April 10, 2024 • 29 mins
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Howdy.
It's the Southern Senpai Show, wheresmall town Southerners explore big
time Japanese entertainment, anime,manga, and everything in between.
Here's your hosts, Nicholas and DJ.
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What's going on y'all?
Southern Senpais here, two Southern guyswho explore Japanese culture together.
I'm Nicholas.
I'm
DJ.
And.
I did not Fuck up that intro.
Yeah, man.
I'm so so proud of you.
You see I mean it only took a year Yeah,this is yeah, it took about a year for
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him to get it correct But you know whatthat must have been like the hardest 10
seconds of your life, but eventually butyou did you worked out It's all good.
He will never mess up again.
Isn't that right, Nicholas?
I probably will.
Nah.
Let's go ahead and put itdown for a hundred dollars.
I'll never mess up again.
No, I'm not gonna do that becauselast time I lost that hundred dollars.
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Ooh, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.
Nicholas lost that bet last time hard.
That's, that has nothing to do with it.
We'll talk about that later, but todaywe're gonna be watching solo leveling.
Yeah, so we were debating on finishingIppo Makarauchi but then we've had
multiple people in the DMs and friendsof ours be like please do solo level.
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Do a launch along to solo leveling.
So this two people in particular,I'm going to shout out.
I'm going to shout out Alison,the hammer and Ida from Norway.
Yeah.
Ida, these two people really decided tolead the charge on making sure we did this
episode, making sure we did this episode.
Actually Alison was the firstperson to suggest it to us.
And then I don't know if she haslike friends or whatever, but then
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that's when we started to get thefloods of Oh, you guys should do this.
I was like, all all right.
All right.
All right, man, and then youknow, then You're getting
we're getting dms from europe.
It's like, all right, fine.
Yeah, fine.
All right We'll do solo level.
We'll do solo level.
We'll do this watch along.
Today I'm using my scene enhancer.
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Oh yes, the scene enhancers.
Yes, the scene enhancers.
The scene enhancers todayare brought to you by Modelo.
They are not sponsored by us.
But, that's just what we have.
I have I'd probably getcancelled if I tried to say that.
It's the flavoured ones.
Mine's is limon y sal.
And yours is naranja.
Yeah, I was gonna say something else
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It's pronounced Yeah, but And it's orange.
Yeah.
Yeah orange is or just and this episode'sgonna be a little bit different this
episode We'll have a little post Partafter the end of the episode, but
let's just go ahead and start thiswatch along as you guys know we don't
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have the I guess the Funimation introsaren't even going to exist anymore.
Let's talk about that real fast.
Because Funimation got bought out by Sony.
Oh my gosh.
Crunchyroll got bought out by Sony,so I guess then Funimation died.
More tree stay.
You know what they say, Americanswill eventually rule everything.
You will own nothing and be happy.
Americans are like, hey, what areyou doing with that anime stuff?
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Oh, yeah, it's pretty cool.
Yeah.
But it seems like it'smaking a lot of money.
So I'm a knee dad.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
So I'm a knee get, I'm a knee dad.
Lemme get dead.
You can't just buy us out.
Here's over a billion dollars.
Looks like you can buy us out . Sowe don't have the beginning
studio beginnings, but we dohave Che stock beginning at the
the beginning of the episode.
The episode is 23 minutesand 40 seconds long.
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So I'm just gonna get and get thisparty started in 3, 2, 1, play.
It's black.
It's black.
Oh, it says three years ago.
The real question is, will I care today?
Also, you guys should know that thisanime follows the typical format of
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everybody else is so much bigger,better than the main character.
He's like the weak.
But then, somethinghappens where he becomes O.
P.
Right.
Which is cool, we're also watching dubbed.
Because we're Americans.
Yeah.
Alright.
Eventually, we'll probably buy Japan.
So some mages firing an ant.
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To be fair, if ants were like, thisbig, They would be a real problem.
Yeah, we would be screwed as humans.
There's no way.
They can, they, can't they lift ten timestheir body weight or something like that?
Yeah, and they replicate so fast Look,he can head from an ant right now.
What was that?
Yeah.
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Bro, how come you have holes inyour face that aren't bleeding?
Do you see this anime man?
Oh, Wow, what are you confused?
He's healing you.
Yeah
He's doing that thing wherehe like he's not looking.
Yep, and I get
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That's probably the tankLike a tank character.
It's actually a rule in animethat all male tank characters
have to show their abs.
It's not negotiable.
Just like for fanservicewomen, they gotta show titties.
With the males, if you'rea tank, you gotta show abs.
You gotta show abs.
And you have to have thatconfident smirk on your face.
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And if you're somewhat controversial,Or like maybe just a little bit
like oh, i'm like the wild guyyou have to have sharp teeth Yeah,
even if you're completely human
Hey that hey, that's me right there.
Hey, I don't oh, I ain't gonna fight.
You ain't gotta tell me twice
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I bet you he has the sharp teeth.
We'll wait till we getlike a close up shot.
Yeah
Oh That's what's up, yeah, thatlooked like it hurt really bad
Oh
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Okay.
He says, you're a tank, and hesays, and, but that's like your job.
Oh, sharp teeth!
Yeah, there it is!
There's the sharp teeth!
Oh, so he's like the Thundercats.
And this guy wants to beWolverine so bad, it's crazy.
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This guy is like Wolverineif he was a wizard.
Oh, he's the smart guy,he's wearing glasses.
That's how you know.
Yeah, man, that's how you know.
Look at these people withthese generic haircuts.
That's how you know,they're gonna die, right?
Wait, I'm sorry.
Do you say his name's the drill master?
No guild master.
Oh it's a drill master.
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I was about to say I heard drillmaster I think I know my new
nickname My name is the drill master.
I Will now be formally introduced OkayOh, how are you telling about them then?
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They made swords.
Of hunters.
This reminds me of the Jaeger pilots.
Oh okay.
