Hello, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to what do you say
anime? I'm your host Peter and on
today's episode myself and my co-host miles will be giving our
first impressions on the currently airing fall 2021
season. Mi you are an avid Anime
Watcher. You are, you are the like, the
guy who critiques at the Hardison are Discord.
So what are your thoughts so far on the overall sphere?
That is the fall 2021 season, so, A half of.
That was true. What you just said.
No, my certainly the guy who critiques.
That the hardest. No, but you know, this is really
my first or second season, you know that I've dived into like
winter 2019. Maybe I was like four or five
shows and then and then I was like just not ever going to keep
up with this, but you need someone to step up to the plate.
And so I decided to for fall. C21, and it's been fun.
I think, you know, I've enjoyed it.
I think the shows are pretty good, and not what I've learned
the most from it is to like when you're watching things weekly,
you get like a fresh look at them.
You know, like your palate is cleansed a little bit.
So things that might add up in annoy me as I'm bingeing a show
are a little more. Horrible in this weekly format.
Yes. Yep, and I think you said the
best and how I'm viewing this season this season is fun.
I don't know if it's good. But I have yet to drop a show
after three episodes of the majority of the season of what
I'm interested in. So that's normally a good sign.
There's one show that sound like The Chopping Block, but as of
right now I have not dropped any shows from the season which is a
plus because the last few seasons there have been episodes
that I've dropped. Before even finishing episode 1.
So I'm having a girl having a lot of fun with this season.
That's I think it's fine. Um II have dropped a show, but
it's only one. It was almost too but it was
just one. So it I think it's been a pretty
fun time so far. Yes, I agree.
And for the listeners going forward, we're going to be
breaking down some of the shows that we watch.
We're going to try to keep it as spoiler free as possible.
But during a discussion, things might come up.
So in the timestamps below, there will be times.
For the shows that we are covering.
So if you don't want to hear us talking about it and you want,
like, the full Clean Slate of that hearing.
Anybody talking about it. Use those time stamps because
spoilers might slip through, and there's definitely going to be
one for blue period. That will be a spoiler.
So I'll get that there right now.
We're going to talk about some important scene.
I think in blue period is that we haven't seen any anime.
So if you plan on watching blue period, you might want to avoid
our first impressions on that, but without further Ado, miles,
Jump right into the fall. Twenty one.
Twenty Twenty One season. Oh, and by the way, we're not
going to be talking about shows that have had sequels because if
you enjoy those shows, you're probably watching it.
Anyway, so if you're looking for our thoughts on like 86 season 2
or jobless reincarnation for the second part or not going to be
talking about that. So just a heads-up, just the
newer airing shows that we haven't gotten content for.
So without further Ado, now we got it.
Let's jump into probably the biggest show, biggest non-sequel
of the season and that's comike. Communicates, its by Allah o.
LM Studios who did our favorite are?
Most, our highest-rated watch Club show of all time.
Taxi, and they're back this season with Comey can't
communicate to me. I think Allah o LM is Studio the
year. I just thought how brilliant of
a show on Taxi was and now bringing Comey can't communicate
to life. And just the style that the
manga is and how well they're adapting.
It has been an absolute treat for me.
As a Comey Manga Reader, I thought that this was going to
be a better anime, the manga? And I think I am correct on
that. So mi.
What are your thoughts on? Coney, can't communicate.
So I am doing like the legal thing, you know, only only
watching it via the official Netflix release.
So I'm only one episode in that episode was quite enjoyable.
So I I mean, I knew the concept of komi.
Can't communicate the manga is, you know, relatively popular are
quite popular. Yeah, the second most popular,
like Don shounen manga in the United States.
Okay. So, you know, I generally knew
what I was in for. I thought, you know, it was
obviously beautifully animated. They did like a good job.
I like the contrast between Co me when you can tell like, when
everyone's like, looking at her for It has when she's like in
her own head and like looks like a little cat or whatever.
You know, I thought that was fun.
I didn't realize there was going to be that bit at the end.
We're like, apparently everyone who goes to the school is like,
fucking weird. Yeah.
To have their own Trope. Yeah, it seems like.
Yeah. Yeah.
So like that, that was like a fun hook and I'm excited to see
more of that. Um, you know, I I don't know if
I get like all of the hype and then might because I haven't
read the Manga and I wasn't like God.
I can't wait until Comey, can't communicate gets an anime, you
know, like it's really really well done.
But it seems in. This also is a kind of an older
manga to, right? So like maybe because it's like
2015. I want to say, it's yeah.
Okay. So like six years 2016.
So while finally 16, okay, it's just like, it seems like it's
not necessarily like Cookie Cutter, but it it isn't, it
doesn't like stand out in a way that You know, I might have
expected it to but II mean it's again, only one episode end and
I really did like the episode. I thought it was a good time and
I've watched non-legal means, but I have watched three
episodes of Comey, and I just think it's like a wonderful
adaptation. The manga itself is just fun.
And that's what the show. Just radiates.
It just radiates fun. I think one thing that what
Comey stands out compared to other like School, Slice of
Life, like this is The Supporting Cast is really good.
We haven't really been introduced or miles, has been
introduced, but will we get interactions with Colby's
parents? Not just the mom, but like the
entire family of a mom, a dad, and a younger brother that it
adds like another Dynamic that we haven't.
We don't get a lot of in anime. I'll put it that way and it's
just fun seeing like a slight we saw with horny Mia this season
Hazard this year as well where we get like a full family
Dynamic that Others just School, especially when its focus on
school school, Slice of Life. / comedy / romances really don't
dive into. So that's just one thing that I
find especially great about Comey.
The miles. There's a lot of controversy
about Comey and as you are watching the Netflix, how did
you know about the chalkboard seen?
The, the fansub versus the Netflix sub with the text and
stuff like that? Because if people aren't aware,
there was a huge controversy on like Twitter Reddit.
Stuff like that where Netflix is leaving out text that the fansub
showed and people are saying like because call me can't talk
really that it's like ruining her character and we're missing
like important dialogues and then obviously from like my
standpoint as a manga reader. I thought that Netflix Subs were
perfectly fine. The context was there and I was
able to figure out exactly what was going on.
But miles since you're not a manga reader and you are
watching it by legal means, what were your thoughts on the
Netflix Subs, you know, so So I thought overall the Netflix Subs
were good in service of poll in everything.
I think that as is the case, you know people don't like the whole
Netflix anime thing for normal, you know, they're delaying shows
two weeks and do people like watching weekly before you would
have to wait like a whole season before, you know, things got put
out of like Netflix jail or whatever.
So, you know, I think with Netflix is doing anything.
It's always going to be met with like a little bit of a critical
eye from the community. The Seen I thought was just
fine. Like I thought they did a great
job. You could tell who was typing in
our who was writing and everything.
And all of that was good. I will say there were like two
scenes that they didn't translate the text on screen
that I thought they should. And I only really think one of
them hurt my enjoyment of the show.
So the first one is when they're talking about how awkward our
main character is. He's right and they have like
all the things appear on screen and I assumed it was just a
bunch of like awkward things. He did looked up the fansub.
That's what it was. Some of the examples were funny.
So, you know, optimally you would definitely want that stuff
there. I feel like in the future
Netflix, you know, should try to do that.
The second one is post Ed when they, when they did the bit
about how everyone in the school is weird.
Right? When they were showing like, I
guess, which Quark or Oddity, each person has none of those
were translated. So I actually have like no scope
of how weird. I expect these characters to be.
You know, like I don't know if it's You know, like, oh this
person can't talk and this part, or if it's like, fucking Duncan
ropa, you know what I mean? Girls like so, I don't know.
So like I think the controversy is overblown but not out of
place if that makes sense. Yeah.
Yep. I agree.
I went back to watch the Netflix sub, just to get the perspective
and maybe it's because I read the Manga that I'm a little
biased, but, like, I thought the context was there.
I felt like I could put the pieces together.
My enjoyment didn't get hindered at all.
So to me, I didn't think it was that big of a deal.
I do think that the anime Community likes to complain
about things. Even if it's something minor
they like to blow it out of proportion.
I felt like that. This was this was one of it, but
I can I can kind of see why they'd be upset.
But to me, I thought it was just a little blown out of
proportions, but that's just me. Don't don't come after me.
But so mi, would you recommend the show?
Is this like a Skip consider. It must watch.
You recommend it for this type of person.
What are you thinking about calling me?
I would say. So far.
I would say it's a must watch. I mean, it's an enjoyable show.
It's so pretty and you know, it's also and I honestly do
think there's some value in this pretty Zeitgeist e, you know,
like it's a big part of the community.
So It'll be easy to talk to people about the show and have
conversations and stuff. And like that's a part of the
reason that I watch anime. And I know that you watch anime
Pete because we like to talk to people about media.
And you know, when something is as popular as komasan is like
that's always a plus to me like, you know, so that is I would say
it's a must watch for sure. Yep.
I agree. I think this is a must watch in
terms of the non sequels. I think this is the most It must
watch of the Season, kind of like banking off Mi.
