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Hello and welcome to an all new episode of Anime Bread Freeze. We are your brave,

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braver, pappapapapraver's hosts! I am John and I'm C.C. and when there's just too much cool

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anime to watch, we've got you covered. Today we will review a slightly different super robot show,

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where two friends fight a bunch of evil aliens by joining forces in brave bang braver. And of course,

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before we get to that, we have to talk a bit about a couple of premieres we checked out in the

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sneak peek. So climb into the cockpit of your monogamous mac, let your soul burn bright to unleash

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your bravest bang and definitely don't pause the pot, we'll be right back.

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All right, yeah, sneak peek time as usual, a bit late, just time around for several reasons because

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we were able, we called our season finale with the attack on Titan review a bit late because we had

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a guest and also then it turned out a lot of shows just premiered late or took a while to get going,

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but at some point we were like, "Ah, maybe we should just start because also vacation coming up

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whatever and we're not, we got to, we got to let it June or something until we do our goddamn

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mere episodes and it doesn't make sense." So for that reason, as of this recording,

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Demon Slayer has still not started, which spoilers were both probably going to watch.

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And you know, it's funny, it's funny, I said it to you, I think when we weren't recording,

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I'll look at how late Jeff Thu and Kigakar sometimes are there season previews. And of course,

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this was the season there that earlier, they've never been screw the boat if you would, we love you both.

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I mean, with Demon Slayer, it's probably like, didn't they do like a movie that again,

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encompasses like the first three episodes of the next arc or something?

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I'm not sure if they did that this time, but I know from looking up that the premiere is supposed to

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be an hour long. So yeah, we eventually got to not all the shows that we wanted to maybe talk about

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and some only in passing, but we get to show them at least. Yes, not that many this time for me anyway

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though, but we still got to still some leftovers from the previous season. There was so I assume

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there will be enough to review by the end of this. We're not going to have a packed season this time

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around. So we'll see how it turns out next, but yeah, as usual in the sneak peek, we have our

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noobs, our maybe's and our keepers for first time listeners, the noobs to show that we took a look at

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and we're like, nope, not going to keep on watching that. Then the maybe shows we're not entirely sure

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about if we're going to stick with them and keepers shows that we like the lot what we were seeing.

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So we're going to keep on watching those probably. So yeah, John, I think you got a noob which I don't

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have. So do you want to start us off? Yeah, I just feel like before we get into that real quick that

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Ruse Yatsura and Delicious and Dungeon are sort of continuing in the background.

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Probably won't talk about Ruse Yatsura, but I'm sure we'll talk about Delicious and Dungeon when

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it's wrapped. So they are still ongoing and they deserve mention at least, but yes, my one drop is

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high speed at 12. Oh yeah, I think I was like, this could be a show for you because cute,

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go doing cute things, also racing, but then I looked at the general reception to the first episode

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and I was like, oh, maybe not. Oh my god, okay. Like the racing stuff, like when it was so weird

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because the racing stuff in when we talked about an overtake, yeah, that was kind of neat. It was

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really cool to see. Yes. And they didn't mean on it too heavily because there were other things going

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on. And then in this show, they're leaning on it so heavily and just like it's so boringly presented

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and it's not interesting. And the character designs are kind of in the CG.

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Okay, it's, I don't want to see through it. It's the clearest CG show I've ever seen, but it's not,

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it's not, I mean, it's not hand-shakers. Oh, nothing will ever be hand-shakers.

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I mean, this sort of ties into one of my maybe in the regard to CG, but we'll get to that. But

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I think I watched two episodes of this and I honestly, I was falling asleep at the end of the second

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episode. Like no joke. And I would say usually when I'm tired and I fall asleep watching something,

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I'll rewind and try to rewatch and really catch the thing. This one is like, I can't be bothered.

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You get out of here. I'm done. That's a show for us. I'm sure if I assign for a nope.

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Yeah, so sorry, high-speed. I was actually really interested in you because I had seen before the show

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started. This one artist I follow on Pixiv had been posting pieces from, I was like, oh, this looks

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pretty cool. Yeah, I thought the promo art that was, you know, on, was a life chart,

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and stuff, whatever. Look pretty good. Yeah, and the art designs too. And it was like, okay, this could

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be something. And that artist is still continuing to post really cool promo art on their account,

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which, you know, that's neat. It's just it didn't come together in the actual show. So it's, I'm

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it happens. Yeah. So true. Shall we continue on with the Maybes? Yes, please. Yes. Well, my first

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maybe go go loser ranger. No, I'd seen the name thrown around, but I didn't watch it.

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So yeah, this is, I don't know what this is yet really. It starts out as like your standard

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sentai show in anime forum where it's like, hey, you got your colored ranger team, which I call the

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dragon keepers in this. And they're fighting these monsters that came to our world in a giant flying

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fortress and have been there apparently for 30 years now. Yeah. And every Sunday or something,

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there's like this huge battle in a colosseum where bunch of the minions, you know, in the sentai,

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they're always these wall or minions that are easily defeated before the big monster appears.

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And these minions then with the monster teleport into the stadium. The minions are called dusters

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in this show. And then there's a fight and they get sent back to the fortress and then they come

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back the next week. And apparently, like I said, this battle has been going on for 13 years. And as it

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turns out later in the episode, the evil fortress was already taken down after one year. And all the

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bosses are dead. So since then the dusters, so the the grunts basically have been trying to come

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up with new monsters each week. God, that they transform into themselves, but they're also immortal.

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So once they get beaten, they just get sent, sent back up. And this is kind of a performance scam.

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I think I don't know who initiated it because they are still doing it, not with any hopes of ever

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winning because so far, they've fought the rangers, the drag keepers, 998 times and always lost.

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So maybe that thousandth time, man. Yeah, maybe, but understandably, even though they are immortal,

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the dusters are sick of always losing at this point. One does there, especially the one with the

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letter D. So D decides to try something different. He will destroy their enemies from the inside by

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becoming one of the rangers himself. So yeah, and that is what how the what how the first episode

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wraps up. I haven't watched anything more. It's a fun concept and it's very well animated,

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but the comedy hasn't quite hit for me yet. There's some funny bits in there and you know, the whole

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idea is funny, something, you know, whoever creates, I assume something from Earth that's behind us

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because, you know, of course, this drives a lot of you see in the beginning that all the rangers

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have like these advertising contracts and are, you know, selling whatever, like cosmetics and cars

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and I don't know and snake oil, I don't know, you know, the the huge and and you know, so there's

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probably money involved. So I assume some capable advertising agent got understood us very quickly

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when these battles ensued. So now they may make this happen every Sunday because they don't want the

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money to go away. They want to write this money train. So it's literally monster of the week. I love it.

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Yes. Actually, it is exactly that. So I wonder how this will play out. Of course, you know, we'll see,

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so far, there's not really anything to attach myself to in terms of characters. I mean, like the

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plight of the make sense, like of course, why would you keep on losing, you know, just being stuck.

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It's kind of again, like the zone 100 thing. They're stuck in a shitty job. They kind of can't get out

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because, you know, if they don't do this apparently, they can't survive. This is not specified. Like,

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who is going to kill them if they don't keep up the charade? Like who is responsible for all of this,

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right? Apparently, they are not. So I assume we're going to get filled into that in the coming episodes.

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But outside of the concept, there were not any really, really good jokes in the first episode that

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totally hit for me. There's one where the monster that is steamed like a tiger then turns into a tiger

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car and this is a little weird little transporter, you know, the typical Japanese transporter thing

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when it does its final attack and it's like, is this a total refer- what is this? I don't understand.

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Is there a car that is named that way or because truck and Torah sound almost the same?

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Torah, kutora, maybe. But yes. So I guess that was kind of funny, but outside of that, it's just a concept

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itself and, you know, the duster's bickering amongst themselves trying to come up with a new monster

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design that is appropriately themed and that they haven't had like seven years ago or something

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like that kind of made me feel like be able to relate to them in that regard because that's how I feel

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when I'm trying to come up with a new thing that I'm going to call us at the in the interest of our

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shows like what kind of hosts we are. It's like, wait, what did we have this already? Did I use this

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before? Ah, fuck. Probably did at some point. I'm not going to find it. I'm not keeping track,

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but I'm trying to think if, wait, this is, did we do this? Did we do this? So yeah, in that regard,

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I feel like this is, this is funny, but I don't know if this is gonna, if this is gonna go somewhere

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interesting or if it's just gonna be a standard, I don't know, workplace comedy or something like that.

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It all depends on what they do with the characters and if there's anything interesting to the

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Rangers and if there's anything interesting happening with the, it would be really funny if this

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turns into a super grim dark revenge thing for D-Codd. I can't see that happening, but we'll see.

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So yeah, I'm gonna check out a couple more episodes of this, but that's why it's still a maybe,

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I don't know if the, if the humor will develop into something that actually or end the characters

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that would keep me engaged. But yeah, first episode was fun. John. So I was kind of disappointed.

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I talked about the Idol Master Million Live. I remember, yeah. And it was very janky, not great CG.

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So along comes the Idol Master shiny colors and the CG is better than I was hoping for.

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Okay. I, it's so weird because in Million Live, it felt, I feel like Million Live in High Speed,

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that's what it had sort of the same issue where it's like, and I guess this is how 3D works like,

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the characters, or we're just moved into position and posed and that's it. Whereas it feels like

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in shiny colors, like the motion in the animation is a lot more natural. And I think that's what really

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does it for me and makes it feel like there's a lot more, there's a lot more consideration for it.

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actually was putting some thought into that and it was just, this goes here, whatever.

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headed up by polygon pictures. Uh, no, I feel like they're kind of putting in the work and making

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the characters look good and animate real naturally. So I was pleasantly surprised to see it continue

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on past like the first couple of episodes. So, you know, number one, shock that John is, you know,

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watching an idol show. Oh no, who would have thought? But, you know, when the effort is there,

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and I'm glad it is that Van Nanamco was like, hey, maybe we'll throw some money at this for once

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to remind people of what's good about this franchise. Thank you. Thank you for actually doing that

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for once because the last time was, oh my god, the last time was 13 years ago, dude.

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But yeah, so this fall is the story of all of, I've got to forget how many girls are. There's a lot.

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And it's based off of a mobile slash browser game. I don't master so weird history with mobile games where

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Cinderella girls and million live both started off as this like card collecting thing. And then they

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sort of spun off into rhythm games. Whereas this is, shiny colors is more of like the actual

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original arcade game and older console games. Or it's like, no, it's an actual idol sim where you have to,

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you know, you're going out and you're doing dance lessons, you're going to performances, you're trying

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to gain the attention of fans. So on the game side, it's, you know, a lot more like what you would expect.

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On the anime side, you know, you're seeing the day to day of the girls and then planning out their

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performances and their public appearances and this and that and you know, and usually each episode has

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a main focus on a different group of girls. But, you know, you see sort of like little blinks of

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the other groups in between to sort of like break things up. And it's really well-paced in

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regard to that. So I think this just has some potential to be really good. So this along with my other

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maybe it's kind of leaning on being a keeper and kind of glad to see that back to hear that. I mean,

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especially after the disappointment is what that was the previous show. Yeah, the

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I don't think I'll be over the previous show, man. Maybe this one will help you.

