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Drifters Part 1
Episode 526th July 2023 • Southern Senpais • Nicholas Killian and Derek Johnson II
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The Southern Senpais check out Drifters! An anime from 2017! Listen in as they give their review of the first half!

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Howdy.

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It's the Southern Sin Pie Show.

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We're a small town.

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Southerners explore big time Japanese entertainment, anime,

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manga, and everything in between.

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Here's your hosts, Nicholas and dj.

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Hey everybody.

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On the seven Sym two seven guy to explore Japanese culture.

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I'm dj.

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I'm Nicholas.

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And this is episode number five.

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Nicholas, what's going on today?

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So today we are going to re.

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Be reviewing an anime called Drifters.

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Drifters.

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This was also one that was suggested to us.

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Yes.

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So if you guys wanna send us suggestions to review, go ahead and attend us on

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Instagram or Facebook or any social media platforms, TikTok, whatever.

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We actually only reviewing the.

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First part.

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What?

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This is gonna be a two-parter.

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Yeah.

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So this is gonna be a two-parter.

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So we're doing episode one through six, and then the next episode is

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going to be episode six through 12.

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Right.

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There's a lot that happens in this m a This a came out it's not too long ago,

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but long enough ago, what, five years ago?

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Yeah, it was 2017.

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Yeah, 2017.

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So I think that, The first thing I'd say is like a lot of this

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animation is really, really good.

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Yeah.

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Spoiler warning just in general.

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'cause obviously it's a review of the first part of it, so

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if you don't wanna be spoiled.

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Don't listen to, don't listen to this.

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Like, I don't, I don't know what else you want from me.

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Like this is, this is spoilers for one through six.

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Yeah.

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And we don't do, sorry, we don't do spoiler free reviews.

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'cause we just don't, it's not, that's, that's, that's not, that's not us.

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That's not what we do.

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If you want that then, you know, kick rocks.

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Yeah.

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You're gonna have to go.

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That's, you do that.

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But yeah it's kind of interesting.

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Basically, the drifters are famous icons from our world, right?

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Who get shifted into another world a big, it's basically a

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chess game, chess game, east Kai.

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Yeah.

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A whole bunch of things.

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Who love it Sych from different time periods.

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Yeah.

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Different, different time periods into this same world.

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You have people like well, the main character's names are we're about

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to just destroy these names, right?

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Just in general to Ishi.

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Yeah.

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Toi Toi Zu.

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The main guy's name is Shi Zu.

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There's another guy named nsu and the other guy's name is ODA.

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And they're all from Noga.

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Yeah, they're all from Japan.

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Yeah.

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They well Toi was a historical samurai.

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Nobunaga was one of the most famous futile lords in futile Japan.

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Mm-hmm.

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And he took the first step to uniting Japan.

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So, yeah.

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So.

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Obviously we had to look these people up, right?

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We didn't know, but initially I'm clear.

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Obviously she was like, okay.

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But then when they said Butch Cassidy, Yeah, I'm a Sundance kid.

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We were like, I got that.

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We know, we know these people.

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This, this is okay.

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They also said Hitler.

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I mean, we, everyone knows who that guy is, but he's he's the bad guy.

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Don't worry.

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He's not on the good side.

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He's not the chief bad guy, though.

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He's not.

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Right.

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He's not.

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We get Jesus is get to la Yeah.

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It's so it's not, it's an implied that it not even implied it.

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It might be, we don't know.

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Okay, so basically what happens is that, She mou he's in some war or battle, right?

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And while walking through the forest, he basically is straight up just east

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egg hide in this like long hallway into like this other world, right?

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Well, it, I mean the anime starts with 'cause I looked it up, the anime starts.

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'cause it doesn't tell you, or maybe it does, I don't remember.

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But it tells you.

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It's the Battle of Seki Jahara or something like that.

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Really?

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Yeah, so, and obviously I didn't, I didn't know it was that one.

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And then, you know, he gets like fatally wounded and he thinks he's

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dead and maybe he's gone to heaven.

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Yeah.

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All these people, they get transferred over when they have died in our world.

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Right.

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But they're not actually dead.

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Right before they die.

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They go to the other world kind of, it seems.

