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Melaninjas '24
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We are back! This time chatting about our favorite anime moments from last year and highlighting what we are looking forward to this year.
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Introduction and Anime Highlights
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Speaker
Hello, we are your Meloninjas here talking everything anime. And today we are chatting about our top moments or anime from last year, but then also letting you guys know what we're looking forward to seeing this year. So I'm gonna kick it to Alex. Alex, we could do this like around Robin. Give us one or whatever you're feeling for your favorite moments or anime from last year. Hmm.
Hell's Paradise: Philosophical Enjoyment
00:00:30
Speaker
Well, there's so many. I think last year, let me just start by saying last year was an awesome year for anime. I think we were all eating good last year. There was a lot, there was a lot to dig into. And I think you kind of have the, you could, you had the ability to really pick your choosing, like the kind of anime you're into. You had lots of different choices that you could pick from.
00:00:51
Speaker
But I guess if I had to pick just one of them in no particular order, because honestly, there were so many good ones to pick, I think I'm going to start the conversation with one that I had not been familiar with until I was introduced to it via the anime scene was Hell's Paradise.
00:01:11
Speaker
I've really enjoyed Hell's Paradise. The visuals were really beautiful and insane. And I think what really got me was that last episode, the shock value of having him really lose himself and like that shell of like him losing his identity towards the end. I mean, I actually just, I should have said spoiler warning. But I think that last episode was definitely one that really just
00:01:38
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shook me. And I think there was a lot of moments in that show that really kind of, there's a lot of philosophy blended with spirituality, blended with classic, classic, like Japanese and lore and
00:01:56
Speaker
just a lot of history in there. And so I really appreciated that one. I just didn't really know what to expect going in, but I was really pleasantly surprised. I can't I can't say it's like, you know, my all time favorite in the world, but I really, really enjoyed that one last year. Oh, I like that. I like that. Did you I forgot the name of the other shinobi that was in it, but when she was kind of breaking down and kind of gave the foreshadow of what was going to happen to him about like the whole
00:02:24
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his village leader probably being an illusion. Did you catch on that that was something they were going to bring up at the end? Because the end caught me for a shock too.
00:02:32
Speaker
Yeah, I would say probably not. I would say I was missing. I missed it. I must have missed some of that foreshadowing and some of the clues. I thought I was on the right track with it. I thought I was picking it up what they were putting down. So for the most part, but I honestly was taking off my footing multiple times throughout that show. Like it it it just yeah. Well, I was I was pretty surprised. So I'd say I missed it. Even if I saw it, even if I saw the reference you're talking about, I still think I would I would have probably still characterize it as I missed it.
00:03:02
Speaker
But that's a great first choice though. And I know Kwan loves Hail's Paradise. I definitely love Hail's Paradise. Oh my goodness. Hail's Paradise is amazing. Honestly, so I'm a big fan of those scenes or those stills you get where the character is about to go berserk or about to be a little bit crazy or off.
00:03:24
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And they look like just menacing. And we had so, so, so many good scenes.
MASH: Humor in a Magical World
00:03:31
Speaker
Yes. No paradise like that. But if we're talking about one of my favorites from last year, Hell's Paradise is definitely on my list. But I'm going to go with MASH.
00:03:43
Speaker
All right. So like MASH in particular, because MASH is pretty, pretty lighthearted, pretty funny. And it was a nice offset to the emotional trauma that I've had in some of these shows that I'm watching that I will be mentioning later in the show. Because like, damn. Yeah.
00:04:04
Speaker
Yeah, M.A.S.H. was very lighthearted, it's very funny. He stands on business with everybody. He's so funny. It doesn't matter. And then there was no gimmick about M.A.S.H. I expected him to get powers at some point when I was watching the show. I just expected it, especially in the show how people can get artificial lines or whatever.
00:04:28
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I was expecting him at some point to get magic and just be overpowered with magic and the muscles, by Kent's name of the show. But it's all muscles. And it's honestly funny to see some of the ways that they make him...
00:04:42
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competing like the magic games, even though he doesn't have him kicking and that had to be all done. I was done when my dude said kicking muscle magic and he was flying in the air. I literally bust out laughing that had me dead.
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scored 999 goals. Because that was the one part in the show where I was like, OK, they're going to find out that he can't do magic. Because there's no way to just do magic. And then he pulls out the Powerpuff Mayor feat. And he's just like, happy feat. Oh my goodness. It was definitely one of my favorites for sure. Super lighthearted and just good for everybody.
00:05:22
Speaker
Yeah. Anytime he would say muscle magic, anything, like I just was done. It was just too funny. Too funny. And then there was the Minato level beatdown that he gave Old Boy at the end of the first season. Oh my goodness. The puppet dude, right? Yeah, the puppet dude. That beatdown was vicious. And then when Old Boy came after that from Innocent Zero,
00:05:48
Speaker
Oh, yes. Yeah. Like that whole fight and the after fight were just wonderful. Start to finish. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's a solid choice. That's a very solid choice. And season two is out right now. And I'm loving it. Yeah, for sure. I need to pick it back up. I haven't seen the most recent episodes for that one. Oh, yeah. It's still a little slow. I think it's only two episodes out. But no, it's definitely good. You guys picked good ones. I like am so tempted to be like,
00:06:18
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a lame person and pick like JJK because that literally was my absolute favorite from last year, but I
Undead Unluck: Quest for Death
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won't. I won't. I will go with. Hmm. I'm going to go with Undead Unlook. I really like Undead Unlook mostly because it's like the character designs are pretty interesting to me. The powers that they use. Right. And like in this world that they have, like people have
00:06:47
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ability to negate things. So like, whatever the un is, is what you're negating. So like undead, he's negating death and he's a zombie, essentially. Or the other main character, she has bad luck, like really, really bad luck. And so I think it's pretty interesting. I like the way the story is, like the main goal of the protagonist is to kill themselves, which is like kind of a wild concept. But then you hear their backstory and it's like, they've been alive since 18
00:07:14
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However, and they've done all these things like they actually kind of deserved the death that they want, right? So I thought that was pretty cool. And then just like, one of the things that was like super spellbiting to me about it was the way they do their attacks, like a lot of it is they have a decent amount of fighting in it. And I know I love good fighting anime, but the story is actually pretty interesting too.
00:07:36
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I like how they come up with the names and kind of give like the backstories behind attacks and stuff. Like one of the main characters, he has this attack called Crimson Moon, where he literally cuts his leg off and like forces his blood vessels to like make a moon slash or a moon crescent, you know, and just like, or he'll cut off his waist to make his body a jet pack for someone to hold on to. Like it's really interesting how they decided to like kind of turn anime on its head. And I like that kind of escapism where you're not seeing something that's like too real.
00:08:05
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You get to be like, all right, that's pretty wild. So that was probably one of my favorites and it's still going on into this year. Where do you watch it? Hulu. It's exclusively on Hulu, one of those Hulu originals. All right. Add to the list? Yeah, you should. I have this record going with Alex so far where I haven't missed on a recommendation. So I'm kind of like, do I want to put a stamp of approval on this? I think I will. I think I will.
00:08:34
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I'm gonna do it, but I want you to know there are moments that are kind of wild in it. I vividly remember how much you hate my boy from Seven Deadly Sins. No, is he giving that energy? No, he just like, just a little pikito. All right, so for context, unluck, part of her power is
00:09:03
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She makes bad things happen. She can make like a spell of bad luck happen, but she can't really control it. The only thing that we know for sure about her power, like the only concept is it's whatever bad luck happens, the stroke of bad luck is proportionate to the amount that she likes you. So she likes you a lot. Then she will give you a really, really, really bad luck. And because of that, he is doing his best to woo her. Or put her in.
