The Banzai Beat Anime Podcast

Revisting the past

Jellokun and Zaldar discuss the news such as Kadakowa closing its US distrobution department, Kids bringing Death Note notebooks to school and more. Zaldar finally had a chance to see Ponyo and gives his thoughts and comments Jellokun reviews Maharomatic 2. Plus DVD picks and discuss some new shows that have begun to air.

Duration:: 1h 6m
Broadcast on:: 05 Oct 2009
Audio Format:: other

This podcast is a proud member of the blueberry network that is at blueberry with no ease calm Blueberry if no ease calm. Remember you drop the ease Very best Log in, kick back, and turn us up Hold a cast radio. We supply your anime fix Warning This show's okay for sure audiences only even though the hosts are not mature You're listening to the bonsai beat your weekly window into the world of anime featuring all the latest news episode reviews and discussion For this week's episode is all the reviews Ponyo Jell-O-Kum reviews Maharomatic - we have all the latest news DVD picks and more on episode 49 the bonsai beat Do I think ponyo is better than gelatin? Do I think it's worse? You'll have to wait to find out we also talked today about the Eva movie and discuss whether it's just a money grab by The companies involved or whether it's really a new artistic vision of Eva Okay, well, I won't make you wait on that one. It's a money grab But then hasn't everything been related to Eva for the past. Oh, I don't know ten years Hey, every anime needed Christmas episode or a special This is goes a bit beyond that, but that's okay Mmm pizza. I don't think there's been it has there been an Eva Christmas episode. I don't know if it was a Christmas special release in a 10-box Okay, so they have done that money grab. Oh, yes I was like, what the fuck? Why? Why? 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I'll survive I'll survive Okay Well, if you want to go ahead and take the first story all right Padawa pictures USA the licensing unit has shut down Kanna kawa Yeah, whatever. I had never heard of them before but oh you've heard of them I've heard of some of their shows, so they have they were people that did full metal panic We're all who left through time, which I really thought was overrated H2O footprints in the sand which I've never heard of lucky star, which I don't watch Shuffle which I've heard is good. Yes Which done by right stuff, so it's probably very good and other shows They have had things distributed by adv films Automation Bandai entertainment and right stuff All right stuff is gonna be releasing rental magica and two seasons of Junjo romantica. Yes your boys love show that you will be watching the day it comes out No, no, you may be come on. You don't like guys hugging each other on the cover and stuff. They're like oh, yes Oh satari, I love you. I love you too Frank. This is a boy's love show Yeah, it's not a big deal like a don't I'm still thinking you don't want you again. Sorry that let me change The big there really isn't that big of a deal that Katakawa USA Well if they've taken out their USA licensing division it just means that the People like right stuff Funimation Bandai etc. Have to work a little harder It sounds like these guys could just come You know to these guys and saying hey, we want to License this show for USA distribution. You guys can help us speed things up or you know, whatever they did It sounds like that Bandai and Funimation the rest of them would just have to work a little harder and Maybe learn more Japanese or something. I honestly don't know what the impact is I don't think that's gonna be much of an impact from what I've heard So it's not like Katakawa's going under or anything like that So Yes So next story Adult swim, you know recently just showed the memories of memories of no one or nobody the bleach film that Is hold our reviewed here recently. They will be showing the second film on December 5th Which I really really hope is better than the first So yeah Yeah Well, I don't know a movie. I mean like I Don't know if movies whatever. I think they'd be more of a retelling or I don't know, you know movies of series are usually don't I don't enjoy them too much just because they They can't make them so that they impacted the series ever You have to do it so that well everything that happened here and didn't really happen. Oh, yeah Fuck the story upper. Yeah, I hear you that doesn't really work to me And if you do it so that it's after the series is ended and you're trying to continue the story well then usually their retellings Yeah, and then Well, I've already seen the series. Why do I want to watch this? Yeah, but you can go look back at my review of memories of nobody But I've gotten kind of upset with bleach recently I mean, I missed like four episodes and I came back and they moved nothing at all Well, you got a bazillion's episode to expect. Oh, yeah I was able to get right back in the story and I missed maybe half of a fight So it did not used to be as bad as Dragon Ball, but it has gotten that way. It's getting really real When fights go through three episodes, that's the problem Yeah, if the fights are really cool and the fights have been really cool. Yeah, they extend them just a bit Yeah, three episodes is kind of much. I mean, that's an hour and a half of TV time Well 24 minutes, you know times three, but still it's not exactly Yeah, and it's not like they're fighting that entire 24 minutes. They're sitting there and talk the prego have tea Yeah, yeah, come on cut what happens after the fight or you know, but happens backstage our buddy putty So if you remember any previous so if you've talked about this con this anime Hall of Fame and how the What the hell do they call They don't call him a president. I forget what Prime Minister Prime Minister. Thank you very much. The Prime Minister of Japan is a no no taco He likes manga. He likes anime and one of the things he proposed was an anime Hall of Fame and everybody else in the government was like no No, that's bad well, the Prime Minister lost and There's gonna be no more Hall of Fame. I Honestly think personally, I think this would have been a good thing. It's just another tourist attraction when you down to it Yeah, I think it would have helped the economy a little bit and they I mean If you're as for anybody who plays civilization or games like that No, one