The Most BORING Anime | Trash Taste #14
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- What's up you delicious dickheads. - Sorry. Welcome back to another episode of Trash Date Podcast. - What was that? - Did you say you delicious dickheads? - Yeah. - I don't know why that was the first two words I came up with. - Why is this episode demonetized, Jerry? Why, why? - No, please, it was just a greeting, YouTube. It's nothing special, but welcome to Trash Date Podcast. - He's Australian. - Exactly. - This is what you expect. - Exactly. You can't expect me to say nice things, okay?

but I'm a host for the day. The Australian boy, he just spilled water all over himself during my fucking intro. - Sorry, I'm just pissing myself right now.

I'm here with the boy who pissed his pants and the boy who shits his pants. - That's me, that's me. People are gonna be like, is there a story? - Yeah, no, there's a story. Do you wanna start that one? - Yes, you're starting strong then. Hey, I shit myself. I didn't, but I did. - You had a full week of shitting yourself. - Since last week, apparently. - I'm still shitting myself. So after the podcast, we went to Izakaya, which we'll talk more about later. - Yeah.

- We had liver and only- - Well, you and Alproducer did. - Only me and Maylene had liver. And Maylene didn't tell me. I was like, "Is anyone else sick?" And Maylene was like, "Nope, nope." And then like five days later, she was like, "Oh yeah, I was sick by the way. "I just didn't want to think that I gave you COVID or something." And I'm like, "What the fuck?"

- What the fuck, tell me you're sick. - Way to go, Meaghan, thanks a lot. Thanks, thank you so much. Thank you for endangering your host. - So I'm pretty sure it was like that that got me like food poisoning, got me food poisoning. - Because Garnt and I didn't have the liver. - Yeah. - I remember you messaging us being like, "Hey, is anyone feeling tired?" And Joey said he's feeling fine. I was like, "Yeah, I'm like feeling pretty fatigued." You know, maybe we've just done a lot. I didn't realize like Connor was just

dying in the next room. - So like the day after I remember I had a call at like 10:00 AM and I was fine. And then I got a bunch of JoJo merch shipped. Cool, great. I opened it. - Day in the life of Connor. - A ton of JoJo merch came in, very normal day for me. And then after I like opened it, put it down, I was like, "Holy shit, I'm tired." Like I was weak. I was like, "Oh my God." And then later on in the day, I was like, "Oh, I'll order a curry."

- That's a good idea. - I have no idea why I thought a curry was like the best idea. And I would have liked a lot. And I also ate a lot of it. Like I had like a whole non, like shit tons of rice, real fucking spicy curry, sides as well. For some reason I went all out 'cause I was like, what my body needs is energy. That's what it needs right now. - And the best way to get energy

- Curry. - Dirty curry. - Dirty curry. - And then I was like, okay, I feel a little better, like in the first five minutes. Immediately after I was like, oh no, I'm in like pain. Like my stomach started really, really hurting.

And then this whole time I'm thinking, do I have COVID? Like do I have COVID? Fuck, fuck, fuck. - I mean, that's the first thing that goes over anyone's mind who gets ill right now. Like sometimes I have like a slight fever and I'm like, shit, shit, shit. - I'm dead, I'm dead. - I cough in public.

- Everyone's gonna think I have COVID. - No, but I was like, especially worried with you 'cause you texted me being like, bro, like I almost fucking fainted. - Yeah, so like that night, I texted you that the next day and the night of,

I was like curled up in a ball in my bed boiling, but like shivering, sweating nonstop. My bed was like damp as fuck when I woke up. It was disgusting, I know, I'm sorry. And then I had like a horrible, horrible fever. Couldn't get out of bed. I had such bad stomach pain at night. And I was like, all right, I gotta vomit. I gotta go to bed. And then I vomited and I was like, great, I feel good.

and then I sleep for one hour and then I vomit again. And then I've got shitting myself all day. I'm dying, I can't get off the floor. I like nearly fainted and then like an hour later I fainted and I was like, oh my God, I gotta go to hospital 'cause this is like COVID, right?

So there's like a hospital right next to our house, which was lucky. - It's like a five minute walk. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I had a friend call them up and see if they like could let me in. And they were like, "Yeah, sure, come on down." And so they were like, "Yeah, come through the back." - Come on down. - Come on down. - They were like, "Yeah man, just bring that insurance, bring that big old insurance card and just come on down." And then I went there.

And they were like, someone like Fuwaka-san or something was gonna greet me. And someone comes out like a fucking hazmat suit. - Yeah. - And they're like, "Kona-san?" I was like, "Yeah, yeah, hi."

And they bring me in, they lock me in this room alone. 'Cause obviously they think I might have COVID, 'cause I have COVID symptoms. And then they're like, "Nihongo daijoubu?" And I was like, "Nihongo muzukashii, nihongo wakaranai." And then they were like, "Oh, okay, okay." So then they bring a nurse in who can speak like pretty broken English, but good enough.

And then luckily there's one doctor in this building that could speak like semi decent English. So he came in, he was like, "You have COVID symptoms, so we give you a test." And I was like, "Oh, cool, cool, cool. Yeah, sure." And then he's like, "I will put this in your nose." And I'm like, "Okay." And then she fucking grabs my head like this, right? Like from a fucking distance, grabs my head and shoves this thing in. And I'm like,

- 'Cause it's like, it's quite long. - It's like this big, right? It's fucking horrible. And he puts it in and then he puts it in a little bit and I'm like, okay, this is fine. Then he's like, you know how like when they put the sword in the stomach, you put a little bit and then you fucking tongue it in. - I'm pretty sure that's how like they used to give lobotomy. - Yes, that's the whole thing. They push it in and they start like draining away. - He was like doing that and then he fucking shoved it in and I was like, ah!

I was like, "Itai, itai, itai." And then the nurse was laughing at me. - Are you in this camp? - Bear in mind, in this whole time, I have no idea what's really happening. They said I'm gonna do a bunch of other tests and stuff, and I feel like a lab rat. I'm just in this room, I don't know what's happening. And then they're like, "Sure, okay." And then immediately after that, I'm like,

"Oh, itai, isn't it?" And they're laughing. 'Cause obviously I have very selective words that I can choose from, 'cause I don't know the actual words. So I'm trying to pick the closest words to describe what's happening. - It's like, how many ways can I use the word itai?

- And then she's like, and then she's immediately after, right? When I'm like this, right? She grabs my arm, starts putting the like blood thing around me. - Oh yeah, the blood test. - And I literally was like,

'Cause I'm like still like, I'm like faint. 'Cause I'm like, I'm already feeling like feverish, I'm fainting. I'm like, I'm gonna faint. Like, please, you just shoved this thing in my mouth. Like I'm dying. Like I literally said like, . And then she, again, she's giggling and I'm like, what the fuck? Just like sticks it in and I'm like, okay, okay. I got no say in this. And then she's doing it and I'm like, I don't know how to say I'm gonna faint. And then she takes it out and she's like props me on the bed and I'm like, all right.

And she's just like, "30pun." And I'm like, "Okay, cool, cool, cool." For the COVID results. - Yeah. - And then she comes in the room and she looks at it, turns around and she's like looking really happy. She's like, "Oh, "it's bad though." No joke, she says bad. And I'm like, she's like, "It's bad." - You got it, son. - It's bad. - You did it. - And I'm like, "It's bad?" I'm like, "Negative, positive?" She's like, "Oh, oh, negative." I'm like,

Are you fucking kidding me? Are you kidding me? Don't scare me like that. - That is the most beautiful Google translated conversation I've ever seen. - I'm sitting there the whole 30 minutes thinking, all right, if I have COVID, I gotta tell Joey, I gotta tell everyone I've been in contact with, I gotta tell them everywhere I've been, I gotta stay at home for two weeks. I'm like, fuck, fuck, everything. And then when she said that to me, I was like,

- It's bad. - Luckily it was nothing and then they did like more tests to me. It was really fast though. It was like two hours. I didn't have to wait or anything. - As someone from the UK, it's really weird going to any other healthcare system and just being able to get your results and going and seeing the doctor the same day. - Having an x-ray on the day of and getting the results on the day. That just doesn't happen in the UK. I remember I like, I thought I broke my leg and they made me make an appointment for like a week and a half.

to get the x-ray. And I thought, "What? Bro, my leg is like fucked now. I need the x-ray now." - What do you expect me to do with this for a week and a half? - I guess 'cause it's free, right? Everyone gets it. I mean, I guess you can argue which is better, right? - I mean, you have to pay for it here, right? - You pay one third, right? - It's very cheap. - I paid one third and I paid $77 for the x-ray.

- A COVID test, a blood test and a CT, a CAT scan. - Yeah. - Just like Americans are probably like losing their shit. - They're like what the fuck? - Like a CT scan for $77? What the fuck? - I got the breakdown and the COVID test was 600 yen. So like $5. - Like five bucks. - Yeah, it was like nothing. - Because I remember I had to take Aki to the hospital once. Like this was like a year ago. I think she like squirted like shampoo,

- Oh yeah, I remember that. - And she was like, "I can't see, I think I've gone blind." So I had to call up the hospital, obviously get an ambulance over and everything. And the entire ride, she was such an American mindset, the entire ride to the hospital, she's like,

"Oh my God, this is gonna be so expensive, isn't it?" Like this thing's gonna be so, and I'm just like, "Don't worry about it. We'll just fix your eye up, whatever." We get to the hospital, it's like 2:00 AM. We get to the hospital, doctor like does a quick little check and she's like, "Okay, you're all good. You're not blind or anything. It's just really red. It's really burnt out. We washed it out for you. Here, take some meds and you'll be all good." And then in Japanese hospitals,

there's like a kiosk that you have to go to, to like pay for it. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Right, so we go to the kiosk with like this little receipt and we're just like, oh my God, this is gonna be like a couple hundred bucks. Because she's thinking in the American mentality. And I had never really gone to a Japanese hospital before. So I had no idea either. I was like, oh shit, is it the same? It's like, if she says it's like a couple hundred bucks then I guess I'm prepared to spend a couple hundred bucks. Dude, it was like $12. And we looked at it and she's like, wait,

Ambulances are free? Because in America you have to pay like two, $300 to get a fucking ambulance. - I think it's more, I think it's like a thousand plus. - Something like that. Like I've heard stories of like a couple of my American friends who like broke their arm for example. And they're like, call an Uber. It's like, because we're not paying for a fucking ambulance. We're just gonna call an Uber with like your arm hanging off a thread. It's tragic. 'Cause like, I think I remember Aki wanted to get an allergy test.

not in Australia, sorry, in America. And it was like $800 for an allergy test. Here you'd pay like $10 for an allergy test. And I guess in like the UK- - Do you guys have free healthcare? - Yeah, we have free healthcare. - I think doctors won't give you stuff like that though, unless they think you need it though. So it's kind of hard to get stuff like that.

- Oh really? 'Cause in Australia, like you can go get an allergy test whenever for free. - Yeah. - Maybe, I don't know. I've never done one. I can't comment. - It's very, some very specific medicines you get for free, others you kind of have to pay for. I feel like with UK, it's very specific on what illness you have because sometimes you have like this really common illness. They just tell you to just go home and sleep it off basically. - Yeah, UK doctors a lot of the time are very reluctant to like do anything.

- I mean, I don't know, I can't, I mean, at least the doctors I've had. - I mean, if you just go to like a general practitioner, right? Like to get a checkup, it's usually free, right? - Yeah. Whereas the only other, I guess, experience I've had with healthcare outside of the UK is Thailand. And normally it's like pretty,

it's pretty like, it's about the same price as it is here in terms of medicine and going to see the doctors and everything. And what I found is that doctors here in Asia at least are way more willing to give off like some kind of medicine for whatever illness you have. - I guess there's an argument to be made that also could be dangerous though. Like just giving off medicine constantly. I mean, that's why there's like an opioid epidemic right now in America, right? - Yeah, yeah. - Over prescribing. But I mean, healthcare is a,

- That's a loaded topic to get into. - That's a loaded topic that I certainly do not know enough about to contribute to the conversation. - Either way, I had a good time. My doctors were very nice, except they scared the shit out of me. That was not fun. - Literally scared the shit out of you. - I'm still shitting. - Several times. - Actually, another thing that was good is there was a pharmacy right around the corner

And they obviously knew I couldn't speak Japanese. I told them, I was like, "Oh yeah, Nihongo, Wakaranai." And then they were, they made me fill out a form in English. And I was like, "Fuck, how do I tell them I have like this blood condition?" And so I Googled the kanji for it. And I like wrote this kanji, which was fucking hard kanji. That was like swooshes. When there's not lines, straight lines, I'm like, "Fuck." - There's a curve in this, damn it. - Yeah, yeah, fuck. And then I had to write this in like, it must've looked like a,

a two year old wrote this kind of- - I really wanna see that now, just to see. - I don't know, whatever the kanji for hemophilia is, is on the screen right now. - Right, right. - Yeah, it was, and so I gave it and I'm like, I was like, I made sure, I was like, "Daijoubu, daijoubu?" And they're like, "Oh yeah, daijoubu, daijoubu." And they gave me the medicine and then they gave me a printed like A4 paper in English explaining what all the medicine was and if I shouldn't take it. And I'm like, "Oh wow, that's cool."

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - 'Cause normally in Japan it's just like, "Oh, you don't speak Japanese?" - Good luck. - Well shit, I think this medicine will work. You might have a reaction to it. - Ripperoni skin. - It's like, better find out. 'Cause like most American medicine, like I can't take. Like, and I always find that out. 'Cause when I was a kid, I didn't give a fuck. I was like, yeah, I'll take it.

- Is this a pill? I'll fucking take it. - What does it do? - I'll give it a go. - Yeah, when I was 12, I was like, "Oh, it's medicine?" Yeah, I'll take it. It's good, medicine's good. And then when I got older and I started like, when someone told me like, "You can't take ibuprofen," and my dad had been giving me ibuprofen for like five years. - Oh my God. - And it was like, "Oh shit, I could have died." - Yeah, yeah. - Yeah, so I can't take ibuprofen. And there's so many drugs in America that contain stuff that I just can't have. So I can't have most generic ones.

- As a kid, did you love the taste of like cow po? - I think that was- - Cow po, yeah cow po. - Cow po. - I fucking love that orange one. - Oh my God. - It's like an orangey kind of thing. - It's like there was an orange cow po and like a blackcurrant one as well. - Blackcurrant was so fucking good. - Yeah, yeah. - Was that like cough medicine or something? - No, it's kinda like general cold medicine. - Yeah, just like general cold medicine. - British. - But as a kid, it tasted way too good. - I used to love getting sick. - Every time I would have a sick day, I'm like, "Mom."

