Warui Deshou: An Anime Podcast (Warui Deshou)

Join TheSubtleDoctor and Shadon as they discuss the show's surprising  uptick in quality and substance, tackling issues such as how life cannot  be compared to a game, the pressures of an arbitrary system of  competition, jarring edits, LEARNING AN INFINITE, queer readings, who  Tomozaki is destined to end up with and more!

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:

Dan's Theme - Street Fighter V Champion Edition OST
Heihachi's Theme - Tekken 3 OST
Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown - Michael Kelly

Doc and Shadon discuss episode 7 of Masaki Yuasa's exciting Winter 2020  anime series Keep Your Hands off Eizouken!

Stream of Thought is Warui  Deshou’s “episodic blog,” our takes on currently airing shows as they  air, one episode at a time.

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music (used with artist permission):

“GPS” by Maco Soundworks  
“Every Day is Night” by Garoad Music

Join the duo on this podcast outing as they tackle episodes 5 through 8  and discuss topics like how chasing social media metrics demands the  erasure of nuance, Joe Pesci, the very real consequences of vigilante  justice, our thoughts on Yano's introduction, the use of music to inform  mood, 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

P.S. In response to a Patreon question, Shadon refers to events documented in this article. Many thanks to GoGoAtomicRobot for providing the link to this. We would  highly recommend you read this for full context on Shadon's  recollection as it is not entirely accurate versus the details noted  there.

This week Shadon and The Subtle Doctor cover topics such as past versus present, directional choices, Finnish death metal and how Richard makes bank!

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:

Big Blue Diamonds - Little Willie John

Join Shads and returning special guest Marc of Oh No, Anime! as they discuss the follow up to SSSS.Gridman and talk about the arrival of GRIDKNIGHT on the scene and what it means for the show, how to handle team ups across shared entries in a franchise, Koyomi's flaws, the power of friendship, sweet bowling victories and more!

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Musical Credits:

METHIONINE - 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim OST by Basiscape & Hitoshi Sakimoto
Yume no Hero - Denkou Choujin Gridman OST by Akira Ōtsu, Kisaburo Suzuki, Masaki Iwamoto and Norio Sakai
CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown - VA-11 HALL-A OST by Michael Kelly

Marc's Twitter: @vermillionair3
Oh no, Anime! Twitter: @ohnoanime
Marc's YouTube: Oh No, Anime! on YouTube!

Swindler, Stop Swindlin'!

It's the final lap of the hell year that has been 2020 but Warui Deshou ain't stopping yet! We're back with a brand new anime season and this time we're covering Akudama Drive, a show from the head creatives behind Danganronpa!

Join The Subtle Doctor, aka the Negotiator, and Shadon, aka the Drunkard, as they discuss the show's construction, what defines cyberpunk as a genre of fiction, how to write a heist story, favourite moments and characters and if they would allow the Doctor to perform any sort of medical procedure on them!

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Musical Credits:

Mechanism Eight - Unreal Tournament 1999 OST (Composed By Andrew "Necros" Sega")
Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealers Wheel

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"

Hello, friends, and welcome to Warui Deshou's Holiday/Year-End Special! I already wrote this description once, and 2021 hates me so much that it disappeared my write-up for no reason whatsoever. That being the case, this description will be even more low-effort than usual, which is saying something.

In this here podcast, Shadon and Doc discuss all their favorite anime, video games, podcasts, YouTubers, John Woo movies, and Stephen King novels they've experienced in this bloody endless year. Not one single once of prep was done by either host before the pod. Listen at your own risk.

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Music:
Seaside Vacation - Hu Ito (13 Sentinels OST)
Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown - Garoad

Join Shadon & The Subtle Doctor as they discuss episodes 5-8 of Girls' Last Tour and cover topics like: hope from hopeless, the seminal Rain scene, the philosophy of the show  with respect to observing history, BOOZE GLORIOUS BOOZE, pipe dreams,  house decorating and dream interpretation!

Music:

Hell March Remastered - Frank Klepacki & The Tiberian Sons (Command & Conquer Remastered OST)
The Tower - Keiichi Okabe (Nier Automata OST)
Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown - Michael Kelly

Stream of Thought is back with a brand new show and a brand new format where we will be covering Studio Trigger's new Netflix exclusive; Brand New Animal! (Yeah, had to oblige the Rule of Threes there, sorry!)  

Join Shadon & The Subtle Doctor as we discuss and analyize of the first three episodes of BNA! Topics include: differences from contemporary works about anthropomorphic animals, BNA as a show about women's empowerment, possible problems in trying to create utopias, aesthetic design and sensibilities and whether or not Itami is a mink or a weasel!

Links:
Otaquest Yoh Yoshinari Interview
Otaquest Kazuki Nakashima Interview
Genice Chan website 

Musical Credits:  
Hungry Like The Wolf - Duran Duran mirage - Mitch Murder  

Stream of Thought is Warui Deshou's mainline anime coverage series and is available to everyone and anyone. Enjoy!

Join The Subtle Doctor and Shadon as they tackle the new Dai Sato anime Listeners and this week cover Listeners' homage to Prince (or The Artist Formerly Known As depend on who you ask) including issues with world building and overall threats, visual motifs and metaphors, sexuality and connection, noisy robot designs and SO MUCH NEON.

Note: Doc has a new microphone and so sounds deeper than usual. I assure you this is not because he's been chugging all of Tennessee's monthly whiskey exports (I think).

Stream of Thought is Warui  Deshou’s “episodic blog,” our takes on currently airing shows as they  air, one episode at a time.

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Musical Credits:  Inhale/Exhale by Tendinite

CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown by Garoad

Second Stream is back for the Spring 2020 season of anime and we're  covering the sobering, melancholy daydream that is Yesterday wo Uttate!  Join The Subtle Doctor and Shadon as they discuss Episode 2 and cover  topics like panelling in flashbacks, making definitive actions in your  life, the mourning of a lost relationship, twisted metaphors and  Shadon's inability to remember one bloody character's name!

