You really do suck. Hello and welcome to our we've there yet? An exploration and education and an anime. I'm your anime idiot, patrick dugan.
I am an anime expert, dee hollander.
And I'm brenda mccullough. Your anime liar. Got you again. We swapped it up again. One more audible. We do it again.
Got to stay on your toes.
Run it back one more time.
Always keep you on your feet, though. It seems to always be me. You could probably catch on the trend pretty quickly.
Liar, liar. Plants for hire.
Got to employ these plants somehow. They're not paying their fair share of the rent, that's for sure. But, yeah, we decided to switch it up this time. vinland Saga is now my white whale of this podcast. We'll watch it someday. But, boy, howdy do we not need to talk about the subject matter of that one this week?
Changing in combat can wait. It's not common in too much anime, so eventually but, yeah, we can set.
That one out in this moment.
So what do we have going on instead?
Swapping it out for well, I want to say an oldie, but oldie for me is like the 60s, so not quite that old, but it's not recent. I probably should have looked up this date. I'm going to say, like, 2000 tannish. But serious. I enjoyed quite a bit. And apparently there was some kerfuffle about the season, two of it. I think mostly people are just upset it doesn't end. It's kind of left on, like, a cliffhanger, and there's no real indicator of when it'll wrap up. But honestly, I don't remember what it was. And I enjoyed the series, so it's good in my book.
Also, I looked it up and it was 2014 when it came out. All right.
Not that old. Actually, I was a little older.
I mean, it's still eight years old.
But yes. Anyway, we're watching noragami.
Is this something that you've ever heard of?
No. Well, maybe I've heard the title, but I feel like it's one of those titles where it's just like, what's that?
It's so short. It doesn't describe anything.
Yeah, like, siritama, I don't know what that means, but it's a fishing anime. But it's just like, okay, cool. That's a title.
Pulling up of the date it came out. I see. It translates to stray God.
Of course, like sheeny gummy and other yeah, it's deathnote again.
The sequel. The squeak will.
I mean, there is a sequel to Death, at least in the manga. We won't get into that. I don't have the energy to get into that because it's not good.
How do you know?
It might be I didn't actually read it. I just know it gets very political. It's like, I don't need this in my manga.
Did you know there was a Death Note musical?
I didn't know that, but I'm not surprised.
Well, okay. It's like a thing in Japan.
Yeah.
So it's a thing in Japan to make animes, like, into musicals. Like, there's like a Black Butler musical and stuff. The Death Note musical did get translated to English. And the album, the person who plays Light Yogamy is Jeremy Jordan, who is like a bona fide Broadway actor. So that's weird.
Okay. My eyes are opening with this podcast now.
Oh, no.
I mean, it's hard to find them translated, but I don't know.
Theater stuff. I'm not good at that far.
We got to just a huge revelation for me. I don't know why. Just being like, yeah, the way that there's a Rocky and spiderman Broadway musical. Same thing for anime.
Yeah, very similar concepts.
I'm not too surprised as Death Note Eight because there's like five live action Death Note movies. They just keep redoing it because it's so popular. But willem defoe was Reuke and the most recent one, so it's got power still somehow.
I never watched the Netflix one because I heard it was real bad.
But willem shocker.
Willem defoe playing reuke is inspired. Like would have anyway, that's got anyway.
Once we get into the willem defoe talk, you can tell we don't know.
Amy, shall we dive in?
Yeah, let's watch the first three episodes. Penny for wish, governor?
Penny for wish, please.
I was surprised they chose to go British in a Japanese anime with the dump, but I respect the choice that.
They did going around like spare change.
I mean, not to immediately justify British stuff. When I first started watching this, I was getting some weird Doctor Who vibes that I was not expecting.
Really?
Okay. Yeah.
Interesting.
I was getting quickly dissipated, but at first glance I was like, is this kind of what we're doing? No? Okay, never mind.
