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Hello and welcome to an all new episode of Anime Brain Freeze! We are your burnt and broken hosts!

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- I am John! - And I'm CC, and when there's just too much cool anime to watch, we've got you covered.

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Summer has come and gone, the fall anime promos are literally at our doorsteps,

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so it's time for our season finale here on ABF, and what better way to bid the hot season a

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due, than with a scorching review of a particularly smoldering animated series, namely the first core of

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the third and ostensibly final season of Fire Force. And of course, as usual, we will give you our

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picks for best anime of the season, but before all of that, there's some leftover tidbits to talk

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about in the quick and the dead. So, grab your fireproof headphones, go on a quest to forge your

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ultimate weapon whilst indulging in every possible RPG fantasy you had as a child,

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to cope with the fact that your parents abandoned you to dodge their dead collectors,

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went underground, had three more kids, for some reason didn't ever come back to get you,

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and then after running into you by accident abandoned you again. You poor precious stupid boy,

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I'm so sorry you don't deserve this, you are the best this story has to offer. Why would they do

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this to you? Do they hate you that much? This is so horrible! Fuck them! Fuck them and then you family!

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It's just bad enough!

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You look bad enough, one that at least so much cherishes you, you are a king, you are the

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night king and you don't need to take their shit anymore. You are loved and you are great the way you are,

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you are perfect! And definitely don't pause the pod. Oh, we're already back. How about that?

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Welcome to the quick and the dead, so yeah, bye!

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Sorry for the long break at least between the previous episode which hasn't been released at this

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point when we're recording, some in the process of editing that, and this one which I will probably

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release like one week of break between them or something like that, but pretty much back to back,

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but CC did something dumb again as usual, I slipped in the kitchen on, I think a puddle of water when

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I emptied my dishwasher or something and I was running on bare feet and was going way too fast and

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I'm not fucking sonic so that went sideways and upwards and yeah, so I slipped fell and broke my

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fucking elbow and had to do a bit of recuperation and I'm still in the process of that but I'm at the

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point where I can now finally edit again so I'll hope to release the previous episode soon

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and this one pretty much right after that and then we can hopefully get back to our more regular

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scheduled program, but yeah, with that being said and my apologies out of the way, John, you have a

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couple of quick things you would like to talk about in the quick and the dead.

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The first is mono, which you know again talked about this at the top of the season, you know,

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this is from the creator of You Do Camp and it is definitely that same energy of just cute girls

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doing cute things, going on, going on to take photos of things and videos and

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and there's a cat that they try to attach a camera to, like I said, the top and the boy that didn't

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work out great. It's kind of a neat story because they're just going across the Japanese countryside

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to different vistas you get to see, you know, them do usurping stuff, you know, like I said, it's cute

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girls doing cute things and it's just so really relaxing definitely, you know, a great show to

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wind it down with because work has been a whole thing lately, but if you like You Do Camp, you will

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probably like this show and there's, you know, honestly, not a whole lot to give away or talk about

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with it, but if you enjoy You Do Camp, you'll enjoy this. That's pretty much the TLDR I think.

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Sounds like a chill time and the other thing I finally got around to finishing Sonic the Hedgehog 3

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the movie. No. The 4K disc is still sitting right over there. Don't at me. I'm adding you all the time

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John it's the best one of the three go get to it. Jesus Christ because number one this is anime

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pre-in-free. Yes, I get it. I mean, I feel like Sonic has a bit of anime in his DNA. There wasn't a

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Sonic of the A-Bick in the days. There's that. Oh God. There's Sonic. What was it called? Sonic,

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Sonic X. Sonic X, right? Sonic X, there's Sonic Boom, there's Sonic Prime, there's Adventure,

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Sonic the Hedgehog, there are some of these Sonic and Shows I think. There's a Saturday morning one,

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there's Sonic Underground, there's no shortage of animated Sonic and it comes in all different

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flavors. No, what I finished watching was Uma Musume season 2. Ah, all right. And how did that

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pen out? Oh my God, it was so good. So the first season was about Special Week and Silent

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Susuka and their rivalry and how Susuka eventually goes to America for her training. And this season

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was about Tokai Teo and Majoro McQueen and how they're both gunning to go for an undefeated

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triple crown. And Teo is, you know, she's one of the fastest horse girls in Japan until

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she has an injury and breaks her leg. That sucks. Yeah. Yeah. And she gets set behind the barn and shot.

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No, thank God. No, but we'll talk about that because there's the thing to talk about with that,

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with one with one of the other girls in their real life story. Teo is, you know, just,

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she's kind of really down on herself because you know, well, I can't race again for I think it was like,

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it was a long time. It was like almost a year. And after that, she starts training like crazy and

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McQueen is out there racing her butt off and she's trying to get her triple crown, like I said,

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but there's this other horse girl rice shower. And she's kind of like this. And I believe,

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I meant to look this up before, but I think it's supposed to be a thing at like Japanese weddings where

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you are showering the bride and the groom with rice as a sign of a good blessing. Oh, we do that. I believe

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sometimes I feel like it's less common in the West. I mean, not rice, but flowers, I guess. I mean,

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yeah, it's kind of the same thing. Yeah, it's similar, but you know, this is specifically talking about

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this, you know, right showers kind of soft spoken, but you know, she wants to, you know, come up in

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the ranks too. So she defeats this other horse girl, mehono bourbon and takes her triple crown.

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And the crowd is sort of like, what do you mean? What do you mean? This other girl, one one bourbon

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sort of one and right showers kind of downer is after that because she sort of seen as like a heel

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and she starts to feel like, well, I guess maybe that's what I'm supposed to do. And when until the

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other girl starts to say, no, you need to race and you need to, you know, do this, you just need to go

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for it. You need to do the best that you can. So then she basically goes off into nature on her own

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and trains like crazy. And when she races McQueen at the spring tenno show, I believe is the race.

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Rice comes out of nowhere and just boom takes the win. And the crowd is sort of like, I've had it

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again, but there's this moment where McQueen is like, nah, you did really well. So I'm glad you want.

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So it's like, it feels good to see, you know, that's that's what this show is about. That's what it was

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in the first season too. You know, these girls lifting each other up. But then when Teo and McQueen

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are supposed to have their next scheduled race, the Arty McQueen and McQueen, I forget what the

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okay, degenerative suspensory ligament dismight us. She starts suffering. And that is like

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not curable. So it can be controlled, but that means McQueen will never run again. So

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Teo ends up going into the Keenan to go up against, uh, there is an OVA in between the first and second

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seasons that focused on three other girls. Be well, Hayahide, Nariah Ta-Brayan and winning ticket. And

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Hayahide is like one of the fastest out there and she only ever comes first or second place in

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all her races. And Teo is, you know, still kind of not a hundred percent there, but she's got to win.

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She's got to do it because this is probably going to be your final race before she retires.

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She pulls it out in the end. And it's super triumphant. It's like, yeah, yeah, that's what this show is

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all about. It is at its core, a sports anime. And, you know, like the underdog story about it.

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That's what I was thinking, like, John, this is with my affinity for sports anime.

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Should I watch my most in May? Because like, it sounds like a really good sports anime. And also,

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I recently watched like an MAD on YouTube that heavily featured scenes from Uma Missy Me. I don't

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know if it was season one or even season two, but it was fucking insane. I was like, do I need to watch this?

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I mean, that's up to you. But, you know, the animation has gotten better from the first season.

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Like, you know, the first season has done a big PA work. And it looked pretty good all most of the way

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around this season. And I believe the third season that hit up by Studio Kai, and you could tell they

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took it like another step up. And they also planted the seed through this season for the main cast,

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the main girls for the next season, Kita Sun Black and Satano Diamond. So, you know, that's coming when

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they eventually watch it. So, yeah, oh, it was really good, but they don't talk about one of the things

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that happened with Ray Shower in real life. And that was in Ray Shower's real life last race.

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He fell down and broke his leg and was euthanized. So, I wasn't that far off.

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Yeah, his real life career was cut short. He was only six years old at the time.

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Yeah, that's like so. Not every force got a happy ending.

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He back you know, in the show, I guess, kind of. And we talked about, and when you talked about one

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was the last time, we talked about one example where we, there was a kind of happy ending for one of

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the retired horses. Oh, yeah. Got to live on its own farm, basically.

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Gold ship in Haru Uda got to live great lives after their retirement. So,

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well, we wish that up on all future race horses. Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah, great show, great season,

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looking forward to whenever I watch season three. I am solely trying to get caught up because I believe

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Cinderella great part two starts this coming season and I won't be current. So, I don't know when

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I'll get to watch it. Maybe, maybe by the time season four of women was in my proper runs,

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or rolled around, I will have caught up to you. Or something. Let's see. Because I mean, there's season three,

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there's the two movies. One was kind of cut up for a TV. If I wrote to the top,

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was cut up into four episodes for TV. Then there was beginning of a new era and then sinned

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to relegate. So, yeah, literally. That definitely was very horsey. Yeah. I didn't think I said to say

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that to you. I didn't think a show about anthropomorphized horse girls would make me feel things,

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but here we are. Yes. I mean, good sports anime do that. Like they make you just buy into the hype

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and just the feelings that come with that. So, all the good sports anime that I watch do that

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and are good at that. Because ultimately, these shows are about characters. And the ups and downs

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of trying to strive for a certain goal and sometimes stumbling and sometimes falling,

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sometimes usually getting back up again, but sometimes not. So, those are always very engaging

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character stories to witness, to see. A lot about growth and a lot about discovering yourself

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and everything. So, good sports anime do that. They are not only about who can win the gold or whatever

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they are about how to get there and which characters do it and how they do it. So, it seems like

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umamu sense, umamu sense is working along those lines. Yeah, it really is. And I mean, it's kind of

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interesting to read about the real life stories as well as, you know, as supplemental material. As it

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were, even though that's the real truth of the stories. But yeah, watch horse girls. Good show.

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Watch horse girls. Play horse girls, I guess. Well, we'll talk about that maybe at some point. Okay.

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Yes. So, what do you got for us? Well, not much, but I went to the movie theater to an i-makes theater

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to be exact and watched the newest or the first of the three Demon Slayer Infinity Castle movies

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with a packed house like that movie theater. It was really tough to get those tickets actually. Holy

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shit. Yeah, because initially like these are always usually over here as specials and they already

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put it up for like a week. But when the tickets went live at crash, they're fucking server. And I spent

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like, yeah, I spent like three hours or more like into the night trying to get these because they

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went online like a 12. So I expect, oh, nobody's gonna be awake for this. Yeah. So you thought

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weeps don't sleep bitches. It was fucking horrible. But eventually I got my tickets.

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So we with David wanted to join, but he went his vacation,

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interfered with that. So he's gonna watch it on Monday after, you know, this recording.

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So I'm looking forward to hearing his impression, but I went with another friend of ours who's also

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big into anime and his colleague. And the colleague had a problem because he didn't know Demon Slayer.

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Like, I was like, why are you here? I watched the recap halfway and I was like, oh, okay, yeah,

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well, that's a lot to catch up on. Yeah, well, it was, and it elicited the reaction. I expected mostly

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confusion and partially like, oh, this doesn't work for me, right? Because he couldn't,

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emotionally engage with any of the characters because he didn't know it, right? That's totally fine.

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I expected that. But me and the other guy, we fucking loved it. This is Barnum, one of the craziest,

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visually intense anime movies I've ever seen. It is right from the get go, which was to be expected

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considering the stage for these movies, which is the Infinity Castle, like the technically the

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Demon Realm of this show where you have like these constantly shifting castle or city landscapes,

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whatever, like buildings moving around all the time. So we have a lot of three-dimensional

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spaces, constantly shifting and changing by this one of the demons who can use her, her instrument

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and if she strums, one of the strings, like the stage basically changes again, like the

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the layout of the castle changes again. So that happens constantly. And the show employs that

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the best way possible by setting a bunch of intense battles in that setting. And as you would expect

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from a movie level UFO-table production, I mean, we technically already saw that with the Demon

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Train arc because that was also a movie first and then got adapted for the TV version. And

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I watched a movie version, you only watched the TV version, right? That's how it worked out.

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Of that. But like I already told John over Discord, I recommend everyone to see this in the movie

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theater. This was made for the big screen because there's so much fucking happening. I don't even,

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if you watch this on the small screen, this will probably be overload. I mean, it can be overload too

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if you watch it on the big screen because it's just so fucking Titanic and like it's just the

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especially in IMAX, like the screen is so big and just filling out your whole field of you and

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everything. But it was amazing. Like it was definitely one of the best movie-going experiences I had

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because of the crowd as well of course because usually when when you watch normal movies and movie

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theaters, you know, can flip a coin if you have some assholes in the crowd that ruin the shit for you.

