Ghost Divers

Mar 28 2025 129 ep. 176 mins 184

Ghost Divers Podcast artwork

Dive into the ghosts of old anime to discuss film and narrative theory, politics, and queerness in a biweekly show hosted by Connor and Niamh.

TV & Film Leisure

Copy RSS

Subscribe on Podcast Addict

Welcome to Ghost Divers

Nov 26 2020 53 mins

Episode Notes Hello and welcome to Ghost Divers, an anime podcast with Connor and Niamh. In this introduction to the podcast, we go over the general format and idea for the show, and we also take a moment to talk a little bit about ourselves and what we hope we can offer! Special thanks to theimpliedbear for the use of their song "First" off of their album With Us?. Write

[S1E1] Intro to Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Nov 26 2020 27 mins

Episode Notes "It is a time when, even if nets were to guide all consciousness that had been converted to photons and electrons toward coalescing, standalone individuals have not yet been converted into data to the extent that they can form unique components of a larger complex." Dive into Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex! Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod[at]

[S1E2] Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, eps. 1–6

Dec 11 2020 111 mins

Episode Notes Connor and Niamh discuss episodes 1 through 6 of the first season of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. We get into some of the core themes of the show, including the dyadic separation of mind and body, the development of AI sapience, gender and the trans resonance of Major Kusanagi, the dystopia underlying the sheen of GitS:SAC's Japan, a peak at the bleakness

[S1E3] Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, eps. 7–13

Dec 24 2020 149 mins

Episode Notes This week, we get deep into episodes 7 through 13 of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. We try a little harder this time at doing some recaps but Niamh gets distracted getting right into faer bullshit from the beginning. Connor makes his case for episode 10, but if you are trying to avoid this one, which has some of the roughest content of the series, just know

[S1E4] Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, eps. 14–19

Episode Notes We decide that this is just going to be podcast with some long ass episodes and really dig into episodes 14 through 19 of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Before we even get into the episodes, we already have a lot to say about the series and how it relates to the current political reality of when we recorded this episode—which was the day news outlets decla

[S1E5] Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, eps. 20–26

Jan 22 2021 181 mins

Episode Notes It’s time to finish out our episode discussions with our breakdown of episodes 20 through 26. We get right into this with high energy because we recorded [S0E1] Welcome to Ghost Divers immediately prior to this recording, so Niamh is already fully on one. Thankfully Connor is here to rein fem in. We start the discussion by trying to put a bow on Niamh’s theory bul

[S1E6] Question Bucket: Let's talk about gender, baby, let's talk about you and me

Feb 05 2021 221 mins

Episode Notes Hello and welcome to this very focused and concise Question Bucket episode. We only got two emails, so we definitely didn’t somehow record for four hours straight in a delirious frenzy of topics. Anyway, we start with an attempt to encapsulate our read on Major Kusanagi and how it relates to our political worldview, bringing in and diverging toward other topics like

[S2E1] Intro to Sakigake!! Cromartie High School

Episode Notes Dear Listeners Booting Up This Episode On Their Podcast App of Choice: The guys that appear in this anime are delinquents. So, please do not, under any circumstances, imitate what you see in this anime. Dive into Sakigake!! Cromartie High School! Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod[at]gmail and follow us on Twitter! @ghostdiverspod @foxmomnia @rabbleais R

[S2E2] Sakigake!! Cromartie High School, eps. 1–13

Feb 19 2021 132 mins

Episode Notes Connor and Niamh can’t remember the name of a song that’s stuck in their heads, so they try to distract themselves by discussing episodes 1 through 13 of the first season of Sakigake!! Cromartie High School. We start out with the first and really only bit of theory bullshit by talking about the yakuza and yankii genre convention of the giri-ninjo conflict and how

[S2E3] Sakigake!! Cromartie High School, eps. 14–26

Episode Notes Niamh and Niamh’s Cohost discuss episodes 14 through 26 of the first season of Sakigake!! Cromartie High School. We take a slightly more synopsis-laden approach this time to try to ground ourselves in the rapidly escalating and (d)evolving world of Cro High, bounding off of topics like Cro High’s use of manzai forms, the literalization of the punchline, the stretc