The Banzai Beat Anime Podcast
Paintball gun of doom
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I am Joel Kuhn and Zoldars MIA so if he shows up he shows up If he doesn't by the time I get her on a doing a review Well, just pick a new one and go from there if you want to give us a call you can reach us at area code 646-652-2487 There we will I can discuss the weekly news and everything else on your mind anime related We've got news as always some website news. Actually as it relates to the older cast radio network What you heard of promo for? We now own www.oldicastradio.com that's OTA K A S T R A D I O dot com got some really kick butt stuff going on a brand new show Called anime remix Sounds really interesting really neat So, you know, they're coming along We may have a new female Call our co-host or web editor. I don't know so yeah, lots of good stuff coming at the OTA K A S T Radio network side of things on the bonsai beat side of things ah same old same old Okay This week in anime news brought to you by anime news network Yes, thank you to the anime news network people as always bringing us the news Fortunately starting on a somber note The Zentsukai 189 director Takuji and oh has passed away today He was a madhouse animator and worked on the Lotus Wars X project. Oh, it's our exit. Just one other thing. So look down the word Lotus Wars Pat labor the W 13. I'm not familiar with that recently paranoia agent and as recent as The Lilo and stitch remake He passed away here today, and that's all that really and is saying unfortunately There's no cause of death or you know how old he was and um, you know To his family and whatnot, you know, may you rest in peace? You know it sucks to see anyone die, but I Have a feeling this guy was pretty young, but again, I really don't know much about him So I'm not gonna say too much Moving on excuse me the New York Times manga bestseller list and the reason I and this is through June 28th through July 4th and the reason I'm bringing this up It's because the number of manga titles in this bestseller list for the week typically there are One maybe two, you know fruits basket and usually Naruto this week there are four Naruto is always fruits basket as always, but some newcomers Bleach Megma Haro he or on and lucky star Naruto was first number 45 fruits basket number 23 came in a second Naruto number 43 came in a third and third Naruto 44 came in fourth Bleach number 27 came at fifth Naruto 42 came in at sixth Megma Neo number two came at seventh the melon. Callie of Haro. He's using me at number three Came in at number eight. That's a new entry Oron high school host club number 12 came in at number nine And lucky star number one cracks the number 10 list or cracks number 10 in the list I haven't actually got out and she got the manga myself yet, but um I'm interested in seeing What are the hub of us about the manga wise? So that was the top ten list in New York best time best sellers list pretty pretty neat stuff They get more manga in there. And I think it really shows the telling strength of lucky star and And um You know like the you know anime is widely hugely successful same with Susan Mia Haro. He you know very very popular anime But now the manga counterparts are getting just as popular and I think it's pretty neat to see that especially lucky star because I'm For me personally, I like lucky star But I don't understand The hardcore fanaticism and the same can be said for Haro. He's used me. I like the show But it's got such an old cult following. It's just like well. What the heck is so great and typically You know these shows are taken from the manga So maybe that's something in there. We're not seeing so definitely go check it out Good stuff on the list The one-to-one scale life-sized Gundam has finally finally really been completed Remember a couple weeks ago We were talking about how that Japan was making that huge life-sized Gundam Well, it's finally complete with all the sexy lights and everything else it could want and It's been done. It's already going and You can go view it now if you're in Japan The creator Yuki Tumou and which is an actor and actor Toru Farua new singer It's Gekt G-A-C-K-T Gekt They're all gonna be at the unveiling on this today here so It looks pretty frickin epic I'll try to explain as best as possible if you want to check out anime news network.com they have a YouTube of the Statue and it's all lit up It's got the blue lights on it and it's got mist and the ground looks like a neon kind of like Like it's walking through Nuclear waste. It's got that green glow to it and the eyes light up and all kinds of crazy stuff. It looks really spectacular and honestly I Don't get why They are gonna be tearing it down here. They're not keeping it, you know a step prone at statue I honestly think with them on a time and I Energy put it into the project Why aren't they Why aren't they keeping this up permanently, I mean like Jesus says something to attract Your audience to or I mean you're you know your travelers to You know bring people for bring foreigners bring something so you know The Gundam fans to be like, oh my god. That's another awesome thing. We gotta see but no they're gonna tear it down here Not too long from now. I I honestly don't know The timeline for that. I just know it's not a permanent thing and I Think that's really terrible You know You know last couple weeks ago, you know, we were talking about how They were wanting to make an anime manga museum for tourism and there was shot down and Now that you know they got something this pretty frickin epic. It's not every day you see a Gundam statue That's life-sized that lights up, you know That you know can bring the tourism And they're gonna tear it down. I mean I think it's really a shame unfortunately So yeah Check out the YouTube video. I mean I'm preaching on YouTube and type of you know life-size Gundam statue, etc, etc Hayao Miyazaki's comic-con international visit is gonna be set for July 24th You know a couple weeks ago. We'd mentioned that Hayao Miyazaki said hey all Come to comic-con and you know promote Ponyo as it's coming out in August here But you if you're going to comic-con you can meet Hayao Miyazaki The New York Times, the New Year's newspaper is reporting that Ponyo director Hayao Miyazaki's first visit to San Diego Comic-Con International his schedule for July 24th According to the newspaper the director of Spirited Way house will be castle and the like and Other award-winning classics will address a room of full of six thousand five hundred Myers CCI's hall H Hall yes hall H is the only room in the convention that can hand on audience to that big CCI will not officially post a schedule on tell Thursday, so this is kind of more of a sneak peek and Wow thirty thirty sixty five hundred people is amazingly huge And I would guess You're gonna be getting in there early getting in the line early just to check this out because man I Would personally love to meet my own Miyazaki at least they Thank you for these great works of art, you know I wonder if anything interesting will be said in terms of maybe the Ponyo release or If he's working on something new already or something like that But yeah, pretty pretty cool stuff if you're gonna go to the comic-con. I mean have a good time you meet Hayao Miyazaki Escaflone movie gets a US Blu-ray release on September 1st, so More anime comes to Blu-ray The North American anime distribution Bandai entertainment not to be confused with Bandai visual Who is now dead? R.I.P They will release Kazooka Akane's Escaflone movie It's gonna be both in English and Japanese dubbing As well as English subtitles The film is based on the vision of Escaflone. I I'll be honest. I couldn't tell you if that's an OVA or a Retelling of the story. I've only watched one episode of Escaflone. I have the entire complete collection sitting in my DVD cabinet, but Haven't drug it out yet to to watch it It's on the list of to-do But yeah, so if you are a fan of Escaflone, which I know many of you are you can now get the awesome awesome Blu-ray release and I apologize for being Fascinably late, but those of us that share the sophisticated British sense of humor must always be fashionably late What have they ever done for anybody? Nothing All right, they share the sophisticated British sense of humor. Well, I'm just mentioning how Escaflone is getting a Blu-ray release But it's Escaflone the movie not Escaflone. There's TV series So it's gonna even be even more confusing because the movie takes out all the thing that might make it actually understandable That's a good idea. Oh, okay. Good. So you can actually say hey. I know what I'm talking about cuz yeah I've only seen one episode of Escaflone. So yeah, it's uh, I mean I like the movie, but it's very and if you're definitely if I had a HD TV that would be the Blu-ray that I would get because it is incredibly beautifully animated I tried to I watched the movie first and then I tried to watch the series and it took me a long time to get over the complete lack of animation in the series, and I usually don't care about such things, but the the animation in the series is nothing like the animation the animation in the movie is per T Yeah, I only found the proof that you spent half you have spent half the time going what in the hell is going on? Well, so then you're doing most out of it. Yeah, cuz like the first episode is like I'm running track Oh, hey, there's a guy with a sword running after a dragon, but now I'm back in his world Okay, manga gamer.com acquires the rights to shuffle romance visual novel and They are also acquired the rights to Higurashi. So this adult so something was shuffle. It spun off It was an originally adult game that inspired two anime TV series There is shuffle. What's that? Which the series were not adults. No, no, no, no. Funimation even acquired the first series Which I did a review on so if you're interested in it go check it out episode 32 I want to say it's best be good. No, that's my canon episode 34 35 somewhere in there. It's called reshuffle of the deck. Oh shuffle the Adult game has been picked up by manga gamer.com And they think it's gonna be really cheap and for download only Like I said, they also picked up Higurashi when they cry Will also be available as a download from manga gamer.com My comments on the wind they're getting the wind they cry game. What the hell? The the anime is bad enough The game is probably gonna be worse like we should probably should not call it a game. That's misleading It's they call it in Japan a sound novel, which is highly hilarious It's basically a visual novel the introduction that you have with it is next