Speaker 1: What is up, boys, how's it going? And welcome back
to another episode of the rat Cafe Anime Podcast. Today
it's just me and the Anime dude talking about my
top one hundred favorite anime. I made a list a
while back, and we're gonna go through it together. What's up, Jordan,
what's up?
Speaker 2: Everybody? Happy to be here? And yeah, I just wanted
to look over what Briggs had here for us in
the top one hundred of his and roasted to hell
if we can, or you know, maybe maybe maybe not
just depending.
Speaker 1: Yeah, praise some picks, roast some picks, but also if
you're looking for some anime recommendations, this is my top
one hundred. I've probably seen easily three to four hundred
different anime, so this is these were my favorites.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we need to get you to lay those all
out at some point. I'm curious how many you actually
have seen. Three four hundred probably sounds about right, but
there's a chance you've seen more than me.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've seen more than you. But at
the same time, I do watch anime on stream like
for like pretty much like not daily anymore, but for
a long time I was watching it daily, like I
was going through like multiple shows a week for a while.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I see some quality ones on here, So
I mean, do we want to just hop right into it?
Speaker 1: Or yeah? I mean caneez? Che is my number one,
It'll always be my number one. What you have to
say about that.
Speaker 2: Shorten, I guess are the rest of these in order?
Speaker 1: Or I think my first ten or in order? And
after that it's kind of like kind of I don't know.
I feel like it's in the right area but not
perfect order, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, Caneechee is great. If anybody hasn't
seen that yet, I know Briggs preaches about it all
the time. I've seen it a couple times myself. I've
read like five hundred chapters or so. I need to
finish reading it at some point. But the manga is
coming back, right, so that's cause for excitement.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do. I've been rewatching the anime for the
probably twentieth time on string, and I will say it's
definitely different watching it when you're twenty eight years old
about to be twenty nine versus when you're fourteen fifteen
years old when I watched it. But at the same time.
I do think like the comedy holds up, the overall
story holds up. Sometimes the animation it does feel a
little bit dated, but if you could get over that,
it's I think it's a great story. It's a true
underdog story. And if you're in your younger years and
you're a dude, I just think it'll it'll actually motivate you.
I don't know, Canetzche is this underdog character and just
seeing him with no talent, like overcome all these obstacles
just through like hard work and determination. I watched it
at the perfect time of my life, and I think
because of those personal reasons, it will forever be my
number one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it is.
Speaker 2: It is definitely a very you show. It's really love
to see it. I could definitely see it being like
somebody's number one for those personal reasons, and yeah, it
is one of the most motivational shows I think I've
seen out there as well. So I also watched it
around that point my life. Very biased nostalgia wise for it,
but I do think it holds up well well if
people are willing to give it the time. A lot
of those mid two thousand shows are going to have
some animation issues. Like you said, maybe it can use
like a remake or something in that department, But even
if we're just talking the manga, like the story itself,
it it holds up. I think in a lot of
ways it is one of those true underdog stories that
takes its time.
Speaker 3: It's not.
Speaker 2: It doesn't rush things, and then a lot of shown
it out there. You know, they want the main character
to be a chosen one of some kind or have
some type of super secret hidden power hidden within him.
With Knichi, no, it's just all hard work and just
consistency on the on the daily grind right, and just
really good teachers that help him to guide them along
that path.
Speaker 1: So I think you you bring up a really good point. Jordan,
Oh my god, I can't speak today. I think you
can bring up a really good point. I think I
have an issue a lot of times with newer anime
where it's just like right away instant gratification. He's the best,
he gets all the girls, he's got OPI powers. It's funny.
Sometimes with comedy it works well, but with like a
normal story, I miss that, Like original underdog story, which
is a good segue into number three, which is Hojia
Mayo Epo, we don't need to go in perfect order.
Speaker 2: Had No.
Speaker 1: Epo is another Don't get me wrong, He's a hard puncher.
He has some things going in his favor genetically maybe,
but for the most part, it's again just I don't
want to stand nobody, but just a normal kid that
works really hard to achieve his goals and yeah, becomes
this over the top like Kenichi becomes this eventually becomes
a master or close to a master, equal, becomes the
the the champion of Japan and so so on and
so forth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean even within the universe of EPO, we
get a character that is just kind of a physical
freak that you know, he he still works hard. Of
course too, I'm not gonna put anything down the work
he's put in, but we get Takamora there as like
a bit of a comparison. Yeah, and you know, EPO's
not necessarily in that same breath. As far as talent,
he's just a very earnest worker. That's uh, very by
the book, very uh. I don't know it as the
old school grindset where if his coach tells him to
do something, he's gonna probably go overboard, overboard trying to
do that and then uh yeah, that combined with just
the physical way he's built his body up from working
since childhood right helping out with his parents' business and stuff,
it all just kind of works out into a into
a great series.
Speaker 3: So natural growth over a very long time, dude.
Speaker 1: I remember when I was like really young getting into
these anime and I think I watched Caneche and I'm like,
anime like Canechian Equo came up like it when I
googled it, and I watched those two anime and I
remember watching hdrenle Evil episodes and like lifting weights during
the opening every opening, I would do a set because
it would get me the show. We get me so
fired up. And like I was like a pretty like
scrawny dude in you know, elementary school, and I remember
like going to high school. I was athletic, like I
played sports, but I was a little like in intimidated
to join the sports teams. Obviously, like a lot of
the teams for varsity, like with like fucking seventeen year olds.
I'm fourteen fifteen at the time, and I remember watching
Kenegian epuh, and I was like, fuck it, I'm doing it,
and I really do like it's kind of crazy that
some of these anime kind of changed the trajectory of
like of those years or even your life. Right.
Speaker 2: Well, they say hard work beats talent when talent doesn't
work hard, and I feel like anime just kind of
reinforces that mindset and do you There's a lot of
other shows out there where I don't know, it's easy
to write like a plot line where things just kind
of work out because they work out. But anime main
characters in general always had a thing where they want
to work harder, they want to earn it. They and
a few shows speak better that to that than kenetcheean Epo.
Speaker 3: Right. So I was kind of that same way as
a kid.
Speaker 2: I remember, I think it was like third or fourth grade.
I had a bit of a wake up call for
how scronny I was, where I was always a straight
A student and then one year I just I failed pe.
I couldn't do the pushups and I didn't fail. I
got like a d on like a test or we
had to do push ups and stuff. So I would
watch Dragon Ball Z after that and just do like
push ups. Yeah, like they're at home and stuff until
I could. So sometimes you just need that wake up call.
Speaker 1: GTO is my number three, and GTO, I don't know.
I think it has it's aged. It hasn't aged the
best upon Rewatch, but it's still fricking good, especially if
you give it a few episodes.
Speaker 2: It was kind of wild I rewatch, but but like
you said, at its core, it still has a lot
of really good messages to it. It's a coming of
age story both for the for the mentor and for
the mentees, where he's kind of learning alongside them in
different aspects, and we see that a little bit Neapo
as well. Right like a really good teacher student relationship.
The students learn a lot, but also the teacher is
going to be learning along with them. Right Onizuka, is
that wise fool that east young kid just got out
of college still has a lot to learn, but he
imparked some good lessons there over the course of the
series as well.
