Introduction and Banter
00:00:04
Speaker
Welcome to We Belong. I'm John, and I'm forcing my friend Nelson, who doesn't like anime. It's my turn, bitch! We're doing it like this!
Setting the Tone
00:00:25
Speaker
Welcome to We Belong, everybody! It could take over- YEAH!
00:00:37
Speaker
All right. So welcome to the show. My God. My head is my head is fully in my hands right now. I know.
Anime Fun Elements
00:00:49
Speaker
I was like, I'm going to get the ooh oohs in on this and it's going to be fun. I'm surprised he didn't slip and he's milking in there. You know, I thought about it, but the timing didn't work out as well. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. He's milking slightly longer and the chuggy chugs, you know, it's just how it went.
00:01:07
Speaker
Yeah. Well, welcome back to Gate, everybody. Welcome back. We were having fun here. Uh huh. This week we watched episodes four through six as we are only doing three episodes per episode of this.
Anime Episodes 4-6 Discussion
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And yeah, it was we got our first.
00:01:28
Speaker
real battle of the show in this one. We got to deep dive into our characters a little bit more to go woke up. So that's kind of cool. That's always nice. Yeah. When one of your main characters actually speaks and crazy. Yeah, we're crazy. And yeah, we just had a whole lot go on. Yeah, we did have a lot go on. So looping back to it. My name is John. This is my buddy Nelson as well. Oh, yeah, that's what we do, isn't it?
00:01:58
Speaker
I realized that the opener derailed. The opener did derail. The head was in the hands, but we thrive. We're thriving. We're out here in the streets. Fucking A.
00:02:17
Speaker
But yeah, I am. I am Nelson. I'm the one who hadn't watched a full anime until the show we're watching now. Really? Yeah. I mean, yeah. Yeah. Titan Titan hadn't finished. Uh huh. I mean, definitely you had watched all of Blue Lock that's out. I'd watched shows that were like everything was out to that point and we knew there was more coming. This was the first show that I watched fully where it's like, OK, it's done.
First Full Anime Experience
00:02:46
Speaker
Yeah, well, like you watch this what? Because we've been thinking about you having a pick and all that since the fall. So you watched this when we were watching J.J.K. Season two, right? I watched this, I think, when we were watching J.J.K. Season one. Oh, shit. I think I started this toward the end of that. Gotcha. Yeah. Sitting on this for a minute. I've been sitting on this for a while. It was it was nice to go to this because J.J.K. was breaking my heart. Yep.
00:03:13
Speaker
So I'm glad I also had this to fall back on during the Shibuya incident.
00:03:19
Speaker
Yeah, the Oh, no, Maki won up in flames. Oh, no, not me. You're devoted. Oh, no. Oh, no. Everybody, everyone. But yeah. So like I said, episodes four through six. Why don't you get us started on episode four, John? We'll do we'll do in
Episode 4 Plot Discussion
00:03:35
Speaker
this. We watch as a girls integrate with the army and get set up for the next episode heading to the same place as the Order of the Rose. Yeah.
00:03:45
Speaker
Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Fucking killing it, buddy. Thank you. Thank you. We got a little bit of Chicken Tikka Masala's backstory. How many did you write? Only that one. Only that one. We get to see what was happening in her village. She was oddly enough sleeping. And then Chuka wakes up because her dad's like, get the fuck up, bitch. There's a dragon and a flame dragon. A flame dragon. Ooh, of course.
00:04:15
Speaker
Yes, a dragon with fire, but leaky, leaky, five, five. Oh, I don't remember what that's from, but it's something leaky, leaky, five, five. I have to look up now. OK, but anyway.
Cultural References and Humor
00:04:28
Speaker
Yeah, what the fuck is that from? Yeah, please look this up. I need to know before you continue. OK, second window. OK. Well, leaky.
00:04:40
Speaker
Yeah, no, I'm not seeing it anywhere. I'm not surprised. I'm going to text my brother and hopefully he's not flying right now and he will text me back. He'll let you know. Uh huh. I hope so, because I am baffled. OK, text descent. We will see what happens. I have sent up the bat signal. It's from something. It's like some childhood thing where somebody makes fire and then they hold it up and they go like, well, Nikki, Nikki, bye bye.
00:05:09
Speaker
I feel like it's from like being cartoon network as it's either that or it's like fucking Jimmy Neutron and like the episode where him and Cindy are like stranded on the deserted island and then they get fire going and then that's like something. Oh my God. That actually sounds familiar.
00:05:28
Speaker
As I know the episode exists, I don't know if that is from the episode, but it's all now it's going to annoy me until I know. OK, anyway, back to the show already.
00:05:40
Speaker
Anyway, there is fire. It is a flame dragon. So the dad is like, hey, wake the fuck up, bitch, getting that well. And then he tosses her into a well. And then the dragon pops up behind him and goes om nom nom and turns him into a little a little daddy snack. Oh, there we go. He is pretty hot. He is because he was in the dragon. He's flaming flaming. Oh, hot man.
00:06:09
Speaker
This is a great start. We're doing so good. Do you have caffeine today? Nope. That does it all, yep. Yep. Just running on tears and depression. Let's go.
00:06:23
Speaker
Oh, so, yeah, we go from there.
Character Dynamics Episodes 4-5
00:06:27
Speaker
I heard the echo in my guitar. God damn it. We go from there. We go to the bar where the tavern because we're medieval. No. OK, we go to the bar and in the back.
00:06:40
Speaker
Are there is the order of the roses with princess pina colada talking about these people in green and how they took down a dragon and how they shouldn't be trusted and all that shit very i was very interested to see what was going to happen in between like those four that are sitting at the table right is there's one guy that seems like the handsome guy that if.
00:07:06
Speaker
you know japan and stuff hadn't come to the gate then she would probably get like betrothed to in the future the blog guy yeah but then we find out in episode six that's what do you think his name is john kierstein so his name is norma and that's all he's referred to as
00:07:24
Speaker
Oh no, we have a normie. But his full name is Norma Co Igloo, like Co Space Igloo. The names in this show are so fucking weird. I don't know why we have a bunch of characters named after alcohol. And then it's like they just slam their head onto a keyboard and put a random word after it. Also.
