AAA 726: Kaiju Sweet Nothings

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This podcast is brought to you by our anime addicts anonymous community. And if you want to be an anime addict and help out the show, you can go to AAApodcast.com slash joint or Patreon. You're going to get our eight exclusive podcast episodes per month. That's our hobby addicts where we talk about a lot of video games and movies, our hentai episodes where we talk about the...And we're also the after parties. So head over to AAAPodast.com slash join our Patreon, help out the show, and be a great anime addict. And now let's get it rolling.

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The Kaiju actually forces himself inside of Kafka's mouth.

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That's how he becomes a Kaiju.

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Oh, he did?

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Yeah.

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Did anybody go to the police?

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Get ready!

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You're about to listen to the Anime Addicts Anonymous Podcast. Make your anime addiction wars at AAAPP Podcast.com. And now here are your Anime Addicts! Hello and welcome to the 726th episode of the Anime Addicts on this podcast.

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My name's Caroline, and with me today, we have Mesaun.

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Hello, Mesaun. Oh, so put in the...

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What accent are you putting on it? Is it a TILDA? I don't know, It's probably squiggly. All right. And we also have Mitsugi in his winter hat because it do be chilly in Colorado.

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Well, I'm bald also. So.

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And bald.

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Yeah, it snowed like eight inches yesterday or some shit and then it like, or for eight hours rather. And it was like that snow that's half snow, half rain, so it's all slushy and freezing.

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And it's just like, nothing, nothing like taking your dog out to take a shit.

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And with a bald head, the snow is just ravaging.

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Sounds like a lot of fun.

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Oh, he's great.

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It's, like, a high in the 70s, a little bit humid today. We got some rain coming in on the East Coast. So, yeah, very different. Well, I would like to thank you for joining us today on the AAA podcast. Also thanks to all of our supporters on iTunes giving us reviews.

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We love to see them, especially with their five stars.

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Also thanks to our members on Patreon and also just our regular subscribers on AAApodcast.com slash join. You can get bonus content like our hobby addicts that we just recorded. And also the supporters that just listen live every day or sorry, every Sunday at 5 VM, EDT. We are also on Twitter, otherwise known as X, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Discord.

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T-shirt that I made recently. You know, you're going to want that truck-in.

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Yes, I'm very proud. Mm-hmm. And let's talk about what we have coming up in the episode today. Would you like to explain anime alphabet Mason? Because I still don't get it. I probably did it wrong.

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We'll explain it when we get to it.

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But we're going to do the alphabet. For those of you who don't know your ABCs.

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Yes, yes.

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Well, we're only even doing half of our alphabet today.

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If that.

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We'll see how long it takes to get to it.

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We also have, what is it, our third round, or second round of spring impressions, right?

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Yep.

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We're going to be talking about Kaiju number eight, Rin Kai, trained to the end of the world, the many sides of voice actor radio.

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Oitonbu slash bartender.

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Oh, yeah, we're going to do.

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You got to say it very funnily. Say it as funny as you can for Oitonbo. Well, we're not going going to do it. You gotta say it very funnily.

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Say it as funny as you can for Oitonbo.

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Well, we're not going to do that today.

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I don't even know what that is.

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We're doing bartender.

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Oi tonbo.

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Oi tommbo.

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Okay, so that's not on the docket today.

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But bartender is.

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Also, girls band cry.

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Anybody else want to talk before we get into our big news of the week?

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Can our main topic next week just be 40 minutes of us saying,

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Oitombo, as silly as possible?

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Yeah.

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Put it on the board.

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Yeah, that's really her name.

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So, okay.

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Nope, nothing from here.

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Let's do it. Oh,

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it's time for big news of the week.

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Players of your PSA, the yen is at 158. Just fucking insane. The yen is so cheap that I am now, we are pancake canarynow discussing just moving to Japan permanently and just living there because I don't know,Japan's got us beat on everything and now they're wrecking us on prices. You just pretty much retire and just move to Japan and eat $200.

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Would you go to a major city or would you take one of those deals where the government is like, we'll give you a free house and everything if you just live in the countryside.

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You don't even have to do that. Like honestly, there are houses in Tokyo in like Saitama, which is a Tokyo suburb at this point. You can buy a house for like 100 Gs. It's like the cheapest shit ever. I mean, I don't know where else you're going to find. You're not going to find a house anywhere in America for 100K.So, but you can just go to Japan right now, buy a house for 100K and just never work again and just fuck off forever and just eat $200 sushi meals for like $40. That's kind of reality. That's where they are at the moment. 158? I doubt the yen has ever been this week against the dollar, ever. If people aren't going to Japan right now and you've been like wanting to and you havethe means, you're just foolish. Honestly, at this point, you should just go.

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Or at least putting money into a system that holds it at this 158.

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Like wise.com.

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Not a sponsor of this podcast.

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Oh, wait a second, wait a second, wait for it.

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Wait for it.

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Oh, wise.com.

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Still not sponsored.

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Not sponsored, but if you go to, if you, but I have a promo code that will get you a free exchange. So if you go to the Discord, you can DM me. Literally, this is the best way to take out money in Japan. This is a total like non-sequitur, but like honestly, every 7-11 takes this card and they charge almost nothing to exchange money. Literally, it's like, it's like 0.8% on the rate, which is impossible. A bank will charge you like 9%. So, yeah, I mean, why. Caroline, is it going

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to hit 160? In your professional opinion.

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I want to see it. It might have already done it. I want to see it. She's like Kramer. She's

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smashing her butt. Bam, bam, b'am, 160. I see it. I see it. It's fucking insane. I mean, like,

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bro, I mean, honestly, I can't even put that in terms of people can comprehend at this point.

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I don't know. It's blown my mind. Like, uh, you can, uh, you can't even put that in terms that people can comprehend at this point. I don't know.

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It's blown my mind.

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You can pretty much,

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like you would go to a bar

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and order a drink, and it would be like $3. And Japan just is better than the U.S. in almost every way. There's society's cleaner, the people are friendlier, there's less crime,the trains run perfectly. You know, there's not so much political bullshit fighting all the time. People are just happy. I don't know. Just move to Japan. Oh, and I looked it up, and this last thing I'll say, foreigners have the exact same property rights as Japanese people, so you can easily just buy a house in Japan as a foreigner. You don't have to do anything special, nothing. You might have to hire someone on like Etsy or like Fiverr to walk around with you and help translate your way through like the paperwork for like maybe$2,000. But like honestly, you can get a trance player off of Etsy? You buy a little crocheted

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notebook of Nihon to English. Whatever. You get a fiber, you know, like it's the same guy, the same type of person who bought my jibli tickets for the museum because theyihon to English. You go to fiber. You know, like, it's the same guy,

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the same type of person who bought my jubilee tickets for the museum

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because they were impossible to acquire. He upcharged me, but like that guy would probably, for like $1,500, he'd probably walk around with you for like five days and get your house, your registration, your fucking honko, your cell phone, you know, your electric setup, everything. You know, they probably have people that do that.And honestly, at $ 158 of the dollar, you may as well just, if you're like 50 and you want to retire, you may as well just move to Japan and do it now. You're accelerating your retirement by 10 years. Oh, and healthcare costs like nothing. It's like free in Japan practically.But you don't have to wait 10 months. Anyway, moving on. So in Japan, TV special ranks the top 10, sorry, the top 20 anime songs as chosen by foreign fans. So I guess these are, I thought they were Japanese people, but then based on that article, I guess they're not. So this is foreigners. This is what the foreigners like. There are three instances of attack on Titan on here.

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All at the bottom of the list, though, thankfully. Not that I have anything really against attack on Titan. I just think would be pretty lame if the top three were all attack on Titan. That would be unfortunate.

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There's three songs from Jiu-Sukaisen, which is pretty much all of them, as far as I can tell. And there's two songs from Naruto, which is nowhere near all of them. And I don't know, the standouts on here that are like not new Shonen stuff is Tank is on here from Cowboy Bebop

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at number 17. Oh, yeah, that was going to be a given. Yeah, but if this was Japanese people,

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I don't think it'd be on the list at all, honestly.

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That's how I, that corroborates for me the fact that this is, these are foreign fans because,

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I guess like I've said, Japanese people just don't care. I don't know the song Butterfly from Digimon Adventure. Maybe you guys do.

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No, I don't know that one either.

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Kazo would know it. He's a Digimon guy. Chala Head Shala is on here, number 13, which I think is pretty low for Chala Headchala. Honestly, I thought that'd be kind of higher. But we are from One Piece is number eight. I don't know that.I don't know that one. And then the top five are kickback from Chainsaw Man. Unravel from Tokyo Ghul. Totally wild, this next one.

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What the hell anime is this even? How do you know? This anime can't be. It's, yeah, it's the name. He's old. What the fuck song is this?

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Volta's from Voltaxiv. From Volta's Votas V by Mitsiko Hordier. I have never, someone's going to have, Mason, someone listen to this and tell me if this is like

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one of those. I've never heard of this.

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It's like, it looks like it's a Voltron-esque show, but I've never heard of the song.

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I mean, it's less than 2,000 people were pulled, so it's such a small sample size.

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But I had no idea how.

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2,000 people is decent.

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I mean, I don't know.

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To represent.

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But the fact that there are so many very

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popular OPs and

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80s, like further down the

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list, the fact that this one

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that none of us have heard of,

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no three of us,

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but

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a good portion of 2,000

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people voted for it.

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I don't know. But number two is Idol from Oshinoco, which I think is, you know, whatever, of course. And number, that's a recency pick. And then number one is

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Cruel Angels thesis from Evangelion, which is kind of like, you know, you knew it would be on there.

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I didn't think necessarily it'd be number one. But there it is. So there's so many songs in here that I just feel like aren't picked. I don't know. There's a lot of random shit here. Like, um, I'm really surprised that foreigners care a little, even a bit about Gintama.Um, I almost never hear people talking about it.

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So I listen to this Volta song. Yeah. And they,

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okay, there's two parts to it.

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So this is from a show in the 70s. So imagine any 70s anime opening, like just that quality of recording, that very operatic female vocal, just the most simple basic instrumentation. That's the song. So it sounds exactly as you're picturing in your head. This is the first anime ever shown in the song. So it sounds exactly as you're picturing in your head. This is the first anime ever shown in the Philippines. So my guess is that this pull had a lot of folks from there who had this nostalgia for this song.

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And that's why it got high on the list.

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Okay.

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Yeah, that makes some sense.

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There's a fuck ton of people in the Philippines. Yeah.

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Yeah, I don't know if you guys knew, but there's like 300 million people in the Philippines. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know if you guys knew, but there's like 300 million people in the Philippines, so that would definitely move the needle. Yeah, I don't know. So that's the list. Full metal alchemists is on here as well,so is Demon Slayer, which I thought would be higher. Like, you'd think it'd be higher, but apparently not. So, you know, Demon Slayer has been out for a while. It's no longer hot anymore, so no one cares.Gudengue is the one that made it, number 12. That's my big news. There's really not a lot of news this week. I just wanted to, I saw this was kind of fun, so. There you go.

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Well, speaking of, you know, anime, O-P, ZDs, an idol by Yo-A-O-A-O-B. You-A-O-B are going to be expanding some of the shows they're doing in the United States because they did some West Coast shows earlier this month. They're going to be heading to the East Coast as well this summer. After performing at Lollapalooza, they'll be coming to New York City's Radio City Music Hall on August 6thand Boston's MHM Music Hall at Fenway on August 8th. General Sale has already begun, so if you want to see one of those shows, you can order them now. I have a link on the show notes if you want to check that out. I'm sure if you just type in, you also be tour dates.You'll find it. I would be tempted to go, but I hate...

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I hate concerts on a weeknight.

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Yeah.

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I can't do that.

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I can't swing that.

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Oh yeah, you want to get hammered and, you know, go fucking nuts.

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Not exactly.

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It's just, it's kind of a pain to get into New York City on a Tuesday night.

