Speaker 1: Yo, What is up? Boys? How's it going? And welcome
back to another episode of the Rant Cafe Anime Podcast.
Today we're talking about some ribridiculous isa kai with my boys,
Jordan the anime dude, How you doing?
Speaker 2: What's up? Everybody?
Speaker 3: Happy to be here? The sky's the pinnacle the anime genre.
You know, as we've said, so, I'm excited for this one.
Speaker 2: This will be this will be good.
Speaker 1: And we got anime recon with us today to talk
about some isai anime. What up?
Speaker 4: What a boys to boy recon?
Speaker 2: And I'm back for some more.
Speaker 4: It's my personal one of my favorite genres.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to dive in. And finally we got
Pinacolada Marcus, what up?
Speaker 4: Hello, it's it's it's good to be back. Yeah, we're
going to talk about and I mean, people say it's slop.
I disagree, but.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest. There is a lot of a
lot of slop isakai. There's a lot of badakai, a
lot of generic isakai. But you know what, it keeps
me watching and keeps me coming back. And for some reason,
there's always one. There's always one or two a season
that I end up watching regardless of how much of
I'm annoyed with the same concepts or whatever, but you
know what they are getting creative. There's always a twist
these days, for example, where today we're talking about Sordi sakai,
Ribi vending machine, e sakai, and dog is sakai. Those
are the I don't know if you know the real
names I do. I do have it pulled up here.
Actually I pulled up the real names, but it's just
easier to think of them as this guy got kai
as a sword. On that note, I personally want to
start off by talking about my personal favorite, The My
Ridiculous Reincarnation, and the Japanese title translates roughly to goddess,
what do you want to be reincarnated as? In another world?
Speaker 2: Me?
Speaker 1: You could just call me the heroes, rib me the heroes.
Oh my god.
Speaker 3: I do think this one was the one that kind
of stuck out the most, especially for people that have
seen a lot of isakai. There's something about parodies of
the isakai genre and whenever they're very self aware that
are just very appealing.
Speaker 2: This one kind of did that, and it kind of.
Speaker 3: Encapsulates everything we're talking about in this episode, but like
over and over, it just kind of did itself in
like a self contained anthology kind of way. So and
it was I don't know if there's everything you guys
want to chime in with. There there's other stuff thereafter
about like the art style and so how.
Speaker 2: Creative they were.
Speaker 1: I do want to talk about this one because it
is my personal favorite of these four by a long shot.
It had me laughing so hard, and I just liked
the like you said, it's a parody or it does
do like a comedic take on it. But what's so
funny to me, or what I really really loved is
each different time he got Isakaia. It was a different
art style, different world, very very over the top stupid,
but we didn't actually experience it from that character's perspective,
but rather after he died, he would be back in
front of the Goddess and him and the Goddess would
like review the footage and give you like and give
you like a spark notes and a summary of what happened.
To be honest, I fucking loved it. I genuinely loved it.
I thought it was so stupid at first, but then
when he was a hermit crab and he was with
the and he was taken on the demon king. It
was it was just so and when he was a
door like, it was just so stupid. I loved it.
The hero's rib and then he removed all the ribs
and all the ribs turned into more heroes. And he's like,
I couldn't turn into a hero because I was I
got reincarnate as a rib. That's cheating. Like it was
just so good. It was so stupid. I loved it.
I'm gonna watch more. I am genuinely gonna watch more,
unlike these other three, which I won't.
Speaker 2: You know what said, what dam.
Speaker 1: Of chances? I don't care.
Speaker 4: Wow, wow, it took me fair bris doesn't really finish
of anyways.
Speaker 1: True, that's true. I don't what are your guys' thoughts
on rib Marcus.
Speaker 4: So, I think the idea is a banger, like to
come up with the idea of Okay, all these anime
they let the mc get reencouraged into this thing or
that thing and this one just pumps them out one
after another after another with ideas that would ideally have
their own whole anime. And I think the idea is
not only ridiculous, but also really interesting. The quality is
pretty high.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm on the animation at times. Obviously the art
styles change a lot. One Episode one was pretty good.
Speaker 4: I'm hesitant to say if this one has the highest
quality of the four.
Speaker 1: In regards to anim animation.
Speaker 4: I feel like probably animation.
Speaker 1: Yes, so I say Sorty Sky is probably the best animation.
But it's just different different art styles, right, I think.
Speaker 4: It's either sword or Ripsikai. I'm not sure it's very
like because the while the art styles are very different
each episode and are difficult to create, they also make
us so the anime is a little bit cheaper to produce.
For example, in episode three, you have the hand drawn
stuff with someone actually you moving the pieces.
Speaker 1: You mean like a claimation. It was kind of like
a claymation.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, not the claimation. It was where he
was reincredited into the hero's mind as his voice in
the mind.
Speaker 1: I guess I watched, I watched, I watch two and
a half episodes. Oops.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was reincarnated into basically the voice inside of
a hero.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: And the way it was made was they showed a
camera of someone where you could only see the hands
and some kind of piece of paper with drawn stuff
and he moved the stuff made the move and stuff
like that, so real life stuff.
Speaker 1: I like how it was a different every episode as well.