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crunchy rolls like, yeah, yeah, we got the show. It's it's coming. Don't worry. And then it didn't show up

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for like two or three weeks. And I was like, so is this a case where they said they got the license and

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nobody got the message. And then it just showed up like two or three episodes at once. And I was

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like, oh, okay. So you actually did do the thing cool, I guess. But yeah, definitely you're going to

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watch more of it. So what have you got next? My other maybe is the Grim Variations, which is a show

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on Netflix. Six episodes already fully released as they do. I only managed to watch watch the first one

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until now. It is an alternate retelling of some of the Brothers Grim Fairy tales done by their

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sister, which I'm not sure existed, probably not, or something like that. I don't quite. There's this

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short introduction thing where you see the two brothers and her sister then appears and they tell

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her about one of the stories and then you get actually pulled into the story. And at first I was

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like, oh, this looks really interesting. It's done by Studio Wid. And you know, the the the

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small, you know, intro thing with the Brothers and this Grim and the sister Grim, I guess, has like

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this unique story book look to it. Oh, this looks, oh, oh, this looks pretty unique. Nice. But that's

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only for the, for the interesting things, sadly, it's maybe two. Maybe it would have been too

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heavy on the production to do it for the whole show. I don't know how much work went into that.

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I just know it looked really unique and I would have for the whole show to look like that. But also

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maybe each episode looks a bit different. I'm not sure, but it looks very standard anime.

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set in Japan. Of course, in this case, I don't know if they set all the stories in Japan.

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with, but you know, it's not like the first couple of minutes of this show was like, oh, this looks

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really different. So I hope they do something maybe different with the coming episodes. I don't know.

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switched over to just being a normal good looking anime. So, but yeah, this spin on this story,

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like this particular spin makes Cinderella kind of the bad guy. She's a little scheming monster

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that messes with her step-sisters and stepmother for her own amusement.

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up arrogant breaths, but you feel at least a bit sorry for them with this. Like, they're so completely

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outmatched by Cinderella or rather Kyoko, which is her name in this. But, you know, roughly the story

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follows kind of the same beats as the original one, but you know, then they completely subverted by

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the different roles these characters take. And that's a neat concept in itself. I think we had

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couple of those in the past anyway from Hollywood and other places. So I'm willing to see what

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it does with it. But, you know, there's still some things where like, maybe it won't stay a keeper.

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that did this so far. And this apparent, I think this only happens on Netflix, like where they do

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this one hour format instead of the standard 25 minutes format. Or it's not one hour, it's 45 minutes

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in this case. But, you know, longer format. And I think they did, right, they did it for Spriggan and

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for Pluto. And I feel like for both these shows, it wasn't, first of all, wasn't necessary and also

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it didn't work as well. I still love Pluto. I still kind of liked Spriggan, but it was like, okay,

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why did you do one hour things? Because Netflix wanted it to be different because he wanted to have more

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freedom in terms of, you know, how you told the story and where you had to make the cut, but also you

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obviously made the cuts like the, you were adopting a manga. So the manga felt already structured like

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it was like preparing for an anime adaptation. It made sense to make cuts at certain places anyway.

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So it doesn't make sense to make this one hour format and it doesn't work in certain moments. I

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talked about this in more detail in the Pluto review. So I won't go back, go into it again. But

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in this, I guess it works a bit better, at least in this first episode because it really feels like

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one continuous story from beginning to end. And there's not really any, I feel like, yes, there might be

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three extra structure to it, but also it feels more like samey in terms of it, it feels more even,

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like they're not like these highs and lows and superstakes and now, now shit is really happening,

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now there's the super climax happening. It feels more like a, yeah, I don't know, like it's

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petering along a bit. And then it was also something where it's like, oh, it's like, I feel like there

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should be more of a bang here at a certain point. And I mean, there is one, there's it when

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Cinderella dances with the, with the prince and all the, or Kiyoko, whatever dances with the prince.

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you already knew this, but it's still framed like this big reveal. It's like, oh, she did all of this

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and she did it intentionally. And yes, we knew this. But yeah, that's, I guess that's the biggest,

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climax feeling moment of the of this episode. So I wonder if the coming episodes will have a more

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interesting, I don't know, structure or do something a bit more interesting with the storytelling

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and the stories themselves than just switching the character roles around. Still, you know, the concept

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itself is interesting enough. And, you know, it's a short season, I assume it's finished up because it's,

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you know, it's a, it's, it's just six, close off stories. Let me see what the coming ones are.

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Right. So the next one would be a little red riding hood, then we have Hanson greater,

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then we have the elves and the shoemaker, the town musicians of Bremen,

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Pied Piper of Hamlin. I know all of these, I like all of these, to varying degrees. So I'm

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interested to see where these stories go. I just hope that the, how musicians of Bremen doesn't like

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completely subverts and, just subverted and kills off all the animals by the end that would make me

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really sad. No. Yeah, I don't want that. It's such a triumphant story. And, yeah, we'll see, we'll see

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where this goes. But yeah, I'm interested to check more of it out. I just hope it can keep me engaged,

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maybe because it's just one story per episode that will happen because I know something new is always

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around the corner, right? So there's always the hope that something might be different and,

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you know, production values on the width side of things and everything. So, yes,

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bordering on a keeper, maybe, but also, there's still some things where it's like,

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ah, you could maybe do something more with that. Maybe picking Cinderella as the first one, as your,

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you know, as your showcase thing wasn't the best idea because it's also not that big or super

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exciting story to begin with. I would assume little red riding hood or maybe pipe,

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piper or the Tom musicians of Bremen would be, would have been the better choice here. But,

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if I review it, that will probably the place where I tell which story I would have put,

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would have put first. So, let's see. It's interesting enough, but I don't know if it will keep

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my interest for its entire runtime. So, we'll see. John, what is your next maybe?

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I get to jump back into the gacha of minds. But Blue Archive. All right, yes. You talked about this.

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Yeah, a little bit. So, cute girls with guns. Yes, that opening OP gave me whiplash because I wasn't

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familiar with anything Blue Archive and then you showed me this because it has incredible production

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values. And then it was like, oh, cute girls doing cute things, of course. And then the bitch

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just be packing and it was like, what? What is going on here? I will say that more than just the

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opening sequence in the show as well that gacha money is paid in for this show. Yes, it looks the

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part. Yeah, it looks really good all throughout. So, basically, of course, it's a gacha game with

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a million different characters, but the focus of the story is these five girls who are attending

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the Abidos High School and they are trying to raise the money to keep the school from being foreclosed

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and the debt that they have accrued is unfathomably large. But, you know, there's more than just that

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to it. There's also all sorts of students in rival schools and factions and whatnot. And they have

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people. Are the schools you say? Yes, reunited by fate. You might even say,

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real ones will get that. But a lot of it comes down to it being a turf war. And these girls have to,

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you know, fight to fight with guns and grenades and rocket launchers and sniper rifles to keep,

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you know, safe. What is theirs? Is that a life? Emoth? Like, I usually live ammo or is that, say,

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just, I don't know, nurse shit or I think that's the implication. It's not clear in the show.

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People dying. John is what I'm asking. It's an, I'm going to tell you something. I've played the game

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for a little bit in the implication is not 100% clear. Maybe so they can bring some girls back because

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it's a, it's a gacha thing. Shut up. Don't worry about it. All right. I mean, I thought this would maybe

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be a, be an Akaba made war situation, but apparently not. So, yeah, well, you know,

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but Abidós is also in this region called Kivotos and there was this big like devastating sandstorm

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that just it keeps ripping through and basically burying parts of the city and it's kind of a waste land

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and it's not in a good shape. So along comes this teacher that that's you, that's you, the player.

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Uh-oh, who is coming along that who is coming along to, you know, help the girls, you know,

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for, for guard, depending on what story you're following, do their thing and it seems like again,

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this seems like they're focusing on Abidós and this and it's the story of this teacher who's

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trying to help these girls out and apparently he taps into the system called King, King,

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guess what it's called? King gets it maybe it's called the blue archive.

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Ah, to help them out and you know, it kind of goes forward from there and the first

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three episodes have been kind of, you know, like silly day to day stuff and from what I had played

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of the game, I was like, yeah, I had seen bits of this story, but it's, it's neat to see it animated.

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There is a sequence with these girls from this, they're trying to be this clandestine

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operation called problem solver 68, I think it's the number. And their leader, Adur, is just, she's

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something else because she's, she's trying to put on this tough girl act and it's like, you're not her.

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Come on, please get it together. But it makes it kind of goofy and it gives the show some levity

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and it's, it's nice to see, you know, these, these characters, so I had only seen in like a live

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2D form, you know, be brought to life this way and you know, it's a really pretty show. It's nice to

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see these, these gotcha games get good adaptations after, you know, for, for a real long time. Gotcha,

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you know, game adaptations and gotcha adaptations were just like, like you just throw it away, but it

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seems like a gotcha money is, is working. It seems like it's doing what it should be. I mean,

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it's nice. It's not only like landing in the pockets of big corporal, but they're also investing

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it into products who might also enjoy down the road, you know, like these anime adaptations.

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I'm sorry. Before Princess Connect, I can't remember the last like really good one that I watched

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because as your lean was kind of, yeah. And before that, I can't remember. Princess Connect is the only one

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I remember as well. I wonder though, is this in terms of the teacher character who is like you

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set yourself in sort? Does he get an actual character or is this kind of like a Princess Connect

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situation where the, you know, where we get a mute plot device? We listen, leave you key alone.

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Yuki is a good boy, but still he's barely a character. That's true. Now, this is the teacher, the

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sense they're depending on depending on how you want to refer to him. It seems like he is more than

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nothing in come at least compared to like you key. So I'm glad to see that he's there to support the

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girls to a point because sometimes the decisions they make at one point like, oh, we've here saw our,

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you know, the our payment on this installment of the debt. And you can see this twinkle in their

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eyes. What if we just knocked down the armored car and took our money back in the sense of it's like

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don't don't don't. What are you doing? Don't do that. So there's like a little moments like. Yeah,

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so there's a little moments like that where, you know, he he is on their side, but he's also like, all right,

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I have to stand for them. I have to keep on the moral ground for you girls. Rain it in, ladies.

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Absolutely. So I like that he's there to at least be the girls moral compass. So I think that's what

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really, I think this has potential to be a really good adaptation as well.

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Right. I think that's it for the Mabies. Yes. And so we're going to move over to the

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keepers where we have a bunch of returning shows. I'm going to just rattle of my two that I have.

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And then I have one more. But John, you can intersect before that with your still running shows or

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returning shows. So of course, I'm going to check out slam time season four. I haven't done so yet

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because I wanted to watch the movie, which I haven't done yet. That is all that is set between season

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two and three. So technically, I should have all already watched it. But when I think when season three

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started, it wasn't available yet. So I haven't, but it is canon, but apparently is also standalone

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enough. So I can watch it now. And I think there was also a special. And yeah, so I watch this. I only

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did a quick review of season three might be the same for season four, but also maybe I'll do a

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four review if we, if I managed to catch another guest for that, which I'm not sure will happen yet.

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But I know a person who also watches slam time still. So maybe we'll have them over and talk about

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it a bit more extensively this time around. We'll see. But I will definitely keep on watching this one

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because you know, Rimo Roussead Ventures always are a fun time. The other bigger one, of course, is my

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hero academia season seven, which I also haven't checked out yet. But that is mostly because it started

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off with like, you know, recap episodes. I think it's memories episodes or something.

