Once every year, the whole is subjected.
To a knight of terror. Hello and welcome to are we there yet? In exploration and education and anime. I'm your anime idiot, patrick do.
You get I'm an anime expert, dee hollander.
And I'm brenda mccullough, your anime monster fucker. Getting that explosit tag in early this episode.
Yeah.
And I'm going to hide right to the point.
And goodbye, mom and dad. The episode I told them to listen to.
Oh, man.
My son.
Next time, earn their love next to you.
What an episode to pick for your parents.
I mean, I'm already scared that that was the introduction, but what are you watching this week, brenda?
I'm tantalized.
There's other things I could have said, but my brain is smooth, so I just went with what was obvious this week. dee was right. We've been watching some high octane, some nitty gritty, got some nasties the last few weeks. So dee changed it up with their pick. And I was like, hey, what if I kept that train going, though and ignored everything else? And we got nasty again. So this week we're watching doro. Hey, doro.
We're getting down and doro dirty.
Yeah.
And to break this streak just enough to be like, they won't see that streak coming back again. Right in the back of that.
What if we took a hard uturn and undid? Any progress we made away?
Plot twist.
This is the part 200 ish episodes in of our podcast where we do a plot twist.
I mean, those always go well and are never ratings based, right? Please welcome our new co host, poochie.
And he's gone. Canceled immediately. But yeah, the name doroy. Doro. I tried looking it up because it's kind of confusing. I believe it actually translates to mud sludge or, like, mud vomit.
Cool.
Nursty. Do either of you know anything about it?
Not really. Other than big lady that we like, there's a big lady in this program that dugan is not. dugan Brendan is a fan of, but I'm sure dugan will also be a fan.
It's hard not.
To be clear when you specify any of these hosts love a big lady.
We do all love big. We just love big. Don't got to be a lady.
True. And this is a show for the biggs, which was yay.
Yeah, this was a show that I remembered people loving when it first came out because this was fairly recent. I want to say within the last five years, because, again, recent in my brain is 2017. And that's five years ago now.
I made an it follows joke, and I'm like, this is a new movie. Like that movie came out eight years ago, 2014. It hurt. Sorry. Continue.
No, I was just editing that episode and that was the title, so got a good modern reference. Yeah, I remember hearing lots of good things. And big ladies are popular on the Internet, regardless of the year. I've heard rumblings about it, but I don't know any specific. So I am excited.
And that rumbling is the sound of.
Her walking up to you, me purring.
Jokes, playing you into the lockers and take your lunch money. We're happy enough to give it to her.
Oh, no, please don't.
Oh, no, don't put on the first three episodes of this podcast or some text. Does anyone know the Reptile song?
I forget the reptile song. I can only think of the cynthias reptile on ice.
And then there's also the whole musical part of rugrats in Paris. We're just back as we just crowdsource what the Reptar song is reptile.
I can't just think of the Abraham Lincoln musical from cat Dog. That one's hidden my brain for some reason. I'm just a baby named avy and someday maybe that's all I remember. It's not a good gem. It's there, but it's not great.
Anyway, Duncan is also a large lizard.
Perfect segway.
We got ourselves a big muscular lady, and then we got ourselves a bigger muscular lizard man. And then we got ourselves an even bigger muscular lady than that.
The hits just don't stop coming.
It's a great show. That's all I need.
Yeah, when you get a show and you're like, hey, did you see the big muscular lady? And the response is, which one? We're on a good Friday.
So we start off with episode one. Glad I picked this episode because, boy, howdy there's a lot of shit going on. And this is a burden I have to bear now.
Yeah, that was the only hard to explain episode.
Yeah. After my notes, I was like, God damn it. Opens with a man with a bloodied face inside the mouth of a giant lizard. So one hell of a way to start a show.
God, I wish that were me.
If you haven't noticed. Audience, is it going to be a thirsty episode.
After watching the show?
Why this one? I know why there's a reason I opened the way I did.
Because we're a bunch of little freaks.
We're nervous. Yeah. So a man is inside the mouth of a giant lizard man. And inside that mouth, another man appears at the back of his throat. Truly, of course, love death.
Straining too. Trailing.
We see outside of lizard mouth is a giant lizard man biting the head of the man with a woman holding back another guy as they're roughing him up some sort of shakedown. And the man inside the lizard's mouth that emerged from the third said, you are not the one. And then the man on the outside being held by the woman breaks free, shoots some black smoke powder at the lizard, but it doesn't seem to work. And then the lady that was holding him spins around, breaks his finger, and it kicks him in the ass and just knocks him flat on his back. Great. Love to see it. And then we see it. It's there. I've said it before. kyman kimon. I'm going to mess it up.
Kyman.
Kaiman kyman. Like the alligator. You see kyman's, the big lizard man, he spits out the guy's head and says, hey, what the guy inside my mouth say, which is, again, wonderful sentence. And the man tells him, he says, I wasn't the one time he goes, cool. You're dead, Ben, and takes out a little knife from his holster and just julie ends this guy, just minces them, chops them up real nice. And as the guy's dying, his body's falling apart into pieces. And we see his finger point out and just the black smoke shoots out again, but this time it creates a doorway underneath the guy that's on the ground, his buddy. And the door opens up and he falls through. And kyman's autism. Like I got away. I was going to eat that guy too, and all upset. So clearly there's some magic going on and one of them got away. Then we get the opening. It is very psychedelic and strange. We get the lady we saw earlier cooking up a big meal. And it's just a lot of trippy colors.
This, I feel like, is a very specific anime opening in that it is just mostly, hey, let's watch this character cook one meal rather than the typical like, here's this character, here's that character. We're going to see these locations and we're flying through the sky. It's like, no, we're going to watch a leisure man walk into a restaurant and we're going to watch this lady cook some food. If you needed other context on the show, I hope you weren't looking to this.
I wish this was the whole show. This would be a great show. Hot lizard man eats gioza from hot buff lady. Sounds like a good premise to me.
I've seen that video before. We have to talk about this episode. Yeah, no spoilers in the opening. It's just like, I guess something's happening between these two. God, if I knows what. And it just keeps going, so cut back, too. We see a door opening in an alleyway similar to what we saw before. Just a door by itself opening up in the middle of nowhere. And we see a man in a striped shirt walk out saying he's got to meet his quota. And as he's walking around, we get shots of the city. It's a nasty city. It's real dirty and grimy and gray and sad and bad. And we get a voiceover from the narrator. Sorry if I'm going a little fast. There's a lot to cover.
No, it's good. Keep going.
Narrator says, that where we just saw the man come out of the door is very colorful and bright and idyllic. That is the world of sorcerers. And every now and then, sorcerers from that world leave their world and come to this world. This place is called the Whole. Welcome to the whole it's going to be great. It's going to be a nice scenic area with the housing association that helps out. It keeps it really neat, tidy. It's always a good name for the.
Whole we always encourage upkeep of the landscaping around the hole.
We see kyman after we see the guy walk around a bit. We cut back to kyman and his friends. Obviously, I don't know why I never say the name until it's revealed in the episode. Our name is nikkaido. So kyman and Nikkao walking back saying that the sorcerers are practicing on people again in the hole. And we see like, guy walk by with a parrot head. And we see another guy with like crazy limbs and stuff. So all the weirdos and alien looking people aren't normal. These are the experiments by the sorcerer, so it's not great. And we see kyman stops by an alleyway and looks down at saying this alleyway was the last thing he remembers before he lost his memories. And at the end of the alleyway, he saw a man standing. And he doesn't know if that man is him, if that man is the man in his mouth, if the man in his mouth is him, or the one who turned him into a lizard.
He's got a lot of questions, and so do we.
Although I will say that piece of exposition was like the only one we got, which was excellent, but it was about the only explanation we got in.
This entire series so far, basically. Yeah. And we cut back to the source where we saw earlier in the striped shirt, and we see him experimenting on people. Like, they just said he's shooting out this black smoke, which they just call it smoke. It's just the magic they use here. Everyone uses the same thing, but it does different stuff. And yeah, he's spraying people down with this black smoke and he's turning them into insect people. He's got like big cockroach legs and like praying manta's face and stuff. And he's a dick. Cut back to Nikkao making a food for kaiman. Like we see in the opening. She runs a little restaurant. She cooks up a bunch of stuff, most notably kyoza for kaiman. Don't know why. It's a signature thing. He eats it all the time because it's tasty fair. So we see them just going about their days. And it would cut back to the previous sorcerer we saw with the tendo mask, with old hat, with floppy ears. His name is fujita. He was the one who escaped from them in the beginning while his friend got killed. So we see him coming back to the source of our world. He puts an egg in a big black fountain, saying he's hoping to get his buddy revived. fuck if I know what's happening right here. And then he goes back to his boss, telling him what happened to him and saying that the magic he had didn't work on climate for some reason. And his boss, Mr. N, he looks like a redheaded vegeta with the skin peeled away from his mouth. He said he must already have a spell cast on him, why magic isn't working on him, but it is strange. And fujita saying he's got a plan for revenge. He's going to get back in that lizard freak. And then we come back to kaiman. He's at his day job where he's like, I don't really know what he is here. He's basically working at, like, hodgepodge put together, like, hospital for patients that were experimented on by the sorcerers. And he's kind of just helping out there, doing whatever needs to be done. And he's hoping here he can learn more about the sorcerers and specifically one that did cast a spell on him.
