Speaker 1: Hey there, guys and gals, Welcome back to the Rant
Cafe Anime podcast. I'm your host, Jordan, otherwise known as
the Anime Dude, and we're here with Briggs from All
Day Anime.
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm Briggs. Nice to meet you. How's it going
all right?
Speaker 1: And we got our other host over there, Recon from
anime Recon.
Speaker 3: How are you doing up?
Speaker 4: Guys? It's your boy Recon, and I'm here to pretty
much talk about Jordan's shitty Slice of Life anime recommendations.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, the phrase that in, you know, a more
accurate way. I'm gonna be showing these guys what good
anime actually looks like. I recommended them sixteen shows throughout
this year, and today they're gonna rank them and see
which one they like the most, you know, out of peak,
which is the most peak. So, without any further ado,
let's get into it. You know, I'll let you guys
kind of drive most of the conversations around the you know,
around the shows, because I'm curious to see what you
guys thought.
Speaker 2: All right, where do we start? Jordan's okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So up in the top left we have Bang Dream.
It's my go versus Evan Musica The Die is cast.
So you know season one and season two of basically
the same series but with different bands, right, So I'm
curious to see which one stuck with you guys the most.
Speaker 2: Recon or your thoughts on these ones. You had some opinions.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, I uh spad ran pretty much of those
two series, Like I'm not huge into like the girl
bands and Shin and the CGI mixed in when they're
like performing, But I don't know, it wasn't really my thing.
I didn't fully enjoy it, like it was okay. It's
just that if he like Bochi the Rock, I enjoyed
more than those two. Yeah, because I don't know, I
feel like I had a lot more of a connection
with Boach of the Rock as a music anime compared
to compared to these two. But because he was really
a fan of Bank Dream and I wasn't really a
fan of the other anime.
Speaker 2: Whatever the hell for the vote for one?
Speaker 4: Honestly, if I have to vote for one, uh, I
guess Bang Dream. I don't know, I'd like the name
Bang Dream.
Speaker 3: They're both bank They're both they're both the same.
Speaker 4: Oh they're both Bank Dreams. O.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're both the same.
Speaker 4: I'm voting for the top one.
Speaker 3: In the top one. Then he he.
Speaker 2: Was so out of it, like he hated it so much.
I feel like he doesn't even know what we're talking
about right now. I will say Jordan's it wasn't great.
I could see the appeal in some ways, but I
just felt like.
Speaker 3: You'll break my heart.
Speaker 1: It didn't over like an eighty by the way, like
popular sites are, these are peak anime.
Speaker 2: It didn't have the budget to execute what it was
trying to do, like like nothing was moving sometimes and obviously,
like I'm I defend shows and have bad animations at times,
I do, but it also has to be good. And
I don't know. I think some of the conversations were
felt very pointless. Wow. At the same time, someone of
the reveals, some of the conversations were very deep, and
I was starting to get invested. At times. It wasn't terrible.
Speaker 3: It just which one had the better music.
Speaker 2: I would know with avid music Cobbage, because it felt
like it was like the Avengers Assemble. It was like, Wow,
they had some like really dramatic, cool moments and like
very artistic moments and a've Mudrika so I'd probably go
with that one.
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, okay, I gotta seal the deal now, Jordaniel.
Speaker 1: I was really I'm really hoping you guys don't leave
too many of these up to me, because I will
just feel torn and I won't know which one.
Speaker 3: To go with.
Speaker 1: Both of these series are near and dear to my heart.
They're both about very different bands with very different characters.
I do think I like some of the characters more.
In Bang Dream, we got the stray cat girl and
then the main girl that likes rocks. You know, That's
how I'm going to describe them. And uh, Aving Musica
had the better music with a very cool cast, very
cool aesthetic, and uh, it gave us a lot of
answers that it's my go, just didn't so I'm gonna
go with it's my go for setting everything up, for
introducing us to the Avengers and having them asseymble there
at the end, because you know, Aving Musica wouldn't have
existed without it.
Speaker 3: Let's just go with that.
Speaker 4: Great. I I doubt me and Brigo really care about
those two.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, I'm sure I'm doing my best. Chat.
Speaker 1: I'm doing my best. I'm trying to educate them on
what good anime looks like. So next up, now that
we have Bang Dream, it's my go advancing to the
next round. We have look Back from Totski Fujimoto and
The Colors Within by director Yamada. So two animated movies,
both very high quality. I'm curious to see which one
of these two stuck with you guys the most.
Speaker 2: Man Well, you start with, but the Colors Within stuck
with me a lot, like I remember. I don't know
which one we watched more recently, but I remember the
Colors Within very thoroughly, very detailed as to what happened
versus Look Back. I'm like, I don't exactly remember, but
I do remember thinking it was very good, a little
chaotic at times, but I did like it. I'm really torn,
I'm really torn, reclined. Do you want to go first?
Speaker 4: Wasn't Look Back if I remember briefly, because goddamn, my
hazy memory from all the anime that I watched. But
was it look Back? About those two girls that do
the manga together and one of them died and then
the other one has to like keep pushing forward and
complete the dream or whatever. Yeah, honestly, that was pretty tragic.
I didn't expect it, but there was a very big,
deep connection between those two working together and doing the manga.
And to lose someone so close, especially after working together
for years, it's it kind of hits you hard. So
I'm more into that sad type of I like sad movies,
especially when it comes to anime. Sad movies really hit
me hard. So I would go for look Back, honestly,
so look Back the same thing with the Silent It's
kind of the same thing with the Silent Voice. I
cried watching that movie, so I would take a look
Back for this instance.
Speaker 2: I think look Back probably better. But the Colors Within
had a banger song at the end, so I'm gonna
go with the Colors Within.
Speaker 3: These you know, I love.
