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  Welcome to this week's episode of Anime Club here Day old art
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  classroom every week to talk about anime that we love and
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  some anime that we're watching for the first time.
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  And this week it's the first time for the both of us diving
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  into an absolute classic. Before we get to that, I'd love
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  to introduce my beautiful Co host, Christophery.
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  How you doing buddy? Not bad, not bad yourself.
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  No. Yeah.
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  Good. Thank you.
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  This week we're doing Ronnie Kenshin.
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  It is an anime from the 90s. From 1996 was when this was
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  first aired. Correct.
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  It's from the 90s, as are we. So I thought we could start by
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  playing a game. All right, so before we started
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  this, Phoebe, we should say this is like 2 minutes to 8 just
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  said, right, we're playing the game and you need to hold your
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  hands up to prove that you're not cheating.
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  So I'd like to have no idea what this.
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  Is I don't want you to Google So what I'm getting people in the
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  chat can play along as well. Obviously we're going to have to
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  operate in on a system for the chat because we won't know if
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  they're right, but So what this game is, is how well do you
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  remember the 90s? And we're going to do 90s number
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  ones, Chris, so. Because I was singing dance
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  music to you before. Yeah, big girl.
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  So I have got a full list of all the number ones that happened in
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  in during 1996. I want you to name one song and
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  you can get a bonus point if you can guess the number of weeks
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  that it stayed top of the charts for.
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  So you get like and it can be any song from that period.
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  Just give me a song title. 96 or I was 96.
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  What do you think was #1 when you were 6?
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  I'm going to go Spice Girls. OK, which one?
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  And what's it called that spicy your life or something?
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  I will give you half a .0. No, hang on.
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  No, I'm going to give you half a point because the Spice Girls,
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  there are three Spice Girls songs that were number one in in
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  1990. Three, tell me what you want.
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  None of them none of them are spice of your life.
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  What wannabe? Yeah.
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  OK, so and for the bonus point, Christopher, did you did you see
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  that in the chat pop up? I.
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  Don't know what you're talking about.
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  Yeah, yeah. My hands are up here.
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  For the bonus point, how many weeks do you think Wannabe was
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  at top of the charts for? Seven.
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  Weeks. Did you actually?
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  That's exactly right. Seriously.
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  So Wannabe 21st of July 1996 was when it hit the top of the
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  charts and it was at the top of the charts for seven weeks and
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  actually for that year was the longest reigning #1 so if you
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  were going to pick any of the number ones, that is the number
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  one to pick from 1996. Yeah, I knew that definitely
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  wasn't a fluke. Yeah, me, other me, other guests
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  would have been something like, I don't know, Robbie Williams
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  Angels or something. Oh, I think, see, I think that
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  would have been a bit later because I think in 1996 take
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  that was still a thing. Right.
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  I don't know. When did when did Robbie leave?
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  Take that. Do you know what else was at for
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  one week? Do you know what knocked Wannabe
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  off the top of the charts? Wannabe a maker?
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  No Peter Andre's flavour. Pre Insania I didn't know Peter
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  Andre so but. Also, I was like, like Spice
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  Girls could remember every single word to want to be, could
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  not for the life of you tell you a single lyric from Peter
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  Andre's flavour. But that is what knocked them
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  off at the Top of the Pops. He was there for one week before
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  it went into Breakfast at Tiffany's and I said, what about
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  Breakfast at Tiffany's? It's actually very nice.
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  Song. It's such a 90s song.
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  So yeah, we're we're in the 90s. What snacks are you bringing
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  back to the 90s today, Chris? Oh well, I've got a food item
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  and a drink item, none of which will probably be available in
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  the 90s. And so lovely Molly went to the
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  shop because definitely didn't forget to bring snacks and it's
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  got me Japanese style mix rice snacks.
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  Yummy. Think there might be sound nicer
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  than the taste, but we'll see. And then.
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  And then I've got a little Hulk drink that I got from the local
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  sweetie shop that has paid far too much for when you do.
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  This, but it's going to make you feel like the Hulk.
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  Little tornado, little. Power off that looks so bad.
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  I love that I've this week I've gone fancy again but fancy
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  because it's been provided by my mother and she has grown these
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  herself, which is like fresh figs that she has picked off a
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  tree today at her allotment. So I'm just having some fresh
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  figs and then if which I, I will obviously eat all of those
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  because they're delicious. I've also got myself a Terry's
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  chocolate orange because, you know, we're eating fruit.
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  Oh. Yeah, are you going to, are you
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  going to demonstrate how to open a property?
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  Yeah, smash it against the floor.
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  Yeah, if you ever, if you ever like, try to hit one on on your
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  head. No.
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  No, he knocked to be self out so many times doing that.
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  Yeah, I can see. I can see why that might be a
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  thing. So this week, and I've totally
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  not been delaying announced like obviously everyone can see on
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  the screen what we're doing this week.
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  But also, I've had, like, genuine fear about pronouncing
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  the divide of this week's anime. Rorony Kenshin.
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  That's the anime that we're doing.
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  What would you say this anime's about, mate?
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  Well. It's one of the first shown in
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  animes that I know of. I mean, obviously there's like
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  Astro Boyd stuff, which is the father, but it's one of the
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  first that I'm aware of. It's basically follows Kenshin
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  who's a wondering assassin or samurai who's trying to live a
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  peaceful life. And I genuinely have only seen
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  the first 3 episodes so I don't know that much of the story.
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  I know that he's a bloke that has a past where he was like an
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  assassin and he refuses to kill now.
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  And he meets a lass called Cam Kamiya Koru, who's a young Dojo
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  owner who's inherited from a father.
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  And basically the first 3 episodes are gathering a bunch
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  of friends. It's kind of like a direction.
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  Yeah, it's, it's one of them where every episode sent us on a
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  new person. Well, at least the first three.
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  They joined the party and somehow lodge in this Dojo.
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  And I'm assuming hijinks are going to happen.
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  A more plot development that's like every other shown in anime.
