WEBVTT 00:00.250 --> 00:01.710 She went to take a dump. 00:21.410 --> 00:30.114 Hello and welcome to our week. There yet an exploration and education and anime. I'm your anime idiot, patrick dugan. 00:30.242 --> 00:33.682 I'm an anime expert, dana hollander. 00:33.826 --> 00:41.930 And I'm brenda mccullough. Your anime. Christopher Joseph Parks. You know, the early 2000s wrestler known as Abyss. 00:45.470 --> 00:54.106 I've realized that I make the same sound every time you say one of these things. I just go, oh. And I'm trying to change that up by just giving you complete signup. 00:54.138 --> 00:56.126 Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. 00:56.308 --> 00:58.378 You're welcome. It's good podcasting. 00:58.474 --> 01:05.646 It's either that or your anime. Lapel du vois. The call of avoided french. 01:05.758 --> 01:07.294 That's lapel du veed. 01:07.422 --> 01:08.770 I don't take French. 01:09.830 --> 01:13.250 That's why I said it was French. I didn't say it was good French. 01:16.070 --> 01:19.060 Short film called Lapel Duvade. So I know what it means. 01:19.450 --> 01:23.190 It's why I picked a weird 2000s wrestler instead of French. 01:25.050 --> 01:26.342 I would have gotten it. 01:26.476 --> 01:28.300 I wouldn't have said it. Right. 01:28.910 --> 01:34.170 Well, I got it. Some would say this opening is abysmal. 01:34.750 --> 01:39.980 That's a good one. See, that's good. This is the content I'm looking for. 01:40.830 --> 01:50.138 Some would say I want to die. This is the Call of the Void, or the Abyss, if you will, because we're watching Made an Abyss. 01:50.234 --> 01:50.590 Yeah. 01:50.660 --> 01:51.280 Wow. 01:53.090 --> 01:54.126 We beat her on the moon. 01:54.148 --> 01:55.950 Years later, we get there. 01:56.100 --> 01:56.570 Yeah. 01:56.660 --> 02:00.580 We dance around it. But it's in the title of this episode, so you know what it is. 02:01.030 --> 02:03.394 We should just start not saying it. 02:03.592 --> 02:11.270 If you don't know, we should just describing the anime. And it's like, man, this naruto is really weird. Oh, wait a minute. Oh, that's not this episode. 02:11.930 --> 02:14.354 Every anime is now a naruto. 02:14.402 --> 02:15.350 A naruto. 02:15.770 --> 02:21.946 Wow. This naruto is really good. It's like how some places in the country just call every soda coke or. 02:22.048 --> 02:24.742 Grandparents always call every game system a Nintendo. 02:24.886 --> 02:25.580 Yeah. 02:26.030 --> 02:33.134 Anyway, yeah, it's a record of naruto. Or are we watching a slice of life naruto today? 02:33.332 --> 02:36.670 It's a slice of somebody's life, just not ours. 02:39.250 --> 02:41.774 A little bit of a mech, kind of. 02:41.812 --> 02:53.378 Yeah. It's a recommendation from me. screw the listener. This one's my episode. But it's made in Abyss. It's a very popular series that came out two years ago, maybe. 02:53.544 --> 02:53.970 Yeah. 02:54.040 --> 02:54.258 2017. 02:54.264 --> 02:59.558 And it hit the ground running. It picked up momentum real fast, and. 02:59.644 --> 03:00.978 It won crunchy rolls. 03:00.994 --> 03:19.130 Best anime of 2017. understandably. I preferably would have picked something else, but that's just my preference. But it's a very solid one, and I look forward to hearing your reactions, particularly Duke Ins, because it's got some fun moments. Yeah. 03:19.200 --> 03:23.918 So, yeah. What are your histories with this show? Have you watched it before? 03:24.004 --> 03:50.638 Dana and Brendan after it won best Anime of 2017. Because I hadn't heard of it before. I watched, I think, the first four episodes, and I liked them, but I didn't keep watching it for some reason because I never do. Because I can never finish anything unless it's all in one sitting. And I just breeze through, got a real binge. 03:50.654 --> 03:53.106 It's too much anime to watch. To watch anime. 03:53.218 --> 03:55.526 So much anime, so little time. 03:55.708 --> 04:31.182 That's actually why I prefer dubs most of the time. Because if it's not something super engrossing, I'll have it on a second monitor, like in the background while playing something else and listen to it. Like if it's a slice of life where you don't have to watch every second of it and not like a mystery rate. My anime set up and I watched it when it came out or a little briefly after it came out because there was so much hype around it. And I was like, this one seems different. And a buddy of mine recommended it as well. So it got a little personal recommendations. Better than just an anonymous Internet community of the Internet. 04:31.326 --> 04:35.634 Because the Internet always has your best interest in heart. 04:35.752 --> 04:37.958 I mean, some of my friends have. 04:37.964 --> 04:39.640 Real shit failed me yet. 04:40.650 --> 04:51.000 It's a gamble either way for me. So my friends religiously make fun of my favorite anime and I religiously make fun of theirs because it's sort of hard online and it's very bad. 04:52.330 --> 04:52.982 That's bad. 04:53.036 --> 04:53.770 That's real bad. 04:53.840 --> 04:55.126 That's a bad favorite anime. 04:55.158 --> 04:59.002 Yeah, it made me question their taste. But hey, they don't listen to this show. 04:59.056 --> 05:01.206 Everyone that likes Sword Art online, that's. 05:01.238 --> 05:05.102 Her different episode that will hate watching. 05:05.236 --> 05:05.950 Hopefully not. 05:06.020 --> 05:06.398 Sorry. 05:06.484 --> 05:13.854 Hopefully not. So yeah, we're going to jump around in this one because I've already watched it all the first few episodes and. 05:13.892 --> 05:15.920 It'S all about you, right? 05:21.190 --> 05:26.870 I don't care if it makes sense to you guys, this is what I want to watch, says Brendan. 05:27.290 --> 05:31.320 If you make good content for yourself, other people will enjoy it. 05:33.370 --> 05:38.614 There's no narrative arc here. We're just watching my fave that makes. 05:38.652 --> 05:41.574 Fun of ditch mod and the Christmas. 05:41.622 --> 05:46.966 Episode, the beach episode. And also a character that you are introduced to dies. 05:47.078 --> 06:19.800 Yeah. Did you already watch this? So the beginning of this, there's a lot of world building and stuff and establishing. So some of the earlier episodes we can just skip ahead and we're savvy it'll, be filled in with context clues so we don't need to watch every single episode. So we'll jump around to episodes one, three, and five. And that's really when the momentum of the show starts going and starts picking up. So I figured that'd be a good intro. 06:20.730 --> 06:21.510 Yay. 06:22.250 --> 06:28.760 All right, let's go down, down into the event. 06:51.730 --> 06:53.470 We're back from the abyss. 06:54.210 --> 06:57.194 The abyss. She calls me my sweet lady. 06:57.242 --> 07:01.198 We're back. I brought you pringles, but they didn't. 07:01.214 --> 07:15.366 Have sour cream and onions, so it's like the weird seasonal flavor. They're trying to do, like promotional shift for. I think this one's like nacho cheese and toothpaste. It's going to be we'll see how that why are you holding out? 07:15.388 --> 07:18.578 Hope you couldn't even get me the pizza pringles. 07:18.754 --> 07:21.114 Wow. We get pizza pringles all the time. 07:21.312 --> 07:28.070 We wanted to mix it up. Also, we have pizza flavor blasted goldfish in the cupboard. 07:28.230 --> 07:28.842 You're right. 07:28.896 --> 07:30.710 And pizza rolls in the oven. 07:30.870 --> 07:33.914 And pizza bagels also in the toaster oven. 07:33.962 --> 07:35.470 And we're having those at any time. 07:35.540 --> 07:38.682 Brought to you by Tatinos. Tatinos Pizza. 07:38.746 --> 07:39.600 I love it. 07:41.010 --> 07:45.470 Tattinos, the gushers of hot pizza. They explode in your mouth. 07:45.630 --> 07:49.006 Anyway, hey, we're still in the abyss, apparently. 07:49.118 --> 07:55.246 That's how I feel. The abyss? The anime abyss. Oh, why don't we call it that? 07:55.368 --> 07:56.262 That'd be pretty good. 07:56.316 --> 07:56.866 Rebranding. 07:56.898 --> 07:57.960 Rebrand everything. 07:58.410 --> 08:00.120 Scrap it. We're starting over. 08:01.210 --> 08:03.090 Delete all the episodes. 