The Southern Senpais review episodes 1-4. Now do they like it, find out in this episode.

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

Here's your hosts, Nicholas and DJ.

What's going on y'all, Southern Senpais here.

We sure are, and what are we going to do today, Nicholas?

What are we talking about today?

You know you fucked up that intro.

Yeah, I fucked up the intro.

So anyway, we're we're looking at Psychopass Episodes 1 through 4.

Previously we had talked about doing this anime because we saw the movie.

The movie was good.

Yeah, the movie was good.

And then we also saw The first episode was pretty good.

The first episode was pretty good.

But now we're doing a review of 1 through 4.

I'm done with this anime.

We've had a bit of a change of tone here.

It's just It has the potential to be a really good anime, but

it just drops the whole ball.

It just, it's repetitive and boring.

Yeah.

And there's not any character progression.

It feels forced.

We're like in episode 4.

The episode 2, all she did was like, Oh, I need to decide if I

want to be in this job or not.

You know what?

In the end, I do.

You took an whole episode to do that?

To decide?

And then one of the, one of the hunting dogs they call him was like, Hey, listen.

You get to decide what your fate is.

Yeah, apparently she's so awesome, like in this world like this, like the law

system also chooses what job you can have.

And, but she's so cool, and she has any job that she wants to.

She, her scores are so high, she can do literally whatever she wants.

And she's oh my god, what's the meaning of life?

Is this the job for me?

And the guy's this is all I can do.

This is all I've been able to do.

Since I was like five.

Yeah, since I was five.

So maybe stop bitching so much and just do it or not do it.

He was like, I've been in jail since I was five because I

could potentially be a criminal.

Which makes a lot of sense.

Yeah.

He was like, I was trying really hard not to be a dick, but

you're really making it hard.

Not to be one.

That was the only scene in that episode I liked.

Yeah, and then episode three Basically, there's some guy who works in a factory

and he's crazy, but he's so predictable.

They're like, oh who could be the killer?

Maybe it's the guy who's getting picked on all the time.

Yeah, and beat up all the time Of course, he's gonna be the one who gets

pissed off and want to kill people.

Yeah, it's very predictable and the thing is They're cut off from

everybody else, so the way they kill time is by bullying each other.

No, bullying one person.

Bullying one person.

And of course, that's the guy who wants to kill people.

Yeah, it's very predictable, and they keep their crime coefficient down.

But also, they don't because everything is completely analog, and you can't

use any technology inside there.

I honestly think that this episode was but those two episodes were

like, I feel like, this episode 4 should have been like the second one.

Because it seems like they're actually building towards something oh you have

a killer, in the fourth episode, there's it's about avatars, and someone's killing

people's online, The actual people controlling their avatars so instead of

what then the avatars to walk around doing stuff we had a hint that's what's that.

That's what was happening is the thing was that they were talking about it.

They were like, what happened to him?

He's he hasn't used any money.

He's got a lot of it He well, maybe he went on vacation.

That's an avatar called the talisman maybe he's on vacation.

Yeah, you can't go anywhere without us knowing.

And then the other dude was like it's quite obvious, isn't it guys?

He's dead right because the plumbing is all backed up and then of course

they look in the sewers and oh chopped up bodies So it's okay.

There's some murderer going around murdering.

That's interesting oh, someone could kill you but still live your digital life.

That's interesting That's yeah But and then I guess they set it up to where

oh, it's potentially some killer person cuz then they kill They do it again to

somebody else at the end of the episode.

But then Okay, this episode is setting up something that was gonna make me watch the

next episode two and three do not do that No, so what can I've already burnt out?

At this point.

Yeah, I'm I'm good on this anime.

I really don't like it.

No Yeah, dude, I don't know worthy what else is there to say about this

I mean There really isn't a whole lot to say Alright guys I am referring

to, I do not know how to stretch out this review These people, there's

like nothing, like nothing happens.

An actual okay.

In the actual four episodes, not a whole lot happens.

In the first episode, you get introduced to okay there's these

people who are like dogs and then they because they're latent criminals.

If you listen to the previous two episodes, it's okay, they're

latent criminals, then they go, find other people who are latent

criminals, and that was cool, right?

