The Crunchyroll Award Nominees Are WHACK?! - Otakus Anonymous Episode #156

Why is your tongue blue? Crystal meth. Trying it out, dude. Yeah. Cliff Bicular said it fucking hollows your cheeks out. And listen. Yeah, that and smashing them on an osteolevel. Oh, you got a bone smash? Yeah. You know that? Oh, man. I can feel myself. I can feel myself getting more misogynistic by the moment. I mean, listen, he's what? I'd say two bad days, two good days away. I mean, it depends on how you feel about this administration. For being in charge of the FDA. Yeah. We're not in a bizarro version of the universe where Cliff Bicular becoming the head of the FDA is not an impossibility. I don't understand how I'm seeing so much content for him lately. Didn't he run a man over? Like, how is he not? So did Jim Bayhiem, and they still let him coach the fucking Syracuse basketball team. OK. Yep. People. Like, I could have commentary about that. OK, fine. The fucking Katelyn Jeter. Make a joke about Scottie Pippen. Katelyn Jeter killed the person with a car, and they still get to be on a reality TV show. That did happen. That did 100% happen. Yeah. That one is relatable. Of all the manslaughter, I think vehicular is the one everyone's the coolest with. He intended to hit him, though. I told you about this. I called you Christmas night. Holy. That was the guy you were talking about. That's the guy you were talking about. You were so far ahead of the car. Yeah, I called you Christmas night, and I was like, this guy, Cliff Bicular, hit a dude with his fucking Tesla truck and Cybertruck. And then he goes, I hope he died. Yeah, they were like, is he dead? And he goes, hope so, and grinds on the dude like you do in GTA. Was Cliff Bicular? Was Cliff Bicular? You are so on the internet. It is baffling some fucking finger to the pulse. Oh my god. Yeah, no, I don't know. I just know he does meth, and he's like 21, and everyone's like, wow, he's so good looking. I'm like, yeah, he's 21. He does meth aesthetically. Oh, OK, that's fair. Do you hear that? That's why he does meth. Yeah. It just makes you look better. It gives you the gaunt cheeks, I guess. Meth combined with a healthy diet and workout regimen. What, talk about replacing coffee. I wonder, can you microdose meth just enough, not enough to have a conversation with an invisible person, but enough to be like, I'm going to take today. Like he's just an edge? Oh, yeah. I don't know. I thought meth winds you down. No, wait, I'm thinking of heroin. He does heroin. He doesn't do meth. I think he does meth. No, he does a little bit of heroin. He does a little bit of heroin? Yeah, yep. I think, listen, I'm going to sit here and say that me and Danny are probably spreading misinformation about somebody. But at the same time, if we're going to spread misinformation about anybody, I feel as though clavicular, that's fine. I feel as though considering his entire platform is built on the idea of maybe doing schedule one drugs and peptides. I think if anybody, we get to lie about what he's up to. You find it? Look, I swear this dude does meth or something. I believe it's meth. If I think I've heard meth. This isn't even rumors. Oh, no, he's just said it. He like sat down and was like, here are the 19 drugs I take to be slightly skinny. Is looked. Yeah, OK, it is meth. You're right. Nice. I guess so. Shout out to meth. Where does a guy like clavicular locate meth? Anywhere. Any local Hispanic chicken spot? Yeah. Los Ormanos Boyos. The chicken boy. Oh, was that it? They would be chicken brothers. Ormanos's brothers. No, you're right. It's just brothers. No, you're right. Chicken brothers. Yeah. Los Ormanos Boyos. Is that what it is? Boyos Ormanos. That's what it is. He's got to go in the back. You got to reach in the batter. And there's a big old bag. Just for him. It has to be an arm. Yeah, just for him. And fucking Grug Fiend. Grug Fiend. Is that his name? Gus. Gus Fring. Grug Fiend. Anyways, you get passed. Once he gets passed, Grundleberry Fudge. You're local. It's like Walter goes in the back and he's like, I have a good product. And I know you're a good business man. It's a fucking Glink screen. You know what I mean? I'm Grog. I'm Grog. I'm Grog. It's like, listen, to run a fucking chicken chain, this commercially successful looking like that, I know you know business. Anyways, speaking of things that are going to be around and that have, speaking of things that have aged well, you like that? You like that? We weren't. Speaking of things that are clubicular, he's not going to age well on the count of the math. I'm talking about things that have aged well. Say I want to talk about the sponsor of today's episode, Factor. Think about this. Hunger strikes you. You're at home. You're exhausted. 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And then it's just like a bunch of like people being controlled and like fuck parties. That movie was insane. Even like watching it back then, I was like, like I was like 12 when that movie came out. I was like, this makes me feel gross. Gamers in the era, I also, I know exactly the scene that you start feeling gross at. But a gamer is one of those movies in that era where it was like, what if prisons got a little wacky with it? And so it's like prisoners. And we live in that era now. True. Prisoners would get like a little chip put in them. And like a wicked sick 13 year old gamer could hack into them. And then I guess they'd be a soldier or something. Like it was like death race. I was like, you're right. That's what I mean. There was an era where it was like, what if death row people could get out? And it was like, okay, I guess. And death race, at least there's like, you're driving around in a car. It's kind of cool. And the gamer, you're just a dude with a gun being controlled by somebody else. You're not in control of your own actions. I also like the idea that prisons would be like, look, I know you're on death row, meaning you must have committed the worst possible type of crime. I know who said, yep. If you kill enough people in a cool enough way, we'll just let you go. If you make us enough money, sir serial killer, we'll just, that's why. What a crazy system. Cause people would be like, yay. And then they'd be like, and do you want to never be like, yeah, he's out. Oh, no. The twist is always like the person setting it up is like killing the guy one race before. Which also now that we're thinking about it, now that we're sitting here and talking about it, that might be the good guy. Yeah. The key antagonist making sure that death row convicts don't make it back. And then like it's always a story of like, oh, I didn't deserve to be on death row. Then there's the implication of like, oh, well, because death row convicts like make so much money for the corporations. There's like more death row convictions going out. Kind of thing. But at the same time, the guy being like, I don't want serial murder, A through Z getting back to the streets here. Maybe not the worst guy that we know of. Anyways, no, the movie I was talking about that I showed Dorothy that aged incredibly, Nacho Libre, which I believe, I'm gonna come out and say it might be the perfect movie. It's on my list. I have a letterboxed and it's just to have a list of perfect movies. Nacho Libre is on there. It is. I mean, just from front to back, incredible movie. It's so good. It's so good. The most slept on part about Nacho Libre, just like shot beautifully. It's beautiful. It's so good. You're like, this is a movie about fucking Jack back playing a half Mexican monk, wrestling to save all of the orphans. And for some reason, it is like fucking transcendently shot. Had Dorothy seen it before? Never. What'd she think? She loved it. Dorothy was like, you ever seen Mr. Bean? And I was like, no, Dorothy only likes physical comedy. And I was like, I'm gonna show you maybe the greatest physical comedy movie ever created. Did it exceed your expectations? I haven't seen it in like a decade. And I was like, comedically, I was like, this is the movie I remembered, but I'm watching it. And I was like, this is a Wes Anderson film. I'm like, I was like, what the fuck is like, like the setting it's in, it's like set in a walka, the fucking like usage of landscape, the framing is really unique. Like even the wrestling sequences, the wrestling sequences are like convincing, fun wrestling sequences. The whole movie feels other than Jack Black pretending to be a Mexican guy. Yeah, the whole time. Feels so authentic. Like it's so shot in Mexico and all the extras are just like regular ass people. All the settings look great. The town is lived in the fucking costumes are fantastic. Dude, when he, like when his cloth burns off and they see he's in the- Sometimes when you grow up, you wear stretchy pants. Dude, awesome. But he, when he's like, he's like, you know what? I'm gonna go up against the seven strongest men in the town, perhaps even the world. And he's like, and I'm gonna get him a bus and take him on field trips. And I'm gonna win this. And he starts crying and like, you see the gorgeous landscape. I like almost cry every time. It's awesome. It's really cool. And the end is like him and like, listen, there's a couple of- There's a couple of, yes, Lily channels the power. That scene of him eating the egg is so fucking, it was such a week for me being like, it was so bad. It's just such a goopy, chunky eagle egg he eats. And it's just like, there's a couple of like Jack Black moments where I feel like it's like, oh, the theater kid asked to do this thing. Like for some reason, like he's playing a fryer, a half Mexican fryer who's been like born and raised in Mexico. And he's like, scatting. Like he's doing his like, he's doing his like Ramsey song. He like catches this flow. And you're like, oh, Jack Black asked to do this specifically. And those are the only moments to take me out of the movie. Everything else objectively perfect. The whole sequence of a skeleto running from the woman at the Ramsey's party. Through the tunnels. And he's like, how did you get up here? And she's like, secret tunnels and it pans over. Fucking just like, who thought of that? It's huge. It's gigantic. Huge. It just chases him through it. So funny. I love everybody scalping him in every single, every single match. Oh, it's so good. I love the bit where he's like, my life is great. Every day I get to wake up at 5 am. I make soup. And a night. And a night. I go to bed alone forever. Yeah. It's fantastic. Oh, it's so good. He's great. Yeah, that's one of the few perfect movies in the world. Awesome. It's an hour. It's a merciful 94 minutes. Open shut, close the fucking. I didn't know Ramsey's wrestler dead. Silver. I looked it up and I was like, who is this wrestler? Cause he's like masked all the time. He's like some guy named Silver Lake or something. And he died at like 54. Whoa. Yeah. Hard attack. Huge dude. Yeah, gigantic guy. I love when they're like oiling him up and his like trainer is like Ramsey's biceps. A number one. Ramsey's face is number one. Wow. You're not to appeal this. You're not to appeal this. Fuck. God, it's so good. It's so goddamn good. But yeah, so fucking go watch Nacho Libre cause it's like probably Jack Black's best movie. Yeah. Dude, that's why I think I've said this on the podcast already, but Jack Black like lives in my neighborhood. And every now and then I'll be driving and almost crash my car. Cause I do like a owl head swivel. Seeing him as I drive by. And I don't want to meet him. Cause I'm afraid I'm going to get the most Jack Black specific ick where I'm like, hey, sorry to bother you. Like I'm just such a big fan. Are you Jack Black? And he's gonna be like, yep. Ready to do it. Nickelodeon. Fucking other part of tenacious declines out of his back with a guitar. Kyle gas to fucking splits out of them. It's like, oh, it hurts every time. But yeah. And I'm afraid that's gonna, I tell you I saw Eric Andre last weekend. No. Yeah. I saw Eric Andre and Sarah didn't know who he was. That makes sense. We're walking for sure. We're walking behind him and Sarah compliments everybody on their dog, regardless of the quality of dog. Yeah. I mean, cause like, you know, I feel as though she's got a good metric of like, she's got a good idea of what a low quality dog can accomplish. I don't know what you're talking about. Listen, if the fucking metric is based off what Ava looks like, she's looking at other dogs like super models. She compliments every dog. We're walking behind a guy and I'm like, oh my God, that's Eric Andre, I think. And she's like, I don't know who that is. Is it? And I go, go compliment his dog. And she like, we'd speed up a little and she's like, such a beautiful dog. And he's like, I know, right? And I'm like, let's go. Don't miss the UK's number one movie. The Super Mario Brothers can take care of the kingdom. It's a super powered adventure. This April. Pack our things. The galaxy gets even bigger. He knows that's my bike, right? The Super Mario Galaxy movie in cinemas now. It's like, grabbed away. You're like, you're the new Lady Gaca motherfucker. This thing's getting leveraged. That's crazy. Man, I gotta move to your specific undisclosed neighborhood. I'll go to meet these people. You're better than I am. I would have just said you. You just said the exact street and corner you saw all these people on. No, it was so sick. I was like, oh my God, you're Eric Andre. I was like, yup. Riddity, doodity, doodity. You're like, what? Climbs back into Jack Black. You're like, oh please. How many people are in there? You threw a gallon of milk in my face. I had a Jack Black specific ick ever since the Minecraft movie. Watched Anaconda this weekend, went away. You loved the Minecraft movie. I loved the Minecraft movie, but then I was like, I have a huge Kevin Hart ick. I can't watch Kevin Hart movies anymore. I just fucking, oh, it pisses me off. I was getting there with Jack Black. It's like Aquafina and Kevin Hart I just can't do anymore. I was getting there with Jack Black, watching Anaconda. I was like, we're so back. That's so crazy. We're so, and the new Anaconda movies great. I haven't seen it. It's awesome. It's a classic Paul Rudd mess around, dude. I just hate that Jack Black. I know what you mean about these actors, like a Kevin Hart and Aquafina. Just did everything. Where they're in everything and also just doing a caricature of their ick. That's why I want to see Jack Black do a straight man again, or like just something that's not like, oh, now we have to go on this adventure. Yeah, I'd say you're doing like a head, like a one view one depth battle. Most emotive eyebrows, the rock versus Jack Black. I think Jack Black is strangling the rock as the rock has Jack Black's guts in his fist. Oh, don't do that right now. And he's squeezing them. Don't fucking. And then Jim Carrey comes out of the shadows and slits both of their coats. Which one? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pulls off his mask. Both Jim Carrey. Yeah, it's like the sting. He's pulling off one mask and under it, there's more Jim Carrey. Yeah, anyway. Do you want to talk about Invincible? Let's talk about it. All righty. You brought it up. You're the one who brought it up. All right. I mean, there's, all right, first off, there's other things that we can talk. There's other things more important than this episode of Invincible that came out this week. What's happening to you? Fire Force ended this week. Just say you don't like Invincible. Fire Force ended forever this week. All right, let's do what was the worst of the week. We got the reveal of Ed Fawn's Elric. You like that? You like that one? I don't know why. I don't know why. What was the worst of the week? Worst of the week? We run it up. We climb that ladder. I mean, it's not Invincible. Invincible is not the worst of the week. The worst of the week is... Day 1's in the Shatter Em? Probably. I think this needed two episodes. It definitely needed two episodes. It's a big old, we're gonna throw as much as you as possible here to try and get everything set up. Fun episode, what are we talking about? We're talking about episode one of Daymon's, The Shatter Em. I hate that it's Daymon's. I also hate that it's Daymon's. But also, I guess that's one way to separate yourself from other anime and manga. Yeah, true. Maybe. I wonder if it is an SEO thing. They're like, we cannot have demons in the first title. Go to Crunchyroll and type in demon. Like, fucking you're getting demons there first. You're getting... Well, that's what I mean. Demon School with the Ruma Coon, you're getting... Yeah, but Demon Slayer doesn't need to worry about the content. I'm saying, I wonder if they were like, hey, Demon Slayer is the biggest anime currently. Add an A. Hunter, that's all. I bet you that was a part of their consideration. It is crazy that Witch Hat Atelier is being pushed much harder. Yet, Demon Lord, Retry, Demon King, Diet, shit. There's so many. I feel like there's too many demon-based titles. First off, we could also just be wrong. This could be a Japanese thing. Like, maybe a demon is different from a demon. You think so? I don't know. I mean, they kind of seem to be the same thing. I mean, Daemon is a character in... Daemon is a computer program that runs in the background, handling tasks with that direct interact. Yeah, Daemon is a computing thing. So it doesn't seem like it's anything. That's gotta be other things. Daemon, an ancient Greek religion, Daemon, ancient, ancient Greek, also spelled Daemon, D-A-E, mon, often refers to lesser deities. I looked up Difference Between, and the first suggestion is Difference Between Xanax and Valium. Listening too much Eminem. Maybe also if that's something that you're googling while having two pills in your hands, maybe start reconsidering your life choices. Maybe ask your doctor. Why do you have Xanax and Valium? Fuck it, either. They're both making you sleepy. Daemon and Daemon both derive from the Greek Daemon. Daemon, yeah. But have diverged in meaning. Daemon is typically an evil malevolent spirit, while a Daemon is generally a neutral, urban, evalent guardian. Yeah, it's a lesser deity. It's a lesser deity. Deity. But this one's fun. Deity's nuts. I'm so sorry. You really came out like that? I was scary, I was fucking, I felt like you were like, I feel like a Daemon take over you there. But yeah, he looks like the main character is in a weird familial relation with like four people in this fucking village. They're like, they show in the beginning, there's Twinsborn, and it's Black Hair Boy and Blonde Boy, and Blonde Boy grows up to be some weird combination of Alphonse and Edward Elric. Everybody vaguely looks like they're from Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, which isn't like that surprising, because in fact it's the same Angaka. It's pretty cool though. Oh yeah. Like I was watching and I'm like, ooh, we're back a little. We are objectively back. And I don't know, in the beginning it's kind of confusing because you see, I don't, what's Yoru? Yoru's the main character's name, I think. Whatever. I think it's Yoru is the main character's name. And he's looking up at airplanes and he's like, wow, two perfect dragon tails or whatever the hell. And then he walks back, and then he walks back. That's what he said, that's the line. Two perfect dragon tails or whatever the fuck. Whatever the fuck, whatever bullshit the elders fed me here. And then he walks back to a fucking feudal Japanese town and they're weaving water baskets and shit. Do you think they blow that? Like did you read volume one of the manga? I gave it to you. You have it. I do? I do. You know, I also have volumes of one through five of Kingdom. My god brother, I've been drowning in work that I've assigned to myself. Yeah, like in the manga, it is harder because you can't hear anything. So you see two strips across the sky and you see like rou, like in terms of a sound effect. And the guy goes, oh, dragon wind. And you're like, I remember when the manga first came out, everyone was pitching this as like a twist where it's like, oh, there are dragons. This is a fantasy and this and that. In the beginning of the episode though, you hear an airplane sound. 