When a story can sweep us away into another world, it can be a wonderful thing. But when is that…bad? We’ll be exploring examples of both good and bad escapism in this sampler episode of anime from the Summer 2021 season, so buckle up for this discussion.
0:50 Summer 2021 Anime
2:25 Kobayashi’s Maid Dragon Season 2
8:14 The Detective is Already Dead
23:34 Vanitas no Karte
28:41 Remake Our Life
48:21 Hamefura Season 2
50:07 Sonny Boy
52:24 Tsukimichi
54:23 The Aquatope on White Sand
59:08 Re-Main
1:05:37 Life Lessons with Uramichi-Oniisan
1:07:54 The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace
1:21:54 Night Head 2041
1:25:05 D_Cide Traumerei The Animation
1:27:28 Upcoming
Relevant links:
You Know How it is, the Sherlock is Garbage Video Again: https://youtu.be/LkoGBOs5ecM
Goth Anime Girl Context: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2020-01-03/western-fan-artists-draw-tribute-art-of-hiro-suzuhira-gothic-anime-angel/.155007
Please Read Blue Period: https://myanimelist.net/manga/107931/Blue_Period
Stone Ocean Trailer: https://youtu.be/EeCX8Y0a278
Hosts:
Renu – @swandrawn
Soup – @literalsoup2
AT Cast Twitter – https://twitter.com/absolutecast
AT Cast Website – http://absoluteterritorycast.com/
Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/show/0nPdOEG7UF9KSk4BiAb2Sc
Apple Podcasts – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast…
AT Cast Patreon – https://patreon.com/atcast
Intro Music by Ska Tune Network – @SkaTuneNetwork
Ending Music by Takuma Okada – https://twitter.com/takuma_okada_
Pixel illustrations by @swandrawn
We own none of these anime, especially the more contentious ones.