2026 Is The Greatest Year For Anime EVER?? - Otakus Anonymous Episode #147

I have some terrible news for you. I got you some gizbots and I have no idea where they are. I was like, dude, where I was opening my suitcase the other day and I was like, where did this chain come from? Where does where does silver chain come from? And I was like, oh, no, the gizbot box is open. And I can't find the gizbot box all my clothes. That's how I know the gizbots that I buy are authentically made in America because you can't get them past the Chinese border. Honestly, the centigrade, the second it passes over the border. What if it was customs? Customs understood that the great secrets of the gizbots aren't allowed to leave the wonderful country of China. That's it. That's exactly it. Do you have a code? Wild. Somebody just said I'm fired up, brother. I am. So usually, so usually this little peak behind the curtain here for everybody to check it in the early part of this podcast here. Usually I have a little bit of G fuel before these podcasts so I can get amped up. I'll call them toe juice. And unfortunately, I didn't bring any of that with me. So I've been drinking coffee to get myself hyped up. However, I have no idea how to make used coffee machine in this building. I'm in a house inside of Whistler. So I Uber-eat some C4 to me yesterday, the pre-workout. And usually when you get like a tub of crack cocaine powder, there's a little scooper in there so you can regulate how much crack cocaine powder you have every single time you want to drink it. But no scoop in this tub. Did you dig around? Sometimes they're at the bottom for some reason. I was two and a half knuckles deep scraping through. I was literally the space ball meme. I was combing the desert. And I was the guy with the mini comb. I was the guy with the fro pick. Anyways, so I'm half of our I guarantee you the vast majority of our audience did not get that joke. Anyways, I got it. I've seen space ball. God, didn't they make a second one? Kind of like a spinal tap. They're making a second one. It turns out Mel Brooks is making it. And he is 99 years old. You think that guy knows what funny is at this point? There's going to be a fucking chicken, a rubber chicken gag in that movie. I guarantee. That is insane. Why would he be the person that does he need money that badly at 99? What age does Social Security stop paying you? What a swan song. Is there an age? Social Security? Anyways, so on the back of this thing, it said nine grams. That's the recommended thing. No scale in the house. So I had to eyeball nine grams of, nine grams of powder like I'm in peak scar face hours here. But I'm feeling a little, feel a little hummed up. You should have just done like fun dip style where you like wet your tongue a little and then you just dip your tongue in. The problem is then, but then the whole tub is compromised. Right. Well, and sticking your fingers not doing that. Sticking my fingers. Well, the fingers were dry. That's the thing. It's like if it's a tough powder, as long as you're not sticking wet things in there, you're going to be all right. I see. I see. So I could pour a bunch out on a plate and just get to lick it or something like that. Yeah, I got Nick. What do you mean Nick lives? Of course I live. Nick lives. I'm here. I'm here in Whistler, Canada. It's the worst skiing conditions I've ever seen. Everyone too much snow or not enough snow? No, it's too much snow in a seco and now it's literally raining here. It is hideous. Damn, that's tough. Yeah, it's real bad. It's real, real bad. I've just been literally, I should have three hour nap. Just woke up. Well, the reason I texted you telling me I was going to be two minutes or 10 minutes late is because I woke up like a fucking bomb alarm went off. I climbed myself out of the couch that I was asleep on. I want to be home so badly. Yeah, well, let's let's let's get into her. Let's get into the podcast. 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Another peaked week in terms of a bunch of anime coming out. A bunch of really fun stuff, but also a couple of slower episodes here. A couple of conflicting episodes in terms of like morally how I feel as though I'm supposed to feel about them. But we've been approaching talking about these episodes on a on a ranking basis here recently over the last couple of weeks here. Just we have so much to talk about. And I, man, I feel bad that it keeps. I was going to say, I feel bad it keeps going to the bottom of my list here. Vigilantes. I don't even know if it is going to be in the bottom of my list because Vigilantes performed another relatively fun episode. Yeah, let me see. I like doing this over zoom because I get to just pull up the episode that I have. Remember, and just and just what you literally should have watched it yesterday when it came out at the very at the very earliest. I did. I did watch it. Oh, yeah, he goes on it. You know what? This is probably the bottom one. This has some good highs. This has some good highlights. And it is fun. It's not as fun as the previous episode. But I think the next week's episode is supposed to be like a banger. Did you see what arc we're starting? No. I think next week we're starting I saw a school days arc. So we're about to get even less of the thing we've been hoping for, which is the main characters of Vigilantes. And it's just now a my hero like prequel story. Well, it's already a my hero prequel story. Boy, hold up. So we're going. We're going. Yes, we're going to Izawa, present, Mike's and then Corey Geary's backstory, where they're like high schoolers for a little bit. And then also in this episode, yeah, also in this episode, Koichi did the grand total of being bad at group dating. And that was literally it. And then there were to be. All right, first off, what was happening with the dog at the end of the episode? Why was he being chased by a gigantic mascot headed dog? I don't know what this is. My memory must have confused this with a fire force. Fire force also has a big fucking giant mascot headed dog. Yes, it was three of them. Yeah. Because I don't know what's happening. You're correct. This entire episode was basically boiled down to two things and two things alone. And like, listen, it was fun from like a from like a I like the idea that we're like, oh, trying to investigate where these drugs are coming from. So we're doing like legitimate police work. And we're like, hey, listen, we've strung together that a bunch of these college students are essentially all being drugged in like this ring girl is the most the girl who raises the most red flags. And then you find out that it's because like her best friend has a bunch of feelings for or something or just like a jealous person. So she's drugging all these people that RIN's constantly inviting out. Like what is that? Is this a thing in Japan where somebody's just constantly inviting strangers out to drink with each other as like the great connecting web spider? I think so. I think maybe I also couldn't tell if they were doing like a lesbian story a little bit, because at one point, Miss Midnight, who I think is the first time we see her in the series. I think so. It means a whole lot more now that we know that like canonically, she dies in six years. But Miss Midnight shows up and she goes, I'll always be an ally to lost souls like you. And I feel like the word ally is like specifically chosen. Oh, you know what I mean? Like in the in the classic Japanese subtle way of being like we're doing like gay character, but we can't say it's a gay character. So you're saying that the Hana and RIN situation was like two gay characters or at least like an unrequited love situation. Yeah, I think maybe like it's not really explored enough for it to like super matter like or for it to be like, oh, this is like a gay story or like gay theme happening in this little arc. It's more just like, oh, I wonder if that's the situation that's going down, but they have to be cheeky about it because of sensors. I love the idea of them finally doing a gay story at MHA, the thing that everyone's been clamoring for for nearly a decade. And and the only one who's clearly displaying like lesbian interests is a serial is a serial date rape like, but like super powers like con artist. Yeah. Well, that's also why I was hesitant to be like, oh, is this the show's first lesbian? Yeah. Yes. Is it finally your representation? And then she's like, if anybody talks to this woman, you're getting super powers and there's nothing you can do about it. Oh, imagine hitting on a woman so hard, you just start shooting laser beams out of your body. I know no one knows why they're suddenly getting wiggle fingers. Listen, I'm sorry. But if I if I went out on a party with a girl and for some reason, my quirk was the strongest it's ever been after a couple of drinks with her. I'm texting her again in the morning. Yeah. Yeah. Like, oh, hey, if we keep hanging out, I'm going to kill all my like I need. I need this ball to keep rolling. That's so that's so true. But yeah, so he goes on this date and there's kind of like a funny gag where Koichi is just like not charismatic at all. And not getting any of this. I also love at one point they she's trying to get Koichi to drink this drug. And so she's like she's brought over like a bunch of beer and he's like, oh, don't worry, I don't drink. I'm underage and she's like, well, I got Pepsi and I also have ginger ale. And the other guys are like, hey, if Koichi is not going to take that ginger ale, like I'll I'll I'll slurp that up. I love a ginger ale. Oh, I'll grease that thing right. Slide it down the table. It's just like, I'm not I'm not worried about you. Yeah, like the two guys are instantly like, oh, we were going to drink beer because we thought that was the only option. Give me a ginjussi. This is this is the most you've ever felt seen by an anime of all time. Everyone's like, Danny beer. And you're like, how is the Shirley Temple sound to everybody? Oh, Shirley T. Extra C. Yes, please. Extra C. What is extra cherry's dog? A Shirley T. A Shirley T. With extra C for my tummy makes me go, yeah. You get extra cherries inside. Are you are you kicking your little are you kicking your little toesy woesies off the high off the high chair while you sip it? I'm not. But I do with each cherry. I like put it on the edge of my lips and I go. You know, I suck it. Would you suck it in? Just go straight to the back of your windpipe. Because if they sometimes they give you one cherry, which is like a fire able offense, like that's ridiculous. A Shirley T. Comes with three cherries, no more, no less. I want five. Oh, three cherry. Shirley T. Is the funniest thing I could see a date potentially order at like at like a nice restaurant. Dorothy loves Shirley Temples. I don't think I've ever seen her get one more. She know, cherry. Bad restaurant didn't know this. Did when you brought it when you said extra C, I was like, he doesn't know how to spell gratitude because I didn't even I didn't even consider the fact that cherries were in Shirley Temples. No, you need cherries. You absolutely need cherries. My ideal is five, but three is the minimum. What a whimsical. What a whimsical life you listen to. She's drinking red wine. You know, the 20 year bottle. Give me a give me more sugar in my sprite and your most whimsical straw, please. I do a bit in my heated rivalry reaction where oh my God, how's that going? Good, pretty good. It was great. I finished the show. I just am like staggering the releases weekly, but the season's awesome. But I did a I do a bit where Shane, one of the main characters, only drinks ginger ale. Like that's his drink of choice. And he's like at dinner with soda. He's. Ginger ale is a great drink with bad marketing. Everyone thinks it's a medicine because of moms were like, this is anti bad tummy. Oh, it's medicine, airplane drink and also great with saltines, and that's it. It's great. But anyway, so he likes ginger ale and his parents are like, Shane, come on, you're old enough to get to get a wine. And he's like, I just don't want one. And they're like, I'll take the chablis. And I was like, there's no way this grown man is acting like a chablis is a more mature thing to say at a restaurant than ginger ale. What the fuck is a chablis? I don't know. It's a wine or something. I drink Shirley temples. You think I know the fucking. I used to drink hot cocoa as my date drink of choice. You've literally you've literally given yourself like bladder issues via hot cocoa ingestion. You are not the you're not the Somalia we're all looking for. But anyway, yeah, this episode of vigilantes also, but we get a nice little like moment of a bunch of teens just like jamming on a guitar. Do you remember these characters? It was it was it was very like, fuck, what's the what's the really sad anime movie about music? You're lying, April. It was like very like everyone hanging out in like a hospital room, just like trying to figure out how to jam on like a G chord. And I was like, oh, this is like weirdly human. I know the second I saw it, I was like, oh, this is very. And then like seven anime came in my mind. I was like, this is Angel beats. This is Bochi the Rock. This is new kids on the block. This is a blue giant. I also loved that. Well, first off, blue giant jazz. So let's pump the brakes there. Not a singular, not a singular guitar. It was harmed in the filming of Blue Giant. It's given then. Oh, it is. Well, I mean, it's unfortunately there's less man on man than in given. But I was I was I was laughing at that scene, though, because like the fucking like, I don't know, knife hands guy starts playing like a G.C.A. riff and everyone's like, yo, that was so I was like, this is the this was like the lowest bar you needed to clear to be considered impressive. I've ever seen. Yeah, they're like, dude, you have to tour. No one can do what you just did. I mean, considering the fact that just trying to pull off a G chord literally sent one of them into paralysis, somebody strumming together, three of them would probably be like a Jesus walks on water kind of situation. I thought she was recovering from paralysis. Like, I think she's in physical therapy. Well, she's in the hospital, but I thought it was like her hands couldn't do it. I think I think it's because her body was bees. Her body was briefly bees. Yeah, they're her body was bees for months. And therefore, like now that her body is not bees, her muscles of atrophied, she's like, I can only do the B chord. I can only I'm the humming's not coming from the guitar. It's coming from the bees that are left inside me. Come on, Jane, try that song