Wow.
Special guest Owen Wilson.
Owen, I can't believe you're here.
Wow.
So great to be here. Wow.
Check me out in cars four.
Cecil.
Hello and welcome to our weeb. There yet in exploration and education in anime. I'm your anime idiot, patrick dugan.
I'm an anime expert, dana hollander.
And I'm brenda mccullough. Your anime Pacific rim joke that I made in the last episode and still don't have a new joke yet.
Hey.
Something about alcohol that's vaguely licorice flavor.
I know nothing about this show.
Attack on titan.
Yeah.
Aaron Yeager. I don't know.
Serious black reference. Ha ha. I don't know what this show is. I know literally nothing about this. I can't work with this. This is bad material. I can't work with this. Give me the writer.
Odds are we're making all these jokes and all of these products and characters will appear.
It's a big product placement for jagermeister the anime.
I would not put it past them. So, yeah, this week we are watching sirius the Yeager, a new Netflix original that is fresh on the scene, fresh.
Off the anime presses.
Because it's Netflix, we get the dump right away.
You can still see the steam on this. So, yeah, I picked this because this is just a fresh new show I keep seeing popping up. So we're getting with the times where we're staying fresh and current. So topical.
We keep up with the kids.
Wait till next week. The show we're watching is 20 years old.
Hey, we got to balance it out somehow.
Somehow.
Yeah.
We need those old references for me.
Yeah. We can't leave Brendan out of the equation every week.
Yeah. We can't let him feel bad all the time.
Only most of the time, therapy. So, yeah, this is a fresh new show, but have either of you seen it or heard anything about it before going into it?
No. I don't follow a lot of voice actors on Twitter, but I guess I follow a lot of people that, like a lot of voice actors tweets. So when it came out, I saw a bunch of voice actors being like, Catch me in serious The Yeager. And I was just like, what is that? But I didn't care to look it up.
Well, we'll look it up this week, and our recent guest, Jackie lastro, will be making an appearance at some point. Yeah. So we are watching, I guess you.
Don'T know anything about it.
No, I don't know shit.
Great. Just double check it.
We need it solidly in evidence that you know nothing. I need you to sign this affidavit saying you know nothing about this show.
I tried looking it up to try and write an intro joke, and it just looked like a lot of blood and a lot of pointy teeth, and I got nothing.
Great.
Yeah.
Well, hopefully we'll find the materials after we watch the first three episodes. Let's go hunting for concept test. So much blood.
Blood phobia a yeah.
This is not a show for the squeamish. But, I mean, you're watching anime, so nothing is for the squeamish.
We cater to nobody and everybody.
Somehow we're very encompassing and niche at the same time.
Hey, we watch the gore, so you don't have to. Hi, I'm Patrick dz.
Welcome.
And I'm here to talk to you about blood.
Got too much of it.
The concept of blood.
Hire vampire. Get rid of all that blood in your body. Who needs it?
So, yeah, we just watched the first three episodes of sirius the Yeager. I watched all three episodes.
Dubbed.
Me, too.
I did, too, because I heard jackie's in it, so she's in episode two.
Your typical sub episode, but you can't miss out on that. Sweet friendship.
Nah. Got to support your friends, even if it means not reading as much, which I'm okay with a lot of big words. So episode one, I watch this all I mean, it's Netflix original, so I watch it on Netflix, and I don't know if they had to cut stuff or it was, like, too long or something, but I noticed there's a few episodes where there's just a still shot of the main character for, like, three or 4 seconds. Yeah, it kind of feels like they were trying to sync something up, and they're like, hey, we're running 3 seconds over. What do we fill time with? It's like a still image out of context. It's like, cool. It's like, okay, because at the start.
Of each episode as well, they start on a still frame that then moves and becomes animated. So it does feel like filler rather than, like, a cool stylistic choice.
Yeah, I always thought it was a mistake because it's not. Like it's, like, in a different look. Like, maybe if it was like, ooh, this is a watercolor of this scene, and then it faded into movement. But it's just like, here's this anime scene that's silent and not moving for.
Like, a solid 3 seconds.
Yeah. And I was just like, Are you okay?
What's going on?
Buffering wifi, please don't fail me now.
Yeah, so, yeah, we did this opening shot of a very blue eyed person and then cuts. yuli. Yeah, we find out later.
Well, I said beauty but.
Fairest. buli's day off. No, cut to a man talking in a big fancy hall with a lot of fancy people standing around, and they're talking about survival and evolution and shaping the world. And all the guys are wearing, like, hats and sunglasses, and they're all holding red wine while women are draped all over them. And that's usually a pretty good set up for something if you've seen enough genre stuff. And then we cut to we see a gang of, like, three people outside talking about the big job. And I think Van once an easy one. I don't know. I didn't catch the name because it was going real fast.
Yeah, I thought maybe that was a code name, but I thought that the girl in the group called him Ben. And I was like, oh, is his name Ben? I love that.
That's what I thought. I was just like and then no one's named Ben, so I was just like, oh, okay, it might be a code name. So they're talking about getting an easy job tonight. Take it easy. And oops got back to the big fancy hall, and all the guys are vampires. What a twist.
Oh, no, I didn't know.
So I was really excited as soon.
As I saw them all wearing sunglasses inside and all of them holding red wine. I was like, that's something something's going on here.
Isn't that just how rich people are, though?
We wouldn't know.
Right? They wear sunglasses inside and drop their.
Red wine on the ground and then eat the poor.
Yeah, eat the rich. It's the other way down.