I think that added to value, and he kept things
fresh because it's like if you have a stupid concept,
sometimes it gets old, but it's hard to get old
in fifteen minutes. It's just like fun, what are they
gonna do with it?
Speaker 4: I also really like the female character. He's quite pretty,
which helps is harder to do than you would think.
And I think the main character I haven't written on
his name, actually, I think he was very fun and endearing.
He wasn't like annoying or anything. He kept it like
fun but also like light. He wasn't like getting all
the nerves, at least for me. So I think that
was really, uh, something that you could value. So yeah,
I was persantly surprised.
Speaker 1: Awesome, awesome ricon thoughts on Ribi Sakai before we move
on to the next one.
Speaker 5: You're not gonna give Jordan a chance.
Speaker 1: I think Jordan kind of jumped in initially, but we'll
go back. We'll double back, all right.
Speaker 4: I actually really like this one.
Speaker 5: This is probably the most unique is a guy I've
ever seen, because I don't think I've seen anything like
this because it kind of is like, just like as
you said, it doesn't take itself seriously, which I love,
and it's hilariously stupid. But the different animations style and
the art style and all that stuff. It's like I'm
watching multiple different anime and one which I which which
you know, is very enjoyable, and the protagonist is very likable.
I don't hate him at all. I think he's funny.
And the choices that he goes to reincarding into different things,
like he's the rip Kjo a hero because he wants
a haremy. He becomes a hermit crab at one point,
he becomes a vegetable, and then he becomes a bomb
to blow up happy.
Speaker 1: Couples because he's a loner. It's just so hilariously funny.
I love it. But a bomb.
Speaker 5: Well and explosive, I guess, or whatever you want to say.
But yeah, uh, it's animated by q Zilla and this
and these guys are going to be animating Sekiro very soon,
which I'm very excited to see.
Speaker 2: That's exciting.
Speaker 5: But so far animation is great.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 5: I'm very you know, happy that Quzilla got this, and
I'm looking forward to Sakiro.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, Jordan, I know you kind of touched upon
it initially, but I'll give you a chance to talk
about Ribby Sakai before we move on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a few things I love about it.
Speaker 3: I think the first impression of it is based on
the watch order of how I watch these shows. So
I watched in Kai first, so I had to sit
there watching dude be a dog for like minutes or whatever,
and I'm like, who would ever want to do that?
Speaker 2: Like that's so unrelatable. And then the very start of.
Speaker 3: Rebiece, a guy does dressed up as a dog, you know,
she says bark, Bark's like heat. I'm like, oh my god,
this guy, like I had zero respect for protagonists for
like a couple of minutes. But then after that, I
realize he's just like me for real, right, the dude
he just wants to be entertained, wants to go get
his wife.
Speaker 2: WU.
Speaker 3: It always has a tragic ending where there's something keeping
it from happening.
Speaker 2: And then uh, I don't.
Speaker 3: Know, it's like you said, he goes through all these
different uh truncated like anthology of adventures and stuff. But
what I really love is how much creative energy and
like you could tell it passion went into creating this
because while some of them might seem cheaper than others,
et cetera, I think people underestimate just how hard it
is to probably like change the production of how each
episode is made and go about like a different creative
process each time. So like episode two, I know they
only did it for half an episode, but like going
through the whole claymation process, like clamation is hard. It
takes so so much goes into that. And a lot
of the animations were pretty simple. But not only did
they have the clamation, but if you watch the e
D there after, they had like the behind the scenes
where like they show all the figures, they show the
camera like the three D background green screen behind it.
I don't know, is the creative process as a whole.
You can tell a lot went into it. You've got people,
uh in front of a green screen. It's literally just
dudes like like it's smiling friends or something, just dancing
in the in the opie and it was just a
fun time. I enjoyed a lot of different aspects of.
Speaker 1: It, so hell yeah, yeah, you can tell it like,
even though it doesn't take itself seriously, you could tell
a lot of heart and care actually went into creating
this exactly. Moving on, I guess we'll talk about Doggy Sakai,
my life as Taisan's dog.
Speaker 6: Why not it out of the way.
Speaker 1: So this is this isn't a hen ti, No, it's
an et Okay, it's just I watched then I watched
the uncensored version last night, and it was basically a
hen ti.
Speaker 3: It's like in between, right, It's one of those that
they'd call it type thing. It's like, uh, it's like
not quite a hint die and thank god it isn't
for this one.
Speaker 2: It's it's not. It feels like it's not.
Speaker 5: It's not on the level of like Harem and the
Labyrinth of Another Another World or Redo Revealer.
Speaker 1: It's not at that level.
Speaker 5: But it's like underneath them.
Speaker 1: It's pretty close.
Speaker 6: Also, I mean yeah close, I don't know, they're kind.
Speaker 4: Of close heads. You need to have the penetration and
you have to see the genital.
Speaker 1: But you yeah, but you see it and it was
like it was like licking and it was licking.
Speaker 4: He also does that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, it was. It was pretty bad.
I I didn't like start with things. I the dog
was cute, cute.
Speaker 4: I mean I have I've written don something.