This feels like a series that could go on for 20 some odd years. And the writing just absolutely plummet in quality. I could see that. Yeah. Realize that. Like watching again. I'm just like, oh, it's bleach again. And she's a kaisen and a bunch of other animes that are based around the spirit world. I'm like and Soul Leader. Yeah, I was another Soul Leader. But, yeah, I watched this back. Not when it came out, but I watched this a few years ago, the whole series. And I really enjoyed it. But I would always describe it to people as it's bleach but good or at least enjoyable. Yeah, maybe I'll stay good until the end when we decide. But, yeah, episode one starts out with a bunch of kids stressed out in school, getting ready to take a test and are all panicking about whether they studied hard enough. And we see just interspersed between all these are just shots of eyeballs materializing. It like floating and air looking around. And then we see one girl kind of stands out amongst everyone else. We hear people kind of talking shit about her and bullying her and be like, she missed so many days already. She should have just stayed gone. She's just a burden on everyone else and all that shit. So it seems like a lot of stress building up specifically with this one girl. And then all of a sudden, we see a giant lamb prey demon outside the window saying that the girl sucks. And everyone kind of snaps her when it says that. Like, they all say it in unison. And the girl freaks out, understandably, and yells out for help. And then we see a guy in a tracksuit flips of a coin and says, payment received. And before he goes flying in to fight the giant creature, which he calls a phantom. So phantoms are the big spiritual baddies in this. And we see a woman with him turning very hot, very sexy, insta baddies. And we see a woman next to him, and she turns into a dagger. He grabs her and they go and fighting, saying like, a prayer before killing all the phantoms real quick. After he defeats them, he like, tosses the dagger up and he's laughing to himself like, ha ha. Didn't even break a sweat. And we see the woman or the weapon revert back into the woman, and she's, like, dusting herself off like, what do you mean sweat? I think now after you held me like that and immediately calling him out on this shit. And she starts going into, like, how much she hates working for him and how much she hates his job. And all of a sudden that she's quitting and saying that her god doesn't even have a shrine, he has no followers, nothing. He's a worthless god, and she hates working for him. So he finally caves and releases her from his service. And she immediately stops crying, jumps, and is like, all right, see you, loser. Eat shit by, and, like, runs off, sets the tone real quick. And then we get the opening, which is a bona fide banger slaps, like high hell pretty.
Absolutely one of the rare opening songs where the subtitles has, like, a narrative you can follow and isn't just like the destiny of our dreams tomorrows. And I was like, oh, okay, cool. I'm digging this. All the music in the show was working for me.
Real on point. I did not notice that. I was headbanging every time and did not read the subtitles. But yeah. So we come back to the man in the tracksuit spray painting a giant ad on a wall and find out his name is Yato. And the ads for himself saying, like, need a god, anita. Wish for fulfilled. Give me a call.
It's only a good time.
Just do a remix of that song, which is Yato. And he says he needs to find a new regalia that was his lady friend who was his weapon. So he's got to find and replace and get a new weapon. But he says it's not like he has a ton of work coming in. So he'll take whatever work he can, even if he doesn't have a weapon yet. And then he gets a call saying someone's cat is missing. So he goes out to look for it because dude's got to eat.
Milord.
The cat's name is milord.
So good.
And we see he starts looking for the cat. And while he's running around screaming for the cat's name, we see three girls walk by and they see the cat's missing poster. And they start talking about the cat. They're like, oh, my lord's, a weird name. Well, it's not like my cat, who I named after this pop idol that I love. He should have named after this pop idol that I love. And they're like, oh, hey, yori, what about you? Who's the guy you have a crush on? She's like, well, and we see her take out her phone and it's like an mma fight with a guy just cold cocking a dude in the jaw and knocking him out. And she starts, like, talking about this guy, tono, I think his name is, this mma fighter. She worships and watches all of his fight. And they're like, god, you're weird.
I was like, I wish they kept talking about this part of her personality because we've never seen an anime girl who fucking likes mma fighting.
With like, some of the other shows I mentioned that are similar to this. We've seen plenty of girls who especially fall into the trope of just like, ooh, I hope lead protagonist voice daves. And it's like, I love Hayori in this because she's just like, I love fighting. I want to fight the monster. Yes. Let's go. And her friends are teasing her about that. And while they're walking, we see yato running around the background, still looking for the cat. And they ask if there's anyone that she likes her age. And she says no. Right as they pass yatto. And they lock eyes. Could this be? And we see yato him. We see yattos looking at the cat. The Lord on the other side of the street, not her. He goes, ah, there's the cat. And goes running across the street to get him. And as he's running across the street, a bus is coming down because this idiot didn't look both ways. He's reckless. And Hayori jumps into the street after him, pushes him out of the way, sitting on the bus and fucking dies.
Rib.
You hawkey show. We do it again.
Short series, and we're done. I thought this was an interesting short film that we watch.
It's a good, like eight minutes, solid pace. But now we see you're not doing her roll to the other side of the street. And she kind of berates and be like, what are you doing? You're supposed to look both ways before you cross the street. You could have gotten hurt. He's like, oh, you mean like you did? And he kind of points back, and we see her body passed out in front of the bus and everyone running around her to see if she's okay. And then we see cut to the hospital. We see Hayori waking up, and she seems to be okay. Her parents are there, surprisingly, both parents.
Wild, very rich, apparently.
Yeah. The doctor that's checking her out to make sure she's okay is her dad. And apparently they own the hospital.
Insane.
