 This week's episode of fan service, we talk about Final Fantasy. Delightful anime. Magical anime. And everyone's favorite anime, Steven Universe. I don't know, fuck this candy, guys. What? I want to die at this thing. This thing's so good. This thing's... Carb- Did you know carbohydrates? Or whole sugars are carbohydrates, so you can't help. So I can't have fruit? Yeah. That's why it sucks. Wait, what? Keto can't eat fruit? Keto can't eat fruit? Tell him that fruit's good for you. You're limited to what fruit you can eat if you're on keto. What is keto? Tell me what the keto is. Keto diet is essentially telling your body no more carbs, do not take energy from carbs or glucose. You're going to take energy from fat. So what that means is you have a high fat, medium protein, and low carbs. And carbs mean sugar and bread. Okay, so you just eat butter? Is butter not a fat? Oh my god, I'm just adding like a tablespoon of butter to every meal. Yeah, I was joking. You can eat plates full of bacon. It's great. Well, here's my question. Does keto keep you from ingesting anime? No. Then we're good! Welcome to the fans of us! I'm your boy Sick Miles. I am Keto Issa. I am born this way, Torian. I'm just Josh. No, that was good. I liked it. I liked this. I like this. Cole is dead, just kidding. He's sick, but moderately more sick than me. So he's not here, but I am here. Slowly die. Yes, as we all are the human condition. Well, no, see, here's the thing. He was next. I was first. Yeah, it's Miles' fight. I showed up here yesterday with the plan to record two hours worth of stuff with our boy Kyle off camera. Kyle. I made it through one of those hours and then was like, I need to go home. Because not only was I sick, I sometimes get a migraine from these lights in here, which is why. I don't know if I've done this on fan service. This is not a fashion statement. This is purely, purely utilitarian. I keep this cowboy hat in here to protect my brain from the lights, which give me migraines and want to throw up. So it's not funny. And I demand to be taken seriously. Do you understand? Thank you very much. Everyone in the audience. I was enjoying it so much. I feel like you just have to enjoy it from a respectful distance and silence. From a respectful distance. All right. That's it. You can enjoy it all you want. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry for your migraine thing. But you look so silly. Yee-haw. It helps. I hate how much it helps. I was like, that makes me smile so much. I mean, don't you have a regular dad hat? Oh. Not here. You don't wear hats usually. I don't because I have big ears. Is that considered a dad hat? No, I mean, just like your hat, they're kind of just called dad hats, I guess. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think Josh's is more of a dad hat, but he's twisted it around. So now it's a youth hat. Yours, you have some blemishes upon your hat. No father would ever let their hat get into a state of disrepair there. I don't know about that. For yours is like a, you got bachelor hat on right now. Oh. Bachelor hat made me step dad hat. Step dad hat. Meanwhile, here's the... Meanwhile, get he up. I feel like you own an oil thing. Oh, man. So I look like I should be rich, but... Oh, no! You're rich. Hey, guys, I'm rich with friendship and anime, so let's rustle us up some topics. Oh, my God. Look, I'm hopped up on date quill right now. So you've got to cut me some slack. I'm wearing a cowboy hat. I'm hopped up on date quill. I'm taking steroids. And if I'm not better by Friday, I have to start taking antibiotics, not to get jacked steroid for the steroids to help my body function. I was looking forward to your jack. Oh, man. It's only... Man, it's clearly I'm the pinnacle of health. There it is. Josh just like looks. Cole asked me, he was like... He was like, so if you've been sick since like last week, does that mean you've been watching a lot of anime? And my response was, is Steven Universe an anime? Ooh! Are you watching a movie? Anime adjacent. I've made it almost all the way through season three in the past four days. Okay. I'm gonna go on record, Steven Universe is pretty fucking anime. You got fusion dances. You got transformation sequences. You got power level fights and alien invaders. And motherfucker, you got power or friendship in there. Oh, for sure. That's pretty much the whole thing. Isn't like that's one of the bigger themes of that show, right? Like relationships and... Oh, yeah. Fucking like that. I mean, if we're really gonna talk about Steven Universe, we can't always say it. I mean, like a side note is that most, a lot of cartoons, like Steven Universe, it's anime. It's just drawn and presented. Like Jackie Chan Adventures is anime, it's shit. Oh, that's pretty good, man. That's anime as far. That's pretty anime. It's absolutely, in some regards, derivative, not derivative of, but like paying homage to and inspired by. The same way Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is a very manga inspired comic series. Like, Brian Lee O'Malley's work is like, you can clearly tell what some of his influences are. Were you whispering? I burped. Oh, okay. I thought you were like, we're not talking about anime. Take him out, take him out right now. Sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you. But I will say the thing that I do think is interesting, it's a friendship shown and kind of like... A friendship shown. I mean, because every Crystal Gem on the team can like summon a weapon. And Steven's whole thing is he summons a shield, which is super representative of who he is as a character, which is he never likes to fight. He always wants to talk about it. And God, that show makes you cry. And I don't think it's just the day quill. No, that's why I couldn't get... And it's nothing on the show, it's just me, is that I couldn't get into it because Steven wouldn't fight. Doc, I wanted him to fight. This is my, no, this is my third attempt watching it. And this is the first time it's stuck because I just couldn't leave the couch. But like it took until like the high 20s of season one. I mean, the episodes are 11 minute long. But like it wasn't until like the 20s