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Yeah.

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And play this.

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Play this chess game.

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Yeah.

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With these, with these people.

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Yeah.

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There's like two people in this big ass hallway, one of which has like, you

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see all these different types of doors.

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He sits at a desk.

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Yep.

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And he's like, oh, I put drifters in this other world because they're

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like the good people we're supposed to help the world or whatever.

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And then there's just like, Some gothic , I guess I don't know what her name is,

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and she's like, yeah, I looked it up.

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Her name is easy, easy.

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That is, that is a horrible name for a, a woman.

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I would not have, I would, I would not have, would've not have gone that way.

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But that's it.

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It reminds me of you ever, you see, okay, so here.

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We have people like wear shirts with like Japanese characters on them.

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Yeah.

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And the thing is, is you know, somebody who's Japanese would be

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like, you know, that says soup, right?

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Like Right.

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I know you think it looks cool, but it says like someone told

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you it said warrior, but it actually just says soup on it.

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And then I've been to places where like they said like you know, the army surplus

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store that's in Yeah, that's in Burbank.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I've been over there.

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They have an army surplus store in at Burbank.

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I was looking for boots.

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Just some, some dress, it's not dress boots, but some

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army military uniform boots.

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The, the tan ones, right?

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So I see a sword.

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I'm like, oh, that swords kind of cool.

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It's like a black sword.

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I think it's kind of cool.

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I see these Japanese symbols on it.

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I'm like, oh, wow.

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What is this?

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I also am not stupid, so I'm like I don't know what this says, but

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I think it could be pretty cool.

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Let me see what this is.

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And I asked him and I was like, Hey man, what is this?

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What are these, what does these characters mean?

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He goes, oh yeah, that's like the death of something.

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He said he was the death of something like, so, something like really badass.

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Mm-hmm.

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And then, you know, you can use Google Translate on your

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phone with like a picture.

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And the said, cherry blossoms.

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I was like, bro, You can't kill someone with a sword that says cherry blossom.

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It's it not that I was gonna kill someone, but like, you can't,

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like you can't carry that around.

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You can't carry no.

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Chad sword is a cherry blossom sword.

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What's the sword say of just death Of the warrior?

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Death of the warrior.

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Something.

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Yeah.

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And you're like, Hey man, that says cherry blossoms on that.

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Right?

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Like, like Japanese people go, dude, what is this like, That is not scary to me.

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I wish you would've killed me with a different blade than this one.

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Like I would've be, I would've rather been killed by the sword of ramen.

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Right, right.

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Than cherry blossoms.

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Yeah.

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But it's, but the guy but the main villain, 'cause they call

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'em, the good guys are drifters and the by bad guys are ends.

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Right.

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So the bad guys are still people who, like, they are still

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famous people from our timeline.

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Right.

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And they're based off of real people.

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Right.

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By the way, they're not like fictional characters like sand

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clause or something like that.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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So, but the main bad guys, and this is Joan of Arc Anastasia.

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And which by the way, we don't know who Joan of Arc is.

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You might, you're probably not gonna like the same thing.

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Right.

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There's a lot of historical stuff that is referenced here, so, right.

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We don't know who Joan of Arc is.

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You need me to explain that person?

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You're not gonna like it.

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Just go ahead and, yeah.

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That's my review for you personally, is that you're not gonna like it.

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I'm talking, talking to you personally.

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Right.

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You're not gonna have a good time.

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Right.

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If you don't know who Jon a is, you're not gonna like it.

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Anastasia she's the Russian daughter of the last SSAR.

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Nicholas ii.

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Yeah, Nicholas ii you probably, she was shot at 17 by firing

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squad of the Bolsheviks.

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Yeah.

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You also probably do most people know who Anastasia was?

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There was a movie.

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Called animated movie called Anastasia.

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And then there, dude, there was also a Siebel card.

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Barda, I think.

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Oh, really?

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Yeah.

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It was about the, the bad, you know, and then Disney bought

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the rights to Anastasia, even though it's not a Disney movie.

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Right.

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And then the other bad guy, his name is Hika Chi Jata.

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He's a 19th century guy from Kyoto.

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He was the demon vice commander of the Gummi.