And that's probably wherethe main character is.
Except for one guy.
Except for this guy.
Oh damn, so it's set from day one.
So if you're like rankedS, that's life's amazing.
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In this world, being born white.
That's what I was about to say.
Being born white is S tier.
Not that, what did the guy say?
He goes, Look I, I recognize such andsuch is going on, but if I had to choose
a race, Oh yeah, that was Who was that?
That was the dude that was jerkingoff in front of those people.
Yeah, that's that red headed guy.
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Who then went bald.
He was in Parks and Rec, as a cop.
No.
Yeah he was.
Really?
Yeah.
What's his name?
He's a dude who jerked off and thento himself in that hotel and people
like called the cops on him, eventhough Dave Chappelle was like, this
is the least threatening person ever.
What's his name?
He was on SNL.
He had Louie.
He had Louie.
Louie.
Louie.
Yeah.
Louie CK.
Yes.
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Now, to be fair, I might try whiteonce, but I think I would eventually
revert back to black once I don't,I like being able to dance, man.
That's like a real big part of life.
You know what, man?
I'm cool with not dancing,it's a, it's whatever.
I also like having a large penis.
That's, Not gonna lie,that'd be pretty cool.
Just have a much largerthan average penis.
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You know what's crazy?
Is that in anime Theyhave big penises too?
No.
In anime, they're like Mostly inJapan, like a lot of animes are
either in Japan, or based out ofJapan, or Japan like in some way.
And what does this haveto do, penis related?
No, ah, so I was gonna say is, it'sokay, If you guys like the only reason
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that Americans know a lot about likeother races I guess have certain
opinions about them is because there'sso many different races here, right?
I don't think this would the samejoke would translate in Japanese or
like China or something they wouldeveryone's the same race like what?
That's like when we were talking aboutwe had that conversation a while back
about Why are Guys who grow up in thechurch strange You weird and you are
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like and but the thing is like otherpeople hang out with other people
But this one guy and you are likethat's because he's homogenous, right?
They don't have any other cultures, youknow when you expose you to other cultures
and stuff like that you become like abetter more rounded person and Ironically,
most people are somewhat rounded, right?
If you only hang out with one group ofpeople become very weird and homogenous.
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Oh, they're about to go in
What I'm waiting for is for thereally great guy to, once they get
into action, look at the weakestguy and be like, You fucking piece
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of shit, and then go do his thing.
Yeah, either that or he gets justmurdered straight off the top.
Okay, so what do you think?
He's getting murdered, straight offthe top, so that way they know how
dangerous it is, or you think they'rejust gonna do the, oh, you suck.
I think it's you suck.
Okay.
First of all, I'll tellyou why you're E Ranked.
What is this little dagger you have here?
What are you doing there, sir?
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Also, Ahem.
This anime, I already see the,A huge, glaring plot hole issue.
What?
Now, I'm, we just started this anime,And it's pretty good so far, It's pretty
interesting so far it's not like I don'tlike it, but, They have the Pacific
Rim problem in which why are you goinginto the portal in the first place?
And if what's coming out of them is justmonsters Why don't you just put up some
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like instant kill thing right next tothe portal because problem solved anime?
Oh, I forget.
I keep forgetting that Be no series.
I keep forgetting that part.
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Oh That's why I do it for money.
Now that makes sense The essencestones inside the monsters
are valuable for money that
It just became so realistically assoon as I said that, they instantly
explained why they would do this.
It's for money.
Okay, that makes sense.
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Ooh.
You have to fight them off?
I couldn't have thought of that.
I never thought about that.
Are you a healer?
I sure do hope so.
He's gonna be on the brink of death,and then something crazy's gonna happen.
I don't know.
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To be fair I don't know how muchI would enjoy being this you're
dying and you're healing and dyingand healing and dying and healing.
That sounds like horrible forthat to happen again and again.
Yeah, that does sound pretty bad.
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I think you'll be pleased, Guildmaster.
Regardless of age or gender.
Yeah, because if you, wheneveryou're born in a certain class.
That's how you know someone's evil,or like they're super powerful, when
they just, when they don't look at you.
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Aw, you see that fan service?
Yeah.
Not enough, because these string beanlegs are not doing it for me, I gotta
be, I gotta be for real with you.
But she does have slow motionhair, so I think we're supposed
to assume she's attractive.
She has a pink hat on, she mustbe a celebrity in disguise.
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Hey, I was right . That's cool.
Disappearing to no one.
Yep.
You's crazy.
Imagine.
Okay, you okay?
You did not need to back flip onto that.
You dealt with, you were trying to flex.
That was extra.
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So imagine this happenedsome real life, right?
People get powers X, Y, Z, andyou had to be one of the normies.
That must suck.
That sucks, dude.
Look at this frame right here.
Her tits are right there,right next to his face.
Oh my gosh.
This is your friend?
You need better friends.
Like she's Oh, I'm doing itbecause I'm worried about you.
Okay.
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But what's this, all this personal shit.
Like, why are you callingme a bitch all the time?
If you're actually worriedabout me, help me get better.
Cause I'm clearly not going to stop.
And then you want, and then youwant me to take you on a date?
Follow.
It's a cultural thing, man.
I guess I just don't get it.
It's a cultural thing.
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All right, let's see.
We got what?
Four, eight, twelve, thirteen people.
At least five of them gotta die.
You said five?
I'm gonna go everyone but the solo guy.
Maybe the chick his friend lives, maybe.
But at least everyoneelse is going to die.
You think so?
Yeah.
Yeah, because I bet youhe goes Oh, I didn't.
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I'm not letting anyone know I evenhave this solo leveling power.
Okay, I choose no.
Yeah, how is it a mystery?
We've gone through it somany times in which there's a
whole organization about it.
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I love this projector.
This is, oh my god, this isclassic school right here.
Yep, school projector.
Why are they used to wheel out the big TV?
That's how you know class isabout to be hype as hell, bro.
