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[00:01] Yes, Mr. Teal, it just arrived this morning, but uh I still don't know about the name. Sha Garbage has always been a trash anime restaurant. And no, no, I understand that it tested better with focus groups. I just slop

[00:16] has a very different implication that I don't think you're really Oh I got though. >> Bob Y. Got it. Yes, I understand the be doesn't stand for beer. I've seen you eat a baby

[00:31] before, dude. You don't have to explain the joke every time. Investors, am I right? But enough about business. You're here for trash. And let me tell you, buddy, this winter's pile might just be the largest and juiciest

[00:48] you've ever seen. Darn near enough of the stuff to swim in. So, let's stop supernormal conversation I was just having and dive right in, shall we? One

[01:00] of the most frequent requests we get at Sha Garbage is to put more good shownen battle stuff on the menu, which can be tricky since the FDA doesn't really let us serve good stuff. But I'm happy to report that for today's trash, we have

[01:13] Jujutsu Kaizen at home. Dead Account isn't just any halfbaked spooky shownen trend chaser, though. It's a terminally online spooky shownen trend chaser. And when I say terminally online, I mean the internet is haunted.

[01:35] earthly attachments, anchoring and gradually corrupting their users souls until they turn into vicious, uncaring monsters. But enough about reality. In this show's world, when someone dies, their Twitter account becomes an evil

[01:48] ghost that runs on batteries and a bunch of teenagers have to hunt them down in the local department store or whatever and kill them again before they hurt someone. Dead account actually has a better excuse than most shownen for why

[02:00] it has to be teenagers, too. Older spirit mediums have to run their psychic powers through an analog to digital converter at onetenth efficiency just to damage these digitized demons. Whereas the younger generation is inherently

[02:14] attuned to cyber kinesis which manifests in various ways depending on what kind of mental illness they manifest online. A cyber stalker could gain the power to cling to things for instance while a gamer shutin might use puppet magic. And

[02:30] someone who obsessively retouches all their photos could get healing powers that work through Photoshop. It's a world where holier than thou keyboard warriors wield almighty banhammers while trolls wage their flame wars with

[02:44] literal flames. And those aren't just hypothetical examples. The professional YouTube troll is the show's Yuji, while the keyboard warrior Reddit mod guy mentioned is its Megumi equivalent. And that might actually be more brutal

[02:58] slander than the actual JJK fandom ever threw at the real Megumi. To be clear, as characters go, they're nowhere near JJK's level, and neither are the fights they get into. But by bog standard shownen uh standards, it's fun and fresh

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[05:52] finally enjoy them all in one place. Yes, in the spirit of not understanding the themes and messages of Tolken, I'm proud to introduce the official Palunteer Naro Slop Trough. Don't mind the cameras. [music] They're just there

[06:07] to collect data on your guzzling habits. Now, as you can see, this trough is divided into several buckets because narrow slop comes in several different yet incredibly similar varieties to fulfill our various nerd needs. From

[06:22] left to right, we have lonely slop, validation slop, and most importantly, number slop. Lonely slop, I think, is pretty self-explanatory. That's where you'll find your romance, bromance, anything that fills the void for an

[06:37] afternoon. Validation slop, meanwhile, is for folks who do see other people on a fairly regular basis, but don't particularly care for it. You know, particularly care for it. You know, work/school sucks, everyone there sucks,

[06:51] but I personally don't suck. So, give me a world where everyone pats my ass for not sucking andor all the people who do suck finally get what they deserve. And then, of course, number slop is stuff where numbers go up and your brain goes

[07:06] burr. Sometimes the numbers are letters. Sometimes there's letters and numbers. But the important thing is it's a Skinner box you can watch. Be they isekai, villainessai, one of thoseing things or anything in between. All Naro

[07:21] slop fits neatly into one of these three buckets with maybe a little bit of splashover. Okay, there's there's a lot of splashover. Obviously, you can find plenty of validation slop with stat screens and harums for days or lonely

