AAA 678: WTF does onani mean?
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Using erotic thoughts of his female classmates as stimulus, he locks himself daily in a seldom-used girl's bathroom at school to do his dirty deed. Get ready! You are back to the Anime Addicts Anonymous Podcast! Make your anime addiction worse at AAApodcast.com! And now, here are your Anime Addicts! Welcome in to the podcast episode...

768 of the Animatics Namas podcast. And I'm here. I've got an orange monster. Oh, it's so smoky coming out of the top. Delicious too.

I am not alone today on the show. We have four anime addicts here today, including myself, including Pancake, who's sitting next to me. And she also has an orange monster. Let's just cheers. Let's clack that shit up. Clack. How's Pancake doing? I'm doing fucking fantastic because today I have my husband, Andrew, and my wife, Lady Emery, in the fucking house. Let's go! Hi guys, how are you?

Planting, tilling, harvesting, weeding. And I'm not talking about today's anime. I'm talking about Stardew Valley. But that's a hobby addicts. I'm Andrew. How's it going, folks? I am also doing well. I do not have Monster. I have my non-alcoholic margarita. Nice. Ooh. Yeah. Ooh.

Getting fancy. Different kind of spicy. Oh, and I see Andrew has water. No smoothie this week. No smoothie. I had that earlier today. So it's just good old. Yeah, he's licking the bottle, baby. Yeah. All right. Well, on the podcast today. Well, you know, first of all, follow us. Hey, we're on twitch.tv slash a podcast. We're on at 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

We're on Twitter. We're on TikTok. You can find us everywhere. Kighten's keeping things running. Discord, aadiscord.com. I want you to head over to the Discord still. Talk to us. Got some new people on there lately chatting it up. So we want to see you on there. I think it's usually a good time. And of course, if you want to get the Japan itinerary, which people still are asking about, you can hit me up on there and get that. People keep asking me, where are the bathhouses in Tokyo? I'm like, everywhere.

literally everywhere throw a rock throw a stone exactly I think they're just I think they're just scared I think there's a lot of you know thoughts like I have a tattoo I can't go to one and you've been very good very good about telling them no it's okay let me guide you let me show you it is scary you've never seen so many tiny penises okay oh no and it's it's not the hentai episode yet okay okay sorry sorry it's always hentai when Mitz is around okay

So, on this episode today, it's BET, and I don't mean the television. We're going to be betting. We're going to review our bets that we made about six months ago and see what the outcome was of those bets. I'm sure I'm going to win all of them. We've got the pit boss here to keep us in line, though. I actually have no idea. I don't even know what I bet. I have no fucking clue.

Oh, yeah. Oh, boy. Well, we got this taken care of. And I see we've got our mascot, Kibi, in the background. Going to keep everyone. Oh, yeah. She's forcing herself on me. Kibi, why don't you come over here? Are you a good girl? Are you going to say hi? She's so low to the ground, you can't really...

That's okay. I just saw her for a brief moment and I thought, she's just our mascot for today. She's getting pets and she didn't like that I stopped. So she likes to shove her face in the crook of my arm and say, excuse me, ma'am. She's not like Mako. If I pick her up, she'll just freak out. So, all right. We're also going to review Sakuna of Rice and Ruin, which I'll just say it's different. So we'll get to that. It's not your normal anime. Okay.

Do you guys have any special tidbits to share before we get started? No, I think we should just get into some... I'm bricked up and ready. Yeah, let's get into some big news. You're bricked up. I'm bricked up and ready. You and me both. All right, me too, yeah. I'm going to tuck it back in. Let's go. It's time for big news of the week. Listen, as a man, it's hard to be bricked up like this all the time. It's very uncomfortable and downright embarrassing in the gym.

So, all right. True. It is. Yeah. If you're ever doing a stationary bike and it's just rubbing a little too much and all of a sudden you're like, oh my God. Thank God there's no one next to me. I'm so fucking unhinged. All right. This is very disturbing in my opinion. So I didn't know about this, but next season there is a full AI anime coming out called, it's called

What the hell is this fucking shit called? It's such a whiff, the fucking title. Twins Hina Shima. Twins Hina Shima. From director Benny Nakano, who's done absolutely nothing. From Studio Kaka Technology Studio, which is probably, you know, based on the unbelievably negative comments about this shit that I put in the show notes for you guys at the bottom, it could end up being Kaka, but...

It is going to have a very prominent voice actor in it, Yudie Igoma, who is going to be doing the role of one of the main characters. That's one of the Oshino-ko star characters, so very, very famous in Japan. The AI will be used in over 95% of the total animation cuts.

I don't like that. It'll be broadcast nationally via my Nietzsche broadcasting systems starting March 29th. I don't know how this slipped under the radar for me, but I'm like, I had no idea this was coming. They're at the point where they're announcing voice actors. This is like, this must have been announced months ago, but, um, Oh, I'm looking at the PV for this and it definitely looks like AI. How many fingers do they have? Quick. We need to count. Cthulhu hands.

It is. Yeah, so the story is of the twins, Hina-Shima, which revolves around Hina...

Hinana and his sister, Himari, who are both first-year students, after witnessing the rise of viral video stars on websites like TikTok, the two decide that they want to go try to become viral themselves, and they begin publishing videos online and suddenly gain access to a, quote, strange new world that flows alongside their reality. So I don't know what the hell that means, but... What's with this Oshinoko, Oshinonoko, or whatever...

creator and twins. I don't think the Yoshino co-creator had anything to do with this. Oh, okay. No, it's just one of the actors from it. One of the big actors. UDA Igoma, one of the main... Anyway, the question is, so this might come up again later in the episode, but I mean, how are we feeling about this? I don't... See, here's the thing. It's like they're already paying the animators so little, and now you just want to eliminate them completely.

And I assume the 5% that isn't AI is just to clean some stuff up. Like the hands. Probably. It's just the hands. The other 5% is just fixing every hand shot. It's just odd. It goes in opposite directions. In the real world, and I'm just going to say this and you guys just, I'd love to hear you weigh in.

In the real world, when you hear AI taking people's jobs, it's like, oh, the people at McDonald's, they want $20 an hour. And McDonald's is like, well, we can't afford that. So they just put all the AI terminals in. They put all the, you know, everything's automated, whatever. This is the opposite. It's like you're already paying the animators below a livable wage by a dramatic margin. And now you're just going to stamp them out. Like, you're like, I know we're paying you five wooden nickels, a toenail, and a used condom to do this animation.

But now you're just going to eliminate your ass because we don't even want to pay that much. My other issue with it is they've trained a lot of AI with art without paying actual artists. Correct. And I have a huge problem with that anyway. And now we're stamping out actual artists in animation studios because we don't want to pay them anything.

with basically stolen art that they have been trained on and creating more content. So I just can't support this. Is that the primary reason? Well, from a moral standpoint, yeah. I mean, it's already stolen artwork to train the bots. And then you're also stamping out people's careers on top of it. I just, I can't get behind that.

Well, I mean, when you say that they trained the bots, I hadn't even considered that as being a thing. So what you're saying is they could just feed some AI a thousand episodes of Dragon Ball and then everything it draws looks like Dragon Ball? Yep. Wow. Isn't that fun? And without getting any rights, anything, it's just completely fed to them. Well, I mean, I can't help it. I can't help it. Boy, this is a big conversation. We could talk about this for an hour, but...

It's going to be like racehorse breeding. They're going to be like, hi, Toriyama's estate, and whoever did, I don't fucking know, we'll go to Watanabe with Bebop. How would you like to see the offspring, the breeding of Dragon Ball's art and Bebop's art blended together?

Without paying any of the people that actually created it. Whatever. Let them pay for it. They won't. What I'm saying is that people... You've got to look at it from a different perspective. I'm not talking about them ripping off people. I'm saying people might tune in to see the love child of the art between Bebop and Dragon Ball blended together.

Such that that might possess value in the eyes of consumers where they want to see what the fuck that looks like. Well, I'm sure there's an artist out there that's been inspired by both of those creations that makes their own artwork and has their own stories that we won't ever see because we're feeding an AI bot. I mean, I'm saying if they just stole Toriyama and Watanabe's art and just...

said fuck it like that's just lawsuits right for sure but what i'm saying is that like there's maybe something else that could happen here where they where they advertise a show based on what inputs were made were used to make it uh you know what i'm saying i no i get i get what you're saying and to sort of reorient back to the the the anime in question for to some extent as well uh so i how i feel about this in general is like i don't

So, I mean, let's be honest, we all use AI to some degree to do some things, right? This is effectively a sort of automation issue, but for the modern age, right? When automation came to the factories, a lot of people lost jobs, but there was a lot of quote unquote automation.

social safety nets that sort of allowed for reorientation of the workforce that is lost to automation. What we're seeing with AIs is we're not seeing that occur as well on top of the rights issues. Now,

AI, if this was like some project where one artist basically over the last two to five years essentially did all of this artwork and said, I'm going to use AI to sort of make the ideas because to make my life easier, to make it quick. Sure, go for it. You want to make a YouTube channel dedicated to doing that? Perfect. I'm super okay with that. Make your money through ad revenue on YouTube doing that.

The issue becomes where you're starting to use AI as the predominant force, right?

and it's being legitimized by being aired on, I'm assuming this is TV, right? Yep. Uh, and you're getting legitimate voice, at least we're getting legitimate voice actors. That's like at least one thing for now, AI voicing it either. Um, but like, if this was just a project where, you know, you did all the, like you trained your own AI to do your work. So you didn't have to do as much of it. Um, I think I'd also be more okay if they were using AI to counteract

help make the animators lives a little bit easier on like cleanup work or like, like background frame, the damned eyeballs, the eyes that torture them. Yeah. Horses, that kind of thing. So I don't, I, so I saw the PV for this, as I mentioned earlier, and it looks like AI, it looks a little rough in a lot of places. And I'd be more, I'm more accepting when the,

at least it's drawn by a person because those imperfections add a little bit to it. But it feels like here is just someone I don't even know if I can say it's someone being lazy, but it just really feels like they're just cutting something out. And I don't know if they're going to do anything interesting with this concept on top of that using AI. So I'm not exactly thrilled. And what season it's coming out next season.

