Otaku's Anonymous

Sentenced To Save The Best For Last! - Otakus Anonymous Episode #155

135 min
Apr 1, 202617 days ago
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Summary

This episode features extensive anime season reviews covering JJK Season 3, Fire Force, Sentence to Be a Hero, Hell's Paradise, Freerun, Vigilantes, and The Amazing Digital Circus. The hosts discuss episode quality, character development, world-building, and rank the season's anime from worst to best, with JJK emerging as the clear winner.

Insights
  • Character-driven storytelling and unique power systems significantly impact viewer engagement more than consistent episode quality alone
  • World-building revelations (like Sentence to Be a Hero's final episode twist) can retroactively elevate an entire season's perception and rating
  • Anime seasons with fewer episodes (10 vs 28) can achieve higher quality peaks but struggle with narrative consistency and character development depth
  • Visual animation quality and artistic direction matter less to overall enjoyment than thematic coherence and character motivation clarity
  • Repetitive fight choreography without varied character abilities or strategic depth leads to viewer fatigue despite technical animation quality
Trends
Anime studios increasingly using meta-narrative reveals to recontextualize entire seasons (Sentence to Be a Hero's hero system reveal)Crossover/prequel universe building becoming more common in anime conclusions (Fire Force to Soul Eater connection)Character-specific episode focus driving viewer preference more than overall season arc qualityStreaming platform release schedules (Sunday/Monday drops) affecting viewer engagement and note-taking qualityFan engagement heavily influenced by character design and personality over power scaling consistencyAnime with lower initial hype building cult followings through word-of-mouth (Sentence to Be a Hero, Sabuki Bisco pattern)Domain expansion and power system explanations becoming increasingly complex, creating viewer comprehension gapsSeasonal anime quality heavily dependent on final episode execution and thematic payoff rather than consistent pacing
Companies
MAPPA
Animation studio praised for exceptional visual quality and animation direction in JJK Season 3 and Fire Force
Crunchyroll
Streaming platform where anime episodes are watched; discussed for UI/UX issues with profile selection
Disney
Cancelled $1 billion deal with Sora AI platform, avoiding investment in AI-generated content
OpenAI/ChatGPT
Mentioned in context of Disney potentially investing in AI technology instead of Sora
Netflix
Streaming platform mentioned for hosting anime content like Chernobyl and dinosaur documentaries
Quotes
"This is the most invincible ass episode of Invincible ever created in that nothing of substance happens"
NickInvincible Season 4 discussion
"I think JJK does a great job at making like every single new opponent feel like the biggest threat they face"
DannyJJK Season 3 analysis
"The only reason that they probably didn't go with those billion dollars to chat GBT is because they were canceling their Sora AI platform"
NickDisney/AI discussion
"I think it's the most invincible ass episode and a freerun ass season"
NickFreerun Season 2 review
"This last episode brings it to like an 8.6 or 8.8... that last episode fucking clutched it up"
DannySentence to Be a Hero final episode
Full Transcript
like a kid. It is literally Japanese jazz. Well, I'm proud. Well, hold on. Let me get let me get the crowd pumped up. Let me get the crowd pumped up here. This is like a child on a discord. Well, then there's their stem is absolutely spassing on the beat. Yeah, you win that kicks in. I like when he says gov'ry. Yeah, it's a good drop. I'm just like a persona song. It's absolutely dude, except your persona is a goblin. You'll never see it come. OK, well, that's that's, you know, it's really that's really nothing on you know, goblin. I guess so. That's just I just I just I want to talk about like good media on this on this on this here on this here are media podcast. So we're not talking about a freerun. So we're not talking about dog. I'm going to be I'm going to be on your side this week. I'm going to have a I'm going to have a whole horizon week. People are not going to be happy with Nick after this week. I'm willing to admit that I was April Foolsing you. I have big feelings about freerun's episode. I have big feelings about vigilantes episode. I have big feelings about JJ K's episode. I have OK feelings about Sentence to be heroes episode. But I'm telling you right now, listen, we do this every season. I'm going to get hot water with the invincible community. Once again, I mean, I you're going to catch some hot water from me. I I got a boiling downstairs right now. My God, this is the most invincible ass. All right. Before we before we do any of that, let's do a rundown on our weekends here. What were you up to this weekend, Danny? I can't tell you what I did yesterday. And the A baby and the three hours. I don't know. Yeah. Not getting paid. That's what I got paid a little. OK. Yeah. Smidge. I got paid a smidgen. OK, a tidbit, a smidgen, some tribe called quest for you. Your bag is incredibly deep. You're like, you know, like forwards of a Fetty Wap song. You're pulling out a tribe. I'm waiting for like bone thugs and harmony next. Yeah, I don't know that. That's sick as hell. Wilds that, you know, a tribe called quest, but not bone thugs and harmony. Like when they got a smidgen, a tidbit. And then he goes, now, he is a funky introduction of how nice I am. Tell your father, tell your mother sent to Telegram. I don't. I only know Telegram is the app where I got scammed out of all my money. Don't respond to anyone's Telegram. Don't be on Telegram. Just a blank a blanket. Now, I've never heard. I've never heard someone talk about Telegram and it ended in like even neutral news. Yeah, I just closed the business deal on Telegram. It's like with a call center, like stealing money from elderly people. Like what? How? So yesterday I was on someone else's YouTube show. I can't talk about who's yet. But it was very fun, even though it was like a 10 hour shoot, I would do it again. And I'd encourage you to do it because it is very fun. You would love it. I you'd authentically love. I'm aware. They were like, I was, I would. They were like, hey, we're having Danny on Friday. And I was like, or on Saturday. I was like, haha. Cool. I'll tell them to have you. Oh, well, I also you're going to magic on, right? Yeah, I probably should. I mean, deductive reasoning, I guess maybe. But I got invited to do the live show. Whoa. Whoa. Yeah, that's crazy. So I might be going to magic on. Well, you have to. Well, I mean, I will like if you accept if I accept. Yeah, you should. That's awesome. You going? I'm going to magic on. Yeah. But I mean, you I'm not doing the live show. OK, that's awesome. That's really cool. It's going to be fun. That's dope. You guys will find out what we're talking about, or you probably could deductive reason. Yeah, it's not that hard. Saturday, I went to I saw Project Hail Mary. I've heard real good science movie. Yeah. And I get fucking amped up with science. Dude, I was watching Oppenheimer and I was just getting like a little hard for the physics. And then I was like, oh, oh, I was like, oh, a lot of people die at the end of this. And then I was like, fucking, I was like, oh, they were talking about like hydrogen bombs. And like I was the same way I watched Chernobyl with Dorothy a couple weeks ago. And I was like, man, I would be there. Rock hard. I just love it when we get into physics and like high level physics. And it's so cool. And then I'm like, oh, so many fucking people died. Yeah. God damn it. Chernobyl was so good, though. Chernobyl is awesome. So good. I love I love the dog episode. Just think about that the other day. Fuck, it's Barry Keegan, too. Barry Keegan pumping bullets into dogs in one of his first roles. You should see Project Hail Mary. I'm interested in how you feel because I agree. Like I love three body problem. Yeah. OK. I don't like the show. The books really good. Oh, you've read the books. Yeah. Interesting. The first one. OK. They translated it to English. I mean, it's a Chinese book originally. Gotcha. Yeah. It's really good. It's like cold. Like it's very like from what I've heard, very Chinese science fiction. Oh, yeah. Where it's like, here's all of the science that goes into this. 100 percent. Yeah. But it's sick. I don't love the show. But I'm interested to know what you think about Project Hail Mary when you see it because I agree that like I love some competency porn. Yeah. 100 percent. Like, yeah, where you feel like the people who made the movie are way smarter than you. Yeah. And like you were learning about this science. And I feel like Project Hail Mary does that to an extent. And I won't say what changes, but like they're doing a lot of really cool, like a rival-esque stuff, a lot of cool, like Martian-esque stuff where like they're getting into the weeds of it and they're being really clever. And then at like a point, it feels like they just give up on it and they half-ass the rest and are like, OK, now it's just whatever. Now it's an action movie. Yeah, exactly. Gotcha. I like that's like interstellar, the Martian, like a lot of those other ones. It's like almost feels like a heist movie. You're like, oh, all of the science is like the Martian. They like Matt Damon, like picking potato seeds out of his poop kind of thing. All of it like is like, it's like, oh, of course, that makes perfect sense. It's all coming together. It's like Dr. Stone live action. Yeah. I. I this weekend. You have to send Stank a picture of what you're about to say. I will send. Yeah, I'll send Stank. I mean, I've been uploading all of them, but I guess I'll send this right now. I bought an RX 7 couple of a couple of months ago, Mazda RX 7 1993 car. And I got it in a perfect condition. Probably the nicest, the nicest, like most well kept, well maintained RX 7 on the market and I just ran it into the ground. Immediately, it had a coolant leak and an oil leak and everything. And then eventually I was just driving around with Dorothy one time. No cooling in the car. Car overheated engine overheated on a 13 B rotary engine. Real bad. So I spent the last three days pulling out my engine in my garage with my childhood friend. I have not been able to get the grit and gritty. I am caked in oil. I got I got fucking cool in my ear and gasoline into my hair yesterday. I was one spark away from like just letting sap elmulation. I would not have stopped dropped or rolled, dude. It I didn't give that pick of a reaction when you showed me when I got in here today. Nick brought me into the garage and showed me his car. Absolutely disassembled just and literally there's more pieces on the ground than there are currently on the car. It was one of those moments where it was like genuinely so funny. It transcended laughter. Yeah, like I didn't really laugh, but like I'm going to be mentally giggling about it forever. I'm I'm sorry that this has been the worst time of your life. But like you see, I was filming it. Seeing it exploded all over the garage and you're like, here it is. And then like as my vision is sweeping the thing, you're like, yeah, I bought an industrial amount of tools. My eyes go on this like four foot tall toolbox that you have. I have a toolbox filled with sockets, an engine, hoist, an engine. I have spent two and a half thousand on Ironic dollars on tools to fix this job because a guy quoted me seven thousand dollars and I said, I'll do it myself. Never do it yourself. I know so much about my car now, but it's awful. Well, now it's all strewn about everywhere. There was what looked like a mechanics katana just lying. Oh, that's my that's my pry bar. That's my that's my fucking. That's my rent. They're my pry bar. And Nick, after spending two and a half thousand dollars on tools, told me that he disassembled it and he's like, now I'm I simply have to pay someone to put it back. I know how to put it back together, but like I cannot. I will not do it by myself. Worth the day. No. Oh my God. Now it's another entire maybe two more weekends. Probably so funny. I'm so sorry, but that's so. Oh, it's awesome. It's great. I have to load it all into the back of the Porsche before you do that. Uh-huh. You genuinely have to take some ironic and non-ironic thirst trap photos of just like get a wife beater on get like an oiled up rag like get in there. The you fucking D engine to hot rod. Yeah. Like how do you not have 300 photos of this? I have 12 hours plus a video. A video. You got to get all greased up and take some photos. This is a year. This is you know, this brings me to our second talking point of the day. Reposting Halloween photos. Now reposting. They just got in. They just got developed. What do you mean? They were shot on film by my friend and he that day he texted us these photos. That was my first time seeing them. Wow. Yeah. And the first you wanted to lead with Josh just slob in your doingle. That's my friend bass. Uh, that was in. That was in Josh. That's not Josh. The bass got like 30 new followers just from the back of his just from the fucking just like, Hey, I want to I want to be with a fucking Freddie Mercury. There jokes on you. I was getting head from Freddie Mercury. Probably a bad idea. Bass looks identical to Freddie Mercury on and off Halloween teeth. Um, no, just his mouth nightmare. Uh, no, he's just got like, uh, just the mustache really bass is black. He really doesn't look. Okay. Good, good, good, good. He looks like a black Freddie Mercury. Uh-huh. If you will. Okay. Cause, cause I thought it in the reason I thought it was Josh's cause in the next photo I see Josh dressed is, is what I could only imagine would be the second evolution of Freddie Mercury when you like rips his shirt off. Keep swiping. I think you should be able to guess what Josh is. Oh my God. It's not your Libra. It's not your Libra. That's good. And like you want to be like, well, he's not Mexican, but neither is Jack Black. Neither is Jack Black. That's kind of the point. If you want to be a luchador this Halloween, make sure you're being Jack Black. No, we had that discussion. Yeah. This is exactly how I went down. I was like, is this going to be okay? And he's like, I'm Jack Black. I'm not a Mexican. I'm not a Mexican. I am specifically Jack. Listen, I'm just, I'm Denzel or no, I'm fucking, not Denzel Washington. I'm fucking Robert Downey Jr. From Tropic Thunder. No, it's not blackface. I'm a dude playing a dude playing a dude playing another dude. You don't get it. Oh, and stuffer. If anything, you're making me walk back. I'm not your Libra. Yeah. That one's definitely a further, that's a further hike uphill. Um, but yeah, I posted some Halloween pictures to roaring applause. People were a big fan of it. I was a big fan of it. I don't know why Sarah's in none of them. Weren't you with Sarah during your, oh, I thought she was not Sydney, sweetie. That's the Halloween before. That was two years ago. This is too. It took a, you know, that's this Halloween. Oh, that was two years ago. Yeah. Sarah was, Sarah was not Sydney, sweetie, by the way. She was Sabrina Carpenter. That's the one. And I was Barry Keoghan knowing what I know about your family as I do now. That was a, that was a funny choice. That was a funny choice for her to go as. Why? I, I'm, you're the dating story you told me the other day. We don't talk. What do you, we, we, we absolutely do. I don't remember. It's about Hollywood Rob. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Tommy Hollywood. Tommy Hollywood, dude. Yeah. That, that is funny. You're right. It was just like a real fucking like, oh wow. Just dressing up as the family here. That's awesome. Yeah. I can't elaborate. Unfortunately. Yeah. No. Yeah. But fucking Tommy Hollywood dog. All right. Yeah. Should we get into our animator? Oh, yeah. We have so much to talk about this week. We have our. Anime ho. I mean, anime, animation. We'll fucking. We'll do that every week. Every week, baby. Every time that we're done, the yapping to get into our 9,000 things we had to talk about here. So I watched the eighth episode of the amazing digital circus. We also have episode three and four of Invincible. We have the last episode of the season of JJK. The last episode of the season of Hell's Paradise. The last episode of the season of Sentence to be a Hero. The last episode of the season of Vigilantes. The last episode of the season for Freerun. And the second to last episode of the show for Fire Force. Where do we begin? Let's just for everybody. Let's start with the amazing digital circus because we're a little bit behind on getting to it. So I want to do TADC. Okay. Um, Holy intense episode. Wow. Um, listen, I it's it. It was a 31 minute episode and I don't have nearly as many notes as I thought I would because the entire episode is just characters being tortured. Like a lot of that. And there's some great moments. So like my favorite by far on the wave like moment is like when Kinger like, um, Cain pops over to Kinger. He's like, Kinger, can I borrow you for a second? And then he comes back two seconds later. He's like, he shredded. And you're like, good. And the palm gets like, come back with a bunch of fucking knives in her face. I really like the bit of Cain just being like, I see you in my office and they come back disfigured. Yeah. My favorite bit. I don't know if you remember because it's so not noteworthy, but like they're like, all right. Yeah. We just got to distract Cain and then a ragged that's like, Hey, Cain. And he turns around and he's like, Oh, yeah. Oh, I don't remember that at all. He just gives it a batshit insane delivery. Yeah. So I this episode is all about Cain. This is a big, big Cain episode. In the beginning, there's like this abstract representation of like machine learning. Yeah. That was crazy. That was wild. They're like putting in stimuli and seeing the reaction and then like the stimuli like eventually lead to a reaction that like, I think Kinger's company, they do like A and C or A and. Yeah. Ass and cock. Yeah. Ass and cock. Yes. That's how I remember it. Is that really what it is? A and C. A and C is like Kinger's company and they weren't making a video game. They were making. It's a virtual reality of some sort. Or they were making an AI. That's what they were making an AI. And they're like wanting to make like an AI that like could like work on its own. But what they like ended up with was Cain. So they put Cain away, but then Cain took over a secondary AI. It broke out of jail. Able, we think. So like if Cain is a red dot. Cain and Able. Yeah. The brothers. The brothers. The brothers. From the Bible. They from literally double, which one kills which one exactly? I don't remember. Cain kills Able. Able. Yeah. Yeah. Deer that's Able. Yeah. So what are you? What were you about? From Has been Hotel. Able and Has been Hotel is like the little bitch coward one. Yes. Yeah. And so. But there's no pain and. Not yet. Oh, cause he's not dead. Wait. Well, he's dead, but he's just not in the show yet. He's not in the show yet. God, this is yours. I know my. Yours be. I'm just so in the fandom that it feels like I'm talking to a caveman. I know this is what it feels like talking Naruto with you. You're like, yeah, the fucking the ornterd one. I'm like, no, I know. I'm aware of him. I'm like, yeah, the little whiskers. And he's always like, I buy that. Yeah. Yeah, bitch. I think is what he says. Something along those lines. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, all right. So Cain Able. That's the idea here. Oh, you're a theorist. I guess I am a game theorist. So yeah, the blue dot, I believe is able. Okay. Counter AI that they were doing or like a synergistic AI, the red dot Cain breaks out of whatever box they put them in and just devours able. Okay. But if you recall, after he does that, like a bunch of stuff's like shitting out of the red dot. Yeah. And the last thing to get spat out is a sad little blue square. And I think that's like, oh, there's a little remnants left. Oh, okay. Yeah. So I'm not, that's not at all what I thought at all. I thought, I thought what got what eaten was the bubble bubble. Yeah. I thought bubble that could be able. Yeah. I thought, I think the bubble is able. It could be. That's like, and then like, there's this whole episode, there's a focus on like bubble being openly antagonistic towards Cain. And also like, I think that's like the cool bit about like bubble being like kind of batshit insane. Is like bubbles not only enslaved by Cain, but also because its code is broken. That's why it's like, it's like batshit insane. But like bubble like very much antagonizing Cain and having to pop all of them. I was like, oh, this is like a representation of like the lack of synergistic connection that two of them have. Yeah. It was crazy. That bubble started becoming an antagonistic force. Yeah. Yeah. I buy that. I think that'll probably be the twist that like eat. Like I think bubble is going to be like the final antagonist probably. You think so? Oh, so like Cain is going to be like what one over here or something. I think he's dead. Kill him. The end of the episode. Remember the last line of the episode where King or goes and I quote, I killed Cain. Sorry. The last line is who will goes. Holy shit. No. At the very end, Cain, King or kills Cain. Did I miss? Did I miss? I think I might have watched this while. Well, just destroyed or something because I don't. I feel like that's not something I was it after the credits. No. I'm getting an ad for Disney solitaire. Let's go. Who I keep trying to pay me to advertise for their company. It's not even them. It's fucking they're onto those apps where it's. I had five minutes left. That's so much. I had five minutes left. Spoiler. Cain dies. Why did I stop with five minutes? Why did I stop with five minutes left? That's so much time for a YouTube show. Oh my God. Yeah. My last note is. Oh my God. You don't even see what the fuck are you doing? My last thing I said, did Jack's think this was all a dream because I think that my last note was like, they say some name. They like King or says some name and like it makes Jack's realize like, like Jack's remember something and he's like, oh, look, he like begins to abstract. Oh no. I don't know. I thought it was King or is just like giving them hope again. I think and my interpretation was that Jack's was going to self sabotage like he did in that previous episode. But then what you don't know, he goes and actually distracts Cain so that they get. You missed. Oh, like so much. I truly thought I watched all of it. That's crazy. A lot. We have to watch so much this week. All right. I guess to give me your notes leading up to the end. I said fucking. Jesus, the hard cut of Queen are getting abstracted was rough. Like we get so obviously it was like the people that worked at the company worked there. Like those are the first people ported into the amazing digital circus and like, like King doesn't remember what appears to be his wife's name, but like they're with each other. And you're like, oh, so sweet. And then the next thing you see is like Cain being like, well, that was a problem as he like throws her into the abyss. Yeah. I wonder if like the people who abstracted are going to like, are they dead? Like that's the thing. Well, there's a theory that since spoiler Cain's dead, there's nothing like keeping them in like buried anymore. Oh, look, I might come back to things. So we're going to have to battle against all the like it's like fucking like I have to battle against Queen or in the clown and all them. Maybe. Yeah. That could be cool. I also want to know how people are still going in because obviously there was a thing like there's a big focus on this episode where like Cain is like, oh, we're going to run out of humans. And then a ragged thug gets popped. It is the first like the first person of the next batch basically. So ragged has been there like a really long time. But racket is trying to pull off like a headset. Yeah. And it's like, but they like A and C was only focused like King or specifically says they weren't trying to make a video game or something like that. They were just working on an AI. So like, how does the AI pull all of them in? Maybe it was sucking the brain juice out of them. I believe how that's my thing. Fucking nano shoot. I don't know. You're the one with all the fucking answers. Because at one point Cain's like, I even gave him a body that like is perfectly matched for their brain files. Yes. And so the things clearly scanning their brain. And so I guess maybe they're trying to build an AI off of everybody's collective information like AI does. I thought that was cool, especially when considering the talking points around Zubel. I feel like it only really applies like to Zubel specifically. I mean, I guess you kind of get it a little bit with a, a little bit of a, a little bit with a, what's the strangle? Gangle. Gangle. Cause like gangl's got the masks and it's like gangl like might like be a representation of like bipolar like disorder or something like that. But like Zubel, who's like canonically, I believe a transgender character. I think they're non binary, but there's like gender dysphoria shit. Yes. And so like they're always trying to like mix in match their parts and find the body that works best for them. And it's like, okay, then what was it? What did we pick up from POMNI that wanted her to be a clown? I know. I also don't know why POMNI is a clown. Yeah. And why was everyone the chess pieces in the beginning? Like cause King or thought he was the king or some shit? I guess yeah. King or could be like one of the top scientists and also very smart and strategic, but then something like nerfed his intelligence. Yeah. Well, you can, you can really stretch and think of like why each main character's body is like that. But we get to see like a little hot dog guy. Like do you remember when you see like the other, the original group? They're a bunch of fucking nonsense. A bunch of a bunch of, it was so funny cause I solved them. I'm like, what the fuck? Can we get the B team? What happened here? There's some good guys in there, but otherwise there's one that was like a dog or something. And I'm like, this guy's trying too hard to be a protagonist. 100%. Like he's got too much main character. He's got to get abstracted cause he had no idea what to do with his hand dog, his hand dogs, his hot dog handies. But yeah, no. So I, I guess I forgot, I didn't realize that Kane died. So much happens. So much happens in the last five minutes. It was like them can like front in Kane and him being like, oh, I like ripping through all these ideas doesn't give me the satisfaction I need kind of thing. Did he go, where's Kinger? That's the big moment. That's the, I'd imagine that's a big moment. Also they've known, Palmies known since episode three that the dark makes Kinger same. I know. Just now put a bucket on his head. Get a bucket on that guy's head 100%. Turn the lights off. He's like, put him in his pillow fort forever. It's a bit I do in my reaction where a Zubel is like, like the bucket makes him smarter. And I want Pommany to be like, yeah. Yeah. It's like, yeah, it's like a, like a sanity bucket. I got it from gummy goo. That's literally loosely the plot of the SpongeBob movie. It's like, yeah, smack a bucket on your head here. You're going to feel real good. Yeah. Just lie about Kingers power system. Yeah. It's like fucking bashing a bucket. Like cause it takes hours. That's the thing would take so long before they realized they were getting pranked. Yeah. That's the best kind of prank. But yeah, the amazing digital circus episode nine last episode. Yeah. What's going to come next? What's next for glitch? I can't say that because you don't know the end of this shit. Oh, you mean after the amazing. Are we going to have nights at one of your, I know, but like it's been a while since that first episode came out. They're making it. I think so. Probably. They got to make the shit. Yeah. Like a big night's ago on of your event, like a live event that I try to get tickets to sold out like instantaneously. Or you leave. I feel like that's just like, I'll be people just like also want to be like, see the glitch. Like people like people will want to be like meet the glitch team or something like that. That's like with those kinds of things. It's like, I wonder is it like, it's obviously was it always a team? Like that's like, cause like, do they animate all the stuff that they do is glitch just an animation studio that posts their shit on a free platform? Yeah. Or is there like a glitch guy and or go out? I think I think glitch is like a production company. And so they're hiring out like different. It's like Mappa. Gotcha. You know, like it's not like Mr. Glitch came up with the amazing digital circus at nights of Guinevere and the bring on show writers and all that. You air on our on our series kind of thing. Still fucking nuts. Also people love data. Dana terrorists. I mean, cause like fucking our house is going. So I mean, I would go that was it in LA. I think so. Have you considered telling them that you're I tried. I am the Daniel Manna. I think, listen, I honestly think the crowd would probably be pretty happy to see you there. I sent them a selfie of me wearing sunglasses. I went, I'm sorry. And then I took off the sunglasses and a second selfie and I was like, now do I get free tickets? And they, they simply actually put the sunglasses back on. Let's see. Let's see. I want to get that effect one more time. Should I send them all your hoody gear? Yeah, I know. Okay. I mean, it's like too early to have nights of Guinevere gear. No, I DMed like whoever was putting on the event that, you know, this big professional like, I like, I was wondering if there's any way, blah, blah. And then I got like an AI thing back and I was like, okay. Okay. Yeah. This is just a fucking stone wall. Yeah. I by the way, oh, speaking of AI, shout out to Sora AI for shutting down one pillar down, baby. And Disney actually, we should probably talk about this. Disney canceling their $1 billion deal with Sora. But I do not want to give Disney credit here on account of the fact that Disney was fully, fully trying to spend a billion dollars on AI technology. And I like the thing, the only reason that they probably didn't go with those billion dollars to chat, GBT is because they were canceling their Sora AI platform. Yeah. Like I don't want to give you like, people are trying to give Disney all the credit. They're like, oh, Disney also canceled their $1 billion deal for generated AI. If Sora hadn't shut down, they would have gone through that. No, at a heartbeat. Yeah. Because they avoided the contract by doing that. The platform no longer exists. So that means no more Love Fruit Island. If you're watching that, I'm not going to say kill yourself, but like, I, you know, like, I have a big bird gets you. I hope a big, I hope, dude, I watched the, I watched the fucking dinosaur documentary on Netflix right now, Morgan Freeman one. Okay. And I hope a pterosaur gets you. Like I hope the biggest pterosaur finds you to swoops you up. Yeah. Because I've seen people being like, I can't believe Lemonella's and I'm like, we just, we have lost the plot entirely. I get the fun of it. It's just because it's AI. Like if it was like, like that's the fun of Total Drama Island. Yeah. Is the idea of like having a fake Love Island and pretending that it's real. 100%. It's the fact that it's AI and you are giving way more energy towards a thing that is not giving the energy back. That makes it cringe. It's the immediacy also. People are like, oh, I need it right now. I need it right now. And it's like fucking that's the thing is like, it's like, it's such an energy and consumption, like, like fucking land, land mine where you're like, oh, I need a new episode and new episodes. It's going to take time. Yeah. Like even Love Island, they make like one, they make five episodes a week. It's just crazy. Yeah. Then you got fucking After Sun, which blows. It's just all interviews are like, how was kissing and they're like, you're not going to believe this. It was fun. Yeah. Kissing in Paradise was a good time. And you're like, yeah, I fucking, I know because it's been a good time for us 13 seasons. Yeah. Anyways, I want to talk about Invincible. I want to, I want to talk about Invincible before we get into the anime. Okay. I'm angry. You should be. I'm already angry. We didn't talk about episode three. Let's just, let's just blitz through episode three here. I'm going to say next, you're going to tell me that Russ is still alive. Rex. Rex is probably what I meant to say. Who gets, who gets brought back alive at the beginning of episode three? Somebody, somebody who should have been dead. Conquest. That's it. There we go. Yeah. Like conquest still alive. They flies out of like the easiest trappings of all time. Yeah. It's bad in the comic too. Yeah. You're just like, oh, you really thought this was going to stop the guy who's like able to wipe out planets was like a couple thousand tons of concrete. I know. At least put him in a prison that can hold like that's what's stupid is he wakes up and he's just like, all right. And then leaves. Can't believe he didn't kill me. And then he just flies away. Yeah. And he doesn't go to fight Mark or anything again. He's like, I guess I'll just go report back to all of the Viltramites here. Yeah, he goes home. I said, robots pissing me off. Listen, I, I don't know. This is a controversial opinion. I like the British guy on the Guardians of the Globe. I think he's, I think he's a fat, listen, he comes out of nowhere. Yeah. They're just like, Hey, this is an old British fucking captain America whose bulletproof can jump out of airplanes with no parachute and is the leader. Yeah. And he's like, I don't like, for what reason do you not like him? Yeah. For what, what, what reason do you not like him? He's like, Oh, oh, Robots. Oh, I think my Imperial intellect would actually be, no, fuck you. You're a child who took somebody else's name. This guy's been punching Nazis in the face before you were, before you were even a fucking overgrown Amoeba, a fucking embryo and a tube. I don't know. I guess if you have a guy whose whole power is that he's the smartest guy, he should probably be the leader. But in your defense, no concept of teamwork whatsoever. Yeah. He did steal a man's face. So a man's face runs into a portal after being told not to get stuck there. Look, fucking bad leader, incredibly bad leader, almost fucking brings brings the sequit back to the guardians of the globe headquarters only is saved because of his giant Hulk ripoff girlfriend. Yeah. Dating a child. She looks like one, but so does he. Yeah. They're both fucking Isakide into their bodies. Yes. They're both stuck in their young, young bodies. And then yeah, man, I said all you had to do was pick up an alien Jesus, dude. She barely accepted moving in together. Slow your fucking roll. Dude, Debbie's boyfriend's pissing me off. Debbie's boy. What is the name? Mark. I don't know. Ron. I don't fucking. He's like Dobby. This guy. This guy. Goberine. Like this guy literally is dating a woman who just found out that her husband is a mass murdering alien sent by like to breed her as a pet. And he's like, this last four weeks has been the best four weeks of our children listening to us fuck. You're super, you're super powered children knowing exactly what it sounds like when I come has been the best month of my life. Let's move in together. And she's like, and then he's like, never mind. Just sell your children's childhood homes to go buy one together. Read the fucking room. She doesn't. I know she's into it. She's into it eventually. Oh, he's calmed down. Yeah, he's being too desperate. He's being intense. He stepped that maxing. I guess it does make sense to sell that awful, awful house that exploded and also your husband tried to murder. It's super deep. No, the house