where I was like, because at first I thought it was charming. I love the art direction. The musical numbers are just wonderful. But it was like, this is fine. This is cute. I see why people like it. But then in the like mid 20s was when I was like, oh, there's something way more like real happening here. The way in which it handles specifically characters relationships is messy. It's filled with jealousy and anxiety. And like, it's fucking real, man. I have, it's probably one of the most, this show probably represents relationships in the most realistic manner I've seen in most like animated forms. I mean, even talking with like my own relationship situations like friendship or whatever or family, someone's recommended me to watch the show. Like as like, you should watch the show and you know, just to kind of really get a barometer or just like, this is a medium that you might be able to relate to for your specific situation and whatever relationship you're dealing with. The first like really clear like relationship that is touched upon is a super problematic one. Like these two coworkers that work together and one of them is very clearly into the other one. And the other one treats her like shit. And you're just like, this sucks. This is really sad to watch happen. And they continue to flush that out as the show goes on. But like the first relationship they introduced is a bad one. And I was like, wow, that's really, at least that's how I chose to perceive it. Josh, do you watch? I haven't watched Steven Universe. Yeah, have you tried before? I did try. And I think I stopped for the same reason that you did. Yeah, just he wasn't fighting. I think there is, I do have the similar feeling about with you guys where I think there was a point where I was just like, oh, well, I mean, I feel like I took it for granted where I knew it existed. So I wasn't really gonna commit myself to watching it, even though a lot of my friends were really into it. Because I think I wasn't as charmed by it as first as like a lot of people were and like made that commitment the first episode. Whereas now I think my main problem is the internet has spoiled Steven Universe for me. Oh yeah. I know what goes on now. See, I don't know the storylines, but I know it's like, everyone's like, oh, expect a lot of heartbreak and really done stuff. And like, despite knowing that, I'm still enjoying it. Yeah, yeah. I think that's like another thing too is just like, oh, if you know what happens already, then does that affect your engagement or enjoyment in like a series? Yeah, I think it will always affect it. I think the question is, does it affect it? How much does it affect it? And is it a negative effect? Yeah. I think, let's say that's the thing, like every time someone like has seen a thing that I haven't seen or whatever, like someone, like one of my friends brought up Steven Universe. And he was like, well, you know, he told me about the thing. I was like, well, just tell me what happened. And he's like, no, like what I don't like, I don't like this, right? If you, Miles, have seen a thing, right? And I'm like, oh, that's cool, but I haven't seen it. And then you're like, oh, I don't wanna talk about it because you haven't seen it. And I'm like, oh, it's whatever. I'm more interested in our interaction and talking about the thing that you're interested in. Because I also think that'll bring a lot to the conversation if I haven't seen it. I wanna hear you talk and gush about it and stuff like that. And then that'll, you know, promote me to bring up more questions and then that's how our conversation worked. For sure. Surprise! But like, you're like, no, I don't wanna talk about it because you haven't seen it. Like, I don't give a shit. I will always ask, do you plan on watching it? And then if not, then I'll fucking gush at you. That's what I'm getting at. Even if I'm playing on watching it, more times than not, it does not affect. Interesting. Oh, interesting. It does not affect how I like, even if it's like some crazy twist or some crazy revelations, like nine times out of 10, I still get the full effect from whatever it is that you're not trying to spoil. That's nice. And I really, really enjoy that about myself because then I can have a conversation with you even if I haven't seen it and then I can go see it and then still be surprised enough or interested enough to formulate my own opinions and then we can continue our conversation. Have you guys ever experienced that where like you did no spoilers about something but you still watched it anyway and you still really enjoyed it? I mean, it sounds like you had a lot of experience but like, is there a series in particular that makes you think of that? Like I went into it knowing everything that was gonna happen and I was still like, oh, that's tight. Yeah. Or like afraid of, because you knew and you were afraid that it would kind of affect, or kind of like change your perspective. I don't know when maybe. Well, okay, it's not a show. I've been playing Link's Awakening though and I know the twist at the end and I hate that I know the twist. Cause every time I'm like, I'm talking to like certain characters, I'm just like, oh. Right, I know what's gonna happen. You know what I'm saying? I was playing through Final Fantasy VII for the first time. I know all the stuff that happens there so I meet certain characters and I'm like, I guess I shouldn't give you lots of man and staff. Oh, that's great. Final Fantasy VII is adjacent enough, anime adjacent enough where like, I think I've watched this Final Fantasy video covering like all the hidden details about all the new stuff, whatever, just to play in the background and they're like, oh, they're doing a lot more of the things in the trailers with that Avalanche group. Oh yeah. And I was just like, oh, and they're like, I think they're setting it up for whatever happens later. I was like, ah! I will say, okay, here's case in point. I know about the big thing that happens in Final Fantasy VII that makes everybody cry. I did not know about the Avalanche thing that happens. And so when I got to that point in the game, I was like, wait what? Wait what? And like, I was