Speaker 1: Welcome to Jeff Jeff's Bizarre Adventure.
Speaker 2: I am here with the most exciting, breakneck speed, action
Speaker 2: packed anime podcast of all time.
Speaker 3: I am here with three of them, and I have
Speaker 3: no problem saying this.
Speaker 2: Craziest co hosts you have ever heard on an anime podcast.
Speaker 1: To my right, it's Lucy James Games.
Speaker 4: Oh Jod, I'm sorry, but I'm so tired.
Speaker 2: Ignore folks. He's just trying to restrain the insanity. To
Speaker 2: my left, it's the Madman the Werewolf to Morrissey.
Speaker 5: Wow, you called me a wo wolf because I'm Harry
Speaker 5: and Brown. I hate that shit.
Speaker 1: That was exactly the reason tomorrow are moving on it is.
Speaker 2: We call him the flame thrower because he's spitting hot words.
Speaker 3: It's Jeck Beckler.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm the Flamethrower. Everyone knows that. They've been calling
Speaker 1: me that for twenty years now. Ever since I've been
Speaker 1: using a microphone. Nothing but fire and lava and flame
Speaker 1: coming out of this gullet. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you
Speaker 1: for that powerful introduction. Mister Wolf.
Speaker 4: Appreciate the flamethrower because he singed all his hair off.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't need to hear the bald shit from you,
Speaker 1: and like everyone under twelve in my life. Okay, Like
Speaker 1: someone said to me the other day, like, why don't
Speaker 1: you just grow it back? Like that's an option or
Speaker 1: something like that, and I was just like, fuck you,
Speaker 1: little kid. You know, I don't care. I don't care
Speaker 1: who you are, a little kid stranger.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: That's why you can't go back to the school to
Speaker 4: pick up your son.
Speaker 1: I if I wear a hat and glasses, they don't know.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, I can't struggle with object permanence.
Speaker 1: They do. They don't know anything unless it's in Fortnite. John,
Speaker 1: Thank you for that intro again, powerful stuff. Thank you.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be That's everything I got. Yeah, I'm probably
Speaker 3: for the rest of.
Speaker 1: It's all downhill from here.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: That I really threw it all up front there, Meeter burned.
Speaker 3: So you guys are kind of on your own for
Speaker 3: this one.
Speaker 1: Is that cool?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's cool because I'm excited to talk about this
Speaker 1: fucking show way okay.
Speaker 3: Okay, before Jeff, hang on, hang on, hang on, before
Speaker 3: before we dive into berserk, I need to talk to
Speaker 3: to More and Lucy about their recent trip to Japan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, would you get me is that big huh.
Speaker 5: No, I'm gonna be honest. I didn't buy anything that
Speaker 5: wasn't clothing.
Speaker 1: I did give me like a cool Japanese T shirt
Speaker 1: company like shirt.
Speaker 5: I did actually get you a T shirt and I
Speaker 5: got as well.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yay, thanks damn.
Speaker 5: Nico just happened to be doing a bersert collection.
Speaker 1: No way, I don't know that. Really come to love
Speaker 1: this show?
Speaker 4: Show?
Speaker 1: Well, there's I'm doing something with this show. I certainly
Speaker 1: have a relationship with it, I guess. I'll say.
Speaker 4: I was trying to find some jojo stuff the only
Speaker 4: right God. I was in a bunch of stores. I
Speaker 4: kept asking for jojo stuff. They never had it. I've
Speaker 4: got fucking beef with one piece, man, All they had was.
Speaker 3: No I do.
Speaker 4: I was so annoyed, Like every shop all they had
Speaker 4: was one piece. Like I went to I was in
Speaker 4: oh Shimo because she what was the this is like
Speaker 4: a thrifting neighborhood. And they had one of those b
Speaker 4: side stickers doors. And I went in and I said,
Speaker 4: I was like trying to say, in very broken Japanese,
Speaker 4: do you have any berserk stuff? Did not? She did
Speaker 4: not get it when I said berserk. So I was like,
Speaker 4: gutsu and she went, oh, yeah, yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1: No, honey, A forigner says she's about to go berserk.
Speaker 4: And then I said, and then I said, do you
Speaker 4: have any JoJo's bizarre adventure stuff? Doo love doo?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: And then she literally points me to a whole wall.
Speaker 4: It's just one piece And that was the same thing
Speaker 4: every store that I fucking went into. So I got
Speaker 4: beef with one piece.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't understand is so so I get
Speaker 1: like there's a there's a language barrier there, but like,
Speaker 1: is it you saying the word berserk in Japan gets
Speaker 1: you nothing?
Speaker 5: I mean number of factors, Like firstly, berserk isn't super
Speaker 5: super like current unpopular if you know, sure, it's not old,
Speaker 5: and like you unless you're paying attention to manga, you
Speaker 5: don't really know what's going on, you know, thank got it?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 5: It's also can you get mainstream availability? You know, like
Speaker 5: there's not guts figures everywhere? And also it could be
Speaker 5: a language barier thing.
Speaker 3: The Japanese retailer anime stuff is generally there's there's one
Speaker 3: thing that is super super in vogue, and then like
Speaker 3: a lot of things that are kind of like, you know,
Speaker 3: also like kind of mildly in vogue. But one piece
Speaker 3: is different. One piece is evergreen.
Speaker 1: One piece.
Speaker 3: Sure, I get it.
Speaker 1: It is the of Japan. It is eternal.
Speaker 4: No, dude, the fucking Peanuts is the is the Simpsons
Speaker 4: of Japan.
Speaker 3: Snoopy, oh, Snoopy massive?
Speaker 4: Really Yeah, I mean look at this. I'm wearing a
Speaker 4: new Peanuts hoodie. I've got my new Snoopy moment.
Speaker 5: Dude. They were doing Uniclor was also doing a Peanuts collaboration.
Speaker 4: Peanuts Peanuts us doing a Peanuts collabor for the last
Speaker 4: twenty years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's puzzling to me, right there, Like cute
Speaker 1: little lads.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they has I think summed it up perfectly.
Speaker 3: They do love cute little luds in Japan.
Speaker 1: Right, but they're also like sort of you know, crude,
Speaker 1: crudely drawn and shut up.
Speaker 5: What you're talking about. What's the name of that Japanese character,
Speaker 5: that little snot nosed kid who looks like he's drawn
Speaker 5: in one stroke of a pencil. Yeah, Shin John, I.
Speaker 1: Don't like I get it. I get it. The branding
Speaker 1: for Peanuts is better than the material, Like I get it.
Speaker 4: Little boy in a cute Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you ever try you ever try and like
Speaker 1: show a kid a Charlie Brown, especially freaking boring and
Speaker 1: mindlessly terrible like it all is.
Speaker 4: I'm discovering that into it.
Speaker 1: It's it's not it has nothing to do with the material.
Speaker 1: It is just like the vibe of Peanuts I think
Speaker 1: has like Q characters put John, Yeah, yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: trappings around it.
Speaker 3: I said, yeah, I thought you said you something something, John,
Speaker 3: And I was like, what.
Speaker 1: No, No, the way you put it, John, the way
Speaker 1: they like cute little lads, Well that was time. That
Speaker 1: was Tim. I concurred with Tim. I conflate all your
Speaker 1: accents anyway, Look.
Speaker 4: John, John, I'm surprised.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised.
Speaker 3: Okay, look I'm gonna I don't care about this is what.
Speaker 4: John cares about. I went to the muscle Mummy's bar
Speaker 4: and I got lifted up by one of them. Do
Speaker 4: you know what this is, Jeff, search for muscle girls
Speaker 4: bar muscle girls?
Speaker 1: Okay, what I know that is? Of course I do.
Speaker 4: And then if you pay them, if you give them
Speaker 4: muscle dollars, they'll slap.
Speaker 5: You micro transactions.
Speaker 1: I don't like this.
Speaker 4: Oh no, it was incredible. It was very empowering.
Speaker 1: I'm scared.
Speaker 4: They why are you scared?
Speaker 1: Because you get paid to get you get paid to
Speaker 1: get beat up.
Speaker 4: Everyone everyone who did it loved it.
Speaker 1: Only if that's your choice, yeah, okay, okay, if how you're.
Speaker 5: Like, you get paid to beat up. And it's like,
Speaker 5: isn't it like the most baseline common kink at this
Speaker 5: point on the Internet.
Speaker 1: It's just like, all right, well, I guess it's like
Speaker 1: entry level s and m sort of stuff. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: this is cool, great, I would go here.