used to play. You would not believe your eyes. Ten million bees. Damn it. Jane, her fucking iPad comes out shooting bees out like a seahorse, like giving birth, like it's just like shots. I'll be a fucking nightmare. I also I want to bring a book. I want to bring a question from this episode, because I have a I have a moral quandary with the show. Do we think and I'm not saying, oh, does like does this add to the show in any way whatsoever? I'm asking morally, is it OK to have pop step? Like, obviously, crushing on Koichi, like when like she's, I think, 14 to 15. And he's somewhere in the region of 19. That's like, here's like, and the reason I believe that it's a morally confusing question is because Koichi never reciprocates whatsoever. So it's never like there's nothing wrong with a 14 year old or a 15 year old having a crush on a 19 year old. Like God knows I fucking did it. I had a crush on my sister's older friends. Is that a weird addition? And like more than that, is it a morally incorrect, incorrect addition into the show? I it's funny because this is the episode that also had me wondering that because we've talked before where we had the same stance where we're like, oh, well, yeah, as long as Koichi is not reciprocating, then it's just like a part of being a kid. Like everyone, most people who have like older siblings have like had a crush on that older siblings friend like I also did when you're like way too young. I had a friend who was like or my sister's friend was always like, oh, I love your brother. He's so cute. This and that. And like that's very fun when you're like six to 10. But once you're in like the 13 year old range, you're like, so like, what are we then? You know, I literally had to sleep over one time at my friend's house and his sister was like two or three years older than us. And she was like, oh, you're my boyfriend for the night. And I was like, OK, I love you. I love what's your ring size and also do you have money to allow me to buy you a ring? I'm not allowed to legally work yet. Yeah, right. And both of these are examples as to why the older person cannot reciprocate or like even play a hundred percent, which is why it's great. Koichi doesn't. But yeah, I agree where it's like on the flip side of that. I guess this does kind of normalize the idea of like. Of like younger people having crushes on older people, which then if they're not careful could get them crushing on people who will reciprocate like hundred percent and dangerously. So it's like, I guess the issue is like if you normalize that and just make it like a cute little thing, then a kid may accidentally like you're like, oh, like go to an older person and be like, you're my boyfriend now and that dude may accidentally or not accidentally, but like unknowingly to that younger person, be a freak and be like, OK, you're my girlfriend now. You know? Yeah. Yeah. So that's the thing is like I was watching it and I was like, it was just the whole thing was throwing me off. And I was like, I guess this is fine. I can relate to this experience a little bit. You know what I can't relate to? A girl whipping off her girl, whipping off her cozy little sweater to reveal some lingerie whose skin puts an entire bar of people to sleep. You know what midnight's about. I know what Miss Midnight's about. And honestly, in my notes, I said, it's good to finally see her using this on adults. That was that was that was the silver lining here. I was like, you know what? Help everyone in here. This is a bar. It's good enough. This is good enough. It's as good as we're going to get. Yeah. I agree. Well, it's funny, too, when they're like, it's more effective on men, which it just means there is a delay because then it knocks her out. Yes. Which I guess it's like in a in a crime world that's probably majorly affected by like male villains, probably probably more effective that way. I mean, it is kind of funny that it's like that it's more effective on men because it's like, oh, they're just looking at her and they're just like, OK, I'm going to go to sleep now. I'm just it's interesting. It's interesting that she doesn't have to like wear a mask. Like she should be a masked character, like because she's always got skin showing. So if are you always a little bit drowsy around her? Because that's often it's not even like either either you should always be drowsy around her because she'll just rip it off of her like forearm. So it's just any skin or they should make it like she has to rip it off of her armpits or something because that's where her like pheromones are coming from. In true, it would be awesome if Miss Midnight had like a luchador mask, like a full like a full cowl situation. She literally had to like, yeah, like like unmask herself and it was just like straight shots out. That'd be awesome. Yeah, I guess it is kind of objectively silly. It's just like her arms. Like how does that like how do you just always wear in long sleeves? I know. Yeah, I you just you fix that by putting her in like a full body suit and then full body, full body green man suit. And she's just with slices off and she walks down the street. All right, that's probably it. It should be zippers to right? Give her a zipper based suit. That's so because you're absolutely right all through at MHA. Whenever she's using her quirk on somebody, she's just ripping her shirt. Every single time she's just ripping open your hunt, you're 100 percent right. It should be zippers. Why the fuck is it not zippers? Let me write it. Let me write this shit. A little, unfortunately, a little late. But, you know, next time they want to do next time they want to do MHA is the story that they got you. Yeah. Yo Kai says I think she could turn off and on her quirk. That makes a lot of sense. That actually solves it instantly. I was just saying, how does she change in shower? Alone, she doesn't knock herself out. That's fair, I guess. But like, damn, actually looking like Miss Midnight and being like, it's like, it's like Rouge or Rogue or Rogue or what's the one rogue? Yeah, she touches people and they die basically. I was like, imagine, look like Miss Midnight and being cursed to making anybody you're ever around sleepy. Yeah, it's a real nightmare. All right, what would we say comes after vigilantes here? I got to remember what happened. Fire Force was pretty cool. Fire Force, they fight a mega evolved unknown. Freerans, they go to a hot spring. I think maybe Freeran, right? Like this was a slow episode of Freeran. Right. There's good bits in it. But is it? Oh, wait, no, I, you know what? The fact that I keep forgetting Hell's Paradise exists probably means it's that, right? Hell's Paradise is a bit. No, but this was good. This was cool. I like this episode. I'm going to say sentence to be a hero. What? What? I think this is my one of the week. I'm such a sentence to be a hero, Glazer at this point. What do you mean? You're what? Is your golden buzzer? I think I just if I were to play some, I think sentenced or maybe Hell's Paradise is at the top. Hell's was good this week. Hell's was good this week. Hell's was very good this week. Sentence was very good this week. We'll talk about sentence to be a hero because you're afraid to say it was Freeran. It's not Freeran. It'll never be. It'll it'll never logistically. That's how I never be Freeran. That's how I know I can't trust your opinion. That's I might have. I might have some bias. I might know what the Freeran community is a capable of. You know, somebody's got a I'm like the soldier standing over. I cannot lift this arm all day. Well, I'm the soldier standing over your bed with all the instead of knives. It's just a bunch of Freeran staves. It's not that the Freeran episode was bad. It's just out of all of the episodes of this week. I think I know what the other is. You know what? You know, I'll give it to you. About every. You want to talk about what? Talk about sentenced if you want to talk about sentenced. You know what? No, I'm going to acquiesce here because like my notes out of all of the notes that I have for all of these shows, my notes on Freeran is objectively the shortest, but in the same way that I've been saying all season that just because something is low on the season, it doesn't mean it's necessarily a bad episode. It's just not as good as the other episodes. This episode of Freeran was not as good as the previous episode of Freeran and what's coming before it. Like this is a good episode of Freeran, not a great episode of Freeran. That's what I'm saying. We don't have the hero of the South this episode. Like that was that was a highlight moment of that one. I really liked the Crystal Cave stuff in episode one. This one had good moments. I liked what happened here. Let me pull it up. Oh, yeah, this was a cute episode. There's a lot of great Freeran moments. Her crying and throwing a temper tantrum was awesome. And I love the end of the episode. People are saying that I almost never watch chats. I do. I'm just talking to Danny actively. But yes, I this episode is a lot of fun. I love that for some reason, Ghidorah is just introduced. Like, oh, yeah, it's not a dragon. It's much closer to a lizard than a fucking three headed Ghidorah comes down. It's like, hey, Freeran, you've been here before. Mention the fact that the King of Monsters protects this ankle deep water. Yeah. That is true. It was like it's funny because it's not even like protected. That's probably just its water source. Like it just hangs out there like and drink. That's probably why it's so shallow because the three headed monster is using it to stay alive here. I think it was pretty sweet episode, though. Like obviously every episode of Freeran like has a little bit of like sweetness where it's like, oh, I'm learning a life lesson here. And the the life lesson is obviously like, hey, like Stark heard about from his previous I forget the name of his. But him. Yeah, I always forget. I really like his that character, too. Yeah. So he's like, no, highter is the fucking highter is the priest. Yeah. Yeah. You know, the dwarf, the dwarf with the big old axe. So he was telling him like, hey, listen, like in the end of the day, this like secret hidden hot springs ended up just being a foot bath. And so it wasn't really like it wasn't really like worth the hike, but like the view and the memories made it worth it kind of situation, which is why Stark wanted to go and why Freeran let them go. Like, oh, it's not the most. I'm not. It's not the most like direct route. It's not the best route. But at the end of the day, like, while the destination is important, the journey is equally as important. I thought that was really cool because it's a story about a journey, right? And it's about appreciating the journey and like, hey, listen, we're not in a rush to get there. Like the goal of this, the goal of this journey is to get to a northern plateau where like hypothetically, Freeran may be able to talk to him once again. There's no real rush to get there. And so like them taking the moments to like reflect in the beauty of this journey. I think it's kind of awesome. Yeah, I agree. I really like that's the heavy hitting emotional moment in terms of like philosophy. Or it's like, yeah, that was a huge letdown. But I wish they leaned into the idea that it's like shared suffering can be like a fun time as well. Like if they all enjoy if they all enjoyed the irony that like it's it's a disappointing foot bath and then they have to walk so far. They need another foot bath because they're bleeding and stuff like that's something that I feel like it was like you and me and like some friends and we did that. It's like we'd be talking about that a bunch and secretly love the idea that we all shared in that like comedic ironic suffering together. Yes, I love at the end of the episode, you see them like traipsing down the mountain or like, no, this is fucking like that was the great view. This was fucking stupid. And I know everybody who's ever been on like a nice scenic hike feels that you get to the top and you're like, wow, this is nice. And then it's like getting dark because you wanted to see the sunset. And you're like, oh, fuck, there's rocks everywhere. You're like this sucks and I hate it. Yeah, never take me on one of these ever again. I did also love there's a there's a big meme going around right now. Freerans produced a lot of memes recently. It's like JJ K. You know, you can know, you know, when like an anime is going like going to be going up for anime in the year based on how many memes are coming out of it. JJ K. is in the clear lead right now, clear every single episode. There is an absurd meme that spins out of it that like will probably last for about a week. And that's because the Jiu Jitsu Kaisen fandom is just like they just need more content constantly. But the Freeran memes that have come out of this, like I thought towel hair up Freeran was so cute. Yeah, I love towel Freeran. I love her crying. And that's the other and that's the other part. So there's like a bunch of like memes coming out about her crying for three straight days. And it was just like, I don't know. Like this was just a very classic Freeran episode where like the only way this episode could have like actually like been higher in this weekly rankings if we didn't off screen Ghidorah. Like let me see the lizard, the three headed lizard fight. That's what I'm that's what I'm locked in for. I think the next episode is going to be a higher ranking because we're going to get the Fern Stark date. Like I liked Freeran taking Stark around and that was sweet. And I really love the end of the episode where she gives us a weird like smarmy look to Fern. And she's like, like any time two people of the opposite sex are alone together. That's a date. Yeah, she's like, I also went on a date with sign once. And it's like, yeah, it's like, what is this fucking Mike Pence approach to like Christian dating here? Like you can't be alone. Can't be alone in a woman like a room with somebody of the opposite sex. I know it's weird, like Mormon philosophy, but like, yeah, so that was very cute. There's a lot of really cute Freeran moments. I can't wait for the dub to come out because I want to hear the dub voice actress do the cry. But yeah, I think next episode is going to be a fun one with like Stark and Fern going on that date. I also love both of them confiding in for your inferred vice. And she's like, I fucking you're asking the girl who literally ignored the guy you proposed to her for 50 years. He died and now we're going to visit his ghost. I don't know if she's hammering home the idea of successful romantic encounters. Yeah. That's very funny. But all right. Yeah, that's that's basically all that happens in Freeran. So man, man, has it Hell's Paradise or is it sentenced? My God, how high is fire force for you? Oh, well, fire force was fun. It was pretty. I really liked fine. Let's talk about sentenced. No, actually, no, you're right. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Let's talk about sentenced. OK, let's talk about sentenced. Um, I don't even really remember what happened in this episode. I like this episode because it has reaffirmed. I'm no longer afraid after I was last episode. So that's the episode I was like, oh, man, you know, like what the episode three had to assure me that the show could be entertaining without fights. And it did that by giving us that blonde dude, the like king. Yes, Norgell Norgell. And I was nervous because I was like, all right, this is really fun. But it feels like he's only going to be in this one episode. So they need to keep this up with more interesting characters. Yes. And then they introduce this other hero guy who's he was like a con artist and he was like a gossip journalist. Yes. And he's just so fun. Yes. He I love the idea of like they're like, hey, we need to trump up our numbers here. We need to like sell more copies. So we had to sell it. We couldn't like figure out any rumors to spread about the holy nights or the spread of what the goddess is, something like that. So we ended up writing some article that ends up being true. Like you got railroaded or something like they were there like, hey, write this like like write this lie, basically, write this like this. Like I'm trying to think of like a New York Times article. Wait, no, what's what New York Herald New York Herald article. Like one of these like one of these like original clickbait, fucking like real like stupid articles that's based up like one modicum of truth and the rest is all lies. And then it just gets revealed that he's actually revealed like some deep government truth. And so it gets sentenced to be a hero. They say the thing, which is great. But yeah, so I actually am kind of curious to hear what you think. So do you think that like he he knew about what he wrote about? Or do you think that like somebody had him write about it to like possibly get him out or something? No, it seemed like it would be cool if someone set him up for it. That'd be the most interesting route, because I find it very interesting that he did it by accident, you know. And so, yeah, I do. I do think it was an accident because he seemed very shocked by it. Yeah. But they also they establish in this episode that he's an incredible con man, right? They established that he's a con man. They established that like, oh, he can get whatever he wants. Like he was like talking to like the king of that fortress and he was like, hey, Zylolik, what do you need? Like, do we need reinforcements? Do we need more time? Do you not want to die? And he was like, tell me everything you need me to get and I'll go get it, which I thought was a sick moment. I love that bit because he's like, yeah, at first the guy's like, if one of you leaves the castle, you'll all die. And then he's like, how about if all of us leave the castle, we all die because odds are one of us is leaving the castle. We don't like each other. And then as Zylol is leaving, he goes up and he's just like, he's like, what else do you want? And then he gives him like three things. He's like, OK, and what? And then he gives him like another two and he's like, uh-huh. And what? And it's like, fuck, I love that. He's like, I'll get you whatever you need. Like what I'm waiting for you to say, strawberry shortcake so that we can have a nice dessert at the end of this. He's like, Maraschino cherries for my fucking Shirley. Yeah, I love that. And it's also cool that like they're playing into just how disposable they are. Like both both of the heroes are like, what if like, why do we have to fight till we die? Like what's the goal? And it's like, because that's the job. Like we don't give a shit. But I do like it. So it is like, obviously, like that's probably a way that they would be treated on account of the fact that like they brought Norgal back in like an episode, which thank God, a life without Norgal is not a life worth living. Like I love that he was immediately put back together. But my biggest like my biggest like question mark coming out of this episode, I was like, oh, they're clearly trying to kill Zylo or something. And like punish Zylo or like get Zylo out of the equation with the goddess. Like there's something there's something like that happening. I'm not entirely sure what it is because like Zylo can see on this like commander's face. He's like, oh, this guy's trying to like there's something there's some real reason that you're like putting me in this Pish like position to hold this castle until I die. When like an actuality, I could just hold it for like like, like I can hold it for a couple of days. You guys could drop the poison in here and we could retreat like that. And that's all it takes. Yeah. No, I wonder if you understand the plan. Yeah, they're going to hold it until like the fairies are like well ingrained into the castle. Ideally, they will be dead by that time and then they will drop the poison. Yeah, we also got the reveal of we got the reveal of the sniper, which is crazy that there's a sniper in this world where the main character throws knives as his main attack. Like, oh, hey, this guy's got a Barrett 50 cal and fucking too bad too bad about your throwing knife proclivities. There was like a gun in episode one like she had a rail gun, I think. Oh, you're right. And they charged it up and they had like the front lines and they were shooting like like lightning gun kind of situation things. Yeah, the sniper sick, though. I also said we also got the reveal of how the goddesses were like not even made like the goddesses aren't made. Apparently they show up, but they started trying to make goddesses because like they now know that goddesses can be killed kind of situation. Yeah, they want to dissect the little fire goddess that he has. But now that I understand that the goddesses just show up like they're not like government made weapons, I could understand why people wouldn't believe that Zyla was able to kill one of them. Yeah, that does make sense. I like to the moment they had to at the little fair where she's buying like Yaku soba or whatever it's called. She bought like little treats and the general lady was like or Zyle's like, how do you know these treats? And she's like everybody likes frozen treats, Zyle. Just because I'm a sick, just because I'm a sick powerful woman doesn't mean I don't like fucking ice cream, Zylo. It's universally beloved. Yeah, fucking oh, oh, it comes in a Mickey Mouse head here. I'm absolutely, it's obviously and this are fucking like regiment of military. We're gonna have to get some sweet treats here. Also, this is a stupid, this is a stupid detail. Their money is way too big. Their money is way too big and way too heavy. She's like, oh, I'm saving up my scripts and she pulls out four bouillons of fucking metal. And I'm like, oh, is this what you pay for ice cream with? 12 pounds of steel? I didn't notice. Let me see. I think I found it. The scripts are like literally the size of like a Chinese red envelope and they're like an inch thick. It's like an ingot. Dude, it's literally an ingot. You could like if you fucking welded a couple of them together, you could make a shield or like tank armor. That's so funny. They were also using, they were using like a, um, they cut, you know, like their special sacred sigils into a huge piece of metal and they were using it to cook low main. And I was like, there's no way that magic is easier than fire. I know there's no way you can't just make a little like a small fire under a pot and then keep that going. Yeah, just literally like, oh, you didn't want to chop down trees, but you had a fucking mage carve carve sigils into a piece of metal for you. What are we talking about? Yeah, but yeah, I liked it. I like the I like the downtime a lot. And I think the reason I hold this episode so high is because I was nervous that this show couldn't do downtime in a way that's entertaining. I, um, I kind of enjoy the fact that we just seemingly get a new hero every episode. Like I think we're like, I think we're like four for five on just getting a new hero every single episode. Um, and if they just want to keep a revolving cast or an increasing like an increasingly growing cast of heroes running this show, I'm fine with that because I It's not that I don't find Zyloh to be the most interesting character. I just find those around him to be more interesting. You hate Zyloh. I'm excited to see more goddesses more than more heroes because I want to I wish it was like a stand system where like every hero was given a goddess Because I want more powers showing up, you know, I want to know the the goddess design is so cool And the power is cool and I want to see different designs and powers Yeah, I um, I would like when they started doing the rundown on like, oh this goddess does this this goddess does this I was like, oh my god, they're gonna do all 13 here They're gonna try and they're gonna try and inject all of this information into my head at once like the culling games rules Uh, but I am very excited to see all of them. I just started rereading kagurabachi Uh, I got I'm up to I'm back up to like chapter 26 of kagurabachi I have all the hundred chapters downloaded. Uh, just because I want to she's strogan my ox Sorry, she's strogan off my ox. Mal somebody said, uh, what is an ox? Ma Mike Mike ox. Mal. That's my name Mike ox. Mal You like that one and who says it says we've lost it. We're on top of it. Absolutely Go we're batting a thousand, baby We've never we've never not been batting a thousand anyways, so, um, I'm really excited to see all of them But it's reminded me of kagurabachi where it's like, oh the story will be over once I see all seven swords So I feel like the story will be over for this one. Like I see all 13 goddesses Yeah, I agree. Um, I Uh, was at Barnes and Noble the other day and I got climber. Oh, you're at Barnes and Noble just pooping Just shmooping Just a second I walked in there bowels loosed on me. What is climber? Climber is like anytime you're on instagram and you see like Top 10 best-looking manga. This is always on it. It's literally just about climbing a mountain, but it's gorgeous Why do I feel like I I think or not? Do I feel like I've heard about this? Um, it's probably like mount fuji or something. I don't know. I just have the The first one but I mean fuji you can literally do in a day. It's like an eight hour hike. Oh, this art style is Nuts. Yeah, it's so much white Like that's the thing because it's snow What is um My god Yeah, people people are into it and I saw it at Barnes and Noble and I'm interested to see if it's like same with why I'm reading kingdom Um, I gotta get caught up on kingdom But I I'm like I want to see these manga that like we'll probably never get anime adaptations and see if they're living up to the height You can finally settle the argument between american and japanese jjk fans about whether or not all we care about is how Good something looks well, that's true. I mean we'll see because Who knows if this was drawn worse if I'd even pick it up, you know Well, that's I mean, yeah, that's kind of a bad That's kind of a bad pitch for us americans because yeah 100% the only reason if this was just a story about climbing hills And it looked like fucking demon slayer. I don't think anybody would be reading I know but I mean if you're looking at the thing the whole time so it has to look good, you know There's a reason I don't watch 12 ounce mouse There's a reason I don't watch squid billies There's a reason I don't watch super jail Why are you what dick please what's 12? 12 ounce mouse. Yeah, look up 12 ounce mouse. I was hoping that's the one you'd look up. I What the fuck This was a show on television this was a show on tv they used to just make shit dude Is this is this a sign that like that stuff like this doesn't get made anymore is that a sign that media is getting better or worse? They used to you just walked into adult swim studios with a drawing of this and you're like Hey, you want to get a drink? I'll give me 15 minutes to prove them mildly funny and then we'll see if I have a show I can't believe tiny chef got canceled and this and this got this ran for 15 years Yeah, this ran 20 this ran from 2005 to 2020 covid killed 12 ounce mouse Dude, I love I love the air of adult swim where they're just making crap This is the worst looking show I've ever that's just there's it's like it's just three blobs And then a photo realistic squirrel Do you ever watch mr. Pickles? I feel like you have to know one of these I have I was I this era of It scared me literally I like anytime one of these shows would come on on. Oh, is this about the dog that kills people? Yeah It's got four seasons Yeah, just a just a border calling it massacring people got four. This is why this is why I didn't watch Until like 2 a.m. On adult swim because eventually you'd be like you'd be sitting there baked off your mind And they're like, oh by the way, you're watching a dog rip out the carotid artery of his of his loving owner Here's the thing. They'll make anything. It's just we you got to bring it to them That's people's issue. You're not bringing adult swim enough ideas I listen then maybe we just pitch fucking tiny chef to adult swim and we just finally we finally get him re-airing So we can stop swinging himself from the rafters of his kitchen I know that part Well, what do you mean? Even a bolt swim Won't take it Um, is that all of sentin should we get into our uh, super chat corner? Let's do our super chat corner So if you guys have sent a super chat, we see him we know we're there However, we don't want to break up what we're talking about by acknowledging every single super chat. So between Conversational topics we go through all of our super chats here, which brings us to our first super chat corner Matt dwarf king says is it just me or did pandas japanese va cook? was guttural um Yes, very fun episode from jjk love the introduction of a cari that final sequence was ridiculous I cannot wait to talk about it. Um, I have a little bit a little a little bit of um Like aragorn kicked the helmet and broke his foot lore that I want to I want to reveal about that final sequence But yes job talking about fucking pandas va asshole. I'm I was I was a building I'm it's called fluffing out the story. But