The Southern Senpai's this week watch the first episode of Blue Eye Samurai with for the first-time special guests, tune in find out who they are!

Howdy!

It's the Southern Senpai Show, where small town Southerners explore big

time Japanese entertainment, anime, manga, and everything in between.

Here's your hosts, Nicholas and DJ.

All Southern Senpais, two Southern guys who explore Japanese culture together.

I'm Nicholas.

I'm DJ, and today we're not just two Southern guys.

We also have two other women with us.

I said other women.

They're not Southern.

They're not Southern, exactly.

That's not true.

I'm from South Carolina.

South, I think she's from the Southern Carolina.

Not really South, but yeah.

You guys want to introduce yourselves?

Hi, I'm Allison Srebnick.

I'm a production manager over at Titmouse Animation Studios.

That's you.

Hi.

Hi.

I Did you know you had a mic in your hand?

Did you have a microphone?

Yeah, I just, whoa, okay.

Hi, I'm Arielle Freeman.

I'm a production coordinator at DreamWorks Animation.

I am not from the South.

I'm actually from the Midwest.

Represent.

Hey, somebody asked me This was the special guest that we were

telling you guys about last episode.

Yes.

Yes.

They are, they work in animation.

They're probably more qualified to do Oh, okay.

Okay.

This job than us.

XD But today we're gonna be watching Blue Eyes Samurai.

Nicholas, have you heard anything about this show?

Nope.

How about either of you two?

What have you heard about this show?

Positives?

Negatives?

Have you seen it before?

I have not seen it before, but I have heard very good things about it.

Especially considering people I'm working with right now did

actually work production on it.

And a lot of the artists that we just hired on the show that I'm on are from it.

Oh!

I'm excited to see if they can what they can do.

I hear a lot of weird things about the art and stuff like that.

So let's check it out.

If you're watching along with us, we're going to start the

play in three Two, one and go.

Uhoh.

All right.

Hold on.

If you're watching, you're gonna have to, you're gonna be mad.

Pause real fast.

We're gonna go back to zero.

I'm gonna go back to zero.

. They're gonna be mad if you don't go.

They're gonna be, they're gonna be mad if it's off.

All right.

I'm doing it.

I'm doing the thing.

I'm going with a thing.

I'm going back to 0, 0, 0, 0 0, 0.

Alright, we're at zero.

Zero.

Alright, you ready?

Alright, now.

1, 2, 3.

Play.

There it is, da dum!

The big N sound.

Do you know anything about this anime?

I know that there's a samurai in here, and apparently they have blue eyes.

I've heard this before.

Shh, no spoilers.

There's

some fire, there's some snow.

There's some gorgeous map paintings.

What is a map painting?

A painting of a map.

Yeah, I'm so foolish, you're right.

Allison can probably explain it better than I can.

Oh man, we're watching this thing.

Do I really have to go into the details of how we make animation?

No, we're supposed to talk about the show.

This looks like a very classic intro here.

Like a classic Lone Warrior intro.

Can you tell us anything about the people that worked on this?

Do they prefer their coffee black or sugar in it?

Samurai Jack's inspiration?

Basically, from what I've heard from them, is the goal was to make an anime.

One of the things that you'll notice throughout it, is

just perfectly still moments.

Where not a lot is happening, not a lot of animation, the

visuals speak for themselves.

Gotcha.

So it's like Demon Slayer a little bit.

It's like any anime.

Oh, the visuals are really nice and it tells the story as well.

There hasn't been any dialogue yet and you already got an idea of just the main

character and like what they're like.

I need to have one of these in my room.

Just like a fish thing.

Like this fish entrance thing.

I like that.

You know what's interesting?

Don't they usually draw anime characters with very round eyes?

Everyone here has more authentic eye shapes.

Go ahead and say it, DJ.

The round eyes from anime actually is due to the Disney influence

of Bambi and things like that.

And they wanted to actually look like the Disney characters because that was

the only animation they really knew.

But this one is to focus more on the actual culture of Japan.

Oh, I didn't know that.

Oh, he doesn't have any hands.

We're gonna know everything about this anime before we're done, huh, Allison?

You call him Stumpy, bro?

I'll beat your ass with my stump, bro.

Allison!

So this is not registered to me as something that was rated for children.

It's done by prostitutes.

I didn't know that.

Eat up, girls!

Eat it all!

Oh!

Yeah, I hate that.

I think that's really gross.