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  But yeah. But this is where it kind of, I
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  don't think it, I don't know if you could say it's where it
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  started, but it's like along with animes like Trigun, this is
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  one of the like I would say this is like one of the touchstones
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  for certain types of types of characters and certain types of
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  anime. So you have like the very like
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  the main character Kenshin. It's like very chilled out,
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  slightly comical character, but then when he gets serious he's
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  like incredibly, insanely powerful and he has a dark past
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  but a good heart. Yeah.
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  Yeah, and he just, you know, wants people around him to be
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  safe and to protect. And then you also have like the
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  beautiful temple maiden with a temper.
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  Yeah, yeah. The plucky St.
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  Urchin with a with a strong sense of pride and the ability
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  to learn. Yeah, but also he's the bottom
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  of the barrel, but with a noble heart.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. All he needs is just like one
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  good role model to set him straight.
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  Yeah. Oh, what's your Hulk drink like?
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  I've opened it, yeah. I'm, I'm scared that I'm shaking
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  it. Open my fizz.
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  Yeah, that's what I oh, you're all right.
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  What's it smell like? TSA chemicals up.
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  Nice. Yeah, it's it's lemonade.
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  Lemonade with other chemicals. Lemonade, green lemonade.
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  I feel like you you have better luck with snacks than you do
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  with drinks on this on this podcast.
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  You you definitely have you definitely have had some
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  interesting drinks you. Just got a risk it sometimes.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. For sure, for sure.
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  So how would you like? What was your first impression
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  of this of no of this anime? Completely attention.
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  Completely pale on it. Then I was like, oh we could be
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  here all night. Keep.
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  Going kitchen, that's all I'm going to say.
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  But yeah, when I first went in like you, you kind of because
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  there is a newer version and we want to do the original because
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  you watched the first episode of both of them and you said the
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  characters are probably better in this one.
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  But so going into it, I've looked at the screenshots of it
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  and what it looked like and I thought this this is an old
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  anime. Like even the style, the
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  palette, the music, you can just tell.
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  You had you did send me a very funny message when you when you
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  were watching the first 3 episodes you were like, was this
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  at a time where they just let anyone do karaoke as an anime
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  theme song? Yeah, it is.
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  And then I Googled it and then it's to say, Oh yes, with the
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  with the beloved original opening, I was like, it just
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  said because you said, Oh yeah, they got one of that.
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  And I mean, I just do karaoke. No, I yeah, that was a joke.
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  I don't think that's actually what happened.
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  But it does sound like someone was in like the sound booth and
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  they were like, right, we've, you know, we've got to get this
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  out tomorrow. Yeah, yeah.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, you know, it's the 90s, how
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  could you compete with Wannabe? Exactly.
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  Exactly. Yeah.
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  Yeah. So sorry.
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  Yeah. So that was your, like, colour
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  palette. Classic anime.
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  It takes us back to see I didn't watch anime in 96 because I was
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  6 year old. It was more 2000s onwards when I
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  was about 10 and it took us back to a time when I was going on
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  the family computer, going on dodgy streaming sites to watch
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  and anime because where else am I going to watch it from?
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  I can't stream. Last.
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  Week. Yeah, yeah, maybe.
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  Yeah. It's like Sunday morning gives
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  you a lot like Member Berry, feeling warm and fuzzy.
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  It did. And and even though I'd never
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  seen it before, I had the same reaction of like, oh, this is
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  nostalgia like. And there's even something like
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  the, the colour palette really is so, so 90s.
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  But there's a scene where she's like kneeling in the Dojo and
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  just the way that the Dojo is like the background art is
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  painted and the colours and everything.
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  I was like, this just feels like Saturday morning cartoons.
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  And also the episodes are like 20 minutes long.
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  Do you remember when animes used to be like 20 minutes long?
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  Yeah, it doesn't have like as far as I know in the first 3
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  episodes it doesn't have recaps or like last time on Bruini
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  Kenshin. I'm hoping the more I say it,
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  the more it's easier. The more it looks less like
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  you're really having an internal panic for any tension.
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  Yeah. And also because I'm like, you
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  know, comparing it to other old anime.
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  You're right. There's no recaps.
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  There's also no, there's no, like, repeated anime scenes,
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  which, like, affect cartoons in animation in general at this
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  time. Like people used to recycle a
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  lot of like backgrounds and a lot of like, action sorts.
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  Yeah, exactly like Sailor Moon. They, they have one extended
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  version of the Sailor Moon transformation sequence that
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  they just cut up into like different and like just reorder
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  for like almost every and do you know what I mean?
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  And there's none of that really like it.
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  So there is also like a kind of quality thing if you're going
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  back to watch nostalgic anime. I think this is probably a good
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  example of high quality anime of the time that it is.
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  Also, it is because it kind of establishes a bit of a genre.
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  Some of it feels very trophy, but it's because they weren't
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  tropes at the time, but have become tropes because of this
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  anime. But that makes it, if you're
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  watching it for the first time from 2025, that that sometimes I
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  was a bit like, oh, yeah, OK, I know where this is going.
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  Yeah. Yeah, even with the M with their
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  kensions backwards sword in his refusal to kill people, he just
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  beats them up. I was like, that is an amazing
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  way to get get past watersheds, but in the kids.
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  But besides that, it's it is kind of a trouble.
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  It's like the the season to kill.
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  It doesn't want to kill anymore. You see.
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  Well, modern day stuff even like Sakamoto days and it's just like
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  a a thing now. Yeah, Sakamoto Days, it's very
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  Sacramento days. Although I must admit I like,
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  you know, it's like apples to oranges.
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  But in terms of that particular trope, Sacramento days have
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  taken it and then built on it as well because they add the dad,
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  dad bod element, which just makes it amazing.
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  There's a way of subverting the genre a bit as well by just
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  making him not that cool. Yeah, I mean, weirdly, I think I
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  read some of my intentions based on a on a female model because
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  if he he has got effeminate features and he's got like a
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  very skinny, pale body. And the original voice.
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  Did you watch any of the any of? So I watched it dub and sub
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  because I was like, I'm just curious what the difference is
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  The sub voice. So the original voice for
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  Kenshin, he's he's very, I was like, I think that's a female
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  voice actor. Like it's very sounds female.
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  And I don't know if it is. I didn't look it up, but yeah.
