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Swaggiest Characters in Anime
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This week we discuss the swaggiest characters to grace our screens! Swag can't be taught, but these characters already knew that.
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Introduction with a Rap
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Every story, every battle, every model, every child, every dream, every team, it don't matter if you proud, gotta bleed for it Yeah, nigga, gotta bleed for it
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See my ancestors from Manchester to now I've been to underground stories Since niggas was underground we them black ninjas Who making our mamas proud better tune in nigga We taking it all around it's the meloninjas So go and tell the fam we need better figures And we don't fuck with Uncle Sam better get the picture These black hands make black bands And I'll be the greatest nigga like the last dance meloninjas
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Hello, Meloninjas.
Meet the Meloninjas and Podcast Focus
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I am one of your hosts, Emerson, along with Alex and Kawan. We are your Meloninjas. We talk all things anime. We aren't experts, just very passionate fans who are happy to give their opinion and perspectives on various topics. This week's topic, the swaggiest, or flyest, however you decide to interpret the term swaggiest, anime characters.
Who Are the Swaggiest Anime Characters?
00:01:26
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So we're just gonna have like a open discussion talking about characters that pop off to us in terms of just swag, whether it be by way of their attitude, by way of what they wear, just whatever they exude that really resonates with us. So kicking it off is Kwon. All right, I'm gonna start off with a classic. I hope y'all remember Try Gun because I'm talking about Vash the Stampede.
00:01:55
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by far, one of the swag. Walking through the desert in this big-ass, red button-up trench coat, just dropping people left and right. Probably one of my definitions of swag. I mean, just the cool dude all around. I also have Chrollo Lucilfer from Hunter x Hunter. I think he was super swaggy. The only reason I say that, because I don't think there was a scene
00:02:23
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we didn't see him draped up in some clothing. He was always cool, calm, and collected and had the clothes to go with it. He even thought, was it Killah's father and grandfather? With the trucks on, he came out with only a couple of scratches. In my book, that's pretty swag. And he fought with a book in his hand the whole time. One hand it no less. I forgot about that. Yeah, I'm going to give him the swag pass on now.
00:02:53
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Um, and I gotta go, ooh, uh, Toshiro Hitsugaya from Bleach. The young, he was the super young captain, hair slick, bad, bad, bad, bad. I mean, to be honest, it's, I don't know if I can really call out a Bleach character because all the captains were the same thing, but he just looked like, between him and Byakuya, I just feel like they would dress like him.
00:03:17
Speaker
Hey, but shout out to his lieutenant. You've got to throw in I mean, but I mean, sorry to interrupt you, but I mean, we're talking about bleach, like honestly, shout out to the mangaka because all those character designs work. Seriously, like so fly. I love the way he just it was great.
00:03:37
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Actually, none of them thinking about the captains from Bleach. There was one more who was, he had on like a- Like a hat? Like a big old top hat? Yeah, he wore the hat and he had like a pink thing on his kimono. Yep. I forgot his name. What was his name? He was, he might be the swaggiest actually. Wait, camera. If we talk in Bleach though, Grim Joe. Grim Joe, yes. That's my guy though. I'm biased.
00:04:05
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Yeah, he's my guy too, for sure. Do y'all remember the Green Island arc in Hunter, Hunter? Absolutely. All right, so y'all remember that one scene, it was only like maybe 15 minutes of greatness, where Don and Killua had on them tuxedos. Oh, yes, when they went to the audience. That's all I'm saying. Oh, God. Bro, I'm loving this round up you got going, man. Who else that guy?
00:04:36
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Ooh, Sinku Ishigami from Dr. Stone, the guy who, like the main character essentially. Yeah, Sinku, yeah. I fuck with his hair. I'm sorry. I got to. He's on the list. Gotta be. And then there's Death of the Kid from Soul Eater. I don't know if you remember him. He had like the three lines across the half of his head, but he was like, he was super OCD about, what's the word? When things are equal on both sides? Symmetry, symmetry.
00:05:05
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He was like OCD about symmetry, but he was probably one of the drippiest people I've ever seen that man. I'm talking about dropping people with a pseudo, like just full tuxedo. Which person? I didn't hear the... Death the Kid. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's true.
00:05:23
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And my last one, ooh, I got, I got, so I got two more. You remember Aizen from Bleach? Yes. So I'm talking about, there's only a specific portion that I really want to talk about for Aizen. And that's like, before he started turning into that, what the fuck did he turn into?
