It's a mystic organ inside the anus of every human.

Hello, and welcome to our Be There Yet an exploration and education than anime. I'm your anime idiot, patrick dugan.

I am an anime expert, dana hollander.

And I'm brenda mccullough. Your anime sumo wrestling, butthole stealing turtle demon.

Yeah, that's what I know about those.

That's all I know about kappas. And that's what this show is about.

Them'S the boys.

You know, that guy we all went to high school with one of those.

Does that mean that koopas are like cap coop?

Mario gets weird if you dig too deep into it.

There is that not quite koopa turtle, but that like I specifically remember Mario three and world four. Yeah, spike. Spike a Kappa with the big house.

Spike is well, he'd be a coop. No, because bowser is king koopa. And then there's the koopa kids, but they're definitely like a different subset of just Cooper and koopa troopas and paratroopers. Then there's dry bones.

Kappa I guess maybe bike can be a CAPA. He's got that funny looking. He's got big mouth.

This took a very different turn than I thought it was going to.

Hi, everyone.

Welcome to our show.

Hello.

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We have a listener recommendation for our show this week. This is from melly 2901 on Twitter. Thank you. We are watching sarazanmai.

Neat.

That's a difficult title to say.

Yes, I practiced still. Probably did it wrong, but whatever. But yeah. Does anyone know anything about this?

No, I did not. So I looked it up, and there's kappas. That's all I got.

Yeah, that's all I got, too.

Did you spoil myself?

Yes. This is an extremely fresh anime. It looks like it came out June of this year, 2019. Oh, shit.

Oh, wow.

Hot off the presses.

It premiered in April. It ended in June.

Okay.

Still fresh. Still fresh out the oven, but yeah, I know. I did a little cap of research just to know what was up, since it is a lot of folklore stuff, but yeah, I hope there's not some of the stuff I found.

I think, like our discussion earlier, I think people's perception of a Kappa is coded by koopas and Mario. It's like they're fun little turtle creatures. Like nah, the actual kappa mythos is fucked up and weird.

But wild.

But wild.

But wild.

I think that's what low tad and looty colo are based off in pokemon. The little like, I love Load little frog friend hot one with a lily pad on its head, and it turns in the lombre, which is weird, and then loody colo, which is just like a giant loud pineapple duck. Me too.

There's only one loud pokemon duck in my life, and you know who it is.

Side duck.

Yes.

Okay. I wasn't sure if a duck.

No, yeah, he's a duck.

He's a duck adjacent.

More of any other pokemon. He is duck because he's like no other weird thing he's just a duck with a leak.

It's not like a ditch him on that. It starts as a duck, and it just turns into a full ass man.

Half duck, half leak.

Someone saw a duck pick up a leak, and they were like, well, that's a pokemon.

Oh, shit, I got a deadline.

Well, we got it.

We're derailing a lot because we know nothing about this show.

I'm ready.

How about we just hop right in? Shall we?

Yes.

Everyone wade into the water.

Oh, God.

Stagnant. Gross.

Wow. This wow. Wow.

Happened and then just kept happening.

Kept going. I didn't expect my opening to be so accurate. I did it as a goof, but.

Lots of butt stuff.

Yeah. This is your content warning. There's a lot of butt stuff happening here. Like, picture in your head how much, but stuff is happening, and now double it, because there's a lot of butt stuff happening here.

And not in, like, a fun, sexy way. Like in a weird, scary receiver dream kind of way.

Don't keep shame. This is sexy to somebody, probably.

So, yeah, let's get into it because there is a lot to talk about for this episode. No, thank you. Excuse. So, first off, we start out with a boy jogging. We're in the city, azumabashi, and he's just thinking about social connections. He's like, everyone's connected by someone. And then signs start falling from the sky, which, of course, means that this is a dream. So prophetic dream check. Got it. Right at the top.

I haven't had one of those in a while.

Yeah, we'll give everyone a peek. We had bingo cards made by At Ribbonquest on Twitter, who did a great job, and Brendan has since remixed it, so we each have our own individual randomized sheets. So this is the first time I'm actually playing along with the bingo card, because when it was just one sheet before Brendan did it, and I would get the same results. But I may have a bingo that we'll talk about. We hit a lot of tropes in this very weird show.

Yeah, there's a few I wanted to talk about because I wasn't sure, and if so, then, yeah, there are probably a few bingoes. Yeah, there's a given, too.

So, yeah, he has a dream, and then the next day he wakes up. It's fine, and he talks about, okay, I have these three rules that I need to live by. I have this cardboard capazon box. Get it? It's like, do you get it?

But run the world.

Yes. They're everywhere. He has to take this box everywhere he needs to watch. There's a running TV show that we see hosted by Sara azuma, and she's just, like, an idol that everyone watches in the morning, and she assigns, like, a lucky selfie of the day that he needs to take and send to a person who is unnamed and must keep it secret. So has a bunch of stuff going on, and they don't introduce names until later, but this is koski. But we'll get there later on. Of course, halfway through is when you introduce her main character's names. So that's great. We see a bad boy breaking into a car in a parking garage.

This is clearly the Edo the snow. Okay.

So breaks into a car, and a girl walking by takes a selfie, and he, of course, is in the background of it. So he's like, hey, what the fuck? I'm going to steal that phone from you.

Got me?

Runs away.

Get a Hulum chasing you. Got it.

He's got a metal ruler. He'll kill you.

It's the substitute for the sword. He is a modern day samurai.

I am a man of the metrics. So he chases he runs into koski standing at a kappa statue and, like, a little fountain shrine area, and he sees that koski has, like, the same phone charm as the girl and is like, hey, you're connected somehow, so I'm going to take it out on you. So he swings the ruler, accidentally breaks the kappa statue, and then smoke explodes out of it. And they're all freaking out. But again, koski wakes up. So was this a dream? Was this reality? I guess we'll find out there's a gas line.