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  So that doesn't surprise me because it feels like that is
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  the kind of they're pitching it in this kind of weirdly and not
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  weirdly androgynous, but like ambiguous place, I would say.
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  Long ginger hair. That's what makes it weird.
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  Yeah, sorry. Shouldn't say like my son's
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  ginger. Yeah, yeah.
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  So are you a little bit mate? Just be skin.
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  Very, very ginger skin. Really, if you're going to be a
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  redhead, that's the worst bet I. Know it's I'm sure I'm getting a
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  ton off this ring light at the minute.
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  You don't tan, you just go straight to pink.
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  True, true. So in terms of characters, did
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  you have like a like? What were your thoughts?
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  Did you have any that you particularly liked, particularly
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  disliked? What was your Who dream win?
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  So I don't think I was that bothered because I'm assuming
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  that Kenshin and Kamiya the Dojo owner are going to have some
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  sort of romance later on. But I kind of like the little
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  the little tou rag Meojin, the the street urchin who
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  pickpockets everyone. Yeah.
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  Is it Meojin yahiko I've got written down?
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  There's a leaps ellipses and there's some sort.
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  There's some pronunciations over the O which I don't get.
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  I can barely speak English, never mind Japanese.
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  Yeah. But yeah, I like the current
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  girl, has a bit of a shitty past and I can relate to him because
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  I'm poor too. Because sometimes I think about
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  joining your cues around you to have a crisis of conscience.
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  Yeah, yeah, very relatable. So I was also laughing because
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  Molly's, Molly's put in the chat.
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  Chris has too many Gray hairs to see the ginger now.
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  Do you know why? Because I've accidentally
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  started using her blue shampoo. Yeah.
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  OK. So you've taken all the brassy
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  tones out and just left you like kind of silvered.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  Oh amazing. Yeah, I I also liked Yuhiko a
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  lot. I thought he was a fun
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  character. There's also from that when he's
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  first introduced, so he comes in in episode 3.
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  And. 2 episode 2, he comes in and he's a clearly a pickpocket
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  and he pickpockets from like an old man who's there with his
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  grandson and then the grandson like wants something and the old
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  man's like oh I'll get it for you.
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  And he obviously like has an immediate like, Oh no.
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  So he like goes and gives back the thing that he's stolen.
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  And so like or or immediately you're like, Oh no, poor little
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  guy. Yeah.
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  Like you just, they just set him up to be like poor little guy.
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  Yeah, he's a pickpocket with a heart of gold.
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  Yeah, he's an Artful Dodger sort.
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  But I don't even think he is. He's it's weird because he talks
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  because he's from a proud samurai lineage family thing.
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  And and this is set in the Meiji area where swords were banned.
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  There was a sword law. So you you had to have like a
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  kind of the equivalent of a Meiji era license to carry a
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  sword. So a lot of samurais fell on
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  hard times as a result. Yeah.
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  But so that's the sorry. I'll switch you a train of
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  thought there. And so he's died with some sort
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  of samurai fancy. Samurai.
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  Fancy sword man. And so he's he's been drilled
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  into one from a very young age, that proud family lineage and
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  stuff like that. And he's fell on that hard
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  times. He's had to resort to pickpock.
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  And so he's kind of like, oh, I'm too good for this, but also
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  I kind of need to nick this purse to eat today.
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  Yeah. Thing going on.
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  Yeah. And yeah.
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  And you find out that he's kind of like in like massively in
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  debt and stuff, but he's only a kid.
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  So that so that can't be right. Like chainsaw, man.
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  Like chainsaw? Man, yeah.
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  But it's entirely testical though.
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  Also red headed main character. Like bleach, Like Chainsaw Man.
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  True, true. Full circle.
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  Full circle and the so I also really liked your man in episode
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  3, the the soldier like general type guy who came comes in who
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  at the end with the mustache. Is it like your Mata or you got
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  like Yagata? The one with the mustache.
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  Yeah, who like who's like No stop.
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  I can see from the crowds reaction that just like which
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  side of justice this man is on. And it's such like a dramatic,
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  like it's such a dramatic way to like enter a scene.
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  I was like, oh, I love this big old daddy with a moustache
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  coming in to deliver to deliver poetry.
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  And but it raised a weird point because that's when I was like,
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  message you. And I was like, hang on a
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  minute. So he's how old is this
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  character supposed to be? Because that general has been
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  tracking him down for 10 years from when he from when Kenshin
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  was fighting in a war rebellion like in the rebellion.
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  And in the. Rebellion.
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  He's supposed to have been like the most feared, most skilled
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  sword swordsman. So how did he become that?
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  I think we worked it out. He must have been about 15-16 at
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  the time of the rebellion because he's 28 at the time that
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  this anime sort of is the present day for this anime.
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  So he's been looking for over 10 years, which would make him 18.
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  But he's the. Most.
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  Feared, and that was at the end of the war.
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  Yes, he's the most feared assassin, so he used to be like
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  17/16/15. Yeah, so he must have been like,
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  what's his deal? I have questions about Kenshin
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  that I feel like the anime needs to answer.
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  Like what was his deal? How did he start training?
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  Did he do it from birth? Was his dad like or mum like a
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  famous like Like what's the vibe?
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  Yeah, and why does he not kill now?
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  Because it's harder to fight someone with a sword and not
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  kill them then kill them. Yeah, I feel like he could just,
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  like, learn to punch people and that probably would be easier
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  than not killing people with a sword.
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  Yeah, because his main thing is he's got a, he's got a backward
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  sword. Oh, big bunk.
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  And he's got a backward sword. So the the blade is on the wrong
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  is on the top and so the bottom. So when he swings, it swings it
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  like he's busy. Hit them with a bit of metal
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  which could kill them as well. It could, yeah.
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  Yeah, for sure. So yeah, I don't want to watch
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  your head because it's like a. 100.
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  Fruit 20 or five a day. That.
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  Isn't it the full 1 though. That going to have to eat the
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  whole thing because you need to hit that target of five a day.
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  Last time I ate a fruit lemonade lemons.
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  I've got a fruitful of raspberries as well, fresh
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  raspberries now as well and plums.
