To Be Hero X: The Capitalism of Trust and Fear

Have you ever wondered what would happen if public belief could transform ordinary people into superheroes? To Be Hero X creates a mesmerizing world where faith becomes literal power, and the moment people stop believing in you, your abilities begin to fade. But this isn't just another superhero story – it's a masterclass in innovative storytelling, experimental animation, and corporate intrigue.

Across multiple interconnected character arcs, we explore a system where hero associations function like cutthroat record labels, pushing their stars to maintain rankings at any cost – even if it means assassinating fellow heroes. We follow characters like Nice, whose identity is stolen by Ling Ling after a tragic suicide; Esoul, whose mantle passes from old to young in a spectacular battle; and the mysterious X, whose reality-warping powers might be connected to the audience itself. The series brilliantly employs different animation styles not just as an aesthetic choice but as an integral part of its power system and narrative structure.

What truly elevates To Be Hero X is its non-linear storytelling approach. Episodes jump between time periods and character perspectives, gradually revealing how seemingly unrelated stories connect to form a larger conspiracy involving the former hero Zero and corporate machinations to resurrect his power. As we piece together the chronology (which begins with episodes 17-18, not episode 1!), we uncover layers of meaning that reward multiple viewings. Fan theories abound about X's true identity, potential alien connections, and whether time travel might explain some of the show's mysterious elements.

Ready to experience an anime that breaks all the rules while delivering spectacular fight sequences, compelling character development, and mind-bending plot twists? Watch To Be Hero X now and join us in unraveling its mysteries. What's your theory about who X really is?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
What up, gang?
Let's talk about 2b hero X, anew anime series that came out
this year and I'm gonna behonest with you, straight up I
say it's a 10 out of 10 for me.
Like I was watching it.
Normally I would like takenotes every now and then just to

(00:21):
see what I want to talk about,but with this one, nah, like
this anime is so wild with howthey executed it, like I was
thinking like you know what,just put the pin down and just
enjoy the show.
And I'm just gonna tell you howI'm feeling about it.
Uh, playboy, I am so glad thatyou joining me for this because,

(00:42):
honestly, I was gonna save itfor anime lightning, but since
you were saying that you enjoyedit, so I was like, okay, let's
do it together, we'll do a fullreview on it.
And you know what, I'm kind ofglad we're kind of doing a full
review.
Oh, we'll see.
Like, um, we'll see.

(01:02):
Now with 2, with 2B Hero X, youhave this world where you have
faith, turning people intosuperheroes, and like, say, for
instance, if people believe thatyou can fly, then you can fly,

(01:22):
and if you lose trust with thepeople, then you also lose your
power.
So you gotta it's kind ofperformative, essentially, like
you gotta make sure that youdon't fail in the eyes of the
public, otherwise you'll loseyour power and your status and
whatnot.
Speaking of status, it's kindof corporate and I like how.

(01:45):
Whatnot.
Speaking of status, it's kindof corporate.
And yeah, I just I like howthey kind of did it to where you
have these multiple heroassociations taking on heroes
trying to get their ranks up andwhatnot.
But the thing is just about allof them are corrupt to some
degree, to where some of themare like willing to be like all

(02:09):
right, I'm gonna need you totake out this hero so that way
you can rise up in the ranks.
So you have a whole bunch ofheroes not only fighting
villains, but they're alsofighting other heroes, and even
crazier is that most of the timewhen a villain is introduced,

(02:30):
they were a former hero that gotinfected by fear and the thing
is with fear, just like how ahero gets his power from trust,
fear also has different effectson people.
Sometimes, with fear, it mighthave you thinking irrationally

(02:51):
or whatnot, but with some of theheroes, it's like a dark
version of themselves, whereyou're just fueled by negative
emotions and whatnot?
Anger, jealousy, whatever thecase may be, and it's crazy how
like the villains are normallyformer heroes.

(03:14):
In fact, the first person tobecome X is called Zero and he's
revered as his god, is calledzero and he's revered as his god
, and let's just say that likeambiguously, like they didn't
really fully explain, but it'salmost like he was like godlike,

(03:34):
but then something went wrongto a point to where he became
like this ultimate evil and theysay he perished, but as of the
season finale, it's like, oh no,he never really perished, so he
might be Walking around.
There's some fan theoriesfloating around Talking about
what's been going on, includingZero.

(03:57):
But Before I yap on any further, playboy, tell me how you feel
about To be Hero X.
How did you enjoy the show?

Speaker 2 (04:09):
man.
As a show, I definitely agreewith you on giving it a 10 out
of 10, because and the story,the animation was already dead
just by them swapping animationsthroughout the show.
That itself was just unique andclever, never seen that before.
And clever.
And then on top of that, thestorytelling, right when I
thought they threw me off, itwas just like another way to

(04:31):
lock me in, because by thefourth episode it took a whole
nother turn.
It went to the past on someother character, and I remember
somebody telling me thatdifferent parts of the show had
different main characters and Ijust wanted to figure out why.
And and as I started watchingit more and more, I started
seeing some well, at least onecharacter get a highlight from
the previous episode.
I'm like, okay, these storiestie in together.

(04:54):
So there's multiple heroes andwe're getting like a glimpse of
each of their episodes, theirmain characters at certain parts
in the series or at leastthroughout the season, and then,
I'm assuming, at the end theyall come together, which is kind
of what happened.
But throughout the show Istarted to notice I'd say my
favorite thing is one of theheroes.

(05:16):
His power was manipulating thedimensions and basically
changing the animation of thewhole show.
So when I realized that,re-watching the show only makes
me wonder what he was doing thewhole time, since the animation

(05:37):
was changing while he wasn'tthere, you see what I'm saying.
Right, considering the fact heused it during combat, I'm
sitting here watching the firstcouple of episodes.
Like these characters don'tnotice the animation change.
It's not affecting them inanything, but you can see how,
when it gets to him, he's usingit to fight like he don't get
touched at all you know what I'msaying.

(05:57):
So it was a great concept.
I honestly think and it'salways listen, bro, it's always
these white haired characterswould just do it on the shit,
bro.
This man was untouched, justcool as hell.
He was just walking Hands inpocket white hair, white suit,
like.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Bro, like he had drip for sale With the glasses and
all that.
His hair got slicked back andshit.
Yeah, the shit was crazy.
He was unbothered A wholefucking time.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
To be number one, to be hero, it's I with it, a
different.
But when the whole power systemthat was a whole, that was a
whole new thing for me too.
Like, I kind of like that.
Like every time I watch a newanime, I'm always wondering
what's the power system herelike?
What's different, what's whatmakes them powerful?
And so when I'm looking at them, like this trust value, okay, I
with that, because, like yousay, you can't, once they give

(06:50):
you this power or you put theyput you on this pedestal, you
have to perform.
The better you perform, themore trust you get, the more
power you get.
You see what I'm saying.
And, um, as you can see thattrust can turn to fear.
That's what made the first herobecome, you know, evil or not,
because he was trusted byeverybody in the whole world,
but then everybody in the entireworld.
That trust turned to fear, whichmade him very powerful.

(07:13):
And the evil aspect kind oflike how the um, the devil
powers work in chainsaw man,everybody fear it become a real
thing.
So, right, I was like I fuckedwith that when that came into
play Because it kind ofcountered the trust thing.
And there was something else.
I mean I kind of when a dog,what's his name?
Ahu?
When he got his littleawakening and he turned up and

(07:36):
got his little one trust power,in my head, just being a fanatic
of anime, I was thinking maybethis is a new way of getting
power and like motivation orsomething, like something.
Just the way he was explainingit made it seem as if he was he
didn't trust the kid but hetrusted her trusting him.
That's how he explained that hewas like I trusted her from the
very beginning and she told mehe was that third.