yes, japanese is is pandas va did a very very good job Him crying over yaga awesome Yeah, um tesseract wolf says are y'all gonna watch season two of one piece live action. Oh my god, yeah Yeah, my god. Have you seen robin's actress? Yeah Yeah, I'll be I'll be on the edge of my fucking seat every episode. Yes, please and thank you We need to get emily rudd on the show at some point by the way I wait is that is that nomi's voice actress emily rudd? I think that's well I because she's a she's a big fan of one piece and all that and I see her her and um The guy who plays zoro or actually like massive massive one piece fans. Um, I'm making the stallion Making the snow not the guy who plays zoro. I know I'm joking. Oh, I don't know anyone's name Oh, oh, mac and you that's it. You want to fucking one piece tcg tournament? Well, you didn't win You got like eighth place. I don't look a thousand people. It's crazy. Um, joe woodring says do you guys Hear about how crunch your rolls delaying stuff due to the cold in texas. I think it's ridiculous Minus 11 windshield ain't that bad now now minus 32. I'm assuming you're saying no, that's bad They probably have their servers in texas a lot of big hosting Like uh, see like services streaming services have their service in texas So like it being that cold could delay people getting to work most likely Yeah, I don't know I don't know. I don't know nothing about it. That's just my guess. Um, but also yeah, whenever texas gets cold The entire world ends down there. So, uh, drae jams asks would you guys consider making ben 10 content? He's my favorite superhero of all time. I think danie wood I'm gonna be reacting to ben 10 very soon. I think after really Yeah, that's gonna do That's gonna do numbers Dude the ben 10 community is so rabid and so alive for a show for a series They haven't liked a show from in like a decade All right, so how many how many ben 10s is there 10 ben 10s? How many what's the number of ben 10s? You'll call me ben 10 because I always got 10 bends I don't know the rest of that. Do you know what I'm saying? Was that it was that you or was this a classic danie rapping situation? We're just take a line from a song people don't know That's uh, joey valence in the boys in brett. There it is. There it is um, but uh, fuck in there's ben 10 there's Ben 10 omniverse. There's ben 10 ultimate alien. I think there's like four Reboots of it. Well benton ultimate alien is a sequel where he's like 16 instead of 10. So he's technically ben 16 Ben 16 he's technically ben a million the 10 has never referred to his age is referred to his number of Aliens when it first started it referred to both and also his last name was tenison They were really leaning into it But now he's afraid we wouldn't we weren't gonna get it like where it's like fucking neck netflix's current writing like plots um now it's uh When he's 16 and he still has 10 now it's like I I've been 10 Yeah, he's been 10 I've been 10. He's like stuck like ash. He's like I have to be 10 my entire life Please I hate when he starts getting more aliens get at most it's okay to have 15 But like in the like omniverse or whatever series He's got like a million aliens and it's like I don't give a shit because it turns out the omnitrix can scan aliens and then turn them into one And that's oh pain in the ass. I don't like that It is kind of annoying because like it's kind of that mha problem where you're like, oh, hey I wish I could see how you would figure out this situation with a specific roster of abilities I know you to have but like It's kind of like the beast boy thing where it's like, oh any alien planet we go to you can just become the strongest Animal on this planet and then boom like this situation is resolved kind of situation Like that's like it is annoying when like the roster gets too deep It's like of course you have the perfect animal animal for this like monster for this right now because you have One million monsters in that goddamn watch it also like Takes away from their uniqueness like obviously all of his aliens are just like of a race You know like diamond head is a part of a diamond head race But when it's in the early series and you don't see other members of that race It feels like they're like their own unique guys But then once he starts like scanning other races They feel like pokemon and they lose their individuality also with the beast boy thing Is he scanning shit or is he technically can he just turn into whatever the fuck he wants like is an imagination based I think he can turn into whatever he sees if i'm not mistaken I think if he's like see an animal But like the second he like lands on an animal planet or like a like an exotic alien planet He can just turn into whatever he sees But like he needs to know that's a real animal if I just drew a fucking whatever and then showed it to him Could he then turn into that? I'm gonna say that's the issue Maybe if it was detailed enough, I do not know. You know, it's funny. We can literally just text. Let's text ryan potter Let's text let's text beast boy and just ask him what beast boys abilities are We'll ask him at magic night next week and then guys we'll get back to you After we talk to beast boy and then also we'll invite beast boys voice actor and we'll do a big we'll do a big beast boy day Yeah, um sly merlin asks Yo nick have you seen cinematic masterpiece portraits a western drama by director danie yee ha mada and what did you think of it? No, I haven't he's never shown it to me and I don't know where to find it 20 000 people have seen it. Is it on youtube? Yeah What? Yeah I'm watching it after this I'm watching I'm watching it immediately. It's only 20 000 Uh, yeah, I mean it's a western. I made when I was like 23. It's not like it probably doesn't deserve more than that But it's also I put it on like a separate youtube channel Uh, not like danie mada, you know, what's it? What's the what's the youtube channel called all hell productions? all hell productions yeah, we're on set and uh We uh the whole town it's like this nothing Like no one lives their town or like 30 people live there cold Not muscogi, uh carrizozo new mexico and it's like so small and everyone knows each other and everyone knows what's going on And we were there and everyone come up to us and be like, oh, you're you're the fellas making the movie, right? And we're like, yeah, and one dude was like you're making that a cowboy picture, huh? And we're like, yeah, and he was like it was like oh hell You can't fake cowboys and we're like we're you know, we're gonna try That's the most cowboy shit you could have possibly All hell you can't fake cowboys is the most oh man. I would have run through a brick wall for that guy. Are you kidding me? Oh, that's awesome. I'm watching it immediately after this. I the video the the uh the smallest production that I ever have Uh like the video I put out that I was like, I cannot believe this this probably has more views than it deserves I think 107,000 people have watched me get my butthole waxed I forgot you did that I also would like to forget that I did that but boy oh boy did it happen and boy oh boy is that video still very public on NC hammer 23 minority youtube channel Whose fault is that like? Yeah Absolutely this guy absolutely this guy, uh chuck kimball Send ten dollars Says love it when my favorite youtubers talk mtg Danny do you plan on reacting to more epic musical songs like your light the gay Polities one and tonius is and tenious is just a man sung by erin alexander Uh first off what a curveball. Uh, I thought this was gonna be about magic second Yeah, uh, yeah, I probably will I plan to I gotta stop doing so I put out two videos a week and they're like, um You know a consistent series like I'll be chipping away at two series simultaneously And then sometimes I'll do a third video and that's usually like a random one-off one And recently I've been recording too many one-offs because I just looked in like my bank of videos and I have like two weeks worth of Fucking series videos lined up and because I just I keep doing too many like one-offs and I've eaten through all those So the answer to this question is yes, eventually Yeah, eventually. Yeah, okay good, uh, raven hill youtube says I really admire you guys love you love you as well Nick congrats on your engagement and danny congrats on being danny. I don't know if that's congratulated I don't know if that's congratulations worthy I think they meant condolences. Yeah. Yeah, uh congratulations on panellope Almost being too small or almost panellope being too big for underchair Oh, I love that damned dog. We got a king-sized bed so I can sleep with sarah again Huge huge. I mean you've always kind of had a king-sized bed. It was just two queen-sized beds tied together Um and panellope will do this awesome thing It won't it'll sound like I'm being sarcastic, but I love it where when I wake up in the morning her She's using my neck as a pillow. Well, she just has her neck Puzzle pieced into mine and when she gets big I'm that's probably gonna kill me in my sleep 100% she's just cosplaying a scarf. She's cosplaying like a fox scarf Now we know in 12 years what we're gonna do with her. We're gonna wear her as an accessory Yeah All right, nick or ninja hukori says nick and danny. What are your favorite mtg decks you play? Oh nick loves squirrels I do love squirrels. I'm kind of a mono green player. I just love having a little army An army of critters, you know, because it's like you can just jump block a bunch of stuff as long as you get a couple flyers You're a happy boy. Um, I do also like Man, I like all of the war hammer 40k decks, but I'd probably say my favorite And this kind of sucks is probably fucking, uh, necrons just because it's like a ridiculous commander deck Outside of that. Yeah, probably probably fucking probably green and necrons Yeah, I like admiral brekket brass unsinkable Because I like I like to go yarg at the table Danny loves always busting out a pirate deck that he's made himself and then he really pushes a pirate accent for the next two hours And everyone boy. Oh boy. Does everyone kind of love it? It's a real It's a real metric on whether or not you're going to be invited back to magic next week about how hard you laugh at Danny's pirate impression I love it because I'll like make treaties with people and I'll be like see how he's betrayed Nick see how they laugh at your misery And then you're like, I'm not going to trust you. You always go back on our deals and I'm like I'm like, what's better? What better ally than an enemy? And then he's like, all right fine. I won't attack you and then he won't attack me that round and I'll be like Never trust a pirate all the tax on nick I literally get I get liars diced the next fucking turn every single time But I I just keep I keep opening my heart back up to him. It's a real mistake It's um Hoto hildi, I believe yeah potato hildi says Danny now that you have your new fancy Gundam pc This means you have to watch wing. You don't have to react. You just have to watch it I should watch a Gundam. Have you ever watched Gundam pc? What happened? What? How do we come into this? They just sent it to me I wanted a pc in my living room because that's where I'm at in my life That's first off. I got it So we got a dump of photos from sarah about how big Penelope is getting Uh, and she sent it to me Danny dorthy, um in like a four person group chat where we kind of send all the photos of our dogs Uh, and she sent like one video p and aba playing and then a bunch of other videos Or a bunch of other photos and in the background of one of the photos We just see Danny shirtless shrimp spined over his brand new pc I didn't notice it originally and then dorthy sends me the image But with Danny a red circle around Danny and she goes I fear I also sit like this and I was like a you absolutely do B. This is so hilarious. I need to send it back to Danny. It's a good look here Let me open it Wait, so was it Gundam that sent you a pc or the people who like the pc builders? It's eye by power and so they yeah, they like build pcs. This is me. Oh, I know just Please this is me Just ramping it out like a japanese ghost. Yes But uh, me while aba's doing her best her best lip hooked on teeth impression Yeah, but uh, all right, we got a couple more. Uh, all right, teddy heart said 50 dollars That's me, baby get the dogs fired up. Uh, love the show guys email the spin-off script I'd love your feedback on keep up the great work. Where'd you email it to? I'm assuming a talk is anonymous podcast. We'll have stank send it to us What is it a spin-off script a spin-off script? Of what I guess we'll find out but I don't know that's listen. They gave us they Drip fetus information to keep us interested. That's that's the beauty. Yeah, that is the that is the beauty of good writing right there uh son of visions and uh Bates they are baits they fake has a lot of things going on in it nice animation cool. I was the simulcast english dub But for the love of god, what is going on? Feel so lost welcome to fate welcome to You're never you're never as you're never as understanding what's going on plot-wise. It should be There is a 48 part series that breaks it down. That's three and a half hours long. It's also in german unfortunately Yeah, that's fate. That's uh, that's fate and he say versus a fucking nightmare Uh, and honestly fate stay fate stay fake is like a really good jumping off point to get into fate But unfortunately the jumping off point is the deep end of the pool and it's filled with sharks Yeah, I I every week i'm like i'm gonna catch up with this and each week that gets less and less like As I fall deeper and deeper behind i'm still on episode two I've I've been traveling and inundated with the shows that we're actually talking about when I get home I am binging and then i'll maybe do a video telling you what's going on And so all of the people that are lost like you can get some understanding Uh astro clam said my mom scolds me for buying anime figures because they're shit that collect dust I don't even have that many. What would you say to convince her otherwise? Maybe sure where danny's sick collection of bendable toys Yeah, first off you gotta start playing with this shit brother. You gotta start getting some real Poseable spider boys brother. I mean look at this get a big desk get all your spider boys on it Yep, and there's nothing if you're playing with your toys regularly. There's nothing your mom can say No one gives me any guff anymore and it's because I make money doing this Uh, so maybe try that also pose them get get like a nice camera or any camera even