The Incomparable, number 306, June 2016.

Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.

I am your host, Jason Snell.

I'm convening another edition.

I'm merely the teaching assistant to Professor John Syracusa. This is

Anime 103, the third in our series of episodes in which John Syracusa assigns us anime to watch

and comment on, hi John. Hi, Jason. Did you do the homework this week? I did all the homework,

all of it. It's amazing. You assigned less of it and therefore I did it. Just keep lowering the bar until you succeed. I crossed over that low bar. That's what I did. Joining me as in addition to being a teaching assistant, I am also a student. Joining me, my fellow students in the anime 103 class, Aline Sims, hello.

Hello, I did the homework too at the last minute, which is pretty, pretty on par for how I do things. That's, that's bad.

Yeah, as long as you get it done before the class, then it's, that's good enough.

And Erica Ensign also, I assume, did all the homework.

I did.

I did it last night.

Yeah, see? Look at that. Once again, I'm the anime teacher's pet. Yeah, yeah. All right, John,

explain to us, what did we watch and why did you choose it? So we're kind of back to the original format, which was multiple things by the same director or artist or, you know,

single person vision.

It was toned down this time to only be two, two things we were going to watch.

We watched two, I guess you would call them movies, but both of them are very short,

more like short films by Makoto Shinkai.

And I like to think to myself, since I've only seen a little bit of his work, that

he has made the same movie three times. We only watch two of them. I pick some bookends

here. The one in the middle, we kind of skipped over. I think it would have been fun to include it,

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