 You may know, uh, Tomahiko Morimi is someone who we've talked about a lot recently. Yup. So it's one of those authors where you see a bunch of media and then later you find out there's a creator that is related to all of them. And you've like, you find a thread and you start tugging at it. So there's been a bunch of anime, right? Eccentric family. Yup. Eccentric family too. Yup. Night on a night is young walk on girl. Yup. Uh, Tommy galaxy to Tommy galaxy, which we're going to talk about now. Wasn't there another one penguin highway? Oh, that's coming soon. Right. Yup. Anyway, we've seen anime was written in 2010. We've seen anime based on all these things. And some of those anime have been animated by the same teams. Right. So like Masaki Yuasa, he animated what we're going to talk about today, which is, uh, Tommy galaxy, but also he did walk on girl, which is very related, but also not an eccentric family, eccentric family to obviously animated by the same studio, which I just want to point out, uh, if you haven't watched eccentric family, we reviewed both seasons, you should go watch it. It's one of the best shows to come out in a long time. It is one of the best anime there is right now. Frog in a well. Anyway, uh, but all of these are based on novels written by Tomi Hiko Morimi. And hopefully these novels will be just translated so I can read them directly and not just have to watch anime adaptations. I really want to read the eccentric family novels based on all these anime adaptations of Morimi's work. I am a fan of Morimi's work indirectly. Ah, indirect kiss. So once I found out, because we were when we saw, uh, night a short walk on girl in the theater at the end, there's the interview with Yuasa. And he kept bringing up time. He kept talking about the Tommy galaxy. And I'm like, I've heard of the Tommy galaxy and I haven't watched it. I think I will go home and watch it. So I did and I watched like a handful of episodes. I've seen like three and a quarter episodes. I've seen similar amount. I'd have to, you know, and I haven't, I just haven't finished it, but I've definitely done enough to talk about, right? Cause I mean, that's more than we usually talk about anime watching less episodes than that. Basically, it's we either we talk about an anime, seen a few episodes or we watch the whole thing as fast as possible. And then we talked about it. Right. The only reason I didn't watch this as fast as possible is because I had so many other things to do. It's like, you know, it was con season. We had a lot of conventions. It's like, there's other things that kept taking up my time. So I couldn't just sit down and watch a whole bunch of anime. But every time I got a chance, I like squeezed in one episode. I only just got like four or five chances. Yup. And now when I want to watch even more of it, because I was like, oh, let me go over refresh. You're going to do an episode. I go and crunchy roll and rim message music today. He's like, yeah, it ain't there. Yup. Cause last night I was like, I've only seen like three episodes. I should watch a bunch tonight. I go to crunchy roll and just couldn't find it. And I Googled around a little bit and I could not find anywhere to watch it legally. Yeah. If I would have known it was going to go off crunchy roll, I would have like bailed on something else to watch it before I got taken off. And now I'm going to have to resort to like piracy or something to watch the rest of the show. Yup. And I really like it's I come there might be a place to watch it legally. But in a cursory search, I was not able to find it. And in this day and age, if you can't find the legal place to watch it by typing the name of it into Google, everyone involved has failed. And you can pirate it at that point. Right. But so actually it says availability. I think it got taken down. Sorry, due to licensing limitations, videos are unavailable in your region. All right. So they just, I guess the U.S. distribution thing expired maybe, whatever. Yup. Which is so that was a shame because I really like this show and I want to watch the rest of it. I feel like I'm going to have to pirate it. Right. So the thing is, like I said when we were talking about, even though I hadn't watched all this is still haven't watched all of it. Like I said, we were talking about walk on girl. I've said, man, you know, because I watched a couple episodes of this before we did our walk on girl episode. I was like, man, you got you. It's hard to talk about walk on girl. The anime. If you haven't seen the time of Galaxy, the anime because both by you also both based on works from the same author. But what you also does here, the most notable thing is similar to Tezuka manga where he'll have the same characters playing the same quote actors, playing different act characters in different things. Yep. The same exact character designs and maybe even voices. I have to go verify that. I didn't verify the voices. I didn't verify the voices, but there was no disjointedness. So I feel like it's the same voices. It's 100% the same character designs. Yep. So in walk on. Are used in both, right? In walk on girl, there's a dude who is point one steps above being a bum. Yep. Who may or may not be a magical creature. May not use Tengu adjacent. Yeah, he's got like a big old chin. Yep. He might just be a bum