Speaker 1: Let's hear, let's you are You're good? Things you have
written down because I'm be honest, I love myself and
actually every now and then. But there's just there was
just no story either, Like I just I just didn't
care her mom.
Speaker 2: I got one. Okay, that's mine. It's my contribution.
Speaker 1: Nekai has gotta go it on.
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, hold to horses. It's only one thing. The
art was okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Nice, pretty all right For anyone that doesn't know, this
character gets who I guess loved her. His classmate gets
is a dog. The classmate rescues him as a dog,
brings them into the house, and they bathe together, and
lute things happen and this and that and yeah.
Speaker 5: And she licks his nose and andy.
Speaker 1: And he licks in other areas.
Speaker 7: Really, what we're trying to say is that this classmate
had a crush on Kai, and then and some lady,
some mysterious girl, magically transformed him into a dog, and
his wish came through where.
Speaker 6: He gets to spend all the precious time with his love.
Speaker 1: Inukai as a dog, dude, it was actually killing me though.
It was like I was getting like secondhand cringe. So
this one girl hurt her knee and then the dog
went and like licked the wound right and like licked
her knee. So then Inukai fucking what's it called when
and stubbed your toe on purpose just so that like
the dog like lick her feet. But then like, okay whatever,
like you want to like, oh whatever, you think it's cute,
then she like moans when it happens, like holy fo Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think that's another thing about Inukai. The only other
thing I wrote down it's barely a real anime. Yeah,
so it's so little it reminds me of I haven't seen,
but it writes me off One Room, which is also
like barely an anime. It's also from the point of
view of the of the viewer, and it's a harem,
and there are very short episodes.
Speaker 1: You know what reminds me of It reminds me of
the teacher one that like the teacher one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, why the hell are you here?
Speaker 2: Teacher?
Speaker 1: Yeah? That one was also like barely because they were shorts.
They were like they were like twelve minutes, eight minutes,
and it was just like oats, oops, why are you here, teacher?
I fell I fell in a puddle, I fell in
upon or fucking whatever, like the Fountain.
Speaker 4: You can't have a good anime which is just short,
like they have plenty of those. It's just with something
like Kai, it's like very little that you could say,
oh yeah, this is just like other anime. It's like
very very little, And I think this is just a fetish.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just pretty much, yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 5: Actually, like whatever that's not that's not necessarily a if
you have a fetish on this stuff, it's it's not
a bad thing.
Speaker 4: But if you know, you can go else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, else exactly.
Speaker 3: It's one of those things where you know what you're
getting kind of going into it, which is why I
only watched like one episode.
Speaker 2: Half the time, I'm thinking who is this for?
Speaker 3: But it is one of those things where it knows
what it is. It just kind of embraces it, and
I really regret like recording my reaction.
Speaker 5: Is it bad that I watched the whole thing? Does
that mean I have a fetish that I watched the.
Speaker 2: Whole Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: Different strokes for different dogs.
Speaker 2: I will say, like.
Speaker 3: I know, like I said, at least one of us
here and stuff you mentioned like watching it on a
faster speed and stuff. So this is one of those
things you know what it kind of is on the
surface level. But I'm just saying, like it goes fast. Anyways,
It's a very short story. But I regret recording my
reaction to this first episode simply because like it makes
it feel even longer and you start to realize just
how long some of those scene are. H I felt
like I sat there for five minutes watching her just
take a shower, just like watching different parts, like it
was like just taking a.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she was, she was, she was shampooing or whatever,
soaping herself up for a while so long and then
be honest, I think I watched the whole first episode properly,
and then second episode and third episode I watched at
one point five and just kept on. I just kept
on tapping. I'm like, what happens next? What happens? I
kept on tapping, like the fast forward.
Speaker 3: But I merely bring that up just because of how
long it felt like it. It literally was just that
but like the whole time, so like it knows what
it is if nothing else, like you know what you're
getting going into it, and it's it's just very very etchy,
to the point where it's just basically erotica, right yeah,
like yeah, specific niche.
Speaker 4: So you know there's anime that's also what I say,
go ahead, Yeah, there was another anime. I think it
aired earlier and on an early season. It was also
basically a fetish but it also knows what it is,
and that was way better middal tights. I'm sure I
think that one.
Speaker 1: Is was good though that one was.
Speaker 4: That one was good.
Speaker 2: So I haven't seen that, but can you guys send
me the link?
Speaker 6: The quality of that show blows up, you know, the
quality of.
Speaker 5: That show is insane, the quality you.
Speaker 2: Know, Yeah, it was like shiny animation wise, like it was.
Speaker 4: The artwork was from someone on Twitter and they animated
that basically, and uh, that artist who made us on
Twitter was very well known for making very detailed tights
in terms of lighting, texture. They are really good. I'm
not exaggerating. They are really good.
Speaker 1: Your interested, Jordan, aren't you?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know what I'm watching after this I'm.
Speaker 4: Like an eight point something something. But that was good ship.
Speaker 3: But you know, you know, the weird thing about a
dog is I know, we just went through like an
anthology series ridiculous reincarnation where it's like twenty different.
Speaker 2: All in one.
Speaker 3: Funny thing Aboutkai is it's not actually Ani like he
is reincarnated, but he doesn't go to another world like
he he's interacting with like.
