WEBVTT 00:00.650 --> 00:06.320 I also took karate. It was a correspondent course. 00:28.650 --> 00:35.778 Hello and welcome to our week. There yet in exploration and education and anime. I'm your anime idiot, patrick dugan. 00:35.874 --> 00:38.354 I'm an anime expert, dee hollander. 00:38.482 --> 00:43.430 And I'm brenda mccullough. Your anime problematic space charlie's angels. 00:43.770 --> 00:44.520 Oh. 00:46.250 --> 00:49.766 Yeah. I'm not going to explain that one for a bit there. 00:49.788 --> 00:51.070 We've so compelling. 00:51.730 --> 00:56.826 Could you explain the other thing you are today in this specific episode? 00:56.938 --> 00:57.950 A menace. 00:58.370 --> 00:59.690 That's every episode. 00:59.770 --> 01:01.230 Yeah. Okay. That sounds special. 01:01.300 --> 01:07.662 But why is this date in particular? Hint, hint, hint, hint. Special for you. 01:07.796 --> 01:11.810 Oh, well, I didn't think we announced it. Me and dugan are dating. 01:12.230 --> 01:14.414 Oh, my goodness. Congratulations. 01:14.542 --> 01:17.750 Oh, my god. It's brendan's birthday. 01:18.730 --> 01:21.560 Don't expect anything from me ever. 01:22.890 --> 01:25.286 Garbage boy birthday man. 01:25.468 --> 01:29.000 Yeah, we're getting some real trash today. 01:29.310 --> 01:30.090 Yay. 01:30.590 --> 01:31.660 Oh, boy. 01:33.070 --> 01:42.038 I was so ready for you to just dive right into it and then you're like, oh, no. That's plain calling me. I'm not going to say it yet. I'm already dying. 01:42.134 --> 01:47.120 Yeah. He doesn't want to accept the fact that he's growing older, much like we all are. 01:48.370 --> 01:53.886 I'm 30 now. My hair is falling out. I've accepted death a long time ago. I'm on board. 01:53.988 --> 01:56.830 Let's do that. A change of decade. 01:56.990 --> 02:02.820 I've been looking at hats with you hakushu characters on it. I've accepted. I'm always going to be alone in my life. 02:04.230 --> 02:06.262 No one just lean into it. 02:06.316 --> 02:29.306 Just going to embrace the hell out of it because I made it this far. It's a lot more than I thought it'd be. But yeah, today is my birthday, so I wasn't going to make a foolish mistake and pick something I actually enjoy. Why would I want people to just shit on stuff I actually enjoy on my birthday when we can do the. 02:29.328 --> 02:37.230 Rest of the year or possibly why would you want to let us enjoy anything? Never. Your favorite activity is to make us suffer. 02:39.170 --> 02:56.520 It's not to make you suffer specifically. It's through anime. Duke and what's the anime experience? And I'm not going to be biased and show him the good ones. I got to show him the full spectrum. And there's a lot of bad out there. 02:57.450 --> 03:04.440 While I respect your scientific mind and integrity, I interpersonally hate you. 03:06.970 --> 03:17.450 It's like going to someone's birthday part. It's like, happy birthday. Here's a cake. And they bite into it. It's like, oh, and there's a rusty nail in there. I got you tentativeness. That's what life is. I'm that jerk. 03:17.870 --> 03:28.480 It's your 26th birthday. You just passed being off your parents health insurance. Here's some rusty nail cakes. Welcome to the real world. You wanted the real experience of growing up, right? 03:29.650 --> 03:58.470 I am the dark souls of anime. It's not fun. It's real. You see one big monster and he punches your head in in one shot. Like, yeah, that's what would happen. Speaking of big horrible monsters that just have no restraint whatsoever. And me, we're watching some special today. It's on Netflix. Or at least Netflix in the Us. For anyone who wants to watch it easily. It's called gantz. 04:00.830 --> 04:01.850 Oh, no. 04:02.000 --> 04:07.430 Oh, yes. Do either of you know anything about Gantz specifically? 04:07.590 --> 04:23.070 I know, like, one thing about Gantz, and I'm pretty sure Paul told it to me, is that it was similar to akira in some ways. And if there's one thing I know about akira after watching it, it's that it's one thing that has made me incredibly uncomfortable. 04:27.510 --> 04:31.486 I'm trying to think of what would be like there's certainly comparisons. 04:31.678 --> 04:34.450 I think it's the body horror aspect. 04:35.190 --> 04:35.940 Yeah. 04:36.570 --> 04:42.070 I'm just hearing too many keywords. I know nothing about this. I'm just hearing enough keywords to be scared. 04:43.290 --> 05:23.422 Yeah. So Dance is a series, like, traditional. It was a manga, and I got turned into an anime, and then the anime stopped because, honestly, what story was there? So there's like, fuck it, and did whatever they could with it. And then years later, for some ungodly reason, no idea why, they made Gantz o, which is just a very specific battle arc in Gantz. You're not getting any context. It's just one big monumental moment in the series just done with, like, frighteningly high levels of cgi. 05:23.566 --> 05:27.810 I cannot wait for this to happen to my eyeballs. 05:28.470 --> 05:48.090 I held onto this nugget because I knew it was going to be a difficult one to do for the podcast because there's really not a lot to talk like story wise. We don't know these characters. We have no stakes in this. But I wanted at some point to make D and Duke and watch this. So here's my excuse. I'm using my birthday card for this one. 05:48.240 --> 05:48.982 Yay. 05:49.126 --> 06:01.280 Yeah. My only knowledge of this was that it was scheduled at one point, and then you're like, nah. Now we have to say too special. And I've been living in two years since that day. 06:01.730 --> 06:27.618 I scheduled it at the beginning of the year, and it badly kept happening. I was like, you know what? Not today. I don't need this. And they certainly don't. So I held this off until we had a good pace for a while, and I was like, all right, let me ruin this track record. Let me break this up. So it's going to be fun. And because there's a lot of visual stuff that is not great to talk about on an audio format, I got. 06:27.644 --> 06:32.140 A game if we need to find birthday game. 06:32.510 --> 06:35.930 So we'll see in the tail on the kaiju. 06:37.390 --> 06:40.022 Yeah. Tail. That's what that thing is you're holding. 06:40.166 --> 06:43.578 Oh, no. I knew it was too slimy. 06:43.674 --> 06:45.614 Quick, we got to wash our hands. Let's get out of here. 06:45.732 --> 06:46.398 Let's go. 06:46.484 --> 07:15.750 I'm going to decontaminate. We're going to go watch a movie. The movie it is. Here. Quickly, everyone stand and look at it for approximately three minutes before anyone moves. 07:16.970 --> 07:22.410 I think that's enough time. Question mark. 07:22.560 --> 07:23.274 No, he did. 07:23.312 --> 07:23.802 Okay. 07:23.936 --> 07:24.378 Please. 07:24.464 --> 07:37.438 Okay, now. All right, well, this is certainly a movie with a lot of looking at monsters and not fighting them when you probably should be. 07:37.524 --> 08:47.186 But we can get into it, say, right off the bat. It's tricky when the primary weapon for them is a gun that has, like, a good 22nd delay for objectively no reason. It makes everything a little weird. We need combat, but we needed to be a slightly more suspenseful so we could just stare at the monster for, like, two or three beats, and then it gets smushed as a movie. We broke up in the parts, so I'll take part one. And it opens with helicopters flying around a destroyed city, everything's on fire. Commentators are talking about how there's monsters sightings all over, and we see a glimpse of a girl in a like they're basically just mo cap suits for anyone who doesn't know what those are. It's basically a skin tight black suit with little dots all over it. But instead of dots, these are like blue lights on them and just some big old chunky, light up sneakers, which I actually really loved because they actually have, like, a pattern and design on them on the rest of the suit. So it's like, oh, those actually kind of look cool. The rest of it's weird, but yeah. 08:47.208 --> 08:49.110 These are my tactical sketches. 08:49.850 --> 09:40.470 They light up. There is a scene at the end where one character runs to a dark room and you see the shoes, right? It does really look like a six year old playing with sneakers. Anyway, so, yeah, city in Japan, absolutely decimated, destroyed, fire everywhere, apparently monsters. And lo and behold, we see some more people in these skintight latex suits, and we see a big old monster there, and he sees the girl that's running away. This monster is just, let's say an eight foot tall, very muscular man, except he's got a crazy old demon face with spikes coming out of it. And he sees her, and he's like, there's my target, and throws a literal car at her, and she is saved at the last second by this weird, like, circle motorcycle. Imagine it's a motorcycle, but just one really big wheel. 