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Jujutsu Kaisen S2 Ep8: The Shibuya Incident
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Lots of frame-working (we hope) being established for this highly anticipated story arc!
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Introduction to Episode 8 of Jujutsu Kaisen
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On another exciting episode of the Animation Delibation podcast, we are swarming into another episode of the season as we talk about Jujutsu Kaisen's Season 2 Episode 8, the Shibuya Incident. Right after these ads, we have no control over.
Hosts' Introductions and Spontaneous Style
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Sing along if you know the words. A one, two, three, it's time for animation deliberation. A conversation and a celebration of our favorite action animated series. Yeah. Yeah. Welcome back to another episode of animation deliberation, the podcast where we take action animation and cartoons seriously, but not too seriously. We're your hosts. I'm Zuhar Ali. And I am Andrew Rogers.
00:00:36
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And I never tell my co-host what I'm going to say at the beginning of these things. So their faces are very satisfying to see. How you doing? I'm doing great. I was honestly thinking that like, no one knows we don't plan those half the time. It's only when we need to come up with like a collective idea because we're short circuited. But when you jumped in hot this week, I was like, he's got something planned.
00:00:55
Speaker
don't know what it is. But he didn't ask. He didn't pause to be like, let me think of something. I knew you had it. No, but I was not prepared for that dad level of comedy. I had that one loaded from the middle of the episode. From the middle of the episode, like you didn't even wait to the end of the episode. It was just like through you're like, this is what I'm gonna do. And I was like, Oh, I know exactly how I'm starting this. Oh, my gosh, that's
00:01:21
Speaker
Yeah, we patch it together at various times. Dad joke counter, we're going to have to have like in the bottom corner of the videos going this week. Jeez, Louise. Speaking of counters, my terrible badad jokes aren't the only things that we're going to be
Project Announcement: Consistency in Timestamps
00:01:36
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tracking. You just shared with me a little page that we have here on our shared notion. Why don't you let the people know this little project that you're working on to keep all of us sane and in check, especially myself.
00:01:48
Speaker
I mean you really hyped it up to be more than it is. I decided this week to start writing down when those time stamps flash on the screen of like this is what time things are happening. I haven't had a chance to go back but I think if I remember correctly it was like just after
00:02:06
Speaker
eight o'clock was when Gojo entered the veil the first time. But I'm going to start keeping track of it so we can see every week, okay, are these things happening at the same time? Are they happening at different times one after the other? Like I said, I think it was sometime after eight o'clock was when Gojo first entered the veil. And then this week, we had 2103. And
00:02:27
Speaker
translating all of that is going to be the other thing that we need to remember to do for people. 903 is when Isadori entered the station, and then 914 was when he defeated the Locust, and 915 was when they then moved on to take on Mahito. I see Zuhair has his watch in 24 hour time. I also have my watch in 24 hour time, but that's why I'm just like, there's definitely people who are looking at that like, okay,
00:02:51
Speaker
I need to subtract the number and go from there because if you're not trained, it's weird to deal with those timestamps.
00:02:59
Speaker
So one of the people that I trained with his daughter's always watching class because her kids classes much earlier and after class always put on my watch and at one point she asked like why is why is that your numbers so I explained it to her and I taught her how to do the math because she's like eight so now it's like whenever I put my watch on I'm talking to somebody I see her just kind of like peek around the corner and look like is it this time I'm just like good job nice you knew more than most people now
00:03:30
Speaker
Yeah, it's, it's weird if you're not used to it. Yeah. But also I could not tell you off the top of my head whether 12am is midnight or noon. So it's definitely a better system. Yeah, definitely a much preferred one. All right.
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Acknowledgment of Sources
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All right, I guess we can knock out this synopsis because our friends at Wikipedia and Ready Steady Cut were prepared for us this week. Thank you for listening to the podcast, I'm assuming, and understanding how crucial your information is for us.
