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Hajime No Ippo 1 - 10 Review
Episode 306th March 2024 • Southern Senpais • Nicholas Killian and Derek Johnson II
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Listen in as the Southern Senpais give their review of Hajime No Ippo! Episode 1 through 10.

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Howdy!

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It's the Southern Senpai Show.

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Where small town southerners explore big time Japanese entertainment.

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Anime, manga, and everything in between.

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Here's your hosts, Nicholas and DJ.

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What's going on y'all?

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Southern Senpais here.

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Two American guys from the South.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah!

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Who explore Japanese culture.

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Hell yeah!

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You're such a dick, dude.

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He was about to Come on, man, let's do the fucking episode.

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He was about to say what I do.

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I'm DJ!

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I'm Nicholas.

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What are we doing today, DJ?

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Today, we we just recently started watching this show, Hanji made no Ippo.

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Do you want to tell the audience how we got To watching this anime?

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Yeah, sure.

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It was a me and Nicholas, we have day jobs And those day jobs require

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us To sometimes be attached To the entertainment industry And because of

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those day jobs we're working on a project right now that has to do with boxing.

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Someone was like, hey, check out a boxing TV show, you should check out Hajime.

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And we're like, okay, cool.

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And they're like, you should do it on your podcast.

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I'm like, chill out, bro.

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I don't know but the show's really good.

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Yeah, the, I would hate to, I really hate to be that guy that

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says, oh, you have to watch it.

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It gets really good, after, a couple of episodes because I know on the past, in

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the past, we have said, Hey man, just make the anime good from the start.

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How hard is that, man?

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And the thing is it's not that it's not good from the start, but it is a bit slow

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and it is like a slow burn type of thing.

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It keeps you at least interested.

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So we're, so we're reviewing episodes one through ten.

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Yeah, one through ten.

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And the main character's name is Ippo.

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Makanouchi.

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Ippo Makanouchi.

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And Ippo basically he, it's the typical anime setup.

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He gets bullied in high school, and then he gets saved by a boxer.

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And then Takamora.

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Takamora.

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He gets saved by Takamora who saves him from some bullies, which because of anime

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logic sparks his interest in boxing.

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Also, this also implies a grown man was like beating up 16 year olds.

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And trolling high schools.

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What is he he was out running.

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Oh, yeah.

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He was out running, right?

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And then he sees Ippo being beat up under a bridge and he's you know what?

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I'm not only am I going to stop this fight, I'm going to beat up

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the children that we're doing.

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Someone's got to teach them.

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And then, we don't.

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Someone's got to raise them, either their parents or the streets.

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And we also remember the reason why he gets bullied so much is because

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his mom runs a fishing business, so he always smells like fish.

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Oh yeah, so these bullies are like, haha, your single mom was trying to

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pro you're helping out your single mom, trying to provide for her, by helping

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out with the family business so you guys aren't poor and homeless, even though

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you guys are obviously clearly poor.

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We should beat you up for this, because and that's the reason

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why his self esteem is so low.

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That's the one thing that anime never really connects with.

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In real life at least American culture, I don't know, maybe in

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Japanese culture, they beat up on kids who have single parents.

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But, maybe, I don't know, maybe that's what ticks them off.

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But over here, it's usually oh, you look funny, or even if someone

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smells funny, you're like, Dude, why do you stink like that?

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And someone goes, Oh, I'm sorry, my dad's dead.

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So I had to help out my single mom on our, in our business.

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You know what I'm saying?

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So that way, we can eat.

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And you're just like, oh, okay.

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Yeah, now you feel like a dick.

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Yeah, and then you see And then you would also, if you saw someone picking

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on this guy, you'd be like, Oh, I'm about to beat up this bully's ass.

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Bro don't pick on this guy.

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What's wrong with you?

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His, it's not his fault he smells like fish.

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He's trying to survive, like, anyway, so that sparks his interest in boxing.

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And he has natural punching talent.

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And his what's the, Takamura basically gives him a test.