[07:35] slop where some get what's coming to them in between the the guy finally kissing the girl or whatever is going on there. But with a keenly honed taste for trash, our chefs are able to identify the dominant flavor in each of

[07:50] these anime and sort them accordingly. For example, there was a cute girl in the hero's party, so I tried confessing to her. Has an adventurer's guild, a loose skill system, semi-objective power rankings, a world generally saturated in

[08:07] numbers, sloppiness. Plus, its isekide protag has a whole bunch of inept co-workers at the Demon King factory who treat him like and fail to recognize his overpowered greatness. However, those elements are

[08:20] self-evidently pretty halfbaked. And from subtle clues in the title, we can deduce that the show's main focus is in fact on romantic comedy, which it also

[08:32] doesn't do very well. But that much is at least like 5/8s asked. The idea of a switching sides cuz he fell for the hero's healer is pretty entertaining.

[08:44] The execution, not so much. kind of feels like they had all the artists working on backgrounds for most of the production time and then a month before airing they were like, "Wait, no one's animated any characters yet and the

[08:56] writing isn't much better than that." But still, it is a pretty neat idea. I'll give them that. And that idea clearly belongs in the lonely slot bucket. Sometimes it's not so cut and dry, though. Roll over and die has stats

[09:10] for days. Protag Chan's entire life is ruined by not enough stats, and she turns it around by figuring out how to get way more stats. The stat screens themselves have like persona level graphic design going on, and sometimes

[09:26] the show even does psychological horror with the stats.

[09:39] anywhere near that much effort into its numbers. Yet at the same time, most of thoseing things don't make the guy who betrays their kyito or I guess kuritet

[09:52] even half this detestable. This guy doesn't just kick her out of the heroine's party for not having enough stats and also to make room so he can bang the heroine. He straight up sells her into slavery and the slave merchant

[10:07] tries to murder her with zombies because her stats aren't even good enough for that. And in return, when she discovers that she can reverse the effects of cursed gear to get hella stats, she murders the out of that guy. And

[10:22] it's pretty clear that the other guy is going to get the murdered out of him at some point in the future. All of which very strongly suggests not just validation slop, but straight up vindication slop. A story about a good

[10:36] girl and her girlfriend given lots of bad bad men exactly what they deserve, bad bad men exactly what they deserve, which certainly many bad bad men do get over the course of the anime and just the half of the episodes that are out

[10:50] right now. And it's satisfying every time, as is every time she finds a new piece of cursed gear and the numbers go up. My brain goes burr a lot watching this show, but ultimately all of that is just meticulously painted Eldrich dark

[11:07] fantasy icing on a deceptively fluffy yuri cake. She may get a lot of numbers and stab a lot of bastards, but at the end of the day, what really brings

[11:19] meaning to Flum's life is her blossoming relationship with fellow escaped slave Milkit. her growing friendship with that nun in training who's caught the eye of a certain succubus and the heroine's lingering feelings for her that are

[11:34] doing as much to tear their old party apart as not having the errand girl around anymore. which is probably for the best all things considered cuz it's pretty clear their whole war on the demon lord is really a genocidal power

[11:49] grab by the spiral from Uzu Maki worshiping church that sent them to do the quest in the first place and is manufacturing abominations underground. And that honestly is some of the best lore I've seen in [music] fantasy anime

[12:04] lore I've seen in [music] fantasy anime of any stripe. But even incredibly juicy and original lore tidbits like that remain secondary to the show's main purpose as lonely slop for lesbians and lesbian appreciators. So, turns out that

[12:19] even one of those things can be something other than validation slop. Most of them aren't, though. Jack of all trades, Party of None is the rare one of those things that makes you think, "Wow, what a great succinct title." And it's

[12:35] pretty much all downhill from there. In fact, that might be the last thing you ever think about it. Cuz even by the standards of this subgenre, it is such a standards of this subgenre, it is such a generic nonobject that it resists being

