Taiiku Podcast

Club Dub is back, but should it be? The Bears are reeling, and Matt Nagy is too set in his ways to adapt the offense to Mitch Trubisky's strengths. Meanwhile, Lamar Jackson, a person with similar skill sets and limitations, is an MVP candidate. Anyway, we're back with a November episode! First up, an emergency replacement for High and Low where Chris (@gokuffy) and I talk about Werner Herzog's Nos...

Per Helen...The Washington Nationals are World Series champions! I personally couldn't root for them during the NLCS, having defeated the Dodgers in a full NLDS, but they put the Cardinals to rest in a short four games and then faced the biggest villains of them all, toxic masculinity—I mean the Houston Astros. And they were defeated, thus finally given them their just dues. Between the NHL Capita...

I'm not sure if Trubisky and Nagy are the answer. Trubisky is, by all indications, a quarterback who will probably not lose you the game if the playcalling is good. But here we are with 50+ attempts and fewer than 10 rushing attempts. What even is this team. It's October, and that means its time for nothing Halloween related on the Taiiku Podcast. I have planned this poorly. But we do have hashtag...

It's playoff time for a lot of things! LAFC has the first round bye in MLS, the Chicago Red Stars just won their semifinal match in NWSL, and nothing is good about baseball. Also basketball is about to start again, and I'm looking forward to jumping onto the Clippers x Kawhi bandwagon. Also, and I can't believe we're already here, but this is our 50th episode! I want to thank everyone for listenin...

Playoff baseball is here, and I couldn't be more pleased. I can finally watch Dodger baseball without going to Dodger Stadium! Sports blackout rules are dumb. This episode, we're talking about CLAMP's Legal Drug published by Dark Horse and Mari Okada (writer) and Nao Emoto's (illustrator) O Maidens in Your Savage Season published by Kodansha. The song you heard at the beginning of the episode was...

The history of girls baseball in Japan is just fascinating to me, and I want to watch any of it at length, but don't know how to. I talked about it briefly in the Cinderella Nine episode , but now that I know this, I just can't get it out of my head. Anyway, a little late September podcast in October for everyone...We're talking about two very exciting things this episode. First, continuing our Ku...

Forgot to write a whole thing until I was already done, so just here to say the Bears squeaked by in a game they should have lost and the White Sox season means NOTHING. Also looking forward to following the Clippers for the first time ever. This episode, we get closer and closer to the New World, first finishing off Thriller Bark, then arriving on the Sabaody Archipelago, and finally landing on A...

College football is back, and NFL football is about to be back, and while I have just about every problem one could have with a particular organization, I still love football as a sport. They just need to...make it safer. Anyway, Iowa State grabbed their first win against fellow statesmen UNI in a thriller, so I'm glad for the distraction from White Sox baseball. This episode, we're talking about...

Helen here; in hindsight it may not have been such a good idea to read three, long manga series back to back to back for this show but in my defense, I actually approached Dee about doing this episode a year ago and then graduate school kicked my ass! What the hell grad school!! In any case, Pandora Hearts is rad y'all and could some con in the the U.S. please please PLEASE bring MochiJun over as...

I've been to Wrigley, Guaranteed Rate, Angel Stadium, Nationals Park, and Dodger Stadium this year, and it's back to Angel Stadium again today to see the White Sox. Here's to Giolito. Also the monthly Ivan Nova update: He now has a 103 ERA+. Asian August forever! And Chris (@gokuffy) and I continue our Kurosawa series with The Bad Sleep Well, then talk about sports manga with Kuroko's Basketball....

I usually reserve this space for my random ramblings about sports, but sports is pretty sad right now until my old flame the Chicago Bears start up, or until my new flame the Los Angeles Clippers start up. So I'll just drop in that I contributed to the OASG's AX, SDCC, and Otakon licensing round up , and you should check that out. This episode, we're talking about Yuhki Kamatani's Our Dreams at Du...

It's the G1 Climax, which means I'm watching a lot of wrestling and, relevant to this episode, seeing a lot of buff dudes that are definitely into each other. Go Sanada and ZSJ. This episode, we're talking about Hiromi Takashima's Kase-san published by Seven Seas and Gengoroh Tagame's My Brother's Husband published by Pantheon. The song you heard at the top of the episode is "Asu e no Tobira" by M...

The White Sox just got swept by the A's, and the Royals traded Homer Bailey for another potentially major league player. Ivan Nova has an 82 ERA+. We're back on a schedule! That's right, we're making episodes on some sort of regular interval with a Kurosawa movie and a sports anime or manga. Look at us being professional. First up, Chris ( @gokuffy ), Chris ( @antoniuspius ), and I talk about Kuro...

