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Hello and welcome to an on-new episode of Anime Brain Freeze. We are your family-friendly zombie hosts.
I am John. And I am C.C. And when there's just too much cool anime to watch, we've got you covered.
Today I will start us off with a ZOM-100 bucket list of the dead. A serious, that ponderous question, what is worse?
Full-blown zombie apocalypse or your soul and body-crushing health-scape of a job?
I hope that we will rejoin our favorite family of Spice, the Forgers, to see what turbulent shenanigans they will encounter on a cruise ship.
Grab your favorite rainbow-colored zombie-slang weapon of choice, pick the most effective and hopefully least offensive disguise you can think of.
And definitely don't pause the part, we'll be right back!
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Graduating from a top university with an impressive extra curricular record in the rugby club, Akira Tendo has nailed every step of the way to securing his dream job.
On top of that, a beautiful and kind coworker always brightens his day in the office.
Life seems to be going very well for Akira until he slowly realizes that sleepless nights and brutal work are his new reality.
After three years of mind-numbing labor in this exploitative company, Akira is unable to recognize the tired, unaccomplished person he has become.
On track to losing all passion in life like several of his overwork colleagues, Akira finds his saving grace in the most unexpected way possible, the breakout of a zombie apocalypse.
The free time he finally has, Akira decides to complete a bucket list of 100 things he wants to do before he eventually gets turned into a zombie.
Although he is surrounded by the dead, Akira has never felt more alive.
Things again to my analyst rewrite for this summary.
So yeah, the ZOM-100 bucket list of the dead is based on a manga written by Haro Asso and illustrated by Kotaro Takada.
It started in October 2019, currently count 16 volumes and is still running.
Asso also wrote and drew the manga "Alice in Borderland", which I think has a live action-adaption running on Netflix currently.
At least that name sounds very familiar.
I've watched that, but yeah, like I said, the name rings about the anime adaption of ZOM-100 was handled by BAK-Films, which is a new studio and seems to be comprised of a lot of X-O-L-M guys,
Oriental Light and Magic, which these days are probably most well known for their Pokemon anime stuff.
We'll get back to OILM in a bit, but yeah, BAK-Films is pretty new, fun and in 2021 I think,
so they've mostly done second-key animation up to this point in stuff like Mobile Suit Gundam, Witch from Mercury and should make a sprites season 2.
On that murder-fars, Scott Pyrogram takes off.
Currently delicious in Dungeon, and they also did the animation production of the second OP and second ED of Summertime rendering.
But you can tell that there are some very capable people working on this despite this being a new studio.
ZOM-100 is a great-looking show in my opinion, necessarily not top-shelf all the way through, and there are reasons for that, sadly, and we'll get to that sooner than later.
But yeah, this show has an incredibly vibrant color palette, which you wouldn't expect from a zombie show, but this is not your typical dreary, resin-evil or walking dead affair.
Zombies, blood and gaur are coming all colors of the rainbow in the show. Some scenes feel more like a pop-art jam session or something than anything set in Apocalypse.
Don't get me wrong, even though everything is toad down-cord on-cord by having the blood be like these melted Skittles puddles, and all the zombies look like Jackson Pollock paintings at some point.
There is still plenty of gaur to be had in this show, so if you're a faint of heart and can't really deal with that, be just be aware.
But generally, it's incredibly fun to look at, and it's also really well animated most of the time, especially the action scenes.
The fourth episode has a ridiculously cool evading and incoming gasoline truck moment, including the zombie driver of the truck still holding a sandwich, his zombie dog sitting in the passenger seat, and them colliding with a fireman that is spraying literal fire from his host for some reason.
I don't think that's how it works.
No, it doesn't this show, John. It makes no sense, but it looks awesome.
There's a chasified scene with a zombie shark on legs, yes, in an aquarium in Episode 5 that looks so goddamn good.
So yeah, the show has, would be able to survive on its humor and good vibes alone, but it's nice to see that it has a lot of suck-a-go-go to go with it.
Speaking of humor and good vibes, this is a very funny show.
I can't speak for how well the comedy aspect is handled in the manga, but in the anime, the dialogue is very snappy and energetic, all the characters have great banter and chemistry, the couple of select-stick moments that are in there are not so over the top that they seem silly, they're very well placed.
The ridiculous situations that the characters are thrust into are commented on and reacted to in the appropriately outrageous way.
This is handled by none other than Hiroshi Seko, so I shouldn't have been surprised since the man is in a depth of the scriptplay God in my book.
And not only the comedy is great, there are also some genuinely good dramatic and emotional beats in the show that make the characters even more sympathetic and are handled with enough care and given enough gravitas so they don't get sabotaged by all the nonsense that is otherwise going on in every goddamn episode.
Just in all around very tightly written and directed show with no real superfluous gram of fat on it.
I was directed by Kazuki Kawagoe, who also directed Komi-Kan-Komunikate, which seems to be also a very heartfelt comedy-toned show.
So this was probably right up his alley.
At least in one way.
The music is also great and was composed by Makato Miyazaki, who also did the music for one punch man, and for the second show we're going to review this episode by family.
There you go, there is the connection, I knew I would find one.
Unlikely, but there it is.
So yeah, let's get to the, with the production notes out of the way, or mostly anyway, let's get to the characters and story.
So as described in summary, Akira Tendo, after getting his ostensible dream job, finds out that it's actually hell on earth because it's an exploitative company.
Crunch, more unpaid overtime than he can count like abusive appears in all that bad shit.
And it's just a bad time all around pretty quickly.
The more we see Akira spiral into depression in the first episode, the more the presentation loses its color, which is like this very interesting device that you maybe just notice subconsciously at first.
And then like, oh wait, the color just is completely gone from the show.
It's first like in the beginning, it's this typical workplace comedy slice of life.
It must be a very colorful, very bright, like it feels like there's, I don't know, some we error bloom on some of this stuff.
But you know, he's being welcomed at work meeting a cute girl there, fun after our restaurant meetings with the colleagues.
Then once the nasty size of this workplace start to pop up like for example, having to pull an all nighter on his first day, actually having to stay in the office for three days at night straight, unpaid overtime in the three digits, collaring the apartment she flow pay, peer pressure to not take time off the use.
The color palette in the show slowly, but surely becomes this very monochromatic gray healthscape and it's not like Akira immediately throws in the towel.
He at first really tries to be optimistic and motivated in spite of these torturous circumstances, but eventually the grind gets to him as well, of course.
His apartment becomes a mess, his eyes become this slowly black tempest of depression. He shambles around like an actual classic slow zombie.
The thought of jumping in front of a subway train starts to look way too enticing because it would mean he wouldn't have to go back to work the next day.
So real mood real is so when Akira runs into his first zombie one faithful day.
Suddenly there are aspects of bright colors again and the moment where he realizes it's a zombie apocalypse like from his movies and he doesn't have to go to work anymore.
It's like a Sakuga fuel spiritual awakening, reawakening. Suddenly everything is full of light and hope again full of color.
My man runs away from the heart of zombies and literally breaks the black bars at the top at bottom of the screen that were characteristic for his flashback to his own personal horror movie work.
So yeah, there's this really triumphant music that starts playing. It's a fantastic moment.
