Get In The Mecha is officially back! In this episode I’m catching up on some of the analysis that I missed by talking about some of the sleeper hits of 2022 that I think are worth going back to. How does Tatami Time Machine Blues differ from The Tatami Galaxy? How does The Girl From The Other Side configure into the current anime landscape? What can music videos teach us about storytelling? All this and more in this episode.
Thanks so much for your patience over the first half of this year (and before that) – I’m graduating this month which means I finally have the time to produce the podcast consistently again. I can’t wait to share all of my thoughts on a regular basis like before!
This episode contains no (real) spoilers:
Timestamps (audio version):
0:00 – Intro
2:21 – Why 2022?
4:23 – Tatami Time Machine Blues
9:18 – The Girl From The Other Side
14:20 – Tangent: What Counts As ‘Anime’?
16:11 – TGFTOS Continued
17:15 – He’s Playing Our Song (and Naoko Yamada)
23:54 – Futari-bun no Shoumei
27:59 – Thunder In Bud (And Why MVs Matter)
37:14 – Credits
Works Mentioned / Referenced: How Do You Live?, Tatami Time Machine Blues, The Tatami Galaxy, The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl, Sonny Boy, The Girl From The Other Side, He’s Playing Our Song, A Silent Voice, Heike Monogatari, Garden of Remembrance, Kimi no Iro, Futari-bun no Shoumei, Thunder In Bud, Neon Genesis Evangelion
Main Artists Referenced: Shingo Natsume, Fuga Yamashiro, Moko-chan, Yutaro Kubo, Satomi Maiya, Koji Yamamura, Moe Koyano, Takuto Katayama, Naoko Yamada, Naoko Ogigami, loundraw, Suguru Asakura, que, KAF, Hakushi Hagesawa
Relevant Links:
Garden of Remembrance @ Annecy 2023
My INU-OH piece for Full Frontal
The Girl From The Other Side Anime Official Twitter
TGFTOS Storyboard Artists: Moe Koyano & Takuto Katayama
Music In This Episode:
Synth Wave by Alex by Alex McCulloch
Chill Wave by Alex McCulloch
On The Road Again by Alex McCulloch
Adventure Time Revised by Alex McCulloch
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