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Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.07.10.548316v1?rss=1 Authors: Oka, S., Ogawa, A., Osada, T., Tanaka, M., Nakajima, K., Kamagata, K., Aoki, S., Oshima, Y., Tanaka, S., Kirino, E., Nakamura, T. J., Konishi, S. Abstract: The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) is the central clock for circadian rhythms. Animal studies have revealed daily rhythms in the neuronal activity in the SCN. However, the circadian activity of the human SCN has remained elusive. In this study, to reveal the diurnal variation of the SCN activity in humans, the SCN was localized, and its activity was investigated using perfusion imaging. We scanned each participant four times a day, every six hours, and higher activity was observed at noon while lower activity was recorded in the early morning. The SCN activity was then measured every thirty minutes for six hours from midnight to dawn and showed a decreasing trend and was comparable with the rodent SCN activity after switching off the lights. These results suggest that the diurnal variation of the human SCN follows the zeitgeber cycles of mammals and is modulated by physical lights rather than the local time. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

We've got an amazing conversation with Pablo Herrera, an anthropologist and one of Cuba's most influential hip hop producers. Pablo speaks about how he got interested in hip hop and the ways Havana's scene of the 1990s sought to emulate American hip hop, especially east coast styles, before becoming more localized and grounded in Cuban culture. The Special Period, Cuba's deep economic crisis, was the backdrop for the emergence of Havana's hip hop scene, and we discuss its influence on Cuban rap lyrics, as well as the continuing racial inequality that the Cuban Revolution never successfully eradicated. Songs played:Primera Base, Igual que túAmenaza, Achabon cruzaoInstinto, Kirino con su tresOrishas, A lo cubanoHermanos de Causa, TengoPopy y la Moda, TengoUnfortunately it's very difficult to find translations of the lyrics of these songs online, but if you're interested in translations, send us a message and we may be able to send you some translated lyrics. @clavechronicles on Instagram/Twitter/FacebookSupport the showIf you like this podcast, please subscribe and give us a 5-star rating on Apple PodcastsFollow The Clave Chronicles on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @clavechronicleshttps://theclavechronicles.buzzsprout.comIntro and outro music: "Bengo Latino," Jimmy Fontanez/Media Right Productions

Ecco a voi un nuovo appuntamento della nostra rubrica settimanale "Pillole di letteratura giapponese"! La nostra Paola Scrolavezza oggi ci presenta "Grotesque" di Kirino Natsuo, edito da Neri Pozza, nella traduzione di Gianluca Coci. Pubblicato in Giappone nel 2003, "Grotesque" ci induce a riflettere sul ruolo della donna nella società nipponica contemporanea. Il punto di partenza è l'assassinio di due prostitute, due donne delle quali ci vengono raccontate le storie: figure profondamente diverse, sono accomunate dal medesimo, dolente desiderio di sfuggire la propria solitudine. Un romanzo forte, che attraverso il crimine apre uno squarcio su un lato nascosto della società giapponese. ----------------------------------- SEGUICI SU: Web Page: https://www.nippop.it Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nippopbologna Twitter: https://twitter.com/NipPopOfficial Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nippopofficial YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/nippopbologna

Let's find out what the girls, women and non-binary people of The Expanse did in season six, episode five called, “Why We Fight”.  Transcript:IntroductionWelcome to the Women of The Expanse podcast. I'm your host, Didi. This episode gave us more character moments, and a reunion between Camina and Naomi. Plus, it got everyone where they needed to be for the series finale. Holden's decision from “Force Projection” looks even worse after the L's that the joint fleet received during this episode. But Holden's not going to apologize or even admit it to Avasarala. If anyone is a “self-righteous shit”, Camina, it's James, not his partner. Now let's find out what the girls, women and non-binary people of The Expanse did in season six, episode five called, “Why We Fight”. CaraCara is sleeping in the woods after taking her dead brother to get ‘fixed' by the strange dogs. Her parents and some of the Laconian military are calling out for her. When she wakes up, Cara doesn't answer them. She walks further into the forest, looking for the dogs. She finds a group of the dogs surrounding a revived Xan. His eyes are different and he asks Cara what it means to be in substrate.  