Speaker 1: Yo, what is up? Boys? How's it going? And welcome
back to another episode of the Rant Cafe Anime Podcast.
Today it is just me and the Anime Dude once
again trying to roast my top one hundred anime list,
which cannot be done. We did twenty five the first
twenty five on the last podcast, and we're moving on
to number twenty six. Jordan, the Anime Dude, how you
do it? My friend?
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm doing good. I'm excited. I'm ready the top
twenty five. I feel like we had too much in
common for me to truly roast you like I really
wanted to, and I was regretting it towards the end.
But yeah, if you're towards the middle, I feel like
it'll go a lot smoother.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see. Let's see either way, you guys
are going to get some banger anime recommendations from this.
If there's something in my top one hundred that you
haven't seen, it's probably worth checking out at the very least.
Moving on to number twenty six, we have one punch Man,
which I've always been a very very big fan of.
I've read the manga, I've read the webcomic, or whatever
the hell it's called. Jordan thoughts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I know last time we spoke about Mov's Psycho.
I love mob Psycho. It's probably like in my top
ten putting One punch Man around the same area as that.
I don't know if I'd have One punch Man in
my top one hundred. All right, it's wow. It's kind
of funny at times, it's kind of serious that some
other times. The animation is good in season one, but
it's just a pretty okay show. It's just I don't
think it's anything too special. I feel like Eminence and
Shadow is everything that One punch Man wishes it was,
if I'm being honest. So I don't know. I like
One Punchman being this high top thirty. It does kind
of blow my mind a little bit.
Speaker 1: If anything, I think One punch Man should be ahead
of mom Cycle. I think mom Cycle has with emotional
moments and amazing writing and a couple of good characters.
But One punch Man I just find to be so
epic and funny, and I love it. I do think
the quality of the anime has diminished, but I guess
it's the top one. I you know what, I agree
with you, Jordan, it's an anime list. It's an anime
list because I think, is I want a list? I
watched the amazing season one and then I read the
entire manga afterwards, so like, it's hard for me to
care that that anime is not that good.
Speaker 2: Granted, I do think season two. I haven't seen season
three yet. The season two probably gets a little bit
more hate than it it deserved just because of the
dropping quality from season one, right, it's hard to live
up to that first season.
Speaker 1: But like, yeah, season two wasn't even that bad. I
think what people weren't ready for was a slight dropping
quality because Mad House was insane, so it was It
wasn't bad. It wasn't even bad animation. It just wasn't
Madhouse or whatever whatever quality they were expecting. But what
they weren't also ready for, which I was i read
the manga, is there's less of a focus on the
main character Si Tuma. In season two. We start covering
all these side characters and the world. And I'm a
big fan, but a lot of people are just in
it for bunch.
Speaker 2: It's a hard thing to balance, right, and it's a
hard thing to balance, which uh, you know, it's I
guess that kind of segues into Eminence and Shadow a
little bit, right As far as balancing the two, Yeah,
I feel like Evan just the Shadow is one of
those series where a lot of the comedic moments are
around Sid. He's kind of a idiot, blunderhead and stuff.
But it's one of those series it's both good ironically
and unironically at the same time because he's so unserious,
but there's a lot of serious things kind of going
on in the world around him, right, And uh, I
don't know, I feel like it it hits that balance
really well to where i'd have that like my top
top five piece of kai Honestly, Like, I think it's
a solid being this high on the list.
Speaker 1: But I mean, em it's in Shadow is so funny.
It is an absolute banger. I think it deserves to
be pretty high up on people's lists. It's not like
a top ten for me because it's just so silly
and it's fun in that way, and like you said,
it's a good blend. But at the same time, what
it does get really really seriens like it's fun. Is
it amazing? Though?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like it doesn't take itself seriously, but
if you wanted to take it seriously, like everything does,
it is written very weld where everything does align and
makes sense in like a greater content. So it's it's
one of those that kind of does both well. You
can have characters named Potato and pervass at well simultaneously
making things epic.
Speaker 1: And it takes a good writer to do that. It
takes a good writer to do that. Someone in chat,
Captain tripp says, I'm shocked One Punch Men isn't higher
on your list. You gust over it for years. I mean,
my top ten are some anime that I wouldn't even
really talk about much. They're just really important to me.
If you're on stream with me, you might see me
react to it and rewatch those shows. One punch Fan
is great, but my top ten is I like them
a lot better. Anyway. Emin's in shadow. It was our
number twenty seven. I think it's fantastic. I think it
kind of I think it's in a perfect spot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's probably about where it would be on
my list. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: It's said by the guy who made the list based
on his own personal opinions.
Speaker 2: In some of these, I'm sure you'll have second thoughts.
Speaker 1: I will say I made this top one hundred list
in twenty minutes, so.
Speaker 2: That is impressive.
Speaker 1: I do think that as we go through it, I'm
gonna be like, yeah, this one should have been higher
or lower. It's like for me, I feel like I
put them in the right area for the most part,
but not perfectly, like they're not like one to one
one punch Man is better than Eminence and Shadow because
twenty six and twenty seven. Anyway, at number twenty eight,
we have gern Lagan, which I would love to rewatch
it and see if it's still holds strong because I
watched it like it does.
Speaker 2: It does nice, it holds strong. I'm shocked this one's
not like a top ten for most people. For at
least for me, I feel like this is like a
top ten series. So it was sad to see it
this far down on the list. Right. Uh. True, it's
one of those series it's ridiculously like over the top,
but it's consistently that way, and it does so with
some strong themes and messaging along the way, right, So
it's a it's just a very fun anime. Anime right,
it's it's it's it's everything you could ever ask for
in a series.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I mean Communa. I'm trying to remember the show.
It's been so long. Communa left such an impact that
even though I can't remember the details of the show,
I remember those first nine episodes so well. Despite only
watching it maybe once or twice, and this is probably
over over a decade ago, it's still holding strong and
it made such an impact in me that it's still
in my top twenty seven, twenty eight.
Speaker 2: That's that's fair for only watching it like once or twice,
because I feel like this is one of those series
I revisit every so often, and yeah, I feel like
it's held up every time. There's maybe like a couple
episodes here and there that maybe aren't as high quality
as like the others, but like all in all, such
a good series.
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Speaker 3: I haven't played it yet, ad read, right, like you
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Speaker 1: I haven't actually haven't haven't played it yet. I'm gonna
play it for two hours on stream at some point
this month. I should I probably should have played it
before doing this ad read anyway, Attack on Titan is
my number twenty nine.
Speaker 2: Oh man, Yeah, I guess somebody in chad a good
point as far as I need to send this portion
of the list of Animac just where he can be
ashamed of you. Two for k and the Gun at
twenty eight Attack on Tight that twenty nine. I feel
like it's just as blasphemous, like that's a that's also
like a top ten type series.
Speaker 1: Right, this is I don't know that was a roll.
It was a rollercoaster of emotions when watching Attack on Titan.
I don't like it as much as the average person.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I feel like it has a lot
of places that it goes, but even prior to that,
those early seasons, just the mystery of it all and
then everything making sense and coming together in such a
cohesive way. I don't know. It was so high quality throughout.
I find it being like one of my top five series. Honestly,
like every time I'm considering, like my top one to five,
it's up there. So I'm so biased, But uh.
Speaker 1: So, I'm a very character driven. I'm a very character
driven person, and I think you have valid concerns, and
I think most people would be like twenty nine Attack
on Titan, that's the top ten anime of all time.
Blah blah blah. I watched season one and didn't care
because like, I'm like, I don't like any of these characters,
or like ninety percent of the character didn't like so
they're dying and I'm like it doesn't even matter. I'm like,
it's a cool call and the mystery was cool. But
also the first season felt so drawn out that I
didn't even care for season two until if I wasn't
doing content, I probably wouldn't even have watched it. And
then it was one of those series that got better
and better and better with time. But at the same time,
it's like it is hard watching a show as it's
coming out. It took so long to complete.
Speaker 2: Granted, I remember watching season one like as it aired
and just being blown away by the animation. And how
dare you say you didn't care? I was shedding tears
over Thomas. Okay, Thomas. Thomas didn't deserve that, dude.
Speaker 1: That first season was not that good other than the contents, Like.
Speaker 2: Episode like five or six, we lost Thomas. He was
in like two or three scenes and I was I
was torn to shreds. Okay, Yeah, we have other characters too,
Micasso Levi. Everybody likes them, but.
Speaker 1: I think people forget that season one was like twenty
four episodes or something like that.
Speaker 2: I do think the first half of season one is
stronger than the second half of season one. Season one
kind of drags a bit, but then season two is
short sweetened to the point I loved it, and then.
Speaker 1: Uh, I do think it's just one of those shows
that get better and better as time goes on. It's
a cool concept, but I don't know. I mean top
twenty nine. If I watched three hundred anime, four hundred anime,
Top twenty nine is still quite a bit of praise.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, no it is.
Speaker 1: It is, and then an emin shadow it is just better.
That's how funny A top one hundred list is where
you actually like, look at the anime that are next
to each other and what's slightly right ahead of it,
and then it's in shadow, no complaints, just a banger
from start to end. Attack on Titan, a masterpiece with
some complaints.
Speaker 2: Would you rather have a show that's like early on,
like Plato's allegory of the Cave, where we don't know
what we don't know about the world and then it
blends into into all these thieves and grand stories of
these characters that you grow to love. Or would you
rather have a man in yellow suit that's bald that
can hit anything in one punch? Okay, this is which
would which? Which? Would you rather have? Brings other have
the ladder? That's that's all We're true.
Speaker 1: It's true. I think someone in who said it our
hero and chat It's like by the end of a
Tackle on Titan too, with all this chaos that happened,
and like how I don't know. It was like I
didn't even know who they're root for. I think that's great,
but it is. It is a good thing, but I'm like,
it's also a weak point when like if you don't
like the characters at the same time as well, it's
like if they die whatever.
Speaker 2: It's you have characters that are so consistent with who
they are, but the framing and like how we see
them in like a grand uh from like the grand
scheme of things and stuff, right changes how yea? On
what scale we're dealing with changes that a lot, right,
so uh and what positions they're put in. So I
try not to spoil these series as we go through.
I know we got about the cover year, but uh,
Tackle of Titan definitely worth checking out.
Speaker 1: I actually did think it had an amazing ending. I
know people hate it on the ending of it. I
thought it had an amazing ending.
Speaker 2: But we're not gonna splay. Yeah. I feel like it's
one of those where it was talked about on Twitter
first when the manga ended, and people on Twitter never
liked manga endings. I've never seen praise for like one
of them. Okay, this is except for like the rom
comms that have like an epilogue where they're married after
or something. I'd never see praise for manga endings online.
Speaker 1: It's so said Number thirty. Parasite the maxim oh Man,
I love you watching her. I loved watching the protagonist
change slowly and like it wasn't that slow, but it was.
I don't know how to say it. It was obviously
he had some physical changes, but it was the actual
mental and emotional changes that happened throughout the series of
him as a character that I just I don't even
know if I would call it character development, but whatever
development he went under I think was masterfully done.
Speaker 2: I just add to that a bit. Parasite's one of
those where we have supernatural things going on, right. There's
physical changes going on with the main character with a
literal parasite as you see in the title, taking over
his right arm and kind of changing who he is
on like a biological level. But then you also have
all these events going on in his lives right where
he's impacted emotionally, Like you said, these things that would
psychologically shake anybody up. So it's like, with these two
things going on in parallel, there's that constant question of like,
which is affecting him more, how much of it's this
versus how much of it's that, right, And yeah, you
do see him change gradually, but yeah, all the things
kind of going along with that are such a good ride.
Speaker 1: So also just another cool concept. Yeah, I think there's
a lot of anime that are in my top fifty
just because like they do a couple of things well
and have a cool concept that keeps me hooked.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say this one. I haven't rewatched it
a ton, but one of the things I do remember
kind of nitpicking on was this was like a bit
of an older manga. I think it was written in
like the eighties or something. I could be wrong, maybe
early nineties, And then like when things are happening in
the anime, I'm like, man, I feel like this could
all be solved if they just use their cell phones.
But you know, when it was written, cell phones weren't
really a thing. So fun, yeah, because it was made
like later than that, right, So it was like a
two thousand and eight, thousand and nine something like that. Anime,
So I don't know, I just remember that thought going
through my head. But solid show.
Speaker 1: That's so funny.
Speaker 2: Top thirty is interested.
Speaker 1: It always make me laugh, even watching Kenechian and like
what his name, Niezi Mu pulls out his pager. You
have a computer at home. There's little funny things that
like we take for granted, are just part of our lives.
Now as I sitting here with my three monitors setup, I've.
Speaker 2: Been rewatching some older anime now and there's like an
there's just an episode I watched recently where it's focused
on like a media campaign like against a certain person
and whatnot. And it's like news reporters that are putting
it in the newspaper. And then they're also like maybe
have like a thing running on TV. I'm like, man,
it is crazy how much even just the media landscape
has changed, right and fifteen twenty years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very true. The world's changing m for better,
for better or worse at times, for better or worse
at times. Anyway, Moving on to the best original concept
Baseball or major This.
Speaker 2: Is change over time. This is yeah, one of the
best anime. This is a top five anime. Briggs. I've
said that three times in this episode so far. But
you know this is like, this is this is up there, Okay,
this is we get to see a character go from
being a base.
Speaker 1: Oh fuck himself, I'm muted by accident. I'muted by accident.
Say that again. You can everyone hear yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Can you hear me? Yeah? I think I said
this is a top five anime, Briggs. I know I've
said that five times this episode so far, But this
is speaking a change over time. We could see a
character go from being a little kid four years old
in love with baseball to being like an adult himself,
right with his own adult responsibilities, and you see that
entire life's journey here in like one hundred and fiftypos
It's Major's a top five series. How dare you put
this low?