who acts like he's a Tengu. Right. He might actually be a Tengu. But anyway, there's an atomic galaxy. There is that person plays someone who's point two steps above being a bum. Right. It's a very similar character who is probably a God. Yeah. You can imagine an eccentric family that you could tell eccentric family with that same character being the Tengu grandpa guy. Oh my God. That character could you only older if you saw any character from eccentric family or Tatami Galaxy or walk on girl in the background of the other shows. It just makes sense. They're all in the same universe. For example, eccentric family is the girl who's always like turning into objects. You never see her. Yep. That could be you could use the character design for the girl from walk on girl or the girl in Tatami Galaxy for that character. Yep. Right. You know, main guy in eccentric family main Tanuki guy could be main college dude from right. Right. It's like you can see that the author sort of has, you know, characters that feel similar adjacent ish personalities and roles in their stories. And because the same animation team did, you know, these two animate the time of Galaxy and walk on girl they use the same character designs. Right. There's like devily guy, you know. Yep. Devily guy, buff, buff, buff dude, buff, buff Jack dude, Ernest male protagonist. Yep. Like a lot of reused character designs from both and the characters that share the designs share personalities quite a bit. Anyway, so what's the time in Galaxy actually freaking about? So there's this dude and he is looking to have like the perfect, most wonderful college existence. Yeah. What does he say? He wants to go to college and find a raven haired girlfriend. Right. So he's got these ideas about college. He wants college to be like amazing. He's he goes to college. He's trying to fulfill his dream of, you know, what's going to happen in college. So each episode, it's an episodic show. Surprisingly, I'm sure it's not episodic at the end, but it's episodic. At least most of the way I've read some like episode descriptions. Each episode he joins a club at the college. So there's my favorite so far is the bicycling club. Yeah. The bike was good because of how badly it goes. Right. But there's other clubs he joins like a drama club. Right. It was one of them. I think the first three episodes are tennis club, a film club, film club. Remember with the pervert guy. Right. Right. Right. Yeah. Anyway, each episode he joins a different club and crazy stuff happens, but all in like the same circle. Like, but the girl he likes that he can't talk to is like in the club or right here by the same. Each, even though each episode is different in terms of the club he joins and the exact drama that happens, there's the same format of how the episode breaks down early. And he makes a promise to this girl. Right. And then he's got her like little thing hanging from the front of the pull string on his and his leg and his right. And he can't remember to give it back to her. You know, even though she has the rest of the set, he has the he has the one that she's missing. And then there's the evil dude comes and makes mischief with all those looks like a demon. Yeah. He messes up the he messes up the club's business. Right. The crazy old Tengu adjacent guy messes gets in the middle is the best and my favorite character. Yeah. The most rim-like character. Yeah. It's a very rim adjacent game. I love so the description of him in the in this Wikipedia is and it is similar to how he's described to the show. An eighth year super senior. Very similar to some people we knew in college ourselves who were still around. Maybe one point one steps above being a homeless bum somehow still in the school. Yeah. But anyway, and I guess, you know, that character, that Tenguish character is sort of like the mentor master ish in a way like he's learning from him, sort of. Anyway, I mean, the vagest of it is he sort of gives this ultimatum to the main guy of, you know, I'm a God, right? You're either I'm going to have you date this girl or that shithead, you know, and don't like, but you're also best friends with data. Right. So the episode, you know, as he joins the club, he's, you know, he's trying to do stuff in the club. He's usually bad at whatever the club is. He's bad at biking. He's bad at filming. He's not helping much. Right. He's sort of failing and then, you know, as things are sort of collapsing because of his failure, despite his attempts to succeed in his dev, you know, devolving into making mischief instead of participating in being nice and doing a job like the first episode he bumps into the fortune teller. Yep. I think the first every time I got to go back and watch again. I'm pretty sure the fortune teller raised her price every episode that I watched. I didn't notice the fortune telling part is like usually identical every episode. She says basically the same thing. Right. Every time he feels like he remembers this fortune teller, but he doesn't do what she says. He doesn't do what the fortune teller says. He does what Ozu says instead. Then the whole thing collapses in a giant climax clusterfuck. That's amazing. Yeah. And then there's the end of the show. The end of the episode happens in the end of the episode is this animation of like time rewinding. And then the