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We celebrate Megan Thee Stallion’s leap into anime and why artist-built worlds can reshape culture and business. Then we get real about Crunchyroll’s paywall, AI voice risks, and the storytelling highs of JJK, while weighing abrupt finales and One Piece endgame stakes.

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SPEAKER_01:

It's Lady LA. Life of Times Anime Episode 3. Carlos. What's up, bro? The trilogy. It's coming out.

SPEAKER_02:

Bro, we're here feeling good. Rapping trapping, making it happen.

SPEAKER_01:

The double diss of do boys is in the building. Okay. This is not the fall off, though. Okay. No, we just getting started, bro. Megan the Stallion is just getting started. Her old new anime. How do you feel about it? It's gonna be called Hoddy.

SPEAKER_02:

I think it's fire, because it's like, you know, you got a black woman in the anime bag. You know what I mean? So again, like it's it's all I'm all about, you know, black people expressing and expressing the culture, man. Cause I'm telling you, like, this is the new generation doesn't know how good they have it, man. Like to have this eating, bro. To have this just abundance of black figures just uh bro.

SPEAKER_01:

Like for an artist like Megan Estallion to be diving that deep into the anime culture, she's already did some crossbrand stuff. I talked about this with other music and men when we get to the business side of music and stuff. She made a lot of money going crossbrand, going over doing that song with that Japanese artist. Like that that shit would it's out. Like she's made a lot of bread. Now she's reinvested into that market again. So she's gonna double back and triple back. And if the anime's any good, she's gonna make a lifetime fandom, and if she adds her music to it, uh it's over.

SPEAKER_02:

Could you imagine? Because you imagine if she puts her own songs on the soundtrack for the anime that's hot, bro. That's that's the infinite money glitch, bro.

SPEAKER_01:

Bro, uh that's what I was saying. It's just like do you got uh games, do you got like that's what I'm saying? If it's good, uh it can do a lot. Um like it could do a lot, because it can open up the spaces for everybody else, because like Kendrick should have his own thing, everybody should have their own thing. Like, there's a there's markets for all this stuff, so like imagine if Beyonce made her own anime.

SPEAKER_02:

Could you imagine the streets would go crazy? Oh my god, that would sell out. That'll sell out, yeah. It will crash servers, bro.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, it'd be it'd be too much. It's kind of like uh when Lemonade came out initially. You like remember Lemonade came out that full-length visual album? Everybody's losing their mind. Imagine an anime goes on as a part of your rollout. She's gonna be big business that she can do with this. I was interested in that. There's also uh Geek Nick coming up in 2026, Cards and Bars, and then we got DreamCon as well. But like, it's crazy that we're getting these uh spots and locations that integrates the culture within anime as well. So it is good to have these safe spots. How do you feel about uh this cars and bars stuff? Like, we always talk about how like it's so different now. Like, you go to an anime theme bar, you can do a bar crawl that way. Like, you don't have to like it's crazy.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, it is crazy because it's like mind you, I remember first getting into anime and like I didn't even know the differences between like your slice of life, your isakis, and your shonens, and all that type of stuff. So now nowadays, like there's really like like a difference in all the different genres. Like you could you could you can rock with someone who's really I'm only an isekai person, or I'm only a slice of life anime person, or I'm only a sports anime person. And the fact that you can go to these bars, socialize, make your own communities, form your own communities just off of the fact that like yo, we all rock with anime is is it's fire, dude. Especially in 2026, man.

SPEAKER_01:

Like the events too are cool, like cars and bars. Like, I'm gonna go to Dream Con, bro. Like, I really want to go to DreamCon. It's gonna be out in Houston in 2026. It's crazy to see RDC World doing so much. They're like so synonymous. What because there's like a lot of stuff that like Comic Con and stuff like that, that all felt like far-fetched for me when I was growing up.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, yeah, it felt like a dream. Like I would watch live streams on YouTube, and then I'd be like, man, I wish I could beat it. Or like when I finally get some money in my pockets, like I'm definitely gonna grab tickets and go. And then like it all died out by the time I really started getting motion.

SPEAKER_01:

It's like you get money, then you like, ah. Yeah, no, you know, like most most experiences, they've people were like, eh, no. Like, right. Like travel is usually where the money shows. Life just starts life. Right. You also got life, you know, get your character arts and shit, bro. Exactly. You gotta get a Zenkai boost from living life, bro.

