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Anime Talk: Space Brothers Anime Review Discussion · Dad Needs To Talk

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What's up, y'all? And welcome back to Danny's to
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talk, I'm your host Robert. And today today, I am talking
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about a new favorite of mine called space Brothers.
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Now, space Brothers is a series where the manga started in 2007
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and is still ongoing right now up to like they're currently to
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like, 42 volumes. But the anime, Aired back around
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2012. With 99 episodes.
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Now let me get some more information for y'all and of
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course just to make sure I give credit where credit is due.
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The story and art is done by chuya koyama and genre wise, it
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is a it's like a Sci-Fi slice-of-life series.
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So I want to make sure I get those things out the way before
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I continue for. But but yeah, so the anime 99
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episodes. Is long.
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On Crunchyroll only in sub, there's no English dub of this
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series just sub only and it was animated by A-1 pictures now.
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The best about the right. So this show is something that
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has been on my radar for a while because I don't know how much
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I've ever talked about it on any of my shows podcasts, anything,
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whatever. But especially growing up.
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I was a very big fan of space and sci-fi stuff.
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Still, it's still there in my heart is still there in my
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heart, but I just hadn't really read or watched or not the too
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much lately. Lee and so this has been this
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was a few weeks ago now, but I was scrolling through just
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trying to figure out. Okay, what am I going to watch
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today? And it was all, I don't like my
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front page as far as our recommendations and I was like
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you know what, what if today is the day and I kid you not within
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a day and a half, two days. Tops, I had already watched
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about 30 episodes And the first couple days.
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Now. To kind of explain the theme of
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this story. So like I said, it's called
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space brothers and it follows these two brothers muta and he
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Bhutto nonnberg muta being the older brother.
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If you're watching the video version of this, that's in the
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suit and then he beat, oh, the younger brother with the with
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the pointy. Blond hair.
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Now these two says they were kids.
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They always had Fascinations with all things related to outer
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space and dreaming of becoming astronauts.
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And this dream really accelerated when they were kids
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and they were doing their usual thing where they go in the
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woods, they're recording kind of like audio logs of Nature and
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stuff and he Beto happens to come across some weird.
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Aberration in the sky that basically they both believed was
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a UFO of some sorts. And so that was the thing.
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They like like really sparked their interest of wanted to be
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astronauts because I like I want to go to space.
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I'm going to go to the moon and see what the heck that was and
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so fast forward almost 20 years later and he Beto has achieved
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his dream and I'll say this is the spoiler free part right now,
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like I'm just kind of giving a bit of context of Of what the
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show is, but he beat ol kept on following his dreams and he
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became an astronaut. But Mota, didn't he kind of he
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bets going another route? He went to college and he is now
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back to kind of like a engineer of source that designs cars and
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stuff. While first episode, he is
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getting fired from his job because he, he attack.
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He head-butted his boss, which we found out later on this
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because of his boss insulted, his brother but he had brought
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his boss and of course he got fired.
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And of course, the car that they give him a ride to the bus
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station and was a car that he designed the, oh, the irony.
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But that is the Crux of the show is the story of these two
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brothers, and their goals and aspirations to want to get to
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outer space. And like I said, we weren't with
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one of the brothers already. Eddie being an astronaut.
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And then with, with muthu, losing his job and then, once
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the mom, the mom was on the phone talking to, he be Tau and
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basically end up working together to submit Motors
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application to basically start his journey to become an
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astronaut. And so Seeing that in episode 1
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is what really grabbed my attention.
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Really grabbed my heart because I know me I love or series that
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has strong themes surrounding family and just just close Bonds
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in general. And that is something that is a
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reoccurring theme all throughout this series that I've seen so
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far, are that I've experienced so far. and, One thing I love
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about these two brothers connection is that.
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While even though Musa is the older brother, he Beto is always
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the one marching forward because he has unwavering faith, that
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his brother will catch up with him eventually.
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And so he continues to March forward because he knows that
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His brother will get there because Moosa, he does have, you
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know, he he doubts himself a lot but he is extremely, extremely
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smart and we sit at all throughout the show with how
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either he comes up with a Orthodox ideas or Solutions of
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how to solve various problems, or just how he views and
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approaches different tasks at that.
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He's like that. So it's like it's like At first.
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Okay. Who is this clumsy goof?
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But it's like, no muta is one of the smartest people in the room
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but he just sometimes lacks that confidence.
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I tell he's putting certain situations but I just love that
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and I said that that is what hooked me and that first episode
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where his brother were he be? So found out okay, my brother
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lost his job. Mom, help me submit his
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application because I know that if he can get on the path, then
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he will get here eventually. And I love how throughout the
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series. It's kind of like, a constantly
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moving goalpost to where he be told a compass.
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Just another thing. And another thing and then it's
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like, Along the way, he is always thinking about his older
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brother and he's like Mota come on or you know, I'll be waiting
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for you or just whatever vrbas you want to use for that.
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And so I feel like this show, like I said, if if if you're a
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fan of sci-fi and slice-of-life series and you enjoy those very
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strong bonds of characters and Not just feminine words like I
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said this is just different curses that they meet along the
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way all throughout then this is a series that I highly highly
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highly recommend and I blazed through the 99 episodes within
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the week. A week and some change.