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Yeah, I heard there was a lot. Yes, I think three or four. And only today they released their first

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actual episode from the seven season, which I of course wasn't able to watch yet. So let's see. I

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don't know if that means that it will be a shorter season or you know, that there will actually not be

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as many actual new episodes in this season, probably. But yeah, I'm excited to check it because I think

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season six was like an absolute return to form. And I loved it from beginning to end. It was super

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exciting. A lot of climactic moments, a lot of story, you know, long build up story threads finally

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coming to a conclusion or you know, being actually played out in a way that that they needed to for

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it to stay exciting. And after the bit of a letdown that was season five, at least half of it, this was

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very welcome return to form. So I am super excited to keep on watching that one. But like I said,

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the only just today, the the first actual episode release and I wasn't able to catch it yet. But

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that will definitely get at least a quick review. We'll see what happens in the season. But I'm excited

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to go back to plus one A or a one one of those. Yes, either or John, what are your, what is your

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chunk, your big chunk of returning shows? Idols, did you know they exist? Yes, we already had some in

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this sneak peak. Nigeon animation came back for a second season. It's basically like this three minute

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short thing every week that's based off of the characters from Love Live, Nige Gisaki and

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and you know, it's cute, it's whatever. They're being really mean with this season though because they're

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throwing in little teeth. The character designs in the show are just like, you know, not quite

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chubby designs, but they may as well be, but they're being real mean because they're throwing in

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like these little flashes in between of some of the characters and they're like full designs. And I'm like,

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why are you doing this to me? Come on guys, that's not nice. That's what I want. I mean, I don't mind

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this, but you know what I actually want. I mean, it will happen eventually, right? I mean, Nige Gisaki had

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two seasons already. I don't know. There's a third on the table. I know there's a third on the table

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for superstar though. I mean, you like that too. So at least you're going to get some more Love Live

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in your life. Love Live is perpetual. It exists in perpetuity. Moving on.

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"Ladest, Camp Season 3?" I didn't know they were going to make a season 3 until a few

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months ago when I was like, "sign me up." It changed studios. Oh, is that bad? Okay. So the original

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studio that did the first season, the second season in the movie, and I feel bad because I haven't

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watched the movie yet, but I will endeavor to eventually with the studio C station and it has a

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very, it has its own style. You know, it looks nice and neat. Then they handed it off to Ape. And

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Ape isn't bad. They do good work, but the character designs have changed a little bit, which doesn't

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bother me too much. But Ape does this thing with their backgrounds. I don't know if you've paid attention

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to this as some of their other shows. They just look like painted over photographs. Sometimes,

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yeah, I mean, they're doing slime time if I'm not mistaken. I get what you're referring to,

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but also I guess it maybe fits better into like a fantasy world. Like we have, you know,

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is the kind of fantasy thing like we have in slime time that it maybe does in quote unquote

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realistic show like "Ladest, Camp." So maybe it's more egregious there. And I mean, it doesn't look

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terrible, but there's some scenes when looking at it and I'm just sort of like, I'm sort of side-eying

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it a little bit because I'm like, I understand why you're doing this, but that doesn't mean it looks

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great 100% of the time. But I've still, but I've been able to press past that because, you know,

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it's just there to be a chill time. And you know, with all the girls going on, going on a camp and trip

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making some food over a campfire. So it's still as cozy as it ever was in spite of that.

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After that, it sound you phoning him three. And guess what? I did actually watch movies for this one.

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Hey, can you believe it? So there were two movies and an OVA in between. There was our promise

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a brand new day in the ensemble contest arc, which are basically required viewing between season two

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and three. They fill out basically the entire second school year for Kumiko and the other. So if

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you skip straight from season two to season three, you missed a lot, like a whole lot. I mean,

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that has happened more often this time around. I try to remember, I think we recently had something

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where like the movie was absolutely integral viewing. I think it's to you to Kai-san. Yes, well,

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yes, yes, I feel like yeah, yeah, no, because if we go into the next season, you still haven't watched

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the movie and you're wondering who I can't remember the character name, who he is. It's like you gotta

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watch them. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, it's it's it's a kind of move. I mean, sometimes with show, show

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the jump stuff, which sound euphonium isn't, but with show jump jump jump stuff, a lot of the movies

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are just, you know, outside, yeah, fluff. They are kind as they are said in the world and maybe

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sometimes they're can, but also they're like, if you it doesn't matter if you don't watch them, like,

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no, to bleach, you know, and even my hero academia to an extent, that's the same thing. Like you

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can completely ignore these movies and just follow the anime and you will find, but yeah, just to Kai-san,

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then you a drag ball movies to an extent, at least a broly and super, yeah, once because they are,

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I'm not, they so far they haven't been part of a TV series and I don't know if they're gonna do a

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new version of that. I hope they don't because the way they did it for resurrection F and a bad look

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just like, "Woo brother!" Yeah, yeah, I don't want to see those movies on a TV show budget. So yeah, it's

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just, they should just, you know, if they continue, they should just continue after superhero and,

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you know, do their own shit or whatever, but, or ignore them completely if they feel like it, but I get

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the feeling until now those work are considered canon, and I don't know if we'll get more of the manga,

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so we'll see, but yeah, some of these movies and I just watch, I'm not gonna talk about it here,

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I'm gonna talk about it in the quick and then, but I just watch the movie that is also just fluff,

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fun fluff, but also non-canon and completely irrelevant to the rest of the show that it's based on.

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So, you know, but this one apparently is very integral going, coming back to the actual show that

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you were talking about, sorry. Yes, watching the God, what was the name? It's weird. Okay, so in Japanese,

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the movie is called the Sworn Finale, but in English is called our Promise, a brand new day.

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Those two names have different implications. Yes. So I don't quite understand what's going on

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with the localization on that, but whatever, it and the Ensemble contest arc are required viewing

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because the end of the Ensemble contest introduces a new character that we see straight away in

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season three. So like you gotta watch it, you gotta watch it, but yes, it's, this is Kumiko and

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companies last year in high school and they are trying their best to take Kitayuchi to nationals.

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So that way, you know, they can show, they can show the nation of Japan. They're best,

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they're the best high school band out there. So they got a step closer in the movie than they did in

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the first season. So I want to see them take it all the way, go all the way. This has gotta be the

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one. They gotta get the good ending. Dang it. And not, not directly related, but I also grabbed a

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movie off of my blue ray shelf and opened it and watched it. Oh my god. What a moment of disoccasion.

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And that movie was Liz in the Blue Bird, which is sort of a side story from like seasons one and

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two that focuses on two of the other characters. And it's sort of framed around this concert piece

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called Liz in the Blue Bird and the use that is sort of like the analogy between the two characters.

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And you know, it's a lot of teen angst and you know, figuring yourself out, but

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man, I love seeing Kyo and he on a movie budget. So it's a really great watch. Come on.

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Like what is staring out to love? So in that regard, it was a really, really good watch. And I'm glad I finally

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sat down and checked it out. Yes, you finally opened the blue ray. Listen, I may have some 4Ks. I haven't

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watched yet. Leave me alone. It's your body. I know. I know. CC, I promise somebody I'll watch Sonic

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one and Sonic two. Any who the last of my keepers is Data Live 5. Yeah. Oh boy, things are starting

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to pop off because we're coming up on the end of the story. Really? Yes. Because I was looking at, you

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know, as I like to do sometimes episode names versus chapter titles in the light novel. And

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oh man, this past week's episode explained a whole lot. And I don't want to dive too deep into that.

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Maybe I will in the quick and the dead, but the story got this story and its final act is getting

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pretty crazy. And I'm like, you know, I was here for it from the beginning, but the studio that

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headed up season four Geek Toys is back and they're still doing a bang up job on it. So I'm glad to see

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it's still getting the love that it deserves. There's always been a weird ride in some spots from

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really glad I'm sticking with it to see the end because it's been all things considered really good.

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And I'm really curious to see how we got to where we are in the story is now from what was

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from what was just presented to us. So can imagine what I mean, it would be great if this like is

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a deserving finale because that's also one of these long running shows. It's like 10, 11 years

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since it started in 2013. Yes, 2013. I just looked it up. I mean, it's gonna, season five,

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gonna be the last one has that been confirmed or I don't know if it'll be the ending. Like, I don't

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know how they're coming up on the ending, looking from the chapter camp, but I don't know if

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they'll think maybe they'll do somehow like here's the fifth season and we'll finish out with a movie.

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I'm not sure exactly what the plan is yet because we're, oh, God, how many episodes in four or five,

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four episodes in. So I mean, maybe they could finish it in eight. We'll see, but you know, if they

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go the route with where they're gonna finish it off in a movie, okay, you know, I could see them

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doing that as well. But yes, I'm here to see the conclusion to the story because it's been nuts.

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But that's it for me. Should you add one more? Yes. One more keeper and that is a new show and

407
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that is Kaiju number eight. You know, Kaiju, giant rampaging monsters. So, you know, Godzilla

408
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bringing a name, a bell, that name recently, a couple of movies, right? Big old lizard guy.

409
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Yeah, and we have a couple of those in this show. Setting is a bit different than your usual Kaiju

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stuff. I would say because the Kaiju attacks in this world are so normal that people mostly seem

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to be pretty chill about it if they are not in there, you know, directly affected areas at least,

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but it's like checking their phones and they're like, oh, who's I wonder who's gonna, and you know,

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stop this Kaiju or whatever. And yeah, we got these Kaiju hunters. I forgot what their actual name

414
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is, but they are kind of treated like pop stars by the citizens. And, you know, there's our heroes

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and whatever, and they just take the monster, monsters also with giant guns and everything. And

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with battle suits, not they don't have actual max or anything to fight the monster. He's just on foot

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with special powered suits and then they just go man or a man or with these things. So, that's pretty

418
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cool, but our hero, ostensible hero Kafka isn't one of them. He is with the cleanup crew.

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They get rid of Kaiju corpses, clean the buildings, collect samples, and all that comes with

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its own problems, acidic Kaiju blood, shit-filled intestines. It's really hard work. And unlike the actual

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hunter hunters that cause this mess when they kill the Kaiju, first and foremost, the third division,

422
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and they are not really thankful for it, just, you know, taken for granted and everything.

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And yeah, there's also this, you know, personal relationship between Kafka and the main superstar

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of the third division. They were childhood friends and both vowed to get rid of Kaiju, but Kafka failed

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the test a couple of times and eventually gave up. Couldn't hack it. And meanwhile, his friend Mina,

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who actually managed to join the defense force, that's what they're called, the hunter characters,

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the defense force. She has now like the standout super captain of the third division and is like,

428
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has like this kick ass tiger that she can command and it can just take a bite out of a Kaiju and

429
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everything and she's super cool. And Kafka is kind of like filled with regret because he, you know,

430
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wanted to also be that and be by our side and fight the Kaiju, but now he's just cleaning their

431
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shit. And literally, and, you know, but he's kind of resigned himself to this position, at least when

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we meet him, but then you interned a join his team, Ichikawa. And he also wants to eventually join the

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defense force. And in the beginning, he comes across as a bit cold, but he and Kafka hit it off after

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a while pretty well and have like this, you know, sandpike relationship. And Ichikawa also tells Kafka

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that they increase the age limit for the defense force test to 20 to 32 to the age of 32.

436
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So why not try again? Even if Kafka gave up at some point, but you know, you can always try and

437
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he's 32 now. So this would be his last chance. So maybe he should take it. And yeah, you know,

438
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there if like in the first episode, there's this neat moment where Kafka protects Ichikawa from a

439
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smaller Kaiju and vice versa, but you know, eventually they're both saved by Mina. And then in the hospital,

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where they both recuperate, Kafka gets transformed into a Kaiju by a weird mosquito thing. And he and

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Ichikawa have to run from the defense force. And the one task to hunt Kafka down is of course Mina.