Speaker 4: They also had a thing where some of them did
Speaker 4: pole dancing too, and so they would like to start
Speaker 4: at the top of the pole and you would lie
Speaker 4: on the ground and they would like fall and land
Speaker 4: a couple of inches from.
Speaker 3: Okay, damn dance from Amica.
Speaker 5: It's like what it sounds like, this is Meka behavior moves,
Speaker 5: you know, it's like that that she has.
Speaker 3: I've seen, I've seen the buttstump, and but I would
Speaker 3: be a little scared for to do the buttstomp thing,
Speaker 3: because like they're their ass is like stopping inches from
Speaker 3: your face, and I just think the potential to go
Speaker 3: wrong is very no. Do you get it? You get
Speaker 3: it great, Jeff Jefs not that it's like my it's
Speaker 3: like my life goal to go to this bar. We're
Speaker 3: not the same in this regard.
Speaker 1: No, I like, John, fine, I'll go there with you.
Speaker 3: John, that they followed I would get Wait what.
Speaker 4: No, I d MD you about it because I saw
Speaker 4: that you followed them on the inst.
Speaker 3: I thought you said, I saw I. Yeah, I thought
Speaker 3: you said. I saw that they followed you. And I
Speaker 3: was like, but yeah, you got right there?
Speaker 4: Did you not know that?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 4: So they stream it on Twitch and unfortunately you could
Speaker 4: see us in the background. Oh yeah, I because we
Speaker 4: were sat right opposite the camera. But then it was
Speaker 4: weird because I did log on and there was a
Speaker 4: bunch of kind of parasocial ship going on about the
Speaker 4: about the things. They were like, oh, this is X
Speaker 4: person from the kitchen. This is why you know.
Speaker 3: Like you're surprised. Yeah, that that is definitely not surprising
Speaker 3: to me. A. Yeah, yeah, parasocial stuff, you know what.
Speaker 3: Never mind, never mind, I am delighted. I am delighted
Speaker 3: that you had a good time at this this bar, Lucy.
Speaker 3: I do know that I'd pay them to slap me either.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's quite it.
Speaker 4: They had I I had one of them give me
Speaker 4: like a honeymoon carry, which was nice. It was like
Speaker 4: an officer and a gentleman.
Speaker 1: And was and was it like? Was it like lucy?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I felt so safe. No, no, she she threw
Speaker 4: me in the air and then called me.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: It's such a great time, so Jeff. And it's also
Speaker 4: all you can drink for eighty minutes.
Speaker 1: Oh that oh my god?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's all you can drink.
Speaker 1: Is happening.
Speaker 4: They give you a shot of protein shake. Yeah, if
Speaker 4: not just for the protein.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fine. Yes, John, it would be lovely to
Speaker 1: visit this place with you.
Speaker 5: It's it's it's just.
Speaker 1: You know, a logistical challenge. What do you mean it
Speaker 1: being in Japan and you being where you are and
Speaker 1: me being where I am and we're kind of spread
Speaker 1: across this this old plant chief.
Speaker 3: Oh totally.
Speaker 1: Look, I will get to Japan before I die, as
Speaker 1: far as I'm aware, that would be. That would be great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I really do. I was supposed to go for my
Speaker 1: fortieth and you know, COVID and what have you.
Speaker 3: But yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 4: Let's take this anime podcast on the road.
Speaker 1: Oh gee, anyway, I was talking about, oh god, Berserk. Okay, Jeff,
Speaker 1: you seem to be having all.
Speaker 3: Kinds of feelings about Berserk, So I'm just going to
Speaker 3: give you the floor here for a second, and.
Speaker 1: You just think, go off, thanks, John King. I you know,
Speaker 1: just like when you listen to a new album, it
Speaker 1: takes a couple of sort of like listen throughs before
Speaker 1: you understand like the energy of the of the piece
Speaker 1: as a whole, and you're like, you're like, oh, Okay,
Speaker 1: these are the sort of mental touchstones that I'm that
Speaker 1: are registering with me. I understand this album. I get it,
Speaker 1: I see where it's going, and I now like associate
Speaker 1: themes and feelings with it. And I think that's like
Speaker 1: the sort of spot I'm entering with Berserk, because you know,
Speaker 1: the first two episodes, I'm just like, what is this?
Speaker 1: What are we doing with this snake face demon man?
Speaker 1: And and like you know, it sort of like pops
Speaker 1: you into a story that doesn't really pad the narrative
Speaker 1: exposition that you kind of need to understand what's really
Speaker 1: at play, and episode we got to understand some of
Speaker 1: the personal interpersonal workings between Guts and Griffith and uh
Speaker 1: Casca and uh you know, guessing all these guys. Right. So,
Speaker 1: now I hit the point where I'm watching episodes five
Speaker 1: and six and I'm just like, there's there's themes that
Speaker 1: are starting to pop up recurring. I'm just like, is
Speaker 1: this show is this? Is this?
Speaker 5: Is this?
Speaker 1: Like? Is this show gay? Like? Is this just like
Speaker 1: gay lads? Like time we did? But but they really
Speaker 1: man this episode. I really thought we were going for it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Also that's that's where you were going.
Speaker 1: No, I'm enjoying it, like it is captivating me. It
Speaker 1: is capturing my attention, and I'm like in it as
Speaker 1: much as I dislike fantasy for the most part, where
Speaker 1: I'm just like lower the rings and like Game of
Speaker 1: Thrones and all that ship, I'm just like, Okay, you've
Speaker 1: got swords and horses. I just I can't like it's
Speaker 1: it's it's just not the thing I like I'm immediately
Speaker 1: attracted to in terms of like I.
Speaker 3: Just of Jeff putting down the Last Game of Thrones book,
Speaker 3: putting it off to the side and being like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 1: Swords and horses look like, you know, come on, look,
Speaker 1: I enjoyed most of Game of Thrones. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say I very much like tuned in every week. It's
Speaker 1: very very strong for the most part. Okay, very strong. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the last the last season was real bad. It was bad.
Speaker 1: Everyone knows it's bad. If you think it wasn't bad,
Speaker 1: you're you're just wrong anyway. What so like you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm starting to like merge onto the road
Speaker 1: of understanding with Berserk, where like it is there's that
Speaker 1: is that is the set dressing, that is the environment,
Speaker 1: that is what you must submerge yourself inside of. And
Speaker 1: then there's this other part of it where it's just like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, are these guys are gonna fuck?
Speaker 3: Are ready or what?
Speaker 1: Because they like, if they don't fuck, I think they like,
Speaker 1: we are missing, we are being let down, like they
Speaker 1: the sexual tension between these two already is so red hot.
Speaker 1: Like if they're not like I guess that's what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: the show's the show winds up not being gay. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be so pissed.
Speaker 5: I think I think we have to watch you or
Speaker 5: on Ice next.
Speaker 1: Jeff.
Speaker 3: I'm just like, I'm going to introduce you to some
Speaker 3: very like minded and supported ladies who you're gonna be
Speaker 3: able to have amazing conversations with.
Speaker 1: It's just it's like, you know again, like it's just
Speaker 1: there's there's just so much unspoken tension in this show.
Speaker 1: It's so funny. It's funny. I think I'm enjoying it.
Speaker 4: So I watched it on the plane yesterday and I
Speaker 4: got to plan. I was talking to my friend Max
Speaker 4: and I said, Oh, these two episodes, I feel like
Speaker 4: you're really getting into what Berserk is and what Berserk
Speaker 4: is going to become. It's really like, no, but I've
Speaker 4: never I've never seen the anime. So I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: I'm really and I generally said to Max, I was like,
Speaker 4: I'm really excited to see what Jeff takes from these
Speaker 4: two episodes. You know, we we've got Zard. I didn't
Speaker 4: expect it, this would be.
Speaker 3: Well, now, I don't think anything you are picking up
Speaker 3: on nosccurate.
Speaker 4: But I'm amazing. I'm amazing naked the naked What a
Speaker 4: fight was not?
Speaker 5: I think that faculized prime to look for that, given
Speaker 5: that we watch mostly Jojo, like, I feel like his
Speaker 5: censor for gay slash camp is already attuned, super super
Speaker 5: you know, astute liso when any of it shows up
Speaker 5: in anime.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's sliders all the way up. Let's let's let's
Speaker 1: let's put it that way. But like you know, they
Speaker 1: in the in the episode five here, they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: it's been it's been three years. You know, these two
Speaker 1: they always got each other's backs. They're not going anywhere
Speaker 1: without each other. Hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna fucking die
Speaker 1: for you right now, motherfucker you hear me? You I
Speaker 1: love Yes, it is, but we're not in battle. You
Speaker 1: know this is yet yet? Right yet? Man? This show
Speaker 1: huh three years? And then and then in episode five
Speaker 1: there's like an amazing almost like nineties dance breakdown. Uh,
Speaker 1: Like there's like nineties dance music at one point in
Speaker 1: this show, and I'm just like, it's kind of it's
Speaker 1: kind of fucking rules. Yeah, there's like a whole there's
Speaker 1: a whole music breakdown in this episode, and they're like
Speaker 1: it just it's there is. Yeah, you're looking at me
Speaker 1: like I'm crazy.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, I'm jeff, I'm I'm I'm I'm enjoyed.
