Ghost Divers

We have made it! The final discussion for the show! Of course, we will be back in two weeks with an episode on Adolescence of Utena, hopefully with Special Guest Star Autumn Blake (we still haven't even recorded it). We start with a decent synopsis section and talk a little bit about what's left after this episode (the movie and the manga), then get into a discussion of the end of the show. Topics covered include the various myths and fables of the prince and his encounter with the orphaned girl; the themes of becoming a prince and Utena's fight against gender essentialism and its ties to themes of nobility; the final episodes of the series; Utena and Anthy's relationship and understanding Anthy's betrayal of Utena; different readings of what is happening in the series overall and its competing “realities”; Juri and Shiori's relationship and its comparison with Utena and Anthy's relationship; themes of queerness throughout the series and how it relates to ideas of representation, resonance, and other topics; and a final look at how maybe Saionji and Touga are fuckin. Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia Connor: @rabbleais Garfield Read Aloud: @GarfReadAloud Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Works Cited in this Discussion The Myth of the Eternal Return by Mircea Eliade, translated by Willard Trask Content Warnings for this Discussion Impalement and torture Sexual harassment, grooming, sexual abuse, and rape Incest and pedophilia Poisoning Attempted suicide Patriarchy, heteronormativity, sexism, and gender essentialism Unreality, memory loss Post-ED section: Alcohol talk Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

We did not plan this bonus episode at all but Autumn finished the show in preparation for joining us for Adolescence of Utena and decided to call me to make sure we were on the same page, and we just decided to record it for you all. As such, don't listen to this until you've finished the series! If you liked this episode especially, you should really check out Ornate Stairwells is you haven't yet. Our Discord connection was a little weird and got kind of out a sync a few times, so sorry if there's any weird moments where it seems like we are talking over each other or weird pauses in our back-and-forth. Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia Autumn: @Autumnal_Coffee Garfield Read Aloud: @GarfReadAloud Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Content Warnings for this Discussion Grooming, pedophilia, & rape Arson & death by burning Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

It's time for what if Magic Knight Rayearth was Redline! We talk about the relationship of the movie to the show; look at some of the characters that only briefly appear in the movie; the unreality and unreality of Adolescence of Utena; our different reads on the movie, which honestly might just be our attempts to describe the same unified read but fractured through our own perspectives in the same way different characters speak of eternity, that which shines, miracles, or the power to revolutionize the world; the outsized presence of Shiori in the movie compared to some of the other minor (and even major) characters from the show that barely appear in the movie; what the hell is going on with Touga; the image of liberation at the end of the movie and how it relates to ideas of potentiality rather than the promise of utopia (including a call back to our least favorite series we covered last year); and more. Also, don't forget that we will be recording the Question Bucket soon. The deadline to write into our Question Bucket for this series is January 29, 2022. You can write into ghostdiverspod@gmail and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia Connor: @rabbleais Autumn: @Autumnal_Coffee Garfield Read Aloud: @GarfReadAloud Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Content Warnings for this Discussion Rape Sexual abuse Grooming Sexual exploitation Sex and sexuality Pedophilia Child abuse Violence Suicide Drowning Homophobia Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

We are joined again by Autumn Blake to talk a little about the Utena manga and answer all your emails! We also have some updates about our new diving schedule with official announcements of our planned guests for future series Baccano!, Serial Experiments Lain, Paranoia Agent, and Kino's Journey. For the manga, neither Connor nor Autumn had the chance to read all of it, so Niamh gets a little into her takes but we move on pretty quickly to your wonderful emails. Highlights include good shōjo pulls; the gang mostly not knowing Homestuck; why we all love Nanami; Niamh's well-documented hatred of all ATLUS games; how Connor and Autumn apparently just wish Utena was Yu-Gi-Oh!; an extended diversion into the best cooking competition show ever made, MasterChef Australia; tucking; Revolutionary Girl Pootana, poo; and which Utena character is a toxic gamer. You can write into future Question Buckets at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and don't forget to follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia Connor: @rabbleais Autumn: @Autumnal_Coffee Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Our Diving Schedule: exportaud.io/divingschedule Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornate stairwells Content Warnings for this Discussion Grooming, rape, sexual abuse, and sexual assault Alcohol and drug use Sex and sexuality Animal death Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

“In that fleeting moment when Connor and I were facing off against the Major, we envisioned the outcome of our discourse, and the hairs on the back of our necks stood on end. After assessing the situation and taking all the factors into account, our experiences as podcasters led us to one conclusion: we were about to die.” The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia Connor: @rabbleais Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Our Diving Schedule: exportaud.io/divingschedule Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornate stairwells Release Schedule [S1E1] Intro: February 18, 2022 [S1E2] Ornate Stairwells Crossover Event: Ghost in the Shell (1995): March 4, 2022 [S1E3] Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence: March 18, 2022 [S1E4] Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd Gig, eps. 1–6: April 1, 2022 [S1E5] Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd Gig, eps. 7–13: April 15, 2022 [S1E6] Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd Gig, eps. 14–19: April 29, 2022 [S1E7] Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd Gig, eps. 20–26: May 13, 2022 [S1E8] Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society: May 27, 2022 [S1E9] Question Bucket: June 10, 2022 Works Cited “The Major's Body (10): Ghost In the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig” by Claire Napier (full series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler Content Warnings for the Anime Gore / Head Trauma / Dental Trauma Violence / State Violence Suicide (especially episodes 12 & 13) Torture Domestic Violence Sexual Harassment / Abuse Dyadism / Sexism Sexuality / Partial Nudity Depictions of Sex Work and Exploitation Pedophilia / Child Sexual Abuse (especially episode 17) Ableism Rapid Flashing / Loud Noises / Rapid Gunfire Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Welcome to the overstuffed Ornate Stairwells / Ghost Divers crossover event! Niamh watched Ghost in the Shell (1995) and recorded a Stairwells episode about it with Autumn, then a few days later recorded a Ghost Divers episode about it with Connor. Then fae stitched both conversations together. It's a whole lot of Niamh and a whole lot of Ghost in the Shell. It's also, hopefully, two interestingly different but connected looks at the same work. Next week Niamh and Autumn will be back to talk about Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. Don't forget that Ghost Divers will be recording the Question Bucket for Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence soon. The deadline to write into our Question Bucket for this series is March 11, 2022. You can write into ghostdiverspod@gmail and follow us on Twitter! ///////Credits for Ornate Stairwells (00:00:00): You can follow Niamh on twitter @FoxmomNia and listen to faer other podcast, Ghost Divers, by going to exportaud.io/ghostdivers You can follow Autumn on twitter by going to @Autumnal_Coffee and listen to all of their podcasts by going to exportaud.io. You can see how we rated this stairwell and all the other stairwells by going to exportaud.io/stairwellquality ///////Credits for Ghost Divers (02:24:24): The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia Connor: @rabbleais Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Work Cited in Ghost Divers: “Ghost in the Shell: the Major's Body (1)” by Claire Napier (full series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) Content Warnings for this Discussion: Depression, suicide, body horror, dyadism, sexism You can also get listen to Ornate Stairwells (and could've listened to this episode of Ghost Divers) a week early by giving us a dollar on the patreon!!! Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Hey all, I know you all might be a little confused here seeing something called Ghost Divers in your feed when you were expecting another episode of hit Pokémon podcast Glyph Catchers, but, well… I'll let you just listen to the episode to see why we decided to change the podcast. I hope you all will join us on this new adventure. Anyway, we watched Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence and talked about such topics as how to pronounce Unown; the Seel and Spheal evolutionary lines; Ghost-type Pokémon; the animation style of Innocence and how it relates to thematic elements of the narrative; PS2 graphics and Digital Devil Saga; the intentional imperfections and ugliness of the character designs; the influence of Noh theater on Ghost in the Shell; the location of the ghost and modes of embodiment; the mind/body duality and the alienation of the self from the self; the dichotomy of dolls and gods as the only perfect means of existence, and how the movie complicates this idea; beauty and ugliness and the aesthetics of wabi-sabi; the interrelation between dolls, pets, and children; the role of the Major in this film; and more! Next time, we will be back to discuss Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2nd Gig with episodes 1–6! Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia Connor: @rabbleais Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Works Cited in this Discussion Fūshikaden (A Mirror of the Flower / The Transmission of the Flower Through the Forms) by Zeami Motokiyo Content Warnings for this Discussion Sex trafficking Child sexual abuse Dolls and corpses Cannibalism Body horror Trapped in bodies Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Glyph Catchers are back with a brand new podcast, Dumpster Divers! We're watching bad movies and just really razzing on them, you know? Just really kickin the snot out of them. Just totally sticking our tongues out all like “Pllrrbbbttttt!” as we really take the piss out of these real stinker movies. These real garbage can, dumbo, no good movies. We love to devote hours and hours of our lives watching movies we hate and making fun of them for you to laugh at, because you also hate the movies too. We are bonded in our shared desire to just dislike everything. This is justice. This is what we were built for. Criticism doesn't define us. What we hate defines us. We know who we are and what we're here to do. And that's to really pants Ghost in the Shell (2017) and give it a swirly for April Fool's Day. Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia Connor: @rabbleais Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for this Discussion Alcohol Racism & orientalism Sexism & brief discussion of sexualized violence Sorry to people who really hate April Fool's Day. The actual episode will be out at the regularly scheduled time, we just decided to try doing an episode on the 2017 movie, but wanted to mostly keep it secret in case we did it and ended up hating the result. 2nd Gig starting on April 1st ended up just being a perfect excuse to do this. Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

