Speaker 1: Yo, what is up? Boys? How's it going? And welcome
back to the Rank Cafe Anime Podcast. I hear sirens
in the background because everyone is so hyped for this
kind of new version of Rand Cafe, kind of an
episode one. Last week we decided to each force each
other to watch an anime and we're gonna talk about
it this week. Joining me today, we have Jordan the
anime dude. How you doing yello? Welcome everybody, and this
dude recommended us watching Magical Destroyers like my host Magical
Destroyers or something to have a few different names. It's
about magical girls, kind.
Speaker 2: Of magical destroyers, Yes, sir, so it's one of the
goot destroyers.
Speaker 1: Yeah okay. And then we have anime recon with us today.
How's it going?
Speaker 3: What a boys? I'm back for more.
Speaker 1: This dude is back for more and he made us
watch what was it called, gushing over Magical Girls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a new one.
Speaker 1: And I am Briggs. We're back at it again. And
I made these boys watch Great Teacher onie Zuka Base Pick.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: I gotta pat myself on the back for that one
a little bit. So we all had to watch three
episodes of all of these anime, and then next week
we're gonna do the same thing with three new anime.
So stay tuned until the end of this episode, where
we recommend or force each other to watch another three
episodes of a random anime. But for now, let's talk
about these anime question recon Why don't we start with yours?
I guess let's start. Let's let's let's get that one
out of the way. Gushing over Magical Girls. Yes, yes, yes, yes, Jordan,
what did you think?
Speaker 2: So? There was a lot of thoughts spiraling around my head.
I wasn't too sure what to think at first. I'd
heard a lot about this series, but but yeah, it
ended up being exactly what I heard. You know, it's
orderline schmantai. It's a it's it's a magical girls show
that knows exactly what it is. It takes that concept
and it's like, hey, but what if it was also porn?
And you know it it has the main character being
a dominatrix that she bullies and the grades the magical
girls that she's a fan of. And I don't know,
I really wanted to like this show. I really did.
I wanted to give it a genuine thought I'd heard
good things about it. I've just never been a big
magical girl show type of guy, and I've never been
a big etchy guy either, so I wanted to like it.
I actually watched five episodes more than the three we
had to, just because I wanted to give a good chance.
I wanted to see all the characters that hadn't been
introduced yet, and I wanted to finish it. But I
just couldn't finish it. I'm gonna be honest, it was
it was what it was. It probably is not for me,
but like I feel like it knows what it is,
and I'm if I had to guess, I would assume
throughout the rest of the show it's just more of
the same of a different etchy scenarios being kind of
played out with these uh, with these magical girls. And
am I wrong in saying that, I don't know, but
that's what That's what it very much felt like.
Speaker 3: What exactly did you like from the show? First of all,
what didn't you.
Speaker 1: Let me jump into it a little bit here before
we get more in depth. I don't think I would
recommend anyone watched this show. Maybe maybe like fourteen year
old boys is like the key demographic. Probably. There's a
couple of things I actually kind of liked about it,
which I will get into. There's like two things I
want to discuss about it, but for the most part, yeah,
I don't. I don't know if this is a recommendation
I would put you don't watch it with your parents
in the house, don't watch it with your girlfriend in
the house, don't watch.
Speaker 3: Lock your doors, lock your doors.
Speaker 1: Just don't watch this. Lock you close your doors. You
can't watch us on stream. That's for sure. It was
pretty bad, and I think one thing that's like I
wish they did something more with it. It was like,
why is all this happening? Like what at least it
was like like high School of the Dead or high
School DxD. It's like there's some goals and ambitions. We're
trying to survive a zombie pod, survive a zombie a
pop apocalypse. Oh, and there's boobs. It's like or high
school DxD. Like I feel like there's like enemies and
goals and stuff like that. With this one. I love
how the what was that little like mascot character, the
black mascot character.
Speaker 2: I don't know the name but he's the best.
Speaker 1: He came up with this like traumatic backstory on like
why he's like, I'll beat the villain if if that's
what it means to save my people. And it's like
that's why he's getting like these magical girls and turning
them into like villainouses to fight the other magical girls
because the other magical girls are being tricked or whatever.
