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Anyway, hello and welcome to anime club.
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It feels so long since I've done this.
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I know it's been a while. We've had a little bit of like
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unexpected time off, had a little bit of a rest over
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Easter. That was nice.
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Yeah, so I've re uploaded an old episode from the Energy of North
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Channel last week. So we missed a week, but last
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week we'd decide it was my choice, it was your choice.
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We're going to do Rooster Fighter.
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Actually, before we start, yeah. What's your best chicken?
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That's probably mine. Oh you can't.
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You can't tell about just laid neck.
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Before we get into this, what is your opinion on parody animes?
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So normally I only have so much time for them if I'm honest.
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Like like once the joke lands great and to have like so it's
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like I think one of so there are two.
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Actually, no, there are three, but I think you might fight me
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as to whether or not one of these is a parody anime.
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So I would say that Gintama parody anime, but it's an parody
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anime that gets surprisingly good.
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Like they they they become more than a parody anime and
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therefore it's able to sustain 1P One Punch Man absolutely a
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parody anime, but one that kind of like has a clear story and a
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viewpoint from the beginning. So it kind of can stand on its
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own. And then for two seasons and
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then it kind of got a bit lost. Sakamoto Days I also think is a
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parody anime, but I think it's one of the greatest parody
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enemies ever made. And it's so good that it becomes
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its own. It becomes greater than the
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thing it's taking the Mick out of.
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I I can see the similarities between South Motor Days and
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Gintaba. Yeah.
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And that's as far as I would say it would go as a parody.
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I think it's it's strong enough story to hold its own because in
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my mind, because in my my opinion of the parody anime is
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once the the premises dropped, you're like, Oh yeah, this is
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this is funny. And then it slowly Peters out
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and fit the appeal fizzles like, yeah, well, even One Punch Man
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with the way that is sustained is because he has a other
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characters that make up for plot and lack of story.
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Because someone it's like, it's like playing a game with cheat
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with God Mordon. It's great for 5 minutes and
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then you get bored. You're like, yeah, I'm sick of
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winning all the time. 100% And I think there's something about
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like One Punch Man, they have to do this thing where they have to
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have reasons he doesn't show up. And it's the same in like One
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Piece which is kind of the trope that One Punch Man of this like
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over overpowered main hero. Like often Luffy like has to be
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somewhere else for a while in order for like any actual action
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to take place. See, I would agree with you, but
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I've just finished Marine Ford and oh it.
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Gets good there. Yeah, fair.
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It's. It's Luffy all the way and.
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But how? But how many episodes in before
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it? That's the size, the point.
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That's the size, the point. And I think Sakamoto Days does
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have great characters and it's like stands in its own right.
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I do still think it's a bit of a parody anime.
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I think of like also also animes like what's the one where he's
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like a mafia and it's a way of the house husband.
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That's a great, great little, but it's not really anime.
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They're just like, they're like little 15 minute jokes.
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I always view them as do you know, the the comics used to get
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in the newspapers. It's just that brought a life.
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Yeah, they're like a little palate cleanser 1.
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So you've just watched something really epic and heartbreaking.
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Let's go watch a little like a couple of episodes of that and
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it will be fine again. So, and I think that's where
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parody does its best work is where it's like short little
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quip jokes. And that's where you can kind of
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like watch quite a few of them. Like, we watched another one at
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the beginning of the year in the Night of the Living Cat.
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Yeah, parody anime great for one episode.
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And then the joke starts to get very, very repetitive very, very
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quickly. Yeah.
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And I would say that Rooster Fighter is probably in that same
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vein. Like there are some there are
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some fun, funny moments, Rachel, and there's some weirdness.
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But again, like the joke, I think the joke very quickly,
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just you were like, oh, OK. I see.
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OK. Yeah, yeah, I've heard this one
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before. So I had exactly the same
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opinion as you until and I started looking into because
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where this is releasing as as we speak and there's only three
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episodes out at the minute, maybe 4 and in total I think. 4
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now oh. There's four.
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Well, there's going to be 12 in total and a lot of people were
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really excited for this to release.
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And it was originally released on Adult Swim.
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It wasn't It was released outside of Japan before it got
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that popular that it's the start making anatomy and and
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apparently it gets deep and it gets a lot more storyline to it.
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I know it is a token rooster that is basically a hard boiled
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veteran of a man, but it's meant to get a lot of more story and
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so substance. So I'm kind of that intrigued as
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a bit and I kind of want to see more of it whereas.
