This is a weird one but we also felt that going on a brief season break again SO fast after the last one was silly, so we dug in, did some research, and came up with this... discussion that ended up being longer than some actual episodes of the show. Whoops.

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Thrill to hear people go "wait what" as they remember entire characters they forgot. Listen to all of us monday morning quarterback the writer who was doing three series in the process of putting the original work out! Get ready for a gap month before the next season!

...Unless you're a patron, that is.

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This is just all sorts of frustration and disappointment bubbling over into a rather spirited discussion of how much this plane didn't land. Come for the ending of Monster, stay for full-on discussion of other anime, sitcoms, and things that upset everyone less than how Monster closes. Plus: ranking of blondes!

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It took Naoki Urasawa to ask the question we were all wanting answered as the final arc of Monster: "What if you gave everyone in Twin Peaks a gun and then turned season 2 into a married couple?"

Oh, nobody was asking that? Too bad, we're stuck in it now.

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Content warnings: suicide, child abuse, and basically anything shy of “the holocaust” you can associate with nazis

I'm going to be entirely real with you here: this episode was all but named "Eugenics Hypeman" before everyone said it was the worst possible thing we could associate ourselves with in search results. But if you want to learn about some real world events that this series might have been drawing from, look up what Sweden was up to in the 60s until laws ended it in 1972!

Also, get ready for some of the most enthralling character moments in this entire series! You will believe the Baby can be a tragic figure.

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Content Warning: suicide, incredibly dark sex scene

This week brings us to the end of Martin the Mook's PI diversion, and reunites all the old lovers the story has given us. Even the pairs you forgot existed!

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Content Warning: suicide, parental abuse

I don't think I need to reveal more than that, but we definitely went down some rabbit holes this time, folks.

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This week, we set new pod-speed records with the entire Gunther Milch arc, where there is no digression and no side-chatter because we were all ill, hung-over, or exhausted. Don't worry: the next few are gonna be packed.

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This week, we decide that Joh(an)na's proper pronouns are based on whoever's fronting, but the whole system is simply our problematic fave girlhoss. Please do not imagine pony play Johan now that we've said this.

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In this one we try to talk about Jujutsu Kaisen episodes 1-3, but we talk a lot about urns instead.

You can find the discussed urns here: https://imgur.com/a/UoWJlMN

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Content warning: rather intense scene of gun violence/PTSD and possibly-too-real discussion of dementia. Both brief.

On today's episode, we continue to meet new characters ALMOST FIFTY EPISODES DEEP into Monster, learn which host is fearless about travel, and discover what subject nearly brings everyone to blows.

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Content warning: a lot of torture and aftereffect, even if we talk around it

Today we're going to learn more about how you raise a kid, how you tail a guy, and HOW ARE YOU AN ADULT IN THE SECRET POLICE AND YOU'RE TAKING CANDY FROM RANDOM STRANGERS WHO GIVE YOU THE COLD SHOULDER, GOOD GOD

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Chris and Sibyl carry us across the border, and we meet Wolfgang Grimmer and the other side of the iron curtain after an action-packed opening. You know the material's good when Chris doesn't even get mad at Sibyl covering manga changes.

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We're halfway through the series now, and the mid-season climax is one of the wildest cliffhangers yet. We've got action, we've got tension, and we've got a pair of men who need glasses bigger than Reichwein's. Come along for the ride and come back next time for the exciting conclusion... of this arc.

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Look, y'all. If ever there was proof we need Matt to moderate Chris and I, this is the week that proves it. This is our shortest full episode on record mostly because the two of us made such good pace in discussion that we turned into gossipy coworkers at the world's worst office, and we sliced out anything that wasn't remotely interesting. Just two people bringing the daddy energy for most of an hour.

Spend good money on your chairs and your sleep aids. Also, I want it noted that despite my making a few "goofs" in the episode art, the screenshot this week is an easter egg on the show's part, not mine.

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MASSIVE CONTENT WARNING: Suicide, alcoholism and relapse should be warned about this week. This arc is kind of hard to give you safe points on this given how much all of these play into the events.

This week, we bid farewell to a character we've grown to love after every single warning sign that he will die rises in advance, but don't worry: it's Brimley Time. Plus: have you been wondering where the protagonist of this manga went? We might have answers for you!

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To everyone who's been with us since that first rough season, and those of you who joined up along the way: thank you so much, and we look forward to another two (and further!) years of content to come, because as long as they keep releasing one good anime per year, we've got all the content we need!