08:03.250 --> 08:11.610 Square one. Okay, so, yeah, we watched episodes one, three, and five. I watched all three dubbed. 08:11.950 --> 08:13.606 I watch all three subbed. 08:13.718 --> 08:16.698 What? ooh, shaking things up a bit. 08:16.864 --> 08:20.282 That was all that was on Amazon Prime fair. 08:20.416 --> 08:35.346 I watched it subbed initially, so I watched it dubbed this time, but I still watched episode three dubbed to see if there's any differences because sometimes they translate stuff weird. This one they didn't. They did a very good job with both the casting and the translation. I approved cool help. 08:35.448 --> 08:36.674 And that's all they need, right? 08:36.712 --> 08:39.922 Yeah, my recommendation, because that worked out. 08:39.976 --> 08:41.518 So well most of the time. Katie? 08:41.534 --> 08:46.820 Yeah. Did you mind? 08:47.750 --> 08:50.886 I am being attacked right now and I do not appreciate it. 08:50.988 --> 08:52.390 That's all this podcast is. 08:52.460 --> 08:55.320 It feels like it sometimes. It certainly feels like it. 08:55.690 --> 08:57.320 You know, we like you. 08:58.590 --> 09:01.046 You also know you should be attacked. 09:01.238 --> 09:03.130 I think that was more accurate. 09:03.710 --> 09:05.126 You do it on purpose. 09:05.238 --> 10:44.090 All right, episode one. We open up with our main character, rico, the blonde haired little girl, and like a spunking outfit with a hard hat and a big backpack and a pickaxe and all that stuff. And she's running around with a buddy of hers, nate. So brown haired little unassuming boy. Doesn't matter, he's going to be out of here in three episodes. And they're looking for relics. They're like Indiana Jones but with less nazis. And they're trying to find I mean, it's made in Abyss. There's an abyss and they're like the top surface that's pretty clear from the setting. And they're looking for relics from like 2000 years ago that just show up and like no one's really sure what the civilization is. And some of these relics are just like sort of magical. Like they're just so advanced. One of those like hyper advanced civilizations that died out. And rico is very optimistic about her findings because even though they're only on the first level and it's usually just kind of crap over there, you don't really get any of the good stuff. She thinks we're not going to find any quality relics, so we got to find a quantity of relics. So she's trying to find a bunch of them to make up for it. And she said she already found the star compass, but she's not supposed to have that, so don't tell anyone. And as keep it on the dm. Don't tell anyone. And she starts mining for relics in this, like, little cave area. And we get a little montage of her just digging out different stuff, finding stuff like, oh, that's one. Oh, that's another one. Oh, that's another one. And she finds a grave skeleton. You get all shook. Get a bony man in a little grave praying. 10:44.430 --> 10:46.038 It's pronounced bonyver. 10:46.214 --> 11:11.730 Thank you. And we find out. They find a few lead graves. She said she hasn't found one in a few months, I believe. And we see it in a later episode. nate finds one and he's like, yeah, every time we find a body, they're always in this praying position. And we don't know why, but we just cover them back up and continue on. So try not to disturb the body. Don't think about it. Don't think about this small child discovering bodies as grave robbers. 11:12.470 --> 11:18.920 It definitely won't be relevant later in this anime series. No, says the character in the show. 11:20.090 --> 11:38.694 So we see rico kind of heading on back and we see her struggling with her backpack because it's real full now. She's got a bunch of Alex. So she did what she set out to do and found a bunch of them. And on her way back, she sees like kind of wriggling above her goes, wormy. Son of a bitch. 11:38.822 --> 11:45.550 And she says, oh, no, it's big, hairy and pink. 11:46.370 --> 11:50.480 Yeah, yeah, actually it is. That actually discusses very well. 11:51.010 --> 11:52.410 Thanks, spongebob. 11:52.570 --> 13:02.578 She calls it a crimson splitchall. And it's this yeah, giant wormy. They call it snake sort of monster. She's like, oh, no, like that's they usually aren't up here on the first level. What's it doing up here? Like, they're pretty dangerous. And that's when she sees nate or nat on a cliffhange and he's bleeding out, like he was knocked unconscious and the crimson split jaws are coming in for him. He's just like, oh, shit, he's super dead. So rico just kind of panics and it's like, what do I do? And they all have these whistles with them and it's both marker of their status, but it's good for looking for teams and calling out for help and stuff. So her and nat are red whistles and she blows into the whistle and lets out this huge screech to draw its attention. As soon she does, it works and she just starts running. And now the big monster, she's after her and she's got no other plan. And as soon as it comes up to her just tail smacks her and just launches her, just hits her full force. She goes, like flying off a cliff edge and falls down. She's like, oh, God, my arm isn't broken. Oh, hey, it's not meat. And gets back up and starts running. And then she's like trying to evade. 13:02.594 --> 13:03.878 It kids, man. 13:04.044 --> 13:30.430 They're indestructible for now. And she's bobbing and weaving through this forested area and it's coming after her and it's getting real close. It's about to get her. And then just a huge light beam comes out of nowhere and just, like, scars half its face, and it goes running off. And then you see it flying in the distance. So it's also a big ass angry worm thing and can also fly. So awesome. This abyss is a nightmare. 13:31.490 --> 13:32.558 All good stuff. 13:32.644 --> 13:53.510 Yeah, fantastic. Evolution is a curse. And she notices that beam, like, burnt through all these, like, petrified trees that are they're petrified. So they're basically stone now. So she's like, that was powerful to, like, burn through and like, what the hell was that? And when she goes back looking, she finds a little robot boy, little Mr. Robot. She's like, oh, jeez. 13:53.930 --> 13:55.030 Astro boy. 13:55.100 --> 14:17.230 Basically, he kind of looks like he's got a big clunky feet and arms. He's got a little helmet. She's like, oh, God damn, you're like a crazy relic. You must have come up from the abyss, because she knew everyone that was going in on their trip. So she's like, oh, jeez, this is the mother load. And then we get hot diggity shit. And we get the title sequence. 14:18.450 --> 14:20.714 But it's not really the title sequence. 14:20.762 --> 14:21.630 No, not quite. 14:21.700 --> 14:23.482 It's a fun prank. 14:23.626 --> 15:00.620 It's one of those where the opening credits are playing, and then the story is still going on in the background while just music is playing. So we don't hear any of the dialogue, but the intro is playing. And we see rico Karen, this robot boy, back, and she finds nat, and he's awake now, still bloodied, and he helps her carry the robot back up. And we see them struggling because it's real heavy. And then they get back to the village, and we see, like, it's sunset now, so it took, like, all day for them to get back. They catch a ride by a passing farmer, and there's a chance for the opening to really establish the setting. And we get a lot of city shots, and we get a few glimpses of the abyss and stuff. It's very beautiful. 