across the street exploded. Oh, now they're in a different one. Get out of this neighborhood. Get out. Just to fucking clear the air a little bit here. Move across the country. Have your kids move out, you know, like have your super powered children move out or something like that. Does Debbie work? What does she do? She's a real real. Oh yeah, she's a real statement. That's where she met her boy. Her boy new boyfriend. That's right. And now on the man's back. I have a real fear that they're going to do some cuck shit. I have a real fear that Debbie's going to go back to Norman and like it's just Norman. Norman. What's his fucking name? Nolan. Nolan. I have a real fear he's going to go back because listen, your Debbie, right? You've been you've been getting, let's say, like a good, let's round him up a good five and a half inches of like high level realtor dick. Okay. Your husband, your ex-husband, father of your two of your children comes back and he's like, listen, I'm a good guy now. I'm killing the Viltramites. I'm sorry. You're going to listen, bad guy, but fuck his pizza. Good in Italy. You know, like you're like, he's got perks. He comes with perks. Dude, you've got a perks that come with re-marrying Omniman. I mean, how can you say now? I could. I'll tell you right now. I couldn't say now. How could you say no? What's a couple of genocides? What? I mean, a couple of successful genocides. Yeah, but you're like, Hey man, it's dumping snow in Japan right now. And then you're just there. Yeah. And that like, I wouldn't. I, you know, I wouldn't. It sounds like you wouldn't. But I could see somebody would dad. I can see how somebody. Yeah. I mean, she didn't know anyone on those planets. He exploded. Yeah. And I know me too. But oh, inches away, Danny. Wow. I'm getting better at monitoring myself here. Um, I, I then wrote, I don't hate Cecil trying to take the responsibility for killing them from killing from Mark like Cecil tries to pull Mark in and he's like, listen, I should be able to give you the green light to kill so you can sleep at night. And I was like, that's kind of a cool move from Cecil. Yeah. It's like, it's kind of a control play. But at the same time Cecil's like, listen, I've green lit so many deaths. Let me take it. Like let me take it from you. Like you can just be following orders. Yeah. And I like this moment of Cecil being like, you did the right thing because objectively Mark did the right thing and everyone's being real fucking stupid about it. Except for like bulletproof. But also, oh my God, can we, can we talk about how we're just. So wasn't expecting the book. Well, the book. We're talking about how fucking redundant the guardians of the globe are. It's a lot of people who just like, can, can I say, because the invincible fighting game is coming out at the end of April, I believe, or what are, where, where am I at the end of April? Yes. So next month, next month, the invincible fighting game is coming out. They keep dropping trailers for new characters. They released the first two characters of the season pass that are going to be in it. And every time a trailer for a new character drops, I'm like, oh, it's another really strong guy who can fly. Maybe like maybe fly because the guardians of the globe is the black guy in the purple suit whose name I do not know. Samson black Samson, bulletproof. The British guy, monster girl. Robot. Robot. Yeah. And, and that's, and that's it. Sometimes the boss baby. Dude, that's dude. And that's just four guys who can punch. Yeah. And a robot. Yeah. Like I like. Yeah. Super strength and flight from bulletproof. At least the Avengers had like the lightning guy and the punchy guy. And then there's like Loki and he's the trickster. And then there's Iron Man and he's a guy in a suit. Robot. Who's robot. And then there's Captain America, who's the fucking British guy. And that's at throw a speedster in there. Like, like why everyone is exactly the same. It's funny because the original Guardians of the globe was that they had a speedster. They had a Green Lantern. They had fucking Batman. Yeah. That Batman. They had an Aqua guy. I guess this is the B team. This is even it. Like even, and then what's crazy is that like if you add the immortal back in there, just another one. Yeah. But, but he can't be killed. But seemingly neither can they. Yeah. Seemingly nobody can be killed. It's all, there's not a lot of like power variety in invincible weirdly enough. And then we get, we get the fucking green guys attacking again. The guys who. Yeah. The flaxons. The flaxons for the third goddamn time. Also recruit the flaxons in the battle against the Viltramites. You're telling me these guys built suits that can bang with Viltramites and, and we're not like, get them on the, like, hey, um, when we're not undicking this guy for his gun that shoots forever, maybe go talk to the people who made suits that can bang with a Viltramite. Yeah. Sounds pretty good to me. Um, you talking about fucking? No, it's bang, like bang, like fight. Don't say. I say bang with all the time is like fight. You've never said that ever in your life. Are you kidding me? I'm on year three of this podcast. I say bang with all the time. I never said that. I know that. I know that for sure. Run the clips here. Um, and then I said, you mean Brit? That's his name is Brit. Yeah. Real creative with that. And then the final of the episode three is that she pregnant. She be pregnant. She be pregnant. Adam Eve. I mean, listen, your name is Adam Eve. You were going to have a child at some point. That's an interesting take. I mean, that's what that's at your unit. You were literally tempting. They were tempting God by saying my name's Adam Eve, aka Adam and Eve, the progenitor of human kind according to Christianity. You weren't going to get knocked up at some point. I thought you were going to go the route of what a lot of people are saying is how the hell did she get pregnant when she has full like Adam control of like everything? Like, why are you even using condoms when you can just like close your tubes? You could close your tubes. You could just make an IUD and like, look, you could just literally have an IUD. Like, she's like, we've been wearing condoms. Everything about Adam Eve is like, why aren't you just doing blank? Like her parents are financially destitute at one point. And she like make or like, I think she makes a golden, she makes a golden apple for her dad. And he's like, fuck you. At a different point, they needed money for something like Adam needed money. And you're like, make that apple again. Yeah, you'll run the apple bit a couple of times. Yeah. He'd eat like four and you'll be set. Yeah. She's pregnant. Some people are annoyed that it's like, oh, you got your strong lead female character. Of course they got to make her pregnant. I will say there's stuff I can't. It's not wrong. There's stuff I can't say about it because it's spoiler related. Now, the issue Invincible runs into literally every season is the fact that it was groundbreaking for a comic in 2006. Yeah. Yeah. Where it's like characters, comic characters, like, didn't age. They didn't experience these like real life struggles. Like having a baby and like female comic book characters or superheroes, like didn't get pregnant and like ones that were in couples didn't have to have a discussion of like, do we keep it? Do we not? And so like in 2002, this was so fresh and so like revolutionary. And today it's like, oh, now we're going to mom Adam Eve. Yeah. And the other thing is like, it is tough that if you want your like lead male character to have a kid, you're going to have to like figure out a way to like make the girl he's dating or married to pregnant. You know what I mean? Yeah, I guess. Like you're fighting again, unless they adopt, like you're fighting against like, oh, it's a cliche to like take a badass warrior woman out of commission and make her a mom with, well, I want Mark to have kids because we have this kid plot line. You know, I'm more. I also like what marks 19. Like, like, like, why are we like, I don't know. It's hard to tell. I mean, his dad just had a new kid like six months ago. These may be like in his early twenties. Is he? Because he went to college for like four minutes. You went to college in like season two. Yeah, but then he dropped out of college. Yeah. And then season three happens and then now we're on four. Okay. So he's like, yeah, he's like 20. You go to college at 18. I guess so. You could be having kids at 20. You could absolutely be having kids at 20. Not when you're like, I have to stay up at night thinking about the fucking guy's head I juiced. Yeah. Like a fucking also for for having so much like head juicing trauma. Boy, oh boy. It's episode four. Heavy with Mark just crushing skulls. Confusing. I got to do these. He's like, he's just like Hawks. He'll do it again. Oh, should we talk about episode four now? I said Bruno to be Debbie's new boy toy and yet art is Mark's replacement father figure because like Mark is immediately just going to his tailor to talk about like the moral repercussions of killing. And it's like, man, I guess he wasn't the father who stepped up. Yeah. I guess so. I will or at least like knows about other heroes and hangs out with them all the time. So he'd like knows more about hero bullshit. Yeah. That's fair. I guess. Yeah. Fucking the other guys just selling houses. And then I said, oh my God, anybody else want a monologue before this hell fight because it's just they give every single one of the dark blood clan like a five minute monologue spot like they're like all like Broadway kids desperate for their time to shine. And then the I don't know, elementia or whatever fucking name is who will be back in season five. I'm sure. And then six and then she'll take a season off. Then she'll be back in season eight. This is the goddamn point of the comic. The point of the comic, the point, the thing is like we're at the point in this comic where even Mark is acknowledging like I need to get rid of these motherfuckers. And then there's more motherfuckers. He doesn't get rid of. And this is the point you try to try blowing her goddamn head off. That's not his fault. Destroy hell. Destroy hell. I don't blow up the inside of hell. I don't know what you want from me. They're keeping the Googles down. They're keeping the also. All right. Listen, I listen. There's a lot of fun moments in this episode. This is the most invincible ass episode of Invincible ever created in that nothing of substance happens. A bunch of new mechanics are introduced. And my God, it's a kind of fun to watch, but also at the same time, like I don't feel like we land on any of the actual points that we're trying to make here. So many people are bitching about this being filler. Like and at the same time, just is nobody watching it with their brain turned on? It's all themes. Mark is going through his current like crisis of, oh, do I have the right to decide who lives and dies? Am I becoming too much like my father? And then a demon trying to summon his father accidentally summons Mark to hell. And then he's like, hi. Time to tell you how to be good human. I do. Can we just have why is why is Damien Darkblood the main character from hell? The only one who can't fucking talk? Reasonable. I like how he talks. Why is he the only? I like because he's trying to be like the gruff, the gruff detective, like detective who like speaks in like small amounts of words. I do understand what you're saying. That's a very good point. That's themes. Ahoy is what I was going to do. That's very that is a very good point. I relinquish the fact that that is that is actually very cool. I didn't think about the fact that Mark is a replacement for his father is another way to build into the two of them being in it. Extricably like mixed with each other. Yeah. And then also he's like, well, if there's a hell, is there a heaven? And then he goes, no, we don't know if there's a heaven. No, there's nothing judging your good deeds and Mark is disappointed. And that again is like, oh, well now that further complicates things because if there's a heaven and a hell that would give him the out and be like, oh, I even though it's selfish, I want to go to heaven. I'm only going to do good deeds. Yeah. But now he's like, oh no, you are in open waters. You need to do good deeds because you want to do good deeds. Yeah. Damien Darkblood doing a fucking 200 level theology course being like, yeah, heaven and hell don't exist. So why don't you make earth heaven? And I was like, are we here to punch elementals in the face or fucking talk about like religious principles? What's happening? Yeah. Crazy. Um, fucking, I don't know, man. Uh, oh my God, just don't wear the helmets. That's what I wrote. Thank God. They're doing a bit. I, oh, exhaust. Also, I get that we're falling down the hole, but I mean, this entire episode felt like it was in profit. Like if you told me this was like the like the fucking invincible's take on inter dimensional cable, I believe you. To be fair, I'll give to you that like the helmet bit is not as funny as they think it is. No, they think it's hilarious. And the whole time is like, well, like what, why would anyone even design that? Why, how is that better? Why can't you hold the helmet? Well, cause that's worse because it's work. Cause then I'd have to occupy one of my hands and my sister just gave me this dope two handed fire. Yeah. I'd rather not hold anything. Yeah. Literally. It's like, it was like demon nanites. He's like, I don't fucking. Yeah. I don't want to show us the Cerberus fight because why would you show me Mark fighting a three headed dog from hell? There's a lot of good animation in this though. There is. Animation is way better than anything in like season two. 100%. I just wanted to do Cerberus fight. God Mark loves popping a skull, getting three and getting three slashes on his chest. Yeah. Well, I, yeah, I knew you'd bring that up, but they make a joke of it. He just, he was like, I fucking, the suit was, the suit was doing so good. And then it wasn't Satan coming to earth. Yeah. What's happening there? Why Satan talk about going to earth? I guess Satan wants to do shit. Inventable is all about fucking dealing with something and then later it comes back. Yeah. Don't you like one piece? I love one piece. That's one piece. Oh, it's not one piece. One piece wrapped. Everyone's like, Oh, one piece is a interconnected one piece is this one piece is that one piece has like four reoccurring characters. It's fucking Jim Bay, crocodile, me hawk and buggy. That's it. Um, Bellamy. Yeah. Okay. So I'm sorry. Wait, Bellamy. Yes. Because Bellamy also shows up at the end of fucking dress Rosa for the most pointlessly drawn out worst fucking case of pacing being cut to shit in all of the one piece anime. I wish Bellamy never came back. That's the fucking, that is the worst part of dress Rosa by far. Can't believe you brought that up. Um, yeah, I don't know, man. Fucking damn lava. Conflation was wild. Oh, when fucking Damien darkblood sister just gets just fucking stuffed full of lava. Yeah, that was crazy. That was hardcore. I was like watching you to kill fucking Kuro. She who cockroach. Oh, that's his name. Yeah. That's his name. Yeah, I don't know. It wasn't now that you've said your thing. I took the way you took the wind out of my sales. I wanted to be a dignity mad. Then you made a really good point. Yeah. I was going to make a tick talk about it and I didn't. So I'll do that at some point later. That's fucking I wanted to be mad. I wanted to do you bitch. You make you ruin everything. I just hate that everyone ever since solo leveling. Genuinely, I actually blame it. It feels like no one wants themes or can like wait a single episode because now I'm getting like all these tick talks of people being like season four of invincible is bad. And I'm like episodes one through three are great. Yes. And people are like, oh, Mark's whining about having to kill a guy. And it's like, what did you like? It's like the people complaining that Freerun doesn't have enough fights. And it's like, how'd you make it to season two? I'm going to get this fucking complain off here. You're like, oh, I don't know. I thought a Pothcary diary is going to be more action packed. It's like about a fucking four foot ten girl tasting poison. Yeah. It's like being like, yeah, I think one piece kind of sucks. I'm on episode 679 and I'm still not into it. Like you want to have the most informed opinion to hate on a thing. What's like, what are you doing? Oh, Josh did that. You watched all of Breaking Bad just to prove why he hates it. And what were his points? I don't like the family shit. That's if you're going to have to. That is the weakest part of Breaking Bad. That's another like where if I'm defending it, though, I'll be like, that's the point is like, there's so many shows where it's like just a drug cartel show. Yeah. But what makes Breaking Bad unique and interesting is that it's like a suburban dad who has to juggle a family, Santa Montana with math. Except it doesn't wear a wig. He wears a hat. But that's where he unwigs, you know, he does. Well, I mean, that's the reverse. That's the end of the story. You know, it's a big old, it's a big old hat there. But yeah, I guess that's my invisible time. So I guess Nick doesn't get to be as indignantly mad as he thought he could be because Danny, Danny, Danny has critical reading abilities. And I'm now I'm now upset with myself that I didn't see it. I think that was because I went into it wanting to dislike it. I think that's on me. I'm going to do some self-reflecting. Did you? I'm like how Danny kind of like how Danny went back and watched Shade of Cases in One. I'm going to go reflect. I'm going to go reflect on my willingness to hate invincible because that is actually a really cool moment of marketing, literally something to hell after, after feeling as though he did something that would put him there in the first place and then realizing that all he could do to balance out his deeds was live a good