And then he just made it all up. He made
up the whole backstory of Like it was funny because
at the time I was thinking, I'm like, this is
what the story needs. It needs some type of like
why is this happening? Why is all this these fighting
and actually occurring? But there wasn't really a reason for it,
but you know what funny moments. And the main character
is just different and interesting because she's so different than
everyone else, Like she's a dominatrix and like she's like
the villain of of this world and fighting magical girls
and like basically like bullying them. It's actually it's actually funny,
like it's kind of.
Speaker 3: Masochist.
Speaker 1: You're the masochist.
Speaker 2: She's a let's say she's a like a dominatri Ya massacrest.
Speaker 1: She's the saddest. Massacrests are one people who like getting.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's right, it's the opposite way around.
Speaker 1: He's a saddest. There's some cute moments between, like once
they started introducing more villains. I watched all three episodes
Recon Recon. You better fucking have watched all three episode
or else your band? Did you watch all three episodes
of Great Ti Zuka?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess I guess you could say.
Speaker 1: I guess you could say that I might have.
Speaker 3: I might have sped through a tiny bit probably in
the like the last episode, Like the episode was the
best one.
Speaker 1: I mean that you have to watch another three. That's
punishment good.
Speaker 3: Damn. I fucking hate this man okadd I hate old anime. Man,
I hate old anime.
Speaker 1: Fuck you, Jordan. What did you like and dislike about
gushing over material girls?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, I mean I did. I did like how
it was pretty humorous at times, it kind of knew
what it was like, the characters were somewhat interesting. I
like the concepts. I like that it exists. I know
that there's Peo pribabe people that do enjoy it, and uh,
it's one of those things that's like funny to look
at and be like, yeah, that's the thing. But you know,
as long as it doesn't really go anywhere with it
long term, I think I've kind of seen most of
what I need to see with it fair and uh,
it's yeah, I don't know. I guess it's just not
really for me in that Uh you know, it's it's
magical girl stuff and it's also etchy and a lot
of like extreme etchy stuff like that. I feel like
I I would have liked a lot more if I
saw it about ten years ago or so, or like
fifteen years ago compared to compared to now.
Speaker 3: But but I think that's almost like, can you guys
say that even though it is like super highly rated,
which is surprising that is so highly rated, but apparently
so many.
Speaker 2: People like it. Yeah, it's like mid seven's, it's like
rated good for a season.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we're gonna rate by the way, we're
gonna'm gonna take a little document and open this up here,
and we're gonna rate these animes individually, and we're gonna
see who has the best pick of the week, who
has the worst pick of the week. I mean, I
actually open up a documentary here, real quick I say.
Speaker 2: Or freaking gushing over Magical Girls. I really wanted to
like it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly like it had some whatever good etchy moments,
some good characters, some funny moments. There's a couple characters.
I really like. It has some things going for it.
I think I watched a full three episodes. I'm not
sure what the villain organization is trying to achieve other
than I guess destroy Magical Girls. But she's not really
destroying them. She's just fucking putting them in erotic positions
and then running away. So and I don't think she's
gonna try to finish them off than maybe finishing them
off in another way.
Speaker 2: So I messed up and watching five episodes because I
don't quite remember where the third episode ended off. Did
you get introduced introduced to the gun Girl or not?
Speaker 1: Yes, the gun Girl and she fought against our main character,
and she fought one time against the Magical Girls.
Speaker 2: I did like her quite a bit because she was
just petty. She was like, you know what, they're getting
more tench than me. I don't like them organization. I
liked her. I like that reason.
Speaker 1: I like one. There is a reason even if it's stupid,
even if the reason is genuinely like I'm cute, they're cute,
and they're getting attention. I don't like that. It's petty,
like I'm gonna become a villain and fuck them up.
You know what, that's a.
Speaker 2: Reason that powers are cool, Urica, I get.
Speaker 3: A question, go ahead for you guys, What is actually
your favorite magical girl anime, if if there even is
one that is your favorite?
Speaker 1: Medoka Magic.
Speaker 3: But that's a classic.
Speaker 2: Though I haven't seen hardly any but like, that's the
one that sticks out most of me. I've tried to
watch others and I'm just barely ever get through them all.
Speaker 1: I then say that I usually don't finish them, like
I watched some Sailor Moon, Like I watched like a
little bit. But it's not really my genre of choice.
We're not really the demographic. Yeah, it's I.
Speaker 2: Do eventually want to watch like carc Captor Soakra and
uh and what's the one that's based on like Swan Lake.
There was another one, uh about like ballet and stuff.