It's coming out on March 29th. Yeah, it's actually. So it's coming out for the spring season for Impressions. Yeah, we'll definitely cover it. Yeah.

Yeah, so I, I don't know how I feel about it, because I think there is a place for AI. But I think, and this is very timely, because with the Oscars being tonight, there's a lot of talk over this best picture for Adrian Brody's new film, I think it's called Brutalist. And they used AI to cover the Hungarian lines to make them sound more Hungarian. And

And in a similar way, if you're using 95% of AI for total animation, one, you're likely using stolen art. Two, I will say the hair is uncanny. I looked quickly at the PV and the hair is doing something uncanny valley that I don't love. But also like then...

you're not just taking this away like it no longer becomes an art form in my opinion because you're taking away the human aspect of it um i was listening to a podcast that broke down that ai to a certain extent what people want from ai and this is maybe a little extreme i'm more than willing to adjust my definition but when you look at ai people either want a friend or a slave and in this case this is the anime industry saying saying they want a slave 85 pound cat girl

Yeah. Honestly, more often than not, it is someone looking for a slave. I very few because AI friends have existed for a lot longer to a much more limited capacity. A lot of the use of AI nowadays is not to do. Oh, little friends to help you out. It's more like, no, we just don't want to pay people fairly. We just want to get work for cheap and maximize profit. Yeah. And I don't know.

I even don't really like CG in animation. And I was actually scrolling last night, as you do. And I came across an old, I think it was Disney animation of like the ugly duckling.

where the two ducks have all these eggs and then one of them ends up being like a swan and it goes through all of that. And I was just thinking to myself, there's just something so charming and so natural about how this animation looks compared to even animation now. And now we're adding another layer to that of AI and we're just getting, I feel like just more and more slop and more and more just like copy paste or,

Even, I don't know if you guys have seen the new Shrek trailer where he's been Disney-fied. He looks horrendous compared to the old Shrek. He's all smoothed out. Everything just seems to be so same-samey now with animation as it is, and I feel like AI is just going to make that worse. I have two comments, and then we can move on after you guys, if you guys have nothing else. My first comment is, I wonder if this is the anime industry in a way kind of just...

saying, all right, we're just going to show you our cards. They've obviously been very rough on the animators all along with the pay, and now they're just saying, you know what, we're not going to hide it anymore. We just didn't want to pay them to begin with, and now they're just going to not pay them. So that's my first thought, is that this is just kind of like the penultimate final rug pull. My other thought is that if this actually isn't a disaster...

for this, you know, of a production. And I'm not going to lie, there's a couple shots in this trailer that look straight up Shinkai-like. The bicycles. But even the still image of the bicycles look funky. This water looks quite good. The landscape here. Okay, but this is like, this is the first attempt, right? You know what I mean? What I'm concerned about is that I always was a proponent of

reeling back anime. Let's consolidate the studios. Let's build talent in the studios and make fewer anime that look better and are better because you are not spreading your talent so thin. This is going to go the opposite direction where they are just able to generate... You thought 250 anime a year was a lot. Let's try 2,500 anime a year. A computer can just make an infinite number of this shit. In some ways, it could end up getting to the point where anime is...

so mass produced that it just blends into the into a gray muck and it just ends up being i don't know hard to watch and just um minimally minimally viable product type stuff well i feel like we've already headed that direction with the sheer amount of anime we have like there are so many anime i'm just like oh this again this feels like it's ai swap anyway are there any pros to this

Not unless they can flip it and they can use it for what we are talking about of doing the job of an editor in the same way that I know, for example, at my job, a lot of people like to use Copilot to take notes. So that's one less person to take notes. People can focus on the meeting. So unless they're willing to maybe flip it to Copilot,

help animators out, especially when they're coming close to deadlines. Great. But to your point, I think it's going in the wrong direction. I think they're approaching AI completely wrong. I have a prediction. Um, and then I'm done with, I'm done with the topic. Um, my prediction is that this is going to be very prolific within the next couple of years. And the reason for that will be, will be because, um,

Whereas a lot of us complain about how animation and anime is very poor nowadays. Like you get something that looked good, but most of the time it's like the backgrounds don't move. You'd have like these, these frozen people reaching for library books in the library and they don't, they never moved. They just look like still images and it's just lip flaps and you know, this and that. We complain about that a lot because, and because it looks bad and we've, and we had a lot of that lately. This AI is going to dominate. It's going to have animation that is strong.

so much better than what we've been getting with humans in the last five, six years that nobody will ever want to go back once this gets fine-tuned a little bit. People will, they're going to like it because they're like, well, I understand that it's AI, but they'll get used to it eventually and then they'll just say, well, I can't go back to watching still images all the time. That's what I think is going to be the, that's what I think is going to drive this, drive this to the point where it's universally accepted. That's my prediction.

I wonder what Miyazaki has to say about this. Oh, he fucking hates it. He hates it. Anyway, we can move on. I mean, he eventually came around on CG, but we probably should move on. Yeah, we could yap about this all day. All right, Lady Emery, what you got? Come on, girl.

Mine is happy news for me. This is a me news. Uh, Demon Slayer, Infinity Castle, first movie. It's going to premiere in Japan, July 18th. I'm very, very excited for this. I think everyone knows that I stay on Demon Slayer. Uh, there's not a whole lot more to it. If you want, you can go take a look at the, um, TV out there. As soon as it comes here, I will likely go and see it. Um,

Some like bittersweet news for me is one of my best friends is getting ready to move to Japan in April. Very excited for her, but like very, very sad. So this is a way that we're connecting on it is she's going to go and see this movie for both of our six because she also is a big Demon Slayer fan. So I am very excited for her to get to see it right away in Japan. Yeah, so that's that's my...

Kind of a double whammy. You got some personal news for me, but mostly it's just this Demon Slayer movie. And this will be the first of three. What's the story with the Infinity Castle? That's a pretty cool title.

It is the name of, it's essentially the final big bosses place is what I'd call it. The environment where the final battle is going down. So it is the Infinity Castle that Muzan controls and has access to and all of the demons can filter into it. So the last we left off, being very careful spoilers, is a certain amount of characters are getting dumped into the Infinity Castle and a certain amount of them will be

engaging in some good old fashioned shonen fights. And yes, we may have some that live, some who die. You will have to go watch and find out. It's very exciting for those Demon Slayer fans. Are they going to take this movie that'll make a quadrillion dollars in Japan and make it a whole season of anime? I don't think so. They said that they were wrapping this up with three movies, but you never know. It makes them so much money. So I could also see them

throwing it on Crunchyroll at some point and being like, all right, here's the movie. More revenue stream for them, but... Yep, Demon Slayer is still very much, I'll say, seeable, visible in Japan. Yeah, there you go. Yep. I have some sad news. Well, you let me pick the topic for you, so... Yes. Ends up being sad. It's been one year since Akira Toriyama's death. Oh, no. As of March 1st. No! No! No!

The final Dragon Ball Dima anime episode also premiered on February 28th in Japan. The series finale concludes with the first anniversary of Toriyama's death on March 1st, 2024. Isn't that crazy? Yeah, it is crazy. I can't believe he's been gone that long already. Was that done by design, do you think? They literally said, we're going to end Dragon Ball Dima the exact day one year later that Toriyama passed. I mean, it can't be coincidence, right? I can't believe it. I can't believe it, yeah. Yeah.

The Japanese airing on Fuji TV ended at midnight, transitioning to March 1st, 2025, the same day that Toriyama passed away last year. That's fucking crazy. Thank you, Toriyama, for everything. Oh, now I feel sad again. I'm going to cry again. I guess we should have switched spots there, Em. But, yeah. That is, oh, man. I hope we get more Dragon Ball. I hope it doesn't end up being CG.

Or AI. That's what I meant. That's what I meant, AI. But yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's sad. But I still want more Dragon Ball. Mark my words, they will not let Dragon Ball end. It makes too much money. They'll just make an AI bought a Toriyama and have that thing spit out Dragon Ball ideas. Regardless of what people said about Super's animation and all this, that shit made money. A lot of it. Isn't Super coming back? I thought it...

The manga, right? Well, so they had a chapter of the manga, the last chapter of the manga that was, had Toriyama's influence or whatever, ended with like, that was on the last episode we talked about it, with Goten and Trunks decide they want to become a superhero like Gohan, and then like the chapter ended and it just said to be continued, and there's currently no plans to continue the story at all. So we'll see what happens with that, but they're not going to let it end. It might be five years from now, but somebody will pick it up. So.

Oh, boy. Oh, Lady Emery. This is the Lady Emery show today. Yes. Yes. We're on your gondola. Take us forth. Yes. Yes. Welcome. I guess I'm canoeing. Yes. Let's do this. So...

in September sometime the first weekend was it September 1st? It might have been around September 1st but six months ago we did animate bets and this is going to be our follow up to those and we're actually going to try and make some new ones so if you didn't listen in you can go you know maybe go take a listen to it but it's real simple we made a long shot bet a medium shot bet and then a really easy bet and we

Bet each other for various manga, doujin, or hentai. Food was sometimes involved. And we have the results of that. Oh, yeah. So, yeah. I'm just going to rattle through them and we can react to these. Yeah. I'm going to enjoy just... I'm going to tear this. Oh, I'm sorry. You want it slow. I want it good. You want it nice and slow. Yeah, I want it slow and gentle. All right. You know what, Donna? It's okay. It's okay.

We'll go slow. We'll go slow for you. We're going to start with Pancake's bets. Yeah. Yeah. So Pancake believed that a sign of affection would get a season two announcement. That's a whiff. A APC on the Discord. So reminder to everyone, if people don't

If the hosts don't take each other's bets, you can make these bets on the Discord. And we have things on the line that we have to do. So APTC countered this and there is a light novel for a manga that was on the line.