She doesn't know either. He says he feels weird and everything looks different. Cara doesn't care that her brother looks different and says things that don't make sense. She hugs him and thanks the dogs for fixing him. Admiral KirinoKirino and her MCRN force head out to Medina Station. They eliminate sentries from the Free Navy at the Ring. On a wide-band channel, the Admiral announces herself and threatens to open fire unless they surrender. They prepare plasma warheads only, no nuclear weapons. But she gets a report about multiple plasma discharges coming from the Ring station. They don't have time to investigate as several missiles are coming toward the Martian ships. Kirino doesn't get to finish her request for emergency evasion before her ship is destroyed. Rosenfeld GuoliangRosenfeld is delivering a report while Marco watches news feeds about unrest on Iapetus and other Belter stations. They salvaged some parts from the Granicus that will be delivered to the Pella. She asks Marco if he would like Filip to be assigned to the detail. Marco doesn't care. “It's of no concern to me.” He is more concerned about what's being said of him on the news feeds. “They are calling it my war,” he says. Rosenfeld tells him that Iapetus is one insignificant station. But Marco says it only takes one to create doubt. He blames this on Drummer. If enough Belters work with the inner planets, then the Free Navy could lose the war. That's why Rosenfeld urges Marco to go to Medina. “With 1300 systems and hundreds of colonies under your thumb, as much metal as we can mine, as many shipyards as we can build. Anyone who wants access to that will have to ask you.” But remember, Rosenfeld wants to be Governor of Medina Station, so I think she's secretly picturing people asking her for access. She downplays Drummer's accomplishments as a raid of a defenseless supply depot. Marco seems to like what Rosenfeld is saying and walks closer to her. But her hand terminal chimes and whatever Marco was going to do is forgotten. She gets word that the Martian ships around Medina have been destroyed, She wants to celebrate and leaves to make arrangements. As the celebration commences, Rosenfeld announces that the Martians were taken by surprise and all their ships were destroyed by their new railguns. They will drink Earther brandy ‘liberated from Ceres Station'  in celebration. Tadeo has been sent to the brig because he broke radio silence looking for his brother on Ceres Station. Filip did some digging and told Tadeo the bad news that his brother didn't make it. Tadeo admits to being on the crew that set up mining charges on Ceres Station. He was told that no Belters would be killed. Rosenfeld talks to Marco amid the celebrations. His verdict is that the inner planets have size and the Free Navy has numbers. They cannot engage with all his forces at once. She asks Marco about his father; Marco says he never knew him. Rosenfeld says he ‘improved upon the role'. It must suck to constantly have to blow smoke up this narcissist's butt. She shows Marco video of Filip's speech in the galley. It's hard to tell whether Marco is proud or suspicious of his son. Chrisjen Avasarala Back on the UNN Zenobia, they watch the last seconds of Kirino's command. The railguns that fired on them were Martian design but the metal was foreign, something they've never seen before. Bobbie says that Marco traded the Belt's protomolecule sample for Martian ships and weapons. Kirino's ship took fire from five guns but there are probably six in total. They are perched around the ring, ready to ‘rain hell' on anyone who approaches. Some members of the council want to blow up Medina so they can't supply Marco with any more ships or weapons. Bobbie reminds them that the last time they fired up a nuke near a ring station it powered up and almost wiped out the solar system. So, that's a no.There's still time to engage with the Pella before it goes through the ring. But they would have to abandon Ceres Station. Gareth does his best Rosenfeld impression without knowing it by saying they don't owe Ceres a goddamn thing. Admiral Sidiqi wants to load up every warship they've got and ride out. But Avasarala says there aren't enough ships, the joint fleet is spread too thin. Avasarala wants to give the troops a fighting chance to win. She tells the council that they will have her decision soon and dismisses them. Avasarala asks Bobbie for her opinion. “Have I gone soft? Was I trying too hard to be good when I should have been ruthless?” She makes an offhand comment about the warhead on the Roci that misfired. And I'm glad that no one told Bobbie what really happened. After being needled for a response, Bobbie tells her that now is not the time for self-pity. Just keep your eyes on the enemy and wait for them to slip up again. “I still think we're the good guys. And I'd rather do a little less soul searching and a lot more fighting back.” I guess that wasn't what Avasarala wanted to hear so she tells Bobbie to ‘go do something else'. Avasarala tells Monica that they got some info from a Belter on Ganymede about some experimental biotech that would help the whole solar system grow food faster. Monica echoes Bobbie's words about one good person helping change the course of the war.ChrisJen takes a stimulant before welcoming James Holden. She says he rarely wastes her time and that might be true. But he does piss her off a lot. James tells her about the risks involved in traveling through the rings. Ships that do are