Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and to get another episode of nerdificent. I'm
Speaker 1: your host if you want to wait, and someone across
Speaker 1: from me as a long always Danny Fernandez. What's up, Iffy?
Speaker 1: Not much? You know, reeling? You know at this point?
Speaker 1: Uh you know? I mean you have seen the events
Speaker 1: an end game Chris. You haven't gotten to see it yet, right,
Speaker 1: but he will by the time this drop right, right,
Speaker 1: So it was great. I'm sure I love that and
Speaker 1: we're not going to talk about it because if he
Speaker 1: and I are doing a spoiler episode you can listen to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it will come out later in this week. So to
Speaker 1: get your hand off that pause button, because I know
Speaker 1: you got afraid of spoilers and you hit the pause
Speaker 1: or you might have seen it by now and you're like,
Speaker 1: give it to me, won't wait till Thursday? So if
Speaker 1: you can, I say something real quickly before of course. Yeah, So,
Speaker 1: um you and I had this private conversation which I'm
Speaker 1: making public now, but um so some of the because
Speaker 1: press normally gets to see it. If you're if you're
Speaker 1: wondering why, I don't know. I think everyone kind of
Speaker 1: assumed that, but sometimes randomly still get people like how
Speaker 1: did you get to see it early. Press and industry
Speaker 1: normally get to see it. Um get to see it early,
Speaker 1: and um some of our colleagues were tweeting jokes from
Speaker 1: the film, yeah, just to I think flex that they
Speaker 1: got to see it, and I don't understand that. And
Speaker 1: I also think they're credential should be taken away. They
Speaker 1: should be a lot of But it's so it's such
Speaker 1: a weird gross flex like everyone knows you got to
Speaker 1: see it, Like, don't write jokes, are like, it's just weird.
Speaker 1: I don't like it. It made me feel weird. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I always think it's such an especially you know, having
Speaker 1: seen it, there's so much stuff I want people to
Speaker 1: be surprised by. I wouldn't even begin to imagine doing
Speaker 1: some insider jokes and all that, because we know what's
Speaker 1: going to happen. We know there's the the that we're
Speaker 1: in that age of the internet where once everybody has
Speaker 1: seen it, we're gonna go crazy with the memes, just
Speaker 1: like we did with Infinity War. It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: Everyone's gonna have a good time. So why are you
Speaker 1: thinking you're gonna get around to it first? Are you
Speaker 1: in risk ruing it and I don't. I don't see it,
Speaker 1: but you know, some people just gotta ruin. Thanks, that's
Speaker 1: why we can't have nice things. We are not alone today.
Speaker 1: We're joined by a good friend of ours. He is
Speaker 1: a host you've seen on BuzzFeed also NBC also Nerdiced recently.
Speaker 1: That is our friend, Chris Lamb. Hi. Thanks so much
Speaker 1: for having me, Thanks for coming on. Yeah, no, I
Speaker 1: I used to see Chris quite a bit when I
Speaker 1: was working. They had his video and heavy rotation, so
Speaker 1: I would I remember I took a picture once. I
Speaker 1: was like, hey, it's you. So my claim to fameo lobby. Yeah,
Speaker 1: look the lobby and millions of computer screens. Don't sell
Speaker 1: yourself short. You know how you been? How's what are
Speaker 1: you geeking about the speaking out about this week? Well, um,
Speaker 1: I'm seeking about the articles I've been cirt relating the
Speaker 1: fact that Marvel is looking for a gay slash by
Speaker 1: slash queer Asian guy for the Eternals. I'm just really
Speaker 1: happy about it. Um, a lot of auditions, so funny
Speaker 1: story about that. On Facebook, Like you know, I run
Speaker 1: plenty of circles, including Gausian ones, and several people do
Speaker 1: know that I'm an entertainment and stuff what people did
Speaker 1: tag me. But the thing is that people just tag
Speaker 1: me without reading the article because the article actually doesn't
Speaker 1: have any points of contact, you know it. Of course
Speaker 1: it wouldn't write its Marvel, and but everybody's like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I'm like, it doesn't say anything in the article,
Speaker 1: just saying that, you know, people are being auditioned for it. Um.
Speaker 1: And I heard from the grapevine that they already cast it.
Speaker 1: I think I did too, But I feel like Chris,
Speaker 1: this is just um, I feel like you have enough sweat.
Speaker 1: Like if you tweeted at Marvel and be like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'd love to be considered. I feel you could get
Speaker 1: your fault the words behind you and they would be like,
Speaker 1: you know, because it's it's not just you're not just
Speaker 1: asking for you know, you you're not asking for the rule.
Speaker 1: You're asking to just have the opportunity to audition. And plus,
Speaker 1: because you are an entertainer, you're not just like a
Speaker 1: random person off the street, right. Yeah. I was toying
Speaker 1: with the idea I'll do it in the future, though, Like,
Speaker 1: even if they have cast it, hopefully that's not the
Speaker 1: only one. You know, in the Superhero franchises. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's exciting that that that they're doing that. I'm just
Speaker 1: super excited because, um, this is going to be like,
Speaker 1: you know, the first gay Asian representation I guess on
Speaker 1: Marvel Movies, which is really cool. Um. You know, it's
Speaker 1: definitely something that I've been asking for for a while,
Speaker 1: just because I get kind of tired of listening to
Speaker 1: straight Asian and talk about how difficult their lives are,
Speaker 1: especially when they're hot. They're like, oh, people don't think
Speaker 1: that we're sexy, and I'm like yeah, And meanwhile, like
Speaker 1: all of the LGBT and women in the room were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: tell us how hard it is. Um, yeah, I I
Speaker 1: wanted them, and I think that they probably eventually will
Speaker 1: have America Chavez, who's a queer um Latin X character.
Speaker 1: But I do believe that we're getting one over at
Speaker 1: d C, which I can't quite talk about yet because
Speaker 1: I think it might spoil some stuff, but I think
Speaker 1: that there might be one over there as well. Oh right,
Speaker 1: right right. I think I remember totally doing about this too. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: so that's yeah, I'm I'm it's I'm glad that they're
Speaker 1: embracing that I would say that sometimes their fan base
Speaker 1: doesn't always appreciate or want that, and so I'm glad
Speaker 1: that they're like, well, we're doing it anyways as they should.
