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Hello and welcome to an all new episode of Anime Bread Freeze.
We are your rock and hero hosts.
I am John.
And I'm CC and when there's just too much cool anime to watch, we've got you covered.
Today we will tune the Fenders and unleash the Defenders.
First, John will enroll in an elite school for the most elegant members of society
and head bang with the girls from Rock is a ladies modesty.
That I will review the heroic deeds of a Rectake Gang of Dugoders in the My Hero Academia spin-off Vigilantes.
So, grab your plak drums and drumsticks.
Don't forget that even the smallest good deed might go a long way.
And definitely don't pause the pot.
We'll be right back.
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Oshin Girls Academy is a respected institution reserved only for wealthy young ladies.
Very few of its students excel in up to earn the title of "Noble Maiden."
But what are those who embody the ideal Japanese woman of culture and refinement?
Well, Lisa Suzunomia, a girl of common roots, has suddenly found herself as the daughter of a newly remarried real estate mogul
and seeks to become a noble maid and to prove that commoners like her can be noble as well.
The most difficult challenge that Lisa has faced in pursuit of this goal is abandoning her love of rock and music.
To keep up the rich girl façade she must now wear.
But her resolve crumbles when she happens upon Otoha Kudogane, the daughter of a prominent politician,
skillfully playing the drums while rocking out in an abandoned school building.
Despite initially being at odds, they embrace their passion for music together while leading a double life.
Thank you, M.A.L. rewrite for that really good summary.
Actually, I don't think I could have written better myself.
So, "Rock is a lady's modesty" is a story penned by one Hiroshi Fukuda.
I haven't really talked about them before.
I believe we may have mentioned the show "Mushi Bugio" in passing at one point.
And that was a fun little action romp, but that's probably the other big story to their name.
So, it was produced by Bandai Namco Pictures and who knows what division of his at this point,
because they crunched down their studios to one name.
This could be sunrise. It could be someone else.
I don't quite understand why they did that when they're losing the prominence of all of their sub branding,
but Bamco is going to do what Bamco is going to do.
So, it was directed by Shinya Watata who's done stuff like Gundam build divers and build fighters and a bit of love lives.
So, when I... now that I'm looking at their directorial history, yeah, this probably was mostly a sunrise joint.
So, they've also worked on, you know, they've loved life and this and that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Tiger and Bunnies.
Yes. The mystery was solved very quickly.
A lot of the show itself was penned by Shogo Yasukawa who did stuff like "Food Wars."
The good parts of it, mostly.
You know, the majority.
Yes. Railgun, a lot of Jojo's actually.
And, you know, some other stuff here and there.
So, the writing in this show is pretty good or on there.
There's a really strong pedigree to this show is what I'm saying.
And it shines through pretty strongly, except for when I was mentioning some of the CG capture seems a little weird at the start.
But it smooths out a bit, which I learned reading about this that the main girls' performances were emotion captured by the members of band-made who provided a lot of the music for the show.
And I came to know them for their performance of doing a song, I believe, through Yu-Gi-Oh Vrains.
I think that was the Yu-Gi-Oh that they did a song for.
I think you mentioned them recently on the show we reviewed.
Hey, Bay. But, you know, they've been around and they've done some pretty cool stuff.
So, need to see that their actual physical, the physicality of their performance was part of the show.
So, yeah, they did some of the theme song performances for "Grendaise" or "Yu" as well.
They're sad as well. And they did the opening theme for the shows.
How could they be on their not-do-the-opening theme? Oh, they did, uh, looks like the opening theme for "Zenshu" as well.
Ah, then that's what it's that.
Yes. So, they, they're a little more recent, but, you know, I feel like they're up in the coming, which is cool to see.
Yeah, it's great.
And I mean, since this show is all about music, I think they would be one of the things most associated with it.
And, you know, if it was successful, which I don't know if it was, I assume they have their partners or will also get profit from it in that regard.
Yeah, I'm not sure, you know, about the success either, but it looks like there are ratings on like, "ANN and MAL" are pretty high up there.
It's averaging between like, uh, seven and nine on ANN and it's got a 7.92 on MAL. So, it's at least well-liked.
This is based on "Amongar and Original" anime, I forgot.
It was based on "Amongar," which I failed to look up if it is still running. It looks like, yeah, no, it is still running, maybe.
I should have, I didn't look at it up close enough beforehand, but yes.
I mean, considering, we'll talk about this a little later on, but the story does not come to a conclusion with this season.
At least we have hope that we might see a little bit more of it in the future. But we'll talk about that. I will speak on that.
But yes, the broad overviews, what I said, uh, reading the summary before, uh, Lillisa, her mother remarries to this like a real estate magnate.
And she's, and you know, the susu no miya family is like this very Thai class, Pishpash, fruit, fruit, ooh, sort of family.
That's the best way I can communicate it, I think.
Just listening to it, the hand I'm holding my water bottle with like the little pinky already moves away from the bottle.
Perfect. Exactly.
So, uh, Lillisa is kind of a fish out of water or she's, you know, but she wants to show to her adoptive family that, you know, she can be, you know, the normal man, she could be the Yamato Nadezco as it were.
Her new sister Alice, uh, kind of looks down on her for all of this, because she's like, well, you couldn't possibly, you know, be noble because of your birth.
And she releases out here trying to prove they, yes, I can screw you.
Hey, have you heard about class war and a little bit?
So there's, there's friction. There's so there's friction.
But Lillisa is, you know, going through the halls of the school and she finds a guitar pick of all things that she after an encounter with this other girl, Otoha, she's like, did she drop this?
No, no, there's no way, but there is no one else here. So she sort of follows her in secret and finds her just like having a jam session on the drums and she's like, hey, I think you dropped this.
And in this like abandoned like side building that the school doesn't use anywhere which is a great use of school resources, I guess.
There's a closet filled with guitars.
Well, and the flame is reignited.
So Lillisa first was like, well, I can't do this. We're supposed to be noble.
And you know, like all this and Oto is like, come on, come on, girl, you know, you want to do this.
And she takes up a guitar.
A little,
with a little bit of trepidation, then she starts to rock out. But it's not enough for Otoha. And she flips her off and says, what can I offer?
Performance was that you can do better than that, not in so many words.
I have tried to censor myself in recent years, dear listeners, to keep from swearing as much as I used to in my youth.
But Otoha used other choice words so you can fill in the blanks.
Got off my toes.
And Lillisa, the mass sort of starts to drop because she sort of starts to act the same as they start practicing together.
What kind of terrible drumming was that? You can do better.
Yes.
But you know, outside of the practice room, the mass, you know, has to go back on. So, you know, they keep practicing in private.
And Lillisa's dream is to rock as hard as possible.
So they can perform at a festival called Fuji Rock.
And but, you know, they decide they want to be an instrumental rock band, which is a little outside the norm.
And when you think of you don't bands and music, you usually have like a vocalist and whatnot, but they decide, we don't want to do that.
So in order to build up some reputation, you know, to bring other people in, they start taking gig work.
And Lillisa finds this concert band that, well, they need a guitarist and they need a drummer.
There's a band that they're looking for and needs a bassist and keyboardist, but Lillisa doesn't really play bass.
And he doesn't play as a keyboard, but then they find, and then they're going to need a bassist and a drummer.
And Lillisa is a little bit better on the bass, but, you know, again, they let them play keyboard.
But since they need a drummer, you know, it sort of fits the bill. So they go in there and this band is, you know, they're a little bit on the older side.
And you know, they're trying to play some, like a little bit more classical music, but one of, and it's not quite a battle of the bands, but it's like, you know, just a big showcase of several bands coming and playing their thing.
