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Hello and welcome to an all new episode of NMA Brain Freeze.
We are your anniversary hosts.
I am Jon.
And I'm CC and when there's just too much cool anime to watch,
we've got you covered.
Winter is here, it's freezing outside.
Jon is indulging in his favorite past time activity of shoveling snow.
Get out of here with that.
So let us warm your hearts with a couple of premieres from the new anime season in the sneak peak.
And after that we will review the long awaited and dreaded third season of the former superhero mega hit,
One Punch Man.
But before all of that, there's a little bit of celebration in order.
So bring the presents and party heads.
Don't rush your production pipeline or that birthday cake might turn out to be a hollow mess.
And definitely don't pause the pot, we'll be right back.
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So yeah, believe it or not, depending on when we release this episode or when you listen to this,
it will soon be or already have been our 10 year anniversary for a little show.
Hooray!
Happy birthday!
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Too weird, quick noise of party,
favors horns, whatever.
[Laughs]
I don't know if I added them in there, but yeah.
I'm honestly surprised we managed to keep it going that long, how about you?
Uh, yeah, for sure.
I mean, because there's...
I'm not gonna lie to you.
There's been some seasons and some shows where I just like...
I don't know how much I realistically have to say, you know, this and whatnot, but,
I mean, we managed to keep it going.
And I think us doing the game stuff on the side every so often has given me some reason to keep talking.
Because I do still like watching anime, but I just always loved playing
games. That's what I got cat into really first and foremost, so, but, you know, I will still
watch anime if it interests me.
We didn't have much last season, but this season we'll get to that.
Hooray!
Yeah, we're gonna have so much, especially...
We're gonna have a lot of shared shows to talk about next season,
or whenever this...
the shows that are premiering this season, or we turn this season,
or finishing up. Some of them might be two course shows, I don't know, but...
We definitely...
Yeah, there is one that I thought was a single core, and I was like,
"How are they gonna do this in 12 episodes?" Turns out it's gonna be two course shows.
Like, okay, so it'll have some time to breathe.
I want that to be Fire Force Season, Final Season Part 2, but I know it isn't!
Yeah, we'll get to that.
But yeah, so, yeah, we're definitely... we're gonna have a lot more for you to...
anime stuff, in the coming season, or the one after that for you.
But also, game stuff, definitely.
Like, speaking for myself, this is honestly the longest personal project I've ever stuck with.
I dabbled a bit in YouTube, a bit of Twitch, a bit in game reviews, a bit in anime DVD reviews,
but didn't stick with any of that very long.
But this one is still tracking along, so...
Yeah, man. I have wanted to get back into streaming, with our Beyond Twitch or YouTube, but I just...
I don't know when I have the time game. I mean, the last time I streamed was two years ago,
I think when Super Mario Bros. Wonder came out, so...
It's been a second...
Oh, it's a good news. You get around to it.
No, I started playing with someone, and then...
That we just didn't continue.
Gotcha.
I'll eventually... because it's like... I like the new or 2-D Mario games are such nice co-op games,
so I would like to play with someone else, but, you know, you have to find the time for both people to do that and everything,
so it's not always easy to coordinate that, whatever.
So, maybe eventually, but I definitely want to play it, and also really play the
"You Super Mario Bros. You" or whatever, but this isn't the gaming show! We're gonna...
I mean, we're gonna talk about...
We'll have one of those in a few weeks, maybe.
Yes, but also, you know, Twitch stream... I totally get you, and for me, it's something else.
I was, was interested in doing it, and I did it for a while, like,
played through Resident Evil 6 on Twitch with one of our common friends,
which was very fun. You were a guest on one of those episodes as well, but none of that stuff was...
Was I?
Yes, you were, I think, on during the Chris campaign, play through all of that.
Oh, at least, Joe...
Joe, Joe, Joe, how much that stuck with you?
It's been so long.
There's that, and I have been wanting to play the Resident Evil series for myself,
because it's just been a blank spot for me.
Okay.
Like, I've played five, and I hated it, and I played Revelations, and I actually really enjoyed it,
so I want to go back and play the ones that I haven't at some point.
Well, if you hated five, you've got to absolutely have a horse six.
Oh, no, I hear six... I hear six is the worst, and the lot so.
We can talk about that more in the next episode, or three-press per second.
That might be closer than everyone thinks, but yeah, getting back to the show that actually has the
anniversary, counting this one. We've recorded 176 episodes, moving closer and closer to the big 2.00,
and judging from our reviews page, we have reviewed over 300 shows at Movies John.
Oh my god.
Not too shabby for 10 years, I'd say.
So, what's next for us? Well, so far, we don't have any real intention of stopping, as you just heard.
This is still fun, but we might make a couple of further adjustments to which shows we do four reviews of,
because John already elaborated on his thoughts, and why he has dialed back some of his full
time or full length reviews. And it's kind of the same for me.
Like, I wanted to start this project with John originally for two reasons.
First, to keep my English language skills on a good conversational level, as it is not my native language,
and you know how it is, if you don't use it, you lose it.
I mean, you speak the language better than most natives, so...
Thank you. That's very nice of you to say that.
But I want to keep it that way if that is really true.
If you feel that way, that's nice.
So, that was definitely one of the reasons why I wanted to do this.
And the second big reason, maybe bigger reason, to have a cool person to regularly talk about
to about one of my hobbies. And therein lies the problem a bit, because when reviewing shows only one
of us watched, we, especially, I tend to talk more at you, our audience, instead of having an
actual conversation with John. And that is kind of not what I want to do anymore, at least not as much,
so, unless I really want to talk about a new show because it completely grabbed me, and there's
so much interesting details to talk about. Probably going to relegate most of the reviews for shows only
I watched through the quick and the dead. I mean, we've already done that for continued or
returning season reviews of shows only one of us watched mostly. But this is probably going to happen
to a lot more of new shows as well. I also feel bad for making John deliver a normal review,
a full length review for the new season of Renta Girlfriend or stuff like that, just so I'm not the only
one reviewing something for one of our episodes. I mean, that's fair enough, but I don't think you'll
be hearing me talk about Renta Girlfriend again. So that's healthier for you and probably for the audience.
I don't know about me because I enjoy these reviews, like, I don't want to be negative all the time,
which I mean, this is a little bit of that energy today, and I'm sorry, but I mean, that's why we got
rid of the trash stash among other things, right? Because we want to focus on shows that we actually
enjoyed most of the time, and we don't have any noaps anymore in this sneak peek neither.
So, yeah, that's one of another reason. So, absolutely, I would like to focus on the shows that we both
watched, you know, and that might just reduce the number of reviews in general, because, you know,
when I check out a new show and you don't have a new show, you want to talk about then that's probably
going to get relegated. Do the cooking and the dead? We'll see how this turns out. Nothing is
set in stone. If there is room and enough interesting things, we feel passionately about in any show,
only one of us watch, we're still going to do fullings for those as well, but expect us focusing
more on the shows that both of us watch in the future of this project. That might drastically reduce
the number of episodes depending on the turnout each season. Like I said, next season, we're going
to have a lot to talk about, but this season we only have two shared reviews. So, it's going to only
be two episodes of enemy brain freeze this season. So, how we will fill the left over time? Well,
as you might or might not know, and John already talked about it, and I talked about it. We already
have a new side project on the same channel called freeze frames per second when we talk about all
things video games. So, that's definitely something we will do. And also, maybe if we feel like this,
we will go back and review an older show. We either didn't get too in its original season or
was released or that was released before we started this project. So, yeah, let's see. Either way,
you're not going to be rid of us yet. I want to thank you, John, for tolerating my quirks and
occasional flakiness in certain regards for such a long time and being a terrific co-host,
doing cool reviews, whipping up the artwork for the episodes. That's a big help. And I'm looking
forward to continue to talk about anime and games. So, I hope we get to do that for a while.
Yeah, yeah, let's try and keep it going. And thank you. Thanks for having me. It's such an honor.
That's about really thanks for having me on. We're doing this. And I want to back pedal a little bit
because you said having someone cool on the show. Who? Who? Who? Who? Who said? Now, now.
No, no self-deprecating humor in this section. And of course, also a big thanks to you, our listeners,
especially the people who have stuck with us since the beginning or even if you just found us.
I know we have a small core listenership. I don't know who most of you are because we don't really
receive feedback of any kind whatsoever. So if you want to write us an email or leave us a nice
comment or review on one of our episodes that would be awesome either way. I hope you'll keep
sticking with us and I also hope we will be able to keep entertaining you, make you laugh,
groan, scream at your headphones because it is agree with us all that good shit.
So yeah, onto the next milestone, we go and with that being said, let's move on to the sneak peak.
So yeah, sneak peak time only two maybe's for me and a whole lot of keepers, mostly because we
have a butt load of returning shows this season. So yeah, I think I have more BBs than John. So I will
start us off first of all as usual for new time listeners. We usually have three sections in this
little thing where we talk about all the premieres that we checked out. The notes that maybe
sent the keepers, so the notes are the shows that we checked out and decided no, we don't want to
keep watching that because it sucks and we haven't had those for a while because we gotten better at
or not as many anyway. Okay, the occasional one sneaks its way in there but usually we are
pretty good these days to determine which shows we don't want to give the time of day.
So I mean, it's very easy to go on live chart and filter out light novel and ezeka.
Yes, that helps a lot. But yeah, then you know, we have the maybe shows that have potential,
but also maybe we'll squander it and we're not quite sure about yet.
Then the keepers shows that we are most certainly gonna keep on watching and finishing and maybe
probably reviewing. So yeah, let's start with the maybe's and we're hitting it off with the doozy,
John. The first show I talk about is Darwin incident. So John, what do you think is the real danger
to society? Billionaires or Nazis? What is your best guess? Yes. Yes. Wrong. It's vegans.
Okay, all right, go on. Expouse this ideology to me. I'm getting ahead of myself, but yeah,
so this show starts off with an animal rights activist group breaking into a lab and freeing
all the test animals, kind of like 28 weeks later, whatever, heralding bad things to come, I guess
among those animals is a pregnant chimpanzee. Turns out her baby is a hybrid of a human
and a chimpanzee, a human Z. And yes, that's what the show actually calls it.
That baby is named Charlie and is brought up by a researcher, Dr. Bartstein and his wife Hannah.
Of course, it's named Charlie, of course, shut up. I'm already.
All this is apparently public knowledge, by the way, his existence published in newspapers and
everything, kind of a short term celebrity and everything. The generic father is apparently
a doctor, Dr. Grosman, who went missing after all this. And yeah, this series basically after this
short prologue, very short prologue starts off with Charlie, who is about to start school. He's 15 years
old. This show is set in 2020. And yeah, so Charlie, of course, immediately becomes a celebrity at a
school, but this by the way, set in the US and somewhere in Missouri, although, you know, people seem
to be more welcoming than expected at first. They're like kind of a bit apprehensive, but they're also
not like immediately bullying him or something, at least not all of them. That's good, I guess.
