Our TOP 10 ANIME of All Time! | TNP EP. 138 - The Nerdiest Podcast

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Hello and welcome to the nerdiest podcast, the show where
nerds talk about nerdy things. I'm your host, as always, Mr.
Nick Barrett, and today I'm not joined by Jackson because he's
not here because he hasn't seen enough anime to join the
conversation. Well, he has.
He seemed like 10 exactly, but that's not that's not a fair
amount. So I decided to go to the

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boundless depths of Twitter and and find a new Co host, a new
guest for this episode and then is none other than podcasts from
the Christian anime podcast. He is here.
We're going to be talking about our top ten anime, top ten
favorite anime of all time. And there's also a special
episode because we've never had AV tuber on.
So that's a very different experience.

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So we'll see how this goes. I'm excited.
I think it's going to be a greatepisode.
So, but before we jump in our top ten anime, I want to know
how are you doing? Tell the people who you are,
what you've been up to, that kind of stuff.
Go for it. Hey, thanks so much for having
me on. So as Nick with an OK has

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graciously, graciously introduced me, I am podcast son,
the host of the Christian anime podcast where well, it's not
technically a podcast because most of the content that I do is
making videos that relates Christian themes.
What are the Christian themes that we can find in anime?
What are the like? How can we connect our Christian

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faith to the anime that we watch?
How can we also discern as well?It's all of those things all
smushed together into one. And we've got a growing
community of a lot of Christianswho also watch anime because
we're kind of a lot of these people who I meet every day,
they're all disillusioned by like the, the, the same boomer
conservatives who are like, oh, anime is demonic.

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So this is the, this is the, this is the sanctuary for all of
us who are like, Nah, anime is not demonic.
And not only that, we can also relate it to our Christian faith
as well. So that's, that's the sort of
stuff that we do. That's the sort of thing that
we're building off of. As Nick has also said, I am AV
Tuber now officially. So for the longest time I used I

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was a PNG tuber, which means I did not have like AV tuber
model. But now that I have this, I am
way more confident to talk to other people because I can
actually like talk and not just have like APNG bopping up and
down which is what I used to have.
So there you go. So thanks for having me on.
It's a great opportunity to connect with other Christians in

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this space. Yeah, thanks for coming on.
It's been a hot minute since we've had like an anime
dedicated episode that isn't me showing Jackson a new anime.
I think it's been 2 1/2 years, which is hard because like I
love anime. I love talking about anime,
which is why I also have an anime YouTube channel.

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That's how we connected was through that space on Twitter
and and then on YouTube. So it's it's great to come on
and talk and I'm sure we have a lot of great anime to go
through. But before I before I do that, I
want to ask you watching any watching any anime, right?
Now any of the new fall season. I love this question.

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You know why I love this question?
It's because the first anime that comes to mind is that time
my wife was reincarnated into anelementary school, which is
which is an insane name, but it's kind of wholesome, kind of
cute. So even though it's got the most

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SUS name ever, it's it's actually not that bad.
Animation is really, really lacking, but the story kind of
makes up for it. Question mark.
So yeah, anyway, I've been watching that and other than
that, I've been trying to keep up with RE0 and that I say

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trying there. So and I'll kind of explain
later on when we when we continue having the discussion
about like our top ten anime, myfeelings on Reezer right now
anyway. And then there, what is it?
There's there's the maid anime and there's also a ROM.
Com I know what you're talking. About yeah, yeah.

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Which I haven't started watchingyet, but it's only because I've
got I've, I'm so I've been so busy this past month.
Now that I have like all the free time in the world.
I've been freed from my from theshackles of studying.
I can actually do stuff. Oh, what is it?
It's the maid anime. That's it.
And I still haven't watched. Is it the you are Miss Servant?

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Yeah, that's it, That's it. That's the dumb English name,
which I don't want to say. I wish they had a better name
for it because like you are, Miss Servant is terrible.
What's the Jack name for it? It's a little sass.
Yeah, and there's another one aswell.
As you can see, I'm a very professional content creator who

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is always. Only the most professional
allowed on this show, yes. Yes, I should have written it
down. I'm trying to think what I'm
watching. I got to look at my.
I don't even know what I'm watching at this point.
I just kind of turn stuff on andI'm like, all right, that's what
I'm watching right now. Totally, totally.
If I stay caught up, that's a different story.

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I swear I had it on my plan to watch it seems I don't have it
question mark. I know it's no there is another
ROM com that I am Oh no hako that's it.
It's a Netflix anime. Oh, blue box.
Yeah, Blue box, that's. It I think that's the English.
Name No Blue Box is an OK English name, so I will I I was
recommended it by a couple of people in my community, so I

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will intend to watch it now thatI have the time.
So yeah, there you go. That's that's it.
That's fair. Have you checked out Don de Don?
Yeah, so I have a complicated answer because I did, I did
watch the first episode, but forconscience reasons, I've decided
not to continue watching it because.
Yeah. So like this is this is another

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part, right, of the Christian anime experience, which is me
recommending anime and me wanting to really create a space
where like Christians can say, oh, this is this is OK to watch
or this is like, I'm like, this is good for Christians to watch,
I guess. And like, this is what we can
extract out of it. So Dun, Dun for me.

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Really cool opening, really wholesome between the two main
characters. But just for conscience reasons,
I have decided not to continue watching it just based on, like,
discussions I've had with other Christians in my life who have
also said it. So yeah.
But what are your feelings on it?
Because I know I've, I've heard from a lot of people that it is
like, it does have like, seriously Christian themes in

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it. So.
So I that was my video this weekwas should Christians watch
Donna Don? Because I know it was one of
those that like got flagged really quick is like we should
skip that one. And honestly, I can swing either
way. Like I can absolutely understand
people who don't want to continue it after that first

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episode because it is kind of I'm not going to beat around the
Bush. It is a little suspect.
Like I remember 'cause I read the manga 1st and in reading it,
like I was just flipping throughand I said like, oh, she's
getting kidnapped by the aliens.And then like bam, you're hit
with this double page like spread of just her in the the

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probing chair. And I was like, bro, my mom's
sitting right next to me in the car and I'm trying to read this.
This is this sucks. So I can absolutely understand
that aspect of it. Really like throwing people off
and what I what I dove into in that video is that scene
specifically isn't necessarily played up for like the

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fanservice aspect of it. And there is, I think there is
some good Christian themes to bepulled from it in the sense of
like all of this spiritual, likealiens and spirits and stuff is
all on a different plane of existence that normal people
can't see. So that was how I related it to

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the Christian walk was like, well, if you're a believer,
obviously you understand a lot more of the spiritual aspect of
things that are going on. But if you're not, you're just
kind of going to glance over. It is like, oh, what a crazy
coincidence or like just kind ofrunning off as something else.
So I could go either way. The comments on that video have
been very like, oh, yeah, Like we just needed to like,

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determine that fiction is fiction and like, that's OK and
we can still enjoy it. And then the other half have
been like, yeah, well, kind of similar to you where it's like,
for conscious reasons, I don't want to continue it, which is so
sad because it almost like fallsinto the same category of Goblin
Slayer where it's like the firstepisode has this one thing that

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really turns people off, and then it's never mentioned or
brought up again. And like nothing like that ever
happens again. So it's almost like a litmus
test to weed out people. And then if you push through
like it's this really great engaging.
Someone in the comments called it a ROM com pretending to be a

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battle showner. And I was like, yeah, yeah,
that's pretty accurate. So I'm kind of back and forth on
it. Personally, I've been OK with
it, but I can also understand like other people's.
And that's what I said at the end of the video was like, this
is just how I feel about it. I'm not going to override your
own convictions or beliefs. Like I'm just telling you what I

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think. And if you still get to the end
of the video and decide like, oh, I don't want to watch it,
like that's totally fine. So it's definitely one of those
more controversial ones, especially this season.
Yeah, totally. But I guess we can either way on
it so. Yeah, it is what it is, right?
Because I I think because I I was kind of feeling the same way
as what? Because I've recently been

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watching a non anime. Oh no, pardon me, which is Man
in the High Castle because I'd never watched it before.
And for those of you who aren't aware, Man in the High Castle is
like a alternate history TV showwhere like Germany won World War
2 and the US is like split between like Pacific states,
Japanese Pacific States and the German Reich on the other side.

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And like, this was really cool watching it, but I stopped
watching after season 2 as well for like, it's those same kinds
of conscience reasons because it's like, I think if you
really, if you're really confident in the story that
you're rising, I don't think youshould include like, because
there are a bunch of there weren't like explicit sex
scenes, right? But it was really, it was

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heading towards that direction, which is why I didn't continue
watching it. So yeah, it's it's unfortunate
that this is like the media environment that we're in.
And I think especially if you'vefor me as well, who, who has
been kind of struggling through certain sin issues as well in my
life, I totally understand for those of you as well at home, if

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you've got certain sin issues then and for conscience reasons,
you stop watching a certain anime, then that's totally fine
by me. I'm I ain't gonna, I ain't gonna
challenge your conscience on that case.
So yeah. Yeah, there have been a couple
anime that I'm like, I was watching them.
Let's see, I got to go through my dropped because like there

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were a couple that I watched that I was like, yeah, I ain't
finishing that. There was one.
What was the one last year that was like so great?
Oh, it was the the 100 girlfriends I really, really,
really love or whatever. I watched the 1st 2 episodes and
I was like, OK, hold on. I'm kind of like down with the

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premise. And then as I was watching the
third episode, I had like this wave hit me of like, I can't
keep watching this. It's just to like, I don't
remember if they, they like theydid something like the fan
service got dialed up or it was like, it just felt weird and I
didn't want to finish it. And that's been the case for a
couple where I'm like, I can't. And most of it comes in the

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romance genre cause like violence has never really
bothered me. I'm OK with like stuff like
Attack on Titan that's really, you know, violent and gory and
even like the the gore in Chainsaw Man was fine, but that
was not my issue with Chainsaw Man.
My issue with Chainsaw Man was like how dark and nihilistic it

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is and then also how much sexualovertones is in that series.
That was what made me not like Chainsaw Man.
So usually violence is OK, but the more you like add in that
sexual stuff is when I'm like OK.
Yeah, totally. We're going to dial it back a
bit because so, which is a common theme you'll see in the

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top 10. Yeah, definitely.
At least for me. Oh.
For real, for real. I think it was like because I
still back when I was still in high school, right?
Because I was not super, super Christian back then anyway, and
I didn't really take my faith seriously.
Like the oh, a heck of a lot of horror man of me is like that,
right? Which is there is a time in my

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life where like, Oh yeah, I, I enjoy it because it's funny.
But I think now, now that I've matured in my faith a little
more, I think you, you look at it and say it's just not
necessary. It's just like completely like,
we know why you're doing it. It's because you want to capture
the imagination of young men andyou want to.
That's the thing that you're, that's the thing that you're

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trying to lure people in with with these promises of like fan
service scenes. And yeah, it's just not.
It's just not for me now. So yeah.
Yeah, I can understand that. I was the same way in high
school because that's when I started watching anime and there
was a lot of shows that like, and I was still a Christian.

