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Off The Record: What's Your Favorite Anime & Why?

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0:00 this girl that I like I think she's pretty cute and she uh she's in the anime so she kind of got me watching it that's how it starts that's how it start that's always how well so she's there when you watch it no no oh okay I was going to say that's hard yeah no no I'm watching it by myself you get a bunch of no look look look this part right here welcome to a very important episode of careful boys we got right here Mr Anthony oh jitsukawa over there in the special side we got Nick the ear we got khen and we have k k special guest cam special man ████ you yeah you God damn and we got the coolest Joe around thank you for being here with us it

0:50 escalates we always get asked this question and I um a lot of you guys have sent it in the DMS over and over and I thought why not answer it today you've asked us what are our favorite animes Ryan anime cuz you are anime dude my actual anime that I love are all from uh the ' 80s and 90s really you're ████ old why do you like the classic stuff showing your age this is crazy but I I never saw Dragon Ball Z cuz I didn't have cable what I didn't watch it I didn't watch it when they did show it it was on Saturdays so we were at church can't watch TV on Saturday I'm sorry I church on Sundays oh you watch X-Men too H Dam can I guess which one you watch is it cowboy bbop no

1:42 Neon Genesis evangelia no D what did you watch did you watch uh YuYu Haku show I know about it because they had a game yuu Haku show yeah so I know about the oh we talking about series here or series are like mov do you do you consider Miyazaki movies anim anime you know what's funny I I do now I didn't back then I I consider that like the Disney movies of like yeah that is the Disney movies even though it's like some of the go ████ but my favorite ones in terms of series I really loved maon koku uh RMA RMA half and then also uh but movies Wicked City demon city another series I liked is record of lotus War that's a that's a really that's almost like watching Lord of the Rings like a decade earlier but in anime form what about Ninja scroll oh yeah that's a what

2:32 about Fist of the North Star hell yeah I remember that I never watched all that's brilliant too but yeah ninja skull definitely was like that was a big thing for sure did it make you want to be ninja ninja skull was crazy dud you want to be he wanted to be K you guys have all seen ninja SK no ninja skull that's worth watching today because the artwork is is so still so good yeah and it's it's pretty graphic so oh I'm out I'm out yeah I don't think actually don't watch it what about Ghost in the Shell Ghost in the Shell was yeah I liked it yeah but no uh Angel cop was another really good one that one's pretty crazy and some of these things are also ironically good where like as a kid you're watching it and you think the dubbing is so funny so that's part of it Golden Boy another amazing anime series even if you watch

3:23 it in English dub it's really what's that about uh it's about this guy who's like super uh he quit his job and all he wants to do is travel the world on his bicycle and just experience life and he gets into these situations where it's the same formula he meets a girl who like thinks he's repulsive hates him but then he does something to improve their life and he doesn't expect anything and he leaves and he just keeps going and they chase him to like cuz they're in love with him so he has this huge trail of women that like want him and he's so that's so Funny's so unaware he's just going through life like helping people and then um by the end he gets in this really bad Jam where he's trying to help this uh last girl out and the only way he can do is bring all the girls together that he helped in the past to like do this massive last favor and and they have a massive orgy he's also he's also a massive pervert wa do you know you can never get

4:15 laid I feel anime his K is that his Kink is that he can't resist uh if a girl's been on the toilet he can't resist like licking the seat just like oh my God it's so much lighter when it's a cartoon though how long ago was it how long ago uh I believe the manga is from the ' 80s or or early '90s and then the anime is from the '90s D you know what's crazy even today's like brand new anime nothing has really changed the tropes are always very similar it's always the guy girls chasing after them they're called harms but that's like a whole category anime nasty can what was your favorite what's your favorite head tie K I don't have any favorites but um he reads the fan fictions and the reddits he likes the yayoi I think the most recent one what is that I don't even know what that is shut up don't act what oh you're a freak you're going to get