He finally steps into like the free colorful life he always desired, which is funny as hell because this should not be the reaction to a zombie apocalypse.
But you're also really happy for him and won the cheer because he has escaped his hell on earth which anyone who has ever worked a shitty soulcrushing job can relate to.
It's also nice that they make an effort to mention that Akira played rugby all throughout high school in college which explains why he's such a good runner.
Which you know, it is not necessarily by this nice to know why he can outrun all the apparently ridiculously fast zombies, not all of them, but some of them are really good runners.
So it's like, oh, why can't he? Well, he and one of his friends that we later meet can show they were in the rugby team and so they're fast fast boys fast as fuck boys.
There it is. There it is.
The kind of darkly funniest thing about the first episode though is that the depiction of the exploitative company, I believe in Japan, they call them black companies.
Akira is working for contains a couple of Easter eggs that are not so subtle references to OLM. So the previous employer of the people who worked on this show.
The company's logo in the show is basically the same as OLM logo. And the office building is actually identical to OLM's office building.
I like to Twitter post a description so you can see for yourself. It's wild.
But considering recent events and the state of work culture in Japan as a whole, I think there are sadly a lot of companies that potentially fit the describe situation.
So yeah, if this would be the end of the story in regards to that, that would have been funny.
Oh man, they suck it to the man and everything.
Ironically, someone hundred was actually facing production issues pretty much from the get go.
You can see that reflected in the OP, which for the first three quarters of the show is pretty much only half finished and is half like this half OP exclusive animation and half clip show.
It evolves over time, like there are more and more unique animation scenes added to it.
But it's only the complete version in the last three episodes because we got a big break between those and the batch that came before it.
Also episodes started being delayed very soon from the start. I don't even know maybe as early as episode three or four.
And like I said, the last three episodes had to be moved to the following season, which is why I'm reviewing this show now and not in fall.
Since it was technically a summer show, but didn't finish until December 2023.
Hard to say what happened here, aside from the usual stuff, but it seems since bug films is a very new studio, very small.
I think they only have like 21 employees or something. So they maybe hadn't figured out their production pipeline yet.
And I think there was more outsourcing on the director's previous project on comi can communicate so he maybe wasn't able to adapt his ambition to the different situation.
Either way, it's a bummer and considering the subject matter of the whole show and especially the first episode is like I said, darkly ironic that this happened.
I hope them not trying to cram the last three episodes in the season that they started in like no matter the cost and instead having to move them to the next season or deciding to move them to the next season.
Mentalized crunch, but I can't be sure.
So yeah, that's that's like the big asterisk on this otherwise very, very cool show. It's like starts out as this fuck you to a bad work, a work environment.
And then yeah, it turns out there were big production shows on this show.
We've come full circle people sometimes it's like that.
Yeah, but yeah, getting away from depressingly funny stuff back to actual funny things.
A lot of the humor in this show is derived from juxtaposing Akira's happy attitude towards this apocalypse scenario with the stereotypical and understandable desperate people he encounters sometimes.
Who definitely don't share his enthusiasm for this whole scenario. This happens on a regular basis like with a next door couple on the first day, for example, where he is just going for a beer run and slides down the water drain.
First very distraught when they notice him then flabberg acid when he kindly offers them to bring some toilet paper paper from the store.
It's like, yeah, he's a good guy and he's like taking this with a stride or in stride.
But yeah, yeah, why is to go to the store like Indy the first day is in this new life for him after cleaning his apartment, which is the first thing he does because now he has time for that.
And motivation Akira just wants to plant his ass on the couch all day and chuck a couple of cold ones sound plan.
I'm myself not a beer guy, but I wouldn't mind like just drinking, I don't know, some some bottles of coke or Pepsi just the entire day if I was like, oh, I don't have to work tomorrow anymore.
Right. Wouldn't mind that. However, he is out of beer. So yes, we go for a beer run where he runs into a girl in the supermarket who saves his ass and yeah, he also upgrades from his bike to a scooter and then to a motorcycle, which he keeps they later get in our V2 to get our V to get around.
Because apparently this is the best vehicle in the zombie apocalypse as seen in several booths as stated by one of the characters.
Hey, yeah, later he starts his list, one hundred things I want to do before becoming a zombie.
At the beginning of the show, he only gets to like 33 things on this list, but it already contains such bangers like try out dreadlocks.
But, but also essential stuff like spending time with my parents meet the girl of my dreams and so on. So it's not just ridiculous, but there's a lot of ridiculous shit trust me.
John, what would you put your on your bucket list if there was a zombie apocalypse of things you always wanted to do?
Oh, god, you're putting me on the spot. I know, I'm sorry, it just was thinking of it.
I don't even know, man, I just, I feel like in my head, I would just be like objective survive.
Yeah, so just to go with one of the other characters, we'll get to her.
But yeah, I don't know what I would, I would probably, I don't know as long as we have, as long as we have like electricity, I would probably play as many games as I can.
And then I've seen the movie zombie land. So, you know, got to remember at least the principles of cardio and double test in all of that.
Yes, yes, but there's still the approach of, you know, mostly trying just trying to stay alive and everything.
And I feel like, you know, Marie.
Yeah.
And not for Akira is focusing on, how can I go, Carpedium full force?
Like, how can I make every the most of every day or at least the most in the sense of, how can I enjoy my life in the way I wasn't able to until now?
Or not since school or college or whatever. So, yeah, he has a different approach to the whole thing.
But later other characters add to that list too. So it becomes a shared reason that of our main group of characters, which is pretty cool.
And Akira also wants to become like kind of a superhero who saves people from zombies because that was his childhood dream, which is also on his bucket list.
Like, remember his childhood dream and he remembers remembers at some point. And he was big into Japanese superheroes, Tokusatsu stuff.
And so he gets himself a shark suit and becomes Akira. His makeup superhero persona from his youth.
Okay.
Which kind of works because those suits are made to withstand shark bites.
So they can't be easily pierced, but getting bitten still fucking hurts. So he's not going into every zombie fight, you know, trying to beat the shit out of them.
He has to learn, you know, he to to pick his battles. But, you know, he's a force to be reckoned with it. There's another character that is even stronger later.
But yeah, next Akira saves his best, but can show from being cornered by zombies in a sex club in Shinjuku.
There's like this nice emotional beat because they had a falling out before because, you know, Akira being depressed from work and can show pretending that he like that he had like the best work in the world, but also secretly hating it as well because he was like selling shit as goal to people and he hated lying to them.
You know, he couldn't he couldn't admit that he hated this. So they had a falling out because they, you know, didn't see eye to eye and now there's this moment to get on the same level again. And yeah, this unlikely scenario gives them a chance to see eye to eye again.
And the moment can show literally bears it all as a side to behold good vibes again also shows that shitty jobs can ruin good friendships.
Any Akensho wants to be a stand-up comedian and later also goes blonde because he thinks that thinks that is something to stand out and that's what Kaviyin should do.
His brand of humor is nudity, so you can imagine what what a lot of the humor on his side of things is derived from.
But yeah, there are some bangers with that guy. He's a lot of fun. And the show also has more sexy stuff than I expected, at least in the first or in some parts of the episodes.
