 Freeman, boot the Marantz. Marantz still takes a long time to boot. Bam, ooh. Okay, not the play add button move too. No, I disabled that. Okay, whatever, I'll look at that later. They, YouTube changed a bunch of stuff. It's Wednesday, March 6th, 2019. I'm rim. I'm Scott. And this is Geek Nights. Tonight, we're reviewing the anime Tatami Galaxy. Wah, wah, Scott. Wah, Ria, wah, Scott. Oh, well, one person gets to watch me deal with this. Weird. It's always your microphone. Never happens to the other microphones. Let's get going. Marantz is on if there's any trouble with the recording, but I heard the voice there. So you got an opening, but go for it. Okay. All right, so today, I'm sitting at my desk. Like you do. And usually, you know, I've had phone problems, but that's usually with earbuds because the wire gets all messed up when you got it in your pocket on the subway and walk around. See, I actually just left a good pair of headphones that are noise isolating on my desk. It's the same ones I got hanging here. So I got two pair of these fancy headphones. So yeah, at work, I got some over ear ones with a replaceable cable and active noise canceling with a AAA battery. So those should not have any problem. The wire breaks, I can replace it. The battery dies, I recharge it. You know, it's all good, right? They're over the ear. They shouldn't be fragile and break, you know, little, you know, there's no fragile bits, right? But today I'm sitting there on my desk and like the right ear cuts out and I'm like, what the fuck? So then I like, you know, check it and it's fixed. And then it cuts out. Huh, that is... So I'm sitting there. So first of all, I'm like, what is going on with this? So these are analog, right? Yeah. Okay. Well, I mean, the noise cancelling it. I guess, yeah, they're analog. It doesn't have its own sound card in it, right? But anyway, so twiddle the wire, plug it, you know, I'm like, wait a minute. And I realized what was happening was so strange. All right. There was nothing wrong with my headphones. So problem number one, I was chewing some gum while listening. Oh. Only on the right side though, right? I've had something similar happen, I think, to what you're about to say. So like, am I messing up my ear? Because my edomotix, not the earbuds, but the actual ear plugs, if I put it in my right ear, my left ear, a particular way, my right ear will do something weird, where if it's pushed in slightly too far, it like closes my ear entirely and I hear nothing. Like that ear is just dead to the world. Well, this is over ear, not in ear. Oh yeah, okay, the plot thickens. So, you know, I'm like, is there something wrong with my right ear? So I take them off and I'm listening to stuff. Doing the archer thing, bop. Right, it's like, I guess my right ear works, or I can hear you. I'm pretty sure my right ear is working. I'm not going to have faster than expected. When I was young, I had a small explosive go off kind of close to me and I remember like sitting there for a while like, is this ear fine? Yeah, right ear works, okay, I'm good. What was happening, I finally solved it, is that problem one, chewing gum. All right. Problem two, I'm bald. So the pad, right, around my ear, like as I was chewing, somehow air was evacuating either into my earhole or out and then it was creating like a suction. So there was no air in, it was sealed around my ear and there was no air in there anymore. So the speaker was vibrating nothing or almost not enough air molecules. So even though the speaker is still vibrating in the headphone, it wasn't shaking anything. So it couldn't shake anything inside my ear. That's plausible. So I couldn't hear nothing. It's basically, I tested this and proved it because every time it happened, I just broke the seal and it suddenly started working again. That's like reverse farting. So if I had air, if I had hair, wouldn't have a problem. If I wasn't chewing gum, wouldn't have a problem because it wouldn't be like squeezing the air out. Well, depends on what hair because you're talking about hair in the ear. Any hair that would break the seal of the pad on an over the ear, completely surrounding the ear headphone, right? I have no hairs. And I guess if I wash the side of my head, even though I just took a shower last night, if I just wash the side of my head, I guess, maybe in the grease wouldn't. I'm not going to go into details on the thing I'm about to reference, but you may remember a thing we read or that based from poop report at our IT about the dangers of shaving certain areas and the suction and resulting suction related issues that can occur. Shaving your butt hair. That story when he broke the seal. Yeah, I know. Yeah. That one. Feel like it's an adjacent problem. So what are you going to do anything about it? Because my over the ear headphones. No, it is not going to chew gum while my headphones on. My over the ear headphones are really good. They don't form a complete suction. You have hair, right? You have hair right above your ear. True. I do have, I have sideburns and such. How would, how would the headphone form a perfect seal against your, the side of your head? Think is my headphone, even though I put it up against a completely flat surface does not form a suction. I can't just like push it in and stick it to the wall. Like it'll deflate. It'll let air in. It's not perfect like grease it up a little bit. I don't know if I want to grease up my fancy headphones. I just don't feel like it can happen with these headphones. You have it with the ones I had. Yeah. I don't know. Your pet, that's, are they like a plunger? Like, could you hurt your ear by like compressing them on your head? No, I don't think it's like a perfect vacuum cause like, you know, it was just, I would just break the seal. And then it would suddenly work again. It might also, I don't know if there's any interaction with the active noise canceling either. Maybe that was involved in some way. Cause active noise canceling could get it. If it got into a state where the signal it's using to, to basically make the noise canceling signal ended up being the input that's coming into the headphone in the first place, it would cancel itself out. Yup. That can happen in like regular old podcast, audio engineering, say I record myself on two