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Ghost Divers

Dive into the ghosts of old anime to discuss film and narrative theory, politics, and queerness in a biweekly show hosted by Connor and Niamh.

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02:57:33

[S14E3] NANA, chs. 1–6

Ghost Divers ·

2023/09/29

Hey Nana... 'member when we first met? Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire:

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02:37:39

[S14E2] NANA, Nana K. and Nana O.

Ghost Divers ·

2023/09/15

We discuss the first volume of NANA comprising of the original one-shot stories. 0:09:39: Komatsu Nana one-shot 1:23:30: Ōsaki Nana one-shot Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan:

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00:58:38

[S14E1] Intro to NANA

Ghost Divers ·

2023/09/01

Dive into NANA! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Release Schedule [S14E1] Intro to NANA:

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02:38:39

[S13E5] Question Bucket: Is Yayoi bucatini?

Ghost Divers ·

2023/08/18

01:56:14: Time stamp to skip the Madoka Magica and Fate/Zero spoilers You can write into future Question Buckets at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our

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03:28:37

[S13E4] Psycho-Pass, eps. 17–22

Ghost Divers ·

2023/08/04

Note: In support of the ongoing strikes in Hollywood and the guidance released by SAG-AFTRA regarding rewatch and companion podcasts, we have decided to postpone coverage of Psycho-Pass: The Movie until the strike resolves. We will be back in two weeks with the Question Bucket for Psycho-Pass instead. If you have questions for us, please email them in this week. Thank you! 00:20:38: Synopses for episodes 17–22 00:55:33: Discussion for episodes 17–22 03:05:42: Post-ED discussion (content warnings for

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03:40:59

[S13E3] Psycho-Pass, eps. 9–16

Ghost Divers ·

2023/07/21

00:23:57: Discussion for episodes 9–11 01:14:08: Discussion for episodes 12 & 13 01:53:12: Discussion for episodes 14–16 Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire:

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03:59:48

[S13E2] Psycho-Pass, eps. 1–8

Ghost Divers ·

2023/07/07

00:22:41: Discussion for episodes 1–3 01:20:18: Discussion for episodes 4 & 5 02:11:26: Discussion for episodes 6–8 Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire:

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01:28:06

[S13E1] Intro to Psycho-Pass

Ghost Divers ·

2023/06/23

Dive into Psycho-Pass! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Release Schedule [S1E1] Intro to

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03:53:59

[S12E9] Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans,...

Ghost Divers ·

2023/05/26

Topics discussed: Once again Niamh has not been able to finish the notes in time. Expect them sometime this weekend. Sorry! Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells:

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03:35:18

[S12E8] Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans,...

Ghost Divers ·

2023/05/12

Topics discussed: Revealed Intentions; the people making IBO love Victory Gundam; how to say Dáinsleif; someone really needed to warn all these characters about death flagging; Iok Kujan continues to survive out of pure stupidity; Hush’s anime rival to gofer lackey arc; the Dáinsleif as an escalation of medieval warfare into modern weaponry; Gjallarhorn’s relationship to myth and history and the original stopping on history and arresting of society into a static structure; the Old Norse legend of

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03:56:51

[S12E7] Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans,...

Ghost Divers ·

2023/04/28

Topics discussed: Iok is a Jerid; Vidar, Gaelio, Ein, and the Norse god of vengeance; the myth of Ragnarök and its significance in Norse mythology; McGillis as a Loki; the patriarchal systems throughout the world of IBO; sacrifice; McGillis’s promise to pass on the colonial apparatus to Orga; an appraisal of Kudelia and the limits of her ability to progress; Atra and Kudelia’s ideas around the end of the conditions that produce child soldiers; Kudelia’s attempts to create the groundwork to support a

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03:13:31

[S12E6] Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans,...