00:09:32
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flustered situations, which will increase the amount of bad luck that she gives. And then that helps them in their fights. But bad luck would be bad for him. Why would he want it? It would be bad for literally anybody else except for him because he can't die. So the bad luck like the most think of like the most catastrophic thing like maybe a nuke is dropped. Yeah, no nuke is dropped in the show. But like a meteor is dropped. Well, yeah, there was a dude nevermind. Oh,
00:10:02
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Like a meteor has dropped and it's going to attack him. Like if he's holding on to the enemy, the enemy will die from the meteor, but he will just regenerate because he can't die. Okay. All right. Context. Like the bad luck is good. It's a couple of notions on the head. You got to give it a shot. Give it a shot. But like don't just watch and be like, this, like, what's my man's name? Uh, Meliodas S mother.
00:10:29
Speaker
Oh, that was rough. I I'm one of probably one of the only people that did not enjoy that show. I just did not. Rock was seven deadly since I just couldn't get it. But I I don't know. I just couldn't get with it. They had a couple of weird things in it. I liked it. I watched all of it. I like I like it. But I had also like kind of someone made the comp the other day and it didn't really resonate until I just saw your reaction when I brought it up. So maybe it is what they were talking about watching
00:10:57
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how Meliodas treated Elizabeth or like just seeing it and you being creeped out is not that different than people feeling weird about Hizoka from Hunter x Hunter and them not liking Hunter x Hunter because of that. Interesting. I get like why a character can like throw you off. The reason I push back was just Hizoka is not a main character. Like he's a prominent character but he's not like the main protagonist. I don't have to see him every episode.
00:11:24
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versus Meliodas I was seeing every episode and I'm like, my God, you got to let go of them titties, bro. But it's funny you say that because I'm also one of the rare humans that is not a Hunter x Hunter stan. So I can't say that that's my favorite show either. I'm sorry.
00:11:45
Speaker
I mean, I know I'm rare for that. Most people love that show at their wholesale, but I don't know. It just didn't really hit for me the same way. I liked it, though. I liked it better than I liked 7 Deadly Sins. I just did not. I can't say. They would never enter. Maybe you've not even my top 10, though. Oh, here's a random question before we go back to you about more anime that you liked from last year. OK. It's for everybody. It's for everybody.
00:12:11
Speaker
Given the year that we had an anime last year, did your top 10 all-time shift at all? Yes. Oof. Evadic yes. Okay. What may have entered? Well, I guess I'll just go into one of my favorite ones that I don't think many people
00:12:32
Speaker
would have mentioned or maybe don't have on their top list. But I desperately loved the show Blue Eye Samurai last year. That show was like for me a 10 out of 10. I love Blue Eye Samurai. So it's on Netflix. It's a little bit, I don't know if you would traditionally call it an anime per se, but it is an animation that's set in feudal Japan or
00:13:01
Speaker
in that era i think it's not feudal japan but it's definitely set in the in edo era the edo time frame in japan but you can when you see the show you'll know what i mean but
00:13:15
Speaker
Yeah, that show was perfect. And it has some of the best writing for women, for female protagonists that I've ever seen. The show is in English. It's written by a, I believe that the person who's the co-writer of the show is a biracial Japanese woman. And so she has a lot of
00:13:37
Speaker
she informs the main character quite a bit and has a lot of, and has a lot to offer to the show, but the show has insane fight scenes,
Blue Eye Samurai: Strong Female Lead
00:13:44
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beautiful animation, and really, really well-written women characters. And just the plot's good, and there's a lot of humor in it. I just really like that show. So I would say I would put that in, I would definitely enter that in my top 10.
00:14:04
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Okay, I like that. I have a question about the show for you. I think I might have asked this to you before. I definitely asked this to you before. But I was wanting to get your answer on record. Was the flashback of her husband and her mother like a real or was that a hallucination?
00:14:23
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It would be interesting if it was a hallucination, but I interpreted it as real. And again, this is a spoiler territory again on the show, but yeah, I interpreted it as real. I thought that that whole experience informs how she became
00:14:45
Speaker
who she is, how the, I guess the demon was born in her was based on a profound love that got transformed and turned on its head. And then it drives really everything that she does, but it's been the inverse, the inverse drive of love, you know, the mince, the pit that that leaves, the hole in the gap that that leaves in her pursuit of filling it with what she thinks is going to fill it with in revenge.
00:15:14
Speaker
So I would interpret it as yes, because without it, I don't know if it makes as much sense as to why she's so deeply passionate about this is the only way to pursue her happiness. I thought it made more sense that she would spend some time exploring her
00:15:33
Speaker
femininity before she went all in on the her goals that we see here with at the beginning of the show to kind of see if there was another path and another way that she could be happy. So yeah. Have you seen it? Come on. Have you seen that one? Which one? Eli Samurai. Yeah, of course. What do you think about it?
00:15:57
Speaker
It was cool. It's definitely a bit adult, I would say, at the outset. Netflix has honestly been kind of hidden with its shows, because the series that I was going to mention that's kind of creeped up into my list is Castlevania.
00:16:18
Speaker
But Blue Eyed Samurai was honestly like, I enjoyed the fight scenes way more than I thought I would. And it was crazy listening to the Samurai story and how they got there without spoiling anything. Well, actually, everybody knows it's a woman, right? Yeah. So how she got there without like,
00:16:37
Speaker
It's just it's a bit of a drama but like you care a lot about how you end up caring a lot about like what she's gone through To get where she is and how like I mean, yeah, she's the one that I gave it was it was terrible for women during that time especially like not having the ability to do a lot of things that you want to do and clearly this this one was drawn to the sword but Couldn't and had to you know, pretend to be a man like that's shitty
00:17:02
Speaker
Yeah, it was just it was just really good. And like, I kind of like seeing some adult stuff from time to time. I'm like, OK, you know what? We ground. I mean, adult stuff might even be an understatement. There was a lot of that was probably the most adult animation I've ever seen. I don't think I've ever seen animated parts of people before in that way. So it was interesting.
00:17:27
Speaker
Yeah, HBO After Dark level animation for those of y'all wondering for sure. Yes. Like when you fall asleep and wake up in a TV store, that's what they was doing. Yep. Yep. Yep. A little bit like shocking. I was like, what? Yeah. When I saw the first episode, I actually rewound a scene. I'm like, did I actually see what I thought I saw? Oh, yep. That was that. That's what that was. All right.
00:17:51
Speaker
Appreciate this comment. Do not watch in the office It is not safe for work, you know not safe for work or anywhere public just don't watch it in public Just don't yeah, but um in terms of shows that have crept into my list though Castlevania for sure like I didn't know what to expect from though the first season was amazing like Trevor Belmont was the goat and
00:18:17
Speaker
And then kind of seeing where they were going to go with the second season and how they switched up the storyline. I didn't know what to expect. And to be honest, he seemed like kind of a bitch in the beginning. But I like him. He's throwing me a lot. He's all right. He's all right. It could have been worse. I like where they were going with the character. And I really like what they did with the show.
00:18:42
Speaker
So I was really hesitant to put Castlevania on my list, because it was only one good season. And I was going to get that effect that I had with MHA, where I was swearing by it in season one, and then in season two, and three, I'm like,
My Hero Academia: Complex Heroism
00:18:57
Speaker
eh. Promise Netherland was that for me. Ugh. Oh, I expected more. And then I just kind of, I'm not going to say I fell out of love with it, but I don't give it the level of attention I once did.
