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On this episode we celebrate with\\xa0Morgana \\u201cManga Maven\\u201d Santilli\\xa0about\\xa0Tokyo Tarareba Girls\\xa0winning the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material-Asia before we continue with our\\xa0Retrospective\\xa0review into volumes 6 & 7!!!

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Timestamps:

• 00:00:00\\xa0- Intro Song: \\u201cTOKYO GIRL\\u201d by Perfume from\\xa0Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Opening,\\xa0Tokyo Tarareba Girls\\xa0won an Eisner
• 00:04:19\\xa0- Reminder about our\\xa0BEASTARS\\xa0vol. 1 giveaway commemorating the official English release
• 00:05:22\\xa0- Correction for news about Funamation getting exclusive streaming rights for\\xa0Revolutionary Girl Utena,\\xa0Boogiepop Phantom, and\\xa0Sweet Blue Flowers, Introductions
• 00:07:23\\xa0-\\xa0News:\\xa0Tokyo Tarareba Girls\\xa0wins the 2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material-Asia
• 00:11:15\\xa0- We celebrate other Eisner winners
• 00:13:13\\xa0- Kodansha will be publishing an digital English edition of\\xa0Smile Down the Runway
• 00:16:36\\xa0- Tokyo Otaku Mode and Otaku-Coin are hiring translators and paying them with cryptocurrency only redeemable to purchase their own products
• 00:23:53\\xa0- Warner Brothers has pulled production on the live-action Akira movie
• 00:27:02\\xa0- The tragedy of an arson attack on Kyoto Animation studio is the worst Japanese mass killing in decades
• 00:34:29\\xa0-\\xa0Whatchu Been Reading:\\xa0Transition Song:\\xa0Dragon Ball Z\\xa0OST \\u201cPrologue\\u201d, Darfox enjoys a drama-free story in\\xa0Natsume Ono\\u2019sRistorante Paradiso
• 00:43:13\\xa0- Morgana dives into the life of\\xa0Akiko Higashimura\\xa0with\\xa0Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist\\u2019s Journey
• 00:45:15\\xa0- dakazu and Morgana discuss the supernatural element in\\xa0Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare
• 00:47:15\\xa0- The characters in\\xa0Asumiko Nakamura\\u2019s\\xa0Classmates: Dou kyu sei\\xa0looked a little weird for Morgana\\xa0
• 00:51:48\\xa0- dakazu was all about the old school delinquents in\\xa0Matsuri Akino\\u2019s\\xa0Colorful Crow
• 00:57:40\\xa0- dakazu was singing along while reading a manga adaptation of\\xa0Victor Hugo\\u2019s\\xa0Les Mis\\xe9rables
• 01:01:54\\xa0-\\xa0Next Episode Preview and Rundown:\\xa0Anime Interlude where we\\u2019ll be discussing the past Spring 2019 season of anime and some of our early impressions for Summer 2019
• 01:03:00 -\\xa0Main Segment Retrospective:\\xa0Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Transition Song: Opening from\\xa0Tokyo Tarareba Girls, comprehensive review of\\xa0Akiko Higashimura\\u2019s manga
• 01:03:41\\xa0- We talk about the bonus Tarare-Bar segments found at the end of the volumes\\xa0
• 01:11:40\\xa0- We recap the events of volume 6
• 01:16:25\\xa0- dakazu thinks Seamus is psychic for accurately predicting the false pregnancy of Kaori
• 01:20:38\\xa0- dakazu is disappointed that Ryo is not an evil genius and just an idiot
• 01:22:54\\xa0- The reoccurring visuals of the fake Eiffel Tower(Tokyo Tower) represent romance for Seamus\\xa0
• 01:25:50\\xa0- Koyuki getting caught in bed with Yoshio breaks our hearts
• 01:28:55\\xa0- Seamus wonders about the significance of pregnancy because it was involved in the end of both Kaori and Koyuki\\u2019s relationships
• 01:30:17\\xa0- We ponder if Ryo or Yoshio will return before the end of the series
• 01:33:10\\xa0- We recap the events of volume 7
• 01:36:30\\xa0- Rinko repeatedly saying she loves Hayasaka makes us question if she really does
• 01:40:54\\xa0- Morgana and dakazu share stories about making comments to their significant others about hairstyles
• 01:45:25\\xa0- Seamus likes a joke that was used in\\xa0Princess Jellyfish
• 01:47:09\\xa0- We groan at the grooming-like trauma that was revealed about Key\\u2019s backstory
• 01:49:51\\xa0- We agree that Yoko was not visually similar enough to Rinko for us to understand the connection they were supposed have
• 01:52:54\\xa0- We think Key fits exactly into the tragic archetype love interest
• 01:54:59\\xa0- We debate how we feel now that Higashimura is leading the story into a rote romance ending
• 02:01:38\\xa0- We compare the possible rote ending of\\xa0Tokyo Tarareba Girls\\xa0to the open ended conclusion of\\xa0Princess Jellyfish
• 02:05:12\\xa0- We make our final predictions for how the series will end
• 02:07:45- Next Week\\u2019s Topic: Anime Interlude, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: \\u201cwish men\\u201d by sunbrain from\\xa0Beet the Vandel Buster