Speaker 1: I'm just more concerned about actually about all of the
Speaker 1: straight Asian men that are complaining about this, because I've
Speaker 1: actually seen I actually shared this on my Facebook. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure both men and women are like, we're like, oh, like,
Speaker 1: doesn't really have to be a gay Asian guy because
Speaker 1: like this is going to ruin. This feed into the
Speaker 1: stereotype that Asian people are effeminate. And I'm like, so
Speaker 1: you're using a white mindset that has been used to
Speaker 1: keep us out of Hollywood. Two tell me people like
Speaker 1: me that I'm ruining things for the community you exist
Speaker 1: like like you exist in in your you deserve to
Speaker 1: have a superhero. It's such a weird mentality to be like, um,
Speaker 1: we don't want to see this. Yeah, it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's the same way that I think a lot
Speaker 1: of movements are where where it's like they want there's
Speaker 1: no there's not a lot of intersectionality, and you know,
Speaker 1: there there's you know, there's a lot of people that
Speaker 1: are like, oh, you know it's it's the same way,
Speaker 1: you know, like in in the um in the women's movement,
Speaker 1: where like it was it was white women being like okay,
Speaker 1: black women like, let's well, we'll handle it. You guys
Speaker 1: be quiet. Yeah, I just I feel like a lot
Speaker 1: of times queer people and women of color left out
Speaker 1: of the conversation, like as far as what you're saying
Speaker 1: intersectionality and so, and also like here on this podcast,
Speaker 1: I feel like we try to just remind people that's
Speaker 1: not the same for all of us, Like you were saying,
Speaker 1: there hasn't ever been a queer Asian character that we've
Speaker 1: seen on in superhero form on the big screen that
Speaker 1: I can think of. I can't think. I can't think of. Um, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel you. I think you should still audition. We
Speaker 1: gotta make it happen. I'll tweet them, I'll tweet them
Speaker 1: if he what are you speaking about this week? I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, you know what it is. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: in game. No you can't talk about I know we
Speaker 1: can't talk about. But that's this is just gonna be
Speaker 1: me plugging the bonus episode we're dropping this week, and
Speaker 1: that's because that's all all my energy can take. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think of anything else exciting has happened. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, getting getting ready for you know, Borderland's three
Speaker 1: E three's coming around the corner. I got my badge.
Speaker 1: But all that's on the brain is the end game
Speaker 1: on the brain. If he is hardcore plugging our endgame episode, Uh,
Speaker 1: that will come out shortly. My thing I guess that
Speaker 1: I'm spaking out about is I produced a piece called
Speaker 1: The Impact of Black Panther for Nerdice that was this
Speaker 1: past summer. Yeah, this past summer was like in May,
Speaker 1: um if He is in It? We um interviewed several
Speaker 1: black filmmakers and actors and writers and it actually won
Speaker 1: an Emmy. And that's really cool because a bunch of
Speaker 1: my friends were in it. It was directed by Princess Films,
Speaker 1: who's an awesome director. Now I believe she's in the
Speaker 1: Disney program. Um. I'm I think that they might have
Speaker 1: also seen this because it was so great. I think
Speaker 1: it was just this great piece talking about the influence
Speaker 1: of it. We had um if he was in it? Um.
Speaker 1: Joel Monique, who has been on here, was on it.
Speaker 1: Who else? Michael J. White, whose Spawn was on it.
Speaker 1: He had his whole family and his girls. He has
Speaker 1: two young girls, and they were talking about he was
Speaker 1: talking about how he can, you know, kind of pass
Speaker 1: on this fandom to fandom to them. Um. So many
Speaker 1: people were in it and it was just awesome and
Speaker 1: it's it's great that we want a Webby anyways, That's
Speaker 1: what I'm getting. I've never been to the Webbys before.
Speaker 1: Jenny Slate is Doe Dope, Dope, I haven't. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say, Okay, today we're covering today. We brought on
Speaker 1: Chris because he is such a huge fan of my
Speaker 1: hero Academia or Bocono Hero. And I mean literally, like,
Speaker 1: I think you're the person I think of as like
Speaker 1: the but you and our friend Cheyenne I think are
Speaker 1: like the biggest my hero fans. But this is something
Speaker 1: that Iffie and I have also latched onto as well.
Speaker 1: It's such a great anime. When when did you first
Speaker 1: I mean, did you start watching it right when it
Speaker 1: came out? No, so I started watching it, um, I
Speaker 1: think around season the middle of season two. I think
Speaker 1: while season two was running, just because I think I
Speaker 1: usually never watch an animy when it first comes out,
Speaker 1: unless it's like Sam and Crystal or Car capt Socca.
Speaker 1: Because I'm like it was gonna be any good, like
Speaker 1: if it's I don't want to latch onto something, if
Speaker 1: it's kind of if it might get canceled or something,
Speaker 1: or if it's not good. Um without the anime that
Speaker 1: has like one season and then you're like, what happened?
Speaker 1: What is going on? I mean there's a lot that
Speaker 1: goes on behind the scenes at the animation studios. That's
Speaker 1: what I hear. Like even with some of the bigger series,
Speaker 1: like they'll have the animator cycling now, it is like
Speaker 1: a lot and it's just that's sometimes what happens over there,
Speaker 1: right exactly when it tells the story and it's done,
Speaker 1: Like Tanga Top and Gore and Logan they got there
Speaker 1: two seasons. They're like, this is the story we're telling
Speaker 1: peace and like cool, I don't have to follow for
Speaker 1: the rest of my life. That's how long that is.
Speaker 1: It's still wild to me. Like I went to Japan
Speaker 1: recently and like they still had like you know, a
Speaker 1: one piece children's area like in Tokyo Tower, Like it
Speaker 1: was wild. Um, yeah, so you hopped on. So did
Speaker 1: you watch season did you start with season one or
Speaker 1: did you say that you went into season two? So,
Speaker 1: so it was while season two was running. But one
Speaker 1: of my friends who is also a super fan that
Speaker 1: I actually met in San Diego, we were hanging out.
Speaker 1: It was a it was a tinder date that didn't
Speaker 1: mean anywhere, okay, but what did come out of it
Speaker 1: was he made me sit down and watch the first
Speaker 1: three episodes of Book Hero Love It, um and UM.
Speaker 1: I think it was just because it was like still
Speaker 1: a date and stuff, and so I was still like
Speaker 1: kind of like not completely there watching but but like
Speaker 1: so so there were like maybe a few weeks where
Speaker 1: I was like I didn't really feel the need to
Speaker 1: continue watching it, but I finally found time to sit
Speaker 1: down and watch the rest of it, and yeah, I
Speaker 1: can definitely say that it's probably one of the best
Speaker 1: shown an anime like to come out very on brand
Speaker 1: for me if he is I had a writer that
Speaker 1: you know that I was kind of seen and the
Speaker 1: first time he came over, I had the Twilight Zone on. UM.
Speaker 1: He kind of made a joke about like, oh, we
Speaker 1: should watch dvs, Like there's absolutely no way that I'm
Speaker 1: going to hook up with you watching like that's just
Speaker 1: too much. No, I'm like, that's just too on brand,
Speaker 1: Like I couldn't handle it. It's I can't do that.
Speaker 1: That would make me feel sad. It wouldn't be the opposite.
