Not to mention my precious backside.

Hello and welcome to are we there yet? And explore and education and anime. I'm your anime idiot, patrick dugan.

I'm an anime expert, dana hollander.

And I'm brenda mccullough. Your anime jennifer Love hewitt from The Ghost whisperer. And that one scary episode of Boy Meets World.

I feel like you've done this before.

Have I?

Maybe.

Do we do this sounds familiar.

Did we do a ghost show? I don't know what else? Jennifer loves you. It's from so this would be the only time I reference her. Do we do animate Boy Meets World?

Not yet. That's on our list anyway.

Well, enough about me. More to about the guest. Yeah.

We have our first returning guest. Paul is joining us this week. Howdy, papa, howdy. I'm your anime cowboy.

You're just going to scroll and buy and not say howdy?

Yes, he's returned. He's back, back, back again, baby.

Because this is an episode about a show we both wanted to do. This was actually on my list before we talked to Paul. And then we found out he also very much enjoys it. I said, bring him on in. Boy, do. I just even thinking about it, I was getting excited like, oh, I should rewatch this show. And then I saw there was like 120 episodes. I was like, hey, never mind.

Someone should say what it is.

Right?

Dugan, we're watching you. Uhaka, show.

Yeah.

Rip the bandaid off the cheese. We didn't discuss who was doing what this episode and it's really blowing up in our face so far.

Yeah, we love.

Jazz, baby. Jazz.

Oh god, that sweet. 90s anime jazz.

So, yeah, this is shockingly. Something I have not seen.

No way.

I only remember the tunami, like, uu, haka.

Show tonight, blah, blah, blah.

I just remember that specific promo voice for this show, but I don't know anything about it.

How about you, dana?

Yeah, I have watched the first episode and I've seen like, when I'm hanging out with Paul, if I'm tired, he'll turn it on and watch it and then I'll fall asleep. So I've seen some random stuff from later in the series, but obviously I didn't know what was going on.

Yeah, that's fair. I'd say it wouldn't matter. But thinking back on it, it's actually pretty concise. As opposed to like convoluted crazy nonsense like Dragon Ball Z or like one Piece or something where it's just like I couldn't fathom what's happening right now. It's true. It's pretty good. It's pretty concise. We've talked about before on the sailor Moon episode, the creator is married to the creator of sailor Moon. It's very cute.

The pure anime love. Yeah, the only pure anime love. Everything else is tainted in Sin anime 90s power couple.

That couple alone created vapor. Wave. Like, without vapor wow. Vapor Wave would have nothing to put on their cover albums. That's a powerful statement.

The bold stands.

It's so good. Though.

How could you say something controversially? It's so brave.

Oh, god. We should watch Eric Andre show just for one episode for the fuck of it. That's an anime, right?

Yeah, basically one.

Please welcome a grizzly bear.

Anyway, we're watching a couple select episodes. Any reasoning behind what we're watching today? I love you. hoga show. Or I mean, for these episodes.

That's the reason we're watching. That's the reason.

I just wanted to watch these once again.

It's just good.

They're on my to do list. So we'll just knock them out. There's no arc or anything. You won't understand it. I'm going to have a great time.

It's all the three beach episodes finally.

Hell yeah.

No, me and Paul talked it over beforehand and first episode is obvious. It establishes everything and it gets you an idea of who the characters are a bit. And then we jump ahead. Because I think listening back, I think we talked about with the oren High School Host Club, the first like four or five episodes aren't like the rest of the show. Like it's kind of all establishing, but those are kind of it's like a small arc in it of itself. But that's it. Everything else in the show is pretty different from what that is. So we didn't want to give you guys the impression like this is what the whole show is because it's kind of just own thing by itself. So episode six and seven is really when it starts getting into the spirit detectiveness of it, which is the subtitle for it's. You hawkey show spirit detective. The real meat and potatoes. Yeah. That's when the good stuff's going in. And then that's when we get even more of the cast. We see a big chunk of the cast in the first episode and then we see the rest of the main cast in episode six and seven. Yeah, that's what we did. Yeah. It's going to be good. I'm excited.

I love it. All right, well, let's go detect those spirits.

Let's go back to the 90s.

All the ghosties escape in on Earth.

Oh, boy. How many times would we come back from the, like, little intermission to a jingle to a little sing song?

The best way to come back in?

We just listened to a beautiful song by Louis zung. So we have to honor that with more music.

Yeah, of course.

Fair enough. Fair enough.

We're hitting the ground running with some 90s action.

Yeah.

So much.

So episode one, we start off with the opening, which is a hole jam.

The bobby is the boss. The like, if you don't, like smile bomb, you can get the fuck out of my face right now. So you can just leave because this.