microphones and for whatever reason, the phase of those is 180 degrees, they'll just cancel out to nothing. This'll commonly happen to people using OBS to stream who don't know what they're doing and they'll some stereo inputs to mono and they'll literally end up canceling out their sound and then they'll see a really tiny volume there and they'll drag the gain up and the road you're on. If you're dragging the gain up in that situation, it goes somewhere filled with screeching, agonizing sounds. It goes somewhere. It goes to G-Coku. So you got any anime news? Uh, yeah. I got some, a little anime news. Basically, yeah. So first news is that Brian K. Vaughn, this is the dude who writes saga. He wrote all the good comics. He wrote why the last man. He wrote pride of Baghdad. He wrote the original runaways. He wrote, I kind of, I just stopped reading saga. I feel like I got to pick it back up and X machina. He wrote, is it still going? Oh, it's still going. Okay. I haven't read it in a while. Oh yeah. I got all the trades. Check it. Should I just catch up? Oh yeah. Okay. It's probably still the best comic that's currently being published in the United States. Next time I'm over there. You at United States. When I'm over there to judge anime, I'll pick up the trades where I left off and the, anyway, really good comic book writer. He's also written other things. Oh, he worked on some TV shows. I think whatever he apparently, I don't know if this hasn't been confirmed or something, but it's being reported, but there's going to be a live action Gundam movie, which is almost, you hear that and you're like, well, shit show. Great. I mean, on one hand, every lie, every like most Gundam stuff, this recent is, yeah. What I was about to say is on one hand, my default, any Gundam that isn't like just a TV series is definitely going to be chitchat. My default reaction to their making a live action of an anime is it's bad. But then I was surprised because battling Angel Alita was good. You did. I did not see it. How do you know? So everyone I trust who has seen it has said middling to great reviews. No one has said it is bad. So people said that about a lot of things. That's, but I am, that is shocking. The problem is it is shocked. The point is the problem is that the, the, the flaw of the thing, a Gundam things that suck, right? Is usually the bad writing. So the fact that they have put an excellent writer on it means that there is some potential here. If this is real and it happens, the problem is for this to not suck Gundam because it's Gundam. How much leash will Brian gave on have? How much does Brian gave on know about Gundam? Yeah. I imagine he's probably watching Gundam right now to get up to speed. But what if he, what if no one told him which Gundam to watch? What if he's just watching like F 91? I have a feeling that a dude who has written such comics as ultimate X-Ven knows what a Gundam is and knows how to watch a Gundam. Yeah. I don't think he needs help. I don't, I think he knows how to internet. Yeah. But at the same time, he might know. He might be like, oh, we're in the pocket. And I'm sure he can ask them for like, you know, access to any Gundams he needs to see. They'll just give them to him. Let's see, tentatively titled mobile suit Gundam. You see two, right? So this would come, this would be like unicorn two. So it, that already is now. It happens in like universal century. Like, you know, you think what original Gundam is. Project that would have an quote overseas drama format. The hell is an overseas drama? Well, that's what, no, the, for the Japanese see it as overseas drama. So for them, it basically means live action American thing, right? Cause they take place in the UC 0104. Okay. So you think about original Gundam is what 78? Yeah, I guess. So it's a 104 is like 30. I prefer the Gundam seed calendar. The cosmic era. Yeah. That was what? Just Gundam seed and Gundam seed destiny. There's nothing else in that one, right? It's cosmic era. Yeah. There's nothing else in cosmic era, right? Universal century is real Gundam. Nothing. I'm sure as well. Nothing happened in that era since what I saw and what I chose. It doesn't say seed in the title. It didn't happen in the cosmic era. I mean, there's probably a bunch of mongas that happened in the cosmic era that you were never going to read. All right. Cosmic era. I'm just, I got a bunch of manga like astray, whatever. And stuff like that. It's just, it's, it's what I know. There's nothing new there. Right. It's all, and everything has the word seed in the title. If it's in cosmic era. Yup. Oh yeah. Bunch of manga side stories. Yeah. They're all like, and a photo novel. Okay. Sure. Okay. Yeah. Anyway. Second news is galaxy express three nine. One of the best enemies there is. Right. My, one of my favorite, maybe my favorite legi matsumoto thing. Scott likes the slow space drama. Long shot of someone just walking. Anyway. It's the galaxy. It's three nine. There's a TV series. You can still watch it on crunchy roll. There's movies. They came out. Disco tech put them out on DVD ways back. Right. But recently, and here's a Twitter thread of the people who did it. They worked real hard to basically redo the movies and put out brand new HD burais that are like perfect and amazing, better subtitles, all kinds of extras included in the burai. Like you can get a ticket to ride on the galaxy express in the deal. It's like an extra in the DVD box, like a little piece of paper. Right. Really cute to do that. So that's pretty amazing. I, and you know, you read the thread of the people who did it. They clearly tried really hard, cared a lot, did a good job, right? Makes you want to watch them again. All redone and stuff. But they put it out on Burai only. So I'm like, Hey, I don't know. I'm never going to buy a Burai in my life. Where do I want to watch it streaming or downloading? I'll even pay. I'll pay money for this because you, you have done great works. And this is out now, by the way, in the United States, in English. Where can I watch it? Like, go to Amazon Prime. So good Amazon Prime. And I see an Amazon Prime. I got the DVD that I already owned from Disco tech. I see the Burai that was just released for 20 bucks, right? And it's, it's two, it's two movies. This Galaxy Express and then there's a