JJK Season 3 Has Fans Divided?? - Otakus Anonymous Episode #144

I have some news Danny. I have some things I would love to talk to you about. Okay, open coldly. I'm gonna go ahead and open coldly here. Danny, did you know that I'm Hitler? Oh god, I don't want you to hear about this. Oh, so you are... No, I don't know what this is. I'm Hitler? Okay, good, good, good. I have no idea. As some of you guys may or may not know, I'm currently in China. I'm in Dorothy's childhood home here. Chang'Nou, I got all... I don't have my usual giant photo of Dorothy behind me here that I usually have when I'm in China. For some reason it's been hidden from me, which is kind of a shame. But I woke up yesterday morning, which is like, I'm eight hours ahead of you, so it is 10.43 a.m. here right now. I... How do you have a socket wrench? Oh my god, insanely bad guess at what this is. Go on with your story. It's just, you're right, it's a screwdriver, but also it has a socket. You just... You slotted in a wrench bit, a drill bit into the socket. It's a drill bit. It's just a regular screwdriver. Go on. Anyways, continuing. So I woke up yesterday morning, which was apparently... Like, it's like... So I'm eight hours ahead of you. So it's 10.44 right here, a.m. It's 6.44 p.m. where you are right now, back in Los Angeles. And so I get a text from my lovely, lovely editor, Cody, who's like, hey man, just thought you should know this. And I was like, just thought I should know what. And then he was like, you know, so we talked about a couple weeks ago about me walking away from anime IRL. Basically, one shoot day, just like... It was the straw that broke the camel's back. I was like, I don't super believe in this project anymore. And so it was kind of the last video that we ever filmed that was kind of like, oh, this is the straw that broke the camel's back. And that video came out a couple days ago. It was this whole video that Richard had wrote. And it was like... We were basically doing Dictator or Anime Character, a game that we've literally played on this podcast. But it's like, we've been like, oh, we have a series of one-liners said by anime characters, and we have to guess whether it's like L saying it or like Mussolini. And so we basically did exactly that, but in, like, YouTube form. And so it was me and Chris, and Stephen was also there, but he was so afraid to say something that would offend the great state of China that he basically didn't say anything in the entire video. And so it's me and Chris playing Dictator or Anime Character. And I was like, okay, I don't love this video. There's like a lot of like, really racy things being said. Like the first line is a guy being like, I'm the black Hitler of Africa. And I'm like, okay, we're just walking through. I was like, oh, this is just not worth it for my career anymore. And so I'm watching this video because Cody's like, oh, the video came out and not 15 seconds in, not 15 seconds into the video. There is a graphic made by the editor where it's like, and I'm like, and today we're playing Anime Character or Dictator. And when I say Anime Character, Chris is animated into a moderate suit of armor. And I am animated into Adolf fucking Hitler. That's great. You're Jewish also. I'm Jewish. It's my last Anime IRL video. That's like a hate crime. Not 15 seconds into it. The editor slides a German out, like a German military outfit on to me. Oh, no. And puts a fucking Hitler stash on me. Wow. That's crazy. By the time I, by the time that I wake up eight hours later after the video has been live, I get a text from Cody and he's like, hey, I should bring this to your attention. And I was like, oh, fucking what? So I text the group chat, the Anime IRL group chat. And I'm like, hey, why in the fuck am I Hitler in this video? And Richard's like, oh, what? It was like, no, no, no, you're not, you're not Hitler. You're just like the thumbnail like has Mussolini and freezing next to you. And I was like 15, like screen grab 15 seconds. And I was like, this is me as Hitler in the YouTube video. And he's like, I can't believe the editor put that in. I was like, did you not watch? Yeah, no, no one's watching these videos before they go out. I was like, oh, the editor slipped that one past your executive producer. Immediately in the beginning. That's crazy. That's like 15 seconds. And I'm Hitler. That's horrible. That's so fucked. They edited out then. So there's no intro to that video anymore. Yeah. He was like, I like, he was like, I pulled over. He was like, I pulled over on the side of the highway and edited that out. And I was like, I fucking OK. Wow. That's crazy. Shaking angry yesterday. Yeah, I bet. I got three calls from everybody involved and I've just, I've just ignored all of them. I'm just like, OK, that's as like, I was like, me and Richard were on the like a, Oh, like if he comes in films for the car content, I'll be in an Anime IRL video. I'm just, I'm just, I'm done. I'm, I'm, I'm so, it's so beyond me at this point. So yeah, someone, someone, that's how my first couple of days in China have gone. Someone in chat wrote something along the lines of like picking up my phone to someone screaming, why am I Hitler would rock my day? Yeah, literally, I just blasted the group chat. I was like, why the fuck am I Hitler? Wow. Into this goddamn YouTube. And the thing, it's also just like, oh, it's, it's my last episode of Anime IRL. And I'm like, OK, cool. So I guess it'd be Hitler in the last episode. Like, what are we doing? Well, it's also like one, yeah, it's absolutely insane. No one's watching it beforehand. But two, yeah, just like, like you leaving because you're like, hey, I kind of want to move away from like, you know, riskier, racier kind of comedy. And it's like, oh, it's just the Rome in the outfit. Throwing the outfit real quick. They'll love it. The people will love it. And you know, the editor was like, ah, he's Jewish. I can make him Hitler. And it's like, I don't, I don't know if that's the map you want to build. Yeah, that's the craziest part is that you're Jewish and that without asking you, they're like, you'll like this. You'll be into those. You'll love that. That guy Nick, I know super well. We'll love, we'll love cosplaying as the guy who chased his grandmother out of Austria. That's crazy. That's like, that's like the opening to like an insane I Carly episode where it's like Freddie's like, Sam, you made me Hitler. Smoking a cigarette. I got one. God, that's crazy. Yeah, people are asking. So what happens to anime IRL now we just we're just not a part of it. It's still an entity and whatever Steven and Chris and Richard want to do with it. I think they'll just keep making similar content. Yeah, maybe add a new host. Yeah, exactly. I think they're the thing about adding on a couple of other people like Danny Phantom really wants to join and like maybe auxiliary or something like that. So it'll continue. It'll continue just without me and Danny. Me and Danny have our own group content and it's this because neither of us, neither of us has ever once tried to depict the other as Hitler. And so that's firing doing group content. It's so nice being a guy in a chair and not worrying about somebody else rocking it. Yeah, exactly. I just don't I don't need the constant. Oh my God, white knuckling through a video here. But anyways, enough about that just wanted to get out of the way wanted to establish everybody that I am not Hitler and or a descendant of Hitler. You know, before I go any further with the show, I want to talk to you about the sponsor of today's episode, Rocket Money. 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I remember every week, we were like, all right, but you know, next week's the week next week's the one things are going to kick off. And we've two shows have started off with a bang. Everything else. I'm already like, oh God, what come on guys, come on, give me something more. It is definitely so free run has started yet you're catching back up with free run outside of that. We're all stuck in this fucking tournament. Stuck in the tournament is an insane way to talk about what is objectively the best arc of free run. I there's no way. I first off, if this makes it on a tech talk, let us know in the comments if what Nick just said is true or insane. It is awesome. It I have finally managed to program my brain into loving the cozy vibes of free run where they just like show up to a village and free runs like, oh, I was going to give an example and people would devour me because the example is not going to actually be an episode. I was going to be like free shows up to a village and people are like, free run, our village has a bad case of melancholy and she's like, did you try wearing blue instead of purple free run, you did it, you saved the day you forget, but I realized I'm describing apothecary diaries. I was going to say you're literally describing apothecary diaries, your other least favorite incredibly popular anime. No, but um, no, free run is very like they go to a village and they meet a guy and the guy's like, I'm sad, but I have a good attitude about it. And then they like develop him more. I really like sign demons the whole time. And then a free run says something vaguely racist about demons and then they're like, I can't believe she's suppressing her magical power. There's not a lot of demons in season one. There's the arc where she makes that girl kill herself and then they don't really show up again, at least as far as I've seen. Yeah, I know it's like she has to like get her magical like super pass. She's got a magical super pass to go further north, her and Fern take the magical test. That's what she's doing right now. So they're taking the test. That's the tournament and or, you know, it's like a, what do you call it? The force to death type deal. And I've programmed my brain. I've gotten in the mood of like these cozy like one off adventures. And now they're in like a more kind of like typical shonen esque tournament. And it's like I miss the cozy adventures. Oh yeah. Well, ah, see that's the thing that's kind of like my deal with spy X family. Like spy X family is like one of those shows where it's like, oh man, we're doing episodic little bullshit. We're on just like, I'm trying to get a gold star. You're like, oh, this is great. Oh, this is, oh, the give me 300 more of these. Give me, give me on you failing to talk to the second son for 800 seasons. But then they're like, Hey, we're doing it. Give me more Bill Watkins. Yeah, literally. I want to see the world's largest six year old throw a dodgeball at Mach six. But the second I get like an eight episode mini arc, I'm like, I feel like keep up with the plot lines here. It's like, I don't, it throws me off a little bit. And the kind of, there's kind of the same problem with a pot, Gary Dyers, I find a pot, Gary Dyers is awesome. I think a pot, Gary Dyers is at its best when it is episodic. And it's just like, oh, now I need to figure out why one of the concubines is feeling gloomy today. And it's like, oh, she's been burning the wrong kind of wood for the last month. And season two, they get into like this big like insurgency arc and it's really good like season two of a pot, Gary Dyers is fucking incredible. But it is like, it loses a little bit of that magic because you're like, I'm trying to keep up. First off, I don't, what a pot like what what concubine is this? How, how is that eunuch related? Like the throb the thought lines get so incredibly complicated eventually. So it's like, um, Freerun is, I think at its best when it is, I think it's kind of the opposite for Freerun where it's at its best when it does get arky. And it's like, oh, the episodic episodes only get us to those key arcs. Yeah, I mean, right now I think for your own set, it's best when people are just blind siding you with like incredibly deep philosophy. Like there's a bit where the drunk priest who's a ferns old mentor. Yeah. I know what he was saying. Oh, okay. Yeah, the drunk. The frequently drunk priest says something where it's like, it's our like, it's what's it called? Not destiny. It's like, essentially, it's our destiny to be forgotten, essentially. Yeah. And it's like, just characters are constantly dropping like really hard hitting shit like that. And I like when it feels cozy and you're like learning hard truths about mortality and love in the world to like the melodic sounds of a crack. Link can't fire while like someone older and wiser than you is swaddling you in a blanket. And now that we're. Yeah, now that we're trying to like catch a fucking bird and everyone wants to kill Freerun for her bird. I forgot that the Freerun version of the force of death was literally just running around with a bird cage trying to catch the 17 goddamn blue blue feathered fuck. Yeah, it's like just as I started to enjoy the taste of like plain chicken and realize that it allowed me to understand like the nuances found within this specific bird. They like drown it in barbecue sauce and I'm like, I fucking. Also, it's kind of it's kind of surprised. It's surprising that you draw the line at a fucking bird arc, Mr. Mr. binoculars over there. I figured that. It's just the fact that I've like finally acquired a taste of like the more cozy comforting Freerun pattern. And then now we're no longer in that and I'm missing it. You're going to get to a point where like there's some ridiculously high level magical battles happening and you're going to be like, oh, never mind. I'm so back on Freerun. It's going to be fucking sick. That's the other thing I was. I wish Freerun's magic system was like the upcoming witch at Atelier or the owl house or something or full metal alchemist where there are enough rules that I'm like interested to learn more about it. They have started introducing some cooler powers like the dude. There's a dude who turns like flower petals into like razors. That's sick. That's really cool. But otherwise, I yeah, the magic system isn't something that I'm like stoked to learn more about yet. The magic system is almost like I don't want to say it's like black clover ask where it's like, oh, certain people just have certain magics and there's not really a way to train and other people's magics. Like it's like, oh, like, it has anti magic. Yami has dark magic. It's like you get that magic. You're born with it. And like Freerun's entire thing is that she lives so long that she's trying to like figure out all the magic on earth. And like that's like the beauty of immortality and why she's able to achieve that. She's like a roachimore trying to like unlock the keys to all magic. But you're right. Like it's like individuals have certain kinds of magic. That's kind of all they get. And then there's like the fact that like, oh, she only teaches Fern like Zoltrauk and like basic defensive magic. And it's like, oh, well, if you just spam light attack 800 times, there's nothing anybody can do about it. Right. Yeah. But yeah, so that's, um, I guess my Freerun corner. I got like seven episodes left. So that's like two and a half hours. I'll finish it by next week. Yeah. The new episode isn't even out yet. So it's the 12th where you're at right now, right? Yeah. So the new episode doesn't come out until I think the 13th. Yeah. No, it comes out the 16th. It's like the 15th where you are right now. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'm a week ahead. I got news. I got news at all. It's all downhill here. Um, but yes. So that you're just like, you're like, it's pigs. It's all pigs. And you cut out and I'm like, what did that mean? You think you would be some kind of food abundant moment? No, no. You're seeing a pig falling at max speed. I almost, I almost got pancaked earlier. Nobody can do anything about it because it was big or pigs falling. Oh, I want to see a cloudy with a chance of being. A cloudy with a chance of meatballs, but like the realistic rendition where it's like a full, a full rump roast, skull fucking a grandma 320 miles an hour. Yeah. The prototype of the machine is that none of the things are cooked. So it's just a live animals falling from the sky. It's just still, it's still horrifying. No matter what's falling from the sky, if it's bigger than a fucking a dime sized piece of hail, it's horrifying. True. It's so true. But yeah, so we have, we, there was no new episode of Send It To The Bee Hero this week, right? No, however, I could have watched it. I thought about it. Crunchyroll sent me the first two episodes. You could have snipped it. She could have been like, oh, it's so bad leading forward here. Yeah. I didn't want to watch it though because I regret watching the first one just because I didn't get to watch it like full 1080p or with dub. And so like, hopefully episode two is crazy as hell. I bet they'll probably calm down just because they episode one is a whole ass like battle. I bet episode two is just going to be like meeting characters. It's got to be some kind of setup because like currently all we have right now is just like, oh, I know how to throw knives in Boyle Boyle. When I throw them, do they be exploding? That means that this week we only have four things to talk about. It means we have the first two episodes of JJK, episode two of Vigilantes, episode one of Fire Force and episode one of Hell's Paradise. So let's go ahead and get what I think we both agrees probably the worst episode of this week out of the way. You want to talk about Vigilantes? Oh, I was so ready for you to say Fire Force. I forgot Vigilantes happened. Literally. Like the thing is like, Oh, aggravating enough Vigilantes to the point where I'm like, are we ever going to get a fucking story here? I couldn't believe this week's episode. This was like so boring. It is literally side quests, the goddamn show and nothing makes sense. Everything is built on stupid rules. It is. Oh my God, dude, Vigilantes is getting it's pissing me off. And like we've got to the introduction of Scarman, which is nice, but like, oh my God, crab mechs that are that are boxing with fat gum. What are the rules anymore? I know they did a like when I first opened the episodes and I saw this episode was called like crab demonium. I was like, no, we can't be doing crabs again. Right? Dude, I haven't seen crabs done this long since a fucking group of Australians went to Bali for spring vacation. I'm seeing crabs done this into the ground since we saw a sabuki bisco. And that, listen, that's a better renditions of crabs because at least they're not fucking splicing it in with a bunch of crab jokes and a girl who apparently has the quirk of vasectomies. Blue Flamingo God says I like Vigilantes. Dude, if you've been listening to this podcast, I have been Vigilantes number one defender all season one. One of my biggest issues I'm realizing is that like the more they introduce the heroes, like the established like fat gum, Izawa, etc. The less time we get with the Vigilantes and also the less they feel like Vigilantes. Cause not like Fat Gums ever like stopping him from Vigilanting. He's just a hero then. Yeah, like he's literally working alongside Fat Gum and Izawa and Miss Midnight and they're all like, oh, you don't have your license. And then it's like, he's just like, I can't do anything without my hoodie because he's like a Vigilante, right? Like he needs to be incognito. But like in this episode, he's literally like suctioned onto the back of a gigantic fucking Sigourney Weaver ass crab mech. Sigourney Weaver is she was the alien lady, right? Yeah, you got it. Sigourney Weaver ass crab mech. And he's like, I can't do this without my without my hoodie. And you're like, oh yeah, of course, because of like animinity because you're a Vigilante. Full face out, full like hood flapping off in the distance, full face out, actively working with Fat Gum. You're not a Vigilante. You're just an unlicensed hero. Yeah, I know. I see there's a comment here that says the Vigilante route is sort of ruining the story because it keeps it away from the main drama in action of a hero. I disagree. I think they aren't leaning hard enough into the Vigilante shit. Like I want to feel the tension of, I don't know anyone's fucking name. We'll just say Pop Step. But like I want to. Pop Step is her name. I want to feel the tension of Pop Step trying to stop evil while also having to fight the people she respects because they're trying to arrest her for doing this illegally. Like there's so much interesting conflict in having them be Vigilantes in a world where it's like legal to be a hero and they're just not doing any of it. Yeah, it's like the Christopher Nolan Batman. It's like, oh, like, like I want to see Batman like actively trying to save the world while being in like a deep legal issue anytime he dons the cape, you know? I want him to have to avoid the cops and like the cops are seen as an almost equally large hindrance to like his active pursuit of truth and justice as the villains. Yeah, no, I agree. And so it's just like, I don't know. Also, it's just like, I don't know. There's also the powers in Vigilante. These are crazy to me as well because we just spent eight seasons watching at like MHA, right? And like the powers get kind of nuts by the end, but that's because like, oh, we're talking about one for all or talking about all for one. And it's like, sure, a lot of people's quirks gets better and like obviously like Todoroki's quirk gets better, Bakugou's quirk gets better. Takoyomi is literally, Tokoyomi is literally fighting against all for one at a certain point. And all for one's like, I need to dodge his attacks. Like everybody gets super powerful. But then like you get the introduction of Scarman and like out of nowhere, Koichi is like, oh, I can catch up with fucking bullet trains and I have suction power and like, I don't know. It's just like it loses me and then we just have like, why are these crap mechs not like military issue? Why are they doing, that gum is getting pushed back by these crap mechs. And like, that's a top 10 hero. That's a top 10 hero getting fucking pushed back like a sumo wrestler. Like things being cobbled together by warehouse equipment. They also look awful. Like just terrible from like show that used to look better than like typical my hero. Yeah. Oh, 100%. And that was the whole thing. It was like, there was like, Oh, this was like studio bones is first like studio bone or bones films. First project was vigilantes and we were like, Oh my God, like this is what the future of bones projects is going to look like. And like bones has looked pretty good. Like the last season of MHA looks good. Gachiakana looks good. But like vigilantes is taking a step back and maybe that's because like the public reception to season one wasn't like. Awesome. Like they took some of the budget. I mean, maybe they're just like anime is notorious for like some episodes having bigger budget than others. Obviously, I guess every show is like that. So maybe they're just like, as the fucking crap one, give them like a ham sandwich and 30 bucks. Yeah. And so like, yeah, like obviously, yeah, that's a less important episode. They don't need to like build up like crazy. But we did get the introduction of scar man. How do you feel about him? He's like the main antagonist of vigilantes. I have no feelings towards him. He has such a nothing design in a show that is well, I guess vigilantes hasn't put like in a universe that has bred arguably some of the best shown in anime character designs. Yeah. This I like barely remember what this guy looks like. He looks like the human version of the fucking principle in my hero academia. Oh my. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, are they going to say the other you say he looked like the younger version of the principle from Sanda. No, he looks like from what I remember. I watched this actually three hours ago and I don't remember what he looks like. It was nothing burger of an episode. He looks like the little like mouse principle. Yeah. Genius cork. Yeah. All right. You want to talk about the other worst episode of the week? You want to talk about Fire Force Season three part two episode one? Um, yeah. Uh, simuldub, I think. Um, yes, I watched it. I watched it dub. You watched it in dub. I watched it in dub. I think I watched it in sub. I think I think I very much watched it in sub. I also, because I'm in China, everything has been real weird. I got like eight VPNs on right now. I'm like technically in Hong Kong, crunch your old works different in Hong Kong. It's a whole thing. Chained soldier. Oh, probably not. People are like, are you going to watch the chain soldier anime? And this looks like talking about a togami wants to be common. Right? Or something like that. Uh, and they were like, are you going to watch that? Listen, there's already too much going on this season, guys. Danny's not going to be watching Try Gun, uh, which first ooze first episode came out. Uh, and honestly, it's fine. I like, I honestly, we were talking about like the first things that we're probably going to end up dropping this season. Uh, and I can say undoubtedly, I think the first thing I'm going to drop this season is going to be the new Try Gun remake. Yeah. Yeah. I really wanted to fall in love with Try Gun and I got like five episodes into the season one and it didn't hook me, which was really disappointing because I like wanted that to be my favorite thing ever. Um, people were, oh, people were saying Fire Force isn't that bad. It's not that bad. It's just this was okay. This was better than vigilantes. Um, but after a season where we were like, oh no, Fire Force went from like, peak anime to just very okay. I want this to come back swinging. This, the thing is, the worst part about this being like, this wasn't a bad episode. It's obviously a set up episode. Um, but the worst part about this being the first episode in a show that just came off its weakest season is like, you're watching it and you're like, oh, this could have been out. This could have come out last season. Like this should have been an episode that like maybe closed out last season and then the final frame that we see of last season is like the seventh pillar rising and you're like, oh my God, there's doppelgangers and like Shinra was taken over by a doppelganger and like, oh, everyone's, everyone's pyrokinetic abilities are getting stronger. And it's like, okay, we just did an entire season where like, I could, I honestly couldn't tell you what happened last season. They fought dragon. They fought, they fought the captain of company one whose name I'm forgetting burns. They fought Leonard Burns. And then, and that's like, that's like literally over the, and there's a crowd of big Mac, a Mac and fairy, fairy, the gravity guy. And like none of those fights were even like remotely impressive. And so it's like, okay, if we wanted to do a setup episode, do a setup episode at the end of last season and then send us straight into like the actual interesting content in this season. No, I agree. Well, especially because the cliffhanger of the last season was so sick where Shinra was seeing like real 3D humans and stuff like that. And like, we got, he talked a little about it like he showed Arthur the humans and we've kind of like established that that's what humans look like before the great cataclysm or whatever it