Speaker 3: I'm enjoying this.
Speaker 1: This is great I'm glad that, you know. And it's
Speaker 1: like almost like a trance nineties kind of like dance
Speaker 1: flow going on, and they're all and like and now
Speaker 1: they're like promoted. They're not just like throwaway like merks.
Speaker 1: They're like this promoted army and they're all like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're a big time now. This is the show. We
Speaker 1: made the show we're now just we're not just fighting
Speaker 1: for hire. We're fighting for like a dynasty. We've made it.
Speaker 1: We're real ass soldiers now with badges and IDs. We
Speaker 1: can get into the building now, we could get into
Speaker 1: the castle now without having to make a phone call.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's interesting, Jeff, because I think kind
Speaker 3: of one of the things we're picking up on is
Speaker 3: Brazik is like a great story for progression in terms
Speaker 3: of like, oh, things are moving forward. We are not
Speaker 3: stuck in like holding patterns. Every character is like growing
Speaker 3: or changing. It's interesting. Except for the kids. There's like
Speaker 3: a kid in the army who's like perpetually like a
Speaker 3: fourteen year old kid who's just sort of.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, I hope it I'm die in this battle.
Speaker 1: It's like okay, yeah, you know, he definitely grows up
Speaker 1: in fairness. I'm gonna need this little boy to exit
Speaker 1: the army. I'm uncomfortable with this boy fighting. But yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I was listening to Next Slander's their stream Austin Walker
Speaker 1: and his game Realis and which is really really cool.
Speaker 1: It's like a role playing game that's kind of like
Speaker 1: really heavily narrative elements built into it, and there's a
Speaker 1: part of it where it's like a character sentences like
Speaker 1: I am you know, I always win the fight, and
Speaker 1: then when it levels up, you can add like a
Speaker 1: qualifier to that sentence, like I always win the fight
Speaker 1: if my friend is in danger or something like that.
Speaker 1: And it was interested to hearing sight Berserk as like
Speaker 1: that's kind of was a part of it, because the
Speaker 1: characters in Berserk start off as very like kind of
Speaker 1: building blockie, like very basic, and then as it goes on,
Speaker 1: they get more nuanced and complex. And I think you
Speaker 1: are at the very very beginning of that journey, Jeff.
Speaker 1: And like even in this episode, you know, you see
Speaker 1: Goods actually has like a relationship with people. Now we've
Speaker 1: we've jumped forward three years Battlefield and he has genuine
Speaker 1: concern for his men.
Speaker 3: He doesn't just want to kill. He doesn't just want
Speaker 3: to fight. He's very clearly like affectionate towards his men,
Speaker 3: which when you think of where we left off in
Speaker 3: the last episode where the fucking idiot wouldn't even drink
Speaker 3: with people, you just want to sit on his batman
Speaker 3: perch and be sad. Yeah, he has changed a lot already.
Speaker 4: Mean he has, he's got that that's growth, that's growths.
Speaker 1: He's he's changed, and I've noticed that, like you know,
Speaker 1: we obviously there there's there's not like a softness to him.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's soft, but I think he's Like
Speaker 1: it is kind of amazing thing that they do skip
Speaker 1: three years between episode four and five, presumably, right, that's
Speaker 1: like kind of what they do. And he's like he's
Speaker 1: still this like bad ass, uh general or the second
Speaker 1: in command in Griffith's army right in the band of
Speaker 1: the Hawk, Right, is that what it is? It's called
Speaker 1: technically cass second command, like the raid commander or something. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a ship a lot. He's in the ship.
Speaker 4: What do you think of What do you think of
Speaker 4: Caskar at this point?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think she's still a little too undefined.
Speaker 4: For me she has about her relationship with Griffith.
Speaker 1: I think she has a I think I think her
Speaker 1: sort of motive is a little under undercooked for me
Speaker 1: just just yet. I think that needs a little leans,
Speaker 1: a few more hours in the oven to keep the
Speaker 1: cooking analogy going. And I'm sure we'll see that. No, No, well,
Speaker 1: I think we're good at there. Uh and yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: again like, if I'm being perfectly honest, I'm not. I'm
Speaker 1: not compelled by her, by the by the dimension that
Speaker 1: she maybe is meant to add to all these uh
Speaker 1: sort of machinations at the moment. I'm sure we'll get
Speaker 1: there with her, But right now, I so far is
Speaker 1: frustrated by Guts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, me after some milk, a.
Speaker 1: Lot of like, yeah, a lot of like rolling eyes
Speaker 1: from Casco over Guts of Shenanigans. Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 3: And so you know, we get the scene where Guts
Speaker 3: gets off his horse and his man are literally like,
Speaker 3: holy shit, you're back.
Speaker 1: We love you.
Speaker 3: They're like a bunch of little happy dogs to see
Speaker 3: him again. It's totally that feeling, and it's like, man,
Speaker 3: but that's one person who ain't too.
Speaker 1: Happy with him, and it's Casco.
Speaker 3: And Kaska is immediately like, you disobeyed orders again, You
Speaker 3: endangered your man again?
Speaker 1: What is your fucking problem? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, the dynamic there is starting to emerge between them
Speaker 5: as well, because we know Caska has been frustrated with him,
Speaker 5: but now there's like a a hint of jealousy there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so okay, I think that jealousy has been
Speaker 1: there for a minute.
Speaker 3: But yes, I agree, you're pitfish on some romantic tension
Speaker 3: between Guts and Griffith. How does cast How do you
Speaker 3: think Kaska fits into all that?
Speaker 1: Well, like I said, I I don't think. I don't
Speaker 1: think I can definitively say one way or the other.
Speaker 1: I think, like I said, I think her whole motive
Speaker 1: is a bit blurry and undefined at the moment. I
Speaker 1: think there's some kind of jealousy going on. They certainly
Speaker 1: hint at it, but I don't think it is tangible
Speaker 1: in a way. Then I feel like I've got a
Speaker 1: firm grip on what's going on with Guts and Griffith. Okay, okay, cool.
Speaker 3: And I really love all these I love all the
Speaker 3: little scenes of Kaska and Guts like arguing and like
Speaker 3: this one bit where like she reaches up and like
Speaker 3: he is just this Frankenstein of a man, and she
Speaker 3: just like reaches up and grabs grabs his scarf, and
Speaker 3: it's like, hmm, I just very much enjoy any any
Speaker 3: scene with these two. I think they they and he's
Speaker 3: just like, oh what I fucking doing it, and like
Speaker 3: it's just it's great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you just put it in the discord. I'm I
Speaker 4: love that little dynamic.
Speaker 1: They're so brilliant. I love them.
Speaker 3: And like Guts gets pits pissed off and he like
Speaker 3: grabs her back and he's like, well, you fucking I'm
Speaker 3: not that guy anymore, and like he's annoyed that Kaska
Speaker 3: keeps seeing him as this irresponse asshole, and it's.
Speaker 5: Also telling that he cares what someone else thinks about him, Yeah,
Speaker 5: which is yes difference.
Speaker 1: That's that's a change in his personality for sure.
Speaker 3: And Griffith shows up and and and breaks up the
Speaker 3: the sibling like fight happening here, and for a second
Speaker 3: there's nearly a feeling like Dad's home. It's like I
Speaker 3: can't fight anymore, and yeah, Griffith is and and Caskas
Speaker 3: says to Griffith, like you're too You're too soft on him.
Speaker 3: It's like, goddamn Caske goes outside where immediately we meet
Speaker 3: the boy. It's caucus.
Speaker 1: It's me Caucus. Yes, I'm still a sniveling little ship
Speaker 1: giving you my opinions that I don't do ship. I
Speaker 1: just watched the battle and just snivel in the corner
Speaker 1: while my friends and comrades die beneath me.
Speaker 3: Jeff corcus Is is painting a picture, a mean spirited
Speaker 3: picture of goods. What would that sound like? I mean,
Speaker 3: he's like, he's doing a mean cartoon of guts with
Speaker 3: like stink lines and guts like looks a little weird
Speaker 3: in it.