disappearing. James wants to share the info with Marco, thinking that he might back off. I thought James had left some of that naivete behind in seasons one and two but nope!ChrisJen shows James the Free Navy railguns that destroyed six Martian ships in seconds. She can't afford to think about the future of Ring transit until they end this war. Then she asks Holden how well he knows Camina Drummer. ChrisJen needs an ally, preferably a Belter, with lots of ships and guns. Right now, Camina fits the bill. Bobbie DraperBobbie's in the bar on Ceres Station, in civvies, when she sees Amos stumble in. He's got scratches and glitter on his neck and just been fucked hair. Bobbie's been trying to forget how much she hates politics. She doesn't think they'll lose or win, that their grandchildren will still be fighting over the same things a hundred years from now. Amos tells Bobbie that Holden disarmed the nuke and Bobbie just laughs. Amos doesn't know what he's fighting for and Bobbie says in the end all you can do is fight for your people. Which is something that Naomi echoes later in the episode. Amos finally decides to go back to the Roci after one more trip to the brothel. He invites Bobbie and ew… Clarissa MaoClarissa tells James that the UNN will reinforce the Roci's hull with carbon silicate lace plating. It's some kind of new armor that's used on UNN One. It came from protomolecule research which reminds Clarissa of her dad who did terrible things with the protomolecule to ‘ensure the survival of our species'. Stuff like this makes him seem right and that makes Clarissa uneasy. She tells James that Amos went out to the station and doesn't know when he'll be back. Clarissa stumbles after packing suits and helmets away. This is probably related to using her mods in the X-ray bonus content last week. Naomi NagataNaomi is listening to a message from Dr. Elvi Okoye. The doctor concludes that many of the ship disappearances in the data were similar to the Barkeith. She thinks the data suggests that there is a mass energy threshold that comes before or even triggers these disappearances. All of this makes using the Rings dangerous. James says that Avasarala needs to see this data, that it's ‘bigger than the war'. I don't think Avasarala will agree with that, but whatever, James. Naomi's looking at the news feeds and laughs. But she's not laughing at James - though she could - she's laughing with joy at the news of Camina Drummer bringing food and supplies to Ceres Station. Camina DrummerCamina is arguing with an UNN officer on Ceres Station that wants to board each one of Camina's ships, pilot them into Ceres and conduct a search for Free Navy partisans or Belters with warrants. Avasarala interrupts the connection and lets Drummer and her ships through. They continue to talk, as Avasarala tries to build rapport with a very resistant Camina. “A century of oppression made Marco Inaros inevitable.” Avasarala invites Camina to her ship to talk more but Camina declines. “The Belters here are hungry and I have food. I'm here for them, not you,” she says and ends the call. Josep's limb did not grow well. It will have to be removed and surgery done to prepare for a prosthetic. Camina gets a message from Naomi on her hand terminal. Naomi had just seen the report on the news feed. This is before James spoke to Avasarala and before anyone asked Naomi to get Camina to fight with ChrisJen. Michio and Josep decide to stay on Ceres Station while Camina goes on to fight the Free Navy. Camina tells them that she loved them because they were builders. She wanted to build something with them. Naomi is waiting for Camina outside her ship. They have some awkward small talk and you can tell that Camina wants to hug Naomi but doesn't for some reason. She invites Naomi inside the Tynan. Naomi calls it a fine ship. She asks to meet Camina's family but they're gone. Camina goes through the list of losses she's had while saving the Rocinante or opposing Marco. Camina wants to know why Naomi came to see her. Holden asked her to appeal to Drummer so that she might fight with Avasarala against the Free Navy. Camina asks Naomi how she can fight with and live with inners, how she can pick their side over and over again. But we know that Naomi has not always picked their side. She most definitely picked the Belters when she gave Fred Johnson the protomolecule sample. And the crew members of the Roci who came from inner planets made her miserable about that for the better part of a season. Anyways, Naomi tells Camina that all we can do now is stand by the people we love. Camina says, “Fuck you, you self-righteous shit,” but finally hugs her. Something that Naomi said must have gotten through to Camina because she does agree to meet with ChrisJen and set terms. Will the Belters be remembered after the war is over? ChrisJen promises they will. Camina's people will not take orders from ChrisJen. They shake hands and an alliance is born. OutroAnd that's everything the girls, women, and non-binary people did in The Expanse season six, episode five, “Why We Fight”. That's also it for The Women of The Expanse podcast. Thanks for listening. 

