 Wave, listen to me. The stage is Sapporo Hokkaido. One night, Minare Kota spills her heartbroken woes to a radio station worker she meets while out drinking. The next day, she hears a recording of her pitiful grumbling being played live over the air. Minare storms into the station in a rage, only to then be duped by the station director into doing an impromptu talk show explaining her harsh dialogue with just one recording. The many eccentric facets of Minare's life begin to pull every witch direction as she falls ever deeper into the world of radio. Hey everybody, welcome back to a week in geekdom here on YouTube. We're doing another first impressions video, and I am so excited that we finally have not only a manga, because the manga came out a while ago, I think 2014, but we finally have an anime that centers around my line of work. That's something I have been wanting for ages. Ever since I discovered what anime was, or manga, I've always wanted a manga to take place in a radio station. Why? Because this medium that we all love, anime, manga, you know, they're interchangeable, really. I've always been fascinated that the Japanese creators have this uncanny ability to take any subject matter and create a story around it that we're so used to western stuff being more generic and tropey. It's such a breath of fresh air, and ever since I discovered that fact about anime and manga, I've always said, dang, I mean, I want something to do with radio because that's where I work. I've worked in radio stations, so I know my way around that stuff. This story is quite hilarious. It's a Senen series, and I love the animation style. It's so cool to me that it can be taken seriously, and it looks fantastic. The characters are mature looking and refined, and it gives off an elegance to an otherwise wacky, bizarre story. You have the character of Minare, and she, like I said at the beginning, she got dumped and is drunk at a bar and starts spewing out this monologue of her hatred for men and all the rungs that have happened in her life, and you know, she's talking to this radio executive that she doesn't know who he is and barely knows him for a couple hours at this bar. And he, kind of a dickish move, records the whole thing, and then later at the station plays the recording in a segment about ridiculous public encounters of people talking nonsense and public opinion hours, something like that, more of a comedy than anything. And when she hears it, the day after, after getting over on a hangover and getting past the breakup, first we do know that she works at, I believe it was an Italian themed restaurant, I might be wrong on that, but she hears her recording playing in the radio and she storms into the offices of that radio station and demands an explanation, and instead the quick-witted radio team, they put her on live and turn on the mic and she basically starts explaining her thing, life on the air. It's a very simple premise, I practically summarized the entire episode. There are some things added in that will confuse a lot of people who do not know anything about this series, the beginning where she's reading about this deadly encounter with a bear, it makes sense later on that when you find out that she is reading lines, you know, recording lines for a radio thing. So yeah, I mean part of the charm of the series obviously is the character interactions, the character works as I like to mention, and the story beats how it facilitates for one character to interact with another, and it's all done in a really realistic sort of way. It reminded me of watching a rom-com movie or a drama or something, it didn't feel like I was watching an adaptation of a manga, and I liked it, I love that a story can do that and I love that it's animated and it shows the power of animation and what it can do and how you're able to create and craft any story that you want, whether it's an absurd plot like this, you know, radio being the main focus of the story is highly appealing to me, I love it, and it makes me relate to the situation, it makes me relate to the characters. There's just one joke where the mixer obviously, you know, he's mixing the audio and he makes the commentary like, oh man, this is going to be a pain to mix and I get it, I completely understand, I got you bro. But overall the cast of characters is pretty fantastic, Minare is a wonderful character, I love how expressive and the voice actress, which I do not know her name, I think it's Rihosugi Yama, I'm reading off a list here. She does a fantastic job of bringing this character to life and her vocal interactions with the other characters is fantastic, how energetic and expressive she is and it's extremely complimented by the animation. If you would have gotten a subpar team, trust me, it would have not made an impression on me, so I think they really did a good job. The animation is clean, crisp, precise, everybody looks refined and beautiful and in a kooky bizarre kind of way, the story is eccentric enough where I am intrigued and want to continue watching the series and yeah, I made it for the long haul, I'd love the premise and I love the characters and I cannot wait to see what the story takes off, especially with the whole bear scenario, I cannot wait for more. I think Wave Listen to Me is an exceptional usage of anime as a means to give you an otherwise untellable story, if that makes any sense to you guys. I think it's very special or maybe it's just that I'm biased because I love radio, I love audio production and all that stuff. Have you seen Wave Listen to Me the first episode? Let me know down below. If not, tell me what are some of your favorite slice of life unordinary manga, very interesting in finding out. Guys, as always thank you for liking, commenting, subscribing and being a part of what we can geek them. 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