Cause you could predict what they're gonna do, but that also makes

them criminals, stuff like that.

And then she ends up shooting one of them that first episode was cool.

It's pretty cool.

But then it, but then it just becomes one note the rest of the anime.

It looks like second, the second episode and the third episode

are trying to recapture the awesomeness of the first episode.

Yeah, it's it's just, it just becomes very redundant and

has four seasons and a movie.

This thing has four seasons.

And a movie.

And the movie is good.

The first episode's good.

So I feel like somewhere else around here, it's probably good.

But I was telling this to Nicholas.

I was like, look.

I am not that type of person.

Don't tell me it gets good at episode 6.

Or don't tell me it gets good at episode 8.

Just make it good From the beginning.

Here's so we just did Bleach Blood War.

Right?

Thousand Year Blood War.

Blood War.

Bleach Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah.

Yeah.

Those episodes were really good.

Now We couldn't keep up with everything that was going on.

Because the pacing was so incredibly fast.

Bleach is known to really stretch out its episodes.

Yeah, but for some reason they decided they were like, you know what?

We're not stretching shit.

In fact, we're condensing it for Bleach.

All of them.

Take their inspiration from Dragon Ball Z.

Remember back in the day with Toonami, It took like NEXT TIME ON DRAGON BALL

Z It took ten episodes to do a fight.

Because they were sitting there talking to each other the whole time.

And that, and Toriyama's explanation is they are moving at light speed.

So that five minutes is actually five minutes.

It's just that they're moving at light speed.

Yeah, but then they're also talking to each other.

And light is faster than sound by a lot.

It doesn't matter, anime.

Yeah, anime logic.

I'll check that one out the anime.

But this is different.

It's there's just I think that I can see where someone's argument where Oh

that's a shonen, that's all fighting.

Okay, but you can't act like there's not potential.

When we watched the movie, there was fighting in there and shooting

and I go very action based.

Yeah, and the first episode seemed very action based, but then the

last two episodes seem like it was like Sherlock Holmes the obvious.

It wasn't like, like when you write a mystery, it has to be mysterious.

Like this fourth episode.

Okay, there's a killer.

You don't know who he is.

He's killing people behind the scenes, right?

He's this group of people that are killing these avatars.

That's like mysterious, right?

And it's hard to predict what's going on because you don't know what happened.

But the first, but two, the It's supposed to be some action mystery shown in, there

was literally none of that in episode two.

And then also, They weren't really even world building either.

I mean you saw people put on clothes, but I feel like, hollow clothes,

but I feel like that could have been You know, I have it for Russia.

There was not a question in my mind.

It wasn't like, oh god.

Please, I just, it's just such a burning question how we will

get dressed in the future.

I'm not gonna lie though, getting that little pod thing and then

choosing your clothes based on the combinations you have, based on the

clothes you have, that's pretty dope.

It is pretty dope is it, there's so much potential here.

Yeah.

That's what makes it sad.

There was no It just feels real forced.

There was, they tried to develop the characters, but they

also didn't at the same time.

Like it was All I feel like I know is Kogari.

Cause he's oh, I used to be a cop.

But then something happened.

And now I'm just as crazy as everyone else.

And I have to, I will complete my mission.

Whatever that is.

And then everybody, and then old girl look like she's 9 years old.

Yeah, the main character is oof.

She's not a lolly exactly, but I would say that she's like a tall

lolly is what she looks like.

A what?

One of those tall, one of those, yeah, I think they're called lollies aren't they?

When they're children or some bullshit.

A sucker?

She looks like a tall child, Nicholas.

Oh, did you say lolly?

Yeah, that's what is a lolly?

I don't know what a lolly is.

That's what they that's what they call them.

They call them when they're like a child.

When who's a child?

Nigga, the characters.

Bro, what are we talking about?

I don't know.

I don't know what a lolly is.

That's what I just told you.

You say, I don't know what it is, but I'm telling you now.

And you say, oh, what is that?

And I just repeat it over.

It's a child.

Okay.

Do you know a child is okay, so back in the day were so where

you get the name were born.

where did you get the name lolly from?

When you just look up anime.

