The Banzai Beat Anime Podcast
Kissing The Special A's
The Bond or Twilight Zone, we'll be going back in exactly, anime's worst stuff in the Twilight Zone. We're going to make you watch all of Inu Nasha, and there's another really bad anime. No, that sounds like torture enough right there man. No, I actually enjoyed Inu Nasha to a point, that's the fun, that's that part. Yeah, me too. Oh same here, but I enjoyed it until it didn't have an ending, and it still doesn't have an ending. No, they finished the releases. They finished 55 DVDs, really. No, the anime doesn't end is my point. Oh god. It doesn't have a conclusion, because the manga's not over yet, it's psychotic. Inu Nasha is... You know, with the series, what it is, is Rameka Takahashi. She's essentially working on this, or manga, until she dies. What a slapper. It's at 56 volumes in Japan right now. 56 volumes, it's been running longer than one piece. Holy cow. And you know what, that's the biggest pet peeve I have in anime. Fuckin', you can't give it proper ending. What the fuck do you expect me to do? Use my imagination? Yes. It's like, did I waste my time? You know like, okay, Karakano? They didn't have an ending. Karakano, yeah. Karakano. Fruits Basket. The two best animates I've watched, both don't have endings. And if pisses me off, then I have to go read shit. The least you could do is be like, oh hey. Kiel turned into a monster, ate her, and yeah, raised hell. Or like, they got together and got married. Whatever. Not be like, oh, it just mysteriously ends, good job. You finished the anime. Shit. But it's like, ugh, I don't want to do it. What that kind of thing. You know Yash is the one that bugs me. It's like, it's something that could end at any time. She chooses not to end it. What I find funny is like, why even anyone even bothered licensing it? Like, why it's so popular? It was popular, it's not anymore. Because everyone's sick of shit. People realize, like, what? There's 7,000 more episodes. The hell is this? The anime ended, it stopped. How big is this freaking forest they're traveling through? Damn. Why can't they kill that bitch already? It's the point. How many jewel shards do they need? See, my thing was the anime ends at volume 36. And it seemed like they had all the stupid ass jewel shards at that point. And there's 20 more volumes out in Japan of the manga now. That's a fuckload of material. Makes me wonder, what the hell it's about? Not enough to actually find out, cause I'm not. I'm never gonna read that. But, maybe a strong gust just came by and blew the bag out of their hands and the jewel shards went everywhere. It was a spent 7 to 10 to 20 volumes picking up the jewel shards. Inuasha scurried, trifly through the forest. Smelling the jewel shard one by one. And Kagame molested Inuasha. And found other jewel shards. The end. The end. I watched, I found out, I finally watched Mad Guy up to episode 1. I finally finished 1. It's cause a stupid VLC player not learning how to read stylized subs. Yeah, VLC is horrible dude. I did Windows Media Player Classic. I was like, bam, red subs. I'm like alright, trick. Yeah, it looks good. I can read. Good. Now you gotta watch more. I know, I wish I had a whistle. I died whistle. What the fuck? He's on fire. That was the best part of the anime. Oh wait, no, you haven't seen episode 2 yet. There's a scene in episode 2 that you will love. Yeah, yeah. Okay. So once you get to it, you will love it. It'll blow you off. It'll, you'll just die. I just thought that was funny. At least all being perverted and shit. Hell yeah, too cool. Here's this whistle. You need to whip 'em. But yes, good stuff to say the least. I was Elle Elling. You were Elle Elling all up in there. Indeed. Yeah. I hardly watched anything this week. I finally finished watching Maz and Kaiser, which was awesome. And then I watched the latest episode of Zetai Kar and Children a day. And besides that, I haven't watched anything this week. All I've been doing is I... Yesterday I finished a replaying Metal Gear Solid 2. Whew! Negative writing for the win. Hell yeah. I am proud to say that even after, I don't know what, five years? The last hour or so of that game is still some confusing bullshit. That makes no sense at all. Isn't he on Rollerblade or something? No, no, no. Everything's a simulation and half of everything was in his head and all this other crap. It's just like, uh... Yeah, I beat it once and never played it again. I think it's like the fourth or