We Tortured Ourselves To Watch Every NEW Anime SO You Don't Have To!!! (Spring 2025)

A brand new episode of the rant cafe anime podcast covering seasonal anime!!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What are you dudes talking about? And a man guess
it's important to hear what they say your brobers through
out night and day. And now that you listen to.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
The Ran Cafe, Yo, what is up?

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Boys?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
How's it going? And welcome back to another episode of
the Rat Cafe Anime podcast with me. Today we have
Jordan the anime dude, what's up?

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Bro?

Speaker 4 (00:24):
What's up? Everybody? How you doing?

Speaker 2 (00:27):
And we got Recon the King of Trash seasonal anime?
What's up?

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Dude?

Speaker 2 (00:32):
What up?

Speaker 4 (00:32):
Everyone?

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Good to be back? Don't mind me just enjoying some
Mao pizza.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Over here, my Italian ancestors crying, they're grave and they're
all doing this with their hands and to the audio listeners,
I'm doing the Italian thing with my hands and you
can picture it. Okay, we're talking about seasonal anime today, boys,
seasonal anime. I say, we just go in order from
most popular to least popular Spring Anime twenty twenty five.
And we have watched some of these. Recon's watched them all,

(00:59):
but me and Jordan have watch.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Every single one of them.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
So about the bad news. I wanted to wait on
the podcast. Oh no, as soon as I opened up
any chart. I hadn't used this site before. A lot
of these shows are looking awfully unfamiliar. I watched fourteen seasonals,
and I guess they weren't the most popular ones.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
So are you?

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Are you on the spring at twenty twenty five season JORDI, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
I watched fourteen of them, but like there's a lot
of them. I just didn't watch. That's okay, that's okay,
more popular, fair, fair okay.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Fire Force season three is the most popular. I have
not watched it because I haven't finished the first two
seasons of fire Force, but I started watching season one
and it's actually decent.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
To me, fire Force is a very average, i'd say,
of a shown in series, even though it's like super
popular among many others. It's just the It pretty much
carries the same formula from how it was in season
one and season two. The story continuation. To me, the
biggest problem is two things. The forced etchy, which is

(02:02):
a lot, and two A lot of the characters get
left behind at many points, especially the protagonist and many
other important characters like and the back seed, while other characters,
non important characters just.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Take the spotlight. I'm likeugh, got it? Who was like,
what was his name? Again? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
I have you been watching? Have you been watching season three?

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, it's it just carries it's the same thing.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Really, it's nothing different other than like a new threat
that emerges, but it's pretty much the same characters, the
same things we've seen before.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Forrest Etchm Like, yeah, it also watching.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
It because I've read all of Fire Force, so I
could sit here in debate and argue with Riecon and whatnot.
But I haven't seen season three, so I haven't watched
the anime. I'm od at the loop.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
But you are in it for pretty much.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
I mean you're going into it for the action because
David Productions is really solid with animation. So that's what
that's the good thing that you're getting from this.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
I will say every clip I've ever seen a Fire Force.
It took me a while to get into the mango,
Like about one hundred chapters in is when I started
to enjoy it. And I feel like the anime just
looks much more poly like it feels like they really
brought it to life right Like it is a very
action heavy series. It uh, it is a little over
the top of the itchy and that bothered me at first,
but it grows on you. It grows on you by

(03:24):
the end. Like the way that they handle it is
is pretty good. So it I don't know, all in all,
solid series.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Nice, uh for me? For Fire Force, I'm gonna say
I only watched a couple episodes. I dropped because it
was a seasonal show. At the time, I didn't know
it was bad. I do think it looks beautiful. The
animation is beautiful and the characters are fun. So I
feel like I'm gonna like it, but I don't think
I'm in love just yet. And I've watched around like
seven or eight episodes so far.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
You gotta let it cook. You gotta let it cook.
You gotta give it a bit.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
I'll tell you this Season one was good.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Season two a little bit of a downgrade. Season three
kind of the same thing a season two, to be honest.
So yeah, watching season one was like a joy for
me back then.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Got it? Okay, let's move on from fire Force.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
This is it.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
I know it's a seasonal, but it's like a it's
a sequel Lazarus. Have you guys been watched Lazarus by now?

Speaker 1 (04:24):
We're getting to the good stuff.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
With that reaction. Ricon, Do you like it?

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yes, it is very cool. It is very unique. I
like the animation studio Mappa is cooking with this one.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
I'm telling you, hell yeah, okay, I will say aesthetically gorgeous,
even gorgeous to the ears as well, from the soundtrack
to like the music that's playing while like certain like
fight scenes are going on and stuff, choreography of the
fighting so smooth. Give me Cowboy bebops like Spiegel vibes.
I like the like art style.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
I just I think I like.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Everything about it. But why am I bored? Why am
I bored? Watched? Like even the concept the premise The
premise is really cool too, But why am I bored?

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Like I don't care?

Speaker 2 (05:08):
And I'm not sure why.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Are you just more of like the overall story is
boring you?

Speaker 3 (05:14):
No?

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Like I just I'm watching an episode and maybe it's
because it doesn't take some time. We gotta let it cook,
like Jordan says, but so that the concept Jordan, have
you watched Lazarus?

Speaker 4 (05:23):
I have not, so I said that for fire Force,
So Lazarus. I know it's the same directors as Cowboy,
Bebop and it has like some of the creators of
John Wick as well that helped out with it. But
that's about the extent of what I know, aside from
like the plot summary, so I'll let you too.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, like the cook on this Basically, this guy developed
a drug and everyone addicted to it and then he's like, yeah,
it's gonna kill you in three months. So they break
this guy out of prison, but he actually escapes from prison,
super cool dude. And they're trying to track down the
guy who made the drug. I guess, probably to force
him into giving them like an antidote or something. I
don't know. I don't even fully remember. But I watched

(05:57):
three episodes.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
It's just correct.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
I watched three episodes, and I know it's going to
get better. But I've other than like the first five
minutes of the first episode where like he breaks out
of the prison, I've been kind of bored.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
I will say, I think with stuff like this, and
one of the reasons I decided not to watch it
just yet. Whenever something's so serious and like plot driven
heavy as a seasonal, I feel like you don't quite
know how good it's gonna be until it all wraps
up right like it's you gotta judge it as a
complete package. So it uh, that's why. That's one of
the reasons I kind of held off on this one

(06:34):
for now.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Well, they're trying to track them down, so with all
the detective work as well, and I feel like they
just like are just hitting dead ends and not there
You're taking it really one step at a time. Because
it looks cool, it's it's pretty good. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
So the title Lazarus.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Lazarus is the name of the organization that these people
have formed in order to drag down the main villain,
Doctor Skinner is his name Skinner because they they're trying
to stop him from causing any more harm and they
want to develop a cure to save all these innocent
people from dying, which is it's cool. It is slow paced,

(07:15):
but I mean it's all about the build up, so
it's getting It's gonna get better, I'm sure of it.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
It is an anime original as well, so no source
material know anything. Everybody's going in blinds, but so far
I've seen a lot of positivity.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
From this, which I.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
Do love anime originals.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, I mean I'm excited for where it goes. I'm
still gonna keep on watching it because it does hit
a lot of things that I think it has a
lot of quality to it without catching my interest yet,
So hopefully they'll just catch my interest and then it'll
be all around good. The next anemy is the beginning
after the end. George, he watched this one yet?