Right, and you knew theteacher had a hangover.
With the VHS?
With the strap on the TV?
Oh my gosh.
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Bill Nye the science guy, yeah,wow Bill, like it's a club Bill.
Or eyewitness videos.
Oh, yeah, what's that one thathad the robot and the guy?
That was like an orange robot,you know what I'm talking about?
I think it was the witness one.
Yeah.
It, I want a statue like this.
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His last name is Song, stop it.
Didn't this start off as a webtoon?
It was a webtoon?
And then they were like this show.
I heard it started off as a webtoon.
He's gonna sneeze.
Oh, he sneezed.
Yep.
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Okay, then leave.
Huh?
You might be right, DJ.
It might kill them all.
What do you mean she's seeing things?
You're gonna think of monsters.
How is it Okay, so she'sdefinitely not seeing things.
How?
You've never been there.
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Why did, what?
Does he have on Adidas?
Yo!
Ha!
It's a trap!
Ooh!
That man was quick as a mug, bro.
He got sliced in half.
Damn.
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Oh, it looks like justdon't touch the door.
You'll be fine.
Alright, let's start rationing out food.
I went to 7 11 before this.
Ha Who wants a Slim Jim?
Oh, hey.
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Hit him with the okey doke.
You about to hit him withthe Hit him with the look.
Oh!
I told you.
Wow.
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Wow.
That's crazy.
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Dang, bare hands.
Oh yeah, cause they're all thehospital and college bills.
Hey I'm gonna go be a college person.
Can you kill yourself?
Yeah, sure.
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Whoa.
That's crazy.
That's two people down.
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Oh, that's the end of the first episode.
That's the end of the first episode.
Oh, wow.
That's actually pretty good.
Yeah, it's actually a pretty good episode.
I can see why so manypeople suggested this to us.
Nicholas, what do you think?
It was a really slow start.
Yeah.
But, a generic start.
Yeah, a very generic start.
But yeah, no, towards the very end, I waslike, Oh, okay, it got better and better.
Yeah so Shoot, I ain't gonna lie.
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I'll probably, we'll probablyrun that episode too.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was awesome.
It was awesome.
So you guys, this came from a suggestion.
Alright, I'm gonna stop these credits.
Alright, there we go.
Anyway, this came from a suggestion.
Yeah.
Send us a DM, send us a message.
And Yeah, maybe we'll do yours next.
Although, we'll probably watch the secondepisode of, Yeah, we'll probably do the
se We're We'll look We'll think about ifwe want to do a watch along, or if we want
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to do a batch of episodes and then review.
A batch of episodes and then reviews.
Yeah, that there's a reIt depends on what it is.
EPO had to be batch of episodes reviews.
There was like 75 episodesin the first season, right?
And we didn't even we didn't even finishall the Delta because some people demanded
soul leveling So now we're doing thisand I go back to EPO, but Yeah, no, I
thought it was pretty good at first.
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All right, cool.
Guys this this has beenthis watch along I'm DJ.
Oh Yeah So this has been wait,do we say this has been Southern
Senpais or what do we do?
You tell me, man.
What do you feel like doing, Nicholas?
What do you, this is episode, what, 40?
What do you feel like doing, Nicholas?
What do you feel like doing today?
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How do you want to close out?
Let's say this has been Southern Senpais.
I'm Nicholas.
And I am DJ Nick.
And we'll see you next time.
See ya.
This has been SouthernSenpais on Comic Con Radio.
Check out our previousepisodes at comicconradio.
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Ya hear?
Alright, are you still here?
Ya hear?
The outro, we already played the outro.
Nicholas, did you attachthe outro after the episode?
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Yeah.
And people are still listening to us?
Alright.
What, why?
The episode is over,what are you guys doing?
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know.
Maybe they're maybe they're huge fans.
Oh please, we don't have fans.
We got some.
We got a few.
Today we're Nicholas.
What?
You know in our office
Anyway Nicholas your office is setup with a lot of Harry Potter stuff.
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Yeah?
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What do you, did you, cause you knowhow they made that Star Wars anime?
Would you want them to makethe Harry Potter anime?
Yeah.
Yeah, that'd be pretty cool.
They went from the liveaction itself was pretty cool.
They, there's a Star Wars anime?
Probably.
Yeah.
I didn't know that was a Star Wars anime.
Yeah, they made it.
They made it anime when?
Two years ago.
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Oh, I'll have to check it out.
Yeah, there's like a whole bunchof Japanese anime people that
made Star Wars legend and stuff.
They're like, this is like one personhas like a light saer in the shape with
an umbrella or something like that.
They should do a Harry Potter animeone, I thought that'd be pretty cool
here's the real thing if you want HarryPotter anime It's like I feel like when
they take something and they make itlive action first and then they go to
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animation Ends up being pretty good.
But their track record are goingfrom like anime to live action.
Yeah, it's like Terrible.
Because the thing is becausewhenever You . Whenever you have
animate, you're not limited byanything, just what you can animate.
That's true.
And then if you start in live action,then it's going to be good because
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then you can make it, it's alreadylimited unless your Game of Thrones.
Who has 200 million for what, one episode?
No, the thing is, once you gofrom live action to anime, it
can then be whatever you want.
Oh.
Like it gets better.
It, it's not constrainconstrained to reality.
It's now anime.
I'm thinking about putting likemore, so in my office, I have
a whole bunch of Marvel stuff.
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I have a comic books on onewall, like a comic book wall
and some other signature stuff.
I don't have any Do Ihave any anime posters up?
I don't I gotta get myanime poster game up.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh My office doesn'thave any anime posters in it.
That's you got to get.
Our friend ozzy the virus Yougot to buy some more posters.
Oh, yeah.
Shout out to ozzy the virus.
Shout out ozzy the virus Yeah, thatartist we know that guy in fact
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nicholas is in some of his videos.
Yeah he's actually he's actuallyon our he's one of the guests
You For our film center one.