Speaker 1: Both of these movies. They're both, like I said, very high quality,
very well made. Look Back was essentially made by like
one person and he was Yeah, he's a small studio
guy that did a lot of the different roles himself,
and you could tell it was like a passion project
where he brought uh, one of my favorite one shots
from one of my favorite authors to life. So I'll
probably go with that one. But they're both very very good.
So it's basically we're using between depression versus just happy
more like lighthearted vibes. Right, so I want to choose
depression every time. Is it is that time of the year,
it is that season, so yeah, look back advances.
Speaker 3: Definitely agree with Jordan. All right.
Speaker 1: So moving on to the bottom left side of the bracket,
we have Samurai X trust and betrayal versus the Tennis
Samurai himself in the Prince of Tennis.
Speaker 2: I vote Samurai. I don't want to do any disrespect
to Prince of Tennis because it was but that was
too fast. I felt a little bit disrespected there. But
I'm an avid, Like I recommended SAMURAIX to someone the
other day, like it is something that I really really enjoyed,
would consider rewatching, would recommend, would have highly placed among
like upon my list. Samurai X was an absolute banger
of an anime and a must watch Let's go.
Speaker 4: I definitely, I definitely agree with Brigo. Samurai X completely
destroys Prince of Tennis, Like, who the come on, who
the fuck wants to watch a tennis series with an
already overpowered protagonist from the get go? Was like gonna
win every tournament, Like, yeah, it's pretty predictable whenever they
have those long the one that whenever they have those
long like two two episodes of just you know, the
Prince of Tennis himself facing someone like, you know, he's
gonna win. Meanwhile, Samurai X, you see the origins of
of of of the BOTUSI, you know, you know the
whole legacy of him, of Ronny Kenchin and you know
his origins of.
Speaker 3: And all that.
Speaker 2: It's just so good origins. It was just really so good,
better than I expected. It was so much better than
I expected in so many different ways. And Prince of
Tennis was really funny though, like he would like be
able to stop the ball from leaving the court so
people couldn't lie about him out. It was so it
was so over the top ridiculous power tennis.
Speaker 4: Right, so ridiculous and unrealistic, just like the way that
Sakamotos stops a bullet with his fucking chopsticks.
Speaker 3: So samuraix is going to advance.
Speaker 1: But I do want to take a slight moment to
just appreciate how Prince of Tennis brings out the duality
of ricon. You know, he loves his overpowered main characters
that are strong from the get go, unless it's a
sport like unless it's tennis right like. But but yeah,
Samurai X is one of those. I watched it quite
a long ways back, and uh I liked it back then,
but rewatching it before talking about it with you guys.
I think I liked it even more, so happy to
see that that go on. All right, Moving on to
the next round. We have Shirobaco, you know, the anime
about making anime versus Kukushi Goto, so you know, uh
I don't remember slightly slightly sad, but also just more
of a light hearted comedy about a dad raising his daughter.
He writes dirty comics, but he doesn't want her to
find out about that, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think Shiroblacca Cakushi Goto was was funnier and it
had like the mystery to it. Oh man, I love
the driving scene in Shirobacco. You like the driving scene.
Speaker 4: I like the dancing scene, the dancing scene ball, the
dancing scene.
Speaker 3: Up on the school rooftop.
Speaker 4: It's it's just I've been watching that over and over.
Speaker 3: Again sometimes on YouTube.
Speaker 2: It's just so funny.
Speaker 1: Shiro Bacca is just one of the best anime because
it has such a in depth look at like the
industry as a whole, and there's all these serious things
and it's kind of stressful. It stresses me out because
it's just a work environment where there's all these meetings,
all these different teams with different roles, and then you
have silly ship on top of that, right, like the
dancing and then the car scene is still probably my
favorite of the of the entire series.
Speaker 4: So honestly, I think I'll go for set O Bacco
as well, just because of that Emma dance scene. It's
cute as fuck.
Speaker 3: I love it. And uh so, is that two for
Shirobaco or breaks with you said that with your vote?
Speaker 1: So okay, uh So shiro Obaco advances Gushi Goto. You
know you still have a warm place in my heart,
but I think this one's kind of understandable. Moving on
to the right side of the bracket, we have Takagi's
original Sin versus x x X Hollick. So, uh so, yeah,
I guess take it away there, boys.
Speaker 2: I mean took up the original Sin. I can't believe
I'm saying this, guys, but I didn't finish it, and
we watched the first three episodes what for that. I
watched the first three for the for the pod and
it was phenomenon. It was one of the better anime
I watched this year, and then I just didn't continue
watching it. That is my original sin.
Speaker 1: It might be animated, but uh, it only had six episodes.
For anybody that hasn't watched it yet, would strongly recommend.
I would say the ending is probably my least favorite
part about it, so I don't think you're missing too
much too much, but at the same time, it was
still a decent ending that.
Speaker 3: Had like a tone that I very much appreciated.
Speaker 1: So so yeah, Ricon, interested to hear your thoughts.
Speaker 4: On these two absolute masterpiece to Kope's originalism. Absolutely insane, depressing, sad,
great storytelling, great characters, just honestly really nothing.
Speaker 3: To hate about this.
Speaker 4: And it is so realistic as well. It literally portrays
a lot of what happens right now in society.
Speaker 3: It is so fucking realistic.
Speaker 4: It's so sad, yet it's so good. I'm voting for
it to Kopy easy.
Speaker 1: It really does tackle some of those like more depressing
and like hardsetting moments of the human nature as you
have all these kids that just have the adults in
their life let them down right, and then just dealing
with the realities of that full brunt little they just
like there's disclaimers at the start just because of how
uh how upfront it kind of is, right, So uh yeah,
very very good show. Highly recommend and it looks like
the Kope's original sin will be will be moving on.
Speaker 3: Next up.
Speaker 1: We have two of the hardest hitters in the bracket,
though I could see either of these winning the entire
thing if I'm being honest, But uh.
