The Culling Games Have OFFICIALLY Started! - Otakus Anonymous Episode #149

Oh, Danny, I have so many things that could possibly be a cold open this week. Yeah. Oh, we're done a lot. Where do I even start, dude? All right, all right, I'm going to give you two options here. There's a song that's been stuck in my head and everyone's remixing it. It has to do with the Odyssey. And then there's also the Zootopia abortion comic. You get to choose. You're so late. You're so late on that. You get to be. I read it, but you get to choose which one of those two that I dive us into with this podcast opening. Think is it Zootopia to abortion or is it just? I mean, it's just based on Judy Hopps, so I don't listen. They were in both movies. Got you. Yeah. Let's go with that. You want to start you want to open with the Zootopia abortion comic? I think I do. All right. So I've been hearing about this comic forever. Yeah, everyone's like, I cannot. Like everyone's referencing it. They're making jokes about it. And I was like, you know what? I'm sick of not knowing about what's happening with the Zootopia. And I went in expecting like some like stupid, furry bait inflation kind of like really like poorly written bad story that just kind of like a meme yuck that's like really gross and like doesn't hate any like true points or anything like that. I can understand why people are on A03 now. Riveting read. Absolutely. This is the number one advertisement I've ever experienced for Wattpad. The website, dude, not only first up, for those of you who don't know, I'll give you a light rundown on on what the on what the Zootopia abortion comic is and also Happy Wednesday. It is it is a fan. It's Tuesday. Oh, well, it will be Wednesday when they're listening. It is a fan made comic fan made comic about Judy Hopps and Nick. I do not know his second name. Nick. Wild. Nick Wild. I almost had Fox. That's pretty good. That's a real name. Yeah, I know. Nick and Nick Wilde living together in like what appears to be a one bedroom apartment in the city and Nick wakes up and he's like, oh, I'm Nick. And I'm angsty and I'm dating the hottest rabbit to ever exist. And you see Judy in the very beginning. She's got a pregnancy test. Then she's like, oh, no, it opens with pregnancy. It opens with her like looking at a pregnancy test. And she's like, oh, shucks or whatever Judy Hopps says. Yes, for sure. And then Judy Hopps has to tell Nick that like, it's like, oh, hey, I I'm pregnant kind of thing. And you expect because it's like, what's it going to be? Dude, that's a boy. Is that one of the talking points of the Zootopia abortion comic? And so you expect because everyone's like, oh, my God, this comic is so fucked up. You expect Nick to be like, you got to flush that thing out immediately. Nope. So excited. Well, we're going to have a baby. And so you're like, wait, hold up. Then where's the abortion coming from here? Next, like, I'm so excited. I love you so much. I can't look. I'm so excited to be a father. And Judy's like, nope. And Judy's like, no. And then like goes on this like very deep and interesting diatribe about like how the fact that's like, hey, listen, I might be too small to have your baby. There's also my career. World-build build. They were like, hey, it doesn't happen. Like these interspecies pregnancies don't happen that often. And when they do, like, you never really know how the baby is going to turn out. And then she's like, also, I have my career. And she's like, you don't realize like the weight of the entirety of Zootopia is on me. Like I made small animals feel empowered. And like, if I get pregnant, I have to step away from my job as a police officer. And like this big, like complex, conversational point about like, hey, like, yes, I would love to have a child with you at some point, but we don't know if I can. We don't know what to do to my career. I have to take my like what I mean to the world into account here. And then Nick's like, well, what if your what if your mother didn't have you? Like you would never exist to like incentivize all these like small animals to rise up. Nick's big pro life. It was crazy because Nick is pro life. He's very much pro life. But he's also coming with the perspective of like, he just wants to have a kid. And it is a nuanced conversation around like what it means to be pregnant in a like female empowered world where like they can be symbols and statuses at work. And it was crazy. And then it ends with Nick and Judy Hopps like essentially getting a divorce and he's like, he leaves his keys behind and like he's like, I'll live without you. And the comic is called All Live. Dude, it's fucking nuts. It tears them apart. I couldn't recommend I couldn't recommend to read higher than the Zootopia Apportion comments. That's horrible news. Dude, it was it's well drawn. It's it's nuanced. It's it's so well written. And I'm like, these motherfuckers need to be these like some of the people out there making fanfic need to be professional writers. Right. It was crazy. Do you think in like every writer's room meeting of Zootopia to someone was like, look, I know he said no to adapting the abortion comic, but but but it's out there. It's popular. The Zootopia three. I mean, like that's the thing is like, unfortunately, Zootopia is huge in China. Like like everywhere, like anywhere you go, it's two things. It's Ultraman and Zootopia and that is it. So I don't know. I don't know if they're going to be doing the abortion timeline anytime soon because they need to keep that Chinese market real happy. But man, if they did, I'd be front row. It's like they do the abortion plot line for every other country. And then in China, when it like is about to get to the abortion scene, it just fades out. And there's like a black screen with text that says she had the baby. Had the baby worked out. Yeah, she's still got to work the whole nine months and then Nick raised the child by himself or something like that. I'd love if the baby comes out and it's this eldritch nightmare. They can show that they show. They like she's like she's like thinking about like what the baby's going to look like. And there's like this really darkly drawn, like half rabbit, half like Fox thing. It's nuts. Yeah, I'm honestly considering looking up the author and reading more of their works. That's crazy. What a glowing review. I was in everyone's. Everyone's talking about it. Like it's like the most fucked up thing they've ever read. I thought it was kind of a beautiful story. I thought it was a very beautiful story that illustrated both sides of the argument. And like she's talking about how it's her body and her like an amenity. And like that's obviously the decision that gets made eventually. And that's the right decision. But man, is it a nuanced conversation about what it means to be like in love with somebody and also like have a career? Yeah, holy shit. Wow. Yeah. I kids need a Zootopia abortion. They need to understand the nuances of the conversation. They yearn for it. They yearn for it. I think I feel like when people talk about it, it's not like, oh, it's so shocking and fucked up and this and that. I feel like it's a similar vibe to where you're coming from, where they're like, why is this going to make me cry? Yeah, like it's they're shocked at its passion and quality. I haven't read it, but I do have like distinct memories of being in like in the gym, in a planet fitness in like 2017. Just being like on a Reddit and I'm like, what is this? That's it's been around since 2017. I think I've been throwing like conversations about it out at me right now. So I've just I just decided to finally look it up and wow. I mean, see, Zootopia. And listen, I'm going to come out and say when they come out, make the wrong over the course of the course of the comic. He absolutely is. It's Judy Hopps's choice. But man, is it devastating to see how that choice and like their differences split them up. But fortunately, they get back together by Zootopia, too. I will survive. Yes, I will. I will. 17 June 1st. I was on the money. Wow. Well, that's a self report. That is impressive. It's a manga. It's black and white. I know. Art is shocking. Art is shockingly good. Better than Beast. Art is very it is directly in the art style of Zootopia. This had to come out in 2017. Otherwise, I'd legitimately think this was AI. Like it just looks just like Zootopia, but in black and white. Yes. Oh, yeah, I see the half the half rabbit, half fox thing. Yeah, the nightmare creature. Yeah. This is this is JJK levels of walls of text. Dude, this is such a conversation. Dude, she smacks him and then like he's like, all right, I'm out of here, puts his keys in the bowl and just like, stop. I love you, dude, it is fucking heavy. It's a heavy comic. Dude, she smacks the shit out of him because he goes, which way do you read this, like a manga or like a comic? I read it like a comic. I think it's left to right. You know who I am. You know what I am. You know what? What's at stake for me since we first met. And you've know full well that I did everything for my career. Yes, I do know. Danny, I actually had an idea for today. Yeah, you want to read it? I kind of wanted me to be Judy Hopps and you to be Nick. Pull it out then. Oh, what? It is too long, though. We can't do this whole thing. It's really fucking long. It's I figured when we could bust out our acting chops, you're fine. We won't do it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Last week, we saw a like 50 percent increase in Patreon subscriptions. This week at the end of the podcast, me and Danny will read the will we will read the I Will Survive Zootopia abortion comic and I Will Be Judy Hopps and he Will Be Nick Wilde. But that is for Patreon members only. You got to slap the shit out of me. Yeah, I'm going to reach those arms over there. Very excited for that. And then also, I guess we'll talk about we'll talk about that as my. We'll probably talk about anime, too, right? Well, we'll probably talk about anime at some point before we go any further with today's episode. I want to talk to you about the sponsor of today's episode. Hello, Fresh. Listen, cooking is my love language and nothing quite hits like home cooking. And Hello, Fresh makes it easy and fun to do with meals that taste good and feel good night after night. 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The dude who makes what's the spin off of letter? Sure, sure. Is he made heated rivalry? Did he really? Yeah, he did. He Jared Cushner, his name, Jared, something very talented director. We're directed all of Letter Kenny. It's so weird because I do love those shows. Yes, I love sure as he's fucking for what? I treat you so good. I treat you so good. Anyway, um, have you the song, the Pride of Troy? Have you heard this going around now? Oh, I haven't listened to any like Ilium sneak peeks because it'll come out when it comes out. Oh, so I can't. You can. I can't show you this right now. I just I don't seek them out, dude, because he dropped. He dropped this Pride of Troy like Ilium thing and everyone is covering it. Jorge has a cut song from Epic that's like Athena, she's a girl and I need her about Penelope. Oh, OK, gotcha. He's like asking Athena to like hook him up on a day. I was going to say who's who's making love songs for Athena? It's definitely not Zeus. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah. Her dad hurt. Oh, dude, her dad. Big fan. Yeah. Big fan of her work. But and that song, I wish was in like the OG so hard. Yeah. But yeah. That's I listen. I haven't finished the the Odyssey at. Epic the musical. That's I've finished the musical. But man, this got me hyped up for Ilium. I was I move. Oh, I'm so excited. Yeah, I'm excited just because it's like I think the Ilium is more interesting than the Odyssey inherently. I wouldn't know. It's just I haven't read either. It's just the siege of Troy. Yeah, it's just like it's mostly the Battle of Troy, which is like Achilles and all that, which is fucking sick. But man, that's been stuck in my head. Oh, God damn weak. All right. So into the anime that we need to talk about here. Not our best week. No. For sure. Some fun things happened. Yeah. You won't believe it. J.J.K. was good again. They hit the seventh tower of J.J.K. being good. Freer and did another. We got to stop building these things. They're like fly swatters at this point, dude. Fire Forces episode. That was a big pie episode. Freer and I'm so excited to talk about. Dude, I if you have any questions for me about how pie works. No, I got no fucking answers for you whatsoever. I have no I have the less of an idea about pie than I do about, like, I don't know, shit that's happening in which had a telier. Right. Better chance of guessing what's happening in which had a telier than I do it, explaining what the fuck pie has to do with a great cataclysm. Should we talk about vigilantes first because I didn't watch it? Yeah. Yeah. Every week, I'm like, I'm going to get into fate. And instead, I do what I do. Dude, I caught up with fate. It's so fucking good. That's what people are saying. So good. Oh, fate, strange fate is so much fun. I if you watch fate, though, you have to go it in with the early fervor that you watch J.J.K. with, which is. They're saying words. I'm sure someone gets them. Yeah, for sure. Because they're like, they're talking about the third Holy Grail War. They're like Fuyuki. They're talking about like families that existed hundreds of years ago that fought in