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Hello and welcome to an all new episode of Anime Brinfries.
We are your former Assassin's third podcast hosts.
I am Jon.
And I am C.C. and when there's just too much cool anime to watch, we've got you covered.
Today we will dive headfirst into the life of a normal family man with anything but
in our review of the new action comedy hit Sakamoto Days.
And since it's our season finale, we of course will pick our winners for best anime of the season.
So, grab your apron and self defense broom, make sure to wear your bulletproof glasses
and definitely don't pause the pod, we'll be right back!
The name Tarou Sakamoto once instilled fear in every villain.
No other professional hitman matched his prowess.
And fellow assassins revered him, however, Sakamoto fell in love.
In five short years he married, became a father, put on some weight,
and treated his weapons for an apron as he became the owner of a humble convenience store.
Although Sakamoto is decidedly retired, he finds his whole life of crime hard to shake off.
His former partner, Shina Asakura, a brief appears and resolves to stay with Sakamoto's family
under their strict no-kill rule. To make matters worse, a large bounty is placed on Sakamoto's head.
Numerous assassins now pursue him, but they are in for a surprise.
Sakamoto has not lost his edge, and no matter what tricks his enemies pull, he will fight off
every last one to protect his dear family.
Big shout out to MAL rewrite for that summary.
So Sakamoto's is the latest from our friends at TMS who we have spoken on several times before.
Usually in conjunction with the reviews of the Loupon, yes.
Was directed by one Masaki Watanabe who's done some directorial work.
Big stuff outside of this show in particular is battle spirits,
which I think is supposed to be a tie-in with the card game.
Yeah, let's go.
Sorry.
Did you hide?
I just light up on what was that?
No, it was just more about I'm looking at the promo and I was like,
I feel like I've heard this name, but I'm not certain on it and then I look at it and
when the character says what looks like a board in front of him with spots for cards.
I'm like, yeah, oh, okay, yeah.
I thought you'll sound like your card game sensor was just triggered or something.
I smell a card game.
Card games on motorcycles.
Wait, but I feel like it's one of those names that I sort of had buried in the back of my head,
but you know what, there's there's so many.
There's a lot.
And it looks like this show has been running for a while.
Oh, geez.
There's one, two, three, four, five, at least 10 entries on anime news networks.
So wow, okay.
Yes.
I think I've never seen like one frame off that show.
Like I said, I've seen the name and I think that's the beginning, middle and end of my interaction.
The show is written by Taku,
Taku, Kishimoto, who you spoke briefly about with Blue Lock,
wrote a little bit of Fruit's Basket, which was fantastic, high cue.
And then they've done some I think by our account, pretty good work.
So has the manga's author, original author, done anything else besides Sakamoto,
does I don't think so, right?
Is there first author?
Yeah, Yuto Suzuki, it looks like,
looks like there's a spin off called Sakamoto Hala Days.
I mean, sure, gotta do it.
But it looks like that's pretty much with the long and short of what they have worked on.
Yeah, just, you know, I think it was published and shown, jump, right?
And became kind of an immediate hit.
Yeah, the manga started in 2020 and it looks to be like, it's still running.
I feel like this is a format that you could keep going for a while.
Although I was surprised, it's not like it's super plot heavy or anything, definitely not.
But there's more in there than I expected.
And they're setting up a nice mystery and everything.
So I was like, "Oh, okay, I expected this to be just like a work-ish comedy,
where like every episode there's a new weird hitman that's gonna try to kill Sakamoto."
And he and his new French friends are gonna protect the store from getting totally demolished and whatever.
And they're gonna have all the fights and the facility of the store.
That was what I imagined of what the show is gonna be.
But it's slightly different.
I mean, we get the color for the hitman.
Definitely a lot of them.
Yeah.
Yeah, they're probably the most fun part of the show.
But it also, like, there's like, "Oh, there he is, a bit of mystery, background,
for Sakamoto, especially in regards to the main villain who has been kind of revealed at the end of this first score,
but not really like who he is.
We just know he has a connection to Sakamoto.
And that Sakamoto is apparently maybe the only one who ever was able to hurt him,
damage him, whatever, put a danton him, stand up to him, I don't know,
like the only one who could beat him in some way or another.
So there's that just to take that ahead of us, but we don't know anything more.
And it was like, "Okay, this is, this is, there is more to chew."
Then I expected, "Well, I'm getting ahead of myself."
The staff wise, we also, of course, have to mention Yuki Hayashi again.
Just talked about him in the review of "Metallist."
And now we get him again in this.
And I think this is definitely really good stuff from him this time.
Like, there are a lot of really cool tracks.
There's one in an episode where there's a battle on a roller coaster, where we hear a cool vocal
equipped theme for the first time.
That's really awesome.
So really energetic soundtrack, as you would expect.
Not as like, I mean, there is your usual Yuki Hayashi,
triumphant symphonic opera thing happening at some point,
but there are also some more, I don't know, some more fun beads,
heavy tracks and stuff like that.
So I enjoyed that.
What did you think of the soundtrack, John?
I thought it was, you know, great as he usually does.
Definitely, he, uh, a little bit of the my hero feel in there, but, you know, that's,
I don't think that's, it's definitely probably the best and known for now, but I mean,
he had done some work on like the Gundam build stuff, which had a little bit of a similar-ish
sound. There was, you know, very high energy, all throughout all of that.
So, you know, there's a little bit of that in there as well.
I still love, I think, I think I mentioned this in passing,
that when they couldn't use compositions for Dragon Quest, the adventure of Die,
the remake of it, that he just sort of went in there and was like, I'll just make a Dragon Quest
soundtrack myself and it has that same emotion and energy.
So, like, hi, I see his prune himself to be like very versatile and just a green composer.
Yeah, but he's definitely more, I mean,
there's this sound is for, he's most out.
Yes, yes, this is definitely along the lines.
Like you said, my hero academia, I like you like triumphant, a bit too triumphant in the beginning,
because the first thing he see with, you know, in this show is the, the glory day is,
quote unquote, of Sakamoto where he like goes to town on a bunch of assassin, goons, whatever,
mafia people and just kills them left and right and in the background there is this triumphant,
Yuki Hayashi score and you're like, there's a bit of a mismatch here, guys.
It's like so super violent.
That's fine, it's fine, don't worry about it.
I mean, yes, he is the hero of the story, but he is also, you know, he was a bad guy.
Like, yeah, I mean, at least when it comes to, if you want to call everyone that kills people
a bad guy, which, you know, can be argued until he met the love of his life in a convenience store.
So yeah, definitely sort of the team, the same spin on like, like a dragon or Yakuza,
depending on which name you want to go with.