way you can take over other people is by sending them your culture and Japan has been doing a real good job of that especially in America and other places. Yeah, are exporting their culture This would have helped with that but as as you Talked about there for the first time in like 50 years or something the liberal party took over in Japan And they're gonna want to use their money to you know, yeah I mean they get one totally screw themselves up. No, I mean like I can see like both sides of the coin I mean when you get down to it people are hurting people, you know, they'd rather not let the You know if they got I don't think about the equivalent of unemployment or whatever, you know any kind of government subsidized Anything to help people you know in the rough spot right now you know people I Think would rather want help get money in their pockets than some anime Hall of Fame right now But the enemy Hall of Fame would be what would create jobs and help give them out of the problem Where it's just yeah, redistributing the money is well, just fall well, maybe when this is this is not a political box Well, we'll shut up now. Well, no, I mean it's It's relevant though. I would think you know, maybe though Maybe this might come back around when the economy is back. It's you know things are better off. People aren't desperately out of work or whatever I think though even in Japan there is some hatred about anime ladies even in Japan They don't like it much. So I think that has a lot about to do with it as well Yeah, I don't know kind of like anime. Oh, yes the part of our culture. I don't like I don't think so I Want to talk who are not really well respected even in Japan. So I think the world talk who is used way too much That's quite possible. I mean it pisses me off when I Was talking with someone and she says I'm gonna talk who I'm like no you fucking live in America You don't spend all your life watching anime. You have a life Stop talking like you're freaking otaku like that word just pisses me off like Seriously, I like anime. I like watching it. Yes. I've spent entire weekends watching anime and have done nothing else but I don't go and buy every single DVD. I don't Know anybody That will buy everything anime not doing anything. You know I mean like I think I was just the cool thing to say Especially if you're an American anime fan. Well, I'm a otaku. No you should get punched in the face All right. Well, I think the word is doesn't mean that you're completely insane like you're implying Yeah, well, that's why people like want to see him. I don't know, but yeah I would think you know what though. I would think you make a good point though about this hall of fame that I Honestly think that they should put it up because I mean like yeah, the economy sucks now and and whatnot But that thing is gonna be standing longer than you know the economy dicks as long you know Right, you know kind be gonna go bad again eventually. Well that that thing will still be there the all the famous go be there Yep, so Yeah You want to go ahead and take the next one? My anime internet is not coming up on the anime news network. Oh, okay Astro boy They have a 3d movie out now. We're coming out. They're doing early screenings in New York City and it's all 3d and Yeah, I wanted to ask Do you want to watch this? Like is this something that seems interesting to you? I mean it's a 3d adaptation of Astro boy Astro boy never did much for me It was what got Right stuff started and for that reason I like it because I like really really really like the company right stuff in the extreme, but The show never did much for me it was a little bit too on the speed racer loop in the third side Wow, so no Unless it's a little not Unless it's more like modern anime and that it's has more to it than just superhero type stuff Remember I'm the guy who likes the philosophical anime, so So no, it doesn't sound all that interesting gotcha. Yeah, that's something I might check out, but I don't know so You'll have to let me know. Yeah, I don't know. No, here's something really crazy You know they seem like 7/11 is always doing some of the promotion for their slushies last month it was wrestling and Now this month it's Domo Koon I wish I'd still wish I'd 7/11 around here Pisses me on But you can get Domo everything you can get Domo hot dog like they're packaging is like a Domo like eating the hot dog But just a So the people at 7/11 are gonna have no idea what the hell this stuff is no because I mean like Are they gonna know what anime is? No, this has nothing to do with anime though Domo Koon I mean it's hell target use a Domo Koon for everything. I think Domo Koon is just seen as cute so Right, but it's still a little bit crazy. I bet that's a bit but you get Domo flavored It's they're calling it Mount they're calling it Fuji Apple slushies But you get these Domo cups There's one with like a Halloween one It's a blue Domo and like a vampire suit There's an alien vampire. There's like an alien Domo. There's like straw holders or straw clips This is just wrong and then they've got a special cup I have to find a 7/11 and take pictures and send them to you so that you can see this Well, I can tell that's what pictures. I'd rather just I'd rather send you some money and give me the cups God damn it I hate this microphone If you want to I can mail you some, you know, what the hey there you go a little weird, but you know, it's all right Hey, I remember when Simpson's movie stuff came out 7/11. You could go on eBay and buy this stuff I was contemplating buying some Buzz Cola Like how badass like I got a fucking six pack of us Cola. Yeah But no, so yeah, and then like see get the cops for the slurpees and the and the the straw clips Like go on top of it There's three different versions of that, but then I saw some of the packaging like they've got to stand up Domo Koons that have like The cups or like like candy bar hold, you know, I mean like the cardboard You know stand up so you can make shells out of Pretty crazy and then they've got like like I said hot dog You know boxes with Domo Koon. Oh, it's crazy. It's the amount of amount of stuff Now that they can put on there and like you said does anyone really even know what Domo Koon is he's just cute You know, you know, it's a fun year though. They have stop animation webisodes promoting this Like