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I never had this with anime watching anime because everyone who is there definitely wants to be there

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and definitely is very much engaged with the material. So when there was fucking nothing,

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like when there was silence, when there was no soundtrack, also amazing at this again, when there was no,

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you know, sound, when there was no talking, everything, aside from a couple of cuffs, you know,

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you could look at here a needle drop in that fucking theater with like, I don't know how many

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fucking people there were. Like it was it's a huge ass theater. Like I don't know how many hundreds,

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whatever. But just the crowd was thoroughly engaged. There were some laughs at the right moments.

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There was clapping at the end and it was it was just great. And the movie itself, like I said,

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also fantastic. Like of course it's not finished, right? Because it's gonna be three-part. So we have a

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couple of small-ish fights, fights against a couple of grunts, but also some of the demons that we've

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already been introduced to, some of that fights are finished, some are not. There's also a lot of

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flashbacks in that movie that give us a bit more insight into some of the characters. We don't

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haven't quite come to know yet fully, which is really good, especially the final flashback,

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which is very lengthy, like which happens at the tail end of the movie and takes up a lot of time,

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actually, which I didn't expect. Which I assume is like one or two, it's gonna be one or two episodes

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of the TV adaption. And they kind of put that at the end there, like as the finale, because there's

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not really much fighting happening after that. So they end up kind of more often a big emotional note

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than a big climactic superfight. So that happens before that and it's fucking insane. But yeah,

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I got everything out of this that I wanted. Like I got spectacular fights, I got an expansion on a lot

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of the character backgrounds, even Zenitsu wasn't annoying in this, which isn't achievement.

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But yes, it's crazy. It has a cool moment. He has a cool scene in everything and he is not annoying.

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So that's even more than I could have asked for. So hooray! Yeah, it's a great time. It's a blast.

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Like the sword to the top of the Japanese and international movie charts, of course, because of

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how many people wanted to see it. So be one of those people. I recommend it wholeheartedly. I will talk

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of course. We will talk more extensively about this once it has been adapted into the TV

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version because by then, John will probably have seen it. And I can't wait to hear your opinion

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on this, but I think you will have a good time because this is just insanity in the best possible way.

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Yeah, I'm sorry. I just don't get out the theaters too often. I know. It's just like, and you don't

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have to. I'm just saying for this, for my perspective, it would be worth the trip. Even if you have to go

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alone, maybe if you can't rope anyone else in, which I was lucky to do that, but I also would have seen

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it on my own, of course. But yeah, it was definitely worth it. And considering that we both were

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like the biggest fans of Demon Slayer in the like when the show started, had some problems with it

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here because it was too standard in certain ways, then some annoying characters and everything.

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But like this, this is a whole movie of what the show is best at, which is great intense battles,

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and then some really good character backgrounds that they sprinkle in there for some of these

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characters. And thankfully, almost nothing of the annoying stuff that still pops up in the series

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occasionally. There's, there's some comedy in there and, you know, some wacky bits, but those

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all kind of work. And the all the annoying stuff with Zen into and everything and all the, you know,

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the shit. Yeah, what's her name? There's no one I forgot her name again, the sister of Tanjiro.

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Oh, yes, yes, she is of course, again, not really in this, which is a problem again, in my opinion.

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She's sort of key to the story of this, but how is she not? She is like in there for like

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have a minute or something. It's crazy, but it doesn't matter because you don't think about it in

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the moment because it's like, there's so much cool shit happening. There's just non-stop cool

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shit happening in this and it adds on a cool note, of course, like a sec cliffhanger, but it's like here,

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this is what you're probably gonna get next. So look forward to that whenever that movie is hitting,

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I don't know if that's gonna be next year or the year after that. I don't know how long they will

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take, take all the time that you need you for table, please. But yes, it's just, it's just a blast.

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It's just a fun time. You're never bored and the pacing is not bogged down by trying to

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fit it into a specific episode from it, though I'm pretty sure they already structured the movie in a

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way where it would work as a TV adaption without having to add that much to certain episodes to make

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the cutoff points work and everything. So very much looking forward to how they continue this,

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but this is turning out, this is turning into the long and the dead. So I'm gonna stop talking about

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a Deem Slayer Infinity Castle part one now. Watch it, everyone who likes Deem and Slayer or who just likes

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great action anime, you will not be disappointed. I'm very, very sure of that. With that being said,

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let's get to the big review for this episode.

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Right, so, uh, Fire 4 Season 3, which is sort of just jump right back in with the,

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with the barest, the minimum of recap, just the character reintroduction, right? Which is what they

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did at the beginning of Season 2, uh, was like, here are the characters, but not really any recap of

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what happened in the previous season. Not much anyway. Yeah, because there were quite a few things that

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but kind of pick up after Sinra and Arthur had gone through Benimaru's training,

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Obi, kidnapped by the MPs under the influence of the white clads, and how Maya is kind of starting

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to brainwash people, the leadership of the Tokyo Empire, and that's a bad. Uh, so basically,

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this season should be called the World versus Company 8. Yes, maybe not the entire world,

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but it feels pretty close. I mean, they get like, first Obi, they're, they're captain, right?

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A second prisoner and, uh, oh, Maya has some plans for him, and then Company 8 is just going underground,

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trying to hide, so they don't, I think they, the, the military supposed to get Sinra,

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and bring him to, you know, the white clad, bring them to the Holy Soul Temple, who is now

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in Kahut with the white clad and with the evangelist, and, uh, because Sinra is one of the pillars,

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he's one of the instruments, one of the key factors, um, or, or things they need to

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enact a second cataclysm, and of course, they need them for that and, uh, for that to not happen,

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just the whole gang runs and, or escapes and hides, so that they don't get to him, uh, really, and,

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I think, uh, the media led by probably the Holy Soul Temple, or the government, or whoever's

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responsible to cook up a whole story about how he's being abducted by Company 8, like,

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oh, they are the bad guys that Sinra is not doing this willingly or whatever, and, uh, yeah,

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that's kind of, and then they have to formulate a plan. Okay, what, how are we gonna stop all of this

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shit? How, how are we gonna get our captain out of there, especially once they learn what,

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what homeaers plans are for him? Government, media control, interesting topic.

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Absolutely not contemporary. No, not, yeah, uh, so, yeah, I don't, listen, this story was not written,

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then, no, but it feels, it feels very fitting that it's coming out now, yeah, it's a little prescient,

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kind of, like, parts of Lazarus' story were maybe, if it had released two or three years ago,

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but yeah, it feels like there's a lot to cover with this season, but also at the same time,

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it feels like there isn't because they just sort of hit the ground and keep going. Yes, but,

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they also only covered about 40 chapters by my count, and to the end of the series after that is,

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like another 80 or 90. Yeah, that's one of the things that's, is worrying me. So, just to get the

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negative stuff out of the way first, before we get into the plot details, which, I mean, there is

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a bit of, like you said, there's a little bit happening here, but also half of the, half of the

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season is fights. So, I rewatch season one and two anticipation of this because I was like, okay,

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I remember really liking season one and two, I'm completely blanking on a lot of the story details.

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I could listen to our reviews, but I feel like, hey, if this is the final season, maybe I should just,

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you know, start this and the final bit is coming in January, so that's not that far off, so it

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makes sense to just go back to season one and two and watch those. And I did that in a fantastic time

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with it. I like fell in love all over again with, with the showers, like, hey, season one and two

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fantastic seasons, like both super enjoyable in their own right, super high quality, great animation,

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great fights, fantastic color, great soundtrack, great sound editing design, it's, it's all there.

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It's like a really good show and show fantastic characters all that. Like I just had a fantastic time

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with season one and two, so I was thoroughly hyped going into season three and up to that point,

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I had only watched the first episode of that and the first episode, the first couple of seconds

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look start out really promising, really good when we get like the recap, uh,

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into character introduction, we have all the characters jumping around fighting and it looks

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pretty much on par with season one and two and after that it takes a nose dive animation wise.

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And I think John and I are a bit on a different opinion on this, um, maybe, maybe colored by me going

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back and watching season one and two and coming fresh of that and having a direct comparison.

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I think this show for this season for most of its runtime is an incredible downgrade in terms of

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animation quality. So we have, we have server fights in this of course and you have your, do you

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hit us in this preview in the previous season where you have like the kind of smaller fights maybe

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with some sub character, some of those look not as good as the main stage, right? But you definitely

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had some standout fights just like, okay, this is the main fight of this little mini arc or this

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part of the season or whatever and this one will look exceptionally good. And so when like the first

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couple of fights when they like because they learned that the white clad wanna, uh, basically inject

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OB with one of those insects that turns people into infernals or flame users, firepower users,

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whatever you want to call them. Uh, they want to inject them with that and this might kill him, of

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course is my tournament to a fornal or so the gang wants to stop that and wants to rate the prison

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where he's held. So you would imagine, okay, this leads to a bunch of fights and this does.

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And when the first couple of seconds look not of those fights look not as good. I was like, okay, maybe

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they, they would keep that up, they need to cut some corners even though the previous season didn't

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really do it that much for, for the standouts fights, but that is also not the case. Like,

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aside from the first couple of seconds of the first episode, the animation in the first three episodes

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is really bare bones compared to season one and two. And then episode four rolls around,

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we have a fight with Tomah Kiegen's goal, we have Arthur against Dragon, which is like this new

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white clad destroyer guy. Um, I don't think he's a pillar, but that all looks not good. Like, there's one

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good, but very short Sakugas scene in episode five where Arthur fights Dragon, but at that point,

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so far that was about it. And I was like wondering, did some of the heavy hitter better animators get

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moved to another project? Maybe steal ball run, which is gonna happen in the not too distant future.

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And that is one of the biggest JoJo's arcs. So maybe they had some people move to that, but I didn't

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look at it up. I intended to, but I didn't get to it. I want to compare like the best animated episodes

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from season one and two and see if those people or some of these people are still around in season three,

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but it didn't feel like it. I mean, just looking at the list of animation directors between season two

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to three, it's a lot of different names going from one season to the next. I don't at a quick

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glance. I don't think I see any of the same names. Yeah. So it feels like they relegated. Either those

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people just generally moved on from David projection. Maybe a lot of these were free dancers. I don't know

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or they moved on to another project. Maybe I see ball run will look appropriately awesome. I hope so.

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Then at least this would have gotten, we got any merit out of this situation, but it's like

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even genera's fight against burns, which was like heavily teased that this would eventually happen

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at some point back from the end of season one. Even dare fight looks only okay. There's some decent

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camera work that makes the animation seem more dynamic than it actually is, but their first square

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of in season one was much more impressive looking. It just feels janky stiff and flat like this needed

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to be spectacular and it's sadly anything but and this sadly applies to most of the character animation

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in the season as well. It's way stiffer and juttery than in the first two seasons. Like general

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artwork colors environments are still all great. It looks fantastic. Delighting and shading is maybe

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in some parts not as impressive, but there was already, there was some moments that were not as

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wow inducing in season two in that regard, but it's still great. Like it's still mostly, you

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look at these characters and just in still frames, it looks great. They're still sharp like the

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color palette when you have sunsets and the whole town, the whole like all of Tokyo tinged in like

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this orange and everything and you have the nice complementary contrast with the blue on the

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fire uniforms and everything. It still looks cool. It still looks great. And you're like okay, but

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season one and two also had incredible action scenes and this season is a giant step down in that

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regard, which was a huge bummer for me because I hate it when shows like can't deliver in their

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final scratch. And that is the stuff that you remember. That is the stuff you like if there is a shitty

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beginning to a show and it gets better later on, you remember how well the show ended and how it

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wrapped up. And in this case, it feels like oh no, oh, will the last part also look as, but I mean,

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hey, maybe the good people worked on the second part and we're gonna because they couldn't

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manage it any other way. And we get like a huge action blow out in the final part in the last season,

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but there's so many factors like this is probably not gonna happen. Also, what you said, John,

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there's like 80 chapters or something left for 12 episodes. And it's gonna have to either be

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season three part three or I have to separate out some of it because otherwise,

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they'll be rushing through it too much and like, I feel like I enjoyed this season, but it felt like

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it didn't know what pace it wanted to go at. Yeah, that's that's it. And this is, I feel like this is

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something we should be seeing at the end, but I feel like it also bears saying up front as well.

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Yeah, absolutely. I agree with that. And yeah, we can really not after we get through the plot,

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which there's not that much happening in it, but there's enough happening substantial stuff

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happening to talk about. But yeah, I was already worried about this season when I saw the first trailer

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for it, but I thought they were keeping the blockbuster fight seems for the actual show.