And this one group that comes in says to the leader of the group that they're with, you're just playing this classical garbage, whatever, who cares, your stuff is terrible.
And Lillisa and Ota get all fired up about this and they're like, you're going to let this guy see this stuff about you.
And the guy leading their band is like, yeah, I know, put like, I don't want to find.
I don't, this isn't the place for that. I don't want to pick a fight.
They're like, okay, you don't want to pick a fight. That's fine.
So, yes, exactly. So, you know, they start playing their set, but then they just start like, they don't go too off script, but they start playing at a higher tempo and start going a bit harder than they probably should, which is a bit much for the rest of the band, but they're eventually able to keep up.
And it's like below these other guys out of the water and it's like, oh, that's so good. Yes. But who happens to be in the audience? But Alice.
Now, prior to this, Alice sort of was rocking around with a couple of her friends and saw the Lisa and Ota practicing in this room. And she's like, wait a minute.
She's going on a guitar, hold on a second. And she rushes into the building thinking of finding them, but instead they find Ota playing the piano and Lisa playing the violin. And she's like, but I saw you doing the other thing.
What are you hiding? What are you doing?
I'm just going to cast sort of out of the bag and, um, Lisa is worried that Alice is going to slip this to her mother and her now adopted, you know, her now stepfather.
Because there's another layer to this that, well, Lisa's mother is like, you see a bad anime, mom. Yeah, she is.
I have one at least every season, John. Yeah, I know, but it feels really bad because she, her, her mother is speaking with her and she says, you know, how are things going as cool.
Well, you know, they're going great. I'm trying to do my best to fit in.
And openly admits she's not great at the violin, but, but she's, she's trying. She is putting in the effort to actually learn how to play and be good at it. We have a scene later on where the instructor comes in and Alice is like, she's incredible.
She's super proficient at it in the Lisa can barely hold a tune on the violin. And that's one of the things that Alice sort of looks down her nose at the Lisa about.
But it's like, come on, but her mother is like, so what about the guitar your father gave you? And she's like, oh, you know, I've just been wanting to hang on to it as a keepsake of him because her birth father was like super into it.
And that's where Lili's depicted up from and she just wants to jam out like her dad did, you know, that's cool. That's fine. That's whatever.
But she, her mother is like, well, I'm so glad that you've given that up. It's so good that you left that behind you with this like dead look in her eyes. And it's like, oh, no, it's like that.
Yeah, please adhere to my new life choices, childs that were made without taking you into consideration.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, I mean, we've seen this kind of stuff before. And I let's just hope I mean considering the tone of the show, this seems to be much more of a comedic vibe like from what you told me and everything or is this more of a dramedy.
It's a little of both honestly because I mean, there's there's good comic relief in there, but this is also all about it's about following what you want to do.
It's about wanting to do your thing because the girls have this goal in mind, in there's these things that happened along the way where Lili meets one of the former noble maidens and she catches her in the act as well, but she's like, you can pretend you didn't see that that's fine.
And she's like, in this former noble maidens like, yeah, you know, that's all fine. And all you can do is you want to put when you get when you get older and you grow up, you have to let go of these dreams and releases like, oh, you're terrible too.
Oh, oh man, she recognizes it.
And I mean, like, if this show like the way these kind of stories usually go is at the end of the story, the mom's going to come around hopefully, right? Or maybe it's the new dad or someone from her family will probably switch to her side when they see a great performance of first.
So, well, unfortunately, it doesn't have with the mom as far as this season goes, we never really see the dad actually is mostly absent.
Yeah, sounds like an enemy dad.
Yeah, but Alice is like, she says to her, dude, that performance was awesome. And she's like, whatever are you talking about compliments?
I can't deal with that. But you know, she tries to play up, you know, the noble girl act by Alice is like, no, that was really really great. Please let me know when you are performing on stage again.
And she releases like, oh, oh, oh, okay, yeah, sure. And Alice is willing to keep this secret behind their mother's back. And it's like, dude, it's great that you know, at least someone turned around on this.
Because otherwise this would have felt like a really story from beginning to end if there was like no one in her corner other than these three other girls.
I feel like there's going to be the sister stand up to the parent situation in coming seasons where it's like, shut up mom. She's great.
I hope so because there's this other moment where Lillisa presents this like flower to Alice. I think it's a Lillie. And she's like, this ugly flower can go.
And she's like, hey, this flower is still here and one of the servants is like, oh, sorry, ma'am, I'll get rid of it right away. And Alice is like, no, no, I think I'll take it and keep it in my room. And it's like, oh, that's kind of nice.
Yes. So that's cool having the sisters grow together. And I seem to assume the rest of the show is like, at least and Otoa growing closer.
While also being rivals in the same band, I must assume a little bit.
Yeah. So like, doing rock battles against each other, kind of while playing the songs.
Yeah. And then there's other girls that they get to know like the vice-prison of the student council, Tina catches wind of this. And she wants to join the band as well.
And she wants to play keyboard and she's awful at it. She's terrible.
She's the blue hair, a hair girl, I assume.
And then they bring in this girl who was kind of sort of one of Otoa's former bandamates associates this girl, Tomaki.
And she is like this super intense rocker and she used to be with this.
It looks like a band.
She has that physical vibe. Yes. She was with this band called bitter ganache.
Well, there you go.
But she kind of wanted to break away from them. And she, she's also a crazy guitarist, but she's kind of trying to push.
And then she's like, "I'm going to have to be better because she thinks, oh, this girl isn't up to this task."
But in Melissa and Tomaki really butt heads more than she and Otoa do like to an extreme.
And it gets. And Tomaki sees like how bad Tina is at this. And she's like, she needs to get better or she needs to get out.
Interesting thing about this, the format of the episode titles of the show, there's each episode has two titles.
There's like the very like prim and proper title like in Perseka in this one episode.
The episode title is, "Will you let me join your band?" But the other title is "Get rid of her immediately."
So there's a lot with that where it's like, it's this, but also that.
So it's both emotional notes in the episode titles.
So these four, this unseemly group decide they want to join a battle of the bands where they go up against bitter ganache.
And the leader, Akis says, "Okay, if we get more applause than you, Tomaki, you have to rejoin us."
And Tomaki, you know, she, it comes out that she doesn't want to play guitar.
She wants to play bass.
And that's why she's kind of attaching herself to, you know, the Lisa in company, which they're trying to brainstorm a...
a band name, and they come up with something like Blanca de Noir, which, "Okay, sure.
All right, black and white." But then they later on just start like, "We'll call ourselves rock lady."
And there's your title drop, basically.
Okay.
The performance goes terribly.
Whoops, okay, I didn't expect that.
They get zero applause, but they sort of leave the audience a little spellbound.
And Akis, like, "But you got zero applause. You have to rejoin us. Come on. That was the deal."
But the other members of Akis band are like, "Come on. You can see plainly this isn't what she wants to do.
She wants to follow her own path." And Akis sort of reluctantly is like, "Yeah, fine."
Okay, sure. That's all right.
So, they go back to practicing, and they want to, you know, they want to keep building up their image so they can eventually get to Fuji Rock.
And they're like, "Well, we sort of have built a reputation for ourselves, and no venue is going to take us."
But the same lady who runs the venue that I played at, we're like, "I'm going to give you a second chance.
If you can find someone to play against you, I'll let you perform here again." And it's like, "Okay, okay, all right."
And they sort of stumble into the rivalry against this stupid boy band called "Bakas."
And, like, you know, they can be God?
Yes, but, you know, in Japanese, which is how that's written. It can be read another way in the area, a bunch of "Bakas."
Oh, that's not... I'm clever.
But they are so high on their own supply, and they're like, "Oh, we recorded these songs, and these music videos, and we're so cool."