the first one I swear the webisode itself was like 30 seconds the ads For everything was longer than this webisode Wow, yeah, it sucked and all I showed was like Domo Koon holding the slurpee. It was called brain free. So Domo gets a freeze and Him and his friends are drinking slurpees, and you know because he hasn't he had all of us always open his mouth He couldn't use the straw So he took the lid off of a slurpee and just shoved it in his mouth And then he got a brain freeze and like oh do a good as a brain freeze the end I say I said like what? It's like I said the ads were longer than the actual thing. They were showing it was sad That is pretty sad all right, I have it up now, so I can't read our next one about death note About chin Chan. Oh that works chin Chan. Excuse me. There's a death note one for the dude. I didn't say that anyway So the as you all know the shit if you listen to us, which I'm sure you all do because we are just the best The Christian Chan creator has passed but it's now been confirmed that they are going to continue broadcasting the series On the Japan TV a shy network They're gonna resume airing new episodes on October the 16th They are evidently preparing for a next another film which will open in Japan on the spring of 2010 They're gonna continue it after talking with the family Is look cited examples of Doromon and Sazizan as examples of anime that have continued after their creator has passed away So and they are also going to publish the last two parts of the manga in October and November So if unlike me you enjoy chin Chan, there will be more of it coming Yeah, I'm surprised already, you know doing more things like I know that we said that he had two more chapters and whatnot and But I wonder if they're just gonna hand this off to some you know the next person in mind or What the heck's gonna have you know I mean if someone's gonna pick up the work and just continue on in his vision Pepper down Thank you kitten Zona, yeah, we shall see We shall see and it will be a backlash because people are Don't want to see somebody else You know I think there won't be a backlash because These are kids who are watching it. It's not that big of a deal to him. I don't think and Honestly you like look at the stuff like You know, I don't think they're gonna care. This is a kid show and all the kids really care about it saying Shenzhen I mean I guarantee you if they even if someone picks this up and continues in in the creator's vision They're not gonna drastically change anything because I mean that's stupid, you know Shenzhen's been number one anime for years and years and years You don't change a good thing No matter who's writing it, you know So that's my two cents on that More idiots in death notes eighth grade Sydney boy reported for making a death note Dun-dun-dun No, we reported that this is our first or second episode of this show We reported about a kid like in new in in North Carolina Who was oh great in my city in my state exactly who was expelled or something for making a death note He had a replica death note book, you know, and he wrote some kids names down kind of same thing of this Basically this kid made it, you know teacher say they found a death note and the bag of an eighth grade boy In southwestern Sydney. Well, I want to know is why are they going through his bag? um So basically if you never watched death note This kid this high school student at the time finds a death note on the ground a notebook basically is a death note and If you write someone's name in it well You write someone's name in it and then you can say how they're gonna die win so I could say Zodar he can jump off the Empire State Building You know at you know one one oh, you know, eleven 2011 at 19 on you know at nine o'clock a.m. Or something heat go do it for unexplained, you know, and it would just happen So you have to like write down the person's name and and if you don't write down the way they die they have a heart attack So basically this kid wrote down a bunch of names and a quote unquote battle plan To wear bombs This is what bothers me where bombs could be placed inside the school. So I really want like so with that like It really goes from like oh, he's just trying to be like, you know, just copying the anime and still I think it's pretty stupid you You know bring that to school and write people's names in it because I mean School shootings and whatnot, but I mean like he took it a step further by Bombs in this fun in the thigh-ed locker room and then like you know what I mean. Mm-hmm So I really want that definitely does make it more serious. Yeah serious. I'm like, okay Now I'm disturbed Yeah, oh, sorry. It was hard to feel South Carolina kid was yeah, I was gonna mention that in a minute So you pick it on my state. You don't do that now. It's this crazy South Carolina people I don't believe I say yeah, you can buy like a replica death. Don't fly 20 bucks on Amazon It's pretty cool But I mean seriously if you're a high school kid or middle school kid or anything Just leave it at home and don't make battle plans to blow your school up Please only lasts for so long and then you'll never see these people again Exactly, seriously, I I'm friends with maybe three or four people I went to high school with I ran into other high school people I've known or whatever but Seriously, yeah, he kids today everything has to resolve with a gun or in this case of death note. Yeah It's disturbing. Yes, so that is the news yay's So let's go ahead and just jump right into the DVD pics It's another week and the more DVDs are being released. What should you get? It's time for the wheelie DVD pics Every week we'd pick a new DVD we'd like to purchase and or buy we're in real life But if we had money, but we're both broke ass broke people Yeah, I teach so money. Yeah, no. Well, no, I did buy all of Hina Friday night at Best Buy So I won't have to what you think about that a lot of people. I love it. A lot of people don't like it, but well I'm an episode 12 Okay, and there isn't been much it's all been slice of life, which I know the majority of the show is slice of life Wait, wait, wait, you don't find the guy getting hit and going like 300 yards Insanely hilarious episode though. It was funny. Yeah, so sick is on some people's nerves. They're like it's every episode Yeah, it was like yeah, it was