LNT Anime 8

Transcript

Welcome And Power-Up Banter

SPEAKER_00 0:00

It's Clay in LA. Life of Times Network. Anime Episode 8. Me and Carlos in the building. How you feeling, bro? Bro, trap rapping to happen. We here. We here, man. Papa Sensu Bean. You know?

SPEAKER_01 0:19

Papa Sensu Bean, a food pill. Need all that. Get the chalk reserves and the key back up to up to maximum power.

SPEAKER_00 0:28

That was the chincher key, bro. You know what Naruto Naruto used to just be like, nine tells.

SPEAKER_01 0:35

I need something. I need something. I may need it. I may need that blessing from the Sage of Six Paths, bro.

SPEAKER_00 0:41

Bro. He's getting everything he needed, bro. If this is bleach, he'll be a Quincy. Whatever you need, he can become. Now I'm telling you.

Why The Boys Finale Disappoints

SPEAKER_00 0:49

How did you feel about the boys, bro? Did you watch the finale?

SPEAKER_01 0:53

Did you know what's crazy? I actually just finished the boys season five yesterday. And I don't know if it's because it's fresh in my mind, but I feel like season five was I feel underwhelmed. Yeah. I've been trying to dissect the why. And I think it's because like before season five, I feel like the boys was just it was very unorthodox. There was all types of madness on so many different levels happening all at once from seasons one to four. And I think season five just felt too homelander-centric. You know what I mean? Like everything was just Homelander. And I I didn't necessarily get that feeling in the seasons before. It was like, yes, Homelander was the overarching issue, but there was also derivative madness. Like there was Soldier Boy, there was the hero gather, there was all this other stuff. The unwhat was her name, Newman. I think it was Newman happening. All other types of stuff that also held our interest. It was like we weren't focusing too much on homeland, but it was like season five, and I guess that's just the vibe you'll get when it's the finale season. But I don't know. It's bitter-ish kind of ending. I wouldn't say it was a bad ending, but my initial feeling is underwhelmed. I guess you can say.

SPEAKER_00 2:27

Bro, I think they forgot they were an action show, bro. I swear to God. I think they forgot like the fighting scenes actually was a part of why people watch the show. This is like Daredevil for getting a hallway scene. This is like Punisher not using a gun. There has to be, you know, when Soulja Boy, Huey, and Bro with the trench coat jumped Homelander, it was a real fight. Like the fight in the White House looked like some playground shit, bro. It was trash. Like just the choreography. It was lazy. Lazy, bro. And they didn't really flesh out the V1 plot, bro. Like, because if V1 is this power. I agree. If it was supposed to be this amped, it would have taken more. They should have used all the characters from Jen V to help. That would make sense. That would make a lot more sense than what we got. Marie, all those Super Sam, all those characters wasted.

unknown 3:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:33

Jen V's. You know what the V1 also kind of felt like at the end? It was giving Hashirama cell vibes. Where it was like, let's sell, we throw ourselves into a corner, and it's like, let's write ourselves out of it with this V1. And it very much gave me the vibe of in comparison to Naruto, where they kind of started just explaining everything like, oh, he got Hashirama cells. That's how he can get it. Oh, he got Hashirama cells. That's why Donzo's able to handle an arm full of like 12 Sharing Guns and 12 manga Sharingans at once. And or they're able to handle the intensity and chakra reserves of this jutsu. He has Hashirama cells. It was like that's kind of what it gave. And then the whole Kimiko, like Kimiko's probably my favorite character in the boys. And the ending blast kind of gave like the power of friendship will get us through all of this type of thing. And it's like that kind of sappy cheesy stuff was never the boys' real thing. It was like it was always grit and rough and hardy. And it was just like, oh, it kind of felt like they were stuffing a lot of cheese to the plug at the end.