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No, apparently not. And sure, season one and two had the occasional shortcuts in small fight

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scenes that displayed more limited animation, like I said, but all the fights or moments that needed to

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look impressive, look, teller impressive season three has nothing like that. There is like a one

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episode a fight at the very end of the season where we have like this giant fight against this giant

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titan mechish creature, a chaiju thing, where there's some cool work, a 3D animation work when

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the artillery fires at that thing that looks really good, because they employed the CG very well

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with the projectiles fired it is some nice camera work and jaggernaut firing it at it and we're

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really happy to see him back because we didn't know if he survived because he was

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heavily dismayed at the end of season two and they didn't walk that back like he got out of facial

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limbs. So that was pretty awesome coming back as kind of a cyborg in a way. But yeah, that scene

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looked great and we also have some cool action scenes with Ogon and Coronon there, like small bits

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that look really good. It was so funny to me when they after that episode when they get to the next

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episode they do a recap and only show the well animated moments in that recap was like,

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and we was like yeah, yeah, you need to show that. This is where we spent the money. Yeah, this is because

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that's the only well animated scenes in this fucking show aside from the first couple of seconds

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of the first episode. So I mean it's like hey maybe we get more of that in the next season,

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right? Yeah, maybe that's what they're shaving it for. Maybe because, you know, if this

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if like most of the last 80 chapters of this are just fights which could be the case,

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we could just get a giant action blowout for the last 12 episodes and maybe they put all the

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A stuff on that because they were like, hey, we can't do it for the entire show. It's not possible.

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We don't have the people. We're stretching us to thin. We're doing JoJo's at the same time and

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maybe something else. So yeah, it's about to ask what are they working on something else besides

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JoJo, I don't know. I'm not sure. But you know, that could be the case where it's like, okay,

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we can only satisfy, we can only do one part of this, right? So we're going to do the finale,

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right? And have all the action super sacco gas stuff in there and have to write people on it.

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But I'm also not sure that that's what's happening. So we'll see this is something we have to wait,

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wait for, but yeah, there's just, there's so many examples and this is mostly in the fight between

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Shinra and Burns, like best examples when Shinra and Lee's just like, this that's weight attack.

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And he kind of learned in the tail end of the previous season and breaks through Burns' defense

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who at the same time goes stage V or whatever, stage V and has this lion form that is supposed to

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look cool and imposing and everything turns black and white. The effect work is still kind of good.

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It's still there, but the animation is so weirdly stiff. The choreography is so clunky and it's

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in a cinematography, so bland that all of this is missing a sufficient impact. Same for the sounds

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effects weirdly in that scene, like there's like, there's some moments where it's like, okay, this should

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have the usual oomph, but it doesn't and I don't know why, like, why are these people not here that were

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there? It's too see. What happens? It's the same, it's the same sound director. Yes, exactly,

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but it's super weird that maybe it was a rush job, maybe something didn't work out, something went

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wrong in the mix or everything, or it was, it just felt lesser because the accompanying animation

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wasn't up to par. So I don't know, it's just the whole season you'll get the feeling that it's trying to,

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okay, in the next scene, in the next episode, we're gonna have the big thing, the big fight,

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the big cool-looking shit and it never gets there. It never gets there. Why? In the first two seasons,

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you constantly had this. And for every character actually, like every character had a standout fight,

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really well out, any made its fight since Hinawa, Maki and Shinra, of course, he had the most well

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all-goon, had an incredible fight in the second season, with the second reactor aside where they are,

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discovered, pion everything. And he fights this one demon and fernel and that fight, Jesus Christ,

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that looked so fucking cool, nothing like that is in this season, nothing, especially not at that length,

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like I said, there's a few snippets at the very end and at the very beginning, but everywhere else,

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what it needs to be, like the whole fight between Arthur and Dragon, which is still the best

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to show looks in that particular mini arc in the prison raid. But the fight between Shinra and Burns

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needed to be a show stopper, that needed to be the blockbuster fight of this show probably because

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it was so heavily teased and these are the two powerhouses in this show. And it looks like it looks

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and you're like, "hmm, such a bummer." And this is my biggest problem with this season. There's a

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couple of other problems like Jon already alluded to in terms of pacing and everything, but I could

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would be able to look past that if the animation was there, but it isn't. And that such a bummer,

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especially coming out of rewatching season one and two and having such a great time with it.

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And then season three is just a lackluster experience and that, yeah, that bump me out, that bump me out.

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Looking at something now that apparently they had a show that aired right after, say,

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apparently just wrapped, called Onmio Kaiten rebirth, reverse rebirth, that's not about it in

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parts name, but I would hope that didn't cut into the production of this somehow. I don't know

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if you said when we were talking and discord that maybe they might be sort of juggling too much

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at once. Yeah, maybe, maybe. Like stretching them whole thing. Holy Jesus, I'm looking at the list,

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the list of animation directors for this show. It's like double the length of fire for season three.

387
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Well, maybe try to see if there's some overlap with season one and two in regards of the names,

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then we have our culprit. I don't know, we can edit it. And after the effect or as a small info on

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blue sky, whatever, but that could look like it at first glance. Okay, even so. And maybe, again,

390
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I didn't also check the the staff list of steel boron. So maybe some of the people from season one

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two of fire force moved over to that that could also be the case. Maybe something else happened.

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It might be too early to get that comprehensive of a staff list for steel ball run. So

393
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you'll have to wait and see on that. Yeah, I mean, we can put that in the steel ball run review,

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which will happen. Of course, yes, because we are both JoJo heads, but yes, it's still either way,

395
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no matter what the reason for this is, even if it's an understandable one, it's still a bummer.

396
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It doesn't change the fact that this season looks so par compare, especially compared to season one

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and two, which looks spectacular. And it's like, why does this have to happen in the final stretch? Why,

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other management is, I mean, sometimes things work, just don't work out, but it's just so frustrating

399
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when this happens in the final stretch of a soul. Yeah. And again, I didn't go back and watch the first

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two seasons. So I'm going off your word on this, but just trust me. Yeah, it's not in day. It's really

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night and day. If you put the most impressive fights and there's so many in the first two seasons of

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that next to whatever the season has to offer, even the well animated bits, like they're so short

403
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in this, they're so, so just a couple of seconds. And in the previous two seasons, you have like just

404
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several entire fights that are on that animation. Oh, like, you're like, oh, Jesus. It's just can change

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it, but you can still bitch about it, which I'm doing. But with this out of the way, we can go into

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the plot. This is my, this was my biggest thing I had to say about the season. And again, maybe,

407
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maybe the second part will look better. I don't know. We'll see. I hope it definitely, but

408
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but yeah, there is like animation isn't the only thing for the first two seasons of Fireforce had to

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offer. They also had pretty cool characters and a pretty cool story. So how about that? What is

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happening in that regard in this season? So one of the first bits that jumped out of me was we get a

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confirmation that Jonah, you know, the weird art guy from the White Glad was the one posing as,

412
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you know, the founder of the Holy Soul Temple, Raffles, the first the entire time. And because I

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rewatch season one, two, I really was like, holy shit, that author already revealed in season one

414
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that you and I would be the one to pose as Raffles. And yup, he did. He said the first time he encounters

415
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that fucking, he's like, that guy is weird. He wears a fake face. And that's not his true face. I smell

416
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it. It was like, what? In the first season, you make nothing of that. And it's like holy shit.

417
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They, they, they foreshadowed that heavily that he would be the guy who was doing the mechanations

418
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:45,920
in the background. And he's definitely the weirdest guy. He seems to be from a dollar, right?

419
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:50,800
Because he looks so fucking alien with his true face. And we haven't gotten his full story,

420
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yet, which I assume will happen if the in the final part, if they don't cut that short or something.

421
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But yeah, and yeah, author also powers up by imagining having acquired the most powerful RPG

422
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equipment. Absolute legend. So like you said already in introduction, we have the White Glad

423
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imprisoning Obi, abducting and imprisoning him via the military police who is now under their

424
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control. I mean, to the outside world, it feels like the Holy Temple has forged in the legions

425
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with them. But like you said, how may I can control my minds? Well, kind of her ability is interesting.

426
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:37,840
Yeah, more like just the power of suggestion. Yes, suggestion, empathy in a way like her ability

427
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talking heads is very interesting because instead of a straightforward mind control, she's more like

428
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manipulating the emotions she picks up from people to bend their will in her favor.

429
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:54,640
So what they call their talking heads, I don't remember. Yeah, yeah, talking heads. Man, that's

430
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a, that's a JoJo standing in because that's just a band. Well, there you go. I mean, I feel like

431
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we have several band references and fire force to agree. I mean, we have music reference. We have

432
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corner stuff and everything that, you know, Shinra throws up for one of his special moves.

433
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:24,560
Yeah. So there's some rock and roll stuff in here. I mean, it's not as, it's not as, like, as pointed,

434
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:31,280
not as omnipresent as in JoJo's. Yes, because JoJo's is all about music, like in every possible,

435
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:36,800
where every fucking name is a reference to something, a song, an album, a band,

436
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:44,800
which the name of your stand arrow Smith. Not in the American version. Oh, god.

437
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:53,600
Don't know. Little bomber. So it's what she does to burns to convert him to the white clats,

438
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belief and go beliefs and goals, which is to turn the world into a new sun, like she uses his

439
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own beliefs, which because he's a very stop believer in, you know, the teachings of the Holy

440
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Soul Temple. She uses his teachings against him to make her work for, make him work for them.

441
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And she does this to several other people. I would assume also to the head of the church and

442
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everything. And it's really interesting. This, I can already mention this here, but that happens

443
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pretty much at the, say, very end of the show. We get a very interesting short glimpse into

444
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:39,200
what this power slash curse actually does to her. Like we see her in several parts in the season

445
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in close off in a room, just screaming an agony, like complete pain. She's drooling from all the

446
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pain. It's almost not bearable for her. And you're wondering what is happening. You can guess

447
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you see a confirmation of that in like in the last episode in the penultimate episode of this

448
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first core of this third season. She cannot properly filter the, all the voices she can hear through

449
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her power. So she is at least when she needs to use them, I guess, maybe not all the time, but maybe

450
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all the time. It's not, it's not clear. Maybe all the time. She hears all these fucking voices in her

451
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head blasting at full volume. And it's, it's just, it's, you would go insane if that happened to you.

452
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Like, and she somehow powers through it. Maybe her, her weird crown headband thing also protects

453
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her a bit from that, but mostly doesn't apparently. And if I wondered about that is it's not,

454
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I figured that crown thing would have some purpose. Maybe it doesn't. And it sure, maybe it amplifies the

455
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other side of her power set, which is like her having electrical powers, right? It could be like

456
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:09,840
in a conductor in some kind in some way and works in that regard. Maybe it amplifies some of

457
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:15,520
air powers. Maybe, maybe that's the reason why she's in so much pain because maybe it amplifies her,

458
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:21,760
her ampereth, her mind reading powers, but the flip side of that is right that she hears all the voices

459
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so very loud because she hears all of them because she needs to for some reason to, to make her,

460
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to her suggestion powers work. That could be the case, right? Maybe they will eventually

461
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:40,880
expand on maybe, maybe I hope so. It would be interesting to see, but that's an interesting power set

462
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:47,120
is always nice to see a, here's this super powerful character, but their power has a huge downside.

463
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And yeah, makes this whole thing much more interesting. And I wonder, maybe it's not as problematic

464
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when she has someone to focus her power on because she can focus on their voice specifically

465
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and filter out all the other noise, but she can't do that all the time. So when she doesn't have anyone,

466
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that would have been an interesting thing to add to her relationship with Karan because he's one of

467
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the coolest characters in this show on the villain side anyway. And him just maybe talking to her would

468
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help her like block out the other voices and reduce the pain, but it doesn't seem like that's

469
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:30,400
what's happening because she doesn't really want to talk to him most of the time. So, but yes,

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that's much for her. So she converts Burns and tells him, in prison, Obi and everything. And we see a

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flashback when we go into how we have set several flashbacks between Obi and Tinava and how much of a

472
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:57,920
tight unit they are and how Obi, it's nice to see in this flashback, in this particular one that

473
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:02,480
jumped out at me to see him saying that he had he'd have no problem with Tinava having either a

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girlfriend or a boyfriend. And this is not diffusing the allegations of Obi being the dead and Tinava

475
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being the mom of company eight. Oh, she's gonna say. Yeah, absolutely not. So we need to do a couple

476
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of fun bits in regards to relationships and this like there's this this small talk between the

477
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:33,600
entirety of company eight and some other ones like Captain Hibana is also there. When they talk about

478
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:39,840
who would work best in a relationship with who at the in like at the final episode of this or the

479
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:45,920
one before that, which is also very funny and it's very like, huh, interesting you would say that.

480
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:52,080
I mean, a lot of this stuff is obvious and Iris is definitely the most funny thing here, like

481
00:53:52,080 --> 00:54:00,320
basically throwing gasoline in the fire like whole canisters while smiling. She knows what she's

482
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:05,920
doing. Oh, she absolutely. And I think Machi comments on that is like these innocent types are

483
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:12,720
absolutely dangerous or something like that. So it's great. Like, but it's really nice to see all the

484
00:54:12,720 --> 00:54:20,800
character. I am Machi's into Hinawa of course and and Hibana is into Shinra, but also maybe some of

485
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:26,640
these characters, maybe what match with other characters better and so on. I really hope Shinra is not

486
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getting together with Tomaki by the end of this Jesus fucking Christ. It could happen. I mean,

487
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:41,040
I mean, yeah, there could be worse choices, but yeah, yeah, I get what you're saying. Yeah,

488
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:47,840
like Tomaki is a good girl, but you know, oh, we'll get to her. Jesus fucking Christ.

