 2021 before I continue the show sponsored by ExpressVPN. Your data is your business. Go to expressvpn.com slash RTTV to protect it. Ho-ha! Before I even introduce literally everything else, you guys wanna join us in chat. We're live right now, holy crap. Go to roosterteeth.com where you are right now to create a free account. And join a chat. I am keeping an eye out on you guys. Look, I did it right now. You'll look around dummies. Look around dummies. I'm pulling up right now. I'm looking at the chat. Hi guys, I'm Issa, welcome to the show. I have notes, a show where people with surprisingly long IMDB lists come together to talk all things animation creative and saying, I have notes in a voice. Joining me today as always is my lovely co-host, Carrie Cockross. Cockross? Sherry Cockross. Sherry Cockross. I was gonna say ooh-oo in the voice, but now I'm not gonna do it. That was the reason, just see you now. Hello everybody. It's 2021, it's the year of the bully. Call it now. And with us that will not be bullying anybody, we have our amazing, amazing recurring guest, Erin. Hello. I'm back baby. Ooh-woo. And joining us once again, the lovely Caden, hello. What's ooh-woo? What's doing it? We don't like the anime girl. This is the ooh-woo episode. Ooh-woo episode. I think I'm gonna say salty. I really, really hate. Yeah. 2021, I think will be the year of the bully and the year of the ooh-woo. And I think that those will combine and form a chocolate peanut butter combination. No, I'm not gonna go with that, don't bully. I'm already away from that, don't bully. I was just like, I'm kind of like. Oh, I would say we should like, we could ship them kind of like. Oh, like a Sundare kind of thing. Couple, yeah, it's like the last year that there was a trend of like the bimbo and the like regular girl, but they turned out people started like pairings. I love that, yeah. The bully and the ooh-woo. Oh, the chat of the version. Couple, yeah, yeah, exactly. Well, now we're banned on. I can't believe you did that. Simp, simp, simp. What is that backwards? I can't. Pimps. Pimps. Pimps, I don't know. PMS? Oh, yeah. Oh, no. No. We did it. It's 2021. We made it. Good. How? Everything is different now. Everything's changed, except nothing's changed. Nothing. You know, 2021, everything magically fixed. The second the ball hit the ground or does it go up or does it go down? It goes down. It goes down. It goes down. You dropped the ball. See, that's a bad way to bring it into the year. What do you have thrown up there? I don't know. But some of you may have seen our episode last week and we made it look seamless. I'm sure you could tell, but we actually didn't record last week. It's been like two weeks since we've done an episode. I know. What's everybody been up to? Issa, you took time off. Erin, you took some time off. Kayden, I don't know what you're doing. And I just took like two days off. You actually took some time off. Yeah. Hey, we did it. Well, y'all go ahead and take it away. Oh, me? Me first? Anybody, literally anybody that did something interesting in the last two weeks. I have a six page script that I'm still working on and still rummaging around my brain for, and I got to dedicate some time to it. And I decided that, I started it before the break and then in the middle of the break, I decided, I'm gonna rewrite everything. So then I did that. Yay. Hey, sometimes you just gotta start over. Start completely over. Start going so fresh. Sometimes it's like you have like, all right, cool. I've got two hours, let me work on it. And then you don't work on it. And then it's eight, nine, 10, 11 p.m. And you're like, I'm gonna work on it now, huh? Yeah. The only other thing I did, I think is, I played Miles Morales, which I loved. I wished it was longer. That's my only complaint is, should have been longer, wished it was longer. I can see that. I know, you're not doing it this way. A couple of people were using that as like, why is this like a full retail game? It was playing for a full retail game. It's 40 bucks. There you go. Yeah, it was absolutely worth $40. Oh, 100%. Yeah. Did you play it on PS5 or PS4? I am a horrible pleb and I don't have any next-gen console, so I just played it on PS4. It's okay, you can still be on the show. It's fine. Don't worry about it. You could go and play Spider-Man Remastered with the new guy. The new dude? Yeah. He looks good. I mean, it looks fine. Sure. I mean, everybody was just like super mad about it. It's like, sometimes that just, you know, sometimes you just need to completely change what your face looks like. Yeah. You know? Rewrite entire script. Rewrite your entire face. Yeah. Just re-write your second draft on this. You kidding me? Yeah. This is the beta. I love it. I love it. I wouldn't give myself a reverse Hitler. No. I can't. All right, here's your four concepts. You can pick from any one of these. You can mix and match this one. Yeah. Yeah, give me a slider before my face and give me enough options. Erin, how was your break? Oh, it was wonderful. I wish I- Did you oo-woo? I did oo-woo a lot. I try to remember what I did, but honestly I kind of just like relaxed. I didn't do- Nice. Too much. I also was right before Christmas. And typically for Christmas, I like to do like paintings for my family. So I spent some time doing that, doing some traditional media. So. Dear parents have like a display room. A gallery. Oh yeah. Like yeah. Oh, that's lovely. That's nice. Thank you. Thank you. Oo-woo. I want there to be just like a room in their house that's just like- Oh, see, you say that, but- A chair and that's it. And just on the walls all around. My dad's office. He has like, he's a doctor, so he has like his own like clinic and whatnot. And basically his office is like an Erin museum. Wow. But it's like- That's sweet. Erin's a beer's pass. So it's like really old like- Taub lards. That matters more though. It's true. I'll have to like find some old art and like show it sometime. Because some of them are pretty funny. He's got like unique like clinic or like doctor's office art, which is probably pretty rare because I'm guessing they all go through like a service to get something that is like- Oh yeah. You know, appropriate for everyone. Yeah. You know, and like- Like just like the kind of art that just like blends into the background. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just like you know like a leaf. Yeah. Yeah. Completely inoffensive generic art. Exactly. Yeah. I'm sure it's great. It's all beta-eran art. He hasn't gotten- He hasn't gotten the- Beta-eran. Oh my God. Which is what I'm doing now. Oh my God. That's a- Those are my favorite breaks. It's just doing nothing. I just always feel guilty. Like I had plans and it didn't work out and I was like, you know what? I'm okay with this. I'm okay with just not doing anything for once. Yeah. So yeah. Do you- Does the guilt creep in for you? Usually by like Sunday night. Yeah. Like the next day it is like, oh well. I could have done that. I could have. Like I have like the panic sets in and then usually I'll treat myself and like go pick up food and then I'll be okay after that. Time for some peteries. And I'm cured. That's a good- Peterie sounds good. Yeah. Crap, I'm hungry. Oh guys. I texted a couple of you but Tatsu is doing karage now. What? I just wanted to throw that out there for people who live in Austin. Yeah. Socket chat. It's tasty. This is good. Yeah. Move to Austin, fucking deal with it. Is it like an appetizer? Or is it like- Yeah, it's one of their starters, yeah. Their starters, I like their starters more than the ramen, honestly. Are they still delivering? You can pick up. That I don't know. Yeah, I think they can pick up. Yeah, I pick up all the time. Yeah. I learned, I don't know if I know this but I figured out how to win ramen. Win ramen. Like I won it. Okay. Like I've won the process of eating it. You get, you order the gyoza, the pot stickers and you put it in the ramen. Oh my God. And then you forget about it for like five minutes while you're eating the rest of the ramen. And then, oh, what's that? This little, this little dumpling I put in here. And it's absorbed the juices and the flavor. And you win. Oh, that's a good idea. There you go. Yeah. There you go? I know you're all speechless and it's because it's perfect, I know. It's such a good idea. It sounds amazing. It does, such a good idea. It is. It is amazing. I'm very confident about this because I've done it and it felt good in my tummy. Nice. Not the next day. Nice, nice, nice. Yeah. You said, how was your, you had a big break. I did. I figured something out about myself during the week so I was off. Oh, dang. Can you get it, can you lie down on like a leather couch behind you? Let me get a clipboard therapy session time. It turns out. Okay, now you look at it, don't do that. Okay. It turns out that if I'm, I was just kind of straight relaxing just doing whatever I wanted, which was really nice. Where I'll talk about something in our, what we wanted to talk about later, like some of our nice stuff of 2020, throw in that as a spoiler out there. I'm gonna run it right now. Something that I was, something that I was doing was just like playing this game, but similar to how dogs and cats need a lot of mental stimulation in order for them to like feel fulfilled every day, like play with them. You need to like make sure, like do some training with them so they use their brain. Teach the math. It turns out I need that too, or else I won't sleep. So I was sorely lacking in the sleep department during my time off, which is weirdly ironic because you can do that so you can sleep. And then the last week I was just like, I am having a terrible time because I could not go to sleep. And then I was telling myself like, oh man, I think come Monday, I'm actually gonna use more of my brain processes. And then that means I will actually sleep like a damn baby. And then it turns out I did. So I'm a little ashamed of myself. Hey, look, everybody, I mean, especially you've been in that rhythm for so long. It's like you need to exercise every part of you to wind down. Because if not, then you're just like, all the thoughts fire when you're just like lying there at night. There's all my energy is kind of just thinking. It's like, oh God. I feel that, like just like trying to say, am I relaxing? Am I doing it? Is this it? Is this relaxing? Because I'm awake. I'm gonna do such a good sleep job. I don't feel calm at all. Is this what relaxing is like? Because I don't like it. Oh no. It's, yeah. It's not fun. See what I do is going back to the animal comparison is I put all of my leftovers in mismatched Tupperware containers. So like the lid fits, but not really well. So like it's harder to get off and get to my food. And it just kind of makes me think a little bit more. For some reason it's like she's at some little ball and I have to like push it. I was gonna say, you need to know what is toys where you have to like put the star shapes block. It's a star shape pole. This is scary trying to put like a circle into it. Have you seen the video? Yeah. The video. Tell them, tell them. The square, we have a square piece. It goes into the square hole. No, I have this rectangle piece. You know where this goes? That goes into the square hole. Square hole. We have this, this, this, this, this, this cylinder, the cylinder, we have a cylinder. You know where that goes? That, you're right. It goes right into the square hole. It was like every piece of this entire set fit in the square hole. And it's like, it was like a, it was like a full minute long TikTok and I knew exactly what was happening from the second thing. I still watched every single one. So good. I just like, it, we had this like anti-establishment vibe to it that like I really enjoyed. Yep. Ooh, what a good critique of all these TikTok videos. Anti-establishment you say? I'm on board, let's go. Yeah, let's bring it back. Talk about the food thing real quick. This is not important. I just want to share this with somebody. I think my cat's mad at me. Oh no. Because I bought him these little like mice that you put the food in. They're not real. They're plastic. Okay. Can we not figure it out? No, he can figure it out. He doesn't want to. So I'll put the food in the mice. You're supposed to hide them, but I don't even do that. I just throw them on the ground. And I'm just like, here's all of your food. Here's the normal amount of food. Just paw at it and you get it and he'll do it. But first he'll run to the bowl and look at me and then I have to leave the room and like 20 minutes later I'll walk back in and he's eating from the thing. He's pushing it around and he just kind of like looks at me and then goes back to it. Oh my God. You fucking bastard. You fuck. I would dare you. And then he'll eat it all and then come over to me and like, we're gonna get some more