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:
The Immediate Task - Peculate
Michael Kelly/Garoad - Calicomp V1.1 Shutdown

Join Doc and Shads as they answer a multitude of Patron questions, talk about Hori's biphobia, the terrible moral lesson of forgiving your abusers for no good reason, the mishandling of Yuki's character journey, colour coded characters, the return of delicious spine juice and an overall positive message and observation about the lingering effects of trauma. Plus, Shads still thinks Kyosuke isn't funny. =p

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:

The Ataris - Boys of Summer
New Days - Persona 4 OST by Shoji Meguro

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

Second Stream returns for 2020 with a brand new show to cover: The Case  Files of Jeweller Richard! This week Shadon and The Subtle Doctor cover  topics such as gemstones as metaphor for character flaws and struggles,  why Royal Milk Tea is important, adaptational decay and Subway sandwich  artists!

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:

Big Blue Diamonds - Little Willie John

CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of loss of elderly family members.

Join  The Subtle Doctor and returning man with a PHD in Baldness Shadon as we  discuss episodes 5 through 8 of Season 2, Descending Stories, covering  topics such as the show's portrayal of aging and the end of life,  preserving historic works, the dichotomy of how the public treat  celebrities versus their close friends & family, and much more!

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:

Casiopea - Take Me
Debut - Final Fantasy VII OST by Nobuo Uematsu

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

We had a gap week between the Akudama Drive finale and our first Wonder  Egg Priority podcast and so myself and Doc decided that rather than  spending our time productively or even healthily, we chose to watch not  one but FOUR animated turds that got released in Winter 2021.

Join  TheSubtleDoctor and a very weary Shadon as they cover the first  episodes of Scar of the Praeter, EX-ARM, Mushoku Tensei: Jobless  Reincarnation and Redo of a Healer! Witness the exasperation at the very worst anime tropes and clichés! Marvel at two men's resilience in the face of misogyny and paedophilia apologia masquerading as anime! Gasp at verbal descriptions of EX-ARM, an anime made in Source Filmmaker on a 1950s television by a yodelling redneck hermit!

This episode is available to everyone and anyone, because sharing our misery only seemed fair.

Next week it's Wonder Egg Priority, something that isn't shit!

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou - Get extra episodes, early access, discord access, and more!

Join The Subtle Doctor and Shadon as they tackle the new Dai Sato anime  Listeners and cover topics like relationships between new and old bands,  Ozzy Osbourne's many phylacteries, Echo & The Bunnymen, why  Morrissey is a prick, mech design and more! 

Stream of Thought is Warui  Deshou’s “episodic blog,” our takes on currently airing shows as they  air, one episode at a time.

 Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou 

Musical Credits:  
Inhale/Exhale by Tendinite
CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown by Garoad

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.

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:

Bibio "Lovers' Carvings"

Lumi Athena "XVI Ultima!"

Doc  and Shadon discuss episode 5 of Masaki Yuasa's exciting Winter 2020  anime series Keep Your Hands off Eizouken!

Stream of Thought is Warui  Deshou’s “episodic blog,” our takes on currently airing shows as they  air, one episode at a time.

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music (used with artist permission):

“GPS” by Maco Soundworks  
“Every Day is Night” by Garoad Music

Second Stream returns for 2020 with a brand new show to cover: The Case  Files of Jeweler Richard! Join The Subtle Doctor and Shadon as we  grapple with the finer points of gemstones, familial guilt, nominative  determinism and diamond dick jokes! 

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou 

Music: 

Big Blue Diamonds - Little Willie John

Deshou The Third is back for a second round and we're still intensely  focused on covering just one thing: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju! But  the past of the first season has been left behind, and now we look to  the future presented in the show for both Rakugo and the lives of our  characters.

Join The Subtle Doctor and returning man with a PHD  in Baldness Shadon as we discuss the first four episodes of Season 2,  Descending Stories, covering topics such as Konatsu's crowning moment of  glory, the power of fiction to drive us forward, the weight of the past  as burden but also as motivating factor to push on and Yakumo being  cold as ice!

Music:

Casiopea - Take Me
Debut - Final Fantasy VII OST by Nobuo Uematsu

Second Stream is back for the Spring 2020 season of anime and since our poll to decide which show to cover ended up tied, it's a battle royale as we discuss the first episodes of both Kakushigoto and Yesterday wo Utatte! Join The Subtle Doctor and a very sleepy Shadon as they give both shows the full Second Stream treatment and discuss father-daughter relations, wish fulfilment, perceived maturity versus actual, terrible jokes, THE CROWMOTHER, red flags surrounding the narrative of damaged men and memory and recall!

Only one anime will leave the critical arena to continue onwards to be tackled week on week for Second Stream, so prepare for a throwdown!

Support Warui Deshot on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:

Granblue Fantasy Versus OST - Arvess
FM-84 - Everything
The Beatles - Yesterday

Easy Breezy everyone! We're back in podcast form to cover the final two  episodes of Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Join The Subtle Doctor and  Shadon as they discuss the origin of Asakusa and Kanamori's camaraderie,  how not to use an angle grinder, how the show teaches us to parse,  critique and understand anime and one final look at the Greatest World!

Stream of Thought is Warui  Deshou’s “episodic blog,” our takes on currently airing shows as they  air, one episode at a time.

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music (used with artist permission):

“GPS” by Maco Soundworks @MasoPupi

Podcast Album Art:

Phil Dragash @PhilDragash

Doc & Shadon discuss episode 10 of  Masaki Yuasa's exciting Winter 2020 anime series Keep Your Hands off Eizouken!

Stream of Thought is Warui  Deshou’s “episodic blog,” our takes on currently airing shows as they  air, one episode at a time.

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music (used with artist permission):

“GPS” by Maco Soundworks @MasoPupi

Podcast Album Art:

Phil Dragash @PhilDragash

CONTENT WARNING: This show covers topics such as  suicide, bullying, depression & isolation to name a few and as such  we will also be discussing these on the pod itself throughout. We  believe Wonder Egg is an overall positive show but please be careful if  any of the above may be uncomfortable or sensitive for you.

NOTE: This  show was recorded with Doc using a different, temporary microphone as a  one off, hence the difference in his audio quality versus the usual.  This will return to normal for our next pod. Thank you for your  understanding!