like, that was when I got really invested because this is like the third time I've tried to play Final Fantasy VII. I just, I need to finally accept the fact that I don't like JRPGs. I just think they're repetitive and fucking boring. It kills me, dude. I love Persona. I love so much about Persona. So that's a direct combination. Listen to me. I love the art style Persona. I love the JRP. Listen to me, let me finish. I love the art style Persona. I love the characters of Persona. I love the storyline of Persona. I fucking hate playing Persona. Remember when I said I was gonna be quiet? I'm sorry. That game is fucking boring and shit. I hate dungeon crawling. I hate having to go back every time. Just let me make friends and go and we'll get ramen together. I'll give Chiyei some meat. Let me do that stuff. I don't wanna fall. I fucking hate fighting shadows. I fucking hate fighting shadows so much. You just want like anime, animal crossing. Just give me anime. I was trying to say something. I should just watch anime. That game exists though, without the fucking dungeon crawling shit. What's it? It's a genre game where you can like simulator where you can go to school and you can do shit. Why are you fucking playing Persona? Because I think Persona's got a dope fucking story. I guess that's valid. That's valid. I don't know. I'm... It's okay. No, no, you're right. You're right. I wish I liked JRPGs more because JRPGs tend to have really cool stories and characters. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just a fucking grunt. I mean, I like JRPGs for the fights and even sometimes I do find myself getting into like the little school shit and the realist shows. I'm like, man, if I take 10 baths, I'll be more charming. And then I can go talk to this girl and see if she should go out with me. And then she's like, no, you got to take four baths. And I was like... I did six too many! No, it's too late! You're too clean for me. And now it's off the list so I can get with it or whatever. But here's the thing though, right? The thing about just using Final Fantasy VII as an example, most of that game, even if you haven't played the old one, it's just been spoiled through pop culture. Every single, not every single person, but if you're just into this stuff, you know all the major beats in Final Fantasy VII which is what I think and from a few interviews they were talking about and even the little stuff that we've seen already, I think they're gonna do something different in the new game. She kills him! I think they're gonna do something different. Yes! I think they're gonna do something different. I didn't play the first one but I feel like I know everything that happens. I know. Here's the thing. But I played all the other games. I would love if that happened. I feel like the internet would piss its fucking britches if they were like, they changed my story! This is exactly, here's, I would be, I honestly, I get it. I totally get this, we all know what we're talking about, right? Yeah. Okay, all right. Right, Josh? We all know the big thing that happens in Final Fantasy VII, right? Hey internet, we all know what we're about to talk about, right, cool, just checking. Okay. It would be very, in my humble opinion, it would be disappointing based on everything I've seen so far, based on what they've talked about. The game is already different, like they're already showing stuff raw and some situations and you interact with them and then some other spooky stuff is happening. Spooky. I would be disappointed if they did the same thing. Or if there wasn't another option to where that didn't happen. I would be disappointed if they literally just left it the same. Okay, that's valid. Oh, it looks prettier. Yeah. Nah, fam. Hey dog. It's been 15 years, 20 years, whatever. Hey dog, the video game industry makes tons of money on, well, this one just looks prettier. But I get that, but they seem to be putting so much effort into making it more than just the remake. I just realized what it is you want. I just realized what it is you want. You want the fucking Evangelion complete rebuild of Final Fantasy VII. That's what you want. That's what you want. You know what? That's what they're doing. Now, if this was like, now here's the thing. I don't think Square is gonna go and pull that as dope as I think that would be. If this was someone like Hideo Kojima is going to do a rebuild of the early like Metal Gear games, 100% I would expect him to be like, mm, this is what I wanted to do the whole time. I will not give you what you want, but I will do a new thing. He tried to do it with Twin Snakes, right? What's that? He tried to do that with Twin Snakes, but he kind of like made it in his weird matrix kind of thing or whatever. Okay, wait, so here, let me posit a question. Person who's in charge of seven right now is Tetsuya Nomura. Have y'all played and finished Kingdom Hearts III? And have y'all read any of the interviews that he's had about Kingdom Hearts III? True, God, Kingdom Hearts III have so many, but here's the thing. It's been so many years for Nomura where he's actively changing some of the things and his own perceptions about his own characters that I don't know, maybe there is a possibility that he could be up to changing certain things about what happens in seven just based off of his attitude. I'm just saying, wait, wait, were you he do five, five, six, seven? Is that what you said? Yeah, he's in charge of the seven remake right now. Yeah, he most like action-oriented things, he's been the helm up. Yeah, he designed seven characters from the get-go. He was in charge of eight, I don't know about nine and stuff. He had a hand in 15 when they changed it. He was the first person to be on versus 13 and then they changed it to 15 and then they're like, we actually have to finish the game. So Nomura, do something else. Do Kingdom Hearts III and then we'll bring on this other person to finish 15. So he is that guy. Gotcha, gotcha. He is the titular Square Enix dude. Of course, there's a fuck ton of brownie points they can get, right? From just keeping it the same, it just looks prettier, some cool cinematic shit or whatever. But like, I, you do