Yeah, sure, sure, sure.
I feel like, yeah, it's going a bit in that direction, but, you know, I don't even know, I mean,
Yakuza is absolutely super goofy.
So I guess, yeah, that's appropriate.
That seems right.
Just not, you know, someone who is still kind of affiliated, I guess, although he's,
I guess, I mean, there's still a people from his old gang that seem to treat him with respect
and also even though he's out of the, out of the business, he still has connections where he knows
where to go for information and stuff like that.
There's like this thing where he and his new friends are trying to, to, to garner some information
about a certain bad guy or a group of people of bad guys and they go to this video store,
video rental store and he's like, here, all the information about the underworld is stored in
or as movies, like the way this is conveyed here is a bit like mission impossible, but, you know,
not with self-destroying tapes or something like that, but it's like these, these self-made
home, not home movies, but like they look kind of, you know, professionally made,
but it's just like these movies only exist to convey certain information about certain people
and the underworld and like, but they still have a plot, it's super funny, super funny idea,
I really liked that. I was like, okay, you just have to watch this movie and get super engaged, although
didn't, Sakamoto fell asleep, right? When he watched it, so that's great. But, Shin was there to take
everything in? Yes, Shin was there, yeah, Lu also didn't really pay attention or she was too engaged
or something like that. Yes, yes, we're already talking about characters, we haven't introduced it,
so our main man, Taros Sakamoto, you already did plenty of legwork in the summary,
and yeah, he was the super hitman, he was John Wick, right? That's what you can basically say if you
want to do a comparison for people who might not be as intimate with, I don't know, standard
anime access and stuff. It's funny because I guess Suzuki had spoken about his influences and said
John Wick and like the equalizer were like direct inspirations and stuff from like Christopher Nolan,
so like, yes, it makes absolute sense, like there are a bunch of references and there are also two
kinds of movies like that, I guess, if you pay close attention and yeah, he's definitely that.
Deep in the underground, just like the top assassin, like he said, he's admired by the students
of the art and feared by his enemies and unbeaten, and then he just one day goes into a convenience store
and meets a very, very pretty nice woman called Aoi and falls head over heels for her and yeah,
duh, yeah, it's very cute, like he just completely is losing his facial features technically.
It's not driven out of his nose because she is so goddamn adorable, I guess, and he just like,
okay, fuck the assassin life, I'm gonna spend my life with that woman and that's what happens
and then they have a daughter, Hannah, and he opens a mom and pop store in this little town that
oh is from, I guess, and yeah, that that how it be and they live a normal life, he puts on a lot of weight
and though that is not consistent throughout this core, yeah, the show is trying to have its cake
I needed to, like there's some fights where Sakamoto is like, I'm burning calories during the fight,
so I'm slimming down so the viewer also gets to see him kick ass, not only in his new chubby
form, but also in his perfect old stays form, still wearing an apron and you know sandals and whatever,
but you know, a man who can do both, yeah, I guess, and but yeah, you not only get the the the
fat Sakamoto so to speak, but also the slim one and this, it's of course not realistic, but it's
and the show actually comments on that chin, of course, it's like that that's not how that works
so the show is aware that's bullshit, but you know, they I guess they want to do that so you can still
see see him kick some ass in his old form, although I don't know if I did we need that John, like I
feel like he is, was plenty bad, is plenty bad as even when he is, you know, in his normal form.
I mean, it was well established to begin with and then when he seems like, oh look at how fat
and old he is, he's all washed up and he's just like out there busting a moon, no promise, like,
I don't know, no, no, okay, yeah, you can still do the thing, you're doing the thing.
I guess they they wanted to do this, nothing to have some for him, for him to have a way to power up
because otherwise he's on the constant level of unbeatable, right? I have to come down to your level
and say, yeah, but you know, they wanted to have a bit of a thread in there from other assassins
and outside of putting his teammates into danger, the only thing I guess they were able to do were like
he is not in top physical form while he is still, you know, why he's still fat so
that when he when he put a dozen of exercise by fighting bad guys, he's limps down and then he gets
more powerful, which, okay, all right, that's fine, that's funny, but you know, most of the time he is
in in his new bigger form and it's fun, like, we opened this this this show by an alter quaintance or
admirer, student partner, I didn't have worked before together, right? Like she is only in the same
organization, the, what are they called, they JAA, I forgot what that stood for. I think it was the
Japanese Association of the Assassins. Yes, right, exactly. And you know, everyone has heard of
Sakamoto. I don't know if they encountered each other before, but she's definitely a fan and he gets
contracted to kill Sakamoto and he's like entering the store and shaking out of the, oh my god, he
looks so, you know, like you said, washed up and everything, he can't be a threat, and then quickly
he notices, oh shit, the man still got it, is super happy about it, shaking his car happy,
jamming his head against the steering wheel out of pure joy, that was a nice visual
joke when the woman runs a passive with a chat, don't look because you know, it's a shaking car,
it's a sex show. So, it's very funny, but, you know, he definitely got turned on in one way or another,
but he's he's very happy that his idol still got it even though he doesn't look the part,
and he decides to, you know, not kill him because when he fights Sakamoto, he loses,
by way of, I don't even know how Sakamoto takes him out, this is with a like a cough drop or something,
or no, that happens at the beginning to deflect the shins bullet. I forgot why he takes him out,
but shins gets beaten by him and then he gets the taste of Sakamoto family life, the good cooking of
oil, which is what led obviously to Sakamoto's current form, her cooking is so good that, and he enjoys
these moments, and the family dinner so much that, you know, he became a very good eater. And,
yeah, so, shins gets to experience that, an experience which he apparently never really had, because he
grew up in the lab technically, because he was an experiment to give people psychic powers, like
Esper, make them Esper's, so far, so far, as we've learned the only successful experiment,
but yeah, he's a psychic, he can read minds. He is so enamored with Sakamoto's family life,
and that Sakamoto obviously is trying everything to protect his new family and everything that he's
like, I'm not going to kill him, it goes back to his contractors and is even willing to die himself
technically, but, uh, Sakamoto makes sure that that doesn't happen, that they fight off the bad guys
and she becomes a clerk in Sakamoto's shop, obviously. The ultimate fate, we're worse than death.
I shouldn't even be here. Yeah, so clerks, um, then, uh, he, uh, yeah, and from there on, we go,
there is more characters added to the mix later on, we can talk about them a bit later, but, uh, yeah,
that's pretty much the setup, and then more and more assets roll into town, because quickly, after
the second or third episode, I'm not sure, I think at the end of the second episode, a bounty is put
on Sakamoto's head, and he is, uh, one, is it one billion yen? Right, yes? That's one billion.