It doesn't really come into play at all in the series. You really don't see much more of her home life, but it's just wild to me. Like, both parents, and they're not struggling to make ken's meeting. She has a life in a great we're not going to focus on that.
Parents, don't worry about them.
Don't worry about quick.
Like, don't worry. We're not doing the trope. Okay, back to the show.
Moving on. And when she wakes up, she asks about the guy that she saved from the bus, if he's okay. And one of her friends over there is like, oh, there was no one else there. It was just you. And the other friend is like, I thought I saw someone, but I can't really remember. No, there's no one else there. So Hayuuri stays at the hospital recovering overnight. And at night, we see a bunch of the floating eyeballs appearing again and rolling around in this void space. And Hayori wakes up to the sound of a bunch of desperate cries playing for help. A bunch of different voices saying, like, they can't handle it and they need someone's help, and they can't get through this, and blah, blah. And we see the clock hit like 02:00 A.m., and yatto lift up her sheet a little bit. Yato is like, in her bed, like, underneath the sheet, and he is like so you hear voices of the far shore as well. He jumps out of her bed and gets on the couch and starts, like, hissing like a cat. And she's, like, screaming at him, telling him to get out and stuff. And he thanks her for saving him, but he didn't need it. It wasn't really a risk for him. But he he appreciates the effort. And she asks who he is, and he says he is Yato. He is a god. And immediately comes to her, like, on the phone, calling the cops, being like, yeah, there's a crazy guy in my hospital room saying he's a god. And he says, no, no, no. He's like an up and coming god. She doesn't know about him. Not many people do, but he's an underdog. He's going to make a name for himself, and everyone will know his name someday. And right now, he's just kind of a bomb in a tracksuit, though. He's got, like, a ripped up scarf, and he asked her name, and he came came to check up on her and make sure, you know, no one died on his account. And he's like, we see her we see him eating, like, her getwell fruit basket and shit while he's talking. He's mooching off any food he can get.
Damn edible arrangements. You all got everything.
Shit, you are rich. She's like, $37 for a small one? It's insane. It's fruit. Go to a farmers market. He's like, all right, glad to see her. Okay. And then jumps out the window and register. Jumps out the window. She's like, oh, wait, I still have questions. And then she kind of, like, just falls asleep mid sentence. And we see. Some days later, new day at school. Hay ore's back. She's out of the hospital, but she's getting hit with these, like, drowsy spells where she's just, like, kind of struggling to stay awake. I was kind of just falling asleep randomly. And she can't quite remember meeting Yato. She's like, I feel like there's this guy. And we see her looking out at the gym class outside, practicing in track suits. And she's like, something about track suits. She's got a vague recollection of it. And then on her way home, she sees the missing cat poster again for Lord. And she's like, how something seems familiar about this. Maybe if I find that cat, it'll trigger more memories. Maybe there's something deep in here. I got to figure it out. So she goes running around the city looking for the cat. And at the same time, we see yatto is also still looking for the cat. He has a bunch of, like, cat, and it tied to a string and just, like, waving it around, trying to attract him. And eventually he walks down the alleyway and sees my Lord. He's like, oh, there you are. You a little bugger. But the cat's hissing at something. He's like, oh, what are you hissing at? And when he turns the corner, he sees a bunch of the floating eyeballs we've seen throughout the episode. He's like, oh, cool. You've aggravated them. And picks up the cat and starts running as all the eyeballs start darting at him and starting to attack him. And we see him running around, like, jumps over a fence, and he goes to, like, a cabbage patch, and he runs through this, like, giant ghost frog with, like, eight legs. And he's like, oh, great. I can't fight this thing. I don't have my regalia. So got a run. But right as he goes to run, hey, you're. He's there. And she's got a tail. Interesting. Yeah. And we see her, like, as he's about to run, he's, like, slipping, and she pulls him out of danger. So she saves him again at the last second, and they start running from the frog, who, like, catches him off guard. And she ends up doing one of the signature moves of the mma fighter she likes and just, like, cracks the frog's face in half to where it's distorted and has to reform, but sends them flying with it. And she's like, oh, hell yeah. I don't know what happened, but I guess I'm strong now.
I'm powerful.
I can see. And she's like, all right, let's fucking go. And yatta pulls her back, and I was like, no, we got to run. Don't get too big for your bridges. We got a bail. So they run off somewhere safe, and once we're protected, they like, all right, we lost the frog. We're good. And she says she has questions for them now that she finally tracked them down, now that she actually remembers them. And he points out, like, oh, what's with the little thing back there? She's like, what? Oh, I got a tail now. He's like, oh, no, that's not a tail. That's your soul escaping from your body. He's like, oh, you mean that body over there? Yeah, that one. And we just see her pass out body, like, draped over the fence. She was, like, climbing the fence and passed out, like, mid climb. And the tail we see is actually just, like, the tether of her soul to her body.
