1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:26,640 [Music] 2 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:31,200 Hello and welcome to an all new episode of NMA Brain Freeze. We are your damn the damn 3 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:37,280 Toasts. I am John and I'm CC and when there's just too much cool anime to watch we've got you covered. 4 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:43,440 Today I will once again dive into the world of the occult where alien spirits and monsters of all 5 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:50,480 kinds linger to snatch your soul. Oh worse! Join me in two of the most likeable protagonists you have 6 00:00:50,480 --> 00:00:57,280 ever seen as we brave the wild waters of the new hit show Dandadan. It's our season finale. 7 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:02,800 John and I will of course give you our picks for best of the season. First things first let's 8 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:07,680 tackle a couple of left over shows in the quick and the dead. So pack your best running shoes in case 9 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:12,400 you are forced into a game of tech with a high speed cursed spirit don't get too depressed while 10 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:17,440 protecting your golden balls at all costs and definitely don't pause the pod we'll be right back. 11 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:23,680 [Music] 12 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:31,520 All right quick into that I only really have one show to talk about that I watched and that 13 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:37,520 doesn't really merit a full review. Everything else is still running or you know from 14 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:44,960 still wrapping up whatever or is gonna get still another season and yeah so that's of course blue 15 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:52,240 look season two the return of soccer squid game which quickly after couple of training episodes 16 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:57,600 not many I think it's like three moves into the big match like the biggest match until now where 17 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:06,000 our team of Rectag old strikers from the blue lock program play against the under 20 18 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:14,320 teams so under 20 years national Japanese soccer team. And yeah it's more blue lock so 19 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:21,680 the the second season made me think that eight bit are stretching themselves a bit thin these days 20 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:29,680 oh no a lot less animation and much more heavy on the editing at times it feels more like a motion 21 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:35,120 comic than anything else it's only thanks to the other parts of the presentation being so on point 22 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:39,120 like shop expressive character designs the soundtrack the sound design and the voice acting that 23 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:45,200 still works mostly it's not as bad as some of the discussions on Twitter or some of the reviews made 24 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:51,440 it out to be but that's kind of now the look of the show and if that's gonna be the look of the show 25 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:58,640 going going forward that's a bummer and a definitive downgrade so I hope it will improve again with 26 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:04,880 the third season like there's some good things in here let's not like be a complete downer about 27 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:10,240 this like for example pretty much my only complaint about season one was that we didn't have a proper 28 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:15,920 audience for the big reactions and proper atmosphere that is remedied in this season as like with 29 00:03:15,920 --> 00:03:22,880 the big game against you 20 is held in blue locks own stadium which is got the impact the show just 30 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:28,960 it's on it's it on all cylinders and is really good at conveying the intense atmosphere when the 31 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:33,680 player step on the pitch for the first time it's like really goosebumps inducing and coolest shit 32 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:43,680 and you have like this this nice interactions with the family members of our team players who are in 33 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:48,640 in the audience and they're like a couple of cute moments that I really liked and I just 34 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:53,920 in sports anime I want an audience reaction I want to especially when it's the team sport thing right 35 00:03:53,920 --> 00:04:00,720 when you get something like soccer or basketball or whatever it's it's just it or you know in in 36 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:07,120 high q for example is it does so much it does so much of conveying the hype like getting you into 37 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:12,720 there and so I missed that from blue lock season one a lot because they just basically played it 38 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:19,280 an empty stadium with no one there and just gray walls and of course the stadium or also fully 39 00:04:19,280 --> 00:04:24,720 packed stadium looks much better than just the green pitch and gray walls so just in that regard the 40 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:29,600 optics of this season and the presentation and everything around it are much better than you have 41 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:34,560 this cool dynamic between one of the characters that has wars introduced pretty late in the in the first 42 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:45,520 season or in it's she and he has this dynamic with our main character and it's that is pretty cool 43 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:56,400 and they're have like they basically bit like this this strong center striker unit that feeds off 44 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:02,560 each other like a bunch of fucking I don't know like it was like some kind of cannibalistic soccer wolves 45 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:11,600 or something like that it's fucking crazy like everyone feeds off each others or basically kind of 46 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:17,600 crazy shit like that and they're they're just trying to develop new plays and everyone in the team 47 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:23,600 is just like that and that can lead to high moments but like I said biggest problem the animation 48 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:28,400 doesn't support that momentum that is built up once the enter the stadium like it literally 49 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:34,000 doesn't have any we still get mostly super slowdown scenes that are basically basically for all 50 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:40,080 intents and purposes still frames what little motion there is is often cursed by being CG which 51 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:46,000 to be frank could be worse it's at least fluid but it also feeds like it's severely lacking a punch 52 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:51,680 it's not choppy or anything but like a lot of other tv cg stuff and enemy feeds too floaty and 53 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:57,920 waitless and you want those shots and explosive maneuvers to have a feeling of impact it doesn't have 54 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:04,880 any of the oomph from season one so outside of some special moves like but you're a special dribble 55 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:12,320 there was nothing really standing out at the start of the match not even the image of a snake suddenly 56 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:17,600 materializing on the field like as a visual metaphor for you 20s main defenders stopping blue 57 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:23,600 locks play dead in its trek that wasn't integrated into the presentation with the same in same 58 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:30,640 panache that you know season one was so good at delivering and that continues throughout the match 59 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:36,560 lots of barely moving characters sometimes and when you get that rare cool dribble pass or gold shot 60 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:43,200 it's cg lacks kicking a cg ball mostly and it literally looks like