Speaker 1: But now I just introduced men into like old episodes
Speaker 1: of The Twilight. Um okay. So so my hair Academia
Speaker 1: actually first came out. It began as a serialized manga
Speaker 1: and weekly shown in Jump that started in July. Now
Speaker 1: I seem to be very attract like all of my
Speaker 1: favorite anime is shown in. Do you feel that way
Speaker 1: or like, why do you think? Sometimes I feel like
Speaker 1: it gets a bad rap? Why do you feel that way? Well,
Speaker 1: because it's like kids. It's seen as like a little kid. No,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think that at all, because
Speaker 1: because you know previous shown in anime that have come
Speaker 1: before it, like Bleach and Arrow too, I don't feel
Speaker 1: like they were kids shows at all, Like you know,
Speaker 1: we should preface so people that don't know shown in
Speaker 1: is essentially like for young boys. Yeah. Yeah, so so
Speaker 1: like DBC One Piece my her Academia, Like yeah, those
Speaker 1: are Naruto Bleach one Piece. Yeah, so I definitely don't
Speaker 1: feel like they're kids necessary because like they're they're pretty bloody.
Speaker 1: H and and also you know there's definitely like some
Speaker 1: body horror that Japan loves doing. Um I feel like
Speaker 1: actually the reason why everybody's latching onto Bocano Hero, especially
Speaker 1: people like Knew who like kind of was disillusioned by
Speaker 1: Naruto and and bleached to a degree. Um. I actually
Speaker 1: watched like a few YouTube videos in preparation for this,
Speaker 1: talking about like how the animals kind of decline in popularity.
Speaker 1: Um I think it. Bocono Hero addresses the issue of
Speaker 1: the power creep. Um. It addresses the the typical shown
Speaker 1: in formula of like, Okay, so we have this super
Speaker 1: determined but kind of like off you know, like off
Speaker 1: the beaten path dude. Um and he's able to like
Speaker 1: use his macho now to be able to like you know,
Speaker 1: to kill the first thing, and then the more powerful
Speaker 1: than come and then it's stronger than him. And then
Speaker 1: he trains for like, you know, two days because he's
Speaker 1: you know, he has a lot of potential. Uh you know,
Speaker 1: he trains in two days what normally people have to
Speaker 1: train for a hundred years, and then then he wins,
Speaker 1: and then more powerful person comes. He gets even more power.
Speaker 1: The main character gets more powerful, more powerful guy comes in,
Speaker 1: main character has another training montage, he gets more powerful,
Speaker 1: he wins, and then it just goes on until it
Speaker 1: was popularity. That's kind of how I feel the formula is,
Speaker 1: and Bocono Hero beautifully addresses that because our main character,
Speaker 1: well I don't want to get ahead of ourselves, but
Speaker 1: our main character, like it's very clear that the power
Speaker 1: he attains it's way too strong for his own body,
Speaker 1: and so like it's kind of this internal not internal,
Speaker 1: but like it's there's a very clear path of progression
Speaker 1: in a way of where like he's harnessing the power
Speaker 1: that he can right now and he's doing his best
Speaker 1: to like not destroy his body. Yeah, so let's just
Speaker 1: hop right into decu Um, the main character, which is
Speaker 1: mean in him and all might have such a beautiful
Speaker 1: relationship at How would you describe Ezuku? I would try
Speaker 1: I would describe Ezuku as he's kind of like this
Speaker 1: new form of an every man that I think is
Speaker 1: just a little bit more relatable and also thankfully, you know,
Speaker 1: he's not a meat sack like a harum anime is
Speaker 1: what's wrong with meat sack? Um that's stream meats. Acts
Speaker 1: can be useful sometimes, you know, Like yeah, but he's like,
Speaker 1: so he's high school age, so so he's high school agent,
Speaker 1: and like he's I really like his character because he's
Speaker 1: basically like a comic book nerd in a world where comics,
Speaker 1: where superheroes from those comic books are actually real. You know,
Speaker 1: he's he's basically like an almight otaku. Like you know,
Speaker 1: he has a notebook that were like he references all
Speaker 1: the time, like of every like major superhero that's that's
Speaker 1: like working right now. Um, and you know, he has
Speaker 1: like every all Might action figure in his room. You know,
Speaker 1: he watches like YouTube videos of all my all the
Speaker 1: time him And he's also like, yeah, he's just super nerdy.
Speaker 1: Like he mumbles himself. He gets really nervous around girls,
Speaker 1: which is I'm sure it's very relatable for a lot
Speaker 1: of young men. Uh and um he I think what
Speaker 1: I find compelling about his journey is the fact that
Speaker 1: he slowly realizes that, oh, like this power is for
Speaker 1: me to shape and for me to decide how to use.
Speaker 1: And I'm like it, I'm learning from what all Might
Speaker 1: teaches me, but I'm form my own identity as opposed
Speaker 1: to know before where I just wanted to be him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say he kind of reminds me not
Speaker 1: to compare him to our comics, but Peter Parker a
Speaker 1: lot because Peter Parker idol like he has comics, he
Speaker 1: idolizes superheroes, and then he gets to be a superhero.
Speaker 1: So and you know, yeah, I feel like they're definitely similar. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's so funny that you mentioned that because the
Speaker 1: creator of the of the manga he actually sided in
Speaker 1: two thousand teens commic on that Spider Man is his
Speaker 1: favorite superhero. Yeah, so that must have influenced it totally.
Speaker 1: Just to give people who who kind of have no
Speaker 1: clue about My heroide Academia or Boku no Hero, which
Speaker 1: is another one of those anime things where people argue
Speaker 1: about the way you pronounced the title. It's like you
Speaker 1: don't say that h X Hunter and YadA, YadA, YadA. Anyway,
Speaker 1: My Hero Academia is about a world where superheroes are
Speaker 1: common and so common that they have schools for them,
Speaker 1: and everyone is born with a quirk. Some quirks are
Speaker 1: better than others, and in this story, which makes it
Speaker 1: unique is Medoria or zuku uh. He is born without
Speaker 1: a quirk, which makes him the odd ball out in
Speaker 1: a world of of of countless superpowers, he has none,
Speaker 1: and like you were saying, he's this huge o taku,
Speaker 1: he wants to be one more than anything. So his
Speaker 1: world is kind of crushed when he figures out that
Speaker 1: he won't be a superhero and he's like it starts
Speaker 1: right before everyone kind of transfers to the superhero school
Speaker 1: and he has no powers. He has a bully who
Speaker 1: has fist that blow up and he and he's kind
Speaker 1: of teased for it, but he is. He's in I
Speaker 1: think to once again go back to comics. He's kind
Speaker 1: of like Steve Rodgers in the sense of, like well,
Speaker 1: where Hector was saying last episode that big moment of
Speaker 1: him jumping in the bomb. There's a big bad guys
Speaker 1: situation where a Zuki zuku Um or Decu as we'll
Speaker 1: know him as, runs towards the It gets his butt
Speaker 1: kicked eventually, but it catches the eye of all Might,
Speaker 1: who then reveals that his quirk or superpower is the
Speaker 1: ability to pass on his quirk and it changes everything
Speaker 1: and that which I yes, that made me cry too.
