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Hello and welcome to our weep there yet. And exploration and education and anime. I'm your anime idiot, patrick dugan.
I'm an anime expert, dana hollander.
And I'm brenda mccullough. Your anime nerd that trusts himself inside all day and does nothing but play video games and watch cartoons. It's too real.
Neat way.
It's real.
Get it?
It's neat considering I ate half a box of Girl scout cookies and watched like 3 hours of cartoons and then played Fire emblem. I'm on track with that.
You know what I did today? This has nothing to do with podcasts. The first episode of Pop Team Epic. And I've seen clips, but the whole episode was some shit, I tell you what.
Was it a full half hour or like 20 minutes?
It's eleven minutes.
It's eleven minutes. Okay. Yeah.
Still mini, still minimized.
It was a lot. It felt like it went on forever.
Because I was going to say because like, hitali and there's other mini enemies that are only five minutes. So I thought it'd be like that size.
I thought so too, based on what I had seen. But yeah, it's eleven minutes. Anyway, that's not what we're doing today.
That's for another time.
Yeah, what we're doing today where we got a recommendation from listener Will parsons. This is no game, no life.
Thanks, Will.
Thank you, Will, for the recommendation.
Thank you. So I know nothing about this, of course. Anyone else? I know anime king.
That would hurt.
Wow, that was a lot.
Have either of you seen this?
No.
Yes. I was a lot of the anime.
The standard deviation, of course, has seen it.
I've heard the name plenty of times, but I've never watched it because I've always associated it with Sword Art Online, which is an anime that I'm very uninterested in. So I've always just been like, I don't know about that one.
Yeah, having already watched, I could say it'sekai is like the genre and it just means different world. And it's effectively like protagonists get sucked into a whole new world and like, they have to explore all that.
So it's like the elf hen tie we watched it's like.
It is. Yeah, it's a lot of anime because it's the escapism of just like, fuck this world. This world doesn't understand me. I want to go to the fantasy world. And then you go there and it's better. As opposed to what would really happen is you go to a medieval fantasy world and you die instantly.
Just immediate dysentery.
Yeah, just constant pooping.
But I feel like it would be more like you would kill other people with your advanced germs.
Hey, medieval fantasy Europe jokes on you. I have the coronavirus.
Let's see how this plays out. We don't even have that figured out yet. Good luck.
No chance.
You got it.
That'Ll be fine. The flu kills more people.
Yeah. What if they did have a cure? What if it's just like you just bite into a raw onion, that's it.
It's like, wow, we never saw I would do it.
I would not. I would die. I'll take death over that. Anyway, no game, no life. Extreme hard opinions about onions on this podcast. No game, no life.
I like them. I have a soft opinion.
Yeah.
I am pro onion from big onion. I get my checks.
I get my kicks off from Big Onion.
But yeah, just researching it, I saw it was basically the board game anime. So I'm a little concerned that it is different worlds and stuff because that's not quite what I was expecting.
This anime brought to you by hasbro and the Parker Brothers.
Excellent.
Yeah, there's board games in it, but it's not just a sports anime, but for board games.
We bought Park Place Devious, two hotels. I tell my parents, but yeah. So we're going to watch the first three episodes. And.
I got knocked.
Let's go. This show was not good.
No, that should be it.
We're back. This show was not good.
Okay.
I'm decided sorry. If either of you have something clever to say.
No. Yeah, that sums it up, though.
Yeah.
When your introduction to Small preview descent girl main character is a panty shot, that's usually an indicator of the quality of the show.
Yeah, that's bad stuff.
Sorry, Will. Not a fan.
Yeah, sorry, bud.
Well, we love you. I feel like we've done this before, specifically with you.
It's nothing personal.
Well, he also suggested assassination, classroom and free.
So, like, doing okay?
Yeah, there's a weird amount of penis in assassination Classroom, but other than that, we're good.
But still less problematic than this show.
Just an objective penis. Less problematic than this? Yeah. I don't know if this show is necessarily popular or just well known. I've heard about a lot. dana's heard it. I know some friends of mine who like it. And I've heard the covers of the opening theme song a lot. I don't know if it's one of those shows where people like the show conceptually and like elements of it, but don't actually like the whole show or if it is as popular as it seems. I don't know, man.
Interesting. Well, let's get into it.
Let's get into it.
In the beginning of episode one, there's like a chat room thing kind of going on just visually. And then we're immediately dropped into a fight, big fantasy fight. And there's a lady character by the moniker of Queen. And she's like, oh, these four characters beat 1200 players all on their own. Wow. How could this be? And then they do fight stuff that I didn't. It's a fight.
Big anime fight.
Big anime fantasy fight. And then Queen, all of her mamma MP magic.
Don't need to get too bogged down by this. We drop all this shit immediately.
It's true. Well, I just try. I mean, that's a thing in video games, right? Is that usually called MP?