That's what we're trying to do.
Poor schwazzi. I don't know what that word means.
Let's not get into it.
So all the guys turned out to be vampires and are biting into the women's necks, and that's when the man giving the speech. I'm guessing the leader starts talking to his assistant. Second in commands, some lady just comes up to him, and he starts talking to her. And they find out the Yeagers are after them, and he starts walking away, and he's like, I'll let you guys deal with the Yeagers. They're beneath me, these peasants. So he's going to be like the big shot, like in command of everything.
It's what a coward says.
We go back to the group outside and we presume that they are the yeager group, and they're sticking out the big mansion where the vampires are, and they're getting a game plan ready, like how they're going to bust in and take them all down. And all of a sudden the presumably main character, because he's got that white streak of hair and those glowing blue eyes, smells something. He smells blood and just dives right into the fancy hall and just starts going to town and start fighting with everyone. And the rest of the gangs is like, oh, god damn it. He just jumped in there before we even have a plant set up. And they just fallen after him and start fighting.
They're a loose cannon. Beautiful boy.
And it cuts away. We see the big blood moon above the fancy hall. We don't really actually get to see the fight, so at this point, we don't really know their vampires quite yet or well. They transformed, but we don't see the fight. So then after the fight, all the vampires are dead. Everyone in the yea group seems to be unscathed, so they're totally good at what they do, and they start we find out his name is Julie for running in there by himself, and now we're on a boat to Japan. Quick cut. So a lot of cuts in this show, a lot of just sharp cuts. And it's the boss of the geek or group. He's got a single monocle, which is.
How monocles are, you know, he's the boss.
They also call him the professor.
The professor I love to meet. gilligan's island. Get it? Old references. I'm 1000 years old.
There it is.
We can't get the old stuff out.
Of this new episode.
Brendan is also a vampire.
It's so possible.
It makes so much sense. I never see you out in the day.
It's very possible. Anyway, so the boss is talking to you at least, and just kind of give them like, hey, we work as a team. Don't be a hot shot. Sort of give them that like, you're a spitfire, kid. calming down, but less Brooklyn accent, any more British. And now we are in Japan and we see the cops investigating a murder scene. And it's just like a vicious murder. Like the bodies are just torn us under, blood everywhere. And one of the cops goes off in the corner and just pukes. So it's graphic, it's nasty. And then we see, this ain't your.
Papa'S murder.
This is your grandpa's murder. Anyway.
Because back to the gagers arriving in Japan. And I think someone comes up to him and it's like, oh, V Shipping, thank you for arriving. So I was like, oh, that's their code name, I guess. And their hunting vampire. So I can only presume it stands for Vampire Shipping. So I ship vampires. I was going to say they do what every team did in 2014 or 2004 twilight. And then we cut to a detective outside talking with his assistant about the murders. And they're in like, civilian disguise. So he's on the assistant like, hey, you can talk about it. Just relax, chill, don't blow our cover right away. And they're talking about an escaped prisoner who they're blaming the murders on. So they think some guy got out of prison and just like, ravaged these people and tore them apart. So they're on the lookout for him. And then we cut to a guy and a girl in like a dojo training with wooden swords, like practicing swordsmanship. And it's around then the girl looks out the window and sees the jaegers arriving outside of the building. And we find out they're arriving at the baron's estate. And that's the baron's daughter. There's a lot of stuff going on in this first episode.
No? Yeah, we did not get the typical anime info dump. They just drop us straight into the action.
Yeah, you piece it together, which sometimes I like. It turns out Baron invited V Shipping to his estate to talk about the unease people are feeling at night and the suspicious murders. And he thinks this might be a little more going on in the background. And this is V shipping's specialty. So I'm not sure if it's out publicly that vampires exist or if that's what they advertise themselves as. Or maybe this is just like, you need to know the right guy. And he knows V Shipping and he knows this is something they can take care of.
Yeah. I couldn't tell if people knew about vampires or if it's a secret.
It seems kind of like the vampires are subtle about it. They're not just like walking around the street biting people in the neck left and right. So it seems like it's not out and about, but it seems like there's definitely certain individuals who are aware of it or at least know people who are aware of it and can handle it.
Yeah, because I believe the police originally suspect they're like crime families that are doing all this.
This is when the Yeagers arrive at the state ends. When they're looking around, they see julie's gone. He ran off again because he's a wild card. Not really. He just is very moody. And he runs off because he smells a scent. And he goes into the garden and sees all these flowers. And the girl we saw earlier, training comes down to meet him because he's a weirdo, and she wants to know what's going on.
She's smitten real clear's.
A handsome stranger in my garden.
That sounds like a euphemism. And she's talking about the flowers, and she's like, oh, yeah, the flowers are very nice. My father imports, like, special fertilizer and special types of flowers to come in all this stuff. We go the extra mile to be very extravagant. And he's smelling the flowers and he says, you're spoiling them. You're treating them too differently. And it's not native soil. And the flowers are actually rotting from the roots outward. So he can sense flowers, apparently. I don't know, I guess just from smell.
Half man, half daisy.
For some reason, he just has a wicked sense of smell so strong he.
Could smell rotting roots beneath the ground.
Yeah, I'm not joking.
It's true.
It's a weird thing that he does.