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Before. From watching the first 3
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episodes I thought this is going to Peter out.
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I might give it another another episode try know that the
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characters have been established and then just me.
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See what happens? Yeah.
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I mean, I'm, I'm not so sure like I mean.
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I didn't think it'd be your thing.
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It's not. It isn't my thing.
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I don't. And here's the thing, what I do
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recognise is that what it is doing, it is doing it very well.
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So I'm not like saying it's trash anime at all.
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I just feel like there are other anime that do what it is taking
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the piss out of. Better, yeah.
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Yeah, I get that. I did find the chicken sex
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hilarious. There's chicken sex episode 1
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Chicken sex. Two and three.
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Actually, you know, you're right.
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In every episode so far, he he has banged A hen.
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Yeah, yeah. And I do find it very funny.
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I do find that. And some of the jokes that are
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like taking the make out of tropes are if you are, if you
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are an anime fan who has watched a lot of like shown in shown in
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Jump anime, you will find this very funny because you will
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definitely recognise all of the character tropes.
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Yeah, yeah. But yeah.
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Speak that should we should we go to the plot the the very
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vague general plot? Because there is a very vague
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general plot. It's not nuanced or.
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Oh, no, they're not trying to. Like, I don't think they're
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trying to bury the lead or like, take you on some M Night
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Shyamalan twist by any stretch of the imagination.
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There's a chicken. His sister, his sister has died
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at the hands of a demon. People in this world can become
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demons when they suffer through some sort of negative event or
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like, experience trauma, trauma. They yeah, they're trauma based
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demons and he is trying to hunt down the specific demon that
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killed his sister while also fighting other demons as he
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goes. And along the way he bangs some
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chickens and he also meets a chick who belongs to who who was
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owned by a yakuza. That's episode 2 and it has that
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weird, you know how like in some anime, there's like a weird
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underage kind of fan service thing going on.
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The chicks taking the Mick out of that and they kind of
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acknowledge it in episode 3 because like he's a former
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girlfriend comes back to to fight him because he can't tell.
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He just. Walked away one more one night
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stand. He can't.
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Pin one night stand, Yeah. You can't pin down Cagey.
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You can't bring out KG also mid fight.
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That's the chicken sex in that is mid fight.
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He just kisses her, bangs her and then she's like what?
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It's so weird, oh so weird. She's.
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Just like it took me out. She's swept away with the moment
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and then she's like, how dare you?
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It's very strange. But in that she's like she
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accuses him of of doing nefarious deeds with the little
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chick. And he's like, I'm not a
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monster, but the little chick is developing a kind of weird
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obsessive relationship with Mr. Clucky, who's actually, I think
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they called him, he's a cagey or something, but.
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Yeah, he's called Cagey, the little ones, the little chicks
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called Piogo and the the female with the the stone rod is called
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Elizabeth. And pierced facial features.
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Yeah. It's like she's got like,
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earrings. She's like a glamour chicken who
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was adopted by a wealthy family. That also made me laugh.
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Yeah, I've seen, I've seen that specific storyline in 100
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different animes. Adopted by a rich family.
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A well wealthy family and I learnt to entertain them because
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I wanted to see them smile, to thank them for everything they
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did to me. Just playing the piano.
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So funny, Yeah. Like, she's like there with like
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a pen. And she also like, has like,
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learnt how to read and write This ticket is it is funny.
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Like, you have to give it it's due.
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It is. I think that it's much funnier
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than the Night of the Living Cat.
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It relies less on pop culture references and, and more on
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like, the characters making jokes.
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Yeah. I mean, even even the point
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Elizabeth where obviously all these humans are getting turned
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into demons more frequently. And on the Internet, people have
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started documenting them. And KG has been wandering town
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to town like the lone samurai warrior kind of thing, where
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he's just like, one day I'll meet the demon by happenstance
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because I'm not doing this with a purpose.
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And Elizabeth has just said, oh, actually, I've got this phone.
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I can just look up where they were last spotted.
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That's at the end of episode 3 and kind of I'm guessing that
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Spears on the storyline, but. I think that it's also a reason
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for her to stay around, maybe that he'll learn what the true
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meaning of love is and that all of his one night stands are.
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At the end of the day, he just gives in to his animal
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instincts. But what I was surprised about I
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because I get because we do message each other when we're
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watching these sorts of anime's something with if something
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weird happens, we'll we'll, we'll, we'll message.
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And this time I got I got a message from Chris being like
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tricking sex episode 1 off to a good start.