[12:49] perceived or even remembered. Even now, mere minutes after watching it to refresh myself for this roast, I find my brain slipping off its surface, scrambling for purchase on a single detail that doesn't also describe that

[13:05] other anime about a buff focused mage who leaves the top level party that didn't appreciate him enough to mentor a red-headed girl half his age who very transparently wants to bang him and so do her friends. I can tell you that it

[13:19] doesn't have magic live streaming or carbon copies of Rudius Grey Rat's entire horm or any of the other things that mildly set that other thing apart, but nothing that it actually does differently comes to mind. I uh guess

[13:35] it's pretty funny that the heroes party this particular Kyito is banished from wasn't actually given that title by anyone. They just kind of decided to call themselves the heroes and everyone else rolled with it. But the show

[13:49] doesn't really understand how funny that is. The world building's just super lazy generic video game and I don't think the author thought about it at all. He didn't even put much effort into the video game The entire reason

[14:05] Kyito gets banished in the first place is because his dualclass swordsman enchanter build isn't minmaxed enough for the current dungeon meta. But his for the current dungeon meta. But his party is already the top record holder

[14:19] for the dungeon. So clearly their current comp is outperforming the meta. As a number slop enthusiast, I'm frankly offended they thought they could sneak that by. Into the bucket you go. Thankfully, we've also got slop like

[14:35] hell mode. The hardcore gamer dominates in another world with garbage balancing to wash the taste out of my mouth. I mean, low-key, that one's got a lot of lonely sloppiness going for it, too. Protag does end up getting isekai into

[14:49] the body of a medieval surf child cuz he begged the universe to give him a real challenge for once in his gaming life. And with nerfed XP gain and a crazy high learning curve on his starter class, it certainly is a challenge just climbing

[15:04] the level ladder, never mind the social one, but he gets something else in the bargain. A family that loves him, plus an endearingly psychotic childhood an endearingly psychotic childhood friend.

[15:22] >> And pretty quickly his goal changes from get numbers or die trying to get enough numbers to elevate my family out of poverty and try not to die trying cuz that would make them really sad. It's clearly using the raw Skinnerbox appeal

[15:38] of number slop to condition its gamer audience in a pro-social direction. However, the Skinner box is still the primary appeal in that scenario. And in fact, the whole social advancement narrative is really more numbers. See,

[15:54] there's a fixed amount of gold you have to pay to the government before you can go up in social class, which is already quite challenging to achieve with the absurdly high taxes that surfs have to pay. and by trying to pay for his entire

[16:08] pay. and by trying to pay for his entire family at once. Protag is also playing that game on hell mode, which is fantastic. [music] And I haven't even touched on the actual core game system of the anime, which

[16:21] allows him to circumvent the inherently low numbers of his summoner class by summoning little critters that each give him bonus numbers and fusing those critters together to get even better bonuses, which he's kind of got to do

[16:34] cuz he can only store a very limited number of critters in his big book of numbers. And the number he can summon at once is further limited by his MP number. However, there's a summon that gives him more MP. And yeah, brr.

[16:53] Speaking of critters, one number that really needs to go up more is the really needs to go up more is the pitifully low quantity of monster isekai anime. The concept of being reborn as something entirely inhuman and having to

[17:07] adapt to a totally new mode of existence is bursting with narrative potential and has spawned plenty of books as a result. Yet, even if you include the sword one

[17:19] and the vending machine one, but not any of the skeleton ones, cuz let's be real, those are just regular dudes minus the skin, only six of them have ever been skin, only six of them have ever been made into anime. And only five of those

[17:33] are remotely watchable. Four if you're a Shane Dawson hater. Three once you've read enough Chrysalis to fully appreciate the innate to fully appreciate the innate inferiority of eightlegged filth.