A lot of people are watching this that I know in my sphere
that aren't slice-of-life fans. They know who what Comey is?
They're checking it out there enjoying it.
And so just getting that into the environment that is like any
Twitter or discords or something like that.
Is really fun because we can have great conversations.
I also think there's a great technical things about the show.
The Opie is in cry, love the OPI think it's the best LP of the
season. I think it's an Opie like
Contender for a man of the year. I think and just obviously it's
beautiful. Yeah, the animation the first
scene with like, the little kid walking with his mom looked like
a movie and I was just like it's set.
I was expecting like okay animation because the manga
itself really isn't like incredible in terms of the art
standard and this is just like going above and beyond what they
were asked. So I'm a big fan of that stuff
and that's why I think it's must watch.
Ouch, I I kind of I don't know that.
I'm ready. Ready for a hot take.
I wish the whole thing was done in the style of the Opie.
Oh, that was so so good. I like I love that.
I know that. You know, like Pat and Johnny.
You're going to get on my case for that because they really
love that like overly clean. Amazing.
Your name style of Animation. Yeah, like the your name, the
Kyoto Annie sort of style and that's good.
And I like it. But like there is just something
about that Opie's. So, it's funny, you say that
there's a show that happened last season that like, nobody
watched. It was the girls soccer
animation. And the Ed is done in a
completely different style. That was just so well done.
And then the anime itself was just like hot dog water.
So it's just like, why didn't you do it?
Like the Ed? It's Unique.
It's fun. And then they made this, they
made it like colored pencils in the anime.
So, That was unfortunate, but that's kind of like, what it
reminded me of like this o p is like, really.
It remind me of like a science sorrow like, yeah, I mean, and
that's, that's why right? Like, I mean, I'm obviously like
a huge science. Sorry, Stan, so give me the eyes
open feel or something like that and I, yeah, I think it could
have been done that way as well. But I'm, I'm perfectly content
with what we're getting right now.
I think it's wonderful. Let's move on to a show that we
do have some words about, it's pretty popular show.
It's Unique because it's getting done by two Powerhouse Studios.
It's been done by madhouse and mapa and that's talk, topi,
Destiny. I have some qualms with it.
Not as much as you mi, I'm still yes.
I'm enjoying the show. The music element.
I have a lot of questions about. Did you watch episode 3?
I did. Okay.
So I have this might be a spoiler if you haven't watched
it. So and episode 3, they like do
like this, like Prelude after the incident that turned
desperate for her Destinies old self.
I forgot her name at the top of my head right now, Cosette
Cosette, and now she's Destiny and we're seeing like, before
what happens in episode 1 and then Like standing out in the
backyard and then just D2. They can sense d2's and I just
go fight them but like how they set up the whole first episode
and second episode is that the d2's weren't triggered unless
there was music playing and so I've just thought like why are
there just random d2's walking around like in the forest when
where they're living isn't a hot spot for d2s.
So I got you. Okay ready for it.
Alright. Alright cool.
So I'll hear the d2's invaded Earth.
Yes, correct. Um, a meeting at Atia.
Yes. The from the black, meteorite.
Yes, and there was like a big old war and then we found out
that like, certain musically gifted individuals or actually
magic or something. And they can, they can fight the
d2's. And then there was a truce and I
believe the truce involves not playing music, right?
Because the d2's hate that. So like, in return for not doing
that, the d2's like stopped aggressing, which is
Civilization started to get back on its feet as you see, right.
So at the end of episode 3, Lenny and tighten or talking to
each other and You know, Titan Lenny's like what I feared is
just coming, true and Titans like are they are the d2's
moving again? And he's like, yeah, I think
they are. Okay.
And like so. So they're like, starting like
that should have seemed weird to you like, in.
And that's because it's weird because they were Aggressing.
Again, right? Like that wasn't an expected
thing. You didn't expect to see them in
that location. Mmm.
Okay, that makes more sense. That's okay.
That kind of like erases, my qualms and because I guess I
just miss that but Mi you have some qualms about the show, what
something that you're not really agreeing with because it has
like an 8 on Mal. And yeah and you're just like
this should not have an 8. So what something that like is
bugging you about talked. Yeah, so there's a there's a few
one. I enjoy talked.
I think it's a fun show. It's absolutely gorgeous.
The character design is but actually 10/10 like I think all
of the Music Arts. Look, fantastic, I even think
you know, like tax looks good. And I looks good like all the
characters, look, fantastic in the shows.
A lot of fun. There's a few things.
One is supposed to be a music. Theme sort of show and tactus a
concert pianist. He's classically trained and in
order to like get Destiny going he will start like playing a
piece of classical music or something and that I don't know
exactly why that happens and it's not always needed but like
in episode 1 he plays the moon, Moonlight Sonata, our Moonlight
Sonata, right by Beethoven. And like that's like a really
Lise. Ombre powerful piece and I was
so excited to have like a pretty like intense fight scene set to
that, right, but then they stopped and then they just like
fight and like that happens a few times.
And like the scenes where you have these, like heavy-hitting
classical pieces of music, aren't Are so static.
If that makes sense, like music is such a dynamic thing.
And, you know, anime in media. In general, you can add music to
a scene to make it more powerful.
People. Remember, you know, scenes where
music is playing and like different things like yeah, like
violet ever Garden soundtrack. It's like forever burden to my
head like it added so much gravitas to some of those scenes
like you know, like this is like a scene of violet like walking
down a hallway with like a lantern or something, but she
has to go do something that's like relatively important in
like the music that plays is super good and like this has
this whole theme of like this classic music and everything and
it just really fails to take advantage of it in my opinion.
Yeah, and so like that, it takes me out.
It's really weird. And then the second issue I
have, and I'm interested in your take on this.
I'm not like a big fight anime kind of guy.
I knew like animes fights in them.
You know, I like Monica, Magica domain crybaby, you know, all of
this stuff, but The fights and this seemed pretty bad.
So far. I'm three episodes in and they
like the forest scene. It was exactly just Destiny,
sniping them and then tighten killing one of them and then
they go back and then they shoot the other one and like, the d2's
don't ever fight back. Once the music art, start
fighting them. The d2's come in.
They beat the shit out of like civilians and then the good guys
show up and They just obliterate them and it's been three
episodes. Now.
I'm sure it's some point. They're going to fight back or
something's going to happen. But and we'll probably get like
a music card first music heart fight.
At some point, which would be like, really cool, you know,
because Sagan I think is his name.
Like looks kind of suss, whoever that head conduct the
Highlander. Well, I also like, Destiny is in
a regular Magic card or whatever.
Yeah, maybe she falls under something as The vibe.
I was maybe getting yeah, it's possible.
Yeah, but the fights have seen super static on half on half of
the party during this, right. So like either the d2s are like
this blowing up buildings and like throwing civilians across
the, you know, planet or whatever or Destiny or Titan is
just shooting them and they're getting shot.
And that's, that's another issue.
I've had with it. It really like the first sorry.
Just so the first I guess in Canon Destiny fight.
It's an episode 3. I thought like that animation
was like really fluid. I had a lot of fun with that
fight. But then the D2 Forest seen, it
really wasn't. Like I wasn't like excited by
what I say because she was like missing her shots in the
beginning. I'm like and then they really
weren't doing anything to Destiny and then we had like a
dialogue dump and then tighten just comes and shoots him with a
shotgun. I thought that was a little
underwhelming, but I do there are some parts with the the
first episode had like a decent fight as well.
I'm hoping that we can get some more like n boss style monsters
were the fights go longer. The music is incorporated with
the fights better, because I do think that's like, what it's
lacking. It's something that like Attack
on. Titan does insanely well, as
long prolonged prolonged fights with the epic music with the
animations. To use that.
They have at the Helm of the show.
We should be seeing like, some of the, like, incredible fights
because like mad house is done, like Hunter Hunter.
And I was like, my favorite fight of all time.
Mop was doing this as well. They have Jiu-Jitsu Kaizen,
which has like three had, like three animated.
Your containers were fight of the year last year.
So like they have the hat that the people at the helm have like
the ability to make something great.
I'm just waiting for it to see it and I wish we got that
showcased earlier. Yeah, they're then hopefully
later but like we don't even know.
Yeah, it's like to go away from anime for like half a second.
Like think about even something that is complete garbage much
worse than Tak topped. Destiny is Right?
The Phantom Menace? Okay, don't it's just not done,
don't ya? Okay right to lafitte's like
that is Iconic and I think it just shows how good you know
what people don't realize upon Like not re-watching.
It, that fight is split into thirds with two other
inconsequential fights, right? You have you have the gungan
fight and then you have Padme like shooting droids or
something trying to like into it cuts away from that.
But like, the music helps that fight scene so much.
Yes, and it's just so good. That no one remembers.
Anything else about the fam movie.
Yeah, you brought that up. Like it's called the thirds of
like, I don't remember, like, it's been like 15 years, but
I'll take your word for it. II re-watch them any time a new
one comes out, and it's mostly awful since, like, 8, out of,
like, whatever Star Wars suck, but I still like them for
whatever reason. But like, I feel like, this is
something like that fight. You were talking about where she
just massacring d2s, but like, the camerawork and
cinematography is like really good and fluid and it's like
tracing or movement. How much cooler would that be if
it had awesome music? Yeah, right.