00:05:42
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he betrayed them. Like when he like let his hair down for the first time and had like the little part, the little, the little, you know what I'm saying, little thing in the front, I'm like, yeah, because my hair don't lay down. But, um, yeah, like that was, that was, that was, uh, what is that called, Alex? You know what I'm saying? Anybody, what's that called when you got like hair in your face?
00:06:05
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A bang? A bang? A bang? Yeah. When Isaac had that little bang in his head, that was very dripping. That specific moment. After that, it went all the way off the rails. Like a night of drinking too much. A small window of good times. And then that other side of that hill is a little steep. And then, have you seen any Abaki yet, Alex?
00:06:35
Speaker
I have not. I regrettably have not. Who you about to say on Baki though? There's only one person I can really mention. So Karo Hanayama. So I have this thing about suits. As a person who has to wear a suit almost every day, I respect a good suit. So most of these characters have suits on them, admittedly. But Karo Hanayama is a gangster. I'm talking about gangster. I don't know. Something about the way his fit was just
00:07:04
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It was, it was, that was it. I'm talking about just white suit, had on like a purple tie at one point. Like it was just, it was clean. He was clean. He was clean. He had that crazy tattoo on his back too. Exactly. Oh man.
Style Spotlight: Baki Characters
00:07:22
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I mean, honestly though, like this is, I'll put this, I would say he's swaggy because of his attitude, but Bocky's dad, oh my gosh. Yeah, he's, yeah. I mean, also it's kind of easy, that's kind of a cop out, because he's like, Bill, there's the strongest man in the world. Most respected person on the planet. Most respected, but people ran from this man. Right. You know that for me, like as soon as he did the whole,
00:07:49
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working his back muscles. So the face on his back, his muscles made the face of a demon. I was like, yeah, this guy might have it in terms of swag. I forgot. Yeah, that was that was that was a pretty swag. You know, I could jump in for that. I have. So yeah, I agree with a lot of people you say for sure. For me, I'm just going to
00:08:14
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If you need me to define how they are swaggy, let me know. But for me, I'm just gonna rattle off some people that come to mind, all for it, right? I think Alex would appreciate this first person. Seshahamaru, that guy. I don't know, pause. Did you say Seshahamaru? I mean, maybe. Excuse me? That's like disrespect if you talk about Seshomaru. Look, I'm American.
00:08:43
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I do disrespect. Look, look, that guy though his fit. Crazy. Yeah, his moco moco man that tail it goes hard. It's heavy. It goes it goes nuts. But you know, I'm gonna start with the dishes back and go to somebody.
00:09:11
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Bakugo, yo. He's on my list, too. Like, what can I get out of my head? This is just my opinion. Bakugo reminds me of, like, a better version of Sasuke.
The Appeal of Bakugo and Others
00:09:24
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Yes, absolutely. I'm not ashamed to admit, like, I've had, like, full-on dreams about Bakugo, man. He's great. Jesus. Oh, my gosh. Wait, when did you do that, dude? What?
00:09:40
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So I got Bakugo on there for me. Cannon Busters, not sure if you guys seen Cannon Busters. It's on Netflix. It's based off of this anime or manga that actually a black guy wrote in 2005. And they greenlit it for anime like two years ago. And I really enjoyed it. The main character is Philly the Kid.
00:10:09
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And I bang with all of his character design. And he changes his fits throughout the whole show. But one thing I do like, and the reason it's important that he changes his fits
00:10:25
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Oh, LaShawn Thomas was the author. So he's immortal. You know that. That's not like a spoiler. But something that happens is every time he dies, the number of death that was becomes tattooed on his body. So he has a bunch of numbers all over his body. And he's hiding those numbers. Those numbers are covered up. So he changes fits throughout the whole show. I just banged with every fit that he wore.
00:10:56
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Um, taking it old school, like my guy, Kawan did with Tri-Gun, I gotta go with my boy Spike Spiegel. That man kept a suit on and that suit was always clean. Um, but also gonna throw Faye Valentine in there too, because she was a bad-ass and I'm gonna stick with my women too and go Boma. I had Boma up there too. Boma never missed with a fit, man. You know, Boma never missed. Her hairstyle changed up too.
00:11:26
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Bro, look, she kept it a buck. I mean, to be fair, she was also super rich, so she can afford to do that. But still, she kept it real. And I think that ran in the family because future trunks. Future trunks. My goodness, that boy has swag. Not as much swag as Saya, man, but he has swag. Go away. Go away. You just really did it. You did it again, Emerson. You know how cool that was about Saya, man.