00:07:47
Speaker
This just in, fresh from my brother. Well, leaky leaky five five is from Pied to the Caribbean two. How did he get that so quick? Him and I say it to each other all the time. And Johnny Depp slash Jack Sparrow slash Will Turner might have been his like sexual awakening growing up. So yep. So core memories for him. But yes.
00:08:15
Speaker
I find what leaky leaky five five. Oh my God. Yeah. No, that's definitely what it's from. Yeah. Yeah. I can hear it now. Yeah. It's when they're going to go like a fucking turn them on the spit and they got to set up the fire leaky leaky five. Yes. Yep. Okay. Okay. Yep.
00:08:38
Speaker
Oh, my God, bird is going ham because I'm because I'm pounding on my chair in excitement.
Characters' Training and Backstory
00:08:44
Speaker
Nice. No, this is very interesting names. I'm surprised that we named the main character, you know, slice of salami. Yeah. God damn it. Here we are. But yeah, the whole order of the rose dynamic is super fun. I am very excited for you to get more into how all of that works. That'll actually will get a lot more of them.
00:09:08
Speaker
in the coming three episodes. Yeah, I'm assuming so. I mean, the tease that we get at the end of episode six. Yeah, because I was like, Oh, the Order of the Roses, a.k.a. these four people right here. I am excited to see what the rest of the where are they, battalion? They're kind of their own battalion. Yeah. Yeah.
00:09:33
Speaker
Yeah, I'm excited to see more of them and see those dynamics. I'm also excited to see Pina Colada possibly do something. Well, hold on a minute. Yeah. So anyway, get back to the show.
00:09:49
Speaker
Uh, you know, so Sakura and her friends are in the bar. And then, uh, we go to the girls arriving at the camp and seeing it for the first time and like, holy shit, modern stuff, crazy. And then it turns out that they needed refugees in order to understand the language. Cause there's still a little bit of a language barrier. And then Tommy is like, Hey, look at these bitches right here. I got, I got fucking people.
00:10:18
Speaker
odd so it all worked out perfectly for him however there is random I'm gonna call him secretary guy who likes to twist the end of his hair and he has glasses and definitely seems like he's up to no good or he's going to be a major character later on
00:10:34
Speaker
There you go yep and he's there and he's like you just got lucky yeah yeah yeah cuz you know that we would have told you don't bring up but you turn off your radio so you don't hear that call so watch what you do when i got my eyes on you bitch yeah that's a yana gita.
00:10:53
Speaker
I don't know. Is who the the one with the the glasses and the twisty hair? Yana Guida heard. Oh, so weird thing, by the way, now that we've gotten to the camp. So as we were watching this and they showed the the overview of the camp for the first time. Yeah, the Star David. And you were like, holy shit, the Star David. So did you notice at the end of the Star David had little arrows on it?
00:11:16
Speaker
No. So, yeah, it's all the points on it were little arrows. They actually changed that for the anime. Really? In the manga, it's actually just straight up the Star David. Nailed it. They were like, yeah, we need to not make this so obvious, I guess. So.
00:11:37
Speaker
What's up, John good here at identifying voice actors and also religious symbolism. Well, yeah. Yeah, you and Benny from The Mummy. You know, shout out all the imaginary friends. Ayo.
00:11:52
Speaker
Wolf wolf here we are. Oh, welcome to gate people. Hey,
Battle Strategies and Outcomes
00:11:59
Speaker
um, but yeah We find out that during that conversation. They're like, yeah, we're trying to figure out
00:12:08
Speaker
If this place is good for us and it turns out that the resources on the other side of this like medieval world are super plentiful and they could give japan like a huge leg up on the entire rest of the world just by harvesting them so they are excited for that we sort of get a reason as to why japan is trying to set up shit there.
00:12:32
Speaker
Then we also get to see Itame addressing all the refugees. He's reading from his book and then...
00:12:41
Speaker
Kata roe? Katuro? Kankurdu? Who are you trying to talk about? Catgirl guy. Kurata? Kurata, yeah. Now you know how I feel, you motherfucker. All of these shows. Yep. But yeah, the Ninetail Fox guy leans over and he goes, you know what?
00:13:02
Speaker
There's still language class if you want you can take it so we've talked about how just a main character is like fluent in stuff but it seems like everyone else has taken a language class on this language. Yeah, so they've been there for a while. Yeah, which makes my brain switch from like oh look at main character trying to like learn the language and being an overachiever and like going the extra step but these other people aren't but no he's just lazy.
00:13:29
Speaker
Extremely. Yeah, he just didn't go to the class. Yeah, he's super fucking lazy. But the cool part with all of that is all of the soldiers are trying to learn the language, but the only ones really trying to learn Japanese are Rory and Lele.
00:13:47
Speaker
Yeah. Tooka doesn't give a shit about a lot of things. Tooka needs to subscribe to BetterHelp because she's got some daddy issues going on right now. Oh, you don't even know. Oh, God. When they're watching, like them harvesting the resources and all that, and then Tooka and Lele are talking and Tooka is like, yeah, I got to, you know.
00:14:07
Speaker
I should tell my dad about this. And it's like that fuckers dead, bitch. Long gone. Yeah, unless you're diving into that dragon. Oh, you got two weak points, the eyeball or the butthole. You can go either way. Oh, but not that is worse than the other. Yeah. I'll leave it up to you for which one is worse.
Common Anime Tropes
00:14:29
Speaker
One of them's a more direct route. The eye of them. Actually, you might meet in the middle, depending on how far along.
00:14:37
Speaker
The road less traveled. Oh, my God. Oh, welcome to gate, everyone. Well, we belong. Oh, but yeah, so they do that. Lele is learning shit and they eat some food. Well, how do you keep calling her Lele Lele because it auto corrected to one word in my phone and that's what I'm looking at visually. And that is what my brain is saying.
00:15:05
Speaker
So it technically is one word, but just L E L E I. I think is how you spell her name. L E L E I. What? What? So wait. So I'm saying Lele. Yeah, it's a Lele, not Lele.