something like 13, right? Which is a shake-up to JRPGs and Final Fantasy Engineering. But a lot of that game, while like from the fan base is like, ah, why did you do this? Critically that game is praised because it did something different and it's what the series needed. Like it did a little series needed. I just think you just do that. Like you use it. There's two things you can do with the established property. You can keep going, right? Or you can use it as a vessel to like try to like do something else or. But okay, but here's- For push it. Here's what you're talking about though. You're not necessarily talking about changing game mechanics. That's something that's already happened. Yeah, but that has to- We're talking about changing the narrative of a story that's already been told. Yeah. And I think a lot of it depends on how you market that is going to determine how your audience reacts to that. Sure, okay. So like there are some people that will intentionally misdirect the audience. We talked about that with Maiden Abyss before. Oh yeah. And you know, Doki Doki Literature Club is another like- Oh yeah. I'll call it an anime adjacent game. Yeah, 100%. That absolutely is remarkable in the way that it misdirects the audience. Yeah. But I think there are just, there are some things that if you change something without prepping the audience for it on a narrative level, I think there is a very high chance of a negative reaction to that. Oh, for sure. Especially if someone's like, oh, I've never, because look at it this way. I've seen some people. I was almost one of these people. That was like, well, I never played the original Final Fantasy VII, but now that I see them doing a remake, I'll just play the remake so I can like, because the old ones kind of outdated, but I'll finally be able to experience this story for the first time. Yeah. The old musical players are like, there's a different story. Like, it could be a negative thing. I don't know. That's not to say. For sure. I think it would be dope. Yeah. Completely fucked with that shit. I didn't think about it that way, though. Like what you just said is very much valid. That is a huge possibility, especially because it's so ingrained in pop culture. You know, new people were like, man, now I can, I don't, because I'm one of those bougie people that I would not go back to old games because they're ugly. Sure. Ugliest shit. That's good. I'm so down with New Zelda because it looks so good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't fuck with old Zelda because it's trash. It looks, it looks so bad. Even the, even the like, it seems like that's like what they really wanted to do with the game. They're like, oh, fucking finally. Yeah. This is how I want you to play this game. Forget about that old one. So I won't go back to old shit. For sure. So part of me is definitely in that like, man, I do want to experience, because I've only gotten bits and pieces of it through pop culture, but man, I do want to, you know, I've watched Advent Children still getting bits and pieces of it. Played Dersh, still getting bits and pieces of it. Played, does that game still getting, but you know what I'm saying? I'm not getting the full 20 hour, 40 hour, you know, everything about the lore. So I wouldn't mind like re like experiencing that story firsthand, but through like these crazy cool HD, you know, graphics and gameplay and stuff like that. But I'm also on the side of kind of like being an audience to the fan base freaking the fuck out. Like, cause I'm already like, it's going to be cool. Like you see a Kojima game, this is going to be cool. I know a story is going to be weird, but this is going to be great. So I'm already like sold, but if they do some shit and I see like Twitter or something to explode, and I was like, well, that was just fun. They're like, no, this is not good. That'd be great. So I guess I'm on both, that'd be cool. Well, we've talked a lot about anime Jason things. I got to ask though, shall I watch that season premiere of my hero season four? I will say no, I did not. Because someone told me, oh, it's the first episode of a new season. It's basically like a recap. That was good. That was good. I was like, I got five minutes in, I was like, oh, of course this is just a recap, of course it is. But what the weird part is, I don't remember and I stopped reading it just to like some volumes and come out and I can read a bunch of them. I don't remember this being in the manga. It probably wasn't. It wasn't, I don't think so. Because the last first episode of season three was also a recap and it was a special thing where they went swimming and that wasn't in the manga. Oh, okay, okay. I thought I was crazy. Much preferred the swimming recap to this one. And maybe just because Eid was being all hot up in that pool, I will die on the hill. One of my favorite things that my hero has done is made the big nerdy guy fucking shredded and hot and I love that. It still has the charisma of a piece of cardboard but I love him. No, it was a fine recap. Honestly, the thing, because I kept waiting, excuse me, they send this investigative reporter to go. He's got a hunch that all might's new protege is somewhere in class one A and he's gonna get the scoop. And they keep doing this thing where one of his eyes looks weird and they keep doing the cool anime like glasses glint and I'm like, what's this guy's like? There's something going on here and sure enough they reveal that he has a quirk that he can just take pictures at any point in time. He's like, how are you doing it? And I'm like, oh, it's the eye. And they're like, no, I make camera lenses come out of my body. I never mind. I was like, weird, very weird. That was damn good, I didn't like that at all. Extremely pacific, very upsetting. I've never been so no on something like that I've seen in anime so quickly. He's like, you know, I can make lenses come out and then he makes like a couple come out of his arms and I'm like, okay, cool. And he has one coming out of his hand. I'm like, all right, cool. Then he starts like pulling him on his leg and he got a printer in his chest. I was like that, I'm out. Yeah. I don't know if it