The Banzai Beat Anime Podcast
Kung Fu Masters
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Because we're busy. That's where we got lives, people. Imagine that. We just don't do this all the time. I wish I could. Of course, my opinions probably don't mean much anyways, so-- I don't know. We talk about anime. We talk about gaming. We talk about anime. Nothing E3 happened this week. I don't know what to move on. What have you been watching? Any anime at all? Trying to keep up with C. But trying to keep up with a lot and trying to keep up with-- Why would you keep up with that? I don't want to garbage. Ah, yes. Trying to keep up with-- Doo-doo-doo-doo. What have a banana gate? Steins gate? Steins gate, thank you. Banana gate? Banana gate. Mm-hmm. Trying to keep up with Steins gate. Steins gate's been pretty good. Law it has been, you know, 90% incredibly incredibly cute, 10% pet-o bedding, so-- There you go. See? As long as it stays like that, I suppose it's OK. But ah, dang. I need you all to text, Jazzy. I have not-- OK. I've watched a little bit of Animes. I am going to be reviewing the world's strongest disabled Kanichi tonight. I have been watching that after I've finished a G-Mino Hippo, which eventually I'll review here. Otherwise, I have not watched anything subbed. I haven't watched "C" in like four weeks. I haven't watched "World of Only God Knows." I have to catch up on everything. And I have to work tomorrow afternoon or tomorrow evening, so I think I'll finally get caught up. Because I just haven't had any-- I don't know. I just haven't had any gumption. I just haven't had anyone to watch it. Like, I think I have access to all this English dubbed anime. It's like screw it. I can sit back on the couch. And watch it normal, or sit in my chair and read crap and-- yeah. So I haven't had any-- I haven't had any war at all to do it. But I have been watching-- I started watching Dragon Ball Z Kai again. It took Nick Tunes or whatever two and a half months to come out with three new episodes. So I'm one episode behind. And that's about it. I mean, my wife's are watching Eden of the East again. I'm about halfway through the King of Eden, which makes no sense, but holy fuck, I love Netflix. They have the Eden of the East and they have the-- the movie was just released a week ago. And it's already on Netflix. Amazing. Thank you. Funimation, you effing rock. But yeah, I-- Well, no, I'm upset with Funimation today, but-- Why is that? Oh, well, fine. We'll get there when we talk about the news. Oh, OK. Not enough lowly action for you, I guess. No, nope, nope. All right. Well, anything else want to add you if we hit the news? No, don't think so. Only that Steinsgate, you should all be watching, because it's incredibly, incredibly good. Yeah, you might have watched it in the movie. You need to see, it's my favorite show of the season. There you go. All right. OK. OK. OK. This week in Anime News, brought to you by Anime News Network. Thank you, Anime News Network. All right. You know what? Shit. [BUZZER] I'm maybe horribly prepared. Oh, I'm not horribly prepared. All right. Funimation was like, hey, we added some shit today. We added a horrible, horrible show that is still airing. It was awful and full of trash. Fuck you, Funimation. They've added We Without Wings. Yeah. Why, I don't know. And they don't add stuff that's actually good. Well, what do you expect? A denial. Zebra Man 2-- And they're digging the cell. And they're digging about the way they say they're not going to add anything like it. Well, we'll get there. You know what? I guarantee you they're selling. They're going to sell this as every, you know, the seven hot girls and things. Yeah. I don't know. I couldn't finish the first episode. I was like, done. Maybe I'll try watching it dubbed, but it'll be just as horrible. I'm pretty sure. Come on. This is why action film-- Zebra Man 2-- Attack on Zebra City. What the fuck? Ah. Hey, Funimation. You just got sold by a crap bird to a company. Here's some shitty anime that will not sell. I have city under siege. I have no idea what that's about either. This evidently follows a group of circus performers who gain supernatural abilities after being exposed to toxic gas left over by the Japanese during World War II. Because it's still good 50 years, 50 years later. Mm-hmm. Because toxic gas never, you know, never disperses or anything like that at all. Of course not. It hangs in one place. It just hangs around. Yeah. Oh, me. Relay. And this is an actual action to film. Hey, dude, it's Japan. They don't have the budget or the writing teams that we have in America. We are blessed to have stuff like this. I'm sure this is going to be awful. Because it is actually evidently live action. Yes. So I don't know. Well, yeah, here's what I'm guessing you're pissed off about. Funimation has left it. Funimation is not going to release the second hiragashi. Ha. And then something called familiar of zero, which I've never heard of. And they're really dickish about the way they said they're not going to license any more hiragashi. Well, they basically tell you why. It didn't sell. Why would they-- I mean, OK, fine. Just leave it there. There's no need to go on and say, nor would we seek out series that bears even a minor resemblance. I mean, it's just dickish. Come on now. Obviously, Americans didn't like moe girls slamming their head into a knife and kids murdering each other. I am halfway through the show. I'm fucking bored. I'm