they're treading water sometimes 61 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:49,200 a lot of snazzy effects and intense expression are there on the character phases and you know you 62 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:53,680 have the rocking soundtrack like i said you have the great voice work uh by the voice actors they all 63 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:58,320 try to compensate for that but they just can't especially if the big moments of season one are 64 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:03,440 relatively fresh on one's mind and it's not been that long that i watched that and that's a bit 65 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:09,440 of a bummer we know this show can look better because we have seen it one season ago and to be 66 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:14,960 absolutely fair one of our favorite shows jojo's bizarre adventure sometimes partially has these 67 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:20,640 issues as well where there's very limited actual animation on characters in a fight but the big 68 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:26,960 difference is all the stuff that needs to have impact in jojo's does 90% of the cases like David 69 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:31,760 projection just knows how to underscore the big moments and make them shine despite the limited 70 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:37,440 animation and also jojo's characters designs are a lot more complex so you just need to have the 71 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:43,600 right people at the helm to who know what matters and blue locks season to apparently didn't at 72 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:51,520 least when it comes to the actual plays there yeah this incredibly funny scene i had to screen shot 73 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:58,400 and put on blue sky with a full frame shot of the face of japan u20 skepten Oliver iq and him saying 74 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:07,120 you're not moving blue lock and i was like do they know oh no and if so does that make it 75 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:14,080 better or worse but yeah i don't know who exactly if this crew of the crew changed i think i read 76 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:21,360 somewhere that a lot of the people from season one moved over to work on a reincarnated as a 77 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:27,760 slime movie and that would make sense to me that would explain a lot so yeah again you got some good 78 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:33,600 stuff in there like the first goal for blue lock by naggy's pretty damn cool and that's because it 79 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:39,600 employs the same explosive traditionally animated silas in season one big surprise there more of 80 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:44,480 that would have been nice there are some of that sprinkled in between to through the season there 81 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:49,600 are some really cool hand animated plays and so on but you know in terms of pure volume 82 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:55,520 there's not as much cool stuff in the season and it was in season one but that was a cool shot 83 00:08:55,520 --> 00:09:00,400 that was a really cool shot and also his one lighter is super cool right after he makes a crazy 84 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:06,000 dribble trick and right before taking a shot he says nice to meet you to a pan my name is naggy's 85 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:11,520 shiro which is tear followed by the explosive goal that's very cool shit and the crowd reaction is 86 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:18,160 appropriately huge that's what i want to see i just sound so ridiculous it is it's about that's 87 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:22,480 the shit that i want to see in my ridiculous sports anime right that's what i come here for like 88 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:27,600 i mean i also like the realistic stuff but if you give me something outrageous like blue lock 89 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:34,400 that's the mo these are the moments i want and they're not enough in the second season to be fair it's 90 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:41,520 also shot a runtime it's like only 12 episodes while the first season that 24 so maybe that also feels 91 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:49,600 like maybe maybe in terms of compare when compared in terms of base screen presence of cool moments 92 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:55,440 maybe the percentage isn't even that much lower but there was just more episodes in season one so 93 00:09:55,440 --> 00:10:02,160 there was more time to put cool stuff in there i don't know um but yeah it's still it's still blue lock 94 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:09,520 it's still super fun like you have these the evil old geezers of Japan soccer association want to 95 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:15,120 crush the ambitious young team of ego and just silly new ideas i mean they're actually silly but 96 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:20,960 they're cool so you get the idea and it's just like super villains on both sides i guess and 97 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:26,800 despite all my complaints about the animation the match is still very exciting and like i said you 98 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:32,800 got a cool brother dynamic between a rin and si like rin is on the side of blue lock si's on the 99 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:39,600 side of the u20 team and they had a falling out as bros when rin always following after his big brothers 100 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:44,320 in his brother's footsteps and they made this promise where si's gonna be the come the number one 101 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:49,280 striker in the world and rin is gonna become the number two striker in the world right next to his 102 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:53,760 big brother that was his dream and then his brother kind of went back on that and decided no i'm not 103 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:59,920 gonna do it anymore and he rin fell betrayed and now he wants to use this match to kill his brother 104 00:10:59,920 --> 00:11:05,440 it's literally what he says uh he doesn't want to kill him he wants to kill him on the field but he 105 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:15,120 literally says i'm gonna kill him he's so stupid i don't know he differentiate that he wants to kill 106 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:23,600 him with his cool plays john with his awesome soccer skills sure it's it's it's awesome i love it it's so 107 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:28,640 stupid and it's so much fun and i wish it looked better or at least that goes at a good as it is in 108 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:32,880 season one you know you can't have everything maybe the next season will look better because the 109 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:39,920 full staff is at uh hand again and uh they can deliver just like that in season one and um again 110 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:44,320 there's some really cool moments sprinkled into the second season definitely i just wish 111 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:50,880 it were more there were more of them just from the perspective of the animation not story-wise 112 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:56,320 story-wise there's enough there it is enough uh character uh there in the character department uh to 113 00:11:56,320 --> 00:12:02,160 feed on and everything enough cool moments but it would be nice if they looked a bit better just 114 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:07,280 in general so we'll see i will definitely i will still watch season three of course because i'm enjoying 115 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:14,080 this show so much but you know if i'm just hoping the production values go a bit up again in the next 116 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:20,480 season let's see please eight bit manage your uh distribute distribute your available personnel better 117 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:33,200 uh yeah yeah john what do you have tassu ketsu um boy this show tried to be a lot of different 118 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:40,640 things and it was it started off real interesting with this like death game thing that i talked about 119 