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It's like the first message I got and I was like, OK, but I do
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want to point out that they have got the bird sex wrong.
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So birds, for starters, don't feel any.
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No, I think this is really important, Chris.
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It's important that we set the record straight.
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Birds don't feel any sex. Like don't feel any pleasure
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from sex. They're the one kind of species
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that just don't feel like not like the way that mammals do.
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So I just that, you know, it's just weird.
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And but then also they don't like, it's not like it's it's
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called a cloacal kiss. It's not a penetrative thing,
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but they are make it like there's a lot.
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Of trusting that goes. There's a lot of trusting that
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goes on in this anime, which just isn't factually accurate
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because it's more like just like they put like holes together in
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a cloaca case. And I know this because I saw
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pigeons on my fence doing this earlier and I was like, ah,
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spring has sprung up. I can I can practice my
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voyeurism on the pigeons again. What a season.
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What a time to be alive. No, but you know, they have
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cloacas and, and I partly I want to say this because cloaca is a
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fun word to say and it's a good word to know.
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But you know, I also just feel like if they're going to really
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do birds right, they should have got that right.
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They should have done away with the thrusting.
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I'm glad that you that you introduced a new section of the
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anime club podcast, the the bird sex fact section.
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And I'll I'll make some sort of graphic for that.
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Yeah. Also, did you know that chickens
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eat like grit in order to create harder shells for their.
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Yeah, like I've been, I've been looking up chicken facts.
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I also realised that there are lots of.
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So here's the other thing is this gave me, it did give me a
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weird sense of nostalgia for films like Chicken Run.
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There's also a book which I think Chicken Run was based on,
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which is all about these chickens who like basically like
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cook themselves inside a greenhouse, eat loads of extra
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rocks to create super hard and then and then they learn to fly
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and then they use their eggs as like this is a book that I've
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read as a kid and I'm sure I. Recognise this.
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Racking my brain and they end up using like their their eggs as
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projectiles against I think a fox who's trying to kill them or
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something. There's some there's some sort
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of enemy that they then like out.
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Check it out the the eggs from their cloacas.
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Right. And I've.
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Desperately been trying to remember what that book's
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called. That really sounds familiar, but
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I don't think I would have read a book I've I've probably seen
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that somewhere. I don't, maybe they made like
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ATV series or something. Weirdly I've had a lot of
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chicken facts come up on mine because I went down a weird
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rabbit hole of the different type of eggs that they lay and
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because it was like sometimes to have a bit of blood on them,
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sometimes the the tiny, sometimes the big and you get an
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egg inside of an egg. And there was one.
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If the chicken has an infection it just lays some sort of weird
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puss egg shell shaped thing. And it's like and the.
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Horrible the squishy and it it looks it's an egg shaped but
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they're like in like a an off green yellowy colour.
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But no. Because just.
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Before, just before we filmed, I was telling Chris how like, I
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want a new medication that's making me feel very ill and
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bloated and this is this is what you choose to bring to the
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table. The way I went down it is
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because I think it was Facebook or something, someone had
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someone had chickens and they'd cut an egg in half and there was
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something weird and green inside of it and they were like, what
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is this? And I can't remember the name
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for it now. I'll probably put it there,
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whatever the name was, but it was gross, a gross thing to go
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down. And I didn't realize how like
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weird chicken eggs can be because you can get weird shapes
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as well. But you can get which?
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Also, is there anything better in this world than cracking
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open? Like specifically it has to be a
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fried egg for this to be the most satisfying thing.
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Cracking open a fried egg. Double yolk.
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Yeah, yeah. Double yoga.
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Especially if it's in a single yoga pack.
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Especially if it's in a single yoga pack, you get 1 double
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yolk. Because I'm I'm, I'm really
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tight and northern. So I'm like, yes, I could double
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for me money. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Double yolkers are good. But also it's like it's just off
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like just on a like weird egg thing.
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It's we eating eggs is weird because they are just chicken
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periods. Yeah, but they taste delicious.
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But who was the first person to be like?
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Well, I suppose like. Do you know who it?
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Was some wild chicken. Do you know who it was?
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It was probably the same guy that suckled on a cow's head and
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thought, oh, that milk tastes good.
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That's. What I'm saying?
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Oh, weird. Oh, they saw some coughs and
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just went. I want a bit of that A.
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Little bit of that, but also I do think maybe that there's like
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an instinctual thing whether it's just like such a good
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source of protein that maybe like it this, you know, we've
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just been eating them for what came first, the chicken or the,
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the, you know, the wig or the egg.