Speaker 3: My little sister can't be this cute.
Speaker 1: Otherwise known as or to Emo versus Rumbling Hearts, so
one of my one of my favorite like soap opera
type anime. Right, it's like The Love and the Restless
if it was an anime so or The Young and
the Restless.
Speaker 2: I don't remember Rumbling Hearts what what it had?
Speaker 3: Like one of the most troubling second episodes in all
I watched it. You dance through the sad part, but like.
Speaker 2: When you watched it, I dance to the sad part. Yeah,
it was like.
Speaker 3: The tragic part that changed the entire series and.
Speaker 2: Remind me of this show is a bellt please.
Speaker 3: So we have we have these four kids in high school.
Speaker 1: At the very start, they they're just going about their
everyday lives trying to decide what, you know, what they
want to do next. And it starts out kind of uh,
stereotypical in that way, but like still very well done.
And then uh, a girl likes one of the one
of the girls likes the guy. So if she confesses,
they start to kind of go out and don't don't
really get anywhere.
Speaker 3: And then oh, she gets hit by that when they
start or whatever.
Speaker 1: And then finally when they start to kind of go anywhere,
they start to feel serious about each other.
Speaker 3: Right, so she ends up.
Speaker 1: In a coma and then uh, and then from there
there's a time skip and then it gets very very dramatic.
Speaker 3: So one of my one of my favorites.
Speaker 2: You know, I remember that because then he starts dating
the other girl and then the other girl wakes up.
It's spicy, it's dramatic.
Speaker 1: It is drama incarnate, right, so it is uh, it
is crazy.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and I remember the yeah, I remember.
Speaker 1: Now, okasically lighthearted misunderstanding, this is like blown, what are
you voting?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sorry, guys, but uh, I think I'm gonna
vote for my little sister.
Speaker 2: Can't be this cute.
Speaker 4: To be honest, I like I I watched it all
years ago, but I still like it. Same person who
did Edelmonga since and I also watched it manga since,
so they take place in the same fucking.
Speaker 3: Universe as well, which is cool.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I'm voting for. I like it. It's cute, wholesome,
it's weird, it's really weird, but I was getting him.
If you can get past that weirdness, then everything will
be just fucking fine.
Speaker 2: Baby. Yeah. No, So I didn't. I didn't. I didn't finish.
Oh my god, can Sorry guys, Sorry guys, You're good.
You're good, so good for rumbling hearts. I did like
held like dramatic and over the top and like spicy.
It was getting with orimo. I never finished it, so
I didn't get the ending that I know a lot
of people hated, but I I enjoyed the first four
or five episodes that I watched THEO quite a bit,
like it was good. It was just good, like like
feastable content, like I don't know, it kept my attention.
I cared about like that, Orimo's the main character's friend
that she made.
Speaker 1: Nowadays, Rimo does have a bit of a weird stigma
because of like the the last obas or what of
the second season. But like people got to remember, I
watched this whenever it aired. There's like two full seasons
of like pretty solid anime, good production value, interesting characters
that are all very much exploring the Taalka culture in
their own right, right, so uh, in different aspects of that.
So and then like very like like I like.
Speaker 3: The Dad too.
Speaker 1: We would we watched those first three episodes. The Dad
was like my favorite character. So I don't know, take
from that what you will.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm going to vote for.
Speaker 3: Good choice good.
Speaker 1: My opinion doesn't matter, but I would have been no,
it doesn't. I would have voted for Rumbling Hearts. Just
let you know it's an underrated all right, or Emo
actually advances and I didn't even vote for it.
Speaker 3: That's crazy, But.
Speaker 4: Uh, your opinion doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: It doesn't. Both are good. These are all sixteen peek anime.
Speaker 1: So moving on to the bottom right starte of the
side of the bracket, we have the first ever I
guess second ever magical Girl anime I ever finished in
Maho show Joe Magical Destroyers versus Ringing Fate, which if
you didn't watch our episode on it, you might not
have ever even heard of this show.
Speaker 3: It is probably the biggest uh.
Speaker 1: Slept on show in this entire bracket as far as
the number of people that have actually watched it.
Speaker 4: So tell you the truth, Jordan, I don't even remember
Ringing Fate. As for Magical Destroyers, it actually had a
solid first episode, but then from there it just went
downhill from that from that point because it was cool
seeing that the soldiers just are just invading and they
want all a taco shit just destroyed and gone completely
from there. Afterwards, it's just everything is like a puzzle.
It's just jumbling me, like, what's going on now? The
story is going out of place. I don't know what's
going on. It's cool and chyotic, but I still don't
know what the fuck is going on on crack.
Speaker 2: And I kind of liked it, so let me at
least refreshing.
Speaker 1: You got you guys' memory on Ringing Fate Right, Ringing
Fates that three d Uh won by the same director
as two Phero X and and whatnot.
Speaker 3: So it was the Chinese anime that we watched, and
oh it is about.
Speaker 1: The girl that goes to that version of the afterlife
where she's like kind of tricked initially and then uh,
and then she finds a mentor in uh in the
guy that we get a bunch of live action shots
right of him teaching his daughter boxing and whatnot. And
then uh oh oh yeah, no, I remember now, I remember.
Speaker 2: Ringing Ring Fate was fantastic from the start.
Speaker 1: Dude, I love drinking face, so I just wanted to
at least make sure you guys remembered which one it was.
And to this day, like it is one of those
shows that nobody's really like. If I look right now,
I bet you it's like in the hundreds on like
the people that have finished it. So one hundred and
sixty nine users on any list have completed it. It's good,
and like under a thousand have it, like even on
their list, right, So, but it was solid. So uh,
it is is criminal. How slept on this show?
Speaker 2: Is there? Fighting?
Speaker 3: Remember all?