09:41.050 --> 09:53.180 You know, in Star Wars episode Three, fighting General grievous, that big circle motorcycle thing? Yeah, it's that they did that again eleven years later. 09:54.990 --> 10:11.822 Now that you mention it, they really do love just one big wheel. So, yeah, this guy flies in on this weird motorcycle thing and saves her at the last second and saves her on a weird circle bike and two guys. Thank you, Brendan. 2 hours ago that's good to know. 10:11.876 --> 10:12.990 Very informative. 10:13.570 --> 10:18.420 I mean, that's about as much context we, the viewers, have. So, yeah, that's fine. 10:19.190 --> 10:57.994 But so they start attacking the big old crazy, like, spiky monster guy that's attacking, and it doesn't go well. They kind of get their ass kicked in and with these suits, with their weird lights on them. The suits can protect them a certain amount and gives them, like, enhanced speed and enhanced strength and all that bullshit. And once the suit takes enough damage, it effectively turns off and the lights turn off and just black ooze comes out of the lights and it's kind of like, you're on your own. Good luck. And we see that happen to one of the guys. His name is ooh. I wrote it. I'm looking at it. I'm reading it. I know it's spelled correctly. I will not say it correctly. 10:58.122 --> 11:00.782 I didn't even pay attention to it. 11:00.916 --> 11:04.850 I wrote down sorry, immediate spoiler. Dead teammate. 11:05.350 --> 11:09.090 Yeah, this is the protagonist of The Mansion. 11:09.590 --> 11:10.606 Oh, shit. 11:10.718 --> 12:33.950 In this movie, he's dead instantly, but yeah, so he's carino and we see his suit shuts down, and he's like, no, I got to do it. I got to save my team and fight this monster. He was charging back in to kill this spiky monster one last time or attack him one last time. And as he goes charging in, we see he avoids the attack, but hitting the monster with the delayed exploding gun. So, yeah, they got these pistols that when you pull the trigger, it's like three or 4 seconds, and then their head just explodes. So he's able to hit him with that gun, but not before he got smashed himself. So, yeah, his body's all, like, mush and he's dead inside, ripped. So we see him die dead on the outside, too. We see him on the ground dying. He's getting his last words as the protagonist death. And the girl that he saved is there, like, holding his head and like, no, you're the strongest on our team. You got to stick with us. You got to live until we can go back to the room. And as she's saying that, we see her getting digitized like a scanner, like an old Internet page going line by line, being teleported elsewhere. And she's crying as she does that while he dies. And we see. Yeah, see, he doesn't make it back because he's dead. If you're still alive in this, you can get teleported back, but as soon as you actually die, the body stays behind. 12:34.100 --> 12:38.158 It's one of those if you die in the game, you die in real life. 12:38.324 --> 12:43.794 Yeah. And then we get the opening title. It's gantz o. Why is it called o? 12:43.912 --> 12:47.010 I always I read it as Gantz. 12:48.390 --> 12:49.780 It's like whole face. 12:53.030 --> 13:00.840 And we see it's called gantzo because it takes place in osaka. Realize I didn't say that. 13:01.370 --> 13:10.440 Okay. I thought it was legitimately Gantz zero this whole time. And I was like, Why is he saying no? 13:11.050 --> 13:16.890 It's at the beginning of the series. That would make sense. We're like square in the middle, if not the 60%. pardon. 13:17.310 --> 13:35.520 Yeah. I think very soon for all involved, mostly me, the host. We need just a quick summary of what is actually going on. Even if it breaks chronological story of how this movie goes, because this is barely making sense at this point. 13:35.890 --> 13:41.010 That's why I took the first part. Do you want me to just explain the whole premise of gantt just for framework? 13:41.350 --> 13:45.170 Just a real quick real quick. Start the timer. 13:46.790 --> 14:17.450 I'd be faster than that. It's the real world. Everything's fine. Everything is normal as we know it. When you die, you get teleported. Instead of having a hell or purgatory or something, you go into this weird room with just this black ball, and it says, hey, congrats. You're in a game now. I send you out into the field. You kill these aliens for me and come back. And then you can continue living your lives. And if you get 100 points from killing the aliens, you'll get a bonus that's it's like weird purgatory. But you got mission. You got side quest to do Lost. 14:17.530 --> 14:19.680 Plus Spy Kids three D. 14:21.970 --> 14:23.102 I understand. 14:23.236 --> 14:27.230 That elijah Wood is also in this movie. It's great. 14:27.380 --> 14:29.230 Now you're speaking my language. 14:30.470 --> 14:44.422 So, yeah, we get the opening title sequence. We cut back. We see just everyday life, and we see this tall guy with long hair walking down the street. And he sees an advert with a girl on it. That's the girl we just saw that was holding her dead friend's head. 14:44.556 --> 14:45.702 She's in the game. 14:45.836 --> 15:23.666 She's a celebrity. And we see as he's walking by, people are on their phones, texting each other and talking to each other about the big massacre that just happened in Tokyo. So it's not really in a parallel side world or something. This is happening in the real world, and people see the monsters so shit's bad. And we see him on his cell phone talking to his brother, saying he's going to be home late. His brother's like, well, you know what day it is? And his brother's like, oh, I don't know. What day is it? And he's like, oh, whatever. See you later. His brother hangs up and he's like, oh, man, I got him a cake and everything because it's his birthday. How? 15:23.688 --> 15:27.910 You tell us. You are the main character's little brother in this movie. 15:29.450 --> 15:34.120 No, his life is very sad. I don't want that. 15:34.490 --> 15:35.240 Fair. 15:35.770 --> 15:46.234 So, yeah, we see him with, like, a birthday cake, and he's waiting for the train to go home to his little brother. And what's that? Someone at the train station is just stabbing people? 15:46.352 --> 15:47.020 Go. 15:47.550 --> 15:57.566 So everyone runs away scared, and he runs in to help the person that got stabbed. And while he's helping the person got stabbed, the stabber shows up, and guess what? He stabs them. 15:57.748 --> 15:58.480 What? 15:59.010 --> 16:37.498 So he tries to stop the attacker, and the process just gets stabbed to death. And we see it through, like a security camera. The attacker just walks away and say, well, he's dead. And we see as he falls over, the cake falls out of the bag, and it's just like, Happy birthday, little bro. It's, like, devastating sucks. And he wakes up suddenly, and he's in this white apartment. It's just all empty except for this big black ball. And a few other people are in there. And in the room with them is the girl from the average we saw and then from the previous battle. And we'll see, like, a little old man and then some shitty kid in, like, a letterman's jacket. Shitty kid, really doesn't do anything. 16:37.584 --> 16:39.526 Terrible name's nichey. 16:39.558 --> 16:56.580 I just called him Rude Dude because he doesn't deserve a name. And yeah, the old man says, like, oh, welcome. Hey, you died. That sucks. I died of a heart attack. She died of a car accident. Welcome to Purgatory sort of question mark. 16:57.430 --> 17:01.940 And there's a oh, this is the anime good place. Got it. 17:03.190 --> 18:05.186 No, it's much worse. This is a really bad place. And along with them is also another guy who's in, like, a sweatshirt and, like, pants, like, clearly not in the black suit that everyone else is in. So he just died as well. And our main boy, the main protagonist, is keto. He introduces himself to the group and sees a large ball. And the old man says, like, yeah, everyone here died. ah. Especially you. Like, all you two are to the newest one. So you just died. And the other guy in, like, the sweatshirt and pants that gets real pissed off. He's like, what do you mean, I died? I'm bad ass. I never die. I do whatever the fuck I want. It's like, cool. This guy is an asshole. And then all of a sudden, the black ball starts singing this weird children song. It's deeply unsettling. And then when the song stops, text appears on the ball, and it says, like, hey, you died. Now I get to decide what happens with your lives. Have fun. It's. Like what? And the ball also doesn't give much context. The ball is Gantz, the titular Gantz. 