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We flip-flop a bit on our promise to be the anime podcast that sticks to talking about anime, but after a while Clarissa gets us back on track by talking about 2016’s Flip Flappers, per request of our Patreon donors. See? We pay attention to those requests sometimes!
Introduction (0:00 – 46:09)
We catch up on what we’ve been up to. Daryl’s been in the “manic” phase of his manic/depressive output, having watched through multiple series and read through several volumes of manga in the last few weeks while also sinking an additional 100 hours into Nioh 2 now that it’s on PC after doing nothing at all for most of this year to date. Gerald has been streaming Death Stranding, which he declares the videogame equivalent of Pu-tan from Cromartie High School. He and Clarissa have also been getting through some current shows and rewatching some old comfort picks, which leads us to our email question regarding iyashikei (“healing”) anime. Seems to be in high demand lately, given current world events. UPDATE: Ed Chavez has contacted us to correct the vicious misinformation we have spread about him, as he has not personally played Death Stranding. He’s just heard good things and knows people who like it.
Promo: Right Stuf Anime (46:09 – 50:05)
It’s Helen McCarthy’s birthday, so check out her brand new book Leiji Matsumoto: Essays on the Manga and Anime Legend, featuring a variety of contributions from an assortment of highly qualified and intelligent folks, some of whom even listen to/have been guests on this very podcast! You can also get your preorders in for the hardcover Viz Signature edition of Fist of the North Star, and here’s hoping enough people do that Viz manages to accomplish what has never been done before and complete a physical English language release of the series! Also, a possible contender for worst overall show of the past decade, Hand Shakers, is $15. Daryl always mentally mixes up Hand Shakers with Flip Flappers. WHAT IF WE REVIEWED HAND SHAKERS, GUYS
Review: Flip Flappers (50.05 – 1:28:35)
As requested by a few of our Patreon donors, Clarissa provides an effectively spoiler-free review of one of her favorite series from late 2016…wait, 2016? It’s been nearly five years ago already?! And the director, Kiyotaka Oshiyama, hasn’t been allowed to direct anything full-length ever since? But Hand Shakers got a SEQUEL?! There’s just no justice in this world. Flip Flappers is a yuri-themed SFF series which is an increasingly rare instance of being something anime-original; that is, not adapted from any prior source material. Unfortunately, it was not particularly popular in Japan, and the US release is starting to get a bit harder to find (with the limited editions Gerald and Clarissa own being out of print), so anime-original titles remain an increased financial gamble. For now, it remains streaming on Hidive and VRV, but who knows how long that’ll last?
Thank you guys for reading my e-mail! Shame on me for forgetting Bartender. Of course, get wasted, be happy!
Surprised the Death Standing talk was more about the gameplay and not Kojima’s “writing”…
Finally the Flip Flappers Episode!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qouCwQsha3c
Worth mentioning Kiyotaka Oshiyama also contributed to a chocolate commercial. https://youtube.com/watch?v=lxw4Y8qzq4w&feature=youtu.be
Great review. I’m glad to hear you liked *Flip Flappers*. Just because of Cocona’s rabbit’s name, I ended up looking up Jakob Johan von Uexkull, who I’d never heard of, but who was an early 20th Century writer on perception in humans and animals. No connection to Jung, but it was interesting to hear about the director referencing the Japanese scholar’s book on Jungian imagery and Japanese folklore.
Also, you’re right that the limited edition set is worth it. That hardback artbook is stunning.
I wish you’d been able to shed some light on why the original writer for the series quit a little over halfway through (about where the series changed from episodic to wrapping up the overall plot). The only thing I know about it is that it happened.
My only complaint about the series was that there wasn’t enough Yayaka.
An unrelated question, but do you think Witch Hunter Robin and Ergo Proxy’s director, Shukou Murase, will ever direct a full anime ever again? I miss his……. different approach. [Shukou Murase is actually the director of the rather high-profile upcoming theatrical film, Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway’s Flash, which is currently set to be released in May this year. We probably mistakenly said Kazuhiro Furuhashi was the director of it back when we reviewed Gundam Narrative. –Daryl]
I haven’t seen either Hand Shakers or Flip Flappers and I still get them mixed up.
Kind of unrelated but… Tenet’s my second favorite movie, first being The Time Traveler’s Wife. Would love to hear both Daryl & Paul talk about ’em on GME. Great episode as usual AWO, cheers!