Speaker 1: I will admit though it was it is a little
Speaker 1: bit convenient. I admit that. Um, but those things in
Speaker 1: superhero world are right and and and also like I
Speaker 1: do think they do a good job like mixing it
Speaker 1: into the world where like yeah, like they're they're actually
Speaker 1: used to exist this power, like you could give people
Speaker 1: a quirk. Yeah yeah, but it's it would I think
Speaker 1: one of the things. And that's why I kind of
Speaker 1: gravitate towards shown in uh anime a lot is because
Speaker 1: it's the same thing that kind of has started my love,
Speaker 1: which was dB Z, which is the idea. I feel
Speaker 1: like you don't get that as much in American media.
Speaker 1: You do. I think the the power creep is commonplace
Speaker 1: and never addressed in the sense of like you're strong
Speaker 1: and then if you get beat up by an enemy,
Speaker 1: you just have to think about somebody you love and
Speaker 1: then you get stronger, right Like I remember in Bleach,
Speaker 1: like I remember rolling my eyes literally at the storyline
Speaker 1: where it's like the last season they've said to the
Speaker 1: character if you do this, if you unleash this power,
Speaker 1: you will never be able to do anything ever again,
Speaker 1: Like you will not be able to seek ghosts like
Speaker 1: you will have no powers, but then like the next
Speaker 1: season is like, oh, if you just shoot like a
Speaker 1: few millimeters away from your heart and it doesn't kill you,
Speaker 1: then like it will reawaken your powers. I'm like, but
Speaker 1: you just But it's the same thing of like you
Speaker 1: know Blade who gets like beat up and then he
Speaker 1: gets thrown into the pool of blood and now he's
Speaker 1: back right right. Like there's that where it's like a
Speaker 1: lot of shown an Enemy, it's like, no, you train,
Speaker 1: you work hard, you get stronger. And I think that's
Speaker 1: what I liked about my hero that really kind of
Speaker 1: clutched enemy was this idea of like, oh, everyone said
Speaker 1: this was impossible, and for all intensive purposes it is,
Speaker 1: but with the right opportunity and the gumption, you're able
Speaker 1: to make your dreams come true. And I was like,
Speaker 1: that is the type of info I do want instilled
Speaker 1: in kids, where it's like, opportunity changes everything. If you
Speaker 1: come ready for it, you can make anything happen. And
Speaker 1: oh yeah, um, just like that scene in La La
Speaker 1: Land where she just so happens to be a casting
Speaker 1: director there and in her little sketch show just so
Speaker 1: happened to be there to change my life love la
Speaker 1: la la. But I can see where why a lot
Speaker 1: of people were very annoyed by it because if you
Speaker 1: were in the soul crushing industry, to look at this
Speaker 1: move where someone just just at the right place she
Speaker 1: went to the little play that nobody would know about,
Speaker 1: just so happens this huge person. It's very old Hollywood,
Speaker 1: but like it. But but but it does carry into
Speaker 1: it does kind of carry into Bocano here where like
Speaker 1: all Might literally like I like your hood spot hid truly. Um,
Speaker 1: it reminds me that Funk reminds me a little bit
Speaker 1: of sky High that Total does. Um, which was this
Speaker 1: a school of teenage superheroes? Um, so I've made that comparison.
Speaker 1: That's probably the only thing it hasn't common. But um yeah,
Speaker 1: so let's talk about all Night because we've said his
Speaker 1: name quite a bit. So what should people know about
Speaker 1: all Night? So? I think all Might is basically like
Speaker 1: the Superman of this world. Um, you know, he's like
Speaker 1: the classic superhero like he like even his color palette
Speaker 1: is like very American, like he actually has the same
Speaker 1: color palette as miss as Miss Marvel as Captain Marvel.
Speaker 1: I would say black, red, and yellow, and it's extremely
Speaker 1: clear that the creator made this character kind of acknowledging
Speaker 1: like this, this American industry of Western superheroes, because he
Speaker 1: has moves called like you know, smash towards smashing Texas
Speaker 1: and and like also like all my breaks into English sometimes,
Speaker 1: which I think is so funny. Um, he's so like, okay,
Speaker 1: so if we can, if you can envision if Captain
Speaker 1: America like got injected with steroids and was just a
Speaker 1: a little bit bigger. Yeah, it is hilarious to me
Speaker 1: because I thought it was kind of poking fun, not
Speaker 1: poking fun. I think it's a little poking fun at
Speaker 1: our superheroes. And they dressed it in like American colors,
Speaker 1: and it's like the yeah, the sto not ster but yeah, stereotypical,
Speaker 1: big puff blonde, super right exactly. Like like I would
Speaker 1: love for him to have like more moves named after
Speaker 1: American like pictory smoke like that, just something like that.
Speaker 1: That'd be really funny. But so basically, yeah, all might.
Speaker 1: He's like you know, the superhero like he's he's ranked
Speaker 1: apparently there's a ranking system in this world, and he's
Speaker 1: ranked number one, easily ranked number one by far and um, yeah.