Ghost Divers ·

2023/04/14

Topics discussed: Niamh’s new way of doing synopses; Julieta is the weird girl to Ple’s silly girl, cyber new type vibes all around; Montag goes masked off and just becomes McGillis; the new yakuza motherfucker; the potential identity of the mysterious masked man; the new state of the world and the lack of significant improvements in the wake of Makanai’s election; Tekkadan’s move from an oppositional force to a part of the standing regime; Tekkadan banning the Alaya-Vijnana system; “I sure hope

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03:27:16

[S12E5] Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans,...

Ghost Divers ·

2023/03/31

Topics discussed: Trying to imagine the position of being completely unmoved by anything except Biscuit; spending over a half hour to synopsize three episodes; Connor figured out why he was trudging through Victory; Victory and disgust at the Earth and the ocean; abjection around the Alaya-Vijnana system and cybernetics in general; IBO’s belief in the transformative power of the truth and electoral politics; the tension with Kudelia and the danger that her revolutionary politics can easily be

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03:31:22

[S12E4] Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans,...

Ghost Divers ·

2023/03/17

Topics discussed: An aside for a correction email; the show being cheeky with McGillis’s obvious disguise; Tekkadan’s lack of understanding of their own revolutionary impulses; the show’s nuances in presenting the difficulties of Marxist politics; the narrowness of Kudelia’s default idea of revolution; Tekkadan as revolution as action without a conceptual framework, Kudelia as revolution as a concept without concrete practice, and the need of the two to come together to achieve more; Savarin’s

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03:47:54

[S12E3] Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans,...

Ghost Divers ·

2023/03/03

Topics discussed: Is there anything going on with Moby Dick references?; the introduction of the Turbines to further explore gender and sexuality on the show; the introduction of the various meanings of family; the harem anime providing a potential framework for Atra to reapproach the romantic tension triangle between, Mika, and Kudelia in a way that allows her to reach out to and support Kudelia; the appeal of Mikazuki as a romantic interest for Atra and Kudelia; the glimpses into characterization

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02:48:33

[S12E2] Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans,...

Ghost Divers ·

2023/02/17

Topics discussed: Mikazuki is the main guy from Battles Without Honor or Humanity 2; Kudelia Bluth; the very first scene and the symbols of Iron, Blood, and Orphans; why people say this is the Gundam about child soldiers; how IBO engages in the language of Tomino Gundam shows but tries to translate it for a wider audience; our view of Mars; bodies in IBO; the humanness of the design of Gundam Barbatos; body modifications and the beliefs and opinions about them in the society of IBO; abjection (see

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01:25:20

[S12E1] Intro to Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded...

Ghost Divers ·

2023/02/03

Dive into Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans! The Show: @ghostdiverspod (twitter) or @ghostdivers (cohost) Niamh: @FoxmomNia (twitter) or @foxmomnia (cohost) Connor: @rabbleais (twitter) or @rabbleais (cohost) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Pondering Pootan: exportaud.io/pootan Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Around the Long Fire: abnormalmapping.com/longfire Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Release

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02:14:23

[S11E4] Question Bucket: Normal Country* —Nice to EAT...

Ghost Divers ·

2023/01/20

Topics discussed: The two Kino’s Journey movies; the Land of Foxes, the Normal Country*, and the Boring Country of Thematically Significant Travelers and Their Nuanced Relationship with Travel as an Institution; the many advantages of a small orange; developing a script for the poker episode of Kino’s Journey; the superpower of Google Maps; Beast Wars; Riku’s unlimited superpowers; the Land of Airports; devising a country with the express purpose of trapping Kino; Kino at 40 a.k.a. Batou; the worst

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03:05:54

[S11E3] Kino's Journey —the Beautiful World—, eps....

Ghost Divers ·

2023/01/06

Topics discussed: The Individual vs. Society; Kino’s increasing meddling or involvement in the countries they visit; the optimism or pessimism in the ending of episode 8; pushing against social mores vs. outright violent resistance; the bourgeois consumption of the novel and the cutting off of the revolutionary potential of literature and criticism; solipsism; the problems of the family in liberal society; work and mechanized labor; gender roles and labor; aimlessness, purpose, and purposeful

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