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Tekkonkinkreet Why have i never heard of this? - Anime Club · Anime Club Podcast

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  OK, hang on, hang on, hang on. OK, you bounced.
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  You did it again after you restarted.
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  You did it again every week, every you do this.
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  Double double got yeah. Hello, welcome to Anime club,
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  the day old art classroom where every week we gather and talk
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  about a film or three episodes of an anime that we like.
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  This week we're doing a film and I have with me my wonderful Co
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  host Eddie. OK my other wonderful Co host to
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  God King Chris. Hey, all right.
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  Yeah, yeah. How are you?
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  I'm good, I'm good. Very very grateful I watch this.
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  Are you? Yeah, I am actually.
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  I would never have chosen it from the from the cover.
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  Yeah, OK, well, this is good. This is exactly the whole
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  mission of. Not that Anime Club really has a
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  mission or like anything kind of meaningful, but when we set out
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  one of the things that we wanted to.
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  Do was the anime? That we wouldn't normally watch.
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  Join us it's anime cult now. Or bow before the great God
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  Totoro. Oh no, Ralph poker Rosso was a
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  God instead. Poker Rosso can be like, I think
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  it's a house, I think it's a it's a polytheic religion, as in
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  it's got many gods. Isn't polytheic a Pokémon?
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  The blue one with the whale on his belly.
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  Oh, Polygon. Poly whale I think.
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  Poly whale. But doesn't he?
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  Anyway, welcome to Anime Club. This week we're doing Tecom King
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  Creek, which is a film, and we did it because I wanted to do
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  some unusual anime animation styles.
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  And this has a very, very unusual, particularly in the
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  character model animation style. But what were your, like, first
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  impressions? Like I say that you're grateful
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  you watched it, but like, how are you feeling after having
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  seen it? I'll learn to enjoy it, right,
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  because there is some weird, weird face angles, weird choices
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  in the in the character design. Like, I'm sure at some point
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  that I gain and it's weird, but I kind of like it now.
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  And it's not due to because I thought when you first see a
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  character, it's like, all right, is this artist good?
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  And then you see the backgrounds and stuff, like look at the one
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  behind us now. It looks amazing.
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  There's so much detail, so much colour.
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  It's like a living thing in itself.
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  And I'm like, no, no, this, this was done on purpose and it is
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  their style. And yeah, I'm care for it.
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  That's the thing. It's like a it's a choice and it
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  is. So when I first watched this
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  many, many years ago, back when I was a young girl, I remember
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  watching it and being like, oh, this is going to take me some
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  getting used to like because it's actually the some of the
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  facial expressions made me feel a bit uncomfortable because I
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  was like, oh, it's not, it's not beautiful anime.
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  But I do think you're right. I think it's a conscious choice
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  to stylize and. In a way that's it's not
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  Escafloni. But there are no boys with
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  beautiful Angel wings and long luxurious hair.
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  How will I know who I was supposed to fall in love with
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  of? Which child did you fall in love
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  with? Oh.
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  No, don't do that to me. I was myself a child.
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  That's not OK. Don't make this.
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  Don't make this weird. This is just like when I'm like,
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  I love Sailor Moon. And then you were all like, oh,
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  well, it's just schoolgirls and like, and I'm like, yeah, but I
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  was a schoolgirl when I watched it.
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  It's different. I know that that is the exact
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  excuse I use when them when I said that I watched Tenchi Moyo
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  as a kid, but I was a boy, but I was.
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  Just a boy. I didn't know what a harem was,
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  I. Think at some point we're gonna
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  have to do tenchi Moyo. I think we're gonna have to
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  because I just feel like. I'm scared, I like it.
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  I do, you know what? I'm scared it's going to hit me
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  straight in the nostalgia because it's one that I used to
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  watch with our with our SO who came on to do the down to down
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  episode. Both of us watched Tenchi Moyo
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  as kids. Yeah, well.
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  Maybe we get, Maybe we get so back on SO.
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  I would love that. Would you do Tenchi Moyo if I
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  could, if I could try and persuade Soph to come back on?
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  Of course I would. Yeah, OK, great.
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  Weirdly, I was I'm uploading all some of the the old videos from
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  the digit N so I think at some point I'm going to be doing the
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  down to down West. So came on because that was I
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  really did like that episode and I kind of wait and watch it
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  again. So.
