High School of the Dead Discussion & Review | Anime Watch Club
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And for the first time in Watch Club history, it's myself, Kat, and Pat. So it should be interesting. Hopefully we can pull something together. Pat, why don't you tell us a little something about this show?

Yeah, absolutely. We, you know, emergencies happen, things happen. We're hoping everyone's okay and everyone else in the club will be back in a week or two. So we'll figure it out. But yeah, so we watched High School of the Dead. The show aired in the summer 2010 season done by studio Madhouse. I didn't even realize that before I just read this. That's really fun. Madhouse known for doing a couple other horrors like Sheiky, a couple other horrors.

shows that my brain's blanking on it it's your favorite studio is it not free ren orb sunny boy like uh no death no hunter hunter yeah it's like what no game no life for those who like that banger banger banger miss on no game no life but then banger banger banger yeah

Fair enough. No, every show they do is fun at the very least. And yeah, so again, Back to High School of the Dead, sourced from a manga. It's an action horror suspense, ecchi, gore, survival shonen with an R-plus rating for mild nudity.

I don't know why it has that tag personally, but yeah, let's get into our first impression. Yeah, no, I know. That was a slight sarcasm there. Sorry. Sorry. Oh, yeah, it's okay. How did I miss the joke so bad?

there's three of us it's okay we're we're this is going to be either the best episode we've ever done or by far the worst we'll figure it out maybe didn't didn't we do a three-man episode once for the girl who leapt through time we did it yo you guys did that was it was three white dudes who was that miles no i think it was it was saint it was saint

Yeah, we're dating ourselves. It got 50,000 views, so who knows? Or how many thousand? I don't know. Yeah, it's like 60,000, 70,000 or something ridiculous. Yeah. And we earned it, baby. There we go. Totally. At a time of like three seconds. Yo, it's like six.

There we go. But yeah, let's do our first impressions before we get too lost in the sauce. Cat, what were your first impressions of High School of the Dead? Did you watch it before this sit down? Things like that. Let's hear about it. So we're going to start with when I first started watching anime.

I've heard of High School of the Dead since when I first started understanding the community of anime. I really loved getting into a bunch of the shounen and the whole joke about Bakunopiku and all that stuff. And then I heard High School of the Dead and I was like, no. So I have been strong on that opinion until now.

It was nominated and won. I have actively been nominating against it this entire time, or voting against it this entire time, but I guess here we are now. I'm glad that I've watched it, so I can accurately and wholeheartedly say that I did not like this show. My first impressions of the show are that it is...

It is the thing that people got bullied. Like, this is the show that people got bullied over. Like, this is the type of anime that, you know, you're watching, it's doing, it's, like, really tense, and then as soon as your parents come in, panty shot. Like, but the thing is, it's always the panty shot. You're just deluding yourself into...

not noticing the panty shot until they're there. Like that's, that's what's going on. That's what's going on here. When you were a kid, you had Stockholm syndrome with this show because when you were watching, you didn't see it until your mom came in and then you saw white lacy panties. Yeah. I would recommend this to a 16 year old. Hell yeah. And horny adults that like anime. Yeah.

but that's our our podcast's own hentai reviewer telling us that he'd recommend okay i'll get to that later hold on okay fair enough no no i i i'm just busting you busting your balls here i i can totally understand your uh but it is a lot that was a really good analogy the fact that like your parents walk in and it's like

Oh, but the sex scene was there the whole time. It wasn't, you didn't just notice it until parents came in, right? That idea. Pete, what about you? What's your experience with High School of the Dead? Just real quick, Kat, did you mean to say Boku no Pico or did you meant to say Boku no Hero Academia?

No, like when I first started getting anime, Boku no Hero Academia didn't come out. Boku no Pico was like the joke that everybody was talking about. Oh, okay. Yeah, like everyone was talking about like, oh, these are the shows that you need to start watching. It was like One Piece, Naruto, Boku no Pico, High School Dead. Gotcha, okay. Gotcha. You said shonen and then said Boku no Pico. I'm like, did you mean that?

I mean, to be fair, there is a young boy in the show. Yeah. I feel like Bocadopico is not a shonen, but I'm over to on missing the joke this episode. No, no, but I get what you're a cat to comment on that point to like, this is the kind of show that.

you get it's like an ahi gao uh hoodie yeah you know oh yeah like this is why people think anime is all just ahi gao hoodies and like you said boku no piku whatever all that all the bs crap you know that that makes makes all of us look like perverts you know um i say with a bunny girl senpai figure right there behind me in a bunny suit but hey you know what

Some of us are okay. We're, we're cool. Right. But the thing with buddy girl senpai is like that. Right. That's like the joke. Isn't the, the thinly veiled Hentai. The joke is thinly veiled Hentai for high school to death. I see what you're saying. Okay. I can see that. Yeah, that's a fair point. But yeah, Pete, what about you now? Okay. So first impressions before I out myself, this is the third time I've seen the show. When I started my anime journey, I only had Netflix. Okay.

And so I was watching Hunter Hunter. I was watching Code Geass because those were the first couple of shows I watched on Netflix because that was the only place I knew where anime was. And one of them was also High School of the Dead. And going into it, I'm like, oh, I like zombies and interesting premise and everything like that. This is before I didn't know what ecchi was. I had no clue what it was. And I watched it. I was like, oh, oh, this is horny, horny. Oh, this is like, this is a lot. And then.

As a rewatch, it reminded me a lot of Rosario Vampire Season 1.

where the show didn't take itself seriously and it knew what it was trying to do. And it didn't hide the fact I'm not a big etchy person at all, but if you're going to be etchy, go full blown etchy. Like don't do like the one painy shot an episode. Don't do the, Oh, I fell over and now I'm on top of you and I can see your underwear. Don't do that. Like it's, it's boring. If you go full etchy, then I at least respect you for taking those decisions.

and like pushing the boundaries. And that's what High School of the Dead did. My first exposure to Ecchi and really just going with whatever it wanted to do. On my third re- I guess it's technically my second rewatch from my third time through. I didn't think that Ecchi was as bad as I remembered it. I think it gets really bad in some spots, especially episode six, which is-

essentially I feel like it's like an OVA for like 90% of that episode but I really don't think it says maybe it's just because I'm like so accustomed to anime and everything like that I'm like oh that was not that bad not that I was like keeping track of how many panty shots there were but it really didn't seem as bad and the fun was still there like the reason why I like high school that is for what it is it's still a super fun zombie show and I relived some of that during my rewatch I would recommend this

If you live by yourself, regardless of age, I think it's still fun to rewatch. If you're not an ecchi fan, like obviously skip it. But if you like don't mind ecchi or you love it and you haven't seen it, I would still recommend this show.