Like, when people eat noodles with their hands, I just can't.

I don't know what it is about that.

Yeah.

Can't go a day without breaking dishes.

Ringo, clean him!

He has no hands!

What's wrong with you?

Oh?

He has the strap.

The strap.

Oh, and then you got the quiet stranger in the back.

Yeah.

How do you know someone's a low tier villain?

They introduce themselves.

And how do you know that there's a hero?

They interrupt their introduction.

Thanks.

Already

the staging and the boarding is gorgeous.

Like

In this time period Japanese traded with the Dutch.

Again, with the hands.

They give you utensils.

Man, cut this mothafucka's hand off.

Woohoo.

Damn, cut off Both fingers.

Yeah, our stranger's very skilled here.

Would you still eat here?

You just saw the man get his fingers cut off.

Would you still eat there?

No.

I don't know, it makes you kinda hungry, oddly.

This art style reminds me of the Arcadia anime.

That should make sense.

Like the Arcane.

Yeah.

Oh, is it Arcane?

Yeah, Arcane.

Netflix during this time was in the process of creating shows like Arcane.

This is one of their Arcane was dope.

I really liked that one.

I would.

So you'll notice that On the same dish!

Interesting.

This is not 2D.

This is 3D.

Yeah.

So But the backgrounds are not.

Yeah, they're all They are So like all of this texturing and

all of this kind of stuff, it's supposed to look like a painting.

That's the goal.

That's what a MAPE painting is.

Exactly.

So it's exactly, so all this CG is happening in front of a painting.

Exactly.

That's a MAPE painting.

So they're taking, it's really high resolution, beautiful painting.

So they're taking CG elements, wrapping them in a bit matte texture of a actual

Photoshop painting, placing it on there.

And this is what you end up with.

So see all those the curtain animation of her cloak there?

That is, that's all 3D animation, so that's a simulation.

But the bamboo and stuff like that's the painting.

Exactly.

And see how it's like moving in the back?

That's a trick that 2D animators actually use.

You'll never catch up on the path!

And Disney's the one who actually created it.

Where he would have an actual plane of different glass slates of the

trees, the forests, all the stuff.

Foreground element, middle ground element, background element.

The characters are in the middle ground, you have the

foreground element blurred out.

This is Disney's making.

You can fake movement based off how you move that background in those different

sections, those different layers.

For example, if you're in a car and you're looking out the window, do

you see how the very as far as you can see, it feels like it's moving

slower than the area closest to you?

We have perspective.

Exactly.

So it's, they're using those tricks for real life.

It's brilliant.

It's like Samurai Jack and Arcade together.

Okay, why is everyone so mean to this guy with no hand?

I feel like this is it also could be a time period thing.

This is very particular on this time period.

Oh, it is 1633.

I do this little wooden hat he has on here.

Oh, and of course the reluctant master and the plucky He looks like the

same age as this person, but still.

I don't know why I can The voice actor for the guy who doesn't

have any hands I recognize him.

What is he in?

Probably a bunch of stuff is in this one.

Probably.

Oh, look, he's tied up.

He's on a tree.

Really nice tree.

His purpose of being here is the comedic timing that we needed to break up

the horrific images that we just saw.

Yep, you need some kind of levity in a story to keep people engaged.

Although, Tackentine's able to get away with it and do okay,

I think it also depends on the type of execution that you want.

If you want a more classical story, then yeah, you're gonna

have the goofy character.

This background here, that was CG.

Did you see how it moved differently than the other ones?

That was a comp This is a completely formed CG background that this character

is probably gonna interact with.

You can see that, I can tell the leaves are some

incense.

Thank you, for I was lost without course so long.

Please, let December's light brighten a path from this age

as you know to the men I seek.

Please, guide my steps until I find them.

Please, give me the strength to move on.

Or let me die.

Or, her family could have been killed due to corruption, and

she's actually from a noble line.

Nah, like in the intro in the lines it said like being white was like illegal.

I don't think that she was probably noble, because she has blue eyes.

Where did it say being white was illegal?

In the beginning, you weren't reading.

It's because you're from Louisiana, and you have 48th ranked education.

We all like no words, we like pictures.

Oh, here we go, we got backstory.

Hey watch, I bet you they're going to be mad because she's white.

She's wearing goggles to hide her eyes.

Oh, I thought those were like glasses or something,

wearing a mask to hide her eyes.

Go ahead.

Kids can be so cruel.

They can.

