JJK Fans CAN'T READ - Otakus Anonymous Episode #145

Hey guys, it's me, Doofus Supreme. After I finished recording this episode of the podcast, I walked away from it with an overwhelming sensation of that was annoying. And so I just wanted to make this brief intro to acknowledge that I was being annoying in this video and to assure you that that is going to change moving forward. And what I'm referring to is the fact that later in this podcast episode, we bring up that I missed the big Kenjaku twist in episode one of season three of JJK, somehow I genuinely have no idea how I missed it. But in this video, I get very defensive and I'm like, oh, anyone could have missed it. It's not that blatant, this and that. It's so blatant, it's so insane that I missed it. And I really don't know how that happened. And I've been vocal in the past about how I didn't love season one of Jujutsu Kaisen and I wasn't like fully engaged with it in like 2018 when I first and last saw it. And when season two was coming out, that wasn't really an issue. But at this point, it's kind of become like a detriment to my viewing experience of season three because I'm just like missing obvious shit and like coming off as like a complete illiterate, like media illiterate dumbass. So I just kind of wanted to apologize for that. This week, I'm going to rewatch season one of Jujutsu Kaisen. I know I say I'll rewatch stuff often. I'm actually going to do it this week because I'm just like not behaving, this is such a stupid way to put it, but like I feel like I'm not behaving professionally enough in the Jujutsu Kaisen discussions because like again, it is insane that I missed that. And I did like this week's episode of Jujutsu Kaisen even though it's just a TED talk. I think they pulled it off very impressively, but I just left the discussion being like, man, I just sound like the idiot that the JJK fandom already thinks that I am. But anyway, I just wanted to preemptively apologize if my half of our discussion today comes off as annoying or arrogant or something like that and assure you that moving forward, I'm going to be more knowledgeable about Jujutsu Kaisen and like, I don't know, I've just been feeling very insecure about the content I've been making lately and like my presence online. And so, but yeah, I just wanted to say I do read your comments and I'm sorry for like being obnoxious sometimes. I'm not just half watching these shows even though I do miss things sometimes. And I just wanted to say that I'm making a conscious effort to be better at what I do three years into this podcast. Sorry for the super long intro. This is a funny video and it's going to be a blast. You're going to love it. I didn't mean to start off on like a weird, insecure, anxious note. Just wanted to say, sorry, I might come off as annoying this episode. Hopefully I don't, hopefully I'm wrong. But if I do, rest assured, future videos, I'm going to strive to not be so annoying. Before we get into all that, I want to talk to you about the sponsor of today's episode, Better Help. Listen, me and Tandy made a resolution this year to stop fighting. And while we may not be up to the best start to make that resolution a reality, the therapy we both started going to made us realize that real change doesn't happen instantaneously. Real change comes from small, consistent changes that turn into long-lasting habits. And once those habits become permanent, you can begin to understand yourself better. And not until you understand yourself perfectly, can you truly begin to understand those around you. And that's why Better Help has been so instrumental in both me and Tandy's life. See, because all we had to do was fill out a questionnaire. And after filling out that questionnaire, we were connected with therapists that were perfect for our individual needs. 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That the reason that I'm possibly tripping up over my words is the fact that I punched a hole in the tippity tippity tippetus of my tongue. Yeah, it's not going well for either of us, Nick. Because this, so last week, I told you that the day after we recorded last Wednesday was my birthday. And all I wanted for my birthday was to get a deep cleaning from the dentist. Yes. That's all I wanted. Truly the only thing in the whole world I wanted. You want it, you want it, man. I just, I've been thinking all year about like, what I really need, you know, in 2026 and you're like, I just need some half awake dental hygienist just scraping out four week old crumbles and hornbles out of the back of me molars with titanium tungsten picks. Just getting the chormbles out of my hornbles. We'll explain that in a minute. But that's truly, you're making it sound like I'm being dramatic. That is genuinely all I wanted for my birthday. I had the appointment all lined up. This is the epitome of a man who has everything. You're like, oh, I could want a new, I could want a new bendable action hero toy or something stupid like that, whatever your current hyper fixation. I have a bendable action hero toys, Nick. I have that. I have desk pie. I have hoody. I have everything a boy could want. Within arm's reach of, I don't like that. Oh, you're all, she's the best one. She's the best toy I have. She makes the best poses. Look at that. In seconds, you have a good pose. In seconds, flat. All my other Spider-Men can't pose as well. You know, while we're here, hold on. Hold on. Don't throw her. You know, I'm just happy that she's not in a jar. That's my biggest point of appreciation thus far of the podcast. Hold on. I'm, oh boy, I'm holding on to talk to chat. Hi everybody. Hello. Yeah guys, as you can see me and Danny are going to be on the interwebs again this week because I'm still in China. I don't know if any of you guys saw this, but I bit my tongue so hard. Hardest ever bit my tongue two days ago. So I guess if you're afraid of bruised tongues, scroll away right now. But if you hear me tripping over my words at any point today, I'll tell you. I'll tell you a trigger warning. This is so gross. It's the worst thing ever. I'm not even looking. It looks like the inside of my cherry pie. Your desk pie? Yeah, it looks just like my desk pie. I had the trigger warning. That is, oh, who's making pie in your household? Making. For my birthday every year, Sarah gets me an assortment of pies. I get six mini pies and they're all a different flavor every year and I love it. I never eat them all. We're like a week out from your birthday. I never eat them all. If you would let me finish. It's a lot of pies for one boy to consume. Anyway, I brought my Spiderman. Here's the thing. Gwen Stacy is the best Spiderman because look at how limbers you can get. Best Spider person because you can do all these incredible fantastic poses. Yeah, that's really good. That's like Teen Titans Robin knee blast. Yeah. Previously, my best was Miles Morales from the first Spiderman movie. And he's still probably the best. I love his shorts. I love his jacket. That's always like fluttering around. However, you'll actually you'll actually find this interesting. For the second movie, they had to make a second Miles. Oh my God, I feel like I've been I think I've been cornered at a kid's birthday party is like, it's like, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, listen, you're going to love my toys. So anyway, for the second movie, they had to make a second Miles. And this is the first movie's one. Can you guess how they had how they would change his design for the second one? I'm assuming less cargo shorts. No cargo shorts, which I would say is a worse design. However, they also made him tall as shit. Oh my God, dude. It's like, bull, bull. Why? Why is he so stretched out? And so all you want in a Spiderman, I swear, this segment's almost over. All you want in a Spiderman figure is for them to be as flexible as possible. Right. Miles is perfectly lanky. I like how thin he is. I like all of his weird little limbs. However, his torso is one solid piece of plastic. That's two. There's no flex. There's no flex in the middle. So his legs just pop off if you try and crunch up. He can't do a crunch. He's built for getting things off the top of the refrigerator. I know. Look, he's like a little Jack Skellington. I don't have a literalist, the correct word. Yeah, I hope I hope everyone was this. By the way, was this the cold open? No, this was loaded with spiky spiky time with Danny. This wasn't planned. But so anyway, I wanted a teeth cleaning the spider punk. And then I also have another Miles and I have two other Spiderman, but I won't get them for every single time you view one of Danny's videos. Understand that Google is paying him from your view so we can buy more of these flexible spider people. This is where your Patreon money is going straight to my spider man. Literally directly into this. But long story short, because I wasted my time talking about my spider toys. I didn't get a deep cleaning because I went to the dentist and they were like, oh, actually, your Connecticut dentist was wrong. You don't need it. We're just going to give you another fancy teeth brushing again. So I got double brushed and then fucking mice are living in Sarah's car. So that sucks. But before we go any further, I want to talk to you guys about a sponsor of today's episode. Hello, Fresh. You may have heard of Hello Fresh. They are, after all, America's number one meal kit delivery service known for making home cooking easier with chef crafted recipes and fresh ingredients delivered directly to your door. But this winter, they're serving up even more to love. 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One per box with active subscription. Free meals applied as a discount and first box. New subscribers only varies by plan. That's HelloFresh.com slash Utaku's 10 FM for 10 free meals and free breakfast for life. There's cannibals in my discord server, which has been an actual issue apparently. I had a discord meeting today with my mods for like my YouTube channel's discord. And they're like, yeah, I hope it's okay. We added a new rule. No discussing cannibalism. Because there's a faction of cannibal fetishists have infiltrated my discord and won't stop talking about it in a serious way. I'm done with the cold open. It's your turn. I don't even I don't even know what I don't even know where to start. I am OK. So hold up. Let's start with the start of the because it's the easiest for me to tackle right now. For lack of a better terminology here, it's easy for me to sink my teeth into this. Why is there mice in Sarah's car? Does she not drive? She doesn't. Wow. I know I have an answer. She doesn't drive. She works from home. The dogs are from home. The last time you guys left the house, one of your dogs got lost. I know for a fact that Sarah outside of maybe picking up pies hasn't left the house in weeks. Yeah, that's entirely true. Ample time for a family of mice to nest in her engine. She I feel like that's also kind of Sarah's dream. That's like that's like Sarah's Sarah's version of becoming a Disney princess, except like like her curse isn't like oh, she's sleepy or like that. Her pumpkin is going to turn back into a carriage at midnight or vice versa. It's oh, if I turn over this engine, I'm going to make mice do. I'm going to I'm going to mince a family of mice. I don't understand how they aren't dead because she's been dry. Like they've been in there for a minute. We brought the car in or she brought the car in because she was hearing all of this noise coming from the engine. I don't unless it's her bones rattling in it. I don't understand. She brought the car into like a shop and they were like, yeah, mice. There's mice. And then they're like, yeah, and then that's it. Yeah, yeah, you got mice. I hate to tell you. You got a bad case of mice. That'll be $600. And they were like, you Sarah text me and she was like, we have to get rid of the mice. And I'm like, me have to get rid of the mice till that asshole to do it. Like, oh, sorry. You brought to a mechanic. What you needed was an exterminator. So go ahead and pop this go ahead and pop this car over by the exterminator. They'll just blast out your whole engine bay. And meanwhile, Sarah literally wouldn't like literally actually wouldn't injure a fly is like, you know what? My car is just mice now. They're cooking eggs on the engine ratatouille style. Yeah, she's got a bunch of. Oh, what a great sequel. Sarah joins the Indy 500 and mice are controlling the car from the engine. Red Flintstone. But yeah, they're just like, they're pulling the brakes and all of that. That would be awesome. Basically, that's basically what is that fucking Herbie Herbie movie. Herbie fully loaded. You're correct. You just do those a sentient Volkswagen Beetle that for some reason is good at racing. Okay, now that I've now that I've warmed up to the concept of talking about ridiculous nonsense. Also, guys, I want to know a couple of people have said it in the chat here. We cannot see super chats, but Stank does a compiling of super chat. So if you guys send a super chat, we do super chat, where we get all the super chats and then we go over them. I saw someone gave $100 donut. We will get to that in a second. But like I said, in our interface, we can't see it, but we will get to it once. Thank you. We love you. One second. Now on to, I guess, the significantly more pressing matter at hand here. You know, I don't even because here's the thing, Daddy, I got to ask. Like because because cannibal fetishes don't come out of nowhere. So what did you do? Why is it your fault? I've really done that. I'll just look at you and be like, oh, wow, that's biteable skin because you don't have biteable skin. You're not an eatable looking person. So clearly you did something to invite these cannibalists into your discord. No, you're right. I don't look like I taste good and I don't understand where they're coming from. I'd like the mods were just like, yeah, it's been going on for like a couple of months. So we have a hard no cannibal talk rule in the discord server. They're like, you can't even joke about it. Like if you talk about it, you'll get muted because there are too many people seriously and explicitly discussing it. Months? Months? Months? For months? I don't know. They're just like, like, there's like, oh man, I can't wait for the next episode of Knights of Guerniviers. I'm like, so I'm like, happy 21 year old, like living in Arkansas is like, oh wow, Knights of Guernivier episode two is going to be so great, especially with all this AI, this AI stuff that's come out of nowhere from Disney talking about Bob Iger wanting to use AI short form. And then someone's like, how exactly thick is your thumb? They're like, what, what? I'm like, hold on. Maybe he's just the run of the mill perv. And they're like, I'd like to sink my teeth into it. Damn it, cannibal. We can't keep doing cannibals, guys. Oh, shit. Now I can never react to Hannibal. So that sucks. Oh, that or the hills have eyes or wrong turn. Not a whole, a whole lot of cannibal, a whole lot of cannibal content out there. That's crazy. Oh my God, dude, that's not what I would do. Someone in chat brought up a moment that you and I did once where we were like, I forget what was the bit where we like, what? If you had to eat somebody on a deserted island, what part of them would you eat? Something like that. Yeah. Yeah, people are like, you caused this, but I don't think we caused it. I think it's just like, you know, someone caught the cannibal bug and then it spread like wildfire awakening something in other members. Dude, I, and that's the thing is like, I, there's like stories about like people who there was like this guy in, I think like the 90s in Germany, like a millionaire and like he got a bunch of these like cannibal forums and basically like, eventually like two people were like, I want to be eaten. And like there was like a whole thing where like he like killed an eight and basically like they consented to it was like this whole like legal more like gray area. Obviously it was still murder. But it was like, I listened to this whole podcast breakdown and it was fucking awesome. One second. I am already sweating. I have to turn the AC on, which is a two step endeavor. Um, I'd argue you have to delete the Beastars reactions. You're right. That is a lot of cannibal, uh, cannibal content. Texas chance on ask her some brought up bones in all, uh, where Timothy shall may as a cannibal bones and all is great. Oh, that's a good movie. Um, it's so interesting that those people were like, we want to be killed and eaten because if I had such an insatiable zing, uh, like desire to be eaten. Maybe part of it is like you want the whole of you to be eaten, but I'd be like, I'll just like I'll remove a leg or something. And then like, you know, but no, I guess part of it will go from there. Yeah. I guess so. Um, yeah. So that's my cold open. That's my hell of a life. Delete the Beastars reaction. I'll riot. That's that's it right there. That's the actual, that's what did it. Um, I also wrapping up the cold open. I injured myself at the gym, uh, being an idiot. I the, what's it called the barbell, uh, chest press was taken up. And so I went and did a dumbbells instead and I didn't know what my like dumbbell equivalent to like the barbell would be. It's much less. It is much less way less. But so I'd weighed somewhere too heavy. I got like three out of like, I usually do like five sets of six. Uh, I got like three in and then my arms just like wet like this. And this one was like, what if I just stuck a toe out of the socket real quick. And so this shoulder is real, real in pain. Oh, did you actually dislocate it? No, no, but I felt like it raise. Oh, like I felt it like bump out of it a little. Jesus. I would have done anything to see Danny go full cat extend with dumbbell. Just roll out of the bed. What were you? What was the weight? What was the weight? Tell me what the weight was. It was 65. 