Fair enough. And yeah, I'm the one who nominated this. I loved this show. Similar to Pete, when I first started watching anime, this is a show that came up to me pretty naturally. I didn't seek it out. I think I just saw that it was a zombie anime, and I'm like, those aren't common. That's cool. I'll go watch that. Let's see. And even at the time, as an older teenager, I remember being like, this is ridiculous. But

But it was fun. It was stupid. And it was action-packed as well, which I was really interested in at the time. I am a big fan of zombie or living dead, whatever you want to call it, media. I think that a good example of this is The Last of Us right now is literally airing as we speak. And there's a lot of discourse around it. And so often zombie...

Uh, shows are so themed around who are the, really the monsters, you know? And I think that the, that, uh, like, is it the monsters that the actual threat or is it the humans, you know, and when they're faced with their own mortality and, um,

I think that this one does it really well for an anime because there's no other anime that do it. There's like no other zombie anime other than ZOM 100, which is also an excellent show. So I don't know. I think I definitely have my blinders on. This is also my third rewatch, Pete. So you're not... Or second rewatch, third time going through it. So don't worry, Pete. I think I had very similar thoughts to you where the second...

The first time I rewatched it, I was like, damn, this really is ecchi. It's really in your face. This is a lot for me. And then going through this time, I really didn't feel I mean, it is actually don't get me wrong, but it's not it's not as bad. And those famous scenes like the that we'll get to, such as the the bullet scene. Yeah, we'll keep it blunt like that.

If you look at that and actually try to tell me that that is meant to like make my pee pee hard. Like, come on. Look me dead in the eyes and tell me that that's supposed to make it hard. If you were 18, I bet it would be straight up with you. Fair enough. And I am 26 or 20. I'm 27 now. Old man. Yeah.

Yeah, no, so, yeah, but seriously, like, that scene, you can't tell me they were animating that and saying to themselves, oh, yeah, that's the good stuff under the table. You know, like, no way. There's no way. It does not take itself seriously at all. But...

Without doing that, it still has pretty interesting characters and their relationships. I think their dynamics, I guess, are really well explored in this show. And it kills me that the original Mangaka will never be able to finish the story that he had in mind before.

He passed away. He took a hiatus and then he unfortunately passed away. I believe it was cancer that he had. And his brother has come out and said that it'll never be finished. There's no interest in finishing it. Or akin to something like Berserk. Slightly different scales of cultural relevance, maybe. But you know what I mean. So yeah, it's really... Because the manga does go a little bit further. And it is...

really good. I remember reading it after my first rewatch and being like, this is good. This is the good stuff. They explore even more character growth and development. And man,

We're going a little off topic here for our first impressions. I would recommend this for, yeah, like everyone else said, horny people. They're going to like this show. People who want a zombie show though too, I think are still going to be able to enjoy it unless, and it's funny hearing this coming from me as someone who usually hates ecchi,

in any capacity as long as you can look past that and or or become numb to it which it does become very easy to become numb to it in this show uh it's very enjoyable so yeah don't watch this with your girlfriend maybe watch this on your own or you know watch it late at night but watch it i think you should watch it so yeah uh that's our spoiler free first impressions

uh i guess it's time to get right in to our discussion pete you mentioned that you have a talking point that you want to bring up first yeah i think this will transition to some of the like the focal points that we have in our mind but i want to play a game with you guys oh i love games so the game is guess how many so how many this is this is all describing like the errors that we're in for anime so how many ecchi anime do you think came out in 2024 last year

Um, roughly about 16. I'm going to guess lower because I feel like I feel like it's lower. Let's go with eight. It was close. It was seven. Oh, guess how many ecchi anime came out in 2010 when this aired? 30. I'll go first this time. 30. I'll go three. Oh, no. 19. So we've gone significantly down in how many ecchi animes are adapted, like

throughout the years. And I think that's just been replaced with like whatever fat is currently happening. Whenever I always wanted to bring this up, whenever people talk about how great anime was back in the day, it's like, do you remember the 2010s when we had literally like five ecchi a season? Because last time I checked, that was really bad. But now it's sort of been replaced with like isekai and villainous stuff and whatever like the fad is, I feel like going forward, it's kind of like,

We kind of like replace one type of like non staple and then replace it with something new. So I want to get your guys's thoughts. Would you rather be in the era of ecchi or the era of like isekai?

isekai 100 because like isekai you can have you can have shows that are really really bad like uh what's it called uh i was getting there oh let me think yeah really bad like in another world with a smartphone high school prodigies are are have it easy even in another world like

a bunch of a bunch of slop like that and then you can also have like really good shows like uh one of my personal favorites slime or uh there's also i've thought about you know we got slime and we got slime season two um an sao we're talking good isekai we're talking good not mid uh

it's not even an isekai oh well technically shangri-la frontier if we want to include sao sure um why not yeah uh but like there's a bunch of like there's a bunch of really good isekai that aren't coming to my mind because i wasn't expecting isekai to come into the into the conversation i love i love getting people off guard but like when we talk about ecchi

like one of my favorites is the one where the girl's father is like a and uh hentai uh hentai mangaka uh it's like a short form and it's really fun yeah oh god oh my god that show i really like that one i like that one too but that's

Yeah, it's... It was funny. I just... I forgot it existed. It was so short, you know? Yeah. I prefer my... Actually, to be shorter. Because, like, when it's played out too long, it gets tiring. But, like, that's one of the reasons why I don't like Rosario Vampire. Like, it's a little... It's a little bit too long for me. It's one of the reasons I don't like this show. Because it's a little bit too long for me. Like...

like there's so many, there's so much edgy slop for back then that people don't really talk about anymore. It's a guy. Yes. Has a bunch of slop, but also I could sit down and watch slime or Shangri-La for 24 minutes and not feel embarrassed. So this is a tough question for me. Cause I feel like I don't know which one I'd prefer. Even as an SAO defender and knowing that that is like the show that launched the Isekai franchise,

crap that we deal with now i but i then i sit here and i think about the the the etchies we're talking about are just the ones we remember too like like what like pete you brought up like list if you want to hear no but it's like i'm thinking of like immediately i'm just thinking back to the 2010s and prison school again high school the dead yeah the bed like those are those are the good ones that we remember in the same way that we're remembering yeah 100 percent

We're remembering slime as a good isekai. Sure, I can't condone that opinion personally, but I believe you. Grimgar, we're remembering as isekais that are good.

But then we've got to remember that there's like six of them coming out a season and there's a lot of crap in there that we're not going to remember five years from now when, God, please let it happen, when ice hockey is the new trend and then it's in every other anime in the 2025s or 2030s. When that happens, we're going to be looking back and saying, did we prefer the Yetchi era or did we prefer the ice hockey era? What do we want? But this is the...

I know. We'll see. Pete, what's your answer to this? Just real quick. I got to give you the lineup. This is just fall 2010. All of 20. It's just one season.

Okay. Painting and stocking, Heaven's Lost Property, Two Love Rue, Samurai Girls, Yosuga no Sora, and even though it's not considered an ecchi, Urimo. That's one season of anime. Like, I will take isekai slop over whatever that season of anime was.