funny. Yeah, it was funny the first few times, but yeah I guess all night. You like look over the wrong way. He's like, oh my god. I'm flying five million yards So the inner the love story that goes throughout the whole thing. I also found kind of entertaining as well Yeah, well right now like I said episode 12. It isn't got that far yet yeah, um so this week a lot of re-releases again and That's what I'm picking for this week's uh, you know, I reviewed black lagoon Not too long ago for season one and two You can now get it in a brick and I would say go get it if you haven't seen the show You can get all 24 episodes. So it's a good thing So my pick for this week would be black lagoon I've heard good things about ergo proxy. No, I haven't seen it Heat guy J. I have heard good things about as well, but I have not seen it But just for shits and giggles if you're willing to find a really really stupid hint. I there's evidently a hint. I called dirty laundry and Well evidently in this hint. I there's there's a laundry service and in the laundry service you know people go and pick up your laundry and Clean your skirts and this sort of stuff. It's called dry cleaning But evidently according the women in this anime find that that's not the only thing that gets cleaned Since you know how getting this stuff cleaned evidently leads to new nurse for the the women behind in involved so Yes, a hint I said in a laundry service. I Think I have now seen everything. I don't think you'd be like here comes a tide, baby Yeah, I don't know. No, no, I here's the rinse cycle But there you go, and then it becomes but you can cheer me up any day Don't that was bad. That was even worse than mine. Wow Yep, and There's probably more of these that we could do you know, but let's not yes. Oh, yours is laundry service No, no, mine is actually ergo proxy. I just wanted to mention that one because that's hilarious And we need more humor in the world. Yes, well For shits and giggles I checked out an anime aren't a hint. I called cosplay sex machine and It's just as weird a girl from outer space apparently is a sex Android who can ship ship, you know, what do you call it? Space shift, I don't know She can turn into anyone or anything So yeah It's yeah Well, you will have to review that for some time. Hey, I will when I'm bored Yes, tell us how incredibly bad it is. Yes Actually wasn't that bad, but it's just one of those like they made it because they could Well, that's pretty much all the entire that's true That is very true it get because you can yeah um So yes That is our DVD picks. I Guess if I I guess I'll start with my review here this week All right, I finally got a chance to watch moharomatic - Which is a continuation of moharomatic season one basically in the first season it ended with the Vesper and the the other alien The other alien faction You know fighting and fighting and fighting and they kind of ended up coming to a draw because Maharo didn't want to shoot the guy in the head Well in this in this so that when the show comes back Vesper and the other in the other alien for that. Sorry. I don't can't think of the name top my head, but basically Oh the saints. That's where they were the saint. So sorry. So saint and Vesper in this version coming back they're now aligned their buddy buddy and Everything you know they said hey, we need to work together Because there's a new There's a new faction called management You know who's coming? Yeah I know what what It's like, you know, that's pretty hardcore aliens Yeah, it's become it's become socialist now. I guess I guess So this show starts off with Maharo walking around town looking for stuff and the ship is chasing this girl She's blonde and she's cute. She's about the same. She looks about the same age as So this girl is no it's about the same age as Shiguru high school student or sorry middle school student Maharo not thinking goes and helps this girl Well, we find out she's from management She's being attacked by management and doesn't want to be there anymore. So she runs away They don't know her name so they name her Minawa and They come she comes to live with Shiguru and Maharo So a lot of it is slice of life in Minawa goes to school with the Shiguru and she's really clumsy and it's always tripping and always apologizing Yeah And I've actually just reading there looking at a review of this I guess they changed it in the unit in the American dub in The American dub she's from management in the Japanese apparently they're called the overseers So they've changed the name of this opposing force But the big thing For the solo is a kind of a darker Sinister or not in the sister, but it's a darker Kind of foreshadowing of what to come At the end of every episode It'll say Maharo ceases to stop function. You know, this is function and X amount of days and like every episode it jumps 40 to 50 days so You know again this show. It's very slice of life happy go lucky everyone's there again And now there's this Minawa character who you really grow to love Like I said she trips on herself and she's really soft-spoken, but she's a good fun character Takes a little used to getting used to her, but the one she's there. She's there But it's still a michikijo who is hopelessly in love with You know, it's a guru in the badass most badass character ever Slash the pet panther who's also a robot But yeah at the end of every episode they foreshadow the death of Maharo So basically what ends up happening is You know a lot of slice of life till about episode 11 11 or 12 and then The management chose for one grad grab one last grasp to get Minawa back But the big plan is to capture Maharo well They end up fighting fighting and Maharo ends up blowing herself up in a battle to basically to protect humanity And now here's a crazy thing. This anime was really good Except for the frickin ending they pulled an Eva ending on us so I'm not want to go too far and you know spoilers or anything but The last episode is so crazy. They could have made an entire show from this last episode alone We jump ahead 20 years and we see in much older Siguru, he's no long you know, he's an adult now They now made a planet they made a special planet exactly and it's not just earth anymore They could they've perfected space travel Saints and Vazper made another planet for everyone. You could jump back and forth