Join Shadon and The Subtle Doctor as they answer Patron questions and tackle topics like how toxic socioeconomic systems fundamentally compromise people, the Acca's talk on suicide and its connection to gender, the gang's new not-Pokemon helpers, what the Haters mean, emotional responses to the show, gaslighting depicted as both overt and covert action, and Neiru's sick Unreal Tournament skills!

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Musical Credits:

Bliss - Muse
How D'ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning? - Dean Martin & Helen O'Connell
CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown - Michael Kelly

It's been over a year since we last hung out with the Given boys and  demand for us to cover the movie once it was released has been ongoing  ever since. Well, the film is now in the wild and thus it's time we  fulfilled that promise!

Shadon and The Subtle Doctor pick up  their mics once again to talk shop about Given, covering topics such as  the transition from show to movie format and what that entails, the  focus on Akihiko and Haruki over Uenoyama and Mafuyu, Ugetsu possibly  being a devourer of souls, cinematography and storyboarding, badly timed  phone calls and more!

This bonus podcast is free for everyone to  enjoy. To those who have provided feedback, comments and support for  our coverage of Given as a series both while it was airing and since,  this one is for you. <3

Support Warui Deshou - https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:

Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent
Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown - Michael Kelly

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!

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
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Music:
Frankie Goes To Hollywood "Two Tribes"
Michael Kelly "CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown"

This week Shadon and The Subtle Doctor cover topics such as Seigi's  feelings towards Richard and Tanimoto, the morality of lies and  fiction, Richard's backstory and our opinion on JR's shift to becoming a  80's buddy cop show!

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:

Big Blue Diamonds - Little Willie John

Content Warning: Discussion of suicide.

Join The Subtle Doctor and Shadon as they tackle the new Dai Sato anime  Listeners and this week cover Listener's allusion to Nirvana frontman  Kurt Cobain, where Doc and Shads discuss the pros and cons of importing  real world history into a show and discuss where the line is drawn  between reference overload, ill conceived tribute or genuine homage.

Stream of Thought is Warui  Deshou’s “episodic blog,” our takes on currently airing shows as they  air, one episode at a time.

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Musical Credits:    Inhale/Exhale by Tendinite  CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown by Garoad

It's long overdue that Warui Deshou really got into the "shipping" industry as it were, so we're back for the first Second Stream series for 2021 with Horimiya, a slice of life romcom show featuring a relatively normal teenage girl and a guy who is mere moments away from a horrific piercing related injury.

Join Doc and Shads as they answer a multiple of Patron questions, tackle the universality of connection and how we recontextualise it as we get older, discuss Miyamura's pro-headbutting technique and if it's allowed in a school setting, compare to other romcoms we've seen and a myriad of other topics!

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:

The Ataris - Boys of Summer
New Days - Persona 4 OST by Shoji Meguro

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 The Subtle Doctor and Shadon as they talk about this amazing show  from 2016 and discuss topics such as cultural shifts, the arrival of  Miyokichi to shake things up, further analysis of Kikuhiko and  Sukeroku's relationship and... Pokemon?!

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:

Casiopea - Take Me
Debut - Final Fantasy VII OST by Nobuo Uematsu

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!

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:
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!

NOTE: There are minor audio issues from approx 45:00 - 1:45:00 with  sound dropping out from Doc. These should be minor but FYI and  apologies, they will be fixed for next time.

Special thanks to NavyCherub for requesting this one!

Join Shadon  and The Subtle Doctor on a long form discussion and analysis of the  2006 Ryousuke Takahashi ONA Flag, a refreshingly different anime  experience that utilizes first person perspectives throughout it's  runtime to examine the nature of warfare and journalism. Expect  discussions of giant robot minutiae and lore as a tool for dramatic  tension, divergent story lines, the positive and negative elements of  wartime journalism, why entertainment may not necessarily need to  conventionally entertain and is Flag a competent piece of anti-war  fiction? Also, is Shadon really dead inside or not?

Find out as  we cover this truly unique tale of bloodshed and civil war caught  through the looking glass of two journalist's cameras in Flag!

Request  Line is where Viking Experience ($5) tier Patrons can request specific  shows for us to cover and is available to all Patrons of KanaMoney ($3)  tier or higher.

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music used:

Act on Instinct (Remastered) - Frank Klepacki, from Command & Conquer
Master Truth Revealed - Elia Cmiral, from Spec Ops: The Line
CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown - Michael Kelly

Doc and Shadon discuss episode 6 of Masaki Yuasa's exciting Winter 2020  anime series Keep Your Hands off Eizouken!

Stream of Thought is Warui  Deshou’s “episodic blog,” our takes on currently airing shows as they  air, one episode at a time.

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music (used with artist permission):

“GPS” by Maco Soundworks  
“Every Day is Night” by Garoad Music

Get ready to engage Big Kid Mode ladies, gentlemen and enbies as we're back for the Spring 2021 anime season to talk shop about the second entry in Studio Trigger and Tsubaraya's Gridman anime universe, SSSS.Dynazenon!

DYNAZENONNNNNNN

Sorry, the chorus is obligatory. I don't make the rules.

Join Doc, Shads and returning special guest Marc of Oh No, Anime! as they discuss the follow up to SSSS.Gridman and talk about the show's themes of the ties that bind, the deep lore of Gridman and how it plays into Gauma's origins, the big kid effect, the depiction of city wide destruction, Minami's character, the Kaiju Eugenicists- I mean, Race Realists and more!

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Musical Credits:

METHIONINE - 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim OST by Basiscape & Hitoshi Sakimoto
Yume no Hero - Denkou Choujin Gridman OST by Akira Ōtsu, Kisaburo Suzuki, Masaki Iwamoto and Norio Sakai
CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown - VA-11 HALL-A OST by Michael Kelly

Marc's Twitter: @vermillionair3
Oh no, Anime! Twitter: @ohnoanime
Marc's YouTube: Oh No, Anime! on YouTube!

Fujiko Mine, Mine Fujiko. Teacher, resistance fighter,  consort, betrothed, spy, thief. Is she all of these things? Or none of  them? Just who is the Woman Named Fujiko Mine? A slippery question, but  Warui Deshou never turns down a challenge.

