Taiiku Podcast

My preamble to Helen's write up below is that it is MLB opening day and that I did not forget we were recording an episode, I forgot it was Wednesday at all. Soooo, Kory forgot we were recording an episode (and moved so his computer is in pieces)! So it's only Helen (me) and Apyrll doing a short podcast duet while talking about Sexiled: My Sexist Party Leader Kicked Me Out, So I Teamed Up With a M...

It's spring training right now, people are getting vaccinated, states are lifting mask mandates, and at least the Texas Rangers are planning for full capacity fans in stands for opening day, but not the subsequent games, as if people are somehow immune during opening day. Fewer white men should be in charge of health decisions for what is ultimately the entire country, even in the micro of the Ran...

Apologies for my audio issues this episode. Skype decided to reset every setting I had ever set it to, and then when I changed them, I did not restart my recording app, which just remembers the first thing I selected, but does not update to every subsequent thing I entered. I cleaned up some background noise that was going on as a result of me having to really crank up my own audio to make it audi...

I didn't know if I'd be excited for baseball season when it came along, but here we are at spring training and I am very excited despite a two-time drunk driver at the helm for the White Sox and the Mariners former president and CEO spouting what I assume all or most baseball CEOs believe about their players of color. MLB sucks, but baseball is great. This episode, we talk about Satsuki Yoshino's...

I've vacillated between some Premier League teams in an attempt to pick one to become a fan of, but at some turn, each of them just feel like they're going to be another Bears or White Sox or LAFC or Clippers. Is this all sports? Anyway. This episode, we're starting our very exciting new project, going through the filmography of David Lynch! Chris ( @gokuffy ), Chris ( @antoniuspius ), and I start...

I don't know if I've written this before, but follow both the White Sox and the OG favorite baseball team and the Dodgers as the local favorite baseball team and now the Padres as a lowkey third baseball team is just extremely wild. Watching a relatively successful White Sox team now decide to do basically nothing besides sign a closer replacement that is only going to be a marginal improvement ov...

The Chicago Bears are not a good football team. They got to a Super Bowl in one of the first years of my fandom and it has been largely downhill since, besides a few Jay Cutler years. Mitch Trubisky over Deshaun Watson and Patrick Mahomes? We're back with one of our favorite episodes of the year! Chris ( @gokuffy ) joins me as always, with special guests Helen ( @WanderinDreamr ), Patz ( @PatzPrim...

We have merch! If you like our podcast and want shirts, stickers, or a few other things with the logo on it, find our store on Tee Public . This episode, we're doing a dive into Aki Irie's manga! First up is Ran and the Gray World published by Viz. And, for our continuing series, Go with the Clouds, North-by-Northwest published by Vertical. The song you heard in the episode is " Human " by Of Mons...

Have a happy holiday everyone. Stay safe, wear a mask, and see you all in 2021. This episode, Chris ( @gokuffy ) and Pat ( @PatzPrime ) join me do the annual Anime Secret Santa project! Thanks to All Geeks Considered for organizing, thanks to Reverse Thieves for originating, and thanks to Vinnie and Diego for doing all the leg work. Listen Show notes: 0:30 - Chris talks about Mai Mai Miracle! 16:2...

Basketball is starting back up, but it feels like it just ended. The pandemic has messed with a bunch of stuff, but maybe most of all, the continuation of sports has given some the false sense that other things can go on as normal as COVID rages through some locker rooms, even with their "protections." Sports, sadly, should probably not be happening at all until this pandemic is over or numbers in...

Basketball is coming back, and I cannot wait to be disappointed by yet another team I have picked up. I didn't choose the Bears or White Sox, but I definitely chose yet another cursed franchise in the Clippers. Why. This episode, we're talking about Io Sakisaka's Ao Haru Ride published by Viz. The song you heard in the episode is "Sekai wa Koi ni Ochiteiru" by CHiCO with HoneyWorks. As always, you...

The Dodgers won the World Series, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the presidency, the Miami Marlins hired an Asian-American woman as their GM, and we are finally back after a long and unintentional hiatus to talk about more Tite Kubo. This episode, we're talking about Tite Kubo's Bleach published by Viz Media and Izumi Mitsu's Magus of the Library published by Kodansha. The song you heard in the e...

Go vote. This episode, we're closing out our series reviewing every Akira Kurosawa movie ever! It's been a long journey and I can say with absolute certainty that Kurosawa will always be one of my favorite directors who will have always directed some of my favorite movies. I have two movie posters sitting next to me as I write this; the first is one of Mondo's Back to the Future posters by George...