between I forgot the exact reasoning why they did it so Siguru is on this new planet and his mission in life is like just kill any androids. He finds out He walks around this like porcupine. What do you call us pork pie hats? Yes, he walks around in one of those hats with some money with some money rolled up in the bill he has a sword and his thing is like I'm gonna kill you know any androids and He's had most of his body replaced with a cybernetic parts So killing himself then no Yeah, it's weird so he we see him kicking ass on robots And he's funny as hell cuz like he gets hurt, but he can't find a hot the hospital doesn't open for a few more hours So he's like god damn it. I'm injured need to get to the hospital Fuck it. I'll go to a bar. He's drinking So he drinks and like we hear about his you know, he's like, oh, why do you hate androids so much like I always hurt as a kid And they're like, you're gonna let it go Something he's like, oh screw this shit. I'm gonna go get laid and maybe the hospital be opened by then So then he bumps into a mischief key Joe 20 years later And she's still she looks the same as she did 20 years prior She hasn't aged a bit and she's still the junior high school student our teacher And They're like she's like god. Holy crap. It's you because he basically left everybody when Maharo blew herself up He ran away and into in this this planet was formed or whatever. He went there and stayed there He never all his friends never knew what happened to him You know, he just left he vanished Well, here's a crazy thing is We find out my Harro didn't necessarily blow herself up She was like the all-welling meaning being beam of what's you know, the the big creator of Saint or Yeah, Saint was Matthew She was quote-unquote Matthew so she Doesn't want to lose the memories of Shiguru But yet she does so she goes back To this planet as her old self Defined Shiguru And it's just so crazy Like I said, I'm trying not to be spoilish and I know I've already smelled a good chunk of it But it was just so crazy because like they had this wall well and meaning stuff just like Ava did like the the story Tone completely changed Everything was changed from this one episode and honestly It was so weird because like this show is so happy gold lucky, you know It was a group of middle school students having fun in a pedophile You know, it's teachers and Maharo being cute and all these cute girls and you know they went to the beach and they went to the festivals and they you know did this and that and then episode 14 was like 20 years in the future all this shit went down and Yeah, Shiguru was badass Like I said, they could have just made an entire series of him kicking ass and taking names because he was like an anti-hero now He was like fuck this I was gonna be drunk until I get patched up or I'm gonna go get laid because I got nothing better to do He carries a sword and all kinds of cool stuff but um It's a good watch, but this ending really sours it for me But then the funny thing I like ending well, it's so weird because they like They try to preach a whole year not only say a whole year than thou thing But they try to be all dramatic with like the seriousness of the events that occurred like just another thing where You know they management The saint leader or the Vesper leader With slash goes in and kills everyone in saint or not saying I'm sorry. Uh management But dies and then they have some kind of stopwatch that slash puts her on his neck because his family and I Don't know this ending was just so crazy that it just kind of ruined what was and Like it I guess it's still a good show check it out and the funny things. I also watched the summer special they go right back to him being a high school student and It's kind of a funny episode, you know Maharo doesn't like pornography or any dirty thoughts. We found out why she doesn't like any dirty thoughts and The whole episode is she grew in his friends hiding the ultimate like skin ray with this really sexy idol That's like the ultimate like oh my god. You gotta have it kind of thing So it's them running around trying to get it from him but There is some more actually here this month They were releasing two more over yay specials of Maharo manic um, I'm pretty sure it's gonna go back to the middle school days because I don't you know because Maharo comes back and He turns back and do like a high school student again and or I mean a middle school student again and whatnot So I don't know it's weird watch the show if you've liked season one You know the ending really ruin is it but Yeah, I guess if you really don't care that much. Oh well So it can't be as bad as the the difference in berserk from the show to the ending yeah I'm all right. It's just so crazy because it's like The entire show was slice of life it was Happy-go-lucky Students, you know being friends and being able to do all these crazy, you know trips festivals just having fun together and You know you got to like Maharo you got to like Minoa, you know and there's even a little love story between Minoa and another student and whatnot You know just fun lights fluffy stuff but then the last episode is like dark and serious and there's blood and You know and everything changes, you know Shiguru Shiguru isn't this happy kid anymore. He's a oh He's an he's a 30, you know 20 something or early I say early I should early early 30 30s to mid 30s, you know Depressed guy who's all serious because of his past, you know, it's like night and day difference So I'm not gonna I've given up on rating these shows. I would just say they're thumbs You know I recommend it or don't watch it. I would say recommend it if you like the first And you really don't even have to Watch the first series. I would suggest you do because you understand more of the impact but In the end of things it isn't It's a memorable anime, but it's not like something that people are gonna be like, oh my god That's all rocks. You've got to watch it Okay, so yeah Well, that is what panyo is panyo is the oh my gosh, you must go see this anime It is very very well done. I won't go so far to say it is the best thing that the director is done It's sir. It's different than his other things But it had it does show improvement from his other shows I still think Princess Monon. Okay is the one of the best things you've ever he has ever