fifth time I beat it too. You know what the sad part is? That's a very... That's the only Metal Gear Solid game I've ever been able to beat. Number one, I get stuck in that fucking gas chamber. Gas chamber, gas chamber. Or what was it? It was some kind of chamber where he'd suffocate after a certain amount of time. Oh. I think I know where you're talking about. He's like, "Dude it, it blips!" Snake! Nooooo! So I beat, or one, I've beaten a million times, two, I've been like five times. Three, I've only beaten once and I'm about to replay it. I'm gonna replay that this week so I can get all ready for four which comes out on the 12th. Oh, yeah. Which I am just killing. I'm waiting for at this point. I'm just dying for it. I'm waiting for Snake to like get like throat cancer. But like, oh, you've been terminally diagnosed with throat cancer from all the smokes. I think it's safe to assume he dies at the end of four. He's so old! He's only in his 40s. He doesn't look like it looks like he's asleep. No, he doesn't. Well, spoiler alert for anyone who sucks and hasn't played any. Well, it has something to do with, um... Wait, we're hangin' us in there? Ha ha ha ha! Yeah. It has something to do with the fact that he's a, um, clone. And something makes him age really fast or something. Ha! It has something to do with him being a clone. I'm not sure exactly why. But it does. There you go. I mean, the 12th will come by very slowly. Oh, it will. I'm dying for it. And I'm gonna play the hell out of it for a day. And then I have to go to, um, Anime Med Atlantic for that whole weekend. You would better bring a damn voice recorder. Get an F in your interview. Yeah. And like... Oh, fine then. You at least better give us a good size report then. Uh, yeah, I'll do that. I'm gonna have to track down a camera. So a camera? The pictures. And your iMac. I'm in my MacBook Pro. Yeah, whatever. Yeah, like your iMac. No, I have an iMac. I wish I had an iMac. I won an iMac. Actually, I have an old iMac. Like, don't know. Yeah, I have a couple old G3 iMacs that I bought. Like, for 10 bucks for no reason. Wait. I have no use for 'em. One's sitting in my closet. One's sitting in my brother's closet. I could load OS10 on them, but I just wouldn't have any use for 'em. Yeah, well, that and OS10 is like... No, they actually... No, they actually... No, they actually... They actually run decent on those slow computers if you put enough RAM in them. Uh... And I have enough RAM 'cause I like... When I bought them, I went through and tore all the bigger RAM chips out of all the ones that were sitting around in the warehouse. No, you went through those... Yeah, I love going to recycling places and getting a cheap... You know, I used to get the... The mini-IBMs all the damn time. I'd turn 'em into frickin' web servers or whatever. Yeah, I've got... Yeah, I have two of those and then I have an old G3 tower. The blue and... Grey G3 towers. But now that I own my own house and have to pay my own electricity bill... You know, what... Don't find it way quick. A dozen computers are running at once, right? Ooh... What's that humming? What? What was that? That's your electricity mail. This is what it is. How many turn these computers off? Ooh... Okay. I don't think my energy bill is $600 this month. Okay, well... With that... Honestly, man. Exactly. Welcome to Episode 14. 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 Senjelikun. What this is... It is... Grey. I know... 14. 14. It's the number after 13 and before 15. Yes. Good job. Yeah, I know. That's why I'm in that calculus 'cause I know my numbers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so this is episode 14. And... Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Not that much. It's been a slow week in terms of news. We've got quite a bit on tap, but... Nothing like floor rattling and gasping. Yeah. They came up way wrong. Nothing significant. So, yeah. I started watching... It's to me kiss. Not kiss. It's to zero, I think. It's to... Well, how do you say it? I think it's eat to zero. I'm not sure. Eat to zero. Okay. Eat to zero, not kiss. I gotta say... I've read good. Well, actually, I've never read anything good about the damn show. Everything I've read is negative. I swear to God, that's like the sleeper hit of the... The sleeper hit. In terms of like, shoujo of the season. But, I mean, maybe it's about the only one too, so I guess I don't know. I just think maybe... Oh, special A is too. Yeah, I was