00:19:12
Speaker
She's not the same like I'll read stuff and I like look at it if it comes across my TikTok But I'm not like itching to watch the show and It's kind of crazy because that's probably one that's creeped into my top ten My hero, absolutely Wow You have to you have to explain yourself very easy after last season when they are the way they unfolded everything and
00:19:38
Speaker
I'm about to hit spoiler head. Well, not really. I'm just gonna mention two things that I thought was pretty well, or three things. One, they have the heroes, it kind of added like this, I don't want to say realism, but it went against traditional notions to see a character like Hawks who is regarded as a hero, kill in cold blood. Like he had to kill in cold blood. And that makes you go like, all right, cool. Now they're standing on business. Like this is
00:20:05
Speaker
Do or die, I can't just be out here for show. Because I'm a hero, I can't do these dirty things. Now you're like, all right. They were saying that all the heroes were doing crazy things on the low. How much of it's true? Because now we just watched you kill somebody that you didn't actually have to kill. That's one.
00:20:22
Speaker
He didn't actually have to kill double. He did not have to kill. He did have to kill twice. Are you serious? No, he did not have to. There was no way. He could multiply himself indefinitely. He could do that for the previous four seasons. And we never had a problem with him before. Because he didn't understand. He didn't awaken his conquerors hockey yet. He came back with a vengeance, bro.
00:20:48
Speaker
He had to go. He had to go. They found the original. Like, if you, they found the original twice, he had to die. Because otherwise, he was just going to indefinitely cone himself. Like, what is it? One Punch Man. Like, Black Sperm or Gold Sperm, whatever. Oh, what? I'm sorry. Yeah, it's probably a hell of a name to just drop on you like that. There's a character in One Punch Man. Not you dropping sperm.
00:21:16
Speaker
I mean... You don't just drop black sperm in a couple of minutes. Also apparently not for work.
00:21:32
Speaker
I mean, One Punch is for work, just not the names. You can't let them read the screen. They can see the picture. The scroll really, really fast. Oh, no. Yeah, no. There's the character called Black Sperm, and he eventually turns into Golden Sperm. You mean he develops into Golden Sperm? Black Sperm clearly wasn't enough.
00:22:12
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. Blame the writers. I'm just here. Well, since we're on the topic of sperm.
00:22:21
Speaker
It's not in my top 10, but one of the one of the anime that I really enjoyed and I surprised that I enjoyed it so much Which job was reincarnation and I've never been so happy to for another person to get an erection not once This has to be marked explicit
00:22:45
Speaker
If we're staying on the subject of sperm, didn't, again, spoiler, definitely spoiler warning for the manga for MHA, but didn't our main MC, the, what is it, all for one for all, turn into some sperm at the end of that one too?
00:23:02
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, are they not for that? Yeah. Yeah, that. We'll just leave that. Well, we could talk about that later, but. Gosh. Or counteroffer. We could just not talk about sperm no more. OK. I mean, we can be sperm free. We can be sperm free. I like that. Like my girl from Blue Eye Samurai, because her husband betrayed her. Oh my goodness. Oh my gosh. OK.
00:23:32
Speaker
Okay, back, back to business guys. But yeah, I actually not in all seriousness, I really did enjoy jobless reincarnation. And it wasn't something that I thought I was going to enjoy because it's super slow paced. And, you know, it's more of like a fighting or like a really good story. And I actually thought the story was done really well. I wish I think it could have been a little bit faster. But like towards the end, like they had like a bunch of like classes, like when he's in university, I was just like, all right,
00:23:57
Speaker
We don't need all of this, but I understand them setting the stage for like why him and Fitz like end up together. So, oops, spoiler. Could end up together. We need to put a spoiler warning at the beginning of this episode that's just like, Hey, we're going to drop a lot of spoilers for our favorite shows. So yeah, be prepared. Be prepared. In this spoiler warning, we should include a part that's like,
00:24:23
Speaker
Y'all should hurry up and watch. It's been out for a year. Hurry up and buy. Hurry up and buy, oh man. Oh, another one that I really liked last year, but I'm not sure. I think they finished it, but XAM! 100, I really liked that one, but they had like a whole bunch of production issues. And apparently that's something that's happened across all of Japan when it comes to these studios because of the way they treat their workers. So that is nothing to make fun of, but it was a great series until they stopped.
00:24:53
Speaker
Did you watch Zom 100, Kwon? I haven't seen it yet. It's on my list. Okay, so Alex, did you see Zom 100? I have not. Okay, you can watch it. It's really fun. It's like happy go lucky. So I think you'll like it. It's like kind of the same elk of like mash in that like make you feel good type vibe even though they're in a zombie apocalypse. But something I really appreciate is like the main character gets elated that the zombie apocalypse happens because he can quit work.
00:25:20
Speaker
And I was like, wow, I can relate. Like, he literally just makes a list of like, like the whole show, like the 100 is him doing 100 things that he has to do before he turns into a zombie. Okay. It's pretty cool. So highly recommend and the visuals are pretty stunning. It's kind of confusing because when you watch it, you're like, is this guy super powered or not?
00:25:44
Speaker
And you find out he's not a super power. That's not a spoiler. That's not a spoiler. But based off how the colors look in the animation, like you'll see things like he's pushing a door closed where a bunch of zombies trying to break in. And all of a sudden he starts flashing like red, green, and yellow. You're like, oh, is he about to power up? And it's no, it's just the blood of the zombies is very colorful. Yeah. Okay, what about you Alex? Back to you.
00:26:12
Speaker
Well, I think it's time for us to bust out the S tier, uh, anime from last year. Cause there's a whole lot of them and there's a whole lot of nice, uh, great scenes. Obviously JJK we've been wanting to, we've been itching to talk about that one. Um, I think I'm going to delay it a tiny bit more and throw out another juggernaut from last year, which was attack on Titan. Uh, that final season, that final episode. Yeah. That, that was definitely.
00:26:39
Speaker
so interesting. So what I thought was interesting the most about that one is when the manga first dropped and the ending of the manga happened, so many people were so upset, very disappointed by how the ending happened and what happened in it and just did not appreciate the characterization of the main character.
00:26:58
Speaker
And then anybody, yeah, there's just a lot of discourse around that. And I think at least from my understanding is that the reception of the anime ending was so much better because they made these small little tweaks to the ending or like some scenes or some dialogue that played out that really enhanced the ending. And so I actually was one of those people that kind of didn't really like the ending at first and then was
00:27:22
Speaker
very much so appreciative of the ending. For me, I'll just say Attack on Titan isn't exactly my favorite one either. That's not really my flavor of preference or my favorite anime in the world or anything. But I really appreciated what the mangaka did at the end and really thought it was very poetic and beautiful in the animation style. I don't know, I was really taken by that. So I have to put that for me in top moments from last year.
00:27:52
Speaker
I'm wondering what you guys think about the ending. Aaron's a bitch. Fuck Aaron. But, but I enjoyed the ending and I thought it was good. And I was actually like reluctantly watching it and I was like, I gotta finish this because this is actually done so beautifully. Like, I don't know. I enjoyed the way it ended. Probably the thing that I think I might've mentioned this to you before Alex too. The thing I probably appreciate it the most was
00:28:22
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when he's talking to Armin and he finally admits his feelings for Mikasa. And finally, like.