65 is not a bad dumbbell press. Yeah. Like not. It's not heavy. Well, it's not pretty good. I didn't accomplish it. I mean, you did it three times. That's not terrible. Oh, what's it called? Fucking yeah, it was literally like I had them up and they start come down. I go, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. In case it hits someone, I'm just so afraid of getting you. Living in Sarah's car directly. I'm so afraid of ending up on some like, I'm so afraid of ending up on some Jim tiktokers, like, look at this idiot video that I was like, I'm sorry. No, I'm remorseful. Please. I'm a fully formed brain, please. As long as you're not googling at women and or and or like using the cable machines to thrust your like the thrust in the air, you should be okay. But what people are saying that the second black clover trailer came out and yeah, it did. I simply haven't seen it. It looks like it looks pretty good. It looks I'm I'm I'm scrubbing through it right now. Anyways, yes, we got a lot to talk about today. Obviously, this is going to be the first real week of this huge season that we're getting into right here, because we now officially have free rein started by a force vigilantes, JJK's and full swing sent us to be a hero got another episode. We got another episode from Hell's Paradise. So this is probably our first like true dive into the week of what's already going to be a huge, huge season. But I have a question for you, Danny. Did you get caught up with free rein? I did. Let's go. Let me tell you the. Oh, OK. No, I want I want to hear what you're about to tell me the horrible bird tournament arc did turn itself around when we got to when we got to fight doppelgangers arc in the in the magical labyrinth. Yeah, dude, when free rein for free rein. Yeah, that was pretty sick. I'm back on board with the magic system now that it's not just like hexagons and blasts. I like I like a. Oh, I'm showing you that it's not just hexagons and blasts. There's a dude played by Alejandra Saab and he's on what there's a guy with white hair and a sick fucking jacket. He's on his. Wuerbal. You're talking about the guy from the northern like northern like battle companionship or whatever. Yeah, yeah. There's a guy on his team who makes foliage like he makes plants and then turns those plants into metal shards. Yes. And that's awesome. That's really cool. Basically, a lot of a lot of the people that introduced during like the first class major stage exam are show all the different facets of magic that are really cool. Like Denkin uses traps. Wuerbal is kind of like a slasper. And I love Belle's magical ability, which is like, oh, and if she fundamentally understands something, she can cut it, which I find like to be a really, really cool mechanic. Like she has like battle against somebody until she is able to be like, oh, fundamentally, this is how this works. And therefore I should be able to cut it. I've always loved that mechanic outside of that. You would. There's the two girls. I forget their names. They're like the pair and like they use like ice magic and shit like that. It was like a lot of like cool mechanics. And those mechanics get explored upon further in this upcoming season in the manga. But yeah, so coming out of season one now, because like now that you're done with season one, I want to do I want to do like a full recap. So who's your favorite character? I guess Freeran. I don't usually like. I don't usually like the protagonist the most in a show. I like it other than like delicious and dungeon where Lyos is objectively the best. Unless you want to argue sentry. There we go. Yep. Yeah. But yeah, usually I don't love the main character is like the best character of the show. I don't know if there's really competition in Freeran like Freeran's a sillyist. She's the cutest like. And then the problem is like Stark and like for her very much like children comparatively to her and like she's like in charge of the group and like you get like seen for a little bit or see in or whatever his name was like he's like oh like sign sign. Yeah, he joins for a little bit. He's like I love I love like older women and you're like fucking hell. Yeah, dude, whatever. Um, but like he doesn't like he's not in the story long enough and then like Dankin is like introduces a somewhat major character through the first class major. Like he's the most important character out of all the ones like introduced I feel like but like yeah, Freeran I feel like is the runaway choice for a favorite character in self named Freeran anime. Yeah, anytime I think of like a standout moment other than Stark fighting the dragon and I do like Stark. I think he's really like would be my only second but there's a gap. Anytime I think of like a standout moment, it's involving Freeran. Yeah, 100% like like you said like Freeran versus Freeran when they're both like floating up in the air and like guessing exactly what like each other are about to do and there's like a fucking litany of lasers and just fern like hiding behind rubble waiting for like like for like a sniper shot at Freeran's head like JFK. I like if I had to pick a non Freeran character to be my favorite. I really do like the drunk priest from like Freeran's memories. He's great and then also sign was so cool. Yeah, Heiter. Yeah. Heiter is great. Yeah, so out of now you've seen the first 28 episodes. How what would you give the first season out of 10? Oh, I don't know about asking me none of that. What do you mean? I don't know. It's hard to tell like it because it's still so personal taste. It never like Episode one is still my favorite like Episode one has the most like interesting concepts and like the most interesting executions of a lot of those concepts and a lot of the themes and it never really like hits like talk of his original sin or Wonder Egg priority levels of like, oh, this is like going to change my life like it has other people. And that's why like that's why I don't love thinking of Freeran in like an out of 10 scale because it's so clear to me that like while I do enjoy it, it's just like not fully catered to like my tastes or it's not like the pacing isn't like what I prefer. No, that's not it. It is definitely like it's more like an experimental like the thing is like people are like, oh man, the story tells is so beautiful. The story tells is so like it's not relatable to anybody really like the story revolves around an immortal person trying to like find connection with mortals, right? I'm not saying like there's no aspects of Freeran's story that are like are not relatable to anybody but like the main crux of the argument of Freeran's plot is that like, oh, like this immortal person is struggling with the concept of reaching out to the mortals in her life because like life may seem so fleeting to them, but to her it's just like a blink of the eye kind of situation. And so like when you're talking about things like Takumi's original sin or like other like very emotionally hard hitting anime that we've seen over the last like year or so, like it's like very much like, oh, this is a problem that maybe I've struggled with. It's a problem that I can relate to. But like, I guess like there is definitely some people that could like see some like see some of themself in Freeran like people who struggle with interpersonal relationships and stuff like that. But I feel like it like it tackles such a fantasy issue that it's like it's it's kind of easy to keep yourself separated from it. I think you're looking at it too literally and you almost like scratch the surface of where people will find relatability because I find it very relatable in that it is it's less about like, oh, this person's immortal and you know, this and that. I think it's more about like someone who doesn't necessarily like see the value in interpersonal connections and is learning the value in those like Freeran doesn't see the value in them because her life is so long. But other people are like work oriented, for example, and they're like, oh, why would I waste my time going out to bars or like hanging out with people and watching a movie when I could spend my time like like, like, burying my nose and work so that I have a comfortable retirement and I have a bunch of money. You know, I think it relates to people like that. I think it relates to people who are like on the autism spectrum because like Freeran, a lot of people have said is very like autistic coded where she's not emotionless. She just hasn't necessarily like doesn't have a full understanding of her emotions and through like really diving into these new relationships. She's gaining a better appreciation for her past relationships and kind of regretting not living in the moment with them. Yeah, and so definitely fair. And I can see that like that was the case. Like you were talking about like, oh, how you like you personally like, like you don't know, find yourself was connected to it as as talk of the search for those. And I was like, I wonder, I wonder why. But yeah, though, now that you're caught up. Oh, well, I just want to say also last thing with Freeran, I think it's not even that like the story it's telling is like, not to my liking. Like I like the story and I like the concepts. I think it's like Freeran's formula is like to give you a very cozy 20 minutes and then two minutes of like really deep, hard hitting, crushing philosophy, which is like it works because it's like the vibe is kind of like, oh, it's almost like how a farmer would teach you a lesson where he's like, you know, I'm going to teach you about responsibility. And so you have to, you know, hack it wood for nine hours to eventually learn this lesson. That's what it feels like. And I do like when I get those two minutes of hard hitting philosophy, but my personal tastes are more like Takope's original sin where it is very emotional and it's a very philosophical, but like a ton of shit is happening, you know, like, yeah, I wonder. So actually, this is actually because this is something you talked about recently where I think I think you made a tick tock talking about how Matt Damon established that Netflix wants actors to basically say what the plot of the movie is three to four times because like Netflix believes that people are just on their phones when they're watching their movies. So like they kind of have to hit you over the head of like what you're trying to establish plot wise here. Do you think that maybe the reason that like you feel disconnected, like you feel more connection to talk of these is because like the themes are more pertinent, like it's more in your face, there's less like there's less like fluff around it, you have to do less work to dive to like the core theme messaging. Oh, I mean, I for sure have like a brain rotted like squirrel brain. I think it's just Takope's original sin is like constant relentless conflict. And Freerun is almost a show that's like, hey, you can be on your phone. That's all right. We'll get around to you disagree. I know it's not that I just I don't I don't disagree because like I'm thinking about I obviously it's been a while since I watched season one. I haven't rewatched it but I think about like this last episode and I was like, well, not a lot. Not a lot happened. I was like not a lot happened, but I enjoyed every minute of it right. And I was like, oh, you probably could have missed the fair amount of the first episode of season two and not lost all that much from Freerun. However, like it doesn't feel like a show that I would want to be on my phone during because I love watching it so much. Like I got all I got my phones like what I'm watching Togan Togan on key. Like I only go on my phone when I'm watching something I like don't genuinely enjoy that much. But like Freerun. I'm like, oh, this is like it's like you know how when we have a slate like it's like Friday comes around and it's like time to watch all the anime for the week. First thing I'm going to watch this entire season is going to be freerun. It's and that's over JJK like I'm watching Freerun first before I'm getting into JJK. And so I would never want to like scroll on my phone during it, but I can also see you like oh if you're watching Freerun you can miss 30 40% of the episode and be fine. Yeah, I mean it's it's just a cozy like Vibe show. And this episode episode one of season two Freerun is just another classic Freerun mess around. Yeah, they're looking for these crystals. What what what happened? Your buds fell out. I just I literally just karate chopped them out of my ear so hard. But what's it called? Yeah, this episode was just a classic Freerun and gang mess around. They're looking for some crystals. We got I think this episode does a good job at being like Freerun's back baby, which is something I'd feel I'd feel harder if I didn't like literally catch up like today. So did you feel that where it's like oh man the gang's back together. It's such a freerun ass episode of Freerun dude it starts with them doing some nonsense. So I'm like they stumble upon like magic nullifying crystals and they're like well this could solve all of our money issues but then they're like well we're not going to do it. And you're like oh well well if we stumble upon an enemy we won't be able to use magic. I was like tow the crystal around with you on a three meter long rope. Like have it have it behind you by four meters so that it's not affecting you and then sell this crystal the next fucking town. Use the gold to buy a mansion and never have to worry about money ever again. But they're like well that would nullify every plot point we have moving forward here. Well no they can't bring them with them because they'll fucking they're too vulnerable. That's what so like oh the magic nullification like range of this crystal is three meters right. And then I was like OK cool so like you can't have it in your pocket. You could tie it on a string and a 10 foot long string and then just drag it behind you. No you're right three meters is way too close for it to be that big of an issue. 