[17:48] But now, thanks to Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling, we finally got seven of them. And that's not the only number you're going to see go up here. We're you're going to see go up here. We're talking HP, MP, exps,

[18:01] talking HP, MP, exps, monster levels, monster evolution ranks, all that good math. Admittedly, Protag is also kind of very lonely. But even when he picks a super scary evolution against his better judgment, just for

[18:16] the slim chance to get a little less lonely, all he actually gets from it is more numbers [music] at first. Eventually, it will give him access to a human disguise form, which does have me a little worried if I'm being honest,

[18:31] cuz you know, once you let your Kyito man dig evolve back into a human, it's only a matter of time before he's doing boring human numbers like budgets and taxes. [music] Still, so far, the numbers here are more

[18:44] than acceptable. Not quite hell mode level numbers, but this here bucket ain't about how good, it's about how much. That doesn't mean we're just going to throw any old slop in there just because it cuts away to the occasional

[18:57] Excel spreadsheet, though. If the numbers don't mean anything and they're not properly distributed with Scenarian randomization, my brain ain't going to go burr. And that is precisely the problem with noble reincarnation, born

[19:12] blessed, so I'll obtain ultimate power. Well, one of many problems, the whole show's kind of problems. And some of those problems are the best thing about those problems are the best thing about it.

[19:46] show clearly wants to be number slop. I mean, it's got Protag looking at a stat screen literally 5 seconds after he's born, but it's just too darn loosey goosey with the actual numbers, uh, letters. I can accept getting an

[20:01] infinite level cap plus one S-ranked magic skill right from the jump. I mean, we got a six-year-old with heterocchromia swinging a sword as tall as he is on the poster. I can't say it didn't warn me, BUT YOU GOT TO make him

[20:15] work for it a little. In the second episode, this kid just straight up trips episode, this kid just straight up trips over two different legendary magic artifacts on an afternoon shopping trip with his brother. At least put him in a

[20:30] dungeon or something. Come on. Of course, being a prince and all, the story is ostensibly more about statecraft than swordcraft, but spoilers, it also sucks ass at that. Pretty much every political problem the

[20:45] prince faces gets solved by throwing a bunch of money at it. And as soon as he whips out the wallet, there's almost always some falling to the floor in front of him, proclaiming to the heavens what a genius he is for spending

[20:58] his dad's money so good. Unless you're a Nepo baby, that doesn't even work as validation slop. It's just plain slop. And I'm dumping it on the floor where it belongs. Heck, even if you are a Nepo baby, there's better slopions

[21:15] this season. Like a gentle nobles vacation recommendation. A rare double isekai about a nobleman who finds himself transported from one fantasy world to another and takes the opportunity to finally get in a long

[21:29] overdue holiday and befriend some of the locals, which is really what this show is all about at the end of the day. Pure simple bromance. The chill dandy Leisel and his gruff new dungeon delving buddy Jill are anything but glory hounds. They

[21:46] actually let other adventurers take the fame from them and just take some of the money off the top. And there's not much need for stat crunching when you can already one-shot most monsters with your magic floating gun. So this one's all

[21:59] about the vibes and the character chemistry, which are thankfully really chemistry, which are thankfully really good. a rare example of platonic lonely slop, unless you don't want it to be. Of course, fanfics are always an option,

[22:11] and certainly the show seems open to them.

[22:26] there are better places to find it. Kai office worker. The other world's books depend on the bean counter is the most validation slop title paragraph I've seen on a web novel in ages. I mean belleaguered accountant underappreciated

[22:43] at the office ends up in another world as a tag along to the destined isekai heroine then overhauls their medieval logistics and roots out embezzlements with the power of modern math and magic energy drinks. finally earning the

[22:58] recognition he deserves. It's not even subtext at that point, just straight up text, which oddly is kind of refreshing after watching so many of those things beat around that particular bush. Not to mention all the Ko Shiakai. And even if

[23:14] the goal isn't validation, surely with an accountant protagonist, we must be in an accountant protagonist, we must be in for hella numbers here. Perhaps Paradox Interactive Brain Go Burr. It definitely went a little burr in episode 1, but

[23:29] then at the end of the episode, accountant son collapses from too much magic energy drinks. And in the next episode, the handsome night captain, who's kind of been eyeing him somewhat sinisterly, if you're not picking up on

[23:42] the vibes, helpfully demonstrates the proper procedures for magic detox.