was intentional, like a weird misdirect of like, cause he's got a special eye. What's the deal with his eye? Yeah, Jeff Beats made me want meat buns. They could have left it at the hand. You know, like, I can take pictures. You know, I'm like, oh, okay, that's kind of cool. He's like, nah, I can put them all over my body. That is very my hero. The thing that I've always found extremely charming about my hero is it never takes itself extremely seriously. Like I remember in the fucking tournament arc, there's just a dude in the stands that has a shark for a head. That's his quirk, I guess. Like, even Tokoyami, or not Tokoyami, Birdman. Oh, Tokoyami. Tokoyami on his wings and stuff. Shadow, shadow. Tokoyami. Tokoyami. Even Tokoyami, it's like, him being a bird has nothing to do with his power. He's just also a bird. That's very true. At the top half, I thought it was like a mask. Oh, yeah. I thought you were just like wearing a mask because his quirk kind of looks like it. But yeah, he's just a bird. He's a bird. And that's like, it leads to moments of weirdness, but it's also one of the things that I find so charming about that show is just like, it's fucking kooky and it just constantly feels like they're having fun. That means a lot, I feel like, when you can feel a show having fun. There is a, I had a conversation with a group of friends because I'm consistently always a person who's like the most up to date with the manga. So even then they're like, oh, was this character in the manga? I was like, no. But then I remember, I was like, oh, there's vigilantes. So I'm not, I don't read that side story because my hero vigilantes is about, is a side manga done by another artist. But still, I think Horikoshi still kind of supervises it. But a side manga about like, people who were not necessarily, they did not necessarily pass to be heroes but they're vigilantes. That's cool, that's cool. And they're usually like not very heroic quirks either. They feature a lot of other characters from my hero main story though, like Mount Lady is really in it a lot. I think they actually establish or really set the foundation in vigilantes about the relationship between Mount Lady and Kamali Woods, one of two heroes. So that's pretty cool. So it is canon, but I think there is obviously potential for a lot of crossover between like that manga series and the main anime. So I'm like, oh, I don't know enough about vigilantes if that was just like an anime original character or if it could be vigilantes, maybe it could be anime. This guy was like reporter dude. So maybe maybe he's like going around to vigilantes and stuff like that. Yeah, but that does exist in case anyone didn't know. That's cool, I had no idea. No, it's really cool. The recap, he does a thing where he's analyzing all the kids or whatever. Oh, of course. And it's like, it's going on and it's playing like my hero music and I'm like, okay, but then it gets to like kid number 10. I was like, this is a recap. Yeah, this is a recap. This is a recap. Tickety-tickety, five more minutes. Yeah, yeah, I like it. Go on, go on. It literally goes with every single kid and I was like, this is a recap. So I walked away and came back. I didn't even pause it. I was just like, nah, I'm not gonna. It was the most intense recap and I've ever watched in my life. Yeah, oh my god. But that is coming back. So new episodes every Saturday, crunchy roll, Funimation, both of them, Stream it, Yahoo. Cole and I had another hot tub and anime night, which is maybe how we both got sick. Oh. Ooh. Wow, I'm a tough one. Can't you be staffed? Yeah. Yeah. It was before I was feeling sick. That's when you're missing changes. That's fair. We watched another episode of Katana Gatari, Katana Gatari, as I think by the name of the series. Fuck, I am continuing to absolutely love that show. That's the one that has like the 50 minute episodes and there's like 12 of them or something like that. But like, still super about that entire art style. And just like, I keep hearing, because I'm finding the show absolutely delightful right now. And I keep getting the, oh, just you fucking way. Like the episode four is when the real show begins. I'm just like, fuck, so many shows are like that these days. I feel like. Yeah, yeah. That's 15 minute episodes, that's what the. Yeah, there's only like OVA episodes. And like, there's only, I think there's only, it's either there's eight or there's 12 of them. I don't recall. But that's like the entire series. I was watching anime with someone and I was trying to, we were trying to find like something that would be interesting to watch. And fuck me, I forgot the title. But it was like about ninjas and it's a new one from the season. It's on Crunchyroll. So the first 10 minutes is like this little girl who is fighting spoilers. It's her grandpa. And her grandpa is trying to instill in her like, oh, you have to pass down like, what it means to be part of the Ninja Clan. Did you watch this? I, she fights her, she fights her grandpa and like, well, later you. They don't be at it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Later you, it's like reveal it to be her grandpa. But it starts off as like she's fighting an intruder. Yeah, and it turns out she just, her whole thing is she just wants to be like her dad who's a researcher, not actually like a ninja. I watched the first episode, but I couldn't remember the name. So you say episode, I had paused because I was like, oh wait, I need to go to the bathroom. I pause, I go, wait, this is an hour and 30 minutes. Is this a movie? Is it Black Fox? Yes, Black Fox. And it's a movie, yeah. It's a movie, okay. So that surprised me and I went, oh, I'm not committed to this quite yet. So it stopped immediately. We both stopped immediately like, oh, what should we watch now? But yeah, it's a movie. Did you watch it? I've been meaning to watch it. Okay, okay. So you saw the trailers. I did see the trailers. It's about like some ninja stuff, right? Some kind of fighting. Where did you stop at? Cause I definitely did not sit there for an hour. Okay, yeah. I'm trying to figure out where I stopped at. He went to a fugue state. You don't remember who you were, I don't know, but you really like Ninja Grandpas. I like Ninja Grandpas. There's this thing, man, like, it's really hard. Maybe I just have like short attention span when it comes to anime. Maybe. It's really like, probably after that, I was like, oh, let's find something else. Cause it probably like just got real slow after the action and the fight or whatever. Cause she, she went to like see her dad, he was a scientist researcher. Yeah, I remember that. And she was like cute. And I was like, oh cool, she's cute. And then I found out it was a movie. I was like, oh, I can't commit. So now I'm in this like state where I can't commit to like a whole movie just to sit down and shit, especially if I don't know if it's like good or if I'm going and blind. But that's what happens with streaming sometimes. It's just the whole library. And you go, oh well, my whole world's my oyster. 