I don't know what baseball is anymore. This episode, we're talking about Tite Kubo's Burn the Witch and Gege Akutami's Jujutsu Kaisen, both published by Viz. And legal to read for minimal cost on the Shonen Jump app! The music your heard in this episode was "Kaikai Kitan" by Eve from the Jujutsu Kaisen anime. As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK , and my co-hosts Helen ( @WanderinD...

RIP Eddie Van Halen, who was Asian. This episode, Chris ( @gokuffy ), Chris ( @antoniuspius ), and I talk about Kurosawa's penultimate film, Rhapsody in August! Then Helen ( @WanderinDreamr ) and I talk about Moon Land! You can read it for free and legally at Manga Plus . Listen to that other Manga Plus sampler podcast from Manga In Your Ears over here . Listen Show notes: 0:30 - Chris, Chris, and...

Since the last podcast and this podcast, the Chicago White Sox have gotten into the playoffs for the first time since 2008, and subsequently lost two games in a row to the Oakland Athletics after wining game one, and are now out of the playoffs. At least we'll always have those literal six perfect innings from Giolito. This episode, we're talking about Taiyo Matsumoto's Ping Pong and Naoki Urasawa...

I have been a fan of LAFC since 2018, about six games in when I decided that I wanted to jump into a new club basically from the ground floor. And now I'm jumping into the Premier League. I will be accepting any lobbying for your team to me. This episode, we're talking about CLAMP's Clover published by Kodansha (formerly Tokyopop and Dark Horse). Then Kaori Tsurutani's BL Metamorphosis published b...

College football recently started up, evidenced by my sports twitter feed and the start and end notifications I got on my phone. And college athletes really need a union or something similar so they can protect themselves from million or billion dollar industries that are profiting off the free labor of college students. They have no business playing in the middle of a pandemic when they are not p...

The Clippers lost a game they should have won against the Denver Nuggets, because they seem to have given up in the third and fourth quarters defensively, and offensive bounces weren't going their way. Here's to a Sunday win. This episode, I have a special guest, Randy ( @ChandyRan ) with me to talk about Boom Studios' Mighty Morphin Power Rangers comic! The creative team for these comics include...

I have no idea why White Sox games are always like 4+ hours long, but they've been winning a lot. They're 24-15 currently, and atop the AL Central alone, above the Twins and Cleveland. And, while baseball is played, I will enjoy the heck out of this (even if they really shouldn't be playing as they should). This episode, Chris ( @gokuffy ), Chris ( @antoniuspius ), and I talk about Kurosawa's four...

We, as a country, do not deserve sports until this virus is under control. We, as a country, do not deserve sports until police stop killing people, especially Black people, under the guise of feeling threatened. Defund the police. This episode, we're talking about Ryoko Kui's Seven Little Sons of the Dragon, and Mochinchi (story) and Yasuhiro Miyama's (art) Witch's Printing Office, both published...

The White Sox chased away the first of the Detroit Tigers' hopeful new tandem of pitching aces, Tarik Skubal, a bit ago as I write this. And tomorrow, they get the next in Casey Mize. I'm very excited(?) to watch the White Sox trying in futility to hit both of these top prospects. This episode, our 69th (nice), Pat and Grant join me to talk about One Piece, from Impel Down – Paramount War (or Mari...

Clippers won their first game of the playoffs, and I am extremely here for Clippers playoff basketball, but especially those Kawhi 4 Bounces shoes. This episode, we're talking about Kaiu Shirai (writer) and Posuka Demizu's (art) The Promised Neverland in a SPOILERCAST, published by Viz. Then we talk about Kata Konayama's Love me for who I am, published by Seven Seas! You can listen to the previous...

The White Sox need arms, but the White Sox have bats. Nothing will save MLB from itself, but while baseball is here, the White Sox are winning, and I am here for it. Chris ( @gokuffy ), Chris ( @antoniuspius ), and I are getting to the end of Kurosawa's catalogue, as we talk about his last(?) samurai epic, Ran! Then, Chris, Vinnie ( @VinnieAveAGC ), and Jared ( @JLayneNelson ) join me to talk abou...

Edit: So it came out soon after we recorded and released this episode that the writer for Act Age, Tatsuya Matsuki, is not someone we should have ever been talking about because of "indecent acts," as the ANN article very generously put it. He was groping at least one middle school student, which is very obviously disgusting. We would not have ever talked about Act Age had this come out before the...