January 15, 2024 • 12 mins
In this episode we review Suzume and the way it may explain recent Japanese disasters from Earthquakes to Tsunami. We also talk other anime and what we think.
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(00:00):
You were now listening to the podcastfor Geeks and the Stuff they Love,
where each week we'll talk about everythingfrom anime to movies, games and prop
collecting, but the people who createand love it. I'm Jeremy, I'm
Vince, I'm James, and Viceis your geek fix. This is your
geek Fix by So you know,this last week, an anime came out,
(00:26):
an animated movie that that had actuallybeen released a long time ago,
but everyone was waiting desperately for thisthe release of the dub version. And
I'm one of those people that prefersthe dub version of things. And it's
called Susan me oh nice. Yeah. So some people might have already watched
it using the subtitles, but thething that was interesting that put in context
(00:48):
for me because literally I watched itfor New Year's Eat. Okay, and
if you're familiar with the show andyou keep in mind what happens to that
show and what it's about, whathappened to the next two days in Japan
kind of plays into this as wellas what's been happening overall. Uh So,
it's it's a fairly it's a fairlynew show. It you know,
(01:10):
like they have cell phones and everythingelse, and in fact, I think
at one point in time they evenreally refer to something else that's really recent.
But at the same time, asyou know, a lot of Japan
over time, in fact, they'retrying to compensate for this right now and
we had even the podcast about itnot too long ago, is that a
lot of people are leaving a lotof these towns, and there's so much
(01:30):
there's there was a boom at onepoint in time where Japan was trying to
to infuse its infrastructure and and itsand its culture and the building and stuff.
So like all these small towns gottons of money, money they didn't
even know what to do with.Like some of them bought crazy crap like
a giant golden dog to put inthe town square or you know, so
(01:52):
stuff like that. Or they openedup, you know, they opened up,
or started building like a big bigthing parks, or they started building
other things, and and a lotof it you didn't even get finished because
then it was followed by a crashand stuff, and and then populations were
just leaving and dying off from allthese areas. So there's so much of
(02:14):
Japan now that is just empty townsor or or you know, like I
said, like with the theme park. So they'd build the theme park and
it never opens, and so yougot this this ghosty theme parks is other.
And the idea with this show,which I highly recommend, I was,
I really liked it a lot.The whole idea is that basically the
(02:36):
thing that's driving you know, allof the all the natural disasters in Japan
is that these doors will open.And so these places like that, and
and the door literally a door likesome you know, some door that used
to be part of a building,is it opens up and the spirit worm
comes out of it. And ifit if the door doesn't get closed by
(02:59):
a closer in time, which iswhat they call the people that are in
uh, then this worm falls downand it destroys everything and it makes this
it's where the earthquakes come from,okay, and and just wipes everything out
and stuff and and the other baddisasters would happen and stuff, and you
know, and so and then thenext day we have this enormous earthquake in
(03:21):
Japan, which which was really horrible. They've actually had quite a few more,
you know, the normal And wetalked about that or on this on
this channel. But then on topof that, then you have planes that
collide and explode and stuff within afew days, all these things that just
feels like all this stuff's going on. But having watched this show, it's
like, in my mind, there'sall this extra context. I know isn't
(03:44):
real, but it's it's hard notto be like, oh my gosh,
weed to get out there and thedoor. Yeah. Yeah, I highly
recommend this show though. It isis if you like like Studio Ghibli kind
of and that type of that levelof animation and artwork. That's kind of
the style that is to it.And the storyline it looks like your name
(04:10):
kind of thing again, Yeah,like kind of a slice of life look
almost to it. But on theflip side, I mean the storyline is
really good. It's very entertaining.I mean they balanced some pretty heavy stuff
with at the same time having somehumor and things throughout. It was inspired
(04:30):
by the whole earthquake and tsunami intwenty eleven, which which was which you
know, that area has just nowrebuilt. So if if you're familiar with
that, or if you watch abroad in Japan and stuff, Ken Watt
Nambie is actually who helped to rebuildthat area, the guy that was starting
(04:53):
things like the the less Samurai andstuff like that, Like he helped to
rebuild all that the area and torevitalize it and things. But I mean
that's that for years. So buton the flip side, yeah, I
mean tsunais and everything else that canoccur. You know, this is kind
of Japan has a history of tryingto make sense of natural things or of
(05:15):
event of tragedies and in ways likethis. I mean, you know,
because of nuclear events and the bomband everything else, you have things like
Godzilla, you know, stuff likethat, like how well the big fish
on the water, like the bigcats fishes, Oh yeah, yeah,
(05:38):
yeah, they would consider the spiritualones. Yeah yeah. But also one
thing I do notice, and that'sjust outside of looking in, but also
having been in Japan when typhoon landcame over Alane. Typhoons are scary stuff
(06:00):
and I don't want to uh yeah, or minimize whatever is happening, but
there is also a lot of sensationlessstuff happening about deadly typhoons where the whole
area was hit. And I'm notputting get valuable but only one, you
know, drunk fisherman got caught betweena boat and then it's suddenly a deadly
(06:23):
typhoon. To say, so peopledidn't take due diligence and didn't heat the
warnings or whatever, and it's stillsaid that they got killed, of course,
but then it gets blown up inthe media, like especially when we
were there, we had like theIndependent, which is a very treshy source.
