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The Seattle Mariners are clinging on for dear life, and I am in pain.

This episode, we're talking about Ai Tanaka's King in Limbo published by Kodansha. And Yuhi Azumi's Cutie and the Beast published by Seven Seas.

King in Limbo credits:

• Translation: Ajani Oloye
• Lettering: EK Weaver
• Editing: Ben Applegate
• Kodansha USA Publishing edition cover design by Matt Akuginow

Cutie and the Beast credits:

• Translation: Angela Liu
• Adaptation: Andrea Puckett
• Lettering and retouch: Erika Terriquez
• Interior layout: Christa Miesner (volume 2)
• Cover design: Nicky Lim, George Panella (logo)
• Proofreader: Brett Hallahan, Dawn Davis (volume 2)
• Editor: J.P. Sullivan
• Prepress technician: Rhiannon Rasmussen-Silverstein
• Production manager: Lissa Pattillo
• Managing editor: Julie Davis
• Associate publisher: Adam Arnold
• Publisher: Jason DeAngelis

As always, you can find me on bsky @taiikumenco, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on bsky at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen’s writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post and Awko Tako.

Join the unofficial Taiiku Podcast discord, the OSMCast discord. Used with permission.

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Show notes:

(Editor's note: Something is up with Apryll's audio for like the first 15 minutes? I checked the raw audio - before I do lazy editing that sometimes messes with things in kinda this way - and it sounds the same. So no idea what's up. It's mostly listenable, but sorry about that!)

0:44 - We talk about King in Limbo

25:02 - We talk about Cutie and the Beast

Next time is The Lost and Found Collection by Isaki Uta and Ruri Dragon