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Hello and welcome to an all new episode of Anime Brain Freeze.
We are your hosts and we are not even supposed to be here today.
I'm Jon.
And I'm CC and when there's just too much cool anime to watch, we've got you covered.
Follows here and so are a bunch of new anime, so we have checked out a couple of premieres
and we'll talk about them in the sneak peek in just a moment.
And after that we will return to our favorite part-time clerks, part-time master assassins,
in the second season of Sakamoto Days.
So grab your multi-purpose pen and apron, be ready to sew an emergency parachute while falling to your certain doom
and definitely don't pause the pot, we'll be right back.
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Alright, here we are, sneak peek time, fall season, before we get to our first review from Summer.
As usual for first time listeners, this is the section where we give you our two cents on a couple of the years from the new season.
And we have three subsections, the notes, the maybe's and the keepers, the notes are the shows that we checked out and we're like,
"No, we're not gonna continue watching that."
The maybe's are the shows that have some interesting bits in them, but we're not sure if we're gonna stick with them yet
at the keepers of the shows where we are pretty certain, very certain.
We're gonna stick with either because they're continuing shows we've been watching for a long time.
Anyway, or because they're new ones that seem very promising.
So, we hadn't had, didn't have that much money, no, in the previous seasons, but this time John actually has two, John.
I don't have any, any notes, so why don't you start us off with yours?
Well, you know, I had to do it to myself, so I had to check it out, I had to look it up,
and I said, "A stupidly ridiculously long name."
Actually, it looks like they shortened the official localized name.
Now I have to see if I, now give me a sec, give me a sec.
I need to find the full unfiltered name, so y'all get the full effect of when I saw it and I was like, "What do you mean?
This is the name."
So,
Backstabbed in a back-order dungeon, my trusted companions tried to kill me,
but thanks to the gift of an unlimited gotcha, I got level 9,999 friends,
and I'm out for a revenge on my former party members in the world.
Oh my god.
Ah, sounds like a real quality product.
I'm amazed I got through the first episode.
Bad animation-wise, or is writing as expected just a worst thing imaginable?
Little bit of both.
So it's all about this kid named Light, and he...
Light Yagami!
Followed on hard times after dying and being reincarnated in a word,
where he gets backstabbed by his party.
That's not an Issa-Kai though.
Oh, really?
It's about this kid named Light and he's trying to go off to become an adventurer to make money to support his family,
but in this world there's nine different races and humans are basically the bottom of the stack.
Ah, massive effect.
So he gets kind of kicked around a lot, and then he meets this group that they call themselves the Concorde of Tribes,
and they're like eight of them are all the different races,
but it's like, "Oh, but we need like a human to help fill in our ranks,
and they go into this dungeon called the Abyss."
And they sort of beat him up and leave him for dead because like, "Yo, well, humans are useless trash anyway,
and then he gets teleported down to the center of the Abyss and to preface all of this."
Light's ability, the Infinite Gacha, on its face is very useless
because he can contra-whatever with it.
That could be anything, like when he's at the adventurer hall trying to get a quest,
you know, he uses it to contra- like a bent fork in moldy bread and it's like, "Okay, so-
So it's random. He doesn't know what he's gonna get, just like, you know,
Gacha's lottery and whatever."
It could be quite literally anything.
Okay.
Except for places where there are high concentrations of mana,
which then increased the likelihood of him getting good rolls, like in the Abyss.
Okay.
And he rolls this made girl who's super overpowered and helps beat up this monster down there
and it's like, "This is stupid. I'm done."
Okay.
I didn't even- I was like, "Okay, all right. I already know what this show is all about."
Not enough of your game, I don't know.
The game- the mobile game, so you might maybe enjoy not enough of that in there.
Dead. You could- I don't know. Look past. It's shortcomings.
I don't know how this show got greeting it because it is just-
This is like some bottom tier stuff.
And they had knew that going in, but I was like, "You know what? Let's see what they do with it."
Let's just see. Oh, they-
Oh.
I mean, they could have done something fun with it, but it sounds like they really didn't-
Yeah, it's just-
And I mean, it's JC Staf, and it doesn't look like they put their best foot forward, and it's like, "Come on, guys."
I mean, they're busy with another show we're going to talk about, so.
Yeah, but it's still disappointing to be like, you know what? Maybe at this point, it's not, because they have done some good stuff, but then the rest of it is just like, "Yeah, it exists."
But that's that. Have I always jumped into the other note?
Because it's equally dumb for different reasons.
It's "Toano Yuguri, dusk beyond the end of the world."
Okay. It's all about this kid name Aakida, and he's in his car with his parents, and they're getting to an accident, and they both die.
And he's taken in by this scientist guy, and you know, that helps you know, give him something resembling a family.
And you know, it just seems like this, you know, in the face of this awful thing that has happened to him.
He's sort of been given this second chance of the family, it's nice, and it's uplifting, and he has this adoptive sister named Toa Saa, and as he's grown up, he's kind of gotten into his-
-sister a little bit? -Yeah.
-But she's also into him, so it cuts both ways.
-Good for them, I guess? -And Toa Saa is like this.
Super genius-like robotics in AI and whatnot.
And one day when she's about to give a presentation on stage,
someone in the audience runs up and tries to shoot her, but Aakida takes the bullet instead, and he passes out and wakes up in this like capsule or something,
and it's like several, however many years into the future, and like the world is in ruins, and he meets this robot girl that reminds him of Toa Saa,
and it's just like, what are we doing here, PA works?
-It sounds very confusing. -Like, the show is beautiful, because it's PA works, but like-
-Yeah, I mean, that much, but you would expect. But the story is like, what are we, why?
-The mystery show, I guess, maybe? I mean, the setup is kind of worrying, but that could be interesting to find out whatever happened to the world and whatnot.
-It's fine because they're not blood-related, but also like, okay, no, this isn't what I signed up for, because they really buried the lead with all of the promotional material for this show.
-What were they promoting it, Dess?
-Oh, he's trying to find his long lost lover, and I'm like, oh, well, you know, that sounds like-
-Not that it's his half-sister. -So I was like, probably thought that they would alienate people if they'd mentioned that in the trailers.
-Yeah, yeah, a little bit. So I was like, "Jesus, okay, not, mm-hmm, bye, get out."
And we have mentioned this with PA works. This is the problem. They do such great work, and they go in so hard on everything.
And then maybe like 50% of the shows they work on, I'm like, what did you sign up for?
-Yeah. Well, I have another-
-Well, I mean, I have another apocalypse show to talk about in the Mabies that seems like it might be more interesting in premise, so there's that, but this show can go in the bin.
-So it does. I mean, at least it gave us two nopes again after a while, so there's that. It has been a minute.
-Yeah. Well, that has us moving on to the Mabies, and the first show I would mention quickly because the first episode really hasn't aired yet.
I mean, we got an episode zero.
One Punch Man season three, which has been coming for a while.
-Mmm. -How long has it been since season two? I don't even remember.
-Oh, it's been at least two, three, four, five years. I am just throwing numbers out there. Six years.
-Jesus, okay. Well, yeah. I almost got there.
-Really? Six years since season two? 2019. April.
-My god.
-Okay, sure. I mean, it kind of makes sense because one Punch Man season one was the first show we reviewed on our show, and that was 2000, 2016, so.
-My god.
-Yes. What is time? Excuse me while I turn to dust.
-But, yes. So, we finally get season three, not as highly anticipated as season two was for a while, because we now know that it still was JC Staff,
which back then we were all looking forward to season two, and then learned that Metaus wasn't doing it anymore, and that...
-I mean, I don't remember fully what we said about season two, John.
I think it was still in a joyable, because it was adapted from a good manga. So, the writing was still there.
-Yes. -The character was still great. The problem is the animation down great was pretty severe.
-Yes, and that was the problem. I mean, from a writing standpoint, it's still fine.
And I feel like it was more of a little bit more on the world building, and we saw some more characters.
So, obviously, the animation was in there, but I don't feel like season two was bad, per se.
-No, it wasn't entirely bad. It just had to be compared to season one.
-Right, in the animation department, just like the fire force, you have to compare season three to season one and two, and...
-Sis and frontwood, that is, you're comparing it against itself.
-Yes, and that's always the harshest comparison to make if the previous seasons were really good, and there are some problematic things happening in consecutive seasons.
And I mean, here it's more understandable because the studio change, which didn't happen in fire force, and JC Staff just isn't fucking...
-Shin-Gun-Azume, Mad House, with a lot of favors, called in all of the favors.
-So, that was too expected. Although I feel like even in season two, we said that is probably one of the best-looking, if not the best-looking JC Staff shows.
-That we've seen.
-I mean, JC Staff are capable of doing good work. It's just so far in a few between.
I don't want to compare them against a studio like Dean, but Dean has also shown themselves to be like, "Okay, once every decade, we can push out something good."
And then everything else is like, "I feel like season three of one punch man is probably gonna be on the same level as season two.
At least writing wise, we're gonna be there, and episode zero was a nice recap.
Like, after six years, without rewatching it, it was good to be reminded of who some of the characters introduced in season two were.