Speaker 3 (07:52):
Me?

Speaker 4 (07:53):
Yeah, I watched one episode. So I've heard a lot
about this one because it's always compared to one of
my favorite series of all time in Mushoku. But uh it,
I think I might just go end up reading this
one instead. It's kind of the vibes I got like it.
It was kind of passable, but it was also just
a lot of still images and like a lot of

(08:15):
info dumping in that first episode, where like you can
tell they're just trying to I don't know, there's too
manysa guys out there for them to just do that
and like expected to grab us, right, U just toss
a bunch of info and.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
It's just so funny, like the concept and now it's
happened so many times where it's like someone just like
gets dies, gets reincarnated as a baby and into the
world with like an adult adult mind and mindset and stuff,
and it just it's such a crazy concept to me,
and the fact that it's getting done more often now
is hilarious. I yeah, that's it's it's it's like Mushoku

(08:51):
in that way, but it doesn't feel like at all.

Speaker 4 (08:54):
Well, Mushoku is one where I know it's a bit
polarizing for like a lot of people and stuff, but
I like how well and it is. And you know,
I've delved into the novels and all that, and if
you're just talking about like the concept itself, like I
feel like it's very surface level similar. It doesn't have
a lot of those same things that would make Mousho coupolarizing,
which is why people kind of latch onto it. But
it's like the main character was a chad king in

(09:15):
his past life, you know, and now he's you know,
we're following those same like surface level steps of incarnation.
But I don't want to judge it too hard based
on the anime though, because I could tell, like I said,
they're just trying to throw a bunch out there. And
I'm sure if you read the novel it's I've heard
it's good.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
I do see that they're trying to do something with
like in his backstory and his previous life in a
certain way, but in this life he has like loving parents,
and that's going to cause a change in him. I
see some notes of good like storytelling and writing, and
exactly because of that. I did watch more than one episode,
but then I watched the first one and dubbed in

(09:49):
the second two and subbed then it was a little weird,
and then some little happened, and then does a fucking dragon,
And I'm like, what is going on?

Speaker 4 (09:56):
That's what I don't want to judge the writing too hard, right,
because I could tell from like you said, that set
up like it wasn't presented the best way, but I
could tell that they are contrasting him being, you know,
in a position of power that involves solitude and whatnot.
He was very alone in that past life, and then
he grew up in an orphanage things like that, and
then now he's seeing and experiencing the love of a

(10:19):
parent and a household and family for the first time. Right,
So there's a lot you can do with that. So
there's potential there. I'll just probably end up reading it.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
I don't know fair all right, I'm gonna skip actual
wait recon in the beginning after the end thoughts.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, it's pretty terrible. I really don't like it.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
Studio A Cat is regarded to many people as one
of the worst studios in the anime industry. And the
thing is fun fact, if you go on mal and
you look up Studio Acat, none of their anime series
has even remotely reached the ranking of seven.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Everything all their anime is at six or below.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
They know their business model, they know their business model.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
And they do it well. It's crazy too, because I
heard I don't know what list of options they gave him,
but I know that the beginning after the end author
like chose the studio because the director had like read
the beginning after the end and whatnot. I feel very
bad for him in that regard.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
But also, don't you guys find it odd that the
first episode of the beginning after the end, well it
ended before and even began.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
To be honest, it was so similar to Mushelle Cotense.
I have no idea why.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Like the way it played out. It just kind of
reminded me of how Mushall Cootense is exactly the same.
Rudius didn't have any loving parents. The guy in the
beginning after didn't have any love, anyone loved, and now
they both have loving parents and they both get overpowered
from the spell Book at the very end, like.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
And they destroy the house. It's the same as Michell.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
What Rudius had loving parents, he just didn't appreciate him,
like he was the pos and his in his previous life.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
Right, So I thought his parents hated him because oh
he was a he could.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
Get morey, that kind of shut in, right, So, uh,
like they took care of him, and like they feel
bad they couldn't really do anything for him like that.
But I mean the fact they took care of him
until he was like thirty four, right, Like, I don't
want to say they didn't didn't love him.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
So okay, I thought they really hated him because he
was just all alone every time his.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
Siblings hated him.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Fair. But I think we're gonna we're gonna skip sequels,
if that's all right?

Speaker 4 (12:29):
Yeah, Yeah, that's me all right?

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Yeah? Which watch? First episode was cute, corny and I
dropped it.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
No, I liked that. Why did you drop it?

Speaker 4 (12:40):
It is not for me, dude, I will say, Which
watch is very hit or miss, like it's very distinct
in the way it does comedy, Like, uh, this was
one of the only ones I had like red prior
to going into for this season for the seasonals, and uh,
it is so wordy with the manga and you could
kind of tell that with the uh, but the anime
like it's sort of slapsticky. But it's like the way

(13:02):
that they go towards it is very just roundabout and
like like it makes it way its way there very gradually. Right,
there's some wordplay things like that. It's fun, it's cute.
Nico's adorable, uh wory, you know, he's the chad chadiest
manliest house husband you ever did see. But uh, yeah,
it's very hit or miss. I feel like if it

(13:23):
makes you laugh, as all comedies kind of are, right.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
It's it's okay. She's which I think her name is Nico.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
She comes back to the boy and then like please
be the familiar, and they got to he's forced to
live with her and all this comedy gag shit happens.

Speaker 4 (13:40):
Everybody's like, it's okay, you gotta give it time to
cook to know if it would last and jump, but
it is still going to this day right, like it is. Uh,
it is a staple now, the same author as sket
Dance and Astro Lost in Space If anybody has seen those, Yeah,
so it's he has a very distinct style, and like

(14:02):
whether or not you vibe with that style is one thing, but.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Actually brings have you ever seen Astro Lost in Space?

Speaker 2 (14:08):
Nope?

Speaker 1 (14:10):
If you like among us, it's basically like that.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
Yeah, yeah, I don't like.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
I don't like Witchwatch, so I'm probably not gonna like that.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
In fun fact, but it's completely different though, No, very
that not a comedy. That one's not a comedy.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
Comedy comedy.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
You guys are saying, that's my bad, No ill good.