- Bring out the cow pole. - Get the top shelf. - You're only supposed to take like one spoonful. Sometimes I just act like extra ill. So I can be like, I think I need

- I think I need another one. - That shit tastes too good to be a medicine. - We had something like that in Australia, but it was cough syrup. And like, normally it's like strawberry flavored cough syrup, right? And like, it still tastes like cough syrup. It has the aftertaste of cough syrup, but the initial thing is like a goop of like strawberry flavored like jelly basically. So kids would just like fucking downy shots of that shit. - Very safe. - They were just like, please father. I am sick.

- Yeet. - Turning kids into dryads. - Yeah, legit. - Did you ever in school wanna break an arm to have everyone care, you know what I mean? - No. - I wasn't that desperate for attention. - 'Cause everyone would write on the kid's broken castles, I was like, "I want that. "I want everyone to write on my arm."

- Can I break my arm please? - I think like whatever, like if there is a God, he knew I wanted to break. So I've never broken a bone in my body. I've like done disgusting shit that should have broke bones. - There was a time where like, yeah, I would see the cast thing and I'd be like, that looks so cool. - That's not what I'm saying. Like I don't want to break a bone, but I was like, I want to have like a thing. - I want to have a cast. And I remember like, I was like climbing a tree and I fell off and I landed on my arm. - You were gonna cast? - Yeah, in the back of my head I was like,

- Yes. - See? - Finally. - I just worded it wrongly. - But I wasn't like willingly like, all right, let me find the closest tree. - Yeah, I wasn't trying to yeet myself on a tree. I was just like, it would be cool though if I did break it. - And then when I found out it was just like a really bad bruise, I was like, that's not cool. - Can we get a cash sale? - It's just a bruise. I don't get anything from this. - Yeah, what the hell?

- Yeah. No, 'cause I've also never broken a bone in my body. And I don't know, the thought scares me now, 'cause I don't know what it feels like. - The older you get. - Yeah. - Yeah, because I see so many people, 'cause I went to a high school that was very predominantly sports-based, right? So boys would be breaking their wrists or their ankles, their arms, their legs, whatnot, constantly. And every time I would ask, because I don't know why I've never broken a bone in my body either, I would always ask, "Does it hurt?" And they're always just like,

- No, not really. And I'm just like, bullshit. I've had splinters and they fucking hurt. Of course that fucking hurts. What are you talking about? - I think there's people who don't realize that fingers are broken or something at some points. - Oh yeah. - My school didn't realize his finger was broken until it had set wonky.

because he didn't go to the hospital. - How do you not realize that shit? - It's like, oh, my finger kind of hurts. Looks kind of weird too. - It's like 90 degrees. - That's kind of strange. - And meanwhile, there's me, I get a paper cut. I'm like, get the fucking bandages. Can you see bone? Can you see bone?

- Get the alcohol quick. - I'm too British. I feel like if my hand was like impaled, I'd be like, no, well, I mean, it's just a flesh wound. - Put a bit of sanitizer on it and I think you should be fine. - Honestly, I think like the smallest injuries hurt the most. I feel sometimes though. - A paper cut or a splinter hurts like a mother fucker. - What's the worst injury you've ever had? Like that hurt the most.

- The worst injury I've ever had. - I'm intrigued, do you have one? - I remember once when I was a kid, we were playing tag or it as we call it. - A brutal game. - The sport for barbarians. - And I was playing with my cousins and this one time I ran like head, like I full on sprinted, right?

And my cousin was like standing next to a pole. And then I fell on sprinted to try and get him. And then I tripped and I like face planted into this pole. Right. And like,

I don't think I got any brain damage or anything like that. Didn't get a concussion. But what I did get was this like Tom and Jerry type massive bump on my head. It was massive, okay? Like to this day, I've never seen another injury like this where, but like my forehead was just like this.

And the entire evening, my parents were just spinning that, like I was on my mom's lap and she would have to like, she had to like literally press it back in slowly over the course of this entire night. - You should have just been like, it's my giga brain just trying to like come out. It's trying to escape from my head. - You know that point where you've got an injury and you don't know how bad it is. And then you see it and you're like,

"Oh shit, this is like way worse than I thought it was initially." 'Cause initially I'm like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm good, I'm good. I can handle this." And then I saw myself in the mirror. And then when I saw that massive lump, that's when like the wave of pain just like came towards it. So I don't know if it was like a psychological thing, but it was- - Probably the worst one I had was, I was out like camping with friends. 'Cause I always used to go camping every year with my family and like family friends. And like, we were like maybe 10 years old or something.

And my friend and I were like just grabbing rocks. There was like this big cliff face. And we were just like kind of throwing rocks at the cliff because what do you do when you go camping? While the dads are sitting up the tent, we're like, all right, fuck it, let's just throw rocks or whatever. And one of the rocks had bounced, like my friend threw the rock against the cliff, it bounced back and my hand was like pressed up against like another stone 'cause I think I was sitting down and the stone came back and just slammed into my fingers.

And I was like, ow, initially. But then I looked down and both of my fingernails had just completely chipped off.

- And like, it was really weird, right? It was kind of like your thing where it's like, it hurts until you look at it and it's like, oh, now it really fucking hurts. - Oh, that's so gross. - Yeah, so both of these fingernails were gone for like a month maybe until they like re-grew back. And yeah, that was probably the worst. - So gross. - Yeah. - I think the most pain I've been in, I was like snowboarding and I went, you know- - That does never go well. Snowboarding injuries are the worst. - It's just like,

- Oh God, it's like four years ago as well. You know, like having some like snow fucking ski resorts. They have some area that's like designated for like tricks and do like hot, like there's like a half pipe. So I know I like going there.

And I try to, I normally can do like a 360 in the air. - Yeah. - Okay. Like it's not clean. - Stop bragging. - Now I'm too scared to do it. Because one of them, like I didn't go off right and I just kind of like span halfway and my back was facing. And so I was up in the air, maybe like, I don't know. Like I landed in the bottom of the, like the,

the ramp for the next jump. And it was just hard ice. And I must've been up in the air, like, I don't know, like three or four meters off the ground. Just slammed on my back. I thought I broke my back. Like I was so winded. I couldn't breathe 'cause my lungs had just been like fucking pancakes. I was like, and they were like, should we get the ski ambulance?

I'll walk it off. I'll walk it off. And then I'd like broken the fall by like putting my hand there as well. So I sprained my wrist as well. It was fucking horrible. - Yeah, yeah. I've had a lot of snowboarding and skiing. - They hurt the most, man. - I had something similar like that, but I obviously wasn't in the air for as long. And also I always make sure whenever I do do the jumps, like I can do like 180s and 360s as well. But I always make sure that the bottom of it is like powder snow. Just so if I fuck up the landing, then it's just like a pill.

and we were like, "Ah, this feels nice." - Sometimes you're like, "I really wanna do this sick jump, but there's no snow at the bottom, but I'm gonna fucking do it." - Yeah, I know, moments before disaster. - Yeah, 'cause like up until that jump, I was doing like 180, 180. I was like, "I'm gonna do the big one."

I had to do the 360 and then I went for it and it just completely failed. And then I had to be like dragged out of the way 'cause people were waiting to go as well. It's like a line system, you know? Your mates had to like drag me with their skis on. It was like, oh my God, it's horrible. - I think my most painful memory is actually also my earliest memory. So this is my earliest memory of my life that I can remember. - What? - Yeah, so I think I was about three years old

And it's obviously very vivid, but it's given me a phobia of bees, okay? To give you an idea about where I'm going with this story. So here's like my very earliest memory. I remember I was in my parents' restaurant

And I see this like thing just like buzzing around. It was like this black dog, just like buzzing around. And all I remember thinking was I wanna bat the shit out of this thing. - As a three year old? - As a three year old kid, I'm just like,

'Cause it's like moving fast and I'd never seen a bee before. So I'm just like, I'm gonna bat the shit out of this. - That's like some cat brain right there. - Yeah, right? It's like thing is moving, I must hit it. - Literally cat brain. And then all I remember was I tried batting it and I remember it moving in a circular motion, closing in on my eye. - Oh my God. - It was like this, I remember it. And then the next thing I feel is just this sharp pain on my fucking eye.

It is like, it scarred me for life. This pain, I still remember to this day and this is why I have a phobia of bees because that shit was so painful. And so I run to my mom and she looks at my eyes and I will never forget my mom's face just like pure shock, just like,

- Oh shit, because the stinger was still in my eyeball. So the bee had stung me on my eyeball. - It was on his eye bro. - Yeah, yeah, exactly. And we had to go to the doctor. We had to go to the doctor because they had to like tweeze out the stinger from my eye. - How did you not go blind from that?

- It must have gone deep enough, right? - Yeah, it must not have gone deep enough. And I think it was on like the whites of my eyes, so it wasn't like my pupil. So I probably just narrowly escaped blindness from that fucking bee. And yeah, ever since then I learned an important lesson. Don't fuck with bees. - Don't fuck with bees. Don't fuck with any wildlife, honestly. That's the advice I always give to people who like wanna go to Australia, right? It's like,

how do all these Australians avoid all of these like poisonous snakes and spiders? Don't go with them and they won't fuck with you. Like if you go over to like a poisonous snake and start poking it, yeah, you're gonna get fucking bitten. Don't do that and they won't bite you. It's really easy. - I think most animals don't want to attack you. - No, it's a defense mechanism, right? Like don't fuck with them and they won't fuck with you. Really simple. - Speaking about animals, boys, not that it has anything to do with anime.

- I don't wanna talk about anime, we haven't done that. - Okay, yeah, sure. - Remember when we started off as an anime type podcast and then we just didn't talk about anime at all. - We always wanted it to be whatever the fuck you wanna talk about. But anime is gonna be a big one. - Oh yeah, of course. - What have you guys been watching recently? - Fuck all, man. - You're not watching anything that's airing right now?

Aki watched Uzaki-chan the other day. - Oh, how was that? - She watched the first episode and then she was like, "You're gonna wanna watch this." So I watched the first episode actually this morning, like before we came to the office and-

I can't fucking stand it. I'm sorry. - Yes, same here. - I'm sorry. Aki fucking hates it. I fucking hate it. It is so fucking boring. - I saw like a clip of it. I haven't watched it by the way, but I saw a clip where she got stuck in a bush. - Yeah. - And to me, it just looked like the porn hub thing where they get stuck in the water. You know when they get stuck in the washing machine? I thought it was a hentai. Cause I was like, oh, is this an-

- I think I would enjoy it if it was a hentai. - Yeah, because that is like hentai material. - I mean, it's literally like the stock in the wall tag that you have without the actual fucking. - I thought because the laundry thing had been blowing up recently and like the hentai porn that I thought it was like a- - I know man, it's always been a thing in hentai. - Yeah, but I mean, it's propped up a lot in porn recently. So I thought, oh, it's a hentai thing. Which is, I guess,

- That's just like what everyone assumes about anime anyway. - That animated hentai, yes. - What is it about? - It's literally just a slice of life where you follow this like loud Lolly who has big titties. I'm like, I get the appeal of it because it's- - Why is it blowing up?

- Because she's a loud loli with big titties, that's why. That's literally it. - It looks shit. - Her body is her personality. - Yeah. - Oh my God. - I don't know, like she's become the new meme girl of the month, I guess. - Yeah. - This episode is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Going online without ExpressVPN is like not having a case on your phone.

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- Well, I reckon what it is, it's that Uzaki-chan for like this new year, or I guess maybe this, I don't know. I don't want to say this generation, but it's essentially the same as Umaruchan. - Yeah. - Right? Like Umaruchan is the exact same type of show where if you can stand Umaruchan and you can relate and like Umaruchan, then you probably love Umaruchan. - I couldn't stand Umaruchan. - Right? - Yeah. - I couldn't stand Umaruchan. I'm like this little turd.

is fucking taking advantage of her brother so fucking hard. I would have slapped the shit out of her if that wasn't. - I wanted to curb stomp him. - Dude, legit. And so I feel that Uzaki-chan is like kind of a similar show where like, if you don't like Uzaki-chan as a character, then you won't be able to stand the show because she is the entire show. It's like Watamote as well, right? Like if you don't like Kuroki,

which I didn't, I couldn't fucking stand it. - 'Cause like the whole show is just basically her annoying the fuck out of the main character. And the main character's like, "Well, I hate you, but you know." - That's her personality trope, is that she's fucking annoying. Which is really funny because people are like, "Oh, she's not that annoying." When a lot of people don't realize the name Uzaki is a play on words in Japanese for Uzai, which means annoying. That's why she's called Uzaki. It's because she's fucking annoying.

- Because I know so many people like Friends of Ours, right? Like Dakota's a fucking massive fan of that show. And I'm just like,

- Why? - Yeah, Dakota, why? - Why? - Why? - Why Dakota? - What does it say about you as a person? - Is it because she has a fucking skin fang and has two big tits? Like, is that it? Like why? - What's with the fang? - I'll tell you why, it's 'cause the doujinshi are good. But like, this is like one of those shows where it's its own specific genre now, I swear to God. Where I swear, there are just some shows or some manga that I swear people make just 'cause they like, "Oh, this is gonna be good doujinshi material."

- Yeah, that's what it is. - That's the genre of these shows. The genre is doujinshi material. - 'Cause they always have like the meme girl. Like it's always focused on this one meme girl that a lot of people may find annoying, but for some reason she just works in really good, like in any situations in doujinshi, they're just golden. - Oh yeah, because as much as I don't,

the Uzaki-chan anime. Man, the Uzaki-chan doujins are fucking lit. My God. - You guys are degenerates. - Every single one that I have seen so far, I'm just like, damn, son. - I wish I could read porn. I just can't. Monkey brain, man. It's like- - I mean, you don't have to. I mean, you don't read anyway, let alone read porn. - Yeah, so how am I gonna read? That's even worse than the gaming thing with reading.

with reading, like I don't wanna read my porn, I want shitty acting and I wanna skip to five minutes in and then decide what I'm gonna do. - It's because Uzakuchan's personality is so fit for doujinshi because she's like that like always teasing kind of character, right? And I'm just like, well, if you put that in the sexual aspect, man, that makes for some spicy doujins and they are, they're really fucking good. And her big tits don't help.

Honestly, her body proportions do not help. I don't think I would enjoy the Uzaki-chan doujins if her body was just like normal. - Yeah, exactly. - But because it's so disproportion and built for doujins, I'm just like,

- It's just the show that's made for hentai. Even more so than some fan service see ecchi shows. There are like some ecchi shows and then there are ecchi shows that are made I feel just for like the fan material under the doujins and everything like that. - It's like being like, oh yes, this new era gay came out but I'm gonna get the all ages version instead. Why would you do that to yourself? Why? What's the point in that? - So out of 10, the first episode?

