Why Japan HATES Jujutsu Kaisen's BEST EPISODE - Otakus Anonymous Episode #146

Can I, um, can we talk about JJK briefly? We won't talk about the new episode because I like ranking what we talk about in like worst to best. Love that. Thick Nick is already already got a thick Nick comment. I, uh, before before we do that, I want to, I want to continue. I want to continue on with my my short little cold open this morning. This is also going to be for Dorothy, who's sitting right next to me right now in bed. I was, um, I was filming this morning. I was doing a video about Maharaga and I noticed about, I noticed about 20 clips in to my, my videos cause I filmed like seven seconds out of time. And then we smash all the clips together. Basically, uh, I noticed about 20 clips in. So about a minute in that Dorothy's feet were just over, over my shoulder, just raw, unfiltered foot action at the end of the bed here. Uh, and so for the rest of the video, I had to cover her feet. I'm getting high balls right now. It is bad. Um, so I've, I've already informed Cody to, uh, to put a blur over my right shoulder for an upcoming Maharaga video. The Dorothy's feet are spared from hundreds of thousands of eyes, but yes. Now have them, have them put in a JPEG of just like someone else's feet. I'm thinking, so, you know, there's a, uh, a judge speaking of JJ K fans, JJ K fans are getting real horny for toji because in the most recent episode, we saw toji's feet. Um, it's like when, when you see now, yes, a kid and he's running out to see the guy with no cursed energy. There's a scene because the entire, the entire episode is like very Quentin Tarantino-esque. Uh, and so there's like a weird fixation on feet, which I kind of thought was hilarious. But like, I like, oh, the subsection of the JJ K fandom is thirst and real hard for toji's feet. So I think I'm going to have, I think I'm going to have Cody put toji's feet over Dorothy's feet. Hold up, hold up. If there's a spluboo in the room. Oh wait. Yeah, bring her back, bring her back. Bring that spluboo over here. Come here. There's a Penelope. There's a Penelope coming on the screen. You want to see her? Come here. Come here. Oh, go. Oh, here we go. Look at that. Sploo-boo. Hi, baby. Hi, Schmuppet. She's so big. This is your gantic, huh? Look at that. Oh my God, dude. She's not going to fit under chairs soon for under chair. Oh, get her out of here. Get her out of here. Use the electric collar. Get her out of here. Lord, where's the button? That's right on camera. God damn it. Damn. Hasan's borrowing it. Well, look at us. We're on the topical. Yeah, yeah. Only months behind it here. But yes, you wanted to talk about J.J.K., so speaking of corrective behaviors. Well, last video, you can take her. Take her, please. Get this demon. She's had her time. She's had her time. Get out of here. God, she's good. God, I love her. This is why we do it, you know? Yeah, yeah. Let me tell you. They keep the fur on their backs. 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Start your journey for a better self with better help. Um, fucking. J. J. K. Yeah, JJ K. Uh, last week, uh, I you got a sprinkling of this in the group chat, but I don't think you went back and watched it. But last week viewers know I recorded a little like intro where I was like, Hey, uh, I after our JJ K discussion about Kenjaku and Yuji's mom, I was like, man, I came off so annoying and I'm so sick of getting comments from the JJ K fan base that are like, you know, it sucks that I have to skip the JJ K portion of this podcast because Danny's so insufferable. I don't like being the worst part of the podcast, Nick. I like thinking it's my job. That's my job. Absolutely. I'm the soldier meme where the soldier stands in front of all the knives and grenades, but it's you. You're the child. Yeah. Um, and so I did record a little thing where I was like, Hey, uh, I also agree. I was being annoying because watching season one of the JJ K while like barely engaged in half on my foot. Jesus Christ. Showed up Patrick star slopping through the background here. Leg dawn. Yeah. Um, like the first time I watched JJ K, we weren't doing a podcast and I barely liked it. So I was like not paying attention that much. Obviously, obviously not enough to like retain facts and, uh, that's just been like a detriment to discussing the seasons two and three because like shit will pop up and I'm like, I don't know what fucking which one's Maki. Um, and then Maki keeps changing how she looks. She used to be a girl with a ponytail and now she's now she's the thickest man you've ever seen covered in stars. You're like, holy shit. All right. Now she's shoulders, Bo Jackson. Yeah, dude. Yeah. She's literally, she's literally just like, uh, like the black widow triangles like slop together. So I've, I swore to rewatch season one of JJ K last week in prep of like talking about season three. The issue is that I've been watching so much goddamn common writer. Oh, okay. I got really into common writer. I got up to, I'm on like episode 14 of JJ K and I have been watching like the first episode of like seven different common writer shows. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so there's that's the issue with common writer or really any of like the like the, um, like what are they? What are they called? Yeah. Super Sentai things is that there's like, first off, they've been making them for like 60 goddamn years. So there's a million of them. Like there's, there's actually a million different little TV shows you can watch and with common writer, it's like, it's the live actions. There's the R rated ones. There's like the children oriented ones. And then there's like the anime. There's like Futo PI and a bunch of stuff like that. Um, and so I, um, I would highly, highly, highly recommend, um, like just like starting with the most popular ones. What have you been watching? Uh, I watched zero, uh, something that one I saw one right at post was like my favorite is common writer. I think it's zero one. Okay. And that one's crazy. I don't know if you saw, I posted one. Um, I posted one tick tock where there's a bit where a dude's like watching the common writer shit happening. He's laughing and this robot gets up and starts like flailing a knife at him. And he like counteracts the knife, then pulls out a gun and shoots them in the head. Common writer is so crazy. Even the PG version is harder than like most power rangers. Oh my God. Yeah. I feel like it's always been more oriented towards like an older group. It's like shonen versus sayonin or something like that. But like I've never, I watched like Futo PI because like Bandai Namco sponsored me to do it like years and years and years ago. Uh, and like I, I never got that into it. All I've seen is the one tick tock you posted about the R rated one where one of them is pulling what appears to be a goal by it's like a small intestine. Like it's the first episode of the Knights of Guinevere. Like I, it was fucking nuts. It's crazy. It opens with like two like young boys. Their brother is getting like surgery done on them while they're awake. Like they're getting like ghoul stones put inside of them or whatever. Um, and it's just like so over the top, gory and insane. The lead actor is in like, uh, the movie drive your car or drive my car, which was nominated for best picture two years ago. Oh my God. It's like the director is highly acclaimed. It's like this weird project that shouldn't exist. And it's very cool. And it's just gory as hell. It's like, it's absolutely absurd. So wait, common writer is getting in your way of watching JJK or is it making you feel like JJK isn't as good as it should be? No, I just keep watching common writer instead of catching up on on JJK because it's so, I'm so fascinated by common writer. It sounds like you're not even watching all of you're just watching the first episode of multi-multi common writers. That's why I say it's not that common writers better. It's that it's history is fascinating me. Like I watched some of the kids one. I watched a bit of one of the anime. I forget what it's called. Maybe it's the Futo PI. Yeah, Futo PI. Yeah. And then I got sucked into the rated R one where every episode is like an hour long and it's like has cinematography for some reason. Yeah. Um, because they're like, oh, if we can start showing guts and common writers, full laying people alive, maybe we'll put some money into this IP. Oh, that's awesome. I love that for you. I cannot believe you found the time to do all that, considering the fact that this week we had seven goddamn episodes to watch and one of them was a half hour long. What are them? What are them was kill Bill three, but not but not the fortnight iteration. And so I, so you're how far are you back into season one of JJK? I'm on, I think episode 14. It's like anonomy just beat the shit out of Mahito. Okay. So yeah, that's like when your anonomy beat the shit out of Mahito or like when like Yuji rips his way into Mahito's domain and then Mahito's like accidentally touches Sukuna again. Nope. I'm on episode 13. Yeah. So Mahito and Anonymi fight for the first time in like a sewer and Yuji is like hanging out with that kid that Mahito is like corrupting. Okay. And Junpei. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I love that shit. I love Mahito and Junpei. Oh, yeah. And Mahito just just like sitting on Junpei's bed and being because Junpei's mom just died. She got turned into a zucchini. Yeah. And like literally strong into a zucchini. Yes. A senty and zucchini. My does just going around and turning people into eggplants and squash. Yeah. Or just like all the fucking target dogs like the long snouted target like bull terriers. And then he's just like kicking his little feet sitting on a what you know he turns Junpei into the fucking carp Titan. Yeah, he does turn Junpei. I'm not there yet. But yeah, I remember that. Um, yeah. And then Mahito just like pop in like kick his little feet up on Junpei's bed and be like, you think Yuji did it? Yeah. It's like, no, you mostly scarred man. Fucking obviously it was you. I know you Tim Burton wet dream like. Yeah, out of here. Uh, that's unreal. So actually because I mean, we'll get to judge. Okay, it's probably gonna be the last episode we talk about today. But upon watching season one, have you confirmed like the thought you had where you're like, oh, season one is a completely different looking anime from season three. Season one. It's not that it's like necessarily better or not that I like it more on rewatch. Yeah, but knowing where it goes, like if season two and three didn't exist and I rewatched season one, my opinions would be the same. But knowing where it ends up and like what all of this is setting up. It is better. Weirdly. Like, yeah, because all of these like offhanded kind of moments. I feel like the tone is a lot cooler in season two and three because it's like really ominous and really bleak and kind of like you're in that you're always uneasy. And in season one, if you it's a little it's definitely goofier. Like what you could just tell from like the outro music thing where they're just kind of like bopping. They're just dancing. Yeah. God, I miss that outro so fucking much. It's good. Dude, the intro and outro of season one is really fun. But it's yeah, it's just fucking the tones a lot lighter and the overall like vibe of the anime feels more like standard. Like we've talked about how like season two and three is a lot artsier and one feels like a well animated but standard anime of the time. Yeah, I feel like going back and like I even rewatch season one ever. You're actually doing more JGK homework than I have. But like I feel like when I was watching season one of JGK, there's a couple of moments where you're like, oh, this is like legitimately gorgeous. Like it's like, oh, it's like when Mai like makes her bullet and Maki like snags at that kind of thing, the entire fight against Hanemi. But there's like and then it's like, oh, Nobara and Yuji versus Esou and Ketchi Sue at the end of the season. You're just like not to any of those moments yet. Like everything about like Junpei and Mahito is like the part of JGK. I feel like so many people just like forget exists. It's like my favorite part if we're talking about like characters and writing. It's just I just like Junpei's little arc and I like that it ends in tragedy. And it's the first. Sorry. No, you're good. It's just the first stepping stone of like Yuji like losing his smile. And because that's the thing, it's like because I know that happens because I know the show ends up like really hardcore committing to a lot of the stuff that feels not that revolutionary in season one and makes it feel revolutionary. Season one feels better. Like does that make sense? Yeah, but does the art style like so we were talking about it is like does the art style feel genuinely different from what we're watching right now in season three? It's so it's it's like actually an unrecognizable show and I'll even go as far as to say episode three. No episode four of season three is unrecognizable. What did we just watch? I think episode three of season three. No episode four. Really? Yeah, because one and two came out the same time. Oh, you're right. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah, it's our third week, but it's our fourth episode. You're right. Yes. I'll go so far as to say that episode four of season three feels unrecognizable from every other episode of season two and three, which is unrecognizable from season one. I it was it was closer to a love death and robots episode than it was to any other episode of JJK before I go any further with the show and talk to you about the sponsor of today's episode, Rocket Money. 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Because like I feel like Vigilantes holds our proverbial bottom spot on a week by week basis, but this week we had a really genuinely fun episode from a genuinely fun episode from Vigilantes. Like I was like, I was like, oh, the plot got progressed. We're building out new power systems. There's a fun and convincing bad guy. It's like, it's very episodic. Like a lot of Vigilantes usually is, but like, man, I feel like Vigilantes was still maybe the worst episode of the week. I think we're 90% on the same page. I was excited to hear that you actually like the episode. I think Fire Force was worse this week. I, because here's the thing. I also could make the same argument for Fire Force where it's like Fire Force, it was the exact opposite issue where it was like Fire Force was super exposition heavy, but at the same time, the fact that they're just retelling the story of Jesus Christ through the medium of like horny fire powers is fucking hilarious to me. And that's always going to make that's going to win so many points for me. But I'm, I think you're right. I think Fire Force is maybe the worst episode of the week, um, which isn't, which is hardly a knock against Fire Force or this episode on the counter. The fact that everything else was just fucking insane. So let's talk about Fire Force. We're, we're, we're doing. Have you heard of, you heard about the Bible? You heard about it. The sequel Fire Force two, we're doing Bible 2.0. New Bible sequel just dropped. Dude, how sick would it be if they came out the sequel to the Bible and like the twist at the end is that it is in the same universe as like the Quran? I do. Objectively, Danny, what you just said, what's fucked up about what you just said is that is kind like that's just old versus New Testament. Like there was Bible to there was Judaism and then, and then New Testament happened, there was Christianity and the big reveal was, Hey, by the way, that guy we're talking about, yeah, he's the son of your God. And everyone was like, Holy ship. They dropped Bible to, I guess so that were, we're at Bible three with Fire Force. I would just love if they came out with the newer Testament, a third Testament and at the end Zeus shows up in like a cliffhanger manner. Anyway, um, yeah, Fire Force. Somebody just said that's Mormonism. That's absolutely. That is your right. That's a hundred percent right. That is Mormonism. We're, we're all right. Fire Force is Bible four. Shit. We're getting deep in our patch notes here. Do you want to talk about it? So, um, I'm actually, so like I said, I like I've said a million times. I'm a manga reader of Fire Force. I just fucking destroyed my hair. Um, I'm a manga reader of Fire Force and I, so I kind of know where all of this is going. I am so genuinely, so genuinely curious about what you think is happening. Why Shinra and show our virgin