 On this week's fan service, we discuss our favorite upcoming winter 2020 anime. What anime is better than manga? Are there any? Does reading make you smarter? And anime monster girl brothels. I'm assuming we started already. Like, let's just start. When did we start? Let's just start now. I think I started when I asked about Hentai. I think that's exactly when we started. What a way to kick off the new year. New year, new us. Happy New Year. 2020 is hindsight. Oh, this is the year of hindsight. Lord knows we have enough of that. Well, this is fan service. Yes, to tease official anime podcast. I am one of your hosts, Cole, and I'm joined by some lovely people here today. Who are you guys in hindsight? I'm Issa in foresight. I'm Miles and in current site. I'm Chris. Oh, well, it's like the Christmas Carol. Are we going to say the ghost of future site, past site and present site? I'm going to show you some scary anime shit and you're going to regret the things you did. It's the worst because my site is like not even a special power. You're just scourge. I just see things. No, he's the big guy. Come in and know me better, man. Present is like not Santa. Yeah, yeah, Santa, not Santa, not Santa. So it's how is how is everybody's how is everybody's break? Good. I played a lot of anime games and I watched anime. I would have been so disappointed if you hadn't not disappointed. I would have been concerned. I mean, too. Yeah, I feel like I would have been dead. That's what that's where the bar is set. If I'm not watching anime, I'm dead. Yeah, offer on one and then also my New Year's resolution this year is to read one hour every day. It's like gone so far. Good. I read one hour yesterday. It's been two days. I just wanted to make sure he didn't start off. I actually read an hour and a half. OK, well, does he get do you get rollover minutes? No, this do you only have to read it today? That's cheating. OK, just checking. Do you like for people go to the gym? Can they just work out like six hours one day and then they're good for a week? Yeah, that's how I do it. She goes to the gym once and he comes back a fucking monster. Yeah, every day. So fit. And I also feel like yes, every day. Did you know that reading at least 10 minutes a day makes you smarter? That explains a lot of things. Six times smarter than everyone else. It's a lot. I haven't read a book in like. You know what that means, Chris? That means you're stupid. J.K. Welcome to the show, bud. Oh, man. Happy New Year. The best of the past is years and kills a day. It should be 10 times meaner, J.K. I have to destroy one person's dreams every day. That is true hindsight. Remember, I'm hindsight. If you haven't read 10 minutes a day, what are you now? Were there any, like, favorite things you watched over the break? Um, not really. I'm super disappointed with the Orisuke ending. What was that one again? That was the Bench one. Oh, no, the hair and anime comedy. Yeah, that was absurdity. Bench, everything you need to know. Yeah, that's all you need to know. I know all those words, but I don't know how they all work together. That's how Cole explains words in my head. I know all these words. Just say them. And what was why did it let you down? It did one of those endings where it's like the fight will continue where it's like they have a big rival where we're going between the two, like the main character and like the main character's best friend and the main character's new friend. And they're both all going after the same girl. And, uh, it like. It the last part is like, oh, hey, let's have a challenge. Everyone here gets a vote. They get to pick who will be together with who we who gets to be with her. It's like how love works. Yeah, on the bachelor. In parenthesis. You see why I like anime. Oh, that makes sense. And I like anime and flirty dancing. That shows great. It's basically just like anime, but like hell. Yeah. Okay. And then wrestling is all that meets wrestling is the bachelor and anime together. Wow. So Cole explains for another time. But anyways, that's pretty good. It ends with like, OK, let's have this challenge. All right, it might not be as easy as you think seasons done. Oh, that's yeah, that's. And then like at the end, it's like, there'll be like, don't worry, there's still more story left. But it's like, oh, but this is not. This is the 100 percent the kind of show that's like, hey, there's light novels, you idiots. Go read and then you'll get smarter. Yeah, yeah. That's the problem is that light novels still haven't broken into mainstream over here yet. So they're pretty common place over there, right? I mean, yeah, because that's the number one thing you want to train is if you're playing a gameboy, if you're playing something that's loud and can be kind of obnoxious, you can just have your tiny little book. You're not hurting anyone except for trees. That's true. Wow, but they know what they did. What? Yeah, they know what they did. That's where we're getting a whole bunch of new trees now. Are we? Yeah, Mr. Beast is. What is Mr. Beast? Oh, he's a YouTuber. Oh, OK. He does. Oh, that's right. He's Team Trees. I don't know they're going to plant a million trees. Oh, that's that one. Yeah, Lord knows we do need them. Mr. B sounds like an anime. I feel like it should have been. Miles is foresight. That's right. Yeah. What's in the future, Miles? Nothing good, y'all. Nothing good. You are one. Hey, present site. Have you seen Australia? Well, speaking of speaking of future. I don't know how to get into this because I don't want to be too negative. We talked about it like like yesterday. Yeah, I was like, I might be excited for. I'm excited to be surprised. That one is this next season of anime. Winter 2020, 2020 looks to be pretty bleak. I'm going to say I'm going to come I'm going to come in from the optimist angle here. Seeing as 2020 is the year of hindsight. I think in hindsight, we're going to look back on winter 2020. You know what, that little gem surprised us. I actually I thought you were going to say I'm going to look back to the anime from last year, which for a superior and see, we're going to watch all these again because I'm ready for Carol and Tuesday. Spring 2020 is going to be baller. So OK, how about we do this? How about we talk about winter 2020? We'll get through winter 2020. And then the cherry on top, the carrot at the end of this stick. We can talk about what's so baller in spring 2020. So I have one for winter 2020. Go for it. It's the season of Haikyuu, everyone. Oh, I saw that show still going. Oh, yeah, it's like always the highest rate. OK, it's people of it. Oh, yeah. What season? What season? This is season four. Oh, OK. There's like another. There's a couple of OVAs up in the lineup, too. So I have a general idea of