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Like I took my face seriously, but not as seriously as I
should. Have.
Like I still go to church every Sunday doing the youth group,
like that kind of stuff, readingmy Bible and I in that I watched
a lot of shows that I probably wouldn't have watched now.
So when I go back and I did likemy ranking, every anime I've

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seen, there's stuff on there like domestic girlfriend, then
I'm like, I probably shouldn't have watched that.
Like it's not good. And it's just like those are
kind of things you just live andlearn from.
And like it helps inform my decisions now because I'm like,
OK, let's actually. And I feel like being a

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Christian makes me look into anime a bit more so than just
the face value of like, OK, well, there's no fan service in
this anime, but what is the underlying theme that I'm taking
away from it? Like, what?
What is this trying to show me? And like, just get a little more
introspective. And then sometimes it's like,

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OK, well, I'll just turn my brain off.
Like they're going to fight eachother and it's whatever.
Yeah, totally, totally. I think that's so true for a lot
of like, especially with Studio Ghibli films, which I still
enjoy, but it is good to be aware of like the Shinto
influence that because I know the director, Hayao Miyazaki is

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really, really devout Shintoist and that and because of that,
that kind ideology overflows throughout his work as well.
So it's those are sorts of things that we are watching out
as Christians for. And yeah, it's the we're we're
discerning everything. Absolutely.
And of course not if if you guysat home are listening and say,

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Oh, of course, just because we endorse an anime or just because
Nick here endorses an anime, like that doesn't mean you
shouldn't also discern through it.
Because if if you've got your own conscience issues on it,
like that's that's your progressive to do so as well.
So we should be responsible as Christians.
Just because we say something onhere doesn't mean you should
just take it at face value either.

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So yeah. Yeah, I had someone in the, in
the comments of the Donadon video, like asking me if I
thought it was OK for them to read Chainsaw Man.
And I was like, I'm just tellingyou how I feel about Chainsaw
Man. I can't tell you if it's OK or
not. Like you need to check yourself
on that and like do your own discerning, do your own like

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investigation on that. Because I don't, I don't want to
present myself as this arbiter of like, OK, well, this thing is
OK because I'm not a perfect person.
Like I don't like, I'm just telling you how I feel.
Your convictions and beliefs could be completely different.
So just yeah, none of like I watch a lot of anime, but that
also is not a blanket endorsement of every anime I've

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ever. Watched.
Like obviously I'd never, I'd never recommend like domestic
girlfriend or rent a girlfriend or like girlfriend girlfriend, a
lot of girlfriends, a lot of romance anime that I would not
recommend. So maybe I should make a video
on that? And the.
Good romance anime to watch? It is a it is a growing problem

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I'm seeing like on YouTube especially because I get like
because we are creators, we're content creators, but I think
we're not pastors, right? So I think because a lot of
people kind of associate like because you've got a ton of
subscribers and because a bunch of people watch you, therefore
you're now a pastor and you're now influencing.
And of course, like I'm, I'm so,so conscious of that and I'm so,

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so aware of self aware of that, that the stuff that I am saying
is going to affect people's behavior.
But at the same time, you guys shouldn't treat us as part I.
I certainly am not a pastor. Nick here has not gone to
theology school. He hasn't gone to Bible school,
right. So we're just saying our, we're,
we're just like saying, saying what we think as Christians,

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right? And what our opinion is, because
that's just the way YouTube is, but we're certainly not like
qualified in that. So yeah.
Yeah, that is what it is. So Speaking of anime, top ten
anime, that's what we're here for.
So the way we usually do this iswe'll just bounce back and

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forth. So like you can, I'll let you
start since you're the guest. You do 10, I'll do my number 10
number #9 so on and so forth allthe way down to #1 So that being
said, I'll let you kick it off. What is your number 10 favorite
anime of? All time so I've I've really
tried so when when Nick came up to the on via discord DM to to

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do this, I really wanted to havea reflection of like a a wide
range of genres. So this isn't like my real top
10, but it's only because I haven't watched a lot of shown
in anime and because of that like slice of life and for
romance is over represented in my my list of anime I've
watched. So because of that, this isn't
like my real top 10, but it's a reflection of like a wide range

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of genres. Hot take.
There are no Isakai anime in my top ten.
Because I was. It's not.
A hot take. Mine's the same way.
Because I, I was, I was really thinking through it.
Because for example, I, I was thinking through like, was it?
I think it's Mushuka Tensei. It is.

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And like I, I never watched it because I, I get a lot of people
love Mushuka Tensei, but it's not it's not for me.
And when I see when I see different content around it,
like I get people love it, but for conscience reasons, I didn't
end up watching it. I I thought the same with like
conno Suba, right? Absolutely love connoisseur

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because back then this was really, really, really funny.
And it's really, really like I love the comedy for it because
it is a genuinely funny anime, but at the same time it's so
sucks as well, which is why I can't in good conscience like
recommend it on on this platform.
And I was thinking of RE0 as well.
And there was a time in my life back in high school where I
really, really was into RE0. And I loved it because it was

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such a cool concept, right of Subaru like dying and then he
could come back. But I've just been fatigued by
it because after the first season, we waited for three
years for another season and that's as amazing.
And then we've waited for another three years for another
season. And I've just, I've just just
been trying to get into it. But I've got that RE0 fatigue

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where I as much as I want to watch it because I had such a
passion for it back in high school, it's just not there for
me now. That passion is lost.
So I will probably watch it, watch Season 3 just to see where
it goes. But when your first episode is
like an hour long, it's like, come on man, it's so hard.

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That's and some shows can pull it off like I feel like Oshinoco
pulled it off really well. But then like RE0 I've I've I've
watched both seasons I have not started season 3 yet.
I just could not get into it. Like but then I somehow drag
myself through an entire 25 episode season of RE0 so I don't

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know. I don't know, it just never
captured me. I can understand why people like
it, but not for. Me totally totally so with that,
my number 10 is still a surpriseand it's purely based on the
recency of this anime that I'm placing this at #10 so it's not
an easy guy, but it is a fantasyanime.
I've put so so no free run as mynumber 10 anime mainly.

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So I think if this was an older anime, like two years or three
years, like I, I say old, like 2years, three years old.
But it this is purely just to account for like because
obviously if I've watched a anime super recent, then I will
have a higher opinion of it, right, because I haven't I'm not
directly comparing it to pastor anime, right?

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So so sooner free run. I love the concept.
It's just it's a it's a cool thing.
It's a really cute, wholesome show with a few fight scenes in
it, and it's just really chill to be watching like this band of
people. Go go for it.
I love Free Run as a character because she's really relatable,

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right? She's super socially awkward.
It's got that bocce factor in it.
I love how the story goes as well where they start off with
e-mail and the original gang andthen they die and then it's,
it's super emotional for Free Ring.
And then she has to go and deal with that, right?
And she's continuously dealing through that throughout the

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show. And it's cool to get bits and
pieces of the story, right? We're not told the whole story
in the 1st place. And I'm just really invested in
all of the characters because I want to see them good.
I want to they're all really nice people.
And not only that you're, you'retelling me that you're also
saying that demons are evil and they're not like misunderstood
characters. Like, come on, come on.

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It's a it's a brilliant show in that case.
And it's for those reasons it's my number 10 anime on this list.
That's fair Free ring is really good.
It was one I ended up dragging my feet on a little bit too much
just because I would like. I watched like the first 3
episodes when they came out, yeah.

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And then I took like a long break 'cause I was watching it
dubbed, then I was waiting for the dub to catch up and then I
just never did. And then eventually, like this
year, I was like, OK, I've heardit's good, I need to just finish
it. So I binged through from like
episode 4 to the end and it's such a good, it's such a like

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refreshingly different show in the sense of like there is those
more slice of life, like just calm moments, but then there are
those really good fights that kind of like give you this
dopamine hit of like, wow, that was a really cool fight.
The animation looks sick. And then we're back to slice of
life for 3 or 4 episodes and then we get another fight and

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then it's great. And I also, I think the demon
arc is probably my favorite justbecause it is such a biblical
perspective on demons of being like this unredeemable solely
here for the sake of being evil.Like, And every time a human
tries to cozy up to them and like reform or redeem them, they

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end up drawing the short end of the stick.
And it's like just such a well crafted, well put together
story. And I need to read the manga
because I want to but I don't have.
Time no, I did hear sadly, Freyran's manga is on hiatus
now, so it's or indefinite hiatus, which is which really
sucks, but I guess that's the that's the manga ka grind for a

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lot of Japanese authors, unfortunately.
So yeah, there's, there's certainly elements of it as
well, Like I, I think the, the way that you were describing,
like the, the cycle of the story, right?
I think that's the reason why we're so invested in these
characters, right? And why we want them to win
because like free run, she's she's incredibly powerful, but

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she's also humble. Like she, she lowers herself
down to the point like she's, she's helping ordinary people
and she's just like, she's, she's just like a nerd who wants
to learn more magic as well, which is like, what's there not
to like about this character? So she can be incredibly tough
as well when she needs to be. And but she's also very
incredibly kind as well. She like these are all these.

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These are all of the reasons whyI think like you compare this to
Western shows with female protagonists who are completely
not relatable because they're like, oh, I'm just, I'm just
incredibly, I'm just incredibly masculine, right?
Look at me. I don't really care about
anything. Well, Freeman, like she delves
into her femininity, right whereshe she shows that she cares for

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so, so many people. And she's also incredibly humble
about it. She doesn't brag about it at the
end of the at the end as well. She doesn't need to prove
herself to like the the authorities because she knows
herself. Like she knows that she's she's
strong enough to do it And she she doesn't have to prove that
to anyone. So yeah, it's only to the people

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who master to her. They already know she's strong.
She already knows she's strong, she doesn't have to tell anyone
else about it, right? So yeah.
Yeah, that's very fair. That's very fair.
I I think Free Rin has a season 2.
I sure hope so. I I think they said that, unless

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I'm just mistaken, but I'm. Not sure they are, I'm pretty.
Sure they did. Because I remember, yeah, I
remember seeing that tweet and everybody got hyped and I was
like, I thought they already announced season 2 before that.
So, well, that's good. That means we have more to look.
For yeah. Oh my goodness.
I'm hot for it. I'm certainly hot for it.

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It'll be great. So my so I'll say this about my
list. My list is my top 10, sure.
And as I was preparing for this episode and like putting the
notes together, I ended up swapping around like 3 or 4 of
them because as I was putting the notes down, I was like, no,

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this can't be #6 I don't like I'm the way I'm talking about #9
is like way better than #6. So I got to switch those.
And then I switched a couple. So now I have a pretty finalized
list and mine is not a balanced chart of of the things I've
watched. That's totally fine.

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That's totally fine. We'll see.
We'll see how it goes. So my number 10 is kind of a
niche pick and I didn't think itwould be on here until like an
hour ago, but it is Mobile Suit Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans,
which is the only Gundam series I've watched to completion.
I tried to watch Witch for Mercury and I did not like it,

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but Iron Blooded Orphans I thinkhas this really, at least to me.
It's a story that has stuck withme since I watched it and every
time I go back and think about like what anime do I want to
rewatch, IBO always comes up andit has incredible animation.
It has 2D animated mechs, which I guess is a big deal for some

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people, but I also like the human aspect of it because some
of the other mecha I've watched,I feel like they leaned too far
into the Mecca side of it and itwas all about the mechs, which
makes sense because it's the genre.
But also at the same time, like I do want to get to know these
characters and I want to get invested in these characters.