[23:56] here. There might be a perfectly reasonable lore explanation for that.

[24:08] perfect sense. And yeah, obviously that other spell's only going to work with him sitting on your lap. How else are you supposed to direct the mana flow you supposed to direct the mana flow around his body? So yeah, we got fullon

[24:21] around his body? So yeah, we got fullon BL lonely slop this season and it is glorious most of the time. Sometimes they really cheap out on animating the juicy bits compared to say the manga, but you know

[24:34] what they say, don't look a gift Yahwi in the hands. Still, I I do feel at least some of the complaints in that department are warranted considering how many resources Studio Dean decided to throw at the villainess is adored by the

[24:49] prince of the neighbor kingdom instead. Even though that is probably the Even though that is probably the laziest, most generic villain story ever told, at least in anime. I mean, it doesn't even pretend like Protag Chan

[25:01] has to do anything [music] to fix her reputation and divert the bad ending. Despite only getting her memories back like a couple weeks before her fianceé betrays her, literally everyone in the entire school and seemingly kingdom at

[25:16] large, already thinks she's great and that Prince Hart Knight's Lapis Lazuli Lackmouth, yes, that's his real name, is a for even thinking about dumping her. He doesn't even think it's a good idea.

[25:38] >> I've made a huge mistake. But it's far too late when he realizes because of course with her being such a catch and doll, the titular neighbor prince Aquested Marine Forest, yes that's his real name, sweeps in to sweep Lady Tiara

[25:53] Rose Lapis Clemental off her feet literally the second she's unlocked down, revealing as they ride off into the sunset together that much like how she had a crush on him from looking at the posters for the game that was the

[26:09] trapped in now. But then she died before the sequel came out, but now she gets to date him, so she's pretty happy about that. He had a big crush on her cuz he saw her at school just kind of standing there doing nothing. And he had to go

[26:24] through several years of therapy to get over the fact that he could never have her and every other woman in the entire world is obviously by comparison. Villainess anime actually has a lot of splashover between validation slop and

[26:39] lonely slop on account of so many Japanese women hate their husbands. And look, I do certainly understand the appeal of snacking on tea and crumpets while all the hottest and richest guys in the world fight over you. But at this

[26:54] point, there's like 50 different anime where ladies can get that plus an actual story. So, I really don't understand why anyone would watch this one. I kind of

[27:06] understand why someone might have read it back in 2016 when it was one of the only web novels out there that was ripping off My Next Life as a villain s. But that moment has long since passed and uh yeah, there is nothing else in

[27:22] here that even remotely warrants this level of adaptation. Hell, there's better prince flirting action in Kunan the sorcerer can see.

[27:41] doing it to get his fiance's brother offer back. Don't tell the brother it's not Yahi, though. He seems to be really into it. at least as of episode 3, which is as far as I am ever going into this show because uh I fell asleep like three

[27:55] times already just trying to get through that. A shame really since I did have pretty high hopes for the concept of a kid who was born blind using magic to kid who was born blind using magic to circumvent his disability. But alas,

[28:09] it's just more bog standard validation slop about a kid with OP magic being super OP all over the place while literally everyone sucks his dick for how OP and cool and handsome he is. Below bog standard if we want to be

[28:24] completely honest. The pacing of this thing is absolutely atrocious. But Kunan himself is a delightful enough little scamp that his personality kind of makes up for it and makes it less than completely unwatchable. That and his

[28:40] maid is pretty funny, though nowhere near as funny as the maid in easygoing territory defense by the optimistic lord who also has much nicer titties. And uh