do Galaxy Express. Yup. So it's like two movies. Anyway, I don't know if they did. There's like another thing that I've never watched. The third thing that's like something destiny, something I forget, whatever. The point is there's an endless odyssey or something like that. I don't know. I forget. I've never seen it. Doesn't, you don't need to see that. These two movies are what's important. And then I see like, watch the movie. There's multiple Prime video links. Yup. And one of them looks like it's clearly based on Disco tech because the art is similar to the art that's on the DVD and the Burai. But is it from the new Burai? Cause if it's from the new Burai, then I'll watch it. But if it's from the DVD, then I'm not gonna watch it because I already have the DVD. Yup. We've already seen that. I bought that a long time ago, right? And it just works. It's just like an Amazon Prime thing. But then this is other link to watch the movie that has completely different artwork on Amazon, right? And if you click on that, you can't watch it. Even if you have Amazon Prime, it says get Vuster anime included with Vuster for some, what, $4 a month? $4 a month. After a seven day free trial. But it's like, if this is on Amazon Prime, why is it like this Vuster thing going on here? I had never heard of Vuster. Right. They had anime. Oh, wow. If I go to Vuster.com, it's got a fucking broken certificate. Yeah. Okay. Okay. But it's like, okay. They got rid of that anime. Wow. The CN is like not valid. They got rid of the anime strike thing. So what the hell's up with this Vuster thing? And how can I tell if you've got a movie that's on Prime? Vuster might be compromise. This is actually the certificate here for Vuster.com is from Vuster.com. Something.SimpleHeelix.net. That just sounds like they're really bad at the web. They're either really bad or they got hacked. I don't know. I think they're just bad. SimpleHeelix is probably their hosting company. They probably, that's the certificate's right based on the original host name, not on their DNS. Yeah. Anyway, that happens a lot because people are dumb. The point is I feel like they need to do a better job of telling you when you go to watch something on a streaming site or a download place like, hey, this is ripped from this Bure or this DVD or this film. But usually they don't. There's no way to know. You'll see multiple streaming options, multiple physical options, and the streaming options are just the movie. They might even all be called the exact same thing. So it's like I've seen this movie many times. I only want to rewatch it if I get to see that great new remastered, redone Bure version. And if that... Here it is. That other one is Eternal Fantasy. You can buy a DVD in English. Yeah, I've never seen it. It's $14. I don't know if they redid that one also or not. And I don't know what happens in it. We get a new one for $110. Yeah, I know. Based on the original story by Lady of Matsumoto, picks up one year after the events of Adieu. Right. So if you don't know, if you've never seen any Galaxy Express, the three movies are sort of separate from... Like they don't tell exactly the same story as the TV show. It's almost like if you had... This is the original manga. And then it's like, all right, we'll make it into three movies. All right, we'll make it into a TV show. And they really have like nothing to do. It's like two separate adaptations that it's not like they're inserted or anything, right? They're experiences in and of themselves. Yeah. It's like in the TV show, Tetsuro is a potato. In the movie, he is not a potato. Yep. He is such a potato, though. So... And the manga is a potato. But remember this question of, wait, how do I watch this? Which one of these do I click on? Because it's gonna come up again in this episode. Another interesting news is that Funimation said they're gonna release a Dragon Ball Z Blu-ray collector's edition. So is that all of the original Dragon Ball Z? Yeah, the 30th anniversary collector's edition. So a full set of Blu-rays so you can watch all of Dragon Ball Z, not Dragon Ball, not Dragon Ball GT or any other Dragon Ball, but just Z, every episode. I believe so. Original Japanese unedited, original music, original audio, subtitles. They're like changing the aspect ratio. There was some debate about four by three or 16 by nine. The original aspect ratio was four by three. I feel like it shouldn't be stretching. Was it? Yeah. Are you sure? Yeah, it was on Japanese television. Yeah. Which is square television. Funimation announced they released it. The release had planned to keep the four by three aspect ratio. But Funimation only released the first two volumes for suspending production on that. They said they had to spend it due to technical challenges of restoring from the original film frame by frame. It was too expensive. They gave up. They later released it on a nine Blu-ray disc thing in 2013. But that changed it to a 16 by nine aspect ratio. So is it like cropping the top and bottom off of everything? Well, if I know, I don't need to watch Dragon Ball Z again. OK. But the news. Did you even watch Dragon Ball Z to begin with? I've only seen like a few episodes here and there. I watched every episode where Krillin is laying on the ground yelling while someone else is fighting. I've watched episodes where people are up in the air glowing yellow and going, ah, ah. I saw episodes where Frieza was in them. Yeah, those are the ones. And I never saw. That's like the white Lizardy dude, right? Yeah, that's like the Mewtwo. Yeah, it's like, I'm not going to lie. I haven't seen that. I've seen maybe less than 20 Dragon Ball Zs. And none of them, none of those episodes were adjacent to each other. I saw hunks of Dragon Ball Z because it was on like right before Sailor Moon, which I was watching. When Dragon Ball Z was on, I usually went to a different channel to watch something else. Yup. Usually I'd catch the end of a Dragon Ball Z episode. Yeah, because I wanted to, I usually wanted to watch what was before or after Dragon Ball Z. Yup. I think I don't remember exactly, but I think it was Dragon Ball Z would ended and then I would watch VTAS. I don't remember. Yeah, I think that was it might have been a different era because I remember it was Dragon Ball Z and then Sailor