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Hello ladies and gentlemen, welcome to what do you say
Anime? I'm your house Peter.
At today's episode we will be reviewing the recently wrapped
up Spring 2023 anime lineup. Warning ahead, there will be
spoilers for the shows that we are talking about.
On the description below there will be time stamps for each
show we are reviewing. Second warning, this episode is
probably going to be very positive, so if you hate being
positive, this probably the episode for you.
Joining me on what? Why'd you invite me then?
It's like the Ying and Yang. I gotta have some contrast.
Weak. Strong.
Join me on our adventure today. We have sick Miles and healthy
Jay. Gentlemen, how are we doing
today? Healthy.
You look healthy. Thank you.
What about you, Miles? Sick.
I'm great. I've never been better.
I'm this is everyone is expecting, you know.
I'm well rested. I got like 10 hours of sleep.
I'm gonna bring the energy today.
I'm gonna work out later probably.
Hell yeah. Love to see it.
I'm going to fall asleep as soon as we're done recording this and
a little behind baseball. This is about 3:00 PM my time.
Yes, hopefully you get your you dismissed.
Inside baseball and behind the scenes?
Yep. Instead behind base, OK.
That's right, I say. Behind baseball, yeah.
I think that's the name of like a character and Death Note.
We're doing great today, yeah. As you can see, Miles is a
little loopy and Jay is on point Jum and let's jump into our
first show that we are reviewing.
The highly anticipated show from when we previewed it, one of our
favorites and by ours, I've been me and Miles and we are
reviewing. Oh, she don't go.
Jay enjoys it. Jay enjoys it.
Me and Miles I think are a little higher than Jay on it,
but Jay is also a reader of the. Manga.
Not a hated yeah and I'll I'll say me and Miles are just on
like another level in terms of how intrigued and how like into.
You guys are stands. Yes, I am a fan.
Yes, and unfortunately Miles is a Ruby shipper.
Come full circle on it. Fucking let's watch it burn
down, baby. Just terrible.
But that being said, we got the first season, second season has
been announced. Had my complaints coming or not
complaints, concerns coming into it with Doga Cola at the helm
doing this as they have been only really doing mediocre to
average anime and I think that this was sort of like their
shining moment in terms of kind of elevating themselves as a
studio. Going forward, I hope to see
them continue this level of productions and other.
Anime properties that they pick up.
I thought they did a fantastic adaptation of this story just
from what we got. It sets it up for the what's it
called, Tokyo Blade Arc, The stage play arc, which was great
Throughout the entire series though I thought that this was
just really well done. Just starting with the LP Idol
is like the biggest anime opening maybe ever according to
like charts. I think that show or that OP has
just taken the world by storm now, to the point where it's a
little annoying hearing it everywhere.
But that being said, yeah, just just really a really great
adaptation of this, this first part of Ocean Oko.
I'm really happy with how everything turned out.
The voice actors, the characters, all that jazz was
great. Jay, what were your thoughts on
the first season of Ocean Oko? So I think I mirrored your
hesitation whenever I heard about Doga Kobo being the ones
in charge of the adaptation, as well as like pretty much anybody
I think, who was pretty familiar with Doga Kobo.
They do not have the greatest track record, but they knocked
out of the park with this. I did say whenever we were
previewing it, I did not think that everything was going to be
to the level of the preview that we saw, which was the first
episode. And I think it's safe to say
that I was correct about that. There were definitely a few
spots where the CG use in the character models was a bit wonky
for me, specifically with Aqua's character model, sometimes in
his hair. And that was a good point I had
from the start too, by the way. I thought his hair was going to
be wonky and it was. But other than that, like the
everything else was pretty much on point in my opinion.
The voice acting incredible like.
They got re Takahashi to do I for like an hour or something
like that. It was awesome and she did
great. And then like the like the
leads? Very solid in my opinion.
The whoever's playing Aqua, I don't know the say use name off
the top of my head, but he's making awkward.
He's making Aqua just as much of a fucking like creepy dweeb as I
want him to be, and that's great.
I need people to not come incorrectly with it.
Aqua is not cool. He is.
He is an off putting weird child.
Yeah, I don't know like the attention to detail that Docobo
went into really just kind of. I hope that they can keep it up
with their next series because they really elevated it with
like how they do like the eyes and stuff in this adaptation.
In my opinion, they'd really. Oshinoko was one of those where
when we read it, I think that I probably said in the review like
this being in color would elevate it based on just like
the volume covers and stuff like that.
And I think that this adaptation kind of proves that during the
mid season review, I did mention that I think that they could
have done a little bit more with the OST in general like Amazing
Opie and Ed aside, I think that they didn't really do a whole
lot with music in this show, which is kind of.
Disappointing considering you know the themes and setting of
the show so that like the wonky CGI at points for Aqua and the
lack of kind of utilizing the OST or more or less my main
complaints with it. Everything else though, like
it's a pretty good adaptation overall, I think that.
We can all agree that they should have held a little bit
more time on the your star scene because that is it's like a full
double spread in the manga. And I think for some important
moments like that you should really just like that should
have been like a key moment in the series.
You know, like right up there with like the stuff from the
first episode with I, in my opinion, so like solid
adaptation. Overall like very good.
There's a few things that I wish they would have done better
though, which I know. It's just kind of like it's
complaining about the the breakout show of the season.
But like, I don't know, I just, it could have been better.
In my opinion, it could have been even better is more of how
I should phrase that. What do you think, Miles?
So I mean, I think I definitely agree with some of those
nitpicks, right, like the. The sound design and everything
other than like when the Ed goes like when it goes into like
every moment they had of that was like Oh yes, thousand of 10.
But you know, I I agree with that but I don't think it really
hurt my enjoyment at all because I was just so excited to see it
done. Well, I actually had some hope
with Dogo Coba because like the Shiki Mori I think was like the
last thing they did and it looked it looked really good.
And it was just kind of boring because I think the story's kind
of boring. And so I figured if they could
really nail, you know, the adaptation of what's a good
story, then you know the how it looks would come across.
I think they did. Like my favorite scene from this
portion of the manga is when a Connie comes in and like, does
the research and then has eyes, eyes when she, like, turns it
on. Because that was like really
shocking to me because I was expecting it to do like the
whole, like no one can ever be I sort of thing.
But they go with the different route on that where it's like I
that whole like thing is like I I as a liar.
It's like a fabrication that Aqua has been falling for his
entire life and it's, you know, manufactured and able to be
repeated and like the way that they did that with like into the
Ed and everything I thought was phenomenal.
I I think that, you know, I like the entire cast.
The colors were great. I'm trying to think if there's
anything that y'all haven't said.
I think that 01 way that I think they they elevated it was the
social media team did like a really good job of putting out
green screen like GIF versions of different like kana eating
the baking soda or the peon dances.
Or just like me, moments that like you can promote the show
with. And I think that really helps
with like the community aspect of it.
You know, where we're watching something weekly and you get to
like build sort of like a, like, I don't want to like, boil it
down to memes, but memes, right? There's like a lot of memes
coming out of like, whatever. And it's like, oh, I liked this
moment and people also liked this moment and that makes me
feel good. You know, so I think it had like
a lot of that coming for it. And so, yeah, I don't know, I I
really enjoyed it. I thought it was.
I thought it was a wonderful adaptation.
It was about as good as I could have hoped it it would be, you
know. So I very pleased with it.
Yeah, basically I have like what Miles said.
I I do like the whole beam thing, the kind of eating the
baking soda someone like added her to like a Formula One race
and her crawling on the floor and going in F1 cars.
Super fun. Getting into the rating of
things of ocean alcohol, obviously I'm in very, very,
very biased towards this series. I love just how unique and how
meta, or maybe not meta, but like how they kind of just dive
into the entertainment world and construct the story while still
making it. Like anime is something that I
really gravitate towards in terms of stories.
The anime did a great job at elevating this with the visuals.
I agree with Jay with the OST, I did like it at the end.
When they did the starchy rain and our Sign is B song, but like
that was really it. In terms of like something that
like stuck in my head in terms of OSC.
And I agree that they could have elevated more throughout the
story. I mean just mostly for the
positives. Episode one was incredible.
I love how they adapted everything.
I also really enjoyed what Miles said before the.
Akane's I seen also would Aqua saves her from committing
suicide. I thought that that was really
well done. They had that scene at the end
where like they promoted like national suicide awareness, like
the hotlines and stuff like that were like if you need help
here's you can reach out because Akane's back story with that
social media bullying is based off of a real person and I
thought that they just handled it kind of well.
I think they could have done some things like behind the
scenes with Anna's family before like really expressing that,
but. That being said, I loved Oceano
Co with all my heart. I love the story.
I thought Douglas Coba did a great job.
I'm giving it A10I loved it. Yeah, I enjoyed it quite a bit
as well. Like most of my complaints are
pretty like small. I wouldn't really say they
really detracted overall for my like enjoyment of the show.
It's more of just like looking at ways that it could have
elevated past where I already like it.
So to be short and sweet with this review because I don't
really have a ton to add on to for to what I said in my like
thoughts, I'm just going to go ahead and give this a nine out
of 10. Yeah.
And for me, you know, we've already mentioned how Pete and I
are sucking at the anyways to 10 to now 10.
I'm a big fan. Two 10s and a nine for
Oceanelco. Moving on to our next show, we
have Villain Saga Season 2. Miles is going to take a break
while we discuss this lot of controversy to begin the series.
I think the real ones stuck around and realize how great of
a story this is. The big things that stuck out to
me during this entire season. There's a few episodes in
general Episode 3. Is when we kind of get the first
real nightmare of Orphan and his voice actor just portraying that
nightmare, that horror that he's gone through was something that
really stuck out to me. Is probably one of my if not
favorite voice acting performances this year.
He's definitely, probably my lead for male voice actors, just
absolutely killed at this season.
The introduction of Inar, I thought he was a fantastic
supporting character. They devoted an entire episode
towards his back story in the beginning, which was kind of
interesting because I think a lot of people thought that we
were going to jump right into Thorfin and then we get a full
episode one dedicated to Einar and serve.
His journey of how he ended up with Thorfin was fantastic.
Episode 17 with I'm a Slaughter, Her name Arnheid.
Just the the tribulations and trials that she's went through
as her being a slave and finding like her husband is still alive
after all of these years and sort of just their journey of
sort of coming back together through death.
I guess I'll put it. Because her and her husband both
passed away while they're on the farm was just so great that
like, that's what they were longing for, was like the
family. Being back together and
unfortunately it's through death.
But like I thought just how it was told through the
storytelling was great. The Farmland arc itself was just
a master class of storytelling through Canute.
Just like the what he's gone through, who he is as a person
now was fantastic. Man.
I want to ramble forever. Snake was such a cool character
to get added to this mercenary of like.
Kind of misfits the best word but like all these people have
kind of relinquished their names and now they're they're animals
but like now they're a family. And so like that group together
was so cool is how everything came together at the end with
like this battle but it's thorpens like resolve of not
wanting to be the person that he was before to solve this
conflict was just. So great and I just, I can't
wait to see where the story progresses.
