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Hello and welcome to an all new episode of Anime Brinfries.

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We are your former Assassin's third podcast hosts.

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I am Jon.

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And I am C.C. and when there's just too much cool anime to watch, we've got you covered.

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Today we will dive headfirst into the life of a normal family man with anything but

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in our review of the new action comedy hit Sakamoto Days.

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And since it's our season finale, we of course will pick our winners for best anime of the season.

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So, grab your apron and self defense broom, make sure to wear your bulletproof glasses

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and definitely don't pause the pod, we'll be right back!

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The name Tarou Sakamoto once instilled fear in every villain.

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No other professional hitman matched his prowess.

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And fellow assassins revered him, however, Sakamoto fell in love.

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In five short years he married, became a father, put on some weight,

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and treated his weapons for an apron as he became the owner of a humble convenience store.

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Although Sakamoto is decidedly retired, he finds his whole life of crime hard to shake off.

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His former partner, Shina Asakura, a brief appears and resolves to stay with Sakamoto's family

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under their strict no-kill rule. To make matters worse, a large bounty is placed on Sakamoto's head.

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Numerous assassins now pursue him, but they are in for a surprise.

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Sakamoto has not lost his edge, and no matter what tricks his enemies pull, he will fight off

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every last one to protect his dear family.

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Big shout out to MAL rewrite for that summary.

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So Sakamoto's is the latest from our friends at TMS who we have spoken on several times before.

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Usually in conjunction with the reviews of the Loupon, yes.

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Was directed by one Masaki Watanabe who's done some directorial work.

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Big stuff outside of this show in particular is battle spirits,

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which I think is supposed to be a tie-in with the card game.

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Yeah, let's go.

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Sorry.

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Did you hide?

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I just light up on what was that?

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No, it was just more about I'm looking at the promo and I was like,

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I feel like I've heard this name, but I'm not certain on it and then I look at it and

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when the character says what looks like a board in front of him with spots for cards.

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I'm like, yeah, oh, okay, yeah.

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I thought you'll sound like your card game sensor was just triggered or something.

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I smell a card game.

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Card games on motorcycles.

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Wait, but I feel like it's one of those names that I sort of had buried in the back of my head,

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but you know what, there's there's so many.

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There's a lot.

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And it looks like this show has been running for a while.

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Oh, geez.

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There's one, two, three, four, five, at least 10 entries on anime news networks.

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So wow, okay.

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Yes.

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I think I've never seen like one frame off that show.

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Like I said, I've seen the name and I think that's the beginning, middle and end of my interaction.

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The show is written by Taku,

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Taku, Kishimoto, who you spoke briefly about with Blue Lock,

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wrote a little bit of Fruit's Basket, which was fantastic, high cue.

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And then they've done some I think by our account, pretty good work.

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So has the manga's author, original author, done anything else besides Sakamoto,

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does I don't think so, right?

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Is there first author?

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Yeah, Yuto Suzuki, it looks like,

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looks like there's a spin off called Sakamoto Hala Days.

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I mean, sure, gotta do it.

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But it looks like that's pretty much with the long and short of what they have worked on.

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Yeah, just, you know, I think it was published and shown, jump, right?

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And became kind of an immediate hit.

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Yeah, the manga started in 2020 and it looks to be like, it's still running.

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I feel like this is a format that you could keep going for a while.

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Although I was surprised, it's not like it's super plot heavy or anything, definitely not.

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But there's more in there than I expected.

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And they're setting up a nice mystery and everything.

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So I was like, "Oh, okay, I expected this to be just like a work-ish comedy,

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where like every episode there's a new weird hitman that's gonna try to kill Sakamoto."

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And he and his new French friends are gonna protect the store from getting totally demolished and whatever.

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And they're gonna have all the fights and the facility of the store.

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That was what I imagined of what the show is gonna be.

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But it's slightly different.

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I mean, we get the color for the hitman.

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Definitely a lot of them.

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Yeah, they're probably the most fun part of the show.

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But it also, like, there's like, "Oh, there he is, a bit of mystery, background,

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for Sakamoto, especially in regards to the main villain who has been kind of revealed at the end of this first score,

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but not really like who he is.

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We just know he has a connection to Sakamoto.

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damage him, whatever, put a danton him, stand up to him, I don't know,

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like the only one who could beat him in some way or another.

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So there's that just to take that ahead of us, but we don't know anything more.

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And it was like, "Okay, this is, this is, there is more to chew."

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Then I expected, "Well, I'm getting ahead of myself."

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The staff wise, we also, of course, have to mention Yuki Hayashi again.

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Just talked about him in the review of "Metallist."

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And now we get him again in this.

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And I think this is definitely really good stuff from him this time.

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Like, there are a lot of really cool tracks.

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There's one in an episode where there's a battle on a roller coaster, where we hear a cool vocal

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equipped theme for the first time.

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That's really awesome.

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So really energetic soundtrack, as you would expect.

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Not as like, I mean, there is your usual Yuki Hayashi,

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triumphant symphonic opera thing happening at some point,

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but there are also some more, I don't know, some more fun beads,

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heavy tracks and stuff like that.

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So I enjoyed that.

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What did you think of the soundtrack, John?

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I thought it was, you know, great as he usually does.

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Definitely, he, uh, a little bit of the my hero feel in there, but, you know, that's,

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I don't think that's, it's definitely probably the best and known for now, but I mean,

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he had done some work on like the Gundam build stuff, which had a little bit of a similar-ish

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sound. There was, you know, very high energy, all throughout all of that.

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So, you know, there's a little bit of that in there as well.

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I still love, I think, I think I mentioned this in passing,

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that when they couldn't use compositions for Dragon Quest, the adventure of Die,

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the remake of it, that he just sort of went in there and was like, I'll just make a Dragon Quest

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soundtrack myself and it has that same emotion and energy.

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So, like, hi, I see his prune himself to be like very versatile and just a green composer.

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Yeah, but he's definitely more, I mean,

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there's this sound is for, he's most out.

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Yes, yes, this is definitely along the lines.

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Like you said, my hero academia, I like you like triumphant, a bit too triumphant in the beginning,

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because the first thing he see with, you know, in this show is the, the glory day is,

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quote unquote, of Sakamoto where he like goes to town on a bunch of assassin, goons, whatever,

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mafia people and just kills them left and right and in the background there is this triumphant,

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Yuki Hayashi score and you're like, there's a bit of a mismatch here, guys.

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It's like so super violent.

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That's fine, it's fine, don't worry about it.

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I mean, yes, he is the hero of the story, but he is also, you know, he was a bad guy.

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Like, yeah, I mean, at least when it comes to, if you want to call everyone that kills people

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a bad guy, which, you know, can be argued until he met the love of his life in a convenience store.

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So yeah, definitely sort of the team, the same spin on like, like a dragon or Yakuza,

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depending on which name you want to go with.

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Yeah, sure, sure, sure.

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I feel like, yeah, it's going a bit in that direction, but, you know, I don't even know, I mean,

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Yakuza is absolutely super goofy.

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So I guess, yeah, that's appropriate.

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That seems right.

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Just not, you know, someone who is still kind of affiliated, I guess, although he's,

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and also even though he's out of the, out of the business, he still has connections where he knows

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where to go for information and stuff like that.