Speaker 1: So Yo, I could say it now, I could actually
finally say it. So for a while I was full
time content creator, and then I got a new job,
and I didn't really want to say it because I
got a teacher's position. So I've been teaching for the
last like seven eight months, and I didn't want to
reveal it on stream in case I wanted to continue
down that path. But I've decided I'm not fucking teaching
no more, so I could, Like I was just worried
because obviously like being a teacher and working with kids
and also being a content creator do not go. They
do not go at all. So like now that I'm
maybe gonna be going down a new career path and
probably not teaching next year, I could finally talk about it.
And it's so true, like learning alongside the students together
is like whether it be actual concepts or just lessons
in general. GTO is really really good and it's kind
of reminded me of that I can relate all three
of these top three anime to like my life, and
maybe that's why they're so good. They're very they can
be relatable without being a self insert turned overpowered.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like.
Speaker 2: GTO is one of those where it kind of depends
on what point you want in your time or what
point in your life you watch it too, because I
do remember I watched it pretty young, and I'm like, man,
this guy, this guy does have a lot of good
lessons and stuff. Then I watched it again like around
the end of college and whatnot, and I was like, God,
this guy's kind of an idiot, but he has some
good points, right. So it's one of those things where, yeah,
at what point in your life are you? And then
you kind of relate more to maybe that teacher side,
whereas when you're a kid, it's like teachers feel like
they know everything right.
Speaker 3: And then then you.
Speaker 2: Watch How I About your Mother. You see he's trying
to write on the board. He's like professor, So I
have like one F two fs.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, dude, I hate writing on the board.
I feel like I could do stuff on pen and
papers so easily. You go to write on the board,
you're like you like especially my first week, my first
week teaching, Oh my goodness, I made so many mistakes.
And then eventually, once nerves kind of go away, it's
just like it's like anything else, right, right, what age
group were you teaching? Bergo? I was teaching grade nines
and tens, and now I'm actually teaching a grade twelve universe,
a grade twelve economics class, which is cool, nice, nice, Yeah,
But anyway, let's get back into anime. Gto. It could
be pretty weird at times, but only Zuka is a
badass character, and there's some good lessons, some good relationships
within the series between like teacher and student in a
wholesome way, not in a weird way. Stein's Gate, Stein's
Gate number four, which is just Stein's Gate. I think
apiod eleven through like twenty five is just genuinely my
favorite episodes in all of animes, episodes in general.
Speaker 2: I feel you, episodes one through ten my favorite episodes
in anime, just episodes in general. Just you know the ending,
Wait say that again?
Speaker 1: Say that again?
Speaker 2: Jokes aside, I was saying episodes one through ten are
my favorite. Honestly, all of Steinsgate is so good. It's
another solid pick here. I don't really like time travel
stuff a lot of the time because it's so hard
to do, but it can be very good if done well.
And I've never seen a series do it quite as
well as as that original Steinsgate season right, it really
like but wraps it up in like a bow and
has like a perfect loop there, and it just it
just works right.
Speaker 1: So well said well, said Jordan.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen zero or the movie, though I need
to do that at something.
Speaker 1: You should watch both. You're not as good, but they're
still good. One Piece for obvious reasons.
Speaker 2: All my homies hate One Piece probably right, No, no,
I mean.
Speaker 1: This is an anime list. I couldn't put it like,
I don't know, like One Piece of my favorite manga.
I love One Piece so much, but the anime has
its issues.
Speaker 2: But you know, I still enjoy the anime. Like I said,
I've seen it a couple of times. I think there's
some scenes it probably does better. It just feels the
voice acting and everything adds to it. The soundtrack kind
of adds to it. And I've all recently been trying
to watch through one Pace to see you like kind
of how that differs, And uh, I'm enjoying that too,
so solid.
Speaker 1: Do you think people really hate on one Pace? But
I love it.
Speaker 2: I've only watched it through to like Little Garden, so
like I've only just now gotten into the grand line
like casually watching through every now and again. But I've
really enjoyed. I've really enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: I like how they.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I can see it being difficult to
maybe adapt some recent stuff where like animators go above
and beyond, trying to flesh it out in like a
creative way. So it's uh, you know, they they have
that thing where they'll put out like a episode where
that's cut, and then they'll have like the extended cut,
and I get where there's maybe some debate there, but
for a lot of things, it's I don't know, it
just feels like such a straightforward it's not gonna be
perfect because it's not like the you know, it's not
like directed or in that way. It's not meant to
be that way. But it's them trying to portray whether
the manga is right without somebody having to go through
all the fluff of like of time period when it
was made.
Speaker 3: So I've enjoyed it. I've enjoyed it a lot.
Speaker 2: I like the Brati arc where instead of including the
scene where Zeph cuts off his leg in the anime,
they just took that out and it kind of implies
what the manga did, right, he catalyzed his own legs,
so it's just in order to live there, so frozen
cons I don't I don't think it replaces, you know,
just the manga and its entirety, but it's it's a
dang good like alternative. I think.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's nice to have around. I appreciate that people put
the effort into it.
Speaker 1: I just my biggest thing is one Piece became unwatchable.
I'm sorry, I'll say it. One Piece became unwatchable. It
like it was so good and then with it got
worse and worse and worse in regards to the pacing
that I don't care. I could see that one pace
can be jarring at times with how it makes its
cuts and maybe cuts out some things where the anime
actually enhances the series. For sure, there are moments where
one pace is worse. But for me, I could one
Piece of my favorite Mango of all time and one
of my favorite animes of all time, and for me,
it actually became unwatchable. I couldn't do it. It was
fucking it, dude. It was twenty minute episode, but ten
minutes of recaps and opening and then one fight scene
that I already read in the manga, by the way,
is just like wow, why is this? Why is this
lasting multiple episodes? I personally was starting to get frustrated,
So for me, rewatching and like letting the anime get Ahead.
One Pace is just a way more enjoyable experience. While
I will admit sometimes it can cut some things out
or maybe have some weird cuts where it's transitioning, because
it's just trying to follow what's canon and what's in
the source material. It's not perfect, but personally I am
a big fan of one Pace.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it, and that's why I wanted to throw
the caveat on there that I've only seen so much
of it, right because I watched the original anime up
till Dress Rosa, and then that was around the point
where I was like, I can't hardly do this anymore.
It was so filler or just fluffed out for those
like one hundred episodes for like to adapt one hundred chapters,
I'm like I and a lot of times I felt
like I was watching like maybe five minutes of content
and like a twenty minute episode. So it uh.
Speaker 1: I also was specifically tough, not because there was so
much filler, It was almost just because it would have
took on a really a really challenging arc where he
had so many different moving parts. There were so many
different moving parts, so even just having a little bit
of pacing issues with the anime once they adapted the manga,
a little bit of pacing issues, a little bit of filler,
and just a little bit of that on top of
what was already an ambitious concept made it terrible, but
among it's funny. I rewatched the mall, I reread the manga.
It's one of my favorite arcs.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the mong is so good.