A whole nother level. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, I feel like the sound design in.
This is like ready mid and I guess I and maybe that is unfair
to it. But I was expecting really good
sound. Design coming into this.
Yeah, for us for a show about music.
I did expect a little bit more. I do think it has the
opportunity to like redeem itself.
I don't know if this is just like a slow burn or something
and they want to stop for like one Epic scene.
I'm not entirely sure of the path that they're going, but I'm
really Crossing my fingers. That they step that stuff up
miles. What would you say about Taco?
P recommended? Skip.
It must watch Etc. Yeah, so I would say I would
recommend it. I don't think it's necessarily.
What I would say is like if you like this kind of show you like
the way it looks and stuff for sure.
Give it a watch. It is like a pretty cool road
trip 5 going to it like a classic Americana kind of deal,
which is relatively rare, an anime very, so that that's Like
pretty enjoyable. What I would say is like if
you're hesitant on it, just you know, keep your ear to the
ground and you know, look at that 8.08.
It has now and towards the end. It goes up.
I would say definitely give it a watch, it'll get into that must
watch category and if it goes down until like that, you know,
78-77 sort of area and you don't think it's for you.
It's probably skippable right on.
Yeah. I'm going into this.
When we did our preview. I thought this was like an Must
watch just based off of the its original.
It's on my to Powerhouse Studios.
It's a very unique, this style of story is why I gravitate
towards anime because it's haven't really seen anything
like this before. And I don't know if it's because
I too high of expectations, but I was a little disappointed in
it. I would still recommend it.
I think it's fun. I think, I think I like like
especially in episode 3, the dialogue between the characters
that they had was I had fun with that as well.
There's just some things that I expected from the story that I'm
not seeing and, but I do think it has the room to grow to be a
higher score than what I currently have it.
So I would recommend it to most people at to be on.
I think the characters showed better meeting Titan, did a
swage some fears that I had. So like, I was worried all of
the Music Arts. We're going to be Destiny, you
know? Yeah, just like very robot
Cooter a number nine. Yes, and like, I like that I'm
down for that. But like, I don't want everyone
to be like that. I can deal with, like, one or
two in my shows and so meeting Titan and having her be super
chipper and you know, like a, you know, extra Verde and stuff
was good and fun and makes me excited to meet the rest of the
characters because the cast has been really diverse.
Yes. Yep.
I agree. All right.
Next up a show that I'm reading the manga for.
For it's a it's a style of show that I heavily gravitate towards
and that's blue period. We are only scratching the
surface of like what blue period is Bomb.
A big fan of stories that are chase your dreams, kind of like
do whatever it takes live, your youth that style of show very a
place further than the universe esque instead of going to a
location. I guess.
It's more of like following a career path and blue period.
It's also Unique that we have a sign-in based and high school.
We don't really get a whole lot of those.
So I'm a fan of that. We deal with some like real
issues and by the same time the dialogue and the characters in
the show. It's like I also just got giant
factor. That drives why?
I love blue period. We saw in the episode one with
like his friends. They're all like drinking and
watching like the soccer game and stuff like that.
And it shows like the delinquent style of teenagers that we don't
really see where It's not like, I guess like IE Tokyo Revengers
that we had the last two seasons were there delinquents and
they're like, in gangs and they fight.
This is just like delinquents in terms of like, they don't really
care about school. They want to go like hang out
with their friends and drink and watch the soccer game.
Touch style. That really is.
I don't think has been shown in anime all that often gray and
blue comes to my mind. But that shows like literally a
base around drinking and then we get we touched on some real.
Topics that we saw in episode 3 like your identity with a u g
Mi. What are your first impressions
on Blue period? Because you kind of went into
this a little blind on what the show was about.
Yeah. Yeah.
Blue period has been. I'm going to say I liked it more
more than I thought. I would well hearing the
Prentiss. I it seemed a little dull to me
and like it is kind of dull but in like a Interesting way I do,
it's because it's like, they'll just be like, explaining some
art shit for like 15 minutes and the show, and he'll be like, oh,
I need to learn how to hold my pencil.
And I'm like, oh God, this guy. I hope he learns how to, you
know, what? I mean?
I'm into it. It's it's, you know, and it's
like weird because like every once in a while come out of it.
I'll be like why am I into this? And then I'll be like, oh, I
hope you can find his own. Style, yeah, I mean like that's
how he's just imitating another you need stuff.
We'll figure out who he is. What kind of ours you thinking.
If he wants to go to college like, oh we translate anything.
Choline, which is you know, like it's interesting and I think
it's because the characters are all super real, you know, like I
think like everyone seems like a very authentic person who is
like their own selves. and they all have different motivations,
and Talent levels and like things like that.
And I think I think that's what makes it interesting because,
you know, it's pretty, I'm gonna say pretty brave because like a
lot of these You know, more adult series like adult Focus
areas, like still want to have like a gimmick, you know?
Yes, like Love is War. Is like my favorite sign in.
Probably like it's so freaking good.
But it did, you know, it still, it still has a gimmick.
Yeah, um, you know, so that's like and there was something
else that oh, well, we're going to be talking about another show
that has a gimmick like that's, you know, more focused The Adult
World later on and It's so far, blue period doesn't really seem
to have one. It's just the story about this
guy. Trying to figure out his career
path. And the people he comes across,
you know, leads during that in the affected art has on his
life. It's like You know, it's kind of
Brave. Yeah, be honest.
I got. Um, and like I think that
resonates with me because I think the passion of whoever and
whoever wrote this, I don't know who wrote the manga.
But whoever they are. I think did a very good job of
getting across their passion for this topic.
Yes. One thing that I really enjoy
about blue period. They In the manga, but I think
it's really done very well in the episodes.
Is that each episode sort of has a theme?
And it sort of has like a, like a, like a peaked in each
episode. So, episode 1 was like him,
discovering his passion for art, going to the going with that
path episode to the scene with his mom.
That's what hooked me in the manga.
I thought was absolutely incredible.
Like, I don't know about you miles.
But, like, I had the talk with my mom and my dad about, like,
picking a college. Can we afford it?
And then hiss then his scene of like showing his passion when he
drove we drew the picture of his mom and him, how his art opens
up his eyes, how it opens up the world to him how he viewed his
mom where he gained like a whole other level of appreciation.
For his mom. They both break down crying
because she's just overwhelmed that like her son has this
passion where she was skeptical at first because Is like your
smart goal. Be like an accountant.
Like we're poor. You can live the life that maybe
we couldn't give you and he's like, no, like you do all of
this for me like money is not the thing.
It's like you loved me like a son.
I thought that was so overwhelming.
And then the third episode with Yugi.
I think, I think in the anime they call her Yuka a lot.
So her scene where we kind of like Get set in stone that she
is biologically a man whose cross dressing and she runs into
the problem of getting dumped because the girl or the guy that
she went out on a date with didn't like agree, like, hey,
I'm straight. Like this wasn't going to work
for me and you see, you're like, break down crying, and it's
something where we don't see an anime, where it touches on top.
It's like, I mean, this isn't true, but I want to bring up the
point where people are watching this in the like, oh, is that
like, what being trans is like it?
She bisexual, is she gay. Is she a man?
Is she a woman? What pronouns do I use?
And I think that's something that's like really important in
today's, like media that really isn't addressed in anime.
And that we're seeing it for the first time because how your
Gucci addresses her. As she Her.
But the Wikipedia says that her, I guess they, their pronouns are
like they them. But like it's really confusing
just based off the dialogue that people are talking about in the
show and the manga and Miles. You did a little, like research
before we do this episode about like, the pronouns, like the
Japanese use and stuff like that.
So did you want to touch on that a little bit?
Yes. So from my understanding in
Japan, the pronoun usage. Is a little bit more fluid than
we have over here in the west not entirely, but they're one.
They have gendered personal pronouns.
So, like, they're equivalent of, I me myself can be gender.
There's a few different things like that.
So, we're ug uses feminine. Personal pronouns for her are
for, I think I'm gonna go with a I think that ourselves
translated as she her in the anime, right?
Correct. And I think, I think that's
technically the best translation, but I don't think
it's the same thing as as exactly that.
So, yeah, I was reading this article and then like, And like
gay communities in Japan, gay men will refer to each other and
themselves using these feminine pronouns.
And and then I guess, like a slight spoiler alert for maybe
further into the manga if you guys want to skip forward the
next 30 seconds or so, but they apparently have an arc where
they, they switch to wanting to use female pronouns.
Sounds like more clearly, I guess like they want other
people to do that. And so I think currently they
identify as a man, but they don't want to like, conform to
what Society is saying, but it looks like they might be going,
you know, this trying to figure out if maybe they identify as a
woman or something later on, in the blue period story, but I did
think this was like an interesting look at How the
cultures view, gender, right? And like, how gender is in the
same thing as like, biological sex in the fact that it was so
difficult to translate. The terminology is sort of like
indicative that of that and like my opinion.