Speaker 4 (14:29):
I was just saying other stuff by the author. But
fun fact, the author either he's married to the sister
of or Canarayabuki is married to his sister one of
the two. His brother in law is the guy that
did a Black Cat to Love Rue and the art
for Darling of the Franks, and then most recently Ayakashi Triangles.

(14:49):
So like they were both published and jump at the
same time and their brother in laws and I'm like,
I don't know, I don't know what the odds of
that are they. I don't know. There's only like twenty
people in the world that are.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Did you watch Ayakashi Try and Go Jordan?

Speaker 4 (15:03):
I did not watch it. I read a lot of it,
but I watched the first episode or two. It's why
I know. They had production issues and stuff.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
So next anime. So it's funny that I dropped whitch Watch.
But I'm no, You're good, buddy, You're good. I apologize.
I'm dude, I'm fucking I'm on like four hours of
sleep right now, and they tell me why. I get
home at four am and I'm like, let me get
up for eight to go play pickleball at time? Like,
what's wrong with me? I'm running on three and a

(15:30):
half brain cells. But I will say, kow loon generic Romance.
I am very much enjoying this anime, which is funny.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Really, we know exactly why you're enjoying it. We know
exactly why am I enjoying it?

Speaker 2 (15:44):
The service, no, dude, something like sometimes like I'm not
a big fan of rom coms and stuff like that,
but like for this romance, it's like the mystery of
the world. And like the reveal in the second episode
and some of the they're just so jarring and so different.
I really enjoy it. I can get more in the details.

Speaker 4 (16:04):
But have you seen it, Jordan, Yeah, I saw the
first episode of this one. I want to check out
the manga. I like a different series by the same author,
and she had a very show not tell type of
presentation that was very cute. But for some reason, I
don't know, I felt like I wasn't vibing with this
one for most of it. But by the end of
that first episode, it does kind of hook you with

(16:25):
like the the twists and turns and mysteries and stuff.
There's so much going on, right, so I see the appeal.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
I think that's fair. I think most of the first
episode you're just like, what's happening. I'm not, Yeah, I
don't really know what's going on, and like you don't
really care that much.

Speaker 4 (16:38):
About the characters. The presentation. I'm like, it's kind of weird.
You're like, I don't quite understand.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
But I think the hook is the end of the episode,
and then going forward into the next episode as well,
you get more with like their relationship and then her
not having memories, and there's a couple of scenes that
are just so fucking crazy. So, like, the main guy
is waking up from a nap and sees her, sees
her and did you see my cleb by reaction to

(17:03):
this scene or no?

Speaker 4 (17:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is one of the ones was
it was.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Actually so fucking funny. She he's getting up from the
nap and he sees her and goes and grabs her
head and kisses her, and I'm like, let's go. And
then she's pulling away and he's not letting go. I'm like,
let go, let go, let go. But obviously, like I
don't want to fucking spoil, but like, she finds a picture.
I'm not gonna say what's on. The picture reveals so

(17:30):
much information about them, and then I give brings more
questions into play. I don't know, I'm enjoying it.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
I like it.

Speaker 4 (17:37):
It lets you know through that first episode and like
throughout it right that she does have a bit of
a crush on him for one reason or another, and
you know as for why, like we can't quite tell
in that first episode, but like it leads up to
that scene at the very end where you're excited for
her for a split second, and then I've never felt
so bad for a character as uh as I did

(17:58):
for her. Whenever I heard him say sorry, wrong person,
like that was yeah, that's like the that's not what
you want to hear there if your crush finally kisses
either like my bad, I thought you were someone else.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
I fucked well. I don't want to get spoil it.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
Figure out, but like it's not gonna bother being. I
plan on reading it anyway, barely touched on is the
wrong person?

Speaker 2 (18:22):
Yeah, I don't know. It's tough to say because there's
so much mystery with her character.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
There's two different ways I could go about it from
that first episode, but the fact that there was a
goldfish in the opening and like goldfish in the aquarium
made me think it was a memory thing. I'm not
sure that's not really a spoiler for people think that's deduction.
I quoted I stopped it on the opening whenever I
was watching it and I was like, there's a goldfish.
I'm like, just like my memory, I'm not gonna remember.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
But it'd be interesting to see if someone lost all
their memories. Your memories and your experiences and how you
were raised and stuff that happens is what forms you
as a person. So if you lose all your memories,
are you even the same person anymore?

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Right?

Speaker 2 (19:00):
Like, it would be cool.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
Guy.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
We see the shows where they they start acting completely different,
and I just wonder if that would where'd Ricon go?

Speaker 4 (19:07):
I'm speaking of which I as best say we lost Ricon,
it dropped.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
I see, well when I'm down here now, I mean,
we're gonna keep on going until Recon comes back.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
But I'm down here, I'm gonna fix you. I'm hanging.
I'm hanging. I'm hanging by a thread here. Okay, m
h a.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
Vigilantes, I'm assuming you've watched this chart.

Speaker 4 (19:29):
I watched the first I only watched the first episode
of Things for this season. That okay, three episode rule,
more like one episode.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
I mean I was doing the one episode more or
less too, and I decided to, Like, I watched a
bunch of like five minutes of a show, and I
don't want to watch this. Yeah, five minutes of the
show and I don't want to watch this. I'm like,
I'm just gonna go back and the ones that I
did like, I'll watch more.

Speaker 4 (19:48):
Vigila Cheese is good, though I liked it based on that, uh,
based on the first episode. It's fun seeing little cameos
for my hero and uh and things like that, and
then I don't know, maybe.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Last I'm surprised it's not higher up on the list
for like rating wise. Also, knuckle Duster is hilarious. He's
basically Batman and I love it.

Speaker 4 (20:09):
Bros investigative skills and include acting first, apologizing later, you know,
ask questions later. He's just like you. First you hit him,
then you ask the questions that.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
They can't do anything bad if I never sat on can't. Yes,
I agree, funny scenes. I don't like love the cast
other than knuckle Duster, but like so far, I think
it's pretty good.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
I will say like main character was late for work
despite having a transportation quirk. I feel like that's uh,
that threw me for a loople bit, but I guess
if you're not officially a hero, like he's not really
too concerned about like hiding his identity or anything. Is
he He was like just scooting around the city. Yeah, yeah,

(20:51):
just doing good old Samaritan things.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
Nice guy m okay from Old Country Bumpkin to Master
Sol has been low key, like it's so generic, kind
of my favorite anime this.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
Season, really, Okay, do elaborate.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
I don't know, have you ever watched an anime or
like I just need to watch the next one. I
just need to watch the next one. And most of
these I feel like I'm watching them out of homework sometimes,
and this one, I was like, when's the next episode
air Saturday? Okay, I'll go live on Saturday and watch
it again. Like I was excited to watch the next episode.
And it's just funny how like it's a small thing.