Show Notes

• There is no opening track/backing music on this episode because we're already pushing against the limits of filesize on Fireside with this three hour monster, and trying to get anything more complex than our voices would have crushed any bitrate to unlistenable levels. Take it from me, I tried.
• Since I did leave in one or two mentions of it: we were originally going to have friend-of-the-editor David Uzumeri as fourth chair on this episode, but scheduling didn't allow for it in the end. If you're the sort to wonder why him over anyone else: when you're cited on the Wikipedia page for NGE, you can also pull rank.
• In the interests of time I did not go down the Evangelion manga rabbit hole any further than I needed to, but the three mentioned are Sadamoto's adaptation (with Monster-style Kaworu), Angelic Days (the one that this film cribs a lot of territory from), and Shinji Ikari Raising Project (the second "episode 26 timeline" manga I never name on recording, but did mention in passing. It's very silly.)
• Speaking of manga, Matt pointed out after we recorded that the children's book "Rei" rents from the library is actually a work by Anno's wife, The Diary of Ochibi.
• Wondering what this episode art is? Learn about survivorship bias.
• If you're curious where episodes on the other Rebuild movies are, they're bonus content for BNS' first season on the Pitch Drop patreon (linked directly beneath this).

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MASSIVE CONTENT WARNING: Suicide, alcoholism and relapse, and probably the policeman who kills a 16 year old should be warned about this week. This arc is kind of hard to give you safe points on this given how much all of these play into the events.

This week involves scheduling delays, knowledge from beyond the veil, secret families, and chain restaurants. Plus: which host is the most likely to solve the Lament Configuration? Literally nobody will be surprised!

Show Notes:

• Club Applebee's is now deceased, and the website I mention gone with it, but here's an older article that went into the weird Florida debauchery that came with the events.

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This week, Punished Matt is still missing, and Chris and Sibyl head into the debris of the Fortner Family murders, falling down all around a variety of people.

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MASSIVE CONTENT WARNING: Ep. 19 contains a lot of terribly clinical discussion of a serial killer and his sometimes-sexual crimes. Timestamps are in the episode for when to skip to to avoid this.

This week begins the Vanished Matt arc of Monster, and Chris learns that Sibyl has a terrifying new power. Also: slice of life events and coffee crimes!

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MASSIVE CONTENT WARNING: Hard-right militias of the kind that might reside in Germany abound this episode, with a side of the murder of a sex worker. There is really no getting around it with this arc. I cannot give a 'skip to', if this is triggering, you're going to want to skip this week. Next episode is very chill.

With that said, this is where we start to see everyone evolve (or stay stunningly predictable...) and Urasawa answers the question of "what does a guy have to do to REALLY ratchet up the tension around this place"?

Plus: if you're aware of literally anything about one of our hosts, giggle along with her this week.

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MASSIVE CONTENT WARNING: Whole lot of discussion of gaslighting and child abuse in the first two episodes of this block. Skip to 34:40 if you're worried and all you need to know - Tenma has a ward now.

This week takes us deep into German history on a lot of levels as we probe Johan Liebert's past and just keep getting involved in the messy drama of every old person in East Germany. Plus: a two-pronged character study episode, and a tangent so stupid we moved it to the ending!

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Side characters begin to unravel as this cozy mystery becomes a nationwide manhunt, and Kenzo Tenma slips into deeper, darker parts of the underworld. Did you expect terrorists? You're getting terrorists.

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This week, the titular monster is revealed, and the stakes shoot up (yes, even past the opening arc's triple homicide!) with Johan's return, and the mystery of the girl from Heidelberg. Somehow, the only thing all three hosts can agree on is that the show is a good time, but if we have to have one topic, that's a good'un!

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We begin a new season with something unlike the shows we've covered so far: Naoki Urasawa's Monster. A crime thriller period piece, it follows Dr. Kenzo Tenma, a Japanese doctor in Germany, as he finds himself drawn into a web of politics, murder, and deceit that threatens to swallow him alive.

But at this point in the story he's just a naive 20-something who's colorblind to the concept of a woman made out of red flags.

Show Notes

• The opening theme to Monster, Grain, compared to...
• Transiente, by Quilapayun. I later found out that it wasn't the opening, this was used in the anime at a certain scene (in the Japanese broadcast only, never internationally). It's still good!

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This is an incredibly odd episode, because God's War is one of the most singularly cursed pieces of media in all of anime and manga, and I mean that in the "under a bad sign" definition of the word, not "this is incredibly cringe". Tune in for a history lesson and your usual discussion, stay to hear Chris and I dunk on each other and get a little behind the scenes madness from two people who should not be left alone without a chaperone.

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Here we are at the end of the television run of 009: The Cyborg Soldier. Thankfully, as of the time I upload this, the season-long curse of reality reflecting the material we cover hasn't kicked in yet, because if it did, we'd all be having an even shittier 2020 somehow. Unfortunately, that still leaves us with the content we'll be covering next time...

Tune in to hear how everyone feels at the end of this show, what we're covering next season, and what patrons can expect to listen to in the near future while we're on a between-season break!