- I think it's like a three at least. - That sounds generous. - It looks good. That's all I'm gonna, like Uzaki-chan, I'll admit, Uzaki-chan's character design, fucking amazing. I love it. It's great. - I reckon that's why a lot of people got drawn into it because her character design is great. I love her character design and she has such a good memeable face. You know that one girl in every season that just has the best facial expression? - Oh yeah. - Like this season, it's definitely Uzaki-chan. Like her smug face, the smug energy man. - The smug face. Yeah, that's what it is. - She's got like the perfect smug face.

- Anime fans are just like, it's a great show. It's got a smug face. I'm sold, I'll pay. - This is art. Congratulations, smug face. - Anime fans are the real monkey brains. Don't just say that. - I just genuinely want to know, for people who are watching this right now and saying that they love Uzaki-chan, what is it about the show that you like? Because I tried, right? I always do my best. Even if it's a show I don't like, I'm like, okay, why is it that people are getting into this show? What aspects is it? And I looked at Uzaki-chan and I'm just like,

the only thing I can think of is her tits. That's the only redeeming factor about this show. - And I feel bad because I feel like that's the easy to go to joke of like, oh, this show has no substance or anything. But I legitimately, I'm just curious. I wanna know why people like it. - It's not like I'm trying to diss on people who like the show, by all means, right? But I just wanna know, what is it? Is it the tits?

- Because if that's the case. - Is this like a call for help? - Because if that's the case, right? Then you could literally just be like, okay, I fucking hate this anime. But if I add tits, seven out of 10. - This feels like an intervention. It's like, just admit you have a problem. Just tell us. - Just admit that you like the tits. And that's the only reason why I enjoy this show.

- Have you been watching anything else this season, Joey? - Not really, no. - 'Cause I'll tell you what I've been watching, "Rent a Girlfriend." - Yeah, me too. - And that is, is that a guilty pleasure? I don't know if that's a guilty pleasure. - I genuinely think it's like the best show this season. - I think it's a really good show. - Really? - I would say it's the best show this season though, Garnt.

- I mean, Re:Zero is. Re:Zero, head and shoulders above the rest at the moment. - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. - Okay, actually, yeah, the last episode, have you watched the last episode? - Yeah, I watched that. - Oh my God, I was crying like a fucking baby. - Like Re:Zero is, Re:Zero is, we'll get into Re:Zero in a minute, but Rent-A-Girlfriend, that is just, why does it work? Because it's such a generic harem plot, right? - I hate the protagonist, so. - Yeah, oh.

- 'Cause I read the synopsis of that. I'm like, this seems really incel-y. - No, it seems like it's made for incels. - Like the protagonist is a living bra moment. Every time he does something, I'm like, for fuck sake, why are you doing this, bra? Seriously, bra?

- The problem is right now, now this anime comes out, people are gonna be like, well, we can, we should actually make this a thing. They're gonna be like, we should do this. This is normal. We should normalize this. Normalize paying girls. We already do that with online.

- Yeah, right. - The gaming. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - E-girl.gg or something, whatever it is. - Yeah, yeah. - Gamergirl.gg, whatever. - Whatever the fuck it is. - I'm surprised you're enjoying it though. - Yeah, it's really fun. I mean, I hate the main character. And I saw when you tweeted out saying like, "Oh, he's irredeemable." There are people like, "No, oh, he's not irredeemable." You know, it's like, bro, he's annoying as fuck. - That's the incels. - Like protecting their boy. - I know it's probably like the,

the Mungeritas who's like, well, he gets character development. - Yeah, later on I'm sure he will. - Yeah, yeah, which I'm looking forward to seeing him become a better person. But right now, I can't remember what I called him. I think it was like a- - Cum stain. - Like a cum stain. - Yeah, cum stain.

- Which is so accurate. It's so accurate. He's a cum stain. - The way I view him is like, I fucking hate Bakugou from "My Hero Academia." Everyone fucking loves him. And I'm like, he's a piece of shit. He's so selfish. - I don't get it. - Why are you people, why are you booing me? I'm right. - 'Cause I think that's the thing that really pissed me off, which is just how selfish he was. - He's so selfish. - He is ridiculously selfish. And like, if you're one of those people who like relate to him,

- It's the people who like related to Subaru in the start. It's like, what's wrong with you? - It's like, okay, like if you are my mate and you were acting like him, I would need a talking to you. I would have to talk to you. - You would catch these hands. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

the person who I liked the most wasn't him, but he was his best mate. Like he was a true bro who like, who was looking out for him and everything. And so far the main protagonist hasn't done anything that's made me feel like, man, he deserves best girl, man, he deserves his bros. - He doesn't, he doesn't.

So I'm like, I'm looking forward to seeing his character development, which I assume is what happens in the manga. - Or it's the manga reels, just being the manga reels. - If this was shit that happened in real life, and this was in like your friend groups, you'd never be forgiven for doing this shit that he's poor. - You would absolutely be clowned on by your brother. - Yeah, so he like rents a girlfriend. She's great, you know? I mean, this is just spoilers for like first three episodes. And then, you know, this girl that dumped him, he immediately gets back with her, even though she's talking shit about him in front of his friend. And it's like, what are you, what?

I can't believe this shit. This is like, this is where you would be like, wow, this guy's my friend. This is where you would be like, no, no, no. - I'm friends with an absolute cunt right now. - Selfish asshole. Oh my God.

- And it's one of the first harem anime where there's clearly a best girl. 'Cause she's a real fucking girl of the season. She's such- - MVP. - MVP. - She's coming through. She's not only helping them out. She's like, with the grand situation, oh my God. - I'm there in my corner, I'm fucking cheering. But at the same time, I kinda don't wanna cheer as well. 'Cause cheering means that she has to end up with this person at the moment. At the moment. And it's so hard to be like,

- I hope she gets like a giga chat just to make incels mad. I want incels mad bro. Man, seeing the incel takes on Twitter, man. They get me fucking fuming. Oh my God, you guys have never left your room. - Is this your first like harem anime that you've been following then? - Weekly?

- Because, because harem anime don't really seem like a thing you would watch. - Yeah, that's why I was surprised when I heard you were watching it. - I mean, I normally watch them, but I think because

they make life so difficult for themselves. It's so frustrating to watch. It's like, you didn't have to make this difficult. You made your life shit. You could have spoke to her, but you fucking sat there. Like, okay, one thing that you would never do in real life, right? If your girlfriend, whatever, walks off, even if it's your rental girlfriend, you go after her. That's a universal thing. Like even like idiots and people who are the most nervous people on earth and shy, they go after the person. And if they don't, your friends will immediately be like,

- Yeah, like the thing that pissed me off is like in a lot of these situations, his friends are acting like his friends should act. They're like, bro, get your girl, get your girl. And he's getting angry that they don't know the full situation, even though he's put himself in this situation. - Bro, you go after the girl if she storms out angry. That's like rule number one. - Exactly. - Even if it's a fake girlfriend, I would still go after my girl, you know? - Yeah, exactly. - The reason why I don't think I like harems is 'cause like maybe in my head, I'm like, I'm trying to speed run it in my mind.

I'm like, what would I do for optimal strats to get the bill? Like, no, no, no, no, you did the wrong route here. You just lost 20 seconds, you know what I mean? - But I think that's the problem, right? Is like, you're trying to like watch these kinds of shows. - To relate to like- - Well, no, you're basically, if we've relating, it's like speed runs, right? Like you're trying to be like, all right, how am I gonna speed run this while watching 100% run? That's what it is, it's like,

- Why aren't they taking the optimal route? Not knowing that they're trying to do 100% route. - I think you put harems into like the wrong genre then. - I don't know, most of the stories I find really underwhelming and I don't, like some of them I've really enjoyed, but some of them- - A lot of them are very like, come on bro, just get to the point. - But most of them like you watch three and you feel like you've watched all of harem. Like, you know what I mean? - Oh yeah. - I mean, for me, the closest thing I would relate harem to actually is,

- Sports. - Because, okay, here's the thing. - Sports is a formula. - Here's the enjoyable part of a harem, right? It's picking a team, picking your girl, and then fucking like cheering for her. This isn't about speed running the shit. This is about getting cock teased about who the protagonist is gonna end up with. - But sometimes, oh yeah, I guess that's harem, sorry. Yeah, I was about to say, if there's only one man

- Yeah, exactly. That's just a romance at that point. - Yeah, romance I don't like. Romance, harem is about 90% of harems you already know. - Wait, but why don't you like romances then? Because that's the speed run, if anything. - Because sometimes they just do dumb shit in it. And I'm like,

- Well, they have to make a cohesive story, right? They're not just gonna be like, "All right, I met this girl, episode one, episode three, I'm together." End of the story, baby. - Sometimes they do shit in romance that I'm like, "Okay, I know it shouldn't be realistic, but then also there's just some stuff that it's hard for me to ever believe would ever happen." - Right, right. - I'm trying to think of a case. I can't off the top of my head. - What romance anime have you even seen then? - Yeah. - Name a bunch of iconic ones and I'll say. - "Golden Time." - Yeah, "Golden Time" I really liked. - "Toradora." - "Toradora" I really liked.

- Yeah, I think I like most of them. I just never seek them out. Like it's something that if a friend recommends and I have nothing better to do and I put it on, I'll probably enjoy it. But it's not a thing that I seek out for myself. And I'm sure a lot of people can relate to this, especially those people who watch like only Shonen. They're like, "Get that shit out of here." - There isn't a fight scene. - Like "Haram" especially, I feel that most shows that I've watched, it's like, oh,

- That's the one. If any of these girls are gonna get it, which is even a mystery, 90% of the time, nothing fucking happens. It's like, "Oh, the protagonist's a perv. "That's the show." And it ends, right? What was that one from a few years ago where it was like they were all like wizards and the one guy could like counter magic and it was fucking awful.

- You just described like fucking 90% of most like magic high school harem shows. - Yeah, and it'll be like eight girls and they all have one personality trait and that's it. And it's like the most boring shit. - Are you talking about index?

- That's the only thing like counter magic. - Wait, Index is the guy who is like the magic genius. - He has like the right hand that can counter like magic. - There's also the irregular of magic high school. - I love that series. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - It was around the same season. - "Infinestrados"?

I don't fucking know this guy. - They all sound the same. - Astro Swords. - I'll try and find it to get it. - That's like trying to pinpoint an East car by saying, "What was that one show where that guy gets transported to the other world?" And gets overpowered and stuff.

- If I find what it is, it's on the screen right now. If not, I'm just holding my hands up like an asshole. - Night in Magic maybe that one. - I'll find it. - They're all crap. - It was garbage. - The thing about harem anime is that I can never watch two at once, right? 'Cause when I'm watching two at once, that's like me watching the same show twice.

but every time a new one comes on, then this time it's Rent-A-Girlfriend. And what I will say about Rent-A-Girlfriend is that it's just very addicting to watch. - Yeah, it is. - And I think it's because the main character is the way he is as well. 'Cause you're sitting there fuming, but you click on that next episode 'cause you wanna, you're like cheering for him to become a better guy and just to act the way that you want him to act. - Isn't it funny how it's like the opposite of real life? You're like, the moment you see people, you're like, get out of my life.

- Please get better. Come on. - You can do it. You can do it. - Like imagine the scenario of rent a girlfriend in real life. You know, like one of your mates. - Especially in this climate. - Yeah, exactly. Finally one of your mates is paying for like a girl just to rent her as a girlfriend and parade her around. And you're like, bro, that's a real bra moment. That ain't cool. - I can think of like several people

who would do that. But like in anime, for some reason, I don't know why, because sometimes there's scenarios that I feel wouldn't work in real life or even in like live action series. But because it's anime and because it's animated, my suspension of disbelief is just a bit,

- Yeah, I guess also you get to hear their like thought process and actually like, you know, it's here that they have compassion and stuff. So you can kind of simplify. - Yeah, because a live action rent a girlfriend would be probably one of the cringiest things you'll ever watch. - Yeah. - Just be like, no, please don't. - Yeah. - So have you ever like completed a "Harrowman" made to the end where the best girl wins? - Oh, I don't know if a best girl won. Wait, wait.

- Name a few famous harem anime. - Nisekoi. - Nisekoi I didn't watch. - Toloveru. - I didn't watch Toloveru. - Orimo. - Man, I don't think I've watched many. - Eramanga Sensei. - The World God Only Knows. - The World God Only Knows I watched. - Or to the end? - Yeah, or like three seasons or whatever. - Oh, damn. - And that was good. - That doesn't seem like a show you would watch. - No, I'm just like, oh, he watched that one. - I watched all of it and then I was like, wait, I have to read the manga now? - Yeah.

- What do you mean? We have three seasons. Don't stop now. - It'd be like that. - Keep going. I thought normally when it gets to season three, that's normally like, all right, we're in here for the long run. - Yeah. - We keep going. And then it just ended and I'm like,

- What do you mean? That was a really good show. I love that show. - So you've never gone to the end where like there's a winning girl, where there's an actual girl that wins. - Where there's a clear winner. - I probably have, I probably just can't remember it. - Well, yeah, 'cause they're all probably generic. - It's like, again, like we all know I have monkey brain. Most of the anime that's like, if it's not an eight out of 10 or higher for me, it probably is like in the forgotten. - Yeah, it's in the meh category. - It's in the like, okay, it's good, but not good enough for me to like retain memories of it.

- No, because that's the reason I watch harem anime because once you watch one, you've basically watched them all. So to me- - I love watching the same thing over again. - I mean, I do watch all the Isekai. - You are talking about the Isekai man. - It's the Isekai man after all. - But I don't know, it's just fun being in the race, right? And part of the fun is being in the community and seeing all the salt and tears from the losers. I mean, it's like real sport. Part of the fun is shitting on the losing side.

- It's like a very, very long sports game. - It is, it is. - A 12 week long sports game, right? - And that's why you get so invested in it because you're reading this manga 'cause normally it's a manga 'cause the anime, I can hardly, I can like, it's really rare for an anime,

anime harem to actually go through to the end. So you normally follow the manga for like weeks and weeks and sometimes it's years. And that final chapter where your girl wins, man, that's like a euphoric feeling. - I've experienced that recently with, what the fuck is it? - We never learn. - We never learn. - Yeah. - Because they recently like ended that and best girl won. And I was just like, yes!