00:15:19
Speaker
Lele, heard, Lele Pons. Here we are, back again, with the white bands. Anyway, what? Anyway, get back to it. Anyway, back to Gate. Yeah, she's learning some shit. She's dressing up in fucking gas masks and learning the customs and learning the language and everything. They sit down to eat and she even does the whole like, thanks for the food thing. That is a thing.
00:15:48
Speaker
In Japan, where you did not know that was actually a like thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Huh? Do the thank you. It's a it's a custom I have not seen in any other shows yet. So. Well, I like it because none of the other shows have like really eaten. Yeah. I think the last time we got it was each adore at June pace house when you pace mom cooked for them.
00:16:16
Speaker
I was focused on other things during that scene though, so I did not notice. You were focused on two things, absolutely. Three. But yeah, I think that, yeah. No, that's the first time we've really seen it. But I thought that was cute, it was fun. I'm excited to see that pop up in more anime for you, so you're gonna be like, ah shit, look at that! Daddy!
00:16:36
Speaker
I also like it because it's just a real quick thanks for the food, as opposed to who can stroke their dick and be the biggest holy person leading blessing, which we have one of those in this show. Oh, we do. He's already done it. You've already said pina colada. No, it is actually not pina colada. It is the guy who does the land navigating stuff, the older dude who was sitting in the back of the Humvee.
00:17:05
Speaker
OK, he's also, I believe, the chaplain for the soldiers. So he's, I think, actually like a super religious dude. But he does, in fact, do the who can stroke his dick the most and in the blessing.
00:17:20
Speaker
Heard that old man strokes his dick. Gotcha. It is gate. It is gate. Which in this episode, you got your first little taste of why it's TVMA. Yeah. Yeah. We got a little bit of China being jealous and then we went back and it was bath time.
00:17:39
Speaker
with some well-placed bubbles and the girls bonding and talking. And I think that's when Lele Pons talks to Chicken Tikka Masala and is like, hey, I think that you've got trauma for your dad that you're not processing. You should, you know, subscribe to better help and figure out what the fuck is going on. Fun fact, they added the bath scene for the show. Really? It's not in the manga. That's not even in the manga.
00:18:07
Speaker
You said we're going to we're going to shoehorn in some nudity. Yep. We're going to bring in that audience. They said we've seen Game of Thrones season one. Sex sells. Oh, true. Yeah, it was season one. Holy shit. Yeah, I enjoyed their whole like discussion of like
Cultural Shocks Depicted in Anime
00:18:25
Speaker
holy shit. Everything is so different here. Like none of them had like ever had a warm bath. Yeah. Like if they did, they didn't have them often like the culture shock.
00:18:36
Speaker
from the Japanese coming in, and it's only been like I think three months. So the amount of new stuff that they said that they've had to get used to. Yeah, getting used to like modern day amenities and everything. Yeah, I like it.
00:18:51
Speaker
is nifty. I'm excited for them to see more stuff. I was expecting in episode six when, you know, fucking helicopters show up there to be a little bit more of a reaction, but we really only got the reaction from Pina Colada. Yeah. And then, you know, the people getting mowed down, but other than that,
00:19:08
Speaker
everyone else was pretty unfazed by it. Rory Mercury could have given two shits about it. Yeah, I mean, she's the she's the disciple of a god. Yeah, like there's there's not much that impresses her anymore. Oh, but yeah, we go from bath time to some other shit that doesn't really impact anything. And then we go back to Dooka, who's worried that she might get
00:19:38
Speaker
Married off because she's taking like extra rations and stuff like that. She's like, what if they decide that they want us as a resource and all this and that and then lalay is like go Thank you. It's like not don't worry about it They don't that's not their intentions like look at all these fucking dead wiring They don't have the same ideals as we do because we would have fucking scavenged that shit and we could sell that and make pretty penny They don't give a shit about it. That's not their intention. So you're fine. I
00:20:07
Speaker
And then they tell them that they're expensive and they're good to be traded and bartered with. And they're like, Oh, well then let's establish trade with the locals and start doing some good relations. And then they set out for the city and that'll bring us to episode five.
00:20:23
Speaker
Yeah so in episode 5 we get everybody going to the city of Italica and there's some stuff that's not going on or that's going on that probably shouldn't be going on and Itami offers to step in and help defend the city.
00:20:39
Speaker
And back to the beginning. Getting back to it. We have everybody in the Humvees making their way toward the city of Italica when they notice that there is a bunch of smoke off in the distance. And they're like, hey, we should probably go check that out. However, Tuka is a little busy checking somebody else out and kind of getting her on.
00:21:04
Speaker
And yeah, I didn't I didn't see that coming in my first watch. I assumed everybody was just going to be attracted to slice of salami. I was like, Oh, that's interesting. Somebody not taking an interest in our protagonist. Nice. Crazy. Very weird. So we cut over to the city and we have Pina Colada. Sorry, Princess Pina. Princess Pina Colada.
00:21:28
Speaker
Who is currently in charge of italica's militia. All of the fighters were sent with the imperial army to try to take back on this hill from the men in green. We know how that went.
00:21:52
Speaker
It was over. Yeah, what? Awesome. The ones who were not killed at all in this hill decided that they were going to make their own army because fuck everyone else. And they were just going to go take over towns and rob and kill and do all the bad things that people do. They do the murder. Do the murder. So Peña has been having to use like farmers and everybody to try to repel back those forces.
00:22:17
Speaker
It is not going well. She heads back to the mansion that she's staying at with her knight, Hamilton. They get there and the servants in the mansion very clearly do not like her at all. I mean, she hasn't done anything. Well, she hasn't done anything. And also her father took over the city. Yeah, that'll also help.
00:22:39
Speaker
Yeah, so when it's like you combine Sakura and also Kona Hamaru into the same character, I'm going to smack you.
Character Motivations Exploration
00:22:52
Speaker
I'm going to hit you.
00:22:54
Speaker
Oh, it's good, it's good. But yeah, when Pina decides that she's going to retire to the guest room to rest before the upcoming battle, she talks to one of the servants who's like, oh, yeah, if you don't wake up, I have a cold bucket of water with your name on it.
