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Hello and welcome to an all new episode of Anime Brain Freeze.
We are your revived hosts.
I am John.
And I'm CC and when there's just too much cool anime to watch, we've got you covered.
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Summer is here, summer is hot, and so are some of the premieres that we checked out from the newest anime season.
And we'll talk about briefly, momentarily, in our sneak peak.
After that, we will review our first show from Spring, the newest project from CowboyBeebobDirector Shinichiro Watanabe,
who together with StudioMapa brought us the secret agent, Scavengerhunt Spectacle Lazarus.
So brush up your parkouring skills, definitely pay attention to your surroundings because what you seek might be closer than you think,
and definitely don't pause the pot, will be right back.
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So yes, sneak peak time as usual for first time listeners.
This is our section where we talk about
the new premieres, which we watched one, two, three episodes of depending on many have aired,
what we had time for, whatever, and give you our brief impressions on it.
We have three sections, the notes, the maybe's in the keepers,
no notes today, but usually those are the shows that we watched a few seconds, minutes, whatever, half and decided.
Nope, not gonna continue watching that for whatever reason.
Then the maybe's the shows that are somewhat enticing and that held our interest at least for a while,
and that we might keep on watching might finish, but we don't know yet.
And of course, last but not least, the keepers, the shows that we definitely liked and definitely want to keep on watching,
and if nothing super surprisingly bad happens.
And maybe even then we will finish them.
So, I mean it has happened before.
Kata Kodysurka's comes to mind.
I showed that I was very enthusiastic about in the beginning and then that just went...
Yeah, so as I, and then I dropped...
You finished it, I dropped it maybe...
Two thirds of the way through?
Sometimes I like to hurt myself.
Oh, don't worry, I'll be doing that this season.
I can see what's coming on the horizon.
But yeah, I think I have one more maybe than John.
So I will start and there might be some overlap somewhere we didn't talk about our picks before.
So first maybe, Leviathan is a show...
That is actually already completely out at least the first season.
I don't know if it's getting multiple season, but it's a Netflix show and it's not a weekly release,
so they released it all in one-fold swoop.
So if you want to binge that, you can do that right now.
But yeah, that is the new show from Studio Orange.
Or I guess the second show because they're still working also on the second part of the final season of "P" stars.
So...
Right.
This is maybe not the main team.
I don't know, I can't tell yet because, you know, CG animation,
but Orange usually delivers the best version of that.
And the show looks good.
It's set in an alternate universe.
World War I scenario, pretty much at the eve of World War I actually, that's where the show starts.
And with the essence assassination of the Austrian archduke, just like it happened in real life.
Everything else aside from that is very wild alternate history stuff though.
First of all...
Yeah, it seems that way from the trailer.
Yes, so Austria, Germany, I don't know which other European powers have Max.
They're called Walker's here.
It's very steam-punky and they look very front-mission-nish, I guess.
Or, yeah, somewhat bulky.
Vansers come to mind.
But then we, on the other side of thing, the British army for some reason has genetically engineered beasts they use for warfare
who have apparently been created by Charles Darwin.
Sure.
As you do.
So in the first episode, there's like this giant fucking saber tooth getter, whatever it is, that is pulling a carriage.
And then one of our two main, or sensible main characters, Dylan Sharp is...
In the training maneuver carried away by a giant jellyfish that they apparently use for air combat or whatever for power troopers, I don't know, to get around.
And then at the end of the episode, we meet the titular Leviathan, which is just this giant flying whale that is made up as an airship.
So, there you go.
That's what we are dealing with here.
It's wild shit and what I didn't know before.
This is based on a novel series by an American author called Scott Westerfield.
It's apparently a YA novel series and yes, that is definitely using out of the material.
Like, you got two young protagonists, first of all, the young Austrian prince Alexander,
who as far as I know is completely made up the archduke never had a child called Alexander, but there is some weird naming coincidences with another person in European history relating to this war with the same name.
And I wonder if they're gonna do a switcheroo there and then by the end of the story is like,
"Ha, this person was actually that person."
So, that's interesting.
And on the other side of, so, Alexander, we have on the one side of things his parents get murdered and he gets transported to safety by some of his subjects.
And yeah, he's probably gonna end up being thrown into the war or whatever.