these Grail Wars and how like they have like they've created servants now and there's a marriage. Like just just watch fate and be like, man, I hope Gilgamesh and and Kudu gets kiss at some point. Right. And that's and you'll have the most fun with fate you've ever had. Is it are you watching dub or sub dub? Is it good? It's fine. OK. It's it's good enough. It's good enough that like I'm like, if there is a discernible difference between sub and dub, kind of like how there's like, oh, like send it to the hero is also right on that cusp where I'm like, the dub is good enough that I'm going to watch it because it's more convenient. It is good enough, aggravatingly enough, the worst voice actor in all of Fate Strange, fake is Gilgamesh's and he's like one of my favorite characters. So that's kind of tough. But man, if you watch, oh, you're going to have so much fun. So much fun because the best part about Fate Strange, fake is it's all heroes of the past. So it's Gilgamesh and Kudu like like a bunch of other like historical characters, right? From like epics or like gods or demigods, those kinds of things. And like watching those characters, it's like the reason people watch Record of Ragnarok, but imagine if Record of Ragnarok looked good and was animated. Do it. It wasn't just a fucking slide show. That's the things like people like I love Record of Ragnarok. They're like, watch every Fate property immediately. Right. I've only seen all I know about Fate is from one Mr. Boom Bastic edit and I'm not joking. And this also is what under how many like I'm going to set the line at 75. Have you seen more or less than 75 Mr. Boom Bastic edits for sure more. That is I'm not even exaggerating a joke. I've seen maybe two and I think it's because you've sent them to. They're all great. They're all good. It just when the drop comes, it hits so hard and it adds a thousand points of aura to whoever you're editing. Fair. Um, I the only thing I know about Fate anything is from a Mr. Boom Bastic edit where some kid in like a tiger onesie is just girl. Just ripping up a little like crowd. Yeah. And he's he's got like or she's got like a chain scythe or whatever. And it's like throwing it around. And it's like she throws it like just barely dodges it. It's like the common. Boom Bastic. Yeah. And then I think it like comes around like bonks are on the head. Yeah. So whatever. Seen that. That's a assassin versus I forget which one the tiger girl is. It's it rips. Fate Babylon is awesome. Fate Babylon is like the main character is Gilgamesh. And he's like always kind of the main character. And he's like he's he was kind of an antagonist. Then everyone was like and then they were like, all right, we're going to make him like kind of gay. And then everybody else was like. And so now he's like everyone's favorite character. I can't believe Fate doesn't have like a video game series. Oh. Yeah. What? Oh my God. Remember, remember a couple of weeks ago when I described to you what rotoscoping is? Yeah. You just fell into the same trap. Is it based on a video game series? All based on a video game. All based on a video game series. The original show is based off a borderline hentai dating game from the early 2000s. There is a thousand fucking video games. Rats. It's like saying that about Dengeng Rampan. You're like, man, love the show. Yeah. Wish we got more video games out of the Dengeng Rampan universe. Damn. There are so many fucking video games. I don't even know how to describe it to you. Dude, I can't believe I can't find this. What are all of these edits? What are all these? You just look up Mr. Boom Bastic Edits. Yeah, I looked up Fate, Mr. Boom Bastic Edit. Apparently it's a hot commodity here. I guess so. God, I'm so excited to make it so much fun. They just had a real good fight involving involving a certain British king whose name I'm not going to say because it's kind of fun. The best part about fate is like they'll say the name and they're like, I have no idea who that is. And then you Google it and you're like, oh, hell yeah. Oh, crazy. That's so much fun. You'll know a couple of them, especially with being as into Greek mythology as you are. But yeah, man, I if you want to get into fate, it is. It is a you. It is a universe that is eight miles wide and 10 miles deep. Dude, I can't. I'll never find this edit again. Are you kidding me? That's unfortunate. Somebody make a fate Babylonia. Mr. Boom Bastic Edit and send it to me. Is it this of assassin versus tiger girl from Babylonia? Whose name, both of their names, I do not remember, but the one with the one with the chainsife, awesome. This sucks. This app is fucking. Yeah, listen, the tabs in the toilet. Talk search like like like mechanic awful. Yeah, terrible. So bad. But anyways, yeah, we'll talk about vigilantes. This lieutenant smoker and a member of the Guinea force had a baby. And that's like the antagonist for this episode. It is straight up a Guinea force member like cast off. And he can he has he has a boo. He's got like a boo like fucking head. Oh, yeah, yeah, and his entire quirk is like he shoots out like kind of poisonous gas. OK, and he's just gassing out businesses and stealing from them. It's another one of the look back episodes. God, you saying lieutenant smoker gave me such a craving for one piece. I fucking love it. Lieutenant is pulling up in the new season of One Piece. My favorite character. I can't wait to see how they make a dude smoking two cigars and not look dumb as hell. I think I've seen some of like some of the like videos that they put out already. Looks sick. Yeah, looks like the whole shotgun thing of like 14 cigars. This season is going to ruin high school graduation. Oh, yeah. You ever been to a high school graduation? Hopefully not recently, but where it's just unless you have a high school student that is graduating child where it's just a bunch of fucking like 90 pound lanky motherfuckers just working a cigar. Smoking a cigar the wrong way, mind you, like this green in the gills. That was me. My graduation. I was like, cigars are sick. And then five minutes later, I was like, I need to throw this out. I need to not have this anymore. It's a bunch of 18 year olds inhaling cigar smoke and not cutting the front off. Yeah, they're just like trying to like torching the front of it. Yeah, just hoping for the best. Yeah, I was awful. But yeah, so a member of the Guinea force fights Goku because Cloud Boy is basically just Goku. Prince, Prince shows up as a character. He's straight out of JJB. You showed me that straight out of J. Like from design, like has like a huge heart kind of thing, like heart cut out for his chest hair to pop through, just hitting stances just straight up JJB. And then everyone's naked in the back story. They just miss midnight's outfit is just it's just enough to cover her clitoris and her areola and that is it. She's just like, hey, the second that she turned 18, like like bad Barbie, they just immediately gave her an only fans or bad baby or whatever her name was. I also said, why is machine gun hands not a major hero in MHA? There's a guy whose name is like I like Shin Sen Gumi or something like that. And he literally has Bakugo's quirk and he's just he's just firing projectile explosives out of his hands, rapid fire. Never see him again. Crazy. I don't know. I don't know if he gets put down like a dog in the street by Scarred Man or something, but like we never see him in MHA. This guy should be on the front line. Absolutely be on the front lines of everything. I feel that way about so many characters. We got into like hot water when we were like the rankings of JJK or WAC. You're like, well, it's a popularity. Popularity and also how many missions they've completed. And also like fucking if you're strong, you go up. Cool. Whatever. One of them is a washing machine. What are the save hero wash who's got bubble bubble, no fruit. Yeah. Fucking I thought you had more to say, but I will bounce. Speaking of bouncing, Fat Gum doesn't belong in the top 10 or whatever. I don't think he is. I think he is. I don't think I don't think I miss top 10. I think he's like 17. Now he probably honestly, if you ask me, Fat Gum does deserve to be in the top 10. Really? Perfect shield, perfect spear. He literally he has kinetic energy control that he can fucking use to burn fat and blow people away. You know, I wish we saw more of in my hero. You know, I wish we saw more of in my hero. Snipe. Yeah, absolutely. I have a sense of kneecap. Snipe, absolutely. The second he did that, the next adult standing next to him should have been like, hey, I really don't have the authority to do this, but your principle now. Yeah, that's the main bad guy. You just trade him like the Irish mafia when they found out he stole money. Either that either they're like, I'll do everything in my power to make sure you are the principal of this school. Or he should have been like, hey, do that to his eyes next time. Don't aim. Don't aim to me. Aim to Kael Thor. They should have had a conversation about that. Like just one two minute scene where Snipe has like his fucking gun face in his hands and he's like, we're trying to kill him now. I could have killed him six years ago. You know, you guys told me I was I was like ready to kill. If you guys give me the license to kill, we wouldn't be dealing with this problem right now. Yeah, he's like sitting in the rubble of a city. He's like, yeah, I don't know. Maybe if everybody in the higher ups is stopping in pussy, let me blow kids away. No, I wish we saw more of fucking wood style, wood dragon juice. Kamui Woods, 100 percent, dude, also climbs up to like top four. Yeah, he's real high up. He was like he was like the upcoming rookie. And he like literally also grabbed she grew up. Everyone is getting their fucking mitts on Chigaraki in the early days. Everyone was just yanking him. God. Yeah. Anyways, also, why is he bigger than Prime? All might fucking machine gun hands. Just the strongest guy we've maybe ever seen. My God, like just like bigger than stars and stripes, bigger than all might. Just huge. I was like, this guy is prime hero material. Also, I think at some point. Oh, oh, Prince goes. They're talking about like there's meat on that bone still and Prince, the the hero goes, I love a good bone and then everyone just blows right past it. They're just like they make they make Prince canonically, by the way, not gay. Canonically womanizer, Prince. Everyone makes this up with Queen, who Freddie Mercury was gay. But because he like dressed fanboyantly and loved the color purple, everyone was like, yeah, Prince gay. God, you're right. But like they're like, yeah, I love a good bone. And I was like, this is a show meant for children. Right. It was crazy. Weird. Yeah. I mean, vigilante is less so than my heroes for children, I feel like. Yeah. Um, what's I gonna say? It's crazy that what's his name? Knuckle duster. Oh, yeah. Hasn't shown up again. He has. He showed up like two episodes ago. Oh, he was. You're having a stroke. This whole episode. I have a I have a loss engine. Oh, I see. You should have been saying like concerning shit. I do. I do smell. It means anything to you. I believe you. It's not quite burnt yet, but it's getting there. Got you. Yeah. You just smell like buttered toast. No, it's like brown. It's like brown. Yeah. Once it gets to black, we'll have a concern here. Right. Um, yeah. And he showed up. No, he didn't. He did. Like two episodes ago, he showed up. He was like hanging out with his like bee faced daughter and his beef. Remember like they were all playing guitar. Oh, my. He shows up for like 30 seconds and he's like, Papa's got to punch people. I'm not used to him without a mask on. And then they revealed that he was the old speedster. Yeah. And he was probably the guy who trained scar face man. Right. I remember. Yeah. It's all it's all in there. It's all past all the vigilante lore. Everything gets jenisoned weekly. Uh, incredibly fair. Uh, I would say second worst episode behind vigilantes is probably. I don't know, fire force. Yeah, I'm so excited about this, though. This is like this is nonsense incarnate. This is what you have told me. This is what you have warned me. JJK will become this is one of the problem with this. Like what we're doing right now in fire force is it's JJK level complicated without JJK level wall of text. Yeah, it's so funny. My first note is just dot dot dot. Pie. Yeah. They've been talking. He's like, they've been talking about pie for years. Yeah. Pie starts coming up in season two when they go to the mini amatrasu on the Chinese peninsula. And they're like, there's all the numbers of pie in this in this like amatrasu like to draw the connection between amatrasu and pie. And then we don't hear about it again forever. And then it's like, oh, hey, by the way, the key to amatrasu that Vulcan's family has been holding on to their entire life is the completed version of pie. Now, as to what the fuck that has to do with a great cataclysm. Boy, oh boy, do they never touch with a 10 foot pole. It also just doesn't make sense, which Vulcan says, but then a buggo is like, it doesn't make sense now. The thing, reality is fucked. He goes, look at the moon. It makes sense. Which is, could you believe how much you could get away with? If like the fucking it wasn't me, shaggy, it wasn't me. You'd be like, I wasn't me. Look at the moon. Yeah, I was like, I anything could happen when the moon is actively laughing at you. It's so funny, though, because