Speaker 1: He said, he's narrating. Yes, yes he is. What a
Speaker 1: weird probmt? What strange?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I get it.
Speaker 1: I understand the game is like, okay, great, Well I've
Speaker 1: got this stink faced little ship in the corner here,
Speaker 1: and just you know what, he hasn't showered in days,
Speaker 1: so perhaps a little more stink lines coming from his
Speaker 1: stupid fucking face and his stupid fucking haircut. God, I
Speaker 1: hate guts. What a stinky little bitch. That's right, I
Speaker 1: said it a stinky bitch.
Speaker 3: And you didn't want to go with the prompt jef No, No, it's.
Speaker 1: Fine, it's fine. He's just like you, just seem like.
Speaker 1: But first off, paint Spot gets my horse right next
Speaker 1: to him, next to the stinky bitch who's smelling him
Speaker 1: my horses ass on guts. I love it. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: Corcus needs a spin off. I'm sure this guy's gonna
Speaker 1: get fucking murked in the next couple episodes. There's no
Speaker 1: way Corcus survives. There's just no way. There's just no way.
Speaker 5: Imagine he becomes the main character.
Speaker 1: That would be the ultimate fucking miss, the ultimate swinging miss.
Speaker 5: For me.
Speaker 1: It's fine. I'm only an anime expert. I'm not an
Speaker 1: anime professor.
Speaker 3: Ye, and Caskus steps on Corcaus's boot and he falls
Speaker 3: down in the most insane of ways. His leg just
Speaker 3: like shoots off into the sky and he tumbles backwards.
Speaker 1: His body forgot he was on stairs.
Speaker 4: Like rewind it to figure out how the fellows.
Speaker 1: So dumb, and they draw it like he like he
Speaker 1: fucking they animated like he falls on the floor, but
Speaker 1: it's he's on stairs. It's just such. It's a weird thing, Okay, Corcus,
Speaker 1: whatever you want. Gravity doesn't affect you. That's fine.
Speaker 3: We get a little scene and Guts is basically just
Speaker 3: like Griffith, I am different and it's like, oh.
Speaker 1: Is that yep?
Speaker 3: Not Not only is it important for Guts what other
Speaker 3: people think, but he needs them to know he's trying.
Speaker 3: And again it's like, man, that is that is very
Speaker 3: very different from how this was.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Gross.
Speaker 1: We they get a little.
Speaker 3: Scene in uh, we get a little scene in front
Speaker 3: of like the I guess the nobles who have hired
Speaker 3: the Band of Hawk to do something. And Tom, you
Speaker 3: know you were saying last episode about how every couple
Speaker 3: of drawings Caska's head is like a different shape, find
Speaker 3: out different shape. I think sometimes they really nail it,
Speaker 3: and sometimes sometimes like you just get really there's a
Speaker 3: front on shadow Casca here, and like half her face
Speaker 3: is covered in shadow, and it's just a really like
Speaker 3: gorgeous nineties Ani major.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you're gonna give you know, have you
Speaker 4: seen those Instagram accounts that are just dedicated to Simpsons
Speaker 4: smear frames?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Which so good favorite.
Speaker 5: I don't think there's very many smear frames in anime. Thankfully.
Speaker 5: There's that one legendary n fight between Pain and it's
Speaker 5: just it's like a three minute smear frame.
Speaker 3: It's so funny.
Speaker 5: It's got my favorite it's got my favorite anime on it.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna find it and put it in the chat. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like those accounts. They're neat. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I also like when you see the Simpsons front on too,
Speaker 4: because I feel like I'm seeing something that I'm not
Speaker 4: supposed to say.
Speaker 1: You know that, you know that?
Speaker 4: Wait? Can you can you make that face again?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm ready.
Speaker 1: Putting that one and all bank there.
Speaker 6: Okay, what a cool what a cool wolf face?
Speaker 1: That is? All right? Cool guy.
Speaker 3: So we get this scene where basically they're all receiving
Speaker 3: praise from the nobles for succeeding in their latest battle,
Speaker 3: and we basically meet Corcus two point zero, this whole
Speaker 3: noble who everything that the Hawk do. He's like, hmmm,
Speaker 3: I don't know if we should be allowing these kinds
Speaker 3: of people do obbiting.
Speaker 1: Beneath us.
Speaker 5: Can we get a caucus too?
Speaker 1: Oh? He's but John's got it right. He's like high faluting.
Speaker 5: Right, caucus sounds high foloting, that's the problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But he's more like these these these like nobles
Speaker 1: don't deserve the ground, we walk on that kind of
Speaker 1: thing where he's like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: We cut back and like these nobles are concerned that
Speaker 3: Griffith is rising too high because this ceremony is to
Speaker 3: like basically nike Griffith to make him an official part
Speaker 3: of this this kingdom.
Speaker 5: And this good by a larger corporation is a startup.
Speaker 3: Yep, that's exactly what's just happened, and everyone's happening. He's
Speaker 3: a car, he's just a cop now except for two
Speaker 3: point oh who's kind of given it this?
Speaker 5: Yeah, like oh.
Speaker 4: That's a good that's a good menacing slow clap.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's he's really really not happy. But
Speaker 3: who tell you someone who misses all this? It's goods gouts.
Speaker 3: He got no time for this kind of ship. He
Speaker 3: is outside training his sword arm, swinging his sword with
Speaker 3: logs tied to it.
Speaker 1: That's right, you gotta put weights on that sword, you know,
Speaker 1: well your strength.
Speaker 4: Did you see the guy who who taught himself or
Speaker 4: like who had a replica. We've talked about this right.
Speaker 5: Exactly this situation.
Speaker 4: It was. It was literally just this scene. He would
Speaker 4: just be on TikTok going.
Speaker 1: With giant sor oh that's funny.
Speaker 5: I think he got to the point where he could
Speaker 5: swing it like once or something like that, and then
Speaker 5: it was like too tired to do anything.
Speaker 4: Else, and then the berserk music, the butt rock music,
Speaker 4: and that's good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd listened to that opening song again. It's it's
Speaker 1: just so nineties garage rock, like it's so it's just
Speaker 1: like and there's like a wine to it too. That
Speaker 1: is just very much like it caught in between all
Speaker 1: of these fucking bands from the nineties.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, it's always just crazy to me that that's
Speaker 3: the opening they went with as opposed to Forces. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what's forces?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Forces. I don't think we've heard it in full effect yet.
Speaker 3: We might have heard a little bit of it. It's
Speaker 3: the song that plays. It plays in some of the
Speaker 3: next time Zone. It's the real bombastic trumpet kind of
Speaker 3: Oh yes.
Speaker 4: No, yeah, it was in the Fight Secrets, right, I
Speaker 4: think so? And on the Blue ray is it is
Speaker 4: the one in the blue h had the the watch
Speaker 4: you McCall it the lyrics in the top left or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I started listening and now I'm starting to
Speaker 1: hear the sad bastard thing. I'm hearing that a lot
Speaker 1: in pop culture online, you know, on the internet.
Speaker 4: Sad bastard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like the sad.
Speaker 4: Why did you say the sad Bustard.
Speaker 1: Song, because that's what it is. It's a sad bastard song.
Speaker 3: He's not wrong, he's not wrong.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he is a Boston and he is.
Speaker 1: It's like Enya, It's like, remember we did the y
Speaker 1: thing last week we talked about Yeah, it's sort of
Speaker 1: like that. It's like anyway, for the.
Speaker 3: Podcast, you linked this image. People will probably know it's
Speaker 3: a very famous image of Guts leaning against the tree holding.
Speaker 1: I found. I found an iconic frame just by chance,
Speaker 1: because I'm organically tuned to find.
Speaker 3: You have such an amazing power. You're able to identify
Speaker 3: things that everyone else thinks is.
Speaker 1: Cool exactly, and I yeah, I have on the pulse
Speaker 1: and has nothing to do, absolutely nothing to do with
Speaker 1: the fact that it's just Guts holding his huge penis sword.
Speaker 1: That's all it is. Yeah. Yeah, he's got both hands
Speaker 1: wrapped around that thing and it is pointing to the heavens.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, I didn't see that, Tom Lucy.
Speaker 5: Did you know that's that's like a man in his look.
Speaker 1: I'm the perve I get it. I'm fully, fully comfortable
Speaker 1: with that. This is a big old, sharp, pointy dick.
Speaker 1: This is what we're a Dolph's what we're doing.