So I, you know, when I heard about it, Anna Mae doesn't
always do the best job with things like this, you know,
feminine men are often played as a joke.
Yes. You know, and so there's lots of
anime that do a great job with it wondering.
Priority did a wonderful job with trans issues.
You know, the Satoshi Kon Christmas film.
Does a good job Tokyo. God will grant Godfather's and I
have high hopes for this one, you know after watching it.
So Yes, it's a topic that I like to like rubber cetacean.
It's just like really important, right?
Because if you're if you feel that way and you don't ever see
it portrayed in media, you might not be able to like figure it
out how to like voice your self or whatever, you know what I
mean? So like having characters like
that is just so important and it's so important.
They do it, you know, in like a realistic positive light.
Yes. Um, you know, so I like that.
Yep. I want to bring it up because I
have a lot of friends that are I jokingly called them.
The shown in Bros who are gravitating towards blue period
and loving it, and I really do think that this is a topic
that's not addressed. I don't.
One piece is actually kind of doing this right now with
Yamato. So that's really cool as well.
But for a lot of people whose first time viewing something
like this, I think it's important that it's being shown
in the light where we can have this discussion.
And we can talk about it and find out more information about
like the translations and like what they say and why they're
saying and how they're saying it and to me it's one reason why to
me, I think this is a must-watch just based off my personal
preference, and I'm also reading the manga so I know what's
coming up ahead for most people. I would just say I would
recommend it. But if you're a style, if you're
a fan of a place further than the Universe, I think is
probably the thing that are like barakamon people chasing their
Teams are going after a goal in a realistic setting.
I think this is like an absolute must watch.
I love blue period. Like there's a reason why they
get one like a bunch of awards. It starts off.
Maybe a little slow for most people but it picks up and you
gravitate towards the cast that that I think we even like you
touch on that. The cast itself is like really
fun to. Yeah.
It's a great cast. I'm gonna say like if you're a
shounen bro, if you're you know, like are bro at Like for sure
check this out because I actually think like if you like
shown in it because at least partly you like the themes blue
period shares-a-lot thematically with shounen.
It's very follow your dream. You can do this, you know sort
of thing that we see in like like Hunter Hunter or something
like that. Right?
Where there's like a goal you want to obtain.
It's like an unlikely goal, but it's what your passion is.
And so you're going Go and do that.
It's like a slightly. That's a lie.
It's a very more serious. Tsukino, some right?
Like but like I think that that's just such like a
resident. Belief in like value.
That's held by people that you should pursue your passions.
And I think that's why it's it's doing a good job.
I agree. So what are you like?
Recommending it or must watch? What do you think about blue
period? Who I God, I'm not gonna say
it's a must watch. What I am going to say is give
it a chance. Okay, um, like I could see it
just boring the pants off of someone and I don't I don't
necessarily think that's wrong. It's not boring.
The pants off me. I really like it.
And I think that it's one of those shows where, you know, if
you're just judging the book by it's cover.
Maybe you won't give it a chance when you should so it for sure,
give it a chance. Yeah, I agree.
And we remove all the something that's not as deep as just silly
fun. And that's my Senpai is
annoying. I another show that I read the
Manga for, I absolutely love the manga.
It's so much fun the adaptation so far.
I think it's been okay. I do think that the manga does
it better for this example, but it's just like, I crave office
interaction, even if it's silly, and not like real.
I just crave like a Alt interactions romance office
saying style of shows which is why I gravitated towards the
banga and that's why I was so excited when I found out that it
was getting an anime miles. What are your first impressions
on? My Senpai is annoying.
So me and my Senpai is annoying. We have a bit of a hot and cold
relationship. There's a lot of enjoyable
things about my, my Senpai is annoying.
The Opie amazing. So good on.
Holy like, no. No, right, being that good.
It's so good. Um, yeah, that's got like with
the white like water corn. Right?
Like the open house is so good. The other, the quota Koyo p is
like God but dish. Okay first off.
Yeah, the show is better than modak.
Okay, I agree. I personally agree to Episode 2
of the show. Was.
Oh God. I don't know if I can say this.
I don't know if this is true. So yeah, my least favorite
episode of anime like ever. You want just think out of all
of the episodes of anime I've watched, do you actually get
wish my least favorite when you watch rising of The Shield hero?
Yes, I gave rising of The Shield hero it to there's an episode in
Rising of The Shield hero where the whole moral of the episode
is basically just like slavery is good.
If you have a kind master, And like, I hate this episode more
than I hate that episode that I say that.
Well that was like God. So I don't do we want to get
into why? Or yeah, what's a spoiler alert?
Bonds were gonna go to some deep Dives in the episode 2.
Okay. So as I was talking about
earlier, my Senpai is annoying, you know, it's an adult show,
adult shows need a bit. The bit.
Is that the the main character? Is secretly 12.
And that's not the actual bet. She's small.
She's little, she's like 4 foot 8 or something.
Probably. And her Senpai.
Her work person who like, Mentor is a massive man and get it.
The height difference is there. So, she is very small and she
doesn't have big boobs and her friend has big boobs and she sad
because people view her. A child which like, I guess Fair
she's small. And like that would probably get
annoying when you're like a 25 year old woman or whatever and
it's anime. So, like I understood, you know
what I mean, like, even even like the Opie, which I just said
was too good. Has like a bit where it shows
how big her friends boobs are like, just in the.
Oh, yeah, and so, like they did the thing where, you know,
she'll see her friends boobs and should be like, wow.
I wish I had bigger boobs and that's happened in like 47% of
romance and I'm a right. Like, I don't know.
It's like a large amount, you know, and like it happens and
it's a joke. And then they, they, they do
whatever they were doing in the episode.
The entire episode to was that big.
It was the entire episode was the berry, like, there were
multiple characters, whose boob she was jealous of, she found a
way to stuff her bra. She called her grandfather, her
grandfather bad. And asked what he thought that
is the. It is a surreal scene.
I don't know if anyone has seen like Mahal and drive but like,
on an anime podcast. Really not.
Okay. Well, if you have seen Mahal and
drive, there's that like Diner scene.
That's like they go back and there's like the person eating
the corpse outside by the dumpster and then he just
disappears. And it's so fucking surreal, and
you're just, like, did I see that?
That's the grandpa seen in mice. Impiety is annoying to love.
She calls she calls her Grandpa and he's like, oh, like my
Fearless granddaughter who never asked.
For advice is calling me for advice.
I Till I give the best advice I can.
So he's like, what is it? My dear granddaughter.
And she's like, What would you think if I got, like, way bigger
tits? And he's like, I don't know,
like I guess I have to answer this.
So it's, I think you're great. The way you are and then her
battery dies on her phone and she can't continue the
conversation and it cuts off and is never brought up again.
And it's, it's like a fever dream.
Why did that happen? Yeah, to me, that scene makes no
sense. I felt like that they needed.
I mean in the manga happens to, but like, I feel like it's,
like, they made the episode and it's like 18 minutes long.
It's like shit needs to be 22, but it's log throwing this seed
or something like that. That's kind of like how I felt
with it. I'm a little in different from
miles. I thought that episode was just
like whatever. Ever.
I didn't think it was. I didn't think it was that fun.
I didn't like at the end were like the Senpai.
Like grabs like the guy taking pictures of people's skirts and
like asserts dominance type of thing.
I thought there's like a good way to like give a reason
another reason why I like their Rome because like they're the
romantic interest. For one of the two couples kind
of that like are brewing. I'll put it that way and I
thought that was like a good like, you know, like knight in
shining armor type of thing. Like this guy is like, looking
out for me, like all times, even when we're like, riding the
train and it's nobody else knows, but him.
I thought that was like, a really cool fun element that the
story itself is just like quirky, so I'm not expecting
like deep shit. So that's kind of what I'm
getting from the anime. So like I don't have a whole lot
of qualms with it. I think I'm doing an okay
adaption adaptation. Sorry.
Just because the manga chapters are really short like they're
like nine pages. Yeah, the fact that they're
making full-length episodes from the scenarios.
I think they're doing a pretty solid job.
So I don't have I think it's like okay the animations like
whatever I compare this to like when I do this with like Tony
Kawa, which is like a really fun romance show, but like the
animation is like whatever and the animation was better than
the show. I wouldn't change my opinion on
it. The enemy should isn't bad in
this show. It's not bad, but like well, you
know, like, Looking at it. It's not winning any awards.
It's it looks very I don't know. Like new-age Cookie Cutter kind
of. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty
standard. Yeah.
Yeah like that. I mean but I like I think the
character design is good. They do a really good job of
making food Abba. Look like an adult.
I feel like which is impressive and I don't know if it's just
the outfit but like she's so little right, but they do give
her like not like hips like to some extent, like she And it's
not just a lolly. You know what I mean?
Yeah, like I thought that was good.
And then the Hedgehog or the porcupine.
Yep. From odd taxi is in the show and
I think that's really cool. It wasn't a crossover.
I was expecting, but we got, but we got there, but we know.