It's here! It's time! We're watching through Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd Gig. We know that Niamh doesn't like is as much as the first season, but will Connor agree? Only time well tell… In this episode, we discuss topics such as how 2nd Gig differs structurally from the first season of Stand Alone Complex; the explicit inclusion of politics into the story; discontinuity and homage in 2nd Gig; the handling of sexuality and sexism; the significance of names; Noh theatre; the historicity of 2nd Gig's Japan; and more! Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia Connor: @rabbleais Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for this Discussion Violence Cyberbrain hacking / possession Depictions of sex work Sexism, misogyny, and sexual harassment Disability and disformity Anti-immigrant and anti-refugee politics Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Hey all. Just as a general note, it is very hard for Niamh to talk about episode 11 without spoiling some minor and vague details about how this relates to later episodes, so if you are especially spoiler shy, just be aware of that going in. We talk through a wide variety of topics, including some of the political maneuverings in 2nd Gig; the importance of names and faces in the show; the monstrous body and anti-cyberization; Gōda's ideology, psychology, and political goals as we understand it so far; anti-cyberization as an oppression metaphor; notions of justice in Stand Alone Complex; Niamh's objections to the episode “Grass Labyrinth — AFFECTION” and how it illustrates what fae feels is a fundamental misunderstanding and disjointing of the Major as a character in the series more broadly; questions about how individuals relate to collectives, how individuals relate to individuals, and how collectives relate to collectives; and a little more about Noh theater. You can see the Tarot spread from the post-ED section here: https://twitter.com/ghostdiverspod/status/1477663533164896258 Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia Connor: @rabbleais Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Works Cited in this Discussion The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler Content Warnings for this Discussion Dental trauma and removal Bomb implanted in body Racism, xenophobia, and other forms of discrimination Suicide Identity theft including a doppelgänger Autogynephilia & transphobia Alcohol talk at the very very end of the post-ED section Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

This week on the podcast, 2nd Gig has started to try to bring in more of the case-of-the-week format, but some of the skill and magic of the first season is gone. We dig into the incongruence of the few case-of-the-week episodes; 2nd Gig's growing fascination with creating backstories for characters; the geopolitical allegory of 2nd Gig and specifically Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution and its connection to Japanese nationalism and fascism; the show finally developing the Tachikoma some more; podcasting is synchronizing your consciousnesses; the quality of the animation in 2nd Gig; more backstory on Kuze and how it relates to Noh theater and themes around death; Koestler's theories in The Ghost in the Machine; the difficulties and problems of even the good-faith reading of what happens between the Major and the boy Chai; Niamh's apparently inexplicable love of 2nd Gig's Wings of Desire episode; themes around the failures of heroism and leadership, and the beginning of the end… Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia Connor: @rabbleais Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile (Oh I did kill GarfReadAloud shortly after this, sowwy) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Works Cited in this Discussion The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler “The Major's Body (10): Ghost In the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig” by Claire Napier (full series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) Content Warnings for this Discussion Sexual harassment, abuse, and rape Pedophilia and child sexual abuse Sex, sexuality, and sexism Body hacking & possession Food & alcohol Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

In order to save this podcast from going for 4 hours, Connor and Niamh had to crash the satellite that our old Audacity files are stored on into a nuke, but it's okay, we don't need them anymore anyway. Before our heroic, fiery death in the sky, we talk about things like Kuze (and not Elon Musk) as a great man of history; the incoherence and failure of the narrative structure of 2nd Gig as demonstrated by its complete disinterest in exploring what a bioroid even is; how 2nd Gig does try to explore some of the themes of the death around the Puppetmaster but as an inversion, and how this draws on the themes of ashura Noh; how 2nd Gig fumbles a lot of these themes, especially around the character of the Major; the concept of virginity as it is clumsily deployed in the show; the conclusion of the political aspects of 2nd Gig; the imagery of the cherry blossoms used in the final scenes; our plans to eventually cover all of Ghost in the Shell; a digression into NANA; and some final thoughts on how political theory and ideology is handled in the show. By the way, if you are interested in NANA, Niamh will be back next week with a bonus episode featuring Em of Abnormal Mapping where we dig into the manga! You can also check out their guest appearance on Ornate Stairwells mentioned in the post-ED section here: https://ornate-stairwells.pinecast.co/episode/317edfc9/cure Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia Connor: @rabbleais Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Works Cited in this Discussion “The Major's Body (10): Ghost In the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig” by Claire Napier (full series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) Content Warnings for this Discussion Brief discussion of COVID Death & suicide Sex, sexuality, virginity, and rape Misogyny and sexism Alcohol & food Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Just as a heads up: Connor's connection was dropping out a bunch, especially at the beginning, and was a bit laggy as well. Niamh wasn't trying to just talk over him so much! We start off with a weird digression into looking into Sci-Fi Channel's Ani-Mondays block and then getting a rant from Niamh about Chrono Cross Remaster. After that we get into topics like the Japanese political dynamics in the film; whatever the fuck Togusa is doing; parallels being drawn between Kusanagi, Kuze, and the Puppet Master with the final reveal of the Puppeteer; the failure of the neo-liberal imagination and the Major's eternal cop brain; the failure of imagination in the breaking down of family structures in order to simply rebuild them as a reambulated corpse; reproductions of the state; the surveillance state; placing the movies and show in a chronology simply as a thought experiment. Also, don't forget that we will be recording the Question Bucket soon. The deadline to write into our Question Bucket for this series is June 4, 2022. You can write into ghostdiverspod@gmail and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia Connor: @rabbleais Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for this Discussion Brain hacking / possession Suicide / forced suicide Child abuse / forced child surgery Manipulation of parental feelings Elder abuse / poor quality elder care Brainwashing / indoctrination Racism, including ideas of a nationalist “pureblooded” race Alcohol talk in the post-ED section Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

We're here to talk about depressing work lunches and answer all your questions about our own Ghost in the Shell AUs, kissing and tucking, soft drinks, Tony Hawk Pro Skater, art, and NANA. You can write into future Question Buckets at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and don't forget to follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia Connor: @rabbleais Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for this Discussion Food, just a lot of food talk Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

“Let me tell you how important it is to keep your mouth shut. Me, I've seen so many damn people going on and on about ‘these are the important themes in this show' and “take these words with you on your commute”, and then that gives whoever they're talking to an opening to get bored. Crazy, isn't it? I see it all the time, in books, in plays, even on podcasts! I don't even know why, but somehow the more comfortable someone is with podcasting, the more they flap their mouth when it comes time to do the deed, yakking on and on and on. As you might have guessed, I myself happen to be such a person!” Dive into Baccano! Also, for those of you watching along, this is a rare one where the dub often comes recommended over the subs, so feel free to try it out even if you're usually a subs person. The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Connor: @rabbleais John-Charles: @Sonic9jct Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Yetee on Twitch: yetee.tv Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Release Schedule [S8E1] Intro to Baccano!: June 24, 2022 [S8E2] Baccano!, eps. 1–8: July 8, 2022 [S8E3] Baccano!, eps. 9–16: July 22, 2022 [S8E4] Question Bucket: August 5, 2022 Content Warnings for the Anime Violence Blood, gore, and dismemberment Torture VIolence and torture against a child Guns, smoking, and alcohol Horror violence Demons Suggestion of sexual assault (episode 7) Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

"It might be a good idea to start from within the ship Advenna Avis, which was crossing the Atlantic. It might also be a good idea to start with the tragic event that occurred on the transcontinental train Flying Pussyfoot, and was secretly swept under the rug. Regardless of all that, you have chosen 7 July 2022 as the start of this podcast…” Topics discussed: The Ruckus of Episode 1; Orson Welles Despises Men Like Jacuzzi Splot; [extremely Jacuzzi Splot voice] The Rail Tracer!!; Doing a Handstand on the Edge of a Ship to Try to Stop a Demon, Somehow Still Impressing the Demon with Your Stupidity; Ronnie………; The First to Eat, The First to Share; The Themes of Knowledge and Truth, Heroism and Protagonists, The Constructed Nature of Narratives; The Static, Unchanging Sitcom Quality of Isaac and Miria; Is Maiza Boruto's Dad or Hank Hill?; Truth in Fiction; The Mystery of Dallas; Light Novels; The Multiculturalism of the United States; The Western, the Train, and the Construction of Nation; Isaac and Miria and the American Fantasy; The Robot Girl Who Learns to be a Human; Isaac and Miria's Worldview; The Tension Between Worldviews of Fantasy and Reality; Our Favorite Characters So Far. (I'm trying a new way to handle episode descriptions, let me know if you like it or hate it.) Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Connor: @rabbleais John-Charles: @Sonic9jct Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Yetee on Twitch: yetee.tv Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for this Discussion Gore Sexual assault Manipulation and control Stealing memories Racist caricature Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

"Long podcasts are such a crime. They take the limited amount of time that is given to man, and rather than spending it in indolence or drowning it in pleasure it just sits there sucking, eating it up. I can't put up with that, long podcasts are a crime! Death to long podcasts! Die!" Topics discussed: Oops! All Anime Sicko Murderers; Using Non-liner Storytelling to Tell Jokes; Bill Gates; Destabilizing Anime Archetypes; Yum Yum Time to Eat Your Shōnen Anime; Czes Has Been Waiting Centuries to be Called a Good Boy; The Protagonist of Baccano! is Graham Specter; Casting Timothée Chalamet in the Live Action Baccano!; Watching Baccano! with Your Girlfriend; My Hero Academia; Upholding Traditional Family Values by Stealing Cellphones; Understanding the Philosophy of Graham Specter; Ronny I and Ronny II in the Notorious B.E.Ginning; Post-ED Games Talk; Biblically Accurate Bill Gates. Also, don't forget that we will be recording the Question Bucket soon. The deadline to write into our Question Bucket for this series is Thursday, July 28, 2022. You can write into ghostdiverspod@gmail and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Connor: @rabbleais John-Charles: @Sonic9jct Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Yetee on Twitch: yetee.tv Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for this Discussion Discussion of gore, torture, and dismemberment Manipulation and control Alcohol talk (post-ED) Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