birds? What does has to do with Adola? Like I want to know what you took from this episode. I hate when I'm like, do you want to talk about it? And you're like, I'm so curious what you want to talk about. I know because like that's things like I, there's so many things I could say, but like I have, I know where we're heading. Yeah. I this. So yeah, they're both immaculate conceptions. The biggest takeaway I had is that Shinra's teeth are hereditary. Which I found to be crazy. And the fact that nobody gave his mother flack about demon teeth is crazy to me. Like everyone's like too busy throwing a horrid accusations at her because she may or may not know who the father of her child is. And I fucking and I, I, and then meanwhile, she's like looking like he saw me who like from Naruto and nobody's saying anything about that. Yeah. And it was crazy to that like. Um, was I going to say? Oh, it's yeah, it's crazy. It was weird. I'm kind of right in the middle in terms of like how I feel society is in this flashback because on one hand, yeah, everyone's being real shitty and being like, you're a Harley and like her parents aren't going to support a child or like a daughter who's having a child with a man they don't know. But on the other hand, she's got to start coming up with some kind of lie other than it's a virgin birth. Also, I have, I have, I have a question here. What's the test for virgin birth and who made it? Because like they're like, oh, she says it's a virgin birth. We got to run the test and it's like, okay, um, is this happening so much that a, that a, a, a pharmaceutical company out there was like, I guess, I guess we're going to try and figure out, you know, if these claims are true. Like I guess in a world where like the Holy Soul temple is literally running the government, then maybe, maybe you would check for virgin birth. But like, I, what, what is the test? I think they were going to check her hymen. I asked Sarah, Sarah was on the couch with me. You asked Sarah if there was a virgin birth of a virgin birth. I was like, what are they going to do? Check her hymen. Also, Nick, lower your mic. They said when it was lower, I did, I did. I love the guy raised it. I didn't. I know I just lowered my mic by like 30%. Okay. Um, I haven't touched it since I asked Sarah, my, my assumption was, what are they going to do? Check her hymen because allegedly the hymen breaks when you have sex for the first time, but Sarah was informing me that that's not wrong, but it's not like a hundred percent accurate. Like if that's, if that's the test they're going with and they were like, oh, this will for sure tell us if you had a virgin birth. It's like, it's not a good test. It's like, what do you do? Test at all. Put a, I was going to use an example that just actually wasn't right. It's going to say it's when you put a, a witch in water and if she drowns, she's not a witch. I, that never works. Dude, the way, the way we used to test if witches were witches was like, we would tie a rock to them and if they drowned, they're like, ah, it's just a woman. They're like, oh, but if she didn't drown, that's a witch. And it's like, I feel like every time they're drowning, you know, like I don't know. I love the idea of like, she doesn't come up and it's like, sorry, Bill, guess your wife wasn't a witch. They're all like their third woman that they've drowned this way this week. And it's like, it's nobody starting to doubt the scientific process or our ability to discern what a witch is. It's got to be a different test. That doesn't involve drowning. It doesn't involve, and it was like, oh, we have to, we have to press her with 400 pounds of stone. If she can still breathe, she's a witch. I was like, I'm afraid is zero. I was like the idea of them like watching the stream and like seeing the last few bubbles come up and someone's like, hey, have any of the women like come up before? Like, has this ever caught a witch? Yeah, or I think one of them was were like also like they put like they put them on a giant scale and they'd have like a duck in one of them and like her and the other and if she was heavier than the. It was, it was, we were so fucking stupid. We were so stupid like 300 years ago. I heard about that. I almost brought that up. I was like, no, I must be thinking of that Willy Wonka scene where she's heavier than a squirrel or whatever. Yeah, I just want to get, no, because that's everybody. Everybody was Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka in 1760. This cracked out fucking oil barons hitting women. It was insane. They're all walking out acting feeble and they do a front for forward roll. And it's like, whoa, all right, let's get witching. Yeah, you're like, have you heard about elevators? They're crazy. It's like, I don't know if I want to be in this small room with you. But anyways, back to Fire Force. I think it's kind of cool about like they're doing a bunch of religious iconography, that kind of thing. And I think it is very interesting. So basically what the the spiel is because you never really told me how you felt about it because we got off on a tangent about virgin birth here is the spiel is Adola is merging with like the earth, right? The overworld and Adola is comprised of the imagination of all of humanity. And that's why the moon is fucked. That's why the moon is fucked because some people draw the moon that way. And it's also it's also a it's also tied into the memories of people from before the world was anima fight. And so like, oh, Adola has existed since before the world was anima fight. And in that time space, there was this idea. People had this idea that there was a person who came from virgin birth that saved that saved everybody. And so basically like the idea of Jesus Christ is imprinted in the Adola from the previous iteration of earth. And because of that and the Adola merging, the Adola getting closer with the like the oncoming the second great Cataclysm. A Jesus figure was born. However, what's really cool about fire forces, they turn that idea on its head because Shinra is a demon. And he's the symbol instead of the symbol of the creation of the church. He's directly opposed to the Holy Soul temple. And so but his brother is an angel. His brother is an angel kind of right. You can stop time. He's got like these feathers that like whenever he stops time, he's got these crazy wings kind of thing. And so I'm curious to hear what you think about like like the swapping of that ideology, what's going on with his mom and all that. That's what I was trying to lead you to. Yeah. Well, I mean, they do literally kind of imply that like because at one point his brother is literally like, wait, but my brother is the devil. So what does that make me? And there's little fling his wings flare up. Um, yeah. I mean, I think it's I do think that's cool. It's funny because like Shinra being a demon weirdly gets cooler. The harder they lean into it, like you said, where it's like now we're literally just like riffing on the Bible. It's not just oh, he has sharp teeth. Here's a cool nickname for him. Yeah. So I do. I do really like that. I wonder if he's going to become death, but I don't know if he's silly enough. Um, you think he's going to become. Okay. So, uh, I also, I'm not going to tell you anything about what he becomes or what he does, but as you catch that show is born on Christmas. Yeah, I did. Yeah. He's Chris Kringle. Yeah. Yeah. He's literally he's Chris Kringle or, you know, Jesus from the Bible. Yeah. I wrote that. I was like Christmas baby. Yeah. And so I think it's, I think it's really cool and it's kind of, it is kind of funny. Like it's one of those like bell curves where it's like, Oh, the more you know, the less you know kind of thing with Shinra where it's like, Oh, well, I guess Jesus was also like demonified by the people of his time and like he was a virgin birth and like he also, there was like an existing like religion that he kind of recreated. Like there was like, like the found the, like the foundation of Christianity comes from Jesus at the divergence from Judaism kind of thing. Uh, and so I think like, it's like, Oh, you can be like, Oh, he's the symbol of destruction. He's like anti Christ or it's like, Oh, he's actually just Christ like, but we're seeing it through the perspective of how society probably saw Christ in that time. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I love, I like the fact that the Adola is this like imagination based malleable radiation kind of. Um, it is interesting that like the moon, like you said, you put it well where you're like, because some people drew it like that because he bought us like, Oh, that's how we depict the moon. And it's like, I guess sometimes maybe. Yeah. I like the idea that a few people are ruining the moon for the rest of everyone else. I think it's like, Oh, because a couple of people had a funny little idea. That's why I bet you more people are depicting the moon as, Oh, I don't know a circle, a circle with some white light coming out of it, but instead because like three third graders drew with a creepy ass smile. That's what we get for the rest of our life. Wait until they see the sun. It's awful. Why wouldn't it be cheese? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, a cheese, a cheese moon would be fantastic. Imagine, imagine tomorrow the sun raises and it's like the sun baby from Teletubbies or the screaming sun from Chowder. It's just like there's no good options. It's like the sun baby from Teletubbies and then it cuts to like the creator of Teletubbies and just like raises a gun to his head. I can't believe I can't believe I've done this to everybody. My hubris. Yeah, I fucking I can't believe I've gone this far. But yeah, so it's a fun episode. It's a big, it's a big build out episode in terms of like, Oh, a dola's coming and like the great cataclysm is now only one pillar away kind of thing. So we're we're truly building towards the end for fire force, which is like bittersweet, obviously, but at the same time, there's going to be a lot of fun stuff happening here. I also, my final note for this episode was I get that like the Tokyo Empire has no jurisdiction in Ossakuza. But man alive is putting a gigantic eight outside of a building and then dressing it up as a fire department. Not a great way to stay undercover. Yeah, really? I know there. I mean, we also saw the doctor dude just walk out in his like regular outfit and just somehow throw his half row in front of his face. Yeah, just so you just cousin it at it. He was just like, yeah, I just I'm just gonna I'm just gonna speak through the pubes here and everyone's going to be okay with that. And I was like, all right, go off Bob blob Ross here. But all right, I guess that's probably all we need to talk about for fire force here, which brings us to something that I already said was a lot of fun this week and in this has begun to surprise me more and more because I actually feel like we're beginning to build towards something here. Vigilantes, which I think we're both in agreement is probably the second worst episode of the week. Yeah, probably. I liked it though. I enjoyed it. A good deal. Yeah, that's the thing is like I I I also very much enjoyed the episode. It was just a matter of it was a matter of like, oh, am I am I gonna like in terms of it's not better than free run? It's not better than JJ K. It's not better than I mean, it was maybe better than fire force. It wasn't better than sentence and it wasn't better than Hell's Paradise. So like going in second worst is kind of like a misnomer on account of the fact that the episode itself is very good. This is the episode where they fight the big like squid guy. He's black and red and he's got like 10 arms and we also get more of a scar face. At one point, the scarred man. Yeah, at one point in the beginning of the episode, the two like, you know, drug peddlers, the two Viagra and Rogaine peddlers. I've come so far around on these guys. They are a local here. They're absolutely locally. When when they're talking to that Japanese businessman who's like fully bald with a comb over and like they reveal one of their heads and there's like five little hairs over there. It's like these guys are servicing their community and I won't I won't hear anything else. They're good dudes. I like them. I like well, because they're either peddling Rogaine or they're peddling Viagra at any given moment. And I I didn't know what they were selling this guy at first and he goes. He pulls out like a box of like sheep wool grower and he's like it helps wool grow. Imagine what it'll do for your cock. I had no idea. It was gonna roll right. You're you have a wall. I need you to tell me if your your penis is made out of wool. Before we can proceed, I need confirmation if you have a wool penis because we have wool is yours cotton. I don't I've heard about cotton penises. Yeah, but if you like takes it and he's just like screaming is like what's it doing to my cock? He's like you asked it. Oh, oh no, buddy. We both have wool penises. You can't take this if your penis isn't wool. Please tell me please. Please tell me you're not one of those weird satin cocked mother fuckers. So yeah, that was funny. I wrote they can make full Iron Man suits for people, but they can't invent Rogaine. Yeah, why are these guys peddling this under the table? That's a lack of medicinal licenses. I don't know the whole thing is everybody's a vigilante getting licenses in this universe is probably incredibly fucking difficult. For every like literally there is no reason that Koichi should not be like a full on hero. I have a deep guttural feeling that at some point he's going to be able to turn his blast into like projectiles. He can you to fire himself around like Bakugo. He's like, oh, oh, the recoil is negligible when I'm traveling backwards and I'm like cool. So it's a propulsion system. So like there's nothing his quirk can't do. He's basically he's basically Bakugo. There's no reason for him not to be a full blown hero and there's no reason for these two common hoppers to not be licensed medicinal experts. Yeah, I mean, they're literally common rider common riders, whatever you call a common rider. Um, but uh, yeah, what do you feel about Koichi's new abilities and how he just keeps spawning new ones? I it's listen like technically, right? I have no I have no qualms with it on account of the fact that technically all of them make sense. Right? It's like, oh, he's like, I have the ability. I have the ability to propel myself like I have the ability to glide around. But in order to glide around, you need some kind of propulsion ability that allows you to be like not touching the ground. So him blocking missiles with it. That makes sense. Him being able to like like it's he has the ability of like attraction and repulsion and like we've seen quirks oftentimes have like a give and take. Right? Like Shiguraki had decay and like a decay and remake kind of quirk kind of like overhaul, but obviously all for one took the remake part. So he would turn into like a villain. Um, so like we've seen Shiguraki have it. We've seen overall have it. We've seen a lot of people have the give and take part of a quirk. So like it's nothing new for Koichi. It's just funny that like every episode there's like a new thing. Yeah, I agree. I think his ranged ability doesn't work the way it should. He shouldn't be able to fire like balls like projectile balls. It should be more like an Iron Man blast. If it is repulsion, that's the reason it's things called a repulsor. Yeah. It fucking, but he shoots it like a little bald projectile. It's a Mega Man. It's a Mega Man ball. Yeah, and it shouldn't be. It should just be like a big push. Yeah, it should be a blast of energy that like either propels him or knocks him backwards kind of thing. I also don't know why it's like the world's smallest Hadouken. Like it's it doesn't really like, I guess like you could say he can make like compressed pockets of air and like fire those compressed pockets of air. That in itself is that's a new ability. That is a completely different quirk. Yes, like he should have the ability. Yeah, like a repulsor ray where it's just like an entire force of like of like like every energy has an equal and opposite reaction kind of thing like blows him backwards like an elephant. Cut. Yeah. Um, so yeah, I also I loved my hero for like coming up with a way to give Deku a ranged attack in like a flick. And now now that they've done it again, I'm like, you're fucking this is cheating at this point. Like if you're going to have a not ranged guy, keep them not ranged. The only way that they