They all started tripping when he broke it.

Yes. So he wakes up. He thinks he slept through a class, and then was it enter?

Yes.

Okay. I first heard penta, like, pentagram, and I was like, all right, baller.

Oh, I heard penta because I'm a pervert.

It was between penta and henta. For me.

I heard enta because I'm a diligent listener.

Someone needs to pay attention. You get the gold star for tenta.

Yeah, I'm a good noodle.

Enta comes in and is like, hey, DA, koski, why did you quit the soccer club? What's going on? We were best pals. What are you doing? And then we see a new transfer student. This is kuji, or toy. They sort of bounce back and forth sometimes.

It's all my chemical romance.

Yes. He's the emo car breaker into her burglary.

Emo boy.

Emo boy is perfect.

Toy boy.

Toy boy.

Toy boy. That's fun.

So he is the new student. He and koski start hearing ringing that they don't know the source of. And we just get, like, quick cuts of them having, like, kappa like behavior. So the folklore is they love cucumbers and love tasuma. Russell. So we see them do these things and pour water on their heads, because in the folklore, they also need to stay wet and keep, like, a dish of water on their heads, or else they'll dry out and die. So they're staying hydrated, like good Internet people, just reminding them to stay hydrated.

Thanks, hydration bot.

I'm glad hydration became a meme.

So we then see enter at home talking. The new show is talking about how the statue was broken and the grandma who is watching the TV is like, whoever broke that statue better watch their anuses.

And I was like, what the fuck, grandma?

Yeah.

That was thrown out there without much addition. So enter sisters yelling at him for buying stuff on fake Amazon. But then the box flies away by itself. What could it be? So kosky and toy boy follow the ringing back to the statue where it keeps getting louder. And then once they get there, the prince of CAPA kingdom appears, who is a little round CAPA.

He looks like a low tad from pokemon.

Yeah, this cellar was cute for about.

Two minutes, a good friend, until toy boy is like, what the fuck is this frog doing here? So the prince is like, fuck you. I'm going to fucking time to steal your shiri, kodama. So let's get into some folklore, shall we?

Here's the info dump. We'll check that off the fingercart, too.

We'll give you the info dump to save you the task later. So these water spirits, Kappa, they're tricksters, but they also try to steal humans, sherry kodamas, which are mystical organs that are go on right in the anus, in the asshole.

They're like the prostate of the soul.

Yes, they are. The mystical anus organ of pleasure, I believe is the quote.

I'm 45. I got to go for my sheer kodama exam.

Once you reach that age, it's good to just make sure it's all still mystical.

It's like a vibe. Check.

The vibe of grass.

Way worse.

Buttholes. Going to be a lot of buttholes.

Yeah. So from here on out, expect a lot of butthole talk.

How do they get it out?

Well, that's a funny question. You see, the prince shoots himself into their buttholes and then eats them.

Right?

He eats ass.

It's 2019.

Everybody eats ass. It's 2019.

This prince is a millennial. So, yeah, eats their asshole and then eats them and shits them out in CAPA form.

Yeah.

So this is the fucking worst magical girl transformation we have seen so far.

Absolutely vile. I'm disgusted.

So on board.

Yeah. When I was googling the show I saw. Yeah. They transform into kappa's. Cool, right? I did not know that this was an aspect of what was going to happen. So this caught me. Very awesome.

What a fun little sexy surprise for you.

So he eats them and transforms them into kappas. And they are now in, like, a different plane called the field of desires, where they're on Earth, but no other humans can see them.

Until, let's be clear, kazuki wakes up already at Kappa, and he sees the prince literally shitting out.

It's so terrible. I hated that more than anything else. Like everything else, I was like, this is weird. Like, okay, this was terrible. I hated this.

Yeah. Someone like I was trying to gloss over that for a reason. And then Brendan got his no, I.

Got to mention that.

Enter arrives because he was trying to follow the box. And the prince places a seal on his forehead so he can see the field of desires. Sort of like, hey, he's your buddy. Let me include him so he can be part of the team. And so the media is like, Holy shit, a talking frog. The same process repeats. And he is also eaten shit out and made a cappa.

Welcome to the club.

How do we not have vor on the bingo card?

Oh, shit. A different time. We'll get there, we'll flesh it out into weebs. So we have the full five columns.

There we go. Oh, we might do that. We might have to do that. Okay.

So we're seeing a bunch of flying boxes all over the city. Now that we're in the field of desires, we can now see that they're stolen by Kappa zombie underlings. They're there to fulfill earthly desires that they couldn't get in their real life. So they're stealing the boxes so they can get stuff. So they need to fight a boxman. Basically, they're recruited to do the bidding of the CAPA as payment for destroying this idol statue. So they have to do their bidding and fight for them. And we get this, like, boxman on his hands and knees on a bridge, and a musical number breaks out. Kick your ass.

I'm about it.

I was not expecting that. Out of everything in the show, the musical numbers were the least expected, but the most enjoyed.

Yes, I watched all three episodes dubbed, and they're good.

Yeah, I watched the first episode dubbed, and then the next two dubbed because I watched the second one dubbed because that's what I took notes on. And I was like, this is good.

This ain't bad.

And it's because it's so new. Like, newer dubs are always, like, so good.

It's a new, funimation dub. So they have all the resources in the world and all the experience.

And no Brooklyn accents.

Yes.

No.

Brooklyn accent So, yeah, they fight this box, man. They steal its sherry cod and get.

Way up in there.

Yeah, this was bad, too.