Yeah, especially after he saves Lucy, a girl trying to rescue a cat from a tree from falling
and injuring herself. And Lucy is really interested in how Charlie sees the world and vice versa.
So they become friends quickly. And of course, there are also people not as welcoming at school,
like the local jerk Aussie or his friend who seems to be generally scared by Charlie and his
abilities and his alianness that seem to go beyond what chimpanzees and humans are capable of
a separate species. So he apparently maybe got the best of both worlds in terms of genetics.
And I think that's also the trajectory of the show. Like that, it will turn out that Charlie is
combining the best of both worlds. And so there will be a, so there will be factions that are afraid
if more human Zs exist, they might replace humans as the dominant species. And there's a lot of
this going already on in the first two episodes. Yeah, now, up on learning that Charlie is vegan,
which he is because his parents are not because he's in a chimpanzee. He's just his parents are vegan
and to eat like adopted dead, but he's not necessarily like a verse to eating meat. He's just, you know,
not doing that in a cafeteria, but immediately Aussie that the fucking bully dude is tries to do a
and yet you participate in society curious to Charlie. Oh, God. And you know, gets more than he bargained
for, like there's this great exchange, like he asked Charlie if a mouse carried a deadly disease
and was about to bite you, would you shoot it? Like trying to prove that he's a hypocrite for
being vegan, whatever. After all, vegans believe that all lives are equal. And Charlie reprised
basically with yup. And if you carried that disease, I shoot you too because otherwise I die.
Honestly, kind of based, fair. Like Charlie is very meta effect in that regard. I'm not that much
of a fan of his design, like his face and eyes are weekly expressionless. Yeah, I just looked at a
pic and it's like, yeah, and it doesn't make sense because neither the chimpanzees nor human faces
are like that. Like both have very expression expression heavy features. So that's a weird design
choice. I get, I guess it's to make him seem more alien, but the show should be able to convey this
without rubbing the character of any way to express emotions with subtle gestures. So that's a
bit of a weird choice, maybe due to story purpose and whatever, but it seems a bit like a cheap trick.
And yeah, the best, best thing, quote unquote, is how fucking blunt, like pure bluntness on this
fucking show, like the, the other big party in this or like the, the big, like important
affection, this are of course the, the, the radical animal activists who like kicked all this into
motion and are still working the background there. They're actually like, they caught the animal
liberation alliance and they want to recruit Charlie into their war as it turns out. And they're,
you know, portrayed as this dangerous fanatics and frankly idiots. So pido with guns. Yes,
they bombed like a restaurant where where people can eat meat and a little girl gets killed.
And you know, stuff that always happens in real life. And considering that Japan has a difficult
relationship with organization that tried to stop them from hunting whales, for example, this feels
like a rather one-sided hit piece. So like, okay, I don't, did the author grow up as the son of a
fisherman. I don't want to make assumptions, but immediately it's like holy shit. This is so,
I mean, he's probably an allegory, but you know, and you know, the police immediately suspect
Charlie of being connected to the ALA as well. And again, this could also be a very, very unsuttle
allegory about xenophobia and paranoia. But I worry that these kind of heavy topics are way
beyond the creators' writing capabilities for me to take this show seriously. I mean, this could
turn out to be a neat sci-fi story about the unusual friendship between Charlie and Lucy, right?
Or it will become an absolutely misguided trash fire. I'm kind of interested in both.
I'm currently expecting the latter. As the script already contains such gems as the line uttered
by one of his classmates, Charlie is vegan, right? Does that mean he is linked to the terrorists?
That's quite a jump. And we actually have a guy, the guy who is immediately afraid of Charlie
and when they talk about like what the terrorists are doing and everything, he's like immediately
complaining about, hey, we're rendering to religious minorities all the time. So this is no surprise
that this is happening. And we're not allowed to say Merry Christmas. And he would absolutely
in the show. And they're like, oh, oh, my God. They're like, okay, the show is obviously portraying
these characters as idiots and the bad guys because they're xenophobic assholes. But it's also like,
I wonder if it's still trying in the back to have to make a point or be like, hey, they kind of got
a point. So I don't know how to feel about this yet. This is so fucking wild. It's like, John,
I'm getting major Babylon vibes from this. Do you remember that show? Oh, no.
That started out like I just woke up like a sleeper cell when you said that name.
As like, I watched the first episode, a couple of minutes of the first episode. This is really
interesting. And oh, this could be a cool, nice sci-fi fantasy, you know, with a bit of political
intrigue and everything and mystery and, you know, conspiracy and stuff. And then the second episode
said, and all this crazy bullshit with the vegans and everyone like in social media, social media
correlating vegans with terrorists. And like, yes, thanks now, an incident for finally, finally,
telling us about the real danger to society. It was about time. So absolutely unhinged. Absolutely.
Yes, yes. This is the most unhinged premiere I've seen this, this season. And that is saying a lot
because we got a lot of other crazy shit in here too. So I don't know what is gonna happen with
this. I'm gonna continue this or if it gets too stupid for me, but right now I'm thoroughly
entertained by all the nonsense happening on screen. And I'll just define out if this shows
I got to have a point or if it's just gonna be Charlie actually in his way through this entire show.
So what we will see, it's gonna be a fun ride, I guess. So maybe, but that's why it's still a maybe.
So yeah, I talk already longer about this than I expected, but yes, it's a crazy show. So if we
want to go along for the ride, each dear listeners, maybe check out how it is so that it's crazy.
All right, John, what is your first and I guess only maybe?
So back in my youth, there's this one show that I enjoyed watching TV. I've got to
remember how many years after it got released in the US, it didn't Japan, but it was a decent amount
of time. Maybe you're familiar with a little show called Ronin Warriors. I've heard the name. Yes, so
that was originally a show called Yoroi Den samurai troopers from 1988. So it's been around for a
minute. And suddenly the sunrise comes out of nowhere and says, hey, how about a new one? And they just
said, all of a sudden drop, Yoroi, Yoroi seemed in samurai troopers on us and boy, uh, so the original
was thoroughly like disgustingly beautifully 80s. This one comes out and it feels like it's a show
from that early ought. It's like bloody and violent from the jump. And I guess it sort of explains
a way pretty quickly why when gates to the demon world start appearing, there's no humans around
suddenly because in the original like, there's no people around. Well, where did they go?
Mm-hmm. Who knows? They're just gone. Okay. And here they kill them all.
And here it's just they appear and start cutting, slashing, dismembering and it's very, very violent
right from the jump. I have to read it. They don't, they don't waste a single second. And that's why I
was sort of like mebi on this because I love Ronin warriors. I think it's still kind of a weird
different. I don't know if I've talked with you or anyone else about my feelings on the name change.
So the original show is samurai troopers where the dub called it Ronin warriors.
Or Ronin, I believe, is supposed to be a samurai who has lost their master or doesn't answer to
anyone, which I feel like kind of fits better in terms of name compared to the original because they
are just kind of like this low, not really the one wolf, this like team that really only answers to
each other. And they don't have their own master as it were. So. You're one or the old one.
Well, now in the new one, they have to enter to the government. Yes.
Because they were like, hey, well, what if the demons come back? Well, we need a government
faction that we're going to call these samurai troopers to go after them. And well,
Talpa, Arago, whatever name you want to choose is long dead. But here comes the totally distinct
emperor Ramaga. And you start sickening his, he's got like 10 or 12 demon bosses,
the sense of it, which is weird. Considering you know, original, it was only like four or five.
I mean, you got to stick out real. You're fucking lines like your, your ranks.
I guess the first time. So I guess he said, well, we got to put more people on this, which fair. But
then when one of the demon lords is immediately felled and he's, uh, they attempt to bring him on to
the side of the samurai troopers when he's like, yeah, Ramaga is my dad. And I wanted to take him
down anyway. And it's like, Oh, this is, there's the edge. Yes, but there it is. That's a neat little twist,
right? Like, I mean, it is. Yeah, it's, it's a little more interesting than in the original where
main guy, Rio was just like, I'm going to defeat the emperor. This is the 80s. Look how beautiful my
hair is. And you know what? I love the original show for that. And I, God, I haven't gone back and
rewatched it, but it was one of the last things I bought from right stuff before crunchy roll,
Raymond ate them up. So I've got it on blu-ray around here somewhere. Interesting, but, but yes, as
far as I know, we never got this over here. So I have no familiar with this whatsoever. So I went
and completely blind. And what's it? That's surprising. Actually, I thought it was a bit more widely
available. Apparently not. Uh, like I said, no, didn't ring a bell on, you know, I heard the name
because I was aware of this aired in the US, but I don't think I've ever seen it over here or
come over here or whatever. So it was really interesting to me. It feels very, you know,
super-centi, uh, Toku-san, so, uh, right? And, uh, you know, it definitely has that vibe to it. Yeah.
And, you know, but, but the, the twist of guy being the prince of the demons, I guess, is, is,
is pretty neat, is pretty unusual, I guess. And also, uh, him basically being stuck in the 80s,
like, uh, because since the portal to the demon world were closed and it was open the last time in 88,
with the show keeps that like, in sick place, like, okay, the last time this happened was in 88.