And Pancake, do you want to tell us what happened? It has not been announced, so it sounds like I'll have to... You're going to pull them out. I don't think I've ever been this excited. You're excited? Feel these nipples. I'm not pulling anything out. I have to read a manga or light novel. For this loss. You have to read a light novel? Yeah, I can't remember which one it was, but...

You tell me. We'll go back and take a look. Yeah, we'll go back and take a look. And then I'll read it and review it on Hobby Addicts. Well, you do love reading things, so you'll enjoy. I do. That's not even like losing a bet. That's like someone's going to recommend something to you that you'll probably like. That's such a kind bet. No one had to show their feet. Oh, someone better show their feet today.

Ugh. Some of those bets. Someone is going to show their feet. Come on, baby. All right, what else? Some of those bets got redacted. Oh, yeah, well, somebody crashed out on the Discord and had to be removed. As they say. I love that term, crashed out. His two favorite terms right now are bricked up and crashed out. Oh, yeah. He just crashed out.

He likes to use bricked up when you're not supposed to use bricked up. Oh, it only has to do with my penis. Yeah. There you go. Okay. All right. What were the other bets?

The next bet that Pancake had was believing that MF Ghost Season 2 would get a better male score than Season 1. No one took her up on this, and Pancake would have been right. It was better. Good job, everyone. I did finish MF Ghost Season 2, and I can confirm it was slightly better. Slightly. Slightly better, but still not good. So, mid-ass fuck. It was math.

You know why MF Ghosts didn't crush it? Because they didn't have the initial D soundtrack behind it. They didn't. Where's all my sweet, sweet lover? Game's not over. Yeah. Come on, Andrew. Anyway, I'm pretty sure that's why MF Ghosts didn't go solidly. Also, it missed a lot of the off the track relationship building. That was so good and...

And literally everything else that made initial D good. Yeah. Okay. Well, congratulations. So what did she get for that? Nothing. Nobody took that. Nothing. Cause no one took it. I'm still going over. You wanted it. I do. You wanted it nice and slow. So like, yeah, so we're going over all of them. Then,

The next one was Pancake believed Mitski would rip his shirt off at some point live on the podcast within six months. I watched a lot of the Twitch streams or the YouTube streams after this to make sure, but I did not see a time when he did this. So Pancake would have been wrong. Pancake would have been wrong. Does this count? Don't. We're going to get taken down off of Twitch because your boobs are out. Does that count? Did I just flip the bet? No, it's too late.

It didn't matter. No. And no one, no one took, took the bet anyway. So, Oh, that was a big waste of effort. It was. Oh, sorry. But you did it. I'm out of my fucking mind. I'm sorry. Oh, here come my bets. And this one, we did have stuff on the line. Oh, this is, this is big, big, this one's a good one for you. Big risky here.

Mitski believed Dragon Ball Daimyo would have a better score on mouth than Dragon Ball Super and I watched for weeks as this score slowly started to tank, but it is still better than Super. So I countered your bet with a review of a hentai of your choice or, you know, ice cream on the line because I didn't have one that I could flip over to your side. So you win. Oh, yes. Hopefully for the next hentai episode I will watch.

Whatever one you want me to watch. I already know which one we're going to have to watch. It is a hentai? You have to watch a hentai. I will watch a hentai. I would like to announce. I have an announcement to make. He's been talking about this for like two weeks. The same hentai. So I will say April 2023 was a very good month for hentai. Two very good hentai came out in April 2023. One was Island of the Dead, which is a really fucked up and brutal tentacle anime.

And the other one was everybody's new favorite, even though you haven't seen it yet. That would be Bon Yu Chan, episode three and four, starring the all-star team at Studio T-Rex. Bon Yu Chan means lactation girl. Yes, Yu is milk. That's right. Bon Yu means breast milk, basically. So you will be watching Bon Yu Chan, episode three. You don't have to watch all of it.

Okay. But you might end up watching it all anyway. Depending on how many bets you lose with Mitsuki. That's true. No, just because it's that good. And I can guarantee you this anime, this hentai will shock you. It will have better animation than most of the shit we watch. It will have better animation than Sakuna. Okay. Oh my gosh. That's the only bet I have on here. Wait. Oh no. Oh, because some of them are redacted. Yeah. My bad. I don't go back. I made them count. I made that count. Okay. Okay. Here's Emery's bets.

Yep. So we have one that is actually a to be to be determined soon. So I bet that Dandedon would be our AA's anime of the year at the anime Oscars. And you countered this bet and we...

Because the anime Oscars are next week, I believe. Stay tuned. So, yeah. So I am actually putting this one on hold. Instead of nulling and voiding it, I want us to just wait one more week. We can always approach this on the Discord. Put this on the next review of our bets. Yeah. Yeah. Easy enough to do. Let's be honest. It's going to be solo leveling or free ARAN or Dawn to Dawn. And I don't know. What else could it be?

I have no idea. Delicious in Dungeon, right? Oh, it could. That was, man, I love Delicious in Dungeon. It was so good. It was delicious. Oishi. Oishi, eh? All right. Emery, what else we got? So I believed that the Goku float this year would feature a young son Goku in the Macy's Day Parade. I thought this would happen because, unfortunately, of Toriyama's death. And they did come out with a new float.

Unfortunately, it was adult Goku, so Raggedy countered this bet, and we put kids' weeb outfits on the line, and so his kiddos were sent very adorable one-piece pajamas. You sent him one-piece pajamas? I sent the weeb ones one-piece pajamas, so Raggedy Toddler is already sporting it, and then whenever the new weeb is born to us,

They will have a onesie of One Piece characters. A little chibi form. That is a costly big girl bet right there. Wow. Yeah. What is a onesie? So what is a onesie pajama for a one-year-old cost? I will go look these up and I will send these to you during part of our discussion. I'm not asking what you paid necessarily. I'm just kind of curious in general. So if I...

So for the weeb versions, I want to say that was closer to $20. If you wanted like creme de la creme, the best PJ onesies there, they make netic ones and those are $40 a piece, but they are the best onesies because they are just, you got, you can just open them so easily for diaper changes. It's bing, bang, boom. They're, they, they're made of like bamboo and they're very, very soft. As a probable future father. My, my boss told me he had one piece of advice for me. He said, I,

Button button onesies always and I was like, okay magnetic magnetic That's what I meant magnetic onesies. That's what I meant always that's always with the main It's it's worth its worse worth the cost. So yeah, these are zippers but double zippers if you have zippers always double zippers All right, you got bets all over the place Wow This is a pancake emery bet. I gotta get some epic. Yeah, I I

I believed that Mappa Studios will be charged with a crime in the next six months. And I'm upset about this. Upset about this because Crunchyroll had crimes. Other studios had crimes. There was arson going on at certain studios. Where was my crime? Where was the crime with Mappa? So, no, they did not. Oh, no. So we had Monk on the line. So I will read for future hobby addicts.

Manga of Pancake's Choice. You're losing it. You will be reading. Oh, this is so good. Oh, Nani Master. Nani Master. Jesus Christ. I don't even know. What is that about? This. Look it up. This. Nope. Don't spoil it. I want her unadulterated reaction for reading the synopsis live here today. Okay. All right. Yeah. I have some thoughts about her. About her. Nani Master.

So first of all, I would love an Onani Master anime. There is a 90% chance that by the time you finish Onani Master, you will love it. So I'll just say that. I think it's a very generous, it's a very kind, this was a very, we'll see. But you'll never- You'll never forget it. You will never-

You will never forget some of the shit that happens in this fucking manga. Yep. So, pretty crazy. I read this on an airplane. It's short. Yeah, very short. You read this on an airplane? Like, in front of other people. Yeah. Like, something could have, like, peeked over your shoulder. Man, I made the mistake. I had to flip it away a couple times. I made the mistake. Oh, non-email.

For the Twitch, Onanimaster is spelled O-N-A-N-I. Would you like to tell the Twitch what Onanimaster and our listeners what Onanimaster's synopsis is? Yep. Okay, so I pulled it up on my anime list. And 14-year-old Kakuru Kurosawa is an antisocial junior high school student who looks down on his classmates, but beneath his superiority complex is a hopeless young teenager who uses masturbation as a pastime

Using erotic thoughts of his female classmates as stimulus, he locks himself daily in a seldom used girls bathroom at school to do his dirty deed. There's more to it. There's like bullying, daily life and everything. But you'll like it by the end. That's all I got to say.

This is PG. This is PG. This is not a doujin. Nope, not a doujin. And what does it have, like an 8.2 on Mal? Yeah, 8.4. 8.4! What? What? Wow, it's probably in the top 50 all time. That's fucking crazy. That's crazy. I actually really like that manga, so I hope you do too.

Yeah, what a great premise. Can't wait. Close enough. It's number 83 in terms of popularity. That's crazy, though, for something so short and old. All right. Okay. Wow, Emery, you lost a lot of bets, I got to say. For the pit boss. I know, for being a pit boss. Yeah, let's hope you make some better bets this time around. Well, you see, this is why she manages the bets. Yeah, I guess so. Sorry, the Twitch has a better drop for you. Oh, my God. I should have played that one, yeah. Okay.

Amazing. So you'll go first, Mitz, with your new bets. And I know, Andrew, you did not put any bets on here. You can either help us come up with them or you can...

You can just pick up and yeah. Lady Emery, I'll put it this way. As somebody who has a gambling addiction, I just want you to know that betting is something that I am very bad at. So I understand it. One of the reasons why I have not bet is because I know that I would

unfortunately probably make bets that are so good that I would still bet against myself and lose and thus in the balance of power to keep things fair I will remain a neutral party or I will indulge in my gambling addiction either works for me I think Andrew was very fortunate to not be in Japan with us this last trip because oh my god we we we discovered so Andrew my love

I found the best Metal Pusher game ever, and we spent a whole six hours playing it straight. On three different days. Honestly, I was thinking about the other day. I'm so glad I got stuck on claw machines, because I swear to God, if I had discovered Metal Games in Japan, I don't think you guys would have ever seen me. Now that I know they exist...