5:05 the Oscar come on what is it what is it look it up y a y o i okay I'm not looking that up I will look it up I'll look it up yeah look it up you ████ ████ what is it is it pornography no what the heck like Yayo manga I'm going incognito mode run this dude no you don't need to do that no one's even going to it has multiple meanings by the way it's not not one thing y a y o i and then write uh anime or whatever yeah anime or Manga afterwards I see this wait yo why is it asking it's a it's a genre I see TR to it's actually a very popular genre I know what it is dude is it is it what is it like it has to do with kids it doesn't look like anything no is it gay bro it has to do with kids no it's not kids why is there kids stuff

5:56 on Nick's phone then I was like what do you mean it has to do with kids so the it me it doesn't it doesn't seem a genre mostly written by women for women that depicts homosexual relationships between men yes okay there you go I was looking at the colors and they're like all men and stuff like that I was like wait is about that's what I found really fascinating cuz it it was really popular and it's all gay romance but the it's written it's written from women by for women I thought that was crazy but I guess it's like lesbian porn produced and directed by men well yeah and it's cute supposed to be like really yeah it's like really cute stuff cute stories sense to answer your question my favorite anime of all time is uh Samurai champ PLO have you seen hell yeah that's

6:47 your favorite I wish they expanded on it it was in the I think it was like early 2000s when it came out I'm not really sure when but it was the first anime that I saw that had hip-hop in it was sick yeah they they they got feudal Japan with hip-hop mixed together it was a cool world also the artwork was so swag is that the one with the black samurai yeah no no no the black samurai is Yas no no no but I mean Samurai champo also has the do with the afro afro right so that's okay I've seen it never watch there's a black dude with he's a samurai no that's Afro Samurai oh that's AF Samurai wow Nick with yeah with hip-hop music you're right well was a black I thought it was going to be with hip-hop you know the different is there was no that's your abolute alltime favorite alltime favorite that I've seen probably like three four times like the whole thing it's only 26 champu is actually a Japanese word

7:40 champu no Samurai champu it's like saying um spaghetti western oh yeah cuz cuz it means mix up yeah it's like they they those old school Samurai um flicks that's what a samurai champo is it's a really good show though so like Seven Samurai would be like a champu what's the uh story line like give story is there's these two samur and a girl the girl's on a mission to find a a samurai that smells like sunflowers which we don't know who he is it's like a big mystery but she needs the help of these two like really good Samurai and they're so good that they're always fighting each other to try to kill each other but they become friends they all become friends and it's it's like a whole like so it's like a whole okay got they trying to find the ████ wait why did she have to find them again I forgot um I think it had to do with her childhood and like her restaurant that

8:30 she was working in burned down in the first episode so she's like you know what I'm going to look for this guy cuz she probably has no idea about her past and she wants to know because that's the only thing that you know she could remember as a child right yeah yeah yeah okay it's really it's really good I for I haven't watched it in ages but have you guys watched it anyone yeah yeah and the two personalities of the Samurai are like night and David yeah it's like blue versus red everyone says it's a really good I've heard that from so many people they're like this is a really dop it's really good I it's the same guy that made made uh Cowboy bbop too if You' seen that one that one really popular work of art yeah I thought I thought you were going to say one piece honestly I just started one piece this year you're not going to finish it dude 200 oh wow okay you'll finish it you're underestimating how nty years no there's like a thousand and I think you could actually watch it in like less than a year and catch up it's not that

9:21 not that much yeah cuz each episode is like 20 minutes oh it's really short and there's a lot of you got to be dedicated as ████ though but it's formatted like people just leave it on though huh while they just do stuff while they watch other anime dude there's a reason why there's a thousand episodes it's really good people love one piece I think yeah they just came out with a card game too yeah yeah I'm playing it too hey what's the one I play Yu-Gi-Oh oh that one's good too I just played it the other day that's funny what's the one that you said you were watching right now uh Inu Yasha Inu Inu Yasha yeah I just started watching that wait how what made you choose inas out of everything else uh there's she a doll there's this girl that I like she uh she's in the anime so she kind of got me watching it that's how it starts that's how it starts that's always how well so she's there when you watch it no no oh okay I was going to say that's hard yeah no no I'm watching it by