(07:59):
So he got one trust power and Iwas like, okay, now hold on.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
I like how you're bringing that up, because I was
gonna mention with x.
Like there's like some theoriesgoing on, well, mainly around
him, like with x.
Like he's like this mysteriousperson, like nobody really knows
his identity but people knowthat he's so strong and whatnot.
And one of the theories that Ilike is what if he doesn't

(08:28):
really abide by the traditionaltrust value system, but rather
his trust comes from hisself-confidence and with himself
?
In other words, as long as heplayed cool and know that he can
make things happen, he can makeit happen.
That's why his it happen,that's why his reality-warping
abilities make sense to him Towhere it's like as long as he

(08:49):
knows that he can get out anysituation, like defeat any
opponent, like that makes sense.
And also another fan theorythat I'm going to tie into what
if he's not reliant on the trustvalue of the people in the show

(09:10):
, but the trust from us as anaudience?
Because we're thinking thenumber one hero is supposed to
be like the best of the best, sowe're trusting that he can't
lose.
So as long as we trust that xcan like beat any opponent, get
out any situation, he's gonna doit.

(09:31):
So it's more like uh, he's likethe most meta anime character
in a while.
Like the very fact that he canlike change the animation style
and the flow and whatnot shouldtell you that he's like on the
lowest, where he probably knowsthe fourth wall.

(09:53):
That's why, in the finalepisode, his mission is simply
to defy fate and to go upagainst these corrupt, uh,
agencies trying to uncover thetruth and whatnot.
It makes sense in that aspectto where X is this avatar of a
character that we want tobelieve in.

(10:14):
It's really wild because I'mthinking of multiple shows that
does this whole hero thing.
Capitalism, consumerism typeshit, where you got the boys,
you have one punch man, you gotmy hero academia, where they
kind of have that thing going onto, where it seemed like hero
work is like more corporate, youknow, like kind of by the book

(10:38):
type shit, rather than justsuperheroes just doing their
thing and they just happen tocollaborate with each other.
They do, but they don't really,they're not under like
government guidance or whatnot.
But uh, it's kind of a newthing in modern times and I'm
kind of fucked with it byconcept.
But uh, yeah, speaking ofcorporations and corruption,

(11:05):
let's talk about some of thesecharacters and how some of these
characters got set up to be apawn in all these things, for
instance nice.
Now, nice, you think like, okay,pretty boy who fights elegantly
and all that, okay, cool, cool,cool, cool.
And it's crazy how Ling Ling'sstory starts with the real nice.

(11:30):
Just walking by, you know, likeLin was just up on the roof, he
just got fired, like he justkind of down the dump Next thing
.
You know he see nice juststrolling by and just decide to
commit suicide, probably from,probably from like some pressure
and some type shit.
But like we're going to circlethe real Nice for a moment, but

(11:52):
like it just like ever sincethen Lin had to assume Nice's
personality and whatnot, becauseyou know he kind of looked like
Nice anyways, not because youknow he kind of looked like nice
anyways.
So he got the real nicest trustvalue and, uh, started to look

(12:14):
like him and whatnot.
He was, had this parasocialrelationship with moon, but moon
didn't even want to be a partof this shit and she got out
when she could, like they had tostage the whole thing.
It was crazy, but like dang,like the moment I realized I had
to lock in was at the very lastmoment, like at episode 4,
where Moon got capped, and thenyou see Iso running behind her

(12:41):
and I'm like what the fuck justhappened?
And then, next thing, you knowthis, this whole plot.
I'm finding out that it's likeKingdom Hearts trying to figure
this shit out.
Like okay, let me tell you.
The chronological order for theepisodes goes like this it's
episodes 17 and 18, or half ofthe first half of 18.

(13:04):
Then episodes 8 and 9, thenepisode 11, then 5, then 5
through 7, then 10, then 12through 16, then we go back to
the second half of episode 18,19 through 23, then the first

(13:25):
four episodes and then the lastepisode.
I'm sitting like, oh, hell, no,I don't got time for that.
Just let it ride, though.
Just let it ride, fuck it, hell.
No, you got me fucked up.
I'm just gonna watch that shit.
I gotta keep skipping throughshit just to get it in

(13:46):
chronological order.
Like maybe some youtubers goinglike clipping together and be
like, okay, here it is achronological.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Okay, appreciate your service, bro, but I I couldn't
do it like nah, nah, nah, but,uh, but how you felt about that
nice part man, I ain't gonna lie, because that's what kind of
got me into the very firstepisode, because when he just
walked off the fucking roof, Ialmost didn't think that

(14:14):
happened.
Like I'm not gonna lie to you,I almost like nah ain't, no way
he died just walking off, like Iknow he didn't.
So I played it back and I keptwatching.
I'm like nah, bro, he gonnacome back, something's gonna
happen.
Like you know it back, and Ikept watching.
I'm like nah, bro, he gonnacome back, something's gonna
happen.
You know what I'm saying.
Then it kept going on and goingon and he really took this man's
life.
He didn't take his life, but hestarted impersonating him.

(14:34):
Ling Ling started being niceand I'm like what, how they just
gonna let that happen.
But it took so long for it toget like, get to the conclusion
of that, because throughout theshow I must have missed it or
it's just how they delivered it.
I'm thinking the whole time,throughout the show, this was

(14:55):
the new nice, like Ling Ling,some of that like well, I want
to say like towards the end,like that Ending half of it it
was like in the past was thereal nice, like when he got hit
with the fear and everything,because it wasn't until ling
ling was over when he made it atop 10.
You know what I'm saying?
Because that was nice wholething trying to make top 10.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
he never made top 10 you know, let me just go ahead
and say because, keep in mind,with nice, like for whoever's
listening to this episode, uh,it's not until way later into
the series if you're likewatching it in the like
numerical order, like you seemore of the real nice later.

(15:40):
But you find out that, oh, he'sunder a lot of pressure under
his uh hero agency, wherethey're trying to pressure him
into like killing other heroesin order to make it to the top
10 and whatnot, and he gets alittle drop of fear onto him and
whatnot.
But that's what kind of that'sthe main theory I got for why

(16:04):
you see the real nice showing upwith the crack on his face,
where maybe that's him beinglike resurrected or like kind of
it's almost like the fear, kindof saving at the last minute.
But it's also corrupting him.
So we'll see in season two.
I like how they did set upseason two at the end minute,

(16:24):
but it's also corrupting him.
So we'll see in season two.
I like how they did set upseason two at the end, with a
little uh ending theme where itwas like different heroes and
whatnot.
So, okay, it's a little tasteof what you can expect from
season two.
Okay, okay, cool, cool.
But yeah, like I just thoughtit was kind of crazy where Nice

(16:45):
was just one of those heroes whojust wanted to be a hero the
right way.
But he's come to find out that,oh shit, like he's getting
exploited, like some heroes,like in the boys, you know,
between the, especially thefemale characters in the boys
they're the main, those are themain characters that get

(17:06):
explored for some reason andit's crazy.
But speaking of exploitation,let's talk about Esoul Now, now
Yon-Chan, I'm calling him YangYang.

