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Hello and welcome to an all new episode of anime brain freeze. We are your hosts who would love their rooms to be as cold as ice right now.
I don't know about that but I, hi I'm John.
And I'm C.C. and I'm the winter triad here and when there's just too much cool anime to watch, we've got you covered.
I want to be clear I don't want to be melting in the sun but I also heat winters so just give me spring or fall, please.
Anyway, that's gonna come soon enough.
Today we're trying to withstand the heat by reviewing in the appropriately cool robot versus monster show Snowball Earth.
But before we get to that we will take a look at a couple of scorching hot premieres from summer season in this sneak peak.
So get in your escape pod to blast off to a white paradise slash hellscape.
Make sure to bring Kai to the turn and your self help book and definitely don't pause the pod. We'll be right back.
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Alright, sneak big time as usual for new time listeners. We checked out a couple of premieres from the new season from the summer season 2026 and we will give you our two cents on all each of the show.
Oh, sweet check out. We got three sections. Then notes that maybe Santa keepers notes are the shows that we watch and said no.
Thanks, that's enough of that. We're not going to watch any more.
Or there may be some other shows that intrigued us but that we are not quite sure about if we're gonna stick with them and the keepers are the show that we love to hold them lot and we'll probably keep on watching with that out of the way.
John, wild things are happening. I have a note which hasn't happened to me in a while.
Yeah, I mean like I was saying to you before we start there is one that by virtue is an hope but I didn't watch so it's I don't think it's.
I don't think it bears mentioning so shrug.
Well just for transparency sake, what was it?
It was, I think it was called, oh god what was it called? It was the new one of the new lighting films shows because they're always.
They, in spite of their pedigree, they seem to always be working at something.
Hannah Oresam still wants to fight in the next life.
Okay, that sounds like an easy guy thing.
A reverse easy guy but yes, it sounded like it was very much in the vein of the devil is a part time or great in that same vein sort of thing.
It sounded silly but I was like, there's already other stuff I want to check out so like in particular kind of kind of I guess a kind of gloss over it here that you know.
The young man out to guy is continuing and I think we're both still watching that yes.
The second season of samurai troopers is running and match a loom here is running its second season as well so you know we just get those kind of out of the way now so.
All right then let's get to the shows that are new that we actually watched and.
Yes, my first entry is like I said a no and it's chain smoker cat oh boy which is like the super raunchy gross out comedy about a cat girl that but it's chain smoking cigarettes.
That's it that's the show.
Everything I see about that show is like what a great advertisement to not smoke yes exactly like the her apartment is dirty so she all the time she's
topping from it from day job to day job to pay for more cigarettes like funding her crippling addiction.
At least the show is willing to show the effects of that as you know what what that can do to a person's life and the people around him like this is not an advertisement for smoking.
Although and I'm wondering why that is the case there are multiple shows this season about smoking and the other one doesn't necessarily seem to like be in this vein with like no this is bad guys like it's smoking behind the supermarket with you which seems to be like this middle age romance thing going on and I'm like okay why are there multiple shows about smoking the season.
I guess this was the summer of smoking next season we're probably going to get I died of lung cancer and got reincarnated in another world as a cigarette or whatever oh my god what's going on don't don't give people ideas.
It's already there it's already someone it's someone's mind he's they're drawing it they're writing it on paper right now or typing it into their word doc is like here boss I got a great idea for the next season.
I hate it I hate it I hate it but yeah like aside from all the puke and shit humor there is some actually funny jokes in this like Yanineko so chain smoking cat trying to half heartedly quit and applying all of the nicotine patches she bought at the same time on her face that that's not what it happens what must happen and what you expect and that made me laugh.
But it's just to depressing bad like her sister is trying to help her but this seems like a fruitless endeavor like this feels like welcome to the NHK with cat girls.
I heard the second episode even introduces heroin cat I can't I don't need this I don't want welcome to the NHK with cat girls in my life right now I don't need to watch this time I need some positive things and this violets funny and party.
It's funny in parts even though it's super gross is that for me this season I'm sorry like it looks it looks gross but while it's looking gross it looks pretty good the animation is really good and you know it's it's funny like I said but it's just it's so fucking depressing.
And I guess the stories for her to get out of it but also maybe she just won't so we'll see I want and I'll stay away from this one.
Addiction is difficult to deal with man.
Yeah absolutely I know that that's sugar that's I think that's the take away from it.
Yeah absolutely but yeah that's for the notes I guess since the rest of the stuff that we have is maybe and keep is so John why don't you tackle your first maybe iron walk John.
I know this one sort of caught my eye in a weird way it's apparently this food wars before food wars I can apparently a manga for this started in 1995.
So this is an adaptation of oh my god it's a 30 year old my relatively speaking older material and younger than us.
Not old no still younger than me younger than both ask true I was thinking I was getting confused in my head oh my god my brain has been shattered lately.
It looks pretty good you know it's got all the cooking stuff got basically the our main character walking into this restaurant in the first episode and be like hey I want you to make me some food he eats it and says you call this trash food I'm going to show you what food fucking is.
He's got a massive chip on his shoulder about you know that food the cooking is a contest it's not about you know cooking with love or putting yourself into this you have to be the best and in the second episode we sort of start seeing why that is but he.
John has a troubled home life that we can see and it seems like cooking is kind of an outlet for that but he still is hyper competitive and his father is like this very well known cook and he is going to this one restaurant of like this I think it's like this one person that is father new.
To go there and get a job and it's.
It's a whole thing and it's you know the food all looks good like ever you cooking animation so.
I'm interested in seeing where it goes you know we'll see what happens with it but it definitely feels 90s because you see john's as a couple of times the intro with.
Listening to music with a walkman yay so it's actually period of the portrayal is actually period appropriate which is like oh.
That's cool cuz you didn't update it then with small phones and everything fuck banana fish.
I won't let that go for that show like it was not period appropriate like I don't know why they did that but yeah now it's interesting and I could see myself continuing to watch and see where it goes from here but yeah.
The most important question though is there are there close flying off people's bodies when they eat the food no we don't do that in this show.
I mean the second episode they humiliate a food critic which is great that's fine yeah.
He's like I charge a million yen per plate to test your foods and he and john and the daughter of the owner of the restaurant are like why don't you try this out and they're like killing him with kindness and.
Freaking him out because he can't he has this like golden palette but he can't quite figure out what's in the food he gave them and that freaks him out of.
No and that freaks him out enough to be like all your stuff which is garbage.
He just storms out there and who knows where that's going to lead but the intro does some cool stuff where it's like the characters are almost like standing in front of a projector and you can see like pages from the manga flashing in front of slashing back of them so that's really cool to you.
That sounds like a fun time it does.
So it doesn't make you too hungry I mean food wars did so this probably will to so they're cooking up fried rice in the second episode I'm like oh looks really good.
So what do you get first maybe that I have is black torch.
What's about this guy called zero who can talk to animals and he is also in ninja for some reason he got taught the art of shinobi by his grandfather apparently and one day he picks up and injured black cat in the woods and nurses it back to health and then it turns out that cat is not a cat at all but a mononok a human devouring specter going by the name of rago and some sinister forces are after rago and he doesn't want to get zero.
And he wants to get zero involved so he leaves.
Zero of course follows him and gets impaled by one of the monsters hunting rago and then rago decides to save juros life and fuses with him and they both this both of the other mononok awesome song with lyrics included a bit of metal your rising vibes.
And yeah then zero gets taken into custody by the bureau of espionage who will make him work for them I assume and judging from the OP and the characters and so on.
Yeah good action of course very basic setup but I wouldn't mind a good simple action of the season so we'll see where this goes I've only watched one episode so far.
But yeah seems like a basic fun time let's see what this duo can do and where this will actually go.
Seems like the other mononok are all just after rago's power and they are now really angry at him for debasing himself using with the human and so on so let's see where this goes but yeah look good good fights good action good action choreography decent animation and yeah I liked it so we'll see if I stick with it after like two or three episodes.
What do you have next think I'm gonna switch the order here a couple of minds I feel like this would probably be a maybe than a keeper but okay.
That's a long as idle it is as it's all about this girl named Sina Kuse and she fights these invasive species aliens are basically threatening our world and she's doing it's protected a little sister Satsuna who turns out she was actually one of them.
But in mind you this is all in the first episode so but you know she was basically rescued by Sina and harbors no ill will and she when they come up against this one alien that's like way way stronger than all of them she sacrifices herself to give Sina her power and they kind of become one and go on to fight these species together.
And this is called a wind by this this organization called exceeds and guess who's part of it this little girl named nano hotaka machi oh hmm but I've seen her before and this.
And this series is very confusing because and I it requires a little bit of explanation so I talked before about like some of the other nano hot stuff like vivid strike and whatnot and silly me.
I thought not how it was just a street line on its timeline.
Okay so it's a straight line asterisk because there were two movies early on that were retellings of the original nano hot series and its sequel aces.
The first movie was a pretty straight retelling with a lot of a fluff from the original show cut out so I feel like if you're going to watch the original show that's probably the way to do it and it's on a movie budget so looks gorgeous about the only thing you'd be missing is that a couple of songs they use are different from the actual series so if you want one insert song you'd watch.