SPEAKER_02:

Sometimes you just gotta marinate in the hyperbolic time chamber for for a day. It's a year outside, and you're just like, yo, I just had to lock in, I just had to hyper lock in real quick.

SPEAKER_01:

Bro, sometimes you need a training arc, bro. It's just that's just how it goes. Speaking of training arcs, Crunchyroll is done playing with y'all, bro. They up the score, they cut the free price, they they make me want to put the shisty on, man. What's going on, bro? They're going corporate on us, man. They going corporate on us, bro. What the fuck, bro?

SPEAKER_02:

And it's I can't believe that shit is is maddening, but it's also like if you were I remember the days of like Kiss Anime, GogoAnime.tv, where it's just like, hey, listen, I was just I was just another broke kid that wanted to watch my animes, and you remember, you remember when you would use those sots and the the episode for whatever you were watching, whether it be like Attack on Titan or anything, will come out raw with no subtitles or nothing, no translations. And you had to wait until the day after the episode dropped for the subtitles to drop too, so you could actually know what's going on. But the thing is, it was out, so you watched it raw, not knowing what was going on or what was being said or how the plot was progressing, just because you're like, I have to know. Those are the days subtitles being taken down, man. Crunchyroll monopolized the anime streaming game, man. I remember I came from Verve actually. I had Verve before I had Crunchyroll, and that was like the niche anime app, other anime app, other than Crunchyroll. That was like the only other alternative. It was like you got Crunchyroll, Funimation, Funimation, Golded. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

And go man, Funimation is so goled, bro. It's just like that little theme song in the beginning. Yeah, yeah. That shit was crazy, but like to see Crunchyroll up the score on this, bro, while we're dealing with price hikes, we're dealing with the economy, we're dealing with inflation. We're getting inflation across the nation, bro. They telling me to watch One Piece and they gonna be mad if I turn into a pirate? Come on, bro. Right.

SPEAKER_02:

Like, I gotta get it. What's going on? Like, your self- Crunchyroll, your self-worth was never in question. You always had the love you deserved.

SPEAKER_01:

You didn't you didn't have to do this to us? That's crazy, bro. It's it's it's wild to see Crunchyroll. It's like a big step away from the core fans, you know? Right. Because people are gonna get free anime. You lost a funnel of people that will at least try and end up buying because they're going through you. It's no like, I don't know. These guys must think it's must it's like exclusivity or something like that. Like Netflix is on the horizon, Amazon's on the horizon, all these different networks are investing into anime, and all of a sudden we have a lot of companies in Japan having to deal with Western companies that are getting into the anime business. So it's gonna be wow.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, it kind of feels like anime and gaming are kind of similar right now. They're putting out half-baked games and being like, you're gonna buy it anyway, just because we're kind of playing on your heartstrings and your and your nostalgia. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, like Grand Theft Auto or I mean, Dragon Ball Z, bro. I've been fighting Cell since I was 10 years old, bro. This is ridiculous. Let's talk about this shit, bro. How long have we been fighting fucking Cell and Freezer, bro? How I don't know a stage in my life where I didn't have a fade with them. And I was serious about it. I was I was invested. Like, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_02:

I remember the days that actually it really meant something. Like that was an accomplishment. Nowadays, it's kind of just like, alright, yeah, we're going through the motions.

SPEAKER_01:

Going through the motions, man. It don't mean anything anymore, bro. Like, it's wild, man. It's wild to see, man. You see that they got uh God of War coming out? Whoo! Need that always. That's a title I'll always need. Bro, they got the like they're making a show. I did hear that. Yeah, they're making a show. And they better do it justice. We will see, man. Because like Amazon prom video has been doing this AI voiceover, like taking over for actors and stuff like that, and they're getting heavy backlash because of how they're dubbing the anime, bro. Like, you can't have an emotional thing like anime be voiced by a robot, it's just not gonna work. It just nah it won't.

SPEAKER_02:

It won't. Like, I I respect I respect Amazon Prime for for Invincible. Don't get me wrong. Y'all definitely y'all have a heater when it comes to Invincible. But don't get it twisted. Like, some of these other animes, they've been they've been stretching their muscles. They've been getting the reps in for years, man. They have extensive resume. So just because don't get me wrong, I love invincible, but don't get don't let the ego get too inflated now.