And the baron talks to the professor and kind of gives him the run down and talking about the recent murders at night. And at this time, all the other Yeagers are in a different room eating and kind of chastising each other, giving the old back and forth, breaking each brothers, breaking each other's bridges, all that. And the one big redhead guy talks about the tea and seeing how it reminds him of the emerald isles. So guessing he's Irish. And I don't know, it just seems like a motley crew of different international people forming the group. But we don't get too much of that in the first few episodes. We're not too sure. And it's at this point the blonde kid in their group, who we later find out is named Philip keeps bothering yuli and keeps giving him shit. He's just like an asshole. For what, we can tell no reason.
Something continue. I'll address it after you say that.
I guess we're talking about how they're trying to figure out the goals of vampires. And yuli says, like, vampires and humans are in two different worlds. There's a lot of similarities, but they'll always forever be in two different worlds. So sometimes they can't always think of what the goals for vampires will be because they're not vampires, so they can't think that way. And that's when Philip kind of gives them what's it like in your two worlds. And yoli gets up, and he's like, oh, doggy need to go for a walk. I'm just like, oh, I guess Yoli's a werewolf.
Yeah, well, I thought I just thought, like, that he might be a vampire and that and that Philip was just being an asshole.
Yeah, that's what I thought at first too. But the the doggie needs to go for a walk line. I was like, oh, well, there's vampires. I guess there's werewolves. That's usually tradition as these genre things.
Go, as is custom.
What? They're not best friends? werewolves and vampires don't get along.
I don't know. Some of those underworld movies, they get along really well, a little too well. They fuck anyway.
Sometimes subtlety is the best.
I don't know the word.
What does that mean? Never heard of it.
Never heard of it. Cut to the detective we saw earlier who was talking with this assistant outside. They're talking again, and they're talking to he's talking to his boss about the murders. And so we get a lot of like I think they're just kind of setting up. Like, I don't even know if it's a b plot. it'd be like a c plot of like, there's vampires, there's jaegers, and then there's police who are trying to do their own investigation and try and figure it out. And clearly they don't know who are also there continue to exist. And they don't know vampires exist. So I guess it's not publicly known. So they're investigating the murders alongside. And this is where we find out a lot about these gangs around Japan. And apparently Japan opened up its borders recently, maybe the last few decades. So there are some purist domestic terrorist groups that are trying to keep it isolated, trying to keep Japan japan and not welcoming the foreigners.
Yeah, this is post world war II Japan, we should add.
And then while they're talking about that, cut to the escape prisoner we heard about earlier, and we see him chained up in a pit full of dead bodies. And I can't tell if he's beaten up or if that's like a birthmark on his face, but he's naked, chained in a pit, full body. So it's very possibly could have been beaten up as well, or as I.
Like to call it, Tuesday.
I don't know. That hoyty toidy laugh matched with snm.
Alfred, get me my pit of dead body.
Actually, when you say it like that it kind of works.
Yeah.
Remove my clothes and get me my dead body pit. Thank you.
And warm it up for me, will you?
So he's in this pit, all chained up, and he's looking up, and we see that vampire lord's assistant or second in command or whoever that woman was he was talking to earlier. And he's kind of like, yelling, like, hey, you helped me escape from prison, and now you're just having me chained up again in another prison. What the hell is this? Why did you go through all this effort of getting me out if you just fucking throw me in this pit of dead bodies? And she's like, oh, don't worry about that. You think too much. Cuts you back to the police station. It's a lot of cuts. And we just get Jay jonah jameson of police just screaming at everyone's face, just like, what's going on with these murderers? I need Avenue. It's God damn it, like, slamming on the table.
I need pictures of these vampires, pretty much.
And that's when the Yeager group shows up and they're working alongside the police, or at least just gathering information from the police to see what's going on with these murders. And they're just looking through their evidence. And then we cut to a lone cop on his beat route on just walking around, going door to door, asking about any information he can get. And he hears a few squeaks from a bat, and he follows it overhead and lands on a house. And then we see blood spray against the window. And we see the entire roof just like, lift up because it's just all bats fly up. It's not ominous at all. And then we see the vampire lady behind him. He's dead.
Her name is agatha.
We don't know this yet. Don't skip it, do we?
Because I have it in my notes of episode one.
Oh, I wasn't paying attention then.
I didn't know this. In that prison jail scene, the dude's like, agatha, come on.
Okay, I don't know this yet. I'm bad at paying attention. agatha. So then, yeah, blood splatters against the window, and then everyone runs out when they hear about the cop who was murdered. Apparently one of the cops came back and already told them one of their own was murdered. So everyone runs out and tries to run to the murder scene. And so at this point, we see cops asking people showing like, a little picture, like, hey, have you seen this man? Do you know anything about this? And they actually ask agatha because they don't know she's the murderer. And as she's walking away, she walks down an alleyway and walks past yuli, who can smell the blood on her. You can never wash it off. Truly. He can always smell it because he's got that sharp dog nose.
Dog knows. Who knows?
Who knows? We're still not sure about him. And it's at this point, he calls her out and he's like, hey, I know you're a murderer. I also know you're vampire. And she just kind of snaps and goes at him and starts attacking him and just grows at her fingernails really long. And it's a difficult I still didn't know her name, so I just kept calling her Lady Death Strike because I'm better with X Men. So they start fighting in the alleyway and they kind of spill out onto the street. And the cops see this and she just starts cutting into cops left and right. Speaking of someone who's not good at subtlety, her. And it's just taking this fight into the public. And that's when julie's backup shows up. All the Yeagers show up and they're like, Ha ha, we got your corner. And that's when I get this backup shows up and it's like, Ha ha, you don't. And she jumps into the car and then we got chasing and the guy goes just chasing after him in the car while yuli is just parcoring over the rooftops, I guess.