fucking done. I can't bring myself an finishing. Now, man, you're missing out. It's a good thought-provoking show. No, it's the same shit every day. They're just from a different perspective. And it shows you how from a different perspective-- Of course, perspective. They just differently change. One minute, one girl's raping a cat. And they're like, oh, that cat murdered everybody. And now, I don't know, now it's on the next guy who murdered someone's uncle. And it just got old after the third or fourth time. I mean, were they interesting? Yeah. The most interesting one was a green-haired girl goes all psycho and has the fort or whatever with the torture devices. And seeing that kid get his ass murdered in the hospital was pretty cool. That was probably the most interesting one. Well, they are all interesting. But they're all interesting and thought-provoking. I beg to differ, but-- It's definitely a mystery that the second season was supposed to be able to solve, but-- Well, it didn't, so I mean, they probably got this cheap anyway because it was a Jenny on license. Yes, it was. It was one of the ones they picked up when they rescued Jenny on license three years ago. And the thing is too, they never advertise the fact. You know what I mean? No, they didn't. There was no marketing behind these. No, they were just like, we got them cheap. We're doing fans of favor who didn't get the first time around, but obviously didn't sell, we know. Yeah, which is surprising because the horror genre really does pretty good. Yeah, I don't know. What was the familiar zero about? I've never heard of that one. I don't care. OK. Then I don't either. So, you know, it seems like this might be the first time I wonder if this or any Plex won't get it right because every show that's gone on, mainly under adult swim, have been freaking epic. Callaway bebop, called Giyas, that other show. Bleach. No, fuck bleach. Well, hey, it's on-- it's on-- it's the one major thing on adult swim. Yeah, I can't think of it now. There was another show I really liked on adult swim. But, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, is going to be premiering on the 25th and 26th of this month. So enjoy that. I mean, I finished about halfway on episode 17. And when I got that far, I was like, oh, I got licensed. I'll wait. So I'll see about watching it or picking it up or something off of Netflix. But, yeah, unfortunately, it's airing at 12.30 at night. And it's 4.30 again. Showed up Mother Nature and 4.30 Eastern time. So yeah, it's not exactly prime time by any means. Well, yeah, but not as there. Hey, new anime is-- no, but new anime, nonetheless. Can't complain. Exactly. Can't complain. Can't complain. Oh, I can complain. Just doing it good. So Trygon, that movie that I should have done about 10 years ago. Yes. Back when Trygon actually came out. Yeah, and people care about it. They are going to be doing screenings in July already. That show you didn't like, but you should have liked. I didn't like the ending. It was lame. It must be cool at first, but after a while, it was like, all right. He walks around shooting stuff and getting out of unpredictable situations. Lame. And it goes over and over again. So, yeah. What do you think of that action? I think it was a good show, but that's OK. And it is pretty classic. They have little theaters. Let's see. Alberta, Canada, Canada, British Columbia, Ontario's. Ah, they're all in Canada's. Why most of this are far from Canada now? Well, we'll get it here eventually. Whenever they decide releasing theater, Larry, this is for us. I'm going to go-- you know, still, if I get a chance, where it's in the area, I will go watch it. Might as well. I sat through the entire film, all right, for the TV series. Might as well watch the film. Yeah? I don't think I could go to Canada for it. No, no, no. They're also having a US launch. We just haven't-- they haven't listed any of the theaters yet. So, if it isn't as bad as enough for Mongas, borders is closing in other 51 stores. Mm-hmm. So, that sucks, because I only buy my manga at borders, because they rock for Monga selection. Yes, they do. Although, I've started ordering more from right stuff, but I mean, I buy my manga. If I want to read it, I'll buy it. I can't stand reading scandlations. I like reading-- I like holding the book. I like having something tangible. Uh-huh, uh-huh. It's weird, because I mean, I work in IT and read websites all day long, but it's different when you're reading a manga. Exactly. It sucks. Scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll. OK, scroll back up to the next page. Scroll, scroll, scroll. OK, now the next page. It's like, oh, Jesus Christ. It's annoying. Yeah. Let's give them a goddamn book. Ten bucks. Not bad. Better than the 30 or 40 bucks I'll pay for an anime DVD. Yeah, they're closing-- they're looking at the list of ones that are closing. They seem pretty spread out. Most of them are. They're closing one in Boston. But most of them seem to be in smaller towns. The one in North Carolina is in Concord that they're closing. I don't see if they're closing any others in North Carolina. Ooh, they're closing one in Raleigh in Terminal 2, OK? They're closing one in the airport. Nah. That's not a big loss. They're closing one in Hendersonville at four seasons in the Blue Ridge Mall. Never heard of that. I'm moving on. Good story is funny as hell. Now that I actually read it, quote unquote, "Anime porn leads to an arrest in Sidel, Louisiana." Good old Louisiana. [INAUDIBLE] A 24-year-old man was reported by his wife for animated anime porn. Authorities in Sidel, Louisiana took 24-year-old Jeffrey Saint Ahmed Jr. into custody on 15 counts of child pornography last Wednesday after his wife reported that he had anime porn on his computer. According to the police, Saint Ahmad's wife first alerted the authorities on May 30th after finding her husband viewing Japanese animated child pornography or, quote unquote, anime porn. Apparently, they have to be, I don't know. I mean, shared laptop. Why the fuck would you do on the shared laptop? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Sex-like explicit pornography, comics, animation of a Japanese origin. Yeah. And get this, the images of pre-pubescent females all appeared to be between the ages of four and five of eight-- What? Yep. Now, they seem to say later that the charges are not related to the animated pornography, which is not against the law, but the animations and Ahmed's statements were probable cause, but they found actual real images, photographs of real children. Well, now they said they sent images, and they didn't really say it. Yeah. So it's kind of murky there, but I don't know if that's actually going to be true or not. We'll have to see when it goes to court, I suppose. You know, yeah, fine, funny. How can you allegedly age someone? Look at someone like Tigra. OK. You can find porn all over for-- tour dora porn. Tour dora, yes, you can. Look at Tigra. She looks like she's fucking 10. But she's like 17 or 18 or whatever age she is. She's a high school senior. Seriously? Yeah, but she looks like 10. She's like, I always thought she was 10. No, I don't keep up with the show. That's a fucking problem with fricking drawings. How do you date something like that? And you know, on top of this, this guy's life is being ruined for some fucking lines on paper. Yep. You can fuck that wife, what a bitch. If I just jealous. I just make sure you keep your wife happy, right? Oh, yeah, but you know what I mean? I don't need Japanese of Japanese origin porn to keep my wife happy or myself happy. Well, that's a good thing. That's a little fabulous. She was just Japanese origin. Maybe the Chinese made it and set this guy up. Maybe this guy was on Craigslist with someone in the Japanese. Like, whoa, fuck you up with some child. The legend child pornography of Japanese origins. Because I hate them right now. Makes perfect sense. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. I don't know, I just-- It's such a hard area to fight against. Because it's like, obviously child pornography is terrible. Obviously. But then again, it's like, this isn't real. But I fucked up laws in America. A statue can be considered child pornography. Yup. The drawing. It's like, give me a break. We've had this discussion before. Anyway. Yes, we have several times. Yes, just another one of those. Yeah, I don't know. Anyway. Yup, yup. They have also sold Funimation for 24-- Yeah, we're like a month old, now two months late on this. I don't even know what happened. I didn't either. But on April 4th, I evidently sold it for 24 million. Only. Two. Yeah, only 24 million. God, you know what? I had 27 million on April 3rd. Yeah, I know. 10 minutes. No. It's been evidently been sold to a group of entities with Jin Fukunaga as a minority stakeholder. Whoever, Jin Fukunaga-- Thank you, the current Funimation executive, I think. Navarre is becoming, is now, the exclusive distributor, but the group of entities now own it. Yeah, so they're going to keep Navarre for probably their-- because they've got the in-route routes and probably do all the delivery anyway. They're interesting. They're trying to expand into Canada. That is where they're going to be trying to cool furtings in this extremely long article, which I've only just passed through. Fuck that. No, that's cool though. I mean, it's on "Nadia" if you want to read it. "Canadian" is bad to probably have because they don't have to pay the conversion rate for Canadian pesos to American freedom bucks. That's right. American-- the Canadian socialist dollars to American capitalist dollars. Exactly. But they're-- so yeah, there's evidently the Canada is where they're going to try to expand to. So if we have anybody who listens to Canada, yeah, right, then you and be of funimation will be expanding into your neck of the world. People who listen to do us in China. Oh, we do do it. I see. Very good. Well, hello. We are expanding our low glute. Well, she don't have to find more of what the fuck's about on the Sankaku complex about how terrible China is than if we've got people who listen to us from there. Wow, I just look at that. What the fuck am I? What the fuck am I? Holy fuck. Oh, yeah. It's awesome. No, it's not awesome. All right. It's awesome. So I don't have our sound effect for what the fuck of the week. Oh, and this is such a perfect one for it. Come on now. Play kung fu fighting, then, again. We're going to play more of it. That's right. Well, wait, wait, up, up. Hold on. Well. It's really cool. It's really quiet, though, for the reason. [MUSIC PLAYING] What the fuck? I can't see any dirty words. Really? You can't see fun? Yeah. You can't see shit. Yeah. [INAUDIBLE] What the fuck of the week? [INAUDIBLE] There you go. It's really quiet. I've got to find a better episode with it. And this is really fucked up. So here we go. Since I know you've all been waiting for your