00:11:56
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Look, look, I know it's an unwritten rule. We don't talk about saving. I don't even think he's swaggy, but I'm not. This is the fashion. If you are swaggy, if you have a cape, you're swaggy. What? No. There, but personally, with a cape that is not swaggy. Hold on, let me think.
00:12:16
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You're just a Superman? I think he's kind of corny, if I'm being honest with you. I mean, he's pretty corny, but he's a lot of people's favorite superhero. We'll put a tab in this one. Put a tab on there. OK, so another one that I'm pretty sure you guys don't watch like that, but I bang with heavy, is One Piece. Don't Flamingo. That man, if you take a second, Google this man. That man's character design is nuts.
00:12:44
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And he had, like his fit is just crazy and he wears, I'm not sure if it's a jacket or a cape, but it's like this big pink joint is fire. Yeah, I'm sorry. I just have to wholeheartedly disagree because the one reason I can't get into one piece is, you know, aside from just the fact that I find the characters a little goofy is the designs of the character, like the art is so ugly. Like, so I can't imagine a character having any swag on that show.
00:13:12
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That is disrespectful. That is disrespectful. No, I'm sorry. They ugly. And you want to flander earlier now. No, they ugly. I'm sorry. They may not. You got to give them some time. I mean, especially as the, I will say this, the animation has gotten a lot better. So Kawan and I were talking about the beginning of the year. He told me I was stupid for it and I 100% agree. My goal for this year of 2020 was to watch all of the episodes of One Piece.
00:13:41
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Am I near that? No, not at all. I'm on like 792 out of like 945 or something. When I get close, I probably will end up getting a little closer. But I will say around like, which sucks because this is a long time, but around like the 400 mark is when the animation just gets so much cleaner and the character design is a lot better. But that's also a lot of time to invest.
00:14:11
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So I would I just I'll leave it at that.
Unique Style of Doflamingo
00:14:14
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But sticking with one piece and I'm gonna throw it to you. I got to put Zorro on there to Zorro, one of my favorite anime characters of all time. But I do think it's like his his design is pretty badass, especially after the time skip with the he has like a eye of eye injury.
00:14:34
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during the time skip that we don't know about. We just know what happens during training. But it adds a lot to his character because his character is a swordsman. So it's like now this dude's getting into getting into, he's trying to become the greatest swordsman in the world. So it's like he's going into every battle, kind of at a disadvantage, but not really, because he's better than everyone. So I'm gonna kick it to you, Alex, though.
00:14:57
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Okay, okay. You guys had a lot of my picks for sure. I agree with the majority of everything that y'all already threw up there. I'll say, I got to start off with, you got a classic guy in a suit, that is always going to be pretty swag. I got to start with my man Tuxedo Mask.
00:15:19
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Shouts out to Tuxedo Mask because he, he definitely was whooping behind with a rose and a full suit on and even like obviously a little top hat, you know, he was doing his thing. So gotta go with Tuxedo Mask. I also, going back to Bleach, I just thought, honestly, it's hard to pick characters out of Bleach because I find that most of the characters out of Bleach are just
00:15:43
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the designs are just crazy. But I really like your reachy. The one that she transforms to a cat like she Wow, her design was lit like just
00:15:55
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crazy. Her heavy. Yes, yes. The another one out of leech. We talked about earlier with the top hat his name was shoot. I think it's Shunsui. So I think I gotta I just have to kind of circle back to that. Shunsui think it is. Yeah, he went crazy with his flower with his kimono. It was just
00:16:17
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It was just great. You know who else went crazy from Blue? I'm thinking about it. And almost every captain, like, super swaggy. Like, even Zaraki, the way his shirt was just ripped and shit, he was like, about that. You know what, Campachi? He just screamed. You said Zaraki? Campachi? Is that what you're saying? Yeah. He was just one that I called out out of the list. But there were so many of them. But I was thinking of him. Yeah, I've had two, though. Who's the guy who ran the shop?
00:16:47
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Yeah. Captain Yamamoto. No, no, no. He went.
Bleach Characters: Style and Swag
00:16:50
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He used to be a captain and he started running the shop that Ichigo used to go to all the time. The shop. I thought you said who ran the show. You're talking about Urahara.
00:16:59
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Yeah, Keisuke, yeah. Yes. He's super swaggy. I remember him. And his bonkai is even worse. Yes. And speaking of just the designs, I mean, their bonkai's or their own levels of swag just went off, just elevated. I mean, I just thought about it. I'm over here remembering the captains. And I forgot all about Tosa and the blind one, but my dude definitely had locks as a black character. Oh, yeah.
00:17:27
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Bro, I love that. I didn't like how he went out, but I did love it. Yeah, just nuts, nuts, nuts. Man, a few words. I mean, I don't remember a whole lot of... He wasn't that memorable per se, but his design, like looking back on it, it was pretty dope. The only captain I didn't like was the bear. The big ass. I didn't like him at all. It just seemed easy.
00:17:50
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Yeah, he was, I mean, they really didn't do a great job kind of bringing him to the spotlight either. Like he was kind of a sleeper character. It was hard to make him likable at that point. But all the other characters, I don't know, just crazy. So I got, I mean, Bleach, I just feel like I got to give it to them because almost every single one of those characters in that show went nuts. What do you call him?
00:18:16
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The monsters, I forget what they're called. Eyes and demons. Yeah, the hollows. Yeah, the hollows. That's what they are. Yeah, the hollows were also really cool designs. I just like that dude's art. I just think it was cool. And I mean, I think Emerson stole my Grimjowl, but Grimjowl is my boy. Will always be the coolest design by far. His color scheme, like his hollow forms. I mean, it was just insane.
00:18:44
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And of course, when each ago goes full hollow, it's, I mean, all of it, just crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy. Bonkers. Yeah, just nuts. So just dripping and swag. It's just crazy. So going kind of sticking with a little bit of a lady's theme, I got to give my next swaggiest character to Ezra. I cannot pronounce her name, so forgive me. Is it Ezra or Ezra? Just Scarlett, the character from Fairy Tail?
00:19:16
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Erza, that's it. Erza, yes, Erza from from fairy tale, man, all of her transformations and her, her magic form. Let me just
00:19:27
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Just crazy. Her designs were always insane. So I got to give a little special place for her. And I also got to throw it out to Songo from Inuyasha. I really like her design. And when she used to put on her full demon slayer out for fit, it was, yeah, her ride koots. I mean, it's crazy. She was just great.
00:19:51
Speaker
I'm surprised nobody brought up Kakashi from Naruto yet because he was so, he was like the OG swag character to me growing up. Like he was just mysterious and his design was crazy. I mean, he inspired a lot of our, a lot of my designs for when, you know, for our logo. So I got to give it to Kakashi in a lot of ways. I have Kakashi on my list too, but I also have Shino. I missed it, I missed it, my bet.
00:20:21
Speaker
My bad, y'all. Let's see, what else?
Gojo's Notable Style in Jujutsu Kaisen
00:20:26
Speaker
Oh, I got a... So a new feature, I have to give it to Gojo from Jujitsu Kaizen.
00:20:35
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my dude who has the little mask over his eyes and then he takes him down and has those like crystal blue eyes. I mean, if y'all haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend you check out Jujutsu Kaisen and give it a watch and you'll see who I'm talking about. But I have to say this too, at the very end of Jujutsu Kaisen, the outro, like that little outro song that they have on the anime,
00:20:58
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worth your time right now. You just need to stop what you're doing and watch it because that thing makes me all the way hype in turn. It's immediately when I watch it. It's just dripping with swag. They just just watch it. Do yourself a favor. Let's see.
00:21:13
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I also kind of have, I have Aizawa from My Hero Academia. I thought he is like a different kind of swag character to me, but he's just so chill, like just completely chill. But when it's time for the business, like my dude is savage. So Aizawa is gotta be up here.
Swagginess in Fire Force and Yu-Gi-Oh
00:21:32
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And same with Benny Maru from, what is that show? The Fire Force. Yes, my dude Benny is just,
00:21:42
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crazy like the most OP character I've seen in a long time and all his fighting and just great just greatness and last but not least we gotta come on y'all Seto Kaiba yes Seto Kaiba all the way back from what is that show with Yugi and what excuse me don't listen to you to see everybody you have on that
00:22:12
Speaker
Yes, no. I think Yu-Gi-Oh. Yeah, Yu-Gi-Oh. Yes. No, Yu-Gi-Oh. I mean, you got a Seto Kaiba, man. He was crazy. I think Pegasus, his design was fly as crap too. Yeah, Pegasus was. I love a suit too though. Yeah, so those are my highlights from the swaggiest. I mean, so.
00:22:36
Speaker
Since you already threw out someone from the new school with Chuchitsu Kaizen, I think it's only fair that we put Jim Morey on there too. Jim Morey from God of High School. Man, my goodness. That man oozes swag. He really does. And I just like his fighting style too, but I like his character design a lot.