They have no chill.

Their parents teach them this way.

Yep.

Damn, bro.

Damn.

There we go.

We got our answer.

This is

Like a, she's like a girl.

Why are you beating up a girl?

I've never seen, I haven't seen that before.

Round eyes.

Like a doll.

Keep in mind also, Japan was cut off from the world at this time period, they barely

interacted with anyone from outside.

Yeah, I think, okay, this must be a time to, wasn't it I don't know

if they were, I guess they were banned, but I forget the reason.

They only did trade with the Dutch, only in one specific part of Japan.

They did not do any other they had no other communication

with the outside world.

Completely cut off.

So when you're different, it's pretty noticeable.

Hence the Blue Eye Samurai.

. Wow.

It's pride rock.

It's great staging.

Notice how little dialogue has already been done in this.

Most of the story is being told by the images.

See, it's a great technique.

. It's anime's technique.

Exactly.

Cannot waste anything with your visuals.

It's also good to have the space to do this.

You know what I'm saying?

Is he blind?

Yeah.

How did you get to this meteorite so fast?

Yeah, but he must have been in the area.

This show's give me like, Dororo vibes.

Has anyone seen that one?

Yes.

So good.

If anyone's not seen it, I recommend.

Especially you both, I feel like you'd like it.

Is that the one where they got the masks on?

So it's the one about a kid whose father basically sold him to a demon

when he was a child, and he lost Oh!

And he got all his skin was taken off.

Not just his skin, but his organs, his ability to feel, smell

Skin, eyes, bones, everything.

And as he got older, with every demon he killed, the more senses and feat

and his own features that he got back.

Yeah, I heard about this.

So I haven't seen it, but I have heard about it.

It's phenomenal.

It was based off of the original show came out in the 60s.

And then they basically redid it in this darker retelling and it was brilliant.

But wasn't something about Astro, wasn't like the artist who made

that also the dude who did Astro Boy or something like that?

I think he was trippin I don't know.

It might have just been the style from the 60s.

You're probably just trippin Yeah, probably.

Why is he caressing it like that?

I don't know.

To be fair, he can't see it.

Because he's probably going to make it out, make like a

sword or something out of it.

That's why he's dinging on it.

Like Sokka's space sword.

You know what I'm noticing here?

Alright, so when she gets older, I assume this is the same person,

but it probably is, right?

She's dressed in blue, she's dressed in blue now.

The blue eyes, blue this, blue that.

So it's probably going to be her sword because it's a blue meteor.

I would assume so.

And this is probably her mentor.

Wow, you use your deductive reasoning that quick?

Yeah, man, I told you, bro.

I, man, yeah, wow.

You gotta give it to the storytellers.

They're doing a great job, keeping you engaged.

Gotta be all that safety education you got up there.

He has these scars on his arm.

Probably cause he was a slave.

He also might be a blacksmith, and blacksmiths tend to work with their hands.

It makes sense.

I don't know any other way they would have done it, to be fair, would you?

That is very CG.

They're terrible at hiding.

You can't just scream when you wake up.

I can't read kanji.

Was that something that was that a prayer or something?

I would assume that it was probably a prayer that he would

be able to make a good sword.

Actually, it would be really nice if someone made tea.

I want tea now.

Go ahead, DJ.

Make some tea.

You know what?

I will, actually.

Alright.

I'll see you guys later.

Okay.

Wow, that's big hands.

Or that's a small cup.

It's probably both.

Aww.

There we go.

So you got this old man who's by himself.

And this little girl who's by herself.

And you make a little family.

Yeah.

Would be nice if someone kept proper time.

This is also the same

method in which Alison and Ariel learned how to animate.

They were beat on the head if they messed up one time.

No, this is the Miyagi Method.

Here I'm going to have you wax on, wax off.

But I do like the way that they keep going back and forth

between the past and the present.

Yeah, it's an interesting choice.

Some people they do, some stories they just do only linearly, sometimes

you only have one flashback scene.

And so they're mirrored for mirrored for right now and I feel like it's gonna be

a good payoff of telling it that way.

I feel like this is very Asian storytelling.

Like lots of Asian storytelling from like Chinese dramas to Korean dramas.

And all that kind of thing.

And especially if it's an anime, they'll do a back and forth

between the past and the present.

But it's fascinating because it's like almost impossible to

do this in like a novel form.

You drive your reader crazy.

Where are we?

What's going on?

Didn't Lord of the Rakes do that a lot?