40 minutes is a sweet spot. If I see something that's 40 minutes, like on like just anything, like HBO or something, I'll sit there for 40 minutes. But you like an hour. You know my sweet spot now, 11 minutes. Same, same, same, same, same. You can't get a good drum on that. Oh my God, I, what is it? You know why the best fate series is the cooking series? Why? Because it was 11 minutes. It was very short, yeah. It was so short. It was also the best in terms of content because everyone was happy. Damn. See, Josh agrees. I didn't know they had a cooking thing. Oh yeah, it was great. They're a volleyball one too. I was just about to say that. So the volleyball is actually in the cooking thing. Yeah, it is in the cooking thing. Oh what? The entire time in that episode, I was like, show Archer's face, you cowards. And then next episode they finally show us. I love it so much because like everybody's like, oh, Emiya's cooking and Emiya is like known for having like really good cooking. So they go through this entire thing where it's a beautifully animated like cooking piece where they have instructions on how to make this dish that they're making. And then when everybody's having it, it's just like straight up like three minutes of everybody just like blissfully living in the moment with food and aromas and everything. And like they eat it and then flowers come out, yeah. It's so good, it's good. It's a good enough like span enough time where you can eat your dinner and watch it at the same time. That's fair. That is my sweet spot. That's good. You said the anime you're watching was delightful. What's a delightful anime? Like, what is that? What's a delightful anime? Emiya-san was my delightful anime. That cooking one? That's delightful to me. Something that's just like, you know, because if you're watching action, you're on the edge of your seat or you're whatever. What? Oh, here we go. Psychicay. Oh! I started watching Psychicay and I am loving Psychicay. It reminds me of the tone of One Punch Man. Okay. What? What? Do you guys know Psychicay? No. Imagine One Punch Man but without any fucking action at all. Yeah, no, I don't know if you dig it. So it's on Netflix and the preview image is usually that guy with pink hair, yellow glasses and like two little alien things. Oh, yeah, I've seen that. Yeah, that. I can just close the clicking on it every time. Take a character. Take the most powerful character in the world. He's psychic, telekinetic. He can like teleport. He can like, he's essentially the most like powerful psychic character ever. Okay. And because of that, he can hear everybody's thoughts all the time and he fucking hates it because he can't really make any meaningful relationships because you can always hear the voice on the inside that's like, he should be friends and the inside's like, and then maybe you'll like me and then I can use you to get good grades. And you're like, oh, fuck you. And really the only like, he doesn't like being the center of attention because he constantly has to keep his powers in check because he doesn't want to give away that he's like a super psychic person. So he just likes going home and watching TV because he can't read the minds of the actors on TV. So it's the only way he can be entertained and surprised. And like his parents who know he's psychic are always like, hey, can you move the sofa for us with your mind? And he's like, fuck. But what's great is the show, I'm not gonna say, I'll say best friend, he doesn't want any best friends. But his best friend is an idiot who in the dub, I believe is played by Chris Sabot, who's so fucking stupid he can't read his mind. So he's just like, he shines a brand and he's like, oh God, I didn't know you were there. And he's like, hey, what's going on, psyche? Let's go hang out. And he's like, I fucking hate you, ugly dumb piece of shit. Oh my God, that's so funny. All the other support characters are satire of genres. So there is a like Shonen anime character. There is a, she's the most beautiful girl in the world character. There is a like sports anime protagonist. Essentially, they're all insufferable. And he hates all of them, but everyone loves him. And that's the whole thing is like, the whole premise of the show was this dude just wants to be left the fuck alone, but no one will allow him to do that. And it's so fucking funny. Like it's not the, there's just something about it that it's like, again, it feels like the show's having fun and I like it. Yeah, no one's agree. I'm not crazy about the sub VA for the main character or the WVA for the main character, but it did grow on me. And overall, I'm still really enjoying the show. Fun story. There was one year where Carrie Chakras, Austin Hardwick and I went to country roll expo and Austin Hardwick at that time had really pink hair and his signature color that he wore was always like this mustard or bright yellow. He was walking around or we were walking around in a group and I think someone, don't quote me on this story, but essentially someone was like, hey, nice. And he goes, thanks. And then it turns out he goes, oh, I think they think I was cosplaying Psyche. That's nice. Because he looked like the character and I was like, oh God. I was like an anime character by default. By default. Yeah, I'm gonna say mob Psyche for