- Finally, thank you. - If you had to give me a recommendation for a harem manga to read, what would you tell me? - I would recommend "We Never Learned." - Really? Okay. - Yeah, that's really cute. And like, I've read so much harem stuff and this is one of the few series where I'm just like, wow, I like all of these girls. Like there isn't a single girl, like all of these girls can easily win and all of these girls are fucking awesome. And so I wasn't too mad,

- Well, I mean, I was happy because my favorite one won. But I think when I saw around in the community, when like people were rooting for other girls that were like, my girl didn't win, but I ain't complaining. You know, I'll take the second place. It's all right. It's all good, man. It's all fun. - Just seeing how people justify their losing position. It's beautiful when you're in that winning girl. When you're backing that winning horse, it's just like, oh, the tears taste so good, man.

- But I mean, you're watching one now with "Rent-A-Girlfriend." - Yeah. - Would you follow up on the manga if the anime ends and it just ends? - If I'm really into it, yeah, I probably would. It'd be damn good though. It'd have to end like on an amazing cliffhanger. - Do you read a lot of manga? - It's hard 'cause I feel that the time when I would read manga, I'm normally doing something else.

- I've seen you like reading quite a few. I mean, you read all of like terraformers. - If I read a manga, it's like nonstop. Like I cannot put it down. So it's very like hard for me to get into it. - So I don't think you'd enjoy then if it's like a currently serializing. - Yeah, I don't read currently serializing except for "One Punch Man."

'Cause that's always a treat whenever it pops up. It's like, there's a new chapter. I'm like, fuck yeah. - Like action happens in every chapter of One Punch Man. - One Punch Man manga is fucking beautiful, man. That shit is amazing. Oh, I love that shit. And then I tried to read the web comic, but I was like,

- You know what I mean with the guy taking off the headset? He's like. - It's good, it's funny, but it's like the best. - You can't go back to the web manga once you've experienced Murata Yusuke's art. - Exactly, the art is so good. And it fucking blows my mind that the first season actually managed to capture how hype his art was and maybe even exceed it at some points. But like his art is fucking insane. - I mean, I've loved Murata Yusuke since Aisho 21. So when I found out he was doing One Punch Man, I was like, yes.

- Eyeshield 21 is still one of my favorite sports manga. - That's something I've downloaded to actually read at some point. But it's like, every time I'm gonna start a sports manga, it's like Slam Dunk or Eyeshield. And then I just, I'm like, fuck, which one should I choose? - Just do both, man.

- Honestly, those are my top two. - And those are like the two sports manga that you should definitely read the sports manga and not watch the sports anime. 'Cause they have not aged well. Mostly because their matches take

- This is back in the day of like Dragon Ball Z. I remember the first time I watched Slam Dunk and I remember thinking, why is a match like 10 episodes? How can they possibly stretch a match over to 10 episodes? And I watched the entirety of the Slam Dunk anime and then I read the manga and then it just felt like when Rock Lee had taken off his training weights, it was moving so fast. And I was like, I didn't know the story could move this fast. - This is how it's supposed to feel. - Yeah, exactly, exactly.

- But yeah, like definitely, I think not enough people read sports manga or sports anime. - Every single sports anime that I've consumed, I've loved. Like Yomishi Petal really surprised me. I really fucking loved that. - I finally now have an excuse to start reading Haikyuu now that it's finished. - I do wanna read that 'cause I found the anime a little boring. - Oh really? - Yeah, no, I've heard- - Really? How come? - I got half of you the second season and I'm like, why does it feel like I'm watching season one

I just felt like I was watching season one again. Like is that bad? Is that a fair take? - No, I mean, I feel like it gets better and better every season. 'Cause I remember how cute- - Everyone says that. I feel like I'm in the minority. - Yeah, everyone says that.

I was properly sold on Haikyuu, like properly, properly into it the last match of season two. And then season three came along and season three is just one match. And I remember thinking to myself before the season started, how can they make an entire season from just one match? We're going back into slam dunk territory. - Yeah. - That would drive me insane. - This is way too dragged out. And then I watched it and I'm like, oh my God, this is the best season so far. This has taken it to another level.

- When I know that it's gonna be a full season, what I'm thinking in my head is like, whoa, that was amazing. But I'm like, fuck, I'm not gonna find the conclusion for like 20 episodes. And I know roughly what's gonna happen. - This boy's trying to speed run a sports market. - When I don't know what's gonna happen, they don't know the pacing, I'm like, great, this is awesome. I'm shocked, I don't know what to expect. If I go into it now and thinking, okay, I'm gonna get, what is it, 12 episodes?

- It was only like nine episodes. It was less. - Okay, that's good. Okay, nine episodes is manageable. If it's like 25 and it was like all the season was 25 episodes, I'd be like, I can't do it.

- I can't. - Well, that's why the slam dunk in "I Shield 21" manga is so good because the pacing in that for every single match is legitimately like this could end in two chapters or it could end in a hundred chapters. - I'm gonna try reading one of them. I wanna read manga on stream. I've been trying to get permission from a company to be able to do that. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I think that would be hype. - Dude, if you like do a stream where you read "I Shield" or "Slam Dunk," like I'll tune into that 'cause I wanna know, right? I wanna know how you think about it. - I'd probably be like the most boring reactor of all time.

because I'm that guy who just doesn't get hype when I'm watching or reading something. - Dude, I tried to do an anime watching stream like a couple of times and I look back on the vlogs, I'm like, I need to delete these. It is the most, I'm literally just like, I fucking jinxed it the entire time. I was just like,

- Well with- - All right, yep. - With manga I thought, well, if I can voice out most of it, I mean, that'd be very draining. - Yeah, but that's more entertaining. - That's entertaining, right? - That's not like the natural reaction where you're just like reacting to it. 'Cause for me, when I'm watching something, I'm literally like dead eye, the hyper shit could be happening and I'm just still like,

- Yeah, that's pretty much me unless it's sad, then I'm just like sobbing my eyes out. I'm fucking crying. Like when I'm in that mood, I will fucking cry at anything. - Right, right. - Yeah. - Like I fucking cried at the "God of High School" episode and I was like, why? This shit was fucking awful. - God of High, why? God of High School. - No, no, because I just wanted to cry that day. - I mean something. - And so that was the episode. - So wait, wait, at what scene?

- Must've been like, we're talking like episode five now. You've watched episode five? - I've watched, yeah, I've watched episode five. - There's someone with his backstory with his friend. And I was like, this isn't even that fucking sad.

- And they completely ruined the show for me, the episode before with the wedding. And I was like, this is- - Yeah. - So dumb. That wedding episode was the dumbest episode. - And then you cried the next day. - Yeah, because I was in one of those moods where like a fucking Cheeto commercial would get me like, you know what I mean? - Oh, I don't know what you mean. - I get those moods where sometimes like, I'm not going to cry, but-

I know that crying won't make me feel better. - Yeah. - Even though I'm not sad, I'm not sad. I'll just cry just 'cause it'll help. I'm sure like there's people who can relate to this. - I'm sure, yeah. - I'm sure. - I don't think you're gonna find them in this podcast. - Not yet. I'm with like two giga brain like floating, meditating geniuses. They don't experience this kind of stuff. - I don't know, man, 'cause the biggest,

I'm like the fucking opposite of you, right? 'Cause I can have like, you could show me like the saddest fucking story. And sometimes I'm like stone wall, dead face, feel nothing. You play like the Anna Hanna ending song or a certain piece of music. I'm like bawling my eyes out. Music for me is such an important part. - It all goes back to that music episode, doesn't it? - Yeah, exactly. - I was listening to music the other day and I was like, oh yeah, my favorite songs is just the ones with no talking.

- I like the noise. - I did appreciate Kevin Penkins tweets. Just be like how he was so giga tilted when he watched that episode. 'Cause he tweeted out being like, okay, people are linking me to this particular episode. I gotta go check it out. And then like two hours later, he just tweets out being like, Connor, we have to talk. - Kevin doesn't make, except for like in "Made in Abyss", but normally his songs don't have people singing in them. So that's nice. I can appreciate the beeps and the boops that Kevin makes.

- I love your beeps and boops, Kevin. - So yeah, what do you think of God of High School? - It's just kind of pretty and that's kind of about it. That's kind of, I hate to say it 'cause like I really do want the rabbit-skewing anime is to like kill it. - Yeah.

I don't know if it's that like, I don't know who wrote it, the story. I don't know if they're inexperienced their first time, but the story kind of does feel like it's like a little all over the place right now. - Yeah, because God of High School for me is the one show I really, really wanna like. I wanna like God of High School. I mean, it's a fucking, just a tournament talk of an anime, right? Starts off with tournament arc. - Your wet dream. - Yeah, it should be my wet dream, but for some reason I just can't get into it.

I think it blew its loads too quickly because it just started with tournament arc and I'm not invested in any of the characters. It just feels weird. - I can see why it would work in like a manga formula. - Yeah, I've read the manhwa of it, original webtoon manhwa. - What's the manhwa like? - The manhwa, it's good.

- I don't know, the parts I like about the Maw was kind of the same parts that I like about the anime. But it doesn't mean that it's like, as you said, it's not, I think it did kind of kick off a little too hard at the beginning where it's just like, you gotta give me time to like kind of ease into it. - Yeah, because then the fights, like when you get the flashbacks halfway through, it just kind of feels like,

- Weird, like a cliche. - Yeah, I'm just like- - Of course they have a backstory. Everyone has a fucking backstory. Like who doesn't have a backstory? - Did it need to be in the middle of the fight? That's the question, right? - I mean, I don't know. Most shonen flashbacks are in the middle of the fight. - But then it's-

on characters that we already have some understanding of most of the time. And then it builds upon it. But when it's the only introduction you have to that character, like the guy when his sick friend, it's like, this guy was just a fucking stone wall before and now you want me to give a shit? - Now it's like, oh shit, we have to shoehorn a personality right now. - Bro, it's 2020, everyone is a fucking sick friend. And the main villain, it just kind of seems like,

- Why would anyone make a deal with that guy? - I don't know. - That guy looks like a loan shark. Like when the guy comes up, she's like, "Oh, I'll save your friend if you fight for me." That sounds like the sketchiest deal ever. Like what? It's like agreeing to do like a homeless fight for some meth. It's like, of course the homeless man isn't gonna give you meth. You're fighting a homeless man. It's not legal. Is this legal? It was a mess. I just, the whole thing was like,

you watch it and you're like, none of this is good, but I'll keep watching 'cause it's pretty. - 'Cause I really want to like it because it looks so good. Mappa like blew it out of the park with the fight animation and it's every episode has a really, really good looking fight. - Just fucking great. - And I really, really wanna be invested in this fight.

But for me, it's just like watching fireworks. It's like really pretty and then I get nothing out of it. And I'm gonna watch it next week because I really wanna get invested. I hope it turns around and gets better. Because at the moment, it's just not doing it for me. And even though something like Tower of God is I feel worse animated,

That drew me into its world and characters and like everything so much quicker and so much faster. - No, I agree with that, yeah. - Well, I mean, "Control" has more originals coming. So I'm hoping one of them is like- - Isn't "Noblesse" getting an anime adaptation from what I've heard? I'm probably most looking forward to that

because I think out of the three, like God of High School, Tower of God and Noblesse, I probably enjoyed the Noblesse, Marwa the most. - Yeah, and then they're making original shows. - And now they're making a bunch of original shows as well. So yeah, it's gonna be interesting. - When are they gonna start animating the adult Marwa? - Oh dude, I was just about to say, are you plugging my video where I fucking talk about it? - No, I just wanna talk about adult Marwa. - Dude, if they make them,

if they make an anime for like sexercise or like, you know, any like, what's the other one? The one with the- - "Sweet Guy." - "Sweet Guy." - "Sweet Guy." - That's my fucking favorite dude. - "Sweet Guy." - That's a harem manga you should read. - "Sweet Guy." Oh my God. - You need to read "Sweet Guy." - "Sweet Guy" is basically a harem manga

- That sounds really familiar. - Sweet Guy is the one where the guy gets like zapped by like an ab machine and then he develops the power to make any girl horny just by touching him. So he has the power of the cum touch. And it's this guy who's basically like the rent-a-girlfriend protagonist. - He's like Johnny Sins. - Yeah, he is. He's like Korean Johnny Sins.

- It's this incel who gets this superpower. - It's always an incel. - It's always the incel. - Where he gets the superpower of like, you know, basically anytime he touches a girl, he can make them horny and wanna fuck him. And then he does a lot of fucking. - Yeah, a lot of fucking. - That sounds great. - But the one main girl that he's aiming for, the power of the cum touch doesn't work on her.

- It only kills her headaches. - That's the part where it's extremely useful. - She's like, "Damn, I have these searing headaches." And the guy's like, "Let me help you." - "Let me help you." - "Oh, my headache's gone." And he was like, "Damn it, I wanted you to get horny." - "Why are you not wet?"

- And then I think what the one series I've been getting into or was had gotten into was a Miss Mystic, which is what I recommended for you. And I discovered Miss Mystic after I binged Domestic Girlfriend and I'm like, I want something spicy in my life. I need to keep the spice train going. And Miss Mystic I feel is that perfect mixture of just a nice spicy story and like,

- And like sex as well. - Yeah, pretty much. It's like a really compelling, like I actually give a shit about the mystery behind the whole thing while also being like, "Oh, yay boobies."

- Do you wanna explain to Connor what the main plot is? - Okay, so Myst Mystic is, so there's of course, insult protagonist comes along. It's always the insult protagonist. - Well, they know that demo, I guess. - And like, I don't know, I made this joke in my video, but I'm like, why is it that all of these like fucking insult protagonists have to like go through like a clumsiness litmus test and like pass it with flying colors?

- It's always the clumsy motherfuckers, right? Because like he's on a train, he sees this really pretty girl and he's like, damn, she's hot. And then of course this clumsiness kicks in, spills coffee all over her.

he guides her to like the toilet to like help her get changed and whatnot. He's waiting outside. And then suddenly he gets this message from the girl and she's masturbating in the toilet. - Yeah. - She's just full on masturbating in the toilet. - She basically just like sends like a premium Snapchat to him essentially. But he can't save it and there's no like traces of it. And so he's like, okay, what the fuck? Is this actually the girl that I just helped?

and where the fuck did the video come from and everything. And so now there's this entire mystery behind this like main girl that he's trying to get with where it's like, who the fuck is she? And why is she like fucking with my life? - That sounds oddly like amazing, but also like, this is like coming on the mystery express or something. - No, no, it totally is. 'Cause like the more, basically the more he gets involved with this girl and the more like, the more his life gets fucked up. - Yeah, so he's already has like a girlfriend. - Don't take your dick and crick you. - Yeah, no. - But he doesn't know if it's this girl that's causing it.