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And I feel like this series let me do that.
So when there were these big shocking plot twist down the
line, I was invested in the characters and I cared about
what was happening to them. And when they hurt, I hurt.
When they were excited, I was excited and just the way I was
able to get into those characters and understand their
struggle. If these kids who are like stuck
on Mars doing, you know, child labor and they're like, all

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right, we're going to stage a revolution because this isn't
fair. And just the whole story from
beginning to end was really fun.And it's the only series I've
ever bought like a gun plus likethe model kit for and I'm OK
with that if I never buy anothergun plus.
But this that Gundam, specifically Barbatos lupus Rex,

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it's good it's good. So it's probably one I'll end up
doing a video on, but I feel like I need to re watch it first
'cause it's been three years since I've seen it so it's been
a hot minute. But I do want to go back and
rewatch it because I just, it's just that good.
Totally, totally. I think with a lot of Mecca
anime, because the only two Mecca anime that I've kind of

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touched are I guess 3, because Iget like Mecca fans, they've
been, they've been here since the very, very beginning.
So like they're, they're really they're veteran fans in in my
view, which is that's really cool, right?
But at the same time, the only ones that I've kind of touched
are New Evangelion, which so sauce I didn't like, which is

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this. I know you have strong feelings
about it. I too have strong feelings about
it and I know Eli from anime relatable also has strong
feelings about it because I think, yeah, sure.
I I think if you were if you were talking about like in the
90s where there were literally no anime, I understand why you'd
be like, oh, this is the best anime ever because it's

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literally the first anime I've watched.
It's, it's the same feeling I have for like, I think people
who look at Evangelion in a favorable, favorable light are
the same people whose first anime was Sword Art Online and
think it's the best anime ever because it was their first
anime. And I'm, I'm also that as well,
which is like the only reason why I like Sword Art Online is

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because it's my first anime. And I feel like that's the same
for a lot of people who still defend Evangelion to this day.
So the other two are Gurren Lagann, which I didn't like
because with the fan service, yeah, I I just couldn't get into
it with the fan service. So yeah, saws, it's where the
actually. That's so.
Funny, yeah, and it's there's the other one which is Darling

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and the Franks as well, which isjust not necessary.
Asshole. So, so yeah, I, I really should
watch more Gundam anime or Meccaanime, but it should be for the
right reasons rather than I, I really need to find one.
If if you guys in the comments have like a good, not SUS Gundam
anime, I'd, I'd love to hear it because I want to watch more.

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I want to watch more. I guess the one that you're
talking about, I might, I might watch that because I haven't
seen a slave revolt before. So.
It's it's pretty good. I won't say it's devoid of
fanservice, but it's nothing like Gurren Lagann.
I think the if my memory serves,which I might be missing

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something, the only questionablething is that they partner up
with this guy who has a he's in like a polygamous relationship
with polygamous marriage. This is kind of like Tank in
from Demon Slayer where it's like he's not a main character
but it's there. And as far as I remember it was

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enough for me to just write off and be like he's in like 1
episode and then we move on. But I don't know, I thought it
was good. But I can also understand that
kind of stuff, turning people off because it's.
Not great because I think that'sthat's just part of the
discernment process. I think because obviously, like
if you, if you do see an anime that has like if it's a side

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character, right, I don't think like because this is the thing.
There's a difference between like description and
prescription, because obviously I think it's way worse if the
main character is like in a polygamous relationship and
they're like actively promoting like this is this is a good
thing. But if I think they show kind of
the effects of it, which are like, oh, polygamy actually has
really serious like it has negative consequences and that

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they kind of share that throughout the show.
I have less of a problem that with that rather than or like
they you, they don't need to actively say, oh, polygamy is
bad, but they kind of kind of show like the the consequences
of a person being in a polygamous relationship and not
like a preachy way, but in like a story kind way.

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So yeah. Yeah, that's very fair.
I can also understand not likingthe fanservice and Guru and
Lagan. That's like, if I could change
one thing about that show, that would be it.
And I'm like, it's just, it's a lot.
It's it's so, but moving on. Moving on from.

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From Fanservice. #9. What is your #9?
This is this is going to be yourheart take, because I know Nick
does not like this anime at all,which is for actually no, I
don't think he he hates this anime, but I've put Violet
Evergarden as #9. Oh, no, I I thought it was good.

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Yeah, yeah. I know he doesn't like it
because of like the, it's the, the age gap between the main
character and the male protagonist, not male
protagonist, but like the male romantic interest.
Because when, when I first heardhim say that, I was like, I
don't think because obviously, like nowadays we would, we would

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say like, that's so SUS. Don't do it because you
obviously have you have reasons why you want to manipulate this
younger person. But I think back then, right, it
was like they had totally different views on where when it
was like appropriate to marry and those sorts of things.
So for me anyway, considering it's set in a time where it

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wasn't weird for like a massive age gap to exist.
That's why I'm I'm not particularly bothered by that.
I actually had a comment, one ofmy favorite comments from the
Violet Evergarden video I did was like, is it?
Is this a Christian anime because of the paedophilia,
which is one of the it's one of the best comments.

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I really, I know he was trolling, but it's just so
funny. But best comment ever.
But yeah, I like Violet Evergarden because it provides a
snapshot in time, right? It's like it's that period
between, in our timeline, it's the period between the Great War
and modernization. And it provides that snapshot of

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like, it's not the main story where it's like all of these
countries wanting to go to war with each other and like
nationalism and those, those kind of themes are in the
background and they're still operating, which is why I like
that. But there are, there's other
parts of it like, which is like you're, you're looking at a
society which has gone, which has been scarred as a result of

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this war. And I'd never experienced that,
right. I we are very, very lucky to
live in a time where we live in an era of peace where we haven't
been sent off to go to war, which is why I love the Violet
Evergarden because I think it, it captures those emotions quite
well of grief, of sorrow of onceit like I get why people want to

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be pacifist now, because war hasserious consequences on a
society and we're just seeing the society as the society
rebuilds. Violet herself as the main
character who has been scarred by war is also rebuilding
herself and also trying to gain emotions as a result of being
having been hired as a child mercenary basically.

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So yeah, it's, it's for those reasons I like it.
It's, it's about the emotions. It's about the main character
and at the end, happy ending, which is always good for a anime
to go off of. So yeah.
That is very fair. I Violet Evergarden skid.
I I don't know what it was. I just couldn't get into it like

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I can. I can.
I can appreciate it from an objective standpoint, but from
like me personally, it's just not my usual type of show
because I do like a little action in there and I feel like
it didn't have enough. Maybe that's like my, you know,
Gen. Z iPad baby brain where I'm

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like, I got to have some kind ofstimulus to keep me going.
But I did think it was good. The the age gap was the only
thing that bothered me. But then after hearing you
explain like the, the context, that was something I had not
thought about factoring in. And it makes me feel a little
better about it knowing like, OK, when we factor in that kind

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of context, it's it's more justifiable.
So. I forgot to I forgot to mention
the animation as well, which is why I love anything Kyoto
animations because like I think you really see that they care
about it like they care about every single frame.
They care about like what the like most anime, they don't even

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bother with the background like actually making the background
look good. But you you don't see that with
Kyoani does not miss with this one.
So it's really one of their one of their better works or one of
their best works, I should say, just purely on the animation
music absolutely great as well. So all of those things, but at a

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#9 at #9 that means a lot of other things are better than
that for some reason. So we'll that.
Is. Yeah, that is true.
Well, my #9 sticking on the topic of war and how that
ravages a society, my #9 is Spy Family, which is kind of set in

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like that Cold War era, not necessarily based on anything
real, but it's more like that world's fictional Cold War.
And I think that is such an incredible setting for a
premise. That honestly is good, but it's
kind of it's kind of stupid. Like for for this kind of

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premise, setting it in the Cold War is so interesting of like
this spy who's supposed to infiltrate the other side.
And like, all right, you got to get in there and you look at
like defuse the situation. But by the way, you need to get
married and have a kid, which bythe way, you will never be able
to convince me that spy family is not Japanese government.
Propaganda. To raise their birth rates and

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honestly, whatever works works like it's kind of wholesome.
It's it's such a great show. It honestly maybe one of the
funniest shows I've ever watched.
And every time I finished an episode, I would always leave
feeling happy and uplifted either by the wholesomeness of

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the episode, the comedy of the episode, or more than likely
both and how that sandwiches together.
But I also like the pro family values that come from that of
like showing Lloyd Yoor and Anya's lives before they were
all together as a family and howlike bleak and depressing and

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not great they were. And then once they're all
together, it's like this bright,happy life.
And there's a part of me that feels like it's going to end
with them all like staying together once everything is said
and done, because that's just kind of how serious like that
go. But also they could completely
subvert and go the other way. So I it's just such a fun show

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and it does have that action spliced in and it kind of like
free run has a balance of both where you do get these slice of
life episodes where you get to see your try to improve her
cooking so she can be a better mom and a wife.
And Lloyd doesn't understand what it's like to be a dad
because he doesn't really remember his parents.

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So like he's trying to get through that and they work
together and they go on dates and Anya's doing something
insane on the side. And like, her being a telepath
is also such an interesting twist to an already funky
premise because now she can readeveryone's minds and they don't

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know she can read minds. And like, it's just such a fun
show. And I think one of my favorite
aspects of it is your as a character because throughout the
first season and then even more in the second season when
they're on the cruise ship, she really starts to contemplate
like, do I want to keep working or do I just want to be a mom

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and be a parent? And like, even though this is
just for like my own cover, I don't need to work anymore
because she had been working to support her brother, but now
that he's self-sufficient, she doesn't really have to work
anymore. Like as an assassin, she could
keep her other job, but like, just her inner conflict and

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inner turmoil. It's something that I would
argue a lot of Gen. Z, at least here in the West,
are like finally starting to catch on to.
Is this concept of like, do I really want to work myself to
the bone for the next like 40 years?
Or do I just want to be happy and like, have a family and
enjoy and experience life? And I think that's such an

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underrated aspect of the show, even though it comes from one of
the main characters, because youcan get lost in the like, oh ha
ha, funny moment. Like Anya can read minds and
she's doing shenanigans. But like, there is that little
bit deeper, little bit more meaningful subtext if you're
willing to look. For it, definitely, definitely.
I think you've just listed all of the reasons why I have a soft

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spot for Spy Family, because I have very, very strong feelings
against Spy Family because I think there are issues with it,
which is why it's not in my top ten.
And I think it's because my expectations of it was it was
meant to be. My expectation of it is it's
what I wanted it to be, a more serious show.

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And that's not what I got. So but I totally like all of
those things that you've just mentioned kind of over
overwhelmed that I suppose, because it's like because when I
see like C dog VA say, Oh, I don't like spy family because
you're gets to become a mother again.
And it's like it's it's so funnyto see like feminists triggered

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as a result of it. And I think it's for those
reasons that I do like it as well for that because it's pro
natalist. It's like, you're totally right
that this is a ploy by the Japanese government to say, look
how good having a family is. And it's like for that to also
be exploited here in the West aswell.
I think for people who have watched shows all their life

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that kind of that have that subversive messaging, which is
like, oh, being a dad isn't all that it's cracked up to be
because you're meant to be sillyand you're not, you're not
really that smart or you shouldn't be taking yourself
that seriously. Like when I was when I think
about like all of the popular adult cartoons anyway, like The

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Simpsons or Family Guy and things like that, it's really,
really over in that messaging where it's like fatherhood
family, They're not good things and they're meant to be made fun
of because what you're meant to do is you're meant to break free
from the chains of patriarchy and tradition.
And Spy Family completely goes against that, which is very,

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very cool. It's very, very cute.
It's very, very wholesome. I love Anya, she's my favorite
character because she's very wholesome.
But I do have other strong feelings against it, which is it
is, it's that silliness which kind of draws me back.
But I guess it's that silliness as well that kind of draws
people in as well. If it is, as it is characterized

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as, like a very, it's meant to be a comedy anime rather than a
serious show. Yeah, yeah, it's good.
It's good. What can I say?
Sure, it's sure. #8. #8 I've putClanad on my list for number 8.

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I haven't seen that. One yeah, you probably should at
some point. So this is also one of the this
is classic Kyoani, which I've just realized I've over
represented character animationson here, but that's that's
totally fine because they absolutely deserve it.
Clanad to me, once you watch thefirst season a it's really cute.