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:47,520 and it had this first or second episode twist where the main character died except he didn't actually 120 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:54,720 okay i mean and then everyone is trying to play four d-chasse against each other and this 121 00:12:54,720 --> 00:13:04,400 Jesus christ i got i mean i finished watching this show i don't understand most of what happened 122 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:10,240 because of all the plotting and scheming that was gone didn't really make one lick of sense 123 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:22,480 yeah i because they do away with the uh death game and then they sort of bring it back and then they don't 124 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:29,040 and then hey guess what the villains were just misunderstood all along it's like man shut off 125 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:37,680 wow that's like a fun time it was all about family family family than diesel is that you 126 00:13:37,680 --> 00:13:48,240 and it just it started off so strong and it just creamed off the edge of a cliff in the latter half 127 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:54,000 where they they tried to change the focus to a different character and it sort of partially worked but then 128 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:59,120 at the end of the day oh we're we were able to resurrect the main character anyway i was like 129 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:07,360 what was all of this for sounds sounds like a good question so i don't think i could recommend it and 130 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:15,120 i don't i don't think it was satellites best offering because some of the animation was kind of 131 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:22,400 pretty inconsistent throughout so i like to check out their work but boy i don't i think this may have 132 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:28,400 been one to pay the bills but be the chance sometimes sometimes you just got to do that in spite of 133 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:35,760 this adaptation like people i guess people were clamoring for an adaptation of this for a long time 134 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:43,040 and i don't know if this is how the original comic played out but it seemed like it didn't really 135 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:51,760 land with a lot of the reviews i had read so it's sitting at a 5.56 on my anime list 136 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:53,760 yikes 137 00:14:53,760 --> 00:15:02,800 so you know that that that's not a strong vote of confidence that surely was the like i really wanted 138 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:08,400 to like this show and i stuck with it to the end and it wasn't worth it don't watch this show i don't 139 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:13,760 intend to but thanks for the warning yeah i mean i i feel like we don't say that too often because i 140 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:19,360 don't like saying that but boy oh boy yes we want to be mostly a positive podcast we want to encourage 141 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:23,520 people to watch more anime that's why we're doing this like hey if you don't have time to watch this 142 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:27,920 here's this cool show maybe you want to check it out it's always a bummer when we have to tear into a 143 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:36,640 show really unless it's funny to tear into it sorry art but you know it's always like if they 144 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:40,400 went there's a show where it's like this could be cool and it turns out not to be it is always a bummer 145 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:47,200 especially when it just train wrecks itself itself yeah that was that 146 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:55,120 but also there is magic loom here which was you know the cute magical girl workplace comedy i've 147 00:15:55,120 --> 00:16:03,040 been watching and it was neat uh and i guess it's coming back for a second season at some point because 148 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:10,400 they ended on a little bit of a cliffhanger where uh i guess these creatures that are sort of pop up 149 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:15,840 all over the case these kai are sort of learning how to evolve and you know they're the magic 150 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:22,640 Cindy they are pulling a borg in adapting to the magic that are used being used on them so oh boy 151 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:28,800 you got to pull an even bigger gun than the last one bowl what does that mean i wonder if that could 152 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:36,800 be an allegory for something hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm one wonders um but you know the 153 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:41,760 characters were still pretty charming all the way through and you know it was very bright and colorful 154 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:52,960 so you know hey hey you know sure great i'll probably check out season two for that JC staff uh i think 155 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:59,920 uh worked a little bit on it and they it's amazing when they actually put in effort sometimes they do 156 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:08,400 that can you believe it i can i mean there's a new railgun season on the way so i guess they'll 157 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:14,640 be putting in effort on that again so so yeah uh i think that was a fun breezy watch and i'm 158 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:21,120 looking forward to more of it nice love live superstar season three i mean i don't know 159 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:28,160 how to talk about love life anymore but you know the girls go to china they have they put on a big show 160 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:35,040 there the encourage one of the girls to keep being an idol five of the girls graduate from high 161 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:42,080 school and they leave the school up to the new generation and you know that's that pretty much 162 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:48,240 not really as poignant as like some of the other love live shows but still 163 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:56,400 enjoyable for what it was still pretty sunrise is still you know doing the good work that they do 164 00:17:56,400 --> 00:18:06,880 on love life so and the last one is Ron Mahath she is also coming back for a second season at some 165 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:15,840 point but uh boy this was also really fun to see because you know never having watched the original 166 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:23,840 seeing how ridiculous and goofy this show was was a lot of fun god what was it i think it was 167 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:31,280 mappa mappa put in definitely put in the work on this one uh they hopefully they're still not 168 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:38,080 killing their animators but you know old happy will yeah we'll see uh but i'm glad you're enjoying it 169 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:42,480 like i mean considering you didn't have really watched the old show and everything and uh 170 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:46,720 that that that was brand of kind of old school comedy still works for you 171 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:54,640 yeah i mean it was silly and it was you know a really quick 12 episodes so you know got to uh me oh 172 00:18:54,640 --> 00:19:00,000 we kind of got to speedrun meeting a lot of the characters and i feel like the fact that it 173 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:04,800 went as fast as it did worked in its favor i mean 174 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:13,680 i guess if you're a fan of the old this is probably you know you've seen all of this already so getting 175 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:19,600 through it like real quick is probably a good thing but you know i feel like it worked just as well for 176 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:25,680 someone like me who hadn't seen the original so the fact that some of the characters can't tell 177 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:34,480 the other transformed characters apart is so goofy like i can't get over it sometimes 178 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:42,880 but it it it it helps play into how silly it is like it knows