Speaker 1: Yo, What is up?
Speaker 2: Boys?
Speaker 1: How's it going? And welcome back to another episode of
the Rant Cafe Anime podcast. We are back and today
we are going to be roasting one of our good
friends list anime Recon and boy, oh boy, is it's
a list. It's a list alright with me? Today we
have the anime dude who I know is dying to
talk about this list. He's been looking through it and
I'm like, shut up, don't say anything. This list is
so bad. Don't say anything yet. What's up, dude?
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 3: Everybody happy to be here?
Speaker 4: This is It's so much fun because we all have
our favorite anime but they're all so different, right, all
our lists are very different from one another.
Speaker 3: So this will be right. This is what I'm looking
forward to the most. I think. Right here this is
it's gonna be a good time.
Speaker 1: And with us today we have, of course anime Recon,
whose list this is.
Speaker 5: What up? Gamers?
Speaker 2: Just a warning to all of you that this list
is gonna be crazy.
Speaker 5: I mean it's gonna start okay, but then it's gonna
get crazy.
Speaker 1: Didn't even start ok It doesn't even start okay. Actually,
other than number one, it doesn't even start. Okay, okay,
And we have a special guest today, one of my
moderators and longtime viewers, Marcus. What's up dude?
Speaker 5: Yo?
Speaker 1: Actually I don't know is that? What is that? What
you want me to call you?
Speaker 6: Marcus?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Cool?
Speaker 1: Because your name is Pina Colada Rasca on Discord.
Speaker 7: Yeah, is because that's my favorite song of the whole time.
Speaker 1: Okay from Holmes if you like getting yes. And we
brought Marcus on here because he's watched a lot more
niche seasonal stuff. And I'm assuming as I scroll down
this list there'll be anime that me and Jordan can't roast.
So we need someone to talk about something here. But
let's jump into the list. Let's jump into number one.
The only good pick that I've seen so far. Just kidding,
but Vinlin Saga is a banger and at your number one, oh,
were passing s A O recon. I'm surprised that something.
Speaker 2: Has It's it's been like that for eight has ever
ever since watching those two seasons, I'm like, yeah, Vinland
Saga easily overtakes s A OH for me.
Speaker 5: But I say still number.
Speaker 4: Two easily number one and two is crazy.
Speaker 3: But that makes me so happy away, but so sad in.
Speaker 4: Another This is like the end of an era. As
I'm sitting here staring at this, what did you love
so much about Ricon or vin Man Saga?
Speaker 5: There?
Speaker 2: Ricon just the whole revenge arc of the first season
of Thorfin trying to like have a purpose of going
after Ascarad for killing his father, and when all that
ended and then the slave arc began, and the whole
just the whole development towards him to then having no
enemies in the end is just.
Speaker 5: Like so good to watch. It was peak peak.
Speaker 4: Performance watching character development, gave recon character development. He watched it,
he was like, oh my god, this.
Speaker 2: Is that's honestly probably the best character development I've ever
seen in anime.
Speaker 7: Okay in my opinion, Uh did you cry?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 6: Oh okay, it.
Speaker 5: Was that good.
Speaker 1: Okay, I want to jump in here. My my theory
has My theory as to why Ricon really likes Vinlain
Saga is because not only is it a newer anime,
not only does it have insanely high quality visuals and
awesome fights everything that he loves, but also I feel
like it has everything that we love about like anime
like all the it has like stuff that me and
Jordan also love, like obviously I love I love good fights,
I love good good animation. But there's so many anime
I try to recommend to Ricon with like great character
development or like it's like deeper themes and like it's
a great story overall. But this Villaina really has it
all and it's new and it's it's it's been rare,
Like I haven't seen the anime that has it all
and it's new for a while. So I'm not surprised
this is high up on Ricon's list. I'm as surprised
it's surpassed.
Speaker 6: S A.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm still kind of shocked it's number one.
Speaker 4: Like so there's no hair, there's no real etchy in
Vinland sagas.
Speaker 5: I like. I like vikings.
Speaker 2: I don't know how to say, I like Viking ship. Okay,
Vikings are one of my favorite things when it comes
to like fantasy, you know.
Speaker 3: Swordsman stuff and then Viking stuff, swords.
Speaker 2: You know, swords, samurai, vikings, medieval I like that type
of thing.
Speaker 7: So that's why it's up there, all right, you said,
like everything is in there, but there is no like
feature of female character.
Speaker 1: It's true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why.
Speaker 4: That's why we give like h like I said, women
names to like objects that we really really cherish, like swords,
you know, online as the next one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's keep it moving. Every every single Sao
is what you wrote down, Every single Essao. It is
just hilarious.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, every single one exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean I like Sao. I think a lot of
us like Sao, and I think we're all disappointed that
it should have been better. And there's certain seasons and
points that were just like, this is not that great
or it could have been a lot better. We all
I like it. I do like it. It just it
was crazy to me that it was your number one
for so many years, considering you've watched hundreds and hundreds
of anime.
Speaker 3: I know you.
Speaker 4: Started watching anime in like, what twenty twelve, somewhere around there, fifteen? Okay,
would you say Sao is like one of the first
ones that you watched that like made you fall in
love with the medium?
Speaker 2: Or like, why is this Issica that made me fall
in love with the iski genre?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 1: All right, I am Was it the first anime you watched?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: It wasn't thought was my fucking first anime. I completely
forgot at this point. It was it was either.
Speaker 3: You seem to be much you seem too many.
Speaker 5: No, it was either A or a D x D.
One of those two. I don't remember there's one of
those two.
Speaker 1: But yeah, all.
Speaker 3: Include the.
Speaker 5: Oh good point.
Speaker 2: No, I would say that was more of a spin
off but not tied to the actual main story.
Speaker 3: But no, I don't like it was a lie. We
can't trust anything else on the list. That's what I'm
getting from this man.
Speaker 1: All right, let's keep it moving ahead real quick.
Speaker 4: Does the quantity of sword matter to you as far
as like most fighting anime swords anime they have one sword,
but Kurito has two swords, which.
Speaker 2: Is I'm not really even bothered, But I like, I
like characters that can dule wield swords because it's I
think it's just more bad.
Speaker 3: That was the case.
Speaker 4: I was going to make a quick pitch to try
to sell you on one piece again, but okay, all right,
better than two swords.
Speaker 1: Free high school DxD at number three is crazy, but Loki,
I think we've all we all enjoyed it when we
were in high school. Ourselves at least I did.
Speaker 2: The greatest hair of anime ever created. I watched us
back in high school, and it saved my life. I'm
telling you, it saved my life.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: So just going forward, guys, is for this podcast, I'm
gonna kind of like introduce the anime and then I'm
gonna like let everyone go around in a circle. I'll
like just to keep it organized so we're not talking
over each other as much. So think of your question,
think of what you want to say at Marcus, for example.