“This 35mm screening of Ingmar Bergman's Persona is mine. I think this entire theater may even just be a long, long dream I'm having. Everyone on the screen and in the rows of seats may just be illusions, and it can't be proven whether or not you really exist either. In other words, this screening was created with me at the center. So what will happen if the reel runs out? I don't know. My imagination isn't very creative; I just can't imagine the film ever ending. In other words, there is no way this screening can completely disappear. But if it does end, then everyone will disappear. I am the only one in this theater who won't disappear. The rest are just people I see as if in a dream.” Topics discussed: The Iron Giant; Incriminating Ourselves; Claire Stanfield's Trans Man Swag; The Ronnie Chronicles a.k.a. Ronnicles; Who The Hell Are These Guys?; Anime Sickos Boyfriends; Getting Negged Into Dating Byakuya; The Pulp Fiction of Anime; Pitching the Baccano! Cinematic Universe (BCU); Running Through Our List of Guys to Determine Who Kisses, Who Tucks, MCU Feelings, Missed the B&N Criterion & Arrow Sale Angst, Cup Song Cup Thing(?????), and Food Court Selections; Derek the Ghost; Glyph Catchers Bonus Content; Today's Teens are Flocking to the Secret Hidden Nier Church. You can write into future Question Buckets at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and don't forget to follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia Connor: @rabbleais Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for this Discussion Lots of food talk Mention of drug use (post-ED) Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

“When it's all said and done, podcasts are just a medium of communication and the transfer of information. You mustn't confuse them with the real world. Do you understand what I'm warning you about?” “You're wrong. The border between the two isn't all that clear. I'll be able to guest on one soon. In full range. Full motion. I'll translate myself into it.” Dive into Serial Experiments Lain! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Autumn: @Autumnal_Coffee (twitter) or @autumnal (cohost) Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Release Schedule [S9E1] Intro to Serial Experiments Lain: August 19, 2022 [S9E2] Serial Experiments Lain, eps. 1–6: September 2, 2022 [S9E3] Serial Experiments Lain, eps. 7–13: September 16, 2022 [S9E4] Question Bucket: September 30, 2022 Content Warnings for the Anime Suicide Body horror Loss of self Dread and horror Unreality, representations of mental illness Sexuality Depiction of a young girl fantasizing about an adult teacher Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Topics discussed: Vibes Are Happening; Lain's Position in a Cultural Conversation; Assigning Emotions or Motivations to Characters in Lain is an Interpretive Act; soi soi soi soi pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch; Making Autumn Explain the Plot of Solid State Society, A Movie They've Never Seen; The Visual Aesthetics of Lain; The Mediation of All Conversation; The Disconnection of Temporal and Physical Space; The Audio Aesthetics of Lain; The Tech Aesthetics of Lain; The Influence of the Internet on Identity and Its Tension Between Liberation and Corruption; Alienation and Horror; We Will Sell Out to CrunchyRoll If They Pay Us Enough; A Preview of Who Kisses and Who Tucks; Niamh Gets Mad At Funko Pop for Their Ghost in the Shell Funko. Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Autumn: @Autumnal_Coffee (twitter) or @autumnal (cohost) Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for this Discussion Suicide Public shooting Childhood estrangement Mental illness and loss of sense of reality Alcohol and drunk driving Horror Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Topics discussed: Connor Gaslights Niamh; Connor and Autumn Call Lain Mid; Lain and Alice Enjoy Some Eggo Waffles; Digging Into the Ending of Lain; Comparing Serial Experiments Lain with Neon Genesis Evangelion; The Suicidal Reading of the Ending of Lain; How Lain Tempers Its Bleakness with Love; Connor Brain Dumps His Reading of the Series as a Whole; Is Lain a God, a Little Girl, or a Yokai?; Comparing Serial Experiments Lain with Akira; Tremors is a Libertarian Wet Dream Movie; The Horror of Right-Wing Radicalization Online vs. the Affirmation of Positive Identities Online; Why Does Batou Criticize the Major for Going Diving?; Lain Game Dot Net; Autumn and Niamh Record a 40-Minute Podcast About Manga and Chrono Cross Where They Get Quieter and Quieter as They Talk; Searching Tongue on Eat Out. Also, don't forget that we will be recording the Question Bucket soon. The deadline to write into our Question Bucket for this series is Friday, September 16, 2022. You can write into ghostdiverspod@gmail and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Autumn: @Autumnal_Coffee (twitter) or @autumnal (cohost) Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for this Discussion Suicide Sex and sexuality Depiction of a young girl fantasizing about an adult teacher Childhood estrangement Queerphobia Public shootings Food Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

“Most games are mid.” Topics discussed: The Wired vs. Kingdom Hearts; The Ricola Incident; Forever Anime; Things That Are Mid; Kissing and/or Tucking; Coffee Orders; Super Bowl Commercials; Gamer Moded Opinions; and Coffee In General. You can write into future Question Buckets at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and don't forget to follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Autumn: @Autumnal_Coffee (twitter) or @autumnal (cohost) Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for this Discussion Alcohol Food Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

“To begin, a rabbit jumps behind the moon. What is it that the black rabbit sees on the horizon with his big red eyes? A fish on the land has trouble when he is stepped on by cows. The playful palace where the butterfly dances vanishes away. At twilight, the cows starts it by chance and the goodness continues. The golden fox grins at you. And then…” Dive into Paranoia Agent! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Josh: @amonns Craig: craigneeson.com Swimfans: @swimfanspod Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Swimfans: swimfanspod.com Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Release Schedule [S10E1] Intro to Paranoia Agent: October 14, 2022 [S10E2] Paranoia Agent ep. 1–7: October 28, 2022 [S10E3] Paranoia Agent ep. 8–13: November 11, 2022 [S10E4] Question Bucket: November 25, 2022 Works Cited Excerpt on “Detoxifying Culture” by the prominent literary critic Kamei Katsuichiro from the Overcoming Modernity Symposium of July 1942 organized by Kamei and two other major literary critics, Kawakami Tetsutarō and Kobayashi Hideo, published in Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook edited by James W. Heisig, Thomas P. Kasulis, and John C. Maraldo, 2011 Quote from “On ‘Overcoming Modernity'” by Odagiri Hideo originally published in Bungaku (Literature), April 1958, quoted in the chapter “Overcoming Modernity” published in What Is Modernity? Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi, edited and translated by Richard F. Calichman, 2005 Content Warnings for the Anime Depiction of mental health crises Self-harm and suicide Stalking, sexual assault, rape, child abuse Blood, violence, murder, and death Sexuality and sex work Fatphobia Depiction of an animal death Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Topics discussed: Breaking the Pattern of Paranoia Agent in Episode 7; Repression and Alienation; It's ‘Cause You Be On That Phone; The Tsunami as Lil Slugger; Issues of Victimhood; Shōnen Bat is a Stand Alone Complex; Harumi and Maria; Niamh is Still NANA Brained; Announcement of Our Next New Year's Special; Josh Says the Wildest Thing About Tokyo Godfathers; Crises of Childhood, Femininity, and Masculinity; The Worsening Effects of the Sluggings; The Animated Being of Maromi; Lil Slugger as Another Mascot Character; The Existentialism of the Detective Fiction Framing; The OP and the ED; and Critiquing Maromi Plushes. Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Josh: @amonns Swimfans: @swimfanspod Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Swimfans: swimfanspod.com Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for this Discussion Mental health crises, self-harm, and suicide Dissociative identity disorder Stalking, sexual assault Child sex abuse, invasion of privacy, suggestion of pedophilia Sex and sex work Sexism and patriarchal roles Violence, home invasion Fatphobia Alcohol Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Topics discussed: There Needs to be More Maromi Merchandizing; the Shockwaves of the First 7 Episodes; Collective Narratives of Shared Truth; the Hell of Animation Production; Overcoming Modernity; the Conservativism of Paranoia Agent; the Return for Traditional Japanese Values with Misae as a Traditional Japanese Mother; the Cyclical Nature of Paranoia Agent; the Power of Ideas and Their Emergence from the Social Consciousness; the Balance of Maromi and Shōnen Bat; the Double-Edged Sword of Modernity; the Restoration of the Traditional Passing Down from Mother to Daughter; the Resolution of Sagi Tsukiko's Trauma but not the Mass Trauma of Society; Tempering Our Reading of the Series with Communism; the Animation Episode; the Full Deconstruction of the Animation of the Show; Hating on Persona 4 Golden; Fiction, Cycles, and the Constructions and Articulations of Ideas and Identities; the Suicide Episode; Detective Fiction as a Mode of Existentialist Fiction; Questions About Tokyo Godfathers are Banned; and the Five Kinds of Animals. Also, don't forget that we will be recording the Question Bucket soon. The deadline to write into our Question Bucket for this series is Saturday, November 19, 2022. You can write into ghostdiverspod@gmail and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Josh: @amonns Swimfans: @swimfanspod Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Swimfans: swimfanspod.com Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Works Cited in this Discussion Excerpt on “Detoxifying Culture” by the prominent literary critic Kamei Katsuichiro from the Overcoming Modernity Symposium of July 1942 organized by Kamei and two other major literary critics, Kawakami Tetsutarō and Kobayashi Hideo, published in Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook edited by James W. Heisig, Thomas P. Kasulis, and John C. Maraldo, 2011 Quote from “On ‘Overcoming Modernity'” by Odagiri Hideo originally published in Bungaku (Literature), April 1958, quoted in the chapter “Overcoming Modernity” published in What Is Modernity? Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi, edited and translated by Richard F. Calichman, 2005 Content Warnings for this Discussion Mental health crises, self-harm, and suicide Unreality Sex and sexuality Fascism Alcohol (post-ED section) Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Topics discussed: Once Again, Shōnen Bat is a Stand Alone Complex; Someone Actually Asks Niamh to Talk About NANA; The Forbidden Sixth Route in the Five Kinds of Animal You Can Date Otome; We Have A Very Broad Definition of “Game Show”; The Thematic Pairing of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and Jackass Forever; The Teleological Fallacy of Pizza; Niamh Desperately Trying to Get the Podcast Back on Track; and Connor's Disgusting Recipe for Fast Tea. You can write into future Question Buckets at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and don't forget to follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Josh: @amonns Swimfans: @swimfanspod Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Swimfans: swimfanspod.com Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

