Otaku's Anonymous

EVERYONE Is Sleeping On This Anime!! - Otakus Anonymous Episode #158

133 min
Apr 22, 20266 days ago
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Summary

Two anime enthusiasts discuss their weekly watchlist including Marriage Toxin, Witch Hat Atelier, Demons of the Shadow Realm, Nippon Sengoku, Invincible season 4, and others. They debate animation quality, character development, and storytelling approaches across multiple genres while playing a Google Translate anime synopsis guessing game.

Insights
  • Marriage Toxin stands out as exceptionally bingeable with strong character chemistry and animation quality that exceeds typical romance anime standards
  • Death-baiting in Invincible has become so frequent that severe injuries no longer create narrative tension, diminishing emotional stakes
  • Anime with abstract power systems (Witch Hat Atelier's sigils) create more engaging narratives than literal elemental magic systems
  • Feudal Japan-setting anime appeal varies significantly by viewer preference for historical drama versus action-focused storytelling
  • First episodes are increasingly critical for anime retention, with strong premieres driving immediate binge behavior
Trends
Shift toward LGBTQ+ representation in anime romance narratives without apologetic framingAnimation budget allocation becoming visible to audiences through noticeable quality drops in mid-season episodesAnime TikTok and social media driving viewership decisions more than traditional recommendationsPreference for character-driven narratives over pure action spectacle among engaged anime audiencesManga-to-anime adaptation quality variance creating divergence between source material and animated interpretationsStreaming platform exclusivity (Amazon Prime) affecting anime production budgets and distributionGender-fluid and non-binary character representation becoming normalized in anime without explicit explanationAudience fatigue with graphic violence when used repeatedly without narrative consequencePoison/toxin-based power systems emerging as niche but compelling anime premiseFirst-episode quality directly correlating with season completion rates
Topics
Anime romance and BL representationAnimation budget allocation and quality controlManga-to-anime adaptation fidelityCharacter development in episodic storytellingPower system design and world-buildingDeath-baiting and narrative tensionLGBTQ+ character representation in animeFeudal Japan historical settings in animeStreaming platform exclusivity impactAnime TikTok influence on viewershipGender-fluid character representationViolence and graphic content in animeFirst-episode retention metricsVoice acting quality and casting decisionsAnime fan community engagement
Companies
Amazon Prime Video
Distributes both Invincible and Nippon Sengoku; discussed regarding budget allocation between shows
MAPPA
Animation studio producing Nippon Sengoku and other shows; noted for inconsistent budget allocation across projects
Crunchyroll
Streaming platform; mentioned regarding mysterious promotional letter received about Liar Game anime
Hello Fresh
Meal delivery service; primary sponsor with extended ad read featuring promo code and product details
People
Robert Kirkman
Creator of Invincible comic series; jokingly threatened by host regarding death-baiting narrative choices
Ryan Potter
Mentioned as acquaintance; voiced Beast Boy in Titans and character in Big Hero 6
Ricochet
AEW wrestler; hosts follow on social media and discussed attending wrestling events
CM Punk
WWE wrestler; featured in WrestleMania match discussed as entertaining performance
Togashi
Creator of Hunter Hunter; discussed as potentially returning to serialization with wife's support
Quotes
"I would crush eight more episodes right now"
HostOpening
"Marriage Toxin is the buddy daddies of the season"
GuestEarly discussion
"This is the most skipped intro we've ever done. Are you kidding me? This is the best work we've ever done"
HostMid-episode
"I would pause this podcast so I could go downstairs and watch the second episode of Marriage Toxin"
HostMarriage Toxin discussion
"Every time she speaks, I go like a literal audible like, it's like her voice is a warm blanket"
GuestWitch Hat Atelier discussion
Full Transcript
Dude, I would crush eight more episodes right now. Oh, 100%. Like, even the shows, even JJK, I finish an episode and I'm like, I'm satisfied. 100%. Onto the next bit of work, because these are work. Yeah. Marriage toxin, I finished episode two and I was like, fuck, what do you mean there's no three? I literally was, I watched it today because you were like, I misinterpreted what you told me the other day where you were like, I've watched three animates, Nippon Sengoku, Liar Game and Marriage toxin. And I thought you said that Liar Game was the best out of the three, so I should watch that. So I watched that and I was like, this is hot garbage. And so I was like, all right, cool. I'm not gonna, like, if marriage toxin is worse than this, I'm not gonna watch marriage toxin. And then apparently I got that wrong and I sat down today while I was eating lunch and I was like, I'll just watch marriage toxin right now. And I was like, I didn't have time because I needed to get another video done before you got here. I was like, I wanna watch every episode of this that they have available. Exo Pronto. It's so much fun. But hi, hello, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Talks To The Anonymous. I know we were talking about anime in the beginning there. That was weird. Probably because me and Danny haven't been able to stop talking about marriage toxin since he got here. Weirdly a big marriage toxin glazer. You're 100% right where you're like, oh, it's the buddy daddies of the season. It is 100% that. We'll talk about it in a second. But before we get into talking about like actual anime, there's some things I wanna hear from you from because you had a big weekend this weekend. I did. Big old weekend with Mama Mana. I was in Vegas. Yeah, you were your favorite place. My least favorite place on earth. You love Vegas, dude. I was in Vegas this weekend. Everyone's been like, are you going to level up Expo next weekend? I got asked to go to level up Expo and I'm like, no. No? You don't want to. There are like this talent agency that reps a bunch of voice actors reached out to me and they're like, hey, we should get you to a bunch of cons. You should do X and Y and Z. Like we should like, they wanna pay me to do the cons circuit basically. And I was like, sounds fun. They're like, have you heard of level up con or whatever? And I was like, yeah. And they're like, are you planning on going? I was like, no. And they're like, do you want to? And I was like, if you pay me maybe, but it's like a 10 day notice. And Dorothy's not here. And I have to like either get somebody to watch the dogs or like bring them with me. I'm like, hey, does the golden horseshoe or the golden nugget have like allowed dogs to stay? Yeah. I guess if you really need it, I can swing by and I'll like take care of them. I don't like. I haven't heard from her in a couple of days. Do you remember when we were at level up? I knew you forgot. What do you mean? You don't know what we're, why we're tied to level up expo? No. That's where we fucking wrestled. No, we wrestled the anime Las Vegas. Rats. You're right. I learned about level up while at anime Las Vegas because everybody was like, are you coming to the real convention that this state has? Wait, so level up is bigger than anime Las Vegas? Yeah. That was a sizeably big con. It was cool, but I mean everyone, I mean Hannah, our friend who lived in Vegas, who now lives in the Ivory Coast. Yeah. Is it, is it, she's in the Côte d'Ivoire? She's in the Ivory Coast. That's wild. And owns a lot of land. I imagine that land in the Côte d'Ivoire is cheaper than it is here. She like inherited it. I gotta run, I gotta bring you up to speed. It's like actually crazy. Holy shit. I believe Vegas for Côte d'Ivoire easily. But she lived in Vegas like her whole life and was like level up ex-pose, like the big one. And now all of these content creators are like DMing me and being like, are you gonna be in level up? And I'm like, no, cause I was just in Vegas. And then I'm going back for Magic Con the weekend after this weekend. Yes, in two weekends is Magic Con. Yeah. Which by the way, I'm not doing the live show with the Bateman. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Damn. I know. You love Vegas. I love Vegas. In magic. I know, I'm gonna be in New York next weekend. Oh, at least you're, well next next weekend, right? Next next weekend, yes. At least it's not because you didn't want to. No. Anyway. Oh, I'd go play Magic fucking in Las Vegas every day of the week, baby. Now. It's the only card game you can play in Vegas where you don't lose money. Well, not the way we'll be playing. Yeah, fair. Yeah, I was at WrestleMania. Last year, I told you that we liked it enough. We had a good time, but on the drive back, I was like, hey, let's hear what the masses think. Let's put on a podcast. We found a WrestleTalk. Yes. Run by a couple of Brits who I love now. You did master class in, hey, mom, I'm gonna listen to this for a couple of hours here. She liked it. She's now a big WrestleTalk fan. Oh, as she should. As she should be. Biggest wrestling podcast in the world, apparently. Biggest to have like a million subscribers. Not jealous at all. But, and on our drive back from this WrestleMania experience that cost me like six grand and everyone, we both enjoyed. They're like, so, Ollie, was this the single worst WrestleMania in history? That was last year. That's all the whole discussion. This was last year. Yeah, last year. WrestleMania last year was bad. Yes. Saturday, because WrestleMania is Saturday and Sunday. Saturday this year, way worse than last year. Like the worst wrestling I've ever seen in my life. Like compare it to Revolution, which we went to together. Like not even close to, it was like as good as when we wrestled. You know, like there was nothing memorable about it. Nothing felt dangerous. Revolution like reignited my love for wrestling. It made me a wrestling fan. Half of the Instagram reels I get nowadays are professional wrestlers. Like it is, I'm having, I am so bought into wrestling right now. I'm like on Tenio Mega's timeline. I'm on obviously like Ricochet's timeline. I'm fucking keeping up with everybody. Yeah, I know. You texted me and you were like, I might be into wrestling now. Oh yeah. Saturday was like abysmal. I couldn't believe it. Like big old slap matches and like a bunch of like mat plays kind of thing. Like just, yeah, just like boring. It's a bunch of like they'll do one medium thing where it's like, yeah, big slap. And I'll be like, oh, oh, and then they'll like circle for a bit. There was no big like crazy stunt. Like when we saw AEW. Yeah. They were doing shit that like we've never seen before. And we don't know how it didn't kill a guy. 100%. Like they would like flip a guy around like he's a pizza and then he'd land on his neck on someone's knees. Yeah, they were doing like like back breakers from the top rope. Good crazy shit. So that was a bummer. And then Sunday was way better. Sunday was like actually really exciting. Not as good as AEW. And I don't know if anything ever will be. I think I'm just like an AEW purist at this point. That's very fair that I feel like that's a sentiment. A lot of people are leaning towards nowadays. I don't know how AEW's stories are. Like a lot of people are into like WWE's like characters. Yeah. I just know that AEW is a wrestling itself is like more extreme and more fun. Yeah. Ricochet told us that the AEW has two writers as opposed to like the WWE has like eight or something like that. So I'm imagining that it's like they write a lot of their own shit. Yeah. And then it's like, oh, they are this persona that fits in here. X, Y and Z. They bounce off the writers, that kind of thing. But it's like much more free form. And so I think they're just like outperforming from like oh, actual wrestling products kind of thing. Because like I wonder because I genuinely like I could see myself being bought into wrestling. I do not know if I would keep up with any timelines or like any story lines. What I'm like, oh, no, there are X's. Oh, they just got a divorce. It's something like that. Right. Yeah. I don't know. That's so interesting because a lot of people. I wonder if like wrestling fans hate that take in the way that anime fans hate like people who just watch for the fights. Gotcha. Yeah. Yeah. I just I only watch JJK for the fights kind of thing. Yeah. And they're like, oh, what? You know, you don't care that Ray Mysterio's son ended up betraying Ray Mysterio and is now with. You shockingly know a lot of wrestling. Oh, Ray Mysterio's son is fake married to. It used to be Rhea Ripley. Rhea Ripley. Yeah. It used to be. Now he's with Liv Morgan, who is literally just Margot Robbie. Oh, Robbie. Good for this very average looking guy. Ray Mysterio's son is like the most four out of 10 in the history of four out of 10. He looks like a Ford F-150. Yeah. Morgan. Morgan Ripley. Liv Morgan. Liv Morgan, who looks like Margot Robbie. Yeah. That's I mean, good for him. She's like the Bratz doll version of Margot Robbie. Oh my God. Oh, she's tiny. Yeah. She is Whittle. Oh my God. Oh, she is sick. I get it. I hate this. Oh, well, you know, now that I'm seeing Ray Mysterio's son with long hair and a mustache, that's a little better. It looks like a nutcracker. That's a little bit. He looks like a Viltramite. He looks like a background Viltramite. That's what he looks like. Looks like a race, a more racist Viltramite. 100 percent, dude. Oh, yeah. No, this is my new hyper fixation. All right. Cool. I thought it might be. Oh, that's good. She's cool. I agree in all the ways you agree. Oh, wow. Wow. OK. Cool. Not going to be weird about that at all. Dorothy has been gone for 11 days, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah. Ray Mysterio. Dominic Mysterio does have a weird track record for a man with that hair. Now Ray Mysterio is in the AEW. No, he's not. He wrestled at WrestleMania. Who am I thinking? Sin Cara. Sin Cara's in the AEW. That's a scene. Montages of Sin Cara being really bad at wrestling. No. He is not good. He's not great. Even at AEW, he was not great. He's not the best like Luchador I've ever seen by far. Well, there's just a lot of montages of him, like botching shit. Where he's like his gimmick was he jump on a trampoline and like clear over the top rope to get into the layering. And so many times, he just like clip his thighs and like barrel into the ring. Oh, no. And he's got played off here. I mean, I watch I watch the like those. There are so many influencers at WrestleMania. It was like everybody under the sun got invited, which makes me think you very easily could have just gone for free. Probably not the way we talk about WrestleMania. We will fair. That's actually very fair. We could go to more AEW. We could go to all the we have. We have a literal AEW plug. I want to be like flies out to Australia to go see whatever they're doing over there. I'd love to go to their WrestleMania. Oh, whatever that is. It was probably revolution. Maybe. I don't know. I think those are biggest thing. I have no idea. It was like definitely like a big thing. What is AEWs? Let's see. Let's see if the Internet gets this question. People told me that like the free show after a revolution, like, you know, the equivalent to like Monday Night Raw or whatever was like even sicker. Really? Like their regular free programming. Yeah. Is as good, if not better than like a pay-per-view from WWE. That's crazy. A.W. All in is widely considered the A.W. is equivalent to the WWE wrestlers mania held annually in the late summer, most notably at Wembley Stadium. Dog, we should go to the fucking UK. Rather get us out there. Start hitting up Ricochet. Oh, my God. I'll text him immediately. Kidding me? I would be like, yeah, you give me tickets to all in. But yeah, Sunday was a lot better. It was like CM Punk versus Roman Reigns, which I know doesn't mean anything to you. It does. I love CM Punk. All right. I'm Luke Warmon Roman Reigns. Like I feel like everyone else is. It was pretty cool. CM Punk, Bled, there were some like cool bits where like they were getting. He's like really good at selling tired. But in a way that wasn't boring. It was like watching Deradev will get tired in like a hallway fight where he like scrambles to his feet, gets Roman Reigns on his shoulders and like collapses in exhaustion. Yeah. And everyone's like freaking out. Like so it was because all things like, oh, CM Punk is old. You know, yeah, exactly. That was like the whole bit. But like it was cool. I mean, again, the in the best WWE match. Yeah. Someone will like get hit with a chair in an unexpected way. In AEW, they'll hit you with a chair and then fuck you with it. Yeah, like literally, like literally they'll like from the top rope, like like a fucking orbital strike chair strike. The last match in which we both missed, I believe, like they changed two guys together with barbed wire. Like they stapled to do. They stapled to do. Like everyone was like fucking actually bleeding in like the last two matches. And like our number one complaint was it was too much wrestling. Yeah. Apparently that's like a wide complaint in the AEW sphere, which was good to hear. People were like six hours is too much. Yeah, I want to see it all. But like fuck, is it hard to hold my attention that long? But anyway, better than last year. Well, that's good. And you flew this time. So that I didn't I drove. Oh, you did? Yeah. But it was just me. Oh, so you just solo drove through the raw dog to drive the worst part of America here. They drive from LA to Vegas. For those who have never done it, you drive past a town literally called hell. Yeah. And then after that, you drive past nothing at all. Yeah. For 100 miles. And then there's X or then there's ZZ YYXX Road. There is this road because they wanted to be the alphabetically last road in the country. And then you drive past the biggest gas station in California, which is like 6,000 square feet massive, like maximum. Yeah. There's like an 80 mile stretch where they go. Next gas station in 80 miles. And you are white knuckling if you're not above half a tank again. Yeah, it's a fucking awful, awful, awful, awful drive. Yes. Well, that's fun. I'm happy you enjoyed yourself. I wish I was out there with you. But first, we got to talk about today's sponsor, Hello Fresh. 