Helmed creatively by  Sayo Yamamoto (whom you might know from a popular recent anime about  some ice skaters or something), Lupin III: The Woman Named Fujiko Mine  was created to celebrate the franchise’s 40th anniversary while also  taking it in a direction it was not particularly known for: more noir  and supremely sexy and confident in itself, not to mention it did not  focus on Lupin himself, but rather a character who had been ill defined  previously.

With special guest Alexander Smit, join Warui Deshou  as we discuss topics raised within the show such as sexuality and gender  identity, and also the anime itself. Oh, and we also go off topic into  things such as bat nipples and cold ones in the shower. As you do.

With  special thanks to Alex for coming on the show and providing his  insights, Grant The Thief for his assistance in the “Shady Dealings –  The BLT” outro, and to BBB/Jahvin Baxter of Yakage Force Studios for his  incredible Sheryl Nome by way of Pulp Fiction album art.

Featuring the music of:

The New Wuthering Heights – Naruyoshi Kikuchi

Lupin’s Theme – Naruyoshi Kikuchi

Goemon’s Theme – Naruyoshi Kikuchi

Oh Bondage, Up Yours! – X-Ray Spex

She’s A Carnival – Siouxsie & The Banshees

Pizzicato Playtime – Sam Fonteyn (from Ren & Stimpy)

Pink Panther Theme – Henry Mancini

History Maker – Dean Fujioka

Atomic – Blondie

The Four Seasons – Vivaldi

The Naked Gun Theme – Ira Newborn

Rules of Nature – Jamie Christopherson (Metal Gear Rising OST)

Pomp & Circumstance – Sir Edward William Elgar (Randy Savage Theme)

Hot For Teacher – Van Halen

Peter Gunn – James Newton Howard (The Blues Brothers OST)

My Name Is – Eminem

CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown – Michael Kelly

It’s A Small World – Literally Satan Himself

And clips & effects from:

The  Fifth Element, The Naked Gun, Vampire’s Kiss, Indiana Jones & The  Temple of Doom, Futurama, Cowboy Bebop, The Simpsons, Freesound.org  & The Woman Named Fujiko Mine.

Timecodes:

00:00:18 – “I Couldn’t Believe It Was Her”

00:01:05 – Oh Bondage, Up Yours! – X-Ray Spex

00:02:12 – Introduction & Opening Question

01:03:36 – Atomic – Blondie

01:04:42 – Shady Dealings – The Case

01:06:28 – The Woman Named Fujiko Mine – History, Context & Overview

01:47:11 – Food for Your Weeb Life – Guest Spot by Alexander Smit

01:51:40 – Fanfiction, orated delightfully by the First Lady of Warui Deshou

01:59:10 – The Woman Named Fujiko Mine – In Depth Discussion

03:58:31 – She’s A Carnival – Siouxsie & The Banshees

03:59:29 – Shady Dealings – WITWICS?

03:59:47 – Shout Out – Yakage Force Studios

04:00:25 – Poker Alice

04:01:20 – Correspondence & Any Other Business

05:24:09 – Shady Dealings – The BLT

There is no fate but what we make, and so our Patrons have thusly  chosen! For this round of Second Stream we'll be covering Vivy: Fluorite  Eye's Song, a show that seems to be a smooth blend of retro and high  concept sci-fi ideas, a murderous teddy bear, Sharon Apple from Macross,  Nier Automata, Terminator 2 and a touch of Portal thrown in. And so  far, it goes down well!

Join Shads and The Subtle Doctor as they  cover the first five episodes of this rare specimen of a modern anime  and dive head first into topics such as the ethical conflict between  Vivy and unbearable AI Matsumoto, the show's emphasis  on physical rather than digital violence, the well worn themes of AI  going rogue and the fault of humankind in doing so, why Stephen Marchant  should be in the English dub, satire of theme parks and more!

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music Credits:
Terminator 2 Theme - Brad Fiedel
Silent Hacker - Walkure
Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown - VA-11 HALL-A OST by Michael Kelly

Join The Subtle Doctor and Shadon as they tackle the new Dai Sato anime Listeners and this week cover episodes 6 thru 8, including topics such as neologisms, surface level criticism discussion, worldbuilding, the Sex Pistols and even references to Eureka 7 and Final Fantasy X!

Stream of Thought is Warui  Deshou’s “episodic blog,” our takes on currently airing shows as they  air, one episode at a time.

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Musical Credits:  
Inhale/Exhale by Tendinite
CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown by Garoad

Check out what we've reeled in! Second Stream is back for Fall 2020 with the delightful Tsuritama, a show about aliens who fish, or fishing to help aliens? Also a duck. Do not forget the duck.

Join Doc and Shads as they talk about the show's smart and clever construction along with it's joyous tone and yet sincere but never jarring depiction of anxiety and grief. We also discuss if we would let Haru live with us, the show's technical detail regarding fishing and it's purpose in the narrative, plenty of fish puns and TAPIOCA!

This Second Stream series is dedicated to MirrorOnTheWall who requested we cover it. <3

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:

Paradise-97 - Welcome To The Island
Weezer - Keep Fishin'

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.

We're seeing out this show with the Rule of Threes to boot by bringing back frequent podcast guest, master of knives and all around charming raconteur and intellect Alexander Smit! Join him, Shadon and Doc as we see out Brand New Animal's final three episodes with questions like; does this show endorse eugenics? (Yeah, this was a rough one)

You can follow Alex on Twitter at BioD42 and check out his library of written work at https://allthemediamatters.wordpress.com/!

Support Warui Deshou at: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Musical Credits:

Hungry Like The Wolf - Duran Duran
mirage - Mitch Murder

Join Shads and returning special guest Marc of Oh No, Anime! and returning returning special guest Alexander Smit as they cover the final three episodes of Dynazenon and dive head first into topics like Godzilla references, Kai Ikarashi's contributions to Episode 10, the power of friendship, Gauma's fate, Koyomi's backstory, the power of memories and more!