The series if you wanted to ever one you'd watch the movie but that's whatever apparently it must have worked off from the aces movie because after that there were two other movies reflection and detonation and I guess that sets off a whole different timeline which that's what exceeds cos off of which by the way this show is the sequel to a manga that is still currently running.
Question mark.
Weird which is a wait when does it start like it's okay chapter that is already out or earlier or what I don't know because apparently I made a lot of homework for myself I need to watch the aces movie I need to watch reflection detonation need to read the manga.
I'm like already three episodes deep on this and it's kind of nice to see seven arc animation studio kind of back on their game because they were off it for a minute like some of their production was like not the best to which is unfortunate would they had been doing so much good work for such a long time.
Because I was looking at the timeline and looking at like when in can in quote unquote takes place on like oh this takes place between aces and strikers which looking at the year makes sense but it but but it doesn't because shut up we said so that's why so I just question why they did this and there's no official translation for the manga either so if you want to read it you have to seek it out.
And I don't think you can buy the movie the two movies anymore reflection or detonation like you and I'm kicking myself now because they used to be list on the crunchy roll store and because so many because Sony is trying to kill physical media and that's a discussion for another day but it ties in with this.
Yeah, you can go on Amazon and let's do a price check real quick you can buy that blu ray for now the listing is gone I saw the other day for like $500.
Guess someone bought it.
Crazy.
So yeah, I mean I love not only like I thought it was like my first exposure to it was hearing the intro song that aces eternal blaze and be like hey this not a Mizuki girl can sing.
So do tell and then going back and watching the original and thinking oh that was pretty good.
Kind of weird in a couple parts but pretty good.
Oh, this is awesome.
Strikers is me and you know we're not in there and there's a you can see there's a direct line from nano to sympho gear like pretty much so you know it's I still love it and I think it and it's I'm there and I'm glad that it's still exists and something.
Exist in some capacity but boy oh boy they sort of shot their shot with this series in a really weird way so.
So it being a maybe is more about will you be able to get all the homework done.
To actually watch the show.
Yeah and I mean I'm probably going to continue watching it but I just know like the homework I feel like is essential that be done at some point.
It's just I don't understand how this is a sequel to a currently running manga maybe they are it catches up at some point maybe the manga is almost finished and they have the rest of the story lined out outlined and that's why they cannot actually you know start the.
The manga the anime because they know how the manga will end or whatever I mean unless it's going to be a short run the manga started just last year in April so yeah I mean it could be a short run and I find it interesting and look at the list of characters in the manga in China is not listed there so hmm.
Hmm weird.
Interesting here you report back if you actually get to finish all of it yeah I just figured out I'll figure it out I want to keep watching because I have always like not oh huh but we'll see anyway what you got.
My next maybe is the new QAnishio sparks of tomorrow so this is guy called Seruku Sakamoto who wants to bring about the age of electricity together with his little brother Keachi in alternate version of the major era where steam is the undisputed technology so does it steam punk show.
Then he disappears to fight in the war and doesn't return and leaves keachi behind and Keachi is still very much trying to continue the legacy is brought alf behind but you know fighting windmills basically kinda because everything is now steam and nobody cares about electricity and whatever.
And then he runs into this girl cut in a cool at a shrine and in a cool is good at believing things that's called that's called being naive yeah but at least she believes in keachi and electricity which nobody else seems to do so they kinda.
We friend each other I guess and there's this guy called Yosuke Misoewa who's the heir to a giant company and is after and this electrical catalog Keachi is brought alf behind and I think he and his brother were friends in the past and tried to start the electricity thing together if I'm not mistaken in the flashback we see at the beginning of the show if that was Yosuke.
That seems to be the implication I think so yeah and he is forcing a marriage between him and he knows sister just to get his hands on that catalog because he was sure it was in her possession he wasn't wrong about that.
But in a process quickly she like slips into in a call and that's her to bring it to a keachi so.
This this first episode kind of ends on Yosuke like party crashing keachies and in a course first look at the catalog.
It ends on a very funny note I finally found you my wife.
Yeah I can keachi what's like that not my wife in English no less yeah yeah so I like I said I've only watched the first episode I don't know where the story is going yet I assume this is gonna be like this.
I don't know if it's gonna be a trash or hunt it's probably gonna be about to bring about like the age of electricity which is what keachies brother wanted.
And I guess Yosuke wants that for himself he probably sees the future in that as well or he wants to stop it from existing so he can rule the sea market I don't know what's gonna happen and we they're gonna throw the Romans between keachi and.
In a coin there so yeah I don't know if you've watched further John then the first episode I watched the next episode and.
Certain things happen and there there's certain details that to the catalog that might not be there so oh so it is a treasure hunt yes so they need to find the rest of the pages or something like that I'm trying to say it would be.
Without without turning out right see it because you haven't watched it but yeah but that's fine that's what I assume right doesn't like okay they got a maybe the book is the clue or they need to get some.
Some materials or devices to make this happen and the the catalog is a manual but they have to go to different places in Japan or just Tokyo I don't know or wherever they are and just try to find everything to.
Create a machine that will demonstrate the awesome power of electricity to the whole world and then nobody can deny it and so on make everything light up even in a bigger scale then his brother did that one evening so yeah something like that I it sounds interesting and it's a cute on his show so it looks fucking gorgeous like.
It's an understatement of course because their shows are always so super pretty even when they're more conti cartoony so yeah some of the facial expressions in the show board or really cartoon yes but you know you have that in dragon made as well but it's that's right that's that's a very cartoony show but it's also so super pretty show so yeah I I love looking at this I don't know if I super gel with the characters at the story yet.
I have to watch a couple more episodes but it was definitely one of those was like okay you are the show the setup is interesting the setting is interesting and the characters could grow on me so let's see where this goes and that's the state I'm currently.
Yeah I'm not 100% on it yet but it does look beautiful and it's hard to look away from something that look and it's a self-contained story like I guess it was a single light novel so.
Okay as far as I understand this is probably going to be the complete story cool right that's a big plus like if it's if that's like a 12 24 episode season and we're done with the for an entire light novel that could be a nice breezy watch it looks like it's
like it's a very good one it looks like it's a 13 so it's entirely possible you could get the whole story in that depending you know yeah yeah let's see like I said watch another one or two episodes until I decide John what is your next and I assume last maybe that was it actually.
That was it okay then I have to do then I have to do another one yeah I'm escorted right because this was one of yours as well I kinda switched at the last second with not so okay alright.
So I have one maybe left and that's 10 macronoja doga which in Mongolia the other science are show the season we're gonna talk about the big one in the next segment.
And this is well I guess the story of a witch quote unquote who made a vast continent her play thing at least that's what the opening narration tells us.
And first of all what immediately sticks out is the style of this it's very unique very cool designs and backdrops are absolutely not something you usually get out of anime it feels much more western slash mid eastern cartoon ish kind of style looks very.
Yeah I'm looking at some are now in parts yes it's very like Arabian nights a bit and you know in parts even a bit like Disney it's a very nice mix of different styles and it looks it's lavishly animated it's super gorgeous like it's really incredible it looks fantastic and the setting is also very fresh it's in set in.
13th Eastern Iran main character.
No not the main character our main character is picked up by a lady called Fatima who recently became a widow and is looking for a new slave able to help support cleaning up her house and everything she already got a couple but you know she listen very big estate and everything.
And XX in exchange for giving her a good deal the slave vendor Ahmad asked Fatima to take in one of his other girls for a while even though she was looking for that one to have her educated in her house so because her house is very.
First rich and also very well educated like very well read and he wants to have that for the girls so he can get a better price for her and so on and that girl is Cittara which means star and Fatima agrees and ask her brother to teach Cittara.
At first Cittara is absolutely not okay with this she's trying to flee she doesn't want to be sold off to God knows where and wants to go home instead which is understandable her parents are her mom is that I think and then she just you know got picked up by slave traders and so on and got sold again again and now she kind of has found a new home which he realizes after while she.
And gets integrated pretty quickly like she meets the young master of the household Fatima son Muammar who seems to be interested in astronomy and geometry and all things knowledge and everything wants to travel the world and learn go to the big cities where knowledge is.
Is taught all kinds of knowledge is taught and wants to challenge the the established order and you know religious dog mind everything and um Cittara does not want to study so she doesn't become more valuable just to be sold to a place even further from her home then she's now which is understandable but mom Muammar convinces her that getting educated is the first step in steering your own destiny into the direction.
That you desire and so she stays in the household and learns to do churras and how to recite the Quran how to read and everything and yeah.
It's really does so unique it is very unique and then woman decides to travel to a variety of cities like I said and very before boarding message at the end of the episode like this was the last time these two people
so each other in person but he says he in order to teach her to read he's going to write her a letter regularly to read to his mom and we have a time jump eight years later and then the militia of that town gets defeated and the city gets taken over by the Mongol horde the sons of Genghis Khan.
And shit goes really badly like really really badly and yeah as you can imagine cittara is a doctor and everything and taking to other but there is some things resulting from that that she is like very after being in a state of fuck everything I might as well kill myself she decides that she is gonna use the knowledge she is gained and knew
and uses her unassuming position as a woman everything to well it seems like it's not outright been outright stated yet but it seems she's this is going to be a revenge permission for a sheet her main goal is to get back a book that the the the horde the Mongols were after.