your phone Start doing poses get like you know tricking people into thinking their life size I follow a bunch of instagram pages like that Oh, I love when people build like miniature sets They specifically do this a lot for like war hammer collections and stuff like that Or they build like miniature sets that are like battlefields and like they take like wartime photos I've seen a bunch of people do like horror photos with like um e-woks hunting down like uh storm troopers in the woods It's awesome. Dude. It's so good. So yeah, uh whimsie max If you considered whimsie maxing literally just joy max and play with the toys Yeah, have you tried just enjoying the thing you enjoy? Yeah I also there's a guy on there's a guy on tick tock live who does like big battles between like his sonic figures And he like does all the voice acting for him and it's like shadow has sonic like hostage behind a police car And like the dog cop. I forget its name not the paw patrol the other one the older one has like a sniper shot He's like, I'm gonna fucking take the shot. He's like i'm taking my earpiece out. It's awesome. So just yeah whimsie maxing Yeah, uh, all right. This is the last one we're gonna do for this moment because we've got a bunch more stuff to talk about here Um son of vision o2 says jjk is about to enter hunter hunter and jjb levels of convoluted power rules Can't wait to see the tom foolery enjoying the show. No, it won't uh, unfortunately for me and jjk fans and just jjk as a property It tries to be hunter hunter Endored jjba level complicated and at the end of the day everything boils down to a binding valve. That's Unfortunately, that's the truth. There's no complicated math equations like the risk with hunter hunter I don't know jjb as I thought it was all stands. But yeah, no jjk is just um It's all it's all a binding vow I honestly think if you want to start throwing around like complicated power systems like tau's got to get thrown in there at some point 100% Uh, it's just getting crazy. It's getting silly tau is only complicated Because of how short a time span they try to explain it in if you had tau for like 400 chapters And there's a bunch of like if they like drip fed information to you like that would be fine But it's like oh one of the coolest fights you've ever seen and then a college level thesis on how tau works And you're like, okay. I was in fight mode. Let me put my fucking my Byspectacles on here. Yeah Um Should we get into hell's paradise? We should get into hell's paradise. Um Man alive Did that guy who stabbed him in the neck survive for way too long? I dude that was That was fucking gritty. That was some shit that you would only see in hell's paradise Yeah, it was gross as hell. That was so unsettling. I I like the bit of it, but also I'd love if the dude like Pitching these ninjas to them like essentially selling them these ninjas was like like stepped up and he's like Hey, they don't usually do that like you you don't have that's not something you're gonna have to worry about because what a It's like sick in theory until you think about it for literally any amount of time Because it's like how do we know where their loyalty lies? And then he's like i'll show you just how loyal I am and he kills himself and it's like That doesn't feel very loyal to me like guess guess who's no longer on the mission that fucking guy Yeah, but probably could have used him. I think he was like the leader of these ninjas He absolutely was they were like hey, we sent four ninjas and then like 50 of their subordinates and then they were like Yeah, have one of the four real ninjas kill himself I don't know maybe choose one of the smaller subordinates. Yeah Um, so that was cool. That was hardcore. That was spooky Uh, yeah, I also we got introduced to big lady Who uses and this is a question that I want for you because you're our resident sword expert on uh on the podcast here Could you imagine a weapon less practical than a double katana? It's like a double, um What like what what's the big katana called like ododachi or something? Yeah, or like a nagi tana or something like that. Yeah, something like that, but um Yeah, it looks fucking ridiculous She's she's like slicing with her double katana, right? And I was like you're actively just like literally trying to dive a sword into your own guts And I get it you're like spinning it above your head or spinning it to your side or something But like a katana is a slashing weapon and by slashing with one end of the weapon You are slashing the other end of the weapon at yourself I know she's gonna take her own fucking legs off Also, a katana is a single edged sword So we're like I mean you'll take your legs off of the lightsaber too, but at the very least you don't have to keep thinking about Wait, which fucking side of this am I on? Yes, as you as you spin it like goddamn helicopter blades above your head like I was literally watching that I was like I would I'd cut both my legs off in three minutes into a fight Yeah, I'd hit myself with like a mortal combat finisher and like and it'll look see it'll look like a ghost Just disemboweled me. Yeah, it'll be a real it'll be real bad There's also the reveal of childhood Levi apparently who's just a goddamn beyblade spitting up people's arms Uh, yeah that kid's sick. Both of them have awesome character designs. I like I like that It's like oh, they're like, oh, they're not ranked but like she's not ranked She's a woman and he's not ranked because he's too young, but they're like still ridiculously powerful That's like a fun way to build out the assignment. No, that's very sick. I like um I like the older dude who's like kind of aloof and like chill and other and like give a shade he's like bisexual and like Uh, I forgot I forgot that he was but I forgot that tidbit about him. Yeah, like like whispering to a dude being like Like we can go get it on right now dog Yeah, uh, I I feel like he's got to pop off at some point because everyone's he is the he's um There's like a prototype of like that kind of character like the old aloof kind of scruffy bearded like I don't care character It's a shun sweet from uh from bleach Right, right Who also uses two blades and eventually becomes like the head of the the goatee 13 ridiculously powerful Um, I also what else did we get in this episode? We got oh, how do you feel about like the head of sign mod? Do you like him as a character? His design to me is so dope like the all black suit. It looks like prime anakin. It's like awesome Yeah, he's sick. I like that. He was like Balling his eyes out Over over that corpse if we're talking about the same guy, right? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. He finds um, what is his name? What is ensign? No And and shin or something he finds like his previous master basically like the person who brought him into the assignment And yeah, he's just balling. They did such a good job with voice acting He was like, I'm not I'm not ready for you to leave me It was like actually from a character that we don't know that well and a character that we're probably not supposed to be like Sympathetic towards like it was a very strong and like heartfelt moment. Yeah It was sick when like he's a kid and he was like when we're executing criminals Why don't I just uh chip my blade so that it takes more swing so it's more painful and his master's like Yeah, that'd be no use because I just sharpen it and it's like whoa, that's hard Yeah, but then he sees him die and then he chips It was so cool because earlier in the episode like before he stumbled upon his death like his like his dead body They were like hey use your sword. He was like no that sword was a gift from the shogun Like I'm I'm not gonna foul my blade with the blood of these like absolute like nobody's come like combat Why so he's just punching holes in motherfuckers and then the second he stumbles upon his dead body He's just bang bang Bang and he's just slice and listen when the guy's that powerful Is it chip blade really going to change all that much? I know I also felt that way How do you feel too about like the power scaling that's going on here because what was so cool about hell's paradise is that this island was so unbelievably like hostile and powerful and like yeah Even just like a regular random monster was like a huge deal to anyone who isn't gabi mario Yeah, I was human-faced butterflies were like if one bite was going to kill you and now it's like immediately we're fighting dosi Yeah, exactly. And now like all these ninjas are here and they're like Way out scaling everything on the island But they're not but they're kind of not though and that's what's cool about and like one like obviously like ninjas So like they're like we're kind of like the problem I guess is that we're like currently dealing with the two strongest fighting forces maybe in japan So it's like iwa ninjas and then also the asaimon who are like these massively powerful like executioners kind of thing But like I really like the sequence of like the ninjas being like hey Individually all those subordinates aren't all that strong But you see them climbing up this huge monster and they're just like stabbing it in the neck and eyes with blades I thought that was awesome Yeah, that was sick So like I get what you're saying is like oh we're getting a bunch of new very powerful people to the island that are like for some reason able to destroy everything But like kind of at the same time it was like established that like oh this woman is like incredibly powerful But she's not ranked because she's a woman and this kid's incredibly powerful He's just not ranked because he's young and then like this is the strongest amongst the asaimon So it's like obviously the main cast is getting strong because they've had more time on this island Like they've had more time on the island to like learn tau and get used to these monsters We've already lost a fair amount of people and then like these new people Like obviously the ninjas are crazy powerful But like ninjas like gabi mor was the strongest But like amongst the ninjas like everybody's kind of strong at least if they're like known as a ninja not as a subordinate So like there is a bunch of like it doesn't feel as dangerous anymore, but at the same time like It's mostly to me because of the like the higher level of people being introduced. Yeah. No, that makes sense But yeah, I thought it was a fun episode. I mean it's just like no there's no like big big fight It's just like uh, it's a way to introduce like the second wave of people kind of uh, but that's basically it Yeah, yeah, I guess that is it Fuck yeah, those it was exciting every at the end of the episode. It's a big like All right, we're all finally gonna go fucking storm the tense in castle. Yes. I'm on yeah Everyone's together the but there's also the problem that like the second Group of people is now hunting down the first group of people. Yeah, it just feels like this was like the prelude Or uh, you know the like opening act of the season and then now the season's about to like get into the meat Yes, and I think that's gonna be a lot of fun. I I'm really excited to see like how osuchoe based stories animated out It's gonna be it's gonna be very very fun. All right. You want to talk about fire force one of my favorite episodes of the week Really? Really dog. Yes. Yeah, sure Um, yeah, so this episode of fire force. We got the rising of the eighth pillar Uh, so we got like a little reintroduction to fairy who I'm pretty sure Is he has the same voice actor as somebody else in the show? I have no idea. I mean I I don't I have no idea fairy started talking for some reason. I was like It was either like show or shinner and I was like this has this is the same voice I don't it was somebody like very pertinent in the show or maybe somebody who I'm currently watching in english When fairy started talking I was like, oh that is a voice. I've heard recently like very very recently Um, but yeah, they fought a mega evolved unknown that ended up being the Jesus the christ for all of the people living in the tokyo empire Yeah, they fight good old raffles. Yeah, they fight raffles the first but raffles the first comes back is the teletubby son Yeah There's a gigantic face that shoots laser out of his eyes. Could you imagine could you I would Could you imagine what would happen? If if tomorrow it was like apparently the day of reckoning But instead of Jesus coming down and like a giant white cloak and like a nice beard. He's ripped up You know, he's had 2 000 years to work out in heaven Um, and he's he's coming down and he's descending and he's like listen. I'm taking the good people down I'm thinking the good people up with me and the bad people down with me But instead of that he descends as a gigantic evolved pokemon face that shoots lasers out of its eyes at the people At firefighters. What what would that do? What what would churches do after that like that's that's why I love this episode because it's like Do you see a biblically accurate angels? That biblically just they're all eyes and wings. Yeah, just all eyes and horror So what if what if jesus came down as a biblically accurate angel? I'd be horrifying. I don't know like They'd still find a way to like keep those files redacted 100% dude 100 100 dude. Yeah, I'll the three and a half million pages You're like, yeah, yeah, we just throw them all at them simultaneously. No one's gonna read three and a half million pages That's like one loving war. Yeah, um No, I I I do love like everyone's taking everything so well Everyone's taking it so in stride like the moon is irreparably fucked and scarier than it could ever possibly be I feel like the second the moon turns into what it is the government should be like What's the quickest way we can kill that? Yeah, uh How can we blow how can we blow up the rest of the moon right now? That's all that's all that genuinely matters to us What's the quickest way we can double taxes so that we can we can make some kind of nuclear ornament that can destroy the moon here Uh, I also love that as shinra's flying into combat. They're like, is it a bird? It's a plane. No, it's shinra I don't think hey guys either copy superman or the bible because superman has been copying the bible for years You can't do both. Yeah Yeah, well they call him a superhero too I know, uh, but just like also like I think it's actually I think it's actually like a subliminal way of them like Showing that a dola's getting closer because they're referencing things from the past, right? Like they're referencing technically superman, right? And they're calling him a superhero things that probably they