life. That's interesting because I. That sucks. I retread JJK because the masses like I was going against the masses and I felt that was obnoxious. You liking this season is against the masses. I like this. This is my favorite season by far. Yeah, it's good. It's a good season. Why do you go into it wanting to hate it? I just because it's mostly because of the way it looks. You suck because I because I've seen how the comic looks and I honestly ever ever since what could have happened that was a metal. That was my guess what? Guess what I got that from? It says N. W. W. Mm hmm. Northwest West. Not yes, 100 percent. Yes, that is for identifying Northwest West at one point. No, that is my master's medal. You discovered. I discovered Northwest West. Yeah, that is not your master's medal. That is my master's in actual human feces. It's very old. That is my graduation medal. Whoa. Yeah, from where? Northeastern. It's 2020. It's not W. W. Northeastern. Nick, there isn't a single E on there. Two W. That you believe it or not. Their logo Northeastern is one word. It's 2020. Yes, holy shit. Yeah, it's old. It's a very old metal. Really, it looks like a W. Yeah, yeah. Two of them. I know, that's the beauty of it here. Anyway. But yeah, so that's Invincible, and unfortunately I don't get to be digging about it. Should we talk about? What was the worst? Ba ba ba ba. What was the worst anime of the week? And why was it? Fire Force. Say April Fools. Say April Fools right now. You're April Foolsing me. Everything else is really good. You're April Foolsing me. I'm kidding, it's obviously vigilantes. It's 100% vigilantes. I was almost so angry. The anger reserves that I had stocked up for Invincible. If I hadn't just immediately acquiesced on Invincible, yeah, just fucking those like, yeah, fuck you, Ryan, I can't be upset. Oh, yeah, I watched last week's vigilantes. Last week's vigilantes goes hard as fuck, dude. Dude, Knuckle Duster is like an all time My Hero character. Probably my favorite My Hero character ever. Maybe, I'm going to admit that. Him just, I think it's the best part about last week's episode, because obviously all of it's great. Him playing the super fast message and being like, oh, this message is at 300 speed. Awesome. The cherry on top, he's like, I know how not to speed you up and then just start fucking bashing his head into the concrete. The concussion bit's so cool. Awesome. I love that he's like, he's healing. That's okay. Yeah, ba ba ba. Just fucking pound and mound. That's sick. And then also when the message ends, he's like, it'll be like your brain needs to take a breath. And then it ends and then he snaps out of it. And then Knuckle Duster pulls out a shock and he's like, ran out of breath, huh? Yeah, there's sorts of kneecapidem, dude. God, yeah, it was a really cool. This episode, not so much. And then all of the goodwill of that episode immediately taken away with the last episode. Because this episode is the most vigilante-ass episode ever. Fucking, you get the last episode ends with the Scarface guy blowing himself up, blowing back Knuckle Duster, who's fine. Scarface guy, arm gone. I was like, damn, I didn't expect him to lose an arm. Immediately back. Bomb arms. Bomb arms. It's just objectively better. Why weren't you doing that from the start? Also how? They're gonna keep exploding. It's inconvenient. I mean, it is. It's a bad weapon to have. It's more of a long range option. But fucking, and then like, is Knuckle Duster alive? Who knows? I can't believe that isn't answered. Yeah. Do you remember what the Scar guy used to look like? You sent a photo to the talk, because he's not on his group chat of just like a fucking, like a sad blob with a switch blade. This weird little gingerbread monster. Yes. That just like scarred its face because it was watching too much television. It was so funny. He was like, I didn't always look like this. And I was like, yeah. Obviously. I was like, I assumed the Scar is new. And then it shows this tubby little monster. And I'm like, what? Yeah, he started his Gumby. Started his Gumby with a fucking self-harm problem. There is a Pillsbury suicide boy. Yeah. And then there's just the rest of this episode. Just wrap up about Captain Celebrity. We're all just talking about, we're all just talking about, like, oh, we can't acknowledge what Koichi did because of his vigilanteism. Give him a hero's license. They're like, oh, like we look weird or like, oh, if we acknowledge the fact that he saved 50,000 people, that we have to acknowledge all the good he's doing in the unpatrolled part of Japan. Oh, yeah, we're like, fucking like, there's such a big talking point this entire episode of Naru Hata just being dangerous and only the vigilante is protecting it. They're like, we can't acknowledge that. We can't acknowledge the good that this guy did for this like literally 9-11 event that he prevented. They're like, nah. We're just gonna not mention his name. Hand him a license. Yeah, deputize him. It's that easy. Yeah. Like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Say he went to UA. Like, you can literally just like. I know, you need a degree. Yeah, who gives a shit? They're like, oh, fucking say he took his provisional license, he's like, he's been examined, passed. Or, yeah, give him his GED, like, make him take a test. If you're already not gonna talk about him, just like be like, fucking, I don't know. Like he saved the day, or like, you don't even have to say he saved the day, just give him a hero's license. So if ever happens again, he's in the clear. You have multiple heroes, like active on duty heroes who will vouch for him. Like, Izawa, Captain Celebrity. Yep, who's like getting a giant like send off kind of thing. We get Captain Celebrity's tiny, smaller than child wife. So she sucks. She's just like the size of her child. She looks like Deku and all of his childhood flashbacks. I just saw, I saw the most fucking beautiful, but also out there as fan art today. And I hope I liked it. And I probably did because if we're being real, my likes on Instagram are truly wild. Let's see, your activity, I love that Instagram tracks all of this. I don't, it's deeply, it's probably very, very bad, but man, does it get. I'd like more things if it was more easily accessible. Like I love that TikTok, you just tap a button and you get to all your likes. I don't like that to go into like my archives and shit. Man, sad. I didn't like it, which is probably because I didn't want people to see that I liked it maybe. I saw, wait, hold up, hold up. I might have it. I'm holding up. I found fan art of Twink Deku and Bakugo dressed as a king. And they were like sitting holding hands and they had a baby that looked just like Bakugo. And it was gorgeously drawn, but it was very funny because Deku was basically, you know that Zelda link, what's the fucking like belly dancer outfit everyone puts on link, that's essentially what they had on Deku. It was gorgeous, but it was very funny. And that's what he looked like. Also, Koichi becomes a janitor. He's just hanging up, the main character's like, I got one more summer of being a vigilante before I go mop floors. You guys are one more sweatshirt worth of being a vigilante. And it's like, you can buy more sweatshirts. Also take the provisional, like I, do you have to go to a hero high school to take it? I guess, and it does make sense. It's like the same as like a gun owner needing a gun license. I guess, but you don't need to go to the gun, the four year of a gun school. Yeah, go to Harvard. Yeah, but. He's like, yeah, the fucking, the president of the company is like, hey, it's weird that you with a college degree are applying to be a janitor. But like, he's like, yeah, I pick up trash for a living. And it's like, okay dude. Yeah, I guess that is a good use of his quirk, but like. Become like, I don't know, like a, like a, you know those people who like carry taxis around? Like the, the, yeah, it become a rickshaw carrier or something like utilize your quirk somehow. I agree. Crazy. All right, that's, that's enough. That's enough vigilantes. Oh, bad. Boring. I do, what's next? Freeran. Okay. You want to do Freeran next? I agree. This, this is the weakest episode of the season, I'd say. In the same vein of us being like, that was the most invincible episode. This was most vigilantes. This is such a freeran mess around, but in the way that I feel like it's just still retreading, like I was looking stuff up about it. I was like, what am I missing like themes here? And I guess with the bridge, someone was saying that like, there is this the season two finale for you. Yeah. Episode 10 of season two. People were saying that there is a theme of like moving forward. Finally, because they like build a bridge and this and that. But the main theme is like appreciating beauty. Yeah. I just feel like that's the whole fucking show. Oh, it's the whole fucking show for sure. My last note was this is a freeran ass episode and a freeran ass season. And so it's just like, the coolest part about this episode here, I said, well, first off I said 200 years to build a bridge is getting an idiot. Because what do you mean it took you 200 years? Oh, oh, it's because it takes two weeks to walk around. Get a big piece of, you got a rope. Get a cart. You get one rope and you get one big piece of wood. You're walking across it. Yeah. Like he's like, it doesn't need to be, it doesn't need to be a huge bridge here. And he was like, oh. Build a temporary smaller bridge. So you can like, you can set up all your other wood, you're gonna be fine. I don't know how to build a bridge. I can't imagine it's that hard so long as you're just, like cars don't exist. People, people need to get across. Maybe a cut, maybe a horse. Maybe occasionally a horse. So you can stop your village from being pillaged by fucking demons. The coolest moment though is I like that you get to see back. It's another like, oh, remember Himmel as a person one, but we see Himmel using the money they got from getting the sword, demon sword back to pay for the bridge. And I was like, oh, it's cool to see linear progression along with the linear progression of the modern day. And it's effects. And you see Himmel being like, well, again, it's like, well, you'll never see this bridge completed. He's like, well, then pay to free her in. That was a cool moment. I also liked the talking point around like grief. Like they're like, oh, why is Gen spending 200 years to build this bridge? And it's like, oh, probably because he feels bad that it wasn't done to save his village. And like the conclusion is like you always complained about with free her in where it's like, now let's have a party thing. Cause he's like, oh yeah, by the way, I rebuilt the village. Yeah, right. He's like 200 years to a long time. I've been fucking. I don't like fucking it. Well, all of your sons are a lot taller than you get. Yeah. I mean, it's again, it's like a very okay free her in episode. And if you like free her in, I think you'll find this like not better or worse than any other episode. I like free her in a lot and I acknowledge this is probably the worst episode of the season. Yeah. Just like at this point, I'm like, it doesn't, it didn't offer something new to like the free her in ethos that I was looking for. So the thing is, and this, that's why this season of free her in is weird comparatively like the first season, first season is 28 episodes. And the first six to 10 episodes aren't really anything crazy. It's like, we're in a shit. We get the stark fern date, which I'd say is like a big, like non dramatic, non fight like event. And then we also got fucking. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Good now revolts or whatever his name is, Revol or whatever. But the end episode, we see Denkin heading to the golden land and the golden land is, I believe the longest arc in free run. It's like, it's like a very important, cause they're going to fight the one remaining general of the demons army who's turned an entire like homeland into gold basically. And so that all of season three, which actually I have no idea. I don't, I think we're only in in 10 episodes of season. So it's probably going to be like two years till we get season three. But all of that, probably that 12 episode sequence is all going to be golden land. Yeah. So it's going to be like the most important free her and his felt sense the, the major exam probably, which is in itself six or so episodes. Yeah. And it's going to be like double that length. So not a great closing segment from free run, but still like, if you like free run, it was a cozy episode. Yeah. Free run had some like really high highs. I think the whole canal bit was like the most engaged. Oh, 100% With free run, not even like, like the fight was cool, but the episode where he's introduced and he's carrying that body is like, what I wish every episode of free run was. Yeah. There's a masterclass and character, like subtle character right now. Like you don't have to beat me over the head with it. And we're going to rank all of the anime that we watched season and where they fall at the end of the episode here. But before we get there, we're going to talk about our next anime, which is fucking it's fire force. I know you were feeling indignant about me saying that fire force was the worst episode of the week, but it's this episode of fire force is not better than this episode from vigilantes or not. It's not better than this episode from JJK, sentenced or hell's paradise. That's crazy. I've said what I said. That's crazy. I don't think this episode, I'm not saying this is a bad episode. Not even better than hell's paradise. I like this episode of hell's paradise a lot. This is like a my episode of the week. Wait, actually no. This episode of hell's paradise was just a big old, we're killing Doshi and also there's shinobi here episode. This felt like not a season finale of hell's paradise. I almost wonder if we have one more. No, you're, no. This was a weird last episode of hell's paradise. I don't hate, I don't, oh no. Okay, we'll talk about hell's paradise first. Because I remembered, I remember like, this is basically just like a bunch of vegetable heads getting stabbed by shinobis. Yeah, the shinobi finally show up, like all the factions crash into each other. What's her fucking name? The one you told me dies and then clowned on me. You're having low IQ. You were like, this is the most obvious she's dead moment ever. She fucking not dead. Super not dead. Why? Why are you like this? Why, do you want me to tell you what happens in the manga? What do you clown on me then? I just didn't want you to fucking try and read me, Dan. I was correct. You always like ask me leading questions and then I give some kind of face and you're like, I can't believe you've spoiled this for me. I guess, but she's back. Like I knew she would be. Super back, yeah. Um, yeah. Two odds to die. This was really like, it feels like we got one more. Unless they're like, oh, unless they're like, oh, there's a big cliffhanger like the next season, all the factions crash into each other and it's gonna be the fucking Shibuya incident. I mean, like, right? I mean, that definitely could happen because like a lot happened in this episode. Like we're establishing that replacement Shinobi fighting against Rian. There was going to be 12 episodes this season. How many are out? How many are out is a good question here because I feel like a lot of the anime released late this season. So like, like Freerun was a couple of weeks late, which is why we're only on episode 10 right now. It's wild. Crunchyroll store. And they're trying to sell me the perfect blue. I knew it. The steel book. Yeah, they're trying to sell me perfect blue. That is a wild lead in. Welcome to Crunchyroll. I hate that now when you open the app, it's like, which profile? And I'm like, well, there's only one. So. Yeah, so you're right. It's like, yeah, it's like, you want to be Nick or guest? Yeah, you want to be Nick or do you want to add a new one? Yeah, it's like, I want to be Nick. Thank you. This was episode 25 and there is 13 episodes. Yeah, that was the last episode of the season. Wow. Crazy. That's what they're doing. They're like, this is a bridge between season two and three rather than a big climax. Because Gintetsu Sai and the little guy are fighting against Shugen. The replacement Shinobi is fighting against Rian. We're getting the tall girl versus Sugiiri. Yeah, it is very much like a, here all the matchups get hyped for next season. Yeah, it's kind of like the fucking like the cliffhanger on like an episode of like TYBW. Like, it's TYBW very much did that where it was like, here's all of like, here's all of your soul. I, it's been so long since I watched Bleach. All of your soul bad guys. All of your soul bad guys. Yes, fighting against the German soul bad guys. Gotcha. But yeah, this is a fun episode. I mean, it's like, there's some nonsense in the beginning where it's like Toma, Asa and Gintetsu Sai are all bathing for some reason. Yeah, they're having a bit of a mess around and the dragon is like, it's fucking leave. This place sucks. They's like, why are we bathing here? It's like, why are we taking this time to get cleaner? We're literally trying to get off a murderous island, but all the Lord Tenzin have kind of been killed. And they're trying to figure out his eye patch. Yes, which I fun, fun bit, I guess. If it's an eye patch, probably don't put a hole in it. Well, you can't see why not. I guess, I guess. I think the bit is that it's like a coin. I mean, that's kind of sick. Well, so I think the coin just looks like that and they're using also you need a hole in it to wrap the string around. Dog, I saw a couple of months ago, I saw an ad for a Prada eye patch and it was just the coolest looking thing I've ever seen. Wait, what was this? Was it a Dolce & Gabbana eye patch? There was some eye patch that was like a fucking like designer brand and it was so cool. And I was like, I should start, I start wearing an eye patch. You only need one eye. And I think Gintetsu Sai kind of proved that. They only really need one eye. I guess you only need one, but it's nicer to have depth perception. Yeah, also, you know, I wouldn't drive with it. What if I'm a pirate ship? I get attacked at night. You're on a pirate ship and you get attacked at night. Switch it over. That's why they wore eye patches. Did you know this? What are you talking? You're the number one pirate enjoyer in my life. What do you mean? And you didn't know why? Do you know why pirates always wear eye patches? No, I like pirates a medium amount, by the way. You are first off. Danny does not like pirates a medium. Danny first off, Danny, hit him with your, hit him with a pirate accent. Speak a little pirate form. Oh, I see. I don't, I'm nervous. No? Oh, holly. Oh, okay. Speak a little Chinese form, Dan. Fuck it. And then so Danny also, pirate magic, Dan. We'll do a pirate accent the entire time. I like a pirate accent. Danny's the number one pirate enjoyer in my life. People, the like pirates won't always just lose an eye. They would wear an eye patch during the day. So at night, they could take off their eye patch and immediately have night vision. Yeah. And they'd swap it over so they would immediately have night vision. That's so weird. Yeah. That's so crazy. I feel like you get night vision. 