I'm trying to I'm blanking on the name. But there's
a couple that like our classics that are like highly
esteemed that I want to try eventually, but but yeah,
there's not a ton that, like I've watched some definitely
not an expert.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so let's rate this out of ten Jordan,
me and you, what are we thinking?
Speaker 3: Go ahead?
Speaker 2: Well, out of ten?
Speaker 1: What would you rate it out of ten?
Speaker 2: Honestly? Like it is so like I can't hate on
just based on personal preference, I'd probably give it like
a four out of ten day, but my average is
like a five, So like I I would say, slightly
below average. And it's one of those where like I
did enjoy what I watched of it, I just don't
know if I would continue enjoying it throughout the entire
duration of it. If it's more of the same, right.
Speaker 3: So you dropped it basically cool, I might.
Speaker 2: I might finish it at some point. I just don't
know if it's to shore, I could binge, right, especially
if it's like kind of the same thing every every episode.
Speaker 1: Honestly, like every episode is pretty good and then the
post that clarity hits and then it's like bad, Yeah
it's weird like that.
Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, you watch like one episode and you're
good for that day.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna give it like a five. Okay, I'll
give it a five out of ten.
Speaker 3: Ah, okay, I mean personally personally, when I watched this fully,
when back when it was airing, I really enjoyed it.
I'll probably give it around maybe a six or seven.
Speaker 1: Okay, seven, okay, But you can't rate your own ad. Okay,
you know what you can. I'll let you seven out
of ten just because.
Speaker 3: It's my recommendation and I gave it to you guys.
Speaker 1: Okay, Jordan for it. Then, Okay, I got it written down. Nice.
What do we want to talk about next? What do
you guys feeling we could talk of?
Speaker 2: We could get magical training.
Speaker 3: Get over the magical stuff to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's do Magical Destroyers before we get into great
teach Onizuka.
Speaker 2: They get over this. This is a no this is
a classic. This is one of the very girl anime
of all time. This is Jordan.
Speaker 1: I watched three episodes. I have no fucking clue what
the show's about.
Speaker 2: So that's the That's the thing about this show is
there's rather than the literal stuff that's happening, a lot
of it's more thematic. It's like a lot of commentary
on like a talk to subculture and whatnot. And you know,
I really don't care if I spoil the show for people.
I guess because it is like a twenty twenty three
seasonal that got like a six out of ten. Overall,
a lot of people gave up on it, so I
doubt people would really go back to watch it. And
in my description of it's not gonna do enough justice
to if you did want to go back and watch it,
don't don't not do that because I say stuff. But
but the thing about this show is it's crazy, it's chaotic,
it's fun. And then, uh, I actually really like the ending.
I know a lot of people it got some devisive
stuff on the ending, but it leads into it really well.
If you play into just the themes itself, it's like,
not great, it's not executed entirely well. But uh but
I don't know, it seems too I'm trying to think
of how best to say this. It's just a fun
ride and and it does go somewhere, so.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's cool that it actually is going somewhere. I
couldn't sell for sure. Also, they have they have they
do have goals. They're trying to like, I guess they
made up to otaku stuff illegal in this world, and
then they're like people are getting taken away and put
in like in prison and stuff I don't know, or
like in camps. And then we have the Otaku Hero.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we will have a little bit of a taco
hero classic Generica taco hero.
Speaker 2: So I say it goes somewhere. A lot of people's
crites is that it doesn't go anywhere, but you know,
here hear me out. It's based on you know, everybody
has things that they like and what if those things
are taken away? Right, Like, that's that's the thing we
deal with a lot. You never know whenever something might
become illegal just based on anime and stuff. Governments talk
about that stuff all the time, but it's I don't know,
you can you can still be a fan of something
and really like it and uh and go all for that. Right.
So the thing with Magical Destroyers is it takes that
to the extreme. Everything becomes really illegal. And you know,
we're following a script. As you see in episode one
he mentions that you know, that's not that's not according
to the script, and the script is messy. The show
is messy, and it all does lead somewhere in that regard,
like there's a lot of foreshadowing there.
Speaker 1: I can tell I I do see what they're going
for thematically, and I do think the characters are like
somewhat interesting and the interactions are fucking hilarious. Their dialogue
had me laughing. I will say I was entertained. I
didn't know what was happening sometimes exactly, and I was like,
what's happening in this show? I wasn't like really like
I I understand the general premise, but there were a
couple of times where I'm was like, I like, you
miss you don't pay attention for a second, and then
like things are blowing up and they're in a fever.
