Welcome back, folks! Apologies for the overly long time away; we've been super busy with our day jobs. Hopefully, since we're covering an absolute gem of a movie, you'll forgive us. Enjoy our discussion of Tomas Alfredson and John Ajvide Lindqvists' romantic horror film, Let The Right One In.
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Let The Right One In

All aboard, anime fans! Join us as we punch our ticket to space adventure, science fantasy, and beautiful melancholy. Listener, you're on a one way train to a three hour discussion of 1979's Galaxy Express 999 The Movie! We talk about Leiji Matsumoto, the Leijiverse, Rintaro, and some of the notable seiyuu. We discuss Maetel, Tetsuro, Emeraldas, Harlock, and all your favorites. We get into this film as a story about class struggle, Matsumoto's depictions of women, and how certain scenes affected us now that the original creator of the Leijiverse is sadly no longer with us. 

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Music:
Jimi Hendrix "Hear My Train A Comin"
Nobuo Uematsu "Phantom Train" (cover by Sean Schafianski)
Lumi Athena "XVI Ultima!"

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Galaxy Express 999 The Movie

Hello, friends! We actually released two pods this month! Who'd have guessed it could happen again? This episode we are talking about the 2019 Noah Baumbach film "Marriage Story" starring Matoko Kusanagi and Kylo Ren! In all seriousness, we both really liked this movie and we hope you enjoy our chat about how it goes in on the American legal system, what we thought of all the performances, how the film is disarmingly funny at times (often because of its subject matter rather than in spite of it), stimulates reflections on relationships and fatherhood, and just generally creates awareness and empathy in us.

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Music:
Bibio "Lovers' Carvings"
Lumi Athena "XVI Ultima!" 

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Marriage Story

Hello, friends! We are back are far too long an absence to discuss the seminal 1980s OAV, Megazone 23! Parts 1 and 2 only. In this episode, we chat about the creators of the films, articulate our own experiences with them in 2023, attempt to understand them from the mindset of the 80s fandom unto which they were released, answer listener questions, and more!

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Music:
H.E.A.T. "One By One"
MACROSS 82-99 "Perfect Blue"
JPEG Mafia x Danny Brown 'Lean Beef Patty"
Lumi Athena "XVI Ultima!" 

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Megazone 23 Parts 1 & 2

Doc & Shadon break down Hong Kong action director Benny Chan's final film, Raging Fire! Donnie Yen and Nicholas Tse tear it up in this high-impact revenge story. We talk about our favorite scenes, discuss whether the film is copaganda, talk a bit about moral luck, and count suplexes!
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Music:
Junior Murvin "Police And Thieves"
The Clash "I Fought The Law"
Scooter "Fire"
Nicholas Tse "謝謝你的愛1999(國)"


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Raging Fire

Oi chooms, we are back with an absolutely nova episode that only a gonk brain wouldn't enjoy. We are covering all things Cyberpunk: Edgerunners! Doc & Shadon talk about the show's aesthetics, themes, how it relates to and compares to the video game, where Edgerunners fits into cyberpunk literature, and more. Also we discuss who is best gi--pfft I can't even joke about this because no discussion is needed. It's so obvious, right? 
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Music:
Del The Funky Homosapien "Cyberpunks"
Underworld "Dark and Long"
Echo & The Bunnymen "Killing Moon"
Shiruetto "Confusion"
Rage Against The Machine "Take The Power Back"
Feist "My Moon My Man"

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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Blessed Kwanzaa, Merry MegaChristmas, and Happy Holidays! Doc & Shadon are here with you once again to talk about all things media in 2022, at least all things they've experienced. Yes, there's some grousing about the usual awful state of the planet, but the majority of this episode is a celebration of a whole bunch of great anime, video games, books, and movies that have gotten us through the year. Sit back and reminisce with us for a few hours to close out your year with a good time!
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Music:
Masayoshi Soken and THE PRIMALS "Endwalker - Footfalls"
Michael Kelly "CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown"

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2022 Wrap-up

Doc & Shadon have come back from a war torn future to talk to you all about a couple of really cool James Cameron movies, The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day! If you're not super old like us, you might not remember how mind-blowing these films were at the time or how important they were to pop culture and the near-term future of action sci-fi cinema. On the other hand, if you are on old head, then come soak up the nostalgia as we discuss our favorite scenes, smart decisions the movies make, and get annoyed at the T2 trailer.  
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Music:
Austrian Death Machine "I Need Your Clothes, Your Boots, And Your Motorcycle"
Michael Kelly "CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown"