Okay. Yeah, so, um, uh, and then more and more assets roll into town, not always capable ones,
I mean, yeah, I mean, the small fry with no names, obviously, yeah. Yeah, but they're funny too,
like janitor man, and that pizza guy who uses pizza cutters as weapons. That's right, forgot about that,
dude. So, you know, Canon fodder like that, but we also have some very capable ones, and all of them
have a special gimmick that is very fun, like, um, uh, there are some, some assassins, like a duo,
I forgot what their names were, one is boiled, the other one, uh, other one was,
Obiguro? Obiguro, yes, they're like this, this Bonnie and Clyde duo kind of, and they have like this
really kind of fun, kind of cute dynamic, and Bald is obviously trying to be like this hard boiled
killer and, uh, his connection with Sakamoto and why he, why he has a B4 them is really funny,
and stupid. Talk about a tenuous, uh, best connection. Yeah, but, you know, they,
like all of all of these characters have life kind of a fun, fun gimmick and fun powers to an extent,
and, you know, it gets crazy and crazy, and we move on definitely a lot of people that have something
like superpowers or legit superpowers. I mean, Shin is a psychic, so he's the first one to enter.
The picture in that regard, but we also get some crazy stuff like a doctor who injects himself with
all kind of weird shit and can implant you with like chips that, that's shit to you, that
do shit to you, like make you, uh, not being able to speak anymore properly because your fucking
sense is get reversed. Oh man, out of all of them, I think that one may be the most uncomfortable, man.
Yeah, he is. He's just going to casually inject myself of those, I'm just like,
yeah, so we give, I, I don't know, John, I feel like, uh, what was the reindeer guy?
Also not very, yeah, yeah, not very comfortable about around him. He's like the cyborg dude and
wears a reindeer at all the times, like, it's kick, you know, sonop cuts all over his body because like,
he's mostly machine, but he's very uncomfortable, but also entertaining. Yeah, I, I guess, uh,
Suzuki had a penchant for originally writing like these dark one shot stories, so uh, it definitely
believes through with some of these gangsters, just interesting enough. Yeah, but that's super fun
because considering how whole sum Sakamoto days is in terms of a story, you know, of course,
with an edge, right? Because former assassin and everything, but it's kind of like, you know,
it's the comedy version of John Wigg, it's, it's really like a, it's a, it's a, a spoof on, on,
on a John Wigg movie basically. And it's making fun of the whole thing from beginning to end,
like it's, it's, it's jabbing so, it's taking, it's taking so many jabs at that kind of, at that
genre of movie/TV show, uh, and all the character tropes and story tropes and everything. So, uh, it's
funny that he like did the serious stuff first and then was like, ah, let's make it fun guys.
Okay. And that then was the super successful thing. So that's cool.
But yeah, uh, and that is kind of the whole season technically. Like, like I said, it is,
it is kind of what I assumed it would be. Like, we have this, you know, normal environment of the store,
and, you know, all the people in the town who rely on Sakamoto and what he does things for,
and, you know, we have some fun interactions with them, sprinkled in between or some, you know,
we have a relatively normal, uh, set piece or scenario which gets, uh, made, uh, turned into
something incredibly ridiculous because Sakamoto, Sakamoto has to battle and his friends have to
battle, uh, assassins there, like in a amusement park, like a tournament for a, uh, uh, a paintball tournament.
You know, stuff like that, uh, but it's, uh, it's super fun. And, you know, you always get new
assassins, then a lot of them, or some of them get turned into like, accomplices, friends, or neutral
people, like Sakamoto of course has, and you mentioned that this, this new code, um, that he is not
gonna kill people anymore. Sure looks like he still does in certain parts. Shut up, don't worry about it.
But apparently he doesn't, like he uses rubber bullets or a stun gun or he just, he's kind of like
going to Batman route, like he's definitely heavily crippling people, uh, but he's at least some of them,
but he's not killing them anymore. And so, all the assassins that come after him kind of get stay alive,
they just get tied up, or I don't know what even happens to them, do they? Do, do some of them
given over to the police? We never see this. We just see them tied up and then our gang leaving,
and it's like, okay, I guess they are, they're done. They're not gonna come after them anymore. But
that's how it, how it works, I guess. Yeah, like there was the pair twins where they saw him in
Bacho, where it's like, they should be dead. But they're, they're, they're, they're probably not,
don't worry about it, maybe. Yeah, it is pretty, I mean, the reason Sakamoto does this because,
of course, of his wife, he made a promise to her that he is gonna turn his back on the assassins,
the assesant is which he did, but then the assassin will come back, came back to him and he,
you know, has to protect him. He has to protect Shin. He has to protect some other characters. And
for that, he has to fight and he's trying to hide it from his wife for a while, but she's not stupid.
So she finds out and, you know, it's like, okay, but no killing, like we promised. But,
you know, it's fun that I expected them to be like, to try to, to string, you know, to keep this like
a secret from her through the entire show. And it's gonna get more and more ridiculous that she
doesn't find out. But it was kind of a nice surprise that she gets filled in like at the middle point
of the show and finds out. And then it's like, okay, I guess we have to deal with this. I'm fine as
long as you don't kill anyone, but we have to find a way to, for the, for the store not to,
to get demolished. And also if there are any damages from the fight, we have to make sure that
these are get, get fixed somehow. So she's very responsible in that regard. But it's, it's fun.
There's some fun interaction. And, you know, Hana, his daughter is, to some of the less dangerous
hitmen who like immediately get taken out by Sakamoto and Shen every time they enter the store.
She like brings like these, uh, the bandages and stuff. It's very cute.
So it's, they're taking it pretty like, like, I wish a good little girl. Yeah, Hana is a good little girl.
Daddy, don't you like the amusement park? Oh my god. It was so heavy.
But, um, yeah, so our, it takes it in, in stride, it's like, okay, we're going to deal with this. So
that was cool. It was a nice surprise. I like that that they didn't like try to string her along
for too long. And yeah, aside from Shen, we also get some other characters who get Lou Shaotang,
who's this, um, girl from a mafia family, but her whole family gets killed and she's hunted by,
as the last member of a family, I guess, by another group, a darn group or whatever. And you know, she
just by accident runs into Shen and Sakamoto and they help her out. And then she also becomes a
clerk in the store and do us a kind of like the three main guys like, uh, Lou also is very fun.