Ah, you love to hate them. They're just...
Their manager is an all right kind of guy, but the members of the band themselves are just a bunch of shit-dits.
Just saying so is fine. We don't have a swell job.
I know, but I do.
Oh, man, I would be fucking bankrupt.
Yeah, I have a... I'm gonna start talking about this since I mentioned it earlier.
I don't carry physical money. So, anytime I swear by accident or on-purpose, I have a counter on my phone that goes up when that number hits at least 10.
At the end of a month, that much money is donated to charity.
That's nice.
That's how I keep myself in check. And I've given a little bit of money to a few different organizations over the past.
I've been doing this now like three years, and the number has gone down significantly, which is probably bad for charities. I'm sorry.
But it's been bad for keeping me from swearing, but you know, there's also the study, so I show that swearing is good for you, because it lets off steam and this and that and the other thing.
And there have been a couple of times where I have purposely put a dollar in the jar because I've needed two uncertain days.
I can see that. Yeah.
So, you know how it is, but yes, the rival read with Bacchus sort of starts off backstage where they just act like a bunch of stupid punks.
And they're like, "Why are you acting like this? There's no reason for this."
So, they agree to the competition and they go out there and one of the guys just starts talking real.
And at this point, oh, I forgot, at this point, Alice is like, "Hey, if you're gonna perform again, do you need someone to help you backstage or be your manager?"
And the Lisa is like, "You know what? Actually, yeah, that'd be a lot of help, thanks."
So, you know, Alice goes to help them out behind the scenes, and one of the guys just starts talking awful about them.
And then Alice just stands her ground and is like, "How could you say these things?" And starts really talking on them and saying nasty things and all that.
Because they're acting like big jerks.
And when one of them goes to like, "Smack Alice," Lisa steps in and is like, "Don't you dare do that."
So, he's sort of walks away like, "Ch." And there's just a nice moment where Lisa turns to Alice and says, "Thanks for believing in your big sisters."
And it's like, "That's so nice."
Yes.
So, Rock Lady goes out and they put on the show of their lives and it's like, "Oh!"
And they completely captivate the audience in there.
And they're clapping and cheering and having a great time.
And after they play their set, Bacchus goes out and nobody cares.
Or said is whatever. The crowd is talking on them and they're like, "Boy, Rock Lady was awesome! Oh, they were so cool!"
And then Bacchus goes backstage and says, "You ruined our set! What's the matter with you?"
And they better.
Here's the kicker. They stopped playing in the middle of their set to do this.
Right, so, as a girl, so like, "Good impression."
The girl's like, "That's pathetic! What are you doing? You couldn't even finish your set? Let's take, get out of here!"
So, you know, they kind of lose by default in the manager of the club even says, "How dare you come in here and try and assault someone else?"
Like, not only who is a girl, but is also one of the other bands, "Get out! I don't want to see you here ever again!"
So, they get kicked out and it's like, "This feel great moment that, hey, the girls can rock too!"
And that's pretty much where it ends.
And I really hope there's another season of this because I want to see them go to Fuji Rock and it's so great!
And it was filled with awesome music and good feelings.
Sounds like a real fist bumper, in terms of especially that final performance, probably where it's like, "Yeah, you girl, girls!"
And then the assholes from back is getting there, they're coming up and that's nice.
Yes! It was so good! And the music was great, like, all throughout.
What is the music? Like, what is the rock style compare? Can be compared to...
You say it's just instrumental because they don't have a singer yet?
Let's see.
But I wonder about that part because we do have someone who could come in there.
And I feel like they're laying, they laid the foundation for that.
But the girls are playing like hard rock.
Maybe not quite metal, but it's like maybe a step in a hat removed from that.
Better ganache, they're playing this like, like, pop rock stuff.
And Tom Ackie kind of turns up her nose to it because the lyrics are like, "Poppy" and like, "Mmm, cares."
And Bacchus is kind of like that, but a little bit harder, I guess.
It's kind of like this, the meshes set, like, almost... You're almost metal music can sit adjacent to like the pop music.
And it should have its time, which is kind of band-made sound.
They're a little harder than other J-Rock bands, so...
Not quite... I think that's your soundtrack, but...
...indivacinity.
I feel like they could do a guilty gear song, though.
Ishwatarry should get them on the payroll to do a song.
But yeah, you know...
But that may be not quite baby metal, I guess.
Not quite that, but maybe a little removed from that.
But yeah, girls can rock too.
It is definitely the message of the show.
And we know that, but I don't feel like that's highlighted enough.
So... And I think that's what this is setting out to do.
And, you know, all the girls are all really sympathetic, like, you know...
...Lillisa's got her family issues.
Otoha, towards the end of the show, is like...
I'm not sure...
...this is the kind of thing I want to do, because they sort of changed their performance a little bit.
But...
...Lillisa sort of brings her background and says, "You know, what are you doing? You can rock harder."
This is where you can throw up your horns and say, "Yeah."
Tomaki has her changed, where, you know, she...
...she shows that I wanted to do something a little bit different, but, you know, I want to...
...inspiritve my demeanor, I want to show that everyone else can be a little bit better too, in spite of the way she acts towards Lillisa and Tina.
I think there's that underlying emotion with her where it's like, rock hard or get out, sort of feeling.
Tina has her troubles, like, you know, she wants to... she just wants to hang with the girls, but she also...
...she realizes, like, I'm holding everyone back and I need to get better for the sake of this, for, you know, the band.
So, you know, everyone has their motivations on why they want to get good and/or better at what they're doing, so...
The drive is important.
Yes. And then, you know, Alice's story in her, the way she comes around and everything is, you know, really great too.
I'm really hoping that the mother comes around, but, you know, bad anime moms are in have been a thing, so...
I mean, it's not always that they are, like, stay the absolute worst. Usually they have kind of some form of...
...turn around moment. I mean, recently we had the mom from a medallist, and she has that moment already in the first season.
And it's a great moment. So, that happens, it's not God always got to be the... what was the one from...
...that badminton anime? I forgot it's not...
Oh, Hanibato.
...Hanibato, yes. Which stays the worst anime mom from beginning to end.
Like, even at the end when it feels like she's having, like, a moment where she's telling her daughter, yeah, you chose the right way she makes it all about her.
And Hanibato congratulates her for bullying her daughter by being a bad mom into being a good badminton player regardless of while trying to do her away.
She was the absolute worst, like, no redeeming the speck of dust on that woman.
Not at all. So, I just... I hope as well that... that... that... that... Lisa's mom is gonna be a bit more... amiable by the end of the story.
I mean, I hope so, but... yeah, that means to be seen.
There's no news of another season at this point, but I... I really hope that there is in the future because I wanna... I wanna see these girls go to Fuji Rock.
I wanna see them fulfill their dreams. And I don't... I'm not sure where this leaves off in the manga, but, you know, obviously, there's still more story to tell.
So... give me more of that please.
So... where could people watch it? They show you can be watched on Highdive.
So, be sure and check it out if you're into, you know, anime about music. If you're into shows about girl power, basically, have a look.
It's great. I definitely recommend it.
Let's go, PC!
In a world filled with super-powered work-users, Cutter's student, Quitchi, I'm our ice-dream, is to become a hero just like the ones he saw at Myers.
Unfortunately, for him, he finds out that there is only so much he can do with a sliding ability that gives him about as much speed as a bicycle.
Thus, he's drawn to extra-legal, simple work and takes on various local tasks beyond the grasp of the police and license heroes.
However, a chance encounter with two misfits, a brash brawler vigilante who goes by knuckle-duster and the rising idol online sensation popstep gives Quitchi the opportunity he has always dreamed about.