Then I'll give you like a little especially since your
audio is not as good. It's sometimes hard to hear
if we recon or if we're talking over each other
and stuff. So High School DxD for me, I liked
it when I was in high school, Loki. It had
some good fights, I have some good storytelling at times.
But at the same time, I feel like if I
were to watch it now, I'd want to kill myself.
So so number three is wild. But you know what,
I'm sure it has a special place in your heart,
right Ricon, or a special place in.
Speaker 2: Your pay Yeah, that's why it's up there. It's it's
just always got that special place. One it's the verse
first harm anime that got me introduced to the aram genre,
and I fell in love with it ever since, and
it saved me in high school, saved my booning Jordan.
Speaker 1: Jordan thoughts.
Speaker 4: I watched High School DxD whenever I was a little
bit older because people kept telling me to and like
they were like, no, you don't understand.
Speaker 3: It's so good.
Speaker 4: And I had fun with season one. It was kind
of alright, like it's funny at times, but uh, I
couldn't really get into it. So I'm not like the
biggest fan, but I do know it's like a highly
acclaimed light novel series that like goes on for a
while and it's pretty well put together. I see why
people do like it. So yeah, you know, it's one of.
Speaker 3: Those series that drags you in for the with the
plot and then it like it keeps you with actual plot, right,
So it has a little bit of both.
Speaker 1: Marcus, Marcus, go ahead, what do you think you know?
High School DXV being at number three.
Speaker 7: I mean, the characters are all very memorable, like most
of the most most of those people you still know,
Ria Grimmery is like a standout character through all of
Enemy probably uh, she's like the first character probably with
like really big breasts, and then it goes on and
on and on with Guta and stuff, big on, big on,
big on, bigger so but o g.
Speaker 6: She was.
Speaker 3: The story is.
Speaker 7: Also genuinely good. Uh the she has a reason like
food Wars, which comes later.
Speaker 6: It's just good, so you like it.
Speaker 1: Number three.
Speaker 6: Three is crazy, Okay.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So I think we're all on the same page.
I think we're all on the same page with S
A O and d XD like we secretly like do
love them. It's just at number two and number three
is kind of wild but respects Facon respects. Moving on
to number four, Mobs, I go one hundred, another anger anime.
I don't have much to say. We know why Recon
likes it. It looks sick and has great fights and
some good characters. I don't really have much to say, Jordan.
Speaker 4: I've never been so proud this one. This one's right
up there with with Ben Matsaga for just catching me
off guard, but in a really good way. So you
know what, Ricott, if you want to tell us your
thoughts on like why you love mop Psychos so much,
I'm just gonna shed it to your point.
Speaker 2: So it is for sure my old time favorite completed
anime series from start to finish.
Speaker 5: Amazing story, great characters.
Speaker 2: Although it might be hard to get into it at
first when you start watching it because of the animation
and the style of the art style, but once you
get into it, you have a feeling for all the characters,
amazing animation, the action from Studio Bones. It is one
of a kind, the best completed anime in my opinion.
Speaker 1: I guess that is so open minded that like I never,
like never in a million years, I think, oh, the
art style would make me not want to watch, but
then again, like I will watch anything. Ping Pong. The
animation is like one of my favorite anime and it
looks the art style is fucking crazy. I will say,
had a great ending, great all the way through for
mob Cycle and as a character driven person, Oh my god,
the relationship between oh my, I can't remember their names
mob and our boy Reagan. Reagan's like one of my
fucking favorite characters in anime. I can't remember his name.
I'm what a fake fan, I'm a tourist. Okay, Marcus, Marcus,
your thoughts on mob Cycle being at number four.
Speaker 7: It's it's fantastic. In my top one it's number eleven.
Oh nice, Yeah, it's it's it's fantastic. I think personally
it's better than dandland Saga, but that's just me. Uh
it's it's a perfect show. I don't know what that's
to say. I also cried doing it, especially at the end.
It's fantastic. So so it's one different three letters.
Speaker 1: And moving on, go ahead.
Speaker 4: I was just gonna say, I'm starting to realize, like
Ricon appreciates whatever a main character goes through a lot
of growth, is what I'm kind of noticing with this list.
Speaker 3: Those are two of my favorite characters in that regard.
Speaker 1: Let's look at another main character that go through a
lot of a lot. Attack on Titles Up.
Speaker 8: Next Team another super good completed series, although it dragged
on for quite a long time with multiple seasons, but
finally it finished and I could say the ending was perfect.
Speaker 5: What a perfect?
Speaker 1: I don't know about perfect, and I don't know about
number five, and I don't know about I honestly heart
Hot Take Guys, Hot Take, Attack on Titans overrated?
Speaker 5: I loved it? Why was it overrated? Okay, so what
was wrong?
Speaker 6: With the ending for you, not spoiling, no spoiling. I
haven't seen the ending yet.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I can't talk. I don't.
Speaker 7: I don't think I saw like three parts left.
Speaker 5: I don't think.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't think the ending was terrible. I don't
want to get into details. I don't think it was terrible.
But at the same time, I feel like it just
didn't leave me feeling satisfied. And I know that's not
always It doesn't always need to be It doesn't need
to be that way, especially in a fucking anime like
Attack on Titan, but after watching for so long, I
feel like I wasn't satisfied with the ending and I
wasn't happy with a.
Speaker 2: Lot of.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know how to talk about it
without spoiling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is, considering that you didn't watch it all
the way, Marcus, it's kind of hard to talk about it.
Speaker 7: I mean, I have the last two O O and
ACE or obace left.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you've seen most of it then that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I also say like it was it does
feel inconsistent with its pacing at times as well, where
it's so fast paced, so over the top, and then
there's times where I'm like, dude, what's this. I feel
like nothing's happened in a long time, and I feel
like everything was really cool, Like he tried to make
it really cool, but it also felt like retcons and
ass poles to achieve what he wanted to achieve, which
I get he maybe it was planned from the beginning.
It probably was planned from the gaming, but when you're
watching it over the course of fucking seven years, it
just felt like, where did this come from? That was cool?
I guess this is the anime that I was I
remember watching.
Speaker 3: You know, you know aot I.
Speaker 4: I could critique parts of it, like, uh, you know,
if you've seen most of it, you know, there's like
an element of like predeterminism or whatnot that things are
kind of faded to be and people might have an
issue with kind of that as far as the plot
goes for the towards the ending. But uh, but overall
that in the way the seasons came out, you know,
final season part one, two, three, four, five, But uh,
but overall, you know, Attack on Titan so good.
Speaker 3: I'm proud of Eurekon. I'm with you on this. Okay,
I haven't even higher on I.
Speaker 5: Guess people have different opinions.
Speaker 3: I know you haven't hired higher the number five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's see. This is why I'm saying it's over
rat I like Attack on Titan. I do like Attack
on I know I'm making like I'm criticizing it and stuff.
I like Attack on Titan. It's probably it was probably
my top thirty or forty, but it's it's It's in
a lot of people's top five or ten, and I
think there's too many issues with it. But you know what,
teach their own at the end of the day, Aaron,
one more thing, one more thing. One were think Aaron
went back in time and told his dad to fuck
his bob so that he could be bored.