I'm excited. I'm excited.
He hung up his rapping, and is now like an accountant or
something. Yeah, after his criminal, he
had, you know, he's turning a new Leaf.
Beef and shifting gears. But for me, in terms of
recommendations, if you're a rom-com fan, I would recommend
this. If you are whatever to the
genre, I think there's better with shows out there.
I don't think this is much must watch.
I think you can binge this when it's all said and done on a
rainy day. If you're looking for something
new to type of show, but for me, this is like my favorite genre
of anime, so I'm obviously watching it.
We could we but I do think it has its qualms.
I haven't looked like a Right now I think this is just like a
solid seven out of ten rom-com. Yeah, I so I think I would give
it a 72. I mean I would recommend it.
I think it's a good time. I'm surprised.
You think it's better than what? A koi than though?
Didn't tell Jeff ortakoy like a. Well.
I know I have it right now at a seven.
I know what happens because I have the manga, the manga at a
nine. Okay.
So like we are really just in like the beginnings of like
learning everybody. We don't even have like we still
have like three more cast members.
I need to get introduced that haven't been introduced.
So, okay, like we're still in the beginning stages.
That's why I think right now it's just okay.
I down the road. I think it gets significantly
better. When would you and Pat were
talking about this? I feel like you underplay, the
romance aspect of it. Like I from from the way that it
was pitched. It sounded like it was like
really romance light but like romance sort of feels like the
one be plot line. You know what I mean?
Like, it's not like the main thing is the relationship at
large but like that romance subplot is there and you You
have the B plot with the two other co-worker co-workers who
are just a great couple. Yeah, they're fun.
So yeah, they're just like good people and they're not horribly
toxic like the other row decoy couple and that's enjoyable.
So iíve enjoyed it. I thought it's a good time.
I all the characters are really good.
And if you don't like the show, watch the opp because it's worth
it. What's the lp?
So yeah, that's that's our recommendation.
As for my Senpai is annoying after.
But decks real talk about probably enemy of the year.
I think I do biles already has this as a 10 on his bowel.
I tried. I tried to tell them to let me
fucking put it 11. Yeah.
I know. It's crazy.
The Oscars were like, hey, like we know we don't have a category
for you right now. But if you can hold on like
we're making, well they do have a, they do have a category
that's picture. Oh, but that's, that's but like,
okay. Because they're making an
exception. Do they do move?
These this all I know is what is true.
You make it so good. It's so good.
That the Oscars are adding like a TV category because the show's
is blowing people's minds. That's pride of orange.
The Oscars bought the Emmys. Yes, the idol.
Gotcha, hockey story that we got of the dream monkeys from the
rural Japan. We were jokingly.
I mean jokingly, and kind of serious the same.
Because I've been craving a hockey anime as somebody who
lives in cold, winter or cold weather.
I grew up with hockey my entire life.
I think hockey is the perfect sport for anime.
They can make it so well done. And this is our first hockey
adaptation that I know of, and it's an idol, gotcha game.
So that being said, this show sucks massive balls, and I'm
watching it as Soon as it's released.
I think the story itself is just so Preposterous.
The writing is so bad. The story itself is terrible,
but I can't, I can't turn away. It's like a car crash.
My man. It's just like, I could see it
coming. I do it's going to be bad and
I'm not turning away miles. You watched one episode of pride
of orange, your thoughts Joe. People listening, if you're a
regular listener, if you watch our watch Club episodes or
anything else that I've guest-starred in, there's like,
you know, I'm sort of the pretentious guy on the podcast
but I gave hand shakers, 26. You did.
Okay. I'm not that full of myself.
It's a bit. I like to play I gave Rosario
Vampire an eight. I've given lots of bad things,
lots of high scores because I am sure they're ironic.
Or at least I have convinced myself that it is.
Like there you go self-aware. In some way hand shakers is
self-aware. I the the food stall seen proves
it and the light though. Was that the one with everyone
like broke their arms? Everyone broke their arms.
Yes. Anyways, um pride of Orange.
Isn't that it's awful. It was it's not even awful.
It's boring. The first episode was one of the
dullest things I've ever watched ever and I have watched.
Documentaries on fucking chemistry and shit like it's
just so, so too late. They're friends.
They're in the knitting club or something.
The embroidery Club. Yeah.
Then they get like free hockey lessons.
And so they pass the puck around for a bit and that's episode 1
10 on 10. it's just like, Our our community.
The what do you say, anime Community is doing this thing
where they have all like hyped it up to each other and like
unfortunately only Pat and I were immune to it.
Yeah, and everyone else is just in this like suicide call
exactly where exactly what it's a Blood Oath.
And if we like if we say anything bad about it, like I'm
going to wake up with like a horse head in my bed.
Yeah, you'll have realized how much time you spent watching the
show and it'll it's like sunk cost fallacy.
Yes, exactly. It's it's like a one-piece fan
that can admit that, it's just average but I don't know.
The only reason I would continue to watch.
This is I want to like be able to talk to it.
Talk to you guys about it and like a mean way.
So that I could like say what happened without pretending like
it's good to like ruin your day. Like yeah, that's why I do it.
Yeah. I think we should also bring up
that in the first. Episode.
They win. It's like foreshadow.
Like you see the ending first and then we get to see the
backstory there win like Flash Forward.
Yeah. 54 and so they went like the junior World Cup against
Canada, like two or three years into the future.
They beat this disease, hockey Powerhouse, like what we did
like look up like their stats and Japan is an awful at hockey.
It seems like for women, so not entirely like impossible or
whatever. But like, The fact that like,
seven girls learning hockey for the first time could be Canada,
the World Cup was just like, all right, called out.
And then afterwards, they have the Idol performance.
So not that hockey is exhausting or at all, giving them giving
this like, wow. Wow.
Yay, victory dance, eat at the
end of immediately after winning.
The World Cup of Hockey was just Preposterous.
And that's where I knew that this show was gold.
It makes no sense the first So were they are like, doing
stretching, and it's just, like Idol, dance moves, its ass.
Like, well, the instructor, the instructor was the best part of
the show and she is a sociopath of a woman who is like luring in
small children to to like try to make hockey more popular by
essentially pimping them out. Yes, and that's the plot of the
show. I don't I don't move the meter.
They do Fanboys pay. A lots of money for Merch and
for concerts and stuff. So it's odd I.
So, of course, people will go see idols on ice, right?
Like what a cool. Interesting concept, not a whole
lot to say about the show, to be honest another in the seasonal
preview. Even you.
Pat said the these character designs were akin to love life
and I have a bone to pick with that because love life has good
character design. The front girl looks like the
username Maki from Love. She looks nothing like Maki.
How dare you know that Maki? Who am I thinking of the
Hanukkah? I don't know.
The redheaded girl from love life Maki.
I don't know. I do the one that's in love with
Nico know like the one that eats all the time.
That sounds like all of them. Hold on.
I'm pulling it up. Not Maki.
Sorry Marquis the wrong. It's a Hanukkah.
Yeah. She looks like Hannukah Hannukah
Hannukah, anything like Hanukkah, they both have the
thing in their hair and they Yeah, they have.
Do they both have a scrunchie. Yeah, there's yams unions.
Yeah. Okay.
I think that's fair. I think it's mid nineties called
everyone's Hanukkah. Yes.
I think that's a very fair comparison.
But I mean, they look, they all have like, the idol tropes.
Like the main character is the positive.
Go lucky, the cute little sister the shy.
Girl, you didn't see it because they make it, but you have like
the deadpan serious girl, who the transfer.
Student as well. I mean that's going to make me
pick it up. Yeah, and so they all have the
idol tropes that you see in love life.
So yeah. No, I'm not saying that this
isn't just a love live clone with hockey because it is but
like the character design and like the color palette is
significant little sister. Looks like Nico.
Come on. It's like Nico with blue hair.
Yeah, okay. Um, don't get into character
side Pete. You don't tell me the Comments,
if I'm right or wrong, I don't know.
I feel like I've got that, like, I feel like this is not as
Preposterous as miles as making it seem like I feel like I could
do, like, a side-by-side comparison of these girls from
other love lives and be like this girl looks exactly like
this girl home love. Like, it does have to be just
love life Superstar. The new the of first one
Sunshine Superstars Superstars, whatever it's called.
Yeah, come on, you know, I'm a super fan.
So Trust my word over miles is miles.
Would you recommend pride of orange?
Don't don't watch it. Come on.
People don't do it. This is a skip for you eat.
Yeah. Yeah, it's just it's a Skip.
It's a. It's like a you would never have
heard of this if it wasn't for us, don't ever.
Think about it ever again. That's that's harsh.
But I agree. I say if you are an idol
superfan check out pride of orange, maybe for everybody
else. This is like a hard Skip.
It's really bad. I'm like meme on it saying like
that. I love it.
I do think the show itself is awful, but I will continue to
watch it because I am trash. So that's our one second.
What if you are like a Maple Leafs fan and you want to see
actual good hockey? Get played.
Watch the Minnesota. Wild play high.
