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- Wake the up trash tasters. Get this Among Us out of here. - No! Why'd you throw him like that? - He needs to know. - Man, boy bounced. - Oh, you got ejected, man. - More accurate. - I feel you're looking for something there, Con. You're like,

- I'm looking for the start of this podcast. - I was waiting to see, am I good to start? - Yes, you're good to start. - Welcome to the Trash Taste Podcast. Hope you're having a good one. I'm joined once again by the boys, Jerry and Garnt. - Hi. - Yeah. - And your host Connor. And today,

- Things are changing. - We are. - 'Cause we're starting our anime club. - Yes, well, we're gonna call it an anime club. - Trash Taste Anime Club. - Because anime club sounds simpler than Trash Taste Anime Manga Gaming Movies and Book Club. So we're gonna call it anime club.

- Because we are an anime podcast after all. - So this idea came about over our Facing Our Fears series where we've done twice now, where we have recommended each of us to watch or play or read three different things. - Go check those out if you haven't yet. - Yeah, go check those out. And this is gonna be following that kind of format, but instead of doing one whole episode of that, we thought we would,

- Do this, we would add this as a monthly segment to our podcast. - Is this the first time we're doing this on the podcast? Like a reoccurring segment? - I think so. - Yeah. - 'Cause I know most podcasts out there do like a, okay, and now let's get into this particular segment or whatever.

We're starting that four and a half years ago. - There's a bunch of shit out there that's really cool and you want us to watch or have opinions on. So now we'll occasionally watch things once a month and give you our thoughts. - Some of those recommendations will be from like us, like kind of recommending to one another, kind of like what we did for Facing Our Fears. And some of them will be from you guys over on the Patreon.

And if you want to see our reactions to said media, you can do so on Patreon as well. We'll have an edited video with us all reading, watching, reacting. It's up right now if you want to take a monitor. The stuff that we're going to be watching or talking about today, which is One Piece fan letter. Yeah. And Garnt, what's the other one? So it was my turn to recommend a piece of media to the boys today. So on Patreon, you guys recommended the most upvoted one was One Piece fan letter, which I'm...

- Great taste guys, great taste. I'm very, very happy with that. So things were, you know,

You recommended something good. So I thought I'd go the opposite direction. And he won for the memes. I wanted to see these boys' reactions to My Girlfriend Is Not Here Today, the manga. Is this a popular manga? It is one that has just started. It won the manga. It got an award from the Manga Awards, right? Yeah, it got an award in last year's Next Manga Awards. That's right. And I can't remember if it was, I think it was the International Awards.

So the international audience voted for "My Girlfriend Is Not Here Today." - So which one should we talk about first? - Wanna talk about "One Piece" first? Let's talk about "One Piece Fan Letter." - We should explain what this is to people who don't know. I think we've briefly touched on it on the podcast before, but we should explain it again. - Well, I've already had my chance at explaining it. So since this is your time, this is your boys' first reaction to it, I think I should,

throw the ball over to you guys. Why don't you explain that? Yeah, well, so One Piece Fan Letter is about, I believe it's just like one episode. I accidentally watched one episode. There's only one episode. Yeah, it's only one episode. That is about the just everyday people in the world of One Piece and how the One Piece shenanigans affects their life. And basically, it is about 24 minutes of just pure, unadulterated fan stuff. Fan stuff. Fan service. It's just like, it's like,

- If you love One Piece, this is just pure dopamine. - Yeah. - Every single, every- - Yeah, every 30 seconds it's like, oh! - Every two frames it's like, oh! Yeah, so we can talk about that right now. 'Cause it's pretty funny. Can I have the gavel first though? - Yeah. - Why, what are you gonna do with the gavel? - Can I have the thing please? - All right.

- I had to get that out. Thank you for spoiling a part of One Piece for me. - What? - You fuckers. - What? - I thought you said you'd got to the, you'd read the Whitebeard. - I just got there. - Are you serious? - Yes. - Yes. So this is why I was gonna start it off by saying, yeah, when Garnt recommended this, in the back of my head I was like,

- Is Connor caught up? - Because Connor had mentioned, okay, I interpreted that as I've read the Marineford arc. The white beard war arc, which was actually,

I saw this, I was like, this is perfect because this literally takes place like in that arc. - Yeah. - So I was like, okay Connor's caught up to everything he needs to. I didn't realize so. - It's basically right. - You haven't finished it? - No, I just started that arc. - Oh my God. - To explain it, this takes place roughly like right as the

- Literally right after. - Time skip happens. - Literally right after. - I'm having the fucking time of my life, I'm watching this, I'm locked in. And there's probably things that could be spoilers, but at that point you don't know what it is. So it's like, it's not a spoiler. You're like, all right, whatever. And then they say one thing, they don't do any spoilers. And then they have a 30 second scene where he's like, and then when this guy died, it had, and I was like,

Which is like, must be, I think, look, I haven't caught up to One Piece, but the amount that I have read is probably the biggest plot twist in the series up until that point. Yeah, nobody dies in One Piece. It's like Pokemon rules. Someone actually dies. Someone actually dies in the show? It took him like 20 years of courage to kill someone? Well, shit. I feel bad now because I literally... I mean, if anyone...

- It's kind of a fucking miracle that you went all this time without knowing that point. - No, so the thing is, right, is that like with a series like "One Piece" where there are just so many spoilers, in passing I hear things.

And then like, I just kind of don't think much of it. - Like you don't know it in context, right? - Yeah, and so it kind of just goes to the back of my head. Like I will be honest with you, so you don't feel that bad. I have heard that before, but like I didn't like connect dots or didn't really like, you know. So when I'd heard it, I was like, fuck, I have heard that before. - Is your live reaction on TikTok

- Do we have our reactions downloaded? I want to see the moment where Connor finds out. - Yeah, no, I did. - Because I remember, yeah, watching it, I was like, oh. - I didn't pause, I just carried on, but I was like screaming.

- Yeah, because they kind of reveal it in a very subtle way. - No, they don't. They just straight up say it. - Chika, can you give us the mouse and keyboards? This is probably good. - It's crazy 'cause they just like, they show glances. Okay, by the way, this is amazing, by the way. - Oh, it's so good. - I loved everything about this, just so you know. I just thought it was funny. It's the one time in this thing where they pretty much just like,

- Just straight up say an unadulterated spoiler. So if you're not caught up past that arc, don't watch this. - Get to at least the time. - What's crazy is that I was so close. I was so close. - See, I interpreted it 'cause we've only, have we ever really talked about One Piece on the podcast? - No. - Have you talked about One Piece on the podcast? - No, because he was making his way through it. - Yeah, so we didn't wanna talk too much about One Piece in case we accidentally said something.

That would be a spoiler for Connor. Well, I think here's my envision now. The reason why I've given up on that video is people get really upset when I say I've given up on it. It's because...

I had lost a lot of the footage to begin with, which is obviously not great. Which is the worst way that a video can die. I started the project and I was really ambitious about it and I was really happy about it. And then as time went on, I slowly was like, eh, I like One Piece and I'm enjoying it, but I'm not as passionate about it as I thought I was hoping I'd be. So making this whole all-encompassing video about One Piece felt disingenuous and I wasn't

as invested as I was hoping I would be. But I had a good time with it though. And also, One Piece is just a fucking mega project to begin with. I mean, I was expecting it to be a long video, but then as it was going on, I was like, I don't think I'm passionate enough to make a seven hour video about this. Like, I think...

I could pay my editor to put something together, but I don't think it would be what I would want it to be. - Yeah. - So I'm like, ah. - Which is basically why, spoiler alert, I asked Connor to be like, hey, can I do it then? 'Cause I need an excuse to catch up to One Piece. - So I was like, yeah, fuck it. But I think it'll be fun 'cause then we can do like a- - Which is great 'cause now I can just talk to you about One Piece casually. - Well, I'd love to do like a, eventually when I catch up, which-

I just need to sit down and do. - Well, you don't need to catch up. You've watched basically, I mean, you've got to Marineford. - You've watched like 20 years. - I thought you finished Marineford. And then you stopped afterwards 'cause that arc has peaked to me. But I thought- - I'm gonna go back and re-get into it. I think so. I'd love to do a couple of trash tips that we can just go over it all. Anyway, yes. One Piece fan letter. - I think this is the moment right here. - Yes, this is the moment where the character, one of the Marines who, by the way, I love these guys. - Yeah. - It was phenomenal. Yeah, look at this. - He lost it.

I'm just kind of like, what? The silent.

- It's like, you can see like the cogs turning in his head. You're like, wait, what did he say? - What did he say? - Just in passing. - 'Cause I knew the timescape was coming next. So I was like, ah, fuck. So yeah, that was the only downside is that I did get spoiled. But other than that, it was awesome. Like it was great. - Oh yeah, oh my God. Like this, watching this,

like took me back to when I was like, you know, 10, 11 years old. And the first time I like really got into one piece, like it made me feel like a kid again. - It felt like something,

like you would see on YouTube, like a fan would make. Like in terms of like the way the story was laid out, like it was just an honest to God love letter to the series. I think it was great. I was seeing all these characters pop up, I'm like, I know that guy. - There's so many little Easter eggs in here. And one thing that I really was impressed with was just the,

The quality of the storytelling for a 24 minute episode. That's what I said at the end of my thing. I was like, this had better pacing and storytelling than most 12 episode anime coming out recently. It's crazy. Yeah, I was kind of exhausted halfway through. I was like, oh my God, we're getting through a lot.

I was like, oh shit, okay. I feel like getting invested and I know that it's gonna end in 10 minutes. - And there are like some really fucking amazing scenes in here. One of my favorite scenes is kind of like midway through. I think the beginning was like just the perfect, when I first saw this, I saw the first like 10 minutes and I was just like, ha ha Easter eggs, ha ha. They're having some fun conversations.

And then the story of the two brothers like starts. And you're like,

- Oh, they're going in on the storytelling on this. The direction of the scene where you see the ground view of the Whitebeard War arc, you're just like, holy shit, this is some insane like cinematography and storytelling they got here. - For sure. - And it was kind of like, it kind of just puts into perspective just what you would probably be like within the world of One Piece. You know, how fucking hopeless you are

- You are in the one piece. - I mean, those guys at the bar, that's basically us. - I'd be the janitor. - That's basically us being like, "Nah, Zorro's the goat. Nah, the hawk is the goat." - I love that they included a scene where it was just a bunch of guys at the bar arguing over who's the strongest person in one piece.

- That's the entire fan base right now. - This is just us right now. We are those guys. - Yeah, I was like, "Yeah, Zoro's got potential." I'm like, "Oh my God." Oh, Jesus. - He's like, "Sanji who?" Nah, no one gives a shit about Sanji. - So how did this come about? What was the story behind why this was made? 'Cause this is kind of unusual for a-

- Yeah, I'm not sure honestly. I'm not sure what the backstory of this is. This is just kind of dropped one day. I'm sure- - It's by Toei, right? - Yes, it's by Toei. - I saw Oda has like writing credit in this as well from what I saw.

I wouldn't be surprised. Or something like that. He's like involved in it in one way. I definitely saw his name pop up in the credits. But I wouldn't be surprised if he was just a producer on this. Because this is... Okay, here's the real question. Do you guys count this as filler?

