Paranoia Agent with Nick Wiger
Added 2024-05-11 04:00:00 +0000 UTCIn our Satoshi Kon bonus ep Griffin, David and Ben are joined by; “The Burger Boy” himself, one of the two titular Doughboys, member of the oft-mentions Blank-Dough text thread, and most relevantly, host of the Patreon Podcast “Get Anime'd”, Nick Wiger, to discuss Kon’s 2004’s Mystery / Psychological thriller Anime series Paranoia Agent.
Topics include: Hotel chair placement, nudist towel habits, re-litigation of “The Dress”, Mad Men memes, and multiple children’s animated movie tangents!
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“What’s gooning?” Griffin’s slightly anxious tone with this question will remain in my head for the rest of my life. David, you won’t see this but you don’t have to watch Neon Genesis Evangelion. You do, however, have to watch Cowboy Bebop because it’s the coolest piece of media to ever exist.
William Evans
2024-09-29 02:44:54 +0000 UTCHoly fuck this was an intense repressed memory of discovering this show at a sleepover in middle school and having nightmares for YEARS
Savannah
2024-08-14 17:53:18 +0000 UTCTrue or false - griffin pronounces anime that way explicitly because he knows it annoys people?
Rice
2024-06-15 18:07:22 +0000 UTCNever knows best.
Geoff Kriz
2024-06-06 14:37:03 +0000 UTCA few things - both of the detectives wind up escaping into fantasies, but one is nostalgia and one is modern escapism, showing how neither the older nor the younger generation have the answer to this problem. The old man's equations total up to numbers that are relevant to future victims (e.g. 521 is Tsukiko Sagi's apartment number, 1 is Ichi, etc), and that's the significance of the younger detective's equation at the very end of the series, his equation results in a number that will be related to the next event that will cause the cycle to repeat. Great ep, I rewatched the series and couldn't stop thinking about it, subbed just to hear your thoughts.
wishical
2024-06-02 20:39:10 +0000 UTCHey so the dossier...it's SO GOOD! TOP TIER. ..I have a question. At 43:53 - 44:58 I heard this on the ep: "Tokyo godfathers has 5000 frames per 10 minutes" "Paranoia agent has LESS than 5000 frames (for all 13 of its episodes)." ..where did this info come from? I can't even google my way into finding a source for this, it seems. I loved this hyper technical detail!
Al-Insan Lashley
2024-05-28 11:12:59 +0000 UTCx2
Al-Insan Lashley
2024-05-28 11:11:47 +0000 UTCGreat series as always, but I do have to voice my befuddlement at the choice to do a whole episode about Paranoia agent but not even mention that he wrote the first section of the anthology film Memories. His section was my favorite and would have made for a great discussion about how it informs all of his work going forward.
Damian Sherman
2024-05-26 19:17:16 +0000 UTCI was one of those kids watching the show in 2005 on Adult Swim… my junior year. No one I knew saw it, and I’ve been waiting for someone to talk it forever! Love this! I’ve been wanting to rewatch for so long!!!
MonoStereoVideo
2024-05-22 23:53:37 +0000 UTCCan't thank the BC crew for turning me on to Paranoia Agent. What a fucking show.
Norman Normalperson
2024-05-21 18:46:09 +0000 UTCI’ve been listening to the pod proper for about a year, and finally decided to make the Patreon jump. Thanks for doing something worth $5 of my money a month!
Eric McKay
2024-05-19 21:52:31 +0000 UTCI feel compelled to say that FLCL is objectively good
Jon Holt
2024-05-19 06:14:55 +0000 UTCLibby Watson shout out was a nice bonus, we love Libby!
Matt Rombach
2024-05-18 04:18:00 +0000 UTCI would absolutely pay extra for a Patreon Tier that shares the dossier each week!!
Tom Rammer
2024-05-14 23:45:50 +0000 UTCNobody: Sims: Did you say cyberspace?
Matt Melton
2024-05-13 17:19:25 +0000 UTCLove Blank Check and love Doughboys!