Also very stubborn, very stubborn, often very drunk. It's so, it's so, it's so, it's okay. Yeah, it's not always,
uh, she's okay. She can switch moods all the time. Like, she can be fun. She can be English. She can
be depressed. She can be a lot, a lot of, uh, drunk, uh, different types of drunk. So it's fun. Uh,
and then we also get, um, Hey ska and P ska, Hey ska is like this also washed up assassin. Like he,
he's a, this super talented sniper. You can use special bullets ricochet them off, uh, uh, stuff
and uh, it's really good at calculating a trajectory and stuff like that, but that is the only thing he
could do. So he wasn't much used to most of his employers, which is weird. Like, maybe do government
contract thing or something. Like, you think having a good sniper in your pocket would be. Yeah, but he's,
he isn't good and close, uh, quarter combat. He isn't good in really doing anything else aside from
being a sniper. So I guess that wasn't enough for a lot of people. So yeah, he's out of money and
just also runs into the gang. There's, because, you know, he learns that there's a one, uh,
billion yen bounty on Sakamoto, but he is very stupid. So he is a goof, but I mean, he's a, he's a goof,
but he's got his bird, but he, uh, to guide his shots. Yes. P ska is, uh, is very helpful. Not only that,
like he can apparently that is a very strong bird. Like he, that bird is able to carry like his
fucking case with the sniper, with the sniper rifle and everything and bring it when he needs it,
like, and ammunition. And it is a very strong bird. Like go piece, go holy shit. Uh, so, uh, yeah, he's,
he's, uh, he's a lot of fun. And he is not like fully employed and Sakamoto storing everything. He
just pops up occasionally, like to make some leftover pork buns or stuff like that or, you know, help them
out. Uh, he, in one episode, he helps, uh, fun, I find them and comes like in at the clutch moment
to help shinin and fight and stuff like that. So he's kind of like the wild cards on the side who
occasionally pops up to help out. And that's, that's his role. Um, yeah, the right. He's living in
a tent on rooftops that eventually got blown away. Feel bad for him on that art, but kind of expected
him to also get employed by Sakamoto, but then again, it's a small store. I feel like two clerks
are already, already pushing it. Yeah, are you gonna account for that much overhead in current
economy? Yeah, I don't. I mean, he's very popular, right? Like everyone in the town lost him,
so I, I would imagine he does make a good living. Uh, if, you know, it was frequent enough and not
one of his customers isn't by accident getting killed by, uh, by an assassin. Uh, yeah, we got
loo, we got hei skit and, you know, some other characters like from Sakamoto's old life, like
Sakamoto apparently was part of this elite task force called the order in the, uh, in the association
of assassins in the, in the JAA. And these characters also appear on occasion. Uh, we haven't met all of
them yet because apparently there are eight members, right? And we've only met four so far. And, uh,
so some of them fight, not all of them yet. I mean, technically all of them in the OP, which is very cool.
Uh, it's, it's a good jam. Uh, I'd like that we got a special ED for just for them in one episode.
That's right. And, uh, yeah, that's, uh, they're fun, like, they're, you know, of the same,
it's Sakamoto very powerful assassins, but they're also, you know, everyone have kind of specialized
weapon. One uses a hammer, one uses like knives, uh, another character who's like this Lolita,
got Lolita character. She uses, she uses a handy chainsaw, I guess. Not a chainsaw. What is it?
It's like, uh, like a bus, uh, bus. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a bus. You know, as you do,
Kira, no big deal. Yes. And they're allowed to kill people. So if you, if you, you two, uh, Sakamoto's
code, we're worried that they're not enough dead guys in this show, don't worry. They're not dead people.
Enough people getting killed left and right, both by the bad guys and the semi-good guys who are
still killers. So there's that something, something good guy with a gun. Mm-hmm. I think my favorite
from, uh, the order so far has been Nagumo because he's such a bullshitter like he's, yeah, he's
fucking with everyone all the time and in a really good way that it's not really obvious like he's
so good at that and that made me laugh every time you did that. This is a really, he's a really fun
character. Osuragi is fun because she's, she comes across as very cold and unfeeling, but then
when something catches her attention, it's like, yeah, it's just a very sudden turn. Yes, she's very like,
it's like very, uh, I don't know, uh, passive in a way and monosolific, but, uh, and always has
like this low-key tone to it and then suddenly like he said, oh, she's like very nice with certain
things. It's not like a, in overplayed reaction, it's just like a very, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's pretty, it's pretty fun. And yeah, uh, will, will meet more like there's one other character, uh,
who has like uses, I don't even know what he uses. This is like knuckle dusters.
Yeah, knuckle dusters are brass knuckles. Yeah, yeah, yeah, uh, but we have only, here I'm
talking it, we haven't seen him fight yet, oh, aside from the OP and apparently there are four more
people and one guy we haven't met at all who was heavily featured in the OP, which I assume we
would see in the second core, uh, might be Sakamoto's trainer, like a mentor, uh, I would, I would
assume considering he's, he's apparently a very old guy, uh, with a, with a sword. I feel like
that he's probably the, the head of the order or whatever and, uh, maybe, uh, was also Sakamoto's
mentor. We'll see. We'll find out eventually. But, um, eventually, I mean, as of this recording,
the show starts back up again in like two weeks. Yes, there's also like, that's a very rare thing,
usually when we have, uh, shows that are so close, like only have like a one-season break. Uh, we,
we wait until the second core is aired because that makes more sense, but in this case, when I was
like, yeah, this, this is a, we need more shared reviews. So it makes sense to already review this and,
um, but yeah, technically once, once you, once you, the fun show to talk about and watch, uh, exactly.
Yeah. And, uh, you know, technically when, when you're done listening to this, if you haven't already
watched the first season, don't, don't want to still do that, but also even if you haven't, like,
you can probably considering editing time and everything when this will be released, you might be
able to just jump into the second core and continue from, from there on. Uh, but yeah, uh, so,
the, like I said, most of the, uh, stuff is pretty basic, like we get all these, uh,
assessments. And then we hear that there's like this, aside from the main drive being about
he put on a soccer motto's head by someone. We also hear about, uh, some kind of person or
organization going around and killing assessments from the JAA staff left and right. And the order is
trying to find out who that is. This person called slur, uh, just marked everything that that,
but my, my, my suspicion is that the real identity of, uh, slur is Elon Musk because that dude is
obsessed with the letter X. Whoa, don't say no. What's it? Every fucking where, like on people,
like on, on walls, but everyone, we'll see, we'll find out, um, that I think this.