That had to do it to him.
Had to do it to him. Yeah.
He's essentially view, like, orderly slash janitor and is just taking out the trash, cleaning up the bodies, all the fun.
Stuff, all the usual things.
It's the word else thing you never can get. He's looking into some of the patients, and it's nasty. We just see bodies, like, frozen in some sort of device, like hanging from hooks and stuff. It's real nasty. And they're saying they got new patients coming in, and they got all these insect parts to them. They got the cockroach, they got the mantis face. It's the guy. So I saw earlier. And kyman's like, these are insects. I'm a lizard. This has nothing to do with me. bye. And just doesn't help with the patients at all. So kyman's okay, he definitely is himbo, but he's also kind of a dick at times.
He's he's just a guy, and you know what himbo but kind of an asshole is definitely like, my favorite kind of character. There you go.
So it works. And then we get a voiceover saying, nikkita's place, she's got a little restaurant. It's down, like, a certain alleyway, like, within the city that a lot of sorcerers tend to appear up in. So kaiman hangs out there a lot to try and capture sorcerers. And as we see nakaya going back to her shops, she sees she shells by the shell. She sees the insect sorcerer we saw earlier, and he's slumped outside of her shopping like, I'm hungry. So he's clearly looking for food. And she warns him, like, hey, careful out there. There's some there's some jackass sorcerer turning people into bugs. He sucks. I've seen some of zandi work. The worst I've ever seen. This guy's an actual honest to God idiot. And it's him. She's saying this all to him.
Really? How embarrassing.
And as he's eating, he's like, oh, he's an idiot. Maybe we'll see how bad his magic actually is. He have take off a glove, and he's got a little thin ball on his finger where the smoke starts pouring out. Cut back to fujita. He is wanting to go back in the hole. Could have rephrased that better.
The amount of times characters in the show are like, we got to go to the hole.
I'm like, okay, send me in.
Get me back there. Get me back to the hole.
I volunteer.
He wants to go back, but since the kaido broke his finger, he can't use magic anymore. So he's just running in with a gun, just like a rifle. And before he goes back in, the guard at like, the doorway stops him and has a message from Mr. And his boss saying, hey, if you're going to go after the lizard guy again, you already got your ass handed to you once. Get another partner. I'll give you a thing that can help you find other sourcers so you can get a new partner. Don't go running in there with a gun like an idiot who can't use magic anymore, which obscures what you're doing. And it is so he called him out right there, but yes. Instead he gets a little device to help him find new partner. Mr. And says he also wants kyman captured because he's clearly something's going on with him. He's a funky little guy, so he's curious by the lizard man. And we cut back to kiman gets in tokyo's place and sees as he walks in, he sees the sorcerer in the back in the kitchen transforming the kaito. And she's like, part bug already. And he's just laughing like, hey, buddy, check this out. kyman is just like, well, you're a sorcerer in the mouth. You go and just bites them, like, fall in the head. And the guy, of course, tries to cast magic on chinaman, and it doesn't work. So while he's in there, he's freaking out. And we see him struggling for, like, the sorcerer door he summoned, trying to reach his hand for it, but can't quite get it. And sure enough, we get different, like, shots up back at the hospital with his previous victims that were insects turned running back to normal. We see the smoke leaving their bodies. And then we see the same thing happening to Nakaido on the ground. And Kim and pulls the guy's head out head out of his mouth. And he goes, what do you say? And the sorcerer says the same thing they always do. Goes, you're not the one. Kim is like, all right. Guess you got to die and kill him. Yes.
Is that the only option after being put in kyon's mouth? I don't know if I'd risk it for that. wink, wink.
Audible wink. I don't know how many people are volunteering to go in his mouth anyway.
There's always a first wink. Did you hear me wink?
No. And yes, he kills a sorcerer. And akao is getting back up and like, dusting herself off, saying she got careless. She probably should have suspected the guy was a sorcerer. And we see fujita sent out on a mission to bring back anyone suspicious to Mr. N. There's a lot of back and forth between these two. Cut to the next day. We see kaiman saying, like, oh, boy, we got pictures. Let's give over some no saying like, today's day.
I don't know how you're so confused, Brendan. This makes perfect sense.