Or I can't feed my children.

You know the rules.

I don't remember it that much in the novel.

I read it too long ago.

My mother made me.

No, the movies.

The movies do it, but I don't remember if the novel did it.

Travel pass.

Oh, I thought she was going to cut off his fingers.

Man!

I want to see some more fingers get cut off.

Oh yeah.

Because they need a man to travel through.

But That's unfortunate.

They should have had some bribe money like she does.

She already had her save the cat moment.

Why don't you explain that?

Okay basically when a new hero is introduced in order to, for the

audience to identify with them, you gotta have a moment where they show

that they are willing to root for.

They show that they're a nice guy by saving someone else, in

this case, a man with no hands.

With no hands, exactly.

Coined by the guy who wrote the book, Save the Cat, and he has, I kinda don't

like that book, but that's the story.

Do you know where I can find the Shindo Dojo?

Shindo?

That's our dojo.

You're gonna blind?

You look like a blind beggar.

How would I be a blind beggar if I'm looking at you?

If you would please show me how to find your dojo, I'd be grateful.

Follow the road to the shrine.

Once you go around the gates, you'll see a sign across the puppet show.

That's clearly a lie.

They obviously don't like you.

And they ran away laughing.

Is that a whorehouse?

Yeah.

It's what the red lights mean.

The real question is, bro, why are you just out there just watching?

Either you're gonna buy or you're gonna move on, okay?

This is not a, this is not a magazine shop.

Back then it was.

Hey, you got me there.

Oh my god.

Man, they just said show a dog and everything.

What a dick.

So as animators, let me ask you a question does that is that like a style choice?

Can't they just, they usually you can animate in such a way where you don't

see it, welcome to Netflix, where standards and practices do not apply.

Ignore the dicks.

Did you walk out in the cold without any pants?

How did you hey, how did you untie yourself?

I demand an answer to this.

You gotta respect that.

Somehow he got it.

How much for three nights?

I thought you weren't gonna stay.

Oh.

Titties.

They're gonna show dick, I think you have to show titties.

I think it's like a rule.

You have to do both.

Gender equality, right?

Exactly.

You can be a little rough.

These you have to

I'm so disturbed right now.

. Yeah.

This is why Americans shouldn't make anime.

Yeah.

This wasn't really in any of the reviews.

a hundred percent unnecessary.

It's it, like you said, it's Netflix.

They're gonna show Dick.

You gotta show, you gotta show the other one.

It's only fair is how can we get actual viewers.

Let's put porn in it.

Titties!

They haven't lost sight of what the audience truly wants.

We got royalty, guys.

Or, I don't know, someone important.

She has to be royalty or else they wouldn't be carrying her, right?

Or at least wealthy.

She also wouldn't be wearing all of the gold.

Maybe she's a concubine.

Probably.

Yeah, that's true.

The Empress would be in the castle.

Oh, I thought you were about to say something else.

What?

What?

What?

We just saw sex and titties?

Come on, that's a logical leap.

Oh, she's a princess.

Yep, she's a princess.

I practiced that speech myself when I told my parents I was not

gonna do a doctoring anymore.

I don't think she's a princess.

The princess would already be at the castle.

I don't know, I'm seeing the gold.

She's maybe she's the daughter of some lord or something.

Yeah, that's probably it.

The emperors had Which is like a princess, then.

They had many concubines.

And usually they were from their cabinet members.

What is the daughter of a lord called?

A concubine.

No, the daughter!

Not the one Lady.

Conquer the concubines.

She's a lady.

A lady.

He's a lord, she's a lady.

a lady, but what is a lady called?

I don't know what Japanese is.

I only watch Chinese and Korean dramas.

I can only give you the stuff in Korean.

Or Chinese.

We want the stuff in Japanese then.

I'm sorry, I can't help you.

Hime, maybe.

Let's go with that.

That's Princess.

Alright, cool.

We're gonna go with that.

She's a possi We don't know yet, though.

You think she's a dude?

No.

I have a feeling that this entire show is really based around

the concepts of female power.

You gave him that haircut?

That should be fucking illegal.

That is the hairstyle though.

I refuse.

Doesn't matter.

I will go back in time and beat this guy's ass.

What's the idea behind that hairstyle?

So she is a princess.

Yeah she's a princess.

I knew it.

It's 'cause she's practicing talking to her father.

You get respect from someone.

Concubines.

They don't really do that.