SPEAKER_01:

Don't get too much dip on your chip now. Don't don't try to fuck it up, man. Like, I we don't need AI and anime. It's always like AI is in a bubble right now, anyway. We don't know what it can really do. Right. We we don't. No.

SPEAKER_02:

We're literally just scratching the surface. We're just very tip of the iceberg.

SPEAKER_01:

So we really should stop putting so much money into it. But we shall see. So Netflix is getting boycotted. German voice actors are boycotting Netflix because they're copying their their voices with AI training clauses. So basically, they're getting actors, voice actors to train the AI to copy how they talk, and then they lose the rights to their voice.

SPEAKER_02:

What? Yeah. That's like the old that's like the final form of cutting corners when it comes to media.

SPEAKER_01:

I don't think people understand. Like sports matter because people care about them. If people aren't covering what's going on out here, if people aren't doing the work themselves, like the actors that pour emotion into characters, then we won't care.

SPEAKER_02:

We when we really love the voices of these characters, we learn those voice actors' names. It's like for the English, there aren't many animes I've watched in the English dub, I'll be honest. But mind you, Dragon Ball, it always comes back to Dragon Ball. But uh like Sean Schimmel for the voice of Goku, bro. His his he's iconic, man. Like anytime I heard, anytime I heard that power-up scream or that kamehameha, man, it was it was iconic, man. Or any or that that speech against Frieza on Planet Nimic. That these are iconic moments where you're like, yo, Sean Schimmel, he knew the rent was due. He knew he had bills to pay and he delivered. Or like EA Sports, it's in the game. Right. Like these are iconic voices. So it's like the fact that you're cutting corners using AI. Like, I understand AI is like the new meta tool right now, but it's like, dude, come on, man. You you can't be cutting the corners on, especially on media that that means so much to the people, man, and so much to and so much to the culture. It's like you're spitting in our faces, dog.

SPEAKER_01:

It's crazy, man. It's like anime is a human story. You know, it could be wrapped in all this mythology, but it's a human story of struggle, growth, and character. And when you take that out, you take out what makes it matter. I mean, listen, man, it's like attack on Titans and the Titans just won. Like, right, right. Like, what are we doing? Everybody clapped for him too. They was like, yeah, go Titans. Like, that's what it feels like sometimes. How do you feel about this new, you know, new G JK came out today? Well, not today, but this week, right after Hakari figured out who he was, and then he said he was a cog, and then they got to it, and they was tussling in the background, and she got a crazy power, curse technique.

SPEAKER_02:

And the crazy dude, every time we talk about JJK, it's gonna come back to because now, now I'm seeing the whole culling game like animated. Because the manga, the manga finished a little minute ago. Like, it's it's uh yeah, the manga finished a little minute ago, but the thing is is that the calling game is so layered, bro. It's a lasagna. Like, so much stuff happens, and now that I'm watching it live, like, and CMaki killed a whole Xenin clan, and them going to convince Hakari to be on their side to try and unseal Gojo. And the fact that unsealing Gojo is considered like a continental crime against jujitsu sorcerers, like there's so many layers to what's going on in the culling game, and then you got kind of Yuta playing the double agent, and it's like they have to find the angel to so they can open the back of the prison realm or just open the prison realm, and then they have to add new rules to protect people that aren't jujutsu sorcerers. Bro, there's so many layers, and I love it, bro. I love it because it's it's so different to anything else we've gotten in your shonen, like your typical tournament where it's like, okay, like the best of the best are fighting, and whoever comes out on top, like is the strongest, I'm the strongest. The culling game is is is different, it's just different than what I've watched, and seeing it, seeing it live is is is a different beast. Like reading it is one thing, but watching it animated, dog, it's it's chef's kiss, man. Like each episode I've I've watched so far is is Chef's kiss.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, man. I mean it's daily peak, weekly peak. It's just peak, peak, peak. Like I can't, man. JJK is like, for me, a bleach with more stakes, and it feels like everything matters a lot more, and there's not a lot of ways out, and people are gonna die along the way. Like, some are gonna die because they're just not that talented. Like, remember, bro, with the glasses, like he Yeah, he was goaded, he put a lot of people down, but he wasn't cold enough.

SPEAKER_02:

So him and Itadori, man, I remember they jumped Mahito, and that was like one an iconic episode, and dude got clapped.