Hell yeah.
And there's one point where he jumps from a roof and it rolls. And we get it from a first person perspective and it was very nauseating and unnecessary.
It did throw you off a little bit.
I don't know if they just didn't want to animate him doing that.
I feel like from the first person perspective is harder to animate anyway. You always like watching them, the chasing from above and then jumps down on the Yeager's car to follow them. And then when they get close enough, he jumps onto the vampire's car. And at this point, I think the vampires like, shoot back behind him and blow out one of the Yeagers tires so they get a little separation from yoli and the rest of the gang. And as I wrote, he's just Teen wolfing on these cars because at this point, I thought he was a werewolf. And it makes perfect sense. And I need another 80s reference.
There it is. Anime bingo does have an 80s Brendan reference.
It's got a meta bingo further inside of it. And now that Yuley's on the vampire card, he stabs his weapon is like I've seen another anime. It's kind of like a bow staff, but it's broken up into three segments. And I've heard some shows call it like a giant nunchuck.
I just like to think it's a staff with a knife taped to the end, pretty much.
And it can be broken up into taped three parts duct tape. So he stabs that through and kills the driver of the vampire car. So the car flips and explodes immediately because why not? And at this point, they're on a bridge and Julie starts fighting all the vampires that are coming out, and all of the lower guys are simple, easy to beat away. And he starts fighting with agatha, who's like the main hitter. And as they're fighting they fall off the bridge, I think, at this point. And he's running after her, and she realizes he's a serious and we're still not sure what that is, but she's.
Like, he's a serious. And then he was like, oh, royal. You're a royal. And I'm just like, whatever that means, I do it's.
Still not sure terminology that we don't.
Really get to the bottom of in these three episodes.
Wow.
Yeah. His eyes glow, blower. So that's his power. And he just like his eyes are just beautiful.
That's his only power at this point.
Yes. And he just tears into her. It cuts off both of her legs and her left arm and just tears her apart. And as at this point, she starts flying away, and that's when he says, she's a royal. So I guess royal vampires can fly or have telkinesis.
I don't know.
And that's when the rest of the anchor, gank, shows up, and they're like, yuli, wait. Don't go after her. Like, stay with the group. And we see someone off in the distance just watching the bridge from far away, and it's when yuli goes after her to try and finish her off. He jumps at her off the bridge, and then Pop gets sniped by the person who is far away, and that's it. And then there's a post credit scene where presumably two vampires are talking about the Yeagers and how they made it to Japan and how agatha is wounded. So kind of sitting a blue cliffhanger for the next episode.
Yeah. Wow.
A lot of stuff going on.
That was a lot. And the good news for all of you guys is that I paid little to no attention to the police stuff in episode two. So here we go. It'll be much liquor in episode two. It starts off, I think yuli's life is, like, flashing before his eyes.
He's kind of like, in the river. And you hear the professor and I'm talking, like, you got to find him and like, where's his body?
Yeah, so he's dying because he was shot.
And then he that's usually how that goes.
Yeah. You know, and then he wakes up and there's a little girl looking at him, and she says, papa, he's a lake. And I was like, that's fucking Jackie.
There's no girl.
Yeah, the little girl soccer is voiced by Jackie, which is very cute. And she did a great job.
I would not have known it if I didn't know it going into it. Like, I did not recognize her voice.
Oh, I did. Yeah.
She typically does not sound like a six year old weird, but so then.
We get the opening, which I thought was really cool, and it presents some really cool foreshadowing because I saw a lot of stuff and I was just like, what is that? I didn't know.
It's a lot of hints. I like the silhouette style that it starts with. Like, where it's all silhouettes, and then later the characters are still dark, but we get more detail and can see aspects of them. And it's a pretty nice jam, pretty good beat.
Yeah, it's a pop.
Yeah.
I was really like in that animation style, and you see some like I love old timey sci-fi stuff of like you see some frankenstein's and some steampunk ash monster things that we don't get in these episodes, which makes me mad, but more to come.
Yeah. Then after the opening, eli is in bed and he's all bandaged up and there's a doctor tending to him because I guess he's the one that found him just in the river. Luckily he's a doctor.
It wasn't just like a garbage collector. Oh, hey, cool, I found a body. Like someone who can help him.
Oh, hey, cool.
It's not the kids from going to make an old reference. And I already forget the movie name. Never mind, keep moving on.
Anyways.
Was that Stand By Me? That's it.
Yeah. They find a body and just poke it with a stick.
Yeah. So he gets all tended too. And socky is also there being sweet and cute because that's what little girls do, I guess. And then his gang, his squad, his.
FAM finds him unit, his absolute unit.
They find out where he is and they come and see him and they're like, hey bud, you got shot. And the professor specifically is like talking to him and yuli's like, nah, I can do it, I'm fine. And he tries to get out of bed and he's like, ouchy. And the professor is like, yeah, maybe.
Don'T, you idiot, you did just get shot. Maybe take a second.
Maybe when I say don't go chasing after that person, you don't fucking go chasing after that person.
Yeah. So philip blonde boy taco and magnus.
This show got much better for me just now.
Yeah. Their names are Philip and fallon. They're kind of hanging out outside of his room. And when the professor comes out, he's like, Philip, you stay here and make sure yuli is okay. Which was probably intentional because now they have to learn how to get along.
The professor's a good dad.