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And all I gotta say is that there's a lot of people famous people from Japan in

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this show who are the demon of something.

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I have no idea what's up with that.

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Well, maybe that's like the most intimidating thing, like.

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That you can be like, everyone from Japan is now a demon in this, this anime.

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Oh, that was like the demon lord.

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This guy's like the demon vice president.

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Right.

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But there's also the, the black king who's like the leader, right.

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Of everything, like of the end.

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Yeah.

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And that's why I made the joke, like, you know, it's, it

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doesn't say that he's Jesus.

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All right.

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You don't know who this guy is.

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He's covered in shroud the whole time.

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But all I will say is that he says a lot of like walk with my brother and

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like he goes around healing people.

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Yeah.

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There's a hole in one of his hands.

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We haven't really seen the full other hand or his feet.

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'cause he's usually always covering shrouds.

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But one of his hands, it looks, it appears as if there's a hole in it.

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It's, the hole's not confirmed in the middle of his hand.

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Right, right.

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It looks like there might be, And he just goes around healing, called him

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to his brothers and stuff like that.

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And so they're supposed to be realistic figures right Now, I will

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say this, the reason why, like a maybe thing, 'cause the bad guy,

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they, you're giving like superpowers, like the regular guys, they're

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like, they like coach catching them.

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They're just.

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I don't really know what makes those drifters special.

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That's really good at killing people, it seems.

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Yeah, I think, I think they they were just like, man, let's put, I heard of

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the Butch Cassidy and Sundance kid.

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Let's put that in there.

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Yeah.

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Because they're definitely not heroic people.

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Well, whatever.

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And I mean, they're on the they're on the drifter side.

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Oh, they're on, yeah, that's right.

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They're on the drifters.

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The other, yeah.

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The other drifters are like Hannibal and who was the other one?

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Yeah.

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Sipo.

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Yeah.

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Sipo.

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And then but the enders, they have like fire powers and like wind powers and like,

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dude Jon Jonah Vark is on the evil side.

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Yeah, she's evil also.

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St.

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Jermaine is also evil.

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Yeah.

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He's a, for some reason he's a little feminine in the, he's feminine and evil.

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This show makes me kind of feel like they don't like Christian for some reason.

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Like they don't come out and say it, but, All the bad guys have,

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like, you know, there's too many on one side, you know what I'm saying?

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Yeah.

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Just not that they all need to be on the good side.

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Not saying that other religions aren't important and da da da, but like,

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it's like specifically Christianity.

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Yeah.

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It, it's, they're not making a great case for themselves.

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But basically so what happens in the show is that, like I said, she's on me.

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They, he gets 10 with his other world.

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He meets up with Natsu and Oda.

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And they discover they're in the middle of this view between the enders and these

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humans who are trying to take over like.

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The whole magical world, quote unquote.

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Like there are LSS and doors and stuff like that who are being oppressed.

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Well, the black king is trying to wipe everybody out.

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Right, right.

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Because he used to love humanity.

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Yeah.

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So he used to love humanity, but they did a big betrayal to him.

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So now he goes around and heals monster.

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So, hey, it's really hard not to draw parallel.

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It's really hard not to.

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But no, it's, it's really, I think it's, I was actually telling him

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while we were watching the episodes, like, man, I wonder why they don't

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have more episodes of this anime.

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So we then we saw Saint Jermaine and we were like, Hmm, maybe.

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Yeah.

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The worst part is I, I really like the show.

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So, no, the show is great.

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Yeah.

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There is a lot of blood in it, so though people don't like Gore, stuff like that.

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I mean, it's not straight with Gore, I mean, There's blood in it,

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there's people getting their heads chopped off and stuff like that.

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So that's too much for you.

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Yeah.

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However, there is also, like, they go in and they've free the first village.

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Right, right.

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Put those, like, they're like full of Ls.

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All these LSS are dudes.

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Yeah.

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So they're like, yeah, there's no women, right?

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So they're like, oh, hey.

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And then we find out what happens to the women.

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Yeah.

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They're like, oh, where, where are these women at?

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Where, where are they?

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And Nicholas, you want, you wanna tell us what happens there?