Moon. Yeah. No, Sailor Moon was on like our local, but anyway. Yeah, it depends on when you're watching because the member of the Sailor Moon R came out. And then there was the episodes after the tree saga that like people hadn't seen in the U.S. On Toonami, at the beginning of Toonami, I would watch the old shows, The Thundar, The Barbarian and The Voltron. And then I would stop watching when it was the Tenshi Dragon Ball Zone in the middle. And then I would come back after dinner for VTAS and other stuff. I didn't watch Tenshi because I'd already seen every Tenshi by then in high school. I didn't watch it because I didn't want to. I had fucking fan subs of Tenshi. Yeah, okay. So that was, Tenshi was a show I was really into in like high school. Yeah, I didn't watch it. I was even reading that pretty bad manga with like Yakege or whatever. Yeah, I don't know what that is. It's the villain who's remarkably similar to the villain in the villain in the second OAV. I only know what Tenshi looks like and what the girl with the big blue hair looks like. And that's it. I don't know any other. But there's two girls with big blue hairs. Was it the one who seemed kind of evil? Yes. Yeah, that was, that's the good one. That's the only, that was the only characters I know from that show. There's another girl with big blue hair who was different. So if I see those characters. There's a third character with big blue hair who was different still. Oh, I know. And that's the girl who's technically way too old, right? Yeah, Sasami. That's the other girl with blue hair. It was the only, and those are the only things that I will recognize and say that's Tenshi. If I don't see any of those things, I don't know it's Tenshi. You probably recognize the little cat thing. Maybe. The, the cabit, have rabbit. Oh, that's that. Oh, that's that show. That's from that show. But technically she is a spaceship. So. Okay. Also, she also tries to bone Tenshi. Okay. Anyway, the news is not, I don't have anything to say about Dragon Ball. The news is that Funimation said they're only going to even make this collector's edition if they get 2,500 pre-orders. I'm sure they'll get 2,500 pre-orders. Yeah. I think that I saw a lot of nerds. It makes sense because like there's not too much demand for this. And clearly it's a pain in the ass for them to make it. Dragon Ball Z is a lot of work. There's a lot of episodes. Yup. Right. It's like, it seems like a lot of work. I feel like you wouldn't do it unless you knew for sure you had that enough nerds. That's not a very large number. I feel like there's definitely enough Dragon Ball fans. They'll meet the number. Yup. So. They pointedly said they're not going to do like a Kickstarter or something because they don't want to just like that would be asking fans to fund new content. Yeah, that's true. No, just do pre-orders. Yeah. Just be like, until there's enough pre-orders, we won't start working on it. Yeah. Which I think more companies should do for this kind of thing. This is great. You don't have to pay a fake Kickstarter. So someone's claiming there's a problem with this. They're mad. I, the people I saw who seemed to be mad about this seem to be people who are best ignored in all cases in all things and all cases. I mean, I seem to remember the exact same thing happening or a similar thing. I could be wrong about this. But I remember when I bought the Macross DVDs from Anime Ego way back in the early 2000s, I pre-ordered those for like $300 of 2000s money when I was poured in college. But I had to order that anyway, which is, I don't regret that. I still have those. I remember that. That was a big deal. Well, I mean, up until then, there was no way to get that. I mean, up until then, there wasn't even like YouTube. Right. That's what I'm saying. And I seem to remember them not having, I could be wrong, but I mean, a vague 20-year-old memory. But I seem to remember them having a number. And if they didn't get that many, then they wouldn't do it. God, what was, I don't. Or maybe that was just the number of that they were going to make. And then they would sell out. Yeah. I can't remember which one it was. I have no idea. That was so long ago. That was such a different era of reality from today. That's funny. I kept all the discs. But and I ripped, I think, all the discs to digital, but I still have them. But I kept all the, there was like liner notes that came with. I kept those. They were fancy. Yeah. But all the DVD boxes and the cardboard box that they all went in, I got rid of that. Yeah, I ended up getting rid of. Except too much space. I got rid of every cardboard box for every DVD I own and put them in sleeves. But now I have a two inch thick binder of sleeves with a shit ton of DVDs that I feel like I should just rip and then throw away. I just keep it in a place. I keep it in a place. But I feel like it might be worth it to just set up a PC and just script it where I just put a DVD in, it just rips it and puts it on the NAS. Rip every DVD I own and just get rid of the last of them. Some of those DVDs I feel like I need, like my Windows 95 B CD. Yeah, I'm only talking about the DVDs. My moon based commander CD, right? I mean, I have my tribe's two CDs still. Yeah, I have that. In the actual jewel case, I don't have with the code. Don't have that. I got the code. I don't have the jewel. I've also got that two. I had my career to CD room. I've got that two CD box set that an individual who I will not name from the RIT anime club gave me when I won that contest or freshman year that was the selection of the 40 best anime music videos of all time, circa 2000 and war and it's just 2000 circa the year 2000. I still have that CD. Maybe I should put all those on YouTube if they're not there. Good luck. So yeah, that's happening. And let's get right into the main bit. I want to talk about that sonic thing that I queued up. I'll save that. But first things of the day. What do you got? What do I got? All right, so if you don't know who Fritz Lang is, you got problem. Fritz Lang is like one of the best movie directors there ever was directed such great famous films like Metropolis, like the original one. Yeah. M, just the letter M. That's the name of the movie. One of the greatest movies there is. And a movie I've more recently just, I mean, not, I mean, not saying I personally discovered this movie. I'm saying other people knew about this movie clearly. I didn't know about it until maybe like a year ago. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, which is like amazing. This movie. Oh yeah, you mentioned that. I didn't watch it. It's actually a series of three movies. One was made in the late 20s. The one that I saw was made in like the early 30s. And then there was a third one that was made in like the 60s. I only saw the middle one and it was amazing. He's also made a lot of other very, very famous, amazing movies. Not a lot of them are listed on this page right now. Not all of which I've seen because it's hard to see them. But Fritz Lang was famous for not being interviewed very often because he said, look, if your artwork doesn't speak for itself and you need to give like an interview to explain your work, you didn't do a very good job, did you? Right. That was his philosophy, right? Not a bad philosophy. Right. He wasn't about trying to make himself famous. He was about trying to just make movies. So there weren't a lot of interviews with him. Maybe there was only one. And there was this, basically there was this one interview with him ever. And I think no one had seen this interview or, you know, the contents of it until like early 2000s. And I remember seeing it around then and it wasn't, it was like, it wasn't the whole thing. It was like just a portion, right? And now in 2019, 15 years later, it's like, all right, here's the whole, the transcript of the whole interview, the whole thing. So this is pretty much all you're going to get. There's a lot here. It's long. I'm going to read this whole thing. It's pretty much like the only time Fritz Lang ever sat down and talked to anyone on the record that it was recorded. Well, skimming these already. Comparing him to say Kunihiko Ikuhara, he gives the exact opposite kind of answer. Oh yeah. Ikuhara would be like, you'd have to ask Toga. There's no way for me to answer that question because I can't speak for Toga. Fritz Lang here is just like, if the movie didn't say it, like, what do you want? He's good. He's Jeff. Yeah. He's got a monocle. I don't know. That's a real good picture. That's exactly what you expect him to look like. Yep. So if you, like all good sane people, read the first dude novel, possibly because it's a classic of all time. I didn't read it until recently. Both of us, we did a book club. I tried to read it in middle school and did not like it. I'm still only, you know, tight. I like it a lot, but unlike every other book. I like many of its ideas. Every other book club book we've done. Yeah, not all the games better. Yeah. Some of the ideas that had were just a product of their time and a could be done better, shall we say. But everything I've heard about the other doing books I haven't read has been bad. So I'm not going to read them. Yep. I think someone, someone in our forum described the further doing books as a train wreck that you want to look away from, but you just can't. And you have to force yourself to look away and go read a newspaper the next day instead. I have not looked at it. I haven't had to force myself anything. It is telling that there's a trend in the Geek Nights Book Club where we read the first book of a series and then I just go on and read the entire wheel of time after that, like just instantly. I did not read any more doing books after we did Dune. I feel like Dune ended at a place where I did not need more Dune. But if you are the kind of person who wants to know what happened in the Dune universe, but is smart enough to not read all the Dune books, here is a 10 minute YouTube video. No, only 10 minutes. I was going to say, when you, I saw you were choosing this as the thing of your day. I'm like, I am not watching this. But now that I know it's only 10 minutes, it's like, I got 10 minutes. And what it does is it doesn't just go through the books. It's actually much broader. It just takes from all the books, what is the entire chronological order of events from the beginning of anything mentioned in the series? The beginning of time. Well, to the Roman Empire. That's when, that's the furliest thing that happens in Dune. Okay. In the Roman Empire. All right. That's news to me. But all right. Yep. And this just moves along and covers the 34,000 years of the Dune universe. The Butlerian jihad is like right away. Okay. So the Roman part is in a lot of content. No, the Rome part is, yeah, Rome, then the Landstrad in space. Okay. Good. It's only because none of the time in between was covered in any of the books. So there's nothing to say about it. Yeah. It'd be like if I was covering human history and I was like, so a monolith fell down, then monkeys discovered warfare, then World War two happens, moon landing. So that brings us to things that are met a moment. Yep. So the meta moment, the Geek Nights Book Club book is 2001, A Space Odyssey. I finished reading it for Thursday, but then Renveiled and didn't finish reading it. He's bad. I will be done with this book because I've mostly done with it as of now. Well, guess what? Next Thursday, when we do an episode on it, we're doing that episode whether you read it or not. Yeah, fine. The funniest thing about this book so far, because I'm near the end, is every time a character talks about it, mostly happens only in the first half of the book, the price of something, like, oh, that's a $50,000 person we invested in. It's really funny. Oh, but I mean, it's not funny enough that it's 2001. Everything in it still seems futuristic, even though it's currently 2019. Yeah, well, everything in it feels futuristic, except information technology. And the book is from like the 60s. Yeah, this is another one of the... Because I mean, if you look at the rate of space technology progression that was happening at that time, right? Pre-person on moon time. Yep, like before we kind of paused that work. Right, they saw the space race just accelerating and they projected forward. He's like, well, if we keep developing our space technology at the rate we're doing it now, you know, we should be, this is what the kind of stuff we'll have by 2001. We should be going to Jupiter and Saturn. It only makes sense. Yeah. But we still got typewriters. It