wouldn't like He would otherwise be called a firefighter And like firefighters exist and like firefighters have crazy abilities that shinra always wanted to be a superhero though I guess but maybe it's kind of like how a dola's getting closer, right? Makes everyone like think that shinra is the superhero He wants to be because like his doppelganger has already come right and that was the perception everybody had at him And so now people are starting to view him in the perception that he and the people around him have of shinra well, that's also, uh When the episode ends he disappears and I think he's gonna be death or like The devil you think he's gonna come back is like what like death the kid or like death like death parent Yeah, death the death death the guy from like yeah from the principal duties the death Yeah, I think so either that or some kind of devil guy like I think a dola has because everyone looks at him They're like you're a devil And he got poofed into one and boy oh boy. Did he get poofed into one? I also wrote uh, imagine if that's how captain honda died Because they just they fire captain honda at the gigantic raffle sun and it just it just see a little smoke pop And I was like, imagine that just fucking killed him Imagine there's a laugh That was the last time we saw him. They're like, yeah, it was it was a gamble every single time if he didn't punch through his neck broke Yeah, I love them just stuffing him into a giant crossbow Like I like it's just like I can't believe that's the most advanced the most advanced attack that the Military section of the firefighters was able to figure out it was launched this four foot piss missile with a with a with a fiery head at whatever problem we have We're just trying shit. They're just trying anything they can sometimes you just have to uh, I also wrote hey man I don't think you're gonna find another job that allows you to fight kids Uh, because the the the salaryman was like I got to find another job And I was like, I think you're exactly where you need to be Yeah, yeah, really? I think anything else anything else for you is going to be a real problem. But yeah, it was a fun episode. It was a fun fight. Um, I I just like I like I like watching them deal with these pillars It's fun to see like all the different like organizations scramble. We get to see um the reveal not really the reveal But we get like a deeper look into Sister iris is like pillar powers. She like blocks off She like does this buff that like allows for the guy who builds like shields to block off the entirety of japan's coastline Because like they need to nuke the fucking they need to nuke the the profit Yeah, right And so that's like that's that's what's so fun about this episode to me is like I couldn't imagine the circum like this kind of circumstance coming to like to play and it's like they literally just watch They watch their version of a prophet get killed by a 16 year old boy when they believe he's trying to usher it like usher them all into Paradise and that would be Such a crazy day for everyone I know probably reporter. We do a podcast and we do 12 minutes about it in the first the first 12 minutes Then we move on. Yeah, and the rest is togan onky um But it's funny Because yeah, even when raffles turning on them and like enacting judgment. They're still like I guess i'm down with this I've I've committed to this religion. I might as well stick with it Yeah, might at this point I've gone to church three times a week I might as well might as well watch my my gigantic faced profit take us into heaven here But anyway, um, yeah, so that's fire force jj That brings us to jjk our last episode of the week and man alive am I excited to hear what you thought about this episode because listen, I think man alive What'd you say? It's like the third time you said man alive this episode. I'm a man alive kind of guy. What can I say? um this is a Weird episode and not and like not weird in terms of like oh, I didn't like it or kind of situation But uh, there was a little bit of deviation from the manga the shot selection was crazy The ending sequence was really fun. We had a big fight between u g and panda. That's kind of fake We're trying to get hikari introduced into the show here kind of situation I want to know what you think I want to know what you thought about yaga's backstory what you thought about the curse like the curse Curse corpses what you think about hikari all of that um Yeah, so the episode opens with the principal getting fucking Diced yep by the other by the kiyoto principal gaku gongji. Yeah getting absolutely andrew diceclade uh and then he waits until he's like On death's door Uh to finally reveal like how he does all this magic and stuff And then it's kind of revealed if it wasn't already revealed prior that He he made panda right? Yes. He made panda And then he's got like he's got like an entire little pocket universe filled with all of his tiny little creatures That he's made for other people kind of situation But yes, he made panda Yeah, uh, and so therefore panda is very sad about his death and panda cries because even pandas can cry Because even pandas can cry listen pandas can cry but also like so can apes And so pandas three cores are that of a gorilla a panda Something else all three of them work together to fucking well up some tears for principal yaga Maybe an ox or something I It's something else big and I do not remember what it is. Uh, mostly because he whenever he uses them. He's just busy getting Decimated, uh, whatever whenever we get to whenever we get to gorilla. It's usually bad. Yeah pandas never been like Outstandingly helpful. There is a really funny sequence that I'm very excited for you to see in the culling games That surrounds panda and I I cannot wait to get your reaction to it The anime is going to do it such justice like just everything that we're getting from season three Leads me to believe that like any of my favorite sequences in the manga are just going to get such justice and it gets done so well Yeah, I mean this was a fun episode. I liked UG and pandas conversation fight And I like that it was animated pretty like Silly like intentionally sloppy like it was a bunch of like just like People getting like uh png would get kind of like pinwheeled around and then intermittently it'd get animated like really well But I have this kind of like bo bo bo bo bo bo bo vibe to it Uh, which I really liked like a classic adult swim comedy action anime Yeah Yeah, I actually I have I have a question for chat here because I think a lot of what we got from yaga in terms of the Backstory that we get at the big beginning of the episode is added I I do not remember and I didn't go back and check this I just haven't had the time to go back and check it But I'm pretty sure a lot of the backstory that we get about like yaga hanging out with all those little critters Uh, and like, you know like kind of giving the explanation for these critters We see that he makes takeru, uh, which is the little the little like yellow guy for that family that lost their son And like he's doing all like the little like mannerisms that their child used to do Um, and like you see the mom realize that's her son kind of situation if i'm not mistaken That all is added because what actually is supposed to happen in terms of manga sequencing Yaga actually dies before maki kills the zen inkland A great story like monsters ink Stays with you forever and disney plus is where you'll find your next great story From the return of the award-winning hit series rivals Welcome to the naughtiest show on television to the unmissable crime drama high potential Gotta dead body gotta go a lifetime of great stories awaits this spring on disney plus 18 plus subscription required T's and C's apply Now it dies before maki. Oh crazy. Well, yeah, so that that's not Uh Well, yeah, I guess we are getting that after that but like it was pretty clear that this is like a flashback Yeah, well, so yaga situation is like Previous. Well, that's things I don't I do not remember. No that back story is in the manga. Oh, okay cool Well, then I I don't remember that back story being in the manga I love him sitting on this log with this weird little like paper bag kitten guy um It's just said it's such a great Mix of the tone of season one and this tone like it's got the letter of boxing and everything's really like Dour I saw someone in chat was like yaga got ruined And I'm interested to know if people didn't like this No, no, no, no, no so sentimentally sentimentally I think a lot of people wanted more time with yaga because this episode like both of this sequence of the manga And then this episode made a lot of people realize that yaga is a really interesting character But like yaga to us is just kind of the guy that told gojo to stop fucking around right like oh he made panda And that's like all right. Cool. He made panda. What does panda do really objectively nothing and then also like he's kind of in charge of Like the jiu-jitsu high in tokyo so he's kind of in charge of like gojo and all that So like this episode and this whole kind of arc made everyone interested in yaga, but yaga doesn't really get that much time fleshed out That's my beef with jjk a lot of times. Is that like The second someone starts becoming interesting. They're dead Yeah, like not like Like non of me. I feel that way so hard with non of me like I remember in season two when he died And everyone was like, yeah, that's so crazy. I can't believe that happened I was like I really don't remember him that much from season one like being that crazy and now i'm rewatching season one and i'm like I I care about him more knowing he's going to die But like yes, 100 when when you're first watching season one you're like waiting for him like to really start caring about him uh, I I feel that way with like, uh Toji too Just where i'm like, man, toji's fucking awesome man comes back as a zombie and then he's gone again and i'm like All right Well, yeah, that's that is that's thing is like yeah Basically, it's like they drop a new hot daddy figure And then they make that new hot daddy figure kind of interesting and they give him like some kind of devastating backstory Like not to me quit his job as a sally rickard to be a jjk sorcerer because he believed that he needed to like help people with his powers Toji was just a struggling father who was like kind of a bad guy But one of the best for his son and that's like hey yaga's a disney princess Yaga's over here living in fucking he's over here living in winnie the pooh's world with all his little best friends He made for himself to try and replace the deceased children of like grieving parents And it's like oh, yeah, and he dies because they believe he was the one basically platforming gojo Yeah, oh chat's interesting here. We got a lot of conflicting views where people are like Um this guy's definitely not a geraiya. I did not care that he died. I forgot who he was at first Yaga my goat um, this episode is like a brick to the face we had a lot of people who were like Yeah, gege Didn't flesh him out enough and I didn't give a shit who this guy was and a lot of I'm I was devastated that he died That's that's that's kind of fair though Like I understand both of those takes because like it's really a matter of like how much you relate to this one episode It's literally just like hey, this was a good guy. This was a really good guy This entire episode is to show you this was a really good guy It's like hey like the whole takudu backstory where he's like helping out a family by using his technique But he's not allowed to let like let the jiu-jitsu world know about his technique kind of situation Um, and it's like if that hits you in the right place, you're gonna be like oh yaga my goat But if you're like hey this guy's been in like seven collective minutes over the course of all jjk Why would you care? But the episode itself is really goddamn good. Yeah Yeah, I like yeah, I like it Uh, did you have you gotten into the discourse about surrounding kirara? Coupre-fra is that hikari? No hikari is hikari kirara is hikari's girlfriend Oh I didn't I yeah, I've been seeing like the first couple of seconds of it But I didn't watch any of these videos because I waited until like I watched this episode like yesterday. Um, and so I was like Skipping all the discourse. I saw people were like they're like mad that she's like trans or something But I don't see where that that's not confirmed anywhere in the episode 100% is confirmed in the episode and in the manga. Yeah. Yeah fully trans trans woman When well, I'm not like shocked or upset that she's trans. I just don't I was looking for it So it's I mean it's not like oh, sorry. It's more like like 100 heavily implied Like I wouldn't say there's ever a moment where like they pan to camera and they're like kirara is a trans woman Uh, but basically they do that. So basically what happens is when panda's talking to yuji about the third years He's like, oh hikari and then they bring up kirara and uh pan is like Yeah, and I think the other third year was a man, right? And that's because panda hasn't seen kirara in a little while because hikari got expelled because he's really fucking stupid That's why everyone loves him. Uh, and so kirara um is like like confirmed born a man, uh, but Toge or not toji hikari always says I'm only into girls like I'm into girls like that kind of situation and so Um, and like obviously kirara is his girlfriend So like canonically kirara assigned the gender of male at her birth And then transitioned to a woman and is now hikari's girlfriend But there's a lot of discourse because people are like, oh like is kirara a man is kirara a woman But it's like very much like not explicitly stated But like it stated that kirara is a woman a trans woman right is it is she actually A trans woman or is it like did they do some like, you know curse technique or whatever and she like Swap genders like do is it just like a true blue honest like, uh Transition or do they do like magic with it? Um, no, it's like a true blue honest transition like she's just like in the traditional sense Uh in the traditional sense. She is just a a woman and this is actually not like this is not the only character Who goes through this kind of like gender ambiguity or these like kari? Nikari didn't get expelled for being stupid. He beat the shit out of a higher up Yes, you did that as well. But also hikari is historically the dumbest person in like out of all of the students We know in jjki. He has the lowest scores Right. Gotcha. The only person who comes close to him is is uh is ug and toji. I think I think