to nothing from everything. I have heard But it it's it's fairly hilarious actually because those of you who know me from DVD on anime.com all maybe none of you probably but hey The I was asking anybody if anyone was going to carry it or if anybody did and the next day This company announced that they were gonna be carrying it So they got the joke that maybe I should send them a basket of flowers and say you really didn't have to pick this up Just for me, but thank you. Yeah, but I heard a story that They did not mind the English Naka the English translations That as well. I don't know. No, they weren't being all uppity. You're like, oh my god. You're a copywriting our shit No, but hey, I'm I'm happy for them to get money. So no exactly now. We get it legitimately and people are getting their monies It's going to the right place. I mean You know, we both can say, you know, they didn't get that stuff you legally to begin with So yes, you reviewed shuffle. Can I ask you this? How scared should we be for downloading it in America? Because from what I remember from the anime there were a couple characters that were Of questionable age. No, they were all in high school. I mean, they're on high school Yeah, but I mean they're I'm going based on drawing and as anybody who's probably done that an anime long enough knows You can judge nothing on that at all for a 15 year old looks like they're six Yes You know, they were on high school, and I don't know if there was different from the game. Obviously it must have been Perce. I mean, I mean granted Japan can have high school girls getting naked all they want because it's legal over there but I Would think if they're gonna bring this to the United States Well, you know, they both think it's they are bringing it to the United States. I Was the company that's doing the downloading though and based in the Netherlands. That's what I Thought I heard okay. Yeah, I believe you're right Okay, but I mean you still got a you still got a bad by US law We can't have miners getting naked and sexing everywhere I will assume they'll all be 18 and the seniors in high school Just like them the anime. I will say they were 18 in the anime as well I don't the anime. They're all in high school. Then that was about it Okay, I will wait for a review then and see And look at getting it XC to import the sky sky crawlers game for the US We oh what the hell? Why do you say for the Wii? Anyway, yes, so if you like flight sim Bandai Namco This is made by the ace combat team and it is gonna be shipping this year You get sky crawlers. Yeah Game for the we scares me It's pretty interesting I mean how are you because I? Don't play flight sims because they are for too freaking complicated even on a PC where you have Multiple input modes on the Wii it seems like they're gonna have to dumb it down so much. Oh, you're gonna have your yoke There you go. I don't know how that might turn out. I would assume you hold the numb chuck in your right hand or left hand And then you use the wand as your yoke You hold it like you would You know and then go up down, you know push it forward push it back to go down and up This is some fun news. I found over the week in the intro. I said that businessmen were killing Japan's 3g infrastructure and I got I was wrong. I reread this story before I recorded that intro It's just Japan in general and they're killing it with porn It's got so bad. Japan has a 78 billion dollar 3g infrastructure But the need for poor videos for porn videos is basically turn this thing to a crawl You know I feel really as someone else said before and I forget who this was I feel really bad for the people who enters who Developed these great cool things like the internet like the iPhone and they quickly become just a way for people to get porn Yeah, Japan. It's truly strange that Japan has one of the lowest Well, I suppose it's not actually if you think about it has one of the lowest birth rates in the world and they have the best 3g network In the world, but they're gonna get internet in the world. They're freaking fiber everything Japan and they're killing it with four Japan the irony level is high. Yeah, they've got 3g They've got 4g on their cell phones They've got fiber internet for like 40 by you get a hundred megabits symmetrical connection for 40 freaking dollars Depending on where you live in Japan. That is amazing. I would kill for those speeds How hard is it to get Japanese citizenship and learn to Japan and Japanese and find a job there? Oh, that's right. Oh, yeah, it's never mind Yeah, Japan's 3g network is taking a pounding from porn-hungry users who are eagerly Slurping up capacity to to the point that providers have been open blige to impose limits on on unlimited net Packages so you know here in the States, you know, you can get quote-unquote unlimited bandwidth from, you know, T-Mobile or Sprint But in reality, there's a five gigabyte cap Well, I guess over in Japan when you say unlimited you get unlimited, but it's gotten so bad So they're not going to go. Okay We got to rethink our strategy here and start imposing According to bloom what you just do is you just tax porn downloads? Well, they probably already do it and use the money to improve the infrastructure Why would that's not fair to the that's not fair to the people providing the porn Not their fault that