Let's find out what the girls, women, and non-binary people of The Expanse did in season six, episode four, called, “Redoubt”.To tell me what you think about the show, you can tweet @ blackgirlsquee or email blackgirlsquee@gmail.com and put Women of The Expanse in the subject line.  IntroductionWelcome to The Women of The Expanse podcast. I'm your host, Didi. There's no space battle in “Redoubt” but we do get space pirates fighting for booty. That's not nothing. We pick up where we left off from the previous episode and deal with the fallout of some serious decisions made by one Rocinante captain. Belters don't want the joint UN-MCRN fleet to occupy Ceres Station even though they desperately need the aid.  And  Filip is still deciding what kind of man he wants to be, for the fifty-millionth time. There's a lot going on in this episode, despite the lack of high-octane action like we saw in “Force Projection.” And we haven't even gotten to the cold open in Laconia yet. But we will. That said, let's find out what the girls, women, and non-binary people of The Expanse did in season six, episode four, called, “Redoubt”. CaraWe open the show at Xan's funeral. But the first thing we see is one of the protomolecule-made ships flying above Laconia. Cara is sitting by herself, listening to all the adults talking but not really understanding what they're saying. The teacher talks with her parents about how much everyone loved Xan and to let the school know if there's anything they can do to help. Two Laconians talk about the accident that killed Xan - a car came around the curve of a road too fast and hit Xan while he was playing. Looks like the driver will be given some lethal Laconian justice. Someone whispers about a firing squad. Then Cara's solitude gets interrupted by Admiral Winston Duarte. And all the book readers perked up at this sighting. He does that thing that some folks do when they're so focused on a goal or idea. They make everything around them about that one idea or goal, even a little child's grief over their sibling. Duarte compares Cara's loss of Xan to his loss of the dream of Mars. Then it turns into some kind of nationalistic pitch for Laconia. He's basically Marco Inaros with less yelling and more cunning. At the end of his spiel, Cara's actually comforting and encouraging him to keep trying to achieve his dream. It's incredibly manipulative but reveals a lot about Duarte. Cortazar rushes into the funeral looking lost. He tells Duarte that his new coordination protocol just returned a coherent reply pattern. Duarte tells Cortazar to show him and they leave the funeral as the scientist tells the admiral that he thinks he can turn it on, whatever it is. Cara's kid logic got something a little different from what Duarte intended from his speech about sacrifice. We see her take Xan's body out of the house, presumably so the strange dogs can ‘fix' him. Nico SanjraniNico's giving a speech to the Belters who survived the bombing from last episode. They're telling the people of Ceres Station not to sell their future for “the empty promise of safety”. They cast uncertainty on identifying who vented the water tanks but say that they all know who is building a future for the Belt! I don't get it, I thought Nico was smarter than to unconditionally support a man who left you to starve to death and then tried to blow up your station. Nico urges the people not to submit to the UN-MCRN for a ‘sip of water'. These Belters don't sound like the kind that Marco was making them out to be in the last episode. But then we know that Marco is full of shit. They say that the Belt will have peace again once the people from the inner planets leave. ChrisJen AvasaralaChrisJen's aide, Gareth, cuts the feed from Ceres Station, in frustration. He tells Avasarala that the bombs were Belter mining charges so they were obviously left there by Marco. Gareth wants to make the information public but Avasarala says no. Nico will declare it's a false flag, yet another lie from the inner planets. It's going to take more than that to turn them against Marco. Admiral Kirino reminds Avasarala that the MCRN is a navy not a police force. ChrisJen tells her that the Navy can't turn the tide of this war without allies in the Belt. Kirino disagrees and runs down the lost souls: 15 UN marines, 27 Martians and two new frigates out of commission. Kirino and MCRN Fleet Command want to head to the Ring, take out Marco's sentries, depower Medina Station and regain control of the Ring. Avasarala tells Kirino that rushing in to save face and ‘prove their manhood' is what Marco wants. Did we learn nothing from David Paster's headassery in season 5? Maybe Kirino didn't, she was busy doing Martian things. Kirino relays the message that Avasarala won't commit UN forces to a fight against Marco. Fleet Command says they'll do it on their own. This is a recipe for disaster that they don't need right now. It's like everybody is hunting for L's. First Marco, now the MCRN. Avasarala has grown from the woman who used to torture Belters with Earth's gravity to make them talk. She finally has some empathy for the Belters and you've got to wonder if it took those asteroids hitting Earth to knock some sense into her. Either way, it's good to see the growth and a shame that Mars doesn't want to listen. Monica StuartMonica is watching - or rather, filming, the burial of those who died in the Ceres Station bombing when Avasarala and her aide come in. Stuart tells a story about Darcy Okuda, a Specialist in