This is an actual sequel. And, you know, all this time has passed. And now it's back, but the demons
are stuck in the fucking 80s. So they still, they're in the 80s. Jay pop. In the 80s. Jay pop and
Jay rock. They still use VHS. Uh, they apparently have, it's right. Yes. They still, they probably have
rock concerts in the demon world, which is also awesome. We had this information about, uh,
parts of the demon world rituals. Someone taped over it, though. I think that, that was the most
important part. The humor in the show is kind of of kilter and fun. Like, I didn't expect it to be
that kind of, uh, I like the jokes are really good. Like, for me, apart from your standard stuff, but
I liked it. I liked the banter. I'm not super sure about if the episodes will be varied enough
yet because of all of this has been set up, right? In the first two episodes. And we just got our team
together because the first samurai trooper team, we have, I mean, the old one is not around anymore
because it's been a while. I mean, but, but there's still posters everywhere. They're like, hey, do you
remember? Yes. And then remember. And I'm sitting here. Yes. I do. Okay. Yes. And they have these, these,
these poster boys that are actually assholes and only in it for the money and, you know, they get
there. Come up. And so, uh, yeah, it's, it's, it's fun. And I'm interested to see where this goes,
at least for one or two more episodes. I just wonder if it's going to be like a monster of the
week show, which I assumed the old one mostly was. It kind of was, but then there were some, uh,
twists and turns in there that made it a bit more interesting towards the middle and the end. So,
like, uh, this is the show I was talking about. I was like, well, if this is going to be 12 episodes
than Jesus, but it is going to be two cores, where the original, I think was like, it was like,
30, eight or 40 episodes. It was a weird number, but it had a bit longer of a run. So,
they had enough time to be like, well, I don't want to give it away. You should ever want to go back
and watch, but it's like, this happened, but then this happened in an, oh, this happened. There's
a lot of things that go on. So it's a neat watch, at least. Interesting. So, yeah, I'm definitely
interested to hear your thoughts on it when else, when it's done and how it stacks up, uh,
compared to the ultra and everything. I don't know if I'll stick with it till the end, but I'm
definitely going to check out a couple more episodes and see how I feel about it because it's
interesting. I'm not super happy with the artwork and designs and everything. Uh, but I find it
interesting the way the characters pop off the backgrounds. Yes. Like almost like they're
not like cel-shaded, like, you know, you would see in like a game, but just the how brightly colored they
are in the outlines are a lot thicker compared to like a lot of other shows I've seen was I don't
dislike it, but it's definitely different compared to a lot of other stuff you see. Yes. Uh, I'll see,
so far the animation, uh, definitely holds up like Sunrise is putting the work in, uh,
with see how this pans out over 24 episodes or whatever and, uh, yeah, it's it's it's definitely
interesting and kind of a really come back to life. So yeah, yeah, uh, cool. So since that's, that was
or also my second maybe, so we're done with the babies and we're moving over to the keepers and
first of getting that out of the way, uh, there are a couple of keepers that haven't aired yet.
The second see for me, the second season of Metalist, it's coming up next week and time we're
recording this. Um, the second part of the final season of Beastars is also coming up and of course
the big one, Jojo's bizarre adventures, you were on a schedule to start airing in the middle or end of
March. Um, oh god, I didn't realize Beastars was coming. I still haven't watched the first half. Uh,
yeah, well, me neither, but I wanted to keep that until the second part is out and just have all of it,
and not have to rewatch the, the, the first part again, uh, yeah, fair because I still remember what
happened season one and two because I watched both of these twice, but uh, the third one, I was like,
okay, I'm just gonna wait until the second part is out and then we can talk about both parts and
the construction. So, uh, but we have time and whenever that is coming around, we can get to it.
But yeah, those haven't aired yet, um, but those will definitely get reviews. Um, so we're going to
talk about it eventually, but yeah, let's talk about the shows that have aired. Um, and there's
gonna be, I'm gonna start us off with, uh, the first show, uh, which is the second season of Hell's Paradise.
Um, a lot of returning show this and I will say to this, what I will say about a lot of the returning
shows the season is I need to rewatch season one, uh, like I barely remember what happened in the
previous season that is not saying any of these, uh, shows were not memorable. It just means it's been
too long. I watched too many shows and the long-term memory space on my mental hard drive has become
very sparse. So that's why I feel like, okay, it doesn't make much sense to watch the first episode
of that because I will be constantly, uh, like, who was that again? What, what happened last year? Where were
we? And I like watched five minutes of this and was like, no, that doesn't make sense. I'm gonna rewatch
the first season, uh, or listen to my review of the first season to get caught up again or read a
summary or whatever. But, uh, this, uh, I, it's a keeper. I'm gonna watch this. I remember really liking
the first season of this. So that's definitely gonna continue and it's a Mapa thing. So it looks good.
So definitely gonna get back to that and probably do at least a quick review of this. And, uh, yeah,
but I'm, you, you're gonna hear me repeat that sentence of, I have to rewatch this and that a lot.
During this section, John, what is your first keeper?
Oshino Kou is back season three. Um, so this takes place about, I guess six months, uh, after
the end of the previous season, uh, things are going a little, maybe not so good with, uh, between
Memcho, Kana and Ruby has Kana and Ruby are sort of like, it's not clear if they're super into what
they're doing, but they definitely have their ulterior motives. And Kana is a little sad because,
Aqua started dating this other actress that she had a rivalry with. So, you know,
it's a little rough for her. But, uh, Bikomachi, yeah, Bikomachi has, they have their problems as a group
and as individuals, but, you know, this just moving forward with the good ol' show business as it were.
It still looks great, you know, they're not sure how they're going to continue to, how they're going
to resolve some threads they opened up last time as they closed up a couple.
Did they already close up the, you know, the set up of the murder mystery or is that still in the
background? Yes, but, okay. So, there's still, okay, yes. Because Aqua kind of got his closure,
but now Ruby is like, doesn't have hers. Okay. So, the lens has shifted a little bit to the,
it has shifted a little bit to the right. So, interesting. But, yeah. I didn't think I'd be into this show,
just to have, yeah, it's such a weird set up to begin with, but the characters are interesting enough,
so definitely get to keep going with it. Nice. So, what you got next?
Another returning show, My Hero Academia, Visual Antise, Season 2. Now that MHA proper is over,
I will talk about that in the quick-inter that in the next episode. Well, almost, we're still getting
an apologue episode. I'm very glad that I don't have to leave that universe behind yet. I can spend
a little more time in it, and we're just picking up immediately where we left off last season,
like the heroes, not our main characters, but the heroes, faction, society, whatever, are still trying
to find the main distributor for trigger. The drug that makes cookies is stronger, but also
more violent, and/or has them to go berserk. On an aside-line of this, our vigilante troop,
mainly currently focusing on popstep and...
Coetry. Nakoldas has not been in the first two episodes yet, but they are doing their own thing.
Popstep started doing that idol group thing, supporting the community, and they're doing a gig at,
I don't know, at the job fair or whatever, and if something else, like advertisement fair,
like some kind of thing, some kind of presentation of new products and whatever, and she's like the
promoter for that, and then shit goes, "Hey, why?" because at the same time, the heroes are investigating
one of the shipments leading to that venue, and apparently there's some trigger being hidden in
certain boxes, and then they find a new villain, and who is responsible for this, and he can
slow down time, or completely stop it, which is a very cool scene. We haven't gotten
this name yet, I think, but when he uses his quirk, that looks very, very, very cool and scary.
We also have a new hero character. The self-describe police babe, Monica Kaniyashiki,
who can cut things with her fingers, like a crap, and yeah, so this is, you know, there's a lot of fun to
be had in the first two episodes, pretty low-key, like the first season of vigilantes world, it's not
like this big overarching superhero story with, you know, the students on the one side, and all for one
faction on the other side and everything, like fate of the world is at stake in whatever, it's just
low stakes, very small main cast, and that's nice. It's nice to have this kind of story in this universe,
and this being a prequel brings, of course, some problems with it, as in some characters are just
safe, right? You know that they will get out of whatever peril they are put in unscathed, because
they're in my hero academia prime, so they have to focus, if they want to like build some tension,
they have to put characters in peril that are new to this show, so that's also happening in this episode,
so, but yeah, I'm interested, I really like the main cast of this, I like popstep, I like Koichi,
I like, and not knuckle dust, and hope he returns soon. So yeah, I'm just in this, like more,
more superhero stuff, and it's well animated, of course, because it's bones and Kool-Op, everything,
and yeah, definitely gonna keep on watching my hero academia, even if the main show is already over,
I'm interested to stay in this universe, John! What is your next keeper? Next keeper,
it's gotta be Golden Kamui. Yes, that's one of the other shows, I was like, I need to listen to
our review of season four, and also watch the three OVAs to get a grasp on where we are in the story,
because I haven't watched them yet, and I don't remember everything, something, something pirates,
and Jack the Ripper, I'm like, okay, all right. Yeah, when they pick back up, I was like,
I was sort of able to get to that bookmark, and my head was like, great, they were in Saploro,
they were going to figure out how to decode the skins, Jack the Ripper is there, you may or may not
be Jack the Ripper, we're not sure, and Tsudumi and his gang are coming into town, and who,
and it's, things are getting tense, they're definitely coming up towards the end, that's for sure, but,
I just watched the third episode this morning, and I don't want to give too much weight, but,
holy, Jesus, dude, they're going nuts! I mean, they're always going nuts in that show, that's not really
a surprise! No, you'll understand when you watch, it's going crazy now, but, and I don't know what I
could say other than that, but I just, I didn't check out the OVA either, I want to go back and see
if there's anything that essentially is essential to fill in any blanks, but I'm surprised I was able
to sit down and be like, oh yeah, no, I kind of remember what was going on once we started rolling
with that, because they just were like, we're just going to keep moving, we're just going to keep going,
and I was like, all right, okay, yeah, I'm looking forward to it, obviously, we're obviously going to
review this, because going to come, we has been one of our favorite shows since it started,
and it's just such a wild ride, and I'm looking forward to it, I was just like, okay, I need to revisit
at least some of this, at least our summary of it, and our last review of the previous season,
and then watch the OVA, and then go to go, and that will happen, but yeah, I'm definitely looking
forward to it, and hey, always glad when we get to finish a show, and it looks like this, we
will be one of them, and I couldn't be happy that this is one of them, you know, it wasn't always
sure that we would get an full adoption of this, but apparently we are, so that's super cool,
so yeah, that's what I'm most glad about, I still lament that it doesn't stay with Geno studio,
because they definitely, like, the first season was tough, but then after that, they definitely show,
no, we have the talent to make a good show, and then I got hands off to Brains base, you know,
they've been doing a good job, there were a couple of shots in like the first episode of this season
that I was again, we're like, mmm, but on the whole, it still looked pretty good, so.
A good thing about Golden Kamu is it's so wacky that a bit of a like reduced animation quality level
is not necessarily killing the show because there's so much nonsense in it anyway, that like profits
from being incredibly funny, and that's also not needing to look like the big action fest that
it also is, right? And like I said, Geno's got really especially good with the action parts of the show,
but also I feel like especially the previous season with a battle, if I remember correctly,
with a battle on the ship and everything, like Brains base really did a good job with that,
and really exciting and impactful and everything, so yeah, it feels like this is the show
that makes studios better over time, like, evolve with Golden Kamu, like, it's really neat.
Golden Kamu makes all of us better, it's just, it really, truly does, we were the Golden Kamu,
we all along, yes. What do you guys next? Journal with which,
Ikoku Niki in Japanese, direct translated to diary of a strange land, which in context of the show
seems more fitting, so, journal with, journal with which is a weird translation choice there,
not to mention hard to say without twisting your tongue, but yeah, this is about a young girl,
15-year-old girl, called Asa, and her, whose parents get killed in an accident in the first episode,
and she gets taken in by her aunt, Makyo, the little sister of her mom,
well, Asa is kind of forced upon her by her grandma, I guess at first,
but Makyo also later in the first episode takes the initiative to take care of Asa,
in the face of everyone else in the family being disinterested, and like handing her around,
like, "Eh, I'm gonna take care of her, which is a very good and emotional scene."