(17:28):
You know, I think Yang justsounds right because it just
sounds right.
But Yang is like this orphanwho's working as the ESO actor
because, you know, his parentsgot killed by some thugs.
But the real ESO, the old Esau,excuse me, saved well, took out

(17:50):
the bad guys and ever sincethen he wanted to be just like
Esau and then he also wanted totake this girl that he had a
crush on to a concert.
But the one guy, uh, shane chow, keeps showing up and like kind

(18:12):
of stealing his thunder andwhatnot, and nothing against
shane, like he's, he's a prettycool dude, but he just damn.
Like I kind of felt for yang.
It's more like one of thosethings where, okay, you got your
typical uh protagonist wherehe's like not very confident in
himself and he's trying to winover this girl, but he also want
to be like his hero, easel.

(18:33):
And the thing is he got zerotrust value.
But once, um, the girl's littlebrother, carmelo, gets
kidnapped, yang decides okay,let me just save the kid.
And he ended up getting thatone trust value.

(18:55):
When the kid started to havefaith in him, that gave him all
he needed to take out those twokidnappers.
And every since then he becamethe new Esau, to a point to
where everybody started likinghim.
He was trying to do his thing.
Everything was nice, up untilShang-Chao got shot in the head

(19:20):
by one of the kidnappers fromearlier.
That drove Yang to a point towhere he needs to lock in and be
the best hero he can be andthat guy start with taking out
the old, each soul, so that waythere can be only one, and then
he can make sure shit like thisdoesn't happen again, like he
even like forgot all about thegirl in order to do all this

(19:44):
shit.
But, man, let me tell you Twothings.
Well, yes, two things.
And I'm going to ask you, boy,what Two things.
One, that fucking fight betweenold Ezel and new Iso.

(20:05):
That was one of those fightswhere I'm like, bro, this is
fucking peak.
Especially with Lucky Siamsinging her song in background
too.
I'm like oh, this is so peak.
That was probably one of thebest fights for me, yeah,
definitely like top five in theseries um so far.

(20:27):
But the second thing was, well,hold on one more thing the fact
that at the end they just madeit like up for speculation on
who won that fight, because youknow, both Esouls like trust,
values merged and whatnot.
The armor merged.

(20:48):
So it's like make it sound likeit could have been either or.
But I honestly think it was thenew Esoul.
He just lost his arm, or maybethat's just part of the whole
fusion thing, do we?
Oh, you take on the mantle ofEsau.
You gotta have the prostheticarm too.
So I wanna believe it was theyoung Esau that won that one,

(21:11):
because old Esau don't move likethat, you know, with the
lightning fast running and shit.
So I'm like, yeah, that'sdefinitely new Esau that won
that one.
So I'm like, yeah, that'sdefinitely a new Esau that one.
I'm pretty sure of that.
If it's the old one, I'll be sosurprised.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yeah, the young Esau was the one that was running
around.
The old one was just kind ofstanding there using the suit
and the powers and stuff.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
I think he had like a shield or something, yeah, like
it was like this floatingshield it or something, yeah,
like it was like this uh,floating shield, like it's like
metal sheets that he kind ofuses as a shield, and it's also
like spears and whatnot, youknow, kind of almost like a form
of electromagnetic telekinesis,that shit.
But uh, oh, one more thing thefact that Uncle Rock of Mighty

(22:02):
Glory set up the whole fuckingthing.
He set up Shane Chow gettingshot, the kidnappers, all that
shit, just to make sure thatYang gets hyped up to become the
new Esau, just because theywanted to get rid of the old
ESOL, because, oh, he ain'tdoing what we tell him to do,

(22:23):
like he ain't trying to kill theheroes like we tell him to do.
So we gonna need a new guy.
So they've been hyping up Yangto become the new ESOL.
Take out the old one.
So that way, the new guy.
Okay, this new guy will playball, he will do what we tell
him to do.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
That would play ball.
He would do what we told him.
That was crazy for me.
But how you feeling about theeasel?
Honestly, I'd say it wasprobably.
Well, I want to say one of myfavorites.
I only because of the fight andlike the story behind it, but
that was where I started tonotice how corrupt it was.
It was during that.
That's when I started torealize all the different like
the hero organizations,associations, like how serious

(23:09):
it was.
That was when I realized, okay,yeah, this is, this is bigger
than just fighting villains andsaving the world because they're
trying to take out people andbecause the old east soul, he
really didn't give a damn bro,he didn't even want to fight the
young, he was like I don't care, he was like on some batman
he's like I'm iso, like you feelme, I'm the first he's gonna
run you.
So, like, if you want to beimpossible, like, but it wanted

(23:31):
me.
You know what I'm saying.
He was the one who threw thefinal hit against.
You know what I'm saying?
Zero right, you know what I'msaying.
So buddy was really not tryingto fight and I seen how his
manager was like, yeah, you gotto take on this fight, beat this
young kid's ass, this down thethird.
You know what I'm saying.
But buddy, like, no, I ain'treally tripping, I ain't gonna
lie, I kind of sleep.

(23:51):
I thought he was gonna win thatshit.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
Like I mean, it's one of those uh it's one of those
stories where it can honestly goeither way.
Like they're not really tryingto hype up anybody to be like
the main protagonist, likethere's multiple protagonists,
including X, but it's likeyou're not really supposed to be

(24:15):
like too attached to anyone inparticular, like, yeah, you can
have some favorites, but like itcan go either way.
Kind of like watching JunieTyson all over again.
I mean, in a way you kind ofknew who was going to win, but
the fact that at first it wasset up to where, oh well, you're
not really expecting anyone,like you're not really attached

(24:35):
to any of the characters, so itcan go either way.
Like you kind of like certaincharacters to an extent but
there's like no one they werereally focusing on.
So it worked that way.
To where the fact that thewinner won and I'm like okay,
cool, I kind of like that towhere you can just like a

(24:58):
character but don't get tooattached because who knows if
they might die in this series.
But keeping it moving, there'sLucky Cyan, the lucky young girl
who's very good with music.
She survived the plane crash,she was taken into this

(25:20):
orphanage, made friends and whatnot.
She I mean I did mention thatshe's like revealed to be
incredibly lucky, like she givesluck and what not, but she
wanted more than that.
So she wanted to escape herfriend Luo, but the Dean didn't
want her to leave like she was.
In fact, the Dean was hisformer hero that wanted to
escape Girlfriend Luo, but theDean didn't want her to leave.

(25:41):
In fact, the Dean was hisformer hero that wanted to raise
the orphans Into heroes as well.
But you know, once he gets thecorruption, he's like okay, I'm
just gonna raise y'all To belike kind of having his own Hero
association in a way, but usingthe orphans instead.
And Honestly, I want to saythat's when the story got kind

(26:03):
of dark for me, when cyan had torun away to become a street
performer trying to earn money,afford necessities, whatever the
case may be uh, do what youneed to do.
Uh, you see x talks throughthat coin and that's the start
of his uh hero story and I likehow it's like kind of loops

(26:23):
around to that moment and therewas like zombies and everybody
was just like mutating whatnotbecause of the fear.
And you see the dean like beingthe main one, like in control,
luo like being warped by hisinsecurity that cyan left
dementia and you see cyan try tofight through all these

(26:49):
different zombified inhabitantsof the orphanage and whatnot.
Queen shows up to help herbecause you know they kind of
buddy buddy and you know theytake care of it.
Like not to say a whole lotabout, um, science, art.
I'm gonna try to play throughsome of these arts anyways.