incredibly disgusting sexual stories from "Sengaku Complex," a 49-year-old trick school girl into sex with school boy ruse. A 49-year-old man has been arrested after, quote, unquote, "tricking," a 13-year-old girl into having sex with him by pretending to be a school boy, whilst arranging an encounter with her and then saying, my son couldn't come. I'm his father when it came to closing the deal. And evidently, the girl was just like, oh, OK. The 49-year-old Osaka factory worker used a mobile phone dating site to arrange a paid sexual encounter with a local 13-year-old girl hawking herself on the site, claiming he was a boy at middle school. First off, what the heck is a girl, a 13-year-old, doing hawking herself on a sex site? Why is that? Yeah. The site didn't close down. Yeah. But-- I was just needing money. Yeah, obviously. So when it came to the meetup, however, he simply claimed that my son couldn't come. I'm his father. The girl seems to have believed him, or perhaps more likely, was simply in it for the money. And do you know? Yeah. Yeah. I think this guy is getting a screw job. Obviously, this girl was like, hey, I'm clearly under age. On this illegal website, that's illegal, because for me to be on. Mm-hmm. And yeah. So she went along with a man to a love hotel, and there they sealed the deal. And he evidently was an idiot, and filmed it on his mobile phone. And now the charges are manufacturing child pornography. So-- Here's my question. How? --is the prostitute? How did this? Was she like, all right, I got my money, I got bled, and now I'm going to turn them into the police. For what purpose? Yeah. The prostitute escaped any charges, so evidently the man didn't even have a son. Although, in Japanese-- and this is rather funny-- son also happens to be slang for penis. So very well, may have not been telling the truth. I mean, his son may not have been able to come. I don't know. Well, I suppose we'd have to ask the 13-year-old girl about that. Later. But yeah, crazy goings-on in Japan, as always. Yeah, we're probably more fucked up here in America, anyway. Yeah, but I'm-- you know, it was debated in the comments whether they should have-- What, that girl should have been punished. Yeah, well, it was debated whether they should have been punished. Yeah, the guy should-- certainly they should have punished her, too. The guy-- yeah. And the guy shouldn't be on their troll over 13-year-old, obviously. Obviously. And yeah, but the girl is just as guilty. Exactly. And their website should certainly be shut down. And I can't-- I mean, obviously, she was on there, and she said on there that she was 13. So why wasn't the site shut down before? Well, easier to shut. Easier 7 done. Yeah. Web sites can easily just pop right back up. Yeah, and you've got to have people on that kind of stuff. Yeah, easier 7 done. All right. It's another week, and more DVDs are being released. What should you get? It's time for the Wheelie DVD bits. I'm not really-- I'll pay that, too. Releases. Because now it's not just DVDs anymore. Now it's Blu-rays. That's something a lot of Blu-rays coming up in the next couple weeks. Oh, we haven't talked about it. I guess we're not going to it too much. But we're going to have to find another place to evidently get our releases soon. Because Mania no longer covers anime. What was it called? They've got the anime news. I mean, they still got it. Right, but if you look at the bottom, is things being released in 2032? Oh, you're right. It hasn't been on the floor. And I don't think they're releasing things in 2032. Oh, they are, you know. Final Con must be released then, because it is so shitty. It needs a 29-year window of preparedness. Preparedness for all we've prepared for it. Yeah. So yes, Chris Beveridge, who sold the anime on DVD.com to Mania, has now evidently left Mania, who started his own site. The fandom host. So anything-- and it actually is now a direct competitor with Mania, because it covers other things than just anime. So I don't know how this guy has enough time to do all that. Seriously. I suppose he doesn't have another job. I don't know. Here's the thing, too, though. You know, I filed Chris on Twitter. And I don't know how the fuck he does it. Like, seriously, he'll fucking start like the world only god knows, episode four. 35 minutes later, boom, or review was out. Yeah. I mean, it's not the longest thing in the world. It's not the most in-depth thing in the world. But still, it's like how do you do that? He's good. And his reviews are generally very well done and well written. So, you know, he's good at what he does. Yeah. Last updates were Lactoy 3. That was a well 14, like, it's been a while, yeah. Yeah, it has. So yeah, so he's no longer at Mania. You can find him at thefandonfandom.com. The scuttlebutt is evidently that they Mania wanted to make some changes that he didn't like, so he left. But, uh, no, he sold the site to them. What did he expect? It wasn't like they were going to not change anything. Yeah. And we told him it was stupid to sell it, but-- Well, why did we then do-- Well, I did on the forums, but-- Clearly, you're just the voice of reason. Oh, yes. I was obviously. But I haven't checked his new site out yet. I don't know if you have. I have seen a few things. I've seen a few things. Um, you know, I-- for this week, I'm just going to say, dance the vampire bun to Blu-ray and K-On Blu-ray. Well, you can't volume two. Yeah, I'm saying nothing, because both of