• 25:12
  Proper glut. I'll tell you what, my mum, her
• 25:15
  allotment she's, she grows some delicious things.
• 25:22
  I tried to draw, we tried to grow some strawberries.
• 25:24
  We had three plants that started flowering, started producing
• 25:27
  strawberries that just dies. I just forgot to water them.
• 25:32
  You do have to water them pretty much every day.
• 25:34
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 25:35
  Did you put straw around them? Straw.
• 25:39
  No, I put them inside them. Yeah, but you're then supposed
• 25:43
  to like like water them and put straw around them.
• 25:45
  That's why they're called strawberry berries and it helps
• 25:48
  lock the moisture into the soil because they're such like a
• 25:50
  water thirsty crop. No, I didn't do that.
• 25:55
  I just put them just I thought it was like a set them and
• 25:57
  forget them kind of kind of deal.
• 25:59
  Obviously it wasn't. No, no.
• 26:06
  Anyway, what would you so we both only watched the first 3
• 26:17
  episodes for for the first time in a long time, we've obeyed our
• 26:22
  we've actually followed the format of our podcast.
• 26:29
  What? What are you like?
• 26:32
  What would you hope for? Are there any questions that you
• 26:34
  have at this stage on episode 3 that you hope the anime answers?
• 26:40
  Yeah, 'cause I mean, the first couple episodes in and Shawn are
• 26:46
  introducing the world, introducing the characters and
• 26:49
  their bonds, and it feels like they haven't done that in three
• 26:55
  episodes. I mean they've introduced some
• 26:57
  characters and hinted at backgrounds but nothing like
• 27:01
  concrete is to say who was Keru the Dojo owner?
• 27:08
  Why did her dad did he die or whatever?
• 27:11
  Why she got the Dojo and why did she only have three members of a
• 27:15
  Dojo? Who left Kenshin?
• 27:18
  Why did he was an assassin? Why did he stop doing that?
• 27:21
  And again, the question is before like, how did he grow up?
• 27:25
  He must have been really young when he was the top assassin in
• 27:28
  this rebellion. And the little the little kid, I
• 27:33
  think his story was pretty much done, but I don't know what's he
• 27:36
  what's he been doing? He just he just worked for the
• 27:40
  who's that? So he wasn't as bad in the.
• 27:42
  Grand as well. Is he going to be like strong?
• 27:45
  Is he going to, you know, one day grow to be a strong
• 27:51
  swordsman? Also who's this?
• 27:54
  Who's this guy here and the the Street Fighter guy with the
• 27:59
  headband on? So after who's don't know?
• 28:03
  Yeah, so I think we should make a prediction of who we think
• 28:07
  this guy is because I deliberately didn't look it up
• 28:12
  because I was like, I might actually carry on watching this.
• 28:14
  So, you know, I want it to be part of the story for me.
• 28:19
  I think he's brash. I think he's brash.
• 28:25
  I think he comes in and clashes with Kenshin and they have like
• 28:30
  a risk, like a semi respectful rivalry that develops between
• 28:34
  the two of them. And I think he has an unrequited
• 28:37
  thing for what's her face for the Dojo owner for Kairu.
• 28:46
  That I. Predicted for who that guy is
• 28:49
  and I also reckon if you search the Internet there's loads of
• 28:52
  pictures of him and Ken Ching kissing.
• 28:55
  Probably be more than kissing. So many, yeah.
• 29:00
  Cracker, did I tell you? Did I tell you I accidentally
• 29:02
  did that with Dander Dan? You did, Yeah.
• 29:06
  Yeah. But tell the audience at home.
• 29:08
  Oh yeah, So there was a guy I talked to on Instagram called
• 29:11
  Pollock Express. He does screeners of anime films
• 29:15
  like classic ones. And gorgeous promotional posters
• 29:18
  and stuff they do for the screeners as well.
• 29:20
  Really like I loved the Metropolis one that they did.
• 29:23
  Yeah, so he he was talking about an art collaborative book that
• 29:28
  he made with a bunch of local artists.
• 29:31
  It's it's amazing. I'll probably post it.
• 29:34
  But anyway, yeah, he he sent me a thing for Perfect Blue, which
• 29:38
  was kind of like promo cards and I'll try not to show the one
• 29:44
  with the boobies on. I do want to do the perfect blue
• 29:48
  one here at some point as well, because when we use when you
• 29:51
  it's a. Satoshi Code and it's what he's
• 29:53
  known for and we've done these other films as well, but it's
• 29:57
  like the odd cards, which I think are amazing things to have
• 30:00
  and I love them. So I was just like, I wonder if
• 30:03
  there's any more for different animes.
• 30:06
  And so then I was like, well, I really like that to dance, so
• 30:10
  I'll have a look at that. Don't look at that.
• 30:12
  There's just filth, filth. So yeah, there'll be loads of
• 30:21
  Rule 34 stuff. You're probably better off going
• 30:27
  to like an Etsy and searching there.
• 30:30
  It's probably safer. Yeah, I'd just like to have nice
• 30:33
  things around us. No, your little, your little
• 30:36
  podcasting space is so cute. I love it.
• 30:39
  I also love you. Yeah.
• 30:41
  You've also got, like, more things on your shelf this week
• 30:44
  as well. Yeah.
• 30:47
  I've been shopping there was a nice little local shop.
• 30:51
  Someone got paid, so yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 31:03
  Yeah, I'll just, I want, I just want to add to it, make it
• 31:06
  bigger. But yeah, sorry, what was I
• 31:09
  talking about? Stronger who we think this guy
• 31:12
  is. Who do you think that?
• 31:13
  Guy is, so I think he's going to be a wanderer.
• 31:16
  Who's heard of the Who's heard of the the legendary assassin?
• 31:23
  Kenshin tries to challenge him to prove his might.
• 31:27
  Kenshin smacks his little bum and then he's just like, I'm so
• 31:32
  broody and Moody, I need to defeat you.
• 31:34
  And he's just come join the Dojo instead.
• 31:37
  And he he tries to become, he's like apprentice.
• 31:42
  So he's kind of the hot headed one.