00:23:01
Speaker
I agree, especially when his eyes go like with the cross in them, like when they turn when they go. That's the thing, right? So like, when you mentioned the captain of the seventh, your fire force, it also reminded me of old boy from the first company got his name, but yeah. You know, I'm talking about Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. I forgot. I don't know his name, truly. But if I know exactly who did my dude with the eye patch. Yep. Burns.
00:23:30
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Oh, yeah. Yeah. Look, I think Fire Force has some crazy character designs. I would also put my man. I put my man in from Demon Slayer Inosuke. Cool. Yeah, I mean, I just I think that so that probably wouldn't go in terms of like,
00:23:53
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bit because this man's just wearing a boars head. It's like, it's just a swag. Like I just think it's cool. Like it's the beast sense, like whatever. That's cool. Y'all already know how I feel about Zenitsu. That's my guy. Another character that we didn't mention that I banged with. I mean, a lot of people don't watch Jojo Bazaar Adventure like that. I like Dio Brando. That's my guy.
00:24:18
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And I, he's like, again, like one of those exceptions for villains that I have where I was like, I actually root for this guy, even though he's like actually terrible. I have him up there. I like his characters and I like his fits that he'd be wearing. And, you know, he's timeless. He's been alive for countless of generations of the Joestar family. I want to throw out there. This one's a little risky. This one's a little risky, but I'm gonna do it anyway, because I fuck with him heavy.
00:24:48
Speaker
He's Zoka from Hunter x Hunter. He does go crazy. His swag is pretty. He's creepy, but his swag go crazy. Yeah, I rocks with that femme energy he gives off too. It's cool. I like that. I'm not the biggest Attack on Titan fan, but Kenny Ackerman fights with that fedora on the whole time. I feel you. I feel you.
00:25:16
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I've been with that. I mean, he's probably not the... Levi is probably the swaggiest on that, to me. Probably the swaggiest on that. Or Mikasa.
00:25:25
Speaker
I like Mikasa. The only thing is like Mikasa doesn't say a word, which is cool. But I like Mikasa. I think the whole Acreman family carries that whole show personally. That's just my opinion. I can't disagree. I can't fight you on that. I'm not... I do admit though, if y'all haven't seen the first episode of the new season, that episode is just excellent. So I think the... Yeah, it's definitely worth a watch. Very well done.
00:25:54
Speaker
I will say though, that watching that first episode, that Beast Titan should have gone to the league. Yeah. The baseball tropes run thick with him. I think one of the perfect game was one of the episodes last season, I think it was called. He's been throwing strikes for a long time. He don't miss. He don't.
00:26:24
Speaker
It's funny, but yeah, those are just some characters that I have. The only other person I could think of, or two other people that we didn't mention, Samurai Champloo, I would have to say Mugen, love Mugen's character design, especially with that red kimono. And Bon, from Seven Deadly Sins, love Bon. I also like Bon's character. Him and his crop top fit.
00:26:53
Speaker
Yeah, I think the fit goes crazy, but I also like the swag that he's, like, he just doesn't give a fuck. But he also can afford to not give a fuck because he's also immortal. But yeah, he just doesn't give a fuck. He's gonna do whatever he wants. I like the fact that he, no matter what goes up and tries to fight Meliodas, knows he's not gonna beat him. Like, he's still gonna do it anyway and give it his all every time. I respect that. Yeah, that's all I had for the...
00:27:21
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for my swaggiest characters.
Animation Styles in Vinland Saga and Demon Slayer
00:27:23
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Shout out to Vinland Saga though, because they got a lot of the swaggy characters in there just for
00:27:29
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other reasons like Thor I completely agree. I think Vinland saga and it's always going to be a one that's worth mentioning because Vinland saga is cool because it like it's a different animation style, too. So a lot of those designs are really unique and worth just looking at. This is a nice, just great looking. Oh, I wanted to also when you were talking about Demon Slayer, I have to throw out Ring Goku. He's got a great character design. And so so does you.
00:27:57
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Hmm, yeah. They just look really, they're just very swag. How do you feel about that? The Michael Jackson character design though. Oh my, oh my gosh. Kwan has to feel away about that. I do not feel away. I just, I can't, I can't. I mean, I think Kwan might have,
00:28:25
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you know, circling back. I think Juan might have a feel feel away about our boy Sam. Please don't. He has a cape. The helmet is iffy. His gloves too. Oh, yes. You know, like that's a shout out to our to moves on and our King of Pop.