Speaker 1: Hey, it's in my top thirty one. I think it's
a No. One stop thirty one other than you, Okay, I.
Speaker 2: Feel like nobody's seen Major and it makes me really sad.
So it does make me happy you've at least seen it.
Speaker 1: How could no one have seen it? There's like, how
many seasons are there eight?
Speaker 2: There's six seasons of the original, each with like twenty
five episodes or whatnot. And then uh, they made Major Second, right, yeah,
which is it's kind of like the borroughto to this,
but it's still really good. I like Major Second, but
Major Second came out on crunchy roll and like was
shown over here, and like Major, the original Major has
like never been available legally, so it's like, uh yeah,
it's like never been marketed well and never so people
would watch Major Second and then be confused to be
like un ironically, be like, man, his dad seems cool.
I wish he had his own anime, like the jokes
they make for Naruto, but on ironically, like they just
they didn't. They didn't realize it.
Speaker 1: So I mean Major deserves a law more love it.
Out of the dozens of sports anime that I've watched,
it's to this day in my top three or four
favorite sports anime, I think it's up there, rivaling the
best at it.
Speaker 2: It is the only one I would put above it
is probably EPO, So it's it's like my top two
sports anime.
Speaker 1: Yeah for me, it's EPO High Q, Major, Right, I
don't I think.
Speaker 2: Like three to four, but like that's it's hard to
compare anything else to those four.
Speaker 1: So dude for major made me cry, made me at
the edge of my seat for baseball, which is crazy
because it's the most boring sport of all times. It
maybe like baseball I love. I fell in love with
so many characters. I cried, I felt emotional multiple times,
on the edge of my seat so many times. It
just it did it all. And you followed the journey
of this child from little league baseball all the way
spoilers to the majors, which is really funny because when
I was watching this, I didn't even think I didn't
even connect the title. I'm like, oh, yeah, baseball, major
League Baseball. Yeah, But then he fucking gets there and
he's like four years old at the start.
Speaker 2: It's a journey, right, It's a journey. So it's yeah,
even if you don't like ant or long anime like that, though,
I think even just season one is a good standalone
in and of itself, definitely worth the watch. And then, uh,
the interesting thing about sports anime in particular, and one
thing I love about him is I could show you
five different baseball anime and they'll all feel so different
from one another. Right, Because some folks like on the
sport itself Yeah, there's my folks on like psychological things,
and then with Major it's like the drama and like
the you know, the journey of life itself around that, right,
So everything he goes through outside baseball as well, fun series.
Speaker 1: All right, moving on to number thirty two, This one
might get a little bit of hate Naruto Naruto, and
it's for the fun of it. I have Naruto, then Bleach,
then dragon Ball, dragon Ball, then Slash d Slash Super
all back to back to back.
Speaker 2: All the Bleach and dragon Ball fans are human right
now and ar lead here this is.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're all around this point, but right between
Major and Chon where they is where they deserve to be.
I do struggle to say which one I like better,
for Naruto or Bleach. I decided that I like Naruto
better because it's like, what would you rather have a
show that like starts off amazing and then slowly deteriorates
or a show that's like okay and then ends up
becoming amazing. I don't know. Yeah, have you seen have
you seen the Bleached thousand Year War arc?
Speaker 2: I have not, So that's why I'm going to be
a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's out of the loop unbelievably like it's the best
part of Bleach I've ever watched other than maybe like
Soul Society when you're first jumping into it, how fun
it was, and how like how like back to back
fights and the stakes and the training mid part, like
Soul Society is amazing, but the thousand year Blood warre
arc is right there with it, if not, like it
really is better than it. It's hard nostalgia wise to
say that.
Speaker 2: So the thing with this list is these are anime,
right yeah, And I will say I've read Naruto loved it.
You know, seven hundred chapter is well worth the read. Bleach,
I've read a decent portion of it, and I watched
like three hundred episodes. It was also pretty good all
in all, whenever things are actually happening. The thing that
detracts I think a little bit from these anime is
like just the way anime was handled around the time
they came out. It's it's fun in a lot of ways,
but there's also a lot of filler in there, right,
So I think Bleach has like the worst filler in
all of anime. And then Naruto also had like a
lot that was.
Speaker 1: I mean, ship it In was terrible. When I have
Naruto at thirty two, I'm saying Naruto and Naruto shippu It,
I'm saying all of Naruto. I think those first ninety
episodes of Naruto are just so fantastic and like grounded
and they're so good. So I had to put Naruto
above Bleach.
Speaker 2: But I actually respect it. If we're talking about like
the main things that are going on early on in
Naruto and whatnot, it is just you eventually get through
a point where like the last one hundred episodes I
think of the original Naruto are all filler, and then
Shipputin was worse because it would like kind of put
in between things a little bit, and then like at
the end there's like a robot Naruto and all these
other side stories I didn't really care about, Like I
want to see what's going on war So uh yeah,
watching that week, the week was rough, and it makes
me a little bit biased towards it. Mixed feelings. On
these mixed feelings, I respect them being on the list.
Speaker 1: I will say that we didn't really talk about Dragon
Ball Slash Slash Super. I think it's just an okay show,
But it was my childhood. It still to this day
gets me fired up and pumped. I was rewatching some
some cell games and then afterwards with Gohan going to
school and the Great Sam and it just it's just
so good. I love it.
Speaker 2: I feel like Dragon Ball is one of those weird
ones where if you try to look at it with
the critics, I like, after the fact, you can find
a lot of things to critique, But when you're watching it,
it's just so good and fun. It's never been a
bad time, right against the people going, yeah, I'm not
a big fan of super I replaced that with GT
That's that's That's where I'm at.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like this, like I feel like you're oh, I
keep on cooking Mike hot keys by accident, can hear me? Okay? Good,
I don't hear you, Okay, good, Okay. I keep on
using my hot keys to scroll through the list. I
can't do that anymore anyway. With drago Ol Super like
even actually take this in. So we talked about like
looking at it, looking at it from a critical lens
as a twenty nine year old mad before bed. You
know what I put on. I put it on the
Dragon Ball super Movie just because it's like a cool fight,
cool little power up, some fun moments, getting to see
the boys at at Balma's birthday party. Like, I don't
know what it is about this show that I can
just watch at any time in my life and just
turn it, put it on and enjoy. Like, yes, if
I think about it, like it is it a masterpiece?
Is it really better than these other shows that I
have it above? No, but there's a reason why it's
a global franchise that with the amount of I think
it has more mainstream influence than one piece, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, No, it changed anime that came after it,
like paved the way and changed a lot of things
about it forever. Right, So I used to see this
meme all the time of like things girls watch over time,
and it'd be like as a little kid versus teenager
versus adult, and it's all these different things. And then
it's like, guys, and it's like eight or nine years
old Dragonball, you know, age seventeen Dragonball, age thirty Dragonball,
And it's so true. Yeah, it's just always good, right.
Speaker 1: All right, moving on to an anime that deserves to
be right next to I actually want to move it up.
I un ironically want to move it up Kon at
thirty five. It is just the most wholesome, cute. People
put it down because it's like Slice of Life and
not a lot happens. You're just fucking having tea and
cake and talking. Those girls, fantastic characters. I fell in love.
I fell in love with the characters so early on
that it doesn't matter what they're doing. Unlike Attack on Titan.
There's no stakes, there's nothing going on, and yet I
cared more about their conversation sometimes in Kon than an
Attack on Titan. Unironically, unronically, I am saying this that
those stupid nothing conversations were sometimes more. I was more
locked in, you.
Speaker 2: Know, as a Slice of Life enjoyer myself, I can't
say I don't understand, but yeah, I guess. Let me
preface this as somebody that enjoys somebody Yamada's works now,
and I think I would enjoy count more now, like
I need to go back and watch it, but this
I'm want to judge it right now from like what
I thought of it back when I tried to watch
it as it was airing. So I tried to watch
this in middle school and I thought it was the
worst thing I'd ever see. I was like, they're just
sitting there, like they're not even playing music, They're just
sitting there drinking tea, and like nothing was happening at all. So,
you know, as much as I'm sure I would love
it now, I've seen a lot of shows compared to
it now and I love them. Got it trying to
watch this. Initially I hated it so much. This might
be the worst thing ever.
Speaker 1: You are right, nothing is happening. Nothing happens, like, don't
get me wrong. It's fun watching them like kind of
train for like the school festival blah blah blah, or
like on the when they're on stage and this and that.
It's not what it's about, man, it's not what it's about.
Speaker 2: Well it's a There was like no light music. They
were drinking tea more than they were about nothing.
Speaker 1: And I loved it. It's an anime for Chad's Okay.
Speaker 2: I have seen a lot of clips that make me
laugh there after after the fact, so like that, I
need to go back and watch this one.
Speaker 1: I yeah. I mean, if you if you watch it
and you like the characters, you'll probably enjoy the journey
even though there isn't a journey. If you watch it
and you're bored, it's just not for you, and that's it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. It's one of those where if you ever see
like U the manga, I think it's like literally just
like I said, if that was if they they made
a mang before, I don't know if it was before
after the series, just like four Coma, Like there's literally
nothing in it, so a lot of they had for
the series. It was literally just Kioto animation kind of
popping off and uh, and you might have making it
into like What's Beloved today? Right, So I don't know,
I need to go back. I need to go back.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to go back. I
don't think I'll like it if I go back, but
I think I would like it. And I thought it
was so stupid too. I'm like, I don't want to
watch this crap. And then there I was clicking next
episode and next episode. I think I went in biased
thinking I wasn't gonna like it, and after episode one,
I'm like, I'm not gonna like it, and then slowly
I'm on episode I'm on episode twelve, and I'm like,
I want to keep on watching and I just finished
it all in like two days.
Speaker 2: This man, you know how many girls band anime I
tried to get you and rec on the watch last
year I had to stop recommending him because you guys
were you were crying about it. But there's so many
good girls band anime and this is what started it
was Kaon Okay, without Kon, we don't get oochi.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's number thirty six. B to the Rock,
which was arguably a better anime than Kon. It should be.
I think it's better ridden and has some actual layers
to it, but you know what it's I think it's
a close, if not tied with k kay On'm just
it's just it. It's just on.
Speaker 2: You know. He's also love those where you just you
love the characters. There's a lot of comedy kind of
around it. So it's very slow going, but there is
good music and whatnot.
Speaker 1: There's fantastic music. Boach of the Rock is about something,
you know, you have a character with social anxiety. It's
got some good music and some goals and ambition. It's
it's Chaon with so much more to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and yet the particular they put a lot of
references in there, right, with it being like a comedy
series that are just fun whenever you see them. So
if you're a fan of a lot of other anime
and you want to see boche Land there like Yamschat
from dragon Ball, right, or or any other number of references,
it's it's fun. They knew what they were doing.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Let's move on to Trygun, hilarious anime, some great
characters at number thirty seven.
Speaker 2: Try Gun. I have nostalgia towards try Gun, but it
is kind of crazy seeing at this high. This is
it's number thirty seven. Huh, what do you like about Trygun?
What puts it this high?
Speaker 1: I just think I like fash a lot so much
so that it has to be here. I don't have
a better reason than.
Speaker 3: This, Like.
Speaker 2: This is the original try Gun. I'm a sort of.
Speaker 1: Original total Slaughter, Toto Slaughter.
Speaker 4: I have a lead single man alive Ladty Dotty die
Jet aside Laddy Doddy dot.
Speaker 1: An ocean of blood, like the fact that I still
remember that fucking song that he says when he trying
to scare people away to save their lives or whatever,
and I have not rewatched it once and I haven't
watched it in fucking fifteen years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say I got my old roommate to
watch it, so I rewatched parts of it with him,
and the big moments still hit. Like, there's still some
big moments in Trygun that stuck with me and I
still think they're good. But overall, it being twenty five episodes,
it does kind of drag it times a little bit.
And uh, I don't know. I do love Vash. I
don't know if i'd put it this high up because
that has a bold choice.
Speaker 1: Oh, people are talking, you know, it's crazy. It took
me so many attempts to finish Cowboy Bebop. It's the
episodic nature. I guess, not that try Gun isn't similar
in a lot of ways. I just like didn't fall
in love with Bebop. It took me a while to like. Actually,
I think I watched it when I was young and
I didn't like it, and then I was just like
a hater for no reason, and I got it's really good,
it's good characters, but like I didn't never finished it,
and then I actually finally finished it one day. I'm like,
this was fantastic, and Trygun I just I'm never gonna
go back and rewatch It. I want them this down
to stay the way it is, and in my mind
is being so good because I feel like it's not anyway.
People were asking if it's in order my list. My
list is generally in order. There's gonna be some errors,
for sure. I made it in twenty minutes, and I
think my top ten is in order, and then twenties
kind of an order, but not really, but like at least.
Speaker 2: A lot of these it's like one of these series
made you think of all the.
Speaker 1: Others exactly exactly one hundred percent, and I'm like, oh, like,
maybe it could be five or ten places up or
five or ten places down, but it's in the region.
It's in the region.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, tray Gun is good. Try Gun is good.
Like I said, rewatching It, there's some episodes where it's like, yeah,
it feels like it does drag on a little bit,
which normally I don't mind. But uh, I don't know.
I'd probably have it in my top one hundred. I
just don't know if it'd be this high of I.
Speaker 1: Feel like it has to be this good, it has
to be as good as I remember because otherwise I
wouldn't remember it.