It's so clear, straightforward. It's why I picked it. It's my favorite show ever. But Kevin wakes up saying, like, oh, boy, my pictures are developing today. Back in the old day, before digital, you had to send your photos to a place to get developed children. And he's saying they took pictures of the guy inside his mouth. So hopefully they can look at the pictures and see what they can find. Meanwhile, we see fujita is out looking for partner. He's going through this little blackberry HandTop device Mr. And gave him. And he finds a sorcerer named Ubiso, who's supposed to be very strong, should be able to help him. So he's on the hunt for ubisu, who is in the hole currently at that same time, or ebisu at that same time. kiman and kimon and the blond lady. I'm struggling here. The keto are coming back after getting the picture developed. And as they're walking down the alleyway, conveniently enough, a door to the sorcerer world manifest. But it starts fading away as soon as they see it. Like, oh, hey, someone's still there on the other side. They didn't leave. And sure enough, it's Ebbisu pronunciations all over the board of this episode. Yeah, it's ebby Sue who is at the door being like, why didn't it open? Why couldn't I get through? What's happening? And a little confused and Common Season sees them, and it's like, well, sorcerer, time to bunch. And sure enough, nikkaido there it is. nikkaido ricochets off a wall, sweeps under abbc's feet and kicks him in the head or something. And kym And just immediately cuts all their fingers off. They got it down to a science how to take down sorcerers. And he goes to take the mask off. And sure enough, NBC was a lady. And they're like, oh, wait.
What?
There's not a lady in my mouth. You didn't turn me into a lizard.
Maybe I can't put a woman in my mouth.
That'D be gay.
Don't worry, D. There's still a chance. Because he does.
Thank God.
Standard motive, munch. And as the man comes up out of Kiman's throat, he's like, you wore. And gets interrupted before I find out what the man says. Suspect he gets interrupted because it turns out fujita opened up a door nearby and is leaning out of it and is pulling Ebbsu out of kaiman's mouth so we don't get to hear what he says. And there's a struggle back and forth for a hot minute. And then, sure enough, fujita is able to pull her out of the mouth and back through the door, and it shuts and they were able to escape to the sorcerer world before anything happens. They got away scot free, clean, no problems whatsoever except abuse whose face is still in kyman's mouth. Like the skin is just peeled off completely scorching. Yeah, you see it dangling from kaiman's teeth. It's again, nasty. Well, that sorcerer got away. Well, we'll just try and hunt them down again next time. Anyway, what's in the pictures? And they look at the pictures of climate's mouth and it's nothing. It's just his mouth. There's no band in it. And they're like, nothing's going well today. Everything sucks. I'm going to drink until I pass out. Quick cut too. After drinking until I pass out, kyle is puking his brains out into a toilet. And the kita was like, oh, that's a weird. You usually can handle your liquor. You usually don't end up puking like this. Something's really strange happening. He's like, yeah, I'm not feeling too good. This is kind of rare. And then just nightmare on elm Street fountain of blood sprays out of his mouth into the ceiling and just coats the place in his blood. And then the man in his mouth crawls out and walks away.
You know why?
That's the show.
No thank you, weird man by thank.
You, weird man who lives inside me. kyman wakes up. Turns out it was a nightmare. Turns out it's a regular reoccurring nightmare. He has quite frequently, so much so it doesn't even scare him anymore. But he can't quite figure out, is this man the sorcerer that cursed him? Is it him? They both got the same cross eyes around their tattoos, around their eyes, something going on. Stuff was connected. And then we cut back to a new pair of sorcerers that we haven't seen yet. They got some fancy mask. One of them looks like a black luchador sort of mask. Again with the teeth or the lips appealed away from the teeth. And the other one's a heart mask, but the guy's wearing it backwards. So the mouth appears on the backside and it looks like they're killing down a bunch of people. That's it.
Cool.
And we get the ending, which is pretty trippy as well. But similar to Chancellor Man, fun fact, the ending changes. So stick around to see what it is each episode.
So we pick up an episode two. And I'm going to tell you right now that I'm going to split this recap into two parts because they intersperse two storylines, and for most of it, nothing happens. So we start with the heart masked man named shin, who's on a job. He's also someone who works for the crime boss N with his partner noie. And there it's an anime. So they got to kill some people because crime you're crime. Yeah. So they go in, kill a bunch of people. Guest real edgy. He's like, I wouldn't use magic on non magic people because that would be bad because I hate them and I want to kill them.
I'm a murderer, not a bully. We play on equal footing. I'm still going to kill everyone in sight.
Like, this truly felt like a comedic beat that they just didn't get, because it truly was. I am I'm above using magic to kill non magic people. Because non magic people disgust me, and I want them to die. What?
Shit is a very troubled man.
Yes.
Get in line.
Yeah. Kill a bunch of people. Find, like, the last guy. Fight them, kill them. Then they leave.
They're like, okay, we did it.
We did all the crime here. Time to go back. Our boss, Anne, wants to talk to us. And noah, as they're leaving, drops a trash bag full of blood. It was like how blood came out in the first episode.
Disgusting.
A lot of blood.