And then on the other side of things, we have Dylan Sharp, who is actually a girl who is like dresses up as a boy to be able to list and list in the British army.
And then she accidentally gets transported away by the jellyfish due to things happening and I guess ends up on the Leviathan.
And I guess these two are gonna end up together in one way or another as opponents on the battlefields or I don't know.
If you look at the story, they would be like the original history.
They would be opponents because you know, you got Austria-Hungary on the one side with Germany together as the Allies and whatever and you got Britain on the other side, I guess technically.
But that seems to be mixed up.
Like they seem to switch that around because for some reason the Walker that Alexander and his subjects, his lieutenants, whatever escape when gets attacked by a German tank.
And the Germans and the Austrians were aligned in that war so I don't know what's happening here.
Maybe it's a conspiracy thing, I don't know, or they just switch everything around.
So we'll see, that's gonna be interesting.
So yeah, Alexander's history story, pretty wild and orange doing the animation.
So the CG is at least good quality.
We'll see if it reaches great.
I like the first episode.
It's maybe a bit problematic that it's human characters and I feel like Trigon looked a lot better.
But maybe that's first episode syndrome and they're not that many big character or super character moments yet or whatever.
But it feels a bit choppy in certain parts that in others it doesn't.
The action scenes or that one very short action scene that was in there where the where the storm Walker with Alexander in it has to
escape from the German forces.
That was pretty cool.
That was very well animated.
Look great.
So I don't know.
I assume since this is a war series, we're going to get a lot more of that down the road.
And yeah, it's going to be interesting.
I don't know yet with alternate history stuff.
It's always like, okay, how dumb is this going to be like what?
Yeah, it can be kind of a toss up.
Yeah, exactly.
Like and if it's going to be dumb, is it going to be the fund or is it going to be the infuriating revisionists?
Weird political undertone.
Right.
That exists as well.
And you know, it can go either way.
I mean, the fun versions of that are I guess stuff that Kojima does with, you know, snake eater and stuff like that, which has a lot of revisionist history stuff in it.
But, you know, he does some interesting things with that regardless.
And I don't know if that show is going to do that because I don't know the novel series.
I don't know how popular that is, how well regarded that is.
So I haven't read up on any of that.
But I'm interested to see more at least for now.
Definitely going to give it like a two or three, one or two more episodes.
I want to see what actual, what the relation between our sensible two main characters is going to be, which I can't really determine yet.
So that's going to be interesting.
You know, given certain YA tropes, I can see where the story is going.
But we'll see, maybe the show will surprise me.
And yeah, the setting is interesting enough.
Like we don't have that many anime I think that are said in World War One, albeit an alternate history, World War One.
And you know, I always like when things like things like that get spiced up.
I like the Temerair novel series where there's like, you know, polian wars, but suddenly dragons.
So that's also fine with me because that's the kind of stupid I can deal with where it's like, okay, this is dumb.
But it's also a fun take on what happened in actual history.
And then what would what would happen if you would introduce a science fiction or a fantasy element into a real history scenario.
And I could see this being a fun dumb show like that, but I can't tell yet.
But the good side, the good thing is, since it's all out, I could technically just go for it and find out pretty quickly if it's my kind of dumb or not.
So what's it? What happens? But yeah, Leviathan could be nice. It could be cool.
Could be very probably will be very dumb. Let's hope it's not going to be infuriatingly dumb.
John, what is your first maybe?
I'm going to go with a cultural exchange with a game center girl.
So this is all about this girl who is very British goes is in Japan for some reason.
Maybe she lives there. Maybe she's missing. It's not clear from the jump, but she's trying to win a prize in a crane game.
And we know crane games there are there scams.
Yes, but one of the guys who works there, this boy, Renji, he manages to win a prize and give it to her.
And he can barely speak any English because in Lily, this this girl, Lily can't speak, she can barely speak any Japanese.
So he's like, yeah, this is a present for you and he looks over at the wall and what's days it's Valentine's day.
Happy Valentine's.
And it sort of goes from there because you know, he she sort of starts to come back to see him, but he said, he's like, oh man, did I do something stupid with this?
I'm not really sure.
And Lily, Lily is a sweetheart. She's a cute girl.
She gives him this to know, you know, that's his happy Valentine's, you know, be my Valentine.