Speaker 1: The same person he knows.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like the same person, but he gets to
be her.
Speaker 3: Dog and like, like that was what was so funny
about it to me, because I thought we were getting
an Kai, but it's like, no, that's my classmate, that's
the other classmates.
Speaker 4: Said.
Speaker 2: He's just kind of into it.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, it's true, it's just his life as
that person's dog. Oh my god. Okay, let's talk about
reincardinated as a sword sword Ki. I did like it.
It did seem high quality at times. I think the
voice acting in the English dub was actually quite good,
which carried carried the series. The sword's voice actor did
a great job. I think it had some stuff going
for it. I just don't care enough. At the same time,
I don't know, I don't know, I feel bad saying it.
It was just like, oh, this looks pretty good. It's
kind of interesting, but like, I don't know, I don't know.
I don't know why I I watched the first episode.
I'm like, I'm I'm satisfied. I don't need to watch more.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this one was actually like pleasantly surprising for me.
Like I I watched that first episode and I was like,
I actually do want to see more of this one.
This was the first one I started watching more of
after watching the first episodes.
Speaker 2: It could be by surprise.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's gonna be a wholesome relationship between
the sword and the and the and the the wheelder. Yeah,
between the Yeah, between the sword and friend or whatever.
But I don't know. I just feel like I didn't
I didn't feel like it left me wanting to see
what happens next. It's I don't know how many episodes
did you watch? I just watched one. I watched one,
and I'm like, that was cool. I guess maybe I
watched too. I ended with a friend using the sword
and defeating a monster and sending herself free. Essentially, That's
why I was.
Speaker 4: That was episode one. You're gonna need to watch more Brigs.
Speaker 1: I don't want to.
Speaker 5: You're missing out on the best part. The greatest thing
about the show is the father daughter dynamic between Master
and Fran.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got I got. I got that, like just
by the end, and I'm just like, I'm good. I
don't know. I don't I don't know how to make
that make sense. But it's just like it didn't give
me like what's gonna happen next? Or how how will
the relationship develop? Like I just didn't. I didn't know
you So don't you want to see?
Speaker 5: Like how they work together as as a duo. They
get strong, but.
Speaker 1: He's already overpowered. Dude, the sword was overpowered in two seconds.
Speaker 4: No, he's not.
Speaker 6: He's he's strong, but it's like there are way more
tougher enemies.
Speaker 2: He got defeated by the ground.
Speaker 4: Like the thing.
Speaker 5: He needs to work with Fran to get job, to
get ship done.
Speaker 2: He can't do it on his own.
Speaker 1: I think he can.
Speaker 3: So that's the funny thing about the show that caught
me off guard was I thought he was gonna be
used as the Sword the whole time, but the very start,
like he gets these abilities like telekinesis and you know,
to let the theists, he's basically is just kind of
doing it all on his own and power leveling and whatnot.
I did not expect him to be power leveling like
as a sword on his own. No interaction between the
two of them really in that first episode aside from
the end.
Speaker 2: That's what was surprising to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like it was like it was like
twelve minutes of him just floating around cutting things in
half and like leveling up with good dialogue. It was
fun it was it was funny.
Speaker 2: It was fun like it kind of knew what it was.
But then they don't get until the end. So afterwards,
I'm like, where are they going with this? Like, how
are they.
Speaker 4: Gonna He's he's stronger with a wielder.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's it's funny, like she does take this
test in the the second episode and whatnot.
Speaker 2: And they're shocked.
Speaker 3: They're like, she's doing combo arts, but like by yourself,
where like you're.
Speaker 2: Normal break state.
Speaker 5: They fight the Great Demon Lord.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, they fight the Demon Lord. No way deal.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they fight the Great Demon Lord.
Speaker 1: Don't you want to see that? You have? By the way, Yeah,
it was just about to make that joke that try.
I like the twist that it's like it's like kind
of like a father daughter relationship. I do like that change.
At least that's a little bit unique. I don't know.
I don't know. Maybe I'm starting to be a downer.
I just didn't care.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 2: Which what was the watch order in which you watched
these ships.
Speaker 1: I watched Sword first, and then I watched Ribby, and
then I watched Dog and then I watched like one
episode of Ending Machine that remind myself what happens. But
the Machine is kind of fun too. Again, I don't
care that much to like continue. I watched the eight
or nine episodes of it. I gotta just mm hmm,
just say it, Brigo. But it's not bad as the thing.
If it was bad, I would rip on it. But
it's not bad.
Speaker 3: There is a certain point where you've seen so many
eu kai where if it doesn't latch you right away,
it feels painfully average. At times, you're like this, even
if it's not bad. Right, So I get that. I
get that.
Speaker 4: I'll be watching the things I wrote. Well, as you said, breaks,
the voice acting is really good, even the Japanese. The
voice acting is pretty good, animation is pretty good. Something
that was very noticeable to me was the soundtrack. Out
of all the four, the soundtrack was noticeably good.
Speaker 1: I don't remember the soundtrack. I do remember the soundtrack
on Ribisikai being pretty good. I really enjoyed the soundtrack
for that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that one was also really good. I did have
to notice it as much as an on swored.