their frickin stuff, but they're porn providers. Come on. Yeah, it's still business Hey, if I want to say Okay Their bandwidth shortage is so bad due to educational videos being downloaded. You wouldn't say oh, just Educational videos have a higher moral function Things are not in my life are not more neutral. Yeah. Okay. Well, according to Bloomberg Domo Ko and Katie di corp are Feeling the heat especially around midnight when When heavy users spike The quote-unquote heavy users spiked slow for the $74 billion network a typical customer Is 32-year-old Tokyo travel agent to Keshi who costs up? 6300 yen a month for the unlimited deal Allowing him to download adult movies on his mobile phone. It's about 66 bucks a month Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You're watching porn on your mobile song. This is yeah, your 3G is your mo is your cell phone What is that screen like a post the size of a postage sound? No, they've gotten way bigger now Are you like more to five inch screens? Okay, yes, I was being hyped it was hyperbole, but still I don't want to watch porn on a four to five inch screen, okay? Maybe I'm crazy. I've never understood the cell phone manga that they do in Japan But especially if it's Japanese porn things are going to be small enough to begin with if you're less not watching on my small screen Sorry, that was probably bad, but you know, hey Score one for stereotypes. Yes around 91 Takeshi's fellow citizens now surf via the sorry 91 million 91 now surf via the 3g network in Japan's online pornography business is growing at a rate of around a thousand new customers a day on the biggest say sites Some punters coughing upwards of 10,000 yen to sign up. It's a hundred and five dollars a month For porn for porn One such they have openings for westerner people in the japanese born history. Yeah, never mind one month month month one such smart monger soft on demand has Seen revenues from its mobile site leap over 40% in this in the year to march 2009 around 15 million Yen is made per month off of this Let me repeat what I said before do they have open? 15 million yen a month, okay, even in Japan where the cost of living is high that is a crapload of money So now someone from the telecom industry said pornography will eventually open a debate About how carriers should modify their business model as data traffic swells it may prove it may prompt even higher access restrictions So, yeah Here's the thing though I have no clue Well, here's what I want to say though first off There must be a lot of people watching a lot of videos because like I'm trying to think like a typical cell phone video is only a couple hundred kilobytes Maybe a meg. I mean I who maybe there's a full video. I don't know But you're still not gonna be large. Yeah, exactly you're you're doing it for a an iPod touch or iPod video We're you know over there. They've got pretty darn sophisticated You know cell phones, but You know in the bottom line this is data going across the cell phones network and Video is becoming more and more and more wanted accepted and I Think it's just part of it's just the network not being able to be ready for capacity for You know video in general. Yeah, they use porn in this example, but I mean You know people sending each other video clips or you know Hey, we went to the fair and saw this or you know, whatever. I don't know But I have a feeling more and more it's gonna start swinging the US way where they're gonna start implementing caps and Stuff like that. So one final story, which is rather humorous. I found this on Gizmodo Says beware criminals Japanese police now equipped with sent was chintzy and accurate paintball guns So as you know beautiful only guns Can be carried by police officers You can not own a gun in Japan Hey There's a number of murders they got and they're still there, but anyway, this isn't a debate boat Sorry, sorry, sorry. Yes. This is correct. So they're finding a new non-lethal way, you know what to help curb you know The stuff, you know, you know, I got tasers, but you know people die. You can't dive paintballs Paintball guns for police Sort of make sense if you live in a country incredibly amid timid criminals Now the funny thing is the video really says a lot of things now first off the paintball guns don't look like a paintball gun it looks like Kind of like a tube and then you push a button in the front so you kind of just hold it out in front of you And it's even got a laser sight But the funny thing the video awesome. Yes Playing paintball cool. Yes And yeah, it's smaller. It's miniature. It's not a you know a full-force paintball gun The funny thing is the video itself They show a guy run driving around in a Vespa and the cops chasing him in the car and they're sticking there They're they're hand out the window and firing this paintball gun and You almost wonder like Are they gonna stop? Like they shoot him in the back and they get his white shirt full of orange paint and the guy stops You know, this has just been done in a parking lot as a demonstration not a you know, let's go ripping down the road at 200, you know, kilometers an hour He'll be recognizable and then they other people can pick him out of a crowd and he can't hide in a crowd I would expect the reason they don't use actual real guns besides not wanting to kill people But you know