And then you go into more detail that when I do an actual review because it's really sad why they actually went to town and ransacked it what the reason was that they wanted this book but her main goal is to get this book back because it was a very book very important to her the too fatima the woman who bought her and basically became her surrogate mom after a while and that's her main mission and my I assume this is going to be about her many people.
And then you know about her manipulating everyone around her hence the which right part and trying to get that book back and probably she's going to bring misfortune to a bunch of people who deserve it so this is going to be very interesting and the style alone would be reason enough to watch this because it's so unique.
It's the only one of those was like of course of course this this would come from science are because a lot of their shows have a very unique style they go a lot more cartoony than a lot of other studios do that do shows that are not necessarily geared towards kids and they they do these shows but they still choose a very kid friendly style.
So that's pretty cool yeah I don't I don't think I've watched a whole lot of their stuff but from what I've seen like they seem to be able to just turn on a dime to different styles and it's really impressive.
Yes and also always really like they seem to get a grasp on how to stream I'm certain designs but to how to make them work in a really like make them look really distinctive and also animate really well like have them really they make really good use of squash and stretch like the most basic techniques and stuff like that but to the but to them like biggest effect.
And yeah so the look of the show is fantastic and something that you will it's worth checking it out for that alone the story is also the setup is really interesting the reason why it's still a maybe bordering on a keeper is I'm not quite sure what's going entirely it I've watched three episodes are probably going to stick with it unless there's like this big weird swerve
But it's I'm not quite sure what what the what the actual mission is going to be aside from I'm going to get that book back like how is she actually going to do it who she going to manipulate or is she even going to manipulate people is she just going to be there at the right time is she going to get involved in military affairs or whatever will see it's super interesting but it's also at least in the beginning beginning like very harsh in moments like you know of course slavery is.
It's not treated as you know superficially and problematic as an other anime I've talked about or we've talked about it's it's kept very realistic in certain parts and try doesn't try to
to make it look better than it is.
So I think it's worth checking out anyway because of the look and probably also because of the story but we'll see if I'll stick with it I'll probably talk about it at least in the quick and dead on the road.
All right then that's it for my maybe next other keepers john what is your first keeper well speaking of science are you how about the ghost in the shell jumping right into it yes what's you say we already had so many ghosts in the shell shows and options yes that is true but for some reason they never adapt at the original manga I mean I think they did in the original movie and this is the story.
And this is like a more in the way of that yes but I don't mean in terms of purely story I mean in terms of style because if you watch the original ghost in the shell movie by by my own she that is a very serious very dark here very movie of its time and if you watch that movie and this show back to back.
We will get whiplash because this is a very I mean there's still harsh moments in there and everything and social social criticism and everything but it's a very goofy show like it's again we talked about science are style before it's much more cartoony like it's a very comic bookie style that they're using in this one.
The old the old ghost in the shell movie and the second one and ghost in the shell stand a ghost in the shell stand alone complex very popular TV show.
They all had a very pretty realistic style this does not I mean I still do like the style of stand alone complex but then you look at this is like oh yeah this is much work cartoon eat comic bookie and the way some of the characters.
The way some of the characters are portrayed in this like it just feels a lot more just a lot more wacky and a lot more funny and probably a little more realistic compared to how serious the tone is in like every other adaptation.
Yeah maybe like they're just this Racktag band of I guess professionals.
Yeah but you know they're also really goofy at times and they like to joke make jokes and fuck around and everything and especially the main character the the major major Kusanagi.
Also always very serious person in the other adaption kind of mostly and in this she's just like this is Gremlin.
Just like likes to antagonize her superiors all the time and everything and her teammates and stuff like that but those they can also give back as good as they can take so it's fun it's less it's just a very fun dynamic between all of these characters.
The comas the little robots are cute to then ever the action is frantically paced fantastic production values great color palette and the cartoon itself the manga original really suits science are loose animation style I think they were the absolutely perfect choice with this.
Yeah for sure there's a really goofy moment in the second episode where they're talking with are a machi about something in bato actually it's like hey I saw the old guys car outside and I planted some fireworks in it and it goes boom and multiple it's like oh my god why did you and are a machi just goes riding away on a scooter instead it's like yeah I saw that one coming it's like Jesus Christ what do you mean.
Yeah they're they're fucking around with each other. I feel like also in this version the rest of the team is rather working for the major than everyone working for our machi it feels like the power structures a lot different than it wasn't the old movie and even send along complex.
It's like all of them like are a machi was definitely saying what what's gonna happen and what's what and everything and here it feels like the major has a lot more initiative even outside the mission like she says a lot of what has to happen and everything and a lot of the stuff they do and that they investigate comes from her initiative and everything so.
Yeah which which get a ghost in the shell in connection city watch John aside from step along complex I think I watched I was I watch I think it was a rise yes and said a newest one what did they do something after a rise think it's the news before this I mean I think that was the newest I think.
I'm that one was didn't hear that many good things about the rise to be honest it's just okay like I didn't think it was bad but it was like if I had to choose between that and say see I think there's a clear choice and then I guess there's SAC 2045 which follows after second gig that I didn't watch but there's and there was what's that a movie or all the a right.
And oh and I'm pretty there were two oh and I was there was also solid state society or something like that I think that was the first one probably yeah I think that was just a movie related to second gig I don't know if I think it was I only watched like I mean I watched both movies ghost and show ghost and shell innocence and I watched that both season of standard on complex there is a lot of extra material to stand alone comp.
And I just watched the two core series I could say was 24 or five there was you remind me of solid state society there was a lot of other shit in between or manga adaptations it was it was a very popular show there is a rise alternative architecture Jesus.
Tracing at three times fast ghost and the shell is it has stuck around for a long time and there's a reason for it is just a very interesting universe and this is I guess the oldest version of that but the newest interpretation so it's it's really interesting to see stuff that you have seen.
You know screenshots of manga panels before but that were never really animated in that way so yeah it's I'm really interested I'm really interested I've only watched one episode so far but this is definitely one of my must watch shows this season of course and such a cool style and animated so well so yeah this is very much top of the list for me like.
Yeah give me more apparently it's gonna be shortish about ten episodes I think so so we'll see what goes on with it but promising start absolutely yeah looking forward to more and the last one hours worth oh what a what could it be Capcom presents.
Marvel can't wait wrong series wrong game. No we're staying basic we're staying with Street Fighter 6 so yeah this is it's not a joke keeper because this is a genuinely fun show but it's definitely one of those out of left field things probably for maybe people who are like wait why did you put this as the last final keeper.
Well we both like fighting games and this is a show about girls playing fighting games and apparently going to evil Japan as the finale sometime in the future as the awesome OP thesis.
It's it's super metal man yes yes it's a it's really cool there's immediately this aura farming for some reason like but it's so this is about this girl called.
The show first of all young ladies don't play fighting games I don't think we mentioned the title yet tie already dash star.
And so it's about this young girl I who just started at a very prestigious school for girls and feels like she's not fancy enough to fit in and there's this other girl who ever
was the white lily we also started just recently but it's already a star of the school because apparently everyone says she's super loof and if she shoots you a gaze you are in luck and everything and everyone adores her for that weird but yeah she so she's like the star of the school and then one evening.
And then the next day I walked through the hallway and here's some weird clicking noises out of one of the rooms and people who played fighting games before in our familiar with arcades sticks.
Fighting sticks already know what this these noises are and then she pocks her head into the room and sees.
Then white lily we later learn her name is meo in the second episode.
Doing trash talk at the person to just be to a pulp apparently which is very fun a lot of this show has the same energy as rock is a ladies modesty from a few seasons back is.
So calm the source or fuck yeah GG bitch yeah it's very like it feels very down to earth and the beginning and then it goes up to 11 and then go back down and you expect up to 11 again it's so fun.
We have a narrator commenting on characters in a working in a working like it's a battle show then and you know there's some other one should like characters like starts bidding blood like they receive battle damage and a fighting game but in real life for some reason.
It's just when they get like emotional damage or something like that and it's it's really fun it basically it's about so I.
As it turns out has also played fighting games in the past before but she stopped playing them because she didn't have that much fun anymore they like they didn't like their spirit anymore she was just grinding points online.
And so she stopped and she decided to do something the complete opposite like she says the realm of savagery furthest from what a young lady should be is fighting games let me agree I.
Young boys to though.
Fighting games fighting games are dangerous protect your kids I found it really funny that the show had to do a special disclaimer at the bottom though when she said that it's like in her opinion we still want to still an advertisement for our fighting game.
Can't just say that and leave that uncommitted.
Please please please please please buy our branded fight sticks please yeah so of course this is mostly an advertisement for street fighter six but if you're if you're like having fun with fighting games there are a lot of in jokes thrown in there there is a lot of fighting game terminology with us also one of the things the show the show explain stuff to you but I feel like if you like have no familiarity with fighting games and how they work and what you have to do and what you have to do and
street fighter six to win and what the different moves are and so on you might be a little bit lost like I feel like if you they do some very basic lack working in beginning like when characters throws some weird terminology in there and try to explain to you but not for all of it and a lot of that show is just you watching two anime girls playing fighting games and then you get real footage from people basically playing street fighter six against like it's a screen record.