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  I also love that the take away from that was Sophie's like me
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  but. Pasha.
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  Yes, very posh. They are quite posh, like you
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  take the Mick out of me for wanting like square crumpets
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  from Waitrose but. I mean, before, before we
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  started recording, they were like taking the monocle and the
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  top hat off. It was, honestly.
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  But I mean, you're not supposed to wear a monocle and a top hat
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  in your living room. That would be entirely uncool.
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  Well, yeah, they did say it was a bit gorgeous, whatever that
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  means. Only for the opera anyway.
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  We've already gone off on that. We today before, before we
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  started, I was like, Mike, we're going to we're going to nail
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  this. We're going to keep the task.
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  We've already gone off on a tangent to Conking Creek.
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  What would you say that this film is about, Chris?
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  Oh. Right.
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  So as as we were saying before we started recording, I think it
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  hits different style. I've got a kid because in my
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  eyes I see two very broken boys. One is 10:00.
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  The boys, I think they are boys. Yeah, yeah.
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  Once called black and once called white.
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  So white is a 10 year old and black is an older boy.
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  Brother found family kind of job and they're basically homeless.
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  The very delayed mentally is in white who's 10, can't count past
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  10, can't dress himself, can't live without black because they
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  do everything for each other. White keeps black grounded and
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  black is the very practical one who is more St. savvy and white
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  has like the the idealistic moral, still a child at heart.
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  Whereas Black's kind of like it's all squashed out of him and
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  the only thing he's got left in this world is white.
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  So they have to navigate through is it Treasure Town it's called,
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  which is like a a rundown, beaten, crime ridden city that's
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  stuck in the past. You can see the decay and how
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  important it is and how just messy and jumbled it is.
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  At the same time, there's they have to deal with Yakuza police
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  and public and general surviving because I mean the sleep in a
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  mini like a old VW bug thing at night.
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  And you can tell the sleep in it because it's got white cuddly
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  toys and these hats and they've had it rough and basically life
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  just kind of. Like getting choked up.
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  Me. No.
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  OK. You looked like you were getting
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  a little bit emotionally. No, no, no, no, no, no.
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  And so basically they, they're trying to survive in the city
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  and life catches up with them. And there's a Yakuza boss.
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  No, sorry. I think it's a triad boss that's
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  moved in a kind of try to renovate the city to bring it
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  into the, into the, not the future, but like the present so
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  they can make money from it. There is a policeman and a
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  yakuza who it's the old guy, I can't remember his name, but
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  there's a yakuza boss who has a bit of drama there and I just
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  think it's a it's a nice little sad story.
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  About about child poverty. Yeah, yeah.
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  Oh, and I suppose it's. Yeah, it is.
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  There is a kind of there is. It is very sad, which I also
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  think is another reason why the animation is actually quite
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  clever, because if it was too realistic, this would be
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  devastating as a film like this, which I think would rival films
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  like Grave with the Fireflies, if it had like a more
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  traditional art style. But because it's so stylised and
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  brightly and it's so brightly coloured as well, like the
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  colour palette is really like, well, like you've picked the
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  perfect background because it does like do this kind of pastel
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  rainbow thing throughout. Yeah, which are really like
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  childlike colours that that's so like the, the violence and the
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  sadness of it are kind of weirdly counteracted because I
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  had forgotten how sad it was when I watched this film.
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  I haven't watched it for probably like a decade was the
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  last like so like over well over 10 years since I last saw this
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  film. The only thing I could remember
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  about it was how brightly coloured and the art style.
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  Didn't remember how tragic it was.
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  Didn't remember the fact that at one point you see a group of
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  grown adult gangsters beating on a child just, like, pulverizing
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  a child, which sounds awful. But for some reason that's just
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  like a kind of like Lib scene that just is like, thrown like
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  he he makes it out. He smashes one of their faces in
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  with a bottle. And then he, like, manages to
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  escape. Yeah.
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  It's like took your Godfather. But I I thought the the really
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  bright colours and the distorted angles that you see things up.
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  I thought that was because it was from the view of a child.
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  Like it's from the perspective of a child.
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  I haven't come up with this. I mean, not only, but that's
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  what I thought when I was watching it.
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  And then kind. Of awesome.
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  I love that as AI, love that as an interpretation.