because they're both There's toji a genius. I think toji gets high scores. Anyways, um, so Hikari we get the reveal of hikari. Kira. I'm sorry. Dorthy called me and it threw me off here. Um Oh, oh, but uh, kira was not the only character who's like canonically trans or is canonically like gender like Ambiguous like this is very much something that gege does actually quite often So it like it doesn't have to be tied to the concept of magic Like we'll get more into a character who also falls under this kind of umbrella later on Who also sparked a lot of conversation because like a lot of the comments are saying right now Uh, jjki readers just don't have the ability to comprehend text sometimes. Uh, and so yes Um, kira is a trans woman and then there is more trans like character It's it's a lot more interesting and like impressive if it's just like oh, yeah I'm just trans like in the sense that like we Uh, also Use that word rather than if they're doing like, uh Oh like oh well, I use this curse technique to do this and that but I had to do that for a mission It's not because I feel like I'm a uh, I felt like I was a female Yes, uh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah like yeah, like tira was not like deep undercover as a woman, you know, right? Right. Yeah, it's not some like Plot nonsense. Yeah, so that's just a trans woman Uh, but also it's crazy that there's discourse about it like who gives a shit Yeah, it's it's some people like I said the the allegations that jjk fans cannot read will probably never rest Uh, there's also Uh, I want to talk about the final sequence because I first off I want to know what you thought about it And then I want to give you my little piece of information that I know about it I'll talk about the final sequence where yuji and hakari like are sitting at the table and the couch respectively Talking about like getting into fighting and hakari writing a fight for yuji I thought that was sick. Um one sec There is yeah I thought that was super cool. I like that. It's rotoscoped. Yes, and I think it's rotoscoped in a way that's really effective without being like It's not just doing it for the sake of doing it like yeah being in that conversation in the same claustrophobic angle and the really awkward weird angle for like three minutes in this like You know not super engaging conversation like it's pretty no, they're kind of just like small talking a little bit And they're the rotoscope Aspect of it because you get so many small subtle movements One it's like the only noticeable aspect or instance of rotoscope in the series So it's already a little like strange and off-putting to see Yeah, two the fact that everyone's moving constantly makes it feel Like nervous and awkward like Like you're there listening to a conversation. You aren't supposed to be hearing and then Because by the end of the conversation. I'm kind of like lulled into this sense of like comfortability Or I'm sure other people are like they feel tense by it I'm not sure but I felt kind of like lulled and comfortable and I was like, all right I'm just like locked in for this like small talk chat because I don't really know how dangerous Hikari is or whatever what he's gonna do And so that so then when he just starts like beating the piss out of ug And it's so grounded like he just like throws a thing at him and then gets up and starts like Beating his ass just trying to like chop in with some train doors Yeah, he's like doing some magic nonsense for sure, but like You just see you'd you realistically like fumbling around. It's like Jesus christ Yeah, like it really makes that moment a lot more impactful and feel a lot grittier like again It feels like you're in like looking through a peephole of like In a abuse situation, you know, yeah It's it's the the rotoscoping and the fact that they're just moving like the entire time the animation was crazy But you're right It did an effective job of making you uncomfortable because like you've never really seen these characters rotoscoped like that Like it kind of reminded me of the smiling friends bit. It was like, oh fucking pimp Pimp I knew would be friends kind of situation I was like, I've never really seen an anime character move this consistently Like this consistently like just like sitting on a couch kind of situation. It was very very funny But the reason it looks like that the reason that it's so consistently rotoscoped that it looks so human Is because in order to make that scene the director of this season of JJK and somebody else both Acted it out and then they drew over their acting frame by frame like it was the lord of the rings animated movies Nick what do you think rotoscoping is? What do you mean? define rotoscoping Rotoscoping It's when you wrote you take a boat motor a rotor And then you put a scope on it like a three to five x and then you shoot at things from far away. That's rotoscoping so When people have been people in myself included have been talking about rotoscoping to you Yes, like what do you think that means when they move they move? It's like it's like they were like they were they were there and then they move but in a way that like changes where they were standing What I don't know. I don't know. I thought rotoscoping was just like when they move You don't have a fun fact. You just explained what rotoscoping is That's like that. What is that my fun fact is that they drew every frame of this episode So rotoscoping is literally when you film something and then just draw over it like it's it's acting out a scene And then drawing over each motion. That's how they did the pym thing That's why it looks like that like they had a guy footage of a guy Do that motion and dat pym up and then he traces over every frame of that guy moving So you get it really fluid, but in a way that's like too fluid. So it makes it look all like wiggly But why but why that called rotoscoping? I don't know. It's just fucking worth probably some Greek god or something. I don't know, you know Like why like narcissism? It's like why is it called dance because Greek? I thought I had a fun I thought I had a fun fact Danny The next time I say a word Constantly that you don't understand. Ask me what that word means. I thought it was because they like it's like oh, they're moving weird They're moving weird in the camera angle kind of changes or something. I don't I don't know I thought it was because the fuck I'm never sharing a fun fact on this podcast ever again. So funny. Just ask when I start using terms. You don't know I I thought I context clues Danny context clues. I thought I understood Anyway, yeah, so that's how they did it. Uh, that's how they do anytime someone talks about rotoscoping. That's what it means Wow, so okay. This is a really good way to display the differences our education. Daniel motto film degree owner me Uh knows about JJ K names. So I don't know what's more pertinent in this conversation apparently film knowledge Brutal for me. It was good. I um, I also did you see the Did you see the chain the train doors that he chopped at Yuji? Yeah, I don't know what any of that shit's about but you know, it's you'll you'll be it'll be explained in time But when you do finally understand it, you're gonna love it Well, that's also why I like this scene being shot the way that it is Because I like Yuji being in this normal conversation and then all of a sudden something horrible and incomprehensible Is happening to him. Yes, like he's just getting the shit kicked out of him in a way. He can't even wrap his head around Yeah, like he's literally just being like, I don't I'm not throwing myself in front of a train here Please stop trying to chop me between your doors Yeah, so fucking nightmare fuel. All right, that brings us to our favorite parts of this podcast super chat quarter Where we do a wrap up on the super chats that we've gotten over the course of this live stream So We are gonna start with lilo's adventure Who asked do you think jjk season 3 will be anime of the year? Yes, I say it's all but a wrap honestly jjk 1 and season 2 both one anime of the year when they came out I think they're probably gonna 3p. I think anytime we get a new season of jjk. It's probably gonna be anime of the year I don't know. We got some good shit coming out. What was it was just thinking of one that's coming out in like april We got some big stuff. I mean which out of telie is gonna be big. I know for a fact Yeah, but it's a popularity contest and the thing is like I think well, but I think until What do you think is gonna be the best anime of the year like by your metric? freerun hands down I don't know. I mean so far I think it's gonna be I genuinely think it's gonna be freerun. I think freerun I think freerun and jjk are both equally good this season and freerun's probably getting less hype Which is why I think jjk is gonna win anime of the year Anime coming in 2026 Um, yeah, I mean you're hotter on freerun than I am Because the first one the first two episodes the first like three episodes of jjk were like unreal No, wait not first three first four and then um, well I genuinely believe every episode of jjk moving forward is going to be unreal Yeah Mashles like I think ocean o'coh season three is probably gonna win a bunch of awards Hell's paradise would probably win a bunch of awards But I really I do think the culling games part one is probably gonna win anime of the year That being said freerun right now on my anime list is sitting at a 9.25 We're just the highest that have ever seen a score for an anime outside of I think freerun That's not the high it wasn't fucking Talk of these original sin like a ten for like that's on IMDB Uh, what are you on my anime list? I'm on my anime list We're also the only thing that could maybe compete with what we have coming out this season is in summer 2026 We're getting the final core of leech God there's something coming out in like may or march. That's like Gonna be gigantic. I like just saw it the other day and I was like, oh, yeah that like we gotta We're gonna have to strap in for that Well, you find it'll go ahead and ask this second question here because astro clam asked Danny I made you to film in tv too What do you think of the cinematography of the last scene in jgk this week? The camera angle didn't change for like four minutes while you answer that i'm gonna go fill up my water Uh, well, uh nick I already answered that so Okay, never mind Ask the next one because I also saw someone in chat go wow, Danny just answered my super chat without reading it So I think that's that's very funny. Well, thank you for the five dollars anyways. Uh, all right, so And zana or zana asks with jojo's bleach final season. Uh, what do you wait? What have Now what we have now do you think this will be the best year for anime ever? Gotcha, would jojo's and bleach his final season and what we have now. Do you think this will be the best year for anime ever? I mean this season is the best I can remember over the course of us doing this podcast So if this like level of production stays up, I would say maybe I don't know what I would say is the best year for anime ever though I mean, I don't know this so far isn't like, uh, oh my god. Is this god of high school season two? What? um No, it's god of high school is getting a season two. No, I guess not. Uh, okay The pop carry diary is getting movie. That's crazy. But uh, that's not crazy at all. There's that's it's so popular I didn't know it's that's just uh, oh, I interesting who knew I guess yeah Fucking I this season so far is not as good as like when to be hero acts talk of his original sin summer hikaru died We're all coming out like That was an unreal season. Also that that year is crazy because we had those and we had my heroes final season like So 2025 2025 so far, but I mean it's February, you know, so I I just want 2026 Yeah, I know I said 2025 you're saying 2025 might have been like the best year for anime Yeah, and I said, but it's February. Yeah, so we have a lot of anime head ups here You know, it's funny that you bring up that season because that season was so non shonen coded. It was like, oh talk He's wasn't a shonen fucking um, uh, Not what's the what's the one with the two boys in world japan summer hikarin Yeah, the summer the hikaru died was like a psychological horror Like we weren't we weren't watching a lot of shonen like obviously mha was coming out But like this season is just so shonen heavy that I feel like people will probably talk about it Is the greatest of all time because shonen's like the most popular genre of anime out there Yeah, this year's getting chainsaw man season two and cyberpunk edge runners too and dawned it on no wait That might be 2020 how are question? How are they planning on doing cyberpunk two? I don't is it going to be a prequel story? I think it's just new characters. It's just Gotcha a whole different thing I guess that's always kind of been the thing is like night city is the main character of the cyberpunk universe Yeah, exactly. Um and fucking what's it called the one with the kaiju's kaiju number eight I guess that the final arc is maybe coming this season No way or not this season this year Uh, so yeah with chainsaw man and whatever the other one I said was a cyberpunk Those could definitely like propel it but yeah, dude 2025 was Bangin and I think but here's the thing there's also shows. We're not even watching I think to be like Oh, this year is already the best one ever an anime is like actually ridiculous and too clickbaity. It's February I just I can't I can't Remember an anime season like this because we're watching six anime and there were every single week. We're like, oh every single episode was good I'm not watching fates stage Stay fake and I'm also not watching ocean oko which are two shows. I very much like Um, I don't know that hikaru one was like unbelievable. There was other shit coming out too then like that was also like a stacked Season where we had like six shows we were talking about at once Yeah, let me see what else people were saying uh black clover is also this year. So let's hear I do you think so leveling can take it from JJK? Also the new ghost in the show looks crazy go on the new ghost in the shell does look good I was literally at anime expo to check out like what the ghost in the shell is going to look like the art style looks like so much Fun, I'm very excited for that. Um, I don't think soul leveling season three takes out JJK season three I think technically more people will probably be watching soul leveling season three But I think like there's been a kind of counter movement against soul leveling that people are like Gonna