didn't foresee that we would space shuttle and then not even space shuttle. We still got casual sexism and typewriters. Right. So yeah, otherwise we will be in two weeks, three weeks. Three weeks. Well, two weeks at Zenkaikan. Geek Nights will be doing panels. I still have to remember to look up what panels I'm doing. So I know to prepare them and to show up for them. And I have to prepare the panel for PAX East the week after. Yep, at PAX East on Friday, we will be doing the real harm of games. What harm did people tell us games would do that they may or may not have done? And what harm do games do? Yep. And the answers may surprise you. They may shock and alarm you. Yeah, I had what I wanted to say but then I found that I was wrong. It's not changing what I'm going to say. Holy shit. Geek Nights panel that research, usually it's come up with- My 10 minutes of research. Usually our panel structure is come up with an idea, do come up with the thesis that we are going to present, then- Cherry pick evidence. Cherry pick evidence and find all the images we need and all the things to talk about it. And then we're good. But in this case, it was come up with the thesis, then do research, then oh shit, our topic is not what we expected. Oh no, I couldn't even find any evidence that I agree with. Oh no. I guess I'll change my thesis. Guess I gotta change my worldview. I can't- Oh no. I can't just say that games don't cause harm. But the panel's already been accepted. Oops, I guess I can't do a different panel. Short answer, games do and have caused harm but it is as far as we can tell, not the harm anyone said it was. Pretty much. Yeah. You'll see, it's gonna be a good panel. Brand new panel, so we're excited about it. Real panel. Yup. And you'll see- No, like Grim's panel. Do a, you know, clickbait for top 40 list. Well, top 40 list is a pretty popular panel. I think- It's clickbait. It was popular. I think- Garbage clickbait, not real panel. No, because I think what someone in PAC said that was interesting is the clickbait title panel that tricks people into a more serious discussion like people come to the panel who wouldn't otherwise come and oh shit, it's actually serious. Or it's actually- I figure the real harm of games is clickbait-y, you know? Yeah, it's clickbait-y and it's real. Right, you're gonna need someone to save you a click and tell you what the harms were. Yeah. But our Nostalgiaverse games in that panel was very well received and I haven't uploaded all the top 40 lists we've done. I gotta edit one of those together. The board game one is pretty popular. Actually, my coworkers have all been looking at that one because they all want to play better games. All right, here we go. Let me close this nonsense about the cosmic era because the more I learned about the cosmic era, the less I care about the cosmic era. You may know Tomahiko Morimi. It's someone who we've talked about a lot recently. Yup, so it's one of those authors where you see a bunch of media and then later you find out there's a creator that is related to all of them and you find a thread and you start tugging at it. Right, so there's been a bunch of anime, right? Eccentric Family. Yup. Eccentric Family 2. Yup. Night on, Night is Young, Walk on Girl. Yup. Eccentric Family Galaxy. To Tommy Galaxy, which we're gonna talk about now. Wasn't there another one? Penguin Highway. Oh, that's coming soon, right? Yup. Anyway, we've seen anime... I guess the novel was written in 2010. We've seen anime based on all these things and some of those anime have been animated by the same teams, right? So like Masaki Yuasa, he animated what we're gonna talk about today, which is... To Tommy Galaxy. To Tommy Galaxy, but also he did Walk on Girl. Which is very related, but also not related. And then Eccentric Family. Eccentric Family 2, obviously, animated by the same studio. Wish, I just wanna point out, if you haven't watched Eccentric Family, we reviewed both seasons. You should go watch it. It's one of the best shows to come out in a long time. It is one of the best anime there is right now. It's frogging a well. Anyway, but all of these are based on novels written by Tommy Hiko Morimi and hopefully these novels will be just translated so I can read them directly and not just have to watch anime adaptations. I really wanna read the Eccentric Family novels. But based on all these anime adaptations of Morimi's work, I am a fan of Morimi's work indirectly. Ah, indirect kiss. So once I found out, because we were when we saw Night of Short Walk on Girl in the Theater, at the end, there's the interview with Yuasa after the credits. And he kept talking, he kept bringing up to Tommy Galaxy. He kept talking about to Tommy Galaxy and I'm like, I've heard of to Tommy Galaxy and I haven't watched it. I think I will go home and watch it. So I did. And I watched like a handful of episodes. I've seen like three and a quarter episodes. I've seen similar amount. I'd have to, you know, and I haven't, I just haven't finished it, but I've definitely done enough to talk about, right? Cause I mean, that's more than we usually talk about anime watching less episodes than that. Yep. Basically it's we either, we talk about an anime scene a few episodes or we watched the whole thing as fast as possible and then we talked about it. Right. The only reason I didn't watch this as fast as possible is because I had so many other things to do. It's like, you know, it was con season. We had a lot of conventions. It's like this other things that kept taking up my time. So I couldn't just sit down and watch a whole bunch of anime. But every time I got a chance, I like squeezed in one episode. I only just got like four or five chances. Yep. And now when I want to watch even more of it, cause I was like, oh, let me go refresh. You're going to do an episode. I go on crunchy roll and rim message music today. He's like, yeah, it ain't there. Yep. Cause last night I was like, I've only seen like three episodes. I should watch a bunch tonight. I go to crunchy roll and just couldn't find it. And I Googled around a little bit and I could not find anywhere to watch it legally. If I would have known it was going to go off crunchy roll, I would have like bailed on something else to watch it before it got taken off. And now I'm going