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  But like, even when you look at the city, everything's so busy,
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  so colourful and hectic. If you were a child, that's how
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  you would see the city. Yeah, yeah, overwhelming.
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  Yeah. And then even when you see parts
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  like you see a group of I think it's a Yakuza that beat beat up
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  a kid, isn't it? No, sorry.
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  It's the it's the triad, the three assassins kind of.
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  But like whenever they get hurt, it's always a really dark scene.
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  I mean, there's one point where the the the best of a roof and
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  light pours petrol or diesel or whatever on one of the assassins
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  and it's in a dark cellar thing. There's nothing else put them
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  to. There's even at the end with the
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  fairground, which is a bright, lovely, colourful place.
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  It like you've always got that. It's dark and it's not as
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  comfortable. Yeah, yeah.
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  Yeah, it does that contrast really well, doesn't it?
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  Because I think like you, you do have those put different scenes
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  and you also have moments where I actually think the child from
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  a child's perspective is a is a good point.
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  Because I think, and I think you see it from Black and I think
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  you switch between black and White's perspective because
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  sometimes you go into like White's imagination land as
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  well. And it really reminds me of in
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  Cowboy Bebop, you know, when you go into like radical Edwards
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  hacking cyberspace, it entirely. Like I feel like White and
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  Radical Edward are kindred spirits in a way.
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  Ed's not a boy. Ed is Ed.
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  Yeah, which is one of my favourite lines of all third
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  time. And I think you get those kind
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  of like really bright coloured, like child, it's almost like a
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  child's drawing that like it all changes into this real
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  Technicolor thing. And then you go back and they're
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  like just sitting in the bath house with the old man who's
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  like one of the few adults who's kind to them.
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  Yeah, yeah, talking about like how they need each other.
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  Yeah, I mean, even the the the old man that you do see that
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  kind of becomes their grandfather picker because he
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  asked them for like almost fatherly advice and but like
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  because he's a kid, he won't take it, but he's like asking
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  for his opinion. I think he's nice to them, same
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  as the police officers as well. Same with the Yakuza because the
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  the trek like little kids by everyone in the city until the
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  the triads, but that's later on. But it's kind of like I thought
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  it's because they could see themselves in it.
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  Like the old man, he said he was an army vet and he's got no one
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  and the city kind of snubbed him.
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  Just like these two kids, the Yakuza, obviously they didn't
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  have very good upbringings and they've went turns to that
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  lifestyle. And then there's the the local
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  gangs. I can't remember what they call
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  but they were dressed in white with a face patterns on and
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  everything with a Rocco or something.
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  And they also, they reminded me a bit of like Akira, they gave
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  me Akira and. Yeah, the bikers.
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  They also Yeah Yeah, for sure. It felt very inspired by Yeah.
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  I mean. Which makes me wonders what
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  Hell's Angels look like in Japan, like the Tokyo chapter of
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  Hell's Angels. Or are they great if you?
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  Because I've stumbled across this a few times when you have
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  the like. Is this a cultural difference?
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  Yes, so I've I've seen some of the the stylized bikers, they do
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  have bikes, but you know where the big, big quiffs and the mass
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  of hair. But if you see the pompadour.
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  We again if you have to watch space standing at some point.
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  Or when you. Do the second week it's come up.
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  We've had a couple of comments on the shorts as well when you
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  were talking about it's in Oh yes, I love this each.
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  But when you watch it, but if you want to look at amazing
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  style, there was 70s and 80s female Japanese biker gangs and
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  they look fucking. You showed me, you showed me
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  pictures of those before when we were having, I think we were
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  having like a little, I think this was actually when we were
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  doing the Naruto episode. We paused in the planning to
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  listen to some like nostalgic Japanese music, and then we
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  started looking at nostalgic Japanese pictures.
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  I think so, yeah. These bikers, because they were
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  iconic. Yeah, we should put some
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  pictures up here. This is a reminder to you for
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  later. I wish people dressed like I
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  know. Yeah, be so good.
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  I know there is something I I wish I had the confidence
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  because I feel like I would dress like that now if if I just
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  didn't care, if I just didn't care as much.
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  Just don't care like. Yeah, I just don't want to be
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  perceived in real life, which is ironic because I literally put
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  myself on camera for a hobby, so that's wild.
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  And you get a cosplay at Sunnycon as well.
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  Same thing, isn't it? I know I'm and I'm low key
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  dreading the walk from the hotel to the venue like that.