10 feet behind you fucking cut off some of Stark's best animated jacket on earth. The lengths of his fucking hundred frame per second jacket and tow it behind you and we'll be OK until the next town. But then they but then they like so obviously you're like oh the episode starts with some nonsense. But then they fall into this cave right. And I'm like they're like running away from the cave and they're exploring this idea. Like this episode is big on Stark and Fern's character. And that's kind of like all the free run. It's like free run does go through some growth honestly but she's more a catalyst for the growth around her. And like I thought it was like a really sweet moment where like Stark was like oh you guys can't use crystals like because all the crystals you can't use magic down in this cave. And so it's like oh everything is like on to me and like free runs knocked out in the cave and and stark is like how can she sleep so good. And she's like oh because I trust you. And so like there's like there's like I thought there's a lot of like really awesome like a lot of really awesome character development character growth in this episode for Stark had to realize like hey these people trust me because like they understand my strength. And even if I have some like things that are deterrents to my character like they still trust me and love me as like as a person. And that was that was obviously that that character arc ran perpendicular with Fern's character arc from this episode which is that like oh Stark is getting actively recruited from work. And and and Fern has basically like she's an orphan from the southern part of the continent who lost her parents in a war. And so like there's very much a talking point being built around a the fact that Fern uses magic as a security blanket. Like oh she like she's like a very talented magician but like she's talented in magic because like it's a way for her to keep the world at bay to make sure that like she doesn't lose anything more. But also like we see her dealing with the idea of possibly losing Stark and like that just like and that would just be another thing that she would lose. And then like there's that reinforcement that like oh hey Stark cares about you and like therefore you don't have to worry about losing him. And I thought it was really cool that Freerun gave Stark like Freerun knew that Stark wasn't going anywhere like knew that he was a man of his word that he had promised to be with them and like he was going to stick around. So she was like hey you go talk to them go have a night with the boys kind of thing but like I know he's coming back. So I let those are like like in terms of like oh classic Freerun episode it was like there's some bullshit. There's like a fucking ridiculously well animated flashback to Freerun's original party battling again against like some kind of like gigantic dragon. And then there's like an incredibly emotionally hard hitting arc for two of the characters. Yeah. Yeah that the flashback was ridiculously animated. They were so sick. We're so back in the 90s with animation it's insane. There's been such a trend recently of just like the darkest animation of all time and not like being wise like it's like we're back to like 90s lighting. It's crazy. Yeah. No I agree. But yeah this was very like Stark and Fern oriented which is like half the episodes for sure. I do. I love the idea that it's like Freerun reflecting on someone she cared really deeply about while also traveling in a party featuring like young love like two characters in a blossoming relationship. I really like that. I do miss sign. I thought sign was such a good addition to the party and such a cool like counter to Freerun where he has his own type of like like elderly wisdom. He wasn't that old but I like Freerun like you said with like Stark how she does have even though she's a little like you know aloof and goofy sometimes she has this wisdom that she's gained from like centuries of life where she's like oh I know people like Stark he'll be back. And I liked sign being a cynical counter to Freerun where he was more like fuck the world because I'm so old. Yeah. So I hope I don't know I hope he comes back and I'd love I just love their kind of duality. Yeah I actually like so this is about as far as I've made it into the Freerun manga like I think like next arc is as far as I made it into the Freerun manga. So I actually don't know if you ever come back. I hope he does because like they sent him off like they sent him off to like go try and find his friend right. And there it was like this like he has a very short character arc where it's like oh hey he's met the party and then like hey you should go off to like do the adventure you always said you were going to do because like yeah like like her original party was four people so you would hope that like her new party would also be four people but honestly who's like who knows. But did you did you like this as like in terms of like what you saw from season one comparatively to like what we're getting the season to do you like where we're going. I liked it. I liked it a lot. I usually like my favorite parts of Freerun are those like highter moments where someone is giving like some really hard hitting wisdom that feels like they're coming from someone who has lived a thorough and rich life. And I didn't get like a moment necessarily of that here but that's just like it usually comes from like running into an older character. But I liked it a lot. I love Fern and Stark. I think they're very fun and I like seeing their relationship like blossom. But yeah like I said just a classic Freerun mess around. Yeah I also loved the goopy ass lava beam we got from the cut back there. Dude whenever listen whatever stuff just starts getting fucking melted. Best way quickest way to my heart. Yeah. Quickest way to me. How do you feel about the sub because we watched Freerun and Dub and we both love the dub cast. Did I watch it. Is it up being some cast. No it's not you watching in sub. I did. I honestly I. I don't even think I noticed I you're right. I did watch it in Dub the first time because I watched it a couple of months after it came out and the dub is incredible. Freerun's Dub voice actress. Oh dude it's always so funny. There's a meme that goes around the internet where it's like oh oh I hate Dub voice acting and then it's the hottest woman you've ever heard speaking over like over the voice. That's what that's what Freerun's voice actress does to me like that. It's the best. She's the best. I honestly I like this stuff. I feel like I haven't really noticed like the fact that I didn't notice like that I was watching sub I think tells me that I like the sub. Yeah I like the sub. I do think Freerun's voice actor and Dub is phenomenal. Like you said I like Stark better in sub personally. I think I like Fern better in I think I like Fern better in sub. I like them both in sub more. I don't mind. I think Fern is like equivalent sub and Dub. I like Stark a little more in sub personally. Awesome. All right cool. Well that basically wraps up everything we have with Freerun which brings us to our first schedule. Super Chat Clutter. All right so Daniel we got a couple of we got a couple of Super Chats to get through here today. So first Super Chat from Blastboy8000 love the pod sub or the Scooby Doo reactions. I asked before but have you checked out El Guapo versus the Narco Vampires. It's a really cool pilot. Nope. I don't even know what that could begin. I don't even know what that I was going to I was going to say you need to Google that expeditiously. I'm Googling it. El Guapo versus the Narco Vampires. I think it's from the guy who made LT Gray. Oh I think we talked about this last week didn't we. Yeah I think so. Either that or two weeks ago it looks cool. I can't tell what it is. Is this an animated TV show about a guy fighting drug dealing vampires. Yeah that's exactly what it is. It's like a luchador ass dude with like a Hell Messiah ass. No he's with like a priest and then there's like a Hell Messiah ass like vampire woman which I think is like a call back to. Dust Till Dawn. Yeah I'm seeing a lot of like differing like some of this is like 3D animation some of it's 2D but it looks sick. I'd check it out. I don't know what it's on. Awesome. That is probably YouTube. I guess anything. Fright Night 15 asks Nick have you started strange or let's try that again. Fright Night 15 asks Nick have you started Fate Strange Fake. It's peak. You got to get Danny on it. It's the best jumping off point for fate for new people in years. That is 100% fair. I have. I've watched the first also there's like episode zero which is 55 minutes long. There's episode zero again. There's like the movie episode zero one two. I just finished episode two. So Saber has been introduced. They're in custody. Saber basically just broke them out. The assassins just out there ripping through the police chiefs like 30 or so like heroes all that. Fate Strange Fake Danny you would like. You actually would like and they are right. It's a really good jumping off point for people to join the fate universe because it's not tied into any of the other fates. It's like a one off kind of situation. It's like a fake holy grail war. Very, very good. I'm enjoying it. The animation you know obviously it's fate has been ridiculously peaked. Anytime I get Gilgamesh and Akidu in the same universe I'm going to be a happy happy boy. Omitted Bow asks question. Do you think that Dragon Ball characters would be affected by Genjutsu the art of illusion? Because I think the answer is no. Friends say no. A lot of people tell you that Genjutsu is only capable to be used on people with chakra. I don't believe that to be true. Genjutsu uses chakra to augment people's five senses. But I think the answer is yes. But I don't think we'll ever know unfortunately. I think you could just clap in front of Goku's face and that would cause him to be in some type of illusion. I mean there's literally one of the most powerful moves in the Dragon Ball universe is Solar Flash. Which is just a high beam blast of the goddamn eyeballs. It's so tough being on an anime podcast with someone who knows so little about Dragon Ball. Solar Flash? Yeah we're going to get fucking devoured. People already barely like this podcast. You can't go around saying Solar Flash. Oh I'm sorry I mispronounced Krillin's fucking bald head move. What do you want from me? Oh Krillin put a new layer of shoe shine on his forehead and calls it a different ability. Fuck off. Last point it says watch him pull Spider-Ham out in a jar. I'm assuming you don't have Spider-Ham because Spider-Ham probably is in a highly augmentable toy. Oh my god he has Spider-Ham. Does he have every one of the Spider people? Yeah yeah yeah Solar Flare. You spelled Flare wrong don't even yell at me. Gone. What is it? What is? Oh my god. You hadn't even opened them yet? Gwen Stacy. Gwen Stacy comes with a Spider-Ham and also like a schoolgirl Gwen Stacy. But I didn't give a shit about Spider-Ham so I kept him in the box. You kept him? Dude there's so many pieces to that. There's a lot of shit. There's a camera. There's webs somewhere. There's a lot of Spider-Ham. That's the Spider-Ham web. I just wanted the Gwen. I don't need all this shit. I don't know why you don't need schoolgirl Gwen or Spider-Ham. That's crazy. So it's not in a jar. It's in a box ladies and gentlemen. Somebody said Danny Mon... or Silver Spectre do five rps at Danny Mon of Supremacy. Generally you're my favorite YouTuber. Nick is cool too I guess. Alright we're gonna blow right past that one. That was mean. Let's go. I don't need that today. I don't think Danny needed that. Danny's got enough toys guys. You don't need to add to his ego. Tarzan Man 1996 said, Danny I drew your OC but had to send it to your email. You said a DM it to you but never got back to me. Hope you liked it. Nick you're next. Love you guys. Somebody drew your OC. Nice to see you. Who... what was their name? Tarzan Man 1996. But had to send it to your email. Our DMs are flooded constantly so that's probably why he didn't get back to you. Email's the best way to reach out to me that's for sure. What is your OC? Are we talking about Squirrels McGee? Yeah it could be Squirrels Johnson. I don't know. I'll look into it. I'll check my DMs again and stuff. Okay and then Taco Lord with a $25 donation won't be staying the entire pop. I just wanted to give you my support. Really support you both. Keep up the great work. Maybe be less funny. I've almost crashed my car listening to your podcast too many times from laughing. Nice. Good. That just seems like a maybe don't listen to us in the car kind of situation. No I just agree. Don't talk to synonymous and drive. I want the crashes. That's what I'm going to do. That actually would probably be good. That's great for us. That's good viral marketing. We don't want you to be hurt but like oh hey oh oh like a police report is filed and it's like what cost is crashed and it's like Danny put coyote shit in a box. Yeah boy did he. Oh god I just got heartburn thinking about that. Specs for the $10 donation. I have a question. If you could write an anime manga or any other kind of media what would be the core themes of the story and how would you portray that in your medium? Me and Danny have talked about making a manga many times. I've kind of bounced around on what I want whether it was like a prison fight. We had we had a fuck what was it. Fist and cuffs. Fist and cuffs was great. Seal Team Shinobi has been a talking point. Oh that's cool. Yeah I love any time you take like a fantasy world and make it like gritty and tactical and shit. Yeah. What themes. What did you say? What themes would you do? I'd want to do like man I don't know. I feel like I'd want I'm trying to think of like what what anime have been really impressed me with their themes recently. I'm like like obviously like Takumi's original sin is probably thematically the most impressive show we've tackled in recent memory. But like I don't know if I want to tackle like how difficult it is to be a child in the Japanese countryside. Right. Yeah I I was like tackling the idea of like someone who's just like way in over their head like most of my short films are kind of about that. And I really like tackling like consequences which sounds dumb because like ideally everything does that but like everything doesn't do that. I love any time I like anime where like every arc has lasting consequences and the characters are like unrecognizable from arc to arc. Brandon Sanderson does that really well where like each book is like almost a different world from the previous one because so much changes book to book. And so yeah that kind of stuff. I'd probably want to tackle like concepts like a morality. Like I think like I find it so interesting when a story diverts from like what you would decide is like the correct moral choice. And so like that's been one of my biggest like one of my biggest fixations on board. So recently is the stories that like oh the characters like we have to kill this political figure because they're getting in the way of like us doing ninja shit. So in the first recent chapter of Boruto they're like trying to basically kill somebody who works for the Dimeo because he's getting in way of like their investigation. I'm like oh that's fucking sick. So yeah like immorality like like oh like how like moral lines can blur on a battlefield. I think that's probably something I'd want to tackle just because like even while I don't know anything about it like I've obviously like never fought in a war and thing like that. I find it very interesting when you subvert from beyond what the audience expects in terms of a moral compass. Somebody said Kareem Delittle I believe 3468 said watching at 3am from London. Hope you guys come to a convention here soon. I just bought a chain pearl necklace from Flareco amazing jewelry. Thank you. Wow. Are you sure it's not creamed a little. No it is not creamed a little. It's Kareem Delittle. But thank you. Thank you. Kareem is very nice of you. I'll tell Dorothy that you spread some low over there. The Greek we with $20. Can't save the pod. One segment you guys could watch for anime manga you haven't seen dropped or finished. Wait oh you wait wanted to wait want to recommend a fun segment for the pod you guys could watch in anime manga you haven't seen dropped or finished and do like a weekly book club thing to discuss what you've checked out. Until you're done. That's what best boys supposed to be. We just have a hard time keeping up with the shows were supposed to be watching each season. So the idea of being like oh I'm you know I'm going to squeeze another one in is like very unlikely for us. Yeah at least in this current season because we are up to our gosh door like any other season we would do it we never you brought kingdom you brought kingdom to my house a couple weeks ago you you popped on. Have you read it. No yeah that's right. I'm saying you did it. I'm saying you did it. I'm trying to give you credit. Right. Daniel kingdom volume three just came in my house. I got to read volume two to keep up with it. Oh storm to chow said have you guys checked out Darwin project. Is that the one. Yeah it's like a monkey guy with a weird like no top of his head. Yeah yeah and then he's like he's like a good guy. He's like everyone's like oh my god I can't believe because he's a human Z. It's the human Z one. It's