But yeah, he apparently has some connection to soccer motto and he's, we find out later, it's also
putting the bound, uh, is the one who put the bounty on soccer motos had a parent. Uh, for some
reason, uh, we don't know what his beef with soccer motto is yet. Maybe because he's the only one,
uh, the soccer was the only one who, uh, he couldn't like beat or whatever, uh, who was always
better than him, something like that. But also maybe there's, there's more interesting motivation. We'll
find out, we haven't found out, we have barely met slur yet. But when we did, it's what,
that was an introduction and was very scary, but yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He, he seems to be, uh,
a tough enemy to beat, but I think it will be a while until we get there. But that seems to be
the main drive. I don't know how long that particular arc will last. Like if he's gonna stay the main
bad guy for the entire series, I feel like they're already making big moves towards, uh, you know,
him already being revealed in this core and everything. And uh, I feel like they're already moving
in the direction of facing him at that some point, maybe at, even at the end of the next core. But
we'll see, maybe, maybe he's only there for one arc, maybe he's the big overarching bad guy for the
rest of the season, considering the manga is still going, I don't know, uh, how long they can stretch
that out. Yeah, I wonder about that. Yeah, we'll see. But, uh, yeah, uh, the bounty kicks things into
gears and it's the main drive of the show and the hunt for slur and those paths at some point,
collide and become one path, I guess, because it's the same person who put the bounty on
Sakamoto's also the person that they order something and whatever and they're gonna try to find out who
that character is. Uh, and so far, Sakamoto, it doesn't seem like, I don't know, has Shin told him about
him? Like, uh, I feel like if he described slur to Sakamoto that would maybe ring a bell for him,
and he would talk about it, but it feels like it hasn't happened yet. Like, we didn't have the talk
with you. Listen, there's this one guy and apparently he's out for you or whatever, or, uh,
I don't even see, right? So we'll see, we'll see, uh, whenever that gets revealed and those two
characters face each other. But already at the end of this core, we get like new four scary,
psycho, psychopaths, hitman, all with different killing specialities and immediately from the
character designs is evident who does what. So, uh, so that's gonna be next. And, uh, yeah, I'm
looking forward to that. Speaking of like killing and everything and, and, um, fights and stuff,
what did you think about the, the, the, the fights and the animation quality in this show in general?
Like, where are you? Oh, this, this looks really good. We're like, oh, this is all right. Or where did
you come down? What side of the fence? I mean, I feel like TMS just kind of threw themselves whole hog
at this because I don't, I can't remember a moment where I was like, yeah, I know that that doesn't
look like particularly good. I was just like, dang, pretty much most of the way through like,
holy, I feel like it's not an absolute Sakuga fest, like something you would, uh,
associate with a really good show from, I don't know, Mapa or maybe bones or metals or something
like that or a studio with, for example, right? Yeah, but it's not TMS is sort of a different type of
correct. Yes. It feels like they're, they're like a very workman like studio when it comes to what
they put out and everything, but always on a pretty, at least the shows we covered on a pretty
high quality level, like a very high baseline. Doesn't divert from that too much. You neither have
shows that episodes that go completely overboard and look absolutely amazing when compared to
other episodes, but you also don't have like complete clusterfacts, where it's like, what happened here,
right? Which, this, this, it's a C team work on that. So they get a very strong baseline and I
feel Sakamoto is definitely one of their best stuff and animation quality wise. We've seen so far.
Yeah, it was, it was strong and it was consistent throughout. Yeah, very consistent. Like when we were
talking about you will blot the last time consistency is, is, is best to me. Like if you can't deliver on
like your Sakuga Fest from top to bottom, then you know, do the best you can and make it look
consistent throughout. Yes. In this show does that, you know, it, it looks pretty good, but you know,
that's fine. It doesn't need to be, every show doesn't need to be a billion yen budget
per episode. That's unsustainable and we've talked about this and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
But you know, just make it look as good as you can in hold that level quality. Yeah. And I was surprised
like when I learned that TMS is doing is like, okay, this is, this is first I thought this is weird
because this feels like the new big shonen jump thing and so I expect would expect them to
seek one of their, you know, one of the bigger actions show studios on this right now. And then I was
like, no, I guess a lot of this also takes place in a more like, low key environment, like maybe
it's more comedy, heavy and it's mostly gonna be like a joke series and there is no need for elaborate
animation. So I was actually surprised when there's so much more fighting in this than I expected.
Is a very action have you show? I did not expect that I expected them to fight like to be sprinkled
in between and Sakamoto taking them out like in a couple of seconds, right? And he does that too
with certain assassins, but some of the finds last long and we have multiple fronts which
chin is fighting one enemy, Sakamoto's fighting one enemy, Lewis fighting one enemy, you know, then
he's gonna maybe join the fight and helps out or someone from the order. So multi-layered fights and,
you know, different, always different set pieces is not like what I expected it all to take place in
the store, especially considering that the store also has like this fucking weapon store hidden,
inside of it, right? Matrix shit. And it's about to say yes, I need a weapon. Yes, exactly. So it's like,
hey, it's gonna be that like there's always, you're always gonna discover something new about this
store where where Sakamoto has hit in a different weapon or something like that or he's gonna make use
of a new thing that he sells in the store to beat the assassins that are coming. And that would have
also been fun in its own right and would I would have expected, oh yeah, that makes sense to
have TMS do it is, but no, they it's definitely like it's changing a lot of the scene is changing a lot,
the set pieces change a lot. There's the fights are very different and varied in terms of what
they do in the fights. I mean, of course you get your stand kick and punching and so on, but
due to Shin being able to read minds, they employed that heavily, but in very different ways,
like there's like a fight where Shin can see and Sakamoto is basically remote piloting in by telling him
what he needs to do through like they have very good latency, they have very good net code. They
roll back in kind of nothing, there's no delay whatsoever. It's amazing. That scene was so cool.
Yes, it was very cool and fun. I expected Sakamoto to be the one who would end up in the bunny suit,
right, but it was fun. It was Shin and then we had like this them viewing that as like this performance
piece and everything is really cool. Like I like that a lot and they do more stuff with Shin's mind
reading and what he can do and what he can't do and how that can be disabled in a way and how it is
really helpful and when it isn't. It's a bit wonky in parts because at some point, as Shin says,
he has to concentrate to actually read minds, but then there's also when they go into his background,
the it feels like he can always passively read minds anyway or hear people's minds all the time.