Speaker 3: Like that's fire.
Speaker 7: That's fire. It's a fire concept, you know, like ifire reveal.
Speaker 6: That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's not even what actually had. I don't even remember it.
The memes got so out of hand. It was pretty cold.
It was pretty fucking close.
Speaker 4: Attack on Titan walked so that back to the Future
could run. Okay, that's something like that. But the only thing,
the last thing I'll say on it is that as
somebody that watched the first season back when it originally aired,
and then like watched the other seasons as they came out.
It is a little bit jarring to watch it over time.
But also every season and different arcs of the story
feels so different from one another, and like the the
focus shifts over the course of that time, right, So
there is that element that kept me engaged. Like early
on it felt like more of a mystery, and by
the end everything's coming together, right, so the focuses elsewhere.
Speaker 1: Drop drop a spoiler of warning before yelling shit out,
I was making a joke. I know, it's kind of
it's kind of close. It's kind of close to reality,
I guess.
Speaker 5: But like what Brigg said, did not happen. It did
not happen.
Speaker 1: I don't want to debate you on it, but it
essentially did. But never mind, no worry about it. This
is a different not in that exact phrasing. So now
I'm spoiling Now, I'm spoiling shit. Okay, stop, let's keep
it moving to b hero X was a banger. I
did like it a lot. At number six is a
little crazy, but I guess I didn't finish it, so
I can't, I can't talk.
Speaker 2: I still don't understand how this show is underrated. I
think more people really need to watch it. I think
because a lot of people don't want to watch an
anime being done by a Chinese studio because it is
a Donghai anime in the end, but with Japanese voice actors.
Speaker 5: But my god, it is a banger. Some people might.
Speaker 2: Have, you know, different opinions when it comes to the
combination of three D and two D together, but it
just flows so well. Amazing action, great characters. There are
multiple main characters. Anyone can be a hero in this anime.
You just need fans who support you and then boom.
This is just endless possibilities in the story like this.
So that's why it's up there.
Speaker 5: It's really good.
Speaker 1: I think it's good. I will say some times because
it jumps around from character to character and from different
like points in time and plots and stuff. I did
feel like I was really into it and then a
little bit less into it, and then really into it,
and then really less into it, And I think that's
what resulted in me not finishing it, even though I
loved it, I absolutely love, love loved it. At times,
and I was hoping for everything to like reconnect at
the end, or like be reconnected, which might happen, but
I don't actually know. Jordan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I know.
Speaker 4: There's been multiple Chinese anime that Recon's Praise to the
Moon that I ended up shitting on, but this.
Speaker 3: Wasn't going to be one of them. I've only seen
one episode, so I'm not going to say much, but
I loved that episode. It blew me away.
Speaker 4: It was so creatively engaging and just I don't know,
I'm excited to watch more to be hero X, I
need to get back to that. I don't have much
to say because I haven't seen most of it.
Speaker 6: Marcus, Yeah, I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it. Fair Wow, you should watch it.
Speaker 7: It came out, Yeah, I know you'll like it. It
came out probably after twenty twenty three, right, yeah. Yeah,
it's like yeah, and because of like school stuff and
university and stuff like that that I stopped watching anime
almost completely in twenty twenty three, So I'm slowly getting
back to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're slowly catching up, you were saying on season
all popular shows.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I feel.
Speaker 1: That, Yo. Recon I'm kind of proud of you at
number seven, okay.
Speaker 3: Telling you there's a theme here.
Speaker 5: Between one of the best.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's characters that go through growth gradually over the
course of a series that start out very flawed.
Speaker 3: Recon sees it. There's something there.
Speaker 5: I like character growth. Man like they started as weaklings
and nobody.
Speaker 1: Are but tense. He didn't not start as a weekling
or nobody.
Speaker 3: No, but he started out very dislikeable.
Speaker 5: No but no, I mean in his previous life.
Speaker 2: He started as a weakling, bullied, and then he got
reincarnate and he got slowly overpowered and.
Speaker 1: Growing, growing as I hate your description, it's almost better
if you just left it at it's number seven. I
like it.
Speaker 2: Okay, you know I like it, fantastic.
Speaker 5: Go ahead.
Speaker 1: I mean Georgan already said his point. Mainly, he's saying
that you he does notice that you like flawed characters
that go through a lot of trauma and grow and
become better people as time goes on, as well as
get stronger. I think there's some great world building and
characters thro Shoku tense. I think it gets more hate
than it deserves sometimes, but I also understand where the
hate comes from if that makes sense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I also know a lot of and this is
my number one East sky Light novels, So.
Speaker 5: A lot of people hate Rudis sucks man. I don't know,
he's He's a good character, very excited for season three
as well.
Speaker 1: Mushoku Overrated is an interesting take. I just think people
see the etchy and see like the the weirdness at
times with like the with certain arcs and even in
the beginning, and I fully understand that, but as an
anime friend fan, I've become very desensitized, and when you
actually compare like what the main character has gone through
and how he grows throughout, it's hard not to admit
that this is a classic and an absolute banger and
a top tier Esacai.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like there's a lot more people nowadays
ingesting anime and stuff through like shorts and whatnot as well,
So you always see like a you know, a ton
of love for characters like Super rub who's also one
of my favorites, and Cosma from KonoSuba, et cetera. But
then there's a lot of haters that I feel like
haven't either watched it or read it, and you know,
it's one of where you have to go through the
entire journey before you can really fully get a gauge
on it.
Speaker 1: Right, Marcus, how do you feel about Mostens?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I dropped it season one, wow one, and I was like, man,
I don't like a single character. I watched the whole one,
and I did like a single one. Okay, I like
the the ten.
Speaker 6: Beast woman.
Speaker 7: I mean, yeah, she was cool, but she only put
for like a second something. I don't like a single
characters always.
Speaker 3: Like why should I watch?
Speaker 6: I'm already not interested anymore.
Speaker 1: So I did like the fact that a lot of
characters were very flawed. It made it feel more real
to me. But I can understand why that's more like
makes them dislikable. For example, like the Father or like
the Dad. I could see why people would hate the Dad,
but like, I love the Dad. He just feel he
felt real.
Speaker 5: And he's a preferred piece of ship at the start.
Speaker 2: What later on he starts to develop a lot and
then something crazy happens.
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna say, but yeah, the.
Speaker 4: Thing that people can come to appreciate about it and
stuff is characters like Paul the Dad is he's a
failure of a human in like so many ways, but
like as a dad, he comes through when it counts
right and like he and things like that. So it's
like it really captures how multifaceted and gray that humans
can be.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: It just does such a good job at that with
all its characters that you know, it's it's less wish
for filmenty than a.
Speaker 3: Lot of eas sky.