kind of hard right now to think of that one because there's also the movie called the chimp I think. There was primate primate. Yeah there's the primate horror movie that just came out and that's so I'm getting those two mixed up all the time. Art 80385 says you guys seem to watch you and I are polar opposites English dub. It is a really fun dub. It's a romance comedy with a ghost story level dub. Interesting. You and I are polar opposites. Crazy the ghost story level dub is not reassuring. Yeah not the first thought yet not exactly the pitch that we need in 2026 that's for sure. How many more do we have. I feel like we should talk about anime soon. To. Okay. And then Ethan Riff with 20 Euro. Thanks Mike. Thanks Mike. Love the podcast Danny but sorry. You can't know where's Australian. Only watch and I'm doing Scottish. I only watch Nick's MC videos. I think he means NC but it's different in Scotland. I think it would have gotten an anime tattoo any advice from the UK. Oh not from the UK. So Scotland is not in the UK. Is it Scotland in the UK. No Ireland's not. I know Ireland's not. I don't want to end any scoffs. Who don't want to be a part of the. Anyways from the UK by the way trying to get you. I'm trying to get you guys to be invited to UK convention love you both. Yeah everyone wants us in London. Me and Danny would love to be in London. If me and Danny get paid and invited to go to London we'll fucking go in a heartbeat. Oh yeah. What tattoos do you get. I don't know man who's your favorite character. It depends on what anime you like. I always love the tattoos that are like a manga panel. Not like a manga panel like colorized and like reinterpreted. I mean literally like I want to see the border of the manga like on your arm. Manga panel sleeves always go hard. I've seen a million of them but they're always very good. And so as long as you have an artist who's able to like faithfully recreate whatever manga panel you want it's going to look good. It's a low barrier of entry in terms of difficulty so you don't need like a crazy crazy good tattoo artist. So yeah manga panel tattoos always go hard. And our last one that we're going to do right now what's your opinions on this from Matt Dwarfking. What's your opinion on Rapso Petty's hood dubs. I have no idea what that is. I don't even know what that could begin to be. I assume it's a YouTube thing. I assume it's like a silly dub. I watch a lot of a Yu-Gi-Oh Jamaican dub which I find very funny. It's not like the official Jamaican dub. It's like a comedy thing but hood dub. I think that's going to give you a lot of a lot of that's an entire genre of content. Yeah I guess it is. Yeah I haven't rapso pretty. No it's like a he's a YouTuber. Yeah I haven't heard of this. I almost thought I'd heard of it and I was like oh it's probably going to be this dude I'm thinking of but no I haven't seen any of this. I'll check it out. I like stuff like this. Yeah it's like an entire sub genre. It's actually a lot of very I think some of the genuinely most creative content out there comes from people like doing like redubbings of anime. It's fucking hilarious. Alright let's get to one that we can probably just blow directly through here. Do you watch this week's episode of Vigilantes? Fucking hell I keep forgetting this show exists. What are my notes? This wasn't as bad. This one I had some fun with. It's a fun episode but boy oh boy does a whole lot of nothing happen. This one's funny. I like there's this giant praying mantis monster and I can't tell if this show is like making fun of like woke people or if the show is genuinely woke. Cause I feel like their messaging is getting confused this episode. I wrote MLK but the M stands for mantis. I was trying to do it in an entire MLK thing but I was like I only got mantis. I got mantis likes. Mantis long. The longs for connectivity you spent with the K. This show was wild. There was like some genuinely good talking points about creating more inclusivity for minority groups. Cause it's like oh hey my body no longer functions within the set parameters that society has set up for me. Well it's funny and confusing because he's a giant praying mantis monster. And he's like my apartment building isn't accessible to giant praying mantises. And he says those exact words and I'm like. Yeah like I'm very for accessibility. I'm just an exclusivity. I'm all for exclusivity. We've made just based buildings. I'm all for accessibility. Like but how many fucking mantises could there be. Like it's got to be such an impossible task in the my hero world to be like hey I'm a big ass orca man. Where's my where's my accommodation. And it's like I couldn't have known you'd be an orca. You didn't exist until you were born. You are the one and only kind of person who needs sonar based walls and ocean front property. It's not like Zootopia where there's an established quantity of animals. It's like one day there will be a man who's an elephant and he needs to be able to fly a plane. Like. Yeah. Yeah. It's like oh yeah. Hope you made hope you made all of the Boeing 737 cockpits big enough for a goddamn giraffe's neck bitch. Yeah. So it's like tough because it's like this is one of the only instances where I'm like. I don't know if this is entirely the government's fault to not like keep up with this. There's at least three mantis people because all of the people that I saw was constantly like infiltrating the store of those are all like. They're anti guys. Yeah. But like only one of them is per momentous. Right. And then there's a part where he goes the city needs more accessibility for minority groups. And then one of the other guys who's sitting with him is like damn all you're doing is whining about your life. But it sounds noble when you put it like that. And I was like so does this show like calling him a whiny bitch like you know what I mean. Like. Yeah. And they're doing it they're packaging in such a way that is like very like eloquently spoken. Like it's like we need to be like more like more inclusive of our minority groups here like I no longer fit within the parameters that the city has set for me. But then like the two other guys are like well why don't you just go to like the assigned living places. And the guys like well why should I have to like only why should I be like withheld from like living a freer life because of how my body is structured. And they're like hey where do you poop. And he's like I covered my entire bathroom in shit. And it's like what are we what are we aiming for here. I know it's like yeah they were raising like really good points and like saying them like very eloquently. But it's so tough to understand it like yeah the show will then like be little the points that it's making by being like yeah you're just kind of complaining all day. But maybe someone should do something. And it's like well don't say he's just like whining about his life. Yeah. He can't shit without destroying a bathroom. Yeah like he's literally living in your warehouse that's filled with dick pills and hair growth serum. Like he's not living a good life right now because of how his body is. And so I thought that was rather interesting. I thought it was like kind of funny but like at the same time I was like yeah I feel like we are kind of complicating the issue here. I also thought it was wild that in this episode they decided to introduce food kaiju. Yes that was interesting. Like like oh first of all my jumps to Okadawa which is like thousands of miles from Tokyo. And then like mind you a minute which is an insane like an insane speed beat for all my and then fight and then cubes gigantic sentient tofu. And it's like how is this not a problem in my hero act. It has all my gales all the food kaiju because it happens again in this episode. You see it coming back from another thing where he was fighting gigantic sentient tempura shrimp. Yeah are those just considered monsters. Like do you reach a point where you're not considered a person anymore if you're like big enough. Clearly because they're like oh no the soybeans like the mutated soybean made a tofu monster. And all my no kill rule apparently blew out the goddamn window. I know there was one point where a guy goes there are systems in place that allow young folk to. Sorry there are systems in place that allow young folk to find a mentor with a similar quirk. I wrote meanwhile a praying mantis can't poop without destroying his bathtub. Yeah like it's just like I have I've there's no way that we're able to figure out the three people who are able to slow down speed but we can't figure out how to dig a bigger hole in the ground or captain or captain can't fit in his own goddamn apartment. I also wrote dudes out here trying to punch eight times in an instant in his laptops just like a gun would suffice. Do you remember that. Also I love that he's walking away from his punching bag just like model logging like just giving us all the information for no goddamn reason. He's like oh that's probably the limit of what I can do right now I tried to punch eight times and it's like I just show like I don't I was so weird that you're just saying it all out loud to me like threw me out of it. It was just talking to his laptop. I guess. And then they're like yeah like the guns whenever you use those guns it works and he was like no no no no no that would. That would ruin this story basically like yeah don't get a high speed guy a gun that will absolutely kill the majority of the people he's fighting. I know the guy in the laptop. Is that all for one. I'm assuming it's either him or Dr. Garaki. It's got the same exact voice as all for one. It's probably of knowing what I know about this story I believe it to be all for one. Gotcha. Because like I think everything everything in my hero academia ties back to all for one at some point in time. Also I want to talk about something that I feel so this episode breezed over way too quickly with no actual conclusion. So they introduce a group of mecha Godzilla karate members that are trying to bang SA high school girls and right crawler comes to stop him like to stop them and then they launch a series of missiles at him with their fingers. Not very karate like a and then like he's like oh I was able to deflect the missiles later on in the episode but like from what we see he gets defeated by the mecha Godzilla karate team just in time for the 14 year old scantily dread glad rest pop step to get there and then like they cut away as she's screaming because like all of them are like hey pop step let us train with you let us love you and then they caught away as she's screaming like gross and then we never hear from them again. Yeah this show is so like out of care or like uncharacteristically so much weirder with like the underage like sexuality stuff or like whatever like sexualization with underage stuff and spend like that since season one in a way that like has never been this apparent in the original show it's like the most glaring it's like the most glaring reminder that this is not written by the same guy. Yeah not written by Horakoshi and it's like but also at the same time it's like even as a grievous is the sin of all of that is it's like did we defeat those guys are those mecha Godzilla karate guys still running around like it's introduced out of nowhere and it's not dealt with it just like used as a medium to show us that like Koichi has the ability to deflect things now and that's like I guess she stopped them I guess that's what it is she must have stopped them. We don't know they don't show us like that's the thing that the vigilante does they just use small little segments to introduce like things that further the plot and then abandon those small little segments nothing has consequences. Right how do you feel about his like new use of powers. I mean I guess it makes sense and then and then they introduce the fact that he's able to fire like basically like a duke and then they're like he like breaks a window and they're like what we can't use that ever again. He is like a sumo style I he better use it again like that'd be so stupid and ridiculous. Um but yeah if he can do that he better be able to suck things from a distance because this makes so much less sense than if he has like kind of a force pull because all throughout the show his power is like suction but also movement right and so he has propulsion to allow him to move. The power has been the ability to repel that's why he's able to glide because it can repel his body from the ground. Yeah I guess so well but then he climbs on to buildings with it. Yes because he finds the inverse of his ability that was recently that was this season where he figures out oh he was able to like clamp himself onto the side of the bullet train. I guess so no you're right yeah he was I always like just considered that he was suctioning but yeah I guess regardless he should be able to pull stuff. 100% it is it is a really cool exploration of like oh how this ability that seems relatively simple could work like it is introduced and that's kind of a thing that I feel like you really like about the My Hero Academia Universe. It's like oh finding ways to get creative with your quirk and it's like oh we got introduced to this quirk at its worst it's like oh I need to put three points of contact on the ground to slide around. I get to be fucking sliding Joe for a little bit. It's funny it's funny that he's like oh I just forgot I didn't actually need to do that. Yeah that's a classic classic MHAism where it's like oh my quirk works differently because like when I was a kid I was out of control with my quirk so like I suppressed my ability to use it the correct way. It's like fucking it's like Todoroki with his like it with his fire he doesn't use his fire because his mom got burnt he hates his father all that kind of thing it's like oh don't worry there's always more to the quirk that we realize just as childhood trauma and stop us from using it to its fullest potential. Well Todoroki's different because he's making a conscious decision to not use his fire whereas this guy genuinely thought he needed three points of contact and then he's like oh that's right no I don't. Yeah something like this exactly happened in MHA and I cannot remember with who. Like somebody at some point was like oh yeah I've been using my quirk the wrong way this entire time because something happened to me as a child and I do not remember who it is. But anyways yeah I guess I don't know this episode was fun ish I thought it was weird that the main characters of the story don't show up until 14 minutes in and the most important thing that happens in the first 14 minutes of this episode is that a police officer takes a bath that makes him smell good. Right. Yeah I did notice that they didn't show up until like way later which again is kind of weird for vigilantes because it's like they're spending so much time on the established heroes from my hero and it's like if you're being a spin off like I'm more interested in the spin off characters. It was twice I love having a live chat I love having a live chat filled with hundreds of people it was twice 100% twice like it gets revealed like oh twice isn't able to use his quirk at like the highest level of his ability because he was like oh I like I lost my mind using my quirk. Yeah. It'd be funny if it was Hawks and like in season seven Hawks is like I've been using my quirk wrong the whole time I'm actually a crab. Bust out crab. Crab neck like crawls out of his skin. Yeah like. This is why I suppressed it. They're like alright but how are you a hawk this whole time. My quirk is I'm whatever I want to be it's like what the fuck. It's like Sun Eater but like he's just like whatever it's not what he eats it's what he wants to be. But alright that's enough for vigilantes here. I want to dive into man we have so much to talk about here. We should do like worst to best. What do you think was I guess technically the second worst episode of the week. Second worst episode of the week was probably. By the way clarification that doesn't mean freerun was the worst of the week we just coincidentally talked about freerun first. Vigilantes I guess is technically the worst because we keep forgetting we're watching it. I the only reason like Crunchyroll was being weird when I was in a harbin and I was like it wasn't allowing me to download it for the flight. And I was like what if I what if I just didn't watch it this week like I was close. I was listen I listen I got