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There's like this thing where he and his new friends are trying to, to, to garner some information

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about a certain bad guy or a group of people of bad guys and they go to this video store,

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video rental store and he's like, here, all the information about the underworld is stored in

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or as movies, like the way this is conveyed here is a bit like mission impossible, but, you know,

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not with self-destroying tapes or something like that, but it's like these, these self-made

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home, not home movies, but like they look kind of, you know, professionally made,

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but it's just like these movies only exist to convey certain information about certain people

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and the underworld and like, but they still have a plot, it's super funny, super funny idea,

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I really liked that. I was like, okay, you just have to watch this movie and get super engaged, although

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didn't, Sakamoto fell asleep, right? When he watched it, so that's great. But, Shin was there to take

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everything in? Yes, Shin was there, yeah, Lu also didn't really pay attention or she was too engaged

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or something like that. Yes, yes, we're already talking about characters, we haven't introduced it,

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so our main man, Taros Sakamoto, you already did plenty of legwork in the summary,

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and yeah, he was the super hitman, he was John Wick, right? That's what you can basically say if you

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want to do a comparison for people who might not be as intimate with, I don't know, standard

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anime access and stuff. It's funny because I guess Suzuki had spoken about his influences and said

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John Wick and like the equalizer were like direct inspirations and stuff from like Christopher Nolan,

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so like, yes, it makes absolute sense, like there are a bunch of references and there are also two

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kinds of movies like that, I guess, if you pay close attention and yeah, he's definitely that.

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Deep in the underground, just like the top assassin, like he said, he's admired by the students

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of the art and feared by his enemies and unbeaten, and then he just one day goes into a convenience store

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and meets a very, very pretty nice woman called Aoi and falls head over heels for her and yeah,

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duh, yeah, it's very cute, like he just completely is losing his facial features technically.

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It's not driven out of his nose because she is so goddamn adorable, I guess, and he just like,

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okay, fuck the assassin life, I'm gonna spend my life with that woman and that's what happens

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and then they have a daughter, Hannah, and he opens a mom and pop store in this little town that

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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

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and though that is not consistent throughout this core, yeah, the show is trying to have its cake

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I needed to, like there's some fights where Sakamoto is like, I'm burning calories during the fight,

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so I'm slimming down so the viewer also gets to see him kick ass, not only in his new chubby

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form, but also in his perfect old stays form, still wearing an apron and you know sandals and whatever,

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but you know, a man who can do both, yeah, I guess, and but yeah, you not only get the the the

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fat Sakamoto so to speak, but also the slim one and this, it's of course not realistic, but it's

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and the show actually comments on that chin, of course, it's like that that's not how that works

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so the show is aware that's bullshit, but you know, they I guess they want to do that so you can still

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see see him kick some ass in his old form, although I don't know if I did we need that John, like I

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feel like he is, was plenty bad, is plenty bad as even when he is, you know, in his normal form.

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I mean, it was well established to begin with and then when he seems like, oh look at how fat

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and old he is, he's all washed up and he's just like out there busting a moon, no promise, like,

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I don't know, no, no, okay, yeah, you can still do the thing, you're doing the thing.

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I guess they they wanted to do this, nothing to have some for him, for him to have a way to power up

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because otherwise he's on the constant level of unbeatable, right? I have to come down to your level

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and say, yeah, but you know, they wanted to have a bit of a thread in there from other assassins

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and outside of putting his teammates into danger, the only thing I guess they were able to do were like

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he is not in top physical form while he is still, you know, why he's still fat so

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that when he when he put a dozen of exercise by fighting bad guys, he's limps down and then he gets

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more powerful, which, okay, all right, that's fine, that's funny, but you know, most of the time he is

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in in his new bigger form and it's fun, like, we opened this this this show by an alter quaintance or

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admirer, student partner, I didn't have worked before together, right? Like she is only in the same

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organization, the, what are they called, they JAA, I forgot what that stood for. I think it was the

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Japanese Association of the Assassins. Yes, right, exactly. And you know, everyone has heard of

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Sakamoto. I don't know if they encountered each other before, but she's definitely a fan and he gets

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contracted to kill Sakamoto and he's like entering the store and shaking out of the, oh my god, he

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looks so, you know, like you said, washed up and everything, he can't be a threat, and then quickly

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he notices, oh shit, the man still got it, is super happy about it, shaking his car happy,

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jamming his head against the steering wheel out of pure joy, that was a nice visual

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joke when the woman runs a passive with a chat, don't look because you know, it's a shaking car,

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it's a sex show. So, it's very funny, but, you know, he definitely got turned on in one way or another,

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but he's he's very happy that his idol still got it even though he doesn't look the part,

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and he decides to, you know, not kill him because when he fights Sakamoto, he loses,

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by way of, I don't even know how Sakamoto takes him out, this is with a like a cough drop or something,

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or no, that happens at the beginning to deflect the shins bullet. I forgot why he takes him out,

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but shins gets beaten by him and then he gets the taste of Sakamoto family life, the good cooking of

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oil, which is what led obviously to Sakamoto's current form, her cooking is so good that, and he enjoys

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these moments, and the family dinner so much that, you know, he became a very good eater. And,

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yeah, so, shins gets to experience that, an experience which he apparently never really had, because he

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grew up in the lab technically, because he was an experiment to give people psychic powers, like

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Esper, make them Esper's, so far, so far, as we've learned the only successful experiment,

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but yeah, he's a psychic, he can read minds. He is so enamored with Sakamoto's family life,

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and that Sakamoto obviously is trying everything to protect his new family and everything that he's

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like, I'm not going to kill him, it goes back to his contractors and is even willing to die himself

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technically, but, uh, Sakamoto makes sure that that doesn't happen, that they fight off the bad guys

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and she becomes a clerk in Sakamoto's shop, obviously. The ultimate fate, we're worse than death.

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I shouldn't even be here. Yeah, so clerks, um, then, uh, he, uh, yeah, and from there on, we go,

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there is more characters added to the mix later on, we can talk about them a bit later, but, uh, yeah,

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that's pretty much the setup, and then more and more assets roll into town, because quickly, after

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the second or third episode, I'm not sure, I think at the end of the second episode, a bounty is put

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on Sakamoto's head, and he is, uh, one, is it one billion yen? Right, yes? That's one billion.

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Okay. Yeah, so, um, uh, and then more and more assets roll into town, not always capable ones,

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I mean, yeah, I mean, the small fry with no names, obviously, yeah. Yeah, but they're funny too,

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like janitor man, and that pizza guy who uses pizza cutters as weapons. That's right, forgot about that,

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dude. So, you know, Canon fodder like that, but we also have some very capable ones, and all of them

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have a special gimmick that is very fun, like, um, uh, there are some, some assassins, like a duo,

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I forgot what their names were, one is boiled, the other one, uh, other one was,

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Obiguro? Obiguro, yes, they're like this, this Bonnie and Clyde duo kind of, and they have like this

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really kind of fun, kind of cute dynamic, and Bald is obviously trying to be like this hard boiled

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killer and, uh, his connection with Sakamoto and why he, why he has a B4 them is really funny,

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and stupid. Talk about a tenuous, uh, best connection. Yeah, but, you know, they,

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like all of all of these characters have life kind of a fun, fun gimmick and fun powers to an extent,

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and, you know, it gets crazy and crazy, and we move on definitely a lot of people that have something

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like superpowers or legit superpowers. I mean, Shin is a psychic, so he's the first one to enter.

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The picture in that regard, but we also get some crazy stuff like a doctor who injects himself with

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all kind of weird shit and can implant you with like chips that, that's shit to you, that

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do shit to you, like make you, uh, not being able to speak anymore properly because your fucking

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sense is get reversed. Oh man, out of all of them, I think that one may be the most uncomfortable, man.

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Yeah, he is. He's just going to casually inject myself of those, I'm just like,

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yeah, so we give, I, I don't know, John, I feel like, uh, what was the reindeer guy?