(21:30):
It's a small thing for me. They've this anime has
been done a billion times before, but a lot of
the times it's like this guy got welcome back recon.
We'll go over the previous anime that we we went
over while you were gone. In a second, I just
want to say what I really liked about this is
it's been done before, but usually it's like, oh, this
guy got ASTI kai to another world, or it's like
a fantasy and they're super strong, let's flex on people

(21:53):
and build a harem. And I feel like with this one,
the concept of him training for fifty years and training
people for fifty years and then going unnoticed and unrecognized,
and then going later on in life as like an
older man and realizing, not even realizing everyone around him realizing,

(22:15):
oh shit, he's goaded, and then he does all these
goded things without he always thought, you think I'm I'm
from an old country bumpkin town, like I'm from the
middle of nowhere. Like it's probably so many people stronger
than me. I've been practicing my swordsmanship for fifty years.
But like he's always very humble and doesn't think very
highly of himself, and he realized, oh shit, I'm actually
like goaded. Like he's always still very humble about it.

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And even like the girls that are like obviously like him,
they're his students, and he doesn't like do anything weird
or say anything weird. Like it just matured. Dude, humble,
dude flexing, flexing on people after fifty years of training.
It's like, wait, we all have. This is what I
was waiting for, This is what I wanted.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
Go ahead, go ahead, Well we all have like some
experience I'm sure with like a teacher, Like there's that
old saying those who can't do teach, but we all
have that one teacher coach that we had that we
were you're way too good at this to like, well,
why are you here in this small town teacher? So
now it sounds like a fun concept. I'm glad you
had fun with it. Ricon, are you ready to tell

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him why he's either right or wrong on this? I
haven't seen it about which show? The from the old?

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Yeah, I think you might be on the wrong microphone
or just have your microphone in a weird spot recon.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Hello, Yeah, can you guys hear me?

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yes, yes, sir, just check your settings as if you're
on the right microphone.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
Hello Hello. But yeah, I love I love the concept
of this one. I have not watched it, so the
fact that you enjoyed it means I might have to
go back.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
You should watch it. Okay, it's not like good, it's
really it's very generic, but it's fun. It's fun, and
I don't know what it is just watching this humble
old dude like like oh, like like I can't do this,
I'm way too weak, and then realizing oh wait, never mind,
I won against like it was like a a Aman

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type adventure, black level adventure, like above a class and
he's just like, oh, here we go again. I have
to duel her, and then she's he's he defeats her.
He's like, well, yeah, your left handed a little weeks
Like he's like, I noticed a I noticed like a
right now, yo, recall on what's up?

Speaker 4 (24:33):
What's up?

Speaker 3 (24:34):
Is it? Right now?

Speaker 2 (24:35):
It's it sounds okay, whatever, it's fine, it'll do all.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Right, fine, never mind. So the old country bumpkin, it's
it's okay. It's just very generic for a fantasy. It's
about this guy who is.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
A retired master swordsman and his pupils are like former
s ranks and theys. They he gets a job at
the Library and Army to train them once more because
apparently he still has more to teach them, even though
they've all surpassed him.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
But they didn't.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
But they didn't surpass him because yeah, I mean they
might be faster.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
And physically stronger, which is like something I think we
start to notice, like they're definitely like physically stronger sometimes
or faster than him. But his reflexes and his technique
is just so on point. After like training people the
basics for fifty years that he just like dude, he
was he was fighting like a like I love it.
Like one of the students was like, I need to challenge.

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You just prove that you're actually good and not to
some old man. And like the guy comes out swinging.
He's like, this guy's really fast, this guy's really strong.
And then he's like, oh wait, I won. He is
so humble. I love how humble he is. Okay. We
also talked about how Loon generic romance while you were
gone Recon thoughts.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yeah, average, I'm not really too much of a guy
who's into romance, santame, but the mind. Main take on
this is that I'm just enjoyed the fan service for the.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Show crazy, what about the mystery and like the cont
the world.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
It's all about the paint scene.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
It's not my favorite. It's not my favorite genre, honestly.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
Fair honestly, the paint scene made me mad. I was like,
why is she like it is there's a heat stroke
out there or something. There's all these warning symps, like
why are you painting all this at once? But are
you doing it all by yourself?

Speaker 2 (26:25):
I got worried for m Gelantes Recon. We've covered that
one as well.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
I hate my hero academic. I hate Dekku. I don't
like it.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Not in it, It's not in it.

Speaker 4 (26:38):
This is before the one anime.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
I know she didn't watch it.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
He didn't know.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
Okay, I haven't actually watched that one yet because I
just read my hir Academy.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
I'm like, no, no, it has Decu in it.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
No, there's no Decu. This is before it takes place,
before it takes pay, before Deku is even born, I think,
or maybe he's just a baby.

Speaker 4 (27:03):
I don't think it's that far back. Maybe it is
really young.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
Is it about Is it about while young? Almight?

Speaker 4 (27:10):
Is that about him?

Speaker 2 (27:11):
No? No, no, so cameos, Yeah, it's cameos, but it's
not from the hero's perspective. It's it's from a vigilantes perspective,
and there's like this old dude who doesn't have a
quirk and he's basically just like being a detective and
fucking people up, and they're trying to like kind of
help the heroes out without becoming heroes and the stuff.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
Thing.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
It's like, so it's the same ship as my hero.
Basically it comes over powered.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
Instead of Superman, it's Batman.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
Okay, it's yeah, it's basically inste Superman is bad. But
the big thing is their concept was heroes can't be everywhere,
and heroes can't help everyone, so they might as well
like also help. And the way this world works is
like you have to be a certain strong enough quirk
and pass an exam to become a hero. Meanwhile, our
main character actually has no power, or one of the

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main characters, and then the other two have like kind
of or one of the other. Like main younger guy
has like a weak power that there's no way he'd
passed the exam with the powers that like helps them
move a little bit faster while having three points of
contact on the ground. But he's still doing what he
can and honestly, like, I think it's pretty good. Okay,

(28:24):
check it out, then please put them on takamine. So on.
I watched four minutes, almost saw a titty, and then
closed it on stream and then forgot about it.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
I feel like, tell you about this, Briggs.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
I figured I just wanted to see how long it
would take.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
This is what I heard the most about probably before
going into this season, which is why I just assumed
it would be like, I don't know, towards the top
of all these charts and stuff, and then I saw
the scores that I saw. It wasn't even like, I
don't know. I took that as an excuse not to
go into it. So I didn't watch this one.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
How you loving it?

Speaker 1 (29:06):
It is borderline.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
I'm just saying it's it's it's so degenerate, so so generate.
But there's fans for it out there, I'm sure. But
Lisa does have somewhat of an interesting concept because the
girl has like this sort of power where she has
to change her undeath and it rewinds time back. So

(29:33):
Takamina is a top student at the school for a
reason because whenever she performs badly, she uses her powers
rewinds back time in order to fix that and get
top scores and be the best at school. Really, and yeah, because.

