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Key Frames: A Podcast About Anime @keyframespod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I suppose it's fitting that Ben missed out on his local Pride event today because we got too caught up in discussing Goodbye, Lara and Le Chevalier d'Eon...

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

I will die mad that I slogged through the entirety of the 1988 Appleseed OVA, a fate worse than death, and then completely forgot to bring it up because it's so dumb and forgettable.

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

So while many of us won’t have the equipment to listen to it’s soundtrack as it’s creator intended at home. The ability to hear something a little different might be an extra reason to head to a theatre to see Akira's re-release this September.

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

This upper end of the sound spectrum is something lost in compressed audio format such as CDs or most music streaming. So when Ecophony Rinne recently had a limited reissue extra steps were required to ensure the effect was preserved You can hear about the process & the album itself on this video.

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Kay Suzuki (Time Capsule) on Geinoh Yamashirogumi’s Ecophony Rinne

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

Their album Ecophony Rinne was what brought them to Otomo’s attention. It was the first record to incorporate some of their polymath founders Tsutomu Ōhashi theory that ultrasonic frequencies can positively affect the brain and enhance the listening experience, which he called The Hypersonic Effect.

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The Music You Can’t Hear: Geinoh Yamashirogumi’s Quest for the Perfect Sound

From brainwave-altering frequencies to Balinese rituals in Tokyo—explore how Shoji Yamashiro and his eclectic collective changed the way we hear music.

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

Akira’s soundtrack by musical collective Geinoh Yamashirogum was chosen by Katsuhiro Otomo because “I felt that Akira wouldn't hold together unless it had lush music. Plain classical & choral wouldn't be enough. Something ethnic with more rhythm—I like rhythm, you see. Their work has lots of rhythm”

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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

I'm pressing both "Play" buttons at the same time to make my $5,200 computer console explode.

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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 · 25/08/2026

Just by sheer number of times it's been brought up and then I've had to walk a normie through how to watch a thumb drive full of video files with what are to them strange, threatening extensions...

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Key Frames: A Podcast About Anime @keyframespod.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It's gotta be Cross Game. Unsurprising that so many of the responses are about baseball anime! Sure, there's plenty weirder than this fairly standard outing from Mitsuru Adachi, but the interplay of romance, rivalry, and ambition following the characters from elementary school to Koshien is perfect.

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Key Frames: A Podcast About Anime @keyframespod.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Ben nearly killed himself binging the entire six-volume saga in two weeks and then staying up until four in the morning to watch the movie, the night before the recording, so please enjoy! I'm begging you, enjoy.

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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

I’ve not seen a clear answer sorry. I wondered initially if it might be to do with licencing rights, but that's not the case here. Both the original manga & the anime comic were published by Kodansha in japan. It's the sort of edge case someone somewhere has probably written a academic paper about.

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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

But, as ever, we ended up with a wide-ranging selection: a smattering of romance (Ramparts of Ice, Even a Replica Can Fall in Love), a surprising amount of shounen (Dr. Stone: Science Future, Akane-banashi), melodrama (Agent of the Four Seasons), and even a detour into fantasy (Witch Hat Atelier).

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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 · 28/07/2026

Just in case you didn't know, the first Tuesday of every month is when we post a new episode of Key Frames. We’ve been doing it for over a decade! Last month was our Spring 2026 roundup: www.keyframespodcast.com/podcast/155-...

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155 - Mr. Beastisms | Key Frames

Episode 155 of Key Frames, a podcast about anime. Here at Key Frames we're hitting never-before-seen milestones, like all the best internet creators.

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

Lafiel leading a comically serious revolt among the maids by forcing them to choose between goshujinsama and her imperial highness the Abu princess, after multiple scenes showing how alienating she finds her titles, is exactly why Crest of the Stars is such an underdog crowd-pleaser.

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

Brain Powerd has become my default for signifying casual misogyny in anime, especially from male characters voiced by Takehito Koyasu with crazy eyes and a center part.

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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 · 21/07/2026

Alright, I've successfully taken over control of this account from Andy, so expect us to actually start posting content, my friends!

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