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Hello and welcome to an all new episode of NMA Brain Freeze.

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We are your anniversary hosts.

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I am Jon.

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And I'm CC and when there's just too much cool anime to watch,

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we've got you covered.

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Winter is here, it's freezing outside.

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Jon is indulging in his favorite past time activity of shoveling snow.

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Get out of here with that.

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So let us warm your hearts with a couple of premieres from the new anime season in the sneak peak.

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And after that we will review the long awaited and dreaded third season of the former superhero mega hit,

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One Punch Man.

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But before all of that, there's a little bit of celebration in order.

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So bring the presents and party heads.

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Don't rush your production pipeline or that birthday cake might turn out to be a hollow mess.

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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,

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it will soon be or already have been our 10 year anniversary for a little show.

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Hooray!

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Happy birthday!

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Too weird, quick noise of party,

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favors horns, whatever.

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[Laughs]

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I don't know if I added them in there, but yeah.

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I'm honestly surprised we managed to keep it going that long, how about you?

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Uh, yeah, for sure.

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I mean, because there's...

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I'm not gonna lie to you.

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There's been some seasons and some shows where I just like...

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I don't know how much I realistically have to say, you know, this and whatnot, but,

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I mean, we managed to keep it going.

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And I think us doing the game stuff on the side every so often has given me some reason to keep talking.

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Because I do still like watching anime, but I just always loved playing

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games. That's what I got cat into really first and foremost, so, but, you know, I will still

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watch anime if it interests me.

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We didn't have much last season, but this season we'll get to that.

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Hooray!

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Yeah, we're gonna have so much, especially...

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We're gonna have a lot of shared shows to talk about next season,

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or whenever this...

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the shows that are premiering this season, or we turn this season,

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or finishing up. Some of them might be two course shows, I don't know, but...

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Yeah, there is one that I thought was a single core, and I was like,

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"How are they gonna do this in 12 episodes?" Turns out it's gonna be two course shows.

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Like, okay, so it'll have some time to breathe.

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I want that to be Fire Force Season, Final Season Part 2, but I know it isn't!

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Yeah, we'll get to that.

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But yeah, so, yeah, we're definitely... we're gonna have a lot more for you to...

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anime stuff, in the coming season, or the one after that for you.

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But also, game stuff, definitely.

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Like, speaking for myself, this is honestly the longest personal project I've ever stuck with.

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I dabbled a bit in YouTube, a bit of Twitch, a bit in game reviews, a bit in anime DVD reviews,

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but didn't stick with any of that very long.

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But this one is still tracking along, so...

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Yeah, man. I have wanted to get back into streaming, with our Beyond Twitch or YouTube, but I just...

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I don't know when I have the time game. I mean, the last time I streamed was two years ago,

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I think when Super Mario Bros. Wonder came out, so...

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It's been a second...

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Oh, it's a good news. You get around to it.

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No, I started playing with someone, and then...

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That we just didn't continue.

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Gotcha.

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I'll eventually... because it's like... I like the new or 2-D Mario games are such nice co-op games,

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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,

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so it's not always easy to coordinate that, whatever.

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So, maybe eventually, but I definitely want to play it, and also really play the

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"You Super Mario Bros. You" or whatever, but this isn't the gaming show! We're gonna...

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I mean, we're gonna talk about...

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We'll have one of those in a few weeks, maybe.

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Yes, but also, you know, Twitch stream... I totally get you, and for me, it's something else.

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I was, was interested in doing it, and I did it for a while, like,

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played through Resident Evil 6 on Twitch with one of our common friends,

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which was very fun. You were a guest on one of those episodes as well, but none of that stuff was...

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Was I?

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Yes, you were, I think, on during the Chris campaign, play through all of that.

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Oh, at least, Joe...

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Joe, Joe, Joe, how much that stuck with you?

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It's been so long.

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There's that, and I have been wanting to play the Resident Evil series for myself,

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because it's just been a blank spot for me.

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Like, I've played five, and I hated it, and I played Revelations, and I actually really enjoyed it,

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so I want to go back and play the ones that I haven't at some point.

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Well, if you hated five, you've got to absolutely have a horse six.

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Oh, no, I hear six... I hear six is the worst, and the lot so.

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We can talk about that more in the next episode, or three-press per second.

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That might be closer than everyone thinks, but yeah, getting back to the show that actually has the

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anniversary, counting this one. We've recorded 176 episodes, moving closer and closer to the big 2.00,

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and judging from our reviews page, we have reviewed over 300 shows at Movies John.

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Oh my god.

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Not too shabby for 10 years, I'd say.

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So, what's next for us? Well, so far, we don't have any real intention of stopping, as you just heard.

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This is still fun, but we might make a couple of further adjustments to which shows we do four reviews of,

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because John already elaborated on his thoughts, and why he has dialed back some of his full

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time or full length reviews. And it's kind of the same for me.

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Like, I wanted to start this project with John originally for two reasons.

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First, to keep my English language skills on a good conversational level, as it is not my native language,

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and you know how it is, if you don't use it, you lose it.

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I mean, you speak the language better than most natives, so...

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Thank you. That's very nice of you to say that.

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But I want to keep it that way if that is really true.

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If you feel that way, that's nice.

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So, that was definitely one of the reasons why I wanted to do this.

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And the second big reason, maybe bigger reason, to have a cool person to regularly talk about

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to about one of my hobbies. And therein lies the problem a bit, because when reviewing shows only one

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of us watched, we, especially, I tend to talk more at you, our audience, instead of having an

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actual conversation with John. And that is kind of not what I want to do anymore, at least not as much,

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so, unless I really want to talk about a new show because it completely grabbed me, and there's

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so much interesting details to talk about. Probably going to relegate most of the reviews for shows only

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I watched through the quick and the dead. I mean, we've already done that for continued or

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returning season reviews of shows only one of us watched mostly. But this is probably going to happen

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to a lot more of new shows as well. I also feel bad for making John deliver a normal review,

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a full length review for the new season of Renta Girlfriend or stuff like that, just so I'm not the only

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one reviewing something for one of our episodes. I mean, that's fair enough, but I don't think you'll

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be hearing me talk about Renta Girlfriend again. So that's healthier for you and probably for the audience.

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I don't know about me because I enjoy these reviews, like, I don't want to be negative all the time,

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which I mean, this is a little bit of that energy today, and I'm sorry, but I mean, that's why we got

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rid of the trash stash among other things, right? Because we want to focus on shows that we actually

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enjoyed most of the time, and we don't have any noaps anymore in this sneak peek neither.

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So, yeah, that's one of another reason. So, absolutely, I would like to focus on the shows that we both

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watched, you know, and that might just reduce the number of reviews in general, because, you know,

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when I check out a new show and you don't have a new show, you want to talk about then that's probably

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going to get relegated. Do the cooking and the dead? We'll see how this turns out. Nothing is

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set in stone. If there is room and enough interesting things, we feel passionately about in any show,

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only one of us watch, we're still going to do fullings for those as well, but expect us focusing

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more on the shows that both of us watch in the future of this project. That might drastically reduce

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the number of episodes depending on the turnout each season. Like I said, next season, we're going

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to have a lot to talk about, but this season we only have two shared reviews. So, it's going to only

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be two episodes of enemy brain freeze this season. So, how we will fill the left over time? Well,

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as you might or might not know, and John already talked about it, and I talked about it. We already

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have a new side project on the same channel called freeze frames per second when we talk about all

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things video games. So, that's definitely something we will do. And also, maybe if we feel like this,

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we will go back and review an older show. We either didn't get too in its original season or

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was released or that was released before we started this project. So, yeah, let's see. Either way,

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you're not going to be rid of us yet. I want to thank you, John, for tolerating my quirks and

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occasional flakiness in certain regards for such a long time and being a terrific co-host,

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doing cool reviews, whipping up the artwork for the episodes. That's a big help. And I'm looking

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forward to continue to talk about anime and games. So, I hope we get to do that for a while.

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Yeah, yeah, let's try and keep it going. And thank you. Thanks for having me. It's such an honor.

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That's about really thanks for having me on. We're doing this. And I want to back pedal a little bit

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because you said having someone cool on the show. Who? Who? Who? Who? Who said? Now, now.

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No, no self-deprecating humor in this section. And of course, also a big thanks to you, our listeners,

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especially the people who have stuck with us since the beginning or even if you just found us.

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I know we have a small core listenership. I don't know who most of you are because we don't really

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receive feedback of any kind whatsoever. So if you want to write us an email or leave us a nice

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comment or review on one of our episodes that would be awesome either way. I hope you'll keep

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sticking with us and I also hope we will be able to keep entertaining you, make you laugh,

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groan, scream at your headphones because it is agree with us all that good shit.

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So yeah, onto the next milestone, we go and with that being said, let's move on to the sneak peak.

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So yeah, sneak peak time only two maybe's for me and a whole lot of keepers, mostly because we

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have a butt load of returning shows this season. So yeah, I think I have more BBs than John. So I will

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start us off first of all as usual for new time listeners. We usually have three sections in this

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little thing where we talk about all the premieres that we checked out. The notes that maybe

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sent the keepers, so the notes are the shows that we checked out and decided no, we don't want to

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keep watching that because it sucks and we haven't had those for a while because we gotten better at

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or not as many anyway. Okay, the occasional one sneaks its way in there but usually we are

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pretty good these days to determine which shows we don't want to give the time of day.

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So I mean, it's very easy to go on live chart and filter out light novel and ezeka.

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Yes, that helps a lot. But yeah, then you know, we have the maybe shows that have potential,

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but also maybe we'll squander it and we're not quite sure about yet.

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Then the keepers shows that we are most certainly gonna keep on watching and finishing and maybe

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probably reviewing. So yeah, let's start with the maybe's and we're hitting it off with the doozy,

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John. The first show I talk about is Darwin incident. So John, what do you think is the real danger

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to society? Billionaires or Nazis? What is your best guess? Yes. Yes. Wrong. It's vegans.

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Okay, all right, go on. Expouse this ideology to me. I'm getting ahead of myself, but yeah,

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so this show starts off with an animal rights activist group breaking into a lab and freeing

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all the test animals, kind of like 28 weeks later, whatever, heralding bad things to come, I guess

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among those animals is a pregnant chimpanzee. Turns out her baby is a hybrid of a human

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and a chimpanzee, a human Z. And yes, that's what the show actually calls it.

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That baby is named Charlie and is brought up by a researcher, Dr. Bartstein and his wife Hannah.

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Of course, it's named Charlie, of course, shut up. I'm already.

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All this is apparently public knowledge, by the way, his existence published in newspapers and

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everything, kind of a short term celebrity and everything. The generic father is apparently

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a doctor, Dr. Grosman, who went missing after all this. And yeah, this series basically after this

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short prologue, very short prologue starts off with Charlie, who is about to start school. He's 15 years

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old. This show is set in 2020. And yeah, so Charlie, of course, immediately becomes a celebrity at a

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school, but this by the way, set in the US and somewhere in Missouri, although, you know, people seem

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to be more welcoming than expected at first. They're like kind of a bit apprehensive, but they're also

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not like immediately bullying him or something, at least not all of them. That's good, I guess.

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and injuring herself. And Lucy is really interested in how Charlie sees the world and vice versa.

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So they become friends quickly. And of course, there are also people not as welcoming at school,

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like the local jerk Aussie or his friend who seems to be generally scared by Charlie and his

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abilities and his alianness that seem to go beyond what chimpanzees and humans are capable of

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a separate species. So he apparently maybe got the best of both worlds in terms of genetics.

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combining the best of both worlds. And so there will be a, so there will be factions that are afraid

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if more human Zs exist, they might replace humans as the dominant species. And there's a lot of

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this going already on in the first two episodes. Yeah, now, up on learning that Charlie is vegan,

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which he is because his parents are not because he's in a chimpanzee. He's just his parents are vegan

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and to eat like adopted dead, but he's not necessarily like a verse to eating meat. He's just, you know,

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not doing that in a cafeteria, but immediately Aussie that the fucking bully dude is tries to do a

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and yet you participate in society curious to Charlie. Oh, God. And you know, gets more than he bargained

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for, like there's this great exchange, like he asked Charlie if a mouse carried a deadly disease

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and was about to bite you, would you shoot it? Like trying to prove that he's a hypocrite for

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being vegan, whatever. After all, vegans believe that all lives are equal. And Charlie reprised

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basically with yup. And if you carried that disease, I shoot you too because otherwise I die.

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of a fan of his design, like his face and eyes are weekly expressionless. Yeah, I just looked at a

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pic and it's like, yeah, and it doesn't make sense because neither the chimpanzees nor human faces

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are like that. Like both have very expression expression heavy features. So that's a weird design

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choice. I get, I guess it's to make him seem more alien, but the show should be able to convey this

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without rubbing the character of any way to express emotions with subtle gestures. So that's a

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bit of a weird choice, maybe due to story purpose and whatever, but it seems a bit like a cheap trick.

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And yeah, the best, best thing, quote unquote, is how fucking blunt, like pure bluntness on this

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fucking show, like the, the other big party in this or like the, the big, like important

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affection, this are of course the, the, the radical animal activists who like kicked all this into

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motion and are still working the background there. They're actually like, they caught the animal

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liberation alliance and they want to recruit Charlie into their war as it turns out. And they're,

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you know, portrayed as this dangerous fanatics and frankly idiots. So pido with guns. Yes,

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they bombed like a restaurant where where people can eat meat and a little girl gets killed.

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And you know, stuff that always happens in real life. And considering that Japan has a difficult

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relationship with organization that tried to stop them from hunting whales, for example, this feels

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like a rather one-sided hit piece. So like, okay, I don't, did the author grow up as the son of a

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fisherman. I don't want to make assumptions, but immediately it's like holy shit. This is so,

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I mean, he's probably an allegory, but you know, and you know, the police immediately suspect

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Charlie of being connected to the ALA as well. And again, this could also be a very, very unsuttle

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allegory about xenophobia and paranoia. But I worry that these kind of heavy topics are way

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beyond the creators' writing capabilities for me to take this show seriously. I mean, this could

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turn out to be a neat sci-fi story about the unusual friendship between Charlie and Lucy, right?

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Or it will become an absolutely misguided trash fire. I'm kind of interested in both.

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I'm currently expecting the latter. As the script already contains such gems as the line uttered

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by one of his classmates, Charlie is vegan, right? Does that mean he is linked to the terrorists?