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You got to go fucking nuts.

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But the thing is, I don't really have

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that many vacation days, so

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I can't, you know,

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I would have to leave right after work and then I would have to work the next day

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and going in and out of the city. As close as I am, taking the trains do take a little while. Are you remote? No.

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So if you hurl into a bucket, somebody will see it.

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Why the fuck are you not remote? That doesn't make any sense at all.

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No, I do do a lot of, you know, on location things in our school district.

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Okay.

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A lot of companies. But there are several days I could very well be remote.

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A lot of companies are.

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So like August 6 or August 7th, perhaps.

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There you go.

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When there aren't kids at school.

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Yeah.

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That's true.

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Oh, it's so fucking true. But still, they wouldn't say I would be, they wouldn't let. When there aren't kids at school. Yeah. That's true. It's so fucking true. They wouldn't say I would be, they wouldn't let me do that. The kids are probably at the concert. You're supervising them. You're a chaperone.

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It's unbelievable how many companies are still like, oh, this job, that's 100% like in

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Microsoft Excel. Oh yeah, you have to commute to the office because I need to see you sit there. Like, fuck off. Like, give me a fucking break.

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To a certain extent, it would be easier to do work at, you know, in my office because, you know, there are certain permissions that, you know, you can only be on, like, a company computer to do and that kind of stuff. The problem with working from home is that there's always

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somebody at a company that the management remembers that, like, so like in my company, some guy got fired because he was working remote and then all he did all day was fucking play video games. And he got fired because of it. And now they just assume everybody's going to do that. But I'm like, these people have KPIs. Like if the KPIs are suffering, then it's going to be proof that, you know, they're not working. If everybody, if they're hitting all their

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KPIs, they should, they could work from fucking. If the work is getting done. Yeah, you can work from

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fucking Mars. Who gives a shit? That's what I'm talking about. Everybody listening relates to this. They're all like, yep, mm-hmm. Unless you're like literally working with your hands, like in a factory or something, pretty much every office job could be remote at this point. Like, it's just absolutely ridiculous. You invested in Teams, Microsoft Teams, which sucks, by the way. You know, I mean, I assume you don't... We have meetings at my office where people literally get on Teams and they're sitting 10 feet from each other it's like why are you even on

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teams just go to a room and talk stupidest shit in the world like going across town to a certain

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school to a certain office so that we can have meetings when a lot of the time it's like can

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can we just make this a virtual meeting because Because you're costing me gas here and time.

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That's really fucking stupid.

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I mean, that being said, it's only like a 10-minute drive.

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So it's not that long. You get to expense that?

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But it's annoying, especially when I'm always the one going to these meetings.

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They're never coming to me.

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Even when it seems like it would be more makes more sense to do so because they're meeting other people who work in my building and we're going to this one person in this other building. They should be coming to us. It's pretty wild.

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But that's beside the point.

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Okay, Mason, go.

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Yeah, it was a pretty slow news week, as you guys could tell.

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So the only thing that caught my eye was there is a new piece of anime merch that is actually not as lame as they usually come. It's not a stupid, a screen printed T-shirt or a weird plasticy figure. It's actually something you can use. We have a Fist of the North Star Kitchen Knife, which, you know, I was a little skepticalon because it's like $139 bucks, but not too bad. And you consider it's an anime-themed piece of merchandise that you can actually use in the kitchen. And it looks pretty badass. It's like this titanium-coated blue steel, laser-etched fist of the North Star character.And I don't know. I actually kind of like the look of it. I just thought it was funny because there was this big old article about how cool it is. And then the Kickstarter that was getting it overseas got suspended like yesterday. So it's literally not even something you can get right now.

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But you did at one point. It might come back.

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But as far as anime merch goes, it's pretty unique. And I don't know.

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Yeah, looking at it, it's kind of cool.

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But I don't know. With this kind of stuff, I wonder how good the quality of the knife is. I mean, it's from like an actual branded knife maker. So.

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Oh, okay. But I also love how in the tweet that is in this article,

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they show some pictures of it being used in action. And it's a picture of the knife sitting next to

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like a cut loaf of bread. There's no way this knife is cutting bread. No, it's called a

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Sankoku knife, which is like a kind of Japanese version of a kitchen knife. So it's used for like

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vegetables, fish and meat. It's not used for like vegetables, fish, and meat.

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It's not serrated like what you want for cutting bread.

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You're not cutting up with this, man.

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You're just not.

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Lies, lies.

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So I have nothing this week.

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Good day. Go home. Let's get to our main topic.

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I think all these articles are hilarious when they have the yen in them now because the yen is changing so fast that even this article is out of date. So it says this thing's $122 from six days ago. Wrong. It's not.It's cheaper than that. I'm fucking believable.

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Though maybe it's right when people are listening to us.

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Who knows?

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People are literally going to look up articles on shit.

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They're going to read this article from like three years ago about some like Jojo shoe or something and it's going to be like, this shoe is 10,000 yen or $100 because it's 100 to one. It's like nope, try $60. 60. Yeah. But it's like what we do when we read stuff and it's like back in my day I went to a baseball

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game for two nickels and had a you know, we're like oh my goodness inflation and stuff. But this is

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I get it. It's different.

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It's literally cheaper.

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It's cheaper in Japan now than it was there 30 years ago.

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Like factually.

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How does, how do you even wrap your head around that?

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I can't.

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I can't wrap my head around anything because that seems physically impossible.

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Yeah, well, yeah.

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I mean, Japan has really no inflation and it hasn't for a long time.

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And now they have a weakest-fuck currency.

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So as long as you're earning money in dollars, it's like fucking free-for-all.

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Well, you can't trust numbers. They're all made up. They're constantly changing.

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Well, yeah.

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But what you can't trust is the alphabet.

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Yes, the good segue.

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Because that's not nearly as made up.

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It's pretty static.

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No, no.

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It's not artificial in the slightest.

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I heard the alphabet doesn't change much. It stays the same. Yeah. Well, you know, sometimes they introduce a new one to try to jazz made up. It's pretty static. No, no. It's not artificial in the slightest. I heard the alphabet doesn't change much.

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It stays the same.

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Yeah, well, you know, sometimes

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they introduce a new one to try to jazz it up,

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but it never really takes well.

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All right.

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Are you guys ever into pig Latin?

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So explain this topic.

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I never quite understood Pig Latin. Yeah, so

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alphabet.

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I don't know. It just seemed like a fun little game where essentially

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the point of it is each of us have picked one anime per letter that we hold there, that we want to put on a pedestal that defines our taste as a certified banger. Just a, just a highlight show that you're like, ah, the best A show that I've seen, I want people to know about this. And we also picked one anime per letter that you wish never existed.

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You want to slam dunk into the trash that just gives anime a bad name. And you're like, if I was king of the world, I would remove this anime from existence. So if we're going based on the first letter of the English translation of an anime. So for example, the anime Akunohana,

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aka Flowers of Evil, would be an F anime. So it would go in the F category. So I think we had different ways of how we did our list because this was kind of a last second decision.

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We'll get through as many letters as we can.

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So Mitz, give us your rules, your mindset of how you made your list? Yeah.

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I just picked shows that I thought we're good and then fucking terrible. But I tried to not be

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super obvious about the good ones.

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Like I tried to not,

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I didn't want to pick like

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12 kingdoms and all this other shit

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that everybody knows I already like, you know?

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We wouldn't be able to, we are not going down to T.

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Yeah, we're not. And I'm not going to talk very much about these because we're never going to get through this topic. If we do, but for number A, I think.

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Number A.

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Number A. Number A.

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Number A. Jesus. Air is a pretty good anime. It's a key visual arts show. It's pretty old at this point. Probably close to 20 years old.But very sad. It has that classic key visual arts art style. It's super hardcore depressing. A lot like Klanod is depressing. It's the same people that do Klonod. You know, it'll wreck you.You know, it's not a masterpiece, but it is good. I wouldn't say it's the best thing, but it's good. It's probably, you know, it's probably got an eight on my anime list, I had to guess. And for the not good, amnesia, because that anime... Jesus.

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I was going to put another because that anime also sucks.

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I almost had that on my list.

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But there are some people that actually like that show because I don't know why, but amnesia's that show.

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I think another is like an example of it being bad, but some people find it bad enough to be entertaining.

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Well, amnesia is some girl like fucking trash light novel where some girl gets like abducted and put in a cage and all the boys are super sexy so it's supposed to be like hot like I don't know it's it's fucking terrible I don't know who enjoys amnesia but I don't want to be your friend if you like that anime what did you guys pick well um so I took a different kind of approach to this.

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I kind of accidentally because I thought we were going to be a little special with how we made our lists. Especially since we don't want to be talking about the same anime over and over again. So I'm like, okay, let me think of some qualifiers to make my list more specific. So it's not necessarily good and not good anime. I made lists of anime that I expected to be bad, but I actually liked, and vice versa.Okay.

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And some of these are not that extreme. Some of these are more like, oh, I thought this. It's not as if I thought this anime was going to be bad, bad, but I thought I wasn't going to like it and kind of things like that. So for the anime that I thought was bad slash would dislike but was good slash liked, this one goes to a sister's all you need.

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I like how in my head.

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I never watch that.

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I'm like, oh, this topic will be about, you know, you get one show that, like, is the show of the A's.

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And you have to pick through, oh, am I going to go with Akira?

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Am I going to go with Akeira? Am I going to go with this show?

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And you just really have to, you know, find the pinnacle.

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You also said, don't pick the ones you always talk about.

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I said, already it was going to be not accurate.

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I never said, I won't, tell me about a sister is all you need.

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Why is this a good show? Okay, okay. So a sister's all you need can be a really weird show. It's kind of sexual. It is a sister show. It's about a writer who is a ciscon and all of his light novels or whatever he's writing involvesciscons and that kind of stuff. So he's weird, but his friend group is so interesting because we got multiple writers of different things. One guy has an anime coming out, so he's dealing with that. One writer is really attracted to the main guy and is constantly naked because she hasto be naked to write her shows. She's also doing several. Yeah.

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Wait, well, what? Clothes is all you need. You understand, Mitts?

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How have I not seen this? She's naked to write. Yeah. You like this?

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What was that?

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You like this?

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She has to, she has to start.

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I mean, there were several points in this show that I was uncomfortable. Okay.

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But I thought, because there's, like, this friend group does, it does some fun things.

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Like every, I don't know if it was every episode, but frequently they would play interesting writing games where they come up with stories and plot lines.

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And that was fun. And there's one girl that's in college. And the main character has a stepbrother who may or may not be pretending

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to be a boy because he knows his stepbrother. It's a CISCon. So it gets a little awkward with that. I was surprised I like this show. So I have not seen it a long time, but I kind of want to rewatch it just to see if I was actually on something when I was watching it the first time.Okay. Moving on to the show that I was thinking I would like but ended up not liking a kebby sailor uniform. I was heavily disappointed by this one because it was weird and a sister is all you need is weird, but it didn't pretend to not be weird. A kebby sailor uniform was weird, but it acted as if it was totally normal to have a girl sniffing the...

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The toenail clipper. Yeah. And then there's feet everywhere. And then the bug eyes. And too much.

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Okay.

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I'm just going to pretend, Carolina, this is your list of greatest anime ever, and you're going to have to defend it like it is.

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Sure. Okay. Go ahead.

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Perfect. So, yeah, for the A's, this was tricky. There's a lot of shows for A's. You have Attack on Titan. You have a Gretzco. You have a bunch of classics that I could have gone with, Ashtano Joe.But at the end of the day, I picked Asobi Asobase, which is just kind of my way of confirming to myself that sometimes comedy anime can actually be funny. And they're rare because just like we often say, oh, anime can't be scary. Ah, anime comedy never works. But when they do, they really land. This show is complete wild. It's nightmare fuel and engaging and just wacky on all fronts.And it just works for me. So I really enjoy it. And for the show, I would throw in the trash, kind of similar to Mitsugi where it kind of gets some love, but I just don't understand it,which is a town where you live, which is just a hyper, dramatic, romantic, love triangle, misunderstanding thing of this guy who moves back into his town and kind of reconnects with all these girls that he used to have sort of feelings for. And it's just a constant game of changing who you're in love with and being in a different romance and people are dying left and rightfrom just not like dramatic betrayals or anything they're just dying and all people are crying all the time and there's all this dramatic music what's that meant?