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My girlfriend and I personally really like the vegan mushroom French dip sandwiches, mainly because they're very easy to make. They're very easy to make. They taste good and they're super filling. I'm a bad cook. I'm not good at most things that aren't this. And this tricks my girlfriend into thinking otherwise. Go to HelloFresh.com Sashio Taku's 10 FM to get 10 free meals. And I have to read this because it's the longest name ever. A free Nutra Bullet Ultra Plus Plus two in one compact kitchen system, which is a $189.99 value free on your third box. You get the Nutra Bullet on your third box. All I did this weekend was golf. And that's my cold open. I'm incredibly addicted to golf. It's so bad. God, you're 30 is barreling towards you. It's Danny. It's all I can think about. I like it, Danny. I've never had. I play pickleball and I'm like, oh, pickle. I don't want to get better at pickleball. I don't want to compete in pickleball. It's a joke. It's a hobby sport. Christ. I'm paying for lessons this weekend in golf. Like I have I'm taking it so goddamn seriously. And I'm not regular golf, right? Not top golf. No, like regular. I've like I've golfed like 72 holes in the last week. You got gloves. Oh, yeah. But one right one. But my hands are getting tore up. Really? Or look at it. Look, I got I got two. I got two. Wow. I got two of the fucking like bubbles. Whoa. Yeah, I did two. I went to the driving range at seven o'clock in the morning this morning. This is not intended to be rude. I like I'm looking for actual information. Oh, yeah. In terms of like becoming competitive at golf. Yeah. Do you need to have started younger or are you at like prime competitive golfing age? I am not. Well, kind of like most pros, most of the best pros are around my age, for sure. Like like some of the best pros are like people golf into their fifties at like a high competitive level. Yeah, that's true. But I golfed a lot as a kid and then I didn't golf between the ages of like 14, maybe like 13 to like now. So I've been golfed in like 16 years. And I'm like just like and I was fucking good when I was young. So I'm getting back into it. Yeah. But yeah, I want to I want to. I want to golf too much. So that's I need my car back. That's that's the fucking thing. I need like I'm doing one 30 year old hyper fixation at a time. And now that my fucking RX seven is sitting in a shop for a month, I'm just like going to be ravenous about golf. We're such weird polar opposites. We're like, I just bought a like wallet chain. That's all Beyblades. Let me show you. Got this. I immediately have to see this. That sounds like well, that's the beauty of a wallet chain that's also a weapon. Is that if anybody reaches for your wallet, they get sliced up on your base. Boy, is this a weapon? Let me I can't enlarge it, but it just delivered apparently. Huge for the gang. But like I'm hyper fixating on shit for children and you're hyper fixating on shit for people 10 years older. There's a big there's a big two years between us. This was 80 on 80 on ironic dollars. It's like 10 Beyblades. It is literally it is. It's 11 Beyblades. You account for each one being around $10. Yeah. Wow. That is that is incredible. That's that is that is the most intrusive thing you could staple to your pants. I could imagine. Oh, oh, this my 11. Let me oh, wait, hold up. It's hooked on my loop. It's hooked on my other loops. I'm sorry. I'm hold up. Don't don't battle me. I have to unhook one of my 11 Beyblades. Don't rip. Dude, every conversation. You Beyblade not to rip is fucking intrinsically against its nature. Danny, every conversation I start for the rest of my life is going to start with. Oh, this oh, these. Oh, let me tell you, this is just the best $80 I ever spent. I was hanging out with fucking Ryan, the Potter Potter. Yeah, one of them. One of them. Yeah. The lead in Big Hero 6. Yes. All those years. Hero and Big Hero 6. Not the lead, the older brother. No, heroes, the lead. He was he was hero. He's the lead. The hero. Oh, maybe he was. Anyways, he's also Beast Boy. Anyway, he was Beast Boy in Titans. Yes. Regardless, I was hanging out with him at a shoot that I don't think I can say what it was still. Oh, but, you know, I know. But, um, I was telling him because sometimes I'll take the outer ring of a Beyblade and weave a chain through it and make that a necklace. I've seen it. And it's sick. I love it. And I was like, dude, I got to get some engineer to figure out a way to let me put the whole Beyblade through that chain, but also make the chain ripable where all I need is the little handle thing. I rip the Beyblade, weave the necklace part through it and then rip it with that. Yeah. That's very easy. I don't know if that is. I feel like I could almost make that for you. All you would need, you need a chain that has like some like light teeth on it, right? Like you would have that some kind of light teeth. It would be stuck through it. And then it would have to be able to, it would be like on the Ripper, but you have to like a miniaturized version of the Ripper. And then once you ripped it, the problem is then the Beyblade would be like, you know, how when you put the Beyblade in the Ripper and like sometimes falls out? Yeah, that would be the only issue to have to get over logistically. I just want to be able. I want to find out the fastest I can rip a Beyblade. Oh, yeah. Like challenge to battle, you know. God, Dan, that's a great idea. That's a great, oh, no, they're going to steal it. Danny, they're going to steal this from us. Who? Oh, the millions of engineers who listen to us. We are with the highest IQ podcast listening group that's ever been fucking brought together. This has been the most skipped intro we've ever done. Are you kidding me? This is the best work we've ever, outside of our first episode when we ranked cereal and fast food. It's the best intro we've ever done. Ranked cereal and like debated the ethics of pooping in your pants. 100%. And then also, I believe in the second episode, we said what countries would have what max? That was good, though. Still a great argument. That's still a fantastic argument. I agree. Oh, then fine, Danny, we'll give them what we want. We'll give them what they want. You want to talk about fucking liar game or? Is that the worst one of the week? Oh my god, that's not even close. I didn't mind. Danny, let me watch everything under the goddamn sun today because his number one hater DMed him three shows he was watching, one of which was good. To be fair, that's not entirely why. It on like anime TikTok. I've been seeing like these three shows get talked about. And then someone DMed me and was like, hey, here's a concise list of these three shows you should watch. Yeah. I screenshotted that, sent it to Nick. And those three shows are? Liars game. Yep. Nepons, Sengoku. Yep. And Marriage Toxin. Yes. So we've added those to the roster. Who knows for how long? I'm telling you right now, at least one of them is being cut. I'll give Liars game one more. We'll see how it goes. I fell asleep three minutes into episode two of Liars game last night and slept on the couch. It's not. I don't know. This is no like suicide squad. It's not. But like here's the. It's just a worse version of Tomodachi game. It's just like it's a show. It's like fucking. What is that? Tomodachi game. Oh, it's Tomodachi game is a worse version of Squid games. But like it's like a bunch of friends get brought into like a debt collector game kind of thing. And they're all trying to get out of debt. And it's a big old Liar game thing. It should have got a second season. It didn't. And that's kind of like my first thing. I was like, oh, this is just Tomodachi game season two. The main characters of Liars game are so deeply unlikeable. Just so generically awful. The main character is a girl by the name of now. And she's named like Truth or something in Japanese. And her whole gambit is, wow, wouldn't it be nice if the whole world was kind and unapologetically honest and all that? And the first three seconds, there's no intro to the first episode. The first three seconds is just hurrah at a police station and be like, I found this coin. And you're like, did I accidentally skip forward here? Well, and they're like, the cops are like, huh, what an idiot. Yeah. But she hands them like, how much money is that? It's like three yen. Like it's the smallest denomination of yen coin. It might be one yen. It was like 1,000 yen, I thought, right? I mean, maybe. Yeah. Well, how much is that? Well, they don't make a 1,000 yen coin. They make a 1 yen coin, a 5 yen coin, a 10 yen coin, and maybe a 500 yen coin. How much would the highest coin be in US dollars? 33. No, a 500 yen coin would be three-ish dollars. So even at the highest denomination, she brings a $3 coin to a police station. And she's like, hey, I think somebody dropped this. And then leaves. And the cops are like, pfft, what a dumbass. Any other self-respecting person would have kept this. It's like, Christ, times is tough, huh? Yeah, it's like, what's one can get like one konbini sandwich? Yeah, no, whoever's looking for their five. This 500 yen can mean a lot more to somebody else. So somebody's not about to be drawn into the 100 million yen game. So what is the show about? I fucking, a 1 in 100 million people. 100,000. It's really not that many people. It was 100,000? So 1 in 100,000. There's 150 million people in Japan. That's 1,500 people. Yeah, it's not really that rare. That's really not that rare. That's also a million people. That's 1,500 people get a million dollars. That's 1.5 billion dollars. That's what? That's racketeering fucking, oh, we need to make these people be in our debt. You have 1.5 billion dollars to hand out. I just see. That's asinine. That's asinine. That's absolutely asinine. So anyways, 1 in 100,000 people get drawn into something known as the Liars game, where they are matched, at least in the first round, they're matched with somebody. And they get 100 million yen, which is somewhere in the region of $820,000. So it's somewhere in that region, depending on conversion rates. It's probably closer to $750,000. But in the first round, they have to take the $750,000 of somebody else. And whatever they steal from somebody else, also retaining their 100 million yen, they will keep. But the other person will go into debt. And then the first episode is basically just around this girl who's too literally honest to a fault, getting her money stolen because the person that she's paired with is an old middle school teacher of hers. And then she recruits some con man with a golden heart who just gets out of prison. And for some reason, the prison guard, give him a guard outfit so he can slip away from the fucking media. Yeah, the prison guards let him do a bit. He gets out in the media, really wants to take his photo. And some random nobody slips out of the prison. And they're all like, that's not the guy. Where's the guy? And one of the guards is like, you know, the guy's really good at disguises. So they go and chase the other dude who got out. And it turns out the guard that told them that is actually him. And then the actual real guard's like, ha, ha, ha. You goofed there, ass. Let's get you out of that uniform for some reason we gave you, Mr. Criminal. Yeah, that is funny. Insane. It's ugly. It looks like platinum. It looks like platinum and kind of specific. Yeah, I think it looks just like an older anime. Like it looks like a death note without all of the bells and whistles of life. It's 2013, 2014 real like everyone's long. There's not that much detail in their faces. Yeah, it, you know, what's interesting about this anime, though, I didn't realize this until she got invited to lie or game. I got invited to lie or game last year. What do you mean? I don't think I told you about this, which sucks. I got a letter from like Japan. Oh, the from was like an address I'd never seen in all in Japanese. OK, it was addressed to me to my home. And I asked Crunchyroll. I was like, what is it? Like, did you send this? And they're like, no, I don't know what this is. And I open it up and it's a letter all in Japanese. And it's black and it's like just like the one she got. There's a QR code and I'm like, I don't know if I should scan this like this seems scammy or whatever. It's going to give me a virus. And I scan it anyway because I'm done. Of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah, naturally. So if ever you want Danny Modder's bank account, all you need to do is prompt him with a QR code. 100% remember when we were at Comic Palooza and we found a flash drive at our table and I was like, I'll put this in my laptop. Yeah. And then it was just absolutely nothing. Yeah. It was like just me naked through bushes. Yeah, it was great. And so I'd scan the QR code and it's a website. That's all in Japanese with no like English version. Okay. But I like Google auto translate it. And it's about Liars game and it's like the plot of it. And it's like you've been selected and this and that. And I'm like, what is this? But it was so poorly Google translated that I was like, I don't know. Do they want me to post about it? Yeah. This is like a premiere coming up. And then I just ignored it and it never came back up until right now. That's how did they get your address? I don't know. When I saw her open that, I was like, what the fuck is this? So you could have gone and just like fleece some like single mother out of almost a million dollars in Japan. I don't know. They didn't send money with it. That would have been rad. That would have been rad as hell. That would have been sick. And you'd be like, and then also who's flying from Japan over to America to find your hundred thousand dollars? Yeah. A million dollars. It was so weird. And I never like made a big. I was like, I should do a video about this. And then I just didn't because I didn't have enough info on it. I got sent recently. This company just released like gaming hard. Like it's like hard wire or something. They released like corded gaming like in your headphones. And they're like, hey, do you want a pair? And I was like, sure. I looked him up for like 150 bucks. I was like, sure, I'll take one. And they've been emailing me every day being like, when are you going to post about it? And I was like, you asked if I wanted a pair. You didn't ask if I was going to post about it for you sending me one. I know. I love when sometimes like people are like, we'd love to send you this thing. You don't have to post. Just see if you like it. Cool. And yeah, I take it. And I'm like, I medium liked it. And they're like, when's the video coming out? And I'm like, hey, don't send people nine volumes of Togan on key and tell them there's no obligation. Dude, I got somebody reached out to me and they were selling like solid gold Pokemon statues, like like 24 karat Pokemon statues. And they're like, we'll send you like a bunch of these if you post about it kind of thing. And I was like real close to say yes. And I checked their website. It's actually all they had was