Watch the very highly requested Solo Leveling Ep 1 with your favorite Southern Senpias!

Howdy.

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

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

Here's your hosts, Nicholas and DJ.

What's going on y'all?

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

I'm Nicholas.

I'm

DJ.

And.

I did not Fuck up that intro.

Yeah, man.

I'm so so proud of you.

You see I mean it only took a year Yeah, this is yeah, it took about a year for

him to get it correct But you know what that must have been like the hardest 10

seconds of your life, but eventually but you did you worked out It's all good.

He will never mess up again.

Isn't that right, Nicholas?

I probably will.

Nah.

Let's go ahead and put it down for a hundred dollars.

I'll never mess up again.

No, I'm not gonna do that because last time I lost that hundred dollars.

Ooh, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.

Nicholas lost that bet last time hard.

That's, that has nothing to do with it.

We'll talk about that later, but today we're gonna be watching solo leveling.

Yeah, so we were debating on finishing Ippo Makarauchi but then we've had

multiple people in the DMs and friends of ours be like please do solo level.

Do a launch along to solo leveling.

So this two people in particular, I'm going to shout out.

I'm going to shout out Alison, the hammer and Ida from Norway.

Yeah.

Ida, these two people really decided to lead the charge on making sure we did this

episode, making sure we did this episode.

Actually Alison was the first person to suggest it to us.

And then I don't know if she has like friends or whatever, but then

that's when we started to get the floods of Oh, you guys should do this.

I was like, all all right.

All right.

All right, man, and then you know, then You're getting

we're getting dms from europe.

It's like, all right, fine.

Yeah, fine.

All right We'll do solo level.

We'll do solo level.

We'll do this watch along.

Today I'm using my scene enhancer.

Oh yes, the scene enhancers.

Yes, the scene enhancers.

The scene enhancers today are brought to you by Modelo.

They are not sponsored by us.

But, that's just what we have.

I have I'd probably get cancelled if I tried to say that.

It's the flavoured ones.

Mine's is limon y sal.

And yours is naranja.

Yeah, I was gonna say something else

It's pronounced Yeah, but And it's orange.

Yeah.

Yeah orange is or just and this episode's gonna be a little bit different this

episode We'll have a little post Part after the end of the episode, but

let's just go ahead and start this watch along as you guys know we don't

have the I guess the Funimation intros aren't even going to exist anymore.

Let's talk about that real fast.

Because Funimation got bought out by Sony.

Oh my gosh.

Crunchyroll got bought out by Sony, so I guess then Funimation died.

More tree stay.

You know what they say, Americans will eventually rule everything.

You will own nothing and be happy.

Americans are like, hey, what are you doing with that anime stuff?

Oh, yeah, it's pretty cool.

Yeah.

But it seems like it's making a lot of money.

So I'm a knee dad.

Yeah.

Oh yeah.

So I'm a knee get, I'm a knee dad.

Lemme get dead.

You can't just buy us out.

Here's over a billion dollars.

Looks like you can buy us out . So we don't have the beginning

studio beginnings, but we do have Che stock beginning at the

the beginning of the episode.

The episode is 23 minutes and 40 seconds long.

So I'm just gonna get and get this party started in 3, 2, 1, play.

It's black.

It's black.

Oh, it says three years ago.

The real question is, will I care today?

Also, you guys should know that this anime follows the typical format of

everybody else is so much bigger, better than the main character.

He's like the weak.

But then, something happens where he becomes O.

P.

Right.

Which is cool, we're also watching dubbed.

Because we're Americans.

Yeah.

Alright.

Eventually, we'll probably buy Japan.

So some mages firing an ant.

To be fair, if ants were like, this big, They would be a real problem.

Yeah, we would be screwed as humans.

There's no way.

They can, they, can't they lift ten times their body weight or something like that?

Yeah, and they replicate so fast Look, he can head from an ant right now.

What was that?

Yeah.

Bro, how come you have holes in your face that aren't bleeding?

Do you see this anime man?

Oh, Wow, what are you confused?

He's healing you.

Yeah

He's doing that thing where he like he's not looking.

Yep, and I get

That's probably the tank Like a tank character.

It's actually a rule in anime that all male tank characters

have to show their abs.

It's not negotiable.

Just like for fanservice women, they gotta show titties.

With the males, if you're a tank, you gotta show abs.

You gotta show abs.

And you have to have that confident smirk on your face.