Magic power. mana power. Yeah.
Okay. Magica if you're in skyrim.
My magica if you are a friend of modica. So she launches her big final magic attack and they dodge it. One of the guys dodges it and she can't believe it.
What?
And we have like, a narrator talking about how there's an urban legend about these players and their usernames are left empty, so everybody just calls them blank.
Mysterious cryptid.
That's the name of ted's, a capella band and scrubs. Anyway.
And then after the fight, queen and this big dude are talking about how they must be cheaters, but cheating is their expertise, so they're out cheating the cheaters. And then Queen, her titties jiggle a lot and she's like, oh my God, they're so good. I wonder if one of them will date me. Because that's what women are good for.
That's all women think about.
And then we like, pull out and it's all just a video game. What? Oh, boy.
So here we go.
These four characters are played by two people. One is an 18 year old guy named Sora who is described as a virgin, and a Neat, who is just someone. It's like an otaku, but they also stay inside all day.
Yeah. Neat is an acronym for non educated, Employed or Trained.
Right.
No job, no college, no military training.
Yeah. And then the other one is his eleven year old little sister who is named Shiro. She's eleven and she's introduced by a vulgar panty shot. Yeah, one of those panty shots where you can fully see the outline of her vagina. And it's just like you're saying, she's eleven, brah.
Hey, can we not, can we not.
This isn't even like, oh, she's 20, but she looks like she's eleven. She's eleven. It's still inexcusable, even if it was.
The other way, but is worse.
And then we get like a weird thing with her feet too, because she's playing the game with her feet.
Yeah, very tarantino shot, like, from below. So you get her feet in the angle too. It's like just really catering to those perverts, aren't you?
Yeah, like, we're not even ten minutes in. Are you really trying to if this is how you're establishing hey, this is the tone of the show. Holy shit, I want out.
Yeah, I put in my notes. Hate this already.
Hey, darker than Black is not that bad, now, is it?
It's just different.
Anyway.
This is the worst. Okay, so that's that. They're just playing all four of those characters. They're just being gamers in a dark room with a whole bunch of screens, and they're talking about food and how she mostly eats, like, candy and snacks, and she's like, I need real nutrients so I won't grow. And she means her boobs, of course, to which I should have written down the exact line.
She also does a baby talking because you got to infantilize the character. You're also sexualizing.
Yeah, I watched this one in English. And she's also one of those characters that speaks monotone. So she's got, like, no personality, but so her brother then says, you're already a perfect beauty, my darling. Something like that. And I was just like.
Yeah, I'm going to get out in front of this for the bingo card I took off the not part of technically not incest.
Yeah, this is fully I think you.
Call it technically not incest because of the way they play their relationship, like in the show. Like, they're still just like no, they just love each other so much as siblings. Don't get us wrong.
No, they're just tight. They're tight friends and nothing else.
Oh, God. Tight. Like those panties. Sorry. So it was gross silence. And then she starts falling asleep because they've been playing this game for like, five days straight. And he's like, no, don't do this now. And then she like, pushes the computer mice mouses up under his feet, and she's like, I believe in you. And then she falls asleep. And then the narrator, again, is talking about how people use video games and stuff as an escape because the world has no meaning or value. And I was just like, you sure about that? Yeah. And people want the world to be more interesting, which I feel like is a fairest. Like, if people are bored with their lives, they just want to make things interesting. So that's how urban legends begin. And the narrator is like, have you heard the latest rumor? And I'm like, what's happening? And then the siblings, they get an email, and it is someone asking, as though they feel they were born into the wrong world. And there's a link, and they click it. And I was like, you guys fools. You're going to get a vibe on.
The Internet and you don't know your basic don't click links from strangers rules?
Yeah, the Indian prince, he doesn't want to marry you. And it leads to an online chess game, and he wants her to play it because she's big, smartergy, and they're, like, talking strategy. And he points out that the other player purposefully made a move that would trap her. So they're not playing against AI. It's like a real person. And then he does this thing where he picks her up and sits in the chair and puts her on his lap. And they play together. And it's terrible. Really bad. We almost get another panty shot.
This is strong Internet step sibling quotation vibes.
Yeah, it's ugly. Except that they are siblings.
I know.
Deal with that courtesy.
Yeah. So they win and they're exhausted. And then they get another message asking about whether or not they're happy with the world. And it must be so difficult to be so smart and then have to deal with other people. And it was at this point that I was like, okay, this show was definitely made for in cells. Not by incels, but four in cells. Well, could be both.
Four incels by incels anime.
But they don't like the real world. It's just like a crappy game. And then the email essentially asks if they would rather live in another world. And he types back, if such a world exists, I'd be down to leave this one. And then all of the screens in the room go staticky, and the room glitches. And then some hands come out of the screen, and it's the narrator's voice offering to take them to a world of its creation. And then they're falling through space. And then we see a child named Pet, and he's like, Hello, I'm a god. Nice to meet you.