And she's like, he actually does the legwork to go and right, translate a note to her from Japanese to English and says something along the lines like, well, I'm not sure if I can be your Valentine because I don't know what I'm doing.
Because I don't know anything about you know, it's like, oh, that's cute.
So they start to get to know each other by having this notebook that they can write back and forth in that, you know, they can use to communicate and get to know each other.
And you know, they assume we'll use this a few call for, you know, obviously this blossoming romance as well as, you know, learning each other's language and culture and the setting.
And you know, it just seems like a neat little story.
So, yeah, it's, are you watching that?
Because he said she's very English.
It is in Japanese, but the voice actress for Lily, I believe is bilingual.
And I think they brought in someone to like, explicitly do a lot of the English voice direction for her.
So interesting. So it is, it is, it, it, it sounds like actual English in a way.
Maybe slightly stilted, but it's, you know, you could listen to it and be like, yeah, okay, no, that's like 99% of the way there.
Okay, so they went the extra mile for that. That's cool.
Yes. So, you know, it's cute. It's, you know, very bright pastelly, you know, as you might expect from it.
I think it'll be worth at least checking out a few episodes and see how it goes.
It seems, it seems like less one of those will they want they and how will more of a, how will they get there?
Sort of thing.
Which I prefer.
Yes. I mean, they're a little on the younger side.
So, you know, I think Renji is probably high school and maybe Lily is portrayed to be slightly younger than that.
But, you know, it's, it seems fine from what it is.
Yeah, sounds, sounds like a cute show.
Yes. He'll at least be wholesome, I think.
Yes. Good after work. Comfort food material as it sounds like.
So, what you got next.
Something that definitely doesn't seem like comfort food at all.
Which is kind of, it seems like it's, it's going to be a running theme with my sneak peeks.
It picks this time, especially when we come to my keeper or at least the keeper that is a new show.
Who of prepares us. Anyway, so the first one also not off to her cozy start.
The summer that Hikaru died.
Oh.
So, half a year ago Hikaru went missing for an entire week on the mountain.
And since he has returned, he doesn't remember anything about what happened to him.
But, whatever came back from that mountain is actually not Hikaru.
Which, his best friend, Yoshiki, realizes very quickly, but promises not to tell anyone.
First and foremost, so that whatever the thing posing as Hikaru is doesn't kill him, which it threatens to do if he says something.
But also because he misses his friend's question mark very much.
And at least that way there is still a version of his friend around.
A fake copy though.
So, we'll see if that suffices in the long run.
So, yeah, this is a horror mystery show.
And it's open, it's getting right into it.
The show is not really like fumbling around the first episode, Yoshiki, something is wrong, something is weird.
In the first couple of seconds, we see that we see him already telling fake Kuru or whatever you want to call it.
You're not really Hikaru, right?
And then we have the confrontation and the threat.
And yeah, we go from there.
We quickly go into, like, not the Nile mode, like he's accepting that that is not the same person, that's not his friend.
But he's like, but that's good enough for me.
As long as Hikaru is here in one way or another, because he's dead apparently, so I can't bring in bed, but this is like good enough for me for now.
Because this was his best friend and maybe more like the show, I feel like the show is heavily implanted Yoshiki's gay.
Because there's some hints here and there, we have a flashback where Hikaru tells him, "We get mad every time I'm talking about you getting a girlfriend."
And at the end he asks Fakeru if he likes him and then, you know, whenever that is, that entity says, "Yes, I like you very much."
He says, "Ah, Hikaru never said this to me."
I feel like there is some kind of thing going on here or going on between, or that went on between the real Hikaru and Yoshiki.
But I might also be over interpreting things. I don't know, but that was the vibe I'm getting and that makes it all the more understandable, you know, less alone be a person, your best friend in a platonic way, dying and you having to live with that.
But also maybe a person you had romantic feelings for and being your best friend and then that person dying.
I can understand why Yoshiki's hesitant to let him go completely and then is just, you know, dealing with that by not dealing with it and accepting this new fake version of his best friend in his life.
And it's like, "Okay, this will work out, right?"
So, but of course it's probably not going to work out because whatever that thing is, it seems to be very intent, at least that's what the end of the episode suggests.