Is easily and grow up with you.

This is easily one of the best of all time. Wait, speaking of which, I actually looked at the lyrics because I always thought it was stop and grow up with you.

What is it?

I want to stop and grow up a bit.

That does not sound like what she's saying.

Not at all. I like to grow up with you better. But I looked that up because just so formative to anime music.

That's a good song. We watched the dub for all three episodes.

Same I did as well, because honestly, it's one of the few that's actually better dubbed at least a large portion of the audience, I think. So not everyone.

I I agree.

Yeah.

Which is saying something because it's a 90s dub. And boy, howdy is it fun?

Yeah, for sure. I have opinions.

It'll get more fun.

You guys are going to break my heart this episode. I could tell.

I hope so.

I genuinely enjoyed it. There were the moments of like, yeah.

This is dated, not you.

Also, I just love, like, the bizarre. They go more cartoony than they do with dubs now because they're like, yeah, it's a cartoon voice. Let me just do, like, a looney tunes character as a human being.

Like the Brooklyn accents in sailor Moon.

Yeah, well, the Brooklyn accent for the child and not the mom.

Anyway, so the opening is great. I already like the red boy and his rose whip, who I've heard a couple of things about. And then there's a floating baby, which is I don't know. And then we start off and our hero yusuke gets hit by a car.

Yeah.

What's with anime and red cars trying to run over children chasing balls? Because this is also how the first episode of parasite goes and erased.

Well, shit.

Added to the bingo list.

So many children getting hit by cars.

And I will say as someone who drives a red car yeah. I'm aiming for those kids.

One of them do something, the truth come out. I'm making an anime, aiming.

Hey, Brendan can't be in an anime otherwise unless he's in a red car and tries to run over a child.

I'll tell you, if I got to be the bad guy in episode one, I'll do it. I'll take that.

Wow.

You need your redemption arc.

Yeah. There we go.

So Use kay is hit by a car, but he saved the little boy. But he's a ghostie now. Ha ha. Ghost. usek ghost kay.

We ain't in a dead mom club anymore. He's a dead protagonist club now.

Yeah, but he's still around, so he's, like, trying to get people's attention. He's like, hey, I'm right here. And they're like, this guy's dead.

So dead. Cover him up.

And I just kept thinking about how that little boy literally just witnessed a death and he's just kind of around.

I mean, they had the one paramedic, like, take care of him and said, like, take him away so he doesn't see the body and stuff. So they were taking care of him.

Yeah. But they treated him a little bit in front of the dead body before they took him away.

He might have touched and you don't want to move him.

Yeah. And then there's a narrator, and he's like, well, youth gay is dead. And I love it. The narrator is my favorite character.

It is so great, just being like, you thought this was the protagonist. It is. He just fucking died.

Crunch.

So we get to see the day before he died for, like, the events leading up to it. And he goes to school. He's 14 years old. He goes to a middle school, and he's a bad boy because he hangs out on the roof, and he wears a green jumpsuit instead of the blue one that everyone else wears.

He looks so good in it. I mean, no walls can contain him.

To be fair, he does look better in green.

But where did he get it?

I don't know. That was my question too. Is there just, like, a surplus supply store of, like, school uniforms and different colors and shades?

Maybe he died it himself. He mated himself. So a girl, caico, the class representative, she goes up to the roof, and she's like, you skay, you nerd do. Well, you need to stop being late and stop skipping school because it looks.

Bad for me, making me look bad.

And then while she's ranting toward him at him. Why did I say toward him? While she's ranting at him in his.

General direction, his vicinity.

Yeah. She looks up again, and he's not there anymore. He is behind her, looking at her skirt, but, like, holding it up. And I'm like, ugh, you skay, you.

Skay, you scamp, you scamp.

And then she's like, ugh, gross. And then she leaves in a huff.

What? She slaps the shit out of him, though.

Oh, I forgot.

He's staggering afterwards, like he lost his bearing. Walking away.

Hell. Yeah.

Caico Hell yeah.

And then she walks down the stairs, and there are a couple of girls there like, caico, why do you talk to you scary. And she's like, he's literally an idiot.

But I heard he'll whistle and call in 2000 thugs that will beat you up.

I should know, because keiko also says, like, a line of tugnam, like, oh, you've been this way since you were four. Kind of implying they've known each other their whole lives. Then her friend is like, I think I know this thug from Ruth.

I think I know he's murdered people. Thank you. I read his LinkedIn. He said that he's killed ten people.

He has 2000 connections, and I think those are all his thugs.

But everyone is, like, obsessed with uske, I guess, because they're afraid of him. But there are a couple of guys that yusuke walks by, