October 11, 2025 • 34 mins
Sharp, fast, and full of curveballs—this lightning round sprints through six anime that all ask the same question in different ways: what happens when the “support” finally becomes the center? We start with a Dark Beast Lord who revives a hero, adopts a royal orphan, and disguises himself to judge whether humanity deserves mercy. The worldbuilding flexes—forges that rule kings, immortality with a cost, factions circling a child named Luna—and the morality bites: monster is a job title, not a verdict.
Then we flip tones without losing the thread. A legendary detective gets dragged back to the game by a high school firecracker who knows memes, movies, and how to beg forgiveness after cracking skulls. Their chemistry hums because the jokes land clean and the cases keep moving. From there, a white mage learns that confidence is a skill, not a mood, as an S‑Rank party proves what leadership looks like when it actually values support. We also chase a shy hero whose accidental one‑punch life keeps saving the women hired to kill him, and an isekai where god‑tier stats can’t buy self‑respect or community. Finally, an outcast chef opens a tiny restaurant and takes on corruption with a wok, a knife, and a town that believes in him.
Across these stories, you’ll hear us dig into underestimated roles, found family, action‑comedy done right, isekai systems that say something, and why quiet craft outlasts loud titles. We call out the moments that surprised us, the bits that overreached, and the themes that tie it all together: guardianship over glory, usefulness over ego, and the stubborn hope that people can change when someone feeds them—sometimes literally.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:01):
What a game, it's time for another round of
lightning.
Lightning anime.
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So let's go ahead and get intoit.
Starting with Clevetis, one ofthe lords of Dark Beast from the
South.
Clevotus reign shatters when herevives a hero.
He personally slays and adoptsan orphan humanoid baby, the
last hope to save a dying world.
Now bound together, what fateawaits this unlikely trio?
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So Clevites kind of reminds meof Aaron Yeager to an extent
where he just wanted to be leftalone, but humanity insists on
his death, then he will make ithis mission to eliminate all of
humanity for the sake ofprotecting.
You know, not exactly.
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If anyone bothers to hear himout, while on the journey, he
decides to masquerade as ahumanoid so that no one thinks
that Clevitus left his post.
A dying woman pleased toClevitus to raise her child as
his own, and the Dark Beast loreagreed to see if humanity is
worth preservation.
Turns out that the child is ofroyal blood, and now that the
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king and kingdom of Eden orHyden was wiped out by Clevetus,
the child and the land is now atarget of multiple factions and
kingdoms.
Alicia, one of the 13 heroesslain by Klebtus, has been
revived by the Beast Lord toserve as a caretaker for the
child who he names Luna.
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Kleptus names himself Quinnwhile he's in his humanoid form.
And I like how the first orderbusiness when he revived Alicia
was show me them titties.
Because Luna needs a wet nurseto um avoid starvation.
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Nell is one of the women ofservice at the bandits camp.
She has a heart as big as herboobs and buttons because, like,
she she was like kind of on thethick side, but she her boobs
like made like the perfect forLuna's witness because like they
were like big.
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And it's just sad how theytreated Nell, to be perfectly
honest, but you it really islike you actually know what
watch clever because you youmight see some crazy shit.
Now, during the fight againstthe bandits, we learn that Luna
has magical talent.
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Alicia is immortal as long asClint Itcher exists inside her,
and she gains a regalia and eyepatch for I and Clint save Nell,
renaming her Nellaru with alittle white hair and her body
fixed to a point where she'smore slender and a full set of
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teeth after the band is beatingher old ones out prior to the
plot.
I don't know, it's like I kindaI don't you know I'm not gonna
call it.
It's fine, it's fine.
Uh the trio are introduced toGart, a servant of the Dark
Beast lord that resides in theWest, Zophier.
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Excuse me.
Uh Gart tells Clint and Aliciathat uh Zaphir also wants the
annihilation of the humanoids.
General Drill, the DragonSlayer, is revealed to be the
man that killed Alicia's father.
He, among many, wants the forgeat Eden, said to not only be
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able to craft Regalia, but isthe world's oldest magical item
with secrets that raisecuriosity.
Drill wants to put an end to theage of heroes, finding it
pointless to appoint championsto fight the undefeated Dark
Beast lords, and using hissecret magic, Prison of Dark
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Icker, he managed to trackClevitus in a prison of blood,
but clearly gave up his humanityfor power bestowed upon him by
another Dark Beast Lord.
By the way, he has up to fiveeyes.
One more, and he will look likea great value uh Kokushibo from
Demon Slayer.
While Clint learns more aboutmagic and eventually encounter
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thrill, some wizards uh boloftuh come to attack the end, and
that Alicia, Nelaru, and Lunaare staying at uh Nai, a wizard
with the ability to controlgravity through the swords of
iron, confronts Nelaru in thesearch for Luna while Alicia
deals with Maynard, uh Boloch'suh strongest and most terrible
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wizard who controls bugs, suchas a giant centipede like
monster.
Maynard convinces the people ofSheeran that Alicia is a traitor
to humanity and that she needsto surrender herself.
She explains that what happensand town folks decide to back
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off.
Maynard comes to attack but wasdefeated by Alicia after
Clementus reminds her thatStream Splitter works on any
living creature because theycontain water.
Uh Luna's mother Taya, Tala,excuse me, uh Renee demands to
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search for her son, uh Hedeliusthe Seventh.
He we learned that Luna is theonly heir who can use the Force
of Eden, which makes the babyeven more valuable.
Uh Talla tells us that thehammer of the king can't terror
any regalia and will use it asan acting ruler to deal with
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Rell.
Excuse me, I'm sorry.
Hmm, stumbling on words as forevil.
While Alicia fights Rogue, wefind out that the king survives,
but he carries his severed headwith one hand like a headless
knight.
We also learn that Drill andElise's fallen Margo completed
to become a hero and originallyreceived a sword that would
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become Dark Dragon.
It was during a mission to slaya dragon that Margot lose his
leg and his career as a hero.