I guess it's more like he can always hear the minds of the people around him and what the thoughts and
what you know of the people around him, but if he wants to listen to a specific person, he has to
concentrate. I think that's how it works. Like he's white noise probably and he like can grab pieces
of certain thoughts, you know, passively and hear stem. Like if you're standing in a crowd,
right and there's chatter around you, you pick up certain pieces of conversations and I think
that's the way his mind reading works when he's not actively concentrating, but in fights and so on,
he needs to concentrate if he wants to actually employ his powers. So, you know, that comes with
its downsides and he needs to account for that and accommodate that in certain ways. So that's
interesting. So he's not like this super overpowered character because he can read minds because there are
some weak points. There's some downsides to these powers. So that's cool. I like that it helps equalize
him a bit. Yes, I mean, otherwise Sakamoto would be only one also, maybe like, but I was worried
that Shin would only be like, okay, he now becomes the dude on the side of Sakamoto who helps out,
but isn't really finishing any fight, but no, he's like a very integral part in some of the fights
and actually the one who beats the assassins because Sakamoto is busy otherwise or, you know, has
has maybe another problem that he needs to solve or whatever and Shin is on his own and,
you know, I guess the same could be said about Blue, although she is not as good of a fighter as Shin is.
Like she's a good fighter, especially when she gets drunk, but, you know, she's not the powerhouse
that Shin is Sakamoto, powerhouse that Shin is Sakamoto or, but, you know, she's she's fun regardless
and does her part in same forehaste, even though he can only be a good sniper, but that is worth a lot
depending on the situation. So that's that's neat and that keeps the fights varied, right? That's fun
and there like I said, there's this fight on one of my favorites was to fight on the roller coaster
against the poison guy, forgot his name, was really cool just the way Shin uses his power and the
multi-st, the different, different stages and where that ends up, which is the, the, the, the remote
piloted stuff like we said, like that was a really cool, well structured, varied fight. I like that a lot
and if you have an interest, an interestingly staged fight like that, you don't need like the best
animation in the business to keep you entertained and to be like, wow, wow, wow, wow, so that, that
worked very well and the show has a lot of that stuff. So I, I have nothing to complete really about
the action scenes. There's some cool camera pans in there as well, some cool, I don't think if there's
a really good tracking shot in there, but there's definitely some good editing and some good camera
pans in this show that I also didn't expect. So yes, action-wise, this is definitely, and especially
considering that I didn't expect this show to have this much action in it, like it's just in
pretty much almost every episode, like the last two are more of a, of a goof thing that is not
really action focused, and which, you know, if this was like the end of a, of a proper season,
there would be a bit weird to end it there, but you know, it's just took a break and it's going to
continue from there. So I love that in the second episode, Sakamoto is reading a shirt that just
is tired and I'm just like, boy, I need to buy that shirt and wear it tomorrow and be made. Yeah,
but yeah, um, yeah, I think they're going to have plenty of material for adaptation moving forward
because looking at manga chapters, it looks like they got to about, in chapter 35, 36, and there
are currently 218. Woof, okay. And I think TMS is also one of the studios that is
not as overbooked, right? In terms of projects that we might actually get very frequent releases
of this show. Like I can see them doing, like we have now one season break, then maybe a two season
break, then maybe one season break against stuff like that, they're there, they're, like I said,
TMS is our workhorse is so I can imagine us getting a steady stream of Sakamoto seasons in, you know,
in the coming years would be nice. Yeah, I mean, I think they had
some like Lupon special recently, they hit, yeah, there wasn't TV special with Zedigata as the main character,
I think. Oh, for cards and to girlfriend season for, uh, did you cross that bridge when I come to it?
And yes, I did forget, for a brief moment, I was happy.
That's probably going to be for another quick edit that, which we didn't have today,
but yeah, keep that in mind. I mean, you know, there's always season five around the corner.
I think it's supposed to be a two-core season.
Ah, well, there you go. So, I mean, interesting at Wikipedia, listen to this 12 episodes,
but it happens split-courses. So just call it the number of season it is, man.
Yeah. I mean, you know, I don't even know who decides that.
Like, I think it's, I don't even know if that's something we try to put on to a season,
and in Japan, it's just a different, I don't know, a different term in general,
but also sometimes in the Japanese, uh, you know, promo art for the show you then,
cc's one, season two, I don't know what they do when it's just, you know, part one, part two,
or whatever, or a core if they even show that, or if it's just TV one, TV two, I don't know.
I, yeah, I forget exactly how they don't initiate it, but,
yeah, I just, I'm like, okay, you could, you could call it what it is, and I would appreciate that,
but, you know, okay. I check next season. We definitely have like, we have, they also have
Doctor Stone coming up as well. Yes, and that's right, right, Doctor Stone. That's also one of those
shows where it's like, yeah, very good baseline. Nothing super out of the like ordinary, it's like,
oh my god, this is absolutely stutter animation, but very good, very good stuff, very well directed,
great production values in terms of music, in terms of artwork, in terms of direction and everything.
So, yeah, they delivering good stuff, and I mean, for me, they will always be associated with one
of my favorite Western cartoons, or multiple of them, with, you know, Batman the animated
series and super many animated series and stuff, they worked on that. I forgot they had a large
hand in us, man, those shows were so good. Hey, I'm just going through them right now. I went through
Batman, I went through Superman, went to Batman Beyond, and they also directed pretty much everything
of Batman Beyond Return of the Joker, and that's an incredible looking movie. I've always heard
that I have not watched it to this day though. Have you watched the show though, like Batman Beyond the
Show? Not all of it, but in decent chunk when it was originally on TV. I recommend you watch that
movie. I mean, if you're familiar with Batman, Terry McKinnis, Batman Beyond as a character,
you can watch that movie either way regardless. It's a very dark movie though, especially
that's what I hear. Yes, yes, and free recently you had to make sure that you get the uncut version,
if you want to have good movie experience, but I think the cut version is not even available anymore.
Like on Blu-ray and whatever. But yeah, depending on how you might come across this, make sure
that it's the uncut version because that's very important. Otherwise, you're not getting the full
experience. But yeah, that's great. And now I'm on Justice League. Now I'm on Justice League, and
TMS didn't work on that anymore as far as I know. But yeah, they also worked on, I think they worked
on Galaxy Rangers and definitely some other Western cartoon stuff. I don't know if they worked on
ThunderCats. I don't think so, but definitely on the Batman Superman on the DCAU stuff and on Galaxy Rangers.
Yeah, I don't know, but people from my age might be familiar with that shit. That was my jam,
just like, you know, yeah, that one I don't think I... I'll show you the intro you might have seen
that because it's got a very cool soundtrack and everything. It's your typical Western and space thing.
And yeah, so next to the Saber Rider and I guess stuff like Firefly and Outlaw Star.
That one I know. Yeah, so it's along those lines and a lot of the Western cartoons from those days
just had at least their OPs animated in Japan and TMS animated this shit out of the OP to Galaxy
Rangers and they also did some episodes. So at least some of them, if not all of them, I'm not sure.