exactly what it's trying to be so 179 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:50,960 that's a lot that's worth a lot for any show really yes so i like it i'm looking forward to more of 180 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:57,840 this goofiness uh and you know hey good times it was it was good times it was fun times it was silly times 181 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:03,360 but i think uh that's i think that's everything for my quick and a dead just a blue 182 00:20:03,360 --> 00:20:08,480 through him as quick as possible so some exceptions aside uh you know it seems like you had fun 183 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:14,000 with the show's you great so there's that yeah pushing tasks you get to try to do something else is good 184 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:23,920 stuff not you that mean format yeah but yeah that's it for the quick and to dead so let's move over to our 185 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:26,960 i guess second and final review of this season 186 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:35,760 [Music] 187 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:44,480 really from her recent break up momo ayase a popular high schooler shows kindness to her socially 188 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:51,120 awkward schoolmate kentakakura by standing up to his bullies can misunderstand her intentions 189 00:20:51,120 --> 00:20:55,520 believing he has made a new friend who shares his obsession with aliens and UFOs 190 00:20:56,160 --> 00:21:02,320 however momo's own eccentric occult beliefs lie in the supernatural realm she thinks aliens do not exist 191 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:07,600 rivalry quickly brews as each becomes determined to prove the other wrong 192 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:13,360 spy danishan clash over their opposing beliefs momo and can form an unexpected but intimate 193 00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:18,800 friendship a bond forged in a series of supernatural battles and bizarre encounters with urban 194 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:24,960 legends and paranormal entities as both develop unique superhuman abilities they learn to 195 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:30,400 supplement each others weaknesses leading them to wonder if their newfound partnership may be about 196 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:41,600 more than just survival thanks a l rewrite for this summary um danadan is a manga by yuki nobo tatsu 197 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:47,120 that started publishing in chonjon plus in april 2021 counts at this point 18 volumes and is still 198 00:21:47,120 --> 00:21:54,160 running tatsu also wrote the manga fire and ball and segi no ro kugo the tv adaptation of danadan started 199 00:21:54,160 --> 00:22:00,480 in october last year and the first half of its first season i will talk about today counts 12 episodes 200 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:06,320 it is produced and animated by sions saru which have come up several times in our show i review 201 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:13,360 devilman crybaby and keep your hands off aso can which i both liked or respected to varying degrees 202 00:22:13,360 --> 00:22:17,440 though i'll probably never watch devilman crybaby ever again 203 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:26,960 just to depressing man they also animated the recent requel of scop pilgrim for netflix which i like 204 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:32,640 the whole damn lot they did a bit for star wars visions and a couple of other things and in the 205 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:38,880 animation studio landscape they are definitely a pretty unique entity highly influenced by the style 206 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:45,280 of one of their founders the director musaki wasa who also directed um their devilman and aso 207 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:50,560 could shows the animation can be pretty unusual especially when compared to your standard shonen 208 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:57,360 shows which considering that danadan is their first big current shonen adaption makes this project 209 00:22:57,360 --> 00:23:03,200 all the more interesting all their projects have a very loose sometimes cartoony sometimes very 210 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:09,120 bizarre and dark sometimes very playful animation style and art design to it um you have devilman 211 00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:13,600 crybaby which is very dark dirty and grotesque then there is keep your hands off aso can which 212 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:18,640 revels in the concept of animation itself and the joy its protagonist gained from working in that field 213 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:25,200 pack to the brim with omajas to works that inspired you aso and his team then you have scop pilgrim 214 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:29,600 which adheres so close to the graphic novel's artwork that it feels like a literally leapt of the 215 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:36,240 page there an incredibly versatile studio stuck to the brim with capable hands all aspects which 216 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:42,080 had me very excited to see what they could do with a popular new shonen jump ip like danadan which i 217 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:46,400 had already heard a lot of positive things about before the anime adaption was even announced 218 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:55,120 and when it was boy did people lose their shit uh science sorrow being let added the excitement was 219 00:23:55,120 --> 00:24:02,400 palpable not the least on my end so it's science sorrow deliver oh man did they and danadan 220 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:08,160 the director is fruga yamashiro who also directed two episodes of keep your hands off aso can 221 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:12,720 and some episodes of other shows like he history um super shiro and tatami time machine blues 222 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:20,560 but this is his first full director gig he is supported by the man the legend our boy he roxi seko 223 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:27,680 who handled the series composition and adapted screenplay and of course he has come up a million 224 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:33,120 times in our show before because he had a hand in a shitload of things we reviewed and love attack on 225 00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:39,440 titan jujitsu kaisen chansoman mobsyko 100 winlens sagga if you have seko on the script and the source 226 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:45,520 material is at least good your chances of being disappointed are pretty god damn low the man just 227 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:50,480 knows how to translate characters dialogue and story from the page of amanga to the small screen without 228 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:55,760 a doubt for the music we also got a real heavyweight on the helm in the form of kansku ujio who has 229 00:24:55,760 --> 00:25:00,800 done the soundtrack for chansoman devil man crybaby heavenly delusion ping pong liss and the blue blood 230 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:08,240 a silent voice and other stuff so as you can see the production set of this show is out of this world 231 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:14,960 but what about the story and characters well first we have momo ise our main girl voiced by shion 232 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:20,480 wakayama who voiced hume in danazanan and maria renault in the japanese stop of castle venia nocturn 233 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:27,040 apparently who knew and a bunch of other stuff of course so momo gets dumped by her boyfriend because 234 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:37,520 she is broke and doesn't want to put out that's shiti uh not a first but of him she has a bit of an 235 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:42,800 aggressive confronting nature when something a noisera like when he breaks up with her she immediately 236 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:48,960 tries to kick him to the head give him a good old boot to that someone else in her school experiences 237 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:57,120 both sides of that when she stands up for him to some bullies the lone otaku in question who is by 238 00:25:57,120 --> 00:26:03,680 the way voiced by natsuki hanaye so tangiro from demon slayer gets the partially wrong impression 239 