Speaker 2: But I feel like I remember, specifically during that arc,
like recaps and like them stretching out big moments to
just blast forever. Yeah, where it like it feels like
it definitely shouldn't be that way. And then you see
recent arcs where I haven't quite watched the anime, but
I've at least kept up with, like what the big
moments are are the clips and stuff, and you got
you see some animators going above and beyond, right, So
animation is one of those things where you have a
team of people working on it, and with an anime
like One Piece, where it's been going for over twenty
years and you know, the staff's constantly changing and they're
trying to keep it going weekly basically for the most part,
where they're getting out an episode a week, and then
they're catching up to the source material and running into
all these other issues. It's not gonna be perfect, right,
So you're not gonna get a perfect experience either way,
anime wise.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's why we're getting the remake. But I don't know.
Speaker 2: One Pieces or one Pace is a is a good
alternative from what I've seen.
Speaker 3: I enjoy it.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just funny because whenever someone says
recommends one Pace on Twitter, everyone freaks on and says,
don't do it. It's terrible, It's so bad. I'm like,
have you guys seen fish Man Island? Have you guys
seen well? Like, what the fuck are you guys talking about?
I will say, obviously things change, Like the early anime
really really pacings pretty good, it gets worse, it gets
a little bit better at times. Obviously, the animation in
an Egghead, Oh my god, was it fantastic, And even
towards the end of one Oh it was it was
so good that this animation is enhancing it. So this
pros and cons. But then again, everyone's getting into one
Piece at different times. Like I've been watching weekly since
fucking before the time skip right, So you don't a
lot of people don't know, you don't know what it
was like going through Punk Hazard and Whole Cake. You
know you.
Speaker 2: You week yeah, week to week.
Speaker 1: You fucking I was watching Dress Rosa weekly. It took
o my entire high school career, so obviously someone in
my chat was like someone in chat Marcus was like, oh,
you guys, it feel like you guys watch a different
Dress Rosa than I did. No shit, you probably binged
it in like two weeks. I watched it over the
course of a four year high school like three and
a half years of high school. I remember making a
review to a chapter in grade nine or ten and
then graduating and Dress Roaster wasn't done yet.
Speaker 2: Oh god, it's so true. And granted there's a lot
of pacing wise for manga and stuff, where it's so
much better there after the fact where you're able to
kind of binge through it. Oh. I feel like Berserk
is one of the best examples of that in my
mind too, where throughout most of my high school career
he was just on a boat and there was like
five chapters that came out. Every time I checked back in,
they're still on the boat, and I'm like, oh, then
you go back and reread that arc. It's not too bad, right,
but it's like one piece, They're always on a boat.
Every time I check back in, they're still on a boat.
Speaker 3: So it's boats and anime hate them all right.
Speaker 1: Anyway, let's move on to foods, food doors.
Speaker 3: I really want to revisit Food Wars at some point.
Speaker 2: It's such an interesting series, and I've actually been cooking
here over the past few months, so I wonder if,
like my perspective now would be different.
Speaker 3: But I really enjoy Food Wars.
Speaker 2: Although caveat, I guess you're the one that recommended this
to me, and I actually haven't seen most of the anime.
I saw like six episodes, seven episodes, and I read
it instead.
Speaker 1: I think the anime is better than the manga. Not
gonna lie like without the without the sound effects of
them orgasming. I don't know if it's the same, dud.
Speaker 2: You say that. Everybody complains about how acchy Food Wars is,
and I do think it's one of those series where
the acchi kind of adds to it on it because
it like, uh, it just meshes well, like that's half
the point, right, But I will say I think the
anime is like way more atchy than the manga because
there were so many times I'm reading it and I'm like,
there might be one etchy page every couple few chapters,
like well, for most of it, it's not even that bad,
like at all, But uh, I don't I don't know,
very interesting series, very top tier shown in battles, shown
in that's just is like its own little thing. And then, uh,
I don't know. I could see it being one of
your favorites. I'm curious kind of on why, but I'm
not gonna fight against back against this one.
Speaker 1: I do think it's one of those examples where the
etchy actually enhances the series, and there's not that many
that do it. There's not that many that I think
the and actually actually makes the series better. It's like
integrated into the reaction because at the end of the day,
they're cooking food, dude, they're cooking food and trying food.
So like having the over the top reactions actually enhances
are like what like we could see it kind of scale.
It's power scaling. It's essentially power scaling through orgasms.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's imagery that's meant to like represent like the
taste of the food, right, and the basically give an
extra way to to show that. So I just don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't even know why I love the show.
I just I got addicted to it really, really easily,
and I just didn't want to stop watching. I constantly
wanted more. My biggest thing. The shows that are in
my top twenty are shows that I want to rewatch
years later. Years go by and I'm like, I can
go back and watch that. I want to watch it again.
And that's how I know it meant something to me
and made a difference. I'm I'm just trying to put
by my thoughts together. For Food Wards, I don't know. Yeah,
I really don't know.
Speaker 2: A lot of different creative characters in Food Wars that
all have like their specialized cooking style. For the most part,
you know what it was?
Speaker 1: It was? It was It was a shone in. It's
a battle shoon and done really well, and I love
Battle Shonins, but with a very very different twist. They're
fighting through through cooking competitions and food.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was very high quality as well. I love
the artwork for Food Wars and then uh, I love
it whenever they like zoom into like a very specific
niche or thing that the author might have an interest in.
In this case, it was food, right, and and they
would have like genuine recipes like with a like a
chef kind of I guess guiding them ang and not
guiding it, but like giving advice on like the recipes
used to where it is like genuine stuff being cooked right.
So they're going into this niche and like a very
battle shown in way and it's just very fun.
Speaker 1: There's also a common thread with my favorite anime. They
tend to be shown in, but they also tend to
have like a love interest that actually kind of go somewhere.
If you look at Kanichi, you look at Hojmeno Epo,
you look at Stein's Gate, and you look at Food Wars.
All in my top six they all have like there
is whatever the romantic relationship is. The dynamic are all
very very different, but they actually go somewhere. Maybe it's
the romantic in me. But Food Wars we got Soma
and Edina, Stein's Gate, we got Oka Bay and Christina
that is her name. We got an Epo. I don't
remember EPO's girl's name.
Speaker 2: I'm blanking, but I know which Mashiba's sister, so we
can just call her Mashiba.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think yeah, and Mashiba gto whatever. But Knechie
and Mio Meu and like like some of my favorite
wife foos, my favorite wife foos are like Meu, Christina
and Edina. So like straight up, maybe that that's a factor.
I'm learning stuff about myself through going through these anime.
Speaker 2: You know, fair enough, the top of this list is
kind of hard because I can't find very many things
to like critique here, and I really wanted to roast
your list really bad, but these are these are good,
so it's top.
Speaker 1: I got good taste, that decent taste.
Speaker 2: He's got food Wars taught him all about taste.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: I know No Game No Life being in my top
ten sometimes gets a little bit of criticism.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I could see the criticism of it being in
like the top ten maybe, but I think people forget
how unique like No Game The Life kind of felt
when it came out, because you know, people love competitions,
people love games, and then you throw that in with
an Isa Kai and it just it felt very unique
with its whole uh, its whole vibe right that entire
first season, it's all you got one season, but it's
still talked about to this day for that reason, right,
And I think I liked the movie even more than
that season where it was was a prequel type thing,
so it has good world building, just all within that
first little bit. I don't know, curious, like, what what
was your reasoning behind having at top ten.
