Feb 06 2024 82 mins 1
In this episode of ScreenTone Club Elliot and Andy dive into a double billing of intense fashionable Shoujo works by Ai Yazawa! Will they Measure Up or get marked down as Seconds?
Series Discussed: Paradise Kiss Omnibus, Neighborhood Story Omnibus Vol. 1
Assignments for next Episode: See You Tomorrow at the Food Court, Gunsmith Cats Omnibus Vol. 1
TIMECODES:
0:01:00 - Programming Update!
0:02:00 - A Double Feature on Ai Yazawa!
0:03:30 - Elliot’s Pick: Paradise Kiss
0:06:00 - “Legs for Days”
0:11:30 - The “Problem” with Isabella, Narratively
0:13:00 - The Second Series within This Series
0:16:45 - Absolute Nightmare Characters (In a Good Way?)
0:26:00 - Everyone Treading Water
0:32:45 - End-of-Series Spoiler - Skip Ahead 30 Seconds!
0:33:30 - Sex and Fucking
0:36:45 - PEAK TEENAGER
0:44:30 - “Face Tank Your Mum”
0:49:15 - “Plot Critical Auntie”
0:55:00 - “Nourishing”
0:56:30 - Andy’s Pick: Neighborhood Story
0:58:30 - “Childhood Friend Crisis”
1:10:00 - Smoking? And Drinking? In My Manga???
1:14:00 - WAAARP
1:18:30 - Remember When People Didn’t Have Mobile Phones and if You Wanted to Talk to a Friend You Had to Call Their House Phone? Wasn't That The Worst?
1:20:15 - Our Picks for Next Episode! Elliot Gets the Name of His Pick Wrong!
1:21:00 - Closedown!
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The intro music is Track 8 on Resting State by HOME, used here under the CC-BY 3.0 license.