Jay, tell me your thoughts on Season 2 of Vinland Saga.
Yeah so this is like a story where like how you guys have a
bias for Oshi Noko. Like my bias is definitely for
Vinland Saga. I enjoyed it so much.
Like I went into this having already read this arc in the
manga I'm. Pretty close to current with The
Monga. I'm a couple chapters behind now
just because the release schedule is a bit off sometimes
due to it being monthly. But yeah, I already knew that
this was going to be awesome and something that I enjoyed, but I
knew that people were going to get turned off from the change
in direction it had from season one, and I'm glad that, you
know. Both of us stuck around for it,
Obviously. I never in my mind thought that
you would drop it because there was less fighting or something
because yeah, that's it. You know, I if people want to do
it, whatever. I just know we wouldn't do it.
And I know Miles is deafened, but I'm pretty sure he's not the
type person where that's going to be.
Something I worry about from him either.
The introduction of Anar. Amazing.
I love that guy. I think that like.
He is just the type of character that Thor fin like needed at
that. Like that changed his character
arc forever and gave him like that seed.
Like it's really poetic because INR is like a farmer and that's
his thing is he loves to like cultivate and he basically like
cultivated Thor fed. Oh yeah.
Who he is, that's. A good way to put it.
Prove him into the person he is now, in a way.
Grooming, but good. Yeah, I mean.
Yeah, more or less, Yeah. Like the Also another character
that you didn't mention that was a real one, Fairkel, the old
master. That guy was awesome.
Like just his whole arc with like helping Art hide and her
husband like attempt to get away and giving them like the horses
and the cart and all that. I just loved it.
Like it really was like. A season that showed like, the
beauty of, like solidarity in general, in my opinion.
Like it showed like that. Really what it comes down to is
that you can only you need solidarity with the people
around you. Or else like outside forces can
come and like, just fuck you up. And that's what happened at the
climax of it, you know, there wasn't like.
Complete solidarity because of like Thorgill getting involved
and stuff like that. And so they were just getting
utterly demolished by the Yams Vikings who are like a fucking
faceless efficient unit that just kills and pillages.
And also fuck Floki. I'm glad that orphan see his
ass. I do agree with you that seeing
like the change in Canute was awesome.
The voice actors like you said just knocking out of the park.
Thorfin Canute. Just everybody reprising their
roles. Like it was just super fun.
Yeah, I don't know. There's I could just gosh
forever about this. It feels like there's very
little about this that wasn't done well.
There was a few parts that were a few episodes that were kind of
slow, but I'm the type of person where I kind of enjoy like the
historical slice of life stuff and like seeing the process.
So that didn't really affect it all too much for me.
Should we move on to our closing thoughts?
Yeah, yeah, let's do it. Didn't mention it earlier, but I
thought they also did an incredible job doing 2 great O
P's and E D's. I do think River and Without
Love stood out, but the second-half I did enjoy the
OP&ED as well. Just Without love.
Would you have the context with the story?
Without Love was just like an Omega beggar Ed.
It's it just put me in my feels. Yeah, I think that's what
they're trying to do with it and they did a great job at doing
that. Jay mentioned it earlier.
I think there was some like directional things that were
just incredible. The the, the last fight, kind of
how they changed the angles of how the fights were going on was
just like incredible work. Like it was so well done and so
cool to see that different type of angle in a fight.
But just the the whole story was just, I was intrigued.
Every second of every minute that I was watching the story.
Where I think what season one did great was mixing the action
with the story. This one was just almost
entirely pure story, and when I'm hooked on the dialogue and
nothing else, that says a lot to how good the writing is.
This is by far my anime of the year.
It's not even close. This was one of the best sequels
I've ever seen, period. I don't know if I have like a
list in front of me, but it's pretty close to like Main Abyss
Season 2 levels for me, which is really, really high.
I bumped this from my #19 to #13 show of all time.
I loved it. It was everything I wanted and
more easy Ten One of the easiest times I've ever had my entire
life. Yeah, I just got to agree with
everything you said. As well, it feels like when we
were discussing Vinland Saga as it was coming out weekly, there
was like 4 or even five times where we would say Dang, that
might have been like episode of the year.
Yeah, yeah. Like episode 17.
I remember that coming out. That's my.
And then every episode after that is just a banger after
banger after banger. Like it was just amazing.
The director like the directing Shuhebuta.
Just truly incredible. With that, I'm excited to see
like everything that he does after this as well.
Like, I'm excited to see the third season that was officially
announced. That's going to be awesome.
Going to get some of the best characters in my opinion
introduced. Then I was a little bit sad that
we didn't get like a little preview of the next season like
they did at the end of the first season.
But hey, you know, I'll take what I can get.
Yep, like Pete said, this is probably like 1.
This is the easiest Ted I've ever given.
Honestly, I like pretty much. I knew this.
The floor of it was like a high 9 for me personally going in.
So like, yeah, 10 easily. Awesome.
Yeah, two 10s for me and Jay. You'll be hearing us talk about
this more probably during the Anime of the Year episode, but
yeah, just this incredible piece of work.
Moving on to our next property that we'll be talking about
Hell's Paradise, Mapa's other story that they did this season.
The big thing for me, I guess with Hell's Paradise is kind of
like the Twitter backlash when people were complaining about
the production value of this, which I didn't personally see.
I thought this was like pretty well done.
Like, yeah, I know it's Mapa, but.
And I don't know if they expected the world, but even
stuff like Attack on Titan had pretty big production issues
that I thought were more glaring than what I saw in Hell's
Paradise. They did one of the best things
that I love that in like these type of stories that shown and
normally doesn't do, but they did a great job, is giving me a
convincing threat where at any time I feel like somebody could
get merked. And I think that was just a
great addition to the story. I loved the tension that it
built throughout along with just a really great cast of
characters. Props to also like the character
design to this. I thought that was one of the
best from this year. I loved how people look like.
Yuza Hara was great. The blind Ausimon, I really like
his character and then my boy Tensa RIPI really enjoyed his
like whole character thing. I thought just like the the cast
was great and sort of like the twist at the end that.
Maybe smarter people saw coming I didn't personally see coming
with a like Gabi Maru in this like brainwash type of like
really being influenced by his elders to do this thing when
it's not actually happened. I I just love the story, I love
the action. The fights were great.
My only real concern was in like the last like episode like
9/10/11 when tow. Got introduced, it kind of felt
like everybody knew what toe was all at the same time, which was
a little confusing for me where it's kind of never really
mentioned earlier in the story. And then it's like use of horror
was like, Oh yeah, in my village it's called like key or
something like that. It's like I I feel like that
should have been mentioned in the past or something like that,
where like it's like to me it's like comparing it to Nen where.
I like how Nan was introduced and explained to us and tow
wasn't that level and I feel like they're kind of trying to
do something like with Nan, but. No, it's sorry as somewhat I
just wanted to say to kind of put people's expectations where
they should be. Tau is not like a power system
that is going, it's not meant to be an indepth power system like
Nan or chakra or something that it's just like.
It's key in Dragon Ball. It's energy.
Yeah. It's not like a, you know, I
have a special towel that and I get it manifests this way or
something like that. It's not.
It's it's a pretty simple power system.
Yeah. It's yeah, I guess that's why.
Yeah, go ahead. I guess it's more of just like
how it was introduced and how the cast kind of like
acknowledged it was. I feel like that kind of plays
into the fact that like. This, like the whole island, is
like an amalgamation of different cultures, you know?
Oh yeah, I do understand what you mean, though.
It could have been paced better. Yeah, but I'm like
overwhelmingly positive on this. I loved Gabi Maru sort of as
like the main. But at the same time, I feel
like we have maybe two or three main leads with this story kind
of interweaving. A big fan of that.
I mentioned the character design.
This is just like really fun. This is like the type of shown
in that I really gravitate towards.
I like this more than like the Black Clovers, the my heroes,
the demon slayers. This to me was kind of like
taking that type of battle shown in and elevating it with better.
I think like just a great cast. Fun animations, the the the
world that they're in as well was just great.
The monsters were like terrifying, like the bugs with
faces. That's so cool.
I'll pass over to Jay, He's a Source reader.
But yeah, huge positives for me. Yeah, so honestly, like going
into this, I didn't really have huge expectations.
I actually was getting kind of like, nervous as it got closer
to being released because I was like, man, I hope that it's done
at least somewhat well so people don't just like, you know, hate
the anime and they don't want to see like the source, read the
source, mature or whatever. But I was pretty pleasantly
surprised. Like it had moments of popping
off, for sure. Definitely some production gaps.
So I understand why people brought those up.
But I think overall, like, like you said it AOT and stuff like
that, like Mapa's other works they have, they tend to have at
least some kind of production gaps every now and then,
unfortunately. Like, that's just big studio
problems. I think is that you have like
variable quality. And like, I think with Hell's
Paradise, the writing for some of it was kind of on the wall
with the trailer having like a ton of like random key animators
who didn't have it, like weren't really big names and stuff like
that. Like I said, I was pretty
pleasantly surprised by this. I think that the voice cast
really knocked it out of the park, like everybody was really
like trying their hardest. Story was adapted pretty well
overall in my opinion. They didn't really like skip out
on anything. House Paradise is pretty
fast-paced. It's only like 120 chapters
overall. I think we got to like 40 or 50
or something like that. So we should have.
I think by the end of the next score or season it should be
done. Overall, like I wanted a bit
better for this series, but. You know, I was being realistic
with myself after I saw the trailer and looked into it and
everything. So yeah, like, I think that if
you enjoyed this, then maybe you should just go read the manga.
In my opinion, like the manga is just better.
But I'm I'll still be watching the second season like, but
yeah, it's not my it's definitely not in contingent for
anime of the year for me, unfortunately, which is a shame.
Miles about you, yeah. So is is someone who didn't read
the source material and had no expectations for this going in.
I I mean, I really liked it, you know, I think the setting is
just like really cool, like the island is so cool.
And I always like like a location as an antagonist sort
of style of show. Like I think that's like a like
a neat idea. Like I hope going forward they
don't explain. Too much about the island.
I hope it always stays, you know, mysterious.
Like you can explain some of it, of course, but like, you know, I
hope it's not like broken down entirely because I just think
it's neat that things like that can exist.
It makes the world feel fantastical.
I like Pete like that. Like sort of twist at the end
with Gabby Marley's wife. I thought that was really neat.
Didn't see that coming. The characters are all a lot of
fun. I got attached to them.
But you're always worried that. Someone could die because the
setting is so, so deadly. You know, I I'm excited to I I
guess either finish it up by reading or wait until like the
second season is coming. But it's something that I I plan
on continuing, you know, one way or the other.
I definitely did notice some production issues, but I they
also took like a gap gap week and like I thought a lot of it
got shored up after that. Later on in the series they
started when they were explaining Tau.