done But I would not send the five-year-old to watch Princess Monon. Okay, and You can make the argument that the Environmental message got in the way of the story in Princess Monon Okay, and even in Spirited Way and some of those other shows He takes care of that here. So that's a rare crying theme like yes Yes, he is he is very much is his all most of his enemies have somewhat of an environmental theme Okay, cuz yeah the very beginning you see ponyo's dad like oh my god These earthlings are soiling the oceans and killing it and right and that continues to some extent but it's very much It's much more understated and which probably I would say mink makes it more effective Especially when you're trying to reach three and five-year-olds, which is really what this show is made for It is something that you can take a five-year-old to I mean the The love story is very very chased. It's very very cute I mean, maybe if you're you know pseudo-conservative or something you wouldn't think so that this was appropriate, but To me, I wouldn't have no problem taking my five-year-old to see this movie The animation is extraordinary It's done in that kind of five-year-old cute style to some extent But now I don't know much about animation, but I have always heard that water is one of the hardest things to animate This looks like real water It is animated extraordinarily well But it's still done in that kind of cutesy like a five-year-old way the the waves have eyes at some point They're very very very very anthro anthro primorphic I'm not gonna go into the show again because he has done that already Zellikun has done that already, but it as I say it the this story is Up front and center the story is very cute. It's very funny and the The main character whose name I now forget which is awful the main boy character finds this fish and he's taking care of the fish and This five-year-old girl at his daycare Aston says let's go play and he says like I can't I have a job She's like no, you don't you're five Which in when you see it in the movie is very funny and it's done that the whole thing is done in that spirit of Of three-year-old five-year-old children Even when things get rather dangerous It's not really because you're looking at the world through the eyes of a five-year-old. What you think? Okay, everything is always gonna be okay. I got a couple questions for you Okay, go for it. What do you think about the scene when they're in that boat and they're just like sailing down the What would you call that the flooded streets of the city? Yeah, the flooded streets of the city and the people are like, oh, it's you You know and they're letting the fire yeah, exactly. Yeah, we think of that That was a little bit ridiculous and it would not happen that way, but it's it's supposed to show him growing up No, it's a five-year-old fantasy. This is what a five-year-old would say would want life to be like, you know He's a hero It wouldn't be a movie if they were doing everything for it. Mm-hmm And what do you think of the ending like when they're just like do you promise to love Ponyo? Yeah, okay. Okay. Okay, let me let me get to that I would have one of my favorite characters was the old lady who was all crotchety and thought everything was awful And evil all the time. That was great. Even when the five-year-old kid was trying to treat her all nice and stuff She was just being a bitch basically. F you kid. Yeah. Yeah, she was freaking hilarious And in the end, you know, she does not get caught into and go down to the underground city Covered in water because she's like like her character. She's not trusting the strange guy. Yes. She is safe brought down there Now and in before they've done this whole thing where they said we have to test their love Now we have to see if he really loves her. So I was thinking, oh, okay It's gonna be this he can either choose maybe his mother or her or he can choose to save the world And and have her and you know, it's gonna be this really cool thing you get to the end the Her father is telling him you have to go down with me. You're gonna. We have to save the world the world's flooding And this old crotchety woman is saying no, don't don't trust him and all this kind of stuff and I'm thinking okay Here's the test. Okay. Cool. No, not really. He ends up throwing Ponyo who is now a fish again Across the ocean to the old lady They get taken over by water and they get taken down to the city and the test basically becomes like Jellicoon said He just has to say is yes, her lover and I thought more could have been done with that. Yes, he's five Yes, it's supposed to be a kids movie, but there could have Been more done there to see if the love was real make him make a sacrifice Make him say, you know, okay, you'll have lover, but if you do then the town will always be flooded like it is now Unless she becomes a fish again or something like that, you know, make it it would have been something so that it wouldn't have been real We're gonna steal you that way But make him make him really make a sacrifice to see if his if the love is real God damn it and they didn't do that That that was that's one complaint and then we have to talk about the ending music That's gonna be required Yeah, the ending music blah If if you like anime music You are going to utterly despise what they have done to the ending song Okay, as I say the anime is very much in in a innocent child-like mode and the ending song is techno and electronic and Am I hard rock and roll? For the first three minutes or so of it. She don't see if you're on YouTube are very good. Where are you good rock and roll? They were I mean it has it has a beat it has you know, it's like if it sounds like something you could dance to Which is not what this was supposed to be about the original Japanese song is very much in the mode of the anime It's very innocent. It's very child-like and the best way to go see it. There's evidently on YouTube There's an MTV video Which I find hilarious for the for the ending song and it's the girl that's singing the ending song with the two guys that are playing it with her And they're she's waking up. They're giving her breakfast and she goes out to play basically and throughout the entire While the song is in the background throughout the entire music video. They're running around chasing her You know, and it's very