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But that's because there's like a couple of days, due to life
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and family stuff, sports stuff, with the kids that I wasn't able
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to watch much if any episodes, but pretty much within 7 to 10
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days, I knocked out 99 episodes and it has been a very long time
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since something like that of that scope has grabbed my
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attention, because of course, know, we've all done, plenty of,
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you know, Netflix 10 episode, Binge watch sessions over the
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weekend, but this this is not that this is knocking on 100
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episodes and so, but that's how much I fell in love with it.
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So we're pretty much. I abandoned everything else
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along the way to solely focus on watching this show.
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I pretty much dropped all other animated TV shows.
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I was watching for that time except for a few and I pretty
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much didn't read anything. As I didn't play any games,
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really, it was all space Brothers.
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Yes, and that is the biggest. Recommendation or point of
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recommendation. I can give for this series, like
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I said for myself just because he did.
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It just really spoke to me that deeply on that level.
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Now All that being said, I kind of want to start diving into
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some more specific story, beat moments, that had to happen
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along the way. And and I'm very happy.
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I did this because I did something that I really ever do
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on my Twitter account for Danny's to talk.
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I did a thread for my watch through of the show.
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I rarely do that for anything, you know, if I'm a documented or
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whatever Is usually just me talking about the show and some
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capacity on my podcast or a little review, whatever it is
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rare that I actually would type out, you know, Episode by
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episode, almost or Arc, by Arc things with the show, whatever.
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But I did it for space brothers and so I kind of want to go
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through some of those moments and stuff.
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And so, I kind of regret that I waited so long to do this,
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whatever because it's been a couple of weeks since I already
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watched it. Some of mine is a little bit
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fuzzy on that but but that's okay because y'all know y'all
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don't necessarily need to hear me recap.
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Every single piece of none of them episodes by just want to
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kind of give like some like high-level thoughts on certain
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moment, certain characters, certain story arcs and stuff.
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And so one of the first ones I want to touch on is Is the
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situation that happened with ozma?
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Now, I was Zuma was a character or his the character in the
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series that originally he was presented as there's grumpy
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astronaut that's been there for a long time.
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One of the first session odds from Japan, they were supposed
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to be the first one from Japan to go to the moon, but he's not
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doing it instead. Beto becomes the first action is
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going to Japan and so he's kind of presented as just like this
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like grumpy character. The nobody wants to talk to that
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stimuli has a chip on his shoulder but we fell find out
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throughout this show that Altima.
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Hold on, guess I'm creeping in the background. but yeah, but so
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and so we find out that ozma actually relinquished his
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opportunity, to be the first one to go to the Moon because He
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doesn't want everything that he knows that comes with that,
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which is the pub, it, the, the, the the, the publicity and the
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fame, and all of these things, basically, just start them that
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would come with the pressure of being put in that position.
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So he willingly gave up his spot to he beat, oh, because it's
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okay. He pretty much knew and he does
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eventually. The end up going to the Moon
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little bit later in the, in the end of the show.
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But it's like we see some flashbacks to, you know, when in
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the build-up to this stuff, kind of early on, or whatever huge is
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be out somewhere with his family and while, while one group of
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reporters is over here, like hounding him for information or
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whatever. They're also over here hounding.
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His wife and kids and I hey I wasn't feel if your husband
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being the first person from from Japan to go to space and yada
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yada yada. And he was like, yo, Back up,
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you do not talk to my family, leave them out of it and so so
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yeah. So that that was very awesome to
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kind of get that back story and insight into this character and
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that was something that continue to be a reoccurring thing.
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Throughout the show that I loved is that you would get introduced
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to a new character or set of characters and they, they were
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sometimes we presented some way, whether it be just Just your own
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interpretation of them as a viewer or how other characters
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in the series frame down or talk about them behind their back.
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But then once we have to get to know the characters and their
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situations a little bit more, you learn like oh there is so
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much more to you than I initially thought and it just
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kind of made so many crystals where I was like not sure about
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or didn't like or indifferent to to becoming some of my favorite
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characters in this. Series.
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And so, Kind of going along from there.
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I loved, I just love following motor all his journey throughout
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all these milestones and stuff and all of the goofiness that
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happen along the way from, you know, that first kind of
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interview where he was gonna like mess with the screwing his
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chair and how that was actually a test and him and a couple
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other people were the only people who actually noticed it
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and tried to fix it but then that kind of came back again
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during another Big interview. But what's his name of the
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astronaut Murasaki loosen? The screw too much and now, but
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when he was in the chair failing, almost busted his butt
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and or he did fall in buses, but I should say, but just again and
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again, my heart was just so filled just watching these
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characters succeed and go to the next step.
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And I even love when he met at the, the older guy that that saw
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him and he beats her a lot because growing up as kids moved
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to, and heberto would always go to these kind of like museums or
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showcases or whatever. So much about space and
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astronauts to where they had. A lot of the script memorized.
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And there was a guy there, there worked at jaxa which is the
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Japanese space company. He was the one that got to tell
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muta. Congratulations, you know.
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Basically you're coming on board to start your training and stuff
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and so yeah. So next point or next story, but
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I kind of want to touch on is The moon incident with hey Vito.
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Now before we get to the bad stuff, The Good the the happy
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stuff that happened. The moment of he veto first,
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stepping onto the moon, and just doing this insane jump, and he
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just continues to job and just saying, yay, I just freaking
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loved it. I loved how the media took it.