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:09,040 she does this because just like him she's interested in the occult or at least in the same field 240 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:14,960 of the occult but unlike him she doesn't believe in aliens and unlike her he doesn't believe in ghosts 241 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:21,040 so when they dare each other to prove the existence of either she of course gets almost abducted by aliens 242 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:30,000 and he gets possessed by a ghost despite how fortuitous yeah as it happens despite being a different 243 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:35,360 kinds of peril the two are able to join forces and help each other out though as momo is able to 244 00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:41,120 unleash her until now dormant spiritual powers she can basically manifest like these two giant spirit 245 00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:47,920 hands that can grab on to or smash anything like telekinesis stuff and can also suppress the ghost 246 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:55,040 that has possessed our lone occult otaku which enables him to use the ghost power without being taken 247 00:26:55,040 --> 00:27:01,520 over by its mind so they fend off the aliens escape the spaceship and then right at the end of 248 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:07,200 the first episode comes the actual twist and drive of the show which i or rather m a l rewrite 249 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:14,560 gave away in the summary so momo has a big crush on this actor called can takakura and wants to find a 250 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:20,720 guy who is just like him she only hooked up with her ex because he reminded him of that actor she 251 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:25,760 always wrote she always drawn on about how she will probably never find someone that uses this 252 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:35,200 exact kind of masculine charm and then it turns out occult kune's name is actually of course can takakura 253 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:42,240 and the way that is revealed in the finale of the first episode is amazing it's like a big bang 254 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:49,360 shaking her life to the core and of course she absolutely can't and doesn't want to deal with that 255 00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:54,720 this is absolutely not the type of character she wants to associate with her idol and deep down she 256 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:59,440 is probably afraid to eventually fall for him just because of that name alone and again ending up in 257 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:06,320 a relationship she doesn't want so she refuses to call ken by his real name instead calling him 258 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:13,360 ocaruunt because he's into the occult i guess from this moment forward every time someone else calls 259 00:28:13,360 --> 00:28:20,320 him can she gets mad ocaruunt has this line he often says something like i'm just an awkward guy 260 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:25,920 which apparently is as it happens a famous line the actor used in at least one of his movies and momo 261 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:32,560 absolutely cannot handle ocaruunt saying it it's hilarious and very cute and with that you have a great 262 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:41,200 dynamic for a very unusual rom com and yeah the two mains are instantly likable especially in 263 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:46,640 their interactions with each other and you immediately get the feeling that it actually wants to go 264 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:51,840 somewhere with this blossoming romance and it's not wasting much time either i love how the show 265 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:57,040 immediately builds this fantastic chemistry between them both kind of loud and a bit overzealous 266 00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:02,960 slash annoying in their own right but being very passionate and recognizing that in each other 267 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:07,760 and there's this immediate connection and understanding between them on a certain level the moment 268 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:13,280 where momo sits next to ocaruunt in class to ward off the bullies that are throwing things at him and 269 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:18,320 everything is so good and makes your immediately likable she just gives them the stairs like better 270 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:24,480 knock this off i'm gonna punch your heads and and then he's like of course immediately stunned by this 271 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:30,800 behavior of hers and when he catches up to her she first also lashes out at him because he's all 272 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:36,720 over her with the alien otaku stuff and she is in a bad mood due to her break up but she instantly 273 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:42,960 realizes she went too far and apologizes and tries to build a connection to his interest by mentioning 274 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:48,400 ghosts which of course then kind of backfries because he does believe in ghosts she does believe in aliens 275 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:55,520 and they start arguing again but you know there's there's the moment where two of her ghiaru friends 276 00:29:55,520 --> 00:30:02,640 come down the stairs and they look at the scene and they immediately see what the viewers sees 277 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:12,320 and are like wait are they into each other so very clever girls uh then uh momo at some point 278 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:17,840 opens up about when they're like investigate the different places as momo goes to a place where 279 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:22,320 there aliens are supposed to be aliens uh okarim goes to a place where they're supposed to be ghosts 280 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:27,760 and they talk over the phone or walkie talkie i'm not sure and then i think no it's a phone uh and then 281 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:35,680 uh momo uh momo opens up about her grandma and how um her grandma made her do the uh lack ritual 282 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:41,600 and umo momo got mad at her grandma for having to do it because other kids and worse her childhood 283 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:47,760 crush made fun of momo for it even though it turns out she was actually mad at the kids for making 284 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:53,280 fun of her grandma not for making fun of her but she was a child so it wasn't so easy to understand 285 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:58,320 an act on back then and since then the relationship to her grandma has been kind of strained um that 286 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:03,280 kind of adds with each other and everything and then on the other side we have okarim who doesn't 287 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:10,160 immediately open up to her but when the aliens capture her he basically vomits out his reason for 288 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:16,320 wanting to be friends with aliens uh to her and them uh because he was bullied so much he wanted to 289 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:22,720 believe aliens were real so he could become friends with them instead which is super sad but uh is also 290 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:27,280 very heartfelt moment which is also the reason he didn't want to miss the chance to make a friend 291 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:34,800 so he verbally deec vomited all over momo when she stood up for him uh because he just wanted to 292 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:39,120 be friends with her so got them much because she was the first person really showed interest in him 293 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:45,520 in a way and it wasn't necessarily about him sharing his love for the occult but more so that he 294 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:49,600 was able to talk about that stuff with passion and confidence to someone who was nice to him 295 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:54,400 so you have this already great set of characters both with their understandable amount of emotional 296 00:31:54,400 --> 00:32:00,080 baggage who just get each other on a