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and when they talk about like what the terrorists are doing and everything, he's like immediately

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complaining about, hey, we're rendering to religious minorities all the time. So this is no surprise

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that this is happening. And we're not allowed to say Merry Christmas. And he would absolutely

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in the show. And they're like, oh, oh, my God. They're like, okay, the show is obviously portraying

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these characters as idiots and the bad guys because they're xenophobic assholes. But it's also like,

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I wonder if it's still trying in the back to have to make a point or be like, hey, they kind of got

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a point. So I don't know how to feel about this yet. This is so fucking wild. It's like, John,

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I'm getting major Babylon vibes from this. Do you remember that show? Oh, no.

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That started out like I just woke up like a sleeper cell when you said that name.

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As like, I watched the first episode, a couple of minutes of the first episode. This is really

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interesting. And oh, this could be a cool, nice sci-fi fantasy, you know, with a bit of political

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intrigue and everything and mystery and, you know, conspiracy and stuff. And then the second episode

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said, and all this crazy bullshit with the vegans and everyone like in social media, social media

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correlating vegans with terrorists. And like, yes, thanks now, an incident for finally, finally,

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telling us about the real danger to society. It was about time. So absolutely unhinged. Absolutely.

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Yes, yes. This is the most unhinged premiere I've seen this, this season. And that is saying a lot

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because we got a lot of other crazy shit in here too. So I don't know what is gonna happen with

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this. I'm gonna continue this or if it gets too stupid for me, but right now I'm thoroughly

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entertained by all the nonsense happening on screen. And I'll just define out if this shows

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I got to have a point or if it's just gonna be Charlie actually in his way through this entire show.

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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.

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So yeah, I talk already longer about this than I expected, but yes, it's a crazy show. So if we

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want to go along for the ride, each dear listeners, maybe check out how it is so that it's crazy.

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All right, John, what is your first and I guess only maybe?

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So back in my youth, there's this one show that I enjoyed watching TV. I've got to

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remember how many years after it got released in the US, it didn't Japan, but it was a decent amount

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of time. Maybe you're familiar with a little show called Ronin Warriors. I've heard the name. Yes, so

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that was originally a show called Yoroi Den samurai troopers from 1988. So it's been around for a

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minute. And suddenly the sunrise comes out of nowhere and says, hey, how about a new one? And they just

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said, all of a sudden drop, Yoroi, Yoroi seemed in samurai troopers on us and boy, uh, so the original

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was thoroughly like disgustingly beautifully 80s. This one comes out and it feels like it's a show

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from that early ought. It's like bloody and violent from the jump. And I guess it sort of explains

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a way pretty quickly why when gates to the demon world start appearing, there's no humans around

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suddenly because in the original like, there's no people around. Well, where did they go?

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Mm-hmm. Who knows? They're just gone. Okay. And here they kill them all.

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And here it's just they appear and start cutting, slashing, dismembering and it's very, very violent

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right from the jump. I have to read it. They don't, they don't waste a single second. And that's why I

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was sort of like mebi on this because I love Ronin warriors. I think it's still kind of a weird

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different. I don't know if I've talked with you or anyone else about my feelings on the name change.

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So the original show is samurai troopers where the dub called it Ronin warriors.

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Or Ronin, I believe, is supposed to be a samurai who has lost their master or doesn't answer to

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anyone, which I feel like kind of fits better in terms of name compared to the original because they

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are just kind of like this low, not really the one wolf, this like team that really only answers to

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each other. And they don't have their own master as it were. So. You're one or the old one.

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Well, now in the new one, they have to enter to the government. Yes.

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Because they were like, hey, well, what if the demons come back? Well, we need a government

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faction that we're going to call these samurai troopers to go after them. And well,

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Talpa, Arago, whatever name you want to choose is long dead. But here comes the totally distinct

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emperor Ramaga. And you start sickening his, he's got like 10 or 12 demon bosses,

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the sense of it, which is weird. Considering you know, original, it was only like four or five.

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I mean, you got to stick out real. You're fucking lines like your, your ranks.

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I guess the first time. So I guess he said, well, we got to put more people on this, which fair. But

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then when one of the demon lords is immediately felled and he's, uh, they attempt to bring him on to

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the side of the samurai troopers when he's like, yeah, Ramaga is my dad. And I wanted to take him

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down anyway. And it's like, Oh, this is, there's the edge. Yes, but there it is. That's a neat little twist,

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right? Like, I mean, it is. Yeah, it's, it's a little more interesting than in the original where

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main guy, Rio was just like, I'm going to defeat the emperor. This is the 80s. Look how beautiful my

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hair is. And you know what? I love the original show for that. And I, God, I haven't gone back and

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rewatched it, but it was one of the last things I bought from right stuff before crunchy roll,

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Raymond ate them up. So I've got it on blu-ray around here somewhere. Interesting, but, but yes, as

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far as I know, we never got this over here. So I have no familiar with this whatsoever. So I went

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and completely blind. And what's it? That's surprising. Actually, I thought it was a bit more widely

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available. Apparently not. Uh, like I said, no, didn't ring a bell on, you know, I heard the name

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because I was aware of this aired in the US, but I don't think I've ever seen it over here or

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come over here or whatever. So it was really interesting to me. It feels very, you know,

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super-centi, uh, Toku-san, so, uh, right? And, uh, you know, it definitely has that vibe to it. Yeah.

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And, you know, but, but the, the twist of guy being the prince of the demons, I guess, is, is,

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is pretty neat, is pretty unusual, I guess. And also, uh, him basically being stuck in the 80s,

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like, uh, because since the portal to the demon world were closed and it was open the last time in 88,

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with the show keeps that like, in sick place, like, okay, the last time this happened was in 88.

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This is an actual sequel. And, you know, all this time has passed. And now it's back, but the demons

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are stuck in the fucking 80s. So they still, they're in the 80s. Jay pop. In the 80s. Jay pop and

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Jay rock. They still use VHS. Uh, they apparently have, it's right. Yes. They still, they probably have

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rock concerts in the demon world, which is also awesome. We had this information about, uh,

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parts of the demon world rituals. Someone taped over it, though. I think that, that was the most

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important part. The humor in the show is kind of of kilter and fun. Like, I didn't expect it to be

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that kind of, uh, I like the jokes are really good. Like, for me, apart from your standard stuff, but

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I liked it. I liked the banter. I'm not super sure about if the episodes will be varied enough

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yet because of all of this has been set up, right? In the first two episodes. And we just got our team

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together because the first samurai trooper team, we have, I mean, the old one is not around anymore

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because it's been a while. I mean, but, but there's still posters everywhere. They're like, hey, do you

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remember? Yes. And then remember. And I'm sitting here. Yes. I do. Okay. Yes. And they have these, these,

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these poster boys that are actually assholes and only in it for the money and, you know, they get

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there. Come up. And so, uh, yeah, it's, it's, it's fun. And I'm interested to see where this goes,

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at least for one or two more episodes. I just wonder if it's going to be like a monster of the

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week show, which I assumed the old one mostly was. It kind of was, but then there were some, uh,

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twists and turns in there that made it a bit more interesting towards the middle and the end. So,

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like, uh, this is the show I was talking about. I was like, well, if this is going to be 12 episodes

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than Jesus, but it is going to be two cores, where the original, I think was like, it was like,

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30, eight or 40 episodes. It was a weird number, but it had a bit longer of a run. So,

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they had enough time to be like, well, I don't want to give it away. You should ever want to go back

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and watch, but it's like, this happened, but then this happened in an, oh, this happened. There's

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a lot of things that go on. So it's a neat watch, at least. Interesting. So, yeah, I'm definitely

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interested to hear your thoughts on it when else, when it's done and how it stacks up, uh,

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compared to the ultra and everything. I don't know if I'll stick with it till the end, but I'm

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definitely going to check out a couple more episodes and see how I feel about it because it's

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interesting. I'm not super happy with the artwork and designs and everything. Uh, but I find it

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interesting the way the characters pop off the backgrounds. Yes. Like almost like they're

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not like cel-shaded, like, you know, you would see in like a game, but just the how brightly colored they

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are in the outlines are a lot thicker compared to like a lot of other shows I've seen was I don't

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dislike it, but it's definitely different compared to a lot of other stuff you see. Yes. Uh, I'll see,

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so far the animation, uh, definitely holds up like Sunrise is putting the work in, uh,

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with see how this pans out over 24 episodes or whatever and, uh, yeah, it's it's it's definitely

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interesting and kind of a really come back to life. So yeah, yeah, uh, cool. So since that's, that was

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or also my second maybe, so we're done with the babies and we're moving over to the keepers and

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first of getting that out of the way, uh, there are a couple of keepers that haven't aired yet.

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The second see for me, the second season of Metalist, it's coming up next week and time we're

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recording this. Um, the second part of the final season of Beastars is also coming up and of course

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the big one, Jojo's bizarre adventures, you were on a schedule to start airing in the middle or end of

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March. Um, oh god, I didn't realize Beastars was coming. I still haven't watched the first half. Uh,

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yeah, well, me neither, but I wanted to keep that until the second part is out and just have all of it,

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and not have to rewatch the, the, the first part again, uh, yeah, fair because I still remember what

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happened season one and two because I watched both of these twice, but uh, the third one, I was like,

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okay, I'm just gonna wait until the second part is out and then we can talk about both parts and

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the construction. So, uh, but we have time and whenever that is coming around, we can get to it.

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But yeah, those haven't aired yet, um, but those will definitely get reviews. Um, so we're going to

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talk about it eventually, but yeah, let's talk about the shows that have aired. Um, and there's

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gonna be, I'm gonna start us off with, uh, the first show, uh, which is the second season of Hell's Paradise.

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Um, a lot of returning show this and I will say to this, what I will say about a lot of the returning

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shows the season is I need to rewatch season one, uh, like I barely remember what happened in the

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previous season that is not saying any of these, uh, shows were not memorable. It just means it's been

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too long. I watched too many shows and the long-term memory space on my mental hard drive has become

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very sparse. So that's why I feel like, okay, it doesn't make much sense to watch the first episode

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of that because I will be constantly, uh, like, who was that again? What, what happened last year? Where were

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we? And I like watched five minutes of this and was like, no, that doesn't make sense. I'm gonna rewatch

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the first season, uh, or listen to my review of the first season to get caught up again or read a

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summary or whatever. But, uh, this, uh, I, it's a keeper. I'm gonna watch this. I remember really liking

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the first season of this. So that's definitely gonna continue and it's a Mapa thing. So it looks good.

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So definitely gonna get back to that and probably do at least a quick review of this. And, uh, yeah,

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but I'm, you, you're gonna hear me repeat that sentence of, I have to rewatch this and that a lot.

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During this section, John, what is your first keeper?

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Oshino Kou is back season three. Um, so this takes place about, I guess six months, uh, after

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the end of the previous season, uh, things are going a little, maybe not so good with, uh, between

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Memcho, Kana and Ruby has Kana and Ruby are sort of like, it's not clear if they're super into what

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they're doing, but they definitely have their ulterior motives. And Kana is a little sad because,

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Aqua started dating this other actress that she had a rivalry with. So, you know,

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it's a little rough for her. But, uh, Bikomachi, yeah, Bikomachi has, they have their problems as a group

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and as individuals, but, you know, this just moving forward with the good ol' show business as it were.

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It still looks great, you know, they're not sure how they're going to continue to, how they're going

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to resolve some threads they opened up last time as they closed up a couple.

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Did they already close up the, you know, the set up of the murder mystery or is that still in the

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background? Yes, but, okay. So, there's still, okay, yes. Because Aqua kind of got his closure,

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but now Ruby is like, doesn't have hers. Okay. So, the lens has shifted a little bit to the,

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it has shifted a little bit to the right. So, interesting. But, yeah. I didn't think I'd be into this show,

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just to have, yeah, it's such a weird set up to begin with, but the characters are interesting enough,

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so definitely get to keep going with it. Nice. So, what you got next?

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Another returning show, My Hero Academia, Visual Antise, Season 2. Now that MHA proper is over,

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I will talk about that in the quick-inter that in the next episode. Well, almost, we're still getting

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an apologue episode. I'm very glad that I don't have to leave that universe behind yet. I can spend

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a little more time in it, and we're just picking up immediately where we left off last season,

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like the heroes, not our main characters, but the heroes, faction, society, whatever, are still trying

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to find the main distributor for trigger. The drug that makes cookies is stronger, but also

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more violent, and/or has them to go berserk. On an aside-line of this, our vigilante troop,

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mainly currently focusing on popstep and...

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Coetry. Nakoldas has not been in the first two episodes yet, but they are doing their own thing.

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Popstep started doing that idol group thing, supporting the community, and they're doing a gig at,

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I don't know, at the job fair or whatever, and if something else, like advertisement fair,

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like some kind of thing, some kind of presentation of new products and whatever, and she's like the

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promoter for that, and then shit goes, "Hey, why?" because at the same time, the heroes are investigating

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one of the shipments leading to that venue, and apparently there's some trigger being hidden in

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certain boxes, and then they find a new villain, and who is responsible for this, and he can

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slow down time, or completely stop it, which is a very cool scene. We haven't gotten

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this name yet, I think, but when he uses his quirk, that looks very, very, very cool and scary.