You know, Garo, who was kind of pretty important until the very end in season two, and then not really anymore.
I mean, he will probably become more important in season three again because the association of monsters like it abducted him, it's probably gonna turn into a super fighter or something.
We'll see. Also, I forgot. He was voiced by Hikaru Midori Kawa, who also voices Akiko Sanada in Persona 3 Reload, which really threw me off.
Because I just, I'm playing that game right now. I was like, "Whoa, wait a second."
He's kind of a distinctive voice, so they were like, "Wait a minute."
Oh yeah, he, "Oh, don't hear him as much nowadays, but when you hear him, it's like, "Hey, it's like a Kenjiro Tura thing."
That's like, every time he's on screen, you're like, "Whoa, one moment."
So, at least we got here, "Suda and Fire Force." Yes. He's also in one of the shows I'm gonna talk about, or the one I'm gonna talk about next actually.
But, yeah. So, it was nice to be reintroduced again. "King is fun." Like, he was probably introduced in the second season.
You got a couple of interesting, more bad guys and so on. Like you said, a bit more world-pitting.
So, I'm looking forward to watching this. Of course, we just haven't seen the first episode yet. And the teaser trailer at the end of episode, like the preview idea and of the zero episode, was just...
No action scenes, really. It was just, you know, characters standing around and talking and stuff. And that did look really super interesting. So, with the bottom, I'm looking forward to hanging out with Saitama and my boy Geno's again.
And it's gonna be a fun time. I just always in the back of my head just, "God, I wish this was still a team that's a season one, man."
But, we won't be getting that, at least not in the foreseeable future or whatever. So, then we're just gonna make the best of it. And it's probably gonna be a keeper, unless this season for some reason looks even worse than season two.
Which I hope not, man. But, we can't really say right now because the first episode hasn't dropped yet. But, it's definitely on the maybe pile for now.
All right, John, what is your next maybe that either is also my maybe or not, we'll see.
I think this might be just for me. It's "Shoo Matsu Turing" after the apocalypse.
Yes, that's just you, but I have heard about this show.
Yes, so it's about these two girls, Yoko and Iry, and they're on a solar-powered motorbike after something happened.
The second episode kind of might have given hints about that, but boy, Japan sure is in a state.
And Japan or the whole world.
That is yet to be seen, but for now I am assuming Japan, these two girls, Yoko and Iry are just, you know, kind of zooming around on solar-powered motorbike, just seeing what they can see.
Looking for food, looking at the sights that once were. Yoko is basically trying to follow the trail of her sister, Chitosai.
And she's probably not in love with like, you know, the guy we just, no, I don't think that's the only love that I think she's just trying to find her sister.
That's good.
That's as far as I can tell, you know, but they're going from place to place following the path trying to find her sister.
Yoko, Iry is like, sort of like an Android because at one point they're getting followed by this old tank and she whips out an arm can and kind of almost mega-man style and blows it away.
And it's like, oh, okay, neat.
That sounds nice.
I mean, it's made for a neat set piece.
It's, it's, you know, very slow, very relaxed in that, you know, just going from place to place, seeing what there is to see, but you can tell us also, Tim should just a little bit of like, there's just melancholy because there's quite literally nothing left.
Sounds a bit like, girls last tour.
Yeah, I think it might be taken a page out of that book.
They meet this cyborg in the second episode who can't quite remember his past life, but then he sort of does.
And the girls say, you should come with us. He says, nah, I'm going to stay here.
You know, he, you lost his entire bottom half, so he's basically a torso with arms at this point.
And he's like, I can get around using just my hands. And then after they leave his battery runs out and, you know, so I think that's pretty much what they're trying to set up with this.
Like, there are these things that they're going to see, but, you know, it's just like remnants of, you know, whatever's left over it might.
Not sure if it was the remnants of like a war of a world war, or maybe a big natural disaster or something like that.
Oh, not quite sure about that from what they are showing, but, yeah, like Yokohama is like underwater.
So things are not good.
The state of Japan is not great. And who knows about the rest of the world, but, you know, we might eventually zoom out and see that.
But this seems just like neat for what it is to see, you know, I only see where the story goes with the girls. I want to see, you know, the state of the rest of the world is, I think that be really interesting.
Now, if they're only on their motorcycle, they're probably going to stick with Japan for now, but it could still be the time being, but, you know, you're probably going to meet a lot of people who try to get around in the decaying world.
Like, let's see, but I hope it's going to be like they're going to find her sister at the end.
Yeah, I hope.
Yeah, I can't say that.
I hope certain things don't transpire, but, you know, with what they're setting up, I have a feeling that, oh no.
But also, I don't think the manga has finished its run. So, we'll see.
So what you got?
Yes, a bit of a wacky thing in the maybe.
Tojima wants to be a common writer. And this about this guy called Tanza Boro Tojima, and whose dream since childhood has been to one day become a common writer.
The character from the well-known Tokusatsu franchise, which I've mentioned several times on this show as well.
But since he won clip from this show and I was like, all right.
You know, that is a TV show. And since Tanza Tojima lives in the quote-unquote "real world," that is, you know, his dream is pretty much impossible to achieve.
Which is what he is finally ready to admit when he turns 40.
Oh boy.
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Which is why I picked the show, right, because I looked at the age of the main character and like, okay.
And he's a common writer fan, but all right. Why would you trigger me like that? Why would you attack us directly?
Why would you attack me directly?
So, he sells us a dark common writer merch, and even though he has trained enough to be able to fight a bear in hand to hand combat, he is ready to throw in the towel.
And then a miracle happens. In the form of a gang doing robberies and posing as characters from the evil organization Shocker from the Kamrider TV show while doing it.
Well, I mean, not really, they're just wearing like these masks that, you know, are kinda looking like the goon masks from the goons in Kamrider.
It's the Shocker goons.
But yeah, they attack a festival that told you what happens to be at, and he grabs a Kamrider mask from one of the stalls, a cheap plastic mask, and is finally able to let his dream become a reality.
So, I guess this is another version of the dilutions author from Fireforce suffers from.
Oh my god, you're not wrong. Maybe even due to the same reasons, because it is heavily implied in the first episode that told you what was abandoned by his dad.
And yeah, absolutely wacky show. It's done by lighting films, so it doesn't look particularly good.
But let me tell you that one scene at the end of the first episode, when Tojima finally dons the mask of his hero, the soundtrack goes into insane overdrive, and he delivers some righteous writer punches and kicks.
That shit was amazing.
I was hooting and hollering over here. It was just fucking hard. I think that's the clip I saw.
Probably, but I don't know if they played the music that they played in the show. If you saw a clip from the actual show, if it was a trailer.
I'm pretty sure it was like a clip from the show with the music.
Because Jesus Christ, that was just hype. It was just fucking hype. Because you know you see you in the beginning, he's like, it's all he ever wanted. He's just weird, crazy kid, right? Even in high school.
And then he's fighting a bunch of delinquents to save a girl. But you know, he has to probably fight them. He just rips off his shirt.
And he is like with a sharpie drawn, the writer belt on his belly, and he does the transformation pose and does the sound effects from the show with his voice. So it's so fucking cringy and goofy.
But he's super strong. So he beats the delinquents, but he also scares the shit out of the girl. He kind of has a crush on.
So this is like this puts him back. And then he's just, I don't even know what he works. That if he's a construction worker or something, whatever.
But you know, he's super strong, but he's like, oh, fuck, I can never be a comwriter. And then he sees shocker on TV. And then first like the robberies. And he's like, that's not what shocker would do. That seems to low brow, whatever.
And then it just happens. And he's, you know, at the festival. And he's so happy when he puts on the mask. And it's really like a transformation, right?
And like he puts on the mask and you see like the blood pumping through his veins, veins faster and like, oh, you know, his body is kind of somewhat changing shape or whatever.
And he has, he starts to cry because he's so happy that he can become a writer for real in a way.
And you know, it's kind of scary because you know, depending on where this could go, it could become some creepy shit.
But it's also really nice like that he finally can achieve his dream and whatever due to these hood lobes. And the leader of the gang, funnily enough, apparently also did that like dressed up his goons as with these masks because he was also a fan of the show, but he liked shocker and not common writer.
So they're destined to be, they're destined to clash, man. They're like arch villains just on another level because their fans on the same show.
God, that's so dumb, but I love it. It's amazing. So we'll see where this goes, right?
You know, the, the, the, the, the preview of the next episode promises a bunch of more like a wacky people dressing up as characters from the show.
There's the skill apparently that is dressing up. I forgot what was her name was one of the other characters from the show.
And yeah, we'll see. And she's, she's pissed that she didn't get to be the one to actually the first to be the first one that beats up the shocker robbers.
So we see I, this is obviously a satire. I doubt it's going to get super dark, but hey, maybe it's going to throw a summer or a flamenco twist at me who knows.
I don't know if the setup has enough staying power for whole season, but the, you know, but, but it's fun and it's kind of like the end of the first episode felt was really heartfelt and made me feel the feels when he was able to be like, oh my god, I finally can do what I was destined to be.
