The festival is starting! This time your intrepid hosts are covering the manga Take-Moon and the anime adaptation Carnival Phantasm! Coming on the tail end of a lot of goofy spin offs, Carnival Phantasm is something of a tone setter for Type-Moon comedy going forward. Is that a good thing, or…? We also cover a cornucopia of Menhera VN Jam games, and even answer some emails that we’ve been punting for a while.

Next time, we’ll be covering the Fate/ Prototype OVA that was released as an extra episode for Carnival Phantasm. For the Al|together Jam, we’re covering The Letter, and for Yuri Teatime we’ve got Divine Despair Deviance, a Menhera Jam game we didn’t make it to this time.

Featuring co-hosts Benn Ends (@bennends) and fen (@fenic_fox). Guest featuring Blutweinen (@Blutweinen on Bluesky)

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SECTION TIMESTAMPS:
intro - 0:00:00
yuri teatime - 2:47
crimsoness - 5:41
towers are hospitals - 19:15
divine despair deviance (prelude) - 21:23
once and future lord of nothing - 29:11
this superficial world - 33:05
interviewer - 37:41
satisfaction drone - 41:23
i woke up a demon - 51:06
paper girl chain - 54:29
self-portrait, vomit on concrete - 1:04:34
yes, and so our hollow hearts called for love - 1:05:53
~blood of god~ lunafairy - 1:11:59
the purgatory carnival - 1:15:14
an anthem of the teeth and the tongue - 1:16:03
girls' monachopsis - 1:19:13
girl im rotting - 1:28:40
flxu_8.rpy - 1:31:22
a machine that kills you - 1:36:57
death of the author[s] - 1:42:54
hopeless divine: wake of vultures - 1:50:25
pedestrian passing - 1:53:45
july after june - 1:56:33
passion paradox - 2:03:30
esp:extrasensitive pervert - 2:11:58
princess of distortion - 2:18:08
carnival phantasm - 2:26:32
outro - 3:31:58
emails - 3:38:31

LIST OF NON TYPE-MOON WORKS REFERENCED
crimsonness
towers are hospitals
divine despair deviance
once and future lord of nothing
this superficial world
interviewer
satisfaction drone
i woke up a demon.
paper-girl-chain
self-portrait, vomit on concrete
yes, and so our hollow hearts called for love
~blood of god~ lunafairy
the purgatory carnival
an anthem of the teeth and the tongue
girls' monachopsis
girl im rotting
flux_8.rpy
a machine that kills you
death of the author[s]
hopeless divine: wake of vultures
pedestrian passing
july after june
passion paradox
esp:extrasensitive pervert
princess of distortion

This episode carries content warnings for discussions of blood, sex, death, mental illness, suicide, vomit, mouth stuff, domestic abuse, weird fan tler misogyny, ropes, and harem comedy bits.

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Cover art by Benn Ends, Intro music by Benn Ends, remaining music from works covered.