Musical Credits:

METHIONINE - 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim OST by Basiscape & Hitoshi Sakimoto
Yume no Hero - Denkou Choujin Gridman OST by Akira Ōtsu, Kisaburo Suzuki, Masaki Iwamoto and Norio Sakai
CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown - VA-11 HALL-A OST by Michael Kelly

Marc's Twitter: @vermillionair3
Oh no, Anime! Twitter: @ohnoanime
Marc's YouTube: Oh No, Anime! on YouTube!
Alexander's Twitter: @BioD42
Alexander's Blog: All The Media Matters

Join The Subtle Doctor, aka the Negotiator, and Shadon, aka the Drunkard, as they discuss censorship, the show's ways and means of worldbuilding, what Swindler's true nature may mean for the ending of the show and much more! THE MOON IS A LIE!

Support Warui Deshou at: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Musical Credits:

Mechanism Eight - Unreal Tournament 1999 OST (Composed By Andrew "Necros" Sega")
Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealers Wheel

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!

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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

CONTENT WARNING: This show covers topics such as  suicide, bullying, depression & isolation to name a few and as such  we will also be discussing these on the pod itself throughout. We  believe Wonder Egg is an overall positive show but please be careful if  any of the above may be uncomfortable or sensitive for you.

Join Shadon, The Subtle Doctor and returning special guest Emily Rand as they answer Patron questions and tackle topics such as Frill as metaphor, the flower language of Wonder Egg Priority, Ai's emotional journey, the show's troubled production, techbros, the use of colour, Sawaki being a creeper, overall thoughts on the show and more!

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Musical Credits:

Bliss - Muse
How D'ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning? - Dean Martin & Helen O'Connell
CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown - Michael Kelly

Emily's Twitter: @AJtheFourth
Emily's Blog: https://formeinfullbloom.wordpress.com/

This week Shadon and The Subtle Doctor cover topics such parenthood,  power moves, rebirth and WHERE'S MY TANIMOTO HIT SHE ISN'T IN THIS SHOW  NEARLY ENOUGH YOU FUC- *gets dragged away from keyboard*

Second  Stream public releases are delayed by one week/episode. To  hear  the  podcasts as they air, concurrent with the newest anime episode,   become  a Tier Bando patron over at our patreon!

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou.

Music:

Big Blue Diamonds - Little Willie John

Join Shadon & The Subtle Doctor as they discuss the final four episodes of the amazing Girls' Last Tour! Topics covered include: the best ways to interpret ambiguous media,  the ethics of eating meat, the origin of the Cuts, Yuu's "wow cool  robot!" moment, the Instagram account of a submarine, and more!

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:

Hell March Remastered - Frank Klepacki & The Tiberian Sons (Command & Conquer Remastered OST)
The Tower - Keiichi Okabe (Nier Automata OST)
Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown - Michael Kelly

Join The Subtle Doctor and Shadon as they tackle the new Dai Sato  anime Listeners and this week cover episodes 9 through 12 nd discuss topics like whitewashing, emotions being out into the world, WTF moments, cheap covers and sleepy interviews!

Stream of Thought is Warui  Deshou’s “episodic blog,” our takes on currently airing shows as they  air, one episode at a time.

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Musical Credits:  
Inhale/Exhale by Tendinite
CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown by Garoad

Join Shads (and not The Subtle Doctor because he had the audacity to be a  loving father and family man seriously dude wtf) as he talks shop about  Episodes 9 thru. 11 and why we tell stories about AI. He also covers  the fight between Matsumoto and Antonio and why it finally delivers on a  more inventive form of AI vs AI combat, dignity and the lack thereof  when it comes to AI, why Episode 11 is deeply worrisome and may be a  sign the show is falling apart, and also the fact that Vivy got shot in  the boob. Yes. That happened.

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music Credits:
Terminator 2 Theme - Brad Fiedel
Silent Hacker - Walkure
Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown - VA-11 HALL-A OST by Michael Kelly

Doc and Shadon discuss episode 2 of Masaki Yuasa's exciting Winter 2020 anime series Keep Your Hands off Eizouken!
Stream of Thought is Warui Deshou’s “episodic blog,” our takes on currently airing shows as they air, one episode at a time. 

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou 

Music (used with artist permission): 

“GPS” by Maco Soundworks
“Every Day is Night” by Garoad Music

This week Shadon and The Subtle Doctor cover topics such as rock shows,  childhood maturity, parental hubris and special cheesecake!

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:

Big Blue Diamonds - Little Willie John

Happy Alita-versary!

01/31 will mark the one year anniversary of the world premiere of the inimitable, improbable Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron film Alita: Battle Angel. This movie is, of course, an adaptation of a manga that began in 1990 and is...still going, actually!

Doc and Shadon watched the film for the first time and have a lot to say about it. They discuss the setting, world-building, characters, themes, adaptational choices, mood and more. How did they feel about the film? Click play, and find out!

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

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

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"

This week Shadon and The Subtle Doctor cover topics such as significant  mistakes in adaptation, mentor and mentee relationships, clunky dialogue  and Doc's victory lap!

Second Stream public releases are delayed by one week/episode. To hear the podcasts as they air, concurrent with the newest anime episode, become a Tier Bando patron over at our patreon!

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou.

Music:

Big Blue Diamonds - Little Willie John

Join The Subtle Doctor, aka the Negotiator, and Shadon, aka the Drunkard, as they discuss the show's finale and core message, parallels to real world events, pacing issues, getting stepped on, CD drives and how 500 yen can be worth far more than it's monetary value alone.

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Musical Credits:

Mechanism Eight - Unreal Tournament 1999 OST (Composed By Andrew "Necros" Sega")
Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealers Wheel

Doc  and Shadon discuss episode 4 of Masaki Yuasa's exciting Winter 2020  anime series Keep Your Hands off Eizouken!   

Stream of Thought is Warui  Deshou’s “episodic blog,” our takes on currently airing shows as they  air, one episode at a time. 

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou 

Music (used with artist permission): 

“GPS” by Maco Soundworks  
“Every Day is Night” by Garoad Music

Since our $5 Patreon tier is such a steal, we felt it was time to bring a  new series to Warui Deshou to cover more shows that you want us to talk  about, and we've started off Deshou The Third with a real showstopper;  Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu season one!