as far as I'm concerned if there are not many crimes where it would bother me I mean, yeah, we probably shouldn't shoot somebody even in the leg who is shoplifting But they you know, I'm just trying to figure out somebody and you're running from the police It doesn't bother me if they kill you. Oh, yeah, you know, and again the Paintballs, you know, I like the rubber bullets or the you know, right. They leave a well. I mean they hurt Yes, they do so. I mean I get your attention, but It was so funny though. They're really inaccurate. They showed The laser pointer and they have this target So the cop, you know, uses the laser pointer waves it around get it aimed up the Bull the bullet goes past the target and hit someone's car that's parked away from the target And they show wipe in the car off like oh crap So I just found this funny just because you know Long before we have the paintball war in Japan where you know, there's a riot because half the people get hit by paintballs Yeah, I don't know who the real criminalist. Yeah, someone said Yeah, I just thought this this is a pretty funny story just because you know, it's kind of humorous It's not something you hear about every day Oh I'm wearing a white-pressed shirt, but do what he says, you know, not that he's a cop or anything Yeah, he's gonna get me orange No, but did they actually say that they have timid criminals in Japan? Yes, living in a country of timid criminals, which I Now, you know, I've never lived in Japan, but didn't the criminals in Japan like Assassinate a politician recently recently. I don't think so. I mean recently as in like a year ago Not that I'm aware of Okay, maybe I'm wrong then. I mean back in the game. I remember that old video from like 1970 You guys like in the last two years. Yeah, I don't know but I Would not call the major criminals in Japan timid. Oh, hell no, they're like hardcore Like hey, let's think about this the yakuza make the mob look like children Well that you have to be criminals in Japan. Hey, I think if the ma I have the Japan please see someone from the yakuza They aren't gonna go like stop. I got a paintball gun No, I think they're gonna be whipping out their guns and yeah, exactly I don't think they're gonna be like hey, hey, you yakuza member. That's right The paintball gun bitch will mess up your suit That'd be so funny. I'd like to see them actually try though. I Mean Norway as timid criminals. Maybe it would make sense for them to use this there, but I Don't see this is making sense in Japan. It really wouldn't bother me to give the Japanese cops machine guns, but Well, they can have him it seriously. It wouldn't bother me That's I have law and order is very important. Yeah. I mean could Japan have crime just like anywhere else Exactly. Yeah, they have less of it extremely. Yeah, which I don't understand given the things that they have in their culture Well, they have I think they have less extreme crime. They have more petty crime. I mean I read I read Japan today things You can argue would contribute to extreme crime as part of their culture. Oh, yeah I mean look at the Akihabara killings. Look at the killings back in 2007 where the kids were murdering their fathers And they blame Higurashi and they blamed school days, you know, they preempted those and you know Japan still has brutal murders This time it's more brutal cuz you're the one holding the knife You know that they have to actually go work Compared to these guys in the US and wherever they have to you, you know, I want to shoot a gun from this moving car No, you have to like I'm gonna stab you out the window with a zero sword If you live in Japan I mean, you know, it is true that guns don't kill people people do but guns sure as hell make it a whole hell of a lot easier Yes, if you're gonna kill someone with a knife, you have to really want to freakin kill them. I know So yes, I am a big component of gun control if you haven't guessed yet, but oh Holy shit. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa Wow, we are already at 946. Holy crap. Yeah, we're off. We have topic again. 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You You would think with an up the intro of such as this the show would be upbeat You would be wrong very very wrong Ununlike when they cry though what makes this show wonderful is that it does All right, it ends up with that Sorry, it is great song and we should play it out when we finish because it is an absolutely wonderful song One of the great things about this anime is the music, but I'll get to that in a moment But unlike when they cry and I kind of am spoiling it for you a little bit by telling you that it's brutal Emotionally Incredibly there's some feedback on my and dad. So say, you know It it's emotionally brutal. It's it is physically brutal in some instances, but yeah, it is definitely emotionally brutal But it starts off and it fools you the first episode. I actually after watching the first episode I actually thought gee, I'm not gonna like this. It's just like any other anime that I have ever seen Yeah, I actually do not know if this came out before Naruto But the main character is a lot like Naruto and that he's everything is always gonna be great Everything is always gonna be wonderful and I am just gonna try until I do it we in fact see him fighting and a match in the first