(27:12):
But yeah, it gets dark in thisone and you kind of find out
that another CEO, DOS Mickey.
He masterminded everything tounveil the existence of the
power of fear to the public.
He set all that shit up forLucky Cyan and Plan Cras.

(27:40):
Uh, it gets crazy.
Like bro, it gets crazy.
It's one of those anime serieswhere, bro, y'all be better off,
just go ahead and watch it.
Like we're trying to tell you,just go ahead and watch it.
Uh, queen, I do like Queen.
You know, obvious Queen Energy.
Like she's a prodigy graduatesfrom university at 14.

(28:04):
Like she's trying to be thenumber one hero.
Like she has to rival Boa andwhatnot.
She's trying to win thetournament.
But they keep getting watchedby X.
Not a whole lot to say, well,other than than boa getting
corrupted by fear and we had todeal with that.

(28:26):
But uh, she had to deal withher friend and end up losing her
chance to become a number onehero when she was in a coma and
can participate In the 18thtournament.
So there's that, loli.

(28:46):
She's like Iron man, but hermain thing is Like I think it's
funny how she's like this cutegirl and Her stress value thing
to it.
Every time people think like,oh, she's so cute, her stress
value goes down.
So it's almost like, oh, theydon't want her to like do

(29:09):
anything dangerous, like she'sso cute, like she don't want
don't do any, uh, dangerousmissions or whatnot.
So that's why it was importantfor her to make that robot suit
so people can like stop noticinghow cute she is.
Not much to say on her otherthan she was working at Glimmer

(29:32):
Lab, and Glimmer Lab once againup to no good with some shady
shit.
They got going on in thebackground.
Up to no good with some shadyshit.
They got going on in thebackground.
She had to deal with a formernumber one hero, shindig, which
is crazy how, like, some of themshow up as a former number one.
But I'm like what happened?
Like did you lose a tournament?
Like who do you?

(29:53):
Oh, right, x I mean at somepoint Like no, no, no, it's like
at some point you got to stopand think, okay, there's a
tournament, so they got toparticipate in the tournament
and maybe, like they got passedtowards whoever wins the
tournament.
But I'm thinking like, hold onAll these former number one
heroes, like how did that happen?

(30:14):
And I'm thinking like, oh way,that defeats the purpose of X
showing up where, like, yeah,he's been winning like three
times in a row so far, so itjust makes sense for some of
them being former number one.
But uh, yeah, lowly tried todeal with Shindig, but all that

(30:36):
eventually led up to him, uh,shindig getting killed by
Ghostblade, which leads rightinto Ghostblade's story, to
where he's like this anti-socialassassin type dude who was set
up by another association to Ithink it was FOMO.
I think it was FOMO where theytry to set him up to be this

(31:00):
assassin that takes up otherheroes, and I guess that's kind
of the point.
Oh, you don't know it, it wasn'tFOMO, it was Mighty Glory with
Uncle Rock.
Yeah, because, keep in mind,with Uncle Rock, I might as well
say this now, because, keep inmind with Uncle Rock, I'm not
supposed to say this now he'strying to set up Esoul,

(31:21):
ghostblade and Dragon Boy to belike hero hitters, like just
going out and killing all theother heroes.
But he's setting up Dragon Boyto be the next zero.
But aside from that, oh, youhad anything to add on to Cyan

(31:41):
or Loli or Queen and Ghostbladestory.
Like I know, I'm kind ofblazing through a book.
Do you have anything, queen?

Speaker 2 (31:52):
and Ghostblade.
I have to say those are myfavorite heroes.
I like I like the wayGhostblade do things, especially
like when his.
When he first came in, like um,I think it was yeah, I like how
he was first introduced becauseit was kind of weird.
Um, it was with a lowly storylike how he was a creep kind of
following her, so I ain't gonna.

(32:12):
I'm thinking, oh, he was um itwas no, no.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
Uh, yeah, it was, because no, no is ghost play's
daughter.
And it was like oh well, youknow, I'm just looking out for
my daughter.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
I'm like bro like why don't you just tell her yeah,
yeah, but yeah, okay, yeah,that's, that was her name.
Yeah, no, no, um, he wasfucking following her ass around
through the alley and shit.
And then, um, lolly comethrough fighting him with the
suit and everything on somelittle mini diva type shit.
Penny parker, that shit waskind of op.

(32:45):
She held her own against theold, against the top hero, and
didn't even know it.
But the funny thing about it,because, like I started to
realize, like throughout thatpiece of the arc I was like,
okay, I in the beginning Ithought it was gonna be a
villain, you know, just by himbeing in the shadows and and how
he kind of like approachedlolly with the fight.
But then when I seen it fromhis point of view, it just all

(33:07):
started to make sense.
Like he wasn't really justbeing a creep, it's just he was
coming off creepy like bro, youcould have just said something
instead of following this girlaround in the shadows and hiding
the bush.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
No, did just talk about invincible where, like
dude who was responsible foradam eve and he was like
stalking her the whole time andhe's just sitting there like bro
, you look creepy like you, looklike you about to get uh put on
a list the way you be stalkingthis girl at like her school and
whatnot.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Like you got good intentions, but but you gotta go
about doing that shit anotherway.
Yeah, like you looking real susdog, you're gonna get locked up
before you can do anything.
Good.
But nah, man, it kind of.

(33:56):
I kind of waited till it gotlike halfway finished before I
even started watching it, so Iwas able to to watch it non-stop
without really having to waitfor an episode to come out.
I can say it's been a whilesince I've done that with an
anime.
This was a great-ass anime man.
It was better than I expected.
I only started watching itbecause of it's His Trailer.

(34:16):
Each hero had a trailer andstuff like that.
I was just kind of seeing hisand I'm like, damn, he's just
fucking up the animation.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
So I, for a minute I'm thinking he was the main
character, like that, was it.
I didn't think you thought itwas like the trailer.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
No, that's his power yeah, and I'm thinking that's
the trailer, I'm thinking he'sthe main character.
No, that's his power and youdon't get to see him till half
of the show is over.
So I'm like okay, I'm like I'mwaiting for this white suit to
do like what's white suit.
Oh there he is, wait, wait heshows up for half a second and
he don't say much.
My favorite part was when heballed up.

(34:51):
Um, he balled up dragon boy.
Ass, was it dragon boy?
When he yeah, yeah, no, no, no,no, no it was.
Uh, damn, it was dragon boy,wasn't it yeah?
Buddy went in here got a fearto him.
He had turned fear.
He had to turn evil.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
He was fighting smile right, oh, yeah, because he
didn't show up.
Um, in the middle of that, Iwas gonna get to that part when
we got to dragon board part, butyeah, he didn't show up.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
Yeah, yeah they were fighting and then he had.
He said your rank is mine, andthen he snapped his finger and
turned his ass to 3d and balledhis ass up and throw him in the
water.
I was like yeah, that didhappen, this could beat goku.
I was like, bro, if that's allhe's doing, like no anime could

(35:36):
beat him.
He could.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Because I mean straight up, he could.
Because even with UltraInstinct, even with Ultra
Instinct, like bro, like Gokutried to swing at him and all,
look X doesn't even have to snaphis fingers, he still has that
40 aura, so he can just have youdoing a whole misdirection and
shit.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Then this man popped Infinite Void in like like
fourth dimension.
You seen that shit?
Yeah, bro, the awkward didn'tknow what was going on.
Where are we now?
Where are we now?
Like one minute you in a fightand the next minute you're on
the roof, and the next minuteyou're in a bar and the next
minute you're in outer space andthey'll drama the guys.
Well, you're probably like partof mural on a wall where I'm
like damn I play that shit backso much because one of the uh,

(36:21):
one of the evil guys tried tolike sneak, attack him and he
snapped his finger and put hisass in the graffiti in the wall.
And I'm like, how did that feel?
Like did you kill him?
Like is he forever stuck?
And then you just snap yourfingers and go about your
business like you forgot thatguy's still on the wall, right?