Join The Subtle Doctor  and Shadon as they talk about this amazing show from 2016 and how it  handles direction and storyboarding to sell the art of rakugo, the  complicated relationship between Sukeroku & Kikuhiko, a brief touch  on gender roles, pacing and the distinct absence of sword canes!

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:

Casiopea - Take Me
Debut - Final Fantasy VII OST by Nobuo Uematsu

Join Shadon and Doc as they tackle the final four episodes of the show and handle topics such as the purpose of Chiyuki as an ice skater for the narrative, the implementation of fairy tales in works of fiction, ASBOs, the appendixes of anime, spicy takes on the fate of Mayu and Harada, Playstation Move controllers and more!

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Music:

Line of Light - Kaiji Ultimate Survivor OST by Hideki Taniuchi
Cemetery Gates - The Smiths
Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown - VA-11 HALL-A OST by Michael Kelly

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The fellas are getting back into the podcast groove, and they've got  plenty of topics to discuss this week. Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash is a  fascinating anime because of its strong choices. Superman films CAN work  if you take the right approach. The Ghost In The Shell manga is pretty  different than its anime adaptations, and this is cool and good. Shadon  once wanted to write a sprawling sci-fi epic series but realizes he made  some mistakes along the way.

Support us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

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!"

I SAY I SAY I SAY I SAY

No, this is not the first anime to star washed up cartoon rooster Foghorn Leghorn, this is the pan-dimensional survival series Sonny Boy from Madhouse! And this is Stream of Thought, where we will try and make sense out of this puzzle of a show for your amusement and edutainment!

Join Doc and a very sunburnt Shads as they tackle the first three episodes of this intriguing work and discuss topics such as it's against the grain approach towards the typical execution of isolated group survival stories, can we prevent falling back into old, flawed societal structures, the presence of an evil Joestar, how silence can be as powerful as an actual score, how order is not necessarily better than chaos, a kid inventing his own cryptocurrency 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

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)"

Join Doc and Shads as they answer a multitude of Patron questions, discuss Hori's deadbeat surferdudebro dad, talk about love triangles, the fact that Hori and Miyamura tempted the wrath of horror movie villains by having sex, further discuss the shades of homophobia in the show, and ask why Hori gave Miyamura a bite mark on the back of his neck, amongst other things!

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:

The Ataris - Boys of Summer
New Days - Persona 4 OST by Shoji Meguro

Join The Subtle Doctor and returning man with a PHD in Baldness Shadon  as we discuss episodes 9 through 12 of Season 2, Descending Stories,  covering the show's almost flawless finale, it's use of fire as a visual  metaphor for destruction and creation, questions on spirituality and if  ghosts can punch each other!

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:

Casiopea - Take Me
Debut - Final Fantasy VII OST by Nobuo Uematsu

Join Shadon and The Subtle Doctor as they continue to discuss the show  that could potentially topple Eizouken as their joint AOTY 2020 and  discuss things like fighting back against narratives, potential problems  with the Xeno-Gadoll, video game references and Sarkozy winning Fall  Guys!

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:

A Kiss To Build A Dream On - Louis Armstrong
Mindfields - The Prodigy

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!"

CONTENT WARNING: This show covers topics such as  suicide, bullying, depression & isolation to name a few and as such  we will also be discussing these on the pod itself throughout. We  believe Wonder Egg is an overall positive show but please be careful if  any of the above may be uncomfortable or sensitive for you.

Join Shadon and The Subtle Doctor as they answer Patron questions and tackle topics such as parental neglect, the commodification and consumption of the bodies, minds and emotions of women, "wooden swords", Episode 10 in massive detail, good intentions versus good execution, the idea of family, Mamma Mia and more!

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Musical Credits:

Bliss - Muse
How D'ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning? - Dean Martin & Helen O'Connell
CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown - Michael Kelly

The Final Fantasy VII Remake launch is only weeks away, so in this bonus  episode of Warui Deshou Shadon and returning special guest Emily Rand  take some time to banter about a game they both have fond memories of,  covering the ever increasing relevance of the game's story and themes,  Palmer getting hit by a truck, the design and inclusion of optional  dungeons and structured loot, an examination of Cloud's mental breakdown  and of course, Barret uppercutting Biggs into the ceiling.

Emily wrote a fantastic article on her first impressions of the Final Fantasy VII Remake which you can find here: https://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/28823744/first-impressions-final-fantasy-vii-remake

Follow  Emily on Twitter at @leagueofemily for League of Legends/e-sports  related content and @AJTheFourth for anime related content!

Enjoy folks!

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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Join Doc and Shads as they talk about the show's smart and clever  construction along with it's joyous tone and yet sincere but never  jarring depiction of anxiety and grief. In this batch of episodes we  also cover the show's holistic use of it's coastal setting, it's  villain's overall goal and other elements to codify Yuki's battle with  his anxiety, the quality of the English dub, Natsuki's fight with his  family and Shadon nearly dying twice in the same podcast!

This Second Stream series is dedicated to MirrorOnTheWall who requested we cover it.

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:

Paradise-97 - Welcome To The Island
Weezer - Keep Fishin'

Join The Subtle Doctor and Shadon as they discuss Episodes 9 through 12 and close out Sing Yesterday For Me with discussions of  texts endorsing types of relationships, more cooking based gender stereotypes, getting messed up and harsh truths for men!

Second Stream episodes are behind a one-week embargo for free listeners. To get the most current episodes, head over to our Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:
The Immediate Task - Peculate
Michael Kelly/Garoad - Calicomp V1.1 Shutdown

Join Doc, Shads and special returning guest Emily Rand (@ajthefourth, For Me In Full Bloom) as they talk about the show's smart and clever construction along with it's joyous tone and yet sincere but never jarring depiction of anxiety and grief. In this batch of episodes we also cover Akira's crowning moments and his role in the show, the show's surprisingly well executed horror elements, who is best boy and of course the magnificent ending!

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

This Second Stream series is dedicated to MirrorOnTheWall who requested we cover it. <3

Music:

Paradise-97 - Welcome To The Island
Weezer - Keep Fishin'

Welcome back, friends, to Warui Deshou! This episode, Shadon & The Subtle Doctor review and discuss the rather bonkers 2016 anime Drifters. 

As usual, opinions are divided on the show. Doc is full of praise for its interesting concept, generally fun tone, and its humor. Shadon found it a boring exercise in propaganda. Despite their differing takes, the boys have a lot of fun discussing all of the above and so much more on Drifters. We hope you enjoy! Hearts to Yoichi! <3

There are a number of content warning for Drifters. We'd advise those inclined to listen to our discussion of those before jumping into the series. 

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Music:
Queen - Princes of the Universe
Michael Kelly/Garoad - 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!

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Music:
"Tequila's Theme" from John Woo's Stranglehold by Jamie Christopherson
"Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown" by Garoad/Michael Kelly

TheSubtleDoctor and Shadon  take a trip to the Goto Islands to watch the  journey of one master calligrapher Seishuu Handa as he does some soul  searching after deciding the best response to criticism from an elderly  man was to give him a mean right hook. Oops.     

In this episode we discuss Barakamon as a story of personal and artistic failure as well as the growth in both areas that can come from healthy  reflection, how comedy is constructed, does Barakamon have a message that escaping to the country is always the right way to go, pilgrimages,  and talk about the characters and our favorite moments with them!

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Music used:

Island in the Sun - Weezer
Your Affection - Shoji Meguro
CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown - Michael Kelly 

We have a very special guest this week in Marc aka Vermillionair3 of Oh No, Anime! Marc joins Doc and Shadon as we go into depth on BNA's depiction of political issues such as immigration, equality vs. equity & cults while also chatting about Spiderman villains, Fake Char Aznable and wolf mythology in Japan!

You can check out Marc's work on Oh No, Anime! including their excellent Perfect Blues anime music podcast at https://ohnoanime.moe/ or via Twitter! Do make sure to give them a follow and check out their amazing work!

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Musical Credits:

Hungry Like The Wolf - Duran Duran
mirage - Mitch Murder

It’s been a long time coming. We recorded this show back  in August. We have no excuse…but better late than never! And, at least  this podcast is about an excellent anime, Leiji Matsumoto and Daft  Punk’s sci-fi masterpiece Interstella 5555.

In this first part of  our Interstella show, we talk about what the thing is, how it came  together, our personal histories with it, and some high-level,  spoiler-free stuff we really really like about it. If you’ve never seen  this anime, we hope we can sell you on it, and if you have seen it, then  we hope you’ll hear about it ONE MORE TIME.

Also: what is the  best scene in anime involving a shark? Who was the actress that inspired  Leiji Matsumoto’s iconic female character design? Did Shadon spoil  Harry Potter for you? Let us know.

Time Codes:

00:00:00 – Story Time

00:02:00 – A Daft Intro

00:03:16 – Pre-show Banter

00:06:54 – Introductions & Opening Question

00:22:12 – Catch up with the Hosts

01:04:12 – Interstella 5555: A History

01:56:40 – Plot Summary, Conceptual Overview & Recommendations

Anime We Talk About:

Interstella 5555

Video Games We Talk About:

Resident Evil Franchise, Undertale, Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator, Persona 5

Playlist

Tsutchie – Sincerely

Michael Kelly – Every Day Is Night

Daft Punk – Aerodynamic (Daft Punk Remix)

Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On (Instrumental)

マクロスMACROSS 82-99 x Lotus Cloud ft. Le Real – Back At It

Toby Fox – Megalovania

Shoji Meguro – Life Will Change

TRUE – Divine Spell

Aloe Island Posse – High Tide

LCD Soundsystem – Daft Punk Is Playing At My House

Daft Punk – One More Time

Motorhead – Ace of Spades

Daft Punk – Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Neptunes Remix)

Antgry ft. Conscious Thoughts – Orange Road

Hannaah Medina – Become Meguca

Desired – In Love

KOIKA – Karma

Michael Kelly – Every Day Is Night

Michael Kelly – CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown

CONTENT WARNING: This show covers topics such as suicide, bullying, depression & isolation to name a few and as such we will also be discussing these on the pod itself throughout. We believe Wonder Egg is an overall positive show but please be careful if any of the above may be uncomfortable or sensitive for you.

New year, same old Deshou! We're back ladies, gentlemen and enbies with Stream of Thought, our free podcast that's available for everyone and anyone! 2021 is off to a start of sorts, but no one can deny the current crop of anime we're getting is mostly strong, and we're kickstarting the year by tackling the show that's gathering so much attention in anime circles; Wonder Egg Priority!

Join Shadon and The Subtle Doctor as they answer Patron questions and tackle topics like comparisons to Ikuhara's body of work, the ethics of creating fiction around the suffering of children, the visual metaphors behind the show's depiction of bullying, discussion of systemic critiques and desperate, flailing attempts to not make egg puns!

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Musical Credits:

Bliss - Muse
How D'ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning? - Dean Martin & Helen O'Connell
CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown - Michael Kelly

Stream of Thought is Warui Deshou's mainline anime coverage series and is available to everyone and anyone. Enjoy!

It's Doc's first patron request audio essay! And...it's become a  multi-part series! In setting out to review Kino's Journey, Doc realized  there was so much in the very first episode, that he had to make a  thing about just that. At the time, he had Evangelion on the brain as  well, and this is the result!

Special thanks to Emily for requesting Kino's Journey for me to review via Patreon.

Music: 
Michael Kelly 
Nihilore

Join The Subtle Doctor and Shadon as they discuss Episodes 5, 6 & 7  and topics such as the potential gender stereotypes at play, episode  structures and patterns, dated comedy, pacing, harems and many, many  headcanons of Rikuo getting murdered!

Second Stream episodes are behind a one-week embargo for free listeners. To get the most current episodes, head over to our Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:
The Immediate Task - Peculate
Michael Kelly/Garoad - Calicomp V1.1 Shutdown

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!

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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!

Unfortunately Shadon was exiled to SPREADSHEET HELL the week this aired  so he was unable to participate in sending off the first season of this  incredible show, but thankfully help was at hand from the esteemed Marc of Oh No! Anime! Join Doc and Marc as they discuss the final four  episodes of Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju and what makes the work overall  so special!