• 31:45
  That's what I think based on shonen rules and what he looks
• 31:50
  like. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 31:52
  I think that's a good shout to be fair.
• 31:55
  I haven't looked at this. I didn't I write these calls Ken
• 31:59
  or Ryu. I don't think he can be called
• 32:04
  Ken because then it'd be Ken versus Kenshin.
• 32:08
  So I think he's probably called like, yeah, Ryu or or Suba.
• 32:17
  I've just realized as well Paul's been trying to send the
• 32:20
  beast the boaters in the M in the chat and he's an auto modded
• 32:25
  right now because he's. Not on the page.
• 32:33
  It's true. He's also saying that soon
• 32:34
  you're going to have a room like his.
• 32:38
  No, because I'll put me shelves. Up properly, that's exactly what
• 32:43
  I thought you were going to say. Paul uses no more nails and
• 32:47
  Velcro to put up his shelves. Whereas Chris is a real man.
• 32:52
  He uses a hammer and a prayer. Tell me, did you use a stunt
• 32:58
  Finder where you put up those shelves?
• 33:00
  No, it kept going off every time I held it up near us.
• 33:03
  Yeah, sounds like the classic like stunt Finder.
• 33:07
  Oh no, baby babe. It's, it's just depressing when
• 33:11
  it doesn't go off and you just like, oh.
• 33:17
  My own tools. Betrayed us.
• 33:20
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. So how do you feel like?
• 33:23
  So you're right. Like we we talked a bit about
• 33:25
  the fact that this has had a remake.
• 33:26
  It's also got live action versions.
• 33:29
  I've noticed that, yeah. Which I was like, I can actually
• 33:34
  see this working really well as a live action and I would be up
• 33:41
  for watching that at some point. Yeah, because it's, it's kind of
• 33:44
  like it's a bastardized version of history, isn't it really?
• 33:49
  Yeah. There's no like crazy powers
• 33:51
  that I've seen yet. There's no ghosts, no freaky
• 33:55
  things. So it could, but it could work
• 33:57
  out. I think it could.
• 33:59
  And it's like basically like a period drama set in like a
• 34:01
  little town, isn't it? So like, that would be great to
• 34:04
  shoot. It's Japanese, don't Nabi.
• 34:10
  That's what it is. It's Samurai Pride and
• 34:14
  Prejudice. Did you like it?
• 34:21
  Yeah, I did. Actually.
• 34:22
  I enjoyed it when I watched because I watched one episode of
• 34:26
  the old one, one episode of the new one to try and decide which
• 34:30
  which I wanted to watch. And I actually found the new
• 34:34
  episode, the characters felt more stereotypically old
• 34:38
  fashioned. So like, the girl was a bit like
• 34:41
  wet, like she seemed she didn't seem as strong in the newer
• 34:47
  version. And also Kenshin was kind of
• 34:51
  like to check like annoyingly artificially chill and like pet
• 35:00
  saying the same thing over and over again.
• 35:02
  And I was like, this seems like a man who's had a breakdown.
• 35:06
  Maybe that's part of it, but I was like, and the animation was
• 35:12
  OK, but I still thought the old animation was good enough that I
• 35:15
  was like, I could easily watch the old one.
• 35:18
  And I think I'm going to prefer the characters in the original.
• 35:21
  You're really not enjoying that. You know you don't have to
• 35:24
  finish the things that you you open if you don't like them.
• 35:29
  It's it's a thing. I have to.
• 35:33
  You have to finish what's on your plate or you won't get
• 35:36
  dessert. Yeah, to be fair, I'll not eat
• 35:41
  all of these rice snacks. They're a bit.
• 35:44
  What? Are they not good?
• 35:47
  Are they like wasabi? No, not.
• 35:51
  They're very plain. Oh, that's always a bit
• 35:54
  disappointing. Do you think it held up with
• 36:03
  2025 eyes? Yeah, because for for anime that
• 36:09
  came out in 96, there was very little sexism in this.
• 36:14
  I was surprised at that. Right, and also there's one bit
• 36:19
  where he walks in on her while she's in the bath and I was
• 36:23
  like, oh, OK, here we go 90s anime.
• 36:27
  But immediately she's like smack down.
• 36:30
  Anytime it gets a little bit sexy, she's like, no and just
• 36:35
  like smacking him. To be fair, it was weird that
• 36:40
  that he went into that bathroom because he was he was stalking
• 36:43
  the fire underneath that bath. That's how they kept it warm.
• 36:46
  And then she made it. She just made a normal bath
• 36:49
  noise. And then he was like, what's
• 36:51
  happening? And she put a head under the
• 36:53
  water to get washed and stuff. So she didn't reply because she
• 36:57
  came in here. So he runs in.
• 36:58
  It's like, what's going to happen?
• 37:00
  She's in that bath. I also feel like he did wait
• 37:04
  outside the door to like if I was going to run in on someone
• 37:07
  having a bath because I was like would I run in on someone having
• 37:10
  a bath if they were drowning was my thought.
• 37:12
  And I was like if I thought they were in trouble I probably
• 37:15
  would. I probably would also wait
• 37:18
  outside the door much longer than he.
• 37:22
  Yeah. He was very quick to run into
• 37:26
  the bath, but that was as sexy as it got in three episodes.
• 37:29
  It was probably less than a minute of like a little bit sexy
• 37:34
  and also all with adults. Yeah, yeah.
• 37:38
  I didn't. I didn't.
• 37:39
  Check her age. I'm assuming that's that's fair.
• 37:43
  I'm assuming she's an adult. I'm assuming slash hoping, yeah,
• 37:55
  But no, I think it did. And I do think she's a good
• 37:58
  character. She seems well-rounded.
• 38:00
  She's not like she got a little bit helpless in the Yakuza
• 38:05
  scene, but to be fair, she's also massively outnumbered, so
• 38:09
  you can kind of forgive that. Yeah, I I didn't see that as
• 38:12
  like a a typical damsel in distress because basically what
• 38:16
  she did is the little kid, she found out that he he owed the
• 38:19
  IGUSA debt and that's why he was pickpocketing for them and is
• 38:23
  obviously indebted for life because he's not going to,
• 38:26
  they're not going to say, Oh yeah, you've paid what off?