But yeah, Makyo is a novelist and a slob, who is not taking particularly good care of her apartment
and herself, doesn't know the first thing about raising a child. Asa is a somewhat introverted girl,
but so is Makyo too, so they have some things in common more than they probably know,
and now these very different people have to learn to live together and understand each other and
to communicate in everything, and it's really neat as a beautiful OP. I didn't know anything about
the show, I didn't even know it was airing and then I participated in a trailer watch along
in the Discord channel, and this was definitely one of the shows that immediately stood out to me
in terms of story setup and in terms of character, constellation and everything, it's like,
"Oh, this looks super neat, comfy, a slice of life, and with two cool characters, and also
probably a bit of drama, and you know, working through things." Like, Asa doesn't know how to feel
about her parents death yet, she seems kind of low-key, neutral, maybe in shock. Like, Makyo tells her,
"It's okay to feel sad whenever she feels like she wants to be, like not when others tell her to be,
or expect her to be," and Asa is very happy about it because she doesn't know how to process and
feel about her parents death yet herself, and Makyo says herself doesn't feel sad at all. Apparently,
she didn't have a good relationship with her big sister, says she hated her actually.
She says she feels sorry for Asa though, so there's that, and Asa doesn't like,
like, angriot her for like, saying that about her mom or whatever, and Makyo recommends writing a
journal to Asa so she can better process and verbalize her feelings, and thus we have the title
of the show, and because, you know, Asa has a very vivid imagination, and she sees, so, you know,
whenever she looks at Makyo or has an interaction with her, she's like, imagine herself in a different,
like foreign land, like, for example, when she and Makyo and a friend of Makyo's eat dinner,
she imagines them herself as, like, this Oriental Bazaar, and she's like, like,
like, the art is a complete enigma to her. She like, she doesn't understand her.
She like has so many new experiences when, like, watching her and being like, oh, this so
adults can talk to each other, which, you know, like, Makyo has a very normal conversation between two
women with her friend, Nana, who she calls "Diego", because that's the last name, but she just calls
her very last name all the time, which is fun. And they have like, this really normal grown-up,
when talking to each other, and Asa is completely, like, flustered by this because she's like,
adults can actually talk like that to each other, which has a lot about the household where she grew up
in, like, or about her mom and how she interacted with her, maybe friends, maybe she didn't have any,
I don't know, but she, that I will be interested to find out how that actually came to be. But yeah,
she's like completely enamored and fascinated by her aunt and is like, okay, this is like,
this is really interesting. And first episode, really emotional at a certain point,
and really pulled at my heartstrings, and it already starts really strong, like, because Asa
is partially narrating the episode because she's writing in the diary, right? But also Makyo is
partially doing it, because she's a novelist, and there's like this great line when she, it's a small
apartment. It's not really made for two people, so Asa is sleeping in the same room that Makyo is
working in and writing her novel, and she's talking about how she types in the words and everything,
and then her final sentence is like, before she falls asleep, here I am alone sleeping next to the
throne of a queen from a strange land. These nights are my favorite. And it's very nice. Like,
they will immediately have like this, this underlying connection, you notice that, and you see
this fascination of Asa and like, having like this, this new world shown to her that she never knew
existed, and this is very strange person that she's never like seen apparently before in a way,
and like, it's really cool. Like, I like everything about this. I think it's just going to be
probably going to be super comfortable for it, but as like I said, also probably going to be a lot
of drama when the two characters have to work through her feelings. Like Asa is every time she
thinks about her parents' death, she imagines herself. She's like imagines herself being in this vast
desert completely alone, and nowhere to go and how to get out of it. And that of course is,
right, this is a metaphor for her being absolutely grieving and maybe partially also depressed and
everything. And trying to find a new way life. And Machu is probably going to help her with that
on the flip side of this. Asa is probably going to help Machu working through certain
unresolved feelings toward her big sister. So yeah, I am super interested to see where this goes.
It's super low key of course. You know, it's mostly dialogue driven everything, but the super
pretty show and nice music and everything. And yeah, I hold some, hold some, hold something to watch
after a stressful work day. Absolutely. And yes, absolutely looking forward to more of this.
So yeah, John, what do you have next? What about Trigun Stargaze? Yes, another show.
Another show is like, I want to rewatch Stampede first because even though I loved it, I know I
loved it. I memory hold pretty much all of the first season. I remember bits and pieces like,
ah, yeah, this would knife's happened and this and this and this and these were characters weren't,
these characters were new and so on. And Orange just fucking delivered on all fronts. But that's
also one of the reasons why I want to rewatch the first season because I feel like it has been long
enough that I can like, yeah, just gonna go back and marvel at these visuals again. And yeah,
so tell me about the first episode or episodes of Trigun Stargaze. Do they pick up in me?
Where they left off? What's going on? So it's been two and a half years since, since lost July.
And Millie or Meryl is on the search for Vash and Millie's here now. Millie's here now. Yeah,
I was very happy about this. They have a standoff in A-Bar, much like the original series.
So you remember what the show is all about. They're trying to get a snack and it gets shot up and
they got to take out the trash. So they are on the search for Vash when they catch a
hint that they might not where he is. And who should they literally run across, literally run
over in the middle of the desert? Well, Wolfwood. Yes, of course. And they sent him flying oops.
I really, really hope the if there is a romance between Millie and Wolfwood this time,
it's gonna go differently than it did in the original show.
I guess that remains to be seen, but there's also something going on in one of the colonies
that sort of crash landed on the planet. And one of the girls there, Jessica gets sent off to try
and see if she can find Vash as well. And she finds him, but he is like almost catatonic. All he's
doing is standing at this piano, playing one note over and over. And he was found by this
hulking huge dude who is like a cripple and he can only move around on his wheels. His name is
Hopperd, who's if you know some of the original, you might recognize that name.
And this sort of mirrors, I believe, a little bit of the story that was told in either the manga
or in Trigon Maximum, because Hopperd was caring for this blind woman in July. And then July got
nuked. So Hopperd not realizing that this person is Vash, then when he finds out who he is,
well, the grudge sort of starts to come out. And he says, listen, I am going to kill this girl
at sundown if you don't kill me, but we all know what Vash is like. So
and that sets off another standoff in the middle of the desert and a bunch of things happen there. And
you know, this is not, this is not as goofy in parts as the original show. So there's some,
have, there's, you know, some not so happy stuff that happens in there as well, but
it's an interesting twist on the story. Like I said, I think parts of it borrow from Maximum, but not
fully. So there are some reflections of it, but it's not, it's still its own retelling in certain ways.
And that's good, right? Like that doesn't like to strike from any of the source materials that they
borrowed from it still can live as its own thing. And, you know, it's not really interfering with that.
So it doesn't have to adhere to all the stuff that has come before it. It's just going to be a
neat remix. And the first season already pretty much felt like that. So that's just, I'm interested
to see what they do with the familiar characters and potentially with the new characters. Does it
still look as good as the first season did? Oh, yeah. Nice. Like it was, it took me off guard a
little bit because there were a couple of scenes at the beginning that were like traditional animation.
But then they started to get into the CG and I was like, okay, this is this is what I was expecting.
And it's, you know, it's orange doing orange. So it looks good. Nice. That's that's I'm looking for
what to that. Of course. So what else you got? Yes. Let's show we're probably both gonna watch
a fire force season three part two. Yeah, this apparently is the final season we're gonna get a
fire for us, which is wild to both of us. We already talked about that in our review of season three
part one because apparently they're like 88 chapters left at this point. I don't understand how
they're gonna cover that much. Unless they're like psyched. There's a movie as well. Maybe that, but also
it's super noticeable that they are hitting the fast forward button in these first two episodes.
It's like it, especially in the second one, it moves so fast and I looked a little bit into it
where it's like some of the stuff they left out apparently the the flashback stuff with Beni Maro and
his former captain or chief or whatever is is a lot longer in the manga. It's like two or three chapters
or whatever that flashback alone. And I feel that cut that down heavily, which of course kind of
tracks on the emotional impact. And this is what I was worried about when I heard like they're gonna
super stream-lighted and cover all this so quickly. I expect it to also a lot of this being fights
and that's why it's easy to cut it down, but you know, they're also cutting some of the some of the
stories stuff apparently and taking some of that out, which would see how it flows like the pacing
of the first season wasn't great. It partially felt way too slow and partially too fast. So maybe it's
a bit more even this time around and just fast in general. Though I'm happy to report at least
on comes to the first two episodes. The animation quality seems to be better again.
Yeah it does. Like the fight between Beni Maro and uh what was his name? The the the the the former chief
Hiibachi. That that looked really good. Also really interesting stuff they do with the background
there because it suddenly turns into this this classic Japanese painting style. Yeah I thought that
was cool with the water. Super cool. I love that one of the characters point out why does the water
look different? That's definitely something I would expect from David production. That's
certainly one of the things they like to do just inserting cool out their visual styles into their
shows that make them look very unique. So uh yeah this look I hope this is like this is a thing this
is gonna stay like on that baseline or get better which is one of the things I like hope for
and review the first season that the first part of the season where that we both were not happy with
and it was like maybe they're saving a lot of the you know the people who deliver the best
stuff like the key animators and stuff like that maybe they're all working on the finale of this
on the last couple of episodes so we get a big blow out that looks really good. It might be that
like the yeah I hadn't looked into the staff situation yet so I'm not sure but also it might turn out
that all of them just worked on fucking JoJo's because the first trailer for for uh Seabour Run look
really good when it comes in comparison to other JoJo shows so maybe they just move all their
A-team on that show. I don't know and that's gonna have a lot of episodes because that's a really long
arc in in the manga. I don't know if it's the longest but definitely one of the longest. So uh yeah
we'll see we'll see how it turns out. I don't know how many episodes this is gonna have. I didn't
look this up if it's like 12 or more. I'm seeing 13 here on live charts so. So yeah we'll see how we
feel by the end of it it might feel super rushed. There's some interesting things happening in
the first episode like I was partially wrong about this what I assumed happened at the end of the
first part. There's something else happened but also sound yeah that was kind of interesting
yeah. Have they explained that? Yes yes so uh I also expected them that some of the stuff that
they took that out like they skipped three months um um but apparently those also weren't in the manga.
The time skip was already in the manga so it's nothing they took out there apparently.
So interesting. I don't know where we go from this um but yeah it seems to look better but also
I'm gonna be careful with that because the first episode of the previous part also looked really good
and then it went down here from there so well but hey I yeah now we're almost done with this and even
if it doesn't and on a great note uh then that that's how it is but I'm still happy to have um
uh author in my life and uh of course is the only one who checks what's going on in this
within right everything. How is he the only one who knew and he didn't say anything?
