This is the Most Banned Anime | Trash Taste #291

Before we start, since we're going to be doing an anime club today, I just got to get something off my chest. So how did Dream today? Wait, have we started the episode? I guess so. I'm like, okay, this is the most cold open to when this is because I just like, I just, I had this dream today. Okay. And it's just, I keep, I keep thinking about it. Okay. Right. And I was like, I got a trash change recording today. So I'll just like, venture you boys. Okay. Um, so I had this dream and I really remember my dreams. But this is one of the dreams where I, it just, it's just sat with me. So I don't remember the exact context of this dream, but I was in China. I was in the dream in the dream. Okay. I was in China. I was in Shanghai, I think it was like one of the towels in Shanghai. I don't remember why I was there. But I was searching for a friend, uh, because I wanted to congratulate them for getting married. I want, I want to know why this friend was in China. And I was trying to search for them, congratulating them to get married. But I was like, lost in this building, right? Yeah. I was like, trying to find my way around. And I was like, looking around and I saw this like, I saw this white guy in there. And he was standing waiting in line to go into this restaurant. And he speaks Chinese. And I'm like, I remember in the dream thinking, damn, am I the only motherfucker around here that doesn't speak Chinese? Then I woke up, uh, then I was like, I don't speak Chinese. How did I invent someone who spoke Chinese in my dream? That, that, that, what, what, what is, what is this? No, I'm having to be watching too many like Chinese memes. Like what is, what is more likely that I made up a language in dream and passed it off as Chinese or somehow my subconscious just latched on to like a Chinese phrase. What was he saying? I don't remember, but it did sound very Mandarin like thing. What if it was probably just hurt? Like he sounded Chinese in your head that sounded legit. Because the, the, the, the fucking weird thing is is that I remember it was such, such a vivid like imagery in the dream of just like, this is what a foreigner sounds like when he's speaking like good Chinese. Right. So it was like, oh, my mind is like, oh, this guy's living in China. He can speak Mandarin. Damn, am I the only one here who doesn't speak Chinese? What do you mean? He was just saying like super right? That's, that's, that's, that's throwback. I just, it's just like, it's just stuck me because I was just like, do I, do I secretly know Chinese? You do not secretly know Chinese. Do I just speak? Your brain is not hiding Chinese from me. I just, I just want to know, you're Chinese sleeper agent. That's like, yeah, there are two wolves inside of me. One is Chinese. I just, I just, I couldn't get my mind, I just couldn't get my head around, wrap my head around the fact that my head is like divine intervention being like, God, you are Chinese. It's going to be like, bio-shock, they're going to like awaken you. What have you? Chinese sound. Like, you've been, you've been putting down this and down. Have you heard about that story about that guy who got like a brain injury or something and he could suddenly speak like French or some of his Chinese? Well, they're Chinese. No, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, they got strong. That was the one. There was a guy who wouldn't start speaking with a Chinese accent. I don't know if he was speaking Chinese. You got this? It was the accent, right? Yeah, I remember that one. Which is a lot more believable and funny. It was the lady with a Chinese accent. A accent. Yeah, after a stroke, that's why. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or an accent syndrome. I can't, I can't. I can't. An accent syndrome. Because when I hear like Scottish for like 0.2 seconds, I'm like, I'm Scottish now. Yeah, I understand. I understand. I understand. I understand. God. Anyway. Sarah Colwell from Plymouth in England. Is a dead set poem. Who now sounds like she's from Shanghai. Do do do. It was until I was in Ambulance on the way to the hospital. No, no, no. No, that's so bad. No, no, no. No, it's like hilarious, but imagine actually being this person. Yeah. Horrible. My heart does a sh- Crusher. Crashed. Crusher, duh. OK. That's. Bro. I mean, honestly, it just sounds like, you know, obviously the stroke probably caused, unfortunately, some brain damage. Yeah. Yeah. It just sounds like there's a pronunciation problem. Obviously, the Chinese essentially. Yeah. But I guess it sounds a lot funnier to say, woman, work out with Chinese accent instead of a woman, works up, start off with the pronounce words. Yeah. Yeah. Damn. Well, brains are weird. Brains are weird. Yeah. Can't wait for. Thanks for sharing that with us. Yeah. I'm glad that you feel like you can bring that up with us. I'm, I don't know where else. I could bring it up. But I'm boot up the dualing. It is weird how your brain sometimes just try to like gaslight you in your dream. You're like, no, this all makes sense. Yeah. Like this is totally legit. You are Chinese. You are Chinese. Yeah. What if like you being Thai was like a lie? Yeah. And you were a whole life. You actually just. Have you done 23 in me? Yeah, you were like, no, actually, my great granddad was Chinese. Oh, there you go. Yeah. You were in a Thai family. Yeah. Yeah. Told you you're from Thailand. Yeah. I'm just like something doesn't make sense in my mind. It's hiding, it's hiding the man in there somewhere. You had the urge to go to China. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe that's it. The Chinese side of you is activating. It's like you were just telling him. I'm waking agent God. I went back to Shanghai once and then the sleep region. And you were just like, oh, dude. You are now Chinese. Anywhere welcome to this new episode of Trash. That was a tangent of a cold opening. Jesus Christ. This episode isn't about me being Chinese. That anime. It's about anime. It's anime club. It's anime club once again. Anime club. So one of the two things we watched that anime club got. Because once again, we actually watched two anime this time. Like not one anime and one manga and one anime and one film. We actually had two anime, one, recreated by Joey and one recreated by you. Over at Patreon, which we do, I think, like this once a month. So if you want to get your request now for the next anime club, you can go to patreon.com slash trash taste and decide our fate over what we are watching. You can also watch us reacting to the shows that we're going to talk about as well. Yes. And it's entirety. Yes, we actually watch both of these on the trash taste sets. Which I feel like brings the banter a lot more. It does. Yeah. I feel like we need to do that more. Yeah. You know, one of these shows I would not want to watch the load. No. No. I have my browser history connected to it. Yes. Of my HP now. So I'm glad we watched here in the office. Yes. So the two shows that we watched was suggested by you over the Patreon is a touch computer moto 17 to 26 watched four episodes of that. And we also watched Kites, which was requested by Joey because he wanted to get us on the same list as he is up here. Yeah. He wants to get us deported for countries. Which is like the most banned anime ever. Yes. Technically speaking. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I heard you guys had never seen it before. And I was like, well, you have to watch it. Yeah. I mean, I'd known about it. And I'd heard about it because Kites, I'd say infamous. Very true. Um, it is an anime that, you know, a lot of people if you grew up watching the, kind of like 80s, 90s OVA boom, you would have come across Kites. Yeah. I'd say it's one of the most like namesake wise, probably one of the most well known OVAs from the 90s. Yeah. For better or worse. I did not know it came out that late. Yeah. Because I watching it now and seeing some of the content in that, I was like, yo, this is some grungy, late 80s, I was like, 90s metal shit. And I was like, this came out in 1998. Yeah. This came out in cowboy bebop era. Yeah. It's just like you. I was like, okay. Okay. We must be on the tail end of this, of this stuff then. I think so. Yeah. I did not know that this came out just before I became an anime fan. Yeah. Basically. Um, but it comes from a pretty, is he a famous director or not? I don't believe so. I believe he's like a veteran. Yeah. Of the game. But he is, he is pretty well known in some circles. He is. Yes. Um, and also the reason why we've started talking about this anime and why it came up was because, uh, we're going to bar. And this guy was just playing this anime that looked insane. And I was like, what is that anime? Hmm. He's like, oh, it's kite. I was like, dude, this shit looks crazy. And then Pete read the wiki. And then he put his phone on his grip. Now I'm depressed. Yeah. Yes. This is a very depressing. So this is technically a two episode OVA, which came out in the late 90s. And as the name suggests, it is one of the most, it is technically speaking one of the most banned anime slash hen-tie. I made a video on this. Why is it banjo? Why is it banned? Well, okay, so it's wait. It's on crunchy roll though, right? Yes, but I believe it's the non-director's card. I'm guessing why I saw we watched the director's card. We watched the director's card. We watched the uncensored version. I like how there's one theme and the theme is go. It's go. I mean, they're not wrong. Yeah, so this came out in the late 90s and there are some scenes which will maybe touch upon in this episode. Where it basically, when it came over to the West, because this was around the time where anime, a lot of the anime started slowly kind of migrating over to the West, to be released in the West. This is one of the few anime where a lot of countries, like the US and a lot of Europe, was just like, maybe we shouldn't show all of this. Yeah. Can we see all this? The country sure it was banned as well. I'm curious. Why would you keep talking about it? Yeah, I believe it was completely banned in the US. So the director's card is 15 minutes more. And I want to remind you that it's only like 50 minutes. So it's like, and I still feel like in that 50 minutes that we watched, I had a lot of questions still. Yep. So it was banned in Norway, the United States. Yeah, basically it's mostly the United States and most of Europe, I believe. Fair enough. I got to say, understandable. Yeah, it's understandable. It's understandable. Yep. But essentially the plot, do you actually, do you guys want to explain the plot of this? Fuck it out. I thought it's about to death or anything. It's so like, you know, pretty simple plot. It's pretty, yeah. It's basically John Wicken at. It's basically a couple of key John Wicken inches. Yeah. A couple of differences. I mean, it, you know, the, it, I can figure out how it opens up. You, it opens up and this girl is getting, you know, who looks quite young, is kind of getting touched at this elevator. I forgot about that cold open. Yeah. And then you're like, oh, you're like, oh, I don't like this. And then this woman's kind of in the elevator, and being like, you're a disgusting pig, stop touching this better than the guy. He's like a famous person. Yeah. Yeah. And the guy's like, shut up old woman and like kicks her away. Like, it's quite violent initially. And then when he does that, the girl just pulls out a gun and kills this guy. And then you're like, Jesus, okay. But it's not just any gun. It's a gun where the bullets explode. Yeah. The impact. Yeah. I think I said in my reaction, it felt like one of the psychopaths guns, when you, you see the impact and then you wait a little bit and then it just explodes. Yeah. In a full glory of blood and stuff. That's the first thing you notice. For some reason, the animation is ridiculous. It's phenomenal. The animation is, yeah, insane, especially during the action sequences. Yeah. It's very crazy. Pretty much is, yeah, this is very reminiscent of the hypersexual, hyper-violent OVA's of the 80s and 90s. You know, I would say it goes even beyond that in some aspects, because I've seen some of the OVA's and sometimes during the, you know, the gore scenes or the violent scenes, that's always hyper-violent. Some of the sex scenes, I feel like there's like a line sometimes of sex scenes being done tastefully and, you know, some things are implied. This one was right up of every hen tie that I've seen. It was that explicit porn at times. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there's using, and I think that's probably understandably where a lot of the gripe and public scrutiny was, this was that like, you know, when you look at some shows that use sex, especially sex, when it's involved in, you know, I'll just say the R word, just so that we don't get to demonetize with Temmison. Well, if 30 minutes in, I'll say it. But, you know, when you use that as a tool for storytelling, I mean, you know, it's a very powerful thing and a very controversial thing to use. So when you, there are points and stories where it makes sense. And of course, we live in the real world. This is something that happens in these stories. Yeah, yeah. You really have to use it like carefully. As a filmmaker when you're making these things, you can use it, but you need to know when to use it. Yeah. And I think unfortunately when you show like a five to ten minute long fucking, fucking scene, you're like, I don't know if this is, if you can argue this is for the story anymore, this is just like a bit weird and fetishy and you're like, you know, it's kind of hard to justify it being in there. Yeah. But, you know, obviously it got cut out of most versions. Yeah. And the stories, I can't imagine it would make much sense without it. But also when you're watching it, you're like, oh God, please fucking turn this off. Please end please, God, I get it. I get it. Yeah. But some reason it's so overly adamacious. I mean, you're seeing the reaction, but there was this point where me and Conor were watching and we were, and you know, some of the sex scenes are used to establish that one of the bad guys in this is a bad guy. Very bad guy. Yeah. And you know, there was, there was a scene at the, like the halfway point at the beginning, at the first episode where what happens is the main girl is an assassin and she has essentially been groomed by this older man who has murdered her family and basically raised her and groomed her. Well, one point that you have to make sure to point out is that this guy is a cop. And this guy is a cop. He's like the head of the police department, but he's obviously incredibly corrupt. Yes. And yes, so yeah, as, as God said, like he brings on this girl called Sawa, who is that being character? Basically kills her parents and then lies to her saying like, I will find the people who killed your parents, but you have to do a bunch of dirty work for me, which involves going around killing like some of the most abhorrent people in this society, which everyone is abhorrent. Yes. In this series, everyone says there's not a single person in this thing. But yeah, so you know, obviously she doesn't have, she's been controlled, you know, very much so and has no choice essentially. And so a lot of the show is her and this other assassin kid, Albany, going around basically doing dirty work for these cropped cops. Yeah. And the action scenes that take place in both the episodes are some of, I would say some of the most iconic 90s OVA action scenes. Yeah, I mean, I'd already seen some of these scenes just because they'd been posted online. Yeah. And I mean, the action animation and just I hate to say it, but like the action and the action animation were both really well animated. Yeah. Yeah, they went a little too hard. I mean, when they're animating, you're like, why are you doing so much animation for this? It's like 60 MBS and the more, the scene off. And yeah, like I think I think the big selling point of this and why I think it became infamous was just, well, the animation is genuinely some of like the most insane animation you can get from from the 90s, you know, especially with the action animation the way I, what I love about old anime and I noticed this when watching memories as well. God, I missed the way they animate explosions. Oh, my gosh. There's this kind of like organic like quality to the way the explosions just below out. Yeah. And they just fill up every room, which is not realistic, but God damn does it just look so cool. It's satisfying to watch. Yeah. What's also like eyes and like faces, like they're almost like porcelain. I think they look really, and there's something really nice about it. And it was, yeah, so then obviously the scene where we start, we start off kills this guy in the elevator. Yeah. And then it cuts to a room where the crop cop is just like naked and you're like, okay. All right. And then she's like, I don't want to have sex. He's like, no. And then they have sex. You're like, okay, this guy's this guy fucking sucks. Yeah. And then immediately there's another gig to assassinate another guy. And then we see another guy called Obadi who's there who's kind of like another kid assassin. He's been recruited into this kid assassin empire. And he's kind of a newbie and has a hard time giving this job off. And the sour helps him do it. And then they become friends. And you're like, okay, there's hope in this world. Maybe there's these two kid assassins kind of some kind of weird kid assassin friendship. Yeah, trauma bonding. Yeah, trauma bonding. Yeah. But then sour gets another job where she has to kill a guy with a mole. Like, yeah, there's like a Hollywood. Yeah, like a Hollywood, there's two Hollywood actors. They're turning to be one. So she's to kill one of them. And then it's revealed later on as well that one of the brothers who's one of the twins put up the hit as well. Yeah. So really bizarre. Anyway, this all goes hardly wrong. It's a big disaster. She, she kills the wrong guy. Explosions happen. And then the guy gets fucking annoyed. The corrupt coffee is like, what have you done? Yep. Um, hi, fancy a cuppa. While that killed Boyle, why not check out R&ID's hearing check? It's free, private, takes just three minutes, and you only need a phone and headphones, so you can be back to listening to your favorite tracks in no time. Give it a go and never miss a beat. Visit R&ID.org forward slash check. Anyway, and then it cuts. So the next episode where they tell, oh, go to the other kid assassin, they're like, hey, you need to, you've three jobs you need to do. You need to kill three, three more targets for us. Yeah. So go and kill the first guy. Uh, and he's like, all right, okay. In the subway. In the subway. So sure, got it. Uh, and they don't really tell you much about who these guys are. They're killing. We never really find out what they do. Yeah, it's only like 50 minutes of like, yeah. Well, all they really tell you is that they're a bad guy. Yeah. It's that they high profile people in society who are behind the scenes, uh, doing shit that would get them on the Epstein list. Essentially. Yeah. But it's also like not implied that it feels like at least they're not trustworthy. The reasons we're being told a lot of the times. Yeah. You really don't know if they're killing people who deserve it or not anyone, I just first, who does doesn't, doesn't deserve it. Who gets the same. But they're not exactly, it's not always clear who's a bad person or not. And it's also not clear who these orders are coming from or why this cop is doing this. Yeah. Anything is clear. Anyway, all good. He goes into the subway to kill this guy. Uh, and it's very quickly apparent that when he gets on the subway train that this guy's bodyguards, which they're like, okay, that's right. What's going on? And then as he's about to go and assassinate this guy, the assassin is clearly not a guy to be trifled with. And he starts fighting back immediately and giving all good, uh, tough time. But Sauer ends up helping him out and saves his life. And they kill the assassin whilst destroying the entire station of Tucket that about. Yeah. Uh, explosions and all. Yeah. And then Sauer and Ogre, you know what? Fuck this. Let's just run away. Yeah. I don't want to fucking deal with these bastards. They're the worst. So Ogre tries to kill, uh, the, the corrupt police officer who's been kind of in charge of everything. Uh, but unfortunately, he is a little too kind and doesn't finish him off quick enough and all goes badly. And then the, probably the worst scene in the entire fucking show happens. And I, I wish this was cut from our viewing. The cop who's corrupt, uh, is like, you know what, you're a piece of shit. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do the NCR. I'm gonna do it. So he gets Sauer and he had in front of Ogre, uh, and then is like, right, now after I've done that, I'm gonna kill you. And then Sauer's like, bro, what the fuck? That was, that was fucked. May, while by the way, throughout this whole time, Akai, that's his name, the corrupt cop, yeah, is just like, oh man, for a second then, I thought you were really gonna like, you know, betray me. So it's a good job on playing your part. So it was like the fuck hell, hell no. But it's how she did. She did in fact betray him because, uh, then she kills everyone. She kills the, the, the head cop Akai and his henchman. Um, and then it, you feel like it's gonna be happy ever after. But unfortunately, as Ogre, he's just walking down a street, another child assassin out of nowhere, pops him in the head. Yeah. And the final scene is Sauer waiting for Ogre, but Ogre, he's dead. And then we hear the door open and then it cuts to black, implying that Sauer was unfortunately killed as well by another random kid assassin. Yeah. So just, just like the most horrific vibes. Yeah. It is, yeah, it is depression for 50 minutes. Yeah. It is. But you know, like, there's so much to criticize this film and so much to like argue about why it's fucking awful. But there is some like really cool things in this. Yeah. Like the animation is stunning. The world is so interesting. Yeah. Like they managed to set up such an interesting world within the space of 50 minutes. Yeah. That asks, like, wants you to ask a lot of questions and wants you to wonder how the fuck this world got to this kind of assassin for hire everyone's an assassin. There's so much killing going on, so much corruption. Yeah. You know, well, it's very much is reminiscent of a cyberpunky world without the cyberpunk in it. You know, it's very much just a grungy metal vibe where anything goes. You are on a train and it could like blow up any second because two people are like beefing with each other. And everyone is corrupt. Everyone breaks a law and everyone's a fucking child molester. Apparently, it is, it is that kind of world. And you know, I feel like it was just an excuse just to create this world where the animators could just animate some cool fucking action, cool gun scenes, cool explosions and some sex in it as well. Yeah. Because like I was saying earlier, I am not surprised that especially this coming on the late 90s that this did get banned because you know, we were talking about how there are some shows I've seen where you know, you have to use sex as a way to progress the plot or characterize some of the people and they do use that in kite as well. You know, obviously they want to characterize the main cop as being a very, very bad person. And you, there is this one moment in the reaction where me and Connor were just like, damn, I don't know why this is banned. Like this is this sex scene is actually important for the plot because it characterizes how it doesn't make sense. Yeah. How terrible this, this man is how terrible this man is to not only kill this girl's parents, but to just fucking groom her, assault her. Control this kind of, oh, this kind of shit, right? And then it keeps going. Yeah. That's the problem, right? I think that's like washing it. It's like, you know, you, you can, they establish the story point of these like sex scenes within like five seconds. Yeah. And you easily could have like, yeah, it was completely unnecessary to keep it going. And after it kept going for like another 30 seconds, you're like, okay, they just, they clearly just want to animate this. And it's hard to defend this. It's like, it's hard to argue this has a place. Right. So I mean, it's completely understandable why I'm getting banned. Yeah. And so it's, it's just like hard to argue for the show. It's hard to argue that like it's a shit to get. I will say that I will say that as much as, you know, as much as I agree, yeah, like a lot of the scenes, you know, were definitely dragged out and were pretty unnecessary. I am glad to know that you guys also agree with my point that there are certain sex scenes in this film that are pretty pivotal to understanding the story. I mean, it's a fucked up world. And like, unfortunately in this world, like that's a strong, like using sex and grooming and all this stuff is unfortunately an aspect of this world, whether you use that to control people, manipulate people. Yeah. It happens in the real world because I've seen too much criticism of kite where people are just like, oh, yeah, they did a good job in like just getting rid of all the sexual scenes. And I'm like, well, no, because if you actually watch like the, the, the censored versions of this multiple versions, but if you actually watch one of the censored versions where there is just zero sex scenes in it, a lot of, you kind of again, miss out on a lot of like, characterizations of certain like aspects of like, yeah, sour or a kai or, you know, this entire world. Yeah. So, you know, it is pretty like, yes, it's hard to fucking watch, but I mean, this entire world fucking sucks and everybody in it sucks. And I think it's, yes, a bit of an extreme way to depict that. But I think it's also in some aspects a necessary way to depict that. Yeah, but I think that's the hard part right because it's like, I think had the scenes been shorter in a sense, it would feel like it is being used for the story purposes and fucked up. When it goes on longer, you're like, yeah, I mean, you can understand why the sense is to be like, hey, this is just glorifying this thing that we don't want. Yeah. And so you're, you can sympathize a lot and understand why you would get banned because you, you, at that point, you're like, having a question, what is the motive here? Like if it's just for sexual gratification of whoever is watching this, then it's like, yeah, maybe we shouldn't have this. Yeah, for sure. You know, do you know what I gave the vibe of? Because I feel this is like all speculation, right? But it gave the vibe of just, you know, this was back in the days where physical media was like physical media sales with the thing. Right. Like, you know, there are, we have sex scenes in this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. Right, right. Yeah, it's like that we want to make a normal action anime, right? But we need something to push the boundary to sell those blue ray or no sell those DVD, sell those VHSs. And that's kind of what it felt like where it was just like, okay, we're adding these sex scenes in there. And we're trying to make them plot relevant. But we also know some people are just going to buy these like people just for the infamy of it, you know. That's what it, that's kind of what it felt like. I mean, the 90s, well, definitely you'd be like, hey, man, have you seen this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. It's a crazy thing from Japan, I think. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, because this was on the tail end of when the internet was kind of becoming a thing. You can always, you know, readily get this kind of content and get this high quality content. Like, imagine you're in the 90s. Isn't that just time to come and think? It's like, you can't stream. Yeah, you can't do anything. Yeah. You're like, you know, I heard, I heard this like one, one show has like a five minute sex scene and it's like, well, animated. Like, shit, shit, bro. All right. And it's gone a plot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm, I think what's most surprising about this anime and the history of it is it there was a live action. That's crazy. Oh, yeah. The fact, and obviously Samuel Jackson is a pretty outspoken anime and Hentai fan. So it's not surprising that he would kind of jump on this because I imagine if you're really into film or like animation as a medium, you probably like watched this show at some point, just as it feels so relevant to the history of anime and overuse. Yeah. So there's an interesting story behind this actually. So not only is Samuel Jackson a massive fan of kite, but also Quentin Tarantino, unshalkingly that doesn't that doesn't surprise me. I actually feel very quentin. Yeah. And I think that's actually that apparently Quentin Tarantino took Salva's character and used it as the main inspiration for the gogo hebari from Kill Bill. Oh, yeah. Remember the Japanese go with giant like thing? That apparently he made Kudiyama Chirky the actress you watch kite as the biggest inspiration for it. And I read that and I'm like, yeah, that makes sense. This definitely seems like a Samuel Jackson Quentin Tarantino one type of show that they've enjoyed. And the difference is is Quentin Tarantino would probably bind away to more imply some of the stuff in the back story. So it would be like, yeah, there you go. Yeah. You know, and I think that's like the key difference of a story like this of how perhaps there's a more, you know, you can touch on these themes and maybe how you'd probably do it in the modern day. Yeah, exactly. I think it would get a lot like you couldn't you couldn't do this today. Oh, because people would be like, why did you show that? You could just imply it through a number of different story. Yeah. I mean, who's the director of this? Because I know mezzo forte. Yeah. Because mezzo forte. Mezzo Yasuomi. Yeah. What else did you say? Yeah, mezzo Yasuomi who just released the film. Madoka Magica Ice Key Animation. Yeah. But no, he just recently released a film, I believe it's Virgin Punk. Oh, yeah. That came out this year. Yeah. Yeah, he's been in the industry for a very, very long time. Such a Virgin Punk. It should come up. I have actually been meaning to watch this because a friend of mine was like, I don't know how they released this this year. Yeah. And this is from what I've heard and from what I've seen of it. This is basically, you know, kite and mezzo forte in the modern day. Yeah. It's still hyperviolence, but it doesn't have that, you know, five minute sex scene right in the middle of it. Of course, you know, but I do actually want to watch it. But it still has, you know, a lot of it is still animated by him. It's been in the, it's been, it was in production for very, very long time as well. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Yeah, studio shaft. And the animation of this looks insane. And if you are probably like looking for that kind of like old school feel of just some of the gun action and some of just the hype of violent, you probably would enjoy this one without, you know, without the sex scenes. Because I feel like the sex scenes was just a big way to sell to the deeds. For sure. Yeah. To my knowledge, you know, I've seen a couple, a fair amount of OVA's as well from the time in the time before. There are OVA's that have shit that is as bad or worse, I'd argue, but maybe because of the world or the story isn't as compelling. It's not discussed as much, I feel like. Potentially. I don't know. I feel like, okay, I've seen a lot of like 80s and 90s OVA's. Yeah. A lot of it is just like the most, yeah, whatever kind of like shows that are very forgettable. Yeah. But the ones that are memorable, like, for instance, Jettosyber or like violence Jack or any of those, they kind of almost overdue the violence in the sexual themes to the point where you can't really take it as seriously as say something like kite. Yeah. Whereas like, kite uses gore and sexual themes. Yes, in very egregious over the top ways, but because there is a plot there and there are characters there that are very dark, but also work really well with the dark themes, you take it a little more seriously. So when you come across these controversial scenes, yeah, as you said, if you feel more disgusted watching, you know, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sour and Auberry have just had this assassination attempt on the corrupt cops. So the corrupt cop basically just assaults Sour while pinning Auberry down. That's it. You've seen it in hand side before. Uh, it's not, it's not my thing, but it's some people's thing. Yeah. But watching it this time, I just felt genuinely like disturbed by it. Yeah. And there was this point where I thought something happens because I thought what happened was right in the middle, they just fucking popped Ulbury. Yeah. Because like, there was, there was this like blood splatter and I'm just like, they didn't. And genuinely, I was like, what I thought that happened, I was genuinely just like, I'm like fucked up right now. Now that genuinely, that, that, that scene fucked me up. Yeah. And then they were like, oh, we're gonna kill them back. Can we get a shotgun? I was like, oh my god, thank god, because that, the, the way they implied that was just down there, these are some dark fucking emotions that I'm feeling right now. So there is, you know, there is an argument that, yes, some of these scenes do gently make you feel genuine emotions more than just, they kind of sexual kinds. There's a lot of disgust. There is a lot of disgust disgust. Like, yeah, I think that's a fair way to describe this. Yeah. But I think it would be hard to say that it's not gratuitous, you know, oh yeah. Cause like the most recent example I can think of of someone, of a series that's like handled it very tastefully, despite how dark the themes were, was a gachy actor. I don't know if you're like caught up to gachy actor, but there is an arc recently where a girl goes through something, something similar. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And this is a fucking show and action show, you know? And I did not know that. Yeah. And the way they depict that in the anime, it was heavily implied, but it was basically, they showed what she was going through basically being groomed by this old, old man and, you know, having to do things. Having to do things. And it was like her memories of it through like a child picture book. Yeah. Which almost like, that was like even more disturbing. Yeah. Cause I'm just like, oh, oh my god. But this is, this is really, oh shit. This is, this is fucking me up right now. Yeah. Yeah. But that's like a more, that's like a very thoughtful way of showing that kind of story arc without needing to show. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. I think that's like a super valid criticism of like, there are so many ways you can tell this in the story without having to show it. For sure. Yeah. And yeah, especially when it goes on for like five minutes. Yeah. This is, this is your ages. But it's interesting that it is still on so many platforms and that they made a movie. And like, yeah, so, you know, clearly it was banned in some capacity, but not to the extent that it was untouchable for whatever reason. Yeah, I mean, there is something very unique about the vibe of the world and the whole world building itself. Like no hope. There's no hope. There's no hope. There's no hope in the story. When, yeah, Ulbrig or Poptiles, like, yeah, makes sense. It would feel wrong for there to be a happy ending in this world. And like his other infamous work, Mezzo Forte, was something I discovered. I think it was the first Hentai watch, actually, because actually, yeah, it's just on a, this was back when I didn't know what Hentai was. I was just like on his random website. And I was just like, what is this? Mezzo Forte scene right next to Bible Black? You know, that was, that's the kind of era I'm talking about. Is it similar to this? It's a spiritual success at a company, made by the same guy. Yeah, it's made by the same guy. If you search up Mezzo Forte, you'll like recognize his art style immediately. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Very, very, also, also really good, in my opinion. Since we rated a little higher. Yeah. Yeah. So a young woman and a mercenary for higher. Yeah. Well, Sala actually appears in Mezzo Forte. Oh, okay. Yeah. So this one also has a Hentai scene in it. Yep. But the action is also really, really fucking good. And it's just cool gun action, very metal, hyperviolence. And this is just something you don't really get to see. Don't really get to see anymore. I will say one of the most underrated aspects of kite and also Mezzo Forte is, the soundtrack is so fucking good. Yeah, it's kind of worrying how good this soundtrack is. Yeah, right. Yeah. It's like that kind of just lounge jazz free, a little bit of free jazz in there. It's just, it just adds to that grittiness. God, that saxophone man. Oh my God. Yeah, sax is so good at changing the energy of a scene, like so naturally. Like when the jazz gets faster, you get uncomfortable. Yeah. But it happens so naturally. You don't even clock it's happening and you start feeling uncomfortable and you're like, oh, shit, the jazz is getting faster. Yeah. It's, it's, yeah, it's kind of happening. Also, also with kite, I will say another aspect that I thought was really good was obviously the animation is really good, but also the cuts of really like clean and very artistic in a lot of ways. Like there are a lot of transitional scenes from one scene to another, which are, I think they're called direct frame transitions where there would be a movement of something and it would transition into the movement of another object very seamlessly. Yeah, you're talking about a match cut. Match cut, that's it. Thank you very much. Yeah, and that's the sign of like just great fucking storyboarding because obviously it's like this stuff has to be planned out in like the storyboarding phase. And I think we met who did the storyboarding for both of them as well. So you know, it's, it's the sign of like every, every good director and really good storyboarder because you know, on a directorial kind of like as a directorial piece, this, this was really well done in a lot of scenes. The action was fucking insane. Like there is, you know, this is like some of the shit wave you hear your dad describing when he talks about the action scenes he grew up with. Yeah, I think my favorite scene out of from Cite was the scene where Sauer is falling down with the guy he'd, she tried to assassinate and they fall down and then they fall down on top of a car that they fall into this walkway, which falls onto this car. The car breaks through the wall, the car breaks through this bridge to fall on a truck and the truck falls onto the subway and then Sauer's hanging on and then assigned from above forse pass Sauer and and it's the truck and just explodes the truck and she flies through a window and lands on a bed and has like one scratch on her and I'm like, this is just fun. Yeah, this is like looney tunes. Yeah, this is some, yeah, looney tunes ask action scenes, but it is just awesome. You know, it doesn't need to make sense. Just good dumb fun. Yeah, also one of the random things that happened is one of the guys she's tried to assassinate is just randomly like an American or something speaking perfect American English. Yeah, it's like perfect. It's not really what actors. I literally thought we cut the guy speaking and I thought we just randomly switched to dub for a second because I was like, this is really well done for a 90s dub for sure. What else is the main voice actor Sauer voiced? I'm just curious. Like what do you? What do you do after that? I'm sure she can't stop. Yeah, she's in Ray Earth. Imagine Ray Earth. So a lot of good. I think it could have been a bastard. Yeah, a lot of 90s. A lot of, yeah, OVA's. Yeah, can I stop doing stuff? I think it's interesting. Yeah. Well, she's got a lot to say. It should have been around quite a bit. Oh, she, yeah, I mean, I think she stopped mid 2000s. Oh, good. I also saw she has a small role in one piece as well. That's so funny. Yeah. So she has done a lot. Yeah, interesting. I'm just a good voice actress. Yeah. Did a great job in this. Yeah. So my question is, did you guys like it? I like the aspect of it. Yeah. It's OK. I mean, the plot isn't anything to write home about. Let's be real. I think it was just a cool way to show cool action. And it is kind of like a time capsule of, yeah. I think it's an incredibly fascinating