Father, I know your wisdom is beyond your reproach and I submit your

real holy, but I would be Remi.

You know what happens when you feed a pig?

Sweets damn bitch.

A pig.

Of course you don't.

Your life has been roped in silk.

You've never seen the mud of the sky.

Her father wasn't a pig farm.

When a farmer feeds his pig too many sweets, its teeth rot, its gums

fester, the infection goes to its brain and it must be slaughtered

before it reaches full size.

The pig can't be blamed.

He's a pig and will eat all it can.

The fault is with the farmer.

Who knows better?

Am I a pig, father?

You want sugar when there are proper options.

More than a few lords have taken notice of you when inquired.

Ah!

News came just this morning.

Lord Saito's wife died in childbirth and he needs a new bride.

Fuck.

He's an old man!

And a drunk and a whore mother!

Lord Saito earns a hundred thousand cuckoo.

Is that your price for me?

If I don't marry you off, you'll end up in a brothel line with him anyway.

So would you rather be his wife, or his whore?

Father, I know your wisdom is beyond reproach, and I submit

to your will wholeheartedly.

I spoke from fear, as these men live so far away, and I

cannot imagine a life without my father close.

Please.

Please.

Consider someone who lives near, someone you trust to protect me,

and the interests of our clan.

My dove, I forget you are a simple girl.

You know nothing of the world.

Perhaps I need a husband who knows the toil of life in the battle as you have.

One who has seen the sky.

I do know of a fierce and Best swordsman in the best school, he said.

Won 24 duels with every opponent dead.

I'm not a noble family official, son of Kahama, but

his prize reminds me of my own.

What was his name again?

Taigen, I believe.

If his skills matter.

Oh yeah, she gets what she wants.

Somebody's already seen him.

Ooh, she knows what she's doing.

Ooh hoo!

So who's the simple girl now, you dumb idiot?

That's what you wanted from the beginning.

That's the thing.

He thinks she's a simple girl so she can take advantage of that.

I assume this is the Taigen.

Yeah,

he is Taigen.

Aw, this is so sweet.

This is going to end so badly.

I was just thinking that.

I was like, oh.

Ah, it's trouble true.

Let me just let me just do this good correct me if I'm wrong, so we got

a blue eyed samurai, a princess who wants to marry an undefeated samurai.

With no high class.

Also, I don't think she's a princess.

I think her father is a warlord.

At the time, throughout Japan, there were multiple warlords.

I have a feeling we're about to have a war.

And she's looking for a dojo.

The same dojo with the same symbol as that guy was wearing.

I feel like they're gonna fight.

Yes, I have a feeling that she lost somebody very important.

And that's why she was looking at the gun.

Oh yeah.

And she's now on a path of revenge.

Will Taigen be the one that she kills?

We'll see.

I have to say, if she does kill him, it's going to put a little

damper in that engagement.

It never goes well.

Everyone knows that.

Characters can't be happy in shows like this.

No.

And main characters can't have both their parents.

It's not allowed.

Never.

It doesn't do well for the show.

I like this design here.

But I do think that this show is a concept of female empowerment.

She's pretending to be a guy to get what she wants.

That woman couldn't get into the area because she didn't have a husband.

The women's only way of making money was going to a brothel.

Even the lord's daughter is threatened to going into a brothel.

All of these people are men.

There is no woman around.

Period.

This is a picture all about Females.

You can't have a female, a badass female story and then not do that,

you know what this also reminds me of?

Kill Bill, for some reason.

Yeah, it's Kill Bill mixed with Mulan.

Yeah.

Mixed with Silver Eyed Jack at Arcade.

Style wise.

Together they form Voltron.

Ooh, history.

Tingus!

And Oni!

That has a looks like a bird and has wings!

Oni.

Demon.

How is she a she can see!

I don't understand this insult!

Cause of the glasses.

Ooh.

And obviously these people are not around women a lot.

She doesn't even sound like a dude.

Oh, suspicion of disbelief.

Please beat the fuck out of these guys.

They're so fucking annoying.

His secret, every secret is revealed here.

Yeah.

It makes sense.

Oh, if he's a world renowned swordsman, swords like, no, like a

blacksmith, he's gonna, this little kid is gonna see every swordsman

that comes by looking for a sword.

And of course then she would become the best swordsman

because she knows all the styles.

. And even how to make the swords.

The sword is the soul of the Samurai.

The sword must match the man.

His blade should be rigid and thin.