100%. That's the most airplane ass thing you've ever seen. And then later, it's tougher for them to avoid because I think they should just not have taken. On account of the helicopters? On account of the helicopters. And they have to be like, what's that sound? But like in the beginning of this, just take out that airplane sound and be like, oh, it's the two strips. Also, it's so far up, you probably wouldn't hear the airplane anyways. Yeah, unless they're next to the airport, you wouldn't hear. Which is a terrible place to build an incognito feudal Japanese town. Yeah, but so I thought it was weird. They kind of blow that twist instantly. I wrote, Jesus, aren't these guys culturally important? Why kill them? Because like, so immediately like, it's like you're introduced to Yoru, you're introduced to like the problem child, who's the black haired child. And then there's like, oh, sister, Lassa. Who's just like a sitting in a cage because, could she bit somebody or something? I don't fucking- She'd be cage sitting. She'd be cage sitting until she's fucking objectively not doing that anymore. And then she turns into blood sister. And then these people just start getting juiced. And it's like, I thought that we would treat these people like the North Sentinel Island. You've never heard of North Sentinel Island? Oh, is this like the one island? Well, first off, hold on, calm down, because it sounds like you're talking about a one piece arc. Check it. Absolutely, 100% does sound like a one piece arc. This is the island that like is completely primitive still. Yes, so it's an island off the coast of- Florida, I believe. Yes, off the coast of Florida, yeah. It's the Florida Keys. It's off the coast, it's like in between kind of like India and Vietnam. It's like a kind of near, I guess, the Andaman and Niko Bar Islands. But yeah, like a unperturbed human society lives there and you're not allowed to go there because like they're kind of studied. And so I'm like, oh, these people are just living a feudal Japanese life. Don't ask them questions. Well, they got fucking daemons there and they got like, it's not just like- Clearly, clearly not enough of them. Well, it's not like the US military is just like, oh, I found this place, let's seize it. It's clearly like- They're trying to get your room. Other Asa. Do you catch that? Other Asa. Other Asa, his sister who gets shot? Yeah. And then the woman who shoots her is like, I'm Asa? Well, yeah, I didn't know what the fuck was going on. And then blood climbs up the lady's leg. Yeah. It's like little Asa tried to restrain big Asa with her I'm now blood powers. I don't think that's the case. I think it's like a clone thing or a double thing or like, I only read volume one, I don't know. Oh, that's 10, you're telling me that we've covered more than 10 chapters of content in episode one? That'd be insane. Volume one should be 10 chapters. Well, yeah, I know a little more, but we don't know in volume one. What's up? Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. That's fair. That would be a lot to explore and just 10 chapters of content. It's like a twist or something, I'm sure. Yeah, I also said, oh, the sister died real hard. The blood is so gushy. Everyone who's getting bit or shot is the fucking, they're just bags of blood. The older sister? Like the one with the eye patch? Brother, the one who kills Asa. Oh, oh, older sister. I mean, I guess. He's like older Asa is my theory. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, cool. Old Asa just straight up looks like every humanculus fused together. Looks like if you took lost and like combined it with envy a little bit. And then shot him in the eye. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Who is, I guess, who has an eye patch? Is it Risa Hawkeye? No, it's fucking Wrath. Wrath has an eye patch. I thought one of the girls had an eye patch. With the, no, no, you're right. No, I'm thinking of the Armstrong. Oh, Olivia Armstrong. Yeah, but she doesn't, no. Yeah, it's literally Wrath lost in envy. Fused into a monkey. Just all of the monkey eye, which I guess would like kind of be the idea. Also very surprising of everyone to survive this raid. The MC's mom survives, which I guess, you know, you don't want to be the people, the person known as just like the mother killer. I suppose. That'd be like, I don't know, like the guy who made AOT like dropped a new, a new Monka. And then the first chapter is just another mom getting torn in half. That's like, I feel like we need to have conversation with the therapist at this point. Do you watch in sub or dub? Dub. Thank God. It was pretty good. I loved it. Yeah, it was pretty good. I have no complaints. Grandma or mom, one of those, the old lady. Did I watch this episode in like a fucking fugue state? I remember teeth. You know who I like? Who like, you know, my gobble girl. Her dub voice actor. Awesome. Would she just point it at buddy? Everybody's just like gobble. Yeah. Gobble. The inflections in her doge is like gobble, gobble. And I was like, this is, I get this is a bad person. You can't make me hate her at this point. Pretty fun. I love her. I'd say second cutest girl of the week. Behind Coco. Not even Coco. Not even Coco. We'll get into it. Did you watch which end dub? I watched. What? He came out today, brother. I'm telling you right now, when I watch anime, it barely registers if it's in English or Japanese. It's crazy. I like, I watch it and I'm like, I still have subtitles on even if it is dubbed. Cause like for some reason, the audio mixing on some anime is just fucked. Like it's just like, okay, cool. Like there's like explosions and I can't hear anybody. So I'm just reading anyways. So like if a voice clicks with me, I'm like, oh, that's fun. Like freeruns. Like I hold onto that voice. Anything done by like Alex Lee, you know, like fucking Jinwoo or any of those like Zenny two, like those stick with me. I'm like, oh, this is a really like, like when it was Alejandro Saab and Alex Lee in the infinity cast movie, I was like, oh, this is prime fucking voice acting. Everything else kind of goes straight under the bridge. That's fair. I'll tell you right now though, which had a teliers English dub cast. Awesome. Probably the most talented cast this year out of Dandanan. Yeah, really good. Or like this like. That's crazy for two episodes, but I'm gonna do it. I mean, just like everybody is doing fucking either great voices or like unique voices. Yeah. I agree with that sentiment where I'm like, I'll pick the language that sounds more unique. I like listened to Daemons of the Shadow Realm in a sub briefly. And I was like, this like lead character sounds like everybody. Like I gotta, I'll switch over. I love the dude voicing the main character. He sounds like he belongs in FMAB. Like he kind of sounds like a weird mix of Edward and Alphonse, cause Edward and Alphonse had such unique voices. Like I can still, like I have a tough time pulling voices like English voices in my head. I can hear Ed and Al in my head right now because of how hyper specific those voices were. Like I can't even, I probably couldn't even tell you Yoru's voice. I can have entire conversations with myself in Ed and Al's voice. I thought Yoru was pretty good. He was like funny. He had a good range. Like he was funny. He was sweet. He was intense. He goes through all this episode too. Yeah. I like when the dudes, there's like a bit where the guy's like, here take this necklace and go put it in the ground. He's like, why is everyone being so weird today? I'm just asking a question. And he goes to do it. He's like, there's a bunch of junk in the hole. He's like, take it out. He's just fucking, he's just trying to rip through it. Yeah, that was good. I also really like Gun Guy. Oh, they have like. A fucking Lo Zoro bandana dude, big fan. That dude was sick. I wonder if he has like powers or something. I mean, you can see the chompers. Yeah, you can see the chompers. So we might just be whatever the fuck the power sensitive is. I like how do you feel about the power system where it's like all in twos. It's a real undead unlock kind of deal. All in twos. There was the chompers. I mean, like I knew that the chompers. Well, he said all daemons come in twos. Oh, that's why there's left and right. It's left and right and the chompers want two individual daemons. Gotcha. They just happen to serve only one purpose. Yeah, like they literally need each other. Otherwise, what the fuck would they assume? They're all like that. Yeah, where it's like. I mean, my final note was, oh, no, the daemons are hot. I wrote. Not hot enough. They're hotter in the manga. Oh, they're hotter in the month. They're hotter in the manga. Yeah, I'm going to look up. I'm going to look this up on Shonen Jump right now. Yeah. What are you? Are you displeased with the guy or the girl left? Left or both? Both left and right are way hotter in the manga. This is just simply not on Shonen Jump. This feels like a fucking, what is it? Soesha, whatever one. Daemon left and right. I see if I can get the panel where they're like introduced and they're doing a little back to back sitch. I mean, the guy on the this is these are your goats. Them's my goat. These are your goats. Listen, I'll admit, I will sit here admit right now. The girl might be hotter in the manga, maybe. No, never mind. I can't ride with you on this. I think the guy's face is worse in the anime. The guy's face isn't great in the manga either. He looks like a lion in either case. He's also built like a square. Yeah, they are wide. Anyway, they are hot. I mean, yeah, they're very much hot. It's a little bit for him, a little bit for her kind of situation, which I guess has always been the cornerstone of the FMABs. I don't know if that's true. If it was a little bit for her, he'd be like more gojo-esque. That's fair. He's like a big Marcus Phoenix-looking motherfucker. That's fair. There is some for hers in FMAB. I mean, fucking Captain Armstrong. Or not Armstrong, I'm sorry. I think Mustang. Mustang is what I was looking for. And Hughes, people really like. Hughes, because he's a good father. I mean, there is the ultimate for her that dropped this week, by the way. Yeah, oh yeah. It is the most female gaze, more than gojo, more than ghetto, the most female gaze character ever complete, like ever penned to pay for. It's like if gojo were a librarian. And then he's British. And that is, it is literally like if they condensed every OC drawn by a horny fem cell on Wattpad, and they just boiled it down and made a character. And that would be quaffery. Or whatever the fuck, queefery. Or whatever the quaffery. Or whatever his fucking name is, which I would tell. Should we go to which I would tell you? Sure, I guess. Is it the next best? I would say so, because after that is invincible in Fire Force. Oh, come on. The final episode of Fire Force, you're putting below. Episode one and two of which I would tell you. Whatever, fine. The fucking drawing simulator. Come on. I also liked it. I thought this was great, but I also read the manga, the first volume of the manga. It's fucking gorgeous is what it is. It's real pretty. It's real pretty. It is, I mean, the fucking, the motion is fluid. The art style is fantastic. The voice dubbing is, I haven't heard the sub, but the dub cast is incredible. There is nothing to complain about from these first two episodes whatsoever. Dude, I really think this is gonna be like the Freeran killer. I think people are gonna be like, this or Freeran. Not that there needs to be a killer. Like it won't take views from it, but if we're being like, you know, in the way that like, when a new first person shooter comes out, people are like, oh, watch out, God. Yeah, yeah. I think if Freeran, a season of Freeran, and a season of this drop, and you know what? This year is anime awards. That's why there needs to be a Freeran killer. If Freeran is best anime of the year nominee, and this is best anime of the year nominee, then it becomes the discussion. And with how hard Crunchyroll is peddling, which had to tell EA, I do genuinely believe that they believe it will be like a anime of the year nominee. I mean, it's based on longest. By the way, me and Dana are gonna be talking about what we voted on for our Crunchyroll awards. Do you wanna do that for Patreon? No, we should do that. Okay. I don't know. Well, we have a game. We have a game. We have an Easter game that we'll be playing. Yeah, I don't know. I feel like that's like, we should talk about the Crunchyroll awards. Okay. Like on main. Well, then we'll do our Easter game for Patreon. Do you wanna tell everyone for the lead up here what the game is? Yeah, to did it better, Jesus the Christ or anime. It is? You're taking a call, bitch. Why, it's my fiance, she'll be okay. This is good podcast. Good podcasting. That's the beauty of making a non-live service, baby. It can be cut. It's a fucking Jesus Christ or anime. Okay, so if you wanna watch us play the Jesus Christ or anime game, subscribe to the Patreon. But yes, which had to tell the A. Man, this is, I like that. I like that take that this could be the free ring killer. Especially free ring coming off what is objectively not, it's obviously strongest season. I don't know. That's not objective. 100% not objective. You think people, because the best free ring content in my opinion is in this season. In season two, that's fair. I think the public opinion, we're all the people important for a crunchy roll vote or something like that, which we'll do our crunchy roll awards at the end of the episode. Those are the people that are probably gonna be like, I think season one was probably better, but that being said, I mean, people loved season two. I could see this running, this taking a little bit of free rings back. I think because it's like way more plot heavy, like you wanna see this kid fucking- Save her mom. Save her mom, do the witch shit. It's cozy, it's mysterious. It has a identifiable and like quantifiable power system. The power system's awesome. It's really engaging and exciting. That's what's interesting is that this, the last couple of years have been awesome for what I would call, like not female gaze anime, but like shonen that lead towards a female audience. Cause shonen inherently means like four young men, which was the inverse of Shoujo, which was four young women. And four young women, anime and manga primarily in the early 2000s was like dating, slice of life stuff, like Nana, other stuff like that. You can name one. Host club. Yeah, aura in high school. There's a bunch of them. Vagin, Rosario ex-vampire, there's a ton. I can list many Shoujo. Rosario ex-vampire is not for women. It's a harem anime. You're right. I'm not thinking that one. What's the other one? What's the other one with the vampires? Fuck, you want- Vonitas? Yes, Vonitas. That's the one I was thinking of. But yes, why do you know that Rosario ex-vampire- Cause I was horny. Because I wanted six girlfriends, idiot. It's my first like anime that isn't Pokemon or like a Toonami thing. Rosario and God every day, every day. Everything I learn about you teaches me what I exactly what I need to know. It was my first anime that my friend and I sought out on Netflix and watched it. That's so funny. Cause mine was fucking SAO and then immediately it was high school DXD. Ours was high school the dead. I think two, that was third for me. I didn't realize like SAO, there was a kiss. I saw like Austin on Kirito kiss and I was like, I didn't know these could make me horny. I was like, I want to see more of them kiss and then I just like looked up like action romance. And for some reason high school DXD top of the list. Man, anyways, speaking of the female gaze. Yeah, man, fucking Khwafri. Yeah, Kefri. Kefri. Khwafri. Kefri is like if you were like, man, Gojo needs to be more watt patable. Like this man, this man is British. They put him in a skin tight. Like he's always- Put him in like Toji's fit. Dude, and then there's a sequence when he gets back like to his Atelier, he lets his hair down. He takes a little princess cap off and he just ties it around his waist, his cloak and it's just him in a skin tight black. Cause girls don't want guys that are like huge and muscular or even necessarily naked. That's a thing. They want guys whose bones are broken. They want their jaws to be powdered. I want to smash him, dude. They don't want you even to be able to open your mouth cause it's always wired shut. But like they put him in like some, they put like some like slutty little spectacle on. He's got some weird fucking nose triangle jewelry thing. He's got one new sunglass, sunglass singular. He's got one sunglass, one reading glass. Yeah, for some reason. That's probably ruining his vision. I don't know, he's literally, it's like what we're talking about with the pirates. He's like a fucking eye patch ready. What do you think the odds are that he takes off that shirt and he's covering like engine style tattoos? I was going to say like scars or something because like he takes it off and it's like, oh, this is from when I was experimenting when I was younger and I got burned from all my sigils or something. I could see that. I want one character who