Mac: 00:00

Any minute. Here we go. Ladies and gentlemen, what you are witnessing before you now is the work of 3 individuals who have a common love for the the the art which is anime. Not only the anime, manga, but just the whole the whole shebang when it comes to that. So this was something that's been in the work.

Mac: 00:27

I remember I tried to launch this podcast back in 2020. One man anime show is is not, I guess, ideal. So having some having some dialogue, go figure, you know, makes the show better. But I am joined here, by Deontay the Giant from S and N and also from S and N, my man Kenpachi, the anime guru. You see the you see the tagline in there.

Mac: 00:53

And that

Kenpachi: 00:54

is not

Mac: 00:54

that is not a false statement ladies and gentlemen. My man has put in work. And, what you have here is a joint effort between DFPN and Saturday Night Nerds entitled Eat the Cake Anime. From, it's a little play on words from the, Ike Turner, Tina Turner type thing. But, none of that violent stuff here unless hands being thrown in the anime here.

Mac: 01:18

So we'll get into the intro. We'll come back. I'll let these guys talk and introduce themselves a little bit more. Then, we'll get to talking about some anime. So, sit back and enjoy.

Mac: 02:40

Alright. So first of all, all I did was throw them little splashes at the end in the eat the cake anime. The video was actually cut or just several cuts from, YouTuber, Trumpy GFX. I hit them up and asked them if it was cool if I borrowed their their video for a bit. They said a 100%.

Mac: 03:01

So, at the end of the show, I'll make sure I'll tag their YouTube channel here. Make sure to go and subscribe. They do, like, they have several, anime cuts from from different, different emotions. There's one for anger. There's one for heroic moments.

Mac: 03:17

So, make sure to stop by their YouTube channel when you get the chance and, you know, give them a follow or subscribe, all that good stuff. What's up, Blake, in the comments, man?

Deante: 03:27

Mister Hickman.

Mac: 03:27

I hear you. Yes. Yeah. Hickman in here. Says he can't say much on anime, but here for the support.

Mac: 03:34

Hey, we appreciate that man. You know, hopefully you get to learn something by watching. That's our goal here. But like I said, I got the 2 gentlemen here, from S&N. We'll let Deontay go first, and then, Compacha, you can go ahead and, introduce yourself to the folks as well.

Deante: 03:53

Yes, sir. What's good, y'all? This is Deontay Giant back again. I know it's been a hot minute since I've I've been on screen for any, content. I think the last time we went live for anything, it was probably back in, like, March.

Deante: 04:08

But, as far as war goes, like, we had a series called S and N War, hosted by Kimpachi himself. It's it's been a while since we did an episode on that too. That's

Kenpachi: 04:20

Yes. It has.

Deante: 04:21

I think you had a that that might have been, like, March, the last time we did a stream on that.

Kenpachi: 04:28

I think so.

Deante: 04:30

Yes. We covered a lot of good anime in that time frame. And there's there's a new season of anime that's dropping now. It's, a lot of bangers are out. New seasons and all of our favorite shows are back.

Deante: 04:45

I'm watching Mushoku Tensei, Demon Slayer, and a couple a couple other classes that came back, this summer. So I'm I'm really having a good time with the series.

Mac: 04:59

Awesome. Alright. Kimpachi, real quick. Probably one of the the the toughest anime characters in all of anime from probably my favorite anime series, Kenpachi from but how did you how did you settle on that as your moniker? Because I don't at this point, I don't even need to know your government name, your real name.

Mac: 05:20

Like, you were always kampachi to me, man. How did you come up and settle on that one there?

Kenpachi: 05:26

Man, like, I've always felt a connection to Kenpachi Naraki from Bleach. Just like his attitude. I just I've always loved it. Like, the fact that he wore the his hair like he did and kept bells on the end of the strands of hair and the eye patch that sucked up, like, half his reishi so that he was always letting them know where he was. He couldn't sneak up on you even if he wanted to.

Kenpachi: 06:01

And when he if he was having this hatch that had, parasites in it that sucked away his reishi so that, hopefully, you have the upper hand. And then he's still gonna whoop that ass.

Deante: 06:17

He's still gonna whoop that ass.

Kenpachi: 06:20

It's just, like, ever since the I I watched the anime, I I didn't it was one of the first times I was watching anime, and I thought Ichigo shouldn't have won this. Like, Viancy should not have won this fight. This is not this is that that's just plot armor.

Mac: 06:43

Right.

Kenpachi: 06:43

And it's only as thick as the riders lead, man. He's actually gonna take you the next time he chego. Don't fuck with that, man. Not at all.

Deante: 06:55

You're lucky he's on his side.

Kenpachi: 06:58

And then I I started using it for a game, and then somebody, found a picture on DeviantArt that was a zombie version of a zombified kimpachi. And that was my avatar forever. I I still got the picture. Like, it's just amazing. And I've I actually normally, my name in Gaines was Kimpachi Gold.

Kenpachi: 07:33

Gold stood for Guild of the Living Dead because I'm a teen zombie fan as well. Love zombies, George Romero, back to all of his movies. And the some of the remakes are good, but I love World War z. Like, I mean, I just you know, zombies have always kind of been my my horror thing. You know?

Kenpachi: 07:58

Some people want the beautiful vampires or the furries or whatever, but I'm

Deante: 08:05

Yeah. K. Got a good balance of, like, zombies and anime in there. Let's

Kenpachi: 08:11

I'm trying what it was. You know? Mhmm.

Mac: 08:14

I I I could think of worse things to to kinda have an affinity to. You know what I'm saying? So, but yeah, not to keep you all waiting. Like we talked about, let's get into, probably one of the the bigger animated hits, in a while, not just, in Japan, but the I guess the praise, the kind of re renaissance of, the western world falling back in love with anime, probably has a lot to do with this one series, demon slayer. Mhmm.

Mac: 08:52

Came back out in the on the animated side, I believe, in 2017. Let me go back through here and check my notes here. 20 2019? Yeah. 2016 is when the the manga start.

Mac: 09:08

Yep. 2019 is when the anime came on air. But, like we talked about, let's, get into kinda figuring out the behind the scenes, what led to the creation of the manga, and, find out a little bit more about the creator there in our segment, creating the manga. So, I'm a just apologize in advance. And if any of you 2 gentlemen can pronounce these names the correct way if you hear me pronounce it wrong, Please do because I do not wanna be going on around the world, making it seem like I don't wanna pronounce these names right.

Mac: 10:01

I'm I'm I'm I'm an American all his speakers I love watching sub I wish I could say I was oh my god man you know I'm dualingoing you know I'm dualingoing trying to get my expertise up but we'll see so like we talked about it was created by Koyoharu Gatogu.

Kenpachi: 10:24

I believe that's right.

Mac: 10:25

Okay. Thank you. Thank you. I'm so I told you Duolingo. Answer us.

Mac: 10:30

We got you. Yep. So the manga, the manga was serialized from, February of 2016 all the way to May 2020. So it ran for 4 years. And, kind of when it was wrapping up the manga is when the they picked it up for, the animated series.

Mac: 10:48

But I know myself, probably like most people, I was unaware of the actual manga until the show came out. So after watching a couple episodes of the show, I went and, you know, logged into my Shonen Jump, account and started binging the manga immediately. So I don't know if you gentlemen, knew about it before the, anime adaptation came out, but, how did you guys come across, this amazing story? Man,

Deante: 11:20

I think 2019, like, a week after it debuted on Hulu, I I was barely watching it because it every new episode dropped on Saturdays, and I was able to catch, like, episode 1 and 2 by, like, the second week, and I was just hooked ever since. And I was like, yo. What is the source material behind this? And then I hopped online. I found, like, some pirate sites to let me read the manga.

Deante: 11:45

And the the manga was so good that I, like, made it all the way to, like, the swordsmith village arc in, like, 1 week. I I I I was blazing through it. The manga was so damn good. I felt like I I had to tell more people about this, so I got on Facebook immediately. They're like, hey.

Deante: 12:05

Y'all need to check out Demon Slayer. I won't recommend anything else to you guys until you see this series, and and and it's been on ever since. Cool. Jeez.

Kenpachi: 12:15

I I'll be honest. I'm sort of similar to that. I, I actually heard about it about a week before or a week or two before it started. Used to watch, For Never News. I don't know if y'all ever watched him or not, but, he talked about it and talked about the manga.

Kenpachi: 12:37

And I I never I didn't I still have not, to this day, picked up the manga and read it. I'm gonna wait till I watch the anime all the way through. Since I started with the anime, I'm gonna stay anime only till I get done, and then I'll go back and read the manga, see how much better it is than the anime was. I read a lot of manga, but this is just one that I I don't know why. I just, I think it was that at the time, I was, I was reading a lot of series.