SPEAKER_01:

Nobody's safe, bro. And the MC is losing his mind. He's like, I'm just a cog.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I'm just a cog.

SPEAKER_02:

And he's like, I've killed people and I'm not okay with that, but I have to kill more people for the sake of progression and protecting others, so it's like and it's like well I like the overarching question of Jujutsu Kaisen that it's like, what what is a soul? Does the body make the soul, or does the soul make the body? Like, I I love I love that that like that existential crisis type of question. It's like what what makes a soul?

SPEAKER_01:

Because that's how you get the heavenly restrictions and you have people with bodies so powerful, and then some people with spirit techniques so powerful. It's it's a wild concept, JJK, and how they do fights and how they balance things out. I can't wait to see.

SPEAKER_02:

And I like the fact that they're sorry to cut you off. I love the fact that they removed Gojo. You know, like the strongest character is removed from the arc because they they put it in our mind, like usually someone is not born with the infinity and the six eyes. And then you got Gojo who has both, but now he's removed from the story, and it's like, oh my god, everyone's like now there's like this power vacuum, and everyone's like, Gojo's gone. Yeah, it's time to get our lick back. Because we couldn't get our lick back because Gojo was here.

SPEAKER_01:

Everybody's still in shit now, everybody getting curse puppets now, everybody getting out of jail now. Like everybody's doing all types of shit. People want to catch the fade now out of nowhere. People pulling up on the principal out of nowhere. Nobody had been before that. Like, people got their guitar out now. Like, shit crazy, bro. It was when when Gojo was around, it was all vegan.

SPEAKER_02:

Now he's gone. Everybody was good.

SPEAKER_01:

Everybody was good. All the clans was good.

SPEAKER_02:

All the clans were good.

SPEAKER_01:

Everybody was alive. Yeah, man. As soon as Gojo got locked up. Right. Right. Big fish out there, man. How you feeling, Dad? Fire Force is, you know, season three is gonna be the last season.

SPEAKER_02:

I I ain't gonna lie. I need I wanted more. I did want more. I did want just because the whole the whole same universe as Soul Eater layer just made me feel like it was gonna be a little more expansive. And I don't know, it feels abrupt. It feels abrupt. I'm not I'm not sure like what more you could do with Fire Forest, but it just it just feels abrupt. That it's just like, oh, like because Fire Force hasn't even been around for that long to begin with.

SPEAKER_01:

That's that's what I wanted to get into. So like Fire Force to me, I felt like it had big breaks. Yeah. And then it's now it's just over. Yeah, and and is it like I don't have you know, like I don't have any emotion on it. Like I'll like it.

SPEAKER_02:

You know you did. It's like I feel enigmatic. I feel like enigmatic about it, because it's like, am I being am I being like a millennial on the fact that like I want all these different derivative stories, or that just because it's like pump it out for for the sake of content, or is it like, is it actually just, oh wow, it just came in. Consistency, bro. Yeah, it just came in.

SPEAKER_01:

And you know, it kind of reminds me, I'm not, I don't know if you like Ace at Rocky, but I'm gonna make a like a reference to him. Oh, yeah, of course it's ASAP Rocky. All right. I I it kind of reminds me of Ace of Rocky and his new album. Like, I'm like, all right, this is pretty cool. I'm not coming back to this thing.

SPEAKER_02:

Cause it's like you've been, yo, and that's such a good analogy because it's like Rocky, you've been gone for so long.

SPEAKER_01:

He be he be in and out, and I'm not gonna lie, bro, it's like three very great tracks on the album. But like the rest of the album is like, all right, you know, it's nothing. So it's cool, but I'm taking those three, and I'm not going back to the whole thing. It's kind of like Fireports. I take three seasons, but I'm not really worried about the whole thing collectively. Right, considering what's out right now. I can just watch JJK. Right. J. Cole just dropped. He's consistent. Well, he maybe this is the last time, but he was consistent until the last time, you know, like it's it's a hard pill to swallow with Fire Force, I'll be honest. Because it's like you still wanted Soul Eater to finish. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If I had my own bread, like get any anime animated, I would get the rest of Soul Eater straight through, Hunter X Hunter straight through. I would pay bro whatever he needs to get that shit done over there.

SPEAKER_02:

And another one I f I kind of feel like that takes really long hiatuses, Blue Exorcist, man.