It has not been fully confirmed yet, but that's what the end of the episode suggests is very willing to kill people who recognize it as what it really is.
And there's also apparently some kind of organization who's on the hunt for it and trying to destroy it for whatever reason, so a bit of a conspiracy thing going on maybe.
So, yeah, it's a bit of, guess, stranger things, but also a bit of, you know, maybe romance, but also countryside, cozy Japanese countryside and summer vibes.
So, it's, you know, a very interesting mix with a very eerie, but nonetheless, and captivating atmosphere.
So, I liked what I saw in this first episode.
With, you know, with horror anime, it's always like, is the, are the scares really there? Like, is the atmosphere there?
The atmosphere is there for now. I was really scared yet, but, you know, I can see watching this, not like I did in bright day, but maybe shifting, watching this too.
In the dark room at night, this being even more effective in terms of being a horror show, but we'll see.
It might also get super dumb, which I can't really tell yet. So far, it's mainly focused on our two main characters.
It's really interesting that Fakeru always when he has the memories of Ikaru, but everything he's experiencing, he's experiencing for the first time.
So, even if he's a memory of seeing a movie, eating some kind of food, he still experiences it like the first time he's experiencing it.
So, it's really interesting emotional component, and, yeah, we don't know what it is yet, really. Like, is it a ghost? Is it a yokai or whatever?
Is it a failed experiment that was created by the organization who seems to be hunting it? So, that has not any of that has been revealed yet, but that's part of the mystery.
And, yeah, seems cool. Like, can go either way, that's why it's still a maybe, but I like what I saw.
So, I'm interesting to see where it goes. The family drama is playing into it, and, you know, Yoshikis state of mind and everything in his relation to original Ikaru.
And, we'll see how this develop, this relationship between these two, two friends, but also not friends is going to develop.
Yeah, looks interesting, definitely. So, yeah, John, what is your next maybe?
Well, I mean, I think this maybe might be bleeding into the keepers for me, so if you want to take your last maybe before that.
Yeah, sure. Let's go with that then. Yes, my next maybe is a Gachiakuta. That's how it's pronounced. I'm not sure.
I think I saw that name floating around. Yes, it's a new bone, the new bones show.
And, I don't, I assume it's a manga adaptation, but I'm not sure. So, the show opens up very mysteriously with like a text scroll into splice with some of the initial scenes.
It's set that when an object is treated with care, a soul will come to inhabit it. So when trash is thrown out, what comes to inhabit it?
Humans think nothing of turning an object into trash to dismiss it as filth, never to hold any value again.
They do this to other humans too. So, we're getting dog already. Wow, no kidding.
Like I said, my, my picks for the quicks kind of ever theme. But yeah, so this is set in like this weird city which might be above like on a plateau above the previous earth.
Maybe this might be a post apocalyptic thing. I'm not quite sure yet. I've only watched one episode.
But yeah, this city is like in the middle there are, it's like the upper class and everything is super clean and there's also, they are also very, very obsessed with cleanliness.
And getting rid of trash. Everything is very bright, everything is very white in more aspects than one.
Oh no. And yeah, we have our main character, Rudu who is to this trash collector, which apparently is so legal that the cops immediately trying to shoot him for it.
Okay, the bar for getting shot by cops is pretty low depending on the country you reside in. But still seems extreme.
So, yeah, he escapes and he returns to his residence in the slums which are settled around the, on the outer rims of the city which these people who are from the tribes.
That's what the show is calling it.
There are have been pushed to who are much dirtier than the city folk and at the edge of these slums is our like pits and anyone who commits a major capital crime is getting thrown gets an immediate death, death sentence and gets thrown into the pit.
And that's what happened to Rudu's father, his biological father anyway, who apparently was accused of doing a murder spree like everyone believes he did it for some reason, even in the slums.
And he got thrown into the pit and then a person, I don't know if he was a friend of Rudu's father or whatever, but a man called recto picked up Rudu who was still a baby then back then and brought him up as his own son.
As his own adopted son. And they have kind of like a, not necessarily an antagonistic relationship, but they're trying taking jabs at each other, each other, but there's definitely love there.
And yeah, then one day after Rudu has just like kind of confessed to the girl he loves, that he loves her.