Speaker 1: I think it just it was it was a similar
thing where I watched it, I really wanted more and
I didn't come out, and then I rewatched it, and
then I went and watched the movie in theaters, and
then I rewatched it again, and then I went and
bought the light novels and read it. So even if
I can't put my I'm not smart enough to realize
why I like a show. A lot of the times,
I'm just like, that's in my top I have to
put in my top ten. I watched it three times
in a year and a half. Clearly I love it.
Speaker 2: Usually if I've read something as well too, there's a
little bit of bias there where I'm just gonna like
it a little bit more because I don't know. You've
seen it both ways, right, You've seen kind of where
it came from, and some of the stuff that's implied
but maybe not shown in the anime.
Speaker 1: So dude, I loved it so much that not only
did I buy the later light novels, I bought the
earlier ones that were already adapted into the anime. Just
reread it, just to read it. I needed something to do.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: I was at the time. I was in university, and
I was just like I was spending an hour on
the subway there and an hour back. I was sarying
two hours on a subway a day, two hours with
a light novel. You could finish half a light novel
or like a quarter of a light novel sometimes, so
like I would. It was just like every week I
would just read a new light novel.
Speaker 2: Hey, you know, you don't got to try to justify
yourself to me. Man, I've read like seven light novels
in the past week.
Speaker 1: So I there we go.
Speaker 3: I'm a reader. Reading is great.
Speaker 1: Uh, Spice and Wolf. I also read the light novels
and they were so good, very good. I actually think
the light novels are better than the animes first Pie
and Wolf specifically.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen the full remake. I've only seen the
first episode. But uh, but I will say I do
love those Light novels. It was the first flight novel
said I bought in full was h was Spiced and Wolf.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the remake's pretty good. It does feel a little
bit different at times, and I do think just like
the Spice and Wolf light novels are just really really detailed,
and that detail added a lot of value to me.
And I already watched the anime, so I was able
to picture the characters and kind of like already liked
them already going in. So it was, it was, It
was really good. So number nine is a class number eight,
Number eight overly cautious hero sir. So many anime it's
so fun.
Speaker 2: I haven't it's and I feel like I see a
lot of people have that same big three, and I
love it because you know, well, for me it would
be like Mushoku, KonoSuba and Ree zero are like my
big three. And then here you are with two Wisa
Kai in your top ten, neither one or like usually
ones that people even mention, right, like, these are pretty
unique picks, but very high quality picks.
Speaker 3: So I love thank you.
Speaker 2: I just rewatched that one here recently, and then you
told me we couldn't talk about it?
Speaker 3: Could we have to talk about Badisa Kai?
Speaker 1: Overly Clausus Hero is just so funny. I it was
my first watch through because, like, don't get me wrong,
anime makes me laugh, you know, anime makes me laugh.
Nothing crazy. But I was watching Overly Clasha's Hero alone
by myself, and I have this distinct memory of crying
and having to pause the episode kind of. I was
laughing so hard, and I don't think any other anime
has done that to me, where it's like I need
a break, give me a second to catch my breath.
So I feel like that's that. That just spoke so
much volumes so that not only was it one of
the funniest anime I've ever seen, the second is starting
to feel repetitive. I'm like, oh, maybe it's trying to
get a little bit repetitive. It became a good anime.
I'm like, why did this get serious?
Speaker 2: And like I'm about to say now, it's one of
those few anime that'll make you stop and pausitive episode
to cry for a little bit, but for completely different
reasons based on the.
Speaker 3: Episode, right, So it's at the very.
Speaker 2: Beginning, it's hysterical it's funny. There's a lot of foreshadowing that,
like I've only caught on rewatches and stuff, so it's
still serious as it kind of does some of that,
but then the last couple episodes it's just a complete
tone shift. Edit encapsulates in a way that like brings
everything together to make sense. And I know the light
novels continue going and they're kind of on hiatus now,
but just the anime as a as a standalone, it's
just still just so good, right. It ends in a
good spot, solid pick, solid pick, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: We've got death done at number nine, which everyone loves
death dope.
Speaker 2: That's good death note. It's just the gift that keeps
on giving, right. I never.
Speaker 3: I never get tired of it. Rewatched it many times.
Speaker 2: I haven't rewatched it quite too much here recently, but
it's just that quality, right.
Speaker 1: It's a It's it's that anime that everyone recommends to
their friends to get into anime. And I think that
speaks volumes, not only because it kind of like people
have a certain expectation what anime is. I think it's
broken in recent years because the anime has become so mainstream.
But when we were growing up, people thought anime with
Pokemon or fucking porn, you know, it's either handti or things.
Had a lot of that. I mean that's what my
mom thought thought anime was. You know, that's what a
lot of it think.
Speaker 3: It's pretty good summary.
Speaker 1: So at that time, everyone recommended Death Note because it
broke those preconceptions. Oh those yeah, those preconceived perceptions of
what anime is. And it's also just really really good.
And what's funny to me is even though so many
newer good anime come out that have like kind of
broken that and people know what anime is because it's
gotten so much more popular now, people still recommend Death Note.
Death Notes always people's go to first anime for some reason,
because that's what people like. I run into people at volleyball.
We're talking about anime and they've watched like four anime,
but one of them is always death No. It's so funny,
and it's.
Speaker 2: Such a high quality manga too, right, Like Obata is
one of my favorite artists, so like, it just looks
really good and then uh, yeah, you know for the anime,
it's one of those where it does have a pretty
solid ending. Some people like the first twenty five episodes
a little bit more and stuff as well, but even
if you stop there, it's still pretty good ending. And yeah,
it's just one of those that just has a tone
where it takes itself pretty seriously. It doesn't have like
a lot of slapstick comedy that I think that a
lot of uh anime have it. It did make me
laugh a couple of times, but it's still it's very
like dry humor whenever it does right. So it it
just did feel.
Speaker 3: Tone wise, very different from a lot of anime at
the time.
Speaker 1: Code Yas is pretty is similar in a lot of ways.
Like it's one of those anime that is really intelligent,
really makes you think has a good like battle between uh,
like we have we have l and Light and now
we have Code Yas in the world. I mean, oh
my god, I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna push back on that one a little bit.
I do think Koyas is like my favorite series of
all time, So I do love it, okay, but I
think it gets like too many unfair Death Note comparisons
just because they came out at the same time, and
because the Luci and Light are both really smart. I
feel like where Death Note is kind of contrary to
what you would picture a lot of anime being. Kodias
is like just the most anime anime, right. It throws
like almost every genre into one. It is the full package.
It yeah, high school life, comedic, everything's kind of going crazy,
and then there's other episodes where it is very serious, right,
tackling pretty crazy topics, a lot of a lot of
different characters all over the place, a lot of strings
that attach all the things happening. I don't know, it's
hard to summarize in a short couple of sentences, but
it just it felt like the perfect anime right where
it didn't take itself too seriously, but at the same
time took things very seriously.
Speaker 1: You know what I think the comparison comes from as well.
It's those moments that you love from from Death Note.
There's a lot of similar moments that I love from Kodyak.
It's those moments of like the betrayal and the outsmarting
and the master plan coming to fruition by the end,
and like it's like the flexing in these ways as well,
through intelligence and these planning and this mastermind. I feel
like those moments of out smarting or what people like
about both series. But they're so different, of course, they're
so different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I guess. And why they seem a little
bit different than me as well is just because White
was like a little bit of a sociopath, right, he
didn't really have like a lot of things tying him
down once he.