Well that was the about the onlything we would get like in English
(06:45):
information feather there and then it waslike, yeah, you're heading into a
death zone and it's going to becowflying, it's going to be twisted all
over again, and everything is justbasically, I have a storm with a
lot of rain, and it doesn'tmean it's a cyclo and typhoon. It
means it's a it's a strong windand strong rain. Tsunami's are a different
kind of course, but it alsobut it's kind of like when you go
(07:10):
to l A though, where likeif you go to l A and you're
there long enough, you're gonna bethere through some earthquakes and everybody around you
is gonna be acting like nothing happened. Yeah, that wasn't good for me.
But also I mean, I Ido appreciate that because I haven't seen
it. I'm gonna look into itbecause I've been watching so animate. I
(07:32):
got a course you Wall subscription,so yeah, finish, which is how
you would access to this currenty roll. That's perfect. Yeah, yeah,
but I've been watching the Psycho,like the new the new season okay,
yeah, yeah, I like MomsyleGuyson was it was okay as well?
(07:59):
Was terrible the last season yeah yeahseven yeah, yeah, yeah, the
whole I like a lot. There'sa lot of like small ones. If
you do have Crunch year old,there's a lot of small stuff and even
historical I mean like shows that werethat are pretty old now, like from
the eighties and stuff. They werejust standard TV shows you can access on
(08:20):
there, Yeah, which is agood Like there's a lot of guy stuff
happening now with my life as adrunk robot bartender or whatever. That there's
always long they're always really long longtitles. Yes, the time I became
something and then something else happened andthis and that. It's like is that
the title? And then they actuallythey actually think your ticket stab and it's
(08:43):
saying these these titles for the nightlocals were actually too too long to fit
in here, so we made themshorter and that's like the whole title of
the category. So that's fun.But there's one where the guy becomes a
becomes a vending machine, yeah exactly, and then they sat back in time
to the kind of medieval era asa vending machine that can chains two different
(09:09):
types of veting machines from Japan.But it gives you like context and history.
It's kind of funny that case show. There was also this one in
Netflix, like the when when theycould time travel back in on send through
ancient Rome or something I wrote toChris brought about that show. Yeah,
because there's three things, well threeThe thing I think it was funny about
(09:31):
it is basically they're trying to takecredit, so Japan's basically the lady that
writes it. The upside to thatNetflix version is only the Netflix version,
not the crench Roll vision. Hasthe lady the author in the end go
and visit different onsense, but atthe same time, like she's trying to
take credit for Japan taking credit forHot Springs, you know, the the
(09:52):
and and developing the Roman ones thatwere around because this guy got inspired by
time traveling to the different roman uhto a different hot springs in Japan,
including you know, doing liquors andstuff like that. But then, yeah,
it was pretty funny. It's funnybut so terrible. Yeah, yeah,
it's pretty good. But yeah,I'm glad to see that the quirky
(10:13):
anime is still the thing and it'shappening, and yeah, many time soon.
