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Hey everybody, and welcome to Authors and Dragons Adventure Brodio Adventure Showdio.
Is that a full actual title of what we're going with it is today?
I can dig it? Yeah, sure, the Adventure Brodio Adventure Showdio Episode
one. Do. I don't know how I'm going to write this on the
YouTube layer, but I'll do. I guess. Oh my god, Andrew,
it's a robot. Oh yeah, it was a robot this whole time,
a blood splattered robot. I I thought it would be fun to rye
out the old animation faced dad thing. We've talked about doing this for a
while, and yeah, I gave it a shot. I made him blood
splattered in honor of Metallica's am for those of you just joining us, and
I mean, actually, I guess for everybody on this one, because we're
doing something new. Welcome, Welcome to Adventure Showdio where we're gonna talk about
a Showdo you've seen his play video games? We were never very good at
it. You may have thought I was part of the charm, the endless
frustration. I think we're probably probably going to be better at watching television than
talking about it. It is most likely the greatest superpower I've ever had.
Yeah, so yeah the U. If y'all are familiar with the A and
D podcast for a while, you might remember Steve and Bob doing a show
called East Infection. M wonderful title. Yeah that's but that's really a Bevan
title. Yeah, very sorry. So uh, we really liked the idea
of doing another discussion of shows. If anyone's heard me talk about the good
place, you know, I won't shut the fuck up um and so that
that's a common passion. And when the TV show I Guess the anime Mashell
came on last season and I watched the first episode, truly, my first
thought was, well, I gotta make I gotta make Steve watch this.
Although it not my heart, I did say Brandon, I almost said,
is very much a Brandon show. It feels like the first show Brandon Thighmaster
would enjoy. It's blast point now that when we were doing East Infection,
we're watching you know mate. People who listened to the podcast casually may have
cont on that Bevan does not give a fuck about a lot of things,
but one thing he does give a fuck about. Oddly enough is Revolutionary Girl
Utna, And we watched the entire series of that weird, very bisexual show,
and it originally planned to follow up with Backy, which is perhaps the
most weirdly violent home erotic show I've ever seen. I just could not get
bevan interested in it. Mashall. If it's mixture of both magic and muscle,
I think is perfect medium for us to go to. I guess I
should probably clarify it. We're definitely not going to be watching it on here
right now because that would be a massive copyright violation that we don't We don't
own the rights. So if you would like to watch Mashell, Magic and
Muscles, we're gonna be talking about the first episode today. You can stream
that on crunchy roll and probably a bunch of other things that I don't know
about because that market is super fragmented, but I know it's on crunchy roll.
Yeah. I got on crunch you well the first time before I could
watch this with the adverts ends out. Now now I can. I'm now
a premium subscriber. I'm not watching like six minutes of adverts. Just too
shure. Yeah, that would be uh, that would be challenging, to
put it lightly. So that is the rundown we're we're doing this for July.
Steve and I have a bunch of respective travelings whatnot. We've already,
as you noticed, missed a few, so we thought this was a good
month to test out this new format we've been kicking around. So that is
the background explanation for what the hell you're watching this week. And so Steve,
let's get your let's get your your feedback on it. Because I didn't
even let Steve tell me before we started. He he just finally watched them,
and I'm very curiou to see what you thought. Well, speaking of
copyright infringement, Drew, this is a very almost Harry Potter in many ways.
It's but imagine if Harry Potter and you got draft into school, somebody
says you're a wizard, Harry and you go to school, get your wand
and you think, what have I just beat up these dorks? Instead,
what you left with is a match or a tale of magic and muscle set
in a kingdom where if you don't have magic, basically you're exterminated at birth.
It's pretty fucking brutal to the muggles. One such one such I guess
teenage boy standard teenage anime boy has found a way around it by being supernaturally
good lifting weights. And I got to say I found it hilarious and compelling.
It's a very it's an interesting tone medley of a of a series because
you have, on one hand a truly sort of brutal health escape for anyone
not born with magic. I mean, yeah, I've watched the rest of
this series. It does not get nicer on that front. If anything,
you'll meet characters who are like, no, no, no, just casting
out people that magic into banishment is too nice. We gotta just purgament birth
like all right, but the general gold mad and that's what we need.
