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The Reccers and The Knackered Robots PodcastThe Reccers - 06 - The Night Beyond The Tricorned Window - Part 2The Reccers ride again! Kristie and Maia finally tell you about supernatural BL manga The Night Beyond The Tricornered Window.
This episode was edited by our lovely friend Gherkin whose work you can enjoy here! (or here)
2021-05-211h 05
Gratuitous Pausing PodcastPrep School Bracket Episode 2: Young Sherlock Holmes vs She's the ManOur semester at prep school continues with two re-imaginings of classic British literature. We have Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) inspired by the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and She's the Man (2006) inspired by Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. There's a lot of history here so we've brought in friend of the podcast Maia Franklyn to help us unpack it all.
You can find more from Maia on their 2 podcasts The Reccers & The Knackered Robots
2020-01-1000 min
The Reccers and The Knackered Robots PodcastThe Reccers - 06 - The Night Beyond The Tricornered Window/Touken Ranbu Hanamaru - Part 1Kristie and Maia return with more pop cultural exchange, and yet again find themselves in receipt of anime and manga, this time in the form of supernatural yaoi The Night Beyond The Tricornered Window and browser-based CCG tie-in Touken Ranbu Hanamaru
2019-10-1134 min
The Reccers and The Knackered Robots PodcastThe Reccers - 05 - Busted/Apocalypse no Toride - Part 2The Reccers rise from the grave to solve the mystery of where they've been for [looks at watch] seven months! In doing so we discuss our findings on Netflix's South Korean semi-improvised murder mystery variety show Busted and wacky yet harrowing zombie manga Fortress of the Apocalypse! Remember? Probably not.
2019-06-291h 48The Reccers and The Knackered Robots PodcastThe Reccers - 05 - Busted/Apocalypse no Toride - Part 1Kristie and Matty are back with more recs, this time it's Apocalypse no Toride, a zombie apocalypse Manga by Yuu Kuraishi and Kazu Inabe set in a reformatory school, and Busted, a South Korean improvised variety comedy murder mystery show made by Netflix
2018-11-3033 min
The Reccers and The Knackered Robots PodcastSherloctober: A Most Irregular Podcast - 2018 - 02 - Omoiyari, My Dear Wato-SanEpisode 2 of Sherloctober 2018 sees returning mainstay and Reccers Kristie drop in to talk about the 2018 HBO Asia/Hulu co-production 'Miss Sherlock', a modern take on the Holmes template set in Japan with female leads.
Kristie uses her vast expertise to explain how the Japanese concept of Omoiyari influences the depiction of a character derived from Sherlock Holmes, the South Korean show 'Queen of Mystery' is discussed and we end up talking about Batman again, sorry.
2018-10-211h 17
The Reccers and The Knackered Robots PodcastThe Reccers - 04 - The Fifth Season/The Raccoons - Part 2...yeah, sorry about the wait. Stuff happened, including the episode irretrievably devouring itself in Audacity TWICE during the edit. There may have been some crying. There was definitely some swearing.
BUT ANYWAY, Kristie and Matty are back to share their thoughts on The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin and The Raccoons, a cartoon from the Eighties. Please Enjoy.
2018-10-191h 46The Reccers and The Knackered Robots PodcastThe Reccers - 04 - The Fifth Season/The Raccoons - Part 1What links a fantasy novel by Hugo Award-winning author N. K. Jemisin and a Canadian cartoon from the 1980s? Nothing as far as we know, except that they're what Kristie and Matty are each bringing to this episode of The Reccers!
2018-04-2927 min
The Reccers and The Knackered Robots PodcastThe Reccers - 03 - Antiquarian Bookshop Biblia's Casefiles/Heart of the Steal - Part 2Kristie and Matty share their findings on bookselling-themed mysteries and the mysteries of the heart with Antiquarian Bookshop Biblia's Casefiles and Heart of the Steal by Avon Gale & Roan Parrish
2018-02-101h 28The Reccers and The Knackered Robots PodcastThe Reccers - 03 - Heart of the Steal/Antiquarian Bookshop Biblia's Casefiles - Part 1The Reccers return with a very literary episode! This time out, we'll be exchanging the TV series Antiquarian Bookshop Biblia's Casefiles and the romance novel Heart of the Steal by Avon Gale and Roan Parrish.
(This is our second attempt to record this episode due to technical problems, and doing it the second time made it run short, BUT we were able to add to its length by suddenly veering off into an impromptu discussion of our favourite Godzilla movies because we're professionals god dammit)
Please use these links if you want to play along...
2018-01-2624 minThe Reccers and The Knackered Robots PodcastSherloctober: A Most Irregular Podcast - 2017 - 01 - Recommendatory, My Dear Watson - Part 1Every Sunday in October we'll be posting a podcast episode talking about the Sherlock Holmes canon in all its forms!
We start with a special crossover episode of The Reccers! Kristie and Matty submit some Holmes-specific recommendations for each others' approval, namely the female-Holmes-AU novel A Study In Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas and the 1993 TV Movie Sherlock Holmes Returns.
2017-10-0126 min
The Reccers and The Knackered Robots PodcastThe Reccers - 02 - The Whole Plate/A Silent Voice - Part 2Kristie and Matty return to share what they thought of each others' recommendations of a Youtube series examining Michael Bay's Transformers movies through a lens of film theory and analysis, and an animated movie focusing on bullying and disability in the Japanese school system.
The following Content Warnings apply during the discussion of A Silent Voice:
Ableism
Bullying
Suicide
Parental Abandonment
If you think we need to add more, please leave a comment or DM Matty
[Editor's note: Unfortunately while I was editing t...
2017-09-171h 28
The Reccers and The Knackered Robots PodcastThe Reccers - 02 - A Silent Voice/The Whole Plate - Part 1Kristie and Matty return with more recommendations, this time for an anime film exploring the experience of being deaf in modern Japan and a series of Youtube video essays acting as an introduction to film studies using the live-action Transformers movies as a base.
You can probably guess who recommended what.
2017-09-1640 min
The Reccers and The Knackered Robots PodcastThe Reccers - 01 - Starfighter/From The New World - Part 2
Two weeks ago Kristie and Matty recommended stuff to each other, now find out what they thought as they repeatedly meander back and forth about both of them for around an hour and a half!
Some NSFW discussion including an overly-literal interpretation of the term Cockpit and an off-topic tangent on what can only be described Shark Prince Doubledick.
2017-09-161h 34
The Reccers and The Knackered Robots PodcastThe Reccers - 01 - From The New World/Starfighter
Kristie and Matty like things. Occasionally they like things that they think each other would ALSO like, so they decided to do a podcast where they yell at each other to check out some of the things they like!
Being yelled about this episode are the anime From The New World and the webcomic Starfighter. Join us again in two weeks to see what Kristie and Matty think of each other's recommendations.
Play along at home!
www.crunchyroll.com/shin-sekai-yori…m-the-new-world
starfightercomic.com/comic.php
2017-09-1630 min