it's like just because the moon looks silly. That still doesn't make any sense as to why pie is completed. What do you mean we ran out of numbers? Like it goes on forever. Oh, there's got to be an end at some point, apparently, according to Vulcans. I don't know, Jones family, I think is what they're called or something. I guess. So I guess the idea is that since pie is completed, it is we've we've completed humanity. Yeah, like it reckons the end of like continue of infinity. Yes. In general. Yes. Which is cool when you like just say it at someone. Yeah. But it's so funny. It's when you build a universe off of your life. That's how did we let how did we get here? It really screams like this mangaka just like highest shit in a room full of other mangaka. And he was like, wouldn't it be sick if someone like finished pie? And that's it. There was a guy like rattling off 100 number. He's like, we got to finish this. Fuck. We got to we got to we got to pull ourselves up our bootstraps. We're going to let a number boss us around. I'm fucking I'm writing my own story. I'm writing the end of pie. They're all high. And he's just like, you know what? Tonight, tonight's the night we finish this shit. Yeah. People are too lazy. He's just like, he's just like, it's like he's at the end of pie. He's like, eight. I don't know what if you're going to tell me I'm wrong. Yeah. They're like, why is that the end? He's like, because I'm done. I think we're 100 numbers in. I'm done. I tapped out. That's pretty good. I like that. I like. Um. At one point, Vulcan goes, the hell does the sun have to do with any of this? Like that's the every man. Yeah. Vulcan is saying what all of us are thinking. Yeah. He's literally just the tinkerer being like, I don't fucking I'm arguing with sentient bugs. The moon's smiling at me and you're talking about fucking the diameter of a circle. I don't. I just want to go home. I know. I want at one point, he just like gets down on his knees and he's like, what do you mean? Pie? What are you talking about? This is the most long drag cigarette and be like, fucking. I'm going to punch you in the mouth now. I takes like a loony tunes drag of a cigarette, like just one puff all the way. Um, I also wrote. Oh, the fact that they want to turn the earth into a sun is so classic. That's that's like, if that wasn't the motivation of the bad guys in a fire force, they're doing something. They're there. There's got to be the most fire we can possibly get our hands on here. I have to say, I have a I have a more, I guess, like abstract note about this episode. I think this is the most and I don't think fire force is probably getting as much love as it's deserving to right now. Cause I think from a creative directorial standpoint, this is the most creative season of fire force we've ever gotten. However, it has the staunch misfortune of running alongside not only free run, but also JJK and sentence via here and sentence be like, there's so much knockout season. There's such crazy animation and direction going on this season from an anime perspective that even though we're getting some really cool things, like all of the waves turning into the waves, Shagantina, um, during, um, during Benny Maru's fight and like, like, even this fight alone, like there's tons of movement and like Lisa's using her fire tentacles to hold off like a tendril attack from like Dr. Giovanni. There's so much like cool shit happening and it's just so overshadowed by everything else. Yeah, I agree, especially because this episode opened and like, it's the, the like remnants of Ogans fight. Yeah. And I was like, Oh my God, that's right. This show had an incredible fight last week and I just didn't remember because we're being drowned in all of these other ridiculously high quality anime. Yeah. Um, eventually they fake out. They figure out Dr. Giovanni's ability and how he's like fucking with magnetic waves or whatever. He's using the dancing styles of bees to control all of his bugs. Yeah, whatever. I wish, like, I wish at one point, uh, like Vulcan's explaining that and he's like, the fuck are you talking about magnetic waves? I just control bugs. Yeah. I'm the one guy without a fire based power. He's like. Yeah, he's like, look at me. Also, he's a bug. He, so he doesn't have a fire based ability. It's got that is, I didn't even think about that. You're a hundred. His ability used to be that he could control like he could control the fire. He was a second gen power kinetic and he could control like his hands. Yeah. Remember fire his hands out and he can control their trajectory. That was his ability. And then he just got more and more bug. Kind of like how a roachie Marge became more and more snake. And they never really explain why he's just more bug every time we see him. Yeah, he's just a bug. Like that's not, that's not goofy. No, that's not fire abilities. Also, I love that they're like, Hey, the bugs are controlled by magnetic waves and Vulcan tells you as a, Hey, pull out our magnetic wave controller. I know such bullshit. That was some gotcha. I'm gonna style bullshit. Great sound. Yeah. When that fucking, when that sat like electric wave goes out, I was like, Oh, there's the fire force. I know. I know. Real good sound. But yeah, I do love the idea that someone's like, you do this and this and that. And that's how heat makes, makes your water powers work. And he's like, No, I just have water powers. Yeah. My parents were bugs. I don't, I just, I just happened to be in the fucking fire universe. Yeah. I'm half, I'm half bug on my mom's side and half Italian on my dad. If I could know it was the Judy Hopson, Nick Wilde situation. There's like one dad, his dad was a human, his mom was a bug. That's so fine. But it can be like, well, no, but you, you like started off as a guy, right? He's like, Nope, parents are bugs. Oh, whole lineage bugs. Yeah. I don't know. Look at the sun. Look at the sun and moon. I can be bugs. I've always been bugs. Pie's done. We finished pie. I'm bug. I'm bug. See, he's just trying to bury, he's burying the lead. He's like, Yeah, I don't know. The sun smiles, the moon screams, pie's done. I'm a bug. Yeah. The waves are all art now. You're like, what was that fourth one? Yeah, I'm bugs, like always, most of the time. Yeah. But yeah, but Mocky, Mocky was rats. I'm bugs. And yeah, don't worry about it. Dude, I really, we got to make a t-shirt that says, why is Mocky Mo Rat? Why is Mocky Mo Rat? I'd wear that every day. It's great. And people are like, what the fuck? You're like, don't worry about it. Don't listen. I just, I'm trying to answer the hard questions here. I'll never forget. I was like cracking myself up when we saw the Chainsaw Man movie and I couldn't tell anyone because everyone in the theater was crying. But I'm like really like silently laughing my ass off with a line in my head. Just another day in New York City. We got this bomb girl. We got to get her. She turns into a wave of rats and like, that's just a big apple, baby. All I was hearing is we are rats. I was just Mocky Mo's internal dialogue here. Did you also pick up on the fact that used toy was Excalibur without a hat? Yeah, I wrote, is that fucking Excalibur? Yeah, it is, baby. I saw a tech talk recently. It was like, I want everybody to remember that canonically Excalibur pulls bitches. And there's like, it's like, there's like full on soul eater episodes where Excalibur just goes on dates with women. Well, here's the thing. Doesn't this canonize Excalibur? Because he's filler in soul eater. Yeah, I think he actually pops up in canon material in Fire Fort or in soul eater. I've heard that he is non canon soul eater, which is devastating because he's one of the best characters. He's so good Excalibur. Oh, God, he's good. He's so good. He's really funny. I. Yeah, that's it. That's it. I like him. I also this episode, I couldn't I found myself just being like, God, you could never make me hate you, Chiron. Dude, oh, Chiron. Yeah. Chiron's really good. I thought you were going to say Excalibur because every time I see or think of Excalibur, it makes me hate Scop a little bit more. Oh, dude, Scop wishes he was. Excalibur wishes he was. That want to be a little bitch. Dude, fucking give him a hat. Give him a hat and put him on dates with women, turn him into a great sword. Yeah, make him pull. Give him a song. That's a thing that Scop doesn't have a song. That's the issue with Scop. Well, we are Scops. Yeah, that's what we need. Having this little Raven stupid friend. Do you're a Losange blue? How'd you get a fucking blue? Dude, I thought it was I thought it was menthol. I thought it was meant. I thought it was like the classic menthol ones, the minty ones, blueberry. I'm about to pop this like a candy. My throat doesn't hurt. I know it's real tasty. Well, it takes a second, but you get that flavor going, but it's blueberry, which really throws you off. Yeah, not bad. It's not it's not bad. But yeah, that's Fire Force. Yeah, that's so funny. I love pies done. Look at the pies done. Look at the mood. Fucking whatever. I like the moves, not even a circle anymore. I'm going to type in some shirt ideas. What do you mean in terms of just like just writing them down? Shirts. Here's the thing. This is what this is such an arrogant thing for me to do because I'm like these are classic away bits. But pies done. These are just shirts I want. Pies done. Look at the moon. I have device done. Look at the moon. Pies done. I'm bugs. Look at the moon. Yeah. Is that what you want? Yeah. I'm bugs. Look at the moon. And then why is Maki my ass? You want to throw anything else on here? Man, man. Again, it doesn't have to be like merch people would buy. Just merch you specifically buy. I buy specifically where I would say something about the tits bell. Ding, ding, ding tits. Forward. Forward. No, what were we talking about? Huge tits. Ding, ding, ding. That's one of my favorite clips of all time. No, we have it. What the fuck did that come from? It's been here. It's always been tits. We haven't had a real belt. Did you bring that? It's always been here. That is not always. Check the tape. Is that always been here? Ring, ring, ring. Unfortunately, we need distortion for frog type deep. After Fire Force. So we've covered vigilante. We've covered Fire Force. After that, I would say, man, because Hell's Paradise episode was awesome. Sentence to be a heroes episode was also awesome. Do you want to do a sentence next? Is that what you're feeling? Man, Freerun's episode. You know what? No, I'm going to acquiesce here. I'm going to say Freerun. I'm going to say Freerun because I wasn't listening. This is a fun episode of Freerun. Not my favorite. I like parts of this episode. Yeah, 100%. And again, because I've been like on the train that like Freerun hasn't had the best episode of the week this season yet. And you're like, oh, there's no way any of these episodes I really liked the hero of the south episode. That episode's good. I like the date one the most. That was my favorite episode of Freerun when Fern and Stark go on a date. But yeah, like just because this isn't at the top of the list doesn't mean it's a bad episode. But this was like a real classic Freerun mess around. And last week. So this is the episode where they look for like the best liquor on earth. Well, before that, they also have to like Freerun gets enslaved for 300 years. No, that's not for that. No, it's before. Nope. They look for the liquor, then she gets enslaved. No. Yep. 100%. You want to bet? Yes. 100%. I'm looking at my notes right now. I said she was really about to do three months of work for a grimoire that taught her how to make a red apple green, which I actually think she already has. You're wrong. That's about the liquor. No. You want to bet? I'm not going to be betting. It's three months. It's three months to open the seal. She does. Yes, that's correct. I know, but 300 years is how long she's supposed to work in the mine. Yes. Bet lunch on it. And then 300 years, when do you think the mine thing happens? Before, after the seal. Wait, what do you mean before, after? She goes to the trading company. Yep. The trading company, she has to go find silver. And then after she finds silver and they're like, hey, you've paid your debts. And they talk about like the founding of the trading company. Then they go to another town and then that's when the dwarf finds her and is like, you're going to help me open this magical barrier. Okay. And then the episode ends after she gets the liquor. Yes. Okay, we'll bet lunch. Okay. Open crunchy roll right now. Fuck it says three months of work. I misread my nose. God. Yeah. Doofus. God, that's when that should talk to you about the banality of this episode where it's basically just two separate times popping into a mine to help people. She knew 40 hundred 400 years ago. Yeah. So last week with the fern and stark date, people were being like, people started to turn on freerun and we're like, Oh, it's getting too repetitive. It's getting boring. It's just the same like message every time where it's like, it's not the destination. It is never the message. It's never that is an underlying tone throughout the entirety of freerun, but it's a different message every single episode. And this episode also had different messages. I will say the bit with the liquor was the one that got me where I'm like, this could have used like a less freerun-esque twist or something like fair. I could see how you would think that I was like, like