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Most definitely not be delivered in our review of my dear friend Noh-Gotan.
For all that insanity, we have some premieres to talk about in this sneak peak.
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And here we are in the sneak peak, and as usual, we checked out a couple of premieres this time of
course. Fall season, anime fall season 2024, and we have categories for first-time listeners.
These are the notes, the "maybe's" and the "kippers", the notes to show that we checked out, but are not
gonna watch any longer. The "maybe's" shows that have picked our interest, but we are not entirely sure
about yet if we want to stick with them, and then of course the "kippers" shows that we are pretty sure
that we are gonna keep watching. So I'm gonna start today, because I think I have a couple more
"maybe's" at least then John, maybe, we'll see. First one, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe,
hey, hey, hey, we watch out, we're gonna start sounding like an oasis song over here.
Well, as long as we don't try to hate and beat each other up, we'll see.
Anyway, so the first "maybe's" bordering on a "nope" for me, and that is Trillion Game,
and that is about a computer nerd and an eloquent type/con man who embarked on a journey to become
the world's most selfish man and earn $1 trillion. Fun concept and theory, I guess, like we have
this introvert attacker, Manaboo, and this extraverted charming guy, Haru, who happened to help each other
out of a pinch one night and become friends, and Manaboo has a trouble landing a job in IT due to
his bad interview skills, and Haru would rather own the company than work in for it. Both of those are
moods. Absolutely. So, and then there's also the female heir to the Dragon Bank IT company who
recognizes their potential and is thrown into the mix of this, and the journey starts from there.
So far so good, problem is I'm not super comfortable with shows that relish in the glorification of
peak capitalism, and if a show starts with rattling of Google Amazon and Microsoft as the objects of
desire, I will immediately hear these loud sirens blaring in my mind, "wee wee warning dipshits
approaching, warning dipshits approaching." And Haru is a peak dipshit. The show paints him as a
compulsive liar, but also a softie with a big heart at the same time, and that paired with the
"if I had a trillion dollars, my life would be perfect" mission statement of the show. Has me a bit worried.
No, this sounds fine, don't worry about it. I mean, it could be fine. I think we had a similar show,
a couple of seasons ago that had this asshole millionaire Bruce Wayne type as one of the two main
characters, and that on the surface was also about money is the best, yo, didn't stick long enough
with that show to find out if it subverted that initial statement either, and I get the feeling
Trillian game will be wishy-washy on that too. Someone who thinks trillionaires, trillionaires, trillionaires,
or even billionaires shouldn't be allowed to exist. I can't root for these guys, even if they are
kind of sympathetic to an extent, we'll see. Like I said, you know what I say? Eat the rich.
Sure, yeah. I mean, like I said, I was kind of interesting, but unless the show gives me a clear
indicator that it will turn into a story that is about fucking overreach people in the next few
episodes, I doubt I'll stick with it. Plus, the character designs are but fogly, which doesn't help.
Jesus, I haven't seen a such an ugly show at such a long time. So maybe not since initial D,
but yeah, that is my first maybe, but probably a nope. So yeah, John, what is your first maybe?
My first maybe also dives into the world of business, but it's a different kind of business.
It's the business of magical girls. Ah, yes. Most of that shows. Yes. And that shows
magic, Lumiere, magical girls incorporated. So basically it's all about this girl,
Kana Sakuragi, who is fresh out of college and she can't find a job and God, there's that's another
mood man, but this is a world where magical girls are a service that you can hire to take care of
things for you. And when there's and it turns out that around the city, there are these
creatures called Kaey that need to be taken care of and they come in different shapes and sizes
and strings and grades and whatnot and that sort of thing. And when Kana is in the middle of a job
interview at this high profile finance company and they have to call in, you know, they need to call
in the quickest, the cheapest magical girl they can. So they call in this. So they have to call in,
you know, the services of this company, Magi Lumiere. And this girl, he told me comes out to help
them and she is like very gung ho, very, you know, all about her job, but she has the, so the kind of
magical girl, this is sort of like, if you're familiar, I think I've spoken about it before,
how like Nanoha, and the magical girl Nanoha does its portrayal of magic, it's sort of like a bit more
techy. Yeah, I remember that. And she's trying to fight off this monster, but she has the wrong
ammunition loaded into her device, which is of course called a broom. And Kana sort of recognizes
that because she's like, wait a minute, I don't exactly know how this device works that she's using,
but I've seen this before. So maybe I can help out. So she helps, he told me out. And you know, she
gets dragged into this as a civilian. And the people who are interviewing here are like, you know,
you don't have to do this, right? And she biggest best align in the first episode. She turns around
and says very matter of fact, you know, I didn't want this job anyway. And it's like, oh,
oh, that's so good. Oh, man. So, it's really good. So basically on the other side, um,
he told me and the other people that mentioned, we're like, well, we're running low on help. We need to
hire more people. And at after seeing how helpful he told me, or after he told me she's how helpful Kana
is in this situation. She drags her back and says, we got our new recruit. Nice. I guess. And she gets
a job there basically, interning as a magical girl and the, and oh, boy, the crew there is a bunch of
dummies too. Cause one of them is like, you know, he's the finance guy and he's trying to justify the use
of, you know, all of their stuff is like, well, you have an old model broom, but you're going to have to
hold on to it. There's this green hair, Kate, who's the techie guy and he's out there. And then there's
the boss who is this older guy who's cosplaying as a magical girl in a pink frilly dress. And it's like,
you know, okay, all right, you're you're living your best life. You're getting into character. And
this, this show is just really silly. And it seems like, you know, it doesn't take itself very
seriously, but I like, I like the idea behind it. So I'm definitely going to stick around and see how it
goes. One of the better animated looking JC staff shows too. So fingers crossed it'll say that way.
So why is that a maybe another keeper? Because it sounds like you're pretty enthusiastic about it.
I'm not sure. I just, I want to see where it goes. Okay. Cause sometimes some shows are like, yeah,
sure. Okay, but someone's like, okay, in the first episode, but you're not entirely sure if it will
like keep that going. Right. Yeah. Okay. Sounds promising. Oh, yeah. I mean, it sounds good on
its face. I'm willing to see where it goes. Yes. So what do you got next? I don't have a segue from
face to arms, but there it is. So that's my next baby. And I think that's one you checked out as well
because you link me the OP mechanical arms. Yeah, mecca, Uday. Yeah. So it's about a boy named Tikaru who
has trouble being proactive and lacking courage to take first steps in more ways than one. And he
stumbles over a weapon called mecca, that attaches itself to is to the hood of his hoodie for some reason.
We had a choice for like a tech alien thingy to attach itself, but okay. And now he's hunted by
two organizations who wanted for themselves. One may be good, one probably bad. Can't be quite sure.
Maybe that gets also turned on its head later on. It's pretty standard action stuff with somewhat
entrum-pomorphic body creatures. So something like Digimon only with bionic arms. But
all right, chill out Spencer. But animation is good so far. And Alma, the mechanical arm that
attaches itself to he carusuri is pretty adorable. Like he's great. He's very, he's very cute. Like he's
the very, very sad little arm creature that just wants to be, you know, to help out and to be,
to have a friend and everything. And it's very, like, very cute. So, yeah, I, it's really, really fun
so far. The action is pretty good. Salono, here, Salono is doing the soundtrick and delivering
stellar beats as usual. So that it's got that going for it. And I like that in the first episode,
we have this girl from the other organization that is trying to just speak with Hikaru and,
and Alma, but doesn't work out. And she has like these two mecha, mecha, Ude that attached to her legs
that seems to have independent thoughts and always argue with each other. And I like that a lot as well.
So Arki is getting increasingly frustrated as time goes on.
Yes, especially in the second episode. Oh boy. I haven't seen that yet, but understandable.
It's just, and, you know, like I said, we have these two industries. We have Kaganry industries
who seem to consider mecha, Ude as just a tool and something to be used. And then we have the other
arms organization who maybe wants to liberate them, but also the chief of them might be a bit shady.
We'll see. This seems like very low-key standard action stuff, like I said. And probably, I doubt it
will have many surprises, but so far, it seems a very fun stuff. I found this show interesting,
because I was doing some reading about it. It started off as a Kickstarter project.
And all right. I think I remember that.
Yeah, and the pilot was crowdfunded and released in 2018, I think.