Because he's a secret genius but also an idiot. Yeah like I'm just saying like Arthur,
Arthur, Arthur, I love you Arthur but come on come on. I mean he did say things they just didn't
understand him because he put it in his usual weird like way like he said it's general but it's
not general right yeah what are you supposed to do with that like if that's all you get it for me.
I guess but like shake some sense into the boy. Yeah yeah but yeah it's nice to see those two like
uh you know finding common ground and everything and they're you know actually being
yeah it was nice to see them not fighting for once and actually talking. Yeah what's cool
so I like the first two episodes of this I thought they were like a good return to form in the character
department and the stuff with Iris was interesting everything. Yeah yeah. The thing I'm most worried
about is that it's gonna feel so super rushed by the end uh and we're gonna skip out on a lot of
character development and interesting emotional moments and whatever and the fights gonna be kept
super short because the fight against he but she also felt pretty short even though it looked
really good like it felt like this should have been like an entire fight for one episode or whatever
and it was not even half an episode so it was by went by in super quick five minutes or something
like that so we're probably gonna get more of this and I would like to be the the final final fight
whatever it is Shinra against his brother or someone else or we'll see um Amaterasu who knows
to to look really cool but there's enough interesting mystery still going on with whatever what what
Shinra saw in his dream world or whatever and I mean just to find out what that is about so yeah
we're gonna keep watching and we're apparently are done in about now 11 episodes that are left
so interested to see where this goes John yeah what do you have next how about fake strange
fake yes uh guess what this is not one of the shows where it's like uh I this doesn't make any sense
because this starts us off with episode two because John when this episode one air literally
last year one year ago yes and before that we had like a prologue special called whispers of
was the destiny or something whispers of don't yes whispers of don which I think I've never even seen
I've only seen the first episode so yeah I mean type moon does some weird new years stuff every year
and the surprise last year in 2025 was we're gonna show you the first episode of fake strange
fakes so I was all jazz stuff I was like oh it's gonna be airing this season yeah and then they were
like now just the first episode and I'm just sitting here like what do you mean
what do you what are you talking about so we had to wait a full year and uh I definitely sat
down and rewatch the first episode because it's been a second and oh my good a one are hitting on
all cylinders with this show dude oh my god like I've seen comments on blue sky along the lines of
this show can possibly go this hard every episode right right it can't it can't like the first three
episodes were like okay you want sakuga just here here just eat it up eat it up
see for it it's delicious and I'm just like yes yes please father more I mean if they already
delivered the first episode last year and they've been working on that show nonstop since then
they took their time to make this look good so I yeah I'm all hyped for it I'm just I was just like hey
it doesn't make any sense to start this without revisiting at least the first episode but I'm also
probably gonna check out who's busy so I've done because I've never seen it and uh yeah I'm
definitely gonna do that absolutely looking forward to returning to the fate franchise because
it's been a while like I don't even remember when we reviewed um if it's not fate uh I'll limit it
what was this what was it called world fuck unlimited blade work no no no we didn't review no no no no
apocrypha no that came after that we reviewed another another one after that what was called I think
there was also based on the fight on the mobile a grand order a Babylonia Babylonia yeah
Babylonia in front there was the last one review uh we reviewed and I don't even know if that got new
movies or whatever but we rewatched the show I think there was um I think there was a movie of the
singularity that takes place before Babylonia which I don't understand why they released a after
Babylonia that makes no sense and I'm still salty about that how stupid they've been handling the FGO
anime adaptations but whenever friends say oh no that's fine it's like no no this doesn't make sense
you know a perspective of people who don't know the story so when we were watching it and like the
old man of the mountain comes out it's like well what is he doing here he was oh you mean he was
critical to one of the previous singularities explain that show that to us don't just be like oh
you have this understanding because we assume you know have you been playing the game for seven years
no I haven't yeah yeah it seems like it was made for people that actually are familiar with this
so but I guess fate stretch fake is something what is is it even based on it's based on a light
novel but it takes place along the same timeline I believe as apocrypha and um
waivers magical mystery adventure I can't remember the name of the show so waivers in their
gray is in their flatt is in there so we have a whole bunch of characters that we have seen before
and waiver itself was was that a sequel to zero what said in the same time I know there was a
slightly different I don't remember I believe it was like I'd have to sit down and look through it
but I believe there is a linear path from fate zero to fate stay night which then has its branches to
blade works heavens feel whatever they're great yeah same I have the blue rays that I haven't watched them
but I believe it has those branches but then whatever branches consider the quote unquote can
then I believe that leads into um wherever apocrypha and the case what was it called the case
fossil lord elmaloid yeah no I think I'm mixing up names with the case study of venetus maybe
but yeah I believe I believe there is a some sort
of linear path from zero to stay night to this as far as I understand because I as I think this takes
place after apocrypha um the grail war is now in the united states interesting and we're following
one of the main characters is this girl ayakasaggio who has basically been cursed by the
nine spurns to have to participate who has been forced to participate in the grail war in this
grail war that wasn't supposed to have a saber so it was supposed to be a false grail war but uh
guess what there is a saber all of a sudden oops so now it might actually be a true grail war
meanwhile waver is sitting back in the clock tower trying to figure out
what the actual heck is going on and uh flatt is a master now and he's like what are you doing
why did you become a master and one of the and one of the guys talked to him is like uh so I see
the student has learned from the teacher and he's like and we were like you know what you're right
you're right you're right you got me so there's some interesting stuff going on with this one
like the animation is incredible there's a we have suddenly a dead apostle who might be a master and
oh that's that is not okay by the church so if we have we have a battle priest coming out and he
might be one of the best characters in the show he's so awesome and and there's just a lot going
on with this and it looks so good and I am super jazzed for this I've been waiting a year for
probably closer to two years for this because uh whispers of dawn I think was a special that came out
it was like one random summer I want to make sure I have my timeline right yet it came out in
July of 2023 the first episode aired in January of 2025 and now we're getting the actual full story and
I've been actually ready for like a proper new story a new grail war so I I want more of it I
just want to see more of it because I just so much cool stuff going on with it sounds good
I am absolutely before I do it I want some faith takuga I'm gonna get on that as soon as I revisit the
first two each episode so yeah join in you soon so what else you got uh something you got as well
the second season of Frieden yes yes we both very much love the first one we're getting a much
shorter one apparently only 10 episodes this season which is like okay uh I don't know if that if it's
like only a one core or if it's just gonna be dead for that for the foreseeable future like
uh would see what happens there but yeah um just to back 29 years of the himalto's death I don't know if
that's exactly where we left off but I think so um I believe it is yeah yeah and it's just the first
episode was just the usual slice of lifey stuff the girl the the gang going on adventures a misadventures
like falling into a cave full of crystals that negate magic uh and uh have to run away from a monster
and you know since the the the two magical girls women uh can't use magic stock has to like grab them
and run really fast so yeah it's hey you know sometimes you gotta pick your battles yes like uh it's
you know got the usual good mix of humor uh especially on uh free inside of things like
her actually managing to get up early just to collect that stone that is worth a lot but blocks magic
so it's kind of worthless to them so and you know we got a bit of a cool character development um
uh you know with fern who is for the first time apparently since she can you know remember
completely like uh disconnected from magic when they fall into that cave and that scares her
because it makes it for really like alone and this empty void or whatever so um we have like some
neat interaction between fern and uh stark like bit of awkwardness which fear and interpret
interprets uh as like have a stark a stark having trouble with being in this party but you know
kind of results from him and fern actually carrying a lot for each other even if they aren't fully
really having fully realized that yet themselves so uh they got to work on that and uh work through that
but uh you know it's all good vibes again which is kind of what for you miss
we'll see if there is gonna be another more action focused arc in in this in these 10 episodes of
it's gonna stay more uh episodic um because the last season had two kind of kind of big action
focused arcs at a certain point that went on a bit longer especially the one with the magic exam
that kind of was the whole second part of that season and uh with C uh i'm super looking
forward to this madhouse giving it their all it's beautiful show as usual and um yeah uh was looking
this was one of the shows i was looking forward to the most this season and the first episode
delivered uh on the good stuff so i guess that's how you feel as well john oh yeah thank this in
fate were my big ones that i was looking forward to and uh samurai troopers a little bit so yeah
all right then that is that john do we have anything left yes you do probably the same one thing
that i do i'm pretty sure we're down to our final on that's jiu-tu kaisen the culling game yes part one
part one i didn't realize this was gonna be a split core until i saw that you know show up on
live charts so yeah uh it whatever helps map his production timeline so they don't run their
animators into the ground like with the shibuya incident who's yes because i did this already again
the first two episodes looked so crazy and they animated their butt off and i really hope that
isn't to be taken literally uh uh yeah i i don't like i get a lot of people like feel like a lot of people
are hating on the show no and i don't understand why like i think because as far as i understand i think
the um manga has wrapped in a lot of people were um about the ending which i don't know the details
of but i think a lot of people are probably looking back on it like well you know yeah that can always
happen like and we're we're not there yet i don't know how far the ahead the manga is and how much
more is left for the anime adaption but right now this is fun like the first two episodes especially
of this um where we get introduced to the youngest sibling in the zenning clan naoya and the show
makes it crystal clear in the first couple of seconds that he's the biggest asshole to show as to
offer so far so i can't wait to get the shit uh for him to get the shit beaten out of him hopefully
i mean chozo kind of does that in the first episode a second episode i guess but uh he already
gets a metaphorical kick in the teeth which made me very happy because as a fallout from last season
namely sataru being in prison sealed whatever uh when the current head of the zenning clan dies his
testament demands an old contract with uh tojiro fushi godo bifulfilt and mego me be made the head of the
clan um a position naoya expected to uh become his i clapped uh get fucked noya you piece of shit
our main character uji meanwhile working together with chozo who considers him his brother after
their fight in the second season uh are cleaning up tokyo trying to get rid of as many as the release
spirits as possible after the big up evil at the end of the previous season unaware that uji
losing the protection of sataru has led to him being blamed for everything and being sentenced to death now
and uh then naoya arrives to kill mego me and uji yuta who we have been waiting to appear again
after being introduced to him in juuzu kaisen zero arrives to kill uji ostensibly so we have a big
old battle royale on our hands and it's awesome um and their uh the first attack of naoya against
chozo and uji has produced this amazing meme uh yes he has fantastic very funny like because he
he just whips back his hair with his hand and at the same time punches chozo who's behind
it looks so funny but also awesome because it's really well animated it's so we've seen already a lot
of uh parodies of that and it's great um but yeah a lot of things are happening in the first two episodes
and regards to that we have this new status quond and we learn about the calling game which is uh who
the guy who is inhabiting the body of ghetto which we weren't really sure about in the previous
episode we now learn that uh or half learned that's his um uh wait what was his name uh blah blah blah blah blah blah
was it not actually something nori to shikamo nori to shikamo uh we get a different name for him this
uh the season as well kenjaku uh uh uh nt intends like he is gonna do this calling game like calling
everyone back to the academy and taking part in this shit with us apparently also kind of like this
betteroyal thing and you have to kill your opponent get a certain number of points otherwise your
abilities are gonna be taken away and by abilities taken away they mean death that wasn't super