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Also not very, yeah, yeah, not very comfortable about around him. He's like the cyborg dude and

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wears a reindeer at all the times, like, it's kick, you know, sonop cuts all over his body because like,

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he's mostly machine, but he's very uncomfortable, but also entertaining. Yeah, I, I guess, uh,

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Suzuki had a penchant for originally writing like these dark one shot stories, so uh, it definitely

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believes through with some of these gangsters, just interesting enough. Yeah, but that's super fun

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because considering how whole sum Sakamoto days is in terms of a story, you know, of course,

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with an edge, right? Because former assassin and everything, but it's kind of like, you know,

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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,

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on a John Wigg movie basically. And it's making fun of the whole thing from beginning to end,

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like it's, it's, it's jabbing so, it's taking, it's taking so many jabs at that kind of, at that

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genre of movie/TV show, uh, and all the character tropes and story tropes and everything. So, uh, it's

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funny that he like did the serious stuff first and then was like, ah, let's make it fun guys.

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Okay. And that then was the super successful thing. So that's cool.

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But yeah, uh, and that is kind of the whole season technically. Like, like I said, it is,

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it is kind of what I assumed it would be. Like, we have this, you know, normal environment of the store,

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and, you know, all the people in the town who rely on Sakamoto and what he does things for,

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and, you know, we have some fun interactions with them, sprinkled in between or some, you know,

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we have a relatively normal, uh, set piece or scenario which gets, uh, made, uh, turned into

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something incredibly ridiculous because Sakamoto, Sakamoto has to battle and his friends have to

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battle, uh, assassins there, like in a amusement park, like a tournament for a, uh, uh, a paintball tournament.

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You know, stuff like that, uh, but it's, uh, it's super fun. And, you know, you always get new

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assassins, then a lot of them, or some of them get turned into like, accomplices, friends, or neutral

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people, like Sakamoto of course has, and you mentioned that this, this new code, um, that he is not

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gonna kill people anymore. Sure looks like he still does in certain parts. Shut up, don't worry about it.

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But apparently he doesn't, like he uses rubber bullets or a stun gun or he just, he's kind of like

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going to Batman route, like he's definitely heavily crippling people, uh, but he's at least some of them,

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but he's not killing them anymore. And so, all the assassins that come after him kind of get stay alive,

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they just get tied up, or I don't know what even happens to them, do they? Do, do some of them

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given over to the police? We never see this. We just see them tied up and then our gang leaving,

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and it's like, okay, I guess they are, they're done. They're not gonna come after them anymore. But

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that's how it, how it works, I guess. Yeah, like there was the pair twins where they saw him in

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Bacho, where it's like, they should be dead. But they're, they're, they're, they're probably not,

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don't worry about it, maybe. Yeah, it is pretty, I mean, the reason Sakamoto does this because,

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of course, of his wife, he made a promise to her that he is gonna turn his back on the assassins,

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the assesant is which he did, but then the assassin will come back, came back to him and he,

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you know, has to protect him. He has to protect Shin. He has to protect some other characters. And

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for that, he has to fight and he's trying to hide it from his wife for a while, but she's not stupid.

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So she finds out and, you know, it's like, okay, but no killing, like we promised. But,

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you know, it's fun that I expected them to be like, to try to, to string, you know, to keep this like

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a secret from her through the entire show. And it's gonna get more and more ridiculous that she

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doesn't find out. But it was kind of a nice surprise that she gets filled in like at the middle point

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of the show and finds out. And then it's like, okay, I guess we have to deal with this. I'm fine as

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long as you don't kill anyone, but we have to find a way to, for the, for the store not to,

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to get demolished. And also if there are any damages from the fight, we have to make sure that

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these are get, get fixed somehow. So she's very responsible in that regard. But it's, it's fun.

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There's some fun interaction. And, you know, Hana, his daughter is, to some of the less dangerous

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hitmen who like immediately get taken out by Sakamoto and Shen every time they enter the store.

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She like brings like these, uh, the bandages and stuff. It's very cute.

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So it's, they're taking it pretty like, like, I wish a good little girl. Yeah, Hana is a good little girl.

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Daddy, don't you like the amusement park? Oh my god. It was so heavy.

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But, um, yeah, so our, it takes it in, in stride, it's like, okay, we're going to deal with this. So

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that was cool. It was a nice surprise. I like that that they didn't like try to string her along

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for too long. And yeah, aside from Shen, we also get some other characters who get Lou Shaotang,

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who's this, um, girl from a mafia family, but her whole family gets killed and she's hunted by,

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as the last member of a family, I guess, by another group, a darn group or whatever. And you know, she

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just by accident runs into Shen and Sakamoto and they help her out. And then she also becomes a

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clerk in the store and do us a kind of like the three main guys like, uh, Lou also is very fun.

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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,

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uh, she's okay. She can switch moods all the time. Like, she can be fun. She can be English. She can

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be depressed. She can be a lot, a lot of, uh, drunk, uh, different types of drunk. So it's fun. Uh,

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and then we also get, um, Hey ska and P ska, Hey ska is like this also washed up assassin. Like he,

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he's a, this super talented sniper. You can use special bullets ricochet them off, uh, uh, stuff

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and uh, it's really good at calculating a trajectory and stuff like that, but that is the only thing he

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could do. So he wasn't much used to most of his employers, which is weird. Like, maybe do government

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contract thing or something. Like, you think having a good sniper in your pocket would be. Yeah, but he's,

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he isn't good and close, uh, quarter combat. He isn't good in really doing anything else aside from

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being a sniper. So I guess that wasn't enough for a lot of people. So yeah, he's out of money and

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just also runs into the gang. There's, because, you know, he learns that there's a one, uh,

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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,

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but he's got his bird, but he, uh, to guide his shots. Yes. P ska is, uh, is very helpful. Not only that,

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like he can apparently that is a very strong bird. Like he, that bird is able to carry like his

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fucking case with the sniper, with the sniper rifle and everything and bring it when he needs it,

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like, and ammunition. And it is a very strong bird. Like go piece, go holy shit. Uh, so, uh, yeah, he's,

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he's, uh, he's a lot of fun. And he is not like fully employed and Sakamoto storing everything. He

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just pops up occasionally, like to make some leftover pork buns or stuff like that or, you know, help them

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out. Uh, he, in one episode, he helps, uh, fun, I find them and comes like in at the clutch moment

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to help shinin and fight and stuff like that. So he's kind of like the wild cards on the side who

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occasionally pops up to help out. And that's, that's his role. Um, yeah, the right. He's living in

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a tent on rooftops that eventually got blown away. Feel bad for him on that art, but kind of expected

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him to also get employed by Sakamoto, but then again, it's a small store. I feel like two clerks

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are already, already pushing it. Yeah, are you gonna account for that much overhead in current

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economy? Yeah, I don't. I mean, he's very popular, right? Like everyone in the town lost him,

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so I, I would imagine he does make a good living. Uh, if, you know, it was frequent enough and not

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one of his customers isn't by accident getting killed by, uh, by an assassin. Uh, yeah, we got

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loo, we got hei skit and, you know, some other characters like from Sakamoto's old life, like

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Sakamoto apparently was part of this elite task force called the order in the, uh, in the association

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of assassins in the, in the JAA. And these characters also appear on occasion. Uh, we haven't met all of

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them yet because apparently there are eight members, right? And we've only met four so far. And, uh,

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so some of them fight, not all of them yet. I mean, technically all of them in the OP, which is very cool.

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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.

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That's right. And, uh, yeah, that's, uh, they're fun, like, they're, you know, of the same,

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it's Sakamoto very powerful assassins, but they're also, you know, everyone have kind of specialized

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weapon. One uses a hammer, one uses like knives, uh, another character who's like this Lolita,

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got Lolita character. She uses, she uses a handy chainsaw, I guess. Not a chainsaw. What is it?

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It's like, uh, like a bus, uh, bus. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a bus. You know, as you do,

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Kira, no big deal. Yes. And they're allowed to kill people. So if you, if you, you two, uh, Sakamoto's

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code, we're worried that they're not enough dead guys in this show, don't worry. They're not dead people.