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So yeah, I didn't expect this show to be as much of a comedy as it is. Like Kafka and Ichikawa

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are rightfully freaking out about Kafka's transformation is goddamn hilarious. And the hilarity

444
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continues after that. This is kind of a body-cop comedy with the two of them, because from that moment on,

445
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like Kafka, of course, is super strong if he can win, he transforms and he can just punch the shit out

446
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of a Kaiju just evaporated into a mist of blood. But you know, he also maybe shouldn't let other people

447
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know that he's a Kaiju now himself because that would get him killed probably pretty quickly, but he

448
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also still wants to become part of the defense force. So he's a bit of a pickle. And you know, the

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the currently the other episodes I watched they're running through the tests of trying to actually

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become part of the defense force. But you know, he's 32 and in the anime years, you know, that means he's

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already one foot in the grave. So he's like lacking behind of all the other contestants, all the other

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recruits. And you know, because he doesn't want to cheat, he is not using his Kaiju powers. And also,

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you know, because that would maybe get him killed or whatever, but I assume it eventually they will

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find out and use him as a weapon or whatever. But yeah, it's very funny, like especially his

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interactions with Ichikawa who's trying to keep a lid on the whole thing and trying to help

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a cent pie and you know, keep him on the control because Kafka is, you know, sometimes doesn't really

457
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have a shit to get her. So it's their dynamic is really fun. And I assume eventually Mina is going to

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be joining that triangle. And also, you know, a lot of the other recruits are interesting. And I'll

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eventually talk about this in the review because I'm definitely going to review this. This is sitting

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all the right buttons for me. It looks really good as a production ID show. And yeah, it's super fun.

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I didn't expect it like I said to be comedy focused. I would, I kind of just from the way the promo

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images looked and everything and the OP looked and all of that, I expect it is to be more of a dark,

463
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you know, attack on Titan thing or chainsaw man or something like this, but no, this is a,

464
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this is an absolute comedy show like a workplace comedy to an extent, but also show an action comedy.

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And I was laughing a lot during the first couple of episodes. So wild. Yes, absolutely. And Kafka is

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definitely the main star here. He's so funny when he first transforms into the Kaiju and really

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doesn't have it on the control. So fucking freaky. But he's also super good guy like everyone, that's

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also one of the things that immediately got me into this is all these characters are super sympathetic.

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You might some of them are played as assholes like especially among the recruits because you know,

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you want an arc for them and everything, but all of them are interesting at least and are two main

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characters like Ichikawa and Kafka are super, super fun and super relatable and entertaining and

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good guys and you immediately root for them and they're, you know, they're body dynamic and everything.

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So yeah, this show has a lot going for it and I hope it keeps that dynamic up or that rhythm up and

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yeah, keeps on delivering good, good, funny shit, which is, it has been doing consistently for the

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first couple of episodes. So I'm looking forward to checking out more and eventually probably

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review it. Also, yes, the guy's name is Kafka and he gets transformed into a Kaiju by a bug a bit

477
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on the nose. I get it. Fun show definitely, I recommend you all check out Kaiju number eight,

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but I think that's it for the keepers for now. So I guess it's time now to bang bravely.

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[Music]

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Yes, bang brave, bang brave, bang, bang, in a world, where he annoyed armored weapons on his

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titano striders are used in warfare, troops from various countries converge on the island of

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Oahu, Hawaii, including Ao Esami of the Japan Ground Self Defense Force and Lewis Smith of the

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United States Marine Corps. Esami and Smith cross paths during battle, but suddenly there are teams

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that are attacked by an unknown enemy, scattering soldiers and sending their forces into disarray.

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In order to save their friends and survive on the deadly battlefield, they must fight with every

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as a courage and pride that they can muster. Esami also involved gigantic robots that are

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I'll tell you say 10 stories, five stories maybe? Yes, probably. I mean,

488
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conservatively, I think five stories, tall works, considering the size of the titano striders.

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I'm trying to think of a scene where a braver stands next to a building that makes that measurable. Like he's

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always watching or checking in with the commanding part of the army and you know, that for some reason

491
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they don't repair their their their their building and he's always like, but he's always kneeling down

492
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:56,480
when he talks to them and you know, to that open demolished space. I'm not quite sure. Yeah, my

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five might be a bit more. Yeah, I'd say five is probably good concern. Yes. Yeah, but yes, braver.

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Big big big giant make a do thing action show a different flavor though. Like at least a different

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flavor than like most of the first episode makes it out to be. I mean, we talked about this a bit in

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in the sneak peak, but yeah, different flavor. We get to that. Do you want to talk a bit about the

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production side of thing first? Yeah, so this was set it up by the crew at Sy Games Pictures who

498
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recently they've had their hand in a little bit of everything, but more chiefly that we've talked

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of directly talked about on the show is as you might expect Princess Connect to re-dive. It's

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funny to think that the haven't had a direct hand in any adaptation of Grand Blue in spite of it

501
00:55:54,960 --> 00:56:03,280
being a Sy Games property. That is really weird. Grand Blue has changed studios a couple of times,

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not even back to their own hands. So I shrug big shrug. If it hadn't changed studios, like if it was I

503
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won all the time, I would say, oh, they're hogging it because it's a money maker, but apparently not,

504
00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:22,000
so weird. Yeah, I mean, it's going to be some weird rights curve fuffle because I would imagine

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that Sy Games would eventually want to produce that themselves. We need Strange. Yeah, because

506
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:38,720
they've done, okay, I guess they did some work on a Blade Runner ONA, Blackout 2022. Yeah,

507
00:56:38,720 --> 00:56:46,160
yeah, that was the one that was released together with the with the news, a Blade Runner,

508
00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:50,720
all you know. That I didn't know. Another movie on my shelf I haven't watched.

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00:56:50,720 --> 00:56:57,840
They've done a little bit of item master Cinderella girls, Mysteria Friends,

510
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also aka Monariya Friends, which that is another one of their properties because that ties in

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with Shadowverse, I think. But at this point, at this point, Shadowverse and Grand Blue are the

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convergence points for the Sy Games cinematic universe. Okay, no, they did a little bit of their

513
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own work on Uma Musume. Hey, how about that? It's the continued seasons, right? Not the first couple,

514
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but the movie and the third one or something. Two of the movies in one of the ONAs. Oh no, the ONA,

515
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:33,840
one of the ONAs is just like in a reformatting of one of the movies. So yes.

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It's so strange to see them having done only a few of their own things, but that's okay. It is

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what it is. This show was directed by someone whose name might be slightly familiar, and that is

518
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Masami O'Bari. Yes, a legend for good and bad reasons. Maybe he's definitely a very iconic person

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in the anime's game. Like you have, like, and he's been around for a long time. I don't know what my

520
00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:20,080
first contact with his stuff was as a director, probably the Fatal Fury movie. That's a great

521
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:28,240
artwork on that. I think he's not only known as a director, but he's also his character design is also

522
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like very iconic in a way. Occasionally very lured, I would say. Like, a lot of bouncy flying tits,

523
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that Masami O'Bari can do that very well. And I guess that also is part of the Fury movie when you

524
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:52,560
think about my scenes, but yeah, he's there's also a little bit of that in this show. Yeah, technically,

525
00:58:52,560 --> 00:58:58,880
but it's not as over-pronounced as one of in some of his earlier stuff, I would say.

526
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:04,320
Yeah, that's true. But he has been around like a long time. I mean, Fatal Fury movie is very old at

527
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this point, and he has done even older stuff and lots of super robot stuff. Oh, apparently he did

528
00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:19,440
care, resign on King of Fighters 15. Yes, I mean, he's been involved with that to

529
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:25,280
an extent anyway, due to his Fatal Fury involvement. But yeah, I guess it makes sense after the

530
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:31,680
Fatal Fury movies, but I didn't know he had a direct involvement in any other games. Yeah, I mean,

531
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and he had an involvement in a lot of the max shows, not necessarily as a director,

532
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:43,120
that we, but that we talked about in the past like Gundam build divers, Gundam build fighters. He was

533
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:49,440
a part of, he worked on MOBA's Gundam Iron Blooded Orphan sometimes as an animation director,

534
00:59:49,440 --> 00:59:54,080
sometimes on the storyboard, sometimes he was responsible for key animation, sometimes in some shows,

535
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:58,880
he was just delivering a responsible for the character designs, you know, he worked on some,

536
00:59:58,880 --> 01:00:05,360
on some old piece on some EDs, I think. So he's, he's keep it his work up, but he was always like,

537
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I think his heyday was in the, in the older times, like on some of the super robot stuff,

538
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:18,640
their way he was very involved with, you know, he also worked on the key animation of Gunbuster,

539
01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:24,880
which is of course a big, big, important show at that time. So he, he worked on MD Guised, some

540
01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:31,360
of the really old, or at this point really old stuff anyway. And you some of the stuff that he does,

541
01:00:31,360 --> 01:00:37,840
some of the key animation that he does is very recognizable, you know, there's this typical Masami

542
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:43,360
O'Bari punch, I would say, that you see in a lot of his show, and that is also in the OP of this one,

543
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:48,640
where, you know, in the, when you see, right before the logo appears, I think when Braver

544
01:00:48,640 --> 01:00:53,600
flies into the screen and punches the screen, that's, that's a Masami O'Bari punch. There is,

545
01:00:53,600 --> 01:01:03,120
I mean, there is also the pose. Yes, yes, absolutely. No pose. Yeah. So he's been around,

546
01:01:03,120 --> 01:01:11,120
and he's been doing a lot of stuff, and you probably have come across some stuff he was involved

547
01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:17,200
with for one reason or another at some point. I would admit, especially if you've been an anime fan

548
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:25,760
for a longer time. So yeah, very iconic director. And again, I feel like some of the stuff that he's

549
01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:31,760
known for is like treated as more of a comedic thing, like maybe, oh, that's a funny thing. Oh,

550
01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:41,920
yeah, that guy, right? And I wouldn't necessarily say that Braver is breaking the mold here,

551
01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:50,800
because this is a kind of a, this is a very funny and goofy and very dumb show.

552
01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:59,120
At least to an extent, it will get to that, in my opinion, anyway. But, uh, yeah, that's not how this

553
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:03,440
starts out. This is kind of, it starts off with kind of a red herring episode, and I, you know,

554
01:02:03,440 --> 01:02:07,360
mentioned that before, like the first episode feels, and if you don't know that Masami O'Bari

555
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:11,600
isn't both, and you haven't seen the OP of the show at that point, and I think the first episode

556
01:02:11,600 --> 01:02:17,120
does a cold open anyway, and only shows you the OP at the end of the episode. Yeah. So if you go into it,

557
01:02:17,120 --> 01:02:23,520
not knowing anything about this, maybe the title gives you pause, but this feels in the beginning

558
01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:33,920
like a real-ish robot show, something more in the way of maybe, oh, I don't know, a recent example. 86,

559
01:02:33,920 --> 01:02:39,200
not as dark, of course, but, you know, in the vein of that, and maybe coat gears, because the robots

560
01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:44,240
we see the tenor striders in the beginning, some of them actually move around like coat gears,

561
01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:50,080
they have like these, these roller skate feet where they can just, you know, skate around on the

562
01:02:50,080 --> 01:02:56,080
battlefield. Um, and yeah, and they're also smaller the way nightmare frames kind of are. Yes,

563
01:02:56,080 --> 01:03:00,400
exactly. They actually, this feels like a real robot show, not like a super robot show in the

564
01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:05,600
beginning. It's really, it fits ground, you have like this army training session in the beginning,

565
01:03:05,600 --> 01:03:10,720
you don't even know that it is a training session. It feels like a norm, a D landing on normal D

566
01:03:10,720 --> 01:03:14,560
situation from world war two or whatever, really just they land on the beach and then there's

567
01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:18,960
enemies they have to fight and it definitely feels like a real battle situation and, you know, there's

568
01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:25,760
the different squats and everything that they're trying to take out like this big tank or whatever,

569
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:32,400
multiple legs, could be out of ghost in the shell or whatever. And it feels, you know, it's a bit more

570
01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:37,760
colorful. There is a bit light harder banter between the characters and stuff like that. So it's got