And I like carbon rider as well, like it's my favorite talk of such a franchise to I don't watch all its seasons, but I occasionally dip it in and I'm like, oh, I'm going to watch this one and this looks promising whatever. So this is, you know, Taylor towards me.
I'm curious. Have you been checking out sets? No, but I plan to it looks really good. Like I heard a lot of good things.
There's also one of the previous the season before the most recent one apparently I think was also really good. I want to check that out as well. The last one I watch was built and that was really fucking good.
So we'll see what if which one I'm going to watch next, but I'm interested to dive back into that franchise again. And the live action, ED of this shows has singing Takoyaki.
So what the heck why not? It's a Togima loves Takoyaki. He fucking gals that shit down like eats it in like at least two scenes in the show.
And so in the ED they have it's life action and they have like stop motion animated Takoyaki. And there's that one Takoyaki is dancing and singing and doing rider punches and rider kicks. It's amazing.
It's amazing. I'm going to have to show it to you. It's fucking incredible. I can't believe in a show like that they would do like amazing ending like this.
What? What am I looking at? This is fucking incredible.
It's like this, this, this seasoning on on on the Takoyaki that looks like the rider mask. It's great. It's crazy wacky show.
But and it's a maybe right now. We'll see how I feel after like three episodes or something, but it could become a keeper. It's just it's very charming.
What is your next maybe John? My next maybe is my last maybe it's probably also my last maybe. I am willing to bet that yes.
And it's two year eternity season three. Yes.
Season two sure was. But I'm already two episodes into season three and I'm not really sure what's a make of it.
Because you know obviously who she is immortal and he can be whatever in wherever in whenever.
But I guess everyone else got to live too. So what were the consequences of season two?
I mean I don't even know are they not just like mirrored so first of all just to set it up.
After spreading his roots over the entire world and going to sleep wishing to awaken in a peaceful new world.
So it seems to seems to have achieved exactly that as he wakes in the version of our current world just with the roots all of the place.
And yeah, then he meets a bunch of new people and also brings back I guess I have only watched the first episode.
His dad friends, but I also don't know if like if they are the real people like did he bring back their souls.
I think that they started doing that in season two right.
They already did that there for some of them. He brought a march back in season two right.
In some capacity I think.
And I don't know if she was just a mirror of his memories or if it was like really her.
I don't remember what it actually came down to need to really listen.
We watched the second season I need to really listen to a review of that to confirm that.
So I don't know if all the friends he brought back if they actually are just those people or if they are just like clones or whatever or copies with his memories of them imbued.
And that's why they act like the original people.
So I wonder about that but it just it seemed like, oh okay I guess everyone is just here again.
Yeah, I mean again they probably said that in season two what they actually if they actually are those people or something that Fuji Fuji just came up with because he couldn't deal with being without them or whatever.
So which you know could be the story of the season like maybe finally letting go of them or something like that now that he is achieved.
You know being a human he needs to maybe learn to cope with that.
We'll see.
But we also got a couple of interesting new characters.
I don't I have not have confirmation of who Miso is yet which I assume is happening in episode two.
Right that she is in incarnation reincarnation.
And descendant of the villain from season one and season two something like that right.
They don't seem to want to push that intermission quite yet.
Okay.
Because Fuji meets her face to face in that episode at the end of episode one actually.
Oh, so it's my thoughts episode two at the end of episode two of the things happen.
That's right.
They meet at the end of episode one but I don't know what in they don't talk yet he just talks to her she doesn't she just looks at him and then the episode is over.
Oh right now they talk a little bit more at the start of episode.
Okay then and then her.
Miso has a serious case of bad anime mom.
No kidding.
Jesus.
Scumbag the anime mom mode at its finest like she like Miso is.
Miso has mom is like hey kid you are a batch I'm wearing and I love to take Instagram photos with you or whatever.
But I actually don't give a shit about what you actually want.
So she always pushes her daughter into things like try this out try this out you're gonna be the best whatever.
But actually I don't care and the look she gives me Zuhah just when she dares to entertain the thought of maybe not doing something for a while.
Just like that look holy shit.
That was whoo that froze froze the blood in my veins.
So yeah, what's we'll see where I assume that is elaborated on more in episode two a little bit.
And she may have gone missing and not sure where.
So.
Okay.
Not yeah to see how that plays out but.
And for she seems to be like in middle of an identity crisis like you know that he's in an age of peace and like he all his friends come back to life.
But more at least in the first episode much has already found a new family apparently in everything and he's like oh god.
Why am I even here?
What am I even here for then?
Like he's trying to make a thing and that is not recognized by the fish.
He's a fish at that moment at the other fish.
All right.
Just give a shit about the story makes in the set or whatever.
Like it feels like.
What is wish has fulfilled but now he can deal with not being maybe necessary anymore though you know we all know that probably this is not as peaceful of an age as it looks like on the outside.
So the conflicts are probably somewhere else now and he's gonna be dragged into those sooner or later again and the op makes that pretty clear.
Maybe it's more on a more personal note now probably the show is gonna go also go into bullying and stuff like that I would imagine so if it's like in the current time and most of our characters are in high school and whatever so.
Yeah they sort of do show a little bit of that in episode two as well so yeah so.
It's interesting because this is like compared to the first two seasons this is like really a completely different thing like completely different setting you know when the the because the previous seasons were mostly like there was always like open conflict or in one way or another in the.
In the countries that that Fushi was in and if there wasn't there were the what were they called this weird fucking the knockers the not.
I had forgotten that that was there that is what they were called.
Let's see if the season also get some giant knockers will we'll we'll see but that was mostly the first two seasons like that Fushi always was into like dragged into very very violent conflicts and war and whatever I don't know if this gonna happen this season and it's different cast and since it's in.
It's just a completely different feel to it so I wonder I wonder how I will feel about the season I don't know I mean we both didn't feel great about season two because of animation don't get and also because of the pace the we're pacing.
But yeah I still willing to give season three a chance I don't know if it's gonna be the last season have they set like is it supposed to be the final one or is the are they gonna go even farther into the future.
I don't know if that's been mentioned one way or the other I mean sort of looking at the chapter names for like to like for the next episode coming up and it's.
Oh no there's they would have to cover a lot so we're probably gonna get it but this is also supposed to this is also supposed to be 22 episodes so.
Okay I mean I guess it's positive because I think the next episode it looks like chapter 124 and this is not the the manga has finished but this is not a complete listing of the chapters so.
Oh wait okay it looks like 201 is the final chapter so it sounds like they'll do it we'll have to do another season.
Yeah so I don't even we don't know if there's another time change after this story or whatnot so I guess you'll see guess we'll see if we'll stick with it yeah no definitely give it gonna give it a couple more episodes at least we'll see but also maybe stick with it all the way through depending on what happens in the show.
I mean season two still had enough interesting things in it to string us along but that does not automatically mean that season three will be able to achieve the same alright then we're gonna move over quickly to the keepers and we're gonna start with another season three that both of us checked out.
And that is spy family season three so yeah it's spy family season three John what can we say about the first episode of that I mean the second second second episode I think is out but I haven't watched it yet but it's like hey the forges are back and they're up to the same shenanigans this is the sitcom which has been pretty light on plot of that in the previous seasons like there were.