Show Notes

• I did not make this show up.
• A wild story related to said show involving the people who put together the 009 blu-ray we're all using.
• In case you asked "what the hell did I just hear?" mid-episode: context

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We return to the most forgettable episode of the entire series, but then we follow it up with some of the show's best! Unfortunately, the plot is writing checks the budget can no longer cash, and the wheels begin coming off the 009-mobile just in front of the finish line. If only Matt were here to see this, I think, as I throw my bamboo wish-stick into the river...

Show Notes

If you actually want to learn about Tanabata, this video will cover it in more detail and respect than we did. Because episode 37 sucks.

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Chris is out this week and as a result, the show has about 400% more shoujo content than expected! Matt and Fletch dive into some real gems and then pitch a new show - let us know if you'd actually listen on our discord and/or by spamming Fletcher on Twitter.

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Season two of 009 begins and the wheels are coming off, folks! We re-enter the Ideon Zone for a week, but hopefully you're still enjoying this despite our digression in the middle. (We enjoyed it.)

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We close out season one with the strongest episodes of the first half, and everyone gets real into the question that nobody can answer: why would you create a cyborg hippopotamus, and is this a Wimp Lo situation where it was designed wrong as a joke?

Show Notes

• the possibly-Dr Uranus in episode 1 vs his manga appearance
• I could not find the missing Pizza Hut chairs tweet again. I think the entire internet dunking on a guy who bought a bunch of Pizza Hut-logo cutout chairs going "how old are these/what era is this from?!" caused them to delete in shame.
• Finally, a correction: the incredibly bad CG movies on Netflix are 009: Call of Justice, not "Cry" as I said on the show. Please don't watch them either way. Please don't watch ANY of the awful CG "anime" Netflix keeps trying to pass off, actually.

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I'm not allowing you the satisfaction, Chris. At least I got to spring the plot twist on y'all.

Show Notes:

• Superjail (warning: highly NWS)

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Discussed 1.0 Story Rousource:

• Hydaelyn Players Collective Text Summary
• Ethys Asher: 1.0.-1.23b Story Retrospective
• Official Square summary on Special Edition
• NoClip Documentary

Hosts: Chris Taylor, Ryan Batie ([Cannon & DeVaron](cannondevaron.bandcamp.com), [Catastrophizer](soundcloud.com/catastrophizer))
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The show continues to mimic reality as we cover exploitation of the third-world and colonization in the midst of a block of episodes fleshing out our cast and allowing the anime's writing team to really shine. This one gets real but we're gonna keep posting through it. It's the only way to stop bad men.

Episode Notes:

• Two out of three hosts agree: Read Settlers, by J Sakai. It's even free.

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Instead, it's almost a half-hour of the hosts teasing Fletcher about insane Dragon Ball lore he never knew, and then Fletcher gets revenge by plugging his new podcast. Please listen to Gotta Get Out Of This Town, a pop-punk retrospective show. It's basically this episode but about music.

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This week, we enter the first time an anime-only filler arc graces the shores of Boku no Stop, but it's totally cool because this series is doing a good job of adaptation. Did you ever want to see Dr. Wily shank a priest? How about Swole Ziggy? By the end of the episode, you, too, will understand the dark power of Ｆｒｉｅｎｄｓｈｉｐ.

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In today's episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss Jojo's Bizzare Adventure season two, episodes one and two. These are the ones where we meet Jotaro, learn about stands, and he defeats Noriaki.

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It turns out that we found a show that can get our attention out the gate again! Cyborg 009: The Cyborg Soldier is, for the time being, the best way you can experience this series in the US, and is freshly available in a miracle blu-ray. But even if you don't leap on the money train, come along with us for a ride into a series that'll surprise and entertain - and remember. Ishinomori hates fascists.

Show Notes

• The afterword being read from early on
• Another 009 article by David Brothers (note: contains the image that the hosts are shown which gets the "oh shit" response, maybe don't open at work)

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Feel free to join us behind that paywall, and get Discord access (bug the hosts yourself!), new shows, and even more perks. Either way - we'll see you again Sunday with fresh anime takes!

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Be Invoked is an excellent film that's beautiful to look at, has a fucking fantastic score, and every single one of our hosts comes away with the following message for you, the listener: don't do this to yourself. But do listen to our show, because we put in a lot of work on this one.

Image gallery for Be Invoked

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We're finally at the end of Ideon TV, and all I can say is this: if you wanted three men screaming, you're going to get three men screaming. We'll be back in two weeks with the last stop on this crazy train and I hope you're ready to see the payoff to this sick joke we played on ourselves.

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We're blitzing to the end because even your humble host is getting sick of the pacing problems in Ideon TV, but don't fret - things are looking up for everyone who doesn't get turned to cosmic dust this episode!

Show Notes

• A site listing all the Ideon mecha with concept art
• A supremely cursed gallery of images we describe during the episode.