Speaker 2: It has some really good moments. I love the overall,
like I said, themes and whatnot, and the character arcs
of Trygun right, like who Vash is and how that's
kind of gradually slow rolled over the course of the series,
and why he is the way he is, his whole backstory,
but a lot of that's not like that's all like
in the latter half. So there's like a lot of
episodic stuff prior to that.
Speaker 1: Yeap ohshi no co. I'm a big fan number thirty nine,
Oh if you know CO.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: It had like some good twists and turns, and I
like the concept, but where it actually took it in
season two and I'm like, I don't even care that
much about our aqua finding the murderer, which is his
main goal. The person who acts. I'm like, I'm just
here for the journey of all these characters. At this point,
I almost feel like show them the then the actual
reason for why he's doing things.
Speaker 2: That's the thing about Oceanoko is you do just start
to love the characters and whatnot so much. There's so
many things going on, there's so many different aspects that
you could latch onto to maybe relate to. But at
the end of the day, it is like a character study, right,
or like a character driven show where like you might
not have that much interest in like Aqua's uh, you know,
motivations towards the start of the series, but even he
like is feels so human and that like there's a
part of him that wants to kind of let go
of that, yeah, live his life too, right, Like he's
kind of struggling with that over the course of the
series something.
Speaker 1: And I do care, like I do, I do care
about him finding in the mystery behind it, Like that's
definitely an element. But the fact that, like we had
Aqua a character that I really liked and this reason
for why he's doing things, but slowly as time went on,
I just like fell in love with the other characters
and their journeys and like, I want Awkward to succeed
in what he's doing, almost more so than the reason.
And I'm like that is that's a show that there's
good writing and good character development and good characters in general,
because I am no matter what is going on some
drama on set or another character and a romance going
on here and this and that I'm like, I am
invested no matter what, and I think that speaks volumes.
Speaker 2: They have entire arcs or yeah, a little mini arcs.
I guess you could say, like whenever they have an
episode and it'll start following some random side character you've
never seen before, right where it's like tackling a part
of the industry that they're in. And I'm still invested
when I watch it, right, So I can't hate on Oshinoko.
I feel like I like it more than most people.
This is a good solid placement.
Speaker 1: For it, Thank you, all right. I number what I'm
going forty, Ranking of Kings.
Speaker 2: Ranking of Kings, another number forty. It is it that
you're gonna need to justify this one for me?
Speaker 1: I don't even think I can. Oh. I is like
our our main boy, our main boy. I will follow
him anywhere. I think he's so cute and there's so
many wholesome emotional moments I was invested in. It gave
me like it's a modern anime that was Maine, but
it gave me those nostalgic older anime vibes.
Speaker 2: Hmm. It did feel like following like a fairy tale
almost right, like with Bochi in his journey it and
I don't get me wrong, Bochie himself was like very endearing,
so like I also latched onto him. You want to
root for him, right, he has that charisma to him
that makes you want to cheer him on. But like
the story itself and everything in it, it's it's not
complete yet right after those first twenty five episodes, so
I feel like there's like a lot of open ending things.
It feels like there's a lot going on all over
the place, kind of all at once. And I don't know,
I couldn't find myself loving this series. I enjoyed it.
I thought it was above average, But.
Speaker 1: I also I feel like there was like some mystery
in the background in regards to like the Kings, the cells,
and like what it does to a man. I then
there's there was a lot of good parts to it,
if that makes sense, not for me to I think
I just like Boetry, I just like the kids.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's very likable, like I said, And honestly, a
lot of the characters are pretty likable. There's characters that
you feel like are gonna be villainous and whatnot. Towards
the start where it kind of slow rolls their motivations
and why they are they are who they are, or
like why they acted a certain way. So like like
this the stepmother right, Like you think she's gonna be
like an evil, wicked stepmother, but I feel like she
was also one of the more endearing characters in it. Right,
So it's a I don't know, solid little serious crazy
this is the sigh this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is true. I do think we're starting to
lose the integrity of my of my rankings around this point,
as you can see by forty one, forty two, forty three,
where I'm like Kono Supa Overlord zero, which in retrospect,
let me just reorder this real quick. I'm gonna put
over there and re zero above Kono Suba.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, this is all right? So this is
where the roasting comes in. Right, So Overlord might be
one of the worst series I've ever seen in my life?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: Edgy?
Speaker 1: I've rewatched Overlord like five six times.
Speaker 2: I initially had it maybe like top five US guys
when it like it initially came out because I thought
it was a little bit different with its approach. It
is so literally following the villain, right, And since you're
following the villains, it's like it has a little bit
of edge to it. It feels a little bit different.
But at the end of the day, there's so many
side characters that you're following, and none of them have
any semblance of hope of beating Irons. Right, He's so overpowered,
His whole crew is so overpowered. It feels like there's
no point to anything asides from just submit to how
powerful and evil they are. Right, So, I think.
Speaker 1: You're right where it does feel like there's no point
sometimes because our main character is a.
Speaker 2: Star fantasy of yeah, of evilness.
Speaker 1: Right, He's like the strongest villain and the strongest hero,
Like he's Boumon and Irons, And I feel like that
does take away from it, but it also somehow adds
to it. Or it's like I'm not worried now about
the actual like strength and power of battles, but rather
I'm focusing on like, I don't know the human I
I don't know. I don't even know how to fuck
that thought here.
Speaker 2: I like I started going down. I've started going down
the rabbit hole Overlord a couple of times, and like
every time I do. The further I get into it,
the more I start to dislike it, and I'm like,
I just really don't like this. I'm an overlord hater now,
like I'm usually not. I I used to like it.
I don't know, just going down the rabbit hole. It
feels like it's edgy for the sake of be an
edgy sometimes, right, there's so many side characters that you
start to like and then they're just not there anymore.
Speaker 1: There were a lot of it. I think it did
the side characters, even though they had no chance of
ever beating irons, whether the side characters were good or bad.
If they were bad, you get to see them get
their just desserts, and if they were good, you get
to see like this kind of there's nothing you could
do about it. Do the best you can in this
situation because you're never beating this group of evil, fucking monsters.
It was something that was very different. I haven't seen
an anime like it before, and I think I like
watching like Ain's roleplay the villain. I really enjoyed that.
Speaker 2: I do think that was one of the more entertaining
parts of it was him initially like trying to kind
of be the Overlord his his minions thought he was right.
But I feel like there's shows since then where like
Eminence and Shadows as an example, I feel like Eminence
and Shadow is just Overlord but so much better, like
it's actually good, whereas like Overlord is I think you're right,
that same type of character right, like they're they're trying
to play up a role at all their subbortins think
they are, and it's comedic in that way. And then uh,
there's serious elements in the world outside of that, outside
of where they're involved. But uh, I don't know. I
feel like Evidence is written well where the world itself
outside said makes sense, and then Overlord it's like it
feels so pointless. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I do trying to wish with the amount of seasons
of Verlord that I've watched, that like there would be
a reveal of another player character by now. I think
it's referenced and there's like the thoughts behind it are there,
but it just doesn't happen.
Speaker 2: Well, That's one of the things, is like it has
references to it, like of like he's being cautious in
case there is right and but but all the thing
like times where there has been one. It's like hundreds
of years apart or what like. It's it doesn't feel
like it's relevant in any way whenever I jump start
diving in through it. So yeah, that's where I get sad.
But maybe I could be wrong there. I don't know.
I'm just a hater.
Speaker 1: But you know, I think you bring up I think
you bring up a great point that supports my list,
you know. Uh, and then's in Shadow at twenty seven
better than Overload and forty one, but I do like
them both but a bit. I think Overlord being where
it is is just because I've rewatched it so many times,
so clearly there was something I liked about it, even
if I can't figure it out myself.
Speaker 2: No, that's like me with Kono Suba. KonoSuba is that
comfort sit com type show I just toss on on
the side just because I find it fun, right, so
humor subjective. I feel like Kna Super could be like
a top ten show for me just for that reason.
And then uh, definitely top three Issa Kai and then
ree zero also very good, So no complaints on those two.
I wish they were higher up.
Speaker 1: I think ve Zero's fantastic It's one of those shows
that gets better and better as time goes on. There
were certain moments where it's like, fuck, I hate you, Supero,
you piece of shit, But I think that makes him
all the more real and feel real as a character.
Speaker 2: He's not perfect, but that's say. I feel like re
zero is one of those I've rewatched a couple of times,
and every time I do, I start to realize how
much better Superu probably handled a lot of those situations
than most of the audience would have as they sit
there and shit on him. Like he was kind of
kicking button like those alleyways early on in season one,
right like he was throwing hands. He works out like
he he's kind of a chat in a lot of ways.
He's just very boisterous about it whenever he's uh, you know,
being social. Right, so's he's a bit cringey socially at times,
but you know that, but it makes sense with his
character is so I do love Zero. It's one of
those where main character gets too much hate, and like
I said, super Is is very well written and his
past actually matters, right, Like, you don't get that a
lot outside of like Ree zero and Mushoku. Sure, I
feel like there's very few other East guys that do
that very well.
Speaker 1: The Sanctuary backstories with his past actually mattering was gigantic
for me. I do think there was the reveals with
like the book and some things that I think were
some really really good reveals. We got a bunch of
emotional payoffs, and we got a bunch of moments where
he forgets rem which I always stand by, but they
were they were very emotional but also funny to me,
So it'll forever be in my top fifty. Kono Suba
is good. It's funny, but like, I don't.
Speaker 2: Know why you were is subjective.
Speaker 1: It's humor is objective because, for example, I have in
my top ten Overly Cautious Hero, which is the thing
in my top ten because I have never laughed so
hard while watching an anime, and I think that's a factor.
It is like, no matter why, you can think of
look at things critically, you can look at things whatever.
Most anime don't make me watch laugh that much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like I had to pause.
Speaker 1: I had to pause Overly Cautious Hero on my first
watch because I needed time to recuperate. And I don't
think there's another anime I've ever watched out of hundreds
of anime that have done that to me, so genuinely,
I don't care about the writing, I don't care about
anything fucking else, but.
Speaker 2: The end, Oh my god, it is good. I don't
want to I feel like you have that rated more
appropriately than most people. I would probably swap those two
on my list, like to where I'd have overly cautious
somewhere here in the forties and whatnot. But the fact
is not on a lot of people's radar is kind
of criminal.
Speaker 1: With how good it was, dude, it went from being
one of the funniest anime I ever watched, and then
right when I started to feel repetitive, it turned into
a deep emotional show and I'm like, holy fuck.
Speaker 2: This is good, which you know, you know, Kotosuba can
be emotional too, Okay, Like there's some days Megamin wants
to use explosure magic and they have to tell her no.
And then there's other days where like Aqua might want
some bubbly but they're broke, right, So like there's sad
things that happen, and it's like the journey of life
of dealing with that, right.
Speaker 1: Number forty four made an abyss it's good. Maybe the
movie's really really good. I do think it was overhyped
for me a little bit where I'm just like I
wasn't as invested or I didn't care as much as
maybe I should have. That's just me.
Speaker 2: I hones sad. I might put this one like a
little bit higher up, but overall, I'm happy it's top fifty.
It's such a good series. It's very captures that feeling
of like adventure and mystery where you don't know what's
gonna happen as you go deeper, right, And I think
it's one of those where the art style actually contributes
a lot to some of the emotions you feel, because
you can watch, like scary things happen or bad things happen,
and it feels bad, but it feels like ten times
worse when it happens to a little kid, right. It's
like the art design makes the characters look younger than
they actually are, so they look like little kids. And
then they're going and and basically into the depths of
hell as they as they adventure on right, and they
don't know what's in store, and it'll scar you if
you don't go in through it prepared, right, So if
you were discretion on that one, but me and the
business so good.
Speaker 1: It is good. It is good Juju Tu Kaisen, which
has some amazing fights, amazing moments, and good characters. I
do think I didn't care that much in season one
for a while until our Chad and Brad got together Toji.
Fantastic character I think his name is. I think it's
a little bit overhyped this series, yeah, but it deserves
to be hyped for a lot of the good things
that does as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have big feelings on JJK. I used to
be like one of the biggest JJK haters. As good
as season one is, at times, the entirety of season
one I don't find very retaining.
Speaker 1: But but I.
Speaker 2: Will say like a lot of it was very important
because foreshadowing wise, even early early on in season one, right,
the villains are planning, are plotting around to try to
take down the strongest person probably in the world, Gojo. Right,
so Gojo is overpowered, he's on the hero side. It's
a bit of a you know, flip on the normal
norms there, and then you have the villains plotting out
strategically how to handle him. And they keep mentioning Shabuyah
and planning for Halloween Day all throughout season one, and
then you see that kind of come into fruition in
season two, right, and the payoff in that arc. Shibui
arc is so good. I think it's one of the
best shown in arcs probably that I've read in anime
so or at least in mainstream battles shown in anime.
So I don't know, it's up there, it's up there.
But also it is a bit over hyped at times.
Speaker 1: I think season two match the hype that season one got.
Like season two was really good and season two did
a lot of good things, things really well that I'm like,
this is what deserves to be hyped, But it was
hyped that way so early on, so I wonder it
was just the anticipation and people read the manga as well,
and there's a lot of factors.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like even season two and like the
middle has some aspects that kind of drag a little bit,
like there's arc site I kind of maybe skip if
I try to rewatch it. But overall, yeah, season two
is so good. Season three has been good, but I
don't know, it's tough like it flips between me going
like man, this is kind of peak shon in versus like, man,
I'm kind of bored right now. So yeah, I always
fallows somewhere in between when I'm trying to look at
it objectively.