those are terrible. And save your money for next week when a lot of Ghost in the Shell stuff comes out. I'm Blu-ray. On Blu-ray. I'm Blu-ray. You know, if you like Lolita's at that time, you know, it's about as bad as a lot, I really. But K-On is just moped, so-- Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we all know how my opinion is moped. Here. Mm-hmm. Definitely. What did you put on? Um, so yeah, moving on. Moving forward. To something. More stuff. More stuff. Uh, I guess it's the review time. Yeah, I think it is. So, Kenichi, where to start? It's 50 fucking episodes. Way too long. Way too long. So, all this kid named Kenichi, she or Hama, he's called a weak knees, because he's a pussy. He needs to beat up all the time. And he's walking along and he's minding his own business, and he sees a smoking hot blonde with glasses and big boobs, kicking guys' asses because they're picking on her, and she whoops their asses. And she whoops them good from the first bit of the episode that I saw, man. And she was... And then they ran away together. Incredibly impressive. Yeah. So then they ran away together to school, and they were both late, and they become friends. And then in there, he's like, "I want to learn martial arts." And so he's like, "Okay. I know stuff." And she's like, "Guess what? I live at a fucking dojo, and I will teach you some stuff." He's like, "Sweet." And he's got a friend named Nijima, who is like his bully, or a bully kind of, but he collects all his data for whatever reason. He's got pointy ears, like an elf. You do that. He's so weird. His friend is one of the people who bullies him. Yeah. That's a bit weird. So eventually, he starts learning martial arts, and he never really gets any good. He just always seems to like, "Hey, I learned to move." And then I fight someone, and I use that move and I won. Apparently in this town, and in this school, there are just roving gangs of people, just fighting for no reason. So everyone wants to beat up Kenichi for one reason or another. And it starts off with like, he joins the Karate Club. So he joins the Karate Club, because he wants to learn martial arts. And the Karate Club is like, a dick, a guy who runs it. He's like, "We're going to fight." And if you win, you can join the Karate Club, and I'll quit. But if you lose, you'll quit, and never join again. Well, me, you, the girl who he saves, or they ran away together, the girl who he likes, a blonde, who is just thick-headed as all can be. And she shows him some moves to prepare him for this fight, and he wins by just happenstance. He sweeps the opponent, and then the Karate leader, he cries like a little bitch. And he's like, "Nah, I don't want to join, fuck you guys." So he quits, and he's like, "Nah, I don't care. I don't want to take your dream away. I'm a nice guy." So basically, me was like, "Hey, it's good to be good. I used to happen to live at a dojo. Let's go over there." And he's got eight masters, or five masters, or they've got people there who know their shit. And they each are disciplined in some form of Karate, or martial arts. So there is, let's see, I'm trying to find him here, blah, blah, blah, don't care. One of them, I think, was from Vietnam, or something, and the guy first meets him. He's like destroying a wall with his bare hands, and his head, and all this crazy crap. It's amazingly over the top. Yeah, the first guy is named Apichai, and I swear to God, he is like retarded. He is like a simpleton, but he's super strong, and he knows jujitsu. And yeah, he whoops ass, and murders everything, like a child would. He doesn't know his own strength, and he is like a five-year-old. It's terrible, it really is. So, there's another guy who is a pervert, and yeah, he's really good with stuff. And there's another guy who is a brooding, like, he's like fucking Hulk Hogan times three, and he's like the badass who doesn't take on Disciples, and there's a girl who murders everything and has a knife or a sword, and yeah, they're people. I really don't give a fuck about their names. And then the oldest person there is Mew's grandfather, Ayato, for N.G., and he's just like, oh, we'll take on a Disciples might as well, we've never had one before, and they think he has some kind of basically, the whole thing with Kenichi is he has heart, and he never gives up, he gives ass kicked, and he always gets back up and wants to continue. So, eventually this leads to him moving out of his house, and the best character on the show is his father. His father, Kenichi's father, has a shotgun that he named, like, a Finai, or slide on it, I forgot the name of the shotgun, but it's like a crazy name, and he always wants to, like, whoop ass with it, and he's like proud of his son, though, because he's going to go, like, be better himself, and things, he's always proud of him, but he's like bad ass because he like cries and shit, he like acts all manly, but his wife usually, like, put them in check, it's one of those kind of things, and then he's got a little sister named Honoka, who's the loudmouth sister who's protective of Kenichi, sees me as, you know, nothing but a big boobed blonde airhead, you know, who's not right for Kenichi. That's for sure, yeah, it's a long story short, Kenichi moves into the dojo and gets his ass whooped every day, and starts learning karate, he's basically learning six or seven different styles at once, the grueling hard work, meanwhile, every person wants to whoop his ass for some