Yeah, this is a long one. We go extensive and deep on the Japanese language and its representation on cards in the Reboot portion of the FFG cardpool (with a few Reboot booster cards sprinkled in). Two hours of talk about Japanese not up your alley? Then tune in instead for a Discord conversation about Celebrity Gift and a full analysis of the Jinteki: Personal Evolution preconstructed deck. Presented in four segments:

Title card: Neural Katana
6:55 Anonymous Tip: Celebrity Gift
Hedge Fund | Sundew | Thistle | Subliminal Messaging | Mental Health Clinic | Commercial Bankers Group | IPO
17:30 Enigma: Jinteki and Japanese
The Japanese of Jinteki, article by thopol
The Japanese of Jinteki 2.0, article by thopol
Part 1
26:15 jinteki: Jinteki: Personal Evolution | Jinteki: Replicating Perfection | Jinteki Biotech: Life Imagined
Midori (Japanese version)
35:35 nisei: Nisei MK II | Caprice Nisei | Nisei Division: The Next Generation | Akiko Nisei: Head Case
Japanese pronunciation site using the following sentence: 日本で生まれた後に海外へ移住し、彼らを親とする世代の人間は、「二世」と呼ばれている。
NISEI becomes Null Signal Games
44:15 zaibatsu: Zaibatsu Loyalty
Part 2
47:05 tennin: Tennin Institute: The Secrets Within
48:50 katana: Neural Katana
51:50 tsurugi/ken
53:50 ronin
56:20 sensei
58:00 shinobi/ninja: nin (dictionary entry)
70:15 ashigaru
73:15 shiro & yagura
74:30 kyudoka
Part 3
77:40 komainu & Pup
82:35 kitsune
86:30 inazuama
89:15 shi & ku (kyu): Shi.Kyū
93:10 mushin no shin
97:25 Susanoo-no-Mikoto
100:55 Hokusai: Hokusai Grid | The Great Wave off Kanagawa, by Katsushika Hokusai
103:20 Tokyo: NeoTokyo Grid
Part 4
108:50 Caprice Nisei
110:00 Akitaro Watanabe
111:25 Midori
112:05 Toshiyuki Sakai
113:25 Tori Hanzō
114:55 Chairman Hiro
116:30 Ken "Express" Tenma: Disappeared Clone & Tenma Line
118:50 Ben Musashi
Ben Musashi (Japanese version)
120:30 Kaede Ueno
121:35 Mako Shuusei
Part 5
123:45 tenuki
125:50 himitsu-bako
130:00 Swordsman
130:50 Restoring Face
135:35 Lotus Field
Lotus Field, by Adam S. Doyle
137:40 Trick of Light & Edge of World
138:35 Marcus Batty
138:50 Akamatsu Mem Chip
139:05 ichi: Ichi 1.0 | Ichi 2.0
139:25 Origami
139:30 John Masanori
141:30 Dedicated Technician Team: PE Never Advance
Teaching and Learning: Jinteki Deck, blogpost by TheBigBoy
192:00 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Mars, part 8
Martian Populace, by Dmitry Burmak

Reboot Project home page
A chart with all of the ice that have been discussed to this point
Reboot Project Discord server
Play online: Reteki.fun
Contact me on Discord, BoardGameGeek, StimHack, or Reddit: Aweberman
Contact me via email: anreboot2.1@gmail.com
Episode transcript
Concise show notes
2.1 focused BoardGameGeek thread
2.1 focused Stimhack thread
Music: "Future" by Alexi Action from Pixabay