clear to me like if if they just gonna be like sealed in a way of you can't be a saucer anymore and
are just a normal human being or if they're gonna be killed uh so well i don't know if you watch the
third episode yet but they meet with someone they meet with someone yeah tenton and they talk
all at length about the rules and the implication appears to be stripping someone of their
jujutsu abilities is death okay that sucks uh so there's no way out for for anyone and mego me asks
uji to come and also yuta i guess to come back and and chose us helping too uh and uh come back and
support him uh to get certain people out of it uh we also also have maki uh who is back with short
hair and a lot of scars uh which is awesome i mean that's like i appreciate the new wave of shonen
anime actually willing to permanently scar their protagonists like my hero academia and
this come to mind yeah it's not the only one that happens to you jutsu also scarts on him one piece does
this has to done this too plus certain scars are cool and sexy don't add me and uh so this this
was really nice like seeing her back and you know the show is still trying to convince me that they
actually killed off nobara i'm not buying it yet i don't want to buy it so we'll see where this
goes i hope she makes like like this dynamic surprise entry at a certain point uh so with
say that would be really cool because she was one of my favorite characters and they really killed
her off for good i'm gonna be very sad so but yes so she and uh that is kind of our team and the
tsukumo yuki tsukumo is wassato's teacher right yes yes she's kind of the leader on this team
and they're gonna infiltrate i guess jutsu academy and or or high jutsu high and gonna try either to win
this game or i don't know to sabotage it whatever each of them kind of have like also their own
agenda chosa wants to reclaim the remains of his killed brothers and there's some other things
that are going on so interesting to see how this shake uh shakes out like the third episode was
like this giant s exposition dump which could have been handled better uh what's a bit an elegant
it's like i was jesus christ there's so many rules in this fucking game and we learn i mean so many
whist this the energy works and and what they have to do and everything it's very gamified and at one
point i was like oh okay get on with it i get what you mean but it's kind of essential if you like to
get that out of the way at least they did that now rather than uh ten or eleven episodes and
yeah i hope we don't have fights where they stop mid fight and then just recapitulate some of these
basic rules and everything and it's like okay we already learned about this in the third episode just
i mean the rules are tientamount to the game so yeah clearly they're gonna be coming up again at some
yeah but i hope they don't get explained to us again during the fights i doubt that if that's they'd
go into such painstaking detail again so you know that but that was one of my holdups and some of the
action scenes in the second season which i loved uh a lot of people already hated on that season
mainly mostly because of the production issues on mapas side in terms of how they treated their
workers and a totally empathicized with that and agree with that but also apparently some people
didn't like the way the story went there and i don't agree with that i's we both had a lot of fun with
the second season and it looked super the most part super good and it was exciting a lot of twists and
turns and sad moments and awesome moments and everything great finale so uh i but that was one of the
things to us like why in the most awesome action moments you're stopping during the fight and have the
narrator explain to us what is happening even though it doesn't really matter like okay yes you can
explain exactly to us how the technique works and why that character was able to do this but also
you don't really need to because this this is just bullshit magic anyway and if the characters
character can do that they can just do that like i i can appreciate if they put a thought into like
if the creator of the manga put thought into certain mechanics and how it works and everything but
that never should like detract from the momentum of the action scenes so that was something i was
kind of like eh about in certain parts of of the second season but we'll see how the third season
shakes out and so far it looks really good the first time i saw didn't do a lot of explaining during
the action scenes which is balls to the wall wall in sane absolutely insane choreography and action
and violence and it was fucking awesome so um yeah looking forward to more to just a guy's definitely
and yeah i guess that's it for the sneak peek a lot of returning shows a lot of them i have to
revisit earlier material to get into the groove again and we're gonna talk about a lot of them
come next season but yeah this is also neat peek for this season we're gonna switch over to our
first review from fall season 2025
so uh after all of that good stuff we uh
we get to talk about one punch man yes like here we are again and of course this had to be the show we
review today because 10 years ago we started this little project by reviewing the legendary first
season of one punch man uh things have changed since then and as real life imitates art or vice versa
the expectations have been lowered and many disappointments had to be phased yeah so
we kind of pick up where it left off um for better or for worse like there's a lot of i think
wasn't there some like episode zero thing that and then in the first episode they had a lot of
just talking and recapping anyway so it was like then what what was the point of saving money i don't
know but again this is i mean we'll get to that uh but the problems in this season are not mainly the
budget which of course you know when switching from season one to season two and switching from
madhouse to jc jc staff that was the most prominent thing uh that stood out where it's like oh my god
this is not even remotely on the animation quality level of the first season which so like i'm
able i feel like i'm able to hand away for the second season oh at least a little bit yeah is the animation
quality not as strong yeah but it's still telling the story and it feels competent in doing it
so i'm able i'm willing to look at season two and be like okay so you know it was a little subpar
in the production side but we're we're still moving that platform and then a long comes this
and it's a lot of just sitting and talking and planning and trying to figure things out and
long panning shots with nothing going on and ugly production and just
what i thought the crux of this season was going to be was garo wrestling with his humanity or lack
there of question mark and i was like okay all right it's like yeah from the onset i was like well
it still has some legs this is still interesting to me because garo he doesn't want to be a human
but it's clear he doesn't want to be a monster either he wants to like he wants to like be free of this
system and do his own thing but everything around him is saying no you have to pick a role and shut up
and i thought that was you know a really cool idea and then we just kind of
forgot about it like three or four episodes in and it becomes this plan to like raid the monster
hideout and there's these two kids that are being held hostage one of them that
garo tries to save in the first couple episodes he still gets caught in because he's a dumb but at least
well-meaning kid and then the other brat that i absolutely hate oh yeah oh my god what god what
gahnma is the worst and i don't think the irony is lost on a lot of people because if you change
his name slightly it becomes a word of waga mama which translates to selfish i mean this show is
full of these these name jokes right that is one of the main points of humor of one punch man like
the names of a lot of these characters are ridiculous i didn't look into the actual like spelling like
in terms of congean everything of the names but i remember there like being a character that wasn't
that was called not goki but obviously was goki in second second season but he was then named go
katsu and maybe katsu spelled like back side or whatever like i don't know i'm not sure if that
was actually the case but there's so many names in this season where this is also like either it's a
pun or it's a really dumb joke or a parody on some superhero thing right that is familiar to us
so yeah that's definitely this is still in there that's still fun and that that is one of those cases
like you said yeah in this show still has a moment scattered here and there like that but
it's the writing is just not nearly as strong and i he and i know we try to talk things through but
it's tough to bury the lead with this season and giving a play by play of the episodes is just like
them them sitting around and talking and figuring things out and this is i understand you can't have
it be all action all the time but this just like pushes it so far let's do a broad overview just of
this what is happening overall go for it's the the monster and association that was i guess kind
already introduced in the previous season they want to i don't know eradicate all superheroes
whatever because there's a danger to them of things and main guy euro-gurus like leading the charge
i guess and then and they kind of want to recruit garrou who was introduced also in the previous
season is like this this anti hero poster child who is not really good guy but also not entirely
bad guy like an asshole with a heart of gold kind of thing and he has his own grudge again super
here is because of his childhood because he got bullied by people who were portrayed like playing
super hero and whatever and you know that kind of works it's effective stuff but it's not and
this is also where problems that's not what the season goes into like it's more completely
focused pretty much on the monster association plot like them trying to conspire to lure the heroes
into a trap the heroes making plans to infiltrate the the the monsters HQ garrou just being abducted
but a monster is trying to find this way out trying to save that one kid at the same time because he
made friends with it in a way or at least consider simmissible responsibility and then you know all
that kind of culminates in you know a couple of battles at the in the second half of of the season
and that could be interesting like i mean i guess a lot of people cite this as the main problem
all main character side am i it's not really a lot in the season like he's he's barely there he's
in like maybe three episodes yes he's there on the side and you know part of that already was the
same in previous two seasons right like a lot of the lower tier heroes and even main side characters
like genos um we're doing the main battles right and but even genos was barely there this season
is exactly that's also the big problem like we had a couple of main characters and were following them
and then dated the big fights and satama usually came at in at the end delivered his one punch
or did a little bit of evading and then delivered the punch and then the fight was over and his
storyline was most more about him finding out what he wanted to do with his life like finding out how
he defines what it means to be a hero what it means to be strong and you know there's some some
movement that was like put on that when he meets king one of the hero characters who turns out
to be like this giant phony and due to a lot of misunderstandings everyone thinks he's the strongest
hero like who wins all the fights he kind of kind of because he like was around when satama beat other
characters nobody knew that satama was doing is an assumed it was king and kin didn't wasn't like
confident enough to like tell them that that's not the case and every time his heart beats really fast
because he's super nervous everyone assumes that's his superpower the king engine
the king engine is revving up baby so funny like i love king i think he's he's a was but he's also like
has a good moral compass in a way and he tries to like he doesn't actively try to tell everyone that he's
that he's not what they think he is which is kind of him but also they constantly make the
wrong assumptions and that's not really his fault like he just doesn't tell them everything but
they also just jump to conclusions all the time and that's really funny that goes ten years in
this season and he's just trying to wiggle his way out of this and he's like one of satama's news
like supporters and everything and he's really happy around and the good thing about king is he actually
is able to give satama some some moral support some some guideline to or some some idea of what satama
supports with to do with this light because satama is really depressed because he doesn't find
doesn't know what to do anymore because he beats he doesn't have a challenge anymore and it's so far
he has defined being a hero aside from doing the right thing like saving people as being the strongest
there is and he now is so he has achieved that goal so he doesn't have really any goal in life anymore
and that kind of completely like paralyzes him and makes him depressed and like he doesn't know
how to proceed life and what to do and king is like okay here are the strongest but is that really
all there is to being a hero like is that really how you would like to define that and
aren't is there isn't there more to it and he gives a couple of bullet points like hey me maybe you
want to look for being that or improving that about yourself and that actually helps satama
and that is super interesting and I hope for them to go even more into that and satama trying to
find himself in the season trying to do a different approach is to being a hero aside from also
finding stronger enemies to be a beat and they don't really do that like aside from this interactions
with king and satama which are really like there is not really that in the season like for most
part like you said satama isn't even there there's some funny bits here and there where like
phubically or blizzard is trying to like recruit him into her like group all the time he absolutely
joined the phubuki crew no he does not care about that shit like at all he doesn't want to have
everyone hanging out at his apartment but that's just how things ended up as usual and it's super
fun like there's some fun scenes with her and satama at a restaurant and I left so hard at that
like I loved all these interactions I thought they were great the problem is there's not enough of
that in the season like like you said it's a barely three episodes maybe in total that we have