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They freakin turn made a whole freaking anime based off of him
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with his little rabbit character and all this stuff whatever.
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Though had a little little says that the black dude was the
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gorilla. Oh no.
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But that aside, I just love seeing the Joy on.
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He be toes face and stuff like that but then a little bit later
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on when he be told and I believe Daniel was his name, I think no
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forgive me I can't remember what the other astronauts name was.
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Do 2222. He beat I do and Damien Damien.
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That's what it was. There are basic kind of like
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going to survey the area whatever but because of how
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Vision is stuff. Works on the moon.
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It is hard to tell if something in the distance if that's a
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mountain or just a hill and it's also hard to see craters and
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stuff in the ground because of like, so you kind of coming over
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the way those the surface of the Moon works whatever just made it
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just it really it really messed with their perception of things.
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And they ended up falling into a freaking crater and Damien gets
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badly injured. And they talked about how her
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and the training is a hey, if it comes down to it, all of us
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know, going into these missions to worry about yourself, first
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and your survival. If you can't serve somebody,
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then they know that, that is for the reality of this line of work
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and Haley, the behind you come back basically.
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Because and I guess like, the thinking of that is like, hey,
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this is all lunch. a territory if we lose all the astronauts or
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everybody on the team, whatever then You know where we haven't
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met any progress versus okay, we might have lost somebody but at
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least one person was able to make it back and for most of our
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hey there is a crater here or hey, this is what happened.
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So they can kind of like help them learn and build off of for
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the next time. Well he be telling like nah, I'm
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Gonna Save my homie. He came up with the plan and he
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adds up. You know, getting Damien up and
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stuff, and he's giving each other like, pulling out the
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crater War. As he's scaling this, the wall,
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he falls off hits the surface of the my own relatively hard, even
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though the zero Grant low gravity and gets injured, his
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oxygen tank gets gets destroyed and so now he's on his back of
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tank is destroyed and like his suit is like leaking whatever
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and so it was bad. Now I'm stressing out because I
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am like oh no, is he would tell about to die?
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Because just because they're both on the cover does not mean
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that they both were still alive currently in the manga and
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stuff. Even though I have some faith
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that it was the case but the same time I'm like, I don't know
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that I could just be him, imagine the, the spirit of his
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brother there with them, but they are, but that whole Arc and
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stuff was Very very stressful to watch because I was like are
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they really going to make it out of here?
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But I loved how the spirit of this astronaut named Brian.
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So three years prior to the situation, we learned that
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basically there was a accident during re-entry from space from
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a crew with Brian which is basic kind of like kind of like
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there's like legendary Terry almost gold Roger from One Piece
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type of figure, but Be their parachutes then, injects
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properly, whatever. And so, you know, they crashed
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everybody. All three astronauts on board,
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or however many died. But Brian also had a brother, my
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older brother the same way, how he Beto has an older brother,
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but I just really loved how that whole story arc ended up going
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and shaping and stuff because He be told and I find out this kind
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of like like glimmering shot. He saw in the distance was a
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space figure that Brian had left on the moon when he was there.
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All them years back and that helped God, he be towed to
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safety between that. And then this kind of like a
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this moon rover thing that they named Brian as well.
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And so yeah. So so all that stuff was just
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super dope to see. Be kind of like big store be
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after that was all of the big like like like like like the
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core crew kind of getting their astronauts.
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Do some stuff for their blue jumpsuit I should say that was a
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very dope moment. I'm trying to see you oh oh
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yeah, yeah yeah 11 of the next people.
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Then I want to kind of highlight is this dude?
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What's his name Vincent? Bold him and then there's this
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kind of this other drunken dude Pico yes, Pico.
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So now we talked about Vincent first so Vincent who was who is
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voiced by the same voice actor who does nanami from Jiu-Jitsu
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Kaizen? I love that but but but Vincent
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He is a character that is very punctual.
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He does not like his time to be wasted and he is very strict.
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And then on the flip side, you have this character named Pico
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Who is he? Come on.
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How are the not loaded? Okay.
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Well, it in low properly, for me, but I've been who peacock
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that this, this other character that we see here, yet him and
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the bottom, right? For those of you watching the
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video. Oh, he was a total opposite
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where he is, he's like a drunk who had little to no cares in
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the world and it was a shock to me when it was revealed that
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these two characters were essentially best friends that
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grew up together, it was those two and then they had a third
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friend who once again, they are dreamed of becoming astronauts
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and and that Pico was To be the one who designed the sheriff and
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Vincent was going to be the astronaut and and the other
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friend I can, remember his name was going to be the one and kind
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of a kind of like the mission control room, directing things,
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whatever. Well, unfortunately, where they
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were kids, their friend died in a accident on the same way where
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they all can have had on the same day.
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I should say where they all kind of had like this, like, big
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argument and stuff and that's what kind of LED them on their
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different paths. Kind of like attitude wise to
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where Vincent took. It as like man.
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Tomorrow is not promised. You have to cherish every second
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of the day every day period. And then Pico was just like
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there is no point in doing any other stuff, whatever it was
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that accident, plus the situation with the with the, the
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parachute because we find out That he was supposed to be the
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original person that designed the parachutes and throw for,
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for the shuttle, they have a accident, but the head guy, the
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director, whatever of that team chose to go with a cheaper
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company because like, no, I don't trust what you're saying,
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whatever. We're going to go with this
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other company, even though they haven't done any testing.