what Haikyuu is, but please explain what is what is Haikyuu. Take a look at the mask. I'm like ready for this past. Isis first appearance on fan service was her explaining Haikyuu. Well, it's time. It's time for like a read. Exactly. Isis is the past. Bring it back, Isis. We're so on brand today. Explained to the present. What? We are so on brand. I love this. Tell me. What is time? What is time? Haikyuu is the titular sports anime about volleyball. OK. It's about volleyball. No, that's free. See, I got those two mixed up in my head, but I knew one was all the dudes and one was all the ladies. No, they're all dudes. This one. This one is. Oh, that's the swimming one. I'm thinking about the one. Cage. Oh, that's the one. The sexy ladies on the sports anime. Oh, yeah. So what are you excited about in the season of Haikyuu? Well, the more the fact that there is more. I think there are use it's production IG and there used to be one like every year every two years. And then last year there was a bit of a hiatus. I don't know if there's this. I think there is more manga, but they had taken a break because to me at the end of season three, it felt like a really good ending of like it's OK if the fight continues or it's OK to read more of the manga. But they're at a good place where kind of spoilers, they won something and it felt really victorious. And it was like, OK, that's a good place to end it at. So I didn't know if there was going to be a season four. There's a season four. Now I'm my my guess because I I trust I lean on you from a Haikyuu knowledge. Maybe they're defending now, like maybe they are the winners. And so now they're they're having to defend against the next team. That's what they used to be. Interesting. Like they're the team that everyone's like, oh, you're the Senpai. Like we got to notice us. So Haikyuu is one of the more popular sports anime nowadays. And the reason why a lot of people like Haikyuu is it is one of the most natural and genuine sports anime out there. So there's a lot of sports anime like if you think of Prince of Tennis or Kuroko no Basket, Kuroko's Basketball. There's a lot of sports anime that kind of leans on the idea of like these people are like geniuses or they're really special prodigies. They do things that are kind of super human. And the one here to rule them all. Yeah. And at some time you're in it for the fantasy and just kind of like, oh, wow, that was pretty neat, pretty interesting. Haikyuu is so natural, like for one. There are some crazy color hairstyles, but you're not going to come across a character with green hair or like bright blue hair. It's a very organic looking anime, full of net, full of like normal looking people, funny enough. Just a bunch of normies. Yeah, just a bunch of normies. But it's more about the teamwork and the teams that are involved and how it's about like them working together. And when you're saying normal, even to the point of a lot of the stuff early on is size, like the main character is short. Oh, and so it's how does he overcome that obstacle in his life, especially when he's on team with people who are tall, making them naturally. Have a more of an image. Yeah, I guess, you know, I'm so accustomed to anime being a little bit more on the fantastical side, right? And so I kind of I forget that they do make. I mean, of course we talked about like last time we talked about sweetness and lightning, which is very much a real, a real show. Very grounded. Yeah. And so this sounds kind of, I don't want to say in the same vein, but kind of in the same plane of like, hey, this is just was real people doing real shit. Yeah. OK, it also has the same composer as all of my hero music. So it's it's that like you get pumped up like, yeah, they can do it. That was I remember when I started watching Carolyn Tuesday. I was expecting something a little more like grounded and realistic. And the thing that took me out of it was like they just seemed naturally gifted and kept getting lucky breaks. And I was expecting something more like Beck Mongolian Chop Squad, which like is a show about some teenagers. And it's still like there's still like, sure, this band of teenagers comes together and becomes like one of the greatest rock bands in Japan. Like there's some suspension of disbelief that needs to go on there. But there's several episodes of just like the kid learning how to play the basics of up and down the scale and like practicing for years. And then there's like at the first gig, the amp blows out. And so what looks like it's oh, we're going to perform. There's an agent in the audience or a talent scout. I'm like, nope, you got scared because your amp broke. How you is more like back then because it's like it starts off. He's like not used to playing with a team because he's used to, oh, if I'm going to get good, I have to practice by myself. And so he has a lot of stuff. We're like, right? He's like from a school where he was super passionate about volleyball, but everyone around him was a little less so and he's like, well, no, we got to do it. We got to be the champions. We got to and like everyone else is like, oh, when we get to high school, we're going to drop this anyway. So which is strange with the same plot as a sound euphonium, except with band. Yeah, the animation. The last thing I'll say about IQ is that there are like the idea of geniuses or prodigies, they are there. But I think what's so unique about the way that they portray them is actually that they still rely on other people. So in a lot of other team sports, animes, it's always the prodigies are always kind of by themselves. But this one, the entire their entire persona or their entire the reason why they are successful is partly them, but partly because of the team that supports them. Oh, you know, sports sort of. Yeah, it would be fair to say that the team in high Q is kind of like at the repeat, the San Antonio Spurs and not just whatever team Kobe Bryant plays for, where they're like, give the ball to Kobe. Did I do a good sports analogy? Was that a good sports? A little bit. Yeah, you know what? OK, all right, I'll take one. Kobe Kobe was really good, but the Lakers were also really good when Kobe was on the lake. I'm sure he did play for the lake team. It was more so like when LeBron was on the Cavaliers. LeBron, can I tell you something? LeBron James. I was my mouth said, Kobe Bryant. I was thinking of LeBron James. Oh, so you were wrong then? But then also I was. I was making an analogy. Sticking to that. Sticking to that 2020 revolution. But even then, it also depends. Really, Miles hasn't been reading too far into sports. But even then, it depends when if LeBron was on the heat, he had it was the big three. Like they had him and Wade and one piece and then there was