episode and He does it completely without strategy just by going straight forward and he of course loses But he doesn't let it affect him. He's still this upbeat incredibly upbeat kid But then we get to the second episode I'm not gonna tell you well What exactly what happens at the end of the first episode because I would spoil up for you a little bit And this is one. I don't want to spoil but this let me just say that from the second episode on it becomes one of the most brutal anime as I have ever seen yeah And it is because the first episode is so very un-brutal And the animation style is Very un-brutal. It's very unrealistic. It's almost it's not chibi, but it's almost chibi the Everything is soft colors. Everything is very pastel and that That contrast is what makes it work But the main character stays throughout the entire time everything is gonna be wonderful. Everything will all work out Everything is gonna be great. Some people find this annoying. I think Jellicoon finds us annoying But I think it does he is a good representation of the indomitable nature of the human spirit, which does eventually win out Well, it starts with one of the strangest Entros that I've ever seen and that it has a quote that I'm not sure I completely understand It's basically that since 10 about since 10 billion years is so ephemeral. It's it creates such fondness in the heart Now the one interpretation of this is that when he at the end of the first episode He goes 10 billion years into the country the planet's future. I don't know if that's true or not I don't think they give anywhere else in the show an indication that he is still on earth That is an explanation. It's not the one I like the best Because if you're 10 billion years into the earth's future, it would explain why the Sun is now about 300 times the size It was In the first episode. Hey, you do you see? Get to the damn night. Get to the story portion. All right you do you see in the second episode that the The Sun is much larger. I can't give too much away about the story, but they say he goes somewhere where Go ahead. Go ahead and spoil it if you have to No, no, he makes a girl who has some sort of magical powers and control over water. There you go in the in the World that he is in water is an incredibly precious resource. So this Can I curse? Of course, it's a pot. Okay I don't just checking this incredibly bat shit insane and that's about the only word you can use to describe this guy Batchin it's "Hondo" "Hondo" named "Hondo" military leader is trying to find this lady and kidnapper and This is when it gets really brutal he basically ends up torturing our main character who's about 12 and Torture that would make the guy who used to be our vice president smile And You know he kidnaps children and make to who make up the main portion of his army Of course the children that are in the army are all men The children that are women while they're being used to produce more children And we'll just leave that there It is incredibly incredibly brutal it is moving because it is so incredibly brutal brutal The title I think and this is open to debate, but the title I think says that these things are going on now They're probably going to continue going on then They are going on here and these things are going on in America. They are probably going to continue going on there. I Mean there are child soldiers in Africa currently. I'm sure there are probably regimes in Africa that breed children like slaves Mm-hmm and in other places and there are Child sex slaves in America thankfully they're not many of them, but there are some You know what you're watching SNDC on the weekend. This is what you learn. Well, so yeah, so this so yeah The story is I don't mean to take away from you, but um, it's incredibly brutal. Yeah, it's hard because like the kid whose name is a shoe he so what basically happens he meets his girl named Lala Roo and They're sitting on these smokestacks just looking at the sunset and All of a sudden this mechanical robot takes Lala Roo and just saying please help me just please help me so shoe fights back and they end up in this alternative universe like like Zodar said, you know water is very precious and they're basically she was made to become this soldier and He's basically told become a soldier or die your choice. Well, he refuses so As punishment, he's hung out in the Sun Oh, Jesus Christ I mean it's the religious overtones are not as blatant as some things like they never mentioned them specifically No, like they do in Evangelion, but they're there. Yes. They are there He's given no food no water for days He's basically on the brink of death and they say you got an option either become a soldier or We'll leave out here So he'd be grudgingly agrees to become a soldier, but He's always fighting with his teammates I know you call him solo fellow soldiers, you know, other soldiers saying hey, this is wrong, you know one scene for example, they go into a village and They say we want your women and children and The men say no, we're not giving you our men and children or women and children you know what you're doing is wrong and disgusting and not right and basically the other children and the so the soldiers are ordered to to take all the women and children and they blow up the village with all the remaining men and You know Basically