gonna say, I also started watching special A, just for shits and giggles, and... It's actually not that bad. So, yeah. I think this is... I think this is the first really anime season. I use this term loosely. I'm actually watching so much. I've been watching... Uh, Kanokan. Uh... Soul Eater. Frickin' Tula Vru. Frickin' Special A, and it's whom he not gives. So, yeah. I gotta, yeah, I know, five frickin' shows. It blows my mind. How I find time, I don't know. Although, I watched about... Five episodes of each show. I have more like, three and a half or four episodes. Each day of... Not his. So, yeah, I got my fill of that right away. Tried a couple shoot, tried two episodes especially. And then it was all animated out for a while. I finally got the finish moves again. And I'm very happy with the ending of it. Very good. It was a very good watch. That's all. That's one I haven't watched. I recommend it. I demand you do. You know what? No, I'm good. I refuse. You don't really like the wind. I'm like, no, God! Out the window you go. I'll fly away. Yes. I'm like, oh my God, patch power activate. Up, up, and away. And you'd just be like, what the fuck just happened? I know. I'm like, what? Are you stowing your mind? Up, up, and away. And then I'd just fall from the far end of the... [laughing] Just see you falling by the window. What the hell? Oh, crap. Good times. Okay. Okay. Okay. This week in Anime News, brought to you by Anime News Network. Well, first of all news, whose story of the week is Bandai has ordered to pay for a child choking on one of their toy capsules. Yes. And I find the story totally screwed up. Basically, a young child choked and suffocated himself long enough to get brain damage. He was choking on a plastic capsule, which basically... You know those little capsules that you can buy as like a little charm in there? He took the damn thing apart and then put the freaking actual clear plastic piece in his mouth, thus blocking his airway. And his parents sued Bandai apparently, and they won. Apparently the capsule by law, which again no sense, by law it was adhered to the standards of Japanese, you know, diameters and saying, you know, you got to make an exercise and whatnot. But the judge said, well, they should have known better, that kids would be, you know, you're doing the sort of things. They should have just known better, not just got to buy what you're acquired. Yeah, they should make a bigger because they should know better. Yeah, I think what? Then why don't you make the law better? I wouldn't think Bandai sucks for Bandai. I don't understand it. What I don't understand. Why is Bandai being seen? There's what is their stuff. Don't they just outsource that stuff? Like, really? No, okay. They just hire some third party capsule, you know, capping company and say, hey, here's a little thing, here's a little Gundam, drink it, go put it in a capsule. There's someone else manufactured capsules. I don't know, I actually Bandai's getting a shaft here. I don't think they probably don't care that much. Alright, whatever. Yeah, just get it over with. Okay. Oh yeah, that's that. Oh, that's something interesting. Are we talking about this already? Oh no, that was the summit thing they were doing last week. Sure. Yeah, I'm sure did. I'm sure. Did we talk? No, we never did talk about this. Anyway, what we're discussing is crunchyroll is going to stream ADVs. Welcome to the NHK. Hooray. Yes, that's where we talked about this. Ah, maybe. You know, I think you might be right because I think the guys are all excited because welcome to the NHK is now $15 a piece at Best Buy. And it's a good shot. Not yet. I've been kind of squandering my money away for other stuff, kind of more important. Yeah, but I'll probably go pick it up eventually. That's it. Yes, probably next month. It's a good shot. I recommend it. It's a good fun watch. But yeah, they're screaming two episodes a week. Every week for the next few weeks. Don't watch them. Yes, give crunchyroll your money. Yeah, I don't think you have to pay for it. Well, you being there gives us money. Sure. Anyway, group plans buyout of Australian anime firm's parent. An Australian private equity group, Archer Corp, or capital, excuse me, Archer Capital, spearheading a leveraged buyout of fantastic LTE, a toy company that is a corporate parent of madman entertainment. Australia's largest anime and manga distributor. And this next province will ask you to drop 60%. Wow. Holy crap. The shares in