Kenpachi: 13:07

And so I was like, I'm not gonna do it right now. I'll do it later. And then now that it's as far as as it is into the anime, I'm just gonna wait. I'm just gonna wait till it's over, and then I'll read it afterwards. I can all I I love reading manga and, like, generally read anywhere from 4 to 7 a month, as far as different titles go.

Kenpachi: 13:33

But, yeah, at the time, I I just had a lot on my plate, and so I didn't pick it up. But that doesn't stop me from loving the series when it came out. It was amazing. I've I've known about Youth Photoable for years. I actually remember them from when FateZero came out, and I loved that series.

Kenpachi: 13:56

And that absolutely drew me into Type Moon, which they did fate 0 and, fate stay night unlimited bladewords. So, like, I just I've it was I knew about them already, so I knew the animation was gonna be there, and they haven't stopped. They just keep putting out bangers. Everything that they put out is really beautiful. I I had some issues with last some of the things from last season, but, like, everything aside from, like, one single thing, like, everything else in the season was beautiful.

Kenpachi: 14:34

And y'all know what I'm talking about. It's some damn fish. Okay? Some damn CDI fish. What the what what the hell did they do that for?

Kenpachi: 14:43

Just wanted to make me mad. They're like, we're gonna make some mad. Yeah. But everything else has been beautiful. Like, some always, like, top notch animation.

Kenpachi: 14:55

They are so, like, there's just no take it away. The story is great. You've got a really like, a lot of character development that goes on between the different characters from Tanjiro to, you know, Inosuke. Just the whole crew. Everybody builds.

Kenpachi: 15:12

I and it's it's really cool because they have the mentors, but they never like, a lot of series go really deep and hard into the mentors, whereas that's not they they talk about them a little bit, but you you really get the story of the main characters in this. And I I like that they kinda center on them and don't veer off too much into other avenues with it. So

Mac: 15:38

Yeah. I agree. And it's one of those those stories where if you if you watch a lot of anime and you watch a lot of shounen, the I guess the plot, you can insert generic protagonist, within the first couple of episodes, something terrible happens. And then it's a quest for that protagonist to continue their journey, getting stronger and stronger until they meet, you know, their antagonists and, battle it out to save x. Right?

Kenpachi: 16:12

Yeah.

Mac: 16:13

It is a it is a formula that seems to work until the end of time because I think deep down everybody just wants to know that, you know, the good guys if you try hard enough, you know, you'll you'll overcome. Right? Right. So, the creator, Ko Koyoharu, when people ask them if, you know, what's your inspiration, every time they have an interview, they are pretty much tight lipped on on a whole lot of the creative process of Demon Slayer. And from what I've researched and what I've seen, this is the only the only manga, the only story that they worked on and and, you know, wrote wrote and illustrated.

Mac: 16:58

They didn't do anything else. But, they do they're on record saying that they drew inspiration from the setting, based on traditional Japanese history and folklore, which you can tell, like if you watch the show but definitely in the manga you can tell it's it's very I don't know if I'm using it right like feudal Japan. You don't see any samurai or anything, but the way they are held to using their swords and the respect they have for their swords and, the care they take for them. Like, Deontay said in one of the arcs, there's a whole village that they hide the members so they can keep creating these special swords because they're the only things that can fight off these demons. So I think she drew a lot of this stuff from there.

Mac: 17:50

Also, they said that they were influenced by their own personal experiences and emotions in creating the story, which I can definitely definitely, can can feel, via reading and and watching it. But, Deontay, like, as you were reading through the manga and and it's gonna be weird because you're trying to balance because there's a whole section where we'll get on the anime and and sing the praises of, Eufodobol and all that stuff. Yeah. Outside of the the CGI fish, which by the way, Kimpachi, in the book, they they look way better than the manga. So when you read the manga, you'll probably be like, this is better.

Mac: 18:30

If you needed any extra, you know, selling on manga, the fish look better in the manga. But, if you want to, Deontay, speak on, kinda kinda the emotions you were getting, while reading because you said you saw a couple episodes, but then you read ahead, like, like some of the emotional, things that we don't wanna get you know, spoil and get rid of. But were you, like, reading the manga like, oh my god. I can't believe it type stuff?

Deante: 18:59

Yeah. I don't know what it was that, like, drew me in, but, like, the way that they handled, breaking down each character 1 by 1, we we see in, like, the very first episode that Tanjiro goes through a tragedy, And they they make sure that like they establish like tantra has this very strong bond with his siblings, and his in his, and his mom. I think his dad too. Yeah. His dad, was there, so he had a strong bond with everybody.

Deante: 19:26

And then, he the the main, big bad of the series, Muzan Kibutsuji, I believe it's pronounced. It's the demon that plays him. Yeah. Smooth criminal himself. Sure.

Deante: 19:43

Yeah. He even puts his blood or he uses his blood to transform Nezuko, which is Tanjiro's younger sister into a demon, and she fights the urge from eating hen innocent people, so bad. And, Tanjiro is just like, yo, I wanna change her back into a human again. That's my goal for this series, and he goes so hard about it. And, Tanjiro is definitely one of my favorite protagonist of all time.

Deante: 20:13

He would probably be, like, top ten for me, compared to other shown in jump heroes. He he's a genuine guy. He's very pure, and he's innocent, doesn't know, like, a lot of crazy stuff that everybody else is talking about around him. He's just like, oh, what y'all mean by that? And he's also like a high battle battle IQ, swordsman.

Deante: 20:35

So when he gets into combat, he's he's able to just figure out a strategy to take down his opponent every time. And it's just like it's kinda standard showing stuff, and it's kind of it's still fun to watch anyway. Yep. So I absolutely love this show. There's so much there's so much to get excited about, and we're getting into some of the craziest arts, going forward from here.

Mac: 20:58

Yeah. So, Kenpachi, I know you haven't read the the manga, but as you're watching the show, do you also feel kind of the the emotional pull that, the creator was trying to go for with this story?

Kenpachi: 21:11

Oh, absolutely. Like, you can, as Deontay mentioned, you can feel his attachment to his family and, like and, honestly, his attachment to humanity in general. I mean, when those kids are in their, and maybe this would be dropping a little bit of a spoiler, but, in something that happens, there's some kids that are in their dreams that are trying to hurt them, and he's genuinely when one of them something happens to one of them in the those dream states, he's, like, really hurt by that. He he's he's he feels really bad because he wasn't able to save the person that was trying to kill him. Yeah.

Kenpachi: 22:01

Like alright, Batman. Let's not do it. Alright? But, I mean, that that is just absolutely, like, the the emotional pull that he's got there. On top of that, like, the connection to that the, 3 main demon slayers that we follow, fell to Rengoku.

Kenpachi: 22:27

Like, that that was a a strong emotion right there, and then, like, they were, like I think all 3 of them shed tears at at one point there. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, it's just there's there's a lot even when you like, it's it's a different kind of emotion, but you look at, oh, and I'm gonna forget his name, the lightning kid.

Deante: 22:54

Zenitsu. Yep.

Kenpachi: 22:56

The what was it again?

Deante: 22:58

Zen Zenitsu.

Kenpachi: 22:59

Zenitsu. That's it. Thank you. He is falling in love with NESCO, and, like, that's really why that's cool. And it's funny because you see, Tanjiro is all like, what?

Kenpachi: 23:16

He doesn't understand this. You you what you you what my sister.

Mac: 23:22

Right.

Deante: 23:23

Yeah. He doesn't get it.

Kenpachi: 23:25

Like, that whole innocence and naivete, it just comes out of him. It it really does. He exudes that all over every time he's speaking about anything, he just he's so oblivious to everything going on. It really it makes his character endearing. Like, you you you can't help but root for him.

Kenpachi: 23:49

I also wanted to point out something else just like because we're talking about the manga, and, like I said, I haven't read it. So it's kinda hard to have a lot to talk about the manga. So I was thought that I would throw this out there. I did a little stud and, you know, research myself today, and, I Demon Slayer's broke some records. Did you guys know that?

Kenpachi: 24:13

Oh, yeah. Go

Mac: 24:17

ahead and and and share that data.

Kenpachi: 24:20

Well, this one isn't a record, but, Kinesu no Yaiba accumulated over 8,700,000,000 dollars. That's 1,000,000,000 yen as of 2020 in revenue. So by 2020, they had already made $8,700,000,000.

Mac: 24:39

4 years ago, it was at 8 4 years ago, 8,000,000,000?

Kenpachi: 24:43

Yes. And it looks like okay. There it goes. I'm unfrozen now. Commence to know Yaiba is one of the highest sold manga per volume at 6,500,000 copies per volume.

Kenpachi: 25:00

That is correct. Put the all the chapters together into a volume. There's 23 volumes released. Each of those volumes, sold 6a half million copies. Man.

Kenpachi: 25:13

Come on. The manga was the fastest ever to break a 100,000,000 copies in circulation on a short amount of time. And, I mean, you'd say short, but 4 years 7 months is the fastest time for anybody to get a 100,000,000 copies of circulation.