SPEAKER_00 4:46

Bro, it became a drama. I know that the main dude that's Homelander, right? He made a bunch of money as a name off of being Homelander. So he probably has top billing. He's probably, yo, it's the last season. I want to be, it's me. Right? Right. And I didn't like the combat. I just the combat dropped. Like, fights used to be crazy. Like, if you watch Gen V season one, the fights are crazy. You go to Gen V2, trash. Like, if we got superheroes, we gotta have superhero chargography. Because, like, I it was bad, bro. Like, it like how are we scaling Homelander against Kibiko, who can now tank his blast, who can now, and and and uh Butcher can now tank the blast, and his it's just too much. They had all the variables too. They could have just used the entire Gen V cast, and this is what they should have done. They should have made it brutal. People died to stop Homelander, you know what I'm saying? Like we kill A-Train because he's fighting Homelander, because he has V1. It takes all these V users to beat one souped up Homelander, that makes it way better. You know, they get a lot of heavy losses, but they take his power away, then Butcher beats him. I respect that. Right. But this was just cheap, bro. It's cheap.

SPEAKER_01 6:10

It was like the thing was too happy. Like the ending was too given the tone of how the show was up until season five. I was thinking like this whole kind of crew of like Butcher, Huey, Frenchie, Kimiko, Starlight, and uh MM. I'm thinking this whole crew has to go down fighting Homelander. Then because of all those sacrifices they had to give up, it was like we all got smoked because of what we had to do to stop Homelander. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 6:42

Like it was I didn't want it to be happy and all the losses felt cheap too. Like Frunchy felt cheap. Um A trade, he died alright, but like I didn't like how he died. Like, I understand his story. For his story and his arc is really good writing. But it's still it's it could have been used differently, right? Maybe he doesn't run into Huey and stuff, you know what I'm saying? Or maybe he doesn't run into uh Starlight or some shit like that. Like, give it like some real teeth. I don't know. They wasted so many characters. Like, they wasted a lot of characters, two different show worths of characters wasted.

unknown 7:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:22

Especially with Gen V. Uh what?

SPEAKER_01 7:24

They got their third season canceled. Yeah, they're canceled. They're done. Yeah, they're cooked. So it's kind of just if if you threw them all in the trash, bro. You know? So I got that underwhelmed. Very underwhelmed.

SPEAKER_00 7:37

I was very underwhelmed. Um they are doing a spin-off where it's just focused on Soldier Boy. I do think they can do that right because they get to start to slate all over. And um Jason Akels is a, you know, he's from Supernatural, bro. He's always been like a pretty good actor when it comes to action things. So I think it's gonna be good. I just think they just like as long as they just stay action-based, because like when they get into the drama of it, it just became a soap opera at a certain point.

SPEAKER_01 8:05

Like Yeah, and it's like the minerals of soap opera. Right, and those weren't the minerals of what attracted us to this show. And that's what where this underwhelming kind of feel like feeling comes from. It's like to go back to what got me into this in the first place, what made y'all great.

SPEAKER_00 8:25

It was just crazy. Because now that I think about it in full context, you can see the fighting drop. It's just home learner pushing people and choking people. Like, it was just lazy, bro.

SPEAKER_01 8:37

Yeah, you just own a killing spree towards the end.

SPEAKER_00 8:40

And not even like a cool killing screen, it was just like they could have done it a lot better. I'm moving on.

My Hero Academia Wins And Grows

SPEAKER_00 8:47

We got the crunchy roll, they had the anime awards. We see My Hero got the award for the final season, man. It's long time coming, bro. I remember when Deku was being slept on, bro. Facts, bro. What and what that was what? This was 2016-ish? 2016, 2017, around that.

SPEAKER_01 9:08

And that was a very interesting time in the anime because I remember when my hero came out, and that was when Naruto was starting to bow out. That was the war arc, the final fight between Naruto and Sasuke. I think the last had just dropped, and this was like kind of Naruto's passing the torch to the new gen. And I remember the feeling of seeing Deku like, oh, this is a very different type of shonen archetype we're being introduced to. We're being introduced to uh the book nerd kind of archetype in Onan, where it's like he's not the aspiration, like, I want to be the greatest kind of hero. He was in a different type of way than what we're used to. He was instead of saying I'm gonna be the greatest, he was more so I'm studying greatest and made them great. And I thought, and I was like, ooh, this is different. You know, it was a new flavor.