- You know what I mean? - By like the, by like, if you were to go by the definition of it, yeah, this is filler. - Technically, yes. - 'Cause this doesn't, this doesn't have any bearing on the plot. - It doesn't, but it's like, what, at what point are you just like, wait,

This is not, this has no bearing on the plot. This has nothing to do with the manga or anything like that. This is anime original scenes, but it has better, it's a better product than a lot of even like canon stuff. - Yeah, I think though, like this is filler in the best way possible in that if you're going to produce filler in any kind of anime, it should be used in this aspect where it's used more so to like

aid and enrich the story and enrich the world that you're in for the entire story, right? And like,

In that aspect, this was the best filler episode that One Piece could have had because it's like, I don't know any of these characters. We're probably never going to see any of these characters ever again. I'm invested in all their stories. Yeah, but that's the thing. It's like, we're never going to see these characters again, but they built it up in 24 minutes to a point where it's like, but I want to see what happens with these characters. I want to know more about these characters now. Yeah. And how many filler episodes can do that?

as effective as this did. - How many filler arcs can do that? - Yeah, right? - Some of the characters in this left more of an impact on me in like 25 minutes than most anime, like entire anime series. - That's what I'm saying, yeah, yeah. - Because when I saw screenshots, I was like, oh, this, do you know what I originally thought when I saw the poster and screenshots out of context? I was like, is this like Nami's backstory or something? - Yeah, the character does look like Nami. - Yeah, I thought she was like a young Nami. - Yeah, I thought she was a young Nami the first I saw it. And then I was like,

Oh, she's just... She's just a Nami fan girl. She's just a Nami mega fan. Okay, okay. Which there was one scene where I was just like...

where I think Usopp helps the Nami fan girl. I'm like, bro, come on. You don't know the straw hat pirates? Come on, girl. Come on. - She's like a big Nami fan. You don't know her like best friend or- - So you call yourself a Nami fan, you don't even know who Usopp is? - Bro. - Fake fan. - Yeah. - Oh gosh. - I'll tell you a trope that I've,

I've been really like that. I've seen a lot of anime recently, but I'm kind of like liking this, this trope that's appearing. It's a big burly man, big gruff burly man actually likes cutesy things. - Oh my God. Yeah. The fucking general who's like mad in love with Chopper. I think in my video I was like, damn, he's just like me for real. I get you dude. - I was confused watching that. I was like, is this like a Canon thing in one piece or just like a fun little thing?

- It's just a fun little thing. - I was like, is this like a plot device? Like Akamega Kill where he's like, this is just gonna be a decide one of the wars 'cause he can't kill Chopper. - He just fucking thinks Chopper is cute. I'm like, you know what? I can't disagree. - Yeah, it's great. - Love Chopper. - Yeah, it was really fun. There was nothing about this that I didn't enjoy. The animation style was phenomenal. - Oh, the animation's so good in this. - Everything was great.

- Yeah, because I really liked the different art style that they did for this short film as well. I don't know, I know it's like an up and coming director who worked on this, but I would love to see more of their work, especially not even like in the one piece universe. I would love to see more films like this where it's one piece adjacent or not even like any big anime adjacent, you know? - Yeah, totally.

- We'll have no shortage of One Piece situation stuff coming. - Yeah. - 'Cause I also- - It's an inevitability. - I also recorded my reaction to this. And even though I've already seen it, I think I actually enjoyed it even more the second time. - Well, because it's so fast paced that I feel like in your first watch through, I feel like I missed a lot of subtleties and nuances.

that I'm sure I'll pick up again with subsequent watches. Yeah. Because that's one thing I also noticed as well. At first I was watching it, so I was like, damn, this is going really fucking fast. How much are they going to cover? Because I thought, again, when I looked at the poster of it, I thought it was going to be kind of more like a slice of life-y, kind of slower-paced story. Yeah. And then just from the first 12 minutes, I was like, wow, we've covered more plot than three episodes worth of anime.

- We've covered more plot than half of Wano at this point. - Yeah, legit. - So the reason I enjoyed it more on my second viewing, on this viewing is because like you guys are mentioning, a lot of my first viewing was just like me pointing at the screen being like, "Oh, it's the thing, it's that guy and it's that Easter egg and oh my God, Zoro's right there." - Robin pops up for half a second. - Yeah, okay, okay, yeah. And on my second viewing, I was like, okay,

remove that part of my brain and I was just enjoying the short film for what it was. And I'm not gonna lie, during the final scene, I actually started tearing up. - It's very emotional. - I didn't, I was like, I was definitely like,

I was making like a lot of commentary and then during the last final scene, you could like physically see like my eyes start tearing up and I'm like, go on, go on, don't do it, don't do it. One Piece just has that like special thing, man, especially when you've been following it for as long as, you know, the series has been going on for, especially if you've been there since like the very beginning. Like it's just something about it just makes you feel like just a kid again in like the best way possible. And I don't know how...

It manages to do that every single time. - This is me just like holding back the tears. - That's a real one piece man right there. - I'll give you a hug, God, Jesus. - I'll tell you.

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Hold it back, hold it back. But like the one where like really got my eyes watering was just hearing Luffy say set sail. And like when she goes over and just hearing, I don't know something about that. Just like, I just, it just brought me back to my entire childhood. Like hearing Luffy say that every week and seeing that from like, I think they chose the perfect main character for the short film.

because she is just a fan. And so she's kind of like the audience surrogate. So seeing the Straw Hat Pirates through her eyes was just like, it brought me like so many fucking emotions. - Yeah, yeah. - And just watching this just like made me realize I fucking love One Piece, man. - Hell yeah. - I fucking love One Piece. - Every aspect of this. - This is the... - Aw. - Aw.

- I feel you though, dude. I feel that so hard. - I was like, I'm a real man. I'm a real man. - Yeah, I feel that so hard, dude. - I get it. - I'm a real fucking man. - Oh man. - I mean, every aspect of this felt like a labor of love, really. - Yeah, totally.

just, I mean, it felt like everyone gave it everything. - Yeah, it just really made me realize like, man, I fucking love "One Piece" and also, man, I really gotta finish "One Piece." I really need us reading this shit again, man. So good. - Yeah, 'cause is this the first time you've watched anything "One Piece" anime related? 'Cause you've only read- - Yeah, yeah, that was also interesting 'cause I was like, I don't- - Oh, you got to hear the voices? - Yeah, I'd never heard the voices before. So that was kind of fun. - Was it like as you envisioned?

- I guess, it's so weird when you read manga, you have this like, just this internal voice that you give everything and then hearing them say stuff. Also like pronunciations. That's also weird. Like, I don't know how you, what's the, I always call it like sabondi. I was just like, I was in my head, I'm like sabadoy or something.

- Because you realize when you read manga, you never have to say the word. So you just kind of like, it's almost like even like a pattern recognition. I don't actually even like say the word. I just see the letters and I'm like that thing, boom. - It's like, "Oh yeah, sabobondi." - Sabobondori. - Sabobondori. - Like I don't even know what the word is. Like in my head, like I'm trying to think of it. I'm like, "Oh, man." - Yeah, sabondi, sabondi.

Why is it Shabondi? Shabondi because it comes from the word Shabondama, which means bubble. Oh. The Japanese word for bubble is Shabondama, so Shabondi. Because I was always like, why do they not pronounce it Sabody, innit? Sabody Island! Sabody Island, mate!

- Yeah, because like, I think watching this made me realize that even though I'm a manga reader now and mostly I'm a manga reader because of the one piece pacing for the anime, which is like way too mega slow, but nothing I think can affect me as much as watching anime adaptation of it.

because I think there's just something magical about the One Piece anime adaptation. And I come back every now and again to watch like some of the big mega important scenes in the newer anime. - It's 'cause you get the music, you get the animation and it's like, they just keep barraging you with emotions. And it's impossible to kind of like take a break. - Also the voicing, like the voice actors now are just like, it's so iconic. Like every character now is just like, even though they've gone on to do other stuff, it's like, you know,

Luffy's voice actress, Tanaka Mayumi has done so many roles, but she's just Luffy now for a lot of people. So like when you hear Luffy speak, it's just like, fuck that's Luffy. - Also it's just like something about every time you hear that first little intro where you talk about- - I don't know this. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just every time you hear that I'm like,

I'm happy, I'm a boy again. - It takes you right back to the first opening. - I think part of the reason I love "One Piece" so much is that there's just something magical about the energy it gives off. Watching it makes me feel like a kid again. You forget that you're a fucking adult and it invokes this sense of wonder and joy that you kind of like forgotten how you feel like as an adult.

And it's so fucking rare. Yeah, it's like it goes back to that moment of like, yeah, I'm about to go on this fucking awesome adventure with the Straw Hat crew. And like, there's just this like childish wonder and excitement about that. That One Piece is like one of the only anime from my childhood that just like really gives that visceral feeling to me about. So I completely get why you react like this. Because that was like, that was me as well. On the inside, when Luffy was like, Shiko!

I was just like, "Yeah!" - 'Cause I'll be honest, I didn't cry the first time. I think I cried this time just because I was like, not like, I was more like, I know what's going to happen. I was just, "I get it now." - Yeah, yeah. - I get it. This is what the- - I think I was still just pissed off that I got spoiled. Fuck, man. - That's so funny. - I've fucking just read before. I regret it. - Yeah, great recommendation, Garnt. - Yeah, I mean, this wasn't me. This was the- - Oh, Patreon, sorry. Patreon, good recommendation. - Unfortunately, Garnt recommended the other thing.

Okay, so Garnt and I had read the first volume of this when we did the Manga Awards stream last year. So I had known about it and I knew that Garnt was on his bullshit when he was like, hey, we should continue reading this on the podcast. Can you explain what this manga is, people who don't know? Because I'd never heard of this thing before.

Yeah, sure. So it's a up and coming, uh, Yuri manga, uh, basically about a high school girl who is in a secret relationship with another girl in her class. Um,

But I guess, you know, as high schoolers are in a lot of these like romance situations, you know, they're very like conflicted. They don't know what they want. It's not fucking conflicted. It's conflicted. No, no, no. It's conflicted in the most... Okay, so to explain the manga in one sentence, it's basically a bunch of characters...

a bunch of girls who are for the streets. That's the only way to describe it. - First of all though, okay, so it's set in a high school, right? - Yes. - Yeah. - Everyone is lesbian. What's up with this? - Everyone's lesbian. - Why is everyone lesbian in this school? - Because in Yuri manga, everyone's lesbian. - It's just the one, okay, to be fair, is it an all-girls school?