Mac: 25:34

Yeah. I was looking for like, the data you have there is is crazy because the the data I looked up real quick is I'm looking at, you know, like manga that have at least sold a 1000000 copies and above. Obviously 1 piece is is at the top. It's still going on to this day. Right.

Mac: 25:56

But it's been 1997 is when that one you know appeared on the scene. What you said as far as this thing coming out in 2016 and ending in point like I'm just in the game for a 4 year quick and then I'm out. But within those 4 years to to grow as far as it did, it's number 7 on the all time. Number 7 on all time update. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Mac: 26:23

Yeah. It's number 7, all time when it comes to the the sales of of the manga. And I'm trying to figure out like what is it about like I think the anime probably helped that because like I said over here you you go to a Barnes and Noble now or any spot that really sells manga in in the physical copy if you're not getting it online or or Yeah. You're beating it through the app. Like, they stay sold out on that.

Mac: 26:51

You know? Like, you go there and look for demon slayer, it's gone. So I feel the anime kinda helped that, but before it even came to the states, like, it was selling out in Japan. So, like, the Japanese felt something about this thing to the point where, and we'll we'll kinda segue into getting to the anime portion. But when that movie dropped over there, granted it was during, COVID, so taking a chance to drop a movie in the theater was was was was a risk.

Mac: 27:25

Because you lose money advertising and stuff because nobody's getting tickets to go and potentially, you know, get sick from COVID. The money it made over there was ridiculous. So then the company's like, let's, let's try worldwide release. And we'll get into the gross and all that. But it did it it it did gangbusters.

Mac: 27:47

Ladies are like, spoiler alert, it was like the number one grossing movie for 2020. Made over 500,000,000 worldwide. So

Kenpachi: 27:55

I have something up here. It is the first anime movie to break the half a 1000000000 barrier. Closest is Spirited Away at 395,000,000. That's crazy. According to Sharaviz, a database for character licensing in Japan, this is a, Demon Slayer, had is the best franchise of 2020, surpassing other well known franchises such as Anton Man, Pokemon, the Mickey Mouse, and the Snoopy franchises in 2020.

Kenpachi: 28:32

It beat Pokemon and Mickey Mouse.

Mac: 28:36

Yeah.

Kenpachi: 28:37

I mean, peanut and, and Poneman, whatever. I mean, peanuts I love peanuts, but

Mac: 28:43

I

Kenpachi: 28:43

don't think like, Snoopy ain't been big since I was a kid.

Deante: 28:47

No. It's been a while for me.

Kenpachi: 28:50

But, I mean, don't get me wrong. I tried, like, many years to get my kids to watch, you know, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, you know, all of them things. And my kids are like, no, Doreen. No.

Mac: 29:06

Doreen. Yeah. But Yeah. But Yeah. Gents in the comments oh, I'm sorry.

Mac: 29:14

Go ahead, Kibachi.

Kenpachi: 29:15

I didn't they hate Pokemon and Mickey Mouse blew me away when I read that. I was like, wow.

Mac: 29:21

Yeah. If anything is outselling Pokemon, you know it's you you know it's doing gangbusters. You know you're doing something right. Yeah. Jen mentioned, a part of what she feels like why people are gravitating to this story in in the series is is the the relationship between the brother and sister, which I think you both talked about.

Mac: 29:42

The lengths at what Tanjiro is willing to go through to save his sister, but I feel it's like this is the only family I have left. Right? There have been numerous people in the series like bro your sister's a demon, she gotta go. And this man is like, you know, she's cool. I'm keeping her in this box.

Mac: 30:02

She ain't doing nothing. I'm trying to find a cure. Just help me. I'll do whatever. Like, I'll learn whatever I need to do and I'll, you know, like help me save my sister.

Mac: 30:13

And, I think that like Jen you might be right on that because like I'm looking at this thing like when his sister didn't attack him and she could have like this this whole series could have been done in 1 one one chapter of the manga. Right? Correct. You know, like credits. Something about her she held back and I think that is the the thing people are trying to realize because like you said, old buddy did use his blood that he's used on multiple demons and they're all evil and there's something within her that is giving her the ability to stop that.

Mac: 30:47

But, we've delayed long enough. I think it's time for us to talk about the beautiful anime rendition of this show and talk about the gangbuster numbers that it is doing. But ladies and gentlemen, let's talk about the anime adaptation. So, if you are not aware, and we haven't told you, my man, Kenpachi, has been doing deep dives on animation studios, for the longest. He sent me some of the write ups he's done and they're so detailed and I'm just like why haven't you published a book or anything?

Kenpachi: 31:38

But,

Mac: 31:39

I I will I will sit back and kind of let you introduce the people to the the wonderful couple company animation studio that is, Ufotable, who is responsible for the the this amazing work of art?

Kenpachi: 31:55

You know, when I was researching it, I found something that I found kinda interesting is that, they weren't founded until October of 2000. So they're a relatively new production company, which is really cool. They're and they're based in Shinjuku, Tokyo, which if anybody, you know, follows anything, Shin Shinjuku is like that, alternative part of town. Like, there's some alleys you just don't wanna walk down and, you know, that's where, like, a lot of the the, what do they call them? The delinquent fights.

Kenpachi: 32:35

And if I'm looking at other popular anime, that's with the a popular town that they, yeah, Tokyo Revengers. This is Shinjuku, one that they they go to a lot. I I I it is a popular, city in anime just in general. Again, just they did I just mentioned earlier, they did Type Moon. They, did a couple of those.

Kenpachi: 33:02

They also did the Tales series. I don't know if anybody watched some Tales of Symphonia. Tales of Zestria came out a few years ago. That was absolutely one of my favorite short anime series. It was 24 episodes, and it was over.

Kenpachi: 33:19

And it built this character from, you know, a a little village kid to the most powerful hero in history or something. So Man. Yes. Delinquents. Our people.

Kenpachi: 33:38

Something else they're known for is, working with Banti Namco. They did the God Eater series. So that was based on a video game. A lot of the early stuff they did, nobody's gonna really know, but, they did get known for in a lot of those, they added a claymation sequence. I never noticed that any of the ones that I watched, but I thought that that was pretty interesting.

Kenpachi: 34:07

It's gonna make me wanna go back and watch some of these older ones. I mean, I wanna watch something called ninja nonsense anyways. Yeah. I mean Yeah.

Mac: 34:17

I saw it like this. I'm just like, I I gotta check that out.

Kenpachi: 34:21

Right. Right. I tried to watch the Garden of Sinners series. I did not get into it. It is another one of those series that is, based on time jumps.

Kenpachi: 34:36

And I can only handle so much that rezero is about you know, Re:Zero and Tokyo Revengers, and I'm good. Yeah.

Mac: 34:45

Yeah.

Kenpachi: 34:47

But, I mean, their big thing has definitely been the Demon Slayer, series. They have been coming out with that. I really like the way that they have chosen to do the movies. I've I've the way they did Moving Train, where they had the movie come out and then they put it as the episodes, I thought at first, I was like, I'm gonna be I I feel like I'm getting gypped. Yeah.

Kenpachi: 35:16

But then they took those episodes, and they added extra scenes in each episode. And then you have the extra episode at the end that gave you a whole another depth of Rengoku or not at the end. At the beginning of it.

Mac: 35:32

In the beginning of

Kenpachi: 35:34

Yeah. That was a whole another depth of Rengoku that you didn't see in the movie. So, I I I feel like they are doing things right. Like, they're giving people something to go to the movies for, but then they're like, yeah. But, you know, you went and saw the movie, but you wanna watch it at home too.

Kenpachi: 35:56

So that's different than any other anime any other anime series has really ever done. I mean, I've I've a DBZ fan from back in the day. So, like, comparing it, I love the DBZ movies, but I really didn't like that most of them didn't fit into the series. Like, we're all outside the series, so it was like, how do I square up this battle with garlic junior here when they're supposed and they go fight here, and they didn't know him either place. You know?

Kenpachi: 36:32

I I it but as Demon Slayer, you don't have to worry about that. The movies fit right in with it. They show you all the transitions. They give you a little bit before, maybe a little bit extra. This year, they gave people in the movies the last episode of last season and the first episode of the Hashira training arc.

Kenpachi: 36:55

So, you know, I don't know. I didn't go see it, but I I don't know if there was anything extra in it. But, I mean, that's still I know people that were in the area where it was being shown that were like, yeah. I'm going to see that. As as soon as I can go see some new demon slayer, I I'm gonna pay my $10, whatever it is, to go see it in the theater.

Kenpachi: 37:16

So, they are successfully making money without the manga, which is something that is very hard for a lot of these. And your authors are not getting the money they deserve because they'll make the manga, and that's how they make their money. But then anything they make on the movies, that's a totally different thing.