The dangerous new quirk enhancing drug-turning ordinary people into instant villains, Cuti finds himself accompanying the two in a quest to stop the drug from spreading.
So, Trio tries to get to the bottom of the case. The chaotic team looks to put a stop to round doors that go overlooked by the law.
So, yeah, my hero academia, Vigilante's, as the name implies, is a spin-off of the original My Hero Academy of Sirius.
It's based on a manga not written by Kōi Hōrikochi, the creator of MHA, but by Hideyuki Furuhashi, who also wrote the Black Rod manga, a Rod manga, and the Spider-Man Octogirl manga.
So, he has experience with American comic book heroes, which MHA, of course, has always drawn a lot of inspiration from.
The illustrator, for sets by the man manga, Betten Court also drew the Vigilante's manga, and a rare occurrence when it comes to anime adaptions of Shonen, Jōnen Jump manga, the manga is finished.
Oh, really? That is...
Yeah, it is. Yeah, it is.
And from 2016 to 2022, so Trans-Sus-Ri will have a complete adaption of that at some point, has 15 volumes.
Can I just say I love Japanese title is The Illegals.
But I can also see what I changed that for the American version.
I guess, but it's still a cool name.
It is a cool name. Yes.
What though if they called it the Irregular?
Or the Mavericks.
In the Imperial Regular Hunter's book.
Yes, so the anime adaption, which we'll talk about today, so far, cons, 13 episodes and is handled by Bonesfilm, which is a new substudio of Bones, or they have shifted like responsibilities around, and therefore created a bunch of different divisions.
I'm not quite sure why.
It sort of seems like when we read about it, yeah. Yeah, so... And Bonesfilm has handled some of the recent Bones anime projects, for example, The Season's Catcher Cooter and The Skate the Infinity OVA.
Director of the Jolantis is Kinichi Suzuki, who had a bunch of directing gigs on "Joroshu's Bizarre Adventure", the first two seasons, "Start-Ascroceders", and "I think Stone Ocean".
And "Gundam Stuff", among other things.
The soundtrack consists of a lot of tracks we already know from "Mahiro Kademia" proper, or "Prim", or whatever you want to call it.
So, forward that, we can of course credit Yuki Hayashi, once again.
But I guess the main composer for the vigilante soundtrack seems to be Shogoyama Shiro, who also composed the music for April Shower's "Bring May Flowers" and "Wave Listen" to me.
Assisted by Hideoki Furashi, who seems to have done this show, at least in the anime landscape. I mean, he is the creator of the manga, so I'm surprised that he even had music kill input.
Maybe he wrote some of the lyrics to some of the songs, because there are new vocal songs in there, especially when it comes to a certain character we want to talk about.
But yeah, a lot of vocal tracks in this show, especially with pop steps, performances, and everything.
So, maybe that's why he was credited, because he technically wrote the lyrics for that, I don't know.
But yeah, this is a spin-off. Actually, it's a prequel set before Diku enters the hero school.
I think we need probably still very small child and elementary school level, probably I would say.
Which is confirmed pretty quickly, because we have a cameo of several characters among them, Diku's mom, who is still in her youthful slim form, where we see her in the very beginning of MHA Prime.
And yeah, so this is running somewhat parallel to some of the stuff that happens before the events of MHA Prime, where some of the heroes are younger, or all of the heroes are younger.
We see some of them, and we see some of the villains and other characters that we see in the original MHA show.
But it's not really heavily reliant on you being familiar with MHA at all.
It's setting up its own kind of separate universe in this world, where it's like, hey, it's not so much about the big threat from above, like the big, he was a society, although one of our main players has a hand in the events of this show as well.
And more of a street level self proclaimed, heroes/vigilante is doing something for a local community and handling stuff like the normal heroes don't handle or come in later to fix instead of being preemptive or prophylactic about it.
And it's kind of like, compare the defenders to the Avengers storyline, like it's more street level, it's more Spider-Man when compared to, I don't know, Thor or whatever, it's more daredevil when compared to Captain America or whatever.
And yeah, so that is kind of cool, and our main character, or one of our three main characters, we have three main characters in this show, which already gives you, let's you know that the cast of this show, as well as the story is much smaller scale.
A lot less people in this, which is kind of cool because I feel like one of the biggest problems of my hero academia prime is it's character bloat.
Like a lot of characters getting introduced and new ones with every seasons and one of our comments, one of our shared sentiments was, can we please go back to the characters from 1a that you started with because these are the ones we're most interested in.
For season, they introduced like 10 more characters and it's like number one, how do these all fit together, number two, stop.
And I feel like vigilantes is not going to have that problem. We are squarely focused on our main three characters. Yes, there are some side characters in there that get thrown into the mix, but even those are kind of limited.
The cast is comparatively very small in this and very focused. And since the show itself also has more of an episodic nature, it feels a lot less plot, living yes, there's an underlying plot and I'll get to that, but it feels definitely more like a more like a Saturday morning cartoon or even like a sitcom, then my hero academia.
My hero academia prime feels much more serialized and much more like it's trying to work itself toward a specific goal, a specific plot that, you know, mainly the all might all for one stuff and everything right.
And this show right now anyway doesn't do that granted my American, the prime its first season was also solely focused on the school stuff and the school experience for they go in everything. And only by the very end they introduced the, you know, the legal villains and so on.
And then from then we the story stuff got stronger. So this could happen here as well, but it definitely feels more like a small, smaller scale story and more like hey here are these three characters and some other weird.
Those that we're going to throw in here and we're going to show you different side of this world that was established with Mike here academia prime and give you got to give you a bit of a different perspective on certain things which is the most interesting thing about the show in my opinion I'll get to that.
But yes, first character, what first of our three main characters is Koichi already mentioned in the OP.
Just like take who he is an all might stand like absolutely hardcore like he buys all the merch. He has a collection of all my Todies a lot of limited ones.
He has a bunch of figures and I don't know a lot of mugs like all is all the mugs in this fucking apartment or all my mugs that people can bring from.
He's like the absolute super fan boy so that works and that works itself also into his costume. He just when he does good like somewhat in cognitou hero with a mask good deeds.
He wears a hoodie and all my Tody.
And like the actual hood looks a bit like all my hair right and the torso part looks a bit like all my costume.
So I'm wondering about that when I saw like images of that.
Yeah, so he's a big absolute all might fan bit different like Diko of course and other when compared to Diko he has a quirk he's not quirkless problem is his quirk is not strong like not at all super strong.
In fact that's the case for all the three characters and I get to get so he can glide across surfaces if like three parts of his body have contacts with the surface apparently doesn't matter which parts.
Like you can use to like two legs and an arm or maybe I haven't seen that yet but and that would be funny but technically maybe also his head and the hand and the leg and so on doesn't really matter but mostly you see him hunched down like I don't know like a dog or the context of the show like a cockroach which is what a lot of people say when they look at him.
It's also one of the themes is like people when people look for heroes they tend to look up they don't look down and you know that's it that's his character in a nutshell he spends most of his time being duct on the ground because that's when he is most effective and in the beginning of the show is also like even with the limited usage of his quirk.
He's not super fast like him can move around quickly if he needs to but he's not he's not fully perfected and we get a reason for that later on character reason why he apparently maybe didn't maybe he's liking the confidence to go plus ultra right and but you know there's some development in that regard in the show like you make some.
Learns a thing or two from different people he can do better with his quirk and he does that and what is cool like if that counts for all of the quirks that our characters have in this if they have one.
You know it all depends on how they are applied like he doesn't have to for example be like he doesn't have to connect he can connect to any see can glide over any surface not just the ground so.