00:28:54
Speaker
I ain't gonna lie, though, some of the Kai's, they have fits. Yeah. And what's Beerus called? What's his actual title? God of Destruction. Yeah, God of Destruction. Yeah, some of those dudes. When we were watching the Tournament of Power, just seeing them in the stands, each one of them, they had different fits. I appreciate it. Yeah, and the Angels, too. Oh, Whis, don't get me started on Whis. Oh, my gosh.
00:29:24
Speaker
So Emerson, about the save man thing. Let's talk. Let's talk. Let's talk. Let's talk. Why save man's swag? You are about to come under strict scrutiny, so I just want you to know that. All right, dang. All right. Do I have to Iraq this? I just want to hear your reasons, because I disagree.
00:29:50
Speaker
Okay, so to be fair, I was actually just messing with you. I don't think it's right. But if there could be an argument made, I will say he exudes swag by virtue of being a vigilante, right? He's doing something that others think that they can't do. And he's saving lives in the process to him.
00:30:15
Speaker
for that? He's selfless. Selfless. He's selfless, right? I mean, he's- Bulletproof. Who's going to hurt him? Which one of these civilians is going to hurt this saying? Please don't. I know, right? Do you feel- I can't drive a car and walk away from it. How is he giving of himself? This nigga's walking down the street and slapping bad guys for you. He's not putting himself in danger. Second, his poses are whack as fuck.
00:30:46
Speaker
The way that he doesn't even do this shit right, whack. The way that he can't become a Super Saiyan anymore, whack. I'm sorry, I just, I had to. You feel that way about Superman? Superman is also bulletproof. And he also has the weird pose.
00:31:04
Speaker
I mean, so his pose is not as weird as like Seyman's pose. Seyman has like these weird off Genu poses. Like the Genu Forces poses was nice because it was like squad photos. But he didn't like that he's by himself. So you didn't like when Videl was with Seyman? Well, Videl's like too, if I'm being honest. He had a squad photo. What? Videl? No. I mean, she's not as like, but I don't like her as much.
00:31:34
Speaker
No, I mean, if we really get triggered, like, I can't stand their little daughter, Pawn. I just, whew. The whole family is like, Gohan's branch of the tree is cut off for me.
Does Piccolo Have Swag?
00:31:46
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Like, sniff, sniff. Like, it's gone. They can't rehabilitate that character, which is sad. Yeah, they can.
00:31:57
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But also, Emerson, to your cape argument, I think Piccolo is not the swaggiest character. And he has a right. He's the closest to a Black person that's not racist that we have. No, no. I'm just saying in terms of swag, Black people can't take that away from him.
00:32:13
Speaker
Listen, I'm not trying to take that away from Piccolo. I'm just saying, in terms of swag, when I think of a swag character, I think of a cool motherfucker. But to be a cool person, you have to produce cool results. You got to beat up a dude and then turn around and look at the camera while they explosion in the background. I have yet to see Piccolo do that in how many seasons? So I have a question for you. Piccolo.
00:32:43
Speaker
killing two Saiyans with one attack. A single special beam cannon. When he, when he, when he shot Goku, when he shot Raddus through Goku. Which arc was that? Hey, look, look, look, look, look, sorry. Like he was swaggy in the beginning, but he, like. He had a, he had a really strong regression. Like in Dragon Ball, he was that dude.
00:33:13
Speaker
And then, you know, he became Piccolo Jr. He wasn't that dude anymore. He lost it all. But, I mean, he has moments. Separate like the cell games when he got beat up by the little cells, cell juniors. If you get beat up by the little cells, you can't qualify the swaggy character. So Krillin is not sweaty. Krillin is not sweaty. Of course, when was he ever? When he bagged Android 18. Okay, every two minutes of that, like,
00:33:42
Speaker
They're married. What do you mean? And? She abandoned Android 17 for him. That was real. Abandoned? This nigga lives a happy life on an island full of animals. What are you talking about? Is he happy? It seems like it. He damn sure didn't want to go to the tournament of power, remember? Yeah, and then he won it. Spoiler. No, that's real. That is real.
00:34:08
Speaker
What about Krillin? But not about saying man, saying man is swaggy. I think Krillin is swaggy when he has his hair. That's just, I don't know why. You're Krillin. Oh my gosh, I cringe at that. Yeah, I'm not a fan of hair Krillin either. I am a fan of Master Oshi. I didn't think Master Oshi got swaggy. Scrap all that. Scrap all that. In terms of swag, Kid Buu was swaggy. Oh, he sure was. So was Selmo. He but Kid Buu ate.