Okay, not the Maple Leaves because we're foreign one in the
Maple Leaves. Are like, I don't know, two and
three or something so 231. Hey, I was close.
Yeah. Yeah.
So if you all want to go to hockey, watch Minnesota Wild,
but yeah, that's our recommendations for pride of
orange. Skip that shit.
Next up is best girl of forever. Moonlight girl herself Irina as
I say, yeah, Irina, we have the arena, the vampire Cosmonaut.
It is a slice of life story about a vampire trying to go
through the mood and a fake Russian country using her for
it. I, I don't really do a whole lot
to say other than I'm a big fan of soon.
Dre's. And we have a adult vampire
soon. Hooray.
So I am in love with Irina. I think the show itself has some
like, really funny quirky moments for slice-of-life fans
like me. However, I do think this fall
shorts and some areas, just the premise of the story is just
like all over the place. The fact that just like the
portrayed the Russian government is just like.
As soon as this missions done. We have to kill her.
She must die never like. Yes.
She must die.
I'm like, that was really a great.
So from a show that's been pretty just like chill for the
most part miles. What are your thoughts on Irina
the vampire? Cosmonaut?
So one we have communist soon to re vampire Cosmonaut, which is
just unfair of how great of a combination absolutely.
Um, so like that's exciting. I think I think this show is
bad. Yes, I agree.
But yeah, II, don't care. Yes.
That's okay. Um, like may I think about it,
and I'm like, This is dumb. But Irene has great and like
Space is really cool. Spaces.
Campfires are really cool if they are and I think there's
gonna be a bit of like a, like, a tone shift.
Maybe you think it's darker. I think it's going to go a bit
darker. There are some hints that I'm
picking up on. Here are the things one when
they're doing the track race. She becomes that horrible evil
monster thing, right? So two straight out of what's it
called? Domain crybaby.
And she's on all fours. Yeah.
She's doing some like crazy shit, so too.
In the scene, you were alluding to where they're all like, let's
kill her. You know, that's pretty dark.
Yeah, you don't really ever explain why the racist against
vampires, but, whatever. They are three, they had the
scene where they covered up the explosion.
Yep, and they transported like pints and Pints and pints of
human blood. In the same bottle that she
drinks her fizzy water in or whatever.
So like I I don't know what happens like she said, she's
only drink human blood once for her like coming of age, ceremony
or whatever and but I think something's going to happen
where she like has to to survive or whatever and like maybe it'll
make her like a little Farrelly or something and like he'll have
to talk her down. But I am there's enough there
that I'm intrigued enough in the plot to see where it goes.
Aside from Vampire Bay. Yeah, I'm gonna be straight up
honest. I'm all for vampire Bay.
That's why I'm watching the show.
I love her. Just super silly and dumb
interactions with like when she drinks lemon water for the first
time and she's like trying to be like she drinks it and she's
like, super happy and then The other main character to leave or
lever, something like that is like did you want more?
She's like no. No, I don't want to bore from
you. I was like, oh she's all pouty
and shit. This is adorable and then like
the scene where she's afraid of heights and has to do like the
parachute stuff. And yes and like the ropes thing
that she has to do and she's just like I'll do it just like
really Sleek interactions with her like wine to go to the moon
but is afraid of heights are afraid of okay or something.
Functionally Immortal, right? I would assume so, but like
really, shouldn't it be afraid of heights?
I agree. I don't know how will the
anatomy of a vampire works on this show but I think based off
Vampire lore. I think it's safe to assume that
she's functionally Immortal, but you do, you do you know how
vampire Anatomy works. Please comment down below this
comment down below but I mean, we're getting we're getting
female Edward Cullen, like I'm a fan like, you know, that's my
boy. Like, I'm Team.
Edward all day and arena is Is just an absolute blast to see on
screen. But like Mi said, I do think the
show. I almost I don't think it's bad.
I just think it's like me. Well, yeah, I but I okay, I sit,
I think again, I don't know because I don't, I'm just
incapable of like, I think. Yeah.
I think it's like exceptionally math.
Like I think nothing happens in the show.
But go on. I don't care because vampire
baby. Yeah, you like her interactions
are interesting enough. That the fact that they do
essentially, nothing. They've done essentially nothing
for the first three episodes. Yeah.
Some training and then they eat some food and drink some water,
and then they did some more training.
Yeah, and then there's that awful doctor character.
Yeah, just words, like cloves of garlic around this neck and
stuff. And I met the woman who's like,
oh you're so I can feel up other women all done.
It's like an care doctor. Yeah.
Yeah.
The other guys awful to but he's like more awful and he's
designed to be awful kind of way.
And the other one is awful and like a yeah.
Yeah, let's have this dude. Let's have this pink doctor or
pink haired doctor. Be like just a Trope instead of
like a character, I guess. Yeah, and if he likes boobs and
I mean like, I can't it be too but like I don't know.
Don't let it consume your life. Exactly.
So what would you do in terms of like, your recommendation?
Your first impression recommend this to X people or skip it.
Yeah, so like I would write if you Like, I don't know, like if
you're capable of having fun, watch it.
I'd recommend it. Then like, I really I haven't
heard anyone not liking the show.
Feel like if you had all like the hole.
You know, sooner a bit the show will at least be watchable for
you. I would say.
Yeah, I think if you're a fan of like Mi space Stars, vampires,
check this one out your a slice-of-life person.
I think this is definitely check out if you are just a casual
Watcher. I don't think this is the show
for you. I don't think that it's just not
hitting for, like, a lot of things that I like about Slice
of Life. However, I do.
Like the two main characters and how they interact, which is
pretty much the driving force of why I continue to watch it.
But yeah, I think like down the road.
This is only a show at the end of the year of my review is
probably like a six or seven. Like that's probably in the
range. I'm giving it.
Like that's kind of what I'm feeling now, so far, but if we
had like a waifu contest of the year, I think Irina is a top
seed. I'll absolutely love her.
She is so much fun. And yeah, that's my thoughts and
participate if you like Toreador, Ha because of the
complex relationship things and the the characters backstories
and how they evolved in retrospect for each other.
Don't watch the show if you like Toradora because Taiga Gober
watch the show. Yeah.
Yeah, it kinda does Gober. All right.
So that's our impressions of Irina, the vampire.
Cosmonaut up next a show. It's only us two episodes.
All right now. So I don't Have like a super
good grasp on it, but just based on what I've seen, it's Thai
style met in Fairy Tail. Producer came out yesterday.
Yeah. Say okay.
I just haven't been able to watch it yet either.
Okay. So we're basing this off of the
first two episodes. Historical bought, I guess are
in debt, made our sorry, Bride for a rich family.
They become like a fake couple kind of ish, the A character has
like a broken unusable right arm.
So he has like in he has problems with, like, not being
able to function and essentially being an outcast from his
family, which I thought was a little aggressive.
But I don't know how historical stuff worked in that time where
if like, one of the sons was like incapable of being like an
error that he was like outcasted from the family.
So like maybe I can see that. However, the main girl character
is cute fun. I like her interactions with
like the shoe rotation. Sure.
Gone a from Like Love is War. The main character.
Kind of looks like his like younger brother if he existed
kind of acts like that way to a little darker, a little monotone
style of a character and she's the quirky upbeat style girl.
So I do enjoy that Dynamic of it.
The mall episode of the episode. He was like really fun seeing.
So the main character is Tama hiko him, kind of break out of
his shell a little bit because Of know, he needs to go to the
city and then just interacting with like another human because
before he sort of just like a historical neat, he's just
saying in his room being a loser and having problems with who he
is as a person. So Miley, what's your first
impression on Ty? Shell means fairy tale?
Yeah, there's it's cute. I, It's weird, right?
It is weird. It's like yeah, like I wish.
I just don't know how to do it. Like, I don't know how to
express the the the thoughts that I have because like They?
Like she's a great character. She's very upbeat and happy,
despite her lot in life. He's very down on himself.
Probably cuz like his dad doesn't love him and like she
does a good job of Providing like I don't know like she shows
him life is good. At least so far in these two
episodes. He is like a little annoying
because she's like kind of a little too down on himself.
I feel like not in so far is when like actual sad things
happen to him. But like he'll be happy and then
he'll be like, oh wait, I identify as a pessimist.
So I like have to be sad and like That annoys me a bad.
They did this bit where so I guess in the taisho period.
They, you know, they had these Brides or I don't know how
accurate the estate history is here.
But like you could let you'd had to be had to be like 15 or
whatever and she's a year younger, but her parents told
her because they were in like a ton of debt and I like that's
like a little bit weird to me like the 15 year.
Being sold into marriage is like already kind of weird, but then
like they were like and also she's too young for but look
like you know, and I thought I was like a young behind you like
a super young. Oh, yeah, and like I like
they're not. They're not like doing anything.
It's not like yeah, it's not like problematic or anything in
so like any more so than selling your daughter at a marriage is
problematic. Yeah, but Like, I don't know.
Like, I like, that's just like a little weird.
I don't know, if it'll end up coming into play.