Speaker 4: So you know how, you know how John Luke asked
Speaker 4: us to make some kind of promo for our show.
Speaker 5: That was it.
Speaker 4: I feel like I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think I feel like we could probably use
Speaker 1: the carcus.
Speaker 4: I think we use a caucus super cut.
Speaker 5: About I think so.
Speaker 4: I mean paging doctor Freud.
Speaker 1: It's just got a honker, you know, it's a big
Speaker 1: old honker there.
Speaker 5: The other thing that is with not in this is
Speaker 5: Costco is very concerned with how the Band of hawk
Speaker 5: An now perceived. Yeah, it's like, you know, fix up
Speaker 5: look shop.
Speaker 1: Right, just like we're not pieces of ship anymore. You know,
Speaker 1: they're not clean yourself up. I mean I have to
Speaker 1: shave now, that kind of thing.
Speaker 5: I have to go to school now.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We put to the next scene and the lads are
Speaker 3: all basically preparing a siege on a like kind of
Speaker 3: supply factory or something like that, they.
Speaker 5: Remote supply camp yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and God, they fight a lot. God, imagine this life,
Speaker 1: this life. Every day you're just fighting a fucking army.
Speaker 5: This is the medieval equivalent of a truck stop.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, And everyone's like, well, we should attack it
Speaker 3: from the back, right, and griffit's like, no, what if
Speaker 3: we attack it from the front.
Speaker 1: And everyone's like, oh my god, you're a mest You're
Speaker 1: a love you. He's like, I didn't go to war
Speaker 1: school for ten years for nothing.
Speaker 3: And then Corky's school, Corcus is basically like what if
Speaker 3: we don't do that?
Speaker 1: And Cask is like shut off. She's just like, cork
Speaker 1: has shut your stupid face up. Yeah what what?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 1: A what a cast of ragtag characters we've got here?
Speaker 1: Ye love them? So that's what they do.
Speaker 3: They decide to attack it from the front, and here
Speaker 3: we meet Oh god, what's this guy's name. He's the
Speaker 3: guy with the kind of blondes crew cut.
Speaker 5: Oh, the general on the other side.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like something cool. No, his last name is
Speaker 1: like at wits at.
Speaker 4: The end of it calcuters.
Speaker 5: Calculate Is it really no, it's like add on something,
Speaker 5: uh like so add on of the Blue Whale Heavy
Speaker 5: Assault Night.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh I love these like platoon names, They're so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: And so basically our our heroes raid and absolutely fucking
Speaker 3: destroy the enemy. Corbowitz is his name. Oh yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: I told you was a Witz. And so then all
Speaker 3: of a sudden he is like twenty meters from the
Speaker 3: actual supply depot and it blows up and he's like,
Speaker 3: ha ha another victory for Corbowitz.
Speaker 1: Well, don't forget guts is the guy who's like, yo,
Speaker 1: we got to get the fuck out of here. This
Speaker 1: is gonna explode. He tells everyone, He's like, I think
Speaker 1: those all the roofs are smoking, you.
Speaker 5: See that, And he does it in a way where
Speaker 5: pisses Cask go off because she just told him don't
Speaker 5: like break ranks and do whatever you want. So to
Speaker 5: her it looks like he's just off trying to chase
Speaker 5: down this leader and kill him for banter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then they revisit that for a second too
Speaker 1: after she's like you were right. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It leads this scene where it really feels like a
Speaker 3: kind of something kind of shifts a little bit between
Speaker 3: them for Caska, like you can tell she's kind of
Speaker 3: like called them off to side.
Speaker 1: She's like, goods, could you fucking.
Speaker 5: They also have that Simpson's esque moment where like Bart
Speaker 5: and Lisa work it out and hug and then it
Speaker 5: cuts or like a camera pans out and it's got
Speaker 5: like March hiding behind a wall, listening to them and
Speaker 5: feeling nice, and it's like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's what Griffith is doing.
Speaker 5: He's just like looking at them while they become friends.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's a really sweet little scene and like
Speaker 3: it's definitely a certain amount of softening between them where
Speaker 3: Caska really like you can tell she's not just being
Speaker 3: an asshole to goods, Like she is genuinely trying to
Speaker 3: understand and the most important thing to her is to
Speaker 3: keep Griffith safe. Yeah, m And then Griffin's kind of
Speaker 3: looking at them like Tom was saying, and this is
Speaker 3: sort of a ah and they're not like god damn it.
Speaker 3: In the next scene, then we meet this guy's name
Speaker 3: also escapes me, but I love how we see his
Speaker 3: black spiky armor. We get the slow pan up and
Speaker 3: he's like.
Speaker 8: Well, it seems these heroes have managed to survive are
Speaker 8: deadly on slat and it's it's just the most villain
Speaker 8: shit generalcon General Bosconi.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how do you feel about the reveal, Jeff that
Speaker 3: this guy's a bad guy.
Speaker 1: He's going to be a villain. I thought it was
Speaker 1: a bit underwhelming. I'm sort of like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I wanted to see somebody more menacing, I guess, but
Speaker 1: he you know, it's just like, oh, who's the who's
Speaker 1: the that general going to like report into now? And
Speaker 1: I was hoping maybe for someone a little bit more
Speaker 1: like fun.
Speaker 3: You know, instead of the sad old man. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: just like, who's this, Jeff, I got some bad news here.
Speaker 3: It's always a sad man.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be a lot of saddle.
Speaker 5: Men black in real life saddlement, always controlling the world
Speaker 5: and doing the work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I guess that's true for like a lot
Speaker 1: of fantasy. It's always just like some fucking you know, uh,
Speaker 1: some like real long beard dude and a throne just
Speaker 1: kind of like rasping.
Speaker 3: With their little blood boy.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, all right, well we'll have to deal with
Speaker 1: this guy. Yeah yeah, but I really hate that old man.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, we'll.
Speaker 3: Get there, you'll get there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll be fine.
Speaker 3: And so then we get a little scene in the
Speaker 3: throne room and the crypt. The king is kind of like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's griffic. Guy is pretty good. And Differen's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: except Corcus too, who's.
Speaker 1: Like, get yourself together, Corcus.
Speaker 4: Hold together, Carcus to electric.
Speaker 1: Sorry working on a cork. Do carry on?
Speaker 3: And we then get the final the final section of
Speaker 3: the episode, where it's basically the Band of Hawk like
Speaker 3: in front of this massive looking castle and they have.
Speaker 1: Been it's like their first battle, but since they've been promoted, right,
Speaker 1: this is this is the big time.
Speaker 3: This is this ain't no this ain't no little depot,
Speaker 3: this ain't no tiny thing. This is a big deal
Speaker 3: and they rush at it. We freeze frame and we're
Speaker 3: onto episode six ZOD the Immortal Hold On.
Speaker 5: I think we also just skip by Egghead.
Speaker 1: They show a head for Humpty Dumpty for like two seconds.
Speaker 3: What was that.
Speaker 1: I thought it was? I thought it was the inspiration
Speaker 1: for that fucking egg around Griffith's snack. Jesus Christ, what
Speaker 1: is that?
Speaker 5: Take ahead, Humpty Dumpty.
Speaker 1: It's a Humpty Dumpty. Motherfucker's even got that like fraily
Speaker 1: kind of like necklace thing going on, rough big old
Speaker 1: egg egad, he's kind of I don't care, that's kind
Speaker 1: of what he's doing. He's given that snarl you know, yeah.
Speaker 3: Pretty pretty fun episode, Like I would say, kind of yeah,
Speaker 3: maybe maybe a little in between me like a lot
Speaker 3: of kind of threads going and a lot like this
Speaker 3: is what's happening, this is how our characters have evolved.
Speaker 3: But maybe.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, can I just say's got too many names?
Speaker 4: Not the Immortal?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's like fifteen syllables. What are we doing?
Speaker 4: Okay, Jeff Jeff, Jeffrey, Jeff Jeff one syllable, one syllable.
Speaker 1: Baby, that's its one syllable, The Immortal, no spharatu? Did
Speaker 1: Zod look familiar to you all? Jeff? Uh? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: look like the Doom Demon?
Speaker 5: What the fuck?
Speaker 1: Like the the the like doom half man half uh? Fucking?
Speaker 1: What is it you know I'm doing? Do you want serbs?
Speaker 1: Guy from wait?
Speaker 4: From Doom?
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a doom like horned from.
Speaker 4: I thought he looks more like the He looks like.
Speaker 1: He looks like but he also looks like what's his
Speaker 1: face from Street Fighter?
Speaker 3: You want to because that is the he is forma yeah?