very fundamental level but definitely have some trouble acting 297 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:05,360 on this intangible connection in the right way which is where the comedy a bit of the drama but also 298 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:10,160 a lot of the emotional high points and death in the show I derived from speaking of drama 299 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:16,960 I love the way the series bypasses a lot of the standard drama traps uh for example in the fifth episode 300 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:22,560 it's the first time of okaron and momo seeing each other at school after their first set of adventures 301 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:28,720 and okaron is very self-conscious and doesn't know how to treat momo in public um because he doesn't 302 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:34,320 want to embarrass her or himself uh by her having to associate with him because you know he's a loser 303 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:40,400 and she's a popular girl so when she waits at the gate obviously for him he is just walking 304 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:48,480 past her and intentionally ignoring her but she gets what he's doing and is just doing a soft tackle 305 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:54,800 and saying you're late let's go um the look of joy on okaron's face when he realizes she's still 306 00:32:54,800 --> 00:33:00,640 willing to be his friend out in the open is so cut and precious you're gonna melt away uh 307 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:07,760 it's really good and the show is also so good at conveying the real life desire to just 308 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:11,920 endlessly talk about the common interest with this amazing person that just entered your life 309 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:15,760 and that you have this previously unknown feeling of an emotional connection towards 310 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:21,840 both of them can barely tolerate sitting in class because they can't see and talk to each other 311 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:25,840 since they are in different classrooms it's so god damn cute and 312 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:33,040 don't get me wrong there is drama in this wrong com obviously in the same episode actually 313 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:39,360 and misunderstandings not my favorite plot device as you are aware john 314 00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:46,000 not the same but you know what these misunderstandings are resolved in the course of one episode every 315 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:50,800 time and you'll never guess what outrageous tool the show uses to accomplish that incredible feat 316 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:56,800 it has the characters just talk to each other to clear things up 317 00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:00,240 what crazy concept i know outlandish 318 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:09,520 wow that's yes it's out there i know um novel although i got to say it's a bit ridiculous that 319 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:15,280 due to all of his fascination with finally being able to make a friend it takes ochorin several 320 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:23,120 episodes to notice that momo is cute like what the hell i mean you know sometimes people are like 321 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:29,200 that you know really pay attention to the physical i get it but like making friends is cool but 322 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:37,120 you should definitely be aware when you made a hot friend come on now so we got these two which are 323 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:41,200 already enough to carry the show to be honest but then you add some other cool characters into the 324 00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:47,920 mix and things really start popping off you got momos way too hot grandma sayko who is as already 325 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:54,880 established a spirit medium she's also total badass with the baseball bat often voiced by nanamizuki 326 00:34:54,880 --> 00:35:01,600 so supasar from some fogir she is obsessed with this one comedian obsession with celebrity seem to 327 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:07,920 run in the family i guess she of course acts as a somewhat unwilling mentor and a guy to our 328 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:12,640 two main characters helps them develop their powers gets them out of some hairy situations her 329 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:20,080 house is basically the hq she's very cool and funny uh in general the show is incredibly funny like 330 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:26,880 we're talking laugh out loud dialogue slapstick puns and non-sequitur humor bangers one after another 331 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:31,840 add to that all the crazy funny and sometimes very scary designs of the aliens ghosts and monsters 332 00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:36,560 and you are basically bombarded non-stop with cool visual shit in this series especially in the 333 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:43,840 fights of course as just a super energetic great looking show signs are is as expected as usual 334 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:49,200 on point when it comes to hyper expressive faces and body animation for some their design choices 335 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:55,840 might be too cartoony at times but i love it too bits it's just so much fun to look at you sometimes 336 00:35:55,840 --> 00:36:01,120 also get these very pretty naturalistic backgrounds as a counter point here like there's the scene 337 00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:06,080 with the forest and hills surrounding a cursed tunnel which look very pretty so it's not always super 338 00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:11,360 cartoony and the action scenes are fucking insane a lot of twists and turns because the powers of 339 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:16,960 our team's opponents work in very specific ways and the presentation is of course top-notch there is 340 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:22,800 the big confrontation with trovo granny the ghost that possessed okarune in the fourth episode 341 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:31,920 where our two leads are chased by her zombies and a giant enemy crab i'm sorry yes none of this was a 342 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:38,000 lie John and then even though i'm spotting stuff but i need to say this even though he is almost 343 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:44,560 of juice okarune transforms one final time into his possessed form and an edm slash techno version of 344 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:53,280 the willhelm tell overture starts playing he starts running at the show goes wild it's magnificent 345 00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:57,360 i knew science sorrow was capable of good action scenes they showed it in devil man crybaby 346 00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:02,320 Scott pilgrim and partially keep your hands off asicon but this is on another level it's so much fun 347 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:06,560 and the musical choice is not a coincidence if a comment on the youtube clip of that scene is to be 348 00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:12,160 believed i didn't verify it but it does seem to make sense that track or kind of music is apparently 349 00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:19,600 often used in school track and field races in japan so there's your reference and they used that 350 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:25,040 actually twice so that's pretty damn cool defied in the ninth episode had me jump back and forth between 351 00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:32,240 cheering and howling it's so cool but also so funny crazy and stupid a fantastic mix of intense 352 00:37:32,240 --> 00:37:39,600 action with cool choreography wild visuals insane physics and very dumb but also very funny jokes 353 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:45,760 a real blast all around like is one of the best things i've seen a recent times just so good 354 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:51,600 and the story itself as you might already guessed from the setup and everything is wacky as hell and 355 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:56,880 has some definite mop cycle 100 vibes