But it is an anime, whereas um, you know, the style is
very light, the dialogue is very fun. It's a it's a very comedic
action anime as long as you don't pay much attention to the world. I
will say to anime is pretty good at that though. And there's a really
good example in the first episode. Animal could just take this ridiculous nonsense and
then just suddenly putting something super dramatic, tick and dark and then just snap
back to the nonsense like nothing happened, something I quite enjoy about sort of
casual anime format. But speaking of casual anime format, yeah, we're presented
almost immediately with a very very almost copyright infringing Harry Potter World, to the
point where I think everyone has English names, which I appreciate because if anyone
listened to East Infection, you'll know that borderline racist with my mispronunciation of Japanese
names. It's very problematic. I assure you it's not because I have any
disrespect for Japanese culture. It is just that I'm not very bright and we
were drinking quite heavily at the time. In this case, they've all got
kind of weird English sounding names, almost like I think if you ask me
to, just like on the spot, make up a Japanese name, I'll
probably just say some syllables that sound vaguely like a Japanese name. A lot
of these names sound like somebody said, make up a British name. They
come up like a Humble file or something. Is great, but it does
kind of have that smash together feel. Yeah, so it's kind of again,
I'm watching this with subs it's not out and dub yet. I'm kind
of I'm on defense with sub and dub. I'm a bit of a switcher,
to be honest. I was hoping it was going to be dubbed when
I watched the head was it the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. I think it was
the closest I've ever felt to experience in racism. If their British accents,
so I hope. I was praying that they are going to do the same,
because it's quite obviously the mocking Harry Potter. They've got weird British names.
I was just looking forward to those bizarre Orchard Cockney accents that they did
in Jojo. But sadly no dub for this yet, so we'll have to
see maybe our audition. Maybe I should do the dub. Oh my god,
Yeah, Bevin? Who is Bevin in your dreamcasting? Oh? He's
um, you can't be the main character. The main characters too stoic.
Yeah, I think Bevan's probably the mentor or a girl character. We get
an episode two. But having having gone a little farther in than you,
buddy, I'm gonna say I'm gonna pitch the red haired guy let's not get
ahead of ourselves. Fair enough, fair Eno'll be perfect to cast, but
that'll be a fun, fun way. That'll be a fun surprise waiting for
you down just whenever he comes on. Picture him in Bevin's voice. I'm
being just doing that for every character from now on. Oh no, this
show just got so much better. So we're introduced to this world of magic,
and then immediately introduced to this seventeen year old kid. It's benching impossible
weights in possible speeds while the wildlife around him just freaks out. And this
is mash burnhead Burn Dead Dead. Yeah, and again just a weird name.
Mash Burn dead guy. He reminded me a little bit of Mob from
Mob Psycho. He's very kind of calm, nice, also terrifying. It's
the kind of guy who's so super strong that he can't operate a door properly.
He just smashes through things, not in a malicious way. He's a
good kid, we learned that about him straight away. Also got a thing
for cream puffs. I don't think you can have an anime action hero like
a physical one doesn't have a weird food they're obsessed with. I mean,
I guess it is kind of in a passing nod to realism. The amount
of physical activity these protagonists are doing would burn through a ship load of calories.
Yeah, I mean, look at Michael Phelps's Olympic diet and assumed that
marsh is at least doing that much work. Yeah, and he's kind of
eat his body weight and cream puffs every day. It's like the flask believable.
Say it's believable, But again I'm coming from I always liked the idea
in anime of them saying like, basically, if you train hard enough,
you get superpowers. I think there was a character in Becky who survives like
a point blank shotgun blast. Later on they asking well how do you survive?
That? Is it? Well? I eat a wheelbarrow of steak every
day. I'm just like, okay, well that adds up anime world.
Just lift weights, eat ridiculously, you will get superpowers, which I was
cheer in real life. I mean, have we tried eating a wheelbarrow of
steak and lifting a lot of weights? Well, have tried, Drake?