could continue to like cut into Deku's spiel even more here is if somehow Kouichi starts like using his legs for stuff. Cause like right now it's like repulsor rays with his hands kind of thing. He's like he's like grabbing onto things with his feet and all of that. He's going to figure out like how to do like cloud step from like the one piece of universe where you can like kick pockets of air using his repulsors and that'll keep him up in the air or something. He already flies. He has float. Remember? Oh, no, Deku does. I know, but like, no, no, no, Kouichi does. Remember in season one, he flies briefly and then he's like, I repressed that and I won't do it again. He had a flat. He flew at the end of season one and then he had a flashback to his mom when he flew in front of her and she was like, it's dangerous to let a baby fly. I'm going to tell him. I remember this. Yes. He was literally floating around and like, yeah, she was like, yeah, it's too dangerous. Make sure you have like three points of contact on the ground. His mother suppressed so many things for him. It's like his entire, his super ability is the fact that like, you know, you know who has the real superpower in his family? His mother's mind erasure technique. Yeah, his mom might as well be fucking Izawa for how suppressed his ability is. Like, oh, this child could have been like the next number one hero. If you weren't too busy beating the abilities out of him when he was four. I have so many notes for vigilantes. Like reverse endeavor. She's a reverse endeavor. Um, I have, oh, at one point they're like, we should charge Izawa for coffee. I agree. They should. I don't think that'd be unreasonable. I saw he's like, he's like a local mob boss, like rolling into an Italian restaurant that pays him for protection. He's like, I like the mayor. I like the red sauce you make here. He I'm going to sit down. They're like, we're not open for. Yeah, it's like the Yakuza. He's like, he's like pay me a little. Maybe this place stays open. Who knows? Yeah. Yeah. You guys got the best guys got the best coffee in town. And it's like, I don't know why these guys are even. I don't even know why these guys have coffee here in the first place. I don't know why they don't lock their door to him. Get this criminal out of here. At one point, Koichi is like, I was like, oh, can you like charge up your blast and like hit this dude really hard? And Koichi is like, it's not like I have time to stand around and wait for a guy his size. They had this conversation for like 45 seconds and that dude was not approaching them. But he was tiptoeing down the alley. And there was also Koichi was having a conversation like a conversational appointment was just him fighting him. We're just not that fast. And I was like, clearly he's so slow. You can have full on conversations with a broke arm. I saw. Yeah. Um, I wrote a praying mantis guy is my favorite character of the year. I love that they're just slowly but surely turning him into a Brooklyn lawyer. He's like, you got to get out of here. He's like, I fucking know my rights. I know my squad is rights. I know he was like, oh, oh, where is it? I can always guarantee you in the next episode, he's going to start talking about like local unions. Like he's going to be, he's like, yeah, Mantis Union 151 down by fucking water side. At one point he's like, well, that's bigotry. You're a bigot, my dude. It's like, I want to call you to be like, you mean buggy tree. And just like, cut his head off. It's like, it's like when we want to deco to just get murdered by a spinner at the end, main character head pop. Yeah. Oh, buggy tree would have been a great, a great line. This is why we could never put you in these universes because you'd get killed. You get common writer shot in the temple like 30 minutes in. I'm too good at fantasy racism. You just, you'd be all the, all the hetero, hetero Morse would be like, Martin, you'd be like spinner, more like spinner because holy shit, get the taste of this guy out of my mouth. He'd be like, I'm going to go back and play video games. I'm going to go back and play video games in my room. Yeah. Good night, everyone. That's good. I also love that they did Shabari. I love that Izawa did Shabari to all 10 arms of Captain Squiddo. What is Shabari? Japanese BDSM. It's like rope play from Japan. Yeah. It's and I saw it hit him with some, some real nice Shabari rope buddy moves. Um, that's crazy. Man. Hey, uh, unrelated. My, I'm not screen sharing, right? Uh, no, no, you're not. You're googling Shabari. Interesting. It's an owl to my knowledge. Uh, what? How do I spell this? Uh, Shabari the owl. Wait, what? I did it with a C H. Oh, yeah, it's not a C H. If you do it with a C H, it's an owl. Uh, Shabari owl. Jesus Christ. It's just bonzying a woman. Oh yeah, dude. You, you fucking you, you get real ropey and Shabari, dude. You get, you get real tied up. This looks like it would take 12 hours to do. That's kind of, I think like speed is kind of nice, but I think it, I think a lot of the preparation is a part of the enjoyment. I see. You learned about this. You've heard about Shabari because when we were in a Tulum like a month ago for New Year's, we started, we stayed at a hotel called Shabari. And we're like, Oh wow, this is super fancy hotel. And then there was just ropes in every room. And we're like, there's a theme here. And then we looked above our bed and there's a giant mural of just a naked woman tied up and we're like, Oh no, we booked to the BDSM hotel. So every time I was at like continental breakfast, looking around at all the couples, I was like, Ah, freaks, freaks all of you. Freaks and owls, all of them. Yeah. Oh, it's good. So, uh, all right. That brings us to the end of vigilantes, which brings us to our way. Last thing. Oh, last thing with the guy with the scar face, because he has the funniest speech ever. He goes, see this scar on my face. I put it there myself on purpose, just establishing my brand, you know? And I was like, buddy, keep these thoughts inside your head. Oh my God. Yeah. I mean, listen, I think he only said it because he had actively beaten the he had beaten the ink out of the octopus he was fighting. And so, but yeah, boy, oh boy, are those inside thoughts. Those are those. Those don't leave the chrome dome, but all right, that is the end of the vigilantes, which brings us to our favorite section, a super chat corner. For those of you who have said super chats, don't worry. We have our lovely editor and moderator stank compiling all of them setting tools and we do them between sections here. So we're going to do it. Last boy, 8,000 said watch every dog become goofy because of the drawings. Yes. From Fire Force probably should have done that one before. That's a great point. Just a stellar point. Give him his money back. By the way, that's part of the segment. If you make a good enough point, you make doubles what you sent us. I get double it and send it to the next super chat. So yeah, it's a hype train, but in reverse, but only for one guy. That'd be awesome. Can you imagine just an army of gorsh like just doubled over a dozen times? I absolutely. I love the idea, but then the last guy doesn't make a good point. We pocket all the money ourselves. Yeah, exactly. Um, Q boy is how I'm going to say it's Q. O. I. B. O. I y'all make my week better. Thank you for being good friends and very entertaining together. Thanks. That's very nice of you. We appreciate it. What a sweet lie. Uh, 35 are miles says Danny. How's the rewatch of JJK going? Anything changed for you? Um, uh, we went over it already, but just a brief summary is yeah, the mate, the biggest thing is that I'm more interested in the characters knowing where they end up. Like a lot of the adult characters in season one seem like they're kind of just being like edgy because you don't really feel like these dire stakes happening yet and knowing the just grievous tone of season two and three when not a means like no, you G can't go on this mission. I'm now like, yeah, no, not me. He's fucking right. You G has no idea how dark this show is about to get. Yeah. It's not to me has a full understanding of how tough non salaryman jobs are. It's really interesting. Sorry. Last thing it's interesting rewatching it and being like, oh, Mahito's like a new and unknown entity. Like I'm so used to Mahito existing and like it's weird where they're like, hmm, let's figure this guy out. Yeah. Uh, and then also like you realize like after knowing what Mahito is capable of why the prospect of Mahito being introduced would be so goddamn terrifying. Um, Ethan Arav says, uh, since 10 year old and said bought the half pearl necklace from Flarenco. Woo. Come here. Say thank you. Come here. They can't hear you. You got it. You got it. Yep. Yep. All the way over here. Thank you. Yeah. So that's a thank you from the founder and CEO herself, Dorothy also asked about getting a anime tattoo and decided to get a mixture of bleach demon slayer and hunter hunter. Thank you. Uh, love you both and the pod. Let's go. Drug. I want to see that. I want to see that tattoo at some point. Uh, I strain sends 699 Canadian. So like, so like 45 cents. Uh, is Nick planning on watching heated rivalries, watched other non-anime stuff of the pot and wants to know if he could be one of those times. Uh, baby, how much heated rivalry did you watch? 20 minutes. Oh, oh, then I'll watch it with Dorothy. I thought you seen the whole thing. I was only ever going to watch it with Dorothy, but if Dorsey's only seen 20 minutes, I'll watch heated rivalry. Oh my God. I want to see if she's into boy on boy action. Uh, all right. Taco Lord sends $5 says Nick. If we turn Danny up and we turn you up and you're already loud. I turned myself down. Then turned himself up or good. Thank you for the $5. Uh, Tesseract Wolf, uh, says if you were thrown into the OP world, what faction would you be in? Uh, and what devil fruit would you have and what would your fighting style be? I would be, uh, I would be part of the Marines because I believe in a oppressive and controlling government. I think the celestial dragons are dope. Uh, now everybody, if anybody, if anybody here says actually the real answer is I'll be a part of the revolutionary army. Uh, you bastard. I was going to say the Marines also. Yeah, yeah, I just, I just, I want to be next to Kobe. I think he's handsome. Uh, no, I would be part of the revolutionary army. I think the revolutionary army are the most based group in entirety of one piece pirates very much included. Uh, they are literally an oppositional force to the government. Oh, that's a run under dragon. Who's one of the more mysterious characters. Uh, and I think koalas are really cute. So yeah, I'd be a part of the revolutionary force. Probably wouldn't have it down for it. I love swimming. Uh, and my fighting style would be, I don't know, sucking dudes off. Nice. Really? Yeah. Really stayed in theme there. I don't know. I'd be a fucking like snail phone or something because I'm just a green, a greasy little slime boy that nobody likes. Yeah. Danny would be the buster call snail like only ever used to exterminate entire islands. I'm just there on the table. Like meh meh meh meh meh meh or whatever fucking awful noise they make. Yeah. Yeah, literally just, yeah, just fucking whatever, whatever goddamn calls getting transmuted through your mouth. Uh, all right, Nick watch TADC, which is the amazing digital circus, hell of a and has been now you gotta watch murder drones. Danny did. Um, uh, and Danny, did you watch not good enough MD music video? It hints for continuation. No, I haven't. That was just like, I don't know. I just haven't. That's my full answer. Um, yeah, I don't even know what that means. I've watched the first episode of murder drones and I really liked it. I just didn't, I just didn't watch second episode. I have nothing against murder drones. Danny thinks it's the best out of all of the glitch properties. And I think it has the capacity. I think unfortunately the thing with murder drones and why it probably isn't as popular as other things, like even like Knights of Guerniviers, just cause like objectively it has the hardest to look at art style. Disagree. It's so good looking. You like how it looks. The amazing digital circus looks worse than murder drones. What are you talking about? Art style wise. I'm not saying that it's bad to look at, but like it's the most like to Nami cutaway looking show I've ever goddamn seen. Like it looks like Tom's going to pop up at any given moment. It's so good. And that's probably why I like it. You're not incorrect in your assumption. Yeah. But everyone looks like the fucking I droid or the I dog from 2008. And I like it a lot in the cinematography. So good and music. So good. I love everything about 2008 ass looking show, but I'll watch it. I mean, I when I'm back from home, I'm going to have way more time. So I'll probably dive in into it. Them. Um, Mad Dwarf King says, is it me or did majesty decide to become a Zeph in sentence to be hero this week? Um, did majesty become Zeph? He's talking about Norquil. Yes. Yes. Correct. Well, let's get more into that when we get into. Oh, oh, oh, that's Zeph. Oh, when he cut off his leg. Yeah, we'll talk about that when we get to it. But thank you, Mad Dwarf King. Um, man, Norquil. What an episode from the big guy. Uh, what would be an anime that last boy, 8000 says what anime would be a great sentai in my opinion, JJ K. Great sentai. What's that? Yeah, like a super sentai. Oh. Well, I, uh, that's so confusing to me. I mean, any of the mechs, but like mech anime are inherently, I feel like inspired by super sentai. Like there's got to be, there's got to be like big transformation. You know, it'd be fun. And well, like also is also kind of a super sentai, but just like more coded towards girls. Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon's like objectively kind of a super sentai. Like there's big transformations. They're all like super colorful heroes kind of thing. Um, so I'm going to go Sailor Moon there. Just like that might be a cop out answer though. Magical girl is literally just girl super sentai, even though super sentai's also often have women in them. Uh, that's fair. That is fair. I forgot about Pink Ranger. Um, yeah. Uh, all right. That, that, that's okay. And then taco Lord sends $10. I says, I know Nick won't, but Danny, do you think you will revisit Lord of Mysteries? Cause I recently watched it myself and had me completely enthralled. It was so amazing. Yeah. Uh, I plan to Nick doesn't think I will, but I will. He won't, he won't do it unless I, unless I, unless, unless I get into it as well and like we do a revisionist history, Lord of Mysteries review kind of thing. Um, I just, I just don't see it happening. I mean, Danny's, Danny's barely getting back into JJK cause he's too distracted by common writer next week. Who knows what it'll be? Probably Power Rangers. Nothing makes you a bigger weave than being into common writer. So if anything, I'm just, I'm taking steroids rather than taking the long haul. That is so, that is so incredibly fair. Danny's also going to get real weird about like a 90s completely obscure fighting game. It's kind of like one of the best three players on earth, which is hardly impressive cause there's only 12 of them playing. Yeah. No, that's, that's Danny's current path here. Uh, Tesseract that sends $5 and no message. Hell yeah. Dog. Um, and then, uh, Ichisus, uh, Ichisu Tetsu, that's what I'm going with. Said $10. Been here since episode one, still loving every episode, seeing, uh, love seeing Danny grow from piss boy to piss man. Nick, you're amazing as always. Thank you. That's very nice of you. Are you piss man? Have you evolved? Uh, I'd like to think so. I hope that doesn't mean I'm old. I hope I like actually went through some kind of arc. I think you've arced. I think you've gotten more attractive. I think you look more, I think, I think, and this is, this isn't true for every man, but I feel as though a fair amount of men hit the peak of their attractiveness in their late twenties. Uh, and I feel as though you've rounded into a much, much more attractive man over the course of this podcast. When you look back at old you from this podcast, I mean, you don't, you look like, you look like current you ate old you. Yeah. It is tough looking at some earlier episodes. I've lost. It's also tough looking at some earlier episodes though, because I used to be way bigger than I currently am. And I really need to get a personal trainer or something. I still, my shoulder is still fucked up, which has me nervous, but like, I