in the best way possible though instead of broccoli we have 356 00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:04,320 a focus on bananas like the aliens are after the banana organs of humans or reproductive organs i 357 00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:11,440 guess which is also pretty much the only thing i didn't like in the first episode and in the show in 358 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:18,560 general is the alien abduction stuff being too rapy for my taste like the the aliens have like these 359 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:25,280 robo scorpion dick apparatus thingies and those are absolutely not necessary they're scary all right 360 00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:30,080 like if you want to get scary those aliens look fucking scary when they do this shit 361 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:37,360 even though they do for uncomfortable yes and even though they look in their real forms pretty goofy 362 00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:42,800 and if when they're like hidden there like these have these weird celery man bodies with 363 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:48,160 or office man bodies with these with big heads and everything but there's still super irian creepy 364 00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:53,520 like i said very there could be something right out of mop cycle 100 but you know you have 365 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:58,640 momo getting stripped naked not completely naked but in her underwear and tied down and then threatened 366 00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:03,680 with these metal monstrosities growing out of the aliens growing areas i don't know why anime still 367 00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:07,440 has such a problem with grasping that sexual assault as a very low success rate when it comes to 368 00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:13,040 being a hilarious punchline especially these days maybe to show jump didn't get the memo but 369 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:19,600 thankfully that is turned around very quickly comes up like again later in in a later episode but it also 370 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:26,080 but also there it's immediately diffused or rather dismantled so that was a relief but you know be 371 00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:31,600 aware of that like just the imagery nothing comes of it really like there's no actual sexual assault 372 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:38,960 in that regard or anything but and it's you know most of that is counterbalanced by some form of 373 00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:46,880 legit humor but you know it's still a very fucked up piece of imagery just saying that and just 374 00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:53,680 the implications are horrible the more funny side of this kind of humor i guess is trooper granny 375 00:39:53,680 --> 00:40:00,560 stealing ocaroans dick and later his balls um which give which gives our character some urgency to 376 00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:06,320 be turned kid ocaroans junk back and yes all of this is as stupid and hilarious as it sounds but we 377 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:13,360 also got some cool lore sprinkled in here like aliens and evil spirits maybe have some common 378 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:21,040 origin because the evil spirit doorbell at momos grandma's place reacts to a giant sumo alien 379 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:28,640 and momos is able to kill it with talismans also the aliens might or yokai as well um might be 380 00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:33,040 beholden to the rules of their chosen form like the sumo alien can touch the ground with its hand 381 00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:39,840 or the hands dissolve it's pretty cool momo constantly needs to control the curse and stop ocaroans 382 00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:45,360 from turning which makes the battles more tense you know because kind of limited it in a way and 383 00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:50,880 when momo keeps ocaroans mind intact and lets him unleash the full power of the trooper 384 00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:57,760 granny curse he turns into this half demon with a half face mask with giant teeth and looked very 385 00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:04,640 ragged and is super fast and strong however in that form he is also super depressed in a very funny way 386 00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:10,720 and also it takes a big toll on his human body so he can't use it for too long so there's a 387 00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:16,960 limit on that as well uh momos psychic powers on the other hand enable her to see the aura of things 388 00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:21,840 and living things she can subdue and move the oras and everything they envelop in a very limited 389 00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:27,520 area and since like i already said her powers manifest in the form of giant hands she can also do 390 00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:32,800 other stuff like grabbing pulling and throwing things which opens the battles up to a lot of dynamic 391 00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:38,240 cool shit with heavy use of her environment which is always neat and exciting to see then we have 392 00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:45,600 trooper granny formally 1000 kilo granny who becomes a side character in her own right um is a 393 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:50,880 strong yoke spirit a voice by yummy mayumi tanaka so louvier from one piece and krillin from dregable 394 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:56,960 they find a reason for her to stick around in the show which also adds a fun tool for the show to 395 00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:02,320 easily explain away some plot conveniences and i'm very interested to learn about her backstory which 396 00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:10,000 so far they have only teased then at the halfway and endpoint of this first core respectively we 397 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:19,120 get two additional characters to run out the main cast aira and gg aira ostensibly is a horrible 398 00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:25,360 incredibly shallow person with severe main character syndrome oh boy i'm being overly mean of course 399 00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:30,400 she's she actually has a good heart but that doesn't show in the beginning also she's a giant idiot 400 00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:37,200 voiced by aya nesakura so gaby from attack on titan and ocheko from mahera academia she picks up one 401 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:45,280 of ocheko's lost balls by chance don't ask um start seeing spirits and thinks herself a magical girl 402 00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:51,600 that is destined to save the day it is very funny that she is basically fondling ocheko and severed 403 00:42:51,600 --> 00:43:00,640 golden ball the entire episode she is a this is series of words yes it's like she's sitting at her 404 00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:06,720 desk in her classroom and just just the golden ball it looks just like a marble but you know the 405 00:43:06,720 --> 00:43:16,560 implication is there and she's just rubbing it between her hair it's so funny uh yes very naughty 406 00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:25,280 humor in this show uh but in a very good way mostly so yes yes um it's not attached to his body so 407 00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:33,920 there's that but yes but still yes and this all results at a clash between her and momo who aira 408 00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:39,200 is convinced as a demon but then an actual ghost slash yokai shows up due to reasons i don't want to 409 00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:44,800 give away but this is also where we learned that yokai are not just mindless hulking monsters in 410 00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:50,480 episode six and seven the set of episodes where aira is the main focus the gang encounters spirit 411 00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:58,240 of a woman and in one breathtaking and heartbreaking montage we learn both about how she and aira 412 00:43:58,240 --> 00:44:03,600 come to be how they came to be how they are and how one moment in time connect their existences it's 413 00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:09,360 