a couple I got a couple more vigilantes episodes in me until until I have to have a serious conversation with this with this story here. I would say second worst after that would be Fire Force. What I'm not saying Fire Force had a bad episode I'm just saying everything else everything else is pretty good this week. That's crazy. That's crazy Fire Force is so back it's not as good as season one or two but this is like the best of season three. Okay then what would it be. We're talking about Fire Force now now we're talking about Fire Force now. Hell's paradise you're out of your mind. What's happening. I like everything else what do you want from me. Everything outside of this everything from this week outside of vigilantes was very good I have I have no real idea of what's better and what's worse. Okay that's fine let's talk about Fire Force. Okay. All right let's do the week. I listen I like this episode I like this episode I'm just saying like oh it's not as good as I enjoyed everything else. Listen I like a lot unlike a lot of other fans from JJK have the ability to read and I enjoy when JJK does world building and so I like this episode of JJK. If that's the answer you wanted from me Danny I'm not going to give it to you. Sure sure JJK episode three of season three got a 7.7 on IMDB because nobody in this fucking fandom knows how to read. Hey Nick guess what if I wanted to read I'd pick up a fucking manga. Okay then it's such a good job and it's such a good job of building out what's going on with the color games. It's so much better in the anime than it is in the manga and let's talk about Fire Force we'll get to it in a second. Let's talk about Fire Force. Do you want to talk about JJK. You know fine let's talk about JJK. Let's talk about JJK. All right look I've had enough to my nipples with this fandom dude. Dude this episode I was baiting you into saying this was the worst episode of the week because then I jokingly was going to say no it's not. This episode was hilarious. I was cracking up during this episode I was having a real hoot in a holler with just how buried into its JJK isms it was. One point Tengin goes now let's begin to discuss so and such and I was like what do you mean I'm 14 minutes in. And then we're just getting into our third slide of this PowerPoint of this PowerPoint demonstration from Tengin. It was so funny it was such a presentation. I wrote where is it. Juju about the calling games. Oh at one point Tengin goes you'd look like this too if you were 100 years old. Tengin has four eyes. No I wouldn't. No I wouldn't. Tengin is 500 years old and also now a cursed spirit. So like yeah that's where the four eyes come from. Well like Tengin's over here looking like a bottle of like melted toothpaste he's like you'd look like me if you were old. I wouldn't. I promise I wouldn't. I'd like to think that's a fate I could avoid ma'am. Yeah I just wrote very nice presentation you've put together here and I will admit if you have to have an episode that is like all dissecting this insanely elaborate game that they've put together for a full uninterrupted 22 minutes they did the absolute best they could. You give this to the one punch team this will be six frames of animation over 22 minutes. 100% this would have been the biggest budget saver episode of all time. They really put their whole fucking back into this episode which I really respect. I like the visuals it kept me engaged. It like it'd be so easy for this to be an episode where I just like glaze my eyes over the entire time or like look on my phone and pretend I know what Japanese is so that to justify it. But I like I was engaged enough to watch the full explanation that doesn't change the fact that every time I think we're about to cut to a new scene and Tengin goes now on to this is the first episode. I go on to this is subsection category B of my PowerPoint. I like automatically asked to read the appendix. If you didn't read the appendix is going to be really confusing for you. Yeah Tengin's like oh fuck they didn't read the appendix. Oh I'm so far. All right 50 minute episode here we go. Oh you didn't watch the prequel you watch the prequel episodes dumb bitches. Oh yeah. Oh I will say also something there is something hype about there being a full episode dedicated towards hyping up the Kolem game like yeah I usually don't like a calm before the storm kind of episode because it's usually just exclusively sticking around. This had a good tone of like hey like next episode episode shit is going to kick off. Get ready like I really felt the sense of anticipation so I liked it. It was a very listen I thought like so as somebody who's read the entire manga. This episode did a better job explaining the Kullin games than the manga did like this is another one like this is another point into the entry of JJ K's anime is better than its manga. And this was but you're 100% right. Listen I there is a long standing joke in the JJ K community that the JJ K fandom doesn't know how to fucking read. And it is very funny because objectively JJ K is kind of like a reading comprehension like test. It's like OK like listen JJ K is complicated. It's not like so complicated you won't be able to understand it if you don't try but there's a lot of people out there who simply don't try. But at the same time that is a double edged sword because like listen there are ways to write a story and ways to build out arts and ways to build a power system that are substantially less complicated. Then KK makes it and get like that's like everyone's oh what are you a literate you don't understand JJ K it's inherently complicated as the person who probably understands JJ K better than most people on Earth. It is my job to understand it. Let me just tell you right now it could be less complicated to know male effect of the universe. Well it's also not fair to be like hey here's a 22 minute long actual Ted talk. Here's an actual Teng talk. And then when people are like hey that's boring. It's not fair to be like you're an idiot because that is in objectively more boring way to deliver information than like a dozen other possibilities. Yeah. So there's a couple of things that I just in case you your eyes did glaze over here or any of the fans. It's not complicated. I don't understand. That's my big question. I keep seeing videos of people being like let me explain the calling games. It's so like easily laid out. I don't understand what people are confused about. Don't make me explain it please. I'm not going to. I wouldn't get that explanation for me. What is Kogane real quick. Can you just go ahead and tell me what Kogane is. I don't know the like proper nouns but I get the gist of it. It's this fucking game. The only thing I am confused about is fucking Kojaku. Maybe I'm not confused. I'm going to clarify. Kenjaku. It's basically a Japan wide spell that he's casting. That's what's enforcing the game. Right. Yes. So okay because at first I was like well why does anyone have to participate. Like what but it's it's like a Japan wise spell wide spell. He is casting and it's like an established spell. So like at one point he must have won the game because there are people who well there are a ten get explained that like he can't just make the rules unfair like it goes through checks and balances. Yes. And so the game master. Right. He's not the game master but he's the one like initiating the game and if you win you can add a rule but you can't subtract any rule and so that's how they have points. You can add a rule that doesn't alter like you can add a rule that can't basically like permanently alter the game so you can't be like oh this rule ends the game. Right. But so their goal is to find some kind of loophole to make a rule to get 100 points and make a rule that helps them win the game and also yet. Yeah. Yeah. They want to win the game. They want to get important people out of the Cullen game. That's kind of like their main main goal but also like yeah they want to they want to win the game. Yes. 100% Yeah. So you get a classic fucking you kill a sorcerer you get points you kill a civilian you get less points. Sorcerers that don't participate will have their powers removed. I don't understand. I haven't seen a single person who was like this is too complicated. I've only seen pricks like you who are like you don't understand it so let me explain. I OK. So from the top here tell me who can tell us what he has to do with you G. All things you should know. He's the brain. He's the little brain guy right. Please. I'm being so smug about it. Yes. He is the little brain guy. He's in a little body. He's in a little body. What does he have to do with you G. I don't fucking know. But like I never know what's going on with you G. That's from a lack of interest in you G. Not because I'm dumb. Don't call me a prick who says you don't understand things and then immediately tell me you don't understand one of the most important points. OK. Do we is this a spoiler though. No. No. OK. Go ahead and show us last episode Danny. Oh with his upbringing and shit. No because that was also cryptic and stuff. I'm having 600 goddamn people in this chat right now. Go Nick spoilers. Nick be careful of spoilers. Nick. I'm saying. I Danny it's not a spoiler. It's not a spoiler Danny. They showed us last episode Danny. His mom had scars on her forehead Danny. What do you think that means Danny. That's but that's not it wasn't explicitly stated like I'd have to figure that shit out because the scars also don't look like ghettos. They just don't not enough that you can belittle me for not making that connection. How many people in this fuck ass universe have stitch marks across their forehead Danny. It's two. It's two people three if you count nor toshikamo who they talked about in this episode. Everyone looks fucking weird in one way or another. Chozo's got new face paint this season for some reason. If you notice that we're talking we're talking. Danny Danny because he's he's found brotherhood with UG we've had Danny look at the goddamn comments. Look at the goddamn comments Danny history will not remember you kindly Danny. What are they saying. They're saying Danny say it out and say it Nick. This is the one time it's not a fucking spoiler. Yes they fucking do. Nick is crashing out. It's a practical. All right. Well if it's not a spoiler then say. I want you to say Danny I want you to say what you think what you think happened. I just don't I really don't know. I'm not enough of a JJK fan plot wise to know and I've admitted that before. I can't I can't I can't say why you if it's not a you to come to the realization on your own. I really you like don't even understand how little I I'm invested in UG. I'm invested in every other aspect of JJK. It wasn't until season two that I became invested in UG and unfortunately plot wise all he's doing is fighting in season two and then regretting Tsukuna taking over his body. Kenjaku is UG's mom. Kenjaku was UG's mom. Well he was in UG's mom right. He was he was in her. He was he was in her brain. Yes he was right. So he's not he's not UG's mom. He was like possessing UG's mom. Well I guess I guess but UG's mom dies before him and Jin UG's father are able to have a child and so Kenjaku takes over her body and then Kenjaku takes some back shots from Ginny to Dory. Yes. Canonically Kenjaku has fucked UG's dad and then Kenjaku became pregnant with UG and had UG. Gotcha. I guess that does make sense because those are memories of UG's birth. Yes. Yeah. I see. What about but what what does that have to do with the Kolen game discussion. It had I guess that I cannot tell you that I. Well all right then. Well but that's not me not understanding the Kolen game. That's me not having that information yet. I I I guess I guess I guess I wanted you to do is come to the realization that Kenjaku was UG's mother. That's it. Well but you told me already that she had the scars in the previous episode. I don't have to tell you. You reminded me. You reminded me. Yeah. But I'm saying that has nothing to do with the conversation of people not understanding the Kolen game. I'm genuinely asking what people don't like what aspect of it people don't understand because we also know that his goal someone in chat was like what's his goal and maybe this isn't his ultimate goal like maybe it changes. But the goal that we've been presented is that he wants to evolve all of Japan which I find it strangely specific. He was confused all of Japan with Tengen because now the tank and hasn't fused with a pupil. He confused they confuse with whatever. And so by fusing all of Japan's population with Tengen then curse energy will be evolved. That's what Kenjaku wants. Right. And then and that's bad because at first I was like that sounds not bad. That sounds rad in fact. But then Tengen's issue with it is that if one I guess if one person gets upset the whole. Everyone will become evil. But is why why doesn't that work. Why doesn't that work in the inverse where if one person is good everyone will be good. That's a fantastic point. That is a point I've never thought of. And boy oh boy is it a question that is never answered. Really really good question. Is that a dumb question. No no no I'm being completely completely real. That is a great great question. And and boy is that a is that a nothing burger that never gets answered. I guess I guess the issue is that it's the odds even if the odds are 5050. Those are too dangerous odds. Right. If like they could all be good. I don't know. Well no because the way Tengen makes it sound is that like they will evolve and become one at a neutral state. And then there is only an opportunity for the whole to be bad. Right. I man I wish I had answers to these questions. OK. I without without spoiling anything I wish I had answers to these questions. I'm going to say I plead the fifth. OK. Basically basically yes what Kenjaku is trying to do what Kenjaku is trying to do is he wants all of Japan to be one gigantic meet you. And that gigantic meet cube is probably going to turn evil. And therefore that gigantic meet cube will be unleashed on the entirety of the world and the entire world to become a gigantic meet cube. And the reason that Kenjaku wants to do that is. OK. And that's me. It's hmm. It's right. Well at the baseline what we know now is that he wants to meet cube everybody. And it's funny. You do everybody. Yes. And the reason it's only Japan because that's just the parameters of the spell because Tengen was like and then eventually the world will follow suit. But it's funny that right now he's like I want to evolve Japan only. Well Kenjaku is Kenjaku is Japanese. Question mark. I mean his name is Kenjaku. Yes a fair very fair. And also because cursed energy does originate from Japan. Like you would need the only place that like has enough cursed energy to pull off a merger like that with Tengen is is like Japan. Also this fact that like after Tengen failed to do the merging with the star people Tengen became all of Japan. Right. So there's there's that as well. But yes. And then somebody just brought up a good point in chat that curse energy is inherently negative. And so I saw that. That's interesting. Yeah there was always a possibility. There's always the likelihood that like cursed energy was going to become like cursed energy. A cursed energy high mind would always become evil. And then also another big takeaway from this episode is that Angel slash Hana is introduced. Yes. That reminded me so much of Chainsaw Man. Why? It's not a introduction. Why? Just let me just see the character design. As you remind me of the angel devil. She doesn't look like her or him. But I yeah. Yeah I remember I'm looking at it now because I remembered thinking that this was just a gorgeous frame. It's just like for some reason it just looked beautiful at the lighting and everything was great. Her character design isn't even like crazy. She's just like a woman in a sweater with wings. Yes. But it was very cool. And she has a real ass angel. I guess you can't tell me but I guess it's kind of weird. It has to do with like the reincarnated sorcerers versus awakened sorcerers kind of situation. Which we'll get to with time. Also we got an introduction of Takaba as a character who I am so curious to see if you like. Because Takaba either has the possibility to be your favorite character of all time or a person who completely ruins season three for you. Takaba has a different name. It starts with an H right. That's what he usually goes