next episode, it's like he's back at the beginning of college again. So he's replaying sort of a Groundhog Day situation, trying to live this perfect college life. And even though it's each episode, he's joining a different club and things are a little different, getting a little crazier, a little more twisted, a little more advanced each time you feel like with each episode, he's getting closer to not fucking up. Yeah. So far, at least in the front, you know, I imagine he's not going to figure it out to the last episode, but you know, for the four or five episodes I've seen, it's pretty the same structure, just different clubs every time. But it's it's still fascinating. And I can imagine you can just imagine that at the end, he's finally going to get it right. Yep. But what is right? What is a perfect college experience? Hopefully remembering the thing he's forgetting and doing what the fortune teller says to do. Because not to spoil walk on girl, which has a similar story in some ways. It sort of has this moral of like your rose colored glasses of what you wanted versus what you actually wanted versus the complexities of a real world. And what actually happens all set to the backdrop of all the kinds of crazy people in crap that happens in college. Yeah. So the structure of, you know, like walk on girl isn't doing the time rewinding thing. It's the one long has this four seasons thing, this four seasons that play out in one night is the structure. So here it's a similar thing where there is a time based structure of college playing out and rewinding, right? So I, you know, I guess eccentric family doesn't have this structure, but is it but the two novels that Iwasa adapted have some sort of, you know, time based thing going on. But I guess this and walk on girl both really, really capture this vague nostalgic feeling I have for my own college life and like RIT anime and like that kind of environment where everything feels bigger and more important than walk on girl also did have a college with a club that was significant, right? Yep. In the sense of like you see people in clubs who are treating it like it's way more important than it really is, which also makes you think of, you know, Utena. Yep. But then you see the people post-college or reminiscing on that makes you think of Mahotsukaita. Yep. Or any of the other anime with clubs. Yeah. Elhazard. Ooh, nah. Elhazard just turns into escaplone. Elhazard are just a weird thing in the basement, right? Yep. Elhazard doesn't really get back. Elhazard, not the TV show that's bad. I'm just trying to remember anime's that have school clubs. Yeah. But the one I didn't watch all of Haruhi. Oh, yeah. Haruhi does some stuff. Anyway, also a time based situation, right? The point where this one fits more with Utena is these more ideas of the thing, the way you see the world when you're in college is very different from the way you see it outside of college and you overestimate the importance and the grandeur and scale of the things you're doing and the people around you like you see these because when your world is small, right? Your everything else seems big. Pond is small. That lily pad seems huge. And then when you know, you don't see the whole world until you leave college and you're like, Oh, yeah, no one cares about that. Yep. Like the world is big. Only big things are big. Like when you're in college, this the eight year super senior is like this legendary figure in the local community. Right. When you're an adult, the eight year super senior is a bum. Fuck is wrong with that guy. It's just a bum walking around the street with the hell is that you still taking one credit hour a year? Like what are you doing? What are you doing, man? But if you like other things based on the works of more Amy, you never get the name right. If you have, if you like other things, if you saw a walk on girl, the night is young and liked it. Just watch this. Yeah, this one actually came first. This was on the Noe Tom and a block, which is it's sort of like back in like two thousand and ten. Wow. OK. Yeah. Yeah. So if you don't know, Noe Tom and a is the word animation spelled backwards and it's a it's a programming block on a Japanese TV channel. I forget which one. Fuji TV, Fuji TV. So on Fuji TV at some time, I think it might be late at night. I'm guessing they they're like, all right, it's Noe Tom and a time. Sort of like how, you know, this tsunami or adult swim, adult swim and they show a bunch of anime and those anime are usually the good anime. It's usually right. If something's a Noe Tom and anime, odds are it's probably good. It's probably something about it's not going to be some some garbage kids show. It's not going to be, you know, some some like shown in trashy show like your panel. Right. It's going to be actually a show with some sort of artistic merit to it. And this is one of those. Yep. So it's worth watching. I wish it was still on Crunchyroll. So if you can't get ahold of it, figure out how to get it somehow. This you have an Internet. You can find out how to get the show. I'm going to figure it out when I get home. Yep, because I'm going to watch the rest of it. And maybe we'll do a final thoughts on it at some point. Because it's only like 13 episode, right? 11, 11. So I mean, I was like almost halfway done. Yeah, I could have made it.