with in these with these character constellations and then satama at the end as usual arrives and
delivers the final punch to the strongest monster which is as anticlimactic to us as it is to him this
time because human there's one cool shot in that but aside from that it doesn't really like
looks super great which like the first season had and that's that's the problem like we want to follow
satama's road it doesn't have to be an action pack road but we want to find a follow his character
through like figuring out what he actually wants to do and then on the side of that which is nice
having all the other characters like genos like maybe blizzard like a roe in this regard like you know
like king coming into contact with him and then maybe that also changes something about their life
and I assume that will happen when satama and garo I mean they clash this season very short
and it goes as you expect but you know there's probably something more coming down the land because
I imagine garo will be going strong will get stronger and maybe they have a face of again we'll see
the problem is there's just not enough interesting stuff in there it's mostly focused on the monster
association all the mechanations of the monster association are so fucking box standard evil guys
gyrouki gyrouki is so poor he's so fun he's so and the funny thing is satama remarks on that right
like he when they talk about talk to each other he's like blah blah blah blah blah I've heard this
before or like I don't even know if he talks to gyrou or maybe garo is that and says like I hate people
like who sit at the top and talk about this shit yes that's garo who says that it's like to do all
the shit in the background or whatever and later when satama fights against orrochi is like oh god
yeah I deliver your villain speech I've heard this a million times get it over with and that's funny
I guess but that's also like if that is still in the show that's still a problem like you can point
that out and that can be funny but you still doing it like it's still in there and I agree with
satama and garo in regards to we have already heard these kind of speeches and these these scheming
and everything a million times and it doesn't really add anything super especially when it comes to
that anything super special or comedic in this season it's just you know aside from the name stuff
and everything and there's some funny bits in the individual fights I guess that are quirky
but you know all the stuff in the background and how it comes into play before the fight actually
happen and the characters come to clash is just super boring and not only on the monsters association
side of things also on the hero association like on the hero side of things because you mentioned
a john there's so much fucking talking about how they are gonna attempt to get into oh who is
where's the monster association out there in the city and what we're gonna do how do we get in there
and it's just a whole episode at least who we gonna send how we can infiltrate them
who cares no one gives a shit about that the viewer the viewer doesn't care the characters don't care
exactly like again it's the thing like your characters don't care why should we care like yes
this is a parody in a lot of aspects and it's fun pointing these tropes out when it comes to action
shows will come to show in action shows when it comes to superhero shows it's fun for a couple of
times to do that but then you need to do something else and get over that shit because this has already
been pointed out to us and we get the message now doing differently and they don't do that in the
season it's just just them talking about this shit and it just box down the pacing of the show
and that's not even a problem of the adaption because that shit is in the manga and that is a problem
that the manga has like the garou storyline the monster association storyline goes on way too long
it was a one of the big complaints as far as I've read up on it that people had when it came to the
adaption from the web to comic whatever to the revised tango-ban version that morata like did the
art for and everything and this especially this arc going on for way too long and way too little
of sight on my in it and that is already noticeable in this season the problem is we're not done with
this shit yet the way this goes apparently at least for the garou storyline we have two more seasons of
this two more seasons of this oh my god so we'll see I hope it moves on a bit faster after this but
apparently not it's probably gonna be 24 episodes until the garou storyline is finished and I hope
sight of our will be in more of that because we're now technically done with the monster
association stuff at least they're all done for so yeah I mean all that's up just to take out
giorou-goo and then what's gonna happen to their structure they're just gonna who cares yes that's
also like you know at iql-amactic because we get introduced to a lot of potentially cool monster
guys with cool powers and everything but you know a lot that's funny like a lot of them are just
like build up as these super dangerous you know monster guys and then they're just not only by
sight I'm not taking out in one punch but also by our other characters and you know that that kind
is funny too but also it's like okay I get it I get the joke so can we please move on and there's some
some moments in there in fights that look cool genuinely cool like JC stuff staff doing their
dungers to make parts of this look really good like they're definitely some a lot of parts where
you absolutely noticed the shortcuts like there were moments in this show and I don't think I
have consciously ever noticed this in any other show there were moments in this show where you hear
sound effects from stuff that was ostensibly on the storyboards but never got animated and the sound
effects are in there of additional punches of additional blast of whatever but they're not in the
actual show they're not in the actual scene you still hear them but they're not there
it's that I don't think I realized absolutely John there were like two or three scenes where
I noticed like what what is that sound effect what why is that in here that's not what's happening
on screen and it's like oh my god did they just did the character in the storyboards or in the manga
manga actually do more moves than this and they didn't have time to animate this oh yeah that's
absolutely what happened and it was crazy to me like you hear the sound like I said of a multi-it
combo but nothing like that is happening on screen and definitely some other stuff like that too
and it was like wow okay definitely some corners were cut here and definitely stuff was rushed
and they didn't have the time to finish this that is crazy maybe it will be on the blue ray
who knows but it definitely is on the tv version but aside from this shit from this obvious stuff and
some of the weird still frame shit like I wrote sliding down and it's still frame a hill oh my god
which has been mean to me that that I feel like they could fix that with one thing just put the
dust cloud under his feet and it would have actually implied that he was in motion but they didn't
do that there's so many other weird animation foibles like there's one scene where they're in the
meeting room just talking and if you it's not noticeable if you're watching it with the contrast
of the brightness turned down but if you turn up just a little bit too much you can see that they
probably meant for it to pan down further in the frame it was yeah as part of atomic samurai's top
knot is cut off in the frame yeah it's cut off yeah it's crazy there's there's so many we
there's some that I look at and I'm like okay maybe that's an animation here there's some
they look at and I'm like guys how much AI did you use yeah I want like is that confirmed that they
that they did that in in the season they're I don't think they're gonna out and say at this point
yeah they they already know how bad of a job they did is I think I believe one of the directors
was catching so much flack that they deactivated all of their social media so which
like a lot man so I'm gonna talk about the one of the fights they actually liked before I get mad at
the animation probably the fight right there when the action hits some of it doesn't even look that bad
the fight between child emperor and Phoenix man what a blowout oh my god that whole episode was
like teacher went so crazy with it like every time they thought he was down he was like um
back and it goes like one step further than you would have thought and that whole sequence was
insane and I was genuinely like okay this is the good stuff and then
god what else was there that was actually good not not all the fight between Garo like his
his short clash with with some of the monsters in episode three look good there was some nice
camera yeah that that was pretty good when he gets knocked out the first time right and
his his fight against pochi and pochi and rochi has some pretty neat shots and I guess the the like
aside from the kid emperor stuff the visually most impressive fight is probably flashy flash versus
two monster ninjas which is a really neat kinetic battle in like this big hall with like with stairs
and a lake and everything some good camera movement and choreography but even that one had some very
visible shortcuts like blast station staff are giving the absolute best but they just can't match
the president set by madhouse there definitely some moments where it's like you have this neat camera
movement and the UCG and everything to make it which with is a wise choice in that regard for the
environments to pen around but then they suddenly switched to just this basic 90s as speed line
background and it just looks so much less kinetic and interesting and it's like why did you do that
there's a still shot in there were honestly it looks like flashes neck was broken before they punched
up in on his face and it looked like normal um I mean the bit of the fight that we saw between
atomic samurai and she's christ what a name black sperm yeah that was also cool that had some cool
in there because like what is he going to do and all he knows how to do is cut thing with blade
against enemy that will infinitely multiply like there's something dynamic and cool to that
there were definitely some cool ones but but there also some really bad looking ones like when when
the low tier like the 80 heroes arrive who have partially cool gimmicks but all fighting against all
that cannon fodder monster monster cannon fodder that looks so bad like even though I like
me so key in particular yeah but I liked her sport gimmick but her fight just doesn't it does not
look good and did it was this obvious shortcut I think in the zombie man fight like where he and
the monsters walk behind the pillar and then they get killed there and you don't see anything it
just works out of that is like okay guys come on I want to talk about that part a little bit between
the fight between zombie man and vampire yeah because we're cutting between still shots of them
speaking to each other and their character designs are constantly changing the amount of damage
on zombie man's clothing is constantly changing whether or not there's blood on his face is changing
the amount of blood is changing in all of that sequence and there's other ones too as well like
with me sookie like there's one part where from one frame to the next the bandage on her face
disappears and it's just entirely gone there's another scene where it looks like she has three boobs
and I look at all these and like no it really looks like that okay and I'm just looking at it and I'm like
this has to be it has to be they threw this through AI and said here you go have a good time there's
a scene there's that one scene towards the end where cytama is walking up on orotii and it just
doesn't look right it looks like this that was spit out by a machine to a man it just doesn't look
right it looks completely inconsistent from all of the other shots surrounding it and I mean is that
possible when you have different people animating different things sure but there's they got to be
sending notes to one another and how to make things look and that just like stuck out like a
sore thumb I'm like no this isn't right this isn't right there's a whole bunch of this isn't right
and they tried to shortcut it by putting it through I don't know what AI does animation quote unquote
best but they clearly shows one and a let here you go animate our show yeah we don't this is how
we're spending the money that bandai namco gave us wow what a good use of resources and look
how great it turned out everybody hated this season dude yeah I know it's the lowest rated season on
mael for whatever that's worth but yeah I want I mean I wonder if we get more of this off of that
because like if you if you look at what is coming next in the manga we're gonna get two seasons more
of this and so I like also the leiciest thing that they could have possibly done oh what's the
key visual for season three part you put it in a mirror yeah that was so fun Jesus Jesus Christ
I'm just okay and I'm like okay all right so you just don't care yeah yeah it definitely feels like
like they were slacking off like they were just either they didn't have enough time because it
wasn't given to them by the production committee or they didn't have the skills or they didn't want
to I don't know what or if it's all three or whatever I can imagine the pressure or I can't imagine
the pressure but it's probably was probably there like the fan expectations and everything but also like
whatever they didn't work like there is some stuff in this season I liked I did not completely hate it
like there was some it was nice meeting certain characters again it was nice having the comedic bits
with sight on my they were good like they were fun like that that is this moment where um
like every time Blizzard Fubuki talks to him like his eyes glaze over and then genos
creator brings him some a great meat and he's just completely like hey I want to talk to you like
I'm all ears to what you have to say like Professor Kusano
rhyming him with meat oh my god that's so that's so good yes yes there's a lot of
stuff in there like the the second fight I think it's the second fight of of a zombie man against
the homeless guy where he lets him tell his entire origin story just to regenerate himself as much
as possible we were like really cool like cool trick and he's like fuck you finished too soon I'm not
done regenerating and you understand oh that's what you were doing while he letting him model
a log out oh okay I get so that was super fun I like these but there were definitely some good
beats at pieces there and some of the fight scenes looked actually decent for you know what J.C.