Speaker 3: Had got corrupted by power.
Speaker 2: Whereas luluche we see him like just kind of gradually,
not gradually, just completely over and over have to like
harden himself over the course of the series because he
still felt very human, right, he still had these things
that would like tie up back and ground him, like
his sister and all these things he's fighting for, and
he almost had to like push past that, right. So
it's a still one of the best endings in anime
as well. Don't want to spoil that, but it's.
Speaker 1: The fact, is my god, the ending of Code Chios
is a masterpiece.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a reason it's still talked about to this day.
Speaker 1: Right, it's a very funny people in Chad brought it
up death Note. Everyone's okay with spoiling it, like the
midpoint of death Note, because it happens in the middle
of what happens with with l Everyone's okay with spoiling it,
Cody yask no one dares talk about that masterpieces of
an ending.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy, you know, yeah, and you know it
also has the best WIFEU an anime see too, right,
we got One of my favorite scenes is like the
giant pizza. They're making a giant pizza anime hysterical stuff, right,
and then that messes up and then there's just like
this dramatic scene where pans across her looking so sad
on the roof because she was looking forward to that pizza.
So it's you know, it's funny stuff like that mixed
in with all the serious stuff that makes it one
of like the most anime anime right.
Speaker 1: Berserved nineteen ninety seven is my number eleven. It's kind
of sad it doesn't. It's sad it doesn't make the
top ten. I just having read Berserk, I just feel like, yeah,
so many parts after nineteen ninety seven that are some
of my favorites, and it never got adapted properly or
adapted at all, and it's just like, how can I
I mean, just isolated alone. Berzerk ninety nine seven is good.
It just it ends where it begins, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's basically the prologue, right, and it does do
a good job of capturing that heart and solo berserk
in some of the quiet moments. But at the same time,
there's a lot of things that probably could have done better.
It did tone down a lot. So yeah, if you're
ever comparing it too much to the mong in your head,
it's hard to live up right, It's never gotten a
perfect adaptation.
Speaker 1: Yeap, that's true.
Speaker 2: I respect it being on here, but yeah, at the
same time, I understand it not being overly high.
Speaker 1: At number twelve, I have FMA Brotherhood. I put FM
slash Brotherhood because it's kind of like I really enjoyed
the original Full Metal Alchemist, but then Brotherhood does it
better with like the ending and like, so I feel
like I just just watched both. I like watching both.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't seen I haven't rewatched O three, So
take anything I say about that with a grain of salt.
The Brotherhood still so good manga, very good. People forget
how just solid FMA was, I think, because I don't know,
people would praise it almost too much, to the point
where it was seen as like the perfect the anime,
and then nowadays people don't hardly talk about it. I
don't think either of those is necessarily true. But it
was just like a very solid story foundationally from start
to finish. It had a creative world, building, creative world,
and likable characters in it. Put all that together, you know,
I don't know, a very complete package, right, so very
satisfying package.
Speaker 1: I don't only I say it kind of just does
everything well. It's very polished of a series, especially for
the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, with Brotherhood, I think my least favorite part, if
I had to choose, would be some of the slapstick stuff.
But even that, it doesn't do it bad, right, It's
just kinda kind of there, So, I mean.
Speaker 1: I found it funny. Yeah. Number thirteen Vinland Saga. Oh
my god, I've read the manga. I need to catch
up and finish it. But it's just a masterpiece. I
think it should be higher the more I think about it, it
should be higher.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, Vinland Saga's up there as well, one of
my favorite manga. Solid anime. What's done a great job
of those first two seasons.
Speaker 3: Hope to see more, Yeah, don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I have a ton to say
about this one, aside from the fact that Season one,
in its entirety was just the prologue is crazy, and
I feel like it gets better from there.
Speaker 1: So it's it's the character study and the development of
Thorfin throughout him growing up is just so beautifully done.
I love it.
Speaker 2: I will say there's a lot of coming in age
stories in media, and a lot of them are really
well done. I love coming of age stories, but Thorphin's
is very unique because throughout that entire first season where
we're seeing kind of his origin stories and whatnot, it
doesn't feel like he's the main character at all, right,
as it probably shouldn't. He's a kid, right, He's kind
of being pulled around by everybody else's whims and life. Right,
just life can be crazy and chaotic, and he doesn't
have a lot of control over over most of that, right,
He's kind of a slave to his own emotions there.
So it's a it's crazy how well that's portrayed versus
just everything that goes past that, right, with him actually
growing up and becoming a man and becoming his own person,
So moving past those things that happen, So.
Speaker 1: What's crazy is my number fourteen pick Samurai X. I
watched within the last three months, Right, it was it
was Jordan's recommendation on our podcast Rank Cafe where we're
just making each other watch anime, and it was just
it was a perfect series. Like I don't think I
give I don't think in my top ten, I would
not give a single one a ten out of ten.
Samurai X was close to it. I think I give
SAMURAIX a ten out of ten. It was just perfection.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's it's so good. It doesn't overstay, it's welcome.
It has a very serious tone that just met mixes
with the I'm right, and I do love Samurai X
way more than I love just normal ra Roni Kenchin
for whatever reason.
Speaker 3: Right, it's just uh so much better.
Speaker 2: It just it feels like it's such a complete story,
just telling retelling that prologue and a in a different tone.
Speaker 3: Right, the way that they put so much passion into
it was perfect.
Speaker 1: I couldn't have asked for anything more. I the only
reason I wouldn't give it a ten is because, like,
oh maybe animation, dude. The animation was good too, and
at a million years old, when did it come out?
Speaker 2: That's what the thing about an Ova, right is they
kind of took their time with it and it was
only a few what four or five episodes. I forget
how long Samurai X is, but uh what whatever they
put into it, like, they went all out where when
things were happening, So it holds holds up quality wise too.
Speaker 1: Jordan, did you finish my number fifteen? Pick Ping Pong
the animation? I pleaded the fifth I pleaded the fifteen
week for a future week. Please just watch.
Speaker 3: You need to finish it.
Speaker 1: Walked all the Ping Pong and just talk about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm down. I loved sports anime. I loved
those first few episodes. I need to finish.
Speaker 1: Such a good storytelling. And you haven't seen anything short
and you've watched two or three episodes. You literally haven't
seen it. It's only a twelve episode series, right, But
I'm telling you, though they're just an introduction, it is
so good. It's in my top fifteen for a reason.
Speaker 2: I've seen it decent. I watched four episodes I think
out of eleven, which makes it worse. But the fact
I didn't finish it, but I need to do so
it gets stuff when we're watching like three shows for
that week or whatever, to three different ones. But that
one's one I haven't tooken off my watching list. There's
a lot of others I took off. That's not one
of them.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, I will say we're there's no way we're
gonna get through alle hundred animals. Yeah, we're gone, but
Recon's away for a little bit. Guys. He won't be
back until like maybe the end of March early April.
So maybe me and Jordan do this. We just go
through this list twenty episode at a time. Maybe we
do a week where we just talk about ping pong.
Who knows.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm down for whatever. It's like you said,
it's a long list.
Speaker 2: We're definitely not geting through all these, but if nothing else,
definitely won't run out of.