time piece in anime. Because there wasn't really any, well, I mean, there hasn't been anything like it since for obvious reasons. But also, you can see that directly or indirectly how this inspired a lot of other anime. Yeah. Especially like the whole, a lot of the action choreography, just the whole concept of like, you know, goals with guns, like, because that was a huge thing. And like the 90s and early 2000s as well. Yeah. So it's fascinating, I think. I put this in the genre of, this is one where you pop an edible. And you just turn it on, man. You know what I mean? This is an edible show. I mean, that's why that guy in the bar was playing in the background. Yeah. It was like vibe setting. Yeah. There's, I mean, it's cool as the world is. And we get crumbs of a really interesting look into a very corrupt world. It is a shame that the story is just, you know, it's I, it's I, it's I, yeah, it's it's it's it's a vibe. And it's a unique vibe that's hard to find. Yeah. You know, if you're sick of like modern anime, yeah, just watch this. Well, which is all the more reason why, which is all the more reason why I want to check out version punk because yeah, it's essentially just the modern day interpretation of this vibe and this wall. It would be cool to see how it compares. I do want to actually, I think I read about this. You can fact check me, Kai, but I think that virgin punk is actually drawn with traditional cell animation. But they, they put it through the composition is put through modern modern computers. Right. So the mod computers are, is it? I don't know if it is. Well, internet, you can fact check me on. Yeah, just one episode. Or it is just one episode. It is a that there's present like it's still ongoing. Because I think it's multiple parts. Because yeah, I think it's released kind of similar to like, you know, an over a work in the stay in age. Yeah, it's going to be interesting. Yeah, but it is a mezzo who directed this one as well. And it's his first one for a very, very long time. But yeah, I've really, really wanted to watch this as well. Just to see I unfortunately missed it in cinemas. Wasn't cinemas. Yeah, it was in cinemas. Damn, they do 30 minute showings. Yeah. The ads must have been longer. But I mean, I feel like just because you can't get away with DVDs nowadays, nowadays, basically, this is kind of what they have to do. Because I think it adds with a documentary. Oh, okay. So basically just the fucking, basically what I did was van basically. Matt Shelley of the Japan Times says, Clockwork Girls is exactly what you'd expect considering your metz who's past work. That's the line you need to hear. Well, I'm glad you guys got to experience it. Cause you know, this is, this is a hard one to recommend to the average anime fans. I mean, I mean, we've covered some weird shit on this show. Yeah. I like that we can watch shit like this and actually have a discussion about it. Yeah. Part to have that discussion anywhere else. It's totally too narrow discussion in the modern era of I feel like now there's a part of me that's fighting between the O's to get us to watch the live action. Oh my god. I don't watch the fucking mezzo or whatever. Mezzo for what? I mean, who knows? Maybe the patron. Just just like I just have like one criticism. Right. Just they need to make their dicks that big. Yeah. Weirdly in all the sex scenes that dicks are like 15. Like genuinely 15 just logs. I'm like, I get he's a bad guy. Does you need to give him a fucking horse cock? Yeah. I just like like, at least give him a micro penis. You know, like the back. I should have a micro. He should have a micro. I'm gonna say. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was you with every dick was just comically large. It was huge. Yeah. But there you go. That was kind of was kind of to watch if you brave enough. Or you can watch us reacting to it on our Patreon. But the the weird train has not ended because today we we are just going on weird vibes because we are watched four episodes of Tatsuki Fugimoto 17 to 26, which was recommended by the patrons. Yes. Which for those of you who don't know Tatsuki Fugimoto creator of chainsaw man and fire punch. He released a essentially an anthology of short stories that he wrote between the ages of 17 and 26 as the title suggests. All works before chainsaw man. But all works before chainsaw man. A lot of them before fire punch if I'm not mistaken. Yes. Because I think he wrote fire punch when he was like in his early 20s if I'm not mistaken. Yeah. It's very young when you wrote fire punch. I believe some was before fire punch some was after fire punch before chainsaw man. And it is animated by a different teams. And we watched episode one, two, three and seven. Yeah. Because they're all self contained. Yes. Short stories. And I thought that was I mean, I have watched the entire thing. And all eight shorts are just so vastly different. It was hard to choose for to watch. I mean, if you want to get the full experience watch all eight because one thing I really respect about this and really like about this anthology is a lot of the times when you have an anthology series, everyone agrees. Okay. These are the best. You know, these are the best ones of this collection. Watch these ones. These ones are like air. And I thought that was that would be the way for this one as well. Like everyone I've talked to and what I've read online is everyone has different favorites and different things that they like. And I think that's just because every short is so vastly different that explores just such a different idea. And all of the like some of them are completely different genres as well as you probably like came came to realize. And so I think everyone going into this world has the potential to like something different because it was like the different ideas and the different executions will speak to different people. But we watched number one, two, three and seven, a couple of cluck in chickens were still kicking the school yard. Sasaki stopped to bullet, love is blind and nighter of the prophecy. Should we briefly go over the plot of I mean, we can go over them one by one. But first off, I want to you I wanted to know which one was your guys's favorites. But I think my favorite honestly might be the first one. You have the first one. Yeah, couple cluck in chickens. It's hard though. It's for me to tie between that and night of the prophecy. Yeah. I like love is blind a lot. Yeah, love is blind was good. It's hard. I actually enjoyed all four to be right. Yeah, right. Right. For completely different reasons. Okay. Here's the weird thing. Initially watching this one, I was like the most leak warm about Sasaki stopped to bullet, right? But I have made a video on this and then I rewatched all of them. And when I was writing about it and thinking about it, I was like, damn, I cannot stop thinking about number two Sasaki stopped to bullet. I just it the idea in it is so fucking insane. Right. But like rewatching it made me appreciate just what he was going for more. Yeah. And apparently this was his favorite short as well as I was doing research on it. And it just I don't know. It is just every one of them is insane. But there is something there is just a flavor of insanity in Sasaki stopped to bullet that just I keep thinking about it. Which one do you guys want to start off with discussing? I'm start with the chicken one. Chicken one? Yeah. All right. So this I have a feeling. He kind of just made this just so he could say this tongue twister because the title was basically based on the Japanese tongue twister. You want to go on? Yeah. That's what I say after he times. Which which is the Japanese tongue twister and is the final line of this short film as well. And it basically takes place in a world where humans have almost been wiped out by aliens that just invaded one day. And these aliens can transform. And most of the humans have been wiped out except for these two humans who are just kind of chilling in these school yards. And the only reason they haven't been eaten is because they are dressed up as chickens. And basically it gets revealed that they are actually humans and humans are delicious to aliens. And I think it was Fujimoto kind of like tackling with this idea of why do we eat the meat that we do? Why do we morally kind of like separate? Okay. This kind of meat is okay to eat these animals are okay to eat and these ones are not okay to eat. Yeah. And it was basically him kind of like exploring this idea through the eyes of aliens who really, really want to eat humans but not other animals like chickens, for example. And then it eventually gets revealed that's the two humans are actually humans. Everyone rushes to go on and eat them except for this one alien who tries to protect them and tries to get them out and unfortunately he gets killed. And they are about to get completely exterminated by the policeman. But the twist in it is that one of the two humans was actually an alien who was protecting one of the girls is as a way to kind of try to understand why, you know, what kind of beings humans are. And it's a side ending where everyone's like where the narrator is like, yeah, humans, humans basically wiped out. But at least that was one story where a human and an alien coexisted and cared for each other. Yeah. I think my favorite thing about Fujimoto that he's done in all of his past works is that his way of storytelling is he has this core message that he or theme in the story that he wants viewers to take away from. In this case, you know, it's this whole idea of like, and it's and it's said in the short as well where he's like, there's this great scene where the girl and the the alien are talking and they're like, you know, oh, do you think it's right for people for aliens to eat humans? You know, like we're also living beings and then the alien, you know, reverses her own basically says like, well, you guys eat pigs and cows all the time. So what's the difference? You know, and I think that that small conversation is like the pivotal point that Fujimoto was trying to like convey. But the thing with Fujimoto that makes all of his works just so Fujimoto is that he's like, okay, I have this core theme. Now I'm just going to go off the fucking rails to really drive this point home in the most like batshit insane way. And I think this short in particular is like a great kind of rudimentary look into like his style of storytelling because yeah, the concept and like the themes and everything that happens is fucking insane. Yeah. And that's, you know, that's not even mentioning the point that like just the animation quality is crazy. Yeah. But it's what really gives that like kind of Fujimoto is that is just so instantly recognizable. You know, like nobody but Fujimoto can write a short like this. And the fact that he wrote this when he was 17 is like insane. He's very willing to blend gore with comedy very easily. Yeah. Yeah. In a way that works quite well. Yeah. And I like, I love a good anthology series in general because I think, you know, these are stories that would struggle to kind of flash out beyond what they did. Yeah. And it's refreshing because not every story has to be five seasons or 10 episodes. Like some stories can be told in in five minutes, you know, you really don't need all that time. Totally. Yeah. It's good to see kind of more interesting ideas and punch lines that wouldn't really work in a bigger show. I think that's what he, all of these did very well. And the chicken one I quite sure it was a lot as well. Yeah. It was a very straightforward story though. Yeah. All of them. I think this one was the most straightforward. And I think that's why I've seen a lot of people like this because I think this was city's favorite as well. When she watched it. And I think it's traditionally it is, it is very emotional at the ends, but it is the way the world is weird. The characters are weird as as a figure. So characters always are. But the emotional payoff at the ends of, you know, the guy protecting the, the alien protecting the girl and it kind of ending on that. It was like very, very, you know, traditional, I would say. Yeah. I mean, it's the most simple. Yeah. All of them. And I think it's a very safe thing. Yeah. And you can understand that a 17 year old wrote this. Yeah. Like I'm not saying it has to be the best thing ever or it needs to blow your mind. It was, it was very fun. Yeah. But yeah, you're like, okay, sure. Yeah. It's a good intro. Yeah. I mean, I like the absurdity and the, the, and you'll see a lot of the, the pieces that end up making chainsaw man here. Yeah. Because some of the monster designs in this are like very, very, very, very, very early chainsaw man. I mean, this guy, the one in the thumbnail that's on that PV there. Yeah. Who is the alien who's been hiding his form looks shockingly like, like, so you can see like the inspiration. And I think that's what this episode is more so good for is like, if you're a fan of that show, you will enjoy the inspiration and seeing that here. Yeah. My guys are younger and hasn't fully realized. And I think also just inspiring. Yeah. Because like, you know, how many of us have had an idea that hasn't been fully fleshed out yet. And I think that's the real charm of this first episode is like seeing the, the crumbs that made the cake that was chainsaw man. Like you can kind of see some of these pieces come together. And obviously when you flash it all out more and make a really compelling story, you get chainsaw man. Yeah. Yeah. So really fun, really fun. Cool building block that that has to be my show hadn't