15:01.810 --> 15:02.990 Yeah, it is. 15:03.140 --> 15:58.238 This is when they get dropped off. All right, time for the hardest part. Here we go. And that's when they bumped into their buddy shiggy, which I don't know why the name shiggy tickles me. And shiggy's got glasses, so he's the Edo of the cartoon, and his personality is nerd. And as they're getting back up, they're going back to their orphanage where they all live. And they're late, so they got to sneak back in. But also they got this big crazy robot they don't want the headmistress to know about, so they got to sneak him in too. And that's when she gets an idea. He's like, oh, hold up. Wait here. And sneaks off to the side of the orphanage and sees a buddy there's, like a little wee baby, just like real tiny, it looks like, just straight up a baby. But it talks fine. It can interact with him. 15:58.244 --> 16:00.574 So it's like, stop calling him an it. 16:00.772 --> 16:04.510 I don't know. It's Kiwi. ki. 16:04.590 --> 16:05.502 Yeah, kiwi. 16:05.566 --> 16:45.306 Kiwi. And it seems smart for a toddler, so it seems educated. It's okay, Kiwi, we got to sneak back in. You're up there on the balcony reading the book. How about you throw your book down and start crying? And then the headmaster just comes and picks up the book and we can sneak in, but he doesn't say it. shiggy is like, doing all, like, hand signs and charades to convey this and can be just like, oh yeah, I get you, bro. I got you, and throws the book down and just starts crying. And the headmistress is out by the front gate, like runs over and just like goddamn it, how many times I tell you not to read on the balcony? If you read this one, drop this book one more time, I'm taking it away from you. And that's when they sneak the robot. 16:45.338 --> 16:47.998 In, and that's how you know they've done it before. 16:48.084 --> 16:49.134 Yeah, this is the first. 16:49.172 --> 16:51.646 And the headmistress is dumb enough to. 16:51.668 --> 16:52.874 Fall for every town. 16:52.922 --> 16:54.930 Those crafty orphans. 16:57.190 --> 17:01.474 Got to learn a lot when you don't have parents the next day. 17:01.512 --> 17:02.980 Yeah, it's a hard knock life. 17:03.510 --> 17:22.386 God dammit, I should have seen that coming. Next day they're in class and we see this, just a regular classroom, but we see all the desks are mounted up on the wall, and they're all vertical. And you have to use rope ladders to get up to your desk, which is just very odd, but very cool. Like a very interesting choice. 17:22.418 --> 17:23.574 They got to know how to climb. 17:23.622 --> 18:38.850 Yeah, I mean, it makes sense. There's probably not a lot of room. We see the islands, like really compact, very dense, so there's probably not a ton of room for buildings. And in class, teachers just going over usual stuff. And the headmistress is also there in class, and he's like, oh, yeah, by the way, the headmistress wants to give us a little speech real quick. And she's like, oh, class, just want to tell you to be careful. You're going out on expeditions now to the first layer. It's still dangerous, and if you find any relics, bring them back and give them to the orphanage because we sell those and then help fund the orphanage. And I swear to God, if any of you are hoarding any relics, I'm going to tie you up naked. And she's like, really eyeing up rico when she says that. It's kind of like, shit, she knows. And pembury doesn't say anything else. So rico is like, whoo, I got by, but definitely has a feeling she's being watched. And we find out. rico is like, the troublemaker. So it makes sense she's eyeing up her. And after class the teacher pulls her aside and it's kind of like, hey, what happened with you and nat? Like, with the expedition where he got hurt. What was going on. She's like, oh, this big crimson splitch. All came down, started attacking us. And then I got away because I found this. I got away. Nothing weird happened at all. Totally didn't find a robot. 18:39.670 --> 18:42.878 No beams, no fire. It's all good, bud. 18:42.974 --> 19:12.874 I was crafty. I use my arts and crafts to escape. And then we see rica says she wants to be like a white whistle, which is the highest rank of explorers and cave raiders. We see the teacher's like a purple whistle, so there's different levels. And she hopes to be a white whistle just like her mom was. And so she can go down and try and see what they see and what was so alluring that her mom kind of abandoned her at the orphanage for? 19:13.072 --> 19:18.830 Yeah, because there's also, like a hierarchy of how deep you can go based on the color of your whistle. 19:19.330 --> 19:52.954 Yeah, we get a little more into that in later episodes, but skill level correlates with abyss layer or a level. And she's like, super eager to just dive into the abyss. She's like, I want to explore and teach like you're. Twelve. chill. And after they talk, we see the gang, the the boys, nat, shiggy, Kiwi come running and they're eavesdropping. And then they run up to her room with her and they try to wake up the robot by just electrocuting the shit out of them. Which I mean, it's fair. It's a robot. I'd probably do the same. 19:53.072 --> 19:53.994 Good plan, kids. 19:54.032 --> 20:32.390 And it works. So he wakes up and joslyn's. Just like, god. Jesus Christ. Why? He's like, bone. He's aware now, but he's like, electric bone. He's like, oh my God, that hurt so bad. Why did you do this to me? And so he wakes up and they start talking to him, and he sees just a bunch of torture stuff, like up on the walls. He's like, Where am I? Why am I strapped to a chair? What is happening? And they're like, oh, this used to be an old torture room before this place was an orphanage. And Rica is the troublemaker. So they put her in here and it's like, cool. Why are they still full of torture devices? 20:32.970 --> 20:39.062 Yeah, why would they keep her, the troublemaker in the room with all these torture instruments? 20:39.126 --> 20:44.246 Yeah, I feel like that's asking for trouble. Especially from the troublemaker. 20:44.438 --> 20:50.170 Let's give the dangerous kid all the things that are dangerous. Yeah, you know, as a deterrent. 20:52.270 --> 21:12.722 And rico asked, like, who are you? What are you doing down there? Do you remember anything from this? And he's just like, nah, man, I don't remember nothing. Just like, you're a robot. How do you not remember anything? He's like, I'm a robot. What the fuck? He clearly doesn't even remember what he is, let alone who he is or why he was down there. So he's very caught off guard. And she comes running. 21:12.776 --> 21:16.070 Do you have waking up with amnesia on our bingo list? 21:16.220 --> 21:24.230 We have to or here we go. New kid in school. New kid in class. There we go. Transfer student from the abyss. 21:25.290 --> 21:27.350 I was from robo Academy. 21:28.730 --> 21:43.962 I majored in deep, poop. And shiggy comes running in, and he's like, oh, shit, guys. We blew a fuse. Like, all the electricity is out in the orphanage because we shocked them awake. And they're just like, oh, shit. He's going to know, and immediately sum it to us, which he does. 21:44.096 --> 21:49.022 So like, because there is an electric chair in my room, of course we're going to believe. 21:49.156 --> 22:21.578 Who else would it be? And they throw a blanket over the robot, and they're kind of like, shit, he's got to hide. And shiggy and the gang, like, sneak out the window of rica's room. And it's like, don't write us out. Don't tell anyone. And the teacher comes in and checks on her, and it's like, all right. what'd you do? She's like, why do you think it's me? It's always you. You're the main character. Who else would it be? He goes towards the COVID and she's like, freaking out. Like, oh, no, he's going to find it. He pulls the COVID off the electric chair, and it's empty. She's like, oh, where did he go? 22:21.744 --> 22:23.206 Sick magic trick. 22:23.318 --> 23:44.606 Robot magic. And he's like, all right, this is clearly, like, chicago's work. He's the little nerd. Like, he'd be rigging up some weird electric chair or something, and he hits rico over the head and starts, like, lecturing her. He's like, what the hell are you guys doing? Like, you know, we don't have a ton of resources. Like, don't be draining the electricity and all this stuff. And while he's lecturing her, we see the robot kind of, like, repelling, I guess, ascending up into the ceiling from his extended robot arm that has, like, a wire coming out of it. And it's just like, oh, shit. He can do that. And he's like, clearly hiding. I'm like, oh, I get it now. I'm not supposed to be found. So he's he's not aware he's a robot, but he's quick on the uptake of like, oh, I got to be sneaky. And that's when the teacher goes out to find the rest of the gang to see what they were doing. And he takes rico out with her. And we see the robot boy jump, drop down and try and checking himself out in the mirror, trying to figure out who he is and what he is. And he's like, surprised. He's like, why would a robot need a belly button? So he's already aware of what a belly button for birth? And he's like, a robot wouldn't need that. It is I mean, it comes from it. What kind of are you kidding? What? Of course. Wait, it's a tale. 23:44.638 --> 23:47.110 How dare you think I'm that stupid? 