10 times out of 10. Like, I feel like it's the same. It's kind of like what Pat said, like for every 10 is a guy we get a season or whatever. Maybe one's good for actually, I feel like for every 10 actually we get, uh,

or in this case i'm gonna say for every 20 actually anime we get we get like one good one like there's some stuff where like you can overlook and sometimes he actually can be fun uh especially when they're adult characters but i would much rather prefer uh the isekai slop era because more times than not i find better enjoyment through it i find higher like production values it's significantly less problematic

That's a big one. That's a big one. I guess we should talk about the actual show too, right? Yeah, I was hoping to transition that into the actual show. This is The Walking Dead. Not The Walking Dead. Oh, God. This is The Walking Dead podcast. I watched The Rocker, though. Yeah, no. I guess my first thought is this show, I think, has a really, really compelling first episode.

It is a first episode of all time, simply because these characters get introduced, and you hate them all, I hope, at least. You're like, who are these fucking weirdos and jerks that are on my screen? I mean, the slap happens in the first episode, does it not? Yeah, it happens almost immediately. It's like, get your shit together!

Like, oh, that's right. They do it twice. I, my brain brains forget. Yeah. Cause then they cut back or they flash back to before that moment or whatever. I thought that they did an excellent job setting up the zombie apocalypse in this world, right? Like, like the, the way it would, the chaos that would ensue in that first 30 minutes of true pan, like pandemic, you know, cause there's a lot of different approaches again, just to reference the last of us. Cause it's a very popular piece of media that we,

all have consumed or at least are aware of that first episode of the last of us or, uh, when they're explaining the, uh, Joel's backstory, uh,

They do a really good job of setting it up slowly with like hints of the flower in the background being contaminated or, you know, the police chatter, things going on on television and confusion in the Philippines versus here, that kind of stuff versus this show. It just kicks it right off the bat. And it's a very different style of, I guess, like launching an apocalypse, right?

Which is a funny thing to think about. Which I guess which one would you guys prefer? Or what did you like about how this anime starts? Or did you not like it at all? Because maybe I'm in the minority there. But I thought that this after this first episode, I was hooked. I feel like I watched this show the first time in one night. Like I did not want to stop it. I was so intrigued by what was going on. But I don't know if everyone else was the same.

Yeah, for me personally, when it came to the start of the show, and I feel like this is a symptom of being post-COVID as well. Being post-COVID, we understand the escalation of

of pathogen especially in a pandemic type of situation so when we see immediate oh god that's crazy and like the the amount of widespread panic that goes off of it i guess it kind of makes sense especially if it started in uh in japan but i feel like and this is a an interesting like uh

an interesting case in my head where like if it, if high school of the dead was made like post 2020 it probably would have been a little bit more, it probably would have built up a little bit closer to the last, the last of us where instead of it being immediate, it probably would have played a little bit more into that looming threat with panty shots. So like, that's a, that's a thing.

No, that's good. I like the chaos element of it. I think it does make sense to build it up first, but this was sort of just like it was 0 to 100 immediately, right? Right. And so what that does is it creates a more chaotic approach to it rather than building the suspense, which is totally fine because I think the vibe of the show matches the chaos. And so I was all for its approach. And I think like what Pat said too, after the first episode, you don't really care about anybody. Like,

I think what that does is it does a couple of things. One, if somebody dies, you don't care as much, which is great because a lot of times in like survival shows, you cheer for people, but then it also creates like a redemption where like after we get a couple episodes of a couple episodes in, we find characters that we didn't like. Maybe we're a little bit more fond of these characters now based off of a little bit more context stuff. I will say, however, one character that will never redeem that is the school teacher that creates a sex cult where

Within the first like 12 seconds of the show where it's like, oh, zombie apocalypse better start a sex cult. I was like, that's this has been on your mind for a while, hasn't it? Like you were waiting for an opportunity to pull the trigger on something like this, haven't you? And outside of which is like, I wish like we saw his demise like before.

better like if he died in that car accident that would have been cool like i think it would be funny with like the whole thing with the bus and then it ended up being like his demise is dying in like a car crash instead of a zombie apocalypse instead of like getting eaten by a zombie would have been um a nice touch but i think the show did like a great job at like building the atmosphere building the characters whether you're cheering or against him i think he does a great job at like showcasing

I would say most characters like backstory and giving context or some characters were like the nurse. She's there for the titties. Like, yeah, the story and for first aid, actually. Sure. But like, it's not like she's doing like surgery. It's like, it's really minor stuff where like,

I feel like they would have figured it out if she wasn't there anyway. Oh yeah. But like, I mean, that's why, I mean, that's why I'm spoiler. I'm not giving the show a 10, but like it has, like it does, it does pretty well. I'm thinking what it's trying to accomplish. How about you, Pat?

Yeah, no, I think the characters all like, can you imagine after that first episode sitting there being like, oh, I love the main character, you know, like the after the slap after proving that he's not a very nice person to a lot of people. And then how about Kota, the the nerd or the in cell, whatever character that we might again, keeping in mind that this is an older show. So the labels might not apply perfectly, but like.

Like he was awful at the start. Like, like he comes off as someone that is just not a good person. And then as we move in through the show, he becomes very redeemable and learns and they start to treat the other characters like people. Yeah. A lot.

is the um the fat guy from science gate a little bit we're like in the beginning like i had no interest in him blah blah by the end of the show i was like he's not that bad yeah it's uh there's the science gate that is a good analogy i think which is funny because it's from the same era right it's uh like maybe a year older yeah 20 20 or 9 2000 no 2011 so yeah long year yeah here's a question what did you guys watch uh dub or sub

dub okay i watched sub the first two times and i so i watched dub this time and and i can see where people i think uh our discussion uh in our server uh yeah building up to this is very true like the localization on this was crazy they did some heavy work it's not just like oh yeah translating it's and it was good i agree like for the most part like like it made it more terrible look

I thought it was funny. It was so funny. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you have any, like, specific moments that you guys want to reference here? Like, I thought the way that they were talking about the guns and stuff was really funny. The one where they're talking about the police on the bridge, and they're like, oh, so you can just do anything if you're a cop? I'm like, yeah, uh-huh. It's funny how this is in 2010, and it's, like, still super fucking relatable now. Like, I got a... Dude, I was...

bawling laughing it was so fucking funny it's like yeah it turns out you just do whatever you want if you're a cop and not get in trouble it's like all right what a what of the favorite one of my favorites was um when uh psycho just went uh went to the teacher and that dress isn't isn't working well and just rips it like up to her well up to a panty shot and she goes

this is celine dion and it's just like it's that it's that fucking worth your life like that was fun you said celine dion yeah you mean like oh i missed that well that's incredible yeah instead of saying like dior she says dion uh yeah that's great there's a lot of good stuff in this show there's a lot of funny stuff if you just close your eyes when the well you can't close your eyes when the panties are on the screen because then your eyes would be closed for most of the show

I think this show does aura farming before aura farming was a thing. Cause like these characters and their dramatic poses and stuff like that, both in the action and out. I mean, one of my, um,

I like rotating desktop backgrounds and I had to find the screenshot myself, but like when they're on the jet or on the bridge and the jet flies by and like takes their picture, that screenshot, like at the beginning of the episode is so sick. Like, that's just like, it's like, hell yeah. You know, like, like there are people alive. We're alive. We're going, doing our thing. Like,

Of course, the scene before that was horrible, but we're going to pretend it didn't happen. But a lot of these characters are just like, yeah, fuck yeah, I'm using a nail gun. That's a homemade weapon, artillery. I'm using a sword and I'm a black belt in whatever so I can flip and fly around and do all this crazy shit. I think the show leans into that, right? Like the aura farming or the... What's another way to put it? Something jumping out at you guys. It's looking cool, I feel like. Yeah.