Climb into the Giant Man's asshole to steal it. And when they do, the visuals are.

So it's vile, but it's pretty. Like, the colors and very colorful. Cool.

There's a lot of liquids coming out.

That I'm not that's not good, though.

Yeah, this first episode is so chaotic. I wanted to just power through this storyline for sure. Yeah, this show is very good looking, since it is new. The animation is very good. They do we'll see that they do repeat a lot of shots, so that sort of takes away from it a little bit. But, yeah, it's a very pretty show for such a gross subject. So, yeah, they fight the boxman, take the shari Kodama, and a secret is revealed when that is done. And this boxman, apparently, his thing was he loved to lay naked with his head in a box, and that was his secret shame. But now that people know it, he's so embarrassed, he dies, basically, is what happens.

This is very persona. Five. Yeah, I know that.

I haven't played any personas.

This is what persona five ishole stealing. Yeah. No asshole stealing in Persona Five, but very similar rules.

Good to know to never play that game. So the prince, now that they have the shirikodama, says it's time for a sarzanmai. And this is sort of their transformation sequence back. It bonds them together more, and they also learn secrets about each other. So we see that the secret that kosky has with his three rules is the box he's always carrying around is his costume for cross dressing as the host of the morning show that everyone watches. And then he texts the selfie to someone. So since they're all bonded in this, everyone now knows this secret. And we also now see that koski dressed up was the girl that took the selfie of toy boys breaking into the car. So they're all connected now. And, yeah, the fate has brought us together for Butthole misadventures butthole destiny itunes. Can I make that the title?

Will you allow us?

I need to Google some terms and conditions.

What about Just whole destiny?

Behold destiny.

Behold Destiny.

But I'll spell it out. Be whole.

Oh, no, I don't want bees at that hole.

It'll be ambiguous.

All right. So then we get N credits, which are also beautiful because they're live action shots of the city this takes place in because it is based on a real city. So they have live footage and they draw the characters overlaid so they're in the real world. And it's very pretty.

I love it. I really like the song, too. I like the way they rhymed English words with Japanese. Love that. I love the song. It's a good song.

Gee. And of course, we have to have plot after the credits.

So we have two Marvel movies.

Yes. We see two police officers that are definitely not Team Rocket interviewing a catman and killing him. I guess we'll find out the next episode.

They extract his desires with a gun.

Yes. All right, so episode two starts where we left off with the trio of boys and the cap prince is like, well, now that you've done that for me, here's your gift. And the gift is a golden plate. And with the golden plate, they get one wish and enter takes it. And instead of thinking, well, I don't think he meant it, but like a genie, the cap, a prince took it. So he was like, oh, like a year supply of cucumber rolls. And then the plate text turns into cucumber rolls. And then he receives a giant cucumber roll.

Just one, like, six foot long, 3ft tall roll.

It's a lot of rice.

Yeah.

You see, like, cucumber.

Yeah, one cucumber in the center of it. I'm like, oh, you fucked over here. That's a ribbon.

Yeah. That sucks. And then kazaki is home in bed, and we are introduced to his little brother haruka. He's a very sweet little boy. And we find out that he is the one that kazaki pretends to be Sara for. So he texts him as Sarah, and it's spelled Sara. So in my mind, I just keep saying, Sarah, Sara, sara. But Sarah yeah, that's fine. Yeah. So he wants to use the next wish for haruka because he loves his little brother. And then we get the opening, which we didn't talk about last time. It's pretty standard. But I really like the song for the opening, too, because it reminds me a lot of rad wimps, which is the people or the band that did the songs in Your Name I Get Here. Yeah, I really liked it.

It's a catchy tune.

And then haruka is shown eating breakfast with his and Kazki's parents, who are very young and attractive.

Calm down.

And they're watching sarah's morning show. It doesn't seem like it's just morning. It seems like it's just constant, which sucks for her. I hope we get to know her later in the series.

Yeah. Once I saw that, it's just like it seems like a 24 hours thing. I was like, oh, maybe she's just not a real person, like a vocaloid hologram sort of thing. Because I'm like, yeah, if it was just, like an hour a day, fine. But yeah, it seems all the time.

Yeah.

I specifically mentioned morning show because she gives, like, a daily prompt of, like, this is your lucky symbol, and take your lucky selfie.

Right? So coskey comes downstairs, and they're like, breakfast time, son. And he's like, no, I'm too cool for breakfast.

Not man.

So he leaves, and then haruka is like, wait, I want to go with you. So they leave, and they talk about their fat cat, who's kind of just like a neighborhood cat.

Neandaro.

Neandaro. And kazakhi is watching sarah's show on his phone, and the item that makes yourself be lucky today is a cat. So now, in his Sarah cosplay, he has to find a cat. And then haruka is like, kazakhi, can I tell you a secret? And he's like, yeah, whatever, kid. Because he pretends that he's too cool.

To love his brother, yet he puts in so much effort.

Yeah. And he tells him that he's friends with Sarah and then shows him all of the selfies that, quote she has sent him. And in his mind, cosby, he's just like, that's me.

That's me.

Totally me.

And just keep texting him.

And then after that, we're shown emo boy waterboarding, someone in a bathtub.

This was startling.

What a turn. And there's, like, a guy in a suit in the background, and they're torturing this guy for information, it seems like. And then that scene is just, like, over. We don't really see what happens with that.

Don't worry about it.

Yeah, whatever. And it's Emo Boy and this guy in a suit, which we find out is his older brother. And they're talking about what they do very vaguely. We don't know. Crimes. They do crimes for money, essentially. And then we find out that Emo Boy also wants to use the wish for his brother. Yeah. And then we get enta. Enta receives a package, and it's a.