food? And like his food's in my bathroom. He's like, I'll go to the bathroom and he'll run in there like, we get more food. I'm like, you had it all. You don't get more. That's it. Very relatable as a cat parent. I need him to use his noggin so he doesn't stay up all night. Yeah. He's a, I think he's gonna be in his terrible tubes forever. So that's fine. Oh. That's fair. There are some. There are some that's just. I'm gonna love him no matter what, but I'm just, I'm tired of him. That's how Cooper is. She's 13, but she still acts like a little two-year-old and she's also an eight-bucket food goblin. Eight-bucket, yeah. I will say that in quarantine, there was always like going to the office and then coming back home and then there was the excitement of, oh, you left. You're back. Oh, yeah. Now, however, my cats are just like, if I go outside for like 15 minutes, I come back inside, they're just like, where did you go? What? You abandonment? Abandonment. Abandonment is what has happened here. Neglect and abandonment, but you're back. You're back. Okay, I'm gonna need to like be near you for the next six hours to make sure that you stay here. What did I do? I'm so sorry. I'll never do it again. So I have woken up so much over the past quarantine with both of my cats, just like sleeping right near my head and nuzzling my head. I'm just like, hi, good morning, boys. And then Kofi, my dog is like right next to, like right next to my lap. And then she's just like wakes up, moves her head. It's like, is it time to go out yet? Are we gonna, is it a wake time? She's like, no, it's not a wake time. Yo, Kayden, I got a piss. I'm assuming that's your dog's voice. That's a really good dog voice. I mean, she's a two year old girl, so I'd hope not. You know, look, I only do one voice. So that's kind of, oh, I got to spit tag. I got to spit tag. I only do one voice. That's all I got. I got this voice and I got a piss. That's the other voice I got. It's my, it's my, it's my piss voice. I'm gonna stop saying piss now. I'm mad at myself. That's the one for the pee-pee poo-poo jar. Here we go. All I have is this empty container that I had some Pringles in. So I'll just put it in there. Here, I'm putting one Pringles wrapper in the Pringle container. And that's my punishment for saying, ah, dang it, here we go. That's the full, that's the full one, all right. There we go, I figured it out. I can't believe you got a spit tag off of that. How dare you? How dare you? And with the lag, the video lag, I managed to time that shit. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Yes. Good way. Expertly done. Carrie. Hello. Do our segue. All right. I'll segue you way. So, it's our first episode of 2021. And hey, 2020 was a tough year, everybody. Oh my God. I know you haven't really heard that. I'm leaving. So I'm doing a piss voice. So we here at Ed, I have notes that what better way to move on from 2020 than to talk about 2020 more and to talk about our favorite things from 2020. So we've all collected. We're not going to do like a I Have Notes awards, best game of the year. We're not doing that. We're just, hey, what are some things that we liked in 2020? Spoiler alert, some of them didn't come out in 2020. And that's a part of the narrative. But yeah, we thought this would be a fun way to share some gems of 2020. And it's not like you got anywhere to go in 2021 yet. So there's still more time to watch and play games and stuff. Kaden, would you like to start? Oh, yeah, sure. Little animated series that came out, it mostly came out in 2020. It started in 2019. I watched all in 2020. The Owl House, which was so fantastic. The Owl House. The Owl House was really, really good. I'm very excited for where they go in the next season, especially with the way that like the first season ended. It's like, it hooked me instantaneously. Like that first episode is just very magical. And if you haven't seen it, it's very fun. It's well done in a lot of different ways. The animation, very, very pretty. They do, the backgrounds are great. When you see the world itself, I'm not going to spoil it because it's great. When they do the world reveal of here's the map of the world, it's like, and everything kind of gets put together. Can I guess? Yeah, sure. Is it Florida? No, no, no. It's a much better place than Florida. It's magical. Magical. Florida is magical in a certain way. That's the bad kind of magical. I didn't say good magical. I just said magical. All right, that's fair. It takes time. Like it was just it was it was nice. It was one of those things that I was so I needed something like this. It had it did representation. Well, it had a diverse cast of characters. It had, you know, it had resolution very quickly for a lot of like little tiny threads that planted seeds in their resolutions for things that they were they seem to be building up towards. So I was very pleased. Nineteen episodes and I am desperate for more. Also, Houdi is the greatest like animated owl ever. It is just ridiculous character. I love Houdi so much. Was it Cartoon Network or Disney Channel? It is Disney Channel. OK, so one of the few few gyms from Disney this year. One of the few gems probably like. Don't worry, I would talk about Mulan. Just kidding. We will. I know the animation director for a good chunk of the first season was Spencer Wan and he's the one who was also behind Castlevania and the Hades trailer. Yes. Yes. So it's very good. He said Hades and my heart got very excited. Don't worry. Don't worry. The real game of the year. They might that might come up soon. Oh, now. Do they do they know that their show's name kind of sounds like the outhouse? Kerry, don't ruin this for me. OK, cool. Moving on. Aaron. Kerry's in like real peepy poo poo owl. I slam some caffeine like right before this. Yo, good move. Um, so all I can talk about is owls and piss. All right. Aaron, what is something? What is a piece of media that brought you joy in 2020 despite everything? I feel like I've talked about it a few times on this show. But man, it was a fucking banger. And yeah, definitely up there on my like top 20, 20 discoveries. Chainsaw man and luckily I was gone. I think like a day or two after my birthday or something, they announced that the anime is being green lit and it's going to be animated animated by Mappa. Really? I think it's going to be great. Wow. Pretty tasty. Yeah. And technically, the first part of the manga is done. Like it concluded, I