It's just coincidentally when he met this girl, his life started like, his life just like is on a spiral. - That sounds fucking good. - It's really good. - Spiral downwards. And like a lot of things keep happening to him, like messages being sent or like videos being leaked and everything. And there's no way to trace it. And he doesn't know who is fucking with him. He doesn't know who's fucking with him, why they're fucking with him, but someone is. - Because the girl that he's trying to get with looks and acts really innocent in front of him. But then there's this entire mystery of like, is she the one that's actually doing it? - Okay, that actually sounds really fucked up.

- It's really good. - I wanna read that. - Yeah, that's the thing, right? It's like the mystery is like so well prepared that you actually give a shit about it and you're not just reading it for the tits and ass. - Yeah, because he's actually, he's not an incel 'cause he has a girlfriend, doesn't he? - Yeah, of like 10 years. - Yeah, I forgot. He's actually gonna get married to this girl. And so,

it's like whatever happens starts fucking up with their relationship. His relationship- - His mentality goes more and more insular. - Yeah, yeah. - He like evolves into an insular guy. - Yeah, yeah. - And what's really good about it is the story is, the story compliments the sex scenes as much as, you know, it's not just sex for the sake of sex. They actually like, they actually compliment each other. And there's actually a reason why he's in all these different situations. - And the art and character design is so good.

- Yeah, I wanna talk about that with webcomics. How does every web... - Yeah, why are they all so good? - Why is the art all so good and why are they all colored? - Yeah, right? - Yeah. - That's exactly what I say in my view. I'm like, why is it just like a coincidence that every manhwa that I looked up for this video just happened to have the most like godly fucking art and characters?

- Yeah, yeah. - Because I don't get that frequency in manga. Like manga for me is like a very hit and miss sometimes. It's like, sometimes it's like, okay, the story's really fucking good, but the art is kind of eh, talking about you, Otaku-Taiyan. And then sometimes it's the other way around, right? It's like,

man, this manga would be so fucking good if only the story was good. 'Cause the art looks fucking amazing. But for some reason, every manhwa that I've read, it's always like scored on both ends of the spectrum. I don't know if it's just like my expectations of manhwa is just so low that anything will impress me or-

if it's genuinely good. - There's one thing I can compliment about every man what I've met is that the art is always fantastic and it's colored. I mean, you get, imagine getting a full colored chapter. That's like a gift from Jesus or something every time it comes out. - Reading Jojo colored was amazing. - Oh yeah, exactly. - And I was like fan done I think, all the fans colored it. - Right. - And it's like amazing. - Yeah. - It's like magical. - And in the world of web comics, this shit's just normalized. - Yeah, I know it's crazy. - Yeah, 'cause I remember reading Solo Leveling as well, which is on paper the most generic power fantasy show

- Ever. And sounds like it's up your alley then. - Of course I fucking loved it. - Why do you love power fantasy one so much? - I don't know because, okay. - 'Cause he's an incel in real life. - 'Cause he wants to feel strong. - I know, I figured this out. It's because power fantasy shows to me are like the turn my brain off. These shows are the ones that activates my monkey brain.

'Cause I was, for the longest time, I couldn't- - We all have a monkey brain. - Yeah, of course. - For like the longest time, I couldn't figure out the appeal of "Slice of Life." Like a lot of people like "Slice of Life." I've just never been able to get into it. - I like "Slice of Life." - Yeah. And then I realized, I think my mentality when watching these trashy isekai power fancy shit is the same kind of mindset when people have when they watch "Slice of Life," which is just switch my brain off and just, you know- - Just enjoy what you're watching. - Just enjoy what I'm watching. Because I like,

- Power Fantasy has given me the minimal amount of engagement. Just the minimal, just enough to activate the monkey brain, but not enough to make me think anything. - Is it like, 'cause you liked the idea that it could be you?

in the powerful position? Is that why? - It's like the biggest compliment yet biggest diss. - I mean, that's why I call them trash, right? 'Cause I know they're fucking trash, but I don't watch them to engage myself in any way, shape or form. - So it's not a matter of like immersing yourself. - No, no, no. - 'Cause I know how it feels to be like 15 and watching SAO and you're like, "God, I wish that was me. God, I wanna be so- - "I wanna be Kirito so bad." - "I wanna be so fucking OP in real life." And then you realize, shit, that's kind of like insult.

- It's hella insular. - Like all my problems will be solved if I'm just better than everyone else. You know what I mean? Like if this is a world that relies on strength and I'm just disgustingly overpowered, it's like, well, my life will just be easy. No one can call me an asshole or you know. - Most alpha male way of thinking. - I think that's what it is though. Like especially when you're younger and you think like,

- I wanna grow up to be like that. - 'Cause you're like, okay, well maybe I'm not fitting in at school. Like, yeah, I wanna be side time and fuck shit up. I bet he gets ass if he wants it. - Yeah, no, there was definitely a point in my teenagehood and I think in a lot of other people when they were teenagers where yeah, we watched power fantasies 'cause we want to be the fucking main character. I think the appeal, like there's always still that kind of appeal that I don't think I've ever lost that. - Really? I think I grew out of that.

I don't know. - I still have that with harem manga. - Yeah. - 'Cause when I was like grow up, I thought like when I was like 15, I thought Talaveroo was like a gift from God. 'Cause I'm just like, bro, I wanna be Rito so fucking hard and get all these girls. And now I read Talaveroo again, I'm just like,

- Yeah, same. That feeling is still there, dude. - It's like reading "Sweet Guy." - Yeah, right? - It's like, God, I wish that was me. - It's like you get to see this guy fuck a load of girls and you're like, you know, it's like, oh, I'm feeling the power of fantasy I felt when I was 15, but that's not how it's really, it's really weird, right? - That's 'cause you're in like very long-term relationships. You're like, yes, I just want to fuck everyone else and not give a fuck.

- You gotta play that question real safe boys. - I mean, I feel like- - He's like listening. - Fucks other people Garnt.

- Like Sidney's watching with eagle eyes right now, just like, "Oh, what's he gonna say?" - Just say it, Garnt. Just say it. - Just say it. - Just say I'm not good enough for you, Garnt. - No, but I feel like a lot of guys never grow out of that phase when they were a teenager. There's always a little bit of teenager. - Yeah, every guy has that side of the monkey brain, right? Everyone has that horny monkey brain at the end of the day.

One show I've been really enjoying recently has been a Demon School Academy, which is power fantasy, but it takes it to another fucking level. This guy is like more OP than any other like- - Is that like the white head, like huge buff character? - No, no, no. - Or is that something else? - Isn't that the really shitty animated one, the tale of Gary or something?

- Yeah, that one. - No, it's like "Tale of Greg" or something. It's a really white name. - It's the one who fucks the ogres. - Oh yeah. I can't remember as well. - It's like the tail, right? - I know exactly what you're talking about.

- Like clip art animation. - All I remember is that he has the whitest name in magic. It's like Glenn or like Greg or something like that. - It's like Greg or something. - Yeah, something like that, yeah. - Gary Oak. - The legend of Gary Oak. - But no, this guy from like Demon School Academy, he opens up the episode with him beating up a guy to death with his heartbeat.

And you're like, this is so over the top. This is like the most satirical, non-satirical show I've ever seen. He's so OP that you're like, they can't be taken this seriously. But it is like played off in the series totally seriously. But the situations,

themselves just feel satirical because he dies about, he's died about three times in the show now, but he's so OP that he's like, "You think that killing would be enough to make me die?" - Oh yes, I have seen that. - Yeah, I saw that meme.

And I'm just like, man, I'm enjoying the shows for like totally different reasons. I'm just monkey, my monkey brain is like clapping now. This is fucking fantastic. - It sounds like a parody of a light novel. You know, like if I wanted to just like fuck around and just be like, I'm gonna make the most generic satirical, just parody of a power fantasy light novel, that would be the point. - It's like the Kanye West of power fantasy light novels because it's like, it's just become a parody of itself.

- I was wondering what you were going on about. - You know what power anime I really enjoy? It was the one with that fucking, I was gonna say the schools, but that doesn't help at all. The one with the, it's a magical school and he has no powers.

- We were just talking about that. - No, no, different. - It's a different one. - You haven't narrowed it down at all. - Okay, okay, okay. - It's like short time memory. We were just talking about this like half an hour ago. - No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

- You just went from index to like fucking rail gun now. - It's like fucking similar vibes to that. - Is it an isekai? - No.

It's just a power fantasy. - It's a guy who everyone thinks he's gonna fuck his sister in the school. And he has- - Again, you're not narrowing it down at all. - Oh, I know the one. Is it the one with like the whites and greens? - Yeah, yeah. - You know the one I'm on about. - I know the one you're on about. - Yeah, 'cause I think he's gonna fuck his sister. - Mahoka, I think. - Mahoka? - Mahoka. I don't know the full name. - Oh yeah, the irregular high school one. - That's it. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - That's what I said before.

- I was talking about a different one at that time. That was a harem anime. This one is a different one about a power fantasy. - Wait, so what were you talking about before? - Not that. I was talking about a different one. - I cleaned it up being like, oh yeah, the one you were talking about before was the Irregular Magic High School. - When we take our next two minute break, I'm gonna look it up. I'm frustrated now. - And I'm like, okay, we're done with the Irregular Magic High School. And you're like, what's the one with the Irregular Magic High School? - No, no, 'cause I wasn't talking about Irregular Magic High School before. I am now, Joey.

- That's a good show. End of comment. - I just like the fact that these shows are so generic, they're trying to distinguish between them. - It's fucking impossible. - So what did you like about that show? - Yeah, what did you like about it? - What was the point you were trying to make? - I liked that it was the exact same show as every other show. I don't know, it was a good show.

- I did not enjoy that show because again, as you said, it was exactly the same as every other fucking power fantasy. - For some reason that shows, I don't know why. - It's so popular here. - Yeah, I see it fucking everywhere. - I don't know why. - I kinda get it 'cause I fucking loved it. I don't know why I loved it, but I loved it. - It's so boring. I'm like, this is exactly the same as every other light novel I've read.

I've tried to justify why I like certain power fantasies or certain generic light novel adaptations more than others. And I've just given up. I'm just like, they're all trash. I like this one. I have no idea why. And I guess I'm just trash as well. - Fair enough.

- But like, okay, I described it the same way that I described the "Appeal of Light" novels or how I perceive the "Appeal of Light" or "Slice of Life", sorry. - "Slice of Life", yeah. - So like, why do you like "Slice of Life"? What's the appeal to you? 'Cause to me, how people view like these power fantasy, Isekai, whatever shows is how I view "Slice of Life".

To me, they're all the fucking same. - No, no, they are. And I don't deny that because I've gotten a lot of criticism in the past being like, you're like slice of life. You could be doing anything else and yet you're watching the fictional lives of these fictional characters. And I'm just like, I think that's the part about it though, because it's like, again,

when I watch an anime, I'm thinking way too hard about it. Like I always have to, I'm always looking at it in like some kind of like analytical, like kind of like, okay, why do I like this show? Why do I not like this show? And Slice of Life just provides nothing

that nothing becomes a something. You know what I mean? Like, because- - This is getting philosophical. - Yeah, no. It's like, I've always tried describing like this, because there's nothing there, that nothing becomes something. And like that thing, because they're not doing anything, everything they do becomes entertaining because there's just nothing there to begin with. - Yeah, I can't do it. I can't, I can't. - Maybe you should have been the monk, Joey. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

- I don't know. I mean, maybe there's a part of me as well that like, the reason why, for example, like I really like Non Non Biori, right? It was like, because it's set in like the middle of the nowhere in like the butt fuck middle of nowhere of Japan in the mountains, right?

where I grew up, like at my grandma's place was, it looked very similar. So I think a lot of that kind of like atmosphere is like bringing me back to like my childhood of like just being in like the middle of a rice field and just trying to find anything to do for entertainment sake, right? And just watching these characters go through that, it's just like, okay, yeah, I can relate to that. That's kind of cute and like wholesome, right?

- 'Cause like, I think the only slice of life I've enjoyed ever, like pure slice of life. And I think, I can't even remember the name. It was the one with the two girls going around the post-apocalyptic world. - "Girls' Last Tour." - Is it "Girls' Last Tour?" - Yeah. - I can't even, yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - "Girls' Last Tour." - Because that's one of my favorite slices of life. - Yeah, that's the only slice of life I've ever enjoyed.

and I still couldn't finish it. - Really? - Yeah, because I need to be in a very specific, I needed to be in like such a specific mood to watch that show and be able to like not fall asleep. - It's one of the most quietest shows I've ever watched because a lot of the times there's only these two girl characters and there's almost no fucking like music or like background. It's very avant-garde. It's like watching a fucking like,

like fucking art school, like project is like black and white and spoken in French and it's like- - The opposite of what I want. - Yeah, it looks and feels very pretentious if you don't understand like the deeper meanings behind it. - Yeah, 'cause I feel like I need the bare minimum of engagement for me to enjoy a show. Even if it's just the same kind of engagement I've seen a million times before, I will take that.

over slice of life. - When I used to watch shows without looking what they were, I would just watch a show, right? I'm like Crunchyroll, I just click it. And then I'm watching a slice of life and I get two episodes in, I'm like, wait, nothing's gonna happen.

they're not gonna do anything, are they? - Why isn't that your like monkey brain just like lags for a minute and it takes you two whole episodes. - No, no, hold on. In this case, I actually agree with Connor. - You get like two episodes in, you're like, wait, they're not gonna do a single thing, are they? They're not gonna go anywhere. - Because I remember when I first watched K-On! and like the K-On! the entirety of the K-On! fandom hates me now because of that like one review that I did on K-On! because I didn't,

the appeal of "Slice of Life" back then. And I watched "K-On!" with the same kind of expectations as I would of any other show. And like people have told me the appeal for "K-On!" and I understand it now, but I can never relate to it. I still can never get that same kind of connection to a "Slice of Life" show. - That's why I don't blame anybody who says that they don't like "Slice of Life" like at all.

Like in any slice of life, they'll just be like, nah, it's all boring. Nothing fucking happens. I'd rather be watching like a Shonen or something like a generic Shonen. I totally get that because again, like I don't want to say it's an acquired taste or anything, but I feel it is. It is an acquired- - Well, I'm going to say the same thing about Isekai, Joey. - And that's okay, man. It's good, man. - I'm going to say that about music.

