This week Jam, Jeff, and JD went back in time to read The Rose of Versailles Vol. 1 by Riyoko Ikeda, one of the foundational works of all shoujo comics. Get into your Versailles mindset (Versaind-set) for some gorgeous dresses, elegant balls, murder, and class warfare. Listen in so as to put this work in its proper historical context, and to avoid a case of “Paris syndrome.”
Also mentioned in this episode:
The Guterberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet by Jeff Jarvis
Trigun by Yashuhiro Nightow
Bezerk by Kintaro Miura
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi
Revolutionary Girl Utena created by Be-Papas
Princess Jellyfish and Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artists’ Journey by Akiko Higashimura
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
K-Pop Demon Hunters directed by Chris Appelhans and Maggie Kang
Mary Poppins directed by Robert Stevenson
The Princess Diaries directed by Garry Marshall
My Neighbor Totoro directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Behind the Bastards by Robert Evans
Azumanga Daioh by Kiyohiko Azuma
Shortbox Comics Fair
and Old Souls by Jackarais
Music by Sleuth
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