Like, can she immediately jumps into bed with a girl he meets in episode four? It's pretty forward. There's some scenes in the beginning of the show.
So it's like, oh, I did not expect that. But yeah, then we have another character, important character and that's the girl I mentioned before. She's a car.
She has similar list compared to Akira's, but it's not under things I want to do before I get turned into a zombie, but 100 things to do to avoid becoming a zombie.
Completely different attitude. She is still entirely in professional work mode.
The second half of the second episode shows us like the day we just witnessed from Akira's point of view where it does the beer run, but now from her perspective.
And she's all about min-mixing high priority tasks only analyzing the zombies through movies and everything and, you know, filming then through cameras or smartphone and then looking at their behavior, behavioral pattern, patterns.
There's nutrition only the most essential items, no sweets, no fun allowed. Of course, like you said, treadmill workout and all that stuff.
So, yeah, that's her approach. So you can imagine when she runs into Akira who has like the completely opposite attitude.
She doesn't really know what to do with him and kind of like what just wants to get rid of him in the beginning because he's like, you are too big of a risk.
And I can deal with you and, you know, grouping up with you and your friends seems like a bad idea and will get me in more trouble than if I was alone and everything.
So that's the beginning like she's a bit of an argumentative ice queen and like I said, it's completely at odds with Akira's philosophy in the beginning, but she eventually warms up to at least his bright and open nature also turns out Akira is a bit of an accidental smooth talker.
And wouldn't be all like to be that and it helps to have someone in the group who has a neck for risk analysis because Akira and Ken show are not necessarily focused on that.
And there is a reason for she's because attitude towards effectiveness and everything that plays into her backstory and character development, which is cool and very well done.
And there's a great moment where that comes to like becomes the focus and there's a really great emotional beat that relates to that and to her relationship to Akira.
So really good stuff. Like I said, there is some meat in this show to two are not only just, you know, bare bones, comedy stuff and everything and hijinks.
Then the fourth character who joins the cast very late is Beatrix Amahosa. Oh yes. The final team member. She is a genuine German weeaboo who loves Japanese culture and thus learn to become an ass kicking zombie slaying samurai slash ninja.
Sure, why not? She's a general Japanese culture and history net inert and often knows more about the locations the group travels to than the actual Japanese characters, which is hilarious.
Right. Yes. And you know, every time they come to a new location, she's like, oh, I heard about this and this and that and this is here because of that. And then she starts talking nominally and then it becomes like her, like her narration is fast forwarded like eight times the speed or something gets faster and faster because she talks so much.
And the others are not listening anymore. It's really funny. But yeah, she's entertaining so far there was not much character death to her, but I assume that might be coming in future season and stuff like that.
But she's very entertaining and fun. And yeah, also I feel called out because when we meet her, her mission is to deliver fish to a restaurant because she wants to a genuine Japanese sushi for the first time.
I'm in this picture and I don't like it. But yeah, the show, like I said, mostly comedy, but there are some sad moments too. I mentioned the stuff between K and show and there's the stuff with Jesus and Accurator on.
And like in the third episode when Accuria becomes friends with the girl and she turns into a zombie, but not before she actually got to work in her child or fulfill her child dream by working as a flight attendant.
So Akira gets another entry to the list. Remember my childhood dream, which is why he then remembers. All right, I want to be a superhero.
So good development and everything and the set moments don't feel hamphous. It's only in there for shock value or whatever or to make you sad, but also, you know, there is some value to it in regards to how it affects the main characters and how it advances them in this weird scenario.
Also, that episode has a great visual gap where Akira literally loses face. I've shown this to you, John. It's amazing. Yes.
But yeah, and the show basically starts out in Tokyo and we have a couple of episodes there where you know, the characters, we have characters starting to grow as a team.
And then it's just, you know, Akira then he meets up with Ken show after reconnecting with him and then eventually they run into Shizuka again and decide to get out of the city first independently, but then they stumble upon each other again when trying to go to pick an RV to use to get out of the city.
And they had the same idea at the same time. So yeah, Akira, I think wants to visit his parents on the countryside and Ken show is just sticking along and and Shizuka also wants to get out of town.
Don't you remember what her reason was, but probably because, you know, there are no more people apparently in Tokyo anymore.
So they just want to leave and go to the more secure place. Then this becomes a road movie, kind of a road show, I guess.
And it's also very entertaining. We get a lot more interesting visitors and also becomes a bit of this like, hey, Japan is beautiful even with zombies.
So where like I said, where Beatrix also comes into place like, hey, have you heard about onsen towns like Japanese hot spring towns and stuff like that.
Have you heard about the beautiful countryside? Have you heard about this and that?
So it becomes that a bit, but also it doesn't neglect going deeper into what it started with like in terms of not just she work environments, but just shitty people in general.
And how such a an apocalypse would affect these dynamics like people who are controlling manipulative and abusive assholes in their jobs will be like that in an apocalypse scenario too, probably, probably worse.
And the show doesn't beat around the bush when it comes to stating what it thinks about these kind of superiors who treat their quote unquote subordinates like a mindless workforce as food for their own self validation.
It's already pretty pretty clear in the first episode, but the show definitely hammers at home in later episodes and not only works a period.
It also jams its teeth into abusive parents who can do just as much damage if not more when they treat their kids like tools or consider them just an empty vessel for their legacy also.
What becomes of people who were shunned or rejected by society if they are suddenly free of rules and regulations might not want to cross the path of some of these people.
And then there might even be a dark twisted mirror of your innocent desires. So that is interesting and the show definitely does some stuff with that that I didn't necessarily expect considering the general comedic tone of the show.
But yet it goes to some actually dark character dark places, but on the character side of things not necessarily just dark dark zombie horror stuff.
I mean, that's a familiar trop in zombie media like people are the real monsters.
You see actually the real monster. So yeah, actually we are the walking dead, but someone hundred definitely manages to convey those themes more effectively and entertaining than walking dead ever did.
Also, the much shorter time and without endlessly regurgitating the same plot points over 11 tires some seasons.
You mean you didn't like that?
No, no, not at all. I mean, depending on how long the manga runs someone hundred might get there if we get more seasons after this one that is, but even then I doubt it will become as tried and repetitive as the walking dead became after season one or two honestly got that show suck once they're about got booted.
It's still going.
Kind of.
Well, yeah, spun off into million different other things that their movies I'm not watching any of that shit.
But yeah, when compared to that show, someone hundred is also a lot less cynical, often downright idealistic in its optimism, which especially for this genre is not only refreshing, but also goes a long way to make it not turn into a depressing slog considering the subject matter.
The core theme is all about carpe diem, living your life to the fullest and following your dream while you still can even if everything around you is trying to take a bite out of your body and or soul.
And I can definitely get on board with that sentiment.
Also help out your fellow man or woman because karma is nothing to sneeze at shows definitely also putting an emphasis on that.
The only thing that I didn't quite like at the end, but is just again like this.
This tiny little gripe just like a lot of animated show glamorizes living in the Japanese countryside a bit too much in the last three episodes.
Three or four, I think.
I mean, I get it.
The Japanese countryside is dying because nobody wants to live there anymore aside from all people.