gotta, I gotta get those fucking gains back. Uh, my shoulder, my arm actually gets fucked up when I stop working out. Like it's like, it's working out is what maintains my, like my shoulder. I even wouldn't know. I was trying to give you advice. I was trying to say you should work. She should do lightweight workouts to see if that brings back the muscle and make your shoulder feel better. But yeah, no, everything I have to say has to be a conceit, a conceited brag here. Oh my God. Stake just won't stop sending us super chats, which is very nice of all of you. Thank you. Arjun Varani said $10. Also, Yo-Kai says, bro, Nick is just so hot. So I thought that would help your stuff. Thanks babes. Thanks babes. I know you enjoyed the windbreaker season one OP. So in case you didn't know the Oshinoko ending for season three is the same band also Danny that was a based has been tier list. You know, the has been tier list. Yeah. Just in time. I did the fucking all the songs of season two finally that went up yesterday, but I also the composing podcast a year and a half ago. I know we did do it on the podcast years ago, but the composer of has been hotel season two hit me up and it was like, I love your stuff. We should do something and I was like, you want to rank your own songs? So I got him to rank his own songs. Oh, wait, you did it with somebody else? Yeah. Oh, what the fuck? That's with the composer of the song. Yeah. Yeah. In person was in an interview. It was in person. Holy shit. That's sick. Yeah, it was cool. It was super. That's really cool. Fuck yeah, dude. Um, and then my best boy. Oh, okay. Well fucking thanks for spoiling it now guys. I also have a best boy. I have some I have some news that I need to get into here, which I'm actually very excited about. I haven't gotten into Oshinoko's new season yet, even though it's on Netflix. I just I've been too busy watching all of our other shit. Is Danny's name a bit as I bug man? Yes, it is. Do you want to explain it? Thank you so much for asking I bug man. I've been getting emails every day from some company called Ormbull's Chormbulls. This is actually technically like literally an incredible ad for them. Like if we if we don't get sent either Hormbull's Chormbulls or a bucket full of cash, this is this is not worth it at all. Um, I don't it's like protein candy bars with no sugar apparently. It's got a ton of protein in them and it's like a chocolate bar and I'm gonna say they're gross until they either send us them to test them or a bucket of cash. And they look and or sound gross until I'm paid to say otherwise. But let me see. Let me find the picture. I'll get at first I got one that was just like advertising. It was like Ormbull's Chormbulls and I guess the company is Ormbull and what they're selling is a Chormbull and I sent it to Nick and I was like, the fuck is this? And I started getting sillier and sillier emails where it goes Ormbull's Chormbulls ring ring ring with a little clock emoji. Your daily Ormbull's reminder set your alarm for Ormbull's O'clock. Psst. It's always Ormbull's O'clock. I genuinely feel as though it's like the oldest marketing like the oldest marketer in the industry right now going through a distended fight with Alzheimer's just losing their mind as they make up a company. Somebody got their hands on a ridiculous emailing list and they're like, I remember Ormbull's Chormbulls from back in the day. The problem it sounds like a thing that would exist. Like, oh, sugar-free candy. Of course, people are going to want that. But like it's I do not understand the name at all. And that's kind of why we love it. I love the idea that it is some Alzheimer's ad-old like old man and every other day is just something newly insane where he's like ring it in ding Ormbull's time. It's always Ormbull's time. But here's your reminder. Get Chormblin with Ormbull Chormbulls. And the next day I get an email and it's like some mornings I wake up thinking I'm drowning. I woke up this morning and I didn't recognize the sight of my face as white, my wife's face. But then I rolled over and saw some Ormbull's Chormbulls. But I can never forget the delicious crunch of a chormbull. So yes, that's Danny's. That's been me and Danny's inside joke is just is just yellow packaged Ormbull's Chormbulls. Yeah. All right. Lone Wolf sent $5 and said, Nick, fate episode four was so good. So how powerful is N. Kiddu to Gilgamesh? Also Gilgamesh, the main character in Fate or Saber. I hear people say he has the focus. It depends on what iteration of Fate you're watching. There's iterations of Fate where Gilgamesh isn't even involved. There's iterations of Fate where Saber isn't even involved. Like the Grand Fate Babylonia arc, which is like three or four mini series in a couple of movies. That's much more focused on Gilgamesh than it is on Saber. In terms of how powerful N. Kiddu is, is comparatively to Gilgamesh, they're from the same story. So Gilgamesh is the first hero, my light. They're from the same story. So Gilgamesh is like from the first ever epic, which was written all the way back in like Samiria, basically, or Sumer. And N. Kiddu is his friend, like friends and they were roommates kind of thing, definitely lovers. And so they're supposed to be because like they're from the same story, basically the same level of power. They're supposed to represent like the difference between like human, humanity's connection to the earth and humanity's connection to like greed and that. So they should be roughly the same, which is why their abilities are very similar. I need to get back on Fate, but strange fake. It's not that I'm dropping it. I just forgot to watch it. Ethan Arif says, Danny spoke about wishing he loved Trigran. Is there an anime you wish to love, Nick? And is there another one like that for you, Danny? Is there an anime I wish I loved? Yes, there is. Gurren Lagann. I have tried to watch Gurren Lagann like 47 separate times and everyone's like, Nick is peak, Nick is peak, Nick you're like Ximod, Nick is the biggest mix of all time. They fight the anti-spiral, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I know a lot about Gurren Lagann just on account of the fact that like if you want to be a power scaler, you have to know about it like the anti-spiral or shit like that. But I just I've never been able to sink my teeth into it. Yeah, that's fair. I watched the like a bridged movies and they were not good, but I hear they're not good by even fans. And fucking yeah, I think Jujutsu Kaisen would have been my answer before, but I think I do now officially love Jujutsu Kaisen. I just personally consider it an anime with like a slow start. I guess like any anime that everyone loves and I just don't like I never want to dislike an anime. I wish I liked Freeran like more like I wish I was like just frothing at the mouth eager to watch like chain every episode. But when I was watching season one, I did have to be like, alright, I watched four. That's like that's my due diligence. I'll watch another four tomorrow. Yeah, you can't like you're like I can't at a certain point. I was getting knotted off to sleep here. Yeah. Um, and apothecary diaries. I'm going to give another chance. I might react to it and usually when I react to that has to be your that literally has to be your answer. It's a path. Gary Diary because your fandom loves apothecary diaries and you don't. And that's like that. That has got to be one of the biggest disconnects that you have out of anything that you possibly engage with. Usually when I react to stuff, I find a deeper appreciation for it because I'm a hyper like locked into every second looking for a joke and in doing that, I will accidentally like gain insight into the show. Yeah, 100%. Uh, and that's the you overanalyze it. And so you're like, holy shit, like actually the musical score of the show is fucking gorgeous. Um, I so Sir Knight sent $10. And he said, if you got to make Naruto X MTG, who would be what color and why also? What do you want MTG to cross with next Naruto would be fucking sick. I'm just going to answer for Naruto. He's the most mono green ass deck I've ever seen because it's just yeah, that's smart because he makes clones because he makes clones like he would literally, it would just be summoning more Naruto's and then like it would be about like getting his Sage mode engine running or something that makes more clones and then there'd be like some kind of like Karama, Dragon ask tie-in. That is like a plus two plus two to all clones kind of thing. So he's in Naruto be mono green as shit. Yeah, dude, a Naruto crossover would be awesome. So so good. This next year of Magic the Gathering is exclusively crossovers I don't give a shit about. So that's a very what's coming up from MTG. It's Marvel again, which they're always doing. Marvel. I didn't buy a single Spider-Man pack. Star Trek also don't care. Yeah, the Hobbit. So Lord of the Rings, but Lamer. Okay. Yeah, you want young Frodo like I don't or like young Bilbo. Yeah, young Bilbo. Yeah. Okay. Sure. I guess I wish it was just Lord of the Rings Part 2 and they just like put shit from the Hobbit in it like to make it like Middle Earth Part 2, you know, so you get that both. Yeah, just make it like the Silmarilliac or something like that. Just be like all like all L O T R lore is in this drop here. And then the last one is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which if I had to like struggle to be excited for actually, no, I'm not even I it's probably Marvel if I had a struggle to be excited for one, but I'm not excited for any of them. It's so it's not just it's just Marvel in general. Like it's like it's not like Spider-Man. It's just Marvel. Yeah, it's all it's the rest of Marvel. I assume there won't be Spider-Man and then Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. So goddamn expensive. I'm I'm missing I'm missing that like the plate that's going to be that's going to it's going to do so well. I want I don't know. I wonder who ring is funny. I wonder if they're wrong. Like I wonder if they flew too close to the sun with it because the Spider-Man set no one bought like I think they're wrong about the crossover like the Venn diagram of like who's playing magic and who's into the property. I think that's a good point because Final Fantasy was their highest selling one ever and people who play Final Fantasy are already gamers and they're likely into magic already. But Marvel is like one of the biggest IPs in general. But I don't know if like like Spider-Man didn't sell well. So I don't think I think I think what honestly there's also there's a Marvel magic. There's like a like a trading card game. I don't know if it's actually a map. Yes, Marvel Snap like there's so there's already like if people are looking for that in the Marvel space they already have it. So it's interesting play from Marvel. I guess it's just more money for them. So why wouldn't they do it and they'll probably take screen crabs from all the movies like they've done with everything else or screen grabs in the comics and just be so funny since they're live action movies. If you played the yellow go like a Chris Hemsworth for get this off my table immediately. I don't fucking want this magic night again. We are doing another Magic Monday. It's been so long. I'm itching for two things in my life right now and it's my car and magic. This this conversation is not helping me. The Greek we've is our last one set $20. Madoka magic movie got delayed again. Also give beat break another shot and a better it's a better bin. We got a backstory this week that that a character survived a bombing. Oh my God. Also read each of the witch Kagura Bachi the twin peaks of the jump Kagura Bachi. Man the Kagura Bachi fandom has been up my asshole recently not like in a bad way. There's like Kagura Bachi and I'm on chapter like oh I'm on chapter like 25 and I know for a fact I'm just gonna have to reread everything because I only finished the cloud gouger arc. Oh Kagura Bachi is going to be like the hottest IP on Earth in like six months but I I just I so much manga. I think I mean I fucking I won't do it. I was very great my chapter one. It is a hundred percent my cross the bay. You should do it. I mean that does sound exciting for you and I'd be excited to get like the review of whether or not it's good from you or if it's just like me. Oh it's good. It's no it's it was me my and like that's why it was like oh this is the greatest manga of all time and everyone was like has it been enough time to call Kagura Bachi better than JJK but it is maintained being very good. It doesn't like push the boundaries of like oh my God this is the most unique manga of all time but like it does the basics very very well. I think you were saying that it's going to be like the biggest anime in like the next six months or whatever. Yes. You know I think might surpass it and I only think this because Freerun has been so big. I think which at Atelier might be like massive. Interesting. I feel like which at Atelier struck like suffers from one thing and one thing alone and that's that there's just too much other witch nonsense happening right now like like the Greek we've just there was like I was like oh like you need to like you need to read each of the witch and then there's another eight there's which atelier and then there's another which one happening as well. There's like there's like three witch manga. Oh right now I think which at Atelier is sick. I just don't think it's going to hit that like Kagura Bachi threshold because like Kagura Bachi is trended. I think like top six to top 10 and most popular manga since it came out and that's like it's the only show it's the only manga out of that top 10 section to not have an anime. I think at the very least it'll be competition to Freerun. Like I think it hits a similar demographic as Freerun. So it'll be like because Freerun is not as big as like solo leveling for example just to bring up an anime that it lost in a war of two. Yeah but that's because I assume there's just more people watching it's like why Fast and the Furious makes more money than like an art house movie you know that doesn't mean fast and the Furious is like better. Yeah, oh Bagonia got outperformed by Fast X it's like oh yeah so therefore Bagonia not as good. Yeah so I think within like the weight class of Freerun I think witch hat Atelier may become like its competition. Yeah. All right that is everything from our Super Chat corner for the moment so we're done with Fire Force we're done with Vigilantes which brings us to our I guess like our middle of the pack episode this week. It's not JJK and it's not Freerun so is it either Hell's Paradise or Sentence to be a hero. I think it's either Hell's Paradise or Freerun. You really think Freerun was better than Sentence to be a hero? Sentence to be a hero was so fucking good this week. Sentence to be a hero was very good this week it was very like I said this is a competition for the top year. I have to say now that I'm remembering everything about like that ever that happens with like his majesty King Nurgle and all of that his unfolding as a character Tatsuya growing his muscles and all of that. And just like kind of like the sentimentality of like oh the like the there's people at the bottom understand that the heroes aren't bad people like that was a that was a good episode so maybe I would say Hell's Paradise. Yeah Hell's Paradise for sure I think is like the next one. With that being said how many episodes this week featured a main character fucking the main antagonist of their story I listen there's only one and I feel like we got to give some points to Hell's Paradise. Yeah that was wild that was definitely he got bochu juice soon. Listen sometimes you got to adapt and sometimes adapting looks like a fucking thick woman with a bob cut. I if that's what if that's what adapting looks like then good job Osuchobe. I yeah it is interesting that they tackled it from like a he's like oh I got to be strategic like this is just a different way of fighting because you're all intents and purposes he is for sure essayed like if you're given two options and one is die or have sex with me. Yeah that's that is not consent. No no probably not like he's like literally thinking about before it happens like I could try and run away with that be difficult and it's like yeah no this is probably a not so consensual activity for sure but what else they somebody says yo wait do I got to watch Hell's Paradise. It's it's mostly just plants and nipple is boobs. Yeah it's most most characters are naked quite often and bochu juice who is actually part of the combat