 this week on fan service we discuss translations and localizations the anime of the year triggers a new show and boy meets world? welcome to fan service fan server is the very chilled out version I don't know I'm chill I'm so chill that I'm I'm so Topanga right now is it Topanga? yeah Topangus from what again? boy meets world boy meets world the best anime the best anime and the sequel series girl meets world is there a sequel series? yeah Disney channel bro yeah it's like boy meets world girl meets world girl meets boy no that's her dad no that's her dad the boy from boy meets world it's like Naruto and Boruto wait yeah oh yeah it's Naruto and Boruto girl meets world is the sequel series to boy meets world the girl is the daughter of boy what you're saying there can be no other boy that she meets no absolutely not no not if we're saying boy meets world girl meets world what if girl meets boy Boy, we've already said X plus Y equals X and Y. Hey, you know what? The math checks out. Have they ever explained the title? Is that about them like being born? Yeah. Boy meet, like. Boy meet, boy meet, boy meet. I'll never forget the pilot of Boy Meets World where he swan dives out of his mother's vagina. Yeah. He's just a 30 minute long. And that does sound like a good anime. That sounds like a great start to an anime. To make it fit, because this is fan service. It's an official anime podcast. I'm Cole, and I'm joined today by. Carrie. Miles. Drinky Boy. Red Bull, you get the Red Bull. Wake up, son. Can we find a loophole in the system where we just talk about Pokemon Sword and Shield because it's kind of anime, and it's also, it's all I'm doing. We have already done that, and we did use that as a loophole to get lots of views. Both do I know. Do it again. Both do I know, not gonna talk about it, but you know I didn't watch the episode I wasn't on. No, that's, we can talk a little bit about it. Well, it's fine. We have something else in your interest. What is that? Trigger's got a new show. Oh yeah? Actually didn't know that, what? It's called, the initials are B and A, or as they're calling it, or there's multiple- Brand new animal? Brand new animal, beast new age, like there's different kinds of acronyms. And the anime slack, I went, oh, it's only one letter away from B N H A. That's what, yeah, that's the first thing I thought of. Antonio went Boku, Boku no academia, or beast new, beast no academia. Beast no academia. And then it just, we just kept going. Animal school. Yeah, it's like, animals, playing basketball. Essentials, so the new image that- Have they seen- Say it. Space Jam? Have they seen the Michael Jordan? Trigger does Space Jam. If they get Michael Jordan out of that. I absolutely would. So the title are like, they release like this title poster thing and it looks like, like what, it's like a cat or squirrel girl kind of a thing. She's playing basketball. Whoa, oh cool, I'm in love. Yeah. Oh, I like it. And then though, there's like an older guy and then he has a wolf form though cause they release character images. How old are they? Okay. Anime ages. Okay. So everyone's 16. If it's appropriate, I love her. Good save, good save, good save, good save, good save. I just don't know, I'm sorry. I almost, nope. Nope. It's okay. Maybe, no. It's okay. It was like ready to fuck like real early on. I'm just, I'm just, there you go. I said it. Miles, I'm not proud of it. I just thought everybody should know that's, that's a thing. That is, that is even isn't true. I was trying to say true. They have a first, they have a first in heat season. Now, well, that's what I'm saying. Like, okay. I grew up with, I grew up on a farm. There's like, they don't fucking tell a certain age. I don't know, man. I'm pretty sure if I said it and it's on the internet, it's true. That's how it all works. Cause I said it first. And louder than you. Okay, King Miles stepping down from his high throne to deliver. Now I'm off my throne. I'm not King anymore. You said it, now it's true. I'm a commoner just like all of you. Is there an anime called in heat? Well, there, you know, certainly there is a hentai that I showed you at. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. At Anime Expo. Oh wait, you guys watched a hentai together? No. Well, no. I mean, I bought some books into the Fokker line and got a dope shirt that I wore all the time. Yeah. Oh, I see. And bought some books and we all. Enjoyed. Enjoyed together. That makes it sound like you jerked off together. Well. I was roaming with you. Oh, that's right. It was that trip. Yeah, yeah. I did, I did do that once with a friend. Like watch. No, we had a doujin. Like we had an adult like a BL doujin together. And we're like, wait, let's do a dramatic reading. No, see, that's great. So we were just doing like page by page. But when we got to the sex scenes, all we did was laugh. Okay, that doesn't feel so much better because me and my friends used to do that. Like do like non like horny readings of like giving them funny voices and stuff. Yeah. That does sound very funny. Y'all have never watched like 70s porn and just has been like terrible as like a joke. I'm gonna be real. I don't watch porn past like a certain. There's an anime convention. Yeah, I have like a resolution gate. Like there's a really funny. If it's not, if it's 240, I'm out. There's a real, I forget which company does it. There's a really funny panel that happens at a lot of conventions called a hilarious hentai dubs. Oh my God. And it's amazing. The thing is they're not overdubbing. They're playing the actual dubbed footage or like tape. It's all the voice. It's all like voice actors from four kids and stuff. So one of the ones that they highlight is Ash Ketchum's voice actress being railed by Yugi's voice actor. No. There was a hentai that was a complete reunion of the Evangelion cast, the English dub cast. Hang on. I need to go back real quick before we get too far. Was it Yugi or Yami Yugi? They're the same though. What, they'll be like, what voice? But like, you know. What energy were they bringing? Okay, that's what I assumed. Hey, Ash, your move. I fucking hate it. He's the king of games. We're getting dangerously close to this hentai episode. So BNA, BNA, BNA, that's it. It's actually there's a butts in the ass. That's an ass. Is it, is it, is there? Come back to us. Come back to us, you son of a... Oh my gosh. You broke her with butts in the ass. It's my thing. That's me. Okay. Oh fuck. Jesus. We were so worried about what we talk about today. It turns out we're doing fun stuff. I guess fucking so. Is there anything else about, like, so like Trigger, I feel like has different types of shows, right? They have Kill a Kill and they have Kids Nightmare. Oh yeah. Any indication of life? This is a yo-yoshinari one. What is that? So he's a guy who did... Okay. He did Little Witch. He did Little Checkadamia. He was like one of the main like... Character designers for... Fork and Login. Yes. Yeah. So it's like a lot of like mech stuff. What does that mean? Trigger also... He directed Little Checkadamia. Trigger also doesn't show their cards a lot. Like whenever they're working on something, they don't... Yeah. No, that's very true. I just, you can usually tell like... How weird it's gonna get. What style it's gonna be. Cause I mean, they're weird in different ways. Like Little Witch is like weird in this like... I don't wanna say like more childlike, but a little bit more like whimsical for like Kill a Kill. I feel like... Or like Girl in Login is like weird in this more like... 80s action. Yeah. Like sexy push. Yeah. Aesthetic kind of thing. I don't know. And there's Kids Nightmare. That's why you did it. And there's Kids Nightmare. Which is like... I was being like this super... Super restrained. Okay. Boobs and ass. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, what she said is smart. What you said is dumb. What's an ass? Yeah. There's a difference. That's trite and pedantic. That's the same thing. Boobs and ass? That's high class. Cole, Cole. I know you enough to know that you know there's a difference between butts and ass. Okay. That's true. That's true. Okay. Don't, don't, hey. Respect yourself. Thanks Karen. Okay. I'll bring it back in. Bring it back home. Oh my God. There it is. That's really exciting. But yeah. Has there been any visuals for it? Is there... They released this other poster and it was like the main girl and the older guy sitting. Yeah. One of them looks exactly like the bad guy from premiere. Oh, that's really funny. Oh, you mean Gamagori from Kill, Kill, Kill. Yeah. But it's just like skinnier version. I'm still like, I don't mind it at all. I don't know if we will care. I just like, I'm just like, cool. That's what like, in a, I feel like in a similar way, there is, there are a lot of similar character designs and aesthetics between like all of the Ghibli films. Yeah. And I don't consider it a bad thing. Some of them I think are like intentional and some of them are just like, just kind of a style. It's a useful tool that you have in your, like having your playbook to go like, oh, we're gonna put this character in. You're gonna carry all the information that you have of what that character looks like. And we can play with that however we want. We can play into what you think of him. We can use that to like flip your mind later. I came in loving the lead in premiere because it's like, oh, he looks like company. Yeah, cool. Yeah, you know he's the main character. Yeah. With terms of Ghibli, I think that's definitely a deliberate thing, of course. So it's like the old lady, the reused Baba Yaga. Yeah, reused Baba Yaga. The big thing for me is that I think that for me, the intention behind a lot of Ghibli character designs is that they're designing people who are supposed to look plain and normal. Right, it's almost like a video game mentality. And like trigger designs, which are like, they're kind of out of this world, but you do understand who the character is the moment you see them. I think that's a huge thing for them, too, is like they're very big about visual communication and they want you to look at, like I'm going to be like, all right, he's a motherfucker. Yeah, he's his big dude. He's going to yell and he's going to be really brash. And then they can play with that later, but they're very like, they want you to like look at a character and sum them up immediately. So I think it makes perfect sense. And I also, I mean, I get to like, you like what you like and just because you move on to the next show doesn't mean you now like something different. You know, so it's like, yeah, if they like to do shirtless dudes with pointy hair and big pants, it's like, one of the big jokes of the fate universe is saber face. It's like, the main character's always going to look exactly like saber, like, or like one of the love interests of the blonde girl. It's always like, it's always saber. That's right. Saber face. Saber face. Yeah, I mean, I just, I literally just looked up and saw Akira Toriyama Balmanga and it's just like, yeah, you hold up a picture of Dragon Ball manga, you hold a picture of Dragon Quest cover art and it becomes the office meme where I'm just like, those are the same picture. Yeah. It makes every Dragon Quest game because you're just playing like an AU. Yeah. An AU Dragon Ball. That's what I think when I'm playing Chrono Trigger. Yeah, oh yeah, it's like this. Do you name them Goku and like the character? This isn't Chrono, this is Goku. No, I either, little fact about me, I either name them Carrie or I leave them their damn names because they thought about the fucking names and I'm not going to fucking just so if it's either full on self-insert or spec the wishes of the creators. They're all in between. Yeah. I will, I will, like Pokemon, I will do like my names and then I'll do like Alex, Alex is doing Rival. Like for roommate, that's right. Oh, that's so funny. Oh, that's so cute. Rhys is always my rival. Rhys or Bo, my brother. My brother was my rival on Pokemon Yellow but prior to that I was like, I follow the anime canon. I'm Ash and that's Gary. Oh, that's a baby child. Oh, that's super cute. Aw. I find that in my name. What do you think about video game names? I find, if I can name, if it's Pokemon, if I name it myself then I'm a bit more, what's the word? I care more. It's yours. Yeah, it's mine. If I name it the default sometimes I don't but I do, one of my fondest memories is when my brother, back in the day when Final Fantasy main characters, you could name them. My brother was first playing Final Fantasy 8. He named the main character Squall, Carlo, because that's my brother. And he named Ranoa the girl that he liked at the time. So the entire time, we knew they were Squall and Ranoa but we always read Carlo and like the girl's name and whenever the textbooks came on and we bring it up every so often because they're like, hey, can you remember that? And he's always like, oh, because he forgets all the time. That brings about another question. Do you generally go with your identified gender as- Oh, when you're playing a game. Most of the time, yeah. Most of the time, I will, yeah. I know, I think Jack and she've hunted for a while. He was always like, I'm gonna look at her so I'll make it a girl. I'm gonna have to look at an ass on my screen. I will say, I usually pick girl. The fashion is so much better. That's a good point. That's in the new Pokemon game. The guy's fashion sucks. The girl's fashion is- Yeah, I will a lot of times have I do a second playthrough of a female character, especially if it's like, you know, if it is like, or if it's like a, I mean, this all goes out the window, if it's like a class, like what type they are or something like