Gun, just a real assurn.

And this was the first time that I heard kuji, because he says, oh, this must be Kucci's package. And me immediately was like, kucci, excuse me, kucci. So that's why I kept referring to him as Emo Boy because I was like, I can't keep calling him kuji.

Because kucci temptation is just too much. I can't deny myself.

No. And then enter, a sister comes in and he hides the gun. And he says, like, oh, it's my friends. And she says like, oh, you finally made friends then. And I think at this point in the background, we hear on the on sarah's show about a dead body being found just like, in passing. And then we get emo. Boy, I think packaging weed yeah, he sells weed.

You should have saved this for 420 episode.

And he's putting in a little baggies, which he then puts in, like, cat treat bags.

Yeah, it's weird being in California and then seeing I'm also rewatching Breaking Bad now just seeing weed in this highly elaborate dark room hidden in this abandoned apartment complex and just packaging it in cat food to hide it. It's like, chill, chill Japan.

Well, I mean, it's also weird seeing weed in anime because it is so strictly, like, moderated in Japan.

Yeah. So then we see nyantaro, the kitty goes into this weed layer, steals a bag because it looks like cat treats. So it's like kitty treats. I'm smarter than other cats. This is mine now.

But not smart enough to not know it's weed.

Yeah.

So kitty takes it, runs away. And then we see kazaki and his Sarah cosplay in like, a parking garage looking for cats to take a selfie with when Yontar runs by and he's like, what are you doing here? And then Emo Boy runs up and he takes out his sword. And then kazaki is like, please don't kill my cat.

Please know.

But he's mostly like, because my little brother loves it so much. Like, please.

He also got to take a selfie with a cat that day.

He also has to take a selfie with a cat. And then the cat gets a little baggy of weed and just eats it.

Munch.

Hope he's okay.

Yeah, that's not good for cats. No, don't smoke up your cat.

No, also don't feed your cat plastic.

Don't feed your cat plastic. Don't smoke in a close, close vicinity to your kitty. Keep him safe. And then we see enter and he's walking with the box of gun, and he's walking past the Cap of Shrine, and the cap of Prince reaches out with one nasty hand and drags him inside. And he's, like, really dried out. And he's like, I am so thirsty. Glasses Boy, water, please. And then Emo Boy and Kazuki follow the cat, and they arrive at a place. I thought it was a cafe at first, and then I was like, oh, it's like an outdoor plaza. It turns out to be an amusement park.

Yeah.

And there's a sign outside that it says it's, like, couples Day. And the cat goes in there, and they just, like, look at each other. And they're like, well, that's fine. And then they've moved to leave.

See you tomorrow.

Well, the cat is dead. It's fine.

And then they're starting to walk away from each other when, like, a worker from the amusement park comes out, and he's like, hello, you're a couple. Come inside. Have a nice date.

Get in here. I get paid on commission.

And Enta has gotten the Cappa Prince a water bottle, and he's pouring it on himself and sipping it. And then enterta gets a text from his sister that has a picture of her and her date. And they are at the amusement park and the cap a prince comes over, and he's like, oh, look at that. They've already just, like, ditched me, and they're important duties to the world. And he's like, what are you talking about? And then he sees kazakhi and Emo Boy in the background on a date. On a date. And they're chasing the cat around the amusement park. It's fun chasing whatever.

Shenanigans, ensues.

Shenanigans ensue.

I just remembered, after gives him the water bottle, we see the Prince pouring it over his head, but then he takes a towel and just, like, whips it between his legs. Like, oh, yeah, just like scenes like that where I'm like, what a disgusting creature. What an awful being.

What a nasty boy.

Just like, little reminders of, like, oh, yeah, he's horrible.

And they're in a ride. It's kind of like a sky gondola thingy. And Kazuki asks him not to hurt the cat because his brother's cat, he doesn't want his brother to be sad.

What's, that fat cat?

Yeah. And Emo Boy is like, sure, I won't hurt your cat. Because he also has a soft spot for his brother.

Cool.

They can bond, but they're both too straight and mean to say anything straightened. I shouldn't say that. They're too drenched in toxic masculinity. There we go. Yeah. He says that, I won't hurt the cat, but you have to give me the next wish dish. And he's like, no. And he's like, well, then I'm going to fucking kill your cat. And then we get some policemen talking about a murder of a guy that used to kidnap and shave cats.

Allegedly.

Allegedly.

Yeah. At this point, I wrote the note team Rocket. Police dudes love murder.

They are straight up team Rocket.

Very team Rocket. But they're two men, no. Jesse. How unfortunate.

James and Fains.

James and things.

I was going to say one has got the sharp teeth, which is standard with Hell. That should be a big O card slot. And then the other is eda.

Yeah.

By like, James and things.

So we find out that they can also extract shiri kodama. Like, it's like confirmed at this point that that's what they do. But yeah, they do it with, like, a gun and a sick musical number.

Yes. This song rules.

It's very good.

Yeah, they do a dance and it's stellar.

Yes. So in the folklore, there's not like an exact animal that people think the kappa is. So sometimes they're also referred to as, like, otter children, which is why their song catchphrases otterly sexy.

Oh, very nice. So we get their cool musical number. So they make the cap of zombies. That's what they do. That's what they're about. And then we see that this time kitties are floating away. No, floating through the sky. And it gets neontaro. So they're like, well, we got to get him. And then enter and the cappa prince join them at the amusement park. And the cap of prince is in a disguise as a woman. And then the kimono flies off and he's on stilt. Very good.

It's a good scene.

There's good visual gags in this show. This is a fun this is just a lot. I love it. And I do the transformation sequence again. And I was, like, really hoping that we wouldn't have to skip over. It would be just like a first episode kind of thing.