Apparently lolly is a term for why didn't you just say that?

I did say it and you said, I don't know, but I didn't know

where you were getting lolly from.

You didn't ask me where I got it from.

All you said is, what is that?

And I then told you, I meant to say, where did you get the.

Term lolly.

Then ask me that.

Don't think that and not ask me that.

See, this conversation right here is more interesting than The three

episodes we just watched of this anime.

Who's the script writer for this?

First of all, this shit says, okay I'm looking at the pause credits for this.

It says the script writer for this Japanese anime was

Jared Hedges and Blair Rowan.

Do you think that, so Ain't no way some nigga named Jared

wrote this Japanese anime.

Do you think, because there's this happens in TV episodes, this happens in epics.

Do you think that there were different directors for each episode?

Or what do you think, caused the first episode to be so good

and then to just fall so flat?

I honestly This is my suspicion.

All right, the movie was good enough for to get us interested in the series, right?

And the first episode was good enough for us to get interested in the rest of

the episodes Two bangers and then somehow this is really boring What I suspect is

this is as is one of those cases where like I think these first two It might

have been just filler episodes two and three I mean Like those episodes like

Naruto's famous for it's filler, yeah, but the filler's still good though.

It's irrelevant.

I feel like cause here's, hear me out.

With Naruto's filler I can't say all of it's good, but a lot of the Naruto

episode fillers you can still enjoy.

To say all of them are good is pushing a little bit.

But, all of them you can still really enjoy, right?

Here's my thing with this.

It feels like they put these fillers in here.

And just to fucking do it.

I guarantee, cause Like the main storyline, based off

what we saw in the movie.

Based off what we've seen in the first episode.

And a little bit, what I like, I see.

If this would have been like the seven episode, second episode.

This episode four, I would have been still more interested in it.

Yeah.

I would have been more interested in seeing that in the episode three,

as you find out who that killer is.

I'm like, okay.

I would have done something different, but it's not a bad show, right?

But, then here's what I think.

I feel like episode 2 and 3 were just random fillers that just weren't good.

And so now, with this episode 4, you're getting back on track

to something that's interesting.

And really they just should have let the, there shouldn't

be any fillers on this at all.

I think that the, I think that the show is already like mid, right?

I think the show's already it's okay.

It's interesting.

It's not whoa!

It's just interesting.

And the thing is that You putting, trying to put terrible

filler in it is just completely turning me off to the whole show.

You know Because you want to space it out.

Yeah, you know what else, I just thought about the issue.

With Arto, his fillers still have arcs to them.

You know what I mean?

The filler, like this is clearly like an episodic show, where one

episode kind of doesn't have anything to do with the last one, right?

Okay.

You know what I'm saying?

Each one is the killer of the week, right?

The monster of the week.

Naruto is not like that.

Naruto is Each episode For you to understand what's going on, you

gotta see the previous episode.

Dragon Ball Z is kinda like that.

This is more I think it works better, Trailers work better

when they work in conjunction.

Let's say that this, I haven't seen episode 5, but let's say that

this episode 4 and 5, We're then tied to one ending one, right?

Okay.

That's an art, right?

It's like a connected fillers.

So it's okay.

It keeps me interested.

Two and three did not do it.

Two should not even exist.

Two didn't do anything.

They didn't show anything in episode two.

Cause I looked up, we saw episode one.

So I was like, let me do some, I'm going to look up some stuff about this.

And all I heard was like.

All I saw was like, first of all, episode 2 is the worst

episode in the fucking series.

And I'm like, that's not good.

That's the second episode.

You'll if you're in, if you're like in the show, you're like 50 episodes deep.

You'll be like, ah, that one was bad, but I might still continue.

Cause I'm 50 episodes in this.

It's the same with One Piece, right?

I went like a hundred something episodes in.

Mind you, it's still One Piece, I don't know if I really want

to continue with this anime.

Not that it's bad, because there are tons of die hard One Piece fans.

It's not that it's bad.

They'll probably kill you for saying that.

For whatever.

It's not that it's bad, it's just, the pacing is bad.

I'm not saying it's a bad show, I'm just like, but, even then, There are,

I don't, But I'd still, I would still come back to it every once in a while.