571
01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:43,120
a slightly different tone that your grim dark super realistic military shit, but it still feels like,

572
01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:47,600
oh, okay, this is going for more realistic tone. And then we have like after this, after we learned

573
01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:53,520
that this is a training exercise, we have some good natured conversations between some of the

574
01:03:53,520 --> 01:04:00,320
characters Smith and, um, and isami, you know, the American and Japanese side of things, respectively,

575
01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:08,640
the two hot shots or ostensible main characters, um, you know, at a bar and, uh, Isami's

576
01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:15,840
colleague, hebeke, is her name, I think, is with him. Yeah, so that all of that feels still pretty

577
01:04:15,840 --> 01:04:21,680
grounded, like it feels not, feels not absolutely ludicrous or anything with this kind of a genius thing

578
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:27,680
in this episode. And it is not the only time that the show is fucking with us in regards to certain

579
01:04:27,680 --> 01:04:33,280
things, but it's not even really viewing into full metal panic, territory or anything, you know,

580
01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:39,360
yes, there are a couple of humorous scenes, humorous scenes with, you know, Isami's mechanic,

581
01:04:39,360 --> 01:04:46,880
Mu and Smith being very American. Yeah, but most of the, it seems rather down to earth and things seem

582
01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:53,680
to get really grim, therefore, moment when then and the second half of the show, the aliens attack

583
01:04:53,680 --> 01:04:59,920
out of nowhere. Uh, the death drives that we later learned they're called such a good name. Yes,

584
01:04:59,920 --> 01:05:08,160
it actually makes sense, uh, into what, what their actual mission is, but, uh, you know, it's just,

585
01:05:08,160 --> 01:05:11,920
just like in the beginning of Independence Day, the earth's forces are completely outmatched and,

586
01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:18,000
you know, the reggae have really intense battle with the, with cool moments and like I said, there's

587
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:25,360
like this cool scene where you get, uh, where you use, where they zoom out from outside of the

588
01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:31,120
Titanostridor through the window of the Titanostridor into the cockpit, which is something I haven't

589
01:05:31,120 --> 01:05:38,080
seen before, I think. Uh, and that's done like multiple times and then you have, um, this cool moment,

590
01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:45,200
what was, what do they say? Um, they were going hard and, you know, from the command, uh, that's the,

591
01:05:45,200 --> 01:05:51,040
that's what they get a, um, the command they're getting and then they say, uh, the American people in

592
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:55,840
the American, uh, in the Titanostridors also say going hot and then they attack the aliens at once

593
01:05:55,840 --> 01:06:01,840
and the way the cameras were around the Titanostridors at this moment, uh, also really cool, like,

594
01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:06,400
really cool, uh, well stage battles and I, uh, battles and I think that continues to the,

595
01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:12,800
throughout the show, like it gets of course, you two reasons a bit more ludicrous, but there are some

596
01:06:12,800 --> 01:06:20,560
cool battles in this, like some of them are over pretty quickly for reasons, but, but it's

597
01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:28,240
general. It's, uh, I feel like even though the Max and this are all CG, some of the fights in this

598
01:06:28,240 --> 01:06:34,880
look really, really cool. Would you agree? Yeah, for sure. And I was looking at apparently, uh, orange

599
01:06:34,880 --> 01:06:40,960
cooperated on some of the CG. So yeah, that makes sense. Uh, that absolutely makes sense. Not at all of

600
01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:47,600
this. Like, yeah, it definitely had to have a bunch more basic shots in this and, uh, you know,

601
01:06:47,600 --> 01:06:52,480
minimal shots where it's like, okay, they didn't do. There was that much going on here, but you have,

602
01:06:52,480 --> 01:06:57,840
like, towards the, like in the beginning, of course, like I said, there are like some really,

603
01:06:57,840 --> 01:07:03,200
really cool, uh, intense moments, but all in the kind of penultimate episodes, like there's a

604
01:07:03,200 --> 01:07:11,440
duel between two characters, uh, that is really, really cool and really intense and, uh, then some,

605
01:07:11,440 --> 01:07:15,600
you know, of course, the finale of the show and everything. So in generally, this is a good looking

606
01:07:15,600 --> 01:07:21,040
show. It's not like, side games best looking thing that is still, I mean, the only other thing I

607
01:07:21,040 --> 01:07:27,200
checked out is, you know, it's princess connect, but that, that definitely looks a lot better than this,

608
01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:31,840
but it's still like, it's very solid. Like the characters designs are pretty cool. And, you know,

609
01:07:31,840 --> 01:07:38,160
for what it actually turns out to be, and if we get to that in a second, this, I feel like they went

610
01:07:38,160 --> 01:07:46,640
over the top, so to speak with what they actually had to do. So I was very happy with that. Would

611
01:07:46,640 --> 01:07:51,680
you agree, John? Yeah, for sure. I mean, it's probably, I wouldn't call this one of the best looking

612
01:07:51,680 --> 01:07:58,080
shows in the world or that they've worked on, but you could definitely tell that they made a really

613
01:07:58,080 --> 01:08:08,240
good effort to, you know, convey what they are trying to do with big dumb giant robot show. And I

614
01:08:08,240 --> 01:08:13,760
definitely, I'm sure you do as well. I definitely appreciate that, you know, they just went for it and,

615
01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:19,920
you know, it worked out and it looks as good as it does. Yes, agreed. And yeah, so we have this kind

616
01:08:19,920 --> 01:08:25,280
of realistic approach for most of the runtime of the first episode. And then when everything

617
01:08:25,280 --> 01:08:33,600
seems to be lost, a super robot appears. Brave-Earn. He explodes on the scene, comes out of nowhere and

618
01:08:33,600 --> 01:08:40,160
asks one of our main characters, Isami, to enter his cockpit, enter him. I don't know how he phrases it.

619
01:08:40,160 --> 01:08:53,440
Exactly. You have to ride me, Sammy. And yeah, then they take down the first pillar tower, whatever,

620
01:08:53,440 --> 01:09:00,080
I think they're eight that get shot down to earth. And that's the first one they take on, on Hawaii,

621
01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:06,640
where they are stationed at this moment in a while, what is called. And then for some reason,

622
01:09:06,640 --> 01:09:16,000
the theme of the show, the theme, a musical theme, the background music, which is apparently also

623
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:21,760
playing in the cockpit of Brave-Earn, which Isami comments on. It's like, what is this music? It's

624
01:09:21,760 --> 01:09:27,440
such a good throwaway thing because you hear the music playing in the background while you're watching

625
01:09:27,440 --> 01:09:33,760
show. Oh, yeah, that's good. And then Isami comments, and it's like, oh, no, it's actually playing. Wait,

626
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:39,760
what? Yes. I feel like another show did this before. And I can't remember which one, but

627
01:09:39,760 --> 01:09:47,440
I think the one that Springs Mine was within super robot was one of the big running jokes. So it's

628
01:09:49,200 --> 01:09:56,000
the Austin Sighter theme, Tronbe, it would start playing and it would override every other song in the

629
01:09:56,000 --> 01:10:02,880
game due to some coding error. And they kind of just kept that moving forward until in one of the games,

630
01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:09,040
one of the enemy battleships has giant speakers strapped to it so it can go over that song.

631
01:10:09,040 --> 01:10:15,280
Oh no, it's so stupid shot up. It's great, but that's also not to show up thinking about because I

632
01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:21,360
haven't really watched that much super robot. It's something else, but it's super fun. I mean,

633
01:10:21,360 --> 01:10:27,840
we also talked about that in the sneak peek, but yeah, it's great. And it's like, oh, no, okay,

634
01:10:27,840 --> 01:10:34,800
this is what the show is. I guess this is the tone. This is the tone. And it gets even more ludicrous

635
01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:47,360
in its second episode because holy holy crap, like there is... And that like at the first episode,

636
01:10:47,360 --> 01:10:52,960
you think, oh, okay, this is just just gonna... The show tricked me. It made me think it was a super...

637
01:10:52,960 --> 01:10:57,840
It was a real robot show now. It's a super robot show. So it's gonna be fun. Bodycoff thing with Smith

638
01:10:57,840 --> 01:11:04,480
and everything and isami and braver and braver and braver is just like this loud, truly robot. So that's

639
01:11:04,480 --> 01:11:11,360
it's gonna be fun time. We're gonna take out this monster's. But actually, the title of the show

640
01:11:11,360 --> 01:11:21,440
might have been just a giant gay joke because this is the gayest robot show I've ever seen.

641
01:11:21,440 --> 01:11:29,200
It's a gay song. Yes. It's turbo gay. But you know, I saw some people saying, hey,

642
01:11:29,200 --> 01:11:36,480
which remarkery was Yuri Mecca? So now we have Yahweh Mecca. Yes. I mean, it absolutely is that

643
01:11:36,480 --> 01:11:42,800
on several fronts, right? It's like, you have this stuff with braver, of course. And we have this great

644
01:11:42,800 --> 01:11:49,280
scene in the second episode where he explains to the military staff, like they just want to know who he

645
01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:53,520
is, right? Because this is giant alien. He's talking... Alien robot. He's talking. He helped them for

646
01:11:53,520 --> 01:11:58,400
some reason. They don't know why. The only other robots they encountered, Alien robots they encountered,

647
01:11:58,400 --> 01:12:02,880
just wanted to kill them. So they're like, okay, they're a bit anxious, of course, and still, you know,

648
01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:08,480
have their guns on braver in the beginning. They don't trust him immediately. Okay, what are you

649
01:12:08,480 --> 01:12:15,440
doing here? Instead of answering them, really, he just starts explaining how he fell in love with

650
01:12:15,440 --> 01:12:23,760
Isami, kind of like when he piloted him the first time, how he grabbed his control stick tightly

651
01:12:23,760 --> 01:12:30,640
and jerked it up and down and how it stirred up emotions in braver and he couldn't lift any more

652
01:12:30,640 --> 01:12:37,600
without Isami. It's like, oh, okay. Oh, it's like this. So it's like this show, you're really going

653
01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:44,960
there. And, you know, to an extent, the show is going even harder into that direction later on. And

654
01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:50,960
it's really confirming that thing, like to an extent, like you have a... I don't want to give that

655
01:12:50,960 --> 01:12:56,000
away, but they're really like, no, no, no, this is actually what the show is going for. It's not just

656
01:12:56,000 --> 01:13:02,720
making like these, these illusions here. It's not all just alluding to that. It's actually,

657
01:13:02,720 --> 01:13:08,560
no, this is what we're doing. This is not just wordplay or anything. And it's like a fun comedy bit,

658
01:13:08,560 --> 01:13:16,720
huh? No, no, we are actually a gay human, robot, human, human show. They committed to it. They

659
01:13:16,720 --> 01:13:23,440
commit super hard, not entirely the way through because I feel like it never or almost never gets

660
01:13:23,440 --> 01:13:30,080
as ridiculous as it gets in that part of the second episode. I don't know about that. There's an

661
01:13:30,080 --> 01:13:34,960
episode later on. Yeah, I mean, there is one episode later on. There's some episodes where it

662
01:13:34,960 --> 01:13:42,000
springs it in between, but just this rapid fire joke or this amount of rapid fire jokes that just

663
01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:48,320
cater to this particular topic is just in this is in the second episode. And after that, I feel like

664
01:13:48,320 --> 01:13:53,120
it dials it down a bit. It always sprinkles in some of that in between in every episode, but it's

665
01:13:53,120 --> 01:14:00,000
never going like full hog like it does in that particular moment. And that not criticizing that.