00:06:32
Speaker
Yeah, I just want to know like what were the people at Wikipedia doing last week that that's like the only week we've ever caught them slipping Is it just one guy that's always writing these articles and he was like out of town or something? You know what everyone deserves for vacation. That's the case. I'll forgive them for it. Just Good for you. You're fresh. You got it to us. We're ready to go this week Yeah, I was very surprised but without further ado Wikipedia.
Episode Summary: Gojo vs. Curses
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Thank you The Shibuya incident
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Gojo enters the subway, crowded with civilians, where he confronts the curses, Jogo, Hanami, and Choso. Meanwhile, Yuji accompanies Mei-Mei and her brother... Yu-Yu? Wiwi? Wiwi? I thought she was going French for a second, but now I'm seeing that she was actually saying it was his name. Oh my gosh, it was his name. Yeah, I was thinking it was also French earlier in the episode. Wow, that took way too long to figure out, but the more you know, ladies and gentlemen. I figured it out literally a millisecond before you did, so...
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So yes, Yuji accompanies Mei Mei and her brother, Wiwi, who proceed elsewhere above ground to deal with a newly discovered veil. They discover the appearance of transfigured humans causing Yuji to realize Mahito is here. He decides to deal with the powerful cursed spirit sense nearby, while Mei Mei and Wiwi take care of the transfigured humans.
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Yuji discovers a semi-intelligent grasshopper, cursed spirit, guarding a tool that controls the veil. Overpowering the curse with his raw strength and destroying the veil,
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Yuji, Mei-Mei, and Riwi reconvene below ground to discover Mahito, and most of the civilians are gone. Back at the subway, using advice from Geto, Jogo uses the civilians in an attempt to distract and crowd Gojo. He and Hanami execute a domain application, which allows them to deactivate a person's curse technique, forcing Gojo to jump out of the way.
00:08:24
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Gojo takes off his blindfold prepared to take the fight seriously, while Jogo remembers Gato's words to keep him busy for 20 minutes while he prepares the prison realm. How many people had to die before Gojo took that seriously? I don't know if it is so much. I don't know if it's so much that like they had to die for him to take it seriously, but more like
00:08:48
Speaker
he doesn't know what to do in this situation. Like the vibe that I got was he's standing there because he's just like, hmm, I can be defensive, but I'm assuming he does not, he like still doesn't seem like he has a plan for how to be offensive because yeah, Ghetto's plan here is just phenomenal. I was completely blown away by the explanation and the perfect detail that he knew his previous partner at. So I love that side, but I do agree.
00:09:17
Speaker
This, I mean, it wasn't really ever a kid's show, but we are in like horror adjacent show. Yeah. At this point, because there was definitely attack on Titan level of not pulling any collectors here. And I give anime studios a lot of credit for this because even the new bleach has been like this and a comparison how it was.
00:09:41
Speaker
where it's just like, okay, they're finally understanding that this isn't content for kids anymore, they're treating it that way. But like, for something with Gojo taking on these special grades, I think of his hand-to-hand combat sequence in Jujutsu Kaisen 0,
00:10:01
Speaker
with the chef, dude. So it's like you are capable of being fast and using hand in hand. Maybe it's just flinging them around that the damage would come in, but I don't know. I try not to overthink it, but I guess I just complimented them too much on the last two episodes that they just.
00:10:20
Speaker
kind of frustrated me a little bit again with this one. Like I feel like the stuff that didn't need, I'm really hoping that this is just foundational for what's to come. I'll leave it at that. Like make this episode worth it. Don't do what pissed me off with Bad Batch where you're giving me these filler episodes on a 10 episode series and not like having that add up to anything. So for those of you listening to a variety of our shows, I think I can just leave it at
00:10:48
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that. Don't make this useless because I didn't fully understand the purpose of this episode. I will echo your sentiments to some degree in the idea of currently I don't feel like I totally understand. However,
00:11:05
Speaker
I feel like they threw a lot of information at us. Like even that synopsis, which is shorter than a lot of other synopsis we have done, felt jam packed with just information that I feel like this was very much a, okay, we have to get a lot of the information stuff out of the way. We need to explain the map and like, okay, what are going on at these different levels? Where are the veils? What are the barriers? Who can get through
Episode Analysis: Information Delivery and Future Setup
00:11:28
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what? Like there was so much of that that I felt totally, I felt so overloaded. I didn't even take notes on that stuff.