forgot, end of December. So it is going to continue on a different shonen publication, I think. OK. I think it was a little too intense for Shonen Jump. I'm still shocked as how much was like shown in that. It's it seems a little bit more graphic than what they usually have. Yeah, but yeah, for a refresher, basically very like devil hunters, hunting demons or devils in this world. Our main character, he makes a contract with his pet chainsaw dog. To become chainsaw man. And I think I have more of a problem with that than the leap that he was just born with chainsaw limbs. If only, but the chainsaw dog is very cute. It's it's actually like as gory as it is, it is like very touching. And I'm like surprised at the amount of times I cried over this manga. So I'm all very excited for it to continue. So OK, so so the like they finished a run of it. Yes, and they're going to pick the manga up somewhere else. Yeah, and then they're also going to work on the anime for the first arc. Correct. OK, cool. So, Erin, get in on the ground floor. From chat, Ace asked if you saw the chainsaw man, Nendo prototype. I did. I think like I carry. We were playing among us. I think so. Yeah, like I had three people like message me. Erin, look at them in their eyes. They had a while we were doing something. Yeah, I screwed it. Erin, can I ask a question that I know is really juvenile, but I just need to know. Is it pee pee poo poo? I know what I know what I know what I'm not even like I'm just OK. His his head is a chainsaw. His arms are chainsaw. Is anything else a chainsaw? As far as we know, no. He doesn't at one point. At one point, he doesn't turn into like maybe minor spoilers. A giant like demon lord chainsaw dude. And he wears like organs as a scarf. OK, that is a look. Yeah, but so what you're saying is anything's possible. Yes. OK, that's all I need to know. Yes, we don't have to get more graphic than that. Chainsaw dick. The new OK. Now now you said it. Now you just went and said it. Your turn. Uh, I guess I'll we. Yeah, this is this is not very beautiful. Honestly, genuinely, one of my favorite things of 2020 was Hades. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we got there. We did it, gamers. Right. I I love everything that Studio does. I've I've played like every single one of their games and I. I we talked about this on the show some. But if you're not familiar, it's a it's I was getting wrong. It's rogue light. Yeah, right. Oh, I never know. It's I think rogue light and rogue like are two different things. I never know what it is. But you play and when you die, your character resets and you go back through a procedurally generated area. With this game, you accrue points and bonuses that they keep going, keep going, as well as a really interesting story that unfolds in front of you. So unlike some of these other games in the genre that are very punishing and you, you know, I think the extreme is like you literally start like you just booted up the game for the first time. You are not punished for not winning. My kind of game. Just playing. And maybe, you know, it's great if you get a little bit further, but just playing, you're going to get you're going to get better. Your character is going to get better. And the the the dialogue trees that they have are are intense. And and really like it's so far in that like the there's a person that will talk to you like almost every time you come back when you respawn. And they they they have a distinct way to describe how you died almost every single time that's accurate. Yeah. I think Supergiant posted like their word count for like their scripts and like character who has like the most lines and who has the least. Obviously, it's agriest because these are main characters, like the most. But it's like 30,000 lines or something. It's ridiculous. Yeah, it's a lot. Yeah, you can probably like pull it up and find it really easily. But and one of my favorite things, equal opportunity, hotness. Yes. Yeah. Everyone in that game is attractive. And it's I do have a I do have a complaint about Hades. Go for it. It's two. It's two complaints, two complaints. It's one. Meg isn't a real person. And two is not currently dating me other than that games. Perfect. How many how many how many at, you know, Kate, this is your second time on you at any time we ever rate anything on. I have notes. It's always out of eight point four. So how many points would you deduct for those two? I'll go ahead and say atrocities. I mean, atrocities, I mean, six, six points. OK, so we're three for not being real and three for not dating me. So OK, so. So one of my favorite games of the year. Gets a two point four out of out of eight point four. OK, OK, man, I really struggle in that math that I complicated myself. You're going to sleep like a baby tonight. Square walk into the square hole. You made it there in the circle. The game is perfect. Hades is perfect except for those two things. That's it. And if for any reason to stop you before or if you're looking for reason to get back in, switch and PC have cross save now. Yes. So you can play in your PC and then pick up your switch and go back and forth. I was a scrub lord and I did use my elite Xbox controller. That has like the back paddles. So I don't know if I can play on the switch now. We'll see because I learned like a loser because these little cheats like little babies do. That's what I do because I'm a little piss boy. There it is. But sorry, it's fun. It's really fun to say. There's the episode title. Yeah, please. No, please. No, please. No, no, no. He's a stop. He's a save me for this first round. Going back to our animation. My favorite one of my favorite things of 2020 is was the new season of IQ. Was it the last season? It was season five, I think. OK, because I know the manga finished. I wasn't sure if the end. Yes, the manga finished. I don't think this is the final one. Got you. But it's also production, I.G. So there is a good chance that every time I think to myself, I don't know if they're going to do the next season. It turns out they are going to do it. So I think they are intent on doing it until the final end. But I'm not really sure, frankly. I haven't read the manga because that's the one where I actually really want to watch the anime just by itself. That's how I am with my hero, even though I'm behind on it. That's exactly how I am. I get it. Sometimes you just want to watch it. Yeah, and honestly, it's