And we're back! 2024 is off to a rip-roaring start with the first episode of Season Two of URASAWA BOYS! This time, we're covering Pluto, but before we dig into the main attraction, we take a look back at the original arc of Astro Boy that inspired Urasawa's one of a kind cyberpunk murder mystery manga. Join Matt and Quinn as they dig into "The Greatest Robot on Earth" and go long on this influential chunk of a classic manga, ponder on how best to make adaptive moves, talk about Dragon Ball, and generally just have an absolutely great time doing the dang thing. Folks - it's a good one!

Material Covered: Astro Boy - The Greatest Robot on Earth

Next Time: Pluto (Chapter 1-7)

Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on BlueSky and support us on Patreon. The theme music for this season is the track "Clues to the Truth" from the official soundtrack to the anime, composed by Yugo Kanno. Thanks for listening!

CONTENT WARNINGS

We're currently reading Pluto, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, racism, terrorism, death, suicide, weapons/guns, war and war related trauma. Please proceed with caution!

We did it! This is the end! No reading this time, just some light fun discussion of what's going on in our lives, our thoughts on MONSTER a few weeks removed from reading the finale, and then a bunch of fun segments! We do some fancasting, tier-rank our favorite readings, imagine some AUs, take a handful of very fun listener questions, and then talk about a Reddit post (very bad) and a blog post (very good!). Thanks for joining us on this inaugural season of URASAWA BOYS - we're so excited to get into Master Keaton next!

Oh yeah, almost forgot - folks, it's a good one!

Material Covered: Monster - Wrap-up / Listener Questions / Final Discussion

Next Time: Master Keaton (Chapter 1 - 12)

Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on Twitter and support us on Patreon. Thanks for listening!

CONTENT WARNINGS

We're currently reading Monster, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, child abuse, gaslighting/emotional abuse, racism, Nazis, terrorism, death, suicide, hospitals/surgery, alcoholism, drug abuse, weapons/guns, and transphobia. Please proceed with caution!

This is the end. Rain drums against the roof, and in between the low rolls of thunder, you hear something that you could have sworn was a gunshot. Outside, fear alone animates the hearts of those still stuck out on the streets - the devil has come to town.

Woah, hey, who let Matt write self-indulgent prose again? Sorry about that. Arriving not late, but exactly when it intended to is the FINAL READING of Urasawa Boy's inaugural season on Monster.

Across a new "record-breaking" number of recordings (2 each), Matt and Quinn update you on everything that's going on for them, and then spend almost three and a half hours talking about rain, atonement, micro-expressions, death-flags, guilt, history, consequences, metaphors, cutaways, psychic powers, illustration and interpretation, Stephen King, The Bible, 90s Action Movies, 90s Spider-Man comics, 90s Batman comics, and just about everything else we've gone nuts over while reading this finale.

Join us for showdown after showdown as the cast of Monster converges on Ruhenheim to finally experience Johan's vision of the end. Thank you for listening, and for waiting - folks; it's a good one.

Material Covered: Monster (Chapter 152 - 162)

Next Time: Monster - Wrap-up / Listener Questions / Final Discussion

Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on Twitter and support us on Patreon. Thanks for listening!

CONTENT WARNINGS

We're currently reading Monster, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, child abuse, gaslighting/emotional abuse, racism, Nazis, terrorism, death, suicide, hospitals/surgery, alcoholism, drug abuse, weapons/guns, and transphobia. Please proceed with caution!