00:28:29
Speaker
All right, cool. You're actually a rational person. That was the only rational thing about anything that happened in the end. I thought they made him a lot more rational in the small difference that they added to the anime. So for those that, again, we're definitely deep in spoiler tears. But the show's over. So come on, y'all. Go watch it. What are y'all doing? But in the anime,
00:28:52
Speaker
Or I'll just say in the manga, actually, at the very end of the show, when Aaron was explaining the rumbling to Armin, he was explaining that basically the rumbling was only going to be for like, it was only going to create peace for like 80 years. And so it was going to get them through their lifespan, they were going to live their happy lives, and then the peace was going in. But in the
00:29:15
Speaker
in the anime they if you kind of stayed through the credits that last scene you saw that the piece lasted not just through their lifetime but you saw like civilization rise and fall and even go into the advanced future and then kind of then the war began again and like the the place collapsed. It made Eren's decision to kill 80% of the globe or whatever make so much more that it made the cost not feel
00:29:42
Speaker
It made the cost and effect balance a little bit more reasonable because if you did all that, you killed all these people for just a few of your friends to live through their life. I mean, their kids are going to be killed. It made him seem like, I remember reading the anime and thinking, or the manga and thinking like, this is so stupid because
00:30:00
Speaker
I mean, you're literally dooming there. You love these people and this is why you're doing it, but you're like dooming their everything. You're doing their future in a lot of ways. And so it made a little bit more sense to me that the stakes that he did this for were a little bit more global than was in the manga. So I appreciated that small change. And I think that they did some tweaks to the dialogue between him and Armin that made Aaron seem more relatable.
00:30:29
Speaker
But people were still pissed about him basically saying that he would want her to pine over, what makasa to pine over him from till the end of time, basically. Yeah, I thought I but you know, to be honest, that made him more human to me, too. So I don't I don't I don't come from that camp of thought that a lot of people did not like that either. So what did you think about it? Come on.
00:31:03
Speaker
I'm trying to think about how I feel. It was the neck scratch. Yeah. I don't know. I definitely appreciate the tweak between the manga and the anime. I 100% agree with you there. I wasn't much of a stickler about the dialogue. Honestly, I finished Attack on Titan because I'd already invested so much into watching it. That was one of those anime that kind of fell from my list. It was cool.
00:31:32
Speaker
Um, but just like, I don't feel the same way about it that I did before. And so like, I just kind of watched it out of like obligation to finish after a while. So like, I'm going to say, I just say that like, yeah, I enjoyed it, but like I was also slightly indifferent. So like, I didn't like the dialogue between, um, um, Armin and Mikasa, I didn't, I didn't like key in on that as much as, as, as, as you do. But, um, yeah, that's fair.
00:32:00
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Yeah, it definitely wouldn't be in my top 10 either. Because like I said, it's never really been a top tenner for me. It was just the last couple episodes for me were a highlight of 2023. So I have to give that. And also you're talking about Aaron being a bitch.
00:32:20
Speaker
But you like the main character from MHA? What? You like Deku? Deku has a monster, y'all. Whoa, whoa, whoa. He has growth.
00:32:32
Speaker
Where? What you mean? Deku started off standing on business with Deku in the management department. He fought all of one egg solo and the only reason he lost was because he was exhausted. Yeah, that was dope. That was the only redeeming part of his character was when they sucked his character out.
00:32:53
Speaker
There's, I don't, I'm not, I'm not a Deku stan. Listen, Deku is bland. I'm not a Deku stan. That's a lie. I am a Deku stan. Deku is so bland. He is unseasoned. He has no flavor. There's nothing in him that's just not like just pure, pure goodness, but it's not even as well done as like Tanjiro. He's not even as good as Tanjiro. Like Tanjiro like that though. Exactly. And Tanjiro stands out above Deku.
00:33:18
Speaker
I disagree. I think Deku is better than Tanjiro. Only Rogue Deku is worth anything. Rogue Deku is the only Deku version that I can rock with. And there's no version that I can rock with. What? What? OK, look, I don't love Eren either, but Eren stands above Deku for me. I could watch Eren before I could stand. That's insane. That is insane. First of all, the highlight of the whole finale of Attack on Titan had nothing to do with Eren.
One Piece: Animation and Action
00:33:45
Speaker
He wasn't even in his own finale.
00:33:47
Speaker
it was all about it was all about Levi killing that oh yeah that was great that was that moment was that was an S tier moment he said on site on site and then now he in the wheelchair but he hey he saw that man on site
00:34:03
Speaker
Oh man, I do not get people who like Deku. I just cannot stand Deku. I do not like anything about Deku. I don't like his design. I don't like his voice in Japanese or English. I don't like any of his dialogue. I just don't mess with Deku. I don't get how people like Deku. Why do people like Deku?
00:34:21
Speaker
I love you. Design is trash. I'll give you that. Like his design, when he is a sane person, is trash. Yes, exactly. The only deco that's worth me, like that's interesting in any way for me is the deco where he is. I'm a mess. All right. Let me play that. He's a menace. Advocate though. The only reason that you appreciate rogue deco is because bitch ass deco exists.
00:34:48
Speaker
I don't think he's, I don't think he's a bitch, but I want to, I want to have this conversation where I want to see, I want to see how Alex feel about that. Uh-uh. Deku is my Deku is my say a man. Okay. Oh man. I can't even.
00:35:08
Speaker
Deku is my say-a-man. There's nothing about, like Deku, Deku went from, I mean, he was always, he went from like bad already to worse. But then like there were some parts that I was cool with and then like he just, he say-a-man, like he just, he became say-a-man for me. I just, I can't with him. Yeah, I just, I can't. I can't. That's a strong statement. But I genuinely still don't get how y'all think that he's not a bitch. Like I don't get it.
00:35:38
Speaker
I mean, in what way is he not? Like, he sacrificed his life to save a kid that he don't even know.
00:35:45
Speaker
Yeah, you sound like you're talking about, like, Yusuke Urameshi, like... Who is the GOAT protagonist of all anime? So, yes, that's high company to have. Who also has green and black hair? You are right on... Oh, man. But let's be real, like, Urameshi would run circles around Deku. Okay, Deku technically, in the scaling of the show, Deku is stronger, I think, than Urameshi, but like...
00:36:14
Speaker
I see what you're doing here and you're trying to tear me against that coot and it's not gonna work. It's not gonna work, but you can't be out here with this blasphemy. It's a wild take. Listen, it's not even wild, it's facts. Demon king? A demon king? What? That's insane. What? I don't know. Oh, gosh. I don't know. The chicken's overcooked.
00:36:44
Speaker
I'm pissed. I got that. I got a mixture of the rice cook on the bottom. Hey, look, you know who will cook it? Yusuke Deku. Not bitch ass Aaron. You got no skills. He could just turn into a Titan and he'd be nice and toasty for me to roast. Oh, I don't want that steam. Oh, man, that's crazy. I will say, though,
00:37:11
Speaker
based off, even though it's talking about a show that ended, there's also one that seemingly will never end, even though they say it might. One Piece, One Piece went off last year. It went off. It was insane. Oh, and also since the last time we've met with the guys, Alex has caught up on One Piece. Class for Alex, get it up on One Piece. Yes, yes. I think I definitely deserve an award for that because it took 150-ish episodes for me to give a damn.
00:37:39
Speaker
But after I did, I was absolutely hooked. It was insane. And also, let's be real, the animation gets a huge buff like midway through and then it continues to get better and better and that helped me.