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They, the, the main characters get together a lot of slice of
life and it's nothing like it's nothing original, right?
Because we've seen the stuff before.
It's just cute slice of life romance and they get together
and like the, the main thing that that's really cool about it

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is the relationship between the main character and his father,
who's kind of who's an alcoholic, who's a drug addict,
not a drug, a gambling addict, Ishould say.
And he's, he's really failed as a father.
And as a result of that, the main character has a lot of
resentment for him. And because of that, he wants to
make his, he wants to live a better life with his girlfriend

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basically. And eventually, well, I, I
shouldn't spoil it. So yeah.
And they, they live a cute life together.
After that though, there's Clannad after story, which
completely changes because like there's so many emotional scenes
from it where I don't know how to describe it other than it's
emotional because like you, you,you've seen all of these

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characters journey through in the first season and then it
just completely turns on its head in the second season where
real life smacks them hard in the face.
And because of that, like it, it's a very, very compelling
show as a result of that. So that's, I don't want to spoil
it because that's, those are allof the reasons it's very cute in

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the first season. It's a very slice of life.
And then they grow up like they they go out of high school in
the second season. And it's because you're so
invested in these characters, you care way more about what
happens to them in the second season.
So yeah. That's very fair.
It's it's one that's on my list that I need to watch.

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And after hearing that, I'm definitely going to bump it up
because now I want to. Know Spooky?
So I'm like, all right, well, I need to watch it now.
For those of you in the commentswho have watched it, yeah,
definitely keep spamming that Clanad W, but yeah, but it's
only other. It's only out of #8 which is
it's, it's out of #8 because there are there are other anime

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that I also really, really like that they don't do it.
They don't necessarily do it better.
Like all of these, all the animeI have on this list do a very,
very good job at communicating their themes and it's it's just
unfortunate that I couldn't bumpthis up higher because there are
also other anime that do the same thing, that it's difficult

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top. Making a top 10 is difficult For
these reasons. It is it, yeah, yeah.
I, as I was moving stuff around,like I, my top 4 has been a lock
for like 3 years because they'rejust like, and, and even for the
audience, like you guys don't understand once I get to him,
those top four, like they got inthere and I can't justify

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putting anything ahead of them. So I, I totally understand that
of like man lists are hard, especially when like there's a
lot of different shows that you want to get in there.
So my like 6 through 10 are the ones that consistently change
because they're just so low, butit takes a lot to hit that top

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five S. Speaking of, my number 8 is
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, which is a very bizarre show and it's
so weird. And honestly, I, I think it's a
really good show, but I also think, at least for me
personally, it's very hard carried by parts 3-4 and five

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because one and two are kind of like they're Part 1 is all
right, Part 2 is all right. But then once you get to Part 3
and like you switch the power system to stands instead of
Haman, like it just gets a lot more consistent.
And that's what I appreciate about it.
It's one of those shows where you don't really think about the
plot too much, especially when it comes to the power scaling

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and how the fights work. You just kind of turn your brain
off and you enjoy the guys fighting and punching and
yelling crazy stuff in Japanese.And it's just a fun time.
And I think I also have a emotional connection to this
show because this was my COVID binge show where like I was
stuck at home and I was like, all right, I need a new like

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long running anime that I haven't seen.
So I watched Jojos. I think I watched because Part 3
is 50 episodes. I think I watched 25 of them in
one day because I was just like,I had nothing to do.
So I just sat downstairs. I made, I was eating breakfast
while watching Jojo's. I took a break, ate lunch while

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watching Jojo's, came back and ate dinner.
Like it was a whole day thing and it was so great.
I don't remember half of it because that's the downfall of
binging animated fest, but I didin fact do it.
So other than that, I mean, I think Jojo's is good.
I've also like, I've recommendedit to people and they're like,

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it's too weird for me to get into.
And I'm like, you know, that's so fair.
Like Jojo's is such an acquired taste of like you got to be OK
with a lot of wacky stuff and not even like in a bad way, just
like you have to have the ability to turn your brain off

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and just consume the content andnot think about it too much.
So. But I've also heard that after
part 6, because there's a, there's another guy following on
Twitter who's a Christian and hewatches anime and he's like when
you like Part 7 and onwards getsreally blasphemous because they

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bring in like Jesus as a. Former stand user.
And like he like they chopped uphis body or something.
And that's the power item that they have to find.
And I'm like, huh, All right, Sojudges ends at part 6, huh?
All right. That's a shame.
No way. So and I guess it kind of just

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goes off the rails after part 6,which makes sense because I know
how part 6 ends even though I haven't seen it.
And it like, I can understand why you'd go off the rails.
And I know the author's also been writing this for like
decades. So eventually you hit a point
where you're like, all right, wegotta do something new.

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I'm not sure if blasphemy is thecorrect way to go, but it sure
is something new, I'll tell you that.
That's insane. That's insane.
I really do well after that I will I will probably watch
Jojo's at some point. The only reason why it was so
off putting to me because I still Remember Remember back in
high school. People are hyping this up right?

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It's like the best anime ever. You should totally watch it.
But the only thing that was really off putting to me was
just the I just couldn't get behind the art stuff.
But I will eventually watch it because all of my a lot of my
favorite V tubers I just saw like from Hollow live talk about
Jojo's and I was like, you know what, if people, if people

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really do like this, I I should watch it because it is a pretty
popular anime. So yeah.
But originally it's just purely because of the art style that I
couldn't get into it. But I will eventually.
I will eventually watch it. That's fair.
That is what I've heard from a lot of people is the art style
is the hardest like that and thepremise itself is usually pretty

(54:58):
hard to get into. I mean, if it's just a, if it's
just about a bizarre adventure, I mean, surely it's not that.
It's a It's a bizarre adventure,I'll tell you that.
That's chill, all right. Where are we up to #7?
#7. #7 This is the first movie I've got on here, I'm just

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double checking. All right, even think about
including movies. I, I actually have 3 movies in
here, which I feel is a bit overrepresented, but I think
there are, it is a bit unfair toput movies in here because they
have like less of a runtime, which means you judge them less
because of that. That is true.
If you've got a whole series, you, you will judge it a lot

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more because there's way more problems that you can put in a
series. But a #7 I have Wolf Children,
which is by director Mamuro Hosoda, I think.
I hope I'm remembering that correctly.
Wolf Children is a cute anime about a single mother who raises

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two children. The twist is is that she
actually dates this werewolf like the last werewolf in all of
Japan. I think that's the that's the
deal. And because of that, her
children are also werewolves. But something goes horribly
wrong where the dad dies. And because of that, now she's

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put into this predicament of like, I have no idea how to care
for werewolf children. I am also a single mother in
Japan. There are so many problems going
wrong. Let's let's, let's move out of
the city and go to the countryside.
And it becomes really, really wholesome really, really
quickly. So.

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And yeah, it's just AI think allof those factors combined.
I, I never watched like I, we, we can always talk about like
like a church or in politics where we talk about like, we
care a lot about single mothers and the experiences they go
through. But when you put that into a
movie and you see the struggles that they go through, right?
The, I think that that is well kept, even though this has like

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a another twist onto it. Those struggles are well
captured in here. And you are you, you become
really invested in this character because you can see
all of the problems, all of her life has just been turned upside
down. And yeah, you care.
You, you want this family to succeed as a result of that.

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So yeah, that's, that's why I have wolf children up here.
And the ending is fantastic as well, which is you.
You also see which you don't getin Western media anymore.
It's like the difference betweenhow males interact with the
school system and how females interact with the school system
as well, which is like, it's a, it's an interesting underturn.

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It's like, not explicit, but youget to see that relationship
between or that difference between masculinity and
femininity, which is really coolto see.
And because you don't get that in Western media anymore because
they're, they're like, no, thereare no differences between men
and women and they're totally the same.
And there are no problems with the school system.
All we want you to do is to be obedient, obedient to the

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government and well done girls for doing that.
All you guys, you've just got ADHD and we're just gonna put
you on medication as a result ofthat.
So yeah. Pretty accurate.
At any rate, that's why I have wolf children up here because
it's got a lot of stuff. It's also very pro family
because it's very pro-life in that sense as well, because you

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hear a lot of pro, pro abortionists, they say a lot of
stuff like if you're a single mother, you should totally just
get rid of your children becausebut this, this movie shows that
it can happen. There are struggles, society
will judge you, but it can happen with the grace of God.
Like it doesn't have that message that God will help you,

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right? Or, but there, there is a
community around you that can help you and there are totally
other, other decisions and choices that you can make that
can make it work, right? So yeah.
Yeah, that's cool. I need to watch that one too.
Now that one has also been bumped up on my list because I

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haven't seen it, so I honestly I'll probably watch it this
weekend because now I'm like Dang.
It's a 2 hour movie I think, so you can you can make it in a
weekend, so yeah. You're you're leaving me on like
some really good cliffhangers here for stuff I haven't seen.
You know, I, I, I'd absolutely hate it now that now that I've

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hyped up all of this anime, thatnow you're going to watch it and
you're going to be like podcastson you, you have a terrible
taste because I did not get intoit.
So I, I, I fear that happening more than you actually watch it.
So I do hope you you enjoy them,because I certainly do.
That's very fair. My number 7 is Attack on Titan.

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Which? Might be thinking, wow #7 that's
it, yeah #7 was as high as I could justify putting it for
myself. And I did have like feel like
maybe not everyone, but most people have like this cycle of
Attack on Titan, like you start it and you're like, oh, this is

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really good. And then you like get halfway
through and you feed into the Twitter people who are like
Titan's actually really mid and not worth watching and kind of
overrated. And then you think about it a
little more and you come back full circle and you're like,
actually hold on. It's kind of good.
Like it's great. So I do need to do a rewatch,

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but I, I think it is just an objectively speaking, I think it
is probably one of the most complex, interesting narratives
that has ever been written. And I can appreciate everything
Isayama did to make it that way.And like, if you look at certain

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callbacks of like a manga panel from the like first beginning of
the series has references to something that doesn't happen
until the end. And like these chapters were
published 10 years before the ones that they're referencing.
And like, the amount of dedication it takes to do

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something like that, I can 100% respect that.
And now Isayama is like, all right, I'll rake in my Attack on
Titan cash and never do another.Project.
What a guy, honestly. He's kind of real for that.
But also I think it has a reallygood story.
Like as complex that it is as itis.
And I usually don't like complexstories at all, but this one, I

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feel like captures the nuance of, you know, being this group
of people who's on this island and you have all these outside
of people who hate you. And you're trying to figure out
all of like, the government conspiracies and the collusion.
And like, how high does this really go?
What's the truth of the world? Like?
And then how it ends, which I won't spoil because I know

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there's a lot of people who still haven't seen it, how it
ends. I think a lot of people were
really quick to clown on the ending and say, well, it doesn't
make sense. It doesn't make sense.
Like, it's such a bad ending. But if you really look at it in
the full context of the series and what was trying to be
accomplished, you end up appreciating the whole Series A
lot more and you recontextualizeit.

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And a lot of the reason I kind of fell off with Attack on Titan
was because of how Mapa was handling the final season,
because it was like Attack on Titan the final season, Part 1,
Attack on Titan the final season, Part 2, Attack on Titan,
the final season, the final chapters, Part 1, and then Part
2. And like they just kept
stretching it out. And I reached a certain point

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where I was like, no. And I went to the store and I
bought the manga and I read the ending because I was like, I'm
not waiting another year for youto put this together.
So I think the ending is great, and it kind of speaks to that
cycle of human depravity of like, no matter what we try to
do, humans will always fall short and they will always be

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this fallen group that can nevertruly get along on Earth.
And the cycle is doomed to repeat itself over and over and
over again until the end of time.
So I think that's great. Animation looks great.
Hot take. I prefer studio wit Attack on
Titan to Studio Mapa. It's that's.
Just me there's. Like cuz I think yeah.