that, but yeah, I'm usually more either self-inserting or I wanna follow the story that they put out. This is very interesting anime discussions. At this point, it's just like- That actually kind of, hey, what's up guys? It's December. Yeah. It's December. That does remind me of an anime. Oh, I saved it, relevant. What was the one that we really liked? It was, you know what I'm talking about? It's, she becomes a neat. Oh, which is like confessions of a- Oh yeah. What is it? Oh my God. Dang it. So it was a year or two ago. That year I was actually judged for the anime awards for country roll. And this particular one, I think Cole, you had recommended it to me. Yes, I love this show. And it's one of those shows for an older audience, but it's really wholesome. But what kind of for an older audience? It's like for older women or older- You have to keep explaining. What's your professionals? No, it's not. Okay, cool. That was more what I meant. Full circle, full circle. Recovery of an MMO junkie. Oh yeah. Have I talked to this about- I feel like I've heard about this before. It's so good. So it's about a professional woman who quits her job completely to become, to play games all day. Just play MMO. She just becomes like, not a neat cause she's not experienced. She's not an experienced. Can you explain what a neat is? Not employed, educated, or trained. So that means it's a term that- Degenerate. Well, we would definitely call a neck beard over here. Kind of like, oh, you live in your parents' basement. You don't do anything but play warcraft. He kind of. Yeah, so those describe people who don't necessarily have jobs or don't go out. Well, Hikikomor is actually more of a people who don't go out. There's more of a culture. Is it always a derogatory term, pretty much? That's the impression I've got. It's derogatory, but the people who are neat actually do identify. It seems like it's been shifting more. That's like what all kind of derogatory terms towards- I mean, it becomes- A generation. We used to be super derogatory, and now you have people like, oh, I'm a fucker. I'm a nerd, I'm a dork. So it probably started derogatory and it started to like- Yeah. I don't think your system- It's their word, not your word. Yeah. At that point, it is a descriptor hilariously of what is going on with them. They're not employed, they're not educated, or they're not trained so they don't have jobs. So it is this woman who decides to play games because it turns out she's actually going through a lot of shit, unsatisfied with her job. It goes through this. It seems like it's fun and games until there's actually an overarching story element where she interacts with people with her guild. And it's actually a little wholesome in where she finds a friend. I really want to watch this. Explores French role in Funimation, Hulu probably. It's done, so easy watch. It definitely explores the anxiety of someone like kind of reaching a burnout. Oh, shit. Oh, shit, two plus. But it's a really nice portrayal of an adult who kind of goes like, you know what, I'm kind of tired of this. And then she finds fulfillment somewhere else and she actually gets the human connections she wants through this online game. Now, as a person who is currently really enjoying Pokemon and is going for a living Pokedex and has a couple other games looking forward to playing, is this gonna make me want to not play video games and instead go outside? No. Okay, then I will watch it. It's like half and half. Yeah, it'll say that you can do both. Yeah, you can do both. You can have that fulfillment in game in the virtual space that can also translate into real life if you want it to. It's a good, it's- I don't know if I don't want it to. You go on hikes. Yeah, sure, I do. You have a good outdoor. I like hikes. Hiking is nice. Everything must be in balance. In balance. Look, I trust, I get this. I got back into Destiny 2 in a big way. Oh yeah. I tried to get my friend Mitch to play it who has in the past, he put hundreds of hours into Destiny 1 and as he put it, he installed Destiny 2, booted it up, played one round of competitive matchmaking, went 24 and one and went, no, I should not still be this good at this game. I haven't played in years. And he immediately deleted it off of his hard drive and was like, I'm never going back. I can't go back. That's crazy willpower. Nah, dawg, that's when you start streaming and you make that money. Oh my God, yeah. That's when you go MLG. He seriously has been like, I should have streamed Destiny 1 back in the day. I could have been an influencer. Oh my God, yeah. I think he actually could have been. He would have also just been miserable. Oh yeah, true. I can't imagine streaming myself. How was she, and if this is like getting a spoiler to her or whatever, but like how did she like save up money? It's just not working now. Or she making money somehow from. Yeah, she was kind of in an upper middle management position and was like, I have a little bit that I can just kind of like figure out what I want to do with my life. And that is what a forcraft. And yeah, true. It's very, it's very feel good. Like the holidays are coming up. I watched it at the time during the holiday season. Like I was at home just watching anime because I had two marathon for judging. Oh yeah. And legit, it was one of my favorite. Nice to watch. So yeah, I think you guys should crunchy roll or a fun animation. It's really good. Okay. So one recommendation in the bag. You want to tap the news button a little bit. We talked about last episode. I was reading Re Zero. They've now officially announced spring 2020 per season two. Oh, okay. Exciting. That teaser got me real hyped. Yeah. Just that really short one. Yeah, we can walk into the field. So good. It was really cool. I kind of want to re-watch the series like before. We should, if y'all want to re-watch it, I'm wanting to re-watch it more because I'm reading the light novels right now as I'm going through. And like first three, as I was saying before, first three are very similar. I'm like halfway through the fourth right now. It's really different. Like it's starting like the, they essentially truncated a lot of stuff for the anime. Okay. But like there's so far halfway through, it's a much larger explanation of him and Priscilla, the red girl in red. Okay. Her kind of a, like her and Subaru have much more interaction and she kind of like, The Thief girl? That's Phelps. No. No, she's the one who like has the Dark Souls-looking guy hanging out with her. The guy with the helmet, like the missing his arm. Wait. Which, I'm not sure, I'm not sure if this is going to come up in the anime. This is what they're really hammering in right now. It's hammering in that he's not from this world as well. Yo, what? I didn't know that. Oh, I have no recollection of her. Top tier wife. She's very good. She can step on me