But yeah, so tangent, but yeah, we do those sometimes. Yeah, we do those sometimes. So getting back to
Sakamoto, there is not much more to say about this. Like, it's just a very fun show. It's highly
entertaining. It's very funny. A lot of good jokes in there. A lot of good fights in there.
Even a fight in a house of Horrord, which I don't know if that was super responsible to take such a small
young child like Hana into a fucking spooky house. I don't know, is that normal? I'm not a father.
I don't intend to be and I don't know if that is a good idea. I mean, I guess if you're cool parent,
I am. Yeah, I have no idea. I feel like Hana was barely like, she's barely elementary school age.
If all, I feel like she feels like a preschooler and to bring her in the house with zombies and
everything, it's scary. I don't know. I feel like that would have been too intense for her,
but she had fun apparently. She was like, "Oh, that's so scary."
Some kids gravitate to process stuff. Yes, so much.
So different than it comes back as trauma later.
Well, or you know, or not, or people get obsessed with it, right? Like, my parents try to
keep me away from horror for a while. At least my dad did. But I was super curious about it and it turns
out I really like that shit. So eventually I just gravitated to that naturally, like, aside from
watching Terminator 2, to way too early, alien way too early, and that shit just worked for me.
And he could try. He didn't allow me to watch Jurassic Park when it hit theaters even though I was already
12. And movies fine. Yeah, but it still has kills, right? It has a 7-4.
Yes. Yes, but yeah, my dad was very... He was very much against violence in movies and TV
and games. So my mom was more open. Your father was probably good about that, then, to be honest.
Yeah, but my mom was more like, "So what the... She and my step-derm was like, we're like,
he's 11. Should he be... Should he watch Alien? If he gets nightmares, we know it was the wrong
this shit. And I didn't. So I guess they worked it out and it was fine. And I'm still a big
core of these days and I like much. Not all of it. Here's some parts of that genre that I don't like,
but I like the cool creatures shit. And I've always gravitated to that. And, you know, like,
terminate it, like Alien, like stuff like that. So, yeah, that works. Another tangent. Anyway,
I feel like House of Horror, when I thought what they're checking or in there, I was a bit surprised,
but she apparently liked it. So that was fun. Yeah. And aside from that, it will be very interesting
to see what the next chorus/season whatever brings in regards to the identity of slur, right? That
is the big, like, looming mystery and thing that, you know, we now know what the stakes are.
You know, it's the bounty on Sacramento's head. We know who put the bounty on his head. We know that
he's already contracted several more killers. Psycho's has to hit the scene in the next core.
And yeah, that's going to be the main drive of the show to find out what slurs deal is, I feel like.
Oh, that relates to Sakamoto's past life and everything. And how much his family will be involved,
like, Aoy and Han, I have not been in direct danger really yet. Like, they haven't been taking
hostage or anything. Like, I guess in the amusement park section with, uh, with the world and everything,
but also not really, not really herring or something like that yet. It's not, not in a really disturbing
way or stuff like that. I wonder if that will happen because I don't think slur cares much about
them being like, uh, collateral damage. So we'll see, we'll see what happens here. But I feel like the
tone of the show right now, even though maybe the manga catch did some darker stuff before is very
light. It's very goofy. It's very fun. Even though there is Sessan involved and a lot of people are
getting killed left and right. It's a very, very like light and fun show and Joby show. And I think it's
going to stay that like if you're looking for something serious, John Wick anime, something like that,
you're not going to get this out of this, but you're going to get plenty of fun. Like it's a very,
very easily digestible show. So yeah, I don't know who not to recommend this to like if you're like
super edge Lord, who's like, oh, what all my action stuff, dark and heavy and I want it all to be
like super serious. Yeah, then this shit is not for you, but also why, why do you hate fun?
Why do you hate your life? So I feel a little fun. Have a little fun. Have a little fun.
Good times. And yeah, so yeah, watch this show quickly if you haven't yet because the next
course right around the corner, like we said, it's only like at the time of from the time of this
recording is going to be the first episode of the next course going to air in 15 days. So or 16.
Get on it. Get on it. And yeah, since we basically breeze through the entire season and
spot the shit out of it for you, not everything, but most of it, you can also decide, I just
going to jump into core two and that's probably going to be fine because I feel like this show is
not that story heavy that you're missing anything. If you if the summary is enough for you, but also
you would be missing a lot of cool fights, a lot of funny jokes. So watch the first core two,
like we did. And yeah, we're definitely going to check out the next one. That's for sure. And
I'm glad to hear there's so much manga material left. So I hope I'm going to be able to live on a
steady diet of Sakamoto days for coming or the coming anime season. We'll see, but it's not like we
don't have enough other stuff to watch to. So I need stuff in a couple need stuff in summer season,
not a whole, but you know, there's some neat stuff in there. So it would be supplemented with other fun
things. Yes, absolutely. And yeah, if you want to watch Sakamoto days, it's on Netflix.
It's a Netflix show. And yeah, we'll see what the next season brings. But they're doing weekly
releases like they should. And yes, thank you. It's hope they're going to keep that going,
not switch it around for one of the course. No, no, we're going to go back to the two
the season to the to the batch releases. We'll see. But yeah, fun show, super fun show, super entertaining,
lighthearted, good stuff, goofy, wacky, and generally good time. Before we get to the next season,
actually, there is one more thing for this season we have to do.
Best of the season. All right, best of the season, John, you watched three shows, I watched four shows,
slightly different shows. We had some overlap. We had some overlap in the form of Dragon Ball
Diamond Sakamoto days, definitely. If I could have gotten myself to do it, maybe also, we will blood,
but that didn't pen out. So, but that's fine too. So what is, what do you feel? What is your,
what is your favorite this season? What is the thing that was like, okay, this is this hit home
the most for me from the shows I watched? It's like trying to pick my favorite child. Maybe,
maybe not, but who well, blood was fun. I mean, it was definitely harkening back to an older age
anime and it's definitely it's inspirations, but I don't know if it's ever going to get a second season
with, with satellites track record nowadays, which is unfortunate, but I'd like to see more of it,
like see more of Sakugan would like to see the conclusion to help, but since they have three open books
in the bookmark is where, in the bookmarks are where they are. I don't know, so I like, I liked it for
what it was in spite of its shortcomings, but you see, see, see, see, my heart. Sakamoto days, it's fun.