By Margot's request, Drill willregalia, but became overwhelmed
by Dark Power, meeting hismaster Warden of the North for
the first time.
He slain the dragon, but at whatcost?
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Well, Drell makes his way to theford.
The headless king looks likehe's about to throw his infant
grandson in it.
We also learned that Luna's truename is Toth, and that all kings
of heathen are thrown into theforge to be reborn as both ruler
of the kingdom and ruled by theforge.
We also learn that all fivehumanoid races are descendants
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of humans that disappeared along time ago.
Alicia defeats Rel and convincesQuinn not to abandon Luna.
The infant prince returns to hismother on his own defeat.
The war is over, but the storyisn't.
Tawa and a mysterious tone arekey to the bigger mystery behind
everything.
And until a hypothetical secondseason, we leave it at Quinn
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requesting Tala to let him beLuna's magic teacher.
Now, I will give Clevertis an 8out of 10.
Great story, likable characters,and a fair amount of intrigue
between the bloodshed.
And also with Bro, he is one ofthose builds where I don't
completely disagree with them.
Because think about it, youhaving all those heroes go out
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and fight these dark beastlords, and they keep dying one
after another, it's almost likewhat's the point of that?
I can't agree with him to thatextent.
But that's just it.
Next anime.
So once a legendary detective,Nagamuk Hero, now summer through
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middle age, baffled bysmartphones and modern life.
His quiet decline gets disruptedwhen Moshiro, a bold high school
girl, burst into his officedemanding to become his
apprentice.
Though he's rusty in certainways, her relentless enthusiasm
drags him back into detectivework.
Now the gap bridge and detectiveduo is on the case.
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I think it's a fairlyinteresting dynamic between the
lead characters.
It's like old school versusmodern.
As a guy in his mid-30s, I canrelate to Nagumo to an extent.
But as a man with a morecontemporary mindset, I can
still keep up with current andtrends like Monstro.
What I don't like is the idea ofthem being assumed to be in an
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age-gap relationship becauseMonstro is a high school girl.
No, just no.
The show doesn't seem to try toohard with the gag.
In fact, I believe that somejokes and shenanigans are good
when they're kept simple, likewhen Monstro puts on her JoJo
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face.
There's some real-worldreferences are dropped
throughout the show, suggestMonstro is trained to be a
detective by watching actionmovies like Die Hard, Resident
Evil, and Tomb Raider.
After a feminist request beingmistaken for a crime gang
elimination, Macho takes outsome Yakusa with weapons from
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her seemingly unlimitlessstorage in her clothes, and Nezu
gives up and becomes the cost ofguy for Nagumo.
We get some black representationwith Macho's coach, uh Sunaro, a
young, rich, popular captainbecomes Machro's rival and being
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Nagumo's assistant and helpingthe old man regain his shine.
His sense of observation andquestioning is hilarious.
We're also introduced toAsunaro's assistant Maki, who
has a disdain for her master asclear as her monotone demeanor,
but she has more personalitywhen talks to Nagumo.
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Mainly because they're both likeolder.
I mean, Maki's not even thatold, but she's like in her late
20s, I want to say.
Another friend Nagumo is anAccenture Inventor, Azuha.
She reminds me of Q from the 007movies, which he made a
reference to, as a matter offact.
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And the more I watch this anime,the more I laugh and scream,
what the fuck?
I give it a 7 out of 10.
Fast-paced action comedy that'sunironically funny.
Next anime, we got scooped up byan S-Rank Adventurer.
Lloyd is a white mage who wasunexpectedly banned from the
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heroes party as he was lost anduncertain.
He happened to cross paths withthe S-Rank Adventurer party in
need of a white mage.
So he joined them on theirrequest.
Little did anyone know that atthe time the heroes party would
fall apart and Lloyd would riseto fame.
This is a story about anunmatched support magic user who
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believes himself to be ordinary,becoming an unstoppable
adventure.
Another underestimated supporttype protagonist that's more OP
than he seems.
His master, the legendary mageMerlin, sealed his true
potential to prevent a tragicevent from happening again,
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making sure that the boy doesn'tget overconfident, but Lloyd
learned a lot of different magicfrom her.
If anything, Lloyd suffered froma lack of confidence because he
used to being told that's everwasn't good enough.
Alan, the famous hero and theleader of that elite party, is
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one of those assholes who thinkthat support units are useless
or next to useless.
And yet when Lloyd leaves, yousee how Alan's overconfidence is
a flimsy shield.
See, crazy thing is like eversince the first anime lightning
with I Love My A-Ring party, itjust seems like we've been
coming across a bunch of thesewhere oh like he ain't really
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shit, but it turns out hisabilities are more overpowered
than things.
Speaking of which, the S-Classparty that Lloyd joins is
comprised of Yui, the leader andswordsman, Dogas, the shield
tank, Cross, the Archer, andSilica the Maid.
Fairly friendly people for thehighest ranking achievement in
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this world.
And after rescuing a beast folkwoman named Quare from Demons,
the party used her power toprotect the land of Ishtar from
monsters attacking it.
Lena, the sensible one of Alan'sparty, decides to leave Alan to
join S-Rake Adventurers afterAlan makes a fool of himself to
run the townsfolk, revealingthat he hasn't been training in
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a while.
The quote-unquote hero leavesIshtar with the remaining
members of his party who startedto doubt him as well.
The main takeaway from thisanime is to have self-confidence
is to believe in your truestrength.
Don't underestimate orundervalue yourself.
If you doubt yourself, you won'treach your full potential.
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Best thing to do is to takepride in your abilities without
over-exaggerating.
Raggers can be obnoxious attimes, but no one likes a person
that's self-depreciative orunsure of themselves.
Trust me.
Trust me.
I give this one 7.5 out of 10.
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It was kind of mid, but stillenjoyable with a relatable theme
about confidence.
Speaking of confidence, the nextanime is The Shy Hero and the
Assassin Princesses.