20 minutes. In like 20? No. Yeah, just about 20 minutes. I feel like I get. It gets better the longer you're in the dark, but like over the course of like five minutes, you'll begin to adjust 20 minutes full vision. I'm gonna test this tonight. Go wild. I'd love to see how you can test it. Well, I'd turn off all the lights and then wait to get night vision. Okay, but like, are you gonna be like, oh, like, are you, you know what it needs to do? You know what it needs to do? You go into those eye reader charts and you're like, oh, I can read here five minutes in. I can read here 20 minutes in. That's smart. I think instead I'm just gonna send you a completely dark video. Is that silent? I can see so goddamn good right now. It's silent for like eight minutes. And I go, yep, I can see. Yep. I can see literally everything right now. I couldn't be attacked and come from any side. Yeah. They were always doing like in the dark shit on Mythbusters. Whoa. This is what I learned this from our favorite TV show. Let's go. The Myths. The Mythbusters here. I also love Shion telling Nurgae that he would defend her until the light's gone out from his eyes. He's blind. He's like, lights already gone out for your eyes. People are being like, he can see. No, he can sense. That has nothing to do with his eyeballs. Yeah. But he does like open his eyes when he fights, but you should not help him any feasible way. Oh, dude. And then Shugen, there was a real, there was a real like, oh, I'm just gonna be my new stim. Oh yeah. Where he like, swaps the blade around and then snacks it. Cuts down like seven doshi. And then he just like spins his blade, gives it a tap, all the blood comes in, back in the hill. That was so sick. So sick. Over animated the fuck out of it, but it was awesome to watch. It was really smooth. It was like all really fluid. And then his blade's jagged cause he's trying to make it hurt when he kills people. Oh, I love Shugen as a character. And then I just said Super Lord Tenzin cause the episode ends with Mudan fusing with the giant. Right. Yeah, it turns into like a big fucking dead space monster. Big flower monster thing, not sexy, unless. You gotta ask the right people. Listen, everybody listen, different strokes, different folks, you know? And my stroke is right there. But yeah, this episode of Hell Paradise was very much like let's just stab the veggie tails guys. And there's so many of them. It was very, okay. It's very a bridge and like a hero of the matchups for next time. I do wish we'd closed on a bigger, like a bigger, like more rorist kind of like, give me the first couple of minutes of the fight, you know? Like put somebody in a bad situation and then hang off the season. I almost think it's like too soon to get into another big like fight for everybody. Yeah, that's fair. Like what's his face just lost his eye? And the other dude, like everyone was on like the last breath of their life. She on is still actively covered in blood. Yeah, like I don't know if I buy that like, they can do another. It's like every time you see Usopp's fucking nose break in one piece. It's gonna go back. It's gonna go back immediate. You lose an arm in the fucking, in the My Hero Academia universe. It's coming back. Yeah, you, it's like triple breaking Deku's fingers. Like at a point it loses meaning. They're fighting against Doshi or Yamada Asaimon who don't know Tao. Like they said like a lot of good Asaimon and it's like, I don't know. Like these like, all of them have gotten noticed will be stronger. So obviously it's not gonna be like their hardest fight unless it will be, you know? So we'll see. Yeah. All right. After that, now can we talk Fire Force? I guess. You're wrong, but I guess. It's simply not as good as either Send Us to Be Hero, your favorite TV show ever or JJK Sendai Colony, which is sitting at a 9.9 on IMDB. Thank you very much. This was so fucking cool. Very cool. The penultimate episode of Fire Force. Second to last episode, Shinra Boncho Man reveal. Yeah, Shinra becomes Captain Optimist. He becomes Captain Optimist. Yeah, literally Captain Planet. Yeah. He's so cool looking. He creates the world. It's pretty dumb that Arthur is orbiting it. Yes, 100%. Also, all of Arthur is orbiting it, mind you. All of Arthur is orbiting it. This episode is dripping in Soul Leader references, by the way. Yeah, it sure is. Yeah, he turns her tears into souls. Yep. Arthur bonks him from space. Thrice. Fry bonks. It's just sick. It looked great. It looked really good. We're animating the fuck out of Shinra Boncho Man scarf. I'm not saying this episode wasn't good. I'm just saying this episode from Sendent. This episode of Sendent to Be a Hero sold me on the season. Oh, let's go. Like this was like, oh, we actually can write characters. That shit was hard. I got good shit to say about Sentence, but this sold me on, because all through the season, you've been like, people love Fire Force's ending. They love it. Fire Force's ending is very good. This episode of Fire Force had me like, oh, I get it, this is a great ending. Yes. Cause it's just, it's so hype seeing everything turn into Soul Leader. The fucking, I never realized how whack the architecture of Soul Leader was. That's the thing. Until this episode. And they'll get more into that in the next episode. What like, why Shinra had to make it whack. And that's like, you'll start to realize that it all makes a lot of sense within the confines of like Fire Force feeding into Soul Leader and the argument the evangelist is making versus what Shinra is making. It's, you have any theories about why Shinra chose that? Well, he said that he kept like getting it vaguely wrong. Yes. So it's just a culmination of like everything he knows about civilization. Yes, kind of. Yeah. It gets, you'll get more into the details of it next episode. But like, it's also like this crazy moment of like, he's making like cartoon whales and like shows being like, that's not, but like, do you know why he made a whale? No. Oh, that's awesome. Okay. So when we first meet Vulcan, you remember Vulcan, right? When we first meet Vulcan, his family has a skeleton of a whale hanging in his shop. And so like, Oh, and they're like, I've never seen that before. Yeah. Whales don't exist anymore. And that's why his whale is so fucky because he's only seen a whale skeleton. Yeah. So it shows like that's way too cartoony. And he's like, I only got my imagination. Interesting. It should be more fucked. Oh, it should 100% be more fucked. Yeah. But it's got like big, it's got like big anime eyes and shit. And like Shinra like literally stops time multiple times. Like he has show's ability because of show's ability to cool the universe. And he's fighting against the evangelist who has all of the abilities of the absorbed pillars. And so like, she's this God beyond comprehension. And Shinra Botchman is like, one of the strongest characters ever created like in anime ever. It's nuts. But yes, this episode looked great. I want to go over all, for those of you who missed it, all of the soul leader references. So when we see Arthur up in space, we see the reason he's healed is because of Xtelibor A. But B, we see when he's like done bonking Shinra, did you see the speech bubble? Yeah, it said something. Fool. Yeah, fool. It said fool. Yeah. I was wondering why, but that's yeah. Because he creates Xtelibor. And he talks about how if you treat a tool, this is something that happens, fuck, what was this? Because this is a Gachiakuta prequel. That's what it is, it's Gachiakuta. It's like when you treat something, it's like a Japanese legend. If you treat something, it gets a soul. And Arthur made a sword with a soul and it turns out to be Xtelibor. You could argue this is a Gachiakuta prequel. Honored. Because of that. I mean, if you made a trash world, you know what it is. Maybe all this shit happens again. Well, that would be the fucking events of Soul Eater. Well, maybe Soul Eater's a fucking prequel. But what if it's one of the worlds that he trashed? That's what ended up being Gachiakuta. Oh, that would be cool. He got depressed and ended up making a trash world and that's Gachiakuta. We also see, they call the world the Black Star. Do they? He's like over this Black Star. Wow, that's cool. That's a Fire Force Soul Eater reference. And then, or Crushed by a World, Fool from Excalibur, was that it? Yeah, there's the Black Star, the Excalibur thing, and then obviously all the buildings. We get all the buildings, the souls, the tiers. Oh, soul residence. Also, Shinra show and their mother say soul residence. And then that's how they combined. So that's where the soul residence idea comes for in the Soul Eater universe. It's fine, it's fun. It's just a hype. If you like both universes, it's so fun to see them turn into each other. Yeah, I guess if I hadn't seen some of Soul Eater, this wouldn't be as hype. And I'm curious if I'd love to get that perspective. Someone who never watched Soul Eater doesn't know anything about it and is just consuming this as a Fire Force fan, does this still rule? I probably not. Because if it's just the Fire Force universe, it comes out of fucking nowhere. Yeah, it's really weird. Like if it's just Fire Force, the fucking funny part is weird is the point. Like once you're done with the manga, you're like, oh, weird was the point. We were aiming for weird. Because it has to get to the Soul Eater, which is objectively weird. And so that's like 100% you definitely feel different about it. Actually, I'm curious to hear from in the comments, if anybody out there has watched from Fire Force, but has never seen Soul Eater, how do you feel about the conclusion to all of this? Because I feel as though it's probably not as fond as me or me or Danny. Yeah. Definitely not. But this is a fun episode, a lot of good fucking. Boop. But it's not a heavy, like it's not like a classic Fire Force, we have to duke this out kind of situation. It's like, oh, Shinra and the Evangelists and Hame are talking about differing ideologies. Yeah, like the action comes in the form of metaphor during their conversation, where she says something depressing and then he says something optimistic and deflects her depression being. And it's kind of a fun idea though, because like she's making good points. Or like in the beginning, Shinra is just remaking Earth. And he's like, listen, all of the fucking despair of the world is just gonna go back to Hamea. And it's like, of course, Hamea is despairing because she was living a torturous life before this. And the Evangelists is just taking advantage of that. You know? But yeah, this is a fun episode. This is a great episode. I'd say best episode of the season, except for the dragon episode. Okay, so second best episode of Fire Force's season. Yes, of season four, I guess. Part two of season three. Yeah, I think I maybe like this more. I would have liked the dragon episode more if Arthur stayed dead, I think. That's fair. Cause boy, oh boy, does he just heal off screen and nobody ever really talks about it. But at the same time, I wonder if this is gonna loo, it's like Deadpool three. We're on like first watch it's hype cause it's all the cameos. And you're like, oh, it's becoming soul eater. I wonder if on rewatch, I'm like numb to that. What the fuck happened in Deadpool three? It becomes soul eater at the end. Yes, of course. Oh, that was that fucking with the time travel. Was that two? That's two. Deadpool three has blade in it and the human torch. And they're like in a desert the most of the time and also Wolverines in it. Oh, Deadpool versus Wolverine. Yeah. Oh, okay, gotcha. I was like, I don't remember. I get Deadpool. Yeah, gotcha. Okay, yeah. Whatever happened to that? Are they doing more Deadpool? Is that done? I may might be done. Cause of Ryan Reynolds. He's old. Well, there's that 100% but also like he was mean to a person or something. God, we don't have time for that. I don't even, that's a different podcast. I specifically, I specifically like a dodge stick. Cause I was like, I don't have the brain capacity to fully absorb what's ever going on here. It's a lot. There's a ton of drama. Sarah was very up. Oh, I would imagine that too. To be something that she was heavily involved in. All right, let's get to talking about some actually good anime here though. Finally, now we're going to. Some finally, some good anime. This is a great week. Which is better, JJK or sentence? I know I have an answer. I know our podcast editor had an answer, which was wrong. Which was wrong. Our podcast editor, Stankland was like, what did he say? He was like, I mean, he was like, you might as well not even watch JJK this week. That's not what he said. He was like, sentence to be hero, anime of the year. That's not what he said. You're so bad at translating what people say. He said, I'm going to lock in episode of the week here. Cause his sentence comes out on like Thursdays or something. He was like calling it now. This upcoming podcast episode is going to be called sentence to be the best episode of the season. That's what it was. Yeah. And this episode of sentence to be hero is great. Is it better than the Sendai colony? No. I don't know. I can't tell because you know what? Is this your favorite episode of JJK season three? It's not. Everyone's acting like, and I don't have a problem. Maki's episode is still better. I literally just ranked all the episodes for YouTube and I said that Maki's episode is better. I don't have a problem with people acting this way. It's interesting that everyone is acting like this is by far and away. The best episode of JJK's season and show. I'm seeing TikToks everywhere of people being like, they just dropped the best episode of JJK ever. I don't even like this more than the Reggie fight. I love the Reggie fight. I understand you love. I understand loving the Reggie fight. You love specifically the domain expansion episode with the shower scene. That's fair because that hoedown throwdown in the shower scene is fucking nuts. I think it just comes down to, I feel like people's favorite episodes of JJK come down to character biases. Oh. It's like, I wonder if Megumi was Utah. This would be my favorite episode of the whole season. Maybe because you do love Megumi. Also this episode does, I mean it is, I don't wanna say action slop, but it is just like, it's 28 minutes of an unrelenting fight. Exactly. And with Megumi and Reggie, you have that like, oh, there feels as though there's weight to it. With Utah, you're like, I don't know, you're never gonna get 400 points. It doesn't feel like what he's trying to accomplish is important. With Megumi, it feels important. Well, it's not even that necessarily. I think they both have enough overall narrative weight. It's more that every Megumi episode this season feels like a John Wick movie in that like, you see Megumi on the fly calculating strategy. And like, you know, this dude's power is this, he gets two frogs to like tie him down. And like, it feels like- Yori's dropping exploding teeth and he's grabbing metal doors, getting blown into fucking apartments. Yeah, he's like jumping inside of cars to like block shit like every, oh, and then he's lying to people constantly. Where he's like dropping Max Elephant, what? Where he's like, you know, people, JJK is full of people being like, hmm, I know your ability is this, so you can only do this. And like three times, Megumi tells someone his ability. And then it's like, I lied. And then Max Elephant will drop from the sea. Yeah, he's like, my fucking domain is on the roof as well, idiot, my shadow's everywhere. It's a lot of like, hey, Bozo, my wolf wasn't dead. We kind of get that with this episode here, where we see at the very end, where Utah uses the air to fucking call in an orbital strike on Ryu and torches his hands. Yeah. But I, listen, Amos, who we both love, friend of the podcast was, I'm gonna go ahead and read Amos. Cause I feel as though this might actually be a really good indicator of what's kind of going on with, I probably like the standard perception of this episode. The every man. The every man. Six foot four, handsome as hell, richest hell every man. Yes. Hi, hello, I have a complaint about JJK. It's impossible to know what attacks are dealing damage in which arm. Like today's episode, he's getting all cut up with the bugs growing out of him and that's fine. But then he gets punched through a building and that's also fine. But then he gets back up, bump and that one hurts. Like what the hell is supposed to be going on here? I'm sure there was some overly complex bullshit about cursed energy, but visually it's impossible to tell what's going on. It's nice to look at, but kind of detracts from the ability to buy in and get invested into the characters. They've killed the scaling of physical conflict too early