So it's basically an advertisement vehicle in that regard.
And I don't have anything against that per se, but so many shows do this.
So it gets really old at this point.
Please look at the wonderful community, all the nice people and the tranquil life you could have instead of your torturous drop in the big city.
I feel a bit manipulative, especially in this kind of serious.
And after seeing it so many times in other shows, I think I just appreciate anime that switch it up a bit.
Like for example, Joseph Kaisen that showed us the darkest side of small towns with very conservative minded communities in the boonies.
Like I think that was a no bar respect story.
But then again, that would not have fit the generally optimistic tone of this show.
And it's only the very last section of the season.
So it's fine.
It's just like the tiniest gripe.
But yeah, that's kind of it.
You know, if this was a second season review and there might be one down the road, I would go into more details and plot development.
But I want you guys to experience that for yourself. It's a great show, immensely entertaining, heartfelt, incredibly funny, a real tight package.
You can watch it on Crunchyroll and depending on your location and a bunch of other services like Prime Video or Hulu.
I hope we get a second season.
And if so, with less or no production issues, please.
So that not only Akira, but also the animators can have a happy life.
I implore everyone of you to at least watch the first episode of this, which is definitely one of the best first episodes in anime period.
Especially when it comes to setup and pay off.
Akira's freedom run is worth the price of admission loan.
So in the spirit of the show, we could die today or we could die in 60 years.
Life is too short to avoid taking risks.
So this is definitely a risk you should take and brace the dystopia and sing your personal song of the dead.
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Alright, so, you know, zombie apocalypse is our neat and cool and fun.
Are they both?
I mean, it's on 100 there. I mean, that's enough.
Depending on the context.
But what about going on a cruise, boring a shit with spies and assassins?
Hmm, better. That's spy family season two.
Wow.
They couldn't decide.
We thought the last thing we reviewed, we thought that was season two, but apparently it was season one part two.
Yes, which that makes sense, but depending on where you look or who you ask,
is either spy family season two or season three?
I wish we could come to a consensus on this stupid core nonsense.
Yes. I mean, it's on an in-news network.
I think it's just called TV3, like third TV outing.
And since we already, I think in our review index wrote season one and season two,
I'm just going to stick with that because I'm like, fuck it.
But the problem is it makes sense both ways.
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, it's the third TV thing of spy family.
It's the third core, no?
Yeah.
Yes.
So what happens in this third core, John?
So we kind of touched on the first episode when we brought it up in the sneak preview where
you're out doing her thing, in Lloyd takes her on a date, but she got a shot in the rear end.
You know, as in with a bullet, let's get your minds out of the gutter.
All of you.
You never learn if the bullet is stuck in there.
If she pet to pull it out, if it was like a clean shot through or something like that.
Yeah, that's.
She has a right on her ass.
That's all left and big.
Yes.
Uh, she's not having a great time.
No.
So when Lloyd offers to take her out to dinner because she, because he thinks she's in a bad mood.
And she accidentally drinks some blowfish venom, which helps ease the pain.
Yes, because she has, uh, resistance has a resistance to poison.
She has built that up over the years as an assassin.
So yeah, and everything's fine.
Everything's great until the next morning when the pain comes back.
I mean, that just like I said in the sneak preview made me realize how many dates or date situations rely on you sitting down like movie theater, restaurant,
a nice boat trip on on the lake or whatever, you know, going to a nice place with the limousine,
everything Lloyd does is like, hmm, putting on clothes of going shopping.
It's like, hmm, problem.
Yeah, it kind of makes it a no win situation, no matter how you slice it, but of course,
you can't say that to Lloyd.
Yes, because then that the show is built on this flimsy premise that something like this would actually blow up the,
uh, their, their relationship of, it may, it's set of maybe them coming to an understanding and still working together,
but she doesn't know that he's a spy.
He doesn't know that she's an assassin.
So they operate under ignorant, certain circumstances, half knowledge, which pretenses on both sides.
It's not an equal thing on both, like your is not world savvy, which also, you know, she's an assassin.
She's a spy, but she comes across in a lot of ways as very naive, right?
She's very good at her basic job, but there's some other stuff where she's like oblivious.
There is like, what?
I mean, and that's the same for Lloyd.
The problem is for Lloyd, I buy this less because as a guy who deals in information and has to pretend to be other people,
I cannot like his entire existence in the show starts to stretch my suspense of disbelief.
It's fine, don't worry about it.
Like, there are so many situations where it's like, how do you not understand what is going on here, my man?
This is ridiculous.
How does your four year old or something daughter, even without her mind reading powers have more common sense than both of you?
What is going on?
I hate, oh my God, Lloyd is so smart and yet he has no, what's the word I'm looking for?
He has, it's like he has no common sense and yet it is so weird.
It's like, there is like this weird hole in his skill set that shouldn't be there, but is there?
Like again, I buy it more from you and no, not because she's a woman, shut the fuck up, everyone.
No, because she has grown up kind of like still this very protected, aside from becoming an assassin, there probably was something with it,
but she has like this weird go get her attitudes in the beginning.
She has just taken care of her brother and everything.
She was always a very caring person and weirdly enough an open-hearted person all the time.
So I just, it's just her persona, I buy it more because she feels like more that person.
She is not that this cold calculating thing, like maybe when it comes to her job but also that she seems to be more acting on impulse, right?
That's the vibe I get from her.
Yeah, they build her to be a lot more honest.
Yes, to evolve kind of.
Yes, in a way, exactly.
Lloyd is a strategy, he is like absolutely book smart, like smart, like he is, he's, I don't know what,
the highest IQ, whatever in his, but what he does in certain parts of the show does not, I mean, yeah, but sometimes some people are like that.
Yes, I guess, I guess, like he apparently, this is like his role, he is like a robot persona, right?
Like he acts like a human being, but there's several key characteristics that he misses, that for whatever reason,
because he grew up a war often or whatever, that where it's like he hasn't experienced certain things.
And that's why he's missing that information to work with it.
Like when your is behaving a certain way, he can't properly interpret it, even though he should be because he's good at reading, she should be good at reading faces, because that's part of his job.
That's what I mean, like you have also always got to a point in the show where you have to ignore that this guy is supposed to be the best spy of West Tallis.
The people reader, it's like what?
I kind of feel like though as the story has gone on, the characters around him in particular bond, you're an onion, kind of help humanize him more.
Absolutely.
Yes, and I mean it's the whole point, right? That's the whole thing where it's like no, actually he learns that some things might be more important than his job, might be more important than his mission.
And the same goes for your in both in the season.
There's a part lander in the show where your actually has to ponder that was like, okay, what am I still doing this for actually?
Why am I still being in session? My brother is now a grown man, well, an adult, well, you know, let's say he can survive on his own or he should be even if he doesn't want to, but you know, she doesn't have to protect him anymore.
Right.
So that was the main reason why she became an assassin. That was the main reason why he she got into what is it called her, her company, the garden or whatever?
I think so, I don't remember.
Yes, so her weird, creepy boss to caretaker or whatever he is called.
But yeah, that's why she is doing that job.
And now that, you know, she realizes at a certain point in the show, like the character development bits in the show are always sprinkled in between all the shamanic and stuff.