- It's an, yeah. - Yeah, I think so. - Oh, okay, okay, okay. - We have four characters, all four are lesbian. What are the odds? I'm just saying pure maths now. Come on, let's talk. - Wait, who's the fourth lesbian? - No, no, no, no. The fourth one is an implied lesbian. - No, they're just friends. - Oh, they're just friends. You think I'm gonna believe that guy. - Is it about Yuki? - The one who likes the,

- The one who likes Nanase. - The one who likes Nanase. - Yeah. - Her best friend, right? - Her best friend, right? - Yeah, her best friend. - Yeah, no, Yuki- - She's lesbian. - Not confirmed. - No, no, no. - Not confirmed. - You know she's not confirmed. They implied heavily she was lesbian. - She's implied lesbian, but it's not canon yet. - Okay, before we get into this,

- This is basically to all the viewers who are listening or watching, this is basically a scientifically engineered manga to please God. There's no other way about it. - It's Yuri Domestic Girlfriend. - It's Domestic Girlfriend cranked up to 10. - Yeah, I would even say reading this for the first time, I'm like, you know what? Maybe Domestic Girlfriend isn't that wild, awesome.

- Maybe "Investment Girlfriend" is actually kind of normal. - So to put it into context, we originally were only going to read the first two volumes, but then I guess Garnt went ahead and was just curious and was like, "Hey boys, we should instead read up until volume three." And I'm glad you said that because volume three is when shit goes wild. - I really pushed for it 'cause Joey was like, "I've already bought the first two volumes." I literally sent him the links on Amazon being like,

Buy now, read on your Kindle. No, we are doing this, we are doing this. So the reason I recommended it to him is because I just like to see my friends suffer. That's pretty much it. So if you want an absolute wild ride,

you can go read it or you can just listen to us talk about it now because like domestic girlfriends, I thought that was an amazing reaction from the two of you. - Yeah. - So I would like to hear your recounts of the book.

everything that happens. Go on, explain the inside plot for the- - Okay, so do you mind? Or would you like to? - Yeah. - Okay, so our main character is this girl called Yuni who is in a secret relationship with Nanase who is, I guess, like a member of the school's volleyball team. - Yes, naturally. - They're both lesbians.

Yuni is very much more of the kind of girlfriend where like she wants to be, you know, a lot more like public, show public signs of affection and, you know, maybe not hide the relationship as much because she's proud of it. Whereas Nanase is a little more reserved and, you know, doesn't want to be judged by her peers and, you know, kind of wants to keep it a secret. Whereas,

Whereas Yuni is not really cool with that. - Well, you also forget that it opens up on literally Yuni sending like a shirtless pic. - Oh yeah, she's like, "My bra cute though?" - Yeah. And you're like, "The fuck am I reading?"

So that happens. And so we established that, but then, you know, slowly. Oh yeah. And also uni is one of those girls who have an alt account and tweets everything on her old account. Okay. Which is already red flag. The whole time she's like tweeting about not being happy that her girlfriend doesn't want to go public. And it's like, but you're tweeting about it. Yeah.

- No wonder she's wanting to go public with it, you're crazy. - Yeah, also not even on a locked account, my dog, like on a public account. All right, anyway, so as she's like, you know, tweeting her frustrations being like, man, even though I'm in a relationship, I feel lonely, blah, blah, blah, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet. And then this girl, Fuko shows up and she's like,

"Hey, I see you're a little bit lonely. Do you want to like hang out with me instead?" And she gives us this, you know the smiling devil emoji? That's her as a person. - Oh my God. - That's so true. - Incredibly devious lesbian girl who is just head over heels for Yuni. And basically by the end of volume one, Fuko does everything in her power to basically

almost blackmail uni into being like, nah, fuck that hoe. Come with me instead. Well, it starts out by blackmailing her saying, oh, I found your Twitter account. But like, it's not very hard to find because uni is posting like half of her face in a school uniform, which look, it doesn't take rain bolt to figure out which school and who you are. You know what I mean?

I reread that and I was losing my shit at like, I was really losing my shit 'cause I couldn't remember everything that happened. So much happens in every volume. - Yeah, totally. - And I was just, I was looking at the picture of her posting and just like, it's like a tiny little emoji over her mouth. - It's like me covering this part of my face being like, oh, I'm in a secret lesbian relationship with my school. By the way, I'm underage. - And I'm like, who the fuck do you think you are? Lesbian Clark Kent?

This is not like the Superman universe right now. - I was like, bitch, lock your account, please. Why is this bubbling? - And so like throughout a lot of this earlier chapters as well, I feel like they're trying to paint Nanase as being like unreasonable. But the whole time I'm thinking, bitch, you're the one posting about your secret relationship without asking if it's okay or not.

I feel like you're the crazy one here. Someone needs to take away. I don't blame Nanase for not wanting to commit to this. But then obviously, Fuku goes, like you said, crazy. Yeah, Fuku goes crazy, gets mega, mega obsessive with Uni to the point where she's like, hey, so I found your old account and I see that you don't want it to go public. And Uni was like, all right, what do I need to do? What do you want then? What do you want from me?

And so at the end of volume one, Foucault goes, "I want you to give me an ear piercing, just like you." - Yeah. - That's what girls do. - That's what girls do. - That's like a big thing. - That's like a big thing, I guess. - That's a big thing, I guess. - And Yuni was like, "All right, bet. What day do you want to do it?" And he's like, "Oh, on this particular Friday of this particular month." And Yuni was like, "Hang on a second."

That's my two month anniversary. - Two month anniversary? - Yeah. - Which I was like, wait, was it a six month? I don't even remember. It was not even a year basically anniversary.

And so it's like, oh, okay. Well, I mean, you know, Nanase is like busy with like her volleyball club or whatever. You know, she just got like the main team. But I guess like high school relationships are also like house flies. Yeah. They have like a short lifespan. Exactly. They don't normally last long anyway, right? But Yuni is like thinking otherwise. She's thinking like, you know, she just found her fucking Prince Charming or whatever. So she's like, all right, fine. I'll fucking pierce your ear so you can shut up. And then, you know, I'll wait for...

Nana said to call me to congratulate us on our fucking anniversary or whatever. That doesn't happen. They go to a manga cafe, I think it was, or something. She gets her ear pierced.

And like, I love the line of Fugo explaining like, okay, yeah, so I got two piercings. One is a star and one is the moon. You get to have the moon because there's only one moon in the sky whereas there are many stars in the sky. So I'm okay with being the second bitch. And I was just like, whoa, okay. - Also there are plenty of moons. - Yeah, exactly. I'm like, ever heard of Jupiter? There's like 30 moons on that. - Sat and be like, oh.

- Oh, come on in. - Yeah, let me just chill with my 60 moons. So basically what ends up happening at the end of volume one is she falls asleep, wakes up, the clock has already turned to the next day, no call from Nanase. Uni is absolutely fucking devastated. Fuko then is just like, "You're mine now, bitch." Basically, and like kisses her.

And that's the end of volume one. Now that's all I read. - But then when she gets kissed in this man cafe, her phone goes off from that. And so being like, "Hey, let's spend today together." But now she's feeling guilty. She's Googling, "Is it cheating?" Which is also like,

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think, uh, I think the line was crossed probably even before the kiss. Obviously the kiss was just the point where it's just like, all right, you've fully committed to cheating. Yeah. Um, even before that they'd go on dates together. They, okay. They, they go on like dates together. They'd hang out. They'd, uh, not, they'd, God,

- Get a little flirty. You're like, okay, you are definitely flirting with the devil right here. But even still, she had so much fucking denial. Like, "Yoonie." - Yeah, it's kind of annoying listening to like,

She's like, it wasn't cheating. And if it was, it wasn't very good cheating. And if it was good cheating, it wasn't my problem. And if it was my problem, it's not Nanase's problem. And if it's Nanase's problem, she'll understand and she'll forgive me. And if she doesn't understand and it's like, bitch, shut up. Shut up. - Uni's just going about it in every like, every like two way street where it's like, you have the choice to make the right decision or the wrong decision. Uni's like, I'm gonna make the wrong decision every single time. - What's crazy is like,

- Fugo is like the most insane woman who is awful. And I'm like, I'm at least like, I respect your game. - No, same here. - You're at least brutally honest. You're like, I don't mind being the side bitch. I'm a piece of shit. I'm a slide in there. And then I say, it's like, no, it's not cheating. And you're like, God damn it.

- Why am I rooting for the worst person in the room? - Because I was exactly the same when I read it and she was, you know what? She's coming in, she's being a home wrecker right now, but at least she's being upfront about it. At least she's like, actually, Uni, we are cheating right now. And just so you know. - I need you to understand this. - I need you to understand, we are cheating and cheating is bad.

- But I'm okay with that. - I'm okay because I'm the side bitch. - And Uni's like, "No, this isn't cheating. "Why are you putting words in my mouth?" - The only thing that Fukuro does that is like batshit insane is constantly blackmail, which is kind of crazy. - Okay, okay, there's blackmailing. And then there is, I know you have an alt account and Uni being like,

I have 400 followers. That's whatever. Later on, the next chapter is a scene where I guess Nanase is not feeling great, goes to the infirmary. Fuko's there, working there for whatever reason. She's called to him. And then...

- Uni goes to check up on Nanase who she thought would be at the infirmary. Surprise, surprise, Fuku goes there. - Yeah. - Fuku like grabs her and starts fondling her and then takes a picture while fondling her. And I'm like, okay, this is like illegal. How would you break laws? - Yeah, that was the one scene that just burned into my memory where she comes in and then her aura turns on and it's just like, hey, I know you miss me, nipple poke.

- Whoa, the teachers are right there. Like we're in school right now. - It's weird. - So then a big plot point happens in volume two, the second half of volume two, where Nanase, I guess, is now a regular on the volleyball team and she has to go play regionals in Osaka.

And Nanase is like, hey, Yuni, I'm going to Osaka next week. It'd be really sick as my girlfriend if you'd come and support me in my first regional game. And Yuni is like, well...

"Bitch, I'm in high school. I've got no money. That shit's expensive." And then Fuka overhears it, pulls out her fucking bank account. I was like, "Hey, yo, I heard you need money." - She's got eight Gs in the bag. - She's got eight Gs in the bag, which I'm like, "Where'd you get that from?" And then she was like, "Okay, I will take you to Osaka. I will pay for all of your expenses and everything. In return, you have to go on a date with me in Osaka." And he's like, "Bet, let's go."

So she goes, has a date, and then they go back to the hotel room. While they're on a date, Nanase's friend sees them. Nanase's friend Yuki is like, hang on, those girls look familiar. Ah, whatever. It's probably just someone else. It's cool. That's burned into her memory. They finish the date. They go back to the hotel room, and they're just vibing and chilling or whatever. And then I don't even remember how it got to the point of the beginning of volume three.

- I'll tell you. - Yeah. - I'll tell you. - 'Cause all I, that part is just blanked out for me. - I'll tell you, this is where Yuni, I guess, fully commits because all that happens is Fuko after being upfront as being her side hoe,

she pulls back like one step. - Do you remember this? She pulls back, she's like- - She plays hard to get for a second. - She's like, "No, I'm going to bed." - You know what? I'm not happy that I paid for this trip and- - All you're thinking about is Nanase. - All you're thinking about is Nanase. We're cheating right now actually, and you can't even accept that fact. You're still in full COVID mode. So I'm just gonna go back to the hotel and chill. - That's right. - And like she takes one step and then Yuni is like,

Wait, hold on. Hold on. Don't leave me. I'll come with you. You can be my sugar mama. Okay. I'll let it happen. I'll let it happen. And then they go back to the hotel. That's right. And that's the events leading up to that. Yeah. Then they have like a 30 panel sex scene.

Very detailed. Extremely detailed. Basically, Fugo, after pulling back and Uni being desperate, trying to come to terms with, like, oh, fuck, we're cheating, whatever, Fugo's just like, let's fuck then. And then Uni's like...

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- It's such a detailed 30 panel, like manga sex scene. So many hand poses. I thought there was a guy dissolving a Rubik's cube. It's so many steps. - It is raunchier than like any kind of lesbian porn you'll ever watch. Like it is, it blew my mind. I was like, I knew, like I've read some Yuri manga in the past where like there's been some like sex scenes or whatever. This one was just like,

- Legitimately borderline hentai. - I'm impressed that modern manga, they just get straight to porn. Like 30 minutes, it's like porn. - Yeah. - This felt even more erotic than some hentai that I've read. So unfortunately we can't show any of our reactions obviously of this scene on YouTube. - You can see it on Patreon though, I'm sensitive. - Which is why it's on the Patreon. I really want to see your guys' reaction to it. Because I'd forgotten,

how explicit they went in this manga. Until I was like, "Ah, chapter, volume two ended on a cliffhanger. I should see what happens in chapter three." And I was,

I think I just blanked out how long the fucking scene was. - It's so long. - I was like, in most scenes, even in something like, you know, "Domestic Girlfriend," it's just like a few panels. They literally have to have a bonus chapter. - The tears you had are the tears I had during this. Going like, oh God, oh, it's still going. It's still going. - It was like 20 pages of foreplay, dude. It was so long. - I remember, 'cause up to this point, I don't think there'd been nudity, right?

- Not really, no. - It would have been like- - They made like a bra. - Or some farts or something, but nothing like nudity, I remember.

- Opening up volume three. And the first thing you see is tits just out there, tits out there. And you're like, okay, this is gonna be a few panels. - I legitimately thought I like skipped a volume accidentally. 'Cause I was just like, what? - It just becomes a domestic girlfriend plus hentai. - It really does. I think my favorite part though, that's just forever ingrained into this memory because

The way that this author decided to lay this out is just hilarious to me. So it was after the whole sex scene happens and we cut to Nanase's regional game, right? And Nanase's there and she's looking around and she's like, where's Yuni? She sees Yuni far off in the corner, right? And there's just this shot...

of like, you need just sitting there like looking down and you turn the page and it's Fuka just eating you down. I was just like, whoa! - Yeah, it's like, what the fuck? It's like a fucking previously on. - Yeah, previously on. My girlfriend isn't here anymore. Carpet marches, like whoa!

- You know how sometimes they're lost, they would cut back to season one, during season five to refresh you on things you need to know. It feels like it's gonna be like that. Like every single chapter, they're gonna cut back to the sex scene just to be like previously. - Was that the one where they were like fucking 69? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. The next panel, they were like every angle, every angle on this two page spread. - The ghost of Fukura behind her neck. It was like, what the fuck?

But then they, during this opening chapter, Manase finds Yuni in the bleachers. It's like, ah, you're there. Love it. Yeah. And then she goes to Yuki. Yuki, yeah. Yuki, who is her best friend, who kind of implied that she's into her. I guess it wasn't confirmed, but she very much is a lesbian. Yeah.

She goes, "Hey, that's my secret girlfriend up there." And she's like, "Oh shit." - She has a Slumdog Millionaire moment where it's like, "That's the girl I saw on the street on a date with another girl." - Yeah. - So it ends there and then it cuts to the next scene. I sound like a porno.

- The next scene. - Like in a jav. The next scene, we start in their household where they go, I guess they're having a swim class. - Pool party, yeah. - In school or is it pool? - No, it's a pool party. - Oh, interesting, okay. I was confused at first 'cause I was like, why is every single student at the pool party? - Yeah, no, they went to a public pool. - Right. - 'Cause if you've read "Rent-A-Girlfriend," you know shit goes down on the pool. - Always goes down on the pool. - It always goes down. - Always goes down. - Always goes down. - And I guess during when everyone is getting changed,

just decides to just grab uni and like take her in the locker and start fondling her. Yeah. And like finger blasting. Yeah. While Nana say is literally on the other side of the lock and be like, Hey,

"Yo, Yuni, you coming?" And then I guess- - And she's like, "Yeah." - "I'm coming, I'm coming." And then she's like, "All right, should I come?" She's like, "No, no, no, don't look." And then I guess Fuku's foot is out that's been pedicured. And then it cuts right after this to when they've left it after Yuni's done nutting. And Fuku's happy, taking pictures the whole time doing it instead of filming it. - That's right. - And she's like, "I know you like it. You look directly at the camera." They go to the pool and Nanase's like, "Huh.

"Uni's foot looks different. It doesn't look pedicured. They swore she had a pedicure." And you're like, "Oh shit, something about to go down." Doesn't matter because two minutes later, it all goes down. - Yeah. - Yeah. - 'Cause Fukuo drives the fucking SUV into the front store, goes up to Nanase and is like, "By the way, I think you should know that Uni pierced my ears." - Yeah. - She's like, "What the fuck?" - Which in Girl Talk is just like, "Yeah, we fucking." - "She finger blasted me."

And then Yuni gets confronted by Yuki, Nanase's best friend. And it's like, "You're a bitch, why are you doing this?" And then instead of like, I guess being like, yeah, you're like my best, she's like, "You're a fat, ugly bitch, leave me alone." And it's like, whoa. So any redeemable fact

Any possible redeeming factor for Yuni is like completely gone. So now you just have to feel sorry for Nanase. Yeah. Yeah. And then Nanase asks Yuki later on being like, hey, is it like normal for a girl to pierce another girl's ears? And then Yuki's like, yeah, I got my ears pierced by my girl, like my friend who's a girl. And Nanase's like,

"Oh, thank God it wasn't cheating." - And so she starts feeling guilty and she's like, "I'm gonna run to my girlfriend to tell her how sorry I am for suspecting her." And just because Nanase got like angry for like 0.5 second, of course, what does,

What does Yuni do? She goes to her side hoe. - Goes back to the side hoe. - And it's just this last scene where Fuko's just on the top of the stairs, eating cherries, being like- - Very sensually, mind you. - Yeah, very sensually being like, "Well, well, well, look who came crawling back." - Yeah, basically Fuko gives like Yuni an ultimatum being like, "Hey, listen, you know, I've seen all the shit that's been going down.

I can just pull back and just not be your side hoe anymore. And then everything will be solved. - Fugo's stirring the pot there. - Yeah, Fugo's stirring the pot. - She's the number one shit stirrer. - And then Yuni thinks about it and she's like, you know, logically speaking, that would probably be the best move. But if I, but just something about Fugo just,

rattles me. I need Fuku and basically just goes, I need you just for a little bit longer. And they both kiss. But right as they both kiss, who comes around the corner to witness it all? Nanase. And that's where Volume 3 ends. That's where it ends. And I've never in my life

while simultaneously being like, God, I want to read "Volling 4." - I know. - No, I hate it. I hate it so much. - I want to read, I actually. - Also, I forgot that during the whole Osaka day,

Fuku is like, "Hey, you should post this to your secret account." I was kissing. - Oh yeah, that's right. - And she's like, "No, I don't really wanna do that. That's weird." She's like, "I think you should do it. I paid." - Yeah. - She's like, "Okay." So then she posts it and it's like, what the fuck? This is insane. - Okay, I will say,

I'm happy you boys read it because now you understand my pain. Even though it's self-inflicted pain, you understand my pain because I would say, I did not think I could find a more hateable protagonist than the main guy from Rent-A-Girlfriend. But I think Uni is my- - Uni's the worst. - Uni's top one right now for me. - Uni is the worst protagonist I think I've read in,

- It's like school days level. - Absolutely. - I think it's worse. - But it's like, if the guy from school gay, this gay, gays. - School gays. - School gays was in school gays. This is what he would be like. It's like the moment he doesn't get 0.1 seconds of affection from his girlfriend. He's like, all right, fuck it. I'm gonna go cheat. I'm gonna do some crazy shit. What the fuck is wrong with you? - No, do you know what pissed me off? The amount of fucking copium.

- It's just the amount of copium to the point where at the beginning, she's like,

as we say, she fucking asked ChatGBT, "Hey, is this cheating?" What's the line of cheating? Just so I know, just so I know. Not that she really gives a shit. - Just for reference. - And then it's like, it evolves from that to her getting finger blasted. And while she gets finger blasted, she's like, "This is not my fault. It's Nanase's fault. She didn't give me enough attention. It's her fault." - I'm like, you irredeemable attention seeker.

Even if she like feels that strongly about it, she's like, "It's her fault." At that point in time, you just like, you know, just go with Fugo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've already decided that she's the bad guy. Move on. I will say though, the one like thing that I actually like unironically really enjoyed about this manga is that the art is really fucking good. Oh yeah. Like the characters look absolutely gorgeous. Yeah, Fugo's character design is very good.

- Yeah, all the character designs are just like really fucking aesthetic, which is like, you know, par for the course for a good Yuri manga, obviously, but- - Oh, the spicy scenes as well. - Especially the spicy scenes, Jesus Christ. - Is this author a man or a woman? I'm just actually curious. - I have no idea, actually. - I'm not sure. - It'd be interesting to know, 'cause I-

I don't know what I would make of either. - It could honestly, this art style could honestly be either. - Yeah. - Yeah, I have no idea. I don't know why I'm asking, 'cause I don't know what it changes for me, but I'm just wondering. - Iwami Kyoko, so that would be a woman. - Yeah. - Well then. - I was gonna say something about it. I was like only a woman could come up with such.

- A guy would think this is too much. - Yeah, right, right. - 'Cause they think, I don't have the place to come up with this. - A guy would draw this and be like, damn, this hurts me to draw. The moment I realized how like,

how hard they were going with some of these scenes. I remember turning the panel and having just such a visceral reaction to just the hand and just the amount of like drippage on that hand. I'm like, God damn, what is going on? And then there's this like whole fucking five stage panel of just like the fucking hand technique that she uses. I'm like,

- Oh my God. - It was like a step-by-step guide on how to finger blast a girl. - I don't know if we were learning origami or fingering. I couldn't tell. - This is like a full on step-by-step wiki how. - Yeah, okay. And then we go- - Step one, blackmail. - Okay, look, can I actually, can I just say, buddy, there's Amazon, they have 45 reviews, 4.7 stars. We'd love to hear some of their reviews. - Oh, I need to see these reviews.

- I'd love to see what the average person. - Yeah, but there was a lot of like, oh, here we go. Juicy. That's the top review from I Eat Kidneys. Thanks dude. I love Fuku so much. I can actually relate to her. - That's what I just read. I was like, what? - She's so real for everything she does. - What?

- Okay, relate's a strong word. - Relate is crazy. Fuku, you can say a lot of things about it. Relate is one you should not be doing. Relating how? What do you relate to? - Oh. - I also don't like that comes from someone called I eat kidneys. That's just psychotic behavior. - Fuku is the best. - We got one from Fei Hong. Fuku is just a wonderful human being.

- Oh my God. I love that it tells you the country as well. Okay, hold on. - Okay, you know what? I will say though, I will say. Out of the entire cast members, at least the big three, not the best friend character. - The big three. - The big three. I would say morally speaking,

- Are we judging the morality? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, I am, I am. Because they have all done things that are fucking morally detestable. But at least Foucault is like no bullshit about it. - No, Nanase is the least. - Nanase just doesn't give a shit. - Yeah, Nanase is just an idiot. - That's not a crime. Just be sure that you're just a shit girlfriend. You don't deserve to be dragged into this. - No, you don't deserve to be that. - Well, Foucault's just like hate the game,

- Foucault is the fucking hyena that found the fucking pigeon nest. It just happened to find its prey. - No, no, do you know why I think Foucault is all right?

because she deserves Yuni. Nanase needs to get the fuck out of there. You know, Fuko is toxic, but she found a person that is perfect for her toxicity. Unlike fucking Yuni who Nanase, who does not deserve a normal relationship like Nanase does, you know? So I'd say Fuko, fair enough. Take Yuni away, let Nanase live her fucking life. - Yeah. - And,

- So you're saying she's doing Nanna say a favor? - She is doing Nanna say a favor. Tell me she's not doing Nanna say a favor, man. - I just think,

- Fuku's the kind of bitch to kill a woman. - Yeah, she really is like Yandere. - I bet like volume seven, chapter three, Fuku kills a woman in cold blood for talking to Nanase. - Like take a picture of her, put it in your own account. - Mark my words, mark my words. Volume seven, someone dies to Fuku's hands. - I wouldn't be surprised if someone dies in this manga with like how, what I was surprised with is how,

much happens in just three volumes. - Yeah. - I think even for like- - This feels like a very new thing though for manga. I feel like they've gotten a lot faster. - Yeah, 'cause I think even like by domestic girlfriend standards, I mean, you guys read the first few volumes of domestic girlfriend, not this much happened in terms of like just fucking plot progression and just,

- But a character like Fuku feels unsustainable. It feels unsustainable to have such like fucking uranium reactor energy, like in a plot. Like it's just gonna burn it all down. - For me it's actually Yuni. Yuni is just on like, Yuni never gets out. She,

is the biggest gaslighter I've ever seen in my fucking life. That scene when Nanase's best friend confronts her and she's like, "Get out of my way, you ugly hoe. Why are you telling me? Why are you making accusations like that?" I'm just like, "God fucking damn, this gaslight is crazy, bro." - I'm like, "You did not just fucking say defamation."

in a fucking argument like this. - She said something along those lines, like, "You're defaming me." I'm like, "Bitch." - She's like, "Where's your proof? Where's your receipts?" - I'm like, "You know what, Uni?

- I'm like, what the fuck?

- What is the average amount of Twitter followers? A Twitter account? - Also there's that one scene that I thought was really interesting where they try to, I guess, like kind of rationalize Foucault's like,

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just psychotic behavior with the introduction of that like pregnant girl. - Look at this, the average number of Twitter users has 700 followers. - And she's like, "No, my 400 followers." - And she's posting tits. - Yeah. And I'm like, okay, you, this entire timeline is you basically shit talking your partner and later on literally posting evidence of you cheating on your partner. And you think it's a good idea once it's,

Once you know that there are people that are finding out about it, not to fucking delete your evidence. How much IQ does this bitch have? So Fugo, yeah, there's a chapter where... Actually, I think I was going too fast. Is it her sister or...? No, it's like a childhood friend, I think, who comes back home once Fugo comes back from school and she finds out that she's pregnant. And she's disgusted that she...

- Yeah, it's just because I guess like Foucault, yeah, had like a huge like childhood crush on this woman and is the reason why she's like into girls. And she's like, I can't believe women only want one thing and it's disgusting. - She spread her legs for a man. - She spread her legs like the hole there she is. I thought she was better than that. - Oh my God. And yeah, I'm trying to remember what happened

'cause I swear there was like more buildup to like some of the scenes, but like this so much happens that it's so hard to condense it all into like one. - The only other scene is the one before they go to Osaka, they have the kimono thing. - Oh, the festival. - Well, I feel like it's the manga's attempt to try and make you be like, yeah, Nanase is a bad person. 'Cause Nanase is like, let's go out on a date.

Let's go to the Matsuri. We'll wear kimonos. And then they get there and Uni's wearing a kimono and Nanase isn't. And then Nanase also invited all of her friends, which is a dick move in that scenario. Very much so. But not to the extent that would permit the WMD response.

- Which one is Yuni's? So they try to make like throughout the manga, they try to make you feel sorry initially for Yuni, but then I think they just give up. That is like, there's no way that Nanase can be paced. - She's literally Yuni, the main character is just collecting the infinity stones of just becoming like the most detestable person you could possibly imagine.

Like you're okay, you're like irrelevant. You're broke. - You're irrelevant. - You're irrelevant, you're broke and you cheat as well. - And you post titties. - You post titties and you have fauna falls, you fell off. - I've deranged titties to the internet as well.

- What I wanna know is who are these followers that are following this account? - Yeah, that's the other thing, right? It's like, that was- - I mean, I don't think it's unreasonable to think that some people would follow that. - Yeah. I mean, that was an interesting like storytelling aspect actually of like how she seeks like

Twitter's validation for everything that she does. - Yeah, who would do that? - Yeah, who would do that? And Twitter is like, "Nah, nah, like, oh, they look so cute, blah, blah, blah." Even though, you know, it's like a picture of them cheating and stuff like that. And she's just like, "Oh, maybe this is what I want with Nanase, but Nanase doesn't give it to me. So I guess that just means I need to be with Fuku, but that would be cheating. And what do I do?" And it's like, "Bitch,

close the account. It's so easy. - Like most solutions, get off the internet. - Get off the internet. - Oh yeah, I kind of realized she is just terminally online. - Oh my God. - This is another character trait to add to the collection. - As if she doesn't already know.

when you have enough red flags. - She's just totally online looking for strangers validations. Even though like she literally posted a video, you know, the picture of her and Foucault kissing. And so the entire internet thinks that, okay, she just posted a picture of her and her girlfriend. Not knowing that she just posted to our followers

- Evidence of her cheating. - Yeah. - I'm like- - Multiple times. - Multiple times. - I was very angry reading this. - Oh, thank you. - No, no, no, no. - Thank you. That's good. That's good. - I was not happy. - 'Cause I was angry as well. - Yeah. I mean, I was angry and then when volume three hit, I was just laughing the whole time.

the whole time. - Same. - It's just like every page I was like, "Yo!" - I was just losing my shit. The one fucking moment, I can't remember the exact context, but the one moment where Fuku was like, "I'm gonna stop now." And Uni still in like deep copium where she's like, "This is Nanase's fault," grabs her hand and she's like, "Did I tell you to stop, bitch?" And then turn over to the most epic fucking backshot panel of all time with like,

I'm like, this hentai isn't this bad. I don't even think hentai is this bad. - It's so funny, dude. - Needless to say, I think this is the worst NTR I've ever watched. - Yeah. - Because I think,

I think with, uh, I, yeah, the, the characters, mostly just ugly bosses. I just like so cartoonishly. Oh, this is, uh, this, this is weird. Bad man. Bad man. But, uh, with this, it's,

So much toxicity. I don't know what's worse. I don't know, but at the end of it all, I just hate the fact that I just want to keep reading this. I don't. Really? No. I just want to know. I can't stand reading another fucking panel from you.

- I don't know what it is about this one. - 'Cause you wanna watch the car crash. - Yeah, but the thing is, is that like with like "Domestic Girlfriend," for instance, I was like, nah, I don't wanna read the rest of this one. But for this one,

I don't know why I want to keep reading this one. - Maybe the car crash didn't come soon enough. - Maybe. - Well, I think it's like, maybe "Domestic Girlfriend" is a car crash, whereas this one is like full blown drunk driving into an oil rig that explodes and is next to an orphanage. Like it's just- - It's the fireworks factory exploding.

I think the driver was just asleep at the wheel at the start of the manga. And we're just seeing how far this car crash can go. I will say it gets even fucking worse as you continue. - Oh yeah, of course. Of course it does. How many volumes are out currently? - Five, I think.

I think five. I've only read up to the end of volume four. Has she killed a woman yet? Not yet, but- Do you think it's a possibility? It's coming. But people become even more detestable. Yeah, five as of right now. Yeah, and I don't know how that's possible. This is right now.

- My biggest hate read that I have. I didn't think anything would eclipse Rent-A-Girlfriend as my biggest current hate read, but this right now is my biggest hate read. - I might have to join you for this one. I'm invested now. - Maybe I'll continue it another time. - Often does this release chapters?

- I don't know. Comic Yurikuma is either a weekly or a monthly. So probably actually, yeah. It's considering it started in 2021 and it's still got five volumes, it's probably a monthly. - That would make sense. - Yeah. - Another thing, is Fukuoka really blackmailing here? - Yes. - Yes, what do you mean? - Yes. - Okay. Maybe I just forgot them. - It is blackmail. - But half of this just felt like Yurikuma just being in full on like,

denial mode. No, no, no. It's black. It maybe feels like that. There's definitely aspects of blackmail. There's definitely blackmail. Maybe it just didn't seem like blackmail because Foucault's like, wow, you're making this way too fucking easy for me. That's what I thought. You're basically asking me to wrong you. You need to keep

being with me or I'll tell everyone is blackmail. - Yeah, that is blackmail. - That's like, 'cause you wouldn't have done that unless the threat of it is, you know what I mean? Like initially she's not really interested, right? - Yeah, it's definitely blackmail. What is definitely not is a difficult task. It's very easy. I'm just trying to like wrap my head around you need doing something that is not,

completely morally detestable on her end of things. - No, there is no. - Everything, everything. - I think halfway through, Yuni gives up and just, it's like she wants it. But I think initially it's definitely blackmail. - I don't know if she does. I can't remember at the end of volume three if she actually- - Well, she goes back to fucking Fukuya every time she gets sad. - At the end of volume three, like when she's given the ultimatum, she's like,

Again, she thinks morally for half a second and is like, oh yeah, if I just cut it off with Fuko now and go back to Nanase, it'll all be square done and it'll all be good. But then she's like, wait, no, but if I do that, then I'm just going to go back to being sad and lonely again because she doesn't believe that Nanase...

has changed as a person. - Yeah, Fuko did it. - Whereas Fuko gives her the attention and the love and everything she's wanted from Nanase. So she's like, nah, let's just keep going, dog. We'll be all right. Don't worry. No one will ever know. - In for a penny, in for a pound. - Exactly. - I think the one line at the end that I was like, this is a good place to end it. I was just like, I can't remember if Yuni takes accountability afterwards or at least accepts the fact that she's cheating. It's Fuko out of everyone being like,

- By the way, Uni, cheating is bad. Just so you know. Cheating, that's a bad thing. You're doing a bad thing by the way.

- Thank you. Finally, I can't believe the captain obvious is stating the obvious fact and I'm like happy. - I also love the beautiful visual imagery of, you know, Fugo saying all of this while eating cherries. Like, yeah, bitch, I popped your cherry. - I was like, that's clever. That's clever all the way. - But that was,

My Girlfriend Is Not Here Today. That was this first month of Trash Taste Anime Club. If you want to see their full reaction, also my full reaction on rereading My Girlfriend Is Not Here Today, you can head over to our Patreon, patreon.com slash trashtaste. Also, One Piece fan letter reactions are up there as well if you want to check that out too. Yeah.