One of my favorites as well is just Tota messing with the nail gun and then making a sight and then about a scene later not using the homemade sight that he made. That was hilarious to me. There was an action shot. It's episode six where...

It's right when Takashi is about to get on the motorcycle and go save the girl.

And then psycho is just like, I don't know. I thought the, the, I don't know if this is a localization, but I thought it was pretty stupid. She goes like, it's a man's decision. He's going to do what he's going to do essentially. And then he like leaves and they do the Rosario vampire shot where it's just tilted up. It's just her ass. It's just her ass. He has this drew back seat where he's like, go save this little girl. It's just like, nah, her ass is going to be 80% of this shot. Cause she's in a thong. I'm just like,

yep this is the type of show that i'm watching like it yep yeah like don't hide from the fact that you're maybe gonna go off and die trying to save the little girl but we're gonna get this big ass in your face real quick i love that isn't it she's an american too right the uh the woman um inami rika or whatever isn't she like u.s military or something like that

Oh, no, no. She's a special assault team. Okay, but she's got connection. She got her weapons from Americans or whatever. It was the story or the background behind it. I thought that was really fun. America moment. Fuck. Yeah, it was fun how they introduced the guns because they said like those guns aren't legal in Japan. But if you buy them separately and then like Frankenstein it, that's how they made the guns. I was like, that's something very little that like almost means nothing to the show. But yeah,

I did like the fact that they were being like factually correct. Like, no, you can't have an M4 in Japan, but if you buy, you know, eight different pieces and then weld it together, you might. Yeah. Yeah. And this show, I think, and that shows like the research, I think that this, the original mangaka did for this show. Like he, were they called like the gun otakus over there?

It's something like that. He is a Westaboo. He is a Westaboo slash gun otaku, like 100%, like without question. And he loves tits. And like, who can blame him, right? I mean, I'm a fan. I will say it right here on the podcast. I'm a fan. I'll back you up on that one, Pete. Hot take alert. This show, yeah, the Westaboo aspect of it is definitely there, but it's, I think the

There's some psychological stuff that they cover here, too, like with the that I think is relatable to not just the intended audience of Japan as well. I think like they they do a really good job, I think, of showing like what would a teenager first think of when the apocalypse happens? You know, there's there's obviously like the initial outbreak where.

Granted, half of it is used for panty shot purposes, but like the two best friends running along and the second one of them's going to die. The other one immediately is like, fuck you. I never cared about you. Let me go. Like, like that, that moment, there's the psychology of, like you said, the professor or the teacher immediately kind of,

Making a cult. I mean, that's explored in a lot of zombie things. It's amazing what charisma and speech will do for you in situations like that. There's the psychology of...

wanting to go chase down and find your parents. You know, like what is their, what is their, all their goals is to find their parents. How do they determine what order they do it in? What, who's the group leader, even though there's a fricking teacher or a nurse with them, she ain't the group leader, you know, like, like there's, there's power dynamics being explored as well.

I thought it was sick. It is clearly well thought out in that regard. I think maybe I'm biased because I've read further into the manga, but I think it continues to explore that in the manga as well in a very, very interesting way. What it reminds me a lot of is...

I don't know why I have vivid memories of this, but like first, like first hour in like high school when you like get to school and you're like super tired and you start like either like daydreaming of like certain scenarios with like your classmates. Like that's what the show kind of reminded me of where it's just like on the surface. It's just like a fun thing that you're running through your head and

And that's how it starts. And then how it later on, like you said, Pat, with like the psychology, I think that's really like, I think it's great. That's kind of shown in this, but like getting fleshed out more from just an idea to like an actual story was like really fun. I did wish that he didn't start the sex cult immediately. I do think that's something that could have been,

shown to be something great, like why somebody would do that because like in the face of fear and you see somebody who's calm and collective, like you're going to gravitate towards those people because it feels like they're in control. I think that's awesome. I wish that was expanded a little bit and then you can turn into your, your edgy sex cult. But if you can't tell, I have a big issue with that one character specifically because I do think it's something that the show missed that could have been something great.

Yeah, like let him start out just by being like a teacher or a leader. And then as he gets drunk with power, maybe some some of that gets like shown more. But which I think is what they were kind of going forward to. That's what they were trying to do. But then the nature of the ecchi and the.

you know, the pacing on it just makes it so clear that it was like put in for that reason, but also to be just a villain, you know, hold on cat. I want to expand on this real quick because there is an ecchi show revolving around the sex cult that involves a bus. And this is not the first one. There's one called the fruit of Gracia, the fruit of Grisaille, Grisaille. Yeah. Like has is a huge fan of it and how they do it in that show is like the teacher starts with like one girl and

And then that one girl helps or like converts another girl into another girl. And then that starts like their sex cult. And I'm like, I think that how they do it in that show is interesting because it builds to it. Even though, you know, say what you want about sex called on a bus. But like, I think like the opportunity for like some psychological, I would say psychological horror in some aspects of it.

Because some people aren't for it. And you see that one dude get kicked off the bus and eaten by zombies when he doesn't oblige by the rules or whatever. I think that could have just been expanded on greatly. All right, go ahead, Kat. I forgot. No, it's okay. The psychological thing, too, though, there with the cult and, like, again, he gets this power almost immediately. And it's very similar to...

like what sounds like with fruits of grisaille is sounds similar almost like school days as well where oh it is a horror it is yeah and it slowly he turns into spoiler for fruits of grisaille everybody but one person dies on that bus

It's awful. Oh, my God. Sorry. Oh, did you find your point, Kat? Go for it. Yeah, I found it. Like, that makes me really think that maybe the original story wasn't meant to be an ecchi, per se. Yes, it was. Yes, it was. Yes, it was. You know what? I could see...

first first draft it wasn't meant to be an ecchi but the come on I mean the bullet scene like yeah the teacher character or the nurse character I all of them just being skinny with massive tits like there's no like

No, I'm sorry, Kat. Like, I respect... I can see what you're trying to go for, and I'm blocking it. I'm slapping it away. I would honestly probably say that I wouldn't want a non-etchy version of this. What? That is coming from a person that doesn't really like the show. You don't like the show! What do you mean? I think the etchy...