00:11:35
Speaker
because I just could not keep track. I was trying so desperately to keep up and keep going. So I feel like I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt because it felt like information overload, which generally means, okay, we're getting the information out of the way. But I do think they have to make it up at some point. Because don't get me wrong, the fight with the locust curse was great. But that was about the only pure action that we got. Everything else felt very exposition. That was a Dragon Ball Z fight.
00:12:06
Speaker
That fight was weird. The perspective at a lot of points was all over the place. It was a lot of weird camera angles. It was a lot of weird widening up those hallways for reasons I cannot explain. And it was just a lot of...
00:12:22
Speaker
Itadori was tiny. Lucas was very big at some point. So I was like, I'm pretty sure they saw eye to eye when he walked in. I don't I don't know what's happening here. At least when when Dragon Ball Z does this, like the fat, you know, the arms flailing, you know, eyes turning like, oh, my God, they're so powerful, blah, blah, blah. Like at least it leads up to something. So when that happened and then he had the lead and then like his fist lit up like I was expecting like the black flash and it was going to be the spectacle and it was going to look cool.
00:12:52
Speaker
But then they just go into more explanation of locusts and how they lay eggs. And that's when I was like, this better add up to something because I'm not understanding right now. And then he gets punched in the gut. And while I will admit the shot of his fist being lit up and his eyes glowing like the silhouette of him, like that's a that's a desktop wallpaper right there. That looks fantastic.
00:13:11
Speaker
But again, why did you give me this history lesson on swarms and how they lay eggs and this really long, drawn-out explanation of what the situation was before Mei Mei and Itadori decided where to go? I feel like the things that I don't need or what they're giving me too much of and the stuff that needs a proper explanation is just like,
00:13:41
Speaker
Yeah. Again, I think it's all for a bigger purpose because like we said, it's 18 total episodes, we have 16. We have 15 of those episodes left. I don't think we are leaving Shibuya for the rest of the season. I might be wrong. But that's the kind of the way that I'm taking it is this is all
00:14:04
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just the beginning of what's going to happen. We don't even know what the prison realm is. We haven't seen Kato's face yet. There's all the stuff going on with Mahito, aka Patch Face, which like thank you for giving us the best and easiest thing to remember. I really appreciate that. But yeah, I there's so many moving parts that again, I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt in the grand scheme. But
00:14:28
Speaker
Yeah, there's there's a lot of things going on. And I feel like I don't have as much complaint with the locust fight, because I feel like that that was kind of meant to be a filler fight. It's the gojo stuff. And I'm like, give me more. I want to know what you can do. Like, what else should we get out of that?
00:14:45
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Yeah, and I also as soon as he like your objective wasn't to take out the locust, it was to stop the veil. So the first time you punched him through the wall and the item that you were supposed to destroy was literally right next to you. What was the delay? Yeah, and we didn't even see him like pick it up or destroy it. Like we don't know what he did. It was literally just a frame of it broken in half. Yeah. And then he met meets up with me like it's it's manga things I'm sure is what's happening at that point. But
00:15:15
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Yeah, there's a lot. A lot to digest. So Jillian sends me a text after every episode. And this one said, Juzukazen episode ends me. That's it. And I said, I almost don't want a podcast that was so uneventful.
00:15:30
Speaker
She said, at least they explained some stuff. It was all set up, though, dot, dot. And I said, no, they attempted to explain stuff. They did a shitty job at it once again. And the last part is, I think I'm biased because it was better than the manga. And I'll take those scraps. I could see that because, again, I think this portion of the manga is very word heavy. So at the very least, adding in a little bit of action is probably better than
00:15:59
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basically just reading all, because again, information overload that I could not absorb verbally. If this was all put on a page, I'm done for. That's it, I'm out. I gotta say, your text that you got from Jillian is far better than mine. Mine just says, I made my roommate raw dog this new episode. For reference, her roommate does not watch any anime. I got that later, but not with that wording.