And there's no, I feel it's like there are no real arcs where it becomes super serious. And now here, there is this big character moment.
There's some bits and pieces, he's sprinkled in between. And this is one of them this season, where it's like she is actually thinking in a couple of moments.
Okay, do I still need to do this? Do I, or can I maybe do what I actually want, which is stay with stay with, stay with Lloyd and Anya, right?
I think he's really, make this a real family because this deep down is already what she wants.
I think she's already getting there, Lloyd, maybe not yet. I think he's resisting this more than she is because he is, you know, robot mission man.
But like you said, the more he spends time with his makeshift pretend family, the more he also gets pulled into that world.
And then we're more and more smiles creeping on his face and there was one of the best aspects aspects of the previous season where we get introduced to Fiona agent nightfall.
It's also in this sadly, not nearly as much as I wanted her to be like this is.
Yeah, come on.
I was so happy when she was back like in the penultimate episodes like, oh my god, Fiona is back finally and then it's like only 10 minutes or something.
Great 10 minutes don't get me wrong or five minutes only it's fantastic, but I want her to be kind of be a constant part of the show.
Have her appear in every episode like Frankie for fuck sake.
I don't need Frankie in every episode, but I would like to have Fiona in every episode.
So yeah, that would be great, but so far that hasn't happened yet, but maybe it will.
Yeah, that was part of it where she's like she wasn't used to seeing this side of Lloyd and when she actually sees him interact with his family for the first time or if she sees it for the first time, she's like, what is this expression?
This smile that is not a fake smile. I only know his fake smiles. I only know his mask and this looks like this is not a mask.
This is like genuine happiness that he's experiencing right now and that completely throws off. That's like, your is able to give him that.
I'm just able to give him that I wanted to want to give him that so and I can't do that right now.
So I feel like I've already lost him or lost this battle against your she's not giving up of course because she's, you know, the person she is, but I was like one of the pivotal moments that also speaks to what you said earlier is like, Lloyd is slowly becoming a different person.
This is a better person. So this is cool again. This is not the thing I have an issue with. Like I love the part where he is. They slowly, you know, he slowly slowly becomes a different person.
It's just like the moments where just from his profession side of things, he should be able to determine what is going on.
And I'm not talking about just being to understanding that his daughter can read minds. Nobody can guess that the science fiction bullshit. Like how would you, how would you just assume that?
So I'm not talking about that, but just very simple things when it comes to reading people because if you can't read people properly, you can't react to certain things properly and you can't become such a good as good of a spy as Lloyd is supposed to be.
So that's the only thing I've trouble buying. But again, I know I'm approaching this whole show from way too much of an analytical realistic standpoint.
And I should just give up, give up because most of the time these characters don't behave like real people. So why am I even trying?
I just just accepted and let the nonsense wash over me because from the way they try to frame the story, it's worth exploring that aspect of it. But like, yeah, it's this show is done.
Yes, yes, it's a very dumb show at times, but also very funny. Like they're great jokes again in this season.
And I mean, the first couple of episodes are a lot of one-offs. I don't even know what we all have in there because they went by so fast. I mean, the big part is the cruise ship, but it's like only the middle part or still large chunk of it is five episodes or something is the cruise ship five or six.
Yeah, yeah. So and before that, we had to have a lot of on those. We have some bond focused episodes, which I appreciate a lot.
I love that person who bond is like, oh no, oh no, if your feet, I'm going to die. Oh no, he has not built up a resistance like Yuri has to yours cooking.
Has Yuri though really? I mean, he's not dies just puking. He's he's the food isn't killing him. So that's something. I guess.
But yeah, so and Yuri is of course already is again in this like our favorite stasie boy and syscon.
Like what a combination of things to be. Yeah, he is this weirdly serious plot beat there where he spies on a guy who sells anti-Austenia propaganda for newspapers, which is like.
It's like kind of doing a nice thing for him, but also the show maybe trying to ignore the sinister aspect of this and I live in the country this show is based on right like Eastern West Germany.
This is what this show what the setting of the show is. There's no talking around this is obviously that like the town they're working in is called Berlin.
So yeah, we get it. So I guess I have more of a connection to this at the history behind the true the true history behind this.
But it's a kind of I don't know what's hard to really justify. Oh yeah, but I guess it kind of makes a little bit of sense to show at least some of that sort of thing.
Yeah, sure. No, I I like that it's in there. It's just like when compared to all the other weird stuff that is happening.
I don't feel like the again, the the serious moments are sabotaged in this by you know all the nonsense that is happening just like I didn't feel like that in some hundred.
I feel like the show is doing a good job at letting the more serious moments simmer a bit when they're in there and not immediately juxtaposing them with some slapstick bullshit.
Most of the time anyway, so that's good. But it's a different thing to have serious character development that is fictional.
But also in this case to have serious analogies to actual dark historical stuff that actually happened.
And then having to deal with even if it's not the same scene, but in the same show having to do with all the other fun.
Oh, Shenenigans that are happening around it and again, like for a lot of people who don't know the history behind East and West Germany until you know the Berlin will actually get torn down and stuff like that.
That might not ring through at all, you know, that might not be such an issue. It's just for me. It's something I haven't a back of my head and so.
That's not interesting. So but again, it's not something I'm like, oh my god, this is killing the show for me or anything. It's just like it's okay.
Don't it's weird to dance. Yeah, I'm not going to think about that too hard. Unlike the stuff I'm thinking about too hard, which is why it's not able to understand that his wife has been shot in the butt.
So because you didn't ask, yeah, what ended asked, John? What? I don't know. But yeah, there are some other nice one of bits like there is this little bit with Damien, you know, the guy, the son of the person that Lord is actually trying to get close to interrogate because he seems to have plans for wars and everything.
And Damien is a tool for that for him anyway. That's the whole reason why he put Anya, Anya in the school that she is in to get close to the sun and then, you know, being maybe invited to a social event with the family and stuff like that.
So that's the long game that Lloyd plays. So of course we get some bits with with Damien as well and his good squad.
And he is so focused on studying to earn more stillers, which are kind of like these awards in the academy that may identify you as a good pupil and give you more chances to succeed after school and whatever.
And you know, he does so much for that that he neglects just being a kid because he wants to live up to his father's expectations and everything.
So he, his goons and teacher go on a little field trip and turns out Damien's goons actually are good friends and not just suck ups, which I like gives him some depth.
And it's really nice going on a hike episode and, you know, then turning up at a nice vista and is under at a lake under a starry sky and everything and having a nice, I don't know, soulful moment.
But that was really nice. I like that that that episode as well. And some weird other bits that I wrote down like this this weird mini TV show in TV show moments with Bond man who is quite the ladies man.
And it doesn't work out or is he. Yeah, we got to get the muckarounds of okay knowledge or not.
To work, they don't make a genius out of you, but they taste good. But yeah, we learned that Anya has a very bad poker face and apparently speaks ancient language.
This is one of the like this, the thing I like about this, so there's like these smallest details that they throw sometimes in there that where I feel like seems like a setup for something.
This seems like something that is coming back later, maybe that in particular definitely does. Yeah, yeah, it was like, wait, why did they feel like they needed to mention that that seems important.