If her soul is a cat tail, does that mean she's a furry?
She did have a very cat reaction when she first met yasmine.
So we do see another time where she gets mad in her soul form and her tail gets all puffed up and in her hair also gets puffed up into, like, cat ears. It's not a hard claim to make. I don't know if it's definitive. I don't know if it's canon, but it's a very easy claim. So maybe and once she realizes her soul or she is her soul and her body is asleep, her soul then falls asleep and falls into her body, like, collapses into it. And we come back to a little boy at his house being like, oh, man, I sure do miss my cat. And his mom's like, don't worry. He'll come back some day. And we hear, like, the doorbell ring, and he goes to answer it, and it's, my lord yay. And the little boy picks up the cat. He's like, thanks, Yato. I knew I could count on you. So it's clear he's the one that made the call. And after that, we see Yato is carrying Hayori back home, and she wakes up, like, while he's walking her back, and he's, like, carrying her on his back, and she freaks out and starts hitting him and stuff, like screaming at him to put her down. And yatte says, like, yeah, that tail thing you have, that's your soul. That's super important. Don't let anything happen to that. If you're in your soul form. And now because of your weird death experience, you're part phantom. So we got that trope of a main character being a part of the thing they're fighting against, similar to jujitsuka, similar to Bleach, similar to like, it's all very similar to these types of shows. And he says Phantoms are beings from the far shore. They're on the near shore. It's kind of like the living and dead world. And for her, she's somewhere in the middle of it. So she can walk around as a human, and then in her soul form, she can interact and see phantoms and stuff. And she asks for help putting her back to normal. She doesn't want this. She wants to just be human again. He's a cool. That's fine. If it's a wish, you'll have to pay up this much. And raises his whole hand, five fingers on his hand, and she's like, what? I don't have $550,000. I can't afford that. And he's like, oh, no, you got like ¥5. I understand you grossly rehabilitate how cheap I am. You got like $0.05. You got ¥5. I'll do it for a nickel. And she's like, oh, yeah, I got change and tosses of a coin. He's like, hawk fulfilled. Wish granted. I'll get to work on it now that our fates are intertwined. And that's episode one.
So we start out episode two, where Hi yori is still adjusting to her, you know, sort of now ghost narcolepsy. We see her in the bath. Her body fell asleep. And her soul, she just can't figure out how to get back in. So she just starts bathing as a phantom. So she wakes up in class and is scolded by the teacher. Apparently she's now just falling asleep all over the school. So everyone's like, hey, you good.
Go home.
We see she's sleepy in the locker room, and she starts seeing phantoms. I started just habitually was writing, like, seeing spirits and then had to go back in my notes and be like, no, there's a difference. Okay, I got to clear that.
Actually.
Quit generalizing, but she's doing a little bit of monologuing to the audience, being like, yeah, I'm starting to see phantoms. They're just everywhere in the world, but only I can see them. And before she knows it, she is seeing a phantom in the locker room. Like, tries to talk to it, looks back. Her body fell asleep. Oh, embarrassing means. So her friends have to carry her body home. True. Ride or die. All right, you passed out. I guess I'll just let's go doorstep.
Yeah, they're really like you're weird, but we love you.
I mean, we all been to college. Yes. Your buddy just passes out. He just got to drop him off at home.
Yeah, but she is starting to enjoy her phantom time. She's like dancing on power lines because she can just float around and stuff. So she's having a grand old time. And here we get sort of like an info dump where we start getting the explanation. So I'll start glossing over that. So we see a bunch of big phantoms over the city, and she says, like, yeah, yatto was walking me through all this stuff. So basically phantoms are over here. Like the worlds are intertwined a little bit but the only people that can see phantoms are other phantoms, small children and animals or people like me stuck between the two shores. And we see there are like big clusters of it looks like a group of birds just like swirling around above the city. But she says, oh, that is a storm. That is like a physical phantom manifestation of despair. And it just clings over the city and attracts phantoms. So those are like the energy hot.
Spots for them, literal bad vibes.