00:37:56
Speaker
Really lock in because I really struggled at the front end of it, not just because of the animation, though that wasn't the only reason because it's not the only reason you should watch a show. It's just purely for the animation. But like the plot points don't really hit like they accumulate over time. Then they then they just keep slapping and they slap and slap and slap on really until the end. So, yeah, it's.
00:38:20
Speaker
last year was insane gear five so good but for me for me actually even better than gear five was like before he would hit year five fighting with kaido those scenes were insane and anything involving zoro like anything anything was any scene
00:38:41
Speaker
Really, any scene with Zorro was S tier. Like even, even the new egghead arc, when he just said, when they were, um, again, if you haven't seen it, and it's not really a spoiler cause it's not really, it's a nothing burger, but like when Zorro is, they're on the, they're on the, um, they're on the sunny and there's this like orb of water or something and they're like, what are we going to do? It's a weather event. That's crazy. What's happening? And he's like, Zorro just walks up. I mean, I can just cut it. Like, how do you cut weather? But then he did.
00:39:11
Speaker
But then he did. What? That was crazy. Real quick, real quick. Just want to rewind to something you said. Did you say nothing, Burger? Yes, I'm nothing, Burger. I've never heard that before. That's going up here. I need different things.
00:39:31
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I can't call it a spoiler. It's not even qualified. It's just like you cut weather. Okay, like that's a nothing burger. I mean, in the same episode, though, maybe it's the one after that. Oh, we spoil and shit. I don't care. The one after that when he's like threatening
00:39:47
Speaker
Not Dr. Vega Point? And she's genuinely afraid. It's crazy to see the progress that these characters have made in watching their skill levels actually go. So honestly, anytime they improve, I look back to where they started. I'm like, damn.
00:40:06
Speaker
It's just crazy. And I am still only anime only. So I don't have any manga spoilers on one piece because that would be too much to handle for me. But in thinking about that, I just want to say I really hope that our boy Usopp gets any kind of help in the next, like some kind of buff, some kind of something. He needs something going for him because my man Usopp's been forgotten in the last couple of arcs. And I don't even, he has had nothing to do for a little bit.
00:40:35
Speaker
And the only thing that they kind of developed on, I think the last time he had any development was Dressrosa when he awakened his observation hockey so he can snipe better. And then after that, we just see him using it to like, I don't know, see a shark in the distance. So that's cool. Hey, let's not forget when he was in Kaido's castle, he was running, carrying full people
00:40:59
Speaker
under both arms. He did get a little stronger. We saw that that was, but that was time skip. That's been since time skip. That's a long time ago. That was very long ago. We need some USOP development. We need some USOP love over here. Oh, and I will say they definitely in Egghead, they're doing my dude wrong and dirty because he is too light.
00:41:23
Speaker
I don't know why they haven't shaded the same color as all the other characters on the cast. But for Egghead, they haven't shaded the same complexion. We don't know he ain't black. I don't understand why they have him that color. But that's my only complaint about the animation, because otherwise, it's absolutely stunning and beautiful. But yeah, they need to give my man Usopp some melanin. What's going on? Big tweaking.
00:41:47
Speaker
Yeah, I agree with Alex. Usopp does need a glow up. But I feel like when it happens, though, it's going to be something crazy. Because he's been, in my opinion, the same man of the series since it started. I mean, keep it a book. Because it's niggas with superpowers. And you got a slingshot?
00:42:06
Speaker
It was David and Goliath in the first season when they was in All-Along Park. We are way past slingshot territory, big fella. We have the stars and you got that slingshot. Yeah, but he has plants in his slingshot. Oh, plants.
00:42:29
Speaker
The plants. You think he got time for them plants to grow when he fight the nigga like Shanks? Like, nah. He outed it. He outed it. I didn't like him. God Usopp could take Shanks. I don't know what you're talking about. God Usopp could take Shanks. God Usopp made me, but regular Usopp is tripping. We need the Sniper King back, like A$AP. And the theme song.
00:42:56
Speaker
Speaking of theme songs, this is a slight deviation, but can we appreciate the match season two opening? Oh, yes. Because like, yes. I need to go watch it. I thought you were going to go somewhere else with the theme song. No, it's just like a Jersey club mix type of vibe feel. I don't know what to call it, but like,
00:43:19
Speaker
I find myself dancing every time.
MASH Opening Theme Appreciation
00:43:21
Speaker
Like most of the time after the first like one or two episodes of an anime show, I start skipping the opening because like, who wants to keep hearing this shit? This isn't a musical. And I've been watching them television and be like, Skip? But yeah, so like,
00:43:41
Speaker
I forgot where I was going, kind of, honestly. You talk about dancing for mashers. Oh, yeah. Like, the masher opening is just dope. It's like very fast paced and, like, upbeat. And it just kind of makes you, like, happy and a little loose. And that's the vibe of the show. It's happy and loose. But nothing, nothing. I was going to go with thousand year blow arc.
00:44:06
Speaker
Yeah, Thousand Year Bloodwear. But before we move into that, I was just gonna say nothing to me. No theme song will ever slap as hard as a J.J.K. Season 1 closing. That closer song, that theme was insane. I think it's called Lost in Paradise. I could put that on my playlist today and just rock it. I love Lost in Paradise. Was that the...
00:44:28
Speaker
I was moving on the subway, right? Like they're on a train. Oh, the train one is the intro. I don't know what that one's called. I'm talking about the outro with the outro of season one, J.J.K. I need to go back and listen. Lost in paradise. I mean, if we're since we're talking about theme songs, but no, I was saying before, I thought you were going to mention that was a year blood war arc for like having the outro. The outro said it's like every time I hear it, I'm just like hype.
00:44:56
Speaker
And I'm like, damn, there's nothing left for me to watch, because it's done. But of course, greatest intro or outro of all time is Smile Bomb to Yu Yu Hakusho. Oh my gosh. Easily. Yeah. I don't even have words for that. We're just going to let the. You don't have words. They will sing it for you.
00:45:22
Speaker
Uh, let's see. You guys have any other anime from last year you want to give a shout out to before we talk about what we're excited for this year? I mean, we've kind of mentioned it inadvertently, like several times, but JJK. Oh gosh. Yeah. I mean, like I definitely talked about it when I was talking about trauma. This is the game of thrones of anime.
Jujutsu Kaisen: Toji's Fighting Skills
00:45:43
Speaker
Like my feelings be hurt. Um, yeah, definitely. Uh, it's a bit of a ride.
00:45:50
Speaker
What do we even discuss first about JJ Kidd? Where do we start? To me, there's Toji. That's where we start. Got to start with Toji. That's right. Okay. You're going deep into trauma. Toji, even as a dead man though, he
00:46:14
Speaker
Toji's respectable. I don't know. He's like a respectable scoundrel, I guess you could call it. He gave his son up, but at the end of the day, he was still trying to be a good father. Far better father than, say, I don't know, Goku. But anyway. I mean, the bar for that is very low. Yeah. The bar for fatherhood, it should not be measured in units of Goku. Hey, easy on my man Goku. He gave his life for the world.
00:46:44
Speaker
He should've stayed gone. But no, that's not why we should start with toji is a snack. Okay, that's just first. First of all, toji is a snack. I thought we stopped the seeming conversation. No, listen, listen.