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So this is back then, right?

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And the garrison is full of dudes, right?

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Yeah.

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So they kind of, the gar they by the way, clarification.

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Who, who are the garrison?

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Like we, we talk, we didn't talk about the, the antagonist.

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Oh, the, the garrison is the the oppose the humans, right?

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The, the evil humans who have their own like kingdoms and Right.

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Stuff like that.

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That was started by, Adolf Hitler, right?

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Yeah.

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It was also, which is wild.

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So Adolf didn't die back then.

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He was transport.

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He was the first one isec hide, right.

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To a magical world.

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So I, that one time I was tried to destroy the regular world and

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then ended up in a magical world.

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So I actually destroyed that one.

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Yeah.

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And I succeeded in, you know, creating, I think they call 'em the Otis.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But so it's, you know, horrible, terrible people.

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The only other people in this world are these people call these magicians.

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Yeah.

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Who basically are the ones who are helping bring the drifters Yes.

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To the world and trying to like, make them do good stuff.

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Right.

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They're, they're having like a chess battle is what I Yeah.

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But appointed it to the main girl.

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She's his name, who's a magician.

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Her name is OMU, O L M I N U.

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I don't know.

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LY knew really whatever, regardless of which they are the Ls.

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After they trap the, after they kill the people who were coming after them

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the first time, and then they trap more of the army and kill more of them

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with the help of the main three, right?

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They're like, oh, we gotta go see the women.

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Yeah.

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And they don't skimp on the graphic details of what

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they're doing to these women.

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Yeah.

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I thought that they would just like imply it or like, 'cause

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it's war, like ancient war.

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Dude, they showed it, they opened up the door because if you notice, it was

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right before he opened up the door.

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Right?

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Right before he opened up the door.

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Toyo.

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That's the guy in the red.

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Yeah.

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One of the elves was like, I wanna kill this person who dropped on his sword.

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He's like, but he dropped his sword so we don't show.

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The human was like, oh, you know, I'm sorry, I surrender.

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And then he was like, well, we have to kill him with the stuff he's done.

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He is like, yeah, but you want to kill with honor.

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And then he opens up the door and like, Bro, they have the elf woman

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bent over and tied down to this table.

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It's not just her.

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Like there's a whole bunch of 'em in these like crazy positions and Guy is standing

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right behind her and they're both naked.

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Yeah.

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Like they did not skimp on that.

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Like you don't see genitalia Exactly.

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But it's not, it's not pleasant to see.

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So like, yeah.

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Then after that, they just kill all the dudes.

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Like it's, yeah, no.

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They're like, okay.

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Actually every one of these soldiers has to die.

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Yeah.

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They, they all have to die.

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They all just, they can't breathe anymore like this.

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I don't care if it's dishonorable or not.

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Like all betts are off now.

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Yeah.

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The only like, so this anime is one of those that are like, Not a lot

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happens in every episode plot wise.

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It's more about, right, talking about building it up right, building it up,

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talking about theories, stuff like that.

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In fact Butch Cassidy the Sundance Kid, Hannibal and Skeo, they haven't

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they haven't even met up with, they haven't really done too much.

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No.

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All they've done is A show up in the world and the magicians were like, Hey, help us.

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And they were like, we have no idea what's literally going on.

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I have no idea what you're talking about.

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Right?

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We don't know what you're doing.

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Right.

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Who are these people?

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What is going on?

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They're like, oh, too late.

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We lost the fourth this run.

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And so they're like, oh, okay, let's run.

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And that's the whole Olympus episode for that one.

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'cause Jon of Arc comes and she has like fire powers and stuff like that, right?

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And she has like the dude behind her as gals de Reyes, who was

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basically, he was a French nobleman.

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That was Joan of Ark's, like right hand man or like Spearman

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or whatever you wanna call it.

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Yeah.

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But yeah, no, and they were like, alright, well, you know, let's book it.

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I will tell you though, one of the highlights that I thought so far was

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pretty cool was whenever Toyo is facing the Lord, That first time, that first

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time they go into and he beats this man almost to death with just the scabbard.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Started cutting this guy's head off.

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Like he's been slicing up people this whole, you know, show whole time.

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Right.

