Roasting Our Horrible Anime Tastes | Trash Taste #34
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- What's up crackheads? Welcome back to another episode of the Trash Taste podcast. I'm your host, Joey, and I'm with the other two crackheads. - I like how you like started with alliteration at the start of this podcast and now it's just like- - Yeah, what happened to that? You gave up with the alliteration. - What's up you crazy crackheads? There you go. - Stop saying crackhead, we're gonna demonetize you. - No, we won't. It'll be fine. YouTube knows this is a joke.

- Yeah, YouTube is a sense of humor. YouTube's notorious for having a well-built sense of humor. - They get me. - YouTube gets the jokes. YouTube gets the means. - Yeah, they understand. - They never desensitize. - They understand satire. - They never demonetize for no reason at all.

in the history of YouTube. - No, of course not. - With any YouTuber. - Yeah, it's not like it happened on the last Chris episode or anything, you know? It's fine. - To be fair, I think that was just the copious amounts of alcohol we consumed on that episode. I think that was the demonetization that was happening there. - Chris forced us into just being a mess, which I'm fine with, but you know, just a mess.

- But welcome to this episode of Trash Taste. - Welcome to this episode of Trash Taste. So hopefully this one's not gonna get demonetized because we're gonna be talking about anime. - Whoa, wait, we're gonna be talking about anime?

- Do you remember when- - What? Trash Chase talking about anime? - Do you remember when this podcast was an anime podcast? - I know. - We're gonna bring that back. - I'm glad that I stopped this from becoming an anime podcast. My influence. I did everything in my power. - And then me and Garnt were like, "No, we must bring it back." Like I'm feeling nostalgic now 'cause I get to talk about anime again on this podcast. My fucking God. - I mean, we barely talk about anime on our own channels.

- I like it that way. I like being an anime fan. That's what I like. - Yeah, we're all anime fans. But today we're gonna talk about it. We're gonna talk about some anime. More specifically, we are gonna be doing what we do best, which is roasting our trash tastes in anime. - Okay, as like anime YouTubers and Connor,

- One of the most annoying questions we get asked I'm sure is, what is your favorite anime? Like you get asked this at every panel, at every fan meetup you've ever gone to. And I swear to God, I don't know about you, but I have a different answer every time. - I've loaded a default answer so they don't have to think and that will like satisfy them.

- Yeah, same. I just say sort out lines, laugh and shut up. - But as anime YouTubers, we are normally the ones judging other people's taste, but now we are putting our own taste on the line and we are judging each other's taste and letting you all judge our tastes along with us because like normally we don't promote our MyAnimeList or we'll get into what we're doing, but basically we are going to be showing each other's MyAnimeList

And then afterwards we are going to be, if you guys remember, there was this trend in the anime community before called three by threes, where you basically pick nine anime in a three by three grid that you show to your fellow brethren. And that basically encapsulates kind of your taste of anime. - It's basically just like a Pinterest collage of anime. - We're a bunch of fucking Tumblr girls in this community. Jesus Christ.

- It's definitely started by like Tumblr or Pinterest or something like that. - I think it was started by 4chan actually. - Was it? - Of all things 4chan creates, they made this. Yeah, so in...

- Trash taste spirit. We're gonna bring back trash box gun right here. If you guys remember from our Akibe episodes. - That was half a year. That was over half a year ago. - That was like six, seven months ago. - Jesus Christ. - But we're gonna bring it back and to make it fair, we're gonna pull out, oh wait, what's this doing in here? - Ah yeah, that was me. I did put that. I made it very clear how I feel about Funko pops.

- She's been living there for a while. - You can chill with Mike this episode. We'll give you some- - I do wanna mention while Joey's pulling out the first name that yeah, this is my hidden anime list. So I actually have one from when I was a teenager that I never made public and people would always ask me for my anime list. So I actually made,

on my anime list, I'm the Sea Dog VA and just put like Boku no Pico as like a 10. And then every now and then I get a comment on it being like, I hate you Connor. So hi. - Yeah, my username as well. I mean, I've done a video on it already so people know, but it's like, my username is not even the anime man. - It's a blast for me. - It was the username I used before I was the anime man. - Right. - Which is Dezinga.

- What are you a big bang theory fan? - Where did that come from? - Because my surname is Bazinger. - And is it like big bang theory? - No, that's what I was- - I got him. - Bazinger. - I bet he's never heard that one before. - Yeah, I've never heard of that one before. - All right, well fucking pull a name out of it. - Jesus Christ, shit. - You've just been like fingering that for a fucking millennia. - The first one is, oh, it's me.

- Fantastic. - Let's check out the Zingers anime list. - Okay, so first thing I gotta ask is how, when was the last time you remember updating this? 'Cause like, I'm gonna say this now, we're all picking up our mouths. I haven't updated my mouth in years. - Okay, I'll give you an idea, all right? I'm looking at my watching list right now and Boku no Hero Academia second season is on here.

- Yeah, you've got 91 days here and that was like, what, three, four years ago? - No, I've already finished that one though. - Yeah, but that's like, how long ago was that coming out, 91 days? - God, no. - Fuck, I don't know. - When did season two of "My Hero" come out, like two years ago? - Yeah, maybe two years ago.

- It was two years ago? No, it wasn't two years ago. - It wasn't longer than that? - It was like fucking three, four years ago. - Three, four years ago. So it's been that long since I've updated it. - Yeah. - All right, okay. - So wait, wait, are you telling me you've watched My Hero Academia season one?

- I finished season one, yeah. - How come you've like never talked about this before? - 'Cause it was like the most six out of 10 show I've ever watched. - But you'd normally milk that for all it's worth, being like, yo, it's mid, bros. I'm triggering all the little weaves out there. - I mean, like I could, but also it's like, I don't know. To me, like calling My Hero Academia mid is just as much of a popular opinion as saying that it's a 10 out of 10. - Okay, okay. The first thing that pops out to me on this. - It's mid, but you gave it a seven out of 10. - Yeah, it's exactly,

- It was good, but it wasn't like the second coming of Jesus that people call it. - The first thing that pops out to me here, right? The first thing that pops out to me here as like, this is how I know Joey's my fucking brethren here, right? Because as we all know, I started as the Anime Zone and my very first Anime Zone review was Bleach, which I gave

And I can see that Mr. Joey, the anime man also gave Bleach a seven out of 10. I mean, despite the fact how much we've shitted on Bleach in our like professional career. - Look, look, look, when I shit on Bleach, right? I mean, granted I've never really like publicly shit on Bleach all that much, right? Like I didn't make like a fucking anime zone review on Bleach. But,

- Look, the only thing it's three points off for the Aizen arc and then everything else was perfect. You know what I mean? - I mean, I would argue everything after Soul Society. I mean, you can like the, you know, the Aaron Carr arc and whatever. - The Wicker Mindo arc was fine as well. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it was fine. - I've never watched All Red Bleach. - Really? - No, no.

- You don't need to. - And if you do, just read or watch up to Soul Society, which is the first arc. - Which is what I've heard. You can't just stop if you're like really into a show. - You kind of have to. - Yeah, but you can't just though. You want to see it go downhill. - No, you can. - I mean, it depends like, because Bleach didn't go out with a bang. It just like kind of fell.

- Fizzle towel. - Well, I've watched all the like reviews of Bleach for some reason. I've watched like every eye patch world video on it. And I'm like, yeah, cool. This sounds good. - Don't get me wrong. It was back in the day when it was serializing, it was a super solid showing in manga. And like, you know, as much as I like to think that I'm like, oh, you know, I like all the underground, like weird, you know, non-mainstream shit.

I love my shonen and Bleach was one of them. Like Soul Society was fucking awesome. - Honestly to this day, I think Bleach is one of just the coolest anime to come out. Like it definitely like,

out of the big three, which is like One Piece, Naruto and Bleach. Bleach was just like that fucking cool kid. You know what I mean? - It always seemed like the edgiest one. - It was definitely the edgiest one. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I mean, have you seen what Kumo Taito looks like? He looks like- - I mean, I used to always see the AMVs and it was always Linkin Park with Bleach. - I mean, that was pretty much Bleach. That was Bleach, yeah.

- But it always like it went better with like bleach. Cause they had like half skulls and shit. I don't know what was going on with this man. - It was fucking sick dude. - Like the powers were sick. It was just, it was just the sword powers were sick then. - I wanna see some more Bankai's God damn it. - Say what you want about Kubo, but like he has a good fashion sense. The way he dressed the characters, they just always looked cool.

- The drip was clean. - That's the perfect way to decide two characters, the drip was clean. - Say what you want about Bleach, those characters had drip. - I would go as far as to say that Bleach might be maybe not the first, but definitely one of the biggest shows that kind of gave like, I don't know, maybe it's street wear and animes like collaborations. I would argue maybe came from Bleach. Because a lot of the characters, especially in like the title,

that he wrote during the manga. Like he gave them such cool fucking looking street wear that honestly you can see people wearing like people being me. - This is why Drip Goku exists. - Bleach is the reason why Drip Goku exists. - Is this a meme? - Yeah. - What is Drip Goku? - It's this fucking.

I don't know who made it. - I'll show you. - Yeah, I'll show you. But like, it's this fucking meme of like Goku, like in the fucking like B-boy stance wearing this fucking drip. - It's like a big meme right now. I don't know why this is a meme. I try to explain to some people and they're like, but why is it a meme? I'm like, I don't know. - I don't know. - But it's a meme. - But the drip is clean. - What is?

- Going back to Dragon Ball fans, what is Dragon Ball memes, man? Did this start on Twitter? - I don't know. All I remember seeing is just like drip go, drip go. It's a meme. - And then Vegeta wearing like the Supreme like sweater as well, just being like.

- It's clean, man. - Goku got drip apparently. That's all I know. - Yeah, Goku got drip, bro. - And there would be no drip Goku without drip bleach. - Yeah, if it wasn't for bleach, there'd be no drip Goku. - I feel like every kind of Dragon Ball meme under the sun has just been like every cancerous meme, like literally cancerous memes in terms of the Dragon Ball.

- I'm surprised you've never seen it. It's all over Twitter. - So you rated Bleach the same as My Hero season one. Would you still stand by that? - Yeah, I would. Because like, look, as much again, as much as I don't think My Hero is like the second coming of Christ,

- Season one was solid as fuck. Like I enjoyed it. - I would say for me, My Hero, it goes season two, then season one, then season three. - Right. - Right? We haven't had season four yet, have we? - I don't even know. - Wait, no, no, no, no, no, no, we haven't. - I don't think so. - No, we have. - Yeah, I don't fuck this 20 fucking seasons. - No, we haven't. - Have we? - It's coming out. - Maylin, have we had a My Hero Academia season four?

- It's coming? - It's coming. - Okay, okay, season four is coming. - We're such fake anime fans. We don't even know if there's a My Hero Academia season four. The most mainstream anime. - Point is, My Hero is- - The biggest three-handed shooters don't know if there's a next season of My Hero Academia on the list. - So the next one's announced. I saw on Twitter, everyone was like, "The next arc is boring." And I was like, "Great, so just another year "of just mediocre fucking shonen." - Even the biggest shonen right now is just like, "Yeah, whatever."

- No, I mean, like the thing is with my hero is that I started off really, really liking it. And to me, like out of all the modern Shonen, it had the potential to be the greatest, right? Like you had the potential to reach like a higher ceiling than say something like say Black Clover or Demon Slayer or something like that. But it seems like the setup is there and the potential is there, but there just hasn't been that moment for me to really,

make me love this. And it seems like the more I watch, just the less and less invested I get in it. - Well, that's how I kind of felt watching season one. Like, you know, the first half of season one to me was like, okay, I like this premise, like superheroes, quirks. Okay, cool, yeah, I can see why people are into this. And it's good shit. Like action scenes were pretty fucking solid, characters, pretty fucking solid. But then the further along I got, I was just like,

"Yeah, all right, all right, yeah." It's just a show name. - It's just good, right? - It's just good. - It's acceptable. - It's like I struggle to find words just to describe how I feel towards it. 'Cause I'm just like, at the beginning, I'm just like, "Yeah, I really like this. "I'm really hyped for this." And the more I watch them, I'm just like,

- Yeah, it's good. Not really much to say about it. - That's all it is. - It's just good. - It's good. - It's adequate. - It's like going to a cousin's birthday party. Yeah, I'll go, I'll go. But like, you know, I'm not that thrilled about it, but I'll turn up, you know, I'll be supportive. - How was your cousin's birthday? It was good.

- Yeah, it was fine. - It was good. - That's how I feel. That's how the show is in my mind. - Yeah, exactly. But that's the thing, like people make it out to be, because I'm not praising the shit out of it publicly, people immediately think, oh, Joey hates My Hero Academia. I don't hate My Hero Academia.

I just think it's fine. - I just, you know, I just like, yeah, I just cry every time Deku talks, man. - I'm not a fan of Deku, I'm sorry. - Yeah, I'm not a fan of Deku either. - I don't understand why people love Bakugou so much. I feel like, is there something like gone wrong in the childhood of the girls who are like really into him? - I don't get it. - To me it's like, he's just kind of an asshole. - I understand why people love Todoroki. Like that is like set up to be like, yeah, fan favorite. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Why Bakugou is people's favorites, I don't understand.

- It's like the worst kid in school. Everyone's like, I love this kid. - It's like people like talking about bleach. It's like back in bleach days when people said that Renji was their favorite. I'm like, what? He's just an angry kid. - No, he's a nice guy secretly. And I'm like, have you ever met someone who's an asshole in real life? Who's secretly nice?

- What's weird to me, right? Is like, you know, the same kind of Twitter accounts and the same kind of fan base I see like defending Baka and having him as their favorite character is like the same kind of accounts that I see fucking trying to cancel people for like 10 year old tweets or something like that. And like here,

they're trying to cancel people for that. And here they are being like, oh, I mean, Bakugou like was a bully back in middle school, whatever, but he's like turned around now. He's a good guy now. - He's got friends to support him now. - It's a lot easier to get behind a fictional character's turnaround story. - Yeah, exactly.

- They're not real person, sorry. - Like there's people defending Vegeta and he fucking tried to blow up the planet two arcs ago, man. Jesus fucking Christ. It's all right, he's a good guy now. - Speaking of Vegeta, you gave Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z both a nine out of 10. I thought Dragon Ball was shit. - No, it's good. - A nine? - Are you gonna look me in the eye and say the original Dragon Ball is a nine?

- No. - Okay, that's good. - Again, this puts into perspective how long ago it was that I probably put that in. - Like how many fucking Doraemon movies? You gave fucking a Doraemon movie a masterpiece. You give that a 10 and you gonna give Doraemon- - Wait, which one? Which Doraemon movie? - There's so goddamn many. 16, you gave a 10. What is special about 16? - Okay, that movie- - Was it like the Schindler's List of Doraemon movies? - No, okay, that was the third Doraemon movie. - I think it's 16. - No, the remake is 16.

- Yeah, the original is the third one, which I couldn't find, which doesn't exist on my anime list for some reason. - All right, okay. - But I gave that a 10 purely because I watched that movie. That was one of the first "Orionmon" movies I ever watched. And I mean, if you guys don't know. - You're hitting me with that. - I'm a bad guy now, I get it. - It's good. Honestly, like I swear, even now, I could probably rewatch that movie and still find it enjoyable, yeah.

- I don't know. Doraemon holds a special place in my heart. As you can tell from the amount of fucking Doraemon movies. - Yeah, I'm just like, I didn't even know there were this many Doraemon movies. - Dude, they're still making Doraemon movies. - I'm surprised someone else has been watching Doraemon like further along than when they were a kid watching on TV. 'Cause that's the only exposure I've ever had to Doraemon. I probably would never go out my way

to watch a fucking Doraemon movie, right? - I completely understand. If you did not grow up with Doraemon, I do not blame you for not watching a single Doraemon movie or episode because that shit's hard to get into as an adult.

But if you grew up with it like I did, then you could easily go back and watch it. - I know man, to me it's kind of like, yeah, as a grown up, grown ass adult, I'll just like watch the fucking Teletubbies movie or something. - Yeah, right? - Or it's like Dora the Explorer live action, you know what I mean? - Yeah, exactly. - You have to like talk to like a niece or something and then you're like, "Oh, show me what you watch." And you watch it and you're like, "What the fuck is happening?" This shit is just wild, bro. What is this?

That's probably what my parents thought when I was watching Doraemon. I was like, "What the fuck is this blue thing?" - I noticed you gave Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood both a seven. - Yeah. - Why? - Because it's like my hero. It was good. - No, come on, you're just being, Brotherhood is not, it's like at least an eight or a nine, come on. - It was acceptable. - Acceptable? - Yeah, it was acceptable. - Hold on, hold on, hold on. Let me act.

- Let me act angry. - Okay. - Wait, you gave Fullmetal Alchemist a seven? How dare you Joey? How dare you? I am so fucking offended right now. The audacity of this bitch, man. The audacity. - To the new viewers, Garnt has never watched Fullmetal Alchemist. - That scene with Nina and the dog, Mike, did you not get the feels from that?