SPEAKER_01:

Bro, I forgot. So, like, I was a big Blue Exorcist guy. Yeah. Fell off the, you know, it just too inconsistent, bro.

SPEAKER_02:

I just feel I I feel like those are like the middle child, the middle children of anime. Like, you kind of just you get lost in the sauce, or like, you know, you don't really you don't make your stamp to be remembered throughout.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, when you're out there dealing with you, Haka shit. Like, come on. It's real hard. And and that shit was weekly, couple seasons, all heat. Shout out my boy He. Shout out Yusuke. Bro, what's still one of my bro, still one of my favorite shows. Facts. I I would pay for that shit to get uh remastered like Hunter X Hunter did. Telling you. But speaking about old shows, but consistent shows, One Piece will be back April 5th. One Piece will be back.

SPEAKER_00:

No, One Piece will always be back.

SPEAKER_02:

One Piece will always get their piece. Bro. They be letting people chill for a little bit. It was like, oh, what's out there? Yeah, it's like One Piece is like, I'll let you, I'll let you talk your shit while in our absence, but I'm gonna be back. And I and I'm coming for that crown. That crown will be mine. That's that's the energy One Piece gives, no matter all the hate. And here's the thing I feel like the One Piece creators, they hear the noise, like, oh, it's too long, oh, it's it's too many episodes, or it's too many chapters. Bro, you're let's be honest, you're gonna watch whether you keep up with the anime or not, you're gonna watch the clips, you're gonna watch the movies. If you You're if you're if you're invested this far in, if you're this locked in, you're not going anywhere.

SPEAKER_01:

Because you can't. I'm not not gonna finish. It's been damn near ten years now.

SPEAKER_02:

Right. I've been watching One Piece since I've been in middle school. I'm a grown man now. I'm still watching One Piece. Taxpayers. Yeah. I'm a law abiding, taxpaying citizen, still watching One Piece. I was an infant when One Piece dropped. Now I'm a full on nine to five, having hustling, tax paying, law abiding. Citizen is still watching One Piece.

SPEAKER_01:

Every single day, bro. Now, how do you feel about like this in, right? And it's ramping up to end. A lot of people are gonna fucking die, bro. Who thinks he's gonna die? Luffy, man. He's gonna die, bro.

SPEAKER_03:

Uncomfortable conversations, man.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, bro.

SPEAKER_03:

He's gonna lie, Luffy, you might have to go, brother.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, bro. I think he's gonna fucking die, bro.

SPEAKER_02:

You read my mind on that. I'm not gonna lie, cause that silent in my head, I literally whispered in my head, Luffy, you gotta go, brother. You gotta go, bro.

SPEAKER_01:

He's gonna take some people down with him, bro. But like he's gonna die, man. That's girl might die. Is either one of those two dying for sure, bro. If a side character died, they die just for being weak and shit, you know. Like that. If Uso die, he just died being weak, you know? Now Uso might kill some, like he might kill like one of the like most powerful people on his way out, though.

SPEAKER_02:

Like the thing is, is that I still haven't healed from Ace dying. I'll be honest. Yeah. I haven't healed fucked. Like J like Jariah dying in Jirah's death in Naruto and Ace's death in One Piece are two anime deaths I have not healed from. And I and I never will. Because at least Jiraya Dry understand that was like that was like a horror crux. Like that had to get crushed. That had to that had to be broken. But the thing is, is like the as I keep watching One Piece, Ace didn't have to die. He didn't have to die.

SPEAKER_01:

I think Luffy had to know what this shit is about, bro. He wasn't really a pirate yet. You know? He wasn't a pirate yet.

SPEAKER_02:

He didn't know how real this shit can be, bro. How real it can get this pirate life not for everybody. It's real trappers out here.

SPEAKER_01:

Bro, this is like the first half of paid in full when bro is just selling drugs. And then he realized he had to kill people too.

SPEAKER_02:

Wait, hold on, hold on. Why do they why did they arrest Ace? Right, because it's like Luffy was he was moving like it's not about it's not about the the destination. It's about the friends you make along the way. And then Ace got popped, and he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

SPEAKER_01:

I gotta train, bro. Not my brother, them. What's hockey, bro? What's hockey, bro? I need to know about hockey now, bro. He started getting inventive and shit. He started training, he started getting serious and shit, bro.

