I'M SO POPULAR

Discussing the Ryan Murphy produced MONSTER: THE ED GEIN STORY (2025年) + Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO (1960年) + Polio Addison Rae + "gynephilism" + true crime + horror and phalluses. Join us on Patreon.com/imsopopular for the full episode and access to the book club, discord and more.

Inaugurating the Halloween season, we're talking about Bloober Team's 2024 remake of horror masterpiece SILENT HILL 2 + otherworlds and American rot + latent sexual impulses + grief and violence + video games as art. Full quality episode available only on Patreon: patreon.com/imsopopular

erotica THE GREAT MIRROR OF MALE LOVE 男色大鏡 (1687年) + the ethereal world of desire and pleasure + sexual roles across the great scope of history + gently falling cherry blossoms and the melancholic impermanence of all things. Only for patrons: patreon.com/imsopopular

* HQ episode available only for patrons at patreon.com/imsopopular * Maggie and Chi Chi discuss the perverse gender inverted world of Japanese samurai history by way of Yaoi excess: Yoshinaga Fumi’s OOKU 大奥.

* HQ Episode available only for Patrons at Patreon.com/comsopopular * We discuss Utada Hikaru’s tremendous and heartbreaking comeback record FANTÔME (2016年) + the career of her late mother, classic Japanese Enka singer FUJI KEIKO.

We discuss the diabolical filmography of JANE SCHOENBRUN: I SAW THE TV GLOW (2024年) + WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR (2021年) + A SELF-INDUCED HALLUCINATION (2018年). Full episode only for Patrons: patreon.com/imsopopular

We’re joined by Maggie’s very own ex-girlfriend to discuss the state of open relationships, polyamory, artificial insemination and the future of sexuality with a review of the most shocking Japanese novel this century: Murata Sayaka’s VANISHING WORLD 消滅世界 (2015年). For the full shocking episode, join us at patreon.com/imsopopular

Discussing the seminal David Lynch film BLUE VELVET (1986年), For the full quality version of this episode + the shady take down of THOT TOPICS join us at patreon.com/imsopopular

Discussing Vladimir Nabokov’s masterpiece of perversion and English letters LOLITA (1955年) + Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of the same name LOLITA (1962年). Full episode only for patrons at patreon.com/imsopopular

High quality version available only for patrons. Bidding goodbye to my first home in Tokyo, Shinjuku Ward, with a discussing legendary Japanese singer-songwriter SHEENA RINGO 椎名 林檎 (1978年〜) + her first three albums MUZAI MORATORIUM 無罪モラトリアム (1999年) SHOSO STRIP 勝訴ストリップ (2000年) + KALK SAMEN KURI NO HANA 加爾基精液栗ノ花 (2003年). Join us for the paywalled SIRENS series and Pat...

Jack Mason from The Perfume Nationalist podcast joins to discuss the new Lena Dunham created Netflix series TOO MUCH (2025年). Full episode only for subscribers: patreon.com/imsopopular

It’s the classic ISP birthday special: birthday twin Natalie joins to celebrate the closing of another year on planet Earth as Zach turns twenty nine and Natalie hits thirty. Join us on the Patreon for more: patreon.com/imsopopular

A live recording of the I’M SO POPULAR FIFTH ANNIVERSARY PARTY from Koenji, Tokyo, Japan.

Ending the endless time loops of Evangelion, Maggie returns to celebrate the fifth anniversary of ISP with a discussion of the REBUILD OF EVANGELION film franchise: EVANGELION 1.0 YOU ARE (NOT) ALONE ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:序 [2007年] + EVANGELION 2.0 YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:破 [2009年] + EVANGELION 3.0 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:Q [2023年] + EVANGELION 3....

Continuing our month long celebration of ISP’s fifth anniversary, Deniz joins to discuss one of the best films ever made: THE END OF EVANGELION (1997年) + its experimental prelude EVANGELION DEATH [TRUE]² (1997年). Find Deniz at his blog: falions.net And for the HQ version of this episode plus a steamy Gundam discussion, join us at patreon.com/imsopopular (ISP S5.E34)

To celebrate the fifth anniversary of I'M SO POPULAR, Russian genius Sascha Amato joins to revisit the most important anime of all time: NEON GENESIS EVANGELION + its manga adaptation. For the HQ version of this episode and a riveting episode of the other world bonus program SIRENS where we review Squid Game Season 3, join us on patreon: patreon.com/imsopopular (ISP S5.E33)

Discussing the seminal anime adaptation of HIGURASHI: WHEN THEY CRY ひぐらしのなく頃に by 07th Expansion + contesting with fate and will + friendship and love in the tragedy of an ill-fated and never-ending June… Full episode only available for patrons. patreon.com/imsopopular

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Discussing Mishima Yukio’s THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA 午後の曳航 (1963) + the pinku eiga gay pornographic parody of his life BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY 巨根伝説 美しき謎 (1983) + intellect vs. corporeality + sex over politics + romance in the face of philosophy. For the full episode, please join us at patreon.com/imsopopular

We discuss the iconic films CRAZED FRUIT (1956) and SEASON OF THE SUN (1956) from the Japanese Sun Tribe movement: postwar nihilist youths dressed in aloha shirts and fighting to the death with boats over women. Beautiful male chests, cuckoldry anxiety, ultranationalism and hot young lust. For the juicy SIRENS bonus show follow ISP on paatreon.com/imsopopular ISP S5.E29

Inaugurating the official start to a very I'M SO POPULAR summer, I'm discussing the debut album by Addison Rae ADDISON (2025) + Stephen King's IT (1986) + the loss of innocence + sex as a rite of passage + fame and TikTok. For the full episode, join us at patreon.com/imsopopular

Following Maggie’s recent travels to Bejing China, we discuss THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA at large, its scope and influence and uncanny vision of a globalist future + the 1996 Chinese gay romance EAST PALACE WEST PALACE + the troubling art world of boomer activist/reguee life jacket stylist AI WEIWEI. For the high quality version of this episode + a juicy SIRENS bonus show follow ISP on paatreo...

*ONLY FOR PATRONS* Full episode available at patreon.com/imsopopular Chi Chi presents two numbered lists of intriguing topics, ranking my top ten most listened to artists and the ten most obscure films I’ve ever seen. Follow ISP on… TIKTOK?! tiktok.com/imsopopularpod

Discussing Orson Welles’ CITIZEN KANE (1941年) + John Waters’ A DIRTY SHAME (2004年) + the doomed world of language + hedonistic catharsis + the asexual regime queerness + the legacy of Patricia Hearst across a century of film. ISP S5.E26 Join us on SIRENS for this week's bonus episode: patreon.com/imsopopular

Discussing the abduction of PATTY HEARST + Paul Schrader’s biopic of her life in hostage, PATTY HEARST (1988年) + surviving radical politics + the will to live + iconography of a girl in crisis. For my review of the new Pinkpanthress album + Luca Gaudagnino's film Queer, join us on Sirens at patreon.com/imsopopular (ISP S5.E25)