And every single month, we're gonna be taking one suggestion from you guys over on the Patreon. So if you're a Patreon member, you'll probably see a post that says to give us your suggestions. What should we read, watch, play? It could be anything, you know, game, movie, anything like that. - Yeah, the end. Oh, go for it. - Oh yeah. And then next month we will do another session of Trash Taste Anime. - The only thing we request for all patrons is that if you're gonna make a request, please make it something that at least two of us haven't seen.

We made a post last month and a lot of you guys were saying shit like Code Geass, Death Notes. - It's like bro, we've already seen those. - I'm like, we've already seen them. So we are open to any suggestions that at least two of us haven't seen. It's okay if one of us has already watched it, they can re-experience it. - Yeah, it can be new or old, but just something that will be refreshing for at least the majority of us. - Doesn't even need to be the start, could be a,

like some episodes that you'd want us to discuss here on Trash Taste. - Did you see that fucking, I don't know if it's real, the manga, the Baki panel where he- - Oh yeah. - Usually was like threatening to Elon and Trump. - Yeah. - What? - Yeah. - I don't know if it's real. I saw a lot of people saying it was fake. So I actually don't know. - I can never tell with Baki. - Yeah, knowing Baki, it might very much be real. - That's the problem with Baki is that like, if you tell me that I'm like, there is a 90% chance that's real. - Yeah, look.

- Oh my God. - I don't know if this is real though. - I don't know either. - It seems like it's been going around and some people were saying it's fake. And I guess, yeah, I don't know. - I need to catch up on Bucky. - You gotta let me know. - Yeah. - Let's have a look. - I mean, we're still on part five, I think. - Look how he fucking draws Elon Musk like some kind of fucking goblin. - Well, just the fact that Bucky is a fucking goblin

- Elon and Trump is in Bakke is enough even though it might be like a mistranslated or- - Yeah, it could be mistranslated or out of context but- - It's not fucking bonkers. - That's fucking insane. - Bakke, what? Like Bakke. - Hello Bakke. - Like staying informed on current political opinions. Nah. Who does Bakke, who does Yudra Hanuman hate in the current presidency? I'm awake.

- So Joey, you are next on the chopping block for whatever you want to recommend me and Connor watch. - Should I say right now? - Yeah, you can say right now. What's gonna be on next month's list? - Okay, next month's Anime Club, Trash Taste Anime Club. I was deciding between, okay, do I want to recommend something that is like actually good, like One Piece fan letter, or do I wanna go a little bit on the meme-y side? And I figured, you know what, on brand with Trash Taste, I wanna go with something that'll give

hopefully a really good reaction for you guys. So I want to recommend a movie. - Oh, a movie. Okay. - Let's switch it up. I want to recommend a movie because when I first watched this movie, it made me so irrationally angry. - Okay.

But it's a little movie called Long Legs. If you guys know that. - The anime man recommending an anime right away. Oh, great. Love that. - It's a movie called Long Legs. - The Nicholas Cage movie? - It's the Nicholas Cage horror movie from last year. - Don't worry, we'll pick an anime from the Patrons. - We'll pick an anime from the Patrons. - We'll always make sure there's some anime related thing. - Yeah, we'll have always one anime thing. But yeah, I wanna,

- We'll switch it up into a movie. So it's a short movie. It's like an hour and a half, so you'll get through it easily. But I just really wanna know your guys' opinions on it. So that's something to look forward to for next month. - Lovely. And we'll take your suggestions over on our Patreon for next month's- - Make sure you vote. - Make sure you send in your suggestions. - Hell yeah. - But yeah, I mean, if we're talking about

and animation. I mean, we just briefly touched on Bucky with Donald Trump and Elon Musk. It's so ridiculous.

- It's like how the only way Japanese people will get into politics is if it's in Baki. - They're like, "Oh yeah, I read it on Baki." - Ridiculous. - Okay, I'm not up to that with Baki. I didn't realize it was still going on. - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, it's definitely still going on. - If for some reason there's just a lot of,

- Yujira likes to sexually get involved a lot. - He does. That's his one way to show power. - I don't know why. - When you hear it, you're like, that sounds fake. But with Baki, you just never know.

I remember when I was first reading Baki week to week, and one of my friends, this was quite a while ago, so people already know about this one, but when Obama shows up in the manga, and my friend was like, oh, did you see the last chapter of Baki? Yujiro meets Obama, and I was like, no he fucking doesn't.

- It's like his way of conveying his political opinion through his works. - I think so. Yeah. - Yeah, you can always tell. I like how you can always date a manga sometimes when you can tell which president. - George Bush pops up. - Yeah. - Fuck. - Like I think Obama was in like a few manga. I think he was in "Air Gear" as well, if I remember correctly. - What? - Oh my God, he was. - He was in "Air Gear", right? - Yeah. - Wow, I completely forgot about that. - Yeah, Obama was in "Air Gear" and-

was Matsu-san as well, if I remember correctly. And then it all turned into Trump. - Yeah, and then obviously like in Pluto, they have the Iraq war. - Oh yeah. - They had the Iraq war. - Oh my God.

- That's a blast from the past. - Yeah. - Wow. The greatest hits. - It was in Iraq. It was somewhere in the Middle East. - It was Iraq. - Unspecified region of the Middle East. - And they were looking for weapons of mass destruction. - Robots of mass destruction.

- Totally different thing. - In a Middle Eastern country in the mid early, late 90s, early 2000s. Okay, Gar, okay. - The Air-Gue John Omaha story. - Omaha, that's it. It wasn't Obama, it was Omaha. - Can I see? Can I see? Can I see? Oh, actually I got the keyboard. - Yeah, you got the keyboard. Yeah, just type in Air-Gue Omaha. - A bastardized version of Barack Obama has appeared. - John Omaha.

It's changed. John Omaha, president-elect. A random white-toothed foreigner get back. That's the one thing you notice about this foreigner? Yeah, right? That he's got a white teeth. That's the only thing you noticed about him? Bruh. Oh my god.

Did you guys ever watch or read Air Gear? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know what this is about. Why is Obama in it? I don't know what this is. I watched Air Gear. I watched Air Gear, so we didn't get to the point where...

Obama got there, but damn, Air Gear is, Air Gear holds a soft spot in my heart. It's basically a shonen manga or shonen anime where they battle on rollerblades. On rollerblades. But they're like jet-powered rollerblades. It's like, imagine like anime jet-set radio. I mean, that sounds amazing. I will stand by this to the day I die. Still has one of the best anime openings ever made. Okay, sounds good, but why is Obama there?

Does it make sense?

- Or does it even not really make a whole lot of sense in the, okay, so you know what, don't worry about it. - Yeah, it's been a while. - Well, I mean, there's, you know, every time mid 2000s manga goes like to America or something, I assume there's an America arc, you know, it's always kind of like, you know, laugh out loud levels of hilarity about how they're gonna portray the Americans a lot of the times. - To be fair, that's probably the best drawn Obama in manga I've seen.

- That's a pretty good accurate drawing. - Do you think someone in the White House was like, "Mr. President, check this out. You're in this manga." - If your kid loved like manga, anime, what a fucking flex. Be like, "Yeah, I'm in these things." - Yeah, I'm in the idea.

Yeah, it just makes me wanna like, cause how much I wonder does a lot of like Japanese kids back in the day, did they learn about like American culture or have their perception of America based on purely to depictions of basically Hollywood films and whatever they see in anime and manga? Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of it came from just like films and like, it was probably only like the small minority who actually was like, oh, John Omaha, that kind of looks and sounds like

President-elect Barack Obama. I'm sure there was like a lot of kids who probably read Egg Year. Why is it John? Because it's an easy name for the Japanese to pronounce. They white-ified his name. Yeah, they really did.

I'm sure there were a ton of kids. Barack, that's not very electable. Could we get a John? I'm sure there was a ton of kids who read Air Gear and was like, it was either like, oh, John Omaha, that's a funny, like, made up character. Or they were like, yeah, the current president of America is John Omaha. Obviously, I read it in Air Gear. Well, it's like that scene in Dead Dead Demon's Destruction where Trump just

Padron just shows up. And you can search it up on YouTube because I saw it and it is definitely... It's definitely Trump. It's definitely Trump. Yeah, this is the clip.

- That is the Japanese version. That's the Japanese version as well. - What? - All the American characters in Dead Dead Demons, they got English voice actors for. - Yeah. - Oh. - So that's not a dub. That's the actual Japanese version.

There's also that other scene in Dead Dead Demons where there's those two American tourists. Oh, I remember that. Yeah. Who are just like the Japanese characters just like, oh man, these American tourists must really be enjoying their time in Japan right now. And the entire time these American tourists are like, these Japanese are fucking whacked out.

It's like this place is gonna blow, this place is fucked up. And they're like, oh, they love it here. - Oh no. - Yeah, it's so far. - I gotta go to the toilet. - No worries. - That's one thing I miss. The one thing I noticed with Japan getting more, opening his borders a bit more is that, you know what? I don't hear English as much anymore. - Yeah, right? - You know, like a lot of the times,

Nowadays, I hear stuff like that where it's clearly, okay, they're hiring a foreign voice actor. And props to them because the immersion is, I mean, the immersion is still out there because I hear like English talk and I'm like, yo, this is fucking ridiculous.

- That's weird, bro. Part of me, and I know this is my old boomer rant, part of me misses just committing to the English. - Oh dude, give me back the fucking Azumanga Daioh like, you know, fucking good morning, every Nyan. - I wish I were a bird. - Yeah. - There's just less memeable moments now that we all just going to remember. - Legit. - Like, oh, fucking Kagami from Kuroko no Basket as well, where they,

- He'll just say like random English lines sometimes. Like, "This is Japanese lunchtime rush." - Like really? Cool. You couldn't have said it in Japanese. - Do you know what I remember? Wasn't even an anime. Have you seen...

which Godzilla is it? The hideaki, Shin Godzilla. - Oh, Shin Godzilla, yeah. - You know the fucking Misato, not Misato character? Like the president's secretary or whatever? When she's like, yes, I graduated from an American university and then she busts out the English and I'm like, this feels like an anime scene right now. I don't know if you remember that. - I do vaguely remember. - Can we get that clip up actually? That'd be really funny.

- Shin Godzilla. - You know what we should have more of? I'm trying to think when there is a Hollywood film where someone tries to speak Japanese or something. I know there's examples of this. - Are you talking about like fucking Tom Cruise in "Lost Samurai" and that shit? Where I'm just like, yo, I'm glad the subtitles are here.

I can't understand what the fuck Tom is saying, dog. Oh man. It's endearing though. It's endearing. It is endearing. Like I like it. And you know, obviously it's a, it's a, it's a, you know, it's, it's like a time period where like, you know, they didn't have any other options. Right. Or, you know, maybe the, the demand wasn't there, but yeah. Shit's so funny, dude.