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Whatever. We're going to go with them
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because they're cheaper. and then that last City accident,
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and he felt horrible because he was like, they didn't, if I
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would have been the one who worked on this project, this
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would not have happened, but Muto was the one that kind of
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like brought together kinda like um like reawakened both Vincent
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and Pico throughout the show just because it was just so
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awesome. Just send those characters just
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kind of come together and things like that.
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I'm trying to think of another kind of like thing with this
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show to and apologies. I don't kind of like all over
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the place but I'm just like trying to remember stuff is kind
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of coming to me, whatever. but it's just that like, of course,
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of course, I knew that obviously become an astronaut is not some
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super easy task, but And even if this isn't like a hundred
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percent accurate representation, I feel like this is at least
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like a good idea of some of the potential hurdles that are
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involved on the journey to becoming an astronaut because
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some of these tests and trainings and different things
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that happen along the way was insane that they had to go
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through to hone their road to becoming an astronaut.
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And then the fact that I, hey, Just because you become an
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astronaut does not automatically mean you get to go up to space
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or whatever cuz it's like Vincent he's been freaking
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astronauts like 12 years at this point, never never been up to
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space whatever. Until like the very end of the
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season he was got a chance to go on a mission to the moon but it
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was just wild, you're just saying that realization there.
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There was a short guy earlier in the series car for you.
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Hello. You.
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Yeah, that he was used at the accepted that I was kind of
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annoyed with it first because I'm like, man, this guy is
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annoying, but I loved how we got a little more back story with
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him. And one of his idols was
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somebody who had, I think it was mighty there was like, like,
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alma mater of his school or something, where I back in the
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day that went to try to be an astronaut whatever, but back in
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the day, Day. They had high requirements even
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though he passed all the tests, whatever he was just a little
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bit too short to meet their High requirements.
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But one thing that I love about this series is that a lot of
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these characters just because they get told no and one
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situation or they don't get the opportunity to do something,
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then these characters will do their best to open up the door
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for the Next Generation to come behind them because even though
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this guy got denied because of his height, he ended up going
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into designing space suits, that kind of like fluctuate and
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height and that kind of forced NASA.
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And And the body that makes those rules to now, people are
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like him for. You can have an equal
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opportunity to also become an astronaut as well as.
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So, it's stuff like that. It was just so dope to see
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something. Who is another character?
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Oh, Daniel young, this Auto. So, So most of them were at the,
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we're at the location for the shuttle Lodge, and so chaos, of
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course in sewage because nothing can ever be simple.
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When it comes to muta. So Moosa, is there with his
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brothers dog, with forgive me? If I'm forgetting the, I'm
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forgetting the adorable, dog's name.
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I can't believe I'm forgetting the dog your name.
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Oppo Oppo. So they're there and so move to
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had to run to the store real quick and while he's in the
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store, He's had I brought up outside or whatever.
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Well, this snotty-nosed brat comes up out of nowhere and
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toss. The dog is, I'd be free dog.
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And now, we have a dog on the loose during a shuttle launch.
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So muta and Kenji and other character I'm gonna talk about
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in a second cuz he's a dad. So, I didn't get to talk about
30:35
Kenji in a second, but, um, but but another but, but yeah.
30:40
So they run around trying to find the dog.
30:42
Meanwhile, this old man finds the The dog and muta finds out
30:51
muthu goes to get the dogs to get oppor upper back, but the
30:55
old man basically and in a sense, kind of like almost
30:58
kidnaps motor as I. Hey.
31:00
Okay, I'm going to take you, he just starts driving.
31:03
He doesn't even explain it to. He just starts driving and he's
31:06
drunk driver at Hog Wild across this base or whatever.
31:10
And they go to this like abandoned building out way away
31:14
from everybody, whatever. And he has ups and like we're
31:17
going to watch the lingerie. Like this is my favorite spot to
31:20
watch it and be revealed later on that.
31:26
This seemingly crazy old guy is actually a pilot trainer he
31:33
trains astronauts how to fly Jets, because that's another
31:38
crazy requirement. In order to be an astronaut, you
31:40
have to freaking learn how to fly a jet.
31:44
And so now, I'm the fact that this dude is wild old man isn't
31:50
instructor but that he was, he Betos instructor was super dope
31:55
and I loved how that connection came together and I loved how
32:00
later in the series like towards like the end of the anime, he
32:03
came back around or he came back when moved to got to the point
32:09
where he was getting ready to do, his transitive, two out of
32:12
five jack, old man, Daniel young became Motors teacher and he had
32:19
some wild and on and on Orthodox teaching and teaching ways that
32:24
a lot of people don't cut but It explains why he beats her was so
32:30
chill during his shuttle launch. Whatever is that like, hey, he
32:35
missed the young wraps things up to such a degree.
32:37
He's a, hey, if you can survive my training, the anything else
32:43
is easy, is Easy Street. And so, I love how muta is a
32:52
being his final student that he teaches And just that when I
32:57
reveal happened, I think it kind of like, welcome you to up to
33:00
take things a little more, seriously, not that he wasn't,
33:03
but the kind of like really understand this man and thought,
33:07
okay, if I'm gonna be the last student that I'm a, make sure I
33:10
learn everything that I can, you know, from from this Legend.