Of street of a street fighter six match I mean so the interesting thing about this is apparently the game has been updated with each adaptation because there was you know the original manga and I think the game in there was some like mix between
like street fighter four and a couple of things like it was legally distinct but people were looking at me like oh you can see elements from X Y and Z in there interesting the
outcome stepped in for the anime that said no no no the live action adaptation a few years back used street fighter five and now we're at street fighter six interesting so so I have to finish this
the episode before street fighter seven comes up so when the next adaptation comes out in whatever year it'll maybe it'll be street fighter eight nine alpha four ex five if we ever
going to get another street fighter alpha game come on time shut up let me dream yeah but man when they threw out of focus attack dash cancel I was
was I felt like I was playing nuclear bomb I was like Jesus I ever thought about Trinon FADC in 15 years God yeah it's it's fun like I mean mostly that you know this shows about street
four to six but they also bring up a bit sometime is there also brought up street fighter four and so on and because I got her start with that she played that when she was
in elementary school together with the boys and there was like the first hobby that really that she got really interested in and everything and you know so there's a lot of nostalgia for it but like like she's like I said
before she kind of wants to get away from that because she hasn't felt a fire anymore but when she fights me oh that fire kind of comes back and also added into that is some huge amounts
of you rebating where it's just like an every episode it's like they're basically about to to do the deed like especially in the second one they will do a whole
fucking joke may make a whole fucking joke about that way they try because a gaming is forbidden in the school dorms they're not a lot so they have to do all of this in secret up to the
point of when they discovered of you know playing in the room or almost get discovered they jump through a broke to a glass window and most what the fuck moments with a nice
epitaph but yeah it's so they also need to find places where they can play and they try to play in IAS room but she has another room and she just
like hey can you stay in in Mio's room for the night and she looks at them and she's like wait what are you okay all right I don't want to
stand all life is equal all the comes in all shapes and sizes I gotta I gotta go back to that tweet you shared with us about how this is
listed with the Yuri tag and then this person was like there is no love in a room with a jury main you mean can we mean and can
mean that is hatred this is lesbian larping don't trust with the enemy tag say they had each others to roast yeah and that's
probably bound to happen because there's gonna be more girls thrown in the mix at least we're gonna have at least four I think it's not five and then apparently they have to fight guys at
the pan because for girls this is still a niche hobby so this is just gonna just stay is probably just gonna be basically a sports
anime for which I immediately of course my ears perked up in the sports anime yes exactly the
sports and so we're gonna have this you know we're gonna have some just a step we're gonna learn interesting stuff about these
we are ready learned a little about I am and we're gonna probably learn about more about me and her upbringing why she got so into fighting games and everything and then we're gonna see the other characters we're gonna see some cool matches and have it all
emphasized with anime aesthetics which is cool and then we're gonna have a tournament probably at the end of it so it doesn't better that this is all an advertisement because it's just a fun time it's a good mix of humor of you know
simulated fighting action and yeah some good some nice bits of character development a bit of like I said a romance teasing and everything so we'll see where that goes hopefully none of the girls are drowning the
pools you'd hate to see that happen what you know in the pools sorry I was like what not the water pools the pools for you get into the tournament I'm probably gonna hit top eight all of
the words the shape turning into top eight you don't want to drown among everyone else yeah we'll see but yeah I this is just it's one of those weird niche oh this is a show just for us and I mean not just
for us but specifically like for us and cater to our interests and it's like okay I want to see where this goes and that's why it's a keeper it's
probably it's definitely not the best show this season I would be surprised like it should we should probably have put up ghost in the shadows the last one but I feel very strongly about this one I had a lot of fun watching this I also yesterday I had some friends
over who are also into fighting games and they hadn't seen the first episode yet and I hadn't seen the second episode yet and we watched both together and we were laughing a lot so it's just if you've played fighting games before if you are currently playing
screen five to six if you play any other fighting game you will probably get some enjoyment out of this or maybe a lot so I know both of us did apparently so I want to see where this goes and I'm happy that it's based on a manga and so which is apparently finished so we're gonna have a probably
proper ending to this and also well animated like of course there's not that much you know action and nation going on because the action is actually you know recorded street fighter matches but you know the character faces everything are good and you have some
wiki stuff happening happening and everything and the character designs are good and pretty and stuff so I mean the immediate does some good work so this was hopefully they'll be able to carry this one on the
scene in between the fights and like I said the OP is absolutely fire like I really it's probably my favorite OP this season next to the ghost and the shell OP
so it's it's really cool mm-hmm yeah well and the jar the guard OP is also really nice we have some really good opi is the season yeah I said one for iron walk Jean is pretty good too
yeah even the chain smoker cat cats op was all that's right yeah the new opi in ending for you know we know so guys are also really good to so there you go
this is a good season for your Anna songs yeah absolutely so yes but that's it for the sneak peek wild wild array of shows a very colorful mix of shows this time around
like I feel like most of these are not like the others so let's let's kind of keep things varied and interesting and we'll see which of these will return as for reviews for the next season but hey
speaking of reviews we have not that many this season we have to for you two four once and yeah we're gonna get to the first one in a couple of seconds
it's been a hot summer but at least it won't be as cold a winter as it is in snowball earth hopefully I wouldn't buy that but I would like to you know not have that many kaiju running around preferably unless I can become a kaiju tamer
I mean I just speaking to environmental affairs as well those are environmental affairs don't yes kaiju are naturally occurring they're totally real
haven't you heard the good news yeah let me look outside my window oh there's there there's mothra high I see it out there it gets out there yeah I'm sure it's out there
but they're definitely in the show if not in real life they're definitely in the show snowball earth yes so shy socially awkward mecha pilot tetsuo spent his entire childhood fighting kaiju the intergalactic monster certain life on earth
deep space at the climactic moment of the final decisive strike against humanity scargantuan enemies something goes horribly wrong with his mecha yukio's new doomsday weapon the omnidirectional infinity laser
with our slats ditch strategy failing spectacularly his beloved mecha sacrifice himself to save his life soul survivor tetsuo hurdles back to earthen is escape pod and eight years later
a week is from colcee to find his world inexplicably frozen from poll to poll things go from bad to worse in the show real quick yeah like it felt very despite you know the kaiju attack in the beginning and everything and they go
bling up people and shit like that which you don't really see that much in the beginning in the very first couple of minutes it felt kind of lighthearted felt kind of darkly funny when you know the dd let's say the pre fight version of of you kill tries to stand in for robots rights and it's
like I don't want to be a bomb and shit like and stuff like that right yeah did you blame him no not at all let me give this machine sentience but also make him a
bomb do you think that was a good combination of things no not really but you know it was it still felt kind of like funny and tone like it can take
itself to seriously in that moment then you know tetsuo when he's still nine years old gets into the cockpit of yukio and they kill the kaiju he becomes the
year of humanity basically the savior of earth and then we have to see in space where is like everyone is really relaxed is like oh they're all the kaiju we're going to activate the laser like they think that they have to
win in the bag and then and I mean why wouldn't they think that but yes exactly and then something goes really wrong and even that that moment when they realize that the laser
does is not working it feel like whoops what is going on and it doesn't look like they're super scared at that moment just it feels funny because the tone before it is so lighthearted and then it gets so dark and scary when the kaiju just
tear the ship apart and you see the people just floating through space even later like he just an arm or something that is just so grim and dark and then you kill has to sacrifice
himself and sense tetsuo away in the escape order and everything and it's just I was like whoa okay this really escalated quickly what the fuck is going on so I don't know how did you how did you take that emotional
whiplash I mean you're 100% on it like I think though what really got to me though was seeing like the kaiju crawling into like parts of yukio like warming their way in and I was just like
I don't I don't like this yeah tetsuo wakes up on earth eight years later everything's frozen over I guess I don't even know how many years this is after the first kaiju attacks maybe
did they say like 10 years or something like that no no because it was only nine back then and he didn't ancient cry of sleep I guess
he's okay so it was 10 years after the initial incident when he got into the robot that they went to take part in this quote unquote final battle and then another eight years after so yes
and the attack starts in 2025 oh no we're over do yeah and okay okay okay so he adds to he tries to get his bearings
tries to find what's going on and everything stumbles into another kaiju has a fucking excavator battle
excavator battle with it which is super cool first of all soundtrack is super good of this it's done by hero
akis to to me who did dr. Stone and jesus kaisen and tatsu yakato who did dr. Stone food wasn't free and yuki kane sakaka who did dr. Stone and ghost in the shell
twenty twenty six so we got some great talent on the music all around yeah absolutely the dr. Stone cruise that was the first thing I was thinking of is this the
stone guys because that the same team because that soundtrack sounded very familiar to that in a way like in terms of in the hero or heroic moments
right when the faintest turned around or whatever everything is grim and then something good happens and everything there are a lot of moments of like this in
dr. Stone when there's like a discovery made or the invention works of stuff like that and kind of felt like that in terms of what they were using in terms of melodies and everything so really cool
uh see you with the presentation this is mixed CG to the animation show yes like mainly CG but there is a lot of to to the sprinkled in yeah especially like in some pivotal moments
action moments I guess some there's a moment in in the second episode where like a tattoo dashes forward to get the attention of a Kaiju to distract them from other people and that is definitely to the animated when he like dashes into the screen that is not CG
and some moments where facial animation is very important and needs to be extra detailed and stuff like that but outside of that all the characters all the main characters definitely R C G