has like half of a spell tattooed on one arm and the other and they do like that. The fucking you want, that's just, you want FMAB. Kind of where he's carved it into his hand. He had it on both, who was the bomber? He had it on both of his hands and when he clapped them together, there was the bomber. You're talking about the YA novel, Unwind? I know, I'm talking about the fucking bomber that Mustang works with and he's like a recurring antagonist in FMAB. Did you finish FMAB? Yeah, I have no idea what you're talking about. And when he clasped his hands, he has like one part of a seal on the other and one on the other. When he clasped his hands, he can use explosion alchemy. You're talking about every character. Are you talking about Edward Elry? I'm not talking about Edward. Oh, he can do it because like when he creates a circle with his hands because one of his body parts was left behind the gate, there was a guy who has half of a seal on one of his palms and half of a seal on the other one of his palms. And when he clasped them together, he can use explosion alchemy. Kimbley? Kimbley! Who's Kimbley? What do you mean? Oh, he's a reoccurring, he's a reoccurring antagonist. I'm pretty sure Greed takes him over at the end. Oh my God, is this the dude with the hat? Yes, it's the dude with the hat. Yeah, he keeps losing the stupid hat. You're right, I remember him. Well, they do it in this with shoes. Have you noticed that? Yes. Yeah, and that's sick. That sequence when fucking Queefrey comes back and he like scoops up Coco and he just, he taps his shoes like he's trying to get home from Never Never Land or whatever the fuck and he just boosts away, it was awesome. Do you like when she puts him in the same position, Vegeta puts Android fucking 19 in and tries to rip, let me show you something. Vegeta rips off arms. What? I remember Vegeta rips his dude's fucking arms off. I mean, I remember Vegeta ripping a dude's arms off. Remember when Coco does this to him? Oh yes, yeah, dude, she was putting up a struggle. Yeah, she was. I mean, if that guy was in six to 115 pounds, he probably would have stood a better chance. Listen, this first episode, listen, I was watching, I was like, this is a very female written manga. I understand that we're probably going in the right direction. First episode made me nervous a couple of times. There was a couple of moments where like Queefrey was holding up Coco. I was like getting like Howl's moving castle vibes because it was like, oh, this girl lives in like a rural area and she wants for a better life and she works in a cloth store and I was like, oh, kind of like Sophie. And then like a fucking, and then all of a sudden, like the fucking, the twink, fucking like alpha twink of all times appears and he floats in and he picks her up and he flies away. And I was like, this could be a vigilante situation where she just looks young and she's actually like 21. And then I started Googling ages. She's such a child. Hey buddy, and so is fucking Captain Celebrity's wife. I only got nervous once, because I did feel that, but there's a bit where he was like, here, cut this cloth for me. And then she goes like, and I get that she's nervous, but like the way it's animated and how like shiny she is and the lighting and stuff, I'm like, it's calm down here. Let's all settle. And then there's a moment where he just scoops her up and he's holding her and she's real little and you got this fucking like toxic, you know, like the fucking when there's like the alpha and like I'm trying to think of the reference here. Everyone's talking about like the guy with the huge shoulders and the girl with the impossibly skinny waist. I forget. It's beyond my level of brain rot. Anyways, she's this tiny little thing and he's huge and skinny and he's like holding her up in the air. And I was like, that's too romantic for how different, how differently aged these two people look. I think it's just the- I get that it was like a fatherly thing now. I think it's just a beautiful moment that happens to be shared by like- But that thing is like, I've been conditioned by years of anime to put my guards up when I see shit like that. And I was like, eventually, you know, like he lets his hair down at the Atelier and there's a bunch of little girls living at his place. And he's like, oh, I'm here to like help these girls learn magic. And I'm like, okay, cool, I can breathe now. The Shonen we watch have conditioned us to be like, uh-oh, an adult man is interacting with a little girl. That's literally why we've been on the edge of our seat with to be sentenced to be sentenced to, I've done it again. To be sentenced? Sentenced to be a hero because- I'd be sentenced to be a hero. It keeps happening. We've literally just been conditioned to be like, I want that little girl as clothed and as far from adults as possible, please. How do you feel about the power system? Also, have you read the first volume of the manga? I have not. You have it. Ownership does not mean I've consumed it, I'm sorry. I keep giving you these fucking manga. I read all of my manga exclusively on the Shonen Jump app. You like the power system, that's lame. I love, when she fucking greases Agate, right? I believe that's her name. Ag-o? Agat? Agat, okay. I don't like how I went about it. No, I don't either. I got the letters right. It's real on the fringer there. When she greases Agat is what I'm gonna refer to as. That's what she gets to be. And then she walks over and she's like, cause you drew this little sign thing on the side too much. I was like, let's fucking. I was already, I caught myself looking at sigils, just trying to decipher what they were. And I was like, I saw it, it was like, oh, this is the fire one. And it made a fireball, cause all of the signs were pointing inside. And then there was ones that were pointing outside. And I was like, I'm gonna be fucking getting tattoos of this. Dude, yeah, it's your type of power system where it's like the rules are so easy to understand, but also like. You can put some fucking, you can put circles on circles. Yeah, you can put some fucking stank on it. Like I love, like it's. I'm gonna read the first volume tonight and then I'm probably gonna read more so I can make a video tomorrow, breaking down the power system. It's one of the most exciting power systems I've seen immediately. Where I'm like, they break it down and I'm like, oh, I wanna just like sit here, look at these sigils and try and like figure it out. Like it's a riddle without them telling me. Cause I think I could. Yeah, it's really cool. Now that I know what the sigils are, like a wind, fire, water, light, like shit like that. I'm like, oh, I'm gonna try to deduce. I'll tell you right now, but I wouldn't do though, if I was in the witch hat atelier universe. Like it's so funny. Coco was like, oh, I'm starting to figure it out. The bigger the sigil, the more powerful it is. And the more detailed it is, the more complex the spell. And then she opens Cthulhu's page. And she's like, there's like, there's like an image of a dragon hugging the sigil. And it's like, it's like literally like a fucking the world's most complicated fern maze. And she's like, oh yeah, I'll trace this. She literally goes from like, wow, fire, scary, scary, scary. And then she's like, cool, I'm gonna learn Chinese now. And just starts like tracing the most complicated one possible. And then all of the, has the audacity, has the audacity to be surprised when our house becomes crystals. I love too. Cause the whole time leading up to it, Kefri's like, oh, well, let's see what kind of fabric cutter you are. And like very soft and in that register. And then he swoops in and he grabs her. And it's this like beautifully animated moment. You expect him to be like, don't worry, I've got you. And he's like, what did you do? I've never seen crystals before. Yeah, he fucking like really. Was that the dragon one? Why would you do the dragon one? It really gets into his range. And I was like, wow, I did not expect that from him. Yeah, cause he fucking had no options for like, how to save bomb from crystal death. I was honestly, this week, the fact that I watched a FMA be a mangaka story and the one who killed the mom wasn't that, that was crazy. This is such an FMA be ass opening. Oh my God. Yeah. There was also, oh dude, the two. Wait, did you catch the tea bag, Sally? I'm Coco, Coco draws her first Sally and then she, her first, uh, sigil and then immediately afterwards, she just goes, she goes, yes, yes. No, I didn't know. She just goes, yes, yes. So funny. I didn't know it. She just tea bagged her, like tea bagged her chair or something. It's so funny. Yeah. I love her two friends at the Atelier. It's a, it's a clat. It's the most classic setup of girls I've ever seen him. I literally had to pause the episode to look if they had the same hair colors as the Powerpuff girls because that's how like archetypally they fell in. I was like, oh, well there's like, where there's the over eccentric fucking pink haired one and there's the sullen, there's the sullen genius one or no, the sullen like, uh, like withdrawn one. And then I was like, we're only missing one thing. Yeah. Where's the mean one? I was like, there's a mean genius somewhere that needs to be found and then immediately swept down. Yeah. I love the blue haired one, the sullen one. Yeah. Adorable. I like that she's vaguely Scottish inexplicably. They're all vaguely something. Yeah. Well, Kefri's British. British as fuck. Yeah. Which is like whatever that's like expected for a man who looks like that. The cherry on top of the female gaze is what the fuck it is. I expected that when the pink and blue haired ones turned out to be like Irish for some reason, I was like, and that's what sold me. I listened so ago or what is it? A god. Because I thought her name was a god. And I was like, I get why she has a complex. Yeah, I also would. She's very much British. She's whatever her quaffery is. And then like the, yeah, the blue haired one is like vaguely Scottish. The pink haired one is nothing. Like nothing. She's whatever Sanji is in the live action. It is a new accent. And the worst part about it, it's like fucking Uncanny Valley. And I'm like, it sounds like it's from somewhere, but they made a new one. And it doesn't sound like someone's making up an accent. That's the craziest part about it is it sounds like someone would sound, but no one sounds like that. It's crazy. And she's just from a country you've never heard of. Maybe. She's just like from Croatia. I mean, maybe. Because it sounds like English is like vaguely her second language. Like it's like, oh, like she speaks English really well, but she's like three years away from not having an accent. It sounds like she's hiding an accent. Yes. Like she's trying to just be American. She went to a vocational school and like learned to get rid of her accent, but didn't do it all the way. And it's, she's my favorite. Really? I like pink hair girl. I mean, of course, you know, if we had to assign our types here, you're the withdrawal. I'm the one bouncing around. The one with the blue hair, she said something that was so cute. I forget what it was. She's just like, I don't know, her line deliveries are really funny. This is gonna be very interesting for me because this is the first time you've ever shown any remote amount of interest in a cute girls do cute things anime. Cause they're doing things. I, I, that's a thing. It's never, it's never, it's not called cute girls do fucking sick, awesome gun related things. The issue is the shows you watch are cute girls do fucking nothing. It's a general term. You can do, it can be in a band. It can be, it can be lightly poison yourself. It can be try to pass a school. Yeah. I, I mean, this is just literally the owl house. Yes. Also, every, and I say this in my reaction. Without the balls to make the characters lesbians. We don't know yet. That's fair. No one. It's episode one. I hope, I hope we're not shipping any of them. They are 10 years old. They do be young. Oh, I did, I said this in my reaction because I'm taking a crack at reacting to this. Yep. Taking a crack back to reality, react into the, a telier. I can't imagine it won't do well. Oh, if it gets fucking sniped from the copyright police. Well, there's definitely that as well. I said this in my reaction. Make your new Patreon anime. I sent it. I sent it. I don't want to remember. Oh, it's all we. Oh wait, let me, let me, let me, let me, I'll try and find it. It's not back to reality real quick. No, let me, I'll try and, I'm in there. I'm in there. I'm, I'm Danny Mod. I'm reacting to which had its L.E.A. Well related to what we're just talking about. No, shut up. I'm, Danny, I'm channeling. Shut up. Okay. God, it's like he's here now. Whoa. Happy those hats don't have masks. Huh? Cause they're white and pointy. No, no, why? It's not me. Sorry. Hold on. Oh, he's in me. He's in me. I didn't like your first attack. He's in me. Um. I'm sweating. Keep going. You're doing it. That's the sound of Sam learning to swim in a Hilton resort pool. Oh, that's delicious. Mmm. And that's the sound of Sam and his family enjoying dinner in the hotel restaurant. Good evening. Welcome back. With stays in your favorite destinations and everything taken care of, you can savour what's important. When you want your holiday to feel like a holiday, it matters where you stay. Book now at hilton.com. Hilton for the stay. Oh my God. All right. Whoa. Found the next guy I'm going to be weird about. I don't, I lost him. I lost him. I like the mask. They almost something funny. I liked the mask one. Fuck you. And I'm funny. It's hard. I'm not a good actor. Anyway, fuck it. This sucked. I hated this. I liked it. What? Yeah, I really liked this. This was cool. Oh, it's literally just the owl house. There's a string on your case. What's happening here? Oh, it's falling apart. Were you after? This is a new case? No. That's why it's falling apart. You gotta, you gotta peel that whole thing. You just gotta, you gotta let it rip. I don't wanna. You gotta let it rip. I gotta let it rip. You're right. You just gotta speak my language. That was awesome. But, you know what's sick about this power system? What? Outside of the fact it's just the owl house? Feel free to agree or disagree. What do you think? Hey, do you think that maybe you wanna? I don't know. I live in- Which came first? I live in, oh, that's a great question. I mean, because the owl house isn't that- Neither is this. It's neither of these are that. Which had to tell you a, oh, this is a question. But I also don't think the owl house like invented pictome magic. No, obviously not. But like, what's- They're similar. What's not sitting here and acting like these stories are all that different? Yeah. Chapter of which had Atelier come out. That would be July 2016. I think this is older. This is older. Wow. This is older by a lot. Wow. This could be the kind of thing that Dana Terrace would be reading. Whoa, yeah, it would. I mean, Luz is an anime fan. Luz is an anime fan. A big time anime fan who reads books about witches. Whoa. Whoa, indeed. Yeah, is that what that's about? Is that just like a fucking- She likes a series. She's very specifically likes a series of books. Is that what it's referencing? Is this? About, I mean, maybe. That get her out of hot water. If she's like, yeah, obviously it's inspired. I reference it in my show. It's literally a core talking point of Luz, the main character. Interesting. Anyway, feel free to agree or disagree. So I think you'll have an interesting take. Okay. I love this power system so much because I feel like in a lot of power systems, an issue arises where it's like, how do we define strength? And it's always so vague. Like after the last airbender, for an easy example, if two earth benders are like, one kicks up a big boulder, he's gonna throw it at the other guy and the other guy catches it with bending. And now we're doing tug of war with a boulder. What determines who gets control of that boulder? Miniclorians. Well, right. But that sucks. But it's like, in avatar, is it like, because you see them working out and obviously like airboxing, like shadowboxing requires a lot of stamina. So it makes sense to work out. The tug of war thing is the worst part about ATLA because a lot of the combat when you see like benders fighting each other is like, oh, how do I out strategize them? That's what I really like about Korra with like the disc battles. Because the earth benders are like specifically have ammo that they're trying to use to like knock each other out. Well, that's where you fix the strength thing. It's being like, it's not about strength, it's about skill and strategy. Last week, our friend Amos talked about JJK where they're like, what determines, oh, he can get thrown through a building and take this cursed energy attack, but can't take this cursed energy attack. And the answer is like, oh, well, he has more cursed energy. And that isn't fun. That's not a fun aspect of a power system because it literally, that's what ruined Dragon Ball. Is it any moment you could be like, oh, well, this guy has a higher power level. This is great. Because it's all about how fast you can draw. Yeah, well, witch hat atelier is great because it's how fast you could draw, but also how neat you can draw. And so it's like the spell is more effective if it's drawn neater. And that's a relatable skill system to everybody because we all know people, we've all tried to draw something. We all know someone who can do it really well. And faster. And faster. Or vice versa. It can either be really fast so you can spam light attacks or it can be incredibly detailed, but it might take more time. And then what's cool is, I feel like with witch hat atelier, you probably get into this area where people will draw a sigil, right? And then just not do the final bit of the circle. Kind of like how Luz in the Owl House obviously is like the only person in the world who doesn't have magic, but she gets around that by carrying around sigils. But the way that she, you don't activate a sigil until you slap it. And so she gets to carry around all these pieces of paper and she gets really creative by combining sigils. And she doesn't have to worry about not completing the circle because she can complete the circle and smack it whenever. And so you can be creative. There can be that strategy aspect, but at the same time, let's say you run out of prepared sigils, now it's like, oh, we're in a fucking, we're in a drawing battle here. You gotta reload. And also there becomes a layer of like, say, right, we're in a drawing battle. I'm way better at drawing than you are like neat wise in a vacuum. You