Yeah.
Yeah, we run a lot of podcasts.
Actually, we do that a lotand I don't know Nicholas
what is the number one thing?
That you always say when someoneasks us to help them out with
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our podcast What's your budget?
Yep!
That's good!
You always gonna be like, I don't know!
What do you want?
What's your budget?
It's crazy, usually the whatdo you want part that's hard,
that's like more difficult.
There's so many people that have money,who are like oh, I have Oh, the money's
not the issue, the money's not the issue.
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Okay, but what do you want?
I want to be successful.
Congratulations.
So does everybody else.
The thing is the reason why the whatdo you want part is so hard is because
they haven't done any of the work.
They don't know what they want.
They just know that they want asuccessful podcast that makes them money.
But they haven't done any work.
None at all.
They haven't done any work onwhat exactly it is they want.
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They haven't figuredout any logistics on it.
It's difficult okay, so when we startedthe podcast, it was like what, we
went down to a bar, and just witha whole bunch of neon flashcards,
and wrote down stuff, and then itwas like, oh, okay, this one sounds
really catchy, we should do this one.
Yeah, but we also have been doingthis for a year and a half now.
Oh.
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Yeah, there's a lot a whole lot ofgrowing pains and a whole lot of things
we had to learn But I also think thatwe also knew we wanted to do we just
wanted to sit down and then talk Aboutanyway, and that was like the goal
That was as far as the goal went.
Because we knew at some point thatwe weren't going to have time to
watch anime and this was the reasonto do it And lo and behold, we
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don't have time to watch anime.
Yeah, it's why we created this podcast.
We had to create workYou To make us have fun.
Yeah, that sucks.
We foresaw the future We had to likewith like schedule out time to have
fun and also need to like Logisticallymake it financially right feasible
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to have fun and we had to justifyWatching anime in the future, right?
Gosh, like the worldis so crazy right now.
It is pretty nuts Yeah, man, I meanYou I remember when I was in middle
school, if I wanted to get through a,I don't watch a ton of anime I watched
more anime in high school, but if Iwanted to get through an entire season,
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I would be done in like a night.
Oh, okay, cool, 13 episodes?
I guess I'll just finish this later today,because you have nothing else going on.
You just wake up, and then it's oh.
Yeah, I still haven't finished Ippo.
Oh my gosh, it's so good though.
Yeah, it is pretty good.
Ippo's really good.
I honestly I watched Iwant to re watch Gundam.
Wing?
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Yeah no, all of them from the beginning.
But, That's a lot of episodes.
Yeah, that is.
That's a lot of like series.
Wasn't there a time it was like, there waslike multiple Gundam series like on at the
same time, like having at the same time.
There, there are, Gundamstarted in the eighties, right?
The eighties.
Oh my gosh, that's 40 years ago.
Yeah.
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Gundam started, I think Gundamstarted in like the early eighties
and it's had many incarnations.
Actually.
My favorite is Gundam Wing, obviously,just because it was my first anime
that I watched and Is that theanime that got you into anime?
Yeah, first of all,everyone's seen Dragon Ball Z.
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Probably.
So let's not act like anything on Toonami,you, everyone's just basically seen.
If you had a childhood inthe 90s or early 1000s.
Yeah, no no, Gundam Wing, Ithink Gundam Wing was like my
first anime that I watched.
That you were like, oh, okay.
Yeah, I'm gonna get really into this.
Yeah.
Actually though, there's a lot of, inthe Gundam community, there's a lot
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of people that don't like Gundam Wing.
They're like, it's the worst one.
Do you, have you seenany of the other ones?
No.
That's probably why it's your favorite.
Why would I watch others?
I'm just gonna watch Gundam Wing.
What if it gets way better?
You don't want it to get better?
Not really.
I think the So I, everyone knewDragon Ball Z and tried to go
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Super Saiyan when they were like 5.
But, I think the one for me that waslike, oh, I think there's something to
this was whatchamacallit, Code Geass.
I remember some kid waslike, oh, you like anime?
And I was like, I don't know whatthat means, but Dragon Ball Z is cool.
And he goes, that's anime.
I was like, it is?
And he goes, yeah.
He stands for animation.
I was like, okay, cartoons are animationlike and he had a little well anime is
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technically japanese And I was like, ohthe boondocks he goes No, the boondocks
is an anime and now it's consideredto be anyway That's not the point.
The point is that he was like, oh ifyou like that stuff You should watch
code geass and I was like, what is that?
He's this guy He has the abilityto tell someone to do anything once
and I was like That's his power.
He's yeah, he didn't tell someone todo something once that's it Yeah Little
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did I know, this anime fucking slaps!
I watched this wholeanime in less than a day.
The first season in less than a day.
And then I watched the wholesecond season in two or three days.
And I was like, okay.
I'm on board.
There's something going on here with thisanime stuff because Japan's not afraid
to show like blood and stuff like that.
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Yeah.
Or you talk about like I think older90s cartoons were like that where
they're more not realistic per se,but they're more willing to talk
about like deeper, darker subjects.
American cartoons nowadays are so squeakyclean, they're not even worth watching.
Yeah, no, they're really not.
They're not even worth watching.
But Yeah, alright guys thishas been a bonus segment.
If you're still listening, hey, thanks!
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Appreciate it!
Thanks, we'll see you next time.
Alright, bye.
Howdy.
It's the Southern Senpai Show, wheresmall town Southerners explore big
time Japanese entertainment, anime,manga, and everything in between.
Here's your hosts, Nicholas and DJ.
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What's going on y'all?
Southern Senpais here, two Southern guyswho explore Japanese culture together.
I'm Nicholas.
I'm
DJ.
And.
I did not Fuck up that intro.
Yeah, man.
I'm so so proud of you.
You see I mean it only took a year Yeah,this is yeah, it took about a year for
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him to get it correct But you know whatthat must have been like the hardest 10
seconds of your life, but eventually butyou did you worked out It's all good.