Speaker 3: Wait akuma okyl oh?
Speaker 1: I was That's not who I was thinking from Street Fighter?
Speaker 1: Are you thinking blank? Yeah? I was thinking Blanka. I
Speaker 1: almost had a good thing this guy. Yeah, cool, he
Speaker 1: looks just like a Kuma. I get it. Fuck man,
Speaker 1: I guess I guess the right franchise in the wrong character.
Speaker 1: That's so stupid.
Speaker 4: I always thought he looks he looks like the Fantasia
Speaker 4: villain Cherna Bog, which is the name of that villain
Speaker 4: that I didn't know until now.
Speaker 1: I gotta say, I'm looking at Blanca right now, and
Speaker 1: there's there's there's a there's a there's a no, there's
Speaker 1: there's a similarity here.
Speaker 5: Dude, what you're talking about that before he transforms before.
Speaker 4: He transforms Fantasia?
Speaker 3: All right, Well we agree toilet cha Bog.
Speaker 1: The I really like Zod because he's like, fucking he's
Speaker 1: just a straight up demon from hell. It appears, and
Speaker 1: I think that's cool. We haven't had one of them
Speaker 1: in a while.
Speaker 3: That's kind of interesting because I would say, like, given
Speaker 3: how much he's actually in the story, or how how
Speaker 3: little I should say, I feel like he kind of
Speaker 3: has a nearly like disproportionate impact on people. Like a
Speaker 3: lot of people love Zod and he's just cool in
Speaker 3: berserk that much.
Speaker 5: It's right, Like, just appears and then is we're a
Speaker 5: freak about stuff and then leaves, and there is there's.
Speaker 1: A lot of really fun foreshadowing where careful don't foreshadow
Speaker 1: too much for me.
Speaker 3: I just mean like in this episode when they're like,
Speaker 3: I think Odd might be in that castle, Like when
Speaker 3: I've heard of this guy and he's meant to be
Speaker 3: like one hundred years old, and they say that like
Speaker 3: even if he dies in battle, he comes back in.
Speaker 1: The next one.
Speaker 3: Like just a lot of good scary about scare mongering.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's there's actually I was gonna say, there's a
Speaker 5: couple of characters like that. But the other one who
Speaker 5: I want spoil away is that appears is more frequently used,
Speaker 5: and that's the one that I think other people get
Speaker 5: obsessed with after they've seen z Odd because they realize, oh,
Speaker 5: it's not about the lad on the horse.
Speaker 1: Am I am? I am? I correct? Probably not rarely
Speaker 1: I stepped on that rig. No, I feel like so
Speaker 1: obviously the first episode with the snake baron, you're sort
Speaker 1: of like, oh, this is real fantasy nonsense. But starting
Speaker 1: after that episode, this is the first time we're introduced
Speaker 1: to like something genuinely supernatural, right.
Speaker 9: Uh, yeah, there's nothing yet quiet, I mean, because Guts
Speaker 9: does take a minute to be like, holy shit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how are real? It's weird, Jeff, because the when
Speaker 3: I first saw Berserk, it was those movies I told
Speaker 3: you about, and they actually just start at the beginning
Speaker 3: of the Golden Age. There's no black Swordsman bit, and
Speaker 3: so this was the first, uh, this was like the
Speaker 3: very first time I saw and I knew that there
Speaker 3: was anything supernatural in Berserk.
Speaker 1: Got it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, But anyway, and Guts is going mad because people
Speaker 3: are like there's someone in there and he's fucking up
Speaker 3: like five hundred of our troops and Gots he's killing Havy,
Speaker 3: just one dude. And Guts enters the Ah horror Show
Speaker 3: where there's just dead bodies strewn everywhere, and like, I really, like,
Speaker 3: I really appreciate the pacin of the anime because like
Speaker 3: we are moving through a lot of story very quickly,
Speaker 3: but I appreciate here that it does slow it right
Speaker 3: down and you're just allowed to like kind of soak
Speaker 3: in like the kind of macarbic atmosphere here, and it's
Speaker 3: like disturbing, like it's it's fucked up, just the way
Speaker 3: they've it's drawn all these bodies on the way to
Speaker 3: whatever's happening.
Speaker 5: Have you noticed how this scene where he's like looking
Speaker 5: down that hallway is basically the exactly the same as
Speaker 5: the scene in met I Solid We Snake goes down
Speaker 5: the hallway to fight the ninja. Oh man, it's like
Speaker 5: the way the bodies are like laid out. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 5: it's pretty much the same thing.
Speaker 1: You guys have to like lend me a little bit
Speaker 1: of like, uh a freedom here to say that. It's
Speaker 1: kind of funny too. The show is what is this
Speaker 1: part They're just all the same carbon comfy soldiers. Like
Speaker 1: it's just like bad guy, bad guy, bad guy. Like
Speaker 1: it's just that right, there's like they're almost like those
Speaker 1: are his homies. Yeah I'm sorry, sorry, yeah, but they're
Speaker 1: still just like these throwaway, faceless sort of thing. I get.
Speaker 1: It's I I like it. I like it. I'm just
Speaker 1: thinking there is a bit of sort of like, uh,
Speaker 1: the the ability for this show to just be like
Speaker 1: these are all disposable, Like I think that's just kind
Speaker 1: of funny on its face a little bit. It's you know,
Speaker 1: like they're grunts and at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: like the Band of the Hawk is only about like
Speaker 1: five people tops, right, like everyone else is disposable. You
Speaker 1: just joined the Band of the Hawk as like an
Speaker 1: entry level guy. You're probably dead. You're probably not gonna
Speaker 1: survive because we don't care about you. The story doesn't
Speaker 1: need you.
Speaker 3: You're just gonna be used as like a okay you.
Speaker 1: There's stormtroopers. Yeah, there's stormtroopers.
Speaker 3: Got Cascade, got Griffith, you got Judo, you got Rick Caucus,
Speaker 3: you got Pippin, you got Carcus, you got I guess Gaston.
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 4: No one.
Speaker 1: Nice, like, no one fights, like, no one gets steady,
Speaker 1: like just just go for a little bit more.
Speaker 4: No one loses his head or his blood like Gaston,
Speaker 4: no one.
Speaker 5: That was good because while you were singing, it was
Speaker 5: being covered by the sound of jelly purring.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the thing is so again. Sorry John Luke, Sorry
Speaker 4: listeners at home. Unfortunately, my little cat loves me too much,
Speaker 4: and she's just said fortunately, and she just said on me,
Speaker 4: and she pursed so loudly because she's so happy to.
Speaker 5: Be with me.
Speaker 4: However, I realize that that's not the best listening experience,
Speaker 4: so I can only apologize. But she's so cute.
Speaker 1: It's okay, we all like, we all accept and forgive
Speaker 1: the fact that you have a cat.
Speaker 4: Well, it's gonna be it's gonna be worse on the
Speaker 4: local recording, at least on Discord. There's noise canceling stuff,
Speaker 4: so you're not actually hearing all of it, but maybe.
Speaker 1: It's nice.
Speaker 3: So Goots gets the end of this hole where he
Speaker 3: finds a giant ogre of a man who is basically
Speaker 3: just impaled two people on his sword and they look
Speaker 3: like little dolls next to him.
Speaker 1: Yep, it's pretty cool. It's here.
Speaker 3: I have a little criticism of the anime. One in
Speaker 3: the manga, Zod is bollock.
Speaker 1: Naked, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: Image yeah, and seconds the pants they have given him
Speaker 3: are too fancy. Yeah, They're like a really nice pair
Speaker 3: of pants with like high rise boots, and my boys,
Speaker 3: Zod looks straight up dapper in these pants, and I
Speaker 3: just feel like it's maybe not quite the right, not
Speaker 3: quite the they're ripped like perfectly.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, well like like hulk hulk ass.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're just like fashionably ripped, you know. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess you know you're not gonna get Zod's twigg
Speaker 1: and berries on this anime. Maybe maybe they just like,
Speaker 1: you know, I ain't no twig, I mean right, oh no,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's yeah exactly, so it's a big ass
Speaker 1: log I would imagine. But anyway, uh, yeah, that is weird.
Speaker 1: Hey you know you're that's that's I can live with that. Okay. Actually,
Speaker 1: now I do want to see his U. I want
Speaker 1: to see sods Penis.
Speaker 5: Yes, what, Johnny, we've just been on Yes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we landed here full circle.
Speaker 5: Also knowing this is the first time I think ever
Speaker 5: we've seen no actually first time since the Gambino incident
Speaker 5: where we've seen go scared.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Goots very quickly realizes this dude is in another league.