666
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:04,400
It's just like that's how it is. I mean, if the abundance of gay jokes in the second episodes is too

667
01:14:04,400 --> 01:14:10,400
much for you, like I said, maybe don't worry. They dialed it down the intensity a bit. If that

668
01:14:10,400 --> 01:14:15,120
humor is for you, though, and you got to get kicked out of that and you think it's good nature and fun.

669
01:14:15,120 --> 01:14:21,920
And I feel like the show is never like mean about it or just being super dismissive about it or like

670
01:14:21,920 --> 01:14:28,080
mean spirited. No, it doesn't ever feel that way. No, absolutely not. It doesn't feel like, yes,

671
01:14:28,080 --> 01:14:34,240
it's making that a bit of a, it's making that a joke, but it's also like, no, this is a good thing,

672
01:14:34,240 --> 01:14:39,600
right? So it's not like, oh, no, this is, this is bad because he's behaving that way. And it could have

673
01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:45,840
gone that way if Braver and felt more predatory towards Isami, which I had a worry in the beginning

674
01:14:45,840 --> 01:14:51,040
that that would be the case because he's I mean, absolutely in the beginning doesn't want to deal with

675
01:14:51,040 --> 01:14:56,560
this shit. Like he doesn't want to write Braver and for several reasons. And in that exposition scene,

676
01:14:56,560 --> 01:15:02,000
the second episode is actually like, in displace with him getting water-barded by this bald CIA guy.

677
01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:08,960
Jesus Christ. Which gives you super whiplash, but also believe it or not, that shit with the water-bording

678
01:15:08,960 --> 01:15:15,680
is dark and horrible as it is in the beginning. And it really is like, it feels really like super dark

679
01:15:15,680 --> 01:15:22,240
and switching between those scenes and the stuff with Braver. And it's just peak hilarity. It just

680
01:15:22,240 --> 01:15:28,880
gives you multiple like gives you multiple instances of whiplash. But also that water-bodding shit

681
01:15:28,880 --> 01:15:35,520
is brought back several times and it gets funnier and funnier every time. It really does. And it peaks

682
01:15:35,520 --> 01:15:42,400
in the perfect, like perfect joke, I gotta say. So I didn't expect that. I thought it would be one off.

683
01:15:42,400 --> 01:15:50,080
So even that they managed to make funny in a good way. So it feels like the jokes they make about this

684
01:15:50,080 --> 01:15:55,520
and you know, all the gay jokes they're packing. It's still good natured fun. It's not mean-spirited. And

685
01:15:55,520 --> 01:16:01,200
it feels like it's a very positive thing. And you know, that could have gone different way. Like if they

686
01:16:01,920 --> 01:16:07,920
had shown scenes where Braven just pulls Esami out of someone and just jammed him into his cockpit or

687
01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:13,120
something, that would have maybe felt bad at a point, especially if Esami would have resisted it the

688
01:16:13,120 --> 01:16:19,280
entire way through. But also there are different reasons why he is resisting it, not because he doesn't

689
01:16:19,280 --> 01:16:25,680
like the way Braven is in itself, like how he is super enamored with him. It's more like the whole

690
01:16:25,680 --> 01:16:32,880
situation itself in the beginning. And that is also an interesting thing where not only the general

691
01:16:32,880 --> 01:16:37,440
setting and tone of the show is getting subverted, but also Esami as a character because he looks

692
01:16:37,440 --> 01:16:42,880
and feels like your standard Stern cardboard Japanese army guy who is the protagonist archetype of

693
01:16:42,880 --> 01:16:49,520
so many of the serious mecha or other power fantasy shows. Think out no as zero or 86 or even other

694
01:16:49,520 --> 01:16:54,640
genre like Sword Art in its first season or the million Isakai or light novel stuff out there.

695
01:16:54,640 --> 01:17:00,320
We have like this one black-haired protagonist who could be you if you are Japanese, right?

696
01:17:00,320 --> 01:17:06,160
And but you're super cool and you're Stern and you got your shit together. And that's how Esami is

697
01:17:06,160 --> 01:17:11,280
portrayed in the beginning as the super skilled unshakable pilot in the training exercise. And he

698
01:17:11,280 --> 01:17:17,360
is better than Smith and he's super fast and he takes out the tank by himself and he has the super

699
01:17:17,360 --> 01:17:23,520
old titanous rider, but he it's like he can control it perfectly so he's faster than everyone else.

700
01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:30,320
It's like oh I know this person. And then very abruptly or I guess a bit progressively like with the

701
01:17:30,320 --> 01:17:37,440
aliens attack you you see some some dance in his armor and he gets kind of flustered and a bit shaken

702
01:17:37,440 --> 01:17:43,600
up and everything. And then very abruptly once the braver shit happens he gets turned into this

703
01:17:43,600 --> 01:17:51,520
quivering pathetic mess and but of the joke who wants to not have anything to do with whatever is

704
01:17:51,520 --> 01:17:57,040
happening here. And that kind of stays that way throughout the show. I mean he gets better. He gets

705
01:17:57,040 --> 01:18:02,640
more comfortable with piloting braver and Smith has a lot of to do with that like making him comfortable

706
01:18:02,640 --> 01:18:07,680
with that situation and giving him support although they also have you know that problematic face

707
01:18:07,680 --> 01:18:13,840
because another character is introduced and Esami is not okay with that and by the end of the show

708
01:18:13,840 --> 01:18:19,600
you know why he was not okay with that because there's also definitely a lot of relationship going on

709
01:18:19,600 --> 01:18:26,480
between Esami and Smith which you can guess at the beginning and once you realize that this is a gay

710
01:18:26,480 --> 01:18:32,480
show you know oh okay this is not a body thing between the two. There is actually a romantic thing

711
01:18:32,480 --> 01:18:37,840
happening and of course that's the reason why Esami when another character is introduced and he feels

712
01:18:37,840 --> 01:18:45,120
like his maybe feelings are not his feelings are not returned or not taken into consideration then maybe

713
01:18:45,120 --> 01:18:51,280
he gets then he gets angry with Smith and you know that gets continued a while and then they have a

714
01:18:51,280 --> 01:18:57,920
boxing match where they sort that shit out in front of everyone else of course and braver and has

715
01:18:57,920 --> 01:19:04,400
microphone into that that blast their conversation to everyone on the fucking ship it's great it's

716
01:19:04,400 --> 01:19:11,280
fucking great like this like this this this show what it does with its characters and where it's

717
01:19:11,280 --> 01:19:20,720
taking them is is magic our magical places and or is magical but still from beginning to end Esami is

718
01:19:20,720 --> 01:19:26,640
kind of this kind of scared person who doesn't want to be part of this and really needs the support

719
01:19:26,640 --> 01:19:31,680
of other characters to make shit happen he can't do it on his own he thinks at some point he has to

720
01:19:31,680 --> 01:19:41,760
do it but it becomes very clear very very very I promise that was not intentional it becomes very

721
01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:47,600
clear very quickly that he really really needs the support of other characters in his life and

722
01:19:47,600 --> 01:19:53,520
especially of Smith and braver of course to actually be able to fight these fights and in the

723
01:19:53,520 --> 01:19:59,440
moments where he doesn't have that support he's very prone to falling back into his old oh I can't

724
01:19:59,440 --> 01:20:06,400
do this shit I didn't I never wanted to actually do this I just basically stumbled into this which

725
01:20:06,400 --> 01:20:10,240
you know is also the case he's the complete opposite to Smith and that regard because Smith

726
01:20:10,240 --> 01:20:15,520
immediately from the get go we learn he always wanted to be a superhero he's a big tukusatsu show

727
01:20:15,520 --> 01:20:21,040
fan he's a big superhero fan he always wanted to be that so he went and quickly determined for

728
01:20:21,040 --> 01:20:27,280
himself he wanted to be a Kamatitanos Strider pilot and once braver and enters the scene he is like

729
01:20:27,280 --> 01:20:32,560
actually no I want to be the one who pilots does he so fucking cool but that doesn't happen because

730
01:20:32,560 --> 01:20:38,320
braver is dead so don't eat some eat for a specific reason a reason we can reveal here because that's

731
01:20:38,320 --> 01:20:48,240
something that gets very important becomes a very important reveal later on but yes because we

732
01:20:48,240 --> 01:20:53,440
before we get into that at least to next 10 because I can't we can't talk too much about it because

733
01:20:53,440 --> 01:20:59,360
it's a big spoiler but I just love the general sense of humor in this show I thought it was funny

734
01:20:59,360 --> 01:21:04,320
there was some there was some edge to it with the waterboarding scenes and everything there is this

735
01:21:04,320 --> 01:21:12,400
tendency of braver not to let people finish their sentences yes like in general he's a big fan of

736
01:21:12,400 --> 01:21:20,800
yelling stuff like either his name or a super move of or when he transforms or really for anything

737
01:21:20,800 --> 01:21:28,160
that he feels like his necessity is necessary to be emphasized with a big ol yell but he also uses

738
01:21:28,160 --> 01:21:36,000
that as a tool like when he maybe doesn't want to explain shit to people or when an enemy arrives and

739
01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:43,520
the enemy has his what enemies do what giant enemy robots opponents do in shown and show they

740
01:21:43,520 --> 01:21:48,800
start monologuing shit and maybe explaining their plans or doing a bit of

741
01:21:49,600 --> 01:21:55,040
ha now you're facing me what we'll see how this battle turns out blah blah blah and then it's just

742
01:21:55,040 --> 01:22:00,880
interrupted by you fucking and then just suddenly a sword through their chest yes shots sort through

743
01:22:00,880 --> 01:22:07,280
that chest yes and braveness not the only one who does that like all the characters do this in this

744
01:22:07,280 --> 01:22:12,320
show this is just a general thing this show does it's like a character starts to monologue about

745
01:22:12,320 --> 01:22:18,960
something and it's just interrupted by some shit it's sometimes swords sometimes guns it's such a

746
01:22:18,960 --> 01:22:27,360
breath of fresh air honestly yes it's it's really good and it's it never stop being funny to me

747
01:22:27,360 --> 01:22:34,080
the way it was presented and how and the show never takes itself too seriously there are some moments

748
01:22:34,080 --> 01:22:40,560
where it delivers some legit drama later on especially but mostly it's like no we're just

749
01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:47,600
satirizing their shit out of mecha shows out of tocusatsu shows out shown in shows everything

750
01:22:47,600 --> 01:22:53,440
that you can really think of and then we also have you know this gay component to it and it's

751
01:22:53,440 --> 01:22:59,360
having so much fun with this that that is infectious because you know every time you think oh you

752
01:22:59,360 --> 01:23:05,200
got to show figured out no no there's something you funny happening with the characters or with the

753
01:23:05,920 --> 01:23:10,800
you know with the with the enemies and everything and what they do and what they say and one of my

754
01:23:10,800 --> 01:23:15,920
favorites bit is business in the penultimate episode when there's a fight that really isn't the fight

755
01:23:15,920 --> 01:23:27,520
even the final fight is like not much yeah that's true I feel like I mean there is like an almost

756
01:23:27,520 --> 01:23:33,760
final boss that is of course of course voiced by Kenji Ruzura as he was always destined to be

757
01:23:35,200 --> 01:23:42,560
but see it that is a bit more intense but uh yeah there are also so many boss fights in this show

758
01:23:42,560 --> 01:23:50,400
that are just like more vehicles to a joke to a punchline than anything else and the punch line is

759
01:23:50,400 --> 01:23:57,440
always kind of different for each of these characters in a way and yeah that's really good and

760
01:23:57,440 --> 01:24:02,800
I mean of course I was being like oh yeah I wouldn't have minded to get some actual more real

761
01:24:02,800 --> 01:24:08,800
battles out of this but since we got some of those anyway I like that with the rest of you know

