Moon Archive 86: Take Moon & Carnival Phantasm

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

LIST OF NON TYPE-MOON WORKS REFERENCEDcrimsonnesstowers are hospitalsdivine despair devianceonce and future lord of nothingthis superficial worldinterviewersatisfaction dronei woke up a demon.paper-girl-chainself-portrait, vomit on concreteyes, and so our hollow hearts called for love~blood of god~ lunafairythe purgatory carnivalan anthem of the teeth and the tonguegirls' monachopsisgirl im rottingflux_8.rpya machine that kills youdeath of the author[s]hopeless divine: wake of vulturespedestrian passingjuly after junepassion paradoxesp:extrasensitive pervertprincess 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.