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Podcastle in the Sky

Podcastle in the Sky is dedicated to examining works of anime in combination with a selected piece of pop-culture, cinema, or literature. Join us in our shotgun approach to analysis as we discuss, compare, and contrast everything from high art to pulp fiction.

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Episode 27: Bocchi the Rock! and We Are the Best!

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2025/07/14

We return once more to deliver the long-promised girl rockers episode! Bocchi the Rock! explores the blossoming of a lonely teenage girl after she joins a rock band, while We Are the Best! is a 2013 Swedish movie set in the 1980s about teenage girls creating a punk rock band. Nostalgia and embarrassment, comedy and … Continue reading Episode 27: Bocchi the Rock! and We Are the Best!

Episode 7: Ayakashi – Samurai Horror Tales and Tales...

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2016/11/01

Celebrate Halloween the PodCastle in the Sky way – by watching Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales and reading Tales of the Dead. We discuss the two horror anthologies but also talk about horror in general, what scares people in the age of Twitter, and Steve Urkel (a.k.a., the greatest horror villain in fiction). Turn on, tune in, … Continue reading Episode 7: Ayakashi – Samurai Horror Tales and Tales of the Dead

Episode 6: Fist of the North Star and The Road Warrior

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2016/09/01

It’s Mad Max and the Musclemen on this month’s post-apocalyptic podcast! In this episode, the PodCastle crew takes a look at two of the 1980s’ most extravagant pieces of end-times fiction with George Miller’s 1981 sequel The Road Warrior and the 1986 anime movie adaptation of Tetsuo Hara’s manga, Fist of the North Star. The narrative … Continue reading Episode 6: Fist of the North Star and The Road Warrior

Episode 5: Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Chronicle

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2016/06/01

Tune in for our greatest accomplishment in anime podcasting – we talk about Puella Magi Madoka Magica without once using the word “deconstruction”. Also we talk about the 2012 movie Chronicle and about teenagers with superpowers, then we kind of meander to a bunch of other topics. So stop, collaborate and listen to PodCastle in the … Continue reading Episode 5: Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Chronicle

Episode 4: Golgo 13 and Octopussy

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2016/02/19

In this episode PodCastle looks back to 1983, a year of dueling James Bond movies – and picks one of the movies (Octopussy, the ‘official’ one) and compares it to another product of 1983, Golgo 13: The Professional, the first anime adaptation of a character inspired by Ian Fleming’s spy. Confident killers, wonky geopolitics, male … Continue reading Episode 4: Golgo 13 and Octopussy

Episode 3: Diabolik Lovers and Twilight

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2016/01/22

We return from the dead to discuss the undead! Diabolik Lovers and Twilight – hot or not? Whether you’re Team Edward, Team Jacob, or Team Shoot Yourself in the Head, listen and be enlightened. Are possessive boyfriends sexy if they’re a hot vampire? Does the firmament rip in twain as we compare these works to … Continue reading Episode 3: Diabolik Lovers and Twilight

Episode 2: The Untouchables and Baccano!

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2015/10/04

Immortality is the theme of our second episode as we compare the 2007 anime series Baccano with its inspiration, the 1987 Brian De Palma gangster flick The Untouchables. We’ve got a cops and robbers story on the one hand and a gangsters versus alchemists story on the other. Tune in as we discuss the enduring … Continue reading Episode 2: The Untouchables and Baccano!

Inaugural Episode! Gankutsuou and The Count of Monte...

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2015/08/10

The first episode of PodCastle In The Sky is here! Our podcast compares and contrasts anime titles with other parts of culture. In this episode we look at GONZO’s animated series Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo, produced back in 2004 and adapted from Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel The Count of Monte Cristo. Audio quality is … Continue reading Inaugural Episode! Gankutsuou and The Count of Monte Cristo

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