Earthian (with Vrai Kaiser)

Covers all of Earthian by Yun Kouga.

Anime Feminist writer Vrai Kaiser joins Shojo & Tell host Ashley to discuss this late 1980s boys' love hot mess of a manga. Earthian starts off as a sort of mashup between Pet Shop of Horrors and The Good Place and ends somewhere way, way off from that. Vrai and Ashley discuss all the religion that is (and isn't) happening with the Catholicsploitation, how sweet Chihaya and Kagetsuya's relationship actually is, how many of the ideas the series presents (but doesn't follow through with) are actually still startlingly relevant, and tons more (probably problematic) topics. The journey is surprising and delightful and horrifying all at the same time.

REFERENCES

• You can buy Earthian digitally from DMP (Yeah..... Yeah)
• Other Yun Kouga series mentioned:
  • Loveless
  • Riddle Story of Devil (Akuma no Riddle)
• Other manga series / creators mentioned:
  • Pet Shop of Horrors
  • Tokyo Babylon
  • Fake
  • Banana Fish
  • Angel Sanctuary // Kaori Yuki
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion
  • Mars
  • Tramps Like Us
  • Vatican Miracle Examiner
  • Mobile Suit Gundam 00
  • Fushigi Yugi // Yuu Watase
  • Heart of Thomas // Moto Hagio
  • Kaze to Ki no Uta
  • Gravitation
  • The Tyrant Falls in Love
  • Devilman
  • Wish
  • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
  • Land of the Lustrous
  • Mari Okada
  • Kentaro Miura
  • Jun Mochizuki
• Misc.  references:
  • The Good Place
  • Bechdel Test
  • Metatron
  • Seifuku
  • Shinzo Abe
  • Beard (slang)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • Tower of Babel
  • The Three Laws of Robotics
  • Smallville
• Caitlin, Mercedez, and Vrai are all writers at Anime Feminist
• Outro song: "The Streatham Hill Gods" by Danosongs

CONTACT US

• Vrai on Twitter: @WriterVrai
• Vrai on Anime Feminist
• Vrai's podcast,  Trash and Treasures
• Shojo & Tell on Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram
• Ashley on Twitter: @AshMcD00