• 38:29
  Don't worry. He's just constantly going to
• 38:31
  add up this bill. So she basically kicks off,
• 38:34
  she's like, this isn't right. Storms into the IGUSA place and
• 38:39
  there's like 5 or 6 men in this hall who are bigger than her.
• 38:45
  She stands. On the types, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 38:50
  Ruffians, vagabonds and that. And then she starts, yeah, she
• 38:57
  starts a fight with them pretty much.
• 38:59
  And then she quickly gets outnumbered.
• 39:01
  And I didn't see it as a damsel in dress because a normal person
• 39:05
  would have been like, if it was a man, it would have been the
• 39:09
  same or like a normal man. Not Kenshin.
• 39:12
  He would have chinned the ball. But he did.
• 39:15
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 39:16
  Even even the kids, he kind of takes one of them out by kicking
• 39:20
  them in the balls and that's about it.
• 39:24
  Yeah, and you also see later in like you see armed police
• 39:29
  officers, but like for like falling for like like similar
• 39:34
  kind of like like. So she's not the only one who is
• 39:36
  out like outnumbered at time. Do you know what I mean?
• 39:40
  So you're right. I don't think it is like a
• 39:42
  damsel in distress moment particularly.
• 39:46
  I guess I would just expect the main like the owner of a Dojo,
• 39:51
  but more of a fight. But we also don't yet know the
• 39:56
  circumstances by which she became the owner, so.
• 40:00
  Nipple baby, I think. I think so too.
• 40:07
  So yeah. So would ultimate question would
• 40:14
  will you be watching past the first 3 episodes?
• 40:16
  So. Sorry, I was chewing.
• 40:21
  Yeah, when I saw this. I'm sure there's like 196
• 40:25
  episodes of this, something like that.
• 40:29
  And there's a couple of films, and there's the new series I
• 40:34
  probably will watch ahead, but not anytime.
• 40:38
  Soon, and not to finish. Not not to finish, I'll I'll
• 40:42
  watch it every curiosity, but I don't think I'll continue on
• 40:46
  only because I think it's a lot of tropes and storylines are
• 40:52
  probably based on this. I'm not saying that it's bad,
• 40:56
  I'm just saying I think going in 2025, I don't think it'll hold
• 41:01
  up to watching it as much as if you were watching it in 1996.
• 41:06
  Yeah. And I think without a nostalgia
• 41:09
  factor of having watched it in 1996, it's like that that kind
• 41:18
  of changes how you view stuff as well as you're like left quite
• 41:21
  excited and things. I'm the same.
• 41:24
  I think I will watch ahead. For me, this feels like Sunday
• 41:27
  morning cartoon like like maybe a little bit hungover.
• 41:30
  I need AI need like a couple of hours of like just like quick 20
• 41:34
  minute episodes to while I remember what it is to be human
• 41:39
  and sober I. Keep watching things all over.
• 41:46
  I would have it as a do you know if you want that, if you want
• 41:50
  that nostalgic anime, if you like you want a bit grainy, if
• 41:55
  the dubs a bit crap. I've never seen the dub but I
• 41:58
  can imagine it not being as good as 2025 dubs because the VAS
• 42:02
  went as. It wasn't they were less
• 42:06
  respect. Yeah, it's less.
• 42:09
  That's good. And also like the localization
• 42:12
  in general was, was just very different and censorship laws
• 42:15
  and things like that. And like, depending on like how
• 42:20
  they landed in either the UK or America, that really changed on
• 42:24
  like how much support they had as to what the Dubs were like.
• 42:28
  I, I noticed a lot in the subtitles as well and they did a
• 42:32
  lot of literal translations for grammar as well.
• 42:36
  So but like, but like take this, you will kind of think if you've
• 42:42
  given someone as it'll just be a little bit backwards like that.
• 42:46
  But I used to kind of be used to that from fan Subs back in the
• 42:50
  day. Oh my God, fan Subs.
• 42:54
  Yeah, that's nostalgia right there.
• 42:58
  Yeah. I just remember I used to have
• 43:01
  the subtitles on the bottom. And then if it was further
• 43:03
  context needed, you would have like a paragraph on the top of
• 43:06
  the screen that sometimes covered the whole screen.
• 43:08
  But it was like this man's nose is bleeding because in Japan, in
• 43:12
  Japan, like if you are aroused, a classic thing is your nose
• 43:16
  starts to bleed. Do you remember, I don't know if
• 43:19
  you ever read manga online as like a teenager, but like
• 43:23
  Scanlations, where you had like people like just fans who for
• 43:28
  manga that wasn't going to be published in like the UK or the
• 43:30
  States, they would like to translate it for you.
• 43:34
  Right. And you'd get like really dodgy
• 43:38
  translation and people kicking off Eddie, People kicking off
• 43:43
  about who, about what things meant back in like the early
• 43:50
  days of like whatever, you know, 1990 was, was Reddit around
• 43:55
  then? Probably not.
• 43:56
  It was probably like a forum thing.
• 43:58
  Yeah, yeah, probably. I don't.
• 44:01
  I've never seen that because I didn't get in the manga a lot
• 44:06
  later. Like I've got all the, I think
• 44:08
  my first manga was Battle Royale Jeff.
• 44:12
  I've still got like 6 volumes of it only because I like went into
• 44:16
  a massive deep dive of the film when that came out in 2000.
• 44:20
  So like I watch the film, I've read the book and I was like,
• 44:23
  oh, there's a Bangor of it. I'll hit a water stones and then
• 44:27
  bought 6 volumes a lot. Yeah I am.
• 44:32
  I'm currently reading a lot of Kaiju #8 and I'm I've already
• 44:37
  started watching season 2 and I love it.
• 44:41
  I'm in my I'm in my Kaiju era. This.
• 44:45
  This is why you haven't watched the Head, isn't it?
• 44:49
  Of this. Yeah, because I want, I almost
• 44:54
  resented this podcast because I was like, it's stopping me from
• 44:57
  being able to watch the anime. I really want to watch Kaiju #8
• 45:04
  but obviously I didn't. I obviously I didn't.