Has that something to do is that just something she picked up through her mind reading or is she is she actually is there something related to her skills and why she they were able to turn her into and a mind reader and stuff like that.
So very interesting. I like this kind of world building. This kind of character building was like, hey, did you pay attention? Just wait, maybe this will come back later. So yeah.
I like some of the one off episodes with with the focus on Frankie, you know, where he has a Mac suit and tries to catch a cat. A very smug looking cat.
And you're also gets thrown into the mix. But yeah, it's it's it's fun. And yeah, like I said, we actually learn a bit more in this, which is interesting because this is the first time I think we do about your work.
What her whole setup is like until now correct me if I'm wrong, John, we've only seen really seen a Lloyd's called like like organization and some of the people there and how it set up and what is mission setups is and everything and to give some of the jobs and shit like that, you know, the lady with the right here, the big cat or whatever.
Forgot her name, his handler, but now we see that for your and her boss is the shopkeeper, which I assume is maybe her surrogate that person kind of because she seems to always be contracted by him or at least that company.
Like I said, I think it's called the garden. And yeah, that was really interesting creepy guy wonder what is going on there.
Like if they also had they probably have a secret agenda, but right now we don't know what it is just this, did I say want to make the world a better place or whatever or piece more peaceful place that kind of people.
Yeah. This is basically a setup for the big chunk of main plot in this season, but also not yet.
I'm related to anything really. I feel like I'm as well to say this here. There's a lot that happens in the season, but it doesn't really feel like there's any overarching plot that really gets moved forward.
Yeah, exactly. And that's what it was my big hold up with this season as well. I mean, the previous seasons also to an extent, but there was also something that was put in there that felt maybe in regards to the main plot a bit more substantial, the stuff between Fiona and everything as well.
But this it was like, yeah, okay, we get a bit more insight into your world, but the actual main plot of, you know, Lloyd getting closer to his goal of talking to Damien's father doesn't move one fucking inch in this season.
Not at all nothing happens. We learn nothing more about Anya's background. We like I said, we learn a bit about your, but not that much. We learned what her organization is, but that's it.
You don't really learn more about her upbringing aside from you have her how she took care of her brother and everything, but we knew that we just get a bit more of that was like, hey, when he was sick, she made him this herbal tea that again was so bad that it made him puke.
And drink any other herbal tea if he is sick, the otherwise it won't work on him or whatever, you know, stuff like that, which is neat, which is fine. It's okay. It's still care to develop. But it's like I'm getting a bit impatient with the pacing of the show when it comes to the main plot where it's like I said this in the previous season as like, I really hope we're going to get some move on the main story here.
I like the side bits, I like the sitcom aspect of the show, but this can be everything and this season it was almost just that aside, we also had the cruise ship stuff, which, which we get to, which was, you know, nice action moment and everything. It was a bit more serious, but it also didn't really lay necessarily to, like you said, anything of the main plot.
It just extended the world a bit and it gave us a bit a nice, a couple of nice character moments for all man main cast, especially your, you know, when it comes to her actually evaluating her current position in her job.
If she still wants to do it, if she, why she is scared to do it, you know, what her baggage is, what her holdups are now that she has a family kind of.
And that is cool, but again, we still don't know how her, her particular job and story will intersect and probably interfere with what Lloyd is trying to do and I'm still sure this is going to happen.
This is what the show is building towards. There's going to be a time where she is either tasked to kill Damien's father or someone that, you know, Lloyd is relying on or whatever, or maybe even to kill Lloyd for some reason.
And I'm pretty sure the build, the show is going to build to that at some point. It's just doing it so very slowly and this season again, not at all.
Like nothing is moving forward in that plot is just, hey, cute character moment, cute character moment, a bit of, you know, nice side story, filler action stuff, I guess.
And we are back to cute character moment, comedy, comedy, comedy, comedy. And it's like, guys, please move, move along, move it.
I really, I really honestly thought we would maybe start to see some of that this season.
Yeah, me too.
But I guess there's the movie coming up, which maybe that might be more than nothing this time around.
But I feel like the movies always are more side stories. Like if they actually do stuff from the, that is in the manga, sure.
But I feel like this is going to be another thing like the cruise ship, probably. Right.
So I feel like the last season, was it the previous or was that the first season had more way we actually have an interaction between Lloyd and Damien.
And who tells, you know, who then actually talks to Damien's father and helps Damien, like, have a good moment with his dad, I guess.
Yeah.
That felt like an integral moment because Lloyd had his first interaction with his target and made a somewhat positive impression.
It's like, oh, this is the first step in getting into this, right.
We had nothing like that in this season.
So I was like, this feels like an in-between thing where nothing really happens and it's like, okay, please.
I mean, maybe again, this is part one of the second season. Maybe so maybe the second half if this happens like in summer or in fall.
I don't think there's been any word of that though.
So I, yeah, that was really weird somewhat worrying to me.
I mean, worrying is the wrong word. Like, it's still a fun show. It's light-hearted fun.
It's just sitcoms, but it's lacking a bit of substance right now, at least in the plot department.
And, you know, if you don't move the plot along the most interesting or some of the most interesting aspects of the characters will tread water as well because I think them properly advancing those characters also hinges on the plot moving forward.
Because it would put them into situations that makes it necessary for them to evolve and to change their perspective on things and being confronted with these situations and changing their views on the people they now learn to care about and everything.
I hope this is where the show is going. I hope we're not going to stay in this fucking status quo for like another two or three seasons because then I probably will jump ship.
This is, I mean, I, again, I like the show, but the show promised so much more in the beginning. It's like, okay, this is where we're going. This is what we're going to do.
When are we going there?
No, it's not when we get there.
Yes, it's a far, it seems the show doesn't seem to be in a hurry to get there.
Which, yeah, is a bummer. But, you know, I don't want to harp on it too much.
There, like I said, fun. Thanks in the show. John, why don't you want to talk a bit about the probably most thrilling part like of the season, the cruise ship mini arc that we have.
Yeah. So your is basically kind of taken aside by, I guess her boss at her day job who secretly happens to be part of the garden as well.
Yeah, Alfred. That's not his name, but he looks like Alfred from Batman, I guess it might as well be or I don't know.
Commissioner God. I would have said a mix between the two. What is actually named. They just call him director, right?
I think Matthew, something Matthew McMahon.
Really? Yes. I'm pretty sure that was his name. Interesting. That is a super villain name.
Don't worry about it, but he's, yeah, he, but he's kind of cool like he's kind of kick ass.
Yeah, he, and he, yeah, he's very cool also in demeanor as well.
And he very professional, very even headed, which your isn't especially in certain situations that she's not familiar with.
No. So what she's tasked with is basically an escort for this lady named Olka.
Yes. And they are going on this cruise ship where they're going to have this rendezvous at one point.
And, you know, it seems like a relatively cut and dry mission. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay. Sure.
Okay. One to get away from the mafia that she was mafia family that she was part of via her husband who died. Right.
That was it. And they were trying to move her to a different country where, you know, she can live in peace and stuff like that.
But apparently her old organization doesn't want that because the person who took over from her husband or whatever.