Speaker 1: I think that's fair, And then you know, my brain
is sparked by mainstream anime jiu jitsu kais and leads
into Demons Layer. I think Devins Layer has a stronger
season one, but slowly I started to care less and
less as time went on. I've read the manga and
I don't really love the ending that much, or I
don't think it matched the hype of the series. I'm
not don't want to spoiler anything. So Devinslayer got worse
as time going on, and you guys and got better.
So that's why they're forty six. Both fantastic peak shown
in at times.
Speaker 2: I think I was generous to give the Demon Slayer
manga a four out of ten, Like, I think that
was generous of me, Like, if I'm being honest, it's
an awful it's an awful season one.
Speaker 1: We're so good though. I really enjoyed season one of
the anime.
Speaker 2: But you Photobo is such a good studio, and they
do it did bring it to life. And I haven't
seen all of Demon Slayer. I saw half the first
season and then a couple of the movies, and every
time I have watched it, I have enjoyed it. So
I will say it's hard to hate on it too
much because the animation and production are there. But God,
the story wise, like they do some of the demon
backstories well.
Speaker 1: I think one really well and a lot of things no, not.
Speaker 2: So I guess I should say like the overall anime
was brilliant all around you shown it. I feel like
where the fights kind of drag on, like if nothing else, like,
the fights feel slow, if that makes sense. I've never
quite had that hand as I read a series, especially,
but if that's a problem with the source material, it's
also gonna happen in the anime. I feel like even
in the anime, the fight's kind of dragged, But.
Speaker 1: I think because the animation was so good, I was
okay with the fights dragging. Yeah, there was a fight
with like the arrows and the balls. I'm like, this
fight if I read this, this would be shit, but
like in the anime, it was amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's tough. I couldn't finish it just because
I hated the story and I had just read it
when I was trying to watch it, So I would
definitely wouldn't be in my top one hundred. But you know,
Demons Slayer being a lot of people's like top five,
so it averages out brigos, you know, connecting me to
the average view were here putting it around fifteen.
Speaker 1: It's hard for me not to play high just because
there were so many like shone in moments that they
did so well with the emotional payoff and the amazing
animation and just being on your edge of the seat
drinking a badass fight with some stakes on the line,
Like there's this moment that they do really really well.
Or I'm like, yeah, it deserves to be high up
on people's lists, even if it's not amazing all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, anyway, I feel like go ahead. The issues I
do have with it are, like like I said, story
wise and pacing wise, and I don't hold that against
the anime because if that's an issue with like the
source material and you're trying to adapt that, I feel
like it's gonna leak over non times. Right, So.
Speaker 1: I also I having read the manga and watched the anime,
the anime enhances the source material quite a bit, like
so much so that like it turned it into peaks
shown in at times when when I when I was
reading it, I'm like, this does not feel like anything
that special. Okay. At number forty seven, Bacano a beautiful
little series. I don't know, all right, I think with
like really good good characters. I like the way like
things are tied in and connected from all over fucking
time and space and this and that. I do think
it's a little bit overhyped at times because people are
all saying it's a masterpiece, and I think it's good,
but I don't know if I would go that far.
Speaker 2: I need to read Bakano because, like the anime adaptation
was interesting with how they tied together all these different
timelines and things going on and all these different characters.
I love it, probably more than most people. I love Pocano, uh,
but I know Dera Rod did similar things with its
characters that also had like an ensemble cast with a
lot of things going on. I don't know if this
will be a hot take, but while I love Pacano,
i'd probably put it higher. I could not get into
Dora rad very well, Like I couldn't hardly get through
uh yeah what it is through it at all. There's
a lot off there.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's why I put them next to each other.
I'm like, ah, blacanos better, it's better written. But Da
da Da had like some side characters and side stories,
because you know, the world's constantly moving and things are
being connected. It's the main characters. I don't care about them,
Da da. You don't care about the main cast, but
all the side is.
Speaker 2: So Great's that's what made me mad was I was
watching and there's interesting side characters I could name like
three or four off the top of my head I
really wanted to watch more of. But then there's also
these teenagers that I don't remember hardly anything about. And
guess who focused on the most, Like the freaking teenagers
that you don't care about at all, Like it that's
that's the primary focus, right, So I don't know. It
was it was hard to get into doing.
Speaker 1: It's weird, but I liked it like that. I liked
how like you had these characters that were just like whatever,
but then everything else around it was over the top.
Amazing and it almost I don't.
Speaker 2: Know why I need to give it another chance, but
I don't.
Speaker 1: I cannot find the words to say why it worked.
But somehow, having normal, boring characters as the focus with
a crazy world of dominoes around it, all coming connecting it,
it was it. There's something beautiful about it. I don't
know how to explain it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like I said, but Kando kind of helped my
add a little bit, and like there's always something going on,
and then like it eventually makes sense so you don't
have to like overly think about it too much, but
a lot of chaotic fun and then Derara. It's because
there was so much folks on those boring characters. I
didn't hate it as I watched it. I actually enjoyed it.
I thought it was pretty good, but I had trouble
finishing it, if that makes sense. Like I tried a
couple of different times, and I could get through that
first season of the I don't know, interesting picks there.
I don't know where i'd put I'd probably put the
Conna like top thirty and draw Rod definitely wouldn't put
it in my top hundred, but interesting to see them
compared to this high lease.
Speaker 1: I think this is the point of my Top one
hundred where I'm just like, I remember that anime therefore
must be good, good enough to make the Top one
hundred seven. Deadly Sins was what started my YouTube channel.
I think season one was pretty good, with a lot
of badass characters and a lot of badass fights, and
then season two we get a lot of emotional payoffs
with great backstories and solid character development, and then by
season three and season four, the show kind of falls apart.
I think, especially with the animation. There's a lot of
things in the manga, cool fights. I was looking forward
to that. The anime just did a poor job adapting.
I'm trying to think about season one and season two isolated,
and then I read the manga and it was pretty good.
So you know, season three and whatever onward not that great.
Speaker 2: But have seen season three and onwards very much. I
saw a lot of the hate they were getting. It
made me sad. I love the manga because I think
I actually watched this one and read it initially, just
because you were making so many videos and I'm like, dang,
I can't watch these unless I watched that series first.
So great cast of characters very I don't know, out
of this world with a lot of them, Like they
have amazing backstories that turn into an arcs, like they're
well written, but then like the events around them are
so chaotic and whatnot, and things end up lining up
where you wouldn't expect a lot of crazy twists and turns.
So it was a series that just kept you on
your toes, kept you guessing. So it was just fun
more than anything, if that makes sense, Like gave you
characters you cared about, and then you didn't know what
was happening next, all likes as you followed them, right,
So R Foaming Moments, Escandors top ten anime characters all
time when it comes to R farming, So.
Speaker 1: Mm hm oh here really is anime Like dude the
flexing Escunor does and like the change he go undergoes
from like day to night and stuff, or like as
the sun rises is so fucking cool. His one liners
are so bad ass. Is there's a Vampires of Edinburgh
fucking like manga part that wasn't adapted or maybe it
was adapted later on into like a movie or something,
but it wasn't in the original. When you when I
read those that Edinburgh part and that line drops where
he's about to find I think he's about to fight
some vampire king in like a cave somewhere, and he's
just like this small like tiny guy. And then slowly
as the as he gets stronger, he won lines this
like Kings are Kings Are Kings are as plentiful as
Graden's the sand and then like just one shots like
the big bad of the.
Speaker 2: Arc did that chapter was crazy whenever they like cause
I think that's kind of how they introduced him, right
the Vampires of Edinburgh, And then uh, I remember there
there were so many manga edits, like manga music video
edits on YouTube that just made that chap go wild
or crazy. I think they're like fan animation as well,
but that go hard, so I haven't seen it, like
the actual adaptation. But god, I could go into death
on any character and probably tell you why I love them.
But Eskaanor, as far as surface level goes, like I
said he was, he was one of the best.
Speaker 1: And then Bond and meli Os is like romance, I
think because they're like all of them were just like
even fucking King and Diane or wherever the fuck their
names are there. I really did fall in love with
every character and cared about them individually, which I can't
say about a lot of anime past character.
Speaker 2: One for every character. I only did one for King
and Bond. But like I, I remember doing character analysis
videos on those characters back in the day, and there
was just so much to say because everything kind of
fit together so well, like they're very well fleshed out
and like who they are as a person. And then,
like I said, the journey around that is just it's
just good fun. Right, So I don't know, it's hard
to put it in the words, but I guess you
still there's parts of that that just stick with you,
right as like I still see edits of like Escinora
and some of his one liners to this day. How
could I go ahead? Oh no, I was just gonna say,
like how could I you know, how could I hate you? Like?
How could I hate somebody that's beneath me? Yeah? Is
one of those as a as I forget what the
name of the guy he was gonna fight is.
Speaker 1: There are so many good moments with Eskinor You're right,
there was he was fighting this this character and the
guy's power is basically if you have hatred for him,
you can't move, which is really overpowered as he's attacking
your hometown and killing your friends and family, so of
course you're gonna hate him. And then boom you have
this scene of Eskinar looking down on him and he's like,
how can I have hatred for you? All I have
for you is pity and he's like, truly prideful. That
is my sin. It's so fucking good. As Rosa was
his name, yeah, or even there's a scene, yeah, there's
a scene against the Land or whatever the galland whatever
his name is where Gallant tries to pick up the
act from that at the at the back of the
bar and Gallalan, this fucking ten commandment overpowered monster, couldn't
hold the axe and they're like wow, like because he
thinks it's a cool looking axe and he can't hold it,
and he's like, oh my god, this is a pretty
terribly weighted axe. It doesn't make sense to be a
two handed axe. And then as Gunnar picks it up
with one hand, that's because it's a one handed axe.
Speaker 2: Gallon was also one of those where he had like
crazy r farming moments. Yeah, because the thing with Gallon
was I think you couldn't lie in his presence or
else he turned to stone or something like that, right,
or you couldn't. Uh, it was something to that effect, right,
And and Askner said, I am at the pinnacle of
all races. And it's like he doesn't turn to stone,
and it's because he genuinely believes like human demon whatever,
Like he's like, no, I'm the best.
Speaker 1: I stand at the top.
Speaker 2: I stand at the top. Right, So it's like seeing
that and then Gallon I think turned to stone as
he like goes the runaway or.
Speaker 1: Something to that, because because Gallon said he's never fought it,
he would never like turned his back and run and
in one of these death Man that he does, and
literally he is so scared that he turns and runs away.
Speaker 2: Like these moments I haven't rewatched seven Elli since it forever, right,
but they just stick with you and how hard they go.
So it's like taking these fun characters and is putting
them in these scenarios where you're gonna remember these moments.
These are just crazy plot twist, fun moments.
Speaker 1: So yeah, at number fifty we have Helsing Ultimate, which
is funny that I have it here because I don't
know if I have it here for the actual anime
or for the abridge I've watched it. I've watched the
abridge so many times, but I've watched the anime once
and it's all blended together for me at this point
years later. But I remember thinking, this is a really
well written, all the round story. But what do I
actually remember? I remember their bridge, So I don't know.
Speaker 2: God, you know, don't hate me here. I know this
is not a good way to end the ones recovering today.
But I haven't seen Helsing Ultimate so but I've seen Helsinger.
Speaker 1: Ah to day. But have you seen the Abridge? I
have not.
Speaker 2: I've seen some clips here in there, but I've never
actually sat down and watched it. I want to watch
the original first, but I just.
Speaker 1: House commit is just over the top fun, carnage, craziness.
I don't even know how to describe it. Anyway, we
have we have totally covered my twenty five through fifty
or my top or twenty six through fifty. We've covered
my top fifty favorite anime thus far for a very
different amount of reasons, and I'm looking forward to covering
fifty one through one hundred, where at this point it
was like I remember this anime, it was pretty good.
It makes the list. It's someone on here that probably
don't deserve it, but it is crazy.
Speaker 2: We're through fifty already and I still haven't seen Sword
on the Line a Bridge, So this is this is crazy.
Speaker 1: Not even the sord online does not make my top
one hundred. I don't think no abridged.
Speaker 2: I should okay, like top twenty anime all the time.
What do you what do you mean?
Speaker 1: It's pretty fucking good.
Speaker 2: It's up there with Helsinger Bridge, right, So this is
oh man, did.
Speaker 1: I have I have a Way of the Health husband
at seventy nine? I have on this list. It's so funny.
Speaker 2: So like said, we need to get you to actually
like make an actual list on like on like a
website or something that keeps track of it. At some
point because I know whatever I made mine where I
was actually scoring everything. Initially, I just I would put
if I watched the show, and I would score everything one hundred,
just throw ten out of ten, just to have it.
But I tried to actually score them at some point,
and like as you go through, I tried to compare,
like as a what I thought compared to other shows
as I scored them and what I would have them
at initially would change so much as I would start
looking at other shows. Because even as we go through
this list, right, like I think I said five times
in this episode that's a top five anime, those probably
aren't my top five favorite anime, right, So it gets tough.
Speaker 1: Oh, I mean I hit that pretty hard my top
ten when I couldn't fit everything that I wanted in
my top ten and my top ten because there's more
than ten anime I liked and have been referring and
that I've been referring to with my top five top
ten for years. Yeah, Like, well, I guess it can't.
You can't have seven anime in your top five, it seems.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I hate how numbers work. Numbers.
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is always and welcome back to another episode of the
Rank Anime Podcast. Today it is just me and the
anime dude once again. I'll be trying to roll on
my top one hundred anime list, which cannot be done.
We did twenty five the first on the last podcast watch,
and we're moving on number twenty six. Jordan, anime dude,
how you do with my friend?
Speaker 2: I had that. I'm doing good, I'm excited. I'm ready
twenty five. I feel like we have too much in common,
truly roast you like I really wanted to, and I
was regading towards the end, Jim Pocket, towards the middle.
