The Banzai Beat Anime Podcast

Sensei Is Always Drunk

Would you watch an anime about middle school girls and their underwear? Jellokun reviews clevage plus all the news of the week, dvd picks and more. and just where does eeryone in Japan get their money for $1000 replca cell phones? Also a review of El Hazard and Mahoromatic sorry no cleavage this week.

Duration:: 1h 59m
Broadcast on:: 20 Jun 2009
Audio Format:: other

This podcast is a proud member of the Blueberry Network. That is Blueberry with no ease.com. Blueberry with no ease.com. Remember, you drop the ease. [MUSIC PLAYING] You're listening to the Otocast Radio Network. The very best in online radio. Log in, kick back, and turn us up. Otocast Radio. We supply your anime fix. You're listening to the Bonsai Beat. Your weekly window into the world of anime, featuring all the latest news, episode reviews, and discussion. And now, broadcasting live from an abandoned love hotel. Your hosts, Pat, send Jellacoon. Hey, everybody. This is Jellacoon with the Bonsai Beat, here with Saldar and Pat. So I don't have to update the opener just yet. Yes, you got all three of us today. Huzzah. Yes, this is a two-hour special, episode 37. Yay. All right, episode 38. I don't know, one of those numbers. Really? Ah, you can't count. Come on now, Pat. Ah, so yes. Due to last week's hilarity of technical difficulties, we have lengthened the show to two hours for all the fun and hilarity to continue. Yeah. Since you must hear me, I mean, we all know that's the whole reason everybody's listening, is just to hear me. Yeah. So-- Because you just showed up and everybody just-- you didn't follow the sheep. No sheep followed you. And I've just been told by somebody who is evidently listening live that they can't hear all three of us today. So we are actually working. Oh, OK. Good. There's people listening. Yeah, there's actually people listening. It's a freaking amazing good thing. Come on, Todd. Nope. Stick him. Or block up. I don't know. One of them. Cool. Yes. Well, if you want to join the conversation, you can do it two ways. You can click the talk to us now button on the blog talk radio page. Or you can call us at area code 646-652-2487. And we'll get you into the show. We've got news three freaking reviews of shows. Mahouro, Maddock, Elle Hazard, and everyone's favorite hand tie, Cleavage. Such a perfect name for a hand tie. Yes, Cleavage. Oh, hey, it's a big-breasted hand tie. And it does the genre no good. And it's-- Yeah. We'll get to that. And hopefully, from watching it, you'll learn various things not to do if you're going to have sex in school. Wait, wait, wait, wait. It's about sex in school. Wow. Can we skip the news? Not exactly, but kind of yes. Oh, wow. OK, I'll be waiting for that there. Yeah, so then we also got the DVD picks of the week. So yeah. I'm so bummed that last week's show ended up in the trash. Such a good show. Well, you-- I mean, come on now. They heard you. They didn't even get to hear me. If anybody should be bummed, it should be me. Yeah, it's me. All right. I had my great opener, too, I mean. Yes, ruling the world and such. Yes, you know, I tried my do my Elle Hazard laugh that didn't work at all. But that's all right. Moving on. There we go. Got all this frickin-- got all the frickin' news in front of us. So let me know. Yes, well, you should have the news in front of you, I'd hope. Yeah, sure. Yeah, sure. OK. OK, OK. This week in Anime News, brought to you by Anime News Network. Because of all the lessons, Anime News Network should be giving me money. Well, let's try. Fortunately won't. And without them, they'll probably be no news. Or at least a decent source of news. So I guess we'll start off with the eating of the-- the big news of the week of this week. Eating of the East actually ended yesterday. Oh, such a good, good anime. It has been Green Lake for two theatrical films that will continue where the series left off. The series left kind of in a cliffhanger and kind of not. But the first one, which is called the King of Eden, will be coming out in November 28. And then there is another one called The Loss of Paradise in January of 2010. And they must have had this in the works. Oh, yeah, they did. No, it was already-- the official word until recently was that there was only going to be one movie. Apparently it was two. No, and I'm wondering, though, like, Mike-- like, what if this thing would have, like, bombed? But I mean, I know it was written by-- I can't remember what show he did previously. That was, like, huge. The person who did this show, I mean, it was backed by a really popular author and whatnot. The author who wrote this show. Well, it's coming out pretty soon. So, I mean, yeah, they had to have been working on it before. Yeah, that, at least a year ago, popular. Yeah, I wonder how much they gambled on that having the-- you know, if the anime would have flopped. But-- So this was good. I have not watched any of this, but this-- Oh, it is such a great show. It doesn't have crap like Moway or-- It doesn't-- OK, it does a little bit. Watch, you don't like Mow, come on now. This is from the guy who is watching K on a minute ago. God. And I cried in episode 12. How could you cry? I just did. Shut up. [LAUGHS] That's sad. I watched fairy musketeers, so I can't say anything. But we'll talk about that a little bit. There's tears of happiness. If you watch fairy musketeers. Ah, yes, the continuing argument against Mow. But it's really, really-- it's just really neat. The characters are really weird. The humor is really weird. And there's lots of squiggly lines, squiggly balls, which indicate censored penises. But it's not to that, too. It's a lot of nudity. All right. Nothing like censored penises. I know. I know. Why do you watch this again? It's not that I'm gay. Oh, wait, I didn't say it because of that. Sure. It's a plot device. I swear. Is there something you and Paul want to tell us here? Paul. Who tells Paul? Never mind. Both of us need that. That didn't work, OK? Moving on. Let's talk about phones. Yes. So-- That would better last time. Yeah. You're so new, and yet you fail so much. Yes, I know. Are we talking about the Ava phone? The Ava phone. Yes. The $900 Ava phone. It sold out in five hours. What the hell? I believe it. But it doesn't-- OK, I know Ava has to be the most popular anime property in forever. But still, I wouldn't pay $900 for a cell phone. Agreed enough. And how can they? I mean, how are there enough people in Japan that make enough money as expensive as it is to live in Japan to spend $900 on a cell phone, even if it is? Yes, because of the people that are buying it. It's not high school girls. It's a Target or a Taku. What do they get money, though? Exactly. OBS. Yeah, Taku don't have jobs. Come on. No, that's the worries. I don't know. It just struck me as amazing. I was trying to think of something that would have the same type of resonance as Ava in America. And the only thing I could think of was a-- I don't know. Something like-- I guarantee if there were something along the same lines for Star Wars, it would sell out that fast at that price. People would spend $900 for that for a Star Wars cell phone. Oh. If it was something special like this, they would. It would be like the replica Darth Vader helmet, what the actual-- you can sound like him and talk like him. That would sell out immediately. I am a Star Wars fanatic. And I would not spend $900 on that. So if you-- where's the helmet? What's this assume? Somebody came all day home, and it has the census egon-- The helmet's not a good analogy. I'm talking about-- I'm just thinking something really wicked. Like really cool. Let's see up on the thing, the thing from Star Trek, that they're all dumb. Oh, like the tri-recorded or the tri-quarters or-- You know what I'm talking about, though. Yeah. Yeah. The tri-quarters. If they came up with something that was like that, officially licensed, that functioned like a cell phone or something like that, it would sell out for that kind of price. First off, $20,000 is not that many. No, it's not. I don't think it would sell out here at a $900 price point. I think there's enough crazy people to sell out at $900. I mean, just think of it, that's resonating with fans. I mean, it has to be a good phone too. It can't just look cool. So you have to think about this Ava phone. That's what it is. It does look cool, but it doesn't seem all that great. But yeah, I get what you're saying, though. You're right. There's enough people out there to have $900 laying around. There's a lot of people out in this country, and there's plenty of people in Japan too. They waste a lot of money on stupid crap. I mean, I'm not innocent in that myself, but-- Yeah, look at your bedroom. But it's so much more expensive to live in Japan than it is to live in America. I mean, just like the price of property or the price of-- Oh, most people don't own property. They rent everything. This is true. But so they're not going to own property. That's not a culture there. That's a culture here. Culture there seems to be more of-- I mean, I'm just-- this is all hyperbole at this point, but it's more of a rental culture than a-- So the houses they live in, they don't own? Oh, I guarantee there's people out in the boond. There's plenty of houses. But it's not as much of a-- it's not as large a portion of their culture as it is here, I don't think. Well, but I mean, in all the lists that they show for like the most expensive countries to live in, Japan is always near the top. Yeah. It seems like to me that as expensive as a country to live is to live in, as expensive as everything else is there, that amazes me that there are that many people that would be willing to spend $900 for a cell phone, even an Ava cell phone, which I meant it does look cool. And if it was like $100 bucks, I might-- I think you're under-- so you're underestimating the amount of crazy people there are there. I mean, yes, it's expensive to live, but they'll make do to get something like this. You got to remember how expensive-- just think of how expensive anime is. Anime isn't fucking cheap there. Oh, I had like 70 bucks for one DVD for three episodes. They cut back on buying some anime for a little while, and then they can get their $900 cell phone. That's how it works. And I suppose I'm not the best person to use it as an example, because I only have maybe two bookshelves worth of anime. If I'm going to own something, it's only going to be something I'm going to-- I know I'm going to watch again. And most of mine, I only bought because I was-- when Genon was going out of business, I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to get any of it anymore. Before then, I think I only had like two or three disks. So maybe I'm just too conservative on how I spend my money, but I just can't see spending-- bad money on a sofa. Bad American. It doesn't spend like crazy to expect government handouts. Oh, well, let's not talk about politics. But yes, no, I'm-- because I would probably be one of the most conservative people politically on currently right now, so-- But no, I hear what you're saying, though. But I also say, look at the pre right now. I mean, the granted doesn't really apply, but pre is the new hot cell phone. People are willing to be like, hey, I got an Apple iPod, or I got an iPhone. Fuck you, AT&T. I'm going to go jump to Sprint. Go check out this IP, you know, the pre, or whatnot. And-- I'm not really sure where you're going. Well, I'm just-- point is, like, it's a new hot thing. People spend money on cell phones. Yeah, there you go. I guess. That's the point. Sarah, thank you. Easier-- Yeah, I don't have an iPhone. I just have a cell phone that does barely takes pictures. So again, maybe I'm not the best example in the world, but I don't even text. So obviously, I'm not up in the know about these things. But it just-- it just struck me as insane. When I read it, I think I laughed for a good 10 minutes about how crazy these people were. But this is also the country, that in another news thing that we tried to talk about last time, that is building a life-sized Gundam statue. Hey, this is Pat's God now you're talking about. You got us the nice things. Oh, OK. I see. You're taking a trip to worship at the 18 meter tall Gundam statue. If I could, I would. I don't have a passport. And I won't be able to get one before they take it down. Oh, yeah. It's only standing until August. That is weak. Why would you spend all the time and money? Well, I know. And then take it down again. I don't understand. Well, it's at public park. And it was designed with the purpose of being able to be taken down easily. And it's just to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Gundam. Exactly. It's a celebrate. I pray that they decide to take it down and then rebuild it somewhere else, because it would be a huge waste for them just to take it down. I mean, look how epic it looks. Like, the freaking eye light up and build it to begin with. But that's OK. I have to say, if I was a Gundam fan, that would be freaking awesome. And I would-- but Gundam always struck me as kind of pointless. But then my favorite type of anime is what I like to call mindfuck anime, stuff like Ava or Lane. But this-- it just struck me as crazy. I mean, only in Japan would do in a recession. Would you spend all the time and money to take a-- to build a life-size Gundam statue? Look, 30 years of Gundam, and it's important, as Gundam has been to Bandai as a company. Oh, Bandai would not go all out every chance they get with Gundam, because it's that important to them. That's true. It's the reason Bandai is this. This is the company that has a Gundam division at this point. It's that important to them. How many Gundam series are there? Like, 300 or something? TV shows are there 11, I believe. 