18:05.378 --> 18:06.802 Hello, Gantz. 18:06.946 --> 18:08.150 Hello, celebrity. 18:09.930 --> 18:22.730 And the ball says, hey, here's your target. And it just looks like this weird old man with, like, big ear lobes. It's like oh. It's like, kill him within the allotted amount of time. It's like, oh, question mark gantzo. 18:25.010 --> 18:27.150 Everyone makes the face in the title. 18:27.490 --> 19:03.770 Just the emoji face. And as soon as it shows the target, the side of the ball just shoots open and has a bunch of weapons in there and, like, boxes. And the one arrogant guy in, like, the sweatshirt refused to listen. He's like they're like, oh, quick, put on your suits. Like, you each have a custom suit. And the one guy's like, Fuck you. I'm told I do whatever I want. It's like, all right. And rudd Niche just pulls the gun out on him. It's like, you're only going to hold us back, so let's get this over with. Let's just kill him now before he dies in the field. slows us down. And everyone's like, wait, Niche, don't. And he already pulled the trigger like 2 seconds ago. But it takes this long for his head to explode. 19:04.270 --> 19:07.340 This kid I don't understand. 19:09.390 --> 19:12.490 Don't you know he's an elite gamer? 19:13.390 --> 19:16.926 Did you guys actually have the subtitles on? Let me see if I find I took a screenshot of it. 19:17.028 --> 19:19.070 Oh, I watched it in English. 19:21.010 --> 19:22.494 I didn't want this to take any. 19:22.532 --> 19:24.080 Longer than it has to. 19:24.690 --> 19:28.606 I did too, but I turned the subtitles on for dance because the voice is very quiet. 19:28.718 --> 19:29.714 Got you. 19:29.912 --> 19:43.154 The rude dude that dies, he just calls Niche you're just a stupid gamer. So he very much is the rude dude gamer boy with 1000 hours in the game. And it's like, I'm a pro. Everyone else sucks. That's this kid's attitude. 19:43.202 --> 19:45.762 And he's ready to murder. Real murder. 19:45.906 --> 21:11.378 Real murder. He actually killed that guy again. So he kills him. And kato pukes after seeing that because he just saw a dude's head explode. And the old guy's like, kato, quick, get your suit on. Like, you need this to survive. Like, put it on now. Because if they get teleported without it, they don't have it sucks to be them. And he says they're in a survival game to fight monsters and they have 2 hours to do it. And then they get teleported out to some random location. And the location, when they arrive, it's just like a downtown city and just dead bodies everywhere. It's like, cool. This fucking sucks. And the girl notices like, oh, that's fine. Wait. We're in osaka. We're supposed to be in Tokyo. We've always been in Tokyo up till this point. Why are we in osaka? That's weird. Something's off. And all of a sudden they sense something's approached and something's running at them. And it's a faceless geisha woman. And she's just really stubborn and really like, strange movements as she's running. All right, time to kill her. It's like, oh, I guess we're just getting into it. And everyone else is panicking because she's running right at him. But then rude dude gamer boy just picks up his gun and blows her head up as well. And he's like, all right, I'm going to be invisible until the big guy until the boss shows up. And then I'm going to like, kill snipe him and like, steal your points because I'm a little shit. bye. And he walks away. And Kata's like, what's happening? I need some answers. And it's like, he is the audience. He is us. 21:11.544 --> 21:13.540 Please context anything. 21:13.990 --> 21:16.660 This is a very bad tutorial in this game. 21:17.030 --> 21:18.322 They need to do this. 21:18.456 --> 21:19.906 It's still in beta, right? 21:20.008 --> 22:05.026 Get good screw up. Got to learn. On your feet. And yeah, the old man says, he's like, honestly, we don't really know what the fuck's happening. We get summoned by the ball to kill these targets. And then if we live, we get brought back and keep living our lives. And that's about as much as we know. And as they are talking, they see on their radar like, a bunch of targets start appearing all around shit, all right, let's take over and let's hide. We don't want to see what these monsters are or we don't want them to see us quite yet. So they hide behind a car, and we just see these weird, gross, fleshy blobs of creatures just, like, roll over the side of the bridge they're on and start running around as they're, like, running around the car to avoid them. And all of a sudden, we see a giant head, like a giant man's head, just roll out behind him and. 22:05.048 --> 22:07.510 See put you in my mouth. 22:08.410 --> 22:30.682 He just screams and alerts everyone to him. And it's like they're like gross, gremlinly, like little monsters. All of the explanation time, all of the monsters in Gantz are actually aliens from another world, and they take on the different forms of local folklore and legends. So, like, one of the monsters you see is like a cappa. One of them is like a tengu, and it's like, that's where the legends come from, quote unquote, is from these aliens. 22:30.826 --> 22:40.878 Okay? Yeah, because I was like, yeah, these are very clearly, like, Japanese spirit monsters. Aliens. What? Don't question it. Okay, cool. 22:40.964 --> 23:36.114 Doesn't really matter. But yeah, they're actually aliens, and that's what the Miamids are based off of. So, yeah, the giant hit just rolls out and screams, and they all start chasing the humans. So they're all running from these monsters. And Girl and the old guy get caught, and cato runs in to try and help them, but he misses the big old head because he's nervous, and it's a giant fucking head, and it's weird and unsettling. And because he misses the big heads, like, oh, I'm safe. Cool. And it just jumps up into the air, and it crushes cato. But because he sells the suit on, it saved them. And then the big head rolls back and comes back for a second attack and then just spirals out and dies. We see a big chunk of the heads missing because somebody shot him. Turns out it's another team. This is the osaka team, the local branch. So they're just a bunch of people, and they're real loud and cocky and just like, hey, hey, we got to kill some monsters. And are just real into it. 23:36.312 --> 23:39.700 Just a real Call of Duty lobby of a team. 23:40.310 --> 24:03.830 It really is just a lot of real shit kids. And they ask like, oh, you're the Tokyo team. where's kuro? where's the tough guy? You're of your team. I want to fight him. He's pretty good. And they're like, he died. Last mission. He's like, sucks. All right, because we'll take care of everything. Ask some fuck. And yeah, these guys are just real gross and horny horny for murder. 24:04.250 --> 24:05.850 And he's bringing it back. 24:06.000 --> 25:07.102 Yeah. And they see a bunch of the monsters, like, down further in the street, and they're like, all right, let's get to it, boys. And starts clearing out all of the monsters that we're giving the Tokyo team trouble. And they're loving it. They're having a real good time. And then this weird snake bird creature comes slithering out and cuts one of their dudes in half. It's like, oh, shit, this guy is real. But they don't care about their teammate. Why would they? They're called the duty boys. And then the two tough guys, the two leaders, kill the bird snake creature easily with this gun that just like it's like a gravity well, just a circle area. Just crushes them from above. And you see, the old man says, like, oh, yeah, if you kill all the monsters, you get points for them. And if you get 100 points, you win the game. That guy over there won the game four times. No, that comes later. But he says, yeah, if you get 100 points, you win the game. And if you win the game, you can get better items like these guys have. You can bring back a dead teammate, or you can wipe your memory and be free of the game and just go back to living your normal life. 25:07.236 --> 25:16.260 Why anyone wouldn't choose that, I don't understand. But I guess these guys, they just love fighting so much. 25:16.630 --> 25:18.210 He got the blood lust. 25:19.270 --> 25:26.150 Why be happy in your day to day life when you can be murdering with big old space weapons? And that's what those guys chose. 