SPEAKER_00 10:09

No, when Izuko hit the streets, bro, it was different. It was kind of like Dexter's laboratory. He actually got into the same verses to Powerpuff Girls, and he had to build his shit up from scratch. Like, especially when he didn't have full control of One for All. He was inventive, bro. Remember the Sports Festival when he jumped over everybody, bro. Jumped over a little, jumped over a jump man. That shit was crazy. Um to see him grow from there to all the way to here. The only thing I wish they did different is that he kept his abilities and it all might die. I think he should have died and become a vestige and he gained another quirk and he that's like kind of his arc beyond the arc. Yeah. That's me. That's my only AU. That's the only thing I would change. Because if he could be, you know, if he could be a dude that's powerful in a suit, basically Iron Man of the universe, then anybody could, dog. That's not really not here. Like if you think about it.

SPEAKER_01 11:06

And I think uh My Hero Academia's downfall really towards the end was that I think they pushed so many characters in our face towards the end. Where it did hard to keep track of because with that whole one-for-all and all-for-one kind of war towards the end, yeah, we saw so many people going through their own arcs at the end. And I feel it was hard to keep track of because it was so class A-centric for so long, and then once Deku broke off into his own nightwing kind of arc, it was like, oh my gosh, it was like, man, there's this character in this person who was an acolyte of all for one, and then that redeemed themselves and wanted to help Deku out because they're just like, oh my gosh, Deku's kind of I help and save, I want to actually help and save the child in Shigaraki and not necessarily kill him. It's like, oh this kind of naivety kind of sparked why, okay, I should have never joined All For One in the first place. I really helped this kid. But again, my Hero Academia, they got a special place in my heart because I really like my favorite arc in that show is the Todoroki family and how they closed that all out. Yeah, I think the Todoroki family drama of how it was introduced to us and how Endeavor was like, I want to craft my perfect offspring of he can use my flames but cool himself down with my wife's ice, and how that trauma kind of morphed into Todoroki, and what was his brother's name?

SPEAKER_00 12:47

His older brother, yeah. He was able to do it. Yeah, that's so bad. Isn't that crazy? He figured out he was able to regulate it at the end of his life.

SPEAKER_01 12:58

Toya literally himself from the inside out because he wanted his father's approval, you know what I mean? And how the trauma comes more differently in every sibling. Like I found that story so interesting because I think it's deeper when it comes to that family trauma arc, because it you really dive into yo, family trauma really carries on different each sibling. Yeah. Yeah. I found that so interesting, and that's why the Todoroki Todoroki is my favorite character, but that whole family trauma arc was my favorite story within the whole story.

SPEAKER_00 13:34

You know what I want to say, bro? And people might be mad at this, but Lapaku go, he should have been in jail.

SPEAKER_01 13:41

Yeah, they should yo, for yo, he was he kind of fried me because it was just him's fing all the time and him saying all the.

SPEAKER_00 13:53

That was wild, bro. I can't believe it. Nowadays he would be called out. Like, that would be like a problem.

unknown 13:59

Right.

SPEAKER_00 14:00

Yeah, I do the show. I really like the power scaling. Only the only thing I would change is the All Might thing. But no, I like Mirio. I like the big three over there. I like how they continue their stories afterwards as well. Um honestly, I he could continue this series. I wish he would.

SPEAKER_01 14:18

Yeah, I'm gonna do it. You watch the Vigilante series? I just got too long.

SPEAKER_00 14:23

It's hard, bro.

SPEAKER_01 14:25

It's pretty fired. And I'm like, he's pretty fired, bro. So I'm interested as to where they go. I still need to see all the movies for my academia. I've been hearing nothing but good things for the movies, so I'm like, okay. They're all good. They're all good. Where do we go with this?

SPEAKER_00 14:41

And they all have like different concepts. It's pretty cool.

Bleach Stays Iconic And Dark

SPEAKER_00 14:45

How do you feel about Bleach, man? It's coming to the end. It has a rare second chance. The manga was criticized for feeling rushed and everything like that, so now they have a chance to animate it correctly and write that wrong.