know, like we're just an art class. My sigils come out better than yours. We're now fighting and it's life or death. If I'm worse under pressure than you, you have the advantage because my shit's gonna come out sloppy because I'm shaking and I'm nervous. Yeah, or if you tend to use more complicated spells. Like if you're trying to combine multiple things, I'm just like, oh, I didn't ask how big the room is. I said fireball. You know, I fucking, and then I just light your paper on fire. It's that easy. Like there's so much depth to it. And at no point, at least as far as I can tell yet, there's no point where it's like, well, the power system's bullshit because of this, like, and this breaks it. Like, I only see possibility. My only fear is forbidden magic. Cause like there's, there's like, the universe's power system exists within a confine right now where it's like, there's five different kinds of sigils. And like maybe you can combine fire and ice or fire and water to make steam, like shit like that. And I could see like, it's like keke genkai in the Naruto universe. Like you can combine elemental releases to get like, you can combine water and light to make, I don't know, fucking neon or some shit. And so like there's capacity in there, but then like it's kind of like special specialists in Hunter Hunter. Like there's like nen categories. And Hansers, there's transmuters. There's like people who make shit, conjurers and shit like that. And it's like, okay, cool. So like if you're an enhancer, you can get stronger. If you're a conjurer, you make shit. And then 1% of the population gets to be specialists and they do everything. They can have a fucking, they can have a diary that reads the future. They can have a book that feels other people's abilities and it doesn't fall within the confines. So it's like the bullshit category. And so like because of how much like Coifrey talks about that's like, like fucking forbidden. Like you can't heal people. You can't change people's bodies. I feel as though there's a huge part of magic that's unexplored and probably falls without the bounds of like elemental releases as I would call them. That makes sense. So there could be capacity for bullshit. I'm kind of curious about it. Right. Cause like what the fuck is crystals? Probably earth. Yeah, it's earth. But like, and then like you saw how complicated that sigil was. So it's like at a certain point, the complication reaches a level where like without a college grade thesis, you can't explain why it looks like that. That's fair. I mean, yeah, we are in like the basic elements of a system of it right now and it could get bullshit. But yeah, like I think as long as they adhere to some type of like circular alphabet and don't break out of that, then it's like, then it works. The way the test of the true test of like me like sinking my teeth into this power system immediately is when they described the sigils and they're talking like, oh, this is fire, light, water, all that. I thought about rewinding and looking at all of the sigils that she showed in her picture book. And I'm like, I wanna try and deduce what that does before I ever get it revealed to me. Right, I love, do you like the ring system too? Where it's like the middle one's the element, the outer one's like direction and potency and like the last one's confirmation. Yeah, that was awesome. I also like, she was like, oh, she's like, oh no, it didn't work and like her circle's not complete. The first thing I would have thought of. Yeah. Are you, you're trying to do magic without finishing the work? What are we doing? This is such a like kind of complex power system. And the easiest part to understand is that everything is a circle and she can't grab her head around that. Yeah, and then fucking Guapher's gotta be like, yeah, finish your drawing here. Yeah, and goes hose that chick. Yeah, yeah, and she's just fine with it until teacher's gone. Yeah. She's just gonna stab her at some point here. But yeah, I said, what does the female fans, I said, what does female fans surface look like? Oh, I don't know, maybe the six, three white haired, twink in a latex body suit who cooks and cares for her students. Yeah, I mean, what, which I had to tell you, hey, awesome. Awesome entry. Oh, that's why Crunchyroll is pushing it. I think it's gonna be the best anime of the season. I mean, it's. That's my official prediction. Wow. Best anime of the season, which had a tillier between that, Daemon's and the Shadow Realm. I mean, it's pushing this over Daemon's because of manga sales, you know? Like that's how they determine it. Yeah, I mean, also I think more people are like waiting for it. Like Daemon's wasn't nearly as popular as FMAB. I'd be curious to see, cause this isn't gonna get like, it's not gonna get the standard shonen bump. Like I was talking about the talking point I had earlier where I was like, oh, like female focused shonen has become so much popular in this era. Cause like previously I would say the only like true female, and not like, it doesn't even, like it doesn't have to be female centric, but like one that more like appeals to a female audience, FMAB, and then after that. Madoka. Madoka, yeah, Madoka, but Madoka is a magical girl. So like that even borders on like, that's like not even necessarily shonen. That's closer to shoujo. Yeah, I mean, magical girl is like, well shonen is just. It's broad. Yeah. Magical girl is like, the closest you get to like, girl demographic shonen. Yes, exactly. But like would Sailor Moon be a shonen? Probably not. It's a shoujo. Sailor Moon's absolutely a shoujo. Well, I mean, yeah, literally. But I mean like. In terms of a blending, like a gray area between it, yeah, magical girl definitely draws the line. And these are just like arbitrary like, terms, you know. None of it actually matters and or exists, but I'm saying is that there's been like, we're in a relative Renaissance era of like, you being like, oh, is this the Freerun Killer? And it's so interesting because like, we don't look at like, oh, is JJK the solo leveling killer? Like those two things can lead, like if they were up against each other. I don't think that's true. It's because that would never be the case. Yes. It's more like, is Chainsaw Man. Is the JJK killer? Is Chainsaw Man the JJK killer? What? Like, it's, you put up solo leveling and JJK together. And that's just not comparable. So you need a story for solo leveling that's like comparable or it's like focus a power fantasy anime that focuses on an individual character. Like I'm pretty sure I said that about Shangri-La Frontier. What is it though? I was like, this is the solo leveling killer. That's actually, that's a really good point. I was like, if somebody, I'm pretty sure I said, if somebody came up to me and was like, oh, I'm gonna get into solo leveling. I'd be like, don't watch Shangri-La Frontier. Cause it's better. And then we fell off it because it had one episode. And then our editor, like he does every single season was like, you guys should not have abandoned this. And I was like, thank every anime gets 10 minutes of bad air time and then it loses me forever. No, it's just because I'm a JJK laser now. Like there hasn't been an anime that I think would be the JJK killer. But the reason I say a Freerun killer, and you're right that like, there is probably misogyny rooted in it because I'm like taking Freerun and putting in its own like pocket. Whereas I'm considering like all of the other shown and like, this is all of anime and Freerun's like its own thing, you know? But it's because there was last year that whole debate of like, oh, so leveling a Freerun and also anytime you talk about Freerun, everyone stops you and was like, Freerun's a masterpiece. So it's like Freerun is currently sitting at this like legendary, oh, it's an 11 out of 10, nothing is better than it. And so I inherently wanna be like, well, have you seen Witchat? Something could fucking cut out at Sekilles here. Yeah, exactly. I just think it's cool that we're in a time now where we have so many of these like, oh, this is more skewed towards like a woman audience. That it's like, oh, Apothecary Diaries, Witchat Atelier, Freerun, Dungeon Meshie. Like all of these more like very popular with women shown in Leaning Stories. It could be like, oh, fucking like, what a renaissance for this time. I think that's probably emblematic of like, just more women getting into shown in anime and manga to begin with over the last 10 or so years. Yeah, it's either that or just like studios dropping sexist notions and being like, well, women wouldn't like fighting, you know? Like that's Western stuff is like that too, where like the reason there aren't a lot of like female led superhero movies. And there used to be like none is because producers and executives were like, no one's gonna watch a Wonder Woman movie. Like no one's gonna watch, you know, it took until Black Panther, between Blade and Black Panther, there is a huge white vacuum of no black led superhero movies. Oh, that was the thing about women, but yeah. Well, like women and like minorities. Cause we got that Electro Movie. It was just really bad. Yeah, it didn't help. No, yeah, they were like nevermind. We're never doing this again. Yeah, but it's like, yeah, I think studios are like, oh, we are seeing large female demographics watching Demon Slayer and watching like Attack on Titan. We can do, you know, take themes that are highly rated in a female demographic anime like romance and sprinkle in some like male demographic stuff like action. I wonder if it also, like it's kind of like in waves thing though. Like, so like you see FMAB coming out and the FMAB came out in like the late 2000s, early 2010s as a manga. And then you're like, okay, so like this is a prominent and then Sailor Moon, obviously, like two prominent female Mongakas who write stories that are like shown in Leaning, as opposed to Shojo Leaning, that are more popular amongst women. And then in the case of Sailor Moon, we're talking it's been 30-ish years, but in the case of like FMAB. Probably been like 40 years. Sailor Moon's nine. Ninety. I bet the manga actually probably came in the 80s. Yeah. But like you get these kids who grew up, like probably these girls who grew up with these stories, then being like, I'm gonna get into anime, I'm gonna get into manga, I'm gonna work on it. And then that brings this like renaissance. So it really comes back to the Sailor Moon and the FMABs. Yeah. I'm trying to think of like other female led manga from like the 90s and early 2000s. I mean, there's also something that's always stuck with me since we did that anime IRL shoot of like, Find the Weeb or whatever, where it was like 20. This girl, this girl I quote monthly. Cooked our ass. I do. She was sick. She was cooking. Didn't cook us fortunately. We just clapped in the back. We snapped in the background, but fuck. I quote her a lot. She cooked me without knowing it because I had like several moments of like, I never thought of that. Oh dude, she was incredible. She was awesome. For context, we did a anime IRL shoot that was like. Find the Weeb. Find the Weeb. It's like nine. No, find the anime hater is what it was. Okay, find the anime hater. It's like nine people who love anime and one person who doesn't, but they're all saying they like anime. And the hater is pretending to like anime. And there was like so many, it was like mostly men and a couple of girls. And we had two girls, yeah. And so many of the men were like, yeah, it's just, you know, like what's great about anime is that like, there are a lot more anime nowadays that like women can enjoy and this and that. And there's a lot more female led protagonists and at one point she's like, there have always been female anime protagonists. You guys just aren't watching them, you know? We're just considering like. That's not even the quote from her. I fucking, I quote. Dude, there, a lot of the dudes were like, oh yeah, anime's getting better now cause like women are getting stronger. And she, and she like they're quoting like Mariliona and like all these other like strong like female characters. And she's like, you assigning value to a female character in anime based off her strength is a male centric way of assigning her importance. And I was like, oh dude, I got fucking shivers. I was like, that just reframed how I, like she wasn't talking to me. Right, yeah. But I was like, oh my God. I was like, sorry. I immediately was like, my opinion has been incorrect for years. No, but like that's what I mean where it's like, yeah. It's so like, I have to. We're gonna have her on the podcast. We gotta find her. I got to reprogram my thinking sometimes where I'm like, I consider all the anime I watch which are like the biggest anime of every season as like all anime. And then I'll watch like, you know, or on high school host club. And I'm like, yeah, like, Horohe's gotta be like one of the best female protagonists of all time. She's so like respected and independent and like competent and all the comments are like, this is just a romance anime. Like a lot of them are like this. You won't believe it, but like both parties need to be intelligent, to be shippable. When it's 24 episodes of them may be holding hands. Yeah, but so anyway. You gotta watch the, you gotta watch the fucking the flower blooms with dignity. The frequent flower blooms with dignity. Yeah, you gotta watch Love on the Prism, bitch. Love on the prism? Yeah. Is that a fucking a triangle version of Love on the Spectrum? Shockingly, it has nothing to do with Love on the Spectrum. Despite technically translating to Love on the Spectrum. It really does. Like especially you're talking like Pink Floyd fucking album covers. No, it's just an anime. Sarah and I got sucked into accidentally this week. Love that. It'll be my best boy. Love on the prism. All right. That's witch had telly A. So should we talk about Fire Force? Okay. You think Fire Force was better than Vincivel? I'll give it to you. I'll give you whatever you want, huh? This shit means. Listen, I, listen, I, the most rose colored glasses of all time, dude, cause like I got so sentimental. I got so, I was like pounding my, we'll talk Fire Force cause Invincivel's episode is fucking insane. I was like pounding my chest by the end of this episode. I was, you know what I mean? It was like, this shit means something to me. I was getting to the end of Fire Forces. I was like, this shit means something. They're showing fucking, they're showing Excalibur and his little cape. They're showing Blair as a cat running around, death pops up, he makes death the kid. They're showing Black Star. They're showing fucking, they're showing, what's his name, Soul? Oh yeah, can we talk about that? I also forgot his name. Is it Soul? It's not Soul. Soul is the main character. But I was talking, I was talking, they're showing Maki's creepy weird ass dad. Is that who we're talking about? Yeah. Who just loves, he just loves fucking like bartenders. Yeah, they don't, they don't let anybody say anything cause all the voice actors are either canceled or too old. 100%. Can we talk about that though? Because the revelation that Fire Force or that Soul leader happens only 30 years after Fire Force. Yeah. Where's all the Fire Force characters in Soul Leader? They're out like, so like, so Soul leader itself focuses like almost entirely on Tokyo. Yeah. Like that's like the crazy part of Tokyo. And they're so like Shinra's in charge. He is like the head, he's like captain in chieftain of like it's like the fire, like he's just out in the world. The global hero brigade. That's what it is, the global hero brigade. So he's just not in Tokyo. Yeah. And like everybody else is like still out and about. He's out with Arthur, Obi's old. Like a lot of them are also old. Cause like Arthur's 45. And also like that's, they're like, oh 35 years later or whatever. Everyone's still kids. So like Soul leader probably happens like 45 years after. Well, no, this isn't, it's 20. Yeah. Well, it's 20 years later. Yeah. It's 25 years later. Yes. And then all the Soul leader kids are like. Kids. Yeah. Like six or seven. But they're only like 12 in Soul leader. Fair. So it probably happens like 30 to 32 years after. So Shinra would be like early fifties. My biggest, if this is a like 98% perfect ending. Yeah. The fuck up is that this should take, Soul leader should take place like 300 years later. Yeah. It should be way off into the future. We're like, not only has it been proven that what Shinra did was correct, but also like there's no chance you ever see these characters. Well, they're also just like so many people still alive who know what the world used to be. Yeah. I'd say probably the majority of the population. Yeah. Most of the world is like, hey remember when death wasn't like alive and speaking to us? That's. It's too close. That's a good point. It's a whack. That Soul leader is 30 years after Fireborn. I never thought of that because like, they show all the new characters, right? And they're like, oh, 20 years later. And like there's people that were very clearly born in, like everybody in Soul leader was very clearly born in the new world. Is anyone old in Soul leader? Yeah. Tons. Maki's dad. Maki's dad, whose name is, it's not Soul. It's fucking something. It's spirit. Spirit is dead. Yeah. Her dad. Spirit is like shown and he's probably 25ish at that time. Okay. Yeah. Who's the oldest person in Soul leader? Cause they have to remember. Stein? No, he's not that old. Stein's like spirit's age. He just has gray hair. Yeah. Who's the oldest? That's the question. Who's old in the Soul leader universe? Frankel the scientist? Everyone's staying inside. But that's just because, that's just because he has Frankel Soul leader. It's not as anybody character I remember. That's gotta be Stein, right? Frankel's. Oh yeah, Frankenstein. Yeah. He's just, he's the strongest mice or graduate from the death weapon camp. Yeah, because it's like when it was ending. Cause people ship spirit and Stein. Very popular ship. We're talking about a different guy. Spirit, spirit sucks. That's Maki's dad. He's a bad guy. He's a bad guy, but people still, first off, not the perception people have on the internet of them. People are real horny for spirit dog. He's too horny. Isn't he like a weird creep? Yeah, he's weird and creepy towards Maki. He's not his daughter? Yeah, I think so. No, he's weird and creepy towards like waitresses. From what I remember, he's weird. He's just constantly surrounded. Like he's like, oh man, I miss my wife. And then he goes to sleep through the 20 year old. Yeah, okay. That's a shtick. Yeah, okay. It's been a minute. Yeah. Yeah, well when this