Speaker 2: It was good? Dude, Ringing Fate, I hope.
Speaker 4: For honestly, yeah, I think I'm gonna go for Ringing
Fate as well, just because you reminded me of how
it was.
Speaker 3: It was cool.
Speaker 4: I liked him, yeah, much better at least at least
that was watchable and it wasn't confusing as fucking Magical Destroyers.
So yeah, Ringing Fate for me as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I had this like very fluid like Moway like three
D CGI, and then blended that with like live action
and just the stark contrast between the two. I feel
like gave it such a unique little, uh little appeal.
So so yeah, happy to see that advance.
Speaker 3: Magical Destroyers still good in its own right. It was,
it was all right, it was.
Speaker 1: It was an interesting show. But Ringing Fate will move on.
So going on to the bottom right side of the bracket,
we have the two longest names. Uh, we have Bond
the boundaries of.
Speaker 3: Adulthood versus Orb the movements of the Earth.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'll leave that to you guys at
this point I've been rambling a little too long.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Orb and versus what.
Speaker 3: Bond soud Gigi anime?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's it's not it's there's no competition between
uh an eighteen minute unfinished anime versus a complete anime
that was so fucking good, so captivating, like another masterpiece
basically on on this list. But yeah, definitely ORB for me.
No hate towards Kiggock, I like, not bad for the
first eminent are very similar, you know, Sorry, Garth Grant,
how are the fuck you say your name?
Speaker 2: Garth Grant?
Speaker 4: How do you say his name?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 4: I just called him.
Speaker 1: I apologize for even putting those two together in the
first round, because yeah, once like anime of the year
for me, and then or yeah, like then the other
one was solid. I enjoyed it, but yeah, it was
just a little short film in comparison, so probably not
the most fair first round, but or will be moving on.
Speaker 3: Oh thanks for that, Pumpkin, it's garnered.
Speaker 2: Yeah we orban baby. I don't have a fan or either.
Speaker 3: I need to finish it myself.
Speaker 1: I'm like seventeen or eighteen episodes in, but like, from
what I've seen, it is among some of my favorite
shows of all time, so I think, yeah, I like
I stopped at a good point where, uh where I
feel like I could pick back up and be just fine.
But you know, with all the main character shifts in it,
so uh, the POV shift.
Speaker 3: I stopped at one of those points.
Speaker 1: So moving back to the top left side of the bracket.
For around two we have Bang Dream, It's My Go
versus look Back, So.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I go for look Back, Thanks, look Back short
sweet to the point, Oh my god, we didn't.
Speaker 2: We didn't enjoy it, definitely when we vibe with it
that much, Jordan, they didn't vibe.
Speaker 4: With the Sorry, sorry Jordan, we we're not.
Speaker 2: I feel like sometimes I didn't know exactly what was
going on, and like when the music cool me, little
music scenes happened, or something like dramatic scenes on stage happened.
I liked it, but there was so many times where
like like reading like dramatic messages on their phone, I'm like, fuck,
I don't care.
Speaker 1: Bank Dream had drama, it had good music, it had
interesting characters.
Speaker 3: You know, I had never given the animation and.
Speaker 1: I went in the It's My Go blind and I
was genuinely surprised and us that how much it gripped me.
Speaker 2: Sometimes the CGI was jarring, and sometimes I did like
like the different perspective she went there on like stage
and music cup music music or whatever.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I still listen to on my IPI every
now and then So.
Speaker 1: Moving on to the next stage, we have Samurai x
trust in Betrayal versus Shirobaco that explores the inner workings
of the anime industry, right, so with a que cast
of like main girls that it kind of follows throughout that, right,
So she loves, don't nuts, she drives like crazy.
Speaker 4: We we love. Don't forget about the dance. Don't forget
about the dance.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I can try to tell you on it.
Speaker 2: Seeing our our boy I go through his different like
philosophical development and like why he turned into who he
is in the new series based off of this and
the events that happened, Like it's it's the closest thing
to attend I think I'll ever rate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is really well well made and polished.
Speaker 1: And it was just like an Oba series that had.
I had a lot of passion in between it, right.
Speaker 2: Only my only negative at the very very end, they
had like three guys ready to fight our main guy.
Speaker 3: Did it separately or whatever?
Speaker 2: And separately That's my only complaint. It's like this is
this is this is the goat.
Speaker 1: That's how Assassin's are brigs. They're like I work alone,
all right, like you get like tit of them together.
They're all going to do it their own way, all right,
this is that's that's my explanation, that's my head canon.
Speaker 3: But yeah, Samurai X trust and betrayal will move on.
Speaker 4: I didn't even vote this.
Speaker 1: Yet, Oh did you not? I thought you said uh,
I thought you said you did my bad go ahead
recon No.
Speaker 2: I didn't need to vote, but yeah, Sax is so good.
Speaker 4: On Brits hold on, so I gotta gotta get into
character for this. So uh oh, samuraix absolutely amazing. I
love Rooney Kenchin as a series. I haven't even watched
the original, but this is the first original that I've
watched and I really enjoyed it, and I can't wait
for the next season of the of the remake as well.
Are you guys watching the remake by any chance?
Speaker 1: I am not, but I'm I've read the original manga,
so like, I'm curious on if they get the parts
where the characters in this are back and relevant or
anything like that.
Speaker 4: But uh yeah, I'm really excited for the new season
of the of the Rooney Kinchin remake. I mean, honestly,
this was great. Ten out of ten. I love it.
So for that reason, I'm going to vote for Shirobaco.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what a what a twist? Okay, so
it's one one Shirobaco versus Samurai X. What did you
like about Shirobacco if you don't mind my asking, Like,
besides the dance.
Speaker 4: I love the dance. The dance makes it move forward.
Speaker 3: Word damn.
Speaker 4: It's as simple as that. Jordan's simple as that.