anytime. Oh yeah, yeah, you would like this one. But no, it's, they're playing up right now, like. Well, and of course by that, you mean you're walking across the street and there's a puddle on the ground. You don't have to throw myself at her feet. So you put yourself on the ground and she can step over you. It's a very gentlemanly thing. Chivalry. In the most sexual way. Okay. Wow. Okay, there it is, there it is. All right. They're hinting that he's not from this either. Yeah, Al. That's fucking super interesting. But then they just like also threw in another thing of like, he was talking about how one of the princesses has a conside dialect. Yeah, he's like, oh, she's a conside dialect. And that's a dialect, is it southern? It might be southern. There's a different dialects of Japanese and Japan. The normal one is like, you know, mainland Tokyo, I guess. Common. Just D and D terms. But conside is like Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, like. People want to look at you like saying y'all. That's how like, and dubs, they'll translate it to. Yeah, they'll translate to like western or southern. Do they for Re Zero, did they do the thing where they like repackage the series into like two movies or something like that? They have not yet. Okay, because that'd be a full way to like rewatch it. No, I have all the Blu-rays for them. And then they're having the prequel movie for Amelia coming out. Yes, that's right. We did Witch, I was the first time that you were talking about her. The Witch. The light novels also make me like Amelia a lot more. Like I didn't dislike her, but I was also just kind of like. Why does he love her so much? There's some people that like, I feel like, I can't remember even, that was like a different life. I don't even remember like our discussions on it really. But like, I never had like an issue with her. But it's. So many other interesting characters. Yeah. They were really played up the Rem relationship. Yeah. They were like, oh, Rem does all the stuff with him. And even in the books, they play up the Ram relationship a lot more. Like the second Ram was like nothing. I feel like in the anime, the second book is all about how Rem can smell the wish, which on Subaru. So Ram is constantly like trying to work with Subaru to make Rem see that Subaru is OK. Because Ram, they have orders from their from Roswell, the joke man. So like just observe. And if it turns out he's a spy trying to get information on Amelia for another selectee that then they'll take care of it. But Rem's like, you smell like the witch. I'm going to kill you. And so it's constantly like. How is. OK. Now, mine was a dumb joke. I was just going to say, you know, like whenever I smell someone like smells of the witch. Yeah, my first thought. Yeah, I mean, I usually I feel like the best thing to do if you think somebody smells like a witch is to just stop in a public area and point and scream. Oh, which burner, which we should burn her. Yeah, repeated. We're in a dutch. Make sure he hears you. Make sure he's aware that she has the son of the witch or he has a son of the witch on them. Hey, here's the thing. Yeah, I mean, if they burn up, they're not a witch then. So which and that's that. Yeah. Yeah. Problem solved. Now, I was going to ask. So I've I've never I've never read a light novel. I've never read. I can't. Hey, I can't read. I can't read well. How are the translations? Like, are they like, does it? I guess this might be like a weird question. Does it feel like you are reading like an English book? Or can you tell that it's like translator? It feels very translated. It feels except in honorifics. It feels very much like an English book. OK, I was just curious like the volume that they have. Like, I mean, they're obviously those great translations of books and novels, too. Like, I'm not saying it can't be. Now, I was just curious. It's like, it seems like there's so much. The other the other thing is that there's translate. There's so many light novels. There's not a lot of light novels that have been translated over to English yet. OK, it's like they're kind of looking at what's a successful anime and then bringing that over. Kind of like how long it used to be. OK, so it seems like they're taking the time to do it correctly and not just trying to like. Yeah. OK, it is a lot more to translate. I feel like like I feel like you take good translations for granted so much as like, oh, my God, like we get to do stuff with, you know, certain partners. We've worked with folks in Japan on stuff before. And it's always really tough when you receive like a script or like some dialogue from something and you're reading it, you're going, is this like word for word the dialogue or is this kind of like a rough translation? Like this is difficult to give notes on. Because sometimes they will they don't want to do the translation until it's all done. So they're giving us like a temporary translation that we're hoping that we're then interpreting correctly for it to then be translated later. That's a process. There's it's there's another word when it comes to the whole translation, localization, localization, there it is. So I think that's another important part of translation that a lot of people tend to give a lot of flack to translators about is actually more about localization in terms of like localizing what something for the audience that you're selling it goes back to the all thing. Yeah, exactly. That is that is our sort of like verbal cue that like this person is from a different place. They have a southern drawl or they're using these types of words and that localization is what adds that extra icing because it gives us the context. Essentially, you're taking out. You're taking out a sense whenever you're having to translate. You're no longer able to hear what the intention of the you can hear through like emotion and effort in speaking, but you can't like I don't hear different dialects and Japanese and I'm watching there are people out there who definitely can. Yeah. Yeah. But I've I've I've found I think that for me a lot of the times I will have an easier time with certain kind of wild out there anime if I'm watching subs over dubs because the performance I get all the energy there and then with the subtitle I'm like, oh, this is the gist of that line. Whereas like sometimes you have to go for if there's a show that whose dub was done like extremely literally it can sound like very belabored like announcing of what I intend. And it's like, OK, this feel it's harder for me to take seriously. And that that's where the even the harder part is matching lip flaps. Yeah. So I had I had this really weird moment. I think I've talked about something here before, but like I started taking like Japanese tutor lessons and stuff. Like I'm trying to get there. This is like a really small thing I noticed. But in one of