Speaker 3: He is like, he is not just better than me,
Speaker 3: He's better than Griffith and anyone I have ever met.
Speaker 5: This is me every time I go to my local
Speaker 5: basketball court and there's literally two other people there, I'm like,
Speaker 5: oh fuck, he's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah and.
Speaker 3: So, but Goots actually kind of hangs in there. He survives,
Speaker 3: does he breaks surprises, and to me, Zod's actions are
Speaker 3: a little confusing. Here, who is like, finally someone I
Speaker 3: can actually fight. Now time to transform into a four
Speaker 3: to twin monster and continue the fight. Yeah, what the right?
Speaker 4: Like here I can transform into a fourteen months, so
Speaker 4: I would.
Speaker 5: It might be that like it doesn't want Lucy. He
Speaker 5: doesn't get the opportunity to transform very much. So it's like,
Speaker 5: if this is this is my opportunity, I'm gonna take it,
Speaker 5: even if it just means I maybe I.
Speaker 3: Think maybe he's got excited and jumped the gun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think he has taken berries, might have come
Speaker 5: to action.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, obviously it's it's guided by erection. We know
Speaker 1: this to be true. But what I think is probably
Speaker 1: the case is that Zod can't be this size all
Speaker 1: the time because it's just ergonomically incompatible.
Speaker 4: Are saying he needs a refractory period.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with the Midlands. You know, he's probably just like, yo,
Speaker 1: this world is not built for my four story.
Speaker 3: He's like trying to pick up like it'll teak up
Speaker 3: and it breaks, and he's like, oh fucking hell.
Speaker 1: He's like this world. You know. He's like, I've been
Speaker 1: around three hundred years. I've never held a cup. This
Speaker 1: is crazy. I need to be small. I'll be a
Speaker 1: little Zod until does the does the other for does
Speaker 1: his other form have a different name? No, well it should.
Speaker 3: It's you could call it his apostle form.
Speaker 5: That's complicating, I think.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in Japantown and San Francisco there is a weep
Speaker 4: store and there is an incredible giant figure of guts fighting,
Speaker 4: and it's one of those places. But the thing is
Speaker 4: when you go in there, like don't take pictures, and
Speaker 4: it's probably like as it's behind velvet rope.
Speaker 5: I also think they've got like a bunch of stuff
Speaker 5: in that that's cool that they just don't want anyone
Speaker 5: to buy, even though it's got a pricetag on it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I really think that it's very nice.
Speaker 5: A lot of.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Does that mean there's berserk funk pops? Do those? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: That's a I hate to see that they are real.
Speaker 5: But I don't want to see them if I'm honest.
Speaker 1: You know, I think that's cool. That is cool.
Speaker 3: And I think the way he's portrayed, like with the big,
Speaker 3: deep like shadows, like the pure stark blacks, I think
Speaker 3: he looks so cool.
Speaker 4: There are not There are not berserk funko pops, thank god,
Speaker 4: but someone has made customs. There are berserk androids.
Speaker 1: I believe.
Speaker 3: There's some great odds Tam and Lucy. I don't want
Speaker 3: to get specific here, but can you imagine the kind
Speaker 3: of person who has a has a funko pop of
Speaker 3: a certain character a certain character who is infamously hated
Speaker 3: who I don't want to say too much because I
Speaker 3: don't want to. Jeff, can you imagine the kind of
Speaker 3: person who has a funk pop of that? Is it?
Speaker 5: You? Do you have it?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: Do you have a custom funk pop of that character?
Speaker 1: I do not?
Speaker 7: Wait?
Speaker 4: Also, John, can you message me which character you're a
Speaker 4: fair to please?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 4: Because it could be any Really, it's a lot of
Speaker 4: a lot of bad boys in this.
Speaker 3: Manga.
Speaker 5: Think about it. It could be more people. Oh okay, right, wait,
Speaker 5: I need to know who it is now.
Speaker 1: Okay, give me one sec.
Speaker 5: But I I have a bunch of really good berserk figures.
Speaker 5: Actually you can. You can get some really good ones
Speaker 5: for pretty cheap.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like the Crunchy Roll store has a.
Speaker 5: Bunch Yeah crunch roto actually good. Opting to say that
Speaker 5: the berserk blu ray that we have is back in
Speaker 5: stock on Crunchy Role Now.
Speaker 3: It's it's it is a beautiful if.
Speaker 5: You want it. I think it's like forty dollars and
Speaker 5: it is highly highly highly worth getting if you care
Speaker 5: about Berserk.
Speaker 3: Yeah, his his ship completely rocked by by big bull
Speaker 3: Zod and it's the name is about to die when
Speaker 3: a bunch of arrows strike Zod's back and it's our
Speaker 3: friend Griffith and.
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, put my buddy down, that's my friend. Hey,
Speaker 1: don't you pick on someone your own size, That's what
Speaker 1: he says.
Speaker 3: It's so weird. When he shows up and goes, you
Speaker 3: want to know why someone never picks a fight with ducks.
Speaker 4: He does up and puts both fists in there and goes,
Speaker 4: why y.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hell yeah, And.
Speaker 3: Zod is immediately like, you motherfucker is spoiling my fight.
Speaker 3: And we just get a really I don't know, you know,
Speaker 3: the way every quote like they'll they'll do some frames
Speaker 3: and it'll just be a painting. For some reason, there
Speaker 3: is the metal ass painting frame of griff in the
Speaker 3: foreground facing Zod in the background, and Zod is just
Speaker 3: and it could be it could be a metal cover.
Speaker 3: It's it's so cool, it's cool they do it.
Speaker 4: It does make me sad because what no, no, The
Speaker 4: art in the actual manga is incredible, Like it's all
Speaker 4: the cross hatching or so much detail, and so you
Speaker 4: only really get like a smack of it every so
Speaker 4: often in anime. Obviously impossible to animate it, but it's
Speaker 4: I think it's used. It's used to great effect. But
Speaker 4: just remind me of how much I love the actual
Speaker 4: like mirrors are style.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's definitely just like the artwork in Berserk obviously
Speaker 3: is like complete masterclass, like just amazing. And I think
Speaker 3: this Zod fight is one of the first times you
Speaker 3: really start to see uh you start to see me
Speaker 3: or like really kind of flex what you can do.
Speaker 3: There's just some really like amazing, horrifying pieces. There's a
Speaker 3: great one of guts are Griffith carrying guts and God
Speaker 3: and Zod like looming out from behind the pillar that
Speaker 3: I will drop in the chat and then yeah, there's
Speaker 3: there's it's awesome. But yeah, I Green Lucy, it's kind
Speaker 3: of nice how in those like impact frames you can
Speaker 3: get a little element of that. Yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 1: They did a really good they did a good job
Speaker 1: adapting it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so pass on your kind words. Yeah, please,
Speaker 3: it's not it's not the most like lavish adaptation, but
Speaker 3: it works and it's totally functional and it's at times great.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We then get a shot outside and Corcus is like,
Speaker 3: and then we get a shot back inside and Zod
Speaker 3: starts to fucking wreck shit. He just he literally starts
Speaker 3: just stepping on the band of Hawk and it is
Speaker 3: it is nasty.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, big old staypuff marshmallow man.
Speaker 3: And then you know, and that's when Griffith cuts Zod
Speaker 3: and Zod gets a little aroused when he's like, oh, second, person,
Speaker 3: can quit me.
Speaker 1: Now a second? What do we have here?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: I haven't felt like this in one hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 1: Excuse me.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 7: Suddenly I saw such a good post yesterday because you know,
Speaker 7: the guy who's in Showgun, he has the accent, you.
Speaker 4: Know, the the Portugues he's playing like the Portuguese guy
Speaker 4: lands in Japan. He got cast in the Odyssey and
Speaker 4: someoneed like, wow, even Christopher Nolan's clowning on this guy
Speaker 4: with the funny voice because he's replaced Tom Hardy, Like
Speaker 4: Tom Hardy's washed. He's got this new Tom Hardy in town.
Speaker 10: Anyway, I love that guy and Grits.
Speaker 3: Grits do a sick X slash on d and actually
Speaker 3: cut off his arm. They do, Oh that's pretty cool,
Speaker 3: and then picks up his own arm and begins to
Speaker 3: beat them to death with it.
Speaker 4: Thank god.
Speaker 1: Else, Oh yeah, head out of the gutter, please, I
Speaker 1: live in the gutter, Jeff, I.
Speaker 3: Was born there, razed it.