[28:52] the show is [music] way better in every other respect, too. But the titties are the the really important point. Don't even get me started on Panamera Carrera Cayenne. Yes, that's her real name. I'm

[29:06] not sure if those are her real titties, but given the world's level of technology, I'm going to say probably. Now, just looking at the first episode, you might think this show is

[29:18] pure validation slop. And certainly with its hero being a Japanese salary man ko shisakiide into the body of a child prodigy with the power to make literally anything he can imagine. It does scratch that itch pretty well. But it does

[29:33] something else a little bit better. And I'm not talking about Van's growing harum, which even he doesn't seem all that interested in. I'm talking about the numbers. Now, if you've seen the show, you might be asking, "What

[29:48] numbers?" Despite the rigid magic system and all the magic affinity related discrimination in the plot, there ain't a stat screen to be seen here. But if you're caught up on little details like that, you're thinking too small. Despite

[30:04] the many dungeons and dragons dotted throughout its world, this show doesn't want us to look at it like an RPG. It wants us to look at it like a citybuilder. And in citybuilders, the stats that matter are population,

[30:20] stats that matter are population, economic activity, resource stock piles, economic activity, resource stock piles, currency. Just take a look at this bit.

[30:49] Yeah, them some good numbers right there. Uh, I mean, titties. Close call there, Jeff. They almost realized you're a real pervert. Ah, on that note, trough. So, let's just move right along

[31:04] to the season's Harum selection, which is one of the most generous we have ever had. And not just for the lads this time, ladies. We've got not one but two

[31:16] reverse Harum type dealies for your enjoyment this season. And there's even more to enjoy in Dark Moon: The Blood Alter than just the vampire hotties. a whole supernatural action side to the story that's honestly pretty well done

[31:31] with solid animation and impeccable atmosphere. But of course, that's not why it's on the menu. It's here because this anime is like Twilight if Bellis Swan had superhuman strength and Edward Cullen was an entire Korean boy band.

[31:48] Like a real one. The real life K-pop idol group in Hypen lent their names and images to the original web tune that they eventually based this anime on and it's been spun off into like novels and

[32:01] a whole bunch of other stuff. Kind of like the Backstreet project but like the Backstreet project but successful. Let's do it. [music] Ready to rock and roll. Let's rock this

[32:14] Ready to rock and roll. Let's rock this man. >> But if you think that's an insane throwback, you need to see Hanakimi, the long- awaited adaptation of the OG cross-dressing high school girl romcom

[32:31] cross-dressing high school girl romcom manga from way back in 1996, which paved the way for Oruron High School Host Club, Vampire Dormatory, and every other anime in that very specific subgenre. But those two are the really important

[32:44] ones, especially Vampire Dormatory. The story follows a precocious, some might say psychotic young woman named Mizuki, who in turn follows her favorite track and field star from America to Japan, where she changes her gender, uh, forges

[33:00] her identity and infiltrates his all boys high school [music] in order to be near him. And then, in a stunningly lucky twist, ends up being assigned to be his roommate. However, tragically, some past trauma has forced him to give

[33:14] up the high jump. So, if she ever wants to see his beautiful leap again, she's going to have to help him get his mojo back, all while hiding the secret of her gender from him for like all of two episodes before he figures it out on his

[33:29] own. Because unlike [music] most love interests in most of the anime that were inspired by Hanukimi, Sano is not a completeing idiot. That's not to say [music] in this anime, though. Mizuki's

[33:42] new best friend, Nakatsu, is as dumb as they come. And through him, we still get to enjoy the classic Shakespearean trope of a dude falling for a lady dressed as [music] a dude and getting very confused about his own sexuality, which is always

[33:57] a delightful bit. Though Hanukimi does run somewhat a fowl of the whole Seinfeld isn't funny principle where, you know, basically every iconic gag that originated here has been done to death by its many imitators to the point