me, both seasons. I still need to watch it. I think it's delightful. Oh, delightful. Yeah. Back to the delightful thing. I was like, you wanna look like mob Psyche? The correlation. Yeah, maybe. I think it's because it's one of those things to where you have kind of an insufferable character that with the teacher or the Psyche guy, the fake Psyche guy that he hangs out with. Like he, you're like, oh man, why is mob dealing with this guy? Mob's so innocent, but also so powerful. Why does he even need this guy? And he arguably has the same type of change in him as mob, which is why they can kind of work together and stuff like that. But it kind of delights me to see characters like have like a full character arc and they end up being someone different, either for better or worse than they were when you first met them. And it makes me feel like I just went through this whole journey with them when that happens. If a character doesn't change, was Credio from Sword Art? Kirito? Kirito. Oh god, that's so funny. Credio. It's a Credio. And laughing both at Kirito. He like doesn't change, like he doesn't change. He's as badass as he's ever been all the way through or whatever. The whole game he's just like, well, get good son. And then he goes to another game and he's like, get good. And I'm like, what? I beat Dark Souls with a guitar hero controller, get good bitch. Oh my god. And now I'm playing God of War with the same guitar hero controller and I'm still as good. Like get out of here. So I guess in general, just like it delights me when characters have like cool character arcs and change and all this other stuff. Mob is a good delightful enemy. Yeah. I'm just kidding. I'm just still having to like, I beat all of Sword Art online with a Donkey Kong controller. Get on my fucking level of strength. You know what the fuck the party on that? He cheated. Like no one talks about that. He dead ass cheated. Like in the beginning and at the end. I forget. He was one of the pain intensifiers. Is that cheating or is that just using your advanced knowledge? I mean, yeah, because they were supposed to like reset everyone. Oh, did he have additional gear? I don't remember. I don't know, man. Sure. That's something weird. But at the end, he fucking spoiled the alert. He dies. Right. But the guy who created the game was like, ah, one up. Oh. He was like, yeah, I'm back. And then in the second one, the guy who created the game again was like, ah, here's these codes. And he's like, oh, I got the best lemon in the game. He's like, oh, well, get some of the game. Kira, Kira was just a fucking influencer that tweeted good things about the game. So he got some of the beta codes. Yeah, he got beta codes from the dead guy. He fucking pre-ordered a GameStop. So he got a sweet skin. God. I remember when that was a fucking thing. Oh my god. Definitely cheating. Is there anything that makes you that you think of as delightful for you, Josh? Probably some goofy slice of life like Nietzsche or something like that. Oh, that's a good one. What's that? That was Nietzsche. Go ahead. It's like little situational little things here. And they're like schoolgirls living their lives. And one of them likes to draw BL and has to hide it. Or the principal goes and wrestles a deer. Or there's a- Oh, wait, that was a good one. And every time people bring up the deer, they're like, yeah! I love that! I love that shoe! German suplex! Yeah. That's a good one. That's a good one. That brought me into Nietzsche, Joe. I can tell you, you know, you're talking about respecting your time, anime that you're not willing to waste your time on. I can tell you right now, Cole and I watched one of the series that we talked about the other week. Coming out new, Assassin's Pride. Oh. Which one was that? What was that about? This is the one where there's like a girl that she lives in a world where like certain people have mana, mana, however you say it. But like her bloodline, she should have a lot of mana, but for whatever reason she can't like perform magic and shit. So he's like a sign to her as her bodyguard and he's gonna train her. Okay. You're fine. Yeah. It's fine. You don't have to. No! You don't really have to. Why? So it is very, very, I would be shocked if this thing wasn't based on a light novel. Okay. It is super heavy in like weird mental exposition. Like this is very strange and not very fluid dialogue in order to get some stuff out. It's very confusing. Like it ends with spoiler alert. Like the main character feels like Tuxedo Mask if he wasn't a joke. Oh. Yeah. He's like, come with me, Milady. Like the first time you meet like the main girl, the main girl, oh he says Milady all the time and it's like she's, it's never cool. Is it translated into Milady or Surge? Okay, what's this? Oh, does he go like He-Mare or something? I don't know. I don't remember. But I'm Milady. So I got that starburst in there. Yeah. So it's just audio cancer. Sorry everyone. The fucking main girl, her introduction is, it's like, oh, Miss Princess, what are you doing up there? Quick whip hand up too. She's like standing on the railing of her balcony like, oh, I'm just looking at the stars. And then she falls in slow motion. He's like, Milady. And then he goes and like catches her and he's like, you must be more careful, Milady. And she's like, oh, oh, oh. What the fuck are you talking about? What is this? That's her introduction to our main female character. And then like the whole thing is like, essentially he takes pity on her. And he's like, oh, she's so useless and sucks so hard. But by golly, does she try? You know what? Maybe I won't kill her. Maybe I'll be her bodyguard instead. Because you find out this thing that like, he's been sent to find out if she's actually the heir of some Duke or if she's an illegitimate child. And if she's, if she can't do magic, then she's clearly an illegitimate child and she has to be killed so that the secret doesn't get out that this Duke was a nasty ho. And so he's like, yeah, she can't fucking do magic. So I guess I'll kill her. But then you find out that like, at night sometimes her dad just lets monsters attack her in the hope that like, she'll be provoked into