was called. But yeah, like, I don't know. And then it turns out that the reason he woke up with blonde hair and tattoos and shit was because why are you looking up donations. We always forget. We always forget to keep donations. Um, yeah, I guess if you could just like keep them somewhere and we'll do like a donation like segment will do. Um, but, uh, yeah, we found out that the reason Shinra wakes up at the end of the last season with like blonde hair and tattoos is because his doppelganger possessed him over the last like several months. And it was basically just like the manifestation of the bad reputation people have given. But doesn't it feel like it's, doesn't it feel like it's thrown in like it feels like it's thrown in like it's like, oh, like, hey, by the way, Shinra has been gone for the last three months. And I understand that we're doing like important exposition about like, oh, wow doppelgangers are here and like, why wasn't Shinra taking over and this is how Septonic like spontaneous human combustion happens. But it's like, hey, you guys won't believe it. Shinra was taken over for the last three months. You're not going to see it. He was a dick. Uh, but you're not like you, but like, we're not going to show you any of the part of Shinra being taken over by his doppelganger. We're going to spend 20 minutes to explain to you that it happened. And it's like, go on. I feel like there's better ways to introduce the concept of doppelgangers, spontaneous human combustion, especially like we spent the majority of the last season talking about like Ibanez researching to all these things. And it's like, do we need to dedicate 20 whole minutes to something that we're not going to see happen? Yeah, well, it is also like the end of the last season makes you wonder like, oh, is he in some like alternate dimension or like this and that like my I was so hyped about the end of the last season. And then yeah, it is just like, oh, you were your doppelganger for a second and you were a real dick. Yeah. And there's no consequences. It's like, oh, you died to her blonde and now you have you have some tattoos. You hit IRIS and it was just a blonde out. Yeah. Somehow just, you know, washes the blonde out the tattoos do look sick though. And that's the thing is like that's that's the issue is I'm like, oh, this is just not this is just not something I care about. Like in terms of like, it's just a plot point that's set up like specifically to put like to push the exposition of like, hey, there's doppelgangers now. Adola's getting closer. The the the the great Cataclysm part two was coming around and it's like all of these are things that we knew already. I just don't need 20 more minutes to it. I cannot figure out for the life of me how to get top chats open. Okay, well, let's do the podcast. That's that's fair, I guess. Stank actually here. I'll just text thank and tell him to text us it. You keep them entertained for a second. Do put it. Do I've stopped that'll summon him. I was. He lives here in China. We'll get to JJK no offense, but you guys have great chemistry and are great to watch. Thanks. No offense seemed not necessary. Yeah, I don't know why. Thanks gonna send it to us. I don't know why either of us would take offense to that. We've been doing this podcast for three plus years. I would hope we have no offense before accomplishing. No offense before a compliment is like such a great way to get my heart like racing. No offense, but you look good today, bro. And you're like, what is what do you mean by that? What do you listen to? I'm like, and and then where's the butt? Yeah, that's a great way to keep either of us on the hook. You're like, oh, if you want to keep me intrigued in our conversation, be like, no offense and then just do a 20 minute dialogue about what you did today. And I'd be like, when are you supposed to hurt my feelings? Yeah, it's just like, oh yeah, guys. Danny's birthday is going to be two days from now in the 14th. Woo. He remembered I'm getting a deep cleaning in the back of my molars. I'm very excited about it. Oh, you're getting a deep clean. You're getting cleaned out for your birthday. I'm getting D seed, baby. I do a Sarah with this. Listen, you've been clamoring about how dirty, dirty your molars are. But for you, I want you to take a day for yourself here, baby. Here, I'm going to take you to water, pick the places you never even thought it could reach. Oh, yeah, I bought a water pick. I went to the dentist a couple of weeks ago and they were like, you're, you have bone loss. And I'm like, that sounds horrifying. Basically just me in my teeth. In my teeth. And so basically, you were you consuming on a on a cubic liter basis? Well, it's funny because I was like, I told the dentist. I was like, well, I don't drink any soda. I cut out soda. I cut out like iced tea and they were like, are you so you're not like consuming that much sugar? And I'm like, hold on now. I drink at least three milkshakes a week. My milkshake budget brings all the boys to the yard. And all the boys are just they're just grub hub drivers. Grub hub drivers, two of them meeting at your front door being like, you also have a boba time milkshake. Why would you order these from two separate delivery apps? You make them race. Yeah. No, the issue is I like brush my teeth twice a day and I like do the floss and such. Hoink. But um, uh, no, I haven't been to the dentist. I've been the dentist in like two years and I didn't realize when you go to the dentist, they actually like do shit. I thought it was like a physical that hurts. Like, what do you mean? Actually, first off, I don't, I don't believe that like, when you go in for a cleaning, that does nothing. It does nothing. That's, that's what I thought, brother. Brush your teeth harder. I thought the same thing. And they're like, you can't be waiting two and a half years to come in. Like that's how this happens. And I was like, you wouldn't have prevented this. And they're like, no, we do. You gotta go to the dentist. You have to say that because if they, if we catch onto their schemes, then we know we're like, listen, all they do is they're like, oh, oh, you're bleeding because you don't floss. I floss every goddamn day. I'm bleeding because you're yanking that steel wire you're using to get meat out between my teeth through my fucking teeth at Mach 6. I know. I hate when they bring out the little scythe and just start scraping at your mouth. Yeah, they're like, oh, yeah, it's because you know, oh, your gums are weak. My gums are incredibly strong. You're just using a titanium pick to pick it like human flesh. What is this, Warhammer? Yeah, no, they're fools. They're fools and cowards, dentists, all of them. But should we? And we're just buying them houses in Newport Beach with our, with our goddamn gamma money. All right. Today's podcast is brought to you by you, the Super Chatters. So this is welcome everybody to Super Chat Corner. First Super Chat is from Dariel Appo. Just some video ideas you should react to, eliminate one anime from each year. Can you also, can also do the anime opening? Also, Danny Slapnick in the face for me. That was $7.99 Australian dollars. That's a good game. Holy shit. It took a while because you're in China. It's far travel. I mean, that objectively, that was like the speed of light. So that was actually pretty impressive. I like that as a game. Remove, remove one anime from each year. That's a great game. I mean, but like that's that's so easy. That's so you're right. Maybe we take like the top five most popular anime of every year and we're like, oh, remove one of those. That's a pretty good game. Or are we like remove every anime but one? Oh, that's better. Because that's basically us just saying what's the best anime of every single year, but that's that's that's a funner way to word it. All right. EJ Merr says or a Jumr says is Danny Mada a fake name to the one and only many data. That's because yes, I am many data today because we were originally trying to do the podcast on the talk is anonymous Riverside thingy. And Danny was signed in as me. Wait, Nick real quick real quick. A couple of people have commented. Do they have dental chat? Do we think YouTube gives them benefits? No, we get no benefits. We get no YouTube premium. Dude, I listen. I we don't get YouTube premium. We don't get YouTube TV. I make hundreds of thousands of dollars every single year. And they look at me as a disgusting little contractor. YouTube dropped me from my partner manager a week ago. My partner manager emailed me and dude. Oh my God. Wait, hold up. This is something that none of you none of you are going to relate to. This is going to be fucking rich man cries at taxes. A fucking moment here. But listen, this is going to be this is I have to tell Danny about this because Danny's going to understand it and he'll appreciate it. I got a email from my YouTube partner manager the other day who is a new YouTube partner manager. And if those of you don't know, if you if you get a certain amount of followers, views, that kind of thing, you become verified on YouTube. At which point you usually get a YouTube partner manager and they do nothing. And they do and they do and they say you get a yellow flag on your YouTube video and you're like, can you fix this and like, sorry, the robot flagged it. You know, fucking you, you have the robot login. Yeah, but once you're like, hey, can you fix this and they're like the robot flagged it. They don't on the flag it. They're like, my hands are tied. The people have to on flag it. And it's like, well, but we've just proven that this is like they did it wrong. Like this is not their fucking work that they copyright and like, sorry, I genuinely don't know what a YouTube partner manager does. And because of that, I, you know, I'm happy to inform you. I lost mine months ago because I kept ghosting them. That's they were just like, hey, literally, they literally like passive aggressively. They're like, well, fine. If you're not going to answer me, you, I guess you don't need me anymore. Yeah, that's exactly what happened. I, they just kept like not doing and then if you don't respond to them, they also don't do anything. All you two partner manager does is like every couple of months, they'll be like, hey, come to this online seminar about how you can make better content. And I'm like, how fucking dare you tell me how to do better content? Tiktok does the same thing. Their partner managers also don't do anything. I don't even, I've never even, I've never even glanced at the topic of having a Tiktok partner manager. We have a Spotify partner manager who hasn't dropped us yet. She also, I mean, like she got us on the platform. We never really asked her to do anything. I'm sure she actually probably would do something if we asked anyways, I got an email and I, Danny, I just want you to see if, if this sounds like YouTube is, uh, is trying to sell me something that doesn't exist. So I got the intro to the email here. The tagline is introducing exclusive access to on demand YouTube support. Pretty good. Right. Pretty good. Pretty good. It sounds like I'm getting something exclusive. Hi, Nick. Hope you're doing well. I'm reaching out to share some updates taking effect in January starting in January. We're transitioning you from working with an exclusive on, wait, we're transitioning you from working with me to an exclusive on demand support experience designed to give you more control. Okay. We heard partner feedback on how important it is to get the right support quickly for topics important to you. The YouTube team is rolling out a new program to provide expert help when you need it. You'll gain access, exclusive access to on demand YouTube support for six months. Wow. Six months. Okay. Wow. Which means if I ever have a problem, I can email YouTube. And they'll help me. It's just a service everyone should have. And so that means I no longer have my partner manager and also I only have this service for six months. Yeah, right. And so that's, that's, that's, that's great. So no longer partner manager six months. Also, my, my partner manager left in a fun little, a fun little note here. It says, Oh, comprehensive support. When you reach out, you'll be connected directly to a member of the team who can address everything from resolving technical policy and monetization issues to providing channel guidance. Because this is a one stop service to cover all your needs. You will no longer need to use your parentheses insert P O M alias. Once you have access to on demand. Yeah, he forgot to change the copy pasta to send it to me. So that's, that's awesome. That's humiliating. That's good. That's that. Yep. So I texted my old partner manager and I was like, Oh, so, so not only am I being dropped by my partner manager, but my old, my new partner manager cannot even be fought to change the copy pasta for me. So that's so sick. That's like how Instagram is like, Hey, pay us $10 a month for literally nothing at all. But you get a blue checkmark and you get added security features and it's like, bitch, give everyone the added security features for free. What do you mean? I'm paying to have you like make my account less hackable. Yeah. Considering how like maligned meta has been for all of its security measures regarding people's like details and privacy. Make that the standard. If there's an option for more security, make that the goddamn standard. All right. Anyways, back to Super Chat hour here from Mingus the protector, Heineken Danny. I just got here. What did I miss? I'm Hitler. I'm in China. And Danny's hair looks good. You can't. They need the re go. Go back to the beginning of the video to understand that I'm Hitler comment by Nish. Yes. Or I was Hitler. It's since been taken down. Stephen McClutchie for a sentence $2. It says, When did anime take over my favorite balloons tower defense six podcasts? Honestly, great question. I haven't been on enough flights recently where I haven't had Wi-Fi or anything to watch to pop back into balloons tower defense. The rogue like little section they have in there where you can just like walk around the path there and play a bunch of different new maps and stuff. Great. Love BDT six. Yeah. I agree. You also got $2 from Oofa Clemo. Have you watched any car anime initial D? I've watched initial D. I'm making an initial D car right now. Now I want to watch a fucking red line sometime though. That movie, that movie Fox. And movie. Absolutely Fox. All right. $5 from that guy. Do you guys plan to cover scum of the brave written by the same offer of sentence to be a hero or new samurai troopers sequel to the 89 anime? Scum of the brave. I mean, if it's not an anime, no, this looks like an anime from like 2001. What? No, unless there's a new one coming out. It looks like there might be. And they also said the new samurai trooper sequel to the 89 anime. I'm assuming there was an anime that came out in 89 called samurai troopers that's coming out that's getting a sequel. Is it a sequel or a remake? That's a real question. I mean, yeah, if there's a fucking, oh, this is like some, it's like a Power Rangers type deal, but they're in like, mecca samurai looking outfits. It's like a Power Rangers deal, but it's animated. Like there's a blue one, there's a green one, there's a red one. Wait, you're telling me the guy who made sentence to be a hero is so old that he wrote a story that was turned into an anime in 2001? No, it looks like a 2001 looking thing. Oh, gotcha. I mean, that's also not. That's not crazy. I mean, I guess that means that manga would need to be made in like the 90s. That's that's like Oda Horakoshi or not Horakoshi. That's like Oda fucking like Kishimoto era. What's your start hitting like 50s, 60s for Mungaka that I mean that's basically GGs. No, no, it is new. It just kind of looks old. That's interesting. Very classic art style. A guy with what can only be described to look like Tanjiro's fire like his is mark on his face. Yeah. And there's a little girl. It seems as though this guy loves writing a story about a burly Japanese man hanging out with little girls. Yeah, that's distressing. It's the most it's the most like five o'clock shadow ass like strong chin Japanese man. And for some reason, his companion is a 16 year old girl. Yeah, that is funny. This is certainly a pattern. But no, I mean, we have no plans to check this out just because we are drowning in anime currently. We're not working so many important anime this season. Like we're not going to be even talking about Oshinoko the final. You can. Are you keeping up with it? Oshinoko. I don't know if the first episode is out yet for the new season, but I don't even want to try and I don't even try and I don't know if it's the idea of trying to access high dive in China. It's going to be Oshinoko is on Crunchyroll now. Oh, the first episode comes out January 14th. So no, it is not out. But yeah, I mean, we're watching for your in jiu jitsu guys in Hell's Paradise. I'm watching Oshinoko. We're watching sentence to be hero. I'm actually really curious. Why does sentence to be a hero not have a new episode this week? Probably just like not done or something. I don't know. But you have access to like, you know, the second episode is done. You have access to each other. I just show everybody. Oh, dude, private private episode two showing will never get invited to another Crunchyroll event again. But then again, we don't really get invited to him anyways. Yeah, that's fair. Should we talk about Hell's Paradise? We should talk about, oh, wait, we're still doing we're still doing Super Chat corner here. Somebody said, Mopkins Coon, since $10. Watch murder drones recently. My favorite on par with has been now. And I think Nick and Danny would love the squash a sport and mechs on a moon kind of anime. Um, guess what? I've reacted to all of murder drones. It's sick as hell. It's glitches most underrated property by far. And yeah, many properties. They have like three not including Knights of Guinevere, but it's it's so cool. It's just so fucking sick. Murder drones. Animations great. Music's great. Characters are fun. And somehow like, I think it should be more popular than amazing digital circus. I can't believe even if it even if it wasn't going to be more popular, the gap is outrageous. Like it should the gap should be closer. Do you think murder drones would be a bit more popular if they just had like one or two more clown girls? Yeah. The clowns help. The lead character is like an emo ass like, um, she looks like like an old look up the eye dog. Oh, you can't. You're on your phone. I don't know. I don't know. I can look up the dog. Look up the eye dog. I dog sounds like something you make somebody say before you're like, Oh dude, I remember the fucking eye dog. She's like one of these things. It dances to music lights up and acts as a portable speaker for MP3 players. We didn't bring these things back. I mean, this is what Boston Dynamics is trying to do. Like, imagine, imagine the fucking pivot switch instead of like the bot instead of putting like an M16 on the back of the Boston Dynamics. They haven't get killed children in like third world countries. There's like, Hey, by the way, the sick mobile MP3 speaker. I know. I miss when like, I miss these weird MP3 accessories. They were so cool. They were the worst people I've like goddamn life, but like, Hey, at least they're different shapes. Yeah. Remember when people used to have to have like multiple MP3s because each one only holds like about an album's worth of music? Oh yeah, dude. Do you remember the zoom? Yeah. What is that? Let me see. The zoom was like, it was like, it was like, an iPod before iPod, but you had to like, you had to like buy. It was like a subscription service to music in a box. God, this gives me like, this gives me like reverse nostalgia. Why? Because you never actually experienced it. It's just a worse time. Oh my God. Yeah. Objectively. I mean, like I was born in the wrong generation. There's this guy on TikTok who like calls himself the greaser. He's like, he's like some greaser who drives around with like rolled up sleeves and a fucking pompadour. And he's like, I was born in the wrong era. I was like, yeah, you're fucking very convenient for the white guy to say that he was born in 1950. The fucking only race of people allowed to exist then. Dude, it's funny though, because like, it's funny though, because literally nobody's like, I was born in the wrong era. I wish I was around. I wish I was a teen in like 2004. No, you don't. Everything was like now, but worse. 100% odd. Oh yeah. I wish I was a teen in 2004. You mean four years before the financial housing crisis. Yeah. You wish you were fucking a teenager in 2004. So you watch your parents go through the like the fucking grim reality of the fact that they don't like each other. They just like that each other. Like each other make enough money. Yeah. Do we have more messages? Oh yeah. Arnos Angel send a hundred dollars. Thank you so much. That's so high. Very, very nice of you and said, happy early birthday, Danny. Did you go to your P.O. box recently? L.O.L. Nick, what are you looking forward to for the season? Also, maybe for your trip. I'm looking forward to going skiing. Also, I don't know, in China, me and Dorothy are going to Harbin, which is this gigantic city made out of ice. I don't know if you guys have ever heard about it. It's like H-A-R-I-B-I-N Harbin. It's in like the north, north part of China. And so it's like ridiculously cold. There's an entire city built out of ice. I think it's going to be sick. Also going skiing in Japan, seeing my family. That'll be nice. And then I'm going to Canada to go ski with some buddies. So skiing, lots of skiing in cold. That's what I'm looking forward to. Danny. Hi. What was the question for me? Did you go to your P.O. box recently? No, I fucking not super recently, but there is something for the podcast I keep forgetting to like bring to the function that someone has sent me. I need to give you back Penelope's bed before she's way too big to lay in it. Yeah, that'd be sick. She's growing by the second. I think I have two of her beds at the house still. You're like, can you give me everything that you took for Penelope? And I was like, of course. And then I gave you fucking, I gave you nothing. I give you absolutely nothing. Penelope. Yeah. And then also I'm looking forward to this season, probably just JJK in free run. Everything else is like kind of like, everything else is kind of like outside. Like, like I'm not saying that I'm not excited for like Hell's Paradise or Fire Force or to be here or sentence to be a hero or Oshinoko. It's just that I'm so excited for JJK and I'm so excited for free run that like it just outweighs literally everything else. Yeah. I'm excited. It's not that like I just everything else pales in comparison to like how hyped I am that JJK is back, which we'll talk about in this episode because people are people are being really fucking stupid about JJK, which is a story about an infinitely long. All right. I know Gamble sent $5 and said you guys should watch Lord of Mysteries. Nope. Okay. No, Gamble. Thank you for $5. That's all right. Good. Good. I'm going to watch. Hey, whoa, whoa. I'm going to watch Lord of Mysteries. Why are you brushing away their comment? Oh, you're going to watch Lord of Mysteries. I will watch it. It's finally, it's finally going to happen. I've had to ask you 17 separate times to watch free run and you just got around to it. And I'm doing it. You're doing, you're only doing it because season 2 is happening. It is the biggest anime on earth. Like Lord of Mysteries won't come back. It's not as popular as, listen, Lord of the Mysteries is the most popular. It's so popular. Oh my God. Nick is just so sour grapes in it right now because the Lord of Mysteries community laughed him off of the internet. Now they did, baby. They, they fucking ate my lunch and I'll never say a good word about that goddamn show ever again. The pacing is a nightmare. Nick watched the first two episodes. The pacing, I've watched like the first like four episodes and the pacing is still a nightmare. It's absurd. There are like 12 episodes. It gets better after two. I'm going to check it out at some point because I liked whenever the clown showed up like episode three was cool. Nick, have you watched Girlfriend, Girlfriend yet? It's funny says Raven Hill. No, I haven't, but thank you for the $10. Not big into romance anime unless it's about Chinese, ancient Chinese people in the Forbidden Palace or boys, other romance anime or about a really tall guy and a really short girl. They go to schools that are next to each other, but one of the schools is good and one of the schools is bad, but they don't care. They don't care. They don't let their love separate, separate them because the fucking society says they can't be together because one of them is six five. Five two. I'm talking about the fragrant flower blooms of Disney. Daniel Arpo, our Dario Arpo sends another $3 Australian says Australia needs anime representation characters. Inspired by jet engine silences. The Dyson Hush Jet Purify powerfully purifies the entire room quietly, capturing pollen, allergens and pet dander, removing odours and harmful gases such as NO2 day and night. Hush Jet, powerful compact purification. That's quiet. Do you? Jojo's has to have a bunch. I bet. That's an Australian show. Yeah. All right. Got a couple more here. To be fair, though, I can't think of many non Japanese anime characters at all. You can't think about non Japanese characters. Everybody from super cooks. I mean, you're a Wee chi. Anybody who's named a Mexican anime character. Sabo got your bingo, bingo bleach. Chad rats, rats, rats. Indeed. Fucking watch. Right. Literally said a bleach character. Come on. In this guy's name, Chad, his name Chad or Sabo. Yes. Let me see. He's Mexican Japanese. I believe I like I think he's like like half Mexican, half Japanese. He's huge. He is. Wow. Half Mexican, half Japanese. My God. You fucking. Yeah, baby. I mean, listen, if you if you were like, hey, name a second Mexican anime character. Keep up. Keep up. The anime community believes people think, oh, listen, Mexicans claim Goku. Oh, Goku. Mexicans claim Goku. Oh, yeah. You do ask any Mexican if Goku's Mexican 100 150% listen, all my Mexicans in the chat is Goku Mexican. Yes or no. His name is Sado. The cut kind of makes it looks like Chad. Yes. Yeah. All right. What are your thoughts on Super Cooks? Super Cooks is all. Have you ever watched Super Cooks, Danny saw the first episode where a whole pool gets cooked, but that's it. Dude, it is. It's like, I don't I don't want to say it's like it's not like it's not. I was like, it has been hotel. It's not. It's like, man, you know, when in no no injustice, you know, when invincible is good. Okay. That's what it's like. You know, like invincible. Goku is Mexican. Goku is every race. No, he's Mexican. Sorry. We're not doing we're not doing all races matter for Goku here. We're doing the Goku is Mexican. We're not we're not erasing Goku's Mexican heritage. But yes, so Super Cooks is awesome. It's super gory. It's really funny. It's also like if you love like heist shows, it is that it scratches that that fucking that high stitch. Goku is not from Earth. Guys, Mexico is on her guys. Don't be insensitive to Mexico. Thanks. Stunch skates says game idea you two look at anime posters or ads in Japanese and try and guess what they say. That's just that's just read Japanese the game. Yeah, true. That's just read Japanese game and then Travis knows is my brother said Nick sounds like Jason Menzuchus. I get that a lot. I don't know that is that the guy from is that he's in Big Mouth is that he is J and I'm not sure if he's a big mouth. He is. Who's the god of wine and um Dionysus Dionysus Dionysus and Percy Jackson. Uh space Australia. What's space Australia? Anyways, that's from Dragon Ball Z a bridge idiot. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's where Jason. Jason's Australian. Jason, uh Dragon Ball Z. You know, the guy fucking murder. I don't I don't even know. Jase. There's a guy named Jase in Dragon Ball Z. Yeah, J A Y C E. I know. I know a spell Jase. Oh, I want to try to Google Jase from Dragon Ball Z. It said my connection is not private. So, I don't know. Oh, never mind. It's about J E I I don't know the name of the name of the game is not Jase, but the you is an E. It's just a good good good good and then you crushed it. Please watch to Aru when it comes out. What the fuck is to Aru? I have no idea to Aru when it comes out. I listen, listen, if it's next anime season, I'm not worried about it right now honestly because I am I am not able to look up anything. I I think I've been found. Chisin Yeah, rather concerningly the bell just got rang at the house. I this might this might be a guy's should we talk about Hell's Paradise? We got one more hundred dollar one and then we are good to go. Old Ash and 99 99. Have you driven a B.Y.D. yet? Danny in Greek, we say Jordania Bola instead of Happy Birthday. Are you going to get any new Pokeballs? I haven't driven a B.Y.D. yet. My fiance's family drives a Stilato, which is a Huawei car. And cars are let me tell you cars are fucking crazy in China. Dude, there's a projector. There's the car that my my fiance's family drives. It's called the Stilato and it's basically modeled after like the Maybach or any like ridiculously ultra luxury like you have a driver drive you around. Fifty thousand dollars USD. There is a projection screen that drops down between the front and back seats. The back seats were client all the way there massaging. There's a bridge between the two back seats. It is it is the level of quality car here is disgusting. Dude, it makes you it makes you sick when you come back to the States. My God. Yeah. At some point, I'm going to get a new car. I'm looking at a biscotti or a. The calamari like the cracker. You get you get old the Scotty cracker. I'm looking at. We're looking at a biscotti or a nookie, both Italian cars. You probably haven't heard of them. You crawl into this can only with wheels here. Is that over with you guys? The cream went that week. One dude is. It is. Yeah, I got a 40 Claire the other day. Yeah, dude, I can't imagine a car smelling worse than your current vehicle, but a fucking can only with wheels might might might knock it out. You imagine if I drove to your house and I was like, hey, I got a new car and you're like, that's sick. What what happened? Did you crash it? And I'm like, no, and you come outside and it's just a big hamburger. It's the SpongeBob car. I lost the tomato a couple of miles back. I don't know how long she's going to hold on here. Hold on to the key for me. It's a big spatula. Well, it's just covered and catch up. Oh, don't give me this. All right. Now we can get on now. We can get on with it. I have two new pokeballs. Yeah, they came out with two new pokeballs recently. I just haven't made a video or unbox them yet. Cool. All right. Well, thank you guys for all the super chats. We love you so much. But yes, it's not about Hell's Paradise first episode of season one here or season two and also kind of a set up episode. A fair amount of fights in it, though. They're doing a lot of like, oh, this is how do you remember what Tau is? Remember what Tau? Do you remember Tandems are on how Tau can compliment each other? What about Buchi Jutsu? Remember, oh, by the way, here's Asa Chobay and his brother. They're I mean, they is their relationship weird. You be the judge of that. Do you remember what an assignment is? Are you saying this because they shove all this down your throat and are like re re teaching you stuff you already know, or because they're shoving this down your throat and like just letting you sink or drown? Or I think you're swimming. No, sink or drown is a really good way to. Hell's Paradise is a universe that I mean, I read the manga. I really love the universe. It is a really short manga. It's only like 170 chapters, and it is the most information dense 170 chapter manga you literally can find. It is like the power system is as fleshed out as any other universe. And it is just like there's like different ways to train Tau. There's different like different Tau's compliment each other, different Tau like there's Tau matchup weaknesses. There's the Lord Tenzin. They have transformations. And it's like if you didn't going into I'm curious to hear what the chat says here. If you going into season two of Hell's Paradise, because I'm actually curious to hear what you have to say. If you don't like reread what happened in season one or rewatch it, I could imagine going into season two and like what the fuck is happening? Yeah, it's unbelievably confusing, but I'm kind of just along for the ride. I'm like the Asaimon I know are like these gods, which essentially were just one guy. They're like gods, like they're immortal, you know, they're the beings, the male. What? Lord Tenzin. Yeah, it's like the executioners in white. Executioners in white. What are you doing? You know, like Segeary, you know, the girl like she's got the sword there with all the criminals. Those are the Asaimon. What are the fucking antagonists? Lord Tenzin. That so that's all one guy who split his personality. He split his personality up and they can swap genders whenever. And they're all fucking each other, which is awesome. Yeah, they're all fucking each other. It's all one dude fucking himself on this island. It's just finding more creative ways to jerk off. It's literally the stranger, but it's seven of them. And he. Yeah, but what I like about Tao is that it really does feel like it's both a power system, but also like it's like she and key and chakra. But to like, what is a more like researched sense? Like all these shows are always like, oh, yeah, chakra isn't just like a means to summon a big snake. It's like your life force. It's like a way of being and you have to like dictate your life to improve your chakra. No one's ever actually doing any of that shit. They're never actually exploring Eastern philosophy, but Hell's Paradise does, which is really cool. Yeah. Oh, what's interesting about like chakra specifically is like, oh, there's spiritual, there's spiritual energy and physical energy. And when you combine spiritual energy and physical energy, you make chakra. And so they're like, oh, there's a lot of ways to increase your chakra. Like if you increase your physical energy, you can increase your chakra and that's like working out, exercising, fighting, that kind of thing. And they're like, oh, you can increase your mental energy by like meditating and stuff like that. And like Naruto sits under one, he sits under like one waterfall once. Like, and then like that's like literally the only time they ever explore like any kind of like increasing your mental energy. And they basically like boil it down. Like also experience increases your mental energy is okay. So, so fighting. So fighting increases not only your physical energy, but also your mental energy. I love that Hell's Paradise is like having sex can increase your Tao and they haven't been weird about it once. Yeah. Oh, well, kind of. So like there is like they in order to like make the Lord Tenzin antagonists may the little girl character who's getting older, the more she uses her Tao back in season one, they introduced the idea that her relationship amongst Lord Tenzin was that she was like kind of she's kind of a Lord Tenzin, but like specifically made for Butchajutsu. So like she was just getting banged by all the Lord Tenzin and all the Doshi basically to like increase everyone's Tao. Yeah, but they're not like, but the show wasn't like, man, isn't that hot? You know, like, smash cut to this, smash cut to this tentacle butterfly monster, banging me. Because again, they don't show it. They're very respectful about it. This show is very funny to me because it's like both simultaneously incredibly woke, incredibly horny and also like kind of old school. Like, every listen, everyone, all the Lord Tenzin are genderless, right? Because like in order to gain strength, you have to like the entire the entire idea of Tao is built around the middle path, right? So you want to be weak. You have to embrace your weakness to get strong. You have to embrace your strength. Like like it's like may keep saying that like strength is the fruit of weakness and weakness is the seed of strength. And so like it's all about like identifying the middle path, which is why the Lord Tenzin are so powerful because they can have Yin and Yang chakra and Yin and Yang chakra is usually assigned to both genders. So like everybody's every gender and all banging and fluids are getting passed and people are looking so hard, they're exploding each other's heads. And then it's like, but also in order to be strong, only a woman, like you can only sleep like men and women need to sleep together. It's like, it's like, oh, everyone's genderless. But like make sure that when you do choose a gender, it's it's man on woman. All right. Right. Yeah. Um, people are like, Danny, you're pressing a whole plot arc. They're going to force themselves on the little girl. I guess I am repressing it. I really don't remember. I like vaguely remember, but I thought it was like, no, no, no, there's no. I listen to somebody who literally just did an entire goddamn video recapping season one. They introduced the concept that may is used for bochajitsu for the dosi. If I'm remembering correctly, they never show it. Like the dragon blade like basically puts two and two together because the dosi try and get made back and he's like, you're not going to fucking take her. That's disgusting. Right. And then they get the dosi. I yeah, I think it was handled in like an Ammo type sense where like the show knows it's fucked and we're just using it to like emphasize the villains. Like, you know, evilness. I could be wrong. It's been like, I think two years since I watched season one. But to answer your question. Yeah, there's a lot of shit I didn't remember that new characters kept popping up and I was like, oh, what's this fucking squid faced freak about again? You're talking about the dosi that Asa summons the fucking one that's cut in half. Yeah, remember what? Asa is immortal. This is actually this is going to serve as really good. I'm going to ask you a bunch of leading questions about Hell's Paradise. You're going to be like, no, I don't remember. And then I'm going to use that as an opportunity to remind everybody about what happened in season one. Yeah. He gets trapped in a pit, right? And then they turn him into a plant guy. Yeah. So he bumps in. He's like the first person to bump into a Lord Tenzin. He bumps into Tau Fa and Jufa, who are like fucking somewhere. He tries to fight against them. He doesn't know how it like he doesn't know how to use Tau, basically, so he's defeated. And the reason they're able to make Tan, which is the thing that makes the Lord Tenzin immortal is because they throw a bunch of these humans in flower pits and then they make like a immortality juice, which is the elixir of life they're all after. And so because he's so good at adapting to everything, like that's like his entire character arc, he adapts to the Tan, basically, and becomes essentially a Lord Tenzin, but he hasn't trained in it. So the Marx is slowly growing all over his body, which we see come to a head in this episode because he undergoes essentially like a flower person transformation and becomes like too far gone. Yeah. Yeah. This this episode. Had a similar not issue, because this was like a pretty good fun episode. But as like. Episode one to season two, this just felt like any old random episode that could be in the middle of a season. You know, there is no like fanfare of it being like the show's back. Yes. And there's no step back in quality. The show looks like honestly, if you went from episode one or like like season one to season two, you wouldn't be like, oh, these look like distinctly different seasons. You know, like it looks great. Like Bob did a really good job with this. I love it. Somebody's called Gabby Marrow, wife guy, which I adore. Are you are you heading towards a transition here? No. Oh, interesting. Go on then. Well, and so I just like, yeah, the season looks as good as last season. It's a really good pickup episode because like, hey, like it's a good study. And like, where do we leave off season one? Probably in a place where we can start season two with a good fight. And there's a good fight between Gabby Marrow. Do you remember why Gabby Marrow doesn't remember anything? No. So he fought against the Lord Tenzin, him and I believe no, him and the Dragonblade fought against the Lord Tenzin. And he had to go like crazy hard because he figured out how to use Tao, but he used too much Tao. So now his head Tao was all fucked up. So he doesn't have any of like the memories of what's happened