SPEAKER_02:

Because my thing is Zoro can't die. I'm sorry. Like Zoro's too tough. He can't die. Like, I'm you can't. Like it would be it would be honorable, because you know, like the samurai's death, but hey man.

SPEAKER_01:

I don't think Zoro's gonna die. I think uh Usopp's gonna die though, for sure. He's gonna die taking down somebody he shouldn't be able to take down.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Like, wait, I'm talking about like an elder or some shit. This like, uh Usopp, wait, I made this invention and now we both die. I'm big into uh One Piece, but another anime that I'm really big into is Jojo's coming out with Still Ball Run and Netflix come March. Ooh, bro. You watch JoJo Bizarre Adventure, bro?

SPEAKER_02:

You want to know what's crazy? There was back in back in college, I've seen a couple of episodes. Back in college, there was this girl in my stats class. She was huge on Jojo's Bizarre. She was like, You gotta watch it, you gotta watch it, you gotta watch it. I only watched like the first three episodes, and I never stuck with it because I got lost in the sauce and too many other animes. But the way she would talk, I was like, Yeah, no, this is heat and it's different. You know what it reminds me of? You remember Bo Bo Bo? Bo bo bo bo? Yes, yes. That's what it reminds me of. And that's what I'm and that's why I'm like, I it is I need to I need to get into it. I need to get into it. Bro, that art style, I love that art style, bro.

SPEAKER_01:

Bro, the anime is goaded, the power system is goaded. It don't it's one of the most inventive like combat systems of ever like the stands and that shit is crazy, bro. Like the first season and the second season, really the first season's goofy, but the second season's hard. Like it just it is goes from there. Like, cause they start introducing all the powers and different net different shit like that. And every season is a descendant from the first guy. Okay. Okay. Bloodline. So this is bloodline every season, bro. So it's different people, but his bloodline. I mean, crazy, bro. Yeah, that shit's hard. He's a joke star, bro. This shit's hard. And like the last one was like based around prison, right? So all the power sets were based around like prison material and stuff like that. So like their powers match the theme of the show. It it's really cool like that. Like the show's really cool, like that, where like the abilities match the overall plot and like the environment. That's a hard show. Telling y'all. Tap into that. Jojo is one of my like preferred ones. It is funny as shit, bro. Like, I've heard. I've heard. Bro, bro, like, I'm talking about like it made me laugh. Like, you ever you know that one cooking anime where like they do all the extra shit when they taste the food? Like, they were like, yeah, yeah. That shit would make you laugh. B Star's Final Season Part 2 is wrapping up and closing out its story on Netflix in March. I don't know if you've seen B Star is like this anime based upon a world where there's animals that are preying, predator, kind of like that movie Zootopia, but contained into a season-based show with a more fleshed out society. And this is a Netflix anime? Yeah, it was produced by Netflix. I think the manga is Japan, but it's Netflix, yeah. It's it's pretty good, man. Yeah, like Zootopia with stakes.

SPEAKER_02:

Who wrote that on the list? I was like, ooh, I've never heard of this one. Like, and here's the thing, it's been so long since I've actually got put on to like new animes because I feel like I'm so locked in that I was like, ooh, this is this sound, this this sounds different. I don't know about this. So like I I love that feeling. Like, I miss that feeling of like getting put on to a fire anime, bro.

SPEAKER_01:

Hey bro, if you have any recommendations, always let me know, bro. Seriously. I'm like I just like try to collect as I go, bro. I swear to God. I hear that.

SPEAKER_02:

Like, mind you, I've been I've been heavy in uh Lord of Mysteries lately.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah. I read the web novels. Yeah, those. Oh, there's web novels? Yeah, it's web novels. It's based off the web novels. All the so like ones that's based off of web 2, web novel, manwall, like that shit. Like those are starting to get adapted like shit. Like they're all starting to get adapted. So I had read like the I bro, I started off reading web novels back like during COVID. Yeah, yeah. So like web novels is like, where is that, bro? They got some crazy shit on there. There's like this thing, like, it's called ordeal. And it's kind of like My Hero Academia, but like mature adults with powers, the main character starts off with no powers and then unlocks his powers when his you know his mentor dies. Passed down type of ability. Only a certain portion of the society has powers, so it's a pretty good show. Oh book, but like it's still good.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, Lord Bro, Lord of Mysteries has been has had me in a chokehold. Yo, I it's it's refreshing to me because it's like I d I didn't know any I went into it blind.

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