My only issue with that is that like they explained it like mid
fight, and that's one of my like least favorite tropes.
When like they introduce a thing, it's like it gets
explained while it's getting used.
I would prefer it happen like after a confrontation or
something, like if people were going back over what happened,
that's obviously like a very minor thing, but to me it's just
always weird to see people just standing there when they're
supposed to be trying to kill each other, like just like
actively try to kill each other. And then think about what's?
Happening. Yeah.
In the last fight it was kind of funny how they would have like a
moment where like they would just sit and talk to each other
for like 10 seconds while this, like, chimera of playing is in
the background. Just letting them do it.
Like, I guess talking is a free action, but come on.
Yeah, true, but you're supposed to keep it short.
You know that. That's just on the DM of this
story to to tighten that up a little bit.
I, you know, it's like that the fat guy realized his feelings in
the middle of that fight and had like a really long flashback or
whatever. Hey, that was awesome though.
I loved you Siri Hobb like just punching the pile of heads and
then like dancing around with an umbrella as decapitated heads
fell everywhere. It it felt fitting for her
character. She's going to be the the anime
Harley Quinn. For I was literally just
thinking that you read my mind. She gets to do that for the
next, you know, like whatever season and 1/2 or whatever it is
until. You imagine if Harley Quinn was
also a slime girl, what what state the world would be in
right now? And also honestly, props to the
whoever directed it to be a like white opaque liquid.
Truly the pinnacle of a design decision.
It could have been any color, but it was come.
But yeah, I don't know, I really liked it.
I'm looking forward to it. I think for me it was like the
surprise of the season and like not because like the source
material isn't great or anything.
It's just like not my normal jam.
And so it like was my jam and so I was excited to to watch it.
Did you guys watch the after credit scene in the last
episode? Yep.
What happens? Oh, yes, We're the guys getting
shipped out, right? So like, yes, I do, Yeah.
OK. Yeah, you guys will either love
or hate the guy they showed shoe again, you will either love or
hate him. I don't know which.
It's very concerning. I have a feeling that I'll hate
him and Miles will think he's based.
That's usually what happened. Honestly, Miles probably will
think he's based thinking about it.
Oh, cool. Can't wait.
Going into our ratings, love the cast, love the character.
The OP was super fun as well. I know we didn't talk about
that, but I thought it was a really good OPI thought it was
just like a great first installment to the series.
I'm just solid 8. It's a very solid eight.
I think it has the possibility of probably being like a solid
nine when it's all said and done.
Yeah. To give a like quick spoiler of
my score and eight is also where I fall on it.
And I think I gave the source material a nine.
Yeah. I think that if they can get
like the production down for the second season and like maybe put
like a big name director or something on it.
Like I think, I think like a good director would really make
like a really good director would really make the difference
for this show. And you know Mapa has them like.
Imagine if Shuhei Ubutu was on this.
Like I don't want to take him away from Vinland saga, but like
just imagine a world where he's doing that.
Like that would have went crazy. Like there's this eye catch
scene in the OP that always got like caught me.
It was the when Gabby Mar was like on top of the like pyre and
he like arches his back and like catches on fire.
Like if we had like that quality animation the whole time.
Easy 9. Maybe even a 10 for me as
someone who's biased towards the source material, but I can't.
Like if I were to give this A9 or A10 with the production
issues like I would be a fraud. I'm not even going to lie I I
simply cannot look past it. So eight out of 10 for me miles.
Yeah, I also have this. It's an 8 out of 10.
I think that, well, I really liked it.
There were like a couple of lulls here and there, which is
fine, you know, nothing's perfect and.
It fell into some like shown in Tropes.
I'm not like the best fan of for a little bit before digging
itself like away from them. But overall, I mean I'm, I'm
really excited about it and I'm excited to watch more.
So eight out of 10 for me. Right on, that's three, eight.
All right. Next up we have Insomniacs after
school. This was a show that I knew I
was going to love. I just didn't know how much I
was going to love it and it turns out I am deeply, madly in
love with it. After finishing the anime, I am
fully caught up on the manga. This story I think started a
little slow, but as the characters got more developed, I
just fell in love with so much really like that.
They don't play into a lot of the tropes that I thought they
were going to where I thought it was going to be more them, the.
Kind of like figuring out themselves more than like the
romantic interest, but how they kind of blended the two
together. I really fell in love with.
I thought they had a few romantic things that I just
thoroughly enjoyed. I love how they just talked to
each other over like the radio, that that thing while they're
like one's working, the other one can like, listen to the
other person while they're awake at like 2:00 AM.
There's a really interesting way of conveying like, kind of
feelings, not necessarily for each other, but just in general
with. What they're thinking and what's
going on at 2:00 AM, very called the Night S since it's the same
studio. I thought they did a great job
at conveying these lights and stars and everything that
happens at night. While the the omnience is dark
and the characters are bright. And I like that contrast between
the two. Maghery is just like protected
all cost vibes. I loved her with her and
knocking me sort of like why they are insomniacs was really
well done too. Where it's not just they can't
sleep. There's a reason behind it and I
felt like it was like a real real reason knocking me.
His abandonment issues with her his mom leaving and Margery was
having a heart condition and sort of like the fear of dying
while she's in her sleep was just a great addition to a story
where I think it could have been cookie cutter and they made it.
Not cookie cutter just I I loved it.
The the. The supporting cast was really
well done too as well. Mostly Moggery's friends, but
Knock Me has that one bro, Okugawa.
He's a good bro. I liked him a lot too.
But the supporting cast was mostly Moggery's friends along
with the old senpai who ran the club and the sensei who is the
advisor. Just a really great cast, Loved
it towards the end. Honestly, probably one of my
favorite confession scenes in anime.
I loved it. I love how they portrayed their
feelings throughout the entire story, but really cultivating
that at the end with just letting out their emotions with
each other was so well done with, you know, Maghrey's like,
I want you to take a picture of me.
I've never been so happy in my entire life and I love that it
was it was so cute. It was so adorable.
I love knocking me. Out of manning up is the right
word. But sort of just like I'm.
I'm taking you. I'm stealing you like from away
from your parents. We'll deal with the consequences
later. Love that.
Like old school romantic trope of let's just run away together
and but in like a more reasonable sense.
I guess they weren't going cross country.
They were just going to take some pictures.
I fucking love insomniacs after school.
Jay, what's your thoughts on insomniacs?
Yeah, this was definitely another thing where I knew that
I was going to enjoy this because I'm a big Call of the
Night mark. I love fucking Call of the Night
last summer. Yeah, I don't know, This really
hit the mark for me. I like both the OP and
especially the Ed quite a lot. Just a really sweet anime.
Like I liked seeing the two main characters a lot together.
I thought that the supporting cast was.
Like, not really there all that much, but because of how strong
Ganta and Isaki's relationship was, I didn't really mind it,
honestly. Like, I was mostly there for
them. Like having sheer mar there
around 2 sometimes was pretty cool.
Yeah. And plus, you know, there were
two cute cats. Two like, what am I like?
That's like worth at least two points by itself right there,
all jokes aside. This was something that like,
really broke out for me. Really been making me consider
how much romance media I should be consuming.
Maybe a little bit more. Yeah, I like this a lot.
What about you, Miles? Yeah, so, like, you know, I
don't know if you're a longtime fan of the Pod.
You know that I I really dig stargazing scenes.
So. You know, I was in on this from
the start. I also have a heart condition.
So it was like, that's fun little little Rep in the in the
anime. Hers is way worse than mine
though. So you know, I I don't know, but
like it's still something that like when your heart doesn't
work properly it's like a spooky thing.
So like I I got that and like related to it and thought it was
great. I loved all of the scenery I
love just like the general melancholic, but I don't know
like hopeful. Sort of tone that it like had
just like this entire time was was great.
I thought that everything I don't know everything about it I
think added to its atmosphere in like a really good way, like
every scene did that. The chemistry between the main
couple is like really, really good, which I like and I liked
that they had gone to like he is kind of like a like the loser.
Guy but like in a like a kind of realistic way.
Not like a it's not like overplayed at all and like once
he has the chance to he like opens up and he actually does
have some friends and like you know it's it's it's like good
vibes there. I'm excited to I'll probably
like read more of it to be. Honest.
It's on the Viz app. OK, the ZAP.
So ZAP. So I will, I mean, I'll probably
catch up on that I think next I guess, but I don't know, I I
loved everything about it. There was like a firework scene
which is also up there for me. It just was so atmospheric and
enjoyable and I I can't wait for more and whatever method I
choose to consume so. Getting into our ratings, the
only reason why I'm not giving this show A10, I said from day
one, if Maghery dies, this show is a zero.
It's kind of hinted a lot that she has this heart condition and
can sort of maybe die at any time.
I know that's like not the case, but it's kind of like that's the
threat of her insomnia and that's kind of like the threat
behind kind of like who she is as a person to where she's sort
of like experiencing life. One of the things she wasn't
able to do earlier because she was in the hospital so much so I
I just, I loved everything about the story.
I loved the chemistry between the two.
It would they're honestly probably one of my favorite
anime couples ever just it just it just seems like they're meant
to be where a lot of times I think like in Romans anime it's
like they date and then they get married but the connection that
I feel towards the people aren't isn't necessarily there.
This I felt was there like they just seem.
So good and minor spoilers for the MAGA.
Knock Me is a absolute Rizzle or later and just seeing his
development as he opens up more is fantastic.
It's so good. Just great.
I I hope there's a second season.
I I thought there was like it's like rumored that it's getting
one but nothing is confirmed. Confirmed yet.
But the MAGA is super easy to read if you're a fan of this.
I read like 70 chapters in a night.
It was an absolute breeze. I'll give you the show a very,
very solid 9. Yeah.
For me, this show is pretty up there as well.
I enjoyed it. Like, maybe it's just like the
genre as a whole, but there were definitely some slow boys where
I was got like I had to stop it because I was kind of falling
asleep because I was watching it late at night.
I was like, I'll come back to this and maybe rewind it a bit.
So that's like maybe that's just like my ADHD and like just like.
You know, mixing with like romance as a genre and stuff
like that. Especially like, you know, a
more shown in Styled Romance where it's like very much about
like the chase and like the build up to that sort of
confession and stuff like that, which I thought was done
beautifully here. But yeah, I mean that's like a
pretty minor complaint. Overall the story was pretty
excellent. I I really enjoyed like.
The characterization of Ganta, especially like, I think that
they did it really well with his back story about like his mom
leaving him, as well as like his dad and stuff like that.
Like the glimpses into both of their respective childhoods as
well. I think that they were pretty
like, well placed is how I would describe them A lot of the times
with flashbacks and shows and this is something that Hills
Paradise actually kind of suffered from.
It can feel like the flashbacks, just kind of.
Happen at you. And I think that they were done
really like tastefully in this, So that's like like a bonus for
me in my opinion, because anime kind of stumbles over flashbacks
in my opinion. Sometimes I think based on my
overall enjoyment of this show, I was thinking about giving it
an 8 and I think on any list it'll probably be like an 8.5
for me, but for the sake of this review, I'm going to give it a
nine. Yeah, I think part of like, it
is a bit sleepy. But like, I guess like to me
that's like that like is a desired effect of it.