00:46:58
Speaker
Listen, Toji, any scene with Toji was a feast for the eyes for multiple reasons. The fight scenes were also insane. But my guy, I mean, he looked absolutely rippled in like a giant ass hoodie. Like, I mean, insane. But no, I love Toji, not just because of that, because I just think his design is cool. So that, of course, is going to
00:47:25
Speaker
that's gonna get my attention. But when he was fighting with, is it Magumi? Is that his character? Is that his sunset yet? When he was fighting with Magumi and he was, the rabbits, the rabbits were coming after him and he was like shooting, like he knocked the floor down and a bunch of debris flew in the air and he flicked all the little bits of debris. And they moved at the velocity of freaking bullets to knock out the damn rabbits.
00:47:52
Speaker
I was blown away. That was nuts. And to think that he's doing all this and he doesn't even have spiritual energy or whatever they call it in the show was a demon pressure. None of those shows. None of those things. He doesn't have any of that.
00:48:09
Speaker
that had that was nuts. That was nuts. So yeah, toji for any scene with toji in it with him fighting with him, just absolutely like delivering Smackdowns toji was just toji toji just toji. Toshi deserves a shout out. How about you? Who you want to who you? Where do you want to go with it?
00:48:31
Speaker
Well, just to piggyback off of what Alex said real quick, Toji is definitely a goat for sure. And like Alex mentioned, I like seeing how people use their powers in unconventional ways. Kind of one of the reasons that we like Undead from Undead and Mook. And so like Alex mentioned, watching Toji stomp the ground and just start literally plucking rocks at rabbits and not missing a single one of them. Not missing. He didn't miss.
00:48:59
Speaker
like, oh, that like the like just the precision accuracy is crazy. And then I love the scenes where he like flashes from one enemy to the next, like after they die, like after he killed Dagon, and then he was looking at the rest of the sorcerers, and then you blink.
00:49:16
Speaker
And he's literally dragging Megumi out the window. Like, yeah, I love that. Like we talked about the characters that stood on the, he didn't take a second. I love it. I love it. You know, what's beautiful about that is the animation is so, that was so fluid that you could tell that that's what happened. Like there's so much motion.
00:49:35
Speaker
and speed in the way that they drew it. And yet these guys are completely overworked and didn't even have time and were animating apparently all the way up to the last minute when the show was released in Japan. I think that's nuts that they should they should it should be criminal what they did to them. But the work that they were able to put out despite those conditions. Unbelievable. So shout out to the animators, not the studio, because, you know, the studio, but the animators, the animators really snapped on anything, anything.
00:50:03
Speaker
With that. I was preaching the day. I'm in the congregation. I feel you. But the church said, hey, mate. Kiss the spirit. Kiss the cursed energy wave. Blend all the shows together. A spirit bomb, curse, energy, whatever. Just throw it together. Throw it together.
00:50:28
Speaker
But another reason that JJK is worth mentioning is because, obviously, there's like an anime walk hall of fame. And of course, they welcomed two participants into the running, Sugaru Ghetto and Godo Satoru. They had two of the most, I think, viral anime walks that I've ever seen. What was it, Ghetto with the hunchback?
00:50:52
Speaker
And then Gojo with the, I don't know what the hell you call it, like the fade away walk. This nigga is like, damn there. I don't know. He's damn there 90 degrees backwards. I don't know what to call it, but he's obviously enjoying himself. Yeah, so the anime walks definitely have to be mentioned.
00:51:11
Speaker
And what else? What else? What else? What else? Just honestly excited about what's to come. Because this is still the part of the show where the glow ups haven't necessarily happened yet. They're starting. They're making progress. But I'm really kind of at the edge of my seat waiting for the glow ups to happen. Because what season did we just finish? We just finished the Shibuya arc. And the Coloring Games is about to start.
00:51:37
Speaker
And so just really looking forward to seeing everybody kind of go off in different ways. Obviously we got Hakari and there's a whole petition to have him to have like a certain song that's gone viral as his like song in the anime. So I really hope that that happens. So just a lot to look forward to as well.
00:51:56
Speaker
For me, it's a shout out to you. That's my guy. He did his thing. Sakuna. It's a dog. It's a dog. And like, when you talk about complexity, it's like, you want to hate him so much. But then he's in it to do his body. So you want to root for him because he's like your main protagonist. And then he does shit like son.
00:52:20
Speaker
Wasn't Jogo when Poetry poetry own element burn is fire Demon to a curse with fire how you burn fire and then see the man cry and go What's that? I don't know Here is my guy that's insane. Yeah, that was his way of offering respect Even though he's like the worst being of all time. I thought that was pretty dope. Yeah, of course is
00:52:50
Speaker
Oh man, also, of course, spoilers. I forgot to say spoilers. Oh, his, his, uh, what's it called? His domain expansion being called. Like what? And it's just him just destroying everything. But to your point earlier, to both of your points earlier about also having precision, like he used malevolent malevolent shrine, but still protected Megumi inside of it. Mm-hmm.
00:53:14
Speaker
Like, what? And he just destroyed all of, like, Shibuya. Chopped it up into, like, bits. Like, I mean, I've never seen that before. Like, literally just decimated everything. Not even with, like, bombs, but just with micro blade cuts. Like, he literally diced everything. He was slicing and dicing. And then the thing that was the most fucked up, but, like, also made it even more impactful, was then he swaps out. Now, it's a story. Looking at all of this, like, I did this. This man is dragging his beard fingers on the ground.
00:53:43
Speaker
You know how painful it is? You are my special. Right. And then they cut to that. Oh, my gosh. A more powerful cut to me from that whole series, or from that whole season, besides that one, was when Itadori was walking towards Mahito after he just waxed his ass with the Black Flash. And he's like, I'm going to find you and kill you. And then you come back and I'm going to kill you again. And then to get to saving him,
00:54:12
Speaker
And then they go to the, you are my special. No, they need to kill him. I really wanted, but I'm, I'm, Mahito deserved that. He deserved the smackdown he got at the end. Like he deserved to go out like that. I didn't expect him to go out like that. I thought he'd go out a little bit more. They gave Jogo a better out than, uh, than Mahito, but, but yeah. Like figuring out the black flash, like willing it into existence. I thought that was pretty epic, but I also appreciate that they did that because
00:54:42
Speaker
I was like, this man, Itadori just does not belong with these people fighting. Like he, he should not have like fighting and like figuring out how to fight Mahito off rip was like impactful. But then you really saw the difference between him being like a special, like a grade one versus like Itadori who took forever to figure out how to fight this man. And he really wasn't hurting him because Mahito was just like, I have so much soul left. And in Toto comes, he's like, fuck, I have less soul left because Toto figured out like how to get him or even, uh,
00:55:11
Speaker
Workout, I keep forgetting her name. Shorty with the nails. When she realized her resonance, I don't think she realized it, but when Mahito realized the resonance ate away a bunch of his soul, and then she could actually kill him and ran away. Yeah, I didn't expect him to do that either, but that made sense. It was probably one of the most rational decisions you could have made in the show. But yeah, I really liked, I really, I mean, obviously, Sakuna's that guy. But Sakuna gives the same energy as Dofi, so I mean,
00:55:41
Speaker
They have the same, they have that same thing going for them. I love Dofi. I love Dofi. Second to only Kaido to me. I love Dofolingo. I think Suken is more likable than Dofomingo, honestly. What?
00:55:55
Speaker
I agree. I agree, actually. I like Sukuna more than Doflamingo. I like Sukuna more than Doflamingo, but I don't think he's more like who. I just like Sukuna because he's like a menace. It's the smirk. It's the smirk. That's why you like him. Everybody likes him in this. As long as he's not menacing you.