23:47.450 --> 23:48.600 I'm sorry. 23:49.210 --> 23:52.870 It came from a very conservative catholic Northeast. 23:53.210 --> 23:54.440 That is fair. 23:55.210 --> 26:28.774 They see some crazy shit there. So while the robot is like, looking over me like, why don't I have a belly bund if I'm a robot? And you see him pull open his pants, he's like, what do I got back? So he got that beanis. He's got that beanus. And rico runs back in. He's like she's like, hey, I got away. We got to get out of here, though. A teacher come after me. We got to get you the hell out of this building. And the robot just like, got you. Grab onto me and just extend our arms out the window and sucks them out. And we can hear the teacher run around the building, like, looking for rico still. And once they're outside, rico just like, all right, can't call you robot anymore. We need to give you a name. You're going to be reg. He's like, Why am I reg? She's like, that was my name with an old dog I had. He's like, cool, great. Thank you. I love being a dog's name. And rico takes reg up to the top of this hill, and she's like, out of breath. And he's just kind of, like, running up. And we see the sunrise, and we just get a huge panoramic shot of the city. And she's like, this is where we live. And this crazy music starts playing that is only used in this first episode. It's not like an intro or outro song or anything, but it's very thematic and, like, high energy and very atmospheric. And she's like, this is the town, and that's the abyss right in the center. And it's just like, 60% of what we see is just the abyss. And then the outer ring around it is all just a very dense town. And reg is just like, what the hell's the abyss? She's like, what do you mean? You came from it? He's like, I don't know. I'm a robot. Why would I know what the abyss is? She's like, fair. And she's thinking that he came from the bottom. He's powerful and a robot and sentient and better than any other relics they found. So she's like, you're a high class. You came from the bottom of the abyss. We got to figure out what's going on with you. And then we just get a few panning shots and the narrator voiceover coming in kind of explaining kind of the nature of the pit and the abyss, and that just one day it appeared on this island. And just no one really knows why or how. And there's just all these sorts of monsters inside and old relics from an old civilization. And that hunters from all around the world came to this island to explore it and try and get rich quick from these relics. And so many hunters came there. Eventually they just formed the village inside this massive crater on the island around the abyss. And that's where they are. 26:28.892 --> 26:38.140 So that's episode we almost made it a full episode without unnecessary exposition, but right at the end, they got it. 26:39.150 --> 26:44.666 It's tough to naturally explain this giant demonic hole in the grounds, but I. 26:44.688 --> 26:46.918 Mean, like, call it unnecessary exposure. 26:46.934 --> 26:49.962 I find it very necessary because it's a confusing premise. 26:50.106 --> 27:04.430 But, like, everything they said. Yeah. They founded a city at the top of a void. We saw that. That's been established visually in the story. I wasn't confused up until this point. 27:04.580 --> 27:20.134 Yeah, it but it might be weird if it's like, oh, yeah, there's cribs and splitchalls all over the world versus this, where it's like this hole just appear here and fucking no one knows what this is besides the Abyss. The rest of that planet could just be Earth, like, normal, but we wouldn't know that because we only see the one island. 27:20.262 --> 27:23.594 Yeah, I didn't need it. 27:23.632 --> 27:28.874 You wish. It was rather like in character versus just voice of God explaining it all. 27:29.072 --> 27:46.066 Yeah, because a lot of it you can pick up through context clues. Since we only see a monster in the void, I assume they're only in the void. The real monster at the top of the void. I don't think we need to know that they made a city at the. 27:46.088 --> 27:51.202 Top of a void. I enjoyed it. I like world building. 27:51.336 --> 27:58.946 So episode three, this will be fairly quick since one thing happens. 27:59.048 --> 28:01.080 It's just a lot of build up to it. 28:01.450 --> 28:01.862 Yeah. 28:01.916 --> 28:03.110 The great escape. 28:03.690 --> 28:17.690 At some point in episode two, we find a note from rico's mom, who was a white whistle that descended into the depths. And the note basically reads, come meet me here. I'm waiting. 28:19.070 --> 28:33.620 Little backstory. Just because we kind of skipped over it. That letter wasn't directed to her. They got a letter and, like, the council or whoever was reading it, and rico and Ray snuck in and stole the letter. So it wasn't explicitly addressed to her. 28:34.790 --> 28:35.538 Got you. 28:35.624 --> 28:38.900 She just thinks it is cool. 28:41.910 --> 28:46.450 Yeah. Letter from mom saying, I'm waiting. I'm alive. 28:47.430 --> 28:48.920 Saying you are. 28:52.650 --> 29:18.334 Btrb, bring that robot. rico is now dead set on getting to the bottom of the Abyss, and all the friends are there. They're all chatting about it because that's a crazy plan, but they're more focused on tomorrow. Is reg's first cave raid with them? 29:18.452 --> 29:27.026 Yeah, I think somewhere in episode two, they tried to hide him, and they're just like, fuck it, here it is. Here's this new kid. He's totally normal and part of our. 29:27.048 --> 29:30.210 Gang and just ignore his medal. 29:30.550 --> 29:32.178 Yeah, don't worry about that. 29:32.264 --> 29:53.366 We read more notes from the mom sort of chronicling the deeper parts of the Abyss, all the different monsters, and talking about this figure that's watching. And there's a sketch that is this tall linky man silhouette that just stands. 29:53.398 --> 29:57.018 By versus all these other monsters that it stands out because it's not a. 29:57.024 --> 30:02.254 Monster, just a dude on. His way to the grocery store. 30:02.372 --> 30:08.826 Just the Abyss Convenience Store. Got to pick up some talkies. 30:09.018 --> 30:15.022 Got to go to Trader reco's. I'm sorry. 30:15.156 --> 30:15.840 Okay. 30:18.930 --> 30:46.700 Greg is out on the cave raid with Nat. They're chatting. They're finding these weird, like, egg things with his metal arms. Is super strong and can lift up, like the big heavy rocks that people haven't been able to lift. And they also find another skeleton in prayer. And they're just doing their orphans stuff. 30:47.710 --> 31:00.990 You know how looking for pennies. Oh, there was the opening sequence in this episode, and I just wanted to point out I like it because the opening song is sung by the rico and regs Japanese voice actors. 31:03.250 --> 31:09.602 I did not pick up on that or really noticed the opening out there. It was fun. 31:09.656 --> 31:10.770 It's an opening. 31:11.510 --> 31:14.210 Yeah, it wasn't amazing. But who lies? 31:15.210 --> 31:26.360 So they're talking about The Abyss, and Nat gets mad at the concept of them leaving and storms off. 31:27.690 --> 31:47.550 Before that. When Ray finds the skeleton, nat tries to scare him a little more by telling him, like a spooky rumor about kids in the Western District dying on their birthdays. And when they wake up, they look in a mirror and their necks all twisted, and it's kind of like a bad omen that they're going to die that day from whatever's killing off these kids spooky. 31:47.970 --> 31:51.678 I was going to skip it because it doesn't really come into play. 31:51.764 --> 31:53.440 It does in episode five. 31:54.850 --> 31:55.374 Does it? 31:55.412 --> 31:58.898 A little bit. We'll get there okay? We don't need to linger on it. 31:58.984 --> 31:59.842 Did I miss it? 31:59.896 --> 32:04.820 It's real quick. It's real quick. Or no later in this episode. Never mind. Keep going. 