Speaker 1 (36:37):
uh, no, it didn't even forget.
It's like no, he doesn't matter, so like, if anything, people
just remember him by being onthat wall tough, like what about
his kids at home?

Speaker 2 (36:48):
and like he left the light on stuck in the wall this
that's crazy.
No with it, man.
I definitely with it, for likean original movie.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
You should have thought about that ahead of time
, before your son came at me.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
I'll fuck with it, man.
I'm ready to see what more hegot for it.
For it to come out of nowhere.
Man, I'll fuck with this anime.
Hell yeah, 10 out of 10 forsure.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
Now let's keep it going.
The Johnnies, now the John nowlet's keep it going.
Uh, the johnny's now.
The johnny's were okay, like Idon't got a whole lot to say
about it.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
I just thought they were an all right thing about
him.
My only thing about the listen,my only thing I have yet to see
the kids ability, it's just,it's the damn dog thing, which I
kind of already knew.
Well, I assume it'd be thelittle.
Whatever, he is big johnny.
I see why I call him big johnny, yeah.
Well, no, no, he didn't evenknow he was that big.
But big johnny definitely doesfit his fucking name right.

(37:47):
But it's crazy because I wantedto see what he could do.
I want to see what his abilitymight be.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
Maybe he's just a pokemon trainer, I don't know
now hold on, like there's like acouple theories that I want to
throw at you while we're here.
Now.
It's during the Johnny arcwhere he starts once again
flashing back to Glimmer Lab.
You find out that FOMO CEO Zachwas assigned the Johnnies to

(38:15):
the UFO research team as scoutsand whatnot.
And you're thinking like withBig Johnny, it's like ain't no
way.
You're like you're not anaverage animal, you're not like
agu to where, like you're just adog that just happened to have
a trust value system.
Now you're like completelysomething else.
And the fact that they'reintroducing ufo alien type shit

(38:36):
into this having me thinkingthat maybe big johnny is an
alien companion to little johnny, I mean, yeah, yeah, I'm kind
of getting fucked up, uh, mixedup a little bit, but uh, that's
one thing.
Like one theory is what if?
Like keep in mind this is notmy, it's just a theory that I

(38:59):
heard what if Big Johnny and Xare aliens from another planet?
And like they just happen tothat's why they're so different
to where their abilities aren'tlike others?
But I don't know about thattheory, but I just thought it

(39:21):
was kind of out there.
But like, who knows?

Speaker 2 (39:25):
like I've seen the comments saying something about
it's being a fucking alien.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
Yeah but, uh, another theory that I want to talk
about now that I'm bringing allthis up uh, zach, the FOMO CEO.
I heard one fan theory thatZach is low key zero, because

(39:56):
when they say that zero neverreally pairs, that's like, okay,
it can be possible that somefolks might pop up back into the
picture later on, so zero couldshow up.
But they're thinking that maybezach could low-key, be zero in

(40:18):
disguise, because zach, he, he'sthe only CEO out of them all
who didn't really age.
So they're thinking like, okay,what's going on with you?
Why does it seem like you're soyoung after all these years?
And second of all, the factthat Zach and Uncle Rock keep
being around each other morethan any other CEO and you know,

(40:42):
brought the whole agenda toresurrect Zero and make the new
Zero out of Dragonborn, whoeverthe case may be.
And Zack just happened to bemasquerading as one of the CEOs
just to kind kind of observe,play the shit out, whatnot, and
he might pull a roach tomorrowand take a new vessel.

(41:05):
I don't know like some of thesetheories are kind of crazy, but
, bro, like with how wild thisanime gets, I I just wouldn't
put it past them like.
We'll just have to see.
I just don't know about thatyet, but I just think hearing
some of these fan theories isvery interesting.

(41:26):
How did you come up with that?
It just makes me wonder howthey come up with that Johnny's.
Other than that, I just thoughtthe Johnny's were okay.
There was the whole BruinsIncident With the UFO.

(41:49):
You know that was All my shithappened.
The 20th Hero Tournament gotcancelled and X is still on top.
Uh, they of switched around therankings where Queen became
second, ghostblade got thefourth, johnny became fifth,

(42:10):
lawley became the sixth.
We know the new Knights is partof it and Dragon Ball is going
to be there.
The crazy part is when the realnice showed up and him getting

(42:31):
involved knocked ESO out of thetop 10 for the tournament.
I thought, damn, all that workjust for you to not even be able
to participate in thetournament.
Crazy, uh, speaking of dragonboy, like okay, he's like this
wild card type here where I'mthinking like okay, he's got.

(42:51):
Uh, I mean okay, to be fair, hewas brought up by abusive
parents, so I can understand whyhe like got really strong
hatred towards the world andwhatnot.
You just want to be like zeroand just rule over them all,
when I rule over the world and,um, maybe destroy, I don't know.
But it's almost like dragon boyis like this obvious villain

(43:17):
that's masquerading as a hero.
It's kind of like Bakugou, inreverse to where Bakugou really
do want to be a hero but he justdoesn't seem very heroic.
Meanwhile, with Dragon Ballit's like he comes off as a
villain but he's kind ofmasquerading as a hero.
But I don't know, it's kind ofa weird way to word it, but I

(43:46):
just figured with Dragon Ball hejust gives me this vibe that
he's definitely not out to bereally heroic.
He just, really just wanted tobe the next Zero.
He doesn't really care forbeing X, really, he just wanted
to be Zero.
The only thing I would say aboutthe Dragon Boy arc Was that

(44:07):
fight with Nice I mean not Nice,uh, smile, because, bro, the
way they were throwing hands,like Smile was throwing hands.
Also, it didn't help that SmileLooked like a spitting image of
all might.
To understand, like.
I mean, I know, for likecopyright reasons they can't

(44:27):
make them look exactly like allmight, but you know, the vibe
was there and it just makes mealso wonder.
No, you would think that, uh,hope, hope would have been a
great way to be, like registerhow people give them power.

(44:50):
Like, instead of calling ittrust, they called the hope um
value system.
But if they did that then itwould just be too close to my
hero academia, because you havethe symbol of hope and then you
have the symbol of fear.
So I'm like, okay, I kind ofsee why y'all wouldn't trust,
because it would have been tooon the nose.

(45:10):
But uh, yeah, there was a wholething with Dragon Boy, who has
one episode.
Then there was the whole thingwith Dragon Boy Ahu has one
episode.
Then there was the seasonfinale with X.
Uh, him fighting off all thosedifferent dudes and I'm like god
damn that was like so muchsauce in that last episode and

(45:34):
honestly that's pretty much allof it.
Oh wait, hold on.
Uh, esau apparently dropped outof it.
Oh wait, hold on.
Esau apparently dropped out ofthe top ten.
I mean, I guess, sure.
So I guess it wasn't that niceJust somehow just rose up to
take his place, he just droppedout.

Speaker 2 (45:59):
Yeah, that was the old Esau right, the first one.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
No, no, no.
This is when they gatheredtogether for the 21st, and
whoever this Esau is like, he isnot part of the tournament this
time.
But yeah, that was it.