00:56:12
Speaker
Like, when he said, like, I kid you not, like, this is not a joke. I'm not like trying to be funny. When they were all out in the street, and he said, don't move. I was watching it and I was like, yeah, he's like, okay, enough.
00:56:30
Speaker
Like big gas and they all like jut away. Yeah, it was crazy. But also, go ahead. Oh, no. All I was going to say is his Japanese voice actor does it for me way more. I try to watch it in English just to hear it. But yeah, the Sakuna in Japanese, when he said don't move, I literally did freeze to like really more like my heart sticks. I was like, oh, oh, OK. OK. I'm going to listen. I'm listening to one of the best scenes of last season because you didn't expect him to come like literally mid fight with Jogo to just run over there and torment them.
00:56:58
Speaker
real quick. Like, right? That was, that was, that was, that was prime-suking it. Like, oh my goodness. Love that music. Oh man. And shout out my man, Toto. I like Toto. He ain't going to get a lot of love because he wants to arm, but shout out that guy. Yeah. The fake out really had me. That was, that was nuts. His fake out was good. I didn't know it was a fake out. Alex explained to me that it was a fake out. I was so confused. I was like, did he switch that arm blade with like the pipe? And then she was like, no, it's a fake out, bro.
00:57:28
Speaker
I was also faked out. Oh man. Oh man. Now I will say that there was another anime that came out last year that I would not put on my favorite scenes, but it definitely was one that I thought would go was Vinland Saga.
00:57:45
Speaker
I was not, you know, how can I feel about them? I didn't see, I need, I need answers because I, I was not rocking with it. Like I did not. I think that if they, if they keep going, I think I'll probably can like it when they keep going. But that was when I was quite literally dragging my feet through the way that you felt about getting through attack on Titan. I was, I was having, I was fighting myself. Like I would go several weeks knowing it was out and be like, yeah, I'll pass. Like I could not rock with it.
00:58:15
Speaker
Yeah, in terms of like anime from, I think Emerson asked earlier, like anime that from last year that kind of like changed on our list or not, Vinland Saga definitely dropped for me. Yes. Yeah, like I got in, I came into a bloodbath and I left in a Bible study. Like I was not anticipating this. Like this is not how, one of these things is not like the other.
00:58:42
Speaker
I left out my Bible study, but it's accurate. That's the crazy part. That's facts.
Vinland Saga: From Action to Introspection
00:58:48
Speaker
And this dude has changed his life now. I was like, you haven't killed a person in 16 hours of footage, sir. I need this to hurry up. I'm serious. I don't know. I'm conflicted. It's nice seeing his growth, but his personal growth isn't entertaining.
00:59:10
Speaker
Like they, and if, if you want to watch a character developed and season two of them is for you, but you trying to see a nigga cut some shit like season one was, then maybe skip that shit. That's all I'm saying.
00:59:28
Speaker
That's fair. No, that's real. I mean, because I think there were only like two scenes that I thought or two episodes where I was just like, all right, this might be worth it. Because I like both of you. I was kind of like just dragging my feet through it. Like when he fought with Snake, and then I was like, Oh, he might.
00:59:43
Speaker
Be like, he assumed the blade stance, but barehanded. I was like, ah, shit. And then when he took the hundred punches, I was like, Oh, I'm curious to see like if he's going to retaliate. And I think a lot, a large portion of me was like watching mostly because I'm like, he cannot keep this up the whole season. He's going to snap. He's going to have to fight and kill somebody. Please let it be now, which is crazy. And I'm being scared to kill somebody. But I was like, you got to do something. And he never did it. And like, kudos to him. It is.
01:00:10
Speaker
Vinland Saga was interesting to see how the prince has become so dark and basically become his father. That part was interesting, but you didn't even get to see enough of him in action, to be honest with you. If they were going to
01:00:29
Speaker
like have, damn, I'm drawing a blank on his name, but if they were gonna have the main character be so, you know, like if this was gonna be his character development arc, at least offer us more in the way of action via the prince who was clearly about that life now. He out here just poisoning niggas, his family, everybody, like, he got problems. And I would have liked to see more of that.
01:00:54
Speaker
Do you think Thor did you like bite on the thought that Thor Gill was gonna actually kill him when he was like in the sea and try to sneak up behind him? I think it was Thor Gill. Like whatever, whoever like when they were trying to sneak into water.
01:01:07
Speaker
Wasn't it, was it Thor killed the blonde? Was it Thor killed the blonde and Thor Finn is our main character and Thor is obviously the dad. But I thought it was the, I thought the guy was going to kill him was a different character. The big dude there was the son of the guy. Thor knew Gil. I thought he was going to get him. I thought he was going to get, I was hoping that he was going to get the prince. He had that dog in him. I'll tell you that much. Like buddy with his, if his brother, if his brother was worth a damn, he probably would have got him.
01:01:34
Speaker
Yeah, if he would have had some type of support, he would have murdered everybody on that beach. But you remember when he like first joined the fight scene? That was another scene that I remember like pretty like when he cut off the dude's fingers so he could grab the sword from him. That's nice. And then knock the sword and caught it. That was the crazy part. Yeah, buddy. That's he told you shit. That's okay. All right. Well, it's uh, let's all say.
01:02:03
Speaker
an anime that we are looking forward to this year, and then we're gonna wrap up the episode.
Blue Lock: Anticipating a New Season
01:02:12
Speaker
All right. Well, we didn't mention this because it was in last season, but I think it's going to have a season two going forward in this season, but I loved me some blue lock last season, so I am very much so looking forward to that one coming out. If it is coming out this year, I'm here for it. I really love that one. It was just entertaining. I just had a good time watching it. I would just sit there like,
01:02:39
Speaker
I was getting hyped with, I don't know, I love me a good sports anime and that qualifies. So I loved, I loved Blue Lock. You were jumping up and down, stretching, thinking about the game. Yes, it was fun. It was fun. I mean, that was just fun. To me, it was just pure adrenaline and just fun, you know? And, you know, the main character leaves a little bit to be desired, but I don't care because like the whole cast, just everybody in concert together, like it just works. The show really works for me.
01:03:04
Speaker
No, I agree. I agree. What about you, Kawan? I have two, but they're very similar. Please save my hero. Please save my hero season six. I mean, I'm going to watch it. Oh. Yeah, you heard it in the voice. I'm going to watch it. We'll see how I feel after I get a couple of episodes in, because there's a chance
01:03:27
Speaker
I may come back excited. We don't know yet. We don't know yet. But Sukemichi moonlit fantasy, I think is what it's called. Bro, I've been watching that. I'm watching that now. It's actually really good. So it reminds me of, I said I had two and it's two because Sukemichi's moonlit fantasy reminds me of reincarnated as a slime.
01:03:49
Speaker
Like it's a tie along the same vein, a little bit darker, but not honestly, not that much. Cause like also murders like 10,000 people. So a hundred thousand, maybe it was either way, like mass murder.
01:04:07
Speaker
Um, but, um, um, yeah. But they're, they're honestly really good, uh, Isekai and, uh, kind of, kind of lighthearted. Like, like one of those, I come to this other world and like, I find the group of marginalized people and make it better in this instance, they're monsters, but of course, you know, they talking about black people. Um,
01:04:31
Speaker
There are at least pair of limbs, okay. But yeah, I kind of like those Isekai. It's much more lighthearted for the most part. But yeah, I think, so Sugimichi's Moonlight Fantasy season two is out now. And then season three of reincarnated as a slime is supposed to come in all, I don't know, April? Yay, that's exciting news. So I'm looking forward to that.