performing magic. So she's like running through the streets with these horrible monsters chasing her and you're like, this is fucked up. And then she just gets the shit kicked out of her and like, they're holding her by her hair and it looks really bad. And then he comes in and he kills them. And like, right before that, he's like, I guess I should just put a stop to this and be merciful. And you're like, oh, is he gonna fucking kill her? But then he's like, hey, come here. And then he like drinks the thing and then he kisses her. And then she like falls into roses and then like start the credit sequence. And you're like, wait, what? And then after that, then she shows us back up at the house and she's like, look, I'm glowing. I make light now. I guess I am a legitimate daughter and can do magic after all. And he's like, yes, I must keep this a secret. I must make sure that everyone believes that she can actually do magic. And then we will train her and then she will be better and I won't have to kill her. Oh, but if the secret gets out, I'll definitely have to kill her. I guess this is the conflict of the show. Assassin's Pride, hence the title. Yeah, it's fucking cool, cool, interesting world. They seem to live in a giant chandelier on top of mountains that are all interconnected, like tubes and like. Cool, me, me. So she doesn't have magic. I don't know. Who knows. He drank a thing and kissed her and then she had magic. What was the thing he drank? I don't know. Glow potion. Glow potion. Glow potion, they call it. I've never been. I drink this more confused. Hey, us too. And maybe we're being a little too harsh. There was some cool stuff in the trailer. Like they were doing something like when people use magic, the character's outline becomes a color. Oh, cool. Instead of just a regular black outline. I just thought it was really neat. Like it was a cool vision, cool visual. Kind of clunky, didn't quite hold us, left us a little confused. And maybe we were just two dumb boys in a hot tub that weren't paying close enough attention. And then you got it possible. Very possible. That was like the most optimum. People in the comments, if you are watching Assassin's Pride and you think it's actually worth giving a second shot, let us know. I may have judged this book a little too hard by its cover of weird problematic situations with girls and kissing them. I'm gonna jump in to this new season of anime soon. My hero was, I just had a catch up on that real quick. So we gotta finish Demon Slayer. I really wanna watch that gunhead show. But for whatever reason, the Funimation app on my PS4 is just being a butthead. Butthead. Doesn't let me sign in. Gotta figure that out. But God, I wanna watch that show so bad. So what, no guns life? I don't remember what it's called. It's the one where the dude literally has a gun for a head. Yeah, no guns life. Yeah, I think it is no guns life. Shit was so cool. Did you watch it? Oh, it's the trailer. It looks so cool. Fuck wild man. This magic show you're talking about sounds terrible. What's a good magic show? What's the favorite anime? Magic, magic anime. Madoka Magica. Madoka Magica? It's so horrible. Do you love it? No, I mean like it's wonderful and how like it is literally horrifying. It is terrible what happens to these characters and what they have to go through at their age. And I love it. Cause again, I kind of went in, all I knew was like, hey, you think you know what the show's about? You're wrong. Just watch it. And I was like, okay. And I liked that it was kind of like, hey, let's all collectively take a look at the magical girl anime genre and like talk about how problematic it actually, well not mean problematic is a strong word, but like. What could possibly, what could possibly happen if you actually took this very? Really, really if you were to take the majority of children's programming, which is like kids are gonna go on an adventure to save the day and you actually start to look at that under a like a magnifying glass of realism of like, oh, that's actually really horrible. Steven Universe, terrible. Oh yeah. Steven Universe, that boy would have so much trauma. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But. Cool. I don't know. I haven't watched, again, on this table, I have not watched a ton of anime comparatively. So maybe, is there any recommendations of a good magical anime to check out? Maggie. Maggie? Oh, I read it to a point and then after that point, I had feelings. Yeah, so the both shows are on, what do you have feelings? Magic of the Labyrinth, right? Magic of the Labyrinth. Maggie. Both shows are on Netflix, the one where it's the main cast, main anime or whatever, and you meet a character in that anime called Sinbad, who's like a badass. Okay. And then there's a show with his beginnings and both of them are, they're pretty sick. Like, I like it a lot. We, I did watch a first season back in college when it first came out. Like, animation was pretty cool. Yeah. It's pretty cool. It's pretty dope. I think, story-wise, the manga kept going and I could not mentally understand it. Okay. But it's definitely one of those long-running Shodanmangas that got really popular. So yeah, I mean, I'd check out that first anime if you want a magic anime. After I wrap up Psyche, Psyche K, Psyche K. I might check it out. Unless you have an already like, that would in like a fairy tale. Oh yeah. I could not get in a fairy tale. Really? I found the main character. Don't worry about it. You don't have to, you don't have to. Don't worry about it. It's not a requirement. I read every single chapter of fairy tale. It's not a requirement. He's like, I got dragon magic. We're like, look at this point, that don't mean shit. Yeah. Who cares? Well, thank you for sharing all this candy with us. Yeah. Happy October. Someone else's candy. Someone else's candy. Pretty good, pretty good list of anime we talked about. Yeah. You know? And the list will keep on growing. Yeah, growing and growing on fan service. Yee-haw. Are we ending that way? We don't have to end that way. We're ending that way. Guess what? We're ending that way. We're ending that way. We're ending that way. All right, cool. Cool.