 Hey everybody, welcome back to another exciting episode of A Week in Geekdom, and today we're gonna be doing a first impressions video on the anime adaptation of Gal Tokyoryu, which I literally butchered. And it's supposed to mean my roomie is a dino, but is also known as Gal and Dino. I like watching weird kooky random anime, that's one of my favorite things about the medium that you can have wild and crazy stories and do crazy visuals with it, and I do think that Gal and Dino excels at this, and it's so bonkers that I really want to continue watching it, and I know I'm gonna have a good time, even though I'm probably not gonna understand the intent of the series, but hey, I'm all up for it. So a little backstory on this title. The original manga is a, I think currently ongoing as of this video, a gag comedy slice of life of this character called Kaede, and how she arrives drunk one night at her home, she falls asleep, and then the morning after she realizes that she met and befriended a cute, hilarious, weird looking, blue looking dinosaur who always has his mouth open and it's very, he's very expressive, he doesn't talk or anything, but he's very expressive. Eyes wide open and his reactions are hilarious, and she didn't remember anything, she was drunk, but yeah, apparently she took him in and let him stay at her apartment and so begins their adventure together. So this manga was written by Moriko Mori and illustrated by Kota Tomimura. Now we've got the anime, which premiered, you know, April 2020, and in the anime it's even crazier. I know. The anime switches between art styles, it goes from traditional animation to stop motion, to claymation, to live action. The opening is one of the coolest things of the year so far, and one of my contenders for best opening of 2020. Just on a pure creativeness, it's a spectacle to behold, that you can do stuff like that in today's time, and of course the music is extremely catchy, it's such a pink, bright, colorful, and bombastic opening that I cannot recommend it enough. I wish I could play it in this video, but I don't want to get demonetized or get a copyright strike. So the appeal in this, you know, it's several mini stories per episode, and it's more of, you know, like I said with the manga, gag comedy, there are a lot of mini sketches. For example, there's this whole bit of whether or not the dinosaur can eat ramen noodles or not, or I believe it was tuna, or cat food, or something like that. But it turns out that he can't eat ramen noodles, and he loves ramen. He doesn't say anything, but you see his reactions, and then later on when it switches to another animation style, it's even more hilarious and cute and bizarre. This is a very bizarre anime. Just on that premise alone, I love how creative it can be, and for that reason I recommend it. I want people to watch this stuff, hence why I'm doing this freaking video, right? It switches to live action, which I did not see coming, and that part was hilarious. It replays the opening scenario, but in a totally different setting. Same lines, almost the exact same thing, but in live action. And there's a person, obviously, wearing a suit like the Dino, and when he's happy or he's expressive and he makes noises by moving his body, and instead you hear Star Wars sound effects. I'm not kidding. That is the funniest thing ever. Obviously, this show is self-aware of how absurd the premise is, and it plays to that strength, and gives us charming, unique, comical situations where we see the dynamic between Gal and Dino. I love the fact that he's terribly afraid of cats, and his shock to expression is to die for, and the cats just see him as the cutest thing and want to cuddle and play with him. But yeah, I am all in. And I was just entranced by how bizarre and weird this series is, especially the ending. The ending took me by surprise for the first episode. The last 30 seconds, it's almost prophetic. I don't know, I don't understand what was happening, what that whole thing meant. But I'm in. Heck, even the ending, before I wrap things up with you guys, the ending is so unique, and the song is super cute. I love it. A lot of people are paying attention to other popular anime that are debuting in this spring season 2020, but here I am talking about Gal and Dino. I love how bizarre and out of the box it is. The animation styles, the quick reaction comedy, and the gag bits, and all that stuff. Just, I like it. It's wholesome, wacky, bizarre fun, and that's what I'd like, especially in the year 2020, when things seem so chaotic in nature. At least we'll have Gal and Dino, right guys? I don't know. What do you guys think? Have you seen the episode? The first episode? Let me know in the comment section below, if not, let me know what are some of your favorite comedies in anime and manga. I'll gladly read those and watch those series that you guys recommend. As always, thank you guys for tuning in, liking, subscribing, being a part of what we can geek them. All that fun stuff. Follow me on social media if you can, and of course, hit the bell icon so you know when new videos pop up. Make sure you're subscribed so you can see videos more often on your news feed. I've got to go. I will catch all of you on our next episode.