They're in a fever dream. There's like a unicorn. I
don't know. I'm like, what is going on right now?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: It? It doesn't spoonfeed you. And if I'm being honest,
I still don't really know what happened for most of it,
right It's so two's a whole sequence of a of
a dream sequence that was crazily animated. They got good
voice actors. I don't know it all came together. I
relatively will.
Speaker 1: I will say that the red haired character's dialogue was
killing me, and then the other two characters that ended
up being introduced, their dialogue was almost even better. Like
it was. The dialogue itself was just like gold. Everything else.
I don't know, I don't know what I'm gonna rate
this out of ten I cause I'm confused.
Speaker 2: Oh, Peak, Peak has the best dialogue because they brought
in a great voice actor. They said the word gobo
and they're like, that is your only line? Say that? Yeah,
And they actually brought in a good voice actor to
like that was her literal only line. She never never
breaks character. It's just gliobl gobo the entire time.
Speaker 3: To be honest with you, Jordan, this show that you
recommended is a hot and dumpster fire, all right. Now, Look, look,
I and I kind of liked the first episode that
it was going somewhere, but it was just so confusing
as to the whole concept as to why the otaka
culture was even getting deleted in the first place, Like
why why is this happening? Why who are these war
robots just marching into town stealing all those video games
and enslaving people, Like what is the reason why this
I still will never fucking.
Speaker 2: Know as the most rights are taken away, it's done
for your own protectionary con it's done for it's done
for your own benefit, your own good. Right. So the
thing is this is kind of a bit of a
hot mess. It is very messy in the way it.
Speaker 3: Just falls off. That's what I'm trying to say, Like
it's it's okay at the start, and then episode two,
episode three, just if Cole falls completely off, it goes
off script. It does a bunch of other things that
is just not really tied into what happened in the
first episode.
Speaker 1: So they're trying to build they're trying to build the core.
They're trying to get the Magical Girls together because without
all of them, they can't defeat the government or whatever.
Speaker 2: This is so first off, I guess, do you have
of you plan on finishing this show? And if not,
I'll go no, I'm gonna drop this.
Speaker 1: I'm dropping it at a similar speed is gushing over
Magical Girls.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, fair, fair. I feel like a lot of
people do drop this show. But so at the end
of each episode, you get the preview for the next
episode is a storyboard. It's very roughly scripted. It's like
very messy drawn and it does that each and every episode.
I thought that was so cool just from like a
create standpoint, but two, that actually becomes relevant to the
plot because everything is scripted by that main bad guy.
It's scripted in a very bad way where he is
the you know, the powerful one. He takes control of
the Magical Girls and uh, it all goes up.
Speaker 3: Does that happen after the credits or before the credits?
Speaker 2: So after the ending theme song, there's a preview for
the next episode that's just a story rights to see
the ship. I did.
Speaker 3: I watched.
Speaker 1: After credits if I knew it was there, if I
knew it.
Speaker 2: Was okay, and the thing is and stuff at the
very end, you know, since it's all about the themes,
it's not really about the characters themselves. Like Otaku Hero,
I'm be honest, he dies in the end, Magical Girls
become evil. It just, uh, everything kind of goes.
Speaker 1: What.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like I said, he created this game where
it's a bit of a power fantasy. The main guy did,
You're not gonna win that o Tako Hero dies, but
there's a new generation that kind of comes after and
they keep the he's less of a person than he
is a symbol, right, they keep the fight going excess.
Speaker 3: The biggest block twist.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of twist in it, but like watch
so much that people don't really get there, right.
Speaker 1: So yeah, not like it's fun, it's it's it's definitely
all that. But now that sounds that the whole time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, watch Girls Turn Evil in the Hero directed.
Speaker 2: The way it's directed is a little bit uh walking
to to where there's times where you'll be in like
four flashbacks deep and I'm like, am I watching Inception?
Like I don't know what's going on? But uh, but
now it's it's a fun ride, it's fun rid.
Speaker 1: I feel like you need to be in the right
mental situation to watch this anime because I think I
watched after a really long day and I was tired.
Let me watching a couple of other I'm like, what
is going on right now? I don't my brain.
Speaker 2: It's weird. So I want to say you have to
pay attention and stuff because it doesn't spoon feed you anything.