Speaker 4 (29:53):
I didn't either, Like I sound like some zero type concept.
Now I'm interesting, not really.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
Really, And because the guy, the male protagonist, he witnessed
her user powers, I'm like, he's like, oh, do you
have powers? So now he became her closet and he
has to pretty much help her put.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Her undies on.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
And oh how did that relate the time travel?

Speaker 4 (30:17):
Why did she not just go back to before he saw?
I'm so confessed.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
Yeah that that, I don't know how it works for
some reason.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
He still knows.

Speaker 4 (30:28):
He still knows I see some hand did the whole
fan base for this, just like simultaneously go back and
go huh, like why why why didn't she do that?
Because she liked it? All right? Don't let me ruin
the series for you.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
I'm sorry, dude, I am not watching it anyway. Very
important break and question. One hundred men versus one gorilla?
Who winning?

Speaker 1 (30:51):
What men have?

Speaker 2 (30:51):
Is it just they're just their hands? I feel like
if if one hundred dudes have any form of weapon,
I think the hundred dudes win win.

Speaker 4 (30:59):
Yeah, and against the gorilla then yeah, just I go
with the gorilla. Those things are crazy.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
I feel like, yeah, at the end of the day,
how many people are really going to be attack the
grilla one four or five and just ripped them apart?

Speaker 4 (31:14):
Define man? All right? Like are we talking about like
me out there? Or like are we talking like Dwayne
Johnson liked?

Speaker 2 (31:21):
There A hundred random dudes chosen gorilla?

Speaker 1 (31:28):
Like what do you say a random dudes? Like what
are they?

Speaker 3 (31:32):
Are they like big guys or are they skinny guys?

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Like? What what are they?

Speaker 2 (31:35):
I don't think it matters. I think you can get
one hundred UFC fighters, and I think I don't think
they're beating gorilla in raw, Like I don't think they're
capable of doing damage to them, Like, how can you
even damage your grilla?

Speaker 3 (31:51):
You go for?

Speaker 4 (31:53):
That's not at all I'm going gorilla one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
Okay, then yeah, I'm going gorillas.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
I'm trying to think of any way we could win.
Give give it my best effort.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
That's the natural thing to try to think of. Okay,
That's why my brain went where it did. I'm like,
what could we do in this situation? But I got nothing?

Speaker 2 (32:16):
Okay, So can a boy girl friendship survive? I did
not watch it? Did you guys watch it?

Speaker 4 (32:22):
I did? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (32:24):
I think this is where I gave up on seasonal land.
I read around here.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Okay, No, we're we're gonna get to the good part
now after this. This one is okay.

Speaker 4 (32:37):
So this one I wanted to like because I'm a
big love triangle guy. I'm a big drama guy like it.
I don't know this one triangle. It's just kind of okay,
like it.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
I might still better.

Speaker 4 (32:52):
Yeah, this one better.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
I don't know. It was very.

Speaker 4 (32:58):
I don't know how to explain this one, but she
was just kind of all up in his grill. Since
the personal space, I could see it getting better, but
it just really did not grab me very well in
that first episode. Like I wanted to like it, I
really did. I knew I don't just like it.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
I knew right away I wasn't gonna be for me.
So I just I was getting I was getting torture.
I was in in order, and I'm like, I just
watched a little bit of please put them on takaminas on.
I'm like, I can't do it. I need to skip
to Sword of the Demon huntered, Kaygene, Please I need something.
And I did watch some of this first episode. It
was like fifty minutes and I was kind of bored,

(33:31):
but it seemed cool. I don't even want to say
it's bad. I just didn't do my willwork on this one.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
So you watched based off of any chart?

Speaker 3 (33:37):
Right?

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (33:39):
Okay, this works out pretty well then because Recon has
probably seen everything you've seen the top half of the chart,
and everything I've seen is probably not shown up yet.
That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
Did you guys watch Sword of the Demon Hunter, Kaigene?

Speaker 4 (33:53):
Nah?

Speaker 3 (33:53):
Yes, I have watched all of it fully and I'm
caught off and it's you like you like it perfection.
The Demon Slayer series, Yeah, oh my god.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Okay, okay, I'm gonna have to give it some more.
I only got like ten minutes into the episode or
twenty minutes into the episode.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
I'm just like, so, if you want the basics of
the concept, it's a revenge storyline, of course.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
It is of the Samurai going out and slaying demons.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
And the thing is he is a special demon slayer
because he can get their powers upon defeating them and
use their powers like to slay other demons. Yeah, I guess,
I guess you could say that, but it is so cool.
It is so cool visually amazing, good fights to characters.

(34:41):
I like Samurai, you know ed O periods.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
I like the setting.

Speaker 4 (34:46):
Is this better or worse than Demon Slayer? That's the question.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
It's not worse. It's not on the level of Demon Slayer.
It's it's you're not going to get that.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
It's not worse, gotcha. Okay, it's still got a out
of love. Yet it's worse.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
Okay. The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows. I
watched Oh this is where this is where Jordan started.
I dude, I watched like seven minutes of this, or
maybe like ten minutes of this. I'm just like, bro,
what am I doing?

Speaker 4 (35:19):
And did you even see the Healer? I don't remember,
but like, bro, this one was not one of my favorites,
not by a long shot. But like the first ten minutes,
in the last ten minutes felt like of that first
episode felt like two different shows.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
De way, I didn't get to the second show. I
only watched the first ten minutes.

Speaker 4 (35:35):
That's what I'm saying. Like the first ten minutes, you
see this girl named Lily like go through her morning routine.
She's making dinner, she's doing the laundry. She has all
the animation in the show for some reason, and then
everything else was basically still frames. But then these like
four hot girls with the are very distinct come out
of nowhere and they're eating all the food that she
made and things like that, and you're like, what am

(35:56):
I watching? Like a these like the hair and members.
I'm like, I haven't even seen the healer. Really, he
was on screen for a little bit and his lips moved,
but nothing else. And then like the second half of
the episode, it's mainly him and he's like doing flips
and stuff, and I'm like.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
That was that was?

Speaker 4 (36:10):
That was kind of all right.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
But I specifically remember them at a table eating and
I'm like, I, guys, I know you shouldn't judge an
anime off of ten minutes, but I'm going to next.