child-like she goes out and jumps and puddles and at the end of the day She's all awake and there and the adults are bushed and dead tired That's the spirit of what this song is supposed to be about They utterly destroy this They make it techno. They make it rap. It's just not very good at all Nothing to do with the people the American people who sang the song They seem to be very good in the first three minutes when you actually got you know who sang the song, right? Yes I do doesn't matter. Okay first the first three the first three minutes when they're actually really singing is very good, but then they start using some Computer to make their voices all weird and freaky and that is the beginning of the end so If anyone any involved in anime listens to this haha. Yeah, right? Please don't do that You utterly destroyed what was a very cute very good final song for the anime Very very badly Mixed is what I can say But I would definitely go see this if it all if you have liked Princess Mononoke If you have liked any of his earth spirited away or any of his other stuff, you need to go see Paneo It's very very well done. It's very cute And I now we should talk about the he is my master anime that they are making evidently Since I have the manga for this okay So they are evidently making a manga an anime of he is my master Which is a fairly funny, but fairly chaste itchy anime a Rich middle school child loses his parents completely So but he's a so rich I mean, it's like if Bill Gates died and His middle school kid was living in him the mansion. So being a normal middle school kid He decides to hire maids, but he decides to hire young good-looking female maids and then throughout the rest of the series he is attempting to do things like look up their skirts while they're climbing ladders on things of this nature, but of course the Maids that he gets are hilarious in of their own selves One of them has a pet alligator Yes, a pet alligator who is incredibly attached to one of the girls and Whenever he likes somebody he tastes them Which means he literally walks up to them and puts his mouth. Yes. Yes over their entire head Yeah, he's like almost eat somebody doesn't yeah, see he almost eats them, but he doesn't so this leads to utter hilarity He's she's protective of the older maid. So whenever the kid tries to do something he gets chased by the alligator And it's very very funny. I can't think of an anime right now that I would classify it as like I'm sure there are many like it. Yeah, but I'm planning on checking out the anime If you have not read the manga, you should do so. I think you should check out the anime as well Cool. I hope to review it say. There you go Promise that we'd go over a couple of the shows that started this week. I've only checked out one so far and a very surprising Show to say the least it's called comp I think as I say it's comfort It's um Okay, and then a with the two little dots over it MP FER Well, this has odd potential Can get the summary here. It's very interesting This boy has this dream of this girl being chased by another girl getting shot and He wakes up and he's like oh man. What a weird dream and he has this bracelet on his hand Or on his arm. He's like well. What the hell? Um, he then turns into a girl And he never leaves his room again because he now has breasts yeah Into show well he'd have a girl's voice. He like turns into a full fledged girl a girl's voice girls everything and I guess nobody can tell it to him so What do his parents do at this point? No They don't notice no, he said it isn't his room begin with and he's going on his way to school So basically He's a camp for it's supposed to be for girls only But because his friend loaned him like this stuffed animal called the entrails series. They're testing stick out It's like his little plush doll with its intestines sticking out. It's weird They're called yeah, and they're called camp for entrails Everybody's gonna start making these and wanting to buy these dolls. Yeah, I think so Yeah, it was I was just like, okay But yeah But it's actually pretty good because you meet another student who he's originally fighting with but then you when she's not Transformed she's actually a very nice person and There's a lot of itchy that happens here like a book falls between her legs and She thinks it is his wang And he's like no, it's a book. It's a stiff book and she's like it's stiff and This may made a lot of perverted jokes But it's pretty interesting how they end the first episode. I'm actually looking forward to watching the second episode next week We show I would have immediately been like what the hell? This guy turns into a girl to fight other girls when there's actually more to the story, so I'm gonna keep it watching that I Also saw a white album number 14 If you haven't watched the first white album You're not gonna want no jack shit, so I'm not gonna get into it I'm just happy that's back and then another show I've downloaded, but I haven't had a chance to check out yet is So a tucky Kai No It's he it she's on basically it's about this did you pick your student council people by popularity and This guy this guy is the only like male student in the terrorist school And he's picked as a student council and some crazy thing. It sounds interesting I'm gonna check it out Sorry, I'm not as prepared as for this I completely forgot about it and then I remembered why we were recording here So I thought I just mentioned what I've been watching when it relates to the new season, but I'll be honest like comfort Really excited to watch for next week's episode because it ends off really well I'd say at least check it out. It was interesting a fun watch and the time went by really quick 24 minutes just flew by and So yeah, I'm not so far the season hasn't been that disappointing Well, I thought it would be a really terrible season of anime So the one since I don't download the one that I shall be able to check out as the new Yasha final act Do I have not done yet, but as I got caught in when they were on card to network it is This is I'm casting that so yes, that's why I can watch that one you are That's why but I got caught into watching all 300 or so Episodes are the first in a Yasha because I was an idiot Wow my roommate Actually, we won't watch the rest of this man ending of the first one Okay, I had a roommate