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  That, for me, is my idea of personal health.
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  You'll be with us. I'm slightly drunk.
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  True, but and also your lovely partner Molly has offered to
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  bring me like a like a change of shoes and stuff in her bag and
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  she's offered to carry it. So I'm going to make sure that
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  we're definitely both drunk because that's what she deserves
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  for being such a like, a girl's girl.
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  The only problems is it it starts the doors open at like
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  10:00 AM so it's going to be a job happen where like beer for
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  breakfast. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  And also we will have been out the night before, so we might
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  also be a little bit. Even easier, it's fine.
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  Yeah, fair. But yes, so.
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  We've done it, we've done it. Again, so I'm still recovering
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  from being a bowl of gems. The yeah, so the animation
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  styles wild is quite a violent. It has quite a lot of violence
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  in it as a film and lots of like kind of graphic weird moments.
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  Weird seeing the stylized tits appear.
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  Yeah, no nipples. Nipples.
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  It's all very weird, but overall, did you enjoy it as a
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  film? Did you like, did you walk away
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  like, glad you'd seen it? Because I said.
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  You were grateful you'd seen it, but that's not quite the same
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  thing. No, no, genuinely I did like it
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  and it was like a surprise liking as well because when I
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  was watching I even liked it towards the end where it got a
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  bit weird. Do you know when them the
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  Minotaur came out which was like a manifestation of blacks like
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  anger anger. Yeah.
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  I even like that part. I thought was a really good
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  film. Yeah.
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  Nice not to watch with your son though.
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  No. Fair bit older.
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  Yeah, yeah. I one of my favorite bits is the
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  bit where he's they're in the bath house and they're talking
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  to each and it's that bit with the granddad and he's like
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  scrubbing his back and afterwards he's like goes into
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  this imaginary world and then comes back out of it.
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  And they're just doing their survival St. kids stuff.
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  And you realise that White is repeating all the information
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  that he knows about the world. So he's like, then there's
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  winter, then there's spring. And like, winter smells like
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  this. And the best time of day is
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  this. But I like it when the rain
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  can't, like the smell of the rain.
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  And there's like a moment of like, for me, that is like the
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  most heartbreaking bit of the film because you realise that
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  here's a kid who has had zero education, sees the world in a
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  kind of surprisingly pure way for considering the life that
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  he's LED. Just trying to, like, repeat all
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  the information he knows in that way.
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  That is like a very childlike repetition.
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  Yeah, yeah, it's something I learnt today way, and it feels
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  very childlike and honest. Yeah, it's a good film.
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  I enjoy it, but there are bits of it that break your heart.
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  I think it's one of them things where the more you think about
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  it, the more breaks your heart. Like, because on the surface
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  could, you could just be like, oh, it's like Aristocats 2, two
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  cool kids surviving on the streets and the at the end the,
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  the Goffin, the Sunset adopters or whatever.
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  But like, but then you start thinking about right, OK, so why
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  are black and white on the streets?
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  White is a 10 year old who can't count.
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  How long have they been together?
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  And how long does Black Hat look after white?
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  And do the like, have the like had parents before where they're
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  just jumping on the street? And then you're like, oh, how,
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  how do they survive day-to-day? Because in the winter it can't
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  be easy. And then you go in, it's like
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  they're faced with all this violence where none of them
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  react as well. So it's just like they'll throw
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  bottles on people's faces. One of them, like obviously
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  Black's got a big scar down his face as well.
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  How did he get that? Obviously it was from when he
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  was younger. So like, who's going around
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  doing this to to children in the streets?
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  Same with the Triads and the assassins.
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  They were sent to kill kids and it's to say the more like in the
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  film, if you just surface level watching it, you just Assassin's
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  bad guys. You got to get them.
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  But then you're like, these are 10 year old kids fighting grown
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  men with sword. Yeah, and all they've got is
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  whatever is to hand. Yeah, it.
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  Feels it feels unfair. It's a film that makes you feel
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  like life is unfair, which it is to be, you know, frank, but also
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  beautiful. And I think there is something.
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  Yeah, because you were like, it's such a sad film, this.
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  And I was like, well, it's got a kind of a happy ending.
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  And you're like, no. Yeah, I mean there's still two
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  kids that have killed people and have grew up on the streets.