Speaker 4: You'll see where all the nobles are good people that
want the best for everybody, et cetera. So you see
a lot of corruption, you see a lot of this
and that. But yeah, at the end of the day,
solid series.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I will say that's something I appreciate because usually
it's a little bit more like black and white, where
it's like the characters that we're supposed to like and
care for are so not flawed or their flaws are
so tiny, versus some of the main characters that were
following and like not supposed to like. But in most
enemies you would like are like do some terrible things,
you know, So I like that. It's it's very different
in that regard. Sorry, Mark, if I do say I.
Speaker 7: Feel like it was a little bit too much, too much,
and they have a character who's like you want them
to be, like, not that good of a character, and
as and he grows as the sort of goes on.
But that was a pretty strong opener.
Speaker 9: Uh so I was like, man, he's not good, So
maybe he told it a little bit and then be talking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this doesn't need to be for everybody.
Speaker 4: I guess it's the end us like those that like
it will end up liking it. Those that don't teach
their own right. Yeah, don't need to force people to
watch it.
Speaker 3: Speaking of flawed characters that do awful things. Next week
have death no the live action?
Speaker 1: What's wrong with you?
Speaker 3: We started? I read that, like you put a live
action here?
Speaker 1: At number eight his favorite anime Top one hundred anime,
he has death no live action in brackets. Anime was Ship.
Obviously this is a meme, right, racon right?
Speaker 2: No, genuinely, the anime was bad. I remember watching it.
The only reason why I watched the anime. I remember
when Animac made a deal with me and I lost.
I don't know what the deal was, but I lost,
and he forced me to watch it, and I watched
about twelve episodes before I dropped it, and I was like yeah,
this is shit, Like I don't know. It was getting
too predictable for me, and I kind of know where
things were going at this point.
Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, just drop the soap, drop the mic.
I'm done with this.
Speaker 2: And then live action came out, watched it, I was like, damn,
this is way better. Light Turner is actually so much
better than light yagam me, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: I no comment, no comment. I don't know how anyone
could watch that live action movie. Have you watched anime?
You know what it was you watched. Didn't you watch
the live action before you watched the anime?
Speaker 3: He did? He did?
Speaker 1: I think that could be a factor. But like I think,
even as a standalone movie, it's a failure. But the
entire time I'm watching it, I'm comparing it to the
to the anime. Right the entire time I'm watching the
live action, I'm comparing it to the anime, and it
just it's just so bad. It's such a bad adaptation.
Any thoughts, guys, Jordan Marcus, I don't know.
Speaker 7: I see the vision. I feel like I feel like
I see the vision on what Ricon is talking about.
I know, I haven't I haven't seen the live action,
and I have actually dropped the death note anime.
Speaker 5: I've dropped this.
Speaker 7: I've dropped it after episode twenty one, which, for you
Jordan and Briggs, that's when he buries the book.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, man, this is so stupid. It's no
longer interesting. And I was like, okay, I'm out.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize we had recon two point oh here.
I didn't realize Marcus was recon two point oh. That's crazy.
Animals all anyone, I need to cut everyone off here,
to cut everyone off here recalled What the hell do
you like about the live action? Can you explain that
to me?
Speaker 5: I just I like the characters a bit more in
the live action.
Speaker 2: I don't know, it was just getting way too predictable,
Like I said in the In the anime, I stopped
in episode twelve. It's like, yeah, I get that Light
as you know, Light is you know, uh, the god that.
Speaker 5: Elle is trying to figure it out, but I.
Speaker 2: Don't know, it's just kept dragging on and on and on,
like we get it, we get it, Elle is onto him, Okay,
we get it.
Speaker 5: Can we just you know, get to the point already?
Speaker 3: But there was logical cohesion to the anime. Okay, there
was no.
Speaker 4: Logic to the live action where it went, so it
was unpredictable because you're like, I don't know what's gonna
happen next.
Speaker 3: Is it going to turn into a cop thriller?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 3: You know, anything could happen.
Speaker 2: I think my point is because the anime is dragging
on way too much and it's just getting predictable. The
movie just shortened everything down, collapse everything into like an
hour movie, and it just sped things up. I'm like, Okay,
now I understand this.
Speaker 5: Is way better. I like the story a lot more
in this one.
Speaker 1: And that my friends. The last episode of the r
Anime podcast on that note, we will, we will, we
will only be talking about live actions going forward.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, it was at that moment that realized he
hated anime.
Speaker 1: Okay, number nine solo leveling. I will say it's hype,
but number nine is crazy. It's not that good.
Speaker 2: That's once again ties into characters that have a lot
of growth and go through a lot.
Speaker 5: So that's why it's up there.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: I do wish they dove more into his mental state
growth and like trauma and stuff. I feel like it
was just it just really quickly turned into his growth
is being I'm getting stronger, I'm flexing on people. I'm
the best. It's like maybe he was gonna lose some
humanity along the way as well as he got the
no Remember in Parasite, how our guy kind of lost
some humanity along the way. I feel like if they
did that with our main character and Solo leveling as
he literally killed humans and gained godly strength, if that
was doven into a little bit more, I think I
would have really appreciated it. It just sometimes feels like
anime like Sol loving are just two surface level for me.
I don't care about any of the side characters as
even though they're cool, sometimes I don't actually care about
any of their stories or plots. I don't care about
the world. I don't care about like even the battle
leeds up the power system, I don't care about that much.
For the most part. It's just I like the main
character and him flexing on people. With some good music
and good animation. It's awesome to watch. It's hype. It's
great to pass the time, but it's not that good.
It's not good enough to be my top nine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Sung Jin moves like a nice guy character with
really heartwarming motives, and it scratches on like him taking
a life for the first time. It's like he had
he was in the life for that situations where we
kind of had to battle with it a little bit,
but again it kind of glosses over it all in all,
and then a lot of that growth is purely like
a Kirio level of my numbers are now bigger than yours,
right like it. It feels like that type of where
it's just see him getting stronger type of growth, and
so much so that everybody else quickly becomes irrelevant.
Speaker 3: So I I don't really like solo leveling, but at
least their own I get the people like you, guys.
Speaker 5: You should probably wait for when tomb Braider King comes out.
Speaker 1: Can I Can I jump back in here, guys, I
jump back in Chader coming up. No, Chad has roasted
me a little bit because they said that I really
I talked very positively about it in the anime version,
and it's in my top one hundred.
Speaker 7: I like it.
Speaker 1: You got to realize what I'm doing a podcast like
a rating or a top one hundred list, and I
see it at number nine. I'm going to point out
all the flaws at the end of the day. You know,
I've watched it like four or five times, right, like
I clearly like it.
Speaker 5: A lot more times all the way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's crazy. Let's let's this is why I think
we should tip he things a little bit, right, This is.
Speaker 3: I get where you're coming from.