Because like so much of the like that comforting sort of slow
pacing and stuff is like what I think our main characters are
feeling like when they're together and they're able to
just fall asleep and chat with each other and everything.
So I sort of viewed, you know, it's definitely not like.
You know after every episode of anime, we like a little bit like
at all in our discord will just be like banger app you know And
it's like I would say that I would say that about like
insomniacs but like number like bangers because.
There's. One, there's like there's maybe
2 bangers, but like a lot of them are more like atmospheric
background music that makes you comfortable, you know, it's
like. Sit.
It's like that feeling when you sit in your favorite chair after
work and you're just like, you know, like that's that's what I
got from this. I think that, God, I don't know,
I have a hard time. Yeah, fuck you.
I'm like, looking at my, like, list of top stuff right now and
as far as, like, pure romance goes.
Like, I think this is my favorite show.
You know, something like love is war would be higher for me, but
like that. That's a lot of like comedic
elements and stuff where like this is just like the romance is
like the whole package really. And it's like it's got some
funny moments, but it's it's definitely like not attempting
to. I think I'll give this a 10
because I changed my mind. I can change.
I. Never know.
But I'll do it. Fuck it, 10.
I was so set on you like. Hovering like I was really
hoping you would convince yourself into giving it a nine,
but I was banking on you giving it an 8 and the fact and the
fact that you gave it a 10. This is 4th of July levels
fireworks for me right now. This is great.
This wasn't getting an A I think Galaxy actually like, threatened
me because at one point I was thinking about giving us an 8.
But like the last couple episodes, I think they did them
getting together. And like, it's a good natural
way that like, it really bumped it for me, but like.
He was like, if you give that show at 8 after you write
multiple paragraphs about it every week, I will kill you.
And I was like, OK. Next up we have Skip and Loafer.
I knew that I was going to love this show.
Another show where I didn't realize how much I was going to
love it. They do.
One of my favorite things that I thoroughly enjoy an anime the
most is when. They take the drama element and
don't shove it down my throat. I thought how they handled
everything in the story was handled very well with care.
Me to me as a main lead was a bundle of fun.
She's probably my favorite female cast member from this
season. One or two actually she's two.
I know what my number one is and just like a great, I guess
different type of school storytelling that we're not
used. I'm not shown as much, I feel
like. The drama element when it comes
to school and a lot of anime is like really heavily drama
focused and this seems like a great mix of everything
combined. There was like lighthearted
comedy. There was some possible romantic
implications throughout the story.
There were some other just great drama things with like Shema
being the child actor and sort of having this.
Controversy in his past with underage drinking.
I thought that was handled pretty well.
The cast itself was a fantastic Shema and meets me as the main
leads were great. Kind of.
The coming together of meets me's friend group was
interesting as well because we kind of have four people who
maybe you wouldn't think would be in a friend group, but that's
what makes their friend group so great and we sort of had like
these backgrounds as well with these characters with.
Music. He's sort of falling into place
with her role as being like the hot girl and just not really
belonging when it feels like she should.
Like she didn't like being in like the popular group and like
what those people were talking about.
Like that wasn't her style, but because of her looks, she got
attention from like everybody. So I thought that was really
interesting. Mika, with her troubles of yeah,
I know Mika stand stand up, right.
Her sort of having to try harder to be in the position that she's
in, I thought was handled really well because I I think it's like
a testament at that time of your age where I you need to feel
like you want to be popular, like you want to be cool.
In order to be cool, you have to act cool and do all these cool
things. That's what that's why all the
cool kids are doing. And I think like throughout the
story, she kind of fell into a place where.
She didn't need to do that to be in the where she actually wanted
to be and I thought that was really well done and like and
her like random friendship with now sort of like coming together
as like a, I don't know, looking out for me to be a little bit
was was really fun. Boo me as like her best friend
across like state lines or whatever was really interesting
when she got a boyfriend and meet to be kind of like perked
up. That was great.
I love that whole cast. This is another anime where as
soon as it finished I want I read all of the MAGA.
I'm fully caught up. It is.
It's it's fun to see where the story went from here.
I don't think this is getting a second season.
I would love to if it did. Yeah.
So I posted an infograph this after the animes that aired this
season skipping loafers sold the 7th most copies.
So that's that's that's that's a good sign.
It's sold 185,000 copies since the anime has been released.
I I don't know if that's enough for a second season, but it's
nice to see that it outsold some of the other properties that I
would expect it to see on this list.
Just just a great story. I really enjoy it.
Jay, what are your thoughts on skipping the offer?
I really enjoyed this as well. I think this was probably my
favorite out of the romances in the season, although honestly
not a ton of romance really going on in this season like it
is the the signs are there. And I kind of like the fact that
it's like low key in a slow burn like that.
Honestly, some people probably don't, but I do.
The cast in this one was amazing.
Legitimately really strong. Like all of the supporting
characters, like even the like tertiary supporting characters
like Chima's friend Chris and stuff like that are really
strong in my opinion. I really like.
There was a lot of like show don't tell with the characters
in this, in my opinion, where they don't have to do like, all
right, here's Mikoto's back story or here's like Mika's back
story or something Like the way that their characters are is
informed by what they do and how they are written rather than
like a flashback or like character statements about them.
And that's like kind of rare in. These sorts of like more male
oriented romances in my opinion, because despite popular belief,
I know we all know this. Despite popular belief, Skipping
Loafer is not a show Joe, it is a Satan.
I have no idea how many people I've seen say that.
This is my new favorite show, Joe.
It's like got some bad news for you, buddy.
Yeah. Counterpoint.
Have you seen the art? I have.
When the character designs are simple, it's a show, Joe.
When they're allowed, it's a show then.
When blush is show Joe. Female lead show Joe.
Yeah, also the OP for this Omega Banger show.
My favorite? Yeah.
Makes you wanna dance for sure. I love this shit.
I was a big fan of it. This was definitely a breakout
for me and I will be catching up with the Mongo soon.
I actually started reading it somewhat recently.
Most were your thoughts. It's time for me to be a hater,
but not really I I like this. I like this show quite a bit,
like a lot. I think for me there were like
it just had, it had like a few things that like missed.
For me, like Shema being like that whole like drama thing.
Like, I don't know, it felt a little melodramatic for me.
And like, I got it, but it was just a little I I don't care
like get over it, bro. Which is like kind of rude to
say, but I would have it would have been more interesting for
me to like dive into like his relationship with his mother or
something because that seemed to be like.
Oh, I agree. Like a root cause of his, like,
sad boy hours. And so like, I kind of wanted to
like get there. Mitsumi is obviously like an
amazing bundle of sunshine, but Miko is my favorite character.
Which apparently is not an unpopular opinion because I was
like checking out if anyone else thought that.
And then there was like a the buzz light year meme where they
like zoom out and it's just like hundreds of buzz light years on
the thing. So like it's like like Mika is
the best girl and like zooms out and just thousands of buzz light
years. So I was like, damn, I guess I'm
not cool. But whatever, she deserves it.
I really like now Chan, I think. There's like really positive
trance representation in the show, which I think is awesome
and something that anime can struggle with sometimes.
And I don't know, it was just a really good cheery, happy show
for the most part. And I agree with Jay.
Like, I like the pacing and stuff of it.
Like I I think that sometimes you have that you like you want
things to progress when you're like watching them, but I think
that. The way that it's done is good
and realistic and the characters decisions and stuff makes sense
that I'm okay with that sort of, you know, we'll talk about a
show later where I think it took the characters like 4 to 5
episodes too long to get together and I don't think like
Skipping Loafer is one of those. I think that it makes sense for
all of that and that's where I'm at.
Pete, you want to do the wrap up for us?
Bouncing off what you said there, I think it did like a
great job. It's sort of telling these
characters the positions that they're in and why.
And that's kind of why the romance isn't at the forefront
because like me to me is still sort of figuring out her
feelings or Shema. Like I I think it starts as like
admiration and idolizing. Like he's so cool, he's so nice,
he's so friendly and how that progresses past that.
I think it was just so well done.
And then she must sort of being closed up a little bit, just
based off of his previous encounters and engagements where
he's uncomfortable or I think possibly like a romantic slash
asexual to be honest. Where it's like, I don't know
how much of it of like girls that he like, really cares about
going to that next level. He just like wants to be
himself. So I thought that was like a
really fun. Like representation of that
style. I think it will also get that
later in Yamada where I think like Yamada is more like
demisexual, but that'll be an interesting conversation to
have. The now Chad representation I
thought was great, even just with the visual storytelling
with I think it was like an episode two or three where like
some like girls are talking behind her back and like meets
me just like grabs her hand. I thought that was like a really
impactful moment where. Jay mentioned earlier show Don't
tell like Mitz me. All of that is conveyed through
her holding now's hand. Just just loved it.
Anything that makes me pick up the manga and read it
immediately does a lot. This is like a very high solid 9
for me and made my top 100 all time.
I love the story, Jay. Yeah, I was a big fan of of
this, honestly. I love the representation, like
you said with now like, I thought that that was like
really well done. And I liked that the author
didn't like stray away from showing the like, you know,
people being assholes about it, but also you know, other people
being willing to defend now and stuff like that.
I thought that was really sweet. Like As for like the side
characters by the way, while I'm on the topic of it, you know?
Mika is cool and all, but Yuzuki is the best side character.
That's that's the main issue that is going on there.
That's cuz Mika's secretly the main character.
That's all. Yeah, yeah, sure.
OK, Yeah. This show was really great.
I love the simplicity of the animation and character design.
I think that they like, met, like they didn't have any, like,
you know, like crazy, like Sakuga or anything like that.
But like, they're the production quality of it overall was like
really well done. I didn't notice any gaffes.
I loved like the like faces and stuff that they would use for
the characters. Just a lot of great reaction
images and stuff coming from it. Like not quite as strong of
memory as say you know, Oshi Noko or anything like that, but
pretty strong. And you know, I got to give them
valid points for that. Voice acting was really good.
I really liked Sosky as a character a lot.
Shema, a lot of people seem to not really fuck with him that
much, but I thought that he was like a pretty like, sweet
character with some like somewhat reasonable trauma from
everything. Like how many child actors do
you know that are doing super well?
Like be real, especially like when they're teenagers and
whatnot too, you know? Aqua from Ocean.
Yeah, So cool. No, he's doing great.
Yeah. Nothing going wrong.
Oh whatsoever. Yeah.
So my overall enjoyment of this was pretty high.
I was tuning in like every week to watch this, which is kind of
like not rare for me. But oftentimes there shows that
I'll have to, like, catch up on at the end because I fall
behind. And this was definitely not one
of those. Which puts it in the upper
echelons with such heavy hitters as, you know, Jigo Kuraku and
Vinland Saga, two very comparable shows.