it was so predictable that when you find out the liquor is bad, that was a twist. That's a fun prank. Yeah. That's a good prank. That's a dude. Her talking, but I think the more interesting part about all of that is the undertow like the undertone of like talking about like, Oh, elves like occupied their infinite lives in a myriad of different ways. And some people were just fucking with the mortals. Yeah. With prank. Yeah. Like literally like decades, centuries long pranks. And that's fun. And so when that was revealed that the liquor is bad, there were a lot of really interesting opportunities to take it in. And I feel like they kind of copped out with like the easiest one, which was everyone's just cool with it. Oh, haha. What a good prank. I thought we were going to explore. Heiter actually dying with a regret because he was like, that was one option because she was like, they do a flashback and Heiter was like, I really want this is the one thing I want in life. Yeah. And Frern was like, we couldn't do it. Like, yeah, that was the one thing we couldn't do because we had to fight the demon Lord. And so also she did it because she was like, okay, what would you do if you committed your entire life to this? And it turned out bad. And she was trying to be like polite too fast. Well, right. But I like the idea that like he was like, I want to do I really want to do this and they couldn't. And then Frern didn't want to like to unlock this seal because she feels bad that he died with regret. Yeah. Like that's not something for her and has had to like experience yet, which I think would be a really interesting aspect to her near immortality is that like humans lives are so short and up until now, they get one chance to do the thing they've always wanted. Yeah, exactly. And so like it could add this like added layer of sadness where she's like, oh man, what else did he want to do before he died? And then she can reconcile with like, but you know what? He actually loved the life he led. He couldn't do everything he wanted to. But that's okay. Yeah. That would have been interesting. And then when they didn't go that route, I was like, I really hope this dwarf kills himself. It's just like he tries it and he's like, just smashes a bottle straight into the neck because they're doing such a like freerun like, oh, liquor is best enjoyed with friends. He doesn't know these people. First off, he just met them. What do you mean? The village he's lived in his entire life. No, but freerun and Co. Oh, that's drinking with fair and spent 20,000 Schmecher runes on. I just know them for three months. Well, yeah, for three months. But yeah, then freerun's like, it's awful, isn't it? But isn't it fun to drink it with company? And I wish he was like, I spent my whole life searching for this and then goes and kills himself. He basically just found an entire like basement filled with Jepsen's Malor. Yeah. Like the way that everyone talks about it, they're like, that's the way we talk about Malor. I love if he like takes the hippies like, it tastes just like a paps. Yeah. Yeah. He's like, is that Dr. McGilliguddies? What is this? But, you know, just something where it's like, it just felt too predictable. This episode where by the time it got to it's like philosophy and messaging, I was like, I feel like I arrived at this conclusion like two minutes into this mini arc. Yeah. And then the episode turned it around for me when freerun shows up and she's like, so anyway, I got to work in the mines for 300 years. My journey's over. Yeah. I was like, that's hilarious. I heard being carried off just being like anytime freerun is cute, I'm the happiest little guy. I also, but like to me, this episode was more about like, I like the talking point about the banality and boredom of infinite life. And I also thought that when they were doing the liquor thing, I thought they were going to be like, the dwarf was going to try it and he was going to be like, it tastes good because of how hard I worked for it. And I thought that was a significantly less interesting conclusion than the one they came to. So like, I had low expectations and they superseded them. You had high expectations and they underperformed for them. I like what you're saying about the elves and like how different elves treat their immortality. Or it's like near immortality, right? Or are they immortal? I like that we haven't seen one die and or age. Got you. But like the majority of them are gone. Well, I just, yeah, I didn't know if it was like Lord of the Rings elves where they live for like, you know, a million years, but then die. At that point, you're a more like, oh yeah, when the sun explodes, I'll die. It's like, cool. Fuck off. If you outlive me, you're, I consider you a more 100%. I have no perception of when you'll die. But what's it called? Yeah. Like what are you saying about elves? I think even staying with the message they wanted to stay with, which is like bad times are best enjoyed with friends, which, but again, that's the message they did when they climbed the tower for the hot spring. You know, it's like, oh, this sucks, but it sucked together. So that's the failure. The failure is fine. So long as you do it with your friends. Even though that's the exact same message, I think this could have been heightened if he's like really devastated that his life's work is like shitty. And then he's like going to go home and maybe kill himself and freer in or stark or whoever like bring all the liquor with them. And he's like, why are you bringing that crap? It sucks. And he's like, let's share it at a tavern. And then they share it at a tavern and he's all bitter and stuff. And he's like, yeah, people should share in this misery. And then they're laughing and they're like, oh, you got to try this. And then he's like seeing how much fun everyone's having around him in this village. Yeah. Because of his hard work. And they're like, you got this? Like that's crazy. Yeah. You spent 80 years doing this. You're a fucking idiot. Yeah. Or they're like, you're a legend. You know, it's like bringing like the hottest hot sauce to a frat party. And everyone's like, this sucks, but we all got to try it. Yeah. It's the 2x bulldog ramen. Yeah. So this was the only episode that I was like, or not the only episode, but the sentiment people were feeling last week. I understood more this week. Yes. I also love fucking the sound design being Star Wars level as freer and fills a cave with stars. Yeah. The feeling of music in that moment was gorgeous. Yeah, it was pretty. I was also like, for you and kill these guys. I was like, I get that you owe his great, great, great kill all of these guys. I know. Like they could have eradicated that entire camp, but like I did also, I thought it was really cool. The message that was like, Hey, like, yes, they're a trading company and therefore like they're technically driven by profits. But at the same time, if we help these people, we help all the people think cater. Yeah. I was like, okay, I was like, he was like, Oh, if you give us, if you help us get these funds, you'll have soft bread for the rest of your journey. And I was like, that's kind of fun. I like that. You ever tried hard tack? Yeah. Oh, I mean, hard tack. You can I've made hard tack accidentally. Yeah. I'm just trying to make like a focaccia. What do you mean you put olive oil in focaccia? I thought just bread and water would do. You hit focaccia so hard, like it was some kind of slur. Like you're just like trying to make a focaccia. Yeah. Heavy on the, on the sea. The first sea in Casha. But no, I made hard tack in like eighth grade. Like New England activity. Because we read a Charlotte Doyle, which is a book about, you know, Charlotte Doyle. Of course. Old Shelly Dee. All Shelly Dee known for her Doyles. No, for her Doylees. It was about like a 12 year old girl who wants to strongest teeth in the nation. She's like, hard this is off tack to me, bitch. Just tacking that hard. Dude, ends up on a pirate ship somehow and ends up like causing a mutiny. That's why there's no women allowed on pirate ships. I remember it. I wrote a story. I hated that book. I was so pro captain Jaggery, which I'm sure is the wrong opinion. Well, you were 12. I was 12. But the captain's just trying to run a ship and everyone's like doing mutinous shit. And then like her friend Zachariah does some mutinous shit. And then captain Jaggery shoots him. And then that's how you get rid of that. You got to root out the cause of the problem. You got to shut down a mutiny. You can't be like people. We literally built a plank for this purpose. Exactly. You shoot Zachariah and sure Shelly Dee is like, we got to rise up on this guy. This guy is a bad news. Then she mutinizes. And I'm like, dude, this guy's just trying to take you from like Rhode Island to Massachusetts. It's just a four month journey. Yeah. Like just fucking is just trying to not piss off beside it. Like suck on your heart attack in your cabins and let the ship out one lemon a month and shut up, please. But anyway, so for the class, we had to make it in just heart attack because that's what they ate on the good good. So you're just fucking ripping your baby teeth out of your stuff. Whatever was left to your baby teeth just popping out with bread. Just shaving them down. God, I love a good saltine too. All right. After that, I don't know, fucking. I'd say hell's was better than sentenced. So let's say sentenced to be a hero. I wonder if I have bias on sentence because I get to watch it in dub. But I will. I also just easier, breezier watch. Incredibly fair point. It's just that the dub is also looks like good until you get the Zylo. I don't mind Zylo anymore. He's grown on me. Oh, House Paradise would be easier to sit through the towel explanations. If I wasn't we are in scary towel. We are in the scariest of towel hours. I forgot it was this fucking. I think is when you're reading the manga, you just glaze. You just glaze over it. You know, I don't know. Look this up in the wiki later or some shit. I fucking but like they have to say all the words in the anime. And it's just it is just fucking. Hey, I'm stealing towel. I'm using his towel. I'm suppressing my towel. But you Zaria, she's got the counter towel. But watch out for his fucking his flower transformation. You can't kill me. You can't even touch me with your towel. Except if you do this, you can actually kill me in one punch. Yeah, you fucking if you use my towel against me, which for some reason it shouldn't work that well. I love that there's not only and people are getting sick of us bitching about the towel. And also, I guess we're talking about House Paradise right now. Yes, we are. But it's just hilarious. Every episode at the end, I think it's going to be the last episode. We in depth talk about towel. And then the next episode, they're like, not only are there hindrance and like complimentary towels, but they move clockwise and counterclockwise. Yes. So you have to match your breathing to the flow of their tan and towel, which you can see go around them like fish. I love. I love it, though, because it really gives it this sense that, like, again, I've compared it to chakra where I'm like, I feel like the creator of Naruto doesn't actually have a deep understanding or give a shit about chakra as it pertains to like human chakra. Yeah, like real world definitions of chakra. Kind of. But yeah, I mean, maybe I could be wrong. Yeah. But like, like that and like Dragon Balls key, like they both just feel like it's like this is your battery. And it allows you to summon snakes and shoot lasers. Yeah. I so believe that this author has a full understanding of towel and like believes that it is real and has that religion. There is so much Taoism like Taoism is a religion. But you're thinking of Taoism. Or is that the same? 100, not not the same thing. Taoism is a real religion. It's like, so is Taoism. Well, I'm aware. OK, well, I'm just saying like Taoism is like, so there's Taoism, which is like people think it's like an offshoot of Buddhism, but it's kind of distinct. And then a lot of Buddhism also happening. And there's so many Taoist elements all throughout this. And like, Tao is kind of the central like point of Taoism. And so like, it is heavy into like Tao explanations, Tao like like like real life Tao applications, those kinds of things. And I will say that while this episode is heavy on Tao explanation, I really do like that like Gabi Maru goes on step by step being like, I learned this from this encounter. And then I learned from this encounter that can do this. And if you combine these two things together, we get to me being able to flow for like, I learned how to suppress my Tao from us area. I learned how to apply my Tao lot like locally from Shion. I learned how to X, Y and Z. And it's like, all those things come together. And you're like, oh, that actually makes a fair amount of sense. Yeah, you know, this was an incredible episode. Now that you say all that because well, I'll get to, we'll get to the big fucking end of episode moment. Yes. But just briefly touching on Tao, like I agree that like, even though we complain about it a lot, I think it's like a beautiful application of the power system. 