Mac: 37:43

I mean,

Kenpachi: 37:44

cut, but it is the even there, they they they take the original book. They give it to a screenwriter. And, I mean, it just and you look at some of these movies, the it just I I I feel like a lot of them are not doing that the proper way, and I I'm gonna point out one that we all like, Jujutsu Kaisen. Like, I didn't like I I like Hero, but

Mac: 38:08

Right.

Kenpachi: 38:08

I mean, I don't like the way that they handled a lot of the business in the background. Although, I guess, we can say that about MAPPA in general. Ufotable because they're they're they're making money hand over fist. They still got Demon Slayer coming out. And I mean, that shit was over in 2020.

Kenpachi: 38:37

It started in 2016. I mean and, like, they just they know how to do it. There still has everyone excited about it. They're dropping movies. People are going to see them.

Kenpachi: 38:48

You know? I mean, Demon Slayer's good, but, I'd like I said, I think that, we all saw in the last season that there were unfinished episodes and animations that went on, that we're not having that with Demon Slayer.

Mac: 39:08

Right.

Kenpachi: 39:09

They have their people get it done. They know how to run their company. I may not like every bit of animation that they do.

Deante: 39:17

Yeah.

Kenpachi: 39:17

But they know what they're doing, and they've done it yeah. I'm gonna keep going on about this damn thing. But no. No. For real, though.

Kenpachi: 39:28

They they really have handled the show well and done a lot Done things differently than other people have done, and I think it's done well for them overall.

Mac: 39:42

Yeah. I think I read somewhere, when it comes to, like, giving their their employees, their animators ample enough time to rest in between so they're just not continually picking up and and doing things. They're real selective with the projects that they sign on to animate, and I think that's MAPPA's biggest issue is MAP was just like you know they they're they're more for quantity over quality although I will say MAP is no slouch when it comes to their animation. You got I think what, first the last season or the first three. I know, attack on Titan, the first three seasons were 1 company, and then another season picked up the last company.

Mac: 40:27

But, jjk's out here I think they also had a daughter role over on on Amazon. They got a couple of projects where I'm just like man this is beautifully done. But when you you read and you get into it like I'm not on the level that Kenpachi's at but I dabble and I follow a couple things and I read something and I'm just like man that's just not right. Like you you you fear for animes that run into issues with companies that burn their employees out. They, you know we we look at a a a series everybody was excited about the first season of 7 deadly sins.

Mac: 41:08

Like, I'm just, oh, I'm a get behind this. This is amazing. And then they're just crunching these people crunching these people. And then all of a sudden, anime, you're just like, is this the same this is the same show I was watching like what what

Kenpachi: 41:19

the hell is happening? Yeah. We have different animation companies for that last season.

Mac: 41:25

Yeah. And and oh my god. But you read stories like, much like it is with the video game industry, the crunch, and they're just turning projects out, turning them out, turning them out. And in Japan, like, these people, they're they take very good pride in their work. And when the work is bad, some people go to the extreme and, you know, take their lives and things like that and these companies are like man that's crazy let's get the next episode out next week you know.

Mac: 41:51

So like Apache said, affordable, great job. And, also, I'll hand it over to you, Deontay after this. Have you seen an adaptation where it's almost like the pages of the manga come to life. Like, literally, like, there are some shots in the anime, that are frame by frame from the manga, but it's it's better if that makes sense. Yeah.

Mac: 42:23

I think a part

Deante: 42:24

of that comes from, like, the power system that Goh Toege had set up for this series because it's just like, there's not not every demon slayer has the breathing abilities or at least the the breathing sword techniques. But the characters who do is bait there there's been, like, articles about it being strictly aesthetics, and isn't they're not, like, swinging fire at people actually to to cut a demon's head off. But either way, the aesthetics look beautiful in the manga. The aesthetics look beautiful in the anime. Tanjiro started the series out as someone who could do water breathing, and then eventually, he moves on to what he's doing now with, I I guess you could call it, like, the solar the sun breathing, and he he's been able to swing fire at at demons' heads and decapitate them because that's the that's the only way to put the demons down.

Deante: 43:17

So these fights, they they are high stakes. If, Tanjiro or any of the demon slayers get caught lacking, the demons will put a hole in them. And there are some situations where it's just like you gotta call for help and have a Hashira on on standby because the the main, protagonist, Muson has this group of demons called the 12, kibust kibustiki. Yeah. The upper moves.

Deante: 43:45

And then Tanjiro back in the day, him and his, 2 buddies, they struggled with the lower moons getting those 1v ones in. And then now they're taking on upper moons currently in the anime. And it's just like, man, they have to just keep leveling up. They have to perform their, sword breathing techniques even better. So I think you foldable is like following along with the the manga a little bit and said, if they went if their fights went hard in the manga, the fight's gotta go even harder in the anime.

Deante: 44:17

And that and we all saw what happened in an entertainment disregard with the sound of Shira. Oh. God. These fights are nothing to sleep on.

Mac: 44:27

That that that should have been in theaters, bro.

Deante: 44:30

Yeah.

Mac: 44:31

That that fight should have been in theaters. The, shout out to my dude. Like, you know, like, we're we're talking about the anime. So Kenpachi talked about the movie and he brought that up when it came to the emotional part because, you do see these 3 bright eyed bushy tailed kids. They did go through, at the time what I thought was one of the the best arcs to show growth in their powers, the mountain arc where they fight a Rui and and his spider family.

Mac: 45:04

Probably the the that scene, and and this may swell, but this this has been out for a while. The scene where, Tanjiro gets his sword cut and he feels immensely underpowered, because he's fighting a lower moon at this point. So at this time, if you're following the story, you're like, well, this is the strongest enemy he's ever faced. Like, this is one of the dudes with the, you know the

Kenpachi: 45:33

the the

Mac: 45:33

pad on the eye and all that stuff. Like his webs like he can't cut through him. Like he's fucked. Like, as an entrepreneur, like he's fucked. But, like you said, he thinks about his dad and it all comes full circle if if you watch it.

Mac: 45:48

You kinda see how his dad plays into why the demons are, like, on the lookout for him because they'll continue to say, hey, watch out for the kid with those earrings Yeah. Because he's trouble. Like, he's he's the one that can give us trouble. But Tanjiro doesn't know. Tanjiro's just like, I'm trying to help my my sister.

Mac: 46:06

His sword is broke. He thinks about his dad doing the dance, and his dad apparently is, is is very skilled in, the sun breathing or the, Hinokami Kagura. So that's all of a sudden you just start seeing Tanjiro go from what what used to know him as the water breathing start cutting through these webs and stuff with his cut sword like a hilt and probably like what, 3 inches of blade, chasing through the woods. He gets caught up again. Nescu finds out and taps into her demon blood art.

Mac: 46:44

And it's just this beautiful thing. And at the end of the show, when he's like, you can't cut my neck. And him and his sister team up. He's doing the slash. She uses the blood demon art, and and and it cuts through and you see this beautiful ring of fire.

Mac: 47:01

You photobub was just like, we're in our bag. Yeah. The emotion, it flows right into the we we're not even talking about the music yet of demon slayer. You know? Oh, man.

Mac: 47:15

Like, I I cannot explain. Me and my daughter are watching this, and we are both it's it's it's a happy ending because he cuts the head off. We're in tears. We're just so emotionally moved. The bond between brother and sister, the the determination of Tanjiro, remembering his father.

Mac: 47:35

It was just all of the emotions all at once in a very beautiful scene. But I say all that to say this. That was amazing. The fight with Tien Tsin in the entertainment district. Yeah.

Mac: 47:51

Oh my god. I don't know if you wanna talk about that, Kimpachi, but I don't I don't know if that is I guess, like, we can go through and and pick out what is gonna be tough. Our favorite moment of animation is in the series that we've seen so far. It's gonna be tough for me to pick one out. But, Kenpachi, if you had to choose Not

Kenpachi: 48:12

for me.

Mac: 48:13

Oh, really? Oh, give give it to us. Is it is it the fish?

Kenpachi: 48:18

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You fucking love them fish, man. No.

Kenpachi: 48:23

Honestly, though, that is that that season has the single best, animation that I feel like they've had, and I won't remember the name of it. But, and I don't wanna give too much away, but it's when he does the flaming snake thing between several that was I I was watching it, and I'm like Yeah. Alright. Okay. It's fucking fish.

Mac: 49:05

Alright, you photo man. You got me back. You won me back, mister Bo. Yeah. Alright.

Mac: 49:09

Right.

Kenpachi: 49:10

You needed this. You needed all of this to happen Right. But I'm back.

Mac: 49:15

And the weird the the awesome part about that is, like, when you read the manga, there's a frame where you see that exact scene. So, like, I'm watching it, and then I see it with Youthfotable's beautiful work and I'm just like I in my like reading the manga, there's no way in my mind I could envision it being that vibrant, that beautiful, and that that amazing at the same time, you know.