We broke some walls in this episode, one of them may have been the fourth. I'll leave it in, to Chris's chagrin. Speaking of Chris ( @gokuffy ), we're still on the Kurosawa train with The Lower Depths. Then we talk about the not-so-recently ended Tsurune. This should have been the May episode, and now I am also caught up (and behind) with Taiiku episodes, praise the sun. Listen Show notes: 0:30 -...

I probably won't release this before Dylan Cease is brought up by the White Sox to start the first game of a double header, but that is a future event as I type this. All I can hope is that it's not rained out like today's game (which now precisely dates when I'm writing this), nor like Michael Kopech's first starts. We're back on the Kurosawa train with Chris ( @gokuffy ) joining me to talk about...

It's June as I type this, which is the perfect time to relitigate our favorite movies of 2018, I think. Asian August bleeds into Asian June. This episode, we're covering our top movies yet again! This time of the previous year, that is 2018. Joining me are the usual suspects: Chris ( @gokuffy ), Camellia ( @wildpomme ), and Corey ( @Modandrocker ). It's almost four hours of fun. This should have b...

The Women's World Cup is going on, which is about the only time I am openly supportive of US sports, because the women's national team is so good. And also the KFA blew it with some legitimate talent on their squad... This episode, we're talking about Kou Yaginuma's Twin Spica published by Vertical and Hiroyuki Asada's Pez published by Denpa. The song you heard at the top of the episode is "Feel s...

The NBA draft was yesterday as I type this, and while I have no true team beyond the Iowa State Cyclones, I do have favorite players. and I support all Cyclones on their endeavors in the NBA. Now with LeBron, AD, and THT in LA, maybe I'll go see a game. This episode, we're talking about Hiroyuki Asada's Tegami Bachi published by Viz Media and Nemu Yoko's Delinquent Housewife published by Vertical...

The joy was short lived, the White Sox dropped the next day's game against the Cubs behind the worst game in a while for Lucas Giolito. Sports is rough. This episode, we continue our journey across the Grand Line with the Skypiea through the Thriller Bark arc of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece published by Viz. The song you heard at the top of the episode was "Kokoro no Chizu" by BOYSTYLE, and the song y...

The White Sox win at Wrigley Field behind Eloy Jimenez's two-run home run in the top of the ninth, and that's all I'm really thinking about right now. Also Zeno from Yona of the Dawn, coming sometime to Manga In Your Ears. This episode, we're revisiting Natsuki Takaya's Fruits Basket published by Yen Press and Taku Kuwabara's Drifting Dragons published by Kodansha. You can listen to our first Frui...

It's all about games here on the Taiiku Podcast, whether they be endgames or last games, where Chris ( @gokuffy ) and Corey ( @Modandrocker ) join me for the endgame and Chris joins me for the last game. Read Chris's excellent Marvel Cinematic Universe reviews at his Letterboxd . There's some issues with Corey's audio, and I did my best with it. But he might be a little quite or there might be som...

I tweeted earlier that all the Manga In Your Ears episodes were done and edited, then I went and recorded another one, so all but one are recorded. Also I still have three Taiiku episodes to edit, RIP me. This episode, we're talking about Beck and Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card, both published by Kodansha. The songs you heard at the beginning of the episode were "Hit in the USA" by Beat Crusaders,...

As I edit this episode, the White Sox are playing the Orioles, and it really feels like some terrible exercise in futility to root for either of these teams to win. Also I delayed on editing this long enough that I could use the actual Kimetsu no Yaiba OP! Hooray? This episode, we're talking about Hico Yamanaka's The Prince in His Dark Days published by Kodansha and Koyoharu Gotōge's Kimetsu no Ya...

As I get back to posting episodes, I can get back to randomly rambling on these posts, which I've honestly missed. I don't know who reads this or who cares, but here I am, rambling about Eloy Jimenez hitting below expectations and having bad defense. White Sox baseball looks up. This episode, we're talking about Yuki Urushibara's Mushishi and Haruko Ichikawa's Land of the Lustrous, both published...

We're back after a long absence. It feels like it's been forever, but also no time at all because I've just been recording along while the website was in stasis the whole time. Got a bit of a somewhat dated backlog to start off with, but after that, it's content as usual! This episode, we're just talking about our favorite manga of 2018! That song you heard at the top of the episode was " United S...