He will never mess up again.
Isn't that right, Nicholas?
I probably will.
Nah.
Let's go ahead and put itdown for a hundred dollars.
I'll never mess up again.
No, I'm not gonna do that becauselast time I lost that hundred dollars.
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Ooh, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.
Nicholas lost that bet last time hard.
That's, that has nothing to do with it.
We'll talk about that later, but todaywe're gonna be watching solo leveling.
Yeah, so we were debating on finishingIppo Makarauchi but then we've had
multiple people in the DMs and friendsof ours be like please do solo level.
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Do a launch along to solo leveling.
So this two people in particular,I'm going to shout out.
I'm going to shout out Alison,the hammer and Ida from Norway.
Yeah.
Ida, these two people really decided tolead the charge on making sure we did this
episode, making sure we did this episode.
Actually Alison was the firstperson to suggest it to us.
And then I don't know if she haslike friends or whatever, but then
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that's when we started to get thefloods of Oh, you guys should do this.
I was like, all all right.
All right.
All right, man, and then youknow, then You're getting
we're getting dms from europe.
It's like, all right, fine.
Yeah, fine.
All right We'll do solo level.
We'll do solo level.
We'll do this watch along.
Today I'm using my scene enhancer.
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Oh yes, the scene enhancers.
Yes, the scene enhancers.
The scene enhancers todayare brought to you by Modelo.
They are not sponsored by us.
But, that's just what we have.
I have I'd probably getcancelled if I tried to say that.
It's the flavoured ones.
Mine's is limon y sal.
And yours is naranja.
Yeah, I was gonna say something else
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It's pronounced Yeah, but And it's orange.
Yeah.
Yeah orange is or just and this episode'sgonna be a little bit different this
episode We'll have a little post Partafter the end of the episode, but
let's just go ahead and start thiswatch along as you guys know we don't
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have the I guess the Funimation introsaren't even going to exist anymore.
Let's talk about that real fast.
Because Funimation got bought out by Sony.
Oh my gosh.
Crunchyroll got bought out by Sony,so I guess then Funimation died.
More tree stay.
You know what they say, Americanswill eventually rule everything.
You will own nothing and be happy.
Americans are like, hey, what areyou doing with that anime stuff?
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Oh, yeah, it's pretty cool.
Yeah.
But it seems like it'smaking a lot of money.
So I'm a knee dad.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
So I'm a knee get, I'm a knee dad.
Lemme get dead.
You can't just buy us out.
Here's over a billion dollars.
Looks like you can buy us out . Sowe don't have the beginning
studio beginnings, but we dohave Che stock beginning at the
the beginning of the episode.
The episode is 23 minutesand 40 seconds long.
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So I'm just gonna get and get thisparty started in 3, 2, 1, play.
It's black.
It's black.
Oh, it says three years ago.
The real question is, will I care today?
Also, you guys should know that thisanime follows the typical format of
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everybody else is so much bigger,better than the main character.
He's like the weak.
But then, somethinghappens where he becomes O.
P.
Right.
Which is cool, we're also watching dubbed.
Because we're Americans.
Yeah.
Alright.
Eventually, we'll probably buy Japan.
So some mages firing an ant.
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To be fair, if ants were like, thisbig, They would be a real problem.
Yeah, we would be screwed as humans.
There's no way.
They can, they, can't they lift ten timestheir body weight or something like that?
Yeah, and they replicate so fast Look,he can head from an ant right now.
What was that?
Yeah.
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Bro, how come you have holes inyour face that aren't bleeding?
Do you see this anime man?
Oh, Wow, what are you confused?
He's healing you.
Yeah
He's doing that thing wherehe like he's not looking.
Yep, and I get
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That's probably the tankLike a tank character.
It's actually a rule in animethat all male tank characters
have to show their abs.
It's not negotiable.
Just like for fanservicewomen, they gotta show titties.
With the males, if you'rea tank, you gotta show abs.
You gotta show abs.
And you have to have thatconfident smirk on your face.
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And if you're somewhat controversial,Or like maybe just a little bit
like oh, i'm like the wild guyyou have to have sharp teeth Yeah,
even if you're completely human
Hey that hey, that's me right there.
Hey, I don't oh, I ain't gonna fight.
You ain't gotta tell me twice
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I bet you he has the sharp teeth.
We'll wait till we getlike a close up shot.
Yeah
Oh That's what's up, yeah, thatlooked like it hurt really bad
Oh
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Okay.
He says, you're a tank, and hesays, and, but that's like your job.
Oh, sharp teeth!
Yeah, there it is!
There's the sharp teeth!
Oh, so he's like the Thundercats.
And this guy wants to beWolverine so bad, it's crazy.
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This guy is like Wolverineif he was a wizard.
Oh, he's the smart guy,he's wearing glasses.
That's how you know.
Yeah, man, that's how you know.
Look at these people withthese generic haircuts.
That's how you know,they're gonna die, right?
Wait, I'm sorry.
Do you say his name's the drill master?
No guild master.
Oh it's a drill master.
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I was about to say I heard drillmaster I think I know my new
nickname My name is the drill master.
I Will now be formally introduced OkayOh, how are you telling about them then?
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They made swords.
Of hunters.
This reminds me of the Jaeger pilots.
Oh okay.
And that's probably wherethe main character is.
Except for one guy.
Except for this guy.
Oh damn, so it's set from day one.
So if you're like rankedS, that's life's amazing.
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In this world, being born white.
That's what I was about to say.
Being born white is S tier.
Not that, what did the guy say?
He goes, Look I, I recognize such andsuch is going on, but if I had to choose
a race, Oh yeah, that was Who was that?
That was the dude that was jerkingoff in front of those people.
Yeah, that's that red headed guy.
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Who then went bald.
He was in Parks and Rec, as a cop.
No.
Yeah he was.
Really?
Yeah.
What's his name?