And there was like, you can go on YouTube and watch the pilot for free. And I guess there was actually
a dub of it, released the next day. That I haven't checked out, but then, you know, companies came on
to the studio, try it, and we're like, here's some money. Make your dream real, which that's cool.
It's cool to see it came from like basically nothing. And now it's got it's a full production going on.
So I'm always there for the underdog story when it comes to either the show itself or the production.
So I think this is really neat to read about its history and see where it's coming from. And hopefully
where it's going. I mean, at least in terms of concepts and everything, it's very merchandisable,
and marketable to kids and everything. So I could assume that.
That's a successful. Maybe that's what pony can you saw in it, but
yeah, I don't want to be super cynical right now. No, no, no, I don't mean in terms of what the
original intent intent of the creators is, but in terms of it having some staying power and, you know,
being successful enough in terms of how much money it makes that it maybe will be one of the bigger hits
and Reese in next time. Who knows? Maybe. I mean, I hope so. I think this has a lot of promise to it.
Yeah, I feel like this has action figure promise, and you could even do the R at the mecha-uday thing
as a separate thing, right? That you just have have kids play with, and you know, put in on their clothes
or whatever with some kind of some kind of apparatus or whatever. So yeah, I can just see some
merchandising opportunity there that might keep that thing going for a while. Let's see, interesting.
Also could be a potential game. I see some beat 'em up potential there as well.
We'll see, we'll see, interesting. John, what is your next maybe? My next maybe is a return for a show
that disappeared that aired a very long time ago, and now it's apparently back.
What could I be talking about? It's the remake Iran might have. Yes, we talked about this in a bit
in our last episode. Yes, so it's a remake of a show from 1989. And you know, it's one of those that I
always sort of knew existed, but never went back to watch. I wonder just how watchable
your 80s version is. But you know, I like I said, I'm willing to check this out, mostly from a
from an academic standpoint as academic as you can watch anime the way I did Udu say Yatsuda.
Just to see what's going on with it, I'm and I will say you know from the first couple episodes
it's really pretty. You know, it's got probably the last living remnants of a
Mapa who aren't changed to their desks and starving working on it. But you know, the first couple
episodes look really great and it definitely it definitely has the same style that Udu say Yatsuda
had because you know, that makes sense. But the action sequences are really well executed and you know,
it's just all around pretty goofy as you would expect, but it doesn't from the first couple episodes,
it doesn't seem like they're doing the whole genders, which you think like super gross or anything.
I mean, also also didn't really do that aside from like I said, there was a lot of nudity.
Yeah, that does seem to be in there quite yet either, but you know, there's plenty of time for
that to change. No, I don't think they will put that in there. I don't I don't think this is about
easing viewers into the potential of nudity in this. It's just going to take it out because
I don't even remember which was what was the last normal airtime anime TV show that had a lot of
nudity in it. So these times are passing gone, I think in you know, movies and stuff like that and
maybe Netflix shows you might still see it, but it's stuff that it probably as in Japanese TV. I
don't know if that happens anymore, at least when it runs in a specific time spot,
that's a lot. And you know, the old show had that and I saw some screenshots there,
even took out a run mass ass. So at least in a bad, some people have probably complained about that,
I don't give a shit. It's just the new run was woke. Hey spoilers, run was always
was kind of woke. Yeah, technically water transfers. Yeah, I was going to say from the themes as
seems pretty self evident, but what do I know? Yeah. I will say it may have crossed over to the dark
side a little bit because I'm watching actually watching it on Netflix. However, I ain't spending my
own money because my sister's so very generously gifted my parents a Netflix subscription. I'm just
coast enough of that. That's a way to do it. This is how we all were doing it until Netflix did some
you know, IP location nonsense and now you can't share it with your buddies anymore who live
a couple of streets away or whole city away. But more to the point, this version of run mass seems
pretty cool so far. I'm going to see what they do and how it go. Yeah, seems fun. I said why I wasn't
going to watch the last episode and I'm going to stick to that, but I enjoyed the also when
I watched it back in the day, at least for a while until the old Djoke's got a bit to say me for me.
But there's a lot of there was a lot of fun stuff in there, very dynamic. So I assume the new one
will be as well and it looks very colorful and stylish. So yeah, one time. Yeah, enjoy. Yeah, I don't
know if they did this with your ritual, but they are leaning into, yeah, can you tell this was a manga
because they have a whole bunch of like the big onomatopoeia on the screen for different sound effects
and sometimes they have like the crosshatch-dittered coloring on some scenes. So they're leaning into,
yeah, hey, this was a comic, did you know? Did you know that? That seems like a wise choice.
Especially since there was already a very prominent anime adaption that now it means to, you know,
not distance itself from that, but separate itself in a way where it can stand out and
one thing to do that of course is to be like, hey, this is more accurate to what the actual manga was
and the way we show that visually is in the way you just described. So yeah, make some sense.
It's really neat. Like they kind of like do it in brief flashes here and there so it works really well,
I think. Cool. Yeah, it. So what do you get? One that you probably also checked out,
Dandadan. I didn't actually. You did not. Oh, interesting. I thought. Yeah, I talked about the OP, I think.
I mean, one of our friends linked in Discord and I watched it. I was like, this is neat, but you
know, it's I read about the premise. I was like, I don't know if this is for me. And with
spoiler alert, next time it's my turn, I'm going to wrap up fire a whole bunch of stuff that
are returning shows. So, you know, I, I have enough to watch. Okay. Well, there you go. But yeah,
this is the big profile shown in Jam Show that is coming on the season. I would say a side from
the thing that we're going to talk about at the end of the keepers, but, you know, that was that
thing was on my husband on my radar for a while because it was was brought up by Jeff through multiple
times in some of his videos. And one of the more unusual shown in action shows out there. So it's like,
okay, interested. And then the adaption was picked up by science, science, Saru. So Masaki and Masaki,
you also pseudo. And they always deliver interesting stuff for people who need to refresh her. We
reviewed of them. I keep it right off the Azo can and the man cry, baby, but they also recently did
the newest Scott program cartoon. And all their design work is pretty cartoony and out there. And
I was like, okay, so this is at least visually going to be pretty distinctive and interesting.
And I assume wacky. So I'm looking forward to this. And yeah, that that's what I'm, that's what I got.
This is a super wacky show like the OP first off right off the bed promised us creepy nuts.
So that happens. And then we have are immediately introduced or to make characters the first is I say
as she gets dumped by her boyfriend because she's broke and doesn't want to put out. Well,
he has to deal with that, but apparently is a big piece of shit. And that's why he dumps her and
she is a bit, she has a bit of an aggressive confronting nature her reaction to this is she immediately
wants to kick him in the head as workout because he can block it apparently, but she at least tries.
And when someone her and something annoy Saru, she's like, I'm gonna go there and I'm gonna address
that, which is I think a good characteristic. But that sometimes gets her also into hot water.
And someone else in her school is experiencing both sides of that part of her personality is
a lone otaku sitting in the classroom making it being made fun of by his classmates and just
I said, it's just, ah, fuck, I got dumped and walks past the class sees that he is that they are throwing
paper balls at him and she's just annoyed walks into the classroom sits next to the just sits next to
him and gives the bullies just this, this glare like this. You want to keep going guys? You really want to
keep going with this shit and immediately stop. It's such a fucking like perfect introduction scene and
immediately makes you sympathetic to this characters like, oh my god, she's bad as I love her. And
the way she stands up to those bullies and it's great. So, and of course, it seems like the lone otaku,
that she protects gets the partially wrong impression from that because she thinks she did that because
she's just like him and she's interested in the occult like she is. And she just goes after her and
just drones her. It's like, hey, look at this shit in my magazine about the, you have all abdactions
and everything and she's just like, ah, unlike him. She doesn't believe in aliens and unlike her,
he doesn't believe in ghosts. So, when they dare each other to prove the existence of either,
the, of course, gets almost abducted by aliens and he gets possessed by ghosts.
As these things go. So, it seems normal. Yes. So, it's a super energetic, great looking show.
Science are as usual on point when it comes to hyper expressive faces and body animation.
What sound this might be too cartoony when it comes to anime, but I love it. I think it looks fucking great.