He gets back to the shop office or the house of his dad and his own and finances adopted father murdered by some person wearing a mask and yeah, then gets immediately accused of having committed that murder himself and gets thrown into the pit.
The last picture he sees is the girl he confessed to saying, I believe I believed in you, but I guess you're just a murderer after all and thrown away his present and turning away from him and then he gets dropped into the pit.
Geez.
Yep, not a great start for our main character here.
But yeah, we end up him waking up in whatever the pit is, which seems like this giant waste disposal site and then suddenly a giant weird Mac monster that's eating garbage appears and that's how we ended.
So, yeah, this seems to be and he most importantly Rudu of course because of this experience vows to kill anyone who wronged him.
So, this is a bit of an edge-lody show. I can I'm getting some shoot here vibes from here, but not as bad and Iki in certain regards and it seems to show is very much intent on putting the focus, criticizing the right things.
There's definitely a class warfare thing going on here. There's definitely some racism and xenophobia that's going to be tackled and that's very obvious already in the first couple of minutes of the show.
So, that's fine. I don't know if it's going to be delicate, I doubt it, but that's definitely a thing the show is going for without a doubt.
So, yeah, it's interesting, it's a bone show so it's like it's well animated and the characters are interesting enough like a bit standard of course in terms of setup and what's happening.
Oh, guy accused of a crime didn't commit and you know, then vowing revenge for the people who did that to him and whatever and of course for killing is adopted father, which is understandable.
And we'll see where this goes. There's probably some conspiracy in the background with the people of the rich people of the upper class in the city trying to keep the status quo and maybe we see recto.
So, Rudo's adopted father in the beginning being in the city and taking notes because of something. So maybe he was on to some kind of secret or whatever and that's why he got killed and they tried to make it look like Rudo did it.
So, that's probably going to be where this show goes and Rudo uncovering that. But first of all, he has to find his way out of the pit and that's going to be interesting.
Superpowers will be involved because for some reason Rudo has like burned hands and when that is revealed that he has since his childhood at like these burnt hands. We hear like the sound of like a radioactive guy or counter in the background where it's like ticking right.
So maybe it's some kind of radioactive poisoning or whatever.
And maybe he got superpowers and can create flames or something. He talks about the hands being held all the time and being painful and he can only sub through the pain when he wears these special gloves, recto made for him.
So we'll see where this goes. I don't know yet, but it's interesting definitely for now. It's just depending on where this goes. It might get too dumb for my taste. I don't know.
But yeah, the setting is interesting enough and I always like myself a bit of a post apocalypse and we'll see where this goes and sticking it up.
Like sticking it to the rich guys or whatever who try to treat other people like garbage. Yes, please do that. Kill them all Rudo.
Eat the rich. Yes. Hey, wouldn't it be funny if Rudo actually turns out to be to be a rich eater or something like.
Like for some reason can actually eat people and get stronger and then the tech line of the show is actually going to be eat the rich.
I would be fucking funny.
I don't even think that saying existed in Japanese. So I doubt it. So but it would be funny. Anyway, that's where the show is obviously is obviously going and it doesn't exist in Japanese, but international marketing.
Yeah, yeah, let's see. And he's not only going to be taken out probably on the the rich people, but also the people from his community quote unquote who we were very willing to abandon him on the phone.
You know, on the flip on the going or whatever. So we'll see who we'll see how far he goes and if he become just a violence driven revenge monster that then needs to be put down.
I don't know. Let's say I that I can't tell you it by it, but I like I liked what I saw. It was definitely interesting enough.
I don't know if we'll hold my interest for its entire interest for its entire runtime, but there's a chance. So that's why it's a maybe.
So if you're not done, then your maybe that is going to bleed into your keepers.
Yeah, I didn't there wasn't a whole lot that grabbed me this season, but you know, the one thing I was really looking forward to.
I wasn't sure about, but I'll probably end up watching all of it is city the animation.
You know, you know that this is basically the spiritual successor to Nietzsche's show. Yes. And it's every bit is crazy from the first episode.
It's got the same sort of zany stuff going on like the you've got your quiet moments of all your characters are talking about this that they are thing.
And you have moments of one of the main sets of characters runs this restaurant and the father who's the cook ends up tripping and falling in ends of dropping this plate of fried noodles into one of the patrons bags.
