Episode 28: Akira

Anime Out of Context

Shaun Rollins and Remington Chase

Animation & Manga, Tv & Film, Comedy, Leisure:animation & Manga, Leisure

4.6 • 829 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Shaun celebrates Halloween with the dark cyberpunk 80's icon: Akira. Meanwhile, Remington overlooks the dramatic cultural impacts and is more focused on the blue kids and criticizing Tetsuo. If you'd like to give us feedback, ask a question, or correct a mistake, send an email on over to [email protected] Special thanks to Xauric for the intro and outro! Check out his stuff here: https://soundcloud.com/xauric

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0:00.0	Warning, animative context contains spoilers, explicit language, and general tomfoolery.
0:05.0	Neither of our hosts or experts on any topic and you should not take their opinions as such.
0:09.0	Listen at your own discretion and enjoy. Hello and welcome to anime out of context.
0:30.6	The show where I attempt to explain the sometimes weird, sometimes wonderful, but always hilarious world of anime.
0:36.6	And I fall asleep only to face a nightmare on Weeb Street.
0:40.3	I'm Sean Rollins.
0:41.3	I'm Remington Chase.
0:42.3	Greetings, kitties.
0:44.3	Oh, jeez.
0:46.3	Oh, you're going all a cryptkeeper on me.
0:51.3	Well, Remington, that's because it is my favorite time of year. It's Halloween.
0:56.8	Close enough, at least. I'm fairly certain this is coming out like a few days before. Somewhere in that
1:03.3	area. But for us, it's Halloween. Which means that because it's such a great holiday, I feel like the real treat is the season, and so we don't even need to see any anime today.
1:17.2	But Remington, this is a season of fear, horror, and general nightmares.
1:24.5	We've already had plenty of that this month. I've had my tricks. Give me a goddamn
1:30.0	treat, Sean. The past two weeks have been brutal. Well, Remington, I've tried to be nice.
1:39.2	What are you talking about? I mean, okay, so the first anime I showed you this month was a little...
1:47.1	Worst thing I've ever seen in my life? Yes, but the second one I showed you was... Also one of the
1:55.2	worst things I've seen in my life? But I had some good intentions, Remington. Oh, God.
2:03.6	I'm just really hoping that this isn't just the month of horror for me personally, and that
2:10.6	maybe, just maybe, we can squeeze out a single good thing this month.
2:16.6	Well, I mean, technically, Helsing was a horror anime.
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