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It's part of it. I think I.
Don't like Mappa's CG? Cuz I think the way that MAPPA
did, what was it? Train some man the CG and that
is some of the best I've seen inan anime.
But when I see clips of like Attack on Titan moppet edition,
it's just, I don't understand how that was signed off on.

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I don't know who was like, oh, this is good product, let's send
it out. I mean, like, whose bright idea
was it to to do that? I, I think if I was purely like,
I forgot about attack on Titan because I do like it as well.
And the reason why I forgot about it is I never watched the
anime. I only read the manga and

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because of that, I think if I had watched the anime and if I
had like if a moppa did its job,that did their job properly.
Well, I we get it right? They're they're underpaid and
they're over abused and like, yeah, OK, cool.
That's understandable. But I think there there could
have been a place for attack on Titan actually on my top ten if

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if I had watched the anime as well.
It's the same thing with I thinkit's the same thing with Tokyo
Ghoul actually, which is like, Iwould have loved to put Tokyo
Ghoul on my top 10 actually, butit's only because of the manga
that I I love it. So I I don't want to rant about
it right now because I I could rant about the way they did

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Tokyo Ghoul dirty and the anime adaptation.
I I really could for for as longas possible.
But yeah, that's also another shown an anime that I could have
put in this top 10, but it's only because of the manga that I
like it. So the ending I was OK with.
I get I think I understand the position that some people are
like the ending's trash, but I think it's it's not too bad.

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It's like it's as as you said, it ties everything together
really, really well. I think just from my memories
from it, because it was a long time ago since I've read it,
just the way that they keep upping the ante, I totally did
not expect that the Tyson, like the the Tysons were actually

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coming from somewhere else. I did not expect that there were
actually more humans around the world.
And it's just, it was just like a government conspiracy.
Like I did not expect a lot of those things.
I like the direction that they went with it and it made sense
to me. And that's all that matches
because of that, Yeah. That's very fair.

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That's very fair. Number six.
Number six, what do? You got for me this is the I
have Vinland soccer at #6. Oh, I need to finish that one.
So I This is why I love my community because like they can
recommend me stuff that I I wouldn't have originally watched

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because I think if I watched it independently, I wouldn't have
gotten into it because of I think the art style is not anime
enough for me to have been attracted to it, but it's still
really, really good. Like there's no, no major
problems with the animation in my view.
It's just that the art style wasnot my not my not my jazz.

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That's all I can say about that.But otherwise really good on the
way that they animate the fight scenes, the way that everything
is very dynamic, the way that the main character transitions
between those different ages. It's, it's good because we're
invested in this character. This is only the prologue like
season 1 and season 2 is basically the prologue because

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like they, they, they, they, they go completely different.
I I think like the they've set up, they've set up something
that's going to happen in the future where they're basically
just going to colonize North America as Vikings, which is,
yeah, that's, that's the, that'sthe direction that's going in.
It's also really, really like the the influence of

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Christianity in this show is really, really overt.
It makes me question whether theauthor is also like a, a devoted
Christian or not, because I think that's like the way that
he writes about it. Like the I, at the very least,
he's very culturally Christian in the manner that he's, he's
really, he's he's writing favorably of like Christian

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values and the way that they're implemented in it is really,
really cool to see for a Japanese show anyway, because
you don't get the stuff anymore with Western media in the modern
day. Say it like it's a story about
forgiveness. It's a story about redemption.
Lots of Christian themes in it. What's what is there not to like

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about Finland saga? So there you go.
There you go. That's very fair.
I need to finish Finland saga. I think I got 5 episodes in.
Whenever the major, like that first major event that happens
that kind of like kicks off the plot, that's where I stopped
because I have a bunch of churchfriends that I watch anime with

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and we were like, OK, we're going to watch it together.
And. So I stopped and that was back
in like April. And I was like, OK, guys, are we
ever going to start? And then we started watching
like Tower of God. Instead.
Instead. And I was like, OK, should I
like, are we still going to watch it?
And they're like, yeah, we're still going to watch it at some
point. I'm like, OK, but I'm, I'm

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getting to the point where I'm like, no, I just got to finish
it. I can't wait.
I can't wait. Forever, Yeah, just do it.
Just do it just. I need to finish it.
Just pull the trigger. I I funnily enough, I actually
we were some of my church friends.
We are probably going to watch free Run together because
they're they're really liking it.
This is this is the brilliant position I have with like being

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at my church as well as one of the only people who watch anime
as well. Which means I can introduce
people to really good anime, andI can introduce them to our cute
little hobby that we have. Yes, Sir, Yeah.
That's cool. Speaking of, well, is it a cute
little hobby? I don't know.
My number six is Rascal does NotDream of Bunny Girl Senpai.

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It's so good. Oh my goodness.
I wish I could put it higher, I really do, but I can't.
But the more I think about it and the more I've rewatched it
and like I watched the movies this year when they came out in
the US and like it's just such awell put together, but also very

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realistic in a sense series. And I I really love the
relationship between my and Sakata and I and I will forever
appreciate that they did not drag it out forever as most
romance anime tend to do, where they'll like a drag out them
getting together for multiple seasons.

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Where is this was like first 3 episodes.
Now they're together and then there's all these other
obstacles in the series that they have to overcome together.
And I think it's a very positivedisplay of like a very healthy
relationship because she trusts him.
He trusts her. And there's also this element of
like she gets involved in his life of like helping him with

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his sister and coming over and cooking for the two of them
since they live alone. And like he gets involved with
her family and even when all theother girls have these issues,
like he is still solely faithfulto my.
And that's just such a relatablething that I think is very well

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put together and I really can appreciate that aspect of it.
So I wish I could have put Rascal does not Dream of Bunny
Girl Senpai. By the way, for our audience who
thinks that's a SUS name, don't worry, she's only in the Bunny
girl suit. It's it's a litmus test.
Like I've had so many people be like, how can you watch that?

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Have you seen the poster? Have you seen the title?
And I'm like, yeah. And maybe if you looked, and if
you didn't judge a book by its cover, we'd be fine, wouldn't
we? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's still, it
is still really wholesome there.And I think like she's literally
in the Bunny girl suit for only two and it's not very fan.
It's not fan service, service, service.

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See, I should say, which is why I think it's acceptable in my
view. Bunny girl Senpai has a very,
very is very like it's it's got a important place anyway,
because it's one of those early anime I watched in high school,
which I still adore to this day.It's still a nine out of 10 on

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my anime list. For me.
It doesn't make it into my top ten because I think there is
there is one one other ROM com that does it that that is better
in that sense. So and I didn't want to there's
I didn't want to push it out, push out any of the other anime
I I have in my top 10. So yeah, like I I totally agree

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with you on that. However, there is one bad thing
about it, which I think the which which one was it?
The movie, not the knapsack kid Rascal does not dream of the
sister venturing out. In particular.
I think it that left a bad tastein my mouth very recently
because I think there are certain aspects of that movie

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which I think are so so Bunny girls empire, right.
It's it it's still got the formula, it's still got the
characters, it's still got all of the things I love, but I
think the plot surrounding there, there wasn't much sister
venturing out in that one. That's all I can say about that.
So yeah, so still cool, right? We still get to see all of my

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favorite characters, but I thinkthe the plot surrounding it
wasn't done very well. Of course, I could change my
mind after I watched the second part of that as soon as I find
it. The Rascal does not dream of a
knapsack kid. I think that's the second part
which I will watch at some point.
I should watch in the next two months, hopefully so, yeah.

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But otherwise, totally agree with you on all of those things.
It's very realistic, as you said, like it's.
I think that's another thing which I don't like about a lot
of ROM coms, which is a lot of ROM coms are done in a way which
which appeals to the male fantasy.
And I say it in like a it's, it's done in a way which says

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like, oh, hey, you can be totally nothing, right?
You can you you can not try hardvery hard trying to get a girl
and girls will still come fall fall in love with you as a
result. And I think with Bunny girl sent
by it, it totally does away withthat because like it's it's a
healthy relationship and it's realistic in the sense that they
have to work through all of these issues together, which is

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good. It's good of an anime to do, and
considering like ROM coms are targeted towards young men who
are usually not very confident in themselves and do have like
fantasies of having a girlfriend, I think it's a good
influence on them as well. So yeah.
Yeah, yeah, that's good. That's good.
Cool. All right, halfway there #5. #5

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All right, this is my last 9 outof 10 on my anime list.
So there are only four anime. So it used to be for a very long
time. I had three anime, A10 out of 10
and we're coming up to them now.And then there was another one
that I added as a 10 out of 10. So currently I only have 4 anime
which are 10 out of 10 on my anime list.

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For me, this is the last one. Hot take.
It is purely based on the main character.
It is purely based on the fact that she is literally me.
It is purely based on the fact that I think at the time I was
watching this, I was really, I was transitioning from high
school to the real world. And it is for all of these

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things that I think it was very,very relatable.
She was so me and it's Bochy Loroc, it's Bochy the Rock,
which is I think because I'm not, I think I'm still, I am
still introverted. But I think after, after just

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watching that, after watching itand back in 2020-2021, it was
also like my first video, which did really, really well on the
channel. And if you got, if I still have
subscribers from way back then, well, I'm glad you've stuck on
for this long. So there's so many reasons why

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it just it fits in with my personal story, it fits in with
my testimony. And I honestly, honest to God
think that God was speaking to me in, in certain ways, like he
was, he was showing me like, I don't want to be cringe.
I don't want to be like a cringepanty.
But like there are so many ways in which he was telling me like,
oh, hey, this used to be that you used to be like this really,

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really introverted guy who couldn't talk to anyone.
Now you are part of like this church community who cares about
you? You're part of this community
who who loves you are deeply is deeply invested in you and those
things obviously like, but she didn't go into a church
community. She found community in like a
through music, right. But it's the all of those

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parallels that I could see myself in the show that it was
just absolutely amazing. And IA lot of the ROM coms who
do provide self inserts, none ofthem could do it at the level
that Bocce the Rock does. And to think as well that the
manga is totally different from the way that is presented in the

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anime. It boggles the line because like
the way it's very, very creative.
It's it's very, very original. The music absolutely slaps.
And yet it's #5 and yet it's #5 because there are other other
things in this on this list thatstill go.
So yeah, anyway, those are I hope, I hope I've sold you guys

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as well watching Bocce the Rock.So yeah.
Dude, Bocce the Rock was so goodthat I think even just from the
aspect of the comedy and like how it was animated and they
brought all, all of those gags over, that's what sold me on it.