Speaker 1: You know, it's still hype, and it's got cool fight scenes,
and it's got a main character that I like, and
there's cool moments and good music and good animation. Like,
it's got a lot going for it that make it
like fun to watch on stream for example, or fun
to talk about it in a podcast, or even just to
put on it. I put on TV while you're while
you're chilling at home or whatever at night, and Igris
is cool. There's a lot of hype moments. It's got
a lot of hype moments. So I don't want to
put it down too much, like I just did it
just I'm putting it down because I'm trying to just
explain why it doesn't It shouldn't be in anyone's top
ten if you've watched hundreds of anime like Ricon.
Speaker 3: The only reason it would ever be in like the
top ten.
Speaker 4: Right here was if it said like number nine sister
leveling abridged and then in quotes.
Speaker 2: Ship.
Speaker 1: The only way reason it should be the only reason
it should be in your top ten and is if
you've watched ten anime.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 5: I watched hundreds of as.
Speaker 7: I mean, I've seen season one. I haven't seen season
two yet, but I have read it. I mean you
already said it's like just power stuff. The story is
very light. The characters are like, is pretty cool, but.
Speaker 1: She doesn't actually do anything. Well, she's just like cute and.
Speaker 7: Just visually just visually. Actually about the losing humanity stuff.
In the anime, they actually cut it out that when
he killed the guy the assassin in the yeah, he
actually loses I think mercy or something like that, because
the other inmates were still alive and he sends them
to the boss and the boss just killed them.
Speaker 6: And even nothing.
Speaker 1: I feel like it was introduced.
Speaker 6: It just didn't. They didn't show it.
Speaker 1: Okay, in the man Wa they introduce it and then
it just doesn't really it's never It just feel like
it's not a focal point. Something He thinks about our
struggles with at all after that, Like at first, like
it was like an issue, and then after that it's like,
uh no PTSD from that, did it really change him
that much? I guess it did change them, but we're
not gonna like focus on it at all. Let to
focus on his next.
Speaker 3: Cool flex exactly.
Speaker 4: Like I know I might be jumpling them together because
I have read it and watched it, but I've read
the entirety of the manoa and it's like I said,
it's not really like a big factor at all, and.
Speaker 3: Then uh, it's.
Speaker 4: It's very much just more the same, but for for longer, right,
as far as him getting stronger and and.
Speaker 3: Things of that nature.
Speaker 4: So cool, So yeah, it's hype moments. It's our farming,
right if you like are farming and hype moments, like
it does build those pretty well. There's there's things to
like about it, Like I get that.
Speaker 1: Cool cool all right? Moving on to number ten, Summertime Rendering.
I remember liking it, but I don't I think I
did finish it.
Speaker 6: I didn't finish it.
Speaker 1: I didn't finish it.
Speaker 5: Again, you didn't finish Summertime Rendering.
Speaker 3: Wow, I didn't know either. I'm guilty.
Speaker 1: I think I watched a bunch of it to finish
it for a podcast, but maybe I didn't.
Speaker 5: Jordan, did you did you finish it?
Speaker 3: I did not finish it. No, I Oh my god.
Speaker 4: I have to be in the right mood for like
the stuff that messes with time. Okay, like it was
giving me a headache of like this is this is
too stressful?
Speaker 3: Like it was good. I enjoyed what I did watch,
but like.
Speaker 4: I was trying to watch it with other seasonals at
the time, and whenever I do that, and it's something
that I feel like I need to just zone in on.
Speaker 3: There's times I don't finish it. It's so safe. I
need to go back and read or watch Summertime rendering.
Speaker 5: You gotta watch it. There's a reason why it's highly rated.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4: This is when I don't have too many doubts with
Yon reconlext that I watched like five or six episodes
and they were all really good. So I'll take your
word for it and use that as incentive to go
back and actually watch it.
Speaker 5: I feel like beginning might be weak because it's slow, but.
Speaker 1: I think the beginning is the strongest part of it.
I think I think I think the miss. I think
the mystery, and like the introduction. The first three four
episodes are really really strong. I think I watched the
first twelve for a podcast. Slow, Yes, I guess so.
I then I watched the first twelve for a podcast
and then watch a little bit more afterwards. I don't
think I finished it, but I do remember as time
went on and it got more went into it, I
cared less, if that makes sense, as more reveals happened,
like I was in it for the reveals and the mystery,
and I feel like as I I think I fucking
finished it. Guys, Chat, you guys are gaslighting me.
Speaker 6: No, you didn't finish it.
Speaker 1: You didn't, all right, you guys continue to guarantee you,
But I may not have watched it all on stream?
Did we do? Let me check the anime version, because
if we did two episodes, I finished it.
Speaker 6: I mean, your settle yourself that she didn't finish it.
Speaker 1: No, I said I didn't finish it, because Chat saying
I didn't finish it.
Speaker 4: I don't remember earlier earlier it was back then, regardless,
he doesn't remember the ending, so was.
Speaker 3: It really worth remembering?
Speaker 1: True?
Speaker 5: I mean, I wouldn't expect him to remember the ending.
It aired a while ago.
Speaker 1: Fucking I watched like the last like six episodes on
like two time speed to finish it for a podcast.
Speaker 5: But I think.
Speaker 7: It's I mean, I have finished some time rendering. I
thought it was great, So there you go, crazy high but.
Speaker 6: Respectable. Still. I actually don't remember the ending that much.
Speaker 2: I don't even remember the ending myself, genuinely, did it
really end?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I remember bits and pieces of the final confrontation and
all the things that got revealed, like oh that's why,
Oh that's why, and actually the time trouble stuff becomes
less and less relevant.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It turns out my podcast was only episode up to
episode eight. Boy, oh my goodness.
Speaker 3: He's like, I think I finished it. They're like, no,
you watched like half I told you.
Speaker 1: I have a distinct memory of finishing a podcast and
then going to watch more of it. So I'm like,
I watched more than twelve, but maybe I watched his
watch more than eight. Regardless, probably I probably didn't finish it. Anyway.
Speaker 3: Psych not seen Psyche K, so you get the.
Speaker 5: Disastrous life of Psyche.
Speaker 3: It's funny.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 5: It's so good.
Speaker 1: Is it a number eleven material? Not for me, but
I like it. Other people like it. That's about it.
It's funny, ha ha.
Speaker 2: It's got multiple seasons, multiple episodes. It's short, but man,
it just easily kills time.
Speaker 5: It's hilarious.
Speaker 2: Overpowered character and alien from another planet and he just
goes to school eyes its powers and just it's It's
basically Shenanigan is the anime.
Speaker 5: That's what it is. It's it's funny. I like it.
Speaker 3: Humor is subjective, but I can see why a good
comedy would.
Speaker 5: Comedy is subjective as well.
Speaker 1: I think it's like one of the first ones on
the list. It's not like a top tier show that
I respect your pick. Greek on mm hmm.
Speaker 4: I've only seen that one short of like the kid
rolling down his window to try to start roasting them
and then he like rolls it back up because it's
cold and then drives off like it's not even worth
roasting in that temperature. Right, So, like that one clip alone,
I've seen it like ten times, and every time I've
left I respect it.