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Enough people getting killed left and right, both by the bad guys and the semi-good guys who are

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still killers. So there's that something, something good guy with a gun. Mm-hmm. I think my favorite

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from, uh, the order so far has been Nagumo because he's such a bullshitter like he's, yeah, he's

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fucking with everyone all the time and in a really good way that it's not really obvious like he's

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so good at that and that made me laugh every time you did that. This is a really, he's a really fun

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character. Osuragi is fun because she's, she comes across as very cold and unfeeling, but then

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when something catches her attention, it's like, yeah, it's just a very sudden turn. Yes, she's very like,

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it's like very, uh, I don't know, uh, passive in a way and monosolific, but, uh, and always has

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like this low-key tone to it and then suddenly like he said, oh, she's like very nice with certain

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things. It's not like a, in overplayed reaction, it's just like a very, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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it's pretty, it's pretty fun. And yeah, uh, will, will meet more like there's one other character, uh,

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who has like uses, I don't even know what he uses. This is like knuckle dusters.

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Yeah, knuckle dusters are brass knuckles. Yeah, yeah, yeah, uh, but we have only, here I'm

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talking it, we haven't seen him fight yet, oh, aside from the OP and apparently there are four more

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people and one guy we haven't met at all who was heavily featured in the OP, which I assume we

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would see in the second core, uh, might be Sakamoto's trainer, like a mentor, uh, I would, I would

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assume considering he's, he's apparently a very old guy, uh, with a, with a sword. I feel like

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that he's probably the, the head of the order or whatever and, uh, maybe, uh, was also Sakamoto's

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mentor. We'll see. We'll find out eventually. But, um, eventually, I mean, as of this recording,

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the show starts back up again in like two weeks. Yes, there's also like, that's a very rare thing,

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usually when we have, uh, shows that are so close, like only have like a one-season break. Uh, we,

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we wait until the second core is aired because that makes more sense, but in this case, when I was

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like, yeah, this, this is a, we need more shared reviews. So it makes sense to already review this and,

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um, but yeah, technically once, once you, once you, the fun show to talk about and watch, uh, exactly.

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Yeah. And, uh, you know, technically when, when you're done listening to this, if you haven't already

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watched the first season, don't, don't want to still do that, but also even if you haven't, like,

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you can probably considering editing time and everything when this will be released, you might be

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able to just jump into the second core and continue from, from there on. Uh, but yeah, uh, so,

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the, like I said, most of the, uh, stuff is pretty basic, like we get all these, uh,

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assessments. And then we hear that there's like this, aside from the main drive being about

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he put on a soccer motto's head by someone. We also hear about, uh, some kind of person or

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organization going around and killing assessments from the JAA staff left and right. And the order is

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trying to find out who that is. This person called slur, uh, just marked everything that that,

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but my, my, my suspicion is that the real identity of, uh, slur is Elon Musk because that dude is

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obsessed with the letter X. Whoa, don't say no. What's it? Every fucking where, like on people,

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like on, on walls, but everyone, we'll see, we'll find out, um, that I think this.

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But yeah, he apparently has some connection to soccer motto and he's, we find out later, it's also

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putting the bound, uh, is the one who put the bounty on soccer motos had a parent. Uh, for some

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reason, uh, we don't know what his beef with soccer motto is yet. Maybe because he's the only one,

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uh, the soccer was the only one who, uh, he couldn't like beat or whatever, uh, who was always

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better than him, something like that. But also maybe there's, there's more interesting motivation. We'll

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find out, we haven't found out, we have barely met slur yet. But when we did, it's what,

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that was an introduction and was very scary, but yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He, he seems to be, uh,

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a tough enemy to beat, but I think it will be a while until we get there. But that seems to be

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the main drive. I don't know how long that particular arc will last. Like if he's gonna stay the main

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bad guy for the entire series, I feel like they're already making big moves towards, uh, you know,

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him already being revealed in this core and everything. And uh, I feel like they're already moving

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in the direction of facing him at that some point, maybe at, even at the end of the next core. But

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we'll see, maybe, maybe he's only there for one arc, maybe he's the big overarching bad guy for the

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rest of the season, considering the manga is still going, I don't know, uh, how long they can stretch

381
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that out. Yeah, I wonder about that. Yeah, we'll see. But, uh, yeah, uh, the bounty kicks things into

382
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gears and it's the main drive of the show and the hunt for slur and those paths at some point,

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collide and become one path, I guess, because it's the same person who put the bounty on

384
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Sakamoto's also the person that they order something and whatever and they're gonna try to find out who

385
00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:06,160
that character is. Uh, and so far, Sakamoto, it doesn't seem like, I don't know, has Shin told him about

386
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him? Like, uh, I feel like if he described slur to Sakamoto that would maybe ring a bell for him,

387
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and he would talk about it, but it feels like it hasn't happened yet. Like, we didn't have the talk

388
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with you. Listen, there's this one guy and apparently he's out for you or whatever, or, uh,

389
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I don't even see, right? So we'll see, we'll see, uh, whenever that gets revealed and those two

390
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characters face each other. But already at the end of this core, we get like new four scary,

391
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psycho, psychopaths, hitman, all with different killing specialities and immediately from the

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character designs is evident who does what. So, uh, so that's gonna be next. And, uh, yeah, I'm

393
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looking forward to that. Speaking of like killing and everything and, and, um, fights and stuff,

394
00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:05,280
what did you think about the, the, the, the fights and the animation quality in this show in general?

395
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Like, where are you? Oh, this, this looks really good. We're like, oh, this is all right. Or where did

396
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you come down? What side of the fence? I mean, I feel like TMS just kind of threw themselves whole hog

397
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at this because I don't, I can't remember a moment where I was like, yeah, I know that that doesn't

398
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look like particularly good. I was just like, dang, pretty much most of the way through like,

399
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:36,800
holy, I feel like it's not an absolute Sakuga fest, like something you would, uh,

400
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associate with a really good show from, I don't know, Mapa or maybe bones or metals or something

401
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:53,280
like that or a studio with, for example, right? Yeah, but it's not TMS is sort of a different type of

402
00:41:53,280 --> 00:42:02,880
correct. Yes. It feels like they're, they're like a very workman like studio when it comes to what

403
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:09,040
they put out and everything, but always on a pretty, at least the shows we covered on a pretty

404
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:17,280
high quality level, like a very high baseline. Doesn't divert from that too much. You neither have

405
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shows that episodes that go completely overboard and look absolutely amazing when compared to

406
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:27,440
other episodes, but you also don't have like complete clusterfacts, where it's like, what happened here,

407
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:32,480
right? Which, this, this, it's a C team work on that. So they get a very strong baseline and I

408
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:39,280
feel Sakamoto is definitely one of their best stuff and animation quality wise. We've seen so far.

409
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:45,440
Yeah, it was, it was strong and it was consistent throughout. Yeah, very consistent. Like when we were

410
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:54,560
talking about you will blot the last time consistency is, is, is best to me. Like if you can't deliver on

411
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:59,760
like your Sakuga Fest from top to bottom, then you know, do the best you can and make it look

412
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:06,800
consistent throughout. Yes. In this show does that, you know, it, it looks pretty good, but you know,

413
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:15,360
that's fine. It doesn't need to be, every show doesn't need to be a billion yen budget

414
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:20,480
per episode. That's unsustainable and we've talked about this and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

415
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:28,160
But you know, just make it look as good as you can in hold that level quality. Yeah. And I was surprised

416
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:33,680
like when I learned that TMS is doing is like, okay, this is, this is first I thought this is weird

417
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:40,320
because this feels like the new big shonen jump thing and so I expect would expect them to

418
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:46,400
seek one of their, you know, one of the bigger actions show studios on this right now. And then I was

419
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:53,760
like, no, I guess a lot of this also takes place in a more like, low key environment, like maybe

420
00:43:53,760 --> 00:44:01,360
it's more comedy, heavy and it's mostly gonna be like a joke series and there is no need for elaborate

421
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:05,840
animation. So I was actually surprised when there's so much more fighting in this than I expected.