really good. It's the IQ this season was just as good. There were so many cool animation sequences and a lot of really good payoffs for characters that you already love anyway. So it's just like, what? I love them even more. How is that possible? And man, some of the sequences were wild. There is this pop quiz. Who was the guy who did Devil, Man, Cry, Baby, the reboot? Oh, God, I can't remember his name. Yeah, I don't remember. OK, we know what you're talking about though. Yes, yeah. Him, there were some animation sequences where it looked like it was pulled from that guy. For some reason, you're looking it up. Yeah, you need to know my colloquiality crack. A good little crack boy looking it up. I can't read it at all. Masaka, you saw? Yuasa. There you go. That was the director for Devil, Man, Cry, Baby. OK, yeah. His stuff does tend to look the same in terms of this. It's a unique look. Otherworldly, he kind of intentionally goes off model. And they have some sequences there where it's just like, oh, that character looks wild, but it looks so good. It fit the kind of action that they wanted to go for, or this really frenetic energy of this match. Oh, yeah, that's right. He also directed Japan's Sinks. Yep. Yeah, because I remember that was like, oh, really OK. Yeah. Erin liked that one. I did. That was going to be on my list. Spoilers. So that was one of my stuff. Can I ask you a high-queue question because I've never watched an ongoing sports anime? They are in high school? Yes. OK. This is not a leading question. I'm sure they've got it. I'm just curious. So in Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z and stuff, you always have this problem where they defeat the boss and then now there's something more powerful and they defeat that boss. Is it weird that they haven't graduated yet? Have they graduated? Can I know that? Like, I don't want to spoil anything either, but like, it's one of those things where like, it has a show been going on for like 10 years and they're still in high school. Oh, they're still in the same grade, but it doesn't feel like Ash or Dragon Ball Z because you really experience like the things in the way that they're presenting it chronologically. Oh, like 24. Like, it's like a minute per minute. Doop. Doop. I've never seen this before. Neither 24 nor high-queue. OK, so they live in the moment. Yes, yeah. And like, each moment really gets its due. OK. So it will feel like a whole episode is dedicated to just like two minutes of this entire thing. I feel like that's a lot of sports anyway. Yes, nothing's the right thing. But yeah. There's 85 episodes and five OVAs and they're still in the same year. Yes. Wow. That's impressive. Like, I'm not even that's not a bad thing. That's impressive. That's like the fact that you're not hitting a fatigue on that is like very good. It's so good. Season three is an entire match. Jesus Christ. Just one whole-life match. And then all the other seasons are actually like interest births, like, oh, it's like more than one manager. It's high-queue is good. Go watch it. OK. I say, actually, do we need to take a quick mid-roll break and then Kaden, you can take us next. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. Hi, guys. Shout out to first members for supporting us during this time. Sign up for first to support us and watch exclusive content. You can join us in chat. You can get some discounts off the store. There's some really cool things that are happening. Spoilers, Dead Little Research is coming out on YouTube. So if you are first member, you can watch more episodes as they come out. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And I'm looking at some transparency here. I'm looking at my sheet. And I missed a call-out before. Did you guys know that Transformers War on Cybertron is on Netflix right now? Ooh. I did. Oh, snaz. It's very good. So Transformers War for Cybertron, Earthrise, is the second chapter for the trilogy. And it's brought to you by us, and has, bro. So guys, if you haven't gotten the chance, go check that out. Fun fact, my uncle sent me an email saying how much he was really excited for it, because he's a huge nerd. And he's a kid at heart. And he watches all these cartoons still. And he's like, oh, I was really excited when I saw Rooster Teeth. And I thought of you. I was like, thanks, Uncle John. Oh. Anyway, that's it. Does he understand enough about what you do or not that you're able to say, like, yeah, I made that. Or did you have to be like, yeah, it was, you know, it's like our company, but I didn't really, you know, like. I usually say the latter. OK. You should take more credit for things you didn't do. It's fun. 2021, New Year, New Year. 2021. I made all Transformers. I'm joking. You made this? I made this. Yeah. Don't. It's just for, like, old people. It's all I want. It's fine. According to all of my family, I'm an animator. Yeah. According to some people in this company, I'm an animator. Yeah, you know, we just we need another name. Either for the either for the medium or for the artists that do the animation part of the medium. OK. It's like instead of having help, like we have like a health care. It's like if we call everybody doctors or something or like this is the doctor team, but everybody's not a doctor. There's like doctors and nurses and attendings in the medical field. Yeah, we just don't. Yeah, we don't call it the doctor field. We call it the medical field. I love watching your brain, like your gears start turning. Yeah, trying to figure out what they're desperately trying to fit that star into the squirtle, something that isn't the word animation. Anything that isn't the word animation. Yeah, I was I was like, OK, I'll go down this doctor path. Oh, shit. I don't know anything besides doctor and nurses because I'm dumb. Ah, shit. McDonald's. Kaden, what was something else that you enjoyed in 2021 that you would like to share with the class? OK, so I talked about this a bunch. I talked about this at the end of 2019 with Cole and I talked about it this morning, but they released an anime for a series that I was really excited for. It turned out not to be quite how I would have liked them to do it. And that caused it to get pulled from several streaming services worldwide. However, it was still airing in Japan. So I just watched it there. And it was those flights would be crazy. It was it was very good. I wish they had handled it a little bit more like