00:16:29
Speaker
No, that's just what I got. It's just her roommate doesn't watch animation made her roommate watch it with her. But yeah, that's that's the the only text that I got. I still have not had a chance to respond. So she I'm just going to text her back. Your response is waiting for you elsewhere.
00:16:47
Speaker
I mean, I was literally watching the episode like with my just like side-eyeing my phone, like when is her text coming in? Because I know she's watched. It's like clockwork now. I love it.
00:17:17
Speaker
access all these random things. I mean, there's a couple of fans that just, you know, hit up our Facebook Messenger or Instagram DMS that also that kind of respond and I'll just put my name at the end of it just so you know, like who exactly you're talking to. But yeah, like just general conversations. I know I run around a lot. So I forget to respond at some point, but I will attempt to have somewhat of a conversation. Yes, this is true. So I feel like we've got a lot. Yeah, that does happen.
00:17:48
Speaker
So we've done a lot of the ranting and I'm going to do a little, I'm just going to kind of preface the conversation. I want so badly to talk about the morals of Gojo at this point, but I feel like we're not even to the tip of the iceberg when it comes to how gray area civilians are about to be in this season.
00:18:09
Speaker
Because there's all these assumptions out of Ghetto that he's not gonna use his domain. He's not gonna risk all these people dying. And we watched him just stand there while several people were brutally murdered. Is it actually below Gojo to not just use his power at this point? I think that's where the flashback episodes become relevant.
00:18:37
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where he because the initial dialogue was like, why should he care about people beneath him and ghetto was like, No, like this is our purpose, we have to save them and the table kind of flipped. But there is like, the issue of him just being so powerful, like he doesn't see value in people like that.
00:18:56
Speaker
So I'm, I don't know like if his perspective changed because of Gato slipping out or because that actually still is his opinion. And I think we're going to get that question answered soon. Yeah, because the final line of if that's all you have to stop me, then like you're done for feels like he doesn't care enough to let that stop him. And yeah, because he one shot both of those dudes in season one. So
00:19:26
Speaker
Yeah, more or less. So I mean, now there's a lot more going on.
Critique: Pacing and Exposition
00:19:31
Speaker
Like, especially for Han. I mean, he just shatters that veil that was meant to keep him out by himself. And he was like, I'm just gonna fire this nuke in this general direction and like almost destroys her. Yeah, but we also have seen him be pretty direct with that. So like, if he just shoots it down, just gets on top of him and just goes straight downward with it.
00:19:55
Speaker
I guess you're not going to have enough to not want to do that, but I guess is each adorable. No, each of these not below him at that point. I mean, he's a grade A sorcerer with a special grade curse, so. Oh, no, I meant I thought you meant physically below. We're talking about basement sub levels. I legitimately was like, he's not below him. I was talking like the little Dorian and. Tojo were right across from Potomac. They watched the thing just kind of go by like a train.
00:20:25
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So we're on the same page. But you were talking different. Gotcha. Yeah. So I, there's so many things. And I again, I feel like we are talking a lot about a setup episode. What we hope is what we hope is a setup episode. And it wasn't a bad episode. Like it was still I mean, it wasn't a bad like, just in general, like,
00:20:49
Speaker
still was beautiful, still had a lot of the comedy, like the fact that the commercial break was the grasshopper being like, are you clever? Oh my god, he's clever. Like that was fun. I got a chuckle out of that. And I'm just like, are that Mecha Maru set was way too high? I think this was quite a bit too high. I like no, they set it high for us and then do like an instant drop.