00:23:15
Speaker
Then I'm just going to dump onto your head. And Pina actually kind of smiles and is like, perfect. That sounds great to me, which is good because that's what will end up happening. But we do get a little bit of backstory on Pina and how the Order of the Rose came to be. She was trained by Grey Koaldo.
00:23:35
Speaker
who was one of the Kingsguard. He trains up her and her friends into becoming knights. They march around and are made fun of by all the adults because, oh, look at the little girls who want to be knights. But Grey's like, hey, if you want to make this into a legitimate thing, you can absolutely do that. And I will train you guys hard. And seven years later, they became an actual knighted order. Yeah, I think that she used the phrase trying to say you're going to kill us.
00:24:04
Speaker
Yeah, I'm amazed nobody actually died. I know of. But after after they get legitimized, the emperor kind of just turns them into an honor guard and only calls them out as welcoming the dignitaries from the other kingdoms. And she's not really fond of that and is like, hey, we're real knights. Can we please
00:24:28
Speaker
fight. So the reason that I think it's odd that she really wants to fight, but then when she gets into a fight, she fucking freezes and doesn't do anything. Just like the thing. This is her first one. Oh, weird. OK, let me let me let me clarify. Let me clarify.
00:24:46
Speaker
Let me clarify. She had never even witnessed any kind of actual combat. Interesting. Like me. Naruto never saw two people fight in the street. I mean, there's a difference between two people fighting and fucking ninjas. Just say like there were people popping out of puddles with fucking poisonous claws and also shuriken links.
00:25:11
Speaker
going for him. Yeah, but he wasn't the the child of nobility who had been told that, oh, you're special and immortal and nothing can ever hurt you. And then, no, no, you're right. It was in the fray. I forgot. Fucking Pina Colada was just standing up on top of a thing.
00:25:29
Speaker
Looking out over it like probably a half a mile away from everything happening and still a hundred yards Okay, but still frozen in fear and not doing anything. You're right. It's different. I'm not gonna argue with you about this
00:25:44
Speaker
OK, what? Yes, I am. So do it. Do it, bitch. OK. Naruto is not the leader. He is not the one in charge of making the decisions. So he would be in the fray. She is in charge of dictating people. Hey, you go here, you go here, you go here. Yeah, which is arguably worse. She's supposed to stay out of it. Yeah. But I mean, when you have four nights and then everyone else is just a farmer, you don't think that you put the combat trained person in front?
00:26:14
Speaker
No, you put the people in front of you. What was the training for? She's always a training for. She's going to say you kill us. Oh, wait. Just kidding. I'm just going to sit in a fucking box. It's her. It's Hamilton. It's Gray. And it's the fucking igloo guy. Yeah. The rest of the order isn't here. Yeah. So she didn't have her pieces where they need to be. So it was a hindsight on her for that as well. Fuck, you're right.
00:26:41
Speaker
Hmm. Yeah, that's weird. Yeah. Listen, I'm just saying, at least Sakura knows how to balance her chakra.
Debate on Character Development
00:26:49
Speaker
I feel like I feel like Pina can balance her chakra. Yeah, sure. She certainly cannot. But yeah, so Pina gets woken up by the servant who's like, hey, there's some guys out front or some unknown horses. I think it was out front.
00:27:09
Speaker
and Pina goes down and sees all the humvees and everything and is like holy shit that must be the men in green but out of the humvees uh we get Lele then Tuka then Rory and she's like holy shit if Rory's with them then we're probably gonna die if they want us to die so she goes the full diplomacy route and is like okay we need to make friends with them and she throws open the door and goes
00:27:34
Speaker
welcome friends to italica and proceeds to hit itami in the face really fucking hard with the door oh yeah everybody gets kind of pissed like really this is how you're gonna welcome people to your city
00:27:48
Speaker
Right. Well, I think they also thought that he came under attack. Yeah. And yeah, the military definitely thought that as well because the the chaplain guy was like, Oh, cool. I was about to run in there, so I'm really glad you eventually got a hold of us. And Kua Kua Hara, I think it's his name. Yeah, Kua Hara is the chaplain. Cool. What about Kona Haru? Shut the fuck up.
00:28:12
Speaker
So Pina takes Itami and his band of misfits around the mansion and is like, hey, I'm in charge because the one who's actually in charge of this city, she's only 11. So she can't really lead an army. So we're going to try to get her. She could have done a better job.
00:28:33
Speaker
Do you really think an 11-year-old could have done better? I mean, Pina Colada had reinforcements of Itami and all of them, and they only moved because they moved themselves. They said, fuck this management, I'm taking it into my own hands, and then they went and supported. She didn't do fucking shit. They were supposed to be a sacrifice. Huh? They were supposed to be a sacrifice. Yeah, and then she didn't sacrifice them. No, because they hit the wrong gate.
00:29:00
Speaker
Yeah, and then when she realized that all the people at the other gate, she didn't say, oh, let's move this acrobatial pawn over there. Let's buy the other people of the radio. I mean, she could have done something magic exists in this world. She's a magical bow and arrow with the fucking message. A goddamn carrier pigeon, a fucking owl. I don't know anything. Those are all legitimate points.
00:29:26
Speaker
I want to yell at you and tell you you're wrong. I mean, at least Sakura threw a kunai knife and put herself in the way of danger. Like, God damn. Oh, my God. Pina Colada is worse than she's worse than Sakura. I also know I want you to know that I have written down for this episode of We Belong. This is a series of bullet points. Colada didn't do shit.
00:29:50
Speaker
Alotta is Sakura make him admit it make him cry and I feel like I've succeeded in most of you have four out of four Mission accomplished you have all four The fact that your notes are just ruin me emotionally Get some booyah bitch
00:30:14
Speaker
Like, I'm trying to have fun. I'm showing you a thing I enjoy. You're shitting all over it. What's that like? Only I get to do that with your show. Weird. My how the turntables have turned.
Playful Banter and Reflection
00:30:30
Speaker
Oh, shit on your things. You're not allowed to shit on mine. OK. That's the rule going forward. Heard that. OK. Got it. Then we'll have the audience be the bidet that just watches all the shit away. Did you hear that guy? They called you a bidet. Mm hmm. It's a fancy word. Big word for you. But yeah, the Pina Colada sends the third recon to the Southgate to be sacrifices. They go ahead and put on their night vision goggles.