March are normally at 70.5 cents a share. Holy cow, that is terrible. I gotta say, that's a good deal, but I thought madman was a pretty decent company, my wrong. There, they're currently big in Australia. Unfortunately, I don't live in Australia, so I can't really. Can't say much. No, cannot say much. Yeah, same here. If someone does out there, what does this show? Yeah. But I have no clue in that. They're the only ones I've ever heard of in Australia. So I assume they're big enough in some way. I've heard of them. That alone exists on my ass. Oh, this is weird unless I mistyped it all the way. Oh, I did. That's my fault. You stupid me. Anyway, I'm on. That's there we go. I fixed it. Okay, yes. Automation's going to be offering mobile video on demand. Shit. Yay. Which is cool. I think. Well, you're going to be able to watch episode right now. They're offering moon phase and galaxy railways episodes. File, red planets, jump in mobile service, and you can purchase for 99. Since the thing is, they're only available to AT&T customers. Ah. You know, that's pretty sad because, like, what I'm going to say, though, anime and the cell phone do not mix. I mean, I, oh, of course. But, I mean, I tried watching, I have a sprint. They have two networks for anime. Ataku and for the Funimation era and the Funimation channel. So, both of them offer BS programming. And, majority of the time, the shit buffers so poorly during an action scene. It just goes pixeled all hell. I mean, it's better than nothing, but, yeah. Some people watch shit on their cell phone for some reason. I don't know why they do it, but... Yeah, I just... They're just watching it on my iPod video. Yeah. I don't know, I don't know. Well, we can't, you don't want to be freaking out on a laptop on a freaking city bus or a train or... I guess. I'd rather use my PSB. That works, too, I guess. Yeah, bigger screen. That's true, too. There you go. Michael, what does it go on? Micro SD. No, it's all... Oh, SD memory card. Yeah, uh... Memory stick. Dual. Yes. I think, uh, yeah. Two gig per duo card. You can go on. Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna talk about something else. Sounds good. Yeah, I'm gonna talk about something else. What are you gonna talk about? Uh, I don't wanna talk about it. I'm gonna talk about Band-I. Sounds good. I'm gonna talk about Band-I. It's like, who... At Fannie Mae this past weekend. There we go. They announced some stuff and they decided they let out a release kind of to clarify some of this stuff 'cause it was kind of confusing. And one thing is that, first off, the sci-fi airing of "Gurring Log" and it's been confirmed, and they're going to be airing the television version of episode six. And... What's so special about the episode six? Don't ask me, maybe. I'll probably be... I probably should feel bad for not knowing, but I don't know. You're the one who talks so much highly in this show. Not really. Yeah, you're gonna talk about how I want it. Not that I've seen it. Okay. Anyway. Anyway, my point. And they said that... But the subtotal-only DVD release in July will have the uncut version of the episode. And then the bi-link will release next year and it's gonna have both versions of the episode on it. So I really wonder what... What are they gonna do for Si? Are they really gonna make you watch it? Are they giving you the... The sub? Okay, so they're... Oh, they already is dubbed. They're dubbing it. Okay, okay. Yeah, you're right. I apologize. I don't know what else they can never mind. Okay. Continue. Anyway. The other thing this one was kind of interesting was... They clarified. Well, people were... My Otome is Y, which is of a sequel to My Otome. Um... Who... People thought... From what they were saying, that they were going to be releasing one episode. It's four episodes long. They thought they were gonna be releasing one episode per DVD... For $30 or a special edition for $50. Wow, Band-Aid, we get to ask you by everyone. People thought that's what they meant. And they were like, "What the fuck?" Band-Aid went out now and it's correct to themselves. Like, no, no, you got it wrong. We're releasing all four episodes on 1 DVD for $50. $30 for the regular in $50 for the special edition. So did you ever watch My Otome? No, I haven't gotten the wrong choice yet. Wow, you got to watch My Hime first. Yeah. My Hime, I got to say Bad-Add Show. And then... I think that's basically it. That's it. I wasn't mentioning Verizon's offering freaking