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Cause he's ah, I want to be a boxer.

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And he basically gives him a test.

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And Takamura's eh, I don't really want to deal with you.

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And he said, listen, if you can catch ten leaves.

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With your jabs all in the same cuz he's got a hit the tree And then he leaves

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Russell and right if you could do that, then I'll train you I'll bring you to

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the gym and you can become a boxer, which is funny because After this, he

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does not train him, the coach does.

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Exactly.

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Actually Well, to be fair, the coach is I'm training him.

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Because Takamora's hey, I found him.

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But he's nah, but you can fuck off.

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I'm training him.

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Yeah, because Takamora's a bit of a how would you describe Takamora, Nicholas?

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A dick.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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No, he's, this dude is a, dude, He's a huge guy.

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He's a huge guy.

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Physically assaults his so called friends all the time and fuckin looks

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at people's dicks in the shower.

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Yeah, he grabs their dicks in the shower.

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Now, I'll be honest, I have never done that to either one of my friends.

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My friends have never done that to me.

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And I feel like that would be grounds for not being my friend anymore.

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That would be like, hey man, how come you're not my friend?

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Cause you grabbed my dick?

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And also What's wrong with you, bro?

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Epo just so happens to have a big dick, right?

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Which is like a plot point in one of the episodes?

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In one of the episodes, the plot point is, Oh my god, you've got a huge dick, ha.

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Yeah, uh, this is, that part was mad weird, but the rest of it's good!

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The rest of it's fine!

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We're taking it to a new level!

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The, yeah the shower scenes are, I, maybe that's a cultural thing?

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We are Southern Senpais, so we are exploring different cultures.

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That's not a side that I really want to explore.

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No, when you're in high school, you have locker rooms when you're like,

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training and stuff like that, but I've It's not been my experience of people

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going around grabbing each other's dicks, but once again, maybe it's

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because we're from the south, right?

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Maybe that's it.

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This could be a greeting in japan.

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You don't know they were oh hello.

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Nice to meet you I mean in one of the later episodes they do, you know walk

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in and they're grabbing on each other.

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Yeah!

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It's what is happening?

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But anyway.

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Anyway.

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Usually out of these 10 episodes, it was maybe like seven

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minutes, which is very jarring.

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But and then, so we sit there and, like you said, Ippo has this incredible boxing

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power, punching power that they find out just through the magic of anime logic.

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And his, he sucks.

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Yeah, he sucks pretty hard, but he has like good punching power.

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So they're like, oh okay, cool.

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So then, they start, he's, he also not Hold on, we gotta back up.

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By the way, Takamora did not think that he would Succeed in the leaf thing.

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No, he didn't.

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He just told him that just to just like to bullshit him, but Apo actually does do it.

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So that's why he's oh, I guess I have to train you now.

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Because the thing is he offered that as a training to be like,

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if you'll just get away from me.

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He was like, nobody with no boxing experience could ever do this.

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But because anime.

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He does it.

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And then he gets introduced to all of the, the friends of the boxing gym.

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All the other characters.

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They talk about the importance of discipline and hard work and, he

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journeyed towards becoming a boxer and he's oh, maybe I can Now, I watched

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the American dub of this and the coach sounds like he sounds like Mr.

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Krabs from Spongebob.

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He sounds exactly like Mr.

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Krabs.

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Get your head out of the game, kid!

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But it's like Mr.

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Krabs saying it.

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I didn't realize that till just now that he sounds like Mr.

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Krabs.

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He sounds exactly like Mr.

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Krabs.

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It's if you in this show, because we watched the English dub of it, in this

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show, if you like, Epo, I need you to, I know you, you need to stop boxing

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and start frying up some patties.

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I would not have thought twice.

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I'm like, yeah, no, that makes sense.

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You know what's really crazy is that, The friends that they find, they're actually

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really encouraging of Ippo, right?

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Because whenever he first starts, everybody is just miles better than him.

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And they're just like, but then they're just like, oh this

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dude has got knockout power.