- If I'm gonna watch slice of life, I'd rather just watch like, I don't know, like real life, I guess. I'd rather watch like a documentary about something that's real. - But even like a documentary there's, I don't know. It's still engaging. - Stuff happens. - I feel like the closest thing to RL slice of life is what's that Japanese TV show, Terrace House. Have you ever seen it? - I can't watch Terrace House.

- That's like slice of life IRL. - Yeah. - I wanna watch that and I'm like, what's the appeal? It's like, oh, you can just like watch them do their daily things and have your thoughts about that.

- I can have my thoughts about my real life. I don't even fucking think about it. - Well, it's the exact same reason why people wanted to watch Big Brother, right? - They wanted to watch like a shit show though. Like they, I feel like Terrace House was very like just polite. They were all just like, you know. - I never watched it. - I could never get into Big Brother either though. - No, I couldn't get into that. - I liked watching Big Brother just because the people that they had on there were just the most fucking degenerative fucking way. - That was like,

- Finally selected to get the craziest people they could find. - I'm like, I can't believe these are not real people. And then later I found out that the entire show scripted. I'm like, oh, that makes a lot of sense. - Yeah, I mean, they obviously put a lot of work behind the scenes to make it entertaining. Whereas I think I feel with "Terrace House", it's just here are just people living their lives and there's a camera watching them. - I just don't get why that's fun. I just don't get it.

- Maybe I'm too monkey boy. - There was a show- - I'm with you, dude, I'm with you. - On this one, I'm like- - I got my own life to worry about. I don't know if I can worry about people just having an awkward conversation. I can experience that myself. - There was a show that preceded "Terrace House" and I don't know if it's still going or not, but it's called "Ain't Naughty."

And it was a show that's kind of similar to Terrace House where, but there was like a romance element to it. It's essentially, think of a harem anime IRL. That's the only way I can describe it. - Oh God, oh no. - Isn't that like Love Island or some shit like that? - It's something like, it's similar to that. But like they would get like a bunch of guys and girls, like single guys and girls, and they put them on this bus and they would take the bus and they would basically just do like an entire tour of Japan, like wherever the fuck they wanted. But at every stop,

one of the guys or the girls had to like confess basically to be like, I like you. And if they responded back positively then the bus would leave the two there and then basically just let them, you know, do their own thing. - Or in the middle of nowhere. - Yeah, sometimes it was, but it was harsher when the other person denied it because then the person who confessed would be left there.

basically on their own. And just watching like a guy or a girl get denied on that show was the most heart wrenching yet somehow the most fucking entertaining thing that you've ever seen. Because it's just like, is he gonna, 'cause it was like a harem anime where like one of the best goals is like getting prepared to like confess to the main character. - And you're cheering for your girl. - I'm just like, come on, come on. I've seen you like go camping with this dude, man. Like you gave off some good vibes. You got this girl, you got this. And then when the guy's like, no, sorry, there's another girl that I like.

and the sad music just starts playing. I'm just like, no, it's like watching your, you know, going back to the whole sports thing, right? It's like watching the grand finals and the one team just like flopping it at the last second, you know, just like, no, that was the game. Yeah, but I prefer that over Terrace 'cause I gave Terrace House a go.

- I don't know. It would seem like on paper, because I like slice of life, it would seem like this is a show made for me. - Okay, so here's what confuses me. Do you have a favorite slice of life and how would you justify that? - I don't know. I mean, 'cause so many shows can be defined as slice of life shows and yet they're not, right? I mean like,

I don't know, I guess "Lucky Star" would probably be my favorite just because- - Because of the memes? - Yeah, because of the memes, right? Because it appeals to the otaku culture, right? And that was a huge part. That was when I was deeply rooted in otaku culture, right? So that anime spoke to me, dude. It hit different. - That was a slice of life that hit different. - I thought we were gonna go a whole episode. - Nah, dude.

- No, but like, I'd say that's probably my favorite for those reasons, yeah. - Gentlemen, I found out what the show is called. It's called "Trinity 7." - I have watched that. - I have not even watched that. - I can tell you it is exactly the same. - It's garbage. - It's literally the same, just a bit older. - I think he can like block magic or can counter it or something. - It's garbage, essentially. - It was garbage. It was hot garbage. - It's really bad. - Okay, well, here's a question for you guys then. What is the worst show that you think, like, what is your guilty pleasure, I guess?

- Do you like believe in guilty pleasures? - Oh yeah. - Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I mentioned how I got my friend to watch Kiss Sis with me, right? I own all 23 volumes of the manga as well. - Do you actually? Why would you fund that shit, man? - Because it's so bad yet so good. Like it's like, it is.

- I have a lot of guilty pleasure shows, I'd like to admit, but I think the biggest for me where I can openly be like, yeah, I know this thing sucks, but man, I can't put it down is definitely Kiss Sis. - There's so many shows I like that suck, but I wouldn't call it a guilty pleasure. I'm fine with being like, yeah, I like that. - So you don't believe in the guilty pleasure or?

I don't know, maybe I've just gotten to the point where I don't give a fuck. - Yeah, that's my point now. I just like shows. - Just don't give a fuck anymore. - But I guess I put some shows in different categories 'cause it's a different kind of enjoyment. 'Cause I would never recommend, I would never like recommend, actively recommend some of these fucking shows that I watch. But I definitely have some shows

that I put in an actual good kind of enjoyment. If there is anything as like a good kind of a, like a good enjoyment. - I mean, I say that Kiss This is my guilty pleasure, right? But I'm not fucking guilty for liking that show. I can like whatever the fuck, it's just my pleasure. I'm not guilty, it's just my pleasure.

But again, like I just call it a guilty pleasure because I don't openly be like, "Have you watched "Kill Sislo?" Like I don't openly recommend it unless you're my friend from high school. - Unless he's your friend. - Unless you're my friend from high school. - A yaoi scene about to happen. - Yeah, exactly. But like, you know, I have lots of shows like that. Like "Yosugan no Sōra" is another one. - I still need to watch that. - I watched that entire thing. And I remember when Dee was like,

'Cause D, Rebel House, he has this series called the Surviving Series. - Yeah, yeah. - Where he goes and like basically tries to get people to watch these like absolutely hot garbage shows. And I remember he did an entire episode on Yosugan Asura and I'm just like, bro, I'm glad you didn't call me onto this show because I would have been praising the fuck

the fuck out of the show the entire time. I'm like, I know this sucks. I know that there is some mad winces shit going on in this show, but man, it's so good. - Yeah, he never called me to go on the domestic girlfriend episode. For good reason. 'Cause I still love domestic girlfriend.

It's whole garbage. The ending sucks. - Would that be your guilty pleasure? - I don't know because I would say the manga for Domestic Girlfriend, like 80% of the manga for Domestic Girlfriend, I still think it's a fucking well-written show. The way I describe it, like it's kind of like a soap opera.

but the characters are actually well-written in my opinion. But the things that the events that happen in the soap opera are still very soap opera stuff. But the way they handle it is still very good. The anime I feel is that's garbage because that like...

that skips over a lot of the actual character development. And like it basically the anime speed run shit. So the anime just took the trashiest moments from the manga and put it all in one package. - Oh, well then Connor will like that. - It's a speed run anime. - Yeah, but I like the domestic girlfriend manga ending

everyone pretty much agrees it's hot garbage. And I've had time to sit in it now. And I think I actually like the ending of domestic girlfriend just because- - Dude, you're going through the phase that I had with school days basically. Where it's just like the first time you watch it, you're just like, man, this is hot garbage. But then the more you think about it, you're like,

this actually might be genius. Like who, because I think that the series started off as a flaming dumpster fire and it ended in like a nuclear fallout kind of dumpster. That's, and it was on theme. It was on point. Like who got it? Who got on this?

- Who got on this train knowing he was about to crash and thought he was gonna parallel park? Like, you know what I mean? Like we all started watching "Domestic Girlfriend" 'cause we knew it was a fucking car crash. What were we expecting? - They let you know from episode one, like literally the opening scene, you were just like, "Oh, this is gonna suck."

- This is gonna be messy. - Yeah, and I think the best thing it did was trick us into, because it tricked us into thinking it could have ended well because there was a lot of well-written moments in it. - Yeah, they tricked us. - They tricked us and they made us forget that it was a dumpster fire this entire time. - Everybody got jebaited, man. - But like, because of the way it ended, it will forever stick in my mind and I will, I'm gonna reread that shit someday. - You tell his grandkids about this. - I will tell my fucking grandkids about the ending of "Domestic Girlfriend."

- Do you have one like that, Connor? - No, not really. I never really like- - Or do you just not even bother with like shows that- - I feel like with, yeah, with shows normally I tend not to. I'm trying to think, what have been some big anime that end controversially, but the people didn't know the ending of already, right? 'Cause of the manga. So it's kind of hard with anime, I feel. - Yeah, I know, right? I mean, you're talking about anime original endings now or like original anime, which- - Or if it's like from like a game, like "School Days," all right?

Like what about something like Darling in the Franks, which is the closest thing I can think of. - Okay, that was a fun dumpster fire to be a part of. - I feel if I watched Darling in the Franks without having been in the anime community, I would hate it. But I love the experience that it gave me. Just like being a part of the dumpster fire. - People like threatening the voice actors.

- Oh my God, that shit was ridiculous. - Why is it the first thing that happens whenever someone's like, 'cause the same thing happened with "Domestic Girlfriend" where the author just got death threats and like people were just shit talking them online. Like why'd you do this? - Because I guess they're just like the face of the show, right? Or the face of the problem that resides in the show. So they're just like, they don't blame the directors or the producers 'cause no one can see those people, right? It's always the front facing people.

- Is it the Japanese audience that's doing that? 'Cause I swear I didn't see any of that. - It was, I think it was kind of universal. Like in the case with domestic girlfriend, a lot of it was like the, it was definitely the Asian population. I don't know if it was specifically the Japanese. I know I saw a lot of like Chinese, Korean,

- I think because the author had to actually come out and say it was like foreigners. So it wasn't people from Japan. I don't know where it was from. - It might've been from the West. It might've been from other Asian countries. - I know that at least in the West, our meme culture is pretty fucking cryptic if you're not from.

- It's shrouded in a very large veil of sarcasm. - Stuff that could look extremely aggressive to someone who doesn't understand is probably like a compliment. - Well, wasn't there that Japanese illustrator who kept apologizing for all the sarcastic tweets that were being made? - Someone commented, I think I saw this, it was like,

someone would reply to their post with like the emoji with the gun, like huffing, like keep posting. Like, cause it's so good, right? We understood it, but obviously the Japanese creators. - And the reply back being like, I'm sorry that you're like, I'm sorry, please don't point that at me. They took that at face value, right? - That's why they took down their posts. Cause they were like, they thought they were offending people. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Bro, our fucking memes are fucked up.

- I remember when Vinland Saga was airing, people were sending tweets to the author of Vinland Saga calling him like a goat, the goat. - The goat. - And the author was like, "Why are people calling me a goat? Am I doing bad? Have I done something bad?"

- Memes do not translate well. - No, they do not translate well. How are like Japanese memes? I've always been curious how the Japanese meme culture is. - I mean, you know, a lot of the Japanese memes that make it, well, I mean, a lot of the best memes in my opinion, stay on 2chan, which I think if you know anything about 2chan, they're pretty bad.

- Yeah, I know they're like even worse than 4chan. - Oh yeah, I mean, if 4chan, if you thought 4chan was bad, never go onto 2chan. Like, I remember one of my friends, he used to be on 4chan a lot. And then when I told him about 2chan, he's like, "Man, for the first time in my life, I'm glad I never took Japanese." Because if I could understand what these threads were saying, holy shit, I would just be like,

I didn't know humans could say such horrible things to one another. It's really fucking brutal over there, but the memes are very funny. The memes are great. And luckily I think a lot of the best, like probably the safest memes that start on 2chan do eventually make it on Twitter. And man, those fucking

blow up on Japanese Twitter, like so crazily. Like if you thought memes on like Western Twitter were like, whoa, 50,000 retweets, holy shit. Dude, I've seen Japanese memes that have like a million retweets. I'm just like fucking, I mean, yeah, it's a good meme,

but God damn guys. - I mean, Western Twitter is just TikToks re-uploaded right now. - Yeah, basically. - I mean, some of them are pretty good to be fair. - Not sure how long that's gonna last though. - Is this a poorly aged conversation that we're having right now?

- Yeah, some of them are good. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - 'Cause I feel from what I can see with Japanese like social media in general, we've talked about internet hate a lot on this podcast before. And it feels like with Japan, it's either you're really nice and polite or it's like the fucking worst. And there's like no in between. - Dude, there's a reason why I never wanted to start like a Japanese YouTube channel. 'Cause I thought about it when I first moved here, I was like, should I start a separate channel where I've,

it's aimed towards the Japanese audience. It doesn't necessarily have to be anime related. I was just gonna do like just a regular like vlog style channel, but all in Japanese. And then I watched a bunch of Japanese YouTubers 'cause before I never really watched Japanese YouTubers and I saw their comment sections and I'm just like, I don't want that. I don't want any of that shit because like, man, some of the fucking like hate, like,

some of the fucking hate movements that happen towards Japanese YouTubers are crazy. I remember there was one Japanese YouTuber who, and on Japanese YouTubers,

- You fuck up once, your career is done. 'Cause they will hold onto that shit for the rest of your career until you're gone. Because there was one Japanese YouTuber- - I watched it a little bit. - Yeah, but like to a completely different degree. - I don't know about that. I mean, people have very short memories. - Yeah, how many times is like the Paul brothers fucked up and they're still getting like decent views, right? But there was this one Japanese YouTuber who didn't even do anything bad. He had a pet goldfish.

and the goldfish died. And so he threw the goldfish, like he drained it down the toilet basically. Really standard, right? Like of course that's what you'd normally do. It got so much hate that even at this day, and this happened like four or five years ago, I don't know about the accuracy of this, don't quote me on this, but it happened like four or five years ago. And since then, every single one of his videos have gotten a 50% dislike ratio.

- Damn. - Just from that one thing that he did and people are still holding onto it for it. - I just think they have like, they keep on to hate for like another level. And I think that's why the idol culture here must be so scary 'cause you fuck up once here if you're an idol or voice actors or something and your career is just done. - It's just done. - They just expect perfection from you. - Yeah, it definitely feels like the image that you build, they immediately like,

I'm in control of it. And that if, yeah, like you said, if you fuck up once, it's like, they're almost like entitled to you. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Perfect. - Yeah, pretty much. - And if you ruin it, well, you've ruined this thing I liked. You did that. - Yeah, exactly. - You've ruined this thing I enjoyed.