system and its sex. Yes and it's and it's sex with either your partner who is a woman or a man or maybe a little bit of both. Yeah we got this show also is such a hard on for town like it fucking loves explaining town. I told you I told you I think might have been a couple of weeks ago now where I was like oh Hell's Paradise tries to fit a like JJK MHA Naruto one piece level power system into a hundred and seventy chapters and it works but you got to like Tandins Tan bochu Jutsu and six other ways to train town. No they really every like every other episode is still just someone not even like discovering something new about town just like refining it a little bit more like we're in the weeds of it now and it was kind of cool. Gabi Maru discovers like he kind of gets a read on town like he is sort of kind of figures it out and he's like oh if someone is more towel than me I need to use their own towel against them and essentially counter them rather than go for like a direct hit and he felt like I did when I took my like single jujutsu class or jujutsu class where I was like I feel like someone who knows like a fraction of jujutsu knows infinitely more than someone who hasn't taken a single jujutsu class. Well it's that bell curve right where it's like oh look like if you if you don't know anything you feel like you know nothing the more you know the more you know you know nothing and it's like oh I could you like you look at every guy on the street even that they're huge like he comes and grabs me I'm flipping him by the wrist like he doesn't even he doesn't even know I'm flipping him by the wrist. The like fucking what's it called yeah the jujutsu jujutsu God watch too much jujutsu kaisen jujutsu arc is like one class gets you up to this skill level and so you have this much gap between you and a guy who doesn't know anything and then the next skill level is over the course of like several decades. Yeah, yeah, it's like oh by the way and then it's also like you still come to the realization that if somebody weighs 50 pounds more than you there's really nothing you can get his eyes. Yeah, God you can get his eyes. I could tell you that without a singular class of jujutsu. Kick a guy in the nuts and stab him in the eyeballs cool. There's your there's your basic self-defense course. Yeah. But yeah, so that was pretty cool. Just a lot of that honestly, but in a way that's like better than fire force and vigilante. Uh yeah, I mean it's there is we get a cool fight from also where he goes full prime Ken Connichi and like bust out all of us red tendrils in a battle against Rian. We see free and one of Rian's clones get fucking pulled. Yeah, get fucking belly buttoned. Oh dude it was and then like he like he like punch through the belly button and like helicoptered out the backside. It was it was gnarly dude. It was like it was like watching your tiktoks. Yeah, the fact that like their navel is their weakness seems like a pretty glaring weakness, but I guess everyone else is is their head and that is like where their eyes and everything else is so I guess it's as bad as having your head be your weakness. Well, it's yeah, it's just anybody anybody with any kind of towel proficiency like so they also cover the fact they do a little bit of my back story where we learned that my was the first one of the first two creations from the master show foo and like she was just fundamentally different from Rian and we see Rian basically destroying her navel so she can't make towel anymore and so she needs like if she uses towel she ages which was what they were trying to do with the Hoko it was like that abrification process where like the people turn into trees but they live for thousands of years and what I realized about this show and I guess more about the manga is while none of the characters are bad very few of the characters are what I would call legitimately compelling and I would find out of all of the characters in this story the most compelling are probably Hoko who was like the tree guy and my and like we get the back story of like how like he outlived all of his family and he like basically kept my around for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years because like he was trying to get her to fill the youngest daughter like whole in his heart kind of situation and I was like oh as I was watching the situation where like Hoko is giving over the rest of his life to save my eyes I was like oh yeah these are really the only what I would call genuinely compelling characters in this story it doesn't mean the other characters are bad and I don't want that to be like what I'm saying here but I was like oh in terms of like we're getting free Ryn level character development from these characters Hoko and Maya really the only ones I feel that from that's fair I mean I'm pretty compelled by like Gabi Maru and I like I like I like the dude who's missing a hand but yeah it's not like none of these characters are like you know anything remarkable it's no there's no Thorfinn in here or anything like that yeah that's the thing it's like oh Gabi Maru wants to get back to his wife the dragon guy wants to keep being a swordsman I guess Sugiiri Sugiiri is probably the closest like we get to see Sugiiri go through this like quandary about like oh I'm an executioner but like I I don't like taking life kind of thing like that kind of does the introduction to the middle way conversation about like oh those who are strong and towel or strong and Taoist beliefs kind of thing like outside of like maybe Sugiiri yeah there's just not that whole much like I just don't get that much like oh these characters are why I come back to the story it's more like the universe and that's maybe why it's such a big ensemble cast because like individually none of these characters could carry the show by themselves. Yeah I agree and the more characters there are the more horrible shit can happen to like each of them and that's like I agree the world is what keeps me coming back because the stakes are so crazy and because characters die or get dismembered and like yeah I just I love I love the island I don't love the characters necessarily. Yeah we also get in this episode we got the reveal of the second wave of snow becoming in and also the second wave of a Simon so we get the assignment number one how do you feel about it type. It's pretty it's all hype I think so it's a fuck ton of ninjas and if any of them are even close to Gabi Maru it is an insane upscale to like the fighting ability of of like the people trying to get the elixir of life what do you think is gonna happen do you think like the first exposition is gonna fight against the second one or. Yeah I think so I hope they don't stack up to Gabi Maru I like the idea that Gabi Maru is inexplicably immortal and it's just through sheer force of hatred. It's just like oh just like oh I just will not let anybody kill me until I'm ready to die. Yeah I wouldn't mind if Gabi Maru is just like overpowered because like it really works with the story because he's so nihilistic and he's so like hates his life. Yeah that's the only way that like a truly invincible character works. Yeah I think I was thinking they'll probably like fight each other and it kind of becomes like a hunger games for like the elixir of life. Yeah I mean that's kind of like the entire those kind of the entire idea in the beginning when all the criminals were just killing each other off before they even made it onto the island like Austin kills that guy with the long ear lobes kind of thing. So like that's and then like Gabi Maru fights against the giant so like they all just want to get their hands on the elixir life because they all want to be like good in with the shogun but yes we're getting highest ranking ranking out of all the assignment we're getting a bunch of snowbie the next couple of episodes in the rest of the season is going to be a ton of fun now I want to get into a contentious area here because what we have left is sentenced to be a hero. Freerun and JJ K. JJ K. I think we're both in agreement of what the best episode of this week is right. Yeah I think I think I don't think either of us as I have no question if you if we are out and not an agreement like that it would be genuinely baffling to me because one of these episodes was like avant-garde level artsy it was long it was ridiculous. You think hell's paradise this we're not hell's paradise and I don't hell's paradise or sent it to be hero is better than this week's episode of Freerun. I mean look we were tossing around words like a better as if we're crunching the numbers and like running the stats but I liked it but like the sentence to be a hero this episode blew me away. I've been if the hype of sentence to be a hero has been here I've been like probably here like I acknowledge that it's hype but I was like I'm going to need to see if the characters can like pull for me or if it's all just like flash and cool animation and this episode like my last note of sentence be a hero this episode was like oh it was like oh I think I love this episode like this blue my socks off I love the characters I love to the lore and like the philosophy being introduced and then it ends so hype why plead your case for this episode of Freerun. This episode of Freerun oh my god dude it's such a cool like it's such a cool just the premise honestly the premise of this I also I love the introduction like it's such a it's such a like masterclass in storytelling like we get introduced to the hero of the south this episode by the end of the episode he is an empathetic character who is like like integral to the development of this plot right and it's it's like there's this whole shame kind of thing where it's like Freerun knows him and he played such a pivotal role in like the defeat of the demon king but nobody else knows him like Stark who was born after the death of him will doesn't know about him like he like he knows he's going to be forgotten in the annals of time but he still does what he needs to do because he knows his actions paved the way for him oh and I find not only that the prospect of like giving your life to animatity to save like like like giving yourself over to a cause knowing damn well you won't be like remembered for his beautiful and then seeing that he is remembered in some circumstances but also the fact that he dies while fighting against somebody else who also has future sight and yet both of them still marched to their death and killed each other to me is just like a cosmically beautiful concept like I like I was just like it wasn't even as they're like obviously it's Freerun so the voice acting and the music design and the action like every single fucking every single episode has like a fucking movie level fight and even if it's like 30 seconds long you're like oh my god I can't believe but I'm watching um but like I think it was just like the premise of this episode delivered in such a way that I appreciated that I was like oh this is another Freerun masterpiece episode. I want to double back on I guess should we just talk about Freerun because you really unpacked it a lot and we don't have to say that it's because of our order. Yeah. What's it called? So did Freerun tell Himmel? I think Himmel knows about the future sight and the fact that the guy carved a path or does she tell him something that we don't get to know? I so yeah he was like when you meet Himmel tell him this right? But it was hard to tell because I don't know how the Japanese inflections work but I couldn't tell if he was like when you meet Himmel tell him this as in like tell him all of what I just told you or tell him this colon and then we don't get to hear the message for Himmel. I think he was saying tell him like this and then we don't get to hear the message for him. Yeah. Well because then Himmel looks kind of disappointed but then determined and so it could have been both and that if it's I don't mind either one like they're both good possibilities but if it's like tell Himmel everything I just told you. It adds an interesting layer to Himmel where that like brief flash of disappointment is like oh is Himmel, does Himmel want glory but is like no I can't want that like I do want to, I want to be the hero everyone says I am and I want to suppress this human side of me that's like you know what I would have liked if I was the one solely doing this. I would say that that's a cool point but like Himmel himself is very, Himmel himself is actually very like he is like he has a lot of hubris like every time we see him interacting like he's like always like very proud of himself. He knows he's attractive. He's like proud of all the statues that are made for him kind of thing and so like he does have that pride and that so I always think like well yes obviously like he had altruistic reasons to launch like the invasion against the demon king at the same time I feel as though he probably isn't the kind of person to be like oh no I should want glory. So I think maybe and this is like I said I haven't read the Freerun Manga so we're in territory that like I just don't know but I think it's probably like him being told something that will learn down the line from the hero of the south but also who's to say? Yeah, no I mean I think it is probably like tell Himmel this colon something we don't get to hear and maybe we'll hear it later down the line. I'd be interested to know if manga readers know what she said or if like they're still waiting to hear it. I just can't see a scenario where the hero of the south gets brought up again like I feel like that's such a it was such a classic like Freerun 1 episode or yeah. So yeah but anyways so yeah I just I liked what we got built out from an episode perspective wise like and I like that like it's all built out it's such a classic way for Freerun to do it right because it's like we're going to introduce this backstory arc in the beginning by just like walking up to by walking up to like a statue here but then like we have to get the sword back and like it's just like I saw this meme where it's like like every episode of every episode of Freerun is built into a fur and matted stark and then Freerun reminiscing about Himmel and like Freerun's going out to do this thing to like to like get this sword back even though it's getting stolen all the time because like if she didn't go and do it Himmel's actions would be invalidated kind of thing but man alive do I love it when Freerun starts referring to demons as it's oh I love it. You love racist Freerun. Dude I love when Freerun gets in or like we should never have listened to it or like like there's no use listening to it talk and I'm like let's go girl. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. I love that's one of the Freerun has a lot of like isms including race that I really like where she's like I love her weird obsession with like mundane and shitty spells because it makes sense that someone who essentially is immortal would want just like a spell that makes life easier like just tweaks things and then I also like oh I like anytime she gets a little bit like sassy or salty about something like I like that she's like God this kingdom specifically is always asking for ridiculous things. I can hate this neighborhood. God damn it. Yeah, I gotta hate this neighborhood. Let's get out of here. Yeah. Himmel just put. Did you like the fight? Did you like the fight against the sword demon at the end there because like it wasn't that long but I feel so like what I've and this is why I find it so funny that you call for your like a sleepy warm kind of show because every single episode we get like legitimately a movie level fight even if it is just like 30 seconds to a minute long. I liked the fight was very fine. The standout moment is Stark saving Fern that went pretty hard where he like catches the axe. Yeah, catches the axe and kind of like parries it Stark is like the coolest axe in anime. I can't stop looking at it. I don't know why it's like transfixing. I have to give you just terrible terrible news. Have you ever seen Sakura's axe? Isn't it ginormous? It's like stupid big but the worst part is yes. So so in a bunch of like you know how like sometimes at the beginning of a manga chapter they'll be like color pages or like the mongaka will just do art of like their characters and like different magazines and such like that. Kishimoto every time he does art of Sakura like not in the manga she gets some gigantic fuck off axe and it's so sick. Yeah, this is yeah, I'm really eating my words here. This is a really good axe. It's a great axe. It's a one sided axe. It's huge. There's like artwork of Sakura sitting on top of it. But also sometimes she's got two smaller axes. I'm looking at the two smaller ones. This makes her look like a fucking hell's paradise character. She looks so vicious. And I don't know why because here's the thing like like she's just punchy heel girl. There's really no reason she shouldn't have got axes. Maybe Kishimoto didn't want her being like too close to 1010 in terms of abilities but and then and then in the Narra top 99 which is like a worldwide voting thing a couple of years ago where we voted on we voted on like oh who are favorite characters are and whoever won got a spin off story. I don't know if I am and end up being Minato but Kishimoto made art for the top 21 because he wanted to include Karama and in that he gave her her axes and it's like so you know so you know what the people want you're just not doing weird weird. I mean it's not early Naruto is very weaponless like they use Kunai they're useless though and they use shuriken which are useless. I mean I mean got the executioner blade. Well but those are villains like the villains will have swords or Archimaru throws up a snake that has a sword in its mouth. Yep. Haku's got Senbon. Yeah it is almost always villains you're right. None of the main children have weapons except Tamari and 1010 unless you count a puppet. Yeah but even 1010 she throws weapons. She's not running around with like two swords. Yes. You know actually that is crazy. She never really gets in a quit like she gets the Boshu and then she's fucking brain dead. She fucking she's so stupid. Why wouldn't she run around with like a scythe or something like you're telling me all you do is throw like an equivalent of a suitcase of knives if you like what she gets a big old tornado spinning. She gets two scrolls and then she just starts from a stationary position in the air throwing weapons at somebody and it never works. That's like if the new Mortal Kombat came out and was like we gave Scorpion a new weapon it's a pillowcase full of knives. What are you talking about? He just throws it and you're like you left all the feathers in there it was solid. It's like he just throws them all at once in one big sack and it's like you don't want to grab any of these like they missed. He's talking to his weapons on the ground he's like come over here please. Please get over here. Alright so yes that episode of freedom is very good. Let's talk about sentence. I listen I have a I have a hot take here that might that might get on some toes here because you constantly talk about how popular sentences and sentences is very clearly very popular. But my hot take is sentence to be a hero is currently struggling from early onset kaiju number eight syndrome. Okay I need elaboration. I love to this episode by the way when this inevitably gets stuffed into a tiktok. I also love this episode. What the hell anytime Zailo is on screen I'm like man I wish we were with King Norgal I wish we were with like topsy up I wish we were with anybody who is not Zailo. Yeah I'm not there yet the voice acting may just be the biggest endurance for I think I think I have to switch to sub because I can't do Zailo and Dubb it's really it's not bad it's just like it's like a little itch on your back and it's like oh that annoys me a little bit. It's just Todoroki and he sounds too young for how like gruff and mature this guy looks which to sub and see how you feel but I also because I loved this episode and when it ended I was like oh no I think I just loved that because of the fucking blonde king guy and now he's gone. Yeah yeah he gets packed up dude the scene so this episode we're talking about they've gone into the they've gone into the cave basically and they find all of the miners in there and they're helping them and King Norgal is like etching like shit into their like into their shovels and pickaxes so they can fight back and it's just a big big big fight against scorpions with the Earth is their stomachs and yeah that was weird. It is it not just that is it not just like a hyper neon fucking depiction of the Earth's the Earth. It's real quick sorry someone goes Darrell Apo goes stop talking about Sentence to be a hero let it come out then judge. I can't tell if they think these episodes aren't out yet because they are it's already out or if they're like wait for the whole season to come out then judge before you talk about it. Yeah in which case welcome to a podcast. Yeah yeah we're just like like week 12 we're trying to recap the entire anime season really. Oh yeah fucking episode 6 I think I think King Norgal kiss Tatsuya was that yeah am I thinking vigilantes I don't fucking know we're going to talk about a week by week basis here. But yeah they were these weird like it did look like they had like velvet blow up Earth's in between them. Yeah like literally like felt like like felt or it's that you made in kindergarten. But yeah we also got like some light reveal about how like luminescence apparently everybody of the power system is solar charged in the sentence to be a hero universe for or something like that like and when Zyloh runs out of luminescence because he's in a cave where there's no sun is emblem goes away or something like that. Yeah that was strange. They're they're weird luminescence based because at first they talk about it in terms of like the lanterns and I'm like yeah that makes sense and then he's like me too and I'm like what. Okay like oh yeah. All right so everybody here is just like just like sucking in the sun like on their on their bare skin or something like here. They've read of the evidence the sun their asshole to fill up their power meter. It's photosynthesis so literally it just it just water water the sun and I'm making I'm over here making sugars. Yeah. Yes I also said but this this episode is obviously most heavily focused on book the miners like there's like oh these people understand that the heroes are good people and then the real MVP maybe the MVP of the season. I would say best voice acting performance I've seen yet grittiest episode craziest like one episode for a guy including the hero of the South King Norgal. My God what a hero unironically would be a fantastic King. Yeah that dude was awesome dude. What's hacking his leg off. I was like oh no I think this is my favorite episode of the week. I haven't watched I hadn't watched JJK at the time but I was like this is the best episode of the week. I think I might become the conductor of the bandwagon for this show. Dude he's like he starts trying like his leg gets mangled because the siren grabs them and it's like broken like his foot's backwards and he's trying to cut off the tendril and then listen they do such good like juicy stab physics in this show. Like if I'm like oh sentence to be a hero does one thing better than any modern anime and I'm like it's it's just the squelch of meat as a blade hits it and I love that he doesn't just lop off his leg. He's like a fucking he's like a wolf stuck in a trap like he's stabbing at his leg it takes like six cuts to go through. Oh don't dude he's hyped about it too. He's like you like get the sense that he's like no I'm living the hero fantasy right now like this is going to be awesome when I tell the fellas how I lost this leg and he's like red in the face he's like I will not die before my servant. Yeah dude he had me ready to run through a brick mother fucking he needs to be cake like he needs to be king so bad. I hope he comes back like I hope they leave this village and then in like three seasons they come back and he's running it you know like I need the one piece ending for him. Well they said they hauled them off to like the fixer they're like oh what's left of Norgao we hauled them off the fixer did you catch though when he was like falling into like the giant monster like he said like I'm going to save you nor gal or something like that like like he referred to him either referred to himself the third person or he thinks he's somebody that he's not. Let me see let me see you think it's like you think it's delusion like he'd lost blood that's what you're saying he goes. I think he's like he's like he's like talking about how he's going to save nor gal basically and I think like maybe he thinks he's king because he was like meant to protect nor gal or something like I think King Norgal is a different person he thinks that he's that person. I think he's like nor gal stay right where you are. I'm coming to save you. Yeah. Yeah I wonder if it is like he's I'm watching Mad Men and in Mad Men Don Draper spoiler takes another man's name in the Korean War or Vietnam War one of those and that what yeah. No it was the 50s Korean 70s yeah Korean War yeah. But he he's like it's him and one other dude named Don Draper and that guy dies and he swaps their dog tags because that guy was like two days away from like leaving like retiring the war and though he gets the fuck out of there. Oh my God I would have done that hard that's genius. Yeah and so a lot of the themes of the show are about Don like grappling with the fact that he is wearing another man's freedom because he should still be in Korea and peace out of there. Fuck that fucking Homer is that Simpsons meme but I'm out. Do see you later that dead guys not using his freedom like whatever I'm dying for the 42nd divide. No thank you. But what's it called they. Oh so that's I wonder if he's like telling everyone he's someone he isn't and in this moment he's like I you know telling the truth to himself someone wrote and then we'll go back to this but someone says I paid money to ask a question they didn't answer do we want to just see if there's one we missed. Yeah well before we get into JJK when we get done with the attendance we'll do another super jet. Good call. I love this shit. It's so good. I also got a huge green flag from this show. Huge huge huge green flag one of my biggest hangups outside of the fact that the goddess seemingly needed a hug a full grown man to heal him. What am I notice was like hey can we heal him from slightly further away was that like oh there's a sexy female commander but she's a bitch and that was my biggest like my biggest hangup on this show because like I would like East Akai universe loves to put a woman in a position of power and then just make her the worst person you've ever goddamn seen right and at the end of this episode like there's like some priest and like he's like oh fuck these guys these guys are heroes like why are they taking all of our credit and she's like hey listen you're hiding behind an emblem these guys actually went like went into the mine and saved all these people let them get their praise and I was like oh yeah Oh thank God we're not doing like needlessly bitchy woman in power that was a massive green flag for my enjoyment and continuation of the show. Right you're saying it's like pseudo feminism where they're like look at her strong female characters and it's just like they can shoot a gun really well but their personality is awful you're saying this is more like oh this is a well rounded three dimensional character who is tough because she's a general. Yes like literally because she's worked her way up to the highest rank in the military. Yeah I agree. No you keep going I'm just texting to thank for the super chat. No I agree that the more development she gets the better because I was also like oh she's just going to be like you know antagonistic towards the main character like in a Bakug away where it's like we need a rival so she has to hate him but I like that. Yeah she adapted the situation this whole episode was like the prove me wrong episode where it's like there was good action and the end was like spectacular action but I was like the downtime I wasn't bored during like I was in like season one of windbreaker for example or like solo leveling where it's like I'm just waiting for the next fight like this I genuinely like the characters and I like seeing their interactions you just want to see no doubt get put back together so we can get more fucking air with speeches from that man. Dude I need them to replace him with something else if the show becomes like freer in with more violence where it's like oh he goes on a mission he meets a fun character so and such happens rinse and repeat that's fine but like they may have blown all their chips on episode with nor gal 100% with nor such a good scene. But that brings us real quick. I wrote never seen something try and fail so hard to look sexy before. What was trying to fail and look sexy this fucking tree monster. I mean it's just a lumpy tree just because it vaguely looks like it has boobs that's not enough. She did have she definitely did have leaves for face she had a good case of leaves for face so that was that was tough but yeah no definitely not like the siren I jump in the water for and then the last thing touchy is clothes ripping was most 90s looking animation I've seen where he the dude who's nuts who by the way was like immune to the worms the sirens call which is sick because nuts. Yeah he just he flexes his clothes off and it's so like you see every frame of the fabric every little piece of fabric as it splits off his body I also loved him like de-steaming out like I loved him like yeah I love them turning into like a little worm boy like you like literally turn into a deflated balloon that was very funny. Yeah. All right that brings us to super chat corner. Which will be our last super chat corner until we get to the end of the podcast here which will come after JJ K. Kordy the vampire Queen said $5 and said let Dorothy know that my wife and I got the Koi fish necklaces and wear them when I'm not feeling like wearing a wedding ring love you guys to whoo she says cute and I agree it is cute. Thank you that's very nice Kordy de-bant higher Queen Zoe is here says you should do a drunk pot again love you all plus the pod we will probably do a drunk pod for our three year anniversary most likely I love probably that's our next you you guys will have to tell us when our three year anniversary is because we don't know. Darryl Oppo sent $799 in kangaroo dollars and said can you play anime fighting games and make a tournament out of it to see who is the best gamer out of all your friends and also do another family feud. Another family feud I mean that could happen sometimes the future if I just do it on me own in terms of inviting all of our friends to come play fighting games that would just be a way to boost Danny's ego that's just that's just all bad. Yeah we're not nearly on the only one good at them. We literally did I literally hosted Danny's birthday last year. Well I wasn't in town this year but I hosted Danny's birthday last year and I invited a bunch of people over to play fighting games and he just kicked the shit out of all us nobody said a yeah it wasn't fun it was no one wanted to play against me because I'm the only one who was good at it what. Stank just said three years was January 15 so last good thing I'm drunk. It's the afternoon here baby it's one we'll do when you're back. Can you check out Mop Ken's Coon says can you check out the squash it's one of my favorite and feels like nobody's ever heard about it. It's about basketball in Mechs on the moon. A squash. Why are you saying it like that how's it spelled a B a squash Oh bus squash the squash. What the fuck is this. Oh yeah there is an exclamation point. This is from 2009 and it certainly looks like it. Yeah why is there always an exclamation point at the at the end of sports anime titles here. Oh it's CGI and it's from 2009. Yeah I just saw some still frames and it looks it looks like a rough watch. Let me tell you boy is this Mac playing basketball. Yeah yeah it is on the next on the moon man the art style does look the character design is kind of sick though. I might have to make a tech talk about this or a different short form things to talk is broken right now goodness googly moogly there's a woman who looks like Bayonetta and wow wow wow. All right yeah maybe what age is this for. Yeah that's real good question. All right squash. All right lone wolf says I meant who the focus in fake specific Oh specifically is oh look who's the main character in fake probably the saber probably the guy saber I'd imagine I'm only two episodes in this I have no idea. I bugman since two dollars and says why does the name change every single week I don't know man. That's how fucking way. Oh sorry I'm being silly. Yeah yeah yeah that's how dare I welcome to bits baby. Idle gamble says kagrobachy is desperately in need of a breakdown video Nick your time has come. Listen I have a four hour flight to Hong Kong