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Sounds like I mean I haven't seen this so I don't really know but it sounds a little like

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only yesterday

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person goes back to their old hometown and has nostalgia and meets people that they liked or love or whatever.

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Yeah, but only yesterday is like a heartfelt story about this lady's like growth into maturity and reflecting on where they came.

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This is more of I liked Kim, but now Kim likes Joey, but Joey's going to die.

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So Kim, it breaks me to live with Joe.

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It's like trash romance, but they have these really die. So Kim, it breaks out with me to live with Joe. It's like trash romance, but they have these really heartfelt attempted moments with this really sad ballad-y music playing to just the most laughable writing. It's very cheesy. It's very egregious. It has potential in some capacity, but it just flounders.

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It's egregious.

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It's not good.

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I could have gone without seeing it. That's funny.

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B's.

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Oh, yeah, the B's.

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What do we got?

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The A's and the B.

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So for the A's and the Bs have both had a lot of good options.

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Yeah, well, of course.

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So for the B, there was a lot of choices, as you said.

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I picked Black Lagoon second barrage. Really could have been Black Lagoon the first season, whatever, but at least I didn't pick Black Butler, right? So, because Black Lagoon is fucking awesome in every way.It's probably one of the best action shows out there. It always will be, I imagine. Revy's awesome. You know, I like all the characters in Black Lagoon. For the bad, I'm just going to move on from Black Lagoon. It doesn't need much explanation. Yeah, the Twitch said, Bacano.I thought about that, but I was like, Bacano, yeah. It's probably better than Black Lagoon, actually, possibly, but it's a... I thought Black Lagoon was a little slightly deeper cut. I feel like we don't talk about it ever. And then for the not good,a show that 99% of people have never heard of, Awe Holnil, otherwise known as Blue Flames, another anime with Blue and at Mason's nodding. I haven't seen this anime in a while, but I recall being about an hour long, and it's about this guy who just like, what is he doing?He's like going around trying to ruin some girl's life and being a player and trying to, like, seduce women, but with ill intentions. And it's just like a fucking dirt bag. And it's a really not feel-good anime. I can't remember what the hell he's trying. Let's see, Blue Flames anime. So can't remember what the hell he's from. Let's see, Blue, Blue Flames anime.So what's this fucking thing? No, I don't want blue, I don't want blue. Owry, whole no. There we go, anime.

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Let's see, it's, uh... Google's trying to save you from learning about this.

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I'm just trying to fuck it up. But I can't even find the synopsis. It's so obscure that like... All right, so, set in the early 80s, a young man dreams of becoming a renowned comic writer in years to come. His name, blah, blah, blah. He has no money,only a dream. When he feels overwhelmed by his lack of ability, he buys some stomach torture. Jesus, this fucking synopsis

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ass. This anime is not good. But it is, it's pretty rough to watch. Next.

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All right.

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Continuing with shows I thought would be bad, but I actually was good or I liked Bentow. So originally this show, like my list started off with shows that had a lot of fan service that I ended up liking, but I didn't see and I didn't have enough shows for it to make this list. But Bentow carried over because there's a whole lot of boobs in this show. But there's a whole lot of fighting overfood. And it's, it's just crazy seeing like all these characters doing like drop kicks on other characters fighting for the half off bentos in the supermarket. And this is just a thing that people do. It's kind of like fight club. And it's so funny. It's just, I don't hear people talk about Bento enough. I think, yeah, it's great. Did you guys like Bentow?

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I enjoyed bento. It's, yeah, like you said, Fight Club, just for sad, poor college students. Well, I guess they're college students. Of course, they're poor. But it just, it just takes itself not seriously at all, while the characters take themselves completely seriously. And it works really well.

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Yeah. I haven't seen Bento, but I lived it for a year or so, because I used to go stare at the

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bentos in fucking Japanese convenience stores, or

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not convenience stores necessarily, but grocery stores

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all the time. And there are ones that people like the best, and they do wait for them. And when they show up, you better be there or they be gone.

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All right.

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And on my list of things that I thought I was going to really like, but didn't, I have Blue Period, continuing with the Blues.

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I'm not saying that Blue Period was bad. I'm just saying I was surprisingly not invested in that show. I also did not really love how the main character was just never had any experience or interest in doing art, but then all of a sudden is this great artist. And yeah, I know there was a bit of training that he did going into it, but still, the fact that he made this drastic life decision to pursue art so quickly before he had even did it for as like a passion or anything,it's just, I didn't really like that. And frankly, it was kind of forgettable for me. So, yeah, was a little bit disappointed by Blue Period. A lot of blues on this list.

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I'm sorry to break the chain. Blues are everywhere in anime. A lot of good bees this list. I'm sorry to break the chain.

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Blues are everywhere in anime.

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A lot of good bees, Barakaman, Beledano of Sadness. But my good bee has to be Berserk.

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It's just a classic.

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Everyone knows it. You love it.

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And not for not good.

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I'm also going berserk, 2016.

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Oh, fair.

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Yeah, that's for fucking shit. I mean, it's just not not good. I'm also going berserk, 2016. Yeah, that's for fucking shit.

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I mean, it's just not very good.

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Honestly, I originally had bunny drop as this joke for being both the good and the bad. Still also works, but it's actually good. No, bad, I'm going to say brand new animal, aka BNA.

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I really like Trigger. I really love their sense of style and just bombastic nature. And this was just such a disappointment. Not that even it was aggressively bad.

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It was just kind of just crippling mediocre and lackluster and just kind of fizzled out. And I think a lot of the ones on my list are not going to be outright bad shows, just ones that I got excited for similar to Curines and it was just left down by so but Brerzirk if you haven't seen it what are you doing what are you doing I don't know probably listening to us uh moving on all right so the C category

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what did I pick? I don't even remember. Oh, yeah. I picked Code Gios for the good because the anime's awesome,

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and we never talk about it ever. And La Lusche is awesome. And for the bad... Surprise Jibun Wo didn't make that list of best anime songs. That's true.

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I know that's not the name of the song,

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but everyone knows the lyrics.

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I know what you mean by that, though. And then for the bad, I picked Charlotte because that anime was totally ass. I'm wondering if we're going to have any overlap, because I know we have all of ours blocked out, so I'm kind of waiting for it.

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But yeah, Charlotte was super terrible. All right. Is that all you wanted to say on C? Yeah.

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We don't have a lot of time.

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Shows I thought I was going to like but didn't. Oh, wait a minute. I got this mixed up. Damn it. Okay. Nope.

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Stick with it. Call the night. Why is it amazing?

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No. I didn't like all the night. I thought it was boring.

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I don't know how I did.

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I accidentally put two shows that I expected to like but didn't. And yeah, so number one is called a night. Didn't enjoy that. Thought it was going to be fun. I thought it was going to be lighthearted and enjoyable, but it wasn't for me. I thought it was boring.Now for the second show that I thought I was going to like but didn't. This comes with actually an asterisk. So, Cympunk Edrenners. I liked Cyberpunk Edrenners. I liked the first half of it.I thought it was freaking awesome. I was going to give it like a 4.5 out of five up until like the midway point. And then I just hate what they did to the main character. And I hated the ending. Yeah, it just ruined itself for me. That's all I'll say about that.I'm going to go see if I can find another C-show that would work better in this list. Mason, you go. Yeah.

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Lady Emery in the chat, welcome back, by the way, says, Cowboy Bebop, solid pick.

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Yeah, it's so obvious, though.

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Yeah, but, you know, if you're picking a sea for all of your seas, it gets pretty competitive. I went with Chiayaafuru. I still stand by this being one of the best sports shows out there. And for it to introduce just a sport that pretty much everyone, I would bet, in the Western audience has never heard of before and still make it engaging. I think it's very respectable. Yeah, it's good.And speaking of sports that people know about and made it awful, I have to go with Cestis, this abysmal CG Roman gladiator fighting anime that I did for impressions. And for some reason, I was just like, oh, like, maybe it'll get better as I watched episode, an episode after some of the worst stuff I've ever seen. This was one of the most objectively bad anime on this list. And I'm upset that I watched it.And I advise you not to, which is probably likely because I'm betting no one to watch the show either so you're smarter than me audience you're welcome all right for the

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I almost had City Hunter on here as well because that's such a beloved show and so iconic and

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just aesthetically awesome and I just can't get into it because the main character is just such

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a douchebag you said I feel guilty He's too unsurious for me also. He's supposed to be like this, I don't know, unstoppable hitman slash person for hire.

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Goofy womanizer.

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But instead he's just like sliding under tables and acting like a madman. Like, what are you doing?

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Yeah, I just, I want to like City Hunter because then I'll be cool, but I don't.

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So let's go through a couple more letters if we have time.

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I'm looking up how impossible it is to get permanent residency in Japan,

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and it is not.

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I love how we're not even going to get halfway through our halfway alphabet.

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I knew we were not going to get through all of it.

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So for the D's, yeah, Dragon Pink.

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Yeah, you know it.

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You love it. Yep, yep, Caroline's trying to decide if this is...

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We're gone Dragon Ball for a different Dragon Show.

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Caroline's trying to decide if Dragon Pink is inappropriate or not. What do you think? Mm-hmm.

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Just, we have no time to this.

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Let's just say, there's a Dildo Cobra. Oh, my God.

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And Dragon Pan.

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I'm just saying it's important to note. For the bad, if I'm throwing a bamboozle at Gohan-Gohan Trunks fan, Dragon Ball Z movie 11, Bio Broly. That movie is fucking terrible. What were they thinking?Not only does it only contain, I think, Kid, Trunks, and Goten, but it also has fucking Broly for the third time that he's like a green slime version of himself. A horrible movie. All they do is get terrorized by Broly and then fight him. I don't know.It's a bad movie. Very bad.

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I was going to ask how many Broly movies are there?

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There's one recently. Four or five actually.

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Because the recent one wasn't too bad from what I remember.

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Yeah.

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Well, the recent one was fine, but this is, you know, this was the third.

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So the Broly movies are like movies, ooh, seven? Oh, man. I don't know. Move on. We don't need to take time.

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I'm talking about Broly. It's a third Broly movie. It's very horrible. It's probably the worst Dragon Ball movie. We're getting into the area of the alphabet that I had struggled with, even though we're probably not going to reach the part where I had all these different ideas,but they're going to go in the trash. Okay. So these, there weren't like a lot on the list that I could pick from, especially with my criteria. I went with Dr. Elise as a show that I thought wasn't going to be all that good, but I was kind of surprised by, you know. I talked a bit about it recently when we were doing what we've been watching.But, yeah, I was just surprised that I like the couple in it more than I like the couple in seventh loop, or at least what I've seen of seven loops so far. Also, the doctor stuff seems pretty legit in that show. Here's another one with a little asterisk next to it, because, okay, I put down Dorao for things that I didn't like, because I love Doro, but the second half really fell off for me. Not even just like the second half as a whole, mostly just the ending. And then there were a couple episodes I wasn't loving.The first half of Dooro. Awesome. I give it a good score, and I will say that I love Dooro, but I'm going to say was really disappointed by the ending. Ending half, I'll say. Yeah, that's fair.

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Yeah, D has some great ones

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from Descending Stories,

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Rakugo Shinju, the second season of it, which is a certified classic in my book. The Death Billiards and Death Parade combo, I think, is a great series. But I'm going to expand on Caroline's answer from Dororo to Hedoro, which is just the most confusing two names to have side by side on this list.

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But we're going to do it.