Just give us the truncated version. We get it. But yeah, this this is where we see a lot of the animation sequences are reused, so they'll just repeat it every time they transform, I assume, from here on out.

Yeah. And they also do the same song and dance that they do in the first episode. And they get the shiriko dama out of the cap isambi's bowl. And we find out that his secret is that he catnaps because his girlfriend loved her cat more than she loved him. And then we find out that he was I don't know if this is the right thing, but I wrote down that he was buffalo billing cat because he shaved them and was making her suit out of real cat fur so his girlfriend would love him.

Oh, wow. That's such a perfect way to describe.

Me.

So.

It puts the cat nip in the back.

Was she a great big cat pussy?

No, I'm sorry I said it.

Jesus.

And then he went off to be the police chief and monk.

So they do they do the stars on my thing and they learn about kazaki's secrets again. And I'm like, what am I going to learn about somebody else?

I'm. Bored of the character already.

Emo Boy. emo Boy has a fucking drug lair and we don't learn about.

We need his secrets. We saw him waterboarding somebody. And so we get his memory of him actually stealing Nyantaro from a house because haruka wanted a cat. So he stole Nyantaro and then set him free. And now Neontaro is just like a stray kiddie that comes back to them for food and stuff. And then Team Rocket is made aware of the trio and what they do. And then they're back in the alley and emo Boy takes his gun and he's like, I want the wish dish this time. But this time it's only silver. The first one was gold, so you need five silver ones to make a wish.

This game Taste is free to collect a fawn.

Damn it. These microtransacts.

Oh, God. Pay to win.

Yeah. And they both love their brothers, and I just want them to bond over it. And then we get the ending. And then we get a very good aftercredit scene, which made me very excited. So Kazaki gets his Sarah selfie with Neontaro, and he's just so tired that he falls asleep in the street. And then we hear someone walking up to him, which made me very nervous because I was like, oh, no, he's dressed as a cute girl. Like something bad is going to happen.

Yeah.

But then it's Enter and Entertain and gives him a smooch. smooches Kazakhi on the lips. It's gay.

Give us the gay.

It's real gay. We're back.

I mean, I already had the gay checked off on the bingo card because of James and dames. But now it is definitively gay. Definitively gay, but also not okay. Get consent. eda this enter.

Yeah. eda's police boy.

Yeah.

I don't trust it.

Yeah, that's episode two.

That's the twos. Episode three starts off right where episode two left and kazuki wakes up but still groggy from being asleep. So he doesn't realize that anto was kissing him, says he has a huge crush on him. And then he snaps out of it and realizes just a fantasy. So we get that tease.

Too many of these teases in this episode.

Yeah. I love it, though. I love that it's like not like a weird. He's just like, I'm in love with him. That's it, boy.

That's it. That's all there is.

No qualifications. No, he did this and therefore I'm in love. No, he's just the big gang.

And then we get the opening again. And then Enter goes down for breakfast with the sister and grandma, and they got fish from his sister's boyfriend or the guy she's been seeing lately. And it's like, oh, yeah, he works out like a fish market. We're actually going to go fishing later today on a date. I'm so excited. And then that's when we see Sarah on TV. And she's saying, like, today's lucky selfie object is a kiss. And just spits out the tea he's drinking, but it arcs up, and the grandma catches it. She goes, Here, let me get that for you. And it gives it back and says, you can have spent it reminded me of those, like, four kids dubs where it's like, I don't even know if that was actually in the Japanese or they just added that in just for a quick joke where you don't see her mouth. And I was like, I love that. It's just, like, really silly.

Very silly. Very good.

So he's all flustered because he gave the kids last night. So then we cut to a scene of ends up practicing soccer down by, like, a riverfront, and he's got, like, a soccer goal, like, drawn on chalk on the wall. So I guess that's where he practiced. And he's thinking about the time when he fell in love with Kazakhi, and they were known as a golden duo for all the time because they were always together, and they played soccer together, and they were unbeatable. So he doesn't know why Kazaki quit soccer out of nowhere, and he's mad.

So male.

So kazakh. We cut to kazakh walking around in his cosplay, and he went to a fish shop, which is known as a kissing maroon or something. It's kind of got, like a joke in the title, like a kissing joke in the title, and he was going to kiss one of the fish and get a selfie with that as a joke.

Yeah, well, it's just that the fish itself, it's called kisu. Don't think there's a word in Japanese for kiss. They just say kisu.

Okay? That's the joke.

Kiss and fish.

Kiss and fish. And that's what I call it. It's all the breath of the wild. It's a handsome zora.

I love that man.

Hot prince.

Not like this prince.

This is a different weird water print. Not right.

This is the gross end of the fish prince. And we cut to enter, and haruka are playing Old maid in the park little card game, and it's like, I can never win against you. And it just keeps losing in the card games against them. And haruka is saying, oh, yeah, I got a friend, Sarah. I text her all the time, but my brother never texted me because he got a text message. And I was like, oh, is that your brother? He's like, no, it's Sarah. sarah's great, but my brother never texts me. It's like his brother goes so far and out of his way, but just, like, text him and be like, yeah, I enjoy being with my brother, but he goes through all this other elaborate shit and just makes no sense, and we're going to ask him. Anti is like, hey, why do you think my brother quit soccer? He was really good with it. Like, you guys were a golden duo. He's like, I don't know. And it bugs me. Like, I want him back he just wants to get kazuki smiling and playing again because he loves him so much.

He loves him. I love this, too, because he loves his brother, and that's important.

That's good familial relationship, even if you're not part of the family.

Yes. And also if you're in a relationship with somebody, not that ensa and Kazakhi are in a relationship, it's just really important to have that nice connection. And I love this. I love it so much.