the manga, but we did get two more volumes of the manga in 2019 in English. So I was very happy to see that. It's a little thing called Ishizoku reviewers, which you may or may not have heard of. I have not. I would like the second category. OK, I'm going to read you the synopsis. OK. OK. In a world where many different humanoid species exist and prostitution is legal, there exist various brothels for each kind of species with succu girls who have succubus blood running through them as each species has different opinions on how each such girl works for them. Various brothel visitors have become reviewers rating their experiences and various succu girls and opposing them in a local tavern, opposing them in a local tavern. The series largely centels on a human named Stunk, an elf named Zell and an angel named Crimm. And that's the point of it. It's very Carrie. You were talking about this earlier. You're just like, you want to mix bull and Uwu. This mixes bull and Uwu. Oh, my God. The thing is, the anime is very, very sexual. The manga is not. It basically gets to the point where they're about to do like the thing and it skips ahead to afterwards. And then they actually post the actual review on the final page of that chapter, where it's like, here's their experiences. They actually talk about like consent and they talk about boundaries and they talk about, like, you know, how certain things, how certain fetishes and certain things make people feel and all that stuff. It's brilliantly done in the manga. In the anime, however, it's just, OK, we're going to do the setup. And I'm just like, OK, here's where they zip ahead and then it didn't. And I'm just like, oh, no, no, they're showing the whole thing. They're showing it all. So Funimation aired one episode. This one. Yeah, I heard this part. They aired one episode and then they pulled it. A lot of people were kind of upset about it because, you know, there's a lot of anime out there that do a lot of nasty and it's on just real dirty, just real nasty, real dirty. And it kind of like made me go, huh, because this one was very like sex positive, very like, you know, you know, again, sex workers rights very much in that vein of like normalization of all that stuff. And it was fantastic. And they're just like, no. And I'm just like curious. But did it did it feel not I'm not going to say that they handled it well in terms of like the the sex positive stuff. And I also did not watch a lot of it. But did it did it? It seems like it would maybe feel like the like the first season of Game of Thrones when like all of a sudden everybody was watching. Everybody was watching a thing that now had like a lot of sex stuff in it. And it started to become like a little bit more normal. Like, did it feel like a little bit like, oh, you got some some hentai in my anime versus you know, I mean, yeah, I will say to normalize. Not I'm not saying they did it well. No, no, no, yeah, no, there's two things that I really actually liked about it. One is Krim is basically intersex and is a main character. And I've never quite seen that before. There's a lot of like focus on Krim in a lot of different ways. And it's handled pretty well, like all things considered, especially from a series in Japan, you know what I mean? There's not usually the best in a lot of the anime as well. Yeah, surprisingly enough, like they actually do things fairly decently. And there is a transcoded character in there as well, who is a hyena, a hyena girl. And she's fantastic. Her her voice is fantastically done. Very, very smoky voice. And she giggle a lot. No, she's actually kind of a bitch. And I love it. Well, I mean, that's nice. I mean, the hyenas are I just I just OK. Because hyenas they laugh. Yeah, that I mean, I like that you mentioned that you love that. She's a bitch, Katie, because I was like, all right, you like Meg. Again, also looking for some step on the energy. Yeah. Oh, hey, yeah, this is yeah. No, no, we're in a good space. It's fine. Yeah, this is a safe space. This is a safe space. Yeah, no, it was it's I like the I like the manga better. I'm glad that we got two more manga, two more volumes of the manga in a single year, which is very rare for something that's so niche. I I less recommend the anime, especially because you can't watch it anywhere. Sure, I do very much recommend the manga because it's there's a lot of like introspectiveness to it and like unconscious bias stuff that they go into. And it's just like, yeah, you don't like this because it's like this. But that's just because of how you were raised. And it's like, oh, we're really doing this. It's like, is this I mean, this is this is a manga series that's about naughty stuff. Are we talking about serious things? And it does it in a very fun and informative way, while also giving you exactly what you want. And exactly exactly what you want, Kerry. OK, I mean, they don't shy away from like they don't shy away from same sex stuff or there is even a section where it's just like, hey, you know what, I kind of want to understand what it's like to be on the other side of things. And they swap and they have that moment. It's like, OK, now I've learned. And now I understand what it feels like to be on the other side of things. And I've learned how to better treat the opposite sex. So it's like, look at that. Boom, golden. I love it. Do you do you know? OK, sorry. Oh, he's never I'm sorry. I think he said nice. I realize that. Yeah. Do you do you know anything about the creator in terms of like other stuff that they've done? Or is this kind of like their their first like? This is something I honestly. It's very progressive for for Japan. It really is. And I think it's because it's wrapped in the fan service coding that they kind of were able to get away with a lot of stuff. Sure. But the actual like anime itself, I do know the studio that's doing it. It's a passion. The they did they're doing the new season of Higurashi. They did. And the new season of Higurashi is real good. They did The Island of Giant Insects, which I believe got kickstarted for a full dub of fairly recently. They did Rail Wars back in 2014. He knocked a note in 2017. So they've they've done some some decent stuff. It's nothing like they haven't like knocked anything like big out of the park. But their animation styles very good. Yeah, like I like it a lot. That sounds good. What was the name one more time? Uh, the the studio or the the manga, the