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  I mean, if it if it showed them growing up and having like a
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  nice family and stuff together and like surviving and thriving,
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  then it would have been a happy film.
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  But now there's still 2 very broken children.
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  They are two still very broken children, which is
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  heartbreaking. Yeah, yeah.
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  But there is one thing that I wanted to talk about.
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  Can you remember a little competition that we did?
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  Can I? That's the reason we watched
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  this and it was less of a competition and more of a
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  massive game if I remember correctly.
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  It was more of a could you give us a clue please, please?
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  Please. So because.
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  Where you you basically showed that you have 0 respect for
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  voice actors. So anyway, I've actually looked
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  at the voice actors, the English voice actors in this.
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  Yeah. So nothing.
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  Nothing says knowledge like guilt knowledge.
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  It's worked for the Catholic Church, for JET, like, you know.
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  Exactly, and they've done no wrong.
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  And it's never gone wrong for them.
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  And so. Come on then, who?
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  So who's in it? So the doctor in it that patches
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  up the kids is caught is voiced by Steve Bloom, who is.
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  You love Steve Bloom. Spikes Begal.
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  Yeah, from Cowboy Bebop. From Cowboy as well.
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  Yeah, just mentioned. And the the boss in it is voiced
• 23:37
  by John DiMaggio, which is Bender, Jake the dog from
• 23:43
  Adventure Time. I love John DiMaggio.
• 23:46
  Also. It's weird that I didn't spot
• 23:48
  his voice like I do it because normally he's got, because he
• 23:51
  has got a very distinct voice. Like you know it's Bender when
• 23:54
  you hear it. Yeah, well, Jake.
• 23:56
  The dog slash John DiMaggio. The next one, the add add didn't
• 24:00
  clock until he looks it up. But Salada, who was the guy with
• 24:04
  the pomodor and the beard who kind of looks after the kids, is
• 24:09
  played by Tom Kenny, and he's got a very distinctive voice.
• 24:12
  Obviously SpongeBob. Yeah.
• 24:14
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he doesn't definitely
• 24:17
  doesn't sound like SpongeBob in this.
• 24:19
  No. That was actually quite good,
• 24:25
  Chris, Thanks. You watched a lot of SpongeBob
• 24:30
  in your time. So much SpongeBob so as Finney
• 24:37
  as well as be playing the SpongeBob game in the Xbox as
• 24:39
  well so. Oh cute, that's fun.
• 24:43
  Yeah, and he's, he's not very good.
• 24:45
  So I've got to, I've got to do it.
• 24:46
  And he's got to watch because he's told us to, not because I'm
• 24:50
  taking it off him. Oh, you're not going to do it
• 24:53
  fast enough? It's right there.
• 24:55
  Jump friendly jump. You are the worst jellyfish I've
• 24:59
  ever seen. Oh.
• 25:06
  Slapping the control around his hands.
• 25:08
  Yeah. That's impressive.
• 25:16
  And I love that you looked up the voice actors and I bet it's
• 25:20
  was it actually because you felt bad about being so badly in that
• 25:23
  game? No, I was looking up.
• 25:28
  I was looking up something about this film and IMDb popped up and
• 25:34
  it was just say, I originally saw Tom Kenny.
• 25:36
  I was like, where's this? I can't, I can't remember this
• 25:40
  happening. And then I had I had to watch
• 25:42
  little bits twice and I'm like a.
• 25:43
  Lot of weird stuff happens, but with SpongeBob there, yeah,
• 25:48
  maybe. Who knows?
• 25:54
  But yeah, he's a good like I'm. I'm glad we watched it.
• 25:57
  I also think the other thing about this film is a lot of
• 26:00
  anime. You can look at them and you
• 26:02
  say, Oh yeah, that's produced by like Matt like so I feel like
• 26:05
  Manga Studios all it all looks very similar.
• 26:08
  Studio Ghibli, it all looks very similar.
• 26:10
  I have never seen another film that looks like to conking
• 26:13
  Crete. And right, so this was actually
• 26:17
  directed by a non Japanese person.
• 26:21
  Interesting. And yes, I can't remember his
• 26:24
  name. I can't have written down
• 26:25
  somewhere if you just want to talk while I while I just
• 26:28
  quickly. Yeah, yeah.
