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Tokyo Karamazovs (preview)

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Comedy

4.1702 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

This episode is a cross examination of Dostoevsky's seminal work The Brothers Karamazov and Satoshi Kon's slept on brilliant anime holiday film Tokyo Godfathers. Happy New Year. FULL EP AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

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0:00.0

So you might have put together where I'm going with this, right?

0:06.2

Back to Brothers Karamazov.

0:08.6

You have this triumvirate of characters that sort of embody points of view.

0:14.9

And then they clash with each other and something really multi-dimensional happens, right?

0:21.9

That definitely happens in the brothers Karamazov and that definitely happens in Tokyo Godfathers,

0:29.3

even though people probably often miss this by, you know, being a dumb Manosphere guy and

0:37.0

reading the brothers Karamazov i'm sure like

0:39.2

these fucking people have read this entire book and just been like damn you know fucking uh

0:47.1

ivan is like a sigma or whatever and that's all they got out of it is they think it's a story

0:53.0

that's sort of like some sort of instruction on life and it's just like a blueprint for like isn't this guy a cool

1:00.0

guy isn't this guy not a cool guy right dumb fucking story um well if you think about the way that

1:07.0

people have approached uh satoshi khan's works and maybe missed some of the points

1:12.7

of what he's doing.

1:14.6

I think people slept on Tokyo Godfathers partially because it's not as sensational as his

1:21.4

other fucking movies and doesn't have as much, you know, I don't know, just like special

1:26.3

effects and mind-by fun stuff going on,

1:29.2

but partially because it can easily be mistaken for like just a story, right?

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