It's good seeing characters interact that aren't around the main character, revolving around the character. So it shows they have a dynamic outside of the plot. And we see and sister get a text from her date, who's running late. She's down by the river front. She's getting rid of fish. And then we find out that he works at that key fish shop that Kosiki went to earlier, but he's not answering his phone. And we see it. We get a shot of his cell phone vibrating from his text message, and then we see the little heart symbol, like, flash on the phone that's got the otter in it. Who are the bad guys? The oddly sexy, utterly sexy empire. Kazakhi shows up, and he meets with anta, and he confesses to enta. He just wants to play soccer again. And Entertain is, like, so exciting. And he gives them this I just called it a bracelet. I don't know what the right term for it is.

I forget they called it something.

Yeah, it's basically just, like, a little soccer bracelet. And he puts it around kazakh's ankle. kazakh is like, yeah, we're a golden duo again. And they do, like, this pose, and it is actually the same pose they do when their caps and they like to feed a zombie. So, like, yeah, golden duo. And he snaps out of it, and he's like, Wait, what? Turns out Kazakhi was actually a sister, and he gave her the bracelet instead.

I didn't really get these fantasy things of, like, yeah, you're fantasizing about it, but you're also actually doing it in reality. Whatever.

There was too much of it.

Yeah, he's too horny. He's too horny to focus. Well, horny on main.

What are you going to do?

So Anti goes back down to his practice spot, and he sees two other soccer players practicing down there. He's like, Spot down on my porch? And he says they're like, what do you mean? You can't practice here. You don't have a partner. Like, Kazakhi quit. We all know that. And he's just like, I don't know what you're talking about. And he starts, like, trying to fight him. And I was kind of surprised by this, because these two other kids, like, they weren't being dicks. They were just like, hey, you kind of need someone to practice with. We know your guy's gone. Sorry. Like, you can't you're just like, this.

Isn'T this isn't private property, dude. Yeah, we're just practicing our soccer.

You drew a goalpost on the wall next to the river. That's pretty that's not open.

But they weren't, like, antagonizing him, which is kind of interesting for an anime. We're just like, look at this, nerdy.

They weren't wearing 69. Soccer police. We're going to beat you up, nerd.

And then we see him Enter trying to fight him, and then it cuts to another police briefing, and we got another moida victim, and this time, it's anta sister's boyfriend. He works at the fish shop. Turns out he's a hardcore womanizer, and he has suspicion of marriage fraud, which I guess is a crime. I suppose. They could never nail them down. They can never convict them with it. Plan them with the evidence. And then we get the two cops, james and Themes stand up again and say, confess like, it was us. We killed him. And it's like, at episode three, is when I realized, like, oh, they're doing like, an aside, like a theater. Like, they're not actually standing up in the pre police precinct and just screaming. Like, we murder people. Like, oh, yeah.

I didn't catch on to that.

Not right away, because they're fucking turtle demons. They go into people's assholes. I don't know. They could be theatrical in day to day life.

Hello, fellow colleagues. We are the murderers.

We have an asshole gun.

Oh, God. I guess they do. They really do.

And no one takes them seriously. And they're just like, we don't want to know what you do in your spare time.

Keep it to yourself. And they're like, no, we're murderers. Arrest us. Or like, yeah, sure you are. It's dexter, but with more buttholes. So then it goes into their musical number again, which is once again, just so good.

Straight Bob.

Absolutely, Bob. Utterly sexy.

Utterly sexy.

Then we get cut back to Enter, who's been knocked out after the two other soccer kids beat him up because he started fighting him. And he wakes up, and Kazaki's there fighting them off, saying like, get out of here, guys. And he's wearing the soccer foot bracelet that he got him. And he's saying, like, you can't take on my buddy. He's my buddy. We're part of the golden duo.

Yeah.

And they pose again. He snaps out of it. It's not him.

His fantasies aren't very creative.

No, it's kind of just the same thing over and over again. But I mean, hey, reuse his assets when you got them. Yeah, he snaps out of it, and it's toy boy came to his rescue. He's like, you beat up those guys. You fought them off for me. He's like, no, I showed up, and they got scared and ran off. It's like, yeah, they were just two guys trying to play soccer. They weren't looking for a fight to leave them alone. And that's when anto starts talking about Kazakhi and their relationship. And he doesn't fully confess, but he's like, I want to be with kazakh. I really like him and I want to get my dish and use it for his sake. And Toy boy is like, oh, cool, yeah, no, I'm going to get that dish. I got it gone.

You know I have it right.

I will treat BOP you. I have waterboarded a grown man before. So that's when the new kappa zombie appears and we see it's pulling in this time, a bunch of brides, because it's the woven dicer and it's the same pose every time. It's like a giant guy in this neon dark blue pink color scheme. He's like hunched over on his hands and knees, but then the head is usually whatever the unique feature is to that character, that zombie. And this one's a giant fish for a head. And all the brides come up to him and kiss them. And then when he kisses them, they turn into fish and then flop down into a bed of ice like fish that are about to be sold. And then we see that in line with all the women is enterta's sister. And he's like, a fight. Let's go. He runs out to find the prince. So then we get the song transformation sequence again, but this time entertain the lead. Yeah, he's the star boy.

Cool.

Love it.

So it's about him. And they steal the fight again, where it's basically just them, like, spinning around, flying at the zombie, and then they fly over it and get it from behind. And it wasn't until the third episode that I noticed you can just see like full balls. Yeah, you can see the butthole and the balls. Yeah, the meat and the potatoes.

It's all there.

Also on the cat in the last episode, animated the balls. Of course.