- I love how that's the first thing you think of. - I'm not trying to say like you need to give it like a 10. I'm just saying, I think it's like minimum eight. - Okay, here's the thing. With that one, I still stand by that to this day because like a lot of people, it was not the first anime I watched. I watched that way after it came out. - Yeah, me too. - Right? - Right. - Yeah, but it was probably one of the first ones you watched, right?

- Probably like first 20. - Yeah, exactly. - Does that count? - This might've been in like the first 200 for me. - Yeah, but I don't know. I feel like out of all the anime I've watched, it's definitely one of the better stories. - Here's the thing. My experience with Fullmetal Alchemist is basically Garnt's next step, which is because I hear about it so much, I watched it out of obligation. Garnt hasn't got to this stage yet. - I haven't got to that stage yet. Every time someone asks me, a day gets added on. - Exactly. - I'm pretty sure like- - And I was like that as well. And I'm just like, you know what?

I got time, I'll fucking watch it just because I hear about it. - Both of them in the same sitting? - No, so people were like, okay, you don't have to watch the first full monogamous, just watch Brotherhood, right? You hear that all the fucking time. But I'm like, no, no, I wanna see why people are saying that, right? So I watched the original and I was like, okay, this was adequate. So Brotherhood must be a lot better, like a lot, lot, lot better. That's what I heard. And I watched it and I was like, yeah, it's better,

- It's essentially the same thing. - It deserves a point higher better. - It's essentially the same. - No, it's not. - Okay, the first Fullmetal Alchemist is like a low seven and Brotherhood is like a high seven. - Oh fuck off. - It is. That's all it is to me. - Also, I'm critiquing your scores here, knowing that some of these anime I've also scored myself,

I have no idea what I saw. My list was done in 2014. So we're talking about, holy shit, seven years ago. - I see you've given Naruto a six compared to Bleach. So would you say that you preferred Bleach over Naruto? - Absolutely, I prefer Bleach over Naruto. - Really? - I have never dropped a show more times than I have Naruto. Like Naruto has been one of those shows where it's like, I've watched it, I've read it and watched it like,

close to the end. - Yeah. - But along that way, there were so many points throughout Naruto where I'm just like, "Ah, maybe it's not worth it." - And you didn't get that with Bleach at all? - No, I did get that bit with Bleach once during the Aizen arc.

- That's it? - Yeah. - I mean, Bleach for me was just like a constant downhill. Naruto just kind of went up and down. And I think back sometimes and I think, was Naruto a good show? Would it hold up to this day? And I still think some of the best parts of Naruto are still like,

- It's fucking amazing. - Yeah, no, again, and that's why I probably gave it a six, right? It's because like, I completely understand why it is one of the most beloved anime out there today. And so like, I saw parts of that, but again, this was, I didn't grow up with Naruto like a lot of people did. Like this was again, another show that I kind of just- - This is just another shonen for you, right? - This is just another shonen for me. - Right, right, right. - Yeah, so again, I'm not saying that Naruto is bad.

I'd just like to point that out. It's not bad, but it's not a 10 out of 10 for me. - Okay, I'm trying to see what else. - I feel like I'm getting interrogated. - This is an interrogation. - It's an interrogation. This is like weeb interrogation. - This is like true crime weeb edition, you know? So yeah. - Notice his hand movement. His hands are off the table saying that he is quite nervous. - So like, we're not like, okay. So what is the lowest one that you've rated on here? I'm trying to see. - Probably a one.

I'm trying to see. Oh, I think it's Pupa. - Oh yeah, Pupa. I get Pupa one, I think I get Boku no Pico one. - Yeah, the biggest thing that surprised me going through your list is, okay, be honest, have you completed every anime you've scored on here? - Yes. - No way. - No fucking way. - There's so fucking many. - Except for maybe Sazae-san.

- You completed Sazae-san? - I haven't completed Sazae-san 'cause it's still going after 50 years. But other than Sazae-san, I honestly think I have finished everything. - Because like, I remember one of, 'cause when we're gonna get to my list, one of the reasons why my list seems like a lot emptier is because if I don't complete a show, I just don't bother putting it in my list. - Well, that's why I have like the on hold section as well. - Oh, you got the fucking...

- When did you stop updating this man? - Again, four years ago. - You really were the anime man before this. What the fuck? You watched so much anime. - You've also rated Tokyo Ghoul.

- Season one, the same as season two. - Right. - Come on. They are nowhere near the same. - To be fair, I would rate, what did I give season one and two? - What do you think you gave season one or two? - I think I gave season one and two like a seven, maybe? - You did. - Okay, yeah. - Season two is like a fucking- - I would give season two maybe like a four. - Yeah, I was gonna say, it's like not even remotely the same. - I give it like a four. - What are you on about? - I don't know what I was on about. Yeah, I give it like a four. - "Trigunner" seven, you stand by that?

- Yeah, yeah. - Really? Really? - Okay, there were a lot of parts about "Trigun" I really enjoyed, but I think the problem with "Trigun" is that I was a little too overhyped when I came into it. 'Cause I heard so many people being like, "Yo, "Trigun" is like same levels as like, you know, "Baccano", "Cowboy Bebop", it's like up there with the big like classic leagues. And I'm like, "All right, I'll get into it." And I watched it and again, it was good, but not to give spoilers, but the last quarter of "Trigun" I was like,

- I was like, what the fuck is going on? - Really? - Yeah. - Really? - I thought the last quarter of Trigon was fucking great. - It was great. - I enjoyed it, but I was like, what the fuck's going on? - I was like, what the fuck's going on? - I enjoyed it though. - I mean, it's been a long time since I watched it. - I say this, I haven't watched it in literally a decade now. - It's been a long time. - It's been a long time since I watched Trigon. - Zetsuno Tempest as well, give that a seven. That is, if there was a benchmark for seven out of 10 shows,

- It would be Zetsuno Tempest. - I actually, I can't remember what I rated it. - It's like the one that's like a, isn't it based on the Shakespeare? - It's based on Shakespeare. - I mean, was it based on Shakespeare? 'Cause I think it was an anime original. - Very, very loosely inspired off a Shakespeare story. I don't remember which one it was, but I gave a points because at the time it was quite creative and new. - I really liked it. Like it's one of,

- I put Zetsu and the Tempest in the same category as I do Darker Than Black. When I watched it, it was kind of like, when I think back, I was like, it seems average in my memory, but for some reason it sticks with me. And I always think back to this show. - What did you see? - What did you see? - No, I did finish my point. - Yuri on ice, a three.

- Were you just trying to like piss off Twitter that day? - No, I just genuinely thought it was fucking boring. - No, it is not a three. - I just thought it was fucking boring, I'm sorry. - No, no. - Oh, come on. - I don't want to get into this again, man. Like at the time I got so much shit for it. - Yeah, I remember. Did you make an apology video? - Yeah.

- No, because people, because I said that I didn't like "You're On Ice." - You made an apology video for it. - It's because at the time, at the time, like "You're On Ice" was like the hottest thing right back, like I don't remember when it was, like 2016, 2017, something like that. And all I said in the video was, I don't think "You're On Ice" was, oh no, I said something along the lines of 99% of people watch "You're On Ice" for the yaoi elements, 1% watched it for the actual sport element.

And so many Euro knife stands called me homosexual because of, oh, sorry, not homosexual. They called me a homophobic. Yeah. They call me homophobic because of it. First of all, Hey,

- A, I'm not homophobic. - You also gave Free a five, Joey. So, man, this is looking pretty bad for the- - Wow, wow, yeah. - Because Free, I gave a higher score than Yuri on Ice because Kyoto Animation animated that way better than they did Yuri on Ice. - I don't really think there's any world, like any review that you could warrant that Yuri on Ice is below a five. Like it was a really good story.

It was minimum five, I think.

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- I mean, if it's not your thing, because the thing about- - It wasn't my thing. - The thing about Yuri and Ice is that they introduced way too many characters and they just like kind of didn't focus on any of them. - Also, I'm sorry, I couldn't stand the main fucking character. I hated him. - I love the guy who just came while he's dancing. That guy was funny as fuck. - Oh yeah, that was, yeah, again, there was some funny parts about it. There's a reason why I didn't give it a one, right? Like there was some parts about it that I enjoyed. - Wow.

- There's a reason I didn't give it a one. - There's a reason I didn't give it a one. There was some parts about it, but like, was it a fucking like slog to watch all of it? Yeah. - No, it was good. - I was like every episode passed, I was like, I could be watching something else. - As far as Aki isn't beat you up for saying something like that. I thought she really liked it. - Yeah, no, she likes it. And she's like, well, that's your opinion.

- All right, here's something I noticed. Kiss Excess. - Oh yeah. - Masterpiece. - Seven out of 10. - Yeah. - So Juju, do you wanna explain why it's not either like a one or a 10? - I'm guessing it's not a one 'cause he came to a realization with his friend. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - No, if I put that in my list, like after the first time I watched it with my friend, I would've given it a 10, right?

- Right, right. - But then I rewatched it 'cause I was like, I was drunk as shit when I watched that the first time. Let me rewatch it just to double check. And I was like, it's good, not a 10 though.

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- What I will say about this going through this is that you've finished a lot of shows that I've watched like a few episodes off and they're not gonna be on my list, but you've like just straight up finished them and scored them. - I don't trust someone who would get through some of these shows. - What do you mean? - I'm like, I think there's something wrong. Something's gone wrong in the head to make you keep watching. - You have to understand like back in like 2016, 2015, this is all I fucking did. - Like no fucking wonder you both.

- I'm like, how do you burn out on anime when you're like, when you're actually finishing most of these shows. - You know in the movie "Old Boy" when that guy's trapped in that room for like 10 years? Like I'm pretty sure he watched less anime than this. Like how do you get through this? - Okay, yeah, not gonna lie, like I'm looking through my list right now and like,

- I feel like my past self and the fact that I finished "Infinite Straddle" season two. - You finished season one, you went through season two. - You swear that you didn't lie on any of these that you like. - Okay, legit other than Sazae-san, I 100% have finished all of these.

- All right, well, fine. - And that is like, I swear on my grave. - I had a little fucking reaction that said bullshit, but I'll say fine. - I swear I finished it. - Overall, your list is like exactly what I'd expected. You give the shows that are universally accepted to be good, good ratings and you give the shows that are universally to be bad, bad ratings. - I mean, I have good taste. What can I say?

- You have the public taste, I would say. - I don't think I have the public taste. - It's pretty in line. - I gave you an ice of three. That's far from public taste. - Yeah, you can't just do one outlier. - That was your one hot take. I will note that you gave Charlotte a seven. And that's a pretty high score for what I think is Jun Maeda's worst piece of work. - Yeah, I would give that realistically like a five.

- Would you say if the director is esteemed or like the show makers are esteemed, you're more likely to give a fairer review? - I think if I'm a fan of like the creator or like the studio or like someone in the production team, then I'm more willing to give it. Like, you know, say like Charlotte, right? Like that's a Maeda Jun production. And like, I love everything Maeda Jun makes, so I gave it a seven. But realistically thinking back on Charlotte now,

realistically I give it like a four or five. - See this is why I'm the perfect critic because I just don't know anything. I go into the show and I'm like, I don't even know what the fuck the studio made this. Like let's just watch. - Yeah, exactly. - So it's like Bones, who's Bones? - What is Bones? - You gave another a nine?

- Yeah. - No! - What? - Yeah. - What? - No, you don't stand by that, right? - No, come on. - I can still give it like an eight. - Oh my God. - Yeah, I really enjoyed it. I don't care what anyone says, I really enjoyed it. But then again, I'm a fucking horror anime simp, so. - That's like an anagram for I have shit taste. - Yeah. - Yeah, that's what I know. - Because there is no good horror anime. - What do you mean? - There is- - Have you watched "Mallinoka"? - That's not a horror. - I mean, that's.

- That's a horror in the same way that like fucking monster is a horror. You know what I mean? - Yeah, monster is a horror. - That's a horror the same way that fucking Grave of Fireflies is a horror. Like it's different kind of vibe, bro. - What are you talking about? - I mean, it's not like it's scary, scary. You know, it's kind of like the thing. - I don't know, man. I was pretty fucking on edge when I watched "Mammon Onoke". - Yeah, it's unnerving. - We gotta get on with the show anyway. - It's unnerving, but it's not like, like it's definitely not on the same,

kind of genre as another, which is just Final Destination, the anime adaptation, but even campier. - I like the campiness of it. I don't know, I really enjoyed it. I love my fucking B grade horror films. To me, another was like a really good B grade horror. - Are you trying to defend the fucking umbrella scene? - That was the worst. - How did you not burst out laughing when that happened, man?

- The entire last two episodes. - It's like a Mr. Bean episode at times. - The entire last two episodes was just a fucking slapstick comedy. - Might as well put some Benny Hill music on that. - I really love the campiness of it. I don't know why. - All right, fuck that shit. - I completely get why people hate another. I just thought it was really like tongue in cheek, like campy and fun. - Give me the box. Let me pull out the next one. 'Cause I don't think it'd be funny if I pull out myself.

And the next list we're gonna be discussing is... - Mine, wow, I guess we're just going in order now. - All right. - Okay. - Who fucking needed this anyways?

- I can't remember when I've last updated this 'cause I stopped updating my mouth and I moved over to- - I guess you could see what the most recent- - And I moved over to Kitsu. So it depends if Kitsu is also updating this, but this is going to be my teenage taste, I'm guessing. - Teenage taste. I can tell this is your teenage taste because like, I don't know, in a past episode, you talked so much shit about Akira and yet you've given it an eight out of 10. - Oh my God.

- What would you give it now? - I'd give it like a six. - A six, okay. - I'd give it like a six. - Well, you're still dead to me, so. - What do you think you gave "Aka Mega Kill"? I'm just curious. - I was about to. - Is it really low? - No, no, no, I'm just curious. - Was it like three? - Yeah, what did you get? - Three or something? - What would you rate it today if I asked you to rate "Aka Mega Kill"? - Like two. - Really? - Two. - It's not that bad.

- Yeah, I would also give it the same. - It's pretty bad. - It's pretty shit. - It's a six out of 10. - You gave it a four. - Okay, okay, good, good. Teenage me I'd say. Okay, "I Can't Make a Kill" was one of those shows where I thought was awful and then all the comments were, "The manga's better, the manga's better. Trust me guys, the manga's better." So it was one of those few times where I called them on their bluff, right?

I called the manga readers on their bluff and I read the manga up to the end, right? And I'm just like, this is just the same shit, just elongated. You know what I mean? Everyone was complaining about the anime only ending of a Kamiko kill, but the manga is like equally as edgy, but it just elongates. It just has a different ending and it's...

- It's equally as bad in my opinion. - You also rated "Aldinor" a zero. - Yeah, you gave it a six. - Yeah, you gave that season one a six and season two a six, but season two, come on, is infinitely worse than season one. - Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking.

- I was thinking season one, "Alton O' Zero" season one is actually like pretty decent, I think. - Yeah, you talk good stuff about "Alton O' Zero". - "Alton O' Zero" season one, I don't remember why I gave it. - Did you maybe finish both of them at the same time? Like you finished season two and was like, I'm pissed off with this shitty show. - Maybe, because I remember "Alton O' Zero" season one being pretty interesting and then like it was great and then the cliffhanger scene

season ending happened and he was just like, holy shit, this is super interesting. And then season two just kind of pissed on everything that season one set up. - And then he became like Kirito, started like being the god at like the next. - I know this is like teenage god's list because she came back to test on eight.

- Dude, okay, okay. I still stand by that. - It is pretty funny. - But you also gave season two an eight as well. - You gave- - Season two is not as good as season one. - I've never watched "Baccato" What is "Baccato" test about? - "Baccato" test, it's just like a comedy, like kind of trashy, like romance, itchy. - That sounds wide off his alley.

- To be honest, I like it. - The human ambassador for domestic girlfriend. - It was like one of the first comedy anime that actually made me laugh and I didn't think was generic. Now that I look back, I think, yeah, it was probably pretty generic. I don't know. Like I look at the art style and I'm just like, this is premium mid 2000s anime. It is nothing interesting to say about this at all. - You gave Baccano a 10 as well. I like that.

- I think we all get back on our 10. - If I didn't give it a 10 on my list, I don't know what- - That's why I'm curious to see what your three by threes are because that's where like the real personality test comes in. - Hold on, I gotta ask that, Maylene.

- Do we have beers? - Oh no, Nabi gave me some beers. - We have beers? Okay, good, I'm just checking. Need to make sure. - Okay, okay, okay. - 'Cause it'd be fun. - Oh no, no, we also have- - Oh yeah, we got the pekora juice. - We also have pekora umeshu. - Pekora juice. - You like that, Connor? You like that? - Pekora juice. - We're gonna be smashing some of this, right Connor? - Hell yeah. - Like fuck the beers. - No, don't even, he doesn't even deserve pekora juice, dude. Give it to me. - I would rather have a beer than-

- You don't want some of Pekora's goodness? - You don't want Pekora juice, dude? - So I noticed as well that you also gave Batum an eight. - Yeah. - And Joey gave Batum a six. - Yeah. - I actually would side more with Garnt on this one. - Really? - Even though it did end kind of shit. - Yeah, wasn't the ending absolute shit? - But the show was really fun. - The opening was a banger. - Okay, opening, fucking 10 out of 10. - Dude, fucking 10 out of 10 opening. Batum, the show, that was just pure fun. - Yeah. - I don't know, like it is- - Yeah, dude, it was good.

- It was fucking great. It was one of the few death games that didn't feel like it was one, a battle royale rip off. 'Cause the problem with every death game anime is that it feels like a virgin battle royale. You know what I mean? Battle royale did it and like, why would I wanna watch anything else? But Batum just,

It was just like, it didn't try to pretend that it wasn't a battle royale rip off, but it just like, it went off that and it just was a hell of a lot of fun. - I don't know, I think I gave it a lower score. I think when I first finished it, I also gave it maybe like a seven or an eight, but then I read the manga and I was like, oh yeah, compared to that, it wasn't that great. - I guess for some reason, like "Batum" has always been one of those shows that like stuck with me. I don't know why. Like I've always just wanted the season two. - I mean, I still think about it.

- I still think about it. I still think about why it didn't have a season two. And like, I know Sydney read the manga and she said the manga is also pretty good. - Yeah, the manga is way better. - Is it actually good? - Yeah, the manga is way, way better. - Okay, you gave Eramanga Sensei a 10, so you did to me. - But you are my brother because you gave Gankutsu a 10, which I also agree with. - Yes. - You gave Code Geass season one a 10 and Code Geass season two an eight.

- What are your thoughts on that? - Okay, okay. - I'm interested. - Okay, so I remember giving it a 10. Okay, so the thing about Code Geass, right? Is I gave it a 10 the first time I watched it 'cause I thought it was like a fucking masterpiece. It was perfect, it was everything. I recently, not recently, like I rewatched Code Geass with Sydney and there was a lot of flaws in season one that I guess I just,

kind of ignored as a kid or just like kind of forgot about. Like, okay. Like I remember rewatching it and I'm just like, why is there an episode dedicated to chasing a cat? And how did I just blank this from my memory? Like what the- - That episode was very shit. - Like in my, 'cause I remember first watching Code Geass, it was like easy 10 out of 10. This is like the greatest anime can become. And I think I just remember the good points of Code Geass 'cause there was a lot of like plot holes and everything like,

- Can we spoil Code Geass? - Yeah, I think it's, we're gonna spoil Code Geass. I think it's universally, it's like the sixth sense thing. - Skip to this timestamp below, 'cause Code Geass, if you haven't watched Code Geass and you wanna watch it, it's one of the most spoilable shows out there. But I remember rewatching it and I'm just like, man, they really had to like,

twist the plot in order to make Nina or what was not Nina, Euphemia just fucking massacre everyone. Right? - Yeah, true. - 'Cause I remember watching it and I'm just thinking, man, the plot's kind of over now. Everything's sorted. And it was just the most- - Racism is over.

- Everyone go home. - It was just the most roundabout way of like, okay, guys, we're gonna make the plot continue. How can we make the plot continue? And it was literally a scene where Lelouch goes, "Wouldn't it be funny if I told you to kill the Japanese? "Psych." And then it wasn't psyched. - Yeah, that did happen, right? - And like, I just remembered,

- Wow, I remember thinking as a kid, that was a huge plot twist. And now watching it as an adult, I'm just like, this is stupid. I'm just like, this kind of doesn't make sense. This is kind of pretty cheap right there. This is pretty cheap writing. So yeah, like now I would give "Code Geass" season one

- Maybe an eight. - I think because the highs of Code Geass are so good. Like you almost forgive it. - The highs are very high. - So you like, you forgive it for a lot of the shit it does. - And then season two was like, that was, I don't know what it is about season two. That was like a car crash that somehow- - Roller, roller was the real one. - Season two was a car crash that somehow perfectly parallel parked. Like it,

It was an absolute disaster and somehow it like just landed its ending perfectly. And I remember rewatching Code Geass R2 after season one and going on the problems I had with season one, season two just took all the like small problems with season one and just extrapolated to them. So like let's take every stupid plot twist in season one and just make it 10 times bigger.

- True, true. - And I think the exact moment that lost me in season two was like, it was Lelouch, it was the, I am Spartacus scene, but just with Lelouch. And I just thought, okay, this is not clever anymore, it's just stupid. And everything up to that, to like the final three episodes was fucking dumb, but- - They just stick the landing man. - But like the ending is still, I think the best,

- I would think it's probably the best of the top of my head. The best ending anime is produced so far. So God knows. - Is that an unpopular opinion? - God knows. - Okay, hold on a second. I'd like to point out for someone who says he doesn't like Ghibli films, you gave Mononoke Hime a 10.

- Yeah. - Will you stick by that? Because if you do, then I can high five you, but if not, the backhand is coming. - Okay, what did I give Spirited Away? - Let me see. - Because I think thinking back, one of my- - You gave Spirited Away a nine.

- Okay, then. - Yeah? - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I really had to think about that. 'Cause I don't like Ghibli films, but I think Mononoke and Spirited Away are some of the few where I stick by them. - It's good. - I also love how you gave Gyo a six.

- That's pretty fucking high if you ask me. - I thought it was good. - Have you read the manga though? - I have read the manga. - How did you give it a six? - I think I gave it like a three. - What is Gyo? - Gyo is a Jinjito manga. - Gyo is a Jinjito manga that- - And they made a movie about it like five years ago and it is horrendous. - I think it was a fun movie.

I had a fun time watching it. - I was so sad watching it. - 'Cause the thing about Gyo is that I watched the anime not knowing any background about it, not knowing it was Junji Ito. I thought he was just like campy B movie horror movie, which it is. But I remember because I went into that thinking it was gonna be absolute trash and I watched it and

despite it's actually being trashy and it was trash, it gave me the same kind of enjoyment as you do watching a shitty B movie horror. 'Cause it wasn't like it was shitty animation 'cause Gyo the movie was animated by Ufotable. And man, you can see some effort being put into this man. - But you also got to admit that like the 3D, some of the 3D elements I was just like,

God, this is ugly. But is that a good thing because it's a horror? Like I don't even know. - In 2012, it wasn't, you know, they weren't very good. - Yeah, no. - It was compared to some of the 3D that came out in 2012 compared to like Studio Gonzo Gantz 3D, which just makes me wanna vomit when I think about it. - Don't remind me of that. - Like it was good looking 3D. - Yeah, true. - Like you fightable put some effort into that. And I respect them for doing that. - You watched Halo Legends.

- I think you're the only person on my anime list who watched that. - I didn't even know there was an anime for Halo. - Yeah, oh my God. - RIP to the other 19,000 people who have rated this show for some reason. - I think I watched, that was my stint when I watched that and the Mass Effect anime as well.

- What do you think you give Halo Legends? Did I say what you gave it? - I don't think so. - No, I didn't. I can't. - Give it a four, Garnt. - Okay, good, good. Okay, I stick by that. - Okay, hold on a second. You gave Re:Zero season one a six.

- Did I actually? - Oh no. - What's that about? - Ooh, okay. - Why the six? - What would you give it? - I think I gave it a seven or an eight. - Yeah, I'd give it an eight probably. - Okay. I don't know why I gave it a six. I think it was 'cause everyone was hyping it up and I was- - I wanna be different. - I was kind of underwhelmed by it. Now, 'cause I have rewatched Zero in preparation for season two.

- I would give it a seven, but I remember coming out of Re:Zero just feeling empty, right? And it just kind of, it just, no, 'cause it kind of like, I had a good time watching it and it was just like gut reaction of, it was a good time and I'm probably gonna forget this show in a few years. And it just, I didn't end up forgetting it. - You also gave Space Dandy a six as well.

- I really liked "Space Dandy". - I really liked it too. - If you look at it like a Saturday morning cartoon, it's pretty fun. - Yeah. "Space Dandy" was, it was a very hit or miss for me. You gave "Sword Art Online" and "Sword Art Online 2" also a six. So in Garnt's opinion, "Space Dandy" and "SAO" are the same level. - On top of that, he also gave "Guilty Crown" a five. So would you say that "SAO" is better than- - "SAO" is better than "Sword Art Online".

- Would you say that SAO is better than Guilty Crown? - No, I wouldn't. - You're a little harsh on Guilty Crown. - I was a little harsh on Guilty Crown. Guilty Crown, I would give a higher score. But going to SAO versus Space Dandy,

I mean, I've rate this based on my pure enjoyment and "Space Sandy" was either like nine on enjoyment or a two depending on the episode. Which is probably why I rated it a six. There was some killer episodes and then there was some episodes that were just a fucking drag where "Sword Art Online" was just like a constant. - It was a plateau. - It was just a constant six. I watched this, I'm trash, I enjoy this, whatever. Move on, you know what I mean? - Care to explain this one Garnt? - Okay. - JoJo.

- Seven. What's up with that? Come on. - Is it part one? - Is it the original one? - No, no, no. The original one he gave us six, which you also watched. - Oh, the OVA. - The OVA. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Season one. Well, actually you haven't rated any other JoJo's ever once. So I'm gonna take this as the JoJo series as a whole gone. - Okay, no, I rated part one, well, season one. - Too bad it's a seven. - It is a seven. I'll stick with that. - I just wanted to get angry for a second. I just wanted to get riled up a little bit. - You also gave Totoro an eight.

- Okay, that's wrong. I don't know what the fuck was I thinking? Was I trying to look like I had good taste? Oh my God, no, it's a fucking four in my opinion. - What do you think you gave Kuroko no Basket?

- Eight. - You did, yeah, I'm surprised. I honestly thought you would bash Kuroko no more. - I love Kuroko. - Did you? - Yeah. - For some reason, I thought you hated Kuroko. I love Kuroko. - No, I love Kuroko and Kuroko was a sports anime that got me back into sports anime. So no, I- - You watched all of "Makako City" actors? - Yeah, I noticed that. - What? - He gave it a four, which I would also agree with. - What the fuck?

- Oh fuck, how did you sit through all that? - It was just, I don't know. I liked the aesthetic and I don't know why it was just maybe I was just high that day and I just- - I was so disappointed with that 'cause I love the novels and they just completely fucking destroyed it. - It was me going through, it was me after watching "Bakumanogatari" and going through the shaft type. I'm just like, this is gonna get better.

- This is my studio shaft. - I legitimately thought that "Makako City Actors" was like a gay porn novel because of the internet. Because all you ever see about "Makako City Actors" online is like gay stuff. - Yeah, it is, yeah. There's a large Fujoshi fan base for "Makako City Actors." - And bro, the OP of "Makako City Actors" is a fucking banger. I still listen to that shit all the time. - What do you think you gave "Monster"?

- Did I give it a 10? - You did. - Okay, good. - I honestly- - I would agree. - I'd stand by that. - Yeah, I would agree. - I love "Monster." It's one of those animes that like I dropped and then came back to and that I was so glad that I picked back up because obviously it's really fucking slow in the start. - It is really slow, but I feel like "Monster" is a rarity of an anime where it's an anime that

has an amazing manga that could have easily be sliced up and have a shitty adaptation. But Monster is one of the few epic like,

- Masterpiece manga, they got a masterpiece adaptation. - I mean, like, thank God it got 70 something episodes that it did. - Yeah, yeah, exactly. - Could you imagine if Monster was a 24 episode or a 12 episode? - That's why I'm scared if 20th Century Boys ever gets adapted, man. 'Cause that's like Monster, but even longer and even more. - Also, I find it hilarious that you gave Ikitosen a two. - What's Ikitosen?

- Do you wanna explain what Ikitosen is? - Ikitosen is like, imagine like the show that birth shows like High School of the Dead. You know what I mean? It is a battle fan service show. And back in the day, this was the most degenerate kind of fan service, the titty action show you could get. - It's like so many like we are boomers fucking love Ikitosen. And Gus just like, nope. Fuck your memories, it's shit.

- No, I mean, I look back now and maybe I'd rate it higher. I don't know. - I would rate it like maybe like a four purely because it's just so trashy. - I mean, like back in the day, this was all we had. Nowadays there's so much trash anime and trash kind of fanservice shows, but back in the day it was kind of like Iki Tosen and then,

- Nothing else, nothing really else. - You gave Zetsuno Tempest a seven as well. - Did I actually? - I'm thinking back, I'd probably give it an eight now. I feel like I need to watch it again. - You gave Yuri on ice a seven as well.

- A Try Gun a nine. - Yeah, yeah. - Tokyo Ghoul season one a six and Tokyo Ghoul season two a five. - Okay, yeah. I mean, would I rate it lower now? - I would honestly probably rate it lower. - Maybe, I would rate it lower now. It's literally like a lot. It's one of the shows where I don't know if the manga readers are right because everyone talks about the Tokyo Ghoul manga. Has anyone, have you guys read the Tokyo Ghoul manga? - No. - Okay, okay. So nobody knows if the,

if the manga readers were right for "Tokyo Ghoul", but apparently it's one of the most popular manga out there and one of the highest rated. - I find it interesting how you gave Danmachi a five. - Yeah, I'll stick by that. It was "Sword Art Online", but beat "Sword Art Online". So "Sword Art Online" was like a six. - Why was that show so popular when it came out? - I thought it was acceptable.

- I gave it maybe like a six or a seven. - I was just doing some passionate rant there. I thought it was good and you were like, "I thought it was good." - I thought it was acceptable. - I thought it was a bit better than five. - You gave prison school an eight. - Yeah. - You stand by that? - Yeah, I stand by that. - I stand by that. - Prison school is one of the most, I mean, like,

- Disregarding the ending of the manga, it is one of the most hilarious mangas I've met, I've read. And the anime adaptation did a pretty good fucking job of that. - You gave Warren a serif of five. - Yeah, I wasn't sure if I should comment on that. I was a bit offended by that. - I've never watched this, I have no idea. - I'm curious, "Psycho Pass", a seven.

- Yeah. - Season one, really? - Really? - No, no, no. - I thought it was better. - It's nine now for me. - Okay, okay, okay. - Psycho Pass, I remember Psycho Pass is one of those few shows that has stuck with me and it's one of the shows where I rewatched it and I was like,

I loved it way more rewatching it than I watched it the first time. 'Cause I think- - The villain is so damn good. - Yeah, I think I didn't appreciate "Psycho-Pass" the first time I watched it. But the more I watched "Psycho-Pass", the more I'm just like, now I like, I gave it a seven when I first watched it. And when I was doing my, when I was thinking back to like my,

top 10 favorite anime of the decade of like the 2010s. Psycho Pass was up there. - Oh yeah, definitely. - 'Cause it still has some, like the villain was one of the best villains in anime. It still has some of the most unique ideas that I've seen in anime that has like stuck with me and I don't think has aged at all.

Yeah, like the scene halfway through where the main character has to make a choice that has stuck with me for a long time. And the one scene that has also stuck with me is, I can't remember what exactly what episode it is, but it's the episode where they start beating the shit out of this character in like the middle of the street, right? And because of the system that's been set up, no one reacts just because they,

they've never seen something like this before. And I don't know, I thought that was like such a unique idea. Like that was completely natural in this world that Gena Ribucci has built. - The world building is like amazing. - I think it's unfortunate. I think the biggest unfortunate thing is that season two and I haven't watched season three yet, but they just didn't have as interesting ideas as what was in season one. - It's hard, you know, when you have like a giant calm, it's hard to like, you know.

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- Okay, to end it off though, I got to point out this blasphemy right here. You gave the first Pokemon movie, "Nutsu no Gyakushu" a four out of 10. - Get your fucking nostalgia. - Are you seriously telling me the fucking third movie, the Entei one is better? You've given that a six. - You gave the Entei movie more than the first fucking Pokemon movie?

I honestly, I watched them as a kid and I think I remember the Entei movie more. I don't fucking give a shit about Pokemon guys. Honestly, this is all nostalgia talking here. I've rated this as an adult or a teenager. Like years fucking after Pokemon man. Like get your nostalgia talk out of here. Pokemon wasn't that great. - I need a fucking beer Garnt. - But I'm pretty sure you gave Digimon an eight.

- Okay, yes, yes, yes. Digimon is better than Pokemon. I will bite you on this. I was the Digimon kid. Digimon, the first movie was fucking brilliant. Had an amazing soundtrack. - The Digimon kid is like the OG neighbor's kid. You know what I mean? That meme of like, oh, go and look after the neighbor's kid. Oh, is he weird? - He's a Digimon kid. - He's a Digimon fan, you know. - I bet you were the kind of kid who was like, I don't play Yu-Gi-Oh, I play Duel Masters.

- Refuses to duel without the brakes on. - Yeah, exactly. - Wait, did either of you watch Digimon? - Yeah, I did. - I only watched the movies. - Okay, but are you still sticking by that Pokemon was better than Digimon? - I mean, I watched them both at the same age and I preferred Pokemon. - Really? - Yeah. - Because Digimon had an actual plot.

- I think at that age, that wasn't my concern. - I think at that age, the concern is which monsters look cool. - I think the thing was right, is that I would watch Pokemon and then go play Pokemon and be like, yo, this is sick. - Exactly. - I would play Digimon, go and play one of the fucking disgusting RPG games they have that was impossible to fit. Have you ever played that? - Yeah, I've played some of them. - It's so hard. - It's hard as fuck. - I can't even complete that show.

And like 12 year old, like 10 year old me was stuck on the fucking thing. Like a first level, I couldn't do anything. And I'm like, what sick fuck made this for a children's TV show? - Yeah, because the thing about Digimon and Pokemon is that I never gave a shit about the games, right? I didn't really care about the Pokemon games. I actually watched the Pokemon anime years before like I played the actual games for the first time. And the thing that stuck out to me with Digimon was that even as a kid, I could recognize that this had story arcs.

Like even as a kid, I'm just like, what? - You are the most pretentious kid. - No, no, no, I was just. - This kid in his fucking diapers in his phone, like reading on his mouth lips. - He's like, mother, turn this Pokemon show off. I want story in my children's shows. - 'Cause I was always thinking to myself, why is Ash not getting anywhere in his life? - I was angry about that as well. - Everyone was angry about that.

- The Mewtwo movie. - Yeah, that was good. - That had fucking fantastic, Mewtwo was a fantastic fucking character.

Like you can relate to that guy so fucking hard. And then, you know, with the whole, like, you can't tell me that you didn't cry. I don't know when you watched the first Pokemon movie. You did not, you can't tell me you didn't cry with the Pikachu crying scene. - I never gave a shit about Pikachu. - You're dead to me. - I never gave a shit about Ash. Fucking, fucking, it's a loud fucking yellow rat guys. Get over yourself. Jesus Christ.

- Agumon is a fucking diabetic dinosaur. - I would insult Digimon, but it's so fucking forgettable. I can't even remember anything to insult. - I can only remember Agumon. - What a shit name, Agumon? What is that shit? - All I'm saying is Digimon was the original Isekai, guys. - Well, I'm glad that someone-

- Of course I'm gonna rep Digimon. - Go fucking tweet it, guys. - I was born out my mom's womb and I'm just like, "Mother, is this a new world?" Yes, it is. I love my Digimon and as a kid, Digimon is a better story than Pokemon and I will defend that. - Hey guys, make sure to follow us on the Trash Taste Twitter to just absolutely shit all over this man's opinions.

But moving on, let's go over to Connor's list, which is rather- - Can I have a beer first, please? - Do you want a beer first? - I think I need to. - Okay, we're cracking out the beers now. - Take bullying from you guys. - I need alcohol. - We should rename the show to Connor fucking fends off two boys a week.

- What do you mean? We've both gotten so much shit from you. - Every weekend Connor has to defend his shitty take. - Well, I mean, it's kind of hard because I'm looking at this list right now and so far there's a lot of shows that you haven't even given a score.

- Yeah, I think there's a lot of them. I'm just like, this is so shit. I don't even want to give it a, hold on Garnt, don't fucking tell me anything until I've had my beer. - Okay, no, no, no, we're starting now, Garnt. We're starting now. You better prepare your fucking anus here. So like, Bacchano an eight? Just an eight? The fucking Bacchano, Stan?

- Give Buccano an eight? Joey, you'll taste the shit. The dub is so much better. Eight out of 10. - Yeah, I don't know why I did that. I mean, you know, clearly I was a fool. I don't know who that person is who signed into my account and changed my score. - I love the fact that you gave Bucky Monogatari a higher score than Buccano. - I know, I know. - You gave us shit. - Wait, hold on. You gave Clannad After Story a 10.

- What are you shitting on me for fucking liking Clannad? - Yeah, the first season is shit. What do I give that? - You didn't even give it a score. - It's so fucking forgettable that I didn't even want to fucking rate that piece of shit. Chobits, if I could rate that, I'd give that like a seven or an eight. That was a fun show. - Yeah, that was great. - That was a fun show. Why the fuck did I give "See the Money of the Soul: Impossible" control an eight? - Yeah, I don't know why you did. - I never even finished that. - Okay, Code Geass.

- Season one and two, the same score. - Wait, did I really? - Yeah, you did. Second thing I immediately noticed after our discussion, we just had Pokemon 4. - I thought you were my brother! - Top 10 anime betrayals of all time. - I can probably explain why that is the case, right? 'Cause this was made in 2014. It was probably the age of like, I'm a big boy now.

- Pokemon, that's old Connor. That's child Connor. Me, adult Connor, I don't like Pokemon. I'm a man. - I thought you were my boy. - No, I am. I would retroactively change that to a 10 if I could.

- Big sad. Really? A 10 Connor? Really? A 10? Okay, one thing I find hilarious, right? - Come on. - This is why I didn't want to go last. 'Cause I have to talk shit about your scores and not know my own. - Connor has given Steins;Gate and Sword Art Online the same score of eight. - I give Sword Art Online an eight? Fuck!

- You gave "Saw Nights Online" season one an eight. - I think I'm actually having a stroke. - Joey's just having an aneurysm right now. - Listen, I can explain. - You gave it the same score. - I can explain, right? - Please explain. Okay, I'm not even gonna question you giving "Steins Gate" an eight, okay? That's fine. - I meant to put 10.

- Yeah. - I honestly, you know what? If I genuinely, I enjoyed "Sold Out Online", but if I went back and watched it, I'm sure, you know, I would be like, what the fuck is this shit? I enjoyed it for like what it was. I liked the idea, 'cause it's my first ever like video game anime. So it was fun.

And then you think about it more and you think about Kirito and you're like, wow, this show is really garbage. But at the time, yeah.

- I mean, at the time everyone's, I think we've all gone through the stage where we thought Sword Art Online was a cool concept. Back when it was a cool concept. - Yeah, I mean, look, admittedly, as much as I'm known as the guy who publicly hates Sword Art Online, like I've said that like first couple of episodes, really great buildup of the premise. And then it kind of just fell apart after a while when they were like, let's make Kirito the edgiest protagonist alive. And then that's when I was like, okay.

I mean, you had a great premise and you just kind of ruined it with the worst main character. - I have no idea why I gave "Back in Montegartria" a nine. I would never ever do that. - Why, what would you give it? - Like a five. - Why? - Show's shit, man. - What? - Boring show. - What? - It's boring, man. - What? - It's so boring. - Yeah, but you have to understand, this is a man who skips stories. - Oh no, yeah. What I wanna know is how the fuck do you-

- Did you watch "Baka Monogatari"? - Why did you even watch it? - You watched an animated light novel. - I watched "Baka Monogatari" and then I watched like the next three seasons or so. - Right. - And how did you manage that? - I was confused a lot of the time, but I also just like thought a lot of it was weird. Like, 'cause this is the, you have to bear in mind, this is the first time I'd ever seen any anime where like there was a protagonist or whatever who was just like touching a kid, like the ghost girl. And I was like, whoa, what the fuck?

- What the fuck is this? I'm like, well, why is everyone liking this child porn, bro? - It's all right, man. It's a deconstruction of Harry. That's what they call it. - What I wanna know is how you had the patience to do it because even me- - Well, again, back in the age of like when you're an anime fan, you can kind of like put up with,

'cause you've just gotten into it. And that was when I watched it 'cause it always high up on the list. And that might've been the thing that made me be like, you know what? No, I'm not watching it. - But here's what confuses me, right? Is that like you gave "Baki Monogatari" and I would assume the majority of the "Monogatari" series like a mid score.

but you love Katanagatari. - Katanagatari is like fucking awesome. - But it's the same style. - No, okay, it's the same style. - It's written by the same dude. - But it's done like a million times better. It's so much more entertaining than back of Monogatari ever was. - I'm not saying Katanagatari is bad or anything. - I'm saying they're both fucking great. - Yeah, they're both great.

- I guess in my mind, when I think of like Katanagatari, it just feels like a Quentin Tarantino like film. Like when I like watch it, right? Like the dialogue is really important. It's like the one of the, like, I don't really like it when scenes- - Wait, but how did you not find that with the "Moron Atari" series? - Because I didn't find the dialogue interesting.

- In like Katanagatari. - That's like the one selling point of the modern Atari series. - I didn't find it interesting. I was just waiting, you know, I was sold when Run-Eye Circulation came on and I'm like, yo, this is a fucking bomb. And then I went to see if- - All right, man, give us the fucking one. - Yeah, I need it after the aneurysm of money. - Katanagatari, right, was like legit. Oh shit, okay, I made my three by three. I honestly, I didn't put Katanagatari in 'cause I just forgot it existed. That would go in my three by three. So Katanagatari is like,

- It gave me everything that like I love about like Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction in anime form. And with a kind of store with a setting that I love, which is like samurai. I fucking love samurai. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I mean, again, I'm not disagreeing with you on that. A hundred percent agree with all of that. - I'm just saying like, it's both a lot of words. It's both like- - It's both weird. - Yeah. - It's both characters that are very- - Is it both city of shaft?

- No, Katanagatari is not Studio Shaft. - I don't know, something about Katanagatari, I just really fucking enjoyed so much more than I ever did the Monogatari series. - I think that's the closest you've come to enjoying just reading words then. - Yeah. - I think because there was a lot of, the action was really fucking good in Katanagatari and it made sense all in the story. - You didn't like the action in the Monogatari? - The Monogatari series action was fucking great. - It was fucking insane.

- I don't know why, but the action was far better than it had any right to be. - Yeah, exactly. Shaf was like, "All right, I'm gonna flex real quick." - Like that fight where it was like Araragi versus like, I think it was Karen in the second season. It was like the big brother versus-

- I can't even remember. - No, no, no, no. The fight was a combo. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - You remember that one? - The fight with Kambar. - The monkeys. - Jesus Christ. - That shit was fucking insane. - That was brutal, man. - I don't even fucking remember this. - Okay, I'll show you afterwards and you'll learn a picture. - I will say though, the toothbrush scene is probably the thing that made me like curious about hentai. I was like, oh, this is actually,

- Kind of hot. - Honestly, like the toothbrush scene. - It's hot, I'm gonna say it's hot. - I feel like it birthed so many degenerates. - Yeah, yeah, definitely. - And thus culture was born. - And thus culture was born thanks to the toothbrush scene. That is a classic scene. I will defend that scene as being like the classic scene. I noticed you gave Noragami a 10. - Did I really? - Masterpiece. - What? - Did I really? - Who are you and how much time did you spend on Tumblr? - Are you a 12 year old? - Honestly?

- I don't know what mindset I was in to ever give Noragami, I don't think there's any point in my life where I genuinely liked Noragami. - In my opinion, the only 10 out of 10 aspect about Noragami is the opening. - Yeah, that was a good show. - The opening is a fucking bang. But then again, I find it absolutely hilarious that you gave Black Butler a five.

- And you gave "Black Butler" season two specials a three. - Honestly, I still say yeah, I still would. - Really? - Yeah. I made it no, I would not try and hide it that I did not like the show. - Your life is a lie, CW fans. He was never a "Black Butler" fan. - He was never a "Black Butler" fan. - You gave "Monogatari" second season a 10.

- I definitely suffered as a teen getting into anime. Like I was heavily influenced by what everyone else was saying. - I mean, I agree. - I agree. - I am a liar. - Second season is definitely a 10 for me. - You gave Niesamona Guthrie a 10 as well. - Hell yeah. - This is definitely the case of teenage Connor saw that everyone was saying the show was good that I didn't understand. So I'm just gonna put it in high school. - Yeah, I can tell because you gave Mirai Nikki a nine. - Did you actually?

- I think I really enjoyed that show when I watched it. - Oh man. - I legitimately did. - You must've watched it as a teenager. - Yeah, I did. - That was like the Elfin lead of your generation. - He gave Elfin lead a nine as well. - He was such an edgy kid, man. - Listen, listen. - I was like that too when I finished my- - How old was I when I was 14? That was seven years ago.

- I thought you just said how old was I when I was 14. - I was 17. Yeah, 17 when I made this list. So yeah, this sounds about right for 17 year old Connor. Like "Deadman Wonderland" an eight. Yeah, that checks out for me. - Okay, okay. You gave "Monster" a seven.

- What? - I'm gonna have to down this. - Okay, that might've been from me having to recover from the fact that I dropped it and had to pick it back up. - You dropped it? - About, yeah, about 10 episodes in 'cause the shit didn't fucking move.

- But then actually, but then you watch it and you're like, oh wait, shit, it's good. - Oh shit, nevermind. - Oh shit, hold up homies. - I was blind, but now I can see. - I gave Cowboy Bebop a seven as well, which honestly, you know, maybe it's an eight, but it's honestly, it's not a 10 or a nine. - There are some shows on here that I'm surprised you watched at all, like "Zombie Lone". - "Zombie Lone", I have no idea why I watched that show, but I remember being angry that I watched that show.

- I remember being like mad that I wasted my time watching. - The only reason why I watched "Zombie Alone" was because I heard it was a peach pit show and I was like, "I like peach pit." - I gave "School Days" a one though. - Yeah, I see that. - You finished "Sunday Without God?" - Yeah, yeah, I noticed that. - Even I haven't finished that. - I finished it, but I definitely did not give it a seven. - I gave it a seven. - Which one's "Sunday Without God?" - Exactly. That's the point I'm trying to make. -

- Yeah, the girl with the shovel. - It's the girl with the shovel. - Oh yeah, I watched that because- - Yeah, I'm surprised you watched that at all. - That was when I, I can actually tell you the exact time I watched that. I remember very vividly when I watched that. So when I first got into anime, I was watching it on like the shitty like pirate sites, figuring out what the fuck was going on. Accidentally watched "Full Metal Alchemist" twice, not realizing like what the fuck I was doing. And then I finally got,

a free trial for Crunchyroll. And so I watched as much anime as I could for the 48 hours. And that was one of them. - We're not sponsored by Crunchyroll. - Actually, that was one of the ones that I watched. - Was Zombieland one of them as well? - No, no, no, no, no, that was before. So I remember that was probably the first ever 12 episode show I watched on Crunchyroll, I think. - Right, right. - Some of this just doesn't make sense. - You watched Outbreak Company.

- Yeah, I did. - Yeah. - I would never expect you to watch that. - I would not have paid Connor to watch it. - I think you're the only other person I know that has watched Outplay Company. - You finished the world's God Only Knows and gave it a nine. - All three seasons. I actually really liked it. - I liked it as well. That just doesn't seem- - It's surprising to me. - I'm just like my jaws on the floor. 'Cause if you would have tell me that Connor finished his show and liked it, I'm just like, what is this? - Wait, you also gave Higurashi an eight. - Season one? - Yeah.

- I think I would take that back. - What would you give it now? - I watched it dubbed so maybe a four. - I'm looking at some of this and I'm just like, is this me? - Yeah, right? - He gave Devlin's A Part-Timer a fucking 10. - I love that. I love, dude. - Okay, that's really good. - That is really good. - If you actually look at my account, my profile picture is Devlin's A Part-Timer.

- I loved "Devil is a Part-Timer." I loved that show so much. - I'm surprised as well, you watched "Eden of the East" and the two movies and gave all them a nine. - I really enjoyed "Eden of the East." - Really? How have we never talked about "Eden of the East" together? - I don't know how we never talked about it. - 'Cause who the fuck brings up "Eden of the East?" It never comes up. - It's a great fucking show. - Yeah, but no one ever brings that shit up. - It's got a great first season, but the movies just didn't conclude it in the way I wanted to. - He gave both of them a nine though.

- I thought "Eden of the East" had one of the most interesting premises you could find. - Oh yeah, I watched. - Okay, since no one talks about "Eden of the East", we're gonna sell "Eden of the East". - Let's give some love to "Eden of the East" now. - I'm gonna be honest, I remember my feelings for the show. I cannot fucking remember what happened. I have one memory of the show and it was like a ship and a bunch of naked people come out.

- That's all I remember. - No, no, no, the ending of the first season of "Eating and Eating" of these was fucking great. - Oh, fucking brilliant. - So what is the premise again? - Okay, so the premise is they have a smartphone and I can't remember exactly how much money they were given, but you have like 13 people who were given these smartphones and on his smartphone, you have like this AI that they could request anything to happen. - That's right. - Right? And they were given a budget of, I think,

- $10 million? - No, it was more than that. - Was it like a million or 10 million? - 10 billion yen. - 10 billion yen. - Which is $100 million. - So they were given a budget of $100 million and all they were told was to save the world, right? That was their objective. - It was so good. - And so the series is just the story of these different people and their own take on what $100 million means to save the world.

And honestly, like I don't wanna spoil what happens, but it's fucking great. Especially the first season. - It's only 12 episodes, just go watch it. - I'm finna rewatch it. - I wanna rewatch it too. - It's not just 12 episodes, it's 12 episodes and a movie, I think? - It's two movies. - Two movies.