The story is wacky as all hell and has some definite mob cycle 100 vibes in the best way possible,
though instead of broccoli, we have a focus on bananas.
The, like I said, the two mains are instantly likeable, especially in their interactions with each
other and dare I say it, John. It's might turn out to be a romcom that is actually going somewhere.
What? Proposterous, I know, but to set up and considering how the first episode ends,
which I don't want to give away, makes it seem more likely than an other show-to-job action shows.
So, yes, that is very promising. Pretty much the only thing I didn't like in the first episode
is the alien abduction stuff being too rapy for my taste.
Like the aliens have like these Robo Scorpion dicks. Those were absolutely not necessary.
I don't know why anime still has such a problem with grasping that sexual assault has a very low
success rate when it comes to being a hilarious punch line, especially the space.
Maybe Sean Jump didn't get the mevader's inoffensive fan service, but this was the offensive guy.
What? You get a panda at all kinds, I guess. Do you? But thankfully,
I mean, no, but thankfully that is turned around very quickly. And when I aired my grievances on Twitter
of Randovour's confirmed for me that this is just in the first chapter. And probably is so also
just in the first episode of this. So, let's hope he's right. And this is the only time they
go there in the show because if all goes in aliens in this show turn out to be horny sex offenders,
I'm out. Aside from that definite must watch of the season though, but it's still a maybe because
I wasn't sure at the point of this when I wrote this down. I when I put this in my list. If you know,
this what the thing that annoyed me in the first episode was a one time bit, which apparently it is.
Everything else is very promising. I love the two main characters and judging from what I heard
about it, it's going very interesting places and especially relationship-wise, it's it's not afraid
to commit, which I always really, really appreciate. So, very much looking forward to more of this.
And I hope it's going to turn into a keeper, but I'm pretty sure. Cool, cool. Yeah, John, what's next on your
list? So, like I said, for my keepers, four out of five of them are returning shows. So, I guess I
can sort of kind of group them together a little bit in a way away because the first grouping, can you
guess what the first grouping is? Isn't that a new love life show this season? Yes. There we go.
So, it's going to be eyeballs. Yes, correct. The first is love life superstar season three.
So, at the end of the previous season, Kanon was supposed to make a trip to Austria and do some
staying in music there, but shenanigans happen as you still staying in Japan to help train with her,
one of their girls rivals, Marguerite. So, that's happening.
Judging, it's from the newest Austria election that wasn't a bad thing to happen to her not going to Austria.
Sorry, that's besides a point. Yeah, I don't know anything about that. Honestly, but oh no.
Quikiner's Nazis. Anyway, keep going. But yes, so now it's become this thing where we're, oh Kanon,
you weren't going to Austria. So, you're going to be training with the rest of us, right? And she's
like, well, I would, but I have other plans in mind and the plan is to get this girl Marguerite to
not be the hard headed dummy that she is and maybe try and enjoy music as much as the rest of
her because she's kind of like very selfish about it. And you know, it's love life. It's high school
musical, the anime. And I'll always watch it because on the same note is the second season of the
idol master, shiny colors. And I think I see what they're doing with this show in that, you know,
each season is going to be or maybe not each entire season, but parts of each season,
because I think they have there's already a third season on the plate as well, is going to be
characters that they introduced post the games launch. So the, uh, start of this one deals with
these girls from the new unit straight light, uh, May, Asahi and Fuyuko, uh, can't believe I got them all right,
wow. There's a billion girls in love life in the idol master. And at this point, trying to keep
them all straight is kind of fools errand. But I will say that polygon pictures is carrying
forward the same momentum that they did with the first season with, yeah, I know we had had our
misgivings about them, but the animation work they're doing is pretty good, maybe not on the
theme level as say orange, but the character animations feel mostly like pretty natural. And I'm,
and I applaud them for, you know, doing some really good work on it so far. So, you know, I'm here to
continue watching it to see, you know, how they introduce these girls and to see how the animation
continues to develop. Yeah, I mean, hey, the stuff I watch from polygon pictures is a bit older.
So maybe they improved, maybe they learned, I don't want to doubt it. And I'm always glad if, you know,
we have more, we have better CG anime students than just the one. Yeah, it's of course,
is appreciated, but, yeah, I'd say maybe, you know, the band I name co money helped a little, but I look
at the adaptation of Million I when I say, so between, you know, repeating what I had previously said
between this and Million Live, this is definitely the technically superior of the two.
What do you got? My first keeper is Uzumaki, the anime, nothing to do with Naruto,
the anime it, just, Rosenberg. Yeah, close enough. The horror version anime, it's the anime
adaptation of one of horror manga author Junji Echo's most famous works that it has already been
adapted as a live action movie before, if I remember correctly, but not as an anime yet.
And it seems to be an international production cooperation with Adultswim, as far as I could
garner from the credits. And it's about this small town that becomes infected by the concept of
spirals, like the APN nature and on people and people become obsessed with them, get haunted by them
and consume by them. But judging from the first episode, this is about uncovering the mystery behind
this from the perspective of two young people directly affected by it through their friends and family.
The only other Junji Echo adaptation I saw in recent time was the Junji Echo collection, and that was
really bad in terms of quality and not being able to capture the enveloping area, the atmosphere
of the manga original. This one, Uzumaki is much more up to par. The production values are spectacular.
First off, it's entirely in black and white, which is very rare and immediately gives it a distinct
look that is super close to the manga. A lot of the animation seems to be heavily rotoscope,
which makes it stand out even more. That's a really cool look. And this also helps immensely with
capturing the unique atmosphere of Eto's manga better. However, I feel the pacing is too quick.
It's only four episodes, and in the first episode, it already feels like it's rushing from
iconic panel to iconic panel from the manga. So it comes across as more of a greatest hits version,
instead of taking its time to effectively establish its own atmosphere. Maybe that will change
in the other three episodes, but right now I definitely feel like more relaxed pacing would
make it more suitable for the TV show format. But also, because it's so short, it's a surefire
keeper because half of the show is already out at this point. I think the time of this recording
even episode three. So this is easy to finish up, and I will do so. But yeah, I hope they
decrease the intensity and the speed of the pacing a bit because some of that stuff needs to simmer,
and right now it doesn't get the chance to, which is a bit of a shame. And I feel like these kind of
stories need some time, some time to linger on certain moments and so on, which doesn't seem to be
intent on doing, but yeah, it's interesting. It's very interesting. And like I said, the style is just so
cool. I could totally see a bit of a certain adaption in that style and who would fucking rock. So I hope
someone takes notice. We'll see. So I haven't watched it, but I heard, and I hope this isn't actually
the case, but after the first episode, there's apparently a severe drop off in quality.
Okay. Well, maybe this will one of my hate watch keepers then after a while, but I can only judge
from the first episode because it's all I've seen in the first episode, this spectacular aside from
the slightly too quick pacing. But yeah, if the second episode is shitty, maybe it will catch
itself in the third episode, but also it doesn't have that much, you know, episodes to actually impress
anymore. And we'll see what happens. But yeah, for now, it's the keeper and it's only, it only has
four episodes. It's probably gonna stay that doesn't mean that the review is gonna be positive,
but we'll see what happens. John, what are your next keepers?
I guess these two shows belong together because one is a death game and one started as a death game.
Tatsu Katsu is continuing. It's not really spoilers to say at this point that the characters encountered
and fought the emperor that was taking control of the big nightly surveys that were killing off
large parts of people in Japan. And now the emperor is dead question mark maybe?
And the back half seems to focus on trying to keep up the idea that the emperor
is alive, but you know, not really keeping the death game going until this one girl who calls
herself the queen starts showing up and saying, hey, what if we sort of just kept this going? And then
there's other little wrinkles in there. And I'm not quite sure this back half is as strong as the
first half was, but I guess I'll keep going and see where what do with it. Are you sure that's
continuing? Because I don't see it in the end of chart fall left over. So I was surprised.
It's weird because it's not showing on like an it chart. It wasn't showing on live chart either
at first, but it is continuing. Okay, interesting. Yeah, because I thought it was one season's
well and then I looked at live chart and I was like, oh no, I'm stupid. It says it's two seasons
died completely glossed over it when it started, but it is it took a couple of weeks off
in the summer because of ye old Olympic games, but that's why it's kind of it's episode count's
kind of a couple behind other shows, but it is still going. Interesting. Okay.
