Currently working as the Executive Director of the Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia, Anne Ishii is a living legend responsible for translating and producing the first works of Queer manga that hit the west, including her translation of Gengoroh Tagame's "My Brother's Husband", which landed them an Eisner Award (among many others) and cementing Tagame's work as a pioneering breakout hit both in Japan and overseas.

In this conversation Anne and Pax chat about her time living in France, how she first found Tagame's work, her time starting a massively successful clothing brand with Graham Kolbeins, and much, much more.

You can find her at AnneIshii.com, or on social media @ill_iterate. Support her work at https://asianartsinitiative.org, check out https://massive-goods.com, and read her work at https://amishii.substack.com.

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Our MOST REQUESTED episode is finally here. Demon Slayer: Mugen Train has been topping the box office for WEEKS, becoming the first anime movie here in the west to dethrone entire swaths of live-action films for weeks on end. It's also the first anime movie to knock Spirited Away off its throne as the highest-grossing anime film of all time, and by a HEAVY margin.

We're talking about Demon Slayer this week, doing a swift dive into the best and worst parts about the series before going deep into Demon Slayer: Mugen Train. It's a big episode, but it's a FIRE episode, in great part due to our guest this week, Kae from the 3AM Thots podcast (You can find them at @Obaewankaenobi on Twitter and Instagram). Kae is currently studying for their Masters in Interdisciplinary studies focusing on Psychology and linguistics, and is a master of all things related to Anime and/or Chris Evans.

We are also joined today by our faithful cohosts, Henry Rosenberg (@Shankitystick) and Anna Chicco (@HighlyAnnamated2)!

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What if the nerdy, sad kid took off his glasses, got a haircut, huge tattoos, 47 piercings, and now suddenly looks like Japanese Russel Brand? And what if that kid fell in love with a beautiful girl with a wild temper and SEVERE unresolved daddy issues? Join us for our deep dive into Webcomic-turned-OVA-turned-Manga-turned-Anime, Horimiya!

We have Henry @Shankitystick and Anna @HighlyAnnamated2 back on the show today, but we have an even specialerer guest this week:

Fan favorite Alex Fields ( @AlexJFields) of the LEGENDARY @TeamAPS is back, baby!

Team APS is a group of friends whose popular YouTube Channel (youtube.com/teamaps) is pumping out CONSTANT sketches, deck techs, pack openings, and other content relating to modern Yugioh. If you're a fan of Yugioh, or just looking to catch up with what's going in in modern Yugioh right now, we can't recommend them highly enough. Their energy is infections, their content is hilarious, and I guarantee they'll be one of your new favorite channels.

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Featuring a hot, literal Teen Wolf and an actual Bunny Girl, Beastars made a HUGE impact when its anime adaptation dropped on Netflix in 2020. But is this 3D animated show really a classic piece on human nature and desire, or is it romantic furry propoganda designed to turn the frogs (and then you) gay? Join us for our Beastars review!

Making his third Brotakus appearance is Mike Flanagan, a fantastic actor from Buffalo, NY who can most often be found on his Twitch stream at @MeeshPlays! Follow MeeshPlays on Facebook for the latest streaming times.

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A bottomless abyss, eldritch artifacts, lost humanity, and the most gorgeous worldbuilding we've seen in anime. Join us for our journey into The Abyss, talking about why this classic show has held up over the years, and why its most devastating scene EASILY tops anything else in anime.

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Before Miyazaki changed the game, before ANY anime had hit it big in the West, before anime was taken seriously as an art form, there was Akira.

A legendary film written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, based on the manga by the same name, Akira is an ultraviolent, devastating portrayal of a post apocalyptic Neo Tokyo ravaged by Biker Gangs, ESPers, and the wounds of the old wars. Animated with a smoothness and fidelity never matched before or since, Akira still stands as an unusurped example of what animation is capable of. A complicated, horrifying story of destruction and rebirth, with complicated questions and very few answers.

Joining us today is Dr. Nona Carter, a brilliant scholar of Japanese culture and literature. Having spent many of her formative years growing up in Japan, join us in hearing about her fascinating background, the scars of Hiroshima, and why Japan is the world's only post-apocalyptic society.

Interested in learning more about Dr. Carter or her class? Check out the Asian Studies department at the University of Buffalo for more information! https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/asian-studies.html

Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:05 Interview with Dr. Nona Carter 20:20 The Plot of Akira 29:05 The Akira Deep Dive 1:31:40 Outro

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What was the first anime? Wait... what even IS anime? Join us as we dive into the depths of the very first forms of Japanese animation, from stop-motion clip art to WW2 Propaganda Films with lil baby animal soldier, until we finally reach touch on the OG, commonly recognized first true anime, Astro Boy. Or, as we came to discover, Astor Boynton. Pax still hasn't recovered from this one.

Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:05 Interview with Dr. Nona Carter 20:20 The Plot of Akira 29:05 The Akira Deep Dive 1:31:40 Outro

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Winner of Crunchyroll's Best Anime of the Year, JUJUTSU KAISEN is a tour-de-force featuring some of the hypest fights in anime EVER. Gorgeously animated, tightly scripted, and bearing some STRIKING similarities to many other anime, does Jujutsu Kaisen rise above it's influences to become something truly remarkable? Or is it another cookie-cutter anime destined for the scrap heap of history?

Timestamps: 0:00Is Jujutsu Kaisen a Naruto Ripoff? 2:23 Intro 4:37Funimation Class Action Lawsuit 8:15 Lindsay Ellis Twitter Controversy 13:25 Golgo 13 Ties for Longest-Running Manga 14:55 Way of the Houshusband/Yasuke/Jojo's pt.6 17:37 Jujutsu Kaisen Deep-Dive 53:40 Outro

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Brotakus is changing, and so are we. Join us on our new adventure, an important new chapter for Hal and Pax. Find out more by listening. We love you and appreciate your support.

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What makes an artist worth cancelling or forgiving? What is it about the acting/entertainment industry that attracts abusers? How can these systems be reformed in a safer and more equitable way?

Act-Age was quickly becoming one of the most popular manga and Japan, with an anime and stage adaptation both on the way. Then, one day, the artist was arrested for some of the most horrifying assaults imaginable, and the manga was nuked from every legal platform, leaving a trail of victims in his wake.

We brought on Julia Black and Kait Fitzpatrick of the Playbook podcast to talk these issues through with us. They are amazing, insightful, brilliant actors and writers, and together we dive through the good, the bad, and the ugly of the Act-Age scandal. You can find their podcast at https://open.spotify.com/show/597oFW85lE5PerWa4nKKV2.

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