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And it's also this very, like you said, this very endearing
story of this socially awkward, introverted girl who's just
trying to put herself out there and can bond with these people
and find community in their shared love of music.
And I just think that's top notch.
Good show. Maybe one day we'll actually get
a Season 2. I feel like every time I hear

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about this, this show, they're like, Yep.
And the compilation movie is coming out.
Soon. And, and it's coming out soon
and now it's out. And then it's coming to the US
and now it's out. And I'm like, OK, guys, Season
2. The compilation movie did come
out just recently here in Australia, so yeah, I did want
to watch it with a few friends, but I think it's like it's just

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not the Butcher the Rock experience.
Like I hate, I freaking hate compilation movies.
I freaking hate compilation movies.
You and I'm sure you do as well for the exact same reasons.
So yeah, I have a full. Video coming out of our
compilation movies next week. Oh my goodness.
And it's just, it's just not theway to watch watch you.
But like, I don't, I, I refuse to watch the Batch of the Rock

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compilation movie as well because I know it will like
Batch of the Rock only works because it's in 12 episodes.
It only works because it builds up through all of these things.
And to put it in like a three hour move, it does not work.
I don't see it happening. I really don't.
So yeah. No, you're always going to have
to cut something, right? So my number 5 is going to be

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interesting based on something you said earlier, but my number
5 is Gurin Lagan. It's so initially Gurin Lagan
was not on my list at all because the first time I watched
it, I got all the way through tothe very last episode, like the
very end. And then the way it ends just

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left such a bad taste in my mouth.
Like I literally had my phone out.
I was ready to put it in my top ten.
And then that ending just completely threw me for a loop
and I was like, no, it's not going in there.
So then this year I rewatched itand because I knew what was
going to happen, it didn't take me off guard as much and it let
me enjoy the entire story as it's presented a lot more.

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And like I said earlier, I thinkthe fanservice with Yoko is a
little extreme, but that's also just studio Trigger or no, It's
it's Gynax that did Durin Lagan,but it's the same director.
So like that's just kind of his thing.
So outside of that though, it isthis really, it's this really

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endearing story of this kid who has no self esteem whatsoever
than constantly being put in these situations where he has
to, rather than back down and run away, like he has to face
this head on and push through that.
And even when it seems impossible, like there is always
a way, there's always something you can do.

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And it's, it's such a, for me, it's such a motivating story
because it does kind of 'cause something I see a lot in anime
is the, these nihilistic themes that get worked in and how like
all the world is so doom and gloom and like da da da da.
And Gurren Lagann kind of flips that on its head and like brings

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in these nihilistic themes only to immediately push back and be
like, here's why we can't just give in to doom and gloom.
And we have to actually push through and we have to move past
all of that. And you need to have confidence
in yourself and you need to likebe able to have a high self

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esteem and be able to value yourself and those around you
and that community. I also love that it is a solid
start to finish 27 episode anime.
And they told their story and they don't need a season 2.
They don't need anything else. Like they told the story they
wanted to tell in and out 27 episodes and it's complete.

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And I really appreciate that andI wish we did that more.
I know anime does it a lot, but even like with Western media, I
wish it was not. So we need to have ten seasons
on the ready because we need to be able to maximize profit.
Like, no, just tell your story the way it is.
And I that's how I feel about Arcane because I've been

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watching Arcane recently becauseseason 2 just started and that's
what they're doing. Like, they need those 18
episodes and they're like, all right, and we're out because
we're going to tell the story wewant to tell.
You know what, as a creative, I respect that.
I I respect that so much. So Karin Lagan top five.

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That's great. That's great.
I will say like just from the premise of it, because from my
memory of the first episode, like, no, I I do get it because
obviously it's like a guy who's because that's probably for a
lot of people. Like I get why it's so relatable
because it's like if you have been stuck in a hole for a
billion years and for your wholelife and nothing's ever changed,

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Like I get the the appeal of youthen going out to explore the
world as well. It's such a young person anime.
Very, very relatable for a lot of us, right?
Who who decide to want to want to leave what is normal to see
what is more exotic. And Yoko, who is literally very
exotic. So yeah, yeah.

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I mean, there's no other way to say it.
So yeah, I think I, I get why it's relatable.
But as I said respectfully, I I did sit myself out for that one.
That's fair. I can't blame you.
I can't blame you. All right, All right.
You said you got 10 out of 10s from here on.
Out 12, four. Yeah, this is we're leaving 9

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out of 10 now. All right, it is with AI have
this is the one Makoto Shinkai movie I have on here.
And personally, I do think this is his best work.
I've seen a lot of people hate it.

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I've seen a lot of people not appreciate it and that's fine
with me. But I do think this is his best
movie and it is it is a pre Yourname movie as well.
So it's it's classic Shinkai. OK.
It is 5 centimeters per second, which is a 19 minute movie.

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I think there's a lot of things endearing about pre Shinkai,
like classic Shinkai. So I I've made the serum up, but
basically modern Shinkai is everything after your name
because he'll, he writes like good endings and like they it's
a happy ending. Everything classic Shinkai is
all about. There's a quaintness to it

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because it's all about the separation.
It's all about separations between two people who do love
each other, but because of circumstances, they move away
and they are very, very like. That's why you're so invested in
them and they don't usually end well.
They do have sad endings, but they're they're understandable

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and it makes you reflect. And that's what I love about
classic Shanghai. It's because they're they're
thoughtfully made in a way that you reflect at the end, you
reflect on your own situation aswell.
And you know you're satisfied. You're satisfied with the
ending, even though it's sad, even though it doesn't have the
happy ending like in your name or weathering with you or Susan

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a right, which are they're all really good movies because they
they absolutely highlight Shinkai as an animator, as an as
an artist as well. But there's that's there's that
bit missing from it, which is it's that separation. 5
centimeters per second. If you guys aren't aware, it's
about a boy and a girl. They, they're basically, they

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fell in love in elementary school, but because of life
circumstances, like their, theirfamily circumstances, they move
further, they physically move further and further apart
because their family moves to different places around Japan.
And by the end they've, they've got totally different lives, but
they've still got like that respectful connection with each

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other throughout their whole high school careers, throughout
their whole thing. They, they kind of want to come
back to each other. They kind of want to do that as
well, but by the end it's like arespectful that happened in the
fast. I don't have those feelings now,
but that I'm fine with that. And I think it's it's for all of
those reasons why like 5 centimeters per second as well.

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It's short, it's sweet, it's 90 minutes, which is it's it
doesn't overstay its welcome. And even though it's a sad
ending or I shouldn't say it's asad ending, it's just an ending
that not necessarily all romantic movies.
We would want to end that way anyway, right?
Yeah, yeah. That's fair.

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I am a I'm a fellow Makoto Shinkai enjoyer.
I actually have 5 Centimeters Per Second.
I have the Blu-ray back on my shelf.
I have all of his movies on someform of physical media, be it
Blu-ray or like Voices of a Distant Stars on DVD.
The only one I'm missing is Garden of Woods so once I get

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that one I'll have them all. But I I've seen 5 centimeters
per second. I definitely owe it a re watch
because I did not. It was not my favorite on the
1st watch and I think that's just because I went in expecting

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something more similar to Your name, Weathering with you and
Suzumae, because those were the three that I had seen before
going back and watching the older stuff.
So I went into it with that expectation of like, oh, it's
going to be a real happy ending.Like Hunky Dory, like oh great.
And then kind of like growing like on.
I got to the end of it and my expectations were flipped and I

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was like, Oh well, that's not what I was expecting.
So it's going to tank my grade. So now I've like I need to go
back and re watch it and I'm going to because I want to do a
big like I ranked every Makoto Shinkai movie video.
So I'm going to go back to the room and watch them all again
anyway. But I do I love his work.
He even in 5 centimeters per second, what I didn't like in

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the story, it was such a visually gorgeous movie and like
I feel like all of his movies are that way.
They're so from a directorial standpoint, and even from an
animation standpoint, like they're just so good and they're
so visually appealing. And that is why he's like my
favorite director of all time. He's the only director I've ever

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been like, yes, I love more thanone of their movies.
So yeah, it's nice to see some Shinkai love.
That's good. That's good.
And 5 Centimeters per Second as well was my like he he was my
first that Shinkai movie. Actually, there is only one
Shinkai movie that I don't like.And I think it's the it's not.

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It's the one where it really gets Ghibli esque.
Oh, oh, I think I know which oneyou're talking about.
Hold on, I gotta find the name. Was it the?
Where is it? Oh, come on, we can find it.
What's the English name? Tell me, children who chase lost

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voices. That's it.
Oh, was it that one? Yeah, that this was that one.
Where is. It oh the place promised in our
early days. That's the one I was thinking
of. Oh OK cool, I haven't watched
that one yet. I didn't care for that one.
Yeah, but I do have a perceptionof modern Shinkai when I do.
I am also planning to do AI ranked all Mikoto Shinkai movies

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as well, because I think Shinkai, the problems with
modern Shinkai are more evident in I think Suzumi, which is it's
still a brilliant movie because like it like it's a it's a cute
vibe because she's going around Japan, she's backpacking and
it's like it's cool, right? She's she's locking up doors all

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over the place. But I think there is a major
problem I have with modern chin Kai, which is I think a lot of
people have said, Oh, hey, he istotally the modern Hayao
Miyazaki. And for some odd reason, he's
decided to just run with that because a lot of his moderate,
like classic Shinkai is very, very sci-fi, which I love.

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And it's so unfortunate that he's gone down this path, which
is like, I'll still, I'll still watch him because it's
absolutely gorgeous. Like he's a very reliable,
reliably good director that mostof his movies are really good.
But I don't like the direction that he's, he's been going down,
like embracing this image of themodern Hayao Miyazaki, which
means he has to, he has to create fantasy, fantasy romance

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shows. So yeah, which is a shame, but
it is what it is. You know, is from what I've
heard, 'cause they like some reliable anime.
Leaguer put something out earlier this year that he's
started working on his next movie and he is going back that
more sci-fi route and is essentially flipping on his

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head. What like what he was doing
before so now he's doing like going back to those roots and I
was really excited about that 'cause they said it was going to
be like some like sci-fi space type thing.
And I was like good. He has not done something like
that since like his first movie.So if you can take like a

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modern, if you can mix those twothings of modern Shinkai and
classic and get this really goodlike high epic space sci-fi
movie, I'm all here for it. That's great.
That's great. That excites me as well because
yeah, it's go back to your roots.
Shanghai don't don't like reject, reject majority, embrace

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traditions there. I'm really excited for it.
Yeah. Anything he does, I'm excited
for it because it's cool. It's cool me.
Too. I'm there day one.
Your number. Four, my number four.
I'll be interested to see if this one is on your list, but it
might not be so. My number 4 is Kagi Osama Love

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is war, which is like I don't even know how to describe.
It's like peak romance. It's the greatest romance anime
ever created. I don't think they'll make
another one that is better like AKA aka Saka just set the bar
too high. And then he went and worked on
Oshinoco which I've heard mixed things about.
Anyway, that's not important. I when I said like Spy family is

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one of the funniest anime I've seen.
Love is war is the funniest anime I've seen, especially if
you watch it dubbed. I just feel like the dub is so
hilarious and it's the one series where I will actually
actively encourage people to watch the dub because they just
did such a phenomenal job with it.

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And I also think the jokes hit alot better because, at least for
me personally, I'm not having toread the subtitles and process
what's being said. I can just hear it, immediately
process it, and I get the jokes a lot better.
And they're pretty good about keeping the jokes faithful to
what the original Japanese is, and I appreciate that.

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I also think the romance betweenKaguya and Shirogane is handled
really well. And while that is like the main
romance and yes, they do drag itout like pretty substantially,
it's an entertaining like to watch them go through this
journey from season 1 to the endof season 3 to then in the

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movie. Like just following them on that
journey is is great because there's a lot of growth on both
ends because they're not perfectin the first episode and they
both have a lot of growing to dobefore they're ready to even
start dating each other. And I just think they handle
that really well. And then also the side
characters, like the side characters are entertaining and

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you get to learn, like there's awhole arc with Ishigami where
he's got to overcome this thing.And like, you just go through
each of them. And even in the manga, like what
hasn't been adapted yet is stilllike Akasaka takes the time to
focus on each of those characters individually.
So you do truly get attached to them.