489
00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:56,960
That's why I say that's why I say she is what she is. Yes. I blame Okubo for this for all of this

490
00:54:56,960 --> 00:55:08,240
because it says manga and he wrote her this way and it's just it's just mean. It's just it's just so mean

491
00:55:08,240 --> 00:55:14,560
how he treats the character. Maybe he has a grudge against these kind of characters and I get it.

492
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:22,160
I don't like Sundar is particularly well either, but holy shit, he hates her guts. The way this

493
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Tomaki is treated to through the entirety of this story, like she's the biggest downside of

494
00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:35,200
fire force, the humor that humor quote unquote that comes from her character and how all her

495
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:44,720
ambitions and her her potential of progressing, of evolving from that are sabotaged, especially in

496
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this season. It's an insult. It's it's it's rough. It's tragic. So yeah, but before that, like I said,

497
00:55:54,240 --> 00:55:58,400
defaults accusations of all be kidnapping Shinra and holding him hostage are spread by the public

498
00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:04,400
news program and taking at face value by most of the people. Also, a lot of the other fire force

499
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:10,080
people in the other companies, which was kind of disheartening to see. Well, they don't know what's

500
00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:16,320
going on. Yeah, I get it, but also like you've worked with these people and you're just jumping to

501
00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:21,520
conclusion because a fucking news anchor tells you the thing for yourself, you fucking idiot.

502
00:56:21,520 --> 00:56:27,520
Like the one to your own research. Yeah, the one guy in August team pissed me off. Like he's

503
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:34,240
when he says about first he's like, oh, yeah, I believe that will be kidnapped and then he's like when

504
00:56:34,240 --> 00:56:39,600
they want to rescue Shinra, he killed his family. Why would he we can't be trusted?

505
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:46,880
Like what the fuck? What are you just contrarian or are you just a fucking idiot because you want to be

506
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:55,760
like holy shit. I guess it makes sense that some of his the stuff in his hair is red like make

507
00:56:55,760 --> 00:57:04,640
fire force great again or what the fuck? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, horrible. But yeah, I mean,

508
00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:11,520
Ogan pulls him to his side, I guess, but still like what a piece of shit character. Anyway,

509
00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:16,400
Lich finally reveals to the eight that he has been working with Joker to unravel the truth from

510
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:21,120
the shadows, which we knew from the first season on, of course, because the viewer got to see more

511
00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:28,800
of that than than the other people. And and yeah, from that an uneasy alliance is for like Joker and

512
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:35,760
the eighth rate of food to penitentiary where Obi's being held captive Shinra and Joker are the advanced

513
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:41,520
team that will also function as a distraction while the other sneak and get Obi out. Arthur comes

514
00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:52,480
in a bit late due to reasons. But you know, it's nice. He dreams about becoming a drag slayer and then

515
00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:58,240
he kind of gets to try to be that he hasn't achieved it yet, but I assume that's gonna happen in

516
00:57:58,240 --> 00:58:04,080
the in the next part that he's gonna slay the new character dragon. Get into him a bit later, but

517
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:10,080
the main centerpiece fight and character relation, everything is of course burns and you know,

518
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:17,440
crucifying fucking Obi there and try to with the with the insects and everything. And I guess him

519
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:23,600
shifting allegiances aside from all the Herméas mind manipulation stuff kind of works, I guess.

520
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:29,360
First of course, you know, there's what I just said, Herméas influence, but also him being able to

521
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:35,440
witness Adela firsthand must have been a truly religious experience for such a devout believer in

522
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:41,600
the existence of any kind of God. Like we later see in a flashback in episode six that he was an

523
00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:47,920
absolute faithful believer in soul and he prayed day in and day out. But considering things got

524
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:54,160
worse and worse for humanity, he probably at least subconsciously over time got the impression that

525
00:58:54,160 --> 00:59:00,880
his prayers are not being answered by his God. He camps psychologically tolerate the idea that his

526
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:06,320
prayers and faith were insufficient, so he just turns towards the one somewhat undeniable

527
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:13,200
existence of a higher being that was presented to him. You know, which is the evangelist, I guess,

528
00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:19,360
and Adela and you know, everything that comes from that. And he just switched his belief to the

529
00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:24,480
God that he was able to get an actual glimpse of and that proved its power through all the atrocities

530
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:30,480
committed by the white clad. Guess Burns was like, well, that's a good argument for the one

531
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:35,040
and only true God being on your side. So I'll go with that and switch over to your side.

532
00:59:35,040 --> 00:59:41,200
It's a very interesting take on a crisis of faith, I think, which of course is the obvious other

533
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:47,360
reading of this that is verbalized by Shinra and Joker. Like, Burns could not bear all the suffering

534
00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:52,960
in the world, so he gave up on his faith and converted to a belief he could see in touch. And, you know,

535
00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:58,880
it feels like Shinra and Joker convinced him of that being the case and seeing that he's doing dumb

536
00:59:58,880 --> 01:00:05,040
shit right by the end before he gets like abducted, killed, whatever by his doppelganger taken to

537
01:00:05,040 --> 01:00:12,000
Adela, whatever happens there. I've got to say, voltage nova had about two more stages to it than I

538
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:20,160
was expecting. Yes. I wish it looked as good as it could have or as good as in season one,

539
01:00:20,160 --> 01:00:26,000
like the first stage of that. It just sort of kept going and I was like, oh, okay, what do you mean?

540
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:32,160
There's another, what do you mean? We're going super say in six. Yeah. Yeah. You know, and with the

541
01:00:32,160 --> 01:00:37,440
animation budget and people on this that we had in season one and two, this probably would have

542
01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:43,520
been like the most kick ass super say and form outside of Dragon Ball ever. Like having like the

543
01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:51,360
most intense shit happening and him and Shinra clashing really, really violently. And with this is

544
01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:58,720
kind of like evaporates mostly. We have some good bits between Karen and Tomayah. He is a good

545
01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:04,320
protector. He can't bear having to watch how may I suffer, you know, whatever she's doing. What

546
01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:10,480
cause there's so much pain even if it's not blocking, being able to block out the other voices or

547
01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:17,200
accumulating the collective unconsciousness or what it's called. It's causing us a veer pain

548
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:24,480
which troubles him greatly. I always like when we have villains that feel sympathetic to each other

549
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:30,960
that don't hate like everyone's got. So we have that also like we have villains in there that are just

550
01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:35,760
I hate all of you and stuff like that, right? I don't care about you. But Karen and Tomayah,

551
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:40,320
Hamayah's a rich, he's really interesting and I like that he's like this big brother or father figure

552
01:01:40,320 --> 01:01:45,520
to her and just wants to protect him. We have that with Arrow and show as well, I guess, right? Yeah.

553
01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:50,400
Here it's kind of nice when the villains are in Teganistic to one another like dig it.

554
01:01:51,840 --> 01:01:59,120
Make your villains feel like a team. Yes. Exactly. Like you can do get so much more interesting stuff

555
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:04,640
out of your villains actually having a working relationship and not trying to backstep each other

556
01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:10,080
all the time and I'm so sick of that and that's done so many times like, "Ah, I was the main master

557
01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:15,760
might all along" and you were only part of my my game and plan, "You could do that. That could

558
01:02:15,760 --> 01:02:22,800
be cheesy fun, but it's so much more emotionally interesting and potentially rewarding if you have

559
01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:29,760
a good character relationship on the villain side, like proper motivation based in that relationship."

560
01:02:29,760 --> 01:02:35,040
Which is probably why Karen is doing what he's doing because he just wants to protect the person

561
01:02:35,040 --> 01:02:40,720
that is most important to him and that is cool and like I said, you have that with show on Arrow 2,

562
01:02:40,720 --> 01:02:46,160
like at the end of the season we have show like trying to meet up with his brother and he's like,

563
01:02:46,160 --> 01:02:54,560
don't obstruct me, Arrow or kill you and she's like, I am just, you are my mission. My mission is

564
01:02:54,560 --> 01:03:00,160
to protect you. I don't care about anything else. If you so we go, say we go there, we go there and I

565
01:03:00,160 --> 01:03:05,840
don't care about the orders of the higher white clad about how mayors orders and everything. My only,

566
01:03:06,640 --> 01:03:13,040
I am a straight arrow and I was shot in direction of protecting you and that's where I'm going to go

567
01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:18,400
and I don't care about anything else and it was nice. It's like, okay, that's cool. That's really

568
01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:27,280
neat. Like she's just a devoted protector and I just like this kind of stuff. I like these kind of

569
01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:36,240
partnerships, these somewhat, not maybe devoted, yes, but also these somewhat heartfelt to an extent

570
01:03:36,240 --> 01:03:42,240
loyalty-based relationships between characters on the villain side. I like when villain characters,

571
01:03:42,240 --> 01:03:47,520
of course, hero characters too, but you have that there all the time. On villains, it's much less

572
01:03:47,520 --> 01:03:54,240
common to have like this feeling of loyalty between these teammates, these assembled one,

573
01:03:54,240 --> 01:03:58,960
these characters that strive for a common goal and I really like when shows do that. I think

574
01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:05,360
that's always great. So yeah, glad to see this in here. Definitely one of the good parts of the

575
01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:12,000
season again to have these villains, the villains being more, I guess slightly being made more

576
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:19,440
slightly sympathetic in that regard, at least some of them. But yeah, the second team made up of

577
01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:26,880
Tamaki, you know, a marquee later author, Leicht and Iris, right? They have to fight gold.

578
01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:34,240
The white clad destroyer with magnetism ish powers who killed and crucified Captain Hague or hog,

579
01:04:34,240 --> 01:04:41,120
or whatever he is called, the old guy with the weird mesochism fetish. That was her. She can

580
01:04:41,120 --> 01:04:46,320
control every metal weapon the team uses or throws at her, which is quite troublesome. But yeah,

581
01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:55,280
we have that and then we have another big disappointment in the season and that is the person that is

582
01:04:55,280 --> 01:05:00,320
supposed to fight her and take her down is Tamaki. And with all the fuss being made at the end of

583
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:05,600
season two for Tamaki ostensibly finally becoming a force to be reckoned with in battle. It's kind of

584
01:05:05,600 --> 01:05:12,160
very disappointing to see that her first big attack doesn't do shit and that is not her speed that

585
01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:19,920
helps her if that goals attacks, which she, you know, that that's all like the last two episodes of

586
01:05:19,920 --> 01:05:27,040
season two besides training author and Shinra in the deathwaite ability were her learning to actually

587
01:05:27,040 --> 01:05:32,240
be a force to be reckoned with in the fights like her upgrading his speed to a degree so she could have

588
01:05:32,240 --> 01:05:38,960
almost power or power on the same level as the two twin girls from company seven.

589
01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:48,480
You know, the words of Benimaru and Conro. She played a tag with them and got super fast and

590
01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:55,840
everything managed to clad herself in this weird fire cat armor and that when I saw that in the

591
01:05:55,840 --> 01:06:00,080
at the end of season two is like, oh, okay, she's gonna have a standout fight in this season.

592
01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:08,080
No, I mean she tries to do a thing but it does like I said, it does do shit and then she has like

593
01:06:08,080 --> 01:06:15,520
this thing like like a path she stripped off her pants again and because that help makes her lose

594
01:06:15,520 --> 01:06:21,440
her belt buckle, gold can throw her around anymore and that's all it's funny in that regard that

595
01:06:21,440 --> 01:06:26,880
everyone gets rid of their pants after that and he know what loudly proclaims that they post every

596
01:06:26,880 --> 01:06:30,400
year for the new new colorless so they have no shame to worry about this.

597
01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:42,320
So that was that was a nice bit. I I will agree to that but like the humiliation of Tamaki will

598
01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:49,920
not stop at this point. Now at this point they're using her ass as a cooking stove which makes it

599
01:06:49,920 --> 01:06:55,200
look like she's letting out a giant pink fart at some point and it's so demeaning.