reason. There's this group called Ragnarok, you know, that's so original name of gang, so they've got the known of the eight-fifths, all right, yes, so, and there's eight of them, I suppose, of course, of course, well, actually, there should be only four because people have two fifths. Well, in this case, you're still eight, so it's a sixteen-fifths technically, yeah, let me stack the goal about it, not good, exactly, it's a big technical about the sixteen-fifths of Ragnarok. Sixteen-fifths, yeah, so basically, everyone wants to whoop Kenichi's ass because he starts by whooping the karate leader's ass and they're like, "Holy shit, this guy might be strong, oh my god," and so, they have divisional members, they call them on Wikipedia, and they all have, you know, different nicknames, like, the first few he has to fight is Takei to the Puncher and Ukuna the Kicker, and the guy's a boxer and a kick fighter, you know, kick stuff really hard. It's nice when not only are the characters stereotypes, but the stereotypes are in the name. It makes things just so much easier. So, yeah, so this guy is a... now, here's the thing, everyone that they fight, so the fight will start, and they'll jabber, and they'll fight, and then, the goal in this acrylic leave, like, "This is why I joined Ragnarok, this is why it's such a badass," so the Puncher, Takei to the Puncher, he's like, "I don't fucking like anyone, I tried to save my friend once, and my boxing career was ruined," so this guy, his friend got into a fight with some tough guys, a three-on-one, so he came and fought, went to help him. They just randomly had a fucking, wait, they're in the middle of a fucking street. They had a dumbbell just flying in the street, and they smashed the dumbbell against his arm, and so he couldn't box professionally anymore, she'd be coming up and coming boxer. Because everybody just carries a dumbbell around with them, man, they're roving games with dumbbells out there on the streets, all the time. Exactly, this is a tough part of the city, where can you choose? I mean, you know, it's worse than Harlem, I don't even carry that around. Exactly! I would prefer a gun or a knife. Yeah, I think I would too. To a fucking dumbbell. To a dumbbell, uh-huh. So eventually they end up fighting, and blah, blah, blah, and basically it was a two-on-one fight, and they break through a fence, again, can each of you be in the nice guys, like, "You're fucking crazy, I'm gonna save you," and so they become friends, and they leave Ragnarok, like, "Fuck Ragnarok," because apparently one of the masters also has a great acupuncturist, and this guy can work fucking miracles, they were like, "Oh, well guess what? You can fight and box again because, you know, I put some needles in your arm, and because your last doctor sucked balls and misdiagnosed you, you can fight again after so many years I'm not using your arm." Yeah, that's bullshit like that, that's fucking logic. So basically, I'm trying to be as quick as possible, I could go through every fucking little scene. So besides the gang fights and all this bullshit, they got someone of a love story between, basically, Kichi says, "Oh, a joined cry, I wanted to be doing this because I met Mew and she was so great and strong and she did it so perfectly, blah, blah, blah, blah." She basically grew up fighting, and, you know, her grandfather is a master of martial arts, so she grew up around that, and was really good. And so that's his reasoning, and she's really cute, and he likes her and blah, blah, blah. This show does a horrible job, though. They have her in these cute outfits, and then they'll have the worst outfits ever. And it's like, "Oh, Jesus Christ, he gets old after a while," and it's like, "Okay, we've seen her mid-drift nine times already." Awesome. I don't need to see another more. Yeah, exactly. And sometimes they can be done right ugly, it's like, "Oh, God, the character arc jumps around a lot, which is pretty weird." So it's between that and another girl gets introduced, and then they fight, and there's a cat fight, and she's like, "Oh, I like him for some reason, because I do, and because me you may like him, too, but we find out because they can't fight over him, and he's who fucking dumb to figure it out." So basically it comes down to the eight vests of Ragnarok, and because Kenichi keeps fighting the lower people in Ragnarok, they all keep defecting. Eventually, Nijima, who has his own plan, 'cause he's like a weasel, starts taking advantage of Kenichi's good fortune of kicking everyone's ass and creates his own gank of the Shinku Shinku Alliance, and does retard stuff, and it's hilarity ensues, it's never that funny. Basically it comes down to the Ragnarok, for whatever reason, I've still got six episodes to finish this show, so maybe you could end good, but basically, they go down the list of people, they start with like, Valkyrie, who is like this person, I don't fucking know. Thor is a, what's the big fat guys who fight each other, sumo wrestler, he's making his own kind of martial arts, and they have to, he has to fight Thor. And if he wins, Thor has to quit, Ragnarok, and stupid stuff, and he somehow wins. Then there's Hermit, he has the worst backstory of, like I said, basically, you get all these stupid ass backstories for everybody when they're fighting. Hermit, by far, has the worst fucking backstory and anime that I've ever heard. Oh my god, so, Him and his sister were orphans, and they get