Now they have ones where you have a game card that keeps your data and you collect items. You fill out a catalog. Digital game screen and you fill out an item collection. It's insane. And there's daily challenges and things. It has dailies. It's real dangerous. Oh my gosh. I think we need to plan a family trip to just go play Metal Games. We should. Look, my goal is for my 40th to go to Japan again, so we have two years to work on that.

Andrew, you're almost 40? Yeah, I'm turning 38 in a week from tomorrow. I thought you were like closer to my age. I'm old. No wonder I like you so much. I'm old, but I'm also very young looking. You are. You know what they say. So true. So true. Black don't crack, Asian don't raisin, and white people age like carved pumpkins. Damn, that's harsh.

Asians don't raisin. That's what my friend told me. What? What the fuck? All right, let's get to these bets. All right, Meats, take it for us. I wrote these very fast. I'm sorry, they're not very good. My first bet that nobody will take is that a new Dragon Ball anime will not be announced in any capacity in the next six months. In other words, I lose this bet if they announce anything new.

It could be a movie. It could be a series. It could be, but not a game, but like... OVA. OVA even, which they don't really have hardly any of to begin with, but... Will not be announced. If there's any new Dragon Ball anime content announced, doesn't have to air, just has to be announced, then I lose. I will take that bet. Wow. You think they're going to... I hope you're right. They will. I bet, yeah, I bet that something will come up.

Especially with Toriyama being gone. Even if it's a re-release or a movie. She's got nothing. I will watch the hentai of your choice. You already do that regularly. I'll owe you brunch. It's all the same pool of money. It's hard to make a bet with somebody you share finances with. I will propose the bet. You will watch all of Crest of the Stars and not complain a single time about anything in it.

Oh, that's hard. I complain a lot. Okay. That's only the first season, right? Just the first season. Andrew, you don't really like Crest of the Stars, do you? If I recall. I... Or you think it's mid, maybe? I thought it was okay. Look, it's like Mossburger, Crest of the Stars. Oh, no. People love it. People think it's great. It's not for me, though. Okay, that's fair. Maybe at certain moments it might be for me. But, you know...

And if Pancake wins, what's going the other way? Yeah, what do you want to make me do? Yeah, think about that. Quickly. I'm sorry. Come back to me. Okay, I'm making a note. All right, think about that. The next bet is... Have him read a webtoon. Oh, God. He won't read. I will read if I lose this. I'm not going to lose this fucking bet. They're not going to announce. I guarantee they won't. Go ahead. I'll read a webtoon. You have to read a doujin...

of mine and Emery's choice. But it can't be like a thousand pages. Can we have like a page limit? No, it'd be 12 chapters max. Something reasonable? Okay. I'll take that. Alright, the next bet is we will have at least one additional AI anime announced in the next six months. The release date doesn't matter, but it is a primarily AI anime. One additional.

What do you mean by primary? Like 50% AI or are you... More than that. Yeah. It's made... It's like the Kaka, whatever, the Hina, whatever we just talked about. So like Hina Hima. Yeah, it's gonna... It has to be primarily almost... So 51% or more. I would say probably... I would argue 70 to 80% seems like more. I was thinking more like 90% or more. Like this is an AI anime. Humans did not really make it. It's just...

Oh, there will be one and more at least announced and sit within the next six months. I believe that will happen. Anybody want to take that? I don't, I think this one is actually more likely than your dragon ball. And funny enough, like I feel like your dragon ball one is very much a 50 50. This one feels more like, I think there's like a high chance that this happens also. I think the dragon ball one is almost impossible. That's interesting. I think that's more of a 50 50. And I think this one is, uh,

This one's a 50-50. That's how I feel about it, but does anybody want this bet? If you don't want it, that's fine. No, I'll take this one. I like what I got pwned as saying that they'll never admit how much of the show is made in AI, especially if this one tanks and fails. So maybe I'll get a sneaky win out of this one. I would like to propose that if you win the bet, I will order for you

food on the podcast of your choosing DoorDash style to a maximum cost limit of $20.

It has to be more than $20. It's very expensive now. Well, hold on. No, the food itself is $20. We're not including the tip and like service. Wait a second. I'm talking about like, you know, like I was thinking of like ice cream. I was thinking like I was thinking like a Dairy Queen Blizzard, which which clocks in at like 650. And after all the bullshit, it ends up being 18, which is just so sad. OK, OK, OK.

Pancakes like order her steak. Get out back. No, no. $20 is still like a small item for food. Like it's just, you know, if you don't count the fees. If I lose, am I reading more webtoons or what? Do you want webtoons? Otherwise, I gave away, I gave away weeb, tiny weeb outfits.

I could do like a cute kerchief for Kiwi. Like a cute little like new like anime kerchief. Yeah, like a cute little bandana. She does wear bandanas. I will accept. You will accept? I will accept. And if you lose... Oh, okay. We've already got what you lose. Okay. My next bet is Solo Leveling Arise will be the highest rated anime for the entirety of 2025 on my anime list. It currently has like an 8.85 rating.

Is it the highest currently? It has to be. I think it's narrowly ahead of Apothecary Diaries. So I am saying that nothing will beat solo leveling for the entire rest of the year. And I'll say of the movies, too. Just in general. I will take you on that bet. Oh, you got Andrew to gamble. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no, because...

Yeah, no, I'll take you on that bet. I'll take you on that bet. Yeah. Interesting. Because spring is coming up and actually spring looks like trash. Summer is coming up and summer actually looks really good compared to spring. Surprisingly, there's some pretty strong shows in the summer. I think that they might surpass solo leveling. So I'm going to take you on that bet. What do I have to do if I lose? Come and visit. Oh, man, that's a that's an expensive bet. I have points. Oh, wow.

And if you lose, we have to go visit him. Oh, you want to bet a trip? I have points. Okay, let's bet a trip. Put it on the board. Are you serious? Put it on the board. Oh my God, this is such an exciting bet. Oh, it's so exciting. That means we'll get to see you. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. Sorry, Lady Emery. That entire statement I made at the beginning was mostly not in jest. All right. And my final bet, my last one. Yep.

The new Watanabe anime, Lazarus, will not even come within half of a full point of Cowboy Bebop's rating on my anime list. Cowboy Bebop has like an 8.75, I think. So therefore, I mean that Lazarus will not even come, will not even end up with an 8.25 or higher. It will fall a half point or more short of Bebop. Passing on this one. Because I think Watanabe is overrated. I think everything he's done since Bebop has been way less than Bebop.

Your mileage may vary depending on the topic of conversation, but I would say B Pop is probably his seminal work that stands out as being probably some of his his best work to still to this day. But I would say like a lot of his other stuff way may while lauded may not come off to the same effect. But I'm not taking this bet because obviously people are so much harsher these days, but especially when compared to older ones.

If nobody wants it, that's fine. I didn't think I would get... You still have the Discord. I didn't think three whole people... The Discord? Yeah, okay. All right, let's move on to Pancake. All right, you ready for your first bet, Pancake? Yeah. Okay, let's see. We'd like to read it. Solo leveling season two will get a lower score than season one. You already lost that bet. How can that... What are you doing? Solo leveling season one is nowhere near season two's rating.

On the podcast? Oh, on the podcast. Oh. Oh, okay. That is... I follow. That's nice and spicy. Okay. We do have some strange, irrational hatred of solo leveling on this show. Yep, we sure do. Yeah. I don't think it's strange and irrational. I mean...

It depends on who's running the episode. That's the gamble. Here's the funny thing. I don't think solo leveling is any more or less well-written than something like Demon Slayer. Demon Slayer got four and four and a half. What did season one get? Mason thinks solo leveling is a one out of five. Well, that's Mason.

No, but what did season one get for solo leveling? I'm looking it up for you. So for the audience, and remember audience, just as we're, I'm vamping here so that Mitz can look up the answer. I just want you to know that you can go to the Discord. Join us in the Discord. Lots of fun things happen. Lady Emery is not only the pit boss on this podcast, she is the pit boss in the Discord, and she will hold you to task.

in the Discord. I don't go to that section because, as you can see, I am a big bettor, and that probably would ruin me. But in this particular case, she will hold you to task, and some fun stuff are made in a bet there. And, Mitz, what was that rating? So, soul leveling averaged to a 3 out of 5 on episode 730, where I gave it a 4, Caroline gave it a 3.5, and Mason very consistently gave it a 1.5 out of 5. Hmm.

Hmm. So it is a toss-up for whoever ends up on that episode to review it, but I think that's a fun bet I will take this bet because season two of solo leveling is notably better than season one It's not even close question of curiosity. What if it gets the same score? I guess It's a push That's a push fair enough the pit boss has spoken it's push. All right. What are we betting?

What would you like to wager? It's hard to bet your wife. I would say that... Are there any chores either of you two do that the other one doesn't do that you hate? Like toilet, cleaning, laundry. We have most of them split up. You will have to handle Mako's litter box for an entire month. A month? Okay, two weeks. I'll do two weeks. That cat shits a lot. He is a frequent shitter.

He has a very active digestive system. Okay, I'll take it. And if you lose, you have to do laundry for two weeks. Didn't you tell me yesterday never do laundry again? Because you just leave it in the dryer and it drives me crazy because I don't know what's sitting in there. I'll do laundry for two weeks. You have to, including folding and putting away. Oh, Jesus. That's so much worse than the litter box.

Holding and putting away. So it is written, so it is done. Okay, let's move on here to the next bet. Her next bet is Yakuza Fiance will be shredded by the podcast hosts and not surpass a score of a three out of five. That's a tough one. I think that's likely going to happen, so I'm going to pass. I could see that happening. Hmm.

Twitch, my cat hasn't done, my wife hasn't done the cat litter in over 10 years. I don't do the cat litter ever. Oh my goodness. No way. It's brutal. Rip, rip some Fs in the chat, Fs in the chat. You know, it's interesting because I haven't kept up with Yakuza Fiancee

I've only watched the first two episodes. But does it get worse? I know Emery has been watching it. Are you going to be on with Otaku? I'm not going to be on. No, no, I'm not. Nobody's on right now. I will probably be on it.

It did not align with my schedule, but I will tell you, I loved it, but I love trash sometimes. Yeah, that's the thing. If it was like me, Lady Emery and Otaku on the episode, I think it would

It gets a little sore. I think it gets at least a 3.5. If the show keeps up what it did in the first two episodes for the whole show, easily an easy 3.5. But if it's just Otaku and Mason on the episode, that show is getting like...

A two. And that's because Mason will give it a one. I thought it was decent. I thought it was decent. How did I whiff on not doing a behineko bet? I mean, I really want to know if that cat takes it to that elf girl. I'm going to finish that anime. I have it. I literally, I guarantee I'll finish it.

I hope it happens. I really hope it does. It's not going to happen. They don't have the balls to have a cat, tiger, rail, and elf girl live on TV. It cannot happen. I guess that one will have to go to the Discord. Okay. Last bet from Pancake. Mitz will pass another isekai for spring that does not pass Andrew's test. Wow. His isekai test. Well, I am going to pick the ecchi again because, by God, someone has to.

And by pass, it's not like a group pass. It's a he passes a show during the... No, it's Andrew's isekai test with the females. Okay. So just for reiteration, Andrew's misogyny test when it comes to picking isekai. If the poster has... If the poster is one guy surrounded by only women and it isn't isekai, that show is going to be bad. It has not failed me yet, but...

And I, yep. And shows that have subverted this are either fantasy shows that aren't isekai, but have, it's hard to distinguish it by the poster, but

And shows that usually tend to pass have usually at least one dude or one anthropomorphic animal that isn't female coded. So those tend to pass the shows as well. So yes, that is my isekai test. So yes. I gotta say. It is a fairly easy test to follow. We'll see because according to my anime list, almost no isekai coming out next season.

You have Ecchi also ticked, though. Oh, you're right, I do. There's still only two of them, and one of them is the AI show. Sure, there's actually surprisingly few Isekais this year. And there's only one Ecchi next season, which is very disappointing. Wow, what a lame-ass fucking season. You know what? In hearing that, does that mean that if there's no Isekais, is that our push? Is that? Yeah, I would say so. We'll see. We'll see.

Okay, I will take you on this and I will read whatever book...

This time I'll do a book. A book. Okay. Yes. And I know what book you have in mind. I will read it. For those who don't know, we talked about it, I think, two maybe hobby addicts ago. But there's a book that Pancake has told me about that is quite horrifying. And I will read it. Oh, Tender of the Flesh? Oh, my God. Uh-huh. I will read Tender of the Flesh for you. Why do you always suggest these horrible things? Because those are what I like to read. Yeah.

Rather masturbating in the girl's bathroom or eating people. It's like crazy. What the fuck? That's pancake. Oh, that's just pancake. And then I'll read a book of your choice. Okay. All right. Now for Emery's bets. Give me just a second. Okay. Go ahead. You can read your own if you like. No, you're fine. For the long shot, I think we will get a new Hunter x Hunter chapter within the next six months. Oh, my God.

A new chapter. Nothing too extreme. Just a chapter. And I do have a book or series. I put options because I was having trouble coming up with ideas on the fly last time. So I put things under there. What was the last chapter released? Because I know one was released not too long ago. He's looking spicy. Hunter. Last chapter.

Come on, last chapter release? Yes, because I feel like one was released. September 9th of 2024. Okay, so he released one less than six months ago at the end of December. Man. I feel like this is a 50-50. Right? Are there any other idle games coming out? Because he's also known to be an idle peruser. Yeah.

i thought it was because he had like severe back problems no that's just a lie he makes up it's obviously to do other things like that's just a lie no he is delaying hunter hunter because he is married to another famous mangaka and they made a lot of money and he's he can afford to not break his back if possible

If you want to think on this, I can go over my other ones. You'll take it? I'll take it for the fun of it all. Get in there, boy. All right. And I will make you read. I will make you read the first... He's thinking about it. He's reaching for it, pulling it up. He's looking handsome in his Pokemon shirt, thinking about it. I will make you read...

The first three volumes of Whistle, one of my favorite manga. Oh, Whistle, the soccer. Yeah, nice. Whistle's pretty good. Okay. Whistle's pretty good. That's a good one. That was unpredictable. Okay, and if I win... I didn't know you were a Whistle fan. Are you kidding me? I didn't know. I didn't know the anime's quite good. Are you kidding me?

I've read the manga a bunch of times. I've watched the anime a couple of times. I fucking love, I think it's one of the best soccer series. I think you're right. But out there, have you read Laura Olympus? No, I don't even know what that is. Perfect. We're going to have you read.

We're going to have you read, and I'll try and find the chapters, but Laura Limpas on Webtoon. There you go. Sounds good. Maybe do like the first volume. Yeah, it'd be busy. That's long as fuck. That's what I was thinking, because the volumes are thick for that one. Okay. It's a thick one. Okay. All right, next bet. Next one. We're almost done here, people listening. Okay. She's unfurling it. What the fuck? How do you even pronounce that shit? Yep.

Great question. I don't know. So I'm just going to say the first name. Zolo Maradona. Thank you. Zolo Maradona will be revealed to be Ace Portgas for the live action One Piece. If there's no announcement in six months, this bet is void. Don't care about One Piece, so I'm going to step aside.

Because they just finished season two. They just finished season two. They've announced a lot of characters around Ace, but they will not release who Ace is. There is a rumor going around that he will be Ace. So for those who don't know, Ace is my number one husbando. He's just a lot of people. Yes, he's great. What is going on with Andy? I'll let you guys think on that. And my easy shot is I think Creepy Nuts will have at least two

more anime openings for us i said this year but we'll just say within the six months and it doesn't have to be good they will be good because it's creepy nuts they've been releasing some banger op so i just went with that i'll take that bet i think that they won't and i'll be happy to trade you a doujin slash hentai awesome of course you are yeah whatever if it's a hentai you want me to watch sorry i've already seen it so probably yeah um

Yeah, after doing over 200 hentai episodes, I'm pretty confident I've seen at least 400 hentai. Makes sense. I believe that. Yeah. Okay. That's why I'm so fucked up.

So I will make sure to get all of this onto our discord. Please go to our discord. There are some open bets we have going on and well, I have a question. So if people want to still take, like, even though there are bets between us hosts, people can take on any of these bets if they want to on a personal level. I'm not mistaken, right? Yes, they can. Yep. They absolutely can. They can join up if you, if you'd like.

You might not be able to do the thing like, you know, trading trips here, but, you know, you can still take it to some sort of level that would be, you know, fun for all. So do check out. I just wanted an excuse to see you, though. It's OK. I appreciate it. I also need I didn't need an excuse, but it's nice to have one. You don't have any before we go, Andrew. No bets you want to throw out there. Yeah.

Mine would probably be Mecha related or Gundam related, you know, but I don't have any. I don't want to. I'm not that kind of person. I just sort of like to partake. So who's reading the trivia question? I think we'll have Pancake read it. In Sakuna of Rice and Ruin, Sakuna's parents are gods. Her mother is the Harvest Goddess. What is her father the god of? We'll be right back with that answer after this news break.

Anime addicts, it's Mitsugi, and I'm bringing you your anime news break. We've got some new mangas here. The manga, Kimi ga Shinu Made Koi wo Shitai. Otherwise, I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day. This manga, which features a pink-haired girl covered in blood on the cover art, which is definitely not what I expected, is going to be getting a TV anime release.

From Studio Roll 2, the synopsis is about the death of Sheena Totski's roommate, which is casually announced at the start of class, and the day carries on as usual in an orphanage that raises children as soldiers. Death is nothing new to the residents. With their home country embroiled in a war that has dragged on too many years and shows no signs of stopping, the Institute's children are sent off to die in battle every day.

Sheena is deeply disturbed by the ongoing conflict and wishes for it to end. So definitely a wild looking story, some interesting cover art. We're going to have to see how this turns out from Studio Roll 2 when this manga is finally made into an anime. And new mangas here. The Mushishi creator Yuki Urushibara launches a new manga titled Sueheisen no Nella.

So, the otherwise title is Nella of the Horizon. So, it's set in a seaside town. Suehe Senonella follows Minagi, a young girl living with her fisherman grandfather. And one day during a powerful tide, she encounters a mysterious blue-eyed young man named Nagi who claims to be searching for a mermaid. So...

Mushishi, definitely a pretty darn good anime. Pretty much everything from Mushishi has been good, so the creator definitely knows what he's doing. So we're going to have to see exactly what this brings when this manga comes to life here in the near future. Next up, there is going to be a Studio Ghibli movie coming to theaters in the US, and it's not a very common movie, so...

So pay attention. So next month, a 2024 film highlighting the themes of Miyazaki's environmentalist works is going to be screening in a very limited run. It looks like it's definitely going to be in Washington, D.C. We'll see if it gets expanded to a larger release. It's titled Miyazaki, the Spirit of Nature. It's an 82 minute documentary film by French director Leo Favier. It's going to be presented for free as part of the Environmental Film Festival in the nation's capital.

on March 29th. So we'll have to see if this gets a wider release. But I definitely want to see this as it's been pretty clear that Miyazaki's had a very heavy environmentalist theme clear back to Naoshi of the Valley of the Wind, probably even further back than that. So it looks like we're going to have to see how this is when it comes out. And maybe if we're lucky, it'll end up on Netflix or something. We'll have to pay attention to that. Lastly in the news this week, it looks like

Finally, Cowboy Bebop has indeed given in and is going to be added to Fortnite. So Epic Games announced that the 1998 anime series Bebop is going to be collaborating with the very popular Fortnite Battle Royale. So you will be able to acquire characters Spikes Beagle and Faye Valentine, which will have player cosmetics in the in-game shop starting on the 28th of February. So that's already passed. So if you are a fan of

Fortnite, you'll be able to play as Spike Spiegel, etc. if you want to. I don't know what they cost, but I assume it's probably not all that cheap as I keep hearing nightmare stories about in-game purchase prices, but we'll have to see. And I'm sure some of you that are listening have already made the purchase and are enjoying the new cosmetics as we speak. This was Meats again, this was your anime news break, and now time to get back to the podcast.