what was it? We get it. You know, you know, it's so funny because I'm over here. It's the anime man. I'm over here like thinking about like I was about to ask like how you would like in it, too. And I don't know people consider this trash anime. Food Wars were like, oh, like it. Food Wars is much more fantastical. Like yeah, OK. And everyone in Food Wars is that is that genius. Like I'm the genius. I'm the genius of the fight. Yeah, they're the special. They have specialized ones. If I could, there's the other thing I'm excited for that's supposed to come out this season. Although it's not on TV, but airing in Japan. Movie wise, Shirobako movie is coming out this season. I forgot all about that. Yeah, winter 2020. Winter 20. I would very much like to see that. Yeah, I hope it's a localizer. Thank you. Let's focus on the positive. Say what you're excited about this season. I'll say what I'm excited about. And I'll be followed up with what's so disappointing. Oh, no. I was about to say we can also knock you down a peg and say which shows are on Netflix? Spoiler alert. Yeah, so I got very excited by the track, the Travada, the trailer, the trailer for Drifting Dragons. Also known as Shutei Dragons or Kutei Dragons. Cutie Dragons sounds wholesome. But it's a watch it's it's it's being done by Polygon, which I'm now at the point thanks to years of fan service, where when I went to my anime list to like see like what was going to rustle my jimmies, I was like, you know what? I'm going to look by studios that I think are cool. And I found Polygon. And sure enough, this looks awesome. It's 3D animated going for the 2D style. It is it essentially looks like a fire emblem cut scene, but I dig that shit a lot. And there's airships. It's serious, like some sort of like alt history. I don't know if I'd call it steampunk. But like, you know, kind of dumb down future tech and like people go and hunt dragons that don't look like dragons. They look like Lovecraftian nightmares. It seems really cool that it looks like it's going for like a kind of fun ensemble cast from what I was able to gather from the trailer. Like I said, you can find on my anime. What else did Polygon do? Polygon did. It's a Sidonia. They did one. Ajin, Ajin, the Godzilla one. Cool. That's what I love about anime. Though I didn't enjoy the story. I did like the way that it looks there. They were kind of like really pushing forward 3D anime, OK, whenever a while. Well, Nights of Sidonia, you know, because Ruby not withstanding was the first time I'd ever really seen like 3D in like that style of I mean, of anime, right? And so it's like really taken a backbite because it was weird at first. Yeah, I think a little bit of time to get used to. But I enjoyed it. It was a really wild story. It was like a tack on Titan in space. It's kind of what I got from that. Obviously, from Ruby, I'm much more open to the 3D anime style, but I also think a ton of it's from playing video games. Like, I just look at that and I'm like, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, for sure. Game cut scenes are tight. Let's go for sure. Yeah, I feel like one of the first ones. Oh, what was one of the first beautiful Joe? I feel like a 3D kind of like anime video. Did they make an anime? No, but it's kind of like a style. All right. Do you know what you give plot any if I recall because I just read like the blurb that was on the website and I looked at the trailer. Excuse me, but it seems from what I from what I remember, it was these essentially airships will go around and try and hunt down dragons either because they're like monsters, wrecking shit, or because like they can harvest kind of like monster, like there is hunting dragons because they're dangerous, but it's also because they have oil like whales. Yeah, I got. I got hardcore monster hunter, monster hunter, but with airships was the vibe that I got from this because I was telling my friend what I was telling my friends that you were like super excited about it. And he was like, I don't like hurting dragons. Like he's like dragons are sacred. You don't attack a witcher. And so I was then like, did he see what the dragons look like in the show? No, but then I was going to ask, is there from what you can tell? Is there any like chance that oh, there's good dragons or is they all bad? I don't know. Typically in shows where I feel like the narrative is we are harvesting these creatures for humanity. Typically, there tends to be some sort of storyline about like, you know, not over harvesting or like, you know, respecting the balance of nature, misunderstanding. That tends to be a common theme in shows like that. I have no idea. Again, with the way that the dragons are designed, they look fucking horrifying. They look like giant alien bug monster things. But don't judge a dragon by its cover. It could kind of get me like, OK, vibes were. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, humans are creating this problem so they can then take the stuff from the dragons. Like maybe they're doing something to upset the dragons. Yeah, I would I would not be surprised, but also like could also I think that's a totally fine dragon killing power fantasy. Yeah, it could be that. It could be that. But yeah, I like all the character designs. There seem to be some like really playful. And then, of course, like the cool badass guy, like there's some dude with like a harpoon gun that like does some sick moves. And yeah, I don't know. I hope it'll be good. I don't know if you heard there's going to be a short form laid back camp to finish five minute episodes. There's another laid back camps coming back later. But what's that laid back camp is. And there's there's a trend now that there's instructional anime where it's like, here's how you can go to the gym. Like, here's the different stuff you can do with the gym. The way Dr. Stone is though, a little more stone and food wars lead a little more into the fantasy shown in. OK, laid back camp or your your camp was just here's how you go camping. Like these girls at school form a camping club. How true to form is it? Very, very, it's extraordinarily like, oh, if you're going to do this, you're going to want to bring this kind of tent. If you're going to be in this area, you want to bring this kind of tent. Cool. Yeah, it's it's wonderful. What's what's the deal with that whole like instructional anime? Like, is that I think it's almost interactive that you can. It's also probably funded by Merch, but also government. Like it can be like, hey, we want to increase park visiting. We can help fund this anime. We want to increase serious gyms can go. We want to increase gym membership. Yeah, we'll give you like what's it called? How heavy are the dumbbells you lift? Was this anime and manga