So she gives Yato a phone call and is like, hey, what's up? Just want to check in. And it's been two weeks and you haven't helped me. What are you doing? I'm dying. I am literally dying every day, but people just think I'm passing out. Can you help me? He's like, I'm super busy right now. And we see him just graffitiing his phone number all over the subway to get more business. And then she's like, it's been two weeks. I don't think you can help me. Are you even a god? And at that he just teleports to her instantly and is like, yes, actually, yes. And she's like, aren't you just a phantom? What's the difference? And he's like, well, similarities, but I am from the far shore. I am a god of war. trademarked by Sony. But I don't follow all those phantom rules. We're just from the same place. And while they're talking, her body falls asleep again when she doesn't pay attention. And he's like, hey, that's kind of a problem because you being both alive and dead are very tempting to phantoms. They're going to try to corrupt you and steal your life powers and stuff. So he's like, yeah, I'll help eventually. I just got to keep doing some odd jobs. First I got to save up for this shrine. And he pulls out his wine bottle full of coins and he's like fantasizing about the luxurious palace they'll have.
You guys know those, like, giant plastic coke piggy banks? I wish it was.
I had a giant crayon one that was like 30ft tall. I filled it up one time and nearly broke my foot trying to lift it. Oh my God, those things get so heavy.
For us, it was always just like used, like, water cooler tanks. You couldn't fill them up all the way, but it would get like a quarter of the way up and it's like, yeah, I think it's time, bulky. We can no longer vacuum around it and move it.
You lift it up. Wait, this carpet used to be white.
Why is it green now? So we see. He's really delaying because since he's missing his regalia, he isn't super powerful. So he mentions to her like, yeah, I got to find this thing, and it's a spirit. I just got to find something and I'll be able to be useful again. Got a phone call. bye. And just disappears. So she's like, all right? Well, if he's looking for a thing but not looking hard because he's doing odd jobs, I guess I'll help myself and find a regalia for him. So she just starts going around to phantoms. Just the cute little guys, little friends, all about town is like, hey, I know this cool guy. Do you want to forever? Hey, Dave, where are you going? Why? Was that not appealing to you?
No, he's really cool. He just wears the same tracksuit all the time. But he's so bad trying to hook your friend up. He's charming.
But yeah, so we see that urgent odd job that Yato had to do. He got called to fix the leaky faucet in a bathroom and ended up just deep cleaning it. Like, oh, my God, you're amazing. All this for literally a nickel. Wow. This is not smart on your part. I have to tip you. Here's a beer.
Here's a beer. I already start drinking.
Yeah, it's only a little bit of backwash. I think you're fine.
I'm sure it's a god thing, like they make a wish of the shrines, but yeah, he could definitely be charging more for the shit he does. Like $20.
Yeah, if there's, like, legal rules around wishing wells, sure. But he does have a small business where he's phone number up. He'll raise the rate, like, even just saying, like, give me ¥100, give me a dollar. That's 20 times more than he's charging right now.
Yeah, he's got that bottle full of coins, which is probably close to, like, maybe $12, like, the whole thing.
So we see him, he goes back. He's basically squatting at an old abandoned shrine. Since he doesn't have his own, he just gets a little drunk and he's like, oh, yeah, blah, blah, blah. Just complaining it's not going well. Then he already calls him and is like, hey, while you're fucking around, I did your job for you. I think I found you regalia. Come here. And he's like, oh, damn. Cool. And teleports to her, and she's like, tada, I found you a friend, and it's a big angry crab. Yeah, I'm playing eldon Ring right now, and I was eating a crab myself. Not here.
So mean. They're so mean.
I can tell his fear, because when a crab just pops out of nowhere when you were not expecting a giant crab. I get it.
Oops. All crab. It's a scary concept. Happens to the best of us.
So he's like, no, I think there was a misunderstanding. That is not a spirit run away right now. So they just start running and start getting chased by this angry crab. And he's like, hey, no, it can't be a phantom. It has to be a spirit. There's a difference. You dumb idiot. How could you not get that? How could you start writing your notes, calling them spirits when they're clearly different things? Patrick so as they start running away, she's like, oh, shit. I left my body back there at some point. So as they're running away, she's like, oh, wait, I'm in ghost mode. I'm literally going ghost. I can do dancing and some power shit. And just remember that she doesn't have to follow gravity and just, like, jumps up to the top of a building and she's like, yeah, I'll fight this off. I'm clearly strong and good. So, yeah, fuck you. I can take care of myself. But as she starts fighting, we see the crab is aiming for her butt. Not in a gross way. Oh, thank God. Yeah, they had so many opportunities to be like, they want your butt, I mean, your tail. But luckily they spare us. So Yato pulls her away and is like, oh, this is a bad idea. I'll explain later. And he like, kicks off one of its legs and it fleas for a moment. And in that fight, Yato gets bitten by the crab. Naturally, the worst thing to worry about with crabs are their teeth.
Notorious crab mouth.
Yeah, thank you for the episode name.
Also my rap name notorious C-R-A-B.
They go and hide in, like, a suburban area, and he's somehow injured. And he's like, oh, yeah, I mentioned there's, like, corruption, and these phantoms leave, like, negative, essentially spirit diseases on you. So he is blighted, and it will spread and eventually take over him. If untreated talking about elden ring now.