of course next and everything else the G the Kaiju or C G and stuff like that there are only some very few moments that are to the animated to emphasize certain moments and the facial animations on tetsuo CG model are pretty good but his body animations are a bit stiff at times
like the NBA yeah especially going from B stars who she was one of the last shows I want to this is a bit rough in terms of C G character model
fidelity I mean I don't know if CG is on a studio Kai's specialties but I mean they got I guess only in the first episode they got a bit of support on it but I got
to imagine they kind of handled most of it moving forward but you know obviously this is an orange show but I feel like they probably did what they could at least you know it definitely looks
like I said the faces are pretty well animated the fights fight choreography looks good there's good camera work in here so they they definitely used what they had to the best effect that they could
yeah it's only in very very few moments it's like this looks kind of rough but overall I was pretty happy with the presentation of this I don't know about you yeah for sure like it yeah there's some odd spots by feel like on the whole it didn't really take me too far I was
okay you know we're gonna keep moving with this and it's it's fine for what it is yeah so yeah going back to the story and the characters
Tetsu when he beats the shit out of that one Kaiju with the excavator he also runs into his first human sees in a while or since he went into cryo sleep
he has basically no idea how to interact with them which is kind of a product of a really fucked up youth yeah like his dad was for there for him that much and like he didn't really have that many friends be was put into the like like
worked into the savior all pretty quickly and due to that a lot of people made up their opinions about him without you even really knowing him and everything and he is a very socially awkward person or was that anyway
and that of course got fueled by that so now yes like this self help book like 777 steps to gain friends written by professor lonely you walkie
yeah and it is fun like he tries to he has like this mini mission he tries to accomplish from the book like in each episode you get like a check mark on some I mean you got to check my on the episode titles
which also looked like there from the book is not necessarily the case but also in the episodes themselves you sometimes get like a check mark on on an item that he completes from the book
to gain more friends and everything so that's a big character development through line good to it's good to give your soft goals to shoot for that's what he does yes and I mean that kind of also fits his character like he might be socially awkward and he's very has has a tent in interaction with people but he's a very smart person he is a kind of genius not
because he was able to control you could add a young age he is very good at tactical analysis and can make the best use of any tool at his disposal really so like I said he turns the excavator shovel into his spear and impales the Kaiju's brain with it like he's like OK
I'm not doing anything let's try to break it in a way where can just use it to penetrate the the shell of the Kaiju and actually kill it with it and we say see several versions of this down the road ways trying to get a grasp on the situation and then tries to device a plan
to turn it in its in his favor and it's really cool like he's overall he's aside from just this problem and real problem of talking to people and that can get frustrating where you have moments is just like open your damn mouth dude
and and and you Kio's trying to encourage him all along is and he's like I don't know what you're doing with that stupid self health book but I mean I feel like you Kio is kind of half right on that but the book also does help anchor
it's a bit so it's like they're sort of both in the rate but also sort of both in the wrong on it yeah it's you know you Kio is right that the book is only crutch right but it's also it's a start like it's it gives
that's a some kind of point to start from while he is instead of being overwhelmed with how do I actually properly interact with people how do I even you know what where do I start how do I get over this
shit and this book helps him do that you know even if it's not you Kio's preferred method he has been the only friend that who has had basically since he was a child since forever
and so he is he kind of suffers see that so having such always having trouble with this and he would love him to for him to be happy
and everything and he doesn't want to be his only friend but he also you know it's like there are better better methods than this you you thinking you too much in your head and he's right
tattoo is too much in his head about everything which is part of the problem and but I still think the book has a somewhat positive effect of it even though some of the
many missions are kind of contrived I guess but and don't are not necessarily necessarily applicable to this whole situation that's who got thrown it
yeah about that
but you know he makes a bad he makes the best of it they like he he tried he tries to do the best with it that he can so it's fun
is always fun to have to him having this like weird chore missions in there and those getting fulfilled is like a
quick win so to speak when he manages to a to to check one of the boxes and they self-help book so it's pretty cool
but yeah he meets these people who harvest the Kaiju and they
we learn we get to know a couple of important characters I guess first one is Nogi who is the chief of she is the chief of the
the mall village which is basically just an old defunct a shopping mall that they have now hold a themselves up in because it's kind of in an area that is somewhat protected from the Kaiju
yes and there's another reason why they're kind of safe there at least for a while and
yeah there's there's that there is this guy called Takimura who kind of dots Tetsuo and makes him part of his family
which leads to Tetsuo seeing Takimura's daughter Hagan and make it immediately feigns because of it and forget it
which might have saved his life though I feel like Hagan was also been sad about it like the way she reacted to it when she realized that he forgot about it
she's like okay I don't know maybe or she was just like do I buy that I don't know her reaction was a bit weird and I don't know where they're gonna go with this
like okay we have Nogi on the one side who is like this very cool girl and a much of and she has a very special thing going on which we'll talk about a bit in a bit later
but she's also kind of very cute really lost pineapples for some reason and then we have Hagan on the other side who is
I guess like you know with the naked thing in the beginning you would assume okay the show is positioning here as
becoming his main romantic interest maybe but also I don't know maybe she's just supposed to be his his sister now because he gets adapted into this family
I'm not sure what they're gonna do with that yet it's not super clear I was just stuck oh his name is Tetsuo and her name is Hagan
so iron and steel oh god I didn't even how did I not put that okay we'll see I don't know what Nogi is if that is all
Nogi is if that is also metal related that's a good question actually but also that could make sense if they would just become now
brother and sister in this new family that Tetsuo got adopted and that one is iron and one is steel so it
whatever we'll see where this goes down the road in the coming seasons but so far it feels like Hagan is more the sister character
and Nogi might become might become the romantic interest down the road if they even do that which is not clear at all but
yeah I don't know if that's what they're shooting for at the moment but exactly but I can see that also happening
like the way they they do this because you know that can also be a human relationship and this shows also about
all different kinds of human relationships and making all kinds of friends and everything so
we'll see it could be that but it's not clear yet but yeah we have
we have a very important moment that not really a spoiler because and I feel like we should go into spoilers
at the end of this review because otherwise we're gonna have to skip on one of the more interesting aspects of this
but turns out in the second episode already I think or in the third that you could you kill back up his consciousness into the snowflake escape part
and he returns to Tetsuo and saves him from Akaiju which is an awesome scene and Tetsuo wasn't the only one tearing up when his friend returned let me tell you that
music by the three people I mentioned before were really well there so really really nice and they beat together they beat the Kaiju and then now
Yu-Kyu is kind of back in his old egg shaped form like he had different stages in the past of being a battle robot like first egg ish
and then more bulky and then at the very end he was like this huge super robot giant fighting robot form and it's probably the show is probably gonna be about him upgrading several times
over the course and showing getting back his all his power metroid style and that's cool like that already happens in like this the big fight
which makes up pretty much the entire second half of the show of the season he upgrades there at the end and gets a cool new weapon and everything so it's nice and I expect a lot more of that to happen in the coming seasons if there is this
John is this based on a manga or is this an anime original this is a manga and the manga is still running as far as I understand
the last volume of it released in April so how many volumes do we have eleven at the moment okay so they got a bit of things a bit of material to go
who animated this satellite studio Kai okay right right right and do we know the director it was directed by Munahisa Sakai
they've done a little bit of work on dragon ball not directorial work a little bit of dragon ball a little bit of one piece actually
some sit oh they directed a zombie landscape and revenge so they have done some some work out there like dragon ball a little bit of sailor moon as well
a little bit of preacher so it looks like they might be on tow as a payroll pretty often you know the way about shown action and so that's good and this is a very action heavy show
I mean there of course the characters in here that are fun but this show is is mostly fighting between robots and Kaiju and Kaiju and yeah so there's a lot of that
and the show is surprisingly bloody like the Kaiju getting dismembered people getting squashed open fractures on Kaiju all pretty gooey stuff like I didn't expect that from that show because it's a kind of not super cartoony look but it definitely feels a lot more
I don't know not super dark it feels a lot more colorful you know then you have to kind of goofy form of you kill after he basically gets rebooted and everything
which is not your usual robot fighting robot form but yeah the fights are actually very violent in parts especially when it comes to the Kaiju like they get fucked up
yeah they do they get cut to pieces slashed apart yeah so be prepared for that I was not I was like oh Jesus okay there's a lot of red stuff here
yeah just kind of went into this thinking oh you know we don't see Naka anime too often oh holy moly but yeah so Tetsu gets integrated into this village basically and we learn that an abnormal Kaiju appeared 10 years ago
out of the ocean froze the entire world that's why it looks like it does currently the Kaiju apparently is also still in Tokyo hanging around for some reason we learn a lot more about what's up with that but at the very end of the season
not all of it yet but a lot more and since the world froze over you know food got spars and everything so some people started eating Kaiju meat because they didn't have something anything
and it turned out that that I mean some a lot of people died from that yeah a lot of people weren't able to adapt to it it couldn't like got poisoned basically and died because Kaiju meat poisoning
ever but some people ate the meat got a special powers were able to communicate and partially I guess control Kaiju and no he is one of these people see I guess all of them like get also white ish hair when they when they become Kaiju I don't know what do they call it Kaiju