No oh but this this is ashort episode. But at the same
time, I thought it was funny. I thought we're gonna take off today
for the most part. But atthe same time, uh, like,
(10:35):
if you guys shows again, thething we say at the beginning of the
month, if you've got shows,if you've got things that you want us
to check out a review, ordo you want to share with the community,
let us know in the comments below, and also let us know through
something that you want us to kindof integrate. We a long time ago
we did the anime. We didtwo episodes, we went through and we
reviewed anime. That's one of myfavorite episodes that we did. It was
(10:58):
just a lot of fun. SoSo if you ask to do something like
that again, it would help Tolsoknow. Wet Wet episodes or wet shows
you'd want us to kind of goover to do. So if you want
us to read with Neon Genesis Evangellyand all the parts and endings, then
there you go. I really lastyear I read through the whole Manger and
(11:20):
like I say that it's it's sogood and so it didn't do anything from
there, just just to keep itshort. But it's also like this this
four four, one hundred forty episodeBattle off the Stars or something anime like
it's it's like Gundam, but it'seven more boring. It's like Pressure of
Races and it's like this anime.I tried to watch it, but it's
(11:43):
like seventeen generations or whatever of peoplewell man like dresses and suits in space,
and like the whole arc is likeone hundred episodes about one ship tried
to invade another colony or something,but we have to use that one.
It's one of the examples. Yeah, we can do with Mystery Science at
the Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, I can totally see us doing something
(12:05):
like that. So that's something thatsome ideas we're thrown out there too us.
But let us know what you thinkand uh, and we'll catch you
this next month. Yes, ifyou've enjoyed this podcast and want more,
to stay tuned for that, butalso check out our channel, join the
community on YouTube that goes by thesame name and your geek Fix. Be
sure to check out Vince on Twitterat massive dmg Underscore and on his YouTube
(12:28):
channel Massive Dmg. Check out Jamesat mister Malta four on Instagram and the
replica prop for him. We alsowant to hear from you, so be
sure to send your questions, stories, and other projects to your geek Fix
at gmail dot com. In themeantime, this has been your geek Fix
You were now listening to the podcastfor Geeks and the Stuff they Love,
where each week we'll talk about everythingfrom anime to movies, games and prop
collecting, but the people who createand love it. I'm Jeremy, I'm
Vince, I'm James, and Viceis your geek fix. This is your
geek Fix by So you know,this last week, an anime came out,
(00:26):
an animated movie that that had actuallybeen released a long time ago,
but everyone was waiting desperately for thisthe release of the dub version. And
I'm one of those people that prefersthe dub version of things. And it's
called Susan me oh nice. Yeah. So some people might have already watched
it using the subtitles, but thething that was interesting that put in context
(00:48):
for me because literally I watched itfor New Year's Eat. Okay, and
if you're familiar with the show andyou keep in mind what happens to that
show and what it's about, whathappened to the next two days in Japan
kind of plays into this as wellas what's been happening overall. Uh So,
it's it's a fairly it's a fairlynew show. It you know,
(01:10):
like they have cell phones and everythingelse, and in fact, I think
at one point in time they evenreally refer to something else that's really recent.
But at the same time, asyou know, a lot of Japan
over time, in fact, they'retrying to compensate for this right now and
we had even the podcast about itnot too long ago, is that a
lot of people are leaving a lotof these towns, and there's so much
(01:30):
there's there was a boom at onepoint in time where Japan was trying to
to infuse its infrastructure and and itsand its culture and the building and stuff.
So like all these small towns gottons of money, money they didn't
even know what to do with.Like some of them bought crazy crap like
a giant golden dog to put inthe town square or you know, so
(01:52):
stuff like that. Or they openedup, you know, they opened up,
or started building like a big bigthing parks, or they started building
other things, and and a lotof it you didn't even get finished because
then it was followed by a crashand stuff, and and then populations were
just leaving and dying off from allthese areas. So there's so much of
(02:14):
Japan now that is just empty townsor or or you know, like I
said, like with the theme park. So they'd build the theme park and
it never opens, and so yougot this this ghosty theme parks is other.