who actually purchased all the boot like DVDs literally off a eBay for like 40 bucks And there was like 10 or 15 hand-written in Yasha All episodes I was like you would take that many DVDs because it's they're just a Ticulous number of episodes. Yeah, it's it's worse than Dragon Ball Z for moving slowly. I kind of got into a new Yasha on Adult Swim but I know and I wasn't like Super into the story. It was something to watch when it came down to But I wasn't like oh my god. I cannot wait for next week. Oh my god. I can't wait for next week You know the ones that look interesting from looking at this Queen's blade hair to the throne Has lots of women and skimpy clothes. There you go. Oh Speaking of any Washa, I don't know if this is a new episode of robot chicken. I think it is God no, it was frickin hilarious so This little girl was watching in Yasha and the father walks into the room was like hey Sports is on like you know hockey or you're like, you know, I want to watch sports He's like no, dad. I'm watching any washer. He's like what what's in you washer. It's an anime doesn't I'm watching it So he's like, oh, I'm gonna watch with you. So you get super assened in you washer going as far as dressing up as as As in you washer cosplaying as him and whatnot Yeah, so he's like, oh my god, I can't wait to watch it again. Oh, it's so great. So the daughter is like, okay This is weird. I'm gonna go watch you. Uh, I think it was like some other It was like Dawson's Creek or something, you know, some one of those girly girl shows so The dad's like, oh, so you're watching Dawson's Creek. Oh, I gotta check this out And he's like, oh, no, no, I didn't know dad. No, so she runs away and he's like, oh, yeah He's finally gets to watch TV again All his daughter did all his daughter did was watch You know TV and he could never watch what he wanted to watch but those frickin hilarious he's like dressed up as any washer and stuff and like knows a storyline and all kinds of stuff funny as hell That's pretty smart actually. I like that They're also evidently this season doing a was a new darker than black coming out Yes, and in the realm of Looking at doing every Alexander Dumas book into an anime that's ever come out They are evidently doing an anime version of the three musketeers Which I thought Gengatsu was awesome, so okay, I'll be interested to see what they do with this one Gengatsu was a retelling of another Dumas book But that I'm interested in seeing how that is doing Romance of the three kingdoms. I think that's now is that do you know if that's based off the three kingdoms? Look they are the anime that came out. I don't know we're generally a 52 episode adaptation of the classic Chinese novel Okay, mustn't know then it's not then just shares the same title. Yes depicting the tumultuous warring period of second century time. Oh Yeah, we came here you I checked out Shiguru death frenzy just I could not get into it especially when the first thing you see is a guy like rips out as intestines because the whole still the whole story is The lord of the castle or wherever this you know whatever they do the lord wants these best warriors to fight for his entertainment But he wants them to use real blades instead of wooden sticks So the guy stabs himself in the stomach He says well, do you want to see what happens when you use a real You know sword and he rips out he puts his hand in a stomach and pulls out his intestines to make his point and basically sacrifices his life and So they have like different stories for each individual fighters like the first series of fighters is a blind guy and Then the other guy has is one armed because he lost his arm and you know fight so then they have this crazy story about it and But it's all based in the Edo era and junk like that. So I just couldn't get into it and I just couldn't stay on the amount of violence Sounds like something I'd like yeah No, thank you So Anything else you want to mention before you head up also thought that this see we've talked about the Inuyasha the The new three musketeers the romance of the three kingdoms well, they're doing a Japanese version of stitch That's that's right. They're all that's been going on for a while. That's nothing new Okay, it's on this new sheet that they're doing a new version of Leo the white lion doesn't mean much to me never saw the original Yu-Gi-Oh is continuing. I think I'm gonna shoot myself Naruto is continuing Blah There's definitely another hidari sketch coming out which has potential Prince of tennis is continuing. I have you seen a dari sketch sure No, I have not you can check it out on crunchy roll. Yeah, a lot of people like it. I Have not seen it. No You know, I'm happy for kiss exes. It's finally getting an ending Yay It's a three Oh show OVA About these two sisters are in low with his non blood related brother. It's so itchy filled That's all it is. There's like no point It's just this guy ending up in these situations where He may see his sister naked or them trying to seduce them or And it's funny as how cuz the parents are like, well, you're not related. So it doesn't matter. Go ahead and have fun Have fun with my daughters because they love you You can do whatever you want to them and even the dad is like, yeah, come on girl pair These girls want you you're not blood related. So it doesn't matter. Go ahead Like wow Talk about cool parents. Yeah, I know but the brother is like no, I don't do anything. Oh my god. We're sisters. Oh But yeah, the whole series is like just one big itchy filled romp What is this one again? I need to check this one out. It's called kiss exes This doesn't seem to be on the list that you said no, it's there or it was there at one point It's on the side on okay Kiss exes. Yes Okay, I SS space X space SIS. Oh, okay. This is in the continuation Got you yep So yeah, this is wait. I don't know we will have more reviews here next time and more DVD picks and everything else and I Am not looking forward to editing this episode. So till next time. This is Jellicoon And this is Zaldar send us messages. Tell us how much we suck. Yes, please do So and yeah, check us tomorrow night at 8 p.m. Center time Blog talk radio.com/Odecast radio There you can listen to our interview live with J Michael Tatum and ask questions and all that good stuff. So Thanks for listening. This was episode 49