They had this really weird bit at the beginning of episode 2
where they were like, just like defining a Tomei, which means
Maiden, right? And it was like talking about
how, like, here the girl is and like, how she doesn't even like,
think about kissing and stuff. But, like, I couldn't tell if
that was supposed to be Tiger cheek because they like
definitely talked about like when they wanted to sleep
together like in their relationship, since they're
going to be married at some point.
And and then she talked during her.
Like getting her kimono like she progressed their relationship in
the future and it was the sweet scene because like, she had made
her own kimono and he ruined it by crying too much or something.
And so, like she said, like, oh, it'll be like the first kimono,
my lover gave me in the first Komodo.
My husband gave me right. So like there's this like the
narration had this like very weird.
Emphasis it I'm not going to say it's very weird.
I guess like it's semi unsettling from a western
perspective emphasis on Purity. Yeah, but then like that's just
not in the show. Like this is not a thing that
exists in the show and I don't I didn't know if it was supposed
to be like like a bit. You know, I go.
I don't know. Overall.
I'd say it's enjoyable. Its pleasant with anything like
this. I'm always like Little worried,
it's going to like randomly have some like ecchi scene or
something. And I'm just going to have to be
like, well, this was fun while it lasted but that doesn't
appear to be the case. I think I'm going to continue
with it and I'll probably end up enjoying it and it's not, it's
fault, but I'm on edge like this.
It's just because anime is weird.
It is, you know, no. Yes.
I'm kind of in the same boat as you.
I'm enjoying it for what it is right now.
I do enjoy. It's a little different in terms
of like the historical like rom-com, I guess.
Without it being like, action, focus on something like Yona of
the Dawn, which is like, you know, like the it has comedy as
the romance, but it's like more like the action base when it's
the historical setting. That's the first thing that came
to my head. I don't know if that's a good
example or not. But like this is just like a
stereotypical historical. Setting with this type of like
rom-com of like a young girl and a I guess slightly older guy.
He's like it's like 17 and 14 and the anime which to me and it
like in terms of like historical anime is like nothing crazy.
We're actually going to get to a show our last show which
portrays the age gaps in marriages.
Like way more than what this shows doing.
But yes, it's also set hundreds of years before this.
Yeah, I guess. They're both likely says
historical so like that. Yes, history is a long time.
This review very long time. So I'm enjoying it for what it
is. If you are a just like a real
rom-com fan, I guess if you like sent my Senpai is annoying.
You're probably going to like this show.
I like I like the drama in this more than the rom-com.
B, I think like he's go on. Yeah, I will like the bit with
his family is interesting me and how they're going to sort that
out. I really like her positive
attitude. Like I think like like I've
always been sort of like you could always positively affect
your life like no matter what position you're in sort of thing
and like agree, that doesn't mean, you can always achieve
what you wanted to achieve, or whatever, but you can always do
something to like better yourself in some way.
You know, you don't have complete control over your life,
but you do have control over a lot of things so you can like
mitigate the risk and all of that.
Um, and so I really liked her Outlook.
I like the idea of someone being like, you know, brought around
to sort of that kind of Outlook sort of deal and like the
rom-com E B to me have been very, oh I walked in and you
were bathing and that that Felicia I guess is more of like
the like the mall scene where they like picking out the Photo
and stuff like that. I thought that was.
Yeah. That was fun.
That was cute. I'd like to think that stuck
with me with that. There was like, her talk about
the kimonos and like, what they meant to her and, like, how, you
know, get like, there were some funny scenes in there and she
was like a little money Gremlin, right?
Like that was cute when she was like, well, if you know, if
you're going to let me buy both, I guess I have to, you know, and
then she got like little star eyes and stuff.
Um, but I think that where the show can differentiate itself is
the sort of more serious family, Dynamic, that is historically
based, right? Like that sort of family,
Dynamic doesn't exist as much anymore.
You don't really like send people away for being disabled
or whatever. You don't like write them out.
Of the will or whatever. So least.
I hope that doesn't happen as much light.
It probably does but yeah as much in so, you know, that whole
angle is, is interesting to me. Yeah, so there's a show last
season, the Duke of death and his maid has a very similar
style of show. So I actually, I would compare
it to that if you enjoyed Duke of death from last season, which
I loved I think this is a slightly worse.
Version of that. However, I do think it has like
some really good redeeming qualities.
If you're a fan of the historical drama romance comedy
Style Show. So, that's my recommendation,
for the people who are looking for, like, a show like this.
How are you miles? Yeah, I would say honestly,
like, if it just look at the art and you'll know like it.
It looks a lot like the shows that Pat recommends me.
Yeah, and Pat really likes these kind of shows up.
So, you know, give it a go. If you're into rom-coms.
Melodrama historical pieces sort of deal.
Yes. All right, so that's that.
I'm only by speed round because Mi can't watch everything.
Like I can solve all do like a very quick recap of like five
shows that I'm watching and just like my recommendations on it.
First one is far. A paladin.
If you are a fan of fantasy style hero things like the main
character is like, you know, like he's set to be the hero of
the land. But first he's a child and needs
to train. That's kind of what the vibe.
I'm getting With Faraway Paladin is like I do like the aspect
that he's essentially the only human left and he was raised by
like three. These raised by like three
Undead essentially the like found him as a child and did
like a Tokyo Godfather's thing. They said they fully raise this
child. So if you like it's a fast fancy
Tokyo Godfather's. Are you like if you like fancy
Tokyo Godfather's baby, check that out.
Next one is the world's finest assassin.
Gets reincarnated into another world as an aristocrat.
If you can't tell by the title, it's a light novel.
I thought this was going to be a very very, very generic Isa Chi.
Like we always get and I was pleasantly surprised.
They explain the magic system very well in this that most
shows don't. So that was a big plus.
And then the second one was the adult character of the main of
the MC. We're in the first episode.
We find out that the main characters like 60, and I mean
he gets reincarnated as like, whatever like a kid, but like it
was interesting to see, like somebody who has like all this
knowledge being reincarnated and then uses that knowledge in this
new life was A really fun way of a little different because like
we see with like, jobless reincarnation.
We're like, he's like a 34-year old neat and it doesn't really
use any of his prior knowledge. Other than the be a pedophile.
This is just like, hey, like I've learned like so much
throughout my life. There's like a scene miles.
You would love it. They figure out the atomic mass
of like gold and in order to do that knowing that they are able
to create gold. So, it's like really silly.
Things like that. Where I wasn't, It from a show
like this, which make great because like I thought I was
gonna be like a five and it's like a seven.
So I'm pleasantly surprised next one.
Another light novel banished from the heroes party.
I decide to live a quiet life in the countryside.
Probably the worst anime of the season.
It's a variable like it. It's bad.
Okay, it's bad, nothing. So there is a show that came
out. Two seasons ago, maybe one.
I've been killing slimes for 300 years.
Where it's like the overpowered main character doesn't want to
be like the hero. She just wants to like live a
quiet side. Quiet life in like the
countryside. This is like the exact same
premise. Except the main character is
just so Bland, the big tittied girl comes and says like, hey, I
want to fuck you and she's, he's just like, I don't know what to
do with this situation. Even though I'd like a 25 year
old man. She's like Move in with you.
Like, we're going to get a bed sleep together.
He's like, I died. I'm not picking up these hints.
Like, what do you mean? Like, what do you want from be?
So hate that aspect of the characters are weird.
The best, the best character in the show is like a slug and he's
in the show for about 12 seconds.
So this is a lot about it. I'm probably dropping it after
one more episode. It's pretty bad.
After that. We have a kind of like pride of
orange. In terms of Isa.
It's called The Fruit Of Evolution where Entire
classroom, get seasick. I'd but the fat loser.
Kid doesn't get. He's the kind with the class.
He's on his own. He finds this fruit because he's
hungry. And it just so happens to be the
fruit of evolution. If he eats 11 of them, he dies.
He doesn't know this. He just so happened.
He eats 10 of them. So he becomes strong and he gets
like as like the RPG stats and stuff like that.
And then we get introduced to a gorilla who dies.
Sorry. I said that, Like because
reincarnate into a waifu and him and gorilla, waifu do Adventure
stuff. And it's really, really silly.
It's like a really bad cone Asuma, but it's funny, is the
only way to describe it. So it doesn't have like the
character dynamics that connoisseur has, but it has that
like quirky like what the f is going to happen.
Next episode type of thing, because I mean the waifu of the
show is a gorilla so that was like, out of nowhere, but He'll
find if you're looking for something to shut your brain off
to, this is like what I would recommend.
And the last one is called Saku Gan.
It is a really interesting show because it has the
father-daughter dynamic of being like Mecca, like adventurers
into this world. That is being discovered.
The it kind of reminds me of growing lagaan where it looks
like they live in like an underground world and they have
like he's driving back side like dig down and stuff like that on
the day of the society, but there's like this overwhelming
threat. There were just learning about
now and it's the the like how the story integrates family with
like the mom not being there. He's a single dad.
His daughter is like a super genius and she wants to do all
these things but he just wants her to his daughter, to be like
a kid and they have like that dynamic as well.