in this show. And then I said, but the festering sword doesn't put bugs in your skin forever, just adds additional bugs grow out of you and it absorbs the curse energy and it hurts you. That's unclear. And then he said, how is she ripping up the parking lot if she manipulates the sky? And I goes, manipulates the sky around it. The same way she fucked with you to his arms. And he goes, hmm, I'm not buying it. I will say Moppa went hard with the animation though. It's all, it's air. It's not sky. She's lying about what sky is, you know? The sky above the ground, shut up. What do you mean? Sky is what's blue. And what do you think is blue Dan? Up. And God damn it. I can't argue with that. You know, legally, legally that is a bulletproof claim. Sky is an abstract term. Okay. Air is around you. Yes. Sky is everything from an inch above your head. Air is everything from an inch, everything down from that point. Is this you agreeing with me in a way? I'm a hundred percent agree. You have to look up to see sky. You can see air. You can see air at eye level. If I have to look down, it's no longer sky. That's no longer sky. That's air. There's a level. Okay, I understand. Air plane, sky. It should be defined by the tallest living human. Everything above him. Like, like, bull bull is sky. But what about people on the mountain? Like, what about people on a mountain? Because if I'm at the base of a mountain and then there's people at the top of the mountain, like 10,000 feet above me, are they breathing air or sky? There needs to be a baseline. Okay. It can't be. Top of Everest? No, because then her power is useless. What do you mean? Because she controls. If it has to be above the top of Everest? No, I'm seeing what you're saying. A hundred percent, I'm seeing what you're saying. Yep. But is sky relative? Well, yeah, that's what I'm saying. It is relative, but not to the extent that you're saying. Like, I can't be like, oh, look at the sky right now. Yeah, well, you know, unless. No, not unless. Well, no, what if you're sitting on the cliff overlooking the ocean? Not looking at the sky. You can look at the sky. Forward you can. You can, but not down. What if I'm on top of a mountain? Down, down is not sky. Down is never sky, idiot. How is down not sky? Down is never sky. What if I'm looking at the horizon? What if I'm up high looking down at the horizon? That's not down. You're looking straight. You're level. Anything below the bubble of a leveler is not. So you're arguing sky applies to the curve of the earth. Because if I'm up high, you're saying, I'm looking down, but I'm not actually looking down. I'm actually looking at the horizon, which is equal to my location because of the curve of the earth. Yes. Yeah? Yeah. Oh, wow. Take that flat, earthers. You fucking idiots. Okay, I'm sure everyone loved that bit. I'm sure that was good. As good for you guys as it was for us. I think it was funny. I loved it. Her powers bullshit also. Why are we talking JJK? How did this happen? Because it's worse. How did, how did we, I wanted to talk, I don't... You want to talk? No, no, no, no, no, we're too deep in it. We're too deep in it at this point. But it's not the best episode of the season. It's not best episode of the season, but... The second best episode of the show. Second of the show? Oh yeah. The best episode of this season, which is the best episode of JJK, would be the best episode of the season or best episode of the show. Hold on. Everybody calm down. The best episode of this season, because this season is the best season of the show, would be the best episode of the show. I do not think this is the second best episode of the show. What would be the second best episode of the show? Blood laser? Have you seen Reggie's outfit? I hardly could call it an outfit. He's covered in receipts. He is an actual, he is a, what is the thing you hit with a stick? Pinata. He is a pinata. I love the Reggie arc. Look, I'm not, I think even... Maharaga versus Sukuna. That's the best episode. Maharaga versus Sukuna is good. I think Megumi versus Hirara. Oh, Megumi versus Kirara. Kirara. That's your favorite episode of the season. I think if like, we're talking second best of the season, I think that's probably the best episode six. You know what episode where she's flicking the coins? She's flicking the coins and he's in the car and Yuji's like, I'm a cog. Yeah, and then fucking, fucking use a thunder cunt, John Rabbit down onto a star. Yeah, I think that's like my second favorite episode of JJK. That's fair. If not the, the, I think it might even be my favorite because the Maki one, what's her name? Maki. Yeah. So Maki one's really cool. Just Kill Bill. It's just Kill Bill. Animated Kill Bill. The Fortnite event. And it's so removed that it's like a cool like special event. Yes. And there's like emotional payoff at the end, but like... There's emotional payoff in the beginning as well. There's so much. Yeah, there is in the beginning. The first thing she does is decapitate her father. I don't know. I'm just so like, I'm such a simp for Megumi this season. The only problem, and that's fine. I mean, Megumi is a great character. The only problem with Maki's extermination of the Sending Clan is that they don't feel like relevant characters until they're dead. Yeah, exactly. Like it feels so removed that like last week, I was like, am I thinking of JJK or am I thinking of a Shippuden episode? Yeah, like fucking like, yeah, something does not feel, especially cause the animation style is so fucking like all over the place in that episode. I mean, that's kind of like a thing with season three is how artsy and like messy the art style is getting, but I would say that's my favorite episode, Sendai Colony is my second favorite. Cause I fucking love Yuta. I love Yuta as a character. I think he's badass. I like, I, but like, he's not my favorite character in JJK. Takaba is. And therefore probably any episode where Takaba was would be my best episode of them. Like Takaba, like fucking drop kicking, Eori in the face like prime Jackass. Great. Well, that's what I mean. I think a lot of it, because JJK is so like fight based. Yeah. A lot of it just comes down to like, is your favorite character in the fight? Yes. But to Amos's point, I see what he's saying or like the damage scaling is kind of fucked, especially when you get into fucking Tengen being like, the average West African elephant is a baby, but like one of my points that I made is I think JJK does a great job at making like every single new opponent feel like the biggest threat they face. 100%. Cause it's always, it's scaled to the person. Cause Reggie would get destroyed by Yuta, but because Megami's not as powerful, like that's like an important fight for Megami. But like Yuta can fight against three special grade threats simultaneously and come out victorious because of how powerful he is. And so it's like- It is weird that Pompadour gave you to so much trouble though. Highest output of cursed energy out of anybody in history. Yeah, but like- His Granite Blast has the highest output of cursed energy out of any attack ever. Right, but it's still just like a laser. I guess, a laser that like, here's the thing, a lot gets added in this. Like that sequence where Yuta is running down the freeway and jumping off lights as he like dodges a bunch of curving, like tracking beams, not in the manga. The Granite Blast is almost exclusively shown as a straight line blast in the manga. And this is just like, oh yeah, by the way, it's got tracking and fucking curving missiles and all that, it was awesome. I think it needs that. It's just a straight line blast from his head. From like the same point every time, it's like, this guy should not be giving you to any problem. No, 100% not. And like, but like he's also like throwing mitts with him and all of that. And he's blowing people away. He can tighten it for like AP shots. There's a lot of things I wanna talk about with this episode. But the first thing I wanna talk about is, you know how we always talk about like, Tangin shut the fuck up? I think two Amos' complaint, there's two spectrums of fights in this show and it's either over explained or under explained. Because what the fuck, if you don't know what's going on with the festering sword, you're like, is there bugs in Utah or not? Like what is going on? They just show the festering sword in Kuro-Roshi's hands and they're just like festering sword. And it's like, what is it? Why does the bug have it? Yeah, right. And so weird. That's fair. I was waiting for Tangin to show up and be like, the average can of axe hair spray has 300 nano bluegills of cursed energy. And like as he's stroking his hair. Dude, I love also when his hair is down, just looks like Tochi again. Looks great. I mean, it looks fantastic. I just love, I love his mechanism of like, whenever he needs to reload. He's one hour. Yeah, whenever he needs to reload, he has like put his hair back in a pompadour. And it's always guys, it's the same thing in a comic book, pompadour's manliest character you could possibly get. Also, this guy's wearing like American, he's like wearing like American dog tags. He's got a pompadour and all of that. Like was he brought back from the 90s? Maybe. Or like NAM. Also, this is like 2018. JJK takes place in, I think he talks, I think he literally talks about like, he was a lie 400 years ago. With a pompadour? Yeah, and that's like, I think Rio, I think Rio literally talks about, if I'm not mistaken, talks about being a lie 400 years ago. I'm like, fucking how? Well, maybe he's updates, you know, his fashion. That could be it, honestly. He could literally just be like, I actually, I just love this full greaser lifestyle. And he's like a terminator, where like he shows up in the games and just looks to his left in whatever clothing store is there, he puts it on. That's exactly what he looks like for the moment here. Man, the fucking Drubbs death was juicy. Is that a bug? The guy with the beard, the guy with the beard with the Shikigami intro here. And then that first fight against the cockroach, Kuroishi, hardcore. Like that guy getting pulled in and you to grabbing his hand and pulling out half a guy. Fucking graphic. That was crazy. I liked you to kissing him to death. Yeah, do you understand what happened there? He like flooded him with reverse curse energy. Okay, cool. And that's why Taco was able to identify that he has RCT. That's another thing though. They just don't, they don't tell you. They told you the whole time, Yuta's like, I can't let them know that I have reversed curse energy. And then he kisses a bug and then she goes, you have reversed curse energy. Also because he also heals himself from the festering sword. That's why he doesn't fester anymore. Well, I don't tell you that. That's the thing. Like that's like the under explained versus over explained thing and man, the whole fight against Taco. I love that he just assigns Rika to fight against Taco. He's like, fucking Rika, deal with a week or one. I'm gonna go fucking have the manliest fight of all time with Rio and it's perfect. Yeah. How do you feel about Yuta being a copy character? I found out that online people don't like copy characters generally. They think it's lazy. It's a classic trope specifically in like really bad isekai. Oh, I have the weakest ability. I have copy, which only allows me to take other people's abilities and use it. But I don't train as much as they train in it. So I can't use it as well as them. But little do they know, I'm a master gamer. And like it's like, and then so it's like, Oh, I know how to use these moves immediately. I'm forgetting that's a classic isekai trope with Yuta. I kind of like it specifically because he has like channel him into Katana's and Rika has to eat parts of people. Like that's kind of like Rika has to eat Taco's arm. And if people like regenerate that lost part, he loses the ability. Interesting. So like he'll take abilities from friends. Like the reason he has cursed beachdale is because he took Inomaki's arm. Like Inomaki loses his arm during the Shippu incident and they could heal it. But instead of healing it, they give it to Rika. They do that in season two. They show like him not having his arm. Then they show him having the fucking like, like mouth fangs and all that. And so like that's like a cool, like, like I like that his is unique. But like, yeah, that's why he's not the main character. It's cause he's incredibly basic. He's got some fucking childhood trauma that made him infinitely powerful. And he's got a copy ability. How long does he keep the ability? Like now that he's killed. Until they heal it. Well, but if he kills the person. Kills them and feeds the whole body to yeah, forever. Do that. He can only access it for the five minutes. She's manifested. Yeah. But if she comes back, does he get the ability again? What do you mean? Okay. He feeds Rika the woman who does the sky shit. Taco. Her whole body. Rika exhausts her five minutes. He summons Rika again later. Okay. Yeah, forever. Yeah. Do that all the time. Oh yeah. He's like a permanent Kirby. Literally. It's like Rika is his like giant pouch. Like she keeps all the tools. Remember she opens up, she keeps all the tools. So she also holds on to all of his techniques. So he can only use his techniques when she's around, which is dope. Also that sequence of Yuda running down the tunnel and dodging all the attacks and then fucking Ryu just leveling the whole tunnel. Awesome. That was very cool. So sick. Man, I have so many goddamn notes. Do you understand what's happening with Taco and hating the Fujiwara? No. That's another thing they didn't explain. She's from the Star, Sun and Moon clan, which is a clan that fought against Sukuna during the Heian period. And they fell under the jurisdiction of the Fujiwara who are the descendants that those are like Yuda's like, he's either Fujiwara or Fujiwara who are like connected clans from the Heian era that are related to the Gojo clan. And that's why she hates him. And they didn't explain any of this. That doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Why do I care? She's like, she's done this. Oh, you know it was bullshit. She's not done, she's still alive. Well, they should come back. Well, whatever, don't tell me. I guess. Yeah, exactly. But it's like, it felt like one of those things where it's like, okay, whatever, like add a little personality, I guess, but I don't know if I need to know this lore about this girl that's about to get pieced by Yuda. Yuda kills a cockroach guy. Yeah. Gets five points. Cockroach comes back. Yeah. You didn't like the break, you didn't like the break down. He still had those points? You didn't like the breakdown on how a cockroach is able to split into multiple cockroaches? Well, but no, how does that work with points? Dog, that's a really goddamn question. That's actually, that's a really, because I guess Kurochi was considered as two separate sorcerers. Okay. So the second that that other sorcerer like- He can just farm him? Probably, he can kill the special grade cursed spirit that is Kurochi. Yeah, over and over and over. That's not exactly an easy task for anyone here. But if he wanted to, he could team up with somebody. And they could farm killing him. 100%. And then he's get the 400 points. Just like treat actual, the Culling Games like a fucking actual role. Like just like, hey Ryu, we gotta squish some bugs. We got a big, wait, is it a big episode for squishing bugs? Why do I feel like I recently, cause I watched Hoppers. I was like, I was like, have you seen Hoppers? Yeah, the Insects Queen and all of that. That's a good ass movie by the way. I like Hoppers. Hoppers is a good ass movie. I very much enjoyed it. I like the shark stuff. No, dude, the fucking thing, I'm just flying it like a goddamn drone strike. Yeah, that was thick. Dorothy, if you got family trauma though, maybe skip it, Dorothy cried like a baby. Oh, I got that. Do I have any like the fucking vaguely Asian like maternal drama? Yeah. Mess, an absolute mess. But also just like a fun environmentalist fucking movie, very fun. I liked it. I was impressed. It is gorgeous. Anyways, how'd you feel about the domain clash? Oh, pissed. Why? I wanted to see all three. Yeah. There's a rep, there's a couple of references in there that don't exist in the manga that I won't talk about because I'd have to talk about domain expansions that come back later, but a very cool couple of things you get to see. But the artsy ass representation of the fucking domain breaking was cool. I was hyped when they did a triple domain expansion and I thought shit was gonna like really kick into ninth gear. And then the stupid ass bug ruins. Came back after like the Phaegiosensis or whatever the hell. And then we don't get to see it. No, so. But you now know that you'd as domain expansion. Yeah. And then you end taco. But yeah, and then I just love how this fight ends as a fucking orbital strike in a slug fest. All of the fights from the season just end as slug fests. Reggie versus Megamy slug fest. Ryu versus fucking Utah slug fest. Awesome. What a good season. What a good show. I am full Mappa. I am full. You can let your animators rest for 15 minutes. I know. I can't like what a comeback this show has made, especially after rewatching season one. And I'm still like, this is not that good. Yeah. Season two and season three are great. Yeah. And it's so weird because I've been like ruminating on it where I'm like, it's almost like almost makes it better having season one of be so like average. Because then it's so impressive, the climb and the like transformation. I saw some videos about how like the actual improvement. The outro song of season one is this dumb like. Yeah. Like Jpop. It's very kind of like generic classic and Yuji like dancing around. And then now it's like this watercolor like sad. You see like a fucking it's like literally like a like a painting of Kenjaku's womb and Yuji's in there as a baby. Yeah. Hardcore. Yeah. What's it looks like? I always knew. Is that this? No, that's you're thinking Kaiji number