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He's like, you know what?

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I'm just gonna start beating the crap out of him with like the actual

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blunt end of my, of my sheath.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And no, Nanga was like, oh, , that's kind of.

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That's kind of badass.

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Like you were about, we thought you was just gonna cut his head off,

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but you were just like, nah, I need to get this elf to kill this dude.

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Nah.

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Yeah.

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I gotta get the elf to do because that way the elves can like rise up and

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have like pride in themselves, right?

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Pride in themselves and no, it's.

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I really enjoy the series so far.

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But I'm these, this is my kind of anime where it's like a historical

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battle royale fantasy Yeah.

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Type of thing.

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So other than the fact that they make Jon of Ark Evil, which I guess I kind

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of understand where they're coming from.

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So the reason why they're evil supposedly the enders are, is because they have.

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Rejected humanity.

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So in some ways in which they have died, they have now said, yeah, the

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way they died, the way they died.

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Now they, they hate humanity.

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So it's like, okay, well Jon of our, I can kind of see that Saint Jermaine.

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Yeah, that's iffy.

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The black king, if he is who we think he is.

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Right.

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It's like, you mean technically you supposed to, you know,

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have been resurrected.

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So it's like, When was this?

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During the, you know what I'm saying?

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It's like confusing then.

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Like why would this have happened to him if he was, you know what I'm saying?

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It doesn't really make any sense.

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Adolf Hitler, I mean, that's, that's pretty, that's pretty.

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He started, he the humans while he was alive.

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Right.

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So I get why he's, he's on that side.

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Anastasia.

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He's just, well, in the, in the anime, she's.

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Pretty apathetic to the whole thing.

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Like, yeah, she's like, she like, like freezes them so they go to sleep.

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Not 'cause she like, she wants to like, just straight up murder them because, I

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mean, you know, she died by firing squads.

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So she's just kind of like, you know, I'm kind of, I don't really wanna do this.

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I'm, I'm kind of done with all this.

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Oh yeah.

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Yeah, imagine like you die to a firing squad and it's

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like, oh, finally war is over.

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And just to go to like another war.

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It's like yeah, I'm, I'm good.

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It's not, it's not exactly what I wanted to dom.

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I'm chilling.

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So this anyway is more for people who are, like you said, for like historical,

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like historical stuff and like EEC high, it's basically historical fiction.

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EEC high, right?

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No, it's, it's definitely historical fiction.

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Isaka like battle royale type of thing.

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The.

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We're not even, we haven't even gotten into the Good Park yet.

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Like they haven't even, they haven't even had their like, main battle yet.

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Yeah, no, everything's still building up.

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It's still building up.

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And this I feel like this is gonna be one of those enemies where it's

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like they expect to have a season two, but never got a season two.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Like the episodes they move kind of slow.

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Yeah.

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I'm not gonna lie, the plot moves kind of slow.

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Like everything we just described to you is what happened

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over the past six episodes.

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Like yeah, we're missing some stuff where he made now we'll say this, they do

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have some like war tactics that I didn't even not even know, know about that.

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This thing called Salt Peter.

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Yes.

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I don't even know what salt Peter was.

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We had to stop the anime and be like, Hey man, what is Salt Peter?

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Yeah.

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This guy's like, all right, so OTA goes, well take all, take all the, all our

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urine feces and dump it in this mound.

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Also cut off their heads of the enemy's bodies and they also

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put their bodies in this mound.

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And in two years, well salt Peter.

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And I'm like, he's doing what in the what for two years, bro?

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You gonna wait two years for what?

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And we had to look it up and it's like, oh, it's like gun powder and fertilizer.

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Yeah.

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I was like, what?

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That's crazy.

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Well, then also the other crazy part for OTA is the fact that he knocks out

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the fact that he knocks out Toyo right before they execute the the men for

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like raping all the women and stuff.

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Yeah.

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And dude's like, Hey man, what'd you knock me up for it?

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Like, I'm a warrior too, which is one thing I will say about this.

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It's like, Him and Oda have such similar personalities.

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They kind of like are pushing to make like this father-son relationship.

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It doesn't really, it's not really ringing very well 'cause

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they're basically the same person.