So, yeah, they got to go to dinner. Sorry. I wrote this down, like, chronologically, and that didn't help me. I'm trying to skim through for the two halves that are jumping around, stitch together. So they go back. They go to CNN. fujito is there, and he has a vsu who needs a new face because she doesn't have a face anymore. Just the worst. She's, like, completely out of it. She's wearing, like, a mask that looks like just flesh sponges on her face. I don't know. Everyone needs to dress formally to impress.
And go to a fancy dinner.
Yeah, they're eating a fancy dinner, and they get told that they have to take their masks off when they go in. So we get to see their faces. This is when we reveal that they're big ladies. noy is a big lady. And even though that was cleared, I was listening to the dub through being a woman speaking. Everyone was like, whoa, that big person was a girl. I didn't know this was supposed to be a surprise moment.
She's impeccable.
She is.
She's so hot.
I think the downside of that reveal with the popularity of the show is when this episode came out, immediately, everyone know that noy was that girl was a woman like that. She was all over the Internet. So I'd be surprised if anyone watching this didn't know.
I can tell you now, I didn't know who this character was. And I still knew it was a woman from when she was introduced. Because, again, female voice actor fair. Yeah. So the boss invites him in. He's all fancy. They're like, I need you to do a job for me. Kill a big lizard man. And then I really don't. I'm going to need to walk. Let's do a play by play of what happens. So they're like, hey, let's see what these two people look like, shall we? And calls two women out. I didn't get their names because who cares?
Not important.
Yeah. And they're like, we're the fancy. We're the gesture people here. And surprise. Now. Where kaiman? And Nikkito.
Their magic is transformation magic. So they cast magic on themselves to change their appearance.
Okay. But at the same time, they're like, oh, wow. My magical girls who can transform. You transformed. And then they're like, no, we're the real people.
I don't think they were the real people. I think they were other, like, gang members who were trying to kill N.
Yeah, they were like other transformation magic people who transformed themselves into tweedle D and tweedle dumb Ladies.
Exactly.
Jesus Christ.
And then transforms his time and then.
Introduce these two characters. What they were really doing was introducing four characters of the two characters we see, and the two people who just, I guess, never fucking mattered because they are the two transformed girls who turn into our two heroes, who then get transformed into mushrooms by N. Because he's like, ah, enemies. Kill them.
I'm a crime boss and this is my big evil power. I breathe on people and they turn into mushrooms. That's very funny to me, but also delightful.
Yeah.
Everyone at the table eating is like, oh, cool. All the mushrooms are eating are people. Great. yuck, hannibal, but it's love to see.
This scene was definitely a long yeah.
I was like, God, that's good.
That is delicious. That's a sweet todd reference. Also a thing where people eat people. Continuous.
Yeah. So they have a new job. Go kill big lizard man. And that's half of this episode. Now I got scrolled back to the top of my note over half of this goddamn episode. So cayman goes to nikita's shop. She's feeling sick, but she still made him goza for lunch. So he is going to go check on her later. And it's all the rain, she's sick, blah. Cleaning out the hospital hq place. He stops for lunch and his boss throws a big garbage bag at him. Tells him to get rid of it, but he hears someone inside the trash.
Is made of people, too.
Oh, no. So kiman talks to the man in the trash bag and he's like, oh, hey, buddy, you doing good in there. And he's like, hey, no. I'm in a trash bag.
Surprise you. But no.
So he was a sorcerer from the hole. He got all cut up, but he can't die. So he's all a bunch of pieces. He's like, hey, could you do me a favor and kill me, please? And does so he incinerates them. Cool. So he goes back to Nicaida because he has to return the lunchbox. That's where that narrative was going, right?
Yes.
And she invites him in to eat. skimming through, got their jobs. So they're looking for another sorcerer called the acupuncturist. Could we have started here and not the first half of whatever happened here? Sure. So they go into an old, even more destroyed part of the city called marut migue. It's all apocalyptic. They stop for the night, obligatory. Go pick up groceries. And then get mugged on the way back and then have to beat up the muggers to prove that I'm not just a girl, I'm a tough girl.
Classic.
And one of them happens to have a flyer that's like, hey, the acupuncturist is here at this night.
Convenient.
So they go to the nightclub, and literally the first person comes and sees next to some needles, he's like, oh, cool. That was real easy. pops them in his mouth.
Yeah, I bring my needles with me anywhere I go in case some poking done.
I was wondering about that. Is this where he works? What is this?
On the business card, all it says is, yeah, I hang out at this nightclub every night.
Mouth man is like, no, this isn't your guy. So kyman's about to kill him, but the acupuncturist is like, oh, no. What if I put needles in your face and help your face? And acupuncture joke, it hurts, but his face peels off and he's shedding because he's a lizard. Remember?
Yeah.
And that's episode two.
Yeah. I had, like, two notes. It's wild.
Yeah. You'd think it would go somewhere. It almost does. And then it's like, no, that was a dead end. Let's go back out this alley.