or did they call it something else I'm pretty sure they call it a team or so yeah something like that and yeah so she's one of them and she found this she got befriended this weird Kaiju that looks like a freshly hacked chicken
but also somewhat gross like a hairless chick yeah pretty much but with fire powers and that is which gives the the mall village this this special situation where because this Kaiju called land of man
for some reason because no he read books to it because that's what's the the contract the condition of the contract which I guess every Kaiju asked from their tamer like it's like hey I will help you but in return you I want knowledge from you
so that manifested in no he reading each night books to land of man and that was the title of one of the books which that Kaiju like to hold them lot so it picked that name for itself so that's what it's called now
I guess it kind of makes sense considering you know it makes the land habitable for the humans yeah let of man yeah sleeps under the village
and since it has fire powers it gives the mall village heat and energy and protect it and everything and yeah so they are kind of well of considering what the world looks like and that the conditions are pretty harsh harsh
and yeah so of course they're not the only ones who understood that land of man is a very valuable Kaiju and that's where kind of the second half comes in that before that we have like this
a small side quest basically with Tetsuo and Taga and he is basically a new sister and he is like an inventor is an inventor like her mom who got killed also again hyper fucking dark scene
we see like she talks about it in passing in the beginning is like yeah my mom I don't even know if she out right says that her mom got eaten by a Kaiju but we see that down like in a later episode and it looks like only the torso of her it looks worse than it didn't attack on Titan when Aaron's mom got gets eaten by a Titan
and like it looks really gross I did not expect stuff like that from this show and yeah she wants to kill that Kaiju and Tetsuo helps her with that and they fight together with you you kill
she even gets her own special seat in the cockpit which is pretty funny was cute and yeah then it was a really nice scene like a really nice bit where Tetsuo helps her out and even though he's not supposed to because it's very dangerous but it shows also shows that she's very capable like she's very good with machines and everything and she builds the upgrades for you
a little later and it's really like she's overall really really cool character like I really I in a show it this is kind of a show an action show so in these kind of shows I'm always really happy when we have good for you my characters and both
me and nogi and hagane seem to be really cool I hope they stay that way and stay important until the end of the show but right now they're really cool so I was happy to see that I don't know about you I hope that too
this man that's there's so much I happen so often I was like oh check out this cool female character whoops they're gonna get sideline
sideline or killed like it jujitsu kaisen for example I mean it's not confirmed yet that nobara is dead and she might still be alive I mean I would rather start lines and killed yes of course that of course but sideline also still sucks it it does but it sucks but still the less bad of the two outcomes yes but that's one of the consistent
consistent complaints ahead about my hero academia even before jump off john where it was like okay there are so many cool female characters in this and we have by the end of the show there's like how many of them are
featured mainly it's basically only one and one female villain character and all the other ones are sign lied that's actually that's honestly less a lot less never thought you said I thought maybe like three but I'm assuming it's just Ocho yeah it's just Ocho and on and on the other side
there are the most important ones and technically you have a lot of female characters appearing of course on the sidelines you have to you you have your jack I forgot what a real name is only have her your phone jack I only have her I have her I lie L I
and Elias in the head was zero I think zero zero yeah yeah she she is there I mean all of the students and that's what I liked about that show that by the end even the smallest students have like a very important or like a somewhat important role to play and they still appear in the final fight and so on so that was cool
but it's still like in terms of actually getting a story character development and everything Ocho is really the only one after a while that they actually do anything with
the show lame on the other side yet like you have you have the all the crew man characters all of them getting good character development bits especially a show you and
midoriya of course Deku and of course Bakugo given they are the big three but still it's like hey maybe fit some girls in there so I hope snobal earth does that and sticks with these characters and keeps
around which makes sense because she at least will be there to always upgrade to you Q but I hope that's not going to be her only role because you know the background with her mom and everything and her relationship to the Kaiju and on the other side of things no
G with her being a Kaiju tame and everything she can and she's a powerhouse as we later learn she can she can be around and all the battles and everything unless
a lot of men get severely outclass down the road which could happen but you know she can also upgrade probably so I don't see why they should get sideline I mean I feel like they're pretty
core to the story so if they got sideline it would just be weird and I mean no he is the first friend outside of you kill that
that who makes kind of in the after coming bad right he he's the first person he he who he is able to introduce himself to I think and he shakes her hand I think
yes she and she's the first person really accept him yes so that's really important it feels like hey she can be that person in his life and for be that person who he does a lot of the checkbox from his book
actually gets maybe after while takes puts the put book away be so crossies so familiar with these two characters and is able to have like normal conversations and everything and just be a friend to them so that's
going to be interesting that's one of the things I I look forward the most in the coming seasons of this because I hope they do a lot of with that I mean we sort of start to see shades of that later on in the season so maybe you know
yeah I'm hopeful I'm hopeful that they're going to stick with that because it's just one of the main themes of the show is like hey
important to have social connections and it's important to have friends and that's it's so aside from free maybe
following the world and killing the evil hyper or Kaiju whatever that's main mission in this show so I hope they do
enough with that aside from just these many missions and everything because you know care as we have we have a moment in the show where this I talk about this later but where
it hits us efforts to connect to people severely backfires and he has really to wrestle with that and that was super cool I want more of that in the show
because care relationships with other people is are messy they are complicated and you cannot just always like even if you have the best intentions it might not work out out just if you go
forward and try to talk to people even if you're not socially awkward so it was really happy that they put that in here and it's not just this one
side of thing of tattoo or just going out making steps and it's always paying off it doesn't at least not immediately so that's cool that's really cool that they also show that side of this mission
I mean it makes sense to have both sides because you know you can have it you know some dumb saccharins or I say oh everyone's my friend but when you
would the first character is like no screw you it's like that's a life lesson my dude yeah exactly but you know a lot of shows just skip over that and they have like these single minded
shown and protagonist who have just this this tunnel view and it actually works for them all the fucking time because they're so steadfast.
He is a lot of that really although it's just he's he has like this indomitable will and that pays off or in most of the time very few moments at backfires kind of because he goes into things not really making a plan and that sometimes backfires but mostly he succeeds and he doesn't really have to wrestle with the feelings of it and everything of just being this very blunt straight forward very contagious in terms of friendliness and everything and so but they person
and I feel like they immediately in this show they go into that and they say like no this is more complicated than your self health book might make you believe in so I appreciate that I appreciate that the show was not beating about around the bush in that regard or just skipping over that so yeah really cool shit but yeah
that's kind of like the first half of this show like you know we have to set up we have the return to earth we have him getting acquainted with the more village people and everything the little side quest with Hagan and them becoming a family and everything which is really nice and then
and I guess this is where we switch switch to fall on spoilers because otherwise will become complicated talk about it then this basically basically turns into a huge prolonged giant battle for the second half of the show
so there is this guy that gets introduced called Colonel Sagami and his group of gifted children and they belong to this splinter group of the organization that
Tetsuo and Yuki fought for Edd er in German of course is that what God did yes that's all right I'm putting these things together I mean it's spelled differently like there's a dash between the E and the RDE but I thought I thought it stood for something and I just didn't bother to look it up and I just sort of say okay it's an abbreviation right
it's an acronym for something they express it at some point I don't know what it was like something blah blah blah or defense some kind of defense force thing it's definitely that but also if you just put the letters together it just spells
earth a German she's Christ so that was fun but yeah so cool there's also this splinter group that was created by this Colonel Sagami that is called Vieta
and and what does that mean not really anything I am not the there's not here's a little less clever I guess it's just this
this this yeah maybe the I in front of it states something for I don't know maybe maybe if you look at the abbreviation of that if that is can be found somewhere then that actually
also connects to earth in one way but right now I can't really make any sense of it so but yeah that exists and he he's an interesting character Sagami was like the soldier that enlisted with Edd er
he pushed himself to become the savior of humanity and raised through and rose through the ranks very quickly and then Tetsu appears little nine year boy basically showing up this veteran soldier and pretty much
dashed all of his short term plans so he put a long term plan in motion he created the subdivision via the comprised of gifted children who he wanted to use
to finally become the savior of humanity he is in his own mind always was destined to be in his own mind and I mean the funny thing is he kinda has a point because he yes his his argument is for the year creating the Vieta
program is that humanity cannot rely on Tetsu alone and he was absolutely right in that regard I don't know absolutely true like he has a point starting out
yeah the big problem is that reasoning is not based on the desire to do what's best for humanity humanity but instead on egoistic ambitions and envy of Tetsu
he has also not come has it completely planned out and there are some you know he takes past that he shouldn't
shouldn't have taken and that that kind of fuck up everything and are kind of the reason why his premonition comes true in regard of that humanity should not rely on Tetsu
because this as it turns out later he's partially responsible or mainly responsible for for the mission in space
Tetsu is basically going awry and everyone dying there and everything so he basically fulfilled his own prophecy
but yeah he he gets introduced he survived apparently and some of the kids apparently survived as well he took them out when the when the world got frozen over and everything