Always bit sprinkled in between with stuff got a bit more tense and more narrative focus whatever but the first episode of this was just hey we're back to the half episode format for each of the little stories that they have in the first one the family has to stop a rampaging construction worker and Lloyd has an excavator battle for some reason and the
house I was like wait a minute battle construction vehicles that one game that no one else remembers apparently someone did the
I know the only reason I know about that games because the best friends in Sarri morning what are they call it salty Sarri morning shows it scrub
a blorge I think it was yeah and they played that game is like oh this looks like a video game yeah it's pretty much that and the second half is with Fiona yay and she teams up with Frankie and their first of two Rocky start but end up
working somewhat well together by the end so it's all very much that team up is super fun yeah absolutely everything with Fiona that is fun because she's is amazing
I wish she was more in the show she was that much in season two if if all of them remember correctly only some more appearances here and there I think
I thought she was there maybe a little bit yeah a little bit but not like she was more heavily featured in the season one with the amazing tennis match and so on so if I'm yeah so I'm always happy when she appears because she is super fun
and I I ship it because like I mean I know Lloyd is gonna end up with your and and I know because it's gonna be end up becoming a real family I get it but oh my God I'll be so sad for Fiona when she realizes that she will never be able to get together with him because she lost some so much
and I just yeah she's a cool character she's super fun so I was everywhere she's there and yeah what's he I don't like I said I've seen the second episode yet but I heard I heard that all the chapters that are coming up are more like self contained and it's gonna be more of this which is kind of a bummer for me in a way because the one thing I have been saying I wanted more from
season one and season two was actually getting more into the actual mission and the story of you know the the conflict between West talus and what is the other one oh stania oh stania right
and you know they they do like baby steps in that regard there's always like this one step and then there was this stuff with the essence on the boats in on the boat in on the cruise ship in season two that was more like I said more tense and everything
and starting to get a peek into a twilight past with the second episode as well which is okay I would say that yeah that's that's also the other thing that I wanted I wanted to know more about about while it's less Lloyd with his real name redacted of course but yeah you know stuff like that that's nice to hear that that's coming up but I really hope that that we're gonna get a bit more
more plot going here because as much as I like to sit come shenanigans and the bits episode with you know oh there's new stuff new new funny things happening with ania and with of course with with my favorite dog or bond and everything so sure I love all of that but it's nice relaxing thing after work it's one of those shows
but I feel like the show also has a lot of potential in the plot department so that's the one thing I still one from it and I don't know if I'm gonna get it from season three but I'm gonna enjoy it either way it's just like hey maybe you can also give me that which I also really want was just I mean
you probably it's also in your keepers your pros looking forward to this as well yeah sure great so we're definitely gonna keep watching that and it's always a light breezy watch like these episodes go by so quickly it's just it's just super entertaining and fun just you know light hearted fun and that's what it's supposed to be so John what is your next keeper
it's my last keeper and that is the return of ron ma half mm hmm first season was a big giant goof as you would expect the second season
uh ron ma has a stalker and oh I bet you know I know who that is and this well there's more than one okay there's this kid who's trying to I can't remember his name he's trying to follow him around and figure oh it's this weakness so I can exploit it so I can get with a carne and it's like turns out ron ma's weakness is cats
oh yes his father in his infinite wisdom try to teach him like this cat fist technique and just threw him into a hole filled with cats and it freaked him out so bad that when he just loses it he kind of turns into a cat he's not like physically but mentally into a cat
and that really confuses this kid and kuno and a carne and kisses a carne by accident oh that's mean anything
and then the other one is guess who shampoo yes of course and shampoo's a great grandmother places a curse on ron ma so that he can never change from
a girl back to a boy but he's already sworn to fight uh this guy who says he's going to marry shampoo but weird because it's a weird goofy story but things happen he's like well if you're not going to marry shampoo I'll take your woman in ron ma's like brother what are you talking about you you you you you you could you could just take shampoo just take shampoo what are you doing man
and he's like all right well I guess I'll fight you man to man and it's like oh you said certain words that you shouldn't have so now he is stuck in a a woman the woman's body unless he makes a deal with a shampoo's great grandmother which is just marry shampoo and you'll be able to have your male body back
hmm black male great yes isn't it awesome but no it's more the same stupid silliness and you know it's it's got the same level of animation quality and all sorts of go you know silly stuff going on so you know I am here to keep watching
Rumi Kotaka Hashis wild ride because you know uh Udo say got to know who's fun so I'll stick around for more of this just to see what other goofiness there is hey it's a classic for a reason mm-hmm so yeah I wish you a lot of fun with that
I have two keepers left the first one is a new one new show actually a sanda is by science are so uh masaki you was a studio and they always deliver cool stuff the most recent thing I talked about of theirs is done and done
and that is a fucking blast so of course I had to check this one out and show opens up in media rest with the main character sanda trying to escape from being stepped to death by one of his female classmates for you moora it's like it's cold open it's like she's just attacking you with the knife like what is going on here
yes no idea why or at least he says so uh but deduces it's because she likes him because that's what awkward teenagers do right chase the person they have a crush on with a knife I
mm-hmm this is what watching anime does to your brain people so stop while you can uh so it causes brain freeze oh no
it wasn't going for that but yeah apparently I mean that's that could be something straight out of of a runma I would say that is some soon that a character chasing runma
around with a knife because she actually secretly likes him so I mean I guess if he knew that he was an anime sanda wouldn't be that far off but he doesn't so why you know
does he think that who knows but yeah it turns out apparently for you moora has been pretty weird ever since a best friend oh no died or was at least declared dead which of course is understandable though this seems to be a bit extreme
but very quickly over the course of the first episode we learn what is going on so apparently in this world Christmas doesn't exist anymore and neither does winter sounds like your kind of fantasy john I love it I love it
and no snow apparently for ages perfect so so everyone is also super surprised when it suddenly starts knowing and apparently sanda has been keeping a secret from everyone which is that he is the descendant of Santa Claus
what he has been under a curse and to lift it three conditions had to be met ignoring any danger to himself he had to show affection to a child on a snowy December 20 the 25th
and then he had to give a child something it asked for and for you moora forced these conditions by first attacking sanda and you know he being so willfully naive that he decided to still help her out after that
because he thinks she has a crush on him because deep down he has a crush on her and then she asked him for his eraser which he also gave her and lastly he has to wear something red on the same day
and because santa doesn't want to put on his red track jacket for you more just stabs him because technically that means he is wearing something red because of his bloody shirt
he's a christish
and of course for you more for you more did all this because she thinks the powers of Santa Claus she intended to awaken and sanda by removing the curse would help her find her best friend
oh no who rather went missing then being actually found dead and you know owner was also the only person in the school still keeping the christmas tradition alive and giving presents to for you more on everything and they were like besties
of course she's super distraught that she disappeared and nobody seems to actually be intent to actually search for her anymore
but yeah that's what it was her intention so of course for you more of freaks out when sanda just seems to bleed out on the floor it doesn't turn to Santa Claus
quite the gamble therefore you were a no kidding but yeah thanks really she was dead on and sanda transforms into a super buff Santa Claus and promises her to help her find owner
but you know with that comes come their own sets of problems like sanda is worried that he can transform back into his youthful self
but a couple of things of his favorite comfort junk food bratty beans help him do exactly that so this shows also learning about his abilities because even though for you more as pretty sure that you know sanda
Santa Claus is amazing powers and everything and can help her finding owner she doesn't actually know what his powers are so the next episode is probably going to consist of her testing sanda with bullshit
and then trying to find out what his powers for because the next thing she does this girl has no chill is she hides a bomb in the classroom to threaten the lives of all the students and get sanda properly motivated to showcase some of his powers
and yeah sanda transforms into Santa once more by putting on his red jacket and then pretends to be a terrorist to get everyone but for you more out of the classroom who he holds hostage or pretends to hold hostage to look for the bomb
she has it on her so the gamble was again on her part and it still blows up but you know he ripped it from her and everything and it turns out santa is impervious to fire of course he would be because santa has to be able to go through any chimney even lift one so that makes sense
and actually it does yeah I hate that it does but yes so is a super wacky show it's a bit of a mystery show probably because of the owner stuff and everything and I don't know if it will turn into a full blown shown and thing or it's going to be a romance between sanda and for you more
you know like dana dana is between our two main characters and everything but it's like a fan constellation like sanda is a bit of a windy guy but he's also really fun and he's not
aside from being a bit naive because you know he's a crush on for you more and everything he seems also not be a dumbass completely anyway
and as expected from a science sorrow show it has a great visual style very sketchbook ask with a lot of thick sharp black outlines very nice color work especially in sanda's first transformation sequence where everything is black and white except for the red blood stain on his chest wound and everything
yeah so far very promising fun manic show it's it's it's sounds like it it's fucking crazy but I'm looking forward to more like at a really good time with the first episode the music is fantastic the look is fantastic and the characters are hilarious and stupid and crazy like fucking for you more is a full blown
a psychopath but in the fun way so we'll see where these two goes the opian in the fun way yes but yeah the opian id look great too so I a lot of fun with this show so I'm looking forward to more definitely
and the other the last keeper is of course what else could it be but the final season of my hero academia which is happening at the moment and it's picking up right back where the last season
ended like not the usual hey get acquainted with the million characters in the show it's just like nope we ended on the confrontation between all might and all for one like
we had they have this dark night returns fight because all might is now you know Kirkless and you know he switches between a bunch of different armor equipment and weapons that
shut up from his car and just you know he quips it on the fly and unequips it on the fly and all of that equipment mimics the abilities of his a one students so it's like his students are fighting together
with him against all for one for one last time and it's like the positive mirror to offer once Kirk stealing abilities that's really cool
and meanwhile we have Toro the invisible girl increasing the power of Ayama's naval laser by reflecting it and blasting away weird flower villain guy at the same time as all might uses a weapon styled after
all the amaz you know laser on all for one it's just really really nice like culmination of the stuff build up setup in the previous season and everything and previous seasons and
I it really feels like okay this is where at the end game people and everything everything is coming coming together and everything so I'm glad I get the feeling from this
or that's the feeling I'm getting from this and it doesn't feel like oh god what are they doing which you know happen when we watch fire for season three
this definitely feels like they're going the path that they laid out for this show and it's it's feel it's very high it's it's a it's a fun time
looking forward to to more and the animation is good of course because of bones and everything and yeah so I'm gonna watch this of course a John jump chip the while ago but I'm gonna at least do a quick review of this