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If he's got that, then, you know what's interesting?

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There's like a, there's like a have some shots where you see

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there's clearly a whole bunch of other people there in the gym.

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So there's Takamura, there's Ippo, there's the coach, there's like

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the general manager guy who wears glasses, and there's two other guys.

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Who is that's like the main cast.

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And then, he has this little gym rival.

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Yes.

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Rival with Midoriya.

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Midoriya.

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And Midoriya's thing is he can't throw heavy punches, but his

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technique is like Impeccable.

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He's like a genius, right?

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Cause his dad's a his dad was a former professional boxer.

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So he's Because of anime logic, what ends up happening is Ippo has

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never boxed before in his life.

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He is just a little punk.

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And Midoriya has been training his entire life.

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Has flawless footwork.

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The only thing he lacks is punching power.

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And Ippo gets there and is Okay, if you can survive in the ring

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for three rounds, I'll make sure you become a professional boxer.

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And what he means by that is that he'll get his, he'll go

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off and do the boxing card.

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And Ippo wins because anime.

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Because anime.

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But I will say this.

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And mi what's Miata, right?

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Miata the rival mid, is it mid or mid Miata?

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It's Miata.

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Yeah, it's E Iro.

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Iro Miata.

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I'm thinking Meria from my hero.

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Academia.

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Yeah.

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I'm not really little of the wrong show here but anyway, we are

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southerners, so so is all the M names.

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Hey, y'all gotta figure that out.

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Anyway, so Iro Miata, this guy, he takes that loss and is you know what?

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Now that I've lost and I'm gonna go enter, it's cause they enter in, I

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think a tournament later, don't they?

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First, what happens is he loses.

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But then And he's shook to his core about this.

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But then But I went to, bro, I've been training for 10 years, and

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this guy's ooh, I to do anything.

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And then he knocks me out, I'm like, okay, so what the fuck have I been doing?

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Yeah, my whole life, if this nobody, who's nothing, Can sit there.

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Mind you, these people are like 16 years old.

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Oh, yeah.

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Because anime, they're 16.

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And then and even though he, then he goes I think he gets his, I

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think he gets his boxing car too.

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Yeah.

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And but what ends up happening is he has the three months, right?

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They train for three months to counter, what's very interesting is I like how

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they have kinda like realistic timeframes.

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They're not like, oh, your fight is next week.

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Give a week to master this.

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Okay, you fight's in another week, give em a week to master this.

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It's no, it takes months of training, right?

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It take, it takes months and months of training.

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And there's a lot of training in the show.

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There is a lot of training in this show, but I think it's realistic,

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because in some instances, they're like, Oh, you have a month till this

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fight, so you better really train up.

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It's okay a month is a long time.

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And they're like, no, it's not.

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It's no time at all.

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It's no time at all, but at least it's not like in, Dragon Ball Z, where it's oh.

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You had 48 minutes.

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You have three days to make sure that you don't lose in this fight

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that will destroy the Earth.

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So I think that the one thing I like about this show I'll say this one

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thing I really enjoy about the show is that the main character, he's like a

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very he's like a very likable person.

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I think this is like the era of like anime where like all the main characters

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are just like unnaturally nice.

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To like early thousands, like late nineties or something

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like that, those first seasons.

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Also whenever he wins a match, he just bows.

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He's Oh, thank you.

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I think they do that in Japan, though.

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I think they bow for Oh, so we're just the dicks that are just like,

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whenever we win a match, we're just like, Yeah, fuck you, man!

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Yeah, I think that's I think they do to show respect or thanks.

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Us, we just eh, screw it.

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And then also, towards the end, it's in preparation for his first match, right?

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He has his first match with this guy named Oda.

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And Oda is this, first of all, once again, Ippo is 16.

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Oldest mid twenties, and they're both featherweight class.

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And for some people who are in the featherweight, these guys have

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some giant, ripped muscles to be in this frickin featherweight class.

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These people look like they're in their mid twenties.

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And heavyweight, dude.

