 So we've actually talked about a bunch of Masaki Uasa movies in recent memory because Masaki US is really productive so much output Yeah, and really good. And if I had to describe Masaki Uasa in terms of like the kinds of works I expect off the wall kind of weird little spacey like that's kind of the way where I'd put it and Night is short walk con girl does not disappoint Mm-hmm So yeah, so hold on trying to bring something up Which is an interesting thing that I learned only at the end of this movie when after the credits Masaki Uasa comes out to speak Oh, yeah, yeah, all right. So this is what I learned right so there is a person whose name is Tomi Hiko Morimi and Tomi Hiko Morimi is an author right and They are the author of eccentric family eccentric family to Tommy galaxy Night is short walk-on girl something called penguin highway. That's probably amazing adventures of a saintly slacker which sounds amazing and 2016 something called night train which sounds amazing Basically everything that they've written sounds amazing and the things the old I've my only experience of their work their novels are the anime adaptations, right? So eccentric family was not animated by Masaki Uasa, but to Tommy galaxy and Night is short walk-on girl were both written by the same author the original novels and animated by the same people and There seems to be a trend that at least these things are linked in subtle ways in the anime adaptation Right. So RAM see after seeing that thing after the credits I said, well, I feel like I'm not gonna be able to do a show on this This night is short walk-on girl unless I've seen at least some to Tommy galaxy So at home I've seen out two episodes of Tommy galaxy and I do plan to watch it all Into Tommy galaxy within the first minute. I see that tango chin guy Literally that character is just right there at the start, right? the main two characters of night is short walk-on girl are Crooked slightly so but are also the main two characters of Tommy galaxy the Minor character in night a short walk-on girl the demon in the in the book Yeah, the the used book God Yes, a crooked a little bit more than slightly version of that character is a very main character of the Tommy galaxy The art style is basically identical. The mood is very similar. The plot is Not so similar. Yeah, they're not they're not redundant. Just you know, you think oh, that's all these same characters The same thing. No, it's not the same thing at all. They're two separate works They're originally two separate novels, right is just that because the same Animation team was adapting to works from the same author that are have some similarities They, you know kept some character designs and some moods and some things But from two episodes I can already tell that the Tommy galaxy is fantastic, but we're not renew it Really to Tommy galaxy. I'm just letting you know that I feel like it's hard to fully review One of these things without knowing about the other because there's so much Right togetherness going on here, but at the same time I cannot stress enough walk on short walk the night is short walk-on girl is 100% watchable in a vacuum as either one of these things stands alone if you were to watch them independently But I to fully grok either one. I think you need to experience both. So I would actually recommend Just go see this movie. It does. I don't think it matters. Which one you see first I mean just you like stop listening to Geeknize right now and just go see that would be a great use of your time Because this movie is one of the better anime movies. I've seen in a long time I went into it knowing literally nothing about it except who directed it. Yeah, I think it's even better than The other do you also when we saw what the I think so the vampire dog But that might be because the vamp was the vampire one Lou over the wall Yeah, Lou over the wall I think it's better than Lou over the wall Maybe that's just because Lou over the wall is more of a children's movie. Yep So and I'm an adult if I this is not a children's movie. It begins with people getting blasted. Yep And it's hard to describe what this movie is about without either really spoiling it or getting really really sort of Philosophical because it is very philosophical the plot is Expansive in scope and covers Probably 500 percent more ground than you expect it to right. Well, basically the way to summarize it best is that this is girl and It's one night in her life that we're experiencing. Yep She's on the cusp of becoming an adult and it is getting married the night begins at this wedding that she's attending and She goes on after the wedding other people, you know She goes out to drink and starts partying and the night becomes this big adventure, right? But in that like time-dilated way that nights like that when you're young feel like they last a lifetime, right? So in this night, there are four seasons, right? And I think he said the book was divided into four seasons And they sort of compressed the four seasons into one night in the movie I haven't read the book obviously is Japanese. I don't think it's translated And I think it might be be getting translated though I think I did read something somewhere that they're working on publishing these novels in English. I'll read them. Yeah, I would read them but the four seasons right it sort of starts in Think it's starting. Yeah, it starts in spring because it ends in winter, right? So that's that you know that that wedding part and that the parties soon after that are the spring Then there's this summer part and think you everything gets hot, right? There's an ice kotatsu because they're all melting, right? They go to the night book fair like, you know, the cicadas. It's clearly right the hot times Then there's then this fall and there starts to be stuff happening at the school and people are getting cold But I guess and then at the end it's winter and everyone's sick, right? And that's sort of the flow of this this one epic long adventurous night that goes through these four seasons And it's crazy stuff and if I really had to try to explain what it's about on a high level like it's it's that feeling when you're young and you haven't really decided what you want to do yet in your life and you're sort of