Yeah. And then we get a police event of a gang having killed a scientist. And before we find that out, actually, there's like some police guys chasing down the guy they think did it, and he obviously did do it, and his blades were covered in blood.
I don't know. We watched a race and his hands were covered in blood. He didn't do it.
Yeah.
So we flash back to this modern samurai childhood for the next twelve months.
And so he turns around and looks at the police officers and he's like and then he has a whole gang with him. And then those police officers probably die.
Yeah, probably.
Again, I didn't care.
It doesn't matter in these three episodes.
Yeah. And like the police. Are talking about it and they're talking about how it's a gang and they're killing scientists and biologists, which are also whatever.
Yeah.
And the leader calls himself the last anti government samurai.
Okay.
That's such a funny name.
And it's a mouthful.
Quite a long title.
Yeah. You really got to work on the branding for your terrorist organization.
How can you turn us into a hashtag?
At some point you find out socky's mom is dead. She's like, Is that when she wakes him up?
Yeah, it's after the police chase and cuts back to yuli.
Yeah. So he gets up and goes to his door and saki is there and he's like, oh, you can't sleep? And she's like, yeah. He's like, you want me to yeah, great. He's like, you want me to read you a story? And she's like, yeah. So he goes back to her room with her and picks a story for her and he asks about her dad and her mom. And she's like, oh, my mom's in the sky.
And I'm like, check mom club.
Club. And then he's like, well, what's up with your dad? And she's like, I never really see him because he's always in his basement working on stuff. She doesn't say basement. And he's like, oh, well.
That'S wrong. She sucks.
Anyways, the gist of it, let me.
Read you the story.
It's sweet. They're really sweet. I love it because he's very angsty, but he's very sweet to this little girl, which is, you know, endearing the trope. Endearing it. endears you to him. And then the professor goes to a bar, but it's like a front. But it's not really a front because it is just a bar. He says some code about having a drink with lemon instead of lime. And then the guy is like, oh, that's the password.
I never thought I'd use that. This is so cool.
Oh, boy. You want to just have a drink? Okay.
His first day is an info broker and he's all nervous.
But they're talking about the killings.
But I just didn't fantasy just tuned.
The fuck out because I just care about yuli. Like I care about what's going on with you, Lee and the vampires, but I don't really care about the police plot.
Yeah. Basically the gist of it is that a bunch of different scientists have been killed. A lot of scientists that are doing research into like organ or artificial organs and stuff. Like the biologist was working on like an artificial lung or something like that. And that's a big sign of Western science. So this imperialist isolationist terrorist group is trying to prevent all that.
Thanks.
It is not important at this point, so let's just throw it out there and never speak of it again.
Yeah. So after that, we go back to the professor. Not the professor, the scientist's house. I forget his name.
Doctor.
Whatever. The doctor with the daughter. It's sake's house now. We'll get there and we find out that he is a cardiac doctor and that his wife died of a heart disease.
Yeah, it's yuli and saki outside in the garden playing around or something. And it's Philip, just like, in his room, lamenting out the window. Yeah. While the maid is making the bed. And the maid just gushes all of this. Just spills the beans everywhere.
She says all that, and she's like, oh, I'm such a chatterbox. Ignore me. And I'm like, oh, my God.
Don't mind me just spilling all my master secrets.
Seriously.
So that's pretty upsetting. And then they're talking about planting tomatoes, which is cute.
Oh, that's also when she says, after his wife died, the doctor became shut down his practice. His assistant ran away, and he just started working on his own experiments in the basement. And he became obsessed with that, trying to figure out a way that could have prevented his wife's death.
Yeah, we find out yulie's mom is dead too.
Cheque check.
And Sake is like, I bet they're hanging out in the sky together, being friends just like we are. And I'm like, Hell, yeah. Sake. You believe that?
She's so pure. Nothing bad will ever happen to her again.
And then we get ryoko. She's the girl that with the swords. She's practicing swords again. The baron's daughter.
Got you.
And she's distracted. Why? Because she is thirsty for you, Lee.
I wrote that. She got the thirst.
She is desperate. She wants to if no.
Because he.
May not be aware.
No, we don't know. He might just this was a pure.
Show until you brought that up anyway.
Devious myself.
Deviant.
Thank you, indeed.
She loses the practice fight, and her teacher is like, you're so distracted. What's up, girl?
What up?
She's like, oh, I'm sorry.
I'm just too horny. I'm sorry.
So fucking. My pussy is so wet.
That hurt went up in my nose.
I love myself. You can keep that.
Fuck that.
Keep that in.
Keep that in. She's pretty much like, you know what? Let's have a rematch because I want to win, but you have to do me a favor. And he's like, I guess. And she's like, you have to tell me where yuli is. And he's like.
How would I damn, 40 teens, you trap me.
You already promised beach. You have to tell me. And it's like, she doesn't even know him.
Also, why would the instructor know this? Why would he know? But apparently he does.
Yeah, it's not explained.
She doesn't know him at all. But she just so handsome.
Their only interaction was him being addicted. Her about how she's watering the flowers.
Yeah, he's nagging her. She's into it.
And then you're right. There are a lot of cuts in this show.
A lot of cuts.
And then we get agatha. I picked up on the context clues. She's like, being given a robotic limb. I thought I was like, auto mail. Is that a thing in the real world, or is that just Full Metal alchemist?
It's anime.
Okay.
Yeah, those words mean nothing to me.
We'll get there.
Yeah. I just wanted to call it auto mail because that's what you know it as. Yeah, pretty much.
I believe it's called email now.