- Well, it's like, Shin Godzilla English. What did they miss? - Huh? - We're talking about how we miss when anime and like movies had like English. - Yeah, because now the biggest change I've noticed in anime is even when the Japanese version, they are just hiring like, you know, foreign people, foreign voice actors. - The best is Croak in a Basket.

- Yeah, that's what I was saying. - When he goes to America. - Oh, I forgot he does go to America. - To learn basketball from the greats. To become Shaq and Kobe in one.

- Didn't the term waifu, like literally like the term waifu, didn't that come from Asamu Angadayo as well? - I think so. - Did it really? - Maybe. - I mean, a lot of great English came from Asamu Angadayo. - Yeah, because I think it just became like a meme and I think it originated from- - Yeah, Asamu Angadayo. - Asamu Angadayo, there we go. - Yeah, Asamu Angadayo. - Here's a clip of it. - Let's see the clip that buffed. - Oh. - Yeah, that one.

- Oh, it came from that scene? - It doesn't even say waifu though. - Yeah. - My wife. - God damn. - God, I miss Asamu Angadayo. - They did not know how much that this one little line would birth an entire subculture in the Western anime. - I remember back in the day when like 80% of anime memes was just Asamu Angadayo. - Yeah, but okay. Was Asamu Angadayo ever funny?

- It was just fucking weird. - I remember people always told me it was funny and then I really tried to watch it. I tried to watch one episode. - I think it's really hard to recommend today just because I feel like this kind of really just, I don't know, it's almost avant-garde when you look at it now. And especially back when it came out, it was just like, there was no anime that was like Asmongadai. - I remember seeing clips of that fucking yellow thing and .

- Like you would like turn up and start talking. - Oh the cat? - Yeah, like really weird. - I'm like, what the fuck is this show about? - So funny. - I mean, when he shows up, I'm like, I don't know. - He's my favorite character. - I just don't know what the fuck is happening. - It's just really like bizarre.

- I know that. - It's a really bizarre show. And some people find that like bizarreness to just kind of be like- - Charming. - Charming, but also some people find it funny, I guess. - Well, do you remember when the internet just, I don't know if it ever evolved in this stage, but there definitely felt like there was a time in the internet where comedy was T-he XD weird. - Yeah. - Like T-he XD random kind of like comedy. - This is the epitome of T-he XD weird in anime. - 'Cause I remember watching the anime that came in like a big fucking meme last year, the deer anime. - Oh, scratch the wall.

- That had to be the most unfunny period of last year. - I just like, I didn't even watch it because the fucking song was everywhere on social media and it just turned me off from watching it. I'm like, who finds this funny? - And it's not even that like, I know there's the aspect of like where people are enjoying it. I don't give a fuck, you can enjoy it. But when I'm like, really, this is all we got? This is like this, I'm like,

- Dude, I love it when fucking Baki or Jojo reaches out of the normies fear. People are like, "The fuck are you guys watching?" 'Cause then they're at least like, "Okay, let me, what the fuck is going on?" Whereas when we had that fucking deer thing, they were like, "This is the funniest shit we got." I'm like, "Damn, the fall off needs to be stoned." - People think we're weird. - Well, actually I remember I was talking to Alan and he had something interesting to say because I think he is on a committee to help like run

an anime convention and stuff. - Oh, okay. - And so he has to be part of like their discord. And when Shikonoko came out, there were like some users who were like constantly posting about clips and memes from Shikonoko. And like initially he was like, "Yo, what the fuck?" And then he told me, he then realized, "Oh, it's 'cause they're like,

It's 'cause they're like 15, 16 years old. And they had never heard of anything like Azumanga Daioh and Lucky Star and Nijijo. And then you realize, wait, is Shikonoko just like another iteration of Azumanga Daioh? - It's modern day Azumanga Daioh. - Yeah. Where I'm like, wait, did I find Azumanga Daioh funny back in the day? Is it still funny or is this just gonna be another Shikonoko where you're just like- - But I think there is a very key difference in when,

you're watching something and you're finding enjoyment from it. And like, as I'm gonna die, you'll be like, I like this bit, this is fun. - Yeah. - Yeah. - But it's like when you show your friend the YouTube video and you're like, there's shows where you're like,

I enjoy them. I do not want to be like, "Here, watch this." Like, you know what I mean? - Yeah, for real. - And then there's a lot of aspects of anime where I really enjoy it personally, but I know that I am cringe and I know that what I'm doing and I know that it's a little weird. - Like it taps your funny bone. - And I'm okay with that 'cause I'm comfortable with myself, but I recognize that if I was to be like, "This is so funny, watch this." And then I sit there and watch them,

and three minutes feels like an eternity. And I'm like, maybe you should have kept this one for me and the boys. - Yeah, for sure. - This should have stayed internally. And there's nothing wrong with that. I think that's totally fine. And it's the reason why you can watch whatever the fuck you want. But then you do feel a bit of a secondhand embarrassment when anime fans are like spreading something that's just not funny. - Yeah, it's like, guys, please stop. - It's taken years to get them to accept us.

It's like, we're already not funny. This is not helping. - We're struggling, we're struggling. - Well, I think that's just part of like anime just getting more popular now. - Yeah, for sure. I don't actually care. I was like, this doesn't feel as good as everyone is making it out to be.

- Yeah. - Yeah, no, I think it was just a popular trend. - For sure, for sure. TikTok was definitely a big factor. - I mean, that meme, I think lasted about like a week. I don't actually think anyone watched the anime of it. - No. - I think everyone doing that fucking dance and... - Yeah, that song is just stuck in my fucking head. - You know, sometimes I do feel like nowadays that,

like sometimes there's an anime opening that pops off and I swear to God, I'm like, this feels genetically engineered to be a TikTok success. - Yeah. - Like one of the most popular anime openings last year was the Mashou OP2 by Creepy Nuts. That was one of those popular ones.

Not gonna sound like that guy. I am gonna sound like that guy, but I listened to it and I'm like, I watched the opening. I'm just like, there is like two seconds of like dancing and I'm just like, oh, this, you made this to be a TikTok song, didn't you? 'Cause compare, I compared that to what they did before on "Call of the Night" and I'm like, yo, this is, this feels like,

Not saying that all their songs like that, but this one in particular feels like

a committee came through and be like, how do we make the song pop off? You know what? It's got beeps, it's got boops. - How do we get the kids to dance? - Let's get a dance on, which is why I'm glad "Dun Dun Dun" is something that feels totally different. That feels totally different. - In taxis in Japan, they always play fucking ads of like the top 20 songs, but they'll play like five seconds of the song. And whenever they play all these songs, I'm like, sleep, sleep. Then I hear, I'm like, oh. And then it turns off, I'm like, all right. Turn off the fucking screen.

- Yeah, I like the Dunderdun opening a lot more than the Mashal one. - Yeah, same, same. - The Dunderdun one felt like just a fucking banger of a song. - Yeah, 100%. - Also, is it an anime opening, which is great. It makes it doubly fun to enjoy the song and enjoy the anime. - Absolutely. - Yeah, 'cause now like anime openings are starting to become just popular songs.

- In general, on like the top charts. And I can never tell because we live in Japan. So there's so many times you were just in a company and I hear a song and I'm like, I swear I've fucking heard this from somewhere. - I think there's like five songs in the top 10 Japanese charts that always sound like another song that was in there the month before. Like one to one. Like there's always that one idol song that always sounds super positive. It's like, ♪ And we da da da da da da da ♪

I don't even feel like this is a real song. I don't know, but you've heard the rough kind of energy and they have this song in the top 10 and I swear all the idol groups are trading it like a Pokemon card. They're like, oh, your turn to have this one. - But you know what it is? I think that phenomenon comes around because at least,

as of recently because japan is such like a trend focused country in terms of like music or anything like any kind of art medium is that like the reason why they probably all sound the same is because they're probably all done by the same group of artists every month where they're just like oh well we found success in this particular sound so their label was probably like hey let's

Get five more of those and then send them out. Keep the kids entertained, but also keep the revenue spinning. But it is also nice that Japan's top 10 music is pretty much just completely different from the rest of the world, which is nice. Well, I am convinced that the Demon Slayer opening is Japan's actual national anthem with how often I hear it. Oh my God, it is everywhere. Or you hear the fucking MIDI versions of it in the stores. Yeah, right. No, no, no.

- Or like the orchestral version. It's like a full ensemble playing the fucking Demon Slayer opening. I'm just like, God, even in MIDI form, I can't fucking escape from this shit. - I was in the fucking supermarket like two weeks ago and I heard fucking Megalovania MIDI playing in the store. - Did you actually? - Playing in the store. And I was like, there's no way. This is the worst shopping song. I'm stressed out trying to pick which fucking gluten-free bread to pick up.

- I think the worst thing I heard in a supermarket was- - A wet ass pussy? - Wet ass pussy. - Did they play wet ass pussy so much in the supermarket? - Not even the censored version either. - Yeah, I'm like, 'cause like,

- I'm the only fucking guy that is understanding what is being heard. Cause you're like fucking seeing some old grandma pick up some bread, bopping along to this. And I'm like, grandma, do you understand what is happening right now? - Do you know what a WAP is? I don't think you do. - I saw you posted about the Jojo beer. - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw it in the supermarket the other day. - I think it's my favorite Japanese beer. - Was it Ebisu or Asahi?

- I'm pretty sure it's Ebisu. - Oh really? I thought it was Asagi, fuck.

I'm pretty sure it's Ebisu. They hired a Rocky to design. - Yeah, like original art. - Original art for Ebisu. So if you go to a supermarket, get some JoJo beer, I'm gonna get a couple of cans to drink and a couple of keep. - Yeah, totally. - Dude, look at that. - Oh, that's so fucking cool. - I just fucking love how everything he draws just looks so fucking beautiful. - He chose Yebisu as well? - Yeah. - The fucking, the coated one. - Look, if you come to Japan,

Like you gotta try this can. - I'm stopping you up bro. - This is the best can beer. Like the one that you'll find everywhere. Like not the local ones that you'll get in certain pairs. Like if you want a beer that you can get every single place in Japan, this is the best one. - Best bang for your buck as well. - It's a little more pricey, but it's worth it. I think the flavor increase is just so good. - Do you know what I hate?

just how susceptible I am to this marketing. - Oh yeah. - Because- - Bro, I'm drinking more alcohol in this shit. - No, I'm drinking, yeah, I'm drinking more Yebisu. It's gonna taste exactly the same. The flavor isn't gonna change. It's just got an anime character on it because I remember, I think there was like an ice cream that did an Evangelion collab. And I was just like,

I don't even eat this ice cream. I'm gonna buy it. I'm gonna get it. - Yeah, I have like a stock of like a bunch of different, I have like these like five bottles of- - Yeah, Coolish. - Coolish. - Coolish in an over club. - I have these five bottles of like shochu that are like pretty big. They're like, you know, the proper big size ones. I don't even drink shochu. I bought it purely because it had the fist of the North star designs on it. - Oh, I know the one.

- And I'm like, that's still up on my shelf untouched. It was like, I don't even know why I bought this. It just looks fucking sick. - I've never seen fucking canned Evangelion bread vending machine.