Unrealistic expectations of a literal child. Check.
Yeah, like I said, I watched this one in English, and I really liked this kid's voice. I thought this person was, like, a really good actor. I don't know why they brought a vibe that I enjoyed.
He found a little island of enjoyment in this.
Yeah, it was the best I could do. And he's like, hey. So everything here is decided by games. And here are the ten rules of the land. And I wrote them all down.
Oh, wow.
One, no killing or stealing from others. Two, all conflicts are resolved through games. Three, this is the ten Dual commandments I've ever heard them. Three. Before the games begin, the players must bet something that they feel is of equal value. Four, the rules of the game, and the bet will not be questioned. Three, the challenged party picks the rules of the game. Six, all bets must be upheld. Seven, games that are I didn't understand this one. Games are overseen by those that hold absolute authority. So I guess pretty much there has to be a judge.
Yeah, some sort of referee that's impartial. You can be like, yeah, my buddy Doug is going to just watch over this, and he's definitely not on my side.
Wink, wink.
Eight, cheating up and live dvds. He's totally not paid for it.
Hi, Doug. Being caught cheating results in an instant loss. Nine, the previous rules must never be altered.
Never.
And it's at this point that they're about to smash into the ground and Shiro and Sora are freaking out. But the godboy saves them before they get smooshed. And then what's number ten, you ask? Have fun. Of course. Of course.
Chuck e cheese.
This is chucky Cheese, the show. And then the godboy just leaves them alone in the middle of nowhere.
Good luck.
And Sora says that he always thought life was a game for masochists and losers. Okay. incel.
Yeah.
Can I just burn a hole in unlikable main character?
Yeah, just cut it out. He sucks. So they're just, like, in the middle of nowhere, and then we don't see this, but they travel a bit, and we get lore. And gods were waging war, and all of them wanted to be the one true godohim. And then everything got destroyed. But one god remained because he never wanted to fight, and it was tet, and he is the god of play. So that's why the world is like this. And he was disgusted by the other god's behavior. And instead of making this shitty gods fix everything, he made the 16 races of the world fix everything.
It's a lot of races.
And we find out that this information is coming from a bandit that Sora made a bet to play with. And it's like a group of three, and they took their clothes because Sora is such a good gamer. We don't know what game they played.
God gamer, he's so good.
So they took their clothes and then just left. And they're like, wow, they're not even going to beat us up because they can't. It's god's plan against the rules. And then they go to a little village and like, the one thing that I'll say about this show is that it's kind of pretty.
I like the color palette.
I like the color palette. The aesthetic is nice. There are times because the lining of the characters is not dark. It's like it goes with whatever part of their body is kind of thing. It's kind of hard to look at sometimes depending on the colors.
It's a lot of clothes.
Yeah, but I like the aesthetic. I like the way the characters look with the soft lines. So they approach an inn, and there are two girls playing a card game, and there is a MILF outside explaining to Sora and Shiro what's happening. She says that they are in a gambling tournament to be the next ruler of the land because the king wants the greatest gambler to succeed him. It was in his will. And his granddaughter Stephanie is playing. She's losing terribly. And then Sora after the MILF explains, he's like, oh, are you going to play? Because he sees that she has a little bag of money, and he tries to intimidate her. And he's obviously trying to hustle her for her money. So he's like, oh, you're not going to play? I guess you're too chicken. And she's like, fine, let's play. So if he wins, he gets the money. If she wins, she can do whatever she wants with the both of them. Cool. wink. And I'll say it now. I said that this was a combination of two things. This is pretty much just sword art online mixed with kake Gurudui.
Yeah.
This is just fantasy. kake Guru. This is all of the show is yeah. And they're doing their thing, and they're just, like, talking back and forth at each other, trying to intimidate each other. And he has to put his cards back, get a new hand because he got bad cards, supposedly. And then she lays her cards down and she had a full house. And he's like, oh, wow, what a good hand. Too bad I have a royal straight flush.
Whoa.
So move on. Wow.
Impossible.
And I just wrote in the note, I just wrote, her titties are all over the place.
Just wild.
Because they really were.
The gravity is so much lighter on this planet.
Yeah, tet made sure of it.
That boy really wanted some jiggle.
He looks like a twelve year old boy. It makes sense.
Yeah.
So she gives over her money and then they're like walking away. And Shiro mentions that he cheated and he's like, well, I cheated, but I didn't get caught.
And THEN'THE rules get punished if you get caught.
Yeah, no rule about not cheating. Just don't get caught.
Exactly.
Good rule. Good job.
Good loophole.
Must be why everyone in every fucking game that we see fucking cheat.
It's not about the game. It's about getting away with the cheat.