25:26.810 --> 25:36.818 I was the world's biggest loser in my real life. No one talked to me. Here, I have friends. They don't really care if I live or die. 25:36.834 --> 25:38.360 Everybody loves me. 25:40.810 --> 27:03.678 So we also see regular people in osaka are still there and are being attacked by monsters. So kato runs off to help them, but no one else does because they're like, we're trying to survive on our own. We're barely surviving as it is. We're not helping. grande's kata's like. Oh, I'm a good boy. He would be a hymbo, but he's smart. He's too smart to be a hym boat, but otherwise he is he's a good young man, and he goes off to save him. But before he goes, the old man gives him some change. He's like, for your trouble, he gives us a pocket change, and he goes, before you run in there to get yourself killed, somebody's probably waiting for you because you just died, like, an hour ago. So give them a call. There's a payphone nearby. There's probably pay phones nearby you can use. And then we get a shot of the ball telling us there's an hour and 37 minutes left. So the timer is going, and we come back to we see the osaka team just eating dinner and like, a cap of monsters. Like, killing a random guy in the street without even looking. They just like, point the gun over and shoot them blindly. So these guys are good, and they noticed that the target that at least the Tokyo team was supposed to kill, the old man with the big ear lobes is just standing on top of a skyscraper looking down on everything, and there's, like, a big red monster next to him with, like, wings. It's like, those guys are giving off a weird vibe. 27:03.854 --> 27:05.314 Don't like them at all. 27:05.432 --> 27:07.810 Don't like that guy creeper. 27:07.970 --> 27:13.350 Why is there a tiny little red skull over their heads? I don't know. Maybe it shouldn't factor in. 27:13.420 --> 27:37.454 Why does it say 15 team members minimum? And then meanwhile, cato runs and calls his brother on the payphone. He says, like, oh, where are you? He's like, oh, I had to go back into work. Sorry about that. And his brother's like, do you have to go into work? Despite monsters in osaka destroying everything? Like, probably should. Like, I don't know what your work is, but it's probably not that important. 27:37.652 --> 27:41.578 Yeah, dude, I'm an insurance salesman. This is my time to shine. 27:41.674 --> 28:00.786 This is where I thrive. This is my Christmas. And cato promises, and he's like, yeah, you're right. I'll make it home in time. I promise I'll be back. I promise I'll be back with you, supposedly. Yeah, okay, fucking whatever. Cool. bye. He just assumes his brother's at work and not about to die. 28:00.898 --> 28:02.850 You ruin my birthday. 28:03.010 --> 28:04.150 A rough. 28:05.290 --> 29:03.034 So as he gets off the phone, there's a commotion down the street, and a monster well, alien comes chasing people, and cato tries to fight it, and it's not going well, and then someone kills it, thank goodness. And it's this girl with a bob. We've seen her kind of peeking on him from the sidelines. Her name is yamasaki, and she is with the osaka team. And so she's, like, surprised that he actually tried to save people. And he gets upset that she's suggesting to just sit and watch as people are suffering. And he leaves, but she follows him, and she's just like, sorry. I just love observing weirdos. And she says that he won't last here if he keeps trying to save people too. 29:03.072 --> 29:04.010 Soft kid. 29:04.160 --> 29:51.894 Yeah, you got to care only about yourself. And she says that she saw a kid and a couple of old people hiding, and he's like, okay, take me to them. I know you told me you don't want me to save anybody, but you just told me about people that need saving, so let's go. And we see them. It's two old people. They're a couple, and they're like, it's fine if we die, but we want to protect this kid. He's got so much life in him. A big monster shows up. I could never really process what it looked like to me. It looked like a gorilla kind of. 29:51.932 --> 29:57.274 In the face, sort of just like a big troll scorpion, I guess. 29:57.472 --> 29:59.750 Some amalgamation of creature. 29:59.910 --> 30:07.790 Yeah, it's like a big. Green gorilla. It's got, like, a spike tail, and it's got holes in its back where it puts its kidnapped victim. 30:08.210 --> 30:08.938 The worst. 30:09.034 --> 30:09.982 I didn't notice that. 30:10.036 --> 30:11.598 I hate that so much. 30:11.684 --> 30:15.526 Yeah. Also got a little hat, but it's got a hat. 30:15.658 --> 30:17.678 I didn't notice it had a hat. 30:17.774 --> 30:18.420 Yeah. 30:18.790 --> 30:19.540 Wow. 30:19.910 --> 30:21.300 Now it's my friend. 30:22.790 --> 30:29.094 Now I want to ride in its back hole. I hate moving on. 30:29.132 --> 30:35.202 I'll need to promise that's the last time we mentioned that specific anatomical feature. 30:35.346 --> 30:36.706 Yeah, that's awful. 30:36.818 --> 30:37.750 Agreed. 30:38.190 --> 30:59.550 So, yes, big monster shows up, and it attacks the old man, but cato and YAMASAKI arrive to distract it, and she's like, you won't kill it. You can't. And then she leaves. And, like, as she's walking away, she's like, oh, he's so dumb. But he is really cute, and, oh my gosh, I would be sad if he died. What the fuck? 31:01.490 --> 31:03.106 She really struggles with it. 31:03.208 --> 31:07.860 Yeah, she just met him, and she's like, oh, but he seems different. 31:09.350 --> 31:15.858 He's the only player in this game that hasn't set a slur yet. The only cute one, I guess. 31:15.944 --> 31:19.090 The only one who hasn't told me to make him a sandwich. 31:20.870 --> 31:22.280 With osaka team. 31:23.690 --> 31:49.360 So he tells the old people and the kid to leave, and he's, like, standing his ground against the monster, and he is standing there pointing the gun at it for so long, and eventually it slammed him against the wall. And I'm like, bruv, you had so much time to try to shoot it to see what would happen, and you just didn't like whether or not it killed it. Whatever. But you had time to try. 31:49.730 --> 32:19.020 Yeah. This is truly what bugged me the most about this movie, because, yeah, the guns have, like, a reloading feature, but they never say, like, oh, we have limited ammo. We need to conserve it. It seems to just be energy beans. You can just hold down that trigger and just keep on firing. But everyone is like, no, let me stare deep into the size, convince this monster it doesn't want to murder, then get punched, and then go, oh, now I should start shooting, right? 32:19.630 --> 32:22.006 You no longer have a clear shot. 32:22.198 --> 32:25.530 Yes. Now that my gun is halfway across the street. 32:26.430 --> 34:26.900 So YAMASAKI has returned through her guilt, and it grabs her, and cato throws a stick in its eye, and then he traps it with some glowy wire stuff, and then it was blue, and then it turns red, and then its head gets downloaded, gets scanned. Yeah, it starts getting scanned out. And, like, as its head gets scanned out, it dies. Cool. YAMASAKI and everyone else is okay. They lived, bitch. And then they're on their way, and she asks if he's going to keep saving people, and he says, yes. And she's like, what about your parents? And he's like, they're dead. Thanks for asking. And then he talks about his brother, and he says, yeah, I work a job, so we can live in an apartment. And she's like, oh, yeah, okay, I relate to that. I have a three year old son. And he's like and she's like, what? Do I look too young? And he's like, I don't know. And she's like, what the fuck? You're supposed to say yes, but also, yes. She looks very young. They both don't want to die because they have someone to protect, so they have that in common. And then turns out, who knows where this came from? cato was being recorded during that fight, and now people are like, tweeting a blurry picture of him. The game goes on. And they come across these two guys, george and nobuya from the osaka team. And YAMASAKI. That's her name? Yeah. She explains that they've both won multiple times. One of them has won three times. The other one is one four. And then she also mentions this other guy who's won seven times, and he cloaks himself and hides every time until the big bad comes out. And then he comes out and destroys it. 34:27.990 --> 34:29.154 Who's the guy? 34:29.352 --> 35:07.546 The guy. And then the commercial model girl. Her name is rekha. She's thinking about the guy that died, and she's wondering if he would also save people like cato does, and she wants to bring him back if she wins. But the old man is like, we don't stand a chance. Don't get your hopes up, sweetheart. And then a giant monster arrives, and it walks past them into the city, but then it doesn't look like it's actually a monster. nay, nay, nay. It's a giant robot, and it's one of theirs, I think, maybe because it's got the blue lights. 