actually makes it a little bit more enjoyable please expand okay tell me how painting shots elevated the show for you um i i feel like the painting shots were mainly something that to that helped me not really get bored of the show

per se because like the panty shots are just like oh my god here's another panty shot and then it like keeps me into the uh into the story where like it's not i don't think to me it's that compelling just say you like big boobs and it raises your score i need i need to know what part of ecchi elevates the show for you

Like, the consistent amounts of, like, just something that I can... Just something that I can latch on to. Okay. And, like, just, like, almost like a side quest. Like, counting how many panic shots have happened during this episode. And then alongside, like, watching the show. Like, just having...

playing with that type of uh type of situation where like it's just something to keep me engaged even though i don't really like it that much okay okay so panty shots and titties keep you engaged which cat i'm in the same boat it does for sure

I just hand up when I think of other elements that the show does, because like, I do think some of the dialogue in the show was actually pretty good, like how they talk to each other. And like for as much as episode six was in terms of fan service, there were scenes where it's like, you know, Takashi and Kota are in like the room together, like talking to each other. Like, I think that dialogue was good. I think you could easily replace ecchi moments with just better dialogue between the cast and it would have been a better show. Yeah.

But I just want to make sure it's on record that the titties and the panty shots raise the score for cat. Like we need to have that cemented. Yeah. And the, the actually, yeah, I guess we can just dive into it. Dive into that being given that we are 40 minutes in on this show. Now it is so annoying how like, because it's such a sick show.

Outside of the etchiness, I think. I think a lot of the characters are really interesting. Their relationships are interesting. The setting is sick and we don't see it enough. We don't see zombie movies where you're trying to survive in a city enough. Maybe because it's really fucking hard and it's unlikely, but like...

Think about like The Walking Dead, the last, all of them, it's you're in the rural outskirts. And again, it's probably because you would not survive if you lived in a city for very long. But this is like day one, day two, day three, you know, so often in these post-apocalyptic scenarios, maybe we get a hint at day one or day zero, whatever. And then it skips forward in time to the post post-apocalypse and, and,

I love that we're getting no time skips, really. It is just balls to the wall. This is the chaos and what's going on right now. I think that there's so many strong parts of this show. Like you said, too, the dialogue. I thought that the way they talk to each other is very realistic for...

It doesn't feel like robots. It doesn't feel like traditional Japanese small talk dialogue that sometimes shows will have. It is intense. They're fighting for their lives, and they do a great job with that. The action is cool, but then there's just...

Why? Why do we need the ecchi and the non-funny ecchi to be very clear here? Because that bullet boob scene is too iconic to roast, in my opinion. Oh, it's great. It's so funny because, again, you cannot look me in the face and tell me that that scene, they wrote that scene and storyboarded it, animated it, voice acted it.

And we're taking themselves seriously and we're trying to like excite you. That was them saying, how funny would it be if we put this in the show or how ridiculous would this look? Let's do it. You know, like that. And of course, then there's the other part of that. I'm thinking about the bullet.

part of the scene then there's the part where he's using her tits as a uh a stock essentially or a oh yeah or some sort well it's meant to be used for the bipod well yeah it was like uh basically their excuse for it was uh it's some padding to to you know because it's a pretty heavy rifle bullet that they were shooting

That was like, all right, fuck you. This is ecchi for no reason. But it was also, how fucking funny is it, man? Like, who thinks of that? What kind of show would ever have that in it other than this show? Nothing else could ever get away with that because it would look so ridiculous. So I don't know. I'm in the get rid of the ecchi and you've got a beautiful drama and you can still have

the sexual tension between a lot of the leads and, and whatever, without having to have them just have panty shot after panty shot or, or,

boobs jiggling what in ridiculous like like slinky ways but i don't know it's uh it would be so sick if the show didn't have the ecchi right like come on you know well it would be a different show too i don't cat would love it uh i just gotta say because like a lot of times like zombie movies or shows itself has like an inherent like sexiness to it

I think a lot of times I remember like, what's the one that they're like trapped in a shopping mall? They're like day of the dead, dawn of the dead, something like that.

where it's like, you know, you're in a group with like six people or whatever, blah, blah, blah. And in the world, you want to have some fun before maybe you die. Maybe you hook up with somebody like that. That is like a thing that happens a lot in like zombie movies. Like, you know, you want to go out one more time. I think this show could have been inherently sexy without the etchy. I think stuff like the bullet scene is,

is super funny like i think that's a way of like making ecchi fun like i have no issues with that scene it's more of like episode six we're watching episode six a lot you know like where she's like squirting water with her tits between her i'm like some girl will have to let me know if you could do that like i'm sure you could but like i've never seen it personally um uh some of the scenes were just like

I like, I think like when they like rip the skirt, like that's to me, that's sexy. That's not actually that sexy. And I like that part portion of, um, I think we, we started in like the resident evil movies where like the main character is like wearing like a, like a cocktail dress and then she has to go kill some zombies and she like rips it for better mobility. I don't know. Maybe it's just playing into tropes too much, but like with zombie movies or shows itself, um,

I feel like the selling point is the zombies. Like you don't need the selling point of the etchiness. I just think being sexy or etchy or whatever in terms of anime, which would just be like a fun addition to it and not like a major focal point. And so that's where it kind of loses me a bit because some points it was fun, but I would say 80% of the time it was like really excessive and unnecessary. But at the same time,

They went fucking full at you. So I'm like conflicted because like I'm being a hypocrite a little bit, but I think you could. I guess my point is you can be sexy without being at you. I completely agree with your point. And as someone as well, that's a very anti-etchy, probably the most out of anyone. I believe three of us, especially, but like I, I see your sexy point very, very clearly. Like, like I think, I think you are correct.

So it's like, how does, how does an anime though? Do the ecchi without fully leaning into it? I guess, you know, I guess it's a couple of scenes that they did it. So like one towards the end, I think it's episode 11 with like Takashi and Ray were on the bed and he like pushes her down. Like that's a sexy moment. Like they were key to the moment. Not sure if he, I think he says like, I'm not sure if I should slap you or kiss you or something like that. Like that scene is inherently sex. Like it's like two people, uh,

whatever uh there was a scene with psycho and takashi where they were in like that um shrine together and i think it's hinted that they hooked up but like i'm not entirely sure it's funny that takashi's sort of like two-timing but i think there are examples of the show that did stuff sexy and to me worked better than running down the stairs and guess where the camera's angled that like that's to me that's like that's like lazy

It's not like you didn't really think of a way to be sexy or edgy. It's just like, how can we implement a camera shot to show off some girl's striped panties or whatever? For me personally, the reason why I mentioned it being more like a game to me after a certain point was, so, splitting episode seven, how many panty shots were in the show? I don't know, 100 plus?

probably yeah 120 132 okay that's still not on rosario vampire season one number so that's true but also like you loved it you just talked about how etchy raised your score actually raised my short my score by one so you're saying we needed more panty shots is what you're telling me no it was not enough

I'm this is this is not where I'm going. Hey, you brought there was 130 some panty shots because I was treating it like a game. This is fucking Gallica Gallica for me. Like the panty shots of the aliens and I'm fucking shooting them. So you want a high score for panty shots? You wanted a thousand panty shots by episode seven. That's going all the way, baby. I needed to go all the way.