the more recent episodes of My Hero, I don't remember which part it was, but basically like these two characters called out to another character at the same time because like something bad was happening to them. And the subtitles were name and name. Oh, yeah. But I I reckon one of Deku called out Sensei. Yeah, that's right. So like they are like it's really interesting to see that stuff. It's like they get the point across to us because it would be weird and to us teacher. But it makes sense to them. And they're telling us what what what makes sense. People calling out I've talked about this example so many times. And I need to go and watch and see what it was. But like in your name. Yeah. Whenever they're on the roof and he's in his body. Right. It's the first time he's late to school. Yeah. Doesn't he say like book or something? Yeah. She says so she she as the boy. She says first says what she and then the friends are like what because she is a very feminine way to use the word I or use yourself as a subject. So then she goes through the other ones. She goes like feminine informal. Yeah. Male formal. Yeah. And then. Oh yeah. Yeah. Which is like the most like manly. Yeah. And I remember watching because I when I took my parents to see it when I went to San Antonio, they did not have the sub playing anywhere. So I took them to go see the dub. And I remember they give you shit for that. Because I know your parents are my parents are hardcore sub snobs and like they would. I was like Johnny shut up. Jesus Christ. No, I didn't read the Manga mom fucking snobs, both of them. But I remember. I wish I could remember exactly how they played off that joke in the dub, but it's completely different joke. Yeah. I think that was and that it seems like there's definitely a debate in the community. It's like what is better to stick like 100% true or two. And we I would go back even further like talking about do you use your own name or like the character name? Oh man. Yeah. Man, it's like we planned that. We didn't. But yeah, if I remember like they just decided like, let's just do our own thing here because it's just it's going to be feel forced and fake if we try and like make it literal. Because it's like there is no feminine female eye in English. Yeah. Yeah. Man, that is very interesting. Yeah. I love stuff like that. And it's like I'm personally on the campus like I make it make it worthwhile to the audience. Don't worry about being. Well, for my understanding is this is a generalization. That's what the Japanese producers want. That's what I would prefer as a creative. Like, I mean, I I love watching anime. However, I can get it. Sure. True. But like and I don't necessarily I can understand this point. Sometimes I think there's something you can take away from the Japanese acting, but even Miyazaki is like he would rather you watch everything dubbed. He's like, I drew all this stuff. Why are you reading the bottom of the screen? Yeah, screenplays suck. I mean, they're barely screenplays. It's just exactly just him. Yeah, it's just him drawing and making up lines as he goes. But I think there's I don't think that's the only viewpoint. I think, yeah, there's a lot to be said for like the performance that those voice actors and actresses put into their characters. Yeah, I mean, and it's hard to completely put myself in these shoes because I can't I was trying to think I can't remember if we ever had anything like that for the ruby dubs. But like I would always prefer like I would appreciate I feel like I would appreciate, you know, localizations being taken seriously and I'm saying like, hey, this joke is not going to play over here. So we're going to do this instead. It gets the heart of it or it gets like, you know, it this is actually going to like I feel like jokes are probably the hardest part. Oh, yeah. For that. I mean, there's there's so many things. I honestly, I love it from just like a because I do love Japanese cultures. Like when they you'll see like a big asterisk on screen and they'll explain like this is why this is funny. Yes, I also think that's a great way to do it, too. If you want to do it literally, it's like just go and call it like, we know you're not going to get it. Here's why. Yeah, all according to a cake. That's where it like starts hitting on the like. All right. Do you want the director's initial joke? Like, or do you want the writer or the creatives are initial joke of what they wanted there? And I think that there could be a healthy discourse of that online of like, what would you rather see? No, let's pick extreme sides. No, no talking. No talking. Yeah, nobody told a story to be told strictly through visual media. Yeah, bring back that one guy who dressed up like Hitler in that one thing. It would never hold on. Hold on. Wait, hold on. Wait, Charlie Chaplin. I was going to say we have three guesses as to who he's. You needed one. You're referencing the great dictate. Yeah, that was a that wasn't a good idea. That wasn't a talkie, right? Do you think they've ever considered having Michael Jordan remake the great dictator, but like with his his mustache? He would definitely do it. He wants money. They could even get him for Space Jam, too. They couldn't. I mean, I think they went to LeBron first. I don't know. They went to trigger first and trigger got trigger M.J. You think that was like the studio making a big decision of like, hey, this is the best basketball player. If I was Michael Jordan, I'd be like, fuck you. Everybody knows getting into Space Jam. It's just like getting the front cover of Madden or FIFA. It's the exact same exact same thing. I was going to say it's what everybody wants. But oh, no, like, if you if you're on the cover of Madden, you're going to have a bad season the next. Oh, you know stuff about sports. That's right. Also, we can talk about this because we talked about BNA hit me. What? Oh, I thought you were going to continue to dive into it. No. Oh, that's just the asterisk. That's that's why we could talk about this asterisk that was on screen. Yeah, got it. Is that it's about furry basketball? Gotcha. So that means in tandem, we can talk about furries. I mean, yeah, that's always been a thing. That's the one show that I wanted to watch the season that I just fucking didn't be stars 3D. Yeah, this is anybody watching it on Netflix. Yeah, well, not yet, but we haven't seen it. Because yeah, yeah, I fell off. No, it's a really cool studio. So I want to like go watch it. The show you should be watching that nobody's watching is Vinland saga. Yeah, and then Amazon. Yeah. Isn't that the is that the Viking one? Yes. Oh, yeah, you mentioned this. I do need to watch that. That's really dope. Yeah. So much. I mean, I mean, I mean, the non-animes, the normie shows have pulled me back again. And since there is so much, I think this is the perfect segue, actually, you're