But also it's so chaotic and crazy that I paid
attention and I still had no idea what the clock.
Maybe it's going on at the time, So.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's better if you smoke some weed and don't
pay attention.
Speaker 2: There you go, there, you know you gotta pay attention,
but not take it too seriously. Right, fair.
Speaker 3: Ahead, I'd give this a three.
Speaker 1: Give you a three out of ten.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So whenever I scored this, I gave it a
five out of ten. I thought it was adequately average,
Like the middle dragged hard, but like the start was
pretty fun for me, and then I liked how it ended.
Speaker 1: All right, five out of ten, three to ten. I'm
gonna give it. I don't know, man, I'm torn. I
feel like five is pretty fair, but I already give
the last one of five, and I feel like I
don't want it to be right the same as gushing
over magic over els, I'm gonna give it a five
point five out of ten. It's not a six. I'm
not giving it a six.
Speaker 3: You can't honestly say that that was better than gushing
over magic. That's the crazy That's one of the craziest takes.
Speaker 1: Of seeing that first episode. That first episode of Gotcha
over Magical Girls was one of the worst pieces of
fiction I've ever watched. I had to force myself, and
then by episode three, I'm like, this is kind of fun, especially.
Speaker 2: Over Magical Girls was kinky, but like Otaku Hero almost
got Anarchy pregnant in the first episode, so like it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the character's name. I fucking love it, dude, O.
Speaker 2: Blue Peak and Anarchy.
Speaker 1: To be fair, guys, to be fair, I do want
to preface like I gave one a five and one
a five point five. They're very They're around the same.
I want to hate on Rincon a little bit mid anime.
Speaker 3: Basically, they're just mid.
Speaker 1: They're kind of mid speaking actually not speaking of mid.
Great teacher on Zuka, huh, come on, any any anything
to say?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I let Ricon go first on it.
Speaker 3: First of all, I hate you Briggs. Why you know
how much I hate old styled old school anime. And
this was a pain to go through. I watched episode
one and two, the third one I kind of just
I'm like, screw this. I just skimmed through it because
I'm like, I just can't. I just can't. I just
can't do it. I can't do it. Yeah. Now, honestly,
it wasn't bad. I wouldn't say it was bad. It
had a cool concept, of that like delinquent gang leader
or he's part of a gang. And he applies to
become a teacher because he's into like teenage girls and
he wants like a wife. He wants a teenage girl wife.
So he applies to become a home homeroom teacher because
he's so perverted and like the class really really challenges
him by, you know, calling him names, almost like bullying him.
But he's like so badass and he can do whatever,
he can do anything to basically stop that, because the
class is trying to just make him leave basically because
that's what they do to every home to room teacher.
But uh, he's built different. So yeah, that was the
worst description I've ever heard of. But that kind of
goes on for episodes two and then three, and I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, what do you, Colin, what do you think GTO
is rated on MAL?
Speaker 3: I did see it. It is fucking dumb high eight
eight point six eight eight point six eight.
Speaker 2: You know, it's even I would have.
Speaker 1: Guessed, but it's right number sixty seven on MAL and
that is crazy.
Speaker 3: I'm like, why, why what is so special about this show?
Speaker 1: I do wish you watched all three, but we'll go
with Jordan first and then I'll talk about it a
little bit.
Speaker 2: I hadn't seen GTO here in probably like a decade
or more. Watched a couple episodes with my roommate when
he watched it, and I know he didn't like it,
but I didn't know how it would hold up. And
there are some parts that are a little bit, a
little bit weird, but like, uh oh, yeah, definitely granted. Yeah,
he's like twenty two, you know, he's he's still very
immature himself. And the thing about GTO is, I feel
like it actually does hold up pretty darn well. I
forgot how much I love this series because going into it,
you know, like I said, he's a very immature guy,
but he's very direct. He tackles the heart of problems,
and it's one of those things where we see in
that very first episode like a microcosm of what the
entire show is going to be about. Right he is.
He's very stupid in a lot of ways. He's dumb,
he's very imperfect, but he wants to be that teacher
that he never had and do better for the next generation. Right,
he wants to look at their problems and like the
core of like the issues that they're having in their
lives and do his best to be there to support
them and help them through that, right, whatever that may be,
even if it's the most direct way possible, even if
he has to break a lot of laws to do
it right, Like even he guess the breaking in and
entering into a home with a hammer, or almost killing
a bunch of people driving a truck, great teacher, truck
your own. He's u good down the highway looking up
with teenage girls. Yeah, so on that part, he does
say that that's like part of his motivation for getting in.