Speaker 4 (36:19):
It was the weirdest first episode I'd seen in a bit,
just based on how different the first half and second half,
or I'll say that I probably won't watch more, but
it was, Uh, it was interesting.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
Honestly, Jordan, Just to save your time, don't bother.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
No, No, I always choose like one or two bad
eisakuis to at least check out each season, and this was.
This was my one for this season.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Got it all right? I don't know, family children, she
drew blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
Family children always yes.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
No, it's the same author as Rent a Girlfriend, Fun
really yeah, So instead of finishing Rent a Girlfriend, which
hasn't really gone anywhere in forever. Uh, you know, I've
read Twinder chapters and half of them are just people
gocking at how cute the girls are. Uh, you know,
he put it on hiatus and he's like I'll just
write this instead. It's a masterpiece.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
I tell you.

Speaker 4 (37:13):
People seem to like it a little bit better I
think overall, but it's.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
It's definitely a lot better. Yeah, it's a lot better
than a mental girlfriend.

Speaker 4 (37:20):
Like he actually wants to go somewhere with writing it,
whereas Rental Girlfriend. I think it was a pilot where
they're like, these girls are cute enough to sell stuff,
just keep it going, and he's like, I don't know
how to keep it going. We can more cute outfits,
more people talking about how cute the girls are.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
But I enjoyed the first season of Rental Girl Friend.
So if you guys hate on it a bit much,
but I thought it was fun. It wasn't good, but
I am held by attention enough to keep on watching.
And if you say this is better, I will. I
will definitely check it out.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
Yeah, the protagonist is much better than the girlfriend. I'm
much better.

Speaker 4 (37:55):
I wasn't even that big on the first episode of
this series, and that's all I've really seen. So, like
I said, take by bias with a grain of salt.
I was just saying comparatively, I like it better, but
it's not.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
It is a bit weird.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
It's you know, it's a bunch of uh it's two
brothers and like four sisters I think, and they're all
kind of raised together by some rich dude and then
they're basically told on one of their birthdays that they're
not actually related. There's like two of them that are
actually related. The rest they're all adopted. They all got
told they're adopted. So it's like, does that change things?

Speaker 3 (38:27):
Really?

Speaker 4 (38:27):
Like you wouldn't think so, But it's anime, souh. You
kind of made some weird anime things.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
You kind of get some moments here with.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
Uh, you know, I don't really want to say it,
but you do get some romantic situations.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
But it feels very wrong, but it's there. It's anime.

Speaker 4 (38:49):
I'm just not over the fact he like stopped writing
rend a Girlfriend. He's like, I'm just gonna write this instead.
And it's like the most out there, wacky, like I don't.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
Know, yeh, you guys are not selling this.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
Oh no, I don't.

Speaker 4 (38:59):
I'm probably not gonna keep watching it. I'm just saying
it exists.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
I'm gonna want I'm gonna keep watching it.

Speaker 4 (39:04):
It's fun, it's wacky, it's it's the thing. It's the
anime is one anime.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
Mobile fuit Gundam GQ.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
Yeah, I haven't seen that one.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Of course you have Georgian how is it?

Speaker 4 (39:18):
I don't know a ton about Gundams and stuff, so
I had a bit of trouble kind of following along.
But the music and the visuals were very pretty and
it was done really well. But yeah, as far as
what was going on, I couldn't really tell. I don't know.
It seems to have a pretty high score, but I
I don't know if I'll keep I doubt i'll keep
watching this one. So there's two cute girls as the

(39:43):
main characters. I feel like the last two Gundams I've
both had like girls as the main characters, and maybe
that's an appeal in and of itself. I don't know,
but uh, I don't know. Action was cool, music was good.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
The fact that they're being a female main character makes
me want to check it out, and maybe that's why
they're doing it.

Speaker 4 (40:05):
I don't know. I feel like the Gundam's taking that
that turn a little bit where they're like, we already
have all the you know, the big giant robot space
opera fans and stuff kind of under our uh, in
our pocket, like they're gonna watch it regardless. Let's get
the Yuri fans too, and all all of my Yuri's
so honestly makes it probably a little bit better. But

(40:27):
but it's I don't know. I couldn't really tell what
was going on that first episode. It was kind of
all over the place. It was uh, very action heavy
but so fun in that way.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
But true, Yo, gol Ranger season two is out, and
I really like season one. I just think I finished it.
But I'm really bad at continuing to watch things seasonally.
But I really did like season one, so I'm down
to watching so far. It's it's good, so far nice.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
I like it. Yeah, it's very good.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
But just to adds up, Briggs from now now, at
this point, we are entering uh crash anime territory.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
If you really want to.

Speaker 4 (41:07):
Top four, we haven't gotten to yet, are you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (41:10):
Yeah? Actually no, there there is one that we can
talk about, which is.

Speaker 4 (41:13):
Ya top five.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
Actually, okay, let's let's try and speed run some of
these and the ones that you do like, Jordan, let
me know and we'll talk about it.

Speaker 4 (41:21):
Okay, sounds good?

Speaker 2 (41:23):
Is a ladies modesty is that's one in your feet.

Speaker 4 (41:27):
I would say it's like number five. Yeah, So I
like the girl's band Anime Private Academy, like the settings
kind of whatever, but uh, it it's very heavy.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
At the actual music. That's it.

Speaker 4 (41:39):
It's just very heavy on the actual music. Like the
band that does like the ops, it's playing their music
like that, and like it will sit there with the
uh the way three D animation is now and stuff,
and they'll play through like the entire song just kind
of jamming.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
Right.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
So the rest of it is kind of just pretty okay,
Like it wasn't an amazing, amazing show, but as far
as like the musical parts, I have like a guilty
pleasure towards them. So I'm sitting there watching them drum
and jam it for like four or five minutes straight.
I'm like, that was it.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
I'm a big fan of Kaon and specifically the musing
parts of it. I really like because like you begin
to like the characters and you want to see them
do well, and they do use their songs as they
as the ed and stuff. So I did enjoy that.
I like both you the Rock a lot, so you
are making me want to check this out. I'm sure
it's probably not as good as those, but if it
does focus on I'm gonna watch it. Watch.

Speaker 4 (42:27):
It's part of my least favorite girls band anime thus far.
But I haven't watched very many, and I like the
other ones I did watch. It's funny. I haven't even
seen Kaon yet really, so it.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
Dude, Kaon's and anime for trads. You gotta get on it.

Speaker 4 (42:39):
That's why I've been told. That's why I've been told.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Summer Pockets.

Speaker 4 (42:44):
Yeah, so I watched this one too. It was kind
of okay. It was Uh, it's probably the same guy
June my Ada who did a bunch of the key stuff.
So if you've seen like Clinad Angel Beats uh something,
the one with the Goddess, the Charlotte, et cetera, it's
like the same guy that did a lot of that
stuff did a lot of this. I only watched one episode.

(43:05):
It was kind of okay, going to a small town,
a lot of scenic shots, and then going around talking
to different girls who were kind of quirky. So right,
this one had some cute moments, but I don't know
if it completely grabbed me. But uh, I think this
is one that'll probably at least be on people's gradars.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
So sure. Cool, it's my studio feel with a period,
all lower case of the period, and I kind of
like that. That's what catches my attention.