and took it them with him and they ate Kaiju meat and some died but he and some of them survived all of them got Kaiju tamer powers and now they all have Kaiju
and they want to want to save the world that's what he says at least and for that in his opinion they need many powerful Kaiju
and one of the most powerful ones as he is aware is a land of man and he knows where it is so he wants to attack the mall village and wants to take a land of
I don't know if he even intends to take nogy with it or if he wants to take it over himself or whatever what his plan is but he wants to basically steal a land of man from them
and destroy whatever stance in his way like he is not afraid of going over stepping over corpses and that becomes even clearer down the road when you learn what he what he did in the past
so yeah he's a very interesting character very interesting villain in terms of being like this really starting with good intentions but for the wrong reasons
and also using really underhanded methods and being really fucked up maybe even before that but definitely through his experiencing his experiences and because of the things he was willing to do because that definitely fuck with his brain
absolutely yeah I mean we kind of find out some of his decisions were influenced by a certain someone who may have been influenced by a certain someone else
yes exactly we'll get to that but he is also funny character like he is he is very over the top he is not like this very he can be very stern in certain regards but most of the time he is like chewing the cedar
like not only chewing it like his voice actor Tomokasa Sugita is devouring the cedar
yes Sugita just think I love him because he just throws himself into every role this room in particular he just went all in and is like the whole time
yes yes he is very over the top if you can't deal with that I don't know what to tell you but I had a fun time because he is just he is really such a good politician
he is funny but in the most inappropriate moments right like it is like dude that is really fucked up why are you so happy about this and he is like he comes across like a real real insane person
but in a fun way like he is just he is just a fun really evil character in a lot of aspects but yeah basically he learns that Tetsuo survived and is back on earth in his robot
and is immediately says ok before we go to the mall which we are going to take that guy out because I hate his guts
and that is what he enters group go to Tetsuo and try to beat the shit out of him basically
I hate him for what he did to me indirectly sort of
yeah yeah pretty much and this is the moment that I talked about earlier where Tetsuo gains the confidence to address Sakami directly
via speakers but when Sakami has like a really hateful response it dares to erase all the personal process Tetsuo has made trying to connect to people app to this point
but he gets over that right he is able to be like ok no this felt really bad and I don't want to think about this
and they go back to that several times showing that and how that fucking how how shook Tetsuo is from that moment
like really going out there putting himself out there not knowing who that other person is trying to make friends have been telling him
hey you are also Kajotaymers we should join up we should become friends we should help each other in this hostile environment
and then just being completely like just getting just this barrage of hate from Sakami and just not being ready for that at all
and having to wrestle for that for quite a while and I was really happy that they actually showed that they showed the repercussions of that they showed the fallout of that from that
and it was really cool and then of course it was all the more satisfying when Tetsuo actually got over that
and was able to know this was not for nothing I already made new friends and this feels really bad but that doesn't meet I mean I'm going to stop trying to connect to people
and it was a really cool moment it was really good so felt really felt really earned and because what came before that
you know when he helped the people and he connected to Nogi and when he connected to Haganay and did the cyclist with her and everything
and Teto with her stuff with her mom and if he didn't have that before that shit with if Sakami was his first contact rate try to go all out
he would have probably just completely crumbled under that but because he was already able to make these small steps before
he had like the fighting power in him and his spirit got lifted up enough in advance to withstand this harsh situation and it was cool
and there's progress that's amazing so if the self-help book enabled him to actually get to that point I guess it was worth something
so yeah and yeah at that point we had a split up in two groups one fights you kill the other text the mall
thankfully the mall is equipped with defensive weaponry Nogi or Owl is her first name I think has snuck out as usual
which is a problem she even gets like tied up in certain forms you can't she's not supposed to
she keeps getting reprimanded over and over for but she keeps sneaking out and doing her thing so
yeah it's not so funny because she introduces herself or is introduced as the village chief but she's like
what is she the chief of is it like like finances finances
it's like oh yeah she can find she's the village chief no no no not really
and she wears it like a badge of honor that she's been reprimanded so many times for going out on her own
it's like girl you got where are your priorities? yeah she's very headstrong and you know which makes sense because you know she has a fire
Pokemon but you know so she she snuck out with her two companions and then she she knows that the
learns that the mall is in danger dashes back in full speed and arrives just in time to awaken let of man and fight back
which is a really cool scene it's an unwritten rule to cheer when a song with vocal sets in at a pivot
a pivotal moment which it does in this so yeah it was really really cool
all of you are this kaiju have names of regards or demigods the illusions of grand your much i guess that fits sagami
yeah yeah but it was funny it was like Jesus get over yourself but yeah we have this fight against three
three kaiju from and you know they're tamers from the land of man pretty much disposes of all of them pretty easily
because it packs some really some serious firepower and like come on man it's it's really good like that's what I was like okay how much of a she seems strong but how strong is oh really
she's super strong turns out very like the only one she can't get really like beat off the group is the main one like sagami's
kaiju hercules or heracles and who after she beats the three kaiju teleports in suddenly and gets himself a helping of hot wings
and the rematch of hi hercules versus you kill that ensues after that is really awesome really cool fights in this show
like they really make the most of this being full-sigee and everything like I said cool camera's words and everything and the choreography is really good especially in that fight especially
especially tetsuo's line we might not have won every battle but we never lost twice it was really good
it was really good to sit out of him at least at that moment I really like that was really you always have need some good zingers and it's not even that much of a taunt or anything
but it's like hey I learned from my mistakes do you and yeah it's it's really cool and we learned that sagami has some like precognition powers but by letting Yuqio take the reins he's able to get around that and say
to get around that and sagami basically burns himself out and see so far into the future yeah I don't know that was a bit weird I understood the gist of it
but I think the way sagami explains it is he cannot see it if an action is not controlled by a human or not initiated by a human being
then he cannot see into their mind and cannot see it happening beforehand before it happens and that's first of all he gets hit by a drone that is steered by the two assistants of of owl
and then you know like you said tetsuo gives the reins to Yuqio and teatax him the Yuqio stuff I understand
the drone stuff that was still steered by a human being so why did that work why did that hit it sagami's blind spot that wasn't quite clear to me maybe because that one he wasn't expecting because he was so focused on tetsuo and Yuqio I don't know
maybe he was he was focused on tetsuo's mind it didn't reach out to other people or didn't notice that other people's mind were directing their antagonistic thoughts against him or something like that yeah that case
but yeah super cool fight and at that point we learn or this splintered in between we always seek flashbacks to how sagami's life went in the past
before you know all this all went to shit and everything and there's this person that gets like sprinkled in the background here and there is this lady called not a ray
who apparently helped him in certain moments and we you know we we learn earlier that apparently many of sagami's superiors and competitors died under mysterious circumstances
that's why you was able to rise through the ranks so quickly and we see you know not a real happening is helping him certain moments with training and everything on making them powerful better weapons or whatever
and then yeah we learned that not a real basically disabled the spaceship which led to you know of the final of tetsuo's final mission
which leads to its destruction and sagami basically asked her to do it even though he kind of does it under the rest though yes she kind of pushes him into it like she's she's basically she pushed him through the ranks by convincing him to take any possible route
be it even an unthought unethical one to be able to become the savior he wanted to be and once tetsuo appears it feeds to him like he has no other option to do this and she is kind of like the voice like the devil in on his shoulder telling him hey yeah you must do that then you can still become the savior you want to be
and due to the person he is and the easily influenced person he that he is he listens to her and at some point does what she tells him to do and at that moment it was pretty clear who not are is yeah
it's like that was the moment where it's like okay she's the Tokyo eyes Kaiju isn't she because like she we know that Kaiju is still hanging around
and it has a bit it doesn't necessarily have a super female ish form but it's like androgynous and everything and we never hear it speak I think before it's like okay okay okay why is this character so highlighted here so much
and she seems to be the puppet master in the background and why much she want to do that if maybe she's working with the guys you for some reason if she's not the Kaiju herself
what it turns out to be at least laid it down the road but you know we first learn more about why sagami is did what he does like
his severe self-loathing and lack of self-confidence fueled by his shitty childhood that he had made sagami think like he is really bad parents
made sagami think that he could never come close to the level of tattoo by taking the normal righteous route and he definitely had
huge regrets when he realized what damage he did and the earth got frozen over that much is evident like he even gouges his own eye out
which is a really gross scene yeah that was like once you realize this that basically he doomed the entire planet by what he did
because he really quickly picks up okay this must be yet like because I did this and I am not able to stop this Kaiju and tattoo is not here anymore and I keep it
he thinks at this point that tattoo died and he's like I killed our only savior I don't have the power what am I gonna do and I mean not a rekind of
failed some also in on that he that who she is I think I don't feel like she puts that in their quid at first but then he's found out after the fact
but I think she tells him that he's responsible for this at least like blame say more whatever I don't normally feel bad for the villain but man
I mean it's one of those classic you feel sorry but he completely brought it on himself right yeah but I mean in the aftermath you know before taking control of
Heracles and all that like he tries to help out the children he was training and he keeps them safe and he keeps them
close and I feel like there's some level of redemption to that up to a point when he you know attacks me she'm a mall and he tries to kill Tetsuo and take the land of men but in the aftermath after that he's like