Mongo and anime, but... They're offering Mongo entertainment. Yeah. Yeah. Via the Star is premium. But fuck it, if you're in Verizon, customer, you and anime fan, you've already read this, so... Man. Man. Man. Man. Deed. Man. Indeed. Man. Man. Man. So... Yes. Oh, did it? Man. For Camino. Oh, no, no. Man. For that Camino. You got to get freaking out. Firefox. They make a Mac version. Camino is essentially by the Firefox or Mozilla Foundation. It's essentially a version of Firefox for... It's a more Mac optimized version of Firefox. Oh. Talked down to us PC, okay? It works better on Mac's and Firefox. Firefox is like a be-all, you know, on Windows. What's fun? A Mac. It's not that great. It's nothing special. Guys, you know... Well, now I can find out who that is. I was looking through the sight logs. The bonds I beat. Yeah. It was like Camino. I'm like, "What the fuck is that browser?" Now I know. Yeah. It works better than Firefox. Sweet. Mac. Sweet. I know. It's incredible. Indeed. It's blowing your mind, isn't it? It is. Mine has been blown. Yay. It's another week, and more DVDs are being released. What should you get? It's time for the weekly DVD picks. Okay. For this week's episode or this week's DVD picks, I am producing Canon 5. Did a lot of re-releases this week, and a couple no-name. Not no-name, but just a little... Supertitles coming out. So, for me, Canon 5. Yeah. That's... Fifth of six volumes or something. Yes. And, well, for me, I'm going to choose Silent Mobius. There's a new, um, Anime Legends box set coming out of Silent Mobius, which some people out there should remember. It's a sci-fi series from the late '90s from... It's based on a manga by Kiaasumi, if you know what that is. The people who would care about this problem will you do, but... Anyway, but, um... Bandai is re-releasing this, and then they're finally releasing the original movies. That would... That would be... It was also based on the manga coming out sometime soon this year, so it's something I'd say check out. It's cheap. I'd be like, 40 bucks for 26 episodes. It's worth picking up. That's what I want to pick up myself. There's a lot of shit from Bandai I want right now. Goddamn bastards. Goddamn Bandai and Funimation. They just love taking my mind. It makes me sad. At the same time, I don't care, because... I don't know, it's something. And then it dies, 'cause you're... 'cause you're boring. It'd be more interesting. Well, I'm sorry for being boring and not interesting, and... Well, quiet for some reason. Probably surfing the webs over there. I am. I'm watching, actually, watching a documentary on hacking. The history of hacking, I was checking it out real quick. High apologies. High apologies. High apologies. Okay, so yes, you chose your old-ass 90s anime, god. Yes. I like to be 90s anime. Okay, then. Good for you. I like my 80s anime. I love 80s anime, man. I don't know. I can't find anything other than Marmalade Life, Krennane too. I don't know a lot of older anime, to be honest. I'll tell you what you'd like. You'd like touch. It sounds dirty. It's not. So what it's about, what's it about? It's like a long romance anime. Oh, it's long. It's like a hundred-something episodes, I think. Cool. Can you buy it or no? Oh, man. I will look for it tonight. Yes, it is definitely. It's something that I am sure you would like. Be up in there and be like, oh my god. They dumped each other, man. Episode 57, man. It's like my life. It's like a drama romance. I love dramas. Drama's are my best favorite anime, hundred-and-one episodes. Wow. Screw you. That'll be a long one for you. Yeah, what's the longest one? I think the longest I've watched was GTO. It's only a 39 episodes GTO. Is it really? Yeah, longer. Yeah, I know it's just that awesome. Oh, yeah, that's it. Before I started dating, literally, I had no life. Like, the weekend I found GTO, I didn't leave my house the entire weekend. I'm sure. I watched GTO in one fucking weekend. Just back to back to back to back to back to back. I kept saying... I just kept saying, well, one more episode. One more episode. One more episode. And it was like, bam, episode 43. I'm like, oh snap. That was the greatest anime ever. Even though it was very predictable and highly unusual. And yeah, it was still badass. Oh yeah, it is. But now I have a girlfriend and a job and a house and... Oh my God. Oh my God. I know. I miss my carefree days of more anime watching and junk. Damn responsibilities of life. I guess the longest thing I've ever launched. Completely it's not Dragon Ball. They're Dragon Ball 3. Wow, you watch all millions episodes. 