Speaker 4 (43:30):
I don't know much about the studio. Not that big
of a week.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
Okay, this looks like a recon anime coming up. I'm
the evil lord of an intergalactic empire. I think I
watched a little.

Speaker 3 (43:41):
Bit of this is a reincarnation. Of course, guy is
reincarning in to a baby. He grows up, he becomes
an evil lord of an empire. He was betrayed by
his wife, and he goes in debt and he dies
a sad man.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
But and then.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
He becomes the evil lord of an empire, and he's like,
you know what, I'm gonna do whatever the hell I want.
He's gonna make people's live a misery, so he's gonna
do all the bad choices. But apparently, no matter what
bad choice he makes, the people absolutely love him because
they truly believe that what he is doing is to
their benefit.

Speaker 4 (44:26):
They're like, jokes on you, We're kind of into that.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
Okay, Yeah, and he does have a he does have
a pretty hot maid as well, Is it a.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
Not really?

Speaker 4 (44:37):
Okay? I see like three cutish girls like behind them
in the main picture.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
There, so well, they're all like his They're all like,
how can I say, his servants? They're all his servants
and he's the lord.

Speaker 4 (44:51):
Is it good?

Speaker 3 (44:51):
Is it? Mm hmm?

Speaker 1 (44:56):
That's my reaction.

Speaker 4 (44:57):
Yes, it's fun, but it's okay? Got it?

Speaker 2 (45:01):
Once? Once upon a which is death, looks kind of cool, Jordan.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
I don't know, I don't know what you want, okayone,
I didn't see this one.

Speaker 4 (45:15):
Okay, there's like three what's upon a? Which is death?
Fans out there just crying right now?

Speaker 3 (45:19):
Is this? I know? This is on?

Speaker 2 (45:21):
I kind of like the cover, I are. I like
the title on Meg's Shut Up Meg. On Meg's seventies
seventieth birthday, she learns that she only has one year
left to live. Her mentor, the internal Witch, explains that
she is cursed and the only way to save herself
is to grow a seat of life using one of
the thousand tiers of joy. Of course, such tears aren't

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easy to come by, and then she begins request, I
don't know, actually sounds decent?

Speaker 3 (45:48):
Yeay?

Speaker 4 (45:49):
That doesn't look bad. Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
I'd watch it, but you didn't from I was just
so many to choose from, and I was like I
was being tortured. I honestly feel like what recalled watching
all the seasonal anime, I wouldn't wish it on my
worst enemy. And genuinely, I think if I had a
tortured someone, I would be like, watch every anime on

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this list.

Speaker 4 (46:14):
I will say I went through and shows fourteen that
I kind of wanted to watch, and even then I
had trouble.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (46:19):
Seasonal anime has always been tough for me.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
Yeah, your forma? Did you watch this one?

Speaker 3 (46:27):
This one looks cool, super confusing, super confusing.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
I have no idea what is going on? Have the
time of the damn show?

Speaker 2 (46:34):
All right, I'm gonna I'm gonna watch it then, because
I feel like this is something I would like. You
didn't have anything left in me. I want to watch
your Forma.

Speaker 4 (46:41):
I'm down. It's sad this one came out at the
same time as.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
Like I kind of just watched. I kind of just
watched the first episode. I'm like, nah, I'm not continuing this.
It's just it's it's all over the place for the story.
And even then on mal it doesn't even have a
fucking good score at all. That's true.

Speaker 2 (46:59):
It's fifty nine percent. It's pretty low on any any chart.

Speaker 4 (47:04):
That is pretty crazy. For now, I feel like people
are usually pretty pretty benevolent.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
Apocalypse Hotel, I've not seen that one.

Speaker 4 (47:14):
I have not either.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Why are all the cool sounding ones all the way
down here?

Speaker 3 (47:19):
Like once we're entering Briggs, we're entering trash territory right now.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
Okay, okay, okay, Gaiba Samurai Legend Okay.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
And this one is good.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
This one, this is a remake of a old series
and it's by Witch Studio. And I have to tell you,
animation is hop here.

Speaker 4 (47:43):
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (47:44):
It looks kind of cool story wise. Story wise, it's
pretty simple. But it's it's so good.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
It's so good. I like it so far.

Speaker 3 (47:51):
It's got the it's got those same vibes as let's
say ron Mont one and a half. And also to
say Yatsuda, it has a lot of good comedy in there. Action. Yes,
it's it's basically an old school remake, same as the Os.
It's got the comedy in there, it's got good action.
It's all about Samurai and fighting and stopping the demon

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lord on you.

Speaker 4 (48:17):
It's great.

Speaker 1 (48:18):
I like it.

Speaker 4 (48:19):
Samurai was an extra point for for ricon there.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
Yeah, I love Samurai. I love Samurai.

Speaker 4 (48:26):
That's cool. You love to hear it? Which studio known
for putting out quality studios? Yeah, I imagine you're right
on point there.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
Myself. Okay, at this point in the podcast, can you
specifically tell me which which should you watch? Short?

Speaker 4 (48:43):
Yeah? So and Shirley over there on the right side.
So that one was one of my favorites that I watched.
It is a remake. There's like many remakes of it.
But have you ever heard of Anna green Gables, like
a novel from like very early nineteen hundreds, I have not. Okay,
So an orphan girl named Anne with an E. That's

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that's that's important, got it. She goes to live on
like a farm in uh in Canada. So this is
this is a Canadian animate It takes place in Canada
technically back back in the olden days, right and uh yeah,
it's she's a very rambunctious girl. It's very uh imaginative
and things like that. And it's gotten many remakes over

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the years live action and otherwise my grandma made me
watch like that. I think it was the eighties live
action version whenever I was a kid, so I have
a bit of nostalgia there, but uh, you know, I
don't remember a ton ton about it, but watching this remake,
it was, uh, it was pretty well made for that
first episode or so, so, uh, I'm enjoying it. I'm
looking more forward to more of this one. And uh,
I don't know, probably flying under the radar for a

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lot of people, but it's cute.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
Cool, cool, all right, anything else?

Speaker 4 (49:50):
Yeah, so they're actually kind of all three right in
a row. So mono right there. It was another one
of my favorites. So this one's about photography and cinematography
and things like that. Again, I only watched one episode,
but you know, the girls form a club in school.
It's photography based, and you know, I watch a lot

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of cute cat videos. So there was a cat in
this one, and you know, and they put like a
little helmet camera on the cat, and I had just
watched a cat video. So I don't know what the
odds of this are, but it looked like the cutest
little thing. Whenever they're petting it and stuff, but then
they released it onto the street with the cat cam on.
Then you see all these territorial fights and things like that,
and I saw that in real life and then it

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happened in the show, and I'm like, man that they're
just capturing reality here. So I don't know, very cool.
They went through like helmet cams and things like that.
You know, they go through the first year of like
with some comedic moments, and then they have like a
panorama shot where they like take a phone and they
you know, basically get the skyline as like time passes

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over a long period and that's all within the first episode,
and it just goes over these different versions of photography
and the passion they have for that. So I don't know,
it was cute. It was really well done, and uh
I enjoyed that one, probably more than I thought I would.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
So, RecA, I'm gonna go to you. Is there an
anime on this list that you think me and Jordan
still need to check out?