I'm not gonna justify that. I'm not gonna defend it.
Speaker 1: Uh, he always twenty two he joined for the wrong
reasons but then stayed for the right ones. If you
had watched episode three, that's something I want to like
kind of touch on, or maybe even in an episode two,
I don't know, did you see him supplex the principal.
Speaker 3: Yes, that was stupid, so dumb.
Speaker 1: So the idea behind this is he was maybe didn't
have the best parents and the best teacher is growing
up and he ended up becoming a delinquent and joining
gangs and he was trawled trash and garbage and now
maybe he joined start he wanted to become a teacher
for the wrong reason, where he wanted to like see
like high school girls or something right, and it was
like had some weird moments and stuff like that. But
as time goes on, you see him really putting his
teacher to his students first. And for example, he could
have beaten up those delinquents and got in a job
the wrong way, but instead he sees the principle treating
these students like he was treated and decides to fucking
suplex to principle. And then funny enough, the cafeteria lady
was the like the head principal and gives him the
job anyway. So like, by doing the right thing and
putting the students first, it's kind of something this school needed.
Speaker 2: M hm.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 2: And one thing I really like about the overall pivot
that they do is yeah, like it's not right, but
it does happen a lot where like you're twenty two
years old, you're fresh out of college and whatnot, and
eighteen at that top page of high school stuff is
kind of like within his strike strike zone a little bit,
but they pivoted to where he ends up teaching a
middle school class, right, And so at that point it
shifts and he actually has to focus more on the
teaching part. Like those motivations aren't as important anymore, right,
And it's about him being the wise fool that kind
of guides them along throughout the troubles they're having their lives.
And the thing about GTO that I think a lot
of people don't realize, and I myself didn't realize for
the longest time. I need to go back and read it.
There was a prequel manga. People call it Gto the
Early Years, but there was a manga that was like
two hundred and sixty plus chapters from nineteen ninety to
nineteen ninety seven that was about Onny Zuka's like young
life and like him becoming the man that he is,
so like him being the varsity karate guy in college
and uh being in a biker gang and all that.
So like whenever GTO came out in ninety seven, like
people were already familiar with him as a person and
how immature he was, and the concepts that were GTO
and stuff were what really made it popular and kind
of a spring off from there.
Speaker 1: But that's amazing.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I knew that there was a prequel, I didn't realize
it was that much of a prequel. Two hundred and
sixty chapters, that's.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying. I want to go into it, but
it's a lot, Right, that's a long manga, two hundred
and sixty chapters written over like six years, and like
that was all prior to uh to gto ever becoming
a thing. Right, that's crazy that came out first, those
old biker manga.
Speaker 3: How can you guys? Can you tell me, guys the
secret as to how you can get past the poor
quality and animation, Like how do you actually watch this ship?
Speaker 2: That was the same issue my roommate had because that
was like towards the end of cell animation as well,
where like he said, like it doesn't like it's a
little like, uh jumpy at times and whatnot because all
the cells aren't lined up, and uh, it's like it's
an early two thousand anime that looks way older than
it is. But I don't know, maybe that might be
a nostalgia thing where that just doesn't really bother me much.
I enjoy the themes that it tackles.
Speaker 1: And I think we have an advantage here though, Jordan
cou've already watched this, Like you said, it's a nostalgia thing.
Speaker 2: It might be a nostalg where like I know.
Speaker 1: How good this series gets and you have to see
like a little bit of it where like he smashes
the wall to like bring the family together, and or
like you like a high speed cop chase to make
his interview on time, and then suplexing the principal and
then the third episode you see him save a student
from like suicide and stuff like that. It's like that
was just like the tip of the iceberg. It literally
just starts. It gets so much better, And because we
know it gets so much better, it's probably easier for
like I think as someone who were to recommend something
to me now that was like this, like a lot
older and ugly looking, it would be harder for me
to give it a chance. But then once I give
it a chance, like I know this is a gem, right, yeah,
it really is.
Speaker 2: That's fair. Definitely, I think that's pretty part of it,
is that nostalgia aspect to an extent. But I do
think it holds up. Do you think it's still good?