293. Every time I flip it on a character network, they're just as long as they are yelling stuff at each other. Honestly dude, the reason I love the show is more of nostalgia than anything else. Whatever. There's like, okay, I'm gonna hit you with a fireball and slide back 700 feet and then grind yourself around. Seriously? I'd be like, my corn field! No! That's funny. Come on, I'm gonna hit the ground. They're just like sliding like 700 yards through the... Leaving this long, cut up Earth, the man who started God. At Dragon Ball Z, it was like real life. Earth wouldn't exist. It would be just like one massive dirt cloud. That's great. That's probably very polluted. But yes, I don't think the longest I watch is GTO. We're probably actually a marmalade boy. I would say probably it's the longest. I'm watching Rama, but I just haven't got back into it. I only watch Rama and spurts if you ever watch at all. I'm impressed. Well, I gotta buy the last four. I want to buy the last four volumes, but they're 40 bucks a pop and so I just can't like throw that much cash down randomly. Yeah, I usually I'll wait, pick one up, but I think I'm gonna suck it up and just buy them all. I'm trying to want them to be like, "Oh, they came out another gun." So, yeah, that would suck on it. Indeed. I'm trying to look for marmalade boy, but I'm looking on eBay and I could find it for 10 bucks, but for 10 bucks, hey, I mean, kind of an iffy. But yeah, well, for this week, I'm going to give an overview of both it's who or not kiss and especially. So, I guess I'll start out with it's not kiss just because I watch so much of it. It's up with that one. No, it's not that. I'm not in love with it. Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyways, I sat down for two days, plowed through all eight episodes. I really wish I could say more about the show. I want to rant about it so badly. Just because it's part of the show where I want to like, bang my head against the wall. Feel free. Plus rant. I don't want to. I don't want to spell it for anyone. Maybe I'll add it for a special after-show segment that you download. If you download it separate or do it after the show after originally recorded, I'm trying to curve my spoilage. Anyway, show the show Joe drama high school romance. The one thing I got to say I really like about it is the characters are seniors in high school. They're not frickin' freshman. They're not frickin' middle school kids. They're frickin' almost adults and this show doesn't necessarily dumb it down, I guess I'll say. I don't know how to really explain it, but it was nice for once. The only other show I've seen like that is Rumbling Hearts, where I dealt with characters who are more mature and older. The problem I thought was Marmalade Boy was Mickey always assumed, so they always use that as a running way to get the show the episode off the ground. Like every episode was like Mickey assuming something that you was doing something better back with another girl, or her insecurities about herself, like would make her mind wander, and the entire episode would be like her figuring shit out, and then you just saying you're dumbass. And that's the one thing I got to say bad about, they are good about it's not a kiss, as they don't really do that. They kind of, something always comes on that's happening, but it's kind of more realistic I guess. So, the main two characters, Architoka Ahira, she is in the class F. In Japan, the students are ranked A through F, F being, well, there's an E class, so yeah, she's the worst to the worst, damn. So, yeah, she's in class F. She's had this crush on Iri, are on Naoki Iri, he is the class A representative, he is like, he's ranked number one, and he has like a photographic memory. So, you can read something once and memorize it, or you can hear something once and memorize it. So, he's like smart, and she's like dumb, and she's not really dumb, she's just dumb at classes I guess, and she's kind of clumsy and, you know, kind of like, hey, what the hell. So, she's had a crush on Iri since the first day of high school when she saw him speak at the ceremony, entered ceremonies. Well, she finally musters up enough courage to write a love letter to him, and during one day of school, he asks Iri to take the note, and he completely blows her up and say no. She is heartbroken. Now, you've got the other students