- Are you sure it's two movies, not just one recap movie? - Yeah, because he gave both of them a nine out of 10. - Okay, but I feel like the first season was fucking fantastic. And the problem with the first season is that it didn't conclude the story, but the first season was fucking fantastic. The movies were not as good in my opinion. - I didn't even know they had movies.

- Yeah, I don't remember much about what happened in the movies. - Some of these shows, I legitimately can't remember like fully watching. - I'm just surprised you watch, like you watch "Gente Orge" the one on a nickel.

- The stony cat and the hentai orgy. - I did watch that, yeah. - Yeah. - I think I enjoyed that. - You watched Hidan no Aria as well. That doesn't seem like a show you would watch. Why have we never talked about these? - You watched Black Bullet? You haven't rated it, but you watched Black Bullet. - You watched Black Bullet? - Yeah, I watched all of Black Bullet. - No, no, Black Bullet, yeah. - So I remember, I actually do really enjoy like romance slice of life shows, but I used to binge them all the time. I used to love them. But now I don't really watch them. - You watched Black Cat as well. - Yeah, Black Cat was shit though.

- Yeah, the mum was way worse. - I watched "Gatchaman Crowds" and I remember I gave that a six, but that was so reluctantly. I did not enjoy watching that. And I watched, there's a bunch of other shows that I watched after this I didn't include like, what's that fucking card game like "Wix Sauce" or whatever it's called. That was fucking shit. I hated that. I'm angry that I watched that. - You watched that? - I hated that I watched that. - Why did you even watch that? - This is the thing, right? Is that to me, I do not like looking up anime.

Like I don't want to know anything about the show. Just give me the fucking show, let me watch it. And if I hate it- - Just brain dead. - Yeah, I want to- - Brain dead monkey boat. - If you, 'cause here's the thing, right? I guarantee if you just give me a show, tell me to watch it, I'll watch it. I might enjoy it. If you try and sell me on a show, I immediately will start being like, "No, I don't know, no." - I'm completely the opposite. - Yeah, I'm the opposite. - Because like I've gotten to the point where

I need to be sold on the show because I need to have like a reason why I'm watching this show. Like, is this show gonna get good? Am I gonna have something that I get out of this show? I need to know that before I truly get into a show because otherwise nowadays I end up dropping shows after one episode if it doesn't hook me. Even like critically acclaimed, highly acclaimed show. If I don't know that something good is coming up that's gonna be worth my time, then I'm just not gonna give it a chance. - No, I agree. - 'Cause I just don't have that patience anymore.

- I've sat through enough shitty shows to know that I don't wanna waste my time anymore. - Yeah, yeah, exactly right. And you know, it's just sad 'cause I do miss that feeling of finding hidden gems where I can just be like, oh, I have zero expectations. - Exactly, exactly. - I gave Kyokun no Kana, wait, no, is this right? No, no, no. - Kyokun no Kana. - Kyokun no Kana to a seven, right? - I thought it was Zetsuno Tempest. I haven't rated that, but I did watch it and I would give it a seven. I wish I did, I wish I did. - Okay, one thing that's curious to me, you watched Fate/Zero.

but you rated the second season lower than the first season. You mean the actual action packed second season where everything gets concluded is lower than the first season, which is the setup. - You're like completely going against everything. Like all the character build up you've brought yourself up to, right? It's like, I hate story, I love action, but the season where there's more action, I'll rate lower. - I really enjoyed when they were introducing like all of the characters.

That's like my favorite part of "Fate." And "Fate/Stay Night" as well. My favorite part of "Fate/Stay Night" is when they're introducing the characters. 'Cause it's so cool, 'cause you're like, I know there's an assassin, I know there's a rider, what are they gonna be? And then when you watch "Fate/Stay Night" and you're like, wow, Rider's shit in this one compared to "Fate/Zero." 'Cause like "Fate/Zero" you watch it, you're like, yo, Rider, he's the best. Alexander, I'd fuck him. But like then you watch, that's the reason why I fucking hated "Fate/Stay Night" except for the animation.

'Cause I was like, why is- - Which Fate/Stay night are you talking about? - Are you talking about the original Fate/Stay night? - I'm talking about Blade Works. - Okay. - The series, not the movies, right? - The series. - Okay. - Because I don't want to get into this with you, Con.

- I just need clarification because what you say- - Fiend fans were like on their seat right there. - Archer cool, but I can't believe they had like, there was no like good, they should just brought Alexander back again and be like, "Hey, I'm back baby." Or like it's a prequel. So I guess like, "Hey, I'm back in the future." - I'm back here in the future. - I'm back in the past. 'Cause he was like the best part of Re:Zero.

- He was the best part of Fate/Zero. - Yeah. - Yeah. - 100%. - He was- - And like Caster's relationship with the fucking Weevil, whatever it's called. - Weevil. - Weaver? - Weaver, whatever the fuck it is. - Weevil. - Who the fuck gives a shit?

- I believe that's a rodent. - Honestly, he kind of was. That's probably why in my mind, that's what he is. What's another thing that I gave what I don't, I disagree with that. - There's a lot of ones that you haven't given a score. - "Darker Than Black", I stand by being a nine. 'Cause if you watch the dub, dude, Troy Baker's in that. This is before Troy Baker stopped doing anime. I'm like, fuck man, he kills it as November 11th.

- So fucking good. - "Darker Than Black" is a show that I've actually rewatched quite a few times. And I don't know why I've rewatched quite a few times. - It's fun, man. - I just really liked the world of "Darker Than Black." - Yeah. - You know what I mean? - I'm not gonna lie, I don't remember anything. - It's like quirks, but if they're actually fucking cool and weird. - Yeah, yeah, 'cause I remember watching it and it was like X-Men, but what I found interesting was the fact that they had to do this really weird activity every time they used their power. - Yes! - With the smoking. - Yeah, I don't know why. I just thought that was really cool and it has, I don't know,

- It's a fucking amazing soundtrack as well. 'Cause it was like by Yoko Kanno. And I feel like one of the biggest differences between the first season, every other season was Yoko Kanno's music just set such an amazing tone for this world and this environment that it just made you just, it just felt good exploring this world and just being in it. - I feel like I gotta rewatch it.

- It's fun, dude. And watch the dub, dude. Like the dub's really fucking good. - You're saying this to Joey now? - No, honestly, honestly, dude. Like Troy Baker as November 11th. One of my favorite performances. - I love Troy Baker. You'll sell me on that. - Because Troy Baker plays the guy who has to smoke even though he hates smoking. - I've watched the dub as well. - And he's so good at it, man. God. - Hold on, you watch Saki?

- Yeah. - And you gave it a seven. - Saki Saki, that's the one with the things on his ear? - That's the, yeah, yeah. - Oh no, the- - No, no, no, the mahjong one. - Yeah, that's the body pillow we have outside. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, I watched that. - You've actually watched that? - I didn't watch that. - I watched all of Saki and at the end I was like, "I'm gonna understand mahjong." And at the end I was like, "I don't understand mahjong."

I'm like, but there's golden wind and shit going on and stuff like that. And I'm like, I don't know. - Again, it just doesn't seem like a show you would watch. - I watched all of "Persona 4" the animation. - I noticed that. - Yeah, I noticed that as well. - But you've never played "Persona 4", right? - Never played "Persona". - Why would you do that? - I'll be 100% honest with you, at the time, I legitimately didn't know it was a game.

- That's like, wait, did you watch Danganronpa as well? - Yeah, I did. - Yeah, he did. - Have you ever played Danganronpa? - Give it a four. - I have played Danganronpa. I thought the anime was actually- - Okay, okay, that's fine, that's fine. - For the shows that I haven't rated, you can ask me and ask me what I'd give it now. - Okay, what would you give a "No Game, No Life"?

- If I was 14, a hard 10 bro. - Yeah, of course. - Now like a seven honestly. - Seven, okay. It's about that. - What would you give Excel World? - You know, like a four. - What would you give another?

- Look at her, look at Juan. - All right. - Another was shit. - Well, you watched "Be Got the HK" as well? - You know, okay, actually I did. I love "Be Got the HK." - Yeah, that is funny. - That's actually like a fucking great season. - I only read the manga. - I can tell you exactly why I watched another as well, because I was talking to a girl at the time and she was like, "Of course, my favorite show is 'Another.' It's the best show." And I was like,

"All right, fine, I'll watch this show 'cause I'm trying to like simp. I'm trying to simp here, so I'll try." - Another was kind of like the true crimes documentary on the anime community back then. You know what I mean? - Everyone knows white girls love true crime. And before they get into true crime, they're a little younger, they're like, "Another, yes, erased, yes, all these shows that I love." - It's just like, "Yes, I too like Final Destination and watching trashy horror movies. I can do that all day long.

- Literally what Sydney gets me to do whenever I like shit. - Okay, I'll give you props though that you A, watched Claymore and gave it a nine. - Honestly, I loved Claymore. - Claymore was fucking awesome. - Man, that is one of the animes that got done most dirty. - Yeah, I agree. - That's why I'm surprised you gave it a nine 'cause Claymore manga, I can definitely- - Claymore manga, nine or 10. - Claymore manga, masterpiece. Anime, not so much. - The anime made me feel things that I hadn't felt before, man. I was like-

- What does that mean? - Like a level of uncomfortableness that I haven't experienced before. I don't know why, there's something so unnerving and uncomfortable about watching Claymore. - Yeah, I felt that when I watched Berserk. - It like fucks you up a little bit. And then you can tell like, I honestly, I wish I,

I'm gonna try my best to try and read the manga. But I said I was gonna read something else. - I recently re-bought all the manga just 'cause I wanna read it again. - What was the other fucking show I said I was gonna read the manga of earlier? - I have no fucking clue. - You finished "Aciel 21", right? - Yeah, I did. - What's the one after that? - Well, I actually, I downloaded like the first- - "Best Me Perfect" was it?

- No, no, no. I was gonna read that, but I actually downloaded the first 30 chapters of One Piece being like- - Oh, he's getting in the middle of this! - But I haven't had the stomach- - Mark it in your calendar. This is a day. - CDawgVA starts One Piece. - Listen, I'll tell you when I start, but I haven't.

- Mark it in your calendars and come back to us in 10 years time. We'll see where he is. - Honestly, like Claymore is a fucking amazing manga. One of the best mangas out there. The anime did it dirty. - Is the manga finished? Like totally all wrapped up? - Oh, ages ago, yeah. - Okay, good, good. - 22, 23 volumes, something like that? 'Cause like the Claymore anime had a,

- Anime original ending, if I remember correctly? - Yes, it did. - Yeah, and it was complete shit from what I remember. - I remember having a good time. I watched the dub and I remember the voice acting was, Greg Ayers was like playing the whiny character as he always does. And I think he was a little too whiny in the anime

- I mean, that's just Greg Harris. - Yeah, that's true. He's too fucking good at his job. - No, no, because like, I remember that, that was like, I swear he was typecast in that role for like the longest fucking time. - Well, 'cause there was so many of those characters and no one else could do a voice like him, like sounding whiny. And so it was always him doing the whiny character. - I will say, a record seven, seven out of 10? - Honestly, I,

- When I watched that, everyone was talking about the show. Like Jesus had came down himself and brought a show. And I watched it and I thought, honestly, this is kind of shit. Like it's good, but like it's kind of fucking boring. - Is that how you felt about it? - Honestly now I would give it a six. - Is that how you felt about "Ergo Proxy" as well? You gave that a seven as well. - "Ergo Proxy" I remember I was just like, what the fuck is happening? - Again, this doesn't seem like an anime that you would watch. - No. - Like "Ergo Proxy" is the last anime I would think Connor to watch. - It was like watching,

Like, you know when you go to a modern art museum and you look at this shit and you're like, "Yeah, I get it." That's what I felt like watching "Ergo Epoxy." - You saying that you watched "Ergo Epoxy" is like the same amount of like, what the fuck I would get if you came up to me tomorrow and said, "So I watched "Serial Experiments Lane." - Yeah, honestly, I've been wanting to watch that for a while.

I just haven't had the opportunity to be like, yeah, I wanna waste a day and not really enjoy it. - And have a brain that's hurting. - Yeah, I feel like you watch shows like that to come out with like just your brain being like wet, but like that's not fun half the time. So I don't really look.

- I mean, it is fun depending on your mood because I remember like, it took me ages to watch "Serial Experiments Lane" and then I was just in this weird mood where I'm just like, yeah, I want my mind to be fucked up. That sounds like a fun experience right now. And then I did it. - I want a challenge. - It's like me with Yasmeen Punpun. Like I'm waiting to wake up for the day where I'm just like, yeah, I want depression right now. - Why the fuck did I give...

- I was about to say you gave that a nine and I'm like, wasn't the milk titties. Is that what it is? - That's all I remember from that show. - They get to the little two bonus points, but I think again, that was in the same weekend that I watched the other show on the Crunchyroll 48 hour. - Right, right.

- Well, Maomao Yuuusha was like studio arms. And if you didn't know, if you don't know studio arms, they were like famous for being a hentai studio. Like transitioned into anime. - Well, that's probably why it connected a little bit. - And yeah, I mean, that was like one of the first,

that was an anime that was seen as just not complete trash. But I wouldn't call it a fucking 9/11. - I remember those little sexual things going on or something like that. Some vibes of little MILF, Sapsun kind of thing. - I'd say as an impressionable teenager, I can see why you are connected with that on a personal level. - Connected with that.

- Be connected with it. - But yeah, I think that's pretty much everything 'cause you haven't rated a lot of these. - I would bump "Kill the Killer" one for getting me in the hentai. That's the only thing I would. - Really? - "Kill the Killer" is what made me be like, you know what? - Anime girls are hot. - I'm like, you know what? Is there a hentai of this? And there was. And that's how I was like, oh, this is good.

That's why you need to get into the Jinchies, man. - We're gonna get him into that eventually. - You can recommend yourself eventually. - Wait, wait, okay, then if you liked "Mao Yumao Yuuusha", did you like "Log Horizon"? - I loved "Log Horizon". "Log Horizon" is one of my favorite shows. - Okay, that makes sense 'cause it's written by the same people. - I'm actually hyped, even though I think I need to rewatch a little bit of "Log Horizon" season two. I remember I fucking loved the world in "Log Horizon". It was fun. - Yeah, "Pornomade" is a fucking amazing, like, I don't know how,

they like fucking write stories. - I'm glad as well. - It's great. - I'm also glad that the show didn't like fucking blow its load like immediately and just start telling us everything about it. Like I love it when the show is teasers with the world, like here's a little crumb, a little crumb of knowledge. And then they just don't mention it for a few episodes. You're like, oh shit, yeah, we are in a fucking mess.

in video games, I keep forgetting that. - We are not video games. - 'Cause I remember "Log Horizon," I remember watching the first two, three episodes of it, dropped it immediately. 'Cause I'm just like, what is this beta Sword Art Online, man? What the fuck is this? The worst thing about "Log Horizon" was that one, the animation is like,

- It's like the most typical five out of 10 animation. This is just a throwaway seasonal show. And the first three or so episodes were like the most generic kind of introduction you can get to a world. And it didn't start getting interesting until they properly started explaining like the game mechanics and

seeing the game mechanics being broken, like within this world was just so fucking interesting. - Yeah, that whole arc where like there was a guy who could kill in the villages. - Yeah, yeah. - That was fucking cool. - Like what really sold me immediately was like when they first discovered that they could make things taste good

and then they like invented the burger. I'm just like, yo, this is really fucking interesting. This isn't even an isekai. This is just like an entrepreneur business fucking anime. - Well, that's what Moe Yu Moe Yu Shou was as well. It was basically just like a business textbook for weebs. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- How the fuck do you guys remember what happens in these like seven out of 10 shows, bro? The moment something isn't like exceptional, I'm like, that's going in the- - Yeah, "Locker Rise" is not a seven out of 10. - "Locker Rise" is not a seven out of 10. - "Locker Rise" and "A". - Like the "Mauyu Mauyu" would have whatever the fuck it's called. That went straight into the "Let's Forget Everything". - "Mauyu Mauyu" was cool because again, it was like against Danbaiton no Mamone who's like somehow can like make you learn shit

while reading these stories. I don't know how he does it. - I think I have really- - It's like Spice and Wolf, right? - It's like Spice and Wolf, exactly. Like the reason why I love Spice and Wolf because like I actually learned like proper, like useful business skills from reading it. - It's like, wait a minute. I'm just getting horny over this wolf waifu, but I'm learning- - Who's a marketing genius. - But I'm learning things about economics. That's not legal. That's not allowed. What are you doing? - I can't be horny and smart at the same time. That's not how that works.

- I just feel like I have like amazing brain compression. Like my brain zips, zips them. - What does that mean? - Like, you know how like when you compress a file to like lower the memory, it takes up. That's what I do with anime immediately when I'm done. I'm like zip that shit up, put it in storage, forget about that thing. And then when I rewatch it, it's like unzipping the file. I'm like, oh yeah, this did happen. - Has this man like min maxed his brain? - I actually think I've, you know, I've sorted the storage on my brain appropriately. - You've got a sorting algorithm.

Literally just for anime. My fucking god. But yes, I think this is a good time to move on to our three by threes. - Yes, there's a reason why I have my laptop up is because we're gonna create a three, we're gonna share each other's three by three of anime. - Yes. - We've explained it.

- We've explained what three by threes are. But like to expand further on that, I love seeing people's three by three, right? 'Cause I feel like a three by three is the closest thing you get to a Rorschach test for like anime fans. You know what I mean? - True, true. - 'Cause you get to see, you know, 'cause like asking what someone's favorite anime is, is like a fucking stupid question because like if you've seen enough anime- - It changes all the time. - It changes all the fucking time.

- With nine anime to choose from, that's a good sample size to really get a grasp on what this person's taste is. Like not all their taste, because I don't know how hard a time you guys had choosing nine anime. - I just shoved three to get nine again that I liked.

But I had a pretty difficult time just choosing my anime. - You have a fucking, you probably have like a seizure just thinking like, what am I gonna do for like breakfast? Like, oh my God, like Jesus Christ. Like I swear you like take so long to contemplate decisions. - I mean, I can't end up with mine pretty quickly just because like I literally thought of the first night, we're gonna look at mine first, but I literally just thought of the first nine that I think is like, yeah, I love this. Because I think that's the most important thing is like, I feel if you think too hard about it, then you're kind of,

reshaping your taste. - Thinking too much is just generally just a bad policy. - So I was like, all right, what are the nine shows that I fucking love? - Thinking is just a bad policy. - Don't think, don't think. - I personally think thinking is overrated. I'd rather just go with gut feeling. - Is that an unpopular opinion? - I'm gonna say it. - Unpopular opinion, thinking's overrated. - Thinking is overrated. - All right, so let's look at mine first. - All right. - Let's see what you got here, Joey. - Lucky star, Clanner. Yo, what the fuck?

- What? - So this is my three by three. - Introduce to the audience who cannot see or don't know these shows what they are. - So top row from left to right is Serial Experiments Lane Clan Add Follycolly. Middle row is Princess Mononoke, Lucky Star Mononoke. And bottom row is Setoka Yakuindomo, Monogatari Series Yu Yu Hakusho.

- Why Lucky Star? I've got to ask my- - Yeah, why the fuck- - Okay. - It's right bang there in the center. - Staring at me. - Okay. Don't worry about placements too much. Don't worry about placements too much. This could be in any random fucking order. But reason why, okay, I completely get why someone would look at me and say, "Bro, Lucky Star is not good." Because truth be told, if you watch Lucky Star today, it'd probably be shit.

- Lucky Star to me is so time sensitive because all of its jokes are time sensitive. Like Lucky Star was one of those shows that made fun of like otaku and weeb culture back in like the mid 2000s. I'm turning this into a fucking like video essay. - I'll tell you what fucking Lucky Star is my friend. Lucky Star is a Reddit humor before Reddit existed.

- It's like the late 2000s Reddit humor and the Reddit just didn't exist. So everyone was just like, oh, Lucky Star is amazing. - Yeah, exactly. - I couldn't sit through it. - Really? - Yeah, I didn't finish it. - See, it's weird because randomly, like a couple of days ago, I was just scrolling through YouTube and on my recommended, there was just like,

a Lucky Star funny compilation. I was just like, fuck, I haven't heard of Lucky Star. - I got time for that. - It was like six minutes long. I'm like, you know what? Fuck it, I've got time. - That sounds like an oxymoron to me. Lucky Star funny compilation? Excuse me. - You guys suck.

But I don't know, I think it's because like, especially around the time when I watched "Lucky Star", I was like really heavily into, obviously of course, like anime obviously, but I was really heavily into like the otaku culture, especially in Japan. And "Lucky Star" kind of went over all of that shit and put it into perspective of like, it's pretty fucking ridiculous looking from an outsider's perspective.

- Yeah, I just- - "Nate Cafe's weird, huh?" - Yeah, no, not even that. It was just like, the fucking Comiket scene is still funny to this day, just because it's so accurate. - I mean, I just, I look back at "Lucky Star" and I never liked it originally, but I look back at some of the scenes, I'm just like,

- Yeah, this doesn't age well to me at all. - Right, exactly. And that's why I never recommend "Lucky Star" to people today because it has not aged well. The jokes have not aged well. - I have a question. What the fuck is this show in the bottom corner? I've seen this show. - Which one, the bottom left? - Yeah, what is that show? - "Seitoka Yakuinya." - What's the English name for that show? - Fucking, God, I don't even know. - I think I've watched that show. - It's basically like a comedy show that throws in a lot of itchy jokes.

and like sexual jokes. - I've watched the show and I don't remember anything about it. - I 100% have watched the show. - I'm one- - 'Cause the small girl's angry that she doesn't have big tits, right? A lot, right? That's one of the jokes. - Yeah. - He funny. - Okay, why is this in your three by three? - This is in my three by three because A, well, first of all, I think it's fucking hilarious. B, it kind of encompasses my love for comedy and my love for itchy.

- You have a broad term of what comedy is. - Yeah. - Lucky star. - What encompasses your love for comedy? What about this show encompasses your love for comedy? - I think it's fucking hilarious.

I mean, I don't know what else. - What the fuck answer were you expecting? - I don't know. - It's because it's very intricate and the jokes that constructed a very, like this, okay. The reason why I put this in is because it encompasses my love for trashy shows. This show is not good in any perspective. I'm just saying it right now, all right?

- Here's how you know that my three by three is legit. - Give me some of them. - It's not a good show. It is trashy, shitty comedy with etchy jokes. - It's actually bugging me. - It's crap. - Okay. - Here's the reason why I put it in. - Important question then. Every show in here. Would you rewatch it today? - You would? - I would. - You rewatched "Lucky Star"?

- Did I not just say? - He literally just said that. - I was literally watching a compilation two days ago. - I just thought it was a lie, honestly. I just didn't believe it. - I would 100% rewatch all these shows today. I gotta say, I was like, I didn't put it on, but I was this close to putting Yu Yu Hakusho on. - I am glad that you put it on. - I put Yu Yu Hakusho in because it represents my love for Shonen. - I gotta be honest, right, boys? I legitimately tried to watch Yu Yu Hakusho no less than a week ago.

I put it on first episode and I was like, fuck, I can't watch this. Like I thought it was the dub and I was like, the dub's too awful. I switched to Japanese. I'm like, fuck, it's awful as well. I can't stand it. - Why did you not like that? - The dub's great. What are you talking about? - The audio was driving me insane. Like I actually couldn't watch it. It was such bad quality. I know that it's old, but like I actually couldn't sit through it. - So basically your review of Yu Yu Hakusho is wah, it's old. - No, honestly, like I feel bad that I'm like that, but like, I was like, fuck, I actually can't watch this. Oh my God.

- Audio problems? - What was your problem with the audio? 'Cause like "U-Hawk Show" from what I remember was like one of my favorite dubs.

- I never watched the dub so I have no idea. - I swear 10 seconds into the dub I'm like, fuck I gotta listen to the Japanese. I gotta turn this shit off. - Seriously? - Yeah, it was pretty bad. - Who the fuck played Yusuke? 'Cause Yusuke fucking like killed it in the dub. - This is probably just a case of watching it years later and being spoiled for choice, et cetera, et cetera. - I mean, for me, okay.

- I put Yu Yu Hakusho there because A, obviously I love my shonen, but I feel like, I don't know, I've never felt the same level of excitement that I felt watching and reading Yu Yu Hakusho that I have from any other shonen. - I'm envious, I want that. - Yu Yu Hakusho has some of my favorite

in all of Shonen. - The Dark Tournament arc to this day is one of the best arcs in Shonen. - The Dark Tournament arc is the best tournament arc. - Hands down. - Of all time. - Hands down. - And this is a tournament arc that came out fucking 20 years ago now. Like it,

birth the tournament arc genre. - The reason why tournament arcs have become a meme and are so hyped is because of Yu Yu Hakusho. - It's because of Yu Yu Hakusho. Like Dragon Ball might've like popularized it, but then Yu Yu Hakusho perfected it. And then it hasn't been perfected since then. But like-

- Also like Sensui is one of the best villains in all of Shonen as well. - Oh yeah, and Toguro as well. - Toguro as well. - Fucking Toguro, oh my God. Such a good character. Not gonna lie, growing up, I wanted to be Hiei so bad. I was like, I looked at Hiei and I'm just like everything about this guy is so fucking- - Is he the guy with the black hair? - He's the guy with the black hair. Everything about Hiei- - Why could I guess which one you were talking about? - Everything about Hiei is so fucking cool. - So is that Serial Experimental Lane at the top? - Yeah, that's top left. - Why?

I think because like, well, again, I still think it's fucking insanely ahead of its time. Like this was made back in like the late nineties and it talks about fucking societal issues that are relevant today. - Right. - And that's, I don't know. I think that's like a huge artist. Like it deserves the artistic integrity. - I'm curious, what kind of stuff does it talk about in the show? What kind of societal issues? - So basically to grossly oversimplify, Serial Experiments Lane is essentially this idea that your digital identity and your real life identity sees no barrier.

And so basically it follows obviously Lane who kind of goes through this like discovery of herself and the world in being like, wait, so we can create digital identities of ourselves on the quote unquote internet. I mean,

I mean, obviously back then it was very primal. - Yeah. - Right. - This came out of the like 1998. - 1998. - Yeah. - Just to give it context. - Didn't even have balloons tower defense. - Exactly. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - It was before Flash Player, bro. - Fuck. - But basically it's this idea that like, wait, so if things happen in the digital world, then is there really no consequences of that in the real world and vice versa? - That's pretty cool. - And they did that in 12 episodes.

- And I will attest that Silver Experience Lane is fucking amazing because I remember, I watched it for the first time last year. So I watched it pretty long. - Oh really? - Yeah, yeah. 'Cause it was on my to watch this forever. And then I was just like, you know, I'm finally in the mood to watch this. I'll give it a watch.

And I remember thinking, man, this, normally when you see a piece of media that focuses around technology and like stories around technology, it ages horribly. And I remember watching "Xero Experiences Lane" and thinking, how is this,

how does this seem like it's more relevant now than it is when it first came out over like 10, 20 years ago? - Because this show low key foretold the future of social media. - Yeah, yeah. - I think I can understand that. If you were really in touch with the internet back then, you could probably see where it was going, I think. - And obviously I picked Serial Experiments Lane there obviously because I love it, but also I love,

I mean the shows that make you think quote unquote, that to dive more into that kind of stuff. Like, you know, yeah. Make you thunk right? Like ergo proxy is in the same field as that. I love that show. And you know, Raza phone as well was in there as well. - Yeah.

I mean, I just think it's good. - It birthed my love for my journey, birthed my love for fucking romance. - Fully Cooley. - Fully Cooley is just a masterpiece. - I've never watched Fully Cooley. - It's seven episodes and it feels like a fucking five hour long movie. - It's a very dense show. - Very dense. - I would say.

- Why does dense always just sound like an insult? It's a dense motherfucker. - It's a thick show. - What do you want to say? No, no, it's a compact show. Is that exactly what you refer to? - Compact sounds less of an insult than dense. Dense sounds like it's like brick shit house like filled with garbage. - Okay, it's a compact show. - Now I'm listening.

- There is like Fully Cooly has 24, I would dare say 24 episodes worth of material packed into seven episodes. - I would agree with that. - Yeah. - And it's got- - And the soundtrack is- - One of the best soundtracks of all time. - Soundtrack is fucking amazing. - Yeah, it's fucking amazing. I have no more questions. You're free to go.

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- Let's check out Garnt's, shall we? - Let's check out mine. - Jump right into it. - Let's jump right into it. Let's check out mine and see what you guys see there. - All right, well, we can ignore the filth in the middle.

- Honestly. - What is that shirt in the middle item? - It's Orimo. - Okay, so let me spell out my three by three. So from top left going down row by row. So you got Your Name, Baccano, Fate/Zero, Evangelion, Orimo, Log Horizon, One Piece,

- "Haruhi" or "The Disappearance" and "Black Lagoon." - God, this screams someone who got into anime in the 2000s. Jesus Christ, look at that. - This screams Weeaboo. - Look at this. - Yeah, yeah. - Look at this fucking "Black Lagoon," "Evangelion" and "Haruhi" on the same fucking- - Okay, not gonna lie, not gonna lie, I was not expecting "Black Lagoon" to be there. - I could see it. - Really? - Okay, so- - 'Cause there's nothing like it. - I've never heard anything about "Black Lagoon" coming from Garnt's mouth. - It's fucking good. - No, it's great. I'm just curious why Garnt likes it. - I watched the "Anime Zone" review on it.

- Oh really? - It's fucking brilliant. It's one of the shows that I haven't had too much of a chance to talk about, but like before I get into that, let me tell you the thought process that I have.

- Too much emotion. - Let me tell you the thought process I put into like picking these. - Tell me your thought process, go on. - Because at the beginning I was like, how the fuck do I pick my favorites? 'Cause I have like too many favorites that I can talk about, right? So then I thought, okay, here's a big thing.

- What if I just pick the anime that I have rewatched? Okay? Because if I've rewatched something and this is like rewatching, not for my job, but rewatching for my own enjoyment. If I've rewatched something, that means there is something fucking special about that show that has stuck with me that I felt like I've wanted to go out of my way to re-experience that. - I agree with that.

And even on some shows that I think is fucking great, like for example, like stuff like "Monster" or like highly critically acclaimed shows. - I do not want to rewatch "Monster." - No, no, no, exactly. I feel like it's had its time in the sun, but in terms of like what I truly like enjoy to the core, I wouldn't go out my, at the moment, I wouldn't go out and rewatch "Monster." You know, I wouldn't do that. - Okay, hold on, but I get that, right? Like I'm looking at this right now being like, yeah, rewatch that, rewatch that.

- Would you rewatch One Piece? - I have rewatched One Piece. - Is it even possible to rewatch One Piece? - Okay, here's the thing. - You got that Steins;Gate time machine or some shit? How you doing that? - Okay, I've watched One Piece basically up to the time skip all the way once and then I've rewatched it again once.

And then I've rewatched some of my favorite arcs. - How many episodes is that? - Multiple times. - That's like five, 600 episodes. - I fucking know it is. And this was back when I had time to watch anime. And I would just like, whenever I got, whenever I had time, I'm just like- - When you said rewatch, right? I thought you were talking about like, oh, I've rewatched the "Water 7" arc. - I'll tell you about it. - I've rewatched "Alobasta." I didn't think you'd rewatched- - You've really shown your age. You need years to rewatch that. No wonder you're older than me. Like, fuck me.

- I love how you compensate and be like, no, no, only up until the pre before the time skip. I'm like, it's still like 400 episodes. - Okay. Which is why like I was having trouble putting a Shonen on. Cause I'm just like, is there any Shonen that I actually truly love that I would, you know, think that I would go back anytime. Cause I was going to put Yu Yu Hakusho and I was thinking. - Seven deadly sins gone? - No, yeah. You know my love for seven deadly sins, right? But like one piece to me,

will go down when it finishes, will go down as well. It already is one of the greatest anime slash manga series of all time. - Yeah, of course. - But to me, when I think back and I think back because "One Piece" isn't the perfect show.

- Right, I've rewatched One Piece. - Does anyone claim it is? - Yeah, no, like everyone forgets about the lows of One Piece. Everyone forgets about the fucking- - Sky Island. - Sky Island, I wasn't a fan of the Foxy arc, which was a filler cannon arc that everyone doesn't talk about. - I completely forgot about that. - You know what I mean? - What are these names? These names don't sound fucking real. - Dressurosa was like, it was way too long. It was dragged out to shit, but.

- Nothing in my opinion can touch the highs of One Piece. When One Piece is at its best, right? I think it is the greatest thing you can find in anime. - I will stand by and say, even though I've watched every Maeda Jun anime, I've cried more times watching One Piece than any other show. - When you have that many episodes, something's gonna hit, right? Like fuck me. - But in places that I wasn't expecting. - No, no, no.

- There's plenty of shows that have a lot of episodes and haven't had the highs that One Piece has because- - I don't know, Sazae Sam has some pretty high highs. - How do you know anything about- - Doraemon has some pretty high highs, man. - What I find amazing about One Piece is it's been going on for like what, 20 years now? - Almost 30 now. - Almost like, I can't remember when it started. I think it started in- - 1996. - 98 or 96, something like that.

But I remember I've just caught up with the manga with like the Wano arc, which is now one of the longest arcs. It's so long that it has three parts and it still has moments that make me feel fucking magical. This is like, like One Piece is like,

I watched some of the best moments in One Piece and I get reminded, this is why I fucking love anime. This is why I fucking love manga. This is why I love this medium. - Did the author of One Piece like intend for it to be as long as it is? Or was it just like, fuck, it's just popular. - I think he had planned, because the thing about One Piece is that it's this long and yet there's foreshadowing

that's happened like fucking hundreds of chapters. - He's not from this planet. - That is being explored now, right? And I think he didn't expect it to be this long, but when he got popular, he realized he can explore basically every idea that he wanted. - A lot of people I feel kind of undermine Oda.