and I don't know if this is gonna be a two core thing or if we're gonna gonna have like 24 episodes or 26 episodes all the way through I didn't look that up
but yeah so far it's it's a blast and I assume we're gonna get another nice like something I won't spoil here but there's a nice cameo clutch cameo at the end of the first
episode as well and it's really cool so yeah definitely gonna watch the final season of my hero academia no doubt about it and with that we're at the end of the sneak peak
and we're gonna head into our first review from summit season
right so soccer boto days really just kind of hitting the ground running where we left off there were these three three assassins or that were
those four right don't write hard minimalist at saw can't believe someone would willingly take the name dump but okay they're death row convict so whatever yeah yeah so I think as I recall they were dispatched by slur
yeah they're about to just go around just targeting any and all assassins they can but the others are trying to start investigating slur
himself the order is out there trying to hunt down all these guys I think at this point they they know they're around but they don't know where they are
who they are I mean they're first like they get the order to kill the death row convict right because they're like okay these are after our the members of our assassin society whatever and I don't know if they know that they're part of slur's plan or whatever
but it's like hey you we're gonna take those guys out because they're definitely here to stir up shit and they've already killed some of our people or whatever and on that list of assassins that the death row convict also possible kill is of course also Sakamoto
and shin is lu under two yeah right because they they all get a ranking and shin as a lower ranking then lu with amazing that that's the case but yes I was surprised but I mean considering what she does when they fight saw right at the end where she like
drinks ether don't drink ethanol who that shit can make you blind yeah don't do what are you doing can
get into a huge fracas with saw at a hardware store you drink questionable substances and shin unlocks a new power it's like a new level of his future site where he can just predict people's movements without having to read their thoughts yes but as a downside like it puts in men's
train on his body so he can like only use it for five minutes per day yeah so that's that's a that's a problem and so he can't beat saw on his own who's like this this fucking weirdo with his name is saw but he's using an X to fight which I was like
yet why not called not called acts shut up don't worry about I didn't get it could have even could have even dare not there any hardware store don't you think you could okay yes I mean maybe that's all the
reference we're getting but yeah and lu you know once she drinks pure alcohol then normal alcohol she becomes like this this gangster the gangster drunk
the mafia drift the master of the drunken fish manifest in multiple ways apparently I mean her mafia drunk form is super fun right in her hair opens up and everything and she she kicks major as in a way she chases after so on
everything it's really cool really funny this also is like the setup for shins arc for the season like he wants to become stronger to not be a burden to saccharotto and not always have to rely on him and
everything that is like his main goal for this for the season which leads to this funny scene of the first episode where he's trying to stay focused and not react into the cute dog which he totally fails at yeah that's
relatable yeah you know that's just me that's just she is just me in that scene like so fuck making fun of Lou because she so I would never do that but he's making fun of Lou because she
was so attached to the cats in the store and wants to stay longer than he just that one clerk presents him with this with the cutest she by you know puppy or whatever and he just can't
he just he's just resigning he signs himself to just petting that that dog and playing with it so that was very cute but yeah they just both of so well not technically not he runs away but then he is so unlucky and
he's a big old brother yeah he kills us all with one punch but he's also a nicer guy than expected right there's the scene in the later in the hospital where he is talking to
him so I'm auto and he's like hey I don't want you to get you involved in this what would your daughter and your mother do without you your daughter and your wife do
without you and he's brash but but consider it yes he's he's surprisingly consider it that was cool like giving you know because he always looked like this stone cold
hard bruiser and everything and then learning yes this other side to him is very nice so sauce this post of and then the next one being
getting disposed of this dump is like this chick that can like what what is it what she can grow off her body is it just these iron bars or what is that I think that's kind of what it was yeah it was not quite clear where they were coming from but like
I guess that something happy to deal with prosthetics yeah I'm not sure if she was wearing prosthetics or if it was just the superpower because you know there are people with
superpowers in this in this universe she can read minds so why not have her be like this weird character who can grow iron bars out of her arms and chest and whatever and then pale people with it so yeah she she is crazy and I think she and one of
the one of the other assassins we get actually a bit of like bit of flashback background of like two minutes or whatever see that she was always like very she was interested getting close to people but you know that turned into her killing everyone and then losing interest
right after that or whatever she I don't know like this weird level of obsession yeah in order to get to know people better she for some reason had to kill them which counter productive but you know sure all right I see where you're
going from I don't see where you're coming this is and her bed like a she runs into us again we were so do you
get shot to pieces yes with her handy first first she gets pummeled holy shit like don't fuck with us or are you like yeah damn that came out of nowhere I mean we all knew she was strong because she's in the order
and they're the most elite kind of killers that are out there but goddamn she kicked so much as an as it was amazing in general like again I'm
surprised at the animation level of of of the show considering you know TMS is good but this is probably the best looking show I've seen of theirs animation wise since
a loop on part five probably yeah so really good stuff and the fight was definitely a standout like all the fights in this season are great the best one coming a bit later I'm going to talk about
later but I was crazy and her banter with Shishi Buzz fun there's also just this background this this after credit scene where they go out to a festival and eat a bunch of different foods and she
she was just fine you always had the shorts a short end of the stick it comes to consuming the food that he wants to consume yeah and yeah this is a fun time this should she's a fun character he's a fun character together
they're amazing and we learned that the order or the the Japanese S S S S association of assassins DJ has clean up crew because of course they would have and they're called the floaters all right we're they choice again
it don't think don't think about it too hard it's fine but yeah we learn more about this universe and everything and we see our the villains from slur again one of the characters like part who is this weirdo who use strings to kill people and he also has a not so mild case of OCD
like yesterday arranged a pause of his victims in need little symmetrical pieces and can tolerate the book missing from bookshelf so much so that he has to buy it that volume from a store and put it in that bookshelf I thought that was kind of funny actually
yeah it was it super it was super funny I mean but a part kind of finds out that slur is just been using all of them so he chops Kashima part but he's not
part but you know that doesn't really do much to the guy it's like the black night in Monty Python it's just a minor setback yeah yeah he just gets it dismembered and put together again
because he's a cyborg whatever and but I also like it this season to see more of slur and them just hanging out
and just being I don't know goose on occasion like and with each other and talking like normal people to each other and everything like you didn't really get that much get that from them last season that much
and it just seemed like creepy killers but it is there like I don't know bang out at car ok we let her learn why they do that but it's it's I don't know and then there's a thing at the tail end of the season that is pretty funny with them
to be fair we only saw slur like pretty much in passing in season one yes but in we saw Kashima a bit more but now we actually have a name to put with him and
and others and some other minor details that might play into the story later on yes yeah there's the team is still trying to figure that out so
I mean we always use slur as for the again organization at the character interchangeable but slur is the guy who is for some reason having a grudge against a grudge against the JAA and also Sakamoto especially apparently
and the latter we haven't really learned why yet but we learn about what is mission is and like you said what is real name is and that's coming kind of in the middle of the season like first you know all the almost all of the
death row comics get disposed of the first two we talked about but then we also have minimalist right who is going directly into the store of Sakamoto and it looks like he's gonna
hurt kill whatever um Sakamoto's wife and I should have known that naguma would be posing as sorry S. I but it really caught me off guard day I don't know
the way to shake it huh yeah I was really like oh my god what is he actually talking over what's happening and then you see what she does to the guy like oh what
wait a minute did she like did Sakamoto like train her oh no it's not of course you have a character in this show who can change his own face and other people's faces and body as we later learn at the very end of the season
you should I should have expected this but naguma is one of the most fun characters in the show because he's such a fucking shit bag he's he's very
like but he's good at what he does super good at what he does he just and he just likes to I don't know he likes to trigger be he likes to
act them on push people's butt he loves pushing people's buttons absolutely and he's doing that in a fun way most of the time so I'm always
having a nice on screen because he's super funny and funny and yeah we also get introduced to the shows own healing granny Mia who is a
spry 98 years old can apparently heal pretty much everything which in the show where people get constantly chopped to bits
and whatever you need a person like that right so got that we got our all purpose healer now so that's cool and from her we learn that in his
fat states like a motor has only 30% of his power he had of the power he had in his prime which is still impressive like you know considering what he does what
what a hundred percent I mean we've kind of seeing glimpses of that but not anymore apparently yeah she locks that probably I don't know is it clear why she did that for what reason just to get him more acquainted
with his fat body while he fights or whatever yeah he sort of has an internal monologue critic I think Mia want me just learn it full
help fight it learn how to fight it full power with this body so he just goes for it and you know and that's how he's
he's going to be moving forward yeah and sacomoto ends up fighting apart well first he fights him which I don't know he didn't think
that through I feel like no very much in danger although I also always like when he's on screen because he's super funny as well that's like my my brother you are a sniper you're not built for CQC
absolutely not but you know it's always fun to have a scare around and seem take part in the battles that's also this nice after credit scene later in the in the season where he just comes across money for
once and instead of using it all for himself he actually treats the other other guys to some food that's really nice shows that he's a really cool person he he starts fighting apart but is in
over said and then sacomoto saves the day and fights on the Tokyo tower which is more like the leaning to the leaning it becomes a piece of
situation and yeah it's a it's a fun battle absolutely and that's also not the first time but this season we also aside from show the other person we see an action from the order for the first time is Takamura the old guy with the sword and he has
much less chill than expected like first the first thing we see of him is like he's the roofing the camper of the order just to kill a fly with his sword is mumbling all the time nobody understands what he's saying
and then he also appears in this scene and manages to stop the tower from falling killing over completely by slicing one of its pillars in the right way
and then once we learn what slur's plan is which is actually to invade the headquarters of the J.A. he is the one who fights one of their what one of their members Gaku I don't
reintroduced to Gaku in the previous season was in that I think I think we should have him briefly okay but yeah he has this like this giant as hammer or whatever and then Takamura gets into the belly building or walks into the building and shit gets
completely serious like escalates super quickly like like that fight was fucking amazing when when he just blocks Gaku's attack and then just slices the entire floor of that building and have or something like that it just looks so sick
that was one of the moments like to your mess holy shit you're delivering the goods. Takamura is not a slash.