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I love this manga. I love this anime. It looks so goofy. I love the personality and characterization to it. And it's just a wild world that anime is all about just taking something that is so off the wall goofycould not exist in any other medium. Does it well here. For the not good shows that I want to push off of a cliff, mostly because of the discourse and you know, waves that it made, but is darlingin the Franks, which was

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I don't, it just was a massively popular show that I think,

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I think just, I don't know why it got so big. I know why it did, but I don't like that it did. I don't like that this was the face of anime for so many years. And it makes me mad. And I wish to delete it from the history books. Please thank you very much.

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You know what I was thinking about when I was going through the anime?

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Why is she a big spaceship? Sorry.

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Some kind of similar to Darling and the Franks, Babylon. It was kind of big when it came out, but everybody hated it by the end. I don't.

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Was it that big? I don't know.

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Maybe it was just on anime YouTube because that's around the time I was watching a lot of that.

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So I saw a lot of people talking about Babylon. It's like, oh, my God, the show has not finished yet, but it's going to be the big stance. And people were hyped about it. Meanwhile, I'm just like, oh, it doesn't really seem that interesting. But I started watching it. And I'm even watching the first half, I'm like, this doesn't seem that great.And then the ending shit the bed. And I'm like, I told you guys. I told you so. I don't want to spoil my next pick too much. But I think Babylon, if it was as big as you're saying, probably tapped into that sort of pseudo-intellectual philosophical edginess that gets, oh, I'm a 400 IQ anime watcher.

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And this is really for the smart, intelligent watcher. And wasn't.

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So maybe. But what do you have for E? Mitz.

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So for E, I have electromagnetic girlfriend for the good, which is a horror show. That's two episode OVA. Extremely good. I don't know where you would find that,but I recommend watching it. It's called Den Pataki Nakanojo in Japanese, and it's extremely solid. It's pretty twisted at times, but it's not too terrible. But I definitely recommend that. It'd be a great Halloween anime.And of course, for the bad, it's got to be X-Arm. Simply for the friggin animation alone in that, it was just abysmal, honestly, very difficult to even watch when it's that hideous. And it kind of reminded me of the Rinkai anime. We're going to talk about later at times.

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But not as bad as X-Arm.

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For me, I only had two E-animas on my list,

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and by my criteria, it wasn't really going to fit all that well,

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but by the criteria of the overall topic, I suppose if it's all right, for the good erased,

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I love erased, and for the not good, Endo and Kobayashi, the latest on Sundari,

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Lisa Llech, or whatever her name is. Oh, God. That was a shame. That whole season of my passes was so bad. All right. Continue, Mason.

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So, yeah, both of these shows for my E are both very similar in that they're, like Babylon, dark, philosophical, brooding, edgy shows. But one, I think, does it exceptionally well, and one is way too much of a tryhard. And the good is ergo proxy, and the bad is Elfin Lead, which if you've seen any of them, you know, cannot be further apart in their execution of restraint and, you know, mindfulness. So, yeah, one really good show and one really aggressively bad one. So that's what I got for these.

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Elfin lead is not aggressively bad.

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It is aggressive and it is bad. Separately.

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There are a lot of people that like Elfin Lead.

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I know. And I wish they didn't have that show to like. people to like Elphin Lead.

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I know, and I wish they didn't have that show to like.

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For me, a couple

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deep cuts here. For F, Fantastic Children, which is a pretty strong anime. It's sci-fi. I don't know if people, probably not many people have seen Fantastic Children, but I do recommend it. It's got a good opening.It's got some good, strong plot twists in it. Interesting character models. Definitely opening. It's got some good strong plot twist in it. Interesting character models. Definitely recommend. And for the bad, the horrible Final Fantasy Unlimited, which has got to have, man, what does this thing have online? I'm surprised that it's even in the sixes. It's a low sixes, but probably the worst thing that's ever come out of Final Fantasy other than Final Fantasy 15 andjust terrible terrible fucking show yeah that's it

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I love the Twitch chat

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all your suggestions are very good keep them going I like it yeah they're being very nice

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except they're lying

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for a show that I thought

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was not going to dislike but did

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like, for F, I chose Food Wars. For obvious reasons, you guys know I'm not huge on fan service, and Food Wars is full of fan service, but as also a fan ofthe Food Network and watching good food being made, I actually thought the fan service in this show was kind of funny, especially since it was very unabashedly equal in its gender usage. And yeah, I did not really like it after like the first few seasons, but first couple seasonsof Food Wars is solid, and I like it. Mason. I forgot, I didn't have anything for the other side of the coin

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for F. Nothing? No.

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Let's see. Is there anything from the chat?

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Flying Witch was pretty bad.

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Oh, oh, you know what? You're right. Lady Emery just reminded me of it. Yeah, Flying Witch that fits was not huge on Flying Witch. I thought it was going to like a button. I thought.

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Flipflapers, a good show. Fruit spacks. That's solid choice. Yeah, F is which that fits was not huge on playing which. I thought it was like a button.

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Flapper is a good show. Fruit spacks. That's solid choice.

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Yeah, F is chock full of great shows from full metal alchemist to Freeran. I got to go with Fully Cooley. Obligatory Mason comment.

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Oh, man. We don't need to. What a, what a dedicated fan.

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Listen, I don't need to say anymore because this is not your first time listening to this show. And for bad, I'm going to go with the disappointing farewell, my dear Kramer. This is the ladies soccer anime that just was so gutted for animation and budget that it just looked so bad. It, you know, once again, had a potential well-loved manga. The movie that it got later with some animation definitely assisted it, but it was borderline unwatchable for pretty much all episodes that it existed under.So that was pretty disappointing. So, yeah, well, please go away. I don't like that show. All right.

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So for G, I did the same thing. I went with Golden Boy. It's so good.

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You can't not pick it.

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It's those couple episode OVAs, my guy.

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Yeah, and I saw...

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It just tap into that primal current.

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And I saw a YouTube thing

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about Golden Boy the day because apparently the manga goes way further and it gets super more raunchy, like not even like way raunchier, which is pretty remarkable because I mean that motorcycle episode is pretty rough. Golden Boy, the funniest anime I've ever seen, bar none. I will always love it. And for the bad, a Godzilla singular point, because I just have no patience for Technobabble at all, like get that away from me. I, uh, I, uh, I will always love it. I, uh, I will always love it and for the bad a Godzilla singular point because I just have no patience for techno babble at alllike get that away from me I just I don't know can't handle it okay yeah

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me for the G's

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I could not think of one

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that I thought was going to be bad but actually turned out good I did think of one that I thought I going to be bad but actually turned out good. I did think of one that I thought I was going to really like but ended up not loving. Not saying it's bad, but I wasn't

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feeling it. GERN. Lagan. No, I almost had that as my G1. For the good? Yeah. Yeah, I know

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it's a big thing.

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Here's the thing.

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I guess I just don't like any Mecca. I have yet to come across a Mecca show that I'm like, oh, my God, I love the show. It's usually I'm kind of lukewarm about it or don't like at all. Gur and Logan, I'm more on the lukewarm side. There were points of it I liked. But overall, just did not hit for me.

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That's fair. That's fair. Too much digging.

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It's totally memeable. I love the memes.

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Yeah. It's got spirit. So for my good in the G, originally I was going to do Ghost in the Shell, but I was really trying to not pick movies on this list because I feel like movies just have more of an unfair advantage in my headspace of being very memorable and pedestal-worthy. So instead, I'm just going to do Ghost in the Shell, the TV series,because that was also still really amazing and solid and just continued to make that franchise and series really well-rounded and versed, and I like how they took it in a different direction. So yeah, Ghost in the Shell is amazing, no matter which way you watch it. Maybe not the new 2045, whatever it is, but OG goes in the shell. Good stuff.For bad, not good? Oh, there's so much to choose from. You could choose the disappointingness of Guilty Crown. You could do the Love Decaedron pentagram that is gamers. You could do Gibeate to go with the X-arm that Mitts talked about earlier. There's so many that just all of them wholesale.Just we'd be better without as a society. And I'm going to go with gamers at the end.

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That was just the peak of the

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annoying rom-com triangle taken to the extreme and uh yeah keeping it moving one more

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maybe one more here keeping it moving with the h's listen it's got to be harem labyrinth in another

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world it's Roxanne all day every day awesome great I. Great. I mean, come on. She got her own

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three-hour ASMR product this to buy. I guess people love Roxanne. They love it. They love the,

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they love the booty is what they love. And she was cheeked up. So she definitely works those hamstrings,

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gets a lift in the butto telling you what, yep, indeed, doing the squats. And for the bad, I went with Hanibato because I'm just very tired of sports anime featuring mostly or entirely women, because as you will hear later, they are just routinely bad. So I don't know why they can't figure this out. It's not hard. Why can't they figure it out?

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I liked the beginning of Hanibato. But it's like... It looked good. It had potential. It was about the sport. And then halfway through, they're like, you know what?Let's have some weird supernatural powers and weird relationship, like drama, and just all this weird stuff that distracted from the sport I was there to watch. It was so disappointing.

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Lady Emery is so funny. She's like, Mitz and I are total opposites. I had harem in the labyrinth as my bad.

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I'm like, this is obviously a joke.

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I'm making a joke, obviously. I mean...

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Is it just a joke? It's just a joke. This is...

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Seriously.

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Yeah, we'll talk about sports anime with girls later, but I just don't...

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It's the same as with guys. It's just another gender. Honestly, why can you not fuck this up? I don't understand, but yeah. Continue. I don't know.

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I feel like I am going to get a lot of heat for this one.

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Nah.

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So a show that I thought I was not going to like, but ended up liking just a snidgin more than I probably should have. And I'm not saying I love this show, but I'm saying that I surprisingly found things to like about it. Happy Sugar Life. It is a show about this insane girl who finds this little little girl, like she's like, I don't know, seven, eight adorable. She's so cute. And this teenage girl finds her, she's like abandoned for some reason.I forget why. But she decides to take her in as kind of like a little sister might be might have like more uncomfortable feelings towards this little girl but she's kind of like a yonderay so she's trying to keep other people from like taking the girl from her and so that they can have their happy sugar life in their house. And, yeah, so yonderay things happen, but it's all in pursuit of, you know, having this little girls today in her life, surprisingly entertaining.It's not good. It's surprisingly entertaining for me. Yeah, don't, don't criticize me about that. On the other side of the coin, something I thoughtI was going to like but didn't. Hanasaki Iroha. And I just find it funny

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because I put it next to Happy Sugar Life,

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but Happy Sugar comedy.

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Hanasaki era is,

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it's a fine anime about a girl who is working in her, I think, grandmother's bathhouse, spa, whatever. Ro Khan thing.

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Yeah.

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That anime's awesome.

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And I should like it.

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I just don't like it.

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It's in your bad category?

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Yeah.

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I admit slowly dawning.

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Oh my goodness.

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What?

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I just didn't.

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You have Gurin, like, wait a second.

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Wait a minute.

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She has Hanukasa Iraa in the bad category.

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These are not necessarily bad shows.

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There are just shows I didn't like.

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Or it didn't like as much as I should have.

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Hanasaki Iraa I really did not like actually.

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Not the worst anime I've ever seen.

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But I thought I was going to like it.

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And it was such a disappointment to me.

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Oh, I see. You play it by different rules.

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People are going to think I'm going crazy because of my list. Sorry, guys.

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Yeah, I mean, you got Gur and LaGan and the Badge also. People worship that.

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I've given the little asterisk. That is why it's there.

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Oh, why didn't you pick Arosk war for your good show?

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I've never seen that.

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Oh, it's not a kid.

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The women, they tore at their hair and beat at their chest when Kamina died.

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And the men, they're still masturbating to Roko, to Yoko.

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So.

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I was sad when Kamina died.

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See?

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But you have to agree.

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Did you tear at your hair?

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Like the Romans?

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Like the romance?

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And jumped the shark at the end.

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Oh, I hate Super Robot.

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I think it's the dumbest thing ever.