is ending, when Fire Forces wrapping up and they're like, they do 25 years later. That's a really good point. And they do 25 years later and Shinra's like 40 and Arthur's 40 and they're showing them all. And I'm like, whoa, this is sick. And you see like Arthur and Shinra's kids. And I'm like, whoa. And Shinra's got two with different color hair. Did you catch onto that? Well, that could happen. Oh wait, no, you're right. Wow, that's so funny. Yup. Cause Shinra's like, I'm not gonna have a harem. And then does. And then just simply does. So funny. Yeah, one of his kids looks like fucking, one of his kids looks like Sister Lily, one looks like Inka. That's so funny. I mean, fuck it. Well, sometimes it doesn't work out with one person. Oh no, it's absolutely he just put a baby in or he ends up with Sister Lily. Um, they're showing them all like as older adults and showing their kids. And I'm like, whoa, this is a big deal. Is this like setting up a sequel to Fire Force but another like a Fire Force like Boruto? Perhaps I, I didn't even think about it. And then it cuts to all the soul eater characters. And I'm like, what the fuck are you doing? I didn't even think about that. They're right. They show fucking, they show Shinra's kids who looks like Tommy or Timmy or whatever the fuck from Tokyo Avengers. They looks like the lead, the lead fucking bike clansman from Tokyo Avenger and then Inka's kid as well. And then you're right. And they just, they're not in soul eater. They're just like, look, it's Shinra's kids and then there's gone. Yeah, I thought they were setting up like fucking Borutra, Binra. I thought they were setting up Binra and Shorthair. Yeah, Binra and Shorthair is great. That sounds like Pokemon though. Binra's a fucking earth type Shinra's a grass type. Well, so does Boruto. Fair. But yeah, when they start cutting to the soul eater characters, I'm like, what are you fucking doing guys? Do you have another series potential right here? Where are Shinra's kids in soul eater? Shinra Kuskabe's children from the end of Fire Force become ancestors and progenitors to the soul eater world. Rather than appearing directly as characters in it. Yeah, no, this is. That's wrong. This is just wrong. This is just, yeah. Shinra father's kid with Inka and Iris, who create new lineages in the rewritten world. Yeah, fucking have fun proving that. There's a thing in Fire Force's last chapter that says in a long distant future. Removing that is fucking insane. Oh, really? Yeah, apparently. I don't remember. So for TikTok, just in case. Chat says there's a thing at the end of the Fire Force manga that says in a long distant future before showing the soul eater characters. Gotcha, so it's like 25 year cut. Here's where everyone from Fire Force is. And then it's like in a long distant future. Everyone's dead, don't worry. Now we're doing soul eater. Removing that from the anime is fucking insane, right? Did they remove that from the anime? You didn't catch it? I certainly didn't catch it. I've also read the manga. I should have had these answers. Yeah. How would you feel about the ending otherwise? I have a lot of notes apparently. Awesome, so good. So much fun. It's a great ending. I love Karan and Hamea's ending. I love like Shinra bringing Karan to like bring Hamea out. Hamea peeking her little head out and being like bringing Karan out was cheating. I almost cried. It was adorable. I love that Inka becomes a fucking crazy witch. I love that Orochi, the girl who makes like crazy zombie infertals is apparently the most stacked character in the entire universe. My God, had I not recognized that. I just, it's this silly feed into soul eater. And like I could imagine being like this is such a Disney ass ending if you don't like soul eater or if you haven't seen soul eater but just watching it blend and watching Shinra be like I don't need these powers anymore. And then he spits out his mom and show and he creates a God. And the God is like, I, he's like I had to materialize the concept of death because otherwise people would make a new form of despair. But if we'd make a guy and he's kind of wacky everyone will like treat death as like a thing. Not like a look, an inevitability. You know what I just realized? What? Have you finished the third Mistborn book? No. I got really sad before I got on Lexapro and the book was really sad. And I was like, I am, I'm sad in general and I'm fucking, and then I'm just listening. And it's them being like more ash today. They're like, the crops don't grow anymore. And I was like, I need to listen to a funny football podcast. Can I spoil it for you? I'm sure. Spoilers for the third and possibly best Mistborn book. It ends the exact same way. I don't want the spoiler. What the hell? I realized now that you can tell them. I just realized now that I'm Lexapro I can actually probably listen to the ending of it. There's no point in telling them these freaks. You tell them. I don't wanna. Okay, fine. You can tell them. I'll make a TikTok. Oh my God, it's so much louder without your ears plugged. I didn't really. That's the point. It was like kind of nice in there, dude. I'll make a TikTok about it. I'm gonna make a TikTok. I think I'm autistic. It's happening. I immediately, I was like, I was so nice. We like, it was quiet. I felt comforted. It's gonna come in with headphones every bite. My diagnosis. Oh no. I do love crowds though. Anyway, unrelated then to Mistborn. I wrote my first notice. I forgot how flute funky solo eater was. Solo leveling eater. I hardly know her. Colin, I hardly know her. A solo eater. That's just me in a buffet. You like that one? That's hardly. I like that one. It's so flute funky. It's like the soundtrack. Yeah, it's like brand and air. And it's like flutin' away. Soundtrack's great. Shinra goes, I resurrected the world but made one major change. I made everything a little bit goofy. Yeah, dude. You made debt less important. It's awesome. But people still die. People still die. But like, there's none as afraid. That's like, Obi can open his neck. And the guy who got his head sliced off can just pot, his head just does that. Like JFK. Chiron, Bazinga. Chiron goes, the world's end may be the climax. I forgot to mention, climax. But that doesn't mean you have to climax. And then one person goes, that was a good one. Shut up. I thought first off, absolutely was. First off, in this climate where everyone's maxing something, the ending of JJK, including a climax or an ending of Fire Force, including a climax, fantastic. I'm climaxing. I'm climaxing right now. Watching this episode, I was almost climaxing. That was you reading Mistborn, book three. Yeah, literally. I couldn't do another, like a fire happened today. You're not going to believe it. Even the fungi won't grow anymore. I'm walking my dog. It's the middle of the winter. I'm like, I need to stop. Yeah, I wrote, this is the literal big titty committee. In Homeya's head, just like four naked women. Oh, yeah, dude. And just being like, hey, are we going to come back to life? And being like, nah. Oh, I'm sorry. The world just got made into fucking, wow, what was that old? It was like a competitor to Wizards 101. Toontown, Pirates 101. No, got turned into Toontown. I was like, real life just got turned into Toontown. You don't want to go see what that's about? Yeah, also the literal big titty committee is, I also wrote, this is what Ben hoped to being inside of Alien X would look like. What, he just pops in and he's just like, there's just, there's tits everywhere. Instead of just two big like masks, it's like these four naked women. I love that you think I know what you're talking about. Do you bring up Alien X every fucking month? I know what Alien X is. I've watched Ben 10. Ben 10 was like right at the end of my Cartoon Network era. And so I've seen some of it as a kid. So I know Alien X, but boy, oh boy, can I not reference it. That's like when I sent you that clip the other day of Gigant-a-more or whatever the fuck, just ripping a dude in half. Comedic timing was incredible. Humongous sword? Yeah, humongous sword. Dude just gets tossed over, humongous sword just opens his guts up. It's like Kevin 11 is beating the piss out of a dude, like really working hard at it. And then kicks him over to humongous sword who just carries him in half. Dares him directly in half. It was awesome. I wish Scaliber was sillier. Scaliber gets lines and he's like, he says some serious shit. Yeah, he's just like, you're gonna die soon. When he's with Arthur apparently, he doesn't have to be stupid. Did you catch the 4242564? No. When death is like- I'm not a fucking Russian sleeper, each. Yeah, he's just grab a spoon. I think it's American ultra. No, death when he leaves. He's like, call 4242564, which is like a thing that's referenced all throughout Soul Eater. And it's because the Japanese pun, 424264 when you say it in Japanese sounds like kill, kill, death. So that's why if you wanna call death, you say kill, kill, death basically. 4242564. And if you turn it upside down, it says boobs. Not even remotely closed, but yeah. Did you catch all of the Soul Eater? Like, did you see Blair? Yeah, I got enough of him for a guy who's like 17 episodes into Soul Eater. That's fair. I saw when Black Star was literally on screen. Yes, yeah, there's literally just characters all there. I like that death when he zips away, his big dumb hand comes out. So that's the end of Fire Force. Do you wanna talk? Oh, I wrote nice, Inka's dressed is everyone's favorite pedophile. She's wearing like Blair's outfit. Oh God, that was, yes, okay. My brain immediately went to Hisoka and I was like, she's just nowhere. I guess I didn't do a poll. I don't know who everyone's favorite is. I feel like it's either be a tight race actually. It's Blair. Not nearly as popular as Hisoka. You undersell the popularity of Hunter, Hunter every chance again. You and everyone at your VA meetings are the only people who watch Hunter, Hunter. My veterans affair. Yeah. I'm just there. I'm shook. I remember the dark content. You and everyone at the VA. They were in the trees. Hearing you talk about Hunter, Hunter is like hearing my neighbor talk about the Elks Club and all the people. Elks, dude, I for some reason got to go to the Elks Club when I was a kid, awesome. Awesome, they had a pool. Yeah, it was great. It's a bunch of people smoking inside and gambling. It's the best. And then my last notes, are the moon and sun gonna do that like all the time? Are you sure your 17 episodes into Soul Leader? That's like what I wish someone said. Gotcha. When they went like ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. And they were like, hey, is it too late to redo this one one more time? Too silly. A couple of constructive criticisms here, buddy. Anyway, how do you rate Soul Leaders ending? Fire Force? Fire Force. I mean, like just this one episode or like it's like the whole season? Yeah, now that's over. Nine. Three. This episode 9.8. Wow. Overall this entire season, like these 12 episodes, 13 episodes, 9.3. Yeah, a good ending really helps. This episode's awesome. I just like it. If you, listen, and if you found yourself being like, man, it doesn't do it for me, go watch Soul Leader. It's awesome. Ignore the Blair scenes and some of the Spirit scenes. If Fire Force didn't do it for you, Soul Leader's not gonna. But like, if you got to this episode of Fire Force, you're just like, I gotta finish it and see if it gets good, you liked it. I'm sorry. I hate to break it to you. You have enough in you. This is a great ending. I think the last episode was better though. It was just hype. Bucci Road, Shinra or whatever. Boncho, Shinra Boncho Man. Yeah. All right, should we talk invincible? This is what everyone wants us to talk about outside of the Crunchyroll Awards. I'm gonna go pee and then we'll do it. You see, Reze versus Bakugo did fucking, did Death Battle do Death Battle? Yeah, I wonder who they sided with. Did you check? If it's anything less than Bakugo, they're a dab. You're a dog. I disagree with you. Bakugo almost died to a baby. First off, didn't die to a baby though, so that's... Almost. Reze didn't die either, except to rats. Yeah, which is worse than a baby. I could kill way more babies and I could kill rats. This is your latest idea. It's unique, it's game changing, it's huge. But you can go even bigger with AI-powered PDF spaces in Acrobat Studio, turning your files and links into actionable insights and content, plus share projects and collaborate seamlessly while keeping everything private and secure. So your excellent idea stays yours. Do that with Acrobat. Learn more and try it out on adobe.com. Oh, baby. Yes. No. The Trojanian strategy that this legion of babies is taking you down with. I mean, we're talking hundreds. If we're talking about hundreds of rats, we're talking about hundreds of babies. Yeah. Do the babies have teeth? Describe the strategy. I don't know. Do babies have teeth? Have teeth? That's a good idea. I've been asking Nipple. They're old enough to crawl. That's it. Can't stand. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Can't stand. Oh, then yeah, baby. Yeah, OK. No, you're right. You're right. That baby, that buck could go almost died too. Yeah. OK. Can they all do that? Can they all shoot fucking spines out of their mouth? One in 100 gets that ability. OK. But you don't know which. But you don't know which. You just got to watch the mouths on all these babies. I'd probably have a heart attack. I mean, like. One of these babies is going to stab me. Yeah. Take every time you've been like paranoid in a horror game and just multiply that by by a bunch of fucking ankle biting babies. Yeah. OK. Anyway, go on. Good. Invincible. Invincible. So we're talking about episode five of season four. Yeah. Oh, man, this episode was everything I wanted. Yeah. In that this episode was. So this is the episode where Nolan comes back to Earth and he's like, hey, guys, that was weird, right? I mean, no suit, no shoes. Pretty much in connected. I'm feeling pretty connected to the Earth, if you know what I mean. Keep stepping in blood. Don't know what that's about. But man, trains crazy, right? Sorry about Chicago. I'm back though. Anybody want pasta? Cool. I made protein noodles. Yeah. This episode is batshit insane. I wish every time he went to like apologize someone, he brought a six pack of beers. I probably would have worked out you bring six bottles of wine to Debbie. She probably wouldn't have complained. Debbie does love wine. She loves wine. He brought a six pack to art. Yeah. And I wish he just did that with like every person he came up to. Can I ask you a question? Yeah. I'm your look. Let's say like we're best friends. Let's say we're best friends. And hypothetical universe, you and I were best friends. I then. One to six genocides, you know, one, one to six, you know, and you know, you know, those are the ones I know about. They're bad. They're bad. Yeah. You know, one's in a planet, but they attacked us first. Yeah. You know, you know, one I shot my son's face through a train. Kills a couple of hundred thousand people. I come back and I'm like, hey, Danny, I brought beer. What's your like? Are you like, are you like, hey, we like I what's your what's your am I do you do what art does? Are you are you telling me off immediately to my face? Or are you like, I'm going to have two, three beers, see if I work up the courage. And if I don't and then when I leave, are you doing the art where you're like, like, what do you think I would kill you? That's my question. Because at no point did I think that Omniman was going to kill art, but also I have more information than art does for sure. I love that art does that. Yes, I'd probably be like just like, oh, hey, bro, what's going on? Seven season of smiling friends just dropped. And then we'd watch my friends and you'd be like, you know, about Chicago. I'm like, oh, are we going to talk about that? Can we please? You went about it in the wrong way, brother. You're inflamed on TikTok. Brother, listen, no hate, no hate at all. Don't go on Twitter. Do not. You do not want to be on Twitter. You don't have a phone that you've been in space. You can't be here right now. Yeah, yeah, I know. It's crazy that Cecil didn't like have a laser nuke him instantly. I guess he was freaked out. He learned he learned that he was like fucking laser. They tried that the one time and he was like all of this, the mimic of math. We can ounce of my strength. Yeah, laser. I hardly killed him the first time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, fucking send the reanomand. But we're only remaking them for the seventh time this week. Yeah, so. So you liked his apology tour. Do you like how? Because last week you were like, I think Debbie's taking him back. I will first off, I never actually that would have been fucking crazy. That would have been actually nuts. Like that would have been like if they done that, that would have been the craziest like because like I get there's a way it could have happened. Right. Like there's a redemption arc for Omni-Man. I like that he's not getting one. Right. I in the same way that I like that endeavor isn't forgiven by a lot of his son. I like that he's not forgiven by his son. Like he's forgiven by his daughter and like to an extent he's forgiven by Choteau. But like I like that there's this dichotomy and how like endeavors family treats him. I like that no one is forgiving Omni-Man because he's like it's very much like a classic like approach to like, oh, a white guy fucks up and thinks he can just say sorry. I like that no one's letting him be like, oh, well, you know, you were a different guy back then. Like in the same way that like, oh, if somebody is like an alcoholic or an addict and then like treats the people in their life terribly, just because they get sober. Sober does not mean they deserve like to be like let back in. Right. It's like, oh, hey, I'm happy for you. But no, like you you cross the line. We're we're done here. And that's how Debbie Debbie does it to his face, which I think is awesome. That sequence of her punching him in the chest. She has paper skin. Oh, he has diamond pecs. Don't punch it that hard. First thought, not the first person to cut their knuckles punching his chest. And the last guy who did it was a superhero. Well, I think that's the parallel because she does that to him. Like the same exact thing. And then later, I'm pretty sure fucking Oliver does that to conquest. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they both do the same thing. Red Rush did to Omni Man. Wow, Red Rush is a crazy poll. That's that's very impressive, but it's also a rather intuitive name. That screen from Debbie. I I I mean, I felt it, dude. And I later saw her in the the voice acting booth doing it. And I mean, the voice acting is acting. And like, so she's very much living in this moment here. But like she was like, ah, dude, like it felt like real. It was crazy. Yeah. For months, maybe years even, people have been like Stephen Yon, J.K. Simmons and Sandra Oh, are like home run, a hitting voice actors in this show. And I felt it from Stephen Yon and J.K. Simmons. But I was like, I mean, Sandra Oh is given like a good performance. But Debbie's not a lot of capacity to do. Well, exactly. This is like this was a performance from like, oh, damn. All right, Sandra. Yeah. Like because like she's usually like Debbie's probably the most measured and balanced character in the entire universe. And so like this is kind of the first moment where you see those cracks begin to because like there's always been this like sullenness and the sadness, but you can do sad easy. Like I can you can be like, oh, I miss Nolan. Like but like fucking obviously it's not a good thing. Obviously it's not as good as what fucking Sandra Oh did. But like it's easier. Just a bold move to be like this emotion is easy. Now I'm going to demonstrate. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, OK. Yeah, that's fair, honestly. And then fucking not do it. But yeah, I then I like I was like, I saw the fucking heaviness of the scene. I was like, I was like, I'm going to make a little joke here. But like fucking her being a mean to Omni-Man. Last time you saw this dude, he was flattening your son. Yeah, true. You put me in Debbie's shoes. I'm being a little nicer. I mean, I'm like, hey, thanks for trying. I know maybe that's enough for tonight. But she's like, fuck you. Fuck the horse you rode in on. I was like, this guy's this guy's already starting to doubt if he should help in the battle against the Viltramites. True would be cool if she was like really cool to him. And very respectfully was like, you know, I think I just need time, Nolan. And then he leaves and she like freaks out at her current boyfriend and is like, yeah, I was just doing that because I was terrified. I guess that is what art's doing. Yeah, exactly. It hit way harder coming from Debbie. And then because you know, it's taking her way more energy to do. And you get the immediate repercussions of it. We're like, oh, Omni-Man is like sullen on the on the spaceship. And he's like thinking about whether or not he made the right decision because he thought the Earth trip would go better. Like you're like, oh, a part of him think like joining the coalition of planets is because he missed his wife now that he can't have her back. Now that he knows there's no inroads to have her back. There's there's a chance. And listen, it is not up to her by any means to make him feel good. It isn't. But at the same time, there is the possible repercussions of him not helping the Earth fight back against the built-in. There's a lot riding on this living nuke. That's the fucking that's what makes like that's that's the fucking shit about Invincible. Sure, it looks awful. Sure, the art files ugly. Sure, it is somehow 25 times more expensive than every episode of JJK's most recent season. Sure, you can throw all those stones at it and that's fine. But fuck, man, these conversational deep themes. That's what gets the fucking joses flowing, dude. Oh, I like the bit where he's she's like, was I always or am I still your pet? And he's like, you were never my pet. And then she's like, you left me and had a child with another woman. And he's like, like two weeks later. Yeah, like two weeks later. And he's like, she didn't mean anything to me. That's my pet. Yeah, that one's a bug and also dead. I know I wanted him like take her and be like, she means nothing to me. She's like a pet to me. And she's like, you're severely missing the point. All the other girls, their pets. You know, stop seeing people as pets. Yeah. And then I said, Tech Jack, it's a girl. That surprised me. And then I learned the tech jacket is not supposed to be a girl. Yeah. Which and you're upset about it. No, I just like, I was surprised that Tech Jacket was a girl. Why? Just because with no information. No, I if you had let me finish my joke. I was at Tech Jackets, a girl. Then why is in her armor boob shaped? That's what I was going to say, Danny. I think it is. It's not super. It's very much it's got to be it's got to be curved in. So a projectiles go directly to your heart. I think that's why. Because boobs don't fit in plate armor, Danny. They need to be carved out. You get your plate armor in your cup size. It's very difficult. Correct. I think because I knew going in Tech Jacket was a woman. How did you know the tech jacket isn't? Spoilers. What do you know? Just like on TikTok, everyone's been bitching about it for like weeks. How? What do you mean? Oh, like trailers and stuff. Oh, gotcha. So we knew ahead of time that they were going to gender swap. Yeah, and people have been pissed and like over nothing. No one has ever given a shit about tech jacket in the comic. Yeah. And like accomplish a grand, a grand total of zero things. Mind you, a grand total of zero things in that fight against the Viltramites. Dude, it's so funny because the Internet is split on like, oh, they ruined Tech Jacket. I love Tech Jacket in the comic and now they ruin it because he's a woman and people being like, I love new Tech Jacket. Now she's interesting and this and that. I'm in my own camp of I've never given a shit about Tech Jacket and I continue to not give a shit. I think that's roughly the most feminist thing you can do. You're like, listen, it doesn't matter if she is a woman or a man. I don't give a fuck about this Iron Man rip off. Yeah. And it's funny, though, because I've seen people be like, oh, it's like some people are like, Tech Jacket's interesting now because they can be Oliver's love interest. Like they're kind of setting up some chemistry. Yeah. So he doesn't have to date a bug is what I've heard. For sure. Yeah. I also heard that they cut Oliver getting a boner. Well, look at it. Lobsters. I don't. Apparently there's a scene where they go get like a like a red lobster dinner and Oliver's just getting a rock hard. Look at it. Lobsters. I vaguely because he's half because he's half bug, baby. Shit. Keep that in. And boy, oh boy, do they never explore that. And I apparently they don't want to. Yeah. Well, he's also vaguely purple and they rarely bring it up. That's fair. But everyone's oddly chill about it. But people are like, oh, it's sexist to be like, a tech jacket's interesting now because she gets to be like dating a man. I don't know about all that. I think it's just interesting because it's like adding literally anything to tech jackets. Character also, they should not date. Tech. I fucking Oliver's going to be 40 in a week. Well, that's for that's right. But. Anything anything else crucial to add there, Dan? Look at all of us. Oliver's going to be a way too old to be a tech jacket in a month's time. I get the Viltramites age slower, the older they get. So maybe we're at like a relative stopping point for Oliver. Maybe I don't fuck you know, I can't spoil it. Well, he didn't date tech jacket in the comic. I can tell you that. Bug. He fucks another bug. It's also funny because Robert Kirkman was in the comics. Tech jacket is also like Asian. It's not specified like if he's Japanese or Korean. But I'm pretty sure Debbie is canonically Korean. I think she is. And invincible is like Korean American, Korean Viltramite. Yeah. But Robert Kirkman was like, oh, I may tech jacket a girl because he'd be too similar to Mark otherwise. I think that's a little strange that he's like, I can't write to Asian. The male to Asian lead characters here. Yeah. I was going to think they look the same. I'm sorry. What? Robert? I don't know if that's like, can't pick him out of the line up. I'm so. Hello. I just thought like because at first I was like, oh, that makes sense because tech jacket is so bland and just another like, oh, I'm a kind of goofy, wisecrack in the hero boy. I was like, wait, is it because you keep tech jacket Korean and now Marcus Korean so tech jacket can't be over exposing this demographic? I mean, I got to get some diversity in here. So that was interesting. But yeah, otherwise. So we meet tech jacket. Yeah. Everyone gets together. Yeah. And they just go to the coalition. And they go to the coalition. And it's so fun. And everyone needs the protein noodles with white sauce and like, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, these are so good. They're so good. These don't these definitely don't look like anything else. They look at anything else that has a has a probably a too large a share of screen time in this week's episode of Invincible. My final note before we get to talking about what I what I only wrote as Jesus enough, all caps, was how many times is all of we're going to get half juiced? All all the time. I mean, he's just what do we do? And I just everybody's grabbing him by the head and they're getting they're getting one crucial step away from treating them like the the the the the Viper. That's the one. I was trying to think of a Pedro Pascal character in the Game of Thrones. They're they're fucking a good two PSA away from cracking his head like an egg. And then and then everyone's like, hey, yo, all right, Oliver. And he's like, well, my skull's in pieces and my eyes are bleeding like I'm a touch at the end of his life. But yeah, I'm good. Yeah. Why does he need to breathe? Stop bringing Oliver. They all need to breathe. So they just hold their breath. Yes. Why can everyone speak to each other in their minds? It's like Alan taught them to do that. It's all season one shit. Really? They just hold their breath. That's and Oliver got punched really hard and also thought his skull was going to explode. So this is a dad going to his kid and being like, you know, throw up. Yeah. Like, he's like, do you need to breathe right now? And he's like, yeah, I'm out of breath. And he's like, all right, go to the planet. Yeah, they all just hold their breath. And then they go to the planet. There's a beach down there and they're just conquesting it and everyone's now. They. Oh, God. I this this episode, the end of this episode made me queasy. This was I I I've been on record multiple times saying that as I've gotten older, I've gotten worse with Gore and and that holds up to this episode here because I the only way to describe the end of this episode is literally what I said, which is just Jesus enough. Yeah. Have you seen what it looks like in the comic? I don't know if I actually I think worse. I think the comic would be better because I can I can read it fast. I could say that was enough. That was enough organs. There was enough Stephen Yoon screening. It's really long. He also it's too many intestines. He's fucking yards. He's got so many intestines. It's a fucking it's a it's a goddamn rope workout. What conquest is doing? He's pulling your intestines are longer than you think. Yeah, your intestines are like 20, 30 feet long, unfurled. More than that came out. Do you ever run into the issue when gone? If he doesn't die, I'm going to be pissed. I know he doesn't. I know Mark doesn't die. Kill him. There's a lot more invincible. I hate to tell you. I don't give a shit. I the second or hand goes through you. The hand alone is enough. And the second I saw the hand, mind you, straight through his spine, straight through his. I was just going to ask. I was like, does ever bother you when someone gets like a hole put in them and they ignore that there should be a spine? At least at least fucking Mortal Kombat has the dignity to like when you shoot some through somebody, the spine still there so they can grab it or something like that. Like the spine, God. And then sure, maybe he can survive from being stabbed through the tummy because he's invincible. He is he is the fucking worst title name ever in Vince. Stupid. Yeah, he's Vincent Abul. He is the most Vincent Abul character in the history of characters. And then and then they're just taffy pulling his fucking organs out. And for some reason, he's still conscious. He's still conscious, even though a fucking conquest is literally pulled out everything inside of him. And then he's he's bleeding out. Everyone's like, well, we'll just we'll just put him on the we'll put him on whatever ship we don't have and return his fix his body with protein noodles or something. I it's death baiting. I just think it is it is it is the worst case of death baiting. I think I've ever seen because I know he's not going to die. He's the main character. Don't injure him that badly. The yeah, invincible is like so often death baiting. Yes. To the point where and that was my issue with the show the whole time, too, is that it's better in the comics because the comics poses as like an E 10 and up comic book where there's not a lot of gore and they're just doing like, bam, pow, and he's not killing a lot of people. Yeah. And then you get to like the major fights, which is like Omni Man vs. the Guardians, invincible vs. Conquest, invincible vs. Conquest 2. Yeah. And those have extreme shocking bits of gore. Yeah. And it like blows you away because the rest of the show or the comic isn't like that. And the show is so frequently extremely violent. Yes. That nothing really has. I mean, this grossed you out. This is this is this was my line for sure. But it's like someone gets a fist stab through them or like their head ripped in half. And I'm like, yeah, they do this every single episode. Yeah. I mean, I like I genuinely like when there was like this big conflict about like, oh, Mark punched a guy's head off. I was like, Mark punches guys head off once a week. That's the thing in the comic. That's such a big deal because they're like, holy shit, he decapitated. Oh, geez. And then swipe to the next panel. Jesus Christ. They made they make Conquest look like a prolapsed asshole. Yeah, he's so purple. I mean, swipe to the next. Oh, God, he's still holding his guts. Well, he does in the show, too, but it just looks crazier here. Guts are so gray. Yeah, I don't know, man. I it's just kill him. Like I don't kill. Make the story about Oliver from now. Like I genuinely I'm being authentic. I don't want to see Mark bounce back from this. I don't. I've gotten to the point with the story where like I just if we're going to fucking if we're going to rip his guts out, kill him, have the balls to kill him. I don't know how he recovers. But how do you think he like? What do you think? I mean, fucking, I don't know. It's probably like the ship blew up so they can't get back the ship. They probably fly to some. I they probably fly to the Viltramite ship and the Viltramite ships got some fucking bullshit medical technology that keeps the Viltramites alive. Just in case they get grievously injured, because there's only 50 of them left. And that's the only thing that's left is the Viltramite ships. They got the fly. They got to kill the Viltramites. One of them is already dead. It's only the two other ones. It's the fucking incredible must-dash guy in the Black Viltramite. There's the only two left. So fucking all of us are going to have to clutch up and kill one of them or something. Interesting. I don't know. I have a theory. I don't remember how he recovers. I think tech jacket comes down and is going to give him the tech. I think that's the only reason tech jacket is here. That's absolutely. It's literally that's it. That's it to a tee. It's tech jacket. Yes. Yeah. And that's kind of cheating because I've obviously read it, but I genuinely do. Like there's no panel that I can conceive in my head of like Mark getting in a tech jacket because they already they already did this where it's like Mark literally starts a season with robots like prosthetics over his arms and then eventually he's able to break out of them. I know it's always so funny when invincible gets cheeky and shitty about other comic tropes. I mean, like, why is your helmet disappear? Like that's kind of dumb. Nanobots are dumb. And it's like you don't get to talk. No. The mark is torn in twain like once a season. 100%. Yeah. Anyway, torn in twain and then repaired with like the pits of Lazarus or something. Like there's always a thing. Yeah. There's always some new unlocked thing that's going to bring it back. Yeah. My first mind like only know of the episode because I didn't know this was the conquest comes back episode. Yeah. Uh, Nolan is like apologizing to Debbie and it's like five minutes and it's like three frames of animation. Yeah. He's just standing there at the doorway the whole time his lips are going and I'm like, God, they're like not animating anything. Oh my God, it's going to be the conquest. Oh, they're saving budget. Oh, that's every single dollar being spent on fucking 90 yards of marks guts coming out of his belly. I was like, man, this looks like crap. Oh my God. They're conquesting it. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's that was a lot. That was a lot for me. Too much. I not too much, but just. There's more to have. I lied. It was that's it's literally I identified my lie. I think they fuck it up a little. By having when he first kills conquest. Yeah. His head's exploded. Right. Yes. Like he had butts into debt. Literally. And then it's like, oh, he's not dead. And that's like arguably the worst stuff baiting ever because his head's exploded. Yes. And here and here. But the same thing happened with angstrom leavey. So well, yeah. And here he chokes them out and then you have that last image of him purple and dead. And then it's like, oh, he's finally dead. That's a worse, finally dead image than an exploded head. 100%. I would love he could breathe oxygen right now. He literally couldn't before someone needs to make an edit where like it finally ends in mark like falls over and his guts are in his hand and Mark's like wheezing and then like they float down. Mark's like, help. And then just before the credits conquest goes. Yeah. And then I'm the man just puts a boot through his skull. Yeah. Guys had clean off. Everybody grab a limb and just fly in a different direction. And then he would only you only need three of you to do it too. Because he's only got one. He's got one limb lost already. Crazy. Absolutely crazy. Whatever. Whatever. It was a fun episode, but fucking what are we doing? Gross. Cool. All right. That brings us to our crunchy roll awards. What we're going to do for Pager on today or Easter game. Yes, that's what we were doing. So we are going to go over to the crunchy roll website and check out the awards. And we're going to tell you what we believe should win for crunchy rolls. You know what was nominated already? I've already voted. Well, yeah, but do you know that doesn't. Oh, do I know you voted for winner? I voted for a winner. Yes. Oh, yeah. I got sent like they were like, hey, it's time to do the second round of voting. And I was like, OK, cool. Sounds like fun. I just logged into cruncher all online, which is stupid because I literally have the app. I did not see you in the judges panel. No, I forgot to finish. Got you. They let you vote for like a billion things. Yes. And then I was like, oh, I'll finish this later. And I never did. Brutal. Yeah. So that's why you know, I've token on key is not on here. Yeah. That's why you won't see Danny's pretty mug on on the crunchy roll website. I also don't want to be blamed for this. This is I mean, it's not like the objectively incorrect thing. There's big misses. Did we get to do we get to vote early? I'm sorry. How are you getting this crunchy roll awards? I'm not I'm not getting it. I'm also looking crunchy roll award. I mean, I'm going to know. Yeah. Do you know what the nominees are? You didn't get to vote yet. I already voted. No one has. I voted to the people do. I also voted. I'm a people. I am of I am a people. I know that's I know it's a crazy concept to you, but I also I'm at it. I'll read it to you. Crunchy roll anime awards. 