Speaker 3: Things to talk about.
Speaker 2: There's it's crazy how many of things I've seen. It
makes me curious, Like, I know I have like a
number of the shows I've seen, but.
Speaker 1: God, well, I mean a good amount of these you
recommended to me. Major was your recommendation coming in at
thirty one?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Let's like sometimes that's I just look at your Twitter
sometimes and like you like you when I when I'm
scrolling and I see that you talking about an anime,
I'm like, Jordan's got a good taste. I'll check it out.
I'm not even fucking lying.
Speaker 2: I have very biased tastes too, though, I will say
so like the things I like, I really like, and
they might not necessarily have that same mainstream appeal. But like,
I really like sports series, right, so I've fel like
I've at least sampled like almost every sports series out there.
It feels like So Major is just one of those
that stuck with me. It goes for like six seasons
and then also has like Major Second for another couple
of seasons. It's it's so good, Briggs.
Speaker 1: Do I have to bribe you to do it with
my Top one hundred? The problem is I haven't seen
a lot of the anime in your Top one hundred
for sure. I mean, we could roaster Top one hundred
for a podcast, not for free. I don't do nothing
for free. Black Like, where did I skip to? Nora Gomi?
Speaker 3: Laura Gomi? What a throwback?
Speaker 1: I know the opening I haven't watched. I have rewatched it.
The openings are fantastic. It's just one of those series
that I do think it's better over time and has
a good blend of like comedy but serious moments and
badass moments and romance moments and heartfelt it like it
just it's one of those series where I just think
it's like, oh, it's so chill, it's fun, but it
just does everything well and does a little bit of everything,
if that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like it's one of those series where
you still hear about the openings.
Speaker 3: The openings were bangers, you know, but.
Speaker 2: I've seen this recommended is like an underrated anime at times.
And while that's true, it's like people forget how popular
this series was when it was coming out, right, because
it was very good, right, and then it's it's one
of those things where it kind of fell off once
we realize we're probably not.
Speaker 3: Getting more of the anime. I think among only ended.
Speaker 2: A couple couple of years ago, but it's it's very
solid and a lot of things that did very funny
but also very action heavy, and the nailed that right,
some good character moments.
Speaker 1: I think when I think of Norgomed, I think of
season two a lot, and then I went and watched
season one I'm like, it's a lot slower than I remember.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember the blonde girl and a lot of
focus around, like her little posse. I guess you'd say,
like in that second season, right, so what's her name again?
Speaker 1: Starts with the bee beam or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, something like that.
Speaker 2: But she was a battie, right, so you want Waifu's
Norgami also has some.
Speaker 1: Of that truth, and you got a little bit of
a romance between Yato and our main girl, if I
remember correctly. It's been a while since I've watched season two, but.
Speaker 2: That's what It's hard for me to get too many
specifics because it has a little bit. I have not
rewatched this one.
Speaker 1: But Black Lagoon at number seventeen balls to the wall
fucking action. And I said fucking action on purpose.
Speaker 2: I mean, hey, if they can't handle you saying that,
then definitely they can't handle Black Lagoons. So don't go
into this expecting expecting anything to be held back. Right.
This is a series that I've rewatched a few different times.
It took me way too long to watch it for
the first time. But uh, guy, it is a vibe
all its own. It's very depressing, very dark, but just
it still manages to have like action, it still manages
to have comedy.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I'm trying to think.
Speaker 2: It just has like it's very own unique tone while
going through all that.
Speaker 3: Right, So it's uh.
Speaker 1: I will say, up until this point, like I like,
I'm like, so not what we're talking the anime we've
talked about, but the anime that I watched, like throughout
my life chronologically, A lot of the times I always
like the main the male characters like my favorite because
we're always guys. And then I had like wife who's
girls that like I thought I liked as a character,
but they are never my favorite. Black Lagoon was the
first series where Revy was my favorite character in the series.
In the series, she is so badass and she was
just best girl hands down, not even a wife who
just bestirs. I loved it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's very good series. A lot of guns,
a lot of a lot of Revy. She's kind of psycho,
but like a in a hot way.
Speaker 3: And then uh, I don't, I don't know, I.
Speaker 2: Feel like, like, so.
Speaker 3: This series does go to some very dark places.
Speaker 2: I know. When the manga went on hiatus, I think
the author was suffering from like some depression and stuff
like that, and I'm like, no wonder writing this for
you know, however, long stuff is bound to happen.
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised whoever wrote this was depressed. It made sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it goes to some dark places, so I guess
be wary of that. And also I learned like twenty
new slurs I think from this series alone, Like they
were saying things I'm like, I gotta look up at
that even means like I never heard it half this
stuff right. It's it's weird too because I think Revy's
like Chinese American, but like she has like ten different
words for other Chinese people that I am like, all right,
I never heard any of that.
Speaker 1: So number eighteen JoJo's just in general just just blanket
and JoJo's I like some arcs and some parts better
than others. I'm a big fan of part two. I
like Part five a lot as well. I'm excited for
Part seven to come out. I just like JoJo's.
Speaker 2: You just got to get into the vibe of JoJo's
is when I tell people, because it does have its
very own vibe and I wasn't quite messing with it.
Too much over like the first four or five episodes,
because Part one people say it's a little bit slow.
I enjoyed it, but you like, ironically enjoy it because
it's very over the top, has a really good ending.
And then part two is great, one of my favorite parts.
And then I love JoJo's in general. But like for
most people, you just got to get into the vibe.
Once you're in that vibe, it's just it feels like
a different world, right, It's like, no, it's.
Speaker 1: Fucking I have to say this. I'm sorry to cut
you off. It's so funny. I've tried to make my
cousin watch anime. He will not finish an anime. He
drops everything drop me. He watches a little bit of
Rooney Kensen for some reason, like a bunch of that
he got. He got through a good amount of that,
but he dropped death note. He's dropped everything everything he drops.
Does doesn't really like anime. You know what. His favorite
anime is Joe JoJo's, but specifically Part one. Okay, he likes,
he likes Part two. He watched all of Part three.
It's the furthest he's gotten in an anime. He didn't
watch anything past it because he just fucking I don't know,
he's busy, can't get him, can't get him to finish anything,
like whatever you watch, like, you'll watch like ten episodes
of death though He's like that it's pretty good, and
then never watch it again. His favorite anime Number one
anime to this day is JoJo's Part one, and I
just find it so funny.
Speaker 2: I mean, JoJo's is one of those series where it's
Part one's pretty poetic, right all in all, if you
take those major story beats and and just look at those.
But the presentation is what I think takes a lot
of people from getting used to. It's, uh, it's very
over the top. It's like flamboyant mascul 'll entity a
little bit as like uh as the the way they
resent themselves, the way they I don't know, there'll be
a lot of things that happened that don't really matter,
so like there's that as well, like, uh, I don't know,
it's just out there. It's like its own vibe and
its own world, and it's like a fever dream watching
it for the first time, right, So it's getting used
to that. You'll you'll you'll.
Speaker 3: Find a series unlike unlike any other.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just so funny to me because everyone's like,
I love JoJo's, but part one was a little slow.