Speaker 3: I will say, I love it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: I know you, my friend, need to make the right
choice here. What do you I mean?
Speaker 3: These are both like very solid anime that I love
a lot.
Speaker 1: I will say for Shirabaco, like those first three episodes
I had you guys watch kind of encapsulate part of
what I love about it. Because they're making an anime,
they have this tight schedule there. There's all these time constraints,
and the director like has a scene where he's like
this just doesn't feel like the character, right. So him
saying that throws a wrench in the schedule. It's chaos,
it's it gets everybody crazy. But they have a meeting
and they talk about like who this character is, what
they want to represent with that, they rally together as
a team, and like showing you the before and after
they make the changes that they made, just the small
little tweaks, and like the girl's facial expression as he
cries at like a big moment right like it, it
shows you like the difference between like just a good
anime and like a great anime, and in like all
the effort that goes into going that extra mile, like
just in that.
Speaker 3: So Cherbacco great show.
Speaker 1: Can't recommend it enough. And with that being said, Samuraix
will move on to the to the to the final four,
the semi finals. So yeah, two b one Samurai X.
I'm sorry, Ricon, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: Damn it. I thought you would join me to the
dark side.
Speaker 3: Man X is just too good. Man, It's too good.
It's one of my favorites as well.
Speaker 1: Hey, Cheerbacco is good, all right, it is. It is
very highly acclaimed.
Speaker 3: They're both solid.
Speaker 4: Honestly, It's no Samuraix for sure, but honestly, I like
schet Obaco. It's pretty nice.
Speaker 3: I love it. I love it. But moving on to
the right top right side of the bracket.
Speaker 1: Uh, we have Takope's original sin versus My Little Sister
can't be this cute?
Speaker 3: Uh, and you know what, I know my.
Speaker 1: Opinion doesn't matter, but I'm interested to hear which one
of these two you guys like the most.
Speaker 2: The Kope's Original Sin was just I haven't seen like
a newer anime that came out like in recent years.
That hit me as hard as those first three episodes.
Speaker 1: First covered some pretty heavy subject matter, right, it did,
But so did you wear an email?
Speaker 3: You know you know it covered some heavy subject Yeah.
Speaker 2: The only I don't like a bunch of gokys the original
Sin is I was just mad the rest of the day.
I was just depressed to ruin my mood. I haven't
had an anime ruined my mood in a long time.
Like the ending of Samuraix is tragic, right, but it
was just like such a good, polished show dealing with
like I don't I'll talk about Samuraix more in detail
in the finals or like later on in future future rounds.
But it, just like the Kochi's Original Sin, just broke
me as a human being, and for that reason, I
vote for it.
Speaker 3: One vote for Kope's Original Sin recon What are your thoughts.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I'm feeling. I love Takopy's original sin Man.
But I'm really feeling more into Little Sisters these days.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie crazy, So.
Speaker 3: The show we got like having her, like, I don't.
Speaker 4: Know little Sister anime these days, so.
Speaker 3: I might go for that one.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 3: Okay, So is that email over over?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I think so. I think so. I'm definitely into
Little Sisters these days.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: Uh ta Kopy was a show where I agree with
Briggs as far as like I watched that first episode
and I was just my day was like that was
that was the rest of my day was feeling sad
and I had to like take a break and pause
before the rest. And I'm kind of mad at myself
for like going into the rest and like I binged
episodes through two through six all at once, and I
enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: I had I that's the wrong wording.
Speaker 1: I thought it was really good, but I didn't have
fun right like it was.
Speaker 3: It was, it was good, but.
Speaker 1: It it was depressing us, all right. So very critically
claimed anime for a reason, very highly recommended. But my
little Sister can't be this cute. You know, it's a classic,
it's it has all those intangibles that just make anime anime.
And I think I'm gonna go with or Emo as well.
I think we're gonna that's the semi finals there, you know.
Speaker 4: Little Sisters beat the Kofeelitz.
Speaker 1: I voted against it in the first round, Briggs, I
can't do it twice, all right, my heart. It had
so many big name voice actors at the start of
their career. So if you go back and you look
at like the back end production as well, like it.
Speaker 3: It was too high quality of a show for what
it was at the time, like it. It had no
business being.
Speaker 2: That good to hate crockets, you know, you know.
Speaker 3: Sometimes there's upsets.
Speaker 1: What can we say, we're gonna We're gonna receive some
hates for that one. But uh, regardless or email moves on, the.
Speaker 4: Little Sisters always win. Man, I'm saluting right now. They
always win.
Speaker 1: And uh in the bottom right side of the bracket
we have God, I don't I don't even know on
this one. Ringing Fate versus orb the movements of the
Earth so or that two very.
Speaker 2: What I think I'm gonna vote ring in Fate. I
can't believe I'll say this. I think I'm.
Speaker 3: Gonna vot vote ring Fate.
Speaker 2: I can't believe I'm.
Speaker 3: Saying box your dad was it was too much, man
Like I was broken.
Speaker 2: At the end of that, dude, that scene where they're
punching and the human the human emotions come back, and
like it goes from like the weird art style that
it has to like genuinely actual like people like the
memories of them actually, oh my god, and the dad
boxing for the family. Dude, it was just like way
better than anything I expected in a million years and
kept on getting better.
Speaker 1: So context for anybody that hasn't seen the show, because
I'm assuming most people haven't, like the cute Moway three
D Chivish art style is you know, the vast majority
of like them being in the afterlife and there's this
fighting tournament where if they lose, they lose these these
resources that basically are related to memories, right, So like
the more they lose, the more memories they lose, the
more they get back, the more memories of their real
life that they get back.
Speaker 3: And then uh, and their memories are.
Speaker 1: Of being real life. So like all that all the
memory stuff is live action. It blends the two together
very well, and then we get a very emotional arc
in those first three episodes about a father who sees
his daughter in that after life and is you know,
willing to sacrifice everything just to give her the chance
he could in his previous life.