Just because it's like, oh yeah, he made one piece, but whatever, it's so long, blah, blah, blah. But I think people, when you look deep into it, people really undermine his skill for storytelling because again- - Let's be honest, you have to be to keep how many people are captivated for a thousand chapters. - He's been number one on "Shonen Jump" for the past 15 years. - You don't do that by luck. - No, no, no, no. - It's not luck.

And like what I find amazing is it's been going on this long and it's not one, it's not only still got fucking amazing moments and even when some of the greatest, in some of the latest chapters and some of the latest moments, but two, no matter how far you go into one piece, you feel like there's still an upswing. You still feel like he hasn't peaked yet.

And like, how would you write a story that's like almost a thousand chapters long and you still think, man, there's an upswing coming. There's something greater coming. - It's insane. Every time a new arc started and I would keep up to date with like what the manga

where we were saying everyone would be like, how is it that the next arc is even better? How does it keep getting better? - Yeah. - I thought this was the peak of one piece and then it just keeps getting better. - How does the hot dog stand arc keep just blowing me away? How does the water park adventure supreme arc keep blowing me away? The names don't make fucking sense to me. - No, no, no, it is literally that Pro ZD video where he talks about anime arc names and like,

Any One Piece fan who's watched that video knows that he's just calling out One Piece fans there because we were literally talking about this video before the podcast started. And we were just, me and Joey was just talking about the Big Mom arc. And then Connie was just like, "Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah." Wait.

- That's a real- - Are you guys serious? - I thought they were joking, 'cause it was like Big Mama's house or something. I thought it was the joke. - But I felt that, right? Like when I, I remember when I've watched the Alabaster arc in one piece, I was like, this is the greatest thing ever made. And then "Water 7" came out, I was like, how is it getting better?

- Guys, guys, guys, I hate to rush you Garnt, but you have nine anime to talk about. - I can talk about one piece of the fucking Sun Ghost. - 'Cause frankly, I don't really wanna hear your opinions on either of them. I honestly do not care. - I already know your opinions on Ava, I already know your opinions on Your Name, I already know your opinions on Fate. - Baccano is like saying, "I like cumming."

Like of course you do that. - Back in those days, I like sex, of course you do. - And it's just fun. It's just fun. - And then we've gushed over "Haruhi" obviously, and how "Disappearance" is fucking amazing. - "Lock Horizon" as well. Okay, I'm very excited to see that. - Yeah, 'cause I was thinking back to, because obviously I'm the fucking Isekai man, right? I was thinking, "Lock Horizon" is the Isekai I come back to, because it's the only Isekai I've rewatched.

- Out of everything, like Re:Zero I watched because it was my job. You know what I mean? That was literally the only reason I watched Re:Zero. Local Rising is the only Isekai I've come back to be like, man, there was some good fucking moments in this. And I really want to re-experience some of these ideas that- - Season three is out. - Yeah, I'm probably gonna rewatch it. - I think now, yeah. - Yeah, it's out this season. So I'm probably gonna re like,

- Log Horizon is the only like pure isekai right now that I can like recommend without, it's got no catch. Like it's not like Re:Zero where it's like, oh, it's a time loop catch. You know, that's the interesting thing about it. Log Horizon is just- - Hey guys, hey guys. - Yeah. - There's a gimmick. - Log Horizon is just an isekai that is just a good isekai. - No, I absolutely agree. - I agree, I agree. It deserves to be, it has its place there. - I just can't get over the fact that you,

- Unironically like Orima. - Okay. - I just like for the longest time I'm like- - What is Orima about? I thought it was like the child one. - Incest. - Yeah, that's it, right? - It's not about incest. - It is about incest. - Incest just happens in it. - It is about- - It's not about, there's a key.

- There's a key fucking difference between the two, mister. - It is about incest and best girl getting cocked. That's what that show is about. - You can't just say there's incest in it like it's like a scent of a flavor. You can't just drop that in there and be like, oh, there's also incest in it. Like what? What do you mean? Is this a small thing, incest to you?

- It is something, okay. So let me defend this. - God defends incest 4K edition. - I'm a fucking do it man. I'm a fucking do it. I don't care if this like, watch this clip get me canceled in like four years or like fuck four years. Watch this clip get me canceled in like one month. You know what I mean?

everyone forgets that Orimo was a legitimately good fucking show when it first aired. - I'm gonna have to stop you right there. - It was a good show. - I'm gonna have to stop you right there. - Like everyone thinks I put Orimo on the same level as something like "Eromanga Sensei." No, fucking "Eromanga Sensei" was trash from episode one and it knew it was trash. And "Eromanga Sensei" is what happens when you take all the trashiest parts of Orimo and put that into a show. Orimo,

- "Sanmo" was a nice wholesome look at otaku culture and- - With incest. - And the thing is, the thing is, the thing is when it was airing, everyone was just like, oh yeah, this is a parody of all like the incest light novels and everything like that, right? This is just mocking- - Your honor, it was but a parody. I stuck my penis in the job. - Everyone thought- - It was a parody.

Everyone thought that it was just taking the piss out of like, you know, this, the little girl Emoto fucking craze happening in anime and light novel. And if you don't watch the final three episodes, you can watch the entire series of series of Oromo and just think that. And then the final three episodes happened and it- - Yeah, that sparked an outcry, didn't it? - It sparked an outcry, right? It's,

- It definitely, because the reason it sparked an outcry was because no one was actually expecting it. - Yeah, it went from like 20% incest to 99% incest. - It was 100%. - It was 100%. - There was no percentage that could be shaved off. It went full incest and it was unapologetic about it. - So you fully admit that it went full incest, yet it's in your top nine anime? - Because the reason it's okay.

- I've rewatched it because it is- - You've rewatched it? - Yeah. - You've got multiple in general. - I've already said I've rewatched everything on this list. - I don't even wanna see your porn history. - Because this show, like this show is the epitome of everything I love about trashy harem manga and anime. When you say that, it just sounds like satire.

- It is not. - It sounds like satire. - It is not. Okay, so remember when you went through my anime list and I gave "Ikitosun" a two? - Yeah. - So like back when I was a teenager, I was just like- - You couldn't appreciate incest. - Yo, yo, I'm better than this fan service shit. I'm better than this trashy anime. I got good fucking taste. This is the show that fucking changed all that. When I was just like,

why am I enjoying this so much? Why do I like this fucking filth trash show? - I mean, look, I have shows like that. "Kiss Sis" being a perfect example. I didn't put it in my fucking three by three though. - Yeah, this is where they put an incest in this fucking top nine, Garnt. - In the middle of all places. - That was a legitimate deliberate choice. I put it in the middle 'cause I'm just like, this show,

this single show has probably had the biggest overall effect on my taste in modern anime. - You literally fucking made "Oriimo" out to be like the free space in a bingo card. You know what I mean? It's just like, "Yeah, of course, of course I'm gonna open this." - I fucking did it. And because it is, yeah, it is a fucking trashy anime, right? There are trashy moments in there, but I think I will defend the point that "Oriimo" wasn't complete trash. There were some legitimately good,

heartwarming moments in there and it wasn't all trash, okay? It wasn't "Eromanga Sensei." - No, it really was. - It wasn't "Eromanga Sensei." - You're going to jail, buddy. - "Eromanga Sensei" is Oreimo reskinned. That's all it is. And you have to admit to that. - No, I don't. - You have to admit to it. - "Eromanga Sensei" is the trashiest part of Oreimo concentrated. It is dense Oreimo. - Your honor, I didn't know she was 12. I'll be honest, your honor. - Ladies and gentlemen, this man has the largest anime

YouTube channel on the black. - He also. - And this is what he said. - I'm fucking proud of this shit. I put it, I literally put this stuff front and center and I regret nothing. I regret fucking nothing. - That is all my computer now and I can't wait to use it as blackmail. - All right, let's check out corners. - Gentlemen, gentlemen, here is my nine. My arguably the strongest nine we've had today. - Okay, do you wanna go from top left?

- So, "Hunter Hunter", "Golden Time", "Bokurano", "Ping Pong The Animation", "Sakamoto", "Kaiji", "Mob Psycho 100", "Banana Fish" and "JoJo". - I'll tell you what this is. This is the, guys, I have good taste in anime. - Fuck off.

- Bro, these are good. What do you mean? How? - Guys, guys, you want to know what personality I have? Absolutely no fucking personality. - I'm sorry that I don't like incest, Garnt. Is that what you want to see on my list? Where's the lack of incest? - This is the, I cite my sources in my video essay, like levels of like anime taste, you know what I mean? - What?

- No, no, these are legitimately, if I had to use a name like the top nine shows that I have and like a little bit of variation genre, this would be it. - No, no, no, because I look at this list and I'm just like, yeah, this is what my nine by nine would be if I literally went through my like modern Mal and just pick the top highest rated anime on that map. - I'm trying to take my fucking taste in anime, Garnt, and this is my taste.

- I don't know, man. - I'm sorry that it's too normie for you, Garnt. - No, no, no, it's not even normie, it's just, it's try hard. That's what it feels like. - Legit, this is legit my favorite nine shows. - Okay, well, I mean, obviously we don't have to talk about "Hunt to Hunt" because it's fucking amazing. - It's fucking amazing. - We've talked about "Golden Time." - "Golden Time" is like my favorite romance. - We talked about "Boccherano." - Yeah. - "Ping Pong."

- Can you talk about ping pong? - 100%, right. - I love ping pong. - Ping pong, right, is other than like mob, okay, that's also why I love mob for similar reasons. Like ping pong is like one of the only animes, right? You get all these fucking stupid animes where the guy's OP as fuck, like no one fucking gives a shit, right? Like, okay, wow, Kirito is a giant dick again, right, cool. We have another Isekai, oh, they're overpowered, or oh, they have an ability that's unique to them. You know what, real life sucks, man. No one has a unique ability. And I really liked there was a thing

fucking anime that was like, bro, life kind of sucks, man. Sometimes people are just gonna be better at things that you love, even if they hate it. That's what, but that was so real and it hurt, man. It hurt because I've been on both sides of the ping pong, like animation, like the characters. I've been talented at something that I fucking hated and I felt bad for people who really wanted to be good at that thing that I was good at. And I've also tried my fucking hardest at something and you speak Japanese fluently at birth. So, you know, I've been on both sides of the spectrum of ping pong animation. So, you know, I'm kidding, no, but I mean,

- Ping pong, ping pong. What I call ping pong, it's a life anime. - Yeah, it hurt because I was like, fuck, you really had to like pull that out of me. Like that made me a little like, God damn, okay, yeah. - Wait, okay, then I'm curious. Have you seen "March Comes in Like a Lion"?

- No. - Okay, 'cause I think if you loved ping pong, you would love- - Everyone has told me that. - Because "Mars Comes In Like A Lion" is the complete opposite. "Mars Comes In Like A Lion" is about a genius who can't understand the idea of losing. - Yeah. - Right? But that in itself is what's causing him to lose in real life. - Yeah. - So it's literally the opposite of ping pong, but also- - That's just like the school when they're like, "You're a gifted child." Then they can't fucking do anything later on in life. - Right, exactly. I mean, and obviously like,

- Why is Sakamoto there? - Okay, why is that? - Why is Sakamoto there? - Why is that a top nine anime? - That's so fucking funny, man. - I'm gonna have to stand with my boy here. Sakamoto is fucking hilarious. - Sakamoto is one of the funniest anime. - Sakamoto is so good. - It's so funny, man. - It's so funny. - You can put that shit on. It's like the Mr. Bean of anime.

- It's like the Mr. Bean of anime, Mr. Bean was like a fucking like handsome millionaire who was poking in anyway. - Shit's so, you really gotta diss me when you just like, well like yeah, pedophilia, brotherly love. - Okay, here's what I don't understand though.

every three by three, right? As we've established so far, every three by three I've seen back when it was big has at least one show that's shit. Like universally, right? That is just shit. I think all of these shows are fucking fantastic, which is why I have to press X to doubt. - I just don't like shit shows, Jerry. You think I'm gonna put like Maho Maho Demon or some shit in this list? No, this thing was made as fuck. - I don't know. Like you don't have like a, do you have a guilty pleasure anime?

- Honestly, no, not really. - Really? - I don't really watch anime ever.

- The grand reveal. - I frankly, again, I've revealed this before. I never fucking wanna rewatch anime, right? - So you wouldn't rewatch any of these? - No. - Okay. - Why would I rewatch something I've already watched? - Because it's great. - Because do you not wanna re-experience it? - Not really. I'll be honest with you. I'd rather experience something different. - So there's no show you would never rewatch? - But like, have you never gotten to the point, right? Where you're just tired of trying something new

And because, no, no, no. You're tired of trying something new. - Why do you make it sound so sad? I'm just tired of trying. I'm gonna go back to all this. - Just don't notice this fuck. - Because sometimes you try something new and you're just like, man, this just ain't doing it for me. You just want something. - You want something that's, it's comfort food. - Yeah, it's, yeah. - I don't know, for me that feels sad.

- It feels like you're trying to capture something that's gone in your life. You know what I mean? I don't know, it feels sad to me. - I am in this photo and I don't like it. - Like, I don't know, like you're chasing something that doesn't exist anymore in my mind. Why is Malien laughing at me? - Because in my mind, right? I could easily rewatch like Sakamoto. - Yes, would I willingly do it of my own free will? No.

- No, because like to bring it the other way, like for me watching new shows is me chasing that high. That is me chasing that high that I felt with the shows I've already liked. But the more anime you watch and just the older you fucking get, that just gets harder and harder. - That's why I don't watch much anime anymore.

- That's the biggest reveal of this video. Connor doesn't watch anime. - No, I do. I watch anime and I should try it. - I mean, look, honestly, like I'm feeling sauce about this three by three, just because again, because.

- All nine of these shows are like universally praised. - Are they? Is Golden Time universally praised? - Yeah, Golden Time is fucking amazing. - I thought it was trash. - I fucking love Golden Time. - No, no, Golden Time took everything- - I thought it was trash. I liked it, but it was trash. - No, Golden Time took everything Toradora did and just perfected it.

- Yeah, I would literally, it's like if you like in my mind, it's like my two favorite like romance or whatever, like Tora Dora and Golden Time, but Golden Time felt like the better version. - Golden Time did a better. - Golden Time is my favorite romance of all time, I would think. - Really? - Yeah. - I thought you guys didn't like Golden Time. - What? - No, I love Golden Time. - Okay, shit, okay. - I've met less people who say they didn't like Golden Time.

- Really? - Yeah. - 'Cause like the thing about "Golden Time" is that, you know, there were flaws because who the fuck liked Bannery as a character? Let's be honest. Like talking about compressing your memory, like I've only just remembered that ghost Bannery was a thing and that was just something I've just like, that was like a black spot in this like amazing series that I seem to remember "Golden Time." But like I think back to "Golden Time" and just think this is how adult romance should be.

This took everything that was good, as you said about Toradora and just made it better, perfected it, put it in university, didn't make it like just this high school romance, had enough adult elements that- - Didn't have an annoying ass fucking loli yonder. - True, she was really fucking annoying. I love "Kaiju the Gambler." - "Kaiju" is fucking amazing. - "Kaiju" is great. - One of my favorite shows and it's sad that no one gives it a chance, but also weird that it's only in 720p.

That's really fucking weird. No 480p I think or something. - Really? - Yeah, it was never released. - Oh yeah, yeah, it is in 480p. - It's in 480p. And it's such a shame 'cause like it's such a fucking good show. But it was either that or like "One Outs". I really fucking like "One Outs". - "One Outs" is fucking great. - Yeah, but I mean, I don't know. Like there's, I mean,

- I guess it looks very basic from the outside looking. - It's not basic. - It's not basic in the sense where- - I just thought we were putting on nine favorite shows. - No, we were, but what we're saying is that like, there isn't a single guilty pleasure anime here. - Because obviously- - Define the guilty pleasure anime. Well, like a show I know is bad. Or emo. That's more than guilty pleasure. That's criminal pleasure, Joey, I think. I don't know about that. - In my opinion, a guilty pleasure is a show that you love no matter what, even though you know

It is shit. - Yeah, but okay. But then when I was making this nine by nine, like say "Deadman Wonderland", I loved "Deadman Wonderland", but I never finished. And it was kind of me because of it. But like, I don't think it's better than any of these shows for me personally. - 'Cause like I've talked to you and I know what your tastes are basically. And I don't see- - You trying to call me out? - No, no, I don't really see that represented here because I know like you- - What do you mean my tastes? Like you know me Garnt, what do you mean? - Well, I mean like you- - We've only hung out for a couple of years.

- Are you calling me a liar? Are you calling me a liar, Garth? - We only see each other every day. - Yeah, yeah. Like I know you love like fucking hardcore brutal shows like JoJo, Baki, Gantz. - I love Baki, yeah. - I'm surprised that I thought Baki was gonna be up there. - I thought Baki was gonna be up there as well. - Well, I mean, I love Baki as like, 'cause there's a few episodes in Baki the anime where it's like mid, but there was just so many fucking funny moments that like it'll stand with me forever. - Here's the best way I can put this. I know you like Chad shows.