“Someone once told me that watching anime made them want to record a podcast.” Dive into Kino's Journey —the Beautiful World— (2003)! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Unjust Depths: unjustdepths.com Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Release Schedule [S11E1] Intro to Kino's Journey: December 9, 2022 [S11E2] Kino's Journey, eps. 1–7: December 23, 2022 [S11E3] Kino's Journey, eps. 8–13 + ep. 0: January 6, 2023 [S11E4] Question Bucket: January 20, 2023 Content Warnings for the Anime Violence and gore Suicide Slavery Cannibalism Genocide / massacre Animal death Misgendering Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Topics discussed: Kino and Hermes are funny little guys; the philosophical allegorical mode of Kino's Journey; Kino's shifting and poorly-maintained position as an observer who does not intercede; Kino as a stateless, detachged party; Kino's gun rituals; the philosophy of altruism and society; Niamh's proposal for a NANA Festival; the Land of Sad Bangers; the functions of religion in society; the melodramatic humor of Kino's Journey; Gender Is Happening; Kino's ring of keys moment; Kino's gender as one aspect of their intentional taking on of the role of the Other; the constructed worldviews of societies and Kino's potential position as a corrective perspective; humans' relationships to work; fully-automated capitalism; the concept of utopia in Kino's Journey; the two-episode tournament arch; Shizu, the older sword twink Kino; Samurai Jack; Niamh just doesn't care about fight scenes in manga and anime and that's why fae thinks Berserk is kinda mid; envisioniong the fighting tournament arch of NANA; the Midwestern fine and the British quite; a sixth kind of animal; and safe-for-work Sasuke. Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Unjust Depths: unjustdepths.com Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for this Discussion Animal death Slavery and cannibalism Suicide Transphobia and childhood trauma Violence Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Topics discussed: The Individual vs. Society; Kino's increasing meddling or involvement in the countries they visit; the optimism or pessimism in the ending of episode 8; pushing against social mores vs. outright violent resistance; the bourgeois consumption of the novel and the cutting off of the revolutionary potential of literature and criticism; solipsism; the problems of the family in liberal society; work and mechanized labor; gender roles and labor; aimlessness, purpose, and purposeful aimlessness; the only appearance of the Master in the entire show; the system of state violence and the personal relationship to violence; the faltering of the handling of the violence of Tatatans; the critique of 21st century warfare and American militarism; gender norms and motherhood in the construction of state violence; the saddest fucking episode of Kino's Journey; the pain of seeing what your childhood would've looked like if it was healthy and normal when you are queer person with childhood trauma; the ambiguous pang of yearning; utopia as fleeting and potentially unsustainable; modeling the process of utopian creation as a shared social goal; the depersonalization of the philosophical mode throughout the series in contrast to Kino's willingness to give into the personal in the final episode; the positioning of the final episode chronologically early in Kino's journey but at the end of the show Kino's Journey; and the most nothing episode of Kino's Journey that's like fine, it's kinda funny. Also, don't forget that we will be recording the Question Bucket soon. The deadline to write into our Question Bucket for this series is Friday, January 13, 2023. (Note: We're still hoping to record Saturday like usual, but it might get moved to Friday so that's the date if you want to play it safe.) You can write into ghostdiverspod@gmail and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Unjust Depths: unjustdepths.com Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for this Discussion Unreality / questioning reality Violence and warfare Suicide Massacre and genocide Transphobia and queerphobia Childhood trauma Death Pandemic and illness Food Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Topics discussed: The two Kino's Journey movies; the Land of Foxes, the Normal Country*, and the Boring Country of Thematically Significant Travelers and Their Nuanced Relationship with Travel as an Institution; the many advantages of a small orange; developing a script for the poker episode of Kino's Journey; the superpower of Google Maps; Beast Wars; Riku's unlimited superpowers; the Land of Airports; devising a country with the express purpose of trapping Kino; Kino at 40 a.k.a. Batou; the worst images of Batou we all have ever seen; Kino's distaste for the bean and adventures in rural Virginia; Connor disagrees with Niamh and kb about the appeal of blood orgies; the Country of Blood; other travel literature like Don Quixote, Otherside Picnic, and Lone Wolf & Cub; yelling at your Gundam son to cut his bangs; spicy cream of ranch soup; and finding the perfect level to fill your creationism mug. You can write into future Question Buckets at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and don't forget to follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Unjust Depths: unjustdepths.com Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for this Discussion Food Violence and death Blood, lots of blood, blood orgies Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Dive into Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Release Schedule [S12E1] Intro to Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans: February 3, 2023 [S12E2] Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, eps. 1–6: February 17, 2023 [S12E3] Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, eps. 7–13: March 3, 2023 [S12E4] Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, eps. 14–19: March 17, 2023 [S12E5] Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, eps. 20–25: March 31, 2023 [S12E6] Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, eps. 26–32: April 14, 2023 [S12E7] Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, eps. 33–38: April 28, 2023 [S12E8] Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, eps. 39–44: May 12, 2023 [S12E9] Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, eps. 45–50: May 26, 2023 [S12E10] Question Bucket: June 9, 2023 Content Warnings for the Anime Blood, violence, death and some gore, both in mech combat and between humans Bodies, implants and body modification, ideas around “pure” vs “mutilated” or “grotesque” bodies Sex and sexuality, including rape, arranged marriage with a young girl, child abuse, and pedophilia Also sex work and harem anime tropes For the episodes 1–6 of the show, we will only get into the first two (blood, violence, etc. and bodies, implants, etc.) Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Topics discussed: Mikazuki is the main guy from Battles Without Honor or Humanity 2; Kudelia Bluth; the very first scene and the symbols of Iron, Blood, and Orphans; why people say this is the Gundam about child soldiers; how IBO engages in the language of Tomino Gundam shows but tries to translate it for a wider audience; our view of Mars; bodies in IBO; the humanness of the design of Gundam Barbatos; body modifications and the beliefs and opinions about them in the society of IBO; abjection (see our Evangelion season): Lü Bubatos; the space rats with whiskers and the Alaya-Vijnana vs. the tropes around newtypes; the two Ainas and Kudelia as a character in the show; race in IBO; our first impressions of McGillis; Barbatos as the Devil's Machine; and the contradictions of Orga, Mika, Kudelia, and Barbatos and the creation of new potentials. Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for this Discussion Blood, violence, death and some gore, both in mech combat and between humans Bodies, implants and body modification, ideas around “pure” vs “mutilated” or “grotesque” bodies Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Topics discussed: Is there anything going on with Moby Dick references?; the introduction of the Turbines to further explore gender and sexuality on the show; the introduction of the various meanings of family; the harem anime providing a potential framework for Atra to reapproach the romantic tension triangle between, Mika, and Kudelia in a way that allows her to reach out to and support Kudelia; the appeal of Mikazuki as a romantic interest for Atra and Kudelia; the glimpses into characterization around Fumitan; Kudelia Aina coming to terms with her own sexuality under the influences of all the other pressures on her; Atra's navigation of sexuality and the sexualization of bodies; the framework of the family as an facilitating factor for understandings of relationships and sexuality; McGillis is a Char; the kanji meaning of some of the characters' names; the mobile suit designs in IBO; Evangelion spoilers about what the Evas and Angels are (1:45:18 to 1:46:45); the various tensions between Orga and Merribit; the meaning of food in the series, Atra's relationship with food, and possible stunted growth in Atra and Mikazuki due to childhood starvation and malnutrition; Orga's responsibility to take care of the sexual needs of Tekkadan; reincarnation, rebirth, religion, and tensions between the social classification of characters in the show as “human debris”; the spiritual means of processing their emotions and its limits as it encounters the pressures of gender roles and their socioeconomic classification and oppression as lesser human or inhuman; Mika's reflections on his sadism and its narrative link with his expression of romantic interest in Kudelia; the subdued characterization of Mika throughout the show so far; putting Almiria and McGillis on the back burner until we get a clearer sense of McGillis as a character, aside from how it's already relating to the utilization of bodies to maintain social orders and political power; cleanliness and dirtiness in the delineation of class in IBO; the Norse mythology references in some of the names from Gjallarhorn; the Five Guardians of the Universe; alienating people with Connor's bits; content warnings for the next batch of episodes (starts at 3:44:20). Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for this Discussion Sex, sexuality, and the sexualization of women's bodies Sex work Harem anime tropes Alcohol and drinking until sick Child abuse, violence Childhood starvation and malnutrition Blood, violence, field medical work, and death Racism, slavery Arranged marriage with a 9-year-old girl, potential pedophilia The classification of bodies as clean vs. dirty, pure vs. deformed, etc. Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Topics discussed: An aside for a correction email; the show being cheeky with McGillis's obvious disguise; Tekkadan's lack of understanding of their own revolutionary impulses; the show's nuances in presenting the difficulties of Marxist politics; the narrowness of Kudelia's default idea of revolution; Tekkadan as revolution as action without a conceptual framework, Kudelia as revolution as a concept without concrete practice, and the need of the two to come together to achieve more; Savarin's failure to see oppression broadly as its own form of violence; Atra's heroism and revolution is situated in the interpersonal; the medieval theming of the show's mechanics; the Dark History; the Earth as a symbol in Gundam; Chocolate Man vs. Prune Boy; the masked man is obviously Char; Carta Issue is a ZZ character; deferring on McGillis again because he's still too much of a mystery to talk about at this point in the show without Niamh having to just grit faer teeth and remain quiet while Connor speculates; how Atra's approach to relationships provides a space for mutual support and emotional comfort rather than romantic competition; the themes of faith, trust, and responsibility and their link to ideology; Connor and Niamh write fanfic where we keep teasing a character survived, but only to reveal episodes later that they didn't; the relation of colonialism, imperialism, and human bodies; Ein as a class traitor; Ein's sublimation and rage over his oppression into revenge against Crank's killers; foils for the main characters; the Earth entry scene as a broader Gundam trope and the danger of the Earth's pull; just a little bit about Mikazuki; Niamh and Connor try to remember what movie Shree Klime is from; explaining what's happening in SEED Destiny and realizing that everything sounds like it should be great; Connor and Niamh could take ideas from SEED Destiny and create an incredible show; Connor has become bogged down in Victory; G Gundam; there are only six kinds of foxes; what even is a highball; diet sodas and nutrition; a weird argument Niamh got into in high school and still remembers; Niamh takes a break to text Em about Chrono Cross; content warnings for the next batch of episodes (starts at 3:30:00). Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for this Discussion Violence and death Massacre Sacrifice, both willing and unwilling Alcohol, food, and nutrition (post-ED) Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Topics discussed: Trying to imagine the position of being completely unmoved by anything except Biscuit; spending over a half hour to synopsize three episodes; Connor figured out why he was trudging through Victory; Victory and disgust at the Earth and the ocean; abjection around the Alaya-Vijnana system and cybernetics in general; IBO's belief in the transformative power of the truth and electoral politics; the tension with Kudelia and the danger that her revolutionary politics can easily be subsumed into the web of capital; McGillis's ability to manipulate the political systems around him; the desire to find a place of peace amidst war vs. the necessity for continued violent resistance; Yukinojo's resignation in contrast to Merribit's active objections against Tekkadan's drive for violence; the limited choices presented to Tekkadan; Carta Issue thinks she is a master tactician because she read Sun Tsu's Art of War; Niamh loves Carta Issue because she's kitsune-themed; Gjallarhorn was doomed from the start; the nuances and complications of the conversation between Mika and Orga; Mika tops from the bottom; the conflation of liberation and violence; the potential necessity of Orga to direct Mika's violent propulsion towards good ends; Moby Dick and monomania; more synopsizing; the theme of betting and its relation to yakuza; Atra, Kudelia, and the anime trope of the bento box; Graze Ein as a Psycho Gundam; Graze Ein as a warning of a possible future for Mikazuki; Ein's sadism and derangement; the reduction of Ein to an instrumentalized weapon built out of the contradictions of his character; McGillis's character and his plans to overturn the regime of Gjallarhorn as a deconstructivist; McGillis's lack of values in general; McGillis as individual vs Tekkadan as communal; McGillis as a foil to Orga and Kudelia; a satisfying pop; accidentally going to the St. Paddy's Day parade and getting called the f-slur; Connor's Ghost Diver's mug; Niamh teases the fact that fae had a very major thing spoiled about IBO from the beginning, which we still haven't gotten to. Note: We didn't do a discreet content warning at the end of this episode solely because it's just more of the same with regards to violence, death, and gore. Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for this Discussion Violence, death, and gore Death of enslaved child soldiers Character death Suicide and suicide missions Body modification and potential body horror Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Topics discussed: Niamh's new way of doing synopses; Julieta is the weird girl to Ple's silly girl, cyber new type vibes all around; Montag goes masked off and just becomes McGillis; the new yakuza motherfucker; the potential identity of the mysterious masked man; the new state of the world and the lack of significant improvements in the wake of Makanai's election; Tekkadan's move from an oppositional force to a part of the standing regime; Tekkadan banning the Alaya-Vijnana system; “I sure hope Tekkadan doesn't repeat anything from Gjallarhorn”; Atra trying to assert a new space for Mika as a farmer if his role as a soldier is no longer needed; this week's thematic keyword of “trust”; the link of faces, trust, and intention with the new mask and the new masked man; João's DMs including the medieval and modernity as well as a quote from Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth; McGillis is a Char (redux); the difficulty in overthrowing or even destabilizing existing regimes; Mikazuki, disability, and his inability to hold back Atra's bracelet; Mika, Orga, single vision, and monomania; the drive to move forward and the question of when they can stop; paralleling Julieta with Ein; Chad Chadan, that's it just the name Chad Chadan; Aston keeps throwing up death flags and then dies; the homoromantic tension between Takaki and Aston; Takaki and Aston as a mirror of Orga and Mika; the potentiality for the manipulation of Tekkadan, as well as the terrifying possibility that Orga is himself a manipulator; Takaki as the first character other than Mikazuki to execute someone with a pistol; a taste test between Asahi and Kirin Ichiban; silly girl sweep; and content warnings for the next 6 episodes (starts at 3:10:43). Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for this Discussion Violence, death, and gore Death of enslaved child soldiers Disability and loss of the use of limbs Alcohol (post-ED section) Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Topics discussed: Iok is a Jerid; Vidar, Gaelio, Ein, and the Norse god of vengeance; the myth of Ragnarök and its significance in Norse mythology; McGillis as a Loki; the patriarchal systems throughout the world of IBO; sacrifice; McGillis's promise to pass on the colonial apparatus to Orga; an appraisal of Kudelia and the limits of her ability to progress; Atra and Kudelia's ideas around the end of the conditions that produce child soldiers; Kudelia's attempts to create the groundwork to support a different future; Tekkadan's abandonment of Kudelia; McGillis as a groomer; a satisfying amount of Eva to trickle in; they don't have wheelchairs???; the fumbles in how IBO handles disability; fears over the losing someone to the war; Orga, Atra, and Kudelia all fear losing Mikazuki; Mika moving away from Atra and Kudelia and toward Orga; Mikazuki avoiding grappling with his internal dilemma and unwillingness to give up the power of Barbatos; identification between the pilot and the mech; the contradiction st the heart of Gjallarhorn; the excavating of a past modernity; knights and dragons vs. the terrifying machine of modern war; Gjallarhorn's role as creator of peace vs. Tekkadan's threat of total violence and destruction; Hashmal's destruction of the farm; IBO's metatextual interest in the repetition of history; the Mobile Armor as humanity's drive for self-destruction and the religiosity that surrounds that; fox treats for foxes; Gundam F91; Connor's promised to finish Victory by April 7, 2023; router network configuration; a little more about McGillis as a groomer; content warnings for the next 6 episodes (starts at 3:53:55 — the time stamps for episode 44 are 9:30 to 12:46). Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for this Discussion Violence, death, and gore Death of enslaved child soldiers Grooming, child abuse, and pedophilia (esp. 1:20:25–1:30:45 and 3:48:10–3:51:30) Disability and loss of the use of limbs Self-destruction Food (post-ED section) Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Topics discussed: Revealed Intentions; the people making IBO love Victory Gundam; how to say Dáinsleif; someone really needed to warn all these characters about death flagging; Iok Kujan continues to survive out of pure stupidity; Hush's anime rival to gofer lackey arc; the Dáinsleif as an escalation of medieval warfare into modern weaponry; Gjallarhorn's relationship to myth and history and the original stopping on history and arresting of society into a static structure; the Old Norse legend of Dáinsleif; Orga's struggles with choices and his acquiescing to others who will make the decision for him; Orga's lack of control over Tekkadan's violence; thematic elements of the Reginlaze Julia and the dehumanization of the mech into more of a weapon; Barbatos and Mika's tail/umbilical cord; gender happens; babies, motherhood, umbilical cords, wombs, and the need for life beyond this moment; Atra's attitudes and relationships to sex and sexuality; Lafter, Amida, and polyamory; the limited forms of families available and their blending with military organizations; Connor has the worst hair in IBO; masks on masks on masks; McGillis is an iron-blooded orphan; parallels between McGillis and the Legend of Agnika Kaieru and Kudelia and the History of Revolution; McGillis has misunderstood and overestimated the true pillars of Gjallarhorn; Rustal is a materialist; McGillis's grooming of Almiria and her genuine feelings; McGillis approaches all relationships as dominance and submissions; eyes, monovision, and the potential tension of Mika closing his left eye; “How far should I go?” and Mika's own conflict around the death march of violence; Mika fighting to end to Atra's tears; parallels between season one and season two of IBO; Niamh has to make the bed; Irn-Bruded Orphans; content warnings for the last six episodes (start at 3:33:45). Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for this Discussion Major character death Suicide and self-sacrifice Sex and sexuality Child sexual abuse and pedophilia Child abuse, grooming, violence, and attempted suicide (esp. 2:24:00 to 2:37:44) Alcohol and food mentioned in post-ED Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Topics discussed: Once again Niamh has not been able to finish the notes in time. Expect them sometime this weekend. Sorry! Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for this Discussion Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Our bucket is overflowing with questions this week! Thank you to everyone who wrote in. We try to get right to the emails... but end up talking about overall feelings on the show for a while first... Anyway, we have a good mix of serious questions and jokey ones and have fun bouncing between discussions about the pain of childhood and jokes about Pokémon. You can write into future Question Buckets at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and don't forget to follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Dive into Psycho-Pass! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Release Schedule [S1E1] Intro to Psycho-Pass: June 23, 2023 [S1E2] Psycho-Pass, eps. 1–8: July 7, 2023 [S1E3] Psycho-Pass, eps. 9–16: July 21, 2023 [S1E4] Psycho-Pass, eps. 17–22: August 4, 2023 [S1E5] Psycho-Pass: The Movie: August 18, 2023 [S1E6] Question Bucket: September 1, 2023 Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