in a couple of days and then a 16 hour flight from Hong Kong to Los Angeles I'll just download like a hundred chapters of kagrobachy and get kind of that's what I did for one punchman way back in the day I'll do it again I'll do it again. The squash is on fucking nothing but squash is squash is on steel books and steel books alone baby it's all I'm where belong if it's on steel books all fucking buy that Blu-ray there's there's no way there's a squash Blu-ray. Oh you're damn right there is the complete collection $23 arrives tomorrow yes please. Let's go baby you were squashing it. I can't wait for you to get like soft drugs cigarette pod cigarette pod would be awesome. I can't wait for you to get two episodes in. Well good. I think JJK was pretty good. We'll get through our seventh anime and blow our voices out. Cigarette pod is so funny because it's so like barely barely anything. Yeah they'll be just like yeah I was getting like lightly dizzy and being like I don't I don't want another Marb gold. Yeah Daniel Arpo sent 799 kangaroo dollars and said would love if you's react to all of bridge contact like Steven reaction like Steven reaction would be great to see and Chris would love to see the jokes and Danny probably seen it. React to all of bridge content. Oh look SAO bridge and all that like Team 4 star stuff. Yeah that's cool. That'd be fun. The abridged up is always a good time. Oh 80. I don't know what that is maybe an oom la it's an O with a strike through it. I'm gonna say Adam slot since 50. God damn it. But Kuroonies. Thank you so much. God oh God. Sorry I'm looking at the squash still I couldn't see what you're doing. Well that was gross. I don't know why I did that. And I only I'll only do a cigarette pod if we can do it in your house. We'll do it. We'll do it in my we'll do it before my house gets built. We'll just like smoke a pack each and fucking in the new pod room either that or both just like a head out the window the whole time. We have a super long filter a six foot filter to the window. All right Adam slots with 50 buckaroos says why do you think most characters with space slash reality warping powers are so are so considered weaker than other characters. Examples Sukuna's divide targets the world space itself to divide but can't cut a Kame Kamehameha love y'all ATL Momo con. Momocon seems like a lot of fun. Me and Denny's have never been invited and why do I think characters with space slash reality warping powers are considered weaker. I don't I don't think they are at all space like I mean like you see some space warpers in shows like Black Clover. Like Longress and his brother whose name I should probably remember and they're considered pretty pretty powerful like space warping is always crazy. Koboye and Naruto is considered to be the strongest out of any of the monkey kill showing on abilities and Sukuna's ability to yell and cut the world itself and and go through like what would be considered conventional durability is is something that wins him a very very very important fight. And so I yeah I don't know I wouldn't say that they are weaker I'd say that they're usually pretty strong but thank you for the 50 bucks Adam Slott someone says play don't blink and the loser has to shave their beard and I'm tempted but you're naturally good at literally every game. So I don't is it just is it just not blinking. Yeah. Why are you that's not going to be good for you if you. Oh my eyes. There's so much light the problem is there's light in front of me right now so it's a real blink worthy like the stakes by his bitch says favorite fairy tale character. I don't know the flying dog. Well fucking yeah whatever moving. The. No my favorite or is this carlet come on let's be real let's be real with ourselves it's the only answer. Damon McRae says what's your favorite anime older than you as in stopped airing before you were born. Ha you you hawk. Yeah. I don't know 96 I think I think why I stopped for 96 I don't think I've watched any that stopped before 99 like genuine Dragon Balls Dragon Balls Z Dragon Balls Z first off almost the last but Dragon Balls a franchise is still super like we're not talking about super you can see Dragon Balls Z all right Z's last I feel like it was like 2001 or something right. 1996 yeah close yeah but English air date was 2003. Oh wait oh wait no horn the final episode. Okay never mind never mind yeah 96 you're right. So it's probably Dragon Ball Z for you. Yep and that oh this thing has sent four more Danny how's JJK season one recap going as the trash gamer. Still good. We talked about it on this episode already but yeah I'm enjoying it and it's better knowing that season two and three like start to get tailored more to my taste but otherwise season one is still like if I were to recommend JJK to someone I'd be like it starts slow and like not super crazy and then gets a very unique and like less generic. Yeah or R. A. J. Khevis says compliment your co-host they send to Looney's Danny's hair I'd say currently looks the most volume as I've ever seen the wolf cut was good choice the back of his hair is flaring out very nicely. Thanks your skins look really good. I have windburns active windburn yeah this was from from how much wind was on the mountain. Nicholas be as bitchy or sent another two dollars said favorite fairy tale character and now it's changed it's Lucy Hart Philia I like when they do the bondage stuff. Yeah every episode maybe put in that woman in situations. Landon is me Keck says if you're both to invent a breathing style for yourself and demons layer what would it be invent so it can't already exist. Sound really only I would be a sound breather I know I would be a sound breather but it already it already exists. So your answer is I'm not going to say anything. No I'm just I'm trying to I'm trying to build off sound breathing. Yeah yeah it's funny because it can literally be anything it's not even just elements like beast is one of them. Yes I fucking yeah it's usually love is one of them. In the yellow love is one of them. Be cool to be like. Fear breathing like will that look like that'd be kind of fun that would be you being fearful or them being fearful. It would be real it realistically me being fearful but it'd be cool to be like a Batman ask like where your whole gimmick is intimidating the shit out of your opponent. No I kind of like the inverse of that where it's like yours. It's kind of like Zenitsu where you're so afraid that you dodge really well kind of thing like that. It's like drunken fist. Yes I was going to say like maybe drunk breathing that if I can't be sound breathing maybe drunk breathing because I think that would be really fun. That'd be a really fun like possible addition to the power system vibe breathing is very funny. All right that is the end of our secondary secondary super chat corner which brings us to the big episode for the week kill Bill part 3 but make it anime. We got JJ K episode for season 3 Machi versus the Zenion clan by far and away the best episode of the week probably the best episode of the season if I had to say now that's interesting you say that Nick because not everyone agrees with you. I could 100% see how people would dislike this episode. I am not one of those people. Well because I was gonna I didn't know if you've heard about all the discourse you hear Japan specifically hates this episode Japanese viewers do not like this episode at all. I mean obviously I can't speak for every Japanese because they haven't seen kill Bill. Well it doesn't help that I bet Japanese people see kill Bill is appropriation of their cinema. That's definitely kind of the point of kill Bill but also yeah it's literally just a white woman cutting down a bunch of Japanese people. But here's some tweets by the way bash on tiktok was a big fan of myself. I don't know if you watch as a podcast or you but he made a video about this at the time it had like 300 views and I was like gonna make a video but I was like you know what I'll let him have it good for bash it's not 3 million views so fuck that guy should have taken it while I had the chance absolutely always pick the fruit when it's ripe baby hit that he goes or he was just talking about here's some tweets man by the way these are all from Japanese accounts man the way foreigners and Japanese people perceive things is seriously off base well Japanese folks are watching for the work as a whole most foreigners are just eyeing the movement so to kind of translate that these are all translated. He's saying that Japanese people are watching it for like the plot like the general artistry of the story and American viewers are just watching it for the animation. He goes on to say they completely ignore the content and go full brain dead like ooh God tier animation only hyping the visuals shit tier background music baffling original source changes random anime original additions overdone direction and Shinichi Koon Shinichi Koon casually taking a stroll while his buddies are on the brink of death that was one of my gripes personally but first off like that is like that's okay first off it's Shinichi and and and Ranta are not close and Shinichi is a very bad alright this is so interesting because it's this is this entire opinion is so interesting because it's mostly based off the fact that this person is being like oh I understand JJK better than the people then these anime only casuals and like this episode was made because anime only casuals are ruining the consumption of JJK but like being like oh Shinichi wouldn't be casually strolling up to Maki. Yeah. Yeah the fuck you like that's who he is is a character like he's open to do that in the manga that's where I want to bring this to you is like what are the manga differences and why you think let me just let me just read one more. I don't mean to interrupt you but I feel like it could be good if I read off a few and you synthesize. This sucks Mapa seriously fucked up this scene by not sticking to the manga and making it stupidly confusing. I'm never forgiving them for real the disappearance reaction scene is clearly it's a little cut off but with the dialogue and cuts not lining up. Oh it's clearly off with the dialogue and cuts not lining up. It's turned into something completely different from the manga just make the anime normally for fuck's sake. I don't. Okay so basically their complaint is that the fight isn't being orchestrated in the same way as it's being orchestrated in the manga right. Yeah. But like did they want did they want like a flashing sequence of panels to. I can't I don't know I can't argue what they wanted because I don't know what it's like in the manga but there's I saw a couple there's a bit where it shows toji like overlaid on top of Maki and in the manga that's like two separate panels and it does look cooler in the manga it's not like like it looks like they matched two panels together and made it more artsy. Uh huh. But yeah it's interesting someone in the comments also wrote Japan hated season one of chainsaw man and it's so weird because it's like. It's like I'm watching these anime becomes so artsy and experimental and like a typical of what shonen and sainine usually looks like again exemplified by the fact that season one of JJK feels way more standard and like a generic in presentation not narrative but in presentation and now it's getting more experimental and I thought that's like Japan's influence like I thought that was a bunch of like art head Japanese directors being like but but it is like they very much did like they very much did this thing where it was like they brought in for this episode a bunch of freelance like animators who have worked on like the highest level of like mob psycho MHA JJK like it was like a proverbial all star cast of animators who worked on this episode and so like obviously you're going to get like artistic you're going to get like the artistic flair like there's cubes there's molten laser beams there's like there's like you can like point out individual moments like oh that's that animator that's that animator that kind of thing so obviously they're going to interject like what they identify is like they're artistic like approach to this episode but at the same time like yes it is also the director but all the people included in that decision are all Japanese Japanese yeah so it's interesting that like the Japanese audience isn't into it like I would have thought the American audience wouldn't be into it and they'd be like this is so weird and why are we getting all like artsy and shit with it I mean I listen I'm so the fight between Maki and the Zenion clan kind of takes place between chapter 148 up to I believe like chapter 152 fundamentally nothing I've seen like up until OG's death is different and like there isn't that really like there isn't really like drastic what could be identified as like drastic changes like it's it's mostly like even the floor and like the layout that Maki fights against like because that's the thing is like this not only this isn't just a kill bill reference from the anime side it's a kill bill reference from Gege Akatami the Mungaka like it's very much like fighting like they're supposed to be the crazy 88 the cooker is supposed to be the crazy 88 and there is as far as I can tell literally no obviously some of the animation is different like they're adding a couple of additional scenes making the fights a little bit longer but like the only thing that they really change like this is how the manga looks right here when this is what the manga looks like this right here like Gege when he got rushed into certain chapters like didn't put out and this is why I always say that like oh JJK is a fundamentally better anime than it is manga because like well a lot of like the page before this looks like a very like these are very standard right this is very very good looking yeah and then you just scroll to pages and once you get to this is like what one piece looks like when you see Otis like what he sends to his assistance where it's just like barely an outline of Luffy and they turn in this like hyper detailed thing yeah and so this is the scene where Ranta is holding down Maki right Ranta is holding on Maki right here he is so the leader of the cook crew she kills individually and then also she kills Chodro who's another member of the he a that old guy but like she just like snags both of their throats right they add on like the sword hitting this guy in the back of the head and then like Chodro attacks are individually in the anime right so like they technically gave more screen time to both of these people in terms of the fight but like they're both killed in incredibly low resolution ways that aren't like what a lot of people would identify is satisfying for he a or any of them and like this right here is Ranta holding them down and like Ranta is yelling Ranta is yelling at at Genichi he's like hurry up I can barely hold her kind of situation and like yeah like does Genichi or a farm on the way up no not really but also he doesn't jump in when everybody else jumps in like everyone else jumps in before him just two pages before we're seeing all of them stand side by side so like it's not crazy to assume that he would saunter up because that's kind of person that he is so like I don't know like it's very funny to me to be like oh these anime only casuals and these Americans trying to enjoy this IP aren't enjoying it correctly when it looks better than the manga and it's being made by Japanese people. Yeah I know it's very interesting but alright let's how how do you feel about the episode let's get to the episode it's incredible the episode's fucking fantastic it's it's almost it's like I said we like we said from a couple of these episodes from like season three of JJK it's almost avant-garde with how artsy it is like that opening sequence and they changed it and I sent a photo into the OA group chat when I was watching it I was like I'm 30 seconds into the episode and they're doing like a paper door slide scene where we see now yeah we see over now your shoulder and Machi's framed in the door and now you just like leaning outside the backside of the window and he's got a foot up on the piano and I'm like I can't explain why this is artsy as fuck but I like when I watch something and especially when I'm watching something for work and I'm like being more critical about what how I'm watching it I'm like oh that looks good like that just looks it makes me happy to see that and the sequence of now you're like playing the piano with his foot very Tarantino-esque it's awesome it's it's dripping in Kill Bill references it's I love sorry I love the shot in that same shot where you know she's coming into the building or whatever into the room the reverse shot is like a window right behind him and it pans up and he's like remember how he's to like bully you when you were a kid and it pans up and then it shows him doing that like out in the field and I was like oh that's fucking spectacular that's really good it's such a cooler way to show a flashback to have it like like oh there's where it was then like cut to like them when their kids and do it in a very traditional way like that is very clearly like a direction choice and like and it makes it feel almost like it makes it feel almost more personal because you're far away and you can't even see what's happening so it lets your imagination do the work for you. Yeah, yeah well it also is like reminiscent of like a memory right like you remember the shape of it but you don't have like the details necessarily. Yeah and then like I said and listen if you have a problem with the direction of this episode like this episode is dripping in direction like it is absolutely dripping in direction the fight between Maki and Oji like their first fight her father the very classic like it's all dark and then the sparks of their blade like lighted up which is a very like I think seven like seven Samurai's thing to do. Oh I don't know. It might also be Kill Bill but like Kill Bill obviously is inspired by like the seven Samurai's and all of the classic Japanese like like Samurai films but like Ronan films that kind of thing but like very classic I love the decapitation of Oji Maki and Mai's backstory. You understand what's happening with the identical twins bit. 