And the set and a lot of the children some of the children know what they're doing is wrong, but they say look Yeah, no, they say we have no option. It's either we do this or we die and we want to live So that's a show basically, and I don't want to go too far into spoilers, but this show is not a fun show this show Emotionally is pretty brutal, but I think it's rewarding It's a highly highly regarded respected show It's one of the few things when central part media went under that were immediately picked up by somebody else it is Incredibly incredibly good. It is it is incredibly brutal I mean you don't watch it if you're prone to depression or you're already in a depressed mood Not recommended, but it is it does end well And it's very moving and I think it was a story that needed to be told because I do think these things still go on We should probably talk send a couple minutes because we're at 1057 talking about the dog We go after we go after a little dub for the dub for the dub for this is absolutely amazing I do not generally like dubs. I generally watch everything subtitled Generally because I think dubs are crap But they've the dub for this is absolutely amazing for example the guy that plays him dough should probably be more famous than crisp and free Yeah, wow, you know, I find funny, but I know what dictator has a bull cut I know granted granted, but I mean you him though is absolutely I must have been impossible to play it because you have to go from in one scene He he basically kills a cat by breaking its neck and then leaves the dead body of the cat on his desk and you hear him kill the cat over a little communication device, but you see the cat later and If I didn't tell you you would might not know the cat is dead Until he picks the cat on and throws it in somebody's feet. Yeah But to him go watch this it is absolutely amazing the dub is incredible the story is incredible Just don't watch it if you're already depressed because if you are will make you go kill yourself It does end on there on a there is hope for humanity note, but it does not It does not makes it makes sure that you know A heart of darkness in humanity that we do need to fight. Yeah I love the dub. It was so good and my scene like you were saying how was it crisp and freeman who did the dub? No, Chris he did not do Hamdoh Oh, he had some bit part in this the guy who did Hamdoh should be more famous than Christmas Yeah, like the scene that I really right was like crazy like wow Lala, Roo wears a pendant that can let's control the water right and this is kind of the reason why she and her were taken was for that pendant and They don't know where it went during one of the earlier scenes that got lost along the way He's saying come on come on second. I hate this thing Sorry guys anyway, we can go further than this. It's not that big of a deal so He's saying come on Lala, Roo. Give me the pendant come on. Please please please and he's holding a rose He's clutching this rose and the range of emotion is from like begging to like insane Where he's like like five seconds. Yeah, he's like come on, please Oh my god, please tell me where it is. Please and he jams his rose through his hand Right, I mean, you know, I'm not you know, nothing's doing real life, but I'm saying like the job workers. It's like Wow, you know like He's it's a good job. It's doing really great and The closest I can come to the range of emotion in one scene in this is something like King Lear I mean and yes, I just compared anime to Shakespeare. It is that good the Because he has to I mean in another scene he goes from basically torturing chew or shoe in about the worst way possible to hugging a Woman that works for him and I don't know why she does whether this is there's some indication that maybe this is her son I don't know some people have made that interpretation. She's hot though and young so that can't be yes, she is That wouldn't work too. Well, I agree. There's other reason that thematic reason besides plus that scene Where she goes in her and Lala Lou were talking in a room and she says I don't like you I don't like that King handle likes you and I would and I want to kill you That's right. That's right there. She's not saying either but he goes from torturing chew to getting on his knees and hugging her like a child and it's again this incredible range of emotion in a Short amount of time and he pulls it off. He pulls it off amazingly well. Mm-hmm. It is Absolutely amazing that the guy should have a career as an actual actor. You know it's that if we never bothered to check who We never bought what never bother check who was Who was an actor? No, oh I can check real quick who he is. I actually said something I asked on Anime on DVD calm who he was. Well, just go to Wikipedia or go to anime on DVD Right now. Yeah, so you're doing that. He's he's in next to nothing and I do not understand why because he is absolutely incredible But the I was just let's say something about the ending song because it's another good example of the The way it tricks you the ending song is Very it's almost like a lullaby in how slow it is in how In how the In how slow it is and what it sounds like and even in the way it's song But the words are basically Yeah, you know, I'll always be there for you, but this world where we've learned to kill each other is the