35:07.578 --> 35:08.938 So, yeah, a gun dumb. 35:09.034 --> 35:27.640 A gun dump. And then George and nobuya are talking about the monsters they saw on the tower, thinking they're probably worth a lot of points. And then we do see a giant monster, and the robot is fighting it. And this giant monster does look like the spider monkey from Spy Kids. Too. 35:31.610 --> 35:34.834 Similar. It's like a minotaur spider. 35:34.962 --> 35:36.710 Yeah, it's weird. 35:37.610 --> 35:41.480 And then the military is there because they think they can do something. 35:42.590 --> 35:44.380 They always do, don't they? 35:45.310 --> 35:51.818 They're so good at their jobs. So they have the old man and rekha cornered, and they're like, we want. 35:51.824 --> 35:52.654 To know who you're with. 35:52.692 --> 36:10.690 Who are you working for? And then cato and YAMASAKI show up, and then another monster arrives, and it's that big red demon that was hanging out with the old man on the tower. And the military tries to fight it, but it doesn't work out. 36:10.840 --> 36:11.522 Oh, no. 36:11.576 --> 36:12.686 Who would have felt weird? 36:12.798 --> 36:13.266 Wow. 36:13.368 --> 36:19.030 They don't have your gun. Hit it immediately. You need to wait two to 3 seconds before your gun hits them. 36:19.100 --> 36:32.342 You have to surprise them. And YAMASAKI tries to distract it while cato shoots it. And he tries the same thing as last time, with the wire, but it breaks free before it can get scanned. 36:32.486 --> 36:33.660 It's too strong. 36:34.270 --> 36:57.998 And then George and Nabuja show up and shoot it, but it doesn't die. They keep shooting at it over and over again, but it doesn't die. This one proves that sometimes the guns don't work, but at least they're trying to put in the effort and it grabs one of them and tosses him around. And the other guy is like, how come you can't handle it yourself, loser. 36:58.174 --> 36:59.170 Scrub. 37:00.230 --> 37:05.730 And then he's continuing the streak of just standing around and not actually shooting at the monster. 37:06.490 --> 37:11.894 He's just intentionally being shitty, though, before everyone is just weird and just staring at him. 37:12.012 --> 37:17.122 True, but it just continues. The theme of inaction in this action movie. 37:17.266 --> 37:39.694 Yeah, well, I mean, this guy is getting actively beat up, so understandable. But so as he's, like, grabbing him and the monster has him in his face, he gets one last shot in and he does kill it. His head explodes, but he dies, too. I don't remember which one this is. It's either George or Nabuja. Does it really matter? 37:39.892 --> 37:42.254 No. Nabuja, though. 37:42.372 --> 38:36.080 Okay. And then that weird old man from the tower shows up, the one that the Tokyo team is supposed to kill. And George chops him up with a sword. But bad news, that just makes more of him. So they all, like, walking and mumbling and they all merge back together. And this guy, this creature man, sees the dead monster. He's like, what happened? And George tries to fight him, but he's tougher than he looks. He's, like, ready to I have no comparison. He's an old man that can fight. And then George tries to grab him, but surprise, he turns into a bunch of ladies. And I have seen a picture of this from the manga, I believe. I like it better in the manga. This is bad. 38:36.530 --> 38:40.590 It's hard to imagine any enjoyable version of this monster. 38:40.750 --> 38:47.940 I think it's much more unsettling to see it all fleshy as opposed to black and white. 38:49.510 --> 38:55.206 Hate it when you grab an old man and he turns into a giant, naked, crying woman made up of other naked, crying women. 38:55.308 --> 38:56.920 Happens to me all the time. 38:58.590 --> 39:04.874 We say it's made up of naked women, but really it's made up of mostly titty and leg. 39:04.992 --> 39:05.660 Yeah. 39:07.790 --> 40:16.290 So it's a big lady made up titty and leg. And cato is ready to fight it, and he's like, I'm going to fight it because it's either me or all of you. And now George is dead too, because I think it ate him. Yeah. So they all try to attack her. She does get hit and her head explodes, but she's not dead. So body keeps going. The fight continues. She grabs cato and then she grows a new head. And she's about to eat him when she explodes. And it's the shitty kid. Great. Glad to see him put in some effort. Yeah. And then from this puddle of blood, I think from the red demon thing. Another monster comes out and it's a big thing with tentacles and multiple arms and a skull head. And the shitty kid loses an arm. Somehow in this I didn't realize how it happened. Then the monster causes an explosion. 40:16.710 --> 40:54.780 Oh, no. But yeah, the teammates all jump off the bridge. They grab now one arm boy, they jump in the water to escape this explosion. So the last half hour of this movie is essentially two fights. So let's just go through it pretty quick. So we see the army reacting to the big mech being like, oh, it's on our side. Ha ha. And it pulls out mecha katana and starts fighting that big spider monkey minotaur thing. 40:55.790 --> 40:59.994 Isn't it crazy when the giant kai chu monster isn't the final balls? 41:00.122 --> 41:05.678 Yeah, weird. It's a small old man. It's a small old man and a titty monster. 41:05.774 --> 41:06.420 Great. 41:09.910 --> 42:10.040 So the Minotaur takes down the mech and everyone's watching and they're like, oh, no, nothing can defeat this thing. But we got seven winboy. We got oka. The like, reigning champion are elijah Wood of this universe jumps in, takes down the minotaur, but then it revives itself as a smaller Minotaur the size of oka. So they can fight one on one. How convenient. So they were on the bridge and they're fighting the dialogue in this part of the fight of oka being like, here's why I'm so good. I was on my college ping pong team, and also I took a karate correspondence class. And I'm like, what is happening? Why? 42:10.970 --> 42:15.474 It's intentional, but it fully well, could just be dialogue from any other movie. 42:15.522 --> 42:16.594 It's just like cool hero. 42:16.642 --> 42:17.950 So out of context. 42:18.130 --> 43:03.590 Yeah, just makes no sense. Okay, whatever defeats the monster. But oh, no, it just keeps regenerating. And now it's a buff version of the old dude. He's like 7ft tall and jacked Jojo's form. So oka keeps just like clowning on him. But Buffalo Dude is just staying there, taking it, and keeps regenerating. And then he's studying his moves and he's like, ah, yeah, now I see. So the the monster is about to kill oka. His he's got this like, big, kind of like predator mech suit, complete with the dreads coming off the back. 43:03.660 --> 43:07.566 Wait, what's the thing from Sonjab? The muscle? Anchor arms. 43:07.698 --> 43:08.970 Anchor arms. Yes. 43:09.120 --> 43:12.202 Hence now I'm a jerk and everyone loves me. 43:12.336 --> 43:14.410 Yeah, very appropriate. 43:15.150 --> 43:36.770 So, yeah, he realizes he's about to die, so he just releases all the air from his anchor arms and causes a smokescreen. And in the smokescreen, the monster goes to punch him, but he jumped out of his suit and stabbed him in the back. And he's like, ha ha. You didn't study that move, bitch. And kill them. No. 43:36.840 --> 43:39.700 Personal kid telephone is behind and stuff. 43:41.190 --> 45:07.614 So he starts walking away. He gives kato his sword. He's like, he's not actually dead. He'll be back up. But I did enough. And kato's like, dude, why don't you kill The Boss and just end this all? He's like it's too risky. Explains nothing. Everyone seems to know what's about to happen. Are they going to tell kato? No. So kato is like, all right, since no one is saying this is a bad idea, fuck this, and takes the sword he just got and goes to stab into the corpse of The Boss. But oh no, a spiky ball rises up and just shoots, spikes out everywhere. And old dude suzuki jumps in front of him and saves kato. And sacrifices himself. If only he gave actual information 10 seconds ago, we could have avoided this. So he sacrifices himself. And The Boss regenerates into skeletor motherfucker and challenges. kato Is like, all right, I'm going to kill you and then use my power to resurrect suzuki. Because the two Call of Duty guys were like, yes. Each Boss is worth exactly 100 points. Convenient, right? 