It's like, what would you mean? It's just me. - Yeah, right? It's like sometimes they forget that some of these people are just humans. - It's kind of this mentality where they're not allowed to be human in a lot of ways. And that's what it feels like. 'Cause I remember the first story I've ever heard about this kind of situation happening in the anime community was probably with Aya Hirano, like Haruhi's voice actress. Like there was a scandal.

- Scandal, quote unquote. - Scandal, but back in the day when she was voicing in Harahee, she was voicing in Lucky Star, she was like the triple A-list celebrity. She was like one of the hottest names in this industry. And I think what happened is that she had a music career as well, she had a band, and I think she slept with everyone in the band except for the bass guitar player.

- Like a moment of silence for the bass guitar player. - They do 504 subscribers. - Why is it always the bassist? - But yeah, that story like got outed and her career just like went from like A plus, triple A to like she had a trouble getting a role. - She completely disappeared after that. And since then she's disappeared.

- Since then she's only had like a few bigger roles. I think the only last role I remember her doing was doing Miggy from what's that? Parasite. - Parasite, yeah. - But I don't think I've heard her in anything else that I can remember. - I feel like that would be,

- Kinda happened in the West though, a little bit. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Well, like an entire career getting destroyed? - Not an entire career being destroyed, but at least fucking Twitter would be like fucking clowning. - Oh yeah, but this happened way before the Twitter thing came around. Like this happened in like the mid 2000s. - But dudes online are like pretty fucking, like, what do you mean you've slept with people? - Yeah, the sims be scary. - Yeah, scary. - I don't know. Would someone's career be over just because

Like, can you think of a single person whose career would literally be over if they had slept with someone or if they came out to have a boyfriend or something? 'Cause I can't. Like you'd be clowned on, you'd lose subscribers, you'd lose viewers maybe. - I guess you wouldn't actually lose your thing, but yeah, you would be clowned on pretty much. - I mean, the only person I can think of is like Pokimane, right? - Yeah, that's just recent. - I didn't know whether to bring that up or not, but I mean, if we're talking about the most recent thing, right? But even then, like what she's getting is nothing

- Nowhere near as bad as what some of these like idols and musicians are getting. - Like if Pokimane came out today and she was like, "Hey, I have a boyfriend." She'd probably get less attention than she does now, but her career wouldn't be over. - No, no. - She'd still easily have a career. - I thought it was confirmed, right? It was.

- Yeah, I think it will. - I don't know. - I think the whole point was it's like, well, yeah, of course she's human. She's gonna have a relationship and not everyone needs to know that. Like it's fine. - Exactly, it's her choice if she wants to hire you. - Yeah, exactly. There's nothing wrong with that. - Those simps, man. They're just like, "How dare you?" - Dude, when YouTubers make videos where they were in like a one week relationship, like we're together, it's like, "Oh." I get like real like, "Fuck it."

- Yeah, yeah. - I feel like it says so much about you. Like to me, it's like- - It's like at least wait a couple of months, man. Like try and figure out if it's like a real thing. - To me it feels like, I don't know, not to be like, to say it, but it's kind of like a, like, "Ooh, I'm good to have sex for the first time. I should announce it to the world." - Yeah, it is r/I had sex, right? - Yeah, yeah, it kinda is like, I feel like it says a lot about your maturity level to do that, I think. And it's normally, I wouldn't associate with a YouTuber.

- I feel like it's also just a lot of people can do it for clickbait as well. - They do, they do. - Oh yeah, yeah. - But either way, normally there's no good like connotation that comes along with doing that, right? There's normally nothing good that's coming. Sure, they're probably very happy. I'm glad for them. But like, you know, let's be honest at our age, which most of the YouTubers are, most of the relationships fail when they're that early on. - Yeah, exactly. - Most of them do. - Yeah, again, like it's fine if you wanna, yeah, it's fine if you wanna come out, but like,

- Yeah, as you said, if I watch like a coming out kind of video and it's just like, we're together now. I met her last week. I'm just like, all right. I'm counting down the days of the we broke up video, right? - Be together for like a few weeks, months, right? Get comfortable. Like in your head, why would you not be like,

- I feel like you're secure before you make this video. - It's like, do you introduce this girl to your parents a week after you just started dating? Probably not. - She was probably introducing it to their audience before their parents. It's like, bro, bro, bro, backwards, backwards. Come on. - 'Cause I know Aki and I waited about three months. - Yeah, you probably felt pretty comfortable

- Yeah, because we wanted to enjoy our time together just like privately and we did. And then we were like, okay, now if we want to actually do more stuff now, instead of like hiding about it, then I think now is the right time. Like we're comfortable now. - Especially in your position, it's kind of forced to tell.

- Yeah, exactly. - You're gonna be together. - I can't hide that shit forever. - When both of you are posting constantly and both of you are together in a lot of pictures, people are gonna connect the dots. - Is she just going to go hang out with him? Is that how it is really?

- But yeah, both of you are in YouTuber relationships. Was there normally, you know, the landmine waiting to just go off? - What are you saying? - I think, I mean, normally, at least you guys are in the clear now. I feel like you've got to the stage where it's like, all right, it's mega serious. Go get fucking married, get out of my sight. - Fucking simps. - I'm fucking tired of these fucking happy people around me. - But like when you're like,

- Especially at my size now, I'd be way too scared to date another YouTuber. - No, I mean, I get that. - I mean, for me with Sydney, it's kind of a bit different. Yeah, because she has been on YouTube for a very long time, but I wouldn't really call her a YouTuber where she does this as a job. She's kind of grown pretty recently.

- True, she wasn't really a YouTuber when she was. - Yeah, yeah. - That makes sense, makes sense. - Yeah, and I mean, we started dating when I wasn't, this was before I came back to do YouTube full time anyway. So we've been dating for like a very long time, like a good five, six years.

But yeah, I remember seeing your video. Like, was it nerve wracking for you guys coming out to be like, "Hey, we're a YouTuber couple." - Yeah, definitely because- - What was the reaction like? - I mean, the reaction was mostly really, really positive. Thank God. But I remember Aki losing a very significant portion of a male audience and I lost a very significant portion of my female audience. So we were like- - What kind of percentage, what kind of numbers are we talking about? - Like I probably,

I don't know, for like, before we came out, I think I had like a 60/40 female to male ratio, which I was like, wow, okay, I thought more males would be in Zoom. But then the moment I came out, I think that dropped by like,

10, 15% at least. It was a really significant number. And same thing with Aki as well. It's about at least a 10, 15% drop, but we kind of expected that because we'd had been to conventions enough times and we saw like- - A lot of people were speculating. - Yeah, we saw a lot of people were speculating. - I think I remember watching your like AX vlog and then people had saw that you had like a hickey. - Oh yeah. - And I was like, oh, it's Joey. Joey getting it on here. - We're not proud of that.

- I knew Aki probably would've read it home and was like, "God damn it, Jerry, you left that." - Yeah, we're not proud of that. That's all right. We were young, we were young. - Yeah, exactly. - It's whatever. - It's cute, man. - It's whatever, man. It's whatever. It's cute when we look back on it, it's fine. - It must have been stressful back then where people were just speculating every- - Enhance, enhance, enhance.

- Get the blue light out. - Check for fingerprints. - Someone's in the dark room checking the dark room.

- Yeah, I don't know. But like, I think it was nerve wracking for the both of us because it was the first time that we'd ever had to make a video like that. And we knew we had to make a video like that, right? Eventually, we weren't gonna hide it for the rest of our career. So I think it was stressful at the time and you can see it in our coming up videos that we're very like, you know, nervous and like, "Yeah, we're kind of together now," kind of thing. But at the same time, like after that video went out, I was just like, "Oh, thank God, now I don't have to fucking,

about the fact that I have a girlfriend now. - Yeah, the worry about this is really pleasant as well. Must be a lot of support. - Oh yeah, there was a lot of support. I had a lot of fucking like YouTubers approach me who had never spoken to me. I remember Garnt fucking tweeted at us. - This was, I think our first interaction since that time we thought we hated each other. - Yeah, it was the first interaction. Like it was the first interaction on Twitter where like Garnt was like, "Congrats to Anime Man and Archeodurus for getting together." And I was just like, "Oh my God." - Yeah, that's true, I remember this. - Yeah, and I'm just like, "Oh my God, he doesn't hate me."

- I think he likes me guys. - No, I had a lot of AniTubers tweet at us being like, "Yeah, the two biggest AniTubers are together." And it was like a really big deal. I'm like, "It's not that big a deal guys. We're just getting together. It's all good." But no, we were really happy about it. 'Cause again, like we were a little bit worried about like maybe there might be some kind of hidden

that put us in some kind of a negative light, but it all came out really fine. - Because I remember watching that video and I remember thinking, man, I think they definitely approached this the right way. 'Cause everyone knew if you were dating, this was something that you would have to address sooner or later. - Yeah, of course. - You're both big personalities on the platform. I think you definitely went about it the right way. And I remember just wanting to congratulate you 'cause I know the trouble was going through a long distance relationship as well with Sydney. Man, that shit's tough.

- Yeah, tell me about it. We were in long distance for two and a half years, man. - I don't know. - My monkey brain can't handle it. - I was long distance with Sydney for like a good year or something. And that was like one of the hardest years of my life. - When you were like still single online, did you get messages from people like, "Would you ever do long distance?" - Yeah. - So like, how long though?

- Are you available for a long distance? - Like what kind of time zone difference is okay? I'm like, just fucking say it. - Yeah, like what do you expect me to say? It's like, if it's less than eight hours, then it's doable. But any more than that bro. - It's like,

- When I used to live stream doing like, you know, us doing Sebastian stuff, the most common thing that I would often get is like, "Is a, yeah, long distance?" What's your thoughts on that Connor? What are your thoughts on that? You dating anyone by the way? - They don't just say it. They just like, "Are you perhaps considering the possibility?" - Or they'll say, "What's your ideal partner like?"

- I got that a lot when I was doing panel. - I'm not trying to say that I'm like a giga Chad and everyone just can't help themselves, but you know, you just get people who like- - I mean, I think you can say that as the 93%. You can say that. - I mean, you should expect that. - Okay, when there's-

- Thousands of subscribers, there's gonna be like one or two of them that are interested in you. - Yeah. - That are gonna try and see what ways they can pursue that. From a formally written email, which is many times, or they'll do a not so subtle donation on a live stream. - What is the logistics of us hooking up together in this long distance relationship? - What I gotta do is I gotta, some episode I end up doing a presentation of all the different ways people have tried to hit on me.

- Please. - It's like a PowerPoint presentation. The most interesting ways it's happened. I'm not trying to brag, I'm not trying to do anything. I'm just trying to say it's really fucking interesting the way that people try to like get in there. - Top 10 confessions in anime. - It's so interesting when you realize it the way, 'cause like there's like routes in their mind. Like I'm gonna go this route, I'm gonna go like, okay.

- I'm gonna direct her out the curve ball round. - Okay, I'm gonna- - It's like a fucking visual novel. - There's like levels of difficulty. There's like YouTube comment, impossible for him to educate me. - Level 99. - To like donate $10,000 so he can not exist.

- And there's so many in between, it's so funny. - Oh yeah, I mean, if you guys are interested in that, let us know. - Let us know down below if you wanna hear the PowerPoint. - I'm interested. - I will legit prepare a PowerPoint presentation. - Yeah, please. - We're gonna have the screen for a reason. - We're gonna screen for something, right? - I'll do it, I'll do it. - Please. - Oh my God. - I was trying to think of like, what's a weird thing that a lot of people do on YouTube? Like just weird stuff they might say often that I'm trying to think. - Well, like the whole thing of like,

there's always that one comment in every video, which is like, Joey's not gonna see this. He's not gonna reply just because I'm first in the comments section. - And then,

- I don't know. - Yeah, I don't know. - And I'm tempted to comment to prove them wrong, but I'm like, no, that's what you want. - I'm like, no, no, I'm gonna fall into the back. You almost got me there. - I'm like, you know what, no, you are right. I am not gonna see this. Fuck you. Fuck you for thinking you're entitled to my time. - Actually, what I like to do to those comments is like, I just, I don't even heart it, I just like it. So that the only one that knows is like that person. And usually we're probably about being like, oh my God, Joey liked the,

- My comment and everyone's like, no, you didn't. Because there's no way to prove it. - There's no way to fucking prove it. - But they get the notification being like, the anime man liked your comment. They're like, oh my God. I'm so mean. - I don't know if it's 'cause I've been getting like growing a bunch, but I've just noticed more, a bunch of nonsensical comments on my videos. Like comments that just don't relate to it more. Like just people being like, yeah, I'm tired. And it's like.

- Why are you starting to shit on a mind void? - There's always ones as well that are like relating to other commenters. They're like, oh, I see that the guy with the mustache is not in the comment section. - Did you ever get commenters that just have a foot on fucking conversation with each other in your comment section? - Yeah, it turns into a forum. I'm like, damn, this video has 10,000 comments and you look down and like 5,000 of them are just like, so how you been?

- I'm like an MSN messenger chat or fucking Skype chat. - I'm like, you do realize this is what we have a discord for, right? So that you can do that there. - I saw one, it was this dude having like a fucking mental breakdown, arguing with this person being like, "You're fucking wrong, you don't understand the nuances." And someone replied, "Are you okay?" And the guy replied like, "Honestly, no, not really."

I'm glad that someone finally asked me. I was like, what am I reading? - It's like a therapy session happening in the comments. - I've seen those exact same comments as well. - It's like, bro, you okay? It's like, honestly, no. And I'm glad somebody finally asked me.

- And it's like, what the fuck am I reading? - How did this happen? How did we get here? - And I guarantee as well, the person who originally commented the UOK is just sitting there like, oh fuck, now I have to like coach them through this. - Or like when they're like, whoa, that's a reference to X Timmy Minecraft. And it's like,

Like people will comment and be like, "Oh, this is a reference to Game Grumps." And I'm like, "They've had so many episodes, they probably said the whole fucking English language." - They don't even like give the reference like where it is, right? - I don't know who this person is that you're telling me I'm referencing. - It's like, bro, this video is just a copy of Minecraft player 69. And I'm just like, "Who?" And then I look up the channel and they have like 12 subscribers. I'm just like, "How the fuck am I supposed to know?" - Two viewed video, like you copied them. It's like, "What do you mean I copied them?

- No one could have copied them if they wanted to 'cause nobody saw them.