- That's the best way I can describe Connor's taste. It's just got Chad characters in it. You know what I mean? - I like Chad characters. - That's why I really want Connor to watch or read "Fist of the North Star." - Yeah, yeah, exactly. - 'Cause I know you would fucking love that. - I like the right amount of Chad. If there's just too much Chad, sometimes a little too much. - What do you mean? You like JoJo. That's like 100% Chad. - That's a different kind of Chad. JoJo is like the built different anime.

Like that's in its own league, as far as I'm concerned. Like I think JoJo shouldn't even be treated as anime. It's a lifestyle. - It's an artwork. - But like, I don't know, like in "Fist of the North Star" when I see that, I don't really find it appealing 'cause they're just like too macho. I want a bit of weakness to the character, right? - I mean, if you read it, you'll know every character is weak as fuck. - Really? Okay, okay, fine, fine, fine. - I think you should read it, you'll love it.

- Yeah, but I- - It pisses me off when I'm watching an anime and the main character is like a wimp beyond comprehension and just causes so many problems for himself because he's a wimp. And I'm like, listen, all you gotta do is just say no and you wouldn't have been dragged off to a cult or something. - Are you talking about Deku? - I don't know, something else. There's a lot of shows where I'm just like, this literally could have been avoided if you just like stood up to yourself for like two seconds, like this whole problem.

- I don't know, man. - I'm not satisfied. - I have good taste. - I'm not satisfied with it. - What are you offering me? What are you offering me, huh? - Just some shit. You know what I mean? - You're expecting me to have shit taste. - This is like too polished. - I have good taste. What can I say? - I can make a better three by three. - Go on, make my three by three for me. - Okay, it would be like, like I said, it would be Jojo, Baki. - Baki, but like I love Baki, but it's not in my top nine shows.

- But you talk about it so often. - Yeah, but like, I love it, but I wouldn't put it higher than any of these for enjoyment in my mind. - But like, it's okay because- - Shows that I love and shows that I wanna talk about are like different, I guess.

- But it's okay. Like this is like getting into like- - I guess this, we should have defined the rules more appropriately. - Yeah, right. - Should've been like Connor, give me the nine shows that you think about, keep you up at night. - Yeah, that's what I did. - I did. - Well, you didn't tell me that. You said put your nine favorite shows that represent you. - Well, like what I don't understand is you say that like the shows I talk about and the shows I like are not the same. Why would you talk about a show if it's not your favorite?

- There's some shows where it's like, well, ping pong, right? All of it is encapsulated in the show. There's nothing more to add. I'm like, just fucking watch it. It's good. It's amazing. I fucking love it. Watch it. I can't improve it by talking about it. - That's the exact point, right? Because sometimes you see a good show and you're like, fuck me, that was a good show. - I need to talk about it. - Yeah, yeah. But sometimes you watch a show and you're like, man, this is sticking with me. You know what I mean? - Yeah, ping pong suck with me. - Yeah, no, no. I'm not saying ping pong shouldn't be on this, but like- - What shouldn't be on this?

- Hunter, Hunter? - Bro, dude, Hunter, Hunter, that shit moved me, man. I don't know, man. - I hear you talking more about Baki than Hunter, Hunter. - Yeah. - Okay, let's be honest, right? - Mob Psycho and Hunter, Hunter, I rarely hear you talk about.

- I would never hear you talking about these. - I talk about One Punch Man more than I talk about Mob Psycho. - Right, so why wouldn't One Punch Man? - Because I think Mob Psycho is a better show than One Punch Man. - But then why wouldn't you talk about Mob Psycho if it's a better show? - Well, again, 'cause it's a better show and I feel like there's not much to say. It's fucking amazing. Like just go watch it. - But this like, my favorite show- - I love Backy, right? Where I have to sit there and be like, listen, get to the part where he fucks someone and becomes extra powerful. Like I love having that conversation. Again, if you haven't seen Backy, there was a scene where he has sex. - There's literally one scene

- That's exactly what I'm fucking talking about. - That's exactly what I'm talking about. - I'm just saying, I'm just saying. - I'm just saying, I'm just saying.

- That's a scene that's stuck with you and you can bring up and you want to bring up. So why would that not be in your three by three? - It's like the way that I see it is that like, let's say Garnt wants to take me to like an event and he's like, he has to specifically tell me like, Connor, don't bring up the backy sex scene to like my friends. That's the level of like, I just want to talk about it like that. It's not like it's defined my taste. For some reason, I just want to talk about that scene and how fucking weird it is. - Because like,

- Kind of talking to you, I know what kind of shows you would like. You look at someone's three over three and you can like recommend some shows that they would like, for example. Like I knew for example, that you would love a show like "Dodahedoro", you know what I mean? 'Cause that is- - It's grimy. - It's grimy, it's a Chad anime, you know what I mean? It's just Connor. It just, you know. - I'm just gonna say, if I didn't see this three by three, and you told me,

- And if you ask me, recommend me an anime, Ping Pong is the last one I would bring up. - For me? - For you. - Why? - Again, it just doesn't seem like a show you would like. - What? I love that. That's actually like top three for me. - I can see it. The biggest one for me is like Mob Psycho and Hunter Hunter. - Bro, Hunter Hunter is my favorite show in the, shit, sorry. Hunter Hunter is my favorite show in of all time. - What about JoJo?

- I don't really count that as a shonen. - It is a shonen. - But it is a shonen. - Because it has to be categorized, but there's no JoJo category, but there should be, as far as I'm concerned. - Okay, what is this JoJo category then? - 'Cause JoJo is like its own beast, right? There's nothing you can compare JoJo to. - I agree with him a lot. - I disagree. - Compare JoJo to something right now, do it, bitch. - Fuck off.

- No. - No, no, no, no. It's not exactly the same. It's not exactly, I'm not saying they're both the same thing, but they give off the same kind of feeling. You know what I mean? Where it's just like, there are some ridiculous fucking things happening and you're just having a good time. - To some extent, yes, but also- - I'm not saying that they're on like the same level or anything, but they give off the same vibe is what I'm talking about. - I've always said that. - They're just both fucking insane. - But the thing is, is that a bunch of 80s and 90s shonen

back then had this kind of feel to it. - Yeah. - Like Fist of the North Star also has scenes where it's just like, what the fuck did I just read? - And you just recommended that to him because you think he would- - Exactly. - That's exactly what I'm saying. - Because JoJo halfway through is like, right, let's just be gay now. I love that. - Oh no, trust me, there's a lot of gay parts in Fist of the North Star. - Is there really? - Oh yeah. - I just thought it was like the manliest manly anime of any existence. But I guess that's pretty gay. - That is pretty gay. - That's pretty gay. - There's a thing called

I don't know if you're aware of. - I was gonna say the YMCA music video is pretty manly. - It's pretty manly. - But like "Banana Fish" is one of my favorite shows as well. Fucking love "Banana Fish". - Yeah, "Banana Fish" is great. - "Banana Fish" is a good show. - But I was expecting that because you've talked about it before. - Fucking love "Banana Fish". - Right? You've even made a whole video on "Banana Fish". So I expected that, but.

- So you're complaining that I picked good shows, is that? - Yes. - What? - Because everybody's three by three has to have at least one show where it's like, hold on a second. - Let's see if I can put a bad show that I like in my three by three. - There's gotta be at least one guilty pleasure. - See the money comment. - There's gotta be, what I'm saying is every three by three has to have at least one shitty show that you know is shitty, you just don't care. - Look, look, look, look, honestly, what is it? The World Garden of the Nones.

That's a shit show. - Would you put that on you? - Honestly, yeah, probably would. But you see, when I'm making this, right? We had like what, like an hour to make this. I'm thinking like, boom, I'm putting my favorites on that. The classics. - Okay, okay, okay. Here's a better way I can word it. I understood more about you as a person from your hentai taste than I did from this. - Yeah, but that's- - Okay. - I mean, that's very- - Okay. - I feel like anyone could hear my hentai taste and figure out, hmm, Connor recommends mother knows breasts. I wonder what he's into.

- Yeah, that is true. I look at this and I'm like, this could be anyone's three by three. - This was a randomly generated image made by- - This is like AI. - This was made by an AI learning program

from like the randomly generated sample from people's top like- - I put in the AI in offensive three by three. - There's a lot of them in like in good faith I couldn't put on there 'cause I'm like, I honestly don't fucking remember much from the show. So like, I don't know what to put on there. Like, so this is the, these are like the nine shows where if you like name nine shows that you love right away, these are the first nine that come to mind. I'll be honest with you.

- Honestly, maybe it does make sense. 'Cause Rem, you think Rem is your fucking wife. - I fucking love Rem. - That's just like zero. - I don't think you guys. - That tells me zero about you as a person as well. - This is a three by three. This is the most vanilla three by three.

- I'm sorry there's no gang bang or pre or grape incest in here. Okay. - What I'm trying to say is I like good shows too. - I'm sorry that you like Harry, Susan Mia, Evangelion and a black lagoon. The most 2000s like of anime in existence. - The fact is that, that shows shows. The fact is the fact is that you got something about what my fucking taste is. - You can get it about this. I like good shit. Why is that hard to understand? - I look at this. This could be any one of our fans.

- Well, our fans have great taste. - This could be anyone of our fans who was like trying to impress us being like, yes, my favorite YouTuber. I also have good anime taste. - I have good taste. What do you want me to do about it? Have shit taste jokes that you want from me? - Yeah, I was expecting- - Listen, I'm built different. - If I wanted anyone to have a shit taste, it was you. - No, no, no.

- Should we check out Maylene's? - Okay, so we have another one to check out, Maylene. - We can speed run Maylene's 'cause we've been going on for a while. - Come on the podcast, Maylene. Come on, come on, come on. You gotta defend this shit. Come on, Maylene, come on. - All right, as a bonus guest, we have Maylene, our manager. - We have the person who is managing us.

- I'm a person who works for one of the biggest Japanese publishing companies. I'm proud of you, Meilyne. 'Cause this is the literal opposite of Connor right here. Like you were not fucking scared to go balls deep and show us who you really are. - Listen, I gave you what I really am, Garnt. - So let's go to Meilyne. - Basic. - You're basic. - No, basic. - Meilyne fucking said it. You're a fucking basic bitch, man. - I have trashy taste, but I have personality.

- I might add, vanilla is a flavor that needs to exist. And I have that. - All right, let's go over it though. So from top left to bottom right, we have Monster, From the New World, Uta no Prince-sama, JoJo, Vampire Knight, Golden Kamui, Story of Saikoku, Seress, and Hakuouki Shinsengumi. - What the fuck is Story of Saikoku? What is that? - Do you wanna explain yourself, Meilyne? - Yeah. - I can't explain myself. - You know what this is? This is literally I like the true crime. This is I like true crime, the taste.

- It is, yeah. - You got JoJo's monster and then you've got all the like. - I've watched all of these at least two to five times each. - Yeah, you went on the same thing.

- I did not influence her. She thought the same thing where it's the shows you rewatch and the shows you just go back to. - Because I've heard Maylene talking about "Monster", "Utano Prince Summer", "JoJo", "Golden Kamui", "Shinsugai Yori". It's the bottom three that I'm curious about. - Most of my body pillows are the Hakouki Shinsenguri ones.

- The bottom three is like, I am a Fujiyoki. - Okay, let me preface that. I think out of all of us, Meilyne owns more body pillows than the three of us put together. - How many do you own? - Right now in Japan. - No, no, no, all together. Including in the US, how many do you own? - I don't know, like 50? - Hold on, they're not all big body pillows. - That doesn't make it any better. - We weren't asking about the size.

And I do have a five zero five zero because I do have like I'm a queen of the Genestreet Degeneracy has come along. You know the body spray to make the pillow smell like the official character because why not you want to know what they smell like I

- Do you boys honestly want me to be like this? Is this what you wanted from me? - Yeah, honestly. - Listen, you can be the weird one. This guy likes his children. He can have that. I'm gonna be normal, thank you very much. I take enough L's in the other shit I do.

- I got a thorough grilling on the hentai episode for having normal taste. I'm happy to have normal taste this time. - Okay, I've heard of, I've watched "Seres" actually. - That one's incestuous. - Yeah, that is very incestuous. That is like "Oriimo" but with beautiful characters. - Yeah, I know. That's just "Oriimo" gender bent. - There's two incestuous anime on here. "The Vampire Knight." - What the fuck is this building? We're full of . What is this?

Vampire Night. Yeah, Vampire Night is fucking incestuous as fuck. Vampire Night is incestuous as fuck. Again, I mentioned, I do not know anything about the show. The only thing I know is the only person who loved that show turned out to be a pedophile. She said, Maylene. I'm not a pedophile. I don't know, man. I don't know. But, yeah.

- I can't explain myself. - These images don't even have high res images. Like they're so fucking old, dude. - I will though say that I'm- - This one's in like Minecraft potato quality, man. - That one's really trashy. - It's like 120p. - It's really bad. - Uteno Prince, isn't that just a shitty gacha game?

- No, no, no, no, no. - You just know that because Meilyne plays the cat chicken. - It's like "Idol Master" if they were all guys. - Yeah. So like out of everyone here, Meilyne, yours is the only one that has shows that I've never heard of. What is this show? - So you know the Shinsengumi, the secret police basically in Japan. - Yeah, yeah.

- Secret police? - Did you just say the Shonen version? - No, Bishonen. - Oh, Bishonen version. - Like pretty boy, sexy, you know, 2D man version.

- Fujoshi bait. - Fujoshi bait. - Fujo bait. - It's Fujo. - It's originally like a visual novel. - The bottom three is all Fujo bait. - Yeah. - Like Sayu and Koko's Touren. - Meiling is a Fujo through and through. - Yeah, yeah. - I mean, we can see that. - We can see that. - We can see that. - She also likes her true crime. - Actually, you know what? There's more Fujo bait on here than actual like regular shows. - JoJo counts as Fujo? - No, no, no. - Vampire Zan, Uta no Pai.

- I'd say out of all of this, right? Like from the new world, it's the one that stands out the most. Did you just put this in to be like, guys, guys, guys, I got a little bit of a good taste in that one. - No, no, no, I like it. - Yusaka Yori is literally mainly saying, yes, I am a functioning human in society. I'm normal.

- I like normal shows. - Monster's pretty normal, I think. - Okay, yeah, Monster? - Golden Kamuy is very normal. - Golden Kamuy is there. - I am a normal human being. - No, no, no, but these two, I know why you like Monster and Golden Kamuy, 'cause you like, like you said, you like your crew time murder shit, man. - Also. - You could do a fucking, this is. - Yeah, Yohan's so sexy right now.

- Thank you. - Thank you very much for joining us. - Wow, that was some trash taste you could say.

- I'm glad to know that the producer for Trash Taste has trash taste, but you know what? It was more entertaining than Connor's fucking vanilla taste. - A lot of incest. - Yeah, that was the better way to- - Listen, I can't always be the fucking weirdo. Like I have that most of the time. Come on, leave me alone. - What do you mean the weirdo? - I'm always the one being like, all right, I'm gonna say something. And you guys are like, what the fuck? I'm sick and tired of it. - Well, hopefully you guys enjoyed this episode.

- Shit. - Hey, you know who doesn't have trash taste? - Our patrons. - Connor. - No, our patrons actually. - Okay, I guess I do too. - Honestly, they must have trash taste watching us. - I'm gonna take that back, man. - You all have trash taste. - You all have trash taste, you watch us, so obviously you have trash taste. - There's a reason why you enjoy this show, it's because you have trash taste. But hey, if you'd like to join us on Patreon, then make sure to go over to patreon.com/trashtaste. Also follow us on Twitter, the subreddit, and also join us on Spotify if you don't wanna see our faces.

- Well, you know what? When was the last time we actually did a show or an episode that was fully anime? - Fully about anime. - Fully about anime. - Good riddance if you ask me, honestly. - Like I hope you enjoyed your only anime Trash Taste episode for like the next six months. - We'll see you in around August. - I feel like there's not that much you can say though.

You can have a two hour discussion about the anime you like, but like you can't do it every week. - Yeah, that is true. That is true. But hopefully you guys enjoyed. - This is why you're not on an Ani-chi book. - Yeah, this is why you don't watch anime. - I can agree with that.

given the fucking list you just gave us, because what the fuck do you have to say about it? Absolutely fucking nothing. That's war Connor, that's war. - I just take W's man, what do you want from me? I just put good shit out. - No, I think in today's episode you took an L. - I did not, come on. - Look, look, look, if everyone did a list like you, it would be the most boring fucking episode

- Somebody has to be normal. That's me today. Okay, Garnt, don't hate me for that. - Well, let us know what you think down in the comments below. We're looking forward to what you guys say. But yeah, hopefully you guys enjoyed this episode and I've been Joey and with the boys and we'll see you guys next time. - We'll see you guys next time. - Bye. - Bye.