The other one that I guess are belongs in this grouping is SAO alternative gun gale online too.
Yeah, and I said came back and I say it kind of belongs because of where SAO's roots are.
This starts off with Karen and her buddies getting into squad GM3 and we're just going a
full fortnight where the island that they're fighting on in this in gun gale is slowly getting
taken by like the ocean and there's a big convergence point on the center and as to deal with the
strategy of eliminating all the other players and I don't know if squad GM3 is going to be the
entire story of this season, but they kind of come out swinging with it. So it's obviously the
big central focus at current. And you know, I like these characters. I like the setup for it just because
I get to move away from everyone else in this universe for a little while.
And how fortunate that it would coincide with the release of the new video games,
sort our online fracture daydream available now. Absolut surprise.
I may have played it a little bit and it's actually kind of fun. Okay. Well, that's that.
Which is it's neat because it mixes the gameplay elements between like, you know, your standard,
you know, sword and board characters that we've seen from the older shoes, but you also have
characters that are like Len and Foucazero who come out with their guns and you play the game
like a third person shooter. So you could play the game how you want, which is me. But yeah,
this is not sponsored. Please sponsor. Spandai Namco. Don't that we have to adhere to certain
rules, probably. Oh, God, you're right. But no, GTO too, you know, I almost forgot that it was going to
be a thing. And then when I started, I was like, yeah, you know, I like these characters. And I
like seeing them strategize and do this battle royale thing. So I'm here for it. Sure. I'll keep
watching it. So what you got? My last keeper, because we're going to get to the big one is
also a returning show. And it's the second season of Blue Lock. Blue lock versus Japan U20.
The return of soccer squid game. Yes, no, I mean, that's subtitle I added. But I mean, I get that,
but from everything you described the show as it sure sounds like it. Yes, absolutely. And if
people remember that review, that is one of the sports anime of watching recent sports anime,
that I watched in recent time that I enjoyed the most. It was a super fun first season, well animated,
great characters, super surprising, developments and everything. And just completely insane.
I loved it. So I of course, keep watching the second season. And yeah, it hits it off.
Remedely, it starts off where it left off to keep Blue Lock going. A selection of the best
of this experiment have to beat the Japanese U20 soccer team in a match. And to select the best team
members, Ego Jean Pouchy, the creator of this nonsense came up with another one of his petited
special games. And yeah, it looks like it's going to be fun times. And the last season had some
surprising eliminations. And so now we see a lot of new faces that step into the spotlight.
And assuming this will all culminate in a grouch match between one of Blue Lock star players,
Rina and his brother, Si, who is on the U20 team. So yeah, second season promises to be just as fun.
It's the first one, more larger than life characters with flashy designs over the top villains
in the form of the bosses of the Japanese football union. It's so dumb. And the show has so much
fun with it. I'm very happy to be able to board this nonsense trade again. And I'm sure it's
going to be a blast. So yeah, that's going to be that. John, what is our shared final keeper?
What else could it be? What else could it be other than the return of the king? Dragon ball,
Daima. Yes. So this is, it's not GT. No, it's not, it's not super. It's not GT. It's not Z. It's in
between Z and super actually. So it's not even picking up right off the super before I die.
So yeah, this is the story of what I believe, Goma is the brother of Dobra.
I'm not sure he's a brother, but he was definitely the one next in line to rule the demon realm.
Next to Dobra. Dobra was killed by boo.
And so Goma decides, hey, what if I just sort of kick things off a little prematurely because
Dobra surely didn't come back later, no, sir. Didn't get to go into heaven and be a good guy
because he was being taken control of by Bobbady. We didn't ignore that. Shut up.
So I didn't happen. So Goma decided, you know, hey, he and his assistant,
Degetoo are watching what is essentially a nine minute long recap of the boo saga.
I mean, the boo saga has been a while ago. So it's very not too bad to have that recap in there,
especially since time has set up relies so heavily on my happens there. I will say this three
animated boo saga looks pretty good. Yes. Yes. But he and Degetoo learn of the earth's dragon balls
and how they grant three wishes and there's so much better than their own dragon balls and how
and they're seven of them, which is sort of like, what do you mean? What do you mean? What do you
mean? They're seven of them. Apparently in the demon realm, there's only three dragon balls,
but they are guarded by these Toma Gami, I think they're called, who are created by this like
super, super old and namek that just sort of hangs out there. And you know, you have to defeat
the Toma Gami to use these dragon balls, which Goma and Degetoo don't have the strength to do that.
So they're like, hey, what if we go to the outside world and use the earth's dragon balls and do some
shenanigan re with it? But the warriors on earth are all really strong. What if we turn them into
children, that'll do the trick. Surely there's no back downside to this until they get to the point
where Shen Long is like, how specific is this wish? Give me the details, which I think is really
funny because most of the time Shen Long is just like, okay, here's your wish get out of here,
but Goma is like, all right, fine. They're all first graders except for the ones that
that are already kids, they're going to be babies. He's a great. And I think they also with their
second wish, one wish for for some kind of evil eye amulet thingy or something that apparently makes
this very pretty strong. So maybe that's their full back plan. I don't know. Yeah. And they don't
have a plan for their third wish. But take a shoe. He really wants a wish, bro.
So research also his sister figures into that as well. She puts the thought into Goma said, actually,
that he should do something about these earth things, right? It's like in the beginning, he's just like,
I'm going to take over now because Deborah has gone and Bobby is gone and boo is gone. So I'm a
made man. Nobody's staying in my way. And then she's like, well, you know, I know because they're
like these strong earthlings. And if you cause some ruckus, they might let you know,
might not find that cool. And he's like, fuck. So yeah, they decide to be choose to train. Well,
also maybe you should bring up is that both the gisu and his sister are the siblings of the supreme
Kai. There's a lot of interesting Lord, this first episode for Dragon World things is like,
what is that? A lot on us. Yes. Like that. And there's like the nemechians who are now called
nemechs for some reason, just like the plan. I thought they were always called nemechians,
since when they're just called nemechs. That is kind of uninterchangeable. Okay. I thought
I was nemechians, but anyway, apparently now they actually managed to explain a way of why or now
give a proper explanation why peak love was the demon Lord in the beginning phases of Dragon Ball.
And we only later thought how he was an alien, but the ancestors of the neemings apparently were
members or lived in the demon realm. And then they set out and searched their own planet. And that's
where the planet nemech comes from, but that's where there's still one nemech guy hanging around in
the demon realm. And why peak love apparently was declaring himself the demon king because he
apparently just returned from nemech to the or he was still around in the demon realm, but they are
the same people. So they're both members of or citizens of the demon realm, but also they searched
and made their or populated their own planet. Very interesting all of that shit. It wasn't necessarily
necessary to put that in there because Dragon Ball lore is bullshit anyway because Toriyama
was making up all of that shit on the go and didn't remember half of it when he did the later
story. So it doesn't really matter, but it's nice. It's like, hey, they're putting in the extra
word to make all of that kind of gel more well together. So that's interesting. I like the first episode
of this a lot. I thought this was really fun set up. I mean, we'll see what they eventually do with
this and where this will go aside from, hey, we need to we want to be adults again. But of what's
actually going to be Goma's plan, I'll do Dagasu and Arinsu actually figure into that. What is
Supreme Kai going to do about his bad siblings and yeah, I have a feeling that the old nemech is also
maybe going to play a different part later down the road. Let's see. We'll see. Yeah, also apparently
nemech can just raise your hand and gather up the dragon balls and reactivate them. Not all of them,
not all of them. I mean, you see Dandes reaction to this where it's like, what, what, how can he do that?
I think it's just a special thing that that particular nomad can do because he's so old and he has
created the one who created the demon realm dragon balls. So he must be one of the very first Namex
around and you know, Goma has this one of commentaries like, hey, if you do this, I'm going to prolong
your life for another thousand years, right? So another thousand years. So that guy has been around
for a while. So yeah, let's see. All of this is very interesting and I'm judging from the first
episode. This might be the consistently best looking DB show of them all, which is what I hope
would be the case because the bittersweet aspect of all of this is of course that this will be the
last Dragon Ball anything with Akira Toriyama's direct involvement since he died earlier this year.
