Ep. 5: The Hottest Anime Take Ever (Ikuhara Special) w/ Zeria

Subtitled Anime

Welcome to The Subtitled Podcast, a biweekly anime podcast hosted by Giancarlo Navas with a rotating panel of members from around the anime community.
In this episode Giancarlo is joined by Zeria (@_Zeria_) in an Ikuhara double length special episode in discussions that involve:
• Revolutionary Girl Utena's themes
• Why Juri's hair is the best
• The characterization of Akio as a villian
• Why Utena fails as an entry level Ikuhara show
• Zeria tells us her hottest take ever and it involved Yuri Kuma Arashi and Utena
• A discussion about the critiques of Ikuhara as a director
• Zeria and Giancarlo gush about the perfection of PenguinDrum
• We talk about why PenguinDrum is our favorite Ikuhara work
… and so much more