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Epo shows up ripped, jacked, and they're like, I'm like, dude, what?

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I thought he was a And they're like, he's he looks huge.

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And he's yeah, I'm a featherweight.

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Are you?

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Are you?

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And I was like these people are 125 pounds.

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Bro, I ain't gonna lie, that episode where wherever that, the

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evil guy's name is where they had, where they were going for that card.

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He, so there's this, I don't know who this person is yet.

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I think he's, I think it's Machiba is his name.

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Machiba?

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Yeah, Royal Machiba.

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Anyway.

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He they took some sort of tests for the boxing card, to get their boxing

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card, which I think is pretty standard in Japan, I assume, I have no idea.

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But, during the fight, all you had to do was just say, you put on your headgear,

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you go in front of the judges and say, Hey, just so that you know how to

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box, just punch around a couple times, dodge a couple times, and then leave.

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You're not really supposed to win or lose who cares, right?

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It's just to show that you can box in general.

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Or that you're learning something at your gym, right?

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So oh, I know different kinds of punches, I know how to defend, this is that.

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This man obliterates one of the this other kid for no reason.

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With a whole bunch of Flicker Jabs.

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I do First of all, that's something that this series has done a lot.

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They see a whole bunch of different types of punches.

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That I did not even know existed.

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No, didn't know.

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They have The Hitman style Flicker Jab.

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That And that's just that's this bad guy style.

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The Hitman Flicker Jabs.

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And I'm just, And They reference so many American boxers, I'm, like

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Dang, we're gonna look this up.

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Who are this guy?

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And so what ends up happening is they do a rematch to they do

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a rematch to What is his name?

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Miyata?

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They do a rematch That's his name, right?

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Ichiro I don't know who you're trying to talk about right now.

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Ichiro Miyata.

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What about him?

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They do their rematch.

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Oh in the gym.

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You just said that we're talking about that.

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I was talking about something else.

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How was I supposed to know that's who you were talking about?

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Yeah, but Yeah, so they do it, so they finally do their rematch, and,

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it goes a lot better this time.

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And but then, they have a promise to meet again, right?

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Towards, remember, Miata leaves his gem.

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Oh yeah, Miata leaves the gems, that way, cause he can't be Ippo's rival

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if they belong to the same gem.

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Because what ends up happening is that he loses, and then They don't see him.

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And what's the guy's, what is it Machina Uchi, loses his inspiration and

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loses his determination to get better.

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Because, you haven't seen Miyata.

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His, Miyata was like his goal.

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He lost to Miyata the first time.

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And it's oh.

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Now I'm going to fight Miata and like he wins the second time so

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now he's lost that and he meets him outside right and then this man

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wanted to be Sasuke so bad standing on top of the stairs Looking down.

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I'm like, we're gonna meet again.

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Like bro.

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You are not son.

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You're not in the edit, bro Ain't no bitches about to

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come out when you say this.

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There's no like music that's about to play like chill out, man Because he

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thinks that he lost he left the gym because he beat him, because he beat

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him and he's just a little bitch, right?

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And he's he couldn't handle it, he's no, the only way we can face

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each other in the pros, is if we don't belong to the same gym.

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If we don't belong to the same gym.

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Which makes sense.

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That does make sense, but you couldn't say that?

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Be like, hey, yo hey, I'm leaving because of this reason.

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To be fair, Epo's the only one who would be left in the dark about

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this, cause, I assume that, I guess the other ones would know that.

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Yeah, why wouldn't anybody tell him?

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I don't know.

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These, again, these people are his boxing friends are dicks.

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So Dude, his boxing friends are some weirdos.

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Yeah, you know what's crazy?

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It's like I mean It didn't seem like he was unpopular in school.

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Didn't some people like ask to hang out with him in like the first episode?

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And he was like no, I'm not gonna do that.

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Yeah, they asked to hang out with him, but he couldn't hang out with them

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because of the fact that he worked with his mom's fishing business.

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And the only reason why he was able to get into boxing was because his mom told

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him, hey listen, it seems like you've been really happy these past couple of days.