Support Warui Deshou at: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:

Casiopea - Take Me
Debut - Final Fantasy VII OST by Nobuo Uematsu

What do we even say about this episode? It felt lazy and frustrated us a  lot. I think we are supposed to feel something for Sherlock and Watson,  but the show hasn't pushed us to emotionally invest in those  characters.

This episode is a Patron Unlock! Our patreon supporters are given  early  access to these episodes. If you'd like to experience them when  they are  at their freshest, use the link above to become a patreon  supporter.

Support us on Patreon @ https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:
Susie The Cat Boss by Checkie Brown

Join Shads (and not The Subtle Doctor) as he rounds out the  Vivy discussion with Episodes 12 & 13 and begs to know why sci-fi  anime refuse to stick the landing. Covered in this 45 minute rant  include topics such as the post credits scene with Short Hair Vivy, the  weak textual support for the Archive's motivation, Elizabeth's  perfunctory inclusion in the closing episodes, technological  conservatism and the one good bit where Vivy gets to sing to conclude  her journey. 

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music Credits:

Terminator 2 Theme - Brad Fiedel
Silent Hacker - Walkure
Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown - VA-11 HALL-A OST by Michael Kelly

CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of suicide, bullying, rape, false rape accusations, depression, isolation, etc.

A lot can happen in 3 months. Or perhaps very little at all.

Join Shadon and Doc as they cover the much maligned special finale of Wonder Egg Priority and plunge head first into topics such as the continual blight of poor, exploitative production practices, Sawaki's revelation about Koito that does to the show what the Hindenburg did to the viability of hydrogen blimps, Neiru apparently being an AI now(?) and other terrible, terrible moments. If you've watched the actual episode itself, I'm so, so sorry. Patron questions are also answered and brain cells die en masse trying to figure out the why and how of this twenty car pile up of a bonus episode.

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Musical Credits:

Bliss - Muse
How D'ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning? - Dean Martin & Helen O'Connell
CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown - Michael Kelly

Join Shads and The Subtle Doctor as they cover Episodes 6, 7 & 8 and  dive head first into topics such as Saeki's thoughtless and reckless  sacrifice of K-5, the conflict between spectacle and substance when it  comes to action, sly digs at playwright John Marston, the difficulty of  putting a fresh spin on stories about AI and more!

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music Credits:

Terminator 2 Theme - Brad Fiedel
Silent Hacker - Walkure
Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown - VA-11 HALL-A OST by Michael Kelly

Stream of Thought is going less than live for the time being but that doesn't mean we don't have things to talk about! Join The Subtle Doctor and Shadon as they tackle the new Dai Sato anime Listeners and cover topics like artistic movements, mindless fandom, CG mech fights and spooky toilets!

Stream of Thought is Warui  Deshou’s “episodic blog,” our takes on currently airing shows as they  air, one episode at a time.

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Musical Credits:  Inhale/Exhale by Tendinite

CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown by Garoad

Join Shadon & The Subtle Doctor as we give plot synopses and analyses of the next three episodes of Brand New Animal and discuss things like Shadon's controversial take on BNA's depiction of minorities, Michiru's emotional journey, Powerpoint exposition and more!

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Links:
Otaquest Yoh Yoshinari Interview
Otaquest Kazuki Nakashima Interview
Genice Chan website

Musical Credits:

Hungry Like The Wolf - Duran Duran
mirage - Mitch Murder

Featuring audio from Red Dwarf.

Stream of Thought is going less than live for the time being but that doesn't mean we don't have things to talk about! Join The Subtle Doctor and Shadon as they tackle the new Dai Sato anime Listeners and cover topics like comedic beats, show identity and presentation, Eureka 7 comparisons and shameless musical puns!

Stream of Thought is Warui  Deshou’s “episodic blog,” our takes on currently airing shows as they  air, one episode at a time.

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Musical Credits:

Inhale/Exhale by Tendinite

CALICOMP 1.1 Shutdown by Garoad

Second Stream is back for Summer 2020, i.e. The Cursed Year, but there's  nothing cursed so far about surprise hit DECA-DENCE! Join Shadon and The  Subtle Doctor on a journey through the shocking second episode twist in  this show along with discussion of anti-capitalist themes, free will,  and Natsume being the new Imperator Furiosa!

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou 

Music:
A Kiss To Build A Dream On - Louis Armstrong
Mindfields - The Prodigy

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"

Over here at Warui Deshou our barely organised and functional enterprise  disguised as a high functioning podcast sometimes finds itself with  spare time to cover a show, movie or other thing that we really want to  talk about but otherwise lack the opportunity to do so. This is one such  time as we dig into the Mobile Suit Gundam 10th Anniversary OVA: War In  The Pocket!

Join Doc, Shads and returning special guest Alex  Smit as they discuss various topics like War in the Pocket's criticism  of unfettered consumption of violent media, the privilege of first world  children in not knowing the horrors of war, comparisons to old soap  operas, questionable hamburger metaphors, world building, the  perspectives of someone new to Gundam versus those familiar with it, and  more!

Support Warui Deshou: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:

Full House Opening Theme "Everywhere You Look" - Jesse Frederick
Nazi Punks Fuck Off - Dead Kennedys
Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown - Michael Kelly

This week Shadon and The Subtle Doctor cover topics such as aspect  ratios, Seigi once again being a complete dork, the value we attach to  things and objects, and BLACK SUGAR.

Second Stream public releases are delayed by one week/episode. To  hear  the podcasts as they air, concurrent with the newest anime episode,   become a Tier Bando patron over at our patreon!

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou.

Music:

Big Blue Diamonds - Little Willie John

Join The Subtle Doctor and Shadon as they discuss Episode 4 and cover  topics like the grieving process, Rikuo getting his eyes pecked out by  Haru's crow, emulation of siblings while growing up, dramatic staging,  panelling and safety clip earrings!

Second Stream episodes are behind a one-week embargo for free listeners. To get the most current episodes, head over to our Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:
The Immediate Task - Peculate
Michael Kelly/Garoad - Calicomp V1.1 Shutdown

This week Shadon and The Subtle Doctor cover topics such as the concept  of queerbaiting, what the Jade of the episode really is, royal milk tea  sweets and the value of money versus the value of memories!

Support Warui Deshou on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/waruideshou

Music:

Big Blue Diamonds - Little Willie John