And the idea with this show,which I highly recommend, I was,
I really liked it a lot.The whole idea is that basically the
(02:36):
thing that's driving you know, allof the all the natural disasters in Japan
is that these doors will open.And so these places like that, and
and the door literally a door likesome you know, some door that used
to be part of a building,is it opens up and the spirit worm
comes out of it. And ifit if the door doesn't get closed by
(02:59):
a closer in time, which iswhat they call the people that are in
uh, then this worm falls downand it destroys everything and it makes this
it's where the earthquakes come from,okay, and and just wipes everything out
and stuff and and the other baddisasters would happen and stuff, and you
know, and so and then thenext day we have this enormous earthquake in
(03:21):
Japan, which which was really horrible. They've actually had quite a few more,
you know, the normal And wetalked about that or on this on
this channel. But then on topof that, then you have planes that
collide and explode and stuff within afew days, all these things that just
feels like all this stuff's going on. But having watched this show, it's
like, in my mind, there'sall this extra context. I know isn't
(03:44):
real, but it's it's hard notto be like, oh my gosh,
weed to get out there and thedoor. Yeah. Yeah, I highly
recommend this show though. It isis if you like like Studio Ghibli kind
of and that type of that levelof animation and artwork. That's kind of
the style that is to it.And the storyline it looks like your name
(04:10):
kind of thing again, Yeah,like kind of a slice of life look
almost to it. But on theflip side, I mean the storyline is
really good. It's very entertaining.I mean they balanced some pretty heavy stuff
with at the same time having somehumor and things throughout. It was inspired
(04:30):
by the whole earthquake and tsunami intwenty eleven, which which was which you
know, that area has just nowrebuilt. So if if you're familiar with
that, or if you watch abroad in Japan and stuff, Ken Watt
Nambie is actually who helped to rebuildthat area, the guy that was starting
(04:53):
things like the the less Samurai andstuff like that, Like he helped to
rebuild all that the area and torevitalize it and things. But I mean
that's that for years. So buton the flip side, yeah, I
mean tsunais and everything else that canoccur. You know, this is kind
of Japan has a history of tryingto make sense of natural things or of
(05:15):
event of tragedies and in ways likethis. I mean, you know,
because of nuclear events and the bomband everything else, you have things like
Godzilla, you know, stuff likethat, like how well the big fish
on the water, like the bigcats fishes, Oh yeah, yeah,
(05:38):
yeah, they would consider the spiritualones. Yeah yeah. But also one
thing I do notice, and that'sjust outside of looking in, but also
having been in Japan when typhoon landcame over Alane. Typhoons are scary stuff
(06:00):
and I don't want to uh yeah, or minimize whatever is happening, but
there is also a lot of sensationlessstuff happening about deadly typhoons where the whole
area was hit. And I'm notputting get valuable but only one, you
know, drunk fisherman got caught betweena boat and then it's suddenly a deadly
(06:23):
typhoon. To say, so peopledidn't take due diligence and didn't heat the
warnings or whatever, and it's stillsaid that they got killed, of course,
but then it gets blown up inthe media, like especially when we
were there, we had like theIndependent, which is a very treshy source.
Well that was the about the onlything we would get like in English
(06:45):
information feather there and then it waslike, yeah, you're heading into a
death zone and it's going to becowflying, it's going to be twisted all
over again, and everything is justbasically, I have a storm with a
lot of rain, and it doesn'tmean it's a cyclo and typhoon. It
means it's a it's a strong windand strong rain. Tsunami's are a different
kind of course, but it alsobut it's kind of like when you go
(07:10):
to l A though, where likeif you go to l A and you're
there long enough, you're gonna bethere through some earthquakes and everybody around you
is gonna be acting like nothing happened. Yeah, that wasn't good for me.
But also I mean, I Ido appreciate that because I haven't seen
it. I'm gonna look into itbecause I've been watching so animate. I
(07:32):
got a course you Wall subscription,so yeah, finish, which is how
you would access to this currenty roll. That's perfect. Yeah, yeah,
but I've been watching the Psycho,like the new the new season okay,
yeah, yeah, I like MomsyleGuyson was it was okay as well?