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Picking up a planet and throwing it as a mecca is

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amongst the dumbest things I've ever seen.

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And it's almost like they just gave up on the story.

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They're like, fuck it.

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Fuck it.

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He can throw a planet now.

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Nope.

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I just want to tell people to take my list with a grain of salt

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and the specific conditions I gave these picks.

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How do we have Mason broke the rules on this next one?

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How do we not have a single overlap?

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Go ahead, Mason.

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We broke the rules.

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I broke the rules.

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There are so many good ones I have for H. You know, you have harem labyrinth in another world. You have Heavenly Deluxe. You have Hokea. Oh, yeah.

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You have haiku. haiku. Um,

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yeah, but Hajima is not the English title. But it is the translated, uh, title on English stuff.

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It's not like the fighting or whatever. What? It's, what? It's called fighting spirit.

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Nobody calls it that. It's called Hajimae Noipo on the websites.

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You go anywhere.

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Like so, the sequels are called Fighting Spirit.

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I'm going to type Fighting Spirit anime.

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I really don't care.

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I want to look up Hajimeoepo.

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Let's see.

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It came right up as Fighting Spirit, so I don't know.

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It came right up as?

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Like you on Cruncherell, it's called Hajima Noepo.

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You go on my anime list, it's called...

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Oh, technically on...

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Fighting Spirit.

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It's called Finding Spirit on Mel.

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Technically on Wikipedia, it's called The First Step,

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which is literally what a Hajimaepo means,

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which is a dumb fucking title, but...

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So, yeah, if we're calling it that, it's Hajimae Noepo.

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You know, Chi Hayafru, one of the great sports anime,

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Hajminoipo say right up there as well.

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I mean, it's a 10 out of 10. It's a classic. It'll keep you going forever.

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But not iconic.

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Ipo is...

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You guys threw poor Ipo in the garbage. Did you even bring up I? I did. Oh, well, I don't remember. Yeah, it came and went like the wind. Did you even bring up EPO? I did.

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Oh, well, I don't remember.

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It came and went like the wind.

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Well, EPO's pretty, I mean, also I messed up on that episode because you brought up Detective Conan.

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And in my head, I was just so much associating you saying Conan with Future Boy Conan.

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For the longest time, I thought those two things were the same. Like, I just, I was like, oh, he's talking about Future Boy Conan? For the longest time I thought those two things were the same.

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Like I just I was like oh he's talking about future boy Conan and I was like oh well future

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boy Conan you know it's pretty cool but not iconic and I was like oh it's something about first me and you gave me a look and I just didn't register that you were saying Detective Conan you said Detective Conan I just didn't register and like later that night I was like, oh, he was talking about the other Conan. Yeah, he's pretty iconic. And for the not good H's, I wanted to do something funny, but I couldn't not pick how a realist hero rebuilt the kingdom.You know, you give something a one out of ten. It's probably not up your alley.

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You gave it a one out of ten? It's pretty fucking good your alley. You gave it a one out of ten? It's pretty fucking good. That's even lower than me. I gave it too.

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So those were our list, A through H, of Caroline's favorite shows of all time.

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You have Happy Sugar Life, Dr. Elise, a sister is all you need.

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You know, all the classics. And I don't think we need to say anymore.

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No, I really wish I could have gone through the rest of my list because I'm sure people would have loved to hear it.

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If people enjoy this weird random topic, we can bring it back. We have plenty more alphabet letters to go through.

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There's no way we can do X, Y, Z, though.

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Oh, we can definitely do X, Y, Z. I don't know about how many

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I can keep you.

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Let me scroll down my list here. It's going to take a second.

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I mean, there's literally an anime called X.

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I would pick that for sure.

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X.

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Yeah, they're out there.

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But for my criteria.

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Yeah, the, yeah, well, you're, yeah, I mean.

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Then you got to watch X.

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It's hopefully you think about it one way or another.

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It's shame that we didn't get to M because people would love to know what my bad was for M.

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Ooh.

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But you know, we're going to know.

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Well, they'll just have to get the show notes.

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Whoa.

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Or we'll just do the topic again if people like it.

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Or they could just ask me on Discord.

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Ooh, yeah.

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That exclusive access.

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All right.

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Time for our weekly trivia question.

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In the anime, Rinkai, where do the girls decide to become professional cyclists?

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And we will give you the answer after the news break. I got so many X shows.

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We can do it.

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Why?

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There's an

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X-Man anime that's pretty fucking terrible.

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Does I recall?

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Then I think we're going to have to continue this time.

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You're under arrest?

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Your name? Come on, people. Hey, anime addicts. This is Mitsugi, and I'm bringing you your anime news break, getting it started off with a new anime that's coming out. It's called Ninja Tokoroshia No Futari Gurashi, or the life of a ninja and an assassin. So this was announced recently on the production website for the anime. It's being done by Studio Shaft. The synopsis is about a female ninja who left her village with her comrades and finds herself living in Konoha, a high school girl working as

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an assassin in the city. Satoko possesses the ability to transform objects using Ninjutsu,

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which catches Konoha's attention. They strike a deal. Conoha provides Satoko with a place to

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live in exchange for Sotoko's help and cleaning up her assassination jobs.

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So it looks like some Moe blob crap. I mean, they're basically Moe blobs in the picture.

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But we'll have to see how this one pans out. It does look a little cute.

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Anime Shaft is a known studio. So we'll have to see. Look out for a ninja, the life of a ninja and an assassin coming out.

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I can only imagine at this point I'm going to guess next year.

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They don't have a date, but that's what I would guess.

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Next up, Gohands, which I don't know what the hell Gohands has done exactly.

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They've produced not many anime, but they have Seitokai Yakuin Domo. It's looking at their list here. Coppellian. So a lot of anime here that we would say are pretty mid. But, you know, they have been around. They are producing an original anime called Momentary Lily. It's going to be coming outin the winter of 2025. So you got about a full year to wait. There's a trailer on X slash Twitter, whatever you want to call it. If you want to go check it out, that trailer is pretty interesting. So you can go watch it and see what Gohan's has up their sleeve this time. Next up, the Knuckles TV show came out much to the fanfare of Mitsugi,and it has been fairly well received. You can watch it on Paramount Plus. Right now, it's averaging about a 70 on Rotten Tomatoes between the critics and the fans with the fans coming in at a 76,where Knuckles the Akidna teaches Deputy Wade Whipple, the techniques of the Akidna warrior. I'm not really sure if Paramount releases all their episodes at once, but I am going to be checking this out because of obviously I love.

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And last in the news, a new anime is coming out from the quintessential quintuplets manga. It's getting a honeymoon anime. So the fifth anniversary event, which was held in the Oklahoma Arena, recently announceduplets manga, it's getting a honeymoon anime. So the fifth anniversary event, which was held in the Yokohama Arena, recently announced that this manga, Quintentional Quintuplets, is getting that new anime, the Gotobun No Hana Yome. So it looks like there's some promo art with all of the quintessential girls all dressed up in wedding dresses, which looks really cute. They all have flowers in their hair.And I guess there's going to be another anime coming out. So look forward to more quintessential quintuplets, if you're a fan of that property. It looks like Haruba personally drafted the original story concept and is supervising all aspects of this anime, which, by the way, is about Futato and the quintessential quintuplets honeymoon trip. I guess he's going to marry all of them. Who could blame him? So we will see how that pans out probably really well when that anime releases. This is Mizu, and this was your anime newsbreak. And now time to get back to the podcast.Hey, anime addicts.

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Well, I bring this message to you every week, but the podcast does need your support. We do our best to keep this show running every week to get you entertained throughout your busy work week. But hey, things are expensive and we need support. So if you want to help out the podcast, do a good thing, get all of our bonus content. You can go to AAApodcast.com slash join or patreon.com. It does help us out a lot. We do have quite a lot of expenses to keep this thing running, mostly IT-related expenses. But we do appreciate everything you can do for us. If you can't afford to offer any money to the podcast,you could at least tell a friend about the show. But if you do support the show, you're going to be getting our hentai episodes, our hobby addicts, and our afterparties, where we do keep you updated on what's going on in hentai. We do get a little raunchy sometimes. And we do talk about what our hobbies are in our personal lives, which usually results in a lot of movie and video game talk. So if you're interested in all that, AAAPodcast.com slash join or Patreon. We'll get it to you.Help out the podcast and we'll continue carrying you as well. I don't care. I don't care. How does Chiaki play The Good Cop?

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I don't care how important what you are saying is in real life, in anime, in any media. I don't care how touching the music is or how the character relations are being developed.

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If you have a shot while this discussion or this meaning is being delivered or is taking place, and in the foreground of this shot, I have a bikini girl's ass in my face. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It stops mattering. So if you want to have your message, have your message.If you want to have your bikinis, have your bikinis. But bikinis, Trump.

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She's still working on it. She really can't. She's not going to, you can't play good card.

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I love that drop.

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Back to the show. Welcome back to the podcast. And the anime Rinkai. Nikai. Stupid name. Where do the girls decide to be, where do they decide to become professional cyclists?This anime... Has the brain IQ of, like, a squirrel that's... Can't find the nuts in the tree. So they all decide they're going to become cyclists in an onset. So, there you go. There you go. No, the

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Twitch did the obvious move. They were like, oh, they probably decided when they were riding their bikes. No, most of these girls don't even ride bikes.

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They're just like, I'm going to become a cyclist. We'll talk about it in a minute.

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It's like Blue Period.

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This anime can't be worse than that. Blue, free phrase that, blue period cannot be worse than this anime, and I'm not

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worse than this anime.

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All right. Are you guys ready for mailbags?

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I am, I am, I am. It's time for an almighty anime mailbag. Anime, anime, anime.

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Mailbag, bag, bag, bag, bag, bag, bag.

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If you'd like to submit a mailbag, you can do so at AAApodcast.com, just click on the mailbag button like raggedy doctor did.

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He says, hey there, hosts, I want to pick your poison.

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Would you rather watch a masterfully made anime that isn't your type of show, or would you

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rather watch a show that is exactly the type of show you love, but is of terrible quality?

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Basically, what matters more to you, the subject of an anime or the quality. Much love, as always, Raggedy Doctor. Mitsui.

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Yeah, so I will always pick, assuming quality means animation, I will always pick content over animation, always.

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It definitely doesn't just mean animation.

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Well, what does it mean? He didn't specify.

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Like the quality of the writing, characters, production, like the package of it.

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Well, I'm going to, I love Raggedy Doctor, but I'm going to say this is a, production, like the package of it. Well, I'm going to... I love Raggedy Doctor, but I'm going to say this is a... I mean, how can I have a show that is exactly my type of show that I love, but it has bad quality?

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Like Guerni.

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Gerozini's a great anime. It's quality's fine.

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It covers a lot of... Quality is not great. Gurzini is a great anime. It's quality's fine. It covers a lot of... Quality is not great. It's just about a topic you really enjoy.

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Well, so how's that different? I say the animation is poor. Well, it's not even poor. It's an average, probably.

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Like, there's not much animation. It looks kind of stocky. The music isn't that engaging. Like, it's...

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I happen to love the theme song to Gudazeni. But the music...

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Okay, fair. But like, during the show, it's kind of whatever. Um... I happen to love the theme song Good as any But the music Okay fair

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But like during the show It's kind of whatever In any event It's going to be the first I would I will definitely takeThe content and a show That is up my alley Over an anime that Is like boring Like Vow at Evergarten People think people were likeOh my God It's so amazing It looks so pretty I'm like this anime was so boring I just wanted to like tear my eyes out

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um so you're picking the second one you want to show that's up your alley with questionable

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quality uh over a show yes although I don't I don't understand how a show can have terrible like directing and production and be written badly and still be at my alley

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I'd be like well this is you know you're gonna end up in um uh birdie wing territory where I love

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sports but that anime was executed like a five year old made it and so I'm like this is just stupid

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that's kind of where I'm struggling with the question yeah I kind of agree with that because if

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a show has really good quality then I probably would enjoy watching it no matter what the subject matter is and vice versa.