And if you're somewhat controversial, Or like maybe just a little bit

like oh, i'm like the wild guy you have to have sharp teeth Yeah,

even if you're completely human

Hey that hey, that's me right there.

Hey, I don't oh, I ain't gonna fight.

You ain't gotta tell me twice

I bet you he has the sharp teeth.

We'll wait till we get like a close up shot.

Yeah

Oh That's what's up, yeah, that looked like it hurt really bad

Oh

Okay.

He says, you're a tank, and he says, and, but that's like your job.

Oh, sharp teeth!

Yeah, there it is!

There's the sharp teeth!

Oh, so he's like the Thundercats.

And this guy wants to be Wolverine so bad, it's crazy.

This guy is like Wolverine if he was a wizard.

Oh, he's the smart guy, he's wearing glasses.

That's how you know.

Yeah, man, that's how you know.

Look at these people with these generic haircuts.

That's how you know, they're gonna die, right?

Wait, I'm sorry.

Do you say his name's the drill master?

No guild master.

Oh it's a drill master.

I was about to say I heard drill master I think I know my new

nickname My name is the drill master.

I Will now be formally introduced Okay Oh, how are you telling about them then?

They made swords.

Of hunters.

This reminds me of the Jaeger pilots.

Oh okay.

And that's probably where the main character is.

Except for one guy.

Except for this guy.

Oh damn, so it's set from day one.

So if you're like ranked S, that's life's amazing.

In this world, being born white.

That's what I was about to say.

Being born white is S tier.

Not that, what did the guy say?

He goes, Look I, I recognize such and such is going on, but if I had to choose

a race, Oh yeah, that was Who was that?

That was the dude that was jerking off in front of those people.

Yeah, that's that red headed guy.

Who then went bald.

He was in Parks and Rec, as a cop.

No.

Yeah he was.

Really?

Yeah.

What's his name?

He's a dude who jerked off and then to himself in that hotel and people

like called the cops on him, even though Dave Chappelle was like, this

is the least threatening person ever.

What's his name?

He was on SNL.

He had Louie.

He had Louie.

Louie.

Louie.

Yeah.

Louie CK.

Yes.

Now, to be fair, I might try white once, but I think I would eventually

revert back to black once I don't, I like being able to dance, man.

That's like a real big part of life.

You know what, man?

I'm cool with not dancing, it's a, it's whatever.

I also like having a large penis.

That's, Not gonna lie, that'd be pretty cool.

Just have a much larger than average penis.

You know what's crazy?

Is that in anime They have big penises too?

No.

In anime, they're like Mostly in Japan, like a lot of animes are

either in Japan, or based out of Japan, or Japan like in some way.

And what does this have to do, penis related?

No, ah, so I was gonna say is, it's okay, If you guys like the only reason

that Americans know a lot about like other races I guess have certain

opinions about them is because there's so many different races here, right?

I don't think this would the same joke would translate in Japanese or

like China or something they would everyone's the same race like what?

That's like when we were talking about we had that conversation a while back

about Why are Guys who grow up in the church strange You weird and you are

like and but the thing is like other people hang out with other people

But this one guy and you are like that's because he's homogenous, right?

They don't have any other cultures, you know when you expose you to other cultures

and stuff like that you become like a better more rounded person and Ironically,

most people are somewhat rounded, right?

If you only hang out with one group of people become very weird and homogenous.

Oh, they're about to go in

What I'm waiting for is for the really great guy to, once they get

into action, look at the weakest guy and be like, You fucking piece

of shit, and then go do his thing.

Yeah, either that or he gets just murdered straight off the top.

Okay, so what do you think?

He's getting murdered, straight off the top, so that way they know how

dangerous it is, or you think they're just gonna do the, oh, you suck.

I think it's you suck.

Okay.

First of all, I'll tell you why you're E Ranked.

What is this little dagger you have here?

What are you doing there, sir?

Also, Ahem.

This anime, I already see the, A huge, glaring plot hole issue.

What?

Now, I'm, we just started this anime, And it's pretty good so far, It's pretty

interesting so far it's not like I don't like it, but, They have the Pacific

Rim problem in which why are you going into the portal in the first place?

And if what's coming out of them is just monsters Why don't you just put up some

like instant kill thing right next to the portal because problem solved anime?

Oh, I forget.

I keep forgetting that Be no series.

I keep forgetting that part.

Oh That's why I do it for money.

Now that makes sense The essence stones inside the monsters

are valuable for money that

It just became so realistically as soon as I said that, they instantly

explained why they would do this.