welcome. I think over the next with maybe the rest of this, we can talk about some other stuff as well. But I think next week, we really need to hone in on what the best anime this year was looking back to the past that way. That's my favorite way. And then the next one next week, we'll be looking ahead to the new the future. Winter 2020. But yeah, what's what's some good stuff that we watch this season? Yeah, it's hard not to say my here. I could be here. I hear you promised Neverland. Promise Neverland Demon Slayer came out this year. Demon Slayer finished. It's tough for me because I like I'm the guy that that sits on the Academy for the Academy Awards. It only wants like a few of them, so I shouldn't say anything. I mean, I would be Demon Slayer. My would be Demon Slayer more than Promise Neverland because I didn't watch Promise Neverland. Sounds like you should binge some stuff. I watched when I watched this year. No, no, the 3D Crystal One was last year. Anime, Anime, Steven Universe was last year. Yeah, Dr. Stone was this year. I started watching Dr. Stone fall off. Mob Psycho 100. Caroling Tuesday. I did enjoy Caroling Tuesday. That one was interesting to me. On Tuesday. Because I was the new author of everyone. Yeah. And I think it's is that the first series he's done that wasn't a one and done season show? Why? There's a sequel? Yeah, the season one of Caroling Tuesday ends with like, but this was only the beginning to be continued. It wasn't an actual end of season one, or was it? Netflix saying we finished the first core. Yeah, it was a full like. It was a fucking 12 or 24. I think it's 24 episodes. It's very standard to have two seasons technically. Technically, it was 12 and 12. Yeah. I can't remember. I think so. I'll look up right now. But how many episodes was Samurai Champloo? Yeah, those two were 24. And then like his other like Terran Resonance. And what was the jazz one? Bebop? No. Kids on the Slope? Kids on the Slope. That was 12. The actual like literal jazz one, not the jazz music one. I was also being facetious. Yeah. That was 12. Those are 12. Caroling Tuesday, season one is only 12 episodes. So I think she's probably just like, maybe it is the first half, essentially. Because they did that with Netflix or that with Sabrina. So I guess if the new adventures, the new, chilling adventures. Oh, I think it's the new adventure. Sabrina, the new adventure. But they did that with Sabrina, where they greenlit a second season, but it really was. They just bought like 20 episodes. Yeah. Yes. All that stuff is so like relative. And yeah, with Netflix, especially it's so it's it's interesting. Yeah, they're splitting it more now in terms of like story arcs than actual like. But yeah, over the course of the next week, go on to my anime list or any of those other anime tracking sites and just look and say, what have you watched? Is like maybe maybe try and watch a couple of sets. We can there's some things I need to catch up on. Like I still I love Demon Slayer. I just didn't get super far into it just for like time sake. But I was going to go the is the dub for that one out. I don't think so. I don't think they did it. OK. Interesting. They had to because it's on it's an adult swim. That's how I thought it might be. It might be like licensed only to adult swim for a window. I mean, the sub was good, so I can watch that. I'm going to look it up. Anyway, keep going. Yeah, Demon Slayer, Carolyn Tuesday, enjoyed both of those. Dropped off Dr. Stone, dropped off No Guns Live. It is. Oh, OK. Yeah, it is Annie Plex of America. And it's the network is to Nami. Yeah. Well, Annie Plex is Sony and so is Funimation. That's true. So it might be Funimation, but I think like Annie Plex is they're kind of looking at as their premium. Because that's what like fate. That Demon Slayer. They have a few shows that's like are technically the same company, but they're not putting it to Funimation because I think it's going to do not me first. I used to like crackle or something. No, no, I think that's why they got Funimation. Here's our anime streaming service. Now you have an infrastructure set up already. We can come and predate up. Yeah, because like for winter, here are a few of the shows that probably like a lot of people heard. Oh, not my email. Shield Hero, Promise Neverland, Mob Psycho 2, Kagi Yasama and Dororo. Promise Neverland was really, really good. Promise Neverland was really good. How many episodes is that one? 12. Is it a one and a half? They're going to have another season. No, it's continuing. Yes, it's super good. Spring was. Remember when Attack on Titan had a third season this year and none of us watched it? I didn't even finish watching it. Oh, you watched it? How was it? How did it end up? I remember liking it. Endings. See what we're talking about? Endings supposed we didn't. We never finished it. We finished with the mid season because technically this is the second half of the second season. Oh, that's right. I went through, I think. Man. It's been a hot second, yeah. I remember. I remember going back and watching it when it started airing again because we actually like didn't even make it to the end. Yeah. Of that first half of the season because I was confused. I was like, oh, let me watch the next episode. And it was like the same intro. Yeah. And I was like, all right, I guess whatever. And then two later it like changed. So I remember I started watching it. It was it was getting interesting. Yeah. Yeah. No, I remember liking it. There's definitely some really cool stuff that happens. Yeah. Once we're all caught up, we'll have to talk about it because there's some weird things that happen outside of the anime in real world that. That's yeah. Because no, I am caught up on it because I remember hearing something that maybe some people didn't like that was happening in the manga. Yeah. That was that was a little yeah. It's a little close to home. Yeah. In some areas. There there's some interesting shit happening. It'd be cool to talk about. Oh, OK. One Punch Man season two. I don't know if anybody here watched it. Didn't that I remember when the intro dropped, everyone was like, oh, what have they done to my boy? It's a really bad intro. But Mother's Basement actually did a really good breakdown of this. It's essentially I think I forget who did it. Who I forget what show the people who worked on it worked on next instead. Because essentially the team who worked on One Punch Man season one was working on a different show when they needed season two to come out. And essentially was it was it not Mob Psycho? I know it was. Mob Psycho's Bone. Is it OK? It was the same like Manga Co. But I can remember if I could guess. No, it was something that came out like over the summer. OK. I might see it. It was a thing where like people hated on Kabanara because it was an attack on Titan. Well, this was