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We also have a new hero character. The self-describe police babe, Monica Kaniyashiki,

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who can cut things with her fingers, like a crap, and yeah, so this is, you know, there's a lot of fun to

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be had in the first two episodes, pretty low-key, like the first season of vigilantes world, it's not

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like this big overarching superhero story with, you know, the students on the one side, and all for one

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faction on the other side and everything, like fate of the world is at stake in whatever, it's just

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low stakes, very small main cast, and that's nice. It's nice to have this kind of story in this universe,

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and this being a prequel brings, of course, some problems with it, as in some characters are just

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safe, right? You know that they will get out of whatever peril they are put in unscathed, because

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they're in my hero academia prime, so they have to focus, if they want to like build some tension,

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they have to put characters in peril that are new to this show, so that's also happening in this episode,

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so, but yeah, I'm interested, I really like the main cast of this, I like popstep, I like Koichi,

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I like, and not knuckle dust, and hope he returns soon. So yeah, I'm just in this, like more,

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more superhero stuff, and it's well animated, of course, because it's bones and Kool-Op, everything,

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and yeah, definitely gonna keep on watching my hero academia, even if the main show is already over,

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I'm interested to stay in this universe, John! What is your next keeper? Next keeper,

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it's gotta be Golden Kamui. Yes, that's one of the other shows, I was like, I need to listen to

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our review of season four, and also watch the three OVAs to get a grasp on where we are in the story,

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because I haven't watched them yet, and I don't remember everything, something, something pirates,

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and Jack the Ripper, I'm like, okay, all right. Yeah, when they pick back up, I was like,

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I was sort of able to get to that bookmark, and my head was like, great, they were in Saploro,

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they were going to figure out how to decode the skins, Jack the Ripper is there, you may or may not

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be Jack the Ripper, we're not sure, and Tsudumi and his gang are coming into town, and who,

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and it's, things are getting tense, they're definitely coming up towards the end, that's for sure, but,

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I just watched the third episode this morning, and I don't want to give too much weight, but,

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holy, Jesus, dude, they're going nuts! I mean, they're always going nuts in that show, that's not really

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a surprise! No, you'll understand when you watch, it's going crazy now, but, and I don't know what I

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could say other than that, but I just, I didn't check out the OVA either, I want to go back and see

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if there's anything that essentially is essential to fill in any blanks, but I'm surprised I was able

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to sit down and be like, oh yeah, no, I kind of remember what was going on once we started rolling

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with that, because they just were like, we're just going to keep moving, we're just going to keep going,

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and I was like, all right, okay, yeah, I'm looking forward to it, obviously, we're obviously going to

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review this, because going to come, we has been one of our favorite shows since it started,

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and it's just such a wild ride, and I'm looking forward to it, I was just like, okay, I need to revisit

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at least some of this, at least our summary of it, and our last review of the previous season,

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and then watch the OVA, and then go to go, and that will happen, but yeah, I'm definitely looking

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forward to it, and hey, always glad when we get to finish a show, and it looks like this, we

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will be one of them, and I couldn't be happy that this is one of them, you know, it wasn't always

428
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sure that we would get an full adoption of this, but apparently we are, so that's super cool,

429
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so yeah, that's what I'm most glad about, I still lament that it doesn't stay with Geno studio,

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because they definitely, like, the first season was tough, but then after that, they definitely show,

431
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no, we have the talent to make a good show, and then I got hands off to Brains base, you know,

432
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they've been doing a good job, there were a couple of shots in like the first episode of this season

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that I was again, we're like, mmm, but on the whole, it still looked pretty good, so.

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A good thing about Golden Kamu is it's so wacky that a bit of a like reduced animation quality level

435
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is not necessarily killing the show because there's so much nonsense in it anyway, that like profits

436
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from being incredibly funny, and that's also not needing to look like the big action fest that

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it also is, right? And like I said, Geno's got really especially good with the action parts of the show,

438
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but also I feel like especially the previous season with a battle, if I remember correctly,

439
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with a battle on the ship and everything, like Brains base really did a good job with that,

440
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and really exciting and impactful and everything, so yeah, it feels like this is the show

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that makes studios better over time, like, evolve with Golden Kamu, like, it's really neat.

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Golden Kamu makes all of us better, it's just, it really, truly does, we were the Golden Kamu,

443
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we all along, yes. What do you guys next? Journal with which,

444
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Ikoku Niki in Japanese, direct translated to diary of a strange land, which in context of the show

445
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seems more fitting, so, journal with, journal with which is a weird translation choice there,

446
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not to mention hard to say without twisting your tongue, but yeah, this is about a young girl,

447
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15-year-old girl, called Asa, and her, whose parents get killed in an accident in the first episode,

448
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and she gets taken in by her aunt, Makyo, the little sister of her mom,

449
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well, Asa is kind of forced upon her by her grandma, I guess at first,

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but Makyo also later in the first episode takes the initiative to take care of Asa,

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in the face of everyone else in the family being disinterested, and like handing her around,

452
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like, "Eh, I'm gonna take care of her, which is a very good and emotional scene."

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But yeah, Makyo is a novelist and a slob, who is not taking particularly good care of her apartment

454
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and herself, doesn't know the first thing about raising a child. Asa is a somewhat introverted girl,

455
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but so is Makyo too, so they have some things in common more than they probably know,

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and now these very different people have to learn to live together and understand each other and

457
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to communicate in everything, and it's really neat as a beautiful OP. I didn't know anything about

458
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the show, I didn't even know it was airing and then I participated in a trailer watch along

459
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in the Discord channel, and this was definitely one of the shows that immediately stood out to me

460
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in terms of story setup and in terms of character, constellation and everything, it's like,

461
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"Oh, this looks super neat, comfy, a slice of life, and with two cool characters, and also

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probably a bit of drama, and you know, working through things." Like, Asa doesn't know how to feel

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about her parents death yet, she seems kind of low-key, neutral, maybe in shock. Like, Makyo tells her,

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"It's okay to feel sad whenever she feels like she wants to be, like not when others tell her to be,

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or expect her to be," and Asa is very happy about it because she doesn't know how to process and

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feel about her parents death yet herself, and Makyo says herself doesn't feel sad at all. Apparently,

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she didn't have a good relationship with her big sister, says she hated her actually.

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She says she feels sorry for Asa though, so there's that, and Asa doesn't like,

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like, angriot her for like, saying that about her mom or whatever, and Makyo recommends writing a

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journal to Asa so she can better process and verbalize her feelings, and thus we have the title

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of the show, and because, you know, Asa has a very vivid imagination, and she sees, so, you know,

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whenever she looks at Makyo or has an interaction with her, she's like, imagine herself in a different,

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like foreign land, like, for example, when she and Makyo and a friend of Makyo's eat dinner,

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she imagines them herself as, like, this Oriental Bazaar, and she's like, like,

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like, the art is a complete enigma to her. She like, she doesn't understand her.

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She like has so many new experiences when, like, watching her and being like, oh, this so

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adults can talk to each other, which, you know, like, Makyo has a very normal conversation between two

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women with her friend, Nana, who she calls "Diego", because that's the last name, but she just calls

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her very last name all the time, which is fun. And they have like, this really normal grown-up,

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when talking to each other, and Asa is completely, like, flustered by this because she's like,

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adults can actually talk like that to each other, which has a lot about the household where she grew up

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in, like, or about her mom and how she interacted with her, maybe friends, maybe she didn't have any,

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I don't know, but she, that I will be interested to find out how that actually came to be. But yeah,

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she's like completely enamored and fascinated by her aunt and is like, okay, this is like,

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this is really interesting. And first episode, really emotional at a certain point,

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and really pulled at my heartstrings, and it already starts really strong, like, because Asa

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is partially narrating the episode because she's writing in the diary, right? But also Makyo is

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partially doing it, because she's a novelist, and there's like this great line when she, it's a small

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apartment. It's not really made for two people, so Asa is sleeping in the same room that Makyo is

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working in and writing her novel, and she's talking about how she types in the words and everything,

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and then her final sentence is like, before she falls asleep, here I am alone sleeping next to the

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throne of a queen from a strange land. These nights are my favorite. And it's very nice. Like,

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they will immediately have like this, this underlying connection, you notice that, and you see

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this fascination of Asa and like, having like this, this new world shown to her that she never knew

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existed, and this is very strange person that she's never like seen apparently before in a way,

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and like, it's really cool. Like, I like everything about this. I think it's just going to be

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probably going to be super comfortable for it, but as like I said, also probably going to be a lot

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of drama when the two characters have to work through her feelings. Like Asa is every time she

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thinks about her parents' death, she imagines herself. She's like imagines herself being in this vast

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desert completely alone, and nowhere to go and how to get out of it. And that of course is,

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right, this is a metaphor for her being absolutely grieving and maybe partially also depressed and

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everything. And trying to find a new way life. And Machu is probably going to help her with that

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on the flip side of this. Asa is probably going to help Machu working through certain

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unresolved feelings toward her big sister. So yeah, I am super interested to see where this goes.

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It's super low key of course. You know, it's mostly dialogue driven everything, but the super

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pretty show and nice music and everything. And yeah, I hold some, hold some, hold something to watch

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after a stressful work day. Absolutely. And yes, absolutely looking forward to more of this.

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00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:25,120
So yeah, John, what do you have next? What about Trigun Stargaze? Yes, another show.

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Another show is like, I want to rewatch Stampede first because even though I loved it, I know I

510
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loved it. I memory hold pretty much all of the first season. I remember bits and pieces like,

511
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ah, yeah, this would knife's happened and this and this and this and these were characters weren't,

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these characters were new and so on. And Orange just fucking delivered on all fronts. But that's

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also one of the reasons why I want to rewatch the first season because I feel like it has been long

514
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enough that I can like, yeah, just gonna go back and marvel at these visuals again. And yeah,

515
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so tell me about the first episode or episodes of Trigun Stargaze. Do they pick up in me?

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Where they left off? What's going on? So it's been two and a half years since, since lost July.

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And Millie or Meryl is on the search for Vash and Millie's here now. Millie's here now. Yeah,

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I was very happy about this. They have a standoff in A-Bar, much like the original series.

519
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So you remember what the show is all about. They're trying to get a snack and it gets shot up and

520
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they got to take out the trash. So they are on the search for Vash when they catch a

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hint that they might not where he is. And who should they literally run across, literally run

522
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over in the middle of the desert? Well, Wolfwood. Yes, of course. And they sent him flying oops.

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I really, really hope the if there is a romance between Millie and Wolfwood this time,

524
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it's gonna go differently than it did in the original show.

525
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I guess that remains to be seen, but there's also something going on in one of the colonies

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that sort of crash landed on the planet. And one of the girls there, Jessica gets sent off to try

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and see if she can find Vash as well. And she finds him, but he is like almost catatonic. All he's

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doing is standing at this piano, playing one note over and over. And he was found by this

529
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hulking huge dude who is like a cripple and he can only move around on his wheels. His name is

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Hopperd, who's if you know some of the original, you might recognize that name.

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And this sort of mirrors, I believe, a little bit of the story that was told in either the manga

532
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or in Trigon Maximum, because Hopperd was caring for this blind woman in July. And then July got

533
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nuked. So Hopperd not realizing that this person is Vash, then when he finds out who he is,

534
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well, the grudge sort of starts to come out. And he says, listen, I am going to kill this girl

535
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at sundown if you don't kill me, but we all know what Vash is like. So

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and that sets off another standoff in the middle of the desert and a bunch of things happen there. And

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you know, this is not, this is not as goofy in parts as the original show. So there's some,

538
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have, there's, you know, some not so happy stuff that happens in there as well, but

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00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:25,680
it's an interesting twist on the story. Like I said, I think parts of it borrow from Maximum, but not

540
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fully. So there are some reflections of it, but it's not, it's still its own retelling in certain ways.

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And that's good, right? Like that doesn't like to strike from any of the source materials that they

542
00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:44,480
borrowed from it still can live as its own thing. And, you know, it's not really interfering with that.

543
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So it doesn't have to adhere to all the stuff that has come before it. It's just going to be a

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neat remix. And the first season already pretty much felt like that. So that's just, I'm interested

545
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to see what they do with the familiar characters and potentially with the new characters. Does it

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still look as good as the first season did? Oh, yeah. Nice. Like it was, it took me off guard a

547
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little bit because there were a couple of scenes at the beginning that were like traditional animation.

548
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But then they started to get into the CG and I was like, okay, this is this is what I was expecting.

549
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And it's, you know, it's orange doing orange. So it looks good. Nice. That's that's I'm looking for

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what to that. Of course. So what else you got? Yes. Let's show we're probably both gonna watch

551
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:44,320
a fire force season three part two. Yeah, this apparently is the final season we're gonna get a

552
00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:50,160
fire for us, which is wild to both of us. We already talked about that in our review of season three

553
00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:56,160
part one because apparently they're like 88 chapters left at this point. I don't understand how

554
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they're gonna cover that much. Unless they're like psyched. There's a movie as well. Maybe that, but also

555
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:06,000
it's super noticeable that they are hitting the fast forward button in these first two episodes.

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It's like it, especially in the second one, it moves so fast and I looked a little bit into it

557
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:16,960
where it's like some of the stuff they left out apparently the the flashback stuff with Beni Maro and

558
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his former captain or chief or whatever is is a lot longer in the manga. It's like two or three chapters

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or whatever that flashback alone. And I feel that cut that down heavily, which of course kind of

560
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:33,680
tracks on the emotional impact. And this is what I was worried about when I heard like they're gonna

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super stream-lighted and cover all this so quickly. I expect it to also a lot of this being fights

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and that's why it's easy to cut it down, but you know, they're also cutting some of the some of the

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stories stuff apparently and taking some of that out, which would see how it flows like the pacing

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of the first season wasn't great. It partially felt way too slow and partially too fast. So maybe it's

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a bit more even this time around and just fast in general. Though I'm happy to report at least

566
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on comes to the first two episodes. The animation quality seems to be better again.

567
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:10,800
Yeah it does. Like the fight between Beni Maro and uh what was his name? The the the the the former chief

568
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:18,400
Hiibachi. That that looked really good. Also really interesting stuff they do with the background

569
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:24,800
there because it suddenly turns into this this classic Japanese painting style. Yeah I thought that

570
00:58:24,800 --> 00:58:30,240
was cool with the water. Super cool. I love that one of the characters point out why does the water

571
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:34,000
look different? That's definitely something I would expect from David production. That's

572
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:40,320
certainly one of the things they like to do just inserting cool out their visual styles into their

573
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:48,560
shows that make them look very unique. So uh yeah this look I hope this is like this is a thing this

574
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:54,080
is gonna stay like on that baseline or get better which is one of the things I like hope for

575
00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:59,600
and review the first season that the first part of the season where that we both were not happy with

576
00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:06,240
and it was like maybe they're saving a lot of the you know the people who deliver the best

577
00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:09,760
stuff like the key animators and stuff like that maybe they're all working on the finale of this

578
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:14,960
on the last couple of episodes so we get a big blow out that looks really good. It might be that

579
00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:21,680
like the yeah I hadn't looked into the staff situation yet so I'm not sure but also it might turn out

580
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:26,960
that all of them just worked on fucking JoJo's because the first trailer for for uh Seabour Run look

581
00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:32,080
really good when it comes in comparison to other JoJo shows so maybe they just move all their

582
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:37,920
A-team on that show. I don't know and that's gonna have a lot of episodes because that's a really long

583
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:45,680
arc in in the manga. I don't know if it's the longest but definitely one of the longest. So uh yeah

584
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:51,120
we'll see we'll see how it turns out. I don't know how many episodes this is gonna have. I didn't

585
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:58,720
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

586
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:02,480
feel by the end of it it might feel super rushed. There's some interesting things happening in

587
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:07,280
the first episode like I was partially wrong about this what I assumed happened at the end of the

588
01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:14,880
first part. There's something else happened but also sound yeah that was kind of interesting

589
01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:21,440
yeah. Have they explained that? Yes yes so uh I also expected them that some of the stuff that

590
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:28,640
they took that out like they skipped three months um um but apparently those also weren't in the manga.