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Chicken or the wing? Like chicken wings?
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All right, right. Yeah, You know, yeah.
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Did we eat them first or did we farm them for eggs to be raid
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their wild nests? Birds nests.
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Yeah, nice little treat. What is?
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Shall I move on? Please do because I was about to
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ask such a weird question. Right.
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So who was your favorite character of this?
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Did you have any attachment anyone or did you not care for
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them? I didn't particularly.
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So far I haven't really care. Like cared for any of the
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characters. Yeah, I don't know if I'm
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supposed to. So far the main guy, KG, he's an
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asshole. It's a complete yeah, he's he's
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the over the top lone wolf kind of, but a lone rooster kind of
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character. Exactly.
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I what I want to see is a plucky young rooster with the golden
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retriever personality. If that shows up, I'm back in.
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That's probably episode 4 to be honest.
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I know there is another character from looking at
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pictures and it's one of them. You know, the chickens with the
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fluffy heads. Oh yeah, I do know those ones.
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Yeah, it's it's one of them. I forget what they're called.
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Are they bolero chickens? You call them other ones you
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don't understand. My granddad and grandma used to
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have chickens and they were great.
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They were very funny. I would like I would like some
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but effort in it. I've already got a tail to keep
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alive. Yeah, true.
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Not eating her eggs, but does. She lay.
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Does she lay eggs randomly? No.
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No. OK, that's.
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I hope not. Would you eat them if she did?
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No, no, it's like asking someone if that a pet tarantula, would
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you eat spinous eggs if. No, but people do eat turtles
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because they're delicious. So I think it is a bit different
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because you do like farm turtles for meat, so.
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But she's she's a mud. Turtle.
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She's a Musk turtle, so she's a bit stinky.
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So yeah, I could get why you might not want in one of her
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stinky little legs. Yeah, maybe brush her cleaner a
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bit, but yeah. What did you think of the
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animation in this? Because I was messaging you busy
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laughing. Because in the first episode you
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meet an old man and the animation on this is he has a
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child. He looks like a child.
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Uh, they've animated a child that is a little bit wrinkly.
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It looks weird. The humans are so badly drawn,
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like all of them unilaterally are not very well animated.
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The chickens are animated so well.
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I feel like it's a conscious choice.
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Like I think it's a choice to make all of the detail and the
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like. Let's spend our money on the
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stars of the show and make these chickens look badass, because I
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think the animation of the chickens and the chicken action
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is really good. When KG is fighting Elizabeth,
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that whole section is really well animated.
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Yeah, but the the humans that they like at someone point,
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they're like running past humans.
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And the humans are just like because there's just two
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chickens chasing each other. Yeah, you've got to think as
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well. Because in in this world,
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chickens are chickens, like chickens, and fighting chickens
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is not normal. So like every so often, like
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you'll see a crowd of people be like, why the hell is a chicken
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wearing a sword over there? And why are they like
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congregating together? And and it's funny because the
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chickens can understand the humans.
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The humans cannot understand the chickens.
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Yeah, Rugrat rules. Rugrat rules.
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It is. It's rugrat rules.
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That's a really good way of describing it.
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But yeah, but beside So you think it was quite well done
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animated as well though. I think sections of it are very
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well animated. I think some of the demon design
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is questionable. Like I don't think the demon
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design is very good. So I've realised like don't mind
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3D animation is in the the new Trigon, the new Berserk.
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I don't mind it. It take a couple episodes for us
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to get used to it. And obviously I love normal
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anime animation. When you mix the two together,
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it's jarring. It was for some reason I get
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some sort of like what's it called the the weird face
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effect? No.
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Oh, uncanny valley. Uncanny valley, which is weird
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to me because I'm so used to it's either one or the other.
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A mix of 2 is like it just stands out and takes us right
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out of it. I agree.
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I also think there are like, I think there are ways to blend it
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and I don't think this show is a very good example of it, if I'm
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honest. And I think you, like you
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mentioned Berserk and Trigun, both of those have they use the
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three Dness to enhance the animation and make it like like
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they, they figured out how to make the 3D work in a way that
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you can't, you like, it gets an impact that you can't get from
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2D. Therefore it becomes like
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essential to the story in this. I'm like, why did they bother?
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Like was it just cheaper for them to do it that way?
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Or like if it was more expensive then they've spent their money
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wrong is what I feel like. But I mean, they did the same
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thing in Devil May Cry we did a couple of weeks ago.