silver. Oh, yeah. I was like, I was like, it was like the sketchiest website of all time. It was objectively very silly. But yeah, Liar's game is fine. I don't know. Watch Tomodachi game or Batum or anything else that's like a future diary. Watch any other other like battle royale anime over this. I'll give this another episode. I like like if it gets clever, I'll be into it. Like there's the promise of, oh, they're going to do some like tricky scheming. But yeah, this episode doesn't have that like inherent. Oh, this is really smart kind of factor. Like I'm interested solely under the guise that this will be like a Steins Gate or a death note. Well, I'm like, oh, this is smarter because it looks that way. Yeah. Well, because it's like a game anime, you know, was that one with a fucking liar one, the other one, Liar game? Not not. Yes, of course, Liar game. The one with all the con men. Cock your curry. No, not cock a curry. That's the gambling one. It got like three seasons. It was on Netflix. Super crux. Super crux is like in that same vein, but it's it's like, no, I know. Right. I feel like Liar's in the title. What is it? You guys know. Tell me. Tell me now. Yeah. So watch that one, whichever one that is the Great Pretender. Watch Great Pretender if you want to con man anime over this. All right. Outside of the Liar game, we all watched this week, Marriage Talks in Wastoria, which had a telly, a daemon to the shadow realm, Nepon Sen Goku and Invincible. So after Liar game, man, what's the next best? It is kind of a gap, I feel with Storia. Do you like this episode of Wastoria? Dude, I was going to I have been debating all week, doing a bit where I was going to be like, yeah, well, story is probably the worst of the week. Nothing happens, right? Uh-huh. To rage bait you. What happens this episode in Wastoria? I mean, like it's like it's they're fighting a bunch of demons of the week. You know, I listen to finish the episode. Yes. OK, I did. OK. I mean, like so, yes, I think we're saving budget. Listen, I'm not saying that the story is bad. This felt like a budget saver episode. Wow. Yeah. I like there's some there's like a slightly fun fight between Will and the the fucking whatever they call it, David Devoness or whatever. Fuck, which is just it looks like cooler. It looks like cooler. Had a baby with like hollow. It's you go. Oh, I see. The man cooler. Yes, the man, the man cooler, not the actual cooler. I thought you meant like it looks cool. No, no, no, no. He looks like cooler. The strongest in the universe. Yes. But like this episode is, I don't know, like it's just them fighting a bunch of the same demons. For some reason, the dwarves who are able to battle against these things that can kill mages are never once called into combat because of generational racism. Also, I love them being like, hey, hey, dwarves, sorry about the years and years of mistreatment. Can you come die on the front lines for us? And you know what? They're down. I can't believe they were down. They were. And there's a guest. Sure. We'll grab our wooden mallets. Yeah. Ridiculous. I look, I didn't love the episode. Yeah. I thought this would be higher because of how it ends. I mean, the episode look at ends with, I mean, oh, I forgot about that. I think you forgot. I it's not that I forgot. I did forget. I did forget. Rosty dies. Rosty die. Rosty fucking dies. I forgot Rosty die. That is that is because I was just thinking I was like, oh, a bunch of demons. There's the dwarves. We get will getting kicked into a wall. None of it's particularly pretty. The guy in the beginning gets cut in half. Rosty. I literally wrote, I said, damn, that was Rosty's will washing arm. And I said, oh, damn, that was Rosty's will fucking body. I know. I wrote Rosty losing an arm is wild. Rosty dying is why. Yeah, like fucking that was absolutely because literally last episode we were talking about, like, oh, it's so cool that will can be like shipped with either Colette or Rosty. And then immediately just karma came for Rosty, apparently. Yeah. Shipped on the fucking river sticks. Yeah. My God. Like I was like, OK, cool. It was like one arm down. It's gonna be harder to make crafts straight through the chest. I don't know how you jumping in front of the sword of a demon that's able to kill grand machinuses or whatever the fuck is going to is going to slow it down enough to save Wales life. I don't know. Rosty after the arm was gone, Rosty was like, whatever, take the rest. Yeah. And then just like turned into dust. Yeah, turned to dust. Why? I couldn't tell that. Magicules. Something like that. Oh, that's so interesting. Because yeah, I was also like, this is a little mundane. Yeah. I mean, not mundane, but I was like, this is made in terms of yet monster, like random faceless hollows, which I never love. I'd rather they're fighting like other wizards or something. Yeah. And the second they're like, their swords absorb magic. I was waiting for like silent or scion to be like, how are we going to be? Oh, fuck, where's will? Yeah, I said, oh, no, classic. Our magic doesn't work. Good thing there's a kid with a sword. I know. I know. It is that's so funny. It's like, oh, fuck, it's got to be well. It's like Roger and family are in America. Dad's like, oh, God, how does this keep happening? Yeah, I love that clip where he's like, I hear this teacher is the best in the big it's Roger. It's going to be Roger. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was fine. But yeah, then Ross, he died and I was like, oh, I guess I do have something to talk about. Oh, it's absolutely. That's absolutely the biggest and most important takeaway from this episode, because like outside of that, it's just like, oh, no, they can absorb our magic. Good thing we have the laggard. It's not as big of an animation drop as like season two of Black Clover. Yes. But it is. Oh, it's noticeable. It's a little noticeable. But then when Ross, he dies. Yeah. But like, it's like he was sucking up the budget because then they animate it pretty cool. That's why I think that this was an animation. That's what I was like, oh, this is very clear, like a budget saver episode. We didn't have budget saver episodes in season one. So it makes me think I was like, oh, did they spend too much money on season one? They're like, we can't be blowing JGK money on Wastoria, Sorden, one season one here. Yeah, I don't know. We'll have to wait and see because I can't tell even if this is like the budget of it. This is still like it looks good. It's not that it looks bad. It just doesn't look as crazy as season one. Yeah, it's hard to not see that. It's hard to because like also a big reason to watch Wastoria is, unfortunately, how beautiful the animation was. I feel about Wastoria the way you felt about Sentence to be a hero, I'm like, this is fantasy. Oh, it's magic. It's magic. 100 percent magic. Slop. And it's like, if the magic slops not going to look good, I'm like, I can get this from any middle of the road. Esekai, you know, I like Will as a main character, but like not enough for me to be like, OK, cool, if this universe doesn't build out into something interesting with cool fights, it's going to lose me. Yeah. So this is not the best episode of Wastoria. Should we get. I don't know. Damon's. Yeah. Yeah, dude, this show is not good yet. It's not it's not none of these three episodes have been particularly interesting. Is this going to be your Nick hates anime? I do. This is a Nick. Listen, I'm honestly, I'm so down on everything we watch this week. Except for me. If I hadn't watched Marriage Talks in right before we did this podcast, I would be pissed. But I'd be lying to you if I if I didn't say right now, I wouldn't pause this podcast so I could go downstairs and watch the second episode of Marriage Talks. I fucking love that goddamn show. So if you're not watching Marriage Talks and you're doing something wrong, A, everything else we watch this week pissed me off. That's so crazy. I even Liars Game. I was like, this is fine. Like. Here up. I'm pretty happy with everything else we watch. I will say Damon's is slower than like. A witch hat. Run off. Run off. Run off to me. What happened to this episode of Damon's real quick? That's tough. Yeah. There was the only Gary. Yeah, I wrote. I could watch her open on a Geary CGI on a Geary all day. I do. My favorite part of this episode was the fact that when she was opening the only Geary, it, you know, the string, the string part lagged on the part that always gets stuck. And I was like, that is incredible attention to detail. I like seeing her do the string. I like that when she unwrapped one side, it gets like a little un-ony Geary. And she like pushes it back in. That's good. Yeah. All relatable stuff. All worth the budget. And then. Well, considering the fact that the rest of the episode was dedicated to them eating a very disortment of other bento boxes. Yes. So this episode three, they're at a gas station for a lot of it. Yeah, we get to see a very frightening angler fish. Do you watch these when when we watch them? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, the Angler. OK, yes, the guy. The lantern. The demon that he uses to kill the fucking stalker. Yes, yes, yes, yeah. Real spooky, like chainsaw man, ass demon. This mangaka loves little hands grabbing people so much because it's also every time the door of truth opens, it's always little hands grabbing people's like body. Yeah, this mangaka is terrified of the concept of a bunch of hands, especially considering like it's already a big spooky angler fish. Like he's standing in its mouth. That's scary enough. That's good. You got you got him. If anything, once the hands started showing up, I'm like, this is less scary than getting eaten by the fish. About to be eaten by an angler fish. And the woman that I stalked into this elevator, I was going to kill anyways. I'm stabbing the thing she turned into. You must believe I'm going to try and stab my way out of that situation. You know, I'd be paralyzed with fear, probably. 100 percent. Valid because I've never been. Yeah, I've never been consumed by an angler fish. Never been angler fish. I've never been angler fish. I probably never will be angler fish. They're this big. Do you know that? An angler fish is like legitimately the size of a quarter. I know one came to the surface and it's like the size of like a plum pit. Yeah. And so I'll probably never be angler fish unless, you know, for some reason, like radioactive angler fish, something like that. I feel like I'd stab my way out. I'd be like, I'd be like, I'd be like, I'd be like, I'm an ordinary man making his way out of that bug. I'm working my way out the guts. I've got too many exterior teeth. I anything with teeth on the outside is too scary for me. That's a good point. It's a real like Venus fly trap situation. You're not once you're in there, you're stuck in there. You're not you when you're getting angler fish. Yeah. Is he in hell now? I don't know. He's dead. Yeah, he's got to be. Oh, he's definitely dead. Well, he's dead for sure. I like this guy. He's giving like the angler fish man angler fish. The angler fish man. I'm also a fan of the angler fish. No, I meant not the stalker. Not the stalker. Big fan of his work. I hate him now that he's dead. Yeah, exactly. Huh? No. You know, just hate to see a guy lose his prime like that, you know? But yeah, I like I like the big angler fish. That's a cool all the daemons come in duos, come in sixes and sevens. So is he is he fish and angler? Is it or the hands one and the fish is the other? Yeah, they get pretty loosey goosey with it where it's like, no, the hands aren't one. The dangle. Oh, the dangle is one. Oh, that because that's the lady. The dangle fish. The lady was the dangle and then the fish is the other. That's good. The lady's the dangle and the fish is the angle. Yeah, there we go. And we've been no talkers. Hey, baby, we're doing good work today. Yeah, this is a slow anime, which I think is fine because honestly, so is full metal. Full metal doesn't get like what I would identify as like good until episode six when you get the show Tucker stuff. No, that's three, unfortunately. That's absolutely three of brotherhood. I don't know when it is in regular, but I'm like, we need a show Tucker episode because like saying full brotherhood is not slow. Episode one's too fast. Where it's like I tried showing Sarah and like another friend of mine and they're like, it's so much so soon and so confusing that like their eyes glaze over. That's the majority. That's not in the manga. The majority of the freezer. Alchemist is not even in the manga. Yeah, I've heard that. But like, yeah, episode one is too over stimulating. Episode two is like so whatever mid. Yeah. And then episode three is show Tucker, which is like, oh, there's something here. You need to grit your teeth through 45ish minutes of content until you get to like the greatest threes episode arc ever. And I'm not like I don't. Unenjoy or dislike, rather a real word. I don't dislike daemons of the shadow realm, but seeing people like. I don't know. I got to get off of like anime hype, TikTok, because it's too many people being like, Liars game blew me away. And then I get tricked into watching the virus. People are just lying. The game, the game is views and people are lying. But it's like and I get the bag. Yeah, but like, you know, it this isn't like a gotcha. I could have yet. No, like it's enjoyable and I like the voice acting a lot. It's good voice acting. It's pretty. You know that it's written by a good mangaka, so it gets a longer leash than everything else, but it hasn't accomplished. It feels to me ankle deep right now. As long as we get this is like how so leveling was where I was like the second we stop getting a fight, I'll be bored. Yeah. We don't need a fight, but the second they stop giving me a new daemon every episode and no fight, I might be bored. Like the angler fish was enough for me to be like, oh, this is fun. I'm intrigued. Yeah. Because he's like that maze huge, ask like gruffy kind of side character. Maze huge. Very I think he's evil. I would you think he killed a stalker? He killed a woman stalker. I think. But wasn't it written by a woman who's probably had stalkers? I think he's with the gobble girl, the gobble girl. Gobble, gobble, gobble, the Kagemori. What she's with the Kagemori. That's that group. Oh, I think so. I think he's with the gobble girl. He's with the gobble. So they're ambiguous. I think they're probably the good guys. I think I think it's going to be revealed that the village were the bad people. I think they are the bad people. You know what? I actually have to push back on the FMAB thing because the first couple of episodes of FMAB before we've got the show Tucker, we got Edward and Al trying to summon their mother back to life. And that that's like dark, deep. Like you see like Ed like being like, no, I won't lose my brother. And like sealing him to like a suit of armor in the corner, him like losing his arm and his leg that shit was heavy. Full metal alchemist does have a way more gripping immediate premise. 100% even just looking at them. What's the immediate premise of Daemon's The Shadow Realm? I need to find my sister and mother. It's a big question mark, I think is the point of it. It's like very like because the bit with the kid, Yuma or something. That probably not even close, but the main kid. Yeah, something like Yuzu or some shit like that. The bit with him is that he's like ripped out of a familiar world into a very complex, confusing one. Also, his sister was murdered by who is apparently his sister. Yes, his sister is blood. The bones are money. The bones are his sister. Her blood is the funds. But I think the bit is that it's supposed to be like immediately hyper disorienting because it is for him. I guess, yeah. And so but with that, yeah, you don't have like even just growing up before seeing full metal alchemist, seeing Ed standing next to Alphonse and people being like, that's his younger brother. You're like, I have so many questions. I want answered immediately. So I guess the same thing does kind of happen where like, oh, the sister is now bigger than the brother on a counter fact that she's eating more. I guess you have put me in check. Yeah, right. Because I'll around some pawns here. Yeah, hold up, hold up. It's not live. It's not live here. You amend your amend your argument real quick. Yeah, this is as good as full metal alchemist. That's what I was thinking as well. That was my exact point here. Yeah, I don't know. It's just an entire episode about also, is there not a brother? Is there not another brother? Did I hallucinate a brother? You were wrong and people were mad about it. The twins. It was a it was a girl and a boy. Come now. The twins. Yeah, it's the girl and the boy. OK, the other guy was just his friend. OK, so that's not his brother. Because they were like, oh, these babies are twins. And then they weren't like, this one's got a penis and this one does it. And then immediately the first person they show is not the sister. It's like his friend who also has black hair. So I was like, oh, that's his brother kind of thing. Well, he has blonde hair. So if anything, none of them look like him. Well, no, no, no, the first person they show. Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is his black haired friends. I was like, oh, they're twins. That's fair. But obviously fraternal twins can be like male and female. But yeah. Yeah, I don't know. Just to push back one more time on full metal. When I was doing my reaction series, right? Shout out to our episode. Fantastic. Yeah, I remember so many people were like, it's not until you get to episode like 20 that it becomes like, oh, I get why this is considered peak. Not that episodes one through 20 aren't good. Like they are. I'd argue, if anything, the middle part of full alchemist is the worst part. Did I think full metal alchemist is like just gets better from beginning to end and it doesn't really slow down. Everything around like the like envy, lust, gluttony, all of them, although Monculous is really good. When you get to like the fucking chimeras, like the father. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like like a late. I guess it's like that's like like middle late. F maybe is the only weak part. It's like the early fifties in the episodes. That's the only weak part for me. You talking about like the zombies? Yeah, kind of. Yeah. That's so cool because a Mestria is like fucking evil. Yeah. Selim is fucking spoilering. I don't know. It's pretty sick. I'm not saying there's a bad part of F maybe I'm just saying like I wouldn't tell somebody that doesn't get good until episode 20, because I'd say it's good rather immediately. I agree. It's good, but it doesn't become like, oh, I get why this is considered like one of the best of all time. And I'd say right now, Shadows of or Demons of the Shadow Realm, worst title ever, maybe. Yeah, Demons of the Shadow Realm, that's why. Of the Shadow Realm, which sounds like a Yu-Gi-Oh card. 100%. I don't know. It is good. I don't dread watching this. I don't dread watching it either, but in the way that like I'm not excited for Westoria, but I will watch it. I would say I'm more excited for this than I am with Storia, simply on account of the fact that this comes with more legacy. It gets a longer rope than Westoria. Like this can have three bad episodes. And because I have so much respect for the Mungaka, I will keep going. And like this is the kind of show that like it's not bad enough for me to ever really be like, well, I can't watch it again this week, but I'll never. I won't sing the praises of Demons of the Shadow Realm. Just to me, it feels ankle deep. The power system is not all that complicated. OK, like everyone has Demons. We haven't fleshed out what a Demon is. We haven't fleshed out the Demon realm. And I'm sure at some point we will. But like it's just like so the power system is like not that deep. The characters are less compelling than they are in Fullmetal Alchemist. The action is in all that interest. Like there's like there's some good action sequences like I like the gobble shit, I like him like fucking lace necker with arrows. But it's just it's it's not there yet. It's just not there yet. Yeah, it's uncooked. Yeah, I think once left and right get some more like screen time. That'll whatever the fuck. Apparently you can just rename them to whatever you want. They're like, hey, you name us what you want here. And it's like I so what it's left and right arbitrary. Yeah, it's like naming your Pokemon. I guess. Yeah. Still Blaziken. Chunko. Even if you name it Chunko. Fuck ass. Oh, dude, all the time. I love the piece like they're like, you could even rename us Chunko and fuck ass. And he's like, well, wait, hold on, hold on. I only know one word. I twined her. I only know one word. It's my original name. Yeah, it's like never mind. You can't never mind. You've lost me privileges. Yeah, they're fun, though. They're cute so far. I get it. Whatever. Anyway, next one. Yeah, this is listen, the next one is one where you're going to give me some heat. Whatever you say, I'm going to be back. I'm going to get some heat from both of you and probably the community because the community is hyping up Moppa's newest project is the greatest thing they've ever done. Apparently the thing that stole all of the budget from Invincible, even though Invincible has a two point five million dollar budget per episode. And they're not made by the same studio. They're both put on by Amazon Prime. I guess so. Yes. Because the next thing we're going to talk about is Nippon Sun Goku. I just don't understand you anymore, which is. Fine. It's fine. It's objectively fine. Do your bit now, Danny. Don't know. I my bid is leaving. I go to please. It's so cool. It's so. Have you seen all three episodes? No, I saw the first two. OK, I didn't know three came out. The first two episodes are good. I would even reckon to say that the first episode is great. The second episode is good. The third episode literally put me to sleep. That's crazy because two ends on like a cliffhanger of like they're going to go fight this guy. Yeah, that's fair. Yes. So please explain what it's about because I am a little confused, kind of. OK, what is Nippon Sun Goku about? Everything literally. Hey, by the way, do you want to crash course in fake Japanese history? It's an intense first like six minutes. It's intense for they do it every episode. Every episode, the first three and a half minutes are like there was a battle. Here are the people involved and now they're gone. And it's gone. It's like South Park fucking stock market. And it's gone. It's about like a new era of Japan that's a post apocalyptic as future or essentially climate raising ages and war with China, Russia, India and America has basically put Japan back into the feudal era. So all like people have cars. People use swords and clubs to fight. Guns are still around, but like barely. And everything is now back in the Meiji era. The Meiji era is the era that existed before the current era of Japan. Yes, Japan is currently in an era. Isn't it the Sen goku era? That's why it's called that. But the the the era right now is called the same. Or like the one the show. Yes, they're in the Sen goku area. It's back to that, not the Meiji. No, no, no, it's back to the Meiji era. The new era there in they call the Sen goku era. But they say, oh, our technology has reverted to the Meiji era, which is kind of when like demon slayer took like that's when it's like 1910. It's 1860 to 1914. Yeah, World War One is not actually happening. And what is actively happening while demon slayer is going on? Yeah, they did bigger fish to fry, apparently. And so it's all about a boy. What? It's like the idea that they're in there in the infinity castle. And it's like, Squawk, Squawk, Archduke, France, for an assassin. Squawk, Squawk, Prussia's gone. And they're like, what the fuck is Prussia? They like, because I was like, stop, stop, stop, stop. This is going to be devastating for the world. Oh, no, Austria has Austria hungry. So many leveraged assets in Germany right now. No, no, no. What's going on in Germany? That that's probably OK, right? Yeah, they're doing. They're doing OK. Cool. They're morally ambiguous in this one. All right, good. They're doing what? What's a Jewish? Yeah. What do you mean? What? Listen, I don't have. I don't have any of the daytime politics. Oh, that's worse than what we're doing. In the daytime, in the daytime, they're doing that. How many millions? Tange, buddy. Yeah, just off. We got to go to Germany. We got to put me in the box. Oh, man. Anyway, yeah, the world sucks in Sengoku, whatever, Nippon. And there's the main character whose name is Chisaru. I never know. I and he's married to a lady who is obsessed with calling him a pussy. And because mean and because objectively, he kind of is. Yeah, he sucks. And then the one time she decides to not be a pussy, gets her decapitated, which is pretty hard, which was hard. It's pretty. I really thought I usually have a good like radar of when a character is just there to die. Yeah. I this one, like, really snuck up. It was there. They're like falling asleep. They're giggling like a tax man is stealing money from like local people. And she walks up and she's like, taxes aren't supposed to be collected today. Blah, blah, blah, I'll call this person or that person. And like, basically gets this person, this tax man to stop taxing all these people, drives him out of the town and then both him and his wife are like sitting in bed and they're giggling. They're like, we did such a good job. And then he wakes up and she's not there. He wakes up and there's a there's a trail of blood out of his house. I was like, either this guy is the deepest sleeper of all time or literal ninjas abducted this woman. You know, they got her. They they done got her. Sometimes they just get you. She could have just done it to herself, too. That's I feel like that's a theory we need to consider. Well, he like wakes up and there's a trail of blood leading to a box and the fucking tax guys like that's her wife's head. Here you go. Here you want this? He's like, what's in the box? This anime is gorgeous. Like it is for those who don't know, Mapa is animating it. And it's one of the shows. Mapa is so weird about this. Mapa, I feel like has like two different companies. And one of the companies is like the one where they played their motorcycle intro at the beginning and then the others are like, they're really good anime. It's weird. Skating. I would like to motorcycle like JJK, right? Like JJK, they don't do it. I don't think they do it in Hell's Paradise. They do to Hell's. Oh, do they? I mean, that kind of sense. That makes it's a. It's a bucket. They didn't do it to AOT. That's correct. Yeah. Yeah, Mapa is weird because they'll give you like an AOT where the budget is seemingly non-existent. And I'll be like, yeah, Nepants and Goku should probably be the best looking thing you've ever seen. It's going to be black and white, but also look like it was like painted like past alley watercolors kind of. Yeah, it's one of the coolest fucking things I've seen. And also what I assume Golden Kamui is like. In the fact that it's drowning in historical context. It's drowning in his like I have like a five point reason for this where it's like drowning in historical context. It kind of looks like Golden Kamui in terms of like the outlines and the character designs a little bit. It's the most hard black outlines of all time. It's uncomfortably funny. Like it's really dark and graphic, but like has like JoJo's S humor. Yeah, you get like the you get like the chubby fat so or whatever they call him. And he's like drawn quarter this man in 20 seconds. And he's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, and then it's gone. Yeah, and they do it. It's crazy. Yeah, I love that first episode. It is like this is one of those anime where I'm like, this is an expert level watch in terms of like reading speed and comprehension. 100 percent. Yes. I would not recommend this is your first time. It is. If you're reading it. Also want to count the fact like you have to you have to have an anime brain to find interest in like the oh, this is about a guy literally becoming a politician and a divided Japan to try and bring it together. It's not an action anime. It is there's action. Episode two opens with like a really cool fucking spy guy and also ends with them seemingly about to fight a dude. Yes. But I don't know what happens in episode three. You hate it. There's there's a like a general in the Yaman Yamato army or the Takayama army or something like that, which is in this one Eastern or Western section in Japan. Listen, it's my job to know the shit and even I'm confused. But he climbs up. There's like a rebelling country. He climbs up and overpass and just blows a couple of guys away with a revolver. That scene is sick. Like the main characters entire gambit. He's like, I know maps and agriculture, and I will fix the maps and agriculture of this nation to like unify it so I can like drive out the people who killed my wife kind of thing. Well, he knows maps, agriculture and semantics. Yes. His superpower is knowing semantics really well. The most the grammar Nazi of all grammar. He's like, first off, she never said anyone's name. She referred to Fatso. He made that conclusion, you know? Yeah, I like it. I don't know. It's like this scratch is a liar game itch where I'm like, oh, I'm excited to see some like riddles take place. You know, it's assassination classroom or la lue or like code Gios minus the action. Like it's like, oh, if you want to watch a smart MC, politic his way through the game and like rise to the top and you're like, oh, like the action itself is the like, oh, like he gets. You haven't seen episode three, so I won't explain it. But like, like, like he does these things and things work out for him and you feel smart for like figuring him out kind of thing. It's it also isn't just like beautiful in like a screenshot perspective. Like it is every frame is gorgeous, but it's also like a lucid samurai where anything that every scene is like the most artistic version of itself. Yes. Like someone will just be like talking and it'll cut in their head is like slowly spinning and like being a clock or something. Yeah. Or there's a sequence of the guys climbing through the window and trying to stab the guy with like Elzaba's haircut or whatever. Yeah. Like it's it's overanimated to hell in like my favorite way. It looks really good. Moppa put a bunch of money into it. I think that's because this is their only anime this season. But yeah, I mean, it's it's a fun watch. Why'd you have so three? Is he humble? He's wearing a purple jacket and only lives that people serve him. So he's just going to brain mug everyone three year time skip. It's just it's three year time skip. Protagonist dies. Yeah. He's gone. He's white. They put his they put his wife's head back on just mumbling through. He it's just like, I don't know. Like I, politicking is not what gets me excited. Like I I love a fantasy world. I love a I love like the world building that kind of thing. But like I dropped the sassination classroom. I dropped dropped the sassination classroom. I dropped. No, no, no, I dropped. I'm sorry. Not a sass. Fucking high school of fuck, not a sassination classroom. What's the one with high school of does not narrow it down. I know Koji. I know Koji show high school of the elite, which is kind of this exact thing where it's like, oh, this is like a super small, like he was trained in the white room and like he brain mugs everybody, but also he's incredibly like everyone doubts him and doesn't believe that he's strong because he's small. And he blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, but like that's not exactly what this is. This show is substantially smarter than that. But like the politicking isn't really what excites me in anime. That's just like not really for me. Like I enjoy the occasional like, whoa, he did it kind of thing. Like there's a big sequence in episode three where like the main character, you know, brain mugs the general basically and you're like, like in that moment, you're supposed to be like, wow, such a good play. Like this was so smart. And I get that and I get what people would enjoy that. But I'm like, that's not exactly what I like go to an anime to find. Gotcha. Yeah. You want the flashing colors. I want the flashing colors I want. But I also like I want like the like unique. Yeah, it's like that. There's a reason I haven't watched like Kingdom, Golden Comily. I've been told to watch Golden Comily a million times. Something about feudal Japan centric anime lose me every time. I relate to that so hard, but it's feudal China. So I can't even argue with you like, yeah. I like the only feudal anime that's ever like held my attention like Samurai Shampoo. Demon Slayer. Demon Slayer is like hardly even like it's not it's not about the time period it's in. Right. Like like this is a show. It's just an excuse to not have that many guns. Yeah, literally. It's like this is a show built around the concept of this time period. Gotcha. Yeah. Like the time period is a character in the show. You don't like a historical drama. Yeah. Which is essentially what this is. And even a Pothicari Diaries isn't even like a historical drama. Like, yes, it is like, I don't know, the forbidden. It's the forbidden temple. And also it's like very much feudal like China. But like that's not a central part of the story. A central part of the story is more hinted like