Chatty AF 214: Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction Retrospective

Chatty AF: The Anime Feminist Podcast

Vrai, Peter, and Toni look back the anime adaptation of Inio Asano’s sapphic apocalypse, Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction! 0:00:00 Intro 0:01:28 Also there’s a manga 0:03:11 Spoiler warning 0:04:09 Content warning 0:04:29 Content vs tone 0:07:41 Anime vs manga 0:10:12 Oba and the aliens 0:17:34 Facism, colonialism, the military industrial complex, and corporate complicity 0:22:14 Activism and futility 0:28:13 Kenichi and Hiroshi 0:30:29 Collective vs individual action 0:35:21 Kenichi by way of Naomi Klein 0:39:28 Dostoevsky has entered the chat 0:40:23 Time for metatext 0:46:35 Watchmen-like narrative structure 0:51:25 The anime is gayer? 1:01:37 Makoto appreciation 1:06:39 The english dub 1:09:37 Adaptation quality 1:15:05 Final thoughts? 1:19:29 About the title 1:21:22 Outro Vrai: bsky.app/profile/writervrai.bsky.social Peter: bsky.app/profile/peterfobian.bsky.social Toni: bsky.app/profile/poetpedagogue.bsky.social AniFem Linktree: https://linktr.ee/animefeminist AniFem Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/animefeminist AniFem Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/animefeminist Recorded Monday 23rd September 2024 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/