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The Terminator & Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Newtypes, Oldtypes, and everyone in between, Doc & Shadon are here to talk Mobile Suit Gundam! We invite you to join us as we review and discuss the anime film trilogy that kicked off anime's biggest franchise. How cool are these robots? How badass is Char Aznable? Is war truly hell? We will answer these questions, your questions, and much more on our trek through the 79th year of the Universal Century!
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Music:
Frankie Goes To Hollywood "Two Tribes"
Michael Kelly "CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown"


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Mobile Suit Gundam

Doc & Shadon romp, stomp, and spray atomic breath all over the place on this episode that's all about Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi's 2016 kaiju powerhouse, Shin Godzilla! We discuss the film's seething hatred of bureaucracy, ability to put the viewer into ground zero of a disaster, fantastic editing and shot composition, driven core cast, and more! 
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Music:
Blue Oyster Cult "Godzilla"
Michael Kelly "Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown"

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Shin Godzilla

Doc & Shadon discuss Suncoast Video shelf constant, Video Girl Ai. Is this 1992 OAV sex comedy meets sci-fi romance worth revisiting 30 years later? Listen in and find out as we chat about the show's themes, characters, comedy and place in anime history. And answer your questions!
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Music:
The Buggles "Video Killed The Radio Star"
Michael Kelly "Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown"


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Video Girl Ai

After some delays, we're back to talk about Spike Jonze' film "Her" from 2013! Shadon enjoyed this film back when it was released, but he wanted to revisit it now, almost a decade later, to see how it held up. We discuss the film's relevance in 2022, its core message about learning how to love others well, if anything about it would be made differently in 2022, its depiction of societal change in the wake of radical new technology, if the film sufficiently establishes Samantha's humanity, which app we'd like to fall in love with, and much more!
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Music:
Foreigner "I Want To Know What Love Is"
Michael Kelly "Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown"
Sources I Wanted To Read But Didn't:
Aleksić, Jana. “Defense of Humanity: Defense of Personality: Aesthetic Rethinking of the Concept of Body in the Film Her by Spike Jonze.” Kultura (Belgrade, Serbia), no. 167, 2020, pp. 266–87, https://doi.org/10.5937/kultura2067266A.

FLISFEDER, MATTHEW, and CLINT BURNHAM. “Love and Sex in the Age of Capitalist Realism: On Spike Jonze’s Her.” Cinema Journal, vol. 57, no. 1, Fall 2017, pp. 25–45. EBSCOhost, https://doi-org.bunchproxy.idm.oclc.org/10.1353/cj.2017.0054.

Jagoe, Eva-Lynn. “Depersonalized Intimacy: The Cases of Sherry Turkle and Spike Jonze.” English Studies in Canada, vol. 42, no. 1, Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, 2016, pp. 155–73, https://doi.org/10.1353/esc.2016.0004.

Jollimore, Troy. “‘This Endless Space between the Words’: The Limits of Love in Spike Jonze’s Her.” Midwest Studies In Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell), vol. 39, no. 1, Sept. 2015, pp. 120–43. EBSCOhost, https://doi-org.bunchproxy.idm.oclc.org/10.1111/misp.12039.

KIYCI, Hale. “Spike Jonze’s Her: How Transhumanism Turns into a Control Mechanism under the Name of Love.” Journal of the Faculty of Letters, vol. 12, no. 23, Jan. 2022, pp. 121–38. EBSCOhost, https://doi-org.bunchproxy.idm.oclc.org/10.33207/trkede.954659.

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Her (2013)

We discuss Mamoru Hosoda's third original film and final Madhouse production, 2012's "Wolf Children." When Doc first watched it, it was one of his favorites. After watching/rewatching all of Hosoda's work n the lead up to this podcast, does he still feel the same way? Shadon has never seen the film before. What does he think of it? Click play and find out!
Lot of ground covered in our discussion, including: production details, both the critical and also the academic/scholarly response to the film then and now, different cultural perspectives on single-motherhood, queer readings of wolfhood, "let's get back to nature" and, of course, our emotional responses to the movie. And much more!
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Music:
Wolfmother "Woman"
Michael Kelly "Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown"
Sources:
David John Boyd  (2012) "Wolves or People?"
Jacob Chapman (2013) "Wolf Children BD+DVD"
Andrea Germer, Rafael Vinícius Martins, Tianqi Zhang (2017) "A ‘Japanese’ Cinema of Reassurance Queering, Passing—and Reifying Normativity in Hosoda Mamoru’s Wolf Children"
M. M. Grajdian (2020) “Compassionate neo-traditionalism in Hosoda mamoru’s animation movies”
David Whitely 2016 “Human Animals - Transformations Devoutly To Be Wished?”
If we mention an author not listed here, there's an excellent chance their work is quoted in one of the articles above!