I know absolutely not and there's like this moment in the second stage of the fight where he opens the door by gently cutting through it to push down the handle with his sword which is like this ingenious little detail it's it looked so creepy and cool and I love
that I thought just this whole fight against slur Gaku and the guy with the other guy of theirs Uda at the top of the J.A. building or one of the upper floors was fucking amazing because of Sakamoto also joins the fight of course apart is also helping out because the he kind of converts over to the side of our heroes for some reason
because they actually I don't know what his reason actually was did that because they felt I'm like he belonged somewhere finally right because that was his his thing that he had a that he had a problem with like he couldn't really get to know people really
yeah yeah we can't say we're obsession like dumb but in a different way just trying to understand people because he was able to understand himself and just that got scared of him I think we got the most background info on him like the flashback office was rather lengthy
yeah they beat him unconscious taken back to soccer motos and he's like why didn't you guys kill me say all that's not what we do when he's like I think just serve as like oh okay that's an option that you can do that thanks I can give you info and it was like oh
all right and he's one of the good question mark guys well yeah I mean I will see how much he will be part of future fights because he gets his arm got off yeah and he kind of needs both his arms for using you know his weapon and everything so we'll see
what what he does maybe he gets the prosthesis or whatever maybe also comes a cyborg like Kashima who knows but yeah so he Sakamoto joined the fight they just drum jump to a window and Sakamoto finally sees a slur because so far only Shin has seen him and I think Sakamoto has had his suspicions but now he is confirmed that that a slur is actually a guy called Uzuki
who apparently was part of the same assassin school that Sakamoto went to and Nagumo went to like Nagumo Nagumo Sakamoto and one other person which we'll talk about later where it is tied friends group
and it feels like Uzuki Uzuki wasn't with them and wasn't one of the the super popular whatever powerful hopeful assassin students or whatever but he was with them at the same time and we haven't been filled in yet
what the thing is that has him being so obsessed with Sakamoto it is hinted at that Sakamoto at one point had to kill him and apparently as we can see obviously didn't succeed
but we don't know what exactly happened there yet like if Sakamoto decided not to kill him for some reason if he didn't you know if he didn't if he fucked up or whatever that isn't has been made super clear yet
so that's something that we're probably going to get into season three or whatever and the show always manages to surprise me with its level of violence
and you know because there's so much blood happening in this in this particular fight like Gaku gets his finger cut off by Takamura then apart gets his arm cut off by I don't even know by a byslur I think who is like super fast
and then I think Gaku also gets his arm cut off by Takamura when Takamura joins the fight at the upper floor and whatever considering that I expected to show to be more of a sitcom
and having all the fights take place in the in the store or whatever like my what my initial idea about the story of about this show was
this is really much more violent than I expected like people's heads getting cut off left at right and then being completely dismembered into little tiny pieces as you can you can get away with that being on a streaming service and network TV
yeah I guess I wonder if it's I wonder if it's explicit in the manga I haven't looked at it
that's a good question that I I don't think it'd be too far better to say I'll probably taking some liberties but you know
to make it a more suitable format for for for anime and more entertaining in terms of fights and everything and the fights are great in this like they're really exciting and the choreography is cool and everything
and we have again a cool multi stage fight at the end of this season that is really fun and yeah it's just it's just a blast like I didn't expect to get that much good much good action out of this show
and you know TMS is really doing really really good work here but yeah Uda blow some Uda blow some self up to let Gaku and slow escape
and with that attack on the J a J headquarters like 176 members of theirs were killed yeah there is a lot of yes since lurby came active the number of hitmen in Japan
Japan has apparently been reduced to a quarter of its former number which is crazy those guys have been working
no kidding mm-hmm like I said another schoolmate is mentioned of Nagomo and Sakamoto's Akau which we haven't met him her yet
but you know she becomes kind of important in the latter of the show a letter of the season for a specific reason and to learn more about slur
Sakamoto and Shin decide to enroll as students in the JCC because they apparently have to like this this very comprehensive database like at the beginning of the season they went again to the killer Intel blockbuster video store where so far they got store informant
yeah where they got all their information so far but apparently that doesn't cut it for slur anymore for that they need the JCC data bank so they decide to enroll in students
so fun thing to spot in the in the scene at the beginning of the season where they go to the video store are the movie titles on the shelf
human lizard don't please sleepy fish mat summer the silence of the goats technical chainsaw massacre only some of them
oh my god I missed that entirely I have to go back and look at that again there were a couple more but they were not all subtitles so I didn't have all English titles so I don't know which of them but those were the ones that were in there
technical change so it was super fun so I bet there's a lot more even in the previous season that you could catch there if you look out at those scenes
they had a lot of fun with this so yeah they they roll into JCC or they get enrolled in JCC because apparently even though it's an assassin school there is no age limit on you know becoming an assassin you can do it whenever so
soccer ball to can also take me to place you know basically like college so anyone can go to college yeah and apparently only one out of 40
contestants students or students who are past the entry exam for the transfer exam that they're doing and suddenly this show turns into a got them into the got them hunter exam from hunter hunter
a little bit now do you know what I mean when I was going by by con air yeah yeah yeah con air assassination classroom hunter hunter could be any one of these I guess was really weird funny
because they're on the plane and everyone has to get instructed to steal like these these bullets from hidden test examiners that are in the plane which is very hunter hunter coded
and yeah then we get introduced to a couple of new characters here most important one or one of the most important ones probably like this germapop guy called mafuyu who is 14 and I'm 25 alright show shut the fuck up
don't don't worry about the way that guy is 14 what the fuck it's so stupid but how it's fine it's fine how will the shin shut up
well mafuyu's fight against chin is pretty damn sick like this really cool camera really cool tracking shot when they fight against each other in the in the aisles of the plane and shin has to slide through different roads of seats and everything
to escape mafuyu's attacks and everything so that's pretty damn awesome and their styles like and personalities clash all the time because they're diametrically opposed in a way
like like mafuyu is like this this the fucking young zoomer insta guy and or tick tock guy and they just start talking about movies when another character appears like Kanaguri who's like this assassin who's also a director
who's obsessed with movies and shooting move trying to shoot a new movie all the time while he's killing people and she they get to talk about movies is and and mafuyu has like this shitty opinion is like fuck movies they're too long and everything like get out of my show
I don't don't you fucking opinion and shit is of the same opinion as I am so he's just majorly pissed off by everything mafuyu is saying
but it's fun it's like them big ring all the time but mafuyu for some reason still being attached to shin he's treating him like a big brother character or whatever all of a sudden or like a like a classmate he just met and he wants to be friends with because that's that's kind of why mafuyu is there apparently
I think his big brother is already in the in the school or something one of his friends and the only reason he why he enrolled is because he wants to experience like like school life
as an assassin go to school yeah he can't go to normal school because he is a weird sociopath but it's just it's funny like he's like man I want to go to parties and I want to hang out in one I have like these festivals that you have during high school and excursions and whatever
but you're also this here no germophobous yes yes brother brother brother everything you want is that odds with each other yes a lot going on but yeah he he and shin clash and then we have on the other side of things we have sacamoto making friends with a girl called akira who does
seem at first glance to be assassin material but as we later learned she is the needs of the other classmate former classmate of sacamoto saco so she has maybe assassin in her DNA but also you know she just got taught by her and
and it's looking for her that's why she enrolled in the in the school because she wants to find ways to find her and she or she I don't even know if she expects her to be there but I think she apparently thinks that this is the best way to find her and and maybe she'd be able to find information in the JCC archives yeah maybe just like the same thing as
shin and sacamoto are there to do just looking into this big old archives and she becomes comes in handy very quickly because Kanaguri the director guy blows up the plane to get an interesting scene for his movie so stupid but it's amazing it's like well this is to boring
okay let's do this but he puts us is just fucking laser camera just bazooka camera that blows a blows a hole into the plane and everyone gets sucked out of the plane and and yeah then they all fall to their death technically
even though they're overwatering everything but Akira can so very quickly in general as we later on she can move super quickly she has like this also this hidden killer mode or whatever she moves like she can see where she needs to attack people to kill them right like
immediately she sees like a path the best path to take which is also kind of like not necessarily like mind reading the thing that shindas but she knows if people move a certain way she knows what the best way is to evade them and detect them a bit of like
I don't know pre-cock maybe or hyper reaction or whatever she's able to do hyper reflexes they link into her being able to move like a butterfly because she can read the wind like butterflies can or whatever right she can read the the the the best way to kill people or whatever
but in this situation she just so together a bunch of shirts and the apron of sacamoto or whatever and they get a giant a parachute and sacamoto shindmafulu she and this other this comedic relief character kill baby are are saved by this so
first off what a name second off who literally every time it's like yeah we did it who are you what yeah I used to run in gag of the second half of the season and
but you know he'll kind of like you appreciate being around those the people he even is like if sacamoto when sacamoto and Akira are like
trying themselves off and having like camping food cooking whatever he's like you guys are not professional enough what is happening here I can understand his frustration in the way they don't behave appropriately to the situation I guess although sustenance is important so I guess I also like that the examiners who kind of seem a bit