00:31:00
Speaker
and it Tommy and Rory kind of have this little moment of why are you doing this even though you're at war with the Empire and he's like the people in the city aren't the people that attacked me it's my job to defend them even though the people who were in charge of them are shitheads
00:31:17
Speaker
They themselves are not. Yes. And Rory's like, Oh, that's really cool. A lot of people are going to die and this is going to be a lot of fun. I'm very excited. And Tommy's like, Yup. Go nuts. If people come in, do what you do. And right when all that happens, the bandits begin their assault once more. And that'll bring us to episode six.
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00:32:24
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00:32:51
Speaker
Yeah, it does. And in episode six, we see the conclusion of the battle slash slaughter as helicopters save the day. After the battle, we get to see each side's thoughts on the other. And as the main cast leaves, they are met by some more new characters. Cool. But yeah, getting back to the beginning, speaking of, you know, nuts and everything like that,
00:33:19
Speaker
Huh? Yeah, you said nuts. Uh, it was a thing like 15 seconds ago that I was expecting to get too quicker and, but you know, the timing sort of faded, but I still stuck with it because, you know, why not? Uh, people start dying and, uh, it's like Rory busted a nut. Uh, she starts, uh, going and squirming and wooing all the damn day.
00:33:43
Speaker
Oh, there we are. Thank you. And you'd rather. Yep. He's milking. Oh, it might have been more of that. I think it kind of was more of that. Yeah, yeah, definitely. I don't know that that he's milking felt weird, which we invoked the emotions I felt watching this scene as well.
00:34:04
Speaker
Anyway, Rory is essentially like a doorway for death. So as everyone is getting slaughtered at the wall with like arrows going to people, people getting their head bashed in and ladders falling down and shit like that. And then there's a sorcerer in the mix somehow somewhere that doesn't get mentioned again, except for like a small little flash of her as a prisoner later on. Um, yeah, almost like she becomes relevant later on. Weird. Are we planting the seeds?
00:34:35
Speaker
Are we giving the show room to grow? We are giving the show room to grow. Oh, wait, is that what stories and animes do? Fucking. This is news to me. Odd. But anyway, people are dying. And so those souls are going essentially through Rory Mercury to death. And yeah. Yeah. And apparently, according to Lele Pons, she says that it's like I forget the way that she go. Go ahead.
00:35:04
Speaker
Yeah, I forget the word that she uses, but I remember it yet. Say it. I do believe quite pleasurable. Yes. Pleasurable is the quote. Yep.
00:35:18
Speaker
and she do seem like she'd be in pleasure. She's squirming back and forth again with the uwu's and it gets to a point where she cannot take it anymore not being in the fight because she gets so excited from it that she even runs off by herself towards all the fighting because Sakura couldn't give her an order.
00:35:37
Speaker
Yep. I can't even argue the Sakura anymore because the more I sit here and think about it, the more correct you are. Weird. Cool. It's almost like that that character exists like a plot device in a couple of shows. Weird. Oh. My disappointment is immeasurable.
00:36:01
Speaker
But yeah, we also, I skipped over it because I wanted to get to the nut part, but we get to open up with, you know, fucking a whole squadron of hella choppers getting ready to take off from the base to go support it. And yeah, they, they go. And it's fun because we get a shot of that and all the people are like, yeah, let's do it.
Helicopter Scene Breakdown
00:36:24
Speaker
And then we go to Rory and then she runs off and then we go back to the helicopters and we get a lovely shot of them just flying and they even turn on flight of the bumblebee just because. And oh, wait, no, it's not always right about Greece. There we are. There you go. Yep. The other one. And the fun thing about the bumblebees would have been really good.
00:36:49
Speaker
But I also just now doing that realized how it sort of sounds like the Batman like transition. Oh my god. But yeah, they do rise of the Valkyrie and we get a whole little shot of just helicopters flying.
00:37:06
Speaker
There is nothing that happens. They're not engaging the enemy or anything like that. It's literally just, look at these helicopters. There's cool. And we're going to play this music. And at one point, it even shows they're all flying in one direction. And then there's two helicopters. They're just like switching sides, just going back and forth, bobbing and weaving in between themselves. The show was a recruitment tool. Weird. Weird. A little bit of propaganda.
00:37:29
Speaker
But it's good. No, it is good. It's good. It's fine. No, it isn't. But anyhow, no, no, no, it's good. It's fine. It's fun to poke fun at as well. Because you enjoy and cherish it. And it's fun to poke fun at you. Oh, yes, motherfucker. What kind of bitch you are.
00:37:50
Speaker
Oh, we get back to the city. Rory runs in, does some cool shit with her goddamn scythe axe thing. Um, and yeah, fuck shit up. And then Tommy and all them hop on the Humvee and they get there and Kurobayashi runs out and she runs down, jumps right into the fray and immediately starts fucking shit up. And they're like, wow, she's.
00:38:15
Speaker
too excited for this. I'm excited to unpack her deal because she seems like she has some stuff that she needs to work through.
00:38:24
Speaker
But yeah, because they they took her night vision away from her because she's so prone to breaking everything. Yeah. What is she broken in the show so far? And so far in the show, nothing. OK, cool. It's just this is a squad that's been together for a while, with the exception of a Tommy. OK. He was placed in charge of an already existing squad.
00:38:47
Speaker
Oh, OK, heard. I was very confused with like, did I miss something? Did she already break something valuable? No, it happened off screen. Cool. Yes. I'm sure we'll get an actual flashback arc to it. It's all good. Oh, I'm very happy to announce that we do not. Ah, damn. Missed opportunity.
00:39:07
Speaker
But yeah, she runs in with her bayonet and immediately breaks that after killing like six people. Yes, you do. So good. Yeah. And then she goes from that to literally just whipping out a pistol and just shooting people. And it's great. I like it. We had a whole like girls get it done thing between her and Rory where she shoots somebody going for Rory.
00:39:27
Speaker
After Kurobaiashi has just been saved by Roy, they like sort of swap off on like getting each other's backs and then they smile at each other and do a little like back-to-back thing and like, okay, cool.