11? Yeah, it's almost as bad as Disney. It's a bunch of OVA's and then movies and all sorts of shit. There's a boatload of it. I mean, remember 30 years. It's a long time. Yeah, that's a long freaking time. So I guess Ava's going to eventually run it for its money, but I don't know. Can't really catch up on time, though. Yeah, that's true. I tried watching it now. Gundam's not going anywhere. Probably not, probably not. OK, we should say this is part of a theme for the 30th anniversary. This is the theme of the three-phase mumble suit project is always beginning. The lysive Gundam is representing the real G phase with the-- next is the field G phase and a soul G phase. The field G phase, evidently they're having an August Gundam Big Expo convention. I suppose Pat's is going to this. Can't pass for, man. He's bugged up. It's not that hard. I'm in unless you're like a terrorist or something. But-- Wow. Yes, Pat's name's on the no-fly list. Yes, well, you never know. You never know. He's going to Japan to look at robots. Doesn't sound very American. You're the no-fly zone, no-fly list. The soul G phase is going to be a collaborative music event planned for the Gundam franchise this year, including an adaptation of mobile suit Gundam unicorn novels. I suppose this is big robots with a unicorn horn on the top of their heads. I do not want to dance. Yes. OK, the fact that I was making that as a joke and it's actually true disturbs me-- Well, what else would it be if it's a unicorn? I mean, that's pretty easy to guess. But it's just so stupid. No, it's actually really-- It'd be a wal-nore. OK. Does it porn people? Does the robot run up things and shoot them with a toy? Well, it has two modes-- one with the unicorn horn and then the horn splits in half to form a traditional Gundam head. And it's like battle mode. OK. It just has like that-- it's just a design thing. I think I should say call it the unicorn. And there's an evidently also a film version of mobile suit Gundam 00. Yeah, that's the next year, though. I think it's coming out, unfortunately. Bummer, you have to wait longer. So is Gundam 00 the first Gundam or is it not that logical? Well, it's Gundam 00, and now it's a separate timeline from a lot. It's its own timeline. And it's just a new timeline for this new series, essentially, it's the best way to plan it. OK. They do that in anime a lot. Hell has already actually done it like five times. So there's like five-- oh my god, gee, wing, see. Yeah, there's like five or six-- there's like six different universes. See, I thought epic. I thought epic Gundam is. I need his own universe. That's right. You know what, they should just make a freaking MMO. Like there's so much shit there. They did it at one point. Aw, sweet. I think they took it down, though, I think. Oh, I didn't do very good. That's what it was called. That the bomber didn't do very good. That's awesome, though. As long as it keeps making money and they keep making more, I'm happy. Gundam, I think Bandai can like sing praises to Gundam that keep him alive, bro, all this time. Like, if everything else fails in Bandai, everyone knows. We'll just build a new Gundam, and it'll save the company. They make plenty of other stuff, too. Oh, I know they do. It's like Naruto. Naruto is the only reason Funimation is still around and Naruto I despise. So there you go. Naruto is this, not Funimation. Ah, OK. Excuse me. And no-- Dragon Ball is the reason Funimation is around. OK, that's the one. But I hate both of them, and I get them confused, because they're both the same. But yes, if you're a Naruto person, please call in and tell me I'm full of crap. But to me, Naruto is just as bad as Dragon Ball. I ban you from calling this show, if we ever get a call. If you talk about Naruto, I will come to your house and burn your house down, and with all your new order of stuff. Oh, come on now. I'm just trying to make things that will get people to call in and say things that are controversial. We don't need a continent. Naruto is lame now. Yes, I'm not going to-- Like, the DBZ is the worst thing ever to happen to anime. Well, the DBZ is one of the most significant things ever to happen to anime. You can thank DBZ. It wasn't for DBZ. The anime industry went well. It wouldn't be as big or popular as it is right now. It wouldn't be that big in the US. And at the same time, it's complete shit in the US right now. But um, uh, DBZ significant is my point. Yes, it is. Much still sucks. Yeah, significant. We'll do it again. DBZ is good. We'll have to agree to your screen on that one. It stretches too long, but it's good. Let's see. A fight takes, what, 10 episodes or more? Three. It's been five episodes just staring at each other? Yeah, I'm not going to defend that. That shit's annoying to everybody. That's just how it is. All right. So I've thought about watching one piece here recently. Watch one piece. Problem solved. I answered your question. No, one piece is incredible. It is a completely different level from pretty much every other show in a show. OK. Because it's not-- But it's still-- But it's not-- Yeah, but it's not generic, simple. It's not simple. It has, well, first off, it has an incredible cast. And then at the same time, it's got um, it's not-- it's very open. So it doesn't feel like there's just a million day of sex mockiness. And there's like, oh, now there's this new villain. It's just-- they move to a new area. And things-- and shit happens, essentially, is how it works. Because they're just traveling around a massive world. And also, the story's pretty much mapped out properly. So it's not being stretched out, retardedly. Gotcha. It's like-- Still-- still a show in a show. I much prefer things like Lane or Evangelion. But I watch Bleach, so I can't compose-- I suppose I can't complain. Bleach is the worst. [LAUGHTER] Yes, it is. It's a show in a show. Bleach is worse than Naruto. Yeah. I-- No, no. No, no. Now I'm going to have to come up to Minneapolis and hit you upside the head. [INTERPOSING VOICES] Yeah, go ahead and hit him. [LAUGHTER] [INTERPOSING VOICES] Yeah, hit me upside the head. Geez. OK. Well, then after that, we'll get a call frosty milkshake to match things up. [LAUGHTER] All right. I just wanted to move on the next one. Yeah, go right ahead. We can always talk about this appeals court thing here. I want to turn to another more-- The serious topics of this-- More serious topic, yes. So we talked about the Dwight Warley case three times now. Well, no, that wasn't Dwight Warley. That was-- that was someone else. Another guy. That was the other guy. He used to do in Iowa. This is someone completely different. Oh, God. And honestly, before we even get into it, I think the only reason this is sitting on fricking anime news network is because it has to do somewhat with anime. It's-- Oh, yeah. But other than that, I think it shouldn't even be sitting on anime news network. But go ahead and see what you've got to say. Well, it's just interesting. Then appeals-- this guy, Dwight Warley, evidently, had some Hintai-ish anime of children of some sort. And they were going to put him in jail for it. He appealed to a US appeals court. The US appeals court declined to hear his case. Now, there was something as well. They said that in some emails, he was sending descriptions of having sex with kids between people. Yeah. Well, yeah, he was not like things that he actually did, but I guess stories. He actually had child porn, too. OK, that's-- This guy-- it wasn't just he just happened to him. It wasn't just-- Or the anime news network. It wasn't just simply anime pictures. Yeah. Actually, there was other stuff very, very questionable on there as well, which is why he's in jail. OK. Yeah, they-- oh, that's right. They do say including anime images. So that-- yeah, that means there probably is other stuff. OK. Yeah, it's an important distinction. Yes, it is in a very important distinction, I agree. I mean, both disgust me equally. And one of the things that disgust me about Japan is that you can buy mango that show children getting raped by demons. But the one guy who-- the one judge who dissented has basically told his lawyer that he should appeal to the Supreme Court, which-- I don't know if that's going to be a good thing or not, because it will get anime all in the news the wrong way. But-- I honestly think anime is the least of the problems in this case. Oh, I agree totally. I don't think the one the media will harp on if they even look at it at all. Yeah, well, the hope is that it makes it up there. And it's that's a precedent in the good way, not the bad. Mm-hmm. That's just what the other guy's case should have done. Yeah, I think we all can agree. This guy is getting exactly what he deserves. And he crossed the line of just decency. He had actual images affecting actual people, where if you look at the case in Iowa, it was manga only. Then there was nothing else. This guy had nothing else other than these couple manga titles compared to this guy. He's got actual power in. Definitely, definitely a sea change in difference. Both still disgust me. But one is protected by the First Amendment, and one is not. So it'll be interesting to see what happens. Hopefully, if it gets to the Supreme Court, what they'll focus on is the fact that he actually had real child porn. Yeah, and say, OK, you're done. Yeah, I honestly think, though, anime is at least this guy's worries. I mean, yes, he had some hentai or whatever. I hope they just say, you know what? You get actual porn, and if you just stand in prison-- Go away. Exactly. So I just want to move on. I think we're all in agreement, and that's really about it. Yep. So I thought it was the same guy. Oh, no, that would have made it more of a story. Yes, exactly. Final Fantasy 7 came out on Blu-ray in the US, and it just-- Ah. Yes. Do you have it? No. I'm shocked. I went on DVD, and it's not that good of a movie to buy again. And I'm dead, or someone's dead. No, you're not. You got really quiet. Ow. Still there, Zodar? Oh, I can hear you. Oh, OK. Weird. Is Zodar there? Yeah, I'm here. Oh, OK. Weird. I just didn't have a comment on that one. Oh, OK. He said to say that I was not as impressed with it as I hoped I was going to be when I renewed it and watched it. Oh, OK. But yeah, the big thing, though-- It was pretty, but the story was not much. I mean, it was better than the other Final Fantasy. I was going to say, it's better than that crappy movie they came up with. Yeah, that was a good movie. But that doesn't say much. I mean, to me at least, maybe to pass it does. But to me, being better than that movie does not say much. Well, I don't think it was better than that movie. OK. Because I think-- I think, damn, I don't even remember its name. Yeah, I don't either. Well, whatever, the other movie was actually a decent movie if you just didn't think of it as a Final