Russ
2024-05-13 13:07:26 +0000 UTCI watched on crunchyroll in Japanese with English subs but had to go into audio options to find it
Nicole Paschen
2024-05-13 12:38:19 +0000 UTCAm I being a massive goober or has patreon removed the ability to download this ep?
Shane Warbrooke
2024-05-13 04:52:07 +0000 UTCCrunchyroll really was bad to watch this on--it had an English dub and nothing else, and subtitles in Spanish and Portuguese but not English.
Carl
2024-05-13 04:09:35 +0000 UTCGreat episode about an incredible series, the friends really did this show justice. I've seen this show 3 times and they pointed out things I hadn't noticed yet.
energydiluted
2024-05-13 01:36:59 +0000 UTCDavid! I saw this on adult swim back in high school and holy fuck it just felt like from another universe
Steven Ray Morris
2024-05-12 17:26:53 +0000 UTCYou guys are amazing. Thanks for doing this series. And for getting me back into movies. The podcast dropping feels like running down the stairs on Christmas morning once a week.
Patrick
2024-05-12 15:24:15 +0000 UTCDavid is the German criterion collection TV 2 part “film” World on a Wire on your cyberspace list? I believe it’s based on the same short story as the 13th floor. Bizzaro greatness and definitely early cyberspace if not the actual earliest.
Cal O'Boyle
2024-05-12 13:03:54 +0000 UTC“Family planning” is often used in supermarkets to describe the section which sells prophylactics. Hence the brand name. “Happy family planning” is just a joke on that this “family” is planning to commit suicide.
Jeremy Jones
2024-05-12 00:27:13 +0000 UTCIt took the mention of Little Slugger to remember I had seen most of this on the Adult Swim airing.
Cory McCasland
2024-05-12 00:13:03 +0000 UTCI remember you guys getting yelled at over not having some biography level of citation and being so irritated by that but am glad something really cool (JJ dossier) came out of it
Kerry Browne
2024-05-11 21:33:20 +0000 UTCAs a person who did watch this in 2005, yeah, it was sorta mind-numbing and all-consuming.
Tyler Duggan
2024-05-11 20:20:11 +0000 UTCNot that this isnt obvious but I would love to hear the guys do a new Oppenheimer episode with another guest every year, first few minutes instantly proved the well is still deep
Rad Rodge
2024-05-11 19:17:29 +0000 UTC"that's the golden path" -god emperor David Sims
Joe Skonce
2024-05-11 14:50:33 +0000 UTCI was one of those teens who watched this on Adult Swim in 2005, one ep at a time, week to week.
Bluvbot
2024-05-11 14:16:36 +0000 UTCThe dairy dude!
mikey GOLDSMITH
2024-05-11 13:39:15 +0000 UTCWOW
Joanna Patterson
2024-05-11 12:25:44 +0000 UTCWhen they talk about the title appearing randomly about 10 minutes into every episode (about an hour into the podcast) they are actually describing the "eyecatch," which is a bumper that almost every televised anime has to surround the commercial break in the middle. 99% of television anime will have this, just a random graphic or short animation with the name of the show. It's basically "Paranoia Agent will be back after these messages."
Onslaught Six
2024-05-11 08:35:01 +0000 UTCSaw this on Adult Swim and it was wild!
Agiddysea
2024-05-11 06:10:38 +0000 UTCThat’s not what gooning is lol. That sounds horrifying.
Joseph Leeper
2024-05-11 06:06:09 +0000 UTCThank you!
Calvin
2024-05-11 04:10:51 +0000 UTCOh HELL yeah
Begemott
2024-05-11 04:10:30 +0000 UTCMy 2nd fave podcast joins my 1st fave
Jacob Pickett
2024-05-11 04:09:48 +0000 UTCiger
Jacob Pickett
2024-05-11 04:09:27 +0000 UTCWiger is a W
Calvin
2024-05-11 04:06:43 +0000 UTCwow
Nicholas Hoffman
2024-05-11 04:06:23 +0000 UTCOh hell yeah!
Scott Carberry
2024-05-11 04:05:27 +0000 UTC