Again, I feel like you're getting more out of this if I read it.

Have you guys ever seen Dr.

Stone?

Oh.

So in Dr No, Dr.

Stone, it's a basically Magic School Bus, but anime one of the things they go into

is how samurai swords are made they would basically fold the metal and fold it like

eight times, so they can get a specific kind of density, they were, if you get a

actual, if you ever find a real authentic samurai sword, they're like unbreakable.

They're incredibly dense.

So she's folding in the metal.

But also the concept of that the impurities can make you stronger.

And she's mixed.

Exactly.

But it's also a concept of, we ourselves are like swords.

We work very hard, fight through all of adversity.

And through those adversities and those impurities, we become steel.

peanut gallery.

A

sharp stick.

Oh, I was wrong.

Okay.

Thanos, he has before cuts the line.

Whoa hey, this skill.

So I bet you he, I bet you he was a, probably a fighter before.

Before he was blind.

Good enough for cookies because I don't know any blacks that they

have scars like that far up is their arm, they a thousand kitchen knives.

Yep.

There we go.

Miyagi style.

You got a, it's gotta be second nature.

Ooh, a smith signs his name.

I like how all their like, like signatures and logos, they're all in a circle.

I don't know why.

That's cool.

Whoa.

Hey, we're all just out of kitchen knives.

Oh, it's the meteor.

Maybe a woman can in this case.

Yeah.

Yeah.

She'll probably find the weak spot in The super fire.

Now you need the weak spot in the metal itself, at least in this one.

Will she find it after he dies or before he dies?

Yeah, that is the question.

Oh, look, she's practicing.

Wait a minute, is he just getting a steady streak with these meteorites?

No, it's just the same one.

Then you suck, you can't even hold it.

Yeah you will.

And you're gonna kill everybody.

That's what I'm into.

Revenge.

Protection.

Damn, that's not what she said.

Nicholas Killian was one of them.

I was going around slanging it as much as I could.

And now she's gonna come and kill you.

She's been told this her entire life.

Wow.

Pure, and it may be something shameful.

It may also be strong.

Very rock lee of her right

Whoa.

Can I just cut a blade of grass?

Hey, come on.

Beg boy.

Move it.

It'll be much simpler if you wanted to speak with your master.

No one sees the master.

No one sees the master.

I cannot leave here until I speak to the master of this dojo.

Good.

We get to kill the others.

Aw, three on one, that's not fair.

That's also not very monk like of you, I don't think you're

supposed to want to kill people.

They're not monks, they're samurai.

That's true.

Oof!

Are they?

Oh yes, humbling them.

There you go.

Keep it up.

Oh no.

Ooh!

So

I'm curious, they actually brought in Kung Fu and like Taekwondo masters?

To actually have authentic moves anime.

But Kendo.

Yeah.

Oh!

It's a wooden sword, everybody.

It's a wooden sword.

No, it's a little much.

So you don't want her to take out the blade.

It's just a regular wooden sword.

They're not worth her blade.

Broke their ankles.

You know what Hawkeye says You don't hunt rabbits with a cannon.

That is true.

Hey, rip his tooth out.

Yeah!

Dude, I am really vibing with this show.

Tarantino would be proud.

The school of hard knocks, bitch.

Oh!

And that happened to me, I could not show my face again.

They're like, oh, how did she defeat you?

She threw her at the ground?

Better yet, they don't even know she's a woman.

Eh?

Oh!

Oh my gosh, damn!

They are not hiding anything.

Can you imagine being the board artist for this?

Oh, goodness.

Oh, it's in his eye!

Oh, my god.

Didn't expect any of this.

It's a little much.

They are full grown men who tried to kill me.

Put down that toy, and draw your sword.

Who?

That sleeping ass.

The lord's daughter, this beautiful daughter, not even ugly.

Oh no, he's an asshole.

Look

at this man's face, bro.

Is that a mole or a front tooth?

Who knows?

Does it matter?

Next time we'll have a dentist expert on here, apparently.

Damn.

Ooh.

Yeah, I didn't see you wearing that when you were hanging out

with those prostitutes, but okay.

Oooh.

Oh yeah, you do.

You've climbed some hides.

Tiken is won 24 dues.

How many of you?

All of them?

I've been counting . Oh, a bitch.

Tigan.

Teach him to respect.

I've come to speak with your master and we'll go on my way.

Once I have no one sees the master, you won't be accepted.

The funeral cart, this is this at Zu.