I'm just thinking of blight Town from Dark Soul. We all know how bad blight isn't. That.
If it spreads any further, my frame rate will significantly burn.
The particle effects just too much for my console.
So this is where he explains, like, yeah, so that tail is not your furry side coming out. That is your lifeline. And tells her, if that gets cut, you die in the game. You die for real.
You die in real life.
So he's like, all right, let me explain that. There's a quick pause in the fight. Okay, crab's back, let's keep running this narrative out real quick. And as they're running and starting to get chased again out of the corner of his eye ooh. Spotted from a mile away by a vending machine three blocks away, he sees it. The answer finally, a spirit. It's just a little itty bitty speckolite, just kind of like a miyazaki like dust spirit thing, but glowing bright like.
A little dandy lion head.
And he's like, oh, it looks young. It looks to be, like, teenaged so. Interesting. Dynamic. So he goes over and does a ritual, and he's like, hey, spirit, I see you're alone. Swear yourself to me. I will take care of you. Be my servant. Bond yourself and be my regalia. Does the whole ritual, whatever. And as he's doing it, he gets eaten by this crab. And then we see the transformation. This spirit turns into a kickass katana.
Nice.
He's able to just cut him, cut himself out.
It's not it's not like a full katana they pointed out. It's like the naked it's just the blade wrapped up in, like, linen. There's no handle, there's no hilt. And it's like, Damn, that must hurt like hell to wield.
Very pretty. Easy to rectify that. You would think more than just cloth, but all right, just stick it in.
Like a tube of styrofoam.
Just like a pool. noodle.
Yeah, I was just thinking of, like, a big tube of, like, mini M and Ms. Just like.
It'S a giant mini eminem tube. They call them giant eminem. No, it's mini M and M. It's just large.
It's a big tube of mini M.
And M. I don't know. I've been explaining this to you for 15 minutes. I don't know why it's not thinking.
I can't eat the big M and Ms. They hurt my teeth.
I too hard doing surgery on you until you understand this. Now please listen once more.
Why isn't the anesthesia working?
So big crab friend? No, wrong. Big crab enemy is gone. So he goes back to the shrine. He's washing away the blight. It's like holy water, right? No, it's just water. And he already gets her body back and joins him. And they're like, okay, now let's meet this spirit. And we see that it's just a teen named yuki. That's the real body form. And Yato is like, oh, you poor thing. Here is my jacket. I swear to protect you and take care of you, and we end on you're not my real dad. And I'm like, yes. Perfect.
Thank you. Yes. Bring that attitude.
Your jacket stinks like sweat. It's like, oh, God. Bringing that back.
So, in the beginning of episode three, yato is now looking for an outfit for yuki. But he continues to be picky. And he wonders why he can feel the cold and says it doesn't make sense considering how long he's been dead. And I'm sure the show will tell us what that means in the future. Didn't elaborate in this episode.
No.
They go to a cafe, and by that I mean they eat in an alley beside a cafe. Yato gives him a single small fish, and then a cat steals it. And yuki is just he looks like he's probably, like, 13 or 14. So he's got attitude, tude. And Yato tells him what being a regalia means and that he's his master now, and that he's got to listen to him.
But yuki is like, nah, I didn't choose this life.
Yeah. And he's like, I can't believe you're living this way if you're a god. And then Yatto spray paints his info on a wall like he does. And yuki is like, Are you a real god? And Yatto is like, yeah, prove it. And to prove it, he makes Hiori buy them real food. So the waitress comes and brings Hiori a cup of water. And then she's like, Can I get anything else for you. And then Yatto is like, yeah, can we get two more cups of water? And the waitress is like, oh, yeah, sorry, I didn't see you guys. And she's like, oh. Hiori is like, oh, I thought you guys were, like, invisible. And he explains that they're not invisible, just hard to notice. And then he compares it to, like, how many waitresses hiori thinks are in their restaurant versus how many there actually are and how they just blend into the background. And then he takes it a step further and explaining it. And I'm like, that's enough.
We got it.
Like, we get it.
You don't memorize every stranger on the street. We're like we got okay.
It's okay.
We got it.
The waitress example was enough.
I figured it was just hayoori because she's upper class, because her dad owns a hospital. And she just doesn't think of this help too much.
She doesn't notice the weight staff, so they get a bunch of food and chowed down. Once they're done, yuki and hiori are outside, and he thanks her for the food. She introduces herself, and yuki is like, well, how do you know Yato? And she says, well, I'm trying to get him to help me get my regular body back. And she wants to ask him when he died or how he died. And she's like, so what were you doing before?