Mao Mao poison. And then like like personal interpersonal relationships between established characters. Gotcha. Yeah. Wow. Well, this is the new orb and you're dumb for not liking. OK, so you'll watch eight episodes of it and then we'll never talk about it again. We'll see. And then we'll be like, wow. 2027 animated best original anime. Neapolitan go cool. You like, I told you and they would be like, cool. We didn't neither of us finished it. Yeah. That's exactly what'll happen. It's fun. It's fun. It looks good. And if it's your bag, you're very much going to enjoy it. It's just not all that much. My bag. And this gets my week's Ring a Ding recommendation. Wow. Wow. We do that every week. I'm going to say my Ring a Ding recommendation for another anime. And that other anime is. You've been ringing dingin' about it. I've been ringing dingin' about it all goddamn day, which brings us to our next episode, which is not anime. Invincible. Yeah. I'd put that there because I love the next two things. I love the next two things and I have. Oh, you're going to get me shot. Just being on this podcast with you. The show. I'm going to find Robert Kirkman. I'm going to find Robert Kirkman and I'm going to I'm going to sharpen my four fingers and I'm going to poke him in the gut as hard as I can. How should we go about this? Should I guess the things you're pissed about? Good. OK. Death bait. I just stop hurting people. Like, I don't look. Oh, oh, fucking. Oh, Thregs. So bad. You if in the next episode, they reveal that Thaddeus or Thaddeus or whatever his fuck ass name is, is still alive. They're like, yeah, we have a head reattachment surgery. I wouldn't even be surprised at this moment. Imagine thinking Thaddeus is dead. Imagine not being a comic reader. I I just I think. No, he's super dead. I there could be a head is all his head is off. But also like our organs optional in this fucking universe. Like, oh, does nobody need their spine and or small intestine? I'm pretty sure. So this is episode you get your jaw ripped off. You die. You die. That's it. That's a jaw off, floating through the expanse, the expanse of space. Who reminds you he's holding his breath? Oliver is holding his breath and got and then. Oh, no, do that with your mouth open. Not if you're un fucking conscious. Oliver is knocked unconscious, has his arm ripped off, his jaw ripped off and does it die in space? I didn't consider space. Fucking omniman has to flip. Omniman floats through space until people find him hours later with his guts jumbled. I love Oliver getting his jaw and arm ripped off in space. And then they go, Oliver. And then they spend the next 10 minutes. Dripping through a planet and then they're like, hey, someone find Oliver. By the way, do we know where do we remember where we started? Do we remember where we are? Where in this debris field we just created was the corpse of my younger brother? Wow. Yeah, that's all so valid. I remember in the comics, I'm 90% sure this is the case, but I could be wrong as I am with every statement that comes out of my mouth. I'm pretty sure when this episode seven of season four of Invincible, yes, when Thrag fists Omniman, yeah, I noticed that it's like off center, like a grade four Pokemon card. OK, his fist is like to the right of him. And I'm pretty sure in the comic, they're like, he just missed my heart. A Viltramite can't live without his heart. But because he was a little off center, I think I think that's in the comic, which is dumb in the comic, because I think later that's just a nose case saying he moved his organs. It's a nose case saying, oh, I lived in the mountains, so I'm immune to poison. And then also these are the important contextual because that wouldn't have helped at all. No, this is the important contextual thing that is don't lead. They don't put the fucking adaptation. I think later there's like and I won't say this spoilery, but like later, I think there is another instance with a character and they're like, fuck, they got the heart. Like I like literally last episode, I was like, start aiming a little more, more north than you think. If you have four fingers pointed at someone's gut, just be like, what if I want six inches further up? Just do that in his face. Always. And then like, I get it. I get it. He was like, oh, I killed that. He is too quickly. I'm going to go slower with you, Mark or something like that. But like, oh, and then he's like, we're too few, which is dumb in this episode. And honestly, it will killing two other Viltramites. He's like, he looks at him. He's like, well, we might just sperm at some point. What? Nothing. Anyway, what? Yeah, it's it's silly. It's tough. It sucks. It all sucks. You know, what's funny is that like invincible. If you told me that everyone unanimously was loving the writing of invincible up until this point, which hasn't been the case. But if they were, I'd be like, hey, some real stupid shit is around the corner. Like it has not jumped the shark yet by my standards. Wait, hold on. What we just watched was not the jumping of the shark. Like Mark Thaddeus and Omni-Man working together to follow a space laser through the core of the planet Viltram, blowing it up for some reason that blows it up. And then I was also confused. I figured it out. Oh, so they because, yeah, he shoots space. Racer. Yes, that's correct. Yeah, shoots the planet. And seemingly they're just following the laser. Hundred percent. That's exactly what they're doing. And I was like, it seems like the laser is the one blowing up the planet. Yeah. At the end, the laser comes out and it's just like it's just a laser. Yeah. And then they come out and like a bullet leaving a bigger exit wound. It's like their combined shockwave that blows up the planet. And I guess the laser is just like clearing a path for them. So it's like the gravity of their flight actually blows up the planet. I mean, that part makes 100 percent sense. Like that's like a fucking thing. I at first was like, it seems like they're following the laser for no reason. Yeah. Yeah, they just wanted to be in there. They just wanted to burn off their shirts. Yeah. And so, yeah, it's just. I don't know, man. I like, I can't believe it gets more ridiculous than this. I like, we just need to either either kill people or don't. Omni-Man can die. Oliver can die. I don't like, I like they can die. Like, I don't I'm not so connected to be carried. Alan can die. I there's no one in this story that if they killed even Mark, if they killed Mark, I'd be like, you know what, cool, more space racer. Also more space racer walk the fucking walk the fucking space. Yeah. Yeah. Immediately, immediately, the first step, the first sign of things going south, the strongest guy they have is like, God, let's get out guys. We got to go. Got to ski. We have to leave. He was like, leave him behind. Ever like all the Viltrumites are dead. It's like, we need to leave. No, we don't. You know, you have the gun that can kill Thrag. Even if I'm like, oh, you're not talking about Thrag. I see. I thought you meant like it's dumb that Thrag bounces. Yeah. But even if I'm going to be like a generous and be like, all right, I get Thrag being like, we've killed too many of us like because he sees his planet get destroyed. That's why he's like, we need as many Viltramites left as possible. Yeah. Imprison them. Yeah. Like kidnap them. 100 percent break all of his limbs. 100 percent. Yeah, literally just make Mark a fucking like break him, turn him into meat soup because he'll survive. Yeah. He'll survive. But like, you know, talk to him the whole time, you fucking indoctrinate him to Viltrum. Grab Oliver and Dominic Man while you're at it. You know, don't I fucking grab them out of the debris. It's just, oh, but God, I can't believe it gets worse. I can't believe it gets worse. That's insane. Last week when we talked about what does worse, death baiting, invincible or demon slayer and I was like, invincible has some bad death baiting coming up. This Oliver moment was what I was referring to and also some other instances. I haven't happened. Dude, I cannot believe how one, how immediate the payoff was and two, how immediately it's revealed that they're fine. I know it's so insane. It's seven minutes later. It is. It is like Omni Man gets stabbed. Oliver gets fucking torn apart and seven minutes later, Mark is like, well, and I've seen people complain about it and people in comments are like, well, what do you want them to do? Win every fight? That's not the point. The issue is when you do. I've had this issue since season one. When every fight is the most graphic instance of violence you've ever seen. Yeah. None of it feels like anything. Yeah. Like seeing Oliver get his jaw punched off in his arm ripped off. I'd like, I can't imagine. Obviously, I knew he was going to be OK because I read the comic. I can't imagine feeling suspense towards that because he almost died to conquest already. The second I. Twice. Yeah. The second I saw him get torn apart in the second I. My literal notes are I said, oh, never mind. He's why can't you help them? Every time pulls a trigger of Viltramite dies. I said, well, there goes Papa, unless of course he survives that, too. Jesus fucking Christ, why even injure anyone anymore? Every time I see somebody fatally injured, I look until I see them like not breathe and then even then until until the episode ends in there still dead. Yeah, I'm going to I'm going to believe that they're alive. Like that shouldn't be the way that it goes. Like that's that's the problem with death baiting is like, oh, now it's like it's like you're crying wolf. If somebody dies, my initial response is in. Oh, no, it's. Yeah. OK, fucking roll out the bullshit. And it's OK if you want to like severely wound people. But like. Break their arms. Well, like change them afterwards. Like Oliver should be afraid to fight ever again. You know, like take him out of commission four times in a row. Now Oliver has been like, how hard could it be? And then he's just like every boat is broken. I hate any time Oliver opens his dumb ass mouth and is like, Thra can't be that tough. Oliver, I've won no fights. Grayson. Yes. He's like, oh, listen, I fought conquest and it's just a clip of his brain being juiced twice loses every fight, including to that dragon. Yes. Um, fucking. Yeah, but it's like, yeah, get make him so afraid to fight ever again that he like retires. If you want to punch a hole through Omni Man, that's fine. Make him like weaker than Mark now. 100% do like you have to do it with all my they did it with all my almost give him lasting consequence. Yeah, like, oh, look, almost in the last fight with all for one. He fucking crunched my ribs in and now I'm not as strong as I used to be. Yeah, exactly. So also, did you speak? I'm just dumb with things. I didn't mind this episode, by the way. I there's I'm used to this shit. There is good parts of this episode. There was horrifically bad parts of this episode. The shit I'm seeing people complain about once again is pissing me off. People are like, why can't drag airbend? Watch one anime. Yeah, what? It's so crazy to me that people that's what people are sick as fuck. Them flying through the center of the earth. Sick as fuck. People are used to watching anime where like incomprehensible shit happens and you're just like, that's artistic license. Yes, 100%. Like they're like, hey, by the way, Thrag is the Viltramites, what humans are like, what Viltramites are the humans. He can do whatever the fuck he wants. Being like Thrag is airbending is like being like, why does Deku have electric powers when he turns into a little ball of lightning in all of the movies? It's just he fucking reeled back so hard. He made a vacuum around his fist. Yeah, that's it. Um, fucking. Yeah, that's what people are mad about, which is annoying. No one's bringing up that space racer throwing a bunch of Ragnar's at them in space is like the most dodgeable attack ever. 100% these guys who can fly at the speed of light are like, oh, no, these gigantic, un-flying thing. Mind you, he has one shot at this. And like you see some of the Ragnar's miss and just float away. And all of these like, oh, supposedly. And also I want to talk about like the culling of the herd of the Viltramites. Bet they wish they hadn't done that. I bet that bet they wish that bet they wish they hadn't done that. Fuck it. I bet you have 20 to 30 more Viltramites if you hadn't for some reason been like to celebrate the loss of our great regent leader, jump the closest Viltra. And they're like, we're watching Viltramites kill three, four Viltramites and then just from behind killed. And they're like, yeah, this is this is the best Viltramites we have left. No, it's the luckiest. I get them be doing like a McCarthy era thing where they're like, we there is now a doubt and paranoia sewn into our entire race. I didn't know it'd be immediate. I didn't know he'd be like, go find the betrayers and everyone would turn and kill each other now. And then all the three kids are just like, well, get that one. Why that one? It's I think my first note was this is the dumbest race in history. How does that hundred like this is a race that never deserved the strength that it got? How are the Ragnar's flying? Yeah, that was the stupidest thing ever. Just don't be in front of them. Like they they you're in space. They can't push off anything. Nope, they are. They have a one shot. They have one shot attempt at fucking catching a Viltramite here. I also never understand hair as a whip, the one with the whip hair. And then like they just grab it. The best part about a whip is that you can let go. Yes, that's true. To the back of your head. Immediate disadvantage. If you're grabbed or fucked. Yeah, literally. Um, fucking also. Oh, oh, we have 10 of these of these vials of poison that make Viltramites turn into paper mache. Let's give them to the person who's not going to fight anybody important. Give give give one to everyone. Give one to everyone. Mark fucking Nolan and even Oliver get in in kissing distance of Thrag. Whoops. I guess you don't want them taking it and using it on Oliver and Mark and such. Not that it matters. They're already made a paper mache to Thrag. It doesn't matter. I was going to say the same thing about Space Racer. I get why he doesn't do it, but it's crazy at no point. Did Mark just like zip up next to him and be like, hey, I'm like way more fragile than you. Yeah. Can I borrow the gun? 100%. Hey, there's no reason for you to be here outside of your motorcycle and gun. I am both of those states. I allegedly the motorcycle is faster than Viltramite. It's still a motorcycle. It's still a motorcycle that like and then also like he can he purposely points towards empty parts of the universe, right? So he understands where every empty part of the universe is, which is forever, which implies which implies that he has infinite sight, right? To a certain degree. Shoot at them for further away. Yeah. They don't have to see you. You could you could fucking if I travel at the speed of light, launch that shit 10, 10 miles away. Yeah. Oh, I wrote craziest impact frame ever. The skull. That was pretty sick. Pretty cool. Pretty cool. But apparently they nerfed Mark because apparently like in the in the comic, he makes Thrag bleed. I mean, they've been nerf and Mark since episode one. Well, fair, very fair. He was so closer to being invincible in the comic the whole time. He's a real invincible. I will say I like considering this is what the 40th guy who's just strong and flies that they've introduced. They did a great job at making him feel like a fun, unique threat. Yes. Yeah. Considering like we Alan does what he does. Yep. Every Viltramite does what he does. What he does. Yeah. Bulletproof Adam Eve kind of and more. Well, less now. Well, less now. But like everyone has this power set and Thrag is like the final boss and they didn't give him something new. They did a great job at like every single hit, something interesting happens. Potterset. He like knocks Nolan into space. Like that's something we've never seen before. That's really cool. Yeah, I like that impact frame. Thrag low key be the new Broly. He feels like he feels like for the first time a clear power scale like introduction. It's like, oh, finally, we understand what a high ender looks like. I love the bit where like even he like slaps mark and we get a mark POV and he has like a double vision. Yeah. That like put the fear of God into me where I was like, oh, he got fucking like he usually takes those, you know, 100% like he like he doesn't come here. Come on. Come on. Give me a hug. Give me a hug. Give me a hug. He doesn't want it. Give me a hug. He's looking at me like he wants something. He has a new growth. Have you noticed that? He's got. Yeah, dude. He's nine. He's just this. You talking about