(07:59):
Was terrible the last season yeah yeahseven yeah, yeah, yeah, the
whole I like a lot. There'sa lot of like small ones. If
you do have Crunch year old,there's a lot of small stuff and even
historical I mean like shows that werethat are pretty old now, like from
the eighties and stuff. They werejust standard TV shows you can access on
(08:20):
there, Yeah, which is agood Like there's a lot of guy stuff
happening now with my life as adrunk robot bartender or whatever. That there's
always long they're always really long longtitles. Yes, the time I became
something and then something else happened andthis and that. It's like is that
the title? And then they actuallythey actually think your ticket stab and it's
(08:43):
saying these these titles for the nightlocals were actually too too long to fit
in here, so we made themshorter and that's like the whole title of
the category. So that's fun.But there's one where the guy becomes a
becomes a vending machine, yeah exactly, and then they sat back in time
to the kind of medieval era asa vending machine that can chains two different
(09:09):
types of veting machines from Japan.But it gives you like context and history.
It's kind of funny that case show. There was also this one in
Netflix, like the when when theycould time travel back in on send through
ancient Rome or something I wrote toChris brought about that show. Yeah,
because there's three things, well threeThe thing I think it was funny about
(09:31):
it is basically they're trying to takecredit, so Japan's basically the lady that
writes it. The upside to thatNetflix version is only the Netflix version,
not the crench Roll vision. Hasthe lady the author in the end go
and visit different onsense, but atthe same time, like she's trying to
take credit for Japan taking credit forHot Springs, you know, the the
(09:52):
and and developing the Roman ones thatwere around because this guy got inspired by
time traveling to the different roman uhto a different hot springs in Japan,
including you know, doing liquors andstuff like that. But then, yeah,
it was pretty funny. It's funnybut so terrible. Yeah, yeah,
it's pretty good. But yeah,I'm glad to see that the quirky
(10:13):
anime is still the thing and it'shappening, and yeah, many time soon.
No oh but this this is ashort episode. But at the same
time, I thought it was funny. I thought we're gonna take off today
for the most part. But atthe same time, uh, like,
(10:35):
if you guys shows again, thething we say at the beginning of the
month, if you've got shows,if you've got things that you want us
to check out a review, ordo you want to share with the community,
let us know in the comments below, and also let us know through
something that you want us to kindof integrate. We a long time ago
we did the anime. We didtwo episodes, we went through and we
reviewed anime. That's one of myfavorite episodes that we did. It was
(10:58):
just a lot of fun. SoSo if you ask to do something like
that again, it would help Tolsoknow. Wet Wet episodes or wet shows
you'd want us to kind of goover to do. So if you want
us to read with Neon Genesis Evangellyand all the parts and endings, then
there you go. I really lastyear I read through the whole Manger and
(11:20):
like I say that it's it's sogood and so it didn't do anything from
there, just just to keep itshort. But it's also like this this
four four, one hundred forty episodeBattle off the Stars or something anime like
it's it's like Gundam, but it'seven more boring. It's like Pressure of
Races and it's like this anime.I tried to watch it, but it's
(11:43):
like seventeen generations or whatever of peoplewell man like dresses and suits in space,
and like the whole arc is likeone hundred episodes about one ship tried
to invade another colony or something,but we have to use that one.
It's one of the examples. Yeah, we can do with Mystery Science at
the Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, I can totally see us doing something
(12:05):
like that. So that's something thatsome ideas we're thrown out there too us.
But let us know what you thinkand uh, and we'll catch you
this next month. Yes, ifyou've enjoyed this podcast and want more,
to stay tuned for that, butalso check out our channel, join the
community on YouTube that goes by thesame name and your geek Fix. Be
sure to check out Vince on Twitterat massive dmg Underscore and on his YouTube
(12:28):
channel Massive Dmg. Check out Jamesat mister Malta four on Instagram and the
replica prop for him. We alsowant to hear from you, so be
sure to send your questions, stories, and other projects to your geek Fix
at gmail dot com. In themeantime, this has been your geek Fix
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