series? There is going to one day there will be a an anime about the joys of having a child. How he probably is. But it was like in it. They're always going to what it's like Silver's gym. Oh, I see that. I see from a consumer point of view, I think what's interesting. And I know this is more of a trend in the East than it is in the West. When it comes to like these slice of life, slower paced, like animated stories. I've rewatched Won't You Be My Neighbor over the break? And there's something really interesting about how they talk about Mr. Rogers Neighborhood kind of did everything you shouldn't do for children's television, like it was cheap sets. He there was lots of silence in a lot of his shows. Like you just have a segment where it's like, we're going to watch a turtle. And then you watch the turtle for like 60 seconds. And all other children's programming is very loud, very colorful, very animated. And I think by having something that is in such far contrast to everything else, I think it stands out more. And I think, again, as a Western consumer, most people think anime is your Dragon Ball Z, your one piece, very loud, big stuff. Yeah. Well, some of these shows are like the dumbbell show is still very sure. Like muscle, like dudes ripping their clothes off with muscles. But I think for laid back camp in particular and a few other shows kind of like it. I think there's something I would also in that difference from everything else being presented. I also was that that YouTube has kind of skewed in that interactivity way. Like, I mean, I don't know how many times I've just gotten down the rabbit hole on watching. There was this awesome channel about like this girl just gardening. Like she'd go out and garden, pick it up, come back to her house, cook it. There's a I will watch hours of Japanese bartenders making cocktails. Yeah. Oh, that sounds like so good. It's a little ASMR. Oh, yeah. I mean, we all know you're taking ASMR. It's great. It's relaxing. Helps you calm down. Thank you for watching. But there is bad news about drifting dragons. Oh, I was informed of them on what I arrived on set today. What's that? Yeah. OK, Netflix has got it. So I won't be able to watch that till was a June. Probably. They don't they don't say it's probably when the first season's done and they have enough time to dub, you know, and you and I were talking about this the other day, because we're talking about Tara's house. And like, it's so curious why certain shows aren't some all casted here. It really is. I mean, that's Netflix's. They are the Netflix's North American, American, not North American, but specifically American model, because even then they do simulcasting in Canada. Yes. And they they will even try out simulcasting every once in a while. On a lot of Korean dramas, Korean dramas. I remember I used to watch the show Greek, the ABC Family Show. Oh, wow. And it was week to week. Like it would have episodes every week. But I mean, I've talked to other people, like some of friends around town who like like anime, but don't aren't like I need to watch week to week. Oh, it's perfect. I just get to watch all of it at once. And then it's for the more accessible. Yeah, I don't want to say casual because that like it seems to be bad. It's just yeah, it's definitely one of those things that you see in my opinion. You see a lot of piracy, right? From that from us, from like our group from fandom. Yeah, because the people who don't have access to the thing like like Tara's house is is episodes ahead, right? Yeah. And and there are people already on Reddit talking about these next few episodes and I'm like, I want that. I want that one. I want to see that. And I can't because we don't have that unless we do like a VPN, VPN and all that other, you know, quarantine or whatever legal. And I mean, I'm not I want to do that. I want to support these shows. But it does beg the question of like, she seems like an untapped market. So I'm sorry. Your show isn't until June is what it is. One of yours isn't I know. That's why I said I'm sorry. I was hoping for a certain sadness. Dorohedoro. Dorohedoro. It looks so cool. What is give me the rundown, Cole. Hole, a dark decrepit and disorderly district where the strong prey on the weak and death is an ordinary occurrence is all but the fitting of the name it given to it. Hole, a realm separated from laws and ethics. It is testing the ground to it is a testing ground of magic users, magic users who dominate it. A rate as a race occupying the highest rungs of the society. The magic users think of the denizens of holes. Nothing more than insects. OK, it's a very long seconds of your long break. Yeah, but it's like that off. It's like this really like so it says here set in a gritty world of hellish design, like the thing that really drew like got my attention was just the like the front cover here, the art style. Main character, some like lizard dude. He's like this really wild looking lizard dude. Aaron Zek, one of our old cast members and thumbnail artist. Oh, Aaron Wynne, Aaron Wynne. Oh, my God. I was like, wait a second. No, Aaron Zek's ruby. Aaron Wynne is super excited about this show. It looks really, really cool. Definitely check out this this thumbnail online if you can. It has a. Probably have it pop up in the lower third. There's an interesting like, I don't know what the term is. All the colors are very like dark and dingy. And but it's still colorful, though. There's purples and greens and blues and yellows. But the whole thing feels like dirty. It reminds me of the 90s team and T like, oh, yeah. That's why I'm like so drawn to it. I was massively a fan, so. But also that and then there was another one that caught my eye. Darwin's game, Darwin's game. And and maybe I misunderstood the premise of it. But as soon as you started to give me the give me the rundown, it almost gave me the vibe of like the nonary games to a degree. What games? The nonary games. The 999, 999, zero escape. Yeah, effectively. It's like, think, saw. Yeah, in that regard. This is like overselling the Darwin's game. It's like they download an app. They're like, oh, I'm going to download the new game. It's an app. And then whenever they download it, they're told, you have to go fight this other person like fight to the death. It sounds super interesting. It's like someone looked at Pokemon Go. You know what? Close, but what if humans? Close, but what if murder? Yeah, what if murder? I mean, Pokemon Go, things did get a little dicey. At a time there. Yeah. And at the same time, we're we're the closest to world peace we ever could get. That was as close as again. Pokemon Go got us close. They were the baby Yoda. Baby Yoda was pretty good, too. Baby Yoda is they should have landed at the same time. I think that's