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The incomparable number 248, May 2015.

Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable Podcast.

I'm your host, Jason Snell.

In this episode, we are reconvening at long last for another class from Professor Syracusa,

who is going to tell us about anime and expand our minds, just as he did in an episode, it's hard to believe, two years ago when John assigned

Perfect Blue and Millennium actress to us, he's back now with Anime 102, featuring Ghost

in the Shell, the film, as well as the standalone complex TV series.

Hello, Professor Syracusa. How are you tonight?

You know, this whole 101, 102 course progression thing, I think we're finding out where

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