32:05.690 --> 32:08.040 Yeah. Beach. You can. 32:08.490 --> 32:09.190 It works. 32:09.260 --> 32:09.734 Yeah. 32:09.852 --> 32:10.966 Settle down. 32:11.148 --> 32:13.030 This is my episode. 32:13.450 --> 32:14.840 Settle down, class. 32:15.770 --> 32:31.580 So reg catches up to Nat, who is feeling sick from The Curse of the Abyss, which I guess is something. 32:31.970 --> 32:37.630 That they talk about in episode two, I guess. But it's like a disease. 32:38.130 --> 33:02.486 It's like extreme altitude poisoning where you can go in and come out at certain levels, fine. But if you go too far in, you'll start getting different effects. So level one, you'll start feeling like sick. Level two, you get like, worse. And at a certain point you can come back up. If you go down to a certain level and come back up, you'll just straight die from it. So some levels is just pretty much suicide because you can never come back up. 33:02.668 --> 33:04.050 Like the benz. 33:04.130 --> 33:05.160 Yeah, exactly. 33:05.770 --> 33:08.410 Except you now live on the bottom of the ocean now. 33:08.480 --> 33:10.058 Exactly. congrats. You're a fish man. 33:10.144 --> 33:11.660 This is my house now. 33:13.230 --> 34:16.522 So they're back at the orphanage that night. They're getting their final plans together because they're deciding to descend into the Abyss tomorrow. So shiggy managed to swipe the most recent map of the Abyss for them, and we get a breakdown of the different layers of the level two is like an upside down forest that it's fine to go there, but it's just dangerous. The further you get down, the survival rate of everyone that goes down there is much lower and you need to be a much higher rank. I think there were like seven layers, and starting at layer six, that was sort of the point of no return, where the returning people you could count on one hand. So it's super duper duper dangerous. 34:16.586 --> 34:19.360 Yeah. The danger escalates real fast. 34:21.410 --> 34:41.800 So as they're sort of getting all their plans together, nat is like, you're all idiots. You really think your mom is just sitting in the bottom of a pit? She's dead. Just accept that she's dead. And that makes rico cry because yeah, why wouldn't it? 34:42.730 --> 34:43.750 Logically. 34:44.490 --> 34:45.240 So. 34:48.170 --> 34:57.066 Rico kind of like runs out and reg is kind of sitting there, like with the rest of the gang, just kind of like, nah, think I'll go with her. I think I'll help her out. 34:57.168 --> 34:57.914 Yeah. 34:58.112 --> 35:38.200 Sorry, my notes are not good. Yeah, they're all starting to leave because they're all going to walk out and help rico and reg get to the abyss. But before they go, reg wants to go back in and try to find that because they may never see him again and don't want that bad moment to be their last memory of each other. So he sneaks into the main sleeping quarters. Yes, sleeping quarters. Bunk room. 35:38.650 --> 35:42.010 I guess they got bunk beds. So being an orphan's not all bad. 35:42.160 --> 35:42.860 Yeah. 35:46.830 --> 35:49.914 I may not have parents, but at least I have a bunk bed. 35:50.032 --> 35:55.760 He goes in to find ned, who's not there. He finds like a stuffed animal or pillow in his place in his bed. 35:56.930 --> 36:09.534 But also finds Kiwi. And Greg says his goodbye is there and is like, oh, also, your birthday soon. Don't look in the mirror. Goodbye, good luck. 36:09.662 --> 36:14.398 See, it's relevant. Well, Kiwi is also sick. Like, he's coughing. 36:14.574 --> 36:16.070 Yeah, he coughs. 36:17.050 --> 36:25.154 So important. We're going to get into the Kiwi chronicles after this. That's a whole spin off. No, about his birthday party. 36:25.202 --> 36:27.622 Like, you joke, but like, what if. 36:27.756 --> 36:33.980 He'D probably do that thing if he had a tissue, he'd probably do that thing where he coughs into it and pulls back next. 36:35.150 --> 36:36.780 Yeah, probably something like that. 36:38.670 --> 36:59.810 So sneaking back out of the bunk room, the adult finds him as like, hey, what are you doing, the fuck? Which is also confusing to me since we didn't see the part where he was established as being an orphan. So I was like, oh, the jig is up. They found this rubo boy and he was like, no, chill, just got a poop. 37:00.310 --> 37:03.940 Don't mind me, just pooping my robot poop things. 37:05.610 --> 37:15.202 And the adults like, hey, and also, where's rico? I checked in on her. Also pooping. So I got to get to it, chief. 37:15.266 --> 37:16.630 We love to poop. 37:17.310 --> 37:20.220 You know us orphans. Pooping is our favorite thing. 37:20.830 --> 37:21.980 Oh my God. 37:23.230 --> 37:51.358 So, yeah, they run away and they get out of the building. So they're all walking to the old wharf Quarter, which has like an unguarded path down into the abyss so they can sneak down the back road. And they're being led there by a surprise. It's Nat, because he is from this quarter and knows the secret ways where they won't get caught. 37:51.454 --> 37:59.250 I like how he comes out covered with his face covered in a mask. And rica just immediately just like, Nat, what the fuck? It just calls him out instantly. 38:00.150 --> 38:02.154 My dude, you are not sneeze. 38:02.302 --> 38:03.910 You're as subtle as a truck. 38:04.730 --> 38:56.402 So they get to the final dock and Nat apologizes, being like, hey, that wasn't cool. And the apology is accepted by rico. And they're going out on good terms. They talk about trying to keep in touch by sending up their signal balloons with mail. But the deeper they go, the less likely the balloon makes it to the top. So the plan is just going to be to spam a bunch of balloons up so odds are will make it. So as they're about to jump down, everyone's super emotional, everyone's super cry. Greg finds like a note in his bag that isn't addressed here and they jump on down. And that's basically the episode. 38:56.546 --> 39:43.494 Yeah, I like this area because it's kind of like the slumsa area. And as nat's guiding him through, he's kind of explaining like, oh yeah, I was born here. And it's a bunch of people picking through trash and stuff. And they built the city further and further over the abyss. That way they have a better chance of going down like splunking and cave exploring. And that's why there's kind of the secret entrance way of getting in. And they said by building the buildings over top of the abyss, they're getting the air directly from it and it's making all these people sick. So that's why it's kind of like the slums and the poor dirty area because most people die and get diseases and stuff. So just being in proximity to the abyss or being above it is like killing people. They got that Stank Win, got that. 39:43.612 --> 39:46.390 Deep Earth funk, got that pollution. 39:46.890 --> 39:49.190 Got you. It's all captain planet anime. 39:51.550 --> 40:04.062 It's all a metaphor for climate change. Anyway, episode five starts with them descending into the second layer. They're doing great. Here we go. 40:04.116 --> 40:05.310 Coming up roses. 40:05.810 --> 40:14.878 And they talk about how they were being pursued by someone or something, but they lost them. So they're like, oh, thank goodness there. 40:14.884 --> 40:17.306 Were some raiders on the previous level. 40:17.428 --> 40:25.458 Yeah, it was the teacher and some of the other adults trying to go after them because kids shouldn't be going down the best by themselves, but they got away. 40:25.624 --> 40:32.134 I love that because I just thought they were like bad people. But no, no, there's people who want to help. 40:32.172 --> 40:39.350 There's like a friendly uncle character who catches up with them and he's like, hey, don't go by yourself. I got it. He's like, okay, here's some extra supplies. 40:41.210 --> 40:41.814 Nice. 40:41.932 --> 40:49.642 Wait, if she has, like, an uncle character there, that's like an uncle figure for her. Why is okay. 40:49.696 --> 40:52.890 He's like a shopkeeper. They're just friends. Like, they're not actually related. 