591
01:00:28,640 --> 01:00:32,720
The time skip was already in the manga so it's nothing they took out there apparently.

592
01:00:32,720 --> 01:00:41,200
So interesting. I don't know where we go from this um but yeah it seems to look better but also

593
01:00:41,200 --> 01:00:45,040
I'm gonna be careful with that because the first episode of the previous part also looked really good

594
01:00:45,040 --> 01:00:52,560
and then it went down here from there so well but hey I yeah now we're almost done with this and even

595
01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:59,840
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

596
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:06,480
uh author in my life and uh of course is the only one who checks what's going on in this

597
01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:13,920
within right everything. How is he the only one who knew and he didn't say anything?

598
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:19,200
Because he's a secret genius but also an idiot. Yeah like I'm just saying like Arthur,

599
01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:24,800
Arthur, Arthur, I love you Arthur but come on come on. I mean he did say things they just didn't

600
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:30,880
understand him because he put it in his usual weird like way like he said it's general but it's

601
01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:35,680
not general right yeah what are you supposed to do with that like if that's all you get it for me.

602
01:01:35,680 --> 01:01:45,600
I guess but like shake some sense into the boy. Yeah yeah but yeah it's nice to see those two like

603
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:51,040
uh you know finding common ground and everything and they're you know actually being

604
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:55,440
yeah it was nice to see them not fighting for once and actually talking. Yeah what's cool

605
01:01:55,440 --> 01:02:01,520
so I like the first two episodes of this I thought they were like a good return to form in the character

606
01:02:01,520 --> 01:02:06,080
department and the stuff with Iris was interesting everything. Yeah yeah. The thing I'm most worried

607
01:02:06,080 --> 01:02:12,480
about is that it's gonna feel so super rushed by the end uh and we're gonna skip out on a lot of

608
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:17,280
character development and interesting emotional moments and whatever and the fights gonna be kept

609
01:02:17,280 --> 01:02:21,200
super short because the fight against he but she also felt pretty short even though it looked

610
01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:26,400
really good like it felt like this should have been like an entire fight for one episode or whatever

611
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:32,080
and it was not even half an episode so it was by went by in super quick five minutes or something

612
01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:38,240
like that so we're probably gonna get more of this and I would like to be the the final final fight

613
01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:45,680
whatever it is Shinra against his brother or someone else or we'll see um Amaterasu who knows

614
01:02:47,120 --> 01:02:53,040
to to look really cool but there's enough interesting mystery still going on with whatever what what

615
01:02:53,040 --> 01:02:59,600
Shinra saw in his dream world or whatever and I mean just to find out what that is about so yeah

616
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:08,480
we're gonna keep watching and we're apparently are done in about now 11 episodes that are left

617
01:03:08,480 --> 01:03:15,280
so interested to see where this goes John yeah what do you have next how about fake strange

618
01:03:15,280 --> 01:03:24,640
fake yes uh guess what this is not one of the shows where it's like uh I this doesn't make any sense

619
01:03:24,640 --> 01:03:33,520
because this starts us off with episode two because John when this episode one air literally

620
01:03:33,520 --> 01:03:41,120
last year one year ago yes and before that we had like a prologue special called whispers of

621
01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:47,120
was the destiny or something whispers of don't yes whispers of don which I think I've never even seen

622
01:03:47,120 --> 01:03:55,520
I've only seen the first episode so yeah I mean type moon does some weird new years stuff every year

623
01:03:55,520 --> 01:04:00,320
and the surprise last year in 2025 was we're gonna show you the first episode of fake strange

624
01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:06,080
fakes so I was all jazz stuff I was like oh it's gonna be airing this season yeah and then they were

625
01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:12,080
like now just the first episode and I'm just sitting here like what do you mean

626
01:04:12,080 --> 01:04:20,080
what do you what are you talking about so we had to wait a full year and uh I definitely sat

627
01:04:20,080 --> 01:04:27,600
down and rewatch the first episode because it's been a second and oh my good a one are hitting on

628
01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:33,520
all cylinders with this show dude oh my god like I've seen comments on blue sky along the lines of

629
01:04:34,240 --> 01:04:41,840
this show can possibly go this hard every episode right right it can't it can't like the first three

630
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:47,680
episodes were like okay you want sakuga just here here just eat it up eat it up

631
01:04:47,680 --> 01:04:55,280
see for it it's delicious and I'm just like yes yes please father more I mean if they already

632
01:04:55,280 --> 01:04:59,440
delivered the first episode last year and they've been working on that show nonstop since then

633
01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:06,400
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

634
01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:10,800
it doesn't make any sense to start this without revisiting at least the first episode but I'm also

635
01:05:10,800 --> 01:05:15,840
probably gonna check out who's busy so I've done because I've never seen it and uh yeah I'm

636
01:05:15,840 --> 01:05:20,080
definitely gonna do that absolutely looking forward to returning to the fate franchise because

637
01:05:20,080 --> 01:05:29,840
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

638
01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:37,200
what was this what was it called world fuck unlimited blade work no no no we didn't review no no no no

639
01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:43,440
apocrypha no that came after that we reviewed another another one after that what was called I think

640
01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:50,480
there was also based on the fight on the mobile a grand order a Babylonia Babylonia yeah

641
01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:55,280
Babylonia in front there was the last one review uh we reviewed and I don't even know if that got new

642
01:05:55,280 --> 01:06:03,120
movies or whatever but we rewatched the show I think there was um I think there was a movie of the

643
01:06:03,120 --> 01:06:09,600
singularity that takes place before Babylonia which I don't understand why they released a after

644
01:06:09,600 --> 01:06:17,440
Babylonia that makes no sense and I'm still salty about that how stupid they've been handling the FGO

645
01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:24,480
anime adaptations but whenever friends say oh no that's fine it's like no no this doesn't make sense

646
01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:31,600
you know a perspective of people who don't know the story so when we were watching it and like the

647
01:06:31,600 --> 01:06:37,040
old man of the mountain comes out it's like well what is he doing here he was oh you mean he was

648
01:06:37,040 --> 01:06:43,840
critical to one of the previous singularities explain that show that to us don't just be like oh

649
01:06:43,840 --> 01:06:48,960
you have this understanding because we assume you know have you been playing the game for seven years

650
01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:56,160
no I haven't yeah yeah it seems like it was made for people that actually are familiar with this

651
01:06:56,160 --> 01:07:03,840
so but I guess fate stretch fake is something what is is it even based on it's based on a light

652
01:07:03,840 --> 01:07:11,120
novel but it takes place along the same timeline I believe as apocrypha and um

653
01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:18,480
waivers magical mystery adventure I can't remember the name of the show so waivers in their

654
01:07:18,480 --> 01:07:23,280
gray is in their flatt is in there so we have a whole bunch of characters that we have seen before

655
01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:30,800
and waiver itself was was that a sequel to zero what said in the same time I know there was a

656
01:07:30,800 --> 01:07:36,320
slightly different I don't remember I believe it was like I'd have to sit down and look through it

657
01:07:36,320 --> 01:07:46,240
but I believe there is a linear path from fate zero to fate stay night which then has its branches to

658
01:07:46,240 --> 01:07:56,000
blade works heavens feel whatever they're great yeah same I have the blue rays that I haven't watched them

659
01:07:57,600 --> 01:08:02,560
but I believe it has those branches but then whatever branches consider the quote unquote can

660
01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:12,240
then I believe that leads into um wherever apocrypha and the case what was it called the case

661
01:08:12,240 --> 01:08:18,800
fossil lord elmaloid yeah no I think I'm mixing up names with the case study of venetus maybe

662
01:08:18,800 --> 01:08:27,520
but yeah I believe I believe there is a some sort

663
01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:35,840
of linear path from zero to stay night to this as far as I understand because I as I think this takes

664
01:08:35,840 --> 01:08:46,160
place after apocrypha um the grail war is now in the united states interesting and we're following

665
01:08:46,160 --> 01:08:52,080
one of the main characters is this girl ayakasaggio who has basically been cursed by the

666
01:08:52,080 --> 01:08:59,760
nine spurns to have to participate who has been forced to participate in the grail war in this

667
01:08:59,760 --> 01:09:06,240
grail war that wasn't supposed to have a saber so it was supposed to be a false grail war but uh

668
01:09:06,240 --> 01:09:15,600
guess what there is a saber all of a sudden oops so now it might actually be a true grail war

669
01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:19,520
meanwhile waver is sitting back in the clock tower trying to figure out

670
01:09:20,480 --> 01:09:28,240
what the actual heck is going on and uh flatt is a master now and he's like what are you doing

671
01:09:28,240 --> 01:09:36,800
why did you become a master and one of the and one of the guys talked to him is like uh so I see

672
01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:42,880
the student has learned from the teacher and he's like and we were like you know what you're right

673
01:09:42,880 --> 01:09:49,120
you're right you're right you got me so there's some interesting stuff going on with this one

674
01:09:49,120 --> 01:09:57,840
like the animation is incredible there's a we have suddenly a dead apostle who might be a master and

675
01:09:57,840 --> 01:10:05,280
oh that's that is not okay by the church so if we have we have a battle priest coming out and he

676
01:10:05,280 --> 01:10:11,680
might be one of the best characters in the show he's so awesome and and there's just a lot going

677
01:10:11,680 --> 01:10:18,640
on with this and it looks so good and I am super jazzed for this I've been waiting a year for

678
01:10:18,640 --> 01:10:26,240
probably closer to two years for this because uh whispers of dawn I think was a special that came out

679
01:10:26,240 --> 01:10:36,560
it was like one random summer I want to make sure I have my timeline right yet it came out in

680
01:10:36,560 --> 01:10:45,600
July of 2023 the first episode aired in January of 2025 and now we're getting the actual full story and

681
01:10:45,600 --> 01:10:54,960
I've been actually ready for like a proper new story a new grail war so I I want more of it I

682
01:10:54,960 --> 01:11:02,960
just want to see more of it because I just so much cool stuff going on with it sounds good

683
01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:10,640
I am absolutely before I do it I want some faith takuga I'm gonna get on that as soon as I revisit the

684
01:11:10,640 --> 01:11:21,040
first two each episode so yeah join in you soon so what else you got uh something you got as well

685
01:11:21,040 --> 01:11:28,880
the second season of Frieden yes yes we both very much love the first one we're getting a much

686
01:11:28,880 --> 01:11:38,640
shorter one apparently only 10 episodes this season which is like okay uh I don't know if that if it's

687
01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:44,960
like only a one core or if it's just gonna be dead for that for the foreseeable future like

688
01:11:44,960 --> 01:11:53,040
uh would see what happens there but yeah um just to back 29 years of the himalto's death I don't know if

689
01:11:53,040 --> 01:11:59,760
that's exactly where we left off but I think so um I believe it is yeah yeah and it's just the first

690
01:11:59,760 --> 01:12:08,160
episode was just the usual slice of lifey stuff the girl the the gang going on adventures a misadventures

691
01:12:08,160 --> 01:12:17,120
like falling into a cave full of crystals that negate magic uh and uh have to run away from a monster

692
01:12:17,120 --> 01:12:26,880
and you know since the the the two magical girls women uh can't use magic stock has to like grab them

693
01:12:26,880 --> 01:12:36,080
and run really fast so yeah it's hey you know sometimes you gotta pick your battles yes like uh it's

694
01:12:36,080 --> 01:12:42,960
you know got the usual good mix of humor uh especially on uh free inside of things like

695
01:12:42,960 --> 01:12:48,640
her actually managing to get up early just to collect that stone that is worth a lot but blocks magic

696
01:12:48,640 --> 01:12:56,240
so it's kind of worthless to them so and you know we got a bit of a cool character development um

697
01:12:56,240 --> 01:13:03,280
uh you know with fern who is for the first time apparently since she can you know remember

698
01:13:03,280 --> 01:13:10,880
completely like uh disconnected from magic when they fall into that cave and that scares her

699
01:13:11,360 --> 01:13:19,200
because it makes it for really like alone and this empty void or whatever so um we have like some

700
01:13:19,200 --> 01:13:24,560
neat interaction between fern and uh stark like bit of awkwardness which fear and interpret

701
01:13:24,560 --> 01:13:32,240
interprets uh as like have a stark a stark having trouble with being in this party but you know

702
01:13:32,240 --> 01:13:37,600
kind of results from him and fern actually carrying a lot for each other even if they aren't fully

703
01:13:37,600 --> 01:13:45,360
really having fully realized that yet themselves so uh they got to work on that and uh work through that

704
01:13:45,360 --> 01:13:50,080
but uh you know it's all good vibes again which is kind of what for you miss

705
01:13:50,080 --> 01:13:56,960
we'll see if there is gonna be another more action focused arc in in this in these 10 episodes of

706
01:13:56,960 --> 01:14:05,760
it's gonna stay more uh episodic um because the last season had two kind of kind of big action

707
01:14:05,760 --> 01:14:11,360
focused arcs at a certain point that went on a bit longer especially the one with the magic exam

708
01:14:11,360 --> 01:14:19,200
that kind of was the whole second part of that season and uh with C uh i'm super looking

709
01:14:19,200 --> 01:14:27,360
forward to this madhouse giving it their all it's beautiful show as usual and um yeah uh was looking

710
01:14:27,360 --> 01:14:31,360
this was one of the shows i was looking forward to the most this season and the first episode

711
01:14:31,360 --> 01:14:37,520
delivered uh on the good stuff so i guess that's how you feel as well john oh yeah thank this in

712
01:14:37,520 --> 01:14:44,320
fate were my big ones that i was looking forward to and uh samurai troopers a little bit so yeah

713
01:14:44,320 --> 01:14:52,080
all right then that is that john do we have anything left yes you do probably the same one thing

714
01:14:52,080 --> 01:14:59,760
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

715
01:14:59,760 --> 01:15:06,880
part one i didn't realize this was gonna be a split core until i saw that you know show up on

716
01:15:06,880 --> 01:15:13,680
live charts so yeah uh it whatever helps map his production timeline so they don't run their

717
01:15:13,680 --> 01:15:19,760
animators into the ground like with the shibuya incident who's yes because i did this already again

718
01:15:19,760 --> 01:15:26,960
the first two episodes looked so crazy and they animated their butt off and i really hope that

719
01:15:26,960 --> 01:15:36,640
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

720
01:15:36,640 --> 01:15:44,160
are hating on the show no and i don't understand why like i think because as far as i understand i think

721
01:15:44,160 --> 01:15:51,760
the um manga has wrapped in a lot of people were um about the ending which i don't know the details