the manga like this. The series. Ishizoka reviewers. Cool. Is it my turn? Aaron, please, please. How do I follow up? Take it away from me. Yeah, what? How do I follow up with that? What human act is your are you rating? Oh, boy. Well, I watched over Thanksgiving in like two days. I watched all of Vinland saga, which is on Amazon Prime, not 2020 release. I think it came out in 2019. Look, look, it's fine. Yeah, that's a the studio that did Attack on Titan. Yep. Why am I blinking? Wait, thank you. Thank you. Yeah, wait. Yeah, gorgeous animation. It's a historical anime about Vikings and shit. What kind of historical is it? It it loosely follows like some. I don't know like the proper word for it, but like actual historical figures that are near like legendary status. OK, like they're kind of just because it's like so far back and like they're just because like Viking history is a little like Cleopatra. Yeah, it's a little bit nebulous. So it has like introduced some fictional characters during interact with these actual historical figures. I just want to really quickly clear up that. I don't think clear Patrick is a Viking. I just that was the first first I could think of that was like that legendary status. Yeah. Not a Viking that I'm aware of. Not yet. You're wrong. That's a challenge. Yeah, who's a Viking? New one. I have notes. But yeah, it follows. Let me pull up the synopsis so I don't butcher it. I think it'd be fun if you do. It follows the character Thorfinn, whose spoilers this happens like literally within the first episode or two, his father is killed by a fellow Viking. And this happens like when he's like a child, basically. So he joins the Viking, the Viking who killed his father in order to avenge him. He wants to duel him. But evil Viking dude is like, no, no, you're just a child. Maybe in a few years, when you have like a few more battles under your belt, I'll fight you. So it's kind of like this weird, like found family, but they also hate each other kind of thing. That's some like, that's some like he's like a shit. Yeah, it's it's pretty great. I really enjoyed it. I'm surprised. And I'm definitely going to be reading the manga, hopefully pretty soon. That's cool. You said it was it was Amazon. Yep, it was on. I wonder if they're going to do more. I haven't heard. I haven't heard, but there's definitely been speculation. And because it's also not doing this season of Attack on Titan. Yeah. So. The final season. Yeah, I need a final season. The final season. I got I didn't watch the new season yet, but I wanted to know what happened. So I read all the Wikipedia and like one night and I couldn't sleep because my brain was just like overloaded with all this fucking lore. I think I'm going to wait until there's like two or three episodes left. Yeah, I think that's the best idea. And then just like be there for the last two or something. Yeah. Um, my my my next one is going to be really boring compared to everything else. I listen to the audio book for a promised land, which is Obama's Barack Obama's book. Whoa, you were Obama, not. Not going to get political here, although I do support him very much. It was just really good book and it was really good insight. It's long. It was like a 40 hour audio book and it it only covered. I mean, it covered his childhood up to his like first term in the office. Oh, wow. It was like halfway through before he even got elected in the book. So spoiler alert, he got elected. But it was it was it was really interesting to to, you know, hear about some of that time from a different perspective or like a more. With his hindsight and just through the different lens and not like through the media, but from him someone who was probably like more involved. Somebody who might know what they're talking about on certain topics because they were there and doing them. Yeah, but but things that he probably didn't feel comfortable saying at the time. Or again, in hindsight, looking back on it, you know, he criticizes himself a lot or or, you know, it talks about things that he wish he had done differently. Or one of my one of my favorite things. I mean, I've been on a big kick this year of just like trying to, you know, really do a better job of understanding how I'm affecting other people and trying to put myself in their shoes. And at least in retrospect, he does a really good job of, you know, he'll say somebody did this thing and it upset me and it angered me. But then, you know, but then I thought about what they were thinking and how that makes sense and how why they approach it that way. And it's just, I don't know, it was a good. Ignoring the fact that it's about our past president. I think it's it's a it's an interesting book about looking back at your own career and your own life. Yeah. If you're listening to the audiobook, go ahead and pop that on one point to speed because you won't know the difference. Speed run. I genuinely also. I genuinely put it back on one X speed and I was like, how, how? Sorry. Is it also Obama? It's him. It's him narrating. Yeah, I had 40 40 hours of Obama pumped into my brain. And for me personally, that felt great at the end of 2020. So that that was like my entire like end of November, December. That's another title for the episode. Forty hours of. Yeah, right. Right into the whatever cortex or whatever that shit is. I like that answer, Carrie. Yeah, it was good. It was good. It's it's it's. Yeah, it's good. And you get to hear him cuss. He says, he says a couple of times. Yeah. Oh my gosh, Obama says fuck. Yeah, let Obama keep keep going, keep going. How dare he? As in like me as an. Yeah, you go to the next one. I'm going to I have a I have a funny bit in a minute. Oh, OK, cool. I have one. One of the best, most interesting video games I've ever played last year was Aegis Rim, 13 Sentinels. Oh, yeah. Developed by Vanillaware, who did of Odin Sphere. And that was the other game. I only played Odin Sphere. Wait, they did the game and and and Princess Crown. Yes, yeah. They did this one. It is so calling it right out the bat. Japanese high schoolers, they do do some some stuff. It's just a little like, you know, a little bit of nakey, nakey, a little bit of like there's a choice here where one of the girls always wears the sports bloomers that is so often presented in Japanese and Japanese media and anime. But it's the kind where it's not shorts. It's like short shorts. And you know that there's a bit of