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But if I had to choose, then I picked something that was my type of bad quality.

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I don't know about terrible quality.

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Like if it's unwatchable quality, then I'm not going to enjoy watching it no matter what. But if it's of an okay quality, I would probably rather watch that than a show that is gorgeous, but is of an okay plot to me. Besides, like, we already have to watch a ton of stuffof varying quality, so if I already like the plot, but the quality isn't, like, amazing, it's just another day for us. So, yeah, good quality would just be, ding, like the plot, but the quality isn't like amazing. It's just another day for us. So, yeah, good quality would just be, ding, like the cherry on top. Mason?

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I feel like the point of the question has been lost. I would pick the first. I would always rather pick a show that's well made with good production values and good quality that I don't care about rather than a show that I think is like up my alley, quote unquote, that is lackluster in its production. So I am disagreeing with both of you, but on different grounds, I think.So it's kind of a word question. But thank you very much. All right.

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Without further ado, let's get into our spring impressions. Today, we're going to be doing impressions. Impression time, believe it.

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Yay, it's my favorite.

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So for people who are new around here that may not understand what we do, every season we pick about seven shows each. And we just try to get a good grasp on the season. Then we each have two passes. After watching each show, like a couple episodes of each, we decide whether or not this show is going to get a full review. We could do that for two shows each. And then afterwards, we give it to the listeners to pick three more shows to add to our review roster.So passed so far, we got jellyfish, can't swim in the night, and Spice and Wolf Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf. So without, you know, let's head into our next round of impressions, starting off with who would like to go first?

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I can go first.

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Okay.

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So the first show we have today is Train to the End of the World. Shumatsu Train Doco A.

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Oh, yeah.

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It's done by EMT squared. It's on Cruncheril, and it is an original. And I had high hopes for the show because it's directed by Sutomu Mizusima, who did Shirabako, Girls in Panzer, and Joshi Raku. And, you know, a lot of those themes, especially the dialogue of Joshi Raku,the character dichotomy of Shirobako, the girls in a mechanically moving vehicle operating it, like Girls and Panzer, it all comes through in this show. And there's a lot to like about it. Instead of your typical group of cute Moe girls in a world where nothing happens, this is a group of cute Moe girls in a world where everything is happening.So essentially the show kicks off with this reality-breaking invention of 7G. It's not 4G. It's not 5G. We're all the way up to 7-G now. And they turn on 7-G. They just hit the button and it enables it. And the entire fabric of the universe has been torn asunder.So folks are turning into objects, plants, or animals, depending on the region of Japan that they come from. Now we're in this, like, lawless wasteland where these vagabond traveling caravans bring supplies from town to town. You have the Super Mario Odyssey Kappy-esque powers where you put a hat on someone and it transforms them into another. And it's weird. The show is just wild from the get-go. And essentially, our main character, Shizuru, finds out that her long missing friend is now located in Ikebukuro.And she's like, I want to go find my friend to make sure she's still doing okay, despite our world being broken. And what is normally a $10 train ride that takes about an hour on the Sibu Chichibu line takes this multi-week month, year. I don't know how long this odyssey is to get there because the entire geography of Japan has been stretched. So nowwhat should be a little trip is now this massive undertaking. And her three best friends just see her leaving on this train. And they're like, oh, where are you going? She's like, I'm going to Ikew Bukuro to see my friend.And they're like, okay, so they just jump on the train with no preparations, no food, no planning or anything, and realize like a couple days later, they're like, oh, maybe we should have actually prepared for this in any way. Anyway, the show follows a sort of episodic but absurdist journey reminiscent of magical shopping arcade abenobashi and humanity has declined where they just make these stops at these various real world towns across japan where like they encounter just weird random stuff happening from these hippie people who are turning into mushroom-controlled death wishers to people who are like transforming into word cattle to just random things where they are just like, huh, that's weird,and then they move on. So visually the show is very solid. The mechanical operation of the train is top notch and it has a lot going for it. So I do recommend that people give train to the end of the world a shot. It's engaging, it's interesting, and it's unique. However, despite being so foundationally sound, I'm just not interested in continuing. Because for all the good ideas at play, this show, like Japan now, feels a mile wide and an inch deep, leading to just me feeling not very invested when we make all these pit stops at these poundsand then we just kind of gloss over anything that happens there's not really that much of stakes or any character drive that I'm feeling really invested in and there's a lot of real realistic ways that I'm like oh how is the train still connected if the track is so long? And now the world expands.Like, if you think about it too hard, you're not supposed to think about it kind of thing. And the whole show feels like a fever dream. And it needs solid characters to keep that going. And while the rapid banter is kind of neat, it just kind of is basic and by the numbers at times. And I don't know.I like so many elements of this show, but it just feels too minimalistic and insubstantial at the best of times and kind of unoriginal at the worst as it borrows ideas from Gulliver's Travels to just things that you've seen playing out before. So this is a quality show. I am glad it exists. I do recommend you checking out if this kind of weird journey sounds interesting to you.I'm just not giving it a passing ticket because I'm not that engaged with it currently. So I will be failing train to the end of the world. You shall not pass.

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The train ofaku everywhere.

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Weep.

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Yeah, it's, I don't know.

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It has potential and I would not be surprised if by episode eight it turned into a very different show.

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And we come back to it. I'm like, oh, this is good now. Awesome. But three, four episodes in, it's still not doing it for me. So I'm sorry.

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How's the quality of the dog in the show? A dog?

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Very fluffy.

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Very chunky.

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Yeah, good dog-o.

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If we had more dog-o, and he's pretty prevalent in there.

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You know, I'd pass it.

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I mean, there's a whole episode where they're wondering what this girl's hiding in her butt, so they got that going for it.

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You heard of the man. What's next?

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Was she hiding the dog in her butt? What? Okay.

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Are you up Carolina? Do you want me to go? I'm not elaborating further.

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Okay. My first show I'm going to talk about today is the many sides of voice actor radio. So let me get to my notes here. I believe this was number four on my list. So kind of in the middle there with my interest in it. It's done by Studio Connect, and it's based on a light novel. And here is the synopsis.Popular voice actress Yuhi Yugaray is an up-and-coming voice actress Yasumi Utatane just happened to attend the same school and coincidentally got placed in the same class. They are made the hosts of a weekly radio program due to this amazing ready-made premise. So they tell their listeners all about their friendship and the fun they have at school together. However, in reality, Yuhi is named Watanabe Chika and is generally standoffish and resents becoming a voice actress. And Yasumi is named Sato Yumiko and is an extroverted Giaru and is actually struggling to findvoice work. And they mutually hate each other. That is the premise of the show. So the world of voice acting I thought was really well represented in the show so far. We see the characters do their radio show, of course, as part of their jobs. But they are also doing live shows and idle performances and recording sessions, and seeing Yumiko'sperspective as a struggling member of the business has been pretty interesting, as well as seeing her and other characters critique this career, because the other voice actress in the show, Chika, her mom is not all that thrilled. She's a voice actress. But Yumiko's kind of talking to her and saying like, yeah, you're right. It's not exactly the mostreliable career. And they talk more about that, which was pretty interesting. There's a lot of back and forth between Chika and Yumiko, but in a good way, because they really don't like each other. But they do have moments of respect and support ascolleagues, so they have a good mix in their relationship. However, in the most recent third episode that I watched, they have a sleepover, and they make really good progress in becoming closer and more respectful of each other. And then suddenly there's major whiplash because Yuiko says something really terrible to Chica the next day, basically. And that completely undoes their progress. It just was so unnatural and extreme and surprising.However, also in that third episode, at the very end, there is a bit of a twist relating to what Yomiko says to Chika that kind of sets up the show to become something a little bit darker. Probably not as dark as some of the plot developments of something like, of what's it called, Oshinoko. But it's kind of going in that direction of kind of showing the darker end of being a celebrity voice actress in Japan. What else is my list here of notes? Something about this show that gives me trouble are the names, because you have the twomain characters who have stage names, Uhi Yugaray and Yudatehane, and Yasumi Utitane. And then their real names are Watanabe Chiga and Sato Yumiko. And then they have their nicknames that their fans call them, which is Yu-chan and Yachan. And when you combine it all with the fact that some of these characters are calling them by

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their first name or their last name.

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And the fact that some of these names sound similar to each other, I am frequently confused

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about who they are talking about.

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It's also strange that Yomiko and Chica are kind of leading double lives where no one in

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their classes know that they are voice actresses.

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It's kind of like a Hannah Montana situation. One of their classmates is even reading a magazine that has Yuhi Yugaray in it.

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And the classmate points out, oh my gosh, that's Yuki Yugurei, and one of the most popular voice actresses. And then looks at Chica. Who is Yuhi Yugaay? And does not, has no clue that it's her.And they even do live performances. Like, people know who these people look like. They do live performances. And yet, they are careful not to post pictures of their faces on social media. So it just doesn't make much sense in that aspect. And they don't even look, they don't even make themselves look any different.It's like Superman. Like, they just put the glasses on and they take them off. And they don't even look, they don't even make themselves look any different. It's, it's like Superman. Like, they just put the glasses on and they take them off. And they literally look the same. Anyway, I think the show actually has a lot of potential. And people who like anime business shows might want to check this one out for a couple episodes.

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Come on. What?

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What?

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Well, I was just thinking to myself, I'm glad you're failing this because, like, well, sorry, I buried the lead, but, uh, because it just sounds like a show about people talking on the radio just sounds so fucking boring.

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It's really not that for the most part.

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Like, a lot of the show is actually not their radio show.

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They just kind of cut to it and it's more of like a, um, it's kind of like a, just a reason to get these two voice actresses to try to force this friendship because they talk about being best friends on the radio. So they try to make it so they're not lying constantly. So they're like, I know, like, we'd rather do anything but hang other than hang out with each other, but let's go eat lunch together and let's have a sleepover just so we can say that we did kind of thing. So it's mostly not radio.It's probably two minutes every episode's actually them on their radio show.

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It's fucking called voice actor radio.

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Is this like how anime or romance, but they never really do it, any romance?

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Oh, there is some Yuri baiting in the show.

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Like the aforementioned third episode where they have a sleepover, they get in the bath together. And Yumiko is very well-adowed. And Chica, not so much. So Chica is so interested in her boobs that she asks Yubiko if she can't grope her.

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And she's literally groping her in the bath. It's weird. It's just a romance, Caroline. It's a, grope her in the bath. It's weird.

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It's just a romance, Caroline.

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I don't know what to tell you.

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It's a homance.

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Yeah.

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How do you think Mitz and I grow are pecks?

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We grope each other's boobas all the time.

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That part I didn't exactly love about this show.

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He's right.

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You're just going to brush over that?

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Mason drops a huge reveal about that that and you just brush over it?

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You've gotten me very desenticized to strange comments, Mitz.

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Damn.

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It's your fault.

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She's too strong.

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She has surpassed me.

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I must evolve.

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No, please do not.

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Do not.

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I'll be continuing with the show because I do think that it has potential to be a good,

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what's, where the, industry show, industry show. But I do have other shows. I would like to pass instead. I would not mind this being a listener choice, though, if it, I don't think it will, because I think there are other popular shows that might pass instead, but...

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Fail that shit. Decent.

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I am going to do a review on Ring Kai

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which is a sub-6.0

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anime on my anime list.

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That gives you any idea.

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So, oh, by the way, I'm very happy to, I mean, I don't want to watch that voice actor radio show. So, but it doesn't seemlike anybody is actually watching this. It's very far down the list as far as people watching it. So I think we're probably safe. That's probably,that's not coming back. Maybe I should have passed it then.

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You're trying to play games?

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I'm trying to torture you.

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That's all.

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Oh, well, I get,

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no matter what. I'm already to torture you, that's all. Oh, well, I get, no matter what.

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I'm already doing that enough this season.

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Okay, so Rinkai.

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It's not bad guys, geez.