40:53.050 --> 41:04.880 Okay, I was about to say uncle. That's a shitty uncle. He's like, yeah, keep chilling in that orphanage. I know your mom's deep in that hole or dead or something, but. 41:06.690 --> 41:07.006 I. 41:07.028 --> 41:10.238 Don'T have the time to deal with I'm so busy. 41:10.414 --> 41:21.240 I got to go back to my miniatures and my train sets, and I don't have time. No, he's just like a family friend. She's at his shop a lot and stuff. So yeah, got you. 41:22.810 --> 41:41.558 But so they're in the second layer, and they're in this forest of, like, big leaf trees. And he's like, These are nice. And she's like, yeah. They're like these little leaves on their stems that point toward the opening of the abyss. So if you're ever lost, just look for these leaves. 41:41.734 --> 41:44.682 Very knowledgeable about the abyss and all the wildlife. 41:44.746 --> 41:54.078 Yeah. And reg says, like, wow, you seem so much smarter down here than up there. And she's like, thank you, I think. 41:54.244 --> 41:55.886 Wow, rude boy. 41:56.068 --> 41:57.662 She's pretty dumb, actually. 41:57.796 --> 42:08.370 We see that she's the nerdy, obsessive type of character about the abyss. So when she's in the abyss and talking about the abyss, she's knowledgeable, but outside of that, in the city, she's just aloof. 42:08.890 --> 42:17.878 Yeah. And then they hear someone calling for help. It sounds like an old man calling for help. And I right away was like, no one has a trap, right? 42:17.964 --> 42:19.194 What could go wrong here? 42:19.312 --> 42:21.546 We're all on board. This is a real human name. 42:21.568 --> 42:23.930 Yeah, super legit. 42:25.150 --> 42:53.134 So they follow the voice, and surprise, they get there, and it's a trash. It is a large bird type creature called a corpse weeper, and its call sounds like someone calling for help. So there's a guy on the ground, and before they say all that, they're like, oh, maybe it was him. But then the bird thing turns around, and it's, like, slurping up his intestines. And they're like, oh, never mind, he's dead. 42:53.262 --> 43:20.570 There's a few title card like intros for some of the episodes, and it's its own language, so I believe in the sobs, they explain it, but we get a little intro card for the corpse sweeper. And it says, while eating through the prey stomach, it blows air through its windpipes and copies the last noises they made when they attacked. So that's why it's like eating through its stomach. It's like breathing air back through its mouth and like, copying the voice metal. 43:23.330 --> 43:32.582 And so they're like, maybe we should go walk away. And then they're distracted, watching the one in front of them. And another one swoops in and snags rico. 43:32.666 --> 43:33.940 Nothing personal, kid. 43:35.270 --> 43:38.020 Just going to feed my little monster children. 43:40.150 --> 43:47.330 And reg shoots his arm, but it gets smacked by another one. There's like a whole bunch there. 43:47.400 --> 43:48.870 They lured him to the nest. 43:49.530 --> 43:58.730 Yeah. And they're all blocking his way so he can't save her. She's flying further and further away, and then he sees her being lowered down to the babies. 44:05.230 --> 44:06.650 Corpse birds. 44:07.630 --> 44:27.460 Yeah. And he has a weird vision, and he goes all blurry. And then he's like, my body remembers how to shoot me. Laser. And then he holds up his hand and he shoots his laser laser malazer. And he saved her. 44:28.630 --> 44:33.330 Just destroyed everything else in sight. Very powerful. 44:34.070 --> 44:44.006 And he grabs her, and she's got, like, Boris on her because she's being affected by the cursed thing, but also probably just because she was freaked out. 44:44.188 --> 44:45.046 We've all been there. 44:45.068 --> 44:48.230 A monster flew her over a bottomless pit. 44:50.730 --> 44:57.820 I'm taking a turn in the car too fast. Like, I get it. Yeah, we've all done this. 44:58.750 --> 45:10.080 Sometimes you say things and I'm like, looking down at my nose, and then I just come back up after you're finished saying something most of the time. And then I realize what you said. 45:11.250 --> 45:13.054 It's not as universal as you think. 45:13.092 --> 45:13.760 It is. 45:15.970 --> 45:37.318 But so Greg is looking over what he just did, and he's like, oh, I did a lot of damage. What if I hit rico? She would have been dead for sure. And he's, like, looking at his hand, and it's all twitchy, and he just has this moment where he's thinking about it, and he's like, I don't know what I am. 45:37.404 --> 45:38.546 A monster. 45:38.738 --> 46:13.186 Who am I about to say that a little bit later? And rico is waking up, and regga is, like, looking over her. He's like, oh, thank goodness she's not injured. And then he noticed she's waking up, and he like, gets all embarrassed. He's like, go heck frick frick. Because while she was unconscious, he undressed her. And she was like, oh. And he was like, you had barf on your clothes. And also I wanted to make sure you weren't injured. And he's like, all blushy and embarrassed, and she's like, It's fine, dude, I. 46:13.208 --> 46:27.160 Could have used reagan College. This would have been real nice if someone took all my vomity clothes off of me when I passed out. Yeah, me either. I had shitty friends in college. 46:28.890 --> 46:35.420 I haven't been to college. Anyway. 46:38.190 --> 47:04.450 I was a shit. I had my roommate accidentally sliced his finger open trying to build a computer, and he just walks in the living room. He's like, hey, I'm walking to the hospital. I need stitches. And my roommates and I were like, Go see it. And then five minutes later, we just looked to each other and we're like, she should have gone with a mop. It just did not. 47:04.520 --> 47:08.114 Dawn so casually went like, well, go to hospital. 47:08.162 --> 47:08.514 Bye. 47:08.562 --> 47:09.414 Have fun. 47:09.612 --> 47:24.470 Love it. So she gets up and she sees all the damage he did. She's like, that's sick, bro. He's like, I don't know. I kind of feel like this is a curse. 47:24.630 --> 47:25.882 It's a big deal. 47:26.016 --> 47:36.800 And she's like, we got to name it. We got to give it a sick name. How about incinerator? He doesn't really object. 47:37.250 --> 47:39.390 Murder. tron five theft. 47:40.450 --> 47:49.402 That's your new. And she looks it over, and she says, you can probably control it. I'll train you. 47:49.556 --> 47:51.410 I don't know what it is, but I'll train you. 47:51.480 --> 47:56.374 That's nice. Yeah, I can do I'll figure it out. I'm so smart down here. 47:56.492 --> 47:58.230 The curse makes me smarter. 47:59.450 --> 48:22.262 And then reg gets all dizzy, and he blacks out, and he has this weird dream, or maybe it's a vision of a corpse weeper eating rico. And while she's being eaten, the sound that's coming out is her saying, it's gone. Over and over again. And then she, like, explodes. 48:22.326 --> 48:25.200 It was the incinerator beam wiping out everything. 48:26.930 --> 48:38.900 Sick. He wakes up. Yeah, and then he wakes up, and she is yelling, it's gone. And he's like, what happened? What happened? And she's like, oh, you're awake. What happened? 48:39.270 --> 48:40.610 Hoops, hoops. 48:42.790 --> 49:02.218 And she's upset because she lost her notebook. She's been taking notes in this little notebook about stuff, and she must have dropped it when the corpse weeper took her beans. And it's at this moment. It's at this moment. They also mentioned that she dropped the star compass, too, which is kind of. 49:02.224 --> 49:04.778 Pointing them to the bottom, or so she thought. 49:04.944 --> 49:05.514 Yeah. 49:05.632 --> 49:06.330 Kind of important. 49:06.400 --> 49:10.134 I mean, it's not that hard to just find the bottom of a hole. 49:10.182 --> 49:11.358 You don't know what the abyss is. 49:11.364 --> 49:14.186 Like, jump. Why don't they just jump? 49:14.218 --> 49:16.750 You'll hit the bomb, eventually catch something. 49:16.820 --> 49:17.754 At the last minute. 