Who is this voice actor?

No, it's not Zuko.

No, that is definitely not Zuko.

Who is this person?

Oh, a challenge.

Finally.

Is it?

Or is she playing him?

It's possible.

She probably wants to She hasn't taken out the sword yet.

She probably wants to savor this.

Usually you can tell if they're struggling is if somebody starts sweating.

So far they look like they're evenly matched.

Ooh.

Oh.

There we go.

Reveal.

Oh, it's Darren Barnett.

I don't know who that is.

I

can't look at this man's face, bro.

It's

about time.

This is also an emotional battle.

Darren Barnett was also in Samurai Rabbit.

Ooh.

It is also blue.

Hey, there we go.

Someone figured out how to break the rock.

Themselves, it looks like.

No.

Nah, that's Sage.

She did that.

Yeah.

Oh, they're reading each other's moves before they do it.

That's cool.

Oh.

Yeah, so he changes what he's gonna do.

It's like chess.

Nope, they're seeing that they both die, no matter what they do.

This is very interesting.

Ayy.

He didn't fall for it.

Ooh.

Oh,

she gonna hit him with the rock lead.

Oh, wow.

Ooh.

Ooh.

Should've killed her when you had the chance.

That hilt is very nice too.

This blade is gorgeous.

Has little waves at the bottom of it.

I wonder how many iterations they went through to get it.

Oh boy.

You're the master.

You heard all this bullshit going on outside and you didn't do anything?

Where may I find your brother, the black market merchant, Heiji Shindo?

You did all this, to find my brother?

Why?

Heiji Shindo is in the fortress on Tanabe Island, protected by the Gengen Clan.

Whatever business you have with him, you will never reach him.

See, wasn't that so hard?

I didn't have to beat up all these people for this.

Still.

Dog.

May I kill this son of a bitch?

Thank you.

Oh, wow.

Okay, so that's the limitation?

Beheading?

How many teeth did we see pulled out?

I don't think she beheaded him.

Or they also would have shown it if she did it, right?

Because they showed everything else?

She's probably going to cut off his hands or something.

I think she blinded him.

I'm going to say she did something to dishonor him.

Like to show shame or something.

Or she cut his hair.

Oh yeah, she probably cut his top knot.

She probably did?

Oh no.

Almost.

No, they're like freezing to death.

Oh, the gold comb!

She cut his topknot!

Yep.

Super disrespect.

So that way they can pay their way in.

Yeah, if you cut someone's topknot, it's like you basically, they're,

it's complete defeat to you.

They are under complete defeat to you.

Even in modern times, most balding men feel shame.

You guys don't have anything to worry about for a number of years.

Yeah, I have pretty long dreads.

So this is gonna affect her.

She does feel pain.

Maybe she should have a companion.

Poe sounds like a pretty good companion.

She said Poe.

Is that the guy's name, Poe?

No, I just, he reminds me of Poe.

I'm sure he had a name.

Unfortunately, we talked and missed it.

Oh.

If people didn't want to hear people talking, they

wouldn't be listening to this.

True.

Ugh, the black teeth.

Oh, they used to do that back then.

Yeah, that was a sign of beauty.

Why?

I do not understand.

It's another culture.

It's just the way they do OHHH!

You're right!

Oh, bro!

You ball, bro!

Every man who reaches 40 has gone through this transition.

Oh no.

Are they gonna turn their back on him because it was a complete defeat?

Oh yeah, and he's full of shame.

Yep.

That's what she said.

Huh.

Sounds familiar.

That's a very villain looking position.

It's the white guy.

Done with it.

The white man!

Ah!

Ah!

Ah!

Number four!

Ah!

The white man!

Ah!

Ah!

I'm getting Lord of the Rings vibes.

That's some Mulan stuff right there.

Unfortunately, there's no Mushu.

That's the thing, she's by herself, so she needs some kind of companion.

She cannot do this alone.

It's true.

I wonder who!

Yes!

I wonder who's gonna show up!

I wonder who!

Facts.

Aww.

She got herself a great surrogate father.

He's so sad.

Aww.

I don't know, ways it's a pretty it right now.

Yeah, but this is like in 1633 and exclusively in Japan.

They, they're banned and evil and men beat her up.

Three fifths of a person.

Oh, jeez, oh god, I can't.

At least she learned how to sew.

It's just very useful to her.

Oh, come on.

Oh, it's a joke, All thanks to white dudes.