00:21:16
Speaker
Because when I watch things like Roroni Kenshin or Bleach right now, it's like a low episode still makes me feel good. Even in Soka right now, like a low episode still makes me feel good. I don't turn it off thinking like what the hell was that, right? Like there was a couple of Roroni Kenshin ones where it's like there's a lot of dialogue because this is the framework. We're going to lead into this. All right, let's do it. And I feel like
00:21:46
Speaker
The intent of this episode was lined up with that perfectly, but the execution... Maybe I'll think about it two days from now and be like, you know what? That was a pretty good episode. My goal, honestly, right now is that next week's episode needs to make up for what I felt like was slow for this. Yes, it's visually stunning. Yes, we got a little bit more of our characters.
00:22:10
Speaker
But we saw what they can do with just half an episode with Mecha Maru, how they ended the first one and started the second one. This needs to ride that momentum, otherwise it's going to make me sit there like, what was the purpose of this? Do not give me that bad batch effect.
00:22:26
Speaker
Yeah, you you started to say what I was just thinking like I was coming up with a defense or attempting to come up with a defense and in the process realize no, I can't defend this because if we look back at the conversation we had last week about how great those first two premiere episodes were.
00:22:44
Speaker
and that they crammed basically a full episode's worth of stuff into half an episode. Like, both times we were like, oh, the episode's over, but no, that was only the commercial break, whereas this time we're sitting here with a full episode that almost doesn't even feel as...
00:23:00
Speaker
rounded as those half episodes were the last two weeks. So I hate to compare episodes to each other because I agree that I feel like stories and shows need to go through these ebbs and flows, but they did unfortunately set themselves up for
00:23:19
Speaker
failure at least a little bit like i think they could have come out swinging come out strong but slowed things down a little bit to like hey don't forget jjk exists we're gonna fly high up here and then kind of like lower the plane a little bit and then go back up as opposed to fly really really high and then go back to ground level
00:23:41
Speaker
Yeah, and now we're waiting for the takeoff again, like they needed to find that middle ground. And the more that we have talked, I don't love to just have a podcast where we're bashing on things, but you all listen to us on the internet. So it's fine. It's still because it's like,
00:23:59
Speaker
The defense that I was trying to get to is that this is still better than old school anime filler or better than other shows. But it's not fair to say that because like they have set themselves up in such a way that we have these high expectations. Like if Attack on Titan how to fill our episode, we would be like what in the world is going on right now?
00:24:19
Speaker
So understood what the main plot of spy family was and still their filler episodes were incredible episodes. Well, that that is that is an apples to oranges comparison because spy is like a comedy wherein if you have a literal underground tennis tournament, I am satisfied because I think
00:24:39
Speaker
I mean, not that you watch it, but I think Roroni Kenshin is the best comparison. And it is coming out weekly the same, but it's it follows a manga. It has a story. I have not read the manga for Roroni Kenshin or. What are we talking about? Jujutsu Kaisen. But when I watch the episodes, like even the slow filler episodes of Roroni Kenshin, like make me feel good about the content that I just watched.
00:25:07
Speaker
and have me excited for the next few, but like a few of these flashbacks episodes did not make me feel this way. Today's episode did not make me feel this way. They have an option to make me regret these words next week. And at that point I will actually, I just told, uh, read this cause I was doing three, two, three before this. He was like, yeah, I've been meeting again in that show. And I straight up said, just wait for the season to end and binge it all together.
00:25:35
Speaker
Like, when J. Scottie first said that he was gonna do that, I was like, no, it's Jujutsu Kaisen, how could you watch with us? And now I'm just like, you know what, good for him. Good for him that he is not suffering for six months of waiting. I don't know. I know I was higher on the first five episodes, but I am also, and I love you, but I'm gonna say it, I'm a glass half full, you're a glass half empty. I think that's why this show works, because we usually attack problems from very different angles. Sure.
00:26:04
Speaker
But I'm currently with you. I don't want to say it's a binge show, because that's what I say. That's kind of my biggest knock that I will ever give shows, is be like, this is something you should binge. So I'm not there yet. I'm saying I love season one, and I binged that. Yeah. And I'm looking back at season one, because I also binged it. I was not with the times at that point enough to be when it was coming out.