422
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:11,440
Is a very action have you show? I did not expect that I expected them to fight like to be sprinkled

423
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:16,560
in between and Sakamoto taking them out like in a couple of seconds, right? And he does that too

424
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:21,280
with certain assassins, but some of the finds last long and we have multiple fronts which

425
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:26,720
chin is fighting one enemy, Sakamoto's fighting one enemy, Lewis fighting one enemy, you know, then

426
00:44:26,720 --> 00:44:32,560
he's gonna maybe join the fight and helps out or someone from the order. So multi-layered fights and,

427
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:38,480
you know, different, always different set pieces is not like what I expected it all to take place in

428
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:44,720
the store, especially considering that the store also has like this fucking weapon store hidden,

429
00:44:44,720 --> 00:44:53,440
inside of it, right? Matrix shit. And it's about to say yes, I need a weapon. Yes, exactly. So it's like,

430
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:57,840
hey, it's gonna be that like there's always, you're always gonna discover something new about this

431
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:02,960
store where where Sakamoto has hit in a different weapon or something like that or he's gonna make use

432
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:08,640
of a new thing that he sells in the store to beat the assassins that are coming. And that would have

433
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also been fun in its own right and would I would have expected, oh yeah, that makes sense to

434
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:21,200
have TMS do it is, but no, they it's definitely like it's changing a lot of the scene is changing a lot,

435
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:27,440
the set pieces change a lot. There's the fights are very different and varied in terms of what

436
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:31,840
they do in the fights. I mean, of course you get your stand kick and punching and so on, but

437
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:37,840
due to Shin being able to read minds, they employed that heavily, but in very different ways,

438
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:44,960
like there's like a fight where Shin can see and Sakamoto is basically remote piloting in by telling him

439
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:50,720
what he needs to do through like they have very good latency, they have very good net code. They

440
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:58,800
roll back in kind of nothing, there's no delay whatsoever. It's amazing. That scene was so cool.

441
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:04,480
Yes, it was very cool and fun. I expected Sakamoto to be the one who would end up in the bunny suit,

442
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:10,160
right, but it was fun. It was Shin and then we had like this them viewing that as like this performance

443
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:16,480
piece and everything is really cool. Like I like that a lot and they do more stuff with Shin's mind

444
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:22,960
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

445
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:28,480
really helpful and when it isn't. It's a bit wonky in parts because at some point, as Shin says,

446
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:34,320
he has to concentrate to actually read minds, but then there's also when they go into his background,

447
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:42,320
the it feels like he can always passively read minds anyway or hear people's minds all the time.

448
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:49,040
I guess it's more like he can always hear the minds of the people around him and what the thoughts and

449
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:55,040
what you know of the people around him, but if he wants to listen to a specific person, he has to

450
00:46:55,040 --> 00:47:02,720
concentrate. I think that's how it works. Like he's white noise probably and he like can grab pieces

451
00:47:02,720 --> 00:47:09,200
of certain thoughts, you know, passively and hear stem. Like if you're standing in a crowd,

452
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:13,760
right and there's chatter around you, you pick up certain pieces of conversations and I think

453
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:19,040
that's the way his mind reading works when he's not actively concentrating, but in fights and so on,

454
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:24,320
he needs to concentrate if he wants to actually employ his powers. So, you know, that comes with

455
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:31,840
its downsides and he needs to account for that and accommodate that in certain ways. So that's

456
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:36,640
interesting. So he's not like this super overpowered character because he can read minds because there are

457
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:46,080
some weak points. There's some downsides to these powers. So that's cool. I like that it helps equalize

458
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:54,640
him a bit. Yes, I mean, otherwise Sakamoto would be only one also, maybe like, but I was worried

459
00:47:54,640 --> 00:48:02,560
that Shin would only be like, okay, he now becomes the dude on the side of Sakamoto who helps out,

460
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:08,240
but isn't really finishing any fight, but no, he's like a very integral part in some of the fights

461
00:48:08,240 --> 00:48:16,000
and actually the one who beats the assassins because Sakamoto is busy otherwise or, you know, has

462
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:22,880
has maybe another problem that he needs to solve or whatever and Shin is on his own and,

463
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:31,760
you know, I guess the same could be said about Blue, although she is not as good of a fighter as Shin is.

464
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:37,040
Like she's a good fighter, especially when she gets drunk, but, you know, she's not the powerhouse

465
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:43,520
that Shin is Sakamoto, powerhouse that Shin is Sakamoto or, but, you know, she's she's fun regardless

466
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:49,520
and does her part in same forehaste, even though he can only be a good sniper, but that is worth a lot

467
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:56,000
depending on the situation. So that's that's neat and that keeps the fights varied, right? That's fun

468
00:48:56,000 --> 00:49:00,480
and there like I said, there's this fight on one of my favorites was to fight on the roller coaster

469
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:10,800
against the poison guy, forgot his name, was really cool just the way Shin uses his power and the

470
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:17,200
multi-st, the different, different stages and where that ends up, which is the, the, the, the remote

471
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:23,840
piloted stuff like we said, like that was a really cool, well structured, varied fight. I like that a lot

472
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:31,440
and if you have an interest, an interestingly staged fight like that, you don't need like the best

473
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:39,680
animation in the business to keep you entertained and to be like, wow, wow, wow, wow, so that, that

474
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:45,920
worked very well and the show has a lot of that stuff. So I, I have nothing to complete really about

475
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:52,560
the action scenes. There's some cool camera pans in there as well, some cool, I don't think if there's

476
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:59,280
a really good tracking shot in there, but there's definitely some good editing and some good camera

477
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:06,160
pans in this show that I also didn't expect. So yes, action-wise, this is definitely, and especially

478
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:12,000
considering that I didn't expect this show to have this much action in it, like it's just in

479
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:18,320
pretty much almost every episode, like the last two are more of a, of a goof thing that is not

480
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:25,600
really action focused, and which, you know, if this was like the end of a, of a proper season,

481
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:30,960
there would be a bit weird to end it there, but you know, it's just took a break and it's going to

482
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:36,720
continue from there. So I love that in the second episode, Sakamoto is reading a shirt that just

483
00:50:36,720 --> 00:50:42,640
is tired and I'm just like, boy, I need to buy that shirt and wear it tomorrow and be made. Yeah,

484
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:52,080
but yeah, um, yeah, I think they're going to have plenty of material for adaptation moving forward

485
00:50:52,080 --> 00:51:00,720
because looking at manga chapters, it looks like they got to about, in chapter 35, 36, and there

486
00:51:00,720 --> 00:51:08,480
are currently 218. Woof, okay. And I think TMS is also one of the studios that is

487
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:21,360
not as overbooked, right? In terms of projects that we might actually get very frequent releases

488
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:29,040
of this show. Like I can see them doing, like we have now one season break, then maybe a two season

489
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:33,600
break, then maybe one season break against stuff like that, they're there, they're, like I said,

490
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:43,520
TMS is our workhorse is so I can imagine us getting a steady stream of Sakamoto seasons in, you know,

491
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:49,520
in the coming years would be nice. Yeah, I mean, I think they had

492
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:59,440
some like Lupon special recently, they hit, yeah, there wasn't TV special with Zedigata as the main character,

493
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:10,400
I think. Oh, for cards and to girlfriend season for, uh, did you cross that bridge when I come to it?

494
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:14,800
And yes, I did forget, for a brief moment, I was happy.

495
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:22,240
That's probably going to be for another quick edit that, which we didn't have today,

496
00:52:22,240 --> 00:52:28,720
but yeah, keep that in mind. I mean, you know, there's always season five around the corner.