That's why it's all interspersed. So you feel like it's all leading to something.
Feels like it's. I think the actual only plot point that happens in the episode is they say the rain was making the kaido sick because it's like the rum and off of all the sort of source magic essentially polluting that world, that's it.
The only plot relevant thing was a throwaway lot being dirty.
God.
Fuck you. Sorry. Episode three. What's going on?
I'll tell you, I am still intrigued. So we start. We're looking at a graveyard. The narrator says that one night a year, humans must fight some ghastly creatures. And we see a bunch of people getting ready for the living dead day.
I should have saved this for Halloween.
Spooky.
So there are registered exterminators, but other than that, people got to be inside. We see kyman and the doctor boss waiting for it to start, but the doctor is like, I'm not looking forward to this because I got to go up against some of my former patients. malpractice. After the opening, we see Shin and noy. They're eating town down real fast. Shin says, it's an old habit to eat fast because I grew up tough, and when people found out I was a sorcerer, they wanted to kill me. So he has a tragic backstory.
Tiny pile.
I never got the guy's name. What was it? fujita?
Yeah.
I kept calling him the kid with the hat.
That works too.
So he bursts in, and the three of them go to the mushroom man. And mushroom man boss wants noi to heal Ibizu's face. She's sitting in a chair, and we finally see her face is all nasty.
Lot of healing in the show.
Yeah. Obviously her hands are all broken. So noy is wearing her mask and she like opens the mouth part of it and does the healing hooray. But Ibizu still doesn't remember anything. She has amnesia. Her brain is all kind of messed up.
I wish nobody would breathe on me.
Yeah.
Anyway, just kind of let that one sit back.
So boss man tells Shin that he better take the next job seriously. Time for the whole KAIMAN and nikkaido are at a fair. It's like it almost looks like a European, like, Christmas festival. I don't know if you've ever seen a Christmas market. Yeah. And there's like a bunch of shops. And KAIMAN says they're going to close soon and it's like a fair that's going on for Living Dead Day. They see a table. There are prizes for how many zombies you kill. And one of the prizes is a meat grinder. So Nokia says she wants to get it for the restaurant and they got to kill 180 zombies for it. So midnight hits and the hole gets more fucked up because now zombies are coming out. Fuck up that hole. Now. The hole is just absolutely teeming with phil. People start killing. There's like a bunch of monks around that are like spreading salt every time someone kills a zombie. The Doctor is trying to use poison dumplings to kill the zombies. But the zombies are not interested in eating the poison dumplings. And then we see Shin, noy ebizu and the kid with the hat are in the hole now too. And they're looking for KAIMAN. But they don't know that it's zombie day.
Zombie day.
So they get surrounded. And noy is just fucking ready to kill because she stays ready. KAIMAN and Nokia keep killing. They're counting up. Every time you kill a zombie, there's like a tag, like a dog tag that you have to collect and that's how you get the prize. So they're counting up their tags. They're getting close to the meat grinder. They're a little worried about the Doctor, man, because they lost him. We see he's wandering out on his own and the zombie comes to attack him. Oh, no.
Rough spot, I'll say. It's one of the few pieces of media I've seen where there's zombies in it. And a character in the show knows what a zombie is. No one is like, oh, they're zombies. And he's like, oh yeah, they killed him and affected him. I was like, God, thank God someone knows what a zombie is. He's sick. What's wrong with him? idiots.
It's just a fever.
I'm fine. I do think so. Elsewhere, kyman and blonde lady oh no. kaido sorry. Kept saying blonde lady in my notes. They're enjoying some instant noodles and taking a break. And then the other crew shows up.
Oh shit.
Finally, their timelines are converging. So KAIMAN is excited to hunt some sorcerers again. Nokia suggests I don't know how this would happen. She's like, how about we hang back and watch them for a bit? And I was like, they are here to fight you guys. There's no one for them to fight, so you can watch. Oh, you want to see my moves? Yeah, hold on a second. But KAIMAN is eager to fight anyway, so he and Shin fight. noy approaches Nakaido and says she doesn't usually like to be rough with women, to which I say, Why not? Why not? noy, but she will this time. Nakaito kicks her in the stomach, and she's impressed with how much it rattles her. She's like, we should be friends. Oh, wait, I can't. I'm supposed to kill you. And then they fight.
A true herbo long queen, I believe.
Is the woman version of a hymbo. Not just a bimbo. I guess not, because she's big. It's different.
I've heard people say bimbo is like the insult. Herbo is the endearing form of it.
People have reclaimed bimbo.
Have they?
Okay, but it's a different I feel.
Like himbo has become such a distinctive thing. It now doesn't really have its roots in bimbo because the size is inherent. A large bimbo and a small bimbo are equally bimbo, if that makes sense.