- Evangelion has done a collab with everything. - They've done too much. They'll say yes to anyone, which is concerning. - They are the hoes. - As long as you're Japanese. They'll be like, "Yep, we'll collab with you." And you're like, "Are you sure it's the toxic gas in the death penalty?" They're like, "We'd love a collab." - I mean, it works with us. - It lines up. - Well, it lines up. - The thing is, they always find a way to make it work. I remember the weirdest Ava collab I saw was like Evangelion emergency shelter food or something like that.

- Well. - No way. - I wouldn't be surprised. - No way. - Rations. - Yeah, these are the ones. - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, the beef curry and stuff. They were selling these at Village Vanguard. - No fucking way. - I actually ate one of these. I had the curry, the one on the left. No. - I have Evangelion dumbbells at home. - Evangelion dumbbells? - How long do these last, these emergency rations?

- I don't know. - Do I have emergency water in my house? And I was like, when does emergency water expire? - Those last quite a while. That's like four or five years. - Yeah. - Cause as long as you don't open them, surely. - Yeah, I don't open them, they're in a can. - Yeah. - Five years. - Five years. - Oh wow. Canned food. Canned food only lasts one to five years? I know I thought canned food just lasts like 10. I don't know, I thought that. - Me too. I don't know actually. - I think it's because it's like that kind of,

that you see in like all the apocalypse movies. - If there's an apocalypse going on, I'm not gonna be looking at the- - Spirited. - Of like, damn, this emergency water is five years out. - Like if Dead Rising has taught me anything, get the can shit. That shit lasts forever. - Blue can water is 50 years. - What the fuck is blue can water? - I've never heard of blue can water actually. That's interesting. - Blue can water?

- Is it the one you see in the emergency shelters? - The number one emergency water in the world. 50 years shelf life. - What makes this different from- - Deja blue. - One of them is called hell yeah. - Deja blue.

- Hell yeah, give me some Deja Blue, dude. - Knowing Garn, if Garn was like somehow stranded in my house and he's like, "I need some of the emergency water." I'm like, "It's sparkling." He's like, "I'll die." - I guess I'll die. I will, I guess I'll die. - He's like, "No, I'll kill myself."

- I remember when we were shooting in Switzerland, fucking Europe loves the sparkling water. - I fucking love that in Europe. - Yeah, go to, that's why they go. - And I was like, I feel like I'm getting more thirsty drinking it. I don't know. - What? - But the gases- - That is the most bullshit thing you've ever said in your life. - The gases just don't quench that thirst for me. I don't know. - I love that in Europe. They're like, his water, his sparkling water. And I'm like,

One for hydration, one for enjoyment. We're not even going to ask which one you want. I drink water for hydration. That's what I do it for. We don't need sparkling water.

It's a nice like fun twist on water, but nothing can beat the goat. - Fun twist? - It is, it is. Okay. You know you've reached like your mid thirties when the idea of just adding gas to a liquid just excites you 'cause you're like- - I feel cold out right now. I've been drinking like- - I've been feeling this way since I was like 15. - I have been crushing sparkling waters at my house. I've got like crates of it.

And I go through it pretty quick. - Would you ever buy one of those like sparkling machines where you make your own? - I heard they're shit. - Oh, the SodaStream? - I heard they're pretty bad. - They break really easily. - I heard that they're expensive. - Also the canisters cost so much. - Yeah, yeah, you have to buy canisters, which is quite, you know, if I had like an industrial fucking system, perhaps I would. But then also like, I don't, like what? I mean, I'll just, $270 per year.

- You can afford that. - Yeah, but I think it's actually cheaper for me to buy sparkling water by the can. Isn't that crazy? - But you can play around with the carbonation. - I don't wanna play around with carbonation. - How much fizziness. - I like that the can, they've done a great job. It's perfect. Yeah, I found this, it's weird how prices on Amazon work 'cause sometimes I'll, you know, you'll be able to buy like a brand of sparkling water or whatever and there'll be one that's like,

40 bucks for 12 and you're like, what the fuck this shit? And then there'll be one where it's like 10 bucks for 30. You're like, how does, okay, now it's just like really cheap. And I'm trying to figure out how these margins don't make any fucking sense. - Is it the build quality? - I don't know. - The build quality. - I think one time I bought like a crate of sparkling water. Like it was huge. They were like the one liter bottles 24 and it was like 15 bucks.

- 15 bucks for 24. - One liter bottles of water sparkling. - Wait, what? - Yeah, I was like, how does this make- - How does that work? - And then when I went to go reorder it, 'cause I was like, that's crazy value, it was gone. So I'm guessing it was like a mistake or something. - Oh. - I should have bought like- - A one-time offer maybe. - Should have bought like 15 of them. My house would have been more sparkling water than apartment. - Yeah, so why is your water bill zero this month? - Yeah. - I've been bathing in sparkling water. - How long has sparkling water existed?

- When was it invented? When were humans like, 'cause I imagine just- - 1767. - Damn. - Damn, that's before Australia was founded. That's older than I thought actually. Jesus Christ. - Suspending a bowl of water above a beer vat at the brewery in Leeds. - Of course it started with beer. Okay, I was wondering why this, the way this idea came from. - Why did he suspend a bottle of water? I wonder why he did that?

- Yeah, 'cause you're just adding carbon dioxide. - I like how beer was invented before sparkling water. - Beer's been around for a very long time, Garth. - Yeah, it has, it has. But what made this person be like, "What if I just put some water above you?"

- Did they know the science or was it like accidental? - I don't know. - Oh yeah, it's by accident. - Yeah, you probably just thought like, "Yeah, why not?" - It was like, "Oh, I'm thirsty, I'll just leave this here." - I recently went through the process of actually making the beer. - Oh yeah? - And I was like, "This is a lot of fucking steps to accidentally fuck up and figure out." I was like, "This feels like, how the fuck does someone figure this out?" - I feel that way with like most inventions that were found on accident. - I don't know if beer was found on accident. I don't know if someone was like, "I hypothesize if I do this." But there's a lot of steps to it. And I thought, "Who?"

An accident. I guess maybe like an earlier version of beer maybe is maybe a bit easier to stumble across. But like, you know, the amount of steps we were doing, like adding the hops, but I guess that's more to add flavor. Whereas back then it was probably just malt. But even that was like,

someone grinds the malt, adds it to then a bunch of boiling water. You're like, "What the fuck?" - Well, I mean, there wasn't much to do back then, so. - True, true. - About all the time in the world, I'm sure they'd just be like, "Let's just take these malts and just fuck around with it, see what we can do with it." - Yeah, I mean- - "Inch and grains of the soaking water began to ferment due to wild yeast from a rudimentary form of beer." Oh, I guess, yeah, they didn't grind it, they just left it. Interesting.

- Interesting. - I feel most of these like rudimentary versions of the stuff we have today is just like, I'm just gonna take this shit and just leave it and forget about it. And then someone was like, oh fuck, remember that thing we did like years ago? Let's see what it's like now. It's a new thing. - Well, didn't like IPA starts just because they needed a way to transport the beer from like India to- - England to India. - England to India, sorry. - Right. - And so they just put like a shit ton of like herbs and spices into it. - Hops, yeah. - Hops, yeah.

They had a bunch of hops because it would last longer. - Yeah. - I believe. - Yeah, to export to India. - Yeah, hop content acted as a natural preserve to prevent it from spoiling during the long ship voyage. - That's cool. - But they must have been fucked up on that beer. 'Cause you know, in the UK, they only drink like lagers or pilsners. And then suddenly you gotta give them IPAs like a Midwestern dad. Must have been fucked up. - That would have been a great sea ride.

Like, oh, we don't have water. What do we have? Beer. I'm sure there was a point where probably we drank more beer than water. - Most of the time, yeah, they drank more beer on these. - When was bottled water kind of like, not invented, but I guess popularized? - I think a lot of people would be like, everyone had like leather pouches.

Like you'd have like treated leather pouches full of water. - But in terms of like the idea of like selling bottled water. - 17th century. - So about the same time as fucking, about the same time as carbonated water. - Well, I think it's like before then everyone carried around some kind of makeshift flask

that you would just refill whenever the opportunity presented. - Just like a sack. - Yeah, you would just have like a, there was like leather pouches or something, right? That someone would make and then you'd be like, "All right, fuck it, water time." - Yeah, 'cause I imagine at the beginning, it must have been pretty hard to sell the idea of bottled water. - Yeah, absolutely. - Yeah, yeah. - Kind of like, I don't know, what's like, have you seen those fucking clips of people were trying to, no,

Japan sending like canned air or something. Have you seen that? - I have seen that. - Japan loves a fad. Japan and more than any country will jump on a fad. - If anything, I've bought canned air before. - You have? - At Fuji, they sell Fuji canned air.

And I bought- Like oxygen or air? Air. Why? Like they literally take the air from the top of Mount Fuji and they trap it in a can and then they sell it as this is, if you open it up and you smell it, breathe it in, it's like you're at the top of Mount Fuji. That's some real shit. Japan is good at scamming. Yeah, my friend bought it for me as a gag and I opened that bitch up and I'm like, yeah, wow. Great gift, dude. Did you try breathing it in? I did. I was like-

Hmm, smells like metal. From the can. Doesn't smell like Fuji at all. Also, how would I know what Fuji smells like? I've never climbed it. So thanks, dude. You know, it's just like you were there. It's just like I'm there, guys. Open up this fucking empty can and get scammed.

- Yeah, 'cause I remember like a while ago where we saw, we might have talked about it on Trash Days or we might not have where people were saying, Sydney did a video where she bought like a whole box of like bagged up air. It wasn't even canned air. - From like the previous year. - Yeah, from the previous year. - So when the clock rolled over to like say 2025, people would sell air from 2024.

What? Yeah. And sell it on like MediCardi and stuff. And usually it would be like... This is why we have no faith in the human race. Yeah, I saw one where it was like selling... It was literally a plastic bag that had just been tied up, sealed up, and with fucking marker it just wrote, Air from 2022. And they were selling it for 2022 yen on MediCardi. And I was just like...

- No. Why? - But what if- - What does 22, what like flavor profile does 2022 have that's different from this year? - Just imagine air from like a million years ago though. Just like- - Yeah, look, if it was air from like, I don't know, the 1400s, then maybe I'd be like, okay, that would probably be different. I'm not buying it, but I wanna smell it. - It smells like piss and shit in here. - Piss and shit. - Came from where, London?

Did we have a sewage system back then? Yeah. This is what it's supposed to be. It's just a bag that someone farted in. From 1400s. It's no different from bath water. Pretty much, yeah. It's that equivalent. Just the older version of it, for some reason, unfortunately.

- What a scam. - Yeah, absolute scam. - Why are we talking about bottled water and sparkling water again? - I don't know, man. - How did we get on this tangent? - Emergency rations, Ava, collaborations. - Air gear, Obama. - There you go, we traced it all the way back. - We went from barky to bottled water. - We already are the goats of tangents. - How did we go from barky to bottled water? - This is why people watch this show, man. - What's wrong with us? - You never know where the conversation's gonna go.

- I don't, yeah. Sometimes you need a fucking historian to trace back how a subject matter- - The linear trash test. - How a subject matter started on these podcasts. - I just wanna see a flow chart of this episode. Like just where it goes.

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