• 26:29
  So. And I think that kind of marks
• 26:31
  it as something because that's one of the reasons I picked
• 26:33
  this, because last week we did Monoki, which has also got a
• 26:39
  very unusual art style. And this week we did Tekon King
• 26:42
  Creed. We haven't actually decided what
• 26:45
  we're going to do next week. So I was going to ask, what do
• 26:50
  you fancy? Sorry, I found it.
• 26:52
  It's Michael Arias who is a American guy that lives in
• 26:56
  Japan. Nice.
• 26:59
  Yeah, which I was surprised at Michael Arias and Arias Arias
• 27:07
  and Hiroki Andor, who's I think maybe Japanese do.
• 27:13
  You reckon? Yeah, yeah.
• 27:17
  What with a German name like Hiroki Ando, that seems
• 27:20
  unlikely. Sorry, don't see, Don't see
• 27:26
  race. Then you're part of the problem.
• 27:37
  But yeah, so. Take on.
• 27:39
  What next week would you recommend?
• 27:41
  Yeah. Would you recommend tip Pumpkin
• 27:43
  Crete And what would you like to do next week?
• 27:45
  Because I feel like I got because I I beat you in the in
• 27:48
  the game, which was, let's be fair, stacked against you
• 27:52
  because I made-up the game. I feel like it.
• 27:56
  It probably is your turn to pick.
• 27:58
  Yeah, or at least. To set a challenge.
• 28:02
  I'm going to I'm going to to be announced.
• 28:06
  I'm going to do it. I'm going to to be announced.
• 28:08
  I'm going to pick something, but I'm going to, I'm going to tell
• 28:11
  you at a later time. Oh, OK.
• 28:14
  Are you going to tell me with enough time to watch it?
• 28:17
  Maybe part of the challenge? Fair enough, and would you
• 28:23
  recommend take Onky and Creek to friends?
• 28:26
  Yes, enjoy. It is.
• 28:27
  I'd never heard of it before this.
• 28:30
  Did you not? Not no, Never.
• 28:35
  So I've got a very good friend who lives in Australia.
• 28:37
  Shout out Karen Odin, you're an absolute babe and a stunner, and
• 28:42
  this is one of her favorite anime films.
• 28:45
  And every time I find out that this was one of her anime film
• 28:47
  favorite anime films, it makes me think of her.
• 28:51
  But she's very cool. She's very cool person and I
• 28:54
  feel like this is like, you know, like people who are like
• 28:56
  effortlessly cool and have like proper taste, you know, like not
• 29:01
  nerds who like anime. I know that seems.
• 29:04
  Yeah, yeah. I feel like Kara's a bit like
• 29:08
  that. She's like very cool.
• 29:10
  And sometimes I'm like, why are we friends?
• 29:17
  But I feel like this is like this is like a one of those like
• 29:20
  films that could easily people who aren't into anime might end
• 29:24
  up like sleeper hitting seeing this if they're a bit of a film
• 29:28
  buff. But I think because of its weird
• 29:31
  style, it might actually fall off a lot of like weebie lists.
• 29:36
  Yeah, I get that. So I.
• 29:37
  Get that? So I'm kind of, I'm glad you
• 29:39
  gave it a go with me. It was fun.
• 29:41
  Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't mind watching this again at some
• 29:45
  point as well. Yeah, I think it does if there's
• 29:48
  a lot packed into it. So I think there are probably
• 29:51
  bits that you miss. Not even that, I just, I just
• 29:54
  enjoyed watching it. That's the highest recommended
• 29:59
  recommendation out there. Yeah, so I do recommend it.
• 30:05
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• 30:11
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• 30:15
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• 30:18
  playing about with stuff changing where thumbnails and
• 30:22
  stuff like that make it more short.
• 30:25
  We've got the Facebook, which is Anime Club, and then the
• 30:29
  Instagram, which is Anime Club. Yeah, and the TikTok.
• 30:35
  The TikTok, which is Anime Club, it's like there it is.
• 30:41
  I'm very surprised those names weren't taken, but yeah.
• 30:44
  Some of them we've had to go with Anime Club UK.
• 30:47
  So we'll put all the links in the description below so that
• 30:50
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• 30:53
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• 31:08
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• 31:13
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• 31:18
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• 31:22
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• 31:25
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• 31:29
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• 31:37
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• 31:38
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• 31:42
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• 31:46
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• 31:49
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• 31:54
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• 32:00
  Yeah.