600
01:06:55,200 --> 01:07:03,440
It's so like I expected her to have this kick ass fight against any kind of white clad and it

601
01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:09,040
would have been nice. I mean she didn't have a particular relationship to Kettinhey or a hog or

602
01:07:09,040 --> 01:07:15,360
or something like that so someone else might have been more interesting but still it would have

603
01:07:15,360 --> 01:07:21,760
been cool to see her fight like it's a powerful white clad character and take take them out which

604
01:07:21,760 --> 01:07:28,320
we didn't really have from her. She was also always one of the also rants in the fights but I was

605
01:07:28,320 --> 01:07:33,200
expecting like now she has the power now she has the speed she can do it and then we all her

606
01:07:33,200 --> 01:07:38,560
her fight is again turned into a giant fucking joke again and then was just

607
01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:46,000
why are you doing this to this poor girl I don't understand like I don't get it I don't like a

608
01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:50,880
character type but it doesn't mean that you can treat her like shit the entire series it's like

609
01:07:50,880 --> 01:07:55,840
and don't don't give me the hope that you finally gonna turn this around and turn it into a proper

610
01:07:55,840 --> 01:08:01,840
character forced to be reckoned with someone with a real cool power set and then you just turn

611
01:08:01,840 --> 01:08:08,800
it around and make her a joke again that sucks that's really sucks I hated this I hated this so much

612
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:16,960
I mean I like Tomaki but she just gets constantly done so dirty and it's like come on and let her

613
01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:25,600
have like one moment maybe she'll get that closer to the end maybe crossing my fingers here

614
01:08:25,600 --> 01:08:32,400
the problem is she also doesn't really have any stake in any of this right we got to

615
01:08:32,400 --> 01:08:38,960
take background story in season two and that was pretty good but like she doesn't have a direct rival

616
01:08:38,960 --> 01:08:44,240
you rivalery with anyone on the villain side right I think most of this aside from Arthur now with

617
01:08:44,240 --> 01:08:52,960
dragon okay uh Machi I don't know really we have Vulcan who has a rivalry with Giovanni so we could

618
01:08:52,960 --> 01:08:58,560
have a tag team where Vulcan is involved right and then with someone of the others and Shinra and

619
01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:03,840
show technically I guess Shinra with everyone else there are a couple of things but she's one of the

620
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:10,560
characters where it's like you don't at least at this point don't have a direct who took out no the

621
01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:18,720
person who took out Jagannade is already dead so that's that's past yeah I don't know um maybe we

622
01:09:18,720 --> 01:09:24,960
will get that in the second part but for now her character has been done dirty again thankfully

623
01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:29,520
Lisa is interfering with her own magnetism powers which I didn't remember she had and I just

624
01:09:29,520 --> 01:09:37,440
watched season one and two back to back so hmm and uh then that distraction leads to you know a no-scope

625
01:09:37,440 --> 01:09:43,280
patch-shotting gold which is pretty cool but it could have looked so much cooler with proper animation

626
01:09:43,280 --> 01:09:51,600
quality so uh yeah but then we have Arthur who just casually walks up and takes out stream which is

627
01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:57,280
the next wipe that destroyer they have to fight with wind powers or whatever in one hit that was bad

628
01:09:57,280 --> 01:10:04,000
ass um also looked pretty pretty okay uh on the other side of things there's the burns fight

629
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:09,600
happening uh we have a funny bit where Obi worked out so much in his cell that he uh the insect can't

630
01:10:09,600 --> 01:10:17,040
get through his muscles he's just constantly flexing so hard that was really good that was a great

631
01:10:17,040 --> 01:10:22,400
bit yes a lot of the humor in the show still works like I would say all the humor in the show is great

632
01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:28,400
aside from the tummy key stuff um firefoss was always a very funny show the art of stuff being to me

633
01:10:28,400 --> 01:10:35,200
anyway the funniest stuff in here and oh yeah Arthur stuff is basically peak yeah Arthur is peak

634
01:10:35,200 --> 01:10:39,600
comedy in the show it's everything everything he does everything he says every scene he is involved in

635
01:10:39,600 --> 01:10:46,800
is fucking funny so that's why he's my probably my favorite character in this show so uh I think he's

636
01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:52,880
everyone's favorite I would talk so I would talk so people uh that people would see uh be uh

637
01:10:52,880 --> 01:10:59,120
beyond his being an idiot but um yeah so this was one of the examples where this is also uh

638
01:10:59,120 --> 01:11:05,280
was also incredibly funny like the stuff flexing all the time everyone complimenting his muscles to

639
01:11:05,280 --> 01:11:10,880
give him powers also hilarious like that's good shit that's good shit and that works even without

640
01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:17,840
good animation so I guess the parts where the comedy is done in this season which is not that much actually

641
01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:24,240
this is where the season shines because this is where the missing uh animation quality is not

642
01:11:24,240 --> 01:11:31,040
as noticeable so yeah due to his name and his ability to transform his body into that of an

643
01:11:31,040 --> 01:11:40,160
infernal um dragon activates Arthur's uh larp powers and Arthur is even able to conjure a cool protective

644
01:11:40,160 --> 01:11:48,400
cape but it's not enough uh dragon destroys Arthur's weapon Excalibur there's one like I said one good

645
01:11:48,400 --> 01:11:53,840
very short sacugasin in this episode uh in where they fight where it's like oh finally we're getting

646
01:11:53,840 --> 01:11:59,200
there and after that it's right back to the lower qualities i was a bummer uh we have joker and

647
01:11:59,200 --> 01:12:05,120
shindra um who can't get past burns to remove the insect from obese uh body who can flex forever so

648
01:12:05,120 --> 01:12:14,880
there's a viso of a tense time uh timer counter on this right uh or timer counting down uh so that's

649
01:12:14,880 --> 01:12:20,560
neat and burns powers to more it's more stages like john mansions and gets more and more powerful

650
01:12:20,560 --> 01:12:26,640
with every passing episodes uh problem is the fight between shindra and burns just doesn't look

651
01:12:26,640 --> 01:12:32,400
that good uh not even it feels like it doesn't really go anywhere no exactly like they fight

652
01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:38,640
we have fighting each other to a stalemate and it's like okay yeah and then and then a doppelganger appears

653
01:12:38,640 --> 01:12:46,160
burns doppelganger anyway and takes him to a dolo whatever and uh i don't even know why that happens

654
01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:51,520
at this point maybe because he stopped fighting shindra or whatever or he lost yeah he lost shindra

655
01:12:51,520 --> 01:12:55,920
kicks him at least he doesn't really lose like i said it's more of a stalemate because he's still

656
01:12:55,920 --> 01:13:02,560
awake and still conscious and still might be able to fight but it seems like uh he is at least for

657
01:13:02,560 --> 01:13:08,000
now taking out a bit and then he gets impaled or whatever by by a doppelganger and take to a dolo

658
01:13:08,000 --> 01:13:12,880
so that's it for now he he probably will come back in one way or another or this they all gonna

659
01:13:12,880 --> 01:13:17,520
travel to a dolo whatever and have a final fight there i don't know but yeah it's like cluster

660
01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:21,760
it's like it's missing the impact that it needed did this might partially be also because of the

661
01:13:21,760 --> 01:13:27,200
manga material and what they do with it but if this fight looked like the standout fights and sees one

662
01:13:27,200 --> 01:13:32,160
and two you probably wouldn't have noticed as much and it was just just have been awesome uh

663
01:13:32,960 --> 01:13:38,640
i'm gonna laugh so hard if by the end of this it turns out that fire force is a prequel to sole

664
01:13:38,640 --> 01:13:44,960
eater and/or a dollar actually being the world from that show or something like that but so far i

665
01:13:44,960 --> 01:13:52,000
think the smiling/grinning moon just like uh death size cameo in season two were just funnots to

666
01:13:52,000 --> 01:13:58,160
occubose other famous work and nothing more but that's just you know the moon just constantly

667
01:13:58,160 --> 01:14:05,520
is is dare and just like what why is this suddenly the case yeah i wonder but i feel like that isn't

668
01:14:05,520 --> 01:14:11,440
there for no reason you know i don't know it might just be a fun cameo like i said like the death

669
01:14:11,440 --> 01:14:16,720
side thing just being there hey here it's from the same guy who did sole a sole eater so

670
01:14:16,720 --> 01:14:22,720
but i also didn't read or watch sole eater so yeah we'll see i mean i will probably clarify that by

671
01:14:22,720 --> 01:14:27,600
the end i and i don't feel like there's anything in sole eater that maybe they the

672
01:14:27,600 --> 01:14:32,720
universe gets rebooted by the end of this and then suddenly turns out a shinra sole eater or whatever

673
01:14:32,720 --> 01:14:38,640
on fucking no that wouldn't match this character but uh that would be a thing i mean they both have

674
01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:46,080
like jaggy teeth so who knows um let's see but yeah iris blocks dragon's attack with divine grace

675
01:14:46,080 --> 01:14:52,720
don't remember not sure if she has unleashed her power before but we know that she has some connection

676
01:14:52,720 --> 01:14:59,440
to the girl inside of amatorasu right because shinra has seen that girl and said she looks like iris

677
01:14:59,440 --> 01:15:06,960
so there's something going on between those two and i'm interested to see what they do with her

678
01:15:06,960 --> 01:15:12,080
and what her role in all of this is because so far she's been on the side she's done the the praying

679
01:15:12,080 --> 01:15:19,040
and so on uh she hasn't really done anything else in the fights and this is her first real like powerful

680
01:15:19,040 --> 01:15:26,240
interaction or uh turning around the ties of the battle with her powers that we didn't even see

681
01:15:26,240 --> 01:15:32,480
before this and uh will be interesting to see what role she has to play in the final stretch of

682
01:15:32,480 --> 01:15:41,280
the story inca our future seeing girl or or uh medium whatever spals that the aether will survive

683
01:15:41,280 --> 01:15:47,280
this right before a bany maro arrives with a stupid mask they know no it's not bany maro it's a

684
01:15:47,280 --> 01:15:55,040
moonlight mask moonlight mask yes nobody nobody buys that that this this guy's this guy's

685
01:15:55,040 --> 01:16:03,040
who could be who could it be yeah i don't know well yeah yeah yeah but uh it was fun like it was

686
01:16:03,040 --> 01:16:11,040
fun him appearing and uh it could be making that mask for him which matches his eyes so that's cool

687
01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:19,360
but yeah the the the crew escapes with obi unscathed and everything you know all well that ends well

688
01:16:19,360 --> 01:16:25,120
i guess um some of the just white clad destroyers taken out and everything everyone from our team

689
01:16:25,120 --> 01:16:33,440
survived and they escape again in the direction of the town where company seven recites i forgot

690
01:16:33,440 --> 01:16:44,320
the name of that district but uh yeah uh then and the next small mini arc bit has hibana going to the

691
01:16:44,320 --> 01:16:50,640
runes of the sand raffles convent where she was that she was part of with together with iris as a

692
01:16:50,640 --> 01:16:58,160
child that burned down at some point because all her the other sisters young sisters in this convent

693
01:16:58,160 --> 01:17:03,920
turned into infernals and she is going there to investigate the origin of the doppelgangers she

694
01:17:03,920 --> 01:17:08,880
is going intending to go there alone but karyam and huyan or harva's name is pronounced

695
01:17:08,880 --> 01:17:15,520
join up with her uh after the fact find to find proof that the girls that were part of the convent

696
01:17:15,520 --> 01:17:22,720
all named after flowers were fed a dollar in sex with which is hibana's uh suspicion and i don't know

697
01:17:22,720 --> 01:17:32,080
how far the show has even talked about doppelgangers before i think it's at the in the very last episode

698
01:17:32,080 --> 01:17:37,840
like doppelgangers are another version of you that existed in a dollar it feels kind of like this

699
01:17:37,840 --> 01:17:44,720
concept came out of nowhere because doppelgangers were only mentioned before this season at the

700
01:17:44,720 --> 01:17:52,320
tail end of the previous season by con row uh when he talks about the demon infernal he fought uh previously

701
01:17:52,320 --> 01:17:58,400
that seemed eerily as similar to him in terms of power set and that fight caused his tepthrozes and

702
01:17:58,400 --> 01:18:04,320
everything uh i remember that much but i don't think the term doppelganger was really used after that

703
01:18:04,320 --> 01:18:08,800
so when the concept was reintroduced the season it was really confusing for a while because the show

704
01:18:08,800 --> 01:18:14,960
treated it like it was this well-known thing among our main actors it's like wait what are doppelgangers

705
01:18:14,960 --> 01:18:22,720
again when were these deduced yeah they sort of you're right they did touch on it previous like you

706
01:18:22,720 --> 01:18:29,200
touched on it the latest yes previously and then they're all like oh we're gonna learn about doppelgangers

707
01:18:29,200 --> 01:18:34,400
and i'm just sitting here like wait huh yes yes but the problems they used to term before that like it

708
01:18:34,400 --> 01:18:38,880
was was just like everyone knew about it it was super weird and con row i don't even know if con row

709
01:18:38,880 --> 01:18:44,480
used the term doppelgangers i think he just said something like this guy this person or this

710
01:18:44,480 --> 01:18:50,960
this demon i thought was had almost had the same power as i did almost like a doppelganger uh right

711
01:18:50,960 --> 01:18:55,600
and that was the extent of that and then in this season everyone's talking about them like they're

712
01:18:55,600 --> 01:19:01,360
like a well-established thing and what they are and it's like he but i explained all of this to us