staff is able to do compared to what Madhouse was able to do with season one you know which is
almost not comparable but still like they they put the work in some scenes but just
huh the baseline is so low in this like it's there's so much aggravating shit especially
the pacing which is coming from the manga but also you probably could have sped up like do you need
the conversation of the heroes in that fucking in that room like does that need to be in there no
you can't just like one of the characters like one of the heroes say yeah we discussed this and
this is our team when we're gonna move off the monsters you saved like one or two episodes of this
shit like of bad pacing and maybe they wanted to stay as faithful as possible or maybe they were
like hey we need to have some episodes in here that did have barely any animation and then because
we are already like stretching our thel self thin over the couple of episodes that have action scenes
in them so we need more time or whatever I don't know but it definitely feels like that this is
like this shouldn't have been in here because like hey you're adapting it I'd rather you improve
upon the source material then being absolutely faithful like and this was one of the the situations
where they could have done that there's so many moments in this season where where I was yelling
cats right and they didn't do it they didn't do it like they didn't like speed it up in the moments
where they definitely could have like there's so many conversations among the monsters that didn't
need to be in there there's so many conversations among the heroes that didn't need into be in here
not even to have the some of the funny jokes in there like okay yeah we're missing out on some of
that stuff but the pacing would be so much better so that just not a good adaption in that regard
and sure I was happy to meet some of the hero characters again like puri puri prisoners I'm glad
he's back Tatsu maki is already always fun and Fubuki is fun and you know the two old guys and whatever
like there's so many fun characters but my favorites are barely in this like genos barely in this
sideama are made here are barely in this like again also fault of the manga material but even more so
reason to in the adaption get quicker to the parts of the story where they back and focus again
so why they didn't do that and why they didn't try to speed this shit up like fire force doing this
even though they don't have to right where we like both of us were like hey maybe we don't want
to skip out on all this stuff because we like the a lot of these characters and there is enough
action in there and so on but in this we don't get this it's so weird that they have the exact
opposite problem from one another man yes and like I said in the the previous part of fire force season
three had some moments where it went too slow and that was mainly in the fights where the fights
went on too long and all the interesting characters stuff that like it was cut short
and here we have kind of the opposite problem where they fights themselves kind of have a decent
pacing like they're not too long they're not too short most of them anyway and they're most of them
are animated well enough not all of them but at least half of them that you get a good time while
watching them but everything around it like everything around it is like a slog
aside from the few good sideama scenes and like hey you could have just skip that shit right you
could have just quickened that up you could just just take that out that would have been fine what
did you do that nope gotta be it gotta be 100% accurate to the manga yes so that is probably the
main problem like this is a storyline that is three times too long probably we'll see if we get
the rest of it which is not certain at this point considering how the third season was
like evaluated by the fan they say everyone who watched it so I don't even know maybe we'll have
another studio switch because the production committee is like oh we can't have this go on even though
they're probably the ones who cost all this in the first place because they didn't want to wait
for Matt house to have free slate for it again and I believe shingo not so much right to like he wanted
to do the second season but had other projects lined up first and because they didn't want to wait
for him to be available again they made made it change studios and I think I might be mistaken but
I think that's what happened I think this was on the production committee this is a side of things
like this switching from Matt house to JC staff and changing directors and everything so this is
on probably on them and also maybe now they be like okay maybe we'll switch it again to another
studio but that might also make it worse I don't fucking know I don't that would then be them admitting
to their fault and you can't do that yeah so as much as it would be nice to see it go back to
a more capable studio and I hate to say that because JC staff has shown the capacity to do good work
they even have shown it in this season partially there are like yes some moments where they do good work
the problem is it's all dragged down by the bad stuff so that's that's it's such a shame we
have so much fun with the first season like in our youthful innocent days 10 years ago oh my god
are youthful my youthful innocent days of 34 get back in my youth of 31 years of age Jesus
but you know and then season two was like and I was really really hoping that would not to be taken
down from what my part from what JC staff did in the second season everything but I really was hoping
that my part would did like that it after the second season was switched to another more like
powerhouse studio like my part which is where this show should be honestly this is absolutely
a show that my part so to like yes but my part also takes on so many projects so I take it then maybe
we wouldn't have gotten just a ties in my my part or health's paradise by my part or I don't know
what other other stuff they did in in between but hey one punch man would probably have worked
be worth it and I'm pretty sure whoever would have been responsible at my part would have been
able to quicken this this the pacing of the season up to a degree where it would have been more
entertaining and you know consumable and everything and JC staff just didn't do that they try to
stay apparently as faithful to the manga as possible which in this case was a is a real problem
because the manga's pacing is shit in this arc so I don't know how to get out of this like
I don't know if the manga's pacing gets better or does or the story does more interesting stuff in
the coming chapters when it will be probably focus more on Garo again and not on the monster association
stuff that might be interesting but also I've heard things that say differently and say just his
storyline is just not that interesting it doesn't support like three seasons of this uh that's
unfortunate because I was really interested in it yes I am as well like he you know the show's attempt
at discussing the anti hero trope through him is interesting but you know maybe that's not enough
like for the coming like two course if that is actually how long because maybe JC staff will be like
okay we were too faithful this season maybe we cut out some of the unnecessary blow for the next two
course could be the case maybe we'll only get one because of this and they're actually gonna
fasten up the pace might be the case we'll see maybe we won't get another season at all because
everyone hated this one it you know I mean season three quarter two is slated for next year but
I'm gonna wait and see who's handling the animation because if it's JC staffing and I don't think
I'm gonna watch it because I I don't want to put myself through this again man yeah that's the problem
like maybe it's time to close this chapter it would be a shame because again this is the show we started
with uh so I kind of have a nostalgic attachment to it uh it has yeah that's understandable right it's
like hey this is this especially at least the first season has a special place in my heart for
because of this and I'd love it to bits I think it's a fucking great season of action anime and I would
like to see how the story pence out but also maybe uh just I'm gonna read the manga if like the
if the animation in the anime adaptation of this story is not actually doing much to improve on
the still frames of the manga aside from having voice acting in it and everything uh then I can
might just as well just trying to read the manga and look at Morata's beautiful drawings and everything
and it will get quick through it quicker and um I will see we'll see we'll see what what what happens
with the next season and what JC staff does and maybe it will look better or maybe not uh and maybe
it won't happen it's wild to me that it took them this long since season two to deliver this with season three
like yeah maybe maybe the the card was so stacked like maybe they did they had so much else to do that's
why it took so long but they have them if they have been working on this show for that long and that's
how it looks and that's what it came out of it that's woof okay I mean it's not as like it's not
the smallest studio right no JC staff are they're not a small name they've been around forever yeah so
like when I was talking about orphan I went back and watched when they did the original adaptation and
yeah you talked about that I don't want to say they've always been like this but they've always
been like this yeah so it's why to me that that this show of the first season went to the studio I
still don't understand it there were so many other other options technically maybe these audacers
didn't want to do it or the production committee didn't want to wait uh because they were afraid
that the show would leave the side guys or whatever and they couldn't use to make money with the
franchise anymore if they waited too long which is understandable I'll say or the production
company committee didn't want to put in that amount of money sure that is also a valipossibility
and it would be the most um which is incredibly short-sighted but sure you do you it's like it's
like this this this approach of being hey you you're gonna eat that slop up no matter what we prepare
how we prepare it for you I was like no maybe for another one or two seasons but if you keep
delivering this kind of product then no there's so much other shit to watch and eventually you have
to say goodbye if you're not having a good time with the show like I said I didn't have a completely
bad time with this but this is not even stacking up to what happens in season two so it's like
this few good scenes the few good comedic bit with sata man the few good fights in this don't make up
for the bad shit that is going on in this season not even the great OP by jam project and baby metal
which is a powerful combo and the song power through the people is cool and
I was gonna in on the OP this time but you know even that didn't work for you it worked for me
and there are definitely some shortcuts also in this OP where it's like just this this this shot of
sata man with his cape and there's a clip show playing in his cape when I was like okay all right
like you know it's a fine song but you know when I think I'm one punch man I'm always gonna go back to
one punch yes like because the hero is such a strong song yes the first the first season is met
unmatched in all regards that that is crystal clear I just tried to fight things I liked about this
season john which is like is it an unfair meter stick maybe probably but just the same like
it exists like it's a part I mean they knew what they were getting into right like it's like yeah
you have the template and you have to to live with being measured up to that and if you can't
like what are you doing like yes it's your job and come on I I partially feel sorry for you if you did
your best but also what do you expect like do you expect after that phenomenal first season that
people would be just yeah but I'm also okay with this like no like if the first season didn't exist
in a way it does maybe you can think madhouse for screwing you over like yes yes well
again I got screwed over but it could production community or themselves and AI whatever so oh my god
maybe the the the maybe they're also the architects of their own like like I know it's easy to blame
stuff on AI in current climate but while looking at some of the stuff in this season man it was hard
for me to not be like no come on guys this this looks too much like it could be this
hmm yeah yep yep yep it's a bummer this could have been such an awesome show from beginning to end but
you know sadly it all went downhill after season one if you still want to watch it John is it on
crunchy roll I think it's on crunchy roll and hulu I'm not sure where else is but you can
obviously it's a big popular show for better or for worse so you you'll be able to find it yeah yes
if you want to if you're still just what it's chain yourself to this like we did for this season and I
don't know if I'll go back for the fourth one when it rolls around in in a year and maybe let's switch
studios maybe look better I don't know but also probably not and I don't know if I can go through
two more cores of this arc and not be bored out of my fucking mind so yeah it's it's a shame it's a
shame so much promise all of its quantity there's like this small glimmer of hope that it might get
better but it's fading quickly so yeah don't want to end and this this this first episode of the
season on such a bummer note but here we are hey but we're gonna talk about more fun things again in the
not too distant future yeah like I mean like I was seeing earlier I hate to I mean I was gonna say
I hate to be negative again so soon after wrenching rough on but we talked about Yaiba last time and
that was great Yaiba was great so I guess we were overdue for multiple just stinkers this time
so there's in there's other good stuff that we talked about that's airing this season and then
our one other episode this season was a show that I think but probably both enjoyed so we got
other good stuff to talk about at least yes and maybe hey maybe we'll be around long enough to see
this this adaption this story be redone by by more capable hands and hopefully that one will
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