00:22:41: Discussion for episodes 1–3 01:20:18: Discussion for episodes 4 & 5 02:11:26: Discussion for episodes 6–8 Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! Also, don't forget that we will be recording the Question Bucket soon. The deadline to write into our Question Bucket for this series is TKTK. You can write into ghostdiverspod@gmail and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Works Cited in this Discussion Angelis, Eugenio. (2019). Beyond the Screen: Terayama. Spectatorship. Intermediality. Annali di Ca' Foscari. Serie orientale. 55. 10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2019/01/019. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334673210_Beyond_the_Screen_Terayama_Spectatorship_Intermediality Content Warnings for this Discussion Body horror and exploding bodies Rape Police violence and brutality Murder Dismemberment and display of corpses Serial killer Horror Gun violence Alcohol Mental illness and mental health crises Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

00:23:57: Discussion for episodes 9–11 01:14:08: Discussion for episodes 12 & 13 01:53:12: Discussion for episodes 14–16 Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! Also, don't forget that we will be recording the Question Bucket soon. The deadline to write into our Question Bucket for this series is TKTK. You can write into ghostdiverspod@gmail and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Works Cited in this Discussion Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807). Zoubek, Wolfgang. "Terayama Shûji: Japanese avant-garde theater from the 1970s reviewed four decades later." 富山大学人文学部紀要= Journal of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Toyama 68 (2018): 281-326. https://www.hmt.u-toyama.ac.jp/uploads/zoubek68.pdf Terayama, Shuji. "Manifesto by Shuji Terayama." The Drama Review 19, no. 4 (1975): 84-87. Content Warnings for this Discussion Body horror and exploding bodies Police violence and brutality Murder Hunting humans Reliving trauma as memory Violent obsession and stalking Horror Gun violence Alcohol Mental illness and mental health crises Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Note: In support of the ongoing strikes in Hollywood and the guidance released by SAG-AFTRA regarding rewatch and companion podcasts, we have decided to postpone coverage of Psycho-Pass: The Movie until the strike resolves. We will be back in two weeks with the Question Bucket for Psycho-Pass instead. If you have questions for us, please email them in this week. Thank you! 00:20:38: Synopses for episodes 17–22 00:55:33: Discussion for episodes 17–22 03:05:42: Post-ED discussion (content warnings for alcohol and eating on mic) Also, don't forget that we will be recording the Question Bucket soon. The deadline to write into our Question Bucket for this series is Saturday, August 12, 2023. You can write into ghostdiverspod@gmail and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Works Cited in this Discussion Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Social Contract, 1762. Brenkert, George G. Marx's ethics of freedom. Vol. 49. Routledge, 2013. Den-en ni shisu (Pastoral: To die in the country). Directed by Terayama Shūji (Jinriki Hikoki Sha/Art Theatre Guild), 1974. Content Warnings for this Discussion Body horror, exploding bodies, disembodied brains Police violence and brutality Murder Hunting humans Death, fear of death, joy in death Violent obsession and stalking Gun violence Rape Mental illness and mental health crises Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

01:56:14: Time stamp to skip the Madoka Magica and Fate/Zero spoilers You can write into future Question Buckets at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and don't forget to follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Works Cited in this Discussion Sorgenfrei, Carol Fisher. Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-garde Theatre of Terayama Shūji and Postwar Japan. University of Hawaii Press, 2005. Content Warnings for this Discussion Pedophilia Sexualization of young women Rape Violence Violence against women Gendered violence Sexualized violence Racialized violence Gun violence Police brutality Sex work Homophobia Food Alcohol (post-ED section) Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

We finally return to watch Psycho-Pass: The Movie! 00:20:07: Synopsis 00:31:48: Discussion 02:11:27: Outro 02:29:02: Post-ED discussion Also, don't forget that we will be recording the Question Bucket soon. The deadline to write into our Question Bucket for this series is Saturday, August 12, 2023. You can write into ghostdiverspod@gmail and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Works Cited in this Discussion Fanon, Frantz. Les Damnés de la Terre (The Wretched of the Earth), 1961. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Social Contract, 1762. Content Warnings for this Discussion Body horror, exploding bodies Police violence and brutality Military violence, massacres, and genocide Gun violence Racism & colonialism

Dive into NANA! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Release Schedule [S14E1] Intro to NANA: September 1, 2023 [S14E2] NANA, Nana K. and Nana O. (vol. 1): September 15, 2023 [S14E3] NANA, chs. 1–6 (vols. 2 & 3): September 29, 2023 [S14E4] NANA, chs. 7–12 (vols. 3 & 4): October 13, 2023 [S14E5] NANA, chs. 13–18 (vols. 5 & 6): October 27, 2023 [S14E6] NANA, chs. 19–24 (vols. 6 & 7): November 10, 2023 [S14E7] NANA, chs. 25–30 (vols. 8 & 9): November 24, 2023 [S14E8] NANA, chs. 31–36 + Naoki (vols. 9 & 10): December 8, 2023 [S14E9] NANA, chs. 37–42 (vols. 11 & 12): December 22, 2023 [S14E10] NANA, chs. 43–49 (vols. 12 & 13): January 5, 2024 [S14E11] NANA, chs. 50–56 (vols. 14 & 15): January 19, 2024 [S14E12] NANA, chs. 57–61 + Nobu (vols. 15 & 16): February 2, 2024 [S14E13] NANA, chs. 62–68 (vols. 17 & 18): February 16, 2024 [S14E14] NANA, chs. 68–73 + Takumi (vols. 18 & 19): March 1, 2024 [S14E15] NANA, chs. 74–80 (vols. 20 & 21): March 15, 2024 [S14E16] Question Bucket: March 29, 2024 Content Warnings for the Manga Sex and sexuality, including rape and sexual abuse Trauma Self-harm Mental illness Suicidal ideations and death Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

We discuss the first volume of NANA comprising of the original one-shot stories. 0:09:39: Komatsu Nana one-shot 1:23:30: Ōsaki Nana one-shot Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Hey Nana... 'member when we first met? Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

The hand I was holding then was the only one I wanted to hold that night… and forever... Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for the Discussion Suicide references Sex and sexuality Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

Why does Trapnest take over everything important in my life? Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for the Discussion Sex and sexuality Coercive sex/rape/significant Significant power imbalances in a sexual relationship Sexism, slut-shaming Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

"It felt like I was going to disappear into the 4-hour podcast..." 0:13:17 Synopses 0:26:21 Chapter 19 discussion 1:10:01 Chapter 20 discussion 1:44:21 Chapter 21 discussion 2:07:33 Chapter 22 discussion 2:40:15 Chapter 23 discussion 3:06:31 Chapter 24 discussion 3:46:10 Plugs and outro 3:58:00 Post-ED chat OP: "Hide & seek" by LOVES. ED: "A rhythm like my heartbeat" by Aiha Higurashi Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for the Discussion Sex and sexuality Pedophilia/child sex work/grooming Abuse/manipulation/violence/possessive behaviors Sexism, slut-shaming Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

0:07:26 Synopses 0:13:07 Chapter 25 discussion 1:08:04 Chapter 26 discussion 1:48:14 Chapter 27 discussion 2:27:10 Chapter 28 discussion 3:06:01 Plugs and outro 3:14:42 Post-ED chat OP: "Motor psycho" by Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her ED: "Akai ito" by Logiq Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for the Discussion Sex and sexuality Pregnancy/abortion/unwanted children Pedophilia/child sex work/grooming Abuse/manipulation/violence/possessive behaviors Sexism, slut-shaming Suicide Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co

0:16:26 Synopses 0:30:50 Chapter 29 discussion 1:32:02 Chapter 30 discussion 2:02:14 Chapter 31 discussion 2:22:02 Chapter 32 discussion 2:48:08: Naoki discussion 3:16:51 Plugs and outro 3:22:09 Post-ED chat OP: "Drive a car" by Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her ED: "Touch my lips" by The Girl. Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for the Discussion Rape Dissociative trauma attack Abusive relationships Manipulation and violence Sex and sexuality Pedophilia/child sex work/grooming Pregnancy/abortion/unwanted children Sexism, slut-shaming Suicide

0:24:08 Synopses 0:34:01 Chapter 33 discussion 1:31:40 Chapter 34 discussion 2:10:03 Chapter 35 discussion 2:47:48 Chapter 36 discussion 3:17:43 Plugs and outro 3:29:25 Post-ED chat OP: "Star" by Shonen Knife ED: "Do I love you enough?" by Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for the Discussion Dissociative trauma attack Pedophilia/child sex work/grooming Pregnancy/abortion/unwanted children Self-harm and suicide Abusive relationships Manipulation and violence Sex and sexuality Sexism, slut-shaming