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Wolf Children

We are discussing one of the best films, Korean or otherwise, made in recent years, Lee Chang-dong's "Burning." In fact, this is Doc's favorite movie! "Burning" is an adaptation of Haruki Murakami's short story, "Barn Burning" (itself an adaptation of sorts of William Faulkner's short story of the same name) and features incredible performances from Yoo Ah-in, Jeon Jong-seo, and Stephen Yeun.
There is a lot of ground to try to cover in this discussion. We tackle the movie's focus on class and wealth divides, what it says about creative individuals and the creative process, reality vs unreality of certain elements of the film and what those possible conclusions mean for the film as a whole as well as its individual elements, and so so much more. All of this discussion is near, very very near...all you have to do is press play!  
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Music: 
Talking Heads "Burning Down The House" 
Garoad/Michael Kelly "Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown"

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Burning (2018)

Doc & Shadon saddle up to bring you all a mammoth sixty billion double-dollar-sized helping of podcast about one of our all-time favorite anime: Trigun! This show was an important one for both of us in the early, formative years of our anime fandom. Perhaps surprisingly, we both found that, not only does it hold up (in terms of what we come to anime for) but it has some depths we did not plumb when we were in our teens and twenties.
We cover a ton of topics in this show, including: a character analysis of Vash The Stampede, utilitarian/consequentialist morality vs deontic/non-consequentialist morality, how the show drops the ball with its female cast, the anime's tonal shift, Christian symbolism, comparison of Trigun to other media, favorite gags, how many Gung-ho Guns can you name, and so much more!  
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Music:
"The Man Comes Around" by Johnny Cash
"CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown" by Michael Kelly

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Trigun

For you, it was the most important podcast of your life, for us...it was Tuesday.
Welcome back, friends, to Warui Deshou, where this time we discuss the notorious 1994 fighting game film adaptation, Street Fighter: The Movie! While it can occasionally be charmingly camp, and Raul Julia's performance is beyond reproach, much of the time the movie's poor casting and writing leave us cringing and groaning. But, how would we adapt a fighting game story to the silver screen? What lessons can be learned from this one? From its troubled production? In addition to pondering these serious topics, Doc & Shadon have a good laugh at SF's expense.  
Production details and stories mentioned by Shadon are from this Guardian Piece: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/jul/16/inside-street-fighter-movie-jean-claude-van-damme-kylie-minogue
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Music:
"Guile's Theme" from Super Street Fighter II by Isao Abe
"CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown" by Michael Kelly

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Street Fighter: The Movie

Join Doc & Shadon for a discussion on Studio Ghibli's 2004 film adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones' 1986 fantasy novel, Howl's Moving Castle. After talking a bit about some creatives behind the film as well as its production, the hosts analyze the movie's aesthetics, anti-war themes, metaphorical interpretations of the castle, differences from the novel, and, of course, its very abrupt ending. 
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Music:
"The Wizard of Oz Main Theme" by Herbert Stothart & The MGM Studio Orchestra
"CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown" by Michael Kelly

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Howl's Moving Castle

We discuss Doc's favorite John Woo film, 1989's "The Killer"! Doc and Shadon talk favorite scenes, religious symbolism, heroic bloodshed as a genre, what to make of the Jenny character, and so much more!
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Music:
"Tequila's Theme" from John Woo's Stranglehold by Jamie Christopherson
"Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown" by Garoad/Michael Kelly

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John Woo's "The Killer"

Once upon a time, there was a man who died...then that man befriended another man, and they went on to do a Bad Anime Podcast which would one day cover...Princess Tutu! That's right, Doc and Shadon are here to talk about ballet, meta-text, and weird animal-people. After lauding the folks who created this little gem, we answer a boatload of Discord & Twitter questions, discuss characters, themes and story structure, and do our best 'If you like _____, you'll like Princess Tutu."  
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Music:
Felix Mendelssohn – Wedding March (from “A Midsumer Night’s Dream”)
Garoad - Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown


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Princess Tutu

It's brand new solo content for 2022 here at Warui Deshou as Shadon kickstarts a series of short audio essays on anything and everything he's seen recently or far in the past, whatever's interesting to talk about! And as the kind of director's cut Blu-Ray extra to our Spiderverse pod, Shadon offers some thoughts on Spiderman: No Way Home including thoughts on the Great Responsibility mantra, the unique attributes of the MCU Spiderman films and the conclusion to nearly 20 years of Spiderman continuity! Enjoy!

Music Used:

Spiderman 1967 Opening - Paul Francis Webster & Bob Harris
Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown by Garoad/Michael Kelly

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