722
01:15:51,760 --> 01:15:57,840
of but i think a lot of people are probably looking back on it like well you know yeah that can always

723
01:15:57,840 --> 01:16:02,640
happen like and we're we're not there yet i don't know how far the ahead the manga is and how much

724
01:16:02,640 --> 01:16:08,400
more is left for the anime adaption but right now this is fun like the first two episodes especially

725
01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:16,000
of this um where we get introduced to the youngest sibling in the zenning clan naoya and the show

726
01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:20,400
makes it crystal clear in the first couple of seconds that he's the biggest asshole to show as to

727
01:16:20,400 --> 01:16:27,120
offer so far so i can't wait to get the shit uh for him to get the shit beaten out of him hopefully

728
01:16:27,120 --> 01:16:33,280
i mean chozo kind of does that in the first episode a second episode i guess but uh he already

729
01:16:33,280 --> 01:16:38,880
gets a metaphorical kick in the teeth which made me very happy because as a fallout from last season

730
01:16:38,880 --> 01:16:45,680
namely sataru being in prison sealed whatever uh when the current head of the zenning clan dies his

731
01:16:45,680 --> 01:16:52,720
testament demands an old contract with uh tojiro fushi godo bifulfilt and mego me be made the head of the

732
01:16:52,720 --> 01:17:00,400
clan um a position naoya expected to uh become his i clapped uh get fucked noya you piece of shit

733
01:17:00,400 --> 01:17:07,760
our main character uji meanwhile working together with chozo who considers him his brother after

734
01:17:07,760 --> 01:17:13,280
their fight in the second season uh are cleaning up tokyo trying to get rid of as many as the release

735
01:17:13,280 --> 01:17:19,280
spirits as possible after the big up evil at the end of the previous season unaware that uji

736
01:17:19,280 --> 01:17:24,400
losing the protection of sataru has led to him being blamed for everything and being sentenced to death now

737
01:17:24,400 --> 01:17:33,600
and uh then naoya arrives to kill mego me and uji yuta who we have been waiting to appear again

738
01:17:33,600 --> 01:17:40,400
after being introduced to him in juuzu kaisen zero arrives to kill uji ostensibly so we have a big

739
01:17:40,400 --> 01:17:48,080
old battle royale on our hands and it's awesome um and their uh the first attack of naoya against

740
01:17:48,080 --> 01:17:55,600
chozo and uji has produced this amazing meme uh yes he has fantastic very funny like because he

741
01:17:55,600 --> 01:18:00,320
he just whips back his hair with his hand and at the same time punches chozo who's behind

742
01:18:00,320 --> 01:18:08,240
it looks so funny but also awesome because it's really well animated it's so we've seen already a lot

743
01:18:08,240 --> 01:18:14,640
of uh parodies of that and it's great um but yeah a lot of things are happening in the first two episodes

744
01:18:14,640 --> 01:18:20,240
and regards to that we have this new status quond and we learn about the calling game which is uh who

745
01:18:20,240 --> 01:18:27,040
the guy who is inhabiting the body of ghetto which we weren't really sure about in the previous

746
01:18:27,040 --> 01:18:36,640
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

747
01:18:36,640 --> 01:18:47,440
was it not actually something nori to shikamo nori to shikamo uh we get a different name for him this

748
01:18:47,440 --> 01:18:56,320
uh the season as well kenjaku uh uh uh nt intends like he is gonna do this calling game like calling

749
01:18:56,320 --> 01:19:01,920
everyone back to the academy and taking part in this shit with us apparently also kind of like this

750
01:19:01,920 --> 01:19:07,040
betteroyal thing and you have to kill your opponent get a certain number of points otherwise your

751
01:19:07,040 --> 01:19:13,280
abilities are gonna be taken away and by abilities taken away they mean death that wasn't super

752
01:19:13,280 --> 01:19:18,800
clear to me like if if they just gonna be like sealed in a way of you can't be a saucer anymore and

753
01:19:18,800 --> 01:19:26,320
are just a normal human being or if they're gonna be killed uh so well i don't know if you watch the

754
01:19:26,320 --> 01:19:34,960
third episode yet but they meet with someone they meet with someone yeah tenton and they talk

755
01:19:34,960 --> 01:19:40,880
all at length about the rules and the implication appears to be stripping someone of their

756
01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:48,480
jujutsu abilities is death okay that sucks uh so there's no way out for for anyone and mego me asks

757
01:19:49,360 --> 01:19:56,640
uji to come and also yuta i guess to come back and and chose us helping too uh and uh come back and

758
01:19:56,640 --> 01:20:04,640
support him uh to get certain people out of it uh we also also have maki uh who is back with short

759
01:20:04,640 --> 01:20:14,000
hair and a lot of scars uh which is awesome i mean that's like i appreciate the new wave of shonen

760
01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:18,400
anime actually willing to permanently scar their protagonists like my hero academia and

761
01:20:18,400 --> 01:20:23,680
this come to mind yeah it's not the only one that happens to you jutsu also scarts on him one piece does

762
01:20:23,680 --> 01:20:30,960
this has to done this too plus certain scars are cool and sexy don't add me and uh so this this

763
01:20:30,960 --> 01:20:37,440
was really nice like seeing her back and you know the show is still trying to convince me that they

764
01:20:37,440 --> 01:20:44,560
actually killed off nobara i'm not buying it yet i don't want to buy it so we'll see where this

765
01:20:44,560 --> 01:20:50,640
goes i hope she makes like like this dynamic surprise entry at a certain point uh so with

766
01:20:50,640 --> 01:20:54,960
say that would be really cool because she was one of my favorite characters and they really killed

767
01:20:54,960 --> 01:21:02,560
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

768
01:21:02,560 --> 01:21:11,600
tsukumo yuki tsukumo is wassato's teacher right yes yes she's kind of the leader on this team

769
01:21:11,600 --> 01:21:20,880
and they're gonna infiltrate i guess jutsu academy and or or high jutsu high and gonna try either to win

770
01:21:20,880 --> 01:21:26,880
this game or i don't know to sabotage it whatever each of them kind of have like also their own

771
01:21:26,880 --> 01:21:33,840
agenda chosa wants to reclaim the remains of his killed brothers and there's some other things

772
01:21:33,840 --> 01:21:39,360
that are going on so interesting to see how this shake uh shakes out like the third episode was

773
01:21:39,360 --> 01:21:44,800
like this giant s exposition dump which could have been handled better uh what's a bit an elegant

774
01:21:44,800 --> 01:21:50,880
it's like i was jesus christ there's so many rules in this fucking game and we learn i mean so many

775
01:21:50,880 --> 01:21:56,800
whist this the energy works and and what they have to do and everything it's very gamified and at one

776
01:21:56,800 --> 01:22:03,200
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

777
01:22:03,200 --> 01:22:10,080
get that out of the way at least they did that now rather than uh ten or eleven episodes and

778
01:22:10,080 --> 01:22:15,760
yeah i hope we don't have fights where they stop mid fight and then just recapitulate some of these

779
01:22:15,760 --> 01:22:21,360
basic rules and everything and it's like okay we already learned about this in the third episode just

780
01:22:21,360 --> 01:22:28,160
i mean the rules are tientamount to the game so yeah clearly they're gonna be coming up again at some

781
01:22:28,160 --> 01:22:35,040
yeah but i hope they don't get explained to us again during the fights i doubt that if that's they'd

782
01:22:35,040 --> 01:22:41,120
go into such painstaking detail again so you know that but that was one of my holdups and some of the

783
01:22:41,120 --> 01:22:47,360
action scenes in the second season which i loved uh a lot of people already hated on that season

784
01:22:47,360 --> 01:22:52,080
mainly mostly because of the production issues on mapas side in terms of how they treated their

785
01:22:52,080 --> 01:22:56,640
workers and a totally empathicized with that and agree with that but also apparently some people

786
01:22:56,640 --> 01:23:01,120
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

787
01:23:01,120 --> 01:23:06,560
the second season and it looked super the most part super good and it was exciting a lot of twists and

788
01:23:06,560 --> 01:23:14,400
turns and sad moments and awesome moments and everything great finale so uh i but that was one of the

789
01:23:14,400 --> 01:23:20,880
things to us like why in the most awesome action moments you're stopping during the fight and have the

790
01:23:20,880 --> 01:23:27,680
narrator explain to us what is happening even though it doesn't really matter like okay yes you can

791
01:23:27,680 --> 01:23:34,480
explain exactly to us how the technique works and why that character was able to do this but also

792
01:23:34,480 --> 01:23:40,000
you don't really need to because this this is just bullshit magic anyway and if the characters

793
01:23:40,000 --> 01:23:47,440
character can do that they can just do that like i i can appreciate if they put a thought into like

794
01:23:47,440 --> 01:23:52,880
if the creator of the manga put thought into certain mechanics and how it works and everything but

795
01:23:52,880 --> 01:23:59,040
that never should like detract from the momentum of the action scenes so that was something i was

796
01:23:59,040 --> 01:24:07,440
kind of like eh about in certain parts of of the second season but we'll see how the third season

797
01:24:07,440 --> 01:24:13,280
shakes out and so far it looks really good the first time i saw didn't do a lot of explaining during

798
01:24:13,280 --> 01:24:20,080
the action scenes which is balls to the wall wall in sane absolutely insane choreography and action

799
01:24:20,080 --> 01:24:27,040
and violence and it was fucking awesome so um yeah looking forward to more to just a guy's definitely

800
01:24:27,040 --> 01:24:36,400
and yeah i guess that's it for the sneak peek a lot of returning shows a lot of them i have to

801
01:24:36,400 --> 01:24:42,480
revisit earlier material to get into the groove again and we're gonna talk about a lot of them

802
01:24:42,480 --> 01:24:46,880
come next season but yeah this is also neat peek for this season we're gonna switch over to our

803
01:24:46,880 --> 01:24:58,240
first review from fall season 2025

804
01:24:58,240 --> 01:25:07,120
so uh after all of that good stuff we uh

805
01:25:09,600 --> 01:25:17,920
we get to talk about one punch man yes like here we are again and of course this had to be the show we

806
01:25:17,920 --> 01:25:22,720
review today because 10 years ago we started this little project by reviewing the legendary first

807
01:25:22,720 --> 01:25:29,440
season of one punch man uh things have changed since then and as real life imitates art or vice versa

808
01:25:29,440 --> 01:25:36,000
the expectations have been lowered and many disappointments had to be phased yeah so

809
01:25:38,320 --> 01:25:47,840
we kind of pick up where it left off um for better or for worse like there's a lot of i think

810
01:25:47,840 --> 01:25:57,040
wasn't there some like episode zero thing that and then in the first episode they had a lot of

811
01:25:57,040 --> 01:26:05,840
just talking and recapping anyway so it was like then what what was the point of saving money i don't

812
01:26:05,840 --> 01:26:14,400
know but again this is i mean we'll get to that uh but the problems in this season are not mainly the

813
01:26:14,400 --> 01:26:18,240
budget which of course you know when switching from season one to season two and switching from

814
01:26:18,240 --> 01:26:26,480
madhouse to jc jc staff that was the most prominent thing uh that stood out where it's like oh my god

815
01:26:26,480 --> 01:26:34,080
this is not even remotely on the animation quality level of the first season which so like i'm

816
01:26:34,080 --> 01:26:41,120
able i feel like i'm able to hand away for the second season oh at least a little bit yeah is the animation

817
01:26:41,120 --> 01:26:49,840
quality not as strong yeah but it's still telling the story and it feels competent in doing it

818
01:26:49,840 --> 01:26:55,200
so i'm able i'm willing to look at season two and be like okay so you know it was a little subpar

819
01:26:55,200 --> 01:27:01,440
in the production side but we're we're still moving that platform and then a long comes this

820
01:27:01,440 --> 01:27:07,680
and it's a lot of just sitting and talking and planning and trying to figure things out and

821
01:27:07,680 --> 01:27:18,320
long panning shots with nothing going on and ugly production and just

822
01:27:18,320 --> 01:27:27,280
what i thought the crux of this season was going to be was garo wrestling with his humanity or lack

823
01:27:27,280 --> 01:27:34,240
there of question mark and i was like okay all right it's like yeah from the onset i was like well

824
01:27:34,240 --> 01:27:41,840
it still has some legs this is still interesting to me because garo he doesn't want to be a human

825
01:27:41,840 --> 01:27:46,800
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

826
01:27:46,800 --> 01:27:54,720
system and do his own thing but everything around him is saying no you have to pick a role and shut up

827
01:27:55,360 --> 01:28:01,440
and i thought that was you know a really cool idea and then we just kind of

828
01:28:01,440 --> 01:28:10,800
forgot about it like three or four episodes in and it becomes this plan to like raid the monster

829
01:28:10,800 --> 01:28:17,920
hideout and there's these two kids that are being held hostage one of them that

830
01:28:17,920 --> 01:28:23,600
garo tries to save in the first couple episodes he still gets caught in because he's a dumb but at least

831
01:28:23,600 --> 01:28:31,360
well-meaning kid and then the other brat that i absolutely hate oh yeah oh my god what god what

832
01:28:31,360 --> 01:28:36,560
gahnma is the worst and i don't think the irony is lost on a lot of people because if you change

833
01:28:36,560 --> 01:28:44,080
his name slightly it becomes a word of waga mama which translates to selfish i mean this show is

834
01:28:44,080 --> 01:28:51,120
full of these these name jokes right that is one of the main points of humor of one punch man like

835
01:28:51,120 --> 01:28:57,440
the names of a lot of these characters are ridiculous i didn't look into the actual like spelling like

836
01:28:57,440 --> 01:29:02,960
in terms of congean everything of the names but i remember there like being a character that wasn't

837
01:29:02,960 --> 01:29:09,200
that was called not goki but obviously was goki in second second season but he was then named go

838
01:29:09,200 --> 01:29:16,320
katsu and maybe katsu spelled like back side or whatever like i don't know i'm not sure if that

839
01:29:16,320 --> 01:29:22,240
was actually the case but there's so many names in this season where this is also like either it's a

840
01:29:22,240 --> 01:29:30,320
pun or it's a really dumb joke or a parody on some superhero thing right that is familiar to us

841
01:29:30,320 --> 01:29:34,640
so yeah that's definitely this is still in there that's still fun and that that is one of those cases

842
01:29:34,640 --> 01:29:43,120
like you said yeah in this show still has a moment scattered here and there like that but

843
01:29:45,280 --> 01:29:53,360
it's the writing is just not nearly as strong and i he and i know we try to talk things through but