his life. Yeah. And then we get on to the next one. This one set the tone. The very, you know, this one was a very traditional story. And then we get to Tsasaki stopped a bullet. Yeah, this one was weird in a good way. All of them were weird in a great way. Not a single thing I didn't enjoy about this. Totally. Like, watch as you watch. This one was very laugh out loud funny. You enjoy walking. Yeah. You've already told the pop four lots on Trash Days. Run us again. Run. Yeah. I mean, this guy is just chilling. He has a crush on his teacher. He got down. He's a god. She is a god. She, he simps for it. It wouldn't be a Fugimo so short if there wasn't like a five minute scene of one character sipping for another female character man. This was like pre-Dengie sipping over macima. Totally. Totally. Uh, then man with a gun shows up. And uh, you're like, okay, what the fuck was unexpected in that? But cool. Uh, and then he starts, uh, he starts crashing out because the teacher apparently rejected him in high school and he hasn't got his life together and he blames the teacher for everything. Uh, and so everyone in class starts freaking out and he's like, I'm going to shoot everyone up. You know, I need some justice in my life and the teacher is like, you can do anything you want to me, but leave the children alone. And uh, and where does your mind go to when you hear a sentence like that? You know, of course he's like, so uh, we're fucking. So can we, let's do the sex. You know, we are still in the kite world. Yeah, because he was, yeah, because he was like, I don't want to die a version. That's what he says. Yeah. And then Sasaki is just like sex with my goddess. No, I shan't allow that. I cannot allow that. And he stands up in an act of heroism because he's like, no, you must not have sex, sex is wrong. Do not touch my queen. Do not touch my queen right there. Uh, and so the shooter is like, bro, what the fuck? Bang, shoots the bullets, cut the flashback. We're in a demons layer flashback right now. Um, we, uh, we, we cut to a flashback of Sasaki having a conversation with, uh, with his teacher where he's like, you know what? My dream one day is to become don't laugh. Don't laugh my dream. It's been national, you know, because I want to see my dad on the moon because my dad wanted to be a national and he unfortunately passed away. And I want to see him on the moon and the teacher's like, bro, that's not funny. You know, it might be a minuscule chance, but it's not, it's not a zero percent chance. You know, you for all, you know, I'm a goddess. I'm an actual goddess. You know, some people might laugh at that, but it's not a zero percent chance. And after remembering that Sasaki fucking catches the bullet, man, he first puts his hand up like neo. And then just slow motion of the bullet literally just catches it like this. Yeah. And the classroom naturally is like, bro, did you just stop a bullet with your fucking hand? Even he can't believe it. He's like, yeah, I just stopped the bullet with my hand. Yeah. And so the shooter is like the fuck are you? Sasaki then is just like, I'm actually from the future. I'm a, I'm a, I'm a human from the future. And I was able to stop a bullet because I knew exactly where the trajectory of this bullet was going to go. And of course, because everyone just witnessed this walking only to be described as a miracle, the shooter is like, what's, oh, then can you tell me what's going to happen in my future? Because my future looks bleak. I'm going to be arrested. I'm going to come out of this jail cell 10, 20 years later, going to be homeless and I'm going to die aversion. And Sasaki instead is just like, no, you know what you're going to do? Yes, you are going to go to jail naturally because you just shot a ball at me. And instead, you are going to study your arse off and you're going to make it to Tokyo you like you envision in your youth. And he's like, bet. And that's how it ends. Well, it ends with he goes, he goes to space. Yeah, that's right. He gets a dream, he calls hells. Yeah, yeah, somehow from the moon. Well, I think actually it's the last scene that really ties it all together. Yeah. And on rewatch, it's the last scene where I'm like, I think I know what he's like, he's like going for it. Because it's the last scene where Sasaki is like teacher. Remember that time where I caught a bullet? Yeah, that shouldn't be possible. What the fuck's going on? And the teacher's like, well, maybe I am a goddess and I was the one who stopped a bullet. And that's right. And Sasaki's last line was like teacher, stop. Stop, stop joshing me. He holds up his hand and he's like, even now I know I can stop a bullet. Yeah, cut, cuts, cuts at the end. Hard, hard cut right there. And I'm just like, God, that was stupid. But God, I can't stop thinking about it, man. So I think this was like Fujimoto's way of just telling you that no matter what, you should never give up on your dreams and aspirations. Nothing is impossible. Yeah, because if you don't believe you can do the impossible, the impossible can never happen. And I think that's a pretty awesome fucking message. Totally. How he chose to portray it is the only way. Like there is a traditional way to portray that kind of idea and that kind of feeling. Only Fujimoto could think up a way to portray that feeling in this way. Totally. He's the way that he portrays relationships is so Fujimoto. I don't know. I hope he's doing okay romantically. He looks at himself as Ollie. But yeah, happy for him. Yeah. Yeah. Because like I, I take this with grain of salt because I did see this on like, I can't remember where I read this. But I read that his, he was, you know, debating between two endings for this short. Yeah. And one of the endings was the ending that we got where it was just him holding up his hand to the earth being like, did I say I can still catch a bullet? You know, still believing that he can catch a bullet. I think the other ending he had was he was still standing on the moon and he would hold his hand up and it would be against an asteroid. Oh, implying that he could stop an asteroid. Right. And I think the idea of that was that down, that panel would have gone fucking hard. Oh my God. Yeah. But like it's still still that same like idea of just, you know, never, no matter how impossible it is, never doubt yourself, never believe that it cannot be done because the chance is not 0%. Yeah. And yeah, it just writing about it and rewatching it like it didn't really, I didn't, I don't think I've really like understood it when I first watched it because it's just, it's just so out of pocket. It's everything about this short. It's just out of pocket. You can never predict what happens next. Yeah. The more the more I think about it, the more I watch it, I'm like, that's pretty fucking awesome. Yeah, it's pretty same. It's like I can't stop thinking about it, man. It's pretty cool. I mean, it's, I'm still kind of like processing a bit about how to, how I feel about it. And sometimes these things just take a while. Yeah. Before I kind of cement my feelings. Yeah. But do we want to talk about your favorite one? Love is blind. Love is blind. This is just fun. And this was, I think this is, this is another like Fuji moto isn't that I've, I've kind of felt every time I watch anything by him is that Fuji moto's characters kind of speak to each other in a way that is in a weird way unrealistic. Like it's, it's, it's a very weird vibe. Like it's, when you, when you see like, for example, scenes in fire punch or chainsaw man, where it's just two characters talking, the way that the dialogue goes back and forth and ping-pongs between two characters is like, you, you look at it and you're like, no actual real person would have a conversation like this. But because his characters are so weird, the weird dialogue and the weird tone of the dialogue kind of works in a natural way. Do you know what I'm trying to say? It's very hard to describe. Kind of yes and no. Yeah. Because I, I think I said this in the reaction, but I kind of realize all of his pop, while progression and his dialogue, it kind of feels like it's characters who feel realistic but voice all of their intrusive thoughts. Yeah. This one also felt like a musical in its weird pacing and high energy. And I mean, the plot of this one is very straightforward. It's a guy who is wanting to ask a girl out to be a girlfriend or just go, you know, and the thought of this very strong and stoic guy who always is, you know, so good at what he wants to do in life is really struggling with this aspect. So just tell a girl that he likes her essentially. And it constantly just keeps boiling and boiling. It's weird because it feels like you're pouring a cup of water and you're like, constantly pouring until I guess that point where it's like, Paul, you're trying to add more and more water. And that's kind of like watching this. Like he's constantly about to say it but won't. The energy keeps getting higher and higher to the extent where he's about to confess to her and a guy is about to rob them and he just kind of ignores it. And then the earth is about to be taken over by aliens and he ignores it because he wants to lock in and tell the skill he likes. It's like there are more important matters in the end right now. But I mean, it wonderfully captures that vibe when you're younger. I don't know if you can relate but when you, you know, you're in school and you want to ask a girl out. And it feels like the most pivotal decision of your entire life. Oh, 100%. Like you can have everything else going on and be on top of it. But for some reason, asking someone out or telling you like them and being that vulnerable for the first time is such an impossibly daunting feeling to overcome. Yeah. And I think it captures it in such a fun and lighthearted way and really shows it in a really stupid way, which I really enjoy. Yeah. Because we've all been there. I hope we've all been there. I hope you've got to experience this feeling because at the moment, it feels so impactful to your life. It feels like the most important thing and that nothing else can possibly take away. The earth is literally ending, but it doesn't matter because I'm about to tell this girl I like her and she might make fun of me and my whole life might crumble. Yeah. And it captures it in such a jovial way that I really, really enjoy. Yeah. And if you want to watch a 15 minutes of just fun, recommend this one was one of the shortest one is only like 12 minutes. Yes. But I like this one as well because it just takes this core idea, which kind of just said and it just pushes it to push it to its limit. And doesn't need to say more. This one honestly felt like a Nietzsche Joe skits. Yes. You know, it could have been like a skit from Nietzsche Joe that got randomly posted. The way it was directed as well and like all the animation cuts, like it's very fast paced animation cuts that are quite almost shaft like in a way very monogatari style as well. The kind of designs are awesome as well. Yeah. Really like the main girls design is really cool and quite unique. So a great short one. Probably similar to the first one in the sense that it's quite straightforward. Not much, not much weirdness like a little more in a comedic way though. Yeah. Yeah. I liked it. I feel like the problem with the first one is that unlike the other ones, I don't feel the I'm like this one. Love his blinds. I feel like Fiji Mata had such a concrete idea about the, you know, sorry, such a concrete way of portraying the idea he wanted to convey, you know, this feeling of, you know, when you confess, it feels like the world's coming to an end. Yeah. You know, whereas with the first one, it's a more traditional story, it's a more emotional story, but I feel like the idea, the core idea of it was a little bit weaker, a little bit. I think also that it unfortunately was a story that was bigger than the, like the scope of it was a bit a little too large for, you know, the aliens taking over a world, doing all this, you know. Yeah. I, you know, and comparatively if you kind of compare the endings from love is blind to the the chicken one, the chicken one just kind of ends with an narrative going and everyone died. Yeah. You're like, okay. So clearly there was like almost more to the story that couldn't be fleshed out or couldn't be told appropriately. Yeah. So let's just wrap it up. And like the thought was there and the emotional tool and the story tool of using the alien being undercover like that was a very, I almost feel like that was the idea he had, which was this idea of like what if we became the cattle, yeah, like and then kind of flesh and get out from there, whereas the love is blind one, you know, when you, when it ends, there's this wonderful sense of finality of like 12 minutes idea start, idea finish, we explored it fully, pushed it to its limit, didn't need to do it, do any more. Any more gags on top of what they already added would have been necessary. Yeah. Yeah. It was already well done. Yeah. I swear you should have a concept. Yeah. Exactly. And what you want from like these anthology things, which is, you know, sometimes you want to be left wondering what you're wanting for more or wondering what else was left on told, but sometimes it's great to have that that perfect 10 minute fun gag. Yeah. Uh, totally. And, and you know, I've watched a lot of the other anthology series that are quite popular, like the love death robots. Obviously like Mira and you know, it, what makes a good anthology, in my opinion is when you do feel the sense of that was a great idea. I feel satisfied. Yeah. Exactly. I