33:16
And so, yeah. So so did this, this was just
33:17
like, it's just like a very awesome character.
33:21
Now I'm gonna see if I can find. Do I have a picture on our dad
33:26
Have a picture of Kenji somewhere.
33:27
Surely doo doo doo, doo doo, maybe maybe.
33:36
Okay. So, can G here?
33:40
Kin G, of course, is the character that of course is near
33:45
dear to my heart because he is a dad.
33:47
So and that is something once again that I just love love with
33:52
all these characters, we met so many characters from so many
33:55
walks of life, some of them or just single some of them are
33:59
older brother. Some of them like, Angie is, Dad
34:01
would be somebody later on that. That is a is a, is a mom older.
34:08
People are different. Four types of people in the mix
34:11
whatever. But one thing with can G vicious
34:15
like really hit hard home. Hit hard for me was like as the
34:20
trainings and stuff kind of like really ramped up.
34:23
You know, he was gone away from home for so freaking long tour.
34:28
He'd be gone for a few days at a time to sometimes a few weeks at
34:32
a time traveling across the country.
34:34
Crocker travel, across the world, doing all this training
34:37
and stuff. Meanwhile his His daughter.
34:41
She's growing up and then throughout the show, his wife
34:45
gets pregnant. So it's like not only are you
34:47
missing your one daughter, growing up.
34:50
You're also missing being there for all the appointments and
34:54
different things to help your wife with the pregnancy and
34:57
stuff whatever. And yeah, it was just kind of
35:00
just insane to think about because and this is something
35:04
that kind of gets mentioned with like different characters and
35:06
stuff throughout but it's like this is probably like like the
35:10
most extreme version of like having a parent or a family
35:15
member that's like kind of like quote-unquote under on
35:18
deployment or something because It's something that like over
35:26
the years, when I've kind of like being like looking for
35:29
different jobs and stuff as I've gotten older and my family has
35:32
gotten bigger and involved in more stuff.
35:34
Whatever you know, there were some awesome job jobs that I
35:38
ended up passing on or not even going for because of certain
35:43
travel requirements and different things like that.
35:45
So I was like, you know, I don't know if I could really commit to
35:51
that, you know, you get I'm saying.
35:53
And so the fact of this isn't just like a military thing,
35:59
whereas I owe my no, my dad is in a different state.
36:07
You know, he's in a different country, on the other side of
36:09
the planet, how Wild is it to be?
36:11
Like, my dad isn't even on the planet anymore.
36:16
My dad is away on the moon or on the International Space Station.
36:22
That is insane to think about when you say that it's like, you
36:26
know, it's crazy, no one is like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
36:31
my mom's in Mississippi. Okay, you know that that's
36:34
that's, you know, to State a couple states away, eight hour
36:37
drive away, but to be like, oh my mom's on the moon.
36:46
What what, what can you do with that?
36:49
But they are so so. So once again shout out to the
36:52
parents and this series because man, I know that was tough to
36:56
kind of like chase your dreams and stuff, you know, and in
37:01
those situations like that. And look at that Kenji and the
37:07
brand new baby, it was just just just so beautiful to see to see
37:13
that stuff. Um, but I'm trying to think,
37:16
What else? What other kind of Big Mama's?
37:18
I want to highlight. Oh dr.
37:21
Sharon and also said Erica now sirica her backstory of the
37:31
reason why she's want to become an astronaut is that well, first
37:34
of all, she's already gone through the path of becoming a
37:36
doctor, but Growing up her father, got this very rare
37:41
disease better, I can remember what it was called, the
37:45
basically, and again, like a very terminal illness basically,
37:50
and he ended up dying when she was young, what she went through
37:53
the know the workshop become a doctor and stuff, but in order
37:59
to do the proper, the proper Testing Research for what this
38:03
disease is, it requires her to have access to these special
38:08
zero gravity. Sealab on the International
38:11
Space Station as so that's kind of where her goal is.
38:16
Going to end on the flip side. We have this other, this other
38:20
lady that we met named dr. Sharon now, dr.
38:24
Sharon Sharon, she is a are What was a What is it astrology?
38:38
I can't remember what it's called by about it.
38:39
I think it's called like astrology was was what she was
38:43
doing, basically. Studying stories and stuff.
38:47
And she is someone who now, but he beat L have a lot of history
38:54
with. They spent a lot of their life
38:56
to a lot of their childhood growing up going to her house
38:59
because she had like a big house kind of like kind of like Off
39:02
the Grid so Speak with a giant telescope on it, they would go
39:06
to look at the stars, she helped teach them how to play music and
39:09
instruments and stuff. And so she's somebody that I
39:12
enjoy seeing throughout the series.
39:13
Well, she kind of starts having accidents where she's dropping
39:17
her phone. Her grip is not as strong
39:20
different things like that or whatever, and so he beats her
39:23
first starts noticing it and then, but it wasn't until
39:26
they're having this dinner and stearic her meets dr.
39:30
Sharon, and she sees her bent up.
39:33
Beat-up van because she keeps on dropping it and she does like
39:37
that's kind of like I'm like like a test on her arm to where
39:41
she is testing something and basically she was taught how to
39:44
do it with her dad and then that's when she discovers this
39:49
disease is now in the dirt and dr.
