In this episode of Screentone Club, we talk about the horrors of being unable to smoke a cigarette in space with Planetes and appreciate the wonders of smoothly running bureaucracy in Satan's Secretary! As mentioned in the show, we have a minor exciting announcement next episode, so please look forward to it!###Series Discussed: Planetes Omnibus 1, Satan’s Secretary Vol. 1###Assignments for next Episode: Go for it, Nakamura!, The Voynich Hotel Vol. 1The podcast is now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, pocketcasts and more locations as we submit the show to them!##Timecodes:0:00:00 - Start and Introduction! 0:01:20 - Returning Champions: The Promised Neverland Volumes 2 - 5 (Don’t worry, no spoilers!)0:10:20 - Satan’s Secretary0:13:20 - The limits of an admittedly good premise0:15:30 - Elliot Page Prude Minute0:19:30 - Videogame RPG as a trope shortcut0:22:15 - Planetes Omnibus 10:27:30 - Elliot wants more Refuse Collector manga0:31:30 - Andy’s (space) gears get grinded! 0:32:15 - Spoilers of a single storyline start! 0:35:00 - Spoilers end0:37:45 - “The Laguna problem” where the side character is WAY more interesting than the main cast.0:39:20 - A volume that made us really angry, but still highly recommend (?)0:42:15 - The Elliot Page School of Review Writing0:44:15 - Our assignments for next episode! 0:46:15 - What are we looking forward to?0:49:00 - Closedown! 0:49:30 - New e-mail! podcast@screentone.club!
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