But that's because the, you let, There was some part of some of the

earlier episodes where you're like, Okay, this is keeping me hooked.

You gotta hook them in the beginning.

You can't just have one good episode up front.

Cause I feel like you dropped the ball.

If one, two, and three are good you're gonna be able to solid fanbase.

If only episode one is good, and the rest of them are terrible, or you have

any sort of dip after that, you're gonna have people like us, who are like, Oh

it makes me more mad that it seemed like I was gonna waste my time with this.

You know what I'm saying?

It felt like a waste of time.

If it was just bad from the beginning, then, we didn't waste our time.

Now we feel like our time's been wasted.

We're not gonna watch more.

No.

No.

We said that about Jujutsu Kaisen, so Dang it!

And we ended up definitely watching more of that.

What if this turned into We were like if you want us to watch more,

then you gotta Download this, and this turns into The fanbase just

wants us to watch crappy anime.

I ain't gonna lie, guys I would prefer if you didn't do that.

I'm actually scared.

Cuz, dude, last time we said something like that, that

became our most popular episode.

By all, it wasn't you could take our next three most popular episodes after

that Jujitsu Kaisen episode, add them together, all the views, and it would not

equal the views that one got when I won.

God, now that we've already said it, look, please They're gonna have us hate watch?

I don't want to do that.

I don't even think Listen, you would have to get I don't know.

A ridiculous amount.

If it does get popular, we'll give it, we'll give it an episode.

Maybe one more.

You wanna get But like a watch along, not like a whole bunch, not

like a review of like multiples.

You wanna tell them if they really support this episode,

we'll give it one more episode?

We'll give it a watch along, like we'll watch along to one episode,

but we're not gonna do like A review?

Where it's freakin 12 of them and be like, alright cool, now let's review.

And it's hey man!

This is the guy that's oh hey, I don't like chocolate chip ice cream.

Okay, then why did you, why do you have a tub of it?

It's oh, yeah.

Or just have it No, I don't.

If you don't like it, have to.

In the same aspect, if you're like, oh, we don't like this.

They watch 12 of them.

Oh, we didn't like it.

That's why we watched the whole season.

It's what?

, that makes no sense.

What, but if you guys want us to check out the next one for a watch

along or if you just have a suggestion for an episode that we should check

out, because I, it, there's a lot of interesting concepts in it.

Two and three.

There were interesting concepts that weren't just executed well,

like I said, they feel like filler.

This episode 4 feels like they're getting back on track.

I don't know.

I will say that if there's That's what I would prefer, is that you guys

say, Oh, there's an episode that you should check out, it's this episode.

And then, we'll do that for our watch along.

But Two would be sucked.

Screw this anime yeah, and then Oh!

And, we will have some special guests on our next episode.

We will?

Yeah!

What, who, what special guests are those?

I'm going to telepathically tell you the names of those special, of the episodes.

Are you ready?

I'm about to import it into your mind.

Okay.

A and A.

Boom!

Boom!

That's how good a friend to be Nicholas.

Here, you see that?

Boom!

Really?

Yeah, double A.

Oh, okay.

Not triple A.

There's too many.

That's too good for us.

We can't do triple A.

But double A.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't want them to come on to the episode that's

gonna be for the psychopath.

That kind of Dude, no.

No, we'll do something else.

We'll do something.

You know what?

We'll do a We'll do a watch along with them.

So that way Oh, we could do Blue Samurai.

. There's some Blue Samurai.

Yeah.

Isn't it Netflix?

On Netflix called Blue Samurai.

Jamie pull up that clip.

Yeah.

Let me Jamie pull up that clip.

. Ja, Jamie, that doesn't really make sense.

We're on a podcast and we're the Joe Rogan, he is like a,

this is like a video podcast.

And then Norm McDonald had video podcast network.

When he was alive.

God, I miss Norm Macdonald.

Rip Norm Macdonald.

You know what we need to do?

We need to say screw this and watch a real anime.

Mike Tyson's Mysteries.

Mike Tyson's Mysteries.

Oh, dude.

We could watch it.

It's a cartoon, but check me out.

Check me out.

Check me out.