Yeah.
Fuck you.
Pretty much. She's being given a robot leg, and.
That'S kind of what the professor was hinting at at the bar with the prosthetics making their way to Japan.
Yeah. And then we get a shot of the doctor in his basement with whatever he's making, and he's like, Almost done.
Finally, I invented Pop tarts.
My hero.
I can retire. My life's work is finished.
I mean, I wish it was Pop tarts. Whatever he's got going on in there at this point, we don't know what it is. Looks pretty nasty.
Tattoo.
And then we get yuli and saki and Philip in the garden, and they're planting their tomatoes, and Philip says something shitty.
Yeah, Yuley is, like, talking about the tomatoes. And people used to use these as decorations because they thought they were poisonous, so they didn't eat them. philip's like, man, you're really chatty today. It's like, hey, Philip, shut up.
And saki goes over to him, and I was just like, Hell, yeah, saki. ruin him. ruin Philip. She was like, Why are you such a dick?
Drag him.
Drag him. Pretty much in six year old terms, asshole. And then Philip is like, well, yuli has a friend that did something bad to my parents. And saki's like, well, is that his fault? And philip's like, no.
And she's like, well, fucking get over it.
Deal.
Stop. All of us have dead parents.
Philip yates festival.
You're not the only one.
We're all anime characters, bitch.
You want a jacket? I like this hard. persona. We've built persona.
I mean, we know the voice actress. We could get her to say these lines.
The coldest motherfucker in this show.
Seven year old girl, AO Phillip stack up. Oh, damn socky.
So it's a kind of nice moment of him kind of being like, you know what? You're right, little girl. And then her dad comes out, and he's like, socky, I've done it. I've made something that your mom would finally be proud of. And she's like, Willie, it would make mom happy. And he's like, yes. And she's like, oh, yay.
It's a new cyber mom.
Meet your new mom.
I made the house into a smart house.
Love that movie.
That's a good one.
Classic. When are we watching that anime?
One of my favorites. And then we get the maid, and she's with agatha, who has a brand new blade leg, which is great.
Both legs?
No, I think just one.
I think one is a blade leg. I think another is just a regular prosthetic.
All right. I'm pretty sure she only got one leg cut off, but we'll check it is pie.
It won't matter.
Yeah, it super doesn't matter. But so she's like raining money on the maid that spilled all the beans.
Make it rain. Make it rain. Make it rain.
And she says something snarky and she's just like, you dumb bitch. And then she kills the maid. She pretty much just I think she wanted to know where yuli was and the maid told her.
Well, I think the maid was also giving her information about the doctor and what he was working on.
Yeah.
Because she mentions like, you're not loyal. You're just in it for the cash and then kills her.
Yeah.
Dropping all that money in those beans.
Yeah. And then we go back to the doctor's house and they're waiting for the maid to come home. And saki is like, she's been gone for a long time. And then philip's like, I can make dinner. And then they're like, wow, nice, Philip. And then he's like, that's big brother Philip to you. And I'm like, stop trying so far.
You can't give yourself a nickname.
It just doesn't work like that.
Only we give nicknames because we don't pay attention to the character.
Yeah. And this is going to be me going off the top of my head because I guess I was just watching this all unfold. The vampires descend and agatha swoops in and she grabs the doctor and just fucking bites him.
Chomp.
No one has a chance to stop that. chomp.
Chomp much much.
And he turns into a gross mindless zombie. And they're all fighting. Well, not all of them. Sake doesn't fight vampires.
But yeah, she's more traumatized at this point.
Yeah, she is really just watching all this blood and gore occur while they're fighting the vampires.
Also, I was watching this with Sam and they pointed out the vampires in their full, like, monster form look a lot like the monsters from the live action scooby doo movie.
Wow.
I needed that.
I need to pull up a side by side comparison of them because they are just one and the same.
Wow.
Just not purple. They are red.
They're also similar to the scoobydoo and vampire Rock when scoobydoo goes to Australia and there's a giant vampire lord haunting it. And it's the second appearance by the hex Girls. I know a lot about scoobydoo.
Oh, god.
So the yeagers are the mystery gang. And then yuli is scoobydoo if he's a dog. We still don't really know.
We ruined another anime.
There it is. We didn't get serious black in this one, but we got scoobydoo.
Saki ends up outside and she's just sitting on the ground in absolute terror. And her dad is walking toward her and he picks her up. And he is about to haunch montecranch on his own daughter when yuli swoops in and just fucking annihilates him by throwing his bow staff with a knife through her dad's neck.
He's fighting agatha and they're like, she's monologuing the whole time. And when he sees the Doctor's gonna attack saki, he like he's like, oh, okay, I should actually finish this fight now. stabs agatha with one end of his spear staff and then breaks off the blade on the other end and then kicks it into the Doctor's neck.
Hell yeah. So agatha is impaled, which is I'm upset because she's great.
I mean, not great.
I don't want you to go.
She's a cool kid, she's fabulous, and.
You will be missed.
Rip.
But so I like the part where her dad gets stabbed because she gets, like, his blood on her face.
And I'm like, oh, why do you like that?
Because it's chilling.
It's good drama, Brendan.
It's icky and terrible. That's why I like it. It's not because I think it's fun to get for a six year old to get her father's blood on her face.
Okay.
And then agatha says something about yulie being too far gone for the ark to care about him, and he's like, the Arc. And I'm like the arc. What?
Excuse me?