(46:26):
We kind of blazed through thisone.
But, playboy, you have anythingto add on to all this?

Speaker 2 (46:37):
We didn't really get to talk much about what's her
name?
The one queen fault we didn'treally get to talk much about.
Uh, what's her name?
Um, the one queen fault, uh,boa, yeah, I was kind of having
like between their fight.
I ain't gonna lie that fight,for that fight for me was
probably the best one because itwas the longest and I ain't

(46:58):
know which way that shit wasgoing.
I was rooting for Queen, but butbo's fighting style was just
impeccable, like this, the wayshe was using her weapons.
I was like man, she's reallygiving it to queen right now,
like I was rooting for both ofthem, but I wanted queen to win
just for the sake of the plotand story to go the way, because
bo was giving off veryvillainous vibes.
Man, I mean.
So it's hard to be, to be hero,but you're purple and black and

(47:20):
you're on some sinister shitright now.
But I get it like it'scompetition, but it's like man,
ain't y'all still heroes?
Like if you take out moreheroes, that just mean well, I
don't know, I see how the trustvalue is, but it's, it's.
It's always so corrupt.
The way I was looking at it.
It was kind of like I, I liketo apply real world to the anime

(47:41):
sometimes, yeah.
So, looking at all of theserecord labels and their top
artists.
You know what I'm saying.
They're like beefing and goingat each other, trying to knock
out careers so that they couldbe the next top artist with
their album and their singlescoming out and have all the fans
.
You know what I'm saying,saying the more fans you got,
the more records, the morenumbers you're gonna sell.

(48:01):
So that's how I was looking atit, because that's how I was
better to understand right whenI started hearing fomo and dawes
and you know it's all theseother agencies.
I'm like, damn, this shit soundlike regular labels, the way
they got these heroes and tryingto compete and all this shit.
So so that was kind of fun forme to get into, but that was the

(48:24):
crazy part about it.
I believe, if I remembercorrectly, queen and Boa was
under the same age, babe.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
No hold on.
First of all, thank you forreminding me about that fight,
because crazy enough.
When I was watching that fightI was thinking why is this
reminding me about that fight?
Because crazy enough.
When I was watching that fightI was thinking why is this
reminding me of the Fate series?
Because the way it was going itjust felt like something out of
Fate series.
But uh, I'm gonna try to reviewthat and re-watch it, give it

(48:54):
another chance, because for somereason I just can't power
through all of it.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
Same with me too, because I started it like two
years ago.
I just didn't finish it.
I was watching it, I justdidn't finish it.
Something else happened.
I fell off of it.
But I was getting through it.
Like I kind of, probably if Icould go back to the one I was
watching I know there'sdifferent kinds, but if I can go
back to the one I was watchingI'm probably like a few episodes

(49:19):
from actually finishing it.
I got through half of it.
I know that much.
Well, it was just.
It was just because you know Ilike to get into it and really
understand exactly what's goingon.
So I guess that was my thing.
I couldn't fully understandbecause I had to start jujutsu
kaisen over.
I had to watch that for thethird time to actually like go
through it.
I mean I might have to gothrough Fate one more time just

(49:42):
to grasp what's really going on.
I kind of get what's going onwith the whole them having
summoners or something like that, they fighting for the
challenge.
I get the concept of it.
I just kind of fell off from it.
I feel it.
I can definitely see the fightscene similarity in there with
the whole color of the graphics.
The choreography is reallywhat's doing it.

(50:04):
There's no still frames in it.
It's all animated, it's allmotion.
I guess that's probably what'sintense about it.
There's no break, there's noflashback, just talking in hands
and talking in hands RightEight minutes straight, seven
minutes straight.

Speaker 1 (50:24):
And another thing is with Boa, it kind of it's kind
of that's the kind of thing likethey never liked each other to
begin with.
It was like this rivalry rightfrom jump.
And it didn't help that Queenwas the CEO's daughter.
So Boa felt like, oh, I seewhat it is Like.

(50:48):
She was set up for success tobegin with the whole time.
So basically I was just set upfor failure.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
Yeah, she was like I see You're his daughter.
I had to play that shit back.
I was like uh-oh.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
The insecurity brought in the fear, and that
fear made her into a villain.
Yeah, and let me go back toNice real quick where, with
Enlighter becoming God Eye, Iwas like and it felt like it
came out of nowhere because,like you're thinking like, okay,
what's this guy's problem?
Like, why is he beefing withNice all of a sudden, and I

(51:25):
don't know, maybe, maybe, likehe just got so sick of the
corruption with the uh agency,like he was, like he was really
the warning sign to where, okay,there's something more going on
with this agency than uh, weknow, or you know, like that the
public in the audience in theseries know.

(51:48):
So the fact that he justdecided to become a villain and
become God, I that should tellyou that, okay, there's more to
it.
To where, like, what's going on?
Why was nice?
You can't lead a real nice,what's going on, that type of

(52:11):
thing?
And yeah, it's just crazy howsometimes it takes insecurity or
suspicion.
Sometimes you just gotta betweaking enough to actually
become a villain.
You're just so suspicious ofwhat's going on, like you, just

(52:33):
you start crashing out andbecoming a villain, and that's
what makes it sad or nice, towhere he's just pretty much
being Manipulated the whole time.
He was part of the agency andhe had to kill people that he
didn't even want to kill.
He was like, oh, I was justdoing my job, but this is not

(52:56):
what I wanted.
Like here at work, it's notwhat I thought it was going to
be.
So it's just crazy how anybodycould turn to a villain based on
what the CEOs who, as far as Iknow, don't even have powers.
So, like crazy, how, like theone thing that pretty much the

(53:20):
downfall of all these heroes istheir manager getting to the ear
I'm telling them what to do.
It's like everybody trying toraise somebody to be the next
number one hero and that'sprobably just so that, uh, that
company can make their money andwhatnot.
So they're profiting off havingthe number one hero under their

(53:43):
agency.
And some folks, like they justwant to make the new Zero so
they can like bring forth likeworld destruction or new world
order or some type of shit likethat.
So each agency has like adifferent agenda and it's just
crazy how, like the real villainis their own people.
I wanted to, um is their ownpeople.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
Yeah, I wanted to piggyback off of something you
said earlier about Zach beingzero originally, because the
last episode kind of gave meinsight to that too, because I
was suspicious of him anywaybeing even incorrect just
through the whole insight tothat too, because I was
suspicious of him and I wassuspicious of him anyway being
even more incorrect just throughthe whole Esau arc.

(54:30):
Like I was already on his assand it's always that it's always
one person, but it's alwaysgonna be Somebody on the good
side.
That you gotta watch.
That's the plot twist.
You gotta be prepared for theplot twist.
When, when um X was explainingto Ahu About the history and the
truth behind the whole thingand he was explaining the domino

(54:52):
effect and it went to him, hewas like and zero was not there,
did that?
Third, it panned to him.
That hinted right there to me,yeah, and then it showed like
little flashbacks of him growingup or whatever.
But what really did it for mewas I started to notice, you
know, what he was saying.
Zero started to do.

(55:12):
What made the bear rise for himwas he started to kill.
He killed a hero because hewent against his will, like his
order on him, on his belief andthen he killed another one.
Then he killed another one.
It was a domino effect and so,as he was explaining it, I'm
like you know that's exactlywhat just happened.