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11:54 with code OTR at Lumi podcast.com that equates to over 40% % off your starter pack when you visit Lumi podcast.com and use the code OT T make you hate that ████ pause do you get it do you get what happened let me go back I Just Dub everything right now you know it's weird cuz like growing up this is this was a part of like Japanese childhood like we would watch it all these not not all the older ones so this the stuff that you guys are quoting that's like by that time I was too old well like guys that would I would say people in Japan would continue watching it right but for me it's like I grew up watching have you heard of doron yeah shinchan those are all kid shinchan is that little kid with the black hair and it's like fart jokes yeah yeah yeah I'll watch that then the

12:44 American version they don't show him painting elephant on his dick and running around chasing his friends yeah we're not ready for that kind of human yeah but then it's edited right that's shinan I remember that show what is he I I've seen that this little guy oh yeah I see that I just remember what it was called yeah there's like a lot of kid like jokes new jokes whatever and then like um yeah I think like at a certain point it's it it was back then it was lame that oh you're watching anime you're I heard it was switched around like people always told me that if you watch anime in Japan you're way too nerdy and then here it's like if you read the Manga you're nerdy at that time yeah yeah so that's why me and my friends were like we we weren't getting we weren't into that we got into other ████ like raving and then drugs and whatever right that's

13:35 sick yeah it is fun right that's a lot of fun so I think I missed out on that whole thing and then like everybody here is hella into it now so I know a lot of the kid stuff like the yeah the Miyazaki stuff we grew up on like Studio GI yeah the yeah yeah would you say that Dragon Ball Z is considered anime ████ yeah oh yeah I always hear like a lot of people saying like oh that and Dragon Ball Z is not an so they just saying it literally is a Japanese animation well they're saying it's like the the Taco Bell of Mexican food kind of no it's good dude it's it's like absolutely like legendary because of the guy that made it Aira Toriyama he's like he's revolutionary yeah he changed the whole game you know what it is that was my favorite basically the I think it's the Gateway for Americans so that's why Pokemon and Dragon Ball are the Gateway for

14:25 Americans so then they think that it's just low like it's like eh yeah right like they don't think it's the peak because they're like oh yeah that's too mainstream I know this ████ and I'm like that's not true though in Japan like it's the it's ████ dope legendary it's also super influential for so many other things that came after it right so it's kind of like it it helped anime kind of walk so then later it could run kind of thing cuz the if you watch it now it's like pretty dated because like episodes would take like forever to get to like the point it's like 12 episodes to like think about a fight right and then like charging up Tak like three or four episodes but they redid it and they made a new series called Dragon Ball super which I highly recommend it's ████ fire the battle against the world of the universe fights get like crazy mhm so it's do they re they redid the whole

15:17 like animation no it's just a continuation of Dragon Ball Z so it's like they're all older now and all this stuff but so that's the one to watch definitely the one to watch highly Rec that was my favorite as a kid but as a kid couldn't even watch the ████ things like I couldn't watch Dragon Ball Z cuz I'd be like this taking forever cuz I I remember my first introduction was the comic book like the the ones that was backwards and I was in like second grade and I was I was like they used have naked bulas in that all the time it was weird for me to like read from the other side cuz no one taught me how to read it and I was going through you're starting from the end I was like I was like what you guys just got to go right to left top to bottom no for sure and I remember getting hooked on it and I loved the lore and the stories and everything but I never like watched any of the episodes I just watch like the movies every now and then and then I just was into the show honestly reading it is faster cuz like you could just speed through like

16:07 commercial it's the 14 minute Mark of the video where we have to start talking about Naruto though like oh yeah yeah yeah are you a really H narut denied greatness personified dude I never watched one episode of n you didn't watch you went raving that's WHYY did you guys sell me on Naruto my question is how did it get so famous in America like I don't think it's as crazy in Japan like it's it's known I do think it was a very cultural phenomenon that like people like really fell into like like synonymous with um so many like straight up Black Culture so many people love n a lot of black people love n but what but what happened to where it got into like hip-hop and like it seemed like people just recommended the ████ out of it so it's it's not like play on TV UFC fighters now are rocking it it's