713
01:19:01,360 --> 01:19:10,240
hey here uh there are other versions that of you that exist in in adola and are like what okay

714
01:19:10,240 --> 01:19:17,200
how she started we we see a starting up on that but where did she read that and what okay i wonder

715
01:19:17,200 --> 01:19:22,880
that was talked about in a little better detail in the manga maybe it was some of the material

716
01:19:22,880 --> 01:19:27,760
that was cut but then again like you said john the pacing of this season is all over the place so

717
01:19:27,760 --> 01:19:35,200
it feels like yeah why did you even cut that like it's not like you had that much story to tell in

718
01:19:35,200 --> 01:19:44,480
the season that you did so what it was weird any a weirdly small amount of story across 40 chapters

719
01:19:44,480 --> 01:19:52,560
yes exactly so probably more extensive elaboration on that in the manga um but yeah we learned that

720
01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:58,800
the the head sister or one of the head sisters from the content is is responsible for this she is

721
01:19:58,800 --> 01:20:03,840
i don't know what she is she's probably she's also working with the white clad we don't know

722
01:20:04,320 --> 01:20:10,880
so she's probably from also from adola maybe she has like these uh this vibration powers um

723
01:20:10,880 --> 01:20:19,120
uh can make anything vibrant in a different frequency and cause i don't know earthquakes and

724
01:20:19,120 --> 01:20:27,760
such shit like that and i think also open doors to adola um not sure but yeah she you know once that is

725
01:20:27,760 --> 01:20:32,880
revealed we learn more about the whole adola and toppling a shit like the population of toppling

726
01:20:32,880 --> 01:20:37,360
is another like well equals the one in the normal world so everyone has everyone has a double

727
01:20:37,360 --> 01:20:43,120
and when they try to become one with the people in normal world human combustion happens

728
01:20:43,120 --> 01:20:49,120
unless you are powerful enough to withstand it uh then it lets you borrow their powers which is i

729
01:20:49,120 --> 01:20:57,520
guess what happens to uh nataku and um who else if we have that got fed these these these i mean

730
01:20:57,520 --> 01:21:05,280
probably shinra right i mean my assumption is that everyone who has fire powers and didn't turn into

731
01:21:05,280 --> 01:21:11,840
an infernal got at some point maybe stung by an insect or something like that i'm not sure

732
01:21:11,840 --> 01:21:18,160
make that makes sense but it's still not clear yeah i'm i'm not they haven't fully clarified

733
01:21:18,160 --> 01:21:23,840
everyone if some of this stuff is just you know genetics and if if your father had fire powers you

734
01:21:23,840 --> 01:21:29,200
also inherit fire powers or you know if this is all the insects or something like that but at least

735
01:21:29,200 --> 01:21:34,320
some of them get that that's how it works for them and if they are not powerful enough they will

736
01:21:34,320 --> 01:21:43,280
get just taken over by their infernal doppelganger and um yeah the cease to exist we have this really

737
01:21:43,280 --> 01:21:50,320
harrying scene where she's like where the sisters the the the the the friends of hibana and iris just

738
01:21:51,360 --> 01:21:58,160
appear as these small children infernal and are saying it birds it hurts so much help me really cool

739
01:21:58,160 --> 01:22:07,760
cool moment uh and uh gets hibana understandably riled up and everything uh so she's probably gonna take

740
01:22:07,760 --> 01:22:13,360
out sumire uh in in the final stretch of the show if there's enough time for having all these

741
01:22:13,360 --> 01:22:19,760
clashes i mean there's so many white clad left and uh so many people to fight each other i wonder

742
01:22:19,760 --> 01:22:25,440
how they're gonna fish it all of that into 12 episodes they're shedding so much up and it's like

743
01:22:25,440 --> 01:22:35,200
yeah yeah but like i said it's either gonna be more than 12 episodes or movie wrap up something

744
01:22:35,200 --> 01:22:41,600
like it's not gonna feel great if they can ns 80 chapters down to 12 episodes

745
01:22:41,600 --> 01:22:48,480
just didn't feel great when they did it for 40 chapters for this season so yeah uh let's see

746
01:22:48,480 --> 01:22:53,040
we'll see what happens but yeah we learned that the first grade cataclysm was a failure whatever

747
01:22:53,040 --> 01:22:58,240
Sumire intended to do didn't work because the number of pillars was insufficient but that also

748
01:22:58,240 --> 01:23:06,000
means she has been around for 250 years someone like yona i assume um she was one of the previous pillars

749
01:23:06,000 --> 01:23:12,960
and you know uh she's powerful unexpectedly so considering her alter appearance but maybe that's

750
01:23:12,960 --> 01:23:21,760
not a real appearance just like with yona but yeah the the three or three uh fire company people

751
01:23:21,760 --> 01:23:27,040
can escape due to the interference of the woman in black we met in season two that is the core of the

752
01:23:27,040 --> 01:23:35,040
second uh amateur asu reactor the team found in defrost with all the animals and then after this

753
01:23:35,040 --> 01:23:43,280
moment we have the best thing in this season like bar none the best part of season three because

754
01:23:43,280 --> 01:23:50,560
vulcan and author go on a quest to find some real orry halkon to reforge ex-calibur because as expected

755
01:23:50,560 --> 01:23:55,920
the previous version of ex-calibur was not made from that metal that legendary ore but from some

756
01:23:55,920 --> 01:24:01,440
generic heat resistant material found at a home improvement store but you mean it wasn't work

757
01:24:01,440 --> 01:24:09,200
outcome of course the entire quest is make believe because that legendary ore does not exist and vulcan

758
01:24:09,200 --> 01:24:15,280
knows that um you know he robs in lisa and you and tells them to dump themselves down to author's

759
01:24:15,280 --> 01:24:20,800
level to make this fantasy work because he thinks like hey as long as we can deliver convincing

760
01:24:20,800 --> 01:24:26,800
performance author whatever metal i use to forge his new sword author will believe that it's the

761
01:24:26,800 --> 01:24:32,160
legendary sword now which will make him more powerful because author's entire power level or

762
01:24:32,160 --> 01:24:40,560
or author's power level is entirely based in him being able to uh to live uh his fantasy that he

763
01:24:40,560 --> 01:24:45,840
cocks up in his head of him being in the night king and everything living living in uh in a j-opergy

764
01:24:45,840 --> 01:24:51,440
and everything so vulcan has this all laid out for example he has normal shopkeepers repeat the same

765
01:24:51,440 --> 01:24:56,000
script over and over again to make author believe it's like an NPC in an old school up which is

766
01:24:56,000 --> 01:25:02,240
which is that is fucking amazing like to even think about this little detail like this whole segment

767
01:25:02,240 --> 01:25:08,080
is incredible and garnished with some nice eight slash sixteen bits style graphics to match the

768
01:25:08,080 --> 01:25:14,640
look of the theme it's just hey this is again this is where this season shined in the comedy bits

769
01:25:14,640 --> 01:25:21,280
that are not necessarily like super well animated but that have great design choices great humor great

770
01:25:21,280 --> 01:25:26,320
comedy bits some nice character parts and everything and i love that i assume it was for the same for

771
01:25:26,320 --> 01:25:34,800
you john oh of course this basically fools errands that they go on was probably one of the best

772
01:25:34,800 --> 01:25:40,320
parts of this season oh for sure it was the best part for me uh the problem is author is so stupid

773
01:25:40,320 --> 01:25:44,640
that he misinterprets one of the hints and decides that the oriak on must be in the nether

774
01:25:46,480 --> 01:25:53,440
everyone was like no no which is where the light is over this way yeah and he's like no it has to be in

775
01:25:53,440 --> 01:26:02,000
the nether and everyone's like oh okay this is a whole thing now and authors parents are alive

776
01:26:02,000 --> 01:26:08,080
for some reason like dumb hell they run into them into the never uh nether we learned they had to

777
01:26:08,080 --> 01:26:13,200
escape due to their accumulated death and are now pretending to lead a resistance in the nether so

778
01:26:13,920 --> 01:26:19,760
author was abandoned by his irresponsible parents and based his entire fantasy persona on the lie they

779
01:26:19,760 --> 01:26:25,040
wrote on the note when they left which we're already saw in the first season this is also very sad

780
01:26:25,040 --> 01:26:33,200
but also unbelievably hilarious that's so cruel but there is a plot twist because it actually turns out

781
01:26:33,200 --> 01:26:38,400
they know everything about what is going on with the government and evangelist and the holy soul temple

782
01:26:38,400 --> 01:26:43,760
because author's dad can apparently see the truth of this world whenever he retreats into his

783
01:26:43,760 --> 01:26:49,600
own fantasies i was just completely baffled by this like does he have a connection with the author of

784
01:26:49,600 --> 01:26:54,800
the manga there's another thing happening at the end of the season which has me like this is this

785
01:26:54,800 --> 01:27:00,880
show going to go into massive fourth wall breaking at the end like i wouldn't put it past it but it was

786
01:27:00,880 --> 01:27:06,400
this was the first moment was like what what what is going on what is happening is this a bit is

787
01:27:06,400 --> 01:27:13,680
this a joke is this something substantial what uh and they also had three kids in another all while

788
01:27:13,680 --> 01:27:19,760
pretending they couldn't take author with them because it was too dangerous the amount of scumbagery

789
01:27:19,760 --> 01:27:26,000
here is astounding it completely appalls you who is on the verge of losing his mind anyway and

790
01:27:26,000 --> 01:27:31,840
absolutely is the audience surrogate here i felt so sorry for that kid it's like it's really i

791
01:27:32,720 --> 01:27:37,920
i don't get it why did they how could they have three more kids and leave them behind because they're

792
01:27:37,920 --> 01:27:47,760
assholes they're all people i guess but it's like what they're like deweurs and i think the show states

793
01:27:47,760 --> 01:27:54,320
that kind of right huh the boy family loves their freedom i guess like uh thankfully author

794
01:27:54,320 --> 01:27:58,720
isn't registering any of this since they found the headpiece of a space rocket in his parents trash

795
01:27:58,720 --> 01:28:04,240
collection that make him fantasize about having a sword made from space metal so yeah and right

796
01:28:04,240 --> 01:28:10,400
after that he gets abandoned by his parents yet again a second time but oh well that ends well

797
01:28:10,400 --> 01:28:17,040
because now he has a proper sword i guess this is also deeply fucked up and also the best and

798
01:28:17,040 --> 01:28:24,880
darkly funniest thing in the show what an amazing character a sir it's incredible like this whole segment

799
01:28:24,880 --> 01:28:31,040
just i was i was hit the edge of my seat it was like what is going on what are you doing to my boy

800
01:28:31,040 --> 01:28:37,040
it's just uh amaze really hate your audition and they disappear and it's like what do you

801
01:28:37,040 --> 01:28:45,200
wait yes it's just wow your parents are real shitbags are thought about apparently he doesn't care

802
01:28:45,200 --> 01:28:51,200
anymore he's just so deeply entrenched in his own fantasies he's just he's not processing any of

803
01:28:51,200 --> 01:28:58,160
this he's just completely gone like you can't get him out of there but he's happy i guess he's happy

804
01:28:58,160 --> 01:29:02,960
living this this night fantasy and being part of company eight if that makes him happy if he can

805
01:29:02,960 --> 01:29:08,560
deal with this loss of his parents like that and he doesn't seem to hold any grudge towards him

806
01:29:08,560 --> 01:29:16,880
like it's okay but holy shit what a fucked up what a fucked up background story it's so

807
01:29:18,480 --> 01:29:27,200
horrible but it's funny so um yeah show uh shinra's brother uh at this point and i talked about this

808
01:29:27,200 --> 01:29:34,080
when i talked about the need loyalty uh relationship uh loyal relationship between some of the characters

809
01:29:34,080 --> 01:29:38,320
on the villain side of things he starts formulating his own will aside from serving the will of the

810
01:29:38,320 --> 01:29:43,840
evangelist and decides to meet his brother arrow follows as she's protector and loyal to him of any

811
01:29:43,840 --> 01:29:51,360
other master we have uh scoped a little mole uh appearing in tokyo he was from the the gang ran into

812
01:29:51,360 --> 01:29:56,640
him in season two he can talk and tells a way to elaborate story about his journey to tokyo and how

813
01:29:56,640 --> 01:30:06,400
came how he came up with a shuriyukan uh and at this point all the pillars have gathered and the

814
01:30:06,400 --> 01:30:11,360
cataclysm ritual is about to begin we meet the last pillar fairy who doesn't have a protector

815
01:30:11,360 --> 01:30:18,160
but is one of the white pet already uh according to the exposition mole for the cataclysm to succeed

816
01:30:18,160 --> 01:30:24,640
humanity had to evolve to a level where they could calculate slash the cipher pie and the key jiovani

817
01:30:24,640 --> 01:30:29,600
stole from volcan in the first season is ostensibly able to do that so everything is coming together