And they go, because comedy, so they go up and out of their way to try and cover it up.
So makes a second plate and does the same thing. Oh my god.
And then his son gets home in terms of his bag, not the patrons. So that's that's the level of humor we're dealing with here.
And you know, it's got the same animation style. It's it's you know, obviously it's it's Kyoto animation doing what they do best. So God.
There's a lot that happens. Like all back to back to back. There's one scene where it's like, let's, let's read your horoscope.
Okay. What's well, I'm not sure I want to know my horoscope. I don't care about any of that stuff.
But what says here, your lucky item is a, it's a mini skirt.
You expect to wear a mini skirt today. You want to have bad luck.
So we have this, this guy putting on a mini skirt and wearing it all day long because it's his lucky item.
It does it turns out to be not so lucky after all he gets, it gets called on it like this happened to you because she weren't wearing it jokes on you.
I was wearing it under my pants.
All right.
I mean, I never watched Nietzsche Joe. So, but I always could garner from some clips. What kind of joke jokes?
Like what kind of humor it's going for.
Nietzsche Joe is so goofy because it starts off, you know, very sort of calm and unassuming.
And then you have a scene where one of the girls is rolls up onto a goat like she's doing a shungoku satsu.
And then like not quite suplexing, but like doing a spinning pile driver to it.
You see one of them, you see the principal having like a wrestling match with a deer.
There's a scene where a couple of the girls get on the ankle by a dog and their scream is so loud that it sends a giant beam is the atmosphere.
It's like that. Yes, yes, yes.
That is Nietzsche Joe. That is also city. The animation they are cut from the same cloth. It's very clear.
Sounds like a fun time. It is. It's silly enough that, you know, each scene is a different joke.
That is so it's like good. There's always, you know, a different type of humor come out.
So like you have a scene where there's this manga artist who's like, I don't know.
I don't know how to keep writing this.
I think I've run out of jokes in the joke is that I guess there are no more jokes to be made, which I don't know if that's sort of a reflection of the author.
But there's also other things going on there too. So it's silly. It's goofy. It's colorful. It's crazy.
But it seems like to be your kind of crazy that you enjoy very much.
It's definitely, you know, silly one of those. It's kind of stretching the the concept of truth or stranger than fiction.
But it's sort of there.
Yeah, definitely going to keep going with that. See see what it do. See how goofy it is as it goes on.
But yeah, that's that'll probably end up becoming a keeper in the long run.
So I think that will transition us perfectly.
So yes, what you got mostly returning shows, I think just like you, John.
So getting those out of the way first.
Dr. So in season four part two. So the second part of the three part final season.
So it will be a while until I live at the final, uh, deliver the final review for that show.
But I'd definitely be watching it eventually. I haven't watched season three yet.
But I will definitely do that. I love season one and two. So that's definitely going to happen.
But I'm probably going to wait until it's finished and I'm just going to binge the shit out of it and then review it by the end of whatever season.
The final season part three is going to be released.
The second season of Dandadan.
My best off the season from winter this year. So of course I will be watching that as well.
Speaking up right where it left off. So lots of crazy nonsense happening to my favorite new couple excited to see where it goes.
Very hyped for that because I'll enjoy the first season or the first course. So fucking much.
So yeah, it's going to be a great time.
And as of the time of this recording, both of both the second season of Kaiju number eight and the second season of Sakamoto days haven't started airing yet.
Can't even talk about that. But I for sure will watch those two as well. And I'm looking forward to it very, very much also Kaiju number eight.
Also one of my best off the seasons because that had just a perfect mix of shown action Kaiju action.
A great animation from production. I gene everything the characters were fantastic. So I'm I was sitting on our calls for the release of the second season of that for a long time.
So not that long, but long enough. So yeah, looking forward to more of that definitely. And John, what returning shows do you have?
Obviously Sakamoto days. Yes.
I've been continuing to look at pre-session orchestra. It's still got the pre-cure energy in there, but it's got the sympho gear music.
So it's continuing that on the introduced a new addition to the villain's team who maybe seems like might have something in common with our heroines.
So I'm interested to see where that goes. It's four seasons long.
So, you know, I mean, I just curious to see if they can keep the momentum going. I've seen it's a kid's show, but I'm just curious to keep checking it out.