16:58 cool I just think the characters are like there's so such a variety of characters that are so relatable that everybody can pick their own favorite cuz 90% of people who watch Naruto Naruto is not their favorite character no you know what I'm saying no one likes that guy dude it's all it's all the other guys it's all the other guys it's the loving him to later later I got to watch it then I need to watch it too cuz I know everyone everyone tells and I think my favorite thing about Naruto in terms of like what really got me like for real into it is the fact that every bad person every evil character in each Arc they were all like they weren't just inherently evil they like came from some their backstory was like something that could help Define why they became what they were and it just made it so much more like the depth was so much greater there was always like a resolution where nuto would somehow change them for the better rather than just kill them yeah versus

17:49 just beat them but there's one character that nobody likes who is it Sakura who's that why why does no one like her she's ████ nothing bro in comparison to yeah exactly nothing even when she gets her you know her top tier powers or whatever she's just still trash she's in the main team so Sasuke Sakura and Naruto like they're they're team seven right and there's like this funny ass meme out there that's like like team seven 100% power is like all three of them and then it shows team seven at 99.9% power it's just Sasuke Naruto she's just not in it from what I heard it's like it's like they're like schools battling each other or something what's so they're all like in different Villages there's like they're from the hidden Leaf Village but there's like the hidden Sand Village there's like hidden rain Village different like Villages elements I like gangs yo I like when there's like different you like gangs yeah you you'll

18:40 enjoy it I just think there's so much character depth in back story and and then like this guy specifically well this is Sasuke but this guy his brother Itachi is like the ultimate character ever I want to watch it I want I like it like this guy's a guy who like kills his entire ████ Clan but he's he does it for the greater good it's ████ up so he's like the dark guy that's hard to justify right C off a whole he like he walks in when he cuz he a little brother he walks in when he's a kid and sees him murdering his parents but it's like for the greater goodness the hardest thing you ever watched so he was that his does he is that later on much later the story The finding out that he murdered his parents is early but you don't know why so his entire thing the reason why he's

19:30 so badass and train so hard is cuz one day he's like I'm going to kill my brother oh that's tight and then he probably finds out later wait it was for good yeah yeah yeah oh I I love those moments what about what about the Bruce le guy his name is like rock rock what's his deal so the reason why everybody's favorite or a lot of people's favorite is because he doesn't have Ninjutsu Powers he can't do all like the cool ████ stuff is it because he's Chinese it's cuz of his hair dude but but his TI you to his actual just physical fighting is like bar none so he's the best so like they they first expose every character's weakness and they highlight it and they make fun of it and like all this stuff but it's only like through enduring through the weakness that you find a character's real strength and I think that's why it's so relatable lovable people end up like really really like finding their favorite character like my favorite character is jariah he's called the

20:21 pervy sage just this ████ pervert Yeah that's TI who who ends up being the teacher of Naruto and he never becomes like the golden hero he never becomes like the hokago which is the leader even though he's powerful enough he's the Moshi yeah he just sacrif but he sacrifices himself just to make sure that like the the village and everything like succeeds it's it's crazy that's a good reference how many episodes is Naruto like 300 oh there's only 300 well like the first one I don't remember it's like 150 or something Shen jump and then like there's a threeyear gap where they get older which was so fun because you get older too so like everything the theme of it becomes more mature and like the missions become way crazier and stuff like that and then like that's another like it's called not to ship him dude to to nail that timing with your age must feel like pretty ████ bad that's like Harry Potter huh like if I

21:11 did it now I'd be like I'm 43 look the same you know the similar thing with one piece is I heard the Creator was like 18 when he came out with like the whole One Piece thing and so he was only 18 like all of his his like like first few seasons first four season or something is like when he was young and then there was like a big break and then they came out with the newer the rest of the one p oh wait wait the characters 18 or the Creator the Creator oh wow and so so later on his his like rest of the anime arcs get way more mature because he grows up as like a person D that's pretty dop that's awesome but that's why all these shows have such a massive fan base and I feel like like I'm not a part of it cuz I always see everyone with the ████ merch and the cool shirts and news is you can start watching it anytime not