497
00:52:28,720 --> 00:52:32,400
I think it's supposed to be a two-core season.

498
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:38,000
Ah, well, there you go. So, I mean, interesting at Wikipedia, listen to this 12 episodes,

499
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:43,360
but it happens split-courses. So just call it the number of season it is, man.

500
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:48,160
Yeah. I mean, you know, I don't even know who decides that.

501
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:56,640
Like, I think it's, I don't even know if that's something we try to put on to a season,

502
00:52:56,640 --> 00:53:02,560
and in Japan, it's just a different, I don't know, a different term in general,

503
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:07,600
but also sometimes in the Japanese, uh, you know, promo art for the show you then,

504
00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:12,560
cc's one, season two, I don't know what they do when it's just, you know, part one, part two,

505
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:18,880
or whatever, or a core if they even show that, or if it's just TV one, TV two, I don't know.

506
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:23,760
I, yeah, I forget exactly how they don't initiate it, but,

507
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:33,840
yeah, I just, I'm like, okay, you could, you could call it what it is, and I would appreciate that,

508
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:39,920
but, you know, okay. I check next season. We definitely have like, we have, they also have

509
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:45,920
Doctor Stone coming up as well. Yes, and that's right, right, Doctor Stone. That's also one of those

510
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:52,800
shows where it's like, yeah, very good baseline. Nothing super out of the like ordinary, it's like,

511
00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:59,520
oh my god, this is absolutely stutter animation, but very good, very good stuff, very well directed,

512
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:06,320
great production values in terms of music, in terms of artwork, in terms of direction and everything.

513
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:11,760
So, yeah, they delivering good stuff, and I mean, for me, they will always be associated with one

514
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:18,560
of my favorite Western cartoons, or multiple of them, with, you know, Batman the animated

515
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:24,480
series and super many animated series and stuff, they worked on that. I forgot they had a large

516
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:28,800
hand in us, man, those shows were so good. Hey, I'm just going through them right now. I went through

517
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:34,480
Batman, I went through Superman, went to Batman Beyond, and they also directed pretty much everything

518
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:39,920
of Batman Beyond Return of the Joker, and that's an incredible looking movie. I've always heard

519
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:45,200
that I have not watched it to this day though. Have you watched the show though, like Batman Beyond the

520
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:52,080
Show? Not all of it, but in decent chunk when it was originally on TV. I recommend you watch that

521
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:56,160
movie. I mean, if you're familiar with Batman, Terry McKinnis, Batman Beyond as a character,

522
00:54:56,160 --> 00:55:02,160
you can watch that movie either way regardless. It's a very dark movie though, especially

523
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:08,960
that's what I hear. Yes, yes, and free recently you had to make sure that you get the uncut version,

524
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:14,880
if you want to have good movie experience, but I think the cut version is not even available anymore.

525
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:22,320
Like on Blu-ray and whatever. But yeah, depending on how you might come across this, make sure

526
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:27,440
that it's the uncut version because that's very important. Otherwise, you're not getting the full

527
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:33,680
experience. But yeah, that's great. And now I'm on Justice League. Now I'm on Justice League, and

528
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:40,160
TMS didn't work on that anymore as far as I know. But yeah, they also worked on, I think they worked

529
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:47,920
on Galaxy Rangers and definitely some other Western cartoon stuff. I don't know if they worked on

530
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:55,760
ThunderCats. I don't think so, but definitely on the Batman Superman on the DCAU stuff and on Galaxy Rangers.

531
00:55:55,760 --> 00:56:04,480
Yeah, I don't know, but people from my age might be familiar with that shit. That was my jam,

532
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:10,640
just like, you know, yeah, that one I don't think I... I'll show you the intro you might have seen

533
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:16,560
that because it's got a very cool soundtrack and everything. It's your typical Western and space thing.

534
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:25,360
And yeah, so next to the Saber Rider and I guess stuff like Firefly and Outlaw Star.

535
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:35,920
That one I know. Yeah, so it's along those lines and a lot of the Western cartoons from those days

536
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:44,800
just had at least their OPs animated in Japan and TMS animated this shit out of the OP to Galaxy

537
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:50,480
Rangers and they also did some episodes. So at least some of them, if not all of them, I'm not sure.

538
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:59,840
But yeah, so tangent, but yeah, we do those sometimes. Yeah, we do those sometimes. So getting back to

539
00:56:59,840 --> 00:57:06,800
Sakamoto, there is not much more to say about this. Like, it's just a very fun show. It's highly

540
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:11,360
entertaining. It's very funny. A lot of good jokes in there. A lot of good fights in there.

541
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:23,120
Even a fight in a house of Horrord, which I don't know if that was super responsible to take such a small

542
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:29,840
young child like Hana into a fucking spooky house. I don't know, is that normal? I'm not a father.

543
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:35,760
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,

544
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:41,840
I am. Yeah, I have no idea. I feel like Hana was barely like, she's barely elementary school age.

545
00:57:41,840 --> 00:57:47,440
If all, I feel like she feels like a preschooler and to bring her in the house with zombies and

546
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:51,680
everything, it's scary. I don't know. I feel like that would have been too intense for her,

547
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:54,400
but she had fun apparently. She was like, "Oh, that's so scary."

548
00:57:54,400 --> 00:58:00,640
Some kids gravitate to process stuff. Yes, so much.

549
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:03,680
So different than it comes back as trauma later.

550
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:11,520
Well, or you know, or not, or people get obsessed with it, right? Like, my parents try to

551
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:17,840
keep me away from horror for a while. At least my dad did. But I was super curious about it and it turns

552
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:26,240
out I really like that shit. So eventually I just gravitated to that naturally, like, aside from

553
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:33,040
watching Terminator 2, to way too early, alien way too early, and that shit just worked for me.

554
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:38,880
And he could try. He didn't allow me to watch Jurassic Park when it hit theaters even though I was already

555
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:46,640
12. And movies fine. Yeah, but it still has kills, right? It has a 7-4.

556
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:54,480
Yes. Yes, but yeah, my dad was very... He was very much against violence in movies and TV

557
00:58:54,480 --> 00:59:01,040
and games. So my mom was more open. Your father was probably good about that, then, to be honest.

558
00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:05,280
Yeah, but my mom was more like, "So what the... She and my step-derm was like, we're like,

559
00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:12,240
he's 11. Should he be... Should he watch Alien? If he gets nightmares, we know it was the wrong

560
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:20,080
this shit. And I didn't. So I guess they worked it out and it was fine. And I'm still a big

561
00:59:20,080 --> 00:59:26,800
core of these days and I like much. Not all of it. Here's some parts of that genre that I don't like,

562
00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:32,960
but I like the cool creatures shit. And I've always gravitated to that. And, you know, like,

563
00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:38,720
terminate it, like Alien, like stuff like that. So, yeah, that works. Another tangent. Anyway,

564
00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:43,440
I feel like House of Horror, when I thought what they're checking or in there, I was a bit surprised,

565
00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:53,680
but she apparently liked it. So that was fun. Yeah. And aside from that, it will be very interesting

566
00:59:53,680 --> 01:00:02,640
to see what the next chorus/season whatever brings in regards to the identity of slur, right? That

567
01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:11,680
is the big, like, looming mystery and thing that, you know, we now know what the stakes are.

568
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:16,160
You know, it's the bounty on Sacramento's head. We know who put the bounty on his head. We know that

569
01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:23,280
he's already contracted several more killers. Psycho's has to hit the scene in the next core.

570
01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:31,920
And yeah, that's going to be the main drive of the show to find out what slurs deal is, I feel like.