Character Teamwork in Battles
00:39:39
Speaker
Girls fucking it up. Hell yeah. Their relationship is a great dynamic through season one. It is really good.
00:39:46
Speaker
I'm very excited to see more of it. But yeah, and then we get to the helicopters coming in. They start blowing shit up and then they start mowing down all the people outside of the wall, leaving everyone inside the wall to, you know, keep fighting a little bit until it's like, hey.
00:40:04
Speaker
Time to get them out of there so the helicopters can do their job. So they order everyone to fall back. Kurobaiashi and Rory do not get with that. So Itame and Kurama go in there, grab them, and run away with them, accidentally groping Rory as well. And then the helicopters mow down all the other people. And battle done. Yeah, battle done. What did you think of your first, like, real battle for this show?
00:40:34
Speaker
Um, it was good. I'm interested to see more of it. It felt more of like Lord of the Rings battle and then Maury showed up and she took out a couple of people. Kurabayashi took out a couple of people and then the helicopter showed up and it was done. So I'm interested to see a more drawn out battle where it's a little bit more.
00:40:54
Speaker
personal, so it gives like our characters more time to shine. Maybe give Sakura a chance to do something, you know? Anything else you wish they had done? Maybe a little bit differently or? I wanted to see Lele get into the fight. Gotcha. Okay.
00:41:15
Speaker
Yeah, I feel like Tooka is going to take on the role of like healer and I feel like Lele is going to just she's smart, but I feel like she's going to be like support and then just like a whole bunch of OP spells. And Rory is just going to be fucking shit up. And somehow she's going to get already does. Yeah. And she's going to get into the next stage where she has like a whole awakening thing and she's going to glow red or whatever. And it's going to be cool. Is it like our state?
00:41:46
Speaker
You know, full super saiyan and all that. Oh, so you have seen the show. Yeah, I have seen anime. Crazy. It's so weird to me, like, as I'm watching this and like discussing it with you and everything, learning how many of the things in this show that I thought were so neat turn out to just be tropes.
Comparing Anime Pacing
00:42:08
Speaker
So isekai sometimes get a
00:42:09
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's gonna get the blessing from her God and she's like
00:42:12
Speaker
like unfavorable thing to them because they do because you have the whole show is pointing out parallels. So the thing with parallels is that usually when you're doing the show and everything you have to go into those tropes because when you go into the trope it sort of it shows all those other parallels. So it falls victim to its own design sometimes and so some people get turned off from the whole isekai brand just because of that.
00:42:38
Speaker
Gotcha. OK, no, that kind of makes sense. I when I was talking to my other John. Yeah. About this show. Fucking cheater. When technically, I think no, he did not come first. You adulterous ho.
00:42:54
Speaker
Yeah, I don't care about your stamina and who came first or whatever. It's Jesus Christ. He's milking. There we are. Yeah. Oh, Jesus. Also, I apologize again if my voice sounds raspy late night. I think that sounded bad the last couple of episodes as well. It's good recovering from cold and also yelling at people. Yeah. Yep. As one does in a restaurant. It's the best.
00:43:26
Speaker
Yeah, when I was discussing the show with him originally, he was like, yeah, you might find it kind of repetitive, like from everything else you've seen. And I was like, brother, this is the first. You are you are inventing the wheel for me here. It's not like I'm going to watch this and be like, hey, they did that in Trigon. Like, I don't know. So to me, this is where I guess this is where my bar is.
00:43:56
Speaker
Yeah. So my everything that I've seen since I've been kind of comparing to this. Cool. So you were comparing season two JJK to gate. Um. In a way, yes. Uh huh. Not like I mean, of course, they're two very different kinds of shows. Very different.
00:44:24
Speaker
But I've been, I guess, comparing pacing. OK. More than anything. And just how like the character development has been kind of working. Yeah. Because like JJK, we get everything in the show over a span of. What, six months? So pretty much. Yeah. Yeah. Because we go from spring to Halloween. So we get everything rather
00:44:53
Speaker
You know, rather drawn out in that like we get to each thing quickly, but it's we get nine months in two seasons. Yes. By this point in gate, since the portal opened in Ginza, I think it's already been close to nine months. Oh, Nelson here from the future. It's only been about three months. So that's on me. Sorry.
00:45:18
Speaker
Oh, shit. Yeah, because it Tommy did his heroics there and then was sent to go become an officer. And then he went in, I think four months after the initial opening. And it's been another three months inside. So we're at seven months. Yeah, that's in six episodes covering some ground. Yeah. Now that we, you know, have more characters, I feel like it's going to be.
00:45:42
Speaker
less of that giant correct time jump stuff because we're sort of breeze and pass the expositionary stuff. Yeah. So I'll be excited to see what the pacing is going forward now that we have these characters and stuff. Well, the the upside to it is because we have the JSDF with their modern equipment. Like you'll see the part you'll see the parts where it's like even in I think episode
00:46:07
Speaker
Four. They were like, oh, yeah, we're going to go to Italica. They're like, that's a that's a week's ride. And it's like, oh, cool. We can get there in four hours, five hours. So we cut down on travel time here, which I think saves a lot of a lot of filler episodes. Yep.
00:46:31
Speaker
Because this show, I don't think this show has what one would even consider an episode of filler, like not a single one. Every single thing has plot importance. I mean.
00:46:42
Speaker
Yeah, no, the only the only one that I think could be like semi filler ish would just be episode four. And that's it so far. But even then, we still get other stuff just like spatter throughout. It has elements of filler, but it is not. It has. OK, yeah, it's got a couple of elements of filler, but it's not a. It's like episode two, Naruto, you know, when we get introduced to Konohamaru and dynamics and stuff. But then like ultimately, there's also some other shenanigans. It's like, oh, cool. But anyway, get back to it.
Post-Battle Reflections
00:47:11
Speaker
Um, yeah, at the end of the fight, we get the whole dynamic of seeing Pina Colada being like, Oh no, now that they're here, it's like we saved the village, but also these people can take over the village if they want. And there's really ultimately nothing we can do to stand up to that firepower, which is a hundred percent true.
00:47:32
Speaker
But instead of being, you know, married off and all that stuff and becoming prisoners, it Tommy's like, no, we're just gonna, you know, ask that for the prisoners that you guys keep and everything. Like, you know.
