The Official Podcast #273: The Anime Boys

When they talk about anime more than Trash Taste does in 5 episodes, it's just hilarious.

Its cool how Charlie publicly outs his girlfriend for reading gay fanfic

20:21 To answer to that question: because Japan, basically. The average Japanese adult actually *hates* adult life and this is ingrained on a social level there. Being an adult equates reaching the lowest point of their life where there is nothing to look after. No ambitions, no goals and no time to enjoy life itself, and this is mostly their work culture's fault, where they are expected to become another cog in the machine for the rest of their life. As a result, highschool/teenage life is glorified more than in other countries, so anime capitalizes on this sentiment and make a bunch of anime tugging at the strings of teenage nostalgia and longing for those times. This goes as far back as Evangelion, perhaps even further back, so it is not exclusive to slice of life either.

I think what they're talking about is the toxicity in idol culture. Japan even made an animated film about this called "Perfect Blue".

I nearly lost it scratching my skin for my official podcast fix of the week.

The reason why Dragon Ball Super has shitty animation in the beginning was because the studio working conditions were terrible in the beginning. They basically had like 2 or 3 weeks to work on an episodes animation.

Euphoria is a High School Drama and everyone's acting like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.

as someone who actually works on a farm, I personally feel slightly alienated

I love how Kaya has a different setup every week

South Korean Cinema & TV is goated because they had little to no access to non propaganda film & TV as a whole, until the late 80s that is, where essentially the Korean public became a bunch of cinephiles after a nation wide acceptance of film. These guys were going from Taxi Driver to Terminator & then onto foreign indie films and so on. Because of this phenomenon, going from totalitarianism to instantly being able to see every movie at once allowed Korean filmmakers to be extremely diverse genre benders, and to top it off this gave them the room to conjure some extreme concepts. Korea will be a if not the capital for film and or TV one day.