Speaker 1: All right, let's keep this moving. Any thoughts Marcus on
psyche K, I haven't seen it, okay, overrated. What I
like it? I do like it? Like I do like it?
But whatever.
Speaker 3: Right here is so good?
Speaker 5: Top tier is the kind of material.
Speaker 1: It's no overly cautious hero.
Speaker 3: Yeah soup.
Speaker 2: By the way, Casha's hero is not part of my
top one hundred.
Speaker 3: Koto Soup is like a sick call. This is my
comfort show.
Speaker 4: I go back and watch it when I just aboard
and want something or giggles on the TV.
Speaker 3: I respect it. Recon, it's so good. What do you
love about it?
Speaker 1: Recon?
Speaker 3: Oh, it might be beautiful?
Speaker 5: Thank you? I say, it's just the whole cast.
Speaker 3: It just freezes out. Hello, Yeah, I can hear you now,
I can hear you.
Speaker 5: Now, can you all hear me?
Speaker 3: I can hear you.
Speaker 5: The characters. I love the characters, the squad.
Speaker 2: They all each have different personalities, different you know, a
unique power, a unique trait that they've got.
Speaker 5: But they're all weak, and that's what I just love
about them. It's just funny. They get into funny so
situation's funny moments. It's just you're gonna have a laugh
about it.
Speaker 2: To be honest, it's it's just a fun party to accompany,
accompany them on their journey or with whatever the stuff
that they do.
Speaker 1: You know what, I take it back, Maybe it's not overrated.
I do think it's funny at times. I just think
comedy is obviously subjective, So it's not like people are like,
this is the funniest anime ever. It's good. I like it.
It's not. It wouldn't be my number twelve, But that's subjective.
Of course. I think it's good.
Speaker 8: I do.
Speaker 3: I do think a lot of yeah, you're gonna like it.
Speaker 1: I do think I liked it at first, and then
as time went on, I kind of just got bored
of like the gimmick or what was like. I don't know,
maybe I just didn't love the characters as much as
as as you guys. Yeah great, any any thoughts here, Marcus?
Speaker 6: I mean well I was crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, number thirteen, Don Manchichi Loki obviously way too
high on your list, but don Latchie, I used to
call it the best average anime where it's just like
it's really good at being mid and it does it
really well. But then as time went on and like
season five, season four, season six, whatever the fuck, I
don't know, Like basically, after three seasons, I feel like
it got better and better. But even when it was
really really good at times sometimes the pacing and like
the sidecarecters involved were just like pretty bad. So I
just think it's like it's a perfect fifty. I think
I should put it at fifty on my list, Like
out of one hundred, it's a fifties.
Speaker 4: I used to always call it like the most pretty
okay anime of all time, like it was pretty good.
Speaker 3: I actually really enjoyed Don Maci.
Speaker 4: But uh, it is very much just like the archetypical
hero in a lot of ways, right, Like it doesn't
try to subvert anything in that regard.
Speaker 3: He wants to be a hero.
Speaker 1: It accelera sell that being typical, though I feel like
it at being typical.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say that's a good, good description of it.
I'm still a little shocked to see it this high.
Speaker 4: But Ricon, is there anything that puts it above the
the rest of the competition in your eyes?
Speaker 2: Well, like like you guys said, you can see the pattern.
Speaker 5: It's a character that goes through a lot, and by
the time.
Speaker 2: We get to the I think it was the fourth season,
that's when it picks.
Speaker 5: Up a lot. When we see the horrors in the
dungeon and the actual like.
Speaker 2: The true you know, big monster that just ships on
everyone and everyone needs to survive.
Speaker 5: That's when it actually starts getting really better.
Speaker 2: The first couple of seasons were okay, and even the
Goddess Festival arc was amazing. By the way, the Goddess
Festival arc was so the goddamn good.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you guys have.
Speaker 2: Reached that part yet, but I'm enjoying it seasons.
Speaker 4: But I will say I also think Don ma Jesus
has like one of the best power systems in a
series like that that I've seen, where where you know
its power is kind of granted and unleashed by the Goddess.
But like the way that they go up is that
they have to basically put themselves in harms way.
Speaker 3: They have to go through those like life or death
type situations to get literal experience.
Speaker 4: So like there's always steaks, right, It never feels like
there's not going to be steaks to try to get through, right.
Speaker 3: So I don't know, it's really solid series.
Speaker 1: Nice okay, actually my bad Marcus don Machi, can you
hear me?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 7: Yeah, oh yep, yeah, I thought season three was pretty bad,
and then season four came. This shit is awesome. And
for me, it's funny how we can say fifty right
in the middle. For me on my list, it's fifty seventh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that kind of makes sense.
Speaker 6: That's quite spot on. I think you said exactly what.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 6: It's very good at what it does. It's not even
an I think it's just.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just fantasy.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and uh, you don't get to see that a lot.
I really appreciate that. It's just we're really resolve so huge.
Speaker 3: Also, Hestia Bestia, so it's.
Speaker 5: True right as we all.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Food Wars finally a good anime. It's been a
little while.
Speaker 3: It's been a little while.
Speaker 5: I love another great completed anime that I miss a lot.
Speaker 1: I miss it, man, I didn't love the last season.
But other than that, like overall, it's just a fucking banger,
insane characters, insane battles with food, one of the few
anime where ecchi is used so well. I feel like
I was just I was like in love with so
many side characters too, and wanted them to succeed. There's
so many good things about this anime. I'm happy it's
on in your top twenty recon.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely a well deserved anime.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed it from start to finish, even though a
lot of people had some issues with the final season,
like you said, but I didn't really.
Speaker 5: See any problems with it. It was fine for me.
Speaker 3: I only read it.
Speaker 4: But like the last arc, well not like, I feel
like it followed up an arc that was like a
saga that like built on it, so I like had
more time to be like the climax of the series
almost and then after that it was still just a
really good arc. It just wasn't like anything grand compared
to the arc prior to it, right, So I feel
like that's maybe where a lot of the criticism comes from.
Speaker 1: But still I just feel like the anime was very
grand and built upon itself every season, and the last
season felt more standalone in in a way, or maybe
like they needed a season or two before that to
build up better to it. I don't know, but I'm
gonna be honest. The flexes were cool. I love characters
like Megamine. I'm so bad with names. There's a couple
of other characters I list. I loved watching their journey
and cared for them as much as our main protagonist,
who was really cool. You can hit us, Yeah, it's
it's I feel like that's really hard to do. There's
very few anime where I care as much about the
side characters and multiple side characters as the protagonist. One
example is One Piece, right, Like, I am so in
love with the entire crew. I want them to all
exceed succeed. I want them to achieve their dreams. I
love their interactions. I want more from everyone, like I
just want every ark. I'mist waiting for everyone to have
their moment to shine, and I'm hoping they get it
in One Piece. I feel like it was very similar
in Food Wars, and I think with the reason I
love Food Wars is that it has a wide cast
of characters that are all likable, and you root for
them to win, and when they lose, you feel their losses.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean it's the battle shown in of Cooking right
where it delves into that niche and then a lot
of those people that you are, the characters that you
get to know and care about, were previously the people
you were going against, right, So it like you defeat
the enemy. They joined the squad and then you get
to explore their journey as well as they grow from there.