So I expected this to be an all-hands-on-deck situation and it looks like Toriy is delivering exactly
that. So yeah, the hype is real and here's to one final fun ride, seared by the Master's influence.
I'm looking forward to it a lot. Seems like you are too, John. Yeah, I'm going to see where it goes.
So hopefully it says because this first episode was pretty fun. Hopefully it will stay that way.
I'm pretty sure. I mean, this was just a setup episode and I like Goma and Digoso as like this
team. They got some pilaf energy going like they're not super evil guys. They're just these
little skimmers in the background, but also not that competent. It's just fun. It's just really fun.
So I'll see where this goes and yeah, the only downside to this is since this is a set before super,
we won't have some of my favorite characters from super in this of course. And it's like,
you know, I wish there to be is equal to super actually more than this, but hey, Toriyama want
to do this. So more power to him and to his legacy and everything. And I'm pretty sure it's going to
be fun. It's just like, you know, I'm going to miss Beerus. I'm going to miss Miss Whiz and,
you know, some of the other characters that were introduced and super in the movies. And
yeah, so hey, and super manga is still going, right? So they got enough stories they could adapt
from that as well. I mean, maybe we'll get a super to at some point. Well, that's the thing,
right? One still writes issue and everything has been cleared up, which is of course not
being forwarded out. And it's the ugly side of this. But once that has been cleared,
expect like of the luge of new Dragon Ball shit because I mean, they're going to be respectful,
probably, or try to be. But the tea happened when Toriyama was still around. Can you imagine,
know that he doesn't have a diary influence anymore, like how much they're going to try to milk this.
It now. I tend to think of when Steven Hillenberg passed and he was like, yeah, I don't want SpongeBob
to continue on and look at what Nickelodeon has done with it. So, you know, let's see, I mean,
corporate handringing comes back to bear. I mean, I want to believe that Toriyama will be a bit more
respectful to it, but also maybe not. And also it makes money. Oh, yeah, Trangmol makes so much
fucking money. And I mean, people will probably be happy. I mean, a lot of people look forward to this.
So me included. So of course, I wouldn't mind more Dragon Ball. I just hope they're going to try
to keep the quality of the recent things they put out, or they're going to keep trying to keep
the quality level to that of the recent things they put out because the stuff that came with the new
movies and with Super and everything, I really enjoyed. So, and Dime is probably going to be on the same
quality level. So I hope after that we get more, if we get more that we get more of this kind of
quality would be nice. So yeah, that's the big, big keeper for this season that we're definitely
going to keep watching, but we also had some other stuff in there that might have beat your interest.
Dear listeners, but with that we're done with the sneak peek. We're going to move over to our
first review some of season.
So, you know, Dragon Ball is weird and absurd and crazy. And then there's my dear friend Noco time.
Different level. Yeah, it's okay. It's not going on the door. Pop team epic just a little bit.
I'll say. So, Tarako Koshi is the epitome of perfection with her peerless beauty top-notch grades
and position as student council precedent. Her popularity in school is unrivaled. However,
she harbors a dark secret. She was a delinquent back in middle school and this is something she can
seal to the best of her abilities. Unfortunately, when she meets the rather mysterious dear girl,
Noco Shikanocho. Tarako's hidden shame is constantly on the precipice of being exposed
due to Shikanocho's rather weird antics. To maintain the reputation she worked so hard for
Tarako must go along with Shikanocho's whims even going so far to become the present of the newly
established deer club. All her efforts will be rewarded if she can prevent the menacing dough
from accidentally blurting out damaging details about her personal history that will undoubtedly
unleash Tarako's greatest nightmare. Thank you, M.A.L. rewrite for that summary that does not even
begin to cover what this show is like. How could it? Like, how can you? I mean, we're going to try
to make sense of this and convey what this show is about. Yeah, but, uh,
it's going to be tough. It's going to be really tough because yes, this, of course, is a
gag show. We have two or three segments in most episodes that each covered like this little mini story.
Most of them are unrelated. In fact, I think there are some episodes that feel in terms of what
kind of little story they do, like they could have been at a different part in the season.
I think there was one in episode five where it's like, it feels like this should have been episode two
because of how continuity. Yeah, yeah. Who cares? Nobody cares. I know, but I still like popped up for
viewers like, I feel like they're behaving more antagonistic towards each other and having,
you know, and they haven't found like that of a common footing yet. And she's still trying to
find out. And then in other episodes, it's more like, hey, they feel like more of a team. So,
But who cares?
Me, Noko is always trying to get Torekko's goat.
Yeah.
Oh, but yeah, this is...
Okay, so this is based, you say, no, no, no, no.
Buy an artist who only goes by the name.
Oh, she, oh, she, Oh.
How appropriate.
This is their only work aside from apparently doing some promotional illustrations for summertime
rendering, which I guess is a pretty good show for everything I've heard, but I've never
watched it myself.
I wanted to check that out because it's also apparently like a motor mystery thing and
yeah, eventually it's just one of those shows that are in Disney Plus and we're not probably
advertised and just nobody watched it because nobody knows that exists.
I might bring that up in a quick and the dead once I've checked it out, but yeah, it's
still my backlog.
This is directed by Masahiko Ota who has done a lot of like goofy shows in the past.
So this is definitely up there, Ali stuff like we talked about, or I talked about Gabriel,
drop out briefly.
There's other dumb shows in their repertoire.
So this again, this is up there, Ali.
This is also brought to Spire Good Friends at WIT Studio.
Yay.
Kind of a bit of a different flavor when compared to a tech on tight, or something like that.
Compared to literally everything else.
Yeah, but although.
WIT have made it their thing in recent or since they let go of a tech on tight and to do to
be unpredictable in terms of what projects that pick up.
So this seems kind of now in accordance with their new behavior.
So it feels like that is something they would pick up now because it's just so very different.
I'm apparently this is probably something for another discussion, but apparently they're
working on a remake of that old show, Yaiba.
Interesting.
That's cool.
That's, we'll talk about that another time, I guess, but yes.
WIT Studio kind of.
Yeah, they definitely had their pattern of work in apparently someone over there woke up
one day and said, let's do something else.
And that's where we are.
Yeah.
They, they sure chose something else to work on.
I don't know how to concretely, concretely describe what the heck this show is because it's,
it's all over the place.
It's, it is a gag manga and it goes, it goes from point A to point Z back to point D real
quick.
Like there was one episode in particular there.
They were like, hey guys, so we didn't have a cohesive plot for this episode.
So here's like 13 different like real quick fire shorts have fun and it's like, you know
what?
I enjoyed that episode.
Okay.
Sure.
All right.
Hmm.
So the, we already told us the story set up story very much in quotes and a lot of quotes
quotations.
Um, like they keep to that for maybe one episode and then they're like, we're just, we're
just going to go off in this direction now.
It's basically, it's just like a kind, not even slice of, but, you know, you know, you
know, yes, slice of life ish gag comedy was just about, hey, here's this weird year girl.
And here's this former did liquid.
Now trying, now class counsel student council president who tries to be, you know, this
Chinese sparkly girl who everyone adores and she's doing a press and she's putting the
work and then she wants to be admired for it.
Everything and she has good grades and all that shit.
And she's no cartoon dive bombing into her life and making a whole mess of it.
And she taking it like a trooper and trying to make the best of it.
Like she's like, okay, now we have a dear club.
I'm the, I am the president of this.
So I'm gonna make be, let it be the best dear club.
There is and what that means to me is it's going to have a very sparkly clubhouse.
And that is that.
In the shed out back.
Yeah.
And she's a very pretty shed and you know, then some other characters come into the story
that or again, throw a wrench into that because.
Also has a weird sister who is like this.
Siskon Yandere and who.
Yeah, Anko is.
And she demolishes that shed and then she tries to kill no cotan because she feels like
no cotan took away her sister from her like her affection because now all.
Torakodas is like hang out in the club room and so on.
She doesn't come home anymore, but also.
Anko has a completely different idea about their relationship that her sister does.
So and then later we get like the.
Like we get another club member, Basha May, who apparently is very much into.
Rise.
Yeah, she wants to have her own race, Paddy and the school.
Can we talk?
Can we talk for a second hour or first name is Mehmet in that you know her first name is.
Mehmet yes.
Of course, but yeah, she she's done this into that because she apparently collapses in front
of the school and no cotan saves her with with dear crackers.