If he like connect he touches a building with three parts of his body can glide up the building right so that can be very useful you know he can if he gains enough speed he can technically fly a couple of meters or something problem is the landing because he can technically fly so he needs to be careful where he is going if he doesn't have anything that catches his fall he might have.
But you know there's a way to circumvent that and he needs to look out for certain things even simple things like a water puddle can interrupt the connection to the surface and he needs to look out for stuff like that.
But yeah he just he has a heroes heart because he loves health helping people out even if it's something simple like picking up something they dropped or recycling or helping with the lost cat or whatever like everyone calls this.
Hero persona in the beginning nice guy Mr. Nice guy or she's said so man and later when he joins up with one of our other three main characters he becomes the crawler and he announces that every time he appears on the scene.
And everyone gets his name right wrong everyone calls him the crawler. Oh no. I like that. It's very me it's kind of eric sim but he gets kind of over it and it's some point out whatever.
I just let people yeah I'm just going to say I'm the crawler but I'm also not going to get super mad if people call me the crawler actually people believe it or not people not getting his name right helps him out of a certain situation where you don't expect that to come back.
And that actually helps him out that he doesn't acknowledge that name so it's really fun that they included that he's also not a good fighter so it's good that one of the other characters and himself get harassed in the first episode.
The third or third main character comes in to help them but he gets better at that a bit later on as well knows how to learn how to better apply his work in a fight.
And use his momentum and so on and what's the best way to do that like throwing people of balance and everything by you know sliding into their legs or whatever.
I guess another thing we learn about this the society of heroes which is always an interesting part of my here could even work is that if your work is not here material you have very low chances of becoming an official hero but considering how many weird works we've seen in MH a prime I wonder if Quichis not just like I said suffering from self-doubt or lack of ambition or you know parental influence which is always a theme in my hero could even get to that.
But yeah so that that but it's interesting to know that it's like an entry exam if you don't have a proper quirk maybe it will not be easy to get any hero course but again we've seen so many weird fuckers in the hero course over the course of MH a prime that I even with a limited quirk like Quichis has I feel like he has proper chances to become an official hero but he's not so to do the stuff he likes to do to do.
So that's what he likes to do to be a hero in his own right like I said he goes around and does small things for his local community which is nice and then when he fights or he runs into some some some bully some hood looms and later runs into them again and at the same time he is with this this idle called pop step he met who is doing street performances a lot and then
they run into each other and then at the same time run into the the the bullies again and they both get harassed and not bad man arrives on the scene.
The janitor of the fist knuckle duster who is a landing like appearing in front of them by landing into in a pile of garbage after jumping off the roof of the house, which apparently did on purpose and he's like one of the things he teaches Quichis after declaring himself Quichis master is like you can call me master from now.
And he comes as one of those. Yeah, we comes as teacher and he's like hey you can do anything if you find a good place to land in a safe place right.
It's like okay and so he always jumps into garbage bags because it's like that that way can do a proper hero entry and not hurt myself.
But yeah, he's got it figured out or girl. Yeah, I guess yeah, he's fun. He's he's he's very bad man coded he's also very much big daddy from kickass.
But in a better way like he's not completely insane like that character is and an absolute asshole although he has some let's call it heartball background and his own personal agenda like his main agenda and also I guess the main plot of this show if there's a plot to speak of.
He is he is hunting for trigger junkies like trigger is a new drug that enhances your quirk but makes you become unhinged and for reasons we don't know at the beginning of the seasons at the season but no all about pretty much at the end of it.
He is after who is causing these incidents who is giving people trigger overdoses and so he is the main pro driver of the plot I would say.
And he kind of roaps the like Koichi and pop step into it I guess pop step more mostly tags along but he and but not the doctor and Koichi become this new new hero team technically not not knuckle duster and the crawler and they go around and kind of take out these these will instant villains that terrorize the local community.
And sometimes you know try to do it before the heroes arrive also to further their own investigation in this into the stuff and you know Koichi is mainly going along with what knuckle duster does to keep him in check because knuckle duster.
Like he is his philosophy is better ask for forgiveness than permission meaning I'd rather punch the bad guys before they commit the crime that attracts the heroes and in that way act unlawful which is an interesting approach like that's like his mantra kind of like punch first ask questions later that's the least complicated and most effective way to do it.
And Koichi is like you can't go around punch everyone just because so he's there to rain a minute bit sure you can.
And yeah pop step is just hanging along for her own reasons I get to her but yeah there's an interesting reason I don't want to give it away I can do that in a season potential season two review but knuckle duster is a very personal reason why he is after the trigger dealers who or whoever is responsible for.
And that's also one of the strongest parts of the show I would say once we learn why what that reason is and who that connects to and so on i like that a lot and I think his characters just a lot of fun like he's this.
And he's kind of grumpy but also also kind of well mannered in some parts anyway character who feels like a mix of like I said Batman and big daddy in a way but also can appear as kind of a more relaxed person even he has this giant scar across his face and everything like he can come off as a responsible person but like when we when we meet him he doesn't feel like that
he checks up with with with Koichi against his will in his apartment like he's just there empty the beer out of Koichi's fridge just lying in front of the TV chain smoke and Koichi is like why are you here this is my apartment but he's not the only one who is doing that because pop step is doing the same thing like for some reason once they go to this initial bonding.
Incident with the bullies like she's also hanging around all the time at Koichi's place like she's just living there I guess like doing her her her.
Test performance whatever and coming up with new songs I guess and performances for the first she can do on the street and whatever and getting dressed and I don't know she's just around there of course there's a reason why she wants to hang out with Koichi and.
They have a very interesting connection like by episode five we learn why she is so interested in him and why she gets mad when he's making himself small when he's starting himself when you know when he's being so fussy about the or half asked about certain things that's what she always like
and reprimand some for she always say don't give such an half asked answer and because that's kind of like Koichi's whole character in a way but yeah once we learn how they are connected and what what her drive is to be around this weird these weird other two guys it's it's really nice it's a really well done scene she's very shy when she's not in costume especially around Koichi but very cute she's just a nice person.
