"Beast Complex" by Paru Itagaki
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"Beast Complex" by Paru Itagaki
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About this listen
Today, your panelists wonder: what does it look like to tell a story about prejudice but divorced from real-world analogues? What does it mean to tie concepts of hunger and desire together inexorably? Just how much money is cow bathwater going for these days? And wait, is that-? Oh my god, it's Legoshi, my close personal friend Legoshi!
- (00:00) - “Beast Complex” by Paru Itagaki
- (00:43) - Front Matter
- (03:47) - Plot Overview
- (04:42) - Short stories
- (05:48) - The world of Beast Compkex vs Zootopia
- (14:14) - How the book improves over time
- (16:24) - What is doujinshi again?
- (17:48) - Is the mangaka a nepo baby?
- (19:26) - “Devouring”
- (25:45) - SPOILERS!
- (25:48) - Our top 3s
- (31:06) - The Tiger and the Alpaca
- (34:05) - The Pig and the Peacock
- (36:13) - ERROR ⚠️
- (43:17) - The Wolf and the Rabbit
- (54:02) - The Chipmunk and the (Mountain Hare)
- (01:01:08) - Relationships vs Events
- (01:03:39) - The Shiba Inu and the Shiba Inu
- (01:08:28) - The Alligator and the Cow
- (01:14:47) - The Wolf and the Seal
- (01:20:11) - Some of the stories that don’t work
- (01:26:29) - Final thoughts
- (01:27:37) - Further Reading
- (01:32:33) - Back Matter
Further Reading
- Beastars by Paru Itagaki
- Sanda by Paru Itagaki
- Taika's Reason by Paru Itagaki
- Dungeon Meshi (aka Delicious in Dungeon) by Ryoko Kui
- I Will Survive by Borba (aka the Zootopia abortion comic)
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This week’s panelists can be found at:
Matt
Scout
Jillian
Editing this week by AJ Fillari.
Cover art by Scout Wilkinson.
Intro/Outro music by Boqeh.
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