by I thought. The dude with the like braids. Are we talking about someone else? The braids. It's Takaba. The one who everyone. What? Takaba is the comedian. The guy at the end of the episode with the little yaw. Oh yeah that was really cool. I thought you meant the guy that they alluded to who is potentially stronger than Yuta. Yeah Akari. Because they also teased him. Yeah the comedian bit was really cool. And he has like this big freak out at the end of the episode. And they do like a cool title card with him. I thought. He is a very fun character. One of my favorite characters in all of 2DK. He has a his curse technique is called comedian. I'm not going to tell you how it works. But it's really interesting. It's really funny. I do genuinely wonder. He's a really confusing character in the manga because he is he's like the big arc that we've already established with him is that he's kind of a failing comedian. And that's because he does what is essentially like 1980s Japanese comedy. So like his entire character arc revolves around understanding like 80s and 90s Japanese physical comedy. And so all American readers and like a lot of Japanese readers when they read the part of the manga that like involved talk about or like I don't understand these jokes at all. And so like a lot of people like when like even I don't understand the jokes that he makes like half the time. I actually don't understand any of the jokes he makes. So I'm really curious to see if with the anime they decide to change his jokes to make them like more topical or something like that because like a big talking point from a lot of characters like a lot of people reading the manga. Like I don't fucking get any of this. So like it does a really good job of building out the idea of talk about that nobody understands his jokes. So it is it is very very fun. And I'm very curious to see how you feel about him. Chat is obviously you know more context than me. But chat I think is on your ass too harshly right now because they're like Nick's spoiling by saying he's a comedian. They say he's a comedian like he's introduced as one. So I understand your plate. Yeah. I wonder if they'll adjust it for the dub only. Maybe actually. Yeah that could be because like that thing is like like there's like they give him like a Jerry Seinfeld voice. That would be great. That would be so I'd have to watch the dub if they did that. What's the deal with the calling game. But anyways I I would find it really fun if they changed up a little bit but also fuck was it going to say. I completely forgot I spaced it. But yeah so talk about got introduced very excited to see how he goes. But yeah cool. All right that is basically everything that I had from JJK. I think it's funny that people are like the big news of the week is that this episode got a seven point whatever on I am. Seven point seven seven point a high seven is news like that's high for an episode that is just a Ted talk like. Considering what it was about. Yeah that is not JJK falling off if anything that is the most impressive feat the whole series has ever pulled off. Yeah. Oh that's what I was going to say in Dantan remember when they they were like the the shrimp guy was singing that song that was like revealed to be from like an energy like an energy shot. It was like season one and he was like singing the song but he was singing it in English and it was like from the energy shot and that was like kind of like a change. That was like a moment where they could have changed the localization but didn't. But yeah no that is actually very impressive a seven point seven for an episode that is twenty minutes of explaining the season that's about to come is like kind of impressive. I know the average rating of your of your standard Togan Anki episode for for an episode that is just yapping. I'll take that average episode. No you're high. That's a high token on the episode. That is that's some of Togan Anki's best work being a fucking PowerPoint and JJK is like a pretty big accomplishment. All right let's get to the episode that you were offended that I tried to talk about earlier. Let's talk about Fire Force here. Fire Force was so fucking good this week. This is the only time this whole season. Fire Force has approached the concept of good. I loved it. There is so this is the episode this episode three of season or it's episode two of season of core two of season three which would make an episode 14 of season three. Yes. And so this is an episode that focuses mostly on Betty Mar-Shinmon and his battle against his father or his adoptive father. I don't remember if he's an actual father but they have left they have both Shinmons and his father has basically come back as a doppelganger to protect the seventh out of eight stones. Out of eight stone pillars and Betty Mar-Rose the battle against him and it's a big focus on Betty Mar's ability to use the nature in and all stuff like that. So what did you like about this episode? I mean if we just scratch the surface obviously the animation was great. This was like it wasn't even just like pretty like it was fluid and there was like really cool changes in art direction like the water is a reminiscent of like. Old Japanese paintings like that famous wave painting. Yeah, the water was different. They were getting a real abstract with the attacks showing like big flashes of art. There was a moment where what's the big circular attack called again you mentioned it when the nature in was blasting Betty Mar-Rose adoptive father and it was this like really cool kind of like abstract. Visual like they just got really experimental with it and had a lot of fun and as a result I had a lot of fun. If we go below surface level it was just hype. It was a cool like Benny Mario focused episode that brought a lot of like emotion to that character where it's like hey I took your place after you were killed. Here is how much people respect me without fearing me whereas with you you were mostly feared and respected because of it. And I liked that dichotomy. That was really cool. Yeah, I thought it was a really cool. I thought like outside of the fact that like it was the best fight we've seen in all of season three which is really nice and like anytime Betty Mar was going to be on screen you understand you're going to get some real good like boom. And that's always the best way to make me like lean forward into the TV. But outside of that I thought this was a really cool commentary on like how religion can be used as a shield for like what would otherwise be considered horrifying acts. Like I thought it was really cool that like so like obviously a company seven in Asakusa is very much like a like a thinly veiled like like representation of Japan. It's like oh old Japan still exists in the new Tokyo Empire and it exists in Asakusa. And I thought it was really cool that they're like hey one we're separated from the very clearly like Christianity cult that is all the other companies like the Holy Soul Temple. But two because we're not masked with like the veil of religion the leader of the Asakusa fighting force has to shoulder the burden of every life we've taken. And I thought that was so cool like them having a running number of every single person every single infernal they put the rest. It's not even it's not even put to rest by them right like it's like oh hey we're just burdened with the responsibility of killing these infernals and these infernals are people and these infernals have families. And I thought it was so cool to see that conversation between Betty Mar's father and himself and be like hey you're going to be the head of Asakusa's firefighters from someday. And all of the lives that you take like I've taken 289 lives while being the leader of this fighting force. All the lives you take are going to fall squarely on you and then that all comes to a head with him like a person that's revered as a God in Asakusa being cut down by a child. And I thought it was such a neat and cool conclusion to this backstory. No I really loved that kid that Betty Mar who like comforted like being the one to kill his adopted father that was really cool. I always love when fire force like tackles the idea that like what they're doing is fucked like it's never been like yeah let's go kick some infernal ass like from day one it was always like these were people and like maybe still are. Yeah it was just like it was just kind of like a return to form but still you still feel some of the residue of season three were like the sound effects aren't as a basic. And the pacing isn't as like artsy and abstract. But it was pretty cool the adola was making the environment weird because I guess the adola like latches on to imagination and I'm now seeing where is so leader who the fuck thinks the moon is this like cackling freak. You know what I mean like how do we get so leader moon and sun. So don't tell me don't tell me what the fuck are you doing. I'm not going to but I'm just saying that chaos is being introduced like chaos is being introduced like it's like oh the waves even after Betty Maru and his father's fight. Like the waves stay that way like they're they're made that way because that fight and they're like oh like the pyrokinetic they say in this episode the pyrokinetic output of that fight caused for the waves to change. And so that's like a thing to keep your eye on moving forward in season three is that like oh high levels of pyrokinetic output and with all these pyrokinetics like they keep talking about how second and third generation pyrokinetics are getting stronger. The higher the level of pyrokinetic output the more like chaos that could be introduced the more that adola can be brought in that kind of thing. And so that was that was a really cool to see that start to happen. Yeah. We start to see that we start to see those cracks into soul leader which is unfortunately unfortunately the biggest spoiler that everybody knows. I wish I was that was a less like provasively known like topic that like oh like oh fire force is a prequel to soul leader that kind of thing like everybody knows it. And like obviously they're like kind of laying it on thick now in fire force and they keep they keep showing the moon and all of that. And it's like if you've seen soul leader you know where we're heading. But yeah no I love that there was a little leaning into like traditional Japanese art because of like who Benny Maru is as a person because of his connection to like traditional Japan. And I thought this was a really good episode. I do believe this is a genuine return to form for fire force. I hope that it's going to keep heading off in this level of quality. However that being said and maybe just me looking back at season one and season two with rose color glasses here. Like I was watching this fight and I was like oh this isn't animated to the level that it would have been if it was in season one or season two. I mean that's just true. Like it's not rose colored glasses like season one and season two had such a great style. That's just not present here. I had great pacing. It was a weird and meditative and abstract. Yeah. And yeah it just it's lost that's become a little more generic. Speaking of have you you should go back and watch an episode from season one of JJK. Yeah. And just see how different this fucking show has become. It's it's insane especially now in these slow moments like now that we're not even like doing fights. And it's just like Yuki and Jozo and Utah and usually talking to Tangim. Like just looking at like the outlines that they use to draw people are like slightly red now and shit like it is not like it is completely different animation style. It's absurd. Yeah it's great. It's so much more it's so much more unique. I actually absolutely adore it. Yeah. Do you want to talk about Hell's Paradise. Does that mean you think that sentence to be a hero the best episode of the week. Oh no that's not true. Oh man I didn't even think about what I would think the best episode was. Yeah right. I think Fire Force was my favorite. Was it really. I would say it was for me. Yeah I mean Freerun was good but like I said it was another like classic Freerun mess around it didn't give me like if Freerun gave me the same feeling that episode one of Freerun did where I was like oh man I got to like contemplate the meaning of life. Right now. Yeah. Then that hit me but like I like that Fire Force stepped out of its shell and like gave me something so unique. That's fair. It got very very unique with like how it was animated and like the story it was trying to tell. It was nice to have Fire Force like a Fire Force episode that like actually meant something. It was like oh oh we're going to like the introduction of like what what it truly means to fight in the Osku to firefighters and I thought that was that was pretty dope. I would say out of the two episodes between Hell's Paradise and Sentence to be a Hero. Ooh. Ooh. I would say Sentence to be a Hero was better. Maybe. I don't know. I mean Hell's Paradise was fucking swinging in like the first half of this episode. All of the episodes speak were swinging. Yeah this was a great week. Sentence to be a Hero was good too. There's what do you want to talk about? Let's talk about Hell's Paradise then. Oh well because you like Sentence to more so if we were doing best to last. I yeah okay let's talk about Hell's Paradise. You're absolutely right because my notes for Sentence are much longer than my notes for Hell's Paradise. Okay. Because this episode of Hell's Paradise is very fun. We get like the continuation of the battle between Asuchobe and Jesus Christ and Gabimaru. I can't believe you knew Asuchobe. The only one I know is Gabimaru. I know all of their names actually. I've read the manga so the guy this is my second time interacting with this with this universe here. Nick I've grown up with people whose names I don't know. You reading the manga doesn't impress me. My first my job is to remember names and attacks. That is like my fucking my role on this podcast is for you when you go and then I tell you the name. That's fair. I just can't imagine retaining so many names. Yeah but this episode of Hell's Paradise was like it was like good. I just don't remember like there was nothing about this episode that I was like oh my god what a masterpiece. Like it's just to me this is a classic Hell's Paradise mess around where it's like oh we get a crazy fight between Asuchobe and Gabimaru. Like and like Asu's losing himself in like the towel like he's like tapping into towel. He's going through his like Kishibe transformation because he's like basically a Lord Tenzin adjacent at this point in time. And he's like he like stabs his brother Toma in the battle against Gabimaru and like it's this kind of interesting battle where the two of them are like basically killing themselves to try and kill each other. And neither of them really know why they're doing it. Outside of that we got like a little bit of the Segiri X Gabimaru action. And yeah that was that was about it for me. I'll agree with you that the second half of the episode is definitely a classic Hell's Paradise mess around. The fight in the first half was awesome. I thought it was so sick. I love Gabimaru's like fire ninpo how it's all like rainbow-y. Yes. Oh the sentence be hero and Hell's Paradise do flame in such a way that I've really I've never seen before in like the animated space. Like obviously like Naruto is also pretty well known for it's like crazy high fire release. But like something about the color spectrum they use in Hell's Paradise. And I also think it's just because Hell's Paradise in general is so pastelli and watercolor-y that like they do such a good job of making it look vibrant. And so like when like Gabimaru does things like aesthetic blaze something like that like a burn away all of like awesome like tendrils and all that you're like oh my God looks incredible. Yeah. No I was just very impressed with this opening fight. And it's also like I just love that Hell's Paradise is such a high quality but such a slept on show. So anytime it gives me an episode that's like either great or just above great. I'm like I'm a ride or die. I'm like this needs more eyes on it. This deserves the sentence to be a hero treatment. And for some reason no one talks about it because I like I love the power system so much. Yeah we do get Gabimaru gets his memories back. Yes. Because they boost each other's Tao. Yes. The whole the whole time he was fighting