Speaker 1: He so, yeah, he meets Decu, he saves him from
Speaker 1: the situation. Uh. And as he saves him, Deco like
Speaker 1: latches onto him and it's like can someone with no
Speaker 1: quirk be a hero? And He's like, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know about that. And then but but the thing
Speaker 1: is that because he wasn't expecting for Decu to like
Speaker 1: talk to him, uh, he ends up like poofing back
Speaker 1: into his actual form. Uh. And his actual form is
Speaker 1: like this really real lanky, real sticky guy. He has
Speaker 1: like super angular angular features, like super emaciated looking um
Speaker 1: and right, and all my basically like, oh crap, you
Speaker 1: know my secret, Please don't tell anybody. Um. And he
Speaker 1: he shows him like this really horrible scar that he
Speaker 1: has like on his abdomen. He's basically saying like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I I sustained this this injury, and you know, I'm
Speaker 1: like it really weaken me. You know, I had to
Speaker 1: do a lot of surgery. I had to like you know,
Speaker 1: it permanently damaged me. And so now I can only
Speaker 1: hold like my muscle for for three hours and nobody
Speaker 1: except like his close confidence, like you know, in the
Speaker 1: hero world, in the in the police force, know about
Speaker 1: this secret. I did want to go over all my
Speaker 1: because we talked about Detroit smash, but he has so
Speaker 1: the Texas when you were talking about was Texas Smash,
Speaker 1: Missouri Smash, Caroline New Hampshire Smash. I'm surprised that as
Speaker 1: much as we watched this, we haven't like picked up
Speaker 1: like I mean, I paid attention the Detroit smash one
Speaker 1: and the other one I know is the United States
Speaker 1: of smash uh in Oklahoma smash. So it really is
Speaker 1: a commentary on our on our country, which is it's
Speaker 1: just and probably paying nomagin like in some way to
Speaker 1: iconic like Marvel DC superheroes. Um So, his his power
Speaker 1: one for All? Can you explain to people what that
Speaker 1: quirk is? Yeah? So he explains his power one for
Speaker 1: All as basically as this power that can be passed
Speaker 1: down from generation to generation by something by like you know,
Speaker 1: a chosen um by like a chosen disciple I guess
Speaker 1: of the current holder of the power one for All,
Speaker 1: And it basically just grants you know, like super strength,
Speaker 1: like an amazing type of super strength, probably you know,
Speaker 1: even better super strength than miser incredible. I would say
Speaker 1: by five. Yeah, I think he could easily be defeat
Speaker 1: miser incredible and yeah, like you could like level buildings
Speaker 1: with that power, like you know, it gives you super speed,
Speaker 1: like it just really it's just like it's power that
Speaker 1: can that just courses through you. Basically it's all like
Speaker 1: very physical attacks though, so like it's it's not like
Speaker 1: you can shoot the energy out of your eyes or
Speaker 1: anything like that, and it can be passed down by
Speaker 1: with the consent of the holder of the power and
Speaker 1: by ingesting that person the whole current holders DNA. Basically
Speaker 1: that sounds suspicious. Can you just that I didn't think
Speaker 1: for people? What are you talking about, Danny? Um, I
Speaker 1: would say, so, uh, basically all might all might say
Speaker 1: seticulate all right, like if you can do this certain
Speaker 1: task of like cleaning up this beach very environmentally friendly. Um,
Speaker 1: if you can help us help me clean up this
Speaker 1: beach with your own strength, I'll let you eat my hair.
Speaker 1: I'll let you eat a strand of my hair. So
Speaker 1: that's how it's passed on to him. The thing is
Speaker 1: that I don't I don't know. Mh. I'm gonna not
Speaker 1: say anything because like spoilers, you know, we're going to
Speaker 1: take a quick break and then we're going to jump
Speaker 1: back into my hair Academia right after this and we're back.
Speaker 1: So Chris, there, there's a lot of characters in this series.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of bad guys in good guys um
Speaker 1: and so typical shown in Yeah yeah so and of
Speaker 1: course like all of his classmates. Who are some of
Speaker 1: your favorites, we'll just say some of the big characters
Speaker 1: and what their quirks are. Sure, So let's see. I
Speaker 1: would say that the first hero that I would say
Speaker 1: that comes to mind would be Momo. I really like
Speaker 1: her power because she has the power of creation and
Speaker 1: it's not you know, an op thing. She she uses
Speaker 1: lipids in her bodies to like form whatever type of
Speaker 1: material she wants, and so it's not like immediately combat heavy,
Speaker 1: but it's like it requires a lot of intellect and
Speaker 1: it can also it just offers a lot of utility,
Speaker 1: but outside of combat, so she can make like anything
Speaker 1: she wants as long as she knows like what the
Speaker 1: molecular like shape it is. So what I like about
Speaker 1: her is she's very kind. She has like and she
Speaker 1: struggles with like an inferiority complex in the beginning, which
Speaker 1: and which I really relate to and she gets over
Speaker 1: the inferior to a complex on two or three, I think,
Speaker 1: so what I like about her also is the fact
Speaker 1: that she has like a book instead of like, you know,
Speaker 1: a typical weapon. She has a book, so like if
Speaker 1: there's something that she doesn't know how to make, she
Speaker 1: just pulls out the book and it's like, okay, like
Speaker 1: I need to look up how do you make like
Speaker 1: you know, heat resistant blanket, and you look at how
Speaker 1: you make a subwoofer? Like, um, she can make anything
Speaker 1: that she wants as long as it's not a person.
Speaker 1: She kill you with knowledge. Yeah, um, I like her.
Speaker 1: I mean I think this is very common for everyone
Speaker 1: to say. But I also like bacco Go. It was
Speaker 1: very difficult for me to latch onto him as hard.
Speaker 1: It wasn't as easy for me as other people to
Speaker 1: latch onto him. But especially after season the end of
Speaker 1: season three, I really understood his character more and I
Speaker 1: really relate to him. Uh. And I also think I
Speaker 1: also interpret his character as like this representation of like
Speaker 1: toxic masculinity actually, because he's so aggro all the time
Speaker 1: and his power is Sorry, no, I was gonna say
Speaker 1: to me, he's like an antihero totally um like on
Speaker 1: the hero team, but as they typically are, But like
Speaker 1: he he kind of represents like the typical macho shown
Speaker 1: and guy like cranked up to like twenty on a
Speaker 1: scale of one ten um and his powers are basically
Speaker 1: like he can. I think it's something about like he
Speaker 1: can use the sweat on he can. He has like
Speaker 1: this explosive sweat gland and he can detonate it whenever
Speaker 1: he wants. Yeah, terrifying, don't sweat. Hey, that's that I
Speaker 1: have a thyroid disorder. I don't swear. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: having me that quirk and having a thyroid disorder? Um? Also,
Speaker 1: I would say um, I really like to Chan, I
Speaker 1: believe that's her name. That's that's like her. I'm saying
Speaker 1: Chan because that's how everybody refers to her now. But
Speaker 1: to you, a Sui, she is just a really cute
Speaker 1: frog girl. It's like she just she just has a
Speaker 1: lot of characters. Yeah, and she's like super level headed,
Speaker 1: really really smart. Um, and she's just a really good
Speaker 1: person and she's super capable. Yeah, if you what about you?
Speaker 1: What are some of the characters that you Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: I definitely love Deco, but Also I love baku Go
Speaker 1: as well because it's just once again, like you're saying,
Speaker 1: you have that Nardo sask kind of rivalry and when
Speaker 1: you and it's you just see it from the beginning
Speaker 1: when baku Go is so mean to him, but he's
Speaker 1: just like, come on, man, you know, and and like
Speaker 1: I remember, like I think I tweeted it when I
Speaker 1: first started watching My Hero was like I just need
Speaker 1: Deco to just just wipe the floor with this loser
Speaker 1: guy and they're lying, well, just keep watching. I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: they're gonna make them friends, aren't they just like they
Speaker 1: do you know, right? And um, I like I remember
Speaker 1: thinking about their relationship and I really think that a
Speaker 1: lot of bacco Goes confidence is actually based on demeaning Decku.