I feel like it. You'll go a lot smoother.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's see. Let's see either way. You guys
are going to get some banger anime recommendations from this.
If there's something in my top one hundred that you
haven't seen, it's probably worth checking out at the very least.
Moving on to number twenty six, we have one punch Man,
which I've always been a very very big fan of.
I've read the manga, I've read the webcomic or whatever
the hell it's called.
Speaker 2: Jordan thoughts, Yeah, so, I know last time we spoke
about Mob Psycho, and I love Mob Psycho. It's probably
like in my top ten putting One punch Man around
the same area as that. I don't know if I'd
have One punch Man in my top one hundred. All right,
it's wow. It's kind of funny at times, it's kind
of serious that some other times. The animation is good
in season one, but it's just a pretty okay show.
It's just I don't think it's anything too special. I
feel like Eminence and Shadow is everything that One punch
Man wishes it was, if I'm being honest. So I
don't know. I like One Punchman being this high top thirty.
It does kind of blow my mind a little bit.
Speaker 1: If anything, I think One punch Man should be ahead
of Mob Cycle. I think moem Cycle has with emotional
moments and amazing writing and a couple of good care characters.
But One punch Man I just find to be so
epic and funny, and I love it. I do think
the quality of the anime has diminished, but I guess
it's the top one it I you know what, I
agree with you, Jordan, It's an anime list it's an
anime list, because the.
Speaker 2: Thing is, I want a list.
Speaker 1: I watched the amazing season one and then I read
the entire manga afterwards, so like, it's hard for me
to care that that anime is not that good.
Speaker 2: Granted, I do think season two. I haven't seen season
three yet. The season too probably gets a little bit
more hate than it it deserved, just because of the
drop in quality from season one. Right, it's hard to
live up to that first season.
Speaker 1: But like, yeah, season two wasn't even that bad. I
think what people weren't ready for was a slight drop
in quality because Matt House was insane, so it was
a It wasn't bad. It wasn't even bad animation. It
just wasn't Madhouse or whatever whatever quality they were expecting.
But what they weren't also ready for, which I which
I was i read the manga, is there's less of
a focus on the main character side Tuma. In season two.
We start covering all these side characters and the world.
And I'm a big fan, but a lot of people
are just in it for bunch.
Speaker 2: It's a hard thing to balance, right, And it's a
hard thing to balance, which, uh, you know, it's I
guess that kind of segues into Eminence and Shadow a
little bit, right. As far as balancing the two, yeah,
I feel like Eminence and Shadow is one of those
series where a lot of the comedic moments are around Sid.
He's kind of a idiot, blunderhead and stuff. But it's
one of those series it's both good ironically and unironically
at the same time because he's so unserious, but there's
a lot of serious things kind of going on in
the world around him, right, And uh, I don't know,
I feel like it it hits that balance really well
to where i'd have that like my top top five
piece of kai Honestly, like, I think it's a solid
being this high on the list.
Speaker 1: But I mean, Eminence in Shadow is so funny. It
is an absolute banger. I think it deserves to be
pretty high up on people's lists. It's not like a
top ten for me because it's just so silly and
it's fun in that way, and like you said, it's
a good lend. But at the same time, when it
does get really really serious, like it's fun, is it amazing? Though?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like it doesn't take itself seriously. But
if you wanted to take it seriously, like everything does.
It is written very well where everything does align and
makes sense in like a greater context. Right, So it's
one of those that kind of does both well. You
can have characters named Potato and pervass at well simultaneously
making things epic.
Speaker 1: And it takes a good writer to do that. It
takes a good writer to do that. Someone in chat,
Captain tripp says, I'm shocked One punch Men isn't higher
on your list. You gust over it for years. I mean,
my top ten are some anime that I wouldn't even
really talk about much. They're just really important to me.
If you're on stream with me, you might see me
react to it and rewatch those shows. One punch Fan
is great, but my top ten is I like them
a lot better anyway, Emin's and Shadow It was our
number twenty seven. I think it's fantastic. I think it
kind of I think it's in a perfect spot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's probably about where it would be on
my list.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie, said by the guy who made
the list based on his own personal opinions.
Speaker 2: Ahead in some of these, I'm sure you'll have second
thoughts here, I.
Speaker 1: Will say I made this top one hundred list in
twenty minutes, so that is impressive. I do think that
as we go through it, I'm gonna be like, yeah,
this one should have been higher or lower. It's like
for me, I feel like I put them in the
right area for the most part, but not perfectly, like
they're not like one to one one punch Man is
better than Eminence and Shadow because twenty six and twenty seven. Anyway,
at number twenty eight we have gern Lagan, which I
would love to rewatch it and see if it's still
holds strong because I watched it like it does.
Speaker 2: It does nice, it holds strong. I'm shocked this one's
not like a top ten for most people. For at
least for me, I feel like this is like a
top ten series. So it was sad to see it
this far down on the list. Right, it's one of
those series it's ridiculously like over the top, but it's
consistently that way, and it does so with some strong
themes and messaging along the way. Right, So it's a
it's just a very fun anime anime, right, It's it's
it's it's everything you could ever ask for in a series.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I mean Communa. I'm trying to remember the show.
It's been so long. Communa left such an impact that
even though I can't remember the details of the show,
I remember those first nine episodes so well. Despite only
watching it maybe once or twice, and this is probably
over over a decade ago, it's still holding strong and
it made such an impact in me that it's still
in my top twenty seven, twenty eight.
Speaker 2: That's that's fair for only watching it like once or twice,
because I feel like this is one of those series
I revisit every so often, and yeah, I feel like
it's held up every time. There's maybe like a couple
episodes here and there that maybe aren't as high quality
as as like the others, but all in all, such
a good series.
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Speaker 1: I haven't actually haven't haven't played it yet. I'm gonna
play it for two hours on stream at some point
this month. I probably should have played it before doing
this ad read anyway. Attack on Titan is my number
twenty nine.
Speaker 2: Oh man, Yeah, I guess somebody in Chad had a
good point as far as I need to send this
portion of the list of Animac just where he can
be ashamed of you. Two for Kurn the Gone at
twenty eight, but Attack on Tight at twenty nine, I
feel like it's just as blasphemous, Like that's a that's
also like a top ten type series, right, this is.
Speaker 1: I don't know that was a roll. It was a
rollercoaster of emotions when watching Attack on Titan. I don't
like it as much as the average person.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I feel like it has a lot
of places that it goes, but even prior to that,
those early seasons, just the mystery of it all and
then everything making sense and coming together in such a
cohesive way. I don't know. It was so high quality throughout.
I find it being like one of my top five series. Honestly,
Like every time I'm considering, like my top one to five,
it's up there. So I'm so biased, But uh so.
Speaker 1: I'm a very character driven I'm a very character driven person,
and I think you have valid concerns, and I think
most people would be like twenty nine Attack on Titan,
that's the top ten anime of all time. Blah blah blah.
I watched season one and didn't care because like, I'm like,
I don't like any of these characters, or like ninety
percent of the character I didn't like, so they're dying
and I'm like it doesn't even matter. I'm like, it's
a cool concept and the mystery was cool, but also
the first season felt so drawn out that I didn't
even care for season two until if I wasn't doing content,
I probably wouldn't even have watched it. And then it
was one of those series I got better and better
and better with time. But at the same time, it's
like it is hard watching a show as it's coming out.
It took so long to complete.
Speaker 2: Granted, I remember watching season one like as it aired
and just being blown away by the animation And how
dare you say you didn't care? I was shedding tears
over Thomas. Okay, Thomas. Thomas didn't deserve that, dude.
Speaker 1: That first season was not that good. Other than the contents, Like.
Speaker 2: Episode like five or six, we lost Thomas. He was
in like two or three scenes and I was I
was torn to shreds Okay, this is yeah. We have
other characters too, Mikasa Levi. Everybody likes them, but.
Speaker 1: I think people forget that season one was like twenty
four episodes or something like that.
Speaker 2: I do think the first half of season one is
stronger than the second half of season one. Season one
kind of drags a bit, but then season two is
short sweetened to the point I loved it, and then uh,
I do.
Speaker 1: Think it's just one of those shows that get better
and better as time. Goes on. It's a cool concept,
but I don't know. I mean top twenty nine. If
I watched three hundred anime, four hundred anime, Top twenty
nine is still quite a bit of praise.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, no, it is.
Speaker 1: It is, and then then Shadow is just better. That's
how funny A Top one hundred list is where you actually, like,
look at the anime that are next to each other,
and what's slightly right the head of it, and then
it's in shadow, no complaints, just a banger from start
to end. Attack on Titan a masterpiece with some complaints.
Speaker 2: Would you rather have a show that's like early on,
like Plato's allegory of the Cave, where we don't know
what we don't know about the world and then it
blends into into all these thieves and grand stories of
these characters that you grow to love. Or would you
rather have a man in yellow suit that's bald that
can hit anything in one punch? Okay, this is which
would which? Which would you rather have? You'd rather have
the ladder, That's that's all.
Speaker 1: It's true. I think someone in who said it our
hero and Chat. It's like by the end of a
tackle on Titan too, with all this chaos that happened,
and like how I don't know. It was like I
didn't even know who they're root for. I think that's great,
but it is. It is a good thing, but I'm like,
it's also a weak point when like if you don't
like the characters at the same time as well, it's
like if they die whatever.
Speaker 2: It's you have characters that are so consistent with who
they are, but the framing and like how we see
them in like a grand uh from like the grand
scheme of things and stuff, right changes how yea? On
what scale dealing with changes out a lot, right, so
in what positions they're put in. So I try not
to spoil these series as we go through. I know
we got about the cover year, but Tack of Titan
definitely worth checking out this.
Speaker 1: I actually did think it had an amazing ending. I
know people hated on the ending of it. I thought
it had an amazing ending, but we're not gonna spoil. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I feel like it's one of those where it was
talked about on Twitter first when the manga ended, and
people on Twitter never liked manga endings. I've never seen
praise for like one of them. Okay, this is except
for like the rom coms that have like an epilogue
where they're married after or something. I never see praise
for manga endings on online. It's so said.
Speaker 1: Number thirty Parasite the maxim.
Speaker 2: Oh Man, I love you watching her.
Speaker 1: I loved watching the protagonists change slowly and like, it
wasn't that slow, but it was. I don't know how
to say it. It was obviously he had some physical changes,
but it was the actual mental and emotional changes that
happened throughout the series of him as a character that
I just I don't even know if I would call
it character development, but whatever development he went under I
think was masterfully done.
Speaker 2: Just add to that a bit. Parasite's one of those
where we have supernatural things going on, right, So there's
physical changes going on with the main character with a
literal parasite as you see in the title, taking over
his right arm and kind of changing who he is
on like a biological level. But then you also have
all these events going on in his lives right where
he's impacted emotionally, Like you said, these things that would
psychologically shake anybody up. So it's like with these two
things going on in parallel. There's that constant question of like,
which is affecting him more, how much of it's this
versus how much of it's that, right, And yeah, you
do see him change gradually, but yeah, all the things
kind of going along with that are such a good ride.
Speaker 1: So also just another cool concept. Yeah, I think there's
a lot of anime that are in my top fifty
just because like they do a couple of things well
and have a cool concept that keeps me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say this one. I haven't rewatched it
a ton, but one of the things I do remember
kind of nitpicking on was this was like a bit
of an older manga. I think it was written in
like the eighties or something. I could be wrong, maybe
early nineties. And then like when things are happening in
the anime, I'm like, man, I feel like this could
all be solved if they just use their cell phones.
But you know, when it was written, cell phones weren't
really a thing. So fun yeah, because it was made
like later than that, right, so it was like a
two thousand and eight, thousand and nine something like that anime.
So I don't know, I just remember that thought going
through my head, but.
Speaker 1: Solid show that's so funny.
Speaker 2: Top thirty is interested.
Speaker 1: It always made me laugh even watching Kenchi and like
what his name, Niegimu pulls out his pager. You have
a computer at home. There's little funny things that like
we take for granted, are just part of our lives. Now,
as I sit here with my three monitors setup, I've.
Speaker 2: Been rewatching some older anime now and there's like an
there's just an episode of Recently where it's focused on
like a media campaign like against a certain person and whatnot,
and it's like news reporters that are putting it in
the newspaper, and then they're also like maybe have like
a thing running on TV. I'm like, man, it is
crazy how much even just the media landscape has changed,
right in fifteen twenty years.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's very true. The world's changing m for better,
for better or worse at times, for better or worse
at times. Anyway, moving on to the best original concept
baseball or yeah major, this is.
Speaker 2: Change over time. This is yeah, holy, one of the
best anime. This is a top five anime. Briggs. I've
said that three times in this episode so far. But
you know, this is like this is this is up there, Okay,
this is we get to see a character go from
being a base.
Speaker 1: Oh fuck himself, I'm muted by accident. Im muted by accident.
Say that again? Can you can everyone hear yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Can you hear me? Yeah? I think I said
this is a top five anime, Briggs. I I know
I've said that five times this episode so far, But
this is speaking a change over time. We could see
a character go from being a little kid four years
old in love with baseball to being like an adult himself,
right with his own adult responsibilities. And you see that
entire life's journey here in like one hundred and fifty
epsos It's Major's a top five series. How dare you
put this low?
Speaker 1: Hey, it's my top thirty one. I think it's a No.
One stop thirty one Other than you, Okay, I.
Speaker 2: Feel like nobody's seen Major and it makes me really sad.
So it does make me happy you've at least seen it.
Speaker 1: How could no one have seen it? There's like, how
many seasons are there? Eight?