in class F, who are kind of her click, I guess you'd say, you've got the guy who's in love with Coco, or with Coco, and will do anything to try to get her winter over, and she doesn't like him that way. Then you've got the friend who looks like a freakin' tomboy, and her name is Jinko, and, oh, I hate the design of her. She's got that flesh-colored lipstick, so when you look at her from far away, she has to ring around her lip since it's not good. Yeah, how about that? Yes. Yeah. And then you've got Satome, who is one of her best friends, and so basically the story, you know, the story doesn't end there. Well, uh, Coco's dad built a brand new house for him. Well, due to poor construction on her father's fault, the house collapses in a small 2.0 earthquake, and it's the only house destroyed. A good long-time high school friend, or actually a moodle school friend, of her father, offers to keep them at his place until they can rebuild. Well, guess who the freakin' house belongs to as well? Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, let me guess. I mean, oh, you'll never guess it, I mean, geez, damn. I mean, I got no clue. I know, I'm like lost. Well, of course, it's... it's eerie. And... Hey, what do you know? They're living together now. Here he's got his little genius brother as well, who absolutely despises Coco. He's reading like third grade, like fifth grade, I don't know, like third or fourth grade level congee, and she can read it. So, he's not smart, but she's like a stupid idiot. And so, slowly and slowly they're really feeling each other out now, Coco and Erie. And they're just kind of feeling the water, getting to know each other. And that's really about it. That's a story so far. They've just entered college in episode eight, so now they're getting attuned to college life. And I gotta say, Erie's mother is a frickin' busybody. She has plans to get them hitched. And she does everything for Coco to win him over, because he's a cold-hearted, I do stuff for me type of person. And yeah. So far, a good show. So far, a really good show. I'm really enjoying it. It's 26 episodes. The one thing I've got to say is, I guess I'll just say it now because it's not really ruining the story, but the whole relationship aspect, it's there and it's not there. It's there and it's not there. And even after eight episodes, I'm banging my head against the wall going, "Fuckin' do something!" Stop insinuating and like... But it isn't. I mean, if you saw the show, he like, they kissed once, but it was one of those things, right? He likes to tease her. So like, the love note, he like, he finally like, as she's sleeping, he finally gets the love note that he denied because she was holding on to it, because she was crying about it and all depressed. So he reads it. Well, then he like reads it a loud day. He recites it out loud to everyone. You know, just stupid stuff like that at, or they like have their moments. I'll say that much. They have their moments when they kind of click and go, "Hey, you know, you're not so bad of a person." But then that'll be it. The next episode, we'll go back to normal going, "Well, I don't want anything to do with you or whatever else." And basically it's her trying to win him over, trying to make him a better person as well, because in the start of the show, he didn't really do anything else for anyone else. Well, now he's kind of opening up to people and helping them out and all this crazy stuff. I don't know, I'm just getting frustrated though at the relationship building aspect of the show, because it's always something new happening. So, I don't know. Well, it's 26 episodes. I think it would have worked better as like a 16 episode show, but hey, it's only 8 episodes then, maybe something aggressive will happen. So, yeah, that's a, you know what I mean, not a kiss. I will, I cannot pronounce that right for the life, yeah. I can't. It's Zoomy, my fault. It's Zoomy not a kiss. That's that. I'll probably review it again here. Probably 5 or 6 more episodes. I'm not going to do it back to back like I have been. Anyway, a show we both watched. Yeah, I've seen it a little more than you, I think. Especially, I would say another show that's kind of gone under the radar for this season. Maybe. I don't know where I don't see it anywhere. Except the blogs that are like, anything and everything. And I wonder how the fuck they have all this time to watch a show, right a review. Post screencaps. It's a mystery. They have a