00:34:37
Speaker
Yes, that man feasted on everybody. Look, yes, I can't believe we just had this conversation without mentioning it, my goodness. I like Majin Vegeta too, but I can't be giving Vegeta too much shine. I don't get paid by Dragon Ball for that. I'm trying to think, is there anybody else that we might be missing? I like Shazak for a lot actually from My Hero Academia.
00:35:05
Speaker
Chisaki? Yeah, no, he definitely had swag. There's a lot of villains just in general. The villains usually have like a lot of swag. Stain was that guy. Oh my goodness. Every time we talk about My Hero Academia, but like his swag, his swag levels were off the chart to me. Who's the kid from My Hero that can only, you have to like answer a question to activate his quirk? From class B? Yeah, he's swaggy.
00:35:36
Speaker
Oh, I thought you're talking about Shin. Was it Shinsu Shin? In the games, the first round in like season one. Yeah, Shin. I can't remember. I can't. Well, why we why we try to come up with this man's name? I will say this. Miro, my guy. Mirio. Yeah. Yeah.
00:36:02
Speaker
with or without powers. I think so, yeah. It's like Shinko, but not Shinko. That's not quite right. Shinsou, yeah. But you were right, Emerson. I heard you. I appreciate that, yeah. Mirio is swaggy. I'll give him that. Lemillion? What a name. Oh my gosh. That fit. Look, he had a cape. What's wrong with his cape? Nothing. Why? Because you can't have a cape and be bad.
00:36:30
Speaker
Yes, she can, because Piccolo has one. That's my excuse from now on. Piccolo has a blanket. It's not a cape, it's a blanket. It's a cape. It's a towel sheet. Well, I mean, if you hold it behind your back and tie it in the front of your shirt and it blows in the wind like a cape, that's what it is. A damn cape. Oh, gosh. Y'all, you know who else is pretty swag? Who? Merrim. Oh, yeah. Yes. Definitely. His whole guard was pretty swaggy.
00:37:01
Speaker
His, yeah, no, his whole guard, but his whole guard was swaggy. I think the whole Phantom Troupe was swaggy too though. Yeah, top to bottom, but definitely Chrollo, definitely Chrollo. Chrollo for sure. You know, Phaeton, Phaeton, bro. Oh my goodness. Hold on, but we gotta talk about, Razor had to be swaggy too then, cause he sent him off the island with the quickness. Oh my goodness, yes he did. Razor was swaggy.
00:37:31
Speaker
I'm trying to think anybody, oh gosh, I can't believe we just did this whole joint without talking about my guy, Yusuke, you're a machine. Oh my goodness. How could I have forgotten about that? All right, so I will say this- You definitely had natural swag. You had natural swag. I will say when I changed, when this was originally gonna be like,
00:37:51
Speaker
Fitz, I had him on the list and then I took it off because his fit was a school uniform that everybody else wore. So I took it off because I was like, that's kind of not really him. That's like the school dictating with the way the superintendent dictating what he's going to wear. But then I realized, you know, if we're just doing swag, Yusuke gotta be on there. He ate really all of Team Yeremeshi. He ate on there, Kuwabara, Karama, Yoko Karama. Oh my goodness. How does not go to the anime? It is. It has to be.
00:38:21
Speaker
easily. No, they definitely had some really cool designs and they were probably I mean, they were you they just look good like they did. They just looked like really unique designs per character.
Fire Force and Vinland Saga Acknowledgments
00:38:36
Speaker
I've always I'm always a sucker for that if y'all can't tell like a unique character design. Um, and a unique art style just goes I mean, it's just crazy. Right? Absolutely. That's kind of why I like Montgomery from fire force the black guy.
00:38:51
Speaker
Oh, absolutely. Oh, my God. His power when he like, when they're fighting in China and they take off the he takes off his shirt and you see like his like tattoos that are named. Yeah, I thought that was that was bonkers. Oh, no, we can't. Did we talk about Joker? I don't think so. We did not. Joker's by far one of the swaggiest fire force characters. I agree. Like half the captain of the seventh is the swaggiest on the show, though.
00:39:20
Speaker
The captain of the, ah. Benny Maru, absolutely. I think Benny Maru is. Yeah. But Joe Brown's definitely a second. Him and Burns are on the same level, in my opinion. I feel like they're both OK.
00:39:36
Speaker
I agree. I would have to agree with that, especially with his eyes being two different colors, and he's second and third gen. He's just so overwhelmingly powerful, which is crazy. You can't even make flames or fight him because he'll just use them and beat your ass. He's terrible. Bro, that's so real. What is that? Oh, sorry. Go ahead. No, no, no. I was going to say, I like the mechanic for the eighth. I forgot his name, though.