Speaker 2: There's six seasons of the original, each with like twenty
five episodes or whatnot. And then they made Major second, right, Yeah,
which is it's kind of like the borroughtoe to this,
but it's still really good. I like Major Second, but
Major Second came out on Crunchy Role and like was
shown over here, and like Major, the original Major has
like never been available legally, so it's like, uh yeah,
it's like never been marketed well and never so people
would watch Major Second and then be confused to be
like un ironically, be like, man, his dad seems cool.
I wish he had his own anime, like for the
jokes they make for Naruto, but on ironically, like they
just they didn't they didn't realize it.
Speaker 1: So I mean Major deserves a lot more love it
out of the dozens of sports anime that I've watched,
it's to this day my top three or four favorite
sports anime. I think it's up there, rivaling the best
at it.
Speaker 2: It is the only one I would put above It
is partly EPO, so it's it's like my top two
sports anime.
Speaker 1: Yeah for me, it's EPO High Q Major, Right, I
don't I think this would be.
Speaker 2: Like three to four, but like that's it's hard to
compare anything else to those four.
Speaker 1: So dude, for Major made me cry, made me at
the edge of my seat for baseball, which is crazy
because it's the most boring sport of all times. It
maybe like baseball I love. I fell in love with
so many characters. I cried, I felt emotional multiple times
on the edge of my seats so many times. It
just it did it all. And you followed the journey
of this child from little league baseball all the way
spoilers to the majors, which is really funny because when
I was watching this, I didn't even think I didn't
even connect the title. I'm like, oh, yeah, baseball, major
League baseball. Yeah, but then he fucking gets there and
he's like four years old at the start.
Speaker 2: It's a journey, right, It's a journey. So it's yeah,
even if you don't like ant or long anime like that, though,
I think even just season one is a good standalone
in and of itself, definitely worth the watch. And then, uh,
the interesting thing about sports anime in particular, and one
thing I love about him is I could show you
five different baseball anime and they'll all feel so different
from one another, right, because some folks like on the
sport itself. Yeah, there's my folks on like psychological things.
And then with Major it's like the drama and like
the you know, the journey of life itself around that, right,
So everything he goes through outside baseball as well, fun series.
Speaker 1: All right, moving on to number thirty two, this one
might get a little bit of hate Naruto, Narrouto and
the fun of it. I have Naruto than Bleach, than
dragon Ball, dragon Ball, then slash d slash Super all
back to back to back.
Speaker 2: All the Bleach and dragon Ball fans are human right
now and lead here this is.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're all around this point, but right between
Major and Chon where they where they deserve to be.
I do struggle to say which one I like better,
for Naruto or Bleach. I decided that I like Naruto
better because it's like, what would you rather have a
show that like, starts off amazing and then slowly deteriorates
or a show that's like okay and then ends up
becoming amazing. I don't know. Yeah, have you seen have
you seen the Bleached thousand Year War arc?
Speaker 2: I have not, So that's why I'm going to be
a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's out of the unbelievable, Like it's the best part
of Bleach I've ever watched other than maybe like Soul
Society when you're first jumping into it, how fun it was,
and how like how like back to back fights and
the stakes and the training mid part, Like Soul Society
is amazing, but the thousand year Blood War arc is
right there with it, if not, like it really is
better than it. It's hard nostalgia wise to say that.
Speaker 2: So the thing with this list is these are anime,
right yeah, And I will say I've read Naruto loved it,
you know, seven hundred chapters well worth the read Bleach.
I've read a decent portion of it, and I watched
like three hundred episodes. It was also pretty good all
in all, whenever things are actually happening. The thing that
detracts I think a little bit from these anime is
like just the way anime was handled around the time
they came out. It's it's fun in a lot of ways,
but there's also a lot of filler in there, right,
So I think Bleach has like the worst filler in
all of anime. And then Naruto also had like a
lot that was.
Speaker 1: I mean shipp it in it was terrible. When I
have Naruto at thirty two. I'm saying Naruto and Naruto
shipped it. I'm saying all of Naruto. I think those
first ninety episodes of Naruto are just so fantastic and
like grounded and they're so good. So I had to
put Naruto above Bleach.
Speaker 2: But I actually respect it. If we're talking about like
the main things that are going on early on in
Narrato and whatnot, it's just you eventually get through a
point where, like the last one hundred episodes I think
of the original Narrato are all filler, and then Shipputin
was worse because it would like kind of put it
in between things a little bit, and then like at
the end there's like a robot narrowto and all these
other side stories I didn't really care about, Like I
want to see what's going on in the war. So
uh yeah, watching that week the week was rough, and
it makes me a little bit biased towards it. Mixed feelings.
On these mixed feelings, I respect them being on the list.
I will say that.
Speaker 1: We didn't really talk about Dragon Ball Slash Slash Super.
I think it's just an okay show, But it was
my childhood. It still to this day gets me fired
up and pumped. I was rewatching some cell games and
then afterwards with Gohan going to school and the Great
Sam and it just it just so good. I love it.
Speaker 2: I feel like Dragon Ball is one of those weird
ones where if you try to look at it with
the critics, I like, after the fact, you can find
a lot of things to critique, but when you're watching it,
it's just so good and fun. It's never been a
bad time, right against the people going, yeah, I'm not
a big fan of super I replaced that with GT
That's That's where I'm at.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like take this in like, I feel like you're oh,
I keep on cooking my hot keys by accident. Can
gonna hear me? Okay? Good?
Speaker 2: I can't hear you.
Speaker 1: Okay, good, Okay. I keep on using my hot keys
to scroll through the list. I can't do that anymore
anyway with dragon Ol Super like even actually take this in.
So we talked about like looking at it, looking at
it from a critical lens as a twenty nine year
old mad before bed. You know what I put on.
I put it on the Dragon Ball Super Movie just
cause it's like a cool fight, cool little power up
some fun moments, getting to see the boys at at
Balma's birthday party. Like, I don't know what it is
about this show that I can just watch at any
time in my life and just turn it, put it
on and enjoy. Like, yes, if I think about it,
like it is it a masterpiece? Is it? Is it
really better than these other shows that I have it above? No,
but there's a reason why it's a global franchise that
with the amount of I think it has more mainstream
influence than one piece, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, No, it changed anime that came after it,
like paved the way and changed a lot of things
about it forever. Right, So I used to see this
meme all the time of like things girls would watch
over time, and it'd be like as a little kid
versus teenager versus adult, and it's all these different things,
and it's like, guys, and it's like eight or nine
years old Dragonball, you know, age seventeen Dragonball, age thirty Dragonball,
And it's so true. Yeah, it's just always good, right.
Speaker 1: All right, Moving on to an anime that deserves to
be right next to I actually want to move it up.
I on, ironically want to move it up Kon at
thirty five. It is just the most wholesome, cute. People
put it down because it's like Slice of Life and
not a lot happens, or just fucking having tea and
cake and talking. Those girls, fantastic characters. I fell in love.
I fell in love with the characters so early on
that it doesn't matter what they're doing. Unlike Attack on Titan.
There's no stakes, there's nothing going on, and yet I
cared more about their conversation sometimes in Chaon than an
Attack on Titan. Unironically, un ironically, I am saying this
that those stupid nothing conversations were sometimes more. I was
more locked in.
Speaker 2: You know, as a slice of life and enjoyer myself.
I can't say I don't understand, but yeah, I guess.
Let me preface this as somebody that enjoys somebody Yamata's
works now, and I think I would enjoy count more.
Now I need to go back and watch it, but
this I'm want to judge it right now from like
what I thought of it back when I tried to
watch it as it was airing. So I tried to
watch this in middle school, and I thought it was
the worst thing i'd ever see. I was like, they're
just sitting there, like they're not even playing music. They're
just sitting there drinking tea, and like nothing was happening
at all. So, you know, as much as I'm sure
I would love it now, I've seen a lot of
shows compared to it now and I love them. Got it.
Watch this Initially I hated it so much. I might
be the worst thing ever.
Speaker 1: You are right, nothing is happening. Nothing happens, like, don't
get me wrong. It's fun watching them like kind of
train for like the school festival blah blah blah, or
like on the when they're on stage and this and that.
It's not what it's about, man, it's not what it's about.
Speaker 2: It's about about There was like no light music, they
were drinking tea more than they were.
Speaker 1: It was about nothing, and I loved it. It's an
anime for Chad's okay.
Speaker 2: I have seen a lot of clips that make me
laugh there after after the fact, so like that, I
need to go back and watch this one.
Speaker 1: I yeah. I mean if you if you watch it
and you like the characters, you'll probably enjoy the journey.
Even though there isn't a journey. If you watch it
and you're bored, it's just not for you, and that's it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. It's one of those where if you ever see
like the manga, I think it's like literally just like
I said, if that was if they they made a
mang before, I don't know if it was before after
the series, just like four Coma, Like there's literally nothing
in it. So a lot of they had for the series.
It was literally just Kyoto animation kind of popping off
and uh, and you lot of making it like what's
beloved today. Right, So I don't know I need to
go back. I need to go back.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to go back. I
don't think I'll like it if I go back, but
I think I would like it. And I thought it
was so stupid too. I'm like, I don't want to
watch this crap. And then there I was clicking next
episode and next episode. I think I went in biased
thinking I wasn't gonna like it, and after episode one,
I'm like, I'm not gonna like it, and then slowly
I'm on episode I'm on episode twelve, and I'm like,
I want to keep on watching, and I just finished
it all in like two days this man.
Speaker 2: You know how many girls band anime? I tried to
get you and Ric on the watch last year. I
had to stop recommending him because you guys were you
were crying about it. But there's so many good girls
band anime and this is what started. It was Kaon
Okay without Kon, we don't get Ochi.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's number thirty six. B to the Rock,
which was arguably a better anime than Kon. It should be.
I think it's better ridden and has some actual layers
to it, but you know what it's I think it's
a close, if not tied with Kay. I'm just it's
just it. It's just on.
Speaker 2: You know. He's also one of those where you just
you love the characters. There's a lot of comedy kind
of around it. So it's very slow going, but there
is good music and whatnot.
Speaker 1: There's fantastic music. Chaos Boach of the Rock is about something,
you know, you have a character with social anxiety. It's
got some good music and some goals and ambition. It's
got it's it's it's Chaon with so much more to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and yet the part they put a lot of
references in there right with it being like a comedy
series that are just fun whenever you see them. So
if you're a fan of a lot of other anime
and you want to see boche Land there like Yamschat
from dragon Ball right, or or any other number of references,
it's it's fun. They knew what they were doing.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Let's move on to Trygun, hilarious anime, some great
characters at number thirty seven.
Speaker 2: Try Gun. I have nostalgia towards Trygun, but it is
kind of crazy sing it this high up this is
it's number thirty seven on What do you like about Trygun?
What puts it this high?
Speaker 1: I just think I like fash a lot so much
so that it has to be here. I don't have
a better reason than just like it.
Speaker 2: This is the original try Gun.
Speaker 1: I'm a deriginal total slaughter, total slaughter.
Speaker 4: I have a single man alive, Laddy Dotty die jet
aside Laddy Dotty dot an ocean of blood, like the fact.
Speaker 1: That I still remember that fucking song that he says
when he trying to scare people away to save their
lives or whatever. And I have not rewatched it once,
and I haven't watched it in fucking fifteen years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say I got my old roommate to
watch it, so I rewatched parts of it with him,
and the big moments still hit. Like, there's still some
big moments in try Gun that stuck with me and
I still think they're good. But overall, it being twenty
five episodes, it does kind of drag it times a
little bit. And uh, I don't know. I do love Vash,
but I don't know if i'd put it this high
up because that as a bold choice.
Speaker 1: Oh, people are talking to me, you know, it's crazy.
It took me so many attempts to finish Cowboy Bebop.
It's the episodic nature. I guess, not that try Gun
isn't similar in a lot of ways. I just like
didn't fall in love with Bebop. It took me a
while to like. Actually, I think I watched it when
I was young and I didn't like it, and then
I was just like a hater for no reason, and
I got it's really good, it's good characters, but like
I didn't never finished it, and then I actually finally
finished it one day. I'm like, this was fantastic, and
try Gun I just I'm never gonna go back and
rewatch it. I want the nos down to stay the
way it is, and in my mind is being so
good cause I feel like it's not anyway. People were
asking if it's in order my list. My list is
generally in order. There's gonna be some errors, for sure.
I made it in twenty minutes, and I think my
top ten is in order, and then twenties kind of
an order, but not really.
Speaker 2: But like, see a lot of these it's like one
of these series made you think of all the others.
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly, and I'm like, oh, like, maybe it could
be five or ten places up or five or ten
places down, but it's in the region. It's in the region.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, tray Gun is good. Try Gun is good.
Like I said, rewatching It, there's some episodes where it's like, yeah,
it feels like it does drag on a little bit,
which normally I don't mind. But uh, I don't know.
I'd probably have it in my top one hundred. I
just don't know if it'd be this high.
Speaker 1: Of I feel like it has to be this good.
It has to be as good as I remember, because
otherwise I wouldn't remember it.
Speaker 2: It has some really good moments. I love the the overall,
like I said, themes and whatnot, and the character arcs
of Trygun right, like who Vash is and how that's
kind of gradually slow rolled over the course of the series,
and why he is the way he is, his whole backstory,
but a lot of that's not like that's all like
in the latter half. So there's like a lot of
episodic stuff prior to that.
Speaker 1: Yep, Oh, I'm a big fan Number thirty nine. Oh
if you know co.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: It had like some good twists and turns, and I
like the concept, but where it actually took it in
season two and I'm like, I don't even care that
much about our aqua finding the murderer, which is his
main goal the person who act. I'm like, I'm just
here for the journey of all these characters at this point,
I almost feel like, show them then the actual reason
for why he's doing things.