SPEAKER_01 15:02

I'm excited. I find Bleach one of those interesting animes to where it's like a lot of the animes that we've talked about so far, when they take breaks for too long, they kind of get lost in this purgatory of interest. But Bleach for years kept their interest. People are like, yo, we need that thousand-year blood war arc. We need that. We can't move on without this. No matter how many animes come out, we need that arc. And for it to finally come out during COVID, while everyone is in the house and everyone's like, yo, after what, damn near a decade of waiting, the demand still be there. I think Beach is one of those rare animes. Y'all really stayed relevant. I feel like it's like the Bobby Schmerta of anime. Yeah. Y'all stay y'all stayed relevant for so long.

SPEAKER_00 15:58

Bro, the Bonkai, and then just like when it started off, people was dying. People was really dying in the streets. I'm talking about squad one. Like, that's crazy, bro. It started off crazy. The Soul Society's iconic, bro. The Soul Society, the power system, Bankai, Shikai, the fights, the spiritual pressure, everything about Bleach and its version, its world is iconic. I wish they fleshed out like Chad and Orahime because of the psychic abilities and make a lane for them. But like that shit was fire, man. There's not a lot of anime that are like. Yeah, my fault. Go ahead. No, you're good. Bleach had dark ass themes too. Remember when Bleach first came out, and it was like Pakashoe, where it's like a case-by-case, hollow by hollow situation, and you hear these crazy ass stories about the hollows. It kind of we left that and we got into more personalized stories, more powerful people. But it never left that feel.

SPEAKER_01 16:59

You know, like that shit was crazy. And that was one of the first what first got me, I remember it was in like when I first started watching Bleach, I was like second, probably third grade, something like that. Between like second and fourth grade, yo, the giant swords, that spiritual pressure, Ichigo, just Ichigo's character. I'm like, yo, this guy is cold, bro. And all the fits, yo, the fits were just all times. I think the cultural impact of Bleach at the time was is really what does it.

SPEAKER_00 17:31

There always should be some type of sword-based anime. There should always be something with the samurai or some type of it's just too iconic in the genre now. You know, with samurai shampoos, Afro Samurai, there's so many samurai. I can go on and on with those right there. Ronnie Kenshin, bro, uh, even now we got uh Devil May Cry. So there you go. But have you seen this

Scooby-Doo Anime Feels Like A Cash Grab

SPEAKER_00 17:57

shit, bro? There's a Scooby-Doo anime coming up, bro. You watching that, you tapping in for the Scooby-Doo anime, bro?

SPEAKER_01 18:04

So I heard about it, right? And I feel conflicted. Cause mind you, Scooby-Doo in general is one of those classic cartoons. I was watching that Saturday morning burnt in early, right? And when I heard we're getting anime, I was like, is this really necessary? Like, are you cashing in on our nostalgia right now? You know what I mean? Like, yeah, it kind of feels like how a lot of these iconic animes are going live action, right? It's like, is this really necessary? Like, don't get me wrong, we're in the golden age of anime. We're in the golden age of just content in general. But like, certain things I just don't feel are necessary. Like a Scooby-Doo anime, it's just like, bro, just leave it at a cartoon, man. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 18:49

It's a cash grab, bro. It's a cash grab. I get it. Like, I see the business point of it, but I'm probably not gonna tune in. Like, I, you know, I need to bring it up because I thought that shit was funny, bro.

SPEAKER_01 19:01

Yeah, I agree. Because it's just like, are y'all playing in our face right now? That's kind of how I feel about it.

SPEAKER_00 19:06

Bro, it's like having media literacy and then having buying power, it's just like, don't disrespect me, bro.

SPEAKER_01 19:12

Right. Money that y'all taking for this Scooby-Doo anime. Can we put it in something else? Like, give me back if I could get something back in this anime, give me like wise man's grandchild or something like that.

SPEAKER_00 19:25

Hey, like, I would say season two of Claymore, bro.