And yeah, I think for me, overall this is like a nine out
of 10. Yeah, so here comes, here comes
my hater. I mimic everything that everyone
just said, but gotta give it an 8.
Unfortunately it's an 8 out of 10 for me.
Be lucky this is both you the rock.
Yeah, it's right next to both you.
The rock for it's. I don't know.
I don't know how the Bochy thing happened, but if you watch me
speak about Bochy, you would think I hate it.
But I really, really did like Bochy the Rock.
But I think that overall, like my discourse about skipping
loafer was a lot happier so. I don't know.
I really liked it. I'm excited to continue it.
I think I might wait a little bit to see if we get like a
Season 2 and if not, I'll just catch up.
It's not a ton of content, so. Yeah, it's a monthly manga, and
for a monthly manga the chapters are pretty short.
I read this very, very fast, so if you're interested in reading
it, it's a very easy read. There's there's probably like
enough content for like one more season and then that's it so.
Let's move on to our next one. Lovely Yamada at level 999, a
show that when it started I was like lukewarm on it.
I did like the aspect of this, like gave her boyfriend ideal.
I wonder why, but got better as we got more episodes until the
middle of where we got like the whole Runa thing, which was
really weird it. Was weird.
I it was weird. It was just really weird.
And then sort of like, I get that like a Connie's like
made-up with Aruna and it's all under the bridge.
But like, it was just so creepy and out of place and I feel like
you could have done that same scenario.
Not as creepy. And it kind of threw me off for
a few episodes towards the end, though.
Man Yamada Loki Rizgad at the end like you caught me like.
That was that was like some fucking Riz Lord shit.
Like, for sure. That was great.
But honestly, my favorite thing about loving Yamada was the
visual like that. They just make for like the
comedy with it we just did causing sound and mooring
glories. They kind of did that as well.
I think Yamada did the like. It the best, I I thought it was
so funny how they are portraying their emotions through like
these little comic gangs with their faces.
It was it was really good supporting characters.
It's fuck Runa season until I think that she's a better
character. I have started reading the manga
but Runa's there she she's fine. I just it's going to take me a
while to like actually forgive her.
I'm pro ruda because I just don't acknowledge that scene.
Yeah, I. Just yeah.
But then like outside, like after that when they do like
their little funny dance thing, like I love it, she's hilarious.
And that I think the last episode where she's like, I I
think she kind of sees like Akane as like a big sister and
she's like very clingy to her. Like that's great.
I like that a lot. ETA I thought was like a low
key, great supporting character. I like his Ruhi May persona
online, but then who he is as. As a person is also Rui, he may
just like the managerial skills of being a Guild master, but at
the same time being a cute rabbit girl was just super fun.
I really like that, the Yukari stuff with Yamada and her like,
confession, I thought that was like a great little thing to
kind of progress where the main couple needed to be towards the
end. Really good.
Yeah, I really like this. Hey, how about your what are
your thoughts? This one was also one that like
I hear the premise and I'm like I might pass on it but I it
jumped like it surprised me is what I'm struggling to say.
Yamada as a character is starts off incredibly boring.
I think we can all agree there like he is very quiet and
doesn't really emote much. And even in the sense of like,
show, don't tell, he doesn't really even show all that much
at the start. Like, we mostly hear about how
he is from other characters, and I guess that that's just kind of
like trying to add on to his allure is his like tall, dark,
handsome, mysterious vibes. But for me, it wasn't really
doing a ton, even as like a bisexual man.
So I don't know. Eventually though, when he comes
out of his show, he's pretty cool.
Like I did enjoy it whenever he starts like trying to try a bit
more for a main character whose name Conne.
Thank you. I like it when he starts trying
a bit more for Akane. Akane as a whole is like a
pretty interesting character too in my opinion.
Like she feels like a worse, not worse, but like less developed
version of like a Toru Honda type character.
Like goofy friends with everybody, like always trying to
like solve issues and stuff like that.
But like Toru is like one of the most well written protagonist of
all time. So it works for her.
Akane is like, she's not bad, but she just doesn't have like
the heavyweight like that to kind of do it as well as that
sort of like. Do it as well as Toru in that
sort of role, which I know is like compared to like what are
the goats? But that's just the character,
the type. She's the arc typical version.
Hydrogen Bob versus Krog baby. 100 percent, 100%, yeah.
So I think I would like to read a bit more and see if like she
gets a bit more character development because I think like
just by the nature of this show, it's like a slow burn on both
character development and their romance, so.
This is something where I think it really could have benefited
from being like A2 core show in my opinion, because where it
left off, like whatever, it stopped.
I literally said, wait, that like that's where it ends.
Like that was like in the middle of a scene practically like, I
don't know, sorry. Like, I know that I'm kind of
rambling here, but like. The show as a whole has a bit of
weird pacing in my opinion for A1 core show that doesn't have
like, Dick. Yeah, I did get a second season
announcer was. Just the English dub announced.
Yeah, so like, I don't know, weird production stuff in my
opinion that isn't related to like looks, miles.
What are your thoughts? Yeah, So I mean, I really, I
enjoyed the show. I thought the supporting cast
was good. I choose to ignore that one Runa
episode because like. I legitimately thought, like,
maybe the show was going to go in like a slightly more sinister
direction because of how that that scene was like, directed
and everything. Like, I don't know that that
scene was just like really weird where a connie's in the bathroom
and the guy just, like comes in and like tries to open the stall
when she's in there. And like Runa, like, set that
up. And like, obviously Runa feels
bad because she just wanted a Connie to feel awkward and not,
like, almost get assaulted, but then that just all got brushed
under. So quickly that it it was weird
to me. Like the resolutions that really
fit the crime of not necessarily what Reuna did, but what that
that guy did like like he should have been like fucking arrested
or something. Like, I don't know.
I think what the show does really well is it has these like
really big whammy romantic moments, right, where Yamada's
like fucking coming in and being swoon worthy and like, taking
care of her when she's sick. Or just being hot in any way,
like helping her with her computer stuff.
Just a bunch of moments like that.
And I think those are all like, really good.
And it does add to like a bit of that weird pacing that we've all
talked about where like, I forgot what episode it is.
But Akane is like, and I thought I liked this dialogue because
this feels like actual, like human dialogue where you're
like, if I liked you, would you like that?
And it's like. That's like a very fun way that
I feel like people actually, like, hedge into, like trying to
gauge someone in interest, right?
Like you're like, nervous about it.
So you're just like, you do that.
And then, like, you know, your motto was like, I'd be the
luckiest guy in the entire world if you liked me.
And it's like fucking, you know, flowers everywhere.
And then like the beginning of next episode, she's like, oh, he
was probably kidding. And it's like, no.
You know how Yamada does, by the way.
Yeah, it was like that was part of it.
Like, he's not really like a jokester or anything, you know.
So like, that annoyed me a little bit, but they got there
at the end and it was like wicked swagy, like when he just
like, does the, oh, you caught me sort of thing.
I was like taking taking notes, you know, it's like how to rizz
my wife up from Yamada so. I don't know.
Overall, I I did enjoy it. Pete, you want to take us to the
wrap up? Yeah, I I definitely want to
mirror something that Jay said, because after reading the manga,
if this was a 2 core, it'd just be so much better.
Yamada being like this demisexual person, once he kind
of gets to the point where he's opened up to a Connie, is like a
completely different person and I'm really liking what I see in
the manga. Well we don't get that in the
anime and it just makes me wish like season two win please
because then people can see we got a glimpse of Yamada being
the Riz Lord. Wait till we actually see the
Riz Lord in action. He's.
More Rizzy Hammer Ganta. Ganta is the Oh my God, Gaza has
one of the most swag moves I've ever seen in a romantic story.
It's. It's it's to the point where
yesterday I pulled press it away.
I'm like, listen, I'm going to say I'm going to take what I saw
in a MAGA and apply it to my real life.
That's how much of A swag move it was.
But back to Yamada. I just thought this was just so
much fun to watch. It was a blast.
Mine is the RUNA scene. The the the even like the MMO
elements of FOS was pretty fun. Minor MAGA spoilers, but there's
like a scene where. Yamada realizes that Akane is
using like, her Level 1 beginner gear, but she doesn't want to
change it out because it's cute. Is something that I could
foresee doing it like an MMO, period.
So stuff like that was just like, really fun.
I'm gonna give the show at 8. It was it was a lot of fun.
Yeah, I enjoyed the show quite a bit, but I think that like I
think without knowledge of what happens next, like if it was a 2
core, I think that this would be an easy 8.
Like even like an 8.5 on like any list for me personally.
But like where it ended, I have it rated as a 7.3 on any list so
I'm gonna go ahead and give this A7.
Yeah, so for me, this is an 8. For me, I got to, I did like a
watch party with like Trent and Galaxy when you're doing this
and that really helped my enjoyment.
I think I really like the side characters in this a lot, like
especially if I ignore that one or in a scene.
Like Momo I think is a great friend and I liked her like
antics going like speed dating and stuff, but looks like her
and like ETA might have some sort of chemistry going on and I
think that would be a lot of fun.
Like most romances, I'm always hype on the B couple, so you
know, I don't know. I'm excited to watch more 8 out
of 10 for me. Right on SO2 eights and A7.
Next up we have our first. I say like pure comedy.
Maybe the only pure comedy that we had this.
Season Mashal Magic and muscles. I was coming into this like I I
knew I would like it. I I probably was gonna give it
like a seven at the end of it. Really enjoyed like the first
eight episode. I like how they kind of one man
punch parried some stuff with Shonen and it was it was
thoroughly enjoyable. Go towards the end.
I really did not like this like final boss scene with the puppet
dude. Those last three episodes kind
of took me away from what I was enjoying with it.
Not like a whole lot to say for the story.
I think to me this was just like a really fun watch.
But it doesn't do what One Punch Man season one did.
It doesn't do what Psyche K does in terms of like this parody.
But it was enjoyable. It was a very I watched, I think
I've watched it like bunches of 6 episodes at a time, really
easy consumable watch. But when I see something like A1
pictures at the helm, I'm expecting more.
If this was like studio, I don't know, Zacks or studio go hands
or something like that. And I saw this.
I'm like, yes, this is what I expect from a studio like this,
but a one's like a pretty established company and they've
done very well animated. Properties And I didn't really
get like a soccer gun moment. I didn't really see like a oh
wow, look at this moment from Marshall.
Comedy was there though, and it was enjoyable.
Jay, what are your thoughts on Marshall?
This was something where I kind of went into it with somewhat
high hopes, just because I honestly, wholly because of our
boy Tyler piping up the manga to me.
And the first few episodes were very funny, don't get me wrong.
I think that when the show is focusing on mash, it is super
funny and pretty good, but like I just cannot care about this
side cast at all. None of them are interesting to
me. Like Lance would be somewhat
interesting if he didn't have like the Ciscon thing.
Although like mash relating or not relating reacting mash
reacting to the Ciscon thing and like really call the police on
him. It was funny.
