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Ranma 1/2: Hard Battle with Steampunk Link (SNEScapades)

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Episode notes

One of the things that I like about anime (and manga probably too if I’d consistently read it) is magical realism. There’s just something cool about a world where paper animals can be brought to life or dragons are real or things like that and it’s not a big deal. Or where people can fall into a haunted spring and get transformed if they’re hit with the right, or wrong, temperature of water.

Listen in as Steampunk Link from SNEScapades comes on the show to talk about this game about a crazy manga where people switch genders and turn into animals nobody seems to really care about anything except literally fighting over a girl before school. Except the teachers, they don’t care at all.

Learn such things as:

  • Arranged marriage and the cultural differences
  • When games are good enough to get a release but not good enough to keep the source material intact
  • Doesn’t it suck when we don’t get the good game in the series?
  • And so much more!

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A big thanks to Cutting Class, as well as .ZeroStar for the promos today.

Music by Best Day, who didn’t even know that it’s my anniversary today.