Speaker 1: And so I definitely was fascinated with this struggle that
Speaker 1: it was very very subtle, which I actually really appreciate
Speaker 1: for a shown an anime where you could see him
Speaker 1: becoming more and more insecure because he because he realizes
Speaker 1: that he might not be able to bully him anymore.
Speaker 1: Because I think it's this very typical man thing. I'm
Speaker 1: sure where it's like, oh well, as long as I can,
Speaker 1: I know that I'm better than this person. I can
Speaker 1: be confident in myself, like, no matter how bad I get,
Speaker 1: I know I'm better than him. Um, can you describe
Speaker 1: to people, Anetta? I think I said that in a
Speaker 1: very Spanish way. Next character in the show Grape he
Speaker 1: is he is male anime trash. Um. Yeah, he's like,
Speaker 1: how would you say such a thing? Because he wants
Speaker 1: to molest girls like all the time. Oh yeah, he's
Speaker 1: like the master she Sorry, I'm sorry. Do you like
Speaker 1: him as a character? I like? I guess I just
Speaker 1: like his cause play like when I was playing. Um,
Speaker 1: because he just looks like a bunch of grapes. He
Speaker 1: looks like a fruit of the loom, right, um. And
Speaker 1: his super moves are like grape rush and um, grape buckler,
Speaker 1: which doesn't sound good. Um. Yeah, so I guess yeah,
Speaker 1: if you could explain this person. Yeah, so he's like
Speaker 1: the super short, stubby dude. He has like these balls
Speaker 1: that come out of his head. Um, and they're like
Speaker 1: super super adhesive. Um. There is a limit to his power.
Speaker 1: That that's another thing that I like about the animals,
Speaker 1: that everybody has a limit to their power. The balls
Speaker 1: always grow back. But if he throws too many, like
Speaker 1: he starts bleeding from the head. Um. But yeah, they're
Speaker 1: super adhesive. They're really good for like you know, capturing
Speaker 1: people and stuff or like you know, yeah, just incapacitating somebody.
Speaker 1: And he really really it's pervy. He's super pervy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. M D. He just likes the great guy.
Speaker 1: Like his entire goal is just see women naked all
Speaker 1: the time. That's that's the other thing that always comes
Speaker 1: with shown and there's always the super horny character. It's like,
Speaker 1: we gotta gotta get a horny gotta gotta look at
Speaker 1: the hot springs. That's why I like Tinchimo because they
Speaker 1: like flipped it on its head where it's like, oh no,
Speaker 1: it's these women who are horning for this. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah so much. But I'm afraid if I went back
Speaker 1: and looked at it and be like, oh no, there
Speaker 1: we go, I haven't. I haven't gone back and looked
Speaker 1: at it. Um Totaroke totoro Kei. Oh my god. Okay,
Speaker 1: so Totoroki, I mean he's basically Zuko. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: So uh. He does have one side of his face burned,
Speaker 1: and it is also because of his father um and uh,
Speaker 1: he's really cool. He lukes guywalking honestly, who knows it
Speaker 1: might be might be influenced rum so totoro key. He
Speaker 1: has powers over both ice and fire and both like
Speaker 1: one side is ice, one side is fire. And it's
Speaker 1: because his parents are you know, one has fire and
Speaker 1: the other has ice. And I found his story so
Speaker 1: fascinating and I really liked it because in this world,
Speaker 1: well you know, there are quirks and they can be
Speaker 1: passed down to your children. It makes total sense, right,
Speaker 1: there would be like this dark undertone to like, especially
Speaker 1: rich privileged families would like set up like two powerful
Speaker 1: people to marry other something with that way, they create
Speaker 1: a powerful kid with combined powers, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: very feudalistic. Um and uh. And he has like this
Speaker 1: horrible relationship with his father, Like I think his father
Speaker 1: is like his father is abusive. I think I can
Speaker 1: just say that, right, he has a pretty abusive father.
Speaker 1: He abused in the past, and he abused his mom.
Speaker 1: And he's like, you know, the cool hot character in
Speaker 1: the bunch. I guess yeah. I think that it's really
Speaker 1: fascinating that they allow that conversation to happen. For you
Speaker 1: know a quote unquote like kids show. You know, obviously
Speaker 1: we don't consider it, but I think a lot of
Speaker 1: anime here, like when it was shown on two Nami
Speaker 1: and stuff that parents normally would consider it kids that
Speaker 1: they're having that conversation because that is a real life
Speaker 1: thing that happens for a lot of kids, like maybe
Speaker 1: not there in their nuclear family, but in you know,
Speaker 1: maybe their friends. They have friends that have divorced parents,
Speaker 1: or their parents have been you know, have dealt with
Speaker 1: abuse in the home or dealt with you know, so
Speaker 1: it's interesting that they're allowing that conversation. Same with know
Speaker 1: the stuff that Deco has gone through. I feel like
Speaker 1: it was that first episode where he's like bawling in
Speaker 1: front of his computer screen and his mom is there
Speaker 1: and he's just like, I'm sorry that I can't be.
Speaker 1: That was heartbreaking. But it's just like, wow, this is
Speaker 1: so because I do feel like I remember well now
Speaker 1: but even when I was younger, like it's just you
Speaker 1: you blame yourself for your shortcomings, you know, and so
Speaker 1: and I feel like it's such a tricky time, like
Speaker 1: middle school. Middle school was I don't know you're going
Speaker 1: to get middle school is such a weird like now
Speaker 1: that he's got I mean, now they're in high school,
Speaker 1: but like middle school is such a I think in
Speaker 1: that scene he was in middle he was younger, he
Speaker 1: was like elementary school, middle school or whatever. But like,
Speaker 1: middle school to me is so such a fascinating time
Speaker 1: that I feel like more media should focus on because
Speaker 1: you're not a kid, Like you're not quite a kid anymore.