Speaker 3: Sordie Ski has this like one battle track that's like, uh,
I don't know if aout no, no, it has a
great ost don't get me wrong, but it has like
at least one battle action uh soundtrack in that first episode,
and I think they used it maybe similar one in
that second episode as well, where I did have to
just stop and take a moment to like appreciate how
good that was.
Speaker 2: I'm like, that just sounds so.
Speaker 3: Unique and like like I might add that to my
last playlist right, Like, I feel like I don't do
that very often, but U s.
Speaker 4: Ske I also liked that it had a decent amount
of violence. That's something to appreciate. There were a lot
of elements Brooks. You have seen episode one. There was
also an episode one there were very epic and dramatic scenes,
like a lot it.
Speaker 2: Got dark at times. Yeah, like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: That's also something that I think is very good. It
is a combination of very cute moments. The relationship between
Friend and Teacher is very good. It's also the most
important thing about the show, this relationship. And then there's
this dark stuff. And I also really like her readiness
to opponents. Like an episode two, she was ready to
kill the guy off it and just Teacher said no, no, wait,
wait wait, and then she slices feet off and something
that isn't shown in the first three episodes, but reckon,
you can correct me, because it's been a while since
I've seen her. Stubbornness of Friend is something that is
a kind of foreshadowing for later stuff in season one
where she is the one who has to grow because yeah, okay,
sure the sword gets powered up and stuff, but Friend doesn't.
She only gets like a little bit of level ups.
She herself is still weak. So without the sword, what
does she do? And I believe there were fights towards
the end of season one where she has to be
confronted with that that she has to be stronger on
her own with all the relying on the sword and
also something I don't think sword really had to be
an It really could have been, like the voice that
was telling.
Speaker 1: It could have been a fantastical sword with powers. Yeah,
just a sentient sword.
Speaker 4: Yeah, some deity like awakes objects into sentience swords and
then you can go from there.
Speaker 1: You don't even need a deity. It's a fantasy world.
It could just be it's a sentient that's in the ground.
Speaker 4: The thing is, But the thing is the sword has
to level up. Why didn't it level up before? Why
is it.
Speaker 1: Maybe finally he was released? Yeah, the sword in the
ground can't be used until pulled. I don't know, but.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you have yeah, and then you can be
like because in episode three, the weapon Smith also said
there were other intelligent objects that have existed or do exist,
and you could have done like something like, Okay, why
is the deity or god or whatever? Why see creating
giving life to inanimate objects?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: Why does he do it? Is there more to you know,
lore of the world building? And then you can maybe
uh like visit meet other intelligent objects that are maybe
dangerous or evil.
Speaker 1: Oh that reminds me that. Yeah, yeah, I agree I'll
sort to cut you out. That reminds me I like
the gimmick on rib Sakai where they were choosing to
get reincarnated as things. But there's wait time depending on
the popularity, right, like if if you want to be
a hero, if you want if you want to be
a hero with a harem, well that didnt take fifty
thousand years, you know of wait time. But if you
want to be a hermit crab, you could go right now.
Speaker 4: I mean there are other people that have been hermit crabs.
Speaker 1: Yes, but there's not there's not there's not a line.
Speaker 4: There's not a line exactly.
Speaker 3: It was like a commentary on like how overflated the
sky Janer could be, right, just like all these other series.
And now if you want to be a big one
like that, like you gotta you gotta get in line,
like it's it's already kind of there's already stuff taking
up that slot.
Speaker 4: Right for you to be more invested and to SORTI
they would have had to end the episode with some
crazy cliffhanger. Yeah you know, oh shit, and they don't.
I will saybe that's that's a thing.
Speaker 3: There was definitely there though in those first couple episodes
depending on who you are. Like, I like that we
see a little bit of frands personality there in that
first episode. She is a brave young girl. And then
she uh said she's taken it on even before the sword.
She's not strong enough to quite do so, but she's
uh picking to the challenge. So like, you know, that's
why he takes it upon himself. There after he's like,
I'm a teacher, I'm gonna trainer. But there's also just
other elements where he has a lot of growing left
to do to. I know, we say he's overpowered at
the end of that first episode because it definitely felt
like it.
Speaker 2: But like, they go into a.
Speaker 3: Town in that secon An episode and he's like he's
getting a little full of himself. He's like, look at
all these adventures with their swords and stuff. I wonder
how how strong these swords are. He starts looking at
their attack attriciza and stuff. He's like, oh God, all
these swords are stronger than me right now?
Speaker 1: Oh cool? Okay.
Speaker 2: He starts look at.
Speaker 3: Like everybody, He's not really that strong in the grand
scheme of things, right, And then I don't know, there's
so many other aspects to it too, like with the
uh like we don't know why black cats have like
never evolved quite and stuff, but everybody seems to have
something against them.
Speaker 2: So I'm so too.
Speaker 3: Like they take a carriage and there's this guy in
the back who's just mad the whole time, and in
my head, I'm like, is he scheming something? Is that
they just ruined his plan to like like I had
all these thoughts on my head about what might have been.