And she also like she has not a strong work or work as leap so she can basically just jump high technically she cannot really float but it feels like she becomes just very light when she uses her work right she can do just a very very long jumps and easily the bounce of other other things again and jump very high again and that makes it easy for her to get around and get a good over the
view over like the surrounding area because she can very easily get to you know higher places like high buildings or stuff like that it's a very easy feat for her she doesn't have any power or anything like she cannot really take participate in the fights but she can do
do crowd control very well since she always also always has a mic with her for her you know street performances and she knows how to attract views towards her like knows how to to get people to look at her and do what she wants to do and that benefits her in these situations
distraction tactics yes technically I mean like I said she's not technically partaking I think in any real fights in the season that might still come but she can do can be like a coordinator like
taking on a manager role of our two man hero team I would say in actually helping out that no civilians get get hurt and so on so she's very adapt at that and later on there is like this
is a concert that happens in the show where she where one of the other characters sets up a concert as a community support fund razor because in a fight against the villain a lot of buildings got damaged and they want to raise money to get you can you know get the
construction move along quickly and so on and she is taking part in that concert and of course her experience as an you know as a proper rookie idol helps her there as well and also helps to make the concert venue safe
because she has her own fanboys of course and the power is partially out but you know her fans all have these glow sticks and they can like guide other people towards safe areas and so on
so that's pretty cool like she has her own good squad technically which is nice and as you know from I mean you that's how you watch that far you watch the season for where they have this big concert on the school grounds right yeah
and so you know my hero academia does know how to stage a cool concert and it's now no different here like that concert is really really awesome like that scene it's not a long one but it's it's also pretty short song but it's just a cool the atmosphere is cool and it's cool fuck yeah pop step moment and yeah really like that scene as well and the the music is just great in general the music is great in the show of course because a lot of you can hire she tracks but also the new stuff is great
and there's some very emotional moments in there that get on the land by the music very well and also of course some of the awesome I hear academia tracks we already know get applied very well in this but yeah like I said the main plot of this is
and not just a going after the trigger victims villains depending on how the I mean in the beginning we have some characters who use trigger willingly like who's some person gets them and as here you can get stronger from from that right and they take it and then become these unhitched villains
but later on that same character also just uses their quirk to involuntary transform a lot of people into instant villains that character is Hachi Suka which is this girl which seems to have I say seem to have because there's more behind this this this power of being able to unleash a bunch of bees
and these bees can inject like they they carry like these in their stings like they their stings kind of look like like like shots they look they can inject people with a bunch of different fluids that can apparently be horrifying yeah cooked up by the users really hard to find can be anything can also be explosive
explosive actually but I don't like this no it's really gross like especially how she unleashes them is very gross like that show my academia has its dark moments and is kind of putting moments but there's there were like couple of scenes in this where it's like oh okay all right I didn't need to see that
so this feels it already gave me the feeling like okay this show might be geared towards a slightly older audience then at least the beginning of my here academia was because characters in general like the main character coach is a bit older he's in college he's not in high school anymore
knuckle does does just an old dude he by the way is quirkless as we learn pretty quickly so that kind of fits in with our other cast of three main characters not being super powerful really right not in at least when it comes to compare to our the main heroes and everything we see and we saw my here academia
but you know knuckle does there he he just he's Batman in that regard he's super awesome in hand to hand combat he's super strong for normal human being and of course his advantage of not having a quirk is he doesn't have to he doesn't have to rely on that and fighting so like if he fights someone like eraser hat who has several camera you a cameo appearance in this whose power is to erase other people's quirks by looking at that
that doesn't have an effect on knuckle does there he just can keep on punching because he doesn't have a quirk so that can also be to an advantage to him because again he doesn't have to rely on his quirk and it's not completely put in check made when when you know he's fighting someone who disabled squirks so that's cool
that she's okay is this girl who has this be power into then transforms a lot of people into involuntary into the into these these instant villains and monsters later on like she injects also animals with this with this which makes get nets us some cameos cameos by not gozilla not the jibli catbus
not gamma or gamma are the crap version so legally distinct john no copyright issue here it's fine it's fine yes but i would say like she is the main villain of this first season because she's like the person in the background but also there's more to that of course that we only learn in the very last episode i guess i think if i have not miss heard his voice on the phone
i think all for one also has his hands in this because she's talking to a person on the phone and i think that voice was all for one but i'm not sure so right is hands and everything yeah so it could be that and that is interesting like to show sets up a bunch of interesting seats for coming seasons considering it's a prequel
i don't know how far that will go it seems we're still in like the prime days of the main cast of old quote unquote heroes or senior heroes we have in my hero academia prime so all might still in the primal pause apparently still is full power set it seems like the fight against all for one that damaged him like that made him not being able to use his powers full time hasn't happened yet at least i don't think so
a bunch of younger versions of some of the characters like we get this the cop to always hang out with all my to cauchy and his partner sons who we get younger versions of them also different character i get to her because she's also very important to relate to to cauchy and we get a bunch of heroes of course we also see in my career prime but they are very much on the sidelines they appear for like one episode so two episodes but they don't really have
much like let's say influence on the story maybe an exposition thing here they're on just like hey do you remember that guy seen but not really that much to do with the main plot that is mostly driven by our core three characters up to an extent and that is also not fully resolved by the end of this like hatchy suka gets disposed of so to speak but there is like a wrinkle to that and there are not
people still out there who apparently are gonna further her agenda so we see where this goes and if this might also lead up to the fight between all for one and all my I don't know that would be interesting we also have another character who is kind of like the villain for one episode I guess who's called stand all he has sort and he's kind of like a villain killer who just you know is like yeah I think
vigilantes is great but I'm just not gonna like take them down I'm gonna take them out permanently which of course class clashes with you know the idealistic coachy and stuff like that and stand all immediately I was like oh it's that character right because he's wearing a mask and the way he talks and the way he is like I'm just gonna kill everyone and who do we have in my hero academia prime specifically it's second season
where who's up there's a person that goes not against villains but against heroes and I was like okay okay this is stain obviously and that's not really it's not a spoiler it's like super obvious that stand all
pain and yeah so it's really interesting that we kind of see his origin here is well not fully and how he switches but it's immediate like in in a second appearance he raves about how a hero is supposed to be and
it's supposed to be this ideal who is flawless and everything is like ah it's you it's you we've met you before and that's where we go into the this being a bit of
darker show we see very much how he ends up with the face that he ends up in my hero academia and I'm like Jesus fuck
okay I also did not expect to see I mean we don't see it in graphic detail but the sound does it's it's work here
yeah but again that's interesting like it's not heavily relying on the characters the heroes from you know and you being familiar with them from my hero academia prime but it's throwing enough in there that's like oh cool I've seen this person but I don't
seen them in disc configuration before it's like okay this is a prequel but it is this kind of its own thing and you knowing about the original show in
richest the experience but it's not necessary so these are my favorite kinds of prequels where it's like okay this is not technically necessary but it also will probably not do any harm to the story of my hero academia proper
because it's not it's not that's not its focus so at least not for now but you know you see some characters and you see how they came to be who they are right now and see more about them another character that very much relates to that and who has some nice
nice side fits in this is the previous in genium you know tenia eda from from my here academia prime one of the main characters from class I want I would say the the
turbo hero with the cool I don't know mech suit whatever that is who's just super fast and as like some of the most well animated scenes when comes to using his
quirk and we know that you know his brother got actually attacked and permanently taken out of the hero game by stain and we see the this still undemage version of his
brother ten say in action in this show in virgin anties and we see a cameo of young tenia not being able to control his power is yet
properly which is very funny but that immediately raises questions hey they have introduced stain here they have introduced ten say will we see the scene where stain takes like
permanently injures ten say so that he can do his hero work anymore interesting we have only see that like referenced in my academia proper
so we see that fight that will be interesting but including in genium in here beyond that has its purpose because he is like this upstanding cool hero guy who helps out Koichi like they run into each other in some
random thing that happens in the in the district that Koichi resides in and forgot its name that is always helping out in and they like each other I mean obviously Koichi
admire in genium because he's one of the cool heroes out there and in genium is very cool like he has his own box crew box crew like like he's a has a crew like a racing team like he has his own track that he starts out of jumps out of like it starts