how we would have made it. Baby Yoda, go to run around and catch baby Yoda's. Just a bunch of Jesus Christ. It's all the same. Just so as Darwin's are one of these coming out later. So Darwin's is not. But Adoro, Adoro is like Netflix. So it's going to be later. Whereas it looks like Darwin's game is going to be where is it? I just saw it there. It's anyplex of America has the license. Oh, cool. Any perks. Probably beyond Funimation. Cool, because they're both Sony now. There's a couple other like neat looking ones you're talking about. Culinary looking at the list and under anyplex, there's also free grand order. So both of us were like. Well, the continuation of the grand order that's airing right now, but they're also having OVA. Is that what you're most excited about? No, I knew the answer. It was no, I'm very excited about it. But that's also just like I compartmentalize that. That's my like, sure. That's yeah, that's your thing. Like the thing you'll always say yes to. Yeah, so it's like it's all I bring up this. This what's the word? This example so often. We know Breath of the Wild is going to be game here. But what are the other right? That's called to fate. I know, by the way, I mean, my buddies tried to like do our favorite games of each year over the break 2017 went so hard. Sorry, this is not a video game podcast. But just like if you play games, just look at all the things that came out in 2017 and then look at yourself in the mirror and say you didn't deserve any of that. Because holy shit. It was amazing. All right, back to what Cole's excited about. I can go about this two ways. All right. OK, two way. So I've been noticing and we'll see. We'll see how you guys feel about it, OK? I've been noticing there's been a big lack of Cole explains since fanservice has come back. You know, what's funny is that was my favorite segment on next to next to stands shower thoughts, but you know, we won't go there. So I have a show planned for Cole's explains this next season, a full hour of cool. No, it's cold. Shut up. No, because this show lined up too perfectly. Then there's a start. I think it's going to be really good. And I genuinely want everyone to watch. OK, tell me the one that you think should be really good and then tell me the one that you're going to talk about over the next few months. So I can go now. I just like to just strap in and wouldn't put your if I try to say the full Japanese name, just reading it offhand. Hands off the motion picture club. Cool. OK. Is that the isoken? Yeah. Yes, I'm so excited for that. I don't know anything about this. The art style is it is just like these kids want to create an anime, but they do it more. It's like a more abstract shirobako. I mean, it's not like it's it's it's more sort of the sort of abstract version of the beginning of shirobako. You remember when they're in a lot of the club and they're trying to make. Yeah. Yeah. It's like they're drawing and then they're like entering the world of the drawing and interacting with the things they drew. Oh, OK. Oh, cool. It also has very it also has very interesting like what a reference I watched a lot of animation. Oh, it's an all anime. They did not like they weren't afraid to go really like what a big critique I see with anime a lot is everyone's face looks the same. Yeah. These characters look wildly different. Oh, OK. Let's see if I can pull up a picture for you to see my someone. Someone had made a comment that I thought was really neat in that one of the main female characters. She's got like just like, well, here, I'll just bring it up so you can see it. Yeah, you just got like these interesting facial expressions of people like this is my energy. People are talking about how like it's it's fresh to see a female character drawn so differently. Yeah, we're seeing. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's like that troll energy. I love your energy. Yeah, I love that. OK, we settle down you two. It's not the entire episode. You jinxed. Oh, hey. Oh, OK. So so that's the one that you think should be really good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it looks so cool. Tell me you're OK. So one of our old guests, what, I believe it's she had tipped me off to this in the past. OK. And so I started reading the manga. There's an there's a show calling called issue, issue, Zoku reviewers, issue, Zoku reviewers. What is it? What is she Zoku reviewers mean? It's it's the same thing. So what is she? She's OK. I just saw the picture. What's an app that exists today? You know, it helps you kind of figure out what restaurants are good. Yeah. Yeah. And like, you know, oh, my God, what's the world's oldest profession? Constitution. Constitution. Yeah. Oh, what? So like, how are you going to tell what? But here's the other thing. You live in a monster world. You guys didn't know that. It's because I read. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. All of my co-workers were OK. I don't burn. Yeah, I'm done. Hey, you only started reading yesterday. I'm trying to get smart. You're getting smart. So yeah, this is a show about a group of adventurers reviewing brothels. Can we in a in a land where it's like, oh, this is the Elf brothel. This is the mermaid brothel. This is like this. Now, your adventurers aren't all human. So that's the thing about it as well. You have standard human. I know I said they weren't all, but one is sure. The next one is an elf. Cool. So what's what's something about elves? Like, what's the point he is? But how long do they live? Long time. Forever and ever. So he's going to have some different tastes, huh? Yes. There's also a fallen angel who just falls down. And he's like, I don't know what to do. And they always have a guest spot for every brothel they go to. OK, OK, OK. So what you're saying is we're going to change the format of fan service. I was. OK, so what they have done is they've made an anime podcast of the past about getting that night. Let me just say for one that I think it's absolutely fucking hilarious that you keep calling them a group of adventurers. That's what they are. No, I get it. Who like it's just so funny. Think about how me and my pals are going to go downtown as a group of adventurers to rate some brothel. No, they're adventurers first and foremost. It's their side thing, but like as they're adventuring, they're going to be stopping up in town. It's comedians driving in cars, wherever the fucking show is drinking coffee. Yeah. Yeah. Comedians drink comedians play badminton. Whatever that show is called, you know, by day, they come eat. Come eat by night. They talk about how they come eat. Because I got an eye full. Come eat. Oh, boy. I'm trying to open up. Is an eye full of an asshole. What about? Oh, my. Oh, my. Oh, they're all ladies. It's a lot of. It's a lot of shiny. Oh, never mind. Those are the ladies of the brothel. Oh, yeah. They look like they're lady of no brothel. Like in the first manga, it's like the humans like, oh, yeah. I want to get like that hot, hot elf over there. And the kids like, yeah, but she's like 300 years old. I'm going to go for that 58 year old woman and like human woman and like the human woman's like not traditionally attractive. But he's like, yeah, but she's 58. Like when they just get sleep with a 58 year old. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Well, I am. It was a very shiny thumbnail. Wow. Yeah. If you tried to hold that thumbnail, it would slip out of between your fingers. Then you should like wash. Oh, no. So it's better than a sticky thumbnail, Lisa. So that's no, that's that. That's that. No. Much like the last time we did this, I think we should mention a couple other shows. I'll mention one in traditional Miles fashion that I'm excited to watch that came up like five years ago. Oh, oh, not five years ago. Try 10 years ago. I was up 10 years late to the party. No, I didn't read. So I didn't know about Mageno. You know about Mageno. I guess we talked about it at the beginning of fan service. Yeah, but I like don't listen to me. I said, oh, everyone come over to my house and watch Mageno. And no one came over. So I watched it by myself. You're stupid. Remember, that was my original thing. The dumb one was my brand and my parents were like, have some self respect. And I was like, no, other shows that need mentioning a new season of a scientific real gun, a certain. Oh, I saw that. That was cool. Yeah. That's like third season. That's like the certain magical index and certain scientific real gun. When you said real, I totally thought of something else. Issa, what on earth? Yeah, like a shower, like a shower rail, like a What's another kind of rail gun, Issa? Some sort of like, does it lay train tracks? All right, it's getting, I'm new day and I have to get a little horny in here. Right. Don't settle down. What on earth? I can't help it. There's a new Madoka series. However, it's not Rubuchi. It's based off the mobile game. So I'm interested. I'm curious. It's Shat still. So I'm when he said Shat, right? Well, gun. What I thought was one of the better ideas of a show that has been made, Isakai Quartet. Issa, that's great. They have the second season, Issa. That's where it's Subaru. Cosima, the guy from Overlord, Tanya, the evil, they all get transported to she's in that. Yeah, they're now adding the shield hero. This next season. Oh, cool. It's calm. It's all comedy. It's all like slapstick. It's very fun. Fun. There's too many things. Let's see. Somali to Mori. That also looks interesting. Tell me, tell me with your words. I don't have words to tell you. I just see the pictures and they're so cool looking. Like it just it's just like a weird. It looks really cool looking. It looks like a supernatural there. It's the English name is Somali in the forest spirit. So it's fantasy. I say supernatural, but it involves gods. The title is coming has commisal on it. So some kind of. Don't worry, everybody. I'll watch the trash anime so you don't have to. I don't think it's going to be trash. I want to talk about. I'm watching the show about. Yeah, that's true. Hey, this isn't an episode called yet. Future when we do. It's not far enough away. Oh, boy. The world is ruled by spirits, goblins and all manners of strange teachers. Humans are persecuted. Oh, no. To the point of extinction. We deserve that one day. A golem and a lone human girl meet. She does not look human. Oh, OK. There are this is a record. This is OK. OK, so that's all the immediate stuff. You said that you're super excited about spring now. Oh, spring is going to be like we're we're going to end on a high. Now is what we have in 2017 for games. Spring for anime. We have Re Zero coming back. We have a show that I'll get to here for a second. There's a really good like kind of high school drama show called My High School Romantic Comedy Snafu. Cool. And it's just like it's got really good characters in it. OK, that's really good. Kaguya Sama, that was the one about season two. That was the one with the two prodigies, the president, vice president, they like each other, but they don't want to admit it to each other. So they fight all the time about who's going to. Yeah, the second season of I actually want to go back and watch this show, the ascendance of a bookworm. We talked about it a little bit. It is an isekai about about Isa. No, it is an isekai about a girl who she like she want. All she wants to do is read books, but she gets reincarnated in a world where there are no books. So did you did you actually watch it for a season yet? No, I want to go back and see it. OK, I heard it's really good. Oh, really? Yeah. Ha, that first that first 15 minutes is a fucking slog. Oh, boy. OK, well, yeah, that's kind of what because I I watch enough that all kind of be a slave to numbers. Like if something has a really low rating to begin with, I'm like, I might pass on that. Yeah. This next one, Isa, you were going to love this. OK, so this next one is a bear afraid title. I read this manga and they're making an anime of it. Yes. Oh, my God. It is. Cool, noses. I am. I reincarnated I reincarnated into an Otome game, which is that's the girl and all the boyfriends. It's a reverse harem. Yeah, reverse hair. I reincarnated into an Otome game as the villainous with only destruction flags. OK, so pitch. OK. It's an Isakai, but the girl she. The way she died, she died the morning after she was about to finish her reverse harem video game only. She's reincarnated as the antagonist of the game that she was playing. And so she's going through in her mind. What is the there's only two outcomes whenever I do any of these roots in the game? I either die or I'm exiled. So what's the best route for me? So I either don't die or I'm not exiled. Interesting. So she's the antagonist. Oh, man, guys, but it's her. It's so good. So she. Yeah, it's I just read the manga recently. I'm like, this is so good. It's so good. The light novels. I'm excited about this. There's actually two different versions of the manga. Oh, one is her reincarnated as a little girl. And essentially as a child, she bumps her head and that's when she gets all of her memories back of the real world. And it's like, oh, I have to change everything. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. They essentially did two completely different stories. Yes. So they did one where she was reincarnated as a child. And when they finished that, they did one where it was she was reincarnated as an adult, where she had already been mean to people. Oh, that's interesting. I read the first one. Yes, I did not read the second one. But the first one, I think this is what the anime is based off of, where she's reincarnated first as a child, and then she lives the rest of her life from childhood to when she grows up. Oh, my God, guys, I have a question. So how often do you find that when an anime is done based off of a manga, it's usually like most anime is based off. But like, like it's it's done really, really well. I mean, there are so many factors. Like it's I feel like the true gems are always like kind of one out of five. Yeah, you'll find it. I mean, it depends. Is the manga done? Do they have all the source material? Yeah, how popular was the manga? Because then they'll they'll definitely throw more money at the studio who where who is doing the most popular thing. Interesting. OK. Is there ever a time where a manga is like not super popular, but the anime like was like superb? Oh, that's a good question. I mean, about there's bound to be stuff. I mean, yeah, I mean, I don't know. I would say it was bad, but in me, it thought is like a battle front. Finished their manga and Studio Bones, the guys who do my hero, they're kind of like outliers in the anime industry where they will go and sit because most of the time you'll see that anime are advertisements for manga and light novels. Sure. So it's weird to see a manga series that's complete. Get an anime, which is why I was saying with like Orisuki earlier. It's like, yeah, but are they going to make another season of anime because the anime is expensive? And if they've already seen the increase in novel sales and it's not licensed, it's not internationally licensed. So there is a cap on how many how many more sales you're going to see. Sure. But Blood Blockade Battlefront. They essentially, manga was done, Blood Blockade Battlefront anime came out and they're like, oh, we need to make more manga. Oh, wow. So it brought back the manga to be made more. And they did another season and another. I think it's done now. That's interesting. But cool. That's the only one I can really think of the top of my head hitting you with them curveballs. Yeah, that's an interesting thought. If only because I think a lot of what ends up happening is if the source material isn't good, then oh, I actually I have one. Otakoi, the ad, the manga is much better than the anime. What would you say the anime is better than the manga? I think, I mean, either or I think on the most of the time, the manga, people say the manga is better than the anime. That's right. That's right. Yeah, it's like, I was saying a bad manga that they just made into an anime and it was like really good. But yeah, but I think on the inverse of that, though, it's curious when, when. Well, I guess you did say that it's like one in five, though, is usually when they do it really, really well. There's yeah, I mean, that's there's not a lot of anime that aren't that are original. Yeah, that's true. I think there I could say one that I think I enjoyed watching the anime more than I enjoyed reading it. And that was that reverse harem one that I really liked. And I was like, oh, this anime is basically me. And that's what I guess I'm not me because I'm not me. Oh, yeah, people say that about Attack on Titan, but Attack on Titan manga did well. It did. Well, yeah, I did that. Yeah, that's true. Attack on Titan anime because I'm not me. That first that first season of Attack on Titan made that story. There was much more of a zeitgeist rounding it when that anime premiered. People say Fuli Kuli. Oh, I don't know if anyone's read the Fuli Kuli. Man, I feel like the animation is so ingrained to the storytelling of that. It's a series that I can't play that. Yeah, no, I cannot imagine Fuli Kuli without music and animation. And if y'all have seen this other stuff, if you've read the manga and think it's better, let us know. Yeah, someone actually made a comment about our last episode about Akamega Kill being a very well done manga, like better than the anime. And now it's got me like this. This list right here says anime is better than manga. Curious fight to the death. Well, maybe we should all start reading and all get smart. Yeah. Oh my God. Manga doesn't count. Wait a second. Hey, yes, it. No, for reading purposes, it doesn't count. Why not? Because you're looking at pictures. You need to be reading. And Cole, here's part of the old guard of. No, because that's the point of reading is that you are like this. If you're looking at a picture, you're imagining it and that's expanding your. Issa, you're on my side. What are you doing? Oh, no. What graphic novels are what's the word? Graphic novels don't read a graphic novel. No, but I think I think people should take graphic novels more seriously. Yes. Also, like some pictures are hot. And that's my thing. Issa, you're smart, but you also nasty. Yeah, because I read. A couple other couple other mentions of summer or spring. The new trigger show, BNA, BNA, there's a manga. Yeah, there's a manga that I've been reading left here. Or we have not looked up here, which is like that sounds like a future. I'm an alien. It's the manga is wild. It's like, boy, one day wakes up. He's randomly able to change to a first suit. And so the the chuckle from off stage was my reaction as well. It is interesting. Dark is extremely dark. Oh, really? Like, yeah. So he comes a first suit that someone else can put on and wear him around. Yeah. Oh, no. First, it has a big gun on its hip. Oh, so as all first suit. It's done by this girl that he has no idea. She just tells him, like, oh, yeah, I did that to you because I talked to this alien who's trying to collect his other coins. Like he's like, oh, there's a bunch of coins on earth. They're all aliens. They're all my race. If you give me those coins, I can eventually help you cure this. So it's like this big people are hunting the. But he's already a first suit. He can he's told it can be fixed. I'm but but what are they? He can change back into. OK, human. They're hunting coins. OK. Oh, OK, OK. I think I'm putting the pieces together here. I am, but it's not making me feel better in order to use your money. You have to shoot it. What the fuck? Now that they're shooting, they're not shooting the aliens. They're shooting other people who have the coin. Yeah, my friends. OK, so it's just about OK, wearing a first suit and stealing money from people for aliens for aliens. And I mean, we don't deserve I don't. We don't deserve you. I never would have thought of anything like that as a premise. Well, cool, man. Yeah, it's pronounced. Gleipnir, Gleipnir. Still sounds like. Yeah, either I've had or like a gen, whatever, Pokemon. I thought it was going to be like a weapon from like the Witcher or something. Gleipnir. Yeah, but fuck. That's that. That's that we actually have. Interesting, a little bit of housekeeping. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it. So luckily, I think I'm good to say this, that we have fan services scheduled throughout the year now. So and we also are taking steps to improve the efficiency of shooting the show. So what we want to do is bring back anime club. Oh, yeah. Oh, but we we want to do it the right way. Because anime club was always interesting because if you haven't seen the show, like there's pressure to not watch an episode of fan service because you're like, I don't want to get spoiled. I want to watch this with them. And sometimes members of the cast just due to our schedules, we weren't able to watch the most recent episode. And then it's like for 15 minutes, we're just going to be like over here just thinking about. And then like that's something I always see in other media that aggravates me when people are skirting around talking about something. Yeah, sure. When it's like we're going to we're going to talk about my hero, but then we're actually not going to talk about my hero. We're just going to say we're going to talk about my hero. And then like infer little things. Cool things happen with that Deku kid. So with the ability, like with some of the technology we're getting what I want to do, if you guys are with me. I am. I know what's happening. Introduce a Rooster Teeth first post show. Fan service finally getting a post show for RT.com. RT.com. That's 15 minutes of us doing a book club. Yeah, so we've been trying to stick to a roughly 45 minute shooting schedule for the main episodes with this. We'll go ahead and we'll take up a full hour of our time. But that last 15 minute bonus chunk, we for them thirsty firsties out there thirsty firsties. I like that. OK. And so I think I like I actually think. This episode goes up next week. This should be the first episode we have an add on with our people paying us to fan serve. Yeah, I never thought I'd see the fucking day. That's a go. Hopefully this isn't surprise to the people because they've already seen the ad. But we might have to do a read this week. I might need help. OK, let me go off. So I don't know if you knew this, but we don't. Yeah, they don't read. We can't read it. I can't. Yeah, they're they're dumb. Yeah, so team. Go ahead. And yeah, we should have missed high five completely. It would have been great. I don't know how we want to decide what our anime club topic is. Do we want to ask? Can we ask for suggestions? We can ask. We can. I also want like, do we have rules and stipulations? Do we're going to just like anything goes? Because while I want that, I want stuff that we're going to be able to talk about. Sure. Hmm. Hmm. Because I think in the past, we may we've been interacting with some shows that are harder to talk about. I think a question that should be posed is, you know, what is the purpose of the book club? Is this something that we should be talking about? Modern anime that's being released right now? Or are we going to talk about like an old classic? But if we're going to do an old classic, you know, people tend to talk about those and do their own like YouTube essays and stuff like you'd have to come at it from a specific angle. It's also with modern stuff. It's also easier to go. Here's the source. Here's where you watch it. Very true. As well as there is a sense of, oh, we are where you're at. Though also the show comes out a week after in some cases. But it's still closer that there's a chance that people haven't seen it. Whereas if we're talking about older stuff, there's people who could be farther ahead and there's a potential for spoilers. More so, I mean, not more if we're reading manga and a week ahead, not more than anything else. But also, is there anything that like we have internally that we would want to like I obviously want to hear what you guys want to watch. But is there anything internally that we're like, hey, I mean, like I would think Bacchina would be a good candidate, but it's hard to access. Funimation lost the license. And so the only way we could watch it is with our the DVD. Yeah, but also it's older and it might be harder for some people to pop into. I don't think so. But what about what about kind of we're talking about this season? What if we just talk about the shows we had discussed that we were so excited about watching something from one of them? Because I think it needs to be one. Yeah, just one. I think it needs to be one that we visit week to week. I say chosen one. I see. Oh, so we're all agreeing that we're going to watch. Thank you. I don't think it needs to be. No, it doesn't need to be now. We can. I was going to suggest the whole show, the sexy one with the shiny boobies. Yeah, that's pretty funny. Maybe we should maybe. You know what? Maybe we should maybe we should we can gamify this a little bit. Oh, I like this. We're at a certain point. You can pull your ripcord and be like, I'm done. I don't want everybody decides bail on this. Because I think we ran into that in some of the really early seasons where like we would maybe follow a show and then like halfway through that season, we'll be like, the show isn't that great. Yeah, well, I mean, it's stuff with like, I think we talked about it with the three episode rule, like, oh, do you watch three episodes? Then you decide. But then anime producers have caught on to that. So they make the first three episodes really interesting. And then there's a dead period. And then it's like, oh, no, episode seven. Let's throw a good one in there. We'll do some brainstorming. If we keep it up, maybe they'll make all of them good. Just got to make it through the first five. Just just through the first five. How many episodes are there? One piece. You got to get through the first 200. Then it's good. Like question mark, question mark, question mark. Well, I'm excited that we have a year of servicing fans ahead of us. Please continue to tell everybody about the show. Yeah, I'm looking in the future and it's bright. But only if you guys help spread the word. Remember, YouTube, roostief.com will now have the Roostief post show for first members. And of course, we're now we have an audio only version to check out for me, which I love that. I love doing driving to work, listen to my podcast. I was just just for me because only Chris can listen to it. But if you ask nicely, I bet you can do it. Or just I don't need. He doesn't read. He won't you get. Yeah, you could tell him, hey, Chris, I'm listening to it. He can't read a read spread the good word of anime. Hopefully it'll be a good year. Yeah, the good word. I mean, we heard of the gospel of whatever that tittie anime he was talking about was. Well, well, he's going to tell you about it. Happy new year. God.