Gold medal. Jon completes a hat trick of podcast appearances and keeping up with Fire Force? Platinum medal. Are those a thing? Video games taught me that platinum medals are a thing. Anyway, give the episode a listen and you can be a winner, too! We'll mail you a ribbon or something.
Discussed:
The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 (1:50)
Blue Box (10:07)
The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You Season 2 (14:19)
Sakamoto Days (18:11)
Dragon Ball Daima (26:00)
Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle- (movie) (31:31)
BanG Dream! Ave Mujica (41:05)
Medalist (48:05)
Orb: On the Movements of the Earth (58:34)
ZENSHU. (1:05:01)
Dr. Stone: Science Future (1:11:57)
Apocalypse Hotel (1:14:34)
Kowloon Generic Romance (1:26:23)
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX (1:42:55)
Rock Is a Lady's Modesty (1:42:20)
Fire Force 3rd Season (1:50:42)
Anne Shirley (1:54:14)
Be Forever Yamato: Rebel 3199 (1:57:36)
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Train Arc (1:58:10)
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Uh oh! Apothecary Diaries is too meandering, it has too large of a cast and too many plot threads, and the romance is too slow
Uh oh! Apothecary Diaries is too hard to follow... but that's a good thing
Uh oh! Apothecary Diaries is going to run out of manga to adapt
Eunuch of Empire, set in a hazy approximation of Istanbul, is indeed running in Shounen Jump
And A Witch's Life in Mongol is indeed getting an anime adaptation by Science Saru
Ben's posting the Wikipedia page for Jim Jones here so that people get his offhand joke
Oh, and he wants to make sure people know what Mr. Payback is
I promise that this link explaining that "quuux" is a metasyntactic variable is legit, it's just old
Pyramid Inu's excellent video essay on Anno and Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX
ANN's glowing review of the first six Be Forever Yamato episodes that somehow convinced Ben to return to the franchise