Well, the anime, they've got great cast of characters is pretty goofy, it's, you know, just fun,
it's all the stuff we just talked about less than five minutes ago. And it's coming back in two weeks,
so I feel like there's space for this to have its chance again, because if they keep going with
the adaptation, this could keep going for a while if the story is kept fresh. So, you know,
you know, I think this is a very strong second place. Absolutely. So, you know, that leaves Dragon
Paul Dima and it was great. It was a great return to form, you know, kind of pushing aside what super
tried to do and you know, it didn't, you know, super is good, but it's not, it's just, it's not what
this was. It wasn't the adventure, it wasn't the whimsy, it wasn't, you know, the silly goofy stuff
from the original Dragon Ball that they sort of kind of gradually got away from super was
just more Dragon Ball Z technically. Yeah, pretty much. So, there's a comment flash right now on
Keatsu that says we get a true Dragon Ball, a canon Dragon Ball GT before GTA 6, which, yeah.
And, you know, there's also the things to talk about is the last in that Torium I touched. So,
sadly. But, yeah, it was a good, a good, good by-present. So, it was great. It was fun. It was an
nostalgic. So, I feel like it was probably my pick for this season. Very good, very good pick.
Definitely up there for me as well. A little fun with Dragon Ball Dima, you know, nice,
low-key adventure. Like, I haven't watched the original Dragon Ball in the last two years, I think.
But, I was always in one way, I was always more fond of that than Z. Don't get me wrong. I like Z,
but that wasn't my introduction to Dragon Ball. For a lot of people, Dragon Ball Z was their Dragon Ball
because that was how they started the show. A lot of them haven't even watched the original show.
But, for me, I read the manga by way of a friend who was collecting them. I read the manga and
started thus with the original Dragon Ball story and then watched the anime adaptation of that,
after the fact. And then, only then, I watched the, I caught clips of Z before. We talked about this
when we talked about Super, maybe about Dima, I'm not sure on French TV when I was on vacation,
there, in some, it caught immediately caught my eye because it was so special in terms of design
and everything, nothing like anything I've ever seen before. But, I didn't watch that show.
I only watched it, you know, after I watched the original Dragon Ball. So, nostalgia wise,
my feelings will always be more connected to that version of Dragon Ball.
So, I was so happy that Dima successfully, key difference to GT,
went back to that tone. It not entirely, like it's, you know, the original Dragon Ball was still
different in certain parts. It was more, you know, even more joky than this is in certain.
Of course, the cast has as vans and so on, you know, that, that old show, built all of that stuff up.
And now, in Dima, that is already established. But, just in general, what it was trying to do, it was
it was a lot closer to the original show that anything we had gotten in recent years or decades.
And so, I really enjoyed it. I was really happy with it. I liked it a lot. I wouldn't mind
to have another throwback like that again, though I doubt they will do that. That felt like, it feels
like it was this one time thing that maybe Toriyama just wanted to do is, like, let's try to do what GT
was trying to do, but wasn't successful in doing. Let's have this fun adventure plot.
And I feel like now that he's gone, the only thing we're gonna get from now on is probably more
super, you know, probably manga adoption stuff, if we get anything more like that. Which, hey,
I don't mind that. I loved Super, at least the later parts of it. I loved the tournament of power.
I thought that was fucking fun. And I loved the movies. I loved the Broly movie and everything. That's
just the action that is insanely entertaining. I loved the movie Super Hero. It was with the two.
So, yeah, I'd love to see more of that, but I really also liked Daima.
I still want a remake of Dragon Ball. Introduce the youngers, the people who skipped it.
Yes, reintroduce it. Do that. There's space to do that. Yeah, absolutely. And even if you only do
a kiivrish, but also I would like to see a proper remake with the Toriy's current production values.
Like just do it. And they're doing that for one piece and we'll see how that will pen out.
Which, you know, so CS that is still running, which is ridiculous, but, you know, why not also do it
for the probably biggest John John property after one piece as well.
Original Dragon Ball definitely deserve it. And like I said, they might do that after most of
the original cast is gone because then they feel like they can do that without disrespecting them
if they don't, you know, employ them for that. And yeah, we'll see. Maybe that will happen. Maybe not.
Maybe in our lifetime, maybe not, but it would be cool. But yes, Dima, a lot of fun.
Definitely up there for me probably third or second place, probably second. I enjoyed
sensual lot. The unexpected isekai. I expected a work comedy. I got an isekai story, but it was a
special one because, you know, throwing an animator into world stemming from their favorite animated movie
was definitely a nice shakeup of that formula. And I feel like there were some definitely some
interesting pieces and nice homages and references to other animated stuff. And while the story was
still kind of basic when compared to some of the other stuff we watched that was tackling the topic
of animation in or that I watched in the form of keep your hands off as again or that we watched in
the form of recreators who did a bit more interesting stuff in different ways with, you know, animation as
a topic for the actual show. I feel like this was, you know, a breeze to watch and very, very entertaining.
And yeah, I had a lot of fun with that. Definitely more than I expected. And the production values
for that were all of this world. Just mapa going all in was fucking ridiculous. So good times.
So I come out today's we just talked about it. Good, waky fun. Very light on the plot so far, but very
funny with plenty cool fights and colorful characters like I was entertained from beginning to end. I was
never bored and I was laughing a lot. And yeah, there was some really cool stuff in there as well. And yeah,
and definitely looking forward to the next season. Also definitely strong content like all of these,
all of these are very strong contenders for best of the season. If this season didn't have a little
show that could called metalist, which that show just grabbed me by the heart and didn't let go.
It's the perfect blend of underdog sports drama comedy and heartwarming coming of age story. You
also get too fantastic. Infinitely likeable protagonist for the price of one show. I love Inari.
I love Tsukasa and together they brought me so much joy and so few episodes. It's just an all
around great package. So far the only real downside I can even really think of is that I didn't get to
spend more time with them, but season two has been confirmed already. I hope this will be remedied soon.
No date announced yet, but it's coming apparently. So I I'm very happy to hear that because the
manga for that is also still running and would like to see a lot more of that. And yeah, if you like
sports anime or just good anime comfort food that lifts your spirits. This is the show for you.
And I I I'm so happy that I actually checked that out because it's just it's just good stuff man and it's
it's pulling at your heartstrings. It's giving you the feelings that you want and need and I'm
I'm so looking forward to more of that in the next season. Yeah. Good shit. Metalist absolutely
no doubt my best anime of the season and with that we have come to the end of another season here
on M.A. Brain Freeze. We will be back shortly because like we already said, the summer primis are
already dropping as we speak. Definitely already one show I want to check out for the sneak peak and
we will talk about plenty of them next time in that segment. So stay hydrated and treat yourself to
some ice cream which I plan to do after this recording. Talk to you soon. Adios folks. Take care everybody.
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