• 45:07
  And I love, I love. I actually did enjoy watching it
• 45:09
  once I got started, but I was a bit like, oh, but I've got my
• 45:12
  new night. Like literally the first thing I
• 45:14
  did on payday was to be like, order volume #7 they're all
• 45:22
  sitting in my, they're all sitting in my anime cart and
• 45:24
  I've forced myself to not buy more than one volume a month
• 45:28
  because I can't afford to go broke because of manga again.
• 45:32
  Yeah, see those days are. Lonely.
• 45:35
  Do you know the big books? The big Berserk books, The
• 45:37
  black? Not the leather ones, but the
• 45:40
  leather effect ones. The big hardback ones with the
• 45:43
  red on the front. I really want to buy them but
• 45:45
  they're like £40 each and I'm like I can do 11A payday
• 45:49
  maybe's. Yeah, so worth it though, but
• 45:54
  one a payday feels reasonable. I also dug out and I was kicking
• 45:57
  myself and not showing it on the Princess Mononoke episode, but I
• 46:01
  dug this out which is the Mononoke art book.
• 46:06
  Nice. Which is really gorgeous.
• 46:11
  Which I bought when I was a teenager.
• 46:13
  I've had this book for ages and nerd nerd.
• 46:22
  Would would you recommend this to someone to if if a friend who
• 46:26
  was I've I've never seen Annabelle before I've seen this
• 46:31
  Ravoni Kenshin. Yeah.
• 46:34
  Should I watch it? I would I would recommend it to
• 46:37
  them. And also because here's the
• 46:38
  other thing, I do think the animation is high quality
• 46:41
  animation. And then and a way, another way
• 46:43
  you can tell as well as no repeated scenes is all of the
• 46:48
  characters have a distinct design, even just like one shot
• 46:53
  NPCS, like even the police officers, you could distinguish
• 46:57
  each police officer when they were in their uniforms.
• 47:01
  All the Yakuza, you could distinguish each Yakuza.
• 47:04
  And I think that's another marker of like quality anime of
• 47:08
  this era. So I would I would also say if
• 47:12
  you really like that, give Sakamoto days ago.
• 47:17
  That would be my and that would be the one where I'm like, you
• 47:20
  really need to watch that anime. If you like, if you like the
• 47:23
  vibes of Ruin and Kenshi Kenshin, then give Sakamoto days
• 47:28
  ago, because that is this, but funny, like really, really
• 47:35
  funny. And they and it's also just, you
• 47:39
  know, just that little bit further forward it it
• 47:42
  acknowledges the tropes, but it also subverts them.
• 47:45
  So it kind of feels less like stayed.
• 47:50
  And I do think it is unfair to say this is a trope filled anime
• 47:55
  because I don't think all the tropes were really as
• 47:57
  established at the time. And it's like saying, Oh,
• 48:00
  Raymond Chandler is is so like film noir tropes.
• 48:04
  You know, it's full of like phrases.
• 48:06
  Like she walked into the room and I could hear saxophone
• 48:08
  saxophones playing as her legs flashed in the broken glass of
• 48:14
  the window. It's like that.
• 48:15
  Like, you know, smoke surrounded us like the fog on a on Seattle
• 48:20
  Bay. It's like, it's full of phrases
• 48:22
  like that. And you think, oh, this is
• 48:23
  really cliche, but Raymond Chandler is the one who
• 48:26
  establishes the cliche. So you kind of have to nod at it
• 48:30
  for that reason, and I don't. Yeah, but it.
• 48:34
  But at the same time, we're watching it in 2025.
• 48:37
  And it's not really Kenshin's fault that it, like so many
• 48:41
  other animes, have done what it did.
• 48:44
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 48:47
  What about you? Would you recommend it?
• 48:52
  No. So I'm going to see the reason
• 48:54
  why I'm not seeing it. I'm not seeing it's a bad anime
• 48:57
  because I have only watched 3 episodes so my 3 episode rule is
• 49:03
  to judge whether I would watch it on.
• 49:05
  Not to say if this anime is it's 100 and episodes.
• 49:10
  You can't say it's good or bad by the 1st 3 in its entirety.
• 49:16
  So I wouldn't because that kind of style.
• 49:23
  I don't think anime will come out like that anymore.
• 49:27
  Like that colour planet, the music stingers in between
• 49:30
  scenes. I think it's it is very 90s.
• 49:35
  Very dated, even the way that they draw their faces and stuff
• 49:39
  feels. Very dated.
• 49:41
  I don't think it's a bad thing necessarily, but I think you'll
• 49:45
  appreciate it more if you watched anime in the 90s or
• 49:49
  early 2000s. Or, you know, I think you will
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  be like Kaiju #8 better or Sakamoto days.
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  Sorry, I've got really bad hiccups.
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  It's are you holding your breath?
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  So it's all right, I say. Oh no.
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  It's no, it's not a hiccup. She's dying.
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  It's like, is there a hiccup? Something different down South.
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  Hiccups. Are they different?
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  No, there's no she's checking. Do you?
• 50:29
  It's a diaphragmatic irritation that is the hiccup.
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  I know. Words too you got.
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  You got really salty with me when I used the word pastiche
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  the other day. Ironically, just like a
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  pistachio. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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  Salted. Get it?
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  Hey, Yeah, fair. So that was really Kenshin.
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  Give it a go. Don't give it a go, but go into
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  it knowing that you're you will be travelling back in time to a
• 51:09
  time when wannabe on top of the charts.
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  And thus we come full circle. Chris, what else is going on on
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  Nerdy Up North this week? Oh, just scrolling down to see
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  that. Yeah.
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  So on Sunday, we'll have Becca and Sarah on the Sunday podcast
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  with Paul and Sammy doing childhood trauma.
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  We should be fun. Laugh a minute at that, but he's
• 51:35
  actually I'm actually quite excited for it because like, you
• 51:38
  know, it's things like animals are farming wood and worship
• 51:41
  down like all those feel like I feel like it will exercise some
• 51:44
  demons from my childhood. I'm, I'm really interested to
• 51:48
  know what traumatize people as a child, because I'm like, yeah,
• 51:52
  and my father, I watch like pan Olympics and, and that kind of
• 51:56
  stuff. I had unfiltered access to like
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  dodgy websites and steakcheese.com and stuff.