SPEAKER_01 19:30

Like, something, bro. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 19:32

Something. Like, there can be there can be a more productive use of this. For sure. I'll give me another season in Young Justice.

Young Justice And Ben 10 Deserve More

SPEAKER_00 19:41

That shit's out of hand. I rewatched that shit. I'll rewatch it again, bro. Like, hey Young Justice. DC always be falling off, bro. Young Justice was really crazy. That shit was crazy when I came out.

SPEAKER_01 19:55

It was getting, bro. It was getting crazy late. I think Young Justice is Chef's kiss, bro. I think it's the best.

SPEAKER_00 20:03

Perfect. There's so much scaling and actual operational within like it feels like you're in the DC universe. Like, if you're a comic fan, it feels like you just stepped into the DC universe with Young Justice. It feels just like Justice League. Remember Justice League versus League Unlimited. It's literally, if you watch those, and you can watch Young Justice right into it.

SPEAKER_01 20:27

Because it's like there was something happening on all levels, and it was great because there was the ground level issues, there was the political issues, there was like interdimensional issues with all like magic users and things like that, like Constantine. And then there was like the planetary and like universal issues to where we're like, yo, Earth is in danger, and Earth 2 was in danger, and all these equal and parallel universes are in danger, and it was just happening on every level, bro. It was dog.

SPEAKER_00 20:56

Young Justice. DC was smart, bro. If DC was smart, they'll use Young Justice as a vehicle to deliver their new comics. It will follow the timeline of the it'd be so easy, bro. They make you mad, bro. You make me mad. Like I'll give you the money.

SPEAKER_01 21:16

Just put me in the room with the verbs, bro. I'll help out.

SPEAKER_00 21:20

Like, come on. What y'all doing, man? That shit's crazy, man. Young Justice is very goaded. And I see it as an American anime, by the way, Young Justice. 100%. 100%. There's a couple of those like that. Like, you can even say Ben 10, like Ben 10 Alien Force is kind of like. Ooh, heat. Ben 10. Like, we got super heat. Like, all the all I went on an adult Ben 10 series. Like him traveling a galaxy, getting into shit.

SPEAKER_01 21:48

Bro, you remember the episode when he went into the future?

SPEAKER_00 21:50

Ben 10,000.

SPEAKER_01 21:51

Ben 10,000? Dog.

SPEAKER_00 21:54

Where'd Mona series following that guy?

SPEAKER_01 21:57

Bro, I'm telling you, give me a Ben 10,000. Little one hour special series movie something.

SPEAKER_00 22:04

Hey, if DC bought the rights, he'd fit in right into the DC universe, bro. Imagine him hero. This is crazy, man.

Netflix Anime Heat And Percy Jackson

SPEAKER_00 22:12

But have you ever seen the Delicious Dungeon anime on Netflix? No, I haven't.

SPEAKER_01 22:18

Let's talk about Netflix got heaters coming to anything.

SPEAKER_00 22:21

Netflix got heat. Netflix got heat on the anime side, bro. People need to like really tap in with the Netflix anime. They're one of the only platforms actually investing in something new and emerging. And it's fresh content. That Greek anime they had with the Greek gods is crazy. Yeah, Blood of Zeus is insane.

SPEAKER_01 22:42

I found that randomly. I remember I saw the thumbnail scrolling on Netflix, and I was like, hold on. I was like, what's going on here? Episode one. I'm like, oh, Netflix. Unfamiliar with the game. And then next thing you know, I'm like, oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 23:00

Percy Jackson should be an anime, bro.

SPEAKER_01 23:04

Hundred percent. Hundred percent.

SPEAKER_00 23:06

If Percy Jackson do it correctly, bro. It's the only way to do it correctly.

SPEAKER_01 23:11

Blood of Zeus proved that.

SPEAKER_00 23:13

Blood of Zeus proves that shit.

SPEAKER_01 23:15

If it was an anime, people would be bouncing off the wall how fire it is, bro.