you're just entering the adult world and you're starting to do the things that adults do and Everything feels very important very minor things feel like they're the most important things in the world and It follows someone through like Experiencing a night like that like those nights we used to have when we were young like at our it wanted around at night fighting with Sticks and whatever. Yeah, but it also very surreal But it simultaneously has this long-running theme about how the exact same night is Very different even for the people who had the exact same experience Based on their state of mind and how they feel about the situation like multiple people have the same experience and they all see it completely differently because of the state of their own heart and mind and You see this illustrated in so many different ways it'd be hard to catalog them like the clocks Literally are moving faster for the old people than for the young people. Yep things like that Like the school festival, which I can only describe as kill-a-kill Like that festival like bunker where they're running it It evokes how it felt to be running the RIT anime club back when I was in college Compared to now as an adult the reality of what running the RIT anime club was really like right so big not You know the main characters that the girl right who has I keep saying the girl like she has no name It's just a girl. It's already the girl. The girl the guy there Characters the other characters some of them have names right, so she's just walking on She's just going from moment to moment the world sort of passing her by and she's interacting with things for the hell of it These other characters though all have threads, right? And it's like everyone's thread gets resolved at some point usually tied up with some other character And she's sort of almost a catalyst like as she's passing through the world Everyone else's stories keep merging with hers and then splitting off again and then merging with each other Yeah, it's like this there's a character who's like in the beginning right and like the very opening scene the guy who doesn't change his underwear and then Cossu and then he goes away You don't see him for a while and then later on he comes back and he's real important Yeah, right the only other character besides girl who is sort of there the whole time is guy Who is sort of in love with her from afar and keeps chasing her and keeps getting caught in the wake of her adventures But not really catching up to her and it you know coincidentally feels a little bit like a scojo Person like in terms of the way scojo doesn't mean anything to anyone who's listening a friend of ours I guess a lot of the characters in this evoke not the details of the lives of our own friends But the feeling about those people when they were similarly young and having these Experiences like being young and running the anime club and being young and pining after a girl that you know Like it's it's all those feelings and encapsulates what it felt like to be 19 and full of them and vinegar and gin Right. Also. There is a lot of alcohol flowing This entire hemming way and the girl's superpowers that she can drink an infinite amount of alcohol There's a very important drinking contest and she just keeps going. Yeah There's a lot of eating and a lot of food. There's a scene where all the hot nabe That's the hot nabe, which is literally like a lava nabe You know this and you know at the same time that you've got sort of this, you know Serious philosophical thing and these character threads. It is wacky and cuckoo bananas Right in terms of like that, you know in a misaki yuasa way and it just keeps going It just keeps moving like it never pauses the only like the misaki yuasa episodes of Adventure time adventure time or what was the space dandy? Yeah, it's wacky like those very often They're like there's so we could if we did a final thoughts episode where we talked about the details of this movie It could go on for hours But what the other thing it does that reminds me there's an American There's a movie a live-action movie called punch drunk love that actually does the same thing at least for a portion of its run It never pauses like it never gives you a break It never like pauses to reset or like to establish It just keeps going and going and going and going and going as fast as possible Covering so much more ground than you possibly expect and then it ends yet The pace of this is really really fast and I at the start of the movie it accelerated so fast I felt like I wasn't really cat I felt like I was missing something right, but now I wasn't missing anything It's just it was going fast and only giving me the minimum of what I needed to know and then later on You know things filled in things came around a second time a third time and I realized No, I didn't miss anything. They're just you they're just pushed it to the limit in terms of Information they can give you right so that you can catch it all and comprehend everything But they can cram it all into the time they have in this movie before it's over I think my favorite moments without spoiling are but number one is actually early on when all the different Drinking parties sort of converge with each other Well, I mean just when he they learn the dance from the old And then the old people fucking sofas they go they end up at the sofas club where these kids are doing this weird They seem to be in a cult and they do the sofas dance Then they go to some old people and they do the dance and the old people are like, oh, it's the sofas dance We used to be in the sofas club. We started the sofas. It's exactly the situation that really happens Like when Scott and I and a bunch of us ran into the current generation of like the RIT anime club And they're like, yeah, we run the RIT anime club. We're like son Let's talk about the RIT anime club. We ran that shit. Hi everybody now. We're old It's this movie is phenomenal and I Hesitant to use that word about movies usually, but I would call this movie utterly phenomenal It is a must-see anime movie like if you haven't yet watched other shows that we've said are good that you should watch Or other movies you should watch just watch this one first before you watch anything else. I