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  It's just like, yes, I saw a man beheaded yesterday.
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  Now I'm doing PE. And so yeah, that that'll be
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  like a nice comparison to see what people's childhoods are
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  like. And then on Monsters on the
• 52:17
  Monday, we've got Alfred Hitchcock.
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  Which will be beautiful. It's really hard to say that
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  surname normally. Alfred Hitchcock.
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  Nothing funny about that. Moving on.
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  No weird weird names are there. And then for two seconds on
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  Tuesday. Yeah.
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  We have upgrumps and we're doing Kevin and Perry.
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  All I want to do is do it for guilt.
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  Pickle, pickle, pickle. I'll take that off.
• 52:54
  I've got plenty. I've got about 5 bucket hats now
• 52:58
  and but I know we've only just talked about this, but what do
• 53:04
  you want to do next week on Anime Club?
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  I'm determined to drag you one year further back into Gundam
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  Wing. Yeah, I've never seen.
• 53:18
  This before which was an anime that I watched on Cartoon
• 53:22
  Network like peek peek at young anime Phoebe obsessed with it
• 53:27
  and I'm low key terrified. It is a show about child soldier
• 53:35
  essentially. But I I loved it and I'm I'm
• 53:39
  curious if I will still love it now so much.
• 53:45
  As a genuinely, it'd be the first time I've ever seen it.
• 53:49
  Yeah, you and you've said that you've not really seen many
• 53:51
  Gundam animes, right? So this will be this is one of
• 53:57
  one of the Gundam animes. Yeah, we're doing like the
• 54:03
  original series or something, because I'm assuming that this
• 54:06
  20 million series. So there are lots of different
• 54:09
  Gundam series like Gundam Destiny, Gundam Seed at Gundam
• 54:13
  2000. I think it's one of them.
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  But Gundam Wing is like, I think one of the like because it was
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  on Cartoon Network at a formative time for people our
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  age. I think it's one of those animes
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  that is probably the most well known out of those Gundams.
• 54:31
  And yeah, there's a film called Endless Waltz, but I think we
• 54:38
  should watch the series. And I also think there are quite
• 54:41
  a few episodes, but it's not one of those animes that run ran
• 54:45
  forever and ever. It is like 3 Series top like
• 54:48
  total, I think three seasons total.
• 54:53
  Yeah, so. Well, because you said it was on
• 54:57
  court in network, I'm expecting the voice acting to be all
• 55:01
  right. So the watch isn't dub?
• 55:04
  Yeah, I think you could watch this in dub.
• 55:07
  I think the voice acting is all right.
• 55:08
  From what I remember, some of the characters are very
• 55:10
  brooding. It also has this storyline.
• 55:15
  So here's the other thing. We'll get into it next week.
• 55:18
  But they also has a storyline that I still think is like, if
• 55:22
  not more so relevant today than it was when we were kids.
• 55:25
  And I kind of love that about sci-fi when there's a kind of
• 55:29
  predictive element to what humanity will grapple with.
• 55:34
  Yeah. So yeah, we're going to watch
• 55:36
  Gundam Wing. Sounds good, sounds good.
• 55:40
  Yeah, yeah. And I always, I always want to
• 55:47
  sing the Shaman King thing is this Gundam Wing, Gundam Wing.
• 55:52
  But that's the Shaman King thing.
• 55:55
  And if you like that, I am at some point gonna also make you
• 55:57
  watch Jessica Floney. But I think that will hold up
• 55:59
  worse then. I'm getting loads of videos
• 56:05
  because I've been starting watching like classic anime.
• 56:08
  I've been looking for pictures in Google and me phones
• 56:11
  listening. There was and all this stuff,
• 56:12
  yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 56:13
  So. I've been getting loads of
• 56:15
  videos of escaflory. Wouldn't some gears are moving
• 56:19
  and how integrate all the systems are?
• 56:21
  I don't know what it's about. There's a few things.
• 56:25
  It is a Gundam anime and the Gundams what like there are
• 56:30
  Dragons, but they're like giant. They're like, you know, Komodo
• 56:34
  Dragons. They're like the Dragons look
• 56:36
  almost like Komodo Dragons rather than like a classic
• 56:40
  dragon from either Asia or Europe.
• 56:43
  So I think it's interesting for like some of the design choices
• 56:46
  it makes. But like the Gundams in that
• 56:49
  have like a like somewhat biological components.
• 56:52
  There's also like some sort of psychic kind of link stuff going
• 56:55
  on. There's also like fate machines
• 56:59
  as well in it, which is probably the gears that you're seeing is
• 57:03
  actually not the Gundams, but the fate machine in the anime
• 57:08
  where people are able to kind of like nudge what's happening into
• 57:13
  like a different tract of like reality almost.
• 57:17
  It's quite it is quite cool, but also some of the some we can
• 57:24
  watch, we can we can fully do that as well.
• 57:26
  It's on the list already, but some of it is.
• 57:29
  So there are some weird elements to it as well, which is why I'm
• 57:32
  also anxious about recommending it because it's got things like
• 57:35
  cat girls, fat girls are a thing in it that like there's lots of
• 57:41
  like very pretty, pretty men with long hair or wings is the
• 57:46
  thing. So there's some weird absolutely
• 57:51
  nothing. And I can tell you teenage
• 57:53
  Phoebe had nothing but against it either.
• 57:56
  But I'm just saying like, like, it might be weird, there might
• 58:01
  be some weirdness to it. So you know, let's try Gundam
• 58:04
  Wing 1st and then we'll try Escafloni.
• 58:12
  Grand. So thank you so much, Chris.
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  Thank you everyone for joining us.
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  If you if you really liked this week's episode, please go give
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  us a comment. Tell us if you've got an anime
• 58:22
  that you'd like us to review or tell us, you know, something
• 58:26
  that you remember about the 1996, if you remember it at all.
• 58:29
  And if you remember it, were you really there, man, you know?
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  Bye bye. Good girl.