Yeah, awkward related. Like, Finn does literally
nothing. dot. I just don't really like his
whole gag about, like, wanting to be the main character and
like, screaming at everything. Like Asta Lemon, She does
absolutely nothing as well, besides getting kidnapped and
fantasized about having group sex with a bunch of men, which I
understand. Like, who among us who?
Among us. I just don't bring it up all the
time and then like. I will say that the his dad and
like the government guy, they were funny side characters, like
the scene where they just pop up randomly and they're like, hey,
shouldn't you be going to work? Screen time, Screen time.
Is more important than work of like, hell yeah, like, that's
actually pretty funny. We had some, I think we had like
a recap episode or something in the middle of this too.
That was like whatever to me. They managed to make it like
somewhat funny even for a recap episode, but like.
I don't think you should be having recap episodes for plot
like comedy shows, IMO, unless it's just like like it.
Obviously it's like a production thing, like they just had to,
but like, it's a bad look for a show like this in my opinion.
Like G, which you can kind of get away with like that because
there's like 87 named characters that are named stuff like like
Tuna Quattro and stuff like that.
And it's hard to keep that. Character in wings name That's
literally a gut of character. Name and like.
Don't get me wrong, MASH was fine.
But yeah, when we give our closing thoughts of I'm not
going to be super kind about it, I'm not going to lie, Mamas,
what do you think? Yeah, I think we're Mashal falls
flat is that. All the side I just, I kind of
care about Lance because they like, characterize him at all.
And like, I don't know, I didn't necessarily think that like he
was like sexually into his sister.
Like I think he just cared about his sister and like that's a
thing decent people do. Well, it's like in your motto.
When someone calls Eta Siscon, he's like, I'm not a siscon, I
just obsessively care about my sister.
More than that is normal, a sister complex.
Yeah, there there was some weird things at the end of this.
Like someone like the the secret main bad guy was like pretending
to be Lance and like we don't know where Lance is and then
that just never gets answered. We just don't know what happened
to him. It's never addressed by anyone,
which is really weird. Lemon is not a character like at
all. dot is a character, but I don't like him.
Finn looks. To me, like he might eventually
become a character when they like introduced his brother and
his brothers like God's gift to magician.
So like something to look forward to I guess.
But honestly, I doubt they'll capitalize on it.
However, it's really funny. The show is funny, it's got like
3 jokes, but I like them pretty much every time.
I think when they start to be a little more dramatic as opposed
to comedic at the end that matter, you know what I mean?
Like, I don't know it. It doesn't.
It doesn't do great. This is something that I think
has a Season 2 confirmed. It does.
I don't necessarily like. I think I enjoyed my time with
National, but I sort of think this is it for me.
I don't know. Pete, you want to wrap us up?
Yeah, no, for sure. I'm kind of gonna pull a J here.
Like if I had any list, this would be like a 6.6 or something
like that. But because we use like a Mal
ring, I'm gonna give this A7. This is the comedy well enough
to the point where I was intrigued every episode.
But yeah, outside of MASH did not care about anybody else.
Maybe like the grandmaster that we saw in like the first
episode. He seems funny, but we don't
really get anything more from that.
Just like a very average to slightly above average comedy
parody. Yeah, it was it was fun.
Yeah, I'm gonna go out and say probably just go watch One Punch
Man Instead I'm gonna give this a six.
Yeah, I I think that if you're if you like Harry Potter or
whatever, it's worth a watch because they do make fun of
Harry Potter. And yeah, that's fair, actually.
Sorry, Yeah, I forgot. People like Harry Potter.
As a millennial, it's impossible to forget, but like, I think
there's like some good comedy bits like around that, like
because it literally is just Harry Potter.
Like there's a Sorting Hat. They play Quidditch.
It was a sorting Unicorn skeleton.
It was, which is cooler than I had, yeah.
That's way dope for. But yeah, for me this is like A7
like on the lower end, so like lower seven out of 10, you know,
probably like a 6.8 or something like that, like these talk
about. All right, two sevens and a six
for Mashal. Next up is our second favorite
Yuri of the season, Birdie Wing Season 2.
Kind of like how they set up for season 2 and what was, I was
hoping, what was going to happen, and then the ending
happened. The pacing was insane that they
go from in like a span of like 6 or 7 episodes, winning the
National Japanese Duo's high school golf tournament to
playing and not only playing, winning the British Open, just
Sonic, I mean. Winning in quotation marks.
Let me put that on quotation marks.
Just supersonic speed where I I don't know it.
But it it did keep up with like it's outlandish, insane
storyline of how we developing the same heart condition as her
father, who she finds out who her real father is in the
second-half of the season, just like what is.
Happening in this story, it's. They had golf cancer, dude.
They did have, yeah. They had a severe case of TB,
which was like, am I wrong to think that that isn't TB?
Like, terrible? Am I wrong?
So they no, they had, they didn't have TV, they had like
multiple. Scrollers Ms. sorry, Blog
acronym. Yeah, one of those curables.
Yeah, I was like, I thought, yeah, I was like, I'm pretty
sure TV's. Curable they had like they had,
but it was only only when they played golf.
Yeah, they got. So stressed about golf, they
frankly died, which matches the thieve of Bertie wig, right?
Yeah, I. So Pete, you lied a couple of
times. One, you said that this was our
second favorite. Yuri, this is very strongly my
third favorite. And.
Then also, yeah, my my apologies.
And then also calling this Yuri is a disservice to the fucking
genre because they just sort of forgot to have our girls
interact almost this entire season.
Which is nuts to me. Like it felt like I don't know
what the fuck happened, but like.
They just, I I enjoyed it like I did.
I had fun. It was Birdie wing.
It was insane and stuff, but like, so like ultimately it like
who fucking cares about the plot?
It's Birdie Wing. But like, let's say you did care
about the plot. Let's just pause it that for a
second. What the fuck happened?
Yeah, like, you know, we'll talk about G Witch at the end here.
That had like a bit of a rush ending, but overall I thought it
was fine. Like, not even fine.
I enjoyed it a lot, and I think the fact that it was rushed
wasn't a huge detriment to the ending.
Birdie wing, Jesus Christ. The the whole thing was we were
supposed to watch them play golf together again, and then we did.
That just never happens. That actually just doesn't
happen. Like the entire point of the
show never happens, which is I thought there would be another
episode or something, like maybe we'll get an OVA.
Or something, I don't know. We arguing what a switch game, A
switch golf game. I think the Switch game is an
import, like a port of the mobile game that only exists in
Japan. Okay, I was like, maybe the
story continues and. It's starting at the beginning,
so it doesn't continue okay, but maybe eventually I'll have to
play through the Bertie Wing visual novel to get any sort of.
Closure on Bertie Wing. I did love that Eve got
disqualified from the British Open because of her ties of the
Mafia. I thought that was like, so
stupid that they just tied it back to reality like that.
Like all of this insane shit happens and then it's like, wait
a minute, you're a criminal like.
That back to reality, whoop. Like if you see Monty Python on
the Holy Grail. It's been years.
Well, at the end of it, they all get arrested because they kill
historian and like the first. 10 minutes, the movie.
And it's like, so like they're invading the castle and like,
the cops show up. And it just like reminded me of
that, where it was just like, actually, you can't just get
away with, like, betting your life on golf.
Yeah, it's not allowed. I don't know.
You you want to wrap us up? Do you have anything else to
say? Yeah, I mean, just for how
outlandish this series is in general is sort of what I'm
basing it off of, if I was basing it off of like.
Merit and my respect of anime. This would probably be like a 5,
but because the show is just so batshit crazy at times, I love
it. I'm a I gave season one A7, I'm
gonna give this A7 as well. Yeah, I OK, so I gave season one
A9 and I will stick by that. This is more like an 8 out of
respect for me. Probably A7 in reality, I mean.
I don't know. It was weird.
I liked it.
But it just it lacked the charm of season one.
I. Think Nope, I agree.
OK. All right.
Moving on to our next show, we have Building comedy season
four. Sort of.
My memory of this was a little distorted because of the huge
break in between the first few episodes and then.
Sort of wrapping it up now. However, that being said, it's a
golden comedy. It was fantastic.
There was a couple of incredible moments from this season.
I thought the Asripa director, that whole movie episode was
really well done. The the guy who sort of loses
his mind and is playing different roles with the bear.
I thought that was a very interesting episode and kind of
how season four ended with this pirate character, kind of like I
had the. Where his alliances but I
thought that was a great setup for season five.
It also has one of my favorite foreshadowing moments of any
form of media ever where we have this Jack the Ripperesque
character sort of being pursued in episode.
I think it's seven or eight that to lead up to a jizz fight in
episode 10 or 11. Was something I you could have
given me 100 guesses of what Golden Comedy was going to do,
and for some reason Jizz Fight wasn't in there, but it
definitely fits Golden Comedy. Also in this season we found out
like Asripa remembering more of the information on Gold and her
being more of the focal point of Saroomi's sort of trying to
capture her. I would say this is a very solid
this season. I think how they set up for
Season 5, which is the final was handled really well.
Jay, where are your thoughts on GK Season 4?
Yeah, I love Golden Kong movies. So, like, I pretty much agree
with everything that you said. I like Ashripa coming into like
her own. I like Ogata returning.
I like his line where they're like, oh, is our sniper all
better? And he's like, no, because
you're not a sniper unless you shoot people.
And I was like, damn, that's fucking raw.
Oh, got it. It was the fucking Kinjirosudo
voicing, as always. Like, that's just raw as hell.
I liked the back story dives we had for a bunch of the members
of the 7th in the season. Like seeing, you know, what's
his face? Crazy guy with the tattoos on
his face now. Oh yeah.
Who had the jizz fight? I can't think of his fucking
name. I know it's blanket from my mind
but everybody knows I'm talking about when I say just fight.
Seems like his back story where he like killed his best friend
out of jealousy when he was younger and like as well as
seeing more of a got his back story.
Like diving into his psychology a bit.
Like really just seeing like how Surumi has manipulated all of
these men into like loving him and seeing him as like a best
friend and father figure so he'll so they'll work towards
his goals. Like I used to have a friend who
I would argue about like greatest villains in anime with
and like he would always say Surumi.
And I didn't agree with him until I read Gordon Conway.
And I gotta say Surumi is a top tier villain in my opinion as
far as like plotting and motivation in such goes.
Like it is just truly incredible to see the writing that they've
been doing with him. Voice acting cast going crazy as
per usual. Just really enjoying that.
I loved the arcs that we had. The Bear arc is like super
trippy. Even as someone who is reading
it, I like as I was watching I was like, damn, I can't really
remember how this goes. I'm excited to see where it goes
that it was like the way that they like explained what
visually we saw was really well done in my opinion, because
that's something that can often. It's hard to balance and horror
a lot of the time. Yeah, I love this season quite a
bit. I think that it's probably like
my second overall favorite season of Golden Conway.
I liked the last season just a little bit more because it had a
lot of strong moments in Russia and stuff like that.