00:26:35
Speaker
And I do think about how slow some of those arcs felt. So I'm like, is this just how season one felt before? And we're missing that because it's weekly. I'm not totally sure. But I think, I think there's plenty to come. I think they just didn't. The tease at the end was not enough to keep us wanting more. It was just a tease of like, well, why didn't we get more? And it's a tumultuous balance. So yeah.
00:27:03
Speaker
We got to wait and see. I think they have the redeemable qualities. They know they have them. We just got to hope they use them in the right ways at the right time. Yep. They have plenty of episodes to redeem themselves. That they do. And we're going to be talking about all of them because, yeah, that's what we do. Yeah. I mean,
00:27:28
Speaker
I think there also is a lot of how much the manga fans have been raving about this. So I think that kind of set expectations super high too.
00:27:43
Speaker
I think I'm going in with level expectations after My Hero Academia because I feel like manga fans also really did that one up. And it was great, but it was not to the level that the manga fans put it in my book. I think I ignored manga fans a lot better for My Hero. I didn't hear anything from them going into that one.
00:28:07
Speaker
Okay, like my roommate one of my friends like try talking about and I literally left the restaurant for 20 minutes and then came back in like you assholes done. Oh my some of this stuff.
00:28:20
Speaker
I just like come across Twitter, which is weird because like I don't interact with anime stuff on Twitter that often. So it's like, I guess it's like I couldn't avoid it for this one. But like, I loved every single episode of My Hero Season 6. And they could honestly do no wrong in that season the way that that went. And that's what I'm saying. That season was great. I'm not feeling that way here.
00:28:49
Speaker
yeah no that season was fantastic but i remember people talking about
Comparison with Manga: Shibuya Incident Arc
00:28:53
Speaker
like oh my god the dark deku arc we're not even there yet it's just beginning it's gonna get so much worse and like the dark deku i guess i did hear about that a little bit awesome but i don't feel like it was some edgy dark like he took a turn but he didn't yeah full like i was expecting
00:29:09
Speaker
like him to just beat the crap out of somebody the way that people were talking about it it's like no he still had his morals he was still deku he just like was trying to do it solo and i i think that's a very good example of like the separation no you're right i did hear about that one a lot and i think that also puts this back in perspective everyone that i have heard has said the words shibuya incident
00:29:33
Speaker
that's going to be this entire season. Like the next episode is titled the Shibuya incident colon something else. I can't remember quite what it's I open gate or something like that. But that tells me the Shibuya incident is continuing again, it's probably going to be this whole season is the incident. I don't want to. Yeah, I don't want to
00:29:54
Speaker
call out manga fans be like you're over hyping this until it's all over because I'm sure it's going to be something that totally surprises us by the end but it becomes very hard to do it in an episodic format because I think that's one thing that like I haven't read much manga in my day but I have read the first issue of Attack on Titan
00:30:19
Speaker
And I think that first issue is like half of the first season. So you didn't have to wait a long time to figure out what was going on. You were just page turning and page turning and figuring it out, figuring it out. And I don't know how long the Shibuya incident is, but let's say it's only two, three volumes. That's not a ton to have to wait for, whereas we're waiting
00:30:41
Speaker
every single week trying to figure out what the next piece is whereas this may have been 10 pages that they could just keep going to the next 10 and there's so much of that that I think is lost in translation and we don't talk about that much because the crossover of anime and manga has always been a heated battlefield and I feel like we're on this show we've always tried to kind of bring it together but it still is difficult.
00:31:08
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E. And I apologize if this is somebody's first time listening or being this hard on us. This is like a full TED talk that these people are getting. This is not our usual jovial stuff. It hasn't like deterred me from watching in any way, right? It's just, it's unfortunate that, you know, this was just a decision that they took. And again, I'm just hoping that it's foundational and that
00:31:36
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oldest biology lesson that I got of locusts will pay off. So that that is one thing I don't think is going to pay off. I don't know what that was. Don't tell me that right now. I will erupt again. I feel like everything I will go for a full Jogo
00:31:56
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full domain, whatever the hell it's called, and just erupt. Do not tell me that right now. Someday you will get this reference. But I am truly getting some chimera ant vibes from that locust flashback. And it's not a diss. It's not anything like that. This isn't a someday I'll get it. What the hell is a chimera ant?