Now he's just racist. He's like it's freaking black cat,
Like I hate black cats. He's just sitting there stew
and just angry. There was nothing else to it there.
Speaker 1: But okay, okay, you know what, you guys bring up
some good points. You guys bring up some good points
because I will say it's very rare that I watch
an episode and I'm like, I feel like satisfyingly that
could have been a self contained little story like that
could have been a self contained, one little, one little story.
And I felt like kind of satisfied by the end.
I didn't feel like there's a lot of open ended stuff.
Where is this gonna go? But yes, I guess the
black cat thing is one And on episode two, he
wasn't as strong as as he thought he was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he actually was, but he is pretty strong. He
has these other things, but like pure attacked attributes and stuff.
He's looking he's like a yeah, I don't really pan
out compared to a lot of these other swords, right
and things like that.
Speaker 4: So yeah, and in later episodes there are people that
are not only really strong, but they also have a
little skill. So teacher, who is just a sword, he
doesn't have the skill or the what's it called, not
knowledge but experience in battle, and so other people can
take him and friend by surprise, and especially friend who
on her own is real weak. And also the thing
she said in episode two where black heads never really evolved,
and you guys say, okay, why is that?
Speaker 7: So?
Speaker 4: For exta all that should have been probably in episode one,
or they should have made the episode one longer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they at least mentioned it.
Speaker 4: They did mention it, but more more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, shout out to.
Speaker 4: To be like, Okay, I'm interested. What's going to happen.
Maybe you show a very dangerous guy who maybe saw friends. Oh, interesting,
I can use her for this, or that you know
something like that. Oh, I'm interested. To know what's gonna
happen next.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Umbra, thank you for the prime, appreciate
you that thirty nine months, I think we're not ending
it up here. We're moving on to vending Machine. E
Sekai right reborn as a vending machine, I now wander
the dungeon. I remember kind of liking it, but it
was a very similar thing where it was like, this
is a fun gimmick. I watched eight or nine episodes.
It was actually pretty good.
Speaker 6: But.
Speaker 1: Didn't really care to to continue watching. It wasn't like
one of those things where it's I was in love
with the series. How about you guys?
Speaker 4: Can I start? Yeah, go ahead, because I've written the
most about this one. The idea is very unique, like
who thinks of free incurring? It's a vending machine for
a story like way out there.
Speaker 1: I think I would have liked it better if it
was just a vending machine and didn't like wasn't able
to do all the things that it could do. Those
those first couple of episodes where it was like genuinely
couldn't move yet, and it was like like he was
like just like waiting for people to buy something. Those
are the best episodes. Our best little bit.
Speaker 4: Something that I also appreciate is not only it's it
like a vending machine. It's like, oh okay, that's a
very weird idea to have for but also the way
of leveling is very unique. He has the limited speech.
Here's only like a couple of sentences that he can say,
so he has to make other people interpret what he
means by that. He has basically a death clock, so
if he doesn't sell a certain amount of items, he dies. Basically.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they honestly they did do the first episode. I
was impressed. I don't remember it like super well the
first few. I watched it a while ago, but I
was impressed by like these limitations that they put on
the vending machine. Of course those limitations go through the
window eventually, but very early on, like those limitations were
actually like helping me stay interested in the series.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and also something that I think that makes this
show go beyond what you will call Esseki slop. There
is a lot of knowledge that goes into this show.
You have like very different kinds of vending machines that
are shown throughout the seasons because or Box can transform
into other vending machines. That he knows of, and since
he is a vending machine enthusiast, he knows about them.
Then you have different kinds of contents. You have an
episode two, you have condoms, you have in a later episode,
you have dirty magazines, we have all kinds of food.
And the thing is that what you can also see
from the opening, which is a probably my favorite opening
of all these four is a really good opening, is
it's a lot of appreciation of Japanese culture. You know,
vending machines are really important thing.
Speaker 1: What I used on this adding on they're huge in Japan.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they're very huge in Japan. And so also
the open had this kind of crustical feeling like of retro,
you know, and it's this appreciation. I think the author
also really likes vending machines or they have just researched
a lot, because you have all these kinds of very
intricate things, very special ways of leveling of his skills
that are different than what you would normally have with
like a sword or a creature like a slime or
an undead. And then also in later episodes you have
him combined things from different contents to come up with
very elaborate ways to deal with enemies, like in episode
three you have mentors.
Speaker 1: In uh yeah.
Speaker 4: And also he dropped like a can and the guy
who wanted to hurt him wanted to grab it, and
then Hakon sent a very hot can on top of
his hand to burn him so you can regulate the heat.
And also later I think with a lizard or something,
he's inside the lizard and he creates a chemical reaction
to make him explode.
Speaker 1: They were very creative. They were very creative with.
Speaker 4: That, very very creative things. And you don't really get
this creativity if you aren't serious about it. So I
think that's that puts us like way above slop because
in this one, okay, yeah, maybe it's wholesome. Maybe there's
a lot of like plaw not plot, but a lot
of wall building is very surface level, but the elements
of what the vending machine as a whole is very intricate.
It's it's very Japanese.
Speaker 1: I feel like that. I do feel like that's one thing.