He's a dude who jerked off and thento himself in that hotel and people
like called the cops on him, eventhough Dave Chappelle was like, this
is the least threatening person ever.
What's his name?
He was on SNL.
He had Louie.
He had Louie.
Louie.
Louie.
Yeah.
Louie CK.
Yes.
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Now, to be fair, I might try whiteonce, but I think I would eventually
revert back to black once I don't,I like being able to dance, man.
That's like a real big part of life.
You know what, man?
I'm cool with not dancing,it's a, it's whatever.
I also like having a large penis.
That's, Not gonna lie,that'd be pretty cool.
Just have a much largerthan average penis.
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You know what's crazy?
Is that in anime Theyhave big penises too?
No.
In anime, they're like Mostly inJapan, like a lot of animes are
either in Japan, or based out ofJapan, or Japan like in some way.
And what does this haveto do, penis related?
No, ah, so I was gonna say is, it'sokay, If you guys like the only reason
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that Americans know a lot about likeother races I guess have certain
opinions about them is because there'sso many different races here, right?
I don't think this would the samejoke would translate in Japanese or
like China or something they wouldeveryone's the same race like what?
That's like when we were talking aboutwe had that conversation a while back
about Why are Guys who grow up in thechurch strange You weird and you are
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like and but the thing is like otherpeople hang out with other people
But this one guy and you are likethat's because he's homogenous, right?
They don't have any other cultures, youknow when you expose you to other cultures
and stuff like that you become like abetter more rounded person and Ironically,
most people are somewhat rounded, right?
If you only hang out with one group ofpeople become very weird and homogenous.
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Oh, they're about to go in
What I'm waiting for is for thereally great guy to, once they get
into action, look at the weakestguy and be like, You fucking piece
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of shit, and then go do his thing.
Yeah, either that or he gets justmurdered straight off the top.
Okay, so what do you think?
He's getting murdered, straight offthe top, so that way they know how
dangerous it is, or you think they'rejust gonna do the, oh, you suck.
I think it's you suck.
Okay.
First of all, I'll tellyou why you're E Ranked.
What is this little dagger you have here?
What are you doing there, sir?
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Also, Ahem.
This anime, I already see the,A huge, glaring plot hole issue.
What?
Now, I'm, we just started this anime,And it's pretty good so far, It's pretty
interesting so far it's not like I don'tlike it, but, They have the Pacific
Rim problem in which why are you goinginto the portal in the first place?
And if what's coming out of them is justmonsters Why don't you just put up some
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like instant kill thing right next tothe portal because problem solved anime?
Oh, I forget.
I keep forgetting that Be no series.
I keep forgetting that part.
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Oh That's why I do it for money.
Now that makes sense The essencestones inside the monsters
are valuable for money that
It just became so realistically assoon as I said that, they instantly
explained why they would do this.
It's for money.
Okay, that makes sense.
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Ooh.
You have to fight them off?
I couldn't have thought of that.
I never thought about that.
Are you a healer?
I sure do hope so.
He's gonna be on the brink of death,and then something crazy's gonna happen.
I don't know.
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To be fair I don't know how muchI would enjoy being this you're
dying and you're healing and dyingand healing and dying and healing.
That sounds like horrible forthat to happen again and again.
Yeah, that does sound pretty bad.
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I think you'll be pleased, Guildmaster.
Regardless of age or gender.
Yeah, because if you, wheneveryou're born in a certain class.
That's how you know someone's evil,or like they're super powerful, when
they just, when they don't look at you.
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Aw, you see that fan service?
Yeah.
Not enough, because these string beanlegs are not doing it for me, I gotta
be, I gotta be for real with you.
But she does have slow motionhair, so I think we're supposed
to assume she's attractive.
She has a pink hat on, she mustbe a celebrity in disguise.
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Hey, I was right . That's cool.
Disappearing to no one.
Yep.
You's crazy.
Imagine.
Okay, you okay?
You did not need to back flip onto that.
You dealt with, you were trying to flex.
That was extra.
(13:38):
So imagine this happenedsome real life, right?
People get powers X, Y, Z, andyou had to be one of the normies.
That must suck.
That sucks, dude.
Look at this frame right here.
Her tits are right there,right next to his face.
Oh my gosh.
This is your friend?
You need better friends.
Like she's Oh, I'm doing itbecause I'm worried about you.
Okay.
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But what's this, all this personal shit.
Like, why are you callingme a bitch all the time?
If you're actually worriedabout me, help me get better.
Cause I'm clearly not going to stop.
And then you want, and then youwant me to take you on a date?
Follow.
It's a cultural thing, man.
I guess I just don't get it.
It's a cultural thing.
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All right, let's see.
We got what?
Four, eight, twelve, thirteen people.
At least five of them gotta die.
You said five?
I'm gonna go everyone but the solo guy.
Maybe the chick his friend lives, maybe.
But at least everyoneelse is going to die.
You think so?
Yeah.
Yeah, because I bet youhe goes Oh, I didn't.
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I'm not letting anyone know I evenhave this solo leveling power.
Okay, I choose no.
Yeah, how is it a mystery?
We've gone through it somany times in which there's a
whole organization about it.
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I love this projector.
This is, oh my god, this isclassic school right here.
Yep, school projector.
Why are they used to wheel out the big TV?
That's how you know class isabout to be hype as hell, bro.
Right, and you knew theteacher had a hangover.
With the VHS?
With the strap on the TV?
Oh my gosh.
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Bill Nye the science guy, yeah,wow Bill, like it's a club Bill.
Or eyewitness videos.
Oh, yeah, what's that one thathad the robot and the guy?
That was like an orange robot,you know what I'm talking about?
I think it was the witness one.
Yeah.
It, I want a statue like this.
(15:59):
His last name is Song, stop it.
Didn't this start off as a webtoon?
It was a webtoon?
And then they were like this show.
I heard it started off as a webtoon.
He's gonna sneeze.
Oh, he sneezed.
Yep.