also in over the heads when the sun we blow up the plane like fuck what are we gonna do now just sort of like well this wasn't part of the plan a wing it I guess yes exactly wing it's we gonna just pretend this is this us falling to our certain deaths is the second part of this exam
and it just did just moving right along and then the third quote unquote part is that they're playing this game of tail tag where they have like these these these these part pieces of cloth or whatever hanging out on the back of their pants and they're all different colors they have like different teams
and everyone has to grab a color from a different team and if you have all colors you succeed or enough different colors then your own and don't lose all of your your your pieces then you win this contest and
shin asakamoto are on different tail tag teams which is interesting and shin again wants to stand on his own two feet so he wants to come to treat him like an enemy in the exam
and I love that this seems to upset so car water because he like be since teacher and she should looking up to him with everything he's so sad oh man yeah I mean I felt sorry for him but it was also kind of cute it was like hey you really really
and he always felt I mean you you understand you feel that he cares for shin most definitely but there was one of the rare moments where you actually see that he was really happy to have him under his wing back when he was still a full blown assessed and like having this protégé protégé that looked up to him right
and it was nice seeing that and to him be like oh man he's trying to grow out of my shadow but I like being a teacher it was nice it was really nice is always nice to see get bit more bit more of a glimpse into sacamotos inner workings because we don't really get that much I mean he's more talkative in this season than he was in the previous one I feel like yeah a little bit slur even comments on that he's like I don't remember you being that talkative
and yeah he definitely talks more in this but still we don't we don't get much that information on his inner workings we definitely are more in shin's head and and some of the other characters then we are in sacamotos
just like the action man who appears on the scenes and resolves the situation usually with his fists and yeah they have this contest and there's this girl with the really weird haircut that is the sacamoto fan girl
Toramaru I think is her name I think she colored her hair because she white at least the the pigtails because sacamotos hair is white and everything and she carries that doll around with her and yeah she's full blonde fan girl and when she realizes that she also like sacamoto looks up to him she doesn't realize the sacamoto is with with them because you know she knows the old sacamoto the slim sacamoto she she doesn't realize that
she doesn't realize that that is him and she's super pissed that she assumes he knows more about sacamoto which he does because he has she sort of does yeah she because he has met the real one he's work with the real one and she just is going off on an idealized version of sacamoto
so of course they clash and everything and it's fun it's super fun I expected it to go a bit longer which is this particular contest part but they quickly you know they quickly shift over like the pacing of of this show is kind of amazing it's like one you think oh yeah this is going to take up a couple of episodes like nope
we have another surprise for you because the show already hinted at that the that the slur gang was trying to recruit new members after losing a couple right and you know all the death or conducts and dying and everything and slurs like hey I need a couple more ponds ponds we need to maybe we should look for a younger generation and apparently they recruited one of one guy during karaoke and now Gaku is controlling that guy
with VR tech why are you doing it okay yeah sure if that's how it works and they're doing all of that to look in that contest in that contest in these in this transfer exam to look for promising new killers that they can use for their mango which apparently
to take down the entirety of the J.A. right that that seems to be slurs and game aside from the sacamoto stuff which we don't really know about much yet he he always talks about starting a new fair or world or whatever I assume the some grudge because he wanted to be the top assassin and couldn't hack it and because I don't know the system was rigged in the J.A.
and now he wants to just wipe the slate clean and have everyone be judged by their their you know performance in the real world something like that's probably going to happen and second
sacamoto probably also was a roadblock to that with C but yeah to achieve that they're trying to recruit new members and to find new members which is not super easy if you don't go through the official channels of the J.A.
they you know hijack this exam and stage a fight between Gaku or the guy he controls and a bunch of different other characters like that whole multi stage fight between Shin Kaji poor Kaji and later sacamoto against V.R. Gaku is fucking incredible like great animation very funny bits like Gaku on the floor dry swimming and
cool shit like sacamoto's name in the lyrics of the song playing in the finale there was a hell yes material I really liked it I mean that was you can actually add its best in terms of soundtrack and he I mean I said in the first season I feel like using him as a composer is maybe a weird choice because
hey it's still assassins killing bunch of people and that you can actually see the guy for the heroic battle him like for for the cool heroes are have arrived on the scene and but but they are heroes just shares the good guys beating up the bad guys technically yes I guess it's
still funny to me but it definitely leads to amazing musical moments so I can complain about it and it's it's really a really fun and also speaking of fun things related to music animation how good is that op right it's a banger it's pretty hard fucking amazing also I love the moment at the very end of the
piece of the credits to slam it into the assassins body face and then put it into a pocket yeah incredible I love when a piece do interactive shit like that that's you that is pretty rare right that the credits get actually incorporate I mean style wise visually wise yes they often get very much like put in on buildings or part of the scenery or whatever but that's a characters actually grabbing part of the credits and doing something with it was fucking amazing
I was like oh shit you don't you rarely see this this is great this fantastic and it looked super cool tool like that that too that's op op looks amazing sound amazing like who did who did that that song
crowey okay I need to look into them because I really like that song I thought that was just super chill and a good time and I mean I already love the first op of the show but this I think the like I like the second even more yeah same also I kind of like the part of the ending theme where you know it's you know a bit more downbeat but you can hear at the end of the song like the sound of like a train a railway signal go off and say
and that sort of you know shows you know this is supposed to look more quiet a little more peaceful you can hear you can hear that often the distance or thing I don't know I just really like that yeah really neat just incredibly well produced show and all aspect
absolutely banger left and right and yeah after this after they beat the guy that is controlled by by Gaku and he logs out and whatever and they learn that he was controlled by by them and everything
especially because Kaji is kind of sort of able to into it there a little bit but he's not certain about it yeah because he can hear the other side of whatever is coming through the VR headset right because he has this amazing hearing so he can hear what
Kishikashima and and Gaku talk about the on the other side of of the the the the the line of what is happening in the earphones of Shinaya Shinaya is wearing yeah so that's that was neat I mean that whole fight
she could just cool but I'm still sort of like confused like so I guess she and I was asleep the whole time yeah see what's under the nose is or something like that that and probably got suggestions both audio and then also
also control via the VR tech because it only work when Gaku put the glasses on and everything and apparently he could just use him like a doll in that way
so still a little strange maybe you know it's it's fine as it was a cool fight yes it's one of those where it's like if you think too hard about it doesn't make any like a sense but this is also like you know a wacky stupid comedy show so don't worry about it
because I was like I guess they're doing like brain control but yeah is Shinaya supposed to be like a row bar or something so I feel like that would have made more sense
really no I guess he's a human after all like what oh all right I'm stopping here yeah some kind of hypnosis whatever mind control through the our headset things going on there
but yeah Turamaru can't handle realizing that her idol got fat and her apparently being more superficial than she thought because it's wait actually bothers her real
cries of faith and yeah she and Malfa you get forcefully recruited by Slur by being abducted in the helicopter that they're taken in by Kanaguri who is apparently also working for Slur now all while being a double agent in the order
wonder who site is actually going to turn out to be on when when you know all the cars have fallen or whatever
and another guy Carolina Reaper or whatever right and then we meet another person when when we get to the headquarter of Slur
so and yeah that's gonna probably gonna happen they're gonna make Malfa you and Turamura Turamaru fighting for them in the next season maybe so that's gonna be interesting probably gonna have a second square of between Shin and Malfa you
they didn't seem too keen on working for them but I guess we'll see how that plays out don't think they have a choice yeah
it's probably either they do it or they get killed or they get also mind controlled via the VR thing or something so we'll see something like that's gonna happen
I doubt they can just know about the one thing the one thing I was a bit nuh on in the season is like I was before the very end of the last episode
there was like man it's a bit of a shame that I and Hana are barely in the season I mean I get it plot reasons but considering how integral they are to why Sakamoto is the way he is right now and why he's doing what he's doing I feel they should have a big a part in the story
and I was like maybe next season and I mean I'm kind of getting my wish but it's a bit of a monkey's pause situation
yeah so Shin passes the exam with flying colors but to everyone's surprise Sakamoto fails turns out it's due to the bounty on his head
but with the help of a big facelift courtesy of Nagumo he will now pose as a teacher in the form of his own wife
most like it could have done had to be in with oops I mean I can understand why he didn't want to that's gonna be the next season that's gonna be really interesting
we're gonna see not a not our beating up a lot of people and yeah then investigating trying to find the archives and trying to find out more things about slur and everything
all the things have been lined up with C but yeah I lots going on in the season I guess
a breakneck pace never boring super entertaining show great fights great animation great soundtrack I don't know John
I had a good time how about you oh yeah for sure I think my only misgiving was that shows they've been getting
cymo dubbed I've been wanting to you know see how the dub sound as well yeah stick with the Japanese for this show like again
I've said this before I don't want to put it on the actors I think it's like some weird direction issue with this show
we're just delivering the line reads are like they're not awful but it's like mmm think you could have given that another take maybe
so like we mentioned uh ronma in the sneak peak earlier and I started watching the current season dub just to see how it is and the dub of that is great like you know the characters are you know all really believable and inflecting well in this show it's like I'm not quite sure what we're not but everything else awesome top to bottom I wonder if it's show I wonder if it's like new is or inexperienced actors or if it's the