818
01:30:29,600 --> 01:30:35,360
is like what was that even about and now we know oh okay that's cool and uh the pie stuff was

819
01:30:35,360 --> 01:30:41,600
introduced in the second season so it's all you know it's all coming together and we finally understand

820
01:30:41,600 --> 01:30:47,680
why all of this had to happen why it took so long to uh enact a second cataclysm and everything

821
01:30:47,680 --> 01:30:55,040
Summary summons an actual 500 meter tall pillar in the tokyo bay and apparently also a giant

822
01:30:55,040 --> 01:31:00,320
kaiju that protects it when all eight pillars or summit the cataclysm will have begun or so

823
01:31:00,320 --> 01:31:05,680
licht states and like i said the artery attack of unit two against the kaiju looks pretty cool

824
01:31:05,680 --> 01:31:14,000
we have jaganar trying to shoot at the kaiju and shendra blocking it leaving him unconscious for a while

825
01:31:14,000 --> 01:31:21,440
because according to scop the pillar is a plug for a giant underwater volcano of course i guess

826
01:31:21,440 --> 01:31:27,440
that makes sense like that that is how the cataclysm is uh uh is happening like if all of the eight

827
01:31:27,440 --> 01:31:34,960
pillars are somehow plugs for this network of volcanoes and all of those are pulled out or destroyed

828
01:31:34,960 --> 01:31:40,800
at the same time then the world will be engulfed in flames probably so that seems to be the

829
01:31:40,800 --> 01:31:46,640
the long term or the the ultimate plan or what they intend to do unconscious shendra is about to be

830
01:31:46,640 --> 01:31:52,400
abducted by fairy who seems to be able to control gravity um but show interviews to save his brother

831
01:31:52,400 --> 01:31:58,640
with also again i was like oh this is gonna look good right and then him jumping on the arrows of

832
01:31:58,640 --> 01:32:06,640
arrow just looks so stiff and flimsy and it's like uh this this could have looked so cool with the

833
01:32:06,640 --> 01:32:12,400
proper proper amount of sakuga him moving around fairy like this is like these are the because fairy

834
01:32:12,400 --> 01:32:17,280
makes fun of this like there's such a weird protector tech i would have been the perfect protector for you

835
01:32:18,400 --> 01:32:27,040
why why using her and shows like no these are exactly the way uh where they're supposed to be

836
01:32:27,040 --> 01:32:32,560
they're not like a focus or whatever because i need to get to you and i i'm using them as stairs

837
01:32:32,560 --> 01:32:38,160
as ladders that was super cool and if if there was have been a super fast animated animation would

838
01:32:38,160 --> 01:32:45,760
been very nice yeah it was a knee but it was just lacking some punch to it yeah absolutely like most

839
01:32:45,760 --> 01:32:52,000
of the season in terms of the animation i mean fairies uh gravity powers kind of need to say

840
01:32:52,000 --> 01:33:00,560
a little disorienting seems falling upward into the sky but you know in context i guess it makes

841
01:33:00,560 --> 01:33:10,000
sense yes i mean it looks like he's changing the way the world is aligned right and you know they

842
01:33:10,000 --> 01:33:14,640
they switch uh they turn the screen upside down and everything suddenly characters are falling towards

843
01:33:14,640 --> 01:33:20,960
the sky but i think he's just changing the the gravitational force of the specific characters

844
01:33:20,960 --> 01:33:27,200
right and that's why that's why they're moving around suddenly which is cool um show saying there was

845
01:33:27,200 --> 01:33:31,520
no sense of impact when he slashes at fairy is heavily ironic because that's exactly what i've

846
01:33:31,520 --> 01:33:39,280
been thinking about most of the fights in the season it's just like you don't say don't do them like that

847
01:33:39,280 --> 01:33:47,440
dang uh and yeah we have kurnow fighting uh the titan and this final tech was one of the real

848
01:33:47,440 --> 01:33:51,920
sakuga moments in the show look really cool with this like black suit forum and everything

849
01:33:51,920 --> 01:33:58,240
so widely inconsistent animation levels at this point because right after that it goes back to

850
01:33:58,240 --> 01:34:03,600
looking very you know and then we have the weird stuff with fairy and show which doesn't look good

851
01:34:03,600 --> 01:34:08,480
and then you have this you have one scene with ogon which looks pretty damn cool good and it goes

852
01:34:08,480 --> 01:34:14,720
back to not looking good then it goes to the kurnow a final attack against the titan which looks great

853
01:34:14,720 --> 01:34:20,800
so i'm like what do we have like one guy on your team or two who can still deliver a full sakuga

854
01:34:20,800 --> 01:34:27,840
moments but they can only do like one one small two second scene every every like 10 episodes doesn't

855
01:34:27,840 --> 01:34:35,920
i don't know but uh that that was kind of kind of it and yeah we have like the titan the destroying

856
01:34:35,920 --> 01:34:42,480
titan i think like his essence or its essence or whatever goes to the pillar and turns into black

857
01:34:42,480 --> 01:34:48,400
i don't know if that will eventually destroy it maybe that was interesting uh we have shinra

858
01:34:48,400 --> 01:34:56,000
forming an adolalink with inca and they both travel to the past which is the final thing that happens

859
01:34:56,000 --> 01:35:03,920
in this season uh before uh to the past specifically uh right before the first cataclysm happens

860
01:35:04,880 --> 01:35:12,320
shit gets super wild we see a bunch of photographs from our reality which shinra is wild shinra is still

861
01:35:12,320 --> 01:35:18,080
animated and that could be a style choice right uh or you know to save money because they don't have to

862
01:35:18,080 --> 01:35:23,840
animate those those photographs of course but he also says what are these beings that look kind of

863
01:35:23,840 --> 01:35:33,440
like people so does he recognize that he as a drawing is different from our world like from our three

864
01:35:33,440 --> 01:35:39,840
dimensional world is this like more fun than about that yeah this is what was the other moment aside from

865
01:35:39,840 --> 01:35:46,480
the weird stuff with a power set of others dead was like now we have these this mixed reality thing

866
01:35:46,480 --> 01:35:53,840
going on and we see someone crumbling up a piece of paper in that flashback oh we see a photograph

867
01:35:53,840 --> 01:36:03,200
of that and i'm like is this is this gonna do like we are all characters in the story thing uh it was

868
01:36:03,200 --> 01:36:10,800
i was really interested in i was like okay where are you going with this and he inca states like he's

869
01:36:10,800 --> 01:36:17,920
you gonna fall in love with me uh so i assume whatever the characters they they transported to that

870
01:36:17,920 --> 01:36:23,920
are their previous incarnations from 250 years ago or whatever i had a relationship which is something

871
01:36:23,920 --> 01:36:30,720
we will probably see in the next season again more shit like we have so much stuff already in terms of

872
01:36:30,720 --> 01:36:36,080
what fights and character plot threads in the fights need to be resolved aside from all the fucking

873
01:36:36,080 --> 01:36:43,280
apocalypse shit and then we have now this weird flashback stuff that is also needs to be resolved like

874
01:36:43,280 --> 01:36:49,280
that hints at some bigger thing happening in the background and what i don't know how they will

875
01:36:49,280 --> 01:36:57,680
fucking remotely be able to do this in 12 episodes john i have yeah no idea they've built up so much

876
01:36:58,400 --> 01:37:04,160
and yet they've done so little it's so weird yeah we end this first core on a blonde ostensibly

877
01:37:04,160 --> 01:37:10,240
older version of shindra being tied to a bat and a news report on the tv next to him states that a fifth

878
01:37:10,240 --> 01:37:18,560
pillar has appeared so right before the advent of the first great cataclysm is where we are left off

879
01:37:18,560 --> 01:37:23,920
in this and i don't know what to make of this i don't know how they're possibly gonna wrap all

880
01:37:23,920 --> 01:37:30,800
of this shit up no idea at least not even remotely in a satisfying way i'm very worried about the finale

881
01:37:30,800 --> 01:37:36,320
of this show especially since people already were very skeptical about them being able to cram all

882
01:37:36,320 --> 01:37:43,920
that left of the manga into a 24 episode season and considering the pacing of this season not to

883
01:37:43,920 --> 01:37:48,400
mention the huge downgraded animation quality i'm really doubtful they will be able to wrap this up in a

884
01:37:48,400 --> 01:37:55,840
satisfying manner i don't really really hope they don't cram on to the next 12 episodes man could

885
01:37:55,840 --> 01:38:02,720
it's what they seem to be intent to do it i feel like they'd be doing a great disservice to it though

886
01:38:02,720 --> 01:38:08,320
it would be horrible it will be nightmare will be an absolute rush job like the fights will not

887
01:38:08,320 --> 01:38:13,840
be long enough if they even are animated at all there will be not enough character there will

888
01:38:13,840 --> 01:38:19,760
probably cut a lot of the explanations out of suit so none of that shit will make sense and they will

889
01:38:19,760 --> 01:38:24,640
probably like skip a lot of the character development that's gonna happen so it's gonna be like an

890
01:38:24,640 --> 01:38:30,800
absolute cluster fog i don't see if this if the next part that's airing in January is only gonna

891
01:38:30,800 --> 01:38:36,080
have 12 episode and if this is truly the last thing we're gonna get out of fire force this is gonna

892
01:38:36,080 --> 01:38:43,600
be a disaster i hope i really hope we're gonna get more than just these 12 episodes that are

893
01:38:43,600 --> 01:38:53,920
coming up i mean let let's try to be positive about this they didn't say it's the final season it's

894
01:38:53,920 --> 01:39:01,440
the third season did they so i'm not sure i'm not conflicting things i have read like reports

895
01:39:01,440 --> 01:39:08,160
that they confirmed that this is the final season unless it's the final season and they do like

896
01:39:08,880 --> 01:39:17,840
final season episode something like attack on titan did it yeah i mean i would be totally fine with

897
01:39:17,840 --> 01:39:22,160
that i don't give a shit if they name like if we have like four more seasons that are all named the

898
01:39:22,160 --> 01:39:29,840
final season whatever arc i don't care do that but don't fucking let it end in 12 episodes you

899
01:39:29,840 --> 01:39:35,920
not you will not be able to do this like and David production is not known for doing this like all

900
01:39:35,920 --> 01:39:42,320
the previous projects we've seen or i mean we don't let's say all the jojo stuff i don't feel like

901
01:39:42,320 --> 01:39:47,520
reading from all the stuff that came out of that i don't feel like they cut any substantial bits

902
01:39:47,520 --> 01:39:53,360
out of that or changed the ending to a degree to a negative degree where it didn't make sense anymore

903
01:39:53,360 --> 01:39:58,240
i feel like they even upgraded the stuff from stone ocean i think where it made more sense that it

904
01:39:58,240 --> 01:40:04,720
did in the manga if i remember correctly and added some stuff that added more context that made the

905
01:40:04,720 --> 01:40:11,040
ending make more sense so that's the opposite of fucking it up in that regard and cutting shit out

906
01:40:11,040 --> 01:40:18,720
and feel the same i think for captain subazardy abdachin of that that i saw so why fire force of all

907
01:40:18,720 --> 01:40:23,120
things would get that treatment is completely beyond me considering how much effort they put into

908
01:40:23,120 --> 01:40:31,440
the first two seasons makes me ask the question again what the fuck happened i yeah i just i'm so

909
01:40:31,440 --> 01:40:39,600
worried we'll see to look it up because yeah i guess i missed that he it was the quote third and final

910
01:40:39,600 --> 01:40:47,840
but you know again here's there'll be movies after maybe the second core will be longer i mean

911
01:40:47,840 --> 01:40:54,000
that's highly unlikely in anime production but you know i yeah i don't want to see

912
01:40:55,040 --> 01:41:02,720
this show that we have mostly enjoyed yes love the first two just fall and it's face and

913
01:41:02,720 --> 01:41:10,320
fumble at the goal line yes yes that's always very disappointing and frustrating and so hard to

914
01:41:10,320 --> 01:41:16,400
understand like if it's a but maybe it was a money thing maybe the the budget went something as

915
01:41:16,400 --> 01:41:22,480
a marketing budget went something else so they had to make do with what they had for this uh maybe

916
01:41:22,480 --> 01:41:27,600
the people just generally left the the the animation studio and went to another studio maybe they

917
01:41:27,600 --> 01:41:32,560
didn't have enough personnel anymore i don't fucking know what happened here we're just gonna be

918
01:41:32,560 --> 01:41:39,440
brainwashed you know if it changed studios i would totally understand the downgrade in quality

919
01:41:39,440 --> 01:41:47,120
but it at the same studio this happening it's the same studio that produced a first two seasons and

920
01:41:47,120 --> 01:41:54,160
that looked incredible and that was well written and everything and had solid pacing and now this

921
01:41:54,160 --> 01:42:01,680
this this studio giving us that season i don't understand it's just so fucking weird