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Okay, then leave.
Huh?
You might be right, DJ.
It might kill them all.
What do you mean she's seeing things?
You're gonna think of monsters.
How is it Okay, so she'sdefinitely not seeing things.
How?
You've never been there.
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Why did, what?
Does he have on Adidas?
Yo!
Ha!
It's a trap!
Ooh!
That man was quick as a mug, bro.
He got sliced in half.
Damn.
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Oh, it looks like justdon't touch the door.
You'll be fine.
Alright, let's start rationing out food.
I went to 7 11 before this.
Ha Who wants a Slim Jim?
Oh, hey.
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Hit him with the okey doke.
You about to hit him withthe Hit him with the look.
Oh!
I told you.
Wow.
(18:12):
Wow.
That's crazy.
(18:33):
Dang, bare hands.
Oh yeah, cause they're all thehospital and college bills.
Hey I'm gonna go be a college person.
Can you kill yourself?
Yeah, sure.
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Whoa.
That's crazy.
That's two people down.
(19:43):
Oh, that's the end of the first episode.
That's the end of the first episode.
Oh, wow.
That's actually pretty good.
Yeah, it's actually a pretty good episode.
I can see why so manypeople suggested this to us.
Nicholas, what do you think?
It was a really slow start.
Yeah.
But, a generic start.
Yeah, a very generic start.
But yeah, no, towards the very end, I waslike, Oh, okay, it got better and better.
Yeah so Shoot, I ain't gonna lie.
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I'll probably, we'll probablyrun that episode too.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was awesome.
It was awesome.
So you guys, this came from a suggestion.
Alright, I'm gonna stop these credits.
Alright, there we go.
Anyway, this came from a suggestion.
Yeah.
Send us a DM, send us a message.
And Yeah, maybe we'll do yours next.
Although, we'll probably watch the secondepisode of, Yeah, we'll probably do the
se We're We'll look We'll think about ifwe want to do a watch along, or if we want
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to do a batch of episodes and then review.
A batch of episodes and then reviews.
Yeah, that there's a reIt depends on what it is.
EPO had to be batch of episodes reviews.
There was like 75 episodesin the first season, right?
And we didn't even we didn't even finishall the Delta because some people demanded
soul leveling So now we're doing thisand I go back to EPO, but Yeah, no, I
thought it was pretty good at first.
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All right, cool.
Guys this this has beenthis watch along I'm DJ.
Oh Yeah So this has been wait,do we say this has been Southern
Senpais or what do we do?
You tell me, man.
What do you feel like doing, Nicholas?
What do you, this is episode, what, 40?
What do you feel like doing, Nicholas?
What do you feel like doing today?
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How do you want to close out?
Let's say this has been Southern Senpais.
I'm Nicholas.
And I am DJ Nick.
And we'll see you next time.
See ya.
This has been SouthernSenpais on Comic Con Radio.
Check out our previousepisodes at comicconradio.
com.
You can follow the showat Southern Senpais on all
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major social media platforms.
Tune in next Wednesdayfor a fresh episode.
Y'all come back now.
Ya hear?
Alright, are you still here?
Ya hear?
The outro, we already played the outro.
Nicholas, did you attachthe outro after the episode?
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Yeah.
And people are still listening to us?
Alright.
What, why?
The episode is over,what are you guys doing?
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know.
Maybe they're maybe they're huge fans.
Oh please, we don't have fans.
We got some.
We got a few.
Today we're Nicholas.
What?
You know in our office
Anyway Nicholas your office is setup with a lot of Harry Potter stuff.
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Yeah?
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What do you, did you, cause you knowhow they made that Star Wars anime?
Would you want them to makethe Harry Potter anime?
Yeah.
Yeah, that'd be pretty cool.
They went from the liveaction itself was pretty cool.
They, there's a Star Wars anime?
Probably.
Yeah.
I didn't know that was a Star Wars anime.
Yeah, they made it.
They made it anime when?
Two years ago.
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Oh, I'll have to check it out.
Yeah, there's like a whole bunchof Japanese anime people that
made Star Wars legend and stuff.
They're like, this is like one personhas like a light saer in the shape with
an umbrella or something like that.
They should do a Harry Potter animeone, I thought that'd be pretty cool
here's the real thing if you want HarryPotter anime It's like I feel like when
they take something and they make itlive action first and then they go to
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animation Ends up being pretty good.
But their track record are goingfrom like anime to live action.
Yeah, it's like Terrible.
Because the thing is becausewhenever You . Whenever you have
animate, you're not limited byanything, just what you can animate.
That's true.
And then if you start in live action,then it's going to be good because
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then you can make it, it's alreadylimited unless your Game of Thrones.
Who has 200 million for what, one episode?
No, the thing is, once you gofrom live action to anime, it
can then be whatever you want.
Oh.
Like it gets better.
It, it's not constrainconstrained to reality.
It's now anime.
I'm thinking about putting likemore, so in my office, I have
a whole bunch of Marvel stuff.
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I have a comic books on onewall, like a comic book wall
and some other signature stuff.
I don't have any Do Ihave any anime posters up?
I don't I gotta get myanime poster game up.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh My office doesn'thave any anime posters in it.
That's you got to get.
Our friend ozzy the virus Yougot to buy some more posters.
Oh, yeah.
Shout out to ozzy the virus.
Shout out ozzy the virus Yeah, thatartist we know that guy in fact
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nicholas is in some of his videos.
Yeah he's actually he's actuallyon our he's one of the guests
You For our film center one.
Yeah.
Yeah, we run a lot of podcasts.
Actually, we do that a lotand I don't know Nicholas
what is the number one thing?
That you always say when someoneasks us to help them out with
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our podcast What's your budget?
Yep!
That's good!
You always gonna be like, I don't know!
What do you want?
What's your budget?
It's crazy, usually the whatdo you want part that's hard,
that's like more difficult.
There's so many people that have money,who are like oh, I have Oh, the money's
not the issue, the money's not the issue.