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This time out, the body count rises as we enter the back half of Ideon, and a lot of us say things we can't ever take back. Get ready for fireworks and one of the most disgusting noises a host can make!

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This week's episode may sound entirely usual to all of you, and when the twist hits halfway in, I hope you all realize something about not playing chicken with an editor.

Also the back half of the series kicks off in earnest with political intrigue, escalating threats, and DONOVAN!

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Come to our hosts say that they have a new favorite episode of the series! Stay to hear a bunch of jokes about balls and ice! Plus: learn the secret of the Saddest Gundam!

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Actual emotional response from our hosts before the episode descends into chaos. Don't worry, everyone listening: Matt still has a house at the end of the catastrophe that closes this episode, even if you might realize just how much he does to reign in his two co-hosts.

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• https://i.imgur.com/BdhCag3.png

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Harulu arrives and character development ensues. Listen to us praise the show's emotional beats in the same stretch where we give constant refrains of "HOW CAN SOMEONE WRITE WOMEN SO BADLY". Plus: there's an entire stretch of madness I leave in solely for the payoff and segue back. You're welcome.

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The first-timers warm on the show as your humble host continues to insist "guys, there's something here, I swear". Luckily, this is where the show starts to tip its hand and reveal that it's operating on some actual clever writing. Sometimes, that's just how it is on this Buff Earth.

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We're back! A new show means a new introduction to one of the other noted "eccentric visionaries" of mecha anime - Yoshiyuki Tomino, he of Gundam. The show starts slow and the animation is a damn strange sight after some of the peak work of the 90s, but we're in for the long haul when the chaos begins near-instantly.

Show Notes

• The size chart we reference here has been scoured from the internet. Just google "Mecha size chart". You'll find several other ones.
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Sometimes I remember that my cohosts have not been doing hours-long marathons of podcasting for years, because I basically had to spearhead this one as everyone else ended up exhausted and/or got almost entirely sliced out of the episode because they were fucking around with a package that had just arrived. From the editing bay, just allow me to say: thanks for coming along with us, and I hope you'll enjoy in a month or so when we kick off Space Runaway Ideon. Stay subscribed to the feed, where I'll be warming it back up with an outtakes episode before we launch.

-F

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A collection of images mentioned in the episode.

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It's finally here: The End of Evangelion. Because it's such a meaty morsel to dig into, and because our hosting platform has maximum filesizes (a thing we actually ran into with episode 12!), we've broken it up into a two-parter, breaking at the mid-film credits sequence. However you feel now that we've gotten here, just remember: the fate of destruction is also the joy of rebirth.

Except we stopped at the destruction so buckle the fuck up for a downer kids.

Show Notes
A gallery of the images we commented on in the episode.
The shitpost images did not go here because ehhhhhhhhhhhhh

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This is our shortest episode by a mile because when you lay out what happens here, even with us dicking around, there's absolutely no meat on these bones. It's the series ending with no budget and a bunch of loose ends which wouldn't be answered for a whole year. In the middle of recording an episode that's barely an hour long, one of our three hosts leaves to go play MtG: Arena. This is how little excitement anyone had for this finale.

• the actual title is "The Beast That Shouted (Ai) At The Heart Of The World", where "ai" is pronounced like the letter but also translates to Love, turning the entire title into a reference to said Ellison story.

Show Notes
A gallery of the images we commented on in the episodes.

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As we hit what's effectively the end of Eva TV, our hosts catch Matt up on what the fuck is even happening, point out just how many answers didn't show up in the broadcast release of the series, and talk about Unit 00 truthers. Remember, kids: bakelite can't stop giant robots.

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This time out we break into the Director's Cut period of the series, a set of four episodes that have been cut, recut, reanimated, chopped, and screwed into anywhere between 3 to 6 cuts of each. We finally get an introspection episode for Asuka and, even more impressively, Fuyutsuki, as we travel back in time with a whole host of characters and, maybe if we're lucky, we can all get what we want: a Pepsi an Angel encounter.

SHOW NOTES

• Zoo
• Institutionalized (the video Chris had to show Matt after recording)]

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Look, as the one (Fletcher) who writes these notes, and with us now having recorded everything save EoE as I write this: this episode is the most heated we get in the whole series, and most of that is because I fucking hate episode 20. Worst in series for me. That said, I tried to make the argument I dragged us all into listenable and kill the crosstalk. God willing, you enjoy learning way too much about all three hosts this week.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Biden My Time
• Human Santapede
• Diamond Joe Biden
• Running In The 90s
• cat cat cat cat mug
• Arizona Tea (Fletcher's note: this clip was my day job for three whole years.)

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In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 13+14 of Neon Genesis Evangelion, "Lilliputian Hitcher" and "SEELE, Throne of Souls". We begin delving into character backstory without REALLY delving into character backstory just in time to pump the brakes on this crazy train for a mid-season clip show, now with poetry jam.

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