Backlog Dialogues

Apr 02 2025 100 ep. 79 mins 20
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Backlog Dialogues is the nerd culture podcast where we dig you out of your backlog, BEFORE it buries you. We attempt to bring a literary eye to nerd culture media, like video games, films, TV shows, and more. Think of us like a book club, but for video games and other types of media. Our second backlog-buster is: When They Cry!

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Mob Psycho 100 Minilog - Become a Good Person, That's All

Apr 02 2025 78 mins  
For our penultimate Minilog for this season, we look in to one of the most impactful stories of adolescence anime has to offer. A coming of age tale about growing to become the best person you can be, about the people that change you as you grow and that you change in turn. A tale about the changes one experiences in their body as they grow. A tale about being the most powerful psy

Higurashi When They Cry Kai - Matsuribayashi Godcast - Graduating Question [Staff Room, TIPS, Secret Fragment 52]

Mar 26 2025 54 mins  
We've made it to the end - or have we? As we explore the many facets of Matsuribayashi's post story elements, as well as the anime and manga adaptations of the work, it becomes clear that Ryukishi07 still has a bit more to say in this idealistic fantasy world of his. So join for this penultimate Godcast as we prepare for one final voyage.

Higurashi When They Cry Kai - Matsuribayashi Epiosde 7 - This Game Has No Losers [Ch 10]

Mar 19 2025 204 mins  
It's time to get extremely indulgent in the way only Ryukishi07 (and Backlog Dialogues) can get in a finale. The longest chapter in all of When They Cry, a massive epic of big goonies energy and hype. We follow the Hinamizawa School Board Game Club as they enact Operation 48 Hours, throwing Takano Miyo and the Mountain Dogs for a loop. This week on Backlog Dialogues, the Festival i

Higurashi When They Cry Kai - Matsuribayashi Episode 6 - Tomorrow Will Be A Festival [Ch 8-9]

Mar 12 2025 66 mins  
Alternate Episode Title: Furude's Eleven It's time to plan a heist! The club prepares for the fight of their lives, for the sake of Hinamizawa and everyone who lives in it! But before we can do that, a bit more movement of pieces along the game board is required. Ooishi's character arc hits its finale in one of the best scenes in all of Higurashi, and the hype builds as we go throu

Higurashi When They Cry Kai - Matsuribayashi Episode 5 - Friends, the Alexandrian Solution [Ch 6-7]

Mar 05 2025 87 mins  
Alternate Episode Title: Rika Explains it AllWe have left the realm of the gods and return to the realm of man, and we brought a really cute god with us! The club gets to know Hanyuu, and Hanyuu learns that Rika has forgotten all the stuff she needed to remember. Guess it's time to speedrun everyone's character development in this final world so that we can turn the tables on Takan

Higurashi When They Cry Kai - Matsuribayashi Episode 4 - Shifting Winds [Connecting Fragments Part 3, Ch 5]

Feb 26 2025 109 mins  
As we cross the vast seas of possibilities, the winds shift around us. Whether it is a tailwind giving us support, or a headwind buffeting us and hindering our progress, these shifting winds help determine our course, our fate. What risks we take, what chances we see, and how we sail with the wind determine our fate, and our existence. With these thoughts, we close our discussions

Higurashi When They Cry Kai - Matsuribayashi Episode 3 - Too Heavy for One Person to Carry [Connecting Fragments Part 2]

Feb 19 2025 85 mins  
As a person lives, they take on many burdens in their life. Whether it's as simple as a watermelon too big to take home on a bike, as thoughtful as a large teddy bear as a birthday present, or as complex and hindering as the weight of ones sins, that person needs to let themselves accept the help of others, for no burden is so easy that anyone can bear them alone. Unless you're Tak

Higurashi When They Cry Kai - Matsuribayashi Episode 2 - A World on the Verge of Death [Connecting Fragments Part 1]

Feb 12 2025 90 mins  
Fifty fragments lay before you. Within each, a morsel of knowledge to build the understanding needed to reach the ideal June 1983. It will be a long process to sift through them all. Which is why we need to do this in three parts. Sorry. This week, we cover the first seventeen fragments of Connecting Fragments, Ryukishi07's bizarre TIPS minigame that stands between us and the true

Higurashi When They Cry Kai - Matsuribayashi Episode 1 - A Bad Idea is Still a Good Reason [Ch 1-4]

Feb 05 2025 122 mins  
The Mastermind has been revealed, and her god complex laid bare. With her unbreakable certain willpower, she is forcing the inevitable murder of Furude Rika, and the destruction of Hinamizawa. She wants nothing more than to tear god from his throne and be revered above all else. Truly, she is a monster for the ages... right? Would it make you happier if she had a good reason? A tho

Gatchaman Crowds Minilog - Breathe Out the Bad Atmosphere

Jan 29 2025 74 mins  
We're going more obscure with this minilog as we explore the 2013 cult classic anime Gatchaman Crowds and its 2015 sequel season Gatchaman Crowds Insight. We look at this history of the Gatchaman franchise and Tatsunoko Productions in general before we start discussing this strange, political, and highly prescient twist on the Superhero story, where protagonist Hajime Ichinose sets