Speaker 1 (51:17):
Before I go into that, Jordan, that was the most
boring ass I have ever heard.

Speaker 4 (51:23):
The photography school. I'm a big sucker for whenever an
anime takes like some little hobby that people have or
like something like photography, and they just kind of delve
into it right, like they go all in on like
exploring it, and the people that do enjoy it. So
it was fun, it was cute, it was funny.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
Have you ever watched Blue Period, Jordan?

Speaker 4 (51:42):
Yeah? I love Blue Period? Blue Period.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
I do like those little hobbies when they go to
the extreme with it, and I it goes to the
extreme when you see the characters dealing with stress, failing, succeeding,
and they turned it into a shown in about about painting,
I thought, or about art, and I love it.

Speaker 4 (52:01):
I will say Blue Period was a little bit more
like probably drama heavy than this one would be. Like
this one definitely more towards like the comedy side. Yeah,
it was a little bit more at Yashik, which normally
I don't really like. I'm not really a big slife,
slice of life a Yashik guy. I don't know if
I'm getting old or whatever, but for some reason I
really vibed with this one and then like another a
Yashik or like in both in my top three for

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the season less far and I don't know how to
feel about that, but but yeah, it was cute. I
liked Mono as you can see from the score, has
a seventy five. I think other people like it though.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
Cool.

Speaker 4 (52:33):
It was well done.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
Nice, Yeah, seventy five. Being this low popularity wise is interesting. Okay,
that's the way that I lodge Zasu Tabi.

Speaker 4 (52:42):
No, that was the other one. Was the other one? Yeah, yeah,
I want to talk about that one though, go for it.
So so that one, you know, it's based off of
a manga where the monica herself travels around and explores
different regions and things like that, and then they put
that like in the anime. So the main character is
a mangica. You know, she's going through these uh these
tough times where, yeah, she things that her manuscripts are

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getting rejected things like that whatever. So she's like, I
just need a break. I just need to go on
like a random journey. So she types in a pull
on Twitter, like which way should I go, and then
she just hops on a train and she goes right.
So for the first episode, you know, she's kind of
just walking around Fukushima in particular, and like exploring the
sites there, going to hot springs. Very yashi k vibes
in general for that, but like it's cool seeing and

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recognizing the different parts of like a prefecture.

Speaker 3 (53:31):
Lad's duty calls, I need to go. We've been running
for too long.

Speaker 2 (53:36):
Yeah, okay, well, well recon What was there's the one
anime that you would recommend we watch?

Speaker 1 (53:45):
The rest is trash.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
Just go watch the samurai anime that I was talking about.

Speaker 1 (53:49):
Cool, So it was a Demon Hunter. Go watch it
right now and yeah, enjoy Wait.

Speaker 4 (53:54):
A Ricon can say one last personal anecdote on like
Azatsu Tabi was, uh, we had just watched uh look
back right, yeah, and the director of look Back that
I was praising and whatnot, he did like a little
promotional video that was really well done, just advertising basically
the Fukushima prefecture. It's like a couple of minutes. He said.
Look Back was the largest thing they've done, but usually
they just do like little videos and stuff. And having

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just watched that, like the mascot of the prefecture and
things like that, like I recognize that in Zatsu Tabi.
So it was really cool just seeing like those local
sites and I don't I know, there's a lot of
friends I have that like tell journeys about like traveling
and backpacking, and things like that. So I don't know,
it's interesting.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
If you're into that type of thing to say, it
is cool seeing as you get lower in popularity. Here
them picking something specific and kind of delving into it,
and it's not like your typical Etza Kai or shown
in yeah, like fantasy. I'm I like that you like
those type of anime. I think I haven't given it
enough of them a chance. I think I actually usually
do end up liking them.

Speaker 4 (54:56):
But it was weird.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
Well, I'm not a big fan of like just like
normal rom coms or like certain types of Slice of life.

Speaker 4 (55:01):
Yeah, it just like you girls. I really don't want
to know. Go ahead, I was gonna say, I really
don't like yash K's or cute girls doing cute things.
So like these last two right here, I did not
expect to like those, right, but they were just done
pretty well, you know what.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
There's a passion and there's something about it. I just
hate that sometimes they just use like it's just like
school girls doing things and a little bit of drama
here and there, and it says, like, what is this
enemy about? What's the story? Tell a story? At least
with like this, it's about like photography or traveling or
like there's something.

Speaker 4 (55:31):
To it, you know, Yeah, it has that very specific
thing it's wanting to portray, and it goes far enough
into it where you're like, that'll stick with me for
a bit, right or so? I don't know. I have
some friends that I know plan on traveling and stuff,
and whenever they saw this, when they were like, you
know what, that's a good way to, like, you know,
think of areas I might want to go visit or
things like that, right, Like that looks fun in the show.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
You have a passport yet your ordoned I need to
go get one. I need to go get saying that
for eight years now, buddy, I know, I know, I
know I had.

Speaker 4 (55:58):
I had an appointment set up back in twenty two
and then like the week I was gonna go get it,
like everything shut down. I'm like, you know, that's just
a sign and I just haven't gone back since.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
So fair Anyway, boys, I hope you guys enjoyed Recon
already left Jordan, thank you for joining me. Of course,
I want to apologize if I'm very low energy chat
I I'm just stupid. I'm just not smart. I don't
go to bud til four am, and I'm like, I'm
gonna still wake up at eight, like all.

Speaker 4 (56:25):
Good, all good, thank you for having me. It was
a fun time. I know seasonals was a bit of
a change of pace. But for anybody curious about next week,
we're gonna be watching my dear friend No Kutan from
a recon's recommendation. Uh, bang dream, it's my go is
what I recommended. So girls bang are girls band animate?
Because I know Briggs likes kon and bochi and stuff.
And then uh and Briggs recommended something I don't. I

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don't know it brings.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
Smart phone Season two.

Speaker 4 (56:52):
Yeah, yeah, I watched season one just to prepare, but
I'm not looking forward toe.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
I watch like an episode half of season two and
I'm like, I'm regretting everything, and finished those episodes so
we could actually talk about it. We're talking about three
anime next week, guys, and yes, sir, yeah, we'll be
back later later everybody.

Speaker 4 (57:13):
Bye, Bang