Speaker 1: You throw away your scraps there, but I was born
Speaker 1: there anyway. And then and then fucking fucking Zods just
Speaker 1: like yo, I forgot, I can also regenerate. I can
Speaker 1: also just fuse my arm back to my body. It's
Speaker 1: nothing whatever.
Speaker 3: And so he knocks Griffeth silly and then he's like, anyway,
Speaker 3: time to kill you. But then he sees the egg
Speaker 3: of the King the bailt and he's kind of like, ah.
Speaker 4: Not to be confused with the egghead that we saw
Speaker 4: in the last episode.
Speaker 5: Yeah right, I forgot. From software reference of the week, Okay,
Speaker 5: the the monstrous form of Zod is very much I
Speaker 5: believe the inspiration for the flame Looker in Demon Souls,
Speaker 5: one of the first bosses, the first flirker. Yeah, it's
Speaker 5: just as effectively that model, but on fire.
Speaker 1: So beautiful.
Speaker 5: Thank you, so.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Jeff, you go ahead. No, I was gonna say o.
Speaker 1: Tam posted a fun photo of this flirker. He looks
Speaker 1: pretty sick. So he sees the egg thing. Is that?
Speaker 1: What is it called?
Speaker 9: A bailiff like a baylet or the bay king? The
Speaker 9: egg of the King boy the rejected Lord of the Rings.
Speaker 9: Subtitle get look, the king has laid this egg. Isn't
Speaker 9: it beautiful?
Speaker 5: It's just that from the previous scene.
Speaker 4: Why is Carcus in the like Caucus is now in
Speaker 4: a greamer worm tongue a situation?
Speaker 1: Yes, he goes, he jumps through franchises.
Speaker 4: My leege, you've laid an egg. It's beautiful.
Speaker 3: I should name it.
Speaker 4: I should keep it for safety, my liege.
Speaker 3: Corcus has to like transport the egg, but he smashes it,
Speaker 3: and so the middle actes him trying to find a
Speaker 3: replacement egg.
Speaker 1: This right itself, He's like, and Corky's just like, no ship, It's.
Speaker 3: Going to be so furious.
Speaker 4: Now that we've Now that we've done the redesign of
Speaker 4: the podcast art, huge shoutout to.
Speaker 1: Jerum for oh yeah, phenomenal.
Speaker 4: But also people who are like, oh ship, I want
Speaker 4: much of the bomb ha lit which we should make.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 3: I would I would have a plush of that little
Speaker 3: pain or something be so cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I could start three D printing them. You know,
Speaker 1: someone wants to build the files, I'll start making them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just selling them out of your carriage.
Speaker 1: Yep. And uh what was I going to say?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: So like okay, so that's like the egg the king egg? Great?
Speaker 1: Why why is that so scared of a little nose
Speaker 1: nose egg?
Speaker 5: Maybe face?
Speaker 1: Do you think he's scared?
Speaker 4: Is he scared? Is he around?
Speaker 1: I think I don't think he's scared. He's just I
Speaker 1: think he's just like, uh, I think he just realized
Speaker 1: he like crossed the line. I was like, that's that
Speaker 1: night there, Thory. I don't want to fuck that.
Speaker 9: I know.
Speaker 5: Is that one line he says where he says, so
Speaker 5: that's the ploy, which.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just like, oh you're you're a made man?
Speaker 1: Are in you? Griffith? Isn't that that? That's pretty much it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's basically I'm not gonna say the speech, but
Speaker 3: he basically looks at Goods after this and goes, oh buddy.
Speaker 1: Later he just flies off. He's like, not only you
Speaker 1: guys gonna have like some fucking weird romantic energy. You're
Speaker 1: gonna die because of this bitch, I'm telling you right now.
Speaker 1: Uh wings and he's just like bat and he just
Speaker 1: leaves and that's it. He just fucking gets out of there,
Speaker 1: goes through the castle. He's presumably in the basement of
Speaker 1: the castle, and then just like breaks through eleven stories
Speaker 1: of stone and concrete. I think that's.
Speaker 3: Literally what happens exactly.
Speaker 1: And then he like you guys, see how he's like drawn,
Speaker 1: he's animated. He just starts to glide and someone.
Speaker 3: Across the sky his wings once.
Speaker 1: Just he's just fucking like he doesn't even get smaller away.
Speaker 3: He does just move along the screen at the same size.
Speaker 2: Is there.
Speaker 1: Someone has to have made something fun with that, because
Speaker 1: he is just this like hang gliding demon hell monster
Speaker 1: and just sort of like, okay, my people made me.
Speaker 3: I think the problem is that he is flapping and
Speaker 3: then halfway through one of the flaps, like his wings
Speaker 3: still bents. He stops and we hold on that shot
Speaker 3: for a good five seconds.
Speaker 5: It's like when you're riding a bike and you need
Speaker 5: an extra bit of like momentum, you just pedal once
Speaker 5: or twice and then you just let it all. That's
Speaker 5: why he did Oh.
Speaker 1: Shit, I left. I watched that. I watched that three times.
Speaker 1: I was fucking dying. Oh man, so funny.
Speaker 3: So the bands of Hawk rush in rescue Guts and
Speaker 3: Griffith and get him out of there, and Kaska has
Speaker 3: returned to her fucking state because Griffith is almost sore
Speaker 3: and beat up and she's furious and goods again.
Speaker 1: This is your fault.
Speaker 3: And with that the episode ends, and I think that
Speaker 3: is too fine. Episodes of Breserve very good.
Speaker 1: I love'm all in. I'm all in, friends feel it.
Speaker 1: I'm in. It's just the right amount of everything that
Speaker 1: I want. Like, I just love it. It's not it's
Speaker 1: like it's like, you know, it's not the gore that
Speaker 1: I was scared of, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 1: can live with it. It's fine. It's almost funny in a way.
Speaker 1: Like I said, yeah, I like it. I really really
Speaker 1: like this show so far. I don't I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear anything else. Everyone. Every now and then i'll
Speaker 1: get like a side of the mouth comment from someone
Speaker 1: who's just like, like, you know what, keep it to yourself.
Speaker 1: I want to. I want to. I want to. I
Speaker 1: want to go again. No, no, not you, I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about you find folks, I'm talking about you know anyway,
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, great stuff.
Speaker 3: I'm all in good ship.
Speaker 1: Okay, awesome.
Speaker 3: And with that, wait, a ZOD berserk workout just came
Speaker 3: across my uh.
Speaker 1: My workout timeline. M hm oh are they on like Peloton? Now, like,
Speaker 1: what do you mean you know, to take the class, take.
Speaker 3: The training plan, real life berserk workout. Okay, well google
Speaker 3: that the person who isn't a fucking lunatic, but well
Speaker 3: guess we'll find out. Okay, guys, that's gonna do it.
Speaker 3: For this week's episode, Jeff Jefs Adventure Lucy James.
Speaker 4: What what? Sorry? I was saying hello and it kind
Speaker 4: of like cut over. Well you're asking real question.
Speaker 1: Where can the people find you?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 4: Lucy gams games everywhere hopefully going to bed.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 5: It's nine.
Speaker 4: I didn't get in until one day.
Speaker 1: I am actually this as well.
Speaker 5: Nice.
Speaker 3: I will stay up stream stuff.
Speaker 4: We're doing town idea split fiction to not to date
Speaker 4: this episode but when we recorded, but we are. We're
Speaker 4: doing split fiction stream, so check.
Speaker 3: If people want to check that out. You can watch
Speaker 3: Lucy's stream split fiction later today.
Speaker 1: A week ago.
Speaker 3: Tune in done me, the just the archives, Where can
Speaker 3: people find you?
Speaker 9: Look?
Speaker 1: Sometimes everyone's got to get a little bit. Okay.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I was gonna say, I was going to say,
Speaker 4: I'm not I'm not finding on all cylinders today.
Speaker 1: Everywhere, Jeff, I'm I'm at Jeff Backel are in some
Speaker 1: places on Blue Sky and I'm Jeff at x y Z.
Speaker 1: You know, I think it's a different name. I have
Speaker 1: a different name on Twitch bro, I'm Jurff TV.
Speaker 4: You gotta align that, you know what.
Speaker 1: I'm way past the point of carry.
Speaker 3: I feel like we gotta wrap this up because I
Speaker 3: am desperate to.
Speaker 1: People Okay, oh okay, and people find me on my
Speaker 1: new TikTok channel, super Patch Wolf on TikTok. Bye Bye,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jean Luke, Thank you, John Luke, Bye Jeff.
Speaker 1: Jeff's Bizarre Adventure is hosted by timur Hussein, Lucy James, John,
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