49:17.802 --> 49:34.382 Robot man. Yeah, and then reg we missed this too. I think this is an episode two where she's, like, taking notes about his body. So he's like, she wrote about my dip and that I hope it stays lost. 49:34.526 --> 49:35.970 Burn the evidence. 49:36.570 --> 49:38.534 Burn it. Burn it. 49:38.652 --> 49:39.906 Burn the dip. 49:40.018 --> 49:41.750 No, not the dick. 49:42.250 --> 49:54.374 Just kidding. It doesn't and then they're like, let's eat some dinner. So they make up some meats. She grills some meats on a rock. 49:54.502 --> 49:59.654 With some leaves she found. Kind of a pretty good coat for out in the wilderness. 49:59.782 --> 50:07.866 Yeah. And he's like, this is pretty good. There's something weird about it. And she's like, yeah, it's the meat from a corpse weeper that you killed. 50:08.058 --> 50:08.702 Oh. 50:08.836 --> 50:11.150 And he's like, cool. 50:11.220 --> 50:20.498 You mean the thing that gets all its energy and is built on eating human bodies? And you want to eat that, you mean? 50:20.664 --> 50:22.798 Yeah, she's just completely uncomfortable. 50:22.814 --> 50:25.880 The thing with corpse in its name. Cool. 50:28.090 --> 50:31.042 And she's like, you're grossed out by that cute. 50:31.186 --> 50:38.322 You're not even a human idiot. Also, why do you eat organic matter? You're a robot. 50:38.466 --> 50:39.766 I mean, android. 50:39.878 --> 50:40.650 Where does it go? 50:40.720 --> 50:44.858 We powered you with electricity earlier. I don't see the through lot. 50:45.024 --> 50:46.922 She doesn't have batteries to feed them. 50:47.056 --> 50:47.740 Fair. 50:48.990 --> 51:14.500 So then she explains that most of the meat that they eat at the orphanage is from creatures from higher layers of the abyss. And she's like, so most of them have probably eaten human. So then they become part of the flesh, and then they give us their strength. That's the circle of life. And I was like, if that's what sleeps at night, sleep at night, why not? Sure. 51:15.130 --> 51:16.840 Whatever lie you have to tell yourself. 51:17.210 --> 51:19.030 The Circle of Cannibalism. 51:20.090 --> 51:23.110 It's cannibalism by proxy. They're one removed. 51:23.610 --> 51:25.350 We're not watching that shit. 51:25.770 --> 51:27.750 Damn cannibalism. 51:28.250 --> 51:31.382 Oh, God. It's hannibal and ergo proxy mashed up nightmare. 51:31.446 --> 51:35.610 Anyway, we would have half of an interesting setup. 51:37.790 --> 51:49.662 Wow. And so they're going down even more. And we get like this little travel montage. And there's some very nice music playing. The music in the shows. Very nice. 51:49.716 --> 51:52.000 Pretty, despite how disturbing the show is. 51:53.730 --> 52:03.362 And they're going deeper and deeper. And then they're at the deepest part of the second layer, which is the inverted forest. And the waterfalls go up here. 52:03.416 --> 52:06.254 The trees grew from the ceiling and there's the ceiling. 52:06.382 --> 52:08.558 The snozberries taste like snozberries. 52:08.654 --> 52:11.560 Acoustics isn't the call that's coming from inside the house. 52:12.890 --> 52:15.080 Darth vader was luke's father one time. 52:17.610 --> 52:26.166 So Greg tries to use his extendo arms, but it's too windy down there for him to get a grip on anything. Dang. 52:26.198 --> 52:31.980 It all these dang stank winds. They keep blowing my arms all over the way. 52:33.550 --> 52:56.218 And rico starts getting cold. And he's like, oh, you want to get out your cold clothes? And she's like, nah. Like, there's no room for us to spread out all my stuff, so I'll be okay. And then he's like, hold this. And he gives her his helmet that he always has on. And then he takes off his cape and lets her wear it. Yeah. Got your baby. And then I've got you, pal. 52:56.334 --> 52:57.480 Mutual friend. 53:00.250 --> 53:10.326 So he puts his helmet back on and there's this, like, weird rune that shows up in like the headlamp part of it. And she's like, whoa, what's that? And he's like, I have no idea. 53:10.428 --> 53:12.042 I can't see it's on my head. 53:12.176 --> 53:25.758 Can't see it. I don't even know who I am, baby. And then it goes away. So they don't really get a good look at it. And then something throws a rock at reg. 53:25.924 --> 53:27.162 Good thing he's got that helmet. 53:27.226 --> 53:33.930 Yeet. Yeah. And then they look over and it's these monkeys that are called in bios. 53:34.090 --> 53:34.842 They're like crazy. 53:34.916 --> 53:35.774 But they monkey. 53:35.822 --> 53:36.638 They monkey. 53:36.734 --> 54:16.960 They monkey. I'm baby. I'm monkey. Okay, sloppy. I don't know why he said they monkey. And I immediately was like, I'm baby. Greg gets the strength to use his arm while everybody all the monkeys are tossing stuff at them. And he uses it. But then the nbos throw them off course. And the wind, he crashed down on a tree. And then rico just, like gets up and starts going and he's like, you know where you're going? And she's like, yeah. 54:19.410 --> 54:21.440 It'S not my first video. 54:24.630 --> 55:12.638 And then we see a girl looking into a telescope thing, and she's like, oh, people are on the approach. Should I lower the gondola for the master? And she turns around and she's like, hello, master. And there's no response. And then they keep walking toward this place called the seeker Camp. And they remark about how things further from the center of the abyss seem more peaceful. And it was at this point in the show that they started saying a lot of things, and it gave me and I didn't write down any of it because I was like, what the fuck are you talking about? None of it made sense to me. I was reading the subtitles, and I was like, I don't know what you're talking to this point here. 55:12.804 --> 55:39.180 Yeah, they start throwing out, like, force field and stuff. It's basically like the weird energy the abyss has. It comes from the center, so everything's drawn to it. This force field is able to pull in natural light from above. So despite how far down they are, natural light is still able to come down, which is able to give energy to the wildlife and stuff. And the closer things are to the center, the more dangerous it is. So the secret camp is kind of off to the side, like, away from everything. 55:39.710 --> 56:16.514 Got you. So they approach the seeker Camp, and it looks like a tree. They disguised it as a big upside down tree. And rico says, usually when people approach, they'll lower the gondola, but they didn't do that for us. And then reg thinks, yeah, it's a red whistle and a rope. Two children, they're probably stuffed. And so she's like, can you use your arms? And he's like, I can sure as heck try. He tries and he makes it. Yeah, but then he looks at her, and he's like, someone grabbed my arm. 56:16.562 --> 56:20.600 Oh, my God, something's licking me. 56:25.690 --> 56:41.580 And then this is another part where I was just like, what's happening? So there's a woman up there, and she's like, that little breath still alive. And then the narrator was talking, but I thought it was still her. So I was like, what's happening? 56:42.690 --> 56:44.160 I felt the same thing. 56:45.570 --> 57:09.314 The narrator says something about her. Her name is ozen, the unmovable immovable. And the narrator says something about a glint in her eye. Maybe it'll give them hope. And I was like, she has dead eyes, and she definitely doesn't want them to be there. So what do you mean? This is narrator? That's probably rico's mom. 57:09.432 --> 57:13.960 No, that's not dark. I don't know what you're talking about. 57:14.730 --> 57:20.010 But anyway, I was deeply confused by the end of this episode, and now I'm here. 57:20.160 --> 57:24.970 Hey, Brendan, where was that vital birthday disease thing in this episode? 57:26.030 --> 57:31.200 I was misinformed and wrong. I can admit it. It was in episode three. 57:32.050 --> 57:34.650 It was just the part in episode three where Kiwi cough. 57:34.730 --> 57:38.960 Don't die. Yeah, that was it. 57:39.330 --> 57:42.094 But yeah, that's episode five. 57:42.292 --> 57:46.174 Oh, and then we get like the little outro, at least in this episode. 57:46.222 --> 57:46.974 Yeah, the outro. 