full-time job. Who knows, anyway. Talk about why you enjoyed it. Pro wrestling man, for the win. It's not very, you know. Special A's is about this school of, this group of students who are in this special club. They're the top of 7 or 8, 7. Okay, they are the top 7. I think it's 7. Heck, you're right. They are the top 7 students of the school. So they get this luxury. But basically, they run the school for the most part. Yeah, it seems that way, doesn't it? Yeah. I wish we had that in America. I wish I could have a freaking enclosed jungle. I get a staff team whenever I want. Yeah, right. So basically, I've only seen the first two episodes. But basically, it's the 7 students. They do other work. They do what they need to do. But the other students are either A in love with them. And like the main character always gets frustrated in the morning because everyone swoons over the special AFO kids. Because they're, you know, so special and elite. But then you have your band of students that are like, "Fuck the special A." They look on down on us. And so crazy shenanigans happen. I don't know. I've never seen a teacher. I've never seen any faculty people. I swear to God, they just run the school. Yeah. Well, anyway, the real... I'd say the main story in the show is at least the point I met in episode 5 is... The main... I don't even remember their names. Let me bring them up here. The main guy is Wookie-PD to the ring. Basically, he's falling in love with the girl. Okay, here we go, characters. Hikari Han-Zono is your main heroine. And Ki-Taka-Shima is like the main guy. Basically, he's in love with her at least at this point where I am. Yeah, same if they hinted at it. And basically, his thing is he's just kind of a prude and stuff. So he won't admit to anything. And he tries to hide everything. And it starts... It's kind of funny. It's enjoyable. It's nothing special, I'd say in the show. So yeah, and the thing about it, though, is Hikari grew up like learning pro wrestling from her father. And would kick everyone's ass, even at a young age, in competitions of some sort. And Ki comes along and can best care at anything and everything. So they're constantly having competitions. Like episode 2, or yeah, episode 1. That a high-volting competition in Jim. Yeah. And he's always teasing her by calling her Miss Rank 2. And she totally hates it. And crazy funny things happen. Like, the Japanese word for Rank 2 always falls on her. So she's always throwing it off of her. And it's landing and hitting things and people. Good stuff. But the other students look down someone on Special A because they will not necessarily directly be like, "Oh, we're better than everyone." But like the gym scene, they took the entire gym period for themselves. And whatever. I don't know. It's kind of alright. That's what I've seen. So, yeah. I don't really know what the whole point of the story is yet. Yeah. I don't know. I don't really have anything to say. It's one of those shows that's just fun to watch, I guess. It's kind of fun. Want to take one made today? Eh, not already now. Okay. I got an L so it's sitting here waiting to be watched. I finally watched Episode 1. Yaimi. Fire for the wind. You should want more. Wish I could burn down my kitchen and nothing happened. It's getting better. Okay. I guess it's okay, two or three or even better. But I just, man, made guys too awesome. I can't handle it. I'll be buying made guy t-shirt coffee, babe. Hahaha. There's something I don't know. Yeah. So, go buy a made-cast because the made-cast play is made-man. Or made-guy. Made-guy. That causes, and maybe I'll wear it to work. Yeah, you do that, man. Hahaha. We're not in a climate line. What happened? I caused date at work. That's a made-guy. Made-guy, yes. It's creepy as it is. So, yeah. I think this is a short episode this week. Maybe sort of. Did you have anything more you had to say? Uh, I don't know. I don't know. We'll remind people to check out the form we have going at forms.bonsidebeet.com. And you can email us, pets@jellocoon@bonsidebeet.com. Visit the blog, abonside.animateblogger.net. I'll subscribe to us. Yeah, subscribe to us wherever you subscribe. And also, I started playing around with Twitter some. We tried to set up one for both of us, but that was kind of annoying. But I started playing with one for myself. And to get to me, check it out. 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This week we take a look at both Special A's and Itzumi Na Kiss.