- It's so true though, because I think, this is the first time I'm hearing that. I thought I was the only person who got those comments. Referencing this random video or this random YouTuber that I have never seen before. And apparently, you know, you're just copying their joke. You made exactly the same joke maybe? I don't fucking know. - The internet is massive. People are gonna make the same joke eventually. It's gonna happen. Just get over it. - You know what type of comment I finally just want to see gone?

It's the fucking nobody, literally nobody. Joey, it's like, I'm just letting you know guys right now, none of them are funny. I'm just saying that none of them are funny. None of them are unique. - Sometimes they chuckle. - Sometimes, it's like one out of like a thousand maybe. - There are some videos where the comments are just fucking gold. - Oh yeah. - But most of the times comments are just like this big circle jerk where it's the same type of comment that gets upvoted every time.

And it's like the funniest comments in my videos are always the ones that have zero likes. And I'm just like, why does this not have any likes? It's always the ones I had as well. Cause I'm just like, here you go guys. This is a funny comment. Look, learn from this comment. None of you guys are like this comment. I'll like it because this is some funny shit that you guys should be tweeting more. Not the fucking literally, literally nobody, Joey.

I'm like, do they have just like a copy pasta ready for these comments? And to just be like immediately be like, yep, throw it in. - A semi awkward moment or a funny moment. Like, all right, that's it. - Yeah, that's the one. That's the thing that literally nobody does. Yeah, that's it. That's the one. - Do you guys remember the era of YouTube comments before they like ranked them? And it was just like, it was just going by like- - It was like a free for all. - Yeah, it was just a free for all. That was when YouTube was a fucking cesspool, man. At least now it's like somewhat organized.

And it's just basically become Reddit in a way. But it's better than it used to be. - I think though, like the funniest comment sections I always see are like the, at least with this year, right? It was all the comments on the fucking Rose and Big Ed episodes. Like that comment section, I've never laughed that hard reading a comment section. - Oh, from the 90 Day Fiance. - 90 Day Fiance episodes, like the clips because

It's some of the meanest comments that I've ever seen, but at the same time, it is so funny. - I realized watching reality TV shows like 90 Day Fiance are so less fun when you can't read a comment section. - Oh yeah. - 'Cause like I tried watching the show normally like a different season and it was just not fun 'cause every time something really obnoxious happened or one of them said something really like just stupid, I wanted to immediately go down to the comments and see. Oh, that's it, right? 'Cause you know when you're watching a YouTube video and something happens, you're like, I'm gonna go to the comments,

- I wanna see people talking about this. I missed it, I don't get that when I watch 90 Day Fiance normally. - Yeah. - What I wanna experience is what it would be like if you had like whole anime episodes uploaded on YouTube. - With comment section. - Yeah, what would a comment section be like, right? - Well you have Crunchyroll, but Crunchyroll's comment section is like garbage. - Yeah, I mean that doesn't work because not like who the fuck leaves a comment on the Crunchyroll video? You know what I mean?

Who does that? Who are you? Why are you leaving comments on a Crunchyroll episode? - It's just people giving their like 48 hour passes as well. - Yeah, it's just like workers at Crunchyroll being like, we gotta fill this comment section up guys. - No, 'cause most of the comments are just like the gift passes. And then there's people that actually comment on the episodes and I'm just thinking, man, but it's so like nonstop. It's like very good episode.

- Smiley face. - I think I went to girlfriend in episode one. I think the comment was, God, this is the trashiest show this season. I'll see you all next week. I thought that was a good comment, but that's the only- - That sounds like a YouTube comment though, right? - Yeah. - I mean, that's what I want. I want YouTube comments and- - There's something though about YouTube comments that just, I don't want to say it, but-

- He's gonna say it. - I was going through my like thesaurus in my head and just be like, okay, what's another word for hit and what's another word for different? - It impacts differently. - It impacts differently. - 'Cause Reddit, like I can't stand Reddit discussions. Like they're the most like I'm smarter than you discussions always. - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. - At least on YouTube everyone knows they're an ape.

Like no one tries to like. - Yeah, Reddit comments are the epitome of, "Um, actually." - I love Reddit, but I hate looking past the memes

- Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. - Sometimes you'll see some funny stuff on Reddit. - If there's ever like a comment thread that's a discussion, it's like the biggest fucking minefield I've ever seen. - Just a bunch of people who wanna validate their like intelligence and it's just so sad and I can't read it. It's just pathetic half the time. Sometimes there's really good threads with really solid advice, but most of the time, especially when it's like the argument threads, like change my opinion or am I the asshole? It's like fuck.

It's like, I don't care. - Everyone posted those subreddits like, am I the asshole? Everyone who posts that subreddit knows they're not the asshole except for like that one dude, that one dad who deleted his kid's Minecraft. Of course you're the asshole. Why did you think you were the asshole? Yeah, so as a punishment, this one dad on Reddit apparently thought it was a good idea because his kid wasn't doing work. He deleted his kid's Minecraft and all the stuff that he'd built in it.

- Right, right. - He went to Reddit being like, "Am I the asshole 'cause I deleted my kid's Minecraft account and all the stuff he'd built?" And everyone was like, "Yes, of course you are. That kid worked hard on that stuff. Of course you're the asshole." And it was on like Twitter and everything. That shit blew up. It was so funny. - Yeah, that's like your kid building an actual house from the ground up and then it's like,

I don't like the way you made that room. It just blows up the house. Start again. - It's like 90% of Reddit is like very self-serving and there's like 10% that's like a dumpster fire that you're like, I wanna watch. - I mean, I like, I enjoy Reddit for the memes. - Memes are great. - The memes are great. And whenever there's like a good meme threads or something, that's where I enjoy Reddit. - I mean, that's why I like our subreddit. - Yeah, that's why I like our subreddit. It's just all memes. So reddit.com/r/TrashTaste.

- You see that segue voice? - My Reddit name is literally I came for memes. That's literally my Reddit name. - People don't believe you that that's you. - That is me. - I saw a thread on Reddit being like, who is this mod? Like where's Connor? Who is this I came for memes guy? And everyone's like, that's Connor. And everyone's like, all the new people are like, no, that's not him.

I'm looking for CdogVA, where is it? - 'Cause I literally only made the account so I could upvote the memes I liked. - Fair enough. - Yeah, I mean, that's what I- - And luckily our subreddit is full of memes. - Yeah, yeah. - So it's so good. - That's the best part of Reddit. Like I feel like when Reddit takes itself too seriously, it's just really grating. I don't know if you guys feel the same. - Yeah, no, I agree. - That's everywhere over the internet. 'Cause it's the same thing with Twitter as well. The only difference with some Reddit threads and Twitter threads I see is Twitter has an avatar behind it.

And that's basically the same kind of toxicity I see. - I think it's the discussions that they have on Reddit are ones that I only feel can be like constructive in person with someone. - Yeah, like every argument over the internet. - Which is why you ever have an argument with someone, you're like, let's just call. I don't wanna fucking text you 'cause you know that shit don't go anywhere.

- Yeah, my thumbs are tired. - Yeah, like bro, you wrote a paragraph. I'm not reading that fucking shit. Come on, get on call. - Okay, here's a question for you. Have you guys ever had like the comments or like a comment on your YouTube or like someone saying something on Twitter that you know you can fucking destroy them, slam dunk them in an argument, but it's,

equally as annoying because you want to and you know you can, but there's too many of these types of comments to like address them all. And if you say, if you address one, then you start just opening like Pandora's box or whatever. - I've done that. I've been on both sides of that. Just being like, okay, I see this dumb ass comment. I'm just like,

- Okay, I can't say anything. - It's a lot of restraint. - I know, like control yourself, like zen mind right now with this, like don't get tilted. Just keep it in yourself. Like at least like go to your IRL friends and bitch about it to them, all right? Like they'll understand. And then sometimes I just look at them like, nah, this kid is small brain as fuck. I gotta put him in his position. And I quote retweeting like, look at this clown.

- I feel like the amount of restraint it takes is like just stopping your piss midstream. - It's like the bottle's getting full, don't let it overflow. - Okay, I don't need this. I don't need this in my day. I'm okay. Like I don't need to engage with this. Like you're a fucking idiot. - It's like the first day of going vegetarian, you go to like a steak house, right? It's like, no, I can do this. I can do this, please. - I just like, sometimes if they comment saying dumb, I'll just, I'll give them a heart. I'm like, I want everyone to see how stupid you are.

I'm not gonna engage it, but I'm gonna push this to the top. Just so everyone can see how stupid this card was. - It's like that one out of million time when you do acknowledge it or reply. It's always there. They're always like the surprise Pikachu face.

I can't believe he saw my comment. I was talking shit and he replied to me. - It's like, what? - That only applies on Twitter though. It's like how many situations can you go in IRL where you absolutely slam dunk someone and then they reply with a pog face. It's just like, did you see that? He just completely dunked me, I'm so happy. - Which is, I don't know. I understand the mentality where if you say something on Twitter or on social media to like a big,

or platform, like you don't expect them to ever see it. But I think you'd be surprised about how many comments that we do actually end up seeing. Most of them we just keep scrolling, but some of the comments do actually stick out to us, especially the ones where are like really criticizing or really grating or one of those ones.

that happened maybe like a few months ago. And it was the first time this ever happened to me. And this one annoyed me more than anything. Like they weren't shitting on me. Well, they were shitting on me, but it was someone else tweeting about how they really enjoyed one of my videos. And then someone was shitting on them for enjoying my video. For some reason that really pissed me off. I was like, bro, you can shit on me, but like why you gotta shit on someone else for enjoying me? Like what's wrong with you, man? And yeah, that was just a mess. - So did you reply to that? - I replied being like, yo dude, I mean, it's cool if you don't like me,

but why you gotta shit on someone else? - Just leave them alone. - And then they just kept like antagonizing and I was just like, fuck it, I'm not dealing with this. - I think the one comment that's like still angers me to this day. - I realize we've talked about a lot of hate comments. - We're very tilted man, as you can see. - No, because it's the comments that stick out to us, right? But I think the one that sticks out to me the most and I probably won't ever forget

is when I got engaged, when I proposed to Sydney, like I don't really talk about my personal life too much on my Twitter because I like to keep that separate from like me talking about anime titties and all that. But it was like the one, one of the few times that I actually let out my personal life to the public just because I wanted to show the entire fucking world. - It's a very important time of your life. - Very happy. - How happy I was, right? - Yeah, of course.

and how this was one of the most happiest moments of my life. And I wanted to share that. - Of course. - And I remember, me and Sydney are very close. I'm glad that I can make jokes with Sydney in some of the most crucial moments in my life. And when I proposed, I was like, "Man, you're my wife, but I still gonna have my waifus. Senjogar is still my number one." And that was just a funny joke. - Yeah, of course. - That's just the kind of relationship I have. I'm glad I'm with someone who I can joke around with like that.

And so Sidney posted that joke and somebody like quote, they didn't even like quote retweets that one. They just, they screenshotted it. - Right. - Right? - Oh, that's the worst. - Yeah. - It's like, at least give me like some fucking credit. - Yeah, exactly.

- They think you can't fucking see it if they screenshot it. 'Cause there's nothing that leads it back to them. But they screenshot it and they posted on their personal Twitter and was like, "Woman, you should have better standards for your men. Don't let your man get away with this kind of shit." And I'm like,

- You know nothing about my relationship with Sydney. - That is the biggest I know more about your life than you do in my comment, right? - They were judging me because I was making this joke, which some girls won't be happy with. And if you're not happy with that kind of joke, that's completely fair. - Don't be with that kind of person. Really simple, right? - Exactly. I was with someone I could trust to make that joke, but then Sydney actually,

like she quote retweeted it and commented on it. And the reaction they made was just such a like, why are you like this? You know what I mean? Because when she replied, she was like, I can't believe they've actually outed me. Like they've just sent all their followers to me. I'm like getting cyber bullied right now. And you're like, what do you expect if you talk shit online and you can't take it back?

Like how do you think we feel? - I love people who do that because it's always, it's usually like young guys or girls like in their teens, obviously. And they just expect like, how do they not understand the concept of if you're prepared to give shit, you better be prepared to take shit. - Yeah, exactly. - It's like, you're talking shit about someone. Do you expect them to just not fight back? - Yeah, like why are you acting like the victim here? Where you're here judging my personal life. - They have more followers than me.

I don't give a shit, dude. Like you shit talk me, I'm a fucking smack you right back. You better be prepared for that. And if you're not, then don't say it in the first place. Keep it to yourself. - If you're gonna smack talk and then you're gonna cry about being called out, it's like why would you? - That's the equivalent of like you going up to someone smacking them in the face and then they smack you back and you start crying.

It's like, what? You slagged me first. I should be the one crying, not you. What are you crying about? - Yeah, basically how to act on the internet, it's just like, don't act any differently than you would in real life, honestly. - Just be real life. Not that you guys need to know that, 'cause you're trash taste listeners. - Yeah, exactly. - The best taste. - Exactly. Rule number one, just don't be a dickhead. It's really simple. - Don't act like Subaru from Re:Zero in real life.

- No, you should be fine. - Oh my God. Wait, what do you mean? What do you mean? - Dude, in season one, he was an asshole, man. - I mean, was he though? - Dude, when he like confessed in front of like the whole like grand court, she told him not to, I was like, what are you doing, man?

She told you not to do that. This isn't your time to shine, dickhead. - I wouldn't call him an asshole as much as I would just call him a clown. - No, I think he was an asshole. - You do? - I thought he wasn't. - I mean, either way, it's not very good. You're either a clown or an asshole. - Either way, he wasn't doing himself any favors. But season two, he looks like he's turned himself around. - Don't be like season one Subaru is what we're saying, right? - Yeah, exactly. - Season two, I've been very much enjoying his character development. - Yeah, I'm glad that he's finally learning not to be an incel.

- Every East, like I'm protagonist, man. - Wow, being incel is bad. - Wow, that's a revelation. - I should think of women as not an item.

- Oh man. - I think that's probably a good place to end it. - Yeah, that is, yeah. - Yeah, thank you to all the patrons, lovely, lovely patrons that you see on the screen right now for supporting the show. And if you'd like to, then make sure to go to patreon.com/trashtaste. - Thank you, patrons. - Thank you. - They're not the asshole. - They are not the asshole. - They are the reverse assholes. Whatever the reverse of an asshole is. - A mouth?

- A face hole, you lovely face holes. And if you'd like to send us your hot memes, your hot spicy memes, as you've always done, you can do it on the subreddit and make sure to follow us on Twitter as well for more memes. - Yeah. - Yeah. - But that's about it for this episode, guys. I've been your boy and I've been with the monk and the monkey and we'll see you guys next episode. - I'm out, monkey out. - I'm gonna go fucking meditate somewhere.