only world that exists So the words are the most depressing thing in the world, but the music and the Sawing itself. I've heard someone tell me who obviously hadn't looked at the words that it is a nice Relaxing way to end the show after some of the brutality that you see and it is. Oh, yeah, there's girls getting raped There's I mean, it's not explicit or anything No, it's not you know, like for one scene it happens to a girl that you kind of get to know So you kind of feel for so there's some indication. I don't they don't give really give you what her age is But she's under 18. Yes But a lot Yeah, I think she's like 15 or 14. Yeah, I don't want to give away why we know she's not like 10 but the name of the guy is Jack Taylor and If you go to Why is it now not taking me? Okay, why is anime on DVD.com being Dickey But if you go and look at what he's done on Wikipedia, he is not done nearly as much stuff as Chris Ben Freeman And I do not understand why no no disrespect to Chris Ben Freeman I'm gonna get a lot of food like stop metric. I mean your podcast to jerk. Yeah, yeah, please don't call us and hate us But but he is wonderful and I've met him and he's absolutely a very nice guy and very good at what he does Anyway, but I can recognize his voice when I hear it. Hmm, and I know oh immediately That's I mean, oh, that's Chris Ben Freeman now. Maybe that's just because I hear him and everything. I don't know So what what would you rate the show out of four, you know, one four being a must watch? Oh, wow I would rate this five next to Hannah Berenmay, this is my favorite show It ranks right up there with it now. It is not nearly as uplifting as Hannah Berenmay But it is very very well done It's it's incredible I if you have not watched this you owe it to yourself to find a copy of this and watch it. Yeah, definitely. It's a good good show So that was our review of now and then here and there so you know, let's go ahead and do our DVD pics of a week Well, if I have a name this week It's another week and more DVDs are being released. What should you get? It's time for the weekly DVD pics All right, so our weekly DVD pics are just shows that we would Purchase if we had unlimited amounts of money or a show we recommend for you to go check out this week Actually CPM if you remember CPM went under and They now you know adv went and purchased a couple of their licenses So actually as of the seventh you can now purchase Now and then here and there grave with fireflies For a nice little price of that that would well then there you go. That's my pick the week That was easy both of those Those not uplifting but both absolutely incredibly good. Yes, so yes Yeah, it's 29 bucks good good price and it's complete series. So um, you know good stuff Yeah, I think I might buy this and give it to somebody You're this incredibly depressing anime Merry Christmas Thanks Hoffman for giving us for making your girlfriend listen to us Voice even though we're not married. I'm getting a divorce just because I had to live with this crap Oh, she now she left People listening to us live man. Come on Also coming out this week now that our female is gone is a yeah, I saw through the ledge If you're looking for really disgusting hint. I would probably qualify I Have been watching more beta guardian of the spirit on cartoon network. That is also very good Those who hunt elves. I do not like too much I won't say anything more than that and I hear 12 kingdoms is good But I have not watched the same thing they all they really think about kingdoms Yeah, the complete TV series. Yeah, this is like re-release number four The last excuse me the last time they released it was like in Cut-up box that's Like that one part two So let's go ahead and wrap it up here because we are already over everything and come on I said now and then here and there. Oh, you did okay awesome last time. I talked to you. She didn't like to show that much Well, I haven't finished it. I'm on like episode nine. Okay, cool. So I'm getting there I was hoping to cover a couple more things, but hey next week You know, whatever man and our goes by fun or goes by quick when you're having fun Yes, I actually know it's been alright hour and eight minutes Yes, so go ahead and check out bonds. I beat calm there. You can find past shows and our show notes and all that good stuff and Twitter.com front slash Jellacoon. You can follow myself on the Twitters It's a kind of personal slash bonds. I BD Resource I guess I use it for personal and professional use as I'm trying to say Next week on the show. I'm gonna go ahead and review Haruhi Suzamiya Been wanting to do that Also going to Let you guys know about a couple of the new shows that are airing last week We did our spring preview show Now that they're finally starting to air gonna kind of gloss over them and give you guys a kind of a watch You know, would you get you a little more information on it now that we've been able to watch a couple of them I am Jellacoon and I am Zoldar and mr. Lateman. Yes Thank you very much for watching and have a great night And we can I see you next week I Show up beat in Mexican You You You You (gentle music) [MUSIC PLAYING]
Anime is important but the more important thing is the police in Japan now have in their possession inaccurate paintball guns! Zaldar reviews Now and Then Here and There.