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She's a vanishing person. There's just not a whole lot there, too. I think she lives off cigarettes. You know what I mean? There's not a lot to grab onto. No handles to hold when you're going at it from behind. Can you see how delicate I am? I try to say it, and then Pancake comes in, and she says it for me. This is a fucking great arrangement. It is. You said what I was thinking. I know. I just didn't want to say it, so you said it. Of course. But it's okay if you say it. Of course, yeah. Perfect. Because I have a vagina.

There's not enough to hold. You can't say it because you have a penis. To grab onto. Yeah, you need those handles. You want those back dimples. You want the cake on the beach. Yeah. The sand on the booty. You don't want to slap the ass and go ting. Ting. You want a little bit of the wobble, wobble. Wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble. Yeah. Perfect. High five. High five. There you go. Welcome back to the podcast. In Sakuna of Rice and Ruin...

What? Shakuna's parents are gods. Her mother is the harvest goddess and her father is the god of what? War. Yes, indeed. It is Kratos. I gotta say, I love Mason's laugh. I just think it's so cute. It's my favorite. So, Mason, if you're out there. It's a little butthead-like. I like that. I just love it. I just love Mason. He's so great. I miss him. Mason, where are you? All right.

Okay, now as we do every week on this podcast since seemingly half my life, it's time for mailbags. It's time for an almighty anime mailbag. Anime, anime, anime. M-m-m-mailbag bag.

And if you want to be awesome and smit a mailbag for us, you can do so at www.aapodcast.com or not the www. Live your life. Enjoy it. Like Ranger Ramen did. They're a host earlier this year. My wife and I traveled to Japan for the first time. It's safe to say that we it's safe to say we fell in love with the country. I think we all get it. We've all been. We get it.

If you could bring one aspect of Japan home with you, what would it be? Going for the low-hanging fruit. My wife and I would bring back konbinis and their delicious pre-made food.

Rating Family Mart, Lawson, and 7-Elevens was our favorite afternoon activity. Thanks for always keeping us entertained and making our anime addiction worse. So Mitsuki, why don't you start us off? First, I would say that the Famichiki is a new item of food at Family Mart. And we did try the Famichiki. It was good. And it's very fatty. It's like a breaded chicken, fried chicken thing. And usually fried chicken in Japan...

They use thighs. Kind of sucks, but this was pretty good. It's still chicken thighs, but it was good. I will also say that you left that mini stop because the crunky chicken at mini stop is a thing to behold. Oh, and their desserts. Oh, my. Here we go. Oh, gosh. When we were there, there was this mochi that had whipped cream in it, strawberries, and a little piece of white cake on the inside.

And I ate it three separate times while we were there. I went everywhere to look for it. Because they were having like a strawberry festival theme at the convenience stores. And it was amazing. So I agree with you there. Okay. So for me, it's bathhouses. Like I already said on this, I think on this episode, we hit four or five different bathhouses this time. And we went to Japan and I plan on hitting four or five bathhouses every time I go to Japan because I love being naked.

And but it's just bathhouses just don't see unlike the convenience stores, which we more or less have. We just the the the bathhouse culture just does not jive with American culture. It doesn't work. They have bathhouses are almost extinct in the United States. They just don't have a good reputation generally.

Like the one I go to in Denver has a terrible reputation for all sorts of shady and weird shit happening in it. And it's just unfortunate. But I would love to have like every city has two or three really nice bath houses where everybody just behaves and, you know, acts like they're supposed to. And, and, uh, you don't have to pay 40 fucking dollars. I'm looking at you, Denver to go sit in a, sit in a sauna. Um, so that, that's what I would say. That's what I would do. I mean, I'm literally going to have to build an onsen in my backyard, uh,

And I'm going to. A sento. We're going to build an outdoor sento in our backyard. A sento in our backyard, yes. And then Andrew will come and we'll sit in the hot tub. It'll be great. That's my answer. I'm sticking to it. Awesome. What about you, Pancake? Mine would be transit. I hate cars. I hate being in cars. I hate being around cars. I hate sitting in them. I hate driving them. I hate traffic. I hate everything about it. So if I could, I would pick up trains and put them here and make us have a train system that worked.

Just as well as one in Japan. But that would never happen because they'd probably end up like the ones in like the UK that are just hot, sweaty and dirty. But anyway, that or like Mitz alluded to is bathhouses and bathhouse culture. I love being able to sit down and just like take my time and like get clean and relax and

But sadly, here in American culture, if you're naked, it's automatically sexual. So the bathhouses here are sexualized. And if you go, you've got to keep your head on a swivel because there are creeps out there. You, I have to keep my head on a swivel. Especially men. But don't the women, the women behave themselves, don't they? Most of the time. But. Man, you're so lucky. Yeah. Yeah.

If you're a man, you got to keep your head on a swivel extra, especially if you go on Valentine's Day. Yeah. The one bathhouse in Denver, the guy told me the police come average twice a week. So that's pretty weird. Yikes. Yeah. So those two things would be...

My top two, but then also convenience stores. The transit, you're never getting that. I know. We're just too large of, I think it's just too large, too much space. And we had set up all of our transit around the automobile industry way too early on. That's right. Yep. Yep.

Andrew. Andrew. Here he comes. So, I mean, you stole mine of transit. So I'm just going to do something different to do something different. I'm going to say arcade culture. I think that we need to bring back arcade culture and it needs to be sort of like Japan. I want my round ones not to be just one massive place. I want it to be like 10, seven levels, each one dedicated to one type of game. Yes. Uh, I want, I want them to be, uh,

at least one in like every major city, maybe not, and not, and not just round one. You bring me the Sega one, bring me the, bring me any, bring me all the, I want Japanese arcade culture. I want to be walking. I want to walk in. I want to be able to play a claw game, go upstairs, play some metal games, maybe get myself into some arcade.

um not dnd um ddr yeah on the rhythm game floor uh maybe get my ass kicked at fighting games and never want to play them again i just want arcade like it's sort of happening but they're also but kind of here they're all kind of like they're not all the fun games i just want me to like it's kitschy i want it to be a thing yeah you know

Yeah, we have a main event by us in Knoxville, Andrew, and it's nowhere near as good as round one, but they do have a couple of those medal games, although they have the crappier ones.

But I mean, all we do in America now is the ticket games. It's like, ugh. I don't care about the tickets. Who gives a fuck about ticket games? I would pay 20 bucks a month to have a metal bank at an arcade like they have in Japan. I know it's free in Japan, but it's America, so I would never expect the banks to be free. Literally anything to be free. So if I had to pay a subscription to keep my metal bank open at an arcade, I would do that just so I could have metal games. I love them that much.

Okay. I'm ready. Do you have one? Yes, I, I have a few, but comedians, obviously I'm going to real quick touch on transit. Cause yes, I just want subways and trains here in general. Um,

Similar to Pancake, I don't like driving. I don't really love dealing with all the maintenance behind cars and things like that. I'm a passenger princess. So let me be a passenger princess in like a nice, clean subway where I can just read my book or listen to a podcast and just go. I just want to live. I want to walk to the station, get my steps in the morning, sit and go to my stop. Get some sunshine. Yeah. Like there's a reason you and I have work from home jobs and I think it's cars. Yep.

Absolutely. Absolutely. But yeah, Konbini is obviously a big one. But mine that no one's touched on yet is the impeccable cleanliness. So like I love and it's not everywhere. I understand that like I went to Tokyo with my husband two years ago. Nope. Two years ago now. Thank you.

Time. It's a flat circle. And we were getting up at the ass crack of dawn and we're like, oh, let's just go get coffee across the way. And there was already a janitor out just sweeping. And I was just so impressed by the diligentness and just the cleanliness of that city. Yeah, I love it. They really care about they really care about things.

About their cities and their culture. And they take care of it. Yeah, it's just so nice. It's the only time it was really stinky was on Trash Day. And that makes sense. It's Trash Day. Yep. I agree 100%. All right. Do you have anything else? No. Oh, the hot and cold beverages in the vending machines. Oh, yes. So sorry. Vending machines. I totally forgot. Vending machine culture. Bring back vending machines. Bring back vending machines. Yeah.

Just like on the corner, well-maintained, well-taken care of. We're keeping the cleanliness part. I want to get a hot beverage that's perfectly warm. That's not going to scald my mouth. One more. Suica cards. I think we need Suica cards. They're so good. How about milk tea? Just in general. Milk tea. You and your milk tea.

Man, you are like me. If I could, I would inject it into my veins like heroin. Yeah, I was just about to say that. I was like, this is your heroin. Yeah. Milk tea. Oh, there it is. There it is. All right. Let's review this shit. All right. So it's time for the review of Sakuna of Rice and Ruin, the fall 2024 joint, which I passed. And I will note that it's on Netflix. There you go.

So Sakuna of Rice and Ruin is an anime that was derived from a video game. Sakuna is a god of war slash harvest who lives in the lofty realm with a bunch of other gods. And one day she goofs up and accidentally lights the storehouse on fire, which houses a lot of important rice for the gods and destroys a lot of rice while confronting some humans that managed to make their way into the realm. She gets banished by...

the head god goddess i guess to a mostly uninhabited island and must cultivate the land and conquer the demons that live there that was my handwritten synopsis i said no more mal synopsis we're not going to read bullshit off mal also you can watch this on crunchyroll as well yes oh thank you oh yeah it says netflix but i watched it on crunchyroll i don't know what the fuck

I watched it on Netflix. That's me. I didn't even know it was on Netflix. You can watch it on both Netflix and Control. Yeah, at the same time. Yeah, so it's done by PA Works. And like I said, it's based on the video game. So I will start with Andrew. What were your expectations going into Sakuna?

Uh, yeah. So I basically looked it up. I mean, I'm watching this for the podcast, right? That's basically been what I've been saying for the, like a bunch of these reviews, since these are now the ones I actually have somewhat control over going forward, uh, with impressions, but this is one I didn't. So I, I saw it based off a video game, big oof, probably I assumed it was a listener's pick. So I'm just like, okay, there's probably gonna, it's probably gonna be, uh,

okay at best. I'm not going in with big expectations, but knowing it's a video game, um...

