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  • Episode 27: Bocchi the Rock! and We Are the Best!

    Episode 27: Bocchi the Rock! and We Are the Best!
    Jul 14 2025
    We return once more to deliver the long-promised girl rockers episode! Bocchi the Rock! explores the blossoming of a lonely teenage girl after she joins a rock band, while We Are the Best! is a 2013 Swedish movie set in the 1980s about teenage girls creating a punk rock band. Nostalgia and embarrassment, comedy and … Continue reading Episode 27: Bocchi the Rock! and We Are the Best!
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  • Episode 26: Rose of Versailles and Marie Antoinette

    Episode 26: Rose of Versailles and Marie Antoinette
    Jul 17 2023
    Travel with us to the last days of the Palace of Versailles as we discuss two works about the (first) end of the French monarchy: the classic 1970s anime The Rose of Versailles and the 2006 film Marie Antoinette. In the anime we follow a young swordswoman brought up as a man as she first … Continue reading Episode 26: Rose of Versailles and Marie Antoinette
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  • Episode 25: Future War 198X and Firefox

    Episode 25: Future War 198X and Firefox
    Dec 14 2022
    Duck and cover! In this month’s episode of Podcastle in the Sky the crew steps back in time into the shadow of a Cold War on the verge of going hot with the 1982 techno-thrillers Future War 198X and Clint Eastwood’s Firefox. In a world teetering on the precipice of nuclear annihilation, these controversial time … Continue reading Episode 25: Future War 198X and Firefox
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  • Episode 24: Revolutionary Girl Utena and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

    Episode 24: Revolutionary Girl Utena and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
    Jun 10 2022
    In this episode we discuss the classic anime series Revolutionary Girl Utena and the more recent Netflix reboot She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. Mostly we talk about magic duels, Italian giallo movies, the performance of gender, and binge watching versus the weekly watch. If you’ve ever wished more podcasts started with a five minute … Continue reading Episode 24: Revolutionary Girl Utena and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
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  • Episode 23: Baki and Bloodsport

    Episode 23: Baki and Bloodsport
    Dec 26 2021
    Spend the holidays the traditional way: by listening to us talk about half-naked muscular men pummeling each other senseless. Yes, the Podcastle in the Sky gang discusses the recent Netflix series Baki along with the 1988 classic Bloodsport. We talk about mixed martial arts, Kowloon Walled City, bro science, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting … Continue reading Episode 23: Baki and Bloodsport
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  • Episode 22: The Secret World of Arrietty and The Borrowers

    Episode 22: The Secret World of Arrietty and The Borrowers
    Jul 5 2021
    Join us as we chat about The Secret World of Arrietty and the novel it was adapted from, The Borrowers. Childhood fantasies, British colonialism, the state of the working class, Ghibli movies that weren’t made by Miyazaki or Takahata – we cover it all. Check it out pronto!
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  • Episode 21: Berserk – The Golden Age Arc and The Last Valley

    Episode 21: Berserk – The Golden Age Arc and The Last Valley
    Oct 28 2020
    In the grim darkness of the 17th century, there is only war! Don your armor and sally into the fray alongside the Podcastle in the Sky Crew as we discuss two works suffused with blood and battle: the 2012 trilogy adaptation of Kentaro Miura’s dark-medieval fantasy series Berserk and James Clavell’s 1971 cinematic epic of … Continue reading Episode 21: Berserk – The Golden Age Arc and The Last Valley
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  • Episode 20: Harlock Saga and Rhinegold

    Episode 20: Harlock Saga and Rhinegold
    Sep 19 2020
    Turn your 2020 frown upside down with some opera – the space kind and the regular kind. In 1995, Operavox created a half-hour cartoon about Richard Wagner’s Rhinegold. Four years later, Leiji Matsumoto created an anime miniseries about the same opera, added some space pirates into the mix, and called it Harlock Saga. How do … Continue reading Episode 20: Harlock Saga and Rhinegold
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