Fantasy. Well, that was the problem, though. I could not do that just because it had that in the name. I'm like, OK, where's the Chocobow? Where's all the things that make Final Fantasy Final Fantasy? And now that may have been my problem. But in my personal-- and I'm not a big fan of Seven, so that's not going to help my viewpoint there. Oh, OK. Because yeah, everyone was like, oh, my god, Seven is the best. Seven for the win. Oh, they're stupid. Sephiroth. Oh, yeah, Sephiroth. I mean, it was cool looking movie. Yeah, so that would make me want to watch it on Blu-ray, but I'm not buying it. I have a friend that bought it or got it with his PS3, so I might borrow it from him and punch it. There you go. It is very beautiful looking. Oh, yeah, no one's going to doubt that. If I had an HDTV, yeah, I'd probably own it just for how beautiful it looks. But the plot, yeah, no, not so much. Yeah, nobody's going to be like, oh, my god, it doesn't look good. No, I don't-- I have an HDTV somewhere. I don't see it anywhere, though, so I wonder where it went. It's like your sock, you know? You put two in, one comes out. Well, it's like it's more of like my brother likes it, so he takes it and doesn't bring it back. You'll find it in slow, buried, like, oh. Now, it's missing, probably for quite a long time, and I just never looked for it. That's the thing, because I don't want to watch it. There you go. Yeah. Yeah, the big thing was it was number two when it came out, so out of all the Blu-rays, find out how fast he's at. What beat it? Uh, trying to find it. I don't know what doesn't say. Yeah, it doesn't say at all. It was just there. Huh, what? I wonder if it wasn't another anime that beat it? Oh, no, no, no. Defiance for Daniel, Brad. Doc, Greg's Defiance, yeah. That never even hurt us. Yeah, I haven't heard of that either. I've heard of it, but I haven't seen it. That's pretty sad. Well, I'm a movie, so it's the only reason I've heard of it. Yeah, well, we must be way out of the loop, wouldn't we? First, I thought I first said dance flake, and I was like, what the hell? Those things sell a lot, sadly. Please stop making them. God, please stop making them. So, yes, the-- Oh, what? They won't stop making them. Sorry. No, of course not. Hey, the Wayans brothers make too much money off of them in sales. Yep. Oh, we talked about-- Actually, most of them aren't the Wayans brothers. Dance flake was, but most of them aren't. Oh, I thought they were all Wayans brothers. Nope. Oh, well, I'm stupid, then. I thought they did all that crap. OK. Ice is the wrong is. OK, we talked about the Gundam and-- Oh, awesome, it is, and I still-- Well, let's talk about another part of Gundam. Go right ahead. And that is that Yoshiyuki Tomino is going to be at New York Anime Fest this September. And you are going to be there live. I am going to be there live. And we were going to have you live on the cell phone. Probably not. Oh, you think I'm going to be looking? I know. It's like, God, just the chance to be in a panel with him would be the coolest thing ever. And I think I'll mail you, Maya. It's anyone who doesn't know that's the director of Gundam. Yes. He is like-- he's one of the most influential men in anime history. So I'm thrilled to get that chance actually, you know, see him live. Indian person, are you going to rush the stage and hug him? You don't hug Tomino. [LAUGHTER] Not done, not done. No. Now, you've been down in worship, but hug-- no, don't hug. What do you do if you do-- Oh, you worship. You do what they did in Wayne's world. We're not worthy. We're not worthy. Yes. Pretty much. [LAUGHTER] I may have to watch some of this Gundam stuff. See why it was so good. I don't know. Hey, I bought-- the only copy of Gundam I have, I picked up fucking Savers at a Savers for like $25. You're like $4 a disk. And I was like, OK, I'll buy it. And then I came home and told Pat, she was like, yeah, that's great. Good for you. Go watch it. I still haven't watched it. But we should watch it. I think I should. It got very high marks on anime news network. It's 009, or the 009-- Double O-6. Double O-80. That's it. Double O-80 is really good if that's what you have. That's, I think, the one I have. That's like the one that most people who don't watch a Gundam alike. Yeah, that's what everyone was saying. It's more-- it's not so much about the robots. It's more about the human condition. I think I'll check it out this weekend then. Well, that sounds like I might actually like it then. There you go. You can come up here, beat my ass, we have a frosty milkshake, and we'll watch Gundam together. And we'll watch Gundam together, all right. Sounds like a good weekend to me. Yeah. You're doing really fine in New York. Until they do the next conference at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. It should be going up soon. Yes, it should. But yeah, if you want some vaguely interesting stuff from Tamino, they put an interview with him up on A&N. It's not a very good interview, but it's got a little bit of-- it's a little interesting. They're all-- the sad part about it is most of the questions were pretty simple. So all of his answers, all of his responses, are really, really generic. So it's not that exciting. It's still worth checking out though, I'd say. Definitely. Oh, you know last week, just-- I just donned upon me to mention this. If we can move on, is there anything else you want to mention about the New York Fan Festival? New York Anime Fest. Now, does that bring-- shut up, cat. Does that bring the distribution, like, wraps, you know, phonomation? Is it a big spiel? OK. Oh, yeah, it's a big one. I think it's number three in the country. Oh, OK. Right behind, it's Anime Expo is the biggest. And then there's Otacon, and then it's New York Anime, I think. What kind of thing? Is this the one they do in January, too, or-- No, well, they do New York Anime Fest in September, and then there's also New York Comic Con. OK, that's where I'm getting confused by. They're done by the same people. OK, yeah, kind of on January, everyone's like, oh, my god, New York Comic Con, everything's going to be cool. Comic Con's moving next year, though, if I remember correctly. It's moving till, like, October, so something-- Oh, man. Something might happen to New York Anime. Hmm, well, you can only hope-- Hey, I haven't said what's going to happen for the next one. We can only hope. There was also an Anime News Network, an interview with the Funimation. But for some Funimation, we have all those security leaks. Oh, really? Yes, and you know-- That would be interesting. Didn't go into a whole ton of detail, but what it sounds like is I was actually right on this. The whole way they do their web design is-- Everything is named a certain way. And I guess what basically happened, these files got uploaded to the public server, and you could easily just change the names because they were all sequential. And hey, you found it. I was right on-- Yeah, it's like it was, like, one piece. 0, 0, 1. Yeah, and then one piece, 2, 0, 2, and then 2, 0, 3. It was like that. So all they had to do was change the number, and then boom, there it was. You're watching it. See, that does not equal security. Not at all. Yeah, because that's one of the things I thought was-- Even I could come up with better internet security than that. Well, now that from what I heard is that their new system is going to be like a crazy line of hex codes and shit like that for the file names. So it's like, and it's going to be random, it sounds like. So it's not going to be something like that. Why not just put it on a public server? Well, no, that's what you go to. But the thing is, is before-- Yeah, it is on a public server. That's what you can hit on. When you go to Funimation.com, you're on a public server. Oh, OK. Because they were just-- But what they were-- People were able to get on the public server and figure out which files to do. Yeah, so it was like, OK. Well, yeah, because all they had to do was change the number at the end. And then the new episode was there. Yeah, if it was uploaded, you could see it. The problem is, it sounds like they're automated-- because they probably have an in-house IT programmers who said, what's the easiest way we can make it? And the funny thing is, this is something anybody could do. And it happens more than a lot of the things that people want to admit. This is like the lowest rung of hacking. It's not even hacking. Don't call it that, because it's not. OK. It's changing a-- Well, no, no, OK. You're not hacking a link. OK, then I would say-- It's guessing a URL. --guessing a URL. And just picking it out. Yeah. And I mean, full metal alchemist and phantom, whatever it was, survived the streaming. But there's no status on one piece yet. I'm totally pissed. And that is pissed. They're doing ultra megaballs. And it got leaked before it aired in Japan. And that's enough to get totally messed, like nothing else. Well, yeah. But in the end, again, though, bottom line, we, the anime fan, get fucked over to some people not being patient. But basically, yeah. Really? You can blame. You can blame. But because of how easy it was, you could put as much blame on fundamental-- I do. I do, personally. What's so hard about waiting an hour or 15 minutes? Well, it was like a Saturday. So I bet no one was at war. They didn't want to fucking wait. Like, yeah, it's Friday. I mean, I don't blame them for putting it up there in advance. The problem was their naming scheme and their shitty security. I mean, yeah, you can upload it early. They just have to have not shitty security. Because these people who are hacking with air quotes aren't the smartest guys around, I'd imagine. So it wouldn't be that hard to improve security enough to not have this happen. I mean, you know what the funny thing was? This was the second time they tried it. Was the first time, yes, that's what happened. Well, then you know how they took everything down. And fundamentally, it was like, we made it better. No, you didn't do anything. Yeah, they didn't do shit. And then people found full mental alchemist and leaked that. Luckily, they must be on much better terms with whoever owns FMA. I mean, it's still stealing. It's still wrong. And they should still not be downloading and leaking it. But if you've listened to my 15, the one that I actually was able to be heard on, you know my opinions on pirating. So I won't go into that again. But yes, they should have better security. But yes, the person shouldn't have leaked it either. I'm surprised. But I'm glad they're getting better security now. Yeah, well, hopefully, yeah. How much better is this question? Well, if they're doing hash codes, and if it is truly, we're doing random generated hash codes, or something crazy like that, extent, I think it'll be good. It'll be good, yeah. Because it won't be guessable. I mean, so they just got to-- Yeah, but still, I'm not expecting one piece to come back. Let's put it that way. Yeah, I think we can all say, well, we fuck it over for ourselves. Well, that's per se, but-- I'm surprised they don't just go to-- I'm not that-- I don't have much of a problem with that, because I'm nowhere near caught up on one piece to be watching it, watching the new episodes as they come out. But it still sucks. Yeah, definitely. There's about 200 episodes in right now. Oh, wow. Jeez. So that just scares me about starting this show. Oh, it's so good, though. Once you start, you won't be able to stop. See, I'm unemployed, though. So I can just be like, oh, one more show. I know I should click the supply button. One more show, three weeks later. I'm going to flip and stop once you start this. I guarantee you. You make the show sound like crack. I mean-- Yes, it is fucking crack. Why do you think it's actually like a real negative show? You're up to 400 episodes. Really freaking good. I don't know. I watched one, and I'm like, oh, this is just silly crap. I don't want to watch this. But again, I watched Bleach, so I suppose I shouldn't say anything. I'm really shouldn't. It's a lot of-- All your arguments are null. All my arguments now lose power. OK. Well, all right. Bleach is the worst at the day. It was ex-knocking, but it's not going to that. Oh, well, yes, it is. It is. I mean-- And that's what I have a problem with on those shows, so-- I mean, it's new