100%. Yes. I'm never like bored. I just find it funny. And there's never a moment where you're like, that's bullshit. Like, it's like, well, JJK, you'll get to a lot of moments where like, that's bullshit. And like, that happens more and more later in the manga you get with Tao because it's like 100%. The more they explain it, like they're like, they're going to beat you over the head with it. But it's going to be bulletproof. It feels like an adult world inhabited by adults. It's the same end. So it's supposed to, it's not a show. Well, no, exactly. It's just like, I don't know. There's such, there's this like authenticity to like the power system and the characters that I'm like, I feel like if you pit, obviously no one in the Hell's Paradise universe would beat anyone in the Naruto universe. But through like sheer gumption, I feel like the Hell's Paradise universe would kick their ass. Gabimaru is just actually unkillable. He's hit on. Like Gabimaru is just such a like hard ass, real ass feeling ninja. But as real a ninja as we've gotten since the early days of Naruto. Like, but yeah. So they fight, you know, one of them, Ron, Ron, Ron, Ron. Yeah, they fight Ron and it's pretty sick. Yes. His choreography is unreal. Choreography, sick. The flower form is awesome. Yeah. They're opening and closing with his face. So Ron is the one who studies how to increase his taut through physical movements. And I love how they incorporate the fighting style of the Lord Tenzin based off how they study Tao. So like he's like very acrobatic. He does that moment where he like tucks his leg, his head between his legs. I love the way that he fights and the fact that Gabimaru is also like very much like a Taijutsu user. It compliments so well from like a choreography standpoint. Yeah. They also mentioned, speaking of like martial arts, they mentioned that Gabimaru's way of redirecting Tao is an offshoot of Tai Chi. Yes. And it's like, dude, this dude's a fucking like scholar. He's got all martial arts down to a fucking. And then the moment where like he like Ron finally is like, oh, he's going to try and take my Tao. Let me suppress mine. Yeah. And Yuzuri just appears because that's the thing she can make herself disappear and slices them in half. Unreal moment. Yeah, that was a stop snapping. My thumb is so fucked. Ow. Why? I dislocated it. It's no morning. Like, oh, we can go. Christ. Yeah, it's bad. Oh, it's all right. We're good. We're good. Uh, anyway, it's from years of slope style skiing. Like I don't have like the tendons that keep my thumb in anymore really. So like if I just, if I like pop it out once, it's just fucked for months. Just falling? Just from falling on rails and jumps and like putting my hands out, just fucking destroying it. Yeah. Devastating. It's real bad. Um, look in. Oh, I'm going skiing in two weeks. Where? Um, mammoth. Bip out me. Bip out me. I'm sorry. It's an Ithaca trip. Is that what you're wearing? You're goddamn Ithaca sweatshirt. That's not why. You son of a bitch. You son of I love mammoth. I love mammoth. They just got so much snow. Oh, there's got so much snow. They're like four feet of snow this week. You can't be mad. You just went on a month long ski trip. I love skiing. I used to be paid to do it. I'm so good at it. God damn it. Um, but fucking yeah. So the fighting style was great. I love the monster designs in this art. Awesome. Yeah. Unbelievable. I love that they're black and white. They're very like yin yang and I love that is flower. Mouth just fucking slaps clothes. The intensity of Akaza growing a limb. We'll just speak to fucking talk about Demon Slayer here. I said Gabi Maru suffers from a late state tangerine where he's always one bad breath away from death. I use just every fight he's in. He's like, I'm going to die. I'm going to die right here. Speaking of which? Speaking of a fucking big old chop to the clavicle. This episode ends with what is seemingly Gabi Maru dying. Just getting fucking pieced. If he's not dead, I'm not excited for whatever bullshit they're going to have to pull to make him alive. Because like he gets fucking chopped right through the lungs and heart straight through the most vital organs. And then the guy picks them up like that. Yep. Yeah. So maybe hold them back together. You know, cut some of the then closes the wound immediately. Unless he becomes a flowerman. A flowerman. Yeah, like a. Like a show back. Yeah. Hmm. Maybe he comes to flowerman. That would be like fucking us area's character development arc. Yeah, she's like, I'm not going to risk my life for you. Yep. Well, that's Gabi Maru's too, because he started off immortal. Yes. Unkillable. I still hasn't that hasn't been proven incorrect yet. Well, you couldn't even like cut him. Yeah. You know, like blades were snapping against him. Yeah. And then now he's dying trying to protect people. He's just covered in blood constantly. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, her whole stick is like, I'm not going to die for people. I only care about myself. And she starts skiedaddling out of there with just fucking. You know, to her to her benefit, I think Gabi Maru might wait 90 pounds. He's is not a big guy. He's a small dude. He's not a big guy at all. But yes, so that's a very good episode of Hell's Paradise. Cory Ackfield is great. Good explanations. Love, usury, especially like her character development arc. Do you think he's coming back to life? I think the only way I'll be happy with it is if he's a flowerman. It sucks up there on an island looking for the elixir of life. Yes. So maybe he is. I think it'd be awesome if he dies. Like this is the anime to do it in because this anime is so like people are dying left and right. It's dark. Yeah, it's dark. Dudes are cutting their hands off in a split instance. Like I miss that level of like, oh, I got stung. Arms gone. You know, we knew Tensa for like an episode and a half before he got punched through the throat. She was the first thing we'd see from she on is also him getting punched through the throat. Yeah, they died. The dude at the glasses. Yeah, that was great. Sanka. Where the fuck are the ninjas? The big island. I am filled with fish monsters and the majority of the ninjas are just climbing up stabbing them with kunai. I just can't believe like it feels like this is the last couple of episodes. Doesn't it? We're like bad. I'd say three fits of the way through the manga. It's so crazy. It feels like we're really wrapping up. We're doing an infinity castle right there. It's a it's a 170 chapters. I think we're around chapter 80. Yeah. I wish you hadn't read it because then we could be like is he dead? You know, I I'm not answering or not answering. Well, I know, but it would just be fun. I maybe I forgot. Who knows? You don't. I have no idea. You don't. For God. I don't. For God at all. All right. So she's talking about sentence to be a hero show. Big sword episode, big old big sword episode, which like if that was an option lead with it. I thought it was a pretty lame sword for all the hype. I I also said I said, thank God, there's a phase two because that was a snooze. Oh, watch it. Watch her just pull out a bunch of swords and stab the thing into a gigantic pit that somehow Zylo dug up. Yeah, I was like, this kind of sucks. So what episode was this? Fucking seven. I don't know. Whatever, seven something, but it's the one that ends like, you know, the siege of whatever they're trying to hold with the snipers there. All the heroes are there. And yeah, Zylo summons a big sword from the princess. My only note of the episode is where is it on? I go, please God, no, don't make her take off her clothes. I was so nervous. Who? Oh, when the God is through her cloak off and she was in some like tight black outfit, I was like, oh, don't do this, please. I said, no, Territa, you can keep that cloak on. I was like, that's that's actually really all right. Thank you for the offer, though. Yeah, thankfully, the outfit could have been a whole lot worse. So much worse. It varies skin tight, that's for sure. But like, you know, after watching fucking vigilantes, I'm just like, at least there's pants, you know? Yeah, this this was an OK outcome. I said, I'm sorry, why are we using the wall mounted rail guns earlier? I thought like bust out. Oh, no, they've made it too close and they're like better use the 17 rail guns we own. I know, I thought that open with that. Apparently they take long to reload. I guess if you if you use them early, you can reload them early. That's true. I have a fucking idea. What is the Boston massacre or the battle of Bunker Hill? I'm not shooting until I see the whites of their eyes. What? What's this? A goddamn Boston Tea Party? I got a poor old. I got a poor oldest tea in the hub. I'm going to take a couple bags for myself. It's like the idea that you're like bringing up insane references that almost don't relate. It's like, what is this? A goddamn Ohio State Massacre? What are you doing? What is this? The Tai Jing Rebellion? They killed 20 to 70 million people for Jesus Christ's Chinese brother. My God. Yeah, Tai Ping Rebellion. So 20 to 70 million people died because the guy said he was Jesus Christ's Chinese brother. Whoa. Happened in the late 1800s. Yeah. Wild shit, dude. China's history. No, not stood. There was a bit at the end of the episode was Zailo where Territo walks into the room and she looks different. Do you know that was that the goddess he killed you think that he saw? Oh, yes. Yeah. That's his previous goddess. Yeah, he's like coming out of comatose and like he's seeing her because he has like memory issues right now. I also said I would love it. Zailo, I love it. Zailo would say something other than stay back. What is Zailo unfortunately has he suffers from like JRPG a protagonist where like every time you'd use your up be he's like it's like a link. Me like, huh? Yeah, every single time he throws a knife, he's like, stay back. Yeah, I was like, dude, they cannot hear you. Yeah. Also, what do you think is going on with the humans joining up? I kind of like that. They're doing they're doing like a light like, hey, humans are joining up with monsters kind of thing. Yeah, it's weird. This show keeps doing weird things where they'll like make it seem like something hasn't happened in thousands of years and then act so casually about it. Like when they saw that like humans or when it was revealed that humans were like linking up with the demons, I thought that was going to be like a huge deal. Yeah. And then the guy was just like, oh, yeah, there's a faction called like the joiners or whatever. Coexisters or something like that. And they're they're super down with demons. They love tentacles. Yeah, I was like, oh, OK, I thought this was kind of a huge deal. And same thing with Tarito where like he made it seem like I don't like this goddess wasn't like they weren't cracking gotcha goddesses in the last like, you know, centuries. Yeah, it's like, hey, by the way, these just appeared, you know, it's like, if I could we were not making these, they just showed up one day and now we have 13 of them. Yeah, but. Yeah. So what are those 2000 soldiers do? Like you show up. I don't know. They distract for like a moment, then we never see them again. I know. I felt like a whole 10 minutes was missing from this episode. Yeah. And like maybe it is like neither of us have read the manga, so maybe they're just pacing the fucking shit out of it. Who knows? A light to novel. It's a light that I'm definitely not reading it. Yeah. For sure. Why do you try to join a book club the other day? And I almost I laughed in his face. Who? Lonnie. He was like, you want to join a book club? I was like, how horny are you? I was like, I know I'm actually all right. Thank you very I've read a book since I was 15. I bought the new I bought the new fucking Hunger Games because that was the last book I read was the last Hunger Games. Still I still haven't read it. Still haven't read it. It's tough. They expect you to read every word. And the text is so little. There's no. There's no. And there's no pictures, Danny. And that's my fucking. And that's what I'm running my political campaign on. Put pictures back in books. I know the only picture in the book is like this little photograph of the author at the back. And I'm like, so everyone looks like this person. I don't mean I don't need to see Suzanne Collins right now. I need to see what Hamish looked like at 25. I want to see what that hair looked like at the peak of its glory. Yeah, even more receded. He grew his airline came in. I know, of course. Yeah, that's just the woody. That's just Woody Harrelson. That's what veganism will do to you. It's just more hair. You know, he's vegan. Now he's been vegan for like 20 years. I'm sure Sarah knew that I'm 100 percent. I know he writes emails to her all the time. All right, that brings us to our best episode of the week. Surprise and or surprise. JJK has been the best episode of every week since it came out. Apparently it might be going on a break. Question mark and free ring. No JJK or free ring next week. We're going to have so many games. We're going to have to fill so many so much time with games. Big game week. Wow, that's crazy. I mean, you know, that's actually that's actually a good thing because then I can't compare free ring to JJK to all the other episodes. I'll get the most unmyred like level of appreciation I get from all the other shows. Yeah, it's going to be a big scop episode. Big. Yeah, it's going to be like, yes, scops adventures. It's like the fucking like special episodes we get from one piece every once in a while or like Chopper tells you what happened. Well, you don't get this reference now. But yes, I thought the beginnings. I'm really curious to hear what you thought about the beginning of this episode. Kenjaku saving Yuchi's friend from the barrier. Kenjaku. What did I write? Oh, yeah, I wrote is this fucking curse club girl? Yes. Um, I'm surprised you remembered that. That was it. Well, for they say I did write that note before they outright said it. You you sent me a tick talk of a guy being like it's some podcast, which I I the way they speak, I have to believe it scripted. Yeah, like there it is very. Yo, have you heard this theory? Know what? Tell me about it. Like so it is so scripted and physically hurt to me. But anyways, the guy was like, Kenjaku's Yuchi's dad. And you're like, is this how I sounded for months? That's not what I said. I said, oh, other people missed it. Yeah. Oh, is that what it was? Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you had a moment of self reflection. My well, he also missed the bit where they're in the hospital and Yuchi's mom has the scars. But anyway, so that was a bit of indication. Yeah, I wrote is is this fucking curse club girl? I mean, it was almost interesting. I didn't have like strong opinions about it because it's like nice. I guess that Kenjaku like knows. Yeah, that she's Yuchi's friend. And it is weird that we get like a semblance of like Kenjaku, like gives a shit about you. Yeah, I mean, literally, right? Like technically carried him for nine months, but he made it seem like. I was there's Penelope with you. Eva. Oh, gotcha. They made it seem like Penelope found her way under a chair. Oh, no. You just hear a very distinct English voice. Go the fuck. I got David. That works here, too. For those who don't know, Eva and Penelope play a game at Danny's house, which is lovingly and creatively called under chair, where Penelope hides under a chair and Eva can't do fucking dick about. Yeah, Eva barks about it. But what's it called? Yeah, but Kenjaku also kind of made it seem like it was part of the rules. Like he had to let anyone out who like was a civilian. He had to give anyone the option. That was that's why the barriers are so powerful. Yeah, exactly. So it wasn't like he did it out of the kindness of his heart. You know, yeah, that's fair. But like it's that sweet moment. It's like, thank you for being friends with my son. Yeah, that is sweet. And everyone's like, the you made your son into the perfect vessel for Sukuna. Like what do you mean you give a shit about him? What are we talking about? Um, I also love Hakari. I just love that we're getting more Hakari. I love they're getting more Kira Ra. I love these two together. I love that they wear identical outfits. The sequence of them all walking down the stairs was like everyone's comparing it to the one punch man stare scene, which was just one frame for 20 seconds. And you're getting like over the shoulder shots of all of them talking. I'm so excited for it. So they've established basically this episode establishing the beginning of the Culling Games. So they're going to try to find Higuruma and Kashimo. So because Koshimo is more powerful, Hakari is going to meet him. Kira are staying outside to be their communicator. And then you, G and Megami are going to find a guy by the name of Higuruma. Two of, by the way, fan favorite characters, awesome, awesome characters. Gone. You did your I'm about to talk breath. And so I will admit that the lead up of this part here isn't the best part of the Culling Games. But how'd you feel about fucking jet hair and helicopter helicopter dreads? I was not expecting jet head. Yes, jet had in the fortnight in the fortnight drop in animation. I love that they had drop out of the battle bus. Yes, that's sick. I like suggested that. I was going to know where I was like, oh, it'd be sick of the second Megumi said, I'm down for the Culling Games. Yeah, he's just like blipped away from Yuji. Yeah, he's like, what the fuck? And he's like, he's in the games now. Do you want to join? Yes, like this is what the games look like. And it's like, also, if you're not a powerful sorcerer who can like reinforce their body with cursed energy, just dead immediately. Yeah, just that instantly dead. Also, it's crazy that there's two insane things about all of this. One, it's crazy that they met up. What's his name? Hergugu. Ah, Higuruma, the dude who can clap you with train doors. Oh, oh, oh, oh, Hikari. Hikari. It's insane at no point where either Yuji or Megumi like, hey, real quick, what do you do? Yeah, you know. Oh, like what's your ability? Yeah. Well, he kind of explains it to Yuji when he's punching him. He's like, Gojo says that my cursed energy is serrated. So it feels like it feels like you're getting punched by knives. That's not what an ability does, though. He's smacked Yuji with train doors without even touching him. His ability. When I know when they listen, when they explain his ability, you'll understand why he didn't try to explain it to other people. You think what was happening with Kira was confusing. I hope you understand Pachinko. That's all I'm going to say. Oh, he's the Pachinko guy where like he has to play Pachinko. And if he gets like a certain amount of Pachink's in the co. Yes. He a cool thing happens. He's like objectively kind of. He's like a fucking the gambler in Final Fantasy six. That's a topical one. Everyone gets that. I don't get that at all. He's like any slot slot machine style JRPG character. Gotcha. They run a slot machine and then that determines what they do. Like kite. Like kite for month or hunter. That's a thing you won't get. I like that. We'll just let's just keep making references and either of us understand. That's great. The other insane thing is that regular people can see the barriers. Oh, yeah. And also enter. Because I hate the veils in season one. Yes. They make a whole point that there are these veils and so regular people can't see curses. Yes. This and that. And I always hate that in media where it's like. There's no consequences because we post we put a big bubble around everything. Yeah, exactly. It's like, oh, we want to be able to have cities get destroyed, but not have to deal with the idea that like we have to world build around it. Yes. Which is why my hero is so impressive because they're like, no, we're going to take every factor into the equation. Yes. Oh, literally the plot of Kaiju number eight. That too. It's more impressive where they're like, we're going to build a world around the fact that there are powers rather than like it's Japan. But like we get to do cool shit. Yeah, exactly. And then once the bubble is gone, everything's fine again. Well, now it's weird that fucking they can just see it. So the veils stuff is kind of like also adds to the power because people can't wander in. Right. Like you have to make a constant choice to go. You're allowed to leave if you weren't one of the people that was awakened to a source or reincarnated. So like it allows for this kind of wide sweeping attack to happen. Yeah, because there's rules in JJK for at least a little bit. I wrote. What would you do if you woke up and the sky was missing? So I don't know if I'd be more pissed about the sky missing or the moon smiling at me. That's I it's a real toss up either way. But anyways, I also said, would you be pissed or happy about propeller head as your ability? Like you wake up to an ability and it's my dreadlocks allowing to fly as a helicopter. Are you pissed about that or you stoked? This fight is the most like one piece filler bullshit fight. Very fair. That's how I felt about it. This is the Foxy the Foxy games. Yeah. Like what are they trying to like the Davy back games? This is the Bon Clay fucking like shut up. Shut up. I just don't I know more than you and I don't I don't want you to walk into minefield. Yeah, that is that is like a top three character for me and you don't know why because you haven't. He hasn't seen Impel down. Okay. Bon Clay is fun. But when they're on the fucking giant island and they're showing up and they're like flicking boogers at him and stuff. I actually like the booger guy too. He's got a cool design. Great, great design. But these are the like most. Oh, we are just like killing time until we get to the real villains. Literally about what they're about to cover in one piece live action right now. It's like Mr. Three. It's Brokeworks. You're talking about Brokeworks. Brokeworks is what I mean. Brokeworks is one of the most forgettable villain organizations in all of one piece. If you disagree, argue with the wall. It's yeah, these guys propeller head is the most a broke works the most the cat guy that fights us off. I can't even remember my job is to remember names and I cannot remember his name. It was like that level of like I think there was a guy on a unicycle at one point. You know what? You know what? I know this because he's got big cat hands. He's got big cat hands. You're talking about the unicycle. He's on Buggies team. He's buggy's left hand man. There's just like that's what these guys were. And I was like, thank God, I know for some reason Japanese audiences hate how artsy and like creative the directing team has gotten with the anime. Yes. This would be such a waste of an episode given to the season one team. 100%. Like it just I could see this being the grasshopper fight from season two. Just big old big old big plus. Well, that is not the one I was expecting at all either. Sup girl. You look so pretty in your harness. What's up girl? For everyone who hasn't whoever seen her before this is Ava. This is Danny's first dog. She's shopping for bones. Oh, she's big time shopping for bones. All right. See you later dog. But because otherwise this was a sick fight. Like it was a well animated. The dude was intimidating. Yeah. I love JJK has such a good urban fight set pieces. Yes. It's got great urban fight set pieces and Yuji is so elevated by the fact that whoever is like doing his choreo is the most like aura farming like Brooklyn beat down style dude. He's brawler. Yeah, he's such a bro. The way he throws that shit at the propeller girl was so just knocks her out of the air. Like yeah, he's got such aura and it's like because of the animators not because of the writing. Yeah. 100%. And then like he's like immediately deducing you. He's like, oh, well, I knocked her out of the air with the rock, but like she was able to blast me through a building. And I love her being like that was supposed to blow that guide a bit. Like she was just supposed to like literally like a bug on a windshield blow up Yuji and then he just beams her with a baseball. And mind you, this is a guy that held the Japanese record for long toss before he could use cursed energy for shop put. Yeah. For shop put. I don't want to be hit by anything that motherfuckers throwing. No, that was sick. Oh, but yeah, like it's got great urban set pieces where they're like just in an apartment and you see it just like shattering as his big propellers coming. It reminds me of the bathroom brawl with Chozo. Like and then also like they're talking about like the suction of it. So he's like turning around and pulling him in with a suction. They're doing like updraft and all that. It was really, really cool. It's a little bullshit that Yuji was able to slide through it. That was that was the most fucking fast and furious family will get us through this moment I've ever seen. It can't be moving that fast. If a full like six foot tall man can get pretty quick. He's pretty. He's been known to be quick and even scrunch. That's what he did. There was no scrunch. Yeah, that is incredibly fair. That was all sick. I feel like other shit happened. Oh, the end is so cool. What? The end of the episode where where they're both being led. This is another moment where like the direction is stellar. It's so ominous almost for no reason. Yes, because both of them turn around a corner and they're both behind the people. They're basically holding hostage. Yeah, they're like, yeah, they're both behind someone. And they keep like turning corners just before you can see their face. It's like they're constantly like almost out of reach. And then they both turn around. They're like, oh, the person you're looking for is and they say two different like districts. Yeah, they're like, yeah, exactly. Like ones like in like Shinjuku and the other ones like in Ikiyobocho or something like that. And that was rad. That's super cool. I also love because leading up to the end of the episode. Dorothy's here. Oh, I see. Yeah. Leading up to the end of the episode, Yuji kept being like, I don't want to have to kill anyone. I accidentally killed thousands of people as Tsukuna. And Megumi keeps being like, we won't kill anyone. Don't worry. Like we don't have to kill. We'll do this. Isn't that first chance he gets? I love. Yeah, I love that. Megumi's like, hey, if you betray me, I'm going to fucking murder. Oh, he was like, I'll get the hundred points myself. Yeah. And you know, honestly, we love to see some people just taking up after Hawks. You know, we love to see somebody just picking up the mantle and that Hawks doesn't have a quirk anymore of just murdering for the love of it, you know, just truly killing for the game. I love that because it's so like he has. Oh, I, oh, man, I'm so excited for Megumi's arc. It's so much fun. I just love that Megumi because especially like Maki has massacred a bunch of people. Everyone's killing people. And usually kills fucking. What's his name? Doesn't he? My kind of my took it's turned into a curse spirit that can jacquoets. So like