Speaker 2: Right, So, don't get it wrong. Or is really good,
It's really close. They're both fantastic. I do have my
I do like Arbalon, I haven't finished it yet, but
this is more of a first impressions kind of bracket. Anyway,
his first impression. I'm not gonna lie. That first kid
who like kills himself basically still annoys me a little bit.
Like I get what they're trying to do, Like it's
passing on from generation to generation and like passing on
this knowledge and information and like some other stuff with it.
But it was just like it was too quick. It
was a little too quick, a little too fast for me,
at least for him.
Speaker 3: I actually love the love those first episodes of Or.
Speaker 1: Because this kid has his uh, you know, is his
entire preconceptions shattered and like that that pursuit of truth.
Speaker 3: Because of his beliefs and stuff.
Speaker 1: It's like something because it like kind of blends in
with those beliefs and whatnot, Like because he's such a devout,
devout believer in the.
Speaker 3: Lord, he he wants to.
Speaker 1: Prove that, you know, he wants to get to the truth,
like what the earth is beautiful because of all this stuff, right,
and if we're not allowed to say that, it's something
he's willing to die for.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I just felt like it was a little
a little extreme. I understand, Like I like the ide
the concept of like he believes in science and he
believes in God, and it's like, if God made this world,
it would be perfect, not imperfect, and he wants to
prove that, and the church is stopping him from proving that.
And it's something it's an ideal or a goal and
a pursuit he's willing to die for. I liked the concept,
but it was just like it was so fast and
like so like he almost like gives in too easily.
Like he could have went, he could have went, he
could have went back if he just recanted the one time,
he could have went back to continuing to prove that. Right.
Speaker 1: But that's but that's the point is that it tackles
that whole the whole weight of lying to yourself and
like the burden of that on the soul, right, Like
how how that's almost.
Speaker 3: Never worth it at the end of the day.
Speaker 2: Maybe because he starts.
Speaker 1: Out he's telling everybody what they want to hear, right, Yeah,
it's true.
Speaker 3: So it takes that, it flips it on its head, and.
Speaker 2: Like an old man does it and he's like, I'm
gonna die for my beliefs. And he's a little older,
but like seeing a child do it so easily, it
like almost unimmersed me from the show. It seemed unrealistic anyway,
that's just my little Everything felt a little too fast,
even like there was this one guy who was like
trying to figure out like he was tracking Mars, I think,
and he was like yeah yeah, randomly turned back Like
I was like, I get invested in these guys' stories
and then they die the same episode. They're like he's like,
I can pull you up. He's like, don't worry, carry
on without me, carry on my legs.
Speaker 3: I can't even read.
Speaker 1: But we have one vote for Ringing Fate. Both of
these are extremely good. Ricone. Which of these two did
you like them?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Ring Fate for me? Oh my god, Okay, I like.
Speaker 4: Orb but Yeah, you really have to just sit down
and pay attention and use your brain because there's a
lot of info being dumb to you. It's not as
bad as Lord of Mysteries, but yeah, you still need
to like really focus to even understand what's going on
all that stuff, which is doable. But Ringing Fate, on
the other hand, it's fun. It's cute chibi chibi style
and just a lot of action and combat is a
boxing it's like Meca boxing. I like that a lot.
And this is a donghar right dong watch Chinese.
Speaker 1: An So yeah, yeah, it was a yeah, a nanime
original by that same director as two be hero X
and yeah and some other well known I'm.
Speaker 4: Gonna go I'm gonna go for that. I'm definitely going
for that.
Speaker 1: I'll never disrespect the Ringing Fate pick, but I'm just
to let it be known I probably would have voted
for ORB on this one that Ringing Fate's so good
compared to the audience it has, but ORB is also amazing,
So both very highly recommended. But we're now to the
semi finals and uh on the left side of the bracket,
we have a look back by by hit author tatsky Fujimodo,
author of chainsaw Man, brought the life Uh in a
very high quality, short field type of way versus Samurai
X Trust and betrayal, an old school nineties OVA that
tells Uh the backstory of Kenshin for Maroni Kenshin that.
Speaker 3: We get later in the series. Right, it retells that
in a more serious, dark hearted tone. And both of
these are tragic and depressing, but only one can move forward.
Speaker 2: So what do you too think it's funny? I actually
don't like Roni Kensin that much. I don't know, I
don't actually like it's good. It's just a more lighthearted
fun show and it has its moments, but it's like
not something I'm obsessed with versus like, I'm very obsessed
with this nineties OVA. Not only does it look very
good for the nineties and the combat looks good, it
just like deals with like these concepts of like killing
and not killing in such like a cruel old like
old timed world. And even even the thing where it's
like tension kills this this guard and that guard was
gonna be like they see the trickle effect. That guard
was gonna be married to this this woman, this woman
ends up with initial thoughts of revenge, ends up falling
in love with the person who killed his like her
fiance and the like, and then but Kenson didn't know.
There's all these layers. It's like, can you have redemption?
Can you like, can you make up for it by
being a good person afterwards? There's just so many themes
in such a small amount of time that I just
really resonate and care about. And I don't know, man
like it's I I actually think I rated a ten
out of ten.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, rindricon any any thoughts on on the two.
Speaker 4: I think I'll go for Samuraix to be honest, Yeah,
look Back is great. It's sad and depressing, but I'm
more into the action than the slice of life stuff,
so I'm gonna go for the depressing route of ruy
Kenshin looking good.
Speaker 3: I think it was good. Yeah, I do love look Back.
It's so good.
Speaker 1: I do agree with Roney. Kenshin is just like pretty okay.