It's so different. I love Jojo's's my favorite, but you
know part one, and then you get my cousin that's
just like part one is the best, and Loki he's
like he's not anymore. He's definitely matured a lot, but
like Loki, he's just Deo like he does genuinely remind
him Theo in a lot of ways. My cousin he
is the biggest, like troll charismatic, like he is just
Deo honestly like.
Speaker 2: That it was your cousin, but it was him, but
it was him.
Speaker 1: He is so fucking I don't know, man. He like
he's very different nowadays, he's definitely grown up and matured.
But growing up with this guy he was he was
fucking deal.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable the shit that he would do.
Speaker 2: Jojo' is just one of those series is very meme heavy.
It's really good in a serious way without taking itself
too seriously. And then I do love that everybody, like
you just said, has their own favorite part, right, So
I think for me, my first watch through, I hated
Part three. I didn't hate it, I just it was
probably like my least favorite. I watched it again, I
think it's my favorite part. Part three is my favorite part.
So you're like, that's the squad. It's like a fifty
episode journey, but very episodic feeling. But but yeah, matches
that JoJo's tone right. Solid pick to have in the
top twenty.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, Fate zero at nineteen and Fate staying. Unlimited
Blade Works at twenty eight.
Speaker 2: Zero is so good. Ginner Rabucci is the writer for
the light novels. It has that tone to it that's
just the pressing as hell. I don't know. For some reason,
I love it when series makes me sad and depressed.
It makes me feel something, and I'm a little sad.
We didn't get Recon to watch this first. We had
him Watchunlimited Blade Works instead.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a better chance of getting him
to like it if we started with Unlimited Blade Work.
I guess that was wrong.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe Unlimited Blade Works is like definitely more. I
feel like most people maybe like that better.
Speaker 3: Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't love Fate zero is better, but Fate Stain
at Elemented Blade Works is more anime, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Face zero is my favorite, But at the same time,
it's it's one of those where it's very depressing, right,
It's you know where it ends, and it doesn't end
in a good spot. So they chose, uh, I guess
some background on this is, like, you know, I like
the writer Genna Rabucci. He does a lot of at
least back then stuff. He did a lot of interesting things.
He did the light novels for Black Lagoon, he did
the Medoka anime he wrote for that. There's a few
others I could maybe name, but Phantom recordom of the Phantom.
But one of his quotes is that he doesn't feel like,
you know, anime watchers like deserve the happy ending or
like that characters aren't truly happy and like everything's always
going to be depressing, right, So they chose for the
prequel for Fate zero. Whenever they're looking for a writer
for those light novels, they knew how it was going
to end because of how the visual novel starts, right,
and he was in a bit of a like a
writer's blocked at that time. So the fact that they
made that work. They're like this guy that ends thincts pressing,
and we got to have a series that ends the
pressing to match up with this. It just fits so well.
I don't know, I don't I don't want to gush
over that too much. But Fate's good and Fate zero
is like the best faith.
Speaker 1: All right, our goal, Our goal is to get through
twenty five anime here. Okay, So you Hackey Show, You
Hockey Show, which is just still I want to go
back and rewatch it. It's a classic. I'm a big fan.
I still to this day like it more than Hunter Hunter,
which is kind of crazy because Hunter hunters better, but
You Hackey Show just has better characters, or I like
the characters so much more.
Speaker 2: Hunter Hunter feels more polished in a lot of ways.
I feel like, whereas you Hawk Show might feel like
a bit of a rough draft at times, with how
a little bit rougher around the edges. It's not like
everything's planned out exactly, but it does have some of
that raw energy in a good way. Right, Like I
rewatched it a couple of years back, and maybe a
few years back now, but it holds up like it's
very good and one of the most likable main cast
in anime. And then it does some of the formulaic
stuff with battle showing in is that like I don't know.
I don't want to say like it did the things
that are like cliche or whatnot, because I feel like
it popularized those things, right, like the Dark Tournament, one
of the best tournaments, Chapter Black after that, where you
have like the things that kind of subvert expectations there,
Like I.
Speaker 1: Feel like it's very simplistic, but it's simplistic looking back
nowadays at the time you're like, this is perfect and
it's doing it all so well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like how raw it is really helps
some of the emotional parts. And then also like the
action and everything else on top of that is still
just very good. Right, It doesn't have to be polished
and perfect, like Hunter a hund is to be a
very good series.
Speaker 1: I mean, at the end of the day, like when
I try to think, like logically and critically, I'm like
Hunter Hunter power systems better and there's these deeper moments
that are so good and it has so much going
for it Hunter Hunter. But when I think about what
I would what I would rather go back and rewatch
You Hawckey Show all day for Kuwabara and my boy.
Speaker 2: U s K.
Speaker 1: I used think I respect it, this pure just emotion.
What would I rather watch you Hawckey Show? So how
could I not put it higher on that list?
Speaker 2: You know, I still think the chapter Black Saga is
like one of my favorite showing in arcs in all
of anime. Right, it's just the and Dark Tournament, Like
both of those are just up there as like two
of the the top arks in general. And then I
kind of had it a little bit of a rushed ending,
but still very good. Hunter Hunters are my top five
anime so like I you know, it.
Speaker 3: Might be a little bit disagreement there, but they're both
top tier. No disagreements. I'm agreeing a little.
Speaker 2: Bit too much.
Speaker 1: I think it's a fair point to most people would
like Hunter Hunter more. I'm a very character driven person.
You couldn't tell ye fair enough.
Speaker 2: I think Uk is one of the best like shown
in main characters out there, right, I'd have him on
my Mount rushmore.
Speaker 1: He's just so cool but also like his layers to
his character. I love it anyway, Your name at number
twenty three. My first movie I don't know. At a
certain point, I'm like, yeah, we'll start doing movies too.
I love you.
Speaker 2: Your Name was. Your Name was good because it took
the masterpiece that was like the Grand Blue live action
and it was like, you know what, we can we
can make a parody of this, right we can. We
can go above and beyond and make our own story
that you know, kind of mirrors the greatness we see
in that that live action film. So, uh yeah, Your
Name pretty decent overall. Not a bad film by any means.
Took the world by storm when it came out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it did. And I think it's another one of
those things where it's like I watched it when it
came out and like subbed, and then I made Lauren
go watch it with me in theaters dubbed, and then
I re watched it another time. I watched it like
four five times right now, So like just the pure
rewatch value, the highs and lows in the series. It
was one of those things where like I knew where
it was going, but I wasn't sure. I don't know.
I like it a lot.
Speaker 2: Makoto Shinkai is one of those, uh, really creative directors
when it comes to quality and whatnot. Like everything's always
feels so top quality in his films between like the
music and the animation and everything a little.
Speaker 3: Bit out there.
Speaker 2: It's like the plots, right, But I do feel like
your name has one of those easier to like get
into plots, Like it is one of those that like
really just makes the whole film high quality. Everything with
people have seen pretty private, they can kind of get
behind that, right. It's just a good romance story that
actually doesn't have a depressing ending, right, And it kind of.
Speaker 1: What were you saying about the author's plots, I kind
of cut you off, and I think you cut out
a little bit there.
Speaker 2: Oh gotch. I was just saying, like everything is always
so high quality about his movies, but his plots are
always like a little bit out there. Like I don't
know if you've seen some of his other movies and stuff,
but like the one that comes to mind for me
is like Weathering with You, I think is what it
was called it.