00:47:47
Speaker
treat them nicely, and well, if we can trade with you, that's why we originally came here. That'd be awesome. And they're like, yeah. And they're like, you don't want a whole bunch of other stuff. And they're like, nah, we're good. We're square, bud. Which is a direct quote from the show. We're square, bud, by Piña Colada and Itami.
00:48:10
Speaker
Oh, look at you saying his name properly. So proud. I figured I'd sneak in a real one there just for you. Just for you. Give you a little bit of satisfaction. A gentleman and a scholar. Absolutely. I'm all about the satisfaction of others. I was going to say hashtag Roarberg. Oh, oh, but yeah, it's.
00:48:34
Speaker
I like that part because it shows very much just how far the tech gap is in between what's going on for them and also what's going on with the people from Japan, because it's like.
Cultural Reflections in Anime
00:48:51
Speaker
If this was another medieval town taking over the other thing, they'd be like, oh, yeah, we're going to take your resources. We're going to do that. We're going to do this. They're like, oh, God, that's also outdated. Like, oh, you saw an iPod touch, not even
00:49:04
Speaker
Like my phone. Oh, buddy. Oh, but poverty. Oh, yeah. So it's fun for me to see that little change or dynamic pop up. And also, again, the whole getting married off thing is also a thing that they brought back up, which, you know, used to be a huge thing, but glad it's not anymore because.
00:49:28
Speaker
women's rights and choices and all that good stuff. Are you talking about when Tuka was like, I'm going to have to be married off?
00:49:37
Speaker
Yeah, when Chuka was like, I'm going to have to get married off. And then Collada was like, we also have to prepare ourselves. So we might be taken as prisoners and married off as well. And it's like, yeah, that was the times it's that was married off, right? I mean, for Tuka, at least it wasn't. No, it was. No, Tuka wasn't married off. She was afraid she was going to have to sell herself into prostitution. Oh.
00:50:04
Speaker
Her. Yeah. And Peña is worried that she's going to be turned into a slave herd. Yeah. Any any time you're like, oh, it's going to be a happy marriage in this show. Yeah, it's not that. Well, I wouldn't say happy marriage getting married off like an arranged marriage. I would automatically assume that that would be happy. Yeah. Yeah.
00:50:27
Speaker
But anyway, it's it's fun to just sort of again see the changing of the times and Just how far behind this whole medieval world is from Japan and yeah, it's a leap. It's a really yeah leaps and bounds
00:50:42
Speaker
Yeah, they take the sorcerer bitch who is doing shit in the battle as a little prisoner and they go to leave with her. And then as they go to leave, they happen upon these fuckers that are riding in on horses and it's a bunch of bitches and hold on now. Yeah, it's a whole bunch of girls and they are.
00:51:10
Speaker
I think that they say it's a whole bunch of blondes, hot blondes, in men's clothes, riding horses, and they have circlets. Oh my God, I love circlets. Let me see that. I'm pretty sure that's how- They're all just horny. Yeah. Yeah, that's how Currada and also Itame are like, oh my God, look at that. And then they see the flag with the roses on it.
00:51:36
Speaker
This is the backup brigade for fucking soccer, soccer, damn it. For Pina Colada. There you go. I'm just saying soccer is a cooler name. It makes more sense anyway. Oh, making sense. What about Pina Colada screams Pina Colada?
00:52:03
Speaker
Maybe she likes taking walks in the rain. I don't know. OK, talking character design, looking at her. What makes you like, yeah, that bitch is a pina colada right there. When you look at Sakura, what goes there? That's a Sakura. Oh, well, she has pink hair, just like how Sakura blossoms are pink and also very well known in Japan. Oh.
00:52:30
Speaker
Hold on, I am looking at basically her Wikipedia page. You weren't expecting that, were you, bitch? He certainly was not. That was such a loud silence. There is nothing about why he is named Peanut Galata.
00:52:57
Speaker
Um, yeah, I got nothing. So once again, that's what another W for Sakura over a lowercase W not a capital.
00:53:14
Speaker
W for John. All right. Correct. That is a fully capital L for Nelson. Underlined. Old italicized. A city of italicized. But anyway.
00:53:35
Speaker
We see girls right up on horses. We got a little bit of sea biscuit, or depending on how this goes, if any of them get away, a little spirit. Who knows? I've never seen spirits that I've lost on me. Never seen, if you ever watch it, watch it with subtitles.
00:53:52
Speaker
Oh, it is fucking hilarious. So really? It is. It's like nays flirtatiously and stuff like that. It's great. Yeah, we're going to be watching season two of this show with subtitles on. Oh, is it because it's the same kind of shit where it just says stuff like that? OK, heard. Yeah. So how do we move on from spirit and the subtitles? So moving on from spirit in the subtitles, we have
00:54:22
Speaker
Well, did you touch on what a Tommy does? He gets out the car and he talks to them and then he tells everyone else to go away. He gets punched kind of hard, doesn't he? Yeah, he do. He gets fucking walloped. Yeah. Well, he also got walloped by Rory Mercury for accidentally grabbing her boob. Yeah. I get the fact that she hits him for that after flirting with him after literally higher shows, giving him a lap dance.
00:54:52
Speaker
And was he up top during her whole incident?
00:54:57
Speaker
Oh, yes. Yeah. So she also basically, I mean, there was a little bit of there was there was no consent given for the boob grab. You're right. Grab. I did enjoy Kurabayashi screaming as she was getting carried away of put me down, you asshole. I can run on my own. Yep. It's God, I am so excited for you to get more background on
00:55:27
Speaker
Uh, the dynamic with kuribayashi, Rory, Touka and the lie. Yeah, that like group of four is so much fun in the coming episodes. Well, it's fun because I feel like kuribayashi is a not minor version of Maki from JJK for you. Yes, that is that is accurate. That is definitely accurate.
00:55:56
Speaker
Yeah, again, you know, find out those those commonalities and stuff like that. Yeah, there is. There's definitely a lot of I'm noticing crossover in character traits and designs throughout the shows. And, you know, you'll continue to see that throughout all the rest of the anime.