this? You talking about this right here? Yeah, we got we got a biopsy. He's got like five bumps. Yeah, he's getting old. Oh, he's getting old. He's getting bumpy. Yeah. The pimples get so gross. That's what he's going to be real gross in like two years. What's this? Your least favorite episode of Invincible this season or are you just wearing you down? It's just I it's just it's a fucking it's a shit storm. Like it's just like it's got the best moments of Invincible this season. Yeah, it's also got the worst. Yeah. I cannot believe now twice in this season, I've had to watch somebody get hand speared and then just be fine. What was the other? Oh, Mark Mark, two episodes ago. The entire family has been death baited in two episodes. That's insane. I know it's like I said, like in season three, the violence is just too graphic too often, whereas in the comic that shit was reserved for big moments. But now it's like anytime someone dies, they're getting like thumbs through their eyes from the back of their head. And it's like all everything's a mortal combat. Honestly, considering how fucking ridiculous it's been, Thaddeus's death was kind of tamed. It's pretty tamed. It was like it was like a fucking two and a half second film of like him just being decapitated. And then Thrag was like, well, that was too quick. Well, I got to slow it down for you guys. What is this? A different show? Yeah. He's like, I need you to feel every single bit of your spinal cord leaving your neck. Yeah. But yeah, I don't know. I wouldn't have. I wouldn't have chosen Alan to be in charge. I'll tell you that right now. Oh, of all the fucking I'm choosing the guy who sounds like Seth Rogan to be in charge of the coalition of planets. I want as the fucking leader of of the of the free universe. Can I show you? I might have gotten a spoiler, by the way. OK, I was reading. I was trying to read ahead a little bit in the comic. I wonder how you got a spoiler. I was trying to find where in the comic the anime is. And I was just like blind clicking. OK, I was like, blind clicking and trying to find where the anime is. I didn't Google it, which was like kind of fucking stupid. But I was like, trying to find the end of the events more. I was like, I want to read ahead a little bit. I want to see what's happening here. I was like, oh, do they actually go to Earth? I think I saw Paul fighting a Viltramite. No. OK, good. I also I also might have just been bright because everyone's making like invincible memes right now. And everyone's like, everyone's like Paul. Un-sufferable. Insufferable is everyone's calling insufferable fucking Adam Eve's dad is he's not invincible. He's insufferable. It's funny. And then Omni Man, that's the big three or no. And then immortal. Those are the big three. Did you see? There's a frame where Mark gets hit from Thrag and for like two frames, he turns into Paul. No. Hold on. Let me show you. I'll show you that real quick. That's great. Mark turns into Paul. Crazy. Why they do my boy like that? So funny because we were like, Paul looks too much like Mark. And I was like, the internet's going to hate that take. And now and now they're just now they're just making fucking Mark Paul. Hold on. Alan, the alien, invincible versus game. So they didn't get. They couldn't get the could have for Seth Rogen for the fuck. So he has no lines in the fighting game. They got a dude who is like way overcompensating. OK, yeah. And like sounds more like to Seth Rogen. Let me see. Honestly, just you ready? Hold on. I want to be me, too. But you need to tell me who you really are. I'd be awesome yet a hero. Alan, the alien, who the fuck are you? There's one where he does the laugh. Your kind knows better most how dangerous a bit to might can be. OK, you've got the line. This time, Nolan, dude, make it like I could do a better set Rogen than that. How did that guy get that gig? Also, you're telling me they could afford J.K. Simmons, you do all the kind of Ford set. What is that? Rogen's per diem. Hold on. Let me see. Also, if you're Seth Rogen here, you have to be like a past. Yeah, I'm like, oh, cool. You got shittier me to do my character. Like I'd be like, OK, cool. Maybe I should have taken the the one point six million dollars. They offered for a half day of work. They did the same thing with Powerplex and he's not as bad. He like, I'm like, all right, whatever. This is Aaron Paul enough. Aaron Paul is an easier voice than Seth Rogen, I feel like. Yeah, you just have to find it's like, bitch. Oh, I was through. She like. It's like, it's like, well, get somebody to try to find an Australian accent. Like, good. I might. But with with with Aaron Paul, it's like, bitch. You're so bad. I was so not. I legitimately, I almost grew up. But I'm trying to fight takes a second. Betch. Betch. It's the gravel. You hit my car, Betch. Wow, you really like don't have it. I don't have it. That's so far. It's a broken. You can't keep getting away with this. Oh, because that's better. Fuck you. That's awful. That wasn't any good either. You can't keep. I was. I'm going to be like, you just got to find it's like. Bitch. Betch. Betch. Like that. It's like always out of breath. Like, betch. Don't I'm giving you an example. I'm giving you an example. You're no better than I am. I'm trying to find. I'm being Jesse. You're being powerplex. OK. Can we talk about it actually? Good show. I'm sweating so much. I'm sorry. I'm crying and I almost threw up. Like I had like your colossal con moment where I got like such a hot flash from like, oh, I might throw up on myself. I was literally just fucking pale, pale, stark white. All right. Can we talk about an actually good show? Finally, eight shows. Eight shows. Can we talk about two good shows? Witch hat. Which hat? Which hat? A motherfucking tell me. Yeah. Bang, bang, bang. Shout out. Shout out my dog Coco. But my. I love that. I bet I love the show. So good. Yeah. There is one complaint I have about the show. We know previously how I said my favorite character is the pink haired one. Yeah. I can't understand a fucking word she's saying. If I'm not looking at, I feel like I'm deaf. If I'm not looking at her lips while she's talking, like if she's like, face the way from the camera, not a fucking word. Not a, she's like, oh, go, go, I need the fucking word. Go, go, go, go, go. She, it sounds like a mix of like Indian and Scottish. I don't know what the fuck the act. And also everybody in the show is just doing some. They just said, Hey, make something up. They go to the store. They go to the one store guy. I have no fucking idea what he's saying. There's one bit where he goes, Cocoa, yes. Hey. What? He's like, Oh, so this is your apprentice here. And then he's, he's apprentice is like heavily Scottish. He's also like Scottish. Yeah. They're all, they're all scotch adjacent. Yeah. I apparently, the reason everyone has like a different accent than Coco is to make her feel more out of place. Gotcha. Yeah, and more like isolated. And I do, it is cool that it's not just British for everyone. Like I do like that you, it's weirdly British and Scottish and those are the two. The blue one is straight out of a Ghibli film. Oh, she's my favorite character maybe of the year. I completely agree 100%. I, every time she, every time she speaks, I go, like a literal, like a literal audible. Like, I like, it's like her voice is a warm blanket, but does she not sound like she belongs in a Ghibli film? Like, like the way that she whispers all of her lines, she sounds like Sophie talking, Sophie talking to Kausfer or something. She is more like a Winnie the Pooh analog to me. 100%. Yes. Where she's like, because someone will be like, wow, the city's shaw is big. And she's like, it makes me sleepy. Yeah, literally exactly. She had a line this episode about being sleepy. And I was like, I bet you are. I bet you're the sleepiest little guy of all time. God, I love like the bit in episode two. I was like rethinking of when you brought this up where like the, the pink-haired girl was like, I'll eat, I'm just, I'm just feeling a little glum. And she's like seconds and like goes, and like you Winnie the Pooh ass little girl. I love it. It's Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh. Pink-haired ones, Christopher Robin. She's Winnie. Honestly, no, she is Eor. That's what she is. She is a mix of like Eor and Pooh. Where like she has the idiocy. And then the pick- But then she's a mix between Eor and, oh man, oh no, this would have killed if I got it instantly. Oh, let me look it up. And I'm, the tiger one. The pig one, what's its name? No, the pig one. Wait, does the pig one have a bad name too? You can say tiger. In my choice. I just, I don't like- Relax. In the same way I'm saying a go, I don't want to accidentally throw that word into ascendance and be a boo boo boo like, I only got the last couple of syllables of that one. Please. I'm fucking this. I'm butchering this. Yeah. Oh, what is your name? I'm not kidding. The, what? She's a mix between Eor and Thermite. From Rainbow Six Siege. When she breaches the fuck out of that wall. That was cool. The fucking shape charges. She was like, I got it. And it was sick as fuck. Dude, a got being like, fucking, you know, crashing out at Coco. Which is reasonable. I get we're all under a lot of stress. I, my exact note was like, I get that Coco is who put us here in the situation. But I was like, watching her be bullied is like watching my gore of my favorite comfort character. Like I, like everyone's like, I get it. I'd be pissed at her too in the situation. I'd probably be no better than I got. But I was like, man, this has made me sad. I was like, I was like, I get it. Believe me, I do. We don't got to start bringing up people's crystallized moms. That was like, and yo mama, yo mama so hard. Good, real good. She, but when she's like, oh, there's no time to redraw it. Dog, you were like six lines in. That was insane. Also, there's no pressing timeline. What's the dragon has no idea they're there. And she's like, I give up. She was like, that was a one of one masterpiece. It'll never, that spell is only give me drawn once in your life. Yeah. Just move to the left and do it again. Do it over. Meanwhile, the blue ones like breach a breach of wall. Yeah. I know blue ones like contact, contact, contact. Open a door, open a door. That's a thermite line, dude. Yeah. She was fucking awesome. Yeah. I just climbed through it. This episode was stressful. Dude, this episode was stressful. You like the dragon. They got sent to me canos. Me canos. Santorini. Why do I know that? That's a real place. It's just Greek islands that are like, all the buildings are limestone washed. I will say, what did you think about the dragon showing up? And all the like, there were a lot of moments of genuine horror. Yeah. 100%. And then it was like, everyone maintain eye contact and slowly back up. I thought this episode did a really good job and not only like applying the pressure, but also like really building that like, aw man, that scene where the pink one was like, why did I have to be brought into all? And then she sees Coco and she cuts herself off. I was like, do that like to me in the same way that we talked about like Ganao, that Ganao moment where he's like talking to that guy even though he died. Like I, in that immediate moment was like, oh, I've been in Coco's shoes. Like, you know that moment where like you feel like, oh, I fucked everyone over kind of thing. Yeah. When Cosette was like, Danny, can we play fucking volleyball? And they were like, please, I just, this is my first time. I'm wearing really long shorts. I was like, please, it's my first time being a witch. Yeah. And it's like, it's like, you're like, and then you have no rebutt because you know you fucked up so bad. Like I felt cold sweat going down my back. And I was like, oh, people are trying to be nice. The people are trying to be nicer even though they're pissed at her. And I was like, oh, that's even worse. Cause there's something like, there's something almost like nice about like, I go or Agate being like, hey, A God. A God. That's what it is. I, that's, Yeah, nevermind. Don't try to say it. This is why I didn't say the T word. This is why I get nervous. I don't run that far. I was like, I saw just like, a millisecond montage of like my birth and my career. I'm like, it's a God. Please separate me. I think cosplay is hard. I just heard a millisecond of like, it's something unpredictable. It's a God, please. Anyway. There's a reason I've been saying a go. So I anyways, I would like, you'd like, oh, this is like a clear fuck up. And there's something. There's something nice about, yeah. There's something nice about you being like, fuck, like, fuck you, fuck this. I'm pissed. And it's like, I can deal with that. But then being like, I still like, I have to be considered their feelings, but I'm angry at them. And like, those are the characters that's supposed to be on her side. Oh, it was just like, it was so subtle, but it was so weighty, dude. Oh, I loved it. It was such good sequence. Dude, that's great. I love, I have to say a go now, because now I'm stressed. A God. A God, because it's like a God. That's like where I thought her name was a God. And I was like, oh yeah, I get having a complex. I would also have a complex. Yeah, 100%. But a God, like, I like her being like, hey, we're witches, we'll get out of this with our heads. Like that was really cool. She had a vicious line being like, now we can finally get out of this dead end or leave this dead end behind. And then she stops and she's like, I meant the current situation, but other interpretations wouldn't be invalid. Dude, I was like, whoa. I was like, that's like some shit you say. We're like, wow, I cooked them. And then at night, you're like, that was the meanest thing I've ever done. Like you ever said some shit to somebody where you're like, I fucking in the moment, you're like, God is ass. And then like an hour later, you're like, what the fuck was that about? That was crazy. You wanna see what the dragon looks like in the manga? Yeah. Like way cooler, unfortunately. Also, I thought the dragon looked cool in this. I mean, it was like very much an anime. Holy shit, that's fucking sick as hell. Wow. I thought the dragon was white in the manga because like, I love how contrasty everything is. There's like no shadows. Everything is either like unbelievably dark or pure white. This is just stupendously. Even like, I'm looking at all of, I'm looking at Cocoa and Agat and all the other ones. And like their cloaks are like flowing. You can see like the dress under their cloak is like flashing in the wind kind of thing. Like it's like, everything about it is like conveying movement. Their hair is flowing alongside with their cloak. The tassels on their hat. This is just, and even like in this moment, Cocoa was upfront separated. Like this is just transcendently drawn. My God. It's crazy. That's nuts. I never would have to tell you this anime also looks gorgeous. Well, that's the thing. It's not that the dragon looks bad in the anime. Yeah. But it's lacking like the sauce of this, which is just that like stark contrast. Yes. Of the black and white. Yeah. Like it's all shading and or white. Yeah. The dragon for those who haven't seen it or like aren't looking it up. The dragon is either like pure white and anything that shaded is just like. Stark black. Yeah. Stark black and it's so menacing. And you just don't have that in the anime. In the anime, it's just like. Dragon. Yeah. It's the fact that it's a dragon against a bunch of little girls. That's like the shocking bit. Not like, oh, is this a berserk? Yeah. This is like this is gonna like stomp and like stomp out one of these girls here. Like I hope it's not the one I like. I almost wish because they're obviously in like again, Jutsu right now. I feel like they might have been. I feel like they might have been teleported somewhere. Or, you know, or that regardless. They're not where they were. The two clock that she saw like a magical sigil that was like tied to the one that she did in the book up on like some spiral staircase. I didn't know if it was tied. I was more just like, fuck me. That's how complicated they get. Yeah. 100%. Yeah. I think it was like supposed to show her that like, oh, that's the connection to the book. Like that's supposed to tie that idea in. Got you. But now I, they're obviously not in their world or something. They're either in their mind or in a different world. I wish this world was black and white for that effect. That'd be cool. Or just something, some like Nippon Sengoku-ass thing where they get real weird and artsy with it. But yeah, this was cool. Jutsu, did you also clock that a woman fucked a tree? Did you get that? I love spoiler for my reaction. But like, they're like, there once was a tree that fell