since he land on Kotaku or Shin Sen. Shin Sen. Yeah. Can we bring up the Iron Dragon because holy shit, that dude's like that. That guy sick as fuck. Remember, we get the Dragonblade. Yeah, it gets bit by a mosquito and instantly cuts his whole hand off. Yep. And the only reason that he's the only reason that he's on the island is because he like offended the Shogun by cutting down one of his temples or something like that. He's awesome. Awesome. And Toma flying at him. He's like, why do you think I'm the weak one? Because I only have one arm. Yeah. So hard. So incredibly hard. But yeah, so fun episode. Really good, really good way to get back into it. Love the introduction of a gay samurai. That's awesome. Yeah. It shows gay's head. Gay's hell. Everyone listen. They're just like, hey, listen, boys and girls be kissing. And sometimes boys be kissing boys, but we're going to show you that part. We're just going to imply that boys be kissing. No, this gay this this gay do be show as hell for sure. This gay do be show as hell. All right. And that brings us to what I believe is our main subject of this week. We got the first two episodes of season two of JJK and Danny and Daniel. Many, Donna, if I shall. You say it. That's you. Yeah, you're right. That it is it is me. It is me, many, Donna. People are upset about season three of JJK, dude. When the trailer for season three of JJK dropped, people were upset. People were like, the animation looks sloppy. This looks way worse than season two and way worse than season one. And everyone was clowning on those people. This and that. I was clowning on those people because I was like, one, anime trailers are notoriously awful. Like, yes, for whatever reason, it's part of like Japanese culture to show almost nothing of of any new anime dropping. Remember when the Demon Slayer movie was like, check out the Crow trailer for the Infinity Castle arc. And then and then and then at Anime Expo, we just got to live out that trailer in a gigantic 3D room where we could control the crow with our fucking hand. Yeah, they're like great integration. Yeah, they're like, you're the crow. And I'm like, just fucking tell me when the movie's out. Shut up. Let me strangle a cause and a death. Don't make me fly around to the crow in the goddamn motion sickness box. But so the trailer came out. People were complaining that the animation looked bad. So we're taking screen grabs of like Utah and comparing it to the movie and showing that he has like less detail in his face. Utah do be looking psychotic in this season. The pose he hit when he's introduced, where he's like holding his little sword and easy for some reason, throwing one leg back. I'm like, you know, it's like we get it, you know, we see the fit. Yeah. Oh, and then when episodes one and two came out, I was seeing TikToks again of people being like the animation sloppy. It's lazy. They wear it all this budget go. Did they blow it on season two and chainsaw, man? I saw people being like, oh, I thought Mappa hired more people so they could split their team between JJK and chainsaw, man, because the reason chainsaw man was taking so long to come out is because it was just like all of Mappa working. It was like the JJK team was also doing chainsaw, man. And so now Mappa has like expanded and split its teams between the two shows. And people were like, where did all the budget go? This and that. And here's what I'll say when I saw people saying that I was all I was just instantly ready to fight them before seeing these episodes because I knew Mappa was going to cook on this 100 percent. This the this season looks so fucking weird and so fucking different from season two, which already look different from season one, that while people are objectively wrong in saying that the animation is worse because it's just not. Yeah. I I'm I'm more sympathetic towards the average person who would go. This just isn't the show that I signed up for. Like this is not the same art style anymore. They have dripped like they have been slowly dunking JJK into a bucket labeled artsy as one season at a time. It's like a season one is the most fucking like boiler plate ass. Like it's like high level animation, but it's like Demon Slayer where it's like, oh, this is gorgeous, but it's not like artsy. And then season two, they're like, what if everybody was a squiggle, but it was the sickest squiggle you've ever seen? And then season three, like fucking it's avant garde. It fucking you know, if you don't understand it, you don't understand it. You goddamn classless asshole. I know season two was like, oh, what if we like take a page from these more modern anime like Mob Psycho and like really experiment with camera movements and like lower some detail for high mobility. And season three is like, fuck it. What if all the colors were broken? What if everything was like kind of red and blood was everywhere and it's going to be fucking incredible? And you're like, I I got buckled up. I guess you'll have to take me for this ride. Dude, I audibly went, whoa, a couple of times while watching this. And I don't I don't react at all when no one's paying me. Yeah, you're just running piss to yourself. You're like, fuck, write that down, write that down. This is good material. When God when you G. So just to be clear, let's just say, like, what do you rate these two episodes? Oh, I'm trying to differentiate in my mind what happened in these two. These two episodes individually. So two is a lot less than episode one, I think season two is well season or episode two is like a lot of no, yeah, now, yeah, which is the hardest name to say in all of JJK. And then episode one is a lot of UG versus Utah. So both episodes are ridiculously action packed, actually. I say both these episodes are like low to mid low to mid ninths. They're great. Yeah, I said one really blew me away when you G. When the bridge starts collapsing and then there's like a POV, we are the bridge briefly. That shot spectacular. And then you G. One of my notes is my first note is the tone is fucked. Oh, because like you just like washing his blood of all like the washing of the blood off his hands. And then he's sitting like what appears to be like an abandoned church, just drowning in red light as Chozo's like, like it's like very clearly he's like covered in the blood of everyone. Sukuna is killed as he's like sitting alone in the dark and Chozo just comes out of nowhere. Dude, the tone so fucked. I went back and watched episode one of season one. And I was like, this is just not the same anime. Like they got so experimental and so artsy. Season one is so like just an expensive version of a very like boilerplate, like standard shown in anime. Like the camera movements are all like very typical. That it's well animated, but there's no fucking like, yeah, POV, you are the bridge or anything like that. I see the artsy thing that we really get from season one is like maybe like Uji and Nobara versus the blood wound paintings, maybe. Like that's pretty cool. Like you see like Nobara like launching nails and that kind of thing. And like they throw Uji throws Nobara on her back and they're sprinting through the forest. But even that is just like creative usage, like creative ways to display action is not like, oh, we are actively trying to like tell a story without telling you what's happening. Yeah, I this this might be some of the best sprinting I've ever seen in anime. Oh, yeah. He when he's looking running and then he puts his head down and locks in. I'm like, oh, shit, we haven't seen a hundred meters yet because that is the running anime. But this is the best running I've seen. The two about the two guys who are like like competing to be the fastest guy in Japan against each other. I've heard a lot. I keep getting like 100 meter tick tocks like tick tock edits. And I'm like, what the fuck? It's like, it's like how I interact with Umo Masume. Like why is this ridiculously objectively kind of silly premise getting the most budget I've ever seen? Yeah. Yes. So this episode, dude, the breathing like Uji's breathing in the purple blood in the beginning. Just like everything from like the clap. It was also very interesting is that everything in the beginning. I thought this is a weird choice, but everything in the beginning of the episode when like Uji's fighting against the gigantic purple tentacle monster thing. And then you to ends up killing it. He like catches his blade kind of thing. That was all added. Oh, from the dude, I might I might make like a tick talk about this or something. But like this is once again going to spur the debate that no one agrees with us on for some reason. But the debate of whether or not an anime should elevate a manga or just one for one recreated. I think it's it's so cutting. Listen, there's plenty of instances where like, oh, anime is ruined a manga. And I think that's what sour is. A lot of people's taste to this concept. They're like, oh, what about Soul Leader? What about the filler in Naruto? Or what about this? And what about that? And so we're not talking about like changing the story. We're talking about like, oh, take different cuts. Like take the same thing that happens. Place them in different areas, sequence them out differently from the manga. Just because like inherently, if the medium changes, you can change how you tell the story. Yeah, no, I agree. Dandanon made a lot of changes in season two in terms of like that the big Kaiju fight and that was all for the better, I think. And JJK is constantly like extending fights and adding to them in ways that make them so thrilling. Dude, when Yuji kicked through that one monster and it like just paints the whole city purple. Yes. Just crazy, just crazy shit. There is some things that were cut that people are pretty upset about, though. And honestly, they might be kind of justified because there is a scene in Yuji versus Yuta in the manga where Yuji gets a car basically like thrown at him by Yuta. And so like he has like jump over a car and he grabs the car and then punches the car into Yuta. And people are like they cut that scene entirely, which people are really upset about because it feels though it undermines how strong Yuji is in this moment. Let me see Yuji car punch. It's a great scene. That's pretty neat. Yeah, it's pretty cool. I'd like to see this. There's a bit where he cuts a car in half, though, isn't there? Where he cuts a car in half. Yeah, there's a bit where you to cut a car in half. Yeah, I feel as though like as people are upset about that. And then also there are people are also upset about the fact that Hikari, who's been mentioned a couple of times already, didn't end up getting his purple hair. Hikari JJK. Yeah, H-A-K-A-R-I. So he's apparently going to be blonde. This is the first time that it's actually been confirmed. But also so people wanted Hikari. There's been big debates on on Hikari's character for a long time. A lot of people thought he would be like either black, Melanated, something like that. But people also wanted his hair to be purple. Yeah, this is going to be my first question. I was like, is this dude black? Yeah, because it's hard in some fan art he is. Yeah, and a lot of fan art he is black. And then I think in the manga, he was drawn with purple hair whenever they did a color page, but they ended up making his hair blonde. And then he's like just a Japanese dude. And so that he is a not a contentious character. Everyone literally adores him. But as the how he was going to be represented into anime form, highly contentious amongst the JJK fandom. Yeah. People are saying that it undermines the purple hair thing was fan made. Oh, gotcha. People say it undermines Yuuta's power that Yuji didn't punch a car at him. And I guess I guess that. Oh, I see. Because he could take a car. Yeah, there is that as well. I also adore how they did last season. They introduced now be tow, who was the head. Remember the old drunk guy who had the projection sorcery? No, like the 24 FPS guy. Oh, yeah, he died. Yeah. And so he's the leader of the Zenny clan. Yeah. And so they introduced him and they introduced sorcery projection sorcery through him. And I understand that like the first time that they introduced it as a concept, they have to spend a lot of time explaining it because it's an objectively silly like it's an objectively silly technique that requires a fair amount of understanding. They did such a good job. Now, it is depiction of projection sorcery. I love it. In this episode. Yes, in both of the episodes, I know I know fucking idea what he was doing. I disagree entirely. Really? We was so nonsense. The fight in episode two was not only like difficult to understand, but like my TV might have been too bright because it was like hard to look at. It was so fucking red. Really? OK, well, so I guess I guess we can get into season or episode two because it has a lot to do with episode two here. So episode two focuses mostly on the battle between Chozo and Noia. And Noia uses the projection sorcery of now be towed. It's the exact same. So I remember he is the ability to graph out everything that's going to happen 24 frames ahead of him. And if anybody veers off that 24 frame, the 24 frame like timeline, it stops them for a frame and turns them into like a glass pane that he can basically punch. Right, right. And so like you're seeing Chozo struggle with that because he doesn't know what it is. But like that also allows him to move crazy fast because he can make 24 movements every second. Right. Does that does that clear things up for you? I guess it's just that it's nonsense. I is objectively nonsense. I guess I just like hardly understand it at a