Yeah, and that's more or less where my experience is. It's based off a video game. It's probably not going to be that great. And I probably thought of it akin to something like the Devil Survivor video game ones or things like that, or even the Persona ones where that's like, okay, probably might not be as good as the video game, but it has a source material that could work, but we'll see. All right, how about Pancake? What do you got?

I had mid-expectations. I figured it would just follow the game generally. We platinumed this game. Fine. You platinumed the game. This game was a... I played the game. You platinumed. This game was a hilarious exhibition of husband and wife duties in the traditional household. Pancake is at home taking care of the garden. I had no interest in the fighting in this game or going out and doing the missions. I just wanted to plant the rice and...

and take care of the house and the ducks and shit and I'm out there like killing demons with a hoe with like a rake because that's what she fights with in the game I'm like our resources bring me back some meat daddy or whatever the fuck oh yeah it was fun but you know mid expectations for the anime how about you lady the lady

I will admit, I was pretty worried when Mids passed this so quickly. Because I was like, what on earth? I've never heard of this. And then I realized you guys played the game. And I was like, oh, okay, that makes sense. So that said, I didn't have high expectations. I think the only video game to anime that I found good was Castlevania. And that aside, most of them are just fine. So...

I was going in probably low expectations for this one. Isn't that such a shame, by the way, that we just can't seem to pull off video game to anime adaptations as a human race? Yeah. I mean, look, they haven't been able to do it for movies. I expect anime to take a bunch longer to figure it out as well. I think the Persona 4 anime was pretty okay, as I recall. I think, yes, Persona 4. The Persona 5 one sucked. Yes.

I think. And the Persona 3 one was okay, but they were also just movies. So it makes sense. But I think Persona 4 is as close as they've gotten to a pretty solid anime adaptation from video games. That is like following the video games. For me, I mean, I played this game. I platinumed it. I mean, it's a pretty good game, actually. You got Metacritic. I just checked. It's got an 8.3 from the players. Pretty decent. Yeah.

It's a Switch game, primarily, but you can get it on PS4. So I think it's a pretty good game, but I... You know, I mean, I had watched a bunch of it already before I, you know, binged it more or less yesterday, and I expected it to follow the game exactly because it had pretty much done that through the four episodes I had seen. It was pretty much cut for cut for the most part. You know, it's kind of hard to do a cut for cut from a game because you can just wander around as a player and fuck off for like an hour and not do anything, but...

Anyway, we'll go in the same order here. Andrew, would you recommend Saku to have Rice and Ruin? No, not particularly. It's as far as video game adaptations, it's not the worst one. It's even then I would say like story wise, it's pretty OK. And I think there's some really great moments in it, actually, that surprised me.

But I don't think they do it anything so much that I feel that you need to watch this. I think a lot of what you would get out of this, you can get out of other anime and get a lot better, more evocation of feelings and probably better animation and probably better storytelling for the most part. It's not bad. Don't get me wrong, but I'm not going to say go out there and watch it. Like you just play the game. Like I feel like most of us are going to say, yeah,

Let's see here. Pancake. I wouldn't recommend it. I would say go play the game instead. It's not really doing too much. I mean, it's okay to look at most of the time, but just go play the game. It's more fun. It's more interactive. Yeah, we'll talk about it being okay to look at in a second. Lady Emery. Yeah, I feel like it's just made me much rather play the game. I think the...

The avenue that it was supposed to be digested in is game mode. And yeah, we can talk about pacing and other things. The game, like you said, has good reviews. So personally for me, I have enough games on my plate right now. And I know now the plot beats, so I'm going to likely skip it unless somebody really comes out and says to go do it. Yeah, so I do think the game is better than the anime. I think that in the game, the battles and farming are pretty good.

It's quite a solid beat-em-up game slash farming sim. And unfortunately, I think the anime tends to be a little slow and a little boring. That said, the anime is not terrible. I think that for me, the number one thing about this anime that I would say could be used in its defense is that it's a fairly unique anime compared to what we normally get.

So if you haven't even, if you didn't even know it was a game and you picked it up, you're like, wow, how many anime are we fucking farming rice? I don't know. It's never happened. Maybe. Um, there's a lot of unique things in this game anime that probably were in there because it wasn't made to be an anime. It was adapted. And so it's,

It has a lot of unique aspects that go beyond just high school, failed romance, rom-com crap, isekai, power fantasy stuff. Big titties. Big titty elf girls getting hammered by tabby cats and whatever. But honestly, I don't think that's enough to make it really recommendable. And sadly, I found myself quite bored by about episode seven.

And we'll talk more about why in a minute in the spoiler section. But yeah, I don't think I could really recommend this. I think that it was better at the beginning. And I recall that the score on my anime list was higher than it ended. I think this one dropped quite a lot, actually. I think it was something like a 7.7 when I passed it on episode three. And by the time it ended, now it's at a 6.7. So it really did drop quite a lot. And I think it's because the pacing just suffered in the middle a lot. So...

Okie-day, and now it's time for spoilers. Spoilers! Oh my god! So, well, we can start with how it looks. There were some comments about that. I think this anime looks fairly dreadful. I think the character, maybe not dreadful, the character designs are very bad. They definitely have a bit of Dr. Stone wide-eye syndrome going on a lot of the time.

You know, like, well, like, Sokka and his eyes are just going to slide right off. Like, they look like, you know, like grease pancakes is sliding off her face. And I don't think the animation's really all that good, to be honest, especially not for PA works, which I feel like is usually pretty okay. Yeah, I think it suffered in, like, the character design. But at times it was kind of nice to look at.

Like the backgrounds and the color palettes kind of made up for it. And I actually really liked the line art at times. But I just don't think these game designs translated well to anime.

Yep, I agree. I'm looking at some of the images of what the video game looked like, and that's more appealing. It really only works in video game form because it would look quite alien if I were to try and translate to animate. But what PA Works decided to do just...

It didn't really work for me for character designs. That said, yeah, I loved the backgrounds. Those were quite beautiful and well done. And I think there's a lot of attention to detail done for the historical timeframe they were looking at doing or looking at sort of setting this in and some of the mystical elements. And yeah, I think in particular, my least favorite design because it was distracting. I

was the character with the gear on her back yeah yeah yeah yeah i also just can't i can't stand fucking kaimaru the little baby i can't stand a little baby and i can't stand taomon either like i'm like bro you are useless as fuck he's so useless you can't even carry shit to a hole yeah

So, I mean, we're in spoilers, right? So the characters are quite inconsistent, obviously, right? Taimanin is basically useless until he's not useless. And then he is still useless. Kaimaru is weirdly very useful and then becomes a magic baby. And he's like almost the same size as like

Like, is he a baby? What are you? Does he become magical in the game? I don't remember. Yeah, they all become gods in the game. Oh, at the end. Oh, well, yeah. All I remember was Kymer gets lost in the game and you spend like three hours trying to find his stupid ass. I just said the baby drove me up a wall between the character design. The voice was irritating.

So one of the things I want to say about the show that I think is interesting, and I think which is interesting that Mitch said that it does offer something unique. I say unique. It does offer something unique in that it is very not your typical character archetypes in a lot of ways, in some regards for like the characters are together. And like, but I would say that.

By episode three, if I did not know it was a video game, I would have felt something was off or episode four. I would have felt something was off around episode four. I went, oh, yeah, no, this is definitely based off of a video game because it very much feels like.

the characters are doing something and then there's an issue and then boom, it's taken care of and it sort of gets hand waved, right? There's a lot of like it's the pacing is still it keeps up with the pacing a lot just because it feels like each episode we are we kind of having an issue. We're going to fight something and then we kill it basically instantly.

And that solves the problem essentially at the end of it. Like when they're starving, when they're starving at the beginning, cause they don't have enough food and then they. Aren't starving. And they're like, it's going to take seven years to get enough rice to actually have a decent harvest. And then boom problem. She's having a fucking fit and trying to evacuate the island. And then they, they, yeah, I think that's what you were probably referring to early on. Just in general. Like the pacing, I feel like is off because of it being a video game for sure. Yeah.

And it feels like at least with something like, and I'm going to bring Persona 4 here back into as a comparison point as, which has a very similar pacing issue, especially early on, right? Meet new character, go into their heart, basically fix their heart and they become who they truly were meant to be. And that's like the first bunch of episodes as you collect all the characters that were in the game, right? Because that's how the game was. But it feels like,

there was more thematic resonance to whatever those resolutions were. Whereas this one was like, we're having a problem. And also, unrelatedly, this is a thing that's happening. I dealt with it. And I think it felt like until essentially the last arc, or like halfway through the show, it wasn't attempting to resolve. Like, it wasn't trying to combine whatever character resonance was happening to the greater threat until later on. Yeah. But...

I mean, it sounds crazy, but I did like a lot of like the good moments were pretty good. And I do want to give like to say something nice, like like Sakuna as a character. Once you get past her annoyingness, there is some depth to her character. She isn't one note in some ways. She grows. She evolves, which is good. Although she didn't. That'd be a problem. And she does in the game, too. She definitely starts off being like.

basically a temper tantrum like routinely and you know she definitely ends up being she grows into her shoes I guess I would say throughout the course of it I will say the only two side characters I really enjoyed were Yue and what's his name

Kinta? Those are the only two that I can stand. I can't stand Mirth. Why are you here? To cook some food and just magically know how to make medicine? Everybody in the game has a role. Mirth cooks. Kinta or whatever is the blacksmith. The little girl who I can't remember her name. Yue. She's like a tailor.

kai maru does nothing um talmon does pretty much nothing but in the game you don't have to spend a lot of time with these characters they just kind of a lot of the time they're just kind of merchants almost or you can talk to them if you feel like it but really you're just going to your place to like harvest the rice or whatever in the anime they're being used as like main characters with lots of dialogue and stuff and these are just not really super great characters probably because they were just meant to be

Like Kinta's just a fucking vendor, basically. He sells you weapons. And so it's surprising you like those two. I thought they were kind of annoying because they're like, I'm not a fan of that sort of like relationship sort of to some extent. He does get better as a character slightly. And Lady Emery, I know you're going to want to get in here. I'm going to let you get here in a second. Oh no, you're fine. I just, I just want to say like my one issue, like my one main issue is with the,

The fact that out of nowhere in the middle of the show, they introduced this, the visitors, this interdimensional organization of people who just sort of do things and they exist. The UFOs, aliens. Yeah. Just cause. And then they are mentioned, but they literally have no bearing on the plot except for, yeah. Aliens. Yeah. Just cause, just cause like,

That's wild because I already like, what is it? Not dissociated, but that thing you do, you know, like divorce, whatever. Like that cognitive dissonance of...