Speaker 7: Right, it feels good, Margus, Yeah, season five was I
hated season five?
Speaker 1: Why why? Why did you hate season.
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 7: I don't know how much I can say about spoilers.
The the main villain, right, Nakiri's father.
Speaker 6: Was like he was.
Speaker 7: The villain of the show, of the story, and then
the stuff ends, and then out of nowhere comes this
guy that's related to Arena and wants to be together
with Arena.
Speaker 6: So it's like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 7: This is not the kind of thing that I want
in this anime. And also the cooking was really bad
in season five. They didn't explain the food. I think
it was just it might have been just Soma who
was in there from the cast.
Speaker 6: I could be wrong.
Speaker 7: And like a whole bunch of new characters we haven't
seen before. We don't really care about them all that much.
They only appearful like one scene or like one fight,
and then that's it. It was like an after thought.
And I think they should have ended it at season
four and that it would have been incredible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was perfect up until season four.
I think you made some valid points. Sometimes I struggled
to like put together why just like a season, it's
easier for me to explain why I like things than
explain sometimes why I didn't. Yeah, it just it just
felt very different. You're absolutely right about like the cooking
wasn't as in depth. The final protagonist wasn't one that
was built up as much as the previous antagonist. I
did really like Soma and Edio though, I did like that.
Yeah the entire time. I feel like I was. I
was rooting for it anyway, SNAFU, What the fuck is that?
Speaker 5: It's my teen romantic comedy.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, I didn't. I didn't finish that ship Jordan.
Speaker 5: A beautiful, beautiful, completed romance.
Speaker 4: Anyway, So long for season three. But yeah, this was
one of my favorite light novel series. And then uh yeah,
it's got three great seasons of Animal mar Solid. I'm
happy to see this one on here too, Ricon, I'm
proud of you today.
Speaker 3: This is a good list, Marcus.
Speaker 5: I think this is the first This.
Speaker 2: Is the first romance anime that I'm introducing right now
on the list, number fifteen on the list.
Speaker 5: So yeah, that's the first romance.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I finished Snuff and I've got that ship sucks.
Picking that goat is ship. My girl got.
Speaker 4: Robbed unfortunately not you know, believe.
Speaker 5: How your best girl won't win was to not have
Yui win.
Speaker 7: You can sucks. She didn't deserve hot chim on. I
don't know why that thought that was a good idea.
I was so fucking mad. And then there was like,
oh you come the other people and oh now it
comes back again like a cycle.
Speaker 3: I don't care.
Speaker 7: You should have picked a girl who was, uh, head on,
here's for you the entire time.
Speaker 6: And then it comes to.
Speaker 7: This girl who's like I don't know if I should
like you, but people say I should like you and
stuff like that, and I don't know if I get you.
Speaker 6: Suck, you don't don't deserve it. Fuck you.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh mad, you know to think some
of these.
Speaker 6: I watched Snuffle and I was like, uh the uh
what was it?
Speaker 7: The first season nine point five, I was like, whoa,
it was really good. Second season nine point six, I
was like, it's awesome. The drummers. Juicy was like, damn,
this makes me so sad.
Speaker 6: And then season three comes off five.
Speaker 4: A lot of these like love triangle type things, right,
or a guy who's so good because it kind of
subverts the romantic comedy genre. It doesn't really it doesn't
even really feel like one until later on, and then
there's a little bit of a love triangle. And then
think about the thing I love about series like that
is you almost jump on like a sports team, right,
You're cheering for one character.
Speaker 3: You're like, I want this character to win.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they can feel bad if it doesn't, but overall
still such a good series that.
Speaker 6: It didn't make I think it didn't even make it.
There were so many other characters that also liked him.
Speaker 7: There was the blue haired girl, there was the unnaclassman.
They were also like they grew on him, like.
Speaker 6: Yeah, even the teacher, even even the teacher.
Speaker 7: And then and I feel like it's with with Japanese society.
It's like, oh, it's the rich girl with the long hair.
Fuck the girl with short hair. It's every single time,
suck the girl with short hair. Then Mangele has long
hair and it's like an Ojosama and it's like rich girl.
Speaker 4: And I think there's a lot of characters that, even
if they didn't have like a romantic inclination towards him.
They saw his worth and like grew like him as
a person over the course of the series, because the
series about like him realizing his own self worth and
that he has worth as an individual, that he you know,
he wants something genuine and uh yeah, I think he
he finds that something genuine, right, But it's it's the
journey there that like really makes it makes it worth it.
So yeah, Also the teachers hot I love I love
her the novels.
Speaker 1: So I will say, I'm so happy I brought Marcus
on just for that passionate rant about why you just
like something on reconver that was.
Speaker 5: Such a valid crash out, very valid.
Speaker 1: What's the next anime? Chris Siad, Yeah, I remember why.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is mostly for the first and second season,
and then there are newer Grisiah, but this is like
more of a spin off.
Speaker 5: It's completely unrelated to any of the main cast.
Speaker 4: I think I've only seen the first season. It's been
a little while, so forgive me for if my memory
is a little.
Speaker 3: A little off there. But what did you like about Gersai?
In particular Ricon.
Speaker 5: It's adapted from a visual novel. I've played the visual novel.
Speaker 2: I thought it was all right, but the anime really
took it, you know, to another to another level. This
is a fantastic harem and it's got probably a very
serious protagonist, probably one of the most serious protagonists when
it comes to harm anime, who is a badass assassins
like good action. You get different endings from this anime,
you know, visual novel style with him with multiple girls,
and of course, yeah, that's basically what it is.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it, Jordan and Marcus, have you guys
seen this.
Speaker 3: I've seen I think the first season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, was it okay? I have a feeling it's bad.
I don't know, I feel like it.
Speaker 4: It's pretty al right. It's I call it more so
good than bad. Okay, But it definitely depends on your
taste it because it tries to adapt the visual novel
with multiple endings. It does kind of go a little
bit in the hair of direction, which I know Recon
I would like. And then it has the main character
that's very much on the cool side, very competent. It
gets very edgy at times as far as like some
of the flashbacks and stuff, right like, it goes in
directions that are kind of wild. It doesn't really hold
back in that regard. So I don't know. It's very
It's a series that sounds kind of cliche, but it
feels very unique whenever you watch it compared to other
things in the in those genres.
Speaker 3: Right, So I see the appeal.
Speaker 4: I don't have it in my top one hundred, but
solid it feels like a very recon pict That's that's
the best way I can say it.
Speaker 3: It's actually pretty quality.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I'm just saying this because most harm anime
have a protagonist who's like completely oblivious or they're like
afraid of girls or like it's.