dude I did so many wrong things and he recognizes that in there but there's no coming back from that really at least that there's no reason for a belief that there's no redemption for that in spite of what tattoo says and believes and he pays for the ultimate price for it yeah so I mean you're absolutely right like the spite
despite all the shit that he did there's still this underlying main motivation that he did it for an ultimately good reason he wanted to be a savior you want to be the one to be the kite you wanted to do it because of
Egotistical reasons but he want to do it and the children were only his intended to be his tools but they became something more down the road and he's he right he saved them he might have done it for
the time he's still rescued and protected them in a environment where they probably would have all died otherwise like he might not be a savior for all of humanity but he definitely was theirs so to that extent his his will get fulfilled he just never realized it which is the
saddest part about this I think like he was already a savior and he just did not pay enough attention like the kids adore him to stay with him because they adore him because they because they saw him as what he always wanted to be
and he already was it for them but it wasn't enough it wasn't enough and it came too late it came too late when he already did all the bad things and couldn't just get past them anymore that easily and yeah you're right it's super tragic it's super tragic you feel really sad for him and on the one side on the other side you're like yeah man if you just had if you just
had paid more attention and weren't just in up your own ass so much in the beginning there's the issue yeah exactly but yeah we we this also the cool thing is this also kind of relates to
Tetsu like they have like this connection and that's why he still wants to reach out to Sakami like this is moment where he wants nothing more than to punch Sakami's lights out after
learning what he did you know this that he was responsible for sabotaging the spaceship at the laser and everything and so many people dying because of it and it's super understandable but then Sakami attressed the words I don't want to be me
anymore and that makes Tetsu hesitate because he felt the same although because of different reasons naturally right but there was this moment in his life where he didn't want to be the person he is anymore
the lessons or the the action that resulted from that for Tetsu was I'm gonna use the self-help book now actively and try to become a person with friends
and I'm trying to be a form social connections and try to be come a better person than I was before not to be so introverted anymore not that being introverted is a bad thing
but you know trying to be someone a person that I like more myself that I want to be a person I want to strive for
and you know Sakami is the is the flip side of that when that moment came too late for him to be able to ignore all the bats that he had already done
but they have still this connection via these words and this mindset that they won't want to be the person they have been their entire life anymore
and that's what makes Tetsu like understand okay he is he is in a somewhat similar situation than I am and I cannot unleash my anger on him because I kind of understand where he is coming from
so that was cool hey holy shit I did not expect to have these kind of this kind of character development from a character writing from a show like this
I am super happy being surprised in this kind of way
like so yeah I think you and I both of you in this show thinking oh cool mecha show oh there's actually something here especially with the characters
like there's more underneath the surface of this and it's really cool I'm really enjoying this show a lot I'm glad it's coming back for another season
yes yes yes yes and we're almost at the end too like we learned that Nadare consumed the body of one of Sakami's kids and replaced it with a variant of her to infiltrate Viyade
she she of course is the ice Kaiju I mean not a her self probably was another human at some point that got taken over by the ice Kaiju and she just was like an avatar for for the Kaiju
one of its its different personas or whatever and that was used to infiltrate earth defenses and everything and turn via Sakami turned them against themselves
and yeah then we have like a fight against against the Kaiju
so say Sakami with a dropkick to another space which was really cool
and like you said Sakami dies he like his injuries are too severe like he gets really fucked up by the ice Kaiju by another
and but and and apparently there's this like psychic break that happens between Kaiju tame repairs if one of them dies so he was like in mostly incapacitated because of that too
yeah yeah exactly it's it's I guess kind of a grim note they they leave us on but not are in our nose where their base is so they have to move
they have to move they have to move the machine I'm also by us have to find a new HQ which I assume is probably going to be a lot of what the next season is going to be
complex of
and we end on a kind of nice note like Ted so gets to enjoy a meal prepared from the gifts given by all his new grateful friends which was really nice
it will up I was like oh look at the look how far my boy has come so good the kids from the other have to eat their own Kaiju which seems cruel
yeah that was really weird it's one of these off-killed comedy moments in the show is like whoa to do you feel that is that is appropriate
okay that I if I had a cool fighting dog I would not eat it after it died so that is that was really fucked up but it was still kind of funny
so I mean it gets to keep some from rebelling against them in the future but I kind of feel like they probably lose a lot of their motivation to do so after sogami's death but yeah
yeah I wonder I wonder where they are going in the coming seasons if they're just going to be part of the fighting for us now or because all that Kaiju at that I think
so they have to get new ones maybe I don't know how this works but we'll we'll find out in the next season probably but yeah
that's the setup for for what's coming and I don't know when is it coming John is is it I wasn't already announced for winter or fall
it was announced but I don't know it is TBA still so I got to imagine some time the next year or maybe 2028 if I had to
hazard it gets probably 2027 early 2028 I think another one of my favorite scenes in this is Yukiyo gets so damaged and they have to repair him
and there's just giant 3d printer yeah but they don't have the electricity to power it so Tetsuo and everyone in the village gets on these bicycles and they power it like that
I was like oh that's that's actually a really cute scene where they're all working together to get this machine running again I thought that was really neat there's there's little stuff like that peppered in too
yeah absolutely and the pacing of the show is really good like it's really quick pace there is there is downtime when it's necessary
like when you need a bit of like quite a character moments but it like goes from B to B to B to B to B it's very risky it's never boring and of course you have like the second the second half is pretty much an entire like like just one big battle
and if that borrows you I but I also don't see how they could have condensed that because it doesn't feel like one individual battle lasts super long like
like I was fight against the three other Kaiju is like one episode maybe half an episode I feel like there's enough going on between all of that like between this well like basically three different fights that happen across all those episodes three or four
there's enough transition between them to make it feel like you know it's still moving there's still things happening at the same time so you know I still felt like it was fine for what it was
yeah absolutely I mean maybe the fight between the Tetsuo yuku and Hercules and Saga me could have been cut down a bit but also that was some of the coolest looking fight scenes in the show so why would you
so I don't I was totally fine with it like if you're not that much into you know like half a season of just fights then I don't know what to tell you then maybe this isn't for you but also like Jon said it the fights are varied enough there's enough
a different things happening to keep it interesting so I feel like it never overstayed it's welcome or outdated welcome so yeah cool show nothing super special like there bits and pieces and there's like okay we've seen this in other shows before that but it definitely does
not just enough stuff it's own way that you feel like okay this is kind of fresh like the way it is done here I made a joke in the sneak peek at about this being kind of spiritual sequel to Capcom's game lost planet
there is a piece of there you have giant monsters you they harvest kind of the meat slash the energy from them what not right at the earth is completely frozen over and then you have of course this is usual super robot stuff and you know you have
your typical shown action stuff with the different factions and so fighting each other and the the big kind of a Kaiju attack and antagonist and background everything of course that that has been done before to certain degrees and other shows but I feel like the mix that snowball of put together is somewhat unique in certain regards the presentation is really good
and I'll just like a lot of the characters in this really interesting fun villain in this first season I wonder what they're gonna do in the coming ones like we're probably gonna get introduced to more human factions and does other villains I don't think it's gonna be just not a slash the ice card you
just for the remainder of the show I'm surprised if that was the case no I don't think they could carry it on its own with just that after it's probably gonna be like the boogie man like the the the the the what was the the the SX or whatever it was called in Metroid Fusion
the SX as I said appears at the most in opportune moments when you really don't need it and it's gonna fuck up your shit and I feel like that's probably gonna be the kind the ice card so not always rule in this show when when things are dire anyway she's gonna come in and make it worse probably so yeah until they have the big final fight
with whenever that happens whenever the manga gets finished or whatever or we get maybe maybe that Kai just even working for bigger like grander faction or whatever like I mean they do come from deep space so that's entirely possible yeah probably maybe it's just was just a messenger there was supposed to to to invade Earth
and it eventually we will go to the Kaiju planet and you know have a fight there who knows but then the title is misleading because it's a noble earth but not you know we'll see and about it's it's super fun we got about from what I can tell about four volumes in that's about 20 chapters so we keep about that pace
well you know I'm about to see how it goes from there but not sure how the manga is going along right now like it looks like there's a chapter later on called mission is possible so we'll see what that means
we'll see but yeah I don't know where can people watch it John you can watch this on crunchy roll you can watch it on Hulu might be on other services depending on where you live but mainly those two so up
it has a dub as well which it didn't check out but I'm curious about checking out because you came was apparently forced by Alejandro sob and he's a great voice actor and he's really funny so I'd like to see you listen to that dub a little bit see how it is I'm definitely looking forward to more especially learning not as true origin and the ultimate form of our plan and everything and meeting new people and just of course how
that's was endeavors to connect to people in this relationship to hug and to all into all the other people from the mission normal and so on.
It gets expanded.
Yes so I don't like winter but if you like the ice and the snow and you like giant robots I mean who doesn't like giant robots you know the song from megasex LR everyone loves giant robots.
This is this was actually a really really fun show with some unexpected like unexpected in a good way character writing that I think we both really enjoy this it's a quick watch is definitely worth checking out I think.
Yeah absolutely and that coming from the certified winter hater John is high praise indeed.
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