I got the steak part so close, and I took the giant nap afterward
exactly. Yeah, well fell at the first hurdle. Yeah, so we
meet Mash Baron Had. He lives out in the woods with his conventional mental
figure. Retro burn Dead introduces himself as a as an elegant seventy five year
old. I think we could say father, right, he's he's filling that
role. Yeah, yeah, he's kind of he's Yeah, he's more of
a father than master roh. He was he raises. So we learned that
he raised Mash from a baby because he found him and he was just sort
of a general middle, middle of the road fuck up until there. Yeah,
and again to point out how messed up this world is, Retro was
nearly driven to suicide because he wasn't that good at magic. So you can
only imagine what they do to people who just have no magic at all.
Um. Luckily Retro before he for himself of a building again quite dark.
I found a tiny and magic baby, well a non magic baby. Yeah,
not even I Nope, I don't know how this is going to go.
Because if I found a baby, made it lift weights for sixteen years,
get a relatively strong human, I'd probably get some sort of you know,
child's services visit, but you know, you'd get a strong human.
I don't think forcing a baby to lift weights in the woods creates superheroes.
Yeah, yeah, I love the idea of if this pilot was about a
child's services work. I suppose what I'm trying to say is, if you
find a baby, don't make it lift weights in the woods, just unless
it wants to lift weights in the woods. You know, yeah, don't
don't deny it its passions, it's body, it's choice. Yeah yeah,
it's just starts housing cream puffs and doing curls. Let nature take its course.
You just go with it. It'll be fine anyway. It does work
out okay for these guys have a pretty good relationship where Retro is obviously just
horrified by matches, casual displays of super strength, also very affectionate relationship or
it's quite nice. But he does say whatever you do, don't go into
the city and leaves, and then Mash immediately goes into the city. Now
I want to pause real quick, and before we go too far in you
touched on they have a really nice relationship. They do, and that's why
sadly, I don't know if it's anime or Disney training, but I was
like, oh, he's dead. Yeah, that old man's gonna die.
You can't have this positive of a father fig you're living in an anime.
Get the fuck attic. No, but I suppose it's kind of in this
case. It's it's amusing that this nice soft man raises this impassive monster human.
But yeah, I mean, like I say, they've got a nice
relationship. But he asked him to do one thing, not to go into
the city, and then Mash immediately stumps into the city on his super powerful
train legs teenagers man, Yeah, in search of cream puffs. There are
worse things I suppose for a teenager to go into the city four But no,
this is cream puffs. He's he wants those sweet, sweet gobbling cream
puffs, which he the first thing he does. Yeah, he's not very
good at being conneito. The first thing he does. He goes to pay
for the cream puffs with a handful of coins. He clenches into a ball
of twisted metal, absolutely terrifying the vendor quite reasonably. So that's a haggling
strategy you don't see often. Yeah, yeah, he did get. He
did get a surprising amount of cream buffs. I think if I was in
the vender's position, I would say to my goblin companion, just give this
the psychotic boy all of the cream buffs please, until each given cream puffs
totally goes away. It's a solid business strategy at this point. Yeah.
The reason, of course, again to reiterate, you can't go into the
city, it's because he's not a magical guy. I think they're all sort
of identified by scarring on their cheek. That seems to be the case,
as they have they have lines along their face, more lines, more magic,
no lines, no magic. Yeah, I mean at least they kind
of had the decency not to put it on their forehead like suspiciously lightning shaped
scars. But let's say decency. I think they probably had a lawyer.
How much can we take the piss out of Harry Boyer with out being sued?
And I think they landed on cheek scar um. Yeah, I'm speaking
of I guess non magical people. They do have people to enforce that.