2026 anime of the year nominees are the Apothecary Diaries season two. Dondodon season two. Gachi Akira, my hero academia final season. The summer Hikaru died and Takope's original sin. Yeah. Anything missing for you? Anything missing? Anything missing? How do you feel about this? I'll tell you who I voted for. And it's not the question. So I'm trying to think of what would be missing from here. My insane. This is a whack lineup and everyone thinks so. This is a whack lineup and everyone thinks so. No, to be hero X. It's insane. Oh, to be hero. Or but yeah. No, or or is up there. But for what original anime, I believe it got nominated. Here's the thing to my knowledge. You didn't even finish or don't even you can't you can't be in fucking dignity about an anime you didn't finish. I loved what I saw of love the three episodes of orb you watched. I kill the main character every episode. I fucking of to my knowledge. You aren't allowed to nominate to be hero X because it's what a Don. There's no reason. But when we were voting to be hero X, it wasn't an option. I remember I remember I was looking for to be hero X and I couldn't find it. Yeah. And there's no reason because solo leveling is also a Japanese made Don't want adaptation. Well, mon will be. Yeah, mon. Why? Yeah. Um, that's also especially weird considering the fact that it's well, maybe because it's Billy Billy because Billy Billy made it. Like it was Billy Billy and Crunchyroll like I mean, it was on Crunchyroll for sure. Yeah, it was on. If it's on Crunchyroll, it should be able to be put up for anime the year. Maybe it just wasn't popular enough. There's no way it was less popular than the summer he grew died, which mind you, wasn't on Crunchyrolls and Netflix anime. Well, it's popular among the people voting are fucking like influencers. Yes. You know, more people know about the summer he grew died than to be hero X. I'm being right. If I'm being real to be hero X, probably deserves to be on this list over the summer he grew dies. I think it deserves it over that over gotchy, Akuta and probably a path carry diaries, but I haven't even seen the season one and especially not season two, which very much belongs to be here. So if I had to take some swings, like I think to be hero X is like in terms of sheer originality, execution and the fact that it's the first season of something and animation, fight sequencing, choreography, all that. Yes. It's just easier. We've talked before about how anime usually gets more popular in a second or third season, because it takes a bit to get people into it. To be hero X being as tight and as like groundbreaking and fucking with the medium and fucking with like structure of narrative storytelling in its first season and being that good is more impressive to me than anything in its second season. You know what I mean? Regardless of what happens, you think it'd be tough to overshine, like outshine what they did in season one. I think it gets more points because it's a first season of something than donned it on an apothecary diaries. I would say that to be hero X probably deserves more flowers than gotchy Akuta at least. I wouldn't say it deserves more flowers than donned it on season two. Donned it on season two was transcendent. I agree. I think if it's like going up against them, it's tough. But like, yeah, I think it deserves to be on here way more than the summer that he grew died. I think out of all of these six options, the weakest is the summer that he grew died. I think gotchy Akuta is probably right after that. If I had to rank these, I would go the summer that he grew died, gotchy Akuta. This is going to be an unpopular opinion. Donned it on season two. My hero academia final season, apothecary season two, Takumi's original sin. My anime of the year is Takumi's original sin. Same. Yes. 100%. If we're talking about unique takes on anime, taking a swing for the fences and crushing it, people could be like, oh, it's only six episodes. All six episodes are rated above like a 9.2 on IMDB. It is artistic. It is a directorial marvel. The music is beautiful. The story is fantastic. It opens and closes in the appropriate amount of time. Just to try to overstay its welcome in six episodes. I think out of all of these, the most impressive project done, regardless of length, was Takumi's original sin. I agree. I think I'd probably put gotchy Akuta under the summer he grew died, but that could just be posturing because summer he grew died does fall off for me in like the latter half. Yeah. But part of me is like, is that just my taste in anime where like. You didn't want this. It got slice of life. Ian and you were like, I want the psychological horror. Yeah, I'm like, I because I want that dude with the hamster to turn into like a straight up chainsaw man character. And like, I want to get into that organization. I want to stay horror. And once it becomes a romance, the thing that it's pitched as. Yeah, it loses me. Yeah. And so, yeah, I mean, I like romance and that's also where it loses me. Yeah, I guess so. It could just be like have a fall off at the end. But God, I'm also like such a huge fan of the manga. And I think the manga is like better still than the anime. Yeah. So I have that bias. But I think I think God, I'm gonna suffer from like season one of a shonenism. Yeah. Where? The first seven episodes are set up. Like it's like the keyboard or like the nail gun and like a bunch of these other ones were like Rudolph's like, oh, I can do this. I can use three of these things a day. There's seven episodes set up. And then we get into like the girl with the laces on her legs. Oh, man. Oh, no, Ammo. Ammo, it's the Ammo arc. We get to the flying trash beast and like things get really fun in Gachiakata in the later half. I think season two of Gachiakata is going to be like a heavy hitter. It's gonna rip. It's absolutely gonna rip. But I voted talking to these original set. I genuinely think and people that's not going to win. It's going to be my hero academia. And I think I listen, I think my hero deserves to win. It's the best season of my hero by a long shot. And that's saying something considering that seasons one through four are awesome. But yeah, no, I would say that it's Takabe's original sin for me. I yeah, I love the ending of my hero, which is like not a popular opinion. But I think they stick the landing again with Takabe. It's like that thing for me where I'm like my hero has eight seasons worth of like shit to close off. Like, of course, I'm going to feel emotional towards it. Yeah. And Takabe got me invested in these characters. Beginning, middle and closing. Yeah. In six episodes. And I there's moments from MHA that I'll probably remember forever. I think it's back to go skipping across freeways while laughing, trying to catch up for all for one. I think that's the best moment of that season. For me, the pancake episode from Takabe's original sin. I'm like, oh, that's like, and we're going to talk about film of the year in a second. But that I'm like, oh, if I was teaching somebody animation, directorial animation, it's fucking the pool scene and chainsaw man. And that pancake episode. If to be hero X was on here, it doesn't even have to replace anything. Uh huh. Does it fall? Yeah. Let's see. I would put it above. I put to be hero X above the summer that he grew died in Gachiakada, not above Don did on season two, though. Mm hmm. Yeah, like, I guess I agree. I just like respect to be here. I'm so hard. Oh, yeah. For like how difficult. Don Don's also like a very impressive feat because it's insane. It has a ton of elements. Yeah. Yeah, I like everything on here pulled off a lot. Yeah, you're right. This is a good lineup. This was good. It's very interesting, though, because we get three straight shounens and Don did on Gachiakada and my hero and then three relative slice of life slash romance is in talk to be the Apothgarie Diaries in the summer that he grew died. No, so leveling season two. Isn't that crazy? It's right is what it is. It is right, but it's correct. Considering it won the first year. Yeah. Um, and this season was better and this season was better than season. Yeah, I think there's just, there's a correction happening. Yeah, I think there's an overcorrection. I think soul leveling season two is still really good. It's just soul leveling season one, probably shouldn't have one anime the year. I wouldn't replace any of these except. Any of these with soul leveling season two. I probably also wouldn't replace. I'd still, I'd say I like the summer that he grew died, even though it has a fall off more than season two of soul leveling. Yeah, I like can't remember shit from soul leveling. And I remember the ice elf sequence and that's basic. And then it's episode one and then the fucking aunt King fight. And then that's basically these are the nominees for crunchy rolls anime film of the year, 100 meters chainsaw man, the movie Rezac, demon slayer, infinity castle, mononoke, the movie chapter two, not to be confused with princess mononoke, the Rose of Versailles and Scarlet. I wanted to see Scarlet so fucking bad and it was impossible to see. Oh, it was never showing. And every movie you go to, it was playing a trailer of it. It's also by the guy who did Belle and I hated Belle. I haven't liked anything this guy has made. Every time you see a trailer, you're like, God damn it, you got me. Yeah, he keeps getting me. I mean, apparently it must have been at least OK on account of the fact that it's it's up for anime of the year. That's not true. I know so many people who were like, I've heard of this one. Like they give you when you vote for these. Yeah, this is this is really disillusioned me from any award show thing. Oh, because we're allowed to have an opinion and objectively, I vote based off. I've heard of that 50 percent of the time. That's like with the crunchy roll awards. I used to hold these so covetedly because I was like, oh, this is like in elite council that watches everything that comes out of Japan. And then they're like, Danny, do you want to vote? And I'm like, no, no, I shouldn't. I haven't seen enough. I was pouring through all the judges to see if I was hotter than them. And it was just it was like a bunch of like story. It was like editors for like anime vlogs I've never heard of and shit. And I was like, oh, yeah, this is not exactly. This is not exactly the fucking like. How would you be hotter? What is all the photos? I wanted to see if I was the hottest judge. Yeah. I don't. I don't think that's it. I was just that this discussion has proved to me that you should never get asked to vote. I should never be asked to vote again. Dude, I absolutely should not be on the council. No, those people are who like should. But it's like, yeah, I know so many people who like got to vote and you get to like all right, original anime of the year. And they're like, heard of two of these. Yeah. Or I've seen two of these. I've heard of five. So I guess I'll put the five I've heard of what they did this year is you could skip. You could be like, you put two and they could skip the rest, which is kind of nice. So you don't have to vote. You didn't know about. I think there's clear answer here. Out of the ones we know, I haven't seen a hundred meters. I haven't seen a hundred meters. We've got that here. That's great. I've also heard that a hundred meters is great. But I could imagine even upon any one of these movies would have to be one of my favorite movies of all time to be like, I'd say Chainsaw Man, the Resi arc is my fourth favorite movie of all time. Yeah. I doubt any of these movies are three through one. I think it's got to be Chainsaw Man. It's a piece of art. Like I like I genuinely don't believe a lot of media reaches piece of art status. I think Vinland Saga, the only things in anime that reached piece of art status is the farmland, Farnland Saga, Chainsaw Man, the Resi arc, and then like a large section of Takumi's original sin. I mean, I disagree with all of that, but yeah. OK, a lot of shit. I've seen a lot of shit that reaches into the art section here. I'm a recency bias, obviously. But like you're just trying to gas up Chainsaw Man. I'm trying to gas up Chainsaw Man, because it's like I said, it's probably my fourth favorite movie of all time. And it could be higher. I don't even know what I would say or my top four. I think I would say there's very few instances of like mainstream shonen reaching like, oh, this is cinema for me. Like usually I pre Mugen train, I'd go into like a shonen movie and be like, it's going to be really boring until there's a pretty good fight scene. Yes. And then I'm going to leave disappointed until it's clear where all of the money in this entire movie went to. Because that's how like most Dragon Ball movies were. Most my hero movies, if not all Naruto movies, all Naruto movies. I assume the one piece ones. Yeah. And then one piece red actually kind of fucks. And then Demon Slayer Mugen train was like, oh, this is like a great piece of cinema. It also changed anime movies forever. Like the idea of an anime movie being canon. Well, I guess it's technically Neon Genesis 7 Galeon did first, but like it's still. Yes. But I think the actual release. Is the craziest bit. So yeah, Chainsaw Man, these are the nominees for Crunchyroll's best continuing series. Dandanan season two, Kyju number eight season two, my hero academia final season one piece, all of it. So leveling season two spy family season three. I've seen literally all of these and I'm telling you right now, it's my hero academia final season. This most recent season, it's Egghead Island. It's like the end of Egghead Island is what's continuing in one piece. That is the only thing that competes on even a close level. And honestly, if one piece wins, I wouldn't even be remotely upset. This season of one piece, because now one piece is seasonal, mind you, is is some of the best one piece ever created, if not the best one piece ever created. But I think MHA just has the added bonus of, oh, this is the end of an incredible and like prolific story. And I'll show you how long the stream is going anymore. Oh, interesting. Interesting indeed. Um, yeah, I guess it's probably my hero. I loved it. Dandanan, I was really good. I was really good. But yeah, I mean, my hero has the benefit of ending eight years worth of. But also Dandanan's got like the musical episode. It's got like the like, oh, we're fighting against the composer episode, which is like not great. Like there's no bad episodes in this final season of MHA. Yeah, that's true. Every episode is like at least a nine. Yeah. All right. These are the nominees for the crunchy roll anime of the year. Best news series. Clevitus, the fragrant, the fragrant flower booms with dignity. Yep. Gachiakuta, Sakamoto days, Summer Hikaru died. Takobi's original sin. How is Sakamoto day still on best new sea? I guess because they did core one and core two. I feel as though, see, this one is interesting, right? We watched, I watched Clevitus. I watched a fair amount of it. Gachiakuta and Takobi's original sins up against each other. It's hard for me to say because we just said the Takobi's original sin is anime of the year, but then I'm like, well, it's also gone. You know, it's an anime like, oh, it's the new series. There's not a series. Yeah. It's a one off. It was it was a one off year. And I'm like, oh, it's more like an original anime, even though it has a manga. Interesting. Give your top two then. The fragrant flower blooms with dignity is my favorite romance of the year. Takobi's original sin is the best anime of the year. But if I had to say, oh, a new competitor breaking into the scene, Gachiakuta is the best. Yeah. I could agree with that because I do agree that like best new series does come with that weight of like how excited am I for more? Exactly. And Takobi's original sin is done and also unsatiated. Like I don't need more and I think it'd be gratuitous. I'm excited about the summer he grew died. Like if it goes in the direction I'm hoping, like if it kicks into gear a bit. Yeah. But yeah, I guess Gachiakuta. I know. Yeah. I'd say just like from a like Oh Shonen perspective, that's probably that being said, Core 2 of Sakamoto days. Fuck. It's good. It's like really good. It's still ugly, but it's good. OK. These are nominees for Crunchyroll's best original anime. Apocalypse Hotel. That didn't I used to be called has been? No, no, no, no, this is this is the prequel. Yeah, that's before they all get cast down to hell. What is this? OK, this looks nothing like what I expected. Best original anime is always a horrific category. It's always like, oh, that's remember that six out of five. That's six out of ten anime we watched for two episodes. Yeah, I remember Lazarus. Yeah, because I've seen I've seen four of these anime and every single one of them I dropped after an episode to two. Four. I watched two episodes of Digimon beat break. I watched seven teeth pulling episodes of Lazarus. I watched the first episode of Moonrise in the first episode of Zen Shu. All of them were bad. Wow. You don't watch Gundam GQ. You you you you you you JX. Ironically, I've heard this is actually pretty good. It looks cool. These screenshots are really cool. Yeah. I've actually heard this is a pretty good Gundam show. All right. It's fucking. I lost