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Yeah, they do the blending and that and I actually think the
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blending and that's you don't, you weren't so keen.
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But I I quite enjoy it in that. I think I've cracked it.
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I get a weird uncanny valley effect because I really notice
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it when it happens and it's just like I'm, I don't know.
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It's it makes us realizing that I'm watching the show instead of
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enjoying the show. It takes you out of your.
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Immersion, obviously, I don't think that I'm like Cagey, the
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main character rooster. I'm not, I'm not that kind of
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into word, into a show, but it makes us very much aware that
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I'm. Why have you just been texting
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chicken noises to me all weekend?
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I just do that. You say no for my weekly chicken
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noise. Oh my God, Can you imagine if
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that was if that was the ad? Like if we start a newsletter as
25:10
anime club, which I already feel like would be too much work, but
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if instead of it being anything useful, it's just a week to, you
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know, like one of us just. Going everyone unsubscribe.
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Yeah, unsubscribe, down vote. Like dislike.
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Can you dislike a YouTube video? I'm sure you can.
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Just yeah, you can. Please don't.
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Please don't. Oh, Speaking of which.
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Telling people to unfollow. Speaking of which, we've hit a
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milestone. Oh yeah we did.
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Oh my God, I was going to ask if I'm allowed to pick the next if
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I can replace my original choice of anime for next week to
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celebrate our milestone if I can classic instead.
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You can do whatever you want because we as of now, and this
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is what, Wednesday, and we've got 115 subscribers and that's
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fucking amazing. I'm so chuffed to that.
26:15
I'm really chuffed as well and thank you to everyone who
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watches us and has subscribed to us.
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I know a lot of people watch the shorts as well.
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So thank you for just like like those little bite size snippets
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of us. Yeah, we appreciate you.
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We love you. Thank you for your support,
26:38
Wilson. See, real quick.
26:39
And we didn't know how to handle it.
26:41
We didn't have an exit strategy for that.
26:43
So I've I've an exit strategy. What do you think of the OK, so
26:49
we talked about like what we like about it.
26:51
This this talk about what are the low points?
26:54
Like what? What?
26:55
Is there anything that didn't meet the expectation going into
26:58
a rooster? Fighter.
27:01
OK, there isn't enough. So I was promised cock fighting.
27:06
As in I was expecting chicken on chicken action and I had to wait
27:09
until the 3rd. I had to wait until the 3rd.
27:14
Like a Paris Hilton video from the naughties.
27:17
I had to wait. What a call.
27:20
Thank you. That's the third episode to get
27:24
some proper chicken on chicken action and I don't mean the
27:27
weird sex scenes. I thought the demons.
27:31
So I like the idea of a chicken ronin type figure fighting
27:37
demons. I do think the demon, demon
27:39
designs not very good and I think actually the fights with
27:45
the demons on some of the least interesting parts of the series,
27:49
which is I think a highlights maybe a key problem in some of
27:53
the storytelling, like if if the most action-packed bits are the
27:59
least good. Yeah, no, I see.
28:04
I don't think, I think in my head that we're going for a One
28:09
Punch Man where it's deliberately an anti climactic
28:12
fight, but I think they put too much into it to be that anti
28:17
climactic fight. So they they kind of missed it
28:21
on both levels. I do like how his special
28:25
attack, which you learn about in episode 1 is just the noise of
28:29
rooster mates. It's like the Japanese version
28:32
of A. Cocka doodle Doo.
28:35
I did like that. So it's like, I'm not saying the
28:37
fights are totally without merit, they're just they just
28:40
fall a bit flat, I think. And I think you're right, they
28:43
just kind of they were trying to do, they were trying to make
28:47
like take it very sincerely and make it like a proper fight and
28:50
also trying to make it a bit anticlimactic.
28:52
And because of that, it doesn't really hit either mark very
28:55
well. So it's not very funny.
28:57
It's not very fast-paced and exciting.
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And in the end you just end up with like a kind of mid but like
29:04
a fight. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
29:08
At no point in these three episodes that might be in the
29:13
future, and did I feel that KG was in any kind of danger at
29:19
all. Yeah.
29:23
Even though the weird peril where he's protecting the kids,
29:25
I'm just like. I thought he was more, he was in
29:28
more danger when the kids 0 did on him and tried to feed him
29:31
fried chicken. Yeah.
29:33
I felt like I felt like those moments were more perilous to
29:37
him. Yeah.