(55:34):
Like all these heroes weredying one by one, by one, and
there was a domino effect behindit.
Like this hero died during thisfight.
This hero died during thisfight.
Heroes were hero died duringthis fight, fighting this hero.
You know what I'm saying Heroeswere killing heroes.
He just had it going about adifferent way, like he wasn't
doing it but he wasorchestrating the death of

(55:58):
heroes.
Still, you know what I'm saying.
So in a sense, I'm like youknow what, y'all starting to
come together and make somesense.
And that last part, where Xwalked out as himself I think
that's his way of it.
I honestly believe this is my,this is my opinion of what might
happen.
I feel like he's gonna give uphis number one spot with him.

(56:21):
I feel like he's gonna be like,fuck it only because, like you
say, like we believe he's numberone because of who he is, kind
of like, are you the strongestfigure?
Go to, or you know, go, justtake it strong, like he's number
one because he said he's not itbecause he's number one.
He's number one because theworld believe gonna be it.

(56:43):
So if he walked out there whohe is, he's not it and he won't
be number one because the worldbelieves he's going to be it.
So if he walks out there who heis and he's not it, then he
won't be number one.
People are going to be like,who is that guy?
I don't know him, that's not it, that's not who we know.
You know what I'm saying, right?
So he might stand out thereright before this happens, right
before the tournament starts.
So you know, I feel like he'sgoing to go out there and

(57:05):
they're going to look at him.
He's going to lose that trust.
I'm not sure what will happen.
Something is going to happenfor sure, but I don't I think
he's going to lose that spot.
Because of that, he become avillain.
They fear him Lose the ranking.

(57:26):
I don't think it may take awayfrom his power, I'm not sure.
But that right there was verysignificant and that was a good
cliffhanger to leave off on, inmy opinion, because we just
started to get action of thisguy and he comes in and the
first thing he does is shows usexactly who he is, and it ain't,
but he's on some Peter Parkershit man, it would be crazy as

(57:51):
hell if X actually happened tobe Zero, to where, like bro,
like that's kind of where like,okay, he has enough power to
like warp reality, like Zero wasrevered as a god.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
So, like the fact that X can warp reality, that's
like saying Like, okay, it'spossible that I mean Shit.
Like, because you know, youknow how, with Quirk and my Hero
Academia, like people are justBorn with their quirks, like
they just can't help that.
They were born with it, so theyjust make't help that.

(58:27):
Uh, they were born with it, sothey just make um the best of it
and, depending on what theirquirk is, they can't reach like
godlike, um stature with it.
So I'm looking at this serieslike who knows, like the main
thing is with x who is he really?
How did he get his power?

(58:47):
It's like Saitama all overagain.
To where did Saitama reallyjust exercise to a point to
where he just became superstrong?
Or did his power originate fromsomewhere else?
Did that strength come fromsomewhere else?
Or did he really train to getthat strong?
And that's just how it is.
Like that's the thing.

(59:08):
The mystery is, what really eatsat you is like it makes you
want a second season, or to seethe story to the end, to where,
like, uh-uh, like, y'all arebringing up way too much mystery
in there and you know it'salready set up for season two,

(59:28):
to where, okay, we might getsome more answers, but we might
also get more questions thananswers yeah, because even when
he was explaining that he was,he said I like to think I got my
powers when he talked to thecoin.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
But he was like I also believe like everything was
just a twist of fate, likeeverything was put in place like
already as far as fate wise,because he was still talking
about the domino effect, but,like you say, cause he flipped
that coin.
I forgot exactly what happened,I just watched it, but he had
flipped the fucking coin.
Oh, it was when he, he gave thecoin to um Siam girl on the

(01:00:04):
side of the street.
You know what I'm saying.
He said, like the thing, mypower started there.
You see what I'm saying.
Like how the, how the heroespart, like stories connect.
Like gay saiyan girl fuckingcoin when she was on the side of
the road playing her music likethe number one hero and it's
lucky girl, like all types ofshit was going on.
So he's like he said I like tothink my powers came at that

(01:00:29):
moment.
But it was, you know, sayingprobably all just a twist of
fate, like it was, like it wassupposed to be this way from the
beginning and looking at theshow, it's kind of that's how it
would.
Probably it looks like that'show it was given because
everything started to play outlike.
It started to play out all thescenes like here is this, here's

(01:00:50):
this, this is after that,that's after that and you know,
saying she crashed, this guyfound her, she played music, it
was just playing everything andthat was a lot of information to
take in.
Just like he told ahu and I'msorry, that's a lot of
information to take in for a dogto set and start, I'm like yeah
, because I might have to playthat shit back.
I'm like that, would yousummarize 20 episodes in like 30

(01:01:15):
seconds?
Yeah, I gotta go back andfigure out because even when it
ended, it ended on some attackon titan shit, with nice
spazzing out, tripping, goingcrazy, like I got fear on me.
I can't, I can't, I can't dothis, and then you snap out of
it, and then you see ling ling.
I'm like, oh shit, here we go.

Speaker 1 (01:01:34):
I've seen this before yeah, now one more thing, one
more theory about x, and we'regonna go ahead and close this
out.
This one.
I'm I'm like you know what.
It would be crazy if this wasthe case, but it would also kind
of sort of make sense, like,imagine in the future heroes

(01:01:59):
falling like the villains, bornlike the world's in turmoil and
whatnot, and the people need ahero to save them from this
outcome, like from this tyrannyand whatnot.
So this guy go back in time totry to be the number one hero to
prevent that fate.
And that is the story of x,where his hero story began.

(01:02:21):
When he put that coin towardsian, uh, he knew the event's
happening.
So he just got manipulated to apoint to where stop something,
a certain event, from happening.
So that way the downfall ofheroes can't stop.
But like, okay, if he's fromthe future, okay, but that's

(01:02:47):
just one of those things thatthis gives me more questions
than answers.
Like, okay, what event are youtrying to stop?
Why is it that you were totallycool with If you knew
everything that was going tohappen?
Like you could have saved moreheroes than you know what I mean
.
Like you could have preventedmore shit happening if that was

(01:03:09):
the case.
But maybe it's one of thosethings where something just had
to happen for a reason and likesome people are just going to
have to die.
But that's a sacrifice he'spulling.
But I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Like not to say that I wholeheartedly believe in all
these theories, because, onceagain, they're theories, but
when you think about them it'slike okay the theories be
theories until they're provenfacts or debunked, though, like
they be theories because of thehints and the foreshadows, like
I think this is that because yougotta think, I don't think the

(01:03:45):
whole future thing is out ofquestion, because I've just seen
somebody like point out adetail and it's crazy Because it
didn't even take the lastepisode to point this out
Between one and four, rememberwhen Lemony took over life I
mean nice new life and he waswith Moon, and like I think it

(01:04:08):
was the second episode, secondepisode, third episode he woke
up in a bed and she was deadyeah, I know it and everything.
And then, like she wasn't dead,she was just fucking working out
like he was tripping.
Yeah, now I knew that detailhad some significance to it,
because why did you just pictureher dead?
Like why did you wake up andshe was dead?
And then, a couple episodeslater, we see the same blood

(01:04:30):
stain and she's laid out in thesame position on a beach.
Like he saw her dead, but notright there, just somewhere.
But then, when I think about it, could that have been just him
being accidentally swapped toanother dimension due to Ed's

(01:04:53):
power, because you know hementioned it with the animation,
and both things did happenunder different animations, like
he saw her it's like on Deja Vu, to where you have false
memories.

Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
So it might have been one of those things, to where
maybe he had a false memory ofher dying on that bed, but since
things have changed this timearound like that didn't actually
happen, but you still have thatmemory for some reason.
And then, when she died latermysteriously, because once again

(01:05:29):
, like I need to look at thatscene over and over it's one of
those scenes where you have tolike have like this detective
level of observations where Iwant to hold on y'all, like run
that scene back at like halfspeed or some shit, because like
hold on, like it didn't.
It didn't look like esol killedher, like it just he just

(01:05:51):
happened to be there.
But even then, how did he evenknow they were there?

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
yeah, that was another crazy part, because
nobody knew they were there.
It was kind of hard to getthere.
She told us but yeah, that wasthe next thing I would never
explain.
Like that should have at leastbeen explained from his point of
view, or something like wedon't even know which ethos that
was.
Yeah, I would assume that theyoung one, because they had him
doing all types of shit.
But still, like, what was themotive?

Speaker 1 (01:06:18):
so it just got you wondering what if it's like a
matter of time traveled to wherethey just have this hero from
the future trying to preventwhat was happening, the whole
thing with defying fate?
That's the thing.
Maybe his mission is to preventwhatever was supposed to happen

(01:06:38):
from happening and instead ofhim, maybe just keeping the
title X he just finds someone,he him maybe like just keeping
the title X, like he just findssomeone, like he's going to be
like, oh Mike, just somebody.
Where like okay, I'm going tochoose you to be the number one
hero and you're going to have tokeep this title on you for as

(01:07:00):
much as you can, kind of likeAfro Samurais, where once you
have that number one headband,people are going to be gunning
for you and you're just going tohave to fight for your life,
not just against villains, butother heroes that want that spot
.
That's what I like about thisanime too.
There's so many layers to thisshit to where you can look at it

(01:07:21):
in different angles, and it'sso entertaining either way you
can see it from.
Are you here for just theboxing, like the fighting and
whatnot?
Are you here for the mysterybehind it?
Are you here for the differentanimation styles, like from an
artistic point of view, like doyou love the music?
Like it just got a lot going onto it.

(01:07:41):
That's why I say it's like afive-star anime.
It just had a lot going on butit didn't feel too convoluted.
It's just mysterious.
Right now there's just a bunchof missing pieces that are
probably going to be put intoplay in later seasons, later

(01:08:02):
down the line, but right nowit's fast paced but also not too
busy, with a lot of shit goingon.
Everybody have their own littleart for like maybe one, two,
three, four episodes.
So I think it's like fairlybalanced.
But it just had a lot going on,but like in a balanced way that
I like, like I I fucks with it.

(01:08:25):
What can I say?
Yeah it's a great anime, man.
That's all I have.
What?

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
are you sure that's all you have?
Yeah, I'm good on it so far.
Might go back and give itanother watch now that I got all
these fucking stories andepisodes all over the place.

Speaker 1 (01:08:46):
Hell yeah.
Yeah.
See, once we do season two, wemight do a more detailed review
on season one.
You know, like recap season one, but more detailed, like as we
do, like an actual breakdown.
But really, this time around Iwas just based on first
impression.
I'm like damn dog, this is good, this is is so good.

Speaker 2 (01:09:05):
One of them animates where, if you're gonna give like
an in-depth review, you'regonna have to go back and see
something.
You can't just go straightthrough it because the stories
are all in a line and then, likeyou know, even if you like
watch all the episodes, youwould have to like go back and
see, to like, remember to like.
It's like it's piece andpuzzles together.
Bro, these episodes are allover the place.

(01:09:27):
Like the character from thefirst episode you don't see him
from episode five to ten.
Like you see what I'm saying.
Like he's gone, so and then hecomes back into the same story
at the end of the series.
And like all these characters,all over.

Speaker 1 (01:09:42):
I almost thought it was an anthology series until
you saw some of the characterscoming back and you think like
wait, hold on what's going onhere.
And like, oh wait, is what indifferent orders?
Like hell see, that's anotherthing with X, like one of his
abilities is he's the one that'sfucking up the episode count.

(01:10:06):
So you can't just it isn't like, oh, it isn't clear, cut, like
because if you look at like that, I think the Johnny's was like
the first story.
Uh, hold on, let me check realquick, because I did say it was

(01:10:26):
like started at uh, 70, 17 and18.

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
Right, all right, so 17, 18, uh, yep, that was like
the johnny's story was likesupposed to be the first yeah,
because he was still a littlekid so it couldn't have been
anything when he was in a, whenhe was a teenager, so it had to
be when he was still a littlekid, so it couldn't have been
anything when he was, when hewas a teenager, so it had to be
when he was a little baby boy.
It had to be his story, atleast, either his story.

(01:10:53):
Yeah, it had to be his storybecause when he met Ghostblade
he was of age, so it was beforeGhostblade's story.
Yeah, yeah, his story had to bethe first one.
He was the first back inhistory at least.
Yeah, yeah, his story had to bethe first one.

Speaker 1 (01:11:06):
He was the first in the back in history at least.

Speaker 2 (01:11:10):
Yeah, yeah.
See, then that only makes moresense about these aliens because
his daddy came from anotherplanet.
That's where he got Big Johnnyfrom.
You see what I'm saying, so?
it's not out of question.
It's not like out the ballpark.
This man did come from outerspace and got Big Johnny from
some alien planet, no tellingwhat that power system might

(01:11:35):
lead to.
I mean that's, you know whatI'm saying.
That's when fear really gotincorporated, because fear was
around through Johnny's episode,even though we didn't get to it
until later on.
It got introduced before hisstory, but it was around since
then.
See what I'm saying.
Fear was introduced before hisstory came up, but we know Fear

(01:11:55):
has been around.
It's been around since he was akid.
Well, I don't know if it was akid, but I know when he got
older.

Speaker 1 (01:12:04):
I think I mean there was like two jumps, like he was
like a little kid and then itwas like preteen and then, oh
yeah, that's right, that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
Yeah, boy went through evolution, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:12:21):
I just like the way this anime was structured to,
where, once again, they tried tomake it to where, okay, let's
not make it too boring by havingall the pieces laid out in a
chronological order, like, let'sjust kind of jump around a
little bit.
And it really depends on howit's tied together, because

(01:12:45):
notice how, even though theyjumped around, like each arc
ended with another hero beingintroduced.
So I just like the way it'slike the misdirection of it all
it's kind of added on to themystery, all just kind of added

(01:13:10):
on to the mystery, like because,even though it's like an action
superhero story, the fact thatthere's like a bunch of mystery
behind it all, I guess that'swhat makes it easier for me to
like accept the fact that, okay,it was like jump around a
little bit, because, uh, ifyou're trying to figure out the
mystery behind it all, then itwould be kind of it'll make the

(01:13:30):
series more boring for it.
So that's why there's all thesetheories going on, all these
theories that YouTube aretalking about right now.
That's where it just got sofrenzied up trying to figure out
what the hell is going on.
Then the series is doing thejob by making us wonder how all
this is playing out.

(01:13:54):
But, yeah, I'm just going to goahead and end it on that note.
Five out of five, I mean fivestars, 10 out of 10.
I love it.
I love it.
Watch it, just go love it.
Watch it.
Just go watch it.
See it for yourself.
With that being said, let'sjust go ahead and close this out
.
Playboy, I do thank you forbeing on the show with me.

(01:14:16):
Go ahead and have yourself agood morning, good afternoon,
good evening, good night,whatever the case may be.
But ultimately, dude, take iteasy.
We're going to go ahead andzone out here.
Stay nerdy and remember thatgreat things are coming.
Let's go.