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Do you like boxing?

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Whatever it is that's making you happy.

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Please just continue to do that.

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I'll handle the fishing business and then she or did she already know it was boxing?

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No, he had to tell her and then it was like she was like, oh, go do

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that cuz he was like, I'm worried that you don't have enough help.

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She was like nah, I got this So he's like, all right, cool.

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And then he goes Which is crazy because his mom works at night loading fishing

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boats Yeah, I'm not gonna seem like the safest job for you know Built different

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I guess they built different that's why they're drawn like white people

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because they're just built different.

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They're white people who live in Japan.

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They're built different, bro.

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There's a part that you don't understand about things.

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The culture of Japan is just different.

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To be fair, even what's his name?

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Takamora?

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Takamora is like really tan.

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Takamora is a menace, dude.

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He is.

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He's he's the middleweight.

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And he's they always call him the big guy.

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Which I'm like, dang bro, he's a middleweight?

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He seems to me like he would be a heavyweight, right?

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Cause like how big he's drawn and 5'9 right?

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Yeah!

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They call him big guy and he's like huge and towers over everyone else.

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But he's 5'9 5'10 And I'm like, bro, what, How tall are these 16 year olds?

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Yeah, cuz I'm like this doesn't make how tall cuz Ippo is so in episode

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10 where we already stopped He's about to go fight this guy named Oda

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who's like a mid 20s person, right?

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And this is a grown ass man.

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Everybody else is grown as hell Ippo is a little shorter

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than him, but not really right?

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So I'm just like Bro, how big are these regular people because

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Ippo I guess it's five five Okay.

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Yeah, but that doesn't make like they make Takamura seems like he's like

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6'4 compared to his 5'5 Yeah, he looks like he's 6'4 I mean he's a psychotic

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person when it comes to training.

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Yeah, to training, and he, no, I think the starvation diet is

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like a real thing that people do.

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So to get ready for one of his fights, he does this thing called

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like a starvation diet, which he like only eats a tomato for the day.

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Oh, and one of his one of their friends owns a ramen shop?

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He, I think he works at the ramen shop to make money.

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Works and Takamura's yeah, he's such a shitty boxer That he has to

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earn money by working a regular job.

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I was like, dude, that's, it's, and then he Maybe if you were better at

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boxing, the thing you wanted to do in your entire life, you wouldn't

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have to work this job, bitch.

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Terrible.

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You're an What's his name?

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Mak Ippo.

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Ippo, yeah.

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Ippo's damn, these people are weird and crazy.

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Yeah, so they have the other two guys names.

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One of them is Masuri Aoki.

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Aoki is one of them.

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And then, the other one Aoki's the one who's working at the ramen place, though.

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Aoki's the one that works at the ramen place?

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Yeah, Aoki does.

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And, there's also this reporter guy named Fuji.

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Now, I remember Fuji because I've been thinking to myself like,

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not hearing the word mountain in front of that is really weird.

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But, he's Fuji and he's like a sports writer.

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Now, here's the thing.

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Fuji's drawn like he's 45, but he's only 23, so Oh, really?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, he looks like he's in his mid thirties.

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Bro, this man And I was like, why does he look so old?

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I get it anime, but seriously, this guy looks super, super old.

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23.

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And then I was like, oh, he's a reporter.

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No, I get it.

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This guy's chain smoking.

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This guy has a a problems and shit.

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Oh, he's a reporter.

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Okay, yeah, cool.

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And then, Are in the 1 through 10.

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This is the, this is, we're in the same episode arc where the guy who's like lazy.

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Yeah, so it's about the fight.

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So Oda, his upcoming rival, so at the end he stepped in the ring, but we

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actually didn't get to see the fight yet.

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This guy named Oda is basically, he's a good boxer, but he's just

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super lazy because he wins all of his fights really lazily.

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So he doesn't go to training, nothing.

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And this guy, his trainer is hey, you know what?