571
01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:39,920
Oh, that relates to Sakamoto's past life and everything. And how much his family will be involved,

572
01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:46,640
like, Aoy and Han, I have not been in direct danger really yet. Like, they haven't been taking

573
01:00:46,640 --> 01:00:54,720
hostage or anything. Like, I guess in the amusement park section with, uh, with the world and everything,

574
01:00:54,720 --> 01:01:02,000
but also not really, not really herring or something like that yet. It's not, not in a really disturbing

575
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:09,680
way or stuff like that. I wonder if that will happen because I don't think slur cares much about

576
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:19,040
them being like, uh, collateral damage. So we'll see, we'll see what happens here. But I feel like the

577
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tone of the show right now, even though maybe the manga catch did some darker stuff before is very

578
01:01:23,920 --> 01:01:30,000
light. It's very goofy. It's very fun. Even though there is Sessan involved and a lot of people are

579
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:36,880
getting killed left and right. It's a very, very like light and fun show and Joby show. And I think it's

580
01:01:36,880 --> 01:01:43,440
going to stay that like if you're looking for something serious, John Wick anime, something like that,

581
01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:47,840
you're not going to get this out of this, but you're going to get plenty of fun. Like it's a very,

582
01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:57,680
very easily digestible show. So yeah, I don't know who not to recommend this to like if you're like

583
01:01:57,680 --> 01:02:03,920
super edge Lord, who's like, oh, what all my action stuff, dark and heavy and I want it all to be

584
01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:09,120
like super serious. Yeah, then this shit is not for you, but also why, why do you hate fun?

585
01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:18,560
Why do you hate your life? So I feel a little fun. Have a little fun. Have a little fun.

586
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Good times. And yeah, so yeah, watch this show quickly if you haven't yet because the next

587
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course right around the corner, like we said, it's only like at the time of from the time of this

588
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recording is going to be the first episode of the next course going to air in 15 days. So or 16.

589
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Get on it. Get on it. And yeah, since we basically breeze through the entire season and

590
01:02:47,280 --> 01:02:52,240
spot the shit out of it for you, not everything, but most of it, you can also decide, I just

591
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going to jump into core two and that's probably going to be fine because I feel like this show is

592
01:02:56,640 --> 01:03:02,560
not that story heavy that you're missing anything. If you if the summary is enough for you, but also

593
01:03:02,560 --> 01:03:07,920
you would be missing a lot of cool fights, a lot of funny jokes. So watch the first core two,

594
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like we did. And yeah, we're definitely going to check out the next one. That's for sure. And

595
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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

596
01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:24,800
steady diet of Sakamoto days for coming or the coming anime season. We'll see, but it's not like we

597
01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:37,200
don't have enough other stuff to watch to. So I need stuff in a couple need stuff in summer season,

598
01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:44,560
not a whole, but you know, there's some neat stuff in there. So it would be supplemented with other fun

599
01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:49,360
things. Yes, absolutely. And yeah, if you want to watch Sakamoto days, it's on Netflix.

600
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It's a Netflix show. And yeah, we'll see what the next season brings. But they're doing weekly

601
01:03:59,200 --> 01:04:04,240
releases like they should. And yes, thank you. It's hope they're going to keep that going,

602
01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:09,360
not switch it around for one of the course. No, no, we're going to go back to the two

603
01:04:09,360 --> 01:04:19,680
the season to the to the batch releases. We'll see. But yeah, fun show, super fun show, super entertaining,

604
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lighthearted, good stuff, goofy, wacky, and generally good time. Before we get to the next season,

605
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:38,960
actually, there is one more thing for this season we have to do.

606
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Best of the season. All right, best of the season, John, you watched three shows, I watched four shows,

607
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slightly different shows. We had some overlap. We had some overlap in the form of Dragon Ball

608
01:05:05,120 --> 01:05:10,640
Diamond Sakamoto days, definitely. If I could have gotten myself to do it, maybe also, we will blood,

609
01:05:10,640 --> 01:05:17,120
but that didn't pen out. So, but that's fine too. So what is, what do you feel? What is your,

610
01:05:17,120 --> 01:05:23,200
what is your favorite this season? What is the thing that was like, okay, this is this hit home

611
01:05:23,200 --> 01:05:30,480
the most for me from the shows I watched? It's like trying to pick my favorite child. Maybe,

612
01:05:30,480 --> 01:05:44,080
maybe not, but who well, blood was fun. I mean, it was definitely harkening back to an older age

613
01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:54,880
anime and it's definitely it's inspirations, but I don't know if it's ever going to get a second season

614
01:05:54,880 --> 01:06:02,320
with, with satellites track record nowadays, which is unfortunate, but I'd like to see more of it,

615
01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:09,200
like see more of Sakugan would like to see the conclusion to help, but since they have three open books

616
01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:18,240
in the bookmark is where, in the bookmarks are where they are. I don't know, so I like, I liked it for

617
01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:29,760
what it was in spite of its shortcomings, but you see, see, see, see, my heart. Sakamoto days, it's fun.

618
01:06:29,760 --> 01:06:35,920
Well, the anime, they've got great cast of characters is pretty goofy, it's, you know, just fun,

619
01:06:35,920 --> 01:06:43,680
it's all the stuff we just talked about less than five minutes ago. And it's coming back in two weeks,

620
01:06:43,680 --> 01:06:50,960
so I feel like there's space for this to have its chance again, because if they keep going with

621
01:06:50,960 --> 01:06:57,440
the adaptation, this could keep going for a while if the story is kept fresh. So, you know,

622
01:06:58,560 --> 01:07:07,040
you know, I think this is a very strong second place. Absolutely. So, you know, that leaves Dragon

623
01:07:07,040 --> 01:07:15,440
Paul Dima and it was great. It was a great return to form, you know, kind of pushing aside what super

624
01:07:15,440 --> 01:07:21,280
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

625
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:26,960
this was. It wasn't the adventure, it wasn't the whimsy, it wasn't, you know, the silly goofy stuff

626
01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:34,320
from the original Dragon Ball that they sort of kind of gradually got away from super was

627
01:07:34,320 --> 01:07:43,440
just more Dragon Ball Z technically. Yeah, pretty much. So, there's a comment flash right now on

628
01:07:43,440 --> 01:07:51,200
Keatsu that says we get a true Dragon Ball, a canon Dragon Ball GT before GTA 6, which, yeah.

629
01:07:53,440 --> 01:07:57,520
And, you know, there's also the things to talk about is the last in that Torium I touched. So,

630
01:07:57,520 --> 01:08:07,680
sadly. But, yeah, it was a good, a good, good by-present. So, it was great. It was fun. It was an

631
01:08:07,680 --> 01:08:14,000
nostalgic. So, I feel like it was probably my pick for this season. Very good, very good pick.

632
01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:19,360
Definitely up there for me as well. A little fun with Dragon Ball Dima, you know, nice,

633
01:08:19,360 --> 01:08:25,280
low-key adventure. Like, I haven't watched the original Dragon Ball in the last two years, I think.

634
01:08:25,280 --> 01:08:34,960
But, I was always in one way, I was always more fond of that than Z. Don't get me wrong. I like Z,

635
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:44,480
but that wasn't my introduction to Dragon Ball. For a lot of people, Dragon Ball Z was their Dragon Ball

636
01:08:44,480 --> 01:08:49,440
because that was how they started the show. A lot of them haven't even watched the original show.

637
01:08:49,440 --> 01:08:57,840
But, for me, I read the manga by way of a friend who was collecting them. I read the manga and

638
01:08:57,840 --> 01:09:02,960
started thus with the original Dragon Ball story and then watched the anime adaptation of that,

639
01:09:02,960 --> 01:09:11,200
after the fact. And then, only then, I watched the, I caught clips of Z before. We talked about this

640
01:09:11,200 --> 01:09:18,320
when we talked about Super, maybe about Dima, I'm not sure on French TV when I was on vacation,

641
01:09:18,320 --> 01:09:23,360
there, in some, it caught immediately caught my eye because it was so special in terms of design

642
01:09:23,360 --> 01:09:28,880
and everything, nothing like anything I've ever seen before. But, I didn't watch that show.

643
01:09:28,880 --> 01:09:33,200
I only watched it, you know, after I watched the original Dragon Ball. So, nostalgia wise,

644
01:09:33,200 --> 01:09:40,320
my feelings will always be more connected to that version of Dragon Ball.

645
01:09:40,320 --> 01:09:45,440
So, I was so happy that Dima successfully, key difference to GT,

646
01:09:45,440 --> 01:09:54,320
went back to that tone. It not entirely, like it's, you know, the original Dragon Ball was still

647
01:09:54,320 --> 01:10:01,440
different in certain parts. It was more, you know, even more joky than this is in certain.

648
01:10:01,440 --> 01:10:08,000
Of course, the cast has as vans and so on, you know, that, that old show, built all of that stuff up.

649
01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:14,000
And now, in Dima, that is already established. But, just in general, what it was trying to do, it was

650
01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:22,480
it was a lot closer to the original show that anything we had gotten in recent years or decades.

651
01:10:22,480 --> 01:10:29,360
And so, I really enjoyed it. I was really happy with it. I liked it a lot. I wouldn't mind

652
01:10:29,360 --> 01:10:35,920
to have another throwback like that again, though I doubt they will do that. That felt like, it feels

653
01:10:35,920 --> 01:10:41,680
like it was this one time thing that maybe Toriyama just wanted to do is, like, let's try to do what GT

654
01:10:41,680 --> 01:10:45,920
was trying to do, but wasn't successful in doing. Let's have this fun adventure plot.

655
01:10:45,920 --> 01:10:51,760
And I feel like now that he's gone, the only thing we're gonna get from now on is probably more

656
01:10:51,760 --> 01:10:57,760
super, you know, probably manga adoption stuff, if we get anything more like that. Which, hey,

657
01:10:57,760 --> 01:11:01,760
I don't mind that. I loved Super, at least the later parts of it. I loved the tournament of power.

658
01:11:02,720 --> 01:11:10,400
I thought that was fucking fun. And I loved the movies. I loved the Broly movie and everything. That's

659
01:11:10,400 --> 01:11:17,200
just the action that is insanely entertaining. I loved the movie Super Hero. It was with the two.

660
01:11:17,200 --> 01:11:21,440
So, yeah, I'd love to see more of that, but I really also liked Daima.

661
01:11:21,440 --> 01:11:30,400
I still want a remake of Dragon Ball. Introduce the youngers, the people who skipped it.

662
01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:36,960
Yes, reintroduce it. Do that. There's space to do that. Yeah, absolutely. And even if you only do

663
01:11:36,960 --> 01:11:45,280
a kiivrish, but also I would like to see a proper remake with the Toriy's current production values.

664
01:11:45,280 --> 01:11:49,360
Like just do it. And they're doing that for one piece and we'll see how that will pen out.

665
01:11:49,360 --> 01:11:59,360
Which, you know, so CS that is still running, which is ridiculous, but, you know, why not also do it

666
01:11:59,360 --> 01:12:06,960
for the probably biggest John John property after one piece as well.

667
01:12:06,960 --> 01:12:13,120
Original Dragon Ball definitely deserve it. And like I said, they might do that after most of

668
01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:18,080
the original cast is gone because then they feel like they can do that without disrespecting them

669
01:12:18,080 --> 01:12:25,200
if they don't, you know, employ them for that. And yeah, we'll see. Maybe that will happen. Maybe not.

670
01:12:26,400 --> 01:12:30,720
Maybe in our lifetime, maybe not, but it would be cool. But yes, Dima, a lot of fun.

671
01:12:30,720 --> 01:12:37,600
Definitely up there for me probably third or second place, probably second. I enjoyed

672
01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:43,760
sensual lot. The unexpected isekai. I expected a work comedy. I got an isekai story, but it was a

673
01:12:43,760 --> 01:12:48,080
special one because, you know, throwing an animator into world stemming from their favorite animated movie

674
01:12:48,080 --> 01:12:53,840
was definitely a nice shakeup of that formula. And I feel like there were some definitely some

675
01:12:53,840 --> 01:13:00,720
interesting pieces and nice homages and references to other animated stuff. And while the story was

676
01:13:00,720 --> 01:13:06,560
still kind of basic when compared to some of the other stuff we watched that was tackling the topic

677
01:13:06,560 --> 01:13:13,040
of animation in or that I watched in the form of keep your hands off as again or that we watched in

678
01:13:13,040 --> 01:13:19,760
the form of recreators who did a bit more interesting stuff in different ways with, you know, animation as

679
01:13:19,760 --> 01:13:28,880
a topic for the actual show. I feel like this was, you know, a breeze to watch and very, very entertaining.

680
01:13:28,880 --> 01:13:34,320
And yeah, I had a lot of fun with that. Definitely more than I expected. And the production values

681
01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:40,400
for that were all of this world. Just mapa going all in was fucking ridiculous. So good times.

682
01:13:40,400 --> 01:13:47,040
So I come out today's we just talked about it. Good, waky fun. Very light on the plot so far, but very

683
01:13:47,040 --> 01:13:52,000
funny with plenty cool fights and colorful characters like I was entertained from beginning to end. I was

684
01:13:52,000 --> 01:13:59,360
never bored and I was laughing a lot. And yeah, there was some really cool stuff in there as well. And yeah,

685
01:13:59,360 --> 01:14:04,160
and definitely looking forward to the next season. Also definitely strong content like all of these,

686
01:14:04,160 --> 01:14:12,240
all of these are very strong contenders for best of the season. If this season didn't have a little

687
01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:20,880
show that could called metalist, which that show just grabbed me by the heart and didn't let go.

688
01:14:20,880 --> 01:14:25,840
It's the perfect blend of underdog sports drama comedy and heartwarming coming of age story. You

689
01:14:25,840 --> 01:14:32,400
also get too fantastic. Infinitely likeable protagonist for the price of one show. I love Inari.

690
01:14:32,400 --> 01:14:37,840
I love Tsukasa and together they brought me so much joy and so few episodes. It's just an all

691
01:14:37,840 --> 01:14:42,160
around great package. So far the only real downside I can even really think of is that I didn't get to

692
01:14:42,160 --> 01:14:48,960
spend more time with them, but season two has been confirmed already. I hope this will be remedied soon.

693
01:14:48,960 --> 01:14:55,760
No date announced yet, but it's coming apparently. So I I'm very happy to hear that because the

694
01:14:55,760 --> 01:15:01,840
manga for that is also still running and would like to see a lot more of that. And yeah, if you like

695
01:15:01,840 --> 01:15:06,400
sports anime or just good anime comfort food that lifts your spirits. This is the show for you.

696
01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:14,720
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

697
01:15:14,720 --> 01:15:22,640
it's pulling at your heartstrings. It's giving you the feelings that you want and need and I'm

698
01:15:22,640 --> 01:15:30,160
I'm so looking forward to more of that in the next season. Yeah. Good shit. Metalist absolutely

699
01:15:31,040 --> 01:15:39,520
no doubt my best anime of the season and with that we have come to the end of another season here

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on M.A. Brain Freeze. We will be back shortly because like we already said, the summer primis are

701
01:15:44,240 --> 01:15:49,600
already dropping as we speak. Definitely already one show I want to check out for the sneak peak and

702
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we will talk about plenty of them next time in that segment. So stay hydrated and treat yourself to

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01:15:56,240 --> 01:16:02,800
some ice cream which I plan to do after this recording. Talk to you soon. Adios folks. Take care everybody.

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