0:06:35 Discussing the image of the moon in NANA 0:18:44 Synopses 0:27:54 Chapter 37 discussion 1:07:54 Chapter 38 discussion 1:33:19 Chapter 39 discussion 2:20:43 Chapter 40 discussion 2:58:41 Chapter 41 discussion 3:39:26 Plugs and outro 3:48:56 Post-ED chat OP: "Under the Moonlight" by Buck-Tick ED: "If It Is the Deep Sea, I Can See You There" by Melt-Banana Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for the Discussion Drugs, drug abuse, and addiction Sex, sexuality, and sex work Sexual choking/breathplay sex/erotic asphyxiation Dissociative trauma attack/panic attack Drowning as a metaphor Pedophilia, child sex work, grooming Self-harm and suicide Death wish, vague suggestion of murder-suicide Abusive relationships, manipulation Cheating

0:04:12 Looking back on the arcs so far as we move into a new narrative arc 0:28:06 Synopses 0:39:10 Chapter 42 discussion 1:29:53 Chapter 43 discussion 2:12:14 Chapter 44 discussion 2:31:54 Chapter 45 discussion 3:07:14 Plugs and outro 3:15:36 Post-ED chat OP: "Old Fashioned Love Song" by Sheena & the Rokkets ED: "I'm Your Girl" by Aiha Higurashi Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for the Discussion Sex, sexuality, and sex work Pedophilia, child sex work, grooming Self-harm and suicide Abusive relationships, manipulation Cheating

0:11:38 Synopses 0:17:29 Chapter 46 discussion 1:22:38 Chapter 47 discussion 2:06:34 Chapter 48 discussion 2:57:37 Chapter 49 discussion 3:29:01 Plugs and outro 3:38:03 Post-ED chat OP: "Cinderellalize" by LOVES. ED: "Take Me Home" by Aiha Higurashi Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for the Discussion Sex, sexuality, and sex work Rape and abuse Pedophilia, child sex work, grooming Self-harm and suicide Abusive relationships, manipulation Drugs, drug abuse, and addiction Sexual choking/breathplay sex/erotic asphyxiation Dissociative trauma attack/panic attack Drowning as a metaphor Death wish, murder-suicide, sexual killing Cheating and infidelity

0:04:32 Synopses 0:15:32 Chapter 50 discussion 0:59:01 Chapter 51 discussion 1:41:06 Chapter 52 discussion 2:28:39 Chapter 53 discussion 3:00:05 Plugs and outro 3:13:12 Post-ED chat OP: "Eyes for the Moon" by Mika Nakashima ED: "get out from the shell -asian version" by L'Arc~en~Ciel Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for the Discussion Sex, sexuality, and sex work Groupes and sex with fans Abusive relationships, manipulation Self-harm, suicide, and death Dissociative trauma attack/panic attack Drowning as a metaphor Cheating and infidelity

0:05:29 Synopses 0:20:31 Chapter 54 discussion 1:19:13 Chapter 55 discussion 2:01:17 Chapter 56 discussion 2:52:16 Chapter 57 discussion 3:38:11 Plugs and outro 3:48:03 Post-ED chat OP: "Don't leave me" by Teengenerate ED: "Sea me (English version)" by Olivia Lufkin Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for the Discussion Sex, sexuality, and sex work Abusive relationships, manipulation, and deceit Pedophilia, child sex work Self-harm, suicide, and death Dissociative trauma attack/panic attack Drowning as a metaphor Cheating and infidelity Alcohol

0:06:57 Synopses 0:20:38 Chapter 58 discussion 1:31:20 Chapter 59 discussion 2:15:37 Chapter 60 discussion 2:38:30 Chapter 61 discussion 3:00:20 Nobu discussion 3:44:29 Plugs and outro 4:03:29 Post-ED chat OP: "Sweet Christmas" by Shonen Knife ED: "As long as we're together" by Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for the Discussion Death Self-harm, suicide, drowning, jumping Dissociative trauma attack/panic attack Abusive relationships, manipulation, controlling behavior Pregnancy and abortion Sex, sexuality, adolescent sexuality Childhood abandonment Lying about identity, deception, potential stalking Sexism Alcohol

0:07:48: Synopses 0:18:04: Chapter 62 discussion 1:08:28 Chapter 63 discussion 1:50:30 Chapter 64 discussion 2:33:49 Chapter 65 discussion 3:33:11 Plugs and outro 3:45:33 Post-ED chat OP: "Your Guitar" by Shonen Knife ED: "What to say" by Aiha Higurashi Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for the Discussion Childhood abandonment Grooming, child abuse, and pedophilia Abusive relationships, manipulation, controlling behavior Cheating and infidelity Deception and stalking Eating disorders Sex and sexuality Self-harm, suicide, drowning Death Sexism Alcohol

0:08:21 Synopses 0:16:42 Chapter 66 discussion 0:51:46 Chapter 67 discussion 1:13:51 Chapter 68 discussion 1:54:20 Chapter 69 discussion 2:32:51 Takumi discussion 4:09:29 Plugs and outro 3:45: Post-ED chat OP: "My Funny Valentine" by Buck-Tick ED: "I'm addicted to you" by Anna Tsuchiya Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for the Discussion Self-harm, suicide, drowning Extensive discussion of suicical ideationbr> Death Grooming, child abuse, and pedophilia Childhood abandonment, neglect trauma Abusive relationships, manipulation, controlling behavior Cheating and infidelity Misogyny and sexism Sex and sexuality, including high school sexuality and explicit talk about cum Drug use Alcohol

0:06:19 Synopses 0:21:57 Chapter 70 discussion 1:11:13 Chapter 71 discussion 1:56:09 Chapter 72 discussion 2:38:27 Chapter 73 discussion 3:25:53 Plugs and outro 3:45: Post-ED chat OP: "Shadow of love" by Olivia Lufkin ED: "Cut me free" by Olivia Lufkin Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for the Discussion Abusive relationships, manipulation, controlling behavior Sexual assault/rape Self-harm, suicide, drowning Death Grooming, child abuse, and pedophilia Childhood abandonment, neglect trauma Cheating and infidelity Divorce Misogyny and sexism Sex and sexuality Drug use and addiction Kidnapping victims Alcohol

0:07:20 Synopses 0:22:42 Discussion of the volume overall 0:35:48 Chapter 74 discussion 1:23:36 Chapter 75 discussion 2:02:34 Chapter 76 discussion 2:41:08 Chapter 77 discussion 3:31:29 Plugs and outro 3:41:12 Post-ED chat OP: "Fuckin' Blue" by Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her ED: "My Way" by Mika Nakashima Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for the Discussion Death, fatal car crash Drug use and addiction Self-harm, suicide, drowning Childhood abandonment, neglect trauma Abusive relationships, manipulation, controlling behavior Sexual assault/rape Grooming, child abuse, and pedophilia Cheating and infidelity Divorce, messy breakups Misogyny and sexism Sex and sexuality Kidnapping victims Alcohol

0:12:26: Looking back on the series as a whole 0:27:51 Synopses 0:35:38 Some discussion of the volume overall 0:40:43 Chapter 78 discussion 1:26:47 Chapter 79 discussion 1:58:02 Chapter 80 discussion 2:39:28 Discussion of uncollected chapters 81-84 3:18:29 Plugs and outro Post-ED chat OP: "Punk Mushi no Onna" by Jun Togawa ED: "If we belong" by Aiha Higurashi Also, don't forget that we will be recording the Question Bucket soon. The deadline to write into our Question Bucket for NANA is May 31, 2024. You can write into ghostdiverspod@gmail and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for the Discussion Death, fatal car crash Funeral, unfinished business, extreme grief Discussion of details of a brutal and disfiguring death on a dead body Drug use and addiction Suicide, self-harm, drowning Childhood abandonment, neglect trauma Abusive relationships, manipulation, controlling behavior Cheating and infidelity Divorce, messy breakups Misogyny and sexism Sex and sexuality Mental illness and distress Self-starvation Alcohol Punk Mushi no Onna One! Two! Three! Four! In the moonlit white forest, I am burrowing into tree roots where many cicadas will emerge. Ah ah! This is the image of me as I reach my final metamorphosis from thinking too many thoughts of you. In the moonlit frozen forest, I am an insect woman drinking tree sap. When at last you finally notice me with my amber stomach, the girl who transformed into an insect, parasitized by a strange grass growing stems of sorrow from her amber back.