enemy. Oh, let's say I'll get new power next week. New enemy, so yes, it is. I mean, yeah, but my problem with it is unlike, say, Dragon Ball, where they're like, let's go train for 100 episodes. I'm just like, oh, I'm just stronger now. Yeah, this is true. That was what got me to the point where I was done with it. It's like, I can live with them getting stronger over time, but just becoming stronger all of a sudden I can't do. I learned this because I learned it. And now we're going to do that. There we go. I keep waiting for them to explain parts of the cosmology that I'm sure they're never going to explain, but that's what interests me about it morning thing else. But as I say, I watch it at 3 o'clock in the morning when I'm totally half asleep, so-- How do you teach during the day? It's certainly not something that I watch. Oh, it's us on the weekend. I watch it as it comes along. So I'm totally far behind. I'm sure it is crazy. It's 3 a.m.? Yep. I thought it was a really popular show for Cartoon Network. Oh, you haven't heard about what Cartoon Network does to anything? Oh, no, no, no. I know that. So they found it like 12 to 3 o'clock or something. Well, yeah, they destroyed the anime line up and everything's king of the hill and family guy. Good shows, but I mean, you know, anyway. The Terminator 4 director-- Now, do you know this guy's name? He's calling Mick J. Mick G. Oh, is that what he goes by? Yes, that's what he goes by Mick J. Oh, OK. I thought it was just like acronym or something. He says, I love Sailor Moon and I love Akihaba. He says, thank-- Which makes me even less likely to go see the new Terminator movie, since he likes Sailor Moon. Considering the new Terminator movie was supposed to suck ass, I mean-- Well, he doesn't have much bearing here, man. I'm just-- if I see a Terminator in a Sailor suit, OK, I think I'm going to shoot the screen. Why are the shooting beams of light? Yes, I don't know. Sailor Moon is right up there with Dragon Ball Z for me for crazy stupid anime. But a lot of people like it. I don't understand it, but a lot of people like it. Yeah, he says, I've been influenced in non-main stream ways, and for the Japanese culture for a really long time. And it's helped shape who I am now today. Yeah, good for him. Well, he said that in Japan. I know he said that in Japan. In the context in Japan, it actually fits better than if he was saying that to some American press. Oh, definitely. Of course-- I'm just wondering if it's real. I mean, is that actually true, or did he just say it too? You could probably just set it, but-- Yeah, that's my thought, too. But then I'm very, very jaded, so-- I got his call. I got a cell phone number, should I give him a call? Wait, what? There you go. You have the cell phone number as the director of the New Terminator movie. Oh, yes. I have my means. OK, if we really don't care about that, we'll just move on then. I think we should talk about your-- Really? Yeah. Sometimes I want you to call him, just to prove that you actually do have his cell phone number. But OK, we can go watch. Here, it's about your aim, and the abe stuff. Ah! Ah-babe. Ah-babe. Ah-babe. Ah-babe. Ah-babe. Ah-babe. OK. OK. This is A-babe, for me, is like the other guy for you, Pat. It's like going to finish this. I went to Minneapolis to get to see A-babe in person. And I pretty much did get down on my knees in worship. It was beautiful. But he evidently has a new project coming out. And he has been joined by the series scriptwriter for serial experiments Lane and Technolize. That's, hey, I don't-- it doesn't say the new project is called Despera. The Lane was the last time all three of these people worked together. And he actually announced this at Washington State Securocon. So we actually announced it in America, which is interesting. And I thought it was kind of strange. But it doesn't say who is doing what. And for Lane, A-babe really only did the character designs. And Hana Barenne, which is the one that he wrote, is very, very different than Lane or Technolize. I mean, it's like night and day. And Haba Narenne is the one that is probably my favorite anime of all time. So it doesn't say who is doing what yet. So it may either be like Hana Barenne or it may be like Lane. The story is evidently supposed to center around a 14-year-old girl who builds devices despite the lack of scientific background required for them. So it sounds like more like Lane than Haba Narenne. It's set in 1922, one year before the great Kanto earthquake in Tokyo. She has an erector set. Did erector sets exist back then? I do not know. Maybe she just hasn't erector set Lane around. Probably the '50s or '60s I think they came out. Oh, OK. But I'm certainly going to be following this with great interest, just because I love all of those. Technolize is seriously, seriously depressing. I would not watch it if you were easily depressed. This is one of the most depressing anime I've ever seen. But some people have been pushing me to watch it. I haven't gotten around until yet. If you would all liked Lane, I would watch it. If you did not like Lane, I don't think I'd give it much time. But don't watch it if you're very easily depressed, because it is really depressed. On my list, I'll get to it someday in the future. However, watch Haba Narenne. That's on my list, too. That is the best anime of all time. It is absolutely amazing. If you want to go back in the future, if you go back and look at episode 15, that mystery episode, you can hear my review of "Hannibor Narenne." And I did, actually. I went to the Minneapolis to a conference that I'll talk about at some other point on here, to an intellectual conference about anime, actually, rather than the normal anime con, simply because Haba was going to be there. It's been a weekend while I was actually teaching. It's been probably like $2,000 going to Minneapolis to a conference just because he was there. Well, I'm in a really expensive date to bring $5,000. Oh, OK, all right. Thanks for the next time when I come up. Very good. Very good. Fair warning now. OK, and I said if there was something you wanted to tell me about you and Pat, feel free. I'm very far away and safe. So you think, whoa. You don't have a job, so I'm not expecting you to show up here anytime soon. There you go. You're an avoid bastard. The graphic that accompanies this article looks pretty dark and pretty, I don't know if it's a dreary or kind of like a post, not up there, say, a post-departic, but like-- Yeah, not a happy happy mood. The girl in the picture looks a lot like the girl from Lane, so I don't think that's a picture actually from the show itself, the new show. I think that's a random agglimation of stuff Abbe and the various other people have done. Because for anybody who's seen Lane, the girl looks exactly like the girl from Lane. But yes, it does. It looks post-apocalyptic and dark and dreary. Well, it's 1922. They didn't have very many light bulbs. No, they did. We talked about the Evigailion spiel and the awesome phonage. Ponyo Miyazaki-- I owe Miyazaki's new film will be coming to America and 800 US screens. So yeah, you ate for that. Watch fish, swim, and get lost and I'll watch it. Oh, I'm going to check it out, for sure. Anything Miyazaki Miyazaki comes out with is amazing. And they're calling it-- [INAUDIBLE] Oh, definitely. And they're saying this is like the biggest Miyazaki film for in the US that's ever had in terms of launching point. Of course, I think that has a lot to do with the dubcast, too. I wouldn't say that. I would say it has to do with the subject matter. Oh, the advocate movie. And it's very easy, marketable, more so than most of them. So-- But his stuff is always fairly marketable. I mean, it's almost-- Yeah, but it's still full. I don't like it in a spark. And it's harder to resonate with like adults to think, hey, I recognize this kind of thing. Like say, spirited away while, yes, it was good. And it made a lot of money and all that kind of stuff. Blah, blah, blah. It still was very Japanese. And it's subject matter. This is much more broad and easier to market, I think, in the US. I don't know. I would think-- I would think since it's anime, I mean, since it's animation, the fact that spirited away, you could market more as a children's thing. And so that would make it easier to market. I think that's what they're going to do. Yes, it's animation. But at the same time, the kids aren't going to the movie unless they're adult, unless their parents take them. And the parents are going to go take them to something that's familiar. They're not going to risk it on some weird, even if it's animation. Because the general term is them Japanese porn cartoons. They're not going to risk it on something like that. Granted, it's still rated whenever it was PJ, but still. I think they'll say from the guy who made spirited away, or they'll play on this path. Yeah, they will. And I mean, but what you were saying before about the dubcast, I mean, just go back and look at all of them. They all have incredible dubcasts. They all have pretty big names. Howells had like Christian Bale wasn't Howells. Really? Before he was young. He was the voice of Howells. Mm-hmm. OK. I mean, she owned that one. I need to watch it again. Hoffman said that he don't usually watch things dubs. So I didn't recognize that fact. Hoffman says the record set came out in 1911. So yes, maybe she was playing the concert. Yeah, no. I was thinking the '40s, possibly. But damn, yeah, 1911. That's pretty old, wow. Cool. Yeah. It's good to know. It's going to be building stuff with the rector sets. All right then. They just failed to mention that part. Yes. She's the lame girl. But she's building things with the rector sets. And then she goes and takes over the internet. OK. She's making the fair amusement park with the real roller coaster. Yes. So yeah, I think it'll be a success, honestly. I mean, animated things seem to do better. So, you know, I don't know. We shall see. On the flip side, the first blood movie is opening in 11 theaters. And it looks horrible as hell. I watched the trailer the other day and was like, oh, god. Oh, one movie? Blood The Laughing. There's a live action. Oh, the last vampire. Yeah. It looks very, very-- I've heard a lot of good things about it, so. It was made by the same people who did the Crotch and Tiger Hidden Dragon. And you can tell that. I mean, there's got a lot of wire work in the trailer. But-- Huh. Well, if it's made by the Crotch and Tiger Hidden Dragon people, that makes me a little more possible. It might actually be decent. But has there ever been a good live action version of an anime? Did you like Metal City? In Japan. Yeah, in Japan, there have been some cool. Mostly of manga, not anime, because 9% of the time anime is an adaptation. But there have been plenty of good live ama adaptations in Japan of mongas. Great teacher Onizuka, and Detroit Metal City. Higurashi, no blog. Not a problem with any of those. The Higurashi movie. The 20th century boys movies are supposed to be incredible. But there are some of the highest budgeted movies in Japanese history or something like that. The only ones that I've seen or heard about are the ones that have been in America, and they have all bit. Yeah, they've all-- Oh, yeah, there was nothing. Companies don't give them a chance. But I mean, I saw the Death Note movie, and that was done in Japan and came to here. And that was absolutely made me want to shoot the screen. And I like Death Note. But I was like, OK, this is absolutely terrible. What is up with this crap? I heard most of the possible things about it, and it's a process, mate. Maybe the second movie was better. I mean, I love Death Note. They changed the plot. They changed the ending. It's awful. The anime I loved. And me and my wife sat down and watched Death Note. And Death Note is the first show that I've actually had her sit through and watch. She was anxious to see it. So when we got the Death Note movies, it was just like, what the fuck are we watching? OK, yes, there's light. There's Ryuk. There's a notebook. But it was nothing compared to the anime. Yeah, it's awful. Absolutely awful. I will grieve you on that. Last news story. Central Park media licenses are being offered by the liquidator. And what I found amazing was the number of licenses they actually hold. They're