Kenpachi: 49:38

Just to touch on that, you know, because Facebook does these wonderful things for us. They, after that happened, I don't know if it was the next day or the next week, but they had a I saw a post where they had the manga page right next to the anime, the last anime still where he's zigzagging through them. And, like, it was it was very, what's the word, surreal Seeing

Mac: 50:13

the

Kenpachi: 50:14

the page Yeah. And there was ink. It's just black and white paper and ink. And then you look over at that, and you're like, that's the same thing. Like, they're exactly the same.

Kenpachi: 50:26

Even though there's no color on this one, when you look at it, you felt that color in it. You knew what it was supposed to be, and you felt that when you when you saw it. And then as I look at it but yeah. Yeah. That was that was very, like you said about the seeing a page in anime come to life, I I couldn't think of 1.

Kenpachi: 50:51

But then as you're sitting here talking about it, that absolutely did look exactly from one page to the, screen. It was a perfect adaptation for that. I mean, I guess, I haven't read the manga, so I can't say the entire thing is a perfect adaptation, but at least that one scene absolutely was.

Mac: 51:15

Yeah.

Deante: 51:15

There are some moments where we're we're just getting, like, icing and extra ice cream added to the cake because it's just like it's like we were we were spoiled with Ziditsu's moment. Like, he fought his whole moment of where he just passes out, goes unconscious, and then loses his fucking mind on on every demon that he comes across. And it's just, like, man, why are they treating us so good with this anime?

Mac: 51:41

I forgot about that scene where he's, asleep and the spiders, like, he has the toxin and he's about to turn. But the spider was just like, man, you keep doing the same move. And you go to flashback and see that his master was just like, bro, if you just master this one thing, like these other moves aren't even gonna work. And he did the thing where he there was a thunder cap thunder clap flash or something. He just boom boom boom and then he bounces up the cap.

Mac: 52:07

And you see his silhouette up with the sun or the moon in the background. I'm just like, you photoble.

Kenpachi: 52:13

Stop it, man.

Mac: 52:14

Like Crazy. Every episode. I'm just like, Jesus.

Deante: 52:18

When he first did that, they gave me goosebumps for real.

Mac: 52:21

Oh, in the the house that was oh my God.

Deante: 52:24

Yeah. I was like, oh my God.

Mac: 52:26

Is that the power? That's his power. But, yeah. So like we talked about, this thing is is going gangbusters movie. Kimpachi gave you the stats.

Mac: 52:40

Best movie out. I think if I even look at opening weekend, I don't know what other movies it was competing against granted it was during COVID, but for the amount of money that it made in the theaters, in the states, I think that's when people like the the resurgence kinda happen, with with anime over here in the states. Because now you go buy a Hot Topic or anything like that or you go to the graphic tee section over in Target or Walmart or something, there's you know, you got the Naruto shirts over there now. You got the demon slayer shirts there now. You got the the jucacer.

Mac: 53:15

So it's it's picking up, which I love. You know? I like to have that stuff available for me when I go shop. But, off the bat in 2019, it won best animated series, the crunchyroll. Like I know we've talked about the different anime, award shows ran by different things.

Mac: 53:38

I wish there was some way to just combine them all and just have a, you know, a number 1.

Deante: 53:45

Yeah. Like a one massive, like Grammy night.

Mac: 53:49

Yeah. But I think across the board for a lot of these award shows, demon slayer was like just taking everything you know what I'm saying? I know recently the sword village or the swordsmith village arc won 3 awards, for best animation, best story in everything from Deadline Anime Awards, Crunchyroll Anime Awards. It won the prestigious anime of the year award along with a total of 11. This is Crunchyroll Anime 2024, which if I'm if I'm this may be wrong because it I think I watched that when I thought JJK season 2 got it, best animated.

Mac: 54:30

Yeah. I was

Kenpachi: 54:30

just saying the beginning of this year, that that's what I thought it was. It was Jujutsu Kaizen. Yeah. There was got it.

Deante: 54:38

So this is 2 of them. Shows where, JJK took took home anime of the year twice, I believe. And then it's been, like, 1 piece, Mushoku Tensei and Demon Slayer ever since.

Mac: 54:51

Yeah. Yeah. It it's kinda been those 3 just Yeah. This dominating the, whichever one is is dropping and running right now. So JJK is on a break.

Mac: 55:01

Demonslayer is about to come in here and and run away with awards this year. And if it does win awards this year, it'll be crazy because this is only gonna have 8 episodes this this season. If if you read the manga, you know, this isn't the the most exciting arc. Right? But I think next season is supposed to be the final season and that season, that arc is gonna is gonna be emotional as well.

Mac: 55:31

So we'll leave it at that. But, before we move to our next segment which, you know, I'm glad Kenpachi's here because, like he said, he watches a lot of stuff. So what we're gonna try to do here, I'll eat the cake anime, is, after we move from this portion onto the next, we'll have Kenpachi kinda tell you a show that's on the come up. Something that's caught his eye, he wants you guys to check out. But before we leave, favorite moment of the anime so far?

Mac: 56:03

Beyonce.

Deante: 56:05

Man, I got some favorites too. There's a lot of comedy in this series too. I can't remember, like, some of, like, the top funniest moments. But there's there's, like, moments of just, like, total sadness, and then there's moments of, like, absolute hype. And it's it's it's hard to pick, like, out of those 3 categories that I had myself.

Deante: 56:26

But overall, my favorite Hashira is the the sound Hashira, and the entertainment district was my favorite art, outside of Infinity Council for the whole series. Yep. And, I would I would say seeing him come to life and go and go full on Dragon Ball z against the, upper moon demon was probably definitely the highlight of my life. So, and then I I will say, watching the love Hashira go crazy in swordsman villains art was my top 2 because people, they look at her as she's just like, and all that. Yeah.

Deante: 57:07

But she's also crazy enough to fuck everybody up with a blade. So just

Mac: 57:12

I mean, she's

Deante: 57:13

you treat her.

Mac: 57:14

Yo, wife, man. Like, there there was a lot of people who were mad at, her original suitor who was just like, I can't marry you. You're too big or something like that. You know, everybody's just like, what the hell is wrong with this guy? Like, you wouldn't even have to You lost your mind.

Mac: 57:29

You wouldn't even have to beg me, man. Like, it'd be me and Mitsubishi. You know what I'm saying? Like, for for life. Yeah.

Mac: 57:36

Kenpachi. Yeah. For for life. Life. Kenpachi, where are you at?

Mac: 57:41

Like, favorite animated moment so far?

Kenpachi: 57:45

Okay. So I I like I said, the the the dragon fire dragon thing that he did, that was as far as the best animated thing in the series so far. But is there if I had to choose, like, a moment that, like, this moment stands out to me more than any other moment pretty much since remember, I'm only man I'm anime only. Yep. Since the anime started, the moment that has stood out to me the most in fact, I've watched it I think I've watched that moment.

Kenpachi: 58:20

I watched it 3 or 4 times the first time and probably more than a dozen altogether is, and I think it's season 2. But it's when Tanjiro is in the city, and he smells musan and he's fine. And he's like and the thing is is that you can tell from watching this series, Muzan is on top of his shit. Yeah. That dude knows.

Kenpachi: 58:57

He knows what's going on. He is telling all these people what to do, but he knows. You know what he didn't know? That was Tanjiro. Man.

Kenpachi: 59:09

Right there. Yep. I don't know what that if everyone caught that, but he basically snuck up on the most all knowing being on the planet.

Mac: 59:22

Yeah.

Deante: 59:24

At times, I'm pretty sure.

Kenpachi: 59:26

And when he looked at it, that dude first off, wasn't that dude, like, with his human family?

Mac: 59:33

Yeah.

Kenpachi: 59:34

Okay. And he looks down at Tanjiro and instantly recognizes him. Instantly knows he's a demon slayer. And I'm gonna tell you, I think he recognized the mark on Tanjiro's head right then. They I as far as I know, they like, in the anime, they never talked about it, but he he knew about that mark when he saw Tundra.

Kenpachi: 01:00:00

Mhmm. Because and, like, again, am I am I am I are we spoiling things?

Mac: 01:00:08

Because How far how far are we going?

Kenpachi: 01:00:11

Because I'm just gonna say that, like, I am notoriously someone that spoils myself and leaves, like, Wikipedia and shit. Yeah. And I know that there's a fucking demon with that mark. And I believe that demon is the brother of, past demon slayer. Now I don't know that for sure, but I'm just saying he knew that motherfucking mark.

Kenpachi: 01:00:37

He saw that mark and was like, bitch, please.

Mac: 01:00:41

And he got the fuck out.

Kenpachi: 01:00:42

Yeah. Yeah. He was not fighting that mark. He was like, I I can probably know. And walked away fast.

Mac: 01:00:54

Yeah. The combination the combination of the mark and the earrings, I think that's the that's the thing that God moves on. He was just like

Kenpachi: 01:01:02

knock up on him.