in full speed and his crew can help with rescuing other people and so on out of the truck it's it's really like a racing team for every single whatever it's already car I don't know
it's really cool it's in terms of them and everything and he and Koichi work together well and he teaches Koichi how to better applies work and so on so they got a really neat dynamic so technically I guess Koichi has like two senses in that regard and it also shows you why tenia is so in my hero
Akidemiya prime is so fixated fixated on finding and taking out stain because you can see why he looked up to his brother because ten say it's just a cool guy
like to be the nicest dude over in general and I can imagine him being like the best big brother so I can see why tenia is the person he is in the show that we we have already seen so that's cool again enriching
the other show without necessarily relying on you having watched that and because you know ten say works as a character without knowing how he ends up and who is brother is and so on and what role he plays in one of the seasons in my hero
Akidemiya prime so that's cool and also probably one of the coolest action scenes where him and Koichi go after this cat ghibli cat bus that abducts a bunch of people after
a cat uses with it that has been injected with with trigger and yeah that's a really really cool action scene it's really fun one of the best you you can actually image a track
supplied perfectly as well good shit so yeah cool moment but we also have the other side of this and that is
captain celebrity who is and an arrogant American hero who this is all might and thus anger is Koichi comes complete with his English TV commercial they actually cast someone with a really good with really good English pronunciation as the narrator for that which is neat
but I think he is mainly here to show that there are vain heroes only in it for their own gain and for the money in everything which we didn't really have an image prime I think yes there were bad heroes like endeavor but he was still mainly in it to help people the problem was his focus on being the undisputed best in his profession and the piles of misery that ambition he put on his family
can celebrities in for the money cameras well the fame the celebrity status in his name so you know all of that stuff that comes with being a hero he loves to be that looks like a mix between fucking booster gold and captain comando and what a mix sounds like it too
and I hate that they made his official call sign and name abbreviation CC oh no fucking hate it I feel assaulted and mopped and bullied I want to report an attack at least he has his own bad rap theme vocal rap theme and cheerleading song which is you know
performed by his own crew that he brings along and the agency that represents him and I will use those for future bits on this show trust me so thanks for that bones
I'm all up for interjecting a bad CC rap into this fuck in the audio of our episodes you two reasons
I don't mind that at all so I guess I can live with a slander but yeah he is definitely like the poster child or yeah if you want to call it that for like a vain shallow hero he's who is only in it for the fame
and that kind of rubs Koichi of course the wrong way you know because he's an all might fanboy who is in it for different reasons
and also because captain celebrity keeps signing on coaches all might hoodie with a sharpie without permission oh no and he has to clean it all the time and yeah to make it even worse
captain celebrity is like a cassanova a cheat and loser like he only came to Japan because in America he was subject to a bunch of scandals and won't pay his wife alimony or whatever
brother your scandals will follow you yes I like the show is definitely poking fun at western celebrities coming over to Japan and doing weird commercials there there's a lot of that in this show when it comes to captain celebrity
but thankfully captain celebrity is not on his own and there's someone to rein him in and that is Makoto who is an upper class man of Koichi as it happens and is also inspector Tsukouchi's sister
she's also the character takes the most interesting talking points in the show I mean MHA prime has doubled in discussing socio political themes before when comes to what heroes are what will is our what police is what is good what is bad when so on in terms of in relation to
social norms and everything but vigilante seems to be much more straight forward in that regard when it's come when comes to its metaphors or use of metaphors and everything especially when it comes to reflecting on the concept of heroes vis-à-vis law enforcement agents and what some perhaps not so arbitrary rules created by certain governments people determined the key defining difference between heroes and villains and so on
like there is some really interesting stuff in there and it's not that much elaborated on but we learn from her from Makoto we learn interesting you lore about the origin of the first heroes and how they are related to vigilante ism
it's especially interesting because it's a much more critical light on the creation of the license hero system than MHA prime did or does
and this is the kind of stuff I like prequels doing like I said adding context to establish concepts and does maybe flipping our entire perspective on them and I feel like this show does this and this is cool and it contrasts the licenseeer of course to the the street level stuff that coachy and knuckle dust and pop step to which is much more organized but it's also not beholden to certain arbitrary rules
and it lends itself to introducing the cast of local weirdos of course like I said pop steps goonsquads and a bunch of dilling quins and so on and shop owners and everything and feels like again more like a I don't know community thing then my here could aim a prime does
and by regularly showing the villain text from the perspective of the victims they shift the view a bit from seeing it mostly from the heroes perspective in MHA prime so
that's all cool and Makoto is in here to give us a lot of context additional context for how this world came to be and you know how the show treats its different definitions of heroes and vigilantes and how that came to be in there.
So that's nice at the first vigilantes being officially licensed as heroes happening in road island also lends itself to some very cool western comic book art which we get in that exposition episode so yeah that was cool but Makoto is also cool due to other reasons because she never seems to lose her cool she's just like this very nice upbeat college age woman that seems to be a lot more
that seems to be like absolutely up for anything in terms of being able to handle any situation just without missing a skipping a beat or whatever like she or missing a beat like there's this moment where she agrees to coach trying to pass her off as his girlfriend in the front of his mom.
Just you know without any problem and she's super okay with it is like yeah just sure let's try this out and of course it doesn't work because his mom sees through it immediately she's like a classy woman like that would never give a nerd like you the time of the day.
Thanks for the god what it's mom but yeah that that was fun and she's like but I wouldn't mind you actually dating my son just to be clear and later on she's actually like.
Would you mind actually marrying into our family.
And my funny thing is Makoto is like not keeping open mind about it she's like really really relaxed like one of the most relaxed female anime characters I've ever seen in a show in series.
She's like really like yeah just fine I'll keep it I didn't say I'm not I don't want to be his girlfriend so she's really cool.
It just immense and immensely cool person.
The problem is like she of course rubs in the beginning at least pop step the wrong way because she's very much interested in Makoto and pop step is very much interested in Koichi.
You got like this someone love triangle going on that it's not really one and that kind gets resolved to a degree by Makoto helping pop step with the concert stuff in the final couple of episodes and everything so they become friends as well.
So it's like in general it's good vibes all around it's not like the show is like oh my god it's tension everywhere between those characters and everything.
I mean it ends up with Koichi being the butt of the joke but still like like he's I mean a lot of people are just starting to appear in his apartment without asking him and he in the beginning he's flustered and it's like this is my place but also very quickly it's like hey I mean I had problems making friends in college because everyone
makes me like a creep and because I'm just Koichi is bad with words like he's bad at reading the room he just he just doesn't have it man and I'm sorry and but he's a really good guy like it's not his it's not really his fault that's just the way he he is.
So when he finally makes some friends who hang out with him on a constant basis even though one of them is like this kind of standoffish pop idol who has obviously a crush on him but he doesn't see that because he's an idiot and the other person being this old guy who just fucking hangs out at this place and punches to shit out of him and training sessions.
Okay I guess they're friends but hey he's happy about it he's like hey it's nice and this is nice scene where they're all at this place of course and popstep and knuckle does that one of their fights again and he just goes it's like I'm gonna hang the lawn up the laundry and just goes out and you hear them arguing still through the open window and everything and he puts up the lawn and he's like I didn't expect this my my college days to go the way.
Like this I didn't plan plan them to go like that but this is also nice like I guess this this the slight smile on his face and that there was there was cute there was nice.
Like okay it's not what you plan for but apparently you're having a good time so yeah that's cool.
And that's kind of the whole vibe of the between these characters and everyone is a nice moment and like I said my coat also figures into that and since she is also the manager.
Also the manager of captain celebrities agency or the the chief manager that of that agency that represents him he's she's also one who can always rain him in and make him actually do good with whatever she does so enter organizing everything so that's also cool.
I even like kind of like the mom coach is mom even though it feels like oh no here comes another bad anime mom but yes she's no fan of heroes and you're like oh God is this why coach is the way is yes probably but most she most leads against them and Tim doing hero work because she thinks heroes in general at least the one she's come to know.
Live on the whims of other people in her opinion and probably and neglect their own lives and looking at endeavor and cat celebrity that lady does have a point yeah so you know and her reason is seeing coach coach wanting to become a hero badly as a kid and getting into all sort of trouble because of it getting hurt and fights and so on and that can get a bump pretty right up against you know there's some becoming a professional hero and everything.
I mean you should still let your kid child do what it absolutely wants to do but she also admits like I guess he's to all know that this kind of shit from me giving him shit for that is going to stop him doing what he wants to do so I'm going to give up I'm just going to let him do what he wants and that's neat like okay that's fine like at least you're coming around in that regard and yeah she's that that's fine like she's not going to be a good guy.