And it's not the family lead wants to have her killed, I guess.
Yeah, because they're having dinner one night in Matthew realizes that the mission has been compromised.
Sarah, there are clearly assassins out to get them a bunch of them. Yes.
So they kind of hold up in their room on the ship and things.
And for a time, it's safe, but things really start going south when it's like, oh, it's not just a couple of assassins.
That's not five. It's not 10. It's like hundreds of them are suddenly on this ship all at once.
Yeah. And to make matters worse, not only it is your have to keep this lady safe.
Anya and Lloyd are there too. So they're trying to on you and Lloyd.
No, that's right. Anya wins a ticket to go on to the same cruise ship.
Yes. By accident. Like does she manipulate the dry? I don't remember probably, right? With my beating powers or whatever.
I think there are some shenanigans with it. Yeah. But in the get on to the same ship.
And Anya wants to see your and wants to hang out with her mother.
Okay, understandable. But you know, your tells him, hey, you know, I have this job, this job.
I need to do. But you know, after that, that's fine. And when your is clearly out in plain view,
fighting one of the assassins, Anya has to find a way to distract Lloyd.
What is the name of that assassin, John?
Sickle and Shane Barnaby. Barnaby. Yeah. I don't remember the sickle and chain part, but yeah, Barnaby.
I love how Anya is just completely when he hears that when she hears that name.
It's like sickle and Shane Barnaby. He must be so important.
And she later tells a classmate about it once and they're like, who's that?
He's just a random assassin. It's so funny.
What knows who you are, but yeah, it's so funny.
But yeah, that fight is, it's really cool. And yeah, like you said, she has to keep Lloyd away from it
because she knows when she's, when he sees your fighting, the jig is up.
Yeah, so she distraction by keeping him in a souvenir shop and saying,
oh, I want this, this is an acne comes out of a dress.
I'm sorry, but dress from looking absolutely ridiculous.
And also let's not pretend that Anya wanted to go on this cruise ship to be with her mom.
She wanted to go on the cruise ship to be on a fucking cruise ship.
That's also true, but yours also there.
Yes, exactly. And it's a nice thing.
She likes the idea of helping her mom with her mission, but she's also, you know, like,
oh, well, I get my mom in trouble like this is before they get to the ship.
There's like this conversation between Anya's inner devil and her inner angel.
And the angel slowly loses or no, very quickly loses because the devil is just stronger.
It's like, I just want to go on the cruise and you see like the dark cloud from the devil slowly taking over the right.
Side off the screen where the angel is because we're because the devil's arguments are just too strong.
It's like the angels like we don't want to cause trouble for Bob and then the devil is like,
ah, but if we are there, we could help her with the mission, whatever.
And it's like, all right.
It's really fun. And yeah, I like that.
I also liked there was this neat little detail when we are at the pier before the board to ship.
As this neatly little detail with the soundtrack where we have trumpets playing in the soundtrack and suddenly there are, you know, because it's like this big luxurious cruise show thing.
There are trumpet players at the pier playing.
So there's like, if the music comes first and then we see actually trumpet players there on the pier, there was a really neat thing that they did there.
So I like that.
Very nice and diagetic.
Yes, yes, yes, we have we have some five dollar words for once.
But yeah, basically the rest of the of of what happens is like, Anja, you're trying to protect Alka and her.
Brother, maybe also love interest.
I don't know. It's not clear.
It's not clear. Like it feels like she sees she's she's saved that guy at some point when she was still young and he since has been smitten with her.
But hasn't you know approached her because she was married and everything, but she's still he still maybe has the hearts for her, whatever.
He's not the bravest man out there, but he has about moment to shine.
Even though he's the maybe the one, probably the one who kind of gets them into this shitty situation, fucks up the mission by talking to his parents, I think.
Yeah.
But you know, not not not intentionally or whatever.
And she's not out of malice. Yeah, exactly. So yeah, she has to try is trying to protect them and is hunted by the incessons and you know, there are a couple of fights breaking out.
And yes, trying to make sure that.
None of this is reaching Lloyd, but she also wants to help her bomb and you know she's multitasking.
Lloyd meanwhile has to deal with bombs that's one of the assassins or you know, the guy who does the communication, whatever has set up because he's this kind of weirdo.
Sickle overkill freak that wants just to sing the whole goddamn boat or whatever.
And yeah, there's a lot of a lot of different things happening at the same time.
So it's a it's a fun fun little arc like there are a lot of moving pieces that are happening in the same time.
And nice action beats like the fight between your and barnemies, especially cool in my opinion, like that a lot and there's one later where she fights a named guy with a with a sword that is also pretty kick ass.
So I feel like the show, especially this season up to this point didn't have that much action in the last season.
Also, I think didn't have that much action.
But I think I had a little bit here and there.
A bit, but this was much heavier here.
Yeah, there were a lot of action every scenes and because of all the light out of fun, you tend to forget how violent the show can get once the action finally kicks in.
Like this is interrogation scene between the between Matthew and the assassin, which is gruesome from a sound design perspective.
And you're just nails that one guy to a wall with her.
Yeah, she is the thorn princess. So true. Yeah, that, but that that's cool. And so and in displace with all that action, you also have some character beats, you know, there's this moment.
Where Lloyd goes shopping with Anya on the ship and he still has trouble dealing with Anya's temper tantrums in a way that a real father would.
And you know, he's worried that he will raise suspicion if he doesn't react the correct way and he doesn't know what the correct way is because he is not dead really where he hasn't been until now and he's still learning.
I mean, someone should explain to him that there is no clear guideline or a science to that really in their books.
And I assume he has read them. I hope so. Did you prepare for this job Lloyd? Sometimes I think you have not.
I mean, there's a lot of assumptions to make about Lloyd.
No, yeah, I mean, obviously you can't and shouldn't buy your kid everything at once on a whim, but apparently it's fine.
Whatever, but again, here I am applying realism standards to spy family.
It's fine, don't worry. The whole set up is the mantra. Yeah. I mean, the whole set of a solute, Chris.
So again, it should maybe be a bit more accepting of that, but yeah, there's also this fun scene where Matthew literally cleans up after your when she fights the assassins like he's going around with a broom or something or the mob trying to get rid of the blood.
Oh, that was great. And some of the assesses just get killed off screen after introducing themselves, which was also great just stating their names that dead.
So thrown off the ship, slashed up blown up. Yeah, perfect. Yeah.
Of course, all of this is brought to a happy end quote unquote, right?
Your has a bit of a character break, which is like I am, I won't be afraid. I believe even if it comes to the moment where Lloyd finds out, I think I think you will forgive me or whatever or still like me.
I don't know what her exact words are, but she's not too scared to fight anymore in that moment. And she was scared.
I think at the start of the fight against Barnaby, she started as she noticed that she was moving to slow because she's worth getting getting hurt, which he wasn't before.
But now she has people she wants to take care shows. So she is scared that she will not be able to if she is hurt and also, you know, if then someone see so once or Lloyd sees her wounds and then maybe she will lose her from anything.
She has a legit fear she has now and that's what she's dealing with in this mini arc. So again, I guess that there's good character development in the season, but not not prove not actual plot development.