29:40
Yeah, OK, so I've been thinking about this a lot because I
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listen to a lot of Naruto and early naughties anime openings
29:57
on my way to work because it just gets in the mood.
30:00
It's, I don't know, it just it hits different from that time.
30:05
What did you think of this opening?
30:08
Because I think it's important. I honestly cannot remember it
30:14
much. So I watched it about an hour
30:19
ago. Yeah, I.
30:23
Remember it being very brightly coloured.
30:26
Yeah, it's not fighting Dreamers, is it?
30:31
It's not fighting dreamers. It's not fighting dreamers.
30:34
It's not the bleach we are. Like, it's like, you know, I
30:43
haven't watched that for months and that came straight into my
30:48
head. Do you know what I mean?
30:48
Like it isn't that. Yeah, that's something I don't
30:51
know if we we went through the golden age of openings because
30:56
I've I've got to specify the time frame for openings now when
30:59
I when I put it on Spotify because I'm like these all sound
31:04
semi. There are exceptions.
31:07
Danded down with the crazy nuts and that I think that's amazing.
31:10
Danded Down great. Danded Down does have a great
31:14
opener. Do you know Also like Devil May
31:17
Cry? But that's not even like an
31:18
anime opener. That's just a song.
31:20
That's. Just the song that we all love,
31:24
the Do you know? Also, it's not an anime but she
31:27
knew like a really bagging cartoon opener from our
31:31
childhood. Samurai Jack.
31:34
Yes. Right back Samurai Jack.
31:37
Like that is completely, completely different to any
31:40
other. Which are we?
31:45
Yeah. Yeah, I missed that.
31:47
Yeah, I kind of wished. I think we did live, I think we
31:52
did live in a cartoon age of because also like Fairly odd
31:56
Parents, like it used to be that the openings would hit the mark
32:03
on exactly the kind of anime or cartoon that you were going to
32:06
watch. Like something like fairly odd
32:08
parents has like a very campy thing.
32:11
Naruto. It's like, like, uplifting and,
32:15
like, gets your blood pumping. Yeah.
32:17
And like, it it like, inhabited the spirit of whatever you were
32:20
about to watch. And maybe we're just in an age
32:23
of anime that's all a bit samey. And therefore all of that is
32:26
just going to kind of say me too.
32:29
Now, Phoebe, take off your rose tinted glasses.
32:34
Yeah, because I think we're both wearing them.
32:37
How dare you? See, that's what I was going to
32:40
ask as well. I was.
32:41
Like, oh, although actually take it talk about yeah.
32:44
OK, so maybe because I have also been me watching Dragon Ball Z
32:48
with my lovely boyfriend recently and that has some
32:53
rogue, some rogue songs. But even then I've come to
32:58
really enjoy them even though they are rogue.
33:01
Yeah, because I'm, I'm obviously I'm watching One Piece at the
33:04
minute. I'm, I'm watching the English
33:05
versions. Yeah, the the opening for Till
33:12
impaled down Marine Ford, the same one.
33:15
I'm sick to death of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
33:19
It changes and then it goes into a slow like I know I don't want
33:24
to give spoilers but someone dies and then it gets sad for a
33:27
while and I can't wait for a change back because it's like
33:31
it's amazing to watch. I'm addicted to it and I can't
33:33
watch anything else and I'm struggling to watch Rooster fire
33:36
and stuff but I just want to open it to change.
33:40
Please change. Please change.
33:43
So that's what I'm thinking. Is it rose tinted glasses?
33:46
Do we just remember the good ones?
33:48
Cowboy Bebop Try gun which is what, 3 minutes long?
33:52
Yeah, but and also like some of the Dragon Ball, because some of
33:58
the Dragon Ball ones that I remember are really good.
34:00
But then I've been watching the Cell Perfect Cell saga at the
34:05
moment. We've also come up with the
34:07
drinking game for it, which is going to be really fun, although
34:09
we were counting the other night to like test have we got enough
34:13
things? And we were like, we're going to
34:15
be slaughtered by the end of this.
34:19
We do this. Sonic Card.
34:22
I mean, we were planning, me and my boyfriend were planning to do
34:25
it just for a little date night, so which funnily enough you're
34:28
not necessarily invited to, but I'm happy to share once we've
34:31
done our date night if you would like to.
34:35
Fine, whatever. It's been me and Lee then.
34:40
Oh, I'm Molly. Yeah.
34:45
Talk. About date night, Yeah, but
34:48
like, and some of the and for the Cell saga and I'm trying to
34:53
remember it now, but it has been stuck in my head.