fundamental level is my problem. One of my least favorite techniques in all of JJK because it is complicated for complications sake. I love it. I remember loving it in season two and like. I liked it. I don't know. There's something about it that was funny to me coming from like an older guy where he's like this weird film buff in his like late fifties. And that just made him an interesting character. Movies getting too clear. I remember the girl. Yeah, I loved him as a character. I think with this one, it was just like they brought back a power I hardly understood. And I was like, I hardly understand it again. And also this is getting real abstract visually. So I think I think it would have been a lot clearer. So I specifically the battle against between Noia and Chozo that happens in episode two of season three. There's there's a huge running sequence that we get from Noia who is like chasing down Chozo. And I personally, I literally wrote, I think this is how every fight with a speedster should look because we're getting just. He's just getting blitzed. He's just like Chozo is just getting absolutely pieced up. Now he is like fixing his hair with one hand while hitting Chozo with the other. Everyone's saying they glamified. No, he was always supposed to be hot. It's literally a big part of his character that he thinks he's beautiful. He was always supposed to be attractive. It's not supposed to be like not a me level attractive, but he's supposed to be like, oh, like kind of like like K-pop, pretty kind of thing. And I love that he begins to slow down a little bit as Chozo begins to speed up because we're experiencing the fight through the eyes of Chozo. And so I thought that was really masterfully done. But I wrote, I do want to see this fight non dimmed. It's crazy that you say it was too bright for you because I didn't know it didn't at all. I think the fight, maybe, maybe what I watched was maybe in China. I maybe I'm on VPN. So like it should have been it should have been good. But I was watching it and I was like, oh, this is like heavily dimmed. I would have liked to see this non dimmed. I don't know. I watched it today. I didn't notice it dimmed at all. But maybe I just couldn't tell like they hated it better. Chozo fills the entire tunnel with blood, right? Yeah. Gotcha. Yeah, I was watching it. I was like, oh, this looks darker than it should be. Chad, was it dimmed for you guys? I also wrote while we wait for Chad's answer. Wave was blurred and had the lights flashing compared to the movie version. Oh, that's right. People saw this in fucking theaters already undimmed. They brought back power. This is honestly forgettable. Come on. They brought back a power that is honestly forgettable compared to the main characters. Yuji has the most forgettable power in all of anime. He just punches hard. Yuji's power is punch hard and then also punch late. That is that is Yuji's entire kid is. Oh, I thought I blocked that. Wait, no, I didn't. Yeah. What's it called? I wrote this show is trying to become a meme again so hard. Every season. So season one became a meme with Yuji and Clap Guy. Toto Toga Toto. Toto, Yuji and Toto, where they're just beating the shit out of a Hanami. And it's like fight back, fight back, you know, and then season two became a meme with Nanami pulling that dude's hair. Right. Yes. When he what now now. Now, now, oh, yeah. When now, yeah. Did is like fixing his hair with one hand and just like rock him, sock him in Chozo with the other one. I was like, oh, now they're just like meme farming. Oh my god. Well, I mean, that's also what the manga looks like. One second, somebody knocked. Yeah. So I think that is directly from the manga, but honestly, that's also something that Mapa would just add. Yeah. No, for sure. I just thought it was funny that like JJK is such a like clip form of a show. That guy's a funny guy. At least currently JJK gets to be fun. I think the Shibuya incident is where JJK gets to be less fun. And that happens. The start contrast happens rather quickly. I wonder if. I wonder when. I wonder if JJK ends. I wonder when it ends. Everyone who watched the anime is going to like the ending that everyone who read the manga didn't because I've noticed a pattern that AOT manga readers wouldn't shut up about how awful the ending was. And the anime came out. Nobody cared. And then my hero, everyone wouldn't shut up about how awful the ending was. The anime came out. Nobody cared. There were way we can put is there a way we can bet on this? Is there one of those fucking? I don't even want to say I don't even want to say the name because I don't want to promote them. But like one of those things we're out. We just hang out. We can bet, you know, we're friends in real life. Yeah, but like that's it's so subjective, right? It's so I get so now. Oh, yeah, yeah. Now. Now, yeah. Now, see this is this is why this is why I fucking this is why I hate is why I hate when people are like, oh, it's pronounced this way. Because everyone's got a different opinion on how it's fucking pronounced. Oh, yeah. Now, yeah, maybe. Now, yeah, ZZ. Anyway, fucking I think maybe. Listen, that's actually a really good point, Danny. That's a really good point. There's everyone hated. But I think manga readers are just inherently miserable. I think I think when it comes down to what manga readers are inherently miserable, they're in a constant need of like, I need as much content as fast as possible, which is why they're reading manga in the first place. And I think a lot of manga readers are just upset that the manga is over. And so like, they're so upset that the manga is over that they're like, this is good enough. But like that being said, people love the ending of Kaiju number eight because it was objectively simple. Didn't try anything. Um, the problem, listen, MHA. I love the chat so crazy. I never hated JJK ending. The ending actually sucks, though. Like it's all over the place. It's all right. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. People disliked MHA's ending because people think Deku spent too much time as not hero. People were upset. They're like, oh, Deku never ends up with Uraka. And like, they're like, oh, I want a Deku to be romance kind of thing. Like, so people were upset that Deku didn't end up with a Chaku. And then people were also upset that like, we didn't really get like to see them as like adults, adults. We didn't get like a rundown on how everyone's doing. Like, what are all the rankings? This is what all of the additional chapter covered. Um, until like that, that, that, that rounded out the base. Like, like, around it out a lot of the questions people had for the N.A. of MHA. But even then, like the key thing that people were upset about for MHA's ending was like, oh, why did people like all of Deku's friends abandoned him for eight years? He didn't end as the world's greatest hero, even though we did. Like they were kind of subjective, right? Um, and AOT is kind of the same thing where people were like, oh, I don't like Aaron's character development arc. I don't like, I don't like that Aaron turned into this like little sim from Ikasa. I don't like that Armin forgives him. I don't like, like, there's a lot of, and the thing is the anime changed a lot of the things about AOT's manga ending. Hmm. Like the ending for AOT, uh, it's manga and it's anime are not the same. Like, like, like there is like, not like, they're not like, oh, they're different endings entirely. Like the key points are there, but a lot of like things that people didn't like about Toriyama, not Toriyama, Horakoshi's. No. Are you talking about AOT? Yeah. I have no idea. Oh, the thing that a lot of people like manga readers didn't like about AOT's ending, they actually did change in the anime. Um, JJK, people dislike the ending of JJK's anime because it leaves like 400 questions unanswered. Like there is a, there is a ton of plotlines that are introduced that are never wrapped up by the ending of JJK's anime, but there is a caveat now because JJK now has a sequel and a lot of the questions that were left hanging at the ending of JJK are currently being answered in Majulo. Right. That makes sense. So it's like, like, it's like, oh, like, I think people, I think there's a bigger basis to dislike the ending of JJK's manga than there is for MHA or AOT, but that basis is rapidly disappearing so long as you read Majulo. That's fair. Watch yourself. New spoilers. Nick, thank you. I appreciate it, but I'm good guys. I've learned. Um, I have some questions for you that you're going to say, uh, I don't remember why. So I can explain it to the chat. Okay, go on. Do you understand what's happening with UG's mom? No. Really? You don't even have a guess? No, I don't even remember her mom, his mom being in this episode. Oh, do you know? All right. You don't remember them being like, oh, you should remember your mom. She had scars on her head. Not really. You don't remember that? Now watch this a couple of days ago. Um, okay. Yeah. So they, they introduced UG's mom like UG's remembering his dad talking to his grandfather, his dad's like red, his dad's got like pink hair like him. Uh, and he's like, how are you his grandfather is like, Kairi is dead. Like gin. Like, I know you loved her and I know you wanted to have a kid with her, but Kairi, your wife is dead. You don't remember any of this? This episode one or two. Uh, this should be episode two because it's focusing more on Chozo. I believe. No, I was watching. I mean, I remember a lot of the stuff with Megumi. That's the big fight. Megumi. Like, oh, I didn't understand what any of this was. Okay. You don't. Yeah. With the eyelids. I was so distracted by the fact that his eyelids were opening vertically. Wait, what? Whose eyelids are opening vertically? UG because it's POV. You are UG. Oh, oh really? His eyelids are opening like, like a fucking snake. Just all over the place. I'm looking at it now. You'd be surprised how much of baby care. Remember, I know. Yeah. This, this kind of just like washed over me. I didn't really understand what was happening. Okay. But like, all right. So UG's mom had scars on her head. Does that click anything in your brain? I'm looking at it right now. Okay. She had scars on her forehead, right? Yeah. Is there anybody else you can think of with scars on their forehead? No. Mahito? No. Ghetto, maybe? Ghetto? Oh, fucking. Yeah, I guess so, huh? Remember how ghetto, remember how ghetto dies and then he comes back with scars on his head? Oh. Oh. I always forget ghetto exists because I like Toji so much more. He's the, he's the primary antagonist of the story. I know, I know. I don't like him. I, yeah. I mean, it's also a pretty popular opinion amongst the JJK fandom. Yeah, I guess he does. His scars are smaller. But yeah, so that's interesting. So she's got a fucking someone else's brain in her head. She, yes. And then they also referred to Noritoshi Kamo. Do you know who Noritoshi Kamo is? I thought I looked it up. Who's Noritoshi Kamo? So Noritoshi Kamo, they talk about how he was the person who created the, the curse womb paintings, right? Okay, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that would be like Chozo's dad, right? Right. That's like the creator. And I don't remember if you remember when they described what the curse womb paintings are, but Noritoshi Kamo, who was like the world, Noritoshi Kamo comes from the blood, the blood people. That's why, that's why Chozo is able to use blood. They're the guy from the Kyoto schools also able to use blood. He's got arrows. Yeah. He comes from the Kamo clan. The, the, the curse womb paintings were the result of, I think it's nine, like Noritoshi Kamo knocked up a woman who was like a half curse spirit, half human nine times and forced her to have nine abortions. Okay, Christ. And those, yeah, it's a fucking, it's fucking dark. And those are the nine curse womb paintings. Chozo and then Eki-Suu and Chizo or something are the two that Nobara and Yuji fought in season one. Yeah. Um, so, so, so I remember Chozo, Chozo calls Yuji what? Brother, little brother. Little brother. Okay. That's all I'm going to tell you. That's all I'm going to tell you. Okay. I don't know what you know, but I just want, I want you to know, I want you to have as much information as, as you can see that little skull of yours. Okay. Look, I'll be honest. I know so little about this fucking world because I really didn't like season one at all. I got real on board in season two, but season two is like 20% plot and 80% violence. It is a lot of violence. And so now they're like, It's a lot of violence from here on out. Well, now they're talking about the plot and shit again. And I'm like, I, you know, whatever. I'll, I'll keep, I was never in this for the plot, this anime specifically. Uh, that's wild because it's like the key, the action is fantastic, but the reason so many people like, the reason JJK is as wildly popular as it is, is because of its ability to like, build a complex story. Ah. And you're just like, I like, I like it. The explosions go boom. I'm here for the vibes of it because I never attached to any of the main characters. And then I started to get interested when it was Gojo's backstory cause those characters were so much more interesting. Uh-huh. And like in season one, I like really didn't like Yuji. Toto annoyed me. I like Yuta. Yuta's cool. Then you're going to like the color games. You're specifically going to like the first part of the color games. Oh yeah, he do be back. I like that he's back and he's like, fucking looks burnt out as hell. Uh, he does look, that's kind of just Yuta generally. Um, but also Yuta kind of becomes