00:40:06
Speaker
Let me see if I remember his name. Yeah, I don't know his name. The one with the red hair, right? The red hair dude, yeah. What? Go ahead, what you were saying Alex? Oh man, my thought left just as quickly as it got here, but hold on. I know that it's the new season that's coming out next month in January. It's in part two. What is that show called?
00:40:36
Speaker
Hold on one second y'all I don't come to me because it that show goes nuts and I actually have to put it in I can't say it's in my top five from our preview, you know a couple weeks ago when we were talking about that it's on a top five but it's definitely up there. What is it the the main character's ability is like Return by Death. What is that show called? Oh that guy's Volcom by the way that's what I was thinking.
00:41:03
Speaker
Subaru from, oh my gosh, what is this show called? ReZero, duh, ReZero. ReZero talking about crazy character designs. I really like in that show, they have some, I can't say that the character designs are particularly nuts, but the expressions on their faces, they are some of the most expressive faces.
00:41:30
Speaker
that I've seen in anime in a really long time. So I got to give a special place for there. That is definitely swag, the way that they can emote in that show. Bro, that's real. That's 100% real. You got any more? You got to eat last second shout outs, Kwon? I'm only going to tell this one out there. I'm from Overlord. My car, super swaggy. I don't know why I didn't think of that. He'd just be dropping people and then keep on going.
00:41:59
Speaker
What more do you want? That's all you can ask for, honestly. Yeah, I guess my departing last heave would be Julius Nova Chrono from Black Clover. Mm, yes. Especially in terms of design because of the mark that he always had on his forehead that we didn't realize was part of his power. That was a rune? Yeah, that was nuts to me.
00:42:27
Speaker
But even before that, I just thought he was like the coolest person, just doing whatever he wants. And honestly, like looking after everyone and every one of the different teams, like he will follow all of the rookies and making sure all the Magic Knights were straight. But he looked absentminded to his actual group. Like his assistant would always be like, what is he off doing now? And he's actually like out there policing. I thought that'd be cool. Definitely.
00:42:55
Speaker
And shout out to my black man, Rocklok, because he had the locks. We love to see the blacks with the locks in a minute. Next time we should do one, we should talk about some of the worst character designs that we can think of. Because my first thought when you said Rocklok was Rock Lee, and then I just cringed internally. Oh my goodness, you and Rocklee, your disdain for Rocklee is the same. It's Kwan's for saying it.
00:43:25
Speaker
I mean, because he was the biggest disappointment of all time. It's not his fault, though. It was the writing. Isn't that always the case? I guess. But I mean, say your man's a hero. I don't know what Rock Lee got. He got metal? Metal-y? Oh, that's even better. Please stop. Please stop. I'm missing you losing friends. I regret to inform you that our community has been in support. Yeah, our community has drank.
00:43:54
Speaker
Oh gosh, this is not what this is supposed to be about. Said your man's a hero, get that shit out of here. Hey look, I think he got a, did he get like a Nobel Peace Prize or something? Oh my goodness. Bitch, let me start though. From Hercule, Hercule? Nah, but that was fun. We love talking about swag, so it was only nice, it's only right that we talk about it in the context of anime. You gonna give a shout out to the cozy line?
Teaser for Next Episode
00:44:24
Speaker
Oh, we should always. The cozy you gotta you gotta rep the cozy brand at all times. But yeah, so we'll catch you guys next week with another episode.
00:44:44
Speaker
Ice in my veins, colder than freeze I'm protecting my own like cocoa and vegeta This is my story, pain in the glory, taking it back all of my territory Black out that berry, that sweet out the gin, stock out the flesh Deep as the roots in my life, since the truth that I rock When melanin just gets you far quicker Laughing in the face of danger, flexing my guns and the eye of defeat I am the voice of the night, of all of my people, unleashing the power in me Deep in my genes, this is my destiny, this is my legacy Won't get the best of me
00:45:13
Speaker
I miss the compress, I make it moves in silence in the shadow like oh god, gave my brother, can you pass me the wasabi? Nigga, I'm black as fuck and proud of it, I won't be modest, no, ain't no blockin' me, I overcome every obstacle, like a rose out the
00:45:32
Speaker
The concrete I accomplished the impossible Like Barack and Bakugo, yeah I'm unstoppable Still I rise from the ashes Mama told me never settle in If I can handle all that I got now I'm made for metal Melaninjas, yeah, yeah, metal Melaninjas Black as my skin, power within
00:45:58
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The MacMella Ninjas Black as my skin, power within