39:51
Sharon but that ended up, you know, helping them to kind of
39:55
like it's kind of like catch it because she kept on going to the
39:57
doctor. But, you know, they were telling
39:59
her like, hey, there's something wrong with you or we can detect
40:02
it but because Cuz of how rare it is.
40:04
It's not, it's not a disease that they would normally test
40:08
for whatever. So so it was kind of kind of
40:11
interesting to kind of like see those different plot points
40:13
Crossing interweave throughout something, I kind of want to
40:18
like want to Circle back to as well is going back to to to
40:27
Vincent's backstory. Ham and Pico and their best
40:33
friend. So, they all grew up in this,
40:35
like very small town where basically everybody in town is
40:39
expected, like hey, when you grew up, you know if if you're
40:42
if you're a man, you're going to go work at working the local
40:45
mind like your father and your grandfather and everybody's
40:47
before you have asked so. And so Vincent Pico and their
40:54
other friend, they love space. They they were constantly out
40:59
trying to make a little rocket ships from trying to test them
41:02
and fly on and stuff whatever. But basically they're dad's all
41:07
started, like kind of like trying to force and push them to
41:09
like no, you're going to go work in the mines.
41:11
You're going to go to, you're going to go to the local college
41:14
and yada yada yada and it sucks because like even like one of
41:19
like the counselors are teachers or whatever the school is like
41:22
like, I told Vincent or pick up one of them being like, hey, you
41:28
think you're someone special nobody in the history of this
41:33
town has ever gone to a big college and they have never
41:37
done. Anything supernote worth is like
41:39
trying to be an astronaut or or work for NASA or whatever.
41:43
Like you think you would be the one.
41:46
And so that sucks to hear at that kind of hit close to home
41:51
for me because I'm I want from a very small town named Jasper,
41:56
Texas, very small Country Town tour.
41:59
There isn't much out there. A lot of people that I know and
42:05
they start growing up myself, some stuff has changed but
42:07
really growing up. It was okay.
42:09
Yeah, you're going to go work and in the local factories or
42:16
whatever or your work or you'll working welding or some type of
42:22
like Other comes by hard labor job in one of the surrounding
42:28
towns or whatever. And a lot of people just kind of
42:32
just like get stuck there and just like how Vincent them is.
42:34
Like, a lot of people just can't get stuck with that, like,
42:36
small-town mentality, and they don't even give the Next
42:41
Generation. They don't even want to give the
42:42
Next Generation. A chance to try to dream of
42:45
something bigger because it's like, hey, I never did anything
42:47
bigger than this town. My father, my mom, my
42:50
grandfather. Nobody.
42:52
Nobody, I know is every day. Done it so kid.
42:55
Don't even try it and she's got to go to the local community
42:57
college or whatever and that's that.
43:00
But Pretty much. It was the situation of their
43:05
friend passing. That's kind of what reignited
43:08
that endeavor of like no we can't let this dream die.
43:14
With our friend like this is I know we were still going to grow
43:19
up and do bigger and better things than this town so that
43:26
our damage is like a very important key moment that I
43:30
really enjoyed in the series. Oh nothing.
43:34
Is there any other kind of like highlight moments sound likes?
43:39
Just like scrolling through my mouth red.
43:42
Oh, of course. Course, of course. the moment
43:48
when muta officially becomes an astronaut, How could I forget
43:56
this moment and as heartwarming cheesy smile?
44:01
He has on his face but 70 episodes later.
44:07
He finally. Gets the title of astronaut and
44:14
gets his picture hung up on the wall next to his brother and I
44:18
loved the car back to early on when he kind of first came here,
44:22
whatever and he saw his brothers picture on the wall.
44:26
And like I said, just kind of just like just like went to
44:28
that. That constant mindset of the
44:31
brothers of like Just wait for me, bro.
44:34
I'm on my way. So just seeing him seeing his
44:38
brothers picture on the wall and Ben C, Ben dies.
44:41
Someday, my picture is going to be right next to him and it was,
44:46
I think it was maybe I think it's maybe a couple of years had
44:51
passed between where the series that started.
44:53
And then this moment because of all the training and different
44:57
stuff along the way or whatever. So this is just like such a dope
45:00
moment to see now, Now, other other moment after that was, and
45:06
and I kind of thought about a lot of stuff out of order
45:08
because this is before the, the jet training, whatever.
45:12
But but there was a moment where mu sub.
45:19
S, it got kind of got put on this ragtag team, where they
45:23
were needed to, they were needed to figure out something with.
45:30
Oh dddd, vehicle. That they drive on the moon
45:34
because of the accident, whatever they transferred.
45:36
Okay. What can we change or alter the
45:39
vehicle to try to help make things safer or whatever?
45:43
And so because of muta's background, design and cars and
45:47
also him actually going and talking to So what is his name?
45:56
Was it Daniel. Sorry, I forget it's there but
46:01
but dee-dee-dee-dee-dee astronaut that are the heavy
46:05
accident with, with he Beto. Damien Damien, so that that
46:16
moment of him actually going and talking to the people that were
46:19
there and the situation of okay, what exactly happened?
46:23
What did y'all experience and that helped move to come up with
46:27
the plan and the solution of some upgrades to make to the
46:32
buggy to kind of help with things in the future.