So is it right now more of a month of a week style thing or is it actually going for, I mean, aside from what you just tease an actual like story.
I think they're building toward actual story. It's like the first 12 episodes, like we have some monster of the week are villains who are all their names are all themed after musical instruments.
Of course, they have these these beasties called jammer walks and they're all theme their names are themed after chest pieces.
So I think you know what they're eventually going to be built in towards like the king and queen jammer walk.
But you know, they built like they brought in you know another one for the villain team. They kind of shadow introduced like their boss, but they haven't really gone into that. I don't know if they haven't the latest episode.
I haven't watched that, but you know, there's three more seasons worth of coming up. So like they took a break for a recap episode. But you know, OK.
But yeah, I want to at least continue to glance at it and see what's going on with it. So you know another one is Yiba. Yeah took took a week break, but as of this recording just came back.
So their Yiba had his big confrontation with only Madoo, but they're still other things going on. So it's still kind of you know doing its goofy thing, but they're trying to serious it up when they need to during the big encounters with like the bosses as they were.
And only Madoo's sword got broken into two pieces and he's looking to fix it so we can reclaim his glory and all of that. But his fortress took to the skies and now they need to fly up after him and that's going and it still looks absolutely gorgeous.
And just with studio is still killing it, you know, they're still looking great. So I'm still looking forward to more of that going forward. Yeah, me too.
And the last one.
You knew it was coming.
Starts with an R.
It's forensic girlfriend season four. Of course it is.
Split course. So there's going to be 20 something episodes I have to endure. I am sending you all my strength to do on.
Kazuya isn't it dude.
He is, but he's got these more. So I just I want you to at the beginning of this season.
And the truth is like he she wants to at the end of the last season.
Kazuya helps Chisuru get this movie made that this one thing that she's been wanting to do because she's been using the rental girlfriend gig as you know a way to work on becoming an actress, which OK, sure.
And she's a whose grandmother is like on her deathbed. She's dying and she she wants to get this.
Kazuya wants to help she's to get this movie made before her grandmother dies. So she so he can help that she can present this movie to her before she passes.
And they're able to do that. And there's it's kind of bittersweet. But then she's her you know she wants to repay Kazuya for his kindness.
And in all of this, you know, he does hurt his best to help get this moved along.
But she poses this question to him, hey, are you wouldn't love with me because one of the other characters in so many words says that to her.
And someone is getting a clue.
Because he can tell he wants to say it deep down he wants to say it, but you know, there's he has this moment of hesitation.
And he doesn't say it. And it's like, oh my god.
Because then the show would be over.
I know. I know. I know.
But then there's the other girl who is ostensibly his girlfriend, Ruka. And she's a good.
And she's a good girl. I don't dislike her. And you know, she just she just wants to two of them to be together.
But in the back of Kazuya's mind, he's got this thing for she's a room. And it's like.
Something needs to be done. It needs to happen. I'm sure this is going to go on for two to three more seasons at the least.
I don't know. I haven't looked up where we are with the manga yet.
I think I did it one point and I just haven't done that again, but like.
I don't and I think I don't know if I said this on Mike.
But I know I expressed it one point.
Kazuya ends up getting back together with his old girlfriend who was absolutely nasty and dumped him and hates him and just wants to see him fail in other romantic endeavors.
If that's what happens at the end of this story, just throw it all in the garbage, dude.
Set it on fire. Put in a dumpster. Set it on fire. Toss that dumpster into the sea and just let it drift out. I am not for pollution.
But in this case, I mean, do you feel like the show is gunning for a specific girl in terms of that being the final one?
It's got to be. She's a room, right? It's got to be not talking about what you want, John, but what you feel the show is like.
Going for it's got to be a cheesero or a ruka.
Okay. If it's somehow no, it can't be mommy. I won't let it be mommy in my head. I won't.
I can't. I hope not. But I saw people talking about where the story goes, but I don't know any of the details.
I don't want to know for myself. Yes. I need to keep watching this.
This train wreck. And I hate this train wreck, but I like that there are these genuine moments between the characters.
Like, there's that it has that. And you can tell that.
And that she's rude is like she knows she knows, but she she's trying to keep up the facade of this.