I appreciate that they didn't really sexualize the child. They kind of did, though. Oh, they do a little bit. Oh, they do a little bit. I hated that scene. It was so unnecessary. Oh, of course. No, but like not as much as everybody else, I guess is my point. Bro, she peed on him. Or I guess peed on her leg while he was, he probably got some pee on him. Well, yeah, and the guy is, oh, well, that's what a kid would do in that moment, whatever. Like, I guess it's gross. Like, I guess that's sexual in nature, but.

And like, obviously her inclusion in general is just there to, you know, like to exist for those people. She hands bullets to people. Yeah, I guess, I guess I'm just so used to like the lolly character. For sure. Worse treated worse where I watched it. I remember watching it and being like, oh God, if they show this child, like,

if they show her at all in any way, I am turning this off. And they didn't, at least that I remember or saw. So they change her underwear. But speaking of her, I know we're talking actually, but I gotta say one thing that like zombies do really well. It's like the brutality and having her father get murdered in front of her was nuts. Like that scene was like, Jesus Christ. Like that's what I'm looking for. Like zombies. Cause it's like a lot of times I feel like it's like the main character is

and their crew and they lose like the fun side character that you really like gets killed or whatever this is just like oh this dude's trying to save his daughter what a nice dad stabbed in the chest it's like jesus yeah the killed the i guess this harkens back to the point that i was making a little bit earlier but like

Zombies are the main obstacle, at least at this point in the story, right? Like there's no, obviously there's the bad guy in the sense of the cult guy, right? Like interfering and there's the, you know, kind of rapist thief that they run into in the first couple episodes too. But it's nice to have a zombie show where, no, yeah, the zombies are a real, real threat and they are the main threat and they are what you are running from.

And again, I guess that, that, that goes back to the fact that it's day two of the apocalypse, not day 300, where most have been cleared out or have died or have wandered off elsewhere. And then now all that's left are the bandits and the survivors. But like, again, this is where what happened or what would have happened next in this story? I mean, you know, like where would it have gone next? I really wish we could know, but there's no way.

It's very sad. And I, now I just have to wait for another zombie anime to come out and fill in that void. Cause, cause I love these stories, man. Zom 100 season two win. Did it get announced or was it just, I don't remember. I think it was, I don't remember. I feel like I remember it being announced because it like, all right, we're going to look like idiots to anyone listening right now. But, um, Trent, you can just put the real answer over my face. Not confirmed yet.

Oh, it's not confirmed yet. All right. And nevermind. We'll get the zombie land saga movie. So we got some zombie stuff. Yes. Oh my God. And well, and that's the other thing. I love zombie land saga. I got my, I got the two of them behind me. Oh, I cannot wait for that movie. That's supposed to come this year. Is it not? That's this summer. I remember if it's this year or early next year. I will maybe, maybe for the U S it's a whole other thing. Like, I think it does come out this summer. I'm pretty sure. So, oh, I cannot wait for that.

even though it's not really zombie zombie core it's it is a zombie show at the end of the day it is funny i think that like two of my favorite five shows that have come out in the last like five years are technically zombie shows that's you have you have a type it's witches and zombies you do which is for sure yo if we get a zombie witch yo pat is

that would be so down bad i will wondering which elena with a zombie uh fungal infection what if elena dies and then she's the new member of the zombie land saga crew and she wears the hat on stage yo that'd be a sick idol costume i tattoo that show across my chest i mean that would be perfect it would be a stick up as witches

you know these are some questions that we will never get an answer to while we still we're asking the real questions do we have anything else that we wanted to talk about we're just exploring your sexuality and that's fun i i just want to say like because i know there's some like iconic moments and stuff but is there any other scenes that you guys like really liked like outside of like the you know the the gun scene or for cat episode six like that stood out to you that no that you like i'm gonna hate

Oh, you mean like from an ecchi perspective? No, from like an actual perspective. I don't know. At least you want to keep talking about ecchi. Oh, no, I don't. I thought you were saying like on the ecchi topic. Like, okay, no. Like you mentioned earlier, the scene with the child and her father, that was a brutal one. I think that first episode, to me, like the scene where

him and his friend and they're fighting you know and they're and they're trying to and and he has to kill his friend like that's that's brutal that's hard that's hardcore and that's the life that they that they're stuck with i love the parents of uh so they they meet saya's parents first right that's akagi's i really liked their uh i guess it's not really a last stand because it's implied they're still kind of alive but like i loved their their

you guys run we're gonna hold them off like you know like again like making that sacrifice i thought that that was really well done trying to think of anything else off the top of my head but uh the bath scene oh yeah you know we all everything comes back to episode six like that episode is so ridiculous it's so out of place i mean it's not out of place in sense of

It just, it's like, it goes from like ecchi level three to ecchi level 10. Like that. My only defense for it would be maybe the whole point is to show how tense things were for the, I think that what's that on day like three or four of the apocalypse. Sure.

They haven't eaten. They haven't slept well. They probably haven't bathed or anything. Like the whole point is it's them finally unwinding, relaxing and, and loosening up. And I think it's supposed to make you feel that same way as well, which granted it doesn't do that for me in any way, but it might for an 18 year old boy with, you know, his hand in his pants. Oh yeah. And I already referenced the scene a little earlier, but the, again, just seeing that the military is actually doing stuff and trying to, to,

solve this problem i think is really cool i always a big thing that bothers me with zombie media is the idea that every world military just fails like no i don't think that that's what would happen as long as the zombies aren't literally invincible like right

There's just no way you realize how much damage an a 10 Thunderbolt would do on a small town or on a city street of zombies. Like,

Like, no, that's just one plane, you know, not even the foot soldiers. It just doesn't. I appreciate that they showed that the military was trying to be involved in the police and everything else. And even then, not necessarily having to have them make the smartest decisions either, just showing that they exist and that they can also be an adversary to the survivors. You know, it's that whole containment versus evacuation thing.

aspect of a an apocalyptic setting i think that that was explored decently well and was clearly being set up to be explored more in future content that we never got so uh sorry i didn't mean to dominate that section cat what did you any scenes that stuck out to you that i didn't steal i mean i just wanted to jump on to yours uh as well because like uh for me a lot of like it was

I think one of the other ones that jumps out to me is just the brutality of like a lot of the, a lot of the deaths and how to deal with that. Like one of the ones that jumps out to me is when Sia is like about to die. She just grabs the drill and just rams the, the drill, the drill bit into the zombie's head. And it just continues because she's, because she's starting to lose her, lose her mind. Like that's a,

That's a scene that really jumps out to me. But the other thing is that jumping onto yours, I also find it annoying when a lot of the world governments, for me, it's not that they failed. It's that they refuse to act.