But you take this like backstory that's like probably one
of the more interesting parts of the series, and whenever
they expanded upon it in Kenshin and I still kind
of had a bit of a lighthearted tone. And they
adapt that in a way that just very much speaks
to the time period, right because it was a very
depressing time in history. You very much get that feel
and like the weight of everything being done in this
adaptation of it. So yeah, I love Samurai X Trust
and Betrayal so much more than than probably the original Kenchin.
Speaker 3: So I'd love to see that moving on.
Speaker 2: I don't want to put that on look back, I
wish I remembered it a little bit more thoroughly, Kay,
Do you remember it being really artistic and really creative
and a lot of things I liked about it. There
was a there was a there was a run it
was there was a running scene that was just filled
with so much emotion in the animation. It was like
a top tier moment. There's so many things the series
did the movie as well. I don't want to undershadow it,
but it is so good.
Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite like one shot manga and
then uh you know, by one of my favorite authors.
And then whenever it was adapted. I remember watching it
in theaters and they have like a director's interview there afterwards,
and I sat there for that entire thing and then
rewatched the director's interview afterwards, because uh, it was mostly
done by like one guy whenever he adapted it, and
like the amount of work put into like probably one
of the best like little running scenes in anime and stuff,
as far as like.
Speaker 3: Just the the.
Speaker 1: The euphoric feel of finding somebody that like finally appreciates
all the work and has the same interest as you,
and like they appreciate all the work you've put into it, right,
And then uh, and them kind of pushing each other
to move on and then growing up of like kind
of going their separate ways and and everything to do
with that. Just you know, life keeps moving and sometimes
you know, it's good to look back on things, but
you don't always want to be stuck there looking back
in the past, right, So you got.
Speaker 3: To move forward. Great movie, But.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess with that being said, Samurai X Trust
and Betrayal moves on to the finals, I don't want to, yeah,
for too long. So the right side of the bracket, God,
it might be even harder. We have ringing fate, you know,
versus my little sister can't be this cute. I want
to say that whole name is full time instead of
I gotta say the entire name.
Speaker 2: How did it make it this far? Guys? How did
it make it this far?
Speaker 3: Semi finals?
Speaker 1: Now Bro Season one and two? Just in the backdrop
up there, you know those are those are out of print. Okay,
this is this is a classic series, Briggs, this is right.
Speaker 4: I'll kick this one off, man, I'll kick this one
off for myself. Ringing Fate really good, really awesome. I like,
I like the action. But I'm not gonna lie, guys
kind of into little sisters these things.
Speaker 1: So I will say, you got to take yourself back
to the time period for or Email. Okay, Like whenever
I first watched or Email, I I didn't have like
any anime.
Speaker 3: Type merch all right.
Speaker 1: I didn't really tell a lot of people at school
that I, you know, even watched Dragon Ball Z or
any other type of anime. Like I just kind of
kept that on the download because the time period it
just wasn't it wasn't something you talked.
Speaker 3: About a lot, right, Like I would.
Speaker 1: I would do sports and stuff at school, and then
I would just uh, I would watch Dragon Ball Z
and One Piece and stuff on my own time and
not tell anybody about it. So watching em Singer have
all the talkie stuff in her closet. Relatable character, all right,
this little Sister is relatable.
Speaker 4: I know. I just like the one chance stuff. Man,
So I'm gonna vote for easily. My little sister can't
be this cute moves it moves on. Yeah, So yeah,
I'm gonna go for.
Speaker 2: All Right, Briggs, I'm going.
Speaker 3: Oh god, you guys both.
Speaker 1: I'm still on the fence on this one. I really
don't know. My brain's about to overheat.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: It's kind of a toss up. These are both so good.
Speaker 1: Which one would get the general populace like more mad
if it won.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to.
Speaker 2: I mean, definitely Orio.
Speaker 3: But nobody knows about Ringing Faith though, so this could
get some people to watch it. But also, I.
Speaker 2: Mean the fact that it's gotten this far and we've
talked so highly of it. It's probably my third favorite
anime on this out of the sixteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then or Emo sis it all. I've seen
it all twice.
Speaker 1: It's still so good as such a nostalgic place in
my heart, and it has coroneco in it.
Speaker 3: I want to vote for or Email. I got to.
I'm sorry, Ringing Faith.
Speaker 4: Oh it's in the finals.
Speaker 1: Brow Yeah, so you know, I think we did end
up with two of probably the better series here in
the finals, Like this was kind of what I expected,
was Samurai X trust and betrayal versus my little sister
can't be this cute?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: So the duality of anime, the duality of anime fandom,
this is, this is.
Speaker 3: The embodiment of it.
Speaker 2: Right, So the chat trust you finish this and they
feel the trade.
Speaker 3: Let's finish this off.
Speaker 4: Let's finish this off.
Speaker 2: Strong voice sounds sounds good again to I don't have
much of a voice left in me. But again, I
don't think I've given anything a ten out of ten,
and I think I'm going to give Samuri X a
ten out of ten as close to a ten at
at of ten as possible, maybe a nine point eight,
nine point seven.
Speaker 1: What I'm hearing is that is an eleven out of ten?
Speaker 3: Is that is that correct?
Speaker 2: In my is not even worth me finishing to be honest, Listen, listen, listen.
It was it was fun. I didn't enjoy what I watched.
It's just not for me.
Speaker 4: You know, I've got it. I've got a little bit
of a take on this. Look Samurai X was really good.
I enjoyed it. I'd probably give it a nine point
nine out of ten. But Aremo, on the other hand,
was fun, quirky, weird. It's got that incest stuff and
it's got that one chance stuff and it was awesome.
What can I say? So I would give that a
ten out of ten, so zero zero point one extra
point for oo And in that case, I want to
go and win, so just one to one, but finish
the job.
Speaker 1: Jordan, I'd say, there's not even really very much of that,
if hardly any like in the entire first season is like,
what's what's funny about it?