Yeah, it is. Like kake. Goodooi. Everyone's cheating and just trying to get away with it.
They try to make every minor character a piece of shit, so you're rooting for the protagonist no matter how shitty of a person they are.
I mean, I didn't like anybody in this show, really, but I found the other characters more likable than him. But so he goes to the innkeeper and asks how many nights he can stay for this one piece of gold. And the innkeeper is like, it's one night. And then Sora just turns into a tarin. And he's like, you better watch your tone. I have money. And then the innkeeper is like, okay, I want to stay two nights. And then he's like, don't lie to me. I know I can stay here longer. And then he walks away with four nights. And I'm just like, what?
But like, it's so clear that he doesn't know the value of the currency. So all the powers of the clerk just being like, nah, it's one night, dude. Shut the fuck up. It's never you're going to call me out on this?
It's because Sora is such a god gamer and he's so good at reading other people. He knew the clerk was lying because he looked away and down to the right, and he turned his gaze and shifted his tone up to octaves. So he knew he was lying. And he actually.
Oh, terrible. And then we get back to Shiro and she is watching the two girls play cards and the girl who is winning is cheating somehow, and they're going to figure it out. And then Sora spots a mysterious figure in a hood and then he's just like, of course. And I was like, because they don't explain it to us. And he just goes up to Stephanie and he's just like, she's cheating. And then he leaves.
Bye.
And they go up to their room and they somehow have all of their gaming devices. And then shiro is like, I can't get reception on my phone. It's like, Because you're in a fantasy world.
Have you seen a router yet, idiot?
And then Shiro was like, Brother, can we beat real magic? And then he doesn't say anything, and then he's like, the hero is in comic books, whenever they go to a fantasy world, they always want to get home. But what if the real world sucks? And then he gets, like, a devious face, and he's like, Let the real game begin. And then we get the intro at the end, and it's, Whatever. And then there's an after credit scene where Nick Fury arrives.
I skip that. No one cares.
Yeah, pretty much all I have is someone knocks at their door, and then he opens the door, and Stephanie is at their door, fully naked, but, like, with a robe on. Not a robe, a sheet. She has her sheet wrapped around her, and it's like, if you're going to be walking around in the inn, girl, maybe you should wear clothes in case someone sees you, or in case a man tries to kidnap you.
Implies she got hustled out of all of her clothes from the match.
Well, I didn't get that because this show is bad.
Forced until the end of the next episode.
Yeah. Yeah, that's episode one.
We love this show.
We love it.
Great.
Good stuff. Despite our aggravations with kakaguru, we seem to have picked quite a few shows in a row. Very similar to kaka Guru. So, yeah. Episode two opens up with Stephanie wearing nothing but a bed sheet, sitting in their room, talking to Shiro, who's sitting on the bed. No, with Sora sitting on the bed with Shiro, putting her head in his lap, and he even says, hey, don't make it weird. She's my sister. It's like, wow, glad you pointed it out. Stop doing this.
Glad there was dialogue.
Stop.
You being aware of it and then still doing it makes it that much worse. And stephanie's complaining about her opponent downstairs that they were cheating and that these two didn't tell her about it. Like, they told him they were cheating, but she didn't tell him Howard to stop, so she lost all her shit, and now she's mad at Sora, and Sora is just being a real smug piece of shit. And he's like, well, maybe if you weren't so bad. Maybe if your grandfather didn't set up this weird rule where the best gambler wins. And maybe if your grandfather wasn't a dumb piece of idiot shit and just really just sounded like a reddit post. Just real high and mighty from way up in his real shitty little apartment far away from the real world and any responsibilities and just real smog about it.
I hate him.
I mean, based on his interactions with his sister, I'm sure he's an Eight chan guy.
So Stephanie goes to slap the shit out of them, which is justified. And right before she does, he's like, oh, what if we had a game? And then it does the intro. Let me get the opening sequence. So sora suggests that they play a game of rock, paper, scissors. And he says to make it interesting.
Like a tacky guru, you know, gambling for rock, paper, scissors.
Then we rip off your fingernails, but not mine because I'm a hypocrite.
That was concentration. That was the memory game.
It all blended together for me. I drank a lot after that episode. So Sora says they'll play rock, paper, scissors, and the only way he can win is if he plays paper. Now, that's the only way he can win. He can still make it a tie if they match. So she has the full arsenal, and he's only got the one. And they say for a bet, they essentially bet whatever they want. They talk in a roundabout way. She's like, oh, do you need a place to stay? And he's just like, but he doesn't actually say anything. That way he could still have his bet to be just unspecified favor and that bites are in the assylite.
Always got to read the fine print.