The hero Toto has talent, buthis shyness has prevented him
from forming a party as helanguishes in the town of
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Oregon.
Three beautiful women.
Oh I don't know.
I'll say Ciel's a woman.
Like because he looks like agirl, a little girl.
Anyway, uh, three women, Ciel,Anemone, and Goa, invite Toto to
join their party out of theblue.
Toto gears up to begin thejourney, but unbeknownst to him,
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all three women are plotting tokill him for their own reasons.
Now, Toto, I mean, not excuseme, not like Toto from Kyle.
Like Toto is a strong, nice guythat just struggles with
communicating with others.
Very bad for when it comes towomen touching him or making
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advances at him, can come up asunintentionally scary because
he's like a big dude.
Like think Dave the Barbarianbig.
He can I can kind of relate tohim to an extent because he's
also strong enough to defeatenemies with one punch.
I mean, I'm not saying that, butlike I just relate to the whole
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part where he comes off asunintentionally scared about hey
man, I'm just be locking, youknow.
Sometimes I just have a hardtime communicating with others,
but I'm getting better at it.
But uh, I think it's kind offunny how even though it's a
comedy, like you just have thatwhole Sytoma one-punch string.
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Now, Cio.
She's the next heir to becomeruler of the Demon Clan,
assigned by her father to killToto without any assistance as a
means to prove herself worthy ofthe throne.
Of the three girls, she's theonly childlike character, and
she actually wants independenceand to eat tasty dessert more
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than anything.
Anemone uh is a back alleyassassin hired to kill Toto for
a hundred million dollar bag onhis head.
Also, big boobs, and Goa is adominatrix that's gunning for
Toto just for a proper challengeand quote unquote freaking him.
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Also, bigger boobs.
Kind of a fast-paced fantasyadventure comedy where the girls
find themselves bonding over howthey're all plotting on Toto.
I don't even consider Goa as anassassin if she's just trying to
make Toto her new pet for abrothel.
But over time, each of the girlsstart to like Toto, making it
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more difficult for them toassassinate him.
I give it a 7.5 out of 10.
Once again, kind of mid, but atleast the members of the main
cast stood out respectively intheir own right.
Well, most of them.
Toto was kind of cookie cutterfor me.
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We got Ugly Mugs Epic Fighter.
After a false accusation,Shigeru Yoshi Oka becomes an
unemployed recluse.
By choosing to remain ugly inanother world, Shigeru gains
higher status.
He begins his second life as anabsolute god with C leveled
staff.
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At first, Shigeru, he tags alongwith Seika, Seiji, and Reese,
who were also east guided intothis world.
But due to a weakness caused bydirect contact with a girl, he
considers breaking away from theparty.
However, Seika, Seika, damn it.
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Seika thanks Shigeru for hishelp in episode one, bought him
a burger as things, and he'susing repayment as an excuse to
stick around.
Uh let me tell you something.
This guy, I'm talking aboutthis.
This dude Shigeru nerfed himselfphysically and financially in
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order to gain over 100 trillionbonus points towards his new
life, but got Isekai before hewas able to distribute those
points.
Luckily, he was able to do soupon his first level up.
He takes 10% damage for a turkeytouching a girl, and usually
that's like trillions of HPpoints, but that's just 10% for
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him.
He dies if he has sex with agirl, and his income.
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I know the point is to beyourself unashamably.
Unashamedly.
But honestly, I would say thatyou have to be either defiantly
prideful or a moronic masochistto take that deal.
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That's just me personally.
The party seems genuinely niceand nice to Shigeru.
Seika may tease him, but atleast she's not like that minor
girl who framed Shigeru forharassment in the past life just
for being ugly.
And I'll talk about that alittle bit more in just a
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moment.
The world that the party liveson is like a video game world,
most notably with the squaresand rectangles floating in the
midair.
Seika is smart, rich, and cutefor a 17-year-old girl.
But she can be wasteful andthoughtless when it comes to her
resource management.
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She's also very blunt with a notvery modest attitude.
Did I forget to mention that shehas a silter mentality?
But I don't blame herconsidering that the implication
that she was handicapped in herpast life.
Oh, yeah.
And she has an angelictransformation that can do
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miraculous healing.
So there's that.
Uh Saiji is the kind of guy thatwould be the typical anime
protagonist, a genuinely nicedude and hero with the power to
transform into an angelic formnamed Aldian and uh Shining
Fist.
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We have Reeze, who knows Seikaand Seiji from their previous
lives, with Seiji being herbrother and Reese being part of
a program designed to helpSeika.
She has the ability to seespecial notes when you decide to
get Isekai.
So she knows Shigeru's deal,being an Almighty God, and asks
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for his help to keep Seikahappy.
Also, she has a demonic form.
Uh oh, yeah.
Something about another Almightygame god named Karina, who was
actually the sister to thatminor that I was telling you
about earlier.
Like, basically, her sisterfucked her over, too.
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So it's just crazy how this onegirl, like, this minor hates
ugly people so much that shegoes around falsely accusing
ugly dudes for harassment justfor them to get like jail time
and whatnot.
Like, she just really hates uglypeople.
Like, this is the type of shitthat men are afraid of in real
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life.
She got arrested, but she was aminor, so that's how she like
got off easy.
But imagine being a teenagergoing around trying to ruin the
lives of men just because youthink they're ugly.
It's almost like saying, Ohyeah, ugly people, they don't
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deserve to prosper.
Like, ugly people should neverprosper.
Like, bro, that's kind of fuckedup.
Uh oh yeah.
Also, something about anorganization of Misfit reborn
into the world name Ornung Beeror something like that.
This anime was alright.
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Another 7.5.
Not all that, but not badeither.
I think the premise characterstory, but with that aside, it
just felt like another videogame like Isakai story.
And last anime for animelightning, because I am trying
to get faster at.
There's a there was a wholebunch of anime that I wanted to
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review, but I was kind ofpressed for time, and I got
other things that I wanted toreview, and other shit to do
outside of the podcast.
