Warui Deshou: An Anime Podcast

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. Enjoying this podcast? Tip us a coffee on Ko-fi! This will get you access to The World's Best Anime (and Other Media Too) Discord. | https://ko-fi.com/waruideshou Want to get in touch? Tweet the show, Doc or Shadon | Email the show Music: Jimi Hendrix "Hear My Train A Comin" Nobuo Uematsu "Phantom Train" (cover by Sean Schafianski) Lumi Athena "XVI Ultima!"

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! Enjoying   this podcast? Tip us a coffee on Ko-fi! This will get you access to The  World's Best Anime (and Other Media Too) Discord. | https://ko-fi.com/waruideshou Want to get in touch? Tweet the show, Doc or Shadon | Email the show Music: Junior Murvin "Police And Thieves" The Clash "I Fought The Law" Scooter "Fire" Nicholas Tse "謝謝你的愛1999(國)"

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.   Enjoying   this podcast? Tip us a coffee on Ko-fi! This will get you access to The  World's Best Anime (and Other Media Too) Discord. | https://ko-fi.com/waruideshou Want to get in touch? Tweet the show, Doc or Shadon | Email the show Music: Austrian Death Machine "I Need Your Clothes, Your Boots, And Your Motorcycle" Michael Kelly "CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown"

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!  Enjoying   this podcast? Tip us a coffee on Ko-fi! This will get you access to The  World's Best Anime (and Other Media Too) Discord. | https://ko-fi.com/waruideshou Want to get in touch? Tweet the show, Doc or Shadon | Email the show Music: Blue Oyster Cult "Godzilla" Michael Kelly "Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown"

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! Enjoying   this podcast? Tip us a coffee on Ko-fi! This will get you access to The  World's Best Anime (and Other Media Too) Discord. | https://ko-fi.com/waruideshou Want to get in touch? Tweet the show, Doc or Shadon | Email the show 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.

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!   Enjoying  this podcast? Tip us a coffee on Ko-fi! This will get you access to The  World's Best Anime (and Other Media Too) Discord. | https://ko-fi.com/waruideshou Want to get in touch? Tweet the show, Doc or Shadon | Email the show Music: Talking Heads "Burning Down The House" Garoad/Michael Kelly "Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown"

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! Enjoying this podcast? Tip us a coffee on Ko-fi! | https://ko-fi.com/waruideshou Music: "Tequila's Theme" from John Woo's Stranglehold by Jamie Christopherson "Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown" by Garoad/Michael Kelly

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

WHAT'S UP DANGER? Hey gang, it's our maiden voyage into the great big ocean of Non-Anime Podcast Episodes! ICYMI, we are going to be doing two pods a month, one anime and one non. For this month's non, Shadon has chosen a pair of exemplary superhero animated films. We know these movies have a ton of big fans, so we hope we've done them justice in our (lengthy) discussion! First, we detail our histories with these characters across various forms of media. Then, we talk about each film separately, why we like each so much and we we think each does really well. Next, we compare the two in terms of their tone, goals, accessibility, stand-alone-ness, core themes, and how well each film presents the essence of its protagonist. Finally, we answer some very good questions put to us by our Discord group. Please enjoy! Enjoying this podcast? Tip us a coffee on Ko-fi! | https://ko-fi.com/waruideshou   Music: Kakero! Spider-man - Yuki Hide Batman: The Animated Series End Credit - Danny Elfman CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown - Garoad Join us next time for Princess Tutu, same pod time, same pod channel!

It's the final Stream of Thought and what a ride it's been across all these years! Join Doc and Shads for one last time as they round out their discussion of Sonny Boy by talking about emotional connections, wibbly wobbly timey wimey, man's proclivity towards creating our own hell, cults of personality and more! Enjoying this podcast? Tip us a coffee on Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/waruideshou Musical Credits: Dark Bramble - Outer Wilds OST by Andrew Prahlow Running In The Night - FM-84 CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown - Michael Kelly

Join Shadon and Doc as they tackle the next block of four episodes and  have some strong disagreements over the show, particularly focused  around Episode 6! There's also discussion of the celestial pool game as  visual metaphor, Death Note, the Muppets, the choice of which games to  use in the text of the show, missed storytelling opportunities and more! Buy The Boys A Ko-Fi! https://ko-fi.com/waruideshou Music: Line of Light - Kaiji Ultimate Survivor OST by Hideki Taniuchi Cemetry Gates - The Smiths Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown - VA-11 HALL-A OST by Michael Kelly

Join Doc and Shads as they dive further into the show with analysis and discussion of Episodes 4 through 6, covering topics such as Doc's personification of the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ emote, an extended look at the teens reverting to known power structures and being unable to escape them, the way authority can be exerted through maternal instinct, potential parallels to racist exploitation of athletes and artists, Radjhani as a not shit Elon Musk, why God sucks, and more! Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou Musical Credits: Dark Bramble - Outer Wilds OST by Andrew Prahlow Running In The Night - FM-84 CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown - Michael Kelly

We're late to the party on this one, but it's fine, we ordered a (Odd) Taxi! Doc  and Shads call for transport on a journey that has already been near  universally lauded by anime critics and find themselves in agreement!  What starts as an intriguing mystery story quickly turns into parasocial  relationship commentary and examinations of how we place value on  ourselves and others, and it's like, really bloody good! Join the  duo on this podcast outing as they tackle episodes 1 through 4 and  discuss topics like the predatory nature of gacha games, Hellboy memes,  Brazilian martial arts, the history of parasocial relationships and the  formalization of the term, idol groups, authenticity from chaos, Doc  being replaced by a clone and more! Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou Music Credits: All I Want - The Offspring Driving In My Car - Madness Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown - VA-11 HALL-A OST by Michael Kelly