Speaker 2: But I mean it is they did jokes, right, It's
like there's yeah, there's a tension jokes. I'm assuming right, it's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's jokes because like she likes games that kind
of have some of that subject matter.
Speaker 3: But like it's so contrary.
Speaker 1: To what uh it's like, yeah that this is not
not how it is right, so.
Speaker 2: That as a person, like she was a fun character
and I wanted her to have friends, and like I
was like actually kind of investied, like it is it
is a good it was entertaining. It just one is
not my genre per se. I also hear, well like
the ending in the OVAs, and I'm just like, do
I really want to watch the show exactly?
Speaker 3: It has that stick that's what a lot of people
get stuck on.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So but yeah, good show nonetheless. And then there's Samurai X,
which is, yeah, as far as just like a work
of art, that's such a standalone it is very close
to being like a nine out of ten, ten out
of ten like type of show. But you know what
for the meme, for the clickbait. Because I'm on the
fence anyways, and I do love all sixteen of these series.
Speaker 3: I want a foot vote for my little sister. Can't
be this cute? A tie breaking vote. I can't believe
in it. Actually, yeah, I called you.
Speaker 1: It was one of the heavy hitters, That's what I
said in the first round to actually win. But like
the opportunities there, run with.
Speaker 3: It, classic banger. So I voted in the first round.
Speaker 2: Okay, while that was the upset of a century maybe
a lifetime, this bracket, and even the results, it's still
better than anything Ricon had on his Oh.
Speaker 4: Come on, man, I reco it's some good anime.
Speaker 2: There was there was nothing on there, dude, there was
there was There was like very little of quality. The
only things that were decent were the ones that, like,
you barely recommend it, We almost forced you to recommend.
Speaker 1: I will say, like, this whole bracket is kind of
just like a hodgepodge of of shows that aren't very similar,
because I remember every time I made a recommendation, I
was just trying to think of, like what would they
never watch on their own unless I recommended it, right,
So that's what a lot of these shows will probably
end up being.
Speaker 2: But problem. I really enjoyed the recommending shows era of
our Rank Cafe. But at the same time, it's like
Ricon's watched so much, and so as Jordan and so
as I, so have I, So it's kind of hard.
It's hard to find things that are actually good that
we haven't watched unless his own Relationship.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you guys, I started in twenty fifteen and it's
still going strong.
Speaker 2: The cap Yeah, Irigon's really watched like only like twenty thirteen,
twenty fifteen onward, but he's watched like every anime that
comes out versus like me, which is why me and
Jordan have watched for longer but like more of like
just like the top ones from every year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've watched like my entire life, I've watched anime,
but like I've still probably only seen like five hundred
shows or so, right, like which sounds like a lot,
but like over.
Speaker 4: Time twenty fifteen, I was seventeen years old, I think
seventeen sixteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I never went back and watched the classes. You know.
Speaker 2: I started watching anime a little bit earlier, like well
obviously other than like dragon Ball, Bleach, one Piece, na Orta, whatever, like,
I started watching anim probably only thirteen fourteen, but I
went back and watched like Gto and Hadri Nopo and
some older some older ones BRASIERK.
Speaker 3: I think dragon Ball stuff count.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course it does, so that I mean I technically,
I mean I started watching anime when I was four,
you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I know same.
Speaker 1: I One of my oldest memories is seeing Goten and
Trunks fighting and then them being seven and eight and
me being man, they're so strong. I can't wait until
I'm that old.
Speaker 2: Like, you know, did I remember? I remember waking up
every morning early for school to watch Pokemon and then
like the Saturday morning Dragon ball tatching.
Speaker 3: Over this Pokemon count as an anime.
Speaker 2: It is an anime.
Speaker 3: I do remember.
Speaker 1: I know around the time he Sinarto, we're both starting
on to Nami and I started watching those shows and that.
Speaker 3: Was a that was a feel, right, so you.
Speaker 2: Know Ash's names or something that name.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Satoshi uh. But I will say, like Pokemon
has been very consistent about like wanting to keep his
name Ash, like in the uh like in the English.
Speaker 3: Versions, whereas like there's other shows where.
Speaker 4: Is Ash still ten years old to this day he's thirteen?
Speaker 3: I have no idea he a he grew up.
Speaker 1: I stopped watching it in like the black and White
anime whenever the first episode they said ten year old
Ash catch them and you know kid me is like,
I remember so many episodes where they're celebrating like a
year together.
Speaker 4: Like I stopped watching Pokemon after X Y and Z.
Like after x Y and Z that was like the
golden era.
Speaker 2: I will say, guys, like I ever want to go
Black Pokemon Adventures. It is fantastic mhm with black.
Speaker 4: And X Y and Z was good. That's when I stopped.
Speaker 3: Is that the one that you covered on anime version
with with.
Speaker 2: Really really good. It feels like, really it just feels
like it's made for anime fans, for Pokemon fans, by
Pokemon right like some other Pokemon series. It just feels like, oh,
you're just throwing some ship together the same formula, just
trying to get for content. Adventures feels like it's made
for Pokemon fans. That's great, let's go anyway, I hope
everyone will. You're the outro. I'm wanna die here.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, anyways, thank you all for watching another episode
of the Rant Cafe. I don't remember how these intros
usually go, but you know, it was a fun one.
My little Sister can't be this key was the winner.
Speaker 3: And uh and with that, we'll see you guys next time.
Speaker 4: Remember stay awesome, stay frosty, and uh keep on like
in Little Sisters.
Speaker 2: I guess I meant Pokemon Journeys. I meant Pokemon Journeys,
I said, okay, I met Journeys. Poke one Journeys.
Speaker 1: Adventures is like the ho End region, right, like season
three or whatever, like the.
Speaker 2: Pokemon Journeys guys, Poke one Journeys update.
Speaker 3: That one. Yeah,