What are your holidays? You do ghost?
And he says that all he can remember is that he died, and then he woke up in Yatto's hand, and he doesn't remember being alive. And they're hanging out with the cat that stole his fish. And yuki kind of looks over at Hiori and he's like, getting a crush. And at that moment, Yato comes out of the cafe and he's like, god, fucking stop being gross. And having a teenage crush, dirty boy, because I know what you're thinking. And it's like, oh, fuck.
Bonk go to horny jail.
Yeah. And then they bicker. Yatto gets a call, and they transport on over, and he ori, like, tags along at the last minute because she's like, wait, the fuck. Hold on. What about me? But her soul is really the one that tags along because she has a tail.
Imagine going to some restaurant and you walk out and some girls just dead outside on a minute ago. Hey, what happened here?
Hello? So they transport to a shrine, and then a bunch of, like, shrine maidens are materializing. And then another guy comes. Did not get his name, but he's the god of learning. And Hiori and yuki are starstruck. They're like, whoa, you're a real god.
Big old nerd.
And yachto introduces yuki to the god, tells him the god tells yuki not to bow because he's a regalia now. And a shrine maiden steps forward and says it's disrespectful to yato for yuki to bow to someone else. And then all of the shrine maids introduce themselves. There's four or five of them, and they're all the god of learning's regalia. So he's got a whole squad.
I just love that Yatto is like, yes, I established there's, like, one spirit to one god, and where it's like, no, you just suck. People want to hang out with me, so I have multiple yeah.
Rank.
Look at my bitches.
I do like how they're introduced as, like, a pop group or like, a sentai team. Yeah, it's like, I'm this one and I'm this one. Like mickey Mouse clubhouse.
Yeah. So yato's like, okay, why are we here? What do you want? And the god of learning says, this exam season, so I've got a bunch of requests. So I thought maybe you could get rid of some phantoms for me, considering I let you sleep in my shrines for free. And he's like, going to pay him, but he pulls out a large bill out of his wall, and he's like, oh, can you make change, Yato? And then yuki and he ory are like, wow, there's a class division even among the gods.
Yuki says, maybe this is why the world is so messed up. It's like, yuki gets it.
Yeah. Gen zers man. And then the god of learning is like, you can take mayu with you guys. And mayu comes out, he's holding, like, a pipe, and then she's the pipe, and it's the regalia that Yato had in the first episode that quit. So yuki and Hiori are like, oh, you knew Yato. Has he always been terrible? And she's like, yeah, actually, pretty much. And then Yatto and May, you yell at each other. He keeps calling her by her old name. And then he already asks the god of learning why they have to kill phantoms. And he says, disorder on Earth brings disorder to the heavens. And he also tells her that her existence is blasphemous, pretty much. He's like, Honestly, I'm not even thrilled about you existing the fucking god.
I just say that to someone's face.
Yeah, I mean, he's a god.
Yeah, I'm not surprised, but it's just like, Damn, dude.
Yeah. So they go to some train tracks, and maya tells them about a couple of students who took their own lives. And I'll say, right now, I do not like the way they discussed this subject matter in this episode. It felt like a really weird device for me. I was like, this is weird. I don't like it. So mayu is explaining that the God of learning put a barrier at the train tracks for phantoms, but it doesn't always work, so they have to defeat the phantoms themselves. Yatto says that if someone wants to die, they should let them. They're useless, dead or alive if they want to die. Because if somebody takes their own life, they can't be regalia, so what use are they? And I'm just like, oh, that's fun and cool. Wow.
Yeah, there's backstory with yato. About this. It's still not really handled well here.
No, not a good introduction to this concept.
We don't have that backstory yet. This is just kind of a shitty way of presenting it.
So he already yells at him. Of course. She runs off, and he turns to leave. And yuki is like, we should probably go after her. And then we see Hiori is taking it upon herself to get some phantoms at a train station, but there are way too many. And they push her onto the tracks. And then Yato saves her just in time, and they're on top of the train and riding toward a big old phantom on the tracks. It's a big old hand wallmaster, and it's about to take another person, but Yato slices it up before it can, and then maya bows to them and walks off. Mission accomplished. This felt very fast. Like, it was just like, here's the conflict. Okay, it's done. Good job, everybody. And I was like, okay.
Yeah. The actual mission itself was, like, three minutes.
Hey, can you find a phantom for me? Yeah, he's right over there. Cool. Thank you.
Great.
I mean, I guess it makes sense why they got to learning. I was like, I'm too busy to handle this small shit. You can knock it out real quick.