762
01:24:08,800 --> 01:24:15,040
their opponents they actually do some creative shit where it comes to you know making fun of the tropes

763
01:24:15,040 --> 01:24:21,040
of the stereotypes and everything and the genre the genre is their parody and kind of also it's

764
01:24:21,040 --> 01:24:26,560
a love letter to a lot of those genres it's not only making jokes about it's not making mean

765
01:24:26,560 --> 01:24:31,600
spirited jokes about them just like it doesn't in my opinion make mean spirited jokes about

766
01:24:31,600 --> 01:24:39,680
the creators or anything it's just like hey we love this and this can also be funny and you know if

767
01:24:39,680 --> 01:24:44,480
we look at some of the genres that we're portraying here and that we're paying homage to

768
01:24:44,480 --> 01:24:51,120
some of that shit is just so super goofy and we're highlighting why it is so goofy and why some of that

769
01:24:51,120 --> 01:24:58,320
shit just kind of shouldn't work yeah so and that's great that's fantastic and on top of that we

770
01:24:58,320 --> 01:25:03,120
have a bunch of fun characters uh John what do you want to go into some of them aside from you know

771
01:25:03,120 --> 01:25:08,480
Isami and Smith who do we have that maybe deserves a bit of a highlight so is Isami Smith in

772
01:25:08,480 --> 01:25:19,200
braver yes of course braver I mean we have a kibiki who is a pilot alongside Isami and you know she's

773
01:25:21,680 --> 01:25:28,480
very sort of enthusiastic to you know she's she really looks up to Isami like oh you're

774
01:25:28,480 --> 01:25:34,000
you're such a cool guy isami and there's like other characters to do that as well there is one of the

775
01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:40,080
his operator even the one of the operators I can't remember her name with Honoka

776
01:25:40,080 --> 01:25:48,880
okay it was Honoka yeah she also has big stars in her eyes for Isami even even when he's acting

777
01:25:49,920 --> 01:25:57,360
super cowardly and it's like are you lady are you sure really okay all right okay

778
01:25:57,360 --> 01:26:03,200
I mean a lot of people like don't see past and that's part of his arc right like a lot of people

779
01:26:03,200 --> 01:26:11,520
don't see past his pretend outside demeanor in certain scenes like even seem to ignore when he

780
01:26:11,520 --> 01:26:19,440
really acts like a coward in certain parts uh they a lot of people only see that you know the

781
01:26:19,440 --> 01:26:25,120
the stereotype that the show is actually satirizing they see the stern Japanese army guy who kicks ass

782
01:26:25,120 --> 01:26:31,280
but also you know it actually doesn't want to be here that they don't see that part and they just

783
01:26:31,280 --> 01:26:38,400
say oh he's our hero and uh you know lieutenant oh he's the best and and meanwhile Isami is like

784
01:26:38,400 --> 01:26:48,560
a god fuck I don't need this in my life just go man oh oh oh oh there's also me you

785
01:26:48,560 --> 01:26:57,760
the nerd and she's no the mechanic girl she's kind of nerdy at the first sight of anything

786
01:26:57,760 --> 01:27:04,560
yow he related oh boy oh yeah she loves that shit she's just like mm mm mm yeah go go on

787
01:27:04,560 --> 01:27:11,760
and he's do for the team yes she's I guess for some of the audience she's the self insert character

788
01:27:11,760 --> 01:27:19,440
oh for sure yes there were a couple of other side characters as well and they're on the uh

789
01:27:19,440 --> 01:27:29,920
Japan ground for side there was a Ryuji and Isau you know they were kind of one's a pilot who's

790
01:27:29,920 --> 01:27:36,960
there alongside everyone else in the other was you know sort of a commanding officer yes we have

791
01:27:36,960 --> 01:27:41,200
we have the also the commander on the American side of things like because this is also something

792
01:27:41,200 --> 01:27:45,440
elective show this has this uh this show has a very international feel to it yeah because like you

793
01:27:45,440 --> 01:27:52,960
have these joint forces and you have have a lot of English in this show uh or English and uh also

794
01:27:53,840 --> 01:28:00,400
japanoich germanese that's one way of referring to it something like that because there's a lot

795
01:28:00,400 --> 01:28:06,320
of people yelling shy say in this show uh yeah there's a couple of item I've come up come some

796
01:28:06,320 --> 01:28:15,920
mind there's a couple of uh german cast members in here I think we might have one Russian lady as well

797
01:28:15,920 --> 01:28:22,240
the dog yeah I think so but yeah this show has a very international feel to it and

798
01:28:23,120 --> 01:28:28,720
it's it's fun and I feel like the commander of a goddess name is also like his best scenes are being

799
01:28:28,720 --> 01:28:36,960
like the a straight guy to uh to braver and nonsense how how that was to name how do you know yeah

800
01:28:36,960 --> 01:28:44,320
like uh it's just it's so fun like the scene where braver like explains his love to Isami to them for

801
01:28:44,320 --> 01:28:52,400
the first time and everyone in the in the room is just just tired and staring this long uh staring

802
01:28:52,400 --> 01:28:58,320
to the long distance some of them hide him or he has her has her head on her arms on the desk yeah and

803
01:28:58,320 --> 01:29:05,920
hell it hell is just sitting there with this kind of gando uh ecarry thing with his hands like in front

804
01:29:05,920 --> 01:29:12,160
of his face and just staring to the i don't know if it's to the roof or to the table and just waiting

805
01:29:12,160 --> 01:29:18,400
patiently for braver to finish his story because he's a professional and there's just a lot of great

806
01:29:18,400 --> 01:29:24,000
back and forth scenes between some of these characters just being foils for each other and especially

807
01:29:24,000 --> 01:29:30,560
for braver and nonsense and it's great yeah I just missed opportunity in here to have

808
01:29:30,560 --> 01:29:36,960
how be a captain instead of a general because then he could have been captain king he could have made

809
01:29:36,960 --> 01:29:44,320
all of the halo jokes maybe msami or barri is not familiar with halo i don't know i mean but his name

810
01:29:44,320 --> 01:29:55,760
is also how yes that's king so so yeah maybe and yeah we have another very important side characters

811
01:29:55,760 --> 01:30:04,480
that comes into the story at the end of the second episode which is Lulu and she seems to be i mean

812
01:30:04,480 --> 01:30:11,520
the show doesn't really hide that like it becomes clear very quickly that she was part of a robot

813
01:30:11,520 --> 01:30:20,400
they fight in the second episode that has humanoid frame just like braver is one of the main boss

814
01:30:20,400 --> 01:30:29,840
death drives and his name is superb yeah and apparently when he gets destroyed uh Lulu or the part

815
01:30:29,840 --> 01:30:38,160
that she is in gets ejected from his body and uh yeah then she gets washed up on the beach and

816
01:30:38,160 --> 01:30:44,880
smith literally stumbled over her and then takes her with him and she becomes kind of his surrogate

817
01:30:44,880 --> 01:30:51,120
daughter in a way and uh yeah that also leads to misunderstanding because of course she's naked at some

818
01:30:51,120 --> 01:30:56,320
point and they're in the whole room and there's some you know had a fight and then braver falls into

819
01:30:56,320 --> 01:31:00,640
that building in isami system naked and whatever and gets angry because of course he has the hot

820
01:31:00,640 --> 01:31:07,760
smith and you know all of that but that also gets kind of resolved pretty quickly which is I was

821
01:31:07,760 --> 01:31:14,000
very grateful for like yeah because oh you say direct to that out would have been like yeah in general

822
01:31:14,000 --> 01:31:21,600
I feel like the show does not dwell on on things too much like yeah once they get boring or

823
01:31:21,600 --> 01:31:27,600
or you know tried or annoying it's like nope they're switching it up and also some of the stuff we

824
01:31:27,600 --> 01:31:33,040
just resolve super quickly and explain super quickly and I could they could have dragged out smith trying

825
01:31:33,040 --> 01:31:39,280
to hide that Lulu is an alien or something for I don't know an extended amount of time and

826
01:31:39,280 --> 01:31:45,120
that no that shit gets resolved like super quickly after the hotel scene is like no she apparently is

827
01:31:45,120 --> 01:31:49,600
an alien she has an underdeveloped body for some reason which is why she can't eat normal food she

828
01:31:49,600 --> 01:31:55,600
tries to anyway but that black fires she doesn't speak properly like she learns very quickly by watching

829
01:31:55,600 --> 01:32:02,160
TV shows of course with smith together took us at the shows but you know she's kind of in of course in

830
01:32:02,160 --> 01:32:09,520
infantilized girl character trop but also they do some interesting with her her later on something

831
01:32:09,520 --> 01:32:16,000
very interesting which I didn't see coming and make her character super important and interesting

832
01:32:16,000 --> 01:32:23,440
not just the side comedic mascot thing which a lot of the shows my other shows that this show is

833
01:32:23,440 --> 01:32:29,440
you know satirizing and pingo marsh to might have done with her character because she speaks like a

834
01:32:29,440 --> 01:32:37,120
goddamn Pokemon so I mean I'm really glad they did more than nothing with her because otherwise

835
01:32:37,120 --> 01:32:41,200
the prior would have been like and there's some characters and is that definitely get the short

836
01:32:41,200 --> 01:32:46,080
end of the steak like some of some of some smith teammates are just here there to be teammates

837
01:32:46,080 --> 01:32:50,400
and there's not really any character development to that or they don't really get that much screen time

838
01:32:50,400 --> 01:32:56,080
out of the battles or whatever or to look on each to see more of a cure and Nina man yes absolutely

839
01:32:56,080 --> 01:33:01,520
the those are the two that I'm thinking of like they get introduced the third fourth I don't know

840
01:33:01,520 --> 01:33:07,920
half the third or fourth one yeah yeah and they're in the battles regularly but aside from that

841
01:33:07,920 --> 01:33:14,720
they're just here to hey more girl characters which is great of course but aside from that there's

842
01:33:14,720 --> 01:33:19,760
not much to them but I was really happy with what they did with Lulu and where they went because

843
01:33:19,760 --> 01:33:27,040
that also you know that kind of trope can feel really icky you know if they lean too hard into it and try

844
01:33:27,040 --> 01:33:32,480
to put make too much of a you know try to force a kind of romantic relationship with one of the

845
01:33:32,480 --> 01:33:38,240
characters into it with one of the main characters into it which I don't feel they're doing like yes

846
01:33:38,240 --> 01:33:44,560
there's this naked bit thing and of course that feels a bit weird but most of the time it feels like

847
01:33:44,560 --> 01:33:51,200
she is legit like a daughter to Smith like that's the character she is and then from that she

848
01:33:51,200 --> 01:33:57,040
evolves to something as a battle partner and whatever and especially in the last stretch of the show

849
01:33:57,040 --> 01:34:06,160
she the show kind of also becomes about her so that's that was really cool I was like oh oh okay

850
01:34:06,160 --> 01:34:13,920
that's what you're doing interesting yeah it's pretty cool to see her the arc become hers yes exactly

851
01:34:13,920 --> 01:34:19,760
and she becomes kind of like did you have like this isami and smith become her two dads in a way

852
01:34:19,760 --> 01:34:26,880
right and she becomes she becomes their daughter in through the course of the story and that also

853
01:34:26,880 --> 01:34:32,880
relates to what her actual role later in the story is and what her mission actually is why she is

854
01:34:32,880 --> 01:34:37,840
in this and what what she is the catalyst for and everything so I feel all of that was constructed

855
01:34:37,840 --> 01:34:47,760
pretty well and even surprising but it wasn't the biggest surprise to me so the show sets up for me

856
01:34:47,760 --> 01:34:55,520
anyway an intriguing mystery like who's braverin how is braverin why is braverin and where does he know