Mac: 01:01:04

I I I don't know this dude. He may or may not have the ability to do it. Last time I saw somebody looking like this, they had the ability to do it.

Kenpachi: 01:01:12

And so,

Mac: 01:01:13

okay. I'm a just go ahead and and and and and get myself together if you will.

Kenpachi: 01:01:18

Deuces, I'm out.

Mac: 01:01:21

I would say because I'm a sucker for the animation, but when you throw in the emotional aspect of it, I would say the fight between, Rengoku and, what's his name? Akaza. Akaza? Oh my god. Yes.

Kenpachi: 01:01:37

Oh. That would have been number 2.

Mac: 01:01:39

I was in the theaters. Well, first time I saw it, I I saw a bootleg. I'm sorry, but I did go to the theater. I saw a bootleg because I had COVID and I'm at home. Let me tell you, like, that scene, that fight brought me out of my COVID slump.

Mac: 01:01:56

I sat up on the couch. I was jumping up and down. I was rooting. And here's the crazy part. I read the manga, so I knew how it ended.

Mac: 01:02:07

But I still was rooting for my man, Rengoku. The the the determination like, I'm a sucker for that shit, bro. Against all odds. I know I am at a disadvantage, but I will not let you bring harm to these kids back here behind me. And this dude is just like, bro, you're too weak.

Mac: 01:02:27

Just be a demon. We He's like nope that's not how I'm built. He went all out for that final attack and he threw it like I knew he lost the fight. I was just like, yes. And then when he did and I was just like, no.

Mac: 01:02:44

And like you said Hitachi, Tanjiro was crying, Zenitsu was crying, well he cries all the time. But when you saw no skate

Kenpachi: 01:02:52

cry, when

Mac: 01:02:53

you saw them, when you saw a no skate cry through the mask. Oh my God. And they was like, come back and fight me you coward. You're the one always I'm just like, Tandrel, let him know. Let him know.

Mac: 01:03:08

But, he was like, humans will be here. We'll continue to fight. I'm like, I'm a sucker for this stuff. Then we

Kenpachi: 01:03:15

get teary eyed now, man.

Mac: 01:03:17

Then Lisa then Lisa starts singing her song at the end of the the movie and all that stuff. And I'm just like, oh my god. Shout out to Lisa, by the way. So, that's pretty much Demon Slayer. We kind of, you know, gave a quick synopsis of it.

Mac: 01:03:33

If you haven't seen it, I don't know where you've been at. Even the most casual people my wife, like, keeps up with it. That's how that's how popular it is. She and she does not fuck with anime at all. So she's just like, demon slays on, that that's what we watch.

Mac: 01:03:47

But, Kenpachi, you ready to, to put the folks on a a a up and coming anime?

Kenpachi: 01:03:54

I'm ready to put the smack down on it. Alright.

Mac: 01:03:58

Ladies and gentlemen, sit back while Kimpachi tells you what to put on your radar.

Kenpachi: 01:04:16

Okay. So starting this off, first off, I'm gonna address something that you said a minute ago because, you know, we're talking about new anime, and then you were talking about anime of the year for 2024 with, you know, this hot or cocky mark out. And I'm just gonna throw it down, like, new anime that is gonna tear that ass up. So you got Journey's End out there. You got Shangri La Frontier.

Kenpachi: 01:04:48

Okay? Shanger?

Mac: 01:04:50

You

Kenpachi: 01:04:53

a solo leveling?

Mac: 01:04:56

Yeah. Oh. What?

Kenpachi: 01:04:58

Ninja Kamui?

Deante: 01:05:01

Ninja Kamui.

Kenpachi: 01:05:02

You're gonna say this boring ass Hasheraj, you called it boring, is gonna take the end of May of the year. Wait a second. I forgot one. Didn't I? What's that 1000 year bullshit coming back?

Kenpachi: 01:05:15

Bleach? Okay? Like, we got so many things out there that could be anime of the year. I'm not throwing my hat in any ring yet. Okay?

Kenpachi: 01:05:26

Because I'm not taking anything away from Evodible and Demon Slayer. They may very well tear that ass up by the end of the series. But I'm just saying, there's some other heavyweight contenders out there. I and I said this to Deontay. I'll say this on air right now.

Kenpachi: 01:05:47

FreeRen is gonna be the anime of the century. Okay? Like, you were gonna look at this in 10 years and be like, now that's a motherfucking story right there. Because that shit has all the action that Demon Slayer does. The animation is top notch.

Kenpachi: 01:06:07

Man, I The story is the story is beautiful. I I guess. I the story is amazing. The emotional journey that this elf is going through, taking these kids on the same journey that she took the heroes on 80 years before, it is just it's beautiful and heart wrenching and endearing and adorable all in one. And there's comedy gold like mimics, man.

Kenpachi: 01:06:38

I've always loved mimics, and now they even, like, tiny finger puppets, man.

Deante: 01:06:46

Yeah. He's he's he's he's free wrestling.

Kenpachi: 01:06:51

Do you have to do to get her out? Push her in further. Okay. But onto the an what I I told you, I only got one anime I'm talking about Mhmm. As far as new anime.

Kenpachi: 01:07:05

And, I may mention a couple of there's just several other good ones out this season. I my anime count has dropped real low, but, returning anime, obviously, Mushoku Tensei, is just tearing shit up this season. It is amazing. The story, I I think I've already cried 3 times this season in that. Like Easily.

Kenpachi: 01:07:29

When he walked up to Roxy in that last episode, like, oh my god. My heart melted, man. Like, just like alright. But now, high heat number 8. Okay?

Kenpachi: 01:07:44

Wow. If you have not watched this, it is doing that same thing that I was just talking about with free rent. It is very endearing. Comedy gold. Okay?

Kenpachi: 01:07:57

The Kafka, the main character Yeah. Kafka Habino, He is your he's that guy in high school that went on and got a job at the fast food restaurant, and now he's working cleanup. But when he was in grade school, him and this homegirl of his were talking about they was gonna run shit. Mhmm. He is running shit.

Deante: 01:08:28

Big time.

Kenpachi: 01:08:30

He is picking up trash. Her trash is trash. Okay? But because of a Reno Itaki I'm gonna get in I'm gonna roll down here to get it. Ichikawa.

Kenpachi: 01:08:46

Reno Ichikawa, comes in. And him and, Reno and Costa, they become like a pair. They decide they're gonna leave the disposal unit and go get on the defense unit. And it all and all of this and that was Reno's goal, and he invigorates Kafka's goal. And he's like, I'm gonna catch up with Nina, his friend from high school or grade school or whatever.

Kenpachi: 01:09:11

And, yeah. So he goes in to go do this, and while they're, now while they're cleaning up on the last one, he gets hurt and they're in the hospital and this damn bug kaiju flies down his throat and makes him able to turn into a kaiju. And it goes from there. He is the old dude at the club. Like, he just says, everybody like, his nickname is hey, old dude.

Kenpachi: 01:09:51

Everyone says to him,

Deante: 01:09:54

And he's the same age as me.

Kenpachi: 01:09:56

I'm not sure if that's what they're saying in the in the subbed version because I've been watching the dubbed version with my son. He said he wanted to watch it, and I just absolutely was on board. I've actually been planning to read this long. I have not started yet, but, it's another one that I've heard about for years, how good the manga was. Like, it is another one that it is breaking records for as early as big as it's gotten this quick.

Kenpachi: 01:10:29

But I just I love it. The song before it is by a group called Youngblood, and I love that song. And then the song at the end by One Republic, Nobody, I I'm I'm I'm I like them both. Like, I get them stuck in my head, and the whole time, like, I start the episode and Holden's like, hey. Why don't why don't you skip through the opening thing?

Kenpachi: 01:10:51

And I'm like, hey. Why don't why don't you piss off? He's 15. We talk to each other like we're playing video games against 40 year old men. Okay?

Kenpachi: 01:11:04

And drunk saily sailor 40 year old men is that. Like Hey.

Mac: 01:11:09

Yeah.

Kenpachi: 01:11:09

Yeah. He is he's 15, but he has the mouth of a colorful lesbian. Absolutely. It is it's I honestly don't care. I've heard a lot of people that, their kids get on there and talk shit to people.

Kenpachi: 01:11:33

And you know what my son's doing? He's yelling at kids about saying hateful shit. And he's he he says, yeah. I I'm I'm not gonna lie. I'm not proud of this one, but he he says some it's always somebody saying some word, whether it's dropping the n bomb or, you know, bag it or you know, one of these hurtful derogatory terms.

Kenpachi: 01:12:04

And he's like, yeah. Yeah. Well, your mother doesn't love you. And I'm like, what? He's like Damn.

Kenpachi: 01:12:13

Look at this game and your parents wish you would die. You didn't drop the end bomb, so I'm cool with that. But, no, man. For real. Like, he doesn't he is very, like, conscious social conscious.