an old company. Oh, yeah. They have a lot of old stuff, a lot of old OVA's. And nobody would buy if they were here at least. Yeah. So you scroll through this. They have a lot of good stuff, though, too. They do. And I was like, this is them. What the heck? This is disturbing to me that so much of this stuff is good. I mean, they were the people that evidently owned La Blue Girl, which was like, what? That's decent. Why do they have that? A lot of good stuff. They were very big at one point. But they couldn't evolve. It's essentially what happened to them. I know I'm going to be buying the DNA squared $5 of volume right now on rightstuff.com. I'll be picking that up here very shortly. I'll get to it. I know. Why don't we-- I can tell you, just scrolling. Someone will get slayers, get Tokyo Babylon, probably. Hopefully, actually, probably not. I was going to say Udo Seyatsu, a beautiful dreamer. But that probably won't get picked up, actually. So I'm going to probably get a Windame Amnesia, because there's not a lot of here that would actually sell. So I'm going to probably get Utina. Has somebody picked up Night Shift nurses yet? It has to be the most disgusting hint I ever made. Possibly. I can't-- Maybe milky will. Maybe milky. Maybe milky, yeah. Maybe like someone will get Pat Labore. Oh, Pat Labore, yeah. With Pat Labore? Somebody has picked up now and then here. Oh, yeah. ADV announced that they would be really fat. ADV is going to get a lot of this. That's some reason they friggin' life. They friggin' got MD geist. They couldn't really die. These are the people that have revolutionary girl, Utina, in record of a load-offs war, which are-- I mean, yes, the record of load-offs war is like watching a D&D campaign. I mean, but it's still good. But yeah, I can guarantee someone will get Utina. I have no clue who, but someone probably will. Surely somebody will. That's a guaranteed seller. Yeah. But now it's going in here and there. No one's going to touch, though. Yeah. It's a lot of just older stuff that-- What is no one going to touch? A lot of it. Yeah. I hope someone's not going to be some money. Someone will probably get Blackjack. Well, that's a live action, isn't it? Or is that the first? Oh, OK. Hopefully, I would really like if someone picked up Votoms, but I'm not counting on that. Oh, that's an older one, too. Yeah, that's-- Yes, it's old. That's like introduction to like big robot anime right there. It's pretty old. Come on, anime. Anime 18, go get a Genki clinic. The best Hentai ever made. Well, no, they have to get a legend of the overfiend before they get that. I mean, that was like the beginning of Hentai. So-- But yeah, get some cream, 11. Yeah, I mean, out of all this, there's a reason why this company went out of business. There's so much old stuff here that people now today-- But recently, they went out of businesses, because they've kind of been in hibernation for a few years. Well, that, too. They haven't done any business in years. That is very true. That's very true. So yeah, hopefully, we can hope-- hopefully, you know, anime acts is coming out. Oticon is coming here in what, a month? Three weeks? Yeah, but there's never any announcements at Oticon. A-X will have some good ones. A-X is-- I am so anxious for A-X. And actually-- Yeah, A-X is two weeks away. A-X last year was our biggest drawing episode. Man, that was such an awesome A-X last year. I really hope it gets top this year. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure there will be some stuff, how much is it, how it's not going to be like last year but there will be some goodies. Probably a lot of this stuff will be announced by like ADV. Hopefully, ADV gets more licenses. I'm not kidding. But I'm not expecting any news. I mean, there was nothing from Oticon last year, so there's probably not going to be any this year. It's traditionally-- even though it's so big, traditionally, there's never any big announcements at it for some reason. Yeah, it can mean they draw enough people. And last year, it drawed 26,000 people. That's not exactly a, you know, a small figure. It's a lot of people. Everything's not. The companies were there, but they just never make any announcements there. Well, last year, though, A-X came, and then they were just like, "Hey, we're going to pimp all the A-X stuff we announced." And that's what they did. I remember last year were mentioning how they were throwing out T-shirts and, you know, all the crazies because we did-- Lucky Star, that was the best thing ever. How many of those-- how many of those from some T-shirts do you have? I only got one of the shirts, but I'm not-- I'm talking about that night was the best thing ever. I won't comment on Lucky Star. But someday, we'll have to talk about what they did for their shirt for the special version of Lucky Star. Oh, he owned them all. They only have three. Well, they never came out with a-- Oh, OK. Well, they came out with five. OK. They canceled the six. That's right. OK. Yeah. I still don't know what I'm going to do. I have-- I've only gotten a couple of special editions, and I'm probably not going to buy the rest of them. But, um-- So I've got-- You have the shirt with the school uniform on it? I have two of that shirt. Yeah, two of them. Because I got one that came with the DVD. And then they even wanted Oticon during the Jam Project event. Have had they made it anywhere? Well, the thing is, at the Jam Project event, they did this panel at Oticon. And they made everybody in the room, including the band. Everybody in the room put on this shirt. Or else. And then they made everybody dance to the Lucky Star theme. Oh, God. They held guns, everybody, so you're in the room. Well, it was the Lucky Star theme performed by Jam Project. So it was incredible. I still say you should have bootleged the frick it. I should just mail you our game. Or pictures of this on YouTube somewhere. They're going to have to-- They banned cameras. Oh. I managed to get some pictures for myself, but I don't know how to image her if I still have them. Then he was beat up. I had to get that up somewhere. I'm sure I have them somewhere, but I'd have to hunt for them. But even then, it's not much, it's just the band. Still, the band in those shirts would be absolutely hilarious. They literally banned cameras. If anyone got a camera out, they got pissed at them. I almost got kicked out because I had to get a picture. I didn't get to take pictures at the concert because I forgot to bring my camera to it. And I wanted to get at least one picture of the group. So I had to whip it out right at the end there. But seriously, yeah, they made everyone put the stuff away. And then they made everyone put on the shirts. And then they gave away shit. That is so funny. You both were absolutely hilarious. So now I have two of that shirt. And I have one of the one that's the swimsuit. God. But you never, ever, ever wear these in public. No. Well, I was trying to get my-- I'm going to a convention tomorrow. And I was trying to get my friends to wear the shirts with me. But they wouldn't. What kind of guy are you going to do? What kind are you going to tomorrow? I'm going to anime mid-Atlantic in-- Oh, AMA, yeah. Hampton, Virginia, or Hampton Roads, or whatever. That's about an hour drive from here. I'm going for the day. Sounds like fun. Stuff. It'll be all right. No, is that how many-- I'm not going to have figures, but is it a pretty well-attended, or is it one of the smaller? It's smaller. It's probably the smallest in this state. And there's like six in the state, so five, something like that. There's a few around here. But I'm pretty sure it's usually the smallest. It's the youngest, for that manner. So well, that's one other news piece we should probably cover, I guess, in case anybody listening actually watches anime on Cartoon Network, like me at midnight on Saturdays. They are actually going to start having new Morobito episodes on August 22. Now that Code Geos has finished its run, they have started showing Morobito again. So I would-- with the first episode, which I really like Morobito. I don't know if you all do. But the ones that I've seen, I've got-- I've got DVDs. I haven't gotten a chance to yet. But I've heard many a good thing. Yeah. Seems to be pretty good so far from the episodes I've seen. So new ones have coming that on August 22. And they are still going to show two new weekly bleach episodes through September. All right. I know how much Pass loves bleach as we've established. Very-- I watched it about 200 episodes, and then I was done. I didn't even get that far. I got like 40 episodes. I was like, OK, what the hell is going on? This is completely different than the first, like, 10. I watched it, and then they got to more filler, and then I was done. You know what? See, that's the thing. You can notice the filler. You notice the filler in something like bleach or Naruto. You don't notice it in, say, one piece, because one piece is such a free-roaming show that it doesn't bog you down as much. See, I'll get pissed off when it's like in this episode, for this last 40 episodes that you've been watching, we're going to dedicate a whole show of what's been going on, and add one little sliver of something new. That pisses me off. It's like, we're watching a show. You don't need a recap. Yeah, make a freaking special. Put it on as DVD extra. Well, they do that a lot in all of them, though. Not just shown in shows, but, yes. Yeah, I remember I said it was Gundam C Destiny, 50 episode show, airing continuously for a year. I think it had three recap episodes in the entire run, which was insane, because it doesn't have breaks, so they just had recaps. The animators got lazy, and they're just like, fuck it. No, what it was, is they were trying to save budget. Stay on budget for the-- Every day I was like-- New episodes, even though the animation was horrid. So they made plenty of recaps. So here's what happened two episodes ago, just in case you forgot. Yeah. You know, it depended a little to that. Actually, I would say only three in a 50 episode show is probably a little based on what I've seen. I mean-- Not really. Not really. My experiences may be one in 50 episodes, halfway through, because they'll go for 26, and then they'll take a break. They'll go, yeah, they'll have a huge arc, and they'll go, OK. Review time. Along those lines, but I mean, it's like 50 episodes for a continuous story. It's not like it's broken up in a little bits, and junk like that. It's like they're just going straight. They can just go straight, and they don't have to tell me what they're doing every 10 episodes. At least we don't have to put up with the older anime, how they have the voiceover of like last time on the show you're watching now. We're going to tell you what happened five for the next five minutes. Yep. You know, have the Re-Voice, the recap voiceover, dude. Yes, that was during the mall, so hey. Every freaking episode. Goku spilled his lunch, and now there's a draw, and there's not a battle over the last hoagie. No, he's going to spend 30 minutes staring at the enemy again. Yeah. So do you guys all have anime and DVD open? Sure. OK. I can in a second. Yes, it's just so hard. You'll have to ask. I know, I'm sorry. I just-- I just-- the thing is, you just told me to-- I just closed Firefox, as you said the hand. It's another week, and more DVDs are being released. What should you get? It's time for the Wheelie DVD Mix. Yes, what should we get? Every week we bring you what we would buy if we had money, or if I was employed. Obama. Do you think are we doing? We'll do this this week's. There was-- I still think came out this past Tuesday. Yeah. OK, cool. I've got a pic, then. Yeah, there's actually quite a bit. Now there was a kind of a lull, where it was like-- I've got three. Oh, there you go. I have a couple of myself. So, yes, for anyone listening who has new new, we pick a DVD every week, what we would recommend to purchase, or what we'd personally buy. So, yeah. There was a lot this week. We'll go, Pat, let's go ahead and go ahead and make it-- All right. All right, my big pick for this week would have to be sort of a stranger that came out. It's on-- it's a movie. It's on DVD and Blu-ray. I actually got it myself for real. So, I'm Blu-rayed. And it looks incredible. I mean, it's-- the thing about