844
01:29:53,360 --> 01:29:58,960
it's tough to bury the lead with this season and giving a play by play of the episodes is just like

845
01:29:58,960 --> 01:30:08,960
them them sitting around and talking and figuring things out and this is i understand you can't have

846
01:30:08,960 --> 01:30:16,400
it be all action all the time but this just like pushes it so far let's do a broad overview just of

847
01:30:16,400 --> 01:30:24,400
this what is happening overall go for it's the the monster and association that was i guess kind

848
01:30:24,400 --> 01:30:30,560
already introduced in the previous season they want to i don't know eradicate all superheroes

849
01:30:30,560 --> 01:30:38,640
whatever because there's a danger to them of things and main guy euro-gurus like leading the charge

850
01:30:38,640 --> 01:30:45,680
i guess and then and they kind of want to recruit garrou who was introduced also in the previous

851
01:30:45,680 --> 01:30:51,280
season is like this this anti hero poster child who is not really good guy but also not entirely

852
01:30:51,280 --> 01:30:57,520
bad guy like an asshole with a heart of gold kind of thing and he has his own grudge again super

853
01:30:57,520 --> 01:31:01,840
here is because of his childhood because he got bullied by people who were portrayed like playing

854
01:31:01,840 --> 01:31:08,560
super hero and whatever and you know that kind of works it's effective stuff but it's not and

855
01:31:08,560 --> 01:31:14,400
this is also where problems that's not what the season goes into like it's more completely

856
01:31:14,400 --> 01:31:20,080
focused pretty much on the monster association plot like them trying to conspire to lure the heroes

857
01:31:20,080 --> 01:31:30,080
into a trap the heroes making plans to infiltrate the the the monsters HQ garrou just being abducted

858
01:31:30,080 --> 01:31:34,640
but a monster is trying to find this way out trying to save that one kid at the same time because he

859
01:31:34,640 --> 01:31:41,360
made friends with it in a way or at least consider simmissible responsibility and then you know all

860
01:31:41,360 --> 01:31:49,120
that kind of culminates in you know a couple of battles at the in the second half of of the season

861
01:31:49,120 --> 01:31:59,680
and that could be interesting like i mean i guess a lot of people cite this as the main problem

862
01:31:59,680 --> 01:32:05,840
all main character side am i it's not really a lot in the season like he's he's barely there he's

863
01:32:05,840 --> 01:32:12,240
in like maybe three episodes yes he's there on the side and you know part of that already was the

864
01:32:12,240 --> 01:32:18,720
same in previous two seasons right like a lot of the lower tier heroes and even main side characters

865
01:32:18,720 --> 01:32:26,960
like genos um we're doing the main battles right and but even genos was barely there this season

866
01:32:26,960 --> 01:32:33,360
is exactly that's also the big problem like we had a couple of main characters and were following them

867
01:32:33,360 --> 01:32:41,200
and then dated the big fights and satama usually came at in at the end delivered his one punch

868
01:32:41,200 --> 01:32:45,600
or did a little bit of evading and then delivered the punch and then the fight was over and his

869
01:32:45,600 --> 01:32:51,760
storyline was most more about him finding out what he wanted to do with his life like finding out how

870
01:32:51,760 --> 01:32:58,880
he defines what it means to be a hero what it means to be strong and you know there's some some

871
01:32:58,880 --> 01:33:05,840
movement that was like put on that when he meets king one of the hero characters who turns out

872
01:33:05,840 --> 01:33:11,280
to be like this giant phony and due to a lot of misunderstandings everyone thinks he's the strongest

873
01:33:11,280 --> 01:33:18,480
hero like who wins all the fights he kind of kind of because he like was around when satama beat other

874
01:33:18,480 --> 01:33:24,080
characters nobody knew that satama was doing is an assumed it was king and kin didn't wasn't like

875
01:33:24,080 --> 01:33:31,520
confident enough to like tell them that that's not the case and every time his heart beats really fast

876
01:33:31,520 --> 01:33:35,360
because he's super nervous everyone assumes that's his superpower the king engine

877
01:33:35,360 --> 01:33:43,600
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

878
01:33:43,600 --> 01:33:50,160
has a good moral compass in a way and he tries to like he doesn't actively try to tell everyone that he's

879
01:33:50,160 --> 01:33:57,920
that he's not what they think he is which is kind of him but also they constantly make the

880
01:33:57,920 --> 01:34:03,680
wrong assumptions and that's not really his fault like he just doesn't tell them everything but

881
01:34:03,680 --> 01:34:08,560
they also just jump to conclusions all the time and that's really funny that goes ten years in

882
01:34:08,560 --> 01:34:15,520
this season and he's just trying to wiggle his way out of this and he's like one of satama's news

883
01:34:15,520 --> 01:34:20,400
like supporters and everything and he's really happy around and the good thing about king is he actually

884
01:34:20,400 --> 01:34:28,880
is able to give satama some some moral support some some guideline to or some some idea of what satama

885
01:34:28,880 --> 01:34:34,160
supports with to do with this light because satama is really depressed because he doesn't find

886
01:34:35,200 --> 01:34:39,840
doesn't know what to do anymore because he beats he doesn't have a challenge anymore and it's so far

887
01:34:39,840 --> 01:34:46,960
he has defined being a hero aside from doing the right thing like saving people as being the strongest

888
01:34:46,960 --> 01:34:53,040
there is and he now is so he has achieved that goal so he doesn't have really any goal in life anymore

889
01:34:53,040 --> 01:35:01,200
and that kind of completely like paralyzes him and makes him depressed and like he doesn't know

890
01:35:01,200 --> 01:35:07,440
how to proceed life and what to do and king is like okay here are the strongest but is that really

891
01:35:07,440 --> 01:35:13,200
all there is to being a hero like is that really how you would like to define that and

892
01:35:13,200 --> 01:35:18,000
aren't is there isn't there more to it and he gives a couple of bullet points like hey me maybe you

893
01:35:18,000 --> 01:35:23,760
want to look for being that or improving that about yourself and that actually helps satama

894
01:35:23,760 --> 01:35:30,080
and that is super interesting and I hope for them to go even more into that and satama trying to

895
01:35:30,080 --> 01:35:36,240
find himself in the season trying to do a different approach is to being a hero aside from also

896
01:35:36,240 --> 01:35:42,720
finding stronger enemies to be a beat and they don't really do that like aside from this interactions

897
01:35:42,720 --> 01:35:47,280
with king and satama which are really like there is not really that in the season like for most

898
01:35:47,280 --> 01:35:51,760
part like you said satama isn't even there there's some funny bits here and there where like

899
01:35:52,640 --> 01:36:02,000
phubically or blizzard is trying to like recruit him into her like group all the time he absolutely

900
01:36:02,000 --> 01:36:06,960
joined the phubuki crew no he does not care about that shit like at all he doesn't want to have

901
01:36:06,960 --> 01:36:14,240
everyone hanging out at his apartment but that's just how things ended up as usual and it's super

902
01:36:14,240 --> 01:36:20,960
fun like there's some fun scenes with her and satama at a restaurant and I left so hard at that

903
01:36:20,960 --> 01:36:24,880
like I loved all these interactions I thought they were great the problem is there's not enough of

904
01:36:24,880 --> 01:36:31,040
that in the season like like you said it's a barely three episodes maybe in total that we have

905
01:36:31,040 --> 01:36:36,720
with in these with these character constellations and then satama at the end as usual arrives and

906
01:36:36,720 --> 01:36:42,080
delivers the final punch to the strongest monster which is as anticlimactic to us as it is to him this

907
01:36:42,080 --> 01:36:48,160
time because human there's one cool shot in that but aside from that it doesn't really like

908
01:36:48,160 --> 01:36:56,240
looks super great which like the first season had and that's that's the problem like we want to follow

909
01:36:56,240 --> 01:37:02,080
satama's road it doesn't have to be an action pack road but we want to find a follow his character

910
01:37:02,080 --> 01:37:09,360
through like figuring out what he actually wants to do and then on the side of that which is nice

911
01:37:09,360 --> 01:37:17,040
having all the other characters like genos like maybe blizzard like a roe in this regard like you know

912
01:37:17,040 --> 01:37:23,360
like king coming into contact with him and then maybe that also changes something about their life

913
01:37:23,360 --> 01:37:31,040
and I assume that will happen when satama and garo I mean they clash this season very short

914
01:37:31,040 --> 01:37:36,960
and it goes as you expect but you know there's probably something more coming down the land because

915
01:37:36,960 --> 01:37:42,640
I imagine garo will be going strong will get stronger and maybe they have a face of again we'll see

916
01:37:43,680 --> 01:37:48,400
the problem is there's just not enough interesting stuff in there it's mostly focused on the monster

917
01:37:48,400 --> 01:37:56,160
association all the mechanations of the monster association are so fucking box standard evil guys

918
01:37:56,160 --> 01:38:06,000
gyrouki gyrouki is so poor he's so fun he's so and the funny thing is satama remarks on that right

919
01:38:06,000 --> 01:38:11,840
like he when they talk about talk to each other he's like blah blah blah blah blah I've heard this

920
01:38:11,840 --> 01:38:16,640
before or like I don't even know if he talks to gyrou or maybe garo is that and says like I hate people

921
01:38:16,640 --> 01:38:22,320
like who sit at the top and talk about this shit yes that's garo who says that it's like to do all

922
01:38:22,320 --> 01:38:27,440
the shit in the background or whatever and later when satama fights against orrochi is like oh god

923
01:38:27,440 --> 01:38:32,560
yeah I deliver your villain speech I've heard this a million times get it over with and that's funny

924
01:38:32,560 --> 01:38:41,040
I guess but that's also like if that is still in the show that's still a problem like you can point

925
01:38:41,040 --> 01:38:48,480
that out and that can be funny but you still doing it like it's still in there and I agree with

926
01:38:48,480 --> 01:38:56,320
satama and garo in regards to we have already heard these kind of speeches and these these scheming

927
01:38:56,320 --> 01:39:02,320
and everything a million times and it doesn't really add anything super especially when it comes to

928
01:39:02,320 --> 01:39:08,160
that anything super special or comedic in this season it's just you know aside from the name stuff

929
01:39:08,160 --> 01:39:13,680
and everything and there's some funny bits in the individual fights I guess that are quirky

930
01:39:13,680 --> 01:39:19,360
but you know all the stuff in the background and how it comes into play before the fight actually

931
01:39:19,360 --> 01:39:25,760
happen and the characters come to clash is just super boring and not only on the monsters association

932
01:39:25,760 --> 01:39:31,200
side of things also on the hero association like on the hero side of things because you mentioned

933
01:39:31,200 --> 01:39:37,200
a john there's so much fucking talking about how they are gonna attempt to get into oh who is

934
01:39:37,200 --> 01:39:41,520
where's the monster association out there in the city and what we're gonna do how do we get in there

935
01:39:41,520 --> 01:39:48,080
and it's just a whole episode at least who we gonna send how we can infiltrate them

936
01:39:48,080 --> 01:39:55,040
who cares no one gives a shit about that the viewer the viewer doesn't care the characters don't care

937
01:39:55,040 --> 01:40:01,440
exactly like again it's the thing like your characters don't care why should we care like yes

938
01:40:01,440 --> 01:40:09,360
this is a parody in a lot of aspects and it's fun pointing these tropes out when it comes to action

939
01:40:09,360 --> 01:40:14,480
shows will come to show in action shows when it comes to superhero shows it's fun for a couple of

940
01:40:14,480 --> 01:40:20,720
times to do that but then you need to do something else and get over that shit because this has already

941
01:40:20,720 --> 01:40:26,400
been pointed out to us and we get the message now doing differently and they don't do that in the

942
01:40:26,400 --> 01:40:33,840
season it's just just them talking about this shit and it just box down the pacing of the show

943
01:40:33,840 --> 01:40:41,120
and that's not even a problem of the adaption because that shit is in the manga and that is a problem

944
01:40:41,120 --> 01:40:47,840
that the manga has like the garou storyline the monster association storyline goes on way too long

945
01:40:47,840 --> 01:40:53,920
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

946
01:40:53,920 --> 01:41:02,000
adaption from the web to comic whatever to the revised tango-ban version that morata like did the

947
01:41:02,000 --> 01:41:08,560
art for and everything and this especially this arc going on for way too long and way too little

948
01:41:08,560 --> 01:41:14,160
of sight on my in it and that is already noticeable in this season the problem is we're not done with

949
01:41:14,160 --> 01:41:21,760
this shit yet the way this goes apparently at least for the garou storyline we have two more seasons of

950
01:41:21,760 --> 01:41:32,880
this two more seasons of this oh my god so we'll see I hope it moves on a bit faster after this but

951
01:41:32,880 --> 01:41:39,440
apparently not it's probably gonna be 24 episodes until the garou storyline is finished and I hope

952
01:41:39,440 --> 01:41:43,520
sight of our will be in more of that because we're now technically done with the monster

953
01:41:43,520 --> 01:41:48,800
association stuff at least they're all done for so yeah I mean all that's up just to take out

954
01:41:48,800 --> 01:41:54,240
giorou-goo and then what's gonna happen to their structure they're just gonna who cares yes that's

955
01:41:54,240 --> 01:41:59,200
also like you know at iql-amactic because we get introduced to a lot of potentially cool monster

956
01:41:59,200 --> 01:42:05,360
guys with cool powers and everything but you know a lot that's funny like a lot of them are just

957
01:42:05,360 --> 01:42:12,640
like build up as these super dangerous you know monster guys and then they're just not only by

958
01:42:12,640 --> 01:42:20,400
sight I'm not taking out in one punch but also by our other characters and you know that that kind

959
01:42:20,400 --> 01:42:29,040
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

960
01:42:29,040 --> 01:42:36,240
some moments in there in fights that look cool genuinely cool like JC stuff staff doing their

961
01:42:36,240 --> 01:42:42,880
dungers to make parts of this look really good like they're definitely some a lot of parts where

962
01:42:42,880 --> 01:42:49,120
you absolutely noticed the shortcuts like there were moments in this show and I don't think I

963
01:42:49,120 --> 01:42:55,520
have consciously ever noticed this in any other show there were moments in this show where you hear

964
01:42:55,520 --> 01:43:03,600
sound effects from stuff that was ostensibly on the storyboards but never got animated and the sound

965
01:43:03,600 --> 01:43:10,160
effects are in there of additional punches of additional blast of whatever but they're not in the

966
01:43:10,160 --> 01:43:16,320
actual show they're not in the actual scene you still hear them but they're not there

967
01:43:16,320 --> 01:43:22,320
it's that I don't think I realized absolutely John there were like two or three scenes where