So I just stuck with six oftime.
Last anime.
Welcome to the OutcastRestaurant.
When Superstar Adventurer Dennisgets booted from the world's
strongest party, he teams upwith Runaway Otti Ottilie.
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I'm sorry, I'm gonna butcher thename.
Uh to serve up his true passion,delicious cuisine.
But this not so average eateryhas not so average patrons.
Dennis will battle his quirkycustomer trouble with his trusty
butcher knife and walk.
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Visit the adventurers andrestaurant and fill up your
heart and stomach.
Now, once again, we have anotherprotagonist that's been kicked
out of his party for having aseamlessly useless class, last
ability.
But Dennis is a level 99 chef,specializing in alchemy,
metallurgy, metallurgy, excuseme, uh, knives, and more due to
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his focus on cooking.
He provided support for most ofthe Silver Wings members and out
of bounty, but opens arestaurant in a small town after
his exile called the AdventurersRestaurant, where he serves his
various regulars.
He aimed for level 100, which heachieved, and become what is
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known as a ranked sovereign.
Vigo, the captain of the SilverWing, once again, that asshole
party leader, uh, clearly up tosomething, while most of the
other members just go along withit.
So there's one character thatthat's the most sensible of them
all.
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He's a level 99 swordsman who'sknown as the Azure Rensword due
to his destructive power andfull-body blue armor.
He's a ruthless and power-hungryman, driven by ambition, who's
exiled then to begin his plan tousurp power and to have Katie to
himself and frequently acts onhis own and views others as
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stepping stones, using his powerto deter dissempting voices in
Silverwing.
Katie is a level 84 swordswomanwho is known as the Crimson
Swift Sword due to her agilefighting style and red armor.
The vice captain of Silverwing,she wears very revealing bikini
armor due to her immense pridein her body, which has the added
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effect of seducing nobles.
She was the one who recruitedDennis and remained his sole
friend while he was in thebattalion.
Their closeness made othersthink they were dating when they
were not, and continues tosupport Dennis after his exile.
Atelier is a young girl who wassold into slavery after being
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cast out of the Noble family, uhworks at that family, and she is
bought by Dennis, who sets herfree shortly afterwards.
Uh, she used her newfoundfreedom to help out at the
adventurous restaurant, becomingknown as his poster girl.
Uh, Henrietta is a swordswomanin the full play armor, comes in
as Dennis' first customer.
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She tells him that she was goodat her par as well because she
was a woman and she wasfrequently allowed to eat for
free due to not being able tofind work recently or easily.
Her impoverished backgroundwhere her family used to eat,
leather made her not pick itwith regards to choice of food.
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In episode two, Dennis askedaround to find a party for her,
uh, and she finds a party ofmale adventurers willing to hire
her.
Later, Dennis would hear rumorthat an all-male party has been
hiring female adventures inorder to take them into the
dungeons, assault them, and thenleave them to be killed by
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monsters.
And Henrietta was thrilled hernew party, uh, values her skills
with a sword.
But after a full day of monsterslaying, uh, she gets paralyzed
by the party mage and uhrevealing uh that they have
contempt for female warriors andthey were gonna have their way
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with her, but they were spoiledby Dennis, who furiously
appeared with twin meat weaversin a paper bag hiding his face,
knocking them out.
Uh Henrietta awakens at theAdventures deal with no idea how
she got there, but grateful thatthe guy didn't like go too far
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and have been found and end upbeing arrested.
She returns to Dennis'restaurant and learns that he
had mysteriously closed therestaurant for the last two
days.
Looking closely up, Dennis, heshe realized he somewhat
resembles the paper bag man.
And then we have adventurerBiblia Strange come in and
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complaining about localadventurers uh to inferior for
to perform party with.
So, in other words, he just gota big ego.
Uh we got night miss memberBotcha, who's overworked by her
lazy party members, and decidedto just leave them, but their
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leader Hopper and the rest ofNightness just didn't take that
very well.
And Dennis got into it withthem.
He ended up defeating them, blahblah blah.
Uh, Katie reveals thatSilverwing had begun failing
quests since Dennis' departure.
Oh, surprise, surprise.
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Who would have thought that theguy that they kicked out was
actually useful?
Dennis refused to return.
And Vigo also refused to inviteDennis back.
He was being very prideful withthat.
And the restaurant became morepopular, so Dennis hired uh Baco
Bachel as a second waitress.
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Uh Henrietta's food pillcontinues to increase, worrying
her that Dennis might stopfeeding her until she can pay.
After Dennis influencedalternative events, Vigo, Atui's
father Joseph, Hopper fromNightmare, and some judge plot
against Dennis going as far asarson on the restaurant.
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Dennis thought about runningaway, but was convinced by
friends, customers, and othertownsfolk to fight back and let
them help them.
He then visits Gene Black, aranked sovereign, and his
adoptive mother, mother, excuseme, for information and was
given a hint of how he can reachlevel 100, realizing a purpose
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in life.
Dennis confronts the connivingfour men, defeats be go, have
the men arrested, and everythingresolved nicely.
Katie becomes captain of theSilver Wing uh battalion.
Uh Bibia joined the good guild.
Uh Baco Abacho.
Oh god, these names about killme.
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It's teaching magic now.
Uh Henrietta is now a knight,and Dennis continued to um work
at the now named Outcastrestaurant with Attilia.
Yeah, it's a 74.5 for me.
Decent show got a little darkhere and there, but it was
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decent, and that was about itfor Anime Lightning.
Uh, there's a lot of anime thatI'm gonna be doing full reviews
on, but here's the deal.
Um, for a solid month, Ibelieve, we are going to try to
get into the habit of uploadingour episodes to Patreon first.
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So some of them might seem alittle dated in a way, where
it's like, oh yeah, I'm kind oftalking about a little old news,
but to be fair, it was onPatreon first, and then we
decided to put it on the publicpodcast.