00:32:15
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Well, no, when you watch Hunter x Hunter, and then you will understand what a chimera ant is, and then you'll understand the slog that was the chimera ant arc, which is like the best arc, but also the most what is happening every single episode. What in the bug's life is that? Now I have him looking up chimera ants, which is
00:32:38
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You can't. Oh, God. Again, it's my favorite million looking dude. It is my he is he's one of the ants. Hunter is my favorite anime still to this day. So just like you having it like this image is throwing me off because like he his tongue is coming out towards the food, but his tail looks very similar. So it looks like his tongue is just coming out his mouth under his butt and like out his back, like just a very messed up mutu.
00:33:08
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Oh, gosh. We're so off the rails right now. We are. So anything else about this show in this episode? Oh, you want me to talk about this show? No, I think that is all that I have. And I swear that was actually a poignant reference because they do a lot of biological conversations in that show. But this is all I have for JJK. I'm excited to be back next week because I think it's just going to be more and more and more or
00:33:33
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hope it's going to be more and more and more. But yeah, that's let's let's see go juggle manic. I'm ready for it. Yeah, like, let's just cut them loose. Honestly, at this point, let's do the whole thing. But uh, yeah, I think that's all we have for JJK. But is there anything else that you have going on?
00:33:53
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outside of this? Yeah.
Guest Appearance on Peef's Gap Fest
00:33:55
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I recorded my episode on Peef's Gap Fest where I gave my perspective of the Harry Potter movies of somebody who never read the books and is reading the books for the first time. So keep an eye out for that and give them a follow. Be sure to check out 323 with Reed Murphy. I was not as sleep deprived this week so I was a lot more coherent but entertaining nonetheless there is still much silliness and much laughter.
00:34:21
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Definitely check that out. What else, what else? Check out my friend's TikTok, the Buffish Hunter, because we play Destiny all the time. He makes great Destiny videos, but whenever he livestreams, it's typically me, him, and one of my other friends. And that's another thing where it's like, we're either just like totally off the rails,
00:34:42
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He's watching Letter Candy for the first time, so there's a lot of references over there. And then sometimes, like, we just talk anime too, so while shooting aliens, I'm just talking about anime, so... Amazing. Yeah, no shortage of ways to stay here and find me, so check me out on all the places. If that is what you desire. Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. Fantastic.
00:35:09
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And like Zuhair said, check out all of our friends on social media, all of our other great shows. You can also check us out on all of your favorite social medias. And yeah, just give us that love and support. We always love hearing from you guys, like we said, partway through the episode. So if you have any strong or weak thoughts, send them our way. Who knows what we're going to do with them besides read them. Maybe we'll read them on the show as well. But we will definitely give you a reply, give our thoughts, and maybe you could turn us around on this episode. You never know.
00:35:39
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hopefully JJK turns around next week. Yeah, I was starting to close the episode, but I realized I never close the episodes because I'm like, I can't get my outro first. I really didn't. I paused. I was like, I can't do anything besides just say muscle muscle. You set up yourself perfectly for Scootz's line. Like, yeah, be sure to keep up with JJK and hopefully next week is good. And in order to find out, be sure to tune in next time. That's T-O-O-N-I-N. And as always, stay well.
00:36:09
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Not knowing how to end a show is great. Muscle muscle.
Outro and Future Invitations
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Thank you for listening to the Animation Deliberation Podcast, a proud member of the Strandepanda Network. If you would like to contact us, you can email AnimationDeliberationPodcast at gmail.com or follow us on Twitter at AnimationDelib1. For this and other great shows, you can visit Strandepanda.com or join the great community that is the Strandepanda Chat Facebook group at facebook.com slash groups slash spchat. Tune in next time and remember, stay well.