0:03:38: Draft 1:34:48: Getting to the rest of the emails... 3:39:41: Plugs and outro 3:47:16: Post-ED chat OP: "Platonic" by Aiha Higurashi ED: "MOON LIGHT" by Buck-Tick You can send emails for Psycho-Pass: The Movie or write into future Question Buckets at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com, and don't forget to follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for the Discussion Some use of the f-slur Mention of suicide and self-harm Misogyny and sexism Childhood abandonment, neglect trauma Sex and sexuality Mention of child sexual abuse/grooming Mental illness and distress Alcohol

Dive into Berserk (1997)! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Autumn: @Autumnal_Coffee (twitter) or @autumnalcoffee (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Release Schedule [S15E1] Intro to Berserk: July 5, 2024 [S15E2] Berserk, eps. 1–6: July 19, 2024 [S15E3] Berserk, eps. 6–12: August 2, 2024 [S15E4] Berserk, eps. 13–19: August 16, 2024 [S15E5] Berserk, eps. 20–25: August 30, 2024 [S15E6] Question Bucket: September 13, 2024 Note: Starting with S15E3, discussion episodes will be a week early in the Patreon feed if at all possible! Intro episodes and Question Bucket episodes will not due to the nature of how we record them. Content Warnings for the Anime Rape and sexual violence, including reference to child sexual assault Extreme violence, gore, and detailed violent torture Suicide Sex & nudity Sexism

0:08:25: Synopses for all episodes 0:27:27: Episodes discussion for all episodes 2:08:23: Outro and ED 2:20:53: Post-ED segment The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Autumn: @Autumnal_Coffee (twitter) or @autumnalcoffee (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings Rape and sexual violence, including discussion of child sexual assault Sexual harassment and assault Violence and gore Body horror, including sexualized body horror Possessiveness Suicide and suicidality Sex and nudity Sexism

0:04:40: Synopses for all episodes 0:20:43: Episodes discussion for all episodes 2:19:23: Outro and ED 2:36:17: Post-ED segment The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Autumn: @Autumnal_Coffee (twitter) or @autumnalcoffee (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings Sexism and misogyny Rape and sexual violence Pedophilia Sex work Sexual harassment and assault Violence and gore Self-harm Sex and nudity

0:03:57: Synopses for all episodes 0:35:50: Episodes discussion for all episodes 2:36:48: Outro and ED 2:51:58: Post-ED segment The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Autumn: @Autumnal_Coffee (twitter) or @autumnalcoffee (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings Rape and sexual violence Sexual harassment and assault Pedophilia Sex work Sexism and misogyny Violence, gore, and death by arson Self-harm Sex and nudity

0:14:18: Synopses for all episodes 1:00:05: Episodes discussion for all episodes 2:20:39: Outro and ED 2:35:22: Post-ED segment The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Autumn: @Autumnal_Coffee (twitter) or @autumnalcoffee (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings Extensive discussion of rape and sexual violence Discussion of extreme torture, violence, gore, murder, and death Sexism and misogyny Attempted suicide Horror Betrayal Sex and nudity

Basically just answered emails the entire time so no neat divisions for timestamps for this one. You can write into future Question Buckets at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com, and don't forget to follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Autumn: @Autumnal_Coffee (twitter) or @autumnalcoffee (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warnings for the Discussion Some use of the f-slur I think? Maybe? Rape, sexual assault, violence, torture, and gore Sex and sexuality Sexism and misogyny Discussion of pedophilia and the sexualization of young girls Some light talk about the manga, nothing too spoilery but mentioning just in case

Dive into Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion! The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia Connor: @rabbleais Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Release Schedule [S16E1] Intro to Code Geass: September 27, 2024 [S16E2] Code Geass, eps. 1–6: October 11, 2024 [S16E3] Code Geass, eps. 7–12: October 25, 2024 [S16E4] Code Geass, eps. 13–19: November 8, 2024 [S16E5] Code Geass, eps. 20–25: November 22, 2024 [S16E6] Code Geass R2, eps. 1–6: December 6, 2024 [S16E7] Code Geass R2, eps. 7–12: December 20, 2024 [S16E8] Code Geass R2, eps. 13–19: January 3, 2025 [S16E9] Code Geass R2, eps. 20–25: January 17, 2025 [S16E10] Question Bucket: January 31, 2025 (Plan to record January 24, 2025)

0:04:21: Synopses for all episodes 0:31:15: Discussion of all episodes 2:10:08: Outro and ED 2:20:38: Post-ED segment The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia Connor: @rabbleais Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warning Suicide Violence, death Mind control Sexuality

0:12:03: Synopses for all episodes 0:41:27: Discussion of all episodes 2:22:07: Outro and ED 2:35:27: Post-ED segment The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) and @foxmomnia.bsky.social (bluesky) Connor: @rabbleais Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warning Suicide Violence, death Mind control Deceit Sexuality Drugs and addiction

0:13:03: Synopses for all episodes 0:44:50: Discussion of all episodes 2:01:12: Outro and ED 2:14:29: Post-ED segment The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) and @foxmomnia.bsky.social (bluesky) Connor: @rabbleais Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warning Suicide Violence, death Mind control and mind reading Erasing memories without consent Murder and dismemberment Deceit Sexuality

0:08:41: Synopses for all episodes 0:52:54: Discussion of all episodes 2:15:32: Outro and ED 2:30:11: Post-ED segment The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) and @foxmomnia.bsky.social (bluesky) Connor: @rabbleais Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warning Suicide Violence, death, warfare, and the threat of mutually assured annihilation Mind control and mind reading Erasing memories without consent Murder and dismemberment Deceit Sexuality

0:20:43: Synopses for all episodes 0:52:59: Discussion of all episodes 1:55:44: Outro and ED 2:02:49: Post-ED segment The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) and @foxmomnia.bsky.social (bluesky) Connor: @rabbleais Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warning Suicide Violence, death, and warfare Mind control and mind reading Erasing and rewriting/fabricating memories without consent Deceit and manipulation So much more sexuality, oh my god

0:25:18: Synopses for all episodes 1:00:10: Discussion of all episodes 2:17:56: Outro and ED 2:28:15: Post-ED segment The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) and @foxmomnia.bsky.social (bluesky) Connor: @rabbleais Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warning Suicide Violence, death, and warfare Mind control and mind reading Erasing and rewriting/fabricating memories without consent Deceit and manipulation Sexuality

0:05:09: Synopses for all episodes 0:39:46: Discussion of all episodes 2:02:31: Outro and ED 2:10:50: Post-ED segment The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @foxmomnia.bsky.social Connor: @rabbleais Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warning Suicide Violence, death, and warfare Mind control and mind reading Erasing and rewriting/fabricating memories without consent Deceit and manipulation Sexuality

0:04:15: Discussion of the ending and the episodes in general 0:42:29: Synopses 1:07:42: More discussion about the episodes and conclusion of the show's themes 2:04:43: Outro and ED 2:17:24: Post-ED segment 0:41:49: When we start talking about IBO, jump here to skip the spoilers! The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @foxmomnia.bsky.social Connor: @rabbleais Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warning Violence, death, and warfare Mind control Erasing and rewriting/fabricating memories without consent Deceit and manipulation Loss of self Sexuality

0:50:32: Answering questions 2:03:23: Musical intermission + "BEFORE WE GET BACK TO EMAILS… CONNOR… I HAD A DREAM!" 2:16:48: Answering the remaining questions 3:26:08: Outro and ED 3:35:23: Post-ED segment The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @foxmomnia.exportaud.io Connor: @rabbleais Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule!

Dive into Chobits! [S17E1] Intro to Chobits: February 14, 2025 [S17E2] Chobits, eps. 1–6: February 28, 2025 [S17E3] Chobits, eps. 7–13: March 14, 2025 [S17E4] Chobits, eps. 14–19: March 28, 2025 [S17E5] Chobits, eps. 20–26: April 11, 2025 [S17E6] Question Bucket: April 25, 2025 The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @foxmomnia.exportaud.io Connor: @rabbleais Em: @polarbearsummer.online Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warning for the Series Sex and sexuality Sex work Sexism and misogyny Women as dolls/robots

0:05:32: Synopses 0:16:03: Episode discussion 2:00:29: Outro and ED 2:10:43: Post-ED segment The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @foxmomnia.exportaud.io Connor: @rabbleais Em: @polarbearsummer.online Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warning Sex and sexuality Sexism and misogyny Women as dolls/robots/children This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

0:09:40: Synopses 0:23:58: Episode discussion 2:12:41: An attempt to define "CLAMP Sauce" 2:52:56: Outro and ED 3:08:04: Post-ED segment The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @foxmomnia.exportaud.io Connor: @rabbleais.exportaud.io Em: @polarbearsummer.online Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warning Sex and sexuality Sexism and misogyny Sex work Sexual assault Women as dolls/robots/children Brief mention of pedophilia/incest/other rough things CLAMP has touched on This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

0:05:43: Synopses 0:23:15: Episode discussion 1:36:22: Outro and ED 1:57:11: Post-ED segment The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @foxmomnia.exportaud.io Connor: @rabbleais.exportaud.io Em: @polarbearsummer.online Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warning Sex and sexuality Cheating and infidelity Teacher/student relationship Alcohol This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

0:08:15: Synopses 0:36:51: Episode discussion 2:24:19: Outro and ED 2:40:28: Post-ED segment The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @foxmomnia.exportaud.io Connor: @rabbleais.exportaud.io Em: @polarbearsummer.online Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warning Sex and sexuality Cheating and infidelity Teacher/student relationship Incest Alcohol This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

0:09:50: Answering questions 2:28:06: Outro and ED 2:39:41: Post-ED segment The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @foxmomnia.exportaud.io Connor: @rabbleais.exportaud.io Em: @polarbearsummer.online Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Dive into Dear Brother! (Also, check out Pinfeather here: https://amensalism.itch.io/pinfeather) The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @foxmomnia.exportaud.io Connor: @rabbleais.exportaud.io Ina: @poyfuh.bsky.social Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warning for the Series Drug use Domestic violence Suicide Toxic relationships Bullying and abuse Incest? This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

0:05:07: Synopses 0:39:56: Episode discussion 2:14:59: Outro and ED 2:25:34: Post-ED segment The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @foxmomnia.exportaud.io Connor: @rabbleais.exportaud.io Ina: @poyfuh.bsky.social Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Content Warning Bullying and abuse Incest (kinda? mentioned, at least) Violence This podcast is powered by Pinecast.