We're introduced to our bad guy, Brad Coleman. What a name. Just
like as soon as you're like, oh, that guy's a piece of shit,
it's the sinister Brad Coleman. That's the nerkiest name I've ever that guy
was. Yeah, he's sort of head of the Magic Police, I believe,
or some sort of high up position. And he's as soon as we
meet him, he is torturing someone for petty theft. You're not supposed to
think this guy is a good guy. Um Anyway, he goes out,
he gets the alert hunt down, there's non magical baby in the city,
and again um ash being completely sort of because he's just not very good at
being in kongea or blending in. He's just eating cream pumps and he bumps
into a drunk magic police. I would say that's like unfortunate luck, but
I don't know. I think he just he does not care. He's just
super into his cream puffs. I think you may have a problem. I
think at a point where you don't where door direction is more suggestion, you
just sort of stop caring about bumping into things and assuming he's it'll move if
it's a tree, if it's a person, it'll move. Yeah. Yeah,
he's used to going through things. I suppose. Yeah. Anyway,
this drunk magic police guy have an asshole. I think the wrong guy to
be an asshole too. I think he says to him something like you better
respect the uniform and match just rips his uniform, which thought was h this
isn't as a nice little I like his kind of he's very calm, he
doesn't get angry, but he does sort of know how to instantly humiliate someone,
which which is good to know. Super Strong has a sense of humor.
We're learning about his character. Was that an intentional thing? Because he's
played so stoic sometimes you honestly just don't know if he fully doesn't understand.
Yeah, I didn't get that. Actually, he's, like I thought,
every he's got a very cutting sense of humor or he just, I don't
know, just kind of accidentally neuted the guy in public. But it would
be funny if at the end we found out Mash has been fully aware of
what he's saying and doing. He's just completely dryly taking the piss out of
everyone. Yeah, I did. I want to get back to that,
because there's a line in this that really sort of underlines how I feel about
Mash. But yeah, so Brad generic name, he comes along. He's
about to shut this kid down, but then the mental comes along, retro
tackles. He's got some moves as well. He tackles Mash, runs him
out of the city. Brad summons a magic space bird to track them down.
That's exactly what I do in that situation. Yeah, standard procedure.
Yeah, it's so here was the line that got me and retro takes Mash
back to the cottage. He's furious, of course, because he told them
not to go into the city, and he's getting mad at him, and
he looks at Mash is completely expressionless face and says, oh, man,
he's really broken up about this, is he? It seems like then again,
you know, the guy's raised him from a non magical baby, so
he probably knows more about Mash than I. But I did not see an
expression on that boy's face. But again they have a nice little and again
retro very forgiving of match, he says, Oh, he's probably just at
the age where he wants to explore get out more. Um. Yeah,
with every sweet word, it just feels like another nail in the coffet.
You're right, because almost as soon as he says this, like boom,
magic police swat team just to send on the cottage for the Muggle purge.
Um. Yeah, and that's that's when we get the flashback from retro of
how he found mash Um Brad Brad d police officer basically just beating the crap
out of him, trying to make him talk, tell him where the kid
is, and he's flashing back to where he found the baby, and we
get this really kind of harrowing moment. But this old man's just having his
ribs kicked in to run. By the way, we should probably mention that
he told to flee. Yeah, instead of you know, giving up,
he just screams for Mash to run away and to run away. All the
while he's getting booted quite mercilessly. Again is the anime thing from Kanda.
This is very silly too. I'm watching the brutalization of a tired old man
as he uses his last breaths to try and save his son. It turns
yeah, there'll be of a turn um. Then we get theos a hero
moment because Mash that doesn't run. He decides to again not do as he's
told. He's quietly rebellious. I think Mash I'm getting that vibe from him.
The stead just beats the shit out of the Magic police. I mean,
yeah, it's it's a very well done like fight scene of them charging
up you know, big powerful spells to throw at him, just casually batting
them aside. Well, he goes to that uniform police officer again from early
and again rip his uniform off, just slapping the shit out of it,
not even punching him, just repeatedly slapping him. Um, which was funny,
but um. Yeah, he decides to go toe to toe with Brad
magic Cop. I heard that as Brad magic Cock, and I feel like
that's a way more interesting character. Yeah. Well, we don't know what
he gets up to. It's the first episode. We might get there.
And yeah, Brad says, very unwhite wisely, never say this in an
anime to anything. You can't even use magic, how are you going to
take me down? Shoves a magic attack at him, which Mash completely tanks
in just the most casual way possible. He basically this swirling ball of void
energy goes to and he just slaps it away. Yeah. I think he
just makes a joke of the whole He has no respect for magic. He's
juggling those void bulls, he's ribbling them around the room. He's not a
very easily intimidated voy well, and we get a good sense of why.