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This anime starts off with like a bicycle racing event,

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which is immediately hampered by the fact that,

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I'm not trying to make this not too long, I'm watching the clock,

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which is immediately hampered by the fact that... I'm not trying to make this not too long. I'm watching the clock. Which is immediately hampered by the fact that cycling is just not... I should say, specifically when it's this type of cycling, is not interesting. I don't know anybody who watches this at the Olympics. No one ever talks about it. No one cares. This is the cycling where you go around...where you're mostly going around like a circular track. It's like speed cycling or whatever. So... Um... This anime starts off with them to sort of displace... mostly going around like a circular track. It's like speed cycling or whatever. So, um, this anime starts off with them just sort of displaying that sport. And there's a girl that's involved in the sport whose name is Kudume. And she's like the current champion, I guess.And, um, all these girls are watching her and they get get really, like, smitten by her, and they, you know, talk, they're talking about her, blah, blah, blah. And one night at an onsen, the, one of the girls, I think it's, I think it's Izumi. They're also, like, personalityless that I can't keep their name straight, but I think it's Izumi.There's a bunch of these girls, though. There's, like, six of them. And they're all in this hot tub and they're all naked. I'm thinking, I'm thinking,this is where we go immediately with the sports anime containing women. I'm just, like, there's no reason why girls can't have a really good anime,like a haiku or a major or something, but it just never seems to pan out. Even Princess Nine, which is that old classic baseball show, ultimately just ended up being about, like, who liked who. And it was barely about the fucking baseball.And now we're, like, four minutes into this anime, and I've got a lengthy hot spring scene where all these girls are sitting naked. I'm like, this can't... I was just like, this is wild. And then, and then, like, as if by some ridiculous whim, they just decide that they're all going to become professional cyclists,even though, to my knowledge, half these girls don't even cycle. And then to top it off, Kudume, the girl that they all idolized, the older lady, basically stands up and turns the corner, because she's been sitting in the onsen the whole time listening to them gush about her and how all this, and she just happens to be in the onsen and walks past them all stark-ass naked, you know, and turns around and says something cool, I can't remember what it was,or like, I'll see you on the road or something like that. And then, like, walks away, and then they all fucking freak out about it. Then, as if that wasn't already stupid enough, this girl, and I know it's anime, and, you know, Panquet gets on me a lot about this, about how, like, taking things too seriously, but, like, it is not really a silly show.It's about, like, people trying to have a dream and go become professional athlete. Like, it's not really a goofy story, but the one girl who's essentially getting ready to go to college is having this driving turmoil inside of her where she can't decide if she wants to go be a professional cyclistor if she wants to go to college. And I look at it and I'm thinking, there's a couple of things about this whole event that are stupid. One, she can't decide. So she writes a letter to Kudume, the cyclistgirl, and literally tries to get this other woman to make her very important life decision for her. And I'm like, who mail...

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I'm like, how do you have her address for one thing? And second, who mails somebody else and puts that responsibility on them?

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Like, you barely know this person? Like, you need to make your own fucking life choices.

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But... And I have a question. Yeah.

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This girl has never actually cycled before.

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I can't remember if they said she had cycled or not,

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but the impression I got was that she hadn't. And so that leads me to my second question. We'll ask your question, but I think it's going to be the same thing I'm about to say.

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Oh, no, that was my question. I was just wondering.

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Like, she's ridden a bike before.

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She just hasn't competed in track cycling. But it's plainly obvious that she has not invested in this sport enough to even consider not going to college for it.

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But continue.

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My thing is that, like, mostly if you're going to be a professional athlete in anything,

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it doesn't matter what it is, golf, biking, basketball, whatever,

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you're pretty much doing it from pretty young.

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And by that, I mean, there are some people you hear of that are, like, freak of nature

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athletes that can just take up like basketball at like 15 and they're just a god at it and they're just naturally gifted and the five or six or seven years before they go to college or whatever is enough to get them into the pros but like that is not the case for 99 out of 99.9% of people that play professional sports right

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they're not just warroing out of bed and they're gifted at it so especially at the Olympic level. Right. So this girl, for her to even be deciding to do this or not

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at age 17 is ridiculous. She's obviously going to go to college because that ship has sailed. Like you would have had to have started cycling at like age 10 probably. Anyway, it's just silly. Basically, the anime, just the, also the biking scenes where they're biking are really, like, horribly CG animated. They look really terrible. And, but more than anything, it's just not an interesting sport. Like, even badminton is interesting as hell compared to this.And I think badminton is a total snooze. You know, I got a snooze drop in here somewhere for that. But, you know, it's just, here it is. This is basically how I feel about riding around in a circle on a bike. Yoomushi pedal was so much better because it had uphill sections, downhill sections. People crashed. You know, they had some shonen antics they threw in there, but that's not going to be the case in this very, very shortanime. Rinkai is a, does the case in this very, very short anime. Rinkai is a, does feel like a sub 6.0 anime, not only because it doesn't look good, but also because they just refuse to, like, I don't know, put girls in these sports shows and make them serious. It's just a joke every time, and it's getting pretty old.

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No, God!

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No, God, please no! No, God! No, God! Please no!

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No! No! No!

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It's like Lady Emery mentioned, you know,

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like that hockey anime, the Pouda Odeh or whatever?

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I think that's... Cry of Orange? Yeah.

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It's like, she's like, are these girls

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going to become an idol group? They very well might, honestly.

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It could happen. So, and also, someone asked me on the Discord, this, the synopsis says this takes place

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during the post-war period, there is no fucking way.

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This is absolutely like modern Japan.

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Technically, we're in a post-war period because it's after a war, but it's not like within

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the couple months after.

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They make it sound like they're like rebuilding Tokyo during this anime.

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That is not, I don't know what they're doing.

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They're just not proofreading these synopsies.

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I assume Mason's next.

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Yep, that's me.

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The next show I am talking about today is Girls Band Cry.

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This is done by Toy Animation. It is another original piece. and it is still not streaming

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anywhere legally. So it's a little bit difficult to find. You're only going to see fan subtitles for

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now. Hopefully we get some better ones in the future. But all that being said, you could easily look at this show and be one of the people that says, this show stinks because it looks ugly. And the last thing you need for me to tell you is that you'd be wrong twice in one sentence because I enjoy this show. In fact, I enjoy it quite a bit. I actually am enjoying it a lot more than the much adored bang dream. It's my go from last year.And I just think it's good. The characters are very solid. They are set in a world that feels realistic where fairies aren't sprinkling melodrama dust and everyone's beef bowl. Like these characters have issues. They have their drama. But it is not feeling so blown out and anime as a lot of these tend to be. This is a band show. It's about a group of people getting together to play music. And I like it. It tickles kind of this amusement of these clueless girls as these very Kauai Moe charactersare literally full finger flipping people off and you're like, ha ha, that's pretty neat. And there's just this undercurrent of believability in a lot of how the show presents itself, partially because of that kind of weird, unique visual strength of its CG, which I think it's cool. Yes, sometimes the CG effects don't look amazing. It looks like a PS2 era persona cutscene at times. Uh, yeah. Sometimes

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our main character gets a little rambunctious and a little angry.

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And she gets this like little dark like lines filtering out of her back like she's a

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freaking hedgehog.

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Like some of it is not quite the best, but it does look good.

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And it's very just unique in how it's done. Yes, some of the industrial strength light bulbs are strained my believability. Yes, they use a single drum set model for all the performances. Yeah, it's not perfect. But that said, even the moments that are a little bit tiring like this main character who keeps on quitting the band that they're forming,it's kind of used as a joke where she keeps them running away at any sign of difficulty to the point where at the end is she'll run out and quit on them and they'll just be standing there waiting like she'll be back in two seconds and then she arrives back. So yeah, it's a little playing up to the what we already know this genre goes for, but it's doing it very well. The biggest gripe I honestly have is that the performances that they do seem veryshoehorned and kind of pushed in. For example, in episode one, it's musicians that play on the street. You know, you find a street corner and you plug in your amp and you play for people walking by. And those are not uncommon to find around Japan. So early in episode one, this lady's performing her guitar,and she's like encroaching on the turf of these other people. And they get in a bit of a spat, and they're like literally chasing each other through the streets because they're like, she's like, hey, get out of my corner. And at the end of the episode, with like two minutes left, they impractically meet up and join that group to play a song.And it just feels very forth. And they're like, oh, shoot, we need to have a big dramatic music moment. So let's just put it in here. And it doesn't sound like a life performance. It sounds hypercrystalline and produced and just not authentic. But all these issues aside, all that, you know, ranting and raving.I like the characters. I like seeing their chemistry. It seems like they are having the potential to grow beyond the stereotypical arc we've seen a thousand times with this show. I didn't set out to pass two full shows of girls just making their way in Tokyo. But honestly, between this and what I passed last week in jellyfish, they just seem to bereally well-produced, well-realized shows that I'm enjoying watching, and I'm curious to see how they turn out. So I will be passing Girls Band Cry because it's good. It's just a good show that makes you feel good. And I have no idea how it's going to turn out. And we'll find out when we review it in a couple weeks.

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I think I've ever been this excited.

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You're excited. Feel these nipples.

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I'm sorry, Mitz.

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You got all the moa.

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You got all the moa this season.

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Why do you do it to me?

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I don't know.

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It just looks funky.

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It looks weird and I like weird stuff.

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Okay.

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It's okay. You can skip this one.

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Caroline, you're up. All right.

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My number one pick for this season was Kaiju number eight for obvious reasons. It was definitely one of the most anticipated non-sequel shows of this season. Being done by production IG based off a manga. And here's the synopsis. For many years, Kaiju have been attacking Japan. Kafka Hebe No has long dreamed of being in the defense corps to take down Kaiju and protectcivilians. However, after many failed application attempts and now 32 years old, he has resigned himself to working in the cleanup crew disposing remains of kaiju. A recent hire to his crew named Ijikawa also has dreams of fighting kaiju, and after a monster encounter, Kofka suddenly becomes able to turn into a kaiju himself, and now with superhero abilities, he is motivated to pursue his dream once again.So overall, the world is pretty cool. I know we've had kaiju anime before.

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I think this is the first one I've seen that has a cleanup crew in it.

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And honestly, I think that part is pretty interesting. It doesn't shy away from some of the grossness that you don't really think about, like the fact that they have to clean out the digestive tract of this massive animal.

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Put them on intestine duty.

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Yeah, that's kind of the thing.

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It's like nobody wants to be on that part of the kaiju.

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And, like, you know, the fact that they have to rope off several portions of the city every single time and people are annoying, like, I can't believe it's going to take a whole week to clean up this monster. But that's just how it is in this world where monster attacks are very frequent. The suits in the defense corps that they wear to fight the kaiju, they're pretty cool. They kind of take out, like, it depends on how much latent ability that you have or that you have discovered and then it kind of bases it on that, how much more strengthyou're given, and you can like run on walls and that kind of stuff. I do think that it's a little strange that the fighters in the defense corps, they're treated like celebrities. Like there's one character that I'll get into in a second that is like the top captain and she's going on talk shows and and the people are like watching her, like she's being followed by paparazzi and that kind of stuff.It's kind of, I don't know, that part was a little weird.

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They're like little superheroes.

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Yeah, I guess, but I don't know.

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It feels like since it's, it kind of feels like they're, like a normal police officer because

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of how frequent the kaiju attacks are. It's basically just a normal police officer being flaunted around like a celebrity it's kind of

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I don't know um have either have you seen planetess I have yeah have you watch it

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amazing have you watched any of this Mason this anime no but I've read the manga I have some

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of it you getting any planetess vibes sort of cleanup? No, it's not quite the same.

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I think it's only the first couple episodes that they really follow the cleanup career.

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At least that's the impression I get.

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They're probably going to not be following them very much.

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Yeah, it's not a recurring.

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What are we going to clean up this week kind of thing?

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Yeah, and honestly, that probably would be an interesting show.