And then the place that the Doctor had been working on his info for, the prosthetic heart, the fake heart, the artificial heart burns to the ground. So I'm like, rhett row rut row gas. Because they probably got his research for that fake heart. Now they're going to use it for something. What, we don't know. And ryoko was there. She saw it. She saw it all happen, and she just saw him with his wild look in his eyes, and she's like, murdering. Oh, no. But also.
Let me lick that blood off of you.
Yulie ends up on the roof. He like, hops up on the roof to get a good look at what's going on, I guess. And then he sees a guy, and the guy's like, hey, yulie. And then he looks at the guy and he's like, Brother. And then it's over. And I was like, oh, damn.
Shoo. Drop him.
Also, yeah, it was the sniper from the first episode.
Yeah. Why does this show have so much happening in it?
Yeah, there's so much stuff going on my brain.
So when I get overwhelmed about certain things, I say, my brain is going fast. My brain is going so fast.
Got to go fast. Brain.
Got to go fast.
I got sonic brain.
There he goes.
That's a great term for it. Sonic brainic.
Brain. Sonic brain. That's what I'll call it now.
So, yeah, episode three, I'm going to streamline it a little bit because as we mentioned before, they cut back and forth so much, so I'll just follow each thread of it one at a time.
Got you.
Oh, that's a good idea.
Damn, wish we thought of that.
Yeah, well, this is the flashback episode, so it's more like traveling in time and going back and forth from Uly's childhood into current events. And the current events are just whoa, that was a crazy fight, huh? So, yeah, for the present day stuff, I'll go through that quickly because that's not as important. It's just, whoa, that was crazy. We have the military people discussing stuff of, like, there's big old fights, murders stuff. Is it? This V shipping? And they also mentioned that there's something another group that is factoring in somehow called the alma Trading Company. And that's the last we hear about that.
Moving on.
We then see ryoko in school the next day, just sort of daydreaming about well, not so much daydreaming, the slight trauma of the night before, but still being like, that boy, Julie hot and bothered, and all her friends are like, ooh, you're in love. I know that look. You're in love. So, yeah, she's in love.
Yeah. I mean, I get the same look in my eye when I think about cheesecake.
But yeah, again, doesn't really come back into this episode, so we can cut that threat.
Moving on.
So back at the house, they're sort of regrouping after the surprise vampire attack from the night before.
Surprise.
Boo.
Got you.
So, yeah, basically, yuli, different show. yuli is very concerned about seeing his brother being a vampire because their brothers he swore to kill all the vampires, and now he's conflicted. And he's also reflecting on the arc that agatha brought up, saying, oh, you're too far gone. You can't get back to the arc. So basically, all the different members of the team check in with him. And then when he starts chatting with the professor, that's when we get the actual details of what's going on. He's talking with the professor about what the arc is and his brother showing up. And this is where we get the origin story of yuli. So we flash back to when he's a wee child, probably about, like eight or nine.
Just a little pup.
Yeah. Little Russian pup.
Yeah. I couldn't tell if this was, like, the himalayans or, like, tibet or somewhere around there.
Yeah, it was, like, vaguely siberian. I think his full name was, like, Yulichka. So I was like, oh, I guess Russian. It was some Russian ass name.
Just some amalgamation, probably. Who knows?
So I'm going with siberia. Sure. So he's out hunting. He's about to take a shot at a very Japanese deer, and he sneezes. But his big brother is there to take the shot and claim the hunt. So his big brother Mikhail, another Russian assay oof, he's my type.
He's my anime type. Like, when he walked up and he, like, had, like, that side glance, I was like, oh, damn.
Speaking a pretty boy.
Runs in the family. So he claims the deer, and they're bringing it back, and he's sort of going over hunting with Julie, being like, hey, don't sneeze next time, you idiot.
Thanks.
And they go back. They are part of a small village out in the middle of siberia, for whatever reason, and they're all marveling. The whole village gathers because this is such a big deer. This will feed the whole town for days. So they're super happy. And mikayla was like, oh, yeah, yuli totally killed this thing. And everyone's like, oh, wow. What a prodigy. What a great kid. So they all decide to have a big feast at the chief's house to celebrate this momentous harvest. And as they're eating, the chief is sort of recounting of, oh, the village is getting so small. The kids are leaving. Michael and yuli are the only two young and still around, so it's nice. I haven't been this happy in a while. This is bringing me back to the old days. And they start talking about how they are there to protect the arc of sirius. So it's sort of a tribal ritual that they are the keepers of this arc, this vague thing that they don't really elaborate on.
Wow.
So they're talking about defending the arc in the future, how yuli and Mikhail will be the two that will be left in charge once everyone else is gone. And yulie is sort of getting into it, like, yeah, I'll be the greatest defender ever. Where is it?
What's going on? Where is it?
Where is it?
So they're like, you'll find out when you're older. You can't know all these things. You're just a small child, but it's very far away. Don't worry. So sort of vaguely hinting that there's a hidden aspect to this arc and they're defending it from the people who want to find it. Let me skip through all the stuff I already addressed because there's just a lot of cutting back into real time to be like, my brother, the Arc. anyways, back to the flashback.
He gets, like, a rotating door of his squad all come and say hi to him. And I'm like, leave him alone.
Well, I think they were coming to try and cheer him up and talk over, hey, how are you doing, champ? And he's just like, I'm fine. Go away. Okay. And the professor is the one that gets through.
The professor is the only one who he talks to. I mean, the other ones were like, you want to go get some food? And he's like, no. And they're like, okay, bye.