Speaker 3: I watched it in theaters a little bit after.
Speaker 2: I hopefully I'm not speaking out my ass here and
just messing everything up on like what he's done, But like.
Speaker 3: Weathering with You, was it? Was interesting, but it was
also just.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It was weird in a lot of
ways to me, like I didn't quite understand what was
going on, whereas with Your Name, I could actually follow
what was going on, if that makes sense. Like everything
else that I've watched of him, it's like, I don't
know what's going on, but I like it. Your Name
it was a little bit of both. I was like,
I like it and I know what's going on.
Speaker 1: It was just like it did it all? I will
say it did it all. Rad Wimbs killed the music,
I don't know. The plot was good, the romance was good.
It told like a pretty it was still a unique
concept like it's been done before, but it's pretty unique
and different. I loved it. I loved it, and I'm
you know, that's my my hopeless romantic in me. Another
another romance series. Who would have thought Brigo, who would
have thought?
Speaker 2: Respect?
Speaker 1: We thought we liked all the all the all the
bros and the Chads and the showden Anime. But the
parts I liked about these showden Anime where there was
the romance clearly clearly where are we We're albably twenty
four mob Psycho was just another anime where it's just like, ah,
it's the closest I could give to a ten out
of ten, you know, just absolutely perfect.
Speaker 2: I'd probably have Mob in like my top ten. Like
I love Mob. I think it's I enjoy it quite
a bit more even than One punch Man, Like it's just, uh,
it's one of those series that just feels like the
complete package. Like I said, it's just a coming up
age story done really well, right, So him trying to
find himself and become like a more confident in his
own skin and the things around that.
Speaker 1: So my memory is so bad. What's Mob's mentor's name?
Speaker 3: Reagan? Reagan.
Speaker 1: Reagan's one of my favorite characters, even though I couldn't
remember his name, not just in Mob Psycho, but just
in anime in general. I feel like I'm a little
bit relatable too. I kind of I feel like I
relate to Reagan in a few ways, as as an
older man trying to figure out his life and make it.
Speaker 2: Make it till you make it right and yeah, and
it's one of those things where it kind of goes
back to what we were saying at the very start
of this Rank Cafe episode, right as far as a
good student teacher relationship is going to have, you know,
the student learning a lot, but also the teacher learning
as well alongside him. And I feel like that's what
we get with Mob in Reagan, right, So whichever one
you relate to more at whatever point you're at in
your life, there's gonna be something to latch onto.
Speaker 3: There as you go through their journey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 2: Reagan matures a lot over the course of the series too.
Speaker 1: So oh my god, and season two, especially his relationship
between Reagan and Mob is just so beautifully done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's season two.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 2: It was still still probably my favorite season if I
had to choose, especially like the midway points in it,
like episodes like four through eight, especially just top tier
anime ten out of ten. But yeah, overall, just still
the whole series in its entirety just feels like a
complete package.
Speaker 3: So love Mob, love Reagan.
Speaker 2: Not much else to say that aside from uh, it's
also just given like a very high quality adaptation by
Studio Bones, like as far as frames per second or whatnot,
Like the the amount of animation with those simple character designs.
They went above and beyond. Oh, it's one of the
best shows I've seen.
Speaker 1: I agree it was. It was beautifully animated, but in
a different way than something like Demon Slayer. It was
a different type of polished and it was a type
of animation that I love, like it still felt very
two D in nature.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there there's a lot of shows that look
good or look pretty, especially like with like with like
with vinlind Saga and whatnot, where it's almost like hyper
realistic at times.
Speaker 3: But there's not like a lot of movement.
Speaker 2: But then you get the complete opposite with mob right,
where the characters designs are so simple and so you know,
just kind of cartoony in general, but because of that,
they're able to do so much with it, right and
just go above and beyond, like it some of the
action sequences to the stage still just like blow me away,
Like some of those fights at the end of season
two are some of the best fights probably I've seen
an anime. Right, Uh, I'm thinking about the one with
like the the guy that can like teleport and all
that tell me that's not one of the best spits
in anime, right, So it's another stolet pick crazy shame,
this one's only at twenty four.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm going to roast you for.
Speaker 1: This is I was just thinking the same thing. I
don't even want to argue back. I'm like, this could
be higher.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this could be It's like my top ten. So
I love Mob.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll swap Mob Psycho with Brasik nineteen ninety seven.
I think it's a part of me that puts Berserk
there just because I feel like it should be there
based on the manga, even though it's an anime list.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I mean that's fair.
Speaker 2: I give the Berserk anime like a solid like seven
out of ten in my mind, and then I have
like the manga in my top probably not my top
number one spot, right, so it's like definitely top five,
but my favorite manga of all time. So it's it's
hard to differentiate the two a little bit though.
Speaker 1: For sure, High Q at number twenty five, which will
be the last anime we're talking about, We're about to
hit the hour market, which is perfect timing. High Q
is a sports anime. It's an absolute classic sports anime,
and it maybe helps that I play volleyball, but I
think even if you don't play volleyball, it's just the team,
The team itself is so fantastic together. It's not just
following the journey of one kid that could jump high.
It's following the journey of the squad, and they're ups
and downs together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not just that it does a good job
of like having a whole cast of characters from other
schools as well, kind of like it makes you care
about who they're playing against, so you're invested regardless in
every single match. And then, uh, I don't know, Hiq's
one of those I love sports series. I'm gonna be
biased there. I've also read all of Hiq. I've watched
all the Hiq. I love it a lot, But it
doesn't try to do anything that like subverts expectations in
a lot of ways. It just feels like a very
highly polished sports anime, right, Like, it just feels like
one of the best that the genre has to offer
in a very straightforward way, and nothing wrong with that. Like,
I love it so it's it would definitely be like
in my top five sports anime probably all the time.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, you'd love to see it, all right, it's
my top twenty five favorite anime. I hope you hope
you guys got some anime recommendations or got something to do,
agreed or disagreed with. We're gonna go through twenty six
through fifty. Maybe next week that might be the plan.
Speaker 2: It sounds good to me. I'm always down the yap
about anime. But I will say, hopefully the list gets worse,
because roasting me if not roasting you enough. This is
I said I was going to roast you. I was
hoping for some worse taste here.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's my top twenty five. I would hope
it would be pretty decent. But yeah, twenty six through fifty,
maybe he could actually do his job this time and
roast me. But yeah, I hope everyone enjoyed. And also
the fact that it's sys me and Jordan for a
little bit. It doesn't need to be Sunday at one o'clock.
We could kind of move around our schedules and figure
something out a lot easier, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me know what works best for you.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, I mean even like a weeknight or Saturday
or Sunday, whatever, it doesn't matter. Now we don't need
to keep it below before one. Yeah, which is fantastic
because like I'm available to like make Yeah, time zones
make it rough. We're like only one hour apart, so
we could do like a three pm, we could do
a seven pm. You know, like it's a lot easier.
Speaker 2: You seven pm. I'm in bed by that time. What
are you talking about.
Speaker 1: That's why I didn't say nine.
Speaker 2: I was say nine.
Speaker 1: I'm like, maybe i'll say seven for for Jordan. Anyway,
I hope you guys. I hope you guys enjoyed shinpock
you and I'll see you all next time.
Speaker 2: Wait, everybody bite