Is there a scary villain in this or what, man?

That's funny.

Does he not know that she's he can't see, and it's not like he's been touching her.

Yes, but he can hear her.

Hit it on the ground.

Yep.

Make sure it works.

Oh, no, he knows exactly what it's made from.

Because the sound, yeah.

He's yeah, I even surpass your blacksmithing skills.

The question is she gonna fight naked?

I, what I've seen so far, I wouldn't put it past him.

Oh.

Oh my.

Full frontal.

Full frontal.

Bush it all.

Peaches.

Oh, this guy.

Oh god.

Really?

Next episode of Blue Eyed Samurai.

Next time on Dragon Balls!

We're gonna see some heading!

Ah, there's a white guy!

Ah!

Ah!

Oh, the devil!

I do relate to this.

I relate to this concept a lot.

I do not!

I do not!

I'll never ever tell anyone that you're a girl!

If I see you again I'll kill you.

I'm so clean.

It's not so bad.

We'll be married.

Your father will never allow enough.

It wasn't even a dual.

Therefore, you never lost.

He must have left a trail.

Oh.

Oh, I love it.

It cost me my station.

And my honor,

I've been to a stranger.

I just have to find Tigan.

I have a feeling Ty's gonna fall in love with the Blue Eye Samurai.

Yeah, probably.

You can be great.

I've actually seen what weakness looks like.

You don't want revenge?

Revenge does not hesitate.

There's something I need to tell you.

Oh, look at the sexual tension.

Two warriors.

Yeah!

Cause he's Scottish!

What?

Hey!

Oh shit!

Oh yeah!

Oh man!

Only satisfying.

How's that ghost in shell feel, doesn't it?

That was hardcore.

That was the first episode.

Well done.

Directed by Jane Wu.

Jane.

Excellent job.

Fantastic job.

Good job.

We got an excellent character to follow.

Man.

Brilliant.

Alright.

Here we go.

We're gonna go around.

Okay.

What is your first thoughts?

That's some dark shit.

Yeah.

I really liked a lot of the art.

Yay, go Nick!

And the Yay!

I appreciate that.

I appreciate that.

They're shouting out people they know in the credits.

We don't know a number of them.

But yeah.

Yay, co production!

We love you!

Yeah, I don't know We thought you wouldn't be made.

She knows you guys.

I don't know.

Yeah, she does.

She knows them.

I actually don't, but I think they did an excellent job.

Quebec!

Looks great.

It's beautiful.

They take this 3D animation and they're, like, doing A great job with medium.

It's really come a long way.

Do you guys ever watch the 3d berserk anime?

Not the 3d it's in the 2d one.

Yeah, don't watch the 3d one.

It's right It just looks so beautiful in this one.

They really took like the painting the artistry and Put it all together

and made something pretty fantastic and we got a great arc to look

forward to with our main character.

I think CG, 3D anime and CGI has come a long way in this form of media.

I remember seeing it when I was younger.

You could tell the difference.

You're like, Oh God, it's 3D.

Oh yeah.

It's blinding.

It's horrible.

It's bad to look at.

But nowadays I think people are starting to get the hang of it.

It's either the tell of I don't think that it was the technology's fault.

I think it's that people, they just don't know how to use it

yet at that point earlier on.

Because the technology has always been there.

It's just like, how you use it to express yourself, I think has really changed.

Yeah, I don't know.

Nick, what do you think?

I thought the 3D was pretty cool in Spy Kids.

Oh my goodness.

One thing that's interesting I don't even know.

I have to say, I'm very impressed with Netflix.

Every single time I think that Oh, all this company is good for is buying

other people's properties, then they come out with something like this.

And it shows that there is creativity.

There is something still there that is thriving and is alive.

And I think other studios need to pay attention.

To the fact that we don't need to just do American storytelling.

There's a ton of different storytellings all around the world

from Indian to Japanese, to even the way that the Europeans do it.

Disney has invested a lot more money into anime.

Not because they care, because it makes money.

Let's be honest.

And it makes money for a reason.

This is like a unique, fascinating story.

And you got this perspective, like a woman's perspective at this

particular time is not exactly as told.

It's so good.

Mulan was incredible growing up.

So you to be able to have a more serious version of that is exciting.

Yes.

Guys, we hope you enjoyed this.

Watch along.

I'm dj.

I'm Nicholas.

I'm Ariel.

And I'm Allison.

And we'll see you next time.

See ya.

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