01:05:01
Speaker
Okay, okay. Respect, respect. So you definitely stole mine because I was definitely gonna say reincarnated as a slime. I've been waiting to see what was gonna happen next after my man. What was the dragon dude's name that did the Kamehameha when he was fighting? Oh, Val Dora? Oh, yes. Val Dora when he was fighting, really? I was like, all right, you have my heart. This is my show. I didn't watch, I saw that they released last year, like three episodes that were just like OVAs, like
01:05:27
Speaker
I think I might watch those, but I might just also wait for the new season. All right, so since you guys took the ones that I like, I'll be blamed and say the last part of Bleach. I like a good finale. And I'm very interested in how they're going to do it, because it was clearly where they cut off. The way they did it was to leave a cliffhanger so you could figure out what's going to happen, because was this squad zero, or whatever they're called?
01:05:58
Speaker
upper tier squad, they were getting that ass beat. And you're just like, huh? And then they turn around. They turn things around. But then you know that the Quinties are about to turn things back around. And I want to know how it happens. And I also want to see Ichigo fight his boy. So I want to see how we get there. The boy with the hard name pronounced? That's how I say his name. Who do you?
01:06:21
Speaker
I was talking about you. Oh, yeah. Oh, I didn't say it. Thank you for saying it. I don't know. The flame is insane, bro. You got to walk up. No, you got to walk a flame is insane. Well, right now he has no name because he's fighting the leave of zero that apparently can wipe away people's names. So that man.
01:06:51
Speaker
Oh, yeah. I got a couple honorable mentions, actually, in terms of anime, too. Go ahead. So anime I'm looking forward to for this year. I think it started last year, but it's still ongoing. Shangri-La Frontier. Oh, man. I was talking about it. Dope. Stamped it. It's like that. And it's only getting better, obviously. Like it started off crazy, and it's only getting better.
01:07:16
Speaker
Um, and I feel like as a gamer, how do you feel? Like, do you, does that impact how much you like it because you are actual gamer?
Shangri-La Frontier: Gamer Culture Portrayal
01:07:25
Speaker
No, no. I mean, like if things make more sense to me because I'm a gamer, but like.
01:07:30
Speaker
You could be a gamer and only play like 2K and like watch this and be like, oh, that's cool. Like just like, you don't have to be a gamer to understand the concepts in the game. If you do, then it like makes more sense. Kind of like solo leveling. Like they got powers and shit at base level. So like you can, you can understand that this is a universe of super powered people without understanding that this is like a video game. So like you don't, you don't have to, but it adds depth, more depth to it.
01:07:58
Speaker
For sure. Yeah, I was thinking about how Sunrakul or whatever, however you say his name, like he missed the first city and then found out like there was so many things that he could have learned like the skill tree development or just like how to get maps and stuff. He just had no idea.
01:08:15
Speaker
Yeah, exactly because I play video games. I was like damn that would happen to me if I skip like Remember you remember back in the day when PlayStation 2 games used to have that instruction booklet in there? You used to read it on the way home from GameStop Yeah, I'm at a point now in my life whenever online games happen and you could download that shit straight to your Xbox without having to read nothing Do nothing and you just sit there you come back after you make dinner and it's done. Oh, yeah
01:08:42
Speaker
I guarantee 85% of gamers haven't read an instruction manual in years. Niggas only look up shit when they need something. When they trying to find a secret trap door or something, they're like, all right, let me Google this real quick. Don't read instructions. People don't do that no more.
01:09:00
Speaker
I'll add that I don't play games. I'm not as dexterous as the people who are really good at the games, but I love watching other people play games. And as someone who watches people play, I love that show. That show hits every beat for me. And I love
01:09:16
Speaker
What I think the most about Shangri-La is cool is that they do a good job using in gamer lingo. They don't always use the correct lingo in other shows, especially even when they're translated. You're like, that's not how anyone would say that. But they use language that someone who actually games would use, and you would have to game to actually know that people say those things.
01:09:39
Speaker
I liked it. I'm definitely enjoying it. And also his play style, you know, he wants to be underleveled and just have a good time. And he's just playing for fun. And he's just all about the skill rather than the just like getting completely OP. And I love it. Yes, because that is like the thing in most isekai's is just like they're they either start overpowered or they quickly become overpowered somehow. That is it is kind of nice to see somebody struggle, especially so early.
01:10:08
Speaker
In the game and it kind of leaves like they the way they set it up It leaves a lot it leaves you wanting a lot more like to see the wolf again I can't wait till that nigga pops up a second time like it's gotta be crazy So there's a lot of the lore connected to the moon in that show seems like yeah That's fair because they do they can only do the next tomb the next tomb guard the tomb guard They can only fight him when on like a full moon. So that's fair. There's a lot of moon
01:10:38
Speaker
and think about that. Oh man, that's dope. Do you have any other ones Alex?
01:10:44
Speaker
I mean, Kawan mentioned solo leveling. I am coming in as a complete noob on solo leveling. Don't know anything about it. First three episodes have been fantastic. I do not get how he's going to get way OP, but I imagine he's probably going to be the only person that can level up in that universe. I'm assuming that that's the only way that that makes any sense. So I'm curious how they get there. I feel like I get the premise. Apparently the show's very
01:11:10
Speaker
conceptually simple and the power system is pretty, you know, typical, I guess. I've just, you know, from what the tiny bit that I've heard, but it's very highly entertaining. So I'm looking forward to seeing how that one develops. I wonder if it'll be a sleeper for me like Hell's Paradise. I got one more that I think it just started airing this year. It's called the wrong way to use healing magic.
01:11:38
Speaker
Hmm. It's another Isekai, but the main character is a healing magician. And so like him and two of his friends get dropped into this other world and they have to save it from the demon king. Yada, yada, yada. Insert regular plot shit here. But I kind of like the character because he's the healer, but he uses his powers and inauguates. Hence the name of the show.
01:12:04
Speaker
He works out to ridiculous extents, but he keeps his healing magic on at all times. So as he works out and tears his muscles to pieces, they instantly heal. So one, it makes more sense about his potential to grow being so explosive. But two, it's kind of nice to see a healer who isn't a bitch.
01:12:26
Speaker
Like Buddy is the most muscle bound dude on the show now. And he started off as a weak producer. I'm not going to recommend it because I just started watching it. But it's at least something to take a peek at. I can't stand it yet.
01:12:45
Speaker
I'm going to add it. I'm going to add it to the list, bro. You haven't missed with a rec. Yeah, but this does not count as a recommendation yet. I just want to make that point, because I'm also like you haven't missed with Alex. I haven't missed with you. I recommend reincarnated Islam. You've been fucking with it. I recommend both. There was another one I recommended. I can't remember. You've been fucking with it.
Els Paradise: Humorous Discovery
01:13:06
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And so. Yeah, Els Paradise, you also were the person that got me onto that one. Oh, was it? Dang it. Yeah. But like, I haven't missed yet. So I don't want to miss this.
01:13:14
Speaker
If you miss, you become my saying man. Nah, I can't be more careful. That's a statement. I can't do that. I can't. Got to be more careful. I can't do that. Got to. That's what's up. Yeah. All right, man. Yeah.
Special Episode Announcement
01:13:28
Speaker
It's been great catching up. And then we have a special episode coming up soon. So it's lit. Absolutely. And I just want to end on a very high note and say that Midoriya is not a bitch.
01:13:44
Speaker
Thank you. It's been great. Oh my god.