857
01:34:55,520 --> 01:35:02,480
isami from isami's favorite child to tie come to lie for some reason like or did he witness isami

858
01:35:02,480 --> 01:35:08,640
watching his favorite TV show from space as a kid and like gotten them it with him and whatever and

859
01:35:08,640 --> 01:35:13,920
braverin plays very coy with information you always get the feeling that he knows a lot more about

860
01:35:13,920 --> 01:35:19,600
what is going on but intentionally keeps a lot of shit to himself for some reason like when someone

861
01:35:19,600 --> 01:35:26,000
asks him a very prodigal or a question the viewers also maybe would like an answer to he that ignores

862
01:35:26,000 --> 01:35:30,480
it or interrupts them with a loud yell or sees the discussion into a completely different direction

863
01:35:30,480 --> 01:35:35,120
and certain scenes is almost feels like he's doing a fourth wall break wings at the audience and

864
01:35:35,120 --> 01:35:39,760
this like sorry can't reveal that yet because we need this for some climax later in the show

865
01:35:39,760 --> 01:35:52,880
and oh my god for some reason I did not see the reveal of what or who braverin really is coming

866
01:35:52,880 --> 01:36:00,400
yeah dude that was like mm-hmm even though the show telegraphed it super hard like in high

867
01:36:00,400 --> 01:36:07,840
side I mean there is a character that literally tells us to our faces who braverin is but because

868
01:36:07,840 --> 01:36:14,000
of the way the show sets up that character you just ignore it and that's fucking ingenious in my

869
01:36:14,000 --> 01:36:20,320
opinion and usually I'm good at this kind of stuff you know this show I always throw out weird

870
01:36:20,320 --> 01:36:27,920
weird ideas and assumptions about who is where a show might go with certain characters and what

871
01:36:27,920 --> 01:36:32,480
might be a plot with that is coming down the row and I'm like 50/50 on though sometimes I'm right

872
01:36:32,480 --> 01:36:37,440
sometimes I'm wrong but I generally make good guesses I think the last good guess I made was in

873
01:36:37,440 --> 01:36:42,400
which from Mercury was like oh I think this is what is going on with Suleta and with her

874
01:36:42,400 --> 01:36:48,000
Gundam and whatever in her mind yeah you were I can't believe how on you were with that so

875
01:36:48,000 --> 01:36:56,240
color me absolutely baffled that I did not see this shit coming like

876
01:36:57,520 --> 01:37:02,320
the truth for some reason this time the truth completely eluded me up to the point where it was

877
01:37:02,320 --> 01:37:08,160
revealed to us or like two seconds before it was revealed to us I was like oh my god is braverin

878
01:37:08,160 --> 01:37:14,960
and then of course and it was probably because even though it was telegraphed super hard it was

879
01:37:14,960 --> 01:37:21,760
count by all the shenanigans and but when that plot was hit I was fucking elated I was cheering I

880
01:37:21,760 --> 01:37:28,320
was making my forehead in disbelief how could I have been so blind it's astonishing and incredible

881
01:37:28,320 --> 01:37:34,240
and delivered with all the fanfare and paythos you'd wanted to have in this kind of show like this is

882
01:37:34,240 --> 01:37:39,840
a smart show that very effectively hides its smartness behind also being a really dumb show at the same

883
01:37:39,840 --> 01:37:46,960
time it plays entirely with open cards from the get go but distracts you with so much nonsense

884
01:37:46,960 --> 01:37:52,080
including efficiently employing and satirizing genre tropes that you just can't see the forest for

885
01:37:52,080 --> 01:37:57,760
the trees at least I couldn't it's an incredible slide of hand magic trick the show is pulling off

886
01:37:57,760 --> 01:38:02,880
here in my opinion I love when a show fucks with me in that way I like to be positively surprised

887
01:38:02,880 --> 01:38:10,400
did you feel the same way dude when they hit me with that I was like I didn't I was beside myself

888
01:38:10,400 --> 01:38:19,200
I was like what do you mean that's what this is how did I in the looking back to one of the earlier episodes

889
01:38:19,200 --> 01:38:25,040
I was like of course of course of course it was right there it was in front of our faces the entire

890
01:38:25,040 --> 01:38:31,520
time and I looked at the you know some discussions about this and the forums and whatever and a lot of

891
01:38:31,520 --> 01:38:38,800
people definitely got that like a lot of people like immediately made that connection for some reason

892
01:38:38,800 --> 01:38:45,120
I couldn't for some reason I didn't I just I was so focused on all the the satire and the nonsense

893
01:38:45,120 --> 01:38:50,400
and the show setting itself up to be so just ludicrous and having so much out of left field shit that

894
01:38:50,400 --> 01:38:56,560
just kind of couldn't be in this show and felt so forth wall breaking in everything so I was just like

895
01:38:56,560 --> 01:39:02,240
oh yeah this is just how just way the show is and probably I was going farther than this with my

896
01:39:02,240 --> 01:39:08,160
assumption it's like braverness probably just a character that knows that this is a TV show and they

897
01:39:08,160 --> 01:39:12,320
probably not even gonna explain this at some point or braverness is just no don't worry about it this is

898
01:39:12,320 --> 01:39:18,160
TV show and you're the characters and I'm just here because I need to be in whatever it felt so meta

899
01:39:18,160 --> 01:39:24,880
all the time that I just didn't expect there to be an actual plot reason inside of the fucking show

900
01:39:24,880 --> 01:39:32,960
itself for braver to be who is who who who what he turns out to be and it's like oh wow you tricked me

901
01:39:32,960 --> 01:39:39,840
show and I loved that you were able to trick me so I don't know it it played my my own weapons of

902
01:39:39,840 --> 01:39:46,480
deduction against me I don't something like that and the reveal came at the perfect time too like

903
01:39:46,480 --> 01:39:51,600
just when the show was starting to lose me a bit because it had dialed a nonsense down a couple of

904
01:39:51,600 --> 01:39:58,400
steps it hits me with this and it also gives this this show incredible rewatch value because now I

905
01:39:58,400 --> 01:40:03,840
want to count all the moments where it was rubbing the truth in my face without me the most oblivious

906
01:40:03,840 --> 01:40:12,400
idiot apparently not noticing any of it so fantastic I just love the reveal of why braverness

907
01:40:12,400 --> 01:40:19,760
in the show what he's doing who he is and I felt like this was really full of really well it was

908
01:40:19,760 --> 01:40:26,480
staged perfectly it came at the perfect time it wasn't a really well done emotional climax it was

909
01:40:26,480 --> 01:40:32,960
just incredible I just I just at that point I was enjoying the show I was like oh this is super fun

910
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and this is good nature tumor and yeah I'm having a fun with satirizing the genre having fun with

911
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the gay jokes and everything but that moment I was like oh no I love this this is absolutely this

912
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is absolutely where I wanted I didn't know that I wanted to show to go there but it did and I was

913
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like yes of course of course this is what it has to be it also it also cements some of the stuff that

914
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you know was pretty evident in the show in the beginning in terms of character relations and everything

915
01:41:04,560 --> 01:41:10,480
and make that makes that make absolute sense and even after that it goes into that more heavily

916
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and it's like no this is this is what we actually wanted to do with this and this was not just like

917
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a side joke or whatever and it's like oh okay and we can only talk about yeah I don't want to give

918
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this away and I'm afraid we already might have given away too much because now people will look for

919
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certain things in this show that maybe would have slipped past them if they just watched it but

920
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maybe try to just have fun with it for a while and not think about it too hard but yeah oh my god

921
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I love this the plot twist or reveal or whatever in the in the last stretch of the show so much and

922
01:41:48,960 --> 01:41:58,880
yes fantastic man and yeah I don't know how much more we can say about this without giving stuff

923
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away or too much stuff away because you know otherwise it's if we talk more about some of the stuff

924
01:42:05,920 --> 01:42:10,400
also some of the stuff I found funny and some of the stuff that it's just feels like in the beginning

925
01:42:10,400 --> 01:42:16,160
it's thrown in here just for for satirizing certain stuff and then later it turns out no this is

926
01:42:16,160 --> 01:42:21,120
actually there was intent behind this so I feel like I can't talk about these things without

927
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giving you more and more ideas about why or what braver is and whatever so yeah I feel like

928
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John do we have anything we want to mention in regards to this amazing show I mean if you just want a

929
01:42:39,120 --> 01:42:47,440
crazy fun mecha show with with a little wrinkle in there yeah it's great but you know I don't think

930
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we can really say much more than you know hey there's a poke you in the face by like hey there's

931
01:42:53,040 --> 01:43:00,640
a thing that happens hey you should do you think you can figure it out beforehand hey hey

932
01:43:00,640 --> 01:43:06,880
but you know I can't go much deeper than that I don't think without ruining it I mean knowing that

933
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there is a plot with this already giving people so much information or too much information to

934
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an extent but I needed to talk about this because it was one of the things that just really really

935
01:43:18,320 --> 01:43:23,760
was a highlight in the show for me and you know I could not just ignore that and just talk

936
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completely around it so you know that I wasn't aware there would be one right I mean I expect

937
01:43:31,200 --> 01:43:36,320
it to be to be a reveal about braver and eventually but I expected it to be much more meta and

938
01:43:36,320 --> 01:43:43,680
much more dumb and ludicrous I didn't expect it to have a good commo maybe a good emotional component

939
01:43:43,680 --> 01:43:50,160
like if he had turned out to be like this child real toy or whatever that came to life and wanted

940
01:43:50,160 --> 01:43:55,120
and if they did that maybe that could have been good too but you know what they did with it what

941
01:43:55,120 --> 01:44:00,800
makes more sense and especially how the show is set up and everything so I liked it I loved the way

942
01:44:00,800 --> 01:44:07,440
it wrapped up I thought the ending was great and fun and made me very happy and that's also great

943
01:44:07,440 --> 01:44:12,560
because it feels like they could maybe do something more with it the way the show is structured but

944
01:44:12,560 --> 01:44:17,920
also they absolutely don't need to because it's like this well told little story 12th episode anime

945
01:44:17,920 --> 01:44:24,800
that you can breeze through and it's entertaining from beginning to end for several reasons

946
01:44:24,800 --> 01:44:34,240
and it's a finished story and it's this great one off so just super fun show but John why can people

947
01:44:34,240 --> 01:44:42,960
watch this you can watch it on crunchy roll and then it looks like if you are some territories is

948
01:44:42,960 --> 01:44:50,320
also available in an applause but chiefly on crunchy roll great and I absolutely as you do this I

949
01:44:50,320 --> 01:44:56,400
love this show feels like seems like John did to oh yeah this show is great from beginning to end

950
01:44:56,400 --> 01:45:02,240
yes really fun it's wrapped up in really fun wrapped up little super robot show that doesn't take

951
01:45:02,240 --> 01:45:07,840
itself seriously whatsoever only in a few couple of moments where it needs to it's not fireworks

952
01:45:07,840 --> 01:45:13,440
from beginning to end especially not animation wise but when those moments hit they hit I at least

953
01:45:13,440 --> 01:45:18,880
recommend it to anyone who is looking for something slightly or even very different when it comes to

954
01:45:18,880 --> 01:45:25,360
robot on robot action that's one way of wording it because I'm pretty sure if you open your

955
01:45:25,360 --> 01:45:36,880
heart to it you will have a great time I know we did

956
01:45:36,880 --> 01:45:42,240
and that is a wrap on the 156th episode of anime brinthries how the music in this podcast is from

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01:45:52,800 --> 01:45:58,560
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01:45:58,560 --> 01:46:03,840
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961
01:46:03,840 --> 01:46:08,000
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