Yeah. So Stephanie agrees to it. They shake. They say the magic word that makes it like a packed like a sealed deal with God. And she starts over analyzing everything. It's like, oh, well, if he's just only going to play paper, I can do scissors. It's like, wait. But he can only play paper if he wants to win. That means he might play rock or scissors and just try to make it a tie so that way neither of us win. And then it's like, if it's a tie, then then he'll want to do this. But if I do paper, then he has a one third of a chance of winning. But then I have two thirds of a chance if I do scissors and just start to overanalyzing everything.
And I think it went on for way too fucking long.
This is the show. Like, this is the show. So I feel like this is his own genre of anime, where it's he knows that I know that he knows that I know that he knows I know that he knows, because that's like the bulk of a dialogue in shows like this. And all it ends up being is like, it's the first thing you could have done, but now you just had to fill time with explaining it over and over again. And I hate it so much. So they end up doing it. Sora ends up throwing a rock. She throws scissors, trying to think he's going to do paper. He wins. He's well, it's a draw. Sorry. Yes, it's a draw. He wins the round. But because he didn't do paper, it's a draw. Yeah. And as he's reflecting upon the battle and speaking down to her, he literally walks behind her and says, you're not good enough, kid. You're like the mess. And she thinks, well, all right, fine. Now you can come and stay at my castle. And he's like, oh, no, we didn't ask for a place to stay. I asked for just a favor. She's like, oh, Christ. He's like, all right, what's the favor? He's like, my favorite is I want.
You to love me.
It's like Beauty and the Beast, except it was not nominated for an Academy Award or any awards, I assume.
I hope not.
What's the anime equivalent of a razzie? He says if she loves him, he'll be able to get all the stuff he wants from her. Like he'll get the place to live, all the money, all the food, all that yada yada stuff. And then shira quickly points out, like, if you wanted that dog, you could have just asked for all that instead of just her love. She's like, you're thirsty? You're a horny little bitch. You wanted her. And a sore starts freaking out like, oh God, my hubris got in my way and starts ranting.
I'm just a sad little virgin boy. I just got too horny. I got a nut.
Shira says that Sora said that he would never need a girlfriend and that all he needed was her. You can say like, oh, they just got a very intimate sibling relationship. But when you specifically put in dialogue that says, I don't need a girlfriend or lover, I have my seven year younger sister, that's insane.
And they still try to cover it, and it's like, oh, well, but I still have sexual needs and you're only eleven.
And it's not you're my sister, it's your only eleven.
Yeah, I wrote that down because I'm like, why? Is that the caveat that stops you.
Like, who is this for.
Perverts that knew nothing but hentai? This is the sizzling trope.
It's bad.
It's real bad. He starts freaking out, trying to essentially begging her for her forgiveness as a Stephanie. She has steps back and say, oh, I'm good. I don't have to worry about falling in love with this guy. He's a fucking psychopath and he's a disgusting deviant. And as she's saying that, she's looking at him with hearts and sparkles. She's like, what? No. And smashes her face against the wall. She's like, no, I can't love him. He's like, but he is freaking out about his sister a lot. It'd be nice if he freaked out about me that way. And then she smashes her head against the rock wall again, trying to snap herself out of it. So it's kind of hinting at like because they made the bet and that is his favor. She's now magically falling in love with him because of God's will. Because that's what the bet was.
Thanks, boy God.
Thanks boy God for taking away this woman's free will.
There's the Epsocile. We'll do. Thanks, boy God. So shiro congrats. Sora move.
Over based. God.
We got, boy.
God.
So, shiro congrats Sora about losing his virginity, and I kicked him towards Stephanie. So just going right into it. And wouldn't you know it, a male character falls towards a female character in anime, and he grabs her titty.
No.
What do you do?
Unfortunate accident. Who could have seen this coming?
Especially not shira, who then slides out besides them and starts filming all of it and is going in for a panty shot. And while she's doing that, Sora grabs her other titty because it's not an accident. He's just molesting her.
Oh, man.
Kerfuffle. Stephanie rolls back and kicks him off and threw a door. And as soon as she does that, she's like, oh, no, I'm so sorry I kicked you off of me while you were violently sexually assaulting me. So sorry, so sorry. My apology is my good man. And she looks down the hallway to see where Sora landed through the door, and he's curled up in the fetal position, apologizing, like, crying, like, oh, sorry, I'll never touch a woman again. I'm so sorry I didn't just kind of babbling to himself, apologizing so he wouldn't get hurt again. And then Stephanie looks back and sees shero sitting on the bed, who's also kind of just going, like, comatose and freaking out because she's, like, 30ft away from Sora for any amount of time.
Not within eyesight.
Okay, I kind of started tuning out here because that's fine. So, yeah, setting up a real healthy dynamic that's not going to get any weirder cut to them. It's stephanie's Castle and stephanie's bathing shiro, and Sora has to be within range, within proximity, so he's behind this weird dressing divider. Like blinder. Still a horny little bitch.
It looks like he's jacking off. Did you guys see that?