they it was a different animations to do that didn't focus as much on what people liked from the original, right? However, I think it was a decision because the story of this one was supposed to be so good. It's like, well, we're not going to need all the animation to sell this is going to be that good. And that's ballsy as hell. Everyone I've talked to who watched it. They liked it. Yeah, wow. Most people who like opium and watched opium, too, they're like, no, I still like like One Punch Man. That's awesome. Yeah. So I was like, oh, that's actually pretty interesting. The intro is garbo, though. Usually audibly both. Both. It's really boring because it's just like silhouettes of characters in front of the character walking. So it's just kind of like, here's the cast. Instead of like doing something. Because I here's the cast. Well, killing each other did that, but they did it in an interesting way. That's one of my favorite interests. Like, like, yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was just like, oh, here's the characters. And you know who every character is from their silhouette and what they do in like the short while they're on screen. Other shows that season, Demon Slayer came out and then Attack on Titan. And then for me, there's nothing really else. Carol and Tuesday. Oh, Fruits Basket was a thing this year. Fruits Basket. What was that one? It was a remake. Yeah, Fruits Basket's like. Of an old shoujo. Of an old, yeah. Big shoujo, it's. One of the biggest shoujo series. Like when the manga. That was the animal people. Yeah, the Zodiac people, when they are embraced by someone of the opposite gender, they turn into animals because it's a family curse. Cool, fucking metal. It was one of the biggest shoujo mangas that came out like when the manga revolution first started. So it was like baby's first shoujo. You know what I mean? Okay. It was probably like for me, it was one of the first shoujo over here that was kind of like deeper under the surface. Like everyone knew all, everyone knew about Sailor Moon and Ark After Sakura. But like if you were like, oh, I'm going to get into this genre of, or this medium, it was like, oh. Is it level four anime? I like level five or six. That's valid, that's valid. There's like certain shoujo titles where you definitely go like, oh, this is not what I thought this magical girl genre would be. It's something different. Like Madoka Magica. Which is a level nine. Very true. Summer, some of the notable ones were Dr. Stone, Fire Force, Don Machi season two, which that's the, is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon? When are they going to answer the question? They know when you start watching. There's a girl in a dungeon and she's like lying on the ground because she's hurt. I'm going to pick her up, yeah. Do you guys? It's season two's out. Shivalry. People are either watching or they're like, can I say why that's the name of the show? I'm on it, I'm on it. So the whole thing of Don Machi has an awesome universe. Like the world they built, it's essentially the gods have come down and are living amongst humans because they're like, oh hey, we're going to share your power. So the humans are starting, Greek, Roman, African, Norse, like all of them made those coming down, not Jesus though. So it's not a God. The humans sign up to be like, oh, well I want to join your familia and essentially I will now be serving you. Like you're the head of, I'll do whatever, go and do quests, get treasures so we can bring fame, notoriety to this familia. Turn me to a ghost. So main character is this loser kid. Hestia is his goddess. She's like the loser goddess. What's she the goddess of? She's the goddess of earth in Greek. Yeah, what a loser, fucking lame, nerd. Essentially it's his story of like how he's rising through the ranks. They have this system where like they read a tattoo on their back and it says what your stats are and he has like how the stats allow him to grow the most. Later, much later in the show, this is a big spoiler for like for the next like, even more. Yes, big spoiler. Turns out his grandfather is Zeus. Cool. And so just like that YA novel series. Hestia. Hold on, wait, let me guess, let me guess, let me guess. Oh, I was gonna say Poseidon Jr. in the story of the ocean. So, Zeus, notable womanizer. All right? Of course. He do like a fuck. So he was like, that's where it's like. Wait, isn't he also like a gotamizer? He's a lot of things that he should be if he's gone. Zeus, like, Belle is the main character. He's like, has memories of his grandfather saying, oh, like when you grow up, go find yourself a nice girl in the dungeon. Oh, my God. Because the whole thing, they're constantly trying to get deeper and deeper into the dungeon and the deeper you get, that's how it shows that you're stronger. Okay. Because you can beat like Minotars or Giants or, like they get to one and it's like, it's like Bane to Vist, almost, where there's like one floor, that's just like another planet, almost. So with less body horror. Yeah. I was watching that on a plane. It's, I had to like shield my screen. It's actually a pretty good show. I think the first season's a little boring and there's some power creep issues. Damachi. Damachi. It's how many on a scale from one to 10, Bcality? There's a cat girl. Okay, well just having the cat girl doesn't make it Bcality. Yeah, sure. But it's like soft too. Soft too, okay. It's not a hard. It's not a hard problem. Nobody's full on banging cows. Okay, let me know when the new season comes out. In Villain Saga, we mentioned that. In fall this season, my hero, sword art, Seven Diddly Sins, it had a not so great reception. Oh really? Yeah. Which season was this? The third? Third, yeah. It was like, was it like technically third? Like then they did like a season that was like four long episodes. OVA's Netflix was like, it's another season. Yeah. No, it's not. Shut up. Yeah. Food Wars. And then like Beastars. This season had a lot of good stuff. So why don't we just say that it's my hero academia, but then we'll also do like a second one. That's like, here's everything else. That was like the year when Breath of the Wild came out. Oh yeah. The single like video game columnist, all of them were like, okay, so look. Breath of the Wild aside, what was the game of the year? It's like what Time Magazine would have to do if Jesus did show back up. It's like, okay, so him obviously. Obviously, but like the other person of the year. Greta, come on up. We're not doing that mirror shit again. Like get some firm facts. You. Yeah. It was like they're like, oh shit, we already printed all the mirror ones. Okay, just only give it to Jesus. I'm so mad. I'm so mad. Last week I watched all of my hero to get ready to talk about it. We didn't know talking about it. Everybody here now has caught up with my hero and I'm the only one that