Yeah, there's a part that's addressed quickly where we know Mash does a crazy
amount of working out. That's established at the top of the episode when he
comes back from the cream Puff adventure and his dad sends him out to do
his workout again. That's when we learned that Mash can actually do his full
workout in forty two seconds or something like that, if he trots, if
he concentrates, Yeah, if he's a well. I did like about it
though, is he doesn't have Obviously he's got mad magical defense because he can
just I think he's nullifying the force of the magic with she had muscle control.
He's got no magical attacks. But when he grabs the wands and Brad's
like, oh my god, what's going to happen to me? Now he's
got the wand he just fucking froze the one day, smashing all his magical
defense with a basic physical attack. And I think that's when when Brad realizes
he's probably not going to win this one. Yes, it's it's a really
it's a great fight, Like you know it. A good fight tells a
story, It sets a tempo and it, you know, kind of gives
you an expectation of what you're in for, and that that opening fight scene
is very good. There's I mean, there's a lot of good fight scenes
to the series. It's nicely choreographed and drawn for the most part. Yeah,
I mean it sets the stakes um and it kind of it sets the
humor tone. It also sets why, I imagine is going to be the
baseline the entire series. That Mash is set up against impossible magics, which
he just obliterates his with his gym strength, which I'm looking forward to.
This leads to a stalemate where Brad Evil Magic Cup has a plan sets down
an ultimatum. He says, you could even join the magic school and try
to become the Now what is it? The divine ary? A divine visionary.
It's a position you can win by being good at school, which basically
makes you nobility. Should I assume because he knows where his old man lives,
he can just he can use the police resources to chase these people down.
It doesn't matter how strong you are. I guess if you just continually
being exiled, it's probably not gonna be a great existence. I guess he
assumes that he can use this super powerful youth to win this position of power,
which he can then exploit. And Mash, I guess in tip cool
stoic fashions, just like yeah, like every obstacle, it just kind of
seems like any any problem is a situation to be plowed directly through, like
a door. He's extremely pragmatic in his approach, because Retro is saying his
mentor saying him like, this is clearly a trap. It's clearly a mac
of valiant scheme by an untrustworthy man. He's just man, it would be
fun. Yeah, but what what What Retro doesn't realize is Mash could beat
the shit out of every problem in front of Yeah, but what do I
think Mash knows that, Like I said, I don't know how much,
Like you said, I don't know how aware he is of whether he's just
being a dick or whoever, he's just kind of Act one or crocodile D
three. Yes, how to tell at this stage, But there is a
there's a line I particularly liked. Retro's like, you can't join this school.
It's going to be you know, it's too hard to do this,
And Mash says my motivation is stronger than anyone's, and Retro says, this
isn't about motivation. Now, I'm not an anime expert, I've watched the
anime to note that it's always about motivation. Is always about motivation. The
most motivated individual will win, whether he has any magic or not. Oh
yeah, it's a it's a superpower in itself. I am. I am
curious to see as we go forward in the story if there is some like
explanation for why Mash is so strong, or if truly just no one in
this world lifts and realizes their potential. Well, he doesn't say earlier on,
he's looking at everybody in there's it's like a shoe shino who's using magic
to make the brush shin to shoes, and he's thinking himself that you can
just do that with your hands. You know. Maybe he just these people
are so used to to magic they just kind of it's like, you know,
how I stopped using my brain as soon as the Internet was available.