He, like, has already checked out at this point.
Okay, well, I'm going to describe it because it's why he's, like, on his phone, and his phone is in front of his crotch, and his leg is bouncing, and his hand is bouncing, but his phone is blocking it. So it looks like he's jacking off. And I don't think that's what it's supposed to be, but why?
We've seen in the Scott damn show, why wouldn't it be?
So he wasn't jerking off. He was getting his phone ready to put it in camera mode, and then he throws it out at the girls so he can still peep on Stephanie, even though he just was manhandling her titties a few minutes ago.
Believe me, I don't want to see my sister naked, but I will still throw my phone out there so I can see this woman that I'm forcing to love me being naked with my sister.
Yeah. I'll just ask her to pick it up instead of my sister, and nothing bad will happen. So they pick up the phone, and shiro presses her arm back so it looks like her elbow is like a butt. She takes a picture of that.
That was clever. But why?
It was clever, but chiro was also taking panty shots of Stephanie also.
That's true. Just like, you think about the level that they've set this show on, and then they do stuff like that. It's like, what's the point? You've already been super shitty. Why do something?
They added nothing to the story. This was just like, hey, let's take three minutes to try to get a Titty pick.
Just get a gagshot. I feel like people were writing and directing and animating this in segments without knowing what the other parts were before and after it.
Well, I just mean also just like, in terms of shiro doing this prank of, like, oh, he thinks he's looking at Titties. It's like, you're the one that was trying to take a video of him fondling her. Like, Why are you doing this now? Why? This whole show is just why?
Because shiro has pictures of stephanie's cities on her phone.
We are giving this way more attention than it deserves.
It's real bad. So they get all dressed, cleaned up and dressed, and Stephanie starts freaking out because Sora is all cleaned up. And she's like, oh, the butler fantasy. And she's like, no, I got to go and calm myself down. So she runs off and gets tea for them. While she's making tea, she's fantasizing again because this beautiful woman is now in love with me. It's the incel dream. So she's freaking out about that, comes back and sees the siblings lovers out on the balcony. And she was just reading a book in a totally different language, but she's about halfway through it, so, yeah, why not?
She's genius.
She is baby and genius. And Sora is just looking over the vast empire and just looking very dashing in stephanie's eyes. And then she drops a big info dump explained the whole history of the world and humans and the 16 different races and how all the races are ranked based on magical powers. And humans are at the bottom because they don't have any and can't see any, so they suck. So they're in this tiny little land that's about to be taken over, and all the wars and territory is gained through games instead of wars now. And everyone cheats using magic. So that's why humans keep losing it all. And just a lot of info and.
Just really none of it none of it matters.
None of it matters. Oh. Humans in this world are called humanity.
Humanity.
Humanity. Yeah, humanity. Clever. Because it's not. And so they're like, all right, cool. If we got to learn about this world, we're gonna have to learn. And the best way to learn is the library, whoops turns out all the books are written in Imanity language, because why wouldn't they be? And they're like, all right, I guess we're going to have to start learning this language. And by the time. Sora says that shiro already knows the full language.
Makes perfect sense.
Baby genius is the anime. So Stephanie is impressed and she's like, wow, these guys are super duper cool and totally the best and super amazing and handsome. And they incel dream. Maybe they'll actually save my kingdom. And then the two say, well, we can't save this country. It's fucked. It's doomed already. The next king is about to take over. Shit out of luck, lady. And as they start leaving the library, they bump into excuse me, I get real choked up with just utter garbage. They bump into Corrini karumi. Sure, they'll match the lady that hustled Stephanie out of her clothes and title earlier in episode one. So they bump into her in the hallway and she's just talking shit on stephanie's grandfather, who was the king. And she kind of gives in and she says like, here's your dress. Why don't you take it back, you poor pathetic creature? And stephanie's about to take it back when Sora snags it and gives it back to her and says, no, don't take it back. You're playing right into her hand as being of as pathetic as she says you are. Because all bets are final when you bet on it, on God. And like in this world. So if she took the dress back, that'd be breaking the bed and she'd be breaking a tenant of the world. So he stops her there and they talk for a bit and they say some stuff I don't remember. And Sora says he's going to prove stephanie's grandfather wasn't a fool after all. And they get him and she her go walking away. And Stephanie runs after them like a lovesick puppy because she's very easily swayed when magically compelled to. And Sora thinks to himself, hey, you know what? Maybe being king will be fun. And that's episode two of this great show.
All right, so there's some bullshit in this one.
Shocker. Big bullshit. This one's really bad. The other two are really bad. But this one's really bad.
Yeah.
So don't mind me if I blast through this shit. We go to the coronation, where I also missed her name, so it clearly wasn't established properly. I just called her villain girl. Her fat villain girl is about to be the Bat rouge.
The bat?
Yeah, bat.