adopted by a rich ass single father, and basically he goes, I am adopting you because I need someone to run my really good company, fuck you, fuck your feelings, I'm gonna do nothing but train you, and he's like four, to be running, or no, he's like eight, seven or eight, you know, he's young. I am gonna do nothing but train you to run my company when I die. So, and by the way, he has a sick sister, and he's like, if you fuck up, I will not pay for your sister to get better. So he's like, oh shit, okay, it's real. Well, some woman enters the picture, and the guy who took Hermit and his little sister in, they're now like a family. Well, he mysteriously dies, and the woman takes almost everything. And then, his little sister passes away, yeah, so it's just nothing but trouble for this kiss. Nothing but trouble, yeah. Look at this, this is the worst part. This kid assumes control of this multinational corporation, and they show him with a suit and tie, standing on a chair in a boardroom, ordering these adults around, and the adults are like, fuck this kid, and they force him to, they basically force him to sign papers to, to dissolve this company. So all these people are out of work. So he hires a lawyer to keep the company, but what do you know, the lawyer is too faced and screws the count of everything, but they show this kid running a fucking company, in a fucking boardroom, with the hilarious, just to see an eight-year-old trying suit. And they show them, yeah, and they show everyone taking all this stuff, like they dismantle the boardroom and walk off of the chairs in bits of table, and tell the room is empty. So then the lawyer he hires turns on him, like, bah ha, I've got the rest of your porch and you little fucker, and now I'm going to murder you. So he pulls out a gun to shoot this kid, or I think it was going to, no, well he's going to shoot him, or at the end then they're going to throw him over a bridge. But then Odin, the first fist, rescues this kid. So that's why he's part of Ragnarok. The fuck? That is the most convoluted, and obviously made just to get sympathy at backstory that I have ever seen. Because I show him like in a fucking boardroom, with a suit and tie on, and he's like eight. And then they have the whole, I have a sick sister who's mysteriously ill, who dies in the hospital next to him. So he's like fuck life, he's like fuck the world, it's me only. So he is rich still though, so when he's not fighting people, he is known as Titane or something. And he's in the high school, he becomes friends with Kenichi, and he's a girl, he's like all the girls like one of them, he's hot, he's like, you know, he's hot, but he's rich, so he can be a hermit in his house, he's like fuck the world. And yeah, it's pretty lame. But they got another cool person called Siegfried, who I swear to God, he sings while he beats people up, and finds their harmony while fighting them, and he writes music while fighting them. Wow, so he's actually singing while he's fighting people. Oh yeah, I can find an episode right now, let me see if I can find an episode here. The hills are alive with the sound of my shoes, I don't mean good dorries. I need to take a minute for my hard drive to kick in, let me see here. That's pretty ridiculous, yeah, it pretty much is. I mean, that's even better than the, you know, the drunken master kind of stuff. Oh, they've got one of them. Oh well, no time to think about that now, just concentrate on running! There's no way they'll catch me! Oh no! How is he not even hurt? I'll chase you forever, if you run to France, we shall battle out of a steel! We'll watch! No, no, no, no! Eat you my guilt turn! Such a beautiful rhythm! No! Eat you my trashcan toss! Yes, need you ma! What a perfect melody you'll create! See, this guy does this stuff. This guy has some serious issues. I'm sorry, my beautiful instrument, I wanted to ring so many more notes from our worthy encounter, but I have a great old time is up, the music is calling! Can you hear it? There! The grand finale! What is he talking about? I'm dead! No, no, no! Finally, I can see my balance of victory within that sewer lies my oasis onward to freedom! Please need you ma! I have to be the best! Who's the never-wearing-dence? The face wants us to take this plunge together! What? No, no, no! No! No! No! Your solo is here and we begin our duet! I lost, I never lose, save me to be cheating! Commander the killer is gone! How many times have I asked you not to call me that? My name's Kenichi and I am... So the one thing I gotta say about this show, is you probably just... I just heard... The voice acting is top notch! I mean, how epic is that being dubbed? I don't even want to listen to it in Japanese, to be honest. I don't know, how would the Japanese sing? That might be kind of interesting. Well, you should have, you know, I could have flipped it over to the Japanese. Because I might be kind of strange. Like, you know, I could just, yeah, you know what, let's find out together. Oh, shit, I close it. Damn, but yeah. So this show is really well-voiced. The animation is pretty good, but I mean, like, a lot of the fighting anime, though, and this happens a lot in this show, they do a lot of pan shots. Or they'll use, you know, just lazy ass, you know, they'll do one-kick animation and then they'll just pan across with three or four kicking sounds, you know, being used. You know, so it's really light on the animation during fights and things of that nature, which