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Key Frames: A Podcast About Anime

@keyframespod.bsky.social

The biggest little podcast on the internet, where a group of friends from all over the globe talks about anime the way it should be talked about!

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Key Frames: A Podcast About Anime @keyframespod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sitara, or rather Fatima, from Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia.

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Key Frames: A Podcast About Anime @keyframespod.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We have a new episode coming out tomorrow, but as a bridge from the past to the future here's a few things we found interesting about the process of creating Akira's soundscape.

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Key Frames: A Podcast About Anime @keyframespod.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Credit where credit's due to Megazone 23 Part III, this is one of the more sinister opening lines and images (unintentionally?) for a work of eighties cyberpunk.

An oddly Playskool-coded workstation interface from Megazone 23 Part III, with a display that reads "Good luck! And you'll be save in cyberspace!!"

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Key Frames: A Podcast About Anime @keyframespod.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Oh and humans destroying stuff, we sure do love making stuff go boom.

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Key Frames: A Podcast About Anime @keyframespod.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I stumbled into rewatching Koyaanisqaatsi again just after Akira, & it’s fascinating how it at times share's similar environmental imagery. I wonder if there was a pervasive preoccupation with how we change the world through our technology, and the resultant cityscapes going on in the 80’s.

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Key Frames: A Podcast About Anime @keyframespod.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

You know what's just like Akira? A 86 minute long abstract non-narrative documentary from 1982. Hey wait come back! Koyaanisqatsi is great i promise! it's got cool light trails too!

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Key Frames: A Podcast About Anime @keyframespod.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

They are interesting artifacts in their own way. Especially when they run into problems replicating the movies. For example take this establishing shot of Tokyo in Akira where the different zoom levels of the cells they are stitching together to make one image is very apparent.

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Key Frames: A Podcast About Anime @keyframespod.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It's hard to find much information about the Kodansha Anime Comics apart from the odd note on a wiki or a smattering of auction listings, but they seem to have been made for a fair few works. Including some you wouldn't expect.

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Key Frames: A Podcast About Anime @keyframespod.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Part of the work of editing any podcast is there's always a moment when someone says something that just sounds a little off, and you find yourself thinking: "Did someone really publish a comic of Akira made entirely from sliced up shots from the movie?" and yes they did indeed.

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Key Frames: A Podcast About Anime @keyframespod.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

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Key Frames: A Podcast About Anime @keyframespod.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It's hard to find much information about the Kodansha Anime Comics apart from the odd note on a wiki or a smattering of auction listings but they seem to have been made for a fair few works. Including some you wouldn't expect.

3 Volumes of the Watership Down Anime Comic

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Key Frames: A Podcast About Anime @keyframespod.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Also, it's Tuesday and you know what that means...

Bush being informed of 9/11 but the guy's telling him, "World is dancing, sir."

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Key Frames: A Podcast About Anime @keyframespod.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Just between you and me, this was THE season for yuri, between Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk and Scenes from Awajima.

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Key Frames: A Podcast About Anime @keyframespod.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I'm rewatching Crest of the Stars with friends and we just saw our heroes' escape hindered by the ruler of the outpost where they stop for fuel. His plan of course is to exploit the chaos to form a breakaway state of himself, his dad locked in a closet, and fifty maids. Me? I'm just thinking of him:

Jonathan Glenn from Brain Powerd looking manic while yelling, "I'll get even with women and with my mother!"

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Key Frames: A Podcast About Anime @keyframespod.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

@evirus.bsky.social get ready for a good episode

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