Chatty AF 197 - Scott Pilgrim Takes Off Retrospective

Chatty AF: The Anime Feminist Podcast

Alex, Caitlin, and Toni talk the new Scott Pilgrim Takes Off anime and how it matches up as a new take on the decades old comic and movie! 0:00:00 Intros 0:01:14 Backgrounds with the franchise 0:05:41 The franchise’s background 0:07:25 The vibes 0:09:39 The plot 0:12:53 The twist 0:16:43 Different Scotts 0:18:11 Comic vs movie 0:21:31 Casting 0:24:08 Manic pixie dream girl narrative 0:27:53 Protagonist Ramona 0:30:00 Exes and disposability politics 0:38:12 Giving the exes nuance 0:41:19 Wallace get some 0:43:10 Knives Chau 0:47:34 Scott’s midlife crisis 0:49:58 Time travel 0:54:59 Aging with O’Maley 1:04:33 Outro Alex: bsky.app/profile/arhenderson.bsky.social Caitlin: twitter.com/alltsun_nodere Toni: twitter.com/poetpedagogue AniFem Patreon: www.patreon.com/animefeminist AniFem Twitter: twitter.com/AnimeFeminist Recorded Saturday 2nd December 2023 Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/