968
01:43:22,320 --> 01:43:26,960
I noticed like what what is that sound effect what why is that in here that's not what's happening

969
01:43:26,960 --> 01:43:32,560
on screen and it's like oh my god did they just did the character in the storyboards or in the manga

970
01:43:32,560 --> 01:43:38,240
manga actually do more moves than this and they didn't have time to animate this oh yeah that's

971
01:43:38,240 --> 01:43:44,800
absolutely what happened and it was crazy to me like you hear the sound like I said of a multi-it

972
01:43:44,800 --> 01:43:49,120
combo but nothing like that is happening on screen and definitely some other stuff like that too

973
01:43:49,120 --> 01:43:54,880
and it was like wow okay definitely some corners were cut here and definitely stuff was rushed

974
01:43:54,880 --> 01:43:59,680
and they didn't have the time to finish this that is crazy maybe it will be on the blue ray

975
01:43:59,680 --> 01:44:07,280
who knows but it definitely is on the tv version but aside from this shit from this obvious stuff and

976
01:44:07,280 --> 01:44:15,360
some of the weird still frame shit like I wrote sliding down and it's still frame a hill oh my god

977
01:44:15,360 --> 01:44:21,680
which has been mean to me that that I feel like they could fix that with one thing just put the

978
01:44:21,680 --> 01:44:26,880
dust cloud under his feet and it would have actually implied that he was in motion but they didn't

979
01:44:26,880 --> 01:44:32,800
do that there's so many other weird animation foibles like there's one scene where they're in the

980
01:44:32,800 --> 01:44:38,880
meeting room just talking and if you it's not noticeable if you're watching it with the contrast

981
01:44:38,880 --> 01:44:43,760
of the brightness turned down but if you turn up just a little bit too much you can see that they

982
01:44:43,760 --> 01:44:51,760
probably meant for it to pan down further in the frame it was yeah as part of atomic samurai's top

983
01:44:51,760 --> 01:45:00,320
knot is cut off in the frame yeah it's cut off yeah it's crazy there's there's so many we

984
01:45:00,320 --> 01:45:04,720
there's some that I look at and I'm like okay maybe that's an animation here there's some

985
01:45:04,720 --> 01:45:12,320
they look at and I'm like guys how much AI did you use yeah I want like is that confirmed that they

986
01:45:12,320 --> 01:45:19,280
that they did that in in the season they're I don't think they're gonna out and say at this point

987
01:45:19,280 --> 01:45:27,920
yeah they they already know how bad of a job they did is I think I believe one of the directors

988
01:45:27,920 --> 01:45:34,560
was catching so much flack that they deactivated all of their social media so which

989
01:45:34,560 --> 01:45:47,360
like a lot man so I'm gonna talk about the one of the fights they actually liked before I get mad at

990
01:45:47,360 --> 01:45:52,960
the animation probably the fight right there when the action hits some of it doesn't even look that bad

991
01:45:52,960 --> 01:46:00,480
the fight between child emperor and Phoenix man what a blowout oh my god that whole episode was

992
01:46:00,480 --> 01:46:06,560
like teacher went so crazy with it like every time they thought he was down he was like um

993
01:46:06,560 --> 01:46:13,120
back and it goes like one step further than you would have thought and that whole sequence was

994
01:46:13,120 --> 01:46:20,000
insane and I was genuinely like okay this is the good stuff and then

995
01:46:20,000 --> 01:46:27,760
god what else was there that was actually good not not all the fight between Garo like his

996
01:46:27,760 --> 01:46:33,200
his short clash with with some of the monsters in episode three look good there was some nice

997
01:46:33,200 --> 01:46:38,320
camera yeah that that was pretty good when he gets knocked out the first time right and

998
01:46:39,200 --> 01:46:46,480
his his fight against pochi and pochi and rochi has some pretty neat shots and I guess the the like

999
01:46:46,480 --> 01:46:53,280
aside from the kid emperor stuff the visually most impressive fight is probably flashy flash versus

1000
01:46:53,280 --> 01:46:59,520
two monster ninjas which is a really neat kinetic battle in like this big hall with like with stairs

1001
01:46:59,520 --> 01:47:06,560
and a lake and everything some good camera movement and choreography but even that one had some very

1002
01:47:06,560 --> 01:47:11,440
visible shortcuts like blast station staff are giving the absolute best but they just can't match

1003
01:47:11,440 --> 01:47:16,400
the president set by madhouse there definitely some moments where it's like you have this neat camera

1004
01:47:16,400 --> 01:47:22,080
movement and the UCG and everything to make it which with is a wise choice in that regard for the

1005
01:47:22,080 --> 01:47:28,880
environments to pen around but then they suddenly switched to just this basic 90s as speed line

1006
01:47:28,880 --> 01:47:37,200
background and it just looks so much less kinetic and interesting and it's like why did you do that

1007
01:47:37,200 --> 01:47:44,400
there's a still shot in there were honestly it looks like flashes neck was broken before they punched

1008
01:47:44,400 --> 01:47:51,680
up in on his face and it looked like normal um I mean the bit of the fight that we saw between

1009
01:47:51,680 --> 01:48:00,320
atomic samurai and she's christ what a name black sperm yeah that was also cool that had some cool

1010
01:48:00,320 --> 01:48:07,760
in there because like what is he going to do and all he knows how to do is cut thing with blade

1011
01:48:07,760 --> 01:48:14,080
against enemy that will infinitely multiply like there's something dynamic and cool to that

1012
01:48:14,080 --> 01:48:19,520
there were definitely some cool ones but but there also some really bad looking ones like when when

1013
01:48:19,520 --> 01:48:26,880
the low tier like the 80 heroes arrive who have partially cool gimmicks but all fighting against all

1014
01:48:26,880 --> 01:48:34,320
that cannon fodder monster monster cannon fodder that looks so bad like even though I like

1015
01:48:34,320 --> 01:48:40,160
me so key in particular yeah but I liked her sport gimmick but her fight just doesn't it does not

1016
01:48:40,160 --> 01:48:46,880
look good and did it was this obvious shortcut I think in the zombie man fight like where he and

1017
01:48:46,880 --> 01:48:52,640
the monsters walk behind the pillar and then they get killed there and you don't see anything it

1018
01:48:52,640 --> 01:49:00,080
just works out of that is like okay guys come on I want to talk about that part a little bit between

1019
01:49:00,080 --> 01:49:06,800
the fight between zombie man and vampire yeah because we're cutting between still shots of them

1020
01:49:06,800 --> 01:49:12,880
speaking to each other and their character designs are constantly changing the amount of damage

1021
01:49:12,880 --> 01:49:19,040
on zombie man's clothing is constantly changing whether or not there's blood on his face is changing

1022
01:49:19,040 --> 01:49:25,520
the amount of blood is changing in all of that sequence and there's other ones too as well like

1023
01:49:25,520 --> 01:49:31,520
with me sookie like there's one part where from one frame to the next the bandage on her face

1024
01:49:31,520 --> 01:49:37,040
disappears and it's just entirely gone there's another scene where it looks like she has three boobs

1025
01:49:37,680 --> 01:49:44,400
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

1026
01:49:44,400 --> 01:49:50,640
this has to be it has to be they threw this through AI and said here you go have a good time there's

1027
01:49:50,640 --> 01:49:57,440
a scene there's that one scene towards the end where cytama is walking up on orotii and it just

1028
01:49:57,440 --> 01:50:03,680
doesn't look right it looks like this that was spit out by a machine to a man it just doesn't look

1029
01:50:03,680 --> 01:50:09,360
right it looks completely inconsistent from all of the other shots surrounding it and I mean is that

1030
01:50:09,360 --> 01:50:15,440
possible when you have different people animating different things sure but there's they got to be

1031
01:50:15,440 --> 01:50:21,040
sending notes to one another and how to make things look and that just like stuck out like a

1032
01:50:21,040 --> 01:50:26,160
sore thumb I'm like no this isn't right this isn't right there's a whole bunch of this isn't right

1033
01:50:26,160 --> 01:50:33,840
and they tried to shortcut it by putting it through I don't know what AI does animation quote unquote

1034
01:50:33,840 --> 01:50:42,160
best but they clearly shows one and a let here you go animate our show yeah we don't this is how

1035
01:50:42,160 --> 01:50:47,920
we're spending the money that bandai namco gave us wow what a good use of resources and look

1036
01:50:47,920 --> 01:50:53,360
how great it turned out everybody hated this season dude yeah I know it's the lowest rated season on

1037
01:50:53,360 --> 01:50:59,920
mael for whatever that's worth but yeah I want I mean I wonder if we get more of this off of that

1038
01:50:59,920 --> 01:51:04,960
because like if you if you look at what is coming next in the manga we're gonna get two seasons more

1039
01:51:04,960 --> 01:51:14,240
of this and so I like also the leiciest thing that they could have possibly done oh what's the

1040
01:51:14,240 --> 01:51:20,480
key visual for season three part you put it in a mirror yeah that was so fun Jesus Jesus Christ

1041
01:51:20,480 --> 01:51:26,560
I'm just okay and I'm like okay all right so you just don't care yeah yeah it definitely feels like

1042
01:51:26,560 --> 01:51:31,680
like they were slacking off like they were just either they didn't have enough time because it

1043
01:51:31,680 --> 01:51:36,000
wasn't given to them by the production committee or they didn't have the skills or they didn't want

1044
01:51:36,000 --> 01:51:41,840
to I don't know what or if it's all three or whatever I can imagine the pressure or I can't imagine

1045
01:51:41,840 --> 01:51:47,600
the pressure but it's probably was probably there like the fan expectations and everything but also like

1046
01:51:48,560 --> 01:51:55,600
whatever they didn't work like there is some stuff in this season I liked I did not completely hate it

1047
01:51:55,600 --> 01:51:59,840
like there was some it was nice meeting certain characters again it was nice having the comedic bits

1048
01:51:59,840 --> 01:52:04,080
with sight on my they were good like they were fun like that that is this moment where um

1049
01:52:04,080 --> 01:52:12,400
like every time Blizzard Fubuki talks to him like his eyes glaze over and then genos

1050
01:52:13,920 --> 01:52:20,960
creator brings him some a great meat and he's just completely like hey I want to talk to you like

1051
01:52:20,960 --> 01:52:28,800
I'm all ears to what you have to say like Professor Kusano

1052
01:52:28,800 --> 01:52:36,320
rhyming him with meat oh my god that's so that's so good yes yes there's a lot of

1053
01:52:37,280 --> 01:52:44,320
stuff in there like the the second fight I think it's the second fight of of a zombie man against

1054
01:52:44,320 --> 01:52:50,320
the homeless guy where he lets him tell his entire origin story just to regenerate himself as much

1055
01:52:50,320 --> 01:52:57,840
as possible we were like really cool like cool trick and he's like fuck you finished too soon I'm not

1056
01:52:57,840 --> 01:53:04,560
done regenerating and you understand oh that's what you were doing while he letting him model

1057
01:53:04,560 --> 01:53:09,680
a log out oh okay I get so that was super fun I like these but there were definitely some good

1058
01:53:09,680 --> 01:53:14,960
beats at pieces there and some of the fight scenes looked actually decent for you know what J.C.

1059
01:53:14,960 --> 01:53:19,600
staff is able to do compared to what Madhouse was able to do with season one you know which is

1060
01:53:19,600 --> 01:53:25,840
almost not comparable but still like they they put the work in some scenes but just

1061
01:53:25,840 --> 01:53:32,800
huh the baseline is so low in this like it's there's so much aggravating shit especially

1062
01:53:32,800 --> 01:53:38,240
the pacing which is coming from the manga but also you probably could have sped up like do you need

1063
01:53:38,240 --> 01:53:45,280
the conversation of the heroes in that fucking in that room like does that need to be in there no

1064
01:53:45,280 --> 01:53:49,440
you can't just like one of the characters like one of the heroes say yeah we discussed this and

1065
01:53:49,440 --> 01:53:53,440
this is our team when we're gonna move off the monsters you saved like one or two episodes of this

1066
01:53:53,440 --> 01:53:58,560
shit like of bad pacing and maybe they wanted to stay as faithful as possible or maybe they were

1067
01:53:58,560 --> 01:54:03,600
like hey we need to have some episodes in here that did have barely any animation and then because

1068
01:54:03,600 --> 01:54:09,200
we are already like stretching our thel self thin over the couple of episodes that have action scenes

1069
01:54:09,200 --> 01:54:15,600
in them so we need more time or whatever I don't know but it definitely feels like that this is

1070
01:54:15,600 --> 01:54:22,800
like this shouldn't have been in here because like hey you're adapting it I'd rather you improve

1071
01:54:22,800 --> 01:54:29,360
upon the source material then being absolutely faithful like and this was one of the the situations

1072
01:54:29,360 --> 01:54:34,720
where they could have done that there's so many moments in this season where where I was yelling

1073
01:54:34,720 --> 01:54:42,640
cats right and they didn't do it they didn't do it like they didn't like speed it up in the moments

1074
01:54:42,640 --> 01:54:46,320
where they definitely could have like there's so many conversations among the monsters that didn't

1075
01:54:46,320 --> 01:54:50,800
need to be in there there's so many conversations among the heroes that didn't need into be in here

1076
01:54:50,800 --> 01:54:56,160
not even to have the some of the funny jokes in there like okay yeah we're missing out on some of

1077
01:54:56,160 --> 01:55:03,200
that stuff but the pacing would be so much better so that just not a good adaption in that regard

1078
01:55:03,200 --> 01:55:09,280
and sure I was happy to meet some of the hero characters again like puri puri prisoners I'm glad

1079
01:55:09,280 --> 01:55:15,040
he's back Tatsu maki is already always fun and Fubuki is fun and you know the two old guys and whatever

1080
01:55:15,040 --> 01:55:20,240
like there's so many fun characters but my favorites are barely in this like genos barely in this

1081
01:55:20,800 --> 01:55:27,440
sideama are made here are barely in this like again also fault of the manga material but even more so

1082
01:55:27,440 --> 01:55:34,400
reason to in the adaption get quicker to the parts of the story where they back and focus again

1083
01:55:34,400 --> 01:55:40,880
so why they didn't do that and why they didn't try to speed this shit up like fire force doing this

1084
01:55:40,880 --> 01:55:47,040
even though they don't have to right where we like both of us were like hey maybe we don't want

1085
01:55:47,040 --> 01:55:52,080
to skip out on all this stuff because we like the a lot of these characters and there is enough

1086
01:55:52,080 --> 01:56:00,240
action in there and so on but in this we don't get this it's so weird that they have the exact