Kenpachi: 01:12:34

Like, he doesn't he would rather he finds the person that's in the group starting shit, and he starts shit with that guy. So I'm like, I can't I can't be mad at him for it. He picks it. He sticks up for all the little guys that can't do good, and he's apparently really good at games. So, you know, go do what you're doing.

Kenpachi: 01:12:56

But, yeah, he wants to be in this defense force, I think, with these guys and go shooting some Kaiju. So after he gets his Kaiju, it seems like it jumps a little bit, and he's learned how to control his transformation slightly. Like, he still has a slip up every now and again, and, they go to join the defense force. I want I, I don't know. Are you guys both caught up with it?

Mac: 01:13:31

Yeah.

Kenpachi: 01:13:33

Okay. So I'm wondering if there is, like, something about his Taiju form that makes it not work with those suits, and that's why he can't get any more than, like, 1% out of them. I I I don't know, but I I find that just hilarious that he can't he he's an actual kaiju, but he can't get the kaiju built suit the suit made out of kaiju crap to work. That's why.

Deante: 01:14:02

Because with regular humans, it draws out, like, a a huge percentage of their powers, especially the stronger they get. And, there's there's, like, 2 female characters in this series. Mina, who's, like, the the most dangerous person in the entire defense.

Mac: 01:14:19

Nukes. Fucking Yeah. Cannon sniper rifle. Like,

Kenpachi: 01:14:23

yes. Wow. That thing is badass.

Deante: 01:14:26

Yeah. With a white tiger assisting her and killing it.

Mac: 01:14:30

She's like, what the hell?

Kenpachi: 01:14:33

And then

Deante: 01:14:33

they have another female character. I forgot her name already, but she's the blonde.

Kenpachi: 01:14:38

Her name is Kikoru Shinomiya.

Deante: 01:14:40

Yes. She's the daughter of, yeah, she's the daughter of the president of, Defense Force, and, man, she could solo so many Kaiju by herself. And it it there's at some point in the series, Kafka is gonna end up saving both of them. And, actually, in the anime, he already has saved, Sonomia. Yeah.

Deante: 01:15:03

Sonomia. And, he's essentially, people drop comparisons to him and Saitama from 1 punch man because kaiju number 8, his kaiju is so powerful that, the only thing that's gonna be able to see him is other, like, hybrid kaijus just like him, and he's about to get a one v one right now with another one just like him. They named him number 9, and those fights are gonna break the Internet. He and he's he's got number 1011 to go after. I I I swear

Mac: 01:15:38

Is that number was that number 10, swooping down

Deante: 01:15:43

With the

Mac: 01:15:43

at the previous episode? Like, he was

Kenpachi: 01:15:46

Yes.

Mac: 01:15:47

Because he was still at it, bro. I'm just like, bro, it's about to be trouble, but I'm here for it. I will say the fight, the the 89 their little their their their little skirmish was up there but let's talk about this vice captain.

Deante: 01:16:02

Oh, man.

Kenpachi: 01:16:03

Wow. Yes. I love that. He is. He is absolutely gonna be my favorite character in the whole thing.

Kenpachi: 01:16:13

That is for sure. And his name

Mac: 01:16:18

is Soshiro.

Kenpachi: 01:16:21

Soshiro Hoshina. Hoshina. Yeah. He is badass. I love the blades.

Mac: 01:16:29

He was like, yeah. She's she's better with the bigger ones, but I'm better with the smaller. He pulled them blades out and I'm just like, hey, man. You might wanna get out of here, bro. This ain't what you want.

Mac: 01:16:41

Yeah.

Kenpachi: 01:16:43

I also I thought that was awesome the way he was breaking down the fight, and he was looking at the way that Kaiju number 8 was moving. And just the strategic mindset of his that he's looking at, he's like, he could have killed me several times, but his goal in the way his movements were is he was trying to get away from me.

Mac: 01:17:09

Right.

Kenpachi: 01:17:10

He he he was never trying to fight me seriously. Because if he would have, he could've taken me out.

Mac: 01:17:15

Yep. Yeah.

Kenpachi: 01:17:16

Because he wouldn't have just broken my blade.

Mac: 01:17:19

Yeah.

Kenpachi: 01:17:19

So yeah. Yeah.

Mac: 01:17:21

That is muscle memory when he was back at the gym replaying the fight.

Kenpachi: 01:17:26

Oh man. Yeah.

Mac: 01:17:28

This man is next level. Like, I see why you're the vice captain now.

Deante: 01:17:33

22 of the top animals in that entire defense force. It's just like Yeah. Jesus. And their and their feets get crazier as they pro progress in the story. I absolutely love it.

Deante: 01:17:45

Between demon slayer, chainsaw man, 1 piece, and, well, not not so much jujutsu kaizen anymore, but, Kaiju number 8 for sure. All incredible source material. Out of all of those I just listed, Kaiju number 8 is the funniest. So if you like, like, straight up even better than, one punch man comedy, like Kai Kaiju number 8 is good. Lots of fights, incredible fights.

Deante: 01:18:14

And they're the the characters, you really get to understand them, and you get to know them a lot better too throughout the story. Some really good storytelling.

Mac: 01:18:23

Kenpachi, I mean, I let me just say ladies and gentlemen, I stand corrected. Kenpachi came out and hit me with a 10 piece combo of other anime that could not only get best new anime but also best anime of 2024. Yeah. I I stand corrected. That that's why I I say bow down.

Mac: 01:18:48

Yeah. You see it right here. Anime guru. He's not playing with you ladies and gentlemen. He's he's that guy.

Mac: 01:18:55

But,

Kenpachi: 01:18:56

you know, I'm not saying you were wrong. I just it just you know, there's a lot on the plate this year. There was some really good shit that came out. I was blown away. So I I I I think that you'd Demon Slayer is awesome.

Kenpachi: 01:19:13

It could still do it, but, man, we there's so much good stuff out there.

Mac: 01:19:18

I'll say if it does win, it'll just be based off the the the same, the name, you know, just like I I feel honestly, I don't think j j k should have got top Anna season 2 of of of of last year. You know, best animation maybe, you know, best action scenes, maybe, but best overall anime. I don't think JJK season 2 should have got it. And I knew crunchy roll was going to give it to him anyway, you know? Yeah.

Mac: 01:19:47

Crunchy Crunchyroll is like the Academy Awards, you know. It's just like, you know, you're just gonna give it to to what's popular at this point. You know?

Kenpachi: 01:19:57

It it it I love crunchy roll, but, thank you very much. I they the the thing about their, anime awards is just that they only review the anime that they have, which Oh,

Mac: 01:20:14

that's on their okay.

Kenpachi: 01:20:16

That's on their network, which means I mean, that makes sense. But at the same time and that cuts out anything that's on anybody else. So you lose anime that could be in the running. Things that were out last year like Blue Eyed Samurai, where, actually, other people argue that it's not anime, but, whether it was or not, that could have been in the running. Things like Goodbye World that was on Netflix and Pluto.

Kenpachi: 01:20:42

If you guys have not watched Pluto, oh my gosh. It's only 8 episodes long. They're hour long episodes, but you're talking a very adult, emotion driven anime that is a mystery, like, serial killer. Like, you're, murder mystery. Thank you.

Mac: 01:21:09

Yes.

Kenpachi: 01:21:10

It was amazing. Like, it was so good. And I'm gonna be honest, I think that that might be the only anime, movie, TV series, anything that has actually had a twist in it that I didn't get until the very end when they showed it to you. Like, the very last episode, I'm like, oh, fuck. Oh, and and I'm gonna tell you, when it did, it like, I just started balling, and the emotions like I said, emotionally driven, like and then to know that this is a murder miss an emotionally driven murder mystery that is a rewrite a remake of an Astro Boy story arc.

Kenpachi: 01:22:05

Really? 19 yeah. From 1960.

Deante: 01:22:09

Astro Boy's This

Kenpachi: 01:22:10

is on Netflix? Yes, sir.

Mac: 01:22:12

Pluto?

Kenpachi: 01:22:13

Yes,

Mac: 01:22:14

sir. I will add it to the list.

Kenpachi: 01:22:16

Yeah. I'm gonna tell you, like, in in and I I think I even said it to you, Deontay, that, like, I I I'm not sure whether I would've put, Shangri La Frontier and FreeRen in last year's or this year's anime because it went from it went they both went 2 seasons, the last season of last year and the 1st season of this year, and they were both 2 seasons long. So they could be, you know, last year or this year, but Pluto was last year. And, man, it and and it animation was great. Like, it wasn't it it did not slip in any step.

Kenpachi: 01:22:59

Like, there's no comedy in it. Okay? You will not laugh a single time except for right now, me telling you this. But the it it was really, really, really good. Almost borderline horror.

Kenpachi: 01:23:18

Seriously. Like, there's a a like, it just it it misses being a horror by just a little bit. But, yeah, absolutely the as as far as something that I watched, like, all of last year, that is what I would have picked. It made it it was on our list for a war. But I just there was so much that I had watched at the time that I hadn't really digested it all.