45:07.732 --> 45:08.400 Cool. 45:09.970 --> 45:47.578 So of course the Boss is like, haha. You're a level one player. And immediately knocks them down. Doesn't kill him, but enough to get away. So the boss escapes. Now that old man is dead, it's just kato, YAMASAKI and model girl. And they're like, okay, the guy who didn't actually kill The Boss that we have to listen to. He says we have to surprise him. So you two be snipers while I distract it. Okay, cool. 45:47.744 --> 45:48.618 Good plan. 45:48.784 --> 45:57.262 So the Boss jumps back in. Just needed to go grab a cup of coffee real quick. It's been a rough 15 minutes. 45:57.396 --> 45:58.750 I just bought coffee together. 45:58.900 --> 46:17.786 Yeah, this guy's died like five times so far. So he just needed a quick breather. But he jumps back in, carrying the head of the last teammate, the one model girl is in love with and is like, time to die. 46:17.918 --> 46:20.614 No, that was oka. That was like the badass guy. 46:20.652 --> 46:54.850 Oh, got you. Okay, sorry. Weird. We only see these people for like 10 seconds at a time. And a lot of them don't matter. So they all blend together. But yeah. So brings in the only good player, I guess. Dead. He's like, what are you going to do about it? So what does he do about it? You know what he does? He doesn't shoot. He drops his gun and just looks at him. And he's like, Why, boss? 46:56.470 --> 46:58.420 Why would you do this? 46:59.270 --> 47:03.138 Clearly there has to be something more fun you can be doing. 47:03.304 --> 47:07.250 Let me reach out to your humanity. Giant skeleton demon. 47:12.870 --> 47:23.580 He's like, hey. Why? I'm a fucking god. And what else am I going to do? I'm one of many gods. What else can I do? 47:24.910 --> 47:26.090 Got to do something. 47:26.240 --> 47:31.958 Yeah, basically the explanation is bored. 47:32.134 --> 47:33.054 Yeah, cool. 47:33.172 --> 47:56.882 All right, great. Once this exchange happened, the snipers are in place. And the girls start firing at him. And he just starts taking a bunch of damage. He's trying to locate their positions. Would be a great time for kato to start shooting as well. Just have three guns on them at once. 47:56.936 --> 47:59.098 But they still want that's. 47:59.214 --> 48:18.826 No, it's fine. But naturally since he's learning, he's like, okay, got it. I see your positions. You weren't moving. Remember how we just said we have to constantly be surprising him? We should have had a backup plan, right? Just do this until he catches on. 48:18.848 --> 48:19.770 And then do something else. 48:19.840 --> 48:24.046 No. Okay, so he's like missing a few. 48:24.068 --> 48:30.846 Of the sniper shots. So it's not even like they're crack shots of like every shot they're nailing it's like, no, they're missing. They're clearly giving away their position. 48:31.028 --> 49:31.314 Yes. Just firing frantically, not moving, not hiding themselves. So he fires up at the buildings and they're like, he keeps missing. He's not a talented boss, but weird, he also is smart and has an agenda and knocks down a billboard above the model and like pins her leg half dangling off the building and oh no, she's going to die. So they keep fighting dicato perpetually keeps having his gun thrown across the street in every fight he's in. So he has to keep crawling to his guns over and over again. Sorry, this is all like one continuous action. So I technically have like six bullet points for this half hour sequence and like, oh fuck, what did I do to myself? 49:31.432 --> 49:35.606 There's a lot going on, but not at the same time. Also, nothing going on. Yeah. 49:35.708 --> 50:11.902 So as he's crawling for his gun, YAMASAKI sacrifices herself for him. Could it still kept shooting a monster? That could help. But nope, she she takes the damage for him and sacrifices herself. Cool. We then see one arm. gamer boy comes rolling in. He's on he's on the Circle motorcycle. No one else. The last guy dropped his mount, so he had to pick it up. He drives in immediately, gets like cut in half. Doesn't really help at all. 50:12.036 --> 50:12.382 Cool. 50:12.436 --> 50:39.446 Just got to gather all the main characters for the ending. So he goes in for the kill, but kato gets that like, gravity well crusher gun thing and finally just shoots them. What a great answer. Shoots them. Finally he fires a shot when he. 50:39.468 --> 50:43.306 Should it was building up to this point where he can finally fire the. 50:43.328 --> 51:51.680 Gun confidently, but yeah, so he takes this like, gravity gun and just starts what anyone with this gun should be doing. Just starts rapid firing. It just like stamping, just God's invisible boot just stomping over and over on the street. Just making sure this cockroach of a monster is dead. And they did it. They won. They had tennis left and they beat him. So they returned to the apartment and then they're like, okay, score time. Oh cool. The whole team's back again. All the dead people revived because our team won. Great, so old man is back. Don't get a waste of resurrection on him. gamer boy gets his arm back so he's good to go for the next round, but all right, let's see those scores. We see old man and model girl get like, two to four points. gamer boy gets twelve, and kato gets 100. 51:52.710 --> 51:54.130 How convenient. 51:55.430 --> 51:57.170 The plot continues. 51:58.230 --> 52:17.126 This is 100, the upper limit, because he they established the bosses worth 100 points. He then killed several other monsters around that. So were those monsters worth nothing? Or did he get to 100 and then they go, yeah, it doesn't matter at this point. 52:17.308 --> 52:22.842 Dugan, both I nor the series have the amount of logic to tell you the answer to that fair. 52:22.976 --> 52:25.978 But just had to point out, it bugged me. 52:26.144 --> 52:30.220 He killed other ones, too. Yes, he did get confirmed kills. They should have count. 52:30.910 --> 52:59.526 So they're like, oh, sick. You won. You beat it. You can go home. But he's like, no, I made a promise to a stranger who said that they didn't care about saving other people. Let's go again, let's go again. He uses his points to bring YAMASAKI back because she was on a losing team, so she stayed dead. But she wakes up in a different apartment and he's like, that crazy son. 52:59.548 --> 53:02.040 Of a bitch did it. You did it. 53:03.770 --> 53:50.598 So at this point, my understanding was already foggy, but here, right, we have a time jump, I assume, because there's no indicator, there's no flash forward, there's no blink. And we're back. We're just, like, continuing the scene, except in this apartment with the winning. Tokyo team is a bunch of people. Because I guess kato stayed in the game and just decided, my job is to be anime game Jesus and resurrect everyone. Everyone comes back. No one stays dead in this game. 53:50.764 --> 54:07.340 I was under the impression that this was a flashback in which kato had already gotten 100 points and decided to wipe his memory. But now he's dead once more. So now he's in the game again. 54:10.130 --> 54:12.942 Okay, so the the extra people must. 54:12.996 --> 54:14.720 Be dead at this point. 54:15.650 --> 54:26.626 The one guy, corono was kato's friend from before. Like, they died at the same time at the beginning of the series. And then they got 100 points and kato got out because he had a. 54:26.648 --> 54:56.762 Little brother backstory stuff that I would only get from realizing this is a series and not a standalone thing. Well, whatever the fuck happens, he's like, all right, I'm done now. I did my community service in this game, so goodbye. And then he decides to go back into the world and goes to see his brother. He opens the door, credits roll. Okay, cool. 54:56.896 --> 55:00.060 Well, you don't be a satisfying ending. Get the fuck out of it. 55:00.930 --> 55:09.950 No, his brother's a Titty monster now. Oh, no. But yeah, that's the movie. 55:13.350 --> 55:13.954 Right? 55:14.072 --> 55:21.220 Yeah. We mentioned this before. Recording. I wanted to dislike it more, but it's okay. 55:21.750 --> 55:26.230 Yeah, it's just kind of not good. But I wanted to be horrified. 