But this one is also extremely good and I'm very excited for
the 5th season. You want to do our closing
thoughts. Yeah, yeah, just.
Golden Comedy is always been extremely solid throughout its
entire series, and season four was no exception.
Had a lot of great moments. I like how we're getting close
to the end game and I like how they flesh that out.
In this season, I'm gonna give it a nine.
I thought it was really solid. I'm also going to give it a nine
actually. I really enjoyed this season
quite a bit and I think that you know if we get like great
production with. Hopefully no unfortunate delays
due to production team debts this time.
Like I think that season five will have a real fighting
chance. Yeah, yeah.
So two nines for golden combo. Season four.
You're not watching golden combo.
You you need to. All right.
Next up we have Heavenly Delusion.
A show that to me, I was, I was like 5050 on again.
I I like the premise, but a lot of the time like post dystopia,
slash apocalyptic sometimes misses the mark and it's not
really my thing. However, by the time that this
was all said and done fucking loved Heavenly Delusion.
I thought they did a great job at these two main characters
exploring the world while there's this other underlying
mystery about heaven going on. I must say in the same time in
quotation marks with, but in terms of like how it's portrayed
in the TV show, I think it's pretty clear that this, that
having the backflashes that we're seeing is like fifteenish
years in the past. Love, like the mystery of like
some people kind of having powers.
But that power has like a consequence later down the road,
Like these kids are not living that long or at some points like
turning into these maneaters. Just really well done in terms
of like animation. There's a couple of really nice
soccer got moments that I thought stood out.
This is honestly one of the best animated properties I think of
the season. I didn't watch Demon Slayer.
I'm sure that was great, but I thought the animation team
killed it in Heavenly Delusion. There's not a whole lot of bad
things to say about it. I think it maybe started a
little slow, but I think that's just to set up what what it was.
So yeah, your thoughts on Heavenly Delusion.
Yeah, this was one of my most type shows releasing for the
season. Whenever we got the trailer for
it, I knew that I was going. It intrigued me just seeing it
because I like the mystery aspect of it quite a bit and
like the scifi elements, I'm usually a big fan of like post
apocalyptic stuff. Oh, OK, maybe not usually.
If it's like unique enough, I'm a fan of it.
I don't just like wear a bunch of like.
Dirty hot people roaming around the countryside Walking Dead
type stuff. Sometimes that doesn't get me,
but this, I think it was done pretty well.
We talked, we've talked a lot about like show don't tell in
this video, but I think that this is this show that most
masterfully did it this season with like the.
So to kind of put it on the table, the aspects of the show.
The part that we see with like Tokyo is that is heaven, Heaven
let that part. And then the post apocalyptic
thing we see is the delusion aspect of it.
So it's split into the heaven plot in the delusion plot.
And I really liked the like how they don't really tell you that
at first it's left up in the air.
It's not just like a we start off in the apocalypse and then
it. It has like black screen pulled
15 years later, Vine boom or something like that.
I like that they kind of left it open to interpretation and stuff
like that. And there's actually like, so to
put it in full, put another thing on the table here.
I read this whole Mongo like before it was even done just
because I was tired of waiting for the weekly episodes.
I want to get it over with. There's not really a lot of
content left because it is a monthly manga, so it'll probably
take a while for there to be a season two.
I think we covered like 70% of it in this season.
So yeah, if you want to catch up with it, it's a pretty quick
read, but there's a lot of stuff that they kind of adapted really
well in the anime where if you were to go back and rewatch it.
You might be able to make some educated guesses at things that
they don't tell you is what I'll say, because if I literally if I
say anything more, it's a spoiler wrong.
So I think that this show was just masterfully done.
I think it's kind of like the besides Oshinoco.
I think that this is, in my opinion, somewhat more of a
breakout than Oshinoco, simply because Oshinoco, like Oshinoco,
is massive right now, don't get me wrong.
But it was already a known quantity.
Everybody knew it was going to blow up before, like when the
anime was announced, everybody knew it was going to be popular.
Hell, we knew we knew it was going to be a popular anime
before the adaptation was announced.
You were like, when this gets adapted, it'll be fine.
I mean, it's done by like, aka, you know, like it has cloud
behind it, heavenly delusion. Like it was not as much of A
known quantity. It was getting there through
like sheer power of will and like some really interesting.
Like graphical tricks in some of the episodes, like just like the
use of sorry, just the use of like ignoring like boundary
lines and stuff like that. It reminded me of fully Cooley
at points with how they played around with it.
I really enjoyed it. Sorry that was pretty long
winded Miles, What do you think? No, that's OK.
It heavily delusion to such an interesting one for me because I
definitely did like it, but I I personally expected to like it
more. And then I ended up liking it.
Like, I I definitely fuck with it, but like on paper it it
feels like the most up my alley thing of like all time.
Like it's just got a lot of that sort of like mysterious, vaguely
supernatural sort of vibe going on.
And when I think about, I, I don't know, it's weird because I
can't like defend that position super well.
Like I can't. Think of like, I just for
whatever reason, it just didn't vibe with me.
And that's that's the explanation.
Like, that's all I got. Like Pete was saying that he
thought it got stronger for me, just got like a little weaker
for whatever reason. I don't know why, but I I still,
I mean, I really liked it. I thought the ending was pretty
strong. I think there's a lot of things
you can potentially gleam from that.
I can say them because I don't know.
You know, so like, I think like there's a pretty good chance
that like Maru is like Tokyo's child or something like that,
you know? And like, that's something that
I think, like Jay was saying, like a lot of shows would just.
Keep in mind Maru literally means circle.
OK. OK.
Yeah, that's right. OK, well.
There we are, aren't we? Sorry, I mean quite spoiler I
guess, but it does literally mean circle.
True. And I I even know that.
But I didn't think about it at all.
Mimi Hemi means ear Princess, so we really should have seen the
ears coming. It checks out.
Whenever I got to that point in the monger, I was like, I knew
it. I felt so validated.
I knew those were going to be ears.
It's fun. I I think part of it might be
that, like, I don't necessarily like the romantic angle between
Kiriko and Maru for whatever reason.
And I felt like a little validated for that after the
assault scene, which I don't think itself was done
completely, distastefully or anything.
But like Maru choosing that point in time to confess felt a
little weird to me, I guess. I don't know.
I just I. Depended on him being like a
stupid kid, but also it is like in a really awkward time.
Yeah, yeah, I guess it's like it's tough.
Because you're right, he is being a stupid kid.
But then like, also. There are definitely points in
the mango where I. After this where I just look at
it and say that was actually just bad writing, so it could
just be like a bad writing moment.
Honestly it like it has those. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was, it was just like, I don't know.
And like Kiriko sort of seemed to bounce back a little fast.
Like maybe she, she won't, but we like end with her being like,
well, gotta get over that thing that just happened and like
driving away, you know? So I'm sure it'll be, like,
addressed further, but like, that felt weird.
It is. That aftermath of that scene
felt a little weird to me, but I mean overall, I'm definitely
interested to see what'll happen.
I imagine this will get a second season OK, it's like it was
definitely pretty popular and it's definitely very good and
I'm excited to see what happens. I really like the art.
I really like the OP. It's like one of my favorite
OP's of. The season and then there's a
couple of the like kids that from heaven where like I'm I'm
sort of excited to see where and if they pop up like in the
world. You would not be disappointed by
that. Yeah, that's, yeah.
So like that's something that I'm definitely looking forward
to. I think like, I don't know, I
think it maybe is just like half a step too weird for me or how
like you know, Kiriko, you know, or.
You know, more accurately, like Haruki is like the scene that
the episode like 3 or whatever was, like the mirror and like
they were sibling, I don't know, it was just weird, you know?
So like, I think what prevents me from like fully committing to
this is that it's maybe just half a step too weird for me,
which is. Which is fine, right?
But like, I did really, really like it.
So Pete, you want to take us to round up?
Yeah, not too much to add. I do hope that I wish that Maru
would turn down the Denji vibes just a little bit.
I get that he's a teenager, but I think at some points that it
was a little extra for me. But the show was beautifully
animated. The adventure, the mystery was
great. I'm gonna give this A9.
Yeah, I don't really have too much to add either, except that
I do love that Opie a lot, and I think that like both visually
and musically, it is an insanely good Opie.
Yeah, this is a nine out of 10 for me too.
I think people should read the manga.
It's very good besides for some bad writing moments that I
mentioned. Yeah, for me this is like an 8
out of 10, but I definitely think it's something that if you
like, you know, mystery scifi sort of.
Vaguely supernatural sort of jazz stuff.
Like, give it a go. Just know that there are some
heavy moments and some kind of weird things, but a lot of anime
fans deal with that just fine. And I don't like, I like the
only major maru dingy vibe moment for me was when he was
like, I'll solo a bear so I can touch boobs.
Yeah, that's like the main one. Yeah, yeah.
And then his like commitment to that bit was a bit much, but
like, I don't know it. He is a dumb 15 year.
Old Yeah, that's for sure. All right, so that was at 2
nines and an 8 for Heavenly Delusion.
Before we get to our last show, we do our speed round.
It's every show that we didn't cover.
We give each show allocated at up to a minute.
You do less and just knock them out for that.
So I will go first, my clues first, friend.
Watching fun little elementary slash middle school romance.
I wish they toned down the bowling aspect of this show.
It was kind of like way too much for what they were trying.
I feel like what the message was trying to send but so enjoyable.
Still super cute and fun. I gave it A7 too Cute crisis I
had. This is me wishing I owned a
pet. I wish I wasn't allergic to
everything really. Just fun show about like the
cuteness of owning cats or dogs or hamsters or porcupines.
This is definitely a Peach show. Not for everybody.
The OP's a banger to something Big Bang or something like that.
Really fun to give it A7, my most underrated show of the
season. Otaku elf, very eashiki style
show. It was super fun.
Miles, they'll they'll they'll do that.
You're going to do it back to me in like 2 minutes too, Don't
worry. That's for sure.
It was really fun. It's just like really.
It centered a lot. Some of the episodes were
centered around like food and just games and having fun and I
like that. I like that.
I like my slice of life so it's very relaxing style show. the VA
for the Elf was one of my favorite VA's this season.
Just just a great show. I'm giving it an 8 Rokuko Bad
Girls. It's the Insel MC dream where
the ugliest kid in the class gets a Crest on his head and
makes all the bad girls attracted to him.
And then he instantly becomes cool.
It was all right for the beginning.
Towards the end, I was pretty sick of it.
I'm not going to go too much into it, but I gave it A5, the
reason why Ray Lena ended up at the Dukes Mansion.
I thought I would like to show a lot more, but I ended up kind of
being iffy. I like the MC and I like Noah,
but everything else outside of that was pretty.
Whatever. The magic stuff was weird too.
When that got introduced. I'm going to give it a six and
then the Kona Soupa spin off. I I read the manga.
So I kind of knew what I was getting into.
I just like the KOSU, but when they're full cast, more than
this, Mega means fun. But 12 episodes of just Mega
mean was a lot. I'm gonna give it a seven.