As much respect as the show deserves.
So rouge is about to be crowned the leader and the coordination person, whoever's, whatever official guy is there is like, owed any more challenging anyone else, which is kind of bullshit. Which is when the whole point of this challenge was like it was a tournament to then at the very end be like, oh, who just waited to take on the leader? That should have been everyone, right?
Who wanted to stream snipe this coronation ceremony.
Yeah.
So, of course or is like, oh, you boys here, you judge. Hey, I've been here for two days and I'm hot shit. Are you really going to crown that cheater piece of shit your leader when.
You get crowned this cheater piece of shit your leader?
So he's like, yeah, she's cheating. We know that she had an accomplice. We got pictures of this elf with a hood in the corner. So he's sort of calling her out, not officially saying you cheated, therefore your shit is not valid. But sort of just being like, yeah, I know what you're up to. So the accomplice is exposed and kicked out. So they're like, okay, I'm challenging you. But this cheater from the crowd cannot be in the room. So villain girls like, fine, I accept your challenge. I'll set something up in a different venue. So later on they explain that villain girl is like working with the elves because they want the humanity people to be protected by the elves. Some just weird political stuff that doesn't matter. So fuck it.
Show is so bad.
Yeah. So they're like, okay, so they're going to think that we're trying to cheat, blah, blah, blah, blah. More. They think that she thinks that all that stuff. So villain girl meets with them before the game is like, hey, so yeah, I'm doing this so I can be the ruler and the els will protect us. And we have like an alliance. Please don't fuck this up. And sora of course is like, fuck you. I'm going to fuck this up because I'm better than you and your established stuff. Because I've been here for two days and I'm the protagonist.
Yeah, he really just swooped in and was like, I understand this world better than all you fuckers that have always lived here.
Yes, especially when villain girl is like, please, this is like a very tense alliance. I'm going to work with the elves so we don't get taken over. And he's like, no, I want to be king. Because shiny crown.
He even says, I think in this scene, well, since I'm such a nice guy. And I was like, there it is. There's the tagline, self proclaimed. He even says, you'd be cuter if you smiled. And I was just like, you hate.
To see you hate to see it still on with the challenge, they go to the game, which is basically wizards chess.
More bullshit.
Yeah, even more bullshit because yeah, fuck the rules. So yeah, the pieces have free will and sort of beyond just following the rules of chess, they're going to listen to the charisma of their leader. So basically whoever is the more inspiring general will be able to more effectively move and play this game role.
Charisma.
Oh, boy. All these siblings have negative 15 degrees.
Unless they need it. And then they have positive 35.
Yeah, sure. They just hide it for moments like this, keep it stored up. So of course they start playing and villain girls cheating and has more charisma through elven magic. Cool.
Fine.
Sure. And we start to see that shiro, who was the chess master in the first game, takes the lead. And they are starting to not listen to her because A, she has as much charisma as a glass of milk.
Hey, don't say that about milk.
Fair. I apologize. Milk. And B, the pieces having free will aren't going to sacrifice themselves. So when she's trying to play the strategy, they're like, fuck that. I'm not getting sliced down for you. Now that she's freaking out because the pieces aren't listening to her, she's like.
I'm so sorry, brother.
I failed you. blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And he takes over and is like, okay, I have an idea. And he goes full on dictator and is like, my fine soldiers, you will not have a care in the world if you fight for me. You will have all the money and women that you want. If you just fight valiantly and just go to battle, I swear you won't die. Because we are united under the forces of me wanting to be the king. So taking control, he's like, hey, if they have free will and we're already saying, fuck the rules of chess anyways, fuck all this. I'm playing a strategy game now, and it's turn based combat. And everyone surged the king, because all the pieces having free will are like, hell yeah, riches and fortune. If we win, fuck this. I'm just going to just dive in and murder some people. So villain girls like, what the fuck? This isn't chess.
This isn't what I wanted.
What? Because they just start slaughtering and going through and just en masse, not taking turns because saying, like, oh, we're following being generals on real battlefield. We're not taking turn based combat on an actual battlefield. So why do it in the game? But that's the game that you agreed to.
The game. Yeah, it's a method acting. It's acting. You're not actually doing it. Yeah.
They surge and villain girls like, oh, I'm going to cheat and use more magic. It's risky because I am so clearly fucking cheating. But no one calls her out on it. She's like, they don't know the rules to this game. They assume it's some fine shit. Okay, so more magic goes out on the field, and we see that any of the pieces that the villain girl has, if they touch the other members, it steals them and turns them into her pieces.
Sure, that's not how chess works.
But.
We lost chess a while ago. I don't know what I'm saying.
Yeah, it's all bad. It's all bad. But at one point, Sora even says she's cheating. She's taking our pieces and converting them to her side. But we can't prove it because she's using magic. I was like, how can you not fucking prove it? You have 20 pieces. She has 20 pieces. All of a sudden she has 30 pieces. You have ten. That's provable. You can prove that it changes colors.