Of course. I didn't notice I saw that, but I didn't realize that that's what it was until the third episode. I was like, wait a minute. That is the ball. Yeah.

Capital the capital B ball. The balls.

So they dig into that ass, they get the chicodava, and the zombie yells out, oh, my God. Which.

There are I love that killer.

The villains. Yeah, the CAPA zombies. They always do, like dumb puns. Excellent. It's so good because it's very reminiscent of like a pokemon or like any kids show where it's just all kind of silly, but it's all very nasty.

It's the pure fun goofiness of children's shows with the very adult editions that.

Are not and it's even got like that formula thing with reused animation and stuff like that.

I figured because the animation is like, it's very beautiful. And the shots they do so I'm like, I can forgive it because they put so much money into some of these.

I don't mind it.

Every time they transform, the prince puts them in what does it call it, this cart, like a guy pulls yeah.

I don't remember what they're called either.

So the prince is pulling it and that's actually a live action sequence. Like, we get a first person perspective from the cart that he's pulling and it goes through a gate. And that's when they go to the field of desires. But that's actually all real. That's like a 3d model. They construct it and stuff. So they're definitely not cutting corners. So I think they use what they could because the show is probably very.

Expensive and it shows beyond the eating and shitting out the kids sequence. A lot of the reuse stuff is entertaining enough, where you're like, yes, I do want to see this again. Like, the otterly sexy song is genuinely great.

Yeah.

And like, the sequences of them fighting the cap of zombies are never too long either.

Yeah.

All right, we get it.

It's always very quick.

Yeah. It's never like, oh, will they win? Will they lose? It's like, hey, we're going to do the sequence. We're going to kill it. So you're not focused on the fight. You're like, yeah, they're going to do their thing.

Yeah.

I think every fight is probably less than a minute. Like, it's real quick. Yeah. So they beat them. They get the shiro dama shirkodama. And this time enta eats it while it's, like, melting. And then we didn't specify, but when they transform back and they're looking back on the memories, it's called leaking. We get a little icon of them at the bottom and we see the orb leaking from behind them, like out of their at. And it's like, this is not very human centipede capacity. And this is like their memories leaking out to the other two boys. So they all see him. And this time it's enter. So we see memories of him going to Kazaki's locker and sniffing his jersey and then playing playing his recorder, like out of his desk so he can get some of that good good spit.

Yeah.

And I think even at this point, like toy boy, like comments, he's like, what the fuck? Like, I forget what he says, but he kind of like, whoa, dude.

He's like, oh, no.

Oh, boy. I'm here for gay rights. But that's too much, man.

Yeah, that's strong. And then of course, we get a memory of the kiss. It's after all the sequence is done. And we get a silhouette shot of Anti freaking out. Like, now my secret. And then we see his sister waking up on the bridge where she was supposed to meet her date. She's like, why was I here? So I supposed to meet someone. And she goes back and looks at photos and the guy in her photo disappears. So he kind of just gets erased from existence, which is kind of fucked up. Yeah, well, they're not great people, but.

Like, they're bad people. That's the whole thing.

Reworking all of history is kind of weird. And then after the flight causing, he says the kiss wasn't, he's like, oh, I get it. The kiss was just a dare from the soccer club, and this is the one that ends up like, no, it wasn't a dare. I wouldn't do that as a dare. He's like, I like you. I really like you. He's like, I love you. And he confesses. He's like, I want to be your golden no. He confesses to him that's when Kazakhi says, I want to be your golden partner for life. And it's just, like, so gay.

Super gay.

And it's always for life. It's always a commitment. Anime boys love marriage. That's when Empty gives him the soccer bracelet, but he's holding it on the silver hope dish. He's like, I want you to have it. And kaiki says, like, go and do it for life. And they do the pose again, like, yeah. And anta leans in for a kiss and getting close, and it's the prince. He kissed the prince.

Dang it funk with this episode with all these fantasy sequences where he doesn't actually do anything, with Kazakhi weird setting.

It up, hoping maybe at the very end it be a payoff. No, just another goof.

Yeah.

And he kissed the prince, and he just starts peaking in the corner of.

Like, oh, God, he's so gross.

He eats ass.

I kissed my ass.

I kissed my own asshole.

When we see he still has the silver hope dish with the bracelet on it, but then the mouse pops up and jumps on the dish and steals the bracelet and just runs off it's like, what the fuck? So he loses the bracelet, and then we get the ending sequence, which is great. And then we see Kazakhi still thinks it's we see them after this, and Kazaki still thinks it was a dare. Oh, no, we didn't have the ending sequence yet. Sorry. But yeah, Kazaki still thinks he's like, it was a dare from the psychic club. It doesn't mean anything. He's, like, on his phone again, like, not paying attention. And toy boy is also on his phone, but he's, like, giving a side eye because he's, like, putting together to confess his feelings earlier in the day, and then now, like, how he reacted. He's like after he saw the memories. So toy boyd knows what's up. He ain't dumb. Yeah, he doesn't have that dumb main character syndrome.

No.

And then we get the ending sequence, and then the post credit scenes is enter, saying he can't talk to Kazaki. And he tells haruka, I'm giving up on him. I can't talk to him. There's no convincing him to join soccer again. I don't know what to do with him. And haruka is like, because I'm like, don't worry about it. Wait a minute. Let me give you something. And he pulls out Kazaki's soccer bracelet that he threw away when he quit the soccer club, I think.

Yeah.

And he's like, I was able to pull this out when Kazaki wasn't looking. Don't tell him, but I feel like he'd want it again when he starts playing again, so maybe you can give it back to him when he finally convinced him. And at that point, we hear someone off screen. I think it's his mom saying, like, haruki, we got to go. He's like, okay. And we see Enter pushing haruki in a wheelchair because it turns out he's at a hospital. So we got that sickly younger brother he's got to take care of. uhoh uhoh.