it is it's probably not-- it's not the most complex plot ever animated, but it is incredible animation. It's from Studio Bones, the guys who made Eureka 7 and Full Metal Alchemist and Soul Year. They have a very nice list of what it's called. It looks incredible. It's incredibly violent. And it's basically the story of this guy and this little kid. I couldn't tell if it was a boy or a girl or a woman. What show is it? What show? I'm talking about sort of a stranger. OK, there you go. It's a movie. And basically, this little kid hires this guy, to be his guy as he's trying to get some-- get across the country because people are hunting for him. I'm not going to go into the full story, but that's this basic setup of the plot. And it's got incredible action. It's very, very violent and really, really cool looking. So I would definitely encourage people to pick it up, especially if you had-- and if you have the opportunity to check it up and check it out in HD on Blu-ray, because it's so amazing looking, and that's going to-- that really sums up my feelings on that one. It was really cool looking. Vodar is a more depth review in the future. There you go. On my site. Your site? On the site, OK. Oh, OK. Yes. Vodar. All right, well, if you're looking for violence, you can't go wrong with the Elf and Lie complete collection, which has to be the most violent anime in existence. Well, the first five minutes saying it is more violent than Fist of the North Star. I guess this is a re-release, because I actually own the Elf and Lie complete collection. Yeah, this is probably the fourth or fifth re-release. Yeah, this is the ultra thin pack. If you don't have this already, it is definitely worth picking up. The plot gets a little ridiculous, and especially toward the end, they try to give it something that makes it serious, and it doesn't work well. I want to say something. If you're a stickler for packaging, pick up the old complete collection instead of this one, because this one's probably a stack pack release. Right. Oh, yeah. Which is those hideous ones where they stack all the DVDs on top of each other, which is what ADV does now. Yep, that's in my school. My school rumble is packed, and the discs-- usually one or two of the discs aren't always falling off in the packaging. That's how my full metal panic is, and I really hate it. But that's just my thing on there. I haven't seen the show, so I can't say anything. I demand you watch the show. I'll watch one piece if you start watching full metal panic. Oh, I was talking about Elf and Lie, but I play-- Oh, you haven't watched Elf and Lie. If you like violin anime, you should watch Elf and Lie. It is, by far, the most bloody anime I have ever seen. I mean, it's incredible. Just in-- you think you have seen the most bloody and worst thing they can do, and then they top it. It's amazing. There are so-- of the things that are coming out today, since I unfortunately did not like the ending of Eureka 7, that is going to be-- that's my pick-- would be Elf and Lie. Well, it's the Elf and Lie, the first five minutes. About 75 people die. A pencil gets thrown through the skull of somebody, and she's naked. And it gets worse from there. Yeah, oh, yeah. Puppy's being mutilated. Yes. Yeah. One word. Suitcase girl. Yeah. There you go. That's all you need. And oh, yes, the decapitation of children. Oh, yes. Anyway, under that high-- under that awesome, you know, awesome note. I would also say Elf and Lie, but I want to know-- I'll pick my first-- pick first. I'd probably say bachano volume 4, personally, for me, because bachano is such a great series. You know, it continues on. Good show. If you like the mafia and trains and the awesome two-care-- I don't know what you call them. I don't know if this would be bad or good, but the two-button characters who steal everything, but they steal the most retarded stuff, like they steal clocks to say they're stealing time. Or they go into a hat shop, demand to see all these different hats, shake their fists, and say, if you tell anyone we were here, try to steal the hats, but ends up paying for them. Just really goofy stuff. But I want to know what-- It's a good show, though. It's kind of-- Does it make sense? Because it's supposed to jump around in time from, like, 1920 to 1400 or something weird. No, not that far. But no, it's being told by somebody, so it jumps around a little bit, yeah. What is this Death Note Relight, Volume 1? It's a retelling of Death Note from Ryuks' perspective. I really wish anime and DVD would tell me that. It's supposed to not be very good, though, because there's not actually that much new content to it. So I haven't even heard much real positive on it, though. So this is for the really hardcore Death Note fan. You just want that little bit more for the people who want to give this more money. Or that. I don't know. I'm playing my web turn. I need a bleached poster right now. But I have a couple honorable mentions I want to bring up, just because I care about them. They're both very good. That's Kinichi the Mightiest Disciple, part two, which I really hope more-- I bought it. And I hope more people do, so they'll license the second half of the series. I explained this on the podcast one time before. It's the most generic sounding show, but it's actually really good, because it has such great characters, because the main plot of the show is a kid who's weak who wants to get stronger. And he goes and joins this psychotic dojo with these classy masters. It's really funny. It's actually got fairly decent action for that matter. And I would encourage anyone who enjoys that kind of stuff to pick it up. For some reason, I'm getting Street Fighter vibes from reading about it here a little bit. I could see that, but it gets more and more like that further and further on. It gets more and more action-y, because as he gets stronger and stronger, the opponents get crazier and crazier, and then it spirals out of control. And the other one I wanted to mention is, same moon. There's a new box set coming out. That's the one that's from Media Blasters under their Yuri line. It's kind of blends the edge of Yuri. But essentially, there's this planet they all live on, where everyone is born female. And at a certain age, they decide they're gender. And basic concept is there's this rumor going on. It's actually a really good show. I mean, does it talk about male-female relations? It actually does handle that kind of stuff. It actually is very serious about a lot of it. And at the same time, there's a big war going on at the same time, and a big part of it is the ships that are piloted. It's all girls before they come of age, where they have to select their gender. It's all girls before they hit that age, that can pilot them. And they're in pairs. Oh, wasn't this a show? They only hit one episode. No, I'm sorry. No. Like 13 episodes. And it's fairly cheap. You'll probably be able to pick it up for 30 bucks most places. And it's actually really good. I'm not doing a good job of explaining it, but I would encourage most anybody to pick it up. Sounds a lot like a sci-fi novel. Yeah, it's very sci-fi. It's an even, and I'm trying to remember the name of that sci-fi novel, and I can't right now. It's actually-- it was one of the best shows of the year it came out. I can't remember when, even. It's really good. And it had a fairly decent release. I'll give it a try. I would say check it out. I'm trying to think. The lady who did-- Oh, Phu. I can't remember the name of that book now, either. But do you familiar with the "Laith of Heaven?" It's a sci-fi novel. No, I'm not much about it. OK. For the color on the whole-- we'll get to you in one sec. Oh, we have a color. Yes, we have a color. Oh, my goodness. It's Ursula LaGuin is the name of the author. Yeah, she wrote a novel that sounds a lot like this movie. And I wanted to see if you had read the book, because I wanted to describe that book to you. But it doesn't seem like I'm going to be able to find the title quickly enough. I can't even write the book. OK. OK. Well, that sounds interesting, especially if it goes into the-- well, in this book, they go to a planet where everybody is basically neuter, except for one time and a year, one time of the year. And then they can choose whether they're male or female. And for that one time of the year, and then they go back to being neuter again. And it sounds like it does some of that same stuff of dealing with male/female relations, and what it really means to be male, or does it really mean to be female? Yeah, it does. But again, most of the characters are before they hit that age as well. So they're more of dealing with, what do I want to be? That kind of thing. OK. That sounds interesting. I'm going to have to check that out. I also got a lot of girls kissing, so I'm doing that too. Yay. Hey, well, you know. Because they have to kiss and kiss and shine and warp, and that's how they turn the machines on. For some reason, I never realized. And it's also got one. Also, another thing I want to mention. It has one of the worst first episodes ever. You have to get past the first episode, because they throw around a lot of terminology that you won't really understand at first. They just kind of throw you in, and don't explain a lot of it at first. You got to give it a chance. You got to trudge through that first episode. Well, we've got a caller here on the air. 619. So the book I was trying to remember is called The Left Hand of Darkness, by the way. Yes. By Ursula Gwen. Which, if you have not read, and you care about male-female relations, very well, a very good book. All right. Well, hey, we've got a caller here, E.V. All right. So go ahead. You're on the air. I just wanted to call in and say, the stranger said the sword is an excellent DVD. I picked my copy up this morning, and I watched it all the afternoon. It's freaking incredible, isn't it? Oh, it's one of the best investments I've done at DVD for anime in a while. So now, you're an anime fan, or is this something like you've known about? And like, oh my god, I can't wait to get it. Yeah, well, it was something that a buddy of mine had turned me on to a while back, and we've been waiting for it. Hmm. Well, that's awesome. Yeah, it's incredible looking, right? It's just-- the action's amazing. Yeah, well, I think you can watch it on a crunchy roll, as well. I'm not sure, though. It's like the video settings and everything up on it. But mine's Blu-ray, and it's beautiful. Yeah, I know. That's awesome. Yeah, I've never heard of the show, so I'll say, like, I really can't say much, and I have to be honest. But that's-- no, that's pretty awesome. You guys talk about it. It sounds like it would be one of those shows you want to show to your friends to, like, if they're, like, Blu-ray, oh, I'll be sticking with DVDs. Is this one of those shows you throw in? And they're like, no, check this out. This is definitely something you want to show them. Yeah, I mean, I watched it with my brother, who's not an anime fan, and he was, like, going all to him, because it was so cool, and just the action was so insane. Gotcha. Yeah, it's something that I believe that it's, like, somebody turns around and tells you, oh, it's anime. Get them to watch this, and they'll change your mind. Yeah. Gotcha. Interesting. Yeah. I usually use Ghost in the Shell for that, but I may have to check this out then. Yeah. Oh, this is a Ghost in the Shell when it comes to that. Oh, wow. I'm trying to. All right. All this, all this spirited, you know, for this show. It's like, hmm, may I show out and take a peek? Yeah. At least Netflix it. So are you also listening to us on a stick him? Yeah. Oh, I'll come in, by the way. Oh, OK. Yes, the guy who know who, the guy who knew about the director set. [LAUGHTER] We had trivia, honestly. Very good. Very good. She was like, hey, are you going to show the story? Yes. Well, next time we need to know if something was built, we'll come to you. Hey, yeah. It's very good. As I was texting it to him, I was like, oh, they're going to think I'm such a dork. Hey, we-- We're all anime fans here. So that's pretty much it. We're dedicating two hours to anime, and we do this weekly. I think I think I got you. I think you're safe on that one. Yes. [LAUGHTER] Well, thank you very much for calling in. I appreciate everything