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Right.

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Also, just disclaimer, it doesn't matter if you watch it dubbed or subbed, like

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the first three episodes of this, there's some fictional language that these people

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are speaking that is like mad annoying.

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You know, usually when you watch a show and there's a fiction language, right?

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Like, When they're talking to each other, it's either in, whatever the dub

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is, whether it's Japanese or English or whatever, Spanish, whatever, right?

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They'll, they'd say one or two words in their other language, right?

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And then they'll start speaking whether the dub language is, so you

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get it like, oh, they're speaking a different language, right?

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These people went all away.

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There was at least 10 minutes.

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And each one of these episodes where they're speaking fully

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this other language, That clearly has like no rules to it.

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At least we, we were watching the dub version.

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Yeah, we watched the dub version.

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We were watching the dub, the English version.

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So maybe in the Japanese version it's different, but I don't know.

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We took a glimpse at it.

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It looked like they're the same.

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They're like,

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and I'm like, and they say like, it sounds like some Star Wars.

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Yeah.

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Hutt.

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Yeah.

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Like it's clearly a fake language that they're just like saying random . And

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you, you even like, Hey man, I kind of don't wanna watch this because

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I can't get past the fake language.

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And I was like, listen, it probably won't be like that forever.

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Like people who like subbed will probably be more used to it 'cause

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they don't speak Japanese and yet they like, they need to read subtitles.

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But even then they aren't speaking Japanese.

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They're speaking whatever language, random Gogo, Gaga language

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pretending like it's something else.

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Well, and then also You were talking about the father son relationship

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between Toyo and Nobunaga.

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The thing was, is in the very earlier episodes, Toyo was

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like, Hey man, I ain't your son.

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Right?

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Like, if That'ss what you're trying to do here, I'm not with it.

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You kill that.

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Kill that right now.

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Also, he's not a teenager.

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He is like, yeah, I'm 30, bro.

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Like, yeah.

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I'm a, I'm a man.

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Like, right, like that percent older.

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I think you said he's like in his like forties.

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In this one.

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He, I think he's like 47 or 50.

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Yeah.

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'cause remember whenever they were running towards the first confrontation, he was

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like, haha, I'm so much faster than you.

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And he was like, yeah, that's 'cause I'm 50 man.

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Like, yeah.

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And then what NASO, he's like 19.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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We were, this might be con controversial, but we were like debating on if

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this person was a guy or a girl.

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Yeah.

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So we said, we said we watched a little bit of the sub, not that it matters,

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not that it matters, but like we watched a little bit of the sub first

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before we started watching the dub.

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Right.

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And in the sub, he's voiced by a woman, and the guy kind of has

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this figure where he kinda looks like he's like in the middle.

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Like you can't really tell Androgynous.

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Yeah.

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Androgynous.

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Right.

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So, but then in the dub they call him, he and say, talk to him like he's a man.

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Right.

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But in the sub it's not like that.

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They kinda like refer to him like as if he's a woman.

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Yeah.

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So we were kind of confused.

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Yeah.

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It's not like, it's not like in dragon ball's.

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He where like freeze is voiced by a woman in the dub.

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But you could tell it's a, it's a, it's a girl.

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It's the care just supposed to be a man.

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Right.

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But it's voiced by a woman.

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Like they say, oh, frizza, he's so evil.

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But in this one they're like, oh, okay.

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In the subversion in Japan, this person's referred to as if it's a female, and

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the dubs virtue to as it's a male.

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I don't know if, look, maybe we caught something wrong.

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I mean, we are, it is possible.

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We are from the south, so Yeah.

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Are southerners, we might not be that cultured.

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We might, it might be just confusing to us or something like that.

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Like I, dude, I have no idea, but Yeah, he's in, he's in drugs.

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He also says that he has like 13 other brothers and sisters.

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Now when you look up this person, historically, it says it's a guy.

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So I'm not really sure.

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Yeah.

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But yeah, then it's like the, the Japanese people are referring to

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this person as if they're a woman.

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Here's the crazy part though, like not historically, but throughout the

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characterization of elves, they're, they tend to be very attractive.

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And they even say like, Hey man, like, You're like really good looking.

