Ghost Divers

0:07:26 Synopses 0:13:07 Chapter 25 discussion 1:08:04 Chapter 26 discussion 1:48:14 Chapter 27 discussion 2:27:10 Chapter 28 discussion 3:06:01 Plugs and outro 3:14:42 Post-ED chat OP: "Motor psycho" by Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her ED: "Akai ito" by Logiq Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twit...

"It felt like I was going to disappear into the 4-hour podcast..." 0:13:17 Synopses 0:26:21 Chapter 19 discussion 1:10:01 Chapter 20 discussion 1:44:21 Chapter 21 discussion 2:07:33 Chapter 22 discussion 2:40:15 Chapter 23 discussion 3:06:31 Chapter 24 discussion 3:46:10 Plugs and outro 3:58:00 Post-ED chat OP: "Hide & seek" by LOVES. ED: "A rhythm like my heartbeat&qu...

Why does Trapnest take over everything important in my life? Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan...

The hand I was holding then was the only one I wanted to hold that night… and forever... Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/...

Hey Nana... 'member when we first met? Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan...

We discuss the first volume of NANA comprising of the original one-shot stories. 0:09:39: Komatsu Nana one-shot 1:23:30: Ōsaki Nana one-shot Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Aud...

Dive into NANA ! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check o...

01:56:14: Time stamp to skip the Madoka Magica and Fate/Zero spoilers You can write into future Question Buckets at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stair...

Note: In support of the ongoing strikes in Hollywood and the guidance released by SAG-AFTRA regarding rewatch and companion podcasts, we have decided to postpone coverage of Psycho-Pass: The Movie until the strike resolves. We will be back in two weeks with the Question Bucket for Psycho-Pass instead. If you have questions for us, please email them in this week. Thank you! 00:20:38: Synopses for e...

00:23:57: Discussion for episodes 9–11 01:14:08: Discussion for episodes 12 & 13 01:53:12: Discussion for episodes 14–16 Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: expor...

00:22:41: Discussion for episodes 1–3 01:20:18: Discussion for episodes 4 & 5 02:11:26: Discussion for episodes 6–8 Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud....

Dive into Psycho-Pass ! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire...

Our bucket is overflowing with questions this week! Thank you to everyone who wrote in. We try to get right to the emails... but end up talking about overall feelings on the show for a while first... Anyway, we have a good mix of serious questions and jokey ones and have fun bouncing between discussions about the pain of childhood and jokes about Pokémon. You can write into future Question Buckets...

Topics discussed: Once again Niamh has not been able to finish the notes in time. Expect them sometime this weekend. Sorry! Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: expor...

Topics discussed: Revealed Intentions; the people making IBO love Victory Gundam ; how to say Dáinsleif; someone really needed to warn all these characters about death flagging; Iok Kujan continues to survive out of pure stupidity; Hush’s anime rival to gofer lackey arc; the Dáinsleif as an escalation of medieval warfare into modern weaponry; Gjallarhorn’s relationship to myth and history and the...

Topics discussed: Iok is a Jerid; Vidar, Gaelio, Ein, and the Norse god of vengeance; the myth of Ragnarök and its significance in Norse mythology; McGillis as a Loki; the patriarchal systems throughout the world of IBO ; sacrifice; McGillis’s promise to pass on the colonial apparatus to Orga; an appraisal of Kudelia and the limits of her ability to progress; Atra and Kudelia’s ideas around the en...

Topics discussed: Niamh’s new way of doing synopses; Julieta is the weird girl to Ple’s silly girl, cyber new type vibes all around; Montag goes masked off and just becomes McGillis; the new yakuza motherfucker; the potential identity of the mysterious masked man; the new state of the world and the lack of significant improvements in the wake of Makanai’s election; Tekkadan’s move from an oppositi...

Topics discussed: Trying to imagine the position of being completely unmoved by anything except Biscuit; spending over a half hour to synopsize three episodes; Connor figured out why he was trudging through Victory ; Victory and disgust at the Earth and the ocean; abjection around the Alaya-Vijnana system and cybernetics in general; IBO ’s belief in the transformative power of the truth and electo...

Topics discussed: An aside for a correction email; the show being cheeky with McGillis’s obvious disguise; Tekkadan’s lack of understanding of their own revolutionary impulses; the show’s nuances in presenting the difficulties of Marxist politics; the narrowness of Kudelia’s default idea of revolution; Tekkadan as revolution as action without a conceptual framework, Kudelia as revolution as a conc...

Topics discussed: Is there anything going on with Moby Dick references?; the introduction of the Turbines to further explore gender and sexuality on the show; the introduction of the various meanings of family; the harem anime providing a potential framework for Atra to reapproach the romantic tension triangle between, Mika, and Kudelia in a way that allows her to reach out to and support Kudelia;...

Topics discussed: Mikazuki is the main guy from Battles Without Honor or Humanity 2 ; Kudelia Bluth; the very first scene and the symbols of Iron, Blood, and Orphans; why people say this is the Gundam about child soldiers; how IBO engages in the language of Tomino Gundam shows but tries to translate it for a wider audience; our view of Mars; bodies in IBO ; the humanness of the design of Gundam Ba...

Dive into Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans ! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire:...

Topics discussed: The two Kino’s Journey movies; the Land of Foxes, the Normal Country*, and the Boring Country of Thematically Significant Travelers and Their Nuanced Relationship with Travel as an Institution; the many advantages of a small orange; developing a script for the poker episode of Kino’s Journey ; the superpower of Google Maps; Beast Wars ; Riku’s unlimited superpowers; the Land of A...

Topics discussed: The Individual vs. Society; Kino’s increasing meddling or involvement in the countries they visit; the optimism or pessimism in the ending of episode 8; pushing against social mores vs. outright violent resistance; the bourgeois consumption of the novel and the cutting off of the revolutionary potential of literature and criticism; solipsism; the problems of the family in liberal...

Happy New Year! We've made it another full year of the show! As with last year's special, we start with a self-indulgent look back at the past year of the podcast and rank everything we've watched. We also run tournaments for the OPs and EDs! We then have our special discussion for the year. That's right, Niamh conned Connor into reading the entirety of NANA ! We start talking about the manga at a...