voice direction that is to blame here I mean because as I recall there are some veteran English voice actors in here so I don't know man
like sacamoto is voiced by Matthew Mercer that's the name and nogum and nogumos voice by Alex lay so so probably the voice direction then there are names on this show so
there are names on this show so like shin like a lot of his reads are like weird I mean there's still always the Japanese right and yeah you can go that but it's a shame like it would be nice if this was was on the same high quality level as maybe I don't know uh Ronma or which from Mercury or whatever
uh not which from the gogy G quacks which you said was really good in the dot department yeah I mean like I guess I've been trying to check out more dubs on and off lately because I feel I personally feel like and I know there are people who disagree with me
because all all dub's are bad I feel like the general quality of dubs has gone up since since like the early aughts probably
and that's a long time it's been you know if you want to go by like 20 25 years but dubs have dubs have gotten better
it's just like you know obviously for some people the sub will always be king and you know with some shows yeah I would say sure but
let's say it's like it's it's funny because I feel like in Germany it's like the exactly the opposite development I think dubs have got I mean I've seen that many dubs but everything I've seen uh over the past
years of like dubs gotten worse and worse and are the best serviceable uh at least when comes to a monster
monster is very solid but also that has it problem is problems to be fair once as a giant cast
and you can't have great actors for all the side characters I understand that but there are still moments in dare that feels stiff and a bit
wonky in terms of translation because it's too direct in terms of voice direction where I feel like
character wouldn't talk like that in this situation this is this doesn't sound realistic and monster is not an enemy
where it's like people yelling all the time it's a very grounded realistic crime thriller drama
and I would expect it to sound in terms of a dub like a normal crime procedural that is running on german tv right
at least american one that is dub probably and it just doesn't it just it's sometimes sounds too stiff I still like the dub I feel like it's serviceable it's okay
but back in the day when there was like when anime was running I mean still but you know some of the stuff that was running in my late childhood on german tv in terms of dub was just really good in terms of dub quality
like the stuff running on on our on the german branch of mtv for example lupa we had a lot of the lupa specials running there
this up was the dub was incredible cover we had cover bb of running there the dub was incredible the dub for drag ball z while starting out a bit shaky got really good later on
I think like even drag ball proper started out pretty shaky and got really good later on around the stuff this time tension hangout introduced that arc right and piccolo and so on
got the script got much better much leaner and the translation felt more fluid and everything and more like it was matching what was happening on screen and everything and match the emotions of the characters
and that that face like of german dub there was like the peak I would say maybe even earlier was better when it you know when we still had anime running as cartoons and not as anime like this dub for saber rider was incredible it was a joke dub
because they inserted a lot of fucking puns and everything but it was really good and really funny and the and it had a lot of seasoned voice actors and really good voice direction and translation and everything so that was the the high water mark in terms of good german dubs and I feel like
with all of them having to all of the shows have become the dub faster and faster and not being enough time to actually put thought into the translation and everything or enough thought into the voice direction has really
reduced the quality not even partially see that in some Hollywood movies where feel like some of these voice talents first of all are not as good as the one season ones from
20 years ago 10 years ago and some of the dialogue direction is just not as good it's not up to par and you know that's why I stop watching anime in with german dub and monster is the exception because that
anime said in Germany so long tangent German does that nobody who's listening to this because we probably most ever mostly have English speaking listeners will care about but still just to show you that in
Germany's I feel like it's the opposite direction but also maybe be I should give a look at some of the dub that is some of the shows that from current seasons that are being
similar to over here since you made an effort to do that john maybe I should do that to just to see if maybe some of those also there was like one or two dub studios in Germany here that were delivering persistently good
dubs it did up for them party did it the dubs for wolf's rain they did it up for X the TV series and all of those dubs were really good and I wonder if they're still around that I wonder if they're still doing
projects if they are still around those anime might have good but I'm not sure so but I'm glad to hear that at least on your side the quality rose up and I can see that happening with a streaming becoming like anime becoming more and more mainstream especially
on the American side of things with all the streaming portals and everything and does maybe even getting a bit more budget there and time and you know getting more actors that grow into these roles and everything
who also wasn't voice normal cartoons and maybe having voice directors on a lot of the shows that try to go for more I don't know not over exaggerated approach which I feel you had had
like on a lot of enemies in anime in the nighties even on shows that didn't need it. Yeah, so I mean big outlets like Amazon like Netflix they have the money to do that.
Like high dive is certainly not a big enough outfit for that like they don't sign all the like some of their shows eventually do get dubs and that's cool.
It's questionable whether crunchy roll has her if they outsource it to other places but has only sometimes do some of their shows get sign all dubs it's not like 100% of the time but like for sure Netflix and prime video are a lot more consistent with it so.
And it seems like they usually have the money to make them sound and seem pretty good like I've and I don't want to throw it on the actors again but looks like the person who played Shin Dallas Lou might be newer to voice acting so and I like that I don't want to or to at least.
And I'm not a voice in anime me they have other roles I haven't looked it up but you know I just I just want the best for both sides because you know the people who are like never dubbed it's like well your mind's not going to change so.
But you know like to see people who enjoy it one way or the other or heck maybe there are people who like both can you imagine wow yeah and you know I like that maybe I'll.
And I guess it maybe I'll also stumble across maybe I'll check out some of the couple of first episodes from the season or from from the next season and see if there's a German.
Dab on on that for those shows I don't even know what he is not on crunchy roll this season I guess.
And I might be airing on Netflix I'm not sure or on prime it's my two notes were on high die so well.
We'll see I you know I just I don't know where these air over here but I think I can check that out for life chart on life chart and see if something of that is available and see how the dub suits me but even if I'm still coming would come away from from the newer stuff I'm like yeah I stick with Japanese for this I still I will still have my doubts of wolf's rain and of copper be Bob enough black lagoon like lagoon also has an exception exception.
So I think I watch actually watch that the last time I watch it because it's so much because the German voice actors are having so much fun with that show so.
There are the occasional outliers but everything that I like occasionally checked out and looked into with the German dub was like not on the level of the Japanese dub it was just not as I don't know not as engaging even though if the performances were solid.
And I feel like hey if I have the option of watching the show in the perfect audio way and the okay or good all you will always choose the perfect option so I don't know maybe if there's another show that is set over here like monster are we like okay I'll check this out I guess I could
do it for shows that are not set in Japan because there it makes the most sense to me like you know if the new season of free events I could check out a also German dub of free that would make sense right because the fan
is a show anyway and they all have German names anyway so it would be super funny to me if they're means miss pony if the translation was so shitty for the German
dub that they miss pronounce some of the German names in there because they didn't get what that would be tragic it would be so dumb but I can totally see that happening.
No that would be awful no we'll see but yeah that's that's that's something that I might look into.
So yeah but after this long tangent all that's left to say about Sakamoto Day season 2 I guess is watch it like this the first season and this which I don't even core whatever you know because yeah I guess this is technically not season 2 was coming up this season 2
yeah whatever it sees one part to maybe will will correct that retroactively depending on what they decide to call the next thing that is coming out if this is gonna be season 2 or if this is gonna be season 3 or whatever it's just trying to anticipate this these days is a fool's errand because seems like they're making their minds up on the floor.
Anyway super fun show like super entertaining character good jokes great visuals great music quick paced story actually more story than you would expect from this show which is what I said in the first season I was super surprised that there's actually so much plot in there this show in its like what is the 22 episodes at this point has like more plot than all of spy family does in its I don't know how many episodes that show has at this point.
I think it's double like like 40 something in their stuff there was the movie and I expected this one to have a similar format right in terms of being more of a sitcom like I said and being more like hey there's a new killer trying to kill Sakamoto and every time he has to find a different way to fight in his store or in the new vicinity of the store without people noticing it or his wife or his daughter noticing it and we got over that so quickly in the first season now is wife knows that he is an assassin and you know they're from the first season.
And you know they're fighting everywhere but the store I mean Nagamo and minimalist fight in the store this season but it's like very short scene.
Yeah much of a fight no fucking chance and I go was just too powerful but you know it's I like that the show surprised me in that way I'm so happy that there's actually more meat on those boats and it's not just light fun don't get me wrong I like light fun I like the light fun that's by family has to offer.
But I also like much more if there's an actual story behind it and you know lore and everything and world building and shit like that and Sakamoto today's has that in space so I'm really looking forward to the next season I assume it's the same for you John.
Yeah for sure I don't think we have a time frame for you but you know as soon as it drops preacher will both be there.
Yeah where can people watch it Netflix right it's a Netflix show yes yes so do that check that out because if you like assassins and if you can stomach more blood and any one of us expected from the show then I think it's good to go and you're gonna have a really fun time with our favorite shall be assassin.
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