Vrai, Tony, and special guest, the Getting Animated podcast’s Destiny-Senpai, begin their multi-part watchalong of the shoujo classic, NANA. Destiny will be our expert as Vrai and Tony experience the story for the very first time, just in time for its 25th anniversary.
0:00:00 Intro
0:03:00 About NANA
0:05:11 Personal histories
0:10:51 Yazawa’s style and other works
0:14:12 Plot summary
0:15:32 Music, fashion, and identity
0:37:18 Love, Sex, and CompHet
0:50:25 The boys
0:57:53 Hachi
1:00:20 NANA glazing
1:02:05 Theorycrafting
1:06:38 Lightning round
1:14:59 Outro
Vrai: https://bsky.app/profile/witervrai.bsky.social
Toni: https://bsky.app/profile/empty-visions.bsky.social
Destiny: https://bsky.app/profile/gettinganimated.bsky.social
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Recorded Monday 15th December 2025
Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Vrai, Tony, and special guest, the Getting Animated podcast’s Destiny-Senpai, begin their multi-part watchalong of the shoujo classic, NANA. Destiny will be our expert as Vrai and Tony experience the story for the very first time, just in time for its 25th anniversary.
0:00:00 Intro
0:03:00 About NANA
0:05:11 Personal histories
0:10:51 Yazawa’s style and other works
0:14:12 Plot summary
0:15:32 Music, fashion, and identity
0:37:18 Love, Sex, and CompHet
0:50:25 The boys
0:57:53 Hachi
1:00:20 NANA glazing
1:02:05 Theorycrafting
1:06:38 Lightning round
1:14:59 Outro
Vrai: https://bsky.app/profile/witervrai.bsky.social
Toni: https://bsky.app/profile/empty-visions.bsky.social
Destiny: https://bsky.app/profile/gettinganimated.bsky.social
AniFem Linktree: https://linktr.ee/animefeminist
AniFem Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/animefeminist
AniFem Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/animefeminist
Recorded Monday 15th December 2025
Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Chatty AF 227: Monogatari Watchalong Part 4 - Nisemonogatari
Chatty AF: The Anime Feminist Podcast
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8 months ago
Chatty AF 227: Monogatari Watchalong Part 4 - Nisemonogatari
Tony, Vrai, and Peter return to conquer the nadir of the Monogatari series so they can enjoy Tony's promised greater pastures in Neko White and Black. Enjoy all our thoughts on the infamous toothbrush scene!
0:00:00 Intro
0:01:52 Why are we doing this?
0:05:55 It’s not good
0:06:46 Vrai and Tony see the egg GIF
0:07:36 Obligatory Senjougahara glazing
0:12:47 Karen’s place in the narrative
0:16:06 What’s Hanakawa up to?
0:19:49 Mayoi’s moments
0:25:18 The toothbrush scene actually isn’t that bad
0:35:12 Kanbaru as a model lesbian
0:36:20 Araragi’s “relationship” with his sisters
0:40:00 The Shinobu bathroom scene
0:44:41 Sexualizing sibling relationships and Shinobu
0:46:14 The “Nisemono” in Nisemonogatari
0:53:45 Itamura’s direction
0:56:47 Falseness and buddhist mental formations
1:05:10 Ononoki
1:06:00 Final thoughts
1:08:16 Next episode
1:08:59 Outro
Toni: https://bsky.app/profile/poetpedagogue.bsky.social
Vrai: https://bsky.app/profile/witervrai.bsky.social
Peter: https://bsky.app/profile/peterfobian.bsky.social
AniFem Linktree: https://linktr.ee/animefeminist
AniFem Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/animefeminist
AniFem Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/animefeminist
Recorded Saturday 29th March 2025
Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Chatty AF: The Anime Feminist Podcast
Vrai, Tony, and special guest, the Getting Animated podcast’s Destiny-Senpai, begin their multi-part watchalong of the shoujo classic, NANA. Destiny will be our expert as Vrai and Tony experience the story for the very first time, just in time for its 25th anniversary.
0:00:00 Intro
0:03:00 About NANA
0:05:11 Personal histories
0:10:51 Yazawa’s style and other works
0:14:12 Plot summary
0:15:32 Music, fashion, and identity
0:37:18 Love, Sex, and CompHet
0:50:25 The boys
0:57:53 Hachi
1:00:20 NANA glazing
1:02:05 Theorycrafting
1:06:38 Lightning round
1:14:59 Outro
Vrai: https://bsky.app/profile/witervrai.bsky.social
Toni: https://bsky.app/profile/empty-visions.bsky.social
Destiny: https://bsky.app/profile/gettinganimated.bsky.social
AniFem Linktree: https://linktr.ee/animefeminist
AniFem Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/animefeminist
AniFem Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/animefeminist
Recorded Monday 15th December 2025
Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