else you want to say? Oh, yeah, definitely. I'll let you guys get back to your show and keep listening. Oh, thank you very much. Wow. So, yes. Yes. Maybe the $40 investment I've been putting into the damn service is paying off. Yeah. Well, this came from Stickcam, so, you know. [LAUGHTER] Maybe I should stop paying for this service, because Stickcam is better than this. I'm not paying anything for Stickcam. But yeah, no, that's-- you can-- there you go, a whole reason to thank you for calling in, though, Hop, and that's awesome. Well, there we got two people saying, get the show, because it's awesome. So I'll definitely probably check it out, because, man, I've been finding a reason to check out a Blu-ray. I've just been like, fuck, I'll stick to DVD. And whatever it's that amazing, hell, check it out. Yeah, I don't have the TV for it, so don't have a Blu-ray player, though I've been considering getting a PS3. And I don't have a high-definition TV, so-- Yeah, and we'll talk about the whole PS3 thing. I could probably get you in cheap. My body's filling his, so-- Really? Yeah. OK, let's talk about that, though. Yeah, he's not liking the PS3. Well, you have a review of "L" has art. We've got-- Yes. We got about 32 minutes left in the show, so-- I'll make it quick. Oh, no, you don't have to be super quick. I'll skip my whole, erotic, or my whole. I'm the horror matter. Thank you. I don't do the easy two-episode hentai, so go ahead. All right. So go ahead, and you've got "L" have art. You're on the floor. All right, so "L" has art. If you like anime humor, if you like good anime, this is a show you should watch. Now, I'm going to be talking about the first two OVA's. "L" has art, like a lot of anime we've been talking about tonight, has various iterations. I think there's two OVA's, there's two TV series, and I don't know what else. But I'm only talking about the two OVA's. The one I have is the Magnificent World Box Set, which is a very nice packaging. I usually don't care about packaging all that much, but it's very well done in the way it's packaged. It's a trifold kind of thing, and it's very, very well done. I should say as well, I don't have surround sound. I don't have an HD TV, so I'm really going to be focusing more on content than on the placement of the sound and whether it's the stereo mix and all that kind of stuff. We don't care about that crap anyway. We don't have a way to tell you if it's any good or not. But the show is absolutely hilarious. It focuses on a high school student who gets taken away by this strange woman who acts like she knows him to this crazy world called El Hazard, where in the first five minutes there, he saves the one of the queens of the realm. And I think one of it, a teacher, gets taken with him, this alcoholic Japanese teacher. Why all Japanese teachers seem to either be alcoholic or-- I don't know, but we could probably do a whole show on that. But this alcoholic teacher, who, when he is sober, has superhuman strength. I mean, I find this out because they get attacked by basically big, huge bugs. Like, imagine something from the 1950s movie Ants. And you'll have pretty much have the idea. He goes ahead and beats them all up and shoots them halfway across the screen. I mean, it's hilarious. And they find her later that he can only do this when he's sober. It turns out that the young high school student who gets taken to this world looks exactly like the queen's sister. So through machinations, they convince him to make it look like he is portraying the queen's sister. So he gets his cross dress and act like a female throughout most of the show. And hilarity ensues. He especially when, well, we get introduced to the Queen's sister's lesbian lover, which makes things absolutely unbelievably hilarious. She basically tries to get in bed with who she thinks is the queen's sister. And well, soon discovers that it is not who she thinks she is. But it's absolutely, absolutely hilarious the way they do this. They as well, I guess I would say the bully of the school with him gets taken to this world as well. And he ends up getting taken to what they call the bug room empire, who are these crazy bugs that are attacking them in the first episode, who you find out are at war with the rest of El-Hazard. And he has decided that the other high school student that gets taken with him is his lifelong rival, and he must destroy him. So he spends all this time attacking El-Hazard with the bug room empire and basically rises to prominence in the bug room empire. And he is in the dub of the show is absolutely hilarious. The guy who does the dub for this character has the best manical laugh I have ever heard. Yeah, I tried to copy it last week for anybody who was listening. I did an absolutely terrible job. But it is unbelievably hilarious because he is so far gone. He is absolutely insane. But it's a hilarious insane. I think you meet three wise women who supposedly are the priestesses of this realm, who are absolutely hilarious as well. And of course, they all fall in love with the high school guy from the other realm, one of them falls in love with the alcoholic teacher. So it does get a little like a harem anime for a while. And toward the end, they do try to make it somewhat serious. And unfortunately, that does not work as well. It's at its best when it's just unbelievably crazy and hilarious. Now, for me, anime humor either works or it doesn't work. If it's way, way too far out there, it just absolutely does not work. Things like Bobo, Bobo, Bobo, Bobo, for me, just totally-- I don't understand why this is a popular, or fully cooling. I have no idea why that's popular. El-Hazard hits that median for me, where it's hilarious because it's crazy, but it's not too crazy. If you have not seen it, watch the first couple episodes. You will not be disappointed. The story ends basically in OVA-1. OVA-2 kind of continues the story. The animation quality gets significantly worse with OVA-2. And the story is kind of almost a rehash. But here, the queen sister, who they end up saving and threw the first story-- big surprise, I know-- but who they end up saving, rather than having the high school student portray her, she tries to portray the high school student because she's trying to steal his harem, basically. And it is still funny, but it feels almost like a retread because you still have his rival trying to get the bug room empire to attack and win. So the animation is quality is not as good, and it feels like a retread. But it is still hilarious. And if you can pick up the magnificent world box that it is still worth watching. The TV series, I don't know too much about. I haven't watched them. What I have heard about them is that they are not good. Oh, really? But that, again, that is third hand. But the first two OVA's are hilarious or worth watching. If you haven't seen them, you should do so. Oh, you're only going to take seven minutes, OK? It's like you can do everything. So was this one of the shows? Is this a show that either you know you're going to like right away, like Andy said, watch the first four episodes? Is this a show you're going to-- If you watch the four episodes and you are not laughing, then no, you shouldn't watch the rest of it. If you watch it and you find, OK, this is hilarious, then you should keep watching. I would say that you're either going to know pretty quickly whether it's going to strike your funny bone or not. OK. Now, have you seen Desert Punk or anything similar to Vane? No, I have not seen Desert Punk. I've heard that Desert Punk is not really what I would call humorous. I don't know, but I have not seen it. All I've done is sung the praises of that show. Yes, it's all he does. I bought it because he said it-- well, not exactly. Have you watched it yet? I watched the first two episodes. I should watch more of it, I know. I think it's hilarious. I die laughing every time I watch it. And I'm watching it up, too, by the way. Doesn't it toward the end, he do things that are rather evil? I mean-- He's neither good nor bad. He stops being a good guy at the very end, but overall, it's really friggin' funny. I mean, I'm dying laughing. Yeah, like-- It's very dirty, too. Yeah, and the first-- It's very, very dirty. Oh, yeah, like the first episode. The whole reason he's helping save his girls is because she's got big boobs and she's good-looking. He's obsessed with the boobs and all that kind of shit. The dub is hilarious. I haven't actually watched it subbed. I'm going to be honest. The dub work was really good. The dub is incredible. I'm just dying laughing every time I watch it. OK, let me have to check that out, then. Yeah, so I'm trying to figure out, like, what-- could you think of any show that were similar in "Vane" to "L-Hezard?" Not that I have seen, but as I say, I don't watch a whole lot of what I would call humorous anime. Usually humorous anime does not work for me. But this, to me, was absolutely hilarious. It is somewhat like a harem anime, but not really. I mean, the music is almost-- it's like a combination of Middle Eastern music with-- oh, shoot. What's the crazy-- one of those first sci-fi shows in the '60s or the '70s, I think, was a TV show, "Not Star Trek, Not Star Wars." Oh, shoot. Like Dr. Who or-- No, no, this is an American one. Andromeda? It had-- That one, five. No, it had the-- the one with "Mursal"-- the "Ming the Merciless." No, I don't watch these shows. I'm just telling names out of my ass. Well, no, this was an old one, but it was one with "Ming the Merciless." And the music was kind of like a combination of Middle Eastern music and music from that show. And it worked because it fit the term of the show, the theme of the show really well. One thing I should say that-- ah, Flash Gordon, that's the name of it. So it was like a combination of Flash Gordon music and Middle Eastern music. One thing I should say if you have this-- go online, find the hidden parts of the DVD so you can listen to them. They are almost more hilarious than the show itself. They have-- the characters come on and do crazy things. They have-- Wasn't the character of the voice actors? It's the characters. It is the voice actors, the American voice actors, but they're portraying it as the characters. And it's hilarious. OK, because yeah, I was always hilarious than the show. I'll just say, if you ever check out Marmalade Boy, they have an alternative voice track. They have extras, a couple of the episodes. The voice actors just totally talk shit about the anime and talk shit about the characters. It's like better than the show. I thought maybe it was like, on that kind of vein, like-- No, no, it's amazing. I was just fucking around. The evil guy in the anime will come on and like, will berate you for watching the show, I think, in one of the extras. And one of the-- The end credits focus on one character. And that, in one of the extras, one of that character, will come on and we'll talk about how beautiful she is and all this kind of stuff as the credits roll. It's pretty hilarious. That's awesome. I would check this out if you have not checked it out, Jad, and you're into humorous, but not completely crazy anime. So what do you say, one out of four stars? Oh, simply because it doesn't end a tries to go serious and it doesn't go serious well, I think I'd only give it three. But if it had stayed hilarious, I would have given it more than that. Cool. There you go. Hey, how's it going? There you go. Huzzah. Huzzah for that. Huzzah. Vinnie, I mean, have you any of you watched this? No. Can't say I have. I was going to try and get a second opinion, but I guess-- I've seen it on the shelf. I'll say that much. All right. I've heard of it. Well, maybe you can watch it and tell me what you think about it in later episode when you have a second, second review. Might be worth doing. Maybe. There you go. Pat review, what are you talking about? Pat reviewing anything is like-- You don't ask me to. I ask you plenty, and you're like, I'll get you around to it. Well, I will ask you then, Pat. Watch and review El-Hazard for me. See, if you find desert punk hilarious, I think you will find this hilarious as well. All right, El-Hazard. That is it. Make a note of it. All right, then. I'm going to tap and try and acquire it. There you go. I am going to be doing the show. Oh, my horror, my red. Damn, I