this guy. I was like if he just fucked this dude would that boost his Tao like would that get him his memories back. I don't think they have complimentary Tao. So like right. Yes. Fire Tao which would mean that Sugiiri who has complimentary Tao to him has plant Tao I believe or like Earth Tao. I don't remember there's a big pentagram. There's five Tao types and every Tao type hinders one kind of Tao and compliments another type of Tao. So Sugiiri's Tao compliments his bullocks she's hindered by somebody else. I don't remember exactly what. Yeah. But otherwise yeah all the characters kind of finally like officially reunite like the group shows up again. The young Sakura looking girl ages. May. Yeah May she exhibit or exudes like an outrageous amount of Tao that ages her. Yes. Yeah I guess that is all I really have to say. I was just really I loved the fight in the beginning. I love the animation. Incredible. It was so so good. I also have a question for you. Do you think that Gabimaru's wife is real? That was I couldn't remember if that was a question that was posed in season one or not. However I love the ambiguity of that and I kind of hope she's not. I think that'd be cool. Just because it's so how's paradise is so shockingly dark and like the tone is so oppressive like it really does remind me of Berserk. We're like this island is so hostile and so vicious like the second they get on it. The Iron Dragon dude gets stung on his hand and he immediately cuts his hand off like instant consequences that are permanent and like characters you think are going to be main characters die the second they step on the island. It's so good at making this island feel like anime's most brutal place on earth. And so I like the idea that like they go back home and Japan is like maybe worse because people are so manipulative and fucked. Yeah. So if you hope that she's not real do you hope that Sugiri and him end up together. I their romance isn't anything that like I'm really super tied to I more like that they respect each other like I like their friendship more than like I'm like oh they need to date. So like whatever it could be cool there you know it's cute I guess it'd be cool if they get together and that like boosts their town and that's some big like plot point. Well that's kind of what they do in this episode right where they're like oh is that boot you too which is just fucking just fucking each other like they're like oh it's not boot you too but it's like something close to boot you too is like what my is saying basically. And so yeah no it's a fun episode it's got a really good fight either Dragonblade is built like a brick shit house like just like the biggest dude I've ever seen a minus like maybe Escanor. Yeah I love him he's so good and he's so down to clown for like any situation. Oh yeah he's always down for a fight and then every single every single woman he's like he like bumps into a user EHA again and he's like oh it's the woman with a fat ass. I was like alright dude. She's just like she just takes it on the chin she's like yeah that's me I guess you know. Yeah he is crazy I forgot that he was wild for that. And then Segeary like crosses blades with Segeary and he's like oh there's more to you than your huge dits. I know yeah. What are we doing? Just saying what's on his mind at any given moment. He's just airing it out here. That's what happens when you cut your hand off the second a mosquito bites you like that's that kind of mentality. Yeah dude you just let me listen that's just life without consequences apparently. Yeah. Alright that brings us to our last episode of the week Sentence to be a hero. Another great entry episode two here because for some reason we skipped last week. I really like where this show was going. Yeah I like it too. I thought this was a good episode. Yeah I don't have a ton of notes for it. I love the Mustached Man. He's a delight. Fuck I forgot his name. He is awesome though. I like everybody that was introduced this episode because like we get the we get the Mustached Man who believes that he's king and everyone's really chill about this guy believing he's the king. Like even the royal soldiers he's like you are my subjects and they're like yeah we're just gonna ignore that and it's like that's crazy. There's a guy who's like literally confined to fighting until he dies and then coming back to life the worst penalty you could give somebody and nobody's gonna check him on him thinking he's king. And then also we get introduced to the character of Tatsuya this episode who is a guy who's what. Is that the other hero. The axe guy yeah who's apparently been a hero so long he's lost his mind which is such a cool that's such a cool idea. I love the idea of dying so much you just eventually lose your fucking mind. Now that's such a necessary addition this early on because like I feel like it's so easy. The first question I always hear people ask when someone's talking about this show is well why is being a hero bad. You're essentially immortal and you get to do cool shonen animation and this is so needed for episode two to be like hey here's why being a hero is bad other than the fact that nobody respects you. Yeah and so it's yeah if you die enough eventually just lose your mind and you're locked into immortality forever. They're also just animating the fucking I should have known the second that I saw the goddess's little hair thing and all of the flame that they were gonna animate the fuck out of the little things. But like there's a moment where they like pass a hammer to each other or like a spike falls over like they do. Yeah he hands her a spike and he's like all right put the spike in the ground and she's like all right I can do that and she's like yapping and the spikes slowly falling over and it's all animated at a thousand frames per second. They're just animating the fucking shit out of everything and I'm like I can't imagine that this could go on forever because they're just like every it's the most frames I've seen in an anime outside of free run and I guess like free run didn't have a ton of like internet like free run wasn't the most hyped mongov all time before it got its anime like its animes undoubtedly what blew it up to the level that's blown up now. But it's crazy that they're giving like free run level animation to this story that I hadn't heard of until it got its anime release. I never understand why like certain anime get certain budgets like blue lock got 40 bucks and a ham sandwich and meanwhile Zom 100 looked like a movie the entire season. Yeah because Bug Studio was like this is all we got here this is literally all we got here. I saw somebody did Nick and Danny give up on B break. Anyways going back to this I thought the VA's are doing such a good job of this. Tatsuya's VA is just so good like the guy who's lost his mind like the guttural screams he's doing as he's launching into combat like the dub voice acting crew is so incredible on this. I'm very excited that not only is it getting animation but also it's getting like the really good voice acting that I wanted from it. I also you brought up a point here where it's like oh I could see why people wouldn't want to be like get the resurrection thing on them. If I'm in the holy nights give me the resurrection thing. I mean yeah it's interesting that they're able to resurrect. I mean I don't know maybe they do resurrect nights but like yeah it's funny that resurrection would be reserved for criminals. Yeah they're like oh how many of my men will I need to lose if we go to save all the civilians. It's like fucking none if all of your men were immortal. Yeah I mean I know you lose a bit of yourself each time you're resurrected but the alternative is death forever. The alternative is infinite blackness. I think I could forget what I did on my third birthday if it means not being fucking dead to a bite from a glow monster. Yeah this episode also introduced the fact that humans can be turned into fairies. Yes yeah if they like interact with like the demon like too much or something like that. Yeah which I guess they had kind of alluded to with the fact that like the little god children or whatever they're called the weapons whatever the girl is. Yeah the goddesses you know he killed one because he was like you'll get corrupted and so I guess like you could extrapolate from that that like humans could too. But it's like the first episode like show and confirm like hey here's the flood from Halo. Yeah and like they have like a real conflict of killing them because they're still like very much like humans. Yeah but this was a fun episode I really like where the show was going. Nothing's gotten too bad with the goddess yet which means I get to continue watching this show which is fun. I know that's so exciting each week is just an anxiety fueled nightmare waiting for someone to be weird with the goddess. I'm just like scrubbing through the episode that's the other benefit of doing this over zoom is I just look at the episode. As we're talking about it. I love there's a bit where like the military captain just like stabs one of the zombies right through the mouth. Yeah just exceptional stuff guys really great team. Dude the knife and sword physics in the show are crazy. Yeah it's all in your right to like as I'm scrubbing through there are moments where the main guy is just like talking but he's like talking like this. And they're just animating the fuck out of them and I'm like dude you can like sit still and just move your lips like it's OK. No every single option like every every moment they have they just animate the fucking shit out of it. It's like I cannot believe that we're getting this kind of budget for a sentence to be a hero number 4099 depending on whatever title you want to use from the goddamn fucking web novel story. Has the dub voice actor for the protagonist has that grown on you Todoroki. It hasn't not it hasn't soured on me worse. I so I watched the first episode and sub this is the first time I watched it in dub. I fully agree with you. I can't hear this voice is anything other than like a teenage boy. And he's like not. It just doesn't look like this guy like this dude needs like a deep Trevor Belmont voice. It doesn't help that he looks like Trevor. Yeah like I was exactly give him Trevor Belmont like that's anything else. He doesn't have to be British but like I want to hear the cigarettes and fucking like longer in this guy's voice. I know I want to hear the decades of trauma but like wisdom from trauma like this. He sounds too young for me and it's weird because I didn't fully mind it when he was a Ray and Buddy Daddies. But Ray was so soft spoken and had like such fewer lines that it like worked more. And this is like yeah I don't know I need something like what's an anime that like I don't like Alejandro Saab. I think this would work with or the dude who plays Sung Jin Woo in solo level. Alex Lee. Yeah I like something like that I think would work. Well all right that's all we got for this week's anime which means it's time to get to our second and final Super Chat Corner. The second and final Super Chat Corner is going to replace our Best Boy and our news because we don't have either of those things. And so we're going to answer we're going to answer all these questions here and then we'll head to Love Letters and then we'll be done. I Bugman sent ten dollars. Thank you very much. I bugman. Thank you. Hey Nick and Danny I was wondering if you guys are going to do anything for the third year anniversary of O.A. Danny have you got any my my package of two ceramic pieces and Nick how's the manual going. I think about my car every fucking day I'm here. I miss my car so god damn much I've never missed a piece of of of non sentient. I've never missed the thing as much as I missed the thing that is my RX 7 right now. When is our third year anniversary actually have no idea. I have absolutely no idea what should answer your question that we have not planned anything. We'll probably be drunk again or do something painful. Who knows we suck. Oh Toyota this year. That's the current plan. Iowasca we're going to do five finger fillet the entire two hours. It's one finger full. Just give the love letter. Why is that a dance. Fire Force fell off. Oh my pinky. Oh, yes, I did get your ceramics and then I moved so things are like kind of still in boxes especially when it comes to like decorations but all next week I'll bust that out. Yeah, thank you for those. It was like a ceramic mold of like my face for one of their art classes. Oh, wow, that's sick actually. That's crazy. Ceramic mold of your face? Yeah, like they made my face out of ceramic material. OK, so not a mold because that would be I was like, how did they get the dimension? Yeah, I didn't fly out and like put my face in a cast. Yeah, too strong so you could breathe the entire time. Tarzan man also said, by the way, the email for the drawing will be from Daniel Mc Dent, Dylan McDaniel. There we go. I didn't know how do I know that, Nick? Dylan McDain. That's what they said. They said this is a super chat. I didn't know I couldn't send pictures through Instagram. Thank you, Tarzan. There's a move with a bunch of M says you guys got to talk about the goshy I got a final. I guess we did actually because I didn't watch it and then I watched it a week late. I talked about it at the time. It was. It was a remlin rudo mess around. Yeah, it was like a bunch of kids go to paint city and paint cities got some people trying to abduct these kids and these kids aren't going to have it. Yeah, true. There are abductors. I forgot about that. Yeah, they're literally. With candy. Rudo was so down to be abducted briefly. And then. Any kind of sugar is the best way to get Rudo into your non-descript Jeep Cherokee. Yeah, but I liked I liked that episode a lot. Like I said, it really opened up the possibility. Possibility of a Rudo remlin ship because I thought they were just like cute together and they had like a good friendship going. Yeah, yeah, they're absolutely incredible. I love all of the younger characters in gotchia kata. They have such good they have such like to is it taught to you? Yeah, the one in the big like onesie remlin Rudo have such good chemistry with each other. I absolutely adore, especially like, um, hey, Sam, dear Santa is also awesome. Hey, Santa, go on. Love it. Maximum Winter says, hey, I finally managed to catch alive. Wanted to ask if you both had a top three underrated anime that you would recommend to new anime fans. Underrated anime, I would say I don't want to be like F maybe. Like that's like what I would recommend to like your standard new anime. It can underrated one. Yeah, I know that's why I said that's what I recommend to a new anime fan. Underrated Madoka Magica. Yes, probably. Um, other underrated anime. Sonda. 86. What did you say? God, I said Sonda. Oh, son is a good one. That's a recent one. If you want to get caught up in a show that's still coming like currently coming out, if you want to understand how tough it is to be episodic or season based, that would be a good one. So yeah, I guess Madoka Magica 86. If you're looking for like a political mech anime and then son, if you're looking for something kind of ridiculous, they may be tip your toes into like a B stars, S kind of drama universe. Those are those are our three underrated anime to watch there. Lone Wolf says, who's the better trash talker? Gilgamesh, Yusuke or Saito Kaiba. Also, are you guys watching Strange Fake yet? Love to hear your thoughts on it. I'm watching Strange Fake. I'm adoring it. I haven't watched any fake content since Babylonia, which I think was maybe the last up to come out. Best trash talker out of those three. Danny only knows one of those. And I can tell you right now, it's Saito Kaiba. I don't care what the other two are. Yeah. You're a third rate duelist with a fourth rate deck is to this day, one of the hardest anime borrowers ever delivered. Kaiba's ruthless. There is a scene where like, I forgot what it was. I'll have like Stank find it and put it in. But like, there's some kind of scene where someone is like dumping their life story onto Kaiba. And it's like really traumatic story. And then Kaiba is like, hmm, that dork would never shut up. And it's like kind of awesome. He said for a guy who spends a million killed himself like, please. For a guy who spends millions trying to be a 12 year old at a trading card game. Kaiba is like the most ruthless trash talker. Not exactly a sympathetic king. The Greek weep sends $10. Thank you, the Greek weep. And says breaking news. Netflix and Moppa signed a new strategic partnership to bring multiple future Moppa anime. The Netflix worldwide with several projects in the works from a reliable leaker. Now I sleep. That's crazy. That's cool. I mean, you know, the more anime that are on more streaming services, the better for the anime community. Oh, 100 percent. Accessibility is obviously huge. It's very interesting that animation studios specifically are signing with with like platforms and that kind of thing, because like I feel as though that's it's kind of a crazy work ground for like Crunchyroll. Because like it's like, oh, that kind of it might start on some kind of like arms race where it's like, oh, is Crunchyroll going to have to start signing like exclusive deals with animation studios? Like that gives us already what they're doing. Unless unless you're saying that all Moppa properties are going to be on Netflix and nowhere else. Like they already kind of do that where it's like Sanda's only on Amazon Prime. Prime. Yeah, I guess. But that's like did Amazon Prime buy that show or did the studio say, hey, we're going to give you exclusive rights? That's things like is that exclusive rights like heading forward here? And then it's like, oh, our animation studios now going to exist exclusively on different like like hosting platforms. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's definitely like Amazon being like, hey, yeah, we'll buy that show. And then probably being like, you can't put this anywhere else. But it is interesting. Yeah, I don't know if that implies that like Netflix and Moppa are like, hey, everything you make, everything that comes out of Moppa is only going to be on Netflix from now on, because that'd be kind of wild. I thought it was like Moppa is just moving shows to Netflix that will also be on Crunchyroll. I think it's like for future for future Moppa projects would. But like, yeah, maybe we probably also just would happen to be on Netflix. All right. Our next one is best advice for a new aspiring anime creator. Thank you guys for the content you make. Jen, you saved my life. Danny, Nick, thank you and God bless. Oh, thanks. Jay Jay, G.C. Vincent, I believe is the name there. Best advice. Thank you. Aspiring anime content creator. Do talk about what you like. There's no no no stop. Just don't don't be one. We don't need the competition. No, he's bringing up some good points. But it's already it's an inundated field. Maybe try something else. Try comics. No, it's not about comics anymore. Do that. Yeah, talk about Wimbledon. What's Wimbledon? Which sport is that? I wouldn't know. I would know if there was a good content creator telling me. You wear white in every single episode and you're like in this year's Wimbledon. This tennis player one. Here's my top ten Wimbles. Number 10. And this guy, you want to know where they got the name Wimbledon? It's it's this is the dawn of Wimbles. Wimbled. Yeah, do that. No, talk about what you like. Talk about the anime you like. What you're passionate about. We can see some talking about every day for the rest of your life, because fundamentally, if you want to actually be successful in any kind of content creation, consistency is your number one. It's the number one driver in your success. Yeah, I mean, the advice I always. Oh, no, good. I wasn't going to give advice. I don't know. Your advice was don't. The advice I always give people is to just make the content like that's genuinely the thing that trips people up the most is they're like, yeah, I really want to make this video or I got this great idea and this and that. And then it's like, sick, can't wait to see it. And then they never put it out. And it's like, well, you're always going to fail if you don't start like. You literally miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take. Donny asks, have you watched Ghost Stories? We both have. Danny has an entire Patreon series reacting to the entirety of. Yeah, it's bad. It's funny for it's funny in like a compilation of all the like most outrageous moments as a show you watch from beginning to end. It is not a high quality show. No, no, there's a reason that the dub cast was given the chance to do whatever the hell they want with it. It's because the sub the sub story wasn't good. And in the dub, they can only say the R word so many times before you're like, OK, I've heard this joke before. Right. Oh, Lulu and Popo said set $20 Canadian. So that's like $7. Thank you. I got a dip. Keep up the good work, guys. I love the podcast always. Thanks, Lulu. That's very nice. Thank you. Um, Ethan Riff sends five euro and says, have you guys seen everyone talking about Logan Paul ruining one piece cards? Also, I'm English, not Scottish. Nick, love you both. No, I should have known that with a name like Ethan and not clicker me. I should have known that you were you were British, not Scottish. Guys, I'm Scottish. My middle name is Nye. I'm allowed to make that joke. Anyways, yes, I've seen Logan Paul's getting into trading one piece cards. However, one piece TCG started to do something really, really cool where one piece cards that are sent to America are actually going to have the plastic around them removed so that scalpers can't like so scalpers have like significantly less incentive to like buy booster boxes by the bundle. So they're going to remove the plastic. So basically all of the boxes are open. Oh, is that wild? Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, I didn't know Logan Paul was getting in one piece cards. That's like significantly less exciting than like literally any other card game he could get into like for me. Like if it was like Logan Paul is getting in a Digimon, that'd be kind of hype. I get that it sucks because it raises the resale of these cards. But at the same time, I think it's maybe good for the card game itself. Like as long as people are hyped about it and like buying the cards, that's the best thing for a card game is people buying the product because then they will make more of the product. It sucks that the prices get driven up way the hell into the sky. But what's good is that there are alternatives, which is like there's a Pokemon mobile TCG now. There's Magic Arena. Magic's been doing something really cool where every set they'll release multiple like variants of like the rare cards. So if you want to build a deck, that's like a Sephiroth deck. Sephiroth is like probably like a seven or ten dollar card, something like that. But if you want to be a collector and get like the borderless, like shattered foil version, then that's seven hundred dollars. And so like Uber collectors have something they can chase and then people who just want to play the game can just play the game. And then there's just regular foil. So even if you want to be like a low tier collector and just spend like a little bit of money, but still have a nice shiny card, because there's that shattered foil one, the regular foil doesn't cost as much. So I like card games releasing tiers of rarity within the same card so that like everybody wins essentially. Yeah, well, people don't really realize. I mean, like, I guess if you want to like if you want to be a trader, like like specifically you want to get like the expensive cards in one piece and you want to sell those expensive cards in one piece, like Logan Paul getting into it. If you already have the cards, actually just increases the value of the cards that you already have, a and B, like it's like, oh, well, you know, like, but if he gets into it, the market's going to get driven up and it's like the cards are going to get more expensive. And it's like, OK, yeah, the cards are going to get more expensive to buy on like a pack by pack basis, but also the cards will probably get more expensive to sell on a on a hit by hit basis. So I don't know. I don't necessarily think that like a big personality getting into one piece. TCG ruins the TCG by any means. I just think it kind of it raises the prices, which sucks. But like with any TCG, there's always like what Danny said, like with Pokemon or Magic the Gathering, there's cheap. There's cheap ways to play the game. Like there's like you can print out cards. You can print out cards, put a card stock behind them and be like, hey, this is my deck. That's like it's not the real card. But like I have like I'm going to use this card. I printed it out and it's like, OK, cool, that works. So yeah, I don't I don't I don't think it's really the end of the world. Alone Wolf asks, Nick, what is your opinion? Who wins Gilgamesh or Karna? Karna. I think Seto Kaiba. I think Seto Kaiba as well. I'm going to Google who Karna is. Is that another Fate Hero? Karna from Black Cove, a Clover, Karna Fries. I see what is that the that's the old wizard queen. Probably Gilgamesh Gilgamesh is terrifying. Oh, wait, no, Karna. Yeah, I have no idea who this is. I looked at Karna anime and I was introduced with the coolest character design I've ever seen in my life. Oh, are you? It's like a fake character, I guess. Oh, they're fucking awesome. All character designs in fate. Oh, Karna, the sun god. Yeah, first off, that's from Apocrypha. You would love Apocrypha. Yeah, the coolest character I've ever seen. Dude, you need to watch fate. You need to watch fate. Fate is so goddamn good. All of it's sure it's confusing, but just watch the one off series. Apocrypha, a Babylonia and now Strange Fate. Karna wins, dude. Karna is awesome. He's like literally the god. He's like the Hindu god of sun. He's fucking sick. All right. Oh, my God, they just keep pouring in. We have four more here. Hey, what's your favorite characters of the big three love the content? My favorite character in all the big three is. Oh, that's a good question. Minato. Final. No, itachi. Final answer. That's crazy. Favorite character in all of the big three. I guess Rock Lee, probably. That's a good answer. Yeah. I mean, you would go something from Narsha, though, because you haven't seen one piece or bleach. And that I've seen fucking more one piece than bleach. Also, I forgot about bleach. I was thinking about Dragon Ball. So even that. Well, OK, well, then I I definitely wouldn't choose character from Dragon Ball. That's for sure. All right. I think if I chose Dragon Ball, it'd be either like Gohan, Teen or Trunks. But. I think she's favorite character from Dragon Ball. Yes, probably Trunks. That or Gohan. All right. Joe Woodring asked, what do you guys think about spy family this season? Also, what is 2025's five most underrated anime? I haven't watched. I think I've watched the first two episodes by family this season. Danny hasn't watched any spy family. Five most underrated anime of 2025. Takumi's original sin, Sanda. And that that that that that that that that. I don't know. I don't know what else. Honestly, everything else was everything else was equally rated. Yeah. Everything was rated just fine. Togun Anki, if you're looking for just a good time. If you're a mask. Yeah, Token Anki is definitely up there. Token Anki was a blast. But yeah, everything else was like properly rated. There was nothing that I was like, why isn't this getting more praise? Lone Wolf asks, do you think I and a Koji can outsmart L or light if he was in the in the Death Note universe? I think he man. No. Well, I don't know. I had a Koji would just probably kill them. You know, that's the thing. If I had Koji figured out who they are, like I and a Koji is literally from an assassin school. And L is a high schooler. And no, L is like a kind of cop and light is a high schooler. So I and a Koji, the being the assassin, probably probably figures out how to win that fight, I would imagine. Bryce, the battle Phoenix says, hey, Danny, MTG Sephiroth basic is $40. Yeah, you idiot. Idiot, Danny. It didn't used to be. Yeah. Oh, fucking everything. Everything in magic just gets more expensive. It's an investment. But all right, guys, that is all we have, which brings us to our favorite section here. Love letters for me and Danny, ask our live audience, all 555 of you to ask us a question that we answered here. Oh, I've owned the podcast. So if you guys are liking these lives, if you like getting unlimited access to these lives, get in the podcast a couple of days earlier, you can get access to all of that by becoming a member of our Patreon and on top of getting our podcasts a couple of days early and getting a live, we get to hang out with us, where we answer your questions. You also get access to two additional hours of content every single week. The most recent one we did was Naruto's second movie. We're heading into Naruto's third movie, the last movie of Naruto's part one before Shippuden. And then we're getting into Shippuden movies, which we're very excited about here. But yes, if anybody has a question that you want answered here live on the podcast, go ahead and shoot that off. Love letters. Stand alone. By the way, can I just say the Sephiroth card is only $40 if you want it near mint foil. If you just get it normal and like lightly played, it's like $14. So I'm still right. Yeah. And then also like, it's like, oh, why are you trying to get the PSA 10 version of the lower foil here? Well, that's what I'm saying. It's like, yeah, you can always be like, oh, this is too expensive, but there's always like an entry level version that you can get into because there are these tiers of rarity. Let's see a love letter. Have you seen the new anime Shibuygan playing death games, puts my food on the table? I mean, no, I haven't. And that was love letters. No, it was. Thanks guys. Will you guys watch the new one piece live action season two and anime seasons? Yeah, obviously. One piece live action is very goddamn good. Last boy asks, would you rather be Isakai into your least favorite anime or spend 20 years in prison? What would you pick? Your least favorite anime? My least favorite anime of all time is Mishukutense. I have a vitriolic hate for that universe. And but the problem is the problem with that is that the universe itself is kind of cool. Like it's like the universe itself is like, oh, it's like your classic fantasy universe with magic and swords and heroes and all of that. And the universe itself is just greatly hampered by the fact that its main character is Rudy's gray wrap. If I got Isakai into that universe, as long as I either kill Rudy's gray rat or avoid him like the plague, I'm just living my best little fantasy life. I could learn magic. I could become a sword master. There is hot Fox women with six packs that are seven and a half feet tall that are unfortunately kind of tied to Rudy's gray rat as a character, which kind of ties into the idea of killing him as my first task in the universe. I think throw me into the Mishukutense universe. I'm absolutely enjoying my time there, either killing a little boy or just avoiding him. I think, yeah, and I think that would sell as an anime. If an Isakai came out that was like, I got Isakai into Mishukutense and now I have to kill Rudy for the sake of all anime watchers, I think people would watch that. Oh my God, Danny, you're a genius. Oh my God, like an Isakai where you're like accidentally Isakai behind the worst MC and you just see him with a little harem of like 17 to 13 year old girls and you're like, yeah, no, I have to kill him. The only problem is he's incredibly strong. Oh, oh, Danny, that's so much fun as an I.D. I'm gonna be writing that tonight. He's like super problematic, but everything else about the anime is like on the up and up in every character. I was like, yeah, I hate that fucking guy. Unfortunately, I think my least favorite anime of all time is unironically, the Suicide Squad Isakai. And I think even living in that world would be so fucking boring that I'd rather do prison just to learn some cool prison skills. It'd give me time to not worry about work. I could just read and like work out. Big into religion and upper body workouts. Oh yeah, dog, you'd be fucking great by the time you were 46. I'd so much rather that than get stuffed into the most generic, lame ass, terrible world that I've ever seen put to screen. Yeah, that, oh God, Suicide Squad Isakai was like genuinely a mistake. Yeah, that was awful. Like a gross misallocation of funds. But all right, that's all we have this week. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for checking in for another episode of Atakus Anonymous. 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