Which is also a big theme in the show, dear crackers like years are very much into these
crackers.
So they're very prominent in the show, but she saves Basha, no cotan saves Basha with that.
And so now that Basha wants to also become a deer and wants to know cotan to be her sensei
and everything and thus.
The club is complete and our four musket deers are complete and that's where we go from
for the rest of the story.
And yeah, each episode is just like this, this small vignette of fucking absurdly weird shit
happening to our main character and the humor is very much of the ilk, something outrageously
absurd happens and Turaku overreacts loudly to it.
That's like 95% of the comedy.
The rest is reference humor.
So we might say the joke variety is a bit stagnant.
A little bit, but I mean they try and switch up a little bit from episode to episode doesn't
always feel 100% the same.
I mean, if that is your brand of comedy, you'll probably love this.
If not, it might become grating very quickly, even though all the characters are pretty
cute and endearing while all being weird as an or idiots at the same time.
But you know, there's a pathetic.
It's not forget the most important characters, the literal ball of antlers.
Yes, the antlers of no cotan are kind of kind of sentient.
They're like their own entity and they can separate from our body and it's, it's a whole
thing.
It's very special.
Like the problem is, there is not a real through line in terms of plot or character development
or anything that you can talk about in the story.
So the only thing we can do is pick out some of the highlights and some of the things that
happen in this show and just talk about them, just like the little vignettes that the show
has themselves, like the mini stories.
And I suggest that's all we can do and that's what we will do because trying to find
something like a through line in here is really difficult.
Although I gotta give it to the show, they, I mean, the show even, the show even recognizes
that themselves, they can do foreshadowing and pay off because in the second or third episode
Basha may have introduced and she's like, I want to build a rice patty and the narrator
tells us, look forward to episode 10.
That's when the fucking rice patty is going to come in and that's what happens.
That's what got them happens.
They pay that off and I commend them for it.
The narrator is shockingly self aware, even compared to other shows with, you know, over
the top narrator's man.
The fourth wall does not exist in this show because it has already been shattered into
a million little pieces like the characters constantly talk to the narrator.
They constantly refer to this being an anime and this being a comedy anime and being like,
this is a episode, I think it's episode five where like a bunch of the link wins attack,
Tora Koon, No Kutana and No Kutana, throw sir endless and of course there's dynamite in
the antlers and dynamite blows up the entire school and looks like they're dead but then
they're totally fine in the next scene and Tora Koon is like, well, thank God this is a stupid
gag anime.
Otherwise we'd be dead.
Yeah.
So that's what you're getting with this and it's just fun.
Everyone who watched the OP of this probably knows what they're getting into.
We talked about this in our sneak peek where it's like there is a dark souls review deer.
A new deer, dark souls reference.
It's okay.
We know what is happening.
This is crazy shit.
No Kutana sometimes forms into a fist of the North Star character for some reason which
is actually acknowledged by Tora Koon.
She's like, who are you when when No Kutana does that?
Like sometimes characters just ignore these character transformations and other comedy
shows but this it's like no she actually changes the shape of her body.
She looks different not only to us but to the characters in the show when she does this
and speaking of the OP a metal cover songwriter YouTuber that I follow a little females did
a cover of the OP and Japan found and found out found it and celebrated him in the comments
and that video this version with him dressing up in the synosuit and singing the little
cute girl OP in his death metal voice or whatever has now 7.2 million views.
I think it's the most successful video on his channel.
It's what got him to a million subs.
Yes.
Good for you little V.
That's all it would story right there.
That's a fairytale.
And so you do it with with your rendition of that stupid OP.
But yeah very fun and I recommend you watching that video.
I will put it in the in the show notes of course.
So you can check it out yourself.
But yeah so that happens.
But yeah like I said no for fall existing constant back and forth between the narrative the
narrative comments every time on what happens in the show in sometimes more sarcastic ways
than other times and also he constant characters and he constantly make clear that they know
that this is an anime and this is just a whole big ball of nonsense that they're taking
part in.
Yeah.
I feel the other narrator in recent years that I feel like there's been quite this software
was the one in Kaguya Sama.
Especially in the dub dude.
Yeah so I've heard yeah very much I mean there are some gag anime where this is par for the
core especially in dub versions where they even put more of a thing on that I think I'm
right pizza cats was like that I don't know if the the narrative was as set up aware in
the original as they were in the western version but that was definitely in there and
so with the characters but probably was the same or close enough it was probably had the
same level of energy.
Yeah I mean there's some gag anime that are not as narrator heavy but this is definitely
one of those where that is the case it's like the narrator constantly gives us interesting
facts about the year but also about the characters and what they might think or might not think
and what they said or not like he corrects like if they said they say something that actually
is not like no that is not true see episode so and so and yeah it's weird like these small
little mini panels in in Marvel comics earlier where you weren't able to keep track of all
the story lines and like hey check out episode issue blah blah blah of Spider-Man so and so
to find out more about this and the narrator is the thing that comics do.
Yeah and the narrator is kind of doing that in this show as well.
I noticed a pattern with the names of the student council members I don't know if you did
as well.
Neco Yamada Tanuki Koji and I kind of had to look this one up because I don't know as
many Japanese animal names but Tsubame yeah is you know Tsubame is supposed to be like
a swallow but you know and I guess to an extent with Basya maybe because Basya is a horse
drawn carriage but it's a little bit of a stretch but this show does a lot of stretching
so I'm willing to be like okay fine I'll let you have that one.
Yeah and I mean at the central the central core of all of this is of course our little
dear girl and it's hard enough like it's it's impossible to make sense of the entire show
when it's already so hard to make sense of Noko Tan herself like what what is Noko Tan
like she is like.
Noko Tan is Noko Tan.
Yeah she can just do whatever is Noko Tan immortal or she's just so shitty that she is
rejected by the dear God in heaven who knows.
There's a seed that might give you the idea that's what are the other and you know we
got her obsession with with dear cracker of course is like running joke and we have like
the sequence as facility in Nara who are they're making dear crackers like live action
footage.
Yes a lot of live action and this a lot of we haven't even mentioned the weird CG dear yet
that of course is a big part of the show as well and hanging around in a lot of scenes.
They're weird and yet it feels so right.
For this show it does like her little any other show it would be like what are you doing?
Yeah her little friend from the zoo that shows up and Tora who mistakes him for for for
Noko Tan because it's just a normal dear and just like of course it's her because why would
another dear be here in this club which is a legit assumption but still like half you
looked and half you stepped back and then looked at the show that you were in woman it's
just okay.
But that breaks between another point no ko Tanas antlers usually only male dear self antlers
right.
Shut up don't worry about it.
I think so.
Shut up don't worry about it.
So even her gender is in flux here so that's also interesting it's like okay.
Sure.
Something something it takes a boy to be the best girl.
I guess yes.
It's not it's not clear.
It's absolutely not clear and the dear cracker stuff neither like well why is like she does
this thing why were resides when when they have I think it's the best this episode is that
in with the cafe or something there's like this thing why do you eat dear crackers because
they're in front of me.
And that sounds like to me like it's a rephrasing of the mountain analogy like why do you
clamp this mountain because it's there it's like it just is and I have to do it.
So is that a dear thing is that like like do all the deers in these in this prefecture
where it is a set do they just is this like a whole big industry with the dear crackers
because I've never been to Japan so I wonder is this the thing are deers generally afraid
of water bottles or is that just a no coton thing why is this even brought up there's
so many questions in this show that are never answered.
I feel like I feel like that one point said the water bottle thing specific to no coton.
Yeah, but I don't know because didn't to do that to the deer she thought was not a
time but the but the deer didn't care.
Yeah, but the question is why then is that in the show and why are water bottles why is
no coton afraid of water bottles never explained don't ask about it don't worry about it.
It's because plastic in how it's difficult to recycle and how frightening it is to use
not I don't know.