the East Asian Trade Zone, and how she and one of the Sergeants were competitive swimmers. Gareth wants her to stop filming from her eye camera mod. Monica reminds them that Avasarala gave her full access. Avasarala agrees and leaves her to it. Later Monica shows Avasarala footage of that Belter squatter with the cat from the last episode. Avasarala doesn't like the footage at first because it makes Earth look weak. Monica thinks that's why it works. Because it makes Earthers and Belters look weak. Monica wants to inspire empathy from the inner planets. Naomi Nagata Naomi tells Holden that the damage assessment is done and sent to Amos to work on repairs. Holden tells her that the Joint Fleet has the Roci's flight plan. Naomi's going through the battle logs to collect any data on the Pella so she can give it to the fleet so they can find that ship. Oh god, I can see this being very useful to the MCRN if they get their hands on the data, and another headache for Avasarala. Holden probably wants to tell her that he disarmed the warhead that would have killed the Pella, but decides not to. After a confrontation with Amos, Holden finally confesses to Naomi that he disarmed the warhead aimed at the Pella. He couldn't be responsible for killing her kid. She says she's come to terms with the fact that if they win the war, Filip could die. She tried to save Filip and she failed. And instead of martyring herself in the name of motherhood, she left again. All she has left is knowing that she tried. I know a lot of people hate Naomi for being weak or for all the crying she did last season or for not being a ‘badass' like Bobbie and Drummer. But it's scenes like this that make me love her as a character even more. This is what The Expanse is so good at - making women characters who are three-dimensional, with great strengths and weaknesses that make sense for the lives they've lived. They're all so complex and that makes them more real. They don't have to be perfect to be great. Bobbie DraperBobbie's still mad about that dud missile. That's because no one on the Roci wants to tell her what Holden did. And it's probably a good idea that they don't. Because if they tell Bobbie that Holden missed an opportunity to end the war, it's going straight to Avasarala. She and Amos bond over missing the former pilot when one of his favorite songs starts playing. They work and sing and grieve at the same time. Multi-tasking! Clarissa MaoClarissa tells Amos what she found in the ship's weapon telemetry log. There's a record of Holden disarming the warhead. She says it's way above her pay grade and she's not trying to judge. Clarissa decides not to tell Bobbie about the disarmed warhead. But she does tell Holden that she was the one who brought it to Amos' attention. She tells him that when she saw James and Naomi on the Behemoth (in season three) walking unarmed into fire from Ashford. All the people that Clarissa's killed haunt her. She tells him not to feel bad about not killing someone. Rosenfeld GuoliangRosenfeld and Marco are getting a report on the Lauber and the Granicus. The Lauber is a wreck and will be abandoned. Their one repair skiff will be sent to the Pella. Marco wants the two top officers for the Lauber to be spaced and if the leader of the Granicus pleads for clemency they should get the same treatment. Filip has been reassigned to repairs. Rosenfeld meets with him and asks him to help Marco stay focused on the war instead of being distracted with his teenage antics. She wants Filip to give Marco support and counsel. Filip basically says she doesn't know Marco as well as she thinks. He threatens to shoot Rosenfeld and asks what Marco would do about it. “I don't know. Feel really guilty about it, then send money to my family, pretend it's remorse.” She may or may not know Marco as well as she thinks she does. But she's got Filip's number, every digit. Filip can't say shit to her and goes back to the repair job. Rosenfeld gives another report to Marco. The leaders of the Lauber were spaced, the leader of the Granicus was not. She tells him that she assumed that the second order was rhetorical. She says the punishment would have made Marco look scared and weak. Marco balks at the insubordination. Rosenfeld says someone has to talk to him this way; all the others that did are dead or picking up trash. If they win, Rosenfeld wants to be Governor of Medina Station. She feels like she's earning it. They toast in agreement. Camina DrummerDrummer and the combined Tynan-Inazami crew raid the supply depot. But a group of guards shoot at them. They're expecting more guards to board when a bomb goes off. It displaces one of the large crates and it falls on Josep's arm. Michio's a medic so she leaves the ship and amputates the arm so he can get free.Camina orders comms to open a wideband channel. And she records a message for “the traitor, the coward, Marco Inaros. You hunted me and mine and still we are here… unbent, unbroken, unbowed. And you? You are nothing.” She ends her dragging with the phrase, “Live shamed and die empty.” I'd just like to send that to all the conservatives in Congress and the Supreme Court. Of course, they don't feel shamed or any other emotions but I do hope they die empty. OutroThat's it for this episode of The Women of The Expanse podcast. To tell me what you think about the show, you can tweet @ blackgirlsquee or email blackgirlsquee@gmail.com and put Women of The Expanse in the subject line. Voice Memos are cool too. Thanks for listening. 