Oh, man, math has gotten weird since I've been out of school.
Got to put it on a chart. If the slope of bimbo go on. Okay, so Nakaido gets launched back from one of noise blows, and KAIMAN also gets launched back from something. So they kind of, like, meet up in pain. Nakaido, especially is not doing too good. And then Shin gets KAIMAN with, like, the back part of a hammer.
Ouch call.
He thinks that the job is done, but then KAIMAN stabs him and puts him in his mouth. It's mouth time for mouthman judgment. It's a little long.
I was just writing bimbology, but I.
Like, that bimbos, himbos bimbology. The study of bimbos is first grade Brendan.
Sorry.
Okay, so he's in his mouth, but before mouthman judgment can happen, shin stabs him in the neck, and then he's bleeding all over it's spraying everywhere. He has somehow beheaded him. I feel like we don't really see that happen. Did I miss that?
Yeah. Like, the hammer is, like, in kyman's neck a little bit, and then the head is fully gone. It's real fast.
He pride it off like a crowbar.
If I had to rewind to fully understand what just happened, I'd still be watching episode one.
So, yes. No head. So no head. Nokia grabs him and his head and escapes. noy apologizes for not being more careful to make sure that Nakaido was dead because she thought that she killed her. Shin says that they need to find the sorcerer who gave chimon the lizard head because, okay, we don't have a plot otherwise.
That's all we have going on.
We're all looking for one guy.
I think it's to undo it because it's weird. That kim and can't be affected by magic even with that going on.
Yeah, I didn't think of this as magic because he used a hammer to stab him.
Yeah. I don't know why they're so invested.
No, it seems like none of them, they're all just trying to have a good time. They want to draw this out for as long as possible. But Shin passes out because he did get stabbed. Also, we see. Doctor man lived. Thank goodness. Back at the hospital, KAIMAN came out of it all. Okay.
His head grew back neat as it does.
Right. lizards. No. Sorry. Okay. Anyway, ignore me. Nakaido was discharged already. Goodbye. Doctor asks KAIMAN if he knew that nikita was a sorcerer, and KAIMAN just laughs. And he's like, what a goof. You just told me. And the doctor is just like, all right, you don't believe me? And then he leaves the room, literally.
Too stupid to know the truth.
And then we cut to the chao, wondering what kyman would do if he found out she was a sorcerer. And then he shows up with a box. I believe it's the meat grinder.
Neat.
The doctor also shows up and gives kyman his old head, asking if he can dissect it. Hat kid brings ebizu to noi, who's looking real good in a little pencil skirt blazer combo with her hair up in a library. Okay, miss? noy, I've been a very bad student.
Focus.
Anyway, so noi, not noy. Ibizu got attacked by a zombie during Day of the Living Dead. But I thought she didn't actually get bitten or anything. I thought she was just being, you know, brain dead. Because she is.
It's very possible it's both. Yeah, either.
But she is. I guess turning into a zombie and noy is like, I don't know how to heal a zombie. I only know how to kill them. But I could wing it. And I was like, that doesn't seem like a good thing to wing. Honey. Hey, honey. Baby. Maybe not.
Sweet. bye.
Also, if there was some way to cure zombies, do you think we would have an annual zombie killing festival if that was me?
We see kyan walking down an alley with his old head, and then he spots a body with no head, and the liquid in the container goes nuts. And then kyman wakes up. So it was a dream, I think.
Got you.
Got him. Got me.
I was just wondering, how can they make this more? I just read that little extra layer to just have dreams randomly interspersed.
He wakes up and Nakaido is at his place to visit him. And she says, I have to tell you something. And I thought she was going to say that she's a sorcerer, but no. There's like a flashback about how she found a corpse with no head and she put it in a body bag and she went to get people to help. But all that was left when she came back was a trail of blood. And then they all looked up, and the body bag is walking back toward them. And it was kaiman's body. And I'm confused as to why she told this story. Like it was something he didn't know, because it seemed like he already knew this. I was very confused.
So it was kyman.
Yeah, so am I.
So he decides he's going to let the doctor just dissect his old head, and they take it to him. They get started. They're recording it. There's a human brain in there, which is weird. It brings up the thing of what makes you a person. Like soul versus brain stuff. Because it's like, that's his brain, right? So he just grew another identical brain. Pretty crazy.
Yeah, I guess so.
He also has a lizard head, so I'm not thinking too much about the logical stuff.
This isn't soma that's a video game. It's a video game about this very thing. Brain stuff.
Lizard faces. Got it. Okay.
So they open up the mouth because he's like, Find the guy in my mouth. And I'm like, that's not a real guy. You understand that, right? There's not a tiny man living in your mouth.
Yeah, I don't know about that.
I don't know either. But they open it up, and the power goes out. KAIMAN and Knighto go to find the backup generator. She walks ahead, and he hears a voice, and he realizes he's near the alley from the flashback. And then it looks like there's somebody behind him carrying something. And they walk away. And then the lights come back on, and back in the operating room, the head is gone. So no head. We got two of them. They watch the recording of the dissection when the power went out, and they hear the voice on there, too, but they can't say they can't see who took the head. So chimon laments that they don't know anything about his past. Right now we get a scene that made me laugh of the mushroom. Boss man testing out a hover motorcycle. Just like in the middle. It's just like, check out this cool bike, sir. Also, it's sweeps.
Yeah, they said sweeps, and they called it a broom, which I'm realizing, like a witch riding a broom, like a high end broom. And it sweeps to collect all the dust and smoke that they expel out for magic. So it's literally a broom.
I hate it because I didn't realize it.
I realize it's like, this is the second time I'm watching, and I just got it.
And then Shin shows up, and he asks if the others can leave the room so he can talk to the boss privately. And instead of ending it there on a dramatic note like that, the boss then says, no, you can say anything you're going to say to me in front of them. And then the episode ends.
Takes one extra step.
Yeah. That's episode three.
Yeah. And we got a different ending for this episode.
Yeah. This one's. I didn't watch the whole thing, but it was, like, peppy and upbeat.
Yeah.
They were walking down the street. Yes.
From dugan's recap. I can only assume I loved it.
Yeah. sno from Me Dog, the very style over substance show where it was like, how can we just loosely cram together as many cool, fun fights and animation? That I guess, looks good, but I wasn't a fan of it because this is like a Netflix show. It has sort of that Dragon princey, maybe not quite as many frames as you probably should have for, like, a high action sequence, but God bless you.
You went with a choice.
But yeah. This story is a generous gift of me to call it that. This was just a loose jumbling of can we have some cool blood effects? Can we get a lizard man? There's some sort of mystery in here, but it's so convoluted with bullshit that it really doesn't matter. This was a no. Not even the herbo saved it for me. Brendan wow.
That's shocking to me.
I was not entertained by this. I don't know, I guess it just kept my attention, so I was just like, okay, it is confusing, but for whatever reason, it didn't really bother me because I was just like, this just feels ridiculous. And I know that's probably not what the writers were going for, but to me, this just feels silly, and that's what I'm going to take it as. And also, I like looking at the big lizard man and also big lady.
So turmoil did shame it for you.
I would do anything to look at noi for half an hour.
See, I'm going to reevaluate that afterwards when I don't have to watch a show with it and it's just pictures on the Internet. Yeah, I love that big lady. But if it's having to try to make sense of stuff that even in the show they're contradicted, I'm like, no, you lost me.
I will say good news. If you look up, doro hey, Doro. Rule 34 is mostly pictures of the light.
I hope it's not a lot of pictures of cave. So I'll take.
Why not?
He has a human body.
Listen.
Yes. I don't want to see that. I want to see something fun and fantastic.
I'm trying to fuck bowser. Anyway, I just said it. I think I've said it before. You all know this about me.
Listener.
There are much worse characters to have Rule 34 of than cayman. And this show, in the opening, we see, like, a gross little cockroach monster running around that's in the show. And that's a full size, like, man bot. That's like, 6ft tall. nastiness. So it could be worse. It could be worse.
This is like interspecies reviewers, but without the fucking. And what's the point of that?
What you said Dean was like you went into it with just like empty headed. It's silly. And you don't think the writers would have liked I don't know. I think the writers are on board. When dunon said, how do we just mash together a bunch of cool effects and fight sequences with a bunch of stylized characters with no real sims? That feels like, what the show? I can't argue with that because that is what it feels like and that's what I got out of it. But I kind of went in with the same, like it entertained me for the 24 minutes or whatever. Like I'm not pretending like I understand the story or that it's going to pay off eventually in a season two. It might, but good to know it.
Doesn'T go anywhere in season one either.
Endorsement, like it kind of does, but.
I couldn't tell you any definitive. Like we get a secret. Like the guys that we saw annoying Shin beating up in the first sequence, they also have the cross tattoo on their eyes. So they're part of a gang that clearly cayman was a part of. So, like, I think that's the most we get is that he was part of this old gang at some point. I agree. I'm not going to defend the story and be like, it's a slow burn. It pays off great. And I don't know. God knows. God only knows.
If the only revelation of season one is a single line of backstory that could have been given at the top as he's like ripping apart these old gang members, then that's not good.
I could also just not have caught on. I might be dumb. We established earlier of Smooth Brain, so I enjoyed the time. I will not argue anyone's criticism about the story at all. Yeah, that's fair. It goes places, but it's wild visually and that's what I wanted out of it.
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