Speaker 2: That's the thing about Oceanoko is you do just start
to love the characters and whatnot so much. There's so
many things going on, there's so many different aspects that
you could latch onto to maybe relate to, But at
the end of the day. It is like a character study, right,
or like a character driven show where like you might
not have that much interest in like Aqua's uh, you know,
motivations towards the start of the series, but even he
like is feels so human and that like there's a
part of him that wants to kind of let go
of that ye live his life too, right, Like he's
kind of struggling with that over.
Speaker 1: The course of the series something and I do care,
like I do I do care about him finding in
the mystery behind it, Like that's definitely an element. But
the fact that, like we had Aqua a character that
I really liked and this reason for why he's doing things,
but slowly as time went on, I just like fell
in love with the other characters and their journeys and
like I want Aqua to succeed in what he's doing,
almost more so than the reason. And I'm like that
is that's a show that there's good writing and good
character development and good characters in general. Because I am
no matter what is going on some drama on set
or another character and a romance going on here and
this and that, I'm like, I am invested, no matter what,
And I think that speaks volumes.
Speaker 2: They have entire arcs or yeah, a little mini arcs.
I guess you could say, like whenever they have an
episode and it'll start following some random side character you've
never seen before, right where it's like tackling a part
of the industry that they're in. Uh. And I'm still
invested when I watch, right, So I can't hate on Oshinokio.
I feel like I like it more than most people.
This is a good solid placement.
Speaker 1: For it, Thank you, all right? I numbering forty, Ranking
of Kings.
Speaker 2: Ranking of Kings, number forty. It is it that you're
gonna need to justify this one for me? All right?
Speaker 1: I don't even think I can. Oh. I guess I
is like our our main boy, our main boy. I
will follow him anywhere. I think he's so cute and
there's so many wholesome emotional moments I was invested in.
It gave me like it's a modern anime that was Maine,
but it gave me those nostalgic older anime vibes.
Speaker 2: Hm hmm. It did feel like following like a fairy
tale almost right, like with with Bochi in his journey it,
and I don't get me wrong, Bouchie himself was like
very endearing, so like I also latched onto him. You
want to root for him, right, he has that charisma
to him that makes you want to cheer him on.
But like the story itself and everything in it, it's
it's not complete yet right after those twenty five episodes,
so I feel like there's like a lot of open
ending things. It feels like there's a lot going on
all over the place, kind of all at once. And
I don't know, I couldn't find myself loving this series.
I enjoyed it. I thought it was above average, but.
Speaker 1: I also I feel like there was like some mystery
in the background in regards to like the Kings themselves
and like what it does to a man. I think
there's there was a lot of good parts to it,
if that makes sense, not for me to I think
I just like Boetry, I just like the kids.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's very likable, like I said, And honestly, a
lot of the characters are pretty likable. There's characters that
you feel like are gonna be villainous and whatnot towards
the start where it kind of slow rolls their motivations
and why they are they are who they are, or
like why they acted a certain way. So like like
this the stepmother, right, Like you think she's going to
be like an evil, wicked stepmother, but I feel like
she was also one of the more endearing characters in it. Right,
So it's a I don't know, solid little series crazy
this's the sigus.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is true. I do think we're starting to
lose the integrity of my of my rankings around this point,
as you can see by forty one forty forty three,
where I'm like conos Overlord zero, which in retrospect, let
me just reorder this real quick, I'm gonna put Overlord
and Ree zero above Conosuba.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, this is all right. So this is
where the roasting comes in. Right, So Overlord might be
one of the worst series I've ever seen in my life?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? I edgy I I've rewatched Overlord
like five six times.
Speaker 2: I initially had it maybe like top five US guys
when it like it initially came out because I thought
it was a little bit different with its approach. It
is so literally following the villain, right, and since you're
following the villains, it's like it has a little bit
of edge to it. It feels a little bit different.
But at the end of the day, there's so many
side characters that you're following, and none of them have
any semblance of hope of beating Irons. Right, He's so overpowered,
his whole crew so overpowered. It feels like there's no
point to anything asides from just submit the how powerful
and evil they are.
Speaker 1: Right, So, I think you're right where it does feel
like there's no point sometimes because our main character is a.
Speaker 2: Star fantasy yeah of evilness.
Speaker 1: Right, He's like the strongest villain and the strongest hero,
Like he's Momon and Irons, And I feel like that
does take away from it, but it also somehow adds
to it. Or it's like I'm not worried now about
the actual like strength and power of battles, but rather
I'm focusing on like I don't know the humanic I
I I don't know. I don't even know how to fuck.
Speaker 2: That thought here. I like I started going down. I've
started going down the rabbit hole Overlord a couple of times,
and like every time I do, the further I get
into it. The more I start to dislike it, and
I'm like, I just really don't like this. I'm an
overlord hater now, like I'm usually not. I used to
like it. I don't know, just going down the rabbit hole.
It feels like it's edgy, even the sake of be
an edgy sometimes, right, There's so many side characters that
you start to like and then they're just not there anymore.
Speaker 1: There were a lot of it. I think it did
the sign characters, even though they had no chance of
ever beating iines whether the side characters were good or bad.
If they were bad, you get to see them get
their just desserts, and if they were good, you get
to see like this kind of there's nothing you could
do about it. Do the best you can in this
situation because you're never beating this group of evil, fucking monsters.
It was something that was very different. I haven't seen
an anime like it before, and I think I like
watching like Aines roleplay the villain. I really enjoyed that.
Speaker 2: I do think that was one of the more entertaining
parts of it was him initially like trying to kind
of be the overlord his his minions thought he was right,
But I feel like there's shows since then where like
Eminence and Shadows as a example, I feel like Eminence
in Shadow is just Overlord but so much better, like
it's actually good, whereas like Overlord is I think you're right,
that same type of character right, like they're they're trying
to play up a role at all their supports think
they are, and it's comedic in that way. And then uh,
there's serious elements in the world outside of that, outside
of where they're involved. But uh, I don't know. I
feel like Evidence is written well where the world itself
outside said makes sense, and then Overlord it's like it
feels so pointless. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I do kind of wish with the amount of Seasons
of Orlorn that I've watched, that like there would be
a reveal of another player character by now. I think
it's referenced and there's like the thoughts behind it are there,
but it just doesn't happen.
Speaker 2: Well, That's one of the things, is like it has
references to it, like of like he's being cautious in
case there is right, and but but all the thing
like times where there has been one, it's like hundreds
of years apart or what like. It's it doesn't feel
like it's relevant in any way whenever I jump start
diving in through it. So that's where I get sad.
But maybe I could be wrong there. I don't know.
I'm just a.
Speaker 1: Hater, but you I think you bring up a great
point that supports my list, you know. Uh, And then's
in Shadow of twenty seven better than Overloaded forty one,
But I do like them both quite a bit. I
think Overlord being where it is is just because I've
rewatched it so many times, so clearly there was something
I liked about it, even if I can't figure it
out myself.
Speaker 2: Par No, that's like me with Kono Suba. Kono Supa
is that comfort sit com type show I just toss
on on the side just because I find it funny, right,
so humor subjective. I feel like Conu Super could be
like a top ten show for me just for that reason.
And then uh, definitely top three e Sakai and then
ree zero also very good, So no complaints on those two.
I wish they were higher up.
Speaker 1: I think re Zero's fantastic. It's one of those shows
that gets better and better as time goes on, there
were certain moments where it's like, fuck, I hate you, Supero,
you piece of shit. But I think that makes them
all the more real and feel real as a character.
Speaker 2: He's not perfect, that's say. I feel like re Zero
is one of those I've rewatched a couple of times,
and every time I do, I start to realize how
much better Superu probably handled a lot of those situations
than most of the audience would have as they sit
there and ship on him. Right, he was kind of
kicking button like those alleyways early on in season one,
right like he was throwing hands. He works out like
he he's kind of a chat in a lot of ways.
He's just very boisterous about it whenever he's a you know,
being social. Right, So he's a bit cringey socially at times,
but you know that, but it makes sense with his
character is so I do love Zero. It's one of
those where main character gets too much hate. And like
I said, super Is is very well written and his
past actually matters, right, Like, you don't get that a
lot outside of like Ree Zero and Mushoku. I feel
like there's very few other East guys that do that
very well.
Speaker 1: The sanctuary backstories with his past. Actually mattering was gigantic
for me. I do think there was the reveals with
like the book and some things that I think were
some really really good reveals. We got a bunch of
emotional payoffs, and we had a bunch of moments where
he forgets rem which I always stand by, but they
were they were very emotional but also funny to me,
So it'll forever be in my top fifty. Kono Suba
is good. It's funny, but like, I don't.
Speaker 2: Know why you were subjective.
Speaker 1: It's humor is objective because, for example, I have in
my top ten Overly Cautious Hero, which is the guy
in my top ten because I have never laughed so
hard while watching an anime, and I think that's a factor.
It is like, no matter why, you can think of
look at things critically, you can look at things whatever.
Most anime don't make me watch laugh that much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like Cautious Hero.
Speaker 1: I had to pause. I had to pause Overly Cautious
Hero on my first watch because I needed time to recuperate.
And I don't think there's another anime I've ever watched
out of hundreds of anime that have done that to me,
so genuinely, I don't care about the writing. I don't
care about anything fucking else.
Speaker 2: But writing, Oh my god, it is good. I don't
want to. I feel like you have that rated more
appropriately than most people. I would probably swatch those two
on my list, like to where i'd have overly cautious
somewhere here in the forties and whatnot. But the fact
it's not on a lot of people's radar is kind
of criminal.
Speaker 1: With how good it was, dud, it went from being
one of the funniest anime I ever watched, and then
right when I started to feel repetitive, it turned into
a deep emotional show, and I'm like, holy fuck, this
is good.
Speaker 2: Would you know? You know Kodosuba can be emotional too, Okay,
Like there's some days Megam wants to use exposure magic
and they have to tell her no. And then there's
other days where like Aqua might want some bubbly but
they're broke, right, So like there's sad things that happen,
and it's like the journey of life of dealing with that.
Speaker 1: Right, Number forty four made an abyss. It's good. The
movie's really really good. I do think it was overhyped
for me a little bit where I'm just like I
wasn't as invested or I didn't care as much as
maybe I should have. That's just me.
Speaker 2: I have to say. I might put this one like
a little bit higher up, but overall, I'm happy it's
top fifty. It's such a good series. It's very captures
that feeling of like adventure and mystery where you don't
know what's gonna happen as you go deeper, right, And
I think it's one of those where the art style
actually contributes a lot to some of the emotions you
feel because you can watch like scary things happen or
bad things happen, and it like feels bad, but it
feels like ten times worse when it happens to a
little kid.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: It's like the art design makes the characters look younger
than they actually are, so they look like little kids.
And then they're going and and basically into the depths
of hell as they as they adventure on, right, and
they don't know what's in store, and it'll it'll scar
you if you don't go in through it prepared, right,
So if you were discretion on that one, but Mane
the business so good.
Speaker 1: It is good. It is good Juju Tu Kaisen, which
has some amazing fights, amazing moments, and good characters. I
do think I didn't care that much in season one
for a while until our Chad and Brad got together
toji fantastic character I think his name is. I think
it's a little bit over hyped this series, but it
deserves to be hyped for a lot of the good
things that does as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have big feelings on JJK. I used to
be like one of the biggest JJK haters. As good
as season one is, at times, the entirety of season
one I don't find very entertaining. But but I will
say like a lot of it was very important because
foreshadowing wise, even early early on in season one, right,
the villains are planning, are plotting around to try to
take down the strongest person probably in the world, Gojo. Right,
so Gojo is overpowered, he's on the hero side. It's
a bit of a you know, flip on the normal
norms there, and then you have the villains plotting out
strategically how to handle him, and they keep mentioning Shibuyah
and planning for Halloween Day all throughout season one, and
then you see that kind of come into fruition in
season two, right, and the payoff in that arc. The
Shibui arc is so good. I think it's one of
the best shown in arcs probably that I've read an
anime so or at least in mainstream battles shown in anime.
So I don't know, it's up there, it's up there.
But also it is a bit over hyped at times.
Speaker 1: I think season two match the hype that season one got,
Like season two was really good and season two did
a lot of good things really well that I'm like,
this is what deserves to be hyped, But it was
hyped that way so early on, so I wonder it
was just the anticipation and people read the manga as well,
and there's a lot of factors.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like even season two and like the
middle has some aspects that kind of drag a little bit,
like there's arcs I kind of maybe skip if I
try to rewatch it. But overall, yeah, season two is
so good. Season three has been good, but I don't know,
it's tough, Like it flips between me going like, man,
this is kind of peak shoon in versus like, man,
I'm kind of bored right now, so it's I always
fallows somewhere in between when I'm trying to look at
it objectively.
Speaker 1: I think that's fair, and then you know, my brain
is sparked by mainstream anime jiu jitsu kais and leads
into Demon Slayer. I think Demon Slayer has a stronger
season one, but slowly I started to care less and
less as time went on. I've read the manga and
I don't really love the ending that much, or I
don't think it matched the hype of the series. I'm
not don't want to spoil or anything. So Devin Slayer
got worse as time went on, and Jujuju Kaison got better.
So that's why they're forty six. But fantastic peak shown
in at times.
Speaker 2: I think I was generous to give the Demon Slayer
manga a four out of ten, Like, I think that
was generous of me. Like, if I'm being honest, it.
Speaker 1: Was pretty bad.
Speaker 2: It's an awful It's an awful season one.
Speaker 1: It's so good though, I really enjoyed season one of
the anime.