everything. They took everything from I voted Digimon beat break because I like. At least I watch. I didn't drop Digimon beat break because it was bad. I watched it because it was like very clearly not meant for me. Yeah. I hear. Beep. God, I can't talk. Don't water. I hear beat break is pretty good. Digimon fans are really liking it. And they're like Digimon super back. So yeah. These are the nominees for Crunchyroll's best animation award of 2025. Don Adon season two. Gotchi Akuta. My Hero Academia, the final season. One piece. So leveling season two or Takobi's original sin. This is the first of very difficult best animation because all of these like my hero academia and Don did on are and one piece. And so leveling are like, oh, the action here. Gotchi Akuta does not deserve to be on this list. Got the big nail gun. That's pretty cool. Yeah. But like comparatively to the other ones we just talked about that are all like, oh, these are the best. This is the best that animation could be. There's two really good sequences in Gotchi Akuta and it's the nail gun and the bit where the girl with glasses dodges like a missile. Yes. Back and again. That was incredible. All four of those ones I just listed are incredible from an action perspective from a oh animation is art perspective. Takobi's original sin is probably the best out of all of these. Yeah. I think the fact that Takobi's original sin is like a hard contender and has like no fight scenes. Yes. We're always comparing the fight scenes to shit. Yeah. And the fact that Takobi's original sin has an episode with like no violence all about pancakes being a psychological reward. Yeah. And it's one of the best animated things I've ever seen. Yeah. Yeah. I guess. Because there's also best action as a category. And that's what I feel is though deserves like the consideration here. Like in terms of like, oh, animation can make you feel things. That's Takobi's. Yeah. These are the nominees for Crunchyroll's best character design award. Pothcary Diary season two, Dondodon season two, Gotchi Akuta. My dress up darling season two, one piece Takobi's original sin. It's got you. I think it's got it. It's got it. Gotchi Akuta is like if you hate on Gotchi Akuta for like any like you could hate Gotchi Akuta, you'd still have to acknowledge it has the best character design out of any modern. Yeah. Like the fits are so. So, K.A. Arana just like puts put 99 stats in her character design and like the world design and the graffiti design. So from a design perspective, Gotchi Akuta sweeps. This is probably another sweep. Oh, wait, what the fuck? Oh, never mind. Yeah. This is probably another one that Takobi original sin sweeps in. But these are the nominees for Crunchyroll's best director award. Yeah. OK. I'm going to butcher all these names. So I'm just going to say the director of. Yeah. The director of Apothecary Diaries, the director of Dondodon season two, Gotchi Akuta, My Hero Academia, the summer he grew died. Takobi's original sin. So you're going to talk to his original. I think it's the same. I voted for Dondodon season two. Because it's so different. Because so many liberties. There's so many liberties. There's a bunch of things being added. The shot sequencing is incredible, but what sticks with me the most. So we saw the first three episodes of Dondodon season two in theaters and a French guy, Abel Gangora was there. He was the director and they were interviewing him about like his shot selection in the evil eye versus Ocaroon fight. And that evil eye sequence of like him just booting the ball and Ocaroon zipping up the stairs trying to run away. That sticks with me. I couldn't blame anybody for saying Takobi's original sin because like directing action and directing emotion are very different. Right. And emotion is what directed is directed in Takobi's. But to me, the way that action is directed in Dondodon season two is not only like refreshing, but also crazy, crazy difficult to pull off. Like for me to like feel that, oh, this ridiculous universe is not only believable, but also like stepping up on what is already a beautiful manga. For me, it was Dondodon. Yeah, I think this is another one where the summer he grew died. He has like a good fighting chance. Yes, because that's also like what kept me so engaged in that is how fucking like ominous and oppressive that he feels. There's like Kitas everywhere. And it's so like it is everything I love about Chainsaw Man in terms of its direction. Or like Miyazaki film. Yeah, you keep saying that. But like it's like you like it's truly that you understand that an anime is a trope. Like anime is going to be good when they like start piping in the cicadas or something like that. When you hear the background of the world and it feels lived in, that's what you get with the summer he grew died. That's what you get with like my neighbor Totoro or anyone's where like you're taken out into like the wayway forest. And then also like there's those funny sequences where like the shock screen like appears behind him and then they step away and it's just a box behind him. There's a ton of like the psychological horror aspects of the summer that he grew died come from direction. Yeah. And that's why I think it's it probably wouldn't be a bad consideration. Yeah, I think the summer he grew died and Takabe's original sin. What's so impressive to me about it is. I they have high potential of being like. Dole anime. Yeah. Without the directors at the helm. Oh my god. Dondodon, I think the writing like they're all written great. Yeah. I think Dondodon could have worse direction and still be like pretty close to as good. It wouldn't be as popular, but it'd be like, you know, it's like hell's paradise. Yeah, it's a cherry on top for Dondodon. Whereas the other two are like necessities to make them as great as they are. Yeah. Hell's paradise is a good example of a good story. Probably not getting the directorial shake it deserves. I don't know. I can't finger why I can't figure why either. But I think that's it because it's good, though. We still like the direction that thing is like I would if if Dondodon looked worse and was directed worse, I'd still like it, but it wouldn't be as popular as it is right now. I guess so. Should we skip some of these? Because next is best background. Yeah. And so it's like and you have nothing. You have nothing to inject on romance or comedy. Comedy. Action. This one. Yeah. These are the nominees for Crunchy Rolls Best Action Award. Dondodon season two, Godjiakata, Kyjur number eight season two, My Hero Academia final season, one piece soul leveling. It's the only place where soul leveling could win an award. Yes. Does it, though? No, it doesn't. I could see somebody arguing for soul leveling season two, because you have the Beeru fight. You have the Ice Elf sequences. You have the him going up the hundred levels and fighting against one of the monarchs or like a former one of the monarchs. He fights Cerberus. It's I mean, it's 12 episodes of him solo leveling. That's literally it just he goes in a dungeon. He clears the dungeon. That's the fucking. There's the Red Orcs. Yeah. And all of those sequences are fucking awesome. But like without the weight of importance that's carried by the final season of MHA, like that thing is like I can watch good action. It can be like, well, you know, he stabbed the guy you would invisible. But like watching a broken buck ago barely stitched together by Ed Shot, skip his way across a freeway or all my cackle as he's getting pulled in half by all for one. Like that's to me what drives good action. But is this well, you're right. You make a good point. Yeah, I can't tell if this is best action anime or just best action. Even if it was best action, I still say MHA. Because MHA at least has the balls to look unique. I think it's Dondon. Personally. Dondon's just you want to talk unique. One of the dudes fucking powers is a soccer ball. Fair. Fair. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. Dondon's got like just such sick set pieces, like when Momo's running through the house, the house is like freaking out. Yeah. Yeah. Shrinking when they get in the big like Buddha mech that fights great. You know, maybe it's my hero. The more I'm remembering about what's in Dondon, the more I'm like, yeah, they did do that music episode and they did do the other music episode. Yeah, Gigi's stuck in a fucking like like anatomical suit for a couple episodes. Yeah. There's big hits in Dondon season two, but there's also a couple of like, all right, we can get the middle rolls. Yeah. Yeah, maybe I will give it to my hero. Let's go, baby. Best is a guy. We don't know this. We don't. I mean, I could I could vote, but I best drama is again, he grew Takapi and a pot carry, which we'd probably give to Takapi again. A best main character. You want to do best main character? Yeah. Yeah. These are the nominees for Crunchyroll's best main character award. Is he can what? You got easy. Is it Deku? Yeah. Yeah. Izuku Midoriya from my hero, Mao Mao from the Apothecary Diaries, Momo from Dondon. That's fun. Yeah. Okarun from Dondon, Rudo from Gachiakuta, Song Jinwoo. We ran out. We we ran out two protagonists from the end. I I mean, what? Oh, two protagonists. Two, I said. You don't think of the Sun Jinwoo being on this list for two years in a row. But mind you, is insane. Listen, I get Sun Jinwoo. I've I've gone on this rant multiple times. He is the first ever likable power fantasy emcee. And for that reason and that reason alone, maybe he does deserve to be on this list. Rudo is insane. I fucking love Rudo. How dare you? Rudo is so just a classic case of everyone around him is way more interesting. Can't argue that. I there we go. I can't. I can't argue. I can't imagine. I don't know. I just can't. There's a punch as ammo in the face. Whatever. Sometimes you got to that's fair. And then engines like women. I like I remember when you have a member when engine like brings Rudo outside. He's like, listen, women are hot as shit. Yeah. Well, what? Yeah. But like, yeah, I feel like Godji Agata right now hasn't given me cause to be like Rudo is the best there is. That's fair. It's like the world and everyone around Rudo is like really sick. Yeah. And the villains. But yeah, I think Rudo and Sun Jinwoo should be replaced by some of these other characters who's not even the biggest shiny moment of like Deku isn't the best part about this final season. He's pretty. He's great. But if I look at the final season of MHA, I remember all might and Bakugou. This is the most like these people voting or LARPing example in the entire thing. The only thing that makes me think that they're not is that Momo and Oak Runer on this. That's fair. Yeah. That's fair. I think it's actually ridiculous to have. To have the summer Hikaru died on this so many fucking times and not have the protagonist of summer Hikaru. And not have not either have Hikaru or have anybody from Takumi's original sins like not having Takumi or something like that. That's create the main girl and you can't fault me for being like, well, what's her name? I don't know anyone's fucking name. You don't know anyone's name. It's honestly more on me for not knowing her name. She should be in most protect. I like must protect. Yeah. If she's not actually that would be insane. She's a great protagonist. She's a fantastic protagonist. I just think it's like, I don't know having Sungjin Wu on here is like where it gets in a LARP territory for me. Yeah. And Ruto like all let pass because like I can see people liking him. I just think the show hasn't given him enough yet. Yeah. But I did. I'd give it to like who else is on here. Either Momo or Mao Mao. Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, I'd probably give it to Momo. She's really because I've seen that one. If I had to choose between Momo and Okra, I'm choosing Momo every single time. And that's mostly because of Abby Trot. I think everybody, AJ Beckles is also incredible, but the fucking I just Abby Trots like Abby Trots Momo is one of my favorite things of all time. I am probably going to give it to Mao Mao though because I adore her as a person. All right. These are the nominees for Crunchyroll's best supporting character award and Jin from Gachiakura, Jin and Joji, Gigi from Dandan, Jin Shi from the Apothecary Diaries, Katsuki Bakugo from My Hero Academia, Laolin slash Shishui from the Apothecary Diaries. I crushed that. What are you talking about? Laolin and Shishui, but yes. Yeah. Or Turbo Granny from Dandan Season 2. So we ran out. Do we have two from Dandan and two from Apothecary Diaries? Listen, and then the first three are all Jin names. It's Enjin, Jin and Jin Shi. I got to give it to a Jin. I wouldn't blame anybody for saying, actually I would blame. If you choose any of the Jin's you're choosing incorrectly, A. Bakugo? If it's not Bakugo, if it's not Bakugo, it's Lolan, who is actually who I voted for. Lolan slash Shishui is one of the most compelling in this Season 2 of Apothecary Diaries, one of the most compelling, interesting and craziest twist characters I've seen in anime in a long, long time. Peep Bento Box in Discord. Okay. But where are you going to vote for Bakugo? Yeah, it's Bakugo for me. Okay. I'm going to vote Shishui. Okay. And then these are the nominees for Crunchyrolls must protect at all costs character award. Anya Forger, who gets nominated every year, maybe wins every year. Yeah, because she's the only five year old MC in anime currently. She lost to Boji, I remember. Well, yeah, he's no longer an MC. His story is done. Um, Izuku Midoriya. That's embarrassing. I mean, he's, he's literally a superhero. He could protect himself. The best hero. I mean, if I can protect him from his own bones, maybe. Uh, Wagary. Yeah, there you go. From the fragrant flower blooms with dignity. That was easier to say than title of the fucking anime. Yeah, it was. Mau Mau from the Apothecary Diaries. Yes. Suika from Dr. Stone, Science Future. Yeah. Takobi. And here's your Takobi. Finally, Takobi makes it on the list here. Um, you have not seen, um, Dr. Stone or fragrant flower blooms and dignity. Um, Wagary is awesome. She's a very fun character. It's just Romeo and Juliet, but she's Juliet and she's addicted to cake. It's sweet. Um, all puns intended. Uh, Izuku Midoriya making this list, like you said, is incredibly embarrassing. That's on you forger is like the fucking like late 2010s warriors. Like we just cannot see her winning. Again, uh, the real answer here is Suika. Okay. That's the only, that's the only correct answer. Suika brings all of humanity back to life. Has to live by herself for like 10 years, follows in the footsteps of her, of her great forefathers. I, I love Suika so goddamn much. She's the right choice. I'll probably vote for Anya considering Takobi is an honest to God murderer. Oh, honest to God murderer. And also just like an alien who abandoned his entire race because he broke the law. He was exiled. Yeah. He was exiled. Exiled. Exiling is not abandoning. Exiling for a breaking the law forced abandonment forced abandonment for a breaking the law of happy land. Yeah. He is an honest to goodness child murderer. Yeah. Best anime song. I fear that I don't really. It's Iris out. I'll say right now. We don't have to do this. It's Iris out. It's Jane Doe. I think it's Jane Doe. What's in that? Oh, that's the, no, it's still Iris out, but that the, that's, so that's the, pool scene song. Yeah. Okay. Iris out though. Those are the only two I really know on the way by Dondodon. Which one is that? I don't know. The one, probably the one that got sued. They got sued for, right? Oh, remember? Cause that band was like, you can't have this. Oh, um, fucking fire dragon force. Yeah. Well, dragon. I guess not. Yeah. It was the dragon force lead singer. But oh no, it was like, um, one of the hair bands. Sue or something like that. I think it's Jane Doe. I mean, these are opinions, but I vote Jane Doe. This is an opinion based off the fact that we only know two of the songs and both of them are from the chainsaw man movie. Best score. I think again, would have to go to chainsaw man. That one's absolutely changed. We don't remember any of these. No. I mean, well, yeah. I mean, I remember kind of the chainsaw man's the only one that like, I was like, listen, like watching the movie and I was like, Oh, this music is actively helping. You know, best over the years, I've been a fan of the music. Best opening sequence. No, if Togan Anki, you guys are out of your fucking mind. Togan Anki. Not being on best opening sequence or best or best song. I love Togan Anki. It seems like that's the only one I watched. Was I was that thing in the outro or the outro was just like, yeah. Yeah. The intro, it's the only one that I like consistently watched every time we're watching anime. The nominee for crunchy rolls best voice artist performance. Alexis Tipton as a resume. Amy Lowe as Mao Mao. Justin Briner as a Zuki Midoriya. Lucian Dodge as Akaza. Morgan Berry as Shiori Fuyimura, who I don't have to say what anime they're from. Sanda baby. Sanda. The one where a child turns into an adult version naked of Santa. Or Paul Castro Jr. as Hikaru Inu Endou. So you want to know who I voted for here? Who? For you more. What the fucking god. Dude, if I didn't forget to lock in my votes, Sanda would be nominated for everything. Sanda, I could see making a legitimate play for anime of the year. I also, I would put Sanda above the summer that Hikaru died. I personally would. Yeah, actually never mind. I'd fight for that. Yeah. Because like, Sanda's also LGBTQ, so you get that. Yes. It's got crushing themes. Oh, Sanda's great. I'd also put that in best animation personally. Sanda had a very unique animation style, good fluidity. Like another one of those shows, best, it's not original, it's based off of the manga. Fast new series, Sanda probably should have also been there. You know what? Most snubbed Sanda. I'd say Sanda, that's why I was like, oh, you'll probably want to do voice actor because Fuyimura at least made it. And Fuyimura's voice is awesome. Yeah. It's like a guttural, like a deep, deep voice girl, sick. Yeah. Cool. All right, well, that's all we have, ladies and gentlemen. It's been a long episode because we've had a lot to talk about, but we are going to do our Patreon exclusive content here, which is our Easter game, which is Jesus the Christ or actual anime character. So if you guys want to listen to that extra part of this episode here, you guys can do that over on our Patreon for $4.99 a month. But if you can't, well, we love you and we'll see you on the next one. Bye-bye. And now for my next number, I'd like to return to the clutch.