a masterful act both from a presentation and storytelling perspective and a real tearjerker i love 414 00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:15,120 that scene uh fantastic although the upbeat ed gave me total whiplash on that episode 415 00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:23,440 even aside outside of that the ed is great the op is great too and especially the ed i let always run 416 00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:31,840 from beginning to end because it's really really fun uh it's hi da da by zutomayo okay yeah so 417 00:44:32,720 --> 00:44:40,640 let's go chill dop auto noke by creepy nazis great as well so we got her and then at the very tail end 418 00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:46,640 of this core we get jin jiji and joji voiced by kato ishi kawa so either from my hero academia or 419 00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:53,680 jinos from one punch man jiji is momos chato friend and her first love he's very flashy and 420 00:44:53,680 --> 00:45:00,960 chuni and obnoxious but his humor and way to talk to the ladies has grand masiko fully backing him so he 421 00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:09,040 is here to stay so now we have this love triangle quartet with ira having the hearts for okaroon 422 00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:15,520 jiji having the hearts for momo momo being a bit torn between her feelings for okaroon and jiji 423 00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:19,920 and okaroon definitely having feelings for momo but not being confident enough to at this point consider 424 00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:25,280 her anything beyond a friend or even a real romantic option period he's trying though hashtag is 425 00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:31,280 complicated like okaroon feels threatened by jiji because he and momo of course have a repertoire 426 00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:36,080 and chat memories and in jokes that okaroon doesn't feel like he can compete with of course that 427 00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:40,720 gets even more complicated when okaroon realizes that jiji shares the same interest in the occult 428 00:45:40,720 --> 00:45:47,600 that he does and they could actually become really good friends and this is basically where the first 429 00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:54,000 core just ends in the middle of the introductory episodes for jiji where he momo and okaroon 430 00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:59,840 investigate jiji's house because it might be cursed or possessed by something we're getting 431 00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:07,440 core to in summer and i urge you all to check out the first half until then because this is one 432 00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:13,360 of the coolest most visually striking funniest and heartfelt shows i've seen in quite a while 433 00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:19,840 and with amazing characters to boot a romantic couple with amazing chemistry believe the hype 434 00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:25,280 this shows the real deal um you can watch it all on crunch your own Netflix depending what region you're 435 00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:32,400 in also some other services and please please do so momo and okaroon are so cute together they 436 00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:39,200 must be protected at all costs that these kids into your heart you will not regret it i promise you 437 00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:48,480 that and with this we have reached the end of our reviews for this season but as usual 438 00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:52,400 there's just one more thing to do 439 00:46:52,400 --> 00:47:00,880 vast of this season 440 00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:08,560 all right john best of the season time what you got i mean we only have two shows so yeah 441 00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:12,640 there's a little limited yes and i mean i could 442 00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:18,400 so i said stuff in the quick and the dead but you know i don't feel like a lot of that really stuck 443 00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:24,240 as much as of course i don't think that ever really sucks just like the stuff that we mainly talk 444 00:47:24,240 --> 00:47:32,400 about so i mean it sounds like you had fun with dandadan i did and i we both thought mecha ude was 445 00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:39,920 you know a good time we did so i guess my pick is mecha ude yes and my pick is dandadan obviously 446 00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:48,000 that makes it pretty simple yes mecha ude was a lot of fun it moved like a million miles an hour but it 447 00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:55,600 works surprisingly well for that and you know it was i still am like boy it was really cool to see 448 00:47:55,600 --> 00:48:02,240 this like little kickstarter indie project get turned into what it is and i think you know 449 00:48:02,240 --> 00:48:08,960 they did a good job and i i don't know if it's possible to see more of it because you know the story 450 00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:14,800 is was what it was but you know if the studio comes back to do other things in the future that i'd like 451 00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:21,600 to say so i would like to see both i would like to see them do other stuff but also i wouldn't mind 452 00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:28,160 another season of mechanical arms if they can make it work yeah yeah i mean they teed it teased some 453 00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:33,760 potential story development stuff in like the very end credits of the final episode was like hey 454 00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:39,440 this is where it could go next this is what could happen and i wouldn't mind to see a full season of that 455 00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:44,880 so we'll see i enjoyed that show a lot as well and i thought it was super fun so yeah definitely 456 00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:50,960 definitely more of that more of that studio more cool kickstarter projects that turn into actually 457 00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:58,640 cool show full shows yes yeah just do that make that happen i want these success stories and yeah 458 00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:05,600 i mean i just fucking fond over dandadan for quite a while so you already know everything there's 459 00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:12,640 to say about that show i am so looking forward to when it continues in summer maybe i will be able to 460 00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:22,960 convince john to catch up with me i will do my best listeners i will maybe i'll try i mean there's 461 00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:30,320 actually a surprising number of spring shows i want to at least look at but you know yes 462 00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:38,960 let's see what happens see what sticks and see what how much time i have yes but either way 463 00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:44,640 please do you listen to check out any of these two shows both preferably because they're worth it 464 00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:50,400 and they're also smart shows both only 12th 12 episodes i think mechanical 465 00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:57,440 meco de also only had 12 right or was it 13 it was 12 yeah 12 so see there you go a quick watch for both 466 00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:04,320 of them and then you're just in time to caught up to check out the second half of the first season of 467 00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:13,360 dandadan and i'm so excited to see where the show is going next and yeah i guess that's it for 468 00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:20,720 this season we're probably also gonna have a short season against next time although one episode 469 00:50:20,720 --> 00:50:29,200 more probably so we'll see you soon for the sneak peak of spring season 2025 and until then 470 00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:32,400 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next time on anime brain freeze it's a mystical adventure in a demonic wonderland 479 00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:39,440 in the green hour upon the magic wave i heard i can see your true nature come and meet her 480 00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:52,400 your true nature come and meet her in the green hour