922
01:42:01,680 --> 01:42:06,560
i always think of golden comway how it started off as being like

923
01:42:06,560 --> 01:42:14,640
i will not mince words the first season production wise is a mess but then geno studio in seasons two

924
01:42:14,640 --> 01:42:19,920
three they like they stepped it up super hard before i got handed off the brain space so it was like

925
01:42:19,920 --> 01:42:27,120
it was cool to see them build it up like that but it's the reverse of that and again you don't know

926
01:42:27,120 --> 01:42:33,600
what the reason for this is i wonder i i mean i looked a bit for that but i've so far i've only seen

927
01:42:33,600 --> 01:42:40,240
like assumptions being made i've not seen any clear information of what actually was the reason for

928
01:42:40,240 --> 01:42:46,160
the animation downgrade and for them doing trying to do all of this in another 24 episode season

929
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maybe because the manga is wrapped up and they can't use it as advertisement anymore

930
01:42:51,360 --> 01:42:56,000
for coming chapters or something like that maybe that's why it was cut short i don't fucking know

931
01:42:56,000 --> 01:43:01,200
i mean the manga has been over for two almost two years at this point so like

932
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it hasn't it been almost two years since the end of season two oh god you're right

933
01:43:08,800 --> 01:43:15,280
so that kind of lines with that what is time so yeah maybe that was the whole reason i don't know

934
01:43:15,280 --> 01:43:21,040
but it's still just fucking finished your show the right way like two years excuse me almost three years

935
01:43:21,040 --> 01:43:25,600
over three years because i was going off the dates of the tanko bone okay okay okay

936
01:43:25,600 --> 01:43:32,320
so yeah i don't know uh maybe eventually we'll learn what happened and the only thing we can do

937
01:43:33,120 --> 01:43:40,240
now is hope that the final part of season three of this of this show is gonna give us a somewhat

938
01:43:40,240 --> 01:43:47,760
satisfying ending in some way or another but i have my doubts but hope is all we have left at this point

939
01:43:47,760 --> 01:43:54,400
so it's actually a rare case where the entire manga is actually all translated as well apparently

940
01:43:54,400 --> 01:43:59,520
yeah and maybe you know depending on how the ending of this shakes out i will go back and read the manga

941
01:43:59,520 --> 01:44:07,680
at least the the final arc of this and the manga to see what this what the intended ending of this was

942
01:44:07,680 --> 01:44:12,560
but yeah first let's see you know that's something i would like to do as well if it shakes out or like

943
01:44:12,560 --> 01:44:16,640
i always want to do this façolita as well because that had an anime original ending which could

944
01:44:16,640 --> 01:44:23,520
happen here as well uh i kind of wanted to do that for attack on titan but our friends were like

945
01:44:23,520 --> 01:44:28,800
you started the anime only you're going to finish anime only in that spoil the ending and i was like

946
01:44:29,760 --> 01:44:38,000
fine and then when they changed parts of that it was like oh yeah yeah it feels like probably

947
01:44:38,000 --> 01:44:45,840
it was better to experience it in anime form first because of some of the missteps that the manga did

948
01:44:45,840 --> 01:44:51,760
i guess yeah at the anime walking some of that back a bit and trying to put more context to that

949
01:44:51,760 --> 01:44:58,560
and giving us more of an apologue and everything so uh yeah uh probably not the worst choice

950
01:44:58,560 --> 01:45:04,080
to go anime first here but yeah um let's see what let's say what happens with five force we'll know in

951
01:45:04,080 --> 01:45:10,320
January but yeah john where can we where can people what people leave it's almost January though

952
01:45:10,320 --> 01:45:15,280
yes like when the when the show started and you're like oh it's gonna be two quarters in part two is

953
01:45:15,280 --> 01:45:20,960
gonna be in jayneuary it's like god that's so long wait and now it's almost October Jesus christ

954
01:45:23,840 --> 01:45:30,720
where can people watch the season or the half of this season of fire force uh i could watch it on

955
01:45:30,720 --> 01:45:36,240
crunchy roll you could watch it on hulu i'm sure it's on other surfaces depending where you're okay

956
01:45:36,240 --> 01:45:43,600
depending where you live it's also on Netflix as well so it is accessible if you want to i do

957
01:45:43,600 --> 01:45:48,080
understand if you don't i've heard from several people who stop watching because of this season which i

958
01:45:48,080 --> 01:45:55,680
can understand we'll see uh what the final part has to offer and i hope we will not go get off

959
01:45:55,680 --> 01:46:03,200
just completely dissolutioned with long-running anime series i mean we had some good some good ones

960
01:46:03,200 --> 01:46:10,240
we brought to a close but i would have liked to fire for fire force to be also one of those uh

961
01:46:10,240 --> 01:46:15,920
right now it doesn't look like it will be uh i mean we still have the first two seasons but like i

962
01:46:15,920 --> 01:46:22,400
said it starts strong and ends on a sour note you remember that sour note that's the only one the first

963
01:46:22,400 --> 01:46:28,480
two seasons might still be there and they're still great but for anyone who wants to finish the story

964
01:46:28,480 --> 01:46:35,520
they'll either have to shift to the manga or just you know ignore that season three exists kind of like

965
01:46:35,520 --> 01:46:42,960
wait how many seasons was uh shokugeki no so ma oh that's right it was four there wasn't a season five

966
01:46:44,000 --> 01:46:55,600
that's true it ended on the best season season four yeah all right uh so uh there that's it for our

967
01:46:55,600 --> 01:47:01,680
review of fire force season three part one uh next one will follow in the not to distant future

968
01:47:01,680 --> 01:47:10,400
but before we leave you for summer and move over to fall there's still one little thing we have to do

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01:47:17,760 --> 01:47:22,880
last of the season all right best of the season time

971
01:47:22,880 --> 01:47:29,600
um uh john what you got fire force season three

972
01:47:29,600 --> 01:47:38,240
i'm kidding i'm kidding uh i do think there are things too like about season three but it's

973
01:47:38,240 --> 01:47:44,720
obviously i don't think it's even close to being in the running um and which is unfortunate uh it

974
01:47:44,720 --> 01:47:49,440
was nice to see the girls of leica is recoil back but you know that was also you know a short

975
01:47:49,440 --> 01:47:55,200
things so i don't think it should also be in the running but you know hopefully it is

976
01:47:55,200 --> 01:48:00,880
that it means there are other bigger better things in the future for it so hopefully we'll see

977
01:48:01,680 --> 01:48:12,400
high chances that it will uh get itself uh uh best of the season award when the next big thing

978
01:48:12,400 --> 01:48:18,880
whatever that is comes out of that franchise very high chance so let's see Gundam Quax was in

979
01:48:18,880 --> 01:48:25,200
the in concept but it it definitely kind of fell flat on its face toward the end which is

980
01:48:25,200 --> 01:48:32,000
unfortunate because i had the potential to be something really cool uh i kind of feel the same about

981
01:48:32,000 --> 01:48:39,360
Lazarus but it is a less a little bit lesser negative about it because it's still a cool story with

982
01:48:39,360 --> 01:48:48,880
neat characters but it just didn't i don't feel like it was up there for me so i think i'm probably

983
01:48:48,880 --> 01:48:57,200
gonna go with rock as a ladies modesty seems like that makes sense yeah because all the characters

984
01:48:57,200 --> 01:49:06,000
were great the music was great the the the through line on the story was just so strong uh seeing you

985
01:49:06,000 --> 01:49:12,800
know leica relating her passion for wreck music and making all these friends along the way

986
01:49:12,800 --> 01:49:21,440
in turning her sit her adoptive sister onto her side so you know it was just a really strong story with a

987
01:49:21,440 --> 01:49:29,440
lot of great beats get it because it's also musical got it so yeah i think that's a pretty strong

988
01:49:29,440 --> 01:49:34,800
contender and i think it's prime i choice for this season cool sounds like a good pick

989
01:49:35,680 --> 01:49:44,000
mm-hmm so what's yours well here's something that never happened before uh usually i either know my

990
01:49:44,000 --> 01:49:51,520
best of the season picks or have trouble deciding uh like immediately or have trouble deciding

991
01:49:51,520 --> 01:49:56,160
between several amazing shows but this time i don't feel particularly strong about any of the

992
01:49:56,160 --> 01:50:03,440
shows the season like Lazarus and G quac started strong sometimes it's like that yeah but the wheels

993
01:50:03,440 --> 01:50:10,880
came a heart of those shows by the end of their run so i don't feel like i'm like giving it to them

994
01:50:10,880 --> 01:50:16,480
the most likely candidate is my hero godimavigilandies because i consistently enjoyed that show but it's

995
01:50:16,480 --> 01:50:22,480
also very episodic and doesn't have any real story to speak of yet good character a bit of uh

996
01:50:22,480 --> 01:50:29,840
definitely and i like the cast but it's like okay i'm still waiting for the other shoot to drop there

997
01:50:30,640 --> 01:50:36,000
and fire force we just talked about like rune most of the ghost will build towards it with the two

998
01:50:36,000 --> 01:50:41,360
previous incredible seasons by delivering thoroughly disappointing animation for most of this one

999
01:50:41,360 --> 01:50:48,880
plus pacing issues if i gave fire for the award it would be for author and only him because he's my

1000
01:50:48,880 --> 01:50:54,400
king and does also my loyalty but the problem is fire force never got any rewards from us for

1001
01:50:54,400 --> 01:50:58,560
its previous two seasons and considering the quality of the third one is probably not gonna get

1002
01:50:58,560 --> 01:51:06,000
it for the second part of that either yeah it's kind of a crime yeah so since it's our show and we

1003
01:51:06,000 --> 01:51:12,000
love to have our cake and eat it too i'm gonna give my best of the season award to fire force

1004
01:51:12,000 --> 01:51:17,840
but retroactively for season four season one and two and only the author bits in season three

1005
01:51:17,840 --> 01:51:23,840
okay there you know what that works i would specifically mention that in the best of the season

1006
01:51:23,840 --> 01:51:29,680
entry on our site because hey i just rewatch season one and two and had a fantastic time those seasons

1007
01:51:29,680 --> 01:51:36,720
deserve it and they haven't gotten it yet so fuck it i'm that's that's my pick for best of the season

1008
01:51:36,720 --> 01:51:43,840
it's the previous two seasons of fire force and the author storylines at moments from this one because

1009
01:51:43,840 --> 01:51:49,760
yeah also animation wise he got the best fucking almost the best fucking parts in this show

1010
01:51:49,760 --> 01:51:55,680
yeah this season so we got everything good everything good is author related in this so uh yeah

1011
01:51:55,680 --> 01:52:00,400
we didn't even mention the reason he was late to the fight was because he fell out of the truck

1012
01:52:00,400 --> 01:52:08,400
yes it happens can happen to anyone he's so relatable but where where where where's Arthur he was with

1013
01:52:08,400 --> 01:52:16,960
this cut i don't care yeah but yeah so it's a cheat we love to cheat here when it comes to best of

1014
01:52:16,960 --> 01:52:22,800
the season but i'm okay with this because i've felt after looking at our best of the season realize

1015
01:52:22,800 --> 01:52:30,480
that we never gave it to a fire force because it had such strong contenders uh when uh

1016
01:52:30,480 --> 01:52:38,400
i should even up against that we picked oh it was a gap up against b stars at one point for example

1017
01:52:38,400 --> 01:52:45,600
it was up against oh i looked this up it was up against uh akudama drive oh yeah

1018
01:52:46,480 --> 01:52:54,400
so that's tough because there are those are great choices too yes so it lost out and at that point

1019
01:52:54,400 --> 01:53:00,000
i was like uh it's gonna get i mean i'm give it good to the final season it's gonna be fine and

1020
01:53:00,000 --> 01:53:07,760
had i known had i known maybe part two will be better if i cross your fingers that's not gonna

1021
01:53:07,760 --> 01:53:12,720
would that's all we can do and hope is all we have and that's what we live you with

1022
01:53:13,280 --> 01:53:20,480
for the end of this season but fall season is right around the corner looks a bit like slim pickings

1023
01:53:20,480 --> 01:53:26,640
judging from the listings on you know any chart and stuff like that but there's some stuff that i

1024
01:53:26,640 --> 01:53:33,600
will take a look at definitely and some definitely some returning shows that uh i will check out so

1025
01:53:33,600 --> 01:53:43,040
until then get ready for the cold seasons i get no i don't want to oh i do want to

1026
01:53:43,040 --> 01:53:48,720
i'm in the mood for hoody weather so yeah all right hey jokes on you i wear a hoodie y'all here

1027
01:53:48,720 --> 01:53:57,600
around because the office they work in is so cold all right but yeah looking forward to talking to you

1028
01:53:57,600 --> 01:54:03,600
guys soon and uh give you our impressions on some of the premieres in this sneak peak until then take

1029
01:54:03,600 --> 01:54:07,200
care everyone see you guys around

1030
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