bum, bum that's sticky. Oh, is it like the shorts that look like underwear, basically? Yes, and it is a choice that she is in that uniform for a good chunk of the game. So, you know, jump over that hurdle and there is a reason why the game was nominated for one of the best narratives in the game awards for 2020. Well deserved. And I think it should have won. But it the way it gets you thinking about science fiction and how you play a game. Imagine trying to play a game both like present, future and past all at the same time. Oh, no. It challenges you to think in that way, while it's also both like kind of visual novely. Ask it's more point point and click with a bit of art or a real time strategy. I have wild. I'm just realizing I've heard about this game. Yeah, they talk about the besties. Yeah. Oh, yes. It looks very interesting. Voice cast is fantastic, too. It's really good. The lovely Christina Valenzuela is in it as well. And she's so good. Like she's so good. Cheers. Christina V knocks it out the park. I was going to say, I'm not surprised. Yes, like fantastic. I couldn't find the clip that I had because I got it in the phone. This is not going to work, but I'm going to try it anyways. Hang on a second. Here we go real quick, real quick. I'm going to just don't say anything for a second. Hang on. Oh, shit. Oh, this is really bad, y'all. You know what? Hey, ignore this. It's not going to work. It's not going to work. Obama said a cuss. Done. That's it. You heard what he was going to say. He was he was he was talking about like they were they wasn't looking good for I think one of the primaries or something like that. And they were they were like trying to laugh it off. And and and one of his campaign managers came in and he said, hey, you're bringing us out, either grab a drink or get the fuck out of here. It was just very real. It was a very real moment. And I enjoyed that. But, you know, we'll cut that part out. Did it did it? No, but all Connie was like a bitch or something, too. I can't remember. I don't know about that. Fucking asshole or something. It wouldn't surprise me. It was like a leak. It was a leak thing with the Taylor Swift, Connie thing. Have that's very funny. Yeah, we're not surprised at all. Should we run? You know what? Oh, sorry, so. No, I was going to say it's like, have we all not called Kanye an asshole? At least once in a while. He calls himself an asshole. Yeah, I mean, he does. It's only fair. He calls himself a god. So it's fine. Yeah, let's do speed run real quick. He says he called him a jackass. Yeah, jackass. OK, speed run, speed run. I was going to say Genshin impact. But you know what I'm going to actually say? I'm going to say I'm going to say Ruby Volumete because no, you can't do that. You can't do that. I can. I can. Me or Mike. I started as a fan first, so I get to say that. I love the hell out of everything that happened and it's happening in Volumete so far. It's like it's just been phenomenal. Like it's been amazing. So thank you once again for for for having me be a part of it. But more importantly, I love everything about what's going on. And winter is still my absolute crush to end all crushes. Step on the vibes I see. Again, there we are. We're bringing it all back around. Oh, yeah. Hey, I like I like how both of you legit went. Don't you can't do that. Yeah, I get to do that. I get to do that. I know that you invited me on. I'm the guest. I can do this fine. This one time. Thanks one time. Thanks, Kaden. Genshin impact is great, too, though. It is also very good. It's it's a very fun game. Voice acting is fantastic. Breath of the Wild, but with waifus. So breath of the waifu. Let's go. Yeah, let's go. It's Kaden to Japan Sinks and King and Ashura, which I kind of mentioned once. Great 3D mixed martial arts anime on Netflix. It's cool. Quite a joy. There we go. Wow. I I want to get a live action thing in there. Ted Lasso, 10 out of 10. And I also I just want to really quickly say that I realized while prepping for this episode that I did not. I don't think that I saw a movie that came out in 2020. So that's. Oh, you guys are real stinky. So it's OK. Yeah, you really did. Ted Lasso is great. And then my spoiler alert from earlier was I love I've been playing Minish Cap and I love it. 2020 was a year of going back to games that I never had a chance to play. So that counts to Issa. My last one is a game called Dicey Dungeons, which is. You guys love it, too. I am so glad. Oh, my God. We're talking after this one, please. I want to check out because it just came out and switch a few weeks ago, right? It did. It is amazing. I have been playing that for the past week. Yeah, I am texting every single one of you. So good. I'm excited. Please play Dicey Dungeons. It's amazing. And the soundtrack is a fucking bop. Oh, yeah, it's very good. That's awesome. Hey, we did it. Hey, great timing. That was great. That was fun. I hope I've definitely learned a couple of things that I want to check out now. I hope you all in the chat are watching this later. I'm going to listen to a bop. Oh, yeah. These are some nice shirts that we have. Issa, where could we get them? Wow. Oh, my God. If you don't know, go to store dot roosterteeth.com for an I have no shirt. And then get a sharpie and write piss boy on it. Don't do that. And also, while Ruby's on break, check out the the Grimm campaign because you may not have had a first membership when it was airing, but it's very good. It's very fun. Yes. And I like it. It's very good. Eddie and everybody else but me did a great job. Kerry, you did a great job. That means Kerry did a great job too. Kerry did the best job. Kerry did a great job. Kerry, when are we playing Golden Sun? Kerry, have you casted? I want to play all games. Let's do it. Let's do it. We're going to play Golden Sun together. Come back. I'm down. All right. Good. Anything else, Issa? Uh, watch Deadly Roosters Friday, January 8th. There's a, it says promote next dream, which says stays in with Caden. Yeah. What? Yeah, that's neat. Tomorrow. Kerry, we're going to do it tomorrow morning. I got some guests. They might be from animation. And we're going to have a good time. It's going to be good. And no one will say piss. No one will say piss. So if you're in the chat tomorrow, definitely don't encourage anyone to say piss. Piss nation. Let's go, everybody. Let's go. Bulu energy. Bulu. Bulu. And with that, have a good 2021, everyone. Bye. Bye. Bye.