eight. Oh, yes. Yeah. Yeah. Always knew that they you're thinking. Wait, no, you're thinking the opening for Kaiji number eight. No, I don't think so. I think I think you are. I don't know. You know what else has out of this season? What stuck out OP wise? I guess. How did the season what stuck out OP wise? Not vigilantes vigilantes is some classic nothing. I've been skipping a lot of OPs this season actually. I usually fire forces outro sick. Yeah. Japanese like fucking thrash metal. It's awesome. Fire forces intro is like the only one that sticks with me or it's like. Yeah. Is that the one that was the one you were talking about? Yeah. The outro is like fucking scream. Oh, it's awesome. Kaiju number eight OP to. Oh, wait, no, you're thinking. Check. No, to be hero X. I know for a fact, it's to be here. Oh, X. Yeah. Yep. I got it. I always knew. You want to talk about what you think is the best episode of the season of the episode? I don't know if I believe that. You want to talk about what you think is the best episode of the week? Well, I don't know. I can't. It's like maybe a three way tie between Fire Force this and JJ. I'll tell you right now. This is the best episode to be a hero to be sentenced to hero. You're to be having a stroke. I'm to be having a fucking there's burnt toast somewhere, dog to be sent into to be stroking it. I'm sentenced to be having a. Haven't fucking half my brain shut down. I'd be sentenced to be having a cheeseburger, please. Oh, dog, we should think about dinner. I got to go home. I got an early start tomorrow. Oh, yeah, doing tomorrow. Voice acting thing. I can't say it on here. Oh, yeah. So we can't. I was doing it. We can't mash them. We can't mash some burritos. Like just texted me and they were like, your call time is 9 a.m. You can come. You can come earlier if you want. And I'm about to be like, oh, yeah, fucking. I'll be there at six. I think they're wrong. I don't think it's. Oh, updated coal sheet. What? Rats. Rats indeed. That sucks. Definitely in the valley, at least. It's in Burbank. OK, so the valley is not at least. That's like 30 minutes for me. OK, yeah, that's fair. Especially at like eight. Oh, it's going to suck. Anyway, anyways, send it to be here. Since the last episode of the season. Yeah, TV, a pot to say you loved it. Dude, fucking right episode. Correct. Listen, the first it's a 30 minute episode is a very long episode. Big wrap of episode. We've been complaining the whole season that there's no female heroes. Yeah. Got one. Finally got one. And we got some fucking deaths, dude. We got some crazy ass deaths this episode. So we're talking about episode 12 of season one of Send it to be a hero. And I said, damn, they done just spring in. They done just spring in. I forgot about that. Yes, we get the reveal that Rino is a demon. Yeah. And he fucking just lets her have it. Yeah. So yeah, Rino, who's got some other name, but is living as a human, killing demon lords just for the love of it. Yeah. Awesome. Awesome reveal. Because it was a little weird. He was like a little murderous. He's always asking Zylo questions. He's asking. And so much perspective to Rino as a character, because it's like like Zylo's like, oh, he's a weird guy. He's like morally incorrect. But like he's always doing what Zylo wants him to do, but he doesn't have like the same set of morals as humans. And it's because he's a demon lord. And that's sick. But he's like, I like killing demon lords. And like because I like killing demon lords, humans like me. Like he finds allegiance as a serial killer amongst demon lords. And that's awesome. It's so interesting to me that he was like, he was like, yeah, that makes me kind of generic and cliche, huh? But isn't it interesting that like humans don't really care about killing your own kind? Like that's not a big crime to them. Yeah. And that was cool. It's also interesting that he's a demon, but the only one in a suit of armor. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like he's probably the one who needs it the least. I mean, Bujum did turn into a mech. Bujum basically turned into Boros last episode. Who, by the way, Bujum still alive. Still alive. So that's good. A blood clone. Yeah. That's not a once again. Kind of like with the last couple of episodes, it felt like everything was being rushed. Why the fuck? What is a blood clone and why does Bujum have abilities to do it? I whatever. Yeah. Back. That's cool. I guess I guess that's all that truly matters. Yeah. So they fuck up Spriggan. Yeah. Zylo boots the fuck out of her. Oh, yeah, I wrote he kicks her in half. Yeah. Like you like like she like goes to kill Teorita, tries to stab Teorita and Zylo just fucking. And then they and then there's like, I guess that must have been Spriggan. Anyways, buns buns for dinner. What? Yeah, he was like, well, she's gone. He fucking kicks her in the side and legs fly up. Yeah. So that was sweet. Yeah, that Rhino shit was cool. And then what's her name? It's talking to her uncle and her uncle is like, I love the demons, man. Oh, shit. I'll stick with them again. But no, we have an glorious bastards moment. We have a three three moment where she's like, there was I can't even begin to try and recollect what was going on here. But she was like, you said like they found from the adventurer's guild that he was dealing with some guy who was named after a saint. And so when he sent out like her and all of the holy nights, he was like, blessed be this saint. And she's like, oh, you always loved this saint and used to go by this saint's name. And then she was like, oh, by the way, who told us that the fairy plate was inside the city? It was a unit that didn't exist. So she was able to tie all that back. I guess I remembered some of it. I was able to tie all that back to her uncle being a co-exister. And that motherfucker just lightning spears her highest like her lieutenant. And he is just toji after the first purple. Like just gone. Just one of those classic anime, like very clean circle taken out of a guy. That was crazy. That whole like, do you think we've ever done that? Just like holding like what? Like what's the what? Who is the guy who got the most hold in the history of holes? 50 cent. I but like that's things like a bullet hole is like messy because like spring like like flesh springs back, right? You get shot and then it's like, you want like a real clear because you must have I bet someone's gotten shot with a tank and it just went through one. That's like a good fucking like an AP round that like didn't detonate. Yeah. And then just like a straight up hole because like a cannonball is what my initial thought was, but I feel like a cannonball is not like. It's going to cut you in half. It's not sharp enough, right? Like it's more like a blunt force object hitting you at like a ridiculous speed. You just get fucking flattened. Yeah, some kind of like RPG or something. Anyone been hit by a rail gun or is that like we just hit things with rail guns? What a rail gun is realistic just like a piece of metal, this big being fired with the fucking energy of a city. And probably the Phineas gauge. What is that? Well, let me tell you that the guy who got the fucking like railway spike in the head. That's any coughed up his own brain. Yeah, like a tea cup of brain. Yeah. And then everyone was like, he was an asshole after that. You heard that? It was when we get taught in school, like it's like, it's like, oh, Phineas gauge. You know, the guy who was probably working well below a living wage. And then like because of the lack of OSHA takes a fucking railway spike to the brain and was like, change his personality. And like, dude, it's a miracle he was alive. I'd also be a dick about it. All the textbooks are like, yeah, he was like really hard to hang out with after that. He was probably angry all the time against his will. It was probably like, hey, the empathy part of his brain. He coughed out. They probably left the spike in. Yeah. Like if we pull this out, it's like the fucking thing in Assassin's Creed. You pull this out, you're you're just dead. Yeah. It's fucking it's the the Sir Duncan the tall, the helmet. My fingers feel like wood. Oh, yeah. Leave the helmet on, brother. Um, yeah. Her killing her uncle was so rad. And then you see like the rain outside is like turning the screen. They got artsy with the episode. It got so artsy and it got so like detailed. Yeah. And like the whole seasons looked great, obviously, but it's not like you never look at Sentence P hero and the same way you look at like J.H.K. And you're like that shot is like so like I went back when I was ranking all the episodes and I kind of rewatched all of them. Like I like finger through all of them five seconds at a time. Rewatched all of them. Episode one of J.H.K. Season three, where it opens with Yuji trying to get the blood off his hands. And then there's a sequence of him sitting in like fast in red light under like stained glass windows. You're like, oh, snap. Like the director snapped. Episode one's awesome. Yes. And then there's the episode where like they're both following one person and they're like just ahead of them. And there's like they're like doing reflections in the mirrors to see him like rounding corners. Awesome. This like you don't get that for Sentence P hero. You got it from this episode. Like that sequence where it's like drowning rain and it's like driving and like she's like a black and white with the red of her uncle's blood all over her was so cool. And then they're just developing Kibia as a character, which I love to see because like like Kibia is like doing this investigative work. And like he is kind of in the soon to ray kind of side character who's like, oh, she starts the bad person turns into a good person. Now, like I feel like her character is actually like growing legs. It's so smart to end this season with like the twist that like we are in somebody's hero tragic backstory. Yeah. Because like every episode we get someone's tragic backstory and how they were like fucked over into being a hero. Yeah. And it's so smart to be like that was this whole season. Yeah. And Kibia is the last one. Yeah. Because we also learned about how heroes are made. That that's interesting. One of my notes was like the first goddess was Roman. Yeah. That was weird. And then she just like appeared through a door or something and just started handing out. I don't know. Heroes from other worlds. Yeah. Oh yeah. Heroes were summoned from other worlds. That's what it was. Yeah. So is that. And then also it's interesting that the reason they lose their memories is because she has to keep all of them like a book or some shit. Yeah. Yeah. And then also there's a limit. So that was kind of a bummer where I was like I want I want a new hero like every other day. Yeah. But yeah we are now at max capacity of like how many heroes we can have. Yeah. Which is not like characters or like more characters. Yeah. But unfortunately there won't be more heroes. Yeah. But I guess I guess technically you don't even really get powers of being a hero so anyone can show up and like in my brain I was like oh man these are going to be all of our like super powered guys that we get. Yeah. Like Zyloh doesn't have powers because he's a hero. He's got fucking back. Stay back. Don't come here. Power. He's got a fucking exploding knives that regenerate infallently. Like you that sniper is just a good sniper. Oh it just happens to be just a serial killer with a fucking gun. Yeah. So. That's the problem. Cool. That brings us to I guess what we'll probably do in lieu of best boy in news unless you have hurt news you want to talk about. Oh I actually do have news. OK. Got you. I could a fighting game got announced. No I don't. First off it's not a fighting game. Second I've broken this to you already. Talked about this like weeks ago. There's been trailers for like weeks. And it's like one of those solo leveling games where you like run around and fight things. Oh the game releases combat preview videos for Rudy Ruto engine and more. That's what happened. So previews came out for the got you. I could have probably not so great video game. Yeah. Because we both played soul leveling arise. And it was not so great. It was a game. It was a game of all time. But in lieu of our best boy and our news this week we are going to rank the anime we watched this season. And we'll give them ratings at the end of it. So let's go ahead and get the worst out of the way here. Visual Anties. Yes. Correct. Visual Anties was definitely the worst show of the season. Is this season worse than season two or season one. 100 percent. I would also agree. Yes. I liked season one. I like season one. I liked the second to last episode of this season. And that is probably the only episode I don't want the big frog. Oh the fucking the pimple frog and the crab tastic episode. Crab tastic episode sucks. The frog one's like the only good episode. The best episode of the season is an OK episode of my hero academia. Yeah. All the Aizawa flashback ones were good. I fucking forgot we got that. Those were the frog one. Those that is the frog one. You're right. OK. Yes. Those three episodes are pretty good. The rest out everything that's in the modern day timeline outside of the second to last episode is just middle of the road. Visual Anties is going to get on the last place spot. I'm going to give it a rating of seven. Now six point nine. Ah like six. Yeah. Yeah. Not so bold but not enjoyable. Yeah. Not like there's a couple good episodes but like I do not look forward to it each week. Yeah. It was it was appointment watching in like not that I was making an appointment to watch it but it felt like a dentist appointment. Yeah. Like I was like oh I have to watch this. Next up after vigilantes this is immediately going to get. Check out way harder way harder after vigilantes. Fuck dog. I'm 100 percent real with you. I have there's three for me that it could be. Yeah. It's either hell's sentenced or fire force. I knew those would be your three. I think in terms of like what I had like which show had the most high tier episodes. Yeah. Like that's how I got a ranking. I think Hell's Paradise had more high tier episodes than fire force. I would agree there. And I also think that about I'm really sentenced to 100. I'm really hot on this last episode of sentence. I love sentence. I think this last episode of sentence is better than anything we got from either Hell's Paradise or fire force all season. Wow. Yeah. You like the uncle stuff. Is that what the world building building Kibia is a character like I was like I'm like oh like it fucking every and then like the Rhino reveal like that makes so much sense now like I also just like I find myself gravitating. More and more towards Kibia as a character and like now that she's not some like Holy Night's soon to ray and like actually somebody going through some shit that's fucking awesome. Is it you realizing that it's not just being slop like have you finally come around the first non slop episode. But like retroactively or like oh they were setting shit up and like the world building isn't just nonsense. That's fair because it's a long term build off. It's like oh Kibia is this character you're going to see her like like we're getting you used to the idea that even the highest ranking Holy Nights can be like cut down by the system and the world building is dope. And I just think the world building of of said to be hero is better than Hell's Paradise. I think it's I think it's better than maybe fire force. Wow. Wow. I don't I don't know if that's I don't know if that's what I'm trying to say. I think individually within the confines of this season out of all the episodes of the season I'm hottest on this final episode for said to be a hero than I would be anything else. I think it's fire force. I think it's fire force as well. Yeah. I think I think fire force had a really good episode in the Dragon episode. I think the Benny Maru versus his old man episode is fun. It's pretty good. Ogans is really good. Ogans is fun. I like what we're getting with Shinra Bancherman right now. It's a it's a back and heavy season. Yeah. The first six or so episodes of this season are not great. Yeah. And it's also I'm like still the momentum. It took so much momentum to get me out of the slump. That was part one of season three. 