in love with a woman. And I'm like, oh, the tree fell in love with her. Did it? Who told you that? The woman? Yeah, like the only one who can talk in the scenario is like, and it grew limbs so it'd be able to hold her. And then it was like, and then they had a bunch of tree babies. I was like, my God, this woman just, this woman just found a branch she liked rubbing against. It's so, it's also interesting that like, the tree is like the man in that situation. I guess, yeah. Cause you'd think it'd be like a man fell in love with a tree. Cause I guess it's gross. There could be holes in trees. Well, exactly. I guess it's grosser. It's a little more charming. It's like a woman who falls in love with a tree. Fair, yeah, yeah. It's like a man just found a wooden hole he wasn't, he didn't hate, you know? But like, it makes more sense magically if like a dude fucks this tree and then like- The tree has the baby. Yeah, the trees like saplings, gross, are now magical, you know? As opposed to a woman fucks a man tree. And then does she have trees? And then squirts out trees that she plants elsewhere. That's my confusion. Like where are the new tree babies coming from? The woman? I guess, and then from the adjacent, from like the tree babies, then make more tree babies. Well, for sure. I understand where like the generations come from after. She was the Virgin Mary for trees. I'd love if afterwards- The Virgin Maple. Let's go. Yeah, he's back. I'm on it, baby. I'd love if after she frees just like, and that's how the silver wing tree became. By the way, stay away from the forest. You know what? You guys don't talk to a tree until you're at least 18. There's a reason that all of the forests around our Atelier have been raised. Yeah, I'd love if its accent was like, and that's how we have a magical ink. By the way, stay away from our trees. By the way, the trees, they're touchy. They're real Italian. I don't know that, I don't know that, the woman was Italian, it's bad. Yeah, yeah, that is just such a funny story. I thought the description of how they get the ink out of, like they're like, oh, this kills the tree. It's poisonous to the tree, so we have to use it. I was like, that's kind of cool. It's like the blood is poisonous to the tree, so they draw it out, that kind of thing. I thought that was neat. I also, what did I, there was another, there was one other thing. I think it was mostly just the fact that they were like in the beginning, oh, in the beginning of the episode, like Keefree is doing like the explanation about like, oh, these four, the terrestrial quadrant or whatever, like the four most important sigils. You know what I'm talking about? Like the first like a minute and a half. That is the most female gaze, like the way to start. It's just, it's a man whispering in British. He's just like, there's four important sigils and the most important is water. And he does it very like beautifully where he's not like, this one makes you splash people. He's like, water, life, passion. But I like, that was further proof to me that this is way cooler than with Storia. Re-our argument from last week. Where it's not just like the water sigil, it does water. Oh boy, oh boy, it wet. It was, that's with Storia. With Storia is like, I'm the fire mage. Fireball. Fire time, yes. I'm the wind mage, goblins for some reason. Like this is like the earth sigil. It doesn't just make you throw a rock. It's movement, it's stagnation, it's maybe decay, you know? Like I like that. It's punching through a wall. I like that they get abstract with it. And it's not just like, oh, I mean, that's my interpretation of it. Maybe I'm wrong, but I like the idea that it's like, whoa, how did you freeze time? And it's like, I didn't freeze time. The earth sigil is, you know, because the earth rotates, earth is movement. And because things decay into the earth, I can like make time pass or whatever. I like the idea that they are elements in name alone, but what they represent is also time. So kind of like Fire Horse? So kind of like, so what you're describing? So what you're describing is Fire Horse here. The power system you hate if I'm not mistaken. Ideally better. Ideally not just like, my firepower is that I'm a bun. Yeah, my firepower is magnets, question mark. And you're like, okay, cool. My firepower is water. Yeah, is it lava? No, it's just warm water, gotcha. All right, should we talk about the best episode of the fucking, best episode of the season? Dude, you didn't even get to it, which burns my buns more than you can even know. Because the second episode of Marriage Talks In is better than the first episode of Marriage Talks In. Oh yeah. Man. What's Marriage Talks In about for those who don't? Marriage Talks In is, it's a Pothcary Diaries. This is what it is. It's a Pothcary Diaries, but it's a BL, and that is it. No, it is a, tell me I'm wrong, A. I didn't do a fucking thing. You were doing your, you were doing your, couldn't be more stagnant, by the way. Not at all true. Marriage Talks In is about a poison expert, a poison, he's a poison assassin, basically. And he is, he's like, he was raised to be a poison guy, so he's not a great, he's not exactly great with people. And his entire thing is that he only kills the really bad people, because we have to root for the serial killer. Yeah, he has to be Dexter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he only kills the really, really bad people, because he has to be able to sleep at night. And he, his grandmother, who is the head of the Poison Clan is trying to push him into becoming the next head of the clan, but to do that, he has to have a child, because the Poison Clan needs to live on. But on account of the fact that his grandmother only taught him poison, and not like how to smooth a woman. Yeah, not social skills. Yeah, he has no ability to smooth women whatsoever. Enter the, but also he's got a lesbian sister who he lives with, and she's not gonna have a baby on account of that's not how it works. And so she is like. Well, she doesn't want one, because she has a girlfriend who she wants to stay with. But if he doesn't get a wife and a child, their grandmother is going to make her get married to somebody, so that their legacy lives on. Which they already tried with him, they tried to hook him up with a member of the side family, and like he, it didn't work out. They never really like dive into why it didn't work out. And we get this really awesome moment in episode one, where he is out on an assassination job, and it's not even an assassination job. They have a person tied to a chair, and they're like, poison her. And it's like, they all have guns. They're like, we want this woman dead. And it's like, okay, cool. So this woman tortured to death, basically. And so immediately he's like, here's this toxin. It's gonna hurt a lot, and then I'll kill you once everybody eats their fill, basically. And then it doesn't hurt that much. And then she like spits out a little bit of blood, and she's like, I can die now, I guess. Yeah, he really hypes it up. Yeah, and which is why, because he is objectively really good at his job. Like he creates a cleaning concoction that cuts a car in half. And meanwhile, the poison that's supposed to tear her from limb to limb makes her cough up a little bit of blood. Yeah, it's a little uncomfortable. Yeah, and so he gets a call mid torturing a woman to death. And that's our main character, ladies and gentlemen. And it's his sister being like, I'm gonna leave my girlfriend. I have to fucking become the next head of the poison clan. And he's like, no, I support all love. He's like, you live with your girlfriend. It's incredibly hard to find a connection. I can't find a connection with anybody. I'm not gonna make you leave this chance at love that you have so that you have to go marry somebody and have a kid. That's not what I want at all. It's actually this kind of like very beautiful moment about him acknowledging not only the validity of her love and the love and the connection she has with her girlfriend, rare for Japan, but also him being like, listen, it's less difficult for me, a straight man, to go about having a child than you, who obviously is at the very least bisexual, but is most likely like a lesbian because of like the undertones here being like, oh, she's bearing this massive weight, which would be marrying a man and having a child and carrying a child when she doesn't want to. And there's this beautiful moment of like him being like, I'm gonna marry this person. And this person just so happens to be the woman he's poisoning. Yeah. But that person can't have a kid because that person is a boy. Bring the bell, ring the bell. We got fanboys, fanboy, fanboy, fanboy. And that fanboy is a marriage swindler, which means they're gender ambiguous on account of the fact that sometimes they're swindling men, sometimes they're swindling women. So they're either a hot man, a hot twink, or a hot, a hot lady. And boy, oh boy, they're getting attention from every which way. So we got a gay anime, gay anime, gay anime. This anime gay as hell because yes, is this man, is this poison expert? Maybe he wants a woman. Maybe. Yeah. Maybe he wants a woman. So far. But also. But also. Who knows? Well, he needs a baby actually. I wanna adopt one. I don't care. Well, no, that's not how blood works. I wanna see him pound some pussy. No, he definitely needs a woman because they're in episode two, the beginning of episode two, they're like, by the way, if you were, like all these clans, there's like five major clans. Poison's one of them. Yeah. Needle's one of them. Bugs one of them. Bugs. I think sharks is one of them. Good. It's like hoppers. And aft, yes. Because here's my thing. You can get bugs on the land and kill somebody with bugs. What are you doing with sharks? Well, so, yeah, no, any water based thing, you're always handicapped. But it really casually drops like over time from working with whatever their clans affinity is, they've developed superpowers. Okay. So all of these people have superpowers. So that explains why he dodged bullets. So it needs to be like a blood exchange. Like he needs to have a biological child. So that child gets better powers than him and so on and so forth forever. That's why Bugsman is Bugsman. Bugsman is Bugsman is fuck. But yeah, it was so sick to have just like a really casual and open lesbian character where there's no dancing around it at all. And then also, yeah, his like maybe trans or gender fluid, whatever like companion is just like, no, I'm a boy, but like I am a girl most of the time to swindle men. Yeah, 100%. Like men are easier to swindle and also there's more of them kind of thing. So you're telling me you don't think there's... That he's gay? I mean, that'd be an interesting follow up. That'd be a really cool conflict to throw in because then he's like, like if he fails with all these women and then he finds gay love and he's like, well, fuck, now it's like one of us still needs a kid. And so like, you know, now he's, his love is conflicting with his sisters. And then I guess it becomes like, maybe we have to fight our own family because our grandmother is gonna kill us or something. Something like that. Like I can absolutely, just based off the first episode, like obviously there's a sequence where the marriage swindler is going to buy some dude who's chewing on lead ball. He's like lead ball fucking Boba. And he's just chomping down. I was like, this guy has a day left until he loses his goddamn mind. This is the angriest man known to like, and then he's like, I should have been a cleaner because like there's like a guy, like the guy who wants the girl poisoned to death is a cleaner, which means like they take care of dead bodies. I'm assuming like it's John Wick or something. Anyways, and then he cuts the car in half. There's a sequence where he cuts the car in half using like hydrofluoric acid on fucking steroids, which is real cool. Oh, it was awesome. It's animated dumb well. Like the action sequences are just fucking gorgeous in this effectively romance anime. Episode two has such a cool character. Like an unbelievably well animated and very sick. Like, I don't know. I won't say anything about it. I'm gonna go downstairs and watch it after this episode, after we finish this episode while we eat our pizza. I'm so excited. I cannot wait. It's so cool. I love this show. I'm like, I'm so glad you're as high on it as I am. Oh, I'm, it's my favorite thing I've watched. It's my favorite first episode I've watched all you. Not a lot of competition. No. Sentence. I was gonna say, I was gonna say- Including season twos. Oh yeah, 100%. Oh wow. Yeah. I would say I liked it more than the first episode of JJK. I liked it more than the first episode of Sentence to be a hero. I could see myself getting weird about this show. I, yeah. This is Sibuki Bisco potential for me. It's like I was saying before where it's like, usually with this, even when I love a show, it still registers as work to watch these. Like if I have to do anything, I'm gonna bitch about it. And usually it's like, if I'm a week behind on something, I'm like, oh, I gotta watch two episodes of JJK now. Even if I love both episodes, this was like the first time in maybe the whole of the podcast that I watched episode one eagerly dove into two. And then when two ended, I was like, aw, I could eat the rest of this season right now. I don't think I've felt this way about an anime since I was like 19 and I would sit down and I'd watch all 12 episodes of, like oh, 12 episode anime immediately. Like it's that feeling where I'm like, oh, like this is a terrible example because it's a bad anime. But like I sat down and I watched all of No Game, No Life. Right now I was like, I was like 19 and I was like working a night job. And I just was like, oh my, oh my God. Like my nonfully developed brain was like, this is the greatest thing ever. This brings me back to the days of like stumbling upon like a guilty crown and being like, holy shit, this 12th, this 24 episode anime is the greatest thing I've ever watched in my entire life. And I'm gonna be weird about it for the rest of my time. Yeah, it's just like bingeable as hell. The characters are really fun. It's well animated to like a weird degree. And like I said, episode two is just better. So that's exciting. Yeah, this is like, people are not gonna find it this good now that we've like glazed it harder than like anything. I think our contingent of people could be very much weird about marriage toxin. Cause I feel like they enjoy the things that we enjoy, except for Tokidanki. That was the sole exception there. But I think people understood what we were doing there. Yeah, man, this show is fucking awesome. I asked what combo of poisons turned you into noob Saibot. Cause he just turns into black smoke and then he's all in the ceiling. Just full on noob Saibot here. I guess he's like a witcher, like it made him fast or whatever. 