I guess it's a it's a wae situation. Yeah, they've atrophied from magicing
everything. That explains why wizards are so weak as soon as they can like
do anything with magic that they well ain't walking anyway, I mean, in
fairness, would you no, I mean that's what happened as soon as I
got my driving license, that is god. Yeah, yeah, I don't
know. I mean they never really explained One punch Man did it. They
just he just started working out. Not yet, it's still ongoing. I
don't I don't know if they will or not. I feel like part of
the fun of that character is just you know, how did you get that
strong? Yeah? Five k run every day? Yeah, Yeah, I
don't know. I do like the anime tripe that if you exercise enough you
will get sleeper passed. Obviously, I'm never going to test that because exercise
is horrible. I assume it's true. It might be true. I think
they set this up well too, because you see a lot of you know,
since the rise of One Punch Band, the overpowered protagonist has become more
and more of a featured player, and I think it works best when the
power they have does not directly help them at their goals, like because One
Punchman's goal is to make rent and he perpetually is hindered by his abilities more
than helped by that. Yeah, you know what we see if Mashell is
he has to survive in a magic based world and he has no magic,
but he has something that's you know different. Yeah, I mean like kind
of like you know my thoughts on OP characters. You end up in a
kind of like Goku situation where you're just the stakes are become so high eventually
you're just fighting God. That's fine, but I think the trick is it's
a little style to make the opness not relate to the stakes directly. Like
if someone is the world's best cook in a fishing competition, there might be
ways to sprinkle in that knowledge, but it's not a direct one to one.
I am looking forward to seeing how that plays out, because obviously I
know he's going to a kind of the Hogwatz style private school, just something
like Eastern College. It's like, it's very much they've just looked at a
map of London and taken some random names. But I do like in anime
the fact that they will just have an entire genre, which is is this
weird system that the world is obsessed with. If you want to succeed socially,
you have to master it, and usually it's something like magic or comfu
or psychic abilities, or animals or animals buying or probably fucking in some point,
but almost certainly, yeah, almost certainly just thrown that one out there.
Might Google after this, but yeah. Normally it's a case of the
kid gets put into system when they have to compete in that system, and
they compete in that system, whereas in this case, the system is very
well established, we're all very familiar with it. It's basically the Harry Potter
system. If you're get a magic you're going to do well. And they've
just basically taken like they've taken a character from another anime and just wedged him
in and she said, okay, but what have you just punched everyone?
Yeah? What if we put season one or dragon Ball not dragon Ball Z,
but dragon Ball Goku into Harry Potter? How would he think he did
do exactly? I think he'd probably do exactly what Mash is going to do.
That's my instinct. I look forward to finding out exactly how chaotic and
ridiculous this will get. And also because it's an anime surprisingly dramatic and heartfelt
in odd places, it does. We talked about the tonal shifts, but
I think we should probably mention they do them well. I feel like the
tonal jumps add to the layer of the story rather than the tract, and
sometimes it can be like a minus than a plus. But I got admit,
in anything outside of kind of Eastern anime, whenever they kind of tried
at it just annoys me. It's like in a standard kind of narrative,
you sort of got to earn neat. I don't know. I don't know
if it's just kind of the nature of the format or the fact that they've
been doing it so long they've got it down to a kind of fine science.
But I don't mind that sort of tonal shift. I agree. Well,
that was the pilot for Marshall. Did you have any closing thoughts you
wanted to say, Steve, Oh, we didn't mention cool opening theme tune,
standard kind of metal cool opening theme tune, but the closing theme tune
a funky disco song about making cream puffs. Sure it is now in my
playlist rotation. That opening is in my workout rotation. Now it is a
workout so well, the closing is in my cream by rotation. That's a
better rotation. That's a better rotation. Oh man. Yeah, when when
I got to in this pilot, I was like, fuck, I got
a show. I was ready to see how it went. And I think
I messaged you that day it was like, hey, buddy, you really
need to check this ound. Yeah, it's gotten glad I did. And
my East infection. That's something we started in lockdown when we're all going insane,
and I was intrigued to sort of get in Bevan's head and find something
he actually likes. H I've been saying for a while. She did.
Again, there's lots of cool shows out there. We like watching TV,
were like talking about TV. So yeah, I'm excited to start this new
format with you. Jery. Yeah. Well, we will be gone again
next week. We did warn you that was going to be a thing in
July unfortunately, but we'll be back on the twenty sixth to talk about National
episodes two and three on the second narration of our adventure Showdio Test pilot program.
Deo gives you plenty of time to watch up to episode for yourself.
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telling where they'll go, and it's not day short of well they're around.
They're fighting when they should be waiting settle up for than Jeffrey