Welcome to the second part of our feature on Natsuo Kirino's noir classic Out. We dive deep into the text and discuss the good and the less good. Warning: spoilers aplenty so read ahead.  We also review Akira Kurosawa's film noir classic Stray Dog, look back at Black Mask's lesser known young sibling, Manhunt Magazine, and give you five kill shots in Five Round Burst. Get in touch with the show! pointblanknoir@gmail.com Twitter: @pointblanknoir Facebook: Point Blank: Hardboiled, Noir, and Detective Fiction www.pointblankpodcast.com   Support the show: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pointblankcrime

In Episode 36, we head as far east as we're going to go on on our Noir Trip Around the World as we take you to the industrial wastelands of working class Tokyo with our introduction to Natsuo Kirino's very popular and controversial crime noir, Out. In Subject Unknown, we chat about Japanese Noir, and Kurt shares a Dog Eared Classic.  Get in touch with the show. pointblanknoir@gmail.com Twitter: @pointblanknoir Facebook: Point Blank: Hardboiled, Noir, and Detective Fiction www.pointblankpodcast.com Support the show. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pointblankcrime

Dies ist die Pilot-Episode von "Nicey". In dieser Folge reden Aniki und Kirino über Dragon Ball Super. Doch was ist eigentlich "Nicey"? Nicey ist ein Anime-Podcast, der von Kirino und Aniki in die Welt gesetzt wurde. Sollte man sich diesen Podcast anhören, wenn man interessiert an Anime und Manga ist? - Kann man machen, muss man nicht. Dies ist auch unser erster Podcast, und wir hoffen wir verbessern uns! Bis bald, euer Kirino & Aniki! Socialmedia: folgt

Essa é a última edição do AnimecoteCast do ano de 2013. Então fizemos vários tops sobres os animes desse ano. Vale lembrar que esse podcast não contém spoilers. Temos tops esdrúxulos como: anime mais moe, personagem pé no saco, música chiclete, melhor casal, plot twist do ano, elenco mais maluco, personagem mais peituda, anime e cena mais vergonha alheia, entre outros. Também distribuirmos alguns prêmios especiais como: Prêmio Ronaldo para a Trap do ano, Prêmio Clodovil para o melhor e pior figurino, Prêmio mão veloz para o anime mais pervertido e o Prêmio Kirino para a personagem mais vadia. Depois dos tops toscos, fizemos nossos tops sérios com: Melhor arte/animação, Melhor Trilha sonora, Melhor Comédia, Melhor Drama, Melhor Ova, Melhor Filme, Pior anime, Top 5 Melhores Animes de 2013, entre outros. Além de todos esses tops, os participantes tiveram que responder uma pergunta indiscreta: Qual personagem você levaria para a cama?

Podcast novel review of Real World by Natsuo Kirino. Translated by Philip Gabriel. Originally published in Japan by Shueisha in 2003. Published in US by Vintage, July 2009, $14.00. From the back cover: In a crowded Tokyo suburb, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer. When one of them, Toshi, discovers that her nextdoor neighbor has been brutally murdered, the girls suspect the killer is the neighbor's son. But when he flees, taking Toshi's bike and cell phone with him, the four girls get caught up in a tempest of dangers that rise from within them as well as from the world around them. Psychologically intricate and astute, Real World is a searing, eye-opening portrait of teenage life in Japan unlike any we have seen before. My Grade: A On Amazon.com, you can read the first 8 pages of the novel: Click here to read pages 1-8