And also the magic glow coming off of them, they literally just like touching. Like the aura of them changes as like, hey ref, are you watching this game?
What's the point of you being here? Judge from Phoenix Wright. The show also has a lot of references to better franchises.
Yeah, because of course he's a nerd, so he's like all the pop culture references. Please.
Yeah, it was jojo's one earlier.
So seeing that everyone is getting captured, he's like, oh, I have another move. Hey, enemy queen. Hey. I love you so much. I should be the ruler. That king can't serve you the way I would. And just has just vomits of valentine's Day level of romantic gestures. And the enemy queen goes with it and falls in love and joins their side. And his justification is, I'm the king of dating sims, so of course I know how to romance her.
Excuse you. I am the king of dating sims, you fucking asshole.
You can't take my title, but it's like my dude, you talk about how much of an incel, neat, uncharismatic virgin you are, and now you're just fucking don wanting this chess piece.
So much.
So it captures that piece. And now all of the enemy pieces, they aren't going to betray their queen. That just betrayed them. So they refused to attack her. So that's the way that they get in control. And then they of course had to make this a two parter. And villain girl was like, what do I do now? And we're left on a cliffhanger. But fuck, who gives a shit?
It's the incel shut in nikki mori fantasy. I'm the super duper smartest good boy in the entire world. And I can outlodge anyone based on mathematical principles and even understand human intrinsic intricacies human psyche. And I can break it down into a mathematical level and I can understand them even if I don't have any emotional connection to any other human in my life. But then if I can't if I can't use math to solve all my problems because I'm a super genius boy, then I can be charismatic and just convince anyone and say whatever they need to hear and immediately turn them to my side because I'm the gotus boy and I love me chicken tendies.
Yeah, it's like, why? I kind of liked the idea that there was this ultra gamer. So he's going into this new world and he's like, now I'm in my element. So we don't have the standard, like, fish out of water. Like, oh, this is a fantasy world. One on one. What's going on? I'm so out of it. I like that he's like, oh yeah, this is fucking rat. But then just being the ultra king of every game he has never played before, it's just like there's no conflict here. There's nothing. He's just going to just win his way through everything. Why are we watching this.
Fondle, Stephanie.
Yeah, I stopped listening about ten minutes ago and started reading the new Laura olympus chapter. I'm so sorry.
Yes. So, yeah, are we there yet? Of course not.
No. I also wanted to say the dub of this show is really strange to me because most of the acting doesn't feel like anime acting, but not in a good way. It gives me, like ghost story vibes. Ghost stories where they were just like, fucking here's, do whatever. Maybe the guy is a script and.
It'S like pieced together. You're on your own.
Well, it's mainly sora, like it's mainly the main character who acts that way. Maybe he is the director, maybe. I don't know. But yeah, nothing is good.
And now this is on our next Netflix queue. Can you get rid of it? I really want to. I hope this is what you wanted, Will. You should have had some understanding of how we would have felt about this before going into it. So I hope this is what you wanted.
A little while ago. So we're still getting to know each other at that point. I don't fault you, but yeah, man. Will, we love you. We love you. Hey, Will, I love you. You're great.
Come over. You're great. But hey, champ. But if you do genuinely and passionately enjoy this media yikes.
Sorry.
Well, we've been on a big loser streak.
Quite the stink.
Can someone recommend a show that will just be a palette cleanser, please? Please. Hey. Please.
Well, I'm picking the show next week, so no.
Oh, God.
I actually put on a different show onto the document so you wouldn't know which one I'm picking. And now I'm doing the last minute audible and swapping it out.
No, please don't. Are you kidding?
Brendan?
I would be so mad.
Brendan, if you want me to show up next week, you better pick something fucking delightful. You can't do this to me.
I would believe you because I super.
Would do something that shitty.
I drove a uhaul on the 405 today. I'm so done. You cannot add extra stress to my wife.
There's a fun for the episode. There's my enjoyment for this episode. No, next week we are watching something that's a power cleanser. Just real chill. weirdly. It's from the creator of Full Mail alchemist, which is very convoluted. It's the exact opposite of it, though. It's silver spoon. Basic premise is nerd Boy doesn't get into the high school of his choice, so he goes to a farming high school and learns about farming.
That's it.
And it's very pure and good. And it's actually one of my favorite manga anime series. I wish there was only one season, but I do think you guys will actually enjoy this one.
I just felt my blood pressure dropped so much.
You're going to get off this call and go play some stardust Valley.
Yeah. Imagine stardu Valley. But it had like a high school premise to it. And then that's it. That's the animal. It's going to be a good time. Hopefully.
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No more easy.
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I have nothing to say.
I'm fuming show ruined death. Please.