100%. I really do think this is gonna turn out being a BL. And I'm very excited about that. I think cause like, well one, it's got all, cause like there's also, there's so much gender identity to be explored in the concept of those two people being in love. Cause obviously he's big, he's masculine, he kills people. And then we have this character who's like, like gender fluid. Sometimes they're a girl, sometimes they're a boy kind of thing. And it's like, oh, hey, it's kind of like, and this is what I think actually, Gen V did really well. Because Gen V is a character who like, their ability is that they switch between genders. And so like it's played by two different, like a male actor and a female actor. And they're dating Marie, who's the main character of the story. And it's like Marie starts dating this character and like prefers when the character is a man that eventually doesn't care kind of thing. There's like that arc, I think can be done really well within the confines of this. And then yeah, there's a whole thing of like, oh, you need to reproduce. And then there's like, oh, well, then we can talk on like Japan's pressure from the older generation for the younger generation to produce. And like the aging, the aging population trying to hold on to that semblance of power. There's so many cool things they can do. Fuck, I mean, it's so goddamn weird about this show. I love it. I love it so much. 10 out of 10, the first episode. Pretty great. Yeah. Pretty good stuff. I'm so happy I watched it. I'm glad. I'm so happy I didn't miss it. Yeah. Should we do our game? Sure. Cool. Should we order pizza first? Yes. Nick, today we're going to guess the anime by the poorly Google translated plot that our boy, the Batman has put together for us. Okay. That will be pretty easy to do, considering the fact that last time we just had to look for keywords and was like, oh, sorcery. And then like the four words later will be fight. And we'll be like, okay, I think that's probably JJK. Yeah, it is a big keyword search. Yes. All right. The first one, they say you can get stronger by killing people, but sex isn't the weakest thing in the world. I already know what this is. Joe is shown starving in a cave. I don't know what this is. Okay. Jenny kills Blaze in prison and becomes the baddest person in the world. Tickets can be used for one journey only. Now you want to know this amazing secret. I think like last time we did this, I had a pretty good idea of every single one immediately. I have no idea what this could be. I thought this was Hell's Paradise. Could this be just arcs? Or is it only like anime, right? Cause like we're talking about mistranslated plots. This is the synopsis of popular anime. It's a synopsis of popular anime. Cause I was gonna say, this could be the Culling Games. Right. You get stronger by killing people. The ticket only gets you one way. Like you can only use it on one journey. So like once you go in, you can't go out. But like, Jenny I feel like could be like. Joe is shown starving in a cave. I'm really focusing on the thing. They say you can get stronger by killing people. Yeah. That and also who gets killed in prison and becomes the baddest person in the world. The baddest person in the world. The best something. The best something. And then, but sex isn't the weakest thing in the world. It's gotta be Hell's Paradise. That's the only thing I can think of. Because of sex. But why wouldn't Hell's Paradise says you get stronger by killing people? Because of fucking Tenzin. Or whatever it's called. I guess the nectar. Cause they take people's towel or the tan. The tan. They turn people into tan. The tan and he starts off in prison. And he can't be killed. And also he can light himself on fire, right? He lights himself on fire. But his name is Benny Maru. So I guess that's where you could possibly get a B name. Like Blaze, cause Blaze is capitalized. His name is not Benny Maru. His name is Gabby Maru. Okay, yeah, yeah. And I'm like, Jenny kills Blaze. Jenny, Gabby Maru. Gabby. I'm locking in Hell's Paradise. You have 10 seconds to lock something in. I guess I'll also go. I'm gonna go. No. I'm gonna go JJK. I'll go JJK cause I think this might be the Culling Games. Okay, well then I'm gonna say Dead Man Wonderland. Okay. I'm joking, but that kind of crossed my mind. It's so leveling. So leveling. They say you can get, I mean, I guess you get stronger by killing people, but sex isn't the weakest thing in the world. They say whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But that's not the case for the world's weakest hunter, Sung Jinwoo. Is Sung sex? Maybe? After being brutally slaughtered by monsters in a high ranking dungeon, Jinwoo came back to, with the system, a program only he could see. That's leveling him up in every way. This is so fucking hard. It's not even remotely close. That's really tough. Okay, the next one. Alan Yeager, I know this. Attack on Titan immediately. Alan Yeager's house was destroyed and his mother died of leprosy. All right, people live in the Great Wall of China to avoid trouble. Nikki and Amy swear. Iran wants to help its people. You are wrong that political leaders are bad people. Is there a code being sent to us in here, Batman? Let's explore your relationship with depression through your depression story. Yeah, it's obviously Attack on Titan. Hold on though. Iran wants to help its people. Leads me to believe it's full metal alchemist. He writes full metal alchemist because what? It's like the Ishvalan War. The Ishvalan Amestria? How do you get Alan Yeager? I know, Alan Yeager, I wonder is... And also his mom dies of leprosy. Of leprosy? Actually, do we ever hear how Ed and Al's mom actually died? She gets transmuted to fuck. I know she gets transmuted, but that's after. She only gets transmuted because she dies. Oh, you're right. I think it is leprosy. Yeah, canonically it's leprosy. I'm on Attack on Titan. Okay, I'll go full metal alchemist. It's a bold choice. And it's... Ah! Attack on Titan. Talk about overthinking it, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, boy did I. Alan Yeager, humanity survives behind massive walls against man-eating Titans. We all know what this is about. Yeah. Do you want to read it? Like, I feel like... After a colossal Titan destroys his home and kills his mother, Aaron Yeager joins the scout regiment with his friends. Mikasa and Armin only discover he can transform into a Titan himself. As Aaron fights for humanity's survival, he uncovers dark conspiracies, political intrigue, and the terrifying origin of the Titans. They must think Aaron is Iran. I was gonna... But also Aaron was also... Cause Aaron's mentioned more than once. Yeah. Cause it's Aaron Yeager, and then Aaron can also turn into... He fights... It's as Aaron fights for humanity's survival. Iran wants to help its people. Aaron fights for humanity's survival. Very good. Very topical. Google translate. When Aya Casino arrived at the hospital, the doctors were shocked. Are blacks not ashamed? Don't make me read this. But isn't that great? Famous thief Somerson Farthing is killed by his secret assistant. A boy decided to help his mother ride a bike. Why do children like to play in the dark? What do, in case of death... To death. What are the blacks? Not ashamed is crazy. Google translate. When Aya Casino arrived at the hospital, sounds like porn. The doctors were shocked. Are blacks not ashamed? But isn't that great? Famous thief Somerson Farthing is killed by his secret assistant? That's gotta be assassin. Somebody's killed by an assassin. A boy decides to help his mother ride a bike. I think it's there. It's gotta be there. A boy decides to help his mother ride a bike. Like, I think that's the closest to a hint. That's the closest to a real sentence we're gonna get. I thought it was gonna be Aya Forger. Aya Casino... Arrives at the hospital. The orphanage. The orphanage. The doctors were shocked. Are blacks not ashamed? That's where I'm... That's really what's hanging me up, Dan, because I don't know what that could be. Famous thief. That could be either your... I mean, yeah, Spy Family's not a bad... Oh, and then a child decides to help his mother ride a bike. That could be your... Why do children like to play in the dark? What to do in the case of death? I'm gonna do Spy Ex-Families. That's the only legitimate thing I have here. All right, it is... Ocean of Co. Dr. Goru, I am... Whatever his name is... ...is shocked when a pregnant star, I, Hoshino, appears at his countryside clinic. After secretly delivering I's baby, Dr. Goru is murdered by her obsessive stalker. Reborn as I's new child, Aquamarine Hoshino, he embarks on a quest to help his mother rise to the top. What can a child do about the dark underbelly of the entertainment industry, and what if disaster strikes? What do we get? Aren't the blacks ashamed from that? I'm really wondering. It would be, appears at his countryside clinic, I think is where we should be possibly getting that, or something to do with pregnant star? I do not know. I don't know. I never would have guessed it. That never pops into my head ever. No, that's very fair. I didn't even finish season three of Ocean of Co. So they started doing cis-con stuff, and that's what they lost me. Statham has been a fan since the beginning. He won three matches. After three years of special forces, the enemy continues to destroy. Robot pilot Sam Jones joins League of Legends. Let's go. That's a big go, but it's a big animal. John Sam's is committed to being a trusted advisor and leading a talented team, but there is another agent of Satan. I would reckon that League of Legends is an agent of Satan. There's a big emphasis on three here, and three's a word I feel like that doesn't get lost. Like he won three matches. After three years of special forces, the enemy continues to destroy. Is it Kaiju number eight? But like what? I know we lose three, but. But like, well, Kafka's third D. Kafka's 30. There we go, that was over. I could also see like Kaiju being like somehow Satan and or League of Legends. Statham, Kafka, how do you get to Statham? Has been a big fan since the beginning. He's won three matches. Sam Jones and John Sam's. So you think something like Sam comes up a bunch or something? Yeah, like. I think it's Kaiju number eight. I think this is gonna be like, oh, Kafka is like in his 30s. You keep stealing mine. Well, I was also thinking Kafka, I immediately was thinking Kaiju number eight. All right. But also a robot pilot. Robot pilot joins League of Legends. Who's, yeah, who's like someone who joins. Is this me 86? Maybe? Oh, maybe. Yeah, it's gotta be like a mech thing. About like Lelouch. Code Geass? Yeah. That's what loses me there. It's like, oh, it's been a fan since the beginning. I'm like, oh, because Kafka is a fan of, he's a fan of the Kaiju Corp. Like the Japan Special Defense Forces forever. Is it my hero? Shigaraki, Statham has been a fan since the beginning. He won three matches. But why would Shigaraki be in the description of like MHA as a story, you know? Yeah. All right. What Kaiju? Kaiju or 86. All right. It is one punch man. One punch man. Saitama started out being a hero just for fun. After three years of special training, he becomes so powerful that he can defeat opponents with a single punch. Now alongside Genos, his faithful cyborg disciple, Saitama is ready to begin his official duties as a professional hero working with the Hero Association. However, the frequency of monster appearances is surging and it increasingly. This is tough. This is so hard. This has run through Google Translate like 50 times too many. Yeah, we have lost all context here. Even though the country is peaceful, senators looking for an excuse to kill Schumer. This man is my friend. Artisan politicians should go to college. Okay. People can- It's like an appeal to your local mayor. This is like a fucking town hall meeting with the most discoheerent, fucking faculty member you have. But people can register their children. When he died, he was homeless and no one knew who he was. He saw his child and mother on television. Dude, I'm so discouraged. These are so hard. Even though the country is peaceful, senators are looking for an excuse to kill Schumer. This man is my friend. Artisan politicians should go to college so people can register their children. What do we think, chat? I don't know. I don't, was this Google translated from Japanese six times? Fuck. What? That's a good guess. What? Panda mom says Sanda. Even though this country is peaceful, senators are looking for an excuse to kill Santa. That's good. This man is my friend. Artisan politicians should go to college. Throw that out. But people can register their children. I mean, there's gonna be a big focus on children, yes. When he died, he was homeless and no one knew who he was. That's gonna be focused on no one knows who Santa is. He saw his child and mother on TV. They're not all- They're not all winners. They can't all be contextual winners. All right, let's see. Spy family. These are impossible. We gotta be done. We gotta be done with this. Panda, you fucking, that's a close- Panda got it right. So far as I care, Panda got it right. World peace is at stake and secret agent Twilight must undergo his most difficult mission yet. Pretend to be a family man. Posing as a lovable husband and father, he'll infiltrate an elite school to get close to a high-profile politician. He has the perfect cover, except his wife's a deadly assassin and neither knows each one's identity. But someone does. His adopted daughter, who's a telepath. He saw his child and mother on television at the last sentence that we got. How the fucking- This is impossible. How would that even begin to happen here? Let us know in the comments how many of these you got correct. Yeah, because- We got attack on Titan. We got attack on Titan. But only because of Jaeger. Because of Alan Jaeger, that's it. All right, that brings us to our favorite part of the podcast here, love letters, ladies and gentlemen, where we pull our live audience, that's this question that we answer here live on the podcast. So if you want tons of extra content or to watch a podcast two days early over here on the Patreon or to ask us questions that we answer here live on the podcast, you can remember of the Patreon for four 99 a month. So I'm gonna slide over to the TV and see what questions we got. Blastboy asks, if you could block your co-hosts from talking about or watching one IP for the rest of time, what would it be and why? You said you have one. I have one for you 100%. And we're trying to do maximum damage. We're trying to ruin each other's careers here. For me, for you, it's Epic the Musical. I'm blocking you from talking about Epic the Musical. I'm blocking you from the Danny Wars. I'm blocking you from being like, oh, oh, oh, the voice actor of the Sclombonius sent me a package. And you're just gonna be everyone's like, Danny, Danny, they're making another one. They're making the, they're making the Ithaca Trials or whatever. Danny, there's more Greeks, put the sandals back on Danny and you won't be able to do it. You'll wanna get in your slutty little tunic. You'll wanna talk about, oh, I love the song where they go, oh, I'm on a boat and I'm boating. There's no gay tension on this boat. And you won't be able to do it. You'll be ruined, Daniel. I'd have you killed in such a public manner that there no lawyer on earth would take my case. And Nipon Senkoku my ass. You'd be like, draw and quarter him in less than 20 seconds. I'd have you killed. And four people dressed as some character for like fucking the Odyssey would just pull me apart with their hands. I would, you would somehow like make that decree or make that video where you're like, Danny can no longer indulge in Epic. And then Dorothy would receive your limbs in multiple different parts. You'd hold on to my head. Yeah, exactly. You'd be like, thrag flying away with my skull. The idea, and then I'd kill myself promptly because the idea of Ilium coming out and I don't get to engage in it whatsoever would just eat me alive. I know for a fact, you have that county of a calendar and they're like, circle this Ilium comes out and it's a bunch of big old dollar signs next to it. I would wither away like a mother gothle at the end of Tangled. I would just turn into sand. Yeah, you would just see other people reacting to it not as good as you could. And you'd be like, it would be so bad for you. I was gonna be nice and be like, you know what? I would say invincible so that you never have to endure a single further death baiting. Oh my God, dude, if I didn't have to watch Invincible anymore, it would be great because specifically, I know exactly what would happen. You would keep watching Invincible and then you'd come up to you and you'd be like, Nick, they did it again. And then we'd both just bitch about it for 12. You'd be like, oh, and then you won't believe it. They knocked off Oliver's other arm and I'll just be like, son of a bitch. If I'm being mean with maximum damage, because I don't think Naruto matters. I think you've watched it enough. And Boruto doesn't matter. It'd have to be Hunter Hunter. It has to be Hunter Hunter and then they'd have to finish it. Dude, oh my God, dude. Or if it was like, you were like, yeah, you struck the decree, I can't fucking read Hunter Hunter again and then it's like, next day, Togashi, first recipient of Miracle Back here. I would blow my brain out outside of his house. First recipient of Miracle Back here and then like three days later, it's like publishes the first universally beloved manga ending. Yeah, like literally like the gold standard of manga endings has been created. I literally, I would commit Horakiri out. I would find his address. Oh my God, that'd be so bad. Especially like even with the way it's coming out, like 10 chapters are coming out in a couple of months and he's already like, he tweeted the other day that his wife is being really encouraging of him right now. Things are so optimistic in the Hunter Hunter. Oh my God. Oh, that's such a good answer. I'd have to like scrub off my tattoos because people would be like, what are your tattoos of? And I'm like, I can't answer. You'd have to burn them off. Like you're a fucking betrayer in Sons of Anarchy. Wow, good, good. Show me your WrestleMania underwear. Fuck. I didn't bring it. My mom, I'll show Stank. I'll send it to him right now. My mom got me WrestleMania underwear and it's like the worst of my underwear. Shout out to Karen as moms do. But that is all we got this week. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for checking in for another episode of a Talks with Anonymous. We love you guys so much and we will catch you on the next one. Adios. Shmiibo.