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Yeah, they do say that.

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And he was like, oh, I had, what did 13 si brothers and sisters and they were

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all leagues leagues more attractive.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Do you, do you understand?

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Do you believe me?

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Yeah.

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And they're like and they're like, whatever man.

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I guess like, yeah.

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Are you gonna teach us to shoot the bow and arrow like or not?

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Yeah, it is.

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So also one thing that I think is kind of interesting is that they

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are, apparently there's like.

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Just a guy who, we haven't really learned his name yet, but he is like an airplane.

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He's like some sort of World War II Japanese fighter.

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I think he, I don't know if he was a a Ka cosley pilot or what happened, but he's in

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a pilot who shot down a bunch of dragons.

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Dude, that was crazy.

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It was an awesome scene.

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And then that just like, he just crashes his plane and they're like,

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oh, yep, I'm gonna fight people.

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I hate to break it to you, but like, if you're, you feel like an airplane, how are

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you gonna rebuild this airplane in this I.

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Fantasy world.

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Right?

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And if your skill is only, oh, I fly planes.

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Sorry bro, there's no planes.

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These other guys are ura and archers and like, you know,

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dragons and magicians and Right.

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Butch Cassidy into Sundance Kid, they have guns and gunpowder and ammo for

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somehow they get like more ammo somehow.

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Whatever.

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Somehow, yeah.

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Suspension of disbelief.

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Yeah.

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I mean like, at least with the Hannibal is, he's like, oh,

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you know, I never had any guns.

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So my whole thing is like I, I know what tactics.

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If your thing is flying planes, there's no planes, bro.

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I don't know how you're gonna do that.

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Well, they might, they might do some do some hocus pocus and, you

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know, I only got six episodes left.

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I hope that I leave it up to chance for the second season that does not exist.

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Yeah, well, I mean, do you think it was, do you think Well, I mean,

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there's no seasons that are just six episodes, so, I mean, there, there

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are some, an enemies where I, I, I mean, I haven't seen really any.

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And if you guys know any listening that I, we love suggestions, but like

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that are like only 12 episodes long.

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I don't really know of any that are like that.

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At first I thought that are even one season long.

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I mean, I, were kind of newer.

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We're kind newer to this anyway, right?

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So it's very possible.

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I mean, the only one that I know that I thought was going to be

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one season was I saw part of Guan Log, not part of Guan Log.

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I saw him part of code Gaz.

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Yeah, and then I was told, oh, there's a second season of this.

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I was like, oh, okay.

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But even that one had a second.

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So I have no idea.

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Yeah, I don't, I don't know.

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I'm, I'm, I'm really excited to watch.

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It is a bit slow.

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It is.

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It's slow.

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Yeah, it is a bit slow.

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But it's still pretty good though.

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It could be because we're, they talk a lot about like philosophy

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and how they're doing all these tactics and there's not explanation.

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Right.

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That's what it is.

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We're just Americans and we're just like, get straight to the goal.

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We wanna see, we wanna see violence, we wanna see people

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getting up and like that.

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We wanna, we wanna see it.

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Just skip straight to it.

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So, out of 10 what would you give it so far?

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I'd give it like a, 7.5 outta 10.

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Yeah, no, that's pretty solid.

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Yeah, I'll go with that.

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I'll go with 7.5.

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Yeah, like, I mean, I'm trying to be partial impartial.

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Because I mean, I really like it, but I mean, I can see how it's

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not a, you know, Great lon saga.

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Not, it's not everybody's thing.

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Right.

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But, alright.

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Well this has been the review of drifters part one.

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Part one, yeah.

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And then we'll be right back with a part two.

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If you guys really like Drifters and you think that it

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deserves like a second season or something like that, let us know.

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Or if you think we're like talking on it, you know?

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Right.

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Or if you actually don't know who the Black King is, we said it might be Jesus.

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We actually don't know.

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Right.

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Just a whole bunch of implications.

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You actually do know.

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I mean we're only on episode six, so, alright.

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So we don't know.

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And there's also no second season to possibly explain the rest of this, right.

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So you do know, let us know and yeah, my name's DJ and I'm Nicholas.

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And this has been Southern Syms.

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