Speaker 1: You're not on elementary school, but you're not quite a
Speaker 1: team yet, and you're like in this this awful, awful
Speaker 1: time where you're struggling with your identity. And so in
Speaker 1: high school, it's really fascinating to me that they have
Speaker 1: that with Deco, where he's struggling with his identity of
Speaker 1: wanting to be a superhero and then when he gets
Speaker 1: his powers, like still struggling with that, but also struggling
Speaker 1: with what it means to be. Maybe that's why I
Speaker 1: like shown in so much of shown in that takes
Speaker 1: place in high school, is they're not only struggling with
Speaker 1: their powers and that identity of where they fit in
Speaker 1: the world and their purpose and and like not using
Speaker 1: their powers selfishly but also using it to help the world,
Speaker 1: but they're struggling for where they are as people, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I definitely feel like this show specifically, it's always
Speaker 1: asking the question like what does it actually mean to
Speaker 1: be a hero? Yeah, like especially you know in an
Speaker 1: age where like it's kind of been commodified. You know,
Speaker 1: like there entire industry around being a hero, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have like battles and everyone watches and it's just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of it's almost it feels like Hunger Game
Speaker 1: Hunger Game Z like to me, but um, yeah, I
Speaker 1: like that conversation that they that the having of um
Speaker 1: once it is marketed and branded, what does it mean
Speaker 1: to be a superhero? Like what what are you actually
Speaker 1: doing with your powers to help the world? Yeah, And
Speaker 1: and because of that, I actually kind of think that
Speaker 1: this show is almost kind of in conversation with One
Speaker 1: Punchman in a way, because One Punchman is also kind
Speaker 1: of a response to Passion in as well. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: love that One Punchman makes fun of the trope and totally, um,
Speaker 1: it's like such a comedic take if we'll have to
Speaker 1: do an episode on that as well. But yeah, it
Speaker 1: also looks at like how co modified superheroism can be.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, yeah, I just yeah. That's one thing I
Speaker 1: really do like about One Punchman is because it not
Speaker 1: only does it make fun of anime, but it also
Speaker 1: just makes fun of the concept of superheroes and what
Speaker 1: that is like. And and it is so funny that
Speaker 1: they came out so close together because they share a
Speaker 1: lot of similar themes, like the ranking of superheroes and
Speaker 1: what that means and the effects of those type of things. Right,
Speaker 1: and also also like in the world where superheroes are common,
Speaker 1: like of course they're going to be like do she
Speaker 1: superheroes are like yeah, I'm awesome. Oh yeah. And and
Speaker 1: and it's funny because you know, I see Deco in
Speaker 1: One punch Man, but not as a central character, but
Speaker 1: as Kamal writer, Like that is Deco. He is the
Speaker 1: if you don't watch One punch Man, there's a character
Speaker 1: who is like he I think he's like c class
Speaker 1: trying to make it to be but he has he
Speaker 1: has like no, he has no powers. He just rides
Speaker 1: a bike, but like he just wants to be a hero.
Speaker 1: And like that's that was a scene that got me
Speaker 1: was there's an episode where like they they have to
Speaker 1: have this last stand against this like Gigantic c King
Speaker 1: and it's like Kamu writer and he's like won't go
Speaker 1: down and like stuff like that, Like just the concept
Speaker 1: because I think it's just so prevalent and important nowadays
Speaker 1: of just not backing down and not giving up. So
Speaker 1: whenever you see that, anime does such a good job
Speaker 1: of just showing that of just like what it really
Speaker 1: looks like to stand up in the face of everything
Speaker 1: being against you and going at it. And he was
Speaker 1: able to hold him off until Saitama got there, and
Speaker 1: it really was a beautiful moment. And yeah, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that more on that episode. Like one thing I
Speaker 1: liked about that is their color schemes are the same.
Speaker 1: They have the same attitude towards it, so you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was on purpose or not,
Speaker 1: but coma writer and deco are very similar. That's like
Speaker 1: such a cool thing. We have to take another quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll jump back into some more of our favorite characters
Speaker 1: and some of our favorite quotes from Bokunu Hero and
Speaker 1: we're back. So we're still gonna go over some more
Speaker 1: of these characters because there's a huge roster, so not
Speaker 1: gonna tackle every single character ever, But who are some
Speaker 1: more of your favorite ones that you've seen the fandom
Speaker 1: really latch onto. Other people have the family. Well, there's
Speaker 1: definitely U, who is who is known for zero gravity powers.
Speaker 1: There is Ida who is like the class representative. He's
Speaker 1: like the super stuck up one, but he's also like
Speaker 1: super earnest, which I like. He has engines on his calves.
Speaker 1: I know, it's so such I love like. However, um
Speaker 1: who is the creator again for BOCU New Hero. The
Speaker 1: creator's name is Kohei hiro Koshi. Yeah. So he's worked
Speaker 1: on a couple of others shown in, but um said
Speaker 1: that he was like heavily influenced um by um like
Speaker 1: you were saying in a couple of other and Marvel comics.
Speaker 1: Um so, I think it's fascinating whenever he was like
Speaker 1: brainstorming and these characters. Yeah, um yeah, I love these
Speaker 1: powers because they're just so unique in some way. Um yeah.
Speaker 1: So there's also a Toko Yami who is the dark
Speaker 1: shadow guy who has like this bird being. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: ever since I've been a big fan of bird being combinations.
Speaker 1: You need to that bird. You can't kill me. You
Speaker 1: got to kill the bird, right. I think I brought
Speaker 1: up in our m c U episode at iron Man
Speaker 1: UM two with um Mickey Rourke had a parent because
Speaker 1: you know, they normally have the bad guys have not
Speaker 1: saying that he's a bad guy with the bad guys
Speaker 1: normally have like a cat or whatever. I like that
Speaker 1: they switched it up sometimes and have a bird. That's
Speaker 1: what I want to do. You know what, Jafar, how
Speaker 1: do y'all go? So there? Right? So I'm saying, you know,
Speaker 1: Claude really started the cat game when he was doctor
Speaker 1: doctor No. But before that it was gold Member, right,
Speaker 1: I think so, I don't know. I was definitely not alive.
Speaker 1: Then I think I think it a gold finger. I
Speaker 1: think gold member is the you know what? As I
Speaker 1: said gold member, I was like, that's the original, right
Speaker 1: is it gold because gold fingers sounded even more suggestive?
Speaker 1: Gold member is your member? I know it's your remember,
Speaker 1: but at least member could be something else, like a
Speaker 1: part of a club where finger is very suggested if
Speaker 1: you like he's like he's like little fingers cousin. Yeah, Okay, anyways,
Speaker 1: I've taken us off course, staring us back on. Uh
Speaker 1: there is let's see where who else? Oh, there's Kilka Jiro,
Speaker 1: who she has like earphone Jack's kind of hanging off
Speaker 1: of her ear lobes, which is super cool shifts. I
Speaker 1: think she can unlease unleash sound waves as well as
Speaker 1: like here through just here vibrations. And they have like
Speaker 1: a rival team that they go against, right, like a
Speaker 1: rival school, right, are you talking about class by? Are
Speaker 1: you talking about like the other school, like like the
Speaker 1: completely different from you A. They're like the villains. Yes,
Speaker 1: so they're not. Am I giving anything away? I don't
Speaker 1: think you're giving it. It happens later in later seasons.
Speaker 1: It happens a little bit later, but I mean like
Speaker 1: at some point, you know, like who, like you expect
Speaker 1: for there to be a villain. Yeah, it's called the
Speaker 1: League Villains. They're not a school, but the League of Villa. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all we can say. I guess that's all we
Speaker 1: can definitely say about that. There there is like the
Speaker 1: main villain that shows up. I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's a spoiling necessarily saying who he is,
Speaker 1: but like he's just super creepy and like a great villain.