The show was slow at times. I do remember it
being slow at times, but it definitely cared and the
little details were very interesting and cool, and it was
a lot of creativity that was involved. I do want
to send this over to Recon as well. Here real quick, Recon,
what are your thoughts on vending machine? Don't like it?
Speaker 5: Dropped? It too slow, The protagonist doesn't do.
Speaker 1: All there, It can't move at first, Recon, it's a
vending machine.
Speaker 5: So really, I don't know. I'm not really a big
fan where a protagonist just sits there, he can't do anything.
He needs to rely on another person carrying him aka
a strong girl, and it's like, literally, I'm like a
protagonist who doesn't do anything at all.
Speaker 1: It's really my cup of tea.
Speaker 6: So yeah, Whereas whereas you know ring Credit is a sword, Yeah,
he moves on his own and he's just but like
they're working, he's working together with fran to.
Speaker 1: You know, get things done.
Speaker 6: Whereas as a vending machine, you're just sitting there waiting
for customers to insert a coin inside you and get drinks.
Speaker 5: That's all all you're there, that's all you exist for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it goes a lot further than that. It does
go a lot further than that, But yes, it does
start off slow. I actually like the slowness at first,
and then of course it does eventually get boring, right,
I do find it was very slow at times, but
I do agree with Marcus that they put a lot
of effort in. The creativity was there, and there are
certain elements of like Japanese culture that I just I
appreciate it as well.
Speaker 3: I feel like you did a pretty good job selling it, though.
I know these guys always have this crazy twist, which
is kind of what ridiculous Reincarnation was parading a little
bit where it's like, yes, I'm the only thing X,
but most of the chosen one or so like something
like that. Right, they always have some type of twist
where they are actually overpowered and stuff. But so for
the vending machine, you said, at first he can't move,
How does he?
Speaker 2: How does he move? Eventually?
Speaker 1: I feel like I don't remember exactly if I remember
why Ipilode eight or nine, this vending machine became. It
could talk, more, it could it had ways of moving.
I guess I don't remember exactly, but I remember he
got very powerful because it was very creative. At fort
very it was very slow, and then very creative, and
then I remember being like, wow, this fucking vending machine's
OPI At a certain point.
Speaker 3: Marcus was kind of selling me on it, because I
I do like the uh you know, the creativity.
Speaker 4: I haven't seen it yet, but there's the season two
Down'm wrecking more of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's what I was also going to kind
of chime in and say, is like how long is it?
Because it does seem like one of those ideas. It's
like very novel and you could go in depth on
vending machines for a bit, but also is it one
that kind of overstates it's welcome by chance? Like I
know there's also a lot of those out there too.
It because you want to sell a lot of light
novel volumes. You want to get all theo.
Speaker 8: The light Mobile is finished, okay, oh somping, ongoing poken
and chat that he becomes a balloon vending machine and
then a cardboard box to float.
Speaker 1: Like he just he's able to, He's able to, He's
able to transform, right and like you said, he transforms
into different vending machine.
Speaker 5: Three seasons by the way, three seasons pre.
Speaker 3: Seasons now, So it might be welcome a bit, but
I do like how the creative with how he's able
to move and stuff.
Speaker 2: It sounds like.
Speaker 3: So it doesn't just grow legs and arms and you know,
start flexing on everybody, right, but it's uh, he is
still emitting machines.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it definitely has its moments of good and its
moment of boring. You should you should check it out
at some point. But at this point in the episode,
I do want to say, are there any randomis or
just general I mean, aren't random that you guys recommend
that we should check out at some point? My number
one is.
Speaker 5: Does it have to be reincarnating as something?
Speaker 1: Now there's going to be something stupid? That was today's episode.
I was saying, in general, you guys have any like
favorite kais that are maybe like a little bit underappreciated
or more low I.
Speaker 3: Know, at least recond of seen it, but like comed Katsus,
I think underrated. It's like commut very heavily based around
religion and like how what religion fundamentally kind of is
at its core, and then it's like a reincarnation. Like
the guy's dad was like a cult leader, so he's
always having to be like put you know, put up
to all the stuff related to that, and then they,
according to the cult like they basically tie him up
in like a barrel or something, and then like throw
him in the water and he dies. Right, So he's like,
I hate religion. I hate all this stuff to do
with it. He's like, finally I am in a world
without it. But then this world is almost like the
most religious in a lot of ways, right, And he's
encountered about this goddess.
Speaker 2: And I don't know, I probably am not doing it justice.
Speaker 3: But it's very creative with how it goes about things,
and it kind of parries it in the same way
like a It's I think it's kind of like Cautious
Hero and where it like parodies it, but it still
does it in a very serious way. By the end, right,
it's where it's like it kind of brings the best
of both worlds together.
Speaker 1: So well, I'm glad you mentioned overly cautious Hero, but
that's my number one favorite. It's it's ridiculous, it's over
the top. It's got a gimmick that some people say
it gets old. I thought it was hilarious, and then
I feel like, right when it starts to get old,
I think it gets serious and heartwarming and emotional. I
love that anime a lot. It's hilarious. That's my number
one recommendation. I do want to take a look what's
going on with the current season. Has it started? Like
how far? How far the current season? Yeah, it's already started. Oh,
we're about three four episodes into the super early We're
still early. So we could do at this point where
we watch an episode of some anime and then talk
about it in a future week, right, whether it's next
week or the week after. We could do some first
episodes because I don't expect us to watch it all,
but even just the first impression on a lot of
these would be good because so far we've just done
an episode where we kind of went through the list.