Yeah, I mean, I guess it's not a complete stand in for the plot moving forward, but it definitely helps, you know, push the characters themselves along.
I mean, if we didn't have that at all, if it was just a comedic bitch, just hey, another life in this family and funny shenanigans, I would be like, eh, that's not enough guys.
But since we sometimes have these great character moments, I'm like, okay, good.
As long as this is in here, I'm still on board enough, I guess if we get a season where not even dad is in there anymore, which I hope doesn't happen, then we have a problem.
We use and we have a problem. So we'll see. So far, this hasn't happened yet and maybe we'll even it will get better and we'll get more plot in the coming season.
One can only hope, but there's, you know, after this cruise ship thing, we have a couple of nice moments. There's like the family enjoys nice occasion on this island, right, which is has just nice feel good vibes and very good looking like wit and clover works just unleashing the fall.
Christine color palette that they have at the disposal and just everything looking so clean and good and well animated and everything like of course the action scenes are super well animated in this season as well.
So yeah, really good stuff. I like that and then we have a couple of small little comedy stories after after that cruise ship thing is over.
I said the stuff where I want to break to her break about her trip to her classmates, but she forgot she's in a class with rich pampered dipshit, so they've all done something like this before and are not really surprised or amazed that she went on a cruise ship in the third class mind, which also was also a great reaction of on.
What do you mean not first class? Yeah, but also you know when she actually realized she's the third class is she's like, oh, we must have wanted into the wrong room.
And then we have a cute little episode with Becky who is of course madly in love with Lloyd.
Oh my god, that girl Jesus. Yeah, she is she has like this this the biggest crush on her friends dad. It can happen.
And I feel like this could go into a key territory anytime, but the show is always just tactfully maneuvering around that by all telling it from entirely from Becky's perspective in a way.
Where it's like no, she's just this kid and Lloyd is like this ostensibly world savvy very well educated very nice man rights and everything.
And I don't suspect he still have a dad. I don't remember. Yes, yes, so yeah, this is the father of the the chef of the the boss of that big company, right?
So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but she you know she's meeting with him and everything and you know, but little girl wants to marry that guy and whatever you know it's just it's a childhood crush.
It's right. So it's all right. It's totally inoffensive. So and it's very funny, you know, there's this moment where.
Anya is trying to decide for Becky's mind gibberish like which is actually pronouncing the symbols appearing in this thought bottle on screen that for me was peak comedy, which is just like extamation mark what hashtag what?
She can't read Becky anymore because Becky is just talking gibberish because of her crush.
That was really good stuff and it would have also have been amazing if the hammer game that had played at the end of the episode was the thing that gave your secret identity away.
That that that moment Lloyd is looking at her like what the fuck like he gets this really small eyes is like what why are you so strong and I'm like see open your eyes man.
How do you not realize what is going on it's fine shut up. You should have realized when when you're in fuel head there we're tennis match and you're crushed a few us a record with her smash I don't know.
So whatever it's still a funny moment and yeah then Becky becomes yours apprentice when it comes to being a strong woman and being attractive for the bad she she is with whatever is a cute apple.
It's a cute episode it's again like I said totally enough as if it's it's it's fun so yeah get another good comedy bit and like I said then we have a bit a small thing with Fiona which getting presses from her adored man.
Everyone is falling about Lloyd in this show and I don't I mean I get it kind of but also I guess obliviousness is super sexy.
Yeah yes that's enough but yeah it's it's fun it's fun and we get another which was highlight in my opinion we get like this bonding episode between bond and and Lloyd.
That was really cute really really cute just you know bond bond is a good rescue dog is just a bit too of a zealous sometimes you know he wants to help everyone and he sees visions of the future and he tries to prevent that she does that's happening like a kid dropping it's ice cream cone or whatever.
And then he actually accidentally causes that and when he tries to prevent a vote woman from getting hit by a bike it looks like she's he's biting her and everything I mean he's a dog I was supposed to probably communicate that right right but you know he actually managed to get through to Lloyd at some point when they have to go into a bully burning building and save a little puppy there and everything and then actually.
Finding the arsonist who caused that and everything so that was a really nice hey a man and his dog moment and like you said it's one of those moments that actually also humanizes Lloyd and makes him seem like more of a real person because he is being a bit angry with with bond in the beginning because he's trying to train him and it doesn't probably work and everything because he's not necessarily not a tack dog.
But he's a smart dog in a way and you know he has a good nose and he has a special skill he can see the fucking future of course that Lloyd doesn't know that but you know he can make use of that in a way so it's cool and I hope we get more bonding moment between the bonding moments between the two like I hope bond gets to be taken on a serious mission with Lloyd be it accidental or intentional and then you know gets this moment to shine and protect his owner and everything so that's cool.
Like I like that episode a lot it seems you did too. Yeah it was for sure like it's really really good. I also liked a bond suddenly being so skinny after getting wet.
It looks very familiar like we have bearded colleagues and they are these giant balls of fluve but if they walk through heavy rain or go swimming they look like matchsticks.
So that was like oh yeah I noticed I know this look. We had a couple of Bernice mountain dogs and they are very they are large dogs but they are also very hairy so when they get wet too it's the same thing.
Yeah that fits the breed yeah it's really fun. Why does this voice change though when he gets thinner.
It's a mystery Charlie that doesn't happen in real life I can tell you that my dog still sounded to say when they get when they went swim so whatever.
But yeah is there anything more we can say about this season John yes we can probably the best OP of this show so far maybe.
Yeah yeah yeah yeah strong contender strong contender ED was also really great but the OP goddamn I haven't listened to a whole lot of auto songs before but this one hit really really well.
And then I started hearing some other ones like I believe they did one for what's that one for one of the one piece movies backlight I think in that one's also a banger so it's like oh okay just like yo was so be and they don't miss.
Yeah it's cool I really really like this one one of those that I always wanted to listen to from beginning to end every time I started a new episode.
So good shit yeah anything else anything else that needs to be highlight like I said there's not enough plot we can go into and I think we covered most of the interesting character bits is there anything that you would still like to mention.
I think we hit pretty much everything except for where you can watch it hmm yes I assume Crunchyroll yes Crunchyroll is the main place.
And depending on where you live it is also on any number of other services it's like I said about the last show I was listening service but you can find it it's on it's on everything which is a testament to how popular it is and how you know in how good it is to I.
Yes despite on our misgivings about it's somewhat glacial pacing when it comes to the main plot it's still a very entertaining show not so very relaxing like I said this from the beginning it's one of those shows where it's like hey if you need to just need to turn your brain off kind of show that is very feels very light but also not very dumb at times but also not too dumb like just the right amount that you just want to.
Want to relax and calm down after work this is one of those shows that you can absolutely watch for that it was kind of made for that it's got this this very relaxing sitcom atmosphere to it and sometimes there's also good action in it so yeah for that it's definitely good I just wish there was a bit more going on in the plot department but hey I'm sure we're going to get another season considering how successful this is so maybe the next season
will be more heavy on the plot side so yeah so there's obviously the movie coming up and it's still not clear if it's a sequel or if it's its own story this will find out but then there sure to be definitely sure to be more so more pot developments please please would be cool.
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