can't-- what can I say it now? My horror. I haven't said it right once, so I-- [LAUGHS] --anyway. Come on, say it. I don't want to-- I'll screw it up. My horror, Maddie. Say it, say it, say it, say it. You got it. My horror, Maddie. Oh, woo hoo, yay me. This show is the first season. There's actually multiple seasons plus a special. The first season is 12 episodes long. I don't know if you call this more of a slice of life. I guess you would with a little of aliens and action and whatnot. Starts off with this kid named Saguru. And he's like, hey, I need a name. I need a maid. I live by myself. When I go to middle, I'm in middle school. And I live by myself. I need a maid. So he goes off and he gets on a bus to go meet the maid for the interview. Well, the bus gets hijacked by the most awesome characters, where they've got to tell you what they're doing and their motivation of why they're doing what they're doing. We just broke out of jail, see? And we're not going back to jail because we're not going to do that. And they tell you, we're going to shoot somebody. Yeah, so it was like the best like bus. It was the best bus bet, Jacking Ever. And then later in the episode, they'll come back and they're like hijacked the truck. And they're like, well, you've just broke out of jail again. We're not going back. So it actually turns out that this really cute maid girl is on the bus with them. And she stops the bus from being hijacked and everyone being killed because she's a battle Android. And she can't be killed. Well, so the bus crashes and everyone's like, hey, everyone's all right. And the maid is like, hey, I don't want to be around here. I don't want an investigation. Well, as a fake maid bring it, this maid was the maid that he ends up hiring. She is in his hydrating, for a 13 year old kid, this guy has like this big ass mansion house. He's got a really good, like, really up-kept garden, really good looking garden. She's in his hydrangea garden. And she's all like busted into his house because she likes the garden. And she's like, oh, I'm sorry. I just really liked her garden. So I came into your yard. Well, it turns out that they'd met each other on the bus. And all she wants to do is be his maid. She's a really good cook. She does everything perfect. She's got a really cute-- she's really cute, you know, really cute sounding. And so the episode really turned-- the series is more, like I said, kind of like-- really-- fuck, I cannot think. I'm sorry. It's very much slice of life. Like his saguaroos, class, maids are always coming over to his house because she cooks really well. And here was a goofy thing about this show, though. The teacher has a crush on Saguaro. And like always wants to confess her love. And he's always like showing up at his house to eat his food. And the quote unquote, make sure he's being healthy. And she's always just like, oh, I love you. And I want to be with you. And he's dumb and oblivious to it. And yeah, you know how you were saying, like the teacher's getting drunk? Yeah, she constantly is like hammered. She drinks in the streets and constantly spending money in beer and always having a hangover. You've got your obligatory-- let's go to the beach. And one of the best things that happened in this show was this-- basically, Mahoro is an old Android who has now been commissioned-- decommissioned, basically, from fighting. And they've given her 398 days until she has to be powered down. And she chose to be a maid. And so she's only got 30% of her overall power and whatnot. And she fights this alien race called the Saints. And the Saints, they just fight each other. And they almost have a mutual respect for each other. And honestly, I aren't even really told why they fight each other. They just do. Well, like one day at the beach, this metal crab robot starts attacking all the girls on a beach and ripping off all their clothes. And that's what it does. It just rips off their clothes. So because it's going to hurt everybody, Mahoro has to save the day. And she saves the day with Saguru's help because she can't shoot her gun very well or some bull. She's hit and she has to recharge. And the time it takes for her to recharge, the robot's going to beat everyone up. So he jumps in and helps her out. And it's really weird because the show goes from happy-go-lucky to Saint versus Mahoro. The bad guy I guess you could say of the show is this Saint battle robot, another android, I guess you could say, is really pissed off at Mahoro because Mahoro always kicks his ass. He was supposed to be top the most elite android that Saint's ever made. Well, the first time they battled each other, she beat him up in four minutes. So he's been practicing and practicing. And it's been like, I'm going to beat you, Mahoro, because I'm the greatest Saint warrior ever. I'm supposed to be number one. And every time after that, they've kind of-- they've draw, basically. And they want to finish it once and for all. Mahoro also has this awesome black leopard named Slash. And it has the best freaking dub person ever. It sounds kind of like solid snake. It's by Lex Luthor-- not Lex Luthor, but it's Lex-- Lex someone. He sounds really fucking badass, though. He's like the best voice actor ever. He's like, I'm Slash, and I'm going to whoop your ass. He just sounds really badass. And he's there as protection. And the show is just really light-hearted to begin with. It's really funny. They have really great, crazy animations. And the whole teacher being in love with her student-- whoever they chose to do the-- oh, excuse me. The person who did the dub work did really, really well. And it's one of those shows that it's just really fun to watch. And there's nothing really too serious about it. Although I've got a clip here. I'm going to play-- oh, and I closed it. God damn it. I'm a moron. No, Tom-- Oh, no, here it is. Gosh darn it. Yes, oh, no, here it is. If you all tab VLC doesn't show up for whatever reason. Then, whoever they-- the person they chose to do Suguru's voice and the kid's voice, the male kid's voices, are just horrid. What? You're going to hire a maid? Are you serious? What's the matter with a maid? Is that a bad thing? That's a guru. Oh, no, not at all. We thought it'd be kind of fun if we acted surprised. The outside of your place looks pretty good, I guess, but you're trying to tell me that inside of my house is nothing but a claim big mess, right? Hey, come on. It can't be easy for a middle school student to live all alone. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, if you find yourself a maid to hire, would you live in your house, right? What if the maid you get is young and unbelievably beautiful? It's going to be nothing like that. Well, in that case, introduce me, OK? Give me some room, would you? Well, I have an interview with the maid, so I have to go now. I'll see you guys later. OK, see you. Yeah, I was getting on the bus. I'm doing a teen hijack. Here's where he sees my horn. Yeah, those voices were pretty bad. So, yeah, he's my hero. She's cute. So, yeah, that's a little bit of the show. And, like, you've got your basic characters. The guys all horned dogs and are like, oh my god, you're cute. And the funny thing, though, is I just lost my train track. The funny thing about the show is it's light-hearted, but it does get serious. Mahorro, the reason she's there is for very good reason and really guilt. And there's a lot of things that come out, like they mentioned, you know, hey, you live by yourself in your middle school while both his parents died. But it wasn't that, hey, they were hit by the passing car. Or, hey, my dad's on vacation and doing business in the US for the whole time the show runs. It was a lot more serious and whatnot. And it's really good. Like I said, there's a second season that brings in more. I just started watching that. Get back to me when you finish the second season. Yeah, it's one of those shows you're either going to like or you're going to be like, OK, this is kind of like everything else. There's a lot and a lot of boob shots and a lot of boob jokes. Like the teacher has really big boobs. So Mahorro has really cute, tiny boobs. And she's just like, I want to be with you. I want to have to guru to myself because I have big full breasts. I'm a real woman. And she's like, whatever. I'm great and I'm pure and I'm full of joy and love. And they always fight. And they have lots of naked booby shots for some reason. But yeah, it's one of those shows, like I said, you're either going to like it or you're not going to like it. So that's Mahorro in a nutshell. I would probably give it probably a three. You know, it's good. It's got a good underlying storyline. But it's nothing like fantastic. So let's see, we got seven minutes. So I will save the cleavage review for next week. That's probably a good idea. Yes, we don't need you to build up anticipation. That's right. Yeah, just patience is always better than the one that comes to hand tie pretty much anyway. Wow, I'm not going to just mention what just happened but already then. Hoffman, I hope you like the show. OK, I'm to serve now. It was good. So yeah, I think we'll end the show here. Seven minutes. Hey, we've been here for an hour and enough. You can check out Pat's awesome, blossom podcast about video games and anime. 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I have a report up there from the conference. I went to up in Minneapolis that I most likely will be going to again, as well as other things, stuff about teaching and about life. Yeah, life, that's just the guy who like. L has zard. That's right. Sorry, I didn't think that's true. Oh, yeah, I want to just throw this out. I'm going to be at in my mid-Atlantic tomorrow. Not the last minute I know. Meet back live. Yeah, get out of graph. I'm not going to tell you what I look like or what I'm wearing. But if you find me, say hi. It's a gundal. If you can figure out who Pat is. You can just walk around asking, are you him? Are you Pat? You don't have this. I won't be wearing a lucky star shirt, though. So that'll marry me. Oh, come on, Pat. Well, I was only going to do that if my friends did and my friends wouldn't, so I'm not. I'm not going to be alone. You're not going to be alone wearing the shirt with a female's Japanese school uniform on it. No, I need other people with me doing that. Yeah, yeah, I think-- So I can look like-- That's the thing, when I was at Oticon, I was wearing the shirt after that panel. And I was walking back to my hotel room in Baltimore, which isn't the best city on earth. Wearing this shirt. And I'm like, huh. The Legion crew told me that the con scares away all the crime in Baltimore. You know what? Because that's funny. The animals are bomb all the time. And I got harassed many a time while I was there. I don't care what they're saying. They probably don't go on the actual street then. Because my experience was there. I mean, I wasn't getting mugged, but there was plenty of shifty people there. The shifty people don't go away. That's true. They thrive. They don't have anywhere to go. [LAUGHS] Yeah. All right. Yeah. Now that we have pissed off anyone in Baltimore, who lives in Baltimore, isn't it? They probably agree. Oh, they'd be pissed. They're probably like, tell it, brother. They can relate. Shut up. All right. So yes, so we've got-- What about yourself? 60 seconds. Oh, no. We got 60 seconds. Crap. 60 seconds. Oh, god. Yeah, no, I actually will be going to GeekCon in October. Everything is set up now. I got my press pass. And I'm actually-- they're very nice and very generous. Because I'm going there in a press-- in a press role, they are allowing me to enter the con for free. So that's kind of neat. Yeah, most of them do that. I was actually surprised. I thought they'd be like, hey-- Vote a con. Doesn't, but most of them do. Oh, OK. Yeah, I was actually surprised. When I even told them, I'm like, you know, I'll buy a t-shirt, then, because they offer t-shirts for like between $12 and $17 or whatever, depending on the size. And I was just like, I'll buy a t-shirt just to, you know. They've got to pay their bills. Tell me how you do this, then, so I could press pass. OK. 10 seconds! Yes. This is the Bonset Beat. This is Jellicoon. And Zoldar and Patz. Thank you for having me. Yes. 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