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Oh, I thought it sounded so cool.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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All right. Fuck it. I agree I thought it sounded so cool. Okay. Yeah. All right.

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Fuck it.

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I agree.

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That part was actually kind of interesting.

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Right off the bat, I thought I was going to hate Ichikawa, which is like the

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newbie on the cleanup crew, because he's like instantly rude and standoffish and overly

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critical of Kafka and just gives me asshole vibes.

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But very quickly gets humbled and he is now my favorite character.

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Mostly because he and Kafka are a great as a duo.

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Like, they play off each other very well, as far as I can see.

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Kafka individually, unfortunately, I don't like as much.

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At first, I had no problem with him, but he has a lot of over-the-top reactions

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for comedy reasons, and it's so frequent, and it gets so old, and it's like that kind of screaming, like, wild reaction to silly things. I just, I could do without it. As a character, I think he's fine. Some of his facial expressions are kind of good. I just wish he would just pipe down a little bit.

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Just bring it down a little bit.

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So I mentioned one of the Defense Corps captains before, this is the childhood friend of Kafka's named Mina. Aside from flashbacks where they both promised to be in the core together. Very shonen. Yeah. Yeah, but she's the only one that made it, and he's been in cleanup crew for years. We haven't learned much about her yet, but she does have a white tiger as a pet that fights Kaiju with her.And I just need an explanation on that. Because it comes out of nowhere. Like, you don't even know that she has a white tiger on by her side.

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Then all of a sudden, during a monster attack, there is suddenly a white tiger and you're like wondering, where the hell did this tiger come from? But it's apparently like kind of like her assistant in these fights.

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And I'm just wondering what part of this world makes this normal.

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Like, I know there are monster attacks.

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Probably the monsters.

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Yeah, but this is a tiger. Like, is it, is it a kajou?

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Is it even a relevant? It looks like a tiger. How's a tiger supposed to fight a kajou?

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It just jumps on it in closet space. That's all.

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Are they like tiny kajus?

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Because most kajus I know ever like Godzilla size. There are like varying sizes of kaiju in this show.

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Like they have different, you know, tier levels for them in terms of danger.

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Some of them are like massive like Godzilla.

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Some of them are, you know, like, well, the one that that makes Kafka into a kaiju, I think is basically like, it's kind of small, you know? Kind of just flying in front of his face.

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Sounds like a zombie. What was that?

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Zombie

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Kaiju. I don't know about that.

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It doesn't really do the zombie thing where it bites you.

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It actually, the kaiju actually forces himself inside of

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Kafka's mouth.

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That's how he becomes a kaiju.

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Oh, he did?

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Yeah.

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Did anybody go to the police?

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No, because, okay, so they were in a possible...

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I am the police.

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Writing down, opening...

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They are in...

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They were attacked by a big kajou,

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and I'm thinking in this incident,

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this is the incident that's going to turn Kofka into a kaiju

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is going to get bitten, whatever happens to make somebody turn into a kaiju. But no, the kajou is defeated by the white tiger thing, I think.

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And then they are in the hospital room recovering because they're both injured. And then another kaiju appears and forces himself down Kafka's mouth, as I said.

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And that's how he becomes the kaiju.

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So they're two unrelated incidents.

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Is it a tenicle?

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From what I've seen, there might be some sort of connection between them. But from what I've seen so far, there are two unrelated kaiju incidents that occur on the same night. Just so happens. They're divided by a curtain, Ichikawa and Kafka. So Ichikawa, like, throws the curtain aside because he hears Kafka, like, in pain from being,you know, from having the kaiju in his mouth. And so, and so immediately he wipes him in the curtain, and then Kafka, like, turns his head, and he's in full kaiju mode, and they freak out, and that was kind of funny. Like, as I've said, good facial expressions there. Other than that, like, the side characters, they seem a little bit tropey right now. Like there's a Sundaree with blonde pigtails, which I don't know.She could become interesting because she's very powerful. Like she's like a prodigy, a kajoo fighter. But she's also really annoying, like the way the Sundaries often are. There's a guy whose eyes are always closed, and seems nice, but he's probably like a sociopath of some sort. And then there's a guy who looks like he's in the yakuza, et cetera. It's just, yeah, they could turn out to be fine. The pigtail girl kind of concerns me a little bit. Not a huge fan of her. But yeah, three episodesin, Kafka and Ichikawa have not gotten into the core yet. Kafka's Kai-du ability is still a secret because they know if they, once they reveal it, they're going to be, like, guns are going to be blazing. He's probably going to be dead in five seconds. I hope that they could get to the part where he is suddenly a part of the defense corps soon because three episodes in, it's only a one core season. You kind of want to get into the good fighting stuff.But it's easily one of the more exciting shows this season. So I'm going to get a pass. There you go.

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Now you're a Kai-Doo, a Kai-Kai-Kai-K-Du.

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Yeah, I actually watched part of this show already, and I thought it was pretty good.

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So I would have passed it also.

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Wait a minute, so why were you acting surprised that he forced himself down his throat?

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I don't think it didn't get that far.

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You didn't even get to the end of the episode?

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I saw episode one, but I also fall asleep a lot while I'm watching anime in bed. I watch part of episode two, but it's kind of fuzzy because I fell asleep. All right, am I up again here?

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Okay, I'm up.

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Bartender.

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Bartender. Bartender.

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The glass of God. What the fuck? Oh, bartender. What can I say about you that hasn't already been said from the prior anime?Basically, this anime is about a company, I think, that wants to find the perfect bartender for their new bar slash hotel slash whatever. Anyway, so they have like, you know, they're doing interviews or whatever where the person has to come in and mix a drink and show their skills. drink and show their skills. And the guy that's like interviewing them is super picky.And so he doesn't really want to take just anybody. So he rejects everybody, like the entire city of Tokyo, basically I would say. And it's like, I'm thinking, dude, like a lot of these bartenders look fine. Like, why are youbeing such a prick? They never say why other than the fact that they have just extremely over romanticized the entire activity of bartending. Because, like, it's not that hard, right?

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So, you know, you go to the bar, you order a whiskey and soda. They make you a whiskey soda. That's 90% of bartending activities or like opening a beer bottle. It's not like making seven layered liqueur drinks like this guy's doing in this anime.So I had a whiskey soda last night. It was good. It was overpriced. It was good though. And there's this guy that works

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for a place called Eden Hall. And I'm wondering if he's the same reuse Sasakura that was in the original bartender. Because I'm not sure if this is an exact remake or not, or if, let me see, reu Sasakura. Yeah, that's the same guy. It's probably the exact same story. Yeah, it is.This guy's the exact same anime. So basically, this reused Sasakura guy is pretty awesome at making drinks, and he does things that are impossible, like L from Death Note, where he just like look at you and go, I can tell that based on the ruffles on your skirt, that today was a really hard day at work for you.And because you are ages 20 to 25, I know that you're really trying hard in your career to become a vice president. And so I think you needed a drink that embodied relaxation but perseverance. So I made you...

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This is literally what happens. So I made you a Cosmo or something.

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And he'll hand it to him. And then they drink it and they have the Food Wars orgasm face thing where they just

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like the background changes and they just freak out about some like you know um and that's like all that happens

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basically for the three episodes for the most part I mean uh they they do bring this old guy down to assess him and I'm and I haven't seen the original bartender so I'm not sure if they're going to pick him or notbut at this point they haven't um this anime is fine I actually don't mind watching it at all uh it's um it's pretty good actually to be perfectly honestI think I find the romantic the romanticization of bartending to be a little ridiculous. Really, you're just making a fucking drink and there's nothing hard about it. The people at any general bar will make you a Moscow mule by pouring vodka and ginger beer with ice in a mug and putting like a thing of...

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I love a Moscow mule. And putting a tiny mint leaf on it. It's not hard okay i can do it in my living room with no training at all so i don't know why this guy is so like an

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anal retentive about the uh who he picks but i think it's because they need to like elevate this guy to like a godlike level in order to make him you know something worth watching on tv that said this anime is kind of boring um so i'm not going to pass it i really expect that i'm hoping that i have another show left that's better than this and if there isn't maybe i'll come back to

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this but for the moment i'm definitely not after radio yeah definitely not sorry uh i tell you what

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i will pass voice actor radio if If Mason trades out girls band cry. Mason just gave me a look. For, for what show?

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I don't know. That was a scary look.

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All right, so I'm failing bartender. It is a travesty.

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Yeah, I like the original bartender.

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I haven't checked this one out, though.

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I think it's the exact same.

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So it looks

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like they literally copy pasted the synopsis on my anime list they didn't even bother rewriting it

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so i'm just gonna take a guess this is exactly exact one-to-one copy bartender is

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back the original one when i watch it the perfect put it on red iser like getting into bed

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and you'll just like go to sleep to it and it's just

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it's just calm it's peaceful and it just it's soothing and do they still do the thing at like

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the end of each episode that tell you like how exactly to make the drink um no i don't think

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i just like just with the ingredients or something no no i don't think so doesn't matter

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no they're saving it for the uh for the book the hard back book they're going to put out there you

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go perfect animated drink too though it may exist already figure out, they're saving it for the book, the hardback book that we're going to put out. There you go.

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Perfect animated drink, too, though.

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It may exist already.

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Figure out what they're drinking.

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Yeah.

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It definitely makes you thirsty for like a drink, for sure.

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Mason, do you have one more?

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I have one more.

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I'll make this quick because I've already used both my passes, so this isn't going to fail.

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Spoilers.

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Sorry.

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This is Mysteries, Maidens, and Mysterious and mysterious disappearances streaming on cruncheril based on a manga and done by Studio ZeroG.

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This show is not bad.

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But unfortunately falls into a show of characters that are trying to be kind of quirky and unique

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and just don't quite cut it.

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And therefore you see a show that's trying a little bit too hard

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and not succeeding and it's a little off.

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So essentially it's a mystery kind of show

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where these two characters go around,

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getting into all these supernatural events

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and trying to figure out, you know,

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what the cause is behind it. So, for example, episode one, this bookstore operator finds this forbidden tome. She reads out loud at just the perfect conditions that trigger the magical spell. So then she starts regressing an age to her childlike form. And they're like, oh, no, what are we going to do? Solve the mystery kind of thing. And so far from what I've seen, just the mysteries are kind of unrewarding.The fans' harvest is very lazy. There's a lot of weird male-gazeness to this show. And like I said, just the missing of the tonality when it's trying to be quirky and it's not. It tries to be dark and edgy. It's not. It's not.The characters are kind of subpar. The dialogue's kind of subpar. It's a fine show. If you do like that scratching of the edge of the mirror coach on, the dark gathering, the shows of urban dark fantasy, it definitely has that in spade. So it's worth giving a look at. But if that kind of thing doesn't automatically appeal to you, I think this is one of theweaker options of the batch. And it just didn't do much for me, especially compared to the other shows I watched the season. So I will be failing mysterious disappearances. We did it.

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Yeah. That's all their impressions for today. Got one more week of them.

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Yeah, so I still have a few left.

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I mean, I've got Oi Tonbo Sandland. And I don't think I did re Monster yet. Nope, you got both of those.

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Or all of those, I should say.

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I've done quite a bit.

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I still have a condition called love, which I was going to talk about today when I forgot.

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I didn't even watch it.

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Hence the reason Mason had to use his second pass today to cover my mistakes.

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And also, go-lose-ranger and a salad bowl of eccentrics. So I got a lot to talk about next week.

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And next week I'll tell you guys why Windbreaker didn't pass. But I'll also talk about some of the good shows I am watching the season that aren't up for reviews. So we'll have some positivity.

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Oh yeah, and that Knuckles anime came out and it's got like a 70 on Rotten Tomatoes. So that's pretty good. I guess it's not really an anime. It's not animated fully. All right, get us out of here, Caroline.

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We can't hear about that on hobby addicts, I'm presuming. Oh, you bet you're a sweet Bippy.

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So, so long. Chudaloo. Love you. Bye. Bye. You know,