It was still pretty fun though. Jay, you're up next.
So quick thing for me just two of them Maho show Joe magical
destroyers. I think people fucking slept on
this shit. If you this is like.
If you like Madoka Magica and like Evangelion and shit like
that, I think you need to peep this.
Like, yeah, it's comedic a lot of the time, but like the way
what it develops into is truly more than the sum of its parts
in my opinion. This is something that I gave an
8. It is currently sitting at a 6.4
amount and I think it deserves to be at least like a seven,
maybe like a mid seven overall. Like I don't.
I don't really understand why people weren't on this like
that. I think it's it's pretty solid.
Overall character designs are good, really good.
OP and Ed as well, as well as just general soundtrack.
Like if this OSD comes out on vinyl, I am buying that shit.
And then the other one that I have was what was it?
Sorry. Oh yeah, Ted Mountain Death
Play. This is another one where I
really enjoyed the manga quite a bit.
It's a bit. I wouldn't recommend it for
everybody because it's definitely etchy at points and
some of the characters can be, but it's still a Narita thing
and I like everything Narita does.
So like the the floor for like a Narita project for me is like A7
and I think that this would be like a 7 1/2 for me.
So I'm just gonna go ahead and give it like A7 for here.
Miles, what about you? Yeah.
So I also watched mega mean. I think I'm probably a little
higher on it than. And Pete is mostly because it
takes a lot of what I love in Konasuba.
I agree that the full cast is wonderful, but I think Union and
Mega means Friendship is a lot of fun and sort of mimics real
life friendships very well. And it the show itself drops a
lot of the etchy that's in Konasuba.
It's not free of it but there's nothing quite on that level of
that succubus episode from episode one, you know, so.
I I really enjoyed that. I gonna give that like an 8 I
think. And I am putting myself on the
timer. I have one minute Yuri is my job
is fucking amazing. Everyone should watch it.
I gave it a nine out of 10. It's amazing.
You might be thinking, oh miles, you're wrong.
Fuck you, you're wrong. It is like a really fun meta
commentary on Yuri itself and the treatment of women in
society. There is like multiple stages.
Of how it's presented. So if you like meta stuff at
all, go with it. They're literally putting on a
play the entire time. Like the Opie starts with
curtains opening. It's not meant to be serious and
they're that sort of like bleeds into their real life and they're
worried about how the audience will perceive them if they do
stuff. And so it's like a commentary on
like how your relationships and anime are not always allowed to
go super far because people won't like that.
The commitment and then. Oh, you're dressing too
scandalous, even though you're comfortable with that.
We can't have that because it'll ruin the audience.
Depression Yuri is my job. Watch it.
Nine out of 1060 seconds. Nice.
Love it. Yeah, I dropped that show after
one episode. All right, so that was our speed
draw. Let's get to our last show that
we are reviewing. Gundam the Witch from Mercury
Season 2 left season one on an insane cliffhanger.
And trying, I guess I really enjoyed the three month break in
between part one and Part 2 sort of theorizing what the next part
of Gee which was going to do, which may have hindered it
because I feel like they, I had a lot of expectations on how
they're going to flesh out the story and it answered some, left
some on the table. And I think that's like the
biggest issue with the second part, however.
I think they answered the biggest questions.
So it's like a like it's solid, but like we never, I don't know
if we ever got like the brainwash thing that I, we kind
of hypothesize was like a thing with like the happy birthday.
I don't know if that was ever answered.
I might have just missed it because I'm dumb, but I I I
guess just when it was all said and done we got I I think we got
the ending that we wanted the happily ever after with soletta
and mirroring. Throughout the story though,
yeah, I think like the choreography with like the
fights were great and sort of how they pieced together the
Earth conflict with the Spaceans was really well done.
I I really enjoyed Part 2 of G which there was something
missing though, to make me feel like I should elevate it to like
top three of the season. But I mean, just in general,
this was a really great season of Gundam.
Show your thoughts. Yeah, I really enjoyed the
second season. Like I thought it was kind of
heaters from back-to-back. I will say I think that this
show suffered a lot from being like a 24 episode show and not
like the normal like 50 episode Gundam show.
The plot points towards the end are kind of rushed in my opinion
like. It would have been cool to have
like another couple seasons with them, like dealing with the
Earth stuff rather than having like a flash forward.
I'm glad that the gals got to have like a happy ending, like
that's cool at all. Like, I'm glad it it kind of
worked out for them, but I don't know, I want it more.
And it's also annoying that we don't really ever see them be
physically affectionate or anything like that.
Like the closest we get is them like banging their helmets
together and shit like that. I don't know, like, I liked it a
lot, but there's some aspects of it that kind of left a bad taste
in my mouth. And knowing that we're almost
assuredly not ever going to get anymore doesn't really help me
with that, unfortunately. Miles, what do you think?
So I mean, OK, like, to put this in perspective, I would wake up
at 5:00 AM every week to watch this.
I really. Really really really really
really like this show. I have my little Suletta and
miorine acrylic stand. Here are two gum plug that I
just have in arm's reach. I have my one 100 sized aerial
right there. I I really like it.
I think the ending was like a little rushed, but I I I'm more
of like it would have been nice if we had.
One to two other episodes, just to give some scenes a little
more time to breathe, more than necessarily dealing with the
Earth space conflict. I think that not necessarily
which for Mercury but more ad Stella at some point is almost
assuredly going to happen. The aerial high grade is the
highest selling gunplow of all time for its period of time.
Like Bandai likes money. It it'll happen at some point.
I think that they even leave some of those like threads open
where like stuff, you know, it's like they're working on it, but
it's not perfect. There are protests going on.
They talk about how the machinery and like the assets
from the Bennett Group are being sold to like random people and
they're not exactly sure where all of that is going, you know?
So you can always just Season 2 hook that in if you want to.
I I don't know. I just loved like every single
second of all of this. I love Soletta.
I think she's like a great character.
I love that we had like a final confrontation and a show like
this where it was entirely verbal, where it was just like
her. The climax is literally her
telling her mom no. And like, that's neat to me.
I think that's that's really cool.
You know, like, I think big fights are awesome and we got
some earlier in the season. But to meet you, it's just such
like a deep personal story, which is a little bit different
from other Gundams where you normally have this, you know,
like a massive war going on and there's like 75 factions.
And while you have some of that there, the main focus on this is
Soletta's relationship with Mereen and Soletta's
relationship with her mom. And how she manages to like
overcome that and like become her own person.
I think that I I don't know, I I just liked everything about it.
I think that while I would have loved like a kiss scene Jay, we
do see them like kind of cuddle together and hold hands at the
end. And I don't know if it's copia
like Gundam main couples don't kiss very often like just in the
show like that just doesn't happen.
Which is like, I guess a little bit weird for me, but like it,
it's just, I don't know. It's not something that
historically has happened with them, though Mika did bang
what's her name in the Barbados. We didn't get a scene for it
though, but I don't know, I was happy.
I was happy that they destroyed the weapon of mass destruction
through permit level gay like. I thought that was exciting
like. I had a great.
Time. Yeah, literally it was it was
great. I don't know.
It's it's one of my favorite shows of all time.
We can move it to the wrap up for sure.
Yep. Yeah, Suletto is probably my
favorite female character of the season.
Ghoul is probably my favorite supporting character of the
season. And that says a lot, because I
think overall this season of anime is probably like top three
all time. For me, it was just an
incredible season. Red Birthmark was just an
incredible way to end each episode.
I I just wish some of the questions that are left on the
table were answered. That's my only complaint.
Otherwise, I loved it. I loved to let A mereen.
You know we we see the ending. It's funny that Erie is a
keychain now. I don't know.
That's kind of whatever, but like, it's fine.
Yeah, we'll get this at 9:00. I really like G Witch.
Yeah. I'm still positive on this,
don't get me wrong. I just think it really could
have, like, it's similar to like Yamatokun where it really could
have used more in my opinion, like even just like, I don't
know, like another core or season or something doing it
like Jojo's style, 36 episodes. Like I feel like we would have
been able to get so much more out of that, like seeing like
Shattuck. Being like, Oh yeah man, I'm
just gonna time for me to go make up for all that.
And then we just don't ever really see like how any like all
we ever do is see him like being talked to by people we don't
ever see like how they're actually going to punish him or
anything like that. Like Ella both the Ellen's like,
I would love to see more of what they're up to.
Like what is the fucking Ellen 0 going to be up to.
Do people on earth who see Ellen 5 wandering around just randomly
think they're seeing space Bezos going on an adventure?
Like, I don't know man, there was so much that they could have
had. And I do agree that bet like
more than anything Bamco loves money.
God, they fucking love money and that's all.
Like Gundam really is, is a money making pit for them and
I'm thankful for it. Don't get me wrong, but.
I don't know. I just see them moving on after
this. Like, I think even if we get
more ad Stella stuff, we it's not going to be with the people
we know and love, you know? I don't know.
That's just kind. Of I think, I think.
They'll say, yeah, OK, I can see like us getting Miorine and
Soleta to show up like during a movie or something kind of like
with what happens with Shar and Amaro at points like where
they're they've been in the background for like years at
that point and they show up. But like, I don't know.
Overall for me though this is, it's closer to like an 8.5, but
I'm going to go ahead and give this a nine out of 10 cuz I
really did enjoy the second season quite a bit.
So yeah, yeah Miles, give us your 10 out of 10 review please.
Yeah. So like, Gee, which holds like a
very special place in my heart. I do understand.
Like, I think, like its biggest flaw is that.
It it leaves people wanting more in a way that it given it's like
run it couldn't like develop right And I I completely get
that and I understand that. But for me the main attraction
to it was always soletta and mirroring story and like her
personal development and everything and I think that was
just done so well I think when you.
Like, I think a lot of stuff is like, like, I think it does
show, not tell. And like a really good way, too.
Like we were talking about this earlier, like there were people
guessing like the aerial thing with it being airy and just
based off of the date that the first episode took place.
You know, like, wait a minute, So it is not 23.
I bet she's a clone like that. There's people who said that,
which is a insane. So it is doing the me old meme
show. Yeah, that's some people are
like, you're crazy. She's just lying about her age
for some reason and it's like, I guess that's more plausible.
But that wasn't the case, you know, I think, I don't know.
This is a 10 out of 10 for me. I fucking love this series.
I have faith that we'll get more.
I think that. If we get more, it won't focus
on Mereen and Soletta. Like, I just want them to be
able to retire and have fun and maybe show up in the background
and mentor some people or something, and then we can focus
on that Earth conflict going on in the future.
That's sort of the formula that Gundam's done recently, right?
Like if you look at the first season of IBO, that wraps up
completely. If you look at the first season
of 00, that wraps up completely. And then.
Whatever happened from there you get the effects of so you know I
don't know been caught bando they love money.
So I I I imagine we'll see more at some point but if not I'm
super happy with what we got and I'm glad that I got to spend my
time with it. So 10 out 10 for me.
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