So like it's the containment thing, but like they're not trying to save the survivors. They're just there and they're just going to close them off. Like it's like what we see, what we saw with COVID specifically, like, you

Yes, they quarantined people, but they also had people getting into the line of danger trying to help people as best they could. If there is a situation where they're like, this is happening, they're going to have that that closes in. But then they're also going to have missionaries that go in and try and help people try and create railroads and defenses against them.

those that are that are actively trying to eat them and create a situation where they will be able to get away like i i feel like that's much more realistic and that would be i feel like a a fun zombie show that would like uh that could explore that would be like focused on the government trying to trying to extract people out um

It would be cool to see a show focused on that a little bit more, which the show hints at it a little bit, I believe. Not as much as like, yeah, like seeing them literally doing things or getting a soldier's testimonial. But I guess that's the point of the show, though, too, is that it was more focused on the main cast. You know, like it wasn't it wasn't an omniscient perspective. It was the cast's perspective. So, yeah.

Uh, but yeah, so sorry, Pete, what'd you have in mind for this? No, it was one thing that I really liked that. I wish it was maybe like it was foreshadowed a little bit and maybe could have progressed further in the show, but how they use the, their weapon of sound essentially when they use the duck boat.

and you know drove it into like the pool or the water fountain and got the tape and just drove it in circles in order to attract the zombies to the sound I like that I wish it was I wish how they use sound was expanded a little bit better because it seems like that was like a huge weapon that they kind of knew that they were focusing on sound and they didn't use it as much as I thought like in terms of like being tactical I

but i did like that scene it's like oh what's a great way how we can escape using this duck boat it's like well let's draw the attention using sound elsewhere and i i thought that was like a cool addition to sort of like the world building of the show i wish it was expanded a little bit more but i did really enjoy that scene there you go

All right. We've been going good for us. Good for finding a way to yap about the show for with between three people for an hour. Let's do our closing thoughts. So cat, what did you think overall of the show called high school of the dead? And did you have anything that we missed or your final score? If the answer is no to either of the above. Okay. So.

Here's the thing. We are in an age where High School of the Dead, in my opinion, has a better counterpart, and that is ZOM 100. I prefer ZOM 100 mainly because the drama in High School of the Dead, I liked it.

But I also prefer more lighthearted comedies, especially when like there's with the undertone of looming threat and looming dread because we're already in the

this. We live in every day, brother. I need something to de-stress. I was watching the last couple episodes today and I was like, yeah, this is not it. This ain't it, bro. So, like, for me, Zod 100 actually takes the... takes what part this would have filled for me personally when I was younger. I don't really have anything else that is that's super...

That we've forgotten, honestly. Like, this show is a six to me.

That's higher than I thought it was going to be. I also, it's higher than I thought it was going to be as well. I'll take that. I'll take the mini dub there where I can. I will say, I think comparing this show to ZOM 100, other than the fact that they're both zombie shows, is almost like comparing Shaun of the Dead, if you're familiar with that. Yes, I have a little bit. Comparing Shaun of the Dead to like,

The Last of Us or The Walking Dead where they're definitely clearly trying to do different things. Although I will say this show was funny when it was even like from a physical comedy aspect and like the ecchi BS, but like also the dialogue I thought was pretty funny too at times, but it was meant to be clearly meant to be more serious. Like you said, it's like, it's intense. It's meant to be

nerve-wracking i guess and intense versus uh zom 100 had its moments especially at the end of the show i i have to say i remember i because i love that show too and i i look back very fondly on it it got intense by the end of it as well in terms of like just wondering what was going to happen how they were going to solve the problems you know

Yeah, and that's something that I feel like you're not going to be able to avoid in a zombie show. The other thing is that for me personally, when it comes to zombie shows, I don't like them. So it's kind of...

It's just not my thing. That's fair. I love zombie shows, so don't worry. I'll watch them all for you and you don't have to watch them. I'll take care of that. Pete, what have you got? I was going to say, final thoughts. I completely forgot about this scene, but in episode 10, where they're at the mansion or whatever, and to break the tension, the lady drops

her baby's bottle that's made of glass the glass share she's feeding a baby a bottle and it's made of pure glass who has a glass milk bottle for their baby insane um that that scene really took me out of the entire show um all jokes aside we we touched on the ecchi and something that i really wasn't whatever is fine but what the thing that the show does better than

I would say other like ecchi action shows better than icky toast in or freezing or

whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever,

goes forward with psycho and with and ray because he is he's hooking up with both of them so i will love to see how that plays out in it for a show from 2010 looks pretty damn good like madhouse did a great job at animating this i still i mean the bullet scene we brought it up like three times for 2010 that shit's nuts like that's a really well animated scene

Yeah, I mean, for a zombie show, this was pretty damn good. I enjoyed it. I wish there was more fan theories, maybe of like how the show would progress would be interesting to read. But yeah, had a great time. Eight out of ten.

Eight out of 10. All righty. And yeah, for me, I think one thing we didn't talk a lot about is the specifics of the characters, such as like Psycho. I feel like we barely touched on her. I thought that they all kind of filled their cookie cutter purposes in a way, like, you know, the brooding girl, the lead, the

The leads love interest, the nerd, the bitch, the slutty teacher, blah, blah, blah. Like they all had their roles. Yo, she was reaching for his dick in episode six. You see that? Yo, she wanted the pipe like straight up. I think though that

They obviously had their, like, art or tropes to fill, but there was some layers to them. Like, Saeko is clearly fucked up mentally. Like, she is clearly, like, mentally just... She's great. She's great. But she's, like...

the patriarchy got to her or something right like something is going on in there that that knocked a screw loose maybe a zombie apocalypse would do that you know or being almost raped and then like essentially killing the person that was trying to do that to you that probably doesn't help either of course yeah that doesn't help one bit oh no but yeah but i guess that i was trying to be kind about it but fair enough

Kota again is so awful at first and then it turns out like oh no he's just a nerdy misunderstood person and he's not the worst thing in the world he's still a little sketchy to me but like

I appreciate him being knowledgeable. He's very useful. Yeah, he's found his niche within their group and it works and he's going to bag Sia. There's no question about that at this point, right? It's science. Yeah, exactly. Oh my God. Yeah, can you imagine a dating sim game?

based off of this? Yes, I could. I could very easily. A visual novel, whatever they call them. Yeah, that'd be fun. I love this show from a entertainment perspective. I think it's absolutely so much fun to watch and I don't think it's perfect. The ecchi is very annoying at times, but I...

I think my enjoyment, the ecchi is annoying, but it never makes me not want to keep watching the show. Like it's never so, so bad that I just can't like, I don't know, look down at my phone or read the focus on the dialogue and just ignore what's going on. And I think that what separates this from Rosario vampire for me is simply the setting. The fact that it's instead of vampires, which I find so boring, um,

In media, it's zombie apocalypse. It's group surviving an apocalypse moment rather than

i don't know gifted i i don't even remember rosario's plot at this point i i almost misconstrued high school dxd into it that's how bad i i don't remember rosario's plot at this point so i i think yeah my enjoyment for the show has it at a nine and i think i'm gonna stay there it's probably like critically like a seven or 7.5 uh i do want to give a shout out to to uh

There's a YouTuber who I watch, the best guy ever, did a fantastic video on High School of the Dead talking about how it's good. And I think that he gave me the confidence to believe that this show was fun when I first watched it. No, he truly did. And I say this unironically. I used to think that I was foul for enjoying the show simply because it had ecchi on it. And...