Anticipation for Future Episodes
00:56:12
Speaker
I'm sure in another show that I am currently watching.
00:56:17
Speaker
that will eventually be covered. Mm hmm. Little piece there for you. Mm hmm. I am also noticing. Oh, cool. That character might as well be Tuka. Yep. Oh, shit. OK, trauma. Uh huh. So it's yeah, it's it's cool seeing everything kind of go forward.
00:56:40
Speaker
Yeah, I'm excited to get more into it. I think next couple of episodes, which would be episode seven, eight, nine, uh, will be fun. I think that we're going to get some more info. Um, I have no idea what all's going to happen because I think you said what there's 12 or 13 episodes per season.
00:56:59
Speaker
There are 12 episodes per season. We're halfway through season one. We are halfway through season one. No idea what like because usually anime end of the season, you have a big fight, you have a whole thing. I do not know what that is going to be other than potentially the dragon pops back up, but he feels like a thing for later on. Yeah, his I would say, yeah, his is definitely a later on thing.
00:57:24
Speaker
Yeah. So I am interested to see where it's going to go and what the stakes are going to continue to ramp up to going on for the rest of season one for. Yeah. Yeah. It's a fun. It's a good show. I'm glad you're enjoying it. Nice and light. I figure. Yeah, I figured, you know, for when I got to pick a show, it was something we could do kind of quickly. Yeah. That was just stupid fun.
00:57:51
Speaker
Yeah, I'm assuming that we're going to touch on in the future. We'll probably do magical muscle on this. And it is very much like on the light and fun side as well. Like I watched one and a half episodes last night and I there were just parts where the line delivery and the animation is just stupid and just funny. I was just chuckling to myself because I was like, God damn it.
00:58:21
Speaker
Yeah, I've heard a lot about that show and honestly, I'm I'm kind of excited for that. Yeah, it's good. It's good. It's also never mind. That's a spoiler. I was going to tell you that a character was in it, but I was like, nope. But another there are a lot of voice actors in that that are other.
00:58:40
Speaker
like major characters for other. Hell, yeah. Because I mean, that that old that'll pretty much wrap up our gate for the week. Yeah, I think so. By the way, I really hope you guys are enjoying it as well. I hope you are weaving along with us in our journey of what the fuck is this show? But there's another show that came out I think yesterday. Yeah, it came out yesterday that I am super excited for was a kaiju number eight. Yes, I put that on your radar and I was like, oop,
00:59:10
Speaker
That your land seems up your alley and certainly fucking does. But I know the main character in that is Adam MacArthur. So very excited. Did not see how he does in another show. Yeah.
00:59:25
Speaker
Mm hmm. That's like the only thing I know. It's the only like the description I saw of the show, because when you told me about it, I'm like, oh, I'm going to look it up and see what it's about real quick. And yeah, the first thing it says is Adam MacArthur stars in and I'm like, OK, well, there goes my guessing game. Nailed it. Damn it. And now it's ruined for me, too. Thanks, bud.
00:59:47
Speaker
Oh, trust me. There's others. Oh, I'm so many others. I'm excited. Yeah, I am very excited to play that one with you for you to kick my ass immediately on again. Oh, it's good. I'm just still mad at you. Hey, we'd even have any this episode.
01:00:07
Speaker
I feel like we could have, but then you were like, I don't want to give them the opportunity to repeat. Actually, we couldn't have. Oh, really? There is. You knew nobody from these episodes. And for the most part, you're not going to know anybody for the rest of the show. Oh, heard.
01:00:24
Speaker
until I start Vinland Saga heard until you start Vinland Saga. But a lot of the I mean, realistically, you are probably missing six characters for the entire rest of the show. Oh, really? And they will all be introduced to you probably in the next three, with the exception of two at the beginning of season two. Yeah. So the game is pretty much over until that heard games going on a hiatus.
01:00:53
Speaker
Yeah, games going on a hiatus, but, um, yeah, that'll pretty much wrap up our week. Anything you want to plug.
01:00:59
Speaker
Um, uh, as just previously stated, watching magical muscles, uh, also just found out that there was a my hero extra episode that came out for the new year around the holiday time that I finally watched last night. Uh, it literally just a filler episode, just like cute fun. Uh, did enjoy. Uh, so if you look over some lighthearted and fun to watch, go ahead and watch that. Uh, if you're a fan of my hero, it takes, I think it takes place after events of.
01:01:29
Speaker
Season six. Pretty sure. And that also is about to be coming out in.
01:01:40
Speaker
Actually, by the time this airs probably in a week and a half in sub or something like that. So that's coming out. I'm hyped. I'm excited, uh, for season seven to start on up. We got that. And we also got a movie announced for my hero as well. That takes place in a post season six world. That is also supposed to be good and it looks really fun. I'm excited for it. Uh, but yeah, I'll do those. And then also plug the bling, uh, bang, bang born.
01:02:11
Speaker
AKA the season two opener for Magic of Muscles, because it's a fucking bop and it's everywhere on my goddamn TikTok. Yep. It's even on mine. Yep. It is all over the place. I cannot get away from it. Correct. But Jesus Christ, is it catchy?
01:02:27
Speaker
Yeah, no. So like the sub came out for season two and then episode four in Dubb just came out Saturday. This Saturday, yesterday. Okay. Thirteenth, one of those. Thirteenth, I can do dates. It's just like math. It's time. Crazy.
01:02:48
Speaker
Uh, but yeah, so most of almost all of season two has been released and then they are just now getting to the dubs So it's going to continue to just keep on having tick tock clout For a while. Well, nice. That is oh wonderful. Um
01:03:04
Speaker
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01:03:21
Speaker
Um, music wise this week, I'm going to go ahead and plug thoughts and prayers by heaven shall burn certified fucking banger. I will be posting a link to the playlist. Probably by the time this comes out, you'll see it. It is.
01:03:40
Speaker
All the songs I've recommended as well as bangers that were in the shows that we've seen. So I have some stuff from JJK on there, some stuff for gay. And yeah, it's it's fun. Yeah. Yeah. But thank you guys so much for tuning in this week and we will see you guys next time. Yeah. See the next one. The outro stays the same, don't worry. I was waiting for it.