the main character of JJK for the first part of the color games again. I remember he was a really- He just got a heavy Yuji arc. Yeah, that's sick. That's super exciting. Mostly he's done in Megami. Yeah. You like Megami? I like him enough, but like not till season two really. Like every character, there's no- No character really gave me anything to like really like accept Gojo. Yuji I found annoying. Toto was like sexist. I like I hated the- I hate the like, what kind of woman do you like? I like a woman with a big ass and this and that. And everyone's like- He just got the whole way in the ass! Yeah, like and everyone's like got so mad at me and they're like, that's not sexist and I'm like, super is? Can you like- If you're like, oh, what kind of woman do you like? And you're like, oh, one with a big tits and a round ass rather than like, oh, these personality traits. It's at least- That's not what kind of woman you like. It's at least, it's at least cheekiest. Yeah, it's at least cheekest, I suppose, but it's like- You're discriminating against women with non-big butts. Come on. I like if someone's like, oh, what kind of man do you like? No one's going to be like, yeah, like a guy with like a long dick and a three degree curve to it. I'd like to introduce you to all of sexy reds discography, but yes, okay, go off queen. I don't know what that is. Yes, it's very, very fair, very incredibly fair to not know what that is. But yeah, but anyway, like so, Toto, I wasn't super into- Yeah, but I started getting- I gotta stop you right here. Somebody said Danny being Megamy here, which is really funny because Megamy's answer to fucking what kind of girl you like is like, what the fuck are you talking about? You are, you are, you are 100% Megamy-ing it right now. I just liked, I really got invested in the characters during the hidden inventory arc, which was unfortunate because that was when they were like, oh, here's a little backstory into a bunch of characters that'll either disappear or get locked in a cube. Yes. Yeah, that's fair. There is a big old prison realm arc here, but the Culling Games, I do believe is genuinely J.J.K.'s best arc, so I'm very excited to see how you feel about it. There's some ridiculous fights. It's so much fun. Did you, did you get a chance to glaze over those Culling Game rules? Yeah, I paused like a sane human being. Yeah, of course I paused, but it's also like, I saw people being like, oh, like fucking they should have explained it more or like, you know, here's what you missed about the Culling Games. Like people are like, the Culling Games can be very difficult to understand, so let me explain it. It's like literally just a death tournament. Like it's, they have a, they flash a whole screen-wide paragraph just to be like, you kill someone, you kill a sorcerer, you get five points, you kill a non-sorcerer, you get one point. If you show up, but don't participate, you lose your power. It's pretty like, it's just a death game. It's literally like, and that's the best explanation of JJK as a universe I've ever seen. People have been like, well, if you get 100 points, you get to make a new rule. And if, but the rules can't contradict the actual rules of the game. So you can't actually try and like, and you can't make a new rule. Let's say, oh, if I, if I get 100 points, this rule ends the game. And there is actually no Game Master, but there is a little thing that follows you around and you're allowed to make new rules with him. And, and, and, and that it's like, hey man, there's 11 colonies and if you enter the colony, you got to kill people. And that's, that's all you fucking, it's so funny that you say that because like, there was two camps of JJK fans. And this is, it's actually been very curative to my soul to hear you talk like this because there was two camps of JJK fans. And it is you and it is fucking me because there's, I've sat down so many people and be like, but do you understand this and understand this? And there's this huge contingent of JJK fans who are like, I don't, I gave up trying to understand this universe fucking all the way back in the Kyoto, the Kyoto exercise arc. I just like to watch the fights and I don't need to understand exactly how a fucking barrier technique works to understand and enjoy this universe. Yeah, look, at some point during the game, someone's gonna like do something that's allegedly cheating and then they'll be like, that shouldn't work, that's cheating. And then I'll be like, okay, and then someone's gonna win the game. And it'll be like, he got these points by doing this. And I'll be like, okay, and I'll just enjoy the content. Like, I don't fucking care about this one. I, and that doesn't mean that I'm a smooth brain idiot. I don't have to give 100% of investment to every piece of media ever. That's so fucking, that's so good. I love that we have both sides of the coin here. Because I'm like, no, no, you understand, you understand the game master. There's no actually game master. So it's all through this. It's all through this shikigami that's controlled by ghetto, but like, ghetto's not the game master, even though he's the one who made it. And they're like, what do you need to know about idol transfiguration and how it can be affected on the entire Japanese pop? That is me. You're, it is literally, you know that meme where there's like the lion yelling at the monkey who's like hitting the David pose. That's you are the monkey hitting the David pose and I'm the lion. And you're just like, I like how it looks. And occasionally I see gojo. Look, the more fucking, the angry I am isn't going to change the plot. The same plot's going to happen regardless of my input. So I might as well let it happen to me. Yeah, that's so fucking fun. That's awesome. I love that. My final note from JJK is the music is just master class. Yeah, well, that's what season one. That's another big difference is that season one's music is so standard from what I both remember and have like gone back and watched. And now it's this really trippy fucking like bad vibes kind of music. It's like when you used to look up the creepypastas and it's like the Russians used to play this in prisoner cells and they'd go insane. That's what this sounds like. Yeah, it's literally it's like it's like the fucking brown note BPM. I'm like, what are you trying to do to me right now? It's like the fucking song that Pokemon, the original Pokemon used to play that allegedly caused people to kill themselves. You remember the lavender town song? It's like every creepy. I might you're right. Every creepy. Over slender manning jeopardy over here. What's happening? Remember that song that made everyone kill themselves in like the second Pokemon game? It was like boom clap the sound of my heart. The beat goes on and on and on and on and on. Sorry, I don't know. I don't know what happened. I was the sharpest thing I could find near me. Um, you know, there was a there was a song that played in lavender town and like the urban legend goes that like that song caused a bunch of people to kill themselves because it drove him mad. I'm just yeah, I know it. I call it AJR. I'm leaving the call. I'm leaving the call right now. All right, that brings us to our best boy segment for this week. Daniel, who's your best boy? Uh, I guess Christmas. I got some cool stuff for Christmas. Two to three weeks late. We're doing Christmas here. I got this. Oh, is that the whole manga? It's volume one through 20. I think maybe they go up to 40. Like I think maybe there's a second box. Um, I got a cool Batman that I want to move because it'll take me forever to replace him. Uh, we got hoodie. Yeah. This entire time and I've been terrified. Um, now I also got a crunchy roll sells a cyberpunk edge runners like deluxe box deluxe DVD box and in it. I'll get it next time. I just don't want to get up now, but in the deluxe box, it comes with a booklet that is the whole storyboard of the final episode. And it's so sick. It's like so rare. You get like these kind of like behind the scenes animations or behind the scenes drawings from these anime. And so I really appreciate that a ton. I think it's really expensive. I can't give it like a fully glowing review. I think it's like 170 or something crazy. Um, I yeah, it's like something that's too much, but it was on sale during Christmas. Runners deluxe or whatever. No, it's 123. But like, you know, considering this is a show you can just get on Netflix. Yeah, you have to be into physical media for me to recommend this, but you get the final episode storyboard and that is worth it to me because I love that kind of shit. I love a little bit of art book. Yeah. What about you? My best boy this week is Chinese manufacturers of furniture. Wait a second. Come on in. Here they come. It's my couch. Yes, Chinese manufacturers of furniture. Me and Dorothy spent what could only be described as 12 hours shopping for furniture yesterday. And man, oh man, is there just entire malls dedicated to like literal furniture places out here and it is insane. But the prices are fantastic. The only problem is like, yeah, what did you say? We have IKEA here. I do. I it's like literally like the mall of America, but it's only filled with furniture stores. It's fucking crazy. And we are filling an entire shipping container with furniture and shipping it back to the States. Crazy. I'm going to try and sneak in some Chinese cars in there as well because my God, what are they doing out here? Do you have any news? No. Neither do I, which brings us to our favorite segment, Love Letters, where me and Danny read a comment from apparently are now live YouTube chat that asks the question that we answer here live on the podcast. So if you guys want to get this experience here of hanging out with me and Danny a couple of days early, watching the podcast, doing all that great jazz, then you can become a member of our Patreon. Yeah, the Patreon members get this every single week. The audio quality isn't usually as good because Danny aren't using our sure SMBs. But yes, if you guys want to get this every single week, an additional two hours of Nick and Danny content and hang out with us before and after the podcast every single week, you can get that for $4.99 a month. It's great. Rainstorm asks, if you can give any anime character a Glock, who are you giving it to? Why? And how does it change the story? I feel like it changes most anime stories, but you said you have one locked and loaded. Oh my God. Yeah. Listen, Ryu and Gachiaka obviously inspired this question. She was just able to absolutely blast away Jabba and then comb girl. It was hilarious. I'm giving a no-suke a Glock. The first second we see him, I'm telling you right now, I think Demon Slayer is a story would be a grand total of 12 pages long if we gave a no-suke a gun. I like the idea of giving a no-suke one. There are guns in Demon Slayer and they don't work enough. They work plenty well. Also, they're in the hands of Genya. Genya's got a sawn-off shotgun. I'm talking about an extend-o-clip Blicky and I'm giving it to a no-suke to absolute. I'm giving a no-suke a gun and one Mark I fragmentation grenade and I'm just throwing him at Muzon and hoping he comes out victorious. I think if you give Hinata a gun in the tuning exam, that's a very different story. She's just aiming at Tenketsu but her fucking aim's awful. She's just blowing people away. Yeah, I think, like, I want to see the tuning exam but at the beginning of every match, Kikashi throws a gun in between them and both opponents have to scramble to get it. He's just like, listen, only one of you can pass. Just throw the gun in the middle. No, no, no, no! Oh, that's what they're all about. Oh, well, just like an edit or like just a recreation of the tuning exam where it's like Kikashi in between both of them and it's like Naruto, Kiba. And they both raise their hands as they're announced and he just takes out a gun and shoots Kiba in the head and he's like, Naruto one. And then he does it again. It's like, Tamari, Shikimaru. And they're both just like sweating bullets and like, bang! Shikimaru. You see them just slowly nudging away. They're like, surely he won't do the gun bit again. I'm seeing some other incredible recommendations here. I'm seeing Mau Mau. Mau Mau would be great. Mau Mau would be like, oh no, somebody's poisoning the wood again and then she would just kneecap a eunuch. Yeah, that's good. Give a gun to Gon. Gon's not. I mean, Gon's not good but I am seeing Yami Yugi which would be hilarious. That's the answer. That, give it to Joey. Because you know what's gonna happen. I don't care. I don't care what you say. Joey is armed. Joey is a concealed carry gun holder. You know what's gonna happen is anytime Yugi's thinking about using it is like, he's got like 10 life points left. He looks down. He's got the gun in his hand under the dual disc and he's like, I don't know, Faro. Should we do it? And then he feels a pat on his shoulder and Joey's just like, here you go. I got that. And he just takes it from Joey. He's just in any way. Joey's like, he's like, yeah, Joey's like his hit man. He's like his like a house painter. Yeah, Joey is absolutely. Joey goes to NRA meetings. Yeah. Anytime Yugi loses. Joey's real vocal about how Mondami is changing New York. Yeah, true. Anytime Yugi loses. I want a sequence of Joey beating the piss out of the guy who beat him. All right. Well, what a time to disconnect. Well, I guess that's that's all. Good night. Good night, folks. I don't know if this is still recording. I've disconnected. So we've been talking to the anonymous and we love you guys so much and we'll catch you on the next one. Bye. Yeah.