Speaker 5: Just it's a complete generic protagonist. But this, this guy
is a Chad, a completely different I might have to
watch He's like the alpha male of Haram. I'm not
gonna lie.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll watch it. You convinced me, Marcus, have you've
seen this anime?
Speaker 6: I haven't seen. Have Feeling is telling me it's decent.
Speaker 1: See my god, Feeling was telling me it's bad because
Recon recommended it. But you never know. Ll Okay, that
doesn't count. Vina sag Alt don't count.
Speaker 6: If you just ignore like the couple, even like the
high school. DD, it's good.
Speaker 1: I just wouldn't watch it nowadays. Like if I watch
it nowadays, i'd probably think it was pretty mid to bad.
Speaker 6: That's fair. That's fair.
Speaker 1: I feel like you have to be in high school
and a teenager to like really love it. Like you
could think it's decent now for sure, But I imagine
you watched it for the first time now, for the
first time as a fucking thirty year old. Man, I wonder.
I don't think the appreciation can be the same.
Speaker 4: That's why I don't think I love it as much
as that was like upper twenties, right, And I was like,
I appreciate some of the comedy in that first season,
but like it just kind of keeps going and I
wasn't invested, right, So yeah, But.
Speaker 3: Anyway, then we have a lot to get through here, Charlotte, any.
Speaker 1: Strong, Charlotte, And then I do need to go. This
is the last animal we could talk about. Unfortunately, I
have to be somewhere in forty minutes. It's still got
a shower, put a suit on, and drive there.
Speaker 5: Charlotte comes on at number seventeen, crazy pick.
Speaker 1: I be honest, I don't think I ever watch Charlotte.
I may watched the first episode.
Speaker 7: I can tell you out of all of these, Charlotte
is the worst one quite far, even worse.
Speaker 6: Like you like Socks soo sucks? Even what I.
Speaker 3: Said, you like either June my Eta stuff or no,
like is this.
Speaker 6: Angel Beats is cool? Okay, I'm trying with Angel Beats.
I'm not huge on Angels, but it's fine. It's decent.
Speaker 7: But Charlotte famously rushed, Like you just have to look
online on the consensus and like, oh yeah, this ship
is rushed, especially the last the last.
Speaker 6: Quarter of the show.
Speaker 7: It's like, man, they are rushing through stuff, and it's like,
I think I believe there was something with an apocalypse
where the guys like wandering through racist what the fuck
is going on? And then with a sister I remember
with a sister and the stuff with a sister, I
don't think, and then she you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, child, It's just one of those things.
Speaker 6: A little bit more.
Speaker 3: I feel like the online consense this is often wrong, okay,
because what is my opinion?
Speaker 5: And you know, jan.
Speaker 4: I did, I did I enjoy Charlotte. I do think
online consis this is actually probably right in this regard
as far.
Speaker 3: As the pacing, it was the biggest issue with the series.
Speaker 4: It started off pretty good, like there's potential there, and
then uh, what feels like a regularly normal paced anime.
Speaker 3: Towards the latter half.
Speaker 4: Spirals very very quickly into uh, what felt like a
rushed ending. Right, So it's there's potential there, It's not
all bad. There's good moments, there's good hype things the
fe like about it. But as a complete package and stuff,
I think the ending is usually what it receives the
most u critique, not even just the ending itself, just
how it was paced, right, was uh was the biggest
thing around it.
Speaker 3: But what do you like about it? Rican anything that
makes it stand?
Speaker 5: I mean I did like the concept of the start.
You know, it starts off as a normal high.
Speaker 2: School kid has powers and he was forced to join
the club to stop other people from abusing their powers.
That kind of went on, and then the last two
episodes it kind of just shifted completely away from that
and it got absolutely insane. Yeah, so, and uh that
was sudden, But I thought it was pretty cool just
to see you know, him, to see him unlocked, like
the maximum ability of his power. But it was on
a I don't know, it was just on a crazy level.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought was cool.
Speaker 4: It's where the main character kind of gradually does become
a little bit of a better person as well. So
you know, at the very beginning, you know, his power
as a bit of context is he would take over
somebody for briefly a few seconds or like a kind
of take over possession of them, just briefly, and he
would use that to like cheat on tests, you know,
you'd be getting on hundreds and stuff like that. So
he was feeling in that way, and then like episode one,
he almost used he almost gets somebody like killed or
hurt and stuff, basically taking it over as a chance
to try to save a girl where she would like
him and stuff.
Speaker 3: He not not the best a guy.
Speaker 4: And then like gradually he joins a school with other
kids at powers, he realizes he's not that special.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: It feels like a very normal, normal paced anime, and
then his power actually ends up being something else, right,
So it spirals really quickly to go towards a climax,
but fun series overall.
Speaker 3: I do recommend it if you.
Speaker 2: If you just want to got great animation. A one
Pictures really nailed it very well in the animation.
Speaker 3: What things to like about it?
Speaker 4: I think it's it's almost too much critique because the
ending doesn't take away from how fun it can be.
Speaker 5: Right, I agree with you guys.
Speaker 1: I gotta cut you guys off because I do need
to go. I'm gonna get in a lot of trouble
and be late.
Speaker 5: It's gonna get better, though, break.
Speaker 1: Your listen, but your list is supposed to get worse
over time and start off good. But it didn't, so
it's not gonna get better. But I will say, not
a terrible list, Treacon, not good. Actually know what it is?
Pretty bad.
Speaker 3: It's pretty bad the middle of those people's lists, maybe
the end.
Speaker 1: But this is like like four to ten list. I
will say, next week, guys, next week five. This is
like the don I don't think it's a Don Machi
of lists. I don't think we have.
Speaker 3: Cycle.
Speaker 6: These are fantastic, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't judge a list by the two or three
main like mainstream anime that everyone agree loves. I judge
a list by your perers. No picks that are just
I find terrible, or the person or the personal picks.
For for example, you have Food Wars, which is the
anime I find to be amazing, right, I really love it.
So like I'm judging you off of like Food Wars
and psyche K and Summertime Rendering and Death No live Action,
I'm not judging you off of Vinlin, Sava and AOT
because everyone it's in everyone's fucking top twenty five whatever.
But you know, at least you have some personal anime
that you love for personal reasons, which I always respect.
It's not a pretentious list by any means. I hope
everyone enjoyed. And by the way, next week, I do
want to cover seasonal anime, so maybe the week after
that we'll get back to Recon's Top one hundred. Roasting
Jordan Marcus. You're welcome to join us as well. Next
week if you want, we're gonna talk. We're gonna be
watching the first episode of new seasonal anime and talking
about it. I'm gonna actually try to commit to making
some time to dream, some reactions and watch at least
six to twelve first episodes.
Speaker 6: You also got to go back to finishing all this stuff.
Speaker 3: I know, dude, copy fate, French fake.
Speaker 5: You haven't finished the coping watched three.
Speaker 1: I know, I know it was amazing too. All Right, guys,
I gotta go.
Speaker 3: Bye bye everyone, all right, by bye.