If you guys would like us to do a series of anime that's not anime.

That would be cool.

Mike Tyson's Mysteries.

Mike Tyson's Mysteries.

I used to work with a guy in construction.

That's his, that was His name was Mike Tyson?

No, His name was Mysteries?

Okay, can you shut up?

He would, that was his catchphrase.

Chimmy out.

Check me out.

Check me out, out.

Check me out.

What am I supposed to be looking up again?

I don't know.

What were you supposed to be looking up, Jamie?

I wonder if Jamie is a black guy.

I don't feel like that's a I think Jamie is a white dude.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure he is white, but it feels like a black guy name.

I think it's because I'm thinking about Jamie Foxx.

Yeah.

Oh the Netflix thing.

Okay.

Netflix, Blue Eyes, White Dragon.

Blue Samurai.

Blue Eyes Samurai.

The Pale Blue Eye, which one is it?

Oh the Pale Blue Eye is live action, so clearly you're talking

about the Blue Eyed Samurai.

You know what's weird?

You?

The One Piece on Netflix is not an anime, and yet it is One Piece.

Yeah, live action, and then Yu Hakusho is on there.

And they took it down because it was so terrible, but that Death Note was awful.

And then, those not, I can't wait for NATO live action.

You're gonna fuck it up.

Just like the fuck up everything.

Hopefully not okay.

Yeah.

This Blue Eye Samurai.

We'll watch.

Watch or Gundam real time.

I watch.

I just want it to be real Gundams.

That'd be cool.

You wanna watch Real, real Life?

Gundam?

The best thing to watch, the closest thing to watch is probably Pacific Rim.

Yeah.

Because it's just it's a good bad movie.

Yeah.

Yeah.

How did we go from talking about all, that's how much we don't like this anime.

We would rather talk about anything else.

We're talking like about other stuff.

But this anime.

I'm sure these people worked very hard on this anime.

Yeah, people busted their.

This is one thing I will say.

Writers, listen to me.

It is your job to be good.

People bust their ass for the shit that you create.

You know what I'm saying?

Man.

So just and we, here we are just dumping on it.

And then some fucking guy named Jared.

Jared, what's going on bro?

Jared and Blair.

I'm bla I don't believe that the Japanese people fucked this up.

I'm gonna blame you guys for this because we're watching the dub.

Jared Hedges and Blair Rowan.

Because the Japanese translation it says.

Rowan.

It's a, this guy's last name is Oliver?

Masako Oliver.

I ain't gonna lie, that would throw me for a loop if I went to Japan

and I was like, what's your name?

Oh, my name's Oliver.

Really?

Just like how in the Bible you're like, Oh, these are Middle Eastern guys from B.

C.

Yeah, and his name is Tom?

And Peter?

And David?

That's like I used to live with this dude who was black, but he was French.

Yeah.

And the first time I met him, he was like, Woo wee!

And I was just like, Hold on.

Woo wee?

Hold on.

That's the greatest French impression.

You are a tall, black dude.

Ironically, being in America you, we see like a lot of diversity,

but there's still so like when you see diversity that we haven't seen

before, it's like very jarring.

Like I remember I was talking to this one Spanish guy.

I was at a taco truck totally talking to us.

We weren't fucking tacos.

And one of his coworkers was at Asian game.

I don't know what, I don't know Asian from where, but he spoke her for Spanish like.

Rolf Ripp, and I was like, yeah, of course it's possible that Asians can know

Spanish, but It just didn't cross my mind.

Yeah, it surprises you.

There's this chick online, and she's Hold on, we're not talking about anime anymore.

Let's, okay, look.

I'm gonna end this episode, alright?

Look.

If you want us to listen to it, we'll do a watch along maybe, but

just please, for the love of God, tell us which episode to watch.

DM us on Instagram or something like that.

Again, like we said, if you want I'm sure these people

worked very hard on this anime.

I'm sure one of these episodes has to be good.

The concept is good.

Yeah.

One of them has to be good.

Just tell us what you want to watch.

We'll do a watch along with that.

And then we'll have on some special guests probably next time.

Alright, my name's DJ.

I'm Nicholas.

And we'll see you next time.

See ya.

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