[34:12] that they don't really work anymore. Thankfully, the more subtle aspects of the character writing are still really good. And the show has a more organic, fast-paced flow to its story than most of the things that have written on its

[34:26] coattails over the years. Though, on the flip side, I do feel like it could give some of the emotional beats a little more time to breathe. Maybe that's a problem with the adaptation. I don't know. Just feels a little rushed. Also,

[34:38] technically, it's more of a love triangle with a few boys waiting in the wings than a true reverse harum, but uh it still gives you more husbandos than you'll know what to do with. And that's the really important thing at the end of

[34:52] the day. So, I'm giving it three frilly little trash cans full of Kleenex and ice cream tubs. Oh, uh right. And Dark Moon gets uh two frilly trash cans full of blood and razor blades. And hey, if you like your Harm type things with

[35:06] certifiably insane stalker protagonists, you're in luck this season cuz we've also been blessed with Mayonaka Heart also been blessed with Mayonaka Heart Tune and Arisu Yamabuki, the heir to a

[35:18] massive Japanese mega corporation who's chosen to slum at a school for commoners in hopes of tracking down the retired ASMR micro influencer he had a crush on in middle school. Not so he can confess his feelings to her or anything

[35:34] pedestrian like that. No, he's far above such petty mortal concerns, but rather so that he can bring the full weight of his unrivaled intelligence, handsomeness, clockwork regular bowel movements, perfect pitch, hardworking

[35:50] capabilities, uh just general adaptability to any situation and other superior traits to all other human beings to bear in a quest to make her a famous voiceover artist. Because he promised that he'd do that when he was

[36:04] 12 years old. and Yamabuki never goes back on his word. Unfortunately for him, the streamer of his dreams is currently hiding out among three other hotties in the school's broadcast club. Each of whom also wants to pursue some sort of

[36:19] voice related career, be it acting, singing, news anchoring, or Vtubing. However, for a superior being like Yamabuki, raising four anonymous high school girls to international superstardom is barely more of a trifle

[36:34] than doing it for one. So, the solution to his problem is as simple as making all of their dreams come true at the same time. Yeah, few Harm protagonists same time. Yeah, few Harm protagonists are anywhere near this. Chadly,

[36:55] >> The only problem is none of the girls in his ASMR are anywhere near as interesting as he is. I'm much closer to falling in love with him than any of them. And not in the same way as like Renaro where clearly he's just the best

[37:11] lover that any human being of any gender or sexual persuasion could ever conceivably have. They're just that bland and tropey and forgettable. saved only by some admittedly great designs. I almost never find myself saying this

[37:26] about Haram anime, especially not Hund Girlfriends, because Renaro would literally kill me. But frankly, Yamabuki could do better. I give Myanaka Heart tune two flaming dumpsters full of uh Chad books with no girl books in there.

[37:43] Please ignore who the specific person I'm calling a Chad on the cover is supposed to be. You know, just imagine it's a generic Chad. Uh Aaron [music] spent all of his time working on the animation for the slop trough for this

[37:57] recycle some stuff. I'm sorry. But speaking of hanging a lampshade on what's ultimately just kind of lazy corner cutting, you can't be in a romcom with your childhood friend sets itself up as this grand self-aware genre spoof

[38:12] about a dude who really loves horror manga and childhood friend romcoms in general and a childhood friend who keeps trying to seduce him by intentionally engineering lucky pervert accidents and other horror/romcom

[38:27] tropes. All while he pretends that he doesn't have feelings for her because he's trying too hard to keep fiction and reality separate by acting like every other oblivious horror protagonist ever, which is kind of the issue here. All

[38:42] this shows attempts to subvert tropes amount to are ultimately the characters delivering genre savvy color commentary as they play those tropes completely straight, which does still kind of work with Shio since she is, you know,

[38:57] deliberately manufacturing these scenarios. That's a pretty good gag. And to an extent, it does make sense that Au's reaction to her doing that would be, "There's no way this is actually happening to me. Don't get

[39:10] ahead of yourself and ruin the friendship, dude. But then you throw the other girl, Ocarine, into the mix, and she's literally just a sundere. No subversion, no clever twist, just a character that walked straight out of a

[39:24] manga. She likes him so much it makes her angry. And so she does sundere stuff all the time, which gets awful annoying awful fast. Though not quite as annoying

[39:36] as the way that all of the characters turn to the camera at the end of every turn to the camera at the end of every joke to say,

[40:00] >> I honestly think it would be less aggravating if their catchphrase was something like, "Wow, that happened." I give it one McDonald's dumpster. Wait, no, that's not subversive enough. I give it one Wickdonald's dumpster. There we

[40:16] go. The show does have some nice jiggle physics, though. I will give it that. If that's all you're looking for this season, you can do way better because Chain Soldier is back for a second go with more surprisingly good fight

[40:29] scenes, more unsurprisingly good naughty scenes, and of course, even more waifuss than ever before. There has been a bit of a trade-off with the production change over to Studio Pione, less expressive and dynamic action animation

[40:44] expressive and dynamic action animation in exchange for way higher fidelity fan service. Leave it to the folks who gave us Nukitashi to get even more mileage out of the whole superpowers fueled by fetishes that Protag doesn't even

[40:57] realize he has gimmick. Chain Soldier season 1 came the closest out of any anime in years to capturing the perfect balance of plot, action, and plot that made High School DXD so good in its early seasons. And despite the change in

[41:13] staff, season 2 is more of the same. The fireworks may be a little less spectacular this time around, but it still deserves five golden dumpsters full of them, plus military uniforms that clearly violate all the sexiest

[41:29] regulations. It's not quite the spiciest thing on tonight's menu, though, because someone out there decided to ask, "What if Chobbits was even hornier?" And if Chobbits was even hornier?" And somehow that got on television.

[41:52] to an android? Isn't technically high, but only because they skim through all the sex scenes like a one-pace editor rushing through the fights to get back to the plot. I mean, one certainly could, but you'd need Turbo Granny's

[42:05] powers to finish before the characters do. Or the pause button, I guess, but that's less funny. Still, I'm three sentences into this roast, and we're wouldn't have to be covered with puppies. To be fair, structurally, this

[42:18] is more of a comedy than anything else about this absolute mess of a woman who tries to get a robot made, but accidentally orders a sex bot instead. But to be balanced, most of the punchlines are well, you know. Still, it

[42:32] did make it to television, so it definitely belongs on our menu. And I'm giving it two big flaming bins of marital aids stuck in toasters. After a meal that spicy, you're going to want a sweet and mild treat to soothe your

[42:46] pallet. And we've got just the thing lined up for dessert. An adorably wholesome piece of fantasy dad slop we couldn't fit in the narot trough because it's actually based on a manga. An adventurer's daily grind at age 29,

[43:02] which tells the tale of a former slum rat turned successful small town dungeon delver as his life is flipped on its head when he finds a precocious little wannabe adventurer trying her darnest to kill slimes on the first floor. Slimes

[43:19] that are honestly almost as adorable as she is. You got to love them cookie monster eyes. But Rui nonetheless steals the show with her adorable antics. The eagerness to learn. The confident mask over her fears and insecurity. The

[43:35] way she picks herself up whenever she fails and finds courage even when she's fails and finds courage even when she's so scared that she pees herself on so scared that she pees herself on camera. What the

[44:07] in the toxic waste bin. Wait, actually, Pete might really appreciate that one. Wrap it up. We'll bring it to the barbecue. Oh, right. You're still here. Uh, look, Taro's kind of busy right now, so why don't you just go out, walk

[44:21] around Tokyo a bit, enjoy the cherry blossoms, and he'll come knock you out when it's time to go. Don't worry about getting lost. As long as you're near a getting lost. As long as you're near a Ring doorbell, we'll find you.