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Cursed energy or not cursed energy like some other term I thought they're stealing it from each other and so one can't fully have it if they're both alive so she sacrifices herself to essentially give Maki a power boost like a no Maki in style power boost. Yeah like a few like a fuse kind of thing. Yeah it's pretty close so identical twins are identified as the same person through the medium of jujitsu jujitsu by yes that's what I was like yeah by jujitsu they're like it's the same person twice and so it's like it's a bandwidth is getting sucked up by both of them. So Maki can't be cursed energy list which would give her the highest level of heavenly restrictions like toji until Mai takes the curse energy with her which is why she kills herself by making a giant sword for Maki to use the dragon bone for Maki to use in combat against all of the zenith it's such a and then and then they kind of do this in the manga a little bit but you they cut up from the beach and you see two birds flying behind like two geese flying behind the pack and like if you know why geese fly in a V it's aerodynamics they create pockets for each other which means like if you fly in the front like you're technically like that goose is taking like the most like it takes the most of that goose to fly but if you're not flying in the V you're not like it's harder for you to keep up kind of thing and so the whole the whole like like ideal or not like the like what they're trying to show you there symbolically is like oh Maki and Mai are the birds flying behind the V of the zenith clan and so like now now that like Maki or now that Mai is gone Maki can like join or destroy the V kind of thing and so that's that's such a such a cool scene and man it's just everything about everything about the fight sequencing is so good. I love the sequence of Maki sliding on the blood. Yeah just just slipping just literally not moving just sliding through the guy who gets his like somebody's arms get cut off and then the sword falls into the head of the other guy. One of my favorite kills maybe ever. Dude this this episode like I said felt like unrecognizable from even this own like its own season. Yeah because this fight felt unlike any other fight we got in jujutsu kaisen at least when she's like doing all the sword play with the crazy 88 yeah it felt so much more grounded like the movements of her felt like realistic like you can film this in live action because it's it already happened but like you know what I mean I feel like it we haven't really seen someone use weapons in a way that feels this realistic we've seen toji sharpen the whatever it's called Maki's previous yeah playful cloud and use it like a fucking like you know deity but this was like you see the blood trails realistically splatter where that was my favorite little detail every swing was a crescent moon of blood on the ground. Yeah it just felt so grounded and then in the second half we get a Naruto shippuden fight so you're really getting a whole spec to that guy does a fucking jujutsu the dude does like this and then makes a big fist come out of the ground he does alchemy he literally does alchemy and then he tries to squash her with his fucking stone column jerk hands and everyone's like got her and then jokes on you didn't got her. Yeah man it is nuts I I thought the battle against the head of the kukuru clan was really funny like the head of the crazy 88 with the pompadour he like stops her blade he gets like disrespected in the manga he actually stood a much better chance in the anime but like the blade flying back around and then spiking him in the back of the head that was incomprehensible one of my notes is I can't even come four times I don't know how it happened I don't I don't know how it happened. I was like I can't even comprehend how she's killing these three guys. Yeah cuz like Chodoro she just snags the throat out of his lies by and then the leader of the crazy 88 like yeah that sword just flies around and like does she have gravity powers now like that is that is my one qualm with that is that right that like 30 second sequence where she kills Chodoro in a flash and then that guy dies from like boomerang blade. I couldn't tell if she threw it and then there was like a blast like she kicked him and the shockwave of that blast pushed the sword back like something like that like it was positioning that was crazy. I love the big hand. Yeah. Ginichi's Deku Barrage. Yeah. Did you know you're talking about you're talking about the big stone hands. I'm talking about like the I'm talking about like the the the barrage of like gigantic fists. Yeah. Oh that was so fucking hard. I forgot about that. That was awesome. I love that one dude bleeding from every orifice. Yeah. Yeah. Ranta Ranta just like bleeding from his eyes in his mouth and he's like he's like don't worry about me. Janichi and Janichi just fucking isn't. That's what's sick about JJK is that for better or for worse it feels like there should have been nine seasons in between season one and two because like it feels like out of nowhere we are getting like God tier level characters fighting and there's like almost feels like there's no build up to that like watching. I want to episode 12 of season one and Yuji's biggest attack is still a uppercut that's just a bit stronger than Mike Tyson's you know and it hits it hits one and a half times. Yeah. And now we've got like six guys doing stuff that would kill your average Naruto character trying to kill one Maki. Yes. And and like and then like you got a note that like oh by the way she also hunted down everybody else who was left in the Zeny clan. Yeah she eradicated their whole bloodline that was sick and then how'd you feel about the fucking doge like six times. Um where she melted that guy's skull. The four different angles on now. Yes I do we got a fatal we got a Mortal Kombat fatality X-ray of his skull evaporating nuts and then he's alive. Yeah just like half of his face is just mush and he's just crawling to somewhere to God knows where and yeah now yes voice actor is incredible. I also love like the conversation around like Maki like Maki is getting beat up by all of now yes punches and she's counting every single one of his movements and she's like oh like it's like oh she's gotten so fast and so much more perceptive that she can count those 24 movements in one second. Yeah it's weird that now he has gone. He's in three episodes. Yeah yeah um yeah that's I mean he's he was the head of the Zeny clan and now the Zeny clan is no longer. It's just again Juju Tsukai's and really moves it's such a clip like yeah you just can't get attached to characters if the character is not actually even if a character is mained to the story you really just cannot get attached to the characters a lot of people a lot of you actually know you want to know why Japan doesn't like this episode. Why yes it was ranked in the top five at the end of the manga and of the manga as most popular characters in Japan. Now yeah now yeah number five. He must well when you he comes back I like no he comes back because you are so bad even this face is like the least believable face anyone's ever made when I was like it's weird that he's gone. I have no idea what you're talking about. I have no idea what I have I have the best poker face in the history of poker faces but his death is awesome. I love I love Maki like doing a loose like a like a like a shallow slit on her mom's throat and her mom being like like her mom also hating the Zeny clan and being like no actually I am proud of you and then using like her last breath to stab now yet to death awesome so good so yeah out of 10 what would you give the episode. Yeah I like I guess it has to be a 10 like it really there was nothing lacking even as like because I'm not again I'm doing my rewatch of season one I'm not on unbelievably attached to Maki considering most of my knowledge of JJK right now is from season two and she's like barely in it. As like just a little bubble episode where it's like this is all going to be about Maki and the Zeny clan and her relationship with her sister this got me to care and also it's like the sickest and most entertaining fight of the season. It's so good of the year technically. Oh this is easily the best fight of the year and I think I think it'll probably stand up to be the best fight of the year for the rest of the year. I don't know I'm sure we're getting some crazy shit from Fire Force and some crazy shit from Freeran maybe so or more JJK or more JJK. There was some fun fights coming up in the Cullin games. Yes. So I'm also I got to give it a 10. It was it was like I said it was avant garde level arts. He was fucking incredible. But yeah that that that's all we got from anime. This week I have a little bit of Best Boy News. All right. What go on. You said okay hold on my Best Boy News my best boy this week is Black Tiger sex machine. They are a they are a hand. They are a dubstep group that are inviting me to come interview them about their manga in March and I am a huge fan of their music so I'm going to get to meet them their big weebs their big big dubstep producers very excited to meet them so come March I'm going to be reviewing their new manga Omen so shout out to BTSM. Yeah I got a I got an email from them. They didn't ask me to interview them but they were like we'd like to send you our manga and you know if you like it make a video on it and I did respond because I was like what's this fucking dubstep ass manga. Yeah dubstep ass manga they're talking about here. That's sick. That's very excited. I'm big big fans of them and I apparently they're excited to talk to me so I'm very excited about that as well. What is that March you want to recap your best boy even though we talked about it earlier. That's okay. This is an especially long podcast so far already cool. All right then we will close off our podcast with our last and final super chat corner we got five by the way real quick real quick we have news Dragon Ball Super has been confirmed to be getting a remake and it's continuing. Yes and a new game is coming out and the one to do about no Toriyama. Oh wait I'm not sure how super anime continuing or it's manga because the manga is not done either all of it. It's they're doing one piece so it's getting a remake the anime is continuing the manga is continuing. Holy shit and a new game is coming out that looks weird as I'm assuming the I'm assuming the editor I'm assuming one of Toriyama's editors will probably take it over. Probably I hope it's the guy who hates all anime currently releasing that I also oh my god yeah yeah I'm actually now remembering exactly you're talking about yes he's like I know Dragon Ball the guy worked on that's truly the best manga of all time. The guy was like the reason attack on Titan is a failure is because it's because they never showed Aaron's dick when he was little that's that's how you make a good universe come on Aaron never had a woman on the on the on her on her on her mom's pubis to see if she had a dick like him. That's good. All right we're gonna our love letters is going to be our final super chat corner here our last five. We got maximum winter says Hanna can tell you got a question for you do you both have any new hot takes regarding anime and if so what are they. My newest hot take would probably be what I said earlier that I think sentence to be a hero was infinitely more interesting when Zylo was not on screen. Yeah I mean if I have any hot takes like I'm I've said you know like they'll you'll find them on the podcast. We don't keep those ones in those those are not inside thoughts for us unfortunately. Black magic says I enjoy the kill bill fight but it just wasn't what I wanted. I wanted fluid long shot Corio kind of like moderate intro the jar versus the jarring Jubby cuts. Yeah I understand that I understand that 100% like the Corio was definitely very like like oh look a sword's over there now and she's get she's throwing a sword and it's spiraling through people is definitely very choppy but that's kind of just how JJK's leaned towards in the last in the last two seasons. I disagree. I 100% disagree when Yuji and Chozo are just doing a fucking good old fashioned Irish pub brawl and it's all hands and it's all this. No it's JJ this is like more frenetic and choppy than like JJK was season 2. So I get why people are annoyed but the same time it's like I like that this is like something new like you still get that good Corio you get those six shots of like where she's doing a lot of this differences. It's just like sword Corio. Yeah that that is exactly we get a lot of that we get some of that look in the battle against OG the set work is not second battle against OG but yeah. All right Cameron Spencer since $20. It says a huge fan of the pod popping in to say hi by the way if you ever have a slow season and need something to watch. I think you'd both love Psycho Pass if you haven't seen it it's written by the same guy as Madoka Magica. I've heard great things about Psycho Pass. I have that on steelbook on Blu-ray I plan to watch it at some point but before then I got to watch Busquash so. Busquash is a first dog but thank you for the $20 at the very last of you. Thank you. The trash gamer sends five loonies and says it's my head can and the dude Maki one inch punch didn't die he just gave up. I would I fucking I wouldn't have been in the room to begin with that being said Maki literally hunts down everybody who's not there at the Zendian compound so even giving up probably isn't your best strategy. Ethan or if says did you guys see Mr. Beef trying to prove he's an anime fan also very Nick random but everyone in the chat is talking about your eyes being pretty thank you I very long eyelashes very green eyeballs. I appreciate you guys saying that Mr. Beast is an anime fan I know at least he likes Naruto quite a bit. I don't know I didn't see anything about him trying to prove it though. Wait here's a tech talk is Mr. Beast an anime fan a fake anime fan. I mean I think if anybody out there would fake being an anime fan for like a user money it be Mr. Beast is greed incarnate when it comes to content. Yeah he roasted entire one piece fandom for being too critical. I mean I don't know who fucking who gives a shit if he's like you know an encyclopedia of anime or not like if you like just one anime if he likes more than one anime is a fan of anime right like yeah that's as long as you like a plural anime why are we why are we gatekeeping or truly we're truly not let that let that man let that man leave that's all it matters keep it keep the space as inclusive as possible even if it is content creator you don't like alright that's all we got this week ladies and gentlemen we appreciate you guys checking in for another week of a talk is anonymous we love each never see one of you so so very much and we will see you guys on the next one bye. Bye.