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If you don't start boxing seriously or take box seriously, I'm not gonna

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let you have sex with my daughter anymore Wait, what and so have

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you lost his last three matches?

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Yeah, he lost his last three matches because he wasn't training you're just

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being lazy because when he would go out and do his road work His, the coach's

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daughter would be like at a cafe.

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Yeah, and you just go meet her with her And he would just stop his

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road work and meet her in the cafe.

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And the crazy part is, the coach would know that!

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Yeah!

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And would be out searching around for him.

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How big is this town that he knows, like First of all, it seemed In the, I think

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they said in the episode, he was like, I always meet you at the same cafe.

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Bro, coach, why are you looking?

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You know where they are you saw He's over there, and he's about to put the schmooze

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on your daughter again because apparently they're in a relationship right and then

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so she comes to him and she says hey listen if you don't Win your next fight.

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I'm breaking up with you and he's oh my I, look, I'm a man and,

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Nicholas also has the Y chromosome.

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Let me tell you something, that's a good motivator.

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He literally changes almost instantaneously.

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She's look, if we, if you don't, if you don't take this boxing

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seriously, it's over between us.

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He was like, Okay, I'm gonna go start training right now.

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Goes on this huge training arc.

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Through the rain and everything.

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I'm like, bro, all it took was for her to say No more coochie?

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This shook this man to his core.

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To the point to where his trainer was like, Dang, bro, what kind are you?

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Why you training so hard?

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So he gets into the ring, right?

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Yeah.

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And loses.

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It's a great, it's a great, match.

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Oh, what it does?

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Yeah.

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I don't think, I think that's Alright, just full disclaimer.

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Nicholas, you've exposed it.

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That's not in episode 10.

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That's like episode 11 and 12.

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Oh.

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We might have watched it a little bit sooner.

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Beyond.

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Anyway.

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And episode 10 is And episode 10 is when they went into They, they just

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We tried to fake it as if we didn't watch those episodes, but we did.

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Yeah.

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I want to say something that's really I will say this, I think there's something

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also a lot of modern anime is lacking.

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It's like really good parts to end the end the episode on.

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It's like addictive.

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Yes, so The pacing is really great.

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The pacing is great because episode 10 ends on the fact that he just

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goes into It starts, so it's oh man, now I gotta click the next one.

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Now I gotta click the next one.

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I gotta find out if the guy, you know Gets his girl back.

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Does the man get the coochie or not?

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But what do you think about the first two episodes so far?

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I think it's pretty good.

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As a writer, what do you think about these episodes?

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I personally don't think I could have written this.

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Or I don't think it's a style of writing that I am really

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into, but I really enjoy it.

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And so I personally, I really like the series.

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I like a whole bunch of things about it.

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It's pacing is really great.

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I enjoy a lot of its characters.

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Something I will say is that it does a really great job of getting you to like

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a character in five to ten minutes.

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Something that this series does really well.

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You can meet some, meet, they can say, Hey, look, this is my friend, Bojo!

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And you'll be like, okay, this is some new character, Bojo.

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And then five minutes later, you'll be like, I'd kill someone for Bojo.

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Bojo's awesome.

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One of the craziest things about this anime, is the character development is

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so good, but so fast at the same time.

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It's like hard to imagine that I care so much about all these side characters,

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and it's not just you walk in the gym and it's just, dialogue here, dialogue there.

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These side characters are developed as well.

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Yeah, everyone's, every single one of the characters is so developed, you understand

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all of their motivations and You're like, you understand all their motivations,

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their hopes, their dreams, all 27 of the people, and it's only 10 minutes in.

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And you're like, dude, what is going on here?

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One thing, and that's why I just really have to give it up to its pacing.

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It's pacing is at that perfect mode to where it's fast enough to where

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nothing is, it's fast enough to where nothing is wasted, but it's slow enough

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for you to just, for you to enjoy it.

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Yes, it's for it to be believable, rather for it to there's a

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lot of it that is believable.

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I think that's I think that's its biggest thing.