So going forward, we're gonna dobetter at uploading new episodes
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to Patreon first, and then oncethat gets circulation, then
we'll upload all of them ontothe main platform.
So you know, listen to them onSpotify or whatever podcast
platform that you listen to yourshows on.
Uh, if we don't do a properHalloween special, we do have an
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afterdart special that we'regonna release around that time.
But for the most part, we'regonna try to take it easy for
the month of October and we'llbe back in full swing by
mid-November.
We'll definitely probably have awhole bunch of episodes for you
to listen to.
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So until then, remember to staynerdy and that great things are
coming.
Go ahead and have yourself agood morning, good afternoon,
good evening, good night.
But ultimately, take it easy.
It's been Jet Black Extreme withAnime Lightning, and I'm zoning
up out of here.
What a game, it's time for another round of
lightning.
Lightning anime.
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So let's go ahead and get intoit.
Starting with Clevetis, one ofthe lords of Dark Beast from the
South.
Clevotus reign shatters when herevives a hero.
He personally slays and adoptsan orphan humanoid baby, the
last hope to save a dying world.
Now bound together, what fateawaits this unlikely trio?
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So Clevites kind of reminds meof Aaron Yeager to an extent
where he just wanted to be leftalone, but humanity insists on
his death, then he will make ithis mission to eliminate all of
humanity for the sake ofprotecting.
You know, not exactly.
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If anyone bothers to hear himout, while on the journey, he
decides to masquerade as ahumanoid so that no one thinks
that Clevitus left his post.
A dying woman pleased toClevitus to raise her child as
his own, and the Dark Beast loreagreed to see if humanity is
worth preservation.
Turns out that the child is ofroyal blood, and now that the
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king and kingdom of Eden orHyden was wiped out by Clevetus,
the child and the land is now atarget of multiple factions and
kingdoms.
Alicia, one of the 13 heroesslain by Klebtus, has been
revived by the Beast Lord toserve as a caretaker for the
child who he names Luna.
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Kleptus names himself Quinnwhile he's in his humanoid form.
And I like how the first orderbusiness when he revived Alicia
was show me them titties.
Because Luna needs a wet nurseto um avoid starvation.
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Nell is one of the women ofservice at the bandits camp.
She has a heart as big as herboobs and buttons because, like,
she she was like kind of on thethick side, but she her boobs
like made like the perfect forLuna's witness because like they
were like big.
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And it's just sad how theytreated Nell, to be perfectly
honest, but you it really islike you actually know what
watch clever because you youmight see some crazy shit.
Now, during the fight againstthe bandits, we learn that Luna
has magical talent.
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Alicia is immortal as long asClint Itcher exists inside her,
and she gains a regalia and eyepatch for I and Clint save Nell,
renaming her Nellaru with alittle white hair and her body
fixed to a point where she'smore slender and a full set of
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teeth after the band is beatingher old ones out prior to the
plot.
I don't know, it's like I kindaI don't you know I'm not gonna
call it.
It's fine, it's fine.
Uh the trio are introduced toGart, a servant of the Dark
Beast lord that resides in theWest, Zophier.
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Excuse me.
Uh Gart tells Clint and Aliciathat uh Zaphir also wants the
annihilation of the humanoids.
General Drill, the DragonSlayer, is revealed to be the
man that killed Alicia's father.
He, among many, wants the forgeat Eden, said to not only be
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able to craft Regalia, but isthe world's oldest magical item
with secrets that raisecuriosity.
Drill wants to put an end to theage of heroes, finding it
pointless to appoint championsto fight the undefeated Dark
Beast lords, and using hissecret magic, Prison of Dark
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Icker, he managed to trackClevitus in a prison of blood,
but clearly gave up his humanityfor power bestowed upon him by
another Dark Beast Lord.
By the way, he has up to fiveeyes.
One more, and he will look likea great value uh Kokushibo from
Demon Slayer.
While Clint learns more aboutmagic and eventually encounter
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thrill, some wizards uh boloftuh come to attack the end, and
that Alicia, Nelaru, and Lunaare staying at uh Nai, a wizard
with the ability to controlgravity through the swords of
iron, confronts Nelaru in thesearch for Luna while Alicia
deals with Maynard, uh Boloch'suh strongest and most terrible
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wizard who controls bugs, suchas a giant centipede like
monster.
Maynard convinces the people ofSheeran that Alicia is a traitor
to humanity and that she needsto surrender herself.
She explains that what happensand town folks decide to back
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off.
Maynard comes to attack but wasdefeated by Alicia after
Clementus reminds her thatStream Splitter works on any
living creature because theycontain water.
Uh Luna's mother Taya, Tala,excuse me, uh Renee demands to
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search for her son, uh Hedeliusthe Seventh.
He we learned that Luna is theonly heir who can use the Force
of Eden, which makes the babyeven more valuable.
Uh Talla tells us that thehammer of the king can't terror
any regalia and will use it asan acting ruler to deal with
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Rell.
Excuse me, I'm sorry.
Hmm, stumbling on words as forevil.
While Alicia fights Rogue, wefind out that the king survives,
but he carries his severed headwith one hand like a headless
knight.
We also learn that Drill andElise's fallen Margo completed
to become a hero and originallyreceived a sword that would
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become Dark Dragon.
It was during a mission to slaya dragon that Margot lose his
leg and his career as a hero.
By Margot's request, Drill willregalia, but became overwhelmed
by Dark Power, meeting hismaster Warden of the North for
the first time.
He slain the dragon, but at whatcost?
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Well, Drell makes his way to theford.
The headless king looks likehe's about to throw his infant
grandson in it.
We also learned that Luna's truename is Toth, and that all kings
of heathen are thrown into theforge to be reborn as both ruler
of the kingdom and ruled by theforge.
We also learn that all fivehumanoid races are descendants
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of humans that disappeared along time ago.
Alicia defeats Rel and convincesQuinn not to abandon Luna.
The infant prince returns to hismother on his own defeat.
The war is over, but the storyisn't.
Tawa and a mysterious tone arekey to the bigger mystery behind
everything.
And until a hypothetical secondseason, we leave it at Quinn
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requesting Tala to let him beLuna's magic teacher.
Now, I will give Clevertis an 8out of 10.
Great story, likable characters,and a fair amount of intrigue
between the bloodshed.
And also with Bro, he is one ofthose builds where I don't
completely disagree with them.
Because think about it, youhaving all those heroes go out
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and fight these dark beastlords, and they keep dying one
after another, it's almost likewhat's the point of that?
I can't agree with him to thatextent.
But that's just it.
Next anime.
So once a legendary detective,Nagamuk Hero, now summer through
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middle age, baffled bysmartphones and modern life.
His quiet decline gets disruptedwhen Moshiro, a bold high school
girl, burst into his officedemanding to become his
apprentice.
Though he's rusty in certainways, her relentless enthusiasm
drags him back into detectivework.
Now the gap bridge and detectiveduo is on the case.
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I think it's a fairlyinteresting dynamic between the
lead characters.
It's like old school versusmodern.
As a guy in his mid-30s, I canrelate to Nagumo to an extent.
But as a man with a morecontemporary mindset, I can
still keep up with current andtrends like Monstro.
What I don't like is the idea ofthem being assumed to be in an
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age-gap relationship becauseMonstro is a high school girl.
No, just no.
The show doesn't seem to try toohard with the gag.
In fact, I believe that somejokes and shenanigans are good
when they're kept simple, likewhen Monstro puts on her JoJo
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face.
There's some real-worldreferences are dropped
throughout the show, suggestMonstro is trained to be a
detective by watching actionmovies like Die Hard, Resident
Evil, and Tomb Raider.
After a feminist request beingmistaken for a crime gang
elimination, Macho takes outsome Yakusa with weapons from
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her seemingly unlimitlessstorage in her clothes, and Nezu
gives up and becomes the cost ofguy for Nagumo.
We get some black representationwith Macho's coach, uh Sunaro, a
young, rich, popular captainbecomes Machro's rival and being
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Nagumo's assistant and helpingthe old man regain his shine.
His sense of observation andquestioning is hilarious.
We're also introduced toAsunaro's assistant Maki, who
has a disdain for her master asclear as her monotone demeanor,
but she has more personalitywhen talks to Nagumo.
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Mainly because they're both likeolder.
I mean, Maki's not even thatold, but she's like in her late
20s, I want to say.
Another friend Nagumo is anAccenture Inventor, Azuha.
She reminds me of Q from the 007movies, which he made a
reference to, as a matter offact.
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And the more I watch this anime,the more I laugh and scream,
what the fuck?
I give it a 7 out of 10.
Fast-paced action comedy that'sunironically funny.
Next anime, we got scooped up byan S-Rank Adventurer.
Lloyd is a white mage who wasunexpectedly banned from the
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heroes party as he was lost anduncertain.
He happened to cross paths withthe S-Rank Adventurer party in
need of a white mage.
So he joined them on theirrequest.
Little did anyone know that atthe time the heroes party would
fall apart and Lloyd would riseto fame.
This is a story about anunmatched support magic user who
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believes himself to be ordinary,becoming an unstoppable
adventure.
Another underestimated supporttype protagonist that's more OP
than he seems.
His master, the legendary mageMerlin, sealed his true
potential to prevent a tragicevent from happening again,
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making sure that the boy doesn'tget overconfident, but Lloyd
learned a lot of different magicfrom her.
If anything, Lloyd suffered froma lack of confidence because he
used to being told that's everwasn't good enough.
Alan, the famous hero and theleader of that elite party, is
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one of those assholes who thinkthat support units are useless
or next to useless.
And yet when Lloyd leaves, yousee how Alan's overconfidence is
a flimsy shield.
See, crazy thing is like eversince the first anime lightning
with I Love My A-Ring party, itjust seems like we've been
coming across a bunch of thesewhere oh like he ain't really
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shit, but it turns out hisabilities are more overpowered
than things.
Speaking of which, the S-Classparty that Lloyd joins is
comprised of Yui, the leader andswordsman, Dogas, the shield
tank, Cross, the Archer, andSilica the Maid.
Fairly friendly people for thehighest ranking achievement in
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this world.
And after rescuing a beast folkwoman named Quare from Demons,
the party used her power toprotect the land of Ishtar from
monsters attacking it.
Lena, the sensible one of Alan'sparty, decides to leave Alan to
join S-Rake Adventurers afterAlan makes a fool of himself to
run the townsfolk, revealingthat he hasn't been training in
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a while.
The quote-unquote hero leavesIshtar with the remaining
members of his party who startedto doubt him as well.
The main takeaway from thisanime is to have self-confidence
is to believe in your truestrength.
Don't underestimate orundervalue yourself.
If you doubt yourself, you won'treach your full potential.
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Best thing to do is to takepride in your abilities without
over-exaggerating.
Raggers can be obnoxious attimes, but no one likes a person
that's self-depreciative orunsure of themselves.
Trust me.
Trust me.
I give this one 7.5 out of 10.
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It was kind of mid, but stillenjoyable with a relatable theme
about confidence.
Speaking of confidence, the nextanime is The Shy Hero and the
Assassin Princesses.
The hero Toto has talent, buthis shyness has prevented him
from forming a party as helanguishes in the town of
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Oregon.
Three beautiful women.
Oh I don't know.
I'll say Ciel's a woman.
Like because he looks like agirl, a little girl.
Anyway, uh, three women, Ciel,Anemone, and Goa, invite Toto to
join their party out of theblue.
Toto gears up to begin thejourney, but unbeknownst to him,
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all three women are plotting tokill him for their own reasons.
Now, Toto, I mean, not excuseme, not like Toto from Kyle.
Like Toto is a strong, nice guythat just struggles with
communicating with others.
Very bad for when it comes towomen touching him or making
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advances at him, can come up asunintentionally scary because
he's like a big dude.