46:38
And so yeah, but all in all this show is just freaking fantastic.
46:43
And I loved this shot because there was a park where they were
46:49
kind of split up into into teams of four when they were kind of
46:56
doing like their their underwater training.
46:59
And it was basically like two newbies and two veterans that
47:03
they were kind of like going through Time free.
47:05
Okay, who's going to do what or whatever.
47:06
And there's where it was at first he was happy because Mota
47:11
and Kenji 2 bro. Working together but then it was
47:14
revealed later on tonight. I know y'all are actually
47:16
competing only one of y'all will get to go to the Moon basic or
47:21
whatever. But I love, how Things kind of
47:27
worked out with that situation, and they later on, they still
47:30
ended up coming back together, but I love how once again muta's
47:36
engineering mind came into play, and they kind of helped them
47:40
with their project that they had, and that situation and
47:43
stuff. It was just so dope, and then
47:49
move to getting chosen for the to be on the the backup Squad.
47:56
Quad for this, for this astronaut mission was so
48:01
freaking do. But of course, it's like this
48:03
kind of like ragtag group of people Misfits, sort of
48:07
speaking. Nobody wanted to work with,
48:11
Including which, which I can remember her name.
48:13
But there was a lady who was a mom.
48:16
I want to say it was her name was Becky.
48:18
I want to say, but I love her story because most of can also
48:22
she, she had like a like, a tattoos, like a heart around
48:26
what? Look like a.
48:27
It could be like a c or a moon, but kind of find out.
48:32
Her husband was one of the astronauts to died on the
48:35
accident with Brian and she was working in the Control Center
48:39
and they had a son together. Well.
48:43
Of course, when her husband dies, she left NASA altogether,
48:47
and just focus on her son or daughter, but she wanted to
48:52
continue that dream of going to the Moon as stuff for, for their
48:57
signing and in honor of her husband and their child and gave
49:02
her his best of like, Mommy, I want you to do this.
49:05
And so her and like I said, I loved how Brian older brother
49:13
was the one that was chosen to kind of like be the head person
49:17
to lead This Crew and I love how, of course, he had his
49:23
doubts because he's like, man. Ah, I'm at the game.
49:27
I'm old I can't really do all this training and stuff,
49:31
whatever I'm done. But they hit him up with some
49:39
pictures of the director. Gave him gave him some pictures
49:45
that he be. Some of them took her on the
49:46
moon, the figure, because they promised as kids of a.
49:52
Hey when we go to the Moon we're going to leave our figures there
49:56
on the moon and the fact that His brother actually did, that
50:02
was kind of kind of like that extra little push that pushed
50:05
him like, okay, you know what? I got one more enemy, I'll do
50:09
it. So but yeah, but it was just so
50:14
many, so many awesome moments that happened throughout this
50:17
show. I didn't even talk about he,
50:20
tell going to Russia for Arc because of his best, his kind of
50:25
like PTSD from the accident or whatever to where he can't even
50:29
get in the suit and doing a training, whatever, as such.
50:32
But I love how eventually he overcame that through the help
50:37
of of this young lady and her family that he made when he went
50:40
to Russia for a while and I love how no matter what, no matter
50:46
the odds he continued to push forward because nobody else or
50:55
not nobody else but it was one specific, dude.
50:59
I can remember what this guy's name but I hated this guy's
51:03
guts. So freaking much Gates.
51:08
This dude. He kept on trying to sabotage DB
51:14
X testing stuff and basically like putting roadblock after
51:18
roadblock and the way to keep him from going back at the
51:24
space. And so I love how at the end of
51:27
the show, he Beto ends up leaving NASA or whatever but and
51:32
this is this was like very interesting to come.
51:33
I really think really think about a rose.
51:35
I hey, NASA isn't the only way I can get to the moon and so at
51:41
first first part of me is okay, he's probably he's probably
51:42
gonna go to Russia but Somebody something else that I also love
51:48
that came back there. There was an old guy back in
51:52
like the very first Arc of the show, let me see if I can find
51:56
his name. Where is the old man?
52:05
Oh Foo Kedah old man fuqra. He didn't pass the initial test
52:11
forever, but he ended up going to work for a company that was
52:17
basically going to design spaceships and stuff.
52:21
So, I love how a little bit later on in the series when Musa
52:28
had got a phone call. And I'm trying to remember who
52:33
gave him the phone. I can't remember what basically,
52:41
basically, who could have basically been like, yo, keep
52:47
pushing, you keep moving forward and move to, because I'm also
52:53
moving forward because we're going to need somebody to
52:55
basically, to, to, to be the person to ride our shift into
53:00
space essentially, whatever. As I just, like I said, once
53:03
again just love how all these pieces are just constantly
53:07
building on top of each other source, okay, you know what?
53:09
Just because I got to know here, you know, what was they are
53:12
saying? When one door closes, another
53:15
one opens tours. Are, you know?
53:17
What that door closed. But there's other ways that I
53:21
can't, that I can contribute to this.
53:23
And it's like, said front from the old, from the other old man
53:25
earlier on That started building the space suits to include more
53:31
people of different heights and body sizes and stuff to Now
53:34
fuqra is working with the company to build Japan's, first,
53:40
space, space shuttle, whatever. So they can start launching
53:43
stuff from from Japan and he be, totally leaving NASA to go
53:48
elsewhere, whatever. So, I love how these, there's
53:51
these other pieces moving in the background and people are
53:54
basically till I moved to just because he beats her has gone
53:57
from Here, he's not out the game.