not really. Right. Whatever. I've never. I was gonna. Unless it's like my hero academia. I'm typically not into like the hero doesn't kill. Well, you do doesn't really fight humans all that often. That's the thing. Like he's not usually fighting like sorcerers by curse spirits. He kills curse spirits. He kills as Oh and check it's who who are Chozo's brothers. And they were they're technically half human. They're like him. They were dead. They were cursed with paintings. I guess that's fair. It is different when they're human. So yeah, but regardless, I love that Megumi is like, I'll get that shit myself. I'm not. He did. I will run it up. Yes. So good. So very excited for the future of the Culling Games here. A lot of people are worried because the directors leaving the project, the directors leaving the product. This is the last episode that the first seven episodes are going to be directed by the guy who directed these. And they're like, Oh, he's walking away. JJK's wash. And it's like he was just contracted to do the first seven episodes. People are so stupid. So stupid. They think they're making these episodes like week by week. No. Like also they also like people don't realize that it's so common for multiple directors to direct a season of anime. It's almost every anime you've ever watched is directed by 10 or so directors. Like they'll get one episode, two episodes, seven episodes, if they're really good. Like this is not unheard of at all. It's also like, yeah, they're doing like the finishing touches on episodes week to week, which is why they get like delayed and stuff. But it's not like, I don't know how many episodes the season is going to be. It's not like episode 15 of this season. No one has started animating. Yeah. Like, oh, fuck you or director walked away. We've got to get drawing. No. Yeah. Like it's all everything's been directed by whoever is going to direct it. So yeah, if he's walking away and has only directed these seven. Yeah, that's what he was paid to do. It's what it is. They were like, yeah, he finished his contract. But every click baiter was like, oh, JJ K just lost his director. And it's like, that's how it works. It's how it's always worked. Did he direct season two? I have actually no idea. Let me look. Cause I wonder who's replacing it. If we'll notice who do love this guy. He's very good. Directing season three of JJ K is Shota. Gosh, Ozone or go show who directed Jiu Jitsu Kaizen season two was initially confirmed to return for season three at Anime Expo 24. However, as of February 2026, rumors and reports suggest he left Studio Mop after completing his contract to work for the first part of season three, leaving his continued involvement uncertain. I don't know who's going to pick it up afterwards. Um, but yeah, so he did direct season two as well. I go that even confirms that it's like, yeah, his contract was. Contracts up exactly. That's how much he wanted to do. Um, yeah. So Hiromi Niwa, the chief animator director of JJ K has teased about the next episode, season three, episode eight. Um, and his name is Hiromi too. Yeah. So I think, I don't know. I think they probably have a new director lying up for the rest of it as to who that's going to be. I don't know, but show to gosh, give it to that fucking French guy who did it on the dog. Let's make it. Let's make it even let like, let's make it even more indiscernible. Yeah. Make it smudgy. You love smudges, but I also am big on smudges nowadays. All right. That's all the anime we would talk about this week, which means it's tough. I you want something smudgy. You want to get real smudgy with it? I'll get real smudgy with it. Fucken give it to the dude who directed the first Tatsuki, whatever it was called. You remember what I mean? The Fuji Moto shorts. Oh yeah. Do you have whoever directed the first episode of that? And the chicken one? Yeah. Whoever directed the chicken one? Absolutely. That was a smudgy thing I've ever seen. It was so sick because it was just big. It was like little alien fighting big alien. It was like episode one of one punch man. All right. So today we have a couple of games that we want to play and we had a bunch of games that were made last week that unfortunately we couldn't really get to because we were drunk and I had to end the podcast early. So the games that we couldn't get to were Are You Nick Connor or Danny Mada, which is a literal Buzzfeed quiz that we can do to see if we are Nick Connor or Danny Mada. We also got Chump, Chuck or Fuck Pokemon Theusions. But today I believe we should do the Are You Nick Connor or Danny Mada. And then for our Patreon viewers, me and Danny will be reading the Zootopia abortion comic afterwards. But for the moment, let's run this Buzzfeed quiz here. Maybe you maybe you run it as well. Maybe you run it as well and we see, well, we'll do what all of the answers are. Like we'll read out what the question is, what the answers are, and then you'll answer and I'll answer and we'll see what we get. And those viewing at home, you can also run this quiz yourself. This has been a quiz that's been put out into the Discord and you can see if you are Nick Connor or Danny Mada. And I'll make sure that when this episode goes out, Stank puts the quiz in the description. So if you want to play along at home, if you're not a live viewer, you can see which one of the podcast co-hosts you get to be. So first up in our Buzzfeed quizzes, see whether me or Danny or either me or Danny, we have which anime character are you? The options are Mao Mao from Pathcary Diaries. Yeah. Kazuki from Buddy Daddies. Reagan from Mob Psycho. And Hikaru from Oron High School Host Club. These are all schemers. Who is the better twin? That is fair. He is the better twin, but also we don't talk about those twins. These are schemies. These are four schemers. Kazuki is an assassin. Mao Mao is a ancient Chinese detective. Reagan is just a scammer who ends up being a powerful psychic. And Hikaru is one of the twins. I'm going to say, I'm actually kind of curious. I would say that first off, you are not Kazuki because he loves to cook. He's a housewife. Honestly, if anything, I'm Kazuki loves this kid. I feel like you're Reagan, but I also feel like I'm Reagan. I was going to say your Reagan. Yeah. I was going to say your Reagan because I could absolutely see you scamming old women out of like being like your ghost is gone now. Yeah, it's just anime soul good men. Yes. And like I could see myself as that. I'm going to say that I'm Kazuki. All right, I'll do Reagan because I'm a father figure. You know what though? I think it's going to be swapped. I think answering Kazuki is going to get you Danny Mada. And I think answering Reagan is going to get you. You're not fatherly at all. But I'm soft. I'm softer. And Reagan looks like you. A Reagan does first off that's actually I hate that that's slightly he looks like me. Kazuki does kind of look like you for being entirely real. Man, I actually wonder what people would say I am. I feel like I'm going to be Mao Mao or Koski. But I'm going to answer that I'm Kazuki. Who would you rather date Mirko from my here academia and then a list of fucking nobody's because Mirko's on Mirko. Himano, Rampo from Bunga Stray Dogs or Danny Mada in real life. I didn't see me. That's my P. It's me and my school bussy in your school bussy do bussy costume. Danny loves pulling out a sweater. Man, this is tough because like on one hand there's Mirko. But on the other hand, there's Danny and that is that's a really tough because here's the I don't think Mirko would be fun to date. I'll come out and say it. Yeah, I think Mirko is very attractive. And like I love that she's a power hungry ferocious woman. Probably not fun to like I should get home and she'll be like, you want to fight me? And I'm like, no, I've lost as many limbs as you. Yeah. Um, Himano is a is an essay or unfortunately. Yeah, that's really Himano's biggest. But also but also just a quirky lady. Yeah, if it weren't for Himano being an essay or it'd be Himano with flying colors like I love her personality love her design. But you know, she reeks of cigarettes as she reeks of cigarettes. But that's not a turn off for me entirely. Rompo sucks. Yeah. Yeah. But listen, you hate him. You haven't even gotten to the parts where he stops sucking. Oh, yeah, that's he's just the guy who looks at photos and figures out the like the investigation for everybody else. Right. Yeah. Man, I'm gonna be who sucks. I'm going to say. Get fuck, man. I simply have to go, Mirko. I know you're right. But I do like I'm not really I could never date someone who's like always at the gym like fully athletic like she wants nothing to do with you. Like I'm waking up at 6 a.m. for trail mix and then like a nine mile hike. Yeah. I think Mirko does have I think she's athletic. But she's got this layer of like chaotic energy that I think she is also a bit of a nerd like and she's a superhero. Like I think she's like got the like some of the energy of like some of our more chaotic cosplayer friends, you know, where they are like Jim rats, but also would be down for like a full Game of Thrones binge. That's also very fair. I'm gonna say Danny Mott at real life. Yeah, that's fair. I think it's the only it's the only choice that I could truly be given. Which are you most likely to survive? A car crash. This is good. A car crash. A plane crash. Two wolves getting shot once. Fuck, that's so good. I'd survive. I've survived one of these. I would survive. You've survived one of these multiple times. I've survived one of these a lot. I I'd survive three out of four of these. You're the only one who thinks he could survive a plane crash. I every time I'm on a plane, I'm like, I know. But because every time you see a plane crash, you'll see like those animations on TikTok and it's like. And it'll be like 164 dead. One injured. I'm the one injured every time. Like these idiots have never seen the gray. I've seen the gray and the gray with Liam Neeson. He puts himself down. He buckles himself up. I'm wrapping. I'm wrapping my neck pillow around my head as a helmet. Do I know I'm going to ask you something. You've seen the gray. Yeah. As a man who's seen the gray. He had shotgun shells and mini bottles. That is like we're not talking about. I still think if the wolf gets a second wolf, I get something. You get one shotgun shell and a pointy stick. Yeah. I get a stick at least. That's fair. You're making great. You throw the stick and now you just fight one wolf. That's because he's going to get it. He's going to get it. That's fair. You throw a little bit of dog kibble out something like that. I could get shot once. Where am I getting shot? That's the real question. Yeah. There's a lot of places I could get shot and survive. I really think it. I'm saying plane crash. I'm saying I'm saying plane crash. And bullets make me nervous. Bullets make me. I feel like I would die from a bullet. I'm going to go. People are going to expect me to do two wolves. I'm more likely. I really genuinely my hubris. I don't know how people die from getting shot. I like it like shocks me that. Just go to hospital. Just go to. Just like how far are you from a hospital? I'll do car crash because I've survived several. You literally have. They're meant to be survived. That's the whole purpose of the majority of the weight of the car. If you're not surviving a car crash, you're in like a cyber truck or something else built by. Or being hit by a cyber truck. Which anime would you watch in your free time? Chainsaw Man, Apothecary Diaries, Mashoku Tensei, KonaSuba. Who is Mashoku Tensei for? I don't. I guess this quiz is for more people than just us. No, it's not. Well, but it's it is literally a BuzzFeed quiz that anybody can take. But if you pick Mashoku Tensei, who does that give you the algorithm? We'll say you are more like me or you. I was going to say probably you. I'm very. How dare you? I've seen more of it, though, than you. That's the issue. That is that's that's a thing. I stopped. I'm more vocal. I had the moral authority to. I also had the moral authority to stop probably later than you. But yeah, later. Um, man, I'm going to have to say. If I'm I have my free time. Fuck, I'm tossed between three here. I love these three shows, maybe equally. I'm assuming you're saying chainsaw man. Yeah. Then for the sake of plot, I'll say Apothecary Diaries. That's the only one I have watched in my free time. Oh, wait. And then there's also interspecies reviewers and I don't watch anime in my free time. What the fuck? Yeah. Um, OK, cool. Still neither of those. Oh, I kind of want to say interspecies reviewers. Interspecies reviewers. That's me. That'll become me because I've reacted to it. You've reacted to how many episodes? There's one episode in dub and that's what I've read to do. And then they stopped dubbing it. It's like a 12 episodes long. They instantly stopped dubbing. Probably because the fucking making all these esteemed voice actors like make sex noises probably was a tough pitch. It's all my patreon. That's awesome. Yeah. God, I don't fucking want to see that. There's like a five minute long shot, not actually five minutes, but there's a shot where like the little cherub character you just see right behind them. And you just see their massive fucking bulge and I forget what their genitals are. But I remember it being shocking. Wow. But anyway, I love that you did that. Um, which villain, which anime villain do you most support? I am. Stain, Wrath, Marowem, or