100%. But again there is such a gap between vigilantes and every other show. Oh it's not close. It's not close. All right. What would you say your rating is for fire force? Oh my rating. Yeah. Eight three seven six. OK. Maybe I'm I'm a couple good episodes but I was still like every episode. I wasn't like hype to see the next one. I was like yeah I hope this is a good one and then sometimes it was. Yeah. Sometimes it would be like that thing is I don't think it's an episode of the season that I'd be like oh that's a 10 out of 10. There was episodes that I was like oh that's a high eight out of 10. Yeah. Like this most recent episode the dragon episode dragon episode is the best episode of the season. That's like a 9.2. I agree. Yeah. I think it never gets into like oh this was like groundbreaking. This is like I need to fuck it. I can't wait to scream about how great this episode is. I'm say 8.2 on fire force and season which would give you perspective for how good everything else is. Yeah. All right. Hell's Paradise or send it to be a hero. I'm between Hell's Paradise and Freerun. But here's the thing because I like I think I like more Hell's Paradise episodes than Freerun of this season. Okay. In terms of like it being like a highlight of the week. Yeah. But Freerun's high is higher than anything in Hell's Paradise. Like Freerun has maybe the best episode of the season for me. Which is the canal episode. Which is when canal is carrying that kid. Yeah. And then I also like the episode where they fight the demon. Uh-huh. So like Freerun has two maybe three like hard hitting like 10 out of 10s. Yes. But that's less than the amount of like eight and a half to nine set Hell's has. I'm going to say because I don't think Hell's Paradise has had a best episode of the week this entire season. But it also hasn't had a bad episode this entire season. I would say objectively this last episode we watched is probably the worst episode of the season. Yeah. Yeah. It's consistent. But you're right. Yeah. Like yeah. I'll put Hell's here. Yeah. Or do you think it's sentenced? No, I'm willing. That's the thing is I think this last episode. Hell's Paradise last week was like your favorite. Hell's Paradise last week was the she on episode where he's just beaten down fucking Moudon or was he Moudon? It was one of the fucking tents in. But Hell's Paradise for me is just like it's it's that little brother, you know? And it's just like it's good, but it can never be the best. Freerun can be the best. Sent us to be a hero this week was the best. And the ability for sent us to show me that it can be the best to me means this season is probably better than what we got from Hell's Paradise. Just because of how this episode ties everything together. I'm so happy I stayed with it. I'm also putting Hell's Paradise here. Yeah. Hell's Paradise for the season. Eight five. Yeah. That's yeah. Hell's Paradise is a flat B and it's a good B. It's so weird because I like really don't have a lot of complaints or anything. I just like inexplicably. I don't know why this isn't a 10. It just doesn't. There's something about is just missing that X factor and I do not know what it is. Yeah, it's always really good each week. I like the world. I like the aesthetic. I like the motivations of the characters. It's dark. It's great. People die. Yeah, it's got a lot of shit that I like, but it's also the most other than vigilantes. It's the one I'm most frequently being like, oh, fuck, I got a lot of that before I got it. Because it also comes out on Sundays, I think. And so it's like a fuck I have to have one day to get done. I watch everything on Sunday or Monday. I literally try and get as much done before Sunday because I'm like, when I have to watch five or six episodes in a row, I'm like, by the fourth episode, I'm going to be miserable. I'm not going to be bringing my best, my best fucking note taking ability into the fucking vigilantes an hour and a half into watching anime. I need to do that. I don't. Yeah. But, uh, but I watch everything either Sunday or Monday. And even on Monday, like when I get through everything, I'm like, I got my keys, I got my shoes on. I'm like, I forgot to watch hell's fucking paradise. Yeah. Cause you're like, I don't know. It's another, we're cutting down another flower guy this week here. It's like repetitive, but high quality. Yeah. Um, because like if you hadn't watched the last five minutes of this episode or something, it wouldn't be like fucking the, the amazing digital circus. We'd be like, oh yeah, by the way, Kane died. I guess that's the thing is it's like JJK's repetitive. Like it's all just fights, but every character is so unique and their powers are interesting and creative. Hell's paradise. It's like all sword guys. Yeah. I'm going to watch a guy with a katana fight a guy who's a flower every week. It's just, it's a fucking like weeding propaganda. Yeah. Uh, cool. So that gives us sentence to be a hero here. Or do you want sentence? Are you going to put, if you're putting sentence to be here above free or not, I cannot ride with you into that battle. That's all right. I guess our individual, we diverge here. Yes. Because I think it's free and for me personally. Okay. Cause in my heart of hearts, like I just be so disingenuous to be like, Oh, I loved more of freer than I loved. Of sentence be hero. I mean, you said that since the hero was the fucking anime, you're going to die on the hill. Yeah. It blew me away. And this like eight closing out the season high just has me be like, I, if they, if they run out of funding and do a Kickstarter, I'm dumping my bank. Oh, 100%. Yeah. I mean, like that's the one last time we started an anime that had no real height behind it. Uh, and we're like, we ended it and we're like, Oh, that was fucking awesome. To be hero X. To be hero X. Yep. That's fair. Did we? I mean, sabuki bisco and the OG, OG, OG days, right? That was before us. I think I would have been, I think we just talk about how we like I love sabuki bisco. I think it's one of the most creative anime ever made. This has like the amount of hype that to be hero X data where it was like, there was a contingent of people who loved it. Yeah. People were like, keep an eye out for it. And then like, it was unbelievably good. And then once it was unbelievably good, you're like, Hey, everyone talk about this. What happened? Yeah. Cause like you feel as though like you, you get the people being like, you should watch this, you should watch this. And they're like, why am I not seeing edits of fucking like a Xyloh or Terita or Rhino or anything? Like I could a hundred. I'm surprised I'm not seeing thirst edits of Rhino now that he's killed the demon Lord. I think it's the season one like. Yeah. Working thing. Like we said, we got you. Okada, like got you. Okada got better treatment than this. I think like people were talking about that. It's just bigger. We, um, but I think by season two, this will have like the following of like, uh, what's the most Subaru? Oh, re zero. I think it'll be at that level where like you, it doesn't get like an edit every day, like you see with JJK, but like when it's season comes out, everyone's like, let's go lock in. This is the one of the season. Time to enjoy ourselves again. Yeah. Yeah. So I love it. Uh, so you want sentenced here. So I'm curious to hear. Oh, no, you want free or in here. So I'm going to obviously put free or next. Um, but, uh, so what would your rating for free run be then? Like it's again, it's so tough because I think most of free run's episodes for me this, this season are just such a like classic mess around that usually ends in them, like doing like what I feel like is the overly predictable outcome. Yeah. That's a scenario every time. Yeah. Like I, this season was so predictable in a lot of its side quests and it really disappointed me, but it has like some of the best episodes of the entire season. Yeah. Of the entire anime season. The Ganao stuff is like, we'll stick with me until I die. Yeah. So I think like on that weighted scale, it comes to like eight, I guess. Oh wow. But you said that I know the points won't matter. Okay. Gotcha. Good. Yeah. I would say it's not going to be a climbing scale for me with the numbers. So send it's going to be below this for me. So I mean, we'll talk about send it's in a second when we get to your spot. But for me, I mean, like I, there's not an episode I would put from the season below and eight, five. Um, like even this last episode, which I fully admit, I think is the worst episode. I still like, I just enjoy it. I think this is, I honestly, I'd say this last episode is like an a flat eight. Um, cause it's definitely like we are starting to get a little repetitive here. We're starting to get like, I don't know, see it to this point here where I'm like, I get it. I get that we're on a journey. Like let's get into an arc here. And the canal arc was only like two or three episodes, unfortunately. Um, but those episodes are 10 out of 10s. And I would say send us VROs one 10 out of 10 episode. This had like three. I love the sword demon arc. Um, I love the conversation pizza round like, Hey, like we need this company to work up here because they did all of like the support. I love like the journey that Stark has to go on where he has to realize that people live in the North. Um, and that like, like it's not an option for them to leave because it's home. And then there's just some incredible fights that have no business being as gorgeous as they are. I love Fern being a fucking moon sniper. Yeah. Now arc. Yeah. So for me, the season of free room is not as good as the first season, but obviously not. It's 10 episodes versus 28. Like that's not even, it's not a hot take to season two is not as good as season one, because it's just, it's literally one third of the content of season one. Uh, but for me, this season of free room is like an 8.8. Okay. Cool. Also, I still am going to push back against your number bullshit. Like, so do you think season three of JJK is worse than season one? Do I think season, no, season three, JJK is better than season one. But why though? It's only, it's only 10 episodes and season one of JJK is 24. Well, I get it, but like, you just like, you can experience, like, all right, but like I can, you can experience so much more within the confines of 28 episodes as opposed to 10. Yeah. You can have more like, okay. So like if we're talking about like, is this like, I'm saying, Hey, season one can exist or season two can exist. What do you choose? Of what show? Free room. Well, you need the season one to have a season two. I'd argue with free room. You almost definitely don't. I take season two then actually. Okay. The ganache is better than anything free room has ever done. I would argue the ganache is better than any episode from season one. Yes. I would say the ganache is probably the best thing that free room ever does. Um, but I like the first episode of free room's a masterpiece. Um, I love the introduction of Stark, his backstory. I love the Heider time, uh, the like Fern as an orphan. I love the major. I love Ubell. I love, I love any fucking Hunter exam ass arc. And that's what you get from the major. Yeah. Um, so yeah, no, I, I would still take season one. Yeah. So eight, eight you say? Eight, eight. Yes. Okay. And what do you put sentence that? Honestly, this season, that last episode, brings it to like an eight, six or eight. I, without that last episode, I would say sentence to be a hero was like a seven, nine, got seven, eight. That last episode raises it to like, it's PSR rating. Uh, if I could, if I could, if I could make it and afraid this PSA rating. Oh, PSR. I see. Yeah, I was talking about like Pokemon card grading. We were talking about naked and afraid dog. It's last episode fucking clutched it up for 8.78.8. The last episode is so God, Stank is right. It's not as good as Sendai colony, but the last episode was awesome. Yeah. JJK, baby. Best of the fucking season. Every time JJK has come out over the course of this podcast, it's been the best show. It's just fucking this season was nuts. Yeah. This fully brought me over on like every aspect of JJK. Like season two, I was like, OK, I'm going to be watching this for the fights. Second, there's no fight. I won't care anymore. Yeah. Season three has me like, oh, not that there really hasn't been any fights, yeah, but even the 10, 10 talk episode, I was like, I'm entertained. What a compelling, the most compelling way to do that fucking exposition dump that did not need to be 20 minutes long, but it was and it was still awesome. Yeah, I agree. Like that cements how good this season is. Yeah. Like a. Like a 9.5. I was thinking 9.5 as well. This is the fucking this is the best season of JJK in a show with stacked fucking seasons. This season incredible. JJK is our winner of the anime of the season. I'm sorry if you I'm sorry if you think that's a basic answer. But like the day that JJK stops being fucking incredible, we'll stop glazing it. We have to do a game real quick. I know. OK, we have to. We have to do it this week. Is this going to be a patron exclusive game or no, it has to be public. OK. And this will be the last part of the episode because it's been a long episode. Womp, can I be first? Go pee. Are you ready? What game? Why do I not know about this game? Today, I made a special game for a special boy. I don't like special games. Round three. Smasher past special edition. What do you want? Now hold up. No. What? What? What? No. What? Who do you think? I know what we've done two rounds of already. Is this are we doing my mother again? No. No. Boring. Boring. Dull. Dull. We don't repeat things here. No. No, no, no, no, no. We're in original podcast with original ideas. I had Nick Connors fiance, Dorothy, play smash or pass and told her to just go nuts and have fun with it. Is it the boys job? Oh, it is the boys job to guess who she chose to smash and who she chose to pass. Are you ready? Stop contacting the P. She's much easier access than my mother, unfortunately. Actually, she's not. He's been trying to do this for a long time. She does not get back to DMs. That is one of my favorite things about her. Yeah, you're ready for this? That's if that's not a perfect encapsulation of how ready I might be. Um, first up, did Nick's fiance smash Shau Tucker or Endeavor? So we're just doing the same ones. I guess maybe we're just doing all the same ones. We're just running the dad racket past Dorothy here. I guess so. She chose Endeavor. I she's not. Dorothy is not into old men whatsoever and Endeavor doesn't look nearly as old as Shau Tucker. Also, she doesn't like muscular guys. And this image. Oh, that is 100 percent Endeavor. Endeavor looks as she likes messy. She likes messy brunette hair and he's got he's got messy. He just looks hot, you know. He I will say Endeavor. Take this however you want to take it. Endeavor looks like you currently. Shau Tucker looks the way you used to look. That's a really good point. That's a barrier. You're making really good points here. So when she chooses Shau Tucker, I'm going to go undo my hair transplant. The answer is Shau Tucker. The second one, Endeavor, looks mean and scary, like he'd hurt me. The first one, Shau Tucker, looks gentle and sweet. I'd like to feel him sliding in and out of me. Did you add that last bit? No, you didn't add that. I'm sorry. You want I'm sorry. You want what? Did Nick's fiance smash Coro Sensei or Rieke from Death Note? Oh, oh, God. There's no way, Dorothy said, the slot there, that's just not how she does that, how she talks. We don't even that she's even talking to me. Why is she talking about that? OK, I'm going to have to say Rieke. Because because she knows because she knows what Rieke is because we made a Rieke. We made a Rieke for the Death Note video that we that didn't get nearly enough use, even though I think it's objectively one of the best things we've ever made. I think it's got to be Rieke because I don't know. What would you say about that? No, I think good because we made a Rieke. We made a movie. Dorothy made a we made a Rieke. Yeah, you had we had a Rieke. She knows what a Rieke is. It's it's an identifiably anthropomorphic thing. And I don't I don't think Dorothy's into tentacles. She chose Coral Sensei. God, I don't know my I don't know my own fiance. And I will say I got a I got a cut this short right here and now I am April Foolsing you. Dorothy didn't give these answers, but these are so shockingly graphic that I I asked Dorothy if I could do this, but I didn't read them beforehand. And after the first sliding in and out of me one, I skimmed all the rest. And I was like, I think this is too crazy. What do you mean? You're April Foolsing me. What's happening? April Foolsed you. This episode comes out April 1st. I know it comes out April 1st. Well, you wrote the answer. April Foolsed your ass. No, Sean did. Sean's a freak. Sean, what the fuck? What are we doing? These are so relentlessly graphic. I was like, I know for a fact, Dorothy does not talk like that. I can never see her. Maybe Sean Berry also specifically chose the ones I thought she wouldn't. So you're just saying. So you're saying that what I'm about to read about Coral Sensei is unread. Yeah, I'm pulling the rug out already. It's just unreadable because I think Dorothy just wouldn't talk to me ever again. If I had on the internet that she was saying this, I was always going to April Fools it. OK, but I mean, you had me going. The first one Coral Sensei because I have lots of holes to fill and this is someone who can finally fill them all at the same time. I read that and I was like, no human would talk like that. No human would talk like that, especially not my goddamn fiance. That's insane. So we got a good first reaction. We got a we got a great the first one was slightly that was like that was like that was weird for Dorothy. But I could see her trying to ham it up, maybe. Also, I've never seen made an abyss. Have you? I know of it. This exists in it. What is this? Oh, why is it ribbed for my pleasure? And then it's got some bonds. Oh, that's good. That's good. That actually might sell me on watching made it a miss. And then there's a blood blockade battle front thing called Shiboroba. Shiboroba. Shiboroba. But if you add to a trip, a phobia, fucking warning if I've ever seen one. But yeah, so that was the game. Cool. That thanks thanks the shot and for saying that my my fiance needs all of her goddamn holes filled. Was way too much way too early. Yeah, let's say blue is load early. Blue is load real early there. Happy April Fools, guys. Hunter, Hunter's coming back. That's my news. Are you doing in April Fools? Got you. You shouldn't say it on the thing if you aren't going to do in April Fools. What do you mean? Like for a video. Yeah, something. Doing in April Fools video is only in April Fools on the content creator themselves because it never gets enough views. No. And it's just a day's worth of work. Yes, a day's worth of work. And it's like, I lost my penis. And then it's like, you have to like 12 minutes of fluffer because you still need to sell ads on the I lost my penis episode. And it's like, I was I was walking with my dick one day. And you have to do it. You have to like sell a compelling story here that is like, I didn't actually lose it. And then everyone's like, I'm not going to follow you for this. You know, it's like, cool. Here's the 30 cents you got from watching this video. Now fuck off forever. Yeah, just waste your day. Yeah. And everyone else is like, that was kind of annoying. You didn't get a great first reaction out of me. Yeah, exactly. Okay, cool. That's all we got, ladies and gentlemen, we love you so much. And we'll see you on the next one. Bye. Bye. Mwah. And now for my next number, I'd like to return to the club.