57:47.022 --> 58:01.074 Yeah, it's like almost like paper cutouts, kind of like little figures. And it's rico and reich going down the abyss and their adventures so far. And once again, the song is sung by the two Japanese voice actors. 58:01.202 --> 58:02.614 Yeah, it's cute. It's fun. 58:02.652 --> 58:14.490 Yeah, I really liked it. Yeah, but enough about me. No one cares about my opinion. That's why they don't listen to the other podcast. Are we there yet? 58:14.640 --> 58:28.078 I had a lot of fun with it. I thought it was going to be like darker and more menacing than it was. It was just some kids going on the adventure. I liked it. 58:28.244 --> 58:29.120 It's early. 58:29.570 --> 58:58.882 Yeah. I'm interested only because every time it's mentioned someone, well, lady fools, you know, nothing. Yeah. So it's just like, well, what the fuck happens? And I'll be honest, after watching these three episodes, I was like, maybe I'll just look up what happens. But I didn't do that because I kind of it's only twelve episodes short. 1313. 58:59.026 --> 59:00.200 How dare you? 59:00.570 --> 59:04.602 Still short enough that you could easily watch it in one weekend or at least a week. 59:04.656 --> 59:05.260 Yeah. 59:05.870 --> 59:43.458 The biggest thing that worked for me was it reminded me of a book series I read growing up. It was the underworld chronicles. The first book. It's the suzanne Collins who wrote Hunger Games wrote gregor the overlander, which is about like, a boy falling into an underground kingdom and needing to do some stuff, but there's like super real death and monsters and stuff and it doesn't do that kiddy shit of shying away from it. They're like, oh no, your friends are dead, my dude. 59:43.554 --> 59:53.814 Oh no, I got attacked by a warp bandits. I got a few scraps, but I'm okay. I'll just have a broken arm for a bit. nah, man, they're dead. They're like super dead. 59:53.942 --> 59:58.362 I'm the hero and a beam of light saved me at the last second. No, none of that. 59:58.496 --> 01:00:00.250 The beam of light and this one's evil. 01:00:01.150 --> 01:00:24.898 But yeah, I just really liked the very colorful, creative monsters that seemed fun and weren't just like dark, edgy, necrotic beings of death. And it was a nice juxtaposition of having like the real consequences of the world, but seeing it through young kid eyes. 01:00:25.064 --> 01:00:56.234 Yeah, we see more animals throughout the show, which I really love because I love all the weird animals. But yeah, they're not just like all corpse sweepers. They're not all just like predatorial monsters. We saw like this weird lizard later upstairs. You see like this weird little like, pig thing and they go into like the etymology of that and they're just kind of like, oh yeah, it does this and then this happens and it's like, oh, this is really neat. It's this whole unique world. And it's not just like I mean, I love avatar, but it's not like it's a bear and a platypus. How crazy is that? They're actual interesting ideas. 01:00:56.362 --> 01:00:58.106 No, this just says, what bear? 01:00:58.218 --> 01:01:00.762 No, it's like a bear wolf. 01:01:00.906 --> 01:01:02.110 Just a bear. 01:01:05.090 --> 01:01:15.934 But yeah, I love how fleshed out and how it's its own world and like ecosystem and stuff. And not just yeah, like the shadow demons live on level three and it's. 01:01:15.982 --> 01:01:20.680 The yeah, I mean, this is just hell. 01:01:21.850 --> 01:01:22.600 True. 01:01:23.370 --> 01:01:25.926 It's got the seven layers or just. 01:01:25.948 --> 01:01:27.510 Like a really bad dip. 01:01:29.690 --> 01:01:32.120 That can be hell. Am I right? 01:01:35.150 --> 01:01:39.350 You get to the bottom of that container. It's just how the hero peppers spice. 01:01:39.510 --> 01:01:41.020 I mean, anyway. 01:01:42.930 --> 01:01:47.440 It was intriguing. I didn't finish it the first time, but I might. 01:01:49.570 --> 01:01:52.160 Hear one episode further than you were. 01:01:53.330 --> 01:02:08.502 I think this is definitely, like I was saying, the crest of the tone of the show, like, all right, here we go. Here's the momentum. And without all the prologue exposition stuff of like, here's the world, here's where we live. Now we're into the meat of the adventure with episode five. 01:02:08.636 --> 01:02:35.002 Well, I think also my problem is that because I know some shit happens in the second last episode, I now have to sit through seven other episodes while I'm just thinking, like, I just want to know what happens. It's not even like, oh, maybe I can infer what's going to happen. I just want to know what happens. So I'm afraid that I'll just get bored and then just skip or look up what happens or something. 01:02:35.136 --> 01:02:58.440 I mean, I'll say it's an interesting ride from here on out. Like I said, the earlier parts, I think are the most boring. So I think you will at least be entertained if you watch it. But clearly from this podcast, we have varying degrees from all three hosts. So I don't know how invested it'll keep you. I'll be absolutely flabbergasted if dugan keeps watching it. He likes it. 01:03:01.450 --> 01:03:05.430 This would be something I would put on in the background as I did something else. 01:03:05.500 --> 01:03:24.842 Yeah. And it's a lot better now that there is a dub like we were talking about. You can do something else while listening to the English audio now and then. There's nothing like it's not a hard detective mystery where you have to try and find out the clues before the characters do. You know what's happening? But yeah, I'm surprised. 01:03:24.986 --> 01:03:25.438 Yeah. 01:03:25.524 --> 01:03:27.280 Wasn't sure how this was going to go. 01:03:29.170 --> 01:03:32.080 So what do we have going on next week? 01:03:32.530 --> 01:03:46.850 Next week we're watching a show that I've only recently heard about called Kids on the slope. I've heard it's very good, so I'm excited to give it a go. It's a we're gonna watch episodes one, two, and three. 01:03:47.000 --> 01:03:51.122 It's a slice of life about kids in New York living in Park slope. 01:03:51.266 --> 01:03:52.694 It is a slice of life about. 01:03:52.732 --> 01:03:55.430 Kids in a jazz well, shit. 01:03:56.330 --> 01:03:58.218 Yeah, you might be close. 01:03:58.384 --> 01:04:01.050 I assumed skiing, indoor snowboarding. 01:04:02.190 --> 01:04:05.286 No, it's. Not a sports anime. Jazz. 01:04:05.318 --> 01:04:08.410 Jazz is watching johnny tsunami jazz. 01:04:08.830 --> 01:04:10.170 I love that movie. 01:04:11.710 --> 01:04:15.902 Jazz is a sport anyway, that's what's happening. 01:04:15.956 --> 01:04:35.194 All right, cool. Well, if there's a show you would like us to watch, you can send us suggestions. You can reach out at are we there yet? On Twitter and Instagram. Or you can email us at arweevariat@gmail.com. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at mrpatrickdugin. 01:04:35.342 --> 01:04:58.054 You can find me on Instagram at queen. Period weebu and on Twitter at queen underscore weebu and queen underscore weebu art. And you can find me at anime Expo on July 5. I'm only going the one day I'm cos playing Loop from the Adventure zone. And if you see me, come say hi. Talk to me about anime. 01:04:58.182 --> 01:05:06.320 You can find me on Twitter at abts. Brendan. I don't do a lot of stuff, so don't find me. Leave me alone. Give me my space. 01:05:08.210 --> 01:05:11.566 Hey, he's a sleepy man. Let him rest. 01:05:11.668 --> 01:05:13.390 I got a lot of stuff to sleep on. 01:05:13.460 --> 01:05:14.034 Let him rest. 01:05:14.072 --> 01:05:18.820 My couch, my floor, my bed, the bathtub. That's my favorite one. 01:05:19.830 --> 01:05:21.454 Nice and cold in the bathtub. 01:05:21.502 --> 01:05:22.606 Don't have to worry about ruley. 01:05:22.638 --> 01:05:37.382 Helps realign the back. Thank you to camille ruley for her artwork. And thank you to Louisong for our theme music stories off the album Beats. You can find all of louie's music at Louisong bandcamp.com. 01:05:37.516 --> 01:05:38.966 Thank you, and we hope you will. 01:05:38.988 --> 01:05:41.960 Join us next time as we learn to live within. 01:05:42.570 --> 01:05:45.190 Don't get strung up, naked and beaten by the headmasters. 01:06:14.530 --> 01:06:18.180 Video you.