22:01 alone no dude people you could still start and I want I want to get into it but it's fck you want to feel included I want to feel included I want to feel inclusive this is your time what's yours is yours Naruto she got a so I I probably only watch maybe five uh Naruto um parasite Death Note Death Note Death Note is my favorite death not is a top three God damn for me I would put Death Note narudo they're kind of side by side for me neck to neck um kakagi is that how you say it is it's a I know you're talking about oh yeah yeah Kake ████ yeah Kake guui or some ████ yeah something like that it's with the it's like you like mind games like you like correct yeah um that one so yeah I I would say those you would probably like Love is War it's like a cuter like

22:53 romantic version of that style of like there's their battling in their heads and they attack on oh that's yeah was bummer that show was a bummer it's really good start getting into that I tried to get into it and I couldn't it made me sad mom dude do you guys watch uh one punch man that's that's one of my favorites cuz everyone keeps telling me you got to watch that's a satire it's also it's also an anime lovers anime yeah for sure wait you never saw a perfect blue mm- that's your ████ that's going to be your ████ 1 million per why cuz it's it's not only a mind game anime but it's a reference point for many of today's directors interesting not even in anime but just scorsi like just people like real directors it had so many ideas cinematically that get used that get manifested into the physical world

23:43 because the guy that made created uh perfect blue he he created it like it was shot with a c so the perspective that's what a lot of like um animes are shot like if they were actually filmed like in person like Aira Aira was done her was a good one like that GH in the sh was like that too a little bit Yeah but it's like perfect blue is like worshiped by like directors and ████ cuz it's it's so ████ far ahead of its time and it's a trip and it gets jacked every year for another movie like people steal the ████ out of that movie yeah I like how they take a lot of like tropes you would expect like oh people go on adventure they fight for whatever but then they have always have this twist to it and that's like my favorite thing about and it never you never run out of content to watch dude with anim honorable mentions Initial D oh yeah how could you not yeah Roni Kenshin and

24:34 berserk B berser did you guys ever get into bleach my brother got into that I tried I couldn't do it I couldn't do it why I wish I don't know I just didn't grab me I just what's your take Anthony Le it might just be a subjective thing like you get into some things are a slow build you need to get through like ████ 10 episodes but I also didn't get into Dragon Ball Z either like I feel like Dragon Ball Z and bleach were kind of like do you guys watch dubbed or do you watch subtitles it depends like there's some series like City Hunter where dubbed is actually really funny really cuz they got good actors and it's like goofy as hell and the way that they try to uh translate the Japanese cultural references is also kind of interesting cuz there's some ████ that doesn't have an English equivalent but they make one and you're like what you know what I mean yeah yeah you're right yeah you guys want to know like some Modern

25:25 animes where it doesn't take any work to get into like you watch it first episode and you're like there's one called Juju kaisen that's super good see reaction right there season 2 just came out but I'm waiting for it to all finish before I can watch it I'm just waiting for all the episodes to come out so I can just binge it it's that good I heard that name it's it's just like super good animation um the story is really cool and it's very it's got very very good Swag yeah yeah yeah yeah who are like the characters in it uh there's this guy that's like I think his name is Yugi itadori and and his he's just already super strong high school kid and then he joins this ghost Club ghost hunting club oh and then later on like some real ████ happens where there's actual like you were tell me about yeah there's like curses and stuff and then he learns how to like like build this new power like

26:15 how to control curses and stuff it's it's crazy there's that there's a brand new one that just came out called Z 100 you should watch that one Z 100 yeah Z 100 is a it's a zombie anime but like the animation is beautiful it's super good did you watch High School of the Dead I did I did I didn't finish it though but that neither did the guy who made it oh hey he passed away damn off now but definitely watch [Music] those [Music]

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