In which Cass & Alex discuss Paranoia Agent, directed by Satoshi Kon and produced by Madhouse.

Next month(?) we will be discussing FLCL, directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki and produced by Gainax and Production I.G.

Discussed: deciding whether satoshi kon is good or bad, bat boy, slow dial-up loading of a pornographic image, increasing lasciviousness, a young up and coming republican, the spike lee film 25th hour, your split personalities merging into the joker, a regular ass cop, content warning for the worst shit, whether satoshi kon is a tradcath, memes, too many cooks, what satoshi kon thinks about hello kitty, el problemo es el capitalismo, the two things you can do when faced with capitalism, self-loathing anime, abolishing the nine delights

Alex's Book Recommendation: When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O'Neill

Cass's Album Recommendation: Runnings as fast as I can by william crooks

Social:

Show Twitter: @animeisforjerks

Show Mastodon: @animeisforjerks@skeleton.cool

Show Cohost: @animeisforjerks

Show Email: animeisforjerks@gmail.com

Cass's Twitter: @prophet_goddess

Cass's Mastodon: @prophet_goddess@skeleton.cool

Cass's Cohost: @prophet-goddess

Alex's Twitter: @dunndunndunn

Alex's Mastodon: @catalina@selfy.army

Alex's Cohost: @catalina

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In which Cass & Alex discuss ODDTAXI, directed by Baku Kinoshita and produced by OLM and P.I.C.S.

Next month we will be discussing Paranoia Agent, directed by Satoshi Kon and produced by Madhouse.

Discussed: zootopia or beastars but good, tokyo godfathers but good, the windows snipping tool, vlc, mpv, birdie wing, chekhov's bricks, dog police by dog police, meerkat police, bojack horseman, a criminal monkey, who has the most drip in this show, bruce springsteen, chekhov's closet, a 41 year old monkey, the thing that made the least sense to me in this show, it's a mad mad mad mad world, 428: shibuya scramble, in bruges, leon the professional, getting out of the taxi without closing the door, manzai, rakugo, limited run 1 of 1 type of guy, badger game, capoeira, the capoeira music, eraser collecing, the monk joke, god closing a door, god opening a window, losers, the JLPT N1, type of guy who raps all the time, we both skipped episode 8, polar bear in a tracksuit, the foundation for orphans whose parents died in traffic accidents, "You Successfully Stalked Us, Please Don't Do It Again" by matt and tom, full dirty harry, ranma 1/2, why does odokawa the largest character not simply eat the other nine, racing lagoon, alex being drafted in as the new my brother my brother and me

FINAL SCORES:

Walking Around: 5/5

Fellowship: 5/5

Deliciousness: 3/5

Transcendence: 4/5

Goofing: 5/5

Amelioration: 5/5

Coitus: 1/5

Enthrallment: 4/5

Meerkats: 1/5

Style: 4/5

Alex's Book Recommendation: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

Cass's Album Recommendation: I Didn't Mean To Haunt You by Quadeca

Social:

Show Twitter: @animeisforjerks

Show Mastodon: @animeisforjerks@skeleton.cool

Show Cohost: @animeisforjerks

Show Email: animeisforjerks@gmail.com

Cass's Twitter: @prophet_goddess

Cass's Mastodon: @prophet_goddess@skeleton.cool

Cass's Cohost: @prophet-goddess

Alex's Twitter: @dunndunndunn

Alex's Mastodon: @catalina@selfy.army

Alex's Cohost: @catalina

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In which Cass & Alex discuss Spirited Away, directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli.

Next month we will be discussing Odd Taxi, directed by Baku Kinoshita and produced by OLM and P.I.C.S.

Discussed: ghibli english dubs, kiki's delivery service, classic americans, americans loving weird japanese stuff, clumsiness, who framed roger rabbit, the truly absurd number of abandoned theme parks in japan, porco rosso, trains across the sea by silver jews, coelacanth stomach, maro yonebayashi tweet about coelacanth stomach, akira toriyama eating coelacanth, the book of disquiet, the trouble with being born, oyasumi punpun, largeprimenumbers.com

FINAL SCORES:

Walking Around 4/5

Fellowship 5/5

Deliciousness 5/5

Transcendence 4/5

Goofing 4/5

Amelioration 5/5

Coitus 0/5

Enthrallment 5/5

Green Disembodied Heads: 3/5

Trains: 5/5

Alex's Book Recommendation: What We Do In The Dark by Michelle Hart

Cass's Book Recommendation: No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

Social:

Show Twitter: @animeisforjerks

Show Mastodon: @animeisforjerks@skeleton.cool

Show Cohost: @animeisforjerks

Show Email: animeisforjerks@gmail.com

Cass's Twitter: @prophet_goddess

Cass's Mastodon: @prophet_goddess@skeleton.cool

Cass's Cohost: @prophet-goddess

Alex's Twitter: @dunndunndunn

Alex's Mastodon: @catalina@selfy.army

Alex's Cohost: @catalina

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