Shou Tucker. Can I take a guess? Uh, yeah, I know it's easy. I have a tattoo of one of these four characters. Why did you get Shou Tucker tattooed on? You know what? Yeah, I actually put it on neutron. I was just trying to manifest. It's under all the firm. These are my dogs, Shou and Tucker. Naming your dog Nina would be so funny. Our next dog's going to be Nina. Oh, that's you need one name Nina and one Alexander. That's good. That's good as well. Minds Marowem, obviously. Marowem's entire thing is that he's just the advancement of a species brought into this world basically against his will. And it's like a staunchly vegan take where he's like, I eat humans. They're what I eat. You guys can't be upset with me. Have you ever asked the pig or a cow? Have you ever given a pig or a cow mercy because it asked you? That is like he's just the advancement of the species. That almost sounded like a rap where you're like, I eat humans. It's what I eat. You eat pigs and cows. You can't tell me I can't. Yeah, I'm watching you chew their feet. Oh, what was a wrath's bit? Turn all of a mestreya into a giant philosopher stone. Yeah, that wasn't good because daddy said so. I like his voice. Stain was Stain's like a terrorist. Oh, Stain, but the Stain's also being like, hey, I think heroes should be heroes and not like pieces of propaganda basically. And Shou Tucker, what do you do? Like aid his wife or something? Well, he turned her into a chimera. And then he was like, let's do that again. Yeah, that's not good. Shou Tucker doesn't really stand for anything outside of keeping his state alchemist license. What do you mean I support him? Yeah, he's like, support what? To support him being a worse chimera maker than the three people doing it in secret? Yeah, I'll go Stain, I guess. Which Hogwarts house are you? Bang, Gryffindor. Yeah, Gryffindor because it's the protagonist one. It's the protagonist one and we're both main characters. Yes, exactly. I'll do, I guess Hufflepuff. Every time I take the quiz, Sarah would be in Hufflepuff. I know every time I take the quiz says Ravenclaw, but I'm really not a smart guy. Are they the smart ones? Yeah, they got funny people in Ravenclaw. That's fair. We'll just do that. Which Sarah's a Hufflepuff, Dorothy's a Slytherin. I feel like I'm probably actually a Ravenclaw and you're probably a Gryffindor for being real. Which Pokemon are you? Primeape, Perugly, ouch. These are all bad choices. Quadruvol, I have no idea how to say that one. None of the sassy bird from the most recent evolution I know how to say. Ditto, Garbador, Licky, Licky. I got my answer logged in. Oh yeah, you're Licky, Licky, Licky. That is, look at them. If that's not me. That is, listen, if there was any of these choices were you, I'd say that's the one. As a man who loves to dance and also wears an earring on his right ear because it's the only ear his cuff goes on. I'm gonna have to go with Quax Gualibol. You're insane. You're Primeape, but go off. I'm Primeape. You're Primeape. I'm not nearly as angry as Primeape. Oh, you know, I'm Ditto. There's nothing, I'm nothing if not Ditto. You're nothing if not a chameleon. I exactly... The way you blend into any possible social situation. My whole life is if I hang out with somebody, the first hangout sesh, I'm boring as hell because I'm gathering data. Oh, 100% you're... I'm analyzing. Yeah, you're downloading conversations. Yeah, and then the next hangout, I have perfectly tailored my mask to fit that person. So I'm Ditto, who are you? You did Quilava or whatever? I did Quac-Quac-Quac-Quac-Quac. Quax Gualibol? Yes. Which Epic the Music song is your favorite? Puppeteer. No, I'm not a good player. I'm a puppeteer. No, I'm not a player. I'm a puppeteer. You guys didn't know? Wouldn't you like a taste of the power? Wouldn't you like to lose more than one word? Is that from the Ithaca saga? Huh? Wouldn't you like from the Ithaca saga? No, these are both from the exact same saga. I remember Puppeteer, and I do not like ruthlessness. That's insane. I just... Ruthlessness! I'm gonna say puppeteer. Out of these three songs, Puppeteer is my favorite. It's insane. You don't know. Wouldn't you like? Wouldn't you like a taste of the magic? Wouldn't you like to use more than one word? Is this an Hermes song? Hermes. Is this an Hermes song? Still going puppeteer. I'll do ruthlessness. Now, if you wanted to throw... Oh, I don't know, the Silla song in there. Maybe the one with the girl who controls clouds. That one was fun. Oh, yeah, where she goes, ha-ha-ha. Yes, that one's good. Keep your friends close and your enemies close. The one with polities where it's just yearning for a minute and a half. That one's good. Uh, which anime monster would you smash? The Cart Titan. Frieza. Mosquito girl from One Punch Man. Koro Sensei. I mean, Mosquito Girl. Can absolutely, yeah. Listen, I... Listen, it is gonna... I hate a Mosquito, though. I hate a Mosquito. I hate that she has more eyes on top of her head. I hate that her hair is eyes, but like... Is her saliva Mosquito venom? It makes you go numb. So, if anything, I'm lasting days. You're not feeling anything. That's all I mean, that's what... Also, your lips are going numb. My lips? I think... Okay, cool. That's basically... Okay. You're not feeling nothing. And then you're itching. You want itchy dick? I... Well, that's only if she doesn't take the saliva out of me. You have to let her go full bite. That's why you get itchy. It's because they gotta take out the neurotoxin with the rest of their bite. Look, she's for sure the hottest physically. I mean, what is this? We ask it our mother... These are all characters our mothers would canonically smash. Koro Sensei's not bad. I mean, Koro Sensei, bunch of different faces, at least. Yeah, and he's got those tents. And Frieza's not bad looking either. I'd go in Frieza, actually. I would... If I'm doing anything from Frieza, I'm doing like, imperfect Frieza. I'm doing like when he's like big, when he's all big. Okay, second form? Second form. Frieza. With the horns? Yeah, with the horns, yeah. Too slender, perfect form, Frieza. I'd rather perfect form Frieza because he's like, probably about my height, about my size, and just like... Just got like real good drag queen energy. Well, fair, very fair. Big tail. He is sassy. He's so sassy. He's very sassy. I don't know if I can handle sassy. I don't know if I can handle the level of sassy that Frieza would be throwing at me. I like sassy Frieza. That's fair. What did you pick? Mosquito Girl? I chose Mosquito Girl. Which has been hotels such hell of a boss character is most like you. Slurring penguins. What a pole. I love the slurring... Yeah, that's a hell of a boss short. Lucifer. Vortex. Peter. Eggaboy. I haven't watched the hell of a show. I mean, who's saying Peter here? Who say... Who unironically is saying Peter here? Yeah. I guess I'm going Lucifer. Because I'd be a bad dad. You said that I was Lucifer. Out of pity because you said in actuality I was Vox. Because I wanted to be Lucifer. We have said... What am I? Eggboy then? Probably the slurring penguins. How dare you? I've heard you off camera. How dare you? Um, fuck, does that... You're not to make an accent. Dude, you love it. No, you're not Eggboys. If anything, I am Eggboys. You're Vortex, if anything. Am I? Am I? He's a good dude, despite what he looks like. He's a good... He's very much... He's like keeping an eye on Luna. He's got a girlfriend who's hot. Who's like, fucking... Who doesn't like Luna, but he's keeping an eye... I'll take Vortex. Does that make Vortex my first sona? I guess it is. Hell yeah, dog. Just a big keg-carry-an-wolf. I think I'm Lucifer. The more we talk about it, the more I am Vortex. I think I'm Lucifer because... It replaced the ducks with any memorabilia from the 90s. Any fucking statue that can fold upon itself is 100% you. That's fair. Which couple best represents your relationship status? King and Diane from Seven Deadly Sin. Bing! Bow-fucking-this-guy-100%. My girlfriend's got a duck down to kiss me. Because he's a tiny little man. Because he's a tiny... I got Nick Connor. I got Nick Connor. That was the last question here. I'll do... Well, Yuri and Victor is us. You're Victor. I'm Yuri. Huge. Narto and Hinata. I'm Victor. I'm Victor. You're Victor. Nice. Yeah. Mine's Decoone or Rocko. I got Danny Mata. That checks out. Should we read the thing? Yeah, I said you're Nick Connor. You communicate with confidence and authority while being wrong. 90... It's like 85%. Fuck off. 90% of the time. You speak in spoilers as if you were your first language. You speak in slurs. Yeah, you speak in slurs. You are the life of the party and have charisma that allows you to date out of your league. Jesus, son. Social anxiety fears you. Social anxiety is sometimes questioned, but the truth is you're only gay for the homies. You love your friends that are the most loyal, ride or die for those who are close to you. You care deeply for the people you love. You're incredibly hardworking and nothing can stop you from accomplishing what you set your mind to. You're very funny, though stand up may not be for you. And you have co-hosted the Great Podcast, the Greatest Podcast on Earth for three years. Happy three years of OA. Wow. It got nice at the end. I can live with that. Yeah, it was a fucking punch in the face in the beginning. You are Danny Mata. Your brand of comedy is yelling really loudly and men pretty. I thought you were gonna throw that at me. Let's get one of those yells out of you. Um... I'm using it to massage my neck. You have found success by gathering insane fandoms like they're infinity stones. You'll do anything to commit to the bit so long as it is funny. You speak candidly using sarcasm and humor that accidentally hurts the feelings of those around you. Good. Boy, ain't that the truth. Um... You are aware of the people your influence reaches and you strive to support those fans and create a safe space for them on your channels. You use your platform to uplift people and brighten their days with humor. Well, you are more emotionally detached and stunted than your co-host. You care deeply for the secret few that you welcome into your life. People think you're gay and your colleague thinks you've never had a real job... or college thinks you've never had a real job. Spend too much money on toys. And you have co-hosted The Greatest Podcast on Earth for three years. Happy three years of OA. 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like there's gonna be a Mass Effect movie and I was like oh what if it's like for this and never make that I don't know I was that don't think they did never I was like oh what if like intermittently there are choices and you have to run into a different theater to like do that outcome that'd be awesome that'd be sure on adventure yeah flip to theater seven yeah um but uh yeah well that could be fun we'll see if we go it's really just depending on if we want to like if I can muster the strength to drive in the rain for it literally that better go to your bb no money concert I don't know I pulled out on the bb no money concert because I was like I should do this commitment or nothing yeah yeah or just be home which also fair or decent possibility yeah um but my best point yeah is a night of the seven kingdoms that what does that sound really familiar new Game of Thrones show ah the tall guy spectacular is it really good it's unbelievably good leagues better than House of the Dragon really House of the Dragon is good I like House of the Dragon this latest episode how many episodes is there there's gonna be six total five just came out holy shit I'm way behind and some of them are only like a half hour so you can like gun through three whole pages the pitch is that it was it's like a more lighthearted like comedic look at Game of Thrones yeah it's about this very tall night sir dunk who wants to join a tournament because it's kind of like he's a hedge night which means like he lives in bushes and like he's a night for hire yeah like not signed under this is loosely the plot of what's the fucking what's the movie what's the movie with Heath Ledger a night's night nice tail yeah I guess I haven't seen it you haven't seen nights oh it's good yeah real good but uh he wants to join a tournament so that he could be like one of the Targaryens like you know swore nights and it's pitches like lighthearted comedy the first episode is and then by like episode three it's just Game of Thrones again and it's like dark and gritty and sad and the latest episode episode five that just dropped is on I think IMDB the highest rated episode of television ever wow it is so good it was a perfect episode you have to watch it it's unbelievably good I'll see if I can I'm I'll probably watch it either by myself Dorothy doesn't like fantasy like era pieces so like it's like oh if I'm watching TV I have to like scampered my time alone it's like while I'm like working hours I'm like that but yes that sounds very fun it was unbelievable this show is so good they want to do they're probably joking about this but they were like in a perfect world we would do five seasons then wait ten years do another five yeah wait ten years and do another five and they want to like chronicle their lives as they like age so anyway that's not one alright in lieu of a newsletter this or a love letter this week we are going to be reading I will survive a Zootopia fan comic by porpoise don't we 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