SPEAKER_00 23:20

Because the way they got this kid now is two PC, bro. This is a kid's show. I get it. But they the Percy was literally in the mud. Like he was literally covered in monster dust before. Like I've read it. He was really trapping with Riptide. Like he's really, he's really in there trying to get out of Tartarus.

SPEAKER_01 23:41

I'm telling you, like literally. Literally trying to get out of Tartarus. I'm telling you, make the Witcher in anime makeup.

SPEAKER_00 23:51

Hey, the Witcher animated movies on Netflix is fire too. He super.

SPEAKER_01 23:56

So I'll animate this whole thing. Because my thing is, I'm very much into anime everything. Because I don't get me wrong. There are some things in live action where they are very good. Like cast, they really put their foot in when it comes to acting. But I just think there are certain like you can really exaggerate certain emotions and situations when you animate things. And that's why I feel like a lot of these series, even the series that are really good live action, I feel like if you animate them, they'll be even better.

Power Rangers Anime And The Isekai Wave

SPEAKER_00 24:29

Bro, if they animated Power Rangers, bro, that would be something serious. A special place in my heart. Alright. Always. Listen, Mighty Morphin, it was different, man. We was really out there.

SPEAKER_01 24:45

You remember that special they did, Forever Red? When it was all the Red Rangers.

SPEAKER_00 24:49

Yeah, yeah, the Red Rangers, of course.

SPEAKER_01 24:50

Of course. That was my game before Avengers Endgame, bro. Bro, that was the one. Oh my God.

SPEAKER_00 25:00

This shit was crazy.

SPEAKER_01 25:02

Because you know, if you were the Red Ranger, you were the real trapper. You were the real trapper.

SPEAKER_00 25:07

There's never been a pussy Red Ranger, bro. All the Red Rangers get to it, bro. Yeah, I'm telling you. Went for without the Morpher, too. Wiffer without it. You should definitely make that anime. I wouldn't mind if they remade Yu Hakashu for like, you know, Madhouse did what they did with Hunter X Hunter for Yuhakashu and then put it out. I wouldn't mind that at all. Need that. 100% need that. But no, there's a lot of hot anime coming out. People are saying ReZero, Wistoria, and Witch Hat Altar. It's big. Re-Zero keeps getting all the records and shit. But we already talked about this. Like, I don't see the appeal of ReZero. But the Witch Hat.

SPEAKER_01 25:50

That's not even. So I've been watching that, and I've been watching was it Wastoria Bond and the Sword?

SPEAKER_02 26:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:02

Lord have mercy. Like we we've probably said this every episode since we started anime and I like anime bro. Bro, we are genuinely in the golden age of anime. Like we were starved for a little bit, but now it's genuine. Like, I feel like Isekai's are at an all-time high right now. And mind you, I probably just really got into differentiating the different genres of anime probably a couple of years ago between like Shonen's, Slice of Life, Isakai's. Like, I found out that I I love Isekai's. Like, as much as Shonen told nostalgia for me, I love Isakai's like Lord of Mysteries, um, Wisteria, uh, Wand and the Sword, uh, Sword Art Online was like my first Isekai. Um, but I feel like like solo, I guess would solo leveling be considered, uh, it would be.

SPEAKER_00 26:58

But I'm bro. Because he does become a totally different person. He's not the same. Yeah, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 27:04

Yeah. So, bro, we're literally, this is the golden age of animation.

SPEAKER_00 27:10

Nah, we're feasting, man. We're feasting, we're eating for trapping and rapping, bro. Spend another episode Life of Towns anime, episode eight.

Final Thoughts And Sign-Off

SPEAKER_00 27:19

Me and Carlos, how you feel? What's your last thoughts before we get out of here?

SPEAKER_01 27:23

Last thoughts is, man, just keep watching anime. To all my black nerds out there, to all my name content lovers, anime lovers, comic book lovers, just fan fiction lovers out there, man. Just keep indulging in the content. You know, we're trying to feed the streets. We're trying to get into everything. We're trying to keep the horizons broadened. And we're keep cooking, man.

SPEAKER_00 27:47

Keep trapping. I'll see y'all tomorrow. Episode eight is out. Life of Thomas.