I still kind of believe that, but I also believe in myself a little bit more that,

There is like, like, it's not just, oh, I like the show. Cause I like tits. It was like, no, I liked the show because the characters are well-written and a bunch of the other good scenes that we've talked about so far. So I guess like shout out to that video. It's it should be pretty easy. More people should be like, I like the show. I had things I didn't like in it, but I still really like the show. And I think that's perfectly fine. I just wish more people were like upfront with it and be like, yeah, I had a lot of titties, but the show was great. Like, cause that's kind of my thoughts too. Yeah.

Yeah, well, I'm glad we're all pretty much on the same page. You know, I think we voted pretty fairly.

Better than I expected us to do, too, honestly. I really thought that this show was going to get sacked. Well, if Jay was here, Jay had it at a four. I think Miles had it at a five or a six. He had it at a five or a six. I thought he enjoyed it more than that. Maybe not. I don't know. I think Miles fucking hated it. Yeah, no. I'll see if he updated his bow. I think he actively said that he did not like the show.

It's very illogical at points, but I also think it doesn't matter if that makes sense. I think there's a lot of times where people like did like the wrong thing on purpose to add things to the story, but it's not a documentary. I want to be entertained. And I think the wrong decisions were the correct decisions in the storyline in terms of like being or having fun and having drama ensue and stuff like that. For sure. Yeah.

Yeah. All right. I'll just do our total scores then. Yeah, we averaged we totaled up to a 24 unless I can't do math. Yeah, no, 24, which means we average out to an 8.0. Wow. Wow. Let's go. That's almost a full point higher.

Then what the MAL is. Yeah, the MAL is only at a 7.06. So good for us. Again, yeah, like Pete said, never would have happened if everyone was healthy tonight. But who knows? Maybe they're off being zombies somewhere. I hope to God not. Yeah, me too. I don't want that either. That would suck. Zombie apocalypses are scary. So yeah, I guess let's talk about what show we're watching two weeks from now.

Based on the votes that we had, we have ACA 13 not receiving a legacy point. No, really? Damn. Unfortunately, no. Am I have to change my show? Because I was hoping to get a legacy point. It all the voting was actually pretty even second or the last place your show and first place were only separated by six non legacy points. So I would have. OK, I would have voted for ACA.

It was close. It was very close. In third place and receiving another legacy point is Interspecies Reviewers. Two points in front of that, we had our second place show in Spirited Away. So close. Very close. And one point behind, not including a legacy point as well.

Or one point ahead, rather. We have Rosen Maiden. Rosen Maiden. Which will be what we watch for our next Watch Club. So yeah, those are the shows that got legacy points and didn't in what we're watching. I am so not used to doing this part, as you can tell by my rambling. You're doing great. And I'm trying my best to think. My brain is also maybe a little tired from a long workday. But who knows?

Figuring this out. I'm hung over from Vegas. You got to push through my man. I'm hung over from Cape Cod, buddy. You know, a little different. So I went to P-Town, baby. I got. Well, I got stories. Chill. I hung out with dudes who make polycarbonate diamond to push polymers through it. So talk about how you went to pound town. Get out of here. No P-Town. Yeah.

Oh, God, no, I was not. No, Pete. No, no, no, no, no, no. Hey, hey, bro. No, bro. We have room for a third bisexual, my boy. No, come on in. The water is great. Pete Town is Provincetown. It's the tip of the Cape. It's a very famous town. You don't even have the tip of the Cape, bro. It's fun.

All right, let's nominate some shows. Let's nominate some shows. And yeah, we are going to let Miles nominate because it was, unfortunately, he wasn't able to make it for an emergency, which we've used before. So, Kat, why don't you nominate first? Well, I have been informed that my vote, as I have forgotten to, would have been the vote of the people.

So, in order to continue that, I will be the nomination of the people. I'm going to nominate Ishizoku reviewers. Why? Because! That's so lame!

Interspecies reviewers, I have to vote for it. Yay. Let's keep it rolling here. Pete, what have you got? What are you going to nominate? I know it's the same joke over and over again. Like, oh my God, I'm so not looking forward to it, but it'll win someday. And that's okay. Well, you know what? We'll find a way to make it fun. Just like, I don't think people thought this episode would be fun. And I think it was. So we'll see. We'll see. I find it fun when we can,

when we can all tear. You forgot what show you're going to nominate. You forgot what you were going to break. And Miles brought up the show and then you're like, okay, I'll do it because I didn't come prepared. That might be true, but I know it's true. I've known you for six years. I know exactly who you are. You forgot what show you were going to nominate. Miles mentioned interspecies reviewers in the discord chat. And you're like, you know what? I'm going to nominate this show. I know exactly who you are.

Honestly, I've had ACA 13 on my watch list for like eight years at this point. So that was going to be my vote. That was going to be my nom. No, it wasn't. I nominated it. Why would that be your nomination?

Because somebody nominated it and forgot who did it. Because I wasn't on the episode. We talked about it four minutes ago. Okay, I'm down to Aca 13. Aca 13. All right, sweet. Miles specifically messaged me and said, if Kat nominates Interspecies reviewers, then I am nominating this show.

This show is Scum's Wish. So Scum's Wish is going to be nominated by Miles for this show or for us to have to vote on. At least that show has like drama. I guess we did Domestic Girlfriend too, right? And it's like the same similar vibes. We'll see. I guess I have to fall on the sword again, don't I? I have to be the person that takes one for the team here.

uh i'm gonna nominate spirited away i still haven't seen it yet at least so uh and i totally came prepared and brought a nomination that yeah totally yeah good job pat thanks pat um at least it's the show you nominated last week yeah that's fair that's fair but all right uh you came here last week it doesn't matter you've done this for five years

Oh, we're doing watch club on Monday. Get out of town. It was too much day. It doesn't feel like it. All right. So again, just to rehash, we had interspecies reviewers, ACA spirit away and scum's wish. Is that correct? That sounds right to me. All right.

Perfect. All right. Well, that wraps up our watch club. Thank you guys for listening and Pete, take it away. If you have made this far in your support, it's the best way to do so. Like comment, subscribe, leave a review on whatever platform you are watching or listening to us on next week. We are finally getting in the United States and we will be doing our review. That is the movie of Rosa Versailles. So look,

Look forward to that review. Otherwise, in two weeks, if you are here for Watch Club, we will be watching, I believe it's the first season, I think it has a second season, of Rosen Maiden. Thanks, and we'll see you next time. Peace! Bye-bye!