is pretty typical of fighting anime. So... The one thing I hate about this show was Kenichi, because he's a fucking bitch! One morning, I'm like, "Oh my God, I'm so scared, I want to do stuff, oh my God, oh!" Crazy ass facial animations and cry, and then the next minute, I'll be like, "I'm a pillar of justice." Yay me! So, yeah. So I mean, like, after a while, this show gets kind of old because you're just like, "Fuck!" There's more and more people getting introduced. Everybody has their own fucking lame-ass backstory for no apparent reason. Like I said, they will fight and then they will have like 20 minutes of me time and they'll just stand around talking, and usually Kenichi would be like, "The voice of reason," and be like, "Well, that shouldn't be a reason why you're doing this," and they're like, "Fuck you!" and then they'll fight some more, and things happen. And yeah, that's Kenichi. This show, like, I don't know how anybody can say they like this, like, it's not a bad show, it's just way too fucking wrong. They're gonna do so much more, so much little. Like, they'll just have random scenes of stupidity or random episodes of just dumb things and then they'll go back to the main plot. And the main plot is like, ridiculous because like, yes, you know Kenichi is growing stronger as a fighter, but it's like, why are all these people going after him and why do these gangs exist? And they never explain this. So yeah, well maybe they do at the end, like I said, I've got six episodes left, so... Oh, they do the same way. Yeah, they do. They still call them Nijima-san, though. They're formal in Japan, when they're fighting each other. Oh yeah, they're running and he's just more casually talking to Japanese. And they're running down the street just casually talking. So, yeah, there you go, fighting to Daytona's night symphony is pretty interesting to me. There you go, you got both versions. I don't know, I'm torn behind this show because I've been watching this, I've been watching basically nothing about this show because it's so fucking long, I want you to get done with it. And I think the hard part is, it's predictable. They use the same format every person, basically it's like, you start with the low bad guys and you work your way up the gamut of people, but the one thing I'm 43 episodes into the show, they still haven't explained why Kenichi is being targeted by this gang and what happens if he defeats this gang, like there's, you know what I mean, there's like no end goal. And like I said, 42 episodes in and they've never, they've still yet to give me a reason of like, why we should care if Kenichi gets his ass kicked or not or if he wins, other than like, oh, he took what he knew and he used it in the streets, hopefully next week, hopefully I can get pets on the show and we can do a GMA know it because I've been wanting to do that and we've just fallen, fallen through one, we were just gonna do it three weeks ago. No, excuse me, just do it three weeks ago, we didn't get a chance to do it to circumstances. Yeah. And I'll try to get caught up on everything else too. Yep, yeah, good stuff. Anything else you want to add or finish up with? No, don't think so, just, you know, definitely check out Stein's Gate and check out Sea if you're not, if you haven't, those are worth watching. Yeah, I guess banana time warp. Hey, man, gotta love this time of warp show episodes and it's great. It has a trap that becomes a reverse trap and then becomes a trap again. It's a beautiful thing. Oh, how they, how they pull that off. It's great. Oh, already done. Okay. Okay, I think we actually, we actually decided to call it Schrodinger's Trap. So because of the way they handle it, what's a Schrodinger? So it's a reference to Schrodinger's cat, which is a quantum mechanics thing that you have a cat in a box and until you open the box, the cat is both alive and dead at the same time. Well, if I put my cat in a box, it meows and then jumps out of the box. No, but this is something to do with the decay of an electron and this kind of stuff. There's more to it than this, but, but it's the, it's two things at the same time until you look at it and by looking at it, you make it one thing or another, or another, which is a basic theory of quantum mechanics. Okay. I'll take your word on it. Yeah, it's quantum mechanics is really crazy. Basically, it's like science fiction, except real. Okay, I fix your fucking peer when you can't print. That's the extent of, of my, anything. I'm the person you call and I got a paper jam and I don't know what the fucking do. My fucking mouse won't click right. Hey, I'm not going to say anything about you. I know. I just don't get it. That's all I'm saying. All right. Anyway, don't tell next week. And until next week, follow us on Twitter's do things. You know what, you know what, but leave us a review on iTunes. There is none. And I would like to see one because damn it, I don't know. Yeah. Leave us a review on iTunes. Yeah. Got all these people are downloading us and not receiving us. Come on now. Probably this was the first five minutes. I'm like, done. I'm like, done. Hey, if you hate us. You don't want to have to tell us, you're going to get a start. There you go. You can improve. You can improve. Hey, thanks for listening. For more information about this or older episodes, visit www.bonsideep.com or subscribe to us on iTunes by searching the bonsideep. 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