At least, like, fallon's sweet about it. He's like, hey, buddy, want to go get lunch? He's like, no. He's like, all right, we'll go when you're feeling up to it, champ. All right.
He's the big brother, two types, and it's fallon and Mikhail.
You're two anime boys.
Yeah.
So, yeah, we have just these cutbacks that don't really add much, and we flashback again, and we have the village, it's being attacked by vampires with a thunk. So we have the vampires attack yuli's family's house, and the anime mom has died. This is groundbreaking material.
Check, check, checkaroo.
You know what? This was sad.
Yeah.
We actually have to see it. This time.
Yeah, they don't just hint about it 15 seconds into an episode. So vampire attacks, mikhail fights it off, but it's too late. The mom dies, and in her dying breath, she gives yuli a scarf because he's always so cold and says, no matter what, you have to survive.
He's a chilly dog.
Now. It's not a time a woman is dead, Brendan. A woman has been dead for like 20 years at this point. Brendan.
Too soon.
Is it? He and Mikhail are like the only two in this village who get out. So they flee and they're out on their own. So they get to a quiet part of the woods where Mikhail is like, hey, let me teach you a couple of things. When you're out in the woods and it's this quiet and you're hunting, be very careful. Also, don't fire your gun because it'll mess up your nose and you can't really smell with all the gunpowder. And also, most importantly, don't eat sugar right before bed or you'll get cavities. anyways, let me fight this vampire ambush real quick. Goodbye forever.
Anyway, now it's time for me to die.
So, yeah, there's a surprise attack of vampires that he sensed and he fights them off and yuli is knocked away and runs away into the woods. So we follow yuli as he's running away, assuming his brother is being killed by these vampires, and one follows him and pins him down and destroys the scarf that his dying mom just gave to him. And he gets so mad, we get to see like, his first sort of werewolf beast mode transformation, which doesn't actually first beast mode, the precious memories. He doesn't like, transform at all. He just gets super strong. So I assume he kills this vampire vampire and yeah, that's about all for this. I did go a little bit out of sequence, but the conclusion at the end is sort of Mikhail at this point made a blood packed with the vampires and is now working with them to find the arc of sirius, which they now believe is somewhere in Japan.
And oh, and the professor found yuli when he was like covered in the snow.
Oh, yes.
Also that he's a father figure, so he's probably going to die too.
Yes. Don't don't expect to see him much longer. Yeah, but yeah, that's about where we end off after these three episodes.
Oh, and there's a post credit scene where we get a hint at the vampire frankenstein and his big old monster.
I did not watch that.
It's pretty much what we saw in the intro. Like, you just get a shot of the monster on the slab and it's like, I've been working on my creation.
You would have liked it, dude, if you like the steampunky frankenstein boys.
Yeah, we're at this point, I'll be honest, I wasn't loving this show. So I was like, okay, I don't need to see the post credit scene.
Yeah. recapping. It really kind of reminds us. Yeah, I kind of checked out for a bit.
Yeah.
I don't know why it made me feel this way, but I did write down at one point, I was like, I feel like this is what Black Butler wanted to be of, like a pseudo fantasy, real world type thing. And I feel like this does it better.
Yeah. Because at no point do I go, I didn't remember being like, oh, this is a bad show. There was just so much going on, and they kept cutting in and out of different storylines that at this point don't really line up. I'm sure if you stick with it, it will work a little bit better. But as of right now, it's just a lot of jumble and preamble.
Yeah. And at least for me, I'm very character driven. So if I'm invested in a character, I'll sit through something longer or I'll be more invested in the show overall. And I don't give a shit. Out of these people, fallon might be the most interesting character for me. He's got maybe five lines.
I think they set up too many things for me to not want to know what happens. And I feel like maybe because there's so much going on, the episodes go by really fast for me, which is weird. And since it is only 13 episodes or 1212 yeah, I would watch it.
But I feel like they spread themselves too thin and sort of don't give the full value to the actual team because there's that I don't even know her name, but there's a woman on the vampire hunting team and she has like two lines. But we hear more from the police captain than we do from this main member of the team that we're supposed to care about. Can you focus a little bit?
Yeah.
It's a little all over the place.
That's true.
Yeah.
I want to know why they're building a frankenstein and what it leads to.
Why? Because you can. Was it lead to murder?
Give me that. 40s diesel punk.
And I want to know if Rioko gets to GIF it.
You know what I would get to show now, because you brought that terminology into this episode.
I am interested. This is like the first werewolf piece of media where we don't have painstaking. Oh, werewolf transformation, all that. He just gets stronger when the moon is around.
Yeah. Honestly, we don't even know if he is a werewolf.
Yeah. Or if he just has the power of the werewolf gods or the werewolf arc or whatever.
Or he's just got piercing blue eyes.
Yes. That was that show. We apparently are not there. Not even going to ask.
It's pretty clear at this point.
Yeah, it's fine. Not our cup of tea.
Well, maybe next week will be.
Yeah. So what's going on next week?
I don't know who I mean, Paul will be here.
Yay.
Returning guest, my good old boy, my good old partner in life, Paul, everyone's favorite lad.
Yeah.
So he wants to watch uu Hawkisho, which is his very favorite anime.
And it sounds like brendan's as well.
I'm on board.
Yeah. So they actually brendan and Paul actually talked about what episodes we're going to be watching, but it's hard to pick.
So we're still piecing it.
We're going it down.
We'll have that info for you next week.
Yeah. When we're watching it.
All right.
Yeah.
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