Chatty AF 188: 2023 Spring Wrap-Up
Vrai, Alex, and Peter (with a guest appearance by Toni) try to cover the wealth of excellent titles in the 2023 Spring season!
Note: During this episode Vrai mistakenly attributes Yurikuma Arashi (2015) as having been partly inspired by the 1995 sarin gas attacks; the series that pulled inspiration from that event was Penguindrum (2011). We regret the error.
Episode Information
Date Recorded: July 22nd 2023
Hosts: Vrai, Alex, Peter
Episode Breakdown
0:00:00 Intros/Content warning
Yellow Flags
0:03:25 Tengoku Daimakyou (Heavenly Delusion)
0:11:32 My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lvl999
0:14:33 Dead Mount Death Play
0:17:38 The Dangers in My Heart
Neutral Zone
0:20:58 Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion
0:24:19 Otaku Elf
0:29:11 Hell’s Paradise
It’s Complicated
0:36:32 Oshi no Ko
0:48:08 Insomniacs After School
Feminist Potential
0:52:34 Yuri is My Job!
0:55:44 Skip and Loafer
Sequels & Carryovers
1:00:53 The Ancient Magus’ Bride Season 2
1:04:34 Birdie Wing: Girls’ Golf Story
1:08:27 Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
1:11:50 Tokyo Mew Mew New
1:15:15 VINLAND SAGA Season 2
1:20:45 Outro
Further Reading
2023 Spring Premiere Digest
2023 Spring Three-Episode Check-In
2023 Spring Mid-Season Check-In
Yuri is My Job! Retrospective
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Catching Up with Voice Actor Marisa Duran
One of our very favorite people in the whole world is Marisa Duran, a voice actor who burst onto the anime dub scene in 2021 as the voice of Kyouko Hori in Horimiya and has continued to land roles in popular and acclaimed series like Hell’s Paradise (Sagiri), Remake Our Life (Eiko), and Shadows House (Lou/Louise).
This past weekend, we found a chance to catch up with Marisa at Anime Frontier, where she was attending as a guest. We chatted* about her work this past year, holiday plans, and of course, Horimiya!
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Twwk: As the year draws to an end, what are the highlights of 2023 for you?
Marisa: Oh my gosh, 2023 was so good to me! I had like a shonen protagonist role on my bucket list, which I always imagined would be a young boy, for some reason. But then I got an email that said, “Hey, Mike McFarland is interested in casting you as Sagiri in Hell’s Paradise,” and I was like, what?! So that was a huge blessing.
And then even just attending conventions, actually, was something that I guess was a goal I didn’t even realize. I know so many people kind of set out with that in mind—the financial aspect of it and how beneficial that is. But for me, I always set out with the expectation of just wanting to connect with people. And so the financial aspect of it has definitely been helpful, but just having the chance to connect with fans in person and hearing what these stories mean to them has been an incredible blessing.
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I've got three pieces in the Fall 2023 issue of Otaku USA Magazine! Hit my blog to read up on this issue's contributions, and find out where to get a copy:
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there's something about finding itabeya photos from 2009 and doing a barebones search into the original uploaders just to see recent uploads showing that they still have their entire original collections that just makes me really happy.
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Been on artblock since the year has started, not very proud of this
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Day 4 of Otakutober: Gorror Story - Different kinds of Gore in Anime
Hello everyone, together Luna and I will be combining our efforts to talk about Gore in Anime! In this post, we will be talking about different styles and interpretations of gore that you’ll find in Anime these days and how some might not be the traditional buckets of blood you’d expect from gore, they are just as disturbing and traumatic.
Hash n’ slash
This is the genre of gore that most anime…
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First Impression: Hell’s Paradise
It’s feudal Japan and a man is about to be parted from his head. As the executioner raises his blade high, a narrator informs us just how difficult it is to behead a man, and just how ugly this is likely to get before the deed is finally done. But as the sword-bearer hacks away, something strange happens: the blade breaks and the supposedly dead man sighs in defeat. He just can’t seem to manage to die. Woe is he! What follows is a montage of attempted executions to rival a certain Boney M. song, none of which are successful. Our protagonist—because that’s the only thing he can be after having survived burning at the stake, being ripped apart by bulls (the poor bulls look the worse for wear after that one!), and boiling alive in oil—is looking weary as the death that he claims to long for, even as it continues to elude him. But does he really want to die? Like, really really? A mysterious lady scholar questions his adamant insistence that he has no ties to this world, nothing to keep that spark of hope alive in him, taking note of his every word as she interviews him in between execution attempts. Gabimaru insists that he is hollow inside—his name even proclaims it! But when he finally faces an executioner up to the task of taking his life, a daughter of Yamada Asaemon clan whose skill with the sword is unparalleled, will his story change? And wait, what’s that? An invitation to give up on trying to die and instead compete with other criminals to attain the Elixir of Life? Cool!
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