to have to resort to like piracy or something to watch the rest of the show. Yep. And I really like it's, I could, there might be a place to watch it legally. But in a cursory search, I was not able to find it. And in this day and age, if you can't find the legal place to watch it by typing the name of it into Google, everyone involved has failed and you can pirate it at that point. Right. But so actually it says availability. I think it got taken down. Sorry, due to licensing limitations, videos are unavailable in your region. All right. So they just, I guess the US distribution thing expired maybe whatever. Yep. So that was a shame because I really like this show and I want to watch the rest of it. I feel like I'm going to have to pirate it. Right. So the thing is, like I said, when we were talking about, even though I hadn't watched all this and still haven't watched all of it, like I said, when we were talking about walk on girl, I've said, man, you know, cause I watched a couple episodes of this before we did our walk on girl episode. I was like, man, you got you. It's hard to talk about walk on girl, the anime. If you haven't seen the time of the galaxy, the anime, because both by you also, both based on works from the same author, but what you also does here, the most notable thing is similar to Tezuka manga, where he'll have the same characters playing the same quote actors, playing different act characters in different things. Yup. The same exact character designs and maybe even voices. I have to go verify that. I didn't verify the voices. I didn't verify the voices, but there was no disjointedness. So I feel like it's the same voices. It's a hundred percent the same character design. Yup. So in walk on girl. Are used in both, right? In walk on girl, there's a dude who is 0.1 steps above being a bum. Yup. May or may not be a magical creature. May not. He's Tengu adjacent. Yeah. He's got like a big old chin. Yup. He might just be a bum who acts like he's a Tengu. Right. He might actually be a Tengu. But anyway, there's an atomic galaxy. That person plays someone who's 0.2 steps above being a bum. Right. It's a very similar character. Who is probably a God. Yeah. You can imagine an eccentric family that you could tell eccentric family with that same character being the Tengu grandpa guy. Oh my God. That character could only older. If you saw any character from eccentric family or Tatami Galaxy or walk on girl in the background of the other shows, it just makes sense. They're all in the same universe. Right. For example, eccentric family. There's the girl who's always like turning into objects. You never see her. Yup. That could be, you could use the character design for the girl from walk on girl or the girl in Tatami Galaxy for that character. Yup. Right. The guy in eccentric family, main Tanuki guy could be main college dude. Right. It's like, you can see that the author sort of has, you know, characters that feel similar adjacent ish personalities and roles in their stories. And because the same animation team did, you know, these two animate the Tami Galaxy and walk on girl that use the same character designs. Right. There's like devily guy. You know. Yup. Buf, buff dude, buff, buff jock dude, Ernest male protagonist. Yup. There's a lot of reused character designs from both. And the characters that share the designs share personalities quite a bit. Anyway, so what's the Tami Galaxy actually freaking about? So there's this dude and he is looking to have like the perfect, most wonderful college existence. Yeah. What does he say? He wants to go to college and find a Raven Herd girlfriend. Right. So he's got these ideas about college. He wants college to be like amazing. He goes to college. He's trying to fulfill his dream of, you know, what's going to happen in college. So each episode, it's an episodic show surprisingly. Yup. I'm sure it's not episodic at the end, but it's episodic at least most of the way. I've read some like episode descriptions. Each episode he joins a club at the college. So there's my favorite so far is the bicycling club. Yeah. The bike was good because of how badly it goes. Right. But there's other clubs he joins like a drama club, right? Was one of them, I think. The first three episodes are tennis club, a film club. Film club. Remember with the pervert guy? Right, right, right. Yeah. Anyway, each episode he joins a different club and crazy stuff happens. But all in like the same circle, like the girl he likes that he can't talk to is like in the club or like nearby. Right. There's the same, even though each episode is different in terms of the club he joins in the exact drama that happens. There's the same format of how the episode breaks down, right? Early in, he makes a promise to this girl. Right. And then he's got her like little thing hanging from the, from the, the, the pull string on his leg and his leg and his, right. And he can't remember to give it back to her. You know, even though she has the rest of the set, he has the, he has the one that she's missing. And then there's the evil dude comes and makes mischief. He's like a demon. Yeah. He messes up the, he messes up the club's business. Right. The crazy old Tengu adjacent guy messes, gets in the, Who is the best and my favorite character? Yeah. The most rim like character. Yeah. It's a very rim adjacent. I love, so the description of him in the, in this Wikipedia is, and it's similar to how he's described in the show. An eighth year super senior. Very similar to some people we knew in college ourselves who were still around. Maybe 1.1 steps above being a homeless bum. Somehow still in the school. Yeah. But anyway, and I guess, you know, that character, that Tenguish character is sort of like the mentor master ish in a way. Like he's learning from him sort of. Yup. Anyway. I mean, the vagest of it is he sort of gives this ultimatum to the main guy of, yo, I'm a God. Right. You're either, I'm going to have you date this girl or that shithead you know and don't like, but you're also best friends with data. Right. So the episode, you know, as he joins the club, he's, you know, he's trying to do stuff in the club. He's usually bad at whatever the club is. He's bad at biking. He's bad at filming. He's not helping much, right? He's sort of failing. And then, you know, as things are sort of collapsing because of his failure, despite his attempts to succeed in his dev, you know, devolving into making mischief instead of participating and being nice and doing a good job, like the first episode of the tennis club, he bumps into the fortune teller. Yep. I think the first every time I got to go back and watch again. I'm pretty sure the fortune teller raised her price every episode that I watched. I didn't notice the fortune telling part is like usually identical every episode. She says basically the same thing. Right. Every time he feels like he remembers this fortune teller, but he doesn't do what she says. He doesn't do what the fortune teller says. He does what older says instead. Then the whole thing collapses in a giant climax clusterfuck. That's amazing. Yep. And then there's the end of the show at the end of the episode happens. And the end of the episode is this animation of like time rewinding. And then the next episode, it's like he's back at the beginning of college again. So he's replaying sort of a groundhog day situation trying to live this perfect college life. And even though it's each episode he's joining a different club and things are a little different, getting a little crazier, a little more twisted, a little more advanced each time. You feel like with each episode he's getting closer to not fucking up. Yep. So far, at least in the, you know, I imagine he's not going to figure it out to the last episode, but, you know, for the four or five episodes I've seen, it's pretty the same structure. Just different clubs every time. But it's, it's still fascinating. And I can imagine, you can just imagine that at the end he's finally going to get it right. Yep. But what is right? What is a perfect college experience? Well, hopefully remembering the thing he's forgetting and doing what the fortune teller says to do. Because not to spoil walk on girl, which has a similar story in some ways, it sort of has this moral of like your rose colored glasses of what you wanted versus what you actually wanted versus the complexities of a real world and what actually happens, all set to the backdrop of all the kinds of crazy people in crap that happens in college. So the structure of, you know, like walk on girl isn't doing the time rewinding thing. It's the one long has this four seasons thing. There's four seasons that play out and one night is the structure. So here it's a similar thing where there is a time based structure of college playing out and rewinding, right? So I, you know, I guess eccentric family doesn't have this structure, but is it, but the, the two novels that you was adapted have some sort of, you know, time based thing going on. But I guess this and walk on girl, both really, really capture this vague nostalgic feeling I have for my own college life and like RIT anime and like that kind of environment where everything feels bigger and more important than it really is. Walk on girl also did have a college with a club that was significant, right? Yup. In the sense of like you see people in clubs who were treating it like it's way more important than it really is. Which also makes you think of, you know, Utena. Yup. But then you see the people post college or reminiscing on that makes you think of Mahotsukaita. Yup. Or any of the other anime with clubs. Yeah. Elhazard? No, Elhazard just turns into Escaflowne. Elhazard was just a weird thing in the basement, right? Yup. Elhazard doesn't really get back. Elhazard, the good way to be, not the TV show that's bad. I'm just trying to remember animes that have school clubs. Yeah. But the one I didn't watch all of Haruhi. Oh yeah, Haruhi. Haruhi does some stuff. Anyway. Also a time-based situation, right? But where this one fits more with Utena is these more ideas of the thing, the way you see the world when you're in college is very different from the way you see it outside of college. And you overestimate the importance and the grandeur and scale of the things you're doing and the people around you. You see these legendary- Well, because when your world is small, right? Everything else seems big. Your pond is small. That lily pad seems huge. And then when you don't see the whole world until you leave college and you're like, oh yeah, no one cares about that. Yup. The world is big. Only big things are big. Like when you're in college, the eight-year super senior is this legendary figure in the local community. When you're an adult, the eight-year super senior is- A bum. The fuck is wrong with that guy? It's just a bum walking around the street. What the hell is that? Still taking one credit hour a year? Like, what are you doing? What are you doing, man? But yeah, if you like other things based on the works of, what, Moireemie? You can never get the name right. If you have- If you like other yuasa things- If you saw Walk On Girl the night is young and liked it, just watch this. Yeah, this one actually came first. This was on the Noe Tamina block, which is, it's sort of like- Back in like 2010. Wow, okay. Yeah. If you don't know, Noe Tamina is the word animation spelled backwards. And it's a programming block on a Japanese TV channel. I forget which one. Fuji TV. Fuji TV. So on Fuji TV at some time, I think it might be late at night, I'm guessing. They're like, all right, it's Noe Tamina time. It's sort of like how, you know, there's Tsunami or- Adult swim. Adult swim. And they show a bunch of anime and those anime are usually the good anime. It's usually, right? If something's a Noe Tamina anime, odds are it's probably good. It's probably something about, it's not gonna be some garbage kids show. It's not gonna be, you know, some like Shonen, Trashy show, like your panel, right? It's gonna be actually a show with some sort of artistic merit to it. And this is one of those. Yep. So it's worth watching. I wish it was still on Crunchyroll. So if you can't get ahold of it. Figure out how to get it somehow. You have an internet, you can find out how to get the show. I'm gonna figure it out when I get home. Yep. Cause I'm gonna watch the rest of it and maybe we'll do a final thoughts on it at some point. Cause- It's only like 13 episodes, right? 11. 11. So I, man, I was like almost halfway done. Yeah. I could have made it. All right. We're good.