don't need any more. I don't need any, I mean, it lasts like that's exactly what it should have been. Yeah. And this is that I think, which brings us to the last short that we watched. I think he is most famous. Sure. You'll get in the night. Was it real? After a pre-chancellum and because obviously you look back in goodbye area, but the night was, I'd seen this girl's avatar a few places already. I think I'd seen it online. Yeah. But like it's like the new, um, Kyoto animation, like if you have this picture, they're probably going to say some in a shit. You know what I mean? You know, I, I hate that you said that because I was secretly thinking that when I was watching it. Yeah. I was like, I don't know why. But the one who likes this character a bit too much would say, hey, Nishinon. You know how the modern like portrayal of that is just like, you know, it's like, if I see someone like standing free, I'm like, there's two ways that you could, this could go now, you know, which, which way? True. Yeah. Free, free, free run has become that as well. Yeah. If someone likes free run a little too much, you're like, okay, it's like, are you okay? It's like, there's this grace period where like the first like the first six months, you're like, everyone's like, from bang a story. Yeah. This is, this is fucking great. And then like, post six months, you're like, it's getting a little weird. The conversation's getting a little weird now. I think free run should kill the demons because the demons are bad. Yeah. And he thinks that free run should kill the demons because that racist. Like, we are not the same. We were, we were the demons dead for different reasons like that. Like, there are two different reasons and thoughts of, and really, you know? Yes. Like what is someone read too much into this? Yeah. But also I think this is a great fucking short as well. Yeah. I think you could definitely see the like, because you know, I believe this anthology comes out in the same, in the same way that he wrote them, you know, in terms of the first one he wrote, the second one and wrote the third one and wrote. And the more you, the more and the more short you watch, the closer you see to his current writing style. And you see his, his storytelling like style evolve with the more shorts that you watch. I think, Nite, definitely, you can definitely, definitely see shades of, you know, chainsaw man and the kind of like, way he presents stories, which we are more, which we're more familiar with right now. So we should talk about the plot of later. Sure. Later as a demonic child, who, I was reading the Wichita, maybe she was a demonic child who bears horns, likes a human heart and speaks in a wicked tongue, even before her birth, it was prophesized that she would be one to spur the apocalypse. What is this? What does this, what does this, what does this say? We're not, we're not, we're not, we're not, we're not. So basically everyone in this world is like, there's going to be a demon child that's born. It's going in the world with its powerful magic. And people are like, nah, it's not going to happen. And then it happens. A demon child is born and obviously, because as horns, it, it unfortunately kills the mother when giving birth. And then everyone's like, wow, this prophecy actually might be in the year. Yeah. Because a woman was killed and a child was born with demon horns and the child also doesn't speak English. No, it doesn't. Don't speak English. Just speak Japanese. What the fuck's up with that? No, this child is trying to speak words and it seems to have some sense, but every single word that it utters is like, bum. Black got bombs. Best genocide. Do you like this? What the heck? This is like the child learn how to speak from Brawler. True crime. Brawzing eggs for five minutes. It's like, you know, when parents play like music to their child on the room, they just play true crime. It's like, and then our legs were cut off. Listen to you to what you're going to like, honey. And so obviously the world is like, hey, we should probably get rid of this demon child. Yeah. And then obviously Kenji, who is a native's brother, is like, hmm, this seems to be odd. Everyone seems to hate us dad. And dad's like, I don't worry, mate. He'll be fine. So dad goes outside and gets killed and stabbed. Kenji's like, oh, shit. I'll just take care of my sister because she's my sister. Yeah, I can't leave my sister. She's family. She's family. You know, I can't let them kill her. Yeah. She's family. You know, and he somewhat raises her and is there for her. And constantly, she constantly kills like rats. She just can't stop fucking killing. She kills me. But everything in this world is like a hybrid animal. So it's like the rats, the cats are like, bunny cats. The rats are like, have wings. And anyway, she just keeps, for some reason, to cavitating them and throwing them at Kenji's white shirt. She's like, goddamn, it's a white shirt. Every time he has a one, it's the way he just walks in every time and she just goes, black. You know, Kenji's also like afraid of new toe because she doesn't speak words, keeps decaptating animals, eating them as well. Eating these decaptated animals and he's like, dude, can you please just like be fucking normal? I was trying to just keep my sandwiches. Yeah, he's trying to get it to be normal. Then it starts escalating. One night she goes out and decapitates a field of cows and flies them back to their doorstep in the middle of the city. And obviously, people like, bloody hell, what the fuck is all of this? Why is there a bunch of decapitated fucking cows in the street? That's a fucking demon child right there. Yeah. And I think you have rightfully served on kind of clocked on now. She might be demonic. But there's also magic in this world and there's other parties involved that are like, don't worry about it. She may have magic, but look, we've got a mage here and he can only make a tiny little daggers that fucking useless this way. We've got nukes and shit. Quite frankly, I'm not concerned with that. We can we can fight up against it if something happens. Yeah. But obviously when people see these cows being decapitated, the everyone's kind of like, bro, this is getting out of fucking hands. Someone needs to pay for this. So Kenji's like, I'll pay. I did it. And everyone's like, Kenji, where you didn't do it, don't be silly. He's like, no, I did it. I did it. I want to take the heat from it. All right. So Kenji gets beaten up. Yeah. Comes back. And now to seize the Kenji with beaten up. And she goes fucking ballistic. Goes to Shibuya Scramble. Unleashes her apocalyptic magic turns out. She did have the magic that could end the world. Yeah. She went full through a commercial mashup. And Kenji's like, bro, what the fuck? I just took a, I just took a beating for you. Yeah. You're going to do this. So Kenji goes to Shibuya Scramble. And he's like, bro, stop. And then as he's about to stop her, he keeps getting these flashbacks. He's like, wait, she wasn't trying to kill all these random animals. She just thought that I was too thin. And was trying to feed me. Yeah. Oh my God. That was her way of loving me. And being grateful for raising her. So he jumps in. Everyone's like, shoot her. Shoot the demon child. None of the bolts get passed. Kenji's like, I don't want to do. Jump some for the hug. So it's the day she stops going out. No, she, he disciplines her. Yeah. She literally, makes her run over the head. Like such a big ass. So she starts crying. And he's like, man, what I needed all this time was tough love. Yeah. I just teach her how to be, yeah, behave. Yeah. And then they move to some island together where they won't be bothered. Yeah. It was a weird story. If you to exist in the world, probably should have not been allowed to live. Yeah. Yeah. To hell with. To literally, yeah. Not actually. I think all the world's powers would have been vying for her. Yeah. Hard to justify allowing someone to do the things that they do to dogs. Mm-hmm. It's a bit weird. But it's a good story in it. It's a story of like, I mean, the whole message is that she's prophesized to be this demonic child that were in the world. And the only reason why she becomes close to doing that is because everyone pushes her to become the prophecy. Yeah. In any place, right? She would never have done any of this stuff. Do you never would have ended the world or become closer doing it, etc. Add people not pushed Kenji to the brink and their family to the brink. Like, it was all the suffering in all that. She was part of her environment. Yeah. The self-fulfilling prophecy, right? Yeah. And it's a poignant message of like, you know, a lot of the times in our society, we lay people about people and they will become the bad people. Yeah. Because we give them no recourse, no room. We've got no room to change, no room to dirty in themselves. And it's a good story. It's just a bit weird, isn't it? And it's got the classic. It's very huge. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Bows and whistles on that take of a story. Yeah. Because you know, this story and this narrative is one that we've seen a couple of times from some of the stories. I can't remember the top of my head, but like, it's not a new concept, I mean, it's a new concept. Well, that's the thing that I think is really interesting about the Synthology because I think you could say that about every single story. It's all a spin on it. And I think it's a good spin on everything. Absolutely. Like, the all the things he's covering in the Synthology, it has been done by so many other authors for decades. But it's just the fact that Fuzimoto is able to take these concepts that have been explored before and pose it in a way that no one but Fuzimoto can. Yeah. I mean, I think for this one and for the one after this, what makes it stand out the most for me is I feel like these, the last two have the strongest characters. Right. Because I think Naita and Kenji is like you get to explore their relationship a lot more than some of the previous characters, where there was more focus on a different idea. But for this one, it was really focusing on how does Kenji perceive Naita and what is Naita's intention? What is, what even kind of a person issue? And I think the line that really ties it together is the final line of Naita doesn't say, but writes down, which is like she asked Kenji, are you scared of me? Yeah. Yeah. Because it's, to me, it was Fuzimoto, which is what I think he's really, really good at, is exploring relationships between characters and how he knows what normal is, which is the weird thing, right? Fuzimoto has a great understanding of what normal is. And he breaks the norm to make you question where you get your values from, right? Because what we find is normal, we don't normally question, we don't know, we don't only think about that, but he uses it in such a great way where he knows what's normal and then he breaks the norm to make you reflect on, oh shit, why do I think this way? Why did I grow up this way? And I think the relationship with Kenji and Naita who is not fucking normal at all, she is not, she is a fucking, as Connor said, you see a girl doing this shit, you're like, your child services, at least someone to someone who doesn't take her out. Yeah, but the way Kenji kind of like finds out about Naita and comes to understand what kind of person she is, kind of strengthens the message that, you know, Connor had already laid out. And I just, it's just such a Fuzimoto way of portraying it. Yeah, absolutely. Love's using weird power dynamics too, I've noticed. Yeah. Like he loves the kind of one-sided character, one character has such a massive, I guess, the right over the other. Yeah. And how that plays into them co-existing. And I thought it was quite interesting. And again, it did, it reminds you a loss of like, Genji and Mackie-Marin, a couple of ways, right? Yeah, you see, again, these pieces, this idea of like him really wanting to explore what does it look like when a person, or in this case, the child is so dangerous, and someone in their life has been there for all of it. And, you know, there is points where Kenji is clearly scared or uncomfortable with Naita, but, you know, him at the end of it, like you said, that line is such a big thing of like him finally feeling like he knows his place in this dynamic, but also knows how to genuinely not be scared of her. Yeah. Which is all that Naita wants. Yeah, because the reveal where Naita was killing these animals to help feed Kenji, Kenji was like, you know, I understand her. Still kind of weird though. Yeah. That's the thing, right? Yeah. It's so far, you know, even if I understood it was doing that for me, and maybe I could justify it. But it's, I guess that's it, right? Like that's the dynamic of like, he's using this family dynamic as a way to like, can you, could you get over it? Could you, could you put these things aside for families? Yeah. You've been around your whole life. And it's a show that, and a short, that like really has a lot more to it than what it presents. And I think it does a really good job. I don't know. A kind of exploring that concept and showing the, you know, holding them up to humanity as well, and what we think. Because, yeah, I mean, fuck, you'd have to kill the fucking child. Yeah. I'm the problem. I'm the problem. The problem is he, bro. I'm like, get rid of that. Yeah. No, I want that. You see what the fuck she just did? She's trying to try to destroy everything. Yeah. And, yeah, I mean, this one, this one. Yeah, I wish I could. I definitely want to watch the rest. Honestly, there is not a single short that I don't recommend like skipping, you know. That I recommend skipping, sorry. Because everyone is so vastly different. My favorite is number eight, I think. Number eight. I just saw the snops, just about one that sounds really interesting. Yeah. Who's the with a girl having a nude portrait hung in the school? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sounds terrifying, but probably a really interesting story to this. It's one of the most, it's probably the most grounded in reality that out of all the anthologies, but it's still weird. Yeah. It's still weird in its own way. But I really, really like the characters and sisters. Sisters is great. It's cool seeing all the building blocks in a couple of these that make a chainsaw man. Yeah. It's just kind of crazy that a lot of these story ideas and the way that they're portrayed and stuff like that all come from one guy as well. That's what's inspiring about it. Right? It's that you just, you know, you can't make a chainsaw man without having to flesh out a ton of other stories and really learn what works and what doesn't. Yeah. What kind of dynamics you enjoyed and what kind of stories you like telling. It's cool. It's so cool. It's really inspiring. We don't get to often see that journey. Yeah. Someone's gone. We often just see their pivotal works. Not what got them there. And it's just like, he's just at this point now where fucking everything he touches is just getting the top tier. Not a single segment. Yeah. You know, it's, it's like, obviously, the chainsaw man movie that just came out. Fucking, absolute cinema. Yeah. This is, this is a Monica's dream of getting adapted, getting work adapted to this quality. Absolutely. This is some, somebody's fucking short stories. They weren't when he's 17. And like, this is some top tier production values that look incredible. Well, when I was watching it, I was like, yeah, these stories, like, especially the first one, I was like, yeah, the story's like nothing to write him about. Yeah. But I think it's the weight of it being a part of this collection and being a part of his works that gives it the weight. Like if that was his debut work and that was the first thing to watch, it'd be like, it's cool. Yeah. But I don't think we'd be blown away. Yeah. Well, I think it's hard to be blown away with a short story because. Yeah, of course, of course. But one thing that's, you know, one thing that you get as a wider view of a collection is just you get to see a collection of just really cool ideas that don't necessarily need to be fleshed out. Yeah. And some of it can leave an impact on you and some of it can leave you thinking about it after the short's over. But, you know, but as well, I think certain artists when they reach this point where their works have been so impactful that now any building blocks that made them that artist are worth looking at. Because I think it helps you kind of dissect and kind of interpret the other, like the works that have been so impacted. Yeah. And I think this is like why, you know, people will watch some of the Quentin Tarantino movies that are like, you know, there's a couple like, death proof, it's I. Yeah. But it's helpful watching those movies is like someone who likes all of his works. You're like, I want to see all the idea. I want to see all the building blocks here. I want to see what goes into making a Pulp fiction. Yeah. And I think that's Fuji Mocha has reached that level now where it's almost worth looking at everything. He's ever made. Because you're like, I just want to see how you make this, how you make what you're going to make in the future. Like it's like we're interested in your interest. Like we're interested in the artist because we're interested in his art. And like, that's not a point that a lot of artists can get to. Yeah. Well, I also don't think you need to be a, necessarily need to be a fan of Fuji Mocha to enjoy this. No, it's absolutely. I think these, not saying these don't hold without Fuji Mocha, I'm just saying like, I think that's what adds a lot to this collection. You know, because it is no, you know, it's not on the same level as like some like chainsaw man, which is obviously take him refining all of his ideas to make a long running series. But I think a lot of these shorts by themselves, they all have some interesting things going on. Absolutely. And the most important thing is they all have something to say. Yeah. And they all have, they all give a little peek into, you know, the artist's mind as well. And what, what, what a mind I want to understand. I think Fuji Motto as a person is almost as interesting as any of the characters and rights. Tuski Fuji Motto, the more stories you hear, the more you realize that he is Tuski Fuji Motto, he's just a Tuski Fuji Motto character. He is the character of himself. Yeah, totally. Sometimes you hear some of the stories and it's just so fucking weird. So you've got to be a weird guy to make weird things. You do have to be a weird guy. If you think normally you can't create these worlds of these other story lines. You have to have something where your brain just works a bit differently. I mean, my favorite story of the story is still his biggest inspiration to create chainswomen of how he used to, you never heard of the story about how when he was a kid, he had a pet golf fish that he like, a dog to death. Oh yeah. And it died. And his mom was like, I, you need to get rid of it because it's dead. But apparently Fuji Motto loved this golf fish so much that instead of just flushing it down the toilet or burying it, he just ate it. And that's apparently, and that's apparently one of the big influences that created the idea of pooch-turned-danger. And I'm like, yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense that someone who actually did that in his real life would then turn around and be like, that's actually an interesting idea for a story that I can create or like a, or like two character dynamics. Watch this mileage as a mascot character. It's quite impressive given he was only in like five minutes. Yeah, yeah. So one of my favorite recent Fuji Motto stories is, I think, I think he had this alter count where he would pretend to be this teenage girl. Yeah. Why? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He would pretend to be role-play as like a teenage girl. Yeah, he would role-play as his teenage girl for like, shits and giggles. They psych. And then he got like, and then the account got banned or something. So he made an alter count being like, guys, it's me, Tatsuki Fuji Motto. Please re- like, please re-enact this account. And everyone's like, bro, what the f- you know Tatsuki Fuji Motto? So he leaks some drawings of Chainsaw Man. Just to prove he's Tatsuki Fuji Motto. So they react to make this account. Why is he doing that? I don't know. I'm so fucking Tatsuki Fuji Motto. No, no. He's so weird, but we love him for that. I don't fucking know. Why is he pretending to be a girl? I don't know. I don't know. Maybe he was kind of weird. Maybe research for a future story. No, you have to get in the mind of a character. Maybe he's fucking character, man. He is a character. He is a character himself. Yeah. And... What the f- Yeah. I hope he never stops being like this, man. I hope he never does either. I'm gonna get his account back. He did get his account back. Fuck, man. He says the leaks and they'll like, all right. He might be Tatsuki Fuji Motto. Fuck. But then surely everyone knows it's him. Why would you want it? The saga of Tatsuki Fuji Motto tries to convince his Twitter account is actually him. And she takes a Ava. What the f- Oh yeah. I got my own account. What the f- It's not a revive. I will be live streaming the anime here. Thank you. I'm really Tatsuki Fuji Motto. What the f- Okay, keep going. Keep going. I'm going to get my narrated on the tweets for you. I don't know if it's proof, but the funniest manga this year was Welcome Alice. He's just fucking trolling, dude. I don't know if this is proof, but my favorite Ghibli movie are Princess Mononoke and Princess Dwayne and my favorite Ghibli talking entries. Oh my god. My fucking gods. He just went off. I've been bitten by a dog that has both arms. Okay, what? Dude, is this guy okay? This is like kind of like skits so pokey. For some reason, a man, I haven't times I've said it, the language becomes English. Also, please let me know if there's anything I can do to restore my account. This is all Tatsuki Fuji Motto. Yeah. I've done what I can. Do from this form. What else can you do? He's showing a picture of like applying to the account of the form. It's Tatsuki. It's Tatsuki. Chain-so-man botched information. I hope this proves that. So now he's just leaking Chain-so-man manga images. Okay. I'm a Libra. It's literally like here's all my personal information. All these tweets were over the course of like an hour. Yeah. He tweeted so many tweets. Is he good? No, he's not. No, he's not. But that's why he's kind of good. He's so fucking weird. I don't think you can be good. I'm sorry. I don't think you can write the stories he writes without being a little bit weird. Yeah. He definitely proves that. He's weird, bro. I love him. But yeah, that's... That was Tatsuki Fiji Moto 17-26. I highly recommend it. Yeah. If you are not a Tatsuki Fiji Moto fan, if you're just a fan of anthologies and short stories, this is really, really good. It's got a lot of talent adapting his work. I've watched the rest. Yeah, shout out to the Naita episode as well, since Kevin did the music for that. Kevin did the music for that? Oh, did he? You didn't tell me that. Oh, fuck, I didn't tell you that. I hate the guys. I hate the Kevin's and everything. I hate the guys. God damn it. I didn't know who's in it. He didn't tell me. Kevin should tell us these things. He told me because he was like, you know, this is the same even like the only short I'm going to be releasing this month. I'm like, what do you mean, Kevin? Fuck sake, Kevin. It's just like... That's just like... That's just like... That's just like... Fucking cheeky devil. You do barn and you're like, yeah, but... You know who I'm following you with? Tatsuki Fiji Moto. God fucking... It's Bars Borscht. How does Kevin and Mast? God damn it. It's so annoying. It's so annoying because he's so cool. I know. That's the worst part about Kevin. It's that he's so talented and he's so cool and you're like, man, I'm not... I'm not even as cool as him. And I have less talent. Yeah. And you're humble about it. Fuck you, man. He's so humble, though. We love Kevin. Nah, I hate you, Kevin. I hate you, Kevin. I hate you, Kevin. Oh, man. Putting the mirror to myself and having to crush my life decisions. Who's in the... Tatsuki Fiji Moto Pikachu picture? That sounds familiar. What does that sound familiar? A search up Tatsuki Fiji Moto Pikachu. He posted this. And he made a song. Oh, no! What? They got taken away to search. Search that one. There we go. There we go. No, no, no, no. First one. First one. First one. Look at this. Chainsaw man author sings his favorite food. What is that? What is... I just need to know. It's so funny because... It's not... It says... Oh, he's so weird. What is it, bro? You know, can't tell... It's a can't tell if he trolls or... Oh, he's one of the greatest trolls. Is he... Here's the thing. Do you think he's a troll or do you think he's just... Just fucking weird. Just motion weird for a lot of the game. Yeah. Can I just... He's been a both. Probably a bit of both, to be honest. Yeah. I like how in Japan it's funny. You can't be weird publicly. But the amount of you reach a certain level of fame. You're... You can just like... Do you have a year or one? Oh, no. Yeah. I've always said Japan is this really weird... place of extremes where it's like you need to either be extremely normal. Yeah. Or you either need to be extremely fucking weird. Yeah. There's no in between. You can't be a little bit weird. You have to go all out. Well, of course, if you're a little bit weird, you probably just get bullied back into... To normality, right? To normality, right? And then there are people like Fujimoto where they're just like, nah, I'm not going to be part of this society. I'm just going to be fucking weird and make some dope shit. Do you... You know Japan loves artists. Yeah, man. They love artists. Do you think Fujimoto is over glazed? He's getting to that point now, where it's almost like he's got a cult following. I mean, it's kind of understandable, though, because he's just so unadbashedly himself. To the point where it's kind of hard to hate. I think it's also just because right now... It does change so and and fire punch in these works. Do you feel quite fresh? Yeah. Totally. In the anime space. I think they're... They almost harken back to... Kind of wasn't like kite, right? This kind of like gory... Yeah. On, you know, not holding back. It's got a lot of that. I think people kind of want again. This... We become very... A lot of media has been kind of like sterilized or... Yeah. And it also helps that like... Sanitar, sorry, not sterilized. Yeah, and it also helps that... I mean, so far his track record has been... Pretty fucking good. Yeah. They've got to see what Alcy does. Yeah, totally. I think he's on track to make some really, you know, to be one of the goats. Yeah, he's on really. But I want to see what Alcy can do. Yeah, I mean, I think it's pretty cool that we're growing up in the era where we're probably going to be, you know, he's going to be influential enough that... We're going to be talking about him like our, you know, parents talked about, fucking Tarantino, like... Totally. The directors they grew up with. Because I think the thing that stands out the most about him is that... Not everything he makes might be like a 10 out of 10 banger, but you can never discount that. He has such a unique voice. Yeah. Yeah. Where you see his stories and you're like, Oh, yeah, this is something you'd make. And only you would make. I think he's able to create, like, works where... Yeah, as you said, like, there might not be 10 out of 10s, but you always walk away from it thinking about it. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, even like, for example, like, look back his other short film was like, you know, it was fucking weird. But like, the themes that he explored in it were, again, themes that have been explored before by other artists, even within the anime space. But because the way that he told that story was so uniquely him in a way that was done in the, in my opinion, quite a unique way, I came out from that film really thinking about it. Yeah. Really like trying to dissect it and then, you know, trying to glean a message that I could take back as a person as well. So I think that is one of the aspects for him that just makes people love him. Is that just like, there's no one quite like him and he's doing things in a unique way. That's, as you said, like, it's refreshing nowadays to see, you know? Yeah. Because the anime is, you know, is very similar. There are a lot of shows that feel very similar to one of them. It does feel like there is a formula. We do see reoccurring themes and reoccurring tropes that come on. And I think a lot of people, at least especially in the Western anime sphere and Anglosphere, they just kind of want something a bit different. Yeah. I think Fujimoto appeals massively to your Western and like Anglosphere. Well, I think the global sphere, because his work is also, you know, pretty popular. Yeah. You know, no matter where you go. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, I think people don't realize how hard it is to create something unique because totally it's like, where'd you get the inspiration from to get, you know, something? Yeah, that's the thing I want to know the most. And that's like, he's like one of the few mangrod. I really just would all die to talk to because it's just like, I just want to know like, what's in this guy's head? Yeah. You know, in daily life, like what kind of thought process do you have to live through every day in order to make stuff like this? Yeah. I mean, obviously, you've started at 17 writing these stories quite refined, that he clearly had a passion for this for a very long time. Yeah. Yeah. To be able to get to the point where he was telling those stories at age 17. Yeah. I think, yeah, like I said, like I think all of it's very inspirational. It's like a guy who is clearly just been an artist and like loves are, wants to tell stories. It's fun. Yeah. It gives hope to know where to go. Yeah, it's super cool. But I think that's also what Japan does really well is that they have a good pipeline to allow people who are creative to kind of tell these weird stories. Generally, just flying. I think it's changing a lot now with the digital manga and Shonen jumps kind of changing a lot. I think the space is changing and awful lot. But I still think that people enjoy that, that it does feel obtainable. I think that's why we often root for these authors like Fujimoto. I think it's really like seeing how they get into it and how they come up into it. Totally. Yeah. The good journey. And I think that's easy to root for him. Yeah, I think that's why manga is just like dominating globally right now. Yeah. Like, you know, even in America and the West, you know, it's like it is the popularity spike of obviously anime, but also manga as well. Has been so weird to see, but it's been like refreshing because I feel like there is a reason why I got popular. And it's just because it allows such a wide variety of different ideas, different characters, different IPs that all have their own unique voice and say their thing without having to rehash the same IPs over and over again. I mean, I guess like, in a sense, kind of what YouTube is done for, you know, in the animation and what like web students did to, you know, Korean manual authors like, you know, if you give that space for it where people can kind of vote or vote with that money or vote with whatever it is their eyes, I think you'll start to see cool stories popping up. Totally. I think that's so, I think Japan's like the Shonen Jump way of kind of, you know, is for a very long time. It's a great way to get up and coming. Yeah. Manko's in it. So I hope that you'd also get a little slop as well. You do get a lot of slop too. I mean, because it is ultimately a curated thing. Yeah, but it's still a, it's just still given us some of the best fucking stories. I mean, I like a lot of Isakae comes from like, that he got a cow. A lot of Isakae comes from one website. It's what's it called again? Shoshetsu Nino? Shoshetsu Nino at all. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the one. You make a space for these stories. You make a space for these stories to be told. Yeah. And people will make fucking stories. Yeah. Fanfiction on what pad? Yeah. You appreciate it, bro. We get that shit. You don't have to be like, if you make spaces, then I think in a weird way that's kind of been what, you know, there are no shortage of aspiring like Western Mankos who want to make Mankos. But I don't think there's ever really been a great space for it. The only really with the emergence of online, that's kind of, well, even though it was like, you know, the difference in cultures where we have like Shoshetsu Nino, like we, the closest thing for us is like Fanfiction on that. We don't have a pad. Yeah, we know. Because we think like, well, we don't want to want to read that. We got these big things. Yeah, yeah, yeah, where it's the culture is around. Okay, let's, let's make our own stories about characters and like, peas that we already know about, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Um, you know, you know, especially I'm not so knowledgeable about, you know, comics, you know, but it's like we have these characters that have stayed with us since like, some of like the very beginning of like, you know, when comics started, you know, Superman Batman, you know, they are iconic characters that will continue to be iconic and continue to be portrayed in all sorts of media, whether that be film, TV, whatever. Um, but what I love about, you know, anime and manga is that we, actually, that's, that's not true. I was going to say we give time for things to die and I'm like, now Dragon Ball Z, I just Dragon Ball is always going to continue, you know, but there is a space, but there is a space where every season of anime, you have so many new IPs coming out. It is not necessarily the big budget sequels that get the most attention all the time. Um, and that's, that's why that's why I love this medium and we can find creators and artists like Tatsuki Fujimoto and the fucking giga-chare team that he has somehow made from his like, uh, assistance and, literally all of his assistance are also like amazing. Like what the fuck was happening in the studio, man? I mean, clearly he had a method in an atmosphere or a, or a, or a manga culture that he cultivated that just led or allowed people to feel like they can be creative. Yeah. And obviously that comes across in his work. It's come across in the work of people who work for him. Like something the way that he approaches out is clearly working. Yeah. Uh, totally. And I hope that we can learn from that. Yeah. The most important thing, right? So we want to take these lessons and expand upon them. Mm-hmm. God, I just, I can't wait for the next Chainsaw man. I, I, because I've heard that, you know, because you guys haven't seen the movie yet, but, you know, I've heard that this is like the start of when Chainsaw man gets really, really fucking good. I mean, I've read the manga so I know what's going to happen. Oh, yeah. Is it going to be another movie or? I have no idea. It's not been announced yet. So I reckon it will be a season two because it's still quite a bit to go. Right. Because I went to part one. Yes. I thought, for some reason I thought the movie was the end. I don't know why I thought. No, no, no. It's literally just, I think it's like, why short arc? It's like one and a half volumes of the manga. What's on there? Yeah. The Reza arc is not that long in the manga, if I remember correctly. But yeah, the second half of part one is, uh, it's, it's going to go bonkers. If it's like to the same quality as like the Reza movie or even, you know, season one of the anime, yeah, I'm excited for it. I also, I also really want to just like, I mean, we already got this anthology. We already got a look back to it. Like, when is fucking goodbye area? Becoming a movie. It's happening. Dude, it's, it's happening. It's, yeah, and I'm so excited for that. Because that is probably one of my favorite shortcies made. Yeah. Yeah. That's so good. It's so good. I mean, it's one of my favorite one shots period. Yeah. That I agree. I agree. I agree. Yeah, I've been trying to read like this. I've been trying to read a lot more one shots. Because I just think, it's watching this kind of like ignited just, you know, my, my love for like anthologies and just like, cool little cool little ideas. Totally. I still haven't watched a love, different robot season two or season three. Yes. I mean, the first season was the best. Is it was it actually? Yeah, first season was the best in my opinion. I think it's just like, there are some shorts in season two and season three that would, oh, dude. But I think just as a full anthology, the season is terrible. Oh, really? That's so bad. I think I've only seen half of season three. So is this season three? Yeah. That's so bad. How really? I did not like it. Yeah. Season one though is worth watching. I've started watching the Amazon anthology. Secret, secret level, secret level. That one, that some of those are really interesting as well. Yeah. Some of those are really good. Yeah. Have you seen it? You have seen all of them. It's a shame that some of the games are like, you know, like they're like paid for to be. I have not heard of this. But there's some really good ones in there. Yeah. Like the Pac-Man one is fun. The Pac-Man one is fucking so. That was really. I can't remember you guys talking about this. Yeah. Yeah. It was so fucking sick. This is good dude with the blade and like this fight. Mark and they all are you must consume. Oh, you must fucking kill. Basically, you should, you don't know for what's everyone, Joey. Yeah. What's the Warhammer Wombra? The Warhammer one is great. Yeah. Well, are you like the Pac-Man one as well, Joey? Yeah. Look at that Pac-Man. Yeah. That damn. Yeah. We took that. That's for all but it's so good. Yeah. Let's, I mean, out without spoiling it, it's basically what if you reimagine the Pac-Man world as a Lovecraftian horror? Yeah. Sailor. I'm sorry. Man, the Warhammer one was so good. Yeah. It made me just want more Warhammer movie or TV show that is like as good as that because it was so fucking good. Well, have you played the game? No, I don't want to, I'm just getting, I'm not touching that. Yeah, I'm not touching that. No, I'm not getting into that. Why not? Why not? It's too much war. When I am like 40 years old, I live on a beach and I have retired and I have all the time in the world, I'll get into the Warhammer. Yeah. I'm not touching it right now because I know it will consume my life. I got shit to do, bro. I saw what happened to Henry Cavill. He got too consumed by that shit. That took over his life. Yeah. He gave up Superman for that. Maybe it's worth it. Maybe it's worth it. He said fuck being Superman. I want to play with Warhammer. I'm a Warhammer. And you know what? It looks like he's having the fucking time of his life. Yeah. That's just scary parts because I know I'm going to have fun. Yeah. I will get into it eventually, not right now. Have you guys watched the Animatrix? I have watched Animatrix, yeah. No. That was a great anthology. That was a great anthology. I kept the watch it. Yeah, Animatrix. Another one where you don't even need to be a fan of the matrix to enjoy the Animatrix. Yeah. It is. Peak 2000's anime. It looks like it's drawn a digital. Most of it is hand drawn. Oh, fuck yeah. I think it's probably a mix. There is definitely some digital results in there. Yeah. But it's just a three-in-three when they started trying to really find the appropriate. Yeah. But yeah, something, one of my favorites in this is the second Renaissance, where it's like the lore dump of how the matrix came to be. Holy shit. Some of the scenes in there are like fucking incredible, man. After all, shit. And then also there are just some really cool fight scenes in there as well. The director of Redline is on this one as well. Oh, fuck. And... And... And now eating good. And you see his style fully realized and won the shores before he would go on to make Redline. That's right. What's in the machine chore was... Yeah. What's in the writers as well. Yes, he did make a suret in this as well. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah. Well, a lot of good media to watch. We've been good. Yeah, let us know if you watched 1726 down below or kite. Let us know. And if you haven't, then you can watch our full reactions to it over on the Patreon. That will be this week's Patreon exclusive content. 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