Speaker 2: But you Photobo is such a good studio and they
do it did bring it to life. And I haven't
seen all of Demons Slayer. I saw half the first
season and then a couple of the movies, and every
time I have watched it, I have enjoyed it. So
I will say it's hard to hite on it too
much because the animation and production are there, but God,
the story wise, like they do some of the demon
stories well.
Speaker 1: I think won really well and a lot of things no,
not so.
Speaker 2: I guess I should say like the overall anime was
brilliant all around, it's you shown it. I feel like
we're the fights kind of drag on, like if nothing else, Like,
the fights feel slow, if that makes sense. I've never
quite had that happen as I read a series, especially,
but if that's a problem with the source material, it's
also gonna happen in the anime. I feel like even
in the anime, the fights kind of dragged, But.
Speaker 1: I think because the animation was so good, I was
okay with the fights dragging. Yeah, there was a there
was a fight with like the arrows and the balls.
I'm like, this fight. If I read this, this would
be ship, but like in the anime, it was amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's tough. I couldn't finish it just because
I hated the story and I had just read it
when I was trying to watch it, So I definitely
wouldn't be in my top one hundred. But you know,
Demons Slayer being a lot of people's like top five,
so it averages out Brigo's, you know, connecting me to
the average view were here putting it around fifteen.
Speaker 1: It's hard for me not to put it high just
because there were so many, like showe in moments that
they did so well with the emotional payoff and the
amazing animation and just being on your edge of the
seat drinking a badass fight with some steaks on the line,
Like there's this moment that they do really really well.
Or I'm like, yeah, it deserves to be high up
on people's lists, even if it's not amazing all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, anyway, I feel like go ahead. The issues I
do have with it are, like like I said, story
wise and pacing wise, and I don't hold that against
the anime because if that's an issue with like the
source material and you're trying to adapt that, I feel
like it's gonna leak over n times, right.
Speaker 1: So I also, I having read them manga and watched
the anime, the anime enhances the source material quite a bit,
like so much so that like it turned it into
peaks shown in at times when when I went I
was reading it, I'm like, this does not feel like
anything that special, Okay, at number forty seven baking a
beautiful little series. I don't know all right, I think
with like really good, good characters. I like the way
like things are tied in and connected from all over
fucking time and space and this and that. I do
think it's a little bit over hyped at times because
people are all saying it's a masterpiece, and I think
it's good, but I don't know if I would go
that far.
Speaker 2: I need to read Bakano because, like the anime adaptation
was interesting with how they tied together all these different
timelines and things going on and all these different characters.
I love it, probably more than most people. I love Pacano,
but I know Derra Rod did similar things with its
characters that also had like an ensemble castle a lot
of things going on. I don't know if this will
be a hot take. But while I love Bacano, I'd
probably put it higher. I could not get into Dora
Rod very well, Like I couldn't hardly get through yeah
what it is with it at all? There's a lot
off there, but there was a yeah.
Speaker 1: That's why I put them next to each other. I'm like, ah,
Blacano was better. It's better written. But Da da Da
had like some side characters and side stories. Because you know,
the world's constantly moving and things are being connected. It's
the main characters. I don't care about them, Da da da.
You don't care about the main cast, but all the
side is.
Speaker 2: So Great's that's what made me mad was I was
watching around and there's interesting side characters I could name
like three or four off the top of my head.
I really wanted to watch more of. But then there's
also these teenagers that I don't remember hardly anything about.
And guess who focused on the most, Like the freaking
teenagers that you don't care about at all? Like it
that's that's the primary focus, right, So I don't know,
it was it was hard to get into doing.
Speaker 1: It's weird, but I liked it like that. I liked
how like you had these characters that were just like whatever.
But that everything else around it was over the top
amazing and it almost I don't know.
Speaker 2: Why I need to give it another chance, but I don't.
Speaker 1: I cannot find the words to say why it worked.
But somehow having normal, boring characters as the focus with
a crazy world of dominoes around it all coming connecting it,
it was it is something beautiful about it. I don't
know how to explain it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like I said, but Kano kind of helped my
add a little bit, and like there's always something going
on and then like it eventually makes sense so you
don't have to like overly think about it too much.
But a lot of chaotic fun and then Derara. It's
because there were so much folks on those boring characters.
I didn't hate it as I watched it. I actually
enjoyed it. I thought it was pretty good, but I
had trouble finishing it, if that makes sense. Like I
tried a couple different times, and I couldn't get through
that first season of Derara. So I don't know interesting
picks there. I don't know where i'd put I'd probably
put the Conna like top thirty and Graraw definitely wouldn't
put it in my Top hundred, but interesting to see
them compared to this high lease.
Speaker 1: I think this is the point of my top one
hundred where I'm this like I remember that anime therefore
must be good, good enough to make the top one hundred. Seven.
Deadly Sins was what started my YouTube channel. I think
season one was pretty good, with a lot of badass
characters and a lot of badass flights. And then season
two we get a lot of emotional payoffs with great
backstories and solid character development, and then by season three
and season four, the show kind of falls apart. I think,
especially with the animation. There's a lot of things in
the manga, cool fights. I was looking forward to that.
The anime just did a poor job adapting. I'm trying
to think about season one and season two isolated, and
then I read the manga and it was pretty good.
So you know, season three and whatever onward not that great.
Speaker 2: But I haven't seen season three and onwards very much.
I saw a lot of the hate they were getting.
It made me sad. I love the manga because I
think I actually watched this one and read it initially
just because you were making so many videos and I'm like, dang,
I can't watch these unless I watched that series first.
So a great cast of characters, very I don't know,
out of this world with a lot of them, like
they have amazing backstories that turn into an arcs, like
they're well written, but then like the events around them
are so chaotic and whatnot, and things end up lining
up where you wouldn't expect a lot of crazy twists
and turns. So it was a series that just kept
you on your toes, kept you guessing. So it was
just fun more than anything, if that makes sense. Like,
give you characters you cared about, and then you didn't
know what was happening next, all likes as you followed him, right,
So uh r a filming moments. Escinor's top ten animate
characters all time when it comes to r Farming.
Speaker 1: So m oh he really is. He's like, dude, the
flexing that Escanor does and like the change he go
undergoes from like day to night and stuff, or like
as the sun rises is so fucking cool. His one
liners are so bad ass is there's a Vampires of
Edinburgh fucking like manga part that wasn't adapted or maybe
it was adapted later on into like a movie or something,
but it wasn't in the original. When you when I
read those that Edinburgh part and that line drops where
he's about to find I think he's about to fight
some vampire king in like a cave somewhere, and he's
just like this small, like tiny guy, and then slowly
as the as he gets stronger, he won lines this
like kings are Kings are Kings are as plenty for
as gradens of sand, and then like just one shots
like the big bad of the arc.
Speaker 2: D that chapter was crazy whenever they like cause I
think that's kind of how they introduced him, right the
Vampires of Edinburgh, and then uh I remember there there
were so many manga edits, like manga music video edits
on YouTube that just made that chapter go wild or crazy.
I think there's like fan animation as well, but that
go hard, so I haven't seen it like the actual adaptation.
But uh god. I could go into death on any
character and probably tell you why I love them, but
Eskandor as far as surface level goes, like I said
he was, he was one of the best.
Speaker 1: And then Bond and meli Os is like romance. I
think it's as high as it because they're like all
of them were just like even fucking King and Diane
or wherever the fuck their names are there. I really
did fall in love with every character and cared about
them individually, which I can't say about a lot of
anime past character.
Speaker 2: One for every character. I only did one for King
and Bond. But like I I remember doing character analysis
videos on those characters back in the day, and there
was just so much to say because everything kind of
fit together so well, like they're very well fleshed out
in like who they are as a person. And then,
like I said, the journey around that is just it's
just good fun. Right. So I don't know, it's hard
to put it in the words, but I guess you
still there's parts of that that just stick with you,
right as like I still see edits of like Escinora
and some of his one liners to this day. How
could I go ahead? Oh, I was just gonna say,
like how could I you know, how could I hate you? Like?
How could I hate somebody that's beneath me? Is one
of those as a as I forget what the name
of the guy he was gonna fight is.
Speaker 1: There are so many good moments with Eskinoor. You're right,
there was. He was fighting this this character, and the
guy's power is basically, if you have hatred for him,
you can't move, which is really overpowered as he's attacking
your hometown and killing your friends and family, so of
course you're gonna hate him. And then boom you have
this scene of Eskinar looking down on him and he's like,
how can I have hatred for you? All I have
for you is pity, and he's like, truly prideful, that
is my sin. It's so fucking good as Rosa was
his name, yeah, or even there's a scene, yeah, there's
a scene against the Gland or whatever, the Gallan whatever
his name is, where Gallon tries to pick up the
axe on that at the at the back of the
bar and Gallalan, this fucking ten commandment overpowered monster, couldn't
hold the axe and they're like wow, like because he
thinks it's a cool looking axe and he can't hold it,
and he's like, oh my god, this is a pretty
terribly weighted axe. It doesn't make sense to be a
two handed axe. And the Eskroner picks it up with
one hand, that's because it's a one handed axe.
Speaker 2: Gallon was also one of those where he had like
crazy r farming moments. Yeah, because the thing with Gallon
was ither think you couldn't lie in his presence or
else he turned to stone or something like that, right,
or you couldn't Uh, it was something to that effect, right,
And and Askner said, I am at the pinnacle of
all races. And it's like he doesn't turn to stone,
and it's because he genuine believes like human demon whatever,
Like he's like, no, I'm the best. I stand at
the top. I stand at the top, right, So it's
like seeing that and then Gallon I think turned to
stone as he like goes the runaway.
Speaker 1: Or something to that, because because Gallon said he's never fought,
he would never like turned his back and run and
in one of these death matches that he does, and
literally he is so scared that he turns and runs away.
Speaker 2: Like these moments I haven't rewatched seven Delly since it forever, right,
but they just stick with you and how hard they go.
So it's like taking these fun characters and putting them
in these scenarios where you're gonna remember these moments, these
are just crazy plot twist, fun moments.
Speaker 1: So yeah, at number fifty we have Helsing Ultimate, which
is funny that I have it here because I don't
know if I have it here for the actual anime
or for the Abridge I've watched it. I've watched the
abridge so many times, but I've watched the anime once
and it's all blended together for me at this point
years later. But I remember thinking, this is a really
well ridden, all the round story. But what do I
actually remember? I remember their Bridge, So I don't know.
Speaker 2: God, you know, don't hate me here. I know this
is not a good way to end the ones we're
covering today. But I haven't seen Helsing Ultimate, so but
I've seen Helsinger.
Speaker 1: Oh to day. But have you seen the A Bridge.
I have not.
Speaker 2: I've seen some clips here and there, but I've never
actually sat down and watched it. I want to watch
the original first, but I just houselt.
Speaker 1: It is just over the top fun, carnage, craziness. I
don't even know how to describe it. Anyway, we have
we have totally covered my twenty five through fifty or
my top or twenty six through fifty. We've covered my
top fifty favorite anime thus far for a very different
amount of reasons, and I'm looking forward to covering fifty
one through one hundred, where at this point it was
like I remember this anime, it was pretty good. It
makes the list. There's someone on here that probably don't
deserve it, but it is crazy.
Speaker 2: We're through fifty already and I still haven't seen sort
art online of Bridge, So this is this is crazy.
Speaker 1: Not even the line does not make my top one hundred.
Speaker 2: I don't think no upbridged this I should Okay, it's
like top twenty anime all time. What do you what
do you mean?
Speaker 1: It's pretty fucking good.
Speaker 2: It's up there with Helsinger Bridge, right, So this is
oh man.
Speaker 1: Did I have the Way of the Health Husband at
seventy nine?
Speaker 2: I have on this list.
Speaker 1: It's so funny.
Speaker 2: So like said, we need to get you to actually
like make an actual list on like on like a
website or something that keeps track of it at some point,
because I know whatever I made mine where I was
actually scoring everything initially, I just I would put if
I watched the show, and I would score everything one hundred.
Just throw a ten out of ten, just to have it,
but I tried to actually score them at some point,
and like as you go through, I tried to compare,
like as a what I thought compared to other shows
as I scored them, and what I would have them
at initially would change so much as I would start
looking at other shows. Because even as we go through
this list, right, like I think I said five times
in this episode, that's a top five anime, those probably
aren't my top five favorite anime, right, So it gets tough.
Speaker 1: Oh, I mean I hit that pretty hard my top
ten where I couldn't fit everything that I wanted in
my top ten and my top ten because there's more
than ten anime I liked and have been referring and
that I've been referring to with my top five top
ten for years. Yeah, I'm like, well, I guess it can't.
You can't have seven anime in your top five, it seems.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I hate how numbers work. Numbers.
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Speaker 2: Dude.
Speaker 1: I think I have a million views in shorts already.
It's by uploading the shorts. It's crazy.
Speaker 2: Every time there's a lot of hype around it. There's
a lot of hype. I've only watched one episode, so
I don't know like what my thoughts are going to
be thus far, but can you we got to talk
about it twice. I'll hate on it once and praise
it the next.
Speaker 1: Can you start binging some of it, please, because I
do think I need I think this week at some
point we're going to try to make it work with
po Sidon hopefully, but if you you're gonna be gone
for a bit too at some point. So if we
could get that podcast dot done before you leave, yeah,
it'd be great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll be uh, I'll be gone like the week
after this one, so like the twenty third through the
twenty seventh, so you got to watch some I'll get
to watch right before we feel this. I'm in the
middle of it. I'm enjoying it. I had to. I
had to like re sign up for like Netflix and
stuff prior, so I was getting that taken care of.
Hell yeah, I'm on there now.
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