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And then when you get to the end, it's like, OK, well, now
everything's come together now that we've taken the time to
focus on everyone. And a lot of romance anime
doesn't do that because there are a lot of romance anime where
the main character has no friends except for the girl he's
interested in, but the girl has all kinds of friends, but we
never get to interact with any of them.
And then there's Love is War, where it's like, well, the

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student council, like everyone'sinteracting with each other.
And you know, Shirogani and Ishigami are close friends, and
Kagiya and Chica are close friends and like, she has
Hayasaka. But then there's also like they
all interact together and it's just, it's peak romance anime.
What can I say? Top tier.
Yeah, no other words to describeit.

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Hey, I second all of that, I think.
Yeah, a lot of the humor in Cocker Summer Love is War.
I've got a lot of good things tosay about it as well.
Like there's never a dull moment.
It's all very, very funny. There's like there is only one
episode, which is like a, what do you call it?
It's it's not part of the main series, but there's like the

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OVA, the one OVA, which is like really SUS.
Don't watch it. Don't bother.
It's not required viewing. And there are like I, I do hear
from people who have read the manga that they, that, Oh well,
it is also implied that there isIshigami and the other girl
hooked up, which is, yeah, it's unfortunate, but it's super me,

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Super me. That's the other girl.
So it's implied. I I really wish they would
finish adapting the manga because where they ended where
they ended does him so much injustice.
OK, and I hate it. It's so.
That's so unfortunate. That's so unfortunate.

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Yeah. Anyway, there are other things I
like about it as well. Like it's not the most visually
appealing, right anime, like it's really basic.
Well, I shouldn't say basic admin that that's that does it
so much injustice, but it's likethey do well with what they do.
I love the visual gags. It's very, very creative.

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It's got all of the things I like about Bachi, the rock ride,
which is it's never a dull moment.
And it says for those reasons also like season 3 as well, peak
romance as well. And even though they stretch it
out between Shuragana and Kaguya, it's fine because like,
there's other things happening in the background and it's like

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Ishigami's got all of these things and that just makes it
all the more satisfying when it actually happens in season 3.
And it is for all of those reasons that Kagya Sama Love is
War is actually #3 on my list. What a great segue.
So yeah, I wonder what you've got on your top three then.

(01:38:50):
If Kagya Sama is not in your topthree, say yeah OK.
My top 3 is pretty predictable, but this has been solid since
2019. It has legitimately not changed
in five years. So my number 3 is Full Metal
Alchemist Brotherhood, objectively the best anime of

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all time. And like objectively I will say
Full Metal Alchemist is better than the other two on this list.
So I'm like, this list is purelysubjective, but objectively I
can understand that this is like10 out of 10 only having
recently been dethroned by free reign on Mal.
Which is so interesting because I thought that was going to be a

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fad where like everyone upvoted it and then like we'd get a new
influx of upvotes on Full Mono Alchemist but not Freeman's been
in that spot for a year now. Which is so interesting.
The the the FMA fans just couldn't get enough of the mail
in ballots. I think they.

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Yeah, we couldn't, couldn't rig it that time.
But yeah, full mono alchemist. I think for me it's it's the
sibling story. I am such a sucker for a story
between. A older and a younger sibling
'cause I have a younger sister so I can relate to that.

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And like Edward Elrich is literally me 'cause he gets mad
every time someone calls him short.
And I'm like, yeah, no, I feel that on an emotional level.
So like there's that aspect of it and the story is so
incredible. Like I don't even know how to
describe it. It's just this incredibly well

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told story that is done. It's kind of like Gurin Lagan
where it's 27 episodes but full Monarchimus is 64.
So it's a little longer, but it's still a self-contained and
it doesn't even really have seasons.
Like if you look at on Crunchyroll, it's just one
straight show and I can appreciate that the story didn't

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need to be dragged out for 405 hundred chapters and you know,
like 200 episodes. Like it was just we can tell the
story in the concise way and getacross the messages.
And I like what the story has tosay about like the conflict
between the government and then the Ishwalan people and like the

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tensions there and how like maybe blindly following orders
from the government isn't alwaysthe best thing to do, especially
when you're having to gun down women and children who were
innocent just because of who they are.
Like, so I appreciate that side of it and it's not necessarily

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like it. How do I want to word this?
I talked about it in a video where I was like, here's like 10
anime that Christians should watch.
And this one was on there and someone talked about like, no,
Christians shouldn't watch this anime because it prioritizes
science over religion. And I was like, but that's not
the point. Like when you get to the say

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this without spoiling it, but when you get to the end, you
understand that alchemy is not the end all be all of the world.
And that was kind of the whole point of the series.
Because yes, there is that bit at the beginning where Ed goes
to the charge and he's like, oh,I don't like religion like da,
da, da, da, da, da. And but he was also dealing with
like this corrupt priest who wasabusing his power and

(01:42:34):
manipulating the truth. And so it like it wasn't even
really dealing with real religion in the in that sense.
But then you get to the end and it's like, no, alchemy is not
the end all be all of the world.There is a lot more to it.
You should not let it consume your life.
Like it does have that message in there if you want to dig for
it. But yeah, full Monarchimus Peak

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fiction is good. Totally, totally.
Now I do have a sneaking suspicion.
So I think we said before the podcast that on my anime list,
right, If you should keep your 10 out of 10s as small as
possible. So anyone who has 10 different
10 out of 10s don't take them too seriously.

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So I have a sneaking suspicion actually with Full Metal
Alchemist that's I'm going to give this a 10 out of 10.
And because of that, I'm going to downgrade my one one or two
of my other 10 out of 10 becauseof it.
So I will definitely watch it. But just from what I've heard
from like the the absolute, how should I say like the, the cult

(01:43:39):
following it has on my anime list, I have a sneaking
suspicion that it's going to be another 10 out of 10 for me,
which is going to result in two others being downgraded as a
result of that. And I'd hate for that to be
cocky Osama love is war, like even the other ones that I have
on here. But yeah, it I, I have a feeling
it will turn that way. So yeah.

(01:44:03):
That's very fair. Takes a lot for me to give an
anime A10 out of 10. It's just, it's just a highly
coveted thing. Like if you hand out 10 out of
10s, like like nobody's business, then like you kind of
devalue the 10 out of 10 itself.It's the 10 out of 10 inflation
and it's a don't. Devalue.
Yeah, he sure is. All right, so in terms of my #2

(01:44:26):
this might be a hot take actually, because I've met a lot
of people. I've recommended this anime to a
lot of people, and just from what I've read, a lot of people
don't like it because it starts very slow, but I still love it.
It might be because of my science fiction pizzazz, like
I've always been into, like I love Doctor Who to the point

(01:44:48):
from the 9th Doctor to the 12th Doctor anyways.
And after that it's it's over. So those are kind of my inbuilt
biases, right? Which is why it's I think it's a
hot take to put Steins Gate at number #2 really.
Yeah. All right, And this is one of

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those, this is one of the ones that I've watched that I watched
in high school. But yeah, I think it's just it's
been so long since I've watched it, but it's it's just something
that's stuck with me all this time.
And I just it's one of those complex stories.
It doesn't need a second season.It was just self-contained in

(01:45:30):
the 20 episodes. And I think you just, you just
keep rooting for the main characters.
The, the main character messed everything up with this new
invention and then problems start arising because it's, it's
very time traveling, it's very, it's timey.
Why me? If you mess with the time and
space continuum, there are consequences for it.

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And you really feel for the maincharacter and the struggle he
goes through to try and fix his mistakes.
Because in the 1st 10 episodes, what happens is like he starts
using his time travelling machine to change things in the
past so that people's lives willhopefully be better in the
future, but they have unintendedconsequences.

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And then because of that, he's, he really has to suffer as a
result because he's like, I wantthis good life for you.
I want this, I want you to have a really, really good life using
my invention of time travel. But because of that, I, I now
have to take that away from you.It's so it's such a shame,
right? That yeah, you, you really

(01:46:34):
understand the position that he's been put in.
And yeah, the ending is fantastic.
That's all I can say as well, which is like the, the, the
point from episode 10 to the last episode, the way that it
UPS the ante, the way that it UPS the UPS the stakes, the way
that it's like all of the tension builds up to this point.

(01:46:55):
Absolutely amazing. Finished off with a fantastic
finale and with the last episodethat's kind of chill.
All of the good things I love about an anime.
And it's also got time travel init.
So yeah, there you go. There you go.
That's fair, Steins Gate is another one on my list that I
need to. Watch.
Oh no, it's so over. I just don't.

(01:47:18):
I have so little time and there's so much anime.
Like I could legitimately take six months off of work and still
not be caught up on everything Ineed to watch.
It's it's insane, but I do want to watch it because I've heard
it's really good and it's, is itlike self-contained in that 20?
Yeah, is it self-contained in the 20 episodes?
And even the the there isn't a second season.

(01:47:40):
It's like a spin off season, which is OK, like Steins gate
zero. I've heard a lot of like people
really don't like it because it was unnecessary I guess.
But like this was OK because it's it's just a separate
timeline basically is what it is.
And it's I'm OK with that. But yeah, the I think with this

(01:48:01):
with Steins Gate, it's it's really oh, I've just lost my
train of thought. There you go very professional.
That's all I can say about it. What was I going to say about
it? No, it's just cool.
It's just a cool anime. It's got a few action scenes in
IT. People have said to me that they
hate the 1st 10 episodes becauseit's really slow, but it's OK.

(01:48:22):
It's OK because like, the payoffis it's only 20 episodes, right?
That's the commitment that it's asking for.
And I say that as a yeah. But like, at that point, you're
halfway through. Yeah, and compared to like other
anime as well, which does take forever, I think the complexity
that it has in the 20 episodes and the the amount that it makes
you care about these people in those twenty episodes, I think

(01:48:42):
it's really good. It's the way that they've
condensed it in it, considering it was also a visual novel as
well that they've adapted into an anime.
It's like that. It's it's perfectly fine.
And I think you're being way tooharsh on it if you have those
judgments about that, have thosecertain judgments about Steins
Gate. So yeah.

(01:49:04):
That's very fair. That's very fair.
My number 2 is a bit of a normietake, I guess, or at least as as
so I've been told by the Internet.
But my number 2 is a show that Inever thought would be up here,
but just after watching it and I've rewatched it all the way

(01:49:26):
through at least twice now, I just, I just, my fondness of it
grows every single time and the animation is incredible and I
just, it's such a visually appealing show.
And that's not the only reason Ilike it 'cause I really love the
story too. But it's Demon Slayer.

(01:49:46):
I just, I cannot not love Demon Slayer.
It's, and I think a lot of it goes back to that sibling
dynamic of like, I have a younger sister, so I can relate
to Tanjiro and Nezuko of like, well, if something happened to
my sister, like, yes, I'm also going to go through these
drastic measures and like changemyself for her benefit so that

(01:50:10):
she can like try to find a way to get her back to normal life.
But I also love Tanjiro as a character and how he is just
this consistent ray of light forall of these different people in
the series. And like promotes their change
just by being himself and being this kind person and letting

(01:50:34):
like, he speaks a lot, but he also has the actions to back up
those words. And even like, something people
complain about is, oh, there's too many demon flashbacks and
like, I shouldn't feel bad for the demons.
And I'm like, I can understand that.
But at the same time, something I think Demon Slayer does really
well is it shows you the humanity that was behind these

(01:50:58):
demons before they got manipulated and LED down this
dark path by Moozon. Like they were just normal
people who had a bad day or wereflawed individuals who had they
met someone like Tundra who could have set them on the right
path. They met someone who just
further continued their spiral down Into Darkness.