Speaker 1: All right? So what would you guys rate this one
out of ten?
Speaker 2: Boys, I'm gonna give it an eight just the first three.
Speaker 1: Episodes too, like if we don't need to be like
as biased or whatever, like oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no fair, I'm gonna give it a five five
all right?
Speaker 1: Recoon with a five, Jeordian with a seven. I think
a seven seven and a half for the first three episodes.
I feel like the second and third episode brings it up,
so I'm gonna say seven point five. I do think
it's one of those series that gets better as it goes,
especially as it pivots from the high school class student
teacher to him being an actual teacher at a private
school with like elementary school kids or middle school kids.
Speaker 2: I will say, even with just the first four episodes,
I had a lot of fun with it. Just it
gets wild at times. It does not hold back. It
is a It is one of those series it's not
afraid to just go off the deep end at times.
Speaker 1: Ricon talk about Otzuka a little bit more give me
once while I do the math.
Speaker 3: I don't. I'm not really a big fan of it.
I will never fucking watch it any ever again. That
is basically my overall thoughts on garbage ass quality, bad animation.
Uh yeah, I hate this and it's a pain, complete pain.
That is my overall summary on every single anime past
or no before two thousand, literally everything.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, now I gotta find an animated recommend
pre too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was thinking, why don't we watch Legends of
the Glactic Heroes. I've never watched it. I've been meaning
to watch it.
Speaker 2: If I recommend it as well? Do we do six
of them? All? Right? Legend of the Glactic Heros? So
that's that? Is that?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Is that yours? Break? I think?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So now we're gonna go around guys and recommend
our anime. And because we're watching three episodes of Legends
Glactic Heroes.
Speaker 2: Didn't misunderstanding he's gonna watch the new one.
Speaker 3: I don't want to watch you mean the old one?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course we got to clarify that.
Speaker 2: I don't want I've always wanted to watch Legend of
the glact Heros.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying never.
Speaker 2: It's just one hundred plus episodes, so I've never Actually.
Speaker 3: You guys really killed me with this with this selection.
Speaker 1: My god, what are you thinking? Jordan? What do you
what do you want him to watch.
Speaker 2: Uh so the recommendation that I had wasn't a series,
it was a movie. But like, the length is less
than that is too long. It's less than three episodes.
It's it's literally less time. It's literally like a forty
plus minute movie. When I watched it in theaters, they
had an interview afterwards because they had to bump it
up to like the minimum length you have to have
in a theater. But it's called look Back by by Fujimoto,
so the same author as Chainsaw Man. I actually have
the manga right here, so it's called look Back, right,
A little bit of a narrow one. I know Briggs
Chad has been trying to recommend him to watch that
and stuff, so I figured I'd give it a little
bump along. And it's one of my favorite movies.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen this movie.
Speaker 2: Granted, he's one of my favorite authors, so I'm very biased,
but uh okay, oh yeah, cool.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 1: So do you want to give us like a little
like a brief synopsis of like what look Back is about?
Or do you want us to go in blind?
Speaker 2: Yes? So you going pretty blind. It's it's basically about
going mostly blind. It's basically about creating manga and stuff
is the main is the main premise of the the
main characters, so it's about more than that though. That's
the that's generally what they're doing throughout the series.
Speaker 1: Cool. I don't know what legend of Blacksic Heroes is
about it all. I just know it's really really old,
and I know that I'll bother Ricon, and I know
it's highly rated, it's critically.
Speaker 2: I know what I'm gonna skim.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna skim through it. I don't know I'm gonna skim.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna test you, and if you get it wrong,
you're gonna get.
Speaker 3: I hate this. I hate this so much.
Speaker 2: I'm blant to get out Ricon. I haven't given you
an old show yet. All right, Magical Destroyers with two
or twenty twenty three, this is like twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate that, but don't give me anime series
before two thousand. That's the pain.
Speaker 1: Legend of the Glassic Heroes. When did it come out?
Speaker 3: Fucking nineties?
Speaker 2: Let me put my glasses real quick. It came out
nineteen eighty eight was the start date, and it ended
in ninety seven, so it was an eighty eight anime. Yeah, nineties.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm excited, get into it. I can't wait.
Speaker 3: But I still haven't.
Speaker 1: I told you what you guys should recon. What are
we watching?