But yeah, like I said the humor very much most of the time 90% 95% is like something crazy
just happening something crazy no coton does something crazy the other characters does
do something crazy and Durako slash Koshdan reacts over reacts to it like with a loud
scream comment and that is kind of pretty much the same humor that one piece is doing very
close to that and then the other 5% 10% are reference humor like for example we have in
pop team epic pop team epic is a lot of reference humor and as an example for the first car
for the big part or the big type of humor that is happening in the show there is this episode
that's all about first of all to records private life is suffering because of all of this
like in the first episode already she's out out it as a virgin in the classroom and a previous
dealing with like everyone's reaction to that is more severe than if God damn dear girl
suddenly walking into the classroom and breaking the door and like splinters flying everywhere
and concrete and everyone getting hit in the head by that shit but that's actually one
of the things that correct me up the most like the audience reaction or the lack there
of when something crazy was happening with the no coton every now is completely non-faced
like most of the reactions are like oh that dear so cute and meanwhile on the other side
of things tour of course like what the fuck is happening what is like she only has the
kind of normal reaction to it we later get a character is kind of doing the same thing
I mean I guess neko also has a kind of relatable reaction to most of the shit that is happening
but also later we have like the brother of brother of superman or of I'm not sure one of
them who is running this cafe and no coton and terraco are guests there and he can't fulfill
no coton's needs because of course he doesn't have dear crackers on the menu and that bumps
him out but he also is the first person who kind of reacts normally to a girl with antlers
just walking into his cafe is like what the fuck is this but also he's an idiot as the
narrator tells us that well you know that everyone is in the show yeah but he no
first narrator is like oh did we finally find a normal person and then the guy says something
in the narrator is like oh never mind but yeah the audience reaction was the most fun thing
to me because it was like oh this is so adorable and it was like what what are you saying
look at this shit and yeah then we have this this this this game where uncle and no coton
battle against each other in a knowledge contest about terraco like what they know about
her and it's like this jeopardy thing and she is outed as a plushie lover where she's
hurting us bra and suffers from showtumanga brain rot all with the campaigning in footage
that someone recorded and I don't know I you know neither no coton nor uncle take Dorco's
privacy into consideration when doing this and then they get 10 points for every correct answer
and at the end of the fucking contest like the scoreboard suddenly has like 9 billion or
something 9 billion points on both of them their counters absolutely so either this
game went on for a very long time or if we're playing by jeopardy rule zero a lot of daily
doubles did that they didn't say anything about bonus john not no bonuses in there is which
is always 10 points that was was communicated to us by the show I mean that doesn't mean
anything but that's what was said so I must assume that thing went really from the early
morning till the end of the day and whatever and we and everyone learned about all the
little private details of touraco's life and yeah that's that's you know kind of the part
the the big bulk of jokes in the show which is like all the outrageous shit happening and
tourco would be like no what the what is happening are you crazy and the other part is reference
room you know and we have a lot of references in there like total recall very early reference
when touraco thinks the realistic CG deer is no coton and you know you imagine no coton
just appearing from the deer and the deer part just moves like opens up and shows no coton's
face just like in total recall when Arnold removes that that cyborg mask of the old lady that
he's wearing and we have a terminator reference later winner winner hunter stalks no coton
and what I didn't expect was a full metal jacket reference yeah in complete in English yes I
did I first like wait is this a fate stay night reference you know I am the bone of my
soul whatever I was like no this is the fucking full metal the full metal jacket speed I was
like this man is just for citing the rightful men's creed what yeah yeah so that's that's the kind
of reference humor you get you also you know they reference they reference disney at some point
where it is like playing with fire her yes you you can't they want a reference bambi but the
narratives a touraco interrupts before the narrative can fully say its name because she's afraid to
get soup by disney which okay they are afraid of disney but they can reference smash bros in their
board game episode as if Nintendo lawyers were just as threatening come on who is the less
litigious between the two let's flip a coin good question but yeah this is basically what you
get in this a bunch of weird mini gags and then touraco reacting to it and also a lot of reference
humor like the one that I just counted that we even have a setup for something in the second to
last episode that they walk back immediately at the start of the final episode say oh okay so we
weren't actually gonna open yes self-awarely walk back because the characters coming in like tourcoes
like wait what was this ominous shit in the stinger for this episode don't you don't you want to fall
up on the and they're like no doesn't matter like tourcoe is supposed to be the voice of the audience
and all of this most of the time because she's the only one kind of reacting normally to this and
also like asking the important questions that never get answered there's so much we what was the
weirdest shit in this show john that you were like okay I did not see this coming and I can't
make sense of it I mean between the ball of um antlers and like everything involving antlers
yes like the like the like the tug of war that you just like oh they takes your pulling out my
antlers say really needed to help with that stuff yeah it's a tug of war and then no cotan is in the
middle and they pull at her antler on her antlers and then she's the one who wins this for some reason
oh my god yes it's just like and of course a lot of word jokes and everything puns and stuff like
like this is this is episode where to no cotan reveals that she has a banana stash in one of
her antlers for some reason and then tourcoe responds with bakana and they never it says banana
this top shelf junk I appreciate it uh yes she hides all the kind of things in her antler like I think my
favorite moment was when she took off the top of her head and from the inside you heard these terrifying
voices filled with agony and of course the characters there oh my god taking her head off the first
time she did that I was like I'm sorry excuse me yes I mean she can't just do that she can take off
the either just the antlers or the whole top half of her head like buffer eyes the literal epitome
epitome of head empty no thought yes oh yeah well head is not empty they're suffering souls
and they're apparently stuck in eternal damnation and and also deer crackers maybe both are the same
maybe the deer crackers are sentient and they're crying because no cotan is eating so many of them
maybe they're alive oh no slow down slow down and and that's why they they're crying out which
she opens her head because you know she she kills that john she destroys that she destroys their
souls stop stop yes that's what the show will do to you that's that's the train of thought that you just
that you board and you write it till the end of the cliff um but yeah I don't I don't even know
what else we can say about this show it's just so it's so not sensical like I mean we gave you already
pretty much the inside of the main characters and what they do at that kind of stays the same from
beginning to end same for the side characters uh and they're not that many recurring like we have
the club members of course and then we have the student council and then a couple more like there's
an old lady that sometimes appears and does the thing the uh the in the home room teacher uh
pops up here and there then the brother of one of the student council member sometimes he even
the last episode he's like why am I cup why am I the referee for this boxing fight and the narrator is
like hey it's the last episode everyone on deck guy yes so this show aired at the same time is
the second season of oh shinoko and I bring that up because noko's voice actors mego mehan
plays kana in oh shinoko and they are very diametrically opposed characters to the point that I
feel like okay so the simul cast for noko time was weird because it aired on Wednesdays on an online
service called abema but then that it was aired on tv on sundays so for like the first two three
weeks the simul cast was on sundays weird but sure then they switched it over to Wednesdays which is
the same day is oh shinoko so here mego mehan play these two wildly different characters back to back
I feel like altered my brain chemicals in a way that is not good probably not because it's like
kana is this very calm calm for the most part calm cool reserved she she has a goal in mind she's
going to become like a top tier performer and actress and all that and then there's noko time
yeah I feel like that would fuck with your head if you watch that back to back so like you know
Wednesdays were fun this season for all the wrong reasons uh what's maybe for all the right or
the right reasons that's true um so wonder like it feels like this is also maybe trying to be
like an advertisement for this region of japan like the mid-episode stinger show you tourism spots
like it feels like this is a travel pro at certain points where it's like hey look at these beautiful
places here are real photography photographs of this and also realistic deer and then like you
mentioned the ed where we see a lot of real a lot of life footage from deer and so all that stuff
I brought this up on another discord server and our friend was like what even is this show
her friend was like a promotional anime for vacationing in nara prefecture and i'm just like
I I can't argue that there's no counter to that the one that that kind of emphas or that kind of
supports this assumption is the stuff we just mentioned with you know there being a lot of
realistic or a lot of realistic scenes in the ed and also you know in the mid-stingers and also we
learn a lot about deer and everything not a lot of these facts are probably true but you know
there's a lot of that in there that would advertise the region but then you have
rest of the show and that would actively steer me away from that region because
it seems too crazy and dangerous like deer just wandering into the city and maybe also into your
clubhouse and i mean it would also be adorable but also i don't want to get kicked by deer
that really a thing that deer escapes from the zoo there all the time and you just encounter it
which could be nice but also hmm and you know there's some quite a bunches deer outside from