And she knows she knows what it is. But she's trying to navigate that for herself because she's not entirely sure how she feels.
And her her grandmother told Cosya at one point, well, you know, she puts up this strong air, but she's this weak girl underneath, but Cosya says she is a strong girl.
You know, there are cracks in the facade, but she he's not sure how to navigate that. So it's like, you know, relationships.
Yes, it's tough. And I and I feel like it's it's starting to move to work away from the will they want thing and how will they get there.
But you know, just all this other stuff that's going on and it's like, you know, I hate to use this as a comparison point.
You don't want to Facebook. You can set your relationship as it's completely.
I feel like it's that and I feel like that maybe it can move towards something.
I guess I'll keep watching it at least for another season to a course season.
Yeah.
So it was weird because at first it was like, Oh, it's going to be two course back to back, but then it seemed like, Oh, it's going to be only one core.
And now it's confirmed to be a split core. So it's like.
So I'll keep going and I'll report back. And that is my that is my end of third season rant about it.
So everything I have talked about is what I have seen so far. And I like parts of it and I don't like other parts of it because of implications.
But you know, I'll keep watching it and maybe at some point will have will have the end of fourth season checkpoint and then we'll have.
However, long this show goes on the final talk about it, but every time it comes up, I'm going to say something just like every time Sword Art comes up, we are going to say something.
And the problem is I make it we because I drag you down with me and I'm sorry.
Well, I'm not letting for Sword Art, I'm just a willing co-conspirator for rent a girlfriend. I won't let get myself dragged into that mess.
Fair enough. Like I still haven't I still haven't watched the SAO movie the progressive movies either.
I'm at least willing to check them out because they're from Asana's perspective, I think.
So that might be only slightly more interesting than cardboard cut out, uh, Curetee toes, uh, perspective. So we'll see.
We'll see. We'll see. I just hope that rent a girlfriend doesn't break your brain by the end of it. And I have you like this.
It's just blubbering mess and I just there's just there's just the one thing I don't want.
Yes. So let's hope that doesn't happen. That's that's all that's all I'm asking for. Yeah. Cross crossing everything or I have for you, Joe.
Thank you. We keep being your prayers. We shall.
Anyway, what else did you have? Yeah, I have one more show. So that is my technically my only keeper that is not in continue.
Well, and surely is still continuing. I didn't even talk about continue show all these returning shows. So that's still going on.
And the other, of course, but yes, the show that started this season and that's a definite keeper for me, despite its subject matter is Takopee's original sin.
What happens when acute octopus alien that wants to spread happiness throughout the entire universe encounters a severely depressed person?
What if the alien is a well meaning but very naive idiot? What if the person they're trying to make happy is immune to its very simple understanding of how to make someone happy?
What if that person is bullied and the alien has no concept of what bullying is?
What if the person is bullied and the alien has no concept of what bullying is?
I appreciate that they're upfront about it.
What if the person is bullied and the alien has no concept of what bullying is?
I don't think it's the same author that wrote this.
It is not allowed to let people use that unsupervised.
I don't think it's the same author that wrote this.
This is a very heavy show dealing with very heavy subject matters.
I'm looking forward to see how this show will handle those topics.
It contrasts the shallow initial approach of Takope to his mission with what that results in.
I think it's the same author that wrote this.
I like to show notes what it's doing.
I watched all of it dubbed.
I like to show notes what it's doing.
I still haven't watched Sonic 3 but I want to sit down and watch I want to be able to focus on it.
I want to look at it and see if I got any messages or whatever.
I don't want to look at it and see if I got any messages or whatever.
I've already watched a lot of times and I've already watched Monster in the German Dab.
I've always known where I am in the story because the sound is loud enough and so on.
I've already watched a lot of times and I've already watched a lot of times and I've already watched a lot of times and so on.
I want to show notes what it's doing.
There are some episodes that are not as great as others.
There are some weak episodes that are not entirely shitty episodes.
I think we both think you're worth checking out because it's a short run time and it's got some pretty good character stuff in there.
Neither was Carolyn too.
I think the characters are weird.
If you let yourself do that, bringing it back to this not making a second screen experience, you should definitely give this your full attention.
I definitely didn't regret my time with it and it sounds like Jon you did either.
Thank you for watching.
I'll see you in the next video.
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