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“Historical” Anime or “Historical” Fan Fiction?
Talking Points: History, Who writes history?, Speculative Historical fiction, Historians and historical accounts, The inherent fiction of history, bias. Anime Mentione...
The Concept of Pain
Gian starts this round wanting to talk about how pain is represented conceptually in anime. He draws inspiration from Kiznaiver, an anime in which kids are forcibly co...
Science Fiction: The Future Is Anime
Josué brings up the topic of Science Fiction and Gian discovers how much he loves science fiction. Each of them takes turns talking about their favorite science fic...
Judgment: Ethical and otherwise
Gian brought the topic of Judgment using the anime “Death Parade” to illustrate how difficult it is to impose judgments on others. The conversation moves across vario...
Death & The Afterlives
Gian and Josué talk about death & the afterlives using Dragon Ball Z as illustration. What happens after we die? The question yields more questions than answers. The ...
Deafness, Accessibility, and Language
Round #3: Gian chooses to talk about Language, Accessibility of Language and Deafness using the 2016 Kyoto Animation movie, A Silent Voice. He is quickly taken aback ...
Cultural Exchange & Global Anime Culture
Round #2: Josué presents the topic of Japanese Culture and how anime functions (and sometimes fails to function) as a window into a culture that we would otherwise hav...
Presenting Otaku Ryōhō!
Round #1: Welcome to the Otaku Ryōhō Podcast! A podcast where we talk about psychological themes using anime as illustration. In this episode, Josué and Gian introduc...