Speaker 1: Very Kylo Wren. Yeah, so can you talk about some
Speaker 1: of the obstacles that these characters face. This like our
Speaker 1: our team of um school classmates. Yeah, so I think
Speaker 1: I would say that the general conflict in the school
Speaker 1: on top of you know, just getting through school and
Speaker 1: like you know, the exams are also are the exams
Speaker 1: in the school are usually very difficult, you know, like
Speaker 1: you have to battle teachers, you have to like run
Speaker 1: tests with them, you have to pit yourself against each other.
Speaker 1: But there's also you know, in the meantime, the very
Speaker 1: real threat of the League of Villains. And the League
Speaker 1: of Villains are basically a bunch of people, you know,
Speaker 1: anarchists who are unhappy with the way that the hero
Speaker 1: industry is right now. And it's not field until later
Speaker 1: who's pulling the strings. But this person has a connection
Speaker 1: with all Might, And I think what I'm understanding is
Speaker 1: that people are seeing that all Might is weakening and
Speaker 1: so and because all Might is teaching at you a,
Speaker 1: they're now like targeting the high school students to get
Speaker 1: to him. And and they're targeting him, you know, like
Speaker 1: during their training sessions sometimes, like so it's very aggressive
Speaker 1: and like in response, the school is like accelerating their
Speaker 1: studies and like you know, making all of its harder
Speaker 1: to prepare them for attacks and stuff. What what is
Speaker 1: an episode you want people to get started in, because
Speaker 1: we are like, what three seasons so honestly, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: three seasons in, so honestly, people do could catch up?
Speaker 1: What is the other anime? I'm like, now you're gone.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Yeah, like some of those you're good, go
Speaker 1: go go watch one punch Man. So but yeah, you
Speaker 1: can definitely catch up, especially since I know a lot
Speaker 1: of y'all seeing you all on the timeline if you
Speaker 1: were able to burn through all the Game of Thrones.
Speaker 1: So many people are like, I don't rewatched the whole thing.
Speaker 1: You got time to watch my hero. You got time
Speaker 1: to watch my hero, and you should definitely check it out.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I think it's it's great. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: I kind of nailed at least for me. Said why
Speaker 1: I love the series and why I love series like it,
Speaker 1: It's just I love a series where someone achieves their
Speaker 1: goals through just hard work and determination and just someone
Speaker 1: really standing up for what they believe. And I feel
Speaker 1: like it's such a strong message, especially in times like now. Totally,
Speaker 1: and you know, like I said initially, you just feel
Speaker 1: a lot more happy for the characters when they do
Speaker 1: win something, when they gain something, because you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I've seen like how hard you've struggled actually to do something,
Speaker 1: as opposed like I said before, the whole thing of like,
Speaker 1: oh wow, have so much potential. You mastered something in
Speaker 1: an hour that usually takes people years. So what is
Speaker 1: your pitch for everyone to watch this? My pitch for
Speaker 1: everyone to watch this would be that it is a
Speaker 1: great action anime while understanding all of the previous action
Speaker 1: animes that have come before it, that it has a
Speaker 1: lot of heart to it, and that it also doesn't
Speaker 1: shy away from like the darker parts of what a
Speaker 1: hero is. In a real world where heroes would be
Speaker 1: would just be around all the time. I like that
Speaker 1: there's a character for everyone, yes, like even if you're
Speaker 1: not necessarily latched on a deckoo Like, I feel like
Speaker 1: there's other characters. I don't know why I don't go
Speaker 1: for bad guys in real life, but I do in
Speaker 1: my anime. Very ndorious though. Um yeah, so I feel
Speaker 1: like I like to Like you were saying that it's
Speaker 1: real world, what would happen if you've got superpowers? Because
Speaker 1: not all of them act in a way that I
Speaker 1: would say superheroes should like. So they're not all pure
Speaker 1: of heart. Um, and so it shows so even if
Speaker 1: you're not pure of heart, you're still awarded superpowers. You know,
Speaker 1: what do you do with that? And um, I like
Speaker 1: those implications because I never I mean, I like the
Speaker 1: characters that are pure of heart, but I feel like
Speaker 1: there's so much harder to relate to, right yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right? Well then Chris, where can people find you?
Speaker 1: People can find me on all social media as one
Speaker 1: we and Chris. And also, if you liked what I
Speaker 1: was saying about Bocono Hero, you can also check out
Speaker 1: my episode on Bocono Hero on my show Chris lamb
Speaker 1: Recommends on gam Ray TV, where I recommend Animate to newcomers.
Speaker 1: And uh, I also have a live show weekly where
Speaker 1: I make my straight friends watch drag Race with me.
Speaker 1: I'll do that for free. And I love me some
Speaker 1: drag Race. You know. I love seeing ch Angelus thrive
Speaker 1: after they've screwed her a million times anyway, truthfully, Uh,
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Speaker 1: you can definitely get some of that nerd Difficent merch
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Speaker 1: of different constantly updating it. Uh. And you know if
Speaker 1: D's on Twitch come through. A lot of the nerd
Speaker 1: fam has been coming through and blessing me with them
Speaker 1: Twitch Prime subs and as always, you gotta reap the
Speaker 1: sub every month of y'all pulled up to the stream like, oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't know, thanks for reminding me on the castle.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not gonna do it every time, but thank
Speaker 1: you all so much, truly appreciate you. And Danny Um,
Speaker 1: I'm at Miss Danny Fernandez M S D A and
Speaker 1: I F E R n A N D e Z.
Speaker 1: I plug it every week. I guess watch my show
Speaker 1: w z r D. We have new live from w
Speaker 1: z r D. We have new episodes that drop on
Speaker 1: Verva every Thursday. It's a very good show. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: so funny. I love it, and it's really weird and
Speaker 1: bizarre and looks it is a very good. My friends
Speaker 1: love me. Um, but I really want to I really
Speaker 1: want to season two with my friends, and they let
Speaker 1: us have several of our friends on so that I
Speaker 1: just want to keep giving jobs to my friends and
Speaker 1: playing with my friends. But even if you don't like me,
Speaker 1: well you'd probably like Danny. If you don't like what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, I'm just saying there's some good spicy Danny content,
Speaker 1: uh you know. Or you can come to my instagram.
Speaker 1: You'll bring the spice. Spicy too. It's spicy too. Yeah. Yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's what I was saying. Oh no, I forgot to
Speaker 1: plug one thing. If you are in the Phoenix area
Speaker 1: this weekend, I will be doing the Phoenix Improv Fest
Speaker 1: with my group White Woman. Definitely go to the white
Speaker 1: Woman instagram for details on that and come see us
Speaker 1: make you laugh and like we always say, stay