It's a very anime ask show but I'm having a good time watching
it so that sucker gone. That was my speed round and I
want to get to the last one. I say this because it's done by
science sorrow. It is a show that we have
boasting three episodes for. I think there's six out right
now. It's the started a little early.
It started as this is definitely the first one that are dyed
heike monogatari. I high probably Slaughter that I
don't know how he came on a guy tree.
It's also set in historical Japan.
However, we have like this Supernatural element are our
main character biwa can see into the future a little bit.
And she has like a dynamic of where she's like hates looking
into the future. Because most of the time, it's
just like bad. And the, we introduced to
another character shigemori who also has like two different
colored eyes and he has like his own Supernatural power.
However, it's like it's science. Saru.
They do so many great elements. Terms of technical elements in
the show, the animation, the music, the design of the
characters. I thought I'd very well done.
I think the voice actress of Beulah is very subtle, but I
think just absolutely kills it. I love hearing biwa speak.
It's just it's a very unique style of Animation.
So, okay, I'm back and Mi got disconnected, but he's backed
out blows fight. I was talking the whole time.
All right. Miles.
You were the first one to start watching.
How do you pronounce the he K? Hi Kate, I believe I pronounce
that the hiki. He can.
But I don't know if that's correct.
Okay, we're gonna go with because I think that's kind of
how they pronounce it in the yeah, they say like, really
fast. I go like hiki and they like,
pinky. What?
Are your initial thoughts? Your first impressions on he
came on? Oh God.
Sorry Joe. I mean, I really like it either
but I like everything sign. Sorry, does.
Um, I like the characters D. Why is really interesting.
I like the like the pacing and stuff a lot.
Because it's in because like really these events like flow
into each other and like a very neat way that keeps me.
Interested. The the only thing I have had
trouble with is like the cast is massive and I think they're like
historical Japanese figures from a very famous story.
So they don't introduce them. Super well because you don't you
probably don't need to for the target audience.
Yeah, one of the only shows that I've seen on malware the sources
book. Yeah, and I mean it's from like
a very, very old. The tale of the hiki are the
heck a or whatever is from 1330. Right, so it's been told. you
know, a ton over in Japan, you know, and so, This is like a
like a new rendition of it or whatever.
But because it's so well known. I've had to like. look up some
stuff on like and I love doing this but I know some people
don't write but like you know, who was, you know, the Shogun at
the time and who, you know, what was the state of feudal Japan
and all of you know, so I can understand the context to it,
you know, because you know, there's like a lot of brothers
who are both Emperors of like given areas and, you know, it
the It would be kind of like getting thrown into Game of
Thrones without knowing how like European monarchies.
Where her? Yeah, that's that's how I feel
with it. You know, that's so while that's
a lot. I very very have been like I
very much enjoyed the story so far.
Yeah, because we just finished watching and doing a review of
the tail of the princess. Kaguya.
I'm getting some of those vibes from this in terms of like this.
Very telling in this historical sense while having a
supernatural, I guess I would be the word.
I would use with these characters and my big qualms
with that movie was it's a folktale.
I wasn't super familiar with it. I couldn't understand the story
as I, I couldn't connect to the story as much as I wanted to
kind of getting it with this show.
However, I just love BYU as a character.
She is so much fun. I love how we Get like glimpses
of her power, but it's not like super in-depth.
Like, I understand like what her eyes are trying to do and like
her. She's like the internal struggle
of a telling just like, she doesn't tell the people of their
future because we see it with like the girl that she is like
friends with when she moves, like this new house that she
sees her like and they capsized boat and like the ocean and
she's she's struggling with That notion of knowing that that's
going to happen and she that's her sister.
She's very close with her, her adoptive sister adopted sister
and like you know, that was Be was like really interesting and
I think BYO has like a psychic power quote unquote that like
Pat could deal with because it's just like can Glimpse the future
sometimes and that's it. That's the power.
You know, it's not something you can like.
Exaggerated or at least not yet or you know, like in expand and
whatever it just it does the thing.
But, you know, I think it's to me all of the like, Like she
come or he's like a really interesting character because he
is like pretty like lawful goody.
It feels like. Yeah.
Because I really like essentially declared war on his
dad. If his dad was going through
like go through with what he was planning.
So like he's a Stony is he's so loyal to like the current, is it
like a king? I guess our whoever whatever the
title is of like I was it a row. It's an emperor.
A he's just like so loyal to the emperor is like I Declare war on
my own father because of how grateful I am to the emperor.
And I thought that was like a really interesting Dynamic of
his character because the emperor brought their family to
power because his father was originally just a like a
warrior, right? Like a samurai class or
something like that. And he got brought into
nobility, you know, either by this Emperor or this Emperor's
father or whatever and so, so, There's like a bunch of Dynamics
about them, not like really belonging and, you know, their
families like look down at it a bit and like their families like
kind of bullies because they don't feel like they belong, but
they have the power currently. So they're trying to like assert
themselves. There's really good like
feminist themes in there. Like with the sister.
She doesn't like her role as like a woman.
She has to get married off. She talks to biwa about it.
If you want to like a kid. Who's like ten, right?
That's like, yeah. Bus younger there.
And she's like 16 or 17. I think at the time.
Yes. And you know biwa was like
raised to like act and dress like a boy because being a young
girl in the the like poor region, they were was like so
dangerous and stuff. So there's like interesting
Dynamics with all of that. There's just like a lot of
interesting. Like character play and stuff
but as you've hinted to it is is really dense and it's like dense
for me and I like tents. Thanks, um, you know, so I don't
I don't even know if I would recommend it to everyone because
like I think it requires you to do a lot of work and that's not
what everyone wants. Yeah.
When relaxing and watching an anime, you know.
Yeah, so like if you if you don't mind doing that.
Then I would say, absolutely go for it or if you like really
like Japanese history, for sure. Go for it.
Because seeing the parallels between this and the tale of
Princess kaguya was like, really interesting, like, how they
would walk on their knees and stuff.
There's like, you know, learning stuff about that was kind of the
same thing. We're like, one of the girls,
like, rejected the marriage, so she had to go be a nun.
The next time you saw her shit like, shaved eyebrows showing
like she had like a had a, like, you couldn't see her hair.
I was like, oh, that's interesting.
Like, I learned that from the tale of princess kaguya, and I'm
seeing in this sense as well. My, uh, like I knew that's kind
of was a thing that if you rejected like this political
marriages arranged marriage, like, if you're a female, you
essentially have to go be a nun for the rest of your life.
Yeah, she was like, a, like a concubine for one of the high
Lords or whatever, but then, she didn't want to do that anymore.
But like, once you've like, slept with someone in like
royalty or whatever, if you want to, like, stop doing that, you
have to become a nun or something, but she ended up
having like a good little future life.
So, because biwa took like a risky look.
Into that. But solvent it was like all all
good and I like that to you. I liked it.
There was like happiness in there.
Yeah. That everything is just bad.
Yeah for me in terms of like recommendation.
I think that there's some like really cool mystery elements in
the show that are still being addressed.
We saw like bur run up to one of the like the dancer girls and
thinking that I was her mom because her dad her dad like
told her like hey your mom was, this was like her profession, so
We have liked the idea that like maybe her mom will pop up in the
story sometime. Maybe the power.
We know that there are people who have like the different
colored eyes and they have different like Supernatural
Powers type of thing. Out of powers is the best word.
But like they have like ability shaves their thing.
They're like spiritually connected.
Yeah. Basically, I like that element.
I want to learn more. I'm hoping that we get to see it
more from like biwa shigemori and maybe some other To the just
haven't been introduced. And I like like the end of
episode three declaring war on like his dad.
And like that was like a really unique storyline that I didn't
really see coming. So there are a lot of things
that I am intrigued about with the show where I would recommend
this to not everybody. But like if you like the mystery
in this style of like science saru shows, I would definitely
recommend this this show to that that group of people but I Don't
think the zombie like it's pretty down on the list in terms
of popularity. I get it.
But like I do think it's this is a pretty solid show that I think
that a lot of maybe like older anime, Watchers would enjoy
watching. Yeah, I agree.
Like, you definitely won need to be like, you have to pay
attention to it. You have to sometimes, you need
to go back and like make sure you have like, connections and
stuff. Right?
And part of that is just due to, I mean, I guess, if you're very
familiar with Japanese history, you will not have to do that.
But provided, you have as much Japanese history is I do, which
is like, so little You don't have to it's like when you go
and see Hamilton, it's probably like a lot more confusing when
you when you just don't know who George Washington is like, yeah
for sure. Why does this guy have a song,
you know, so that that's like I very much enjoyed it.
Bye. I don't know.
It's not like a it's not like. A blast, you know what?
I mean? It's like yeah, like I have fun1
like be was on screen and when everyone else is like on screen,
I'm more of like on a watching like a documentary or something
like it's like, it's informative.
It's like cool. I'm seeing.
But as different elements that I enjoy, personally, but I could
definitely see like that. Everybody is going to be on the
same boat as me. Yeah.
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He will be creating a game for us to play.
Pat will be defending his title. I will be playing as well, and
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