34:56
But it's, it's actually not a great tune, but it's been stuck
35:01
in both of our heads. And occasionally we've just been
35:03
finding ourselves like like wandering around singing the
35:06
Dragon Ball theme and it kind of like Firefly esque because
35:12
Firefly also has a terrible theme tune.
35:14
But by the end of. Take my hand, take my bum.
35:18
Serenity or something like that. Yeah, but by the end of the
35:22
series you're like if singing along with it.
35:24
And it's that I think there's there's something about anime
35:27
theme tunes that sometimes are so bad, but there's also very
35:31
catchy and they get in your head.
35:34
And I think it's a little bit of that.
35:37
Whereas this isn't really bad, it's not really great.
35:40
It just is forgettable. Yeah, that's fair.
35:47
That's fair. Yeah, but yeah, maybe.
35:49
I think there is definitely a very tinted glasses thing.
35:53
That's sort of why a little bit because I catch myself.
35:55
Can you remember when people like, oh, music was so much
35:58
better than the 80s? So now it's because we don't
36:00
listen to modern music. Now, isn't isn't me Like it
36:05
could be 20 times better. I don't know.
36:07
I'm not. Bagging, yeah.
36:09
Yeah, I'm not going to like, like take a chance on something
36:13
like new music and that. I'm just going to stick to it.
36:16
Was the last time, it was the last time I went to a club.
36:20
Never. Like, like, Can you imagine me
36:23
in a club? I'd just be like, oh, take like,
36:25
where are you supposed to talk? I was I was taught my parents
36:29
the other day because they go out quite a lot in the in the
36:33
town and I was just like, oh, I would absolutely love to go with
36:36
gig if they had it during the day and I could sleep at night
36:39
and I had seats and maybe have a sake.
36:42
What are you? This is the wrong way round.
36:46
Yeah, but you're a pensioner before your parents are.
36:49
I don't even care, I'll just I'm quite happy to get drunk during
36:53
the day, have a little sleep in the afternoon, wake up and do
36:55
what I want in the evening. Can I also just say that like a
36:59
daytime sitting in a park somewhere listening to live
37:01
music and getting drunk in the middle of the day, there is
37:04
nothing better. Bring on the summer.
37:07
I can't wait. Yeah, yeah.
37:11
I do have some voice acting facts because I've always got to
37:17
include them now to make up. Yeah, so.
37:20
After your trauma, this is your new.
37:22
This is your new demon form. Yeah, and so KG and in the
37:30
Japanese dub is about Japanese is voiced by Kenta Miyagi, who's
37:36
also does the dub for All Might in my Heroic Academia.
37:42
I don't know that because I watch the English dub.
37:44
I watch the English dub too. Do you know who voices him in
37:46
the English dub? Yes, Patrick sits, and he is the
37:51
voice actor who plays Endeavour in My Hero Academia.
37:56
Yes, OK, that makes sense because I was like, I recognise
38:00
this voice. And I could.
38:02
Not figure out where from, but it is.
38:05
Yeah. And there is a distinct tombra.
38:08
I love that word. Oh, look at you, Tombra.
38:12
It's all this voice the. Guardian Crossword.
38:16
Can't even find the guardian, doesn't get that far up north.
38:23
Anyway, that's that's my 2 little tidbits of research I
38:30
did. Yeah, no.
38:31
And finally, I'm just going to say, do you have any predictions
38:36
where you would like it to go or where you think it's going to
38:39
go? I mean, I think it's some at
38:42
some point he's going to track down the demon, isn't he?
38:44
And there'll be a big fight and he'll make some friends along
38:47
the way. Maybe he'll fall in love and
38:49
realise that his life as a lone chicken has left him empty and
38:52
meaningless, and that his sister would want him to fill his life
38:58
with friendship and connection. Am I going to stick with it?
39:03
Probably not. I'll I'll keep you updated if
39:06
anything good happens. Yeah, if you could let me know
39:09
if it gets really good and then I might revisit it.
39:11
I'm not like taking it off the table.
39:13
I'm definitely not adding it into it.
39:15
Oh, I can't wait for the next episode to drop.
39:18
Yeah. I'll wait for all to come out,
39:20
then I'll just binge it because it's all episodes.
39:23
It's not, it's not a lot. It's not so my my prediction,
39:27
right? Yeah.
39:28
I think KG and Elizabeth are going to fall in love.
