Welcome to Japanimation Station’s Kyoto Vacation, Season 4 of the anime podcast brought to you by the folks at The Weekly Stuff Podcast. We are here to dive into the wide and wonderful world of anime, and you can subscribe on all platforms at JapanimationStation.Com.
Welcome back for Part 6 of our Kyoto Vacation, entitled ‘Yamada Naoko Strikes Back; or, I Have no Voice and I Must Sound! Euphonium.’ And while most of this part will deal with the second half of that title, today’s subject is all about the aforementioned Yamada Naoko, the Kyoto Animation wunderkind behind K-On! and Tamako Market, and the director of what might well be the best thing we’ve watched all season: The 2016 movie A Silent Voice – aka The Shape of Voice – based on the manga by Ōima Yoshitoki. It’s an absolute masterpiece, a stunningly animated story tackling some very intense subject matter – including bullying and suicidal ideation – with incredible amounts of empathy, sensitivity, humor, and humanity.
Enjoy, and come back next week for our review of the first season of Sound! Euphonium.
Time Chart:
Theme Song: 0:00:00 – 0:01:30
Intro & History: 0:01:30 – 0:54:31
Eyecatch Break: 0:54:31 – 0:55:09
A Silent Voice Review: 0:55:09 – 3:24:29
End Theme: 3:24:29 – 3:25:59
Support the show at Ko-fi ☕️ https://ko-fi.com/weeklystuff
Read the book 200 Reviews by Jonathan R. Lack in Paperback or on Kindle – https://a.co/d/bLx53vK
Subscribe to The Weekly Stuff Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheWeeklyStuffPodcast
Visit our website and subscribe to Japanimation Station on all podcast platforms: http://japanimationstation.com/
Subscribe to The Weekly Stuff Podcast on all podcast platforms: http://www.weeklystuffpodcast.com
“re:CAPTURE” and “ice” – Original Music & Lyrics by Thomas Lack, featuring Hatsune Miku & Megurine Luka. https://www.thomaslack.com