That's fine like she Makoto and coach you have a fun trip around the town like and then that shit with the boss happens and everything that was definitely one of the standout episodes his mom arriving then the shit with him trying to pass off Makoto as his girlfriend pop stepping thrown to mix also Naka does suddenly appearing on the doorstep and all of that chaos swapping like fucking washing over his mom but she also kind of taking you to stride and Makoto
Makoto anyway like she's totally okay with it this is great scene where Naka does her opens the door you hear his voice and pop step and and coach you are like oh fuck how do we explain him like how do we explain him to coach his mom and Makoto how the fuck and he suddenly appears like very well dressed and totally proper and Makoto and coach his mom are like wow a proper man
and coach his mom is like pass off Makoto you should get into man your own edge this one's for me and wow that's so fucking funny and yeah so it's great like this the cast of this is great and the fun thing is since it's so limited in terms of actually pre I mean there are a lot of side players here and there but it doesn't feel like the show is shifting
character perspectives all the time we're still mostly focused on our core three and that is having a strong core of characters in the show always is something I would rank over shows that have a bunch of interesting characters
not either don't love a lot of the different minor characters in my he my hero academia prime but I think it's always something worth when you have a strong limited core of characters in your show and this and vigilantes has that and uses them very very well
and you know adds to that roster with every episode but not in an overload kind of way where it's only hey new season here fucking 14 new characters or something that doesn't doesn't even do that like we don't even get as much many important characters in this first season that we got in the first season of my
year academia we don't get a full classroom of people we just get like all main three then we get like three hero side characters that are kind of important and then a bunch of you know one technically two villains I get all although even one is you know only in one
episode and the rest is like monster off the week stuff who are not important anyway and don't really get any characterization so you don't have to pay attention to them and the rest is like hey also characters you already know
so you don't need to like work to establish them and if the show doesn't do that you also don't need that because they're only bit players in this story they're only here to be like hey this is set in this universe but also it doesn't
hurt to not know who the what these characters are about so it never felt like overload and I like that I think this show is stronger for it I think even though it's much more episodic in nature
and the plot doesn't really move along at all like aside from our main villain of the season being taken out at the end we still don't really we have no confirmation who initiated this why they're doing is why they're running these these tests of trigger and trying to create these instant villains it's got to be an awful one scheme
who's working to a specific goal and maybe that goal is going to be whatever the incident was that had him and all my square off in this legendary bad so maybe we get that at the end of this show I don't know we'll see could be fun but maybe it's also not care gonna care about that at all and just gonna have the story focus on our
Racktech gang of vigilantes I wonder how much knuckle dust actually will be in the next season because his story is kinda over by the end of this one at least when it comes to what is motivation is and everything so I wonder I wonder also the the the ending of the final episode of this season
kind of teases a time skip for the next one with like coaches like saying hey the season I still didn't know how much this would change my life or whatever and how much I would be involved with this kind of story or whatever the seasons just went by for a while and I assume maybe we're gonna have like a skip of one or two years after this so interesting interesting very interesting we see where this goes
yeah I really really liked this first season of vigilantes slightly different right from my hero cadet my pride more episodic less serialized but there's enough cool characters stuff some twists and a lot of potential for interesting stories to come and I think the production quality is of course I didn't really say much about the animation because I feel like I didn't have to because it's fucking bones and it's in my era cadet in my team so of course you have a bunch of fantastic looking action scenes I
think the best one the standout being the one with the team up between coachy and in genuine way that chase after the cat bus that just looks great and then you have some a couple of fights with knuckle duster that look really awesome in the final episode as well so it looks great it sounds great of course because of soundtrack the op is fantastic kick out I is fucking banger and looks great too
so yeah definitely one of the best op's of this particular season and yeah I just sit all around great package and I'm really interested to see more I didn't expect to be that invested in the show especially after I learned that it was a prequel like a prequel
but then after realizing oh this is not trying to just use all the characters we already know and then focus and then tell us I don't know the eraser head story or the best genie story or he is the story of all might be for this no we get to get a completely different cast
and on the side we maybe get a few interesting lore bits sprinkled in between but the main story is focusing on other characters and their motivations and why they're doing what they're doing and doing its own thing I think it's actually a more interesting way to fill things out and focusing on characters we had already met to be honest absolutely
and the setting is different too I mean it's still the same town but you know the the perspective is different because it's a street level thing it's not from the perspective of the heroes is from the perspective of normal people quote unquote who are not part of the license hero program but decided to do something good for their community regardless
maybe because they couldn't hack it or maybe because they don't even want to become heroes but are just getting roped into it which pops step kindness right she obviously wants to be an idol a singer
but she just chose to suit up like a hero because that's what she has a quirk and everything and she also kind of has a neck apparently for it right so that's that's cool and knuckle dust of course has his own motivation everything which is also very interesting and good
and like I said I wonder how much he will be even featured in the coming seasons because I feel like a lot of these fields also like even inside of one episode like like we have like a two part like one small story in the first part and one small story in the second part
we have a lot of those episodes too so yeah it's a lot more episodic it's more street level it's more monster of the weekish than my here could in my prime was but that's a nice change of pace
and you still get enough cool my hero academia shit if you're interested in that and if like I watch the under show what does this show give me to like to feed my my my my academia needs in breaks between those two see the seasons and I mean next season of my here academia prime is gonna be the last one I don't know if they're gonna split that up in multiple parts maybe probably
but it is called the final season if I'm not mistaken so I assume even for that reason you should get into it because very soon there is not gonna be any more my hero academia prime is there is only gonna be vigilantes so check I mean for that reason alone you should check it out but there's also I feel like enough in there for you that gets you oh so that's where that came from oh so that's what that is about and then also having a nice shift on the
perspective on certain things especially when it comes to how society treats heroes how treats villains and and so on and how that actually came to be and I hope the show goes a lot more into that because right now that was only heavily teased by Marco
it is was straightforward teased like she was like she's very critical of the differentiation made between vigilantes and heroes she is teaching about that or that some of that is part of her main thesis I think for her college stuff and everything so I it's it's interesting and I expect the show to go more into that and not only related to
that to this season it doesn't feel like it will do that it feels like it's gonna go back there again and that will be interesting I hope there'll be
some kind of discussion between someone who does maybe vigilantes for the right reasons or some hero who clashes with that and or does vigilantes run the wrong reason aside from staying but
that would be I hope the show will go into that and I think it will so yeah very interesting you hope it keeps that going forward and I hope it also keeps its focus going forward yes right now it feels like it I mean can always run into character blow down the road but right now it feels like the show is not interested in a super big roster
so we'll see we'll see and yeah story wise I wonder if they're gonna just have the trigger thing being the main plot driver because
even though like I said our sensible main villain of the first season is taking down the trigger problem has not been resolved technically so I assume that's gonna get carried over in the next season probably maybe
but also maybe there's gonna be a different plot created by whoever's responsible and then our vigilantes have to deal with that and we see how the how the heroes will figure into that I'm especially interested how they will evolve the relationship between
Koichi and popstep and Koichi and Makoto and so on so yeah there's definitely enough interesting story seats zone in this first season where it's like okay this is this is cool that could be something interesting happening down the road
and yeah if you want to check that out it's on crunchy roll and if you like my hero academia and are looking for you here if hero fix between seasons of my hero
academia prime you should definitely check this out especially since it's smaller character roster and more episodic nature make for a nice change of pace when compared to the original show
and if you like street level superheroes in general you might like this as well even if the main series didn't do it for you since this slightly different take on the world established by my hero academia prime might be more your speed
so yeah give it a chance I can see this becoming a very cool action show in its own right that does not have to hide behind its big brother
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