Now I would love to check out Chain Smoker Cat,
for example, or Black to Black Torch is fire, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Torch.
Speaker 1: So maybe next week we go through the first episodes
of the summer season. Any final thoughts that you guys
want to talk about for Isakai or anything like that,
have you?
Speaker 5: But you go ahead recon Have you guys seen no
longer allowed in another world?
Speaker 1: You might have?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 6: No longer allowed, no longer allowed in another world.
Speaker 4: It's really good, but super underrated.
Speaker 1: It is a couple of seasons ago so I haven't
seen it. But the protagonist looks cool. Why is he
not allowed?
Speaker 6: Because he already dies And it's like he doesn't like
this world that he's in and he's trying to find
multiple ways to eliminate himself, but he can't do it
because he's not You can't go to another world once
you've already been to another world, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's a dark fantasy as well.
Speaker 9: Interesting, it's it's dark fantasy. It's it's a parody, so
don't don't take it seriously. And it's like the protagonist
is powerful, but in his own creative way, he's he's
basically an author as well.
Speaker 1: Interesting, Marcus, did you have a recommendation anisa Kai that
you think people should check out?
Speaker 4: I mean they're all also, of course the usual ones
like Zero Conos Slime Eminent Shadow Shadow is so good.
I love it. It's good. I don't know. Maybe uh
Skumichi Fantasy that one was really good.
Speaker 1: One Moonlit, all right, I haven't seen.
Speaker 4: I like that one. Blood Lad that was an og one. Yeah,
have you seen blood Lad?
Speaker 2: Have not? Actually no, I know of it.
Speaker 4: That was twenty thirteen, Like that's.
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think I've seen anime.
Speaker 4: Well, the animation is modern. The animation is modern, so dude,
I can't whatever.
Speaker 1: I see all these like Vendue Machine getting it like
has three seasons? Uh Suka Michi Moonlit Fantasy season three
officially confirmed. What about my mysai Go? What about No Game,
No Life Bad? I love that anime. I really enjoyed it.
Why fuck No Game, No Life incests?
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 2: That's like, that's like fifty who cares.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, okay, well we're we're anime fans. We
could get out. Also, there wasn't actually any actual and
that's but yeah, don't get me wrong, there's a little
bit of there's a little there's definitely some weird scenes,
but the overarching story and games and colors and animation,
I think it's just such a good anime that I'm
very sad that it never got a season two.
Speaker 5: It's been nine years since No Game, No Lives zero.
Speaker 1: Nine years.
Speaker 3: Let's say I kind of forgot how good until I
watched Zero, and like that movie was so good too,
Like it got a really good movie as like a prequel.
It got that solid first season and then just no more.
Speaker 4: But uh, actually as sponsle and that was really disliked.
I personally really liked it. It was one hundred men
or one hundred thousand lives.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I'm standing on a million lives.
Speaker 4: It was iright, it was decent. Yeah. I enjoyed season two.
Speaker 2: You know what's airing that we made fun of a
few seasons back. We didn't really watch it.
Speaker 3: We saw like it had the goofy cgi stuff and
the like, unlike Kami Katu, which does that on purpose,
like un ironically or ironically, this one does it un ironically.
But I did read a little bit of like the
hell Mode novels after watching season one, and uh, it's
not good. It's like pretty average overall, but like solid show,
like people rate it like in like the The Sevens
a lot of the time, right where it's just like
a solid EA sky And I'm like, there's so many
easy guy, it's like easy to write off certain ones
nowadays where it's like probably one of the better ones
that season or something, Right, I just had a goofy
looking dog in the background or PGI dog, goofy looking
saber tooth tiger things like that, but still good.
Speaker 2: All in all.
Speaker 1: All right. On that note, guys, I think that's a
good place to call it.
Speaker 4: What three three three things of all devending.
Speaker 1: Machine okahead, go ahead, three the three things.
Speaker 4: Did you notice or did you remember that they added
Bello the show. I don't know what that is from
bell from U Don.
Speaker 1: I don't remember.
Speaker 4: I don't even remember. He's basically the same guy was
in there, nice Heath a lot.
Speaker 3: The best thing about all these and stuff is as
many mediocre and average ones and bad ones and all
those that are out there, there's so many. We finally
at a point in time where Mushokue Zero Slime for
the people that love that, and Saga of Tanya the Evil, like,
all four of those are all airing again for like
new seasons and stuff. So it's like a lot of
those old ones besides Snow Game No Life that were
beloved back in the day, like they're still going. They're
going strong. So Slim's getting like sixty episodes, so people
are eating.
Speaker 1: Good yep, all right, guys, on that note, can I
can I wrap it up.
Speaker 4: Anyways?
Speaker 1: Best? It's so funny, all right, guys, I hope everyone enjoyed.
And just like that, I'll see you all in the
next one, Shimpaku Peace