55:27.610 --> 55:28.360 Yes. 55:29.690 --> 55:45.354 Mechanically, it's like, very impressive. Like, the style and the don't look. That guy. It looks amazing. There's so much detail in it. Story wise. It's a random battle in the middle of a series you have no context for. Why would you think the story is good? 55:45.472 --> 56:09.698 Yeah, it's nothing. Yeah, but yeah, obviously we got these characters are held together by tissue paper of connections of I think this me, a 23 year old woman thinks the 17 year old is cute. So let me sacrifice myself so I can have a father for my child, I guess. I don't know. 56:09.784 --> 56:15.058 And because the whole mission was timed, we know for a fact they knew each other for less than 2 hours. 56:15.224 --> 56:48.494 Yeah. All the connecting pieces, I don't know. The animation was executed well. The monster designs, for the most part, very grotesque, but very interesting and cool. So, like, I don't know, this is, like, a pretty solid 50% where it's like, I'll never watch this again. But it had its cool elements. But I don't know. 56:48.612 --> 56:50.478 I liked looking at it. 56:50.644 --> 56:55.200 Yeah, I liked looking at it, except for the parts where I hated looking. 56:58.790 --> 56:59.874 What about you, D? 56:59.992 --> 57:28.140 It was fine. Like I said, I wanted it to be worse. I don't know what I was expecting, but I guess because I've seen not just the Titty Monster lady, I've seen other monsters from it, and I feel like they're worse. But because this is, like, an hour and a half long movie, we don't get to focus on too many of them. So they're cool. 57:28.750 --> 57:35.102 Some of them in the manga can get real grotesque looking. That's a lot of detail for something I do not want to look at. 57:35.156 --> 57:40.320 Yeah. So that's why I was like, oh, boy, I can't wait to see these juicy guys. 57:40.770 --> 57:46.590 And then the last boss just looks like a skeleton Dragon Ball Z character. It's like, okay, he's cool. 57:46.660 --> 57:47.360 All right. 57:48.690 --> 57:50.946 Not groundbreaking character design. 57:51.048 --> 57:54.050 I was sufficiently horrified by the Titty Monster. 57:54.470 --> 57:55.910 That's the money shot. 57:56.250 --> 58:00.390 That's a good one. But, yes, overall. 58:01.610 --> 58:14.662 Hey, that's better than I thought it'd be. I'll take that as a win. It was entertaining. Okay, so let's play the game, see how fast it goes. The game is called at first gantz. 58:14.806 --> 58:16.220 Oh, good. 58:18.190 --> 58:20.074 Don't make me look at things. 58:20.272 --> 58:46.020 No, no, no. You'll have to look at it. But it'll be siding what is ink ants and what isn't? In gantz, this is an overall, like, overall series, not just this movie. So these are things that are either happened or are in the series or things that aren't, and you have to decide which. Okay, so in gantz, there are Psychkics, people with esb telekinetic powers. True. 58:48.490 --> 58:53.000 I'm going to say false. I feel like we would have seen that in the movie. At least. 58:54.090 --> 59:06.460 I'm sure that they're like, okay, let's streamline this movie. Let's keep some of the series bullshit out just to not completely over complicate it. So I'm going to say yes, there are. 59:07.310 --> 59:09.482 That's a point for dugan. There are. 59:09.616 --> 59:10.300 Wow. 59:10.850 --> 59:17.310 They are like two of them. Really not important, but they exist in the world. 59:17.380 --> 59:20.494 They're there shoehorned it in. 59:20.692 --> 59:24.526 They kill, like, one alien and then die of a brain hemorrhage because of their powers. 59:24.638 --> 59:25.620 Oh, man. 59:26.150 --> 59:33.102 They get destroyed by their own powers. Not even a monster. Great. Very useful skill in gantz. 59:33.166 --> 59:40.310 They fight aliens that look like cryptids, like the loch ness monster and bigfoot and all of those good friends. True or false? 59:41.130 --> 59:55.290 Well, we now know that these aliens are based on Japanese cryptids folklore. So are you asking specifically, like, North American and other outside of Japan? Outside of Japan. 59:56.110 --> 01:00:06.400 Yeah. I'll say they pulled some sort of god of war thing of like, oh, we just need more gods to kill. And they're like, okay, let's start pulling from other places. So I'm going to say yes. 01:00:08.610 --> 01:00:10.480 I'll say yes as well. 01:00:11.570 --> 01:00:12.490 That's a no. 01:00:12.580 --> 01:00:13.090 Damn it. 01:00:13.160 --> 01:00:27.854 No cryptids. But do you think they fight statues? Specifically statues of buddha in various forms that are actually aliens? They're all actually aliens. That's a caveat for all of these. 01:00:27.992 --> 01:00:34.920 See, my problem with this game is I can see all of this bullshit happening, so I'm just like, yeah, might as well. 01:00:35.530 --> 01:00:37.282 I'll say yes for this one. 01:00:37.436 --> 01:00:41.340 Yeah, I'll go against my instincts. I'll say no. 01:00:41.870 --> 01:00:51.286 They fight buddha statues. It's very traumatic. It's like a near tpk, a near total party kill. Except for the first guy corono. 01:00:51.398 --> 01:00:51.830 Wow. 01:00:51.920 --> 01:01:03.710 It's a very brutal fight. It's a big part of the story. Now, we've had one statute fight. What about another statute fight? Do you think they fight Roman statues in Italy? 01:01:03.870 --> 01:01:12.050 Well, since they don't have other cryptids, I'm going to say no, they would not fight other statues. 01:01:12.550 --> 01:01:20.790 Yeah, I agree. If we're not fighting like, Italian cryptids, then we're not fighting their statues. 01:01:21.450 --> 01:01:23.670 Is Mario an Italian cryptid? 01:01:24.490 --> 01:01:26.950 That is it's a bowser. 01:01:28.970 --> 01:01:33.830 That is too much logic and consistency for the series. They fight Roman statues. 01:01:34.570 --> 01:01:35.800 Oh, my God. 01:01:36.270 --> 01:01:39.482 They fight them in Rome and they go around the world. 01:01:39.616 --> 01:01:40.860 Oh, boy. 01:01:41.230 --> 01:01:51.758 They go around the world and just continue fighting. No cryptids here. We didn't do any research. It's just more Japanese things or inanimate things. Cool, great. 01:01:51.924 --> 01:01:58.718 Let's go back to something more Japanese. Do you think they fight a bunch of aliens that look like cosplayers at an anime event ship? 01:01:58.814 --> 01:02:01.380 Oh, my God, I hope so. 01:02:02.070 --> 01:02:02.706 They do. 01:02:02.808 --> 01:02:07.114 Yeah. I'm going to say yes just out of I want to will it into existence. 01:02:07.262 --> 01:02:13.430 I'm going to say no. I don't know, but I'll be the devil's advocate. 01:02:14.010 --> 01:02:16.642 Why? Has this series ever given you anything you enjoyed? 01:02:16.706 --> 01:02:20.140 That's a no. Damn it. 01:02:20.990 --> 01:02:27.322 That would be too much fun. They don't want you to have fun while you're watching this. 01:02:27.456 --> 01:02:30.294 This is edgy. This is high school manga. 01:02:30.422 --> 01:02:37.040 I would have just loved if they fought actual gantz cosplayers and they're like, I don't know who's on our team or not. 01:02:37.890 --> 01:02:57.846 My suit isn't working because it's polyester shit. Now, out of all the people that get pulled up into the gantz games, it's when someone dies and gets sucked out of purgatory for some I don't know how it works. No one does. Do you think along with them, at one point, a panda goes along and fights on their team, gets a little. 01:02:57.868 --> 01:03:00.706 Panda suit, a little jujitsu kaisen? 01:03:00.818 --> 01:03:11.018 A little bit, yeah. I think you are pulling this from jujitsu kaizen because, you know, we want it so bad, so I'm going to say no. 01:03:11.184 --> 01:03:12.860 I'm going to say yes. 01:03:13.790 --> 01:03:17.322 Dee is ready again. There's a pan at one point on the team. 01:03:17.456 --> 01:03:17.754 What? 01:03:17.792 --> 01:03:22.086 Does it ever fight? No, it's just a panda. It's just skating for things. 01:03:22.208 --> 01:03:23.440 Who did this? 01:03:24.130 --> 01:03:27.066 Leave the lobby if you're not going to play dude. 01:03:27.258 --> 01:03:33.962 There's also a literal jojo's character and a toddler that form a very cute bond before. They are also murder. 01:03:34.026 --> 01:03:35.214 Oh, my God. 01:03:35.412 --> 01:03:39.460 I hadn't even thought about that. The dead children that end up here. 01:03:40.070 --> 01:03:41.218 Oh, man. 01:03:41.384 --> 01:03:53.800 Do you think one of the characters that gets dragged along with them, not the panda this time, is a character that eats tokoyaki and fights throwing the Tokyoki sticks after he's done eating them. Oh, like that's his signature attack. 