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And like, Tanjiro never affirms or like agrees with anything
that demons do. Like he acknowledges, hey,
killing people is wrong, eating people is wrong, what you've
done is evil. But I can also empathize with
that human side of like, this shouldn't have happened to you.
Like you were just a normal person who things could have

(01:51:40):
been different if, you know, life played out differently.
So there's that. And I think the story is simple,
but it also has that kind of subtext that you can look for if
you're willing to dig deep. And that's why I always despise
the argument of like demon Slayer is carried by animation.
Demon Slayer is so like mid because the story is basic and

(01:52:01):
I'm like, listen, guys, just because it's not dark and
brooding like Jiu Jitsu Kaizen, go cry in a hole, like deal with
it. So and the animation is
spectacular. Like there's, there's that
aspect of it too where it's likeit's so visually engaging to
look at and I'm just. Yeah, that's great.
That's great. I would love to watch Demon
Slayer as well at some point. I don't think considering my

(01:52:23):
taste, I don't think I'd put it up in my top three, but I can
see it in my top ten. Could I see it in my top ten?
That's the thing. Because it's like, does it beat
out Finland Saga? Does it do all of these things
anyway? I'd see I'd look at it very
highly because considering if people who do like JJK and our

(01:52:45):
anti like demon Slayer, like that's perfectly fine.
I I'd prefer to like demon Slayer just to annoy people who
like JJK. That's that's kind of my.
It's a good place to be, yeah. Yeah, all right.
Along the way that I've just realized, we've been recording
for two hours now, which is a bit insane to me.

(01:53:05):
But that's how it goes. It is what it Maybe we should
have just kept the top 5A numberone for me, there are a few
reasons for this because it really impacted this is one of
those other teenage animes. It's not perfect, sorry, not
teenage animes. It's one of those animes I've

(01:53:27):
watched as a teenager, which means it's it's impacted me a
lot just in terms of its relatability as well.
It's still kept in my mind. It's not perfect, but despite
its imperfections, despite it being a really, really old anime
as well, there's just so many things about it that just make

(01:53:50):
it relatable and that just impact my story as well.
And it's become a part of my story as well.
So with that, it is a Studio Ghibli movie.
With that, it is one of the rarest Studio Ghibli movies,
which is not directed by Haya Miyazaki.
It is Whisper of the Heart. So yeah, so I've.

(01:54:14):
Never seen that one but I've heard it's.
Good, yeah, yeah, so I think oneof my main compliant, I
shouldn't say it like I old Ghibli movies, they're not
perfect, but they're like reliably like I would I'd just
watch it for the maybe except Totoro, which is like more of a
kids movie. But other than that, like most

(01:54:35):
dribbly movies, like you can reliably watch and say that was
a good movie. But I think Whisper of the heart
moves past that because even like it's said in the 80s, it's
also the reason why I love the song Country Roads.
It's because it has the Japaneserendition of country roads in it
and the way that the way that itis implemented into the story is

(01:54:55):
really, really good. So yeah, it's a romance anime as
well. No, it's not a romance anime, I
should say. There's a romance subplot that
is resolved, but there are certainly themes in it.
Like it's it's, it's a movie about a girl, a young girl who
is what, who doesn't know what to do with her life.

(01:55:15):
And it's her journey in terms oftrying to find it.
And it's that simple story that even though it's simple, we've
seen it time and time again. It's everyone's story, but the
way that it is presented, the way that it is relatable to
everyone, that's why I love it. So, yeah, it's just all of those
things. It's just a girl who's lost and
then she's found something that she's passionate about.

(01:55:38):
So yeah. So especially for me during this
YouTube channel as well, there is a parallel between my story
doing this and her story as wellbecause like she's, she's taking
a risk. Like what if it fails?
What if it's what if it's so over and it was like it was all
for naughty and nobody cares about it.

(01:56:00):
And what if it's like really, really bad, All of those things,
even though I'm no longer in high school, like those things
are still applicable to me today.
And it's for those reasons I, I absolutely adore it.
So there you go. As my number one, which is,

(01:56:20):
which is something to say. That's very fair.
Yeah. Which is something to say
compared to like, a lot of the really good anime for this to be
#1 for this to be one of my onlytop ten out of 10s.
Yeah. It's something.
It says a lot about this anime, I guess.
And as as part of my life story anyway.
So yeah. Yeah, yeah.
And I think it having that personal connection is what

(01:56:44):
uplifts it 'cause I'll, I'll transition into my number one,
'cause mine is essentially the same way.
Where it was this anime that I watched when I was in high
school and it came into my life.It was like, I call it a right
place, right time anime where just everything that happened in
the story was so relatable and so applicable to my life and

(01:57:07):
gave me this motivation to push forward in a way that I I
absolutely needed at that time. And I won't beat around the
Bush. It's it's My Hero Academia.
Like everyone who knows me knowslike, wow, that's Nick's
favorite anime. But the whole concept of Deku as

(01:57:30):
a character came in. I was in high school and I
really wanted to go to film school.
And like, that was my, it was mypassion.
I was like, yes, this is what I want to do.
And then I had all of these different family members be
like, no, you need to go get a real job and like go do a real
like degree, like a lawyer, doctor, whatever.
And that was really discouraging.
But then like I was after watching My Hero, I had this

(01:57:54):
like newfound resolve to be like, no, I'm going to go do and
fight for and achieve the dream that I want and I'm going to
push through that. And I met all of these great
people along the way who were very willing and open to help
uplift me through that and like walk alongside me in that path.
And like, so there's that aspectof it that like, I will fully

(01:58:17):
admit that My Hero as an anime is not objectively perfect.
It's just not it's and and that's what happens when you
have these long running shows that are 7 seasons in is there's
just so much more to judge that it's hard to be like, OK, well
this isn't perfect, but the reason no other anime has topped

(01:58:37):
that number one spot is because of the emotional connection.
Like I will always have an emotional connection in that
series. And it's been with me through
like all of the ups and downs from high school till now.
Like I went through a really dark and bad place at the
beginning of senior year and I was able to, you know, get

(01:58:58):
through that by reading the manga and like buying the
volumes and reading the chaptersevery week when they came out.
And like, even as things got rough in college, like I had
another season of the anime and it's just been this very
consistent, stable thing in my life.
And also it's a really, I think it's a really great story and I
like the themes because much like Demon Slayer, it treats

(01:59:21):
it's villains in this way of, well, hey, you didn't have to be
a villain, but you are because that's just how the life
circumstances worked out. And like, Deku is a character
and I want to do a whole video on this is like he, he to me
exemplifies the part of the Bible where Jesus is like, you

(01:59:43):
need to love your neighbor as yourself and even love your
enemies too and pray for them. And just the way he treats
basically everyone indiscriminately of like, you're
my friend. I like you, you're my enemy.
I want to help you. Like even though you despise me,
I want to help you. And I just, I love him as a

(02:00:03):
character so much. And it's it's been so hard to be
on Twitter and see people who didn't actually read the ending
clown on the ending. I'm like, dude, you didn't even
read it. You looked at panels on TikTok
bro. But yeah, My Hero Academia, I
love it. I will defend this series till
the day I die. I just think it's great.

(02:00:25):
Hey. That's AW, that's AW.
I'd love to like, yeah, I'd loveto watch it as well.
And I think I reckon the main reason like there, there is
something special about like an anime that has just gone on for
so long, right? And it's like it's it's been a
part of your life for so long aswell.
So it's kind of why like I kind of fell off with RE0 actually,
because it wasn't a part of my life.

(02:00:48):
It just came in, it just showed up and then left and showed up.
But and then I think that's that's the best part about being
a part of like an ongoing manga,which is like it's that
experience of, oh, I want to watch it.
I want to buy the manga when it comes out.
I want to get the newest book, Iwant to watch the latest
episode. And there is something special
about that, that I think for me that was that that part of my

(02:01:13):
story may have been with Kagi, Osama Lover's War, because it
has, it has been ongoing and that's kind of it.
But I totally respect like My Hero Academia as welfare,
despite it being having gone on for so long.
If it has been a big part of your life for that long, then
yeah, totally understand and respect your position on that.

(02:01:36):
And I wouldn't. I wouldn't, I'm sure the ending
is not as bad as people say it is.
It's really not. And like as the ending was
coming up, that was such a surreal thing for me because
I've never been through an ongoing series I've been into
end like Demon Slayer. I jumped on the train after it

(02:01:56):
ended. Love is War.
I was reading it ongoing, but I didn't read it when it ended.
I waited until the like physicalvolume came out.
So I was a little behind on that.
But my hero is the one where like I've been reading every
chapter weekly for the last fiveyears.
So it is this like a long running thing in my life of

(02:02:19):
like, Oh, well, now this is over.
Like what do I do now? So and I think it also hasn't
fully hit me yet because the anime is not over.
So I think next year when the anime like concludes and wraps,
then it'll fully hit me of like,oh, this thing is over now, like
we have to move on to the next thing, but we can still cherish
this for what it was. So I would recommend it.

(02:02:42):
Obviously I'm not like biased atall or anything, you know,
completely unbiased opinion. I would recommend my hero.
I think it's great. But yeah, that's our, that's our
top ten. That was a pretty solid list.
They were different lists too. We only had one overlapping.

(02:03:02):
I was worried we were going to have more, but.
No, that's all. I mean some of this like, as I
said, the only reason like Rascal does not dream of Bunny
girls. I, I, I think a lot of the anime
that you've listed as well, I'd say like they're pretty solid.
Like they're still 9 out of 10. I, I, I guess with a few
exceptions, with some that I haven't like fully watched or I

(02:03:24):
haven't been fully exposed to, but I trust, like maybe like
demon Slayer, just from what I've seen from it would be a
solid 9 out of 10. And same with My Hero Academia
as well. That would be a solid 9 out of
10 from just what I've, the bitsand pieces I've seen from it.
So yeah, that's all good. And even like with Full Metal

(02:03:46):
Alchemist, as I said, I do have a sneaking suspicion that is
going to break my top three. So yeah, is that?
Hey, thanks for having me on though.
Yeah. Thanks for coming on.
I'll give you the floor if you want to tell people where they
can find you, promote some upcoming content, whatever you

(02:04:07):
want to. Jeez, the floor is yours.
Totally, totally. So for those of you who aren't
aware of my content, so again, please call me podcast son.
I've I've been trying to find a name for myself because it was
cat. It used to be cap.
It used to be pod son. But no, like podcast son is is
all right. You can find me on my channel,
Christian anime podcast, or you can find me on Twitter as well.

(02:04:29):
It's not cold X. It's definitely Twitter, which
is Christian Anipod. I do have a Discord community as
well, which is rapidly growing and I'm on Instagram as well,
which is I've I've recently justdecided to start investing in
that because I am now streaming just comfy games where we can

(02:04:52):
hang out, talk about politics, talk about theology, talk about
anime. Well, I have a game going on and
we can see like stuff going on as well.
So as I said at the start, the content that I do, I don't
consider this a ministry. I just consider it as a place
for Christians who also like watching anime, who may have

(02:05:12):
been disillusioned by their family, who have said it's
demonic. I want this to be a place where
Christians who watch anime can interact, have a community, talk
about stuff that's relatable, and we can also talk about God
in that same process. So if, if that's, if that's
something that you want to be a part of as well, I'd love for

(02:05:34):
you to also join our community that is rapidly, rapidly great
over the past year. Yeah, that's good.
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You should definitely check themout.
As for us, you know where to find the podcast.

(02:05:55):
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(02:06:16):
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This is why Jackson does the outro because he's got like the
whole shebang memorized. I haven't had to do an outro in
like 6 months. So it's a little janky, but you

(02:06:40):
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