Speaker 3: M Let's see? So gave us a sci fi hold
on Legend of galact Kido? Was that sci fi mech?
Speaker 1: I think it's a Mecca.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I recommended a show that I haven't seen yet, so.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, I don't know the specifics.
Speaker 1: I actually had a completely different plan for this week,
but that was like on like my I have like
a little list that I kind of compiled. It was
on the list. And then give me that comment about
g t O and I'm like, you.
Speaker 3: Know what, I'll go back in others like a sci
fi mac and we have a Slice of life movie.
So let's see.
Speaker 2: How about.
Speaker 3: Let me see put out? Let me pull out now.
Speaker 1: While we while recon. Go ahead and then look, take
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Did I give you enough time?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, I know what you guys should watch. I wow,
you guys to watch My instant death ability is so overpowered.
No one in the other world stands a chance against me.
Speaker 1: God damn it. Did he have to did he have
to train to get this overpath? Okay, don't don't even
spoil me.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say anything to check this title.
Speaker 2: You know what is so there's a lot of light
novels I read, and there's a lot of times if
it's Anisa Guy or something like that.
Speaker 3: No, don't tell me you've read it.
Speaker 2: I'll just read the first volume to see. I couldn't
even get through the first volume of this one, I
remember whenever I tried it. So I want to read.
I tried volume I tried.
Speaker 1: Let me write.
Speaker 3: If you've actually read it, then no, no, I'm not.
Speaker 2: I'm not doing I read like, like, like less than
one hundred pages.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 2: The first episode. I'm sure we're skipping.
Speaker 1: Don't change your pick. I haven't seen it yet. Don't
change your pick.
Speaker 3: But Jordan has already read it. I don't think he
knows what he knows what it's about.
Speaker 2: Now, with light novels, I feel like they'll adapt many,
many episodes off of one volume. Like I like said,
I didn't even make it through that first volume. I
doubt I finished where the first episode?
Speaker 1: Okay, no, we're watching it too late. What's it called.
Speaker 3: It's called my instant death ability is so overpowered. No
one in the other world stands a chance against me.
I know, it's a long time.
Speaker 1: It's so overpowered. Oh my god, no one in the world. Okay, good,
I got it.
Speaker 2: Gee. Who won the rankings from the shows we watched
this week?
Speaker 3: Had?
Speaker 1: I did add it up as to make sure I
did it right, five ten, thirteen point five to gushing
over Magical Girls, I lied to. Jordan's pick Magical Destroyers
was thirteen point five. So, Jordan, you won by having
the lowest strength anime of the week. Like, yeah, I
had the highest strength anime of the week, obviously, good
taste over here, and Recon was the middle of the
pack with a sixteen out of potential thirty.
Speaker 2: That's the worst place to be. Recon mid mid just
like awful or great, it's in between.
Speaker 1: Like Ricon, Do you actually like gushing over Magical Girls
first three episodes more than the first three episodes of gto.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I enjoyed Magical Girl Gushing Magical Elected.
Speaker 1: All right, on that note, guys, that's the end of
the podcast. I hope you guys enjoyed. It's just like,
maybe it's like to go to bed tonight with that
on your minds. I apologize. Oh my goodness, stracious. I
love you gamers, Jim Poku, thank you, Jordan and Recon
for joining me.
Speaker 3: We'll see you all next week for a new episode
of Rank Cafe.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, I think what I'm doing is we're gonna
aim for Sundays Sunday afternoons to do the Rank Cafe Live.
I'm gonna upload them on Monday, and then Tuesdays are
going to be the one piece virgin. I'm gonna upload
them on Thursday, and I'm gonna try and do that
every week on the Rank Cafe YouTube Channel'm gonna try
and bring back the ran Cafe YouTube channel, So stay
tuned for that. Also, it's available on Spotify and everywhere else.
And yeah, we do it live on Twitch and on
my twitch and the Rank Cafe Twitch any final thoughts.
Speaker 3: Boys, I hate you guys for recommending the old anime.
Speaker 2: Love you too, too, What mean you guys? All right? Yeah,
I've recommended twenty twenty three and after.
Speaker 3: I'm the only one here with the good Yeah, but
now you told me, you told us to watch Galactic
here bullge and whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's me again.
Speaker 3: Oh fuck you.
Speaker 2: I gave you a look back. That's a twenty twenty
four movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's new, probably newer than your instant death.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to help you out here. Ricon