Kenpachi: 01:23:46

And looking back at it, like, yeah, it it it definitely should have been higher in the list than it was. Awesome.

Mac: 01:23:53

So Well, not only did he give you a shining review of Kaiju number 8, which you should go check out, he dropped, Pluto. He dropped numerous other ones. So, hopefully you've been taking notes, writing them down. If not, just rewatch this segment, write them down, add them to your list. And maybe one day you'll be, as as knowledgeable on anime as as my man, Kimpachi, here.

Mac: 01:24:21

But, let's go ahead and, go back to our regularly scheduled program and, wrap this show up. Let me find oh, here we go. Alright. I don't know about you guys, but I think, episode 1 was a a success. I had a good time at least

Deante: 01:24:56

Yes, Lord.

Mac: 01:24:57

Talking to you guys about it. I like like I said, this was something that I was always trying to work and and plan and it kind of fell off and I saw you guys doing your war. Like I would try to tune in when I can but I'm just like man I just want to I just want to jump. Like I'll be at work. I'm I want to jump in and talk anime too.

Mac: 01:25:19

Like I just like that'll never not be something that that I enjoy doing. Because, I think Jen said it in the comments. The the emotions that that that it can pull from you. Like we were talking some of the scenes from Demon Slayer. Like there's lighthearted moments.

Mac: 01:25:38

You know, moments where you're elated, moments when you're just dejected, sad, and and and all the above. And Capaci dropped a couple of of of I mean you got things like Death Note out there that if if you're just like crime drama and who did it and the twist and turns and, you know, like a Sherlock in a in a, you know, mo Moriarty. You know, it's it's do there's so many genres. Like, it's just not the shonen, and it's just not the hint. I know a lot of people joke like, oh, you were watching.

Mac: 01:26:09

You like, you know, tentacle monsters and like it's not like. Yeah. If you

Kenpachi: 01:26:16

like other stuff too.

Mac: 01:26:20

But like if you if you listen to anything we say man at all, you may not watch anime, but I guarantee you if you tell somebody who watches anime the kind of shows you like watching, we can probably put you on an anime that you're gonna love. Absolutely. You guys agree?

Kenpachi: 01:26:38

Oh, without a doubt. 100%. Alright. Like, the new one Delicious in Dungeon. That's the cooking Oh.

Kenpachi: 01:26:47

The cooking network. You go watch Delicious in Dungeon. They they

Mac: 01:26:50

That's that's guaranteed. I mean, you there would be an upcoming episode that that show right there.

Kenpachi: 01:26:57

Oh, yeah.

Deante: 01:26:59

Before the Before the

Mac: 01:27:00

Before the Before we leave,

Kenpachi: 01:27:05

I

Mac: 01:27:05

mean, yeah, there's there's guilty pleasure was high school BED. Oh, man. You know, what is it? High School of the Dead? I mean, there's you know, like, I'm watching it for

Kenpachi: 01:27:15

the action. Let's see

Mac: 01:27:16

it again. I promise I'll watch it for the action.

Kenpachi: 01:27:21

High School of the Dead is what actually turned me off from fan service, in anime. I I I love it Right. At points, but it's like, you know, it just there was the

Mac: 01:27:36

It's over the the the sniper shot. I was just, like, what? You have

Kenpachi: 01:27:40

to go, like, 200 or boing. Boing.

Deante: 01:27:49

That shit never happens to us.

Kenpachi: 01:27:50

If you don't

Mac: 01:27:51

know what we're talking about, you could probably just Google that that one scene. You don't have to watch the whole thing. But, if there is there anything you wanna you wanna tell the people, before we call it a night, gentlemen?

Kenpachi: 01:28:06

Go ahead, Miguel.

Deante: 01:28:08

Warzone Wednesdays, we'll be back again. If you guys wanna watch some call of duty, throw downs, myself, Raven Hayes, Jay Gaming, Emperor Will will be there. Occasionally, we can get Blake Hickman on the roster too. So we've just been in there just slang it out with people and talking shit on proximity chat. The the usual Call of Duty lifestyle.

Deante: 01:28:31

So, next, Wednesday, so keep an eye on the Saturday Night Nerds Facebook group. Where all the announcements will be made with, like, specific timing and dates and all that. So

Mac: 01:28:42

Awesome. But you got Kompache?

Kenpachi: 01:28:45

For me, all I wanna talk about is, like, y'all come see us on Saturdays if you're in Cape Girardeau. We're down at the Riverfront Market, Black Cap Soaps and Sundries. We, do all your nerdy anime gaming soaps, plus we've got other just regular bars of soap, but, we like to make soap fun. So good beard oils, lots of stuff. So but down there every Saturday at the market and got the best donuts in town down there too, the Amish lady.

Mac: 01:29:19

I will say the the products that, that that he's talking about. He set a basket up this way. You know, we we we paid for it. I got I gotta get a a reorder. The the pumice, cubes, for my feet, bro.

Mac: 01:29:38

Let me tell you. I ain't trying to I ain't trying to turn the kids away, but my feet are are something serious. Right? Those cubes got me right. When, you know, doing the gym, he said a a a solve to kinda, you know, use when I when I when I do the massages and stuff.

Mac: 01:29:55

Works well, have me smelling delicious. You know, my wife as to that. So,

Kenpachi: 01:30:00

with

Mac: 01:30:00

the or I I think it was like a a blueberry, I forget what the combo was, but I was like, oh, this smells good. All natural ingredients. Am I right?

Kenpachi: 01:30:08

Yes, sir. That's the arctic of

Mac: 01:30:11

fave. If I wanted to, could I have eaten, said blueberry salt.

Kenpachi: 01:30:19

I would say that it it's definitely not gonna taste good. But, all of the products in it are edible. The the biggest thing is that there's I mean, in the arctic of salmon, there's wax. So you probably wouldn't wanna Nah. Swallow the wax.

Kenpachi: 01:30:40

You see. But, you know, the the, like, arnica is a flower, and you put it in some oil, and you Yeah. Make a tincture sucking the nutrients out of the flour. And then they she mixes in some other oils, jojoba oil, sweet almond oil. It's something that's good for your skin.

Kenpachi: 01:31:01

And then puts it in the beeswax and puts, lavender essential oil that she uses to make a good smell. And lavender essential oil also is for aromatherapy. It helps calm you.

Mac: 01:31:16

Yeah.

Kenpachi: 01:31:17

So while you're rubbing the salve on, you're also getting that lavender up in there and Relaxing. Relaxing, and so it helps relax your muscles. The I'm over there legit making together.

Mac: 01:31:29

Legit making potions and stuff. It was like it was

Kenpachi: 01:31:31

like a

Mac: 01:31:32

a mage over there. You're over there just like a

Kenpachi: 01:31:35

We did call it Black Cat Apothecary at

Mac: 01:31:39

For a reason. Yeah.

Kenpachi: 01:31:40

But the they changed the the year after we, started the business. They started a law that says if you call yourself an apothecary, you have to have a licensed pharmacist on staff. Well We're not there yet.

Mac: 01:31:57

Awesome. But yeah, man. Like I said, we'll and and a compliment. No. No.

Mac: 01:32:02

When we post the video, or, you know, get it out there, I'll make sure to in the description to add the, the link to, to the shop there. Same thing, a link to the, the Saturday Night Nerds, not only group, but also to their Twitch. So like I said, man, we're we're trying to get everybody out there. And, like, this show wouldn't be possible without these 2. So I gotta thank them for for coming by again.

Mac: 01:32:25

And, thank you for for making this a reality. You know what I'm saying? I I tried to tidy up around here, put some good videos and stuff out there and, and I

Kenpachi: 01:32:34

like the background.

Mac: 01:32:36

I like hey thank you thank you again it's it's it's a group effort and they they really make it work so thank you guys and if that is all we got, we can go ahead and, call it a show. Ladies and gentlemen, I'll let you know right now. We were talking before the show. And, this isn't on a routine schedule. This is something that, you know, we will continue to coordinate in the background And when we all have some good time, coordinate what we wanna talk about, do our research and stuff, we'll come back.

Mac: 01:33:08

You know, we'll make the announcement in in the ads and stuff and let you know, but, you know, so just don't be like hey, it's it's it's Thursday again. Where's where's eat the cake? Like it's we'll let you know when we're coming back. But right now, we're just taking it easy, having a good time talking about anime, and, I'm I'm I'm having a blast with it after one episode. So, signing off for my man Kenpachi the anime guru and Deontay the giant.

Deante: 01:33:34

Yes sir.

Mac: 01:33:35

From Saturday Night Nerds. This has been eat the cake anime. You guys have a good night, and thanks for tuning in. Peace.

Kenpachi: 01:33:43

Night.

Deante: 01:33:44

Yes, sir.