01:03:54.330 --> 01:03:55.080 Yes. 01:03:55.610 --> 01:04:06.474 Yeah. My compass is now just spinning wildly. I don't know which way is up. Yes, of course that happens in this goddamn show. 01:04:06.672 --> 01:04:09.130 No, you fuck. 01:04:12.450 --> 01:04:13.978 There are no rules. 01:04:14.074 --> 01:04:20.480 Just when you think you understand gantts, they say no, you don't stop trying. 01:04:21.570 --> 01:04:26.930 Let's bring it back a bit to something we all know. Vampires. You think there's vampires in gantts? 01:04:29.990 --> 01:04:38.582 I'll say yes. I feel like that's pretty universal for folklore they can pull from, so I'm going to say, yeah, I'll agree. 01:04:38.716 --> 01:04:46.466 Yes, there are. Why are they in there? No one knows. Do they ever come up in the story after their brief cameo? 01:04:46.578 --> 01:04:47.240 No. 01:04:47.610 --> 01:04:51.482 And also, the main character's brother is a vampire for some reason, but we don't get into that. 01:04:51.536 --> 01:04:59.674 So are the vampires I feel like I shouldn't ask. Do they fight the vampires or are the vampires part of the good guys? 01:04:59.872 --> 01:05:01.018 I don't know. 01:05:01.104 --> 01:05:02.038 Oh, shit. 01:05:02.134 --> 01:05:03.020 Oh, man. 01:05:03.950 --> 01:05:05.838 I knew it. I shouldn't have asked. 01:05:06.004 --> 01:05:20.022 It honestly feels like filler. And then halfway through the filler, the writer goes, Wait, I got the story. Okay, back to the main story. And just cuts off halfway through without explaining anything. And then the vampires help them in the final battle. No explanation excrete. 01:05:20.106 --> 01:05:20.786 Okay. 01:05:20.968 --> 01:05:25.118 Do you think some of the aliens think disguises as mascots? Japan's got a lot of mascots. 01:05:25.134 --> 01:05:28.200 Yes, absolutely. I think they do. 01:05:29.210 --> 01:05:34.120 I think that is in the similar of I want it too bad, so I'm going to say no. 01:05:34.970 --> 01:05:37.160 Dug and you're learning. That's enough. 01:05:38.190 --> 01:05:44.726 If it sounds like an enjoyable aspect of the show and not just bullshit. No. It's fake. 01:05:44.838 --> 01:05:49.306 Now. What about dinosaurs? You think they fight dinosaurs at some point? 01:05:49.488 --> 01:05:52.154 God, probably. 01:05:52.352 --> 01:05:53.100 Yes. 01:05:54.270 --> 01:05:57.334 Yeah, they do. You can know they're fighting dinosaurs. 01:05:57.382 --> 01:05:58.230 God damn. 01:05:58.310 --> 01:06:02.074 You take the skies at the Natural Museum. Natural History Museum. 01:06:02.202 --> 01:06:02.880 Wow. 01:06:04.210 --> 01:06:16.854 So why is it sometimes they're like, yeah, I'm going to be a fucking kappa. I'm going to be just a fantasy thing. And sometimes they're like, there's a trash can around here, so I'm a trash can monster now? 01:06:16.972 --> 01:06:20.040 They like to have fun. The aliens like to have fun. 01:06:22.810 --> 01:06:32.982 It's like prop one. What about this old story chestnut everyone loves? How about clones? You think there's a spiderman clone saga somewhere in this gantt? 01:06:33.046 --> 01:06:36.186 Oh, yeah, there's got to be. 01:06:36.368 --> 01:06:38.540 Yeah. All right. 01:06:39.070 --> 01:06:53.300 You know, that would make the story way too complicated, so they had to do it. The main character, colonel, the guy who we seek dead at the beginning, the strong one, he dies, then gets brought back. But then we find out the first one didn't actually die. So there's two of them. 01:06:54.870 --> 01:07:00.306 Why? How long game at that point? gantz, you're fucking up. 01:07:00.408 --> 01:07:06.660 Is dance all one series. Or is it, like are there, like, offshoots, or is it all one thing? 01:07:07.830 --> 01:07:11.862 What I know is all the one thing. There are a few offshoots, but I never got into those. 01:07:11.996 --> 01:07:14.054 So this is all in the one thing? 01:07:14.172 --> 01:07:15.800 This is the one story. 01:07:16.570 --> 01:07:19.062 Man two more. 01:07:19.196 --> 01:07:23.598 Do you think they fight the notorious Japanese suicide forest, aki kahara? 01:07:23.714 --> 01:07:24.822 The whole forest. 01:07:24.966 --> 01:07:32.022 The forest is actually aliens, and that's why people die in there and they fight them. Do you think that is true, that's. 01:07:32.086 --> 01:07:34.878 Dark and upsetting enough to be a yes for me? 01:07:35.044 --> 01:07:40.080 Yeah, that's a no. Why would they put that much effort into it? 01:07:41.570 --> 01:07:46.278 Honestly, that gives me a little bit more hope for this perspective. 01:07:46.314 --> 01:07:46.978 A little more. 01:07:47.064 --> 01:07:47.458 Yeah. 01:07:47.544 --> 01:07:50.530 Let's at least respect these suicide victims. 01:07:51.430 --> 01:07:55.606 Last one score right now is D six, dugan five. We can tie it up. 01:07:55.628 --> 01:07:56.470 Oh, dang. 01:07:57.290 --> 01:08:00.786 Do you think there are celebrity cameos in gantz? 01:08:00.978 --> 01:08:08.998 Oh, is it all animated like this? Or is it just a movie that's animated like this? 01:08:09.084 --> 01:08:12.070 This is just the movie. This is just like a very high budget movie. 01:08:12.150 --> 01:08:13.658 I'm going to say no, then. 01:08:13.824 --> 01:08:24.640 I'll say yes. Because after playing Death stranding, I just want junji Edo to be in more shows and games as themselves. So I'm going to say yes. 01:08:25.570 --> 01:08:27.002 We got ourselves a tie. 01:08:27.066 --> 01:08:28.080 That is a yes. 01:08:29.090 --> 01:08:46.466 At the end of the series, they meet the god aliens that have absolute power. And while they're talking to the main characters, their faces are just shifting between an amalgamation of just a bunch of different characters, including dogs and cats and just other aliens and a skull and a bunch of celebrities or famous figures. 01:08:46.658 --> 01:08:47.400 Okay? 01:08:48.170 --> 01:09:02.778 Some of them include Jesus and Michael Jackson and Gandhi and Morgan freeman. They're all Michael and John lennon and benedict the 16th I thought you were. 01:09:02.784 --> 01:09:03.286 Going to say bench. 01:09:03.318 --> 01:09:06.774 Albert heinberbatch and Ronald reagan. 01:09:06.822 --> 01:09:09.580 He is an alien anyway. Stop. 01:09:11.470 --> 01:09:12.922 You have to tell him your Putin. 01:09:12.986 --> 01:09:14.750 Happy birthday, Brendan. Please stop. 01:09:14.820 --> 01:09:23.614 Anne hitler that's, at first glance, got. 01:09:23.652 --> 01:09:30.210 Herself a try first, never playing it again. So we were always live in Thailand. 01:09:33.510 --> 01:09:54.762 What a great way to end just neck and neck. But we both still lose. Because, Brendan, you get to pick another episode for neck and neck. Because we're in the purgatory where we didn't kill Brendan at the end of this episode. So we got to start over and try again. So what are we watching next week? 01:09:54.896 --> 01:10:13.278 We're going again. We're watching another series. I haven't seen this one. So this is going to be new for me. But I have a strong feeling I'm going to love it. And you're probably going to hate, or at least be a different to it. Another series by our good old friend, the creator of sarah's on May. We're watching penguin Drum. 01:10:13.454 --> 01:10:14.274 Okay. 01:10:14.472 --> 01:10:15.380 All right. 01:10:15.830 --> 01:10:19.474 Actually, less ass play, then. 01:10:19.512 --> 01:10:47.046 Penguins play your ass cheeks like a drum. Anyway, if you, the listener, have a show you would like because to watch. That involves booty bongos, you can send your recommendations to us. Our email is rwebveret@gmail.com. Or you can reach out to us on Twitter or Instagram at rweebveryet on both. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at mrpatrick. dugan and listen to my fiction podcast, echoed locations. 01:10:47.238 --> 01:10:59.486 You can find me on Instagram at honey. Period. D, on Twitter at honey d eight and Honey dart, or on twitch at honeyunderscore D. And Honey is spelled H-U-N-N-I-E. 01:10:59.668 --> 01:11:15.170 You can find me on Twitter a bts, brendan I'm mostly reflecting on why I watch or read so much fucking dance. I also have another podcast called Almost Better Than Silence, which is about video games and also me wondering why I've read so much fucking dance. 01:11:15.910 --> 01:11:30.114 Thank you to camille ruley for her artwork, and thank you to Louis zong for theme song stories. You can find all of louie's music at Louisong bandcamp.com. Thank you, and we hope you'll join us next week as we learn to live with anime. 01:11:30.242 --> 01:11:32.082 Happy birthday, Brandon. 01:11:32.226 --> 01:11:33.510 Happy birthday. 01:11:34.490 --> 01:12:05.460 Don't recant. Just talk to subscribe. You.