So they're talking about what Yatto said before, and he says that he doesn't want those guys to see people take their own lives. He already realizes that he's talking about the Regalia and that they're all super young people who died but didn't take their own lives, so they would probably rather have kept living. So in that moment, we're supposed to be like, oh, my God. Yatto is actually super kind that he doesn't want to see these young people have to witness this, and it's just such a weird thing. I did not like it.
Yeah, I agree.
And he already cries. Yateo and yuki try to get her to stop. They don't really know what to do. And then Yato and yuki are at a shrine that night. yuki is shivering, and Yatto gives him a jacket, and he praises him on his first job as a Regalia. And then we see someone watching them sleep in the shadows. And I think it's mayu, but it feels very ominous.
No, different character.
Okay. She had bangs.
Yeah, she does look like May you but, yeah, different character.
Yeah. And that's episode three. Yeah.
Yeah.
Revving up.
He had to buffer right there in the middle.
I forgot what the show title was called.
Just frantically googling. Yeah. I enjoyed this. I think of all of these bleach soul eater all having basically the same concepts, I like that this one doesn't take itself too seriously. They firmly establish, yeah, the god that we're working with sucks.
No one likes him.
He is an objective failure. So it doesn't have the pompousness of, like, no, we're doing this to save the good of humanity. It's like, no, I got to make some bucks. I need a house. I got to make a rent.
Save the land from this holy Lord. And it's like, I can't open this catfoot can that I need to eat from.
Yeah, like, it it has fun moments. Like, the music was good. As I mentioned at the top, like, all of the elements work. Definitely some rocky subject matter being a little too cavalier in that third episode. But yeah, I like all the characters. I like the dynamics that they set up. I think this is definitely interesting. Not my type of show, but of this type of show, this is probably one of the better ones I've seen.
Yeah. I had to write down, like, how I felt about the stuff in the third episode. Like, I tried to accurately express how I feel, and it's just they used it as, like, a weird side story to deepen yato's character and show that he does care about his regalia, but it's not because he cares about people taking their own lives because of Phantoms. And I just thought that was really weird, and I did not like it. But in general, it was fun. Just kind of a silly take on the spirit world fighting ghost monster genre.
Yeah. Like, the corruption angle of Phantoms. I can see why that thought process is like, yeah, this is something that seems plausible for a thing, but it's just, like, such a especially in Japan, a very touchy subject matter. So it's like, did you really have to set this up and then immediately make a character be like, yeah, fuck him. Yeah, this doesn't feel good.
Yeah.
Yeah. They show, like, the reveal of, like, he does care, but yeah, like, Deep point. I was, like, here's about the regalia, which are essentially tools for him to use. So it kind of makes it in a weird, self serving kind of way as well. The mentality is there of like, yes, their lives were taken while they were still young and stuff. It's like, yeah, this really wasn't presented well because it still just paints him in a bad light. And it's like I said, there's backstories to it. But even the backstory, when you have context, it's not great. It doesn't justify him being a dick like this. It's like but I will say, luckily, like I said, I've watched the whole series. This doesn't happen frequently. This is definitely one that sticks out more than anything else. So it's not too often it becomes this, like, kind of the self righteous note.
That's good.
Yeah. So it's infrequent. But yeah, they do have to have, like, a dramatic moment to show the complexity of Yatto. And then there's other episodes where he's, like, crawling into a trash can, fall.
Asleep, feeding his regalia a single dried fish.
Yeah. So I'm good to hear. I'm surprised. I definitely figured this would be the type of show both you would not enjoy, particularly because we've watched like, five of these already. But I'm glad to hear that because, yeah, I think the show does have a lot of good stuff in it. And I do think it's kind of overlooked, especially by some other stuff that is a lot more popular. Not as good. I won't name names. We already did an episode of me screaming about it for an hour and.
A half and you did already name them in this episode.
I already named them. I'm a liar. We already established at the beginning of the episode, I lie all the time. But yeah, I do enjoy it. And, like, the second season kind of goes more into his backstory and we kind of get like, other characters we dig into more into that rather than the yacht himself. So, like, they flesh out the world pretty well and it's it's pretty neat. I enjoy it overall. And like I said, I really enjoyed just this snotty little gremlin of a god and this mma fighting obsessive like school girl. I'm like, this is just a fun dynamic.
Yeah, it's unique.
Yeah, it's a good time. And also music slaps.
Yeah, I like all the autotune autotune's fun.
But yeah. What do we have going on next week?
Next week I was looking at lists. I was like, what should we do? And then I ultimately just went on Netflix and looked at their anime list. So we're going to watch the first three episodes of Great pretender.
Ooh.
Yeah.
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I'm not. But Paul is.
It's a good time? yep.
Have fun with that, boss. I gave up so already.
Beat it. I'm a gamer.
Wow.
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