Like think Dave the Barbarianbig.
He can I can kind of relate tohim to an extent because he's
also strong enough to defeatenemies with one punch.
I mean, I'm not saying that, butlike I just relate to the whole
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part where he comes off asunintentionally scared about hey
man, I'm just be locking, youknow.
Sometimes I just have a hardtime communicating with others,
but I'm getting better at it.
But uh, I think it's kind offunny how even though it's a
comedy, like you just have thatwhole Sytoma one-punch string.
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Now, Cio.
She's the next heir to becomeruler of the Demon Clan,
assigned by her father to killToto without any assistance as a
means to prove herself worthy ofthe throne.
Of the three girls, she's theonly childlike character, and
she actually wants independenceand to eat tasty dessert more
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than anything.
Anemone uh is a back alleyassassin hired to kill Toto for
a hundred million dollar bag onhis head.
Also, big boobs, and Goa is adominatrix that's gunning for
Toto just for a proper challengeand quote unquote freaking him.
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Also, bigger boobs.
Kind of a fast-paced fantasyadventure comedy where the girls
find themselves bonding over howthey're all plotting on Toto.
I don't even consider Goa as anassassin if she's just trying to
make Toto her new pet for abrothel.
But over time, each of the girlsstart to like Toto, making it
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more difficult for them toassassinate him.
I give it a 7.5 out of 10.
Once again, kind of mid, but atleast the members of the main
cast stood out respectively intheir own right.
Well, most of them.
Toto was kind of cookie cutterfor me.
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We got Ugly Mugs Epic Fighter.
After a false accusation,Shigeru Yoshi Oka becomes an
unemployed recluse.
By choosing to remain ugly inanother world, Shigeru gains
higher status.
He begins his second life as anabsolute god with C leveled
staff.
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At first, Shigeru, he tags alongwith Seika, Seiji, and Reese,
who were also east guided intothis world.
But due to a weakness caused bydirect contact with a girl, he
considers breaking away from theparty.
However, Seika, Seika, damn it.
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Seika thanks Shigeru for hishelp in episode one, bought him
a burger as things, and he'susing repayment as an excuse to
stick around.
Uh let me tell you something.
This guy, I'm talking aboutthis.
This dude Shigeru nerfed himselfphysically and financially in
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order to gain over 100 trillionbonus points towards his new
life, but got Isekai before hewas able to distribute those
points.
Luckily, he was able to do soupon his first level up.
He takes 10% damage for a turkeytouching a girl, and usually
that's like trillions of HPpoints, but that's just 10% for
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him.
He dies if he has sex with agirl, and his income.
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I know the point is to beyourself unashamably.
Unashamedly.
But honestly, I would say thatyou have to be either defiantly
prideful or a moronic masochistto take that deal.
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That's just me personally.
The party seems genuinely niceand nice to Shigeru.
Seika may tease him, but atleast she's not like that minor
girl who framed Shigeru forharassment in the past life just
for being ugly.
And I'll talk about that alittle bit more in just a
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moment.
The world that the party liveson is like a video game world,
most notably with the squaresand rectangles floating in the
midair.
Seika is smart, rich, and cutefor a 17-year-old girl.
But she can be wasteful andthoughtless when it comes to her
resource management.
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She's also very blunt with a notvery modest attitude.
Did I forget to mention that shehas a silter mentality?
But I don't blame herconsidering that the implication
that she was handicapped in herpast life.
Oh, yeah.
And she has an angelictransformation that can do
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miraculous healing.
So there's that.
Uh Saiji is the kind of guy thatwould be the typical anime
protagonist, a genuinely nicedude and hero with the power to
transform into an angelic formnamed Aldian and uh Shining
Fist.
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We have Reeze, who knows Seikaand Seiji from their previous
lives, with Seiji being herbrother and Reese being part of
a program designed to helpSeika.
She has the ability to seespecial notes when you decide to
get Isekai.
So she knows Shigeru's deal,being an Almighty God, and asks
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for his help to keep Seikahappy.
Also, she has a demonic form.
Uh oh, yeah.
Something about another Almightygame god named Karina, who was
actually the sister to thatminor that I was telling you
about earlier.
Like, basically, her sisterfucked her over, too.
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So it's just crazy how this onegirl, like, this minor hates
ugly people so much that shegoes around falsely accusing
ugly dudes for harassment justfor them to get like jail time
and whatnot.
Like, she just really hates uglypeople.
Like, this is the type of shitthat men are afraid of in real
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life.
She got arrested, but she was aminor, so that's how she like
got off easy.
But imagine being a teenagergoing around trying to ruin the
lives of men just because youthink they're ugly.
It's almost like saying, Ohyeah, ugly people, they don't
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deserve to prosper.
Like, ugly people should neverprosper.
Like, bro, that's kind of fuckedup.
Uh oh yeah.
Also, something about anorganization of Misfit reborn
into the world name Ornung Beeror something like that.
This anime was alright.
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Another 7.5.
Not all that, but not badeither.
I think the premise characterstory, but with that aside, it
just felt like another videogame like Isakai story.
And last anime for animelightning, because I am trying
to get faster at.
There's a there was a wholebunch of anime that I wanted to
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review, but I was kind ofpressed for time, and I got
other things that I wanted toreview, and other shit to do
outside of the podcast.
So I just stuck with six oftime.
Last anime.
Welcome to the OutcastRestaurant.
When Superstar Adventurer Dennisgets booted from the world's
strongest party, he teams upwith Runaway Otti Ottilie.
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I'm sorry, I'm gonna butcher thename.
Uh to serve up his true passion,delicious cuisine.
But this not so average eateryhas not so average patrons.
Dennis will battle his quirkycustomer trouble with his trusty
butcher knife and walk.
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Visit the adventurers andrestaurant and fill up your
heart and stomach.
Now, once again, we have anotherprotagonist that's been kicked
out of his party for having aseamlessly useless class, last
ability.