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Okay, but what do you want?
I want to be successful.
Congratulations.
So does everybody else.
The thing is the reason why the whatdo you want part is so hard is because
they haven't done any of the work.
They don't know what they want.
They just know that they want asuccessful podcast that makes them money.
But they haven't done any work.
None at all.
They haven't done any work onwhat exactly it is they want.
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They haven't figuredout any logistics on it.
It's difficult okay, so when we startedthe podcast, it was like what, we
went down to a bar, and just witha whole bunch of neon flashcards,
and wrote down stuff, and then itwas like, oh, okay, this one sounds
really catchy, we should do this one.
Yeah, but we also have been doingthis for a year and a half now.
Oh.
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Yeah, there's a lot a whole lot ofgrowing pains and a whole lot of things
we had to learn But I also think thatwe also knew we wanted to do we just
wanted to sit down and then talk Aboutanyway, and that was like the goal
That was as far as the goal went.
Because we knew at some point thatwe weren't going to have time to
watch anime and this was the reasonto do it And lo and behold, we
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don't have time to watch anime.
Yeah, it's why we created this podcast.
We had to create workYou To make us have fun.
Yeah, that sucks.
We foresaw the future We had to likewith like schedule out time to have
fun and also need to like Logisticallymake it financially right feasible
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to have fun and we had to justifyWatching anime in the future, right?
Gosh, like the worldis so crazy right now.
It is pretty nuts Yeah, man, I meanYou I remember when I was in middle
school, if I wanted to get through a,I don't watch a ton of anime I watched
more anime in high school, but if Iwanted to get through an entire season,
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I would be done in like a night.
Oh, okay, cool, 13 episodes?
I guess I'll just finish this later today,because you have nothing else going on.
You just wake up, and then it's oh.
Yeah, I still haven't finished Ippo.
Oh my gosh, it's so good though.
Yeah, it is pretty good.
Ippo's really good.
I honestly I watched Iwant to re watch Gundam.
Wing?
(27:00):
Yeah no, all of them from the beginning.
But, That's a lot of episodes.
Yeah, that is.
That's a lot of like series.
Wasn't there a time it was like, there waslike multiple Gundam series like on at the
same time, like having at the same time.
There, there are, Gundamstarted in the eighties, right?
The eighties.
Oh my gosh, that's 40 years ago.
Yeah.
(27:20):
Gundam started, I think Gundamstarted in like the early eighties
and it's had many incarnations.
Actually.
My favorite is Gundam Wing, obviously,just because it was my first anime
that I watched and Is that theanime that got you into anime?
Yeah, first of all,everyone's seen Dragon Ball Z.
(27:42):
Probably.
So let's not act like anything on Toonami,you, everyone's just basically seen.
If you had a childhood inthe 90s or early 1000s.
Yeah, no no, Gundam Wing, Ithink Gundam Wing was like my
first anime that I watched.
That you were like, oh, okay.
Yeah, I'm gonna get really into this.
Yeah.
Actually though, there's a lot of, inthe Gundam community, there's a lot
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of people that don't like Gundam Wing.
They're like, it's the worst one.
Do you, have you seenany of the other ones?
No.
That's probably why it's your favorite.
Why would I watch others?
I'm just gonna watch Gundam Wing.
What if it gets way better?
You don't want it to get better?
Not really.
I think the So I, everyone knewDragon Ball Z and tried to go
(28:24):
Super Saiyan when they were like 5.
But, I think the one for me that waslike, oh, I think there's something to
this was whatchamacallit, Code Geass.
I remember some kid waslike, oh, you like anime?
And I was like, I don't know whatthat means, but Dragon Ball Z is cool.
And he goes, that's anime.
I was like, it is?
And he goes, yeah.
He stands for animation.
I was like, okay, cartoons are animationlike and he had a little well anime is
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technically japanese And I was like, ohthe boondocks he goes No, the boondocks
is an anime and now it's consideredto be anyway That's not the point.
The point is that he was like, oh ifyou like that stuff You should watch
code geass and I was like, what is that?
He's this guy He has the abilityto tell someone to do anything once
and I was like That's his power.
He's yeah, he didn't tell someone todo something once that's it Yeah Little
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did I know, this anime fucking slaps!
I watched this wholeanime in less than a day.
The first season in less than a day.
And then I watched the wholesecond season in two or three days.
And I was like, okay.
I'm on board.
There's something going on here with thisanime stuff because Japan's not afraid
to show like blood and stuff like that.
(29:31):
Yeah.
Or you talk about like I think older90s cartoons were like that where
they're more not realistic per se,but they're more willing to talk
about like deeper, darker subjects.
American cartoons nowadays are so squeakyclean, they're not even worth watching.
Yeah, no, they're really not.
They're not even worth watching.
But Yeah, alright guys thishas been a bonus segment.
If you're still listening, hey, thanks!
(29:53):
Appreciate it!
Thanks, we'll see you next time.
Alright, bye.
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Rewarded for bravery that goes above and beyond the call of duty, the Medal of Honor is the United States’ top military decoration. The stories we tell are about the heroes who have distinguished themselves by acts of heroism and courage that have saved lives. From Judith Resnik, the second woman in space, to Daniel Daly, one of only 19 people to have received the Medal of Honor twice, these are stories about those who have done the improbable and unexpected, who have sacrificed something in the name of something much bigger than themselves. Every Wednesday on Medal of Honor, uncover what their experiences tell us about the nature of sacrifice, why people put their lives in danger for others, and what happens after you’ve become a hero. Special thanks to series creator Dan McGinn, to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society and Adam Plumpton. Medal of Honor begins on May 28. Subscribe to Pushkin+ to hear ad-free episodes one week early. Find Pushkin+ on the Medal of Honor show page in Apple or at Pushkin.fm. Subscribe on Apple: apple.co/pushkin Subscribe on Pushkin: pushkin.fm/plus
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com