stop voting for it for stuff like I think it winning season like anime of the year with season two was like actually detrimental to its chances Interesting, I don't know I mean we'll see it You can never tell like what the masses are more into Emma Emma keifers goes nah, danny. I think you're tripping saying 2025 was hotter than this season I think that's actually ridiculous to be like all of 2025 is worse than this season Other than JJK there have been no like knockout 10 out of 10 episodes this season That's not even like a crazy thing to say. It's February 3rd Anyone arguing with that is lying or like an insane person I okay. Well, I only I will only agree with that because I haven't watched all the episodes of fates strange fake I haven't watched ocean of co which will have the capacity to absolutely hit fucking home run for sure But like there's been fun episodes of hels paradise. There's been fun episodes There's been fun episodes, but to be like all of 2025 is is worse Then that's saying all of talk of these original sin all of my heroes final thing donned it on um Yeah, you can't be like the whole year was worse than this season which has only had a couple banger episodes Yeah, because there's already four out It is simply not been enough time. Uh, all right, somebody said Dyer jam says the ink tank are a ben 10 youtube channel and they know everything about ben 10 Yeah, uh, I did a cameo for them once i'm on whatever Alien wrath is check out that video and I voice the oh, is this the one where you were the the cat guy? Yeah, i'm a cat guy Danny actually did a really good job with that voice acting rule too. So that's that that was actually that was that that was actually a very fun watch um gave a blanko sends ten dollars Who wins in a game of gujji? I've I've loved this question. I have loved this question so much Who lives in a game of who wins in a game of gujji kamogi or maharaga? Uh, what the fuck are you talking about? Yeah, this is not a question for you. This is not it. Let's just let's go ahead and say this isn't a question for you. Okay um, so Essentially, this is adaptation versus adaptation kamogi has an inability that specifically allows her to get better at a board game The more she plays it And she's like the best at that board game ever because she says if she ever loses a game of this board game She'll kill herself and so she basically makes a nen restriction with herself Where like it's so powerful because she puts her life on the line that she cannot lose this game Uh, but unfortunately maharaga is also all about adaptation. However maharaga's adaptation takes a second So if we're talking about who wins infinite games of gujji, maybe eventually maharaga catches up But if we're talking about just one game maharaga doesn't adapt quick enough kamogi takes it Well, I agree actually I say the opposite Okay, bold take really bold take lilo's adventure says do you think jgk? Oh well we already asked that. Okay, cool. Um Astro clam says danie. I made sure didn't film. Okay. Wait. Nope. We're doing we're doing all these again. We're doing all these again Okay, uh night shade anari sends ten dollars Just joined was watching a few minutes back About sentence to be a hero the hero who was a swindler con man. Did you talk about his ending scene? What'd you guys think of that? Yes? We did we talked about like whether or not he was whether he was like, um Like if he was forced into writing that article if he actually knew the information we yeah, we talked about all that Cool ass character though. Very very cool character. Um chuckham Chuckham ball said love that I play pirate decks the same as danie That's how you got to play them the best magic decks are the ones you role play during nick needs to start acting more like a Squirrel mother I do I literally snack during magic nights all the time. I'm literally just nibbling almonds But I do it too quick for you to see you got well, that's good. I like that that's very good But I think you need to like really get upset when your squirrels die Or or like I just have like or just like every time a squirrel dies. I just like shoot nuts out from my cheeks Like I said true every squirrel. I put another fucking nut into my cheek Yeah, I love that Um ryan mel sends 10 dollars PSA i'm just saying if you don't rock with panda I can't rock with you question top five sorts in anime Love the show even though nick has some neanderthal ass opinions nice re zero season two best season uh first off time out Hold up. Uh never said that re zero season. Oh wait. No, I did wait. No, what yeah, you had it. Yes Season two of re zero is genuinely bad. I tried to watch it multiple times. It bores me out of my skull um top five sorts in anime Uh cronas, what's that sword ragnarok? Ragnarok is a great one. Um, I also love I love Excalibur's blade ia or like ia or whatever it's called Excalibur. I don't know Gilgamesh's blade. I'm sorry ia Excalibur from saber the inverted spear of heaven Is that a soul in the executioner's blade from Naruto? That's my five All right, I I like can't even think of A lot of swords Honestly, like zabuza sword Uh, I I could do most of the executioners blade. Oh, that's good. But I also like the one that's shark, you know He uh, saw me hata he saw me sword That's pretty good Even though it's dumb to have it wrapped up because then it's just a club right you can't cut anything with Well, the idea is that somebody tries to block the club and then you pull it so it's like shark skin it rips you open Right Yeah, I don't I mean bleach as a bunch, but I never watched bleach It's funny when people bring up like zoro swords because they are just very regular swords I haven't gotten any moment where they like Mean something, you know right now. They're just like cool sword said he asked from his like Eventually you can like cover them with hockey and some swords are like permanently black So they're more powerful if you're taking a sword from the one piece universe. It's me hawk sword That's the only that's the only like good true great sword in one piece because the rest are just katanas Gutses sword Demon slayer is great or yeah the dragon slayer is great. Uh, I like tangerose rangoku sword Yeah, with a with a fire hilt. That's a good one. Yep. I think the wash is sword with a fur. That's a great choice Yeah, I think if i'm giving it to any demon slayer one, it's a no-skates though because they're so like unique looking and sick Uh, I've given to tangins Yeah, that's true. Those are weird as fuck and they have a chain Between they have a chain that connects them and the two huge cuts out of them. Absolutely love those Uh maximum winter sends ten dollars australian. I believe Hey, Danny and nick first off one and say I rock with panda question If you two could pick the next live action anime adaptation, which anime would it be? Dude, I really think like Death note is such a layup and I don't understand why No one has done it well And I think I would do death note because one I think it's a layup but also two The second we get like a really well received anime live action adaptation I guess we already have though one piece people like one piece. Yep and people like avatar Well, not really not enough. I mean enough for it to get a second season Yeah, but not enough to like I think it's insane that hollywood's not like hey people are sick of the marvel shit and anime's on the rise We should start adapting a shitload of anime Um, and I think like one Stellar big movie is gonna do that. I think hollywood doesn't care about shows because it's like too expensive and not a big like turn around What what movie is gonna do that? I I think obviously like death note but here's the thing with death note a death note adaptation Would you want a one-to-one adaptation or would they want you want them to like take the idea of death note and adapt it? They already fucked that up So I don't know I would need to be like give it to like David Fincher who made seven and gone girl like give it to someone who knows detective shit um And yeah, just do it. I mean obviously you have to tweak things to make it like a movie or to make it like You know not just you have to tweak things so you're not like well Why wouldn't I just watch the show or the yeah exactly like literally exactly that also my answer Even though it does already have a live action fma b. I think fma b has the capacity to be a fantastic live action I agree with that. I always used to want to direct like an attack on titan movie I think that'd be so hype and there's such like a good capacity for hype The cg budget would be absolutely insane, but it'd be worth every single god damn Let's just give it the transformer cg budget and I'm gonna be a happy boy. Yeah. All right quit fail sends 50 god damn dollars It says hey boys three things I sent an email to both of you relating to a dnd campaign property representing you If you would send me your thoughts in if you find the time, please Um, do more chomp chuck or fuck. Absolutely the thing is we just just thinking about that You were just thinking about more chomp chuck or fuck. I was You were just thinking about how how yummy some pokemon could be right now I was like literally like two days ago. I was like we should bring that chop chop chop chuck or fuck We the reason we're not doing games lately is because we've replaced them with this segment where we read super chat Because collectively this takes like 20 minutes out of the podcast. Yes. It is it is quite long Um, and number three, would you like a paid ren fare trip with plus one that's something we probably have to talk about Um, but I I listened the last time I went to a ren fare. I got thrown out. So I'd love to have a good experience Nick got thrown out for like influencers like just trying to film there not because he was harassing people Not because I was the drunkest barmaid in Oh, everyone's everyone's fine with the barmaid in is gawking all dirty to people as they hand them drinks But when I do it's a problem. Yeah, so important clarification important clear. Yes. I got kicked out for camera Um, but yeah, uh, send it to the email and we'll get it. We'll get it looked over toon, dude Uh said nick, what song do you think will play during hikari's technique? Not the one everybody wants to I'll tell you that right now It's not going to be whatever that song everybody put on all the edits. Unfortunately, uh, jedjk like mappa I mean loves their fans. I think maybe who knows they're making an incredible show But I don't think they're so like we need to please them that they're going to choose the song From all of the hikari edits as to what's going to happen. I don't know. It'll probably be some j-pop song Yeah, it's probably gonna be mr. Boom Bastic, honestly, like I know no one wants it, but It's probably gonna be that you have no idea how good that was because you don't know the technique we're talking about that Be so it's called me mr. Boom Bastic. Mr. Fantastic. Oh that'd be unreal I've truly never seen a mr. Boom Bastic anime edit that didn't go like astronomically hard Uh, that's how I know about feet Maybe that's a fair to decent amount of bias. But yeah, um slow key x2 Asks one of these days I'll get here when it starts love the live show. Can we do this forever? No, unfortunately, we can't we have a patreon that we have to keep given that exclusivity to however If you want to watch the live show and get the show a couple days early every single week you can join the patreon for $4.99 a month Which is how much that super costs chat or how much that super chat costs So think about all the additional content you could get just by subbing over to that patreon Joe Donis asks with markiplier's movie doing so well What genre would you do danie slash nick and how much would you think it would cost? Have you seen iron lung? Oh markiplier's movie. Yeah, uh, I haven't seen iron lung, but uh, I fucking I mean I Uh, no supers is coming out like so soon like the we just have one more pass on the music to do and then I've finally Shaken off the cobwebs and started like writing shit again. We've got like a hunger games short film coming So excited. It's a genius idea. It's so smart We're fine like that the shot list is done for that. I just need to find like costumers, which I've reached out to stella and julia stunts about uh So yeah, that that's finally gonna get filmed in like the next four or so months Horror is like if you want to get into like Cheap filmmaking horror is the way to go about it because 100% It's the biggest bang for your buck like it's so easy to scare someone with no money and studios love it Like look at like skin and a rink, which is like mostly just a camera painting to a ceiling like Like horror and fear is the cheapest emotion to like well up in somebody so horror is definitely But horror is also I'd say one of the hardest genres to write like I feel like a lot of horror movies get lost in the fact They tried to make something relatively profound Uh, but that being said some of the most profound movies I've ever engaged with have been Have been horror. So like uh like weapons was so goddamn good, but also undoubtedly absurdly expensive Yeah Uh, all right, we got two more Uh, uh, what are you saying? Woo. Woo Riot kevis acid dany is right logically and it's only been a month But why not declare it the best year of anime and double down we deserve nice things Because it's not right. It's not true Sometimes you got to go for clickbait over the truth dany. Sometimes you got to think about the views and not the truth Uh, huh, I guess so I can't wait for this episode to be titled the best year of anime ever That's in bingo, but it's already 2026 is already the best year in anime run it stank You know if he's watching don't even text us title title question mark in fucking six hours run that one Pandamon asks pandadad says I'm ready to kick your ass an mtg or warhammer take it off And listen, we should have brought our cards. We should have brought our cards to comic not comic palooza Colossal car. Yeah, true Listen pandadad, you're listen. You're too busy raising the sun right now. You're gonna get rusty me. I'm studying strategy All right, I'm on deck builders trying to figure out the best way to get a new father to mill out 100 cards in four foot a match All right, you're too focused on giving your child a good life. I'm too focused on beating you an mtg He's sharp. He's sharper than ever I'm sure I'm the sharpest ever traveling the world. Yeah, I'm actually probably the dullest I've ever been if we're being entirely real But all right gang, that's all we got this week. 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