Not exactly, but like I can, you know, like anyway, that thing you do where it's like, OK, there are gods in this world and they're humans that come into this world. I can buy into that. And that already makes sense. You know, I can like the cognitive dissonance of all of that. I've already gone past. And then for out of nowhere, it's like, oh, by the way, aliens. And I'm just like, wait, what? Yeah. Are we going to explore this more? No. What?

Nope. Does that get explored in the game? Are there even aliens in the game? No. Did you ever find this out, or did they just add that in for no reason? I don't remember there being any aliens in the game. I don't remember the aliens at all. I was like, that's weird. There's a whole lot more demons in the game. There's a lot more demons, yeah. A lot of demons. And Ashigumo is in it a bit more in the game, too. Yeah, he's more prominent, yep, for sure. Otter Man. Yep, he's cool. I like him, actually. Thank you. He's a pretty good character. But, yeah. Yeah, that was...

That whole thing with the aliens, I was like, why? Why? We got gods and aliens now? Okay. Yeah, so, I mean, I think, yeah, I don't know. I mean, I think the problem with the, the number one problem with the, the anime is not all bad, but the number one problem with it for me is that the pacing and the story suffer because they both, they seemed rushed and slow all at the same time.

which is kind of weird, but they're definitely trying to cram a 40-hour game into a four-hour anime, but at the same time, they do it in a way that makes the anime very boring. So to me, that's a problem. I like the rice facts. As a solid point, that's true too, but as a solid point where I think the pacing is actually perfect...

is in the death scene, quote unquote, of her dog assistant spirit, the sort of Hoshitama. Or Hoshidama. I think that episode is actually really properly paced. I think it actually evokes the proper emotional resonance that it has. And I hate to be a Debbie Downer, and I know I keep bringing up my dead friend, but as someone who did lose someone not too long ago, like,

that I understand it sort of gives this understanding. Like I look back on it maybe six months ago, or I guess it has been six months, maybe before my friend had passed away. I probably would have looked at this episode and be like, oh, whatever. But I look at it with that context now added, and I'm like, that's actually a really like,

Good episode you can use and it's really like they evoke all the proper emotions I think that should come out of some such a thing and I want to give it praise for that especially Yeah, and that was probably one of my favorite moments of the show. He's a he's probably the second main character really of the game I mean, yeah, he's he's with you though pretty much the whole time even when you're fighting and

and is a continual source of wisdom and just companionship, you know, as a dog should be. So, yeah, I mean, that's and they definitely have that scene in the game as well, you know, where he it's sad in the game. So it is sad. I would say the music in this is pretty good. And I thought the music in the game was excellent as well. That's my opinion. But I thought the music in the game and the anime is quite good.

I was happy with this music. I wrote that down that it was very good. The opening and ending were fine. They were just opening and ending songs. But yeah, any time they were either trying to invoke certain feelings or shifting the scenes, whether it was to heaven or going back to this island of demons, I thought the music followed suit very, very well. Except for the episode where they're singing while they're planting the rice. That makes me want to tear my ears off.

That was pretty rough. Yeah. So I liked it. I did not care for it.

I did not care for it in the first time they did it, but in the death episode, right? I think that was like, it felt nice and emotional because you saw the resonance between him remembering when his original master did that and he first started singing along and now his new master doing it and that kind of resonance where he can sort of go along with it himself now that he's like the spirit animal that exists. Yeah. I think...

I think you're right. I think it's more of just a me thing. It's similar to people who have usually like a musical theater background who want to like randomly start singing their songs to me. I'm like, okay, okay. Like I just get like if music is on in the background, it's fine. But when everyone just starts singing, I just get really uncomfortable. Oh no, me too. I'm like, whoa, this is really awkward. Like, do I need to leave? Can I run and jump off a cliff? Like, I don't know what to do here. Yeah.

Yep. But that's probably like happy birthday as a song. I think this is their Pokemon opening song. This is their Pokemon OP, you know, catch got to catch them all. That's their got to catch them all. I was with them. I don't even like happy birthday being sung to me. Like it makes me want to like unzip my skin and throw myself into like it's a terrible song. I just want to die.

I also don't think the action in this anime was very good. In the anime, the action is quite good. Or the game, the action is quite good. Not only is the beat-em-up action in the game good, but it's crunchy. You know what I mean? When you wind up, and it's Smash Bros. like, where you wind up and you have that ball bat, and you're waiting to hit somebody with a high percentage of that bat, and you know they're just going to explode and fly off the screen like a rocket.

The game is like that, where they'll have all these little trash mobs that are all around you, and you'll just wind up on your good attacks and just fucking trash them. And it's just, you know, it just feels real...

It just feels good to hit them. And the game definitely has that, like, ribbon thing is very prominent. In the game, you can grab enemies and swing around them. You can swing off of objects. It's very used as, like, a parrying object and also something that makes you more maneuverable. And they tried to do that in this anime. There were some fights where she's kind of flying around the inside of, like, a room with her ribbon and whatnot. But I just don't think it was very... It wasn't featured very prominently. And the anime doesn't...

have the kinetic excitement that the game has. Maybe it's just because they couldn't animate it with the money they had or whatever, but I just didn't think. For a game that was probably a better beat-em-up than it was a farming sim, I'm just going to look at Pancake. It was probably an okay farming sim. It was fine. It was interesting because in the game, the...

input, what you would collect when you were out, you put into your fertilizer and you could improve your crop. So like that was the whole thing. Like you actually like tilled the land and you actually planted the seeds and, you know, did the whole thing. And you actually like played with the water levels and like the water actually got too hot or too cold and you

you're doing all of these variables. So that was pretty interesting that you don't usually get in a farming sim. But I think the fighting was better. I think the fighting was still probably better. I just didn't get the same feeling from the anime's action that I got from the game. I don't know how you guys felt about the action, but I didn't think it was overly impressive. I don't think there was a lot. No, I wasn't impressed. At times it felt very slideshow-y a little bit. They did it too with the farming simulation, but just...

It felt too juddery and I like smooth fighting. I I do like things like solo leveling I'm pretty big on like that kind of shown in enjoyment. So so leveling looks pretty fucking good Mm-hmm. So yeah, this wasn't my speed for the fighting I I could have done I don't say I couldn't could have done without it I just could have more effort could have been put into it. Yeah, I

I'm going to go ahead and lead us off here. I don't have any more comments, really. I think the anime is really only good because it's somewhat unique. And I don't really think there's much more to it. It's not all bad. I think it is serviceable. And I think that it could have been a lot worse. But ultimately, I think it's very mid. And I'm going to give it two and a half ducks floating around in the fucking...

eating the bugs out of your lily pad or whatever out of five at your rice patty? I don't really have a whole lot else to say about it. It was fine. I would not, like I said, not recommend it. Just go play the game. The game's, I think, more enjoyable, has better pacing, but it's not the worst ever. I'll give it a two and a half out of five Kaimaru animals rating.

Okay. Okay. I'll go next because same. I think we've said all there is to say, to be honest. So this is fine. If I had more time to game, I would maybe pick this one up, but I'm trying to get through Hades right now. So I'm going to give this 2.5 Onigiri out of five. So just an awkward half Onigiri hanging out there. Still good though. Oh.

I actually probably do have more to say, but also I think at the same time, we've said more of what we need to. The show is different enough that I didn't hate it. It didn't grab me enough to want to feel the need to keep watching it longer.

As I binged it in this past thing, as other shows have. But it wasn't so bad that it felt like I was slogging through to get through it. Bringing back to the question of the mailbag question, this is a very decent transit experience.

I popped it on while I was on transit to my job to and from my job some days and I got through it fairly easily. But it's not when I was going to sit home and just watch and enjoy. But I think I enjoyed enough of it. I think it explored some of the relationships pretty decently well. We didn't talk about it much, but I think the relationship between Sakuna and Kokoroa

Kokoroa was pretty interesting as well. I thought she was going to be a worse character, but the fact that she slipped into darkness for even a moment and felt bad about it was still good to see about her character because

I've been Kokoroa watching somebody basically get by on just like not even their own laurels, but doing all the not optimal things and succeeding heavily when you're trying to do all that's right and failing or not doing as well. So I empathized a lot with that character as well. The show is also getting for me 2.5

visitors plot lines plopped in out of nowhere only to be ceremoniously dropped immediately after just so we could introduce an element that I don't even think was part of the game because why not out of five so yeah 2.5 out of five yeah I was not a fan of Coco at all I'm like what the she just fucking like it's like oh I'm gonna backstab you sort of but oh and then 10 seconds later it's like this is my best friend like

Like, really? Like, I get Sakuna's kind of... It was a moment of weakness. It was. I think it was literally just a moment of weakness. That's, yeah. I got it. I get it. I get it. Yeah, we've all had moments like that, I think. I will say this game is available on the Nintendo Store and on the PlayStation Store both for $30. It's probably a good buy, actually. It's got a 4.4 out of 5 on the Nintendo Store. Pretty good, probably a decent rating.

All right, guys. Was that a clean sweep of two and a halfs? Yep. Nothing could be more mid than that. That is epic mid stuff right there. Just tells you that we're all on the same wavelength. But thank you guys for tuning in, listening to us yap about...

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