I smell demise.

Ooh, I smell magical girl yuki yuna or whatever. Oh, boy, I was listening back to that the other day. Oh, great. That was a fun rob. Anyway, that's the kappa show because I forgot its title SARS on mine. There we go. I will want to point out, though, the bingo card. Let's get into these, because, like, we do have a few. I got Transfer Student not Technically Incest, because that's the free car, free swat.

Hold on, hold on. Wait. Let me open mine. Where is it? I have the third one. Okay.

Transfer student. Not technically incest info dump the gay and prophetic dream. Those are, like, the guaranteed and then there are a few that I think are open for discussion if we're going off the original bingo card and we get unrealistic expectations of a literal child.

Yeah, I had that.

Okay. Then we got a bingo with the og card. This is our first bingo.

How exciting.

It's all about eating butt.

Yeah. On my remixed one, I also had a bingo, but one of them is debatable, so I want to put that out there for you. So I had animal sidekick with the print.

Okay, I was thinking that, too. Yeah.

Prophetic Dream. Beautiful boys with the oddly sexy boys.

Okay, I can see that.

And the questionable one referring to toy boy was the unlikable main character because he's the bad boy, but he's not the unlikable character that we typically have of, like, oh, you're just selling us this character. That sucks. So I wanted to debate that because that would give us bingo. But can we technically classify him as unlikable?

I wouldn't say so, because it's not even like his friends don't like him either. Yeah, he's an interesting character. He's not at all like he's a rough boy, man, you just suck. He just sells weeds.

He's just a dealer and just crime for money. We all do sometimes. Right, right.

But he's, like, interesting, and you want to know more about him.

Yeah.

So, yeah, I'm good to pass that up, especially now, knowing that we got bingo on the main card, but we.

Don'T have definitive I'll say on my card that I was doing. If we got delicious cartoon food, which we didn't see a ton of.

Yeah, I don't think we do.

You could make a joke about the small boys. That the cap of Manchester.

Fair.

Some delicious cartoon food, anime ass, the most delicious appredition but with Toy Boy with his brother. And his brother's, like, the main guardian. Seems like dead parent club question.

It's unclear. Lives with his grandma.

That's also because if I got that, I got double bingo.

Oh, yeah. If that's the case, I wasn't even considering that. I have bingo a different way. With animal sidekick, transfer student, the Gay and Dead Parents Club.

Hell, so many bingo. We're doing dead Parents Club.

This show is perfect.

The show has got everything. Yeah, mostly eating ass.

Well, anyway, but yeah.

Are we there yet?

So we shit on a lot of weird shows because they're weird and bad. This is the rare case where we have an extremely weird show. But it's a good show.

It's still good.

It's beautiful.

I wanted to say this the whole time. This show slaps.

Good.

All I could say about it, it slaps.

Yeah. There is a giant barrier with having all this ass stuff.

It's not even just the ass stuff. Like, we kind of glossed over. But the transformation sequence the Prince does that he does every time is grotesque. It's sticky, it's vile.

It's hard to watch. But I'm so interested in seeing where all of it goes that I just don't care. And it's pretty and it's like, I care about all these boys.

Sweet boys.

Yeah.

It's funny thinking about Unlikable main character. It's Kazakhi. Like when he's with haruka and pretending not to care about him, you could be like, oh, you suck. But you know that he loves him so much that you're just like, I care about you.

Just confess. Oh, God. But I feel like this is the epitome of what I wanted the show to be. Like this podcast to be, where it's like it's anime. There's great moments, it's beautifully animated, there's fun musical numbers. But then if you have to describe it to anyone, or if anyone walks in on you watching it, you have to justify this whole ass eating sequence.

With a small sam was getting ready to leave today and walked in, and I was like, just so you know, you're about to beat some weird butt shit. And then the transformation happened 2 seconds later, and they were like, Holy shit. What the fuck are you watching?

That's anime.

Yeah, that's what the animal sam you don't understand.

It's good.

Like, after that being the introduction, I couldn't be like, yeah, this is a great show.

I'm really enjoying this.

Yeah, this is excellent.

I don't want to give you any ideas, but oh, God, this is a perfect show for this podcast. And I'm so happy we ended up I'm so happy it was recommended to us because I never heard of it.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

This was great. I don't know if I'll keep watching it.

It's only like twelve.

I will definitely watch it. Let me know how it turns out. I'll judge based on the entire show.

Yeah, fair.

Yeah, I'm definitely going to continue this.

Yeah, same. I feel good about it.

Good times.

Well, good times.

It's that time of year. Friends, this is a fun transition, but next week, we have a very special holiday episode for you. We have our Christmas episode, so we're going to gather and watch a good, fun Christmas movie called Tokyo godfathers.

It's the most wonderful thing. That was nice. I wasn't expecting.

Tokyo godfather was also recommended to us by listener Steven Moore. So two for one special.

Yeah. Thanks, Stephen.

Yeah.

You interact with us so much on Twitter. You're so nice.

You're great. We love you.

You're great.

Thank you. But yeah. So we're going to have a nice holiday episode for you to cleanse the.

Power for all of this.

Yeah.

Knowing what comes right after that. How exciting. What a three weeks this is going to offer.

We're ending this year on a high note.

What happens then? You'll find out.

You'll find out.

All right. Well, if you have a show you would like us to watch in the new year, we're taking recommendations. Areweevariat@gmail.com is our email, where you can reach us. You can also tweet at us or our Twitter and Instagram is at are we there yet? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Mr. Patrick dugan.

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I wonder if the cap of Prince uses mouthwash or anything. He loves it.