It's for money.

Okay, that makes sense.

Ooh.

You have to fight them off?

I couldn't have thought of that.

I never thought about that.

Are you a healer?

I sure do hope so.

He's gonna be on the brink of death, and then something crazy's gonna happen.

I don't know.

To be fair I don't know how much I would enjoy being this you're

dying and you're healing and dying and healing and dying and healing.

That sounds like horrible for that to happen again and again.

Yeah, that does sound pretty bad.

I think you'll be pleased, Guildmaster.

Regardless of age or gender.

Yeah, because if you, whenever you're born in a certain class.

That's how you know someone's evil, or like they're super powerful, when

they just, when they don't look at you.

Aw, you see that fan service?

Yeah.

Not enough, because these string bean legs are not doing it for me, I gotta

be, I gotta be for real with you.

But she does have slow motion hair, so I think we're supposed

to assume she's attractive.

She has a pink hat on, she must be a celebrity in disguise.

Hey, I was right . That's cool.

Disappearing to no one.

Yep.

You's crazy.

Imagine.

Okay, you okay?

You did not need to back flip onto that.

You dealt with, you were trying to flex.

That was extra.

So imagine this happened some real life, right?

People get powers X, Y, Z, and you had to be one of the normies.

That must suck.

That sucks, dude.

Look at this frame right here.

Her tits are right there, right next to his face.

Oh my gosh.

This is your friend?

You need better friends.

Like she's Oh, I'm doing it because I'm worried about you.

Okay.

But what's this, all this personal shit.

Like, why are you calling me a bitch all the time?

If you're actually worried about me, help me get better.

Cause I'm clearly not going to stop.

And then you want, and then you want me to take you on a date?

Follow.

It's a cultural thing, man.

I guess I just don't get it.

It's a cultural thing.

All right, let's see.

We got what?

Four, eight, twelve, thirteen people.

At least five of them gotta die.

You said five?

I'm gonna go everyone but the solo guy.

Maybe the chick his friend lives, maybe.

But at least everyone else is going to die.

You think so?

Yeah.

Yeah, because I bet you he goes Oh, I didn't.

I'm not letting anyone know I even have this solo leveling power.

Okay, I choose no.

Yeah, how is it a mystery?

We've gone through it so many times in which there's a

whole organization about it.

I love this projector.

This is, oh my god, this is classic school right here.

Yep, school projector.

Why are they used to wheel out the big TV?

That's how you know class is about to be hype as hell, bro.

Right, and you knew the teacher had a hangover.

With the VHS?

With the strap on the TV?

Oh my gosh.

Bill Nye the science guy, yeah, wow Bill, like it's a club Bill.

Or eyewitness videos.

Oh, yeah, what's that one that had the robot and the guy?

That was like an orange robot, you know what I'm talking about?

I think it was the witness one.

Yeah.

It, I want a statue like this.

His last name is Song, stop it.

Didn't this start off as a webtoon?

It was a webtoon?

And then they were like this show.

I heard it started off as a webtoon.

He's gonna sneeze.

Oh, he sneezed.

Yep.

Okay, then leave.

Huh?

You might be right, DJ.

It might kill them all.

What do you mean she's seeing things?

You're gonna think of monsters.

How is it Okay, so she's definitely not seeing things.

How?

You've never been there.

Why did, what?

Does he have on Adidas?

Yo!

Ha!

It's a trap!

Ooh!

That man was quick as a mug, bro.

He got sliced in half.

Damn.

Oh, it looks like just don't touch the door.

You'll be fine.

Alright, let's start rationing out food.

I went to 7 11 before this.

Ha Who wants a Slim Jim?

Oh, hey.

Hit him with the okey doke.

You about to hit him with the Hit him with the look.

Oh!

I told you.

Wow.

Wow.

That's crazy.

Dang, bare hands.

Oh yeah, cause they're all the hospital and college bills.

Hey I'm gonna go be a college person.

Can you kill yourself?

Yeah, sure.

Whoa.

That's crazy.

That's two people down.

Oh, that's the end of the first episode.

That's the end of the first episode.

Oh, wow.

That's actually pretty good.

Yeah, it's actually a pretty good episode.

I can see why so many people suggested this to us.

Nicholas, what do you think?

It was a really slow start.

Yeah.

But, a generic start.

Yeah, a very generic start.

But yeah, no, towards the very end, I was like, Oh, okay, it got better and better.

Yeah so Shoot, I ain't gonna lie.