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Yeah, because they're training for months upon months of for

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this one fight for this one fight.

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I think people really What's the word?

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They really identify with Ippo, right?

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Because what the saying goes, it's like, it's okay if you don't know how to fight,

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but if you choose not, if you don't want to learn how to, or no, what is it?

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It's it's okay if you're weak, but if you stay weak.

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Then that's the issue.

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Oh, I thought I was used to force.

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Something like that.

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What are you doing, Star Wars?

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What the fuck?

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He said something like that.

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We're not talking about Star Wars.

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This is anime.

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Adam, why did you agree with me?

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You're like, yeah, something like that.

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I was trying to think, I was like There's some type of quote that's like I, I

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don't know, I don't know the quote.

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I know, you're talking about that one where it's like It's

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better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in water.

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No, that's, but I get what you're Is that what you're trying to say or no?

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No, that's not what I'm trying It's a different one.

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It's But that's basically the sentiment.

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It's Hey, listen, there's no problem if you are weak, But it's

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your problem if you stay weak.

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Thanos.

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Somebody.

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Somebody say it.

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No man, it's not that house.

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Somebody.

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I don't know who it is.

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So I'm no better off than you.

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I don't know, but I feel like I have heard that from somewhere before.

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I don't know where.

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It's probably another anime.

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Probably.

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But we're not.

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What would you say about this?

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Do you like it?

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I like it it's got a bit of a slow burn to it.

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Yeah.

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The fight I do like the way, like the inner dialogue.

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Some of it's not, because usually, especially with anime, you have

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these long inner dialogues.

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It's hilarious.

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We were watching what was that other anime, the soccer

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anime that we were watching?

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Bluelock.

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Bluelock, and then, the inner Man, the inner dialogues in Bluelock

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were like the whole episode.

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The whole episode was like, I can't believe I like boxing.

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The, I can't believe I'm smart enough I can't believe I'm smart

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enough to understand that if I kick this soccer ball at this blade of

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grass, it'll kick off at a 45 degree angle, and you're just like, What?

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What are you talking about?

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And he's But, my power is that I see where the other soccer players are.

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Yes.

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Y So I'll Spatial awareness.

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What?

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Spatial awareness?

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That's your ability?

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That was so stupid.

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But I will say this is the inner, this is like the type of anime we

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expect to be a lot of inner dialogues, because they're in there boxing, right?

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There is inner dialogues, but it's not as long or as big as I originally

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expected them to, and I think it's because he has those other side

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characters, who are basically saying Oh, hey, watch out, or Actually, this

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is what's going on with that person.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Also, what I think that this anime does is portray real friendship dynamics.

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Instead of it being like, Don't get me wrong, the fantasy anime

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friendship dynamics are cool.

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But I think that In this anime, the friendship dynamics are

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a little bit more realistic.

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Yeah, that's cause like, when you're really friends with someone,

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sometimes they're just jerks, just cause they are, for no reason.

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Because you can just do that.

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Comparative to like, a lot of other animes, they're like,

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we're friends, so look, here, let me share this bread with you.

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No, your best friend's gonna be like, hey man, do you want some bread?

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Yeah, sure, man.

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All right, cool.

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I'm gonna eat all this for myself.

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I don't know where you're getting your bread from, but hey, You know.

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I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire.

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And they'll be like, hey, that guy's mean.

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and you're like, no, that's my friend.

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He's a dickhead.

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Anyway we're going to, in the next episode, we're gonna do,

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what is it, 11 through 21?

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Sure, why not?

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Yeah, 11 through 21 is the next one.

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All right, cool.

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So what would you read it so far?

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I'll be I'd probably give it a 7.

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5 7.

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5.

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What would you give it?

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I'm leaving it.

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I'll give it a solid 8.

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I think it's a solid 8.

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Solid 8?

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Yeah All right, cool.

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I'm Nicholas Killian.

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I'm DJ.

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And we'll see y'all next week.

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See ya.

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This has been Southern Senpais on Comic Con Radio.

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