But Dennis is a level 99 chef,specializing in alchemy,
metallurgy, metallurgy, excuseme, uh, knives, and more due to
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his focus on cooking.
He provided support for most ofthe Silver Wings members and out
of bounty, but opens arestaurant in a small town after
his exile called the AdventurersRestaurant, where he serves his
various regulars.
He aimed for level 100, which heachieved, and become what is
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known as a ranked sovereign.
Vigo, the captain of the SilverWing, once again, that asshole
party leader, uh, clearly up tosomething, while most of the
other members just go along withit.
So there's one character thatthat's the most sensible of them
all.
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He's a level 99 swordsman who'sknown as the Azure Rensword due
to his destructive power andfull-body blue armor.
He's a ruthless and power-hungryman, driven by ambition, who's
exiled then to begin his plan tousurp power and to have Katie to
himself and frequently acts onhis own and views others as
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stepping stones, using his powerto deter dissempting voices in
Silverwing.
Katie is a level 84 swordswomanwho is known as the Crimson
Swift Sword due to her agilefighting style and red armor.
The vice captain of Silverwing,she wears very revealing bikini
armor due to her immense pridein her body, which has the added
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effect of seducing nobles.
She was the one who recruitedDennis and remained his sole
friend while he was in thebattalion.
Their closeness made othersthink they were dating when they
were not, and continues tosupport Dennis after his exile.
Atelier is a young girl who wassold into slavery after being
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cast out of the Noble family, uhworks at that family, and she is
bought by Dennis, who sets herfree shortly afterwards.
Uh, she used her newfoundfreedom to help out at the
adventurous restaurant, becomingknown as his poster girl.
Uh, Henrietta is a swordswomanin the full play armor, comes in
as Dennis' first customer.
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She tells him that she was goodat her par as well because she
was a woman and she wasfrequently allowed to eat for
free due to not being able tofind work recently or easily.
Her impoverished backgroundwhere her family used to eat,
leather made her not pick itwith regards to choice of food.
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In episode two, Dennis askedaround to find a party for her,
uh, and she finds a party ofmale adventurers willing to hire
her.
Later, Dennis would hear rumorthat an all-male party has been
hiring female adventures inorder to take them into the
dungeons, assault them, and thenleave them to be killed by
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monsters.
And Henrietta was thrilled hernew party, uh, values her skills
with a sword.
But after a full day of monsterslaying, uh, she gets paralyzed
by the party mage and uhrevealing uh that they have
contempt for female warriors andthey were gonna have their way
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with her, but they were spoiledby Dennis, who furiously
appeared with twin meat weaversin a paper bag hiding his face,
knocking them out.
Uh Henrietta awakens at theAdventures deal with no idea how
she got there, but grateful thatthe guy didn't like go too far
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and have been found and end upbeing arrested.
She returns to Dennis'restaurant and learns that he
had mysteriously closed therestaurant for the last two
days.
Looking closely up, Dennis, heshe realized he somewhat
resembles the paper bag man.
And then we have adventurerBiblia Strange come in and
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complaining about localadventurers uh to inferior for
to perform party with.
So, in other words, he just gota big ego.
Uh we got night miss memberBotcha, who's overworked by her
lazy party members, and decidedto just leave them, but their
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leader Hopper and the rest ofNightness just didn't take that
very well.
And Dennis got into it withthem.
He ended up defeating them, blahblah blah.
Uh, Katie reveals thatSilverwing had begun failing
quests since Dennis' departure.
Oh, surprise, surprise.
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Who would have thought that theguy that they kicked out was
actually useful?
Dennis refused to return.
And Vigo also refused to inviteDennis back.
He was being very prideful withthat.
And the restaurant became morepopular, so Dennis hired uh Baco
Bachel as a second waitress.
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Uh Henrietta's food pillcontinues to increase, worrying
her that Dennis might stopfeeding her until she can pay.
After Dennis influencedalternative events, Vigo, Atui's
father Joseph, Hopper fromNightmare, and some judge plot
against Dennis going as far asarson on the restaurant.
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Dennis thought about runningaway, but was convinced by
friends, customers, and othertownsfolk to fight back and let
them help them.
He then visits Gene Black, aranked sovereign, and his
adoptive mother, mother, excuseme, for information and was
given a hint of how he can reachlevel 100, realizing a purpose
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in life.
Dennis confronts the connivingfour men, defeats be go, have
the men arrested, and everythingresolved nicely.
Katie becomes captain of theSilver Wing uh battalion.
Uh Bibia joined the good guild.
Uh Baco Abacho.
Oh god, these names about killme.
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It's teaching magic now.
Uh Henrietta is now a knight,and Dennis continued to um work
at the now named Outcastrestaurant with Attilia.
Yeah, it's a 74.5 for me.
Decent show got a little darkhere and there, but it was
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decent, and that was about itfor Anime Lightning.
Uh, there's a lot of anime thatI'm gonna be doing full reviews
on, but here's the deal.
Um, for a solid month, Ibelieve, we are going to try to
get into the habit of uploadingour episodes to Patreon first.
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So some of them might seem alittle dated in a way, where
it's like, oh yeah, I'm kind oftalking about a little old news,
but to be fair, it was onPatreon first, and then we
decided to put it on the publicpodcast.
So going forward, we're gonna dobetter at uploading new episodes
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to Patreon first, and then oncethat gets circulation, then
we'll upload all of them ontothe main platform.
So you know, listen to them onSpotify or whatever podcast
platform that you listen to yourshows on.
Uh, if we don't do a properHalloween special, we do have an
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afterdart special that we'regonna release around that time.
But for the most part, we'regonna try to take it easy for
the month of October and we'llbe back in full swing by
mid-November.
We'll definitely probably have awhole bunch of episodes for you
to listen to.
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So until then, remember to staynerdy and that great things are
coming.
Go ahead and have yourself agood morning, good afternoon,
good evening, good night.
But ultimately, take it easy.
It's been Jet Black Extreme withAnime Lightning, and I'm zoning
up out of here.
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