53:59
So I love how at the end he beat are basically cuz he got he goes
54:04
ghost for like weeks. I believe before he retires from
54:08
him or before Mother hears from am be back.
54:10
He says, I hey, I'm at, basically, I may have left left
54:15
NASA but I have not given up on becoming an astronaut I'ma get
54:21
the space. I might not have the title of
54:23
astronaut but be because like brush and other places color
54:28
astronaut something else. What everybody's like?
54:30
I'm gonna go to space. I might have become an astronaut
54:32
but I'm still go to space. You keep going moved to, I'll
54:38
see you on the moon. And once again is just like yo,
54:43
yo yo yo my heart y'all, but I've been going for almost an
54:49
hour. I got to wrap this up.
54:51
But it's just so much greatness to talk about with the show.
54:55
And one one last piece that I have to I have to talk about
55:02
really quickly. One of the other key components
55:07
of the show that I wish I mentioned at the very beginning
55:09
but that is the music of this show.
55:15
Man, cuz there are certain tracks and stuff that they might
55:18
play over and over and over. But They still hit your heart
55:24
every time. And I love how certain moments,
55:28
whatever, it's like, like triumphant moments or whatever.
55:32
I love. I'ma play a little snippet of
55:35
this thing. Hopefully, it comes through.
55:43
It was just so freaking good. Every time I heard this song
55:47
it's music, come on. Every time that played every
56:00
time it I just welled up with with excitement and stuff.
56:05
So bro, but yeah, so space Brothers Hell of a journey and I
56:14
am definitely going to be jumping over to the manga
56:17
relatively soon because I know the manga is getting close to
56:22
ending soon. I'm pretty sure it's probably
56:25
going to be done by the end of this year at the latest, but,
56:31
but I'm excited. Just knowing that there's so
56:34
much more for me to read because we're the the spot that the
56:39
anime is out as our van. Only roughly like, halfway of
56:45
the point of where the show of where the manga is currently.
56:51
So basically just knowing like, hey, I essentially have like,
56:57
like the amount of material. I just watched doubled again to
57:02
watch. I'm going to read, I'm off for
57:05
and and I would love to follow this series to his conclusion.
57:11
Ali because I don't know, I'm about to see where I can walk
57:16
and read the Manga as I might have to buy them digitally
57:19
because it's some license through a code Entre and of
57:22
course they don't sell them physically, which they'll be at,
57:24
that would be a lot to buy for to to physical volumes.
57:28
So maybe I'll just maybe get them, additionally, whatever, or
57:31
find a place to read them, I don't know.
57:33
But, but yeah. But all in all though, Space
57:38
Brothers. Was one hell of a ride, one,
57:44
hell of a watch. And yeah, so shout out to
57:50
anybody. That is still here.
57:51
Listening or watching this. I appreciate you for for
57:56
indulging me as I gushed about this fantastic series, but but
58:04
this one is definitely one that will stick in my heart and my
58:08
mind for a long time to come. Not sure why I might place it in
58:13
my all-time list because I want to kind of give it time to kind
58:16
of like marinate and stuff, which is kind of wild.
58:18
Wait a little bit before I recorded this, just because I
58:21
didn't want to like immediately jump into recording it.
58:24
But I wanted to just give my mind some time to go like
58:27
process some stuff. And I'm pretty sure there's a
58:29
lot of stuff along the way that I didn't touch on and stuff, but
58:32
that is fine because either way, if you listen to all those more
58:38
likely, you probably already watched it.
58:39
Alright? If you just Into it for just for
58:43
entertainment purposes. Wherever the hey, there still so
58:45
much that I didn't get into the it get into the nitty-gritty of
58:49
on details that you should just go watch or read a series and
58:55
experienced that yourself by yeah, space Brothers, Sapphire,
58:59
Slice of Life. Hell of a show hell of a show.
59:05
And so with that being said, I'm going to wrap this up.
59:08
Thank y'all so much for watching and listening as always you can
59:11
find me everywhere at that need to talk and you can get most of
59:16
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59:29
me know your thoughts on Space Brothers.
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I hope. You know, if nothing else.
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I hope that this might encourage someone else to check out this
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series because it is a fantastic series.
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It is definitely one of those series along with one that I
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wash it first. And last year kaiji gambling
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apocalypse that I see brought up a lot of times when people are
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like hey what is a series that you feel is underrated or
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underappreciated as so this one is always high on that list and
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so I'm glad I was finally able to Dive into it and experience
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it myself. But with that being said, I'm
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done. As I just crossed the 1 hour
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Mark, 1 hour for a 99 episodes series.
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Hey very, very fitting. So I'll catch you on the next
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one. Y'all be easy.
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Thank you so much for all the love and support and I'll catch
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you on the next one. Peace.
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Dive into it and experience it myself.
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But with that being said, I'm done.
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As I just crossed the 1 hour Mark, 1 hour for a 99 episodes
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series. Hey very, very fitting.
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So I'll catch you on the next one.
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Y'all be easy. Thank you so much for all the
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love and support and I'll catch you on the next one.
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Peace.