39:35
I think Piyoko the little chick is going to learn that her weird
39:40
relationship thing with a grown man chicken is wrong.
39:44
And then Cagey's sister. I think she's the demon.
39:47
Oh. You think she's?
39:51
Become the demon. I think she was having some sort
39:54
of weird affair with someone in the house and she was
39:58
heartbroken and she became a demon.
40:01
Oh, interesting, because she was a white chicken as well.
40:05
So and it's a white demon. Could be I do you know what?
40:13
If that is the I, there's part of me that would want that
40:16
because I think that would be the more interesting story to
40:18
tell. I will be surprised if that is
40:21
the direction they take this in. I think that I think in a way
40:24
that is almost too deep, that's expecting too much out of anime
40:28
called Rooster Fighter. Yeah, and I know, but I just
40:33
keep thinking for the people that were excited for this to
40:36
become an anime, based on the manga readers, they were saying
40:41
that it is surprisingly deep. Oh, OK, OK, so all right then
40:46
let's. Think that's what intrigues us.
40:48
Otherwise, I'll just like, do you know what?
40:50
Do you know what I was hoping for?
40:52
I was hoping for a vending machine experience.
40:56
We haven't had an anime that has surprised and delighted me as
41:00
much as I was reincarnated as a vending machine.
41:05
And now I wonder The dungeon. Well, you do know what's been
41:08
greenlit for another season. No.
41:11
Are you kidding? Yeah, it was like last year was
41:14
announced. I'm so.
41:16
Excited. I'm actually genuinely excited
41:20
by that news because I want to know what happens.
41:21
Does he ever want to become a human again?
41:24
Or does he like just embrace his best vending machine life now
41:28
that a woman seems to be falling in love with him as a vending
41:30
machine? I heard that it just turns into
41:33
a harem. Yeah, but you know what?
41:39
I wouldn't be surprised if that was true.
41:43
But at least he we know that he can dispense condoms so.
41:48
True, true. Anyway, you said you you were
41:52
thinking about changing next week's episode.
41:54
Oh yeah. So originally I was going to do
41:56
an anime called Usagi Drop, but then it turns out that that
41:59
anime is a creepy anime that gets weird.
42:02
And even though they changed the anime from the manga source
42:06
material, I just, I just would feel better if we didn't do it.
42:09
So what I would like to do, yeah, what I would like to do is
42:13
a film instead. It's a classic film and it's not
42:17
because I've recently seen this, so it saves me time and effort
42:20
when I'm a very busy woman. Peek behind the curtain there.
42:24
It is genuinely because I want to actually talk to you about it
42:28
because I really, really enjoyed it and I want to hear your
42:31
thoughts. It's called Origin Spirits of
42:33
the Past. It's from 2006, right?
42:37
And it's one of those animes that I can remember walking past
42:42
in HMV and being like, it's a bit too expensive so I won't
42:46
invest in it. I'll go for one of the discount
42:48
ones instead, right? But it's I, it's, I enjoyed it
42:54
and I want to see what you think because I think you'll recognise
42:57
the cover as like look at the cover do.
43:03
You recognise? Yes, yes, yeah.
43:06
Can you remember seeing? That in HMV?
43:07
Yeah, exactly. But I hadn't watched the actual
43:10
film until recently. But I'd seen the cover around.
43:14
Yeah, Great. So I hadn't either.
43:16
It was my first time, so I'm. I want to see what you think.
43:20
So I think I would have been the same as you because I unless it
43:23
was the two for 20 or three for 15, I wouldn't get it.
43:28
Exactly, exactly. It's exactly that.
43:32
I think it never was that. So yeah, that's what I would
43:35
like to pick for next week, if that's OK.
43:37
And then you could. And also it means that you
43:40
couldn't, you're in, you're in a place with One Piece where
43:42
you're finding it very exciting. So all you have to do is just to
43:45
break for one film rather than three episodes, and then you
43:49
could go back to One Piece. So it's like, you know, not too
43:52
hard. That money jazz, that money
43:54
jazz. But I think have you got
43:57
anything else to add for? That's that's.
44:01
Absolutely fine. I just want to say thanks again
44:04
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44:08
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Pressure Peer. Pressure.
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Peer pressure. Peer pressure.
44:24
Peer pressure, and that's what anime clubs are all about.
44:29
You peer pressure people into loving the things that you love.
44:33
No, you argue your case. Argue your case until everyone
44:37
has watched Mushishi. Still not watched it, right?
44:43
Anyway, till next week, bye bye.