Nookotan in this show and some of them are really threatening when they appear in screens like
and you know that's just i mean the time is which here appears to yes yes the soundtrack goes wild in
that regard the soundtrack goes wild in general on certain parts like we have also in the final
episode i think is because this is a deer's den association thing is coming off the Nookotan we
have the sports movie montage this training montage with with a lot of scenes that could be lifted
from Rocky and also there's like a riff on i of the tiger in there and that one deer stand guy
looks like a big sub-zapoli and speed wagon from jojo's for some reason um i guess that's also a
reference humor a reference joke i was about to say i wonder head scratch i don't know where some
people i mean jojo's was done by david production not by width so i don't know if some people there
was some overlap but it felt like it so it could be i didn't dive super deep into like all of the
staff but it's entirely possible yeah yeah i don't i don't know who to recommend this show too
it's probably the the biggest problem for me in being like hey is this a keeper is this something
you're good for one episode or is this something you will enjoy all the way through i enjoyed it
but also like i said a lot of the humor stays kind of the same like if you've watched the first episode
you've we you've seen most of what the show has to uh to offer like there's not any real development
in there like it's a classic non-secretary gag manga in that aspect like if you want more of that
you'll have a good time there's enough variety for you this show might not be for you so it's
it's tough like i would say if you enjoy the off-kill to jojo's that are in there like like all the
non-sister that is thrown at you and you're like oh i just let myself get rid of all by this avalanche
of nonsense then you will have a good time like there's just so many weird shit in there there's like
the sea where uncle and and uh turkha fighting in front of the school and there is like this this
energy of course always from uncle oozing up because she has the hots for a sister and there's
like just one pacify just remarking hey sister uri i can dig it and i just i correct up so hard at that
because it came out of nowhere and was just like that's this guy and the substance that they're put
off goes because i doubt the you know the because of the i dig it it was just i can't sister you
i can dig it like what what is happening uh you know you don't always have to see the quiet part out loud
yeah but that guy did it was amazing so there a lot of little mom there were a lot of little moments
in this show that really made me laugh and it was like oh this is just so stupid and so out there
and i didn't see it coming and that's what i liked it for i don't know if i liked it just for
for a lot of the stuff that it did in every episode was like oh okay it's the same structure again
the same here non-sense when no kutan this is happening this this happening and after while
that felt a bit stale for me because i felt like okay this is just a variation of what we had in
the previous episode it doesn't feel as fresh anymore and it always i get that i feel like it's always
like it's always no kutan doing some shit with her antlers or it's a weird deer thing happy
to be fair that is what the show is about it's just about deer nonsense and then just
turaco instead of being like no i mean she's sometimes this but rarely is like she rarely is a proactive
person in those situations like she is not a she's not a chaos catalyst like uh like no kutan is or
her sisters or whatever but mostly no kutan is the catalyst for all the shit happening a shit
happening and then just turaco is standing by the sidelines just like the viewer and it's like
what and i would have wanted her maybe to be more of a part in that in certain aspects than she is
because she's just commenting on it and then she's doing that for 12 episodes so it's like uh okay
monga the manga is still ongoing so maybe that changes the song i don't know how much more
variation they can throw in there yeah i mean either and i wonder it felt like the show was aware
by the end that this probably was just a one-time thing and we're not gonna get more of that maybe
but also who knows get it's which isn't big into continuations and just like to do a lot of one of
things but also they have done second seasons again they have done second season of ranking with uh
of kings and i think they do inspire family with together with global works and that has multiple
seasons i think so there's that but yeah i i i just the one that worked the best for me were just a lot
of the of the jokes that were not necessarily related to what the main thing that the show does i
mean i like the reference humor and the likes of the outrageous things happening but i wasn't like
so crazy about this torako being the straight man and reacting to everything with oh my god what
is happening here because that is my reaction already i don't need another character to ape my
reaction to this so i wanted something more from her character i guess but also maybe in a world
where so much nonsense happens you needs a character like that who is the anchor of reality in this
and tells you as the viewer that what you're seeing is not normal by any means otherwise you might lose
your mind when you watch something like that i don't know i feel like i'm grounded enough for in
rean and actually that i'm well aware that all of that shit that is evident in this show is
absolute nonsense and or most of it anyway i mean if i was in a situation as you were where one of the
characters was voiced but in a different in a different show and doing a completely different i might
lose my mind more quickly but on that i don't think i'm at risk of that happening so yeah that's
it's a small thing that of criticism and in how much you can criticize a show like that either the
the comedy works for you and it doesn't and that is the base thing here like if you watch the first
episode and you see what you see there and you're like hey i find this funny then you will probably
like the rest of the show and find at least one thing in every episode that you find funny doesn't
necessarily have to be the big main thing that is happening so okotan does not sense koshdan reacts
loudly to it it doesn't have to be that it could just be like a small reference that is thrown
there that you find funny because it tickles your funny bone or the one comment i mentioned
early of that one guy who is apparently really into syscon ury whatever or you know then there was this
small little small joke by the end where no koshdan is saved by one of the two gyaru girls of the
school and then narratives like hey this this proves the case of the dear friendly gyaru qe d
so stupid was that was that even was a really contention there like where someone argue that these
that that that that dear friendly gyaru don't exist it's just it doesn't matter it was just funny
to me personally might not be funny to you but maybe you find something in there and i feel like
the first episode already gives you enough of a flavor of all of these kind of jokes jokes that you
find in later episodes that the rest of the show will make you laugh of the first episode
that i feel like that is the wreck best recommendation i could give for this
john i don't know about you i i mean i can't watch goofy stuff like super goofy stuff like this all the time
but i feel like airspin enough space between this and pop team that back that i was like yeah you know
i'm willing to throw myself at this and just turn off brain
oh doom dumb thing on screen haha yeah so that that's the mentality i'm going to do it with was this
a good show maybe was it but was it also a bad show no no no i think this was
it was a show it was it was what it wanted to be yes so one of the shows
i'm willing to give this show a pass on that but i also don't think i also wouldn't go out and say
dude this is essential viewing right no i don't think that by any stretch of the imagination i think
this is a fun you'll watch it you're done cool this is silly i had fun yes and i i doubt everything in
the show will like this a person where everything in this works show works for you but a lot of small
bits and pieces in in in their might might work for you this is the opposite of the show is bigger
than the sum of its parts because i think some of the parts of it are more interesting that whatever
comes together at the end maybe it's hard to hard to put that into words but it's like hey there's
enough interesting bits and pieces here and there that are that are good but maybe not the entire
thing because you know the entire thing you know does it do like it's not it's not an aqba made war for
example that's a comedy anime that we both loved and that had so many different aspects to it that
worked and it had a plot progression it had fantastic characters it had incredibly funny jokes
as super witty zany and sharp as the sharpest knife humor and was a fucking great parody of a lot of
things and in a lot of ways i can also say that all about bang brave bang braver and you know that
no cotan is not that no cotan is something that you can watch one episode of probably after
you get home from work and you laugh at some of the stuff not all of it probably and it's really just
turn your brain off because this is because it's so stupid and it's just off kilter non-sequitur
humor and some of the stuff you will probably funny maybe not find funny but maybe not all of it
and that's it and weird weird shit weird shit like this is an episode where no cotan makes
enables world peace peace you to making peace with the grisly for the sake of america and
is the grisly supposed to be put in i don't fucking know
it's just sometimes the show just was very intent on trying to break my brain i don't think it's
succeeded but did it get close it get close so all i can really we all i really really know now i think
that the show tried to convey to me and i that might be true uh is that deer crackers are probably
delicious to deer and i'm pretty sure that that is true and yeah nothing nothing else uh
is really confirmed or denied by the show so if you want answers if the first episode has you
clamoring for answers to anything like it's like oh my god what is actually going on you won't get any
answers nothing so don't expect that but if you had a good time that's for one reason or another
and you can get more of this nonsense i feel like uh that's uh you can you could keep on watching
this and have a good time with 12 episodes the john wakid people watch this
uh they can watch it on crunchy roll and they can watch it on amazon as well
no interesting so before we go out i just had to look up what is in deer crackers in apparently
it's just race brand wheat and water so enjoy eating your race crackers everyone apparently they're
just very full of fiber they'll help you go i mean one of the characters mentions that they
immediately have a super dry mouth when they ate it right so that fits last thought is it shows a
goof fest but if you want something that is a quick in a quick watch goof fest that requires zero
thought uh it's just got you covered notes
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