1087
01:56:00,240 --> 01:56:06,160
opposite problem from one another man yes and like I said in the the previous part of fire force season

1088
01:56:06,160 --> 01:56:11,840
three had some moments where it went too slow and that was mainly in the fights where the fights

1089
01:56:11,840 --> 01:56:15,920
went on too long and all the interesting characters stuff that like it was cut short

1090
01:56:16,560 --> 01:56:21,440
and here we have kind of the opposite problem where they fights themselves kind of have a decent

1091
01:56:21,440 --> 01:56:26,640
pacing like they're not too long they're not too short most of them anyway and they're most of them

1092
01:56:26,640 --> 01:56:32,160
are animated well enough not all of them but at least half of them that you get a good time while

1093
01:56:32,160 --> 01:56:37,680
watching them but everything around it like everything around it is like a slog

1094
01:56:37,680 --> 01:56:43,840
aside from the few good sideama scenes and like hey you could have just skip that shit right you

1095
01:56:43,840 --> 01:56:47,600
could have just quickened that up you could just just take that out that would have been fine what

1096
01:56:47,600 --> 01:56:54,080
did you do that nope gotta be it gotta be 100% accurate to the manga yes so that is probably the

1097
01:56:54,080 --> 01:56:59,920
main problem like this is a storyline that is three times too long probably we'll see if we get

1098
01:56:59,920 --> 01:57:06,000
the rest of it which is not certain at this point considering how the third season was

1099
01:57:07,600 --> 01:57:13,680
like evaluated by the fan they say everyone who watched it so I don't even know maybe we'll have

1100
01:57:13,680 --> 01:57:18,240
another studio switch because the production committee is like oh we can't have this go on even though

1101
01:57:18,240 --> 01:57:22,240
they're probably the ones who cost all this in the first place because they didn't want to wait

1102
01:57:22,240 --> 01:57:29,760
for Matt house to have free slate for it again and I believe shingo not so much right to like he wanted

1103
01:57:29,760 --> 01:57:36,320
to do the second season but had other projects lined up first and because they didn't want to wait

1104
01:57:36,320 --> 01:57:44,880
for him to be available again they made made it change studios and I think I might be mistaken but

1105
01:57:44,880 --> 01:57:50,960
I think that's what happened I think this was on the production committee this is a side of things

1106
01:57:50,960 --> 01:57:58,480
like this switching from Matt house to JC staff and changing directors and everything so this is

1107
01:57:58,480 --> 01:58:05,920
on probably on them and also maybe now they be like okay maybe we'll switch it again to another

1108
01:58:05,920 --> 01:58:11,440
studio but that might also make it worse I don't fucking know I don't that would then be them admitting

1109
01:58:11,440 --> 01:58:19,280
to their fault and you can't do that yeah so as much as it would be nice to see it go back to

1110
01:58:19,280 --> 01:58:27,840
a more capable studio and I hate to say that because JC staff has shown the capacity to do good work

1111
01:58:27,840 --> 01:58:33,520
they even have shown it in this season partially there are like yes some moments where they do good work

1112
01:58:33,520 --> 01:58:41,040
the problem is it's all dragged down by the bad stuff so that's that's it's such a shame we

1113
01:58:41,040 --> 01:58:48,000
have so much fun with the first season like in our youthful innocent days 10 years ago oh my god

1114
01:58:48,000 --> 01:58:56,720
are youthful my youthful innocent days of 34 get back in my youth of 31 years of age Jesus

1115
01:58:58,320 --> 01:59:05,040
but you know and then season two was like and I was really really hoping that would not to be taken

1116
01:59:05,040 --> 01:59:11,120
down from what my part from what JC staff did in the second season everything but I really was hoping

1117
01:59:11,120 --> 01:59:16,480
that my part would did like that it after the second season was switched to another more like

1118
01:59:16,480 --> 01:59:22,720
powerhouse studio like my part which is where this show should be honestly this is absolutely

1119
01:59:22,720 --> 01:59:32,560
a show that my part so to like yes but my part also takes on so many projects so I take it then maybe

1120
01:59:32,560 --> 01:59:37,680
we wouldn't have gotten just a ties in my my part or health's paradise by my part or I don't know

1121
01:59:37,680 --> 01:59:44,560
what other other stuff they did in in between but hey one punch man would probably have worked

1122
01:59:44,560 --> 01:59:50,320
be worth it and I'm pretty sure whoever would have been responsible at my part would have been

1123
01:59:50,320 --> 01:59:57,920
able to quicken this this the pacing of the season up to a degree where it would have been more

1124
01:59:57,920 --> 02:00:06,080
entertaining and you know consumable and everything and JC staff just didn't do that they try to

1125
02:00:06,080 --> 02:00:11,760
stay apparently as faithful to the manga as possible which in this case was a is a real problem

1126
02:00:11,760 --> 02:00:20,240
because the manga's pacing is shit in this arc so I don't know how to get out of this like

1127
02:00:20,240 --> 02:00:25,200
I don't know if the manga's pacing gets better or does or the story does more interesting stuff in

1128
02:00:25,200 --> 02:00:30,400
the coming chapters when it will be probably focus more on Garo again and not on the monster association

1129
02:00:30,400 --> 02:00:36,000
stuff that might be interesting but also I've heard things that say differently and say just his

1130
02:00:36,000 --> 02:00:42,480
storyline is just not that interesting it doesn't support like three seasons of this uh that's

1131
02:00:42,480 --> 02:00:48,480
unfortunate because I was really interested in it yes I am as well like he you know the show's attempt

1132
02:00:48,480 --> 02:00:57,760
at discussing the anti hero trope through him is interesting but you know maybe that's not enough

1133
02:00:57,760 --> 02:01:03,760
like for the coming like two course if that is actually how long because maybe JC staff will be like

1134
02:01:03,760 --> 02:01:09,600
okay we were too faithful this season maybe we cut out some of the unnecessary blow for the next two

1135
02:01:09,600 --> 02:01:14,080
course could be the case maybe we'll only get one because of this and they're actually gonna

1136
02:01:14,800 --> 02:01:20,080
fasten up the pace might be the case we'll see maybe we won't get another season at all because

1137
02:01:20,080 --> 02:01:27,200
everyone hated this one it you know I mean season three quarter two is slated for next year but

1138
02:01:27,200 --> 02:01:34,880
I'm gonna wait and see who's handling the animation because if it's JC staffing and I don't think

1139
02:01:34,880 --> 02:01:41,440
I'm gonna watch it because I I don't want to put myself through this again man yeah that's the problem

1140
02:01:41,440 --> 02:01:46,960
like maybe it's time to close this chapter it would be a shame because again this is the show we started

1141
02:01:46,960 --> 02:01:55,440
with uh so I kind of have a nostalgic attachment to it uh it has yeah that's understandable right it's

1142
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like hey this is this especially at least the first season has a special place in my heart for

1143
02:02:00,960 --> 02:02:07,600
because of this and I'd love it to bits I think it's a fucking great season of action anime and I would

1144
02:02:07,600 --> 02:02:14,560
like to see how the story pence out but also maybe uh just I'm gonna read the manga if like the

1145
02:02:14,560 --> 02:02:23,760
if the animation in the anime adaptation of this story is not actually doing much to improve on

1146
02:02:23,760 --> 02:02:32,080
the still frames of the manga aside from having voice acting in it and everything uh then I can

1147
02:02:32,080 --> 02:02:38,720
might just as well just trying to read the manga and look at Morata's beautiful drawings and everything

1148
02:02:38,720 --> 02:02:45,840
and it will get quick through it quicker and um I will see we'll see we'll see what what what happens

1149
02:02:45,840 --> 02:02:51,840
with the next season and what JC staff does and maybe it will look better or maybe not uh and maybe

1150
02:02:51,840 --> 02:03:00,880
it won't happen it's wild to me that it took them this long since season two to deliver this with season three

1151
02:03:00,880 --> 02:03:07,680
like yeah maybe maybe the the card was so stacked like maybe they did they had so much else to do that's

1152
02:03:07,680 --> 02:03:12,720
why it took so long but they have them if they have been working on this show for that long and that's

1153
02:03:12,720 --> 02:03:19,600
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

1154
02:03:19,600 --> 02:03:28,320
the smallest studio right no JC staff are they're not a small name they've been around forever yeah so

1155
02:03:29,520 --> 02:03:34,960
like when I was talking about orphan I went back and watched when they did the original adaptation and

1156
02:03:34,960 --> 02:03:42,560
yeah you talked about that I don't want to say they've always been like this but they've always

1157
02:03:42,560 --> 02:03:50,480
been like this yeah so it's why to me that that this show of the first season went to the studio I

1158
02:03:50,480 --> 02:03:55,360
still don't understand it there were so many other other options technically maybe these audacers

1159
02:03:55,360 --> 02:03:59,120
didn't want to do it or the production committee didn't want to wait uh because they were afraid

1160
02:03:59,120 --> 02:04:03,360
that the show would leave the side guys or whatever and they couldn't use to make money with the

1161
02:04:03,360 --> 02:04:07,840
franchise anymore if they waited too long which is understandable I'll say or the production

1162
02:04:07,840 --> 02:04:15,120
company committee didn't want to put in that amount of money sure that is also a valipossibility

1163
02:04:15,120 --> 02:04:22,160
and it would be the most um which is incredibly short-sighted but sure you do you it's like it's

1164
02:04:22,160 --> 02:04:30,480
like this this this approach of being hey you you're gonna eat that slop up no matter what we prepare

1165
02:04:30,480 --> 02:04:37,440
how we prepare it for you I was like no maybe for another one or two seasons but if you keep

1166
02:04:37,440 --> 02:04:43,840
delivering this kind of product then no there's so much other shit to watch and eventually you have

1167
02:04:43,840 --> 02:04:48,720
to say goodbye if you're not having a good time with the show like I said I didn't have a completely

1168
02:04:48,720 --> 02:04:54,640
bad time with this but this is not even stacking up to what happens in season two so it's like

1169
02:04:54,640 --> 02:05:02,320
this few good scenes the few good comedic bit with sata man the few good fights in this don't make up

1170
02:05:02,320 --> 02:05:10,320
for the bad shit that is going on in this season not even the great OP by jam project and baby metal

1171
02:05:10,320 --> 02:05:15,760
which is a powerful combo and the song power through the people is cool and

1172
02:05:17,040 --> 02:05:22,960
I was gonna in on the OP this time but you know even that didn't work for you it worked for me

1173
02:05:22,960 --> 02:05:27,920
and there are definitely some shortcuts also in this OP where it's like just this this this shot of

1174
02:05:27,920 --> 02:05:33,520
sata man with his cape and there's a clip show playing in his cape when I was like okay all right

1175
02:05:33,520 --> 02:05:39,040
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

1176
02:05:39,040 --> 02:05:46,800
one punch yes like because the hero is such a strong song yes the first the first season is met

1177
02:05:46,800 --> 02:05:52,240
unmatched in all regards that that is crystal clear I just tried to fight things I liked about this

1178
02:05:52,240 --> 02:06:00,160
season john which is like is it an unfair meter stick maybe probably but just the same like

1179
02:06:00,160 --> 02:06:07,920
it exists like it's a part I mean they knew what they were getting into right like it's like yeah

1180
02:06:07,920 --> 02:06:13,360
you have the template and you have to to live with being measured up to that and if you can't

1181
02:06:14,160 --> 02:06:20,240
like what are you doing like yes it's your job and come on I I partially feel sorry for you if you did

1182
02:06:20,240 --> 02:06:25,840
your best but also what do you expect like do you expect after that phenomenal first season that

1183
02:06:25,840 --> 02:06:31,760
people would be just yeah but I'm also okay with this like no like if the first season didn't exist

1184
02:06:31,760 --> 02:06:38,080
in a way it does maybe you can think madhouse for screwing you over like yes yes well

1185
02:06:39,040 --> 02:06:46,480
again I got screwed over but it could production community or themselves and AI whatever so oh my god

1186
02:06:46,480 --> 02:06:54,240
maybe the the the maybe they're also the architects of their own like like I know it's easy to blame

1187
02:06:54,240 --> 02:07:01,440
stuff on AI in current climate but while looking at some of the stuff in this season man it was hard

1188
02:07:01,440 --> 02:07:08,560
for me to not be like no come on guys this this looks too much like it could be this

1189
02:07:08,560 --> 02:07:19,600
hmm yeah yep yep yep it's a bummer this could have been such an awesome show from beginning to end but

1190
02:07:19,600 --> 02:07:26,560
you know sadly it all went downhill after season one if you still want to watch it John is it on

1191
02:07:26,560 --> 02:07:32,960
crunchy roll I think it's on crunchy roll and hulu I'm not sure where else is but you can

1192
02:07:33,840 --> 02:07:39,760
obviously it's a big popular show for better or for worse so you you'll be able to find it yeah yes

1193
02:07:39,760 --> 02:07:47,200
if you want to if you're still just what it's chain yourself to this like we did for this season and I

1194
02:07:47,200 --> 02:07:53,200
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

1195
02:07:53,200 --> 02:07:59,920
studios maybe look better I don't know but also probably not and I don't know if I can go through

1196
02:07:59,920 --> 02:08:09,600
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

1197
02:08:09,600 --> 02:08:16,400
shame so much promise all of its quantity there's like this small glimmer of hope that it might get

1198
02:08:16,400 --> 02:08:24,640
better but it's fading quickly so yeah don't want to end and this this this first episode of the

1199
02:08:24,640 --> 02:08:30,320
season on such a bummer note but here we are hey but we're gonna talk about more fun things again in the

1200
02:08:30,320 --> 02:08:37,360
not too distant future yeah like I mean like I was seeing earlier I hate to I mean I was gonna say

1201
02:08:37,360 --> 02:08:42,240
I hate to be negative again so soon after wrenching rough on but we talked about Yaiba last time and

1202
02:08:42,240 --> 02:08:51,040
that was great Yaiba was great so I guess we were overdue for multiple just stinkers this time

1203
02:08:52,160 --> 02:08:57,520
so there's in there's other good stuff that we talked about that's airing this season and then

1204
02:08:57,520 --> 02:09:03,840
our one other episode this season was a show that I think but probably both enjoyed so we got

1205
02:09:03,840 --> 02:09:09,680
other good stuff to talk about at least yes and maybe hey maybe we'll be around long enough to see

1206
02:09:09,680 --> 02:09:18,160
this this adaption this story be redone by by more capable hands and hopefully that one will

1207
02:09:18,160 --> 02:09:31,440
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