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Also a little saddened, or so were told, as he had additionally considered the accountant a friend.
So he found another bookkeeper and moved on from the incident.
The phenomenon of people ghosting on their lives, voluntarily or involuntarily, is obviously not specific to Japan.
(Listen, the vacuum guy fromBreaking Badhad to come from somewhere.)
These days, a more secular descriptor tends to be deployed: thejouhatsu, or the titular evaporated people.
(The series is also produced by Thisanka Siripala.
That shift in emphasis is reasonable, even necessary.
As a production, the podcast is serviceable if undistinguished.
Unfortunately,The Evaporateddoesnt end up matching the polish of those other efforts.
But its still a notable contribution toward an emerging trend of narrative podcasts interested in existing across languages.
Adelstein himself makes for a curious presence behind the mic.
This may or may not end up being a deal-breaker for some consuming Adelsteins work.
That aging sensibility serves the podcast quite well.
Such an outlook can only come, perhaps, from many years wandering the underworld.
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