forgot to watch it. I watched four episodes this morning and I'm so mad. I'm so excited because they kick off the raid, right? Oh, do they? Shit. They're, the bodies hit the floor. It's interesting. The thing that I was immediately struck by was, so I didn't know, I learned through last podcast on the left that whenever the police conduct a raid, they have to kind of give an advanced notice or at least this used to be a thing. Oh, interesting. I was wondering if that was like a Japan thing or if that was a, like. There was a really famous cult called Omshin Rikio in Japan that was, did some pretty devastating shit and they got away with a few things a few times because they received the advanced notice like, hey, tomorrow we're raiding your compound. And they were like, get the fucking helicopter out of here. Wow. So I don't know if that's still a thing but it was the number one thing that I noticed when they ran and was like, you have a fucking warrant. I imagine to an extent, it probably has to be because there's other civilians and like, I mean, if it's out in the forest, they could probably be like, oh, yeah, we mailed everyone except for the people raiding. But if it's like in the middle of the city, you probably have to say, hey, hotel full of people who like, hotel full of high schoolers, like they're for a band trip. Probably should get them out of here. If only they could adopt things like what we do here in America, which is just any teenager can send a SWAT after you, you know. Really, thank God bless it. God bless it. Anyways, do you guys want to talk about it? I can tell you want to talk about it. No, I mean, I can cover my ears. I can give you 30 seconds. It's good. Okay. It's real. I, here's what I'll say. And this is a joke. But I, I mean, the name of the episode is about, there's a very good Sun Eater moment. He's the other of the, he's the emo big three. Elf Sasuke? Oh, Elf, okay. Yeah, bad boy. Yeah. The more I get to know is like personality and like how like anxious he is and everything. I'm like, oh, I guess I identify as Sun Eater. I want to protect him. I'm like, that's me so much. I fucking love that boy. Big three. I love the big three. I fucking love it. I would say, I would say I'd love them too. I would say I'd love them too if they actually did some more stuff with the girl. Yeah. That's my thing. I'm just like, what is she going to do with thing? The impression I get and I hope is where it's happening is like, you know, last season ended with like, here's the big three. And then really up until the last, like two episodes, they didn't even, the other two didn't even show up. Yeah. And so I'm hoping what they're doing is like, now they're doing like a Sun Eater arc and then they're going to do whatever her name is arc. I can't remember. Yeah, I'm hoping that's what they're doing. It's just kind of like, they just can't all do it at once. Yeah, yeah. Is my, my hope. Yeah. But yeah, this episode's really good, really good Sun Eater stuff. The preview for the next one is like the moment that a lot of manga fans have been waiting for. Really? I'm, I was very interested. Yeah. Yeah. Do you want to know who the next episode's about? No. Okay. All right, that's fair. Keep it, keep it, that's fine. Thank you. Have a good deal. Did I tell you, I think I finally, because I finally got around to remembering that I'm supposed to stay after the credits for, to watch an after credit scene. Yeah, good job. But the first time I did that this season, the after credit scene was like the opening scene to the next episode. And I was like, these guys are full of shit in the next episode. It varies. It's very important. So I'm glad I watched. Oh, there was no after your after credit scene for the time out of the episode. Still just stay and watch, train yourself. Yeah. Keep it going. Usually what I do is the second the credits show up, I pause and if there's about like three and a half minutes left, there's a scene. If there's like a minute left, there's not a scene. You can usually pretty, you can tell. You can tell. Maths. Math. Cool. Cool. So we'll next week be looking, we're gonna have more in-depth talks about. Yeah, I want everyone to kind of go through it. If you see something. See something. Yeah. About it. Airport rules. Yeah. You see a witch? Remember. Witch! Burner. You can only bring drinks that you got here. If you see something that you piqued your interest that you didn't watch, like go ahead and give it a little peek. Yeah, I'm not. A little peek. Yeah, I'm gonna watch more of Demon Slayer. And then, what's Caroline 2's down? No, it just doesn't have flex. That's okay. I'm going to watch one more episode of No Guns Live to see if it pulls me back in. Just kind of plateaued for me. I think you should watch at least three Promise Neverland. Yeah, you should watch, probably. What were you gonna say? I was gonna say, I apparently stopped on the episode right before Dr. Stone gets good. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I watched like five episodes of it and I was like, eh, I'm done with Dreadlocks Man. And I was fine with my life. I think it would be good for you to check out Promise Neverland so we could talk about it a little bit. Because you already have something to say about Dr. Stone? Yeah. And I think, to me, that's like when we were talking at lunch today, we were like, oh, yeah, Dr. Stone came out this year. I was like, I love Dr. Stone. So many people I talked to stopped after episode five because they're like, oh, I gave it five episodes and it's good, but it didn't hook me. Yeah, that's exactly how I felt about it. The hook happens in episode six and seven. They course corrected. Yeah. It's like, oof. But it's like, well, you had the time. Five episodes. You had the example of what happened in the manga. Like you could have gone, oh, let's get to this part quicker. But I think they're playing the long game with this. They're like, oh, this is gonna be a long-lasting anime series. Which I'm like, you know, if it becomes worth it, then I don't mind, you know? But if it's forever gonna be like, oh, just skip these episodes. Yeah, go on. And then it's like, if you still don't like it after six and seven, then it's like, okay, yeah, this wasn't for you, yeah. Cool. So that. Cool. Cool, I think that's all the time we have for today. Yep. Love talking anime with my friends. Now I'm gonna go try and catch them all. You can do it, Karen. I'm almost at 200. Beat your rival, Alex. Yeah. The rival in this game is like. Whoa. You hate hop? I don't hate him. He's just like. You pity him? Yeah. Sad and British. Low witch energy on that child. We're trying to wrap up with the episode. Do not get me started when they make the, your rival pick the weak class to you. Oh my God. I don't even, what are you doing? There's an animation on that. Yeah. All right, bye. No. Ha, ha, ha.