I'll probably, we'll probably run that episode too.

Yeah.

Yeah, it was awesome.

It was awesome.

So you guys, this came from a suggestion.

Alright, I'm gonna stop these credits.

Alright, there we go.

Anyway, this came from a suggestion.

Yeah.

Send us a DM, send us a message.

And Yeah, maybe we'll do yours next.

Although, we'll probably watch the second episode of, Yeah, we'll probably do the

se We're We'll look We'll think about if we want to do a watch along, or if we want

to do a batch of episodes and then review.

A batch of episodes and then reviews.

Yeah, that there's a re It depends on what it is.

EPO had to be batch of episodes reviews.

There was like 75 episodes in the first season, right?

And we didn't even we didn't even finish all the Delta because some people demanded

soul leveling So now we're doing this and I go back to EPO, but Yeah, no, I

thought it was pretty good at first.

All right, cool.

Guys this this has been this watch along I'm DJ.

Oh Yeah So this has been wait, do we say this has been Southern

Senpais or what do we do?

You tell me, man.

What do you feel like doing, Nicholas?

What do you, this is episode, what, 40?

What do you feel like doing, Nicholas?

What do you feel like doing today?

How do you want to close out?

Let's say this has been Southern Senpais.

I'm Nicholas.

And I am DJ Nick.

And we'll see you next time.

See ya.

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Ya hear?

Alright, are you still here?

Ya hear?

The outro, we already played the outro.

Nicholas, did you attach the outro after the episode?

Yeah.

And people are still listening to us?

Alright.

What, why?

The episode is over, what are you guys doing?

Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know.

Maybe they're maybe they're huge fans.

Oh please, we don't have fans.

We got some.

We got a few.

Today we're Nicholas.

What?

You know in our office

Anyway Nicholas your office is set up with a lot of Harry Potter stuff.

Yeah?

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What do you, did you, cause you know how they made that Star Wars anime?

Would you want them to make the Harry Potter anime?

Yeah.

Yeah, that'd be pretty cool.

They went from the live action itself was pretty cool.

They, there's a Star Wars anime?

Probably.

Yeah.

I didn't know that was a Star Wars anime.

Yeah, they made it.

They made it anime when?

Two years ago.

Oh, I'll have to check it out.

Yeah, there's like a whole bunch of Japanese anime people that

made Star Wars legend and stuff.

They're like, this is like one person has like a light saer in the shape with

an umbrella or something like that.

They should do a Harry Potter anime one, I thought that'd be pretty cool

here's the real thing if you want Harry Potter anime It's like I feel like when

they take something and they make it live action first and then they go to

animation Ends up being pretty good.

But their track record are going from like anime to live action.

Yeah, it's like Terrible.

Because the thing is because whenever You . Whenever you have

animate, you're not limited by anything, just what you can animate.

That's true.

And then if you start in live action, then it's going to be good because

then you can make it, it's already limited unless your Game of Thrones.

Who has 200 million for what, one episode?

No, the thing is, once you go from live action to anime, it

can then be whatever you want.

Oh.

Like it gets better.

It, it's not constrain constrained to reality.

It's now anime.

I'm thinking about putting like more, so in my office, I have

a whole bunch of Marvel stuff.

I have a comic books on one wall, like a comic book wall

and some other signature stuff.

I don't have any Do I have any anime posters up?

I don't I gotta get my anime poster game up.

Yeah.

Oh my gosh My office doesn't have any anime posters in it.

That's you got to get.

Our friend ozzy the virus You got to buy some more posters.

Oh, yeah.

Shout out to ozzy the virus.

Shout out ozzy the virus Yeah, that artist we know that guy in fact

nicholas is in some of his videos.

Yeah he's actually he's actually on our he's one of the guests

You For our film center one.

Yeah.

Yeah, we run a lot of podcasts.

Actually, we do that a lot and I don't know Nicholas

what is the number one thing?

That you always say when someone asks us to help them out with

our podcast What's your budget?

Yep!

That's good!

You always gonna be like, I don't know!

What do you want?

What's your budget?

It's crazy, usually the what do you want part that's hard,

that's like more difficult.

There's so many people that have money, who are like oh, I have Oh, the money's

not the issue, the money's not the issue.

Okay, but what do you want?

I want to be successful.

Congratulations.

So does everybody else.

The thing is the reason why the what do you want part is so hard is because

they haven't done any of the work.

They don't know what they want.

They just know that they want a successful podcast that makes them money.

But they haven't done any work.

None at all.

They haven't done any work on what exactly it is they want.

They haven't figured out any logistics on it.

It's difficult okay, so when we started the podcast, it was like what, we

went down to a bar, and just with a whole bunch of neon flashcards,

and wrote down stuff, and then it was like, oh, okay, this one sounds

really catchy, we should do this one.

Yeah, but we also have been doing this for a year and a half now.

Oh.

Yeah, there's a lot a whole lot of growing pains and a whole lot of things

we had to learn But I also think that we also knew we wanted to do we just

wanted to sit down and then talk About anyway, and that was like the goal

That was as far as the goal went.

Because we knew at some point that we weren't going to have time to

watch anime and this was the reason to do it And lo and behold, we

don't have time to watch anime.

Yeah, it's why we created this podcast.

We had to create work You To make us have fun.

Yeah, that sucks.

We foresaw the future We had to like with like schedule out time to have

fun and also need to like Logistically make it financially right feasible

to have fun and we had to justify Watching anime in the future, right?

Gosh, like the world is so crazy right now.

It is pretty nuts Yeah, man, I mean You I remember when I was in middle

school, if I wanted to get through a, I don't watch a ton of anime I watched

more anime in high school, but if I wanted to get through an entire season,

I would be done in like a night.

Oh, okay, cool, 13 episodes?

I guess I'll just finish this later today, because you have nothing else going on.

You just wake up, and then it's oh.

Yeah, I still haven't finished Ippo.

Oh my gosh, it's so good though.

Yeah, it is pretty good.

Ippo's really good.

I honestly I watched I want to re watch Gundam.

Wing?

Yeah no, all of them from the beginning.

But, That's a lot of episodes.

Yeah, that is.

That's a lot of like series.

Wasn't there a time it was like, there was like multiple Gundam series like on at the

same time, like having at the same time.

There, there are, Gundam started in the eighties, right?

The eighties.

Oh my gosh, that's 40 years ago.

Yeah.

Gundam started, I think Gundam started in like the early eighties

and it's had many incarnations.

Actually.

My favorite is Gundam Wing, obviously, just because it was my first anime

that I watched and Is that the anime that got you into anime?

Yeah, first of all, everyone's seen Dragon Ball Z.

Probably.

So let's not act like anything on Toonami, you, everyone's just basically seen.

If you had a childhood in the 90s or early 1000s.

Yeah, no no, Gundam Wing, I think Gundam Wing was like my

first anime that I watched.

That you were like, oh, okay.

Yeah, I'm gonna get really into this.

Yeah.

Actually though, there's a lot of, in the Gundam community, there's a lot

of people that don't like Gundam Wing.

They're like, it's the worst one.

Do you, have you seen any of the other ones?

No.

That's probably why it's your favorite.

Why would I watch others?

I'm just gonna watch Gundam Wing.

What if it gets way better?

You don't want it to get better?

Not really.

I think the So I, everyone knew Dragon Ball Z and tried to go

Super Saiyan when they were like 5.

But, I think the one for me that was like, oh, I think there's something to

this was whatchamacallit, Code Geass.

I remember some kid was like, oh, you like anime?

And I was like, I don't know what that means, but Dragon Ball Z is cool.

And he goes, that's anime.

I was like, it is?

And he goes, yeah.

He stands for animation.

I was like, okay, cartoons are animation like and he had a little well anime is

technically japanese And I was like, oh the boondocks he goes No, the boondocks

is an anime and now it's considered to be anyway That's not the point.

The point is that he was like, oh if you like that stuff You should watch

code geass and I was like, what is that?

He's this guy He has the ability to tell someone to do anything once

and I was like That's his power.

He's yeah, he didn't tell someone to do something once that's it Yeah Little

did I know, this anime fucking slaps!

I watched this whole anime in less than a day.

The first season in less than a day.

And then I watched the whole second season in two or three days.

And I was like, okay.

I'm on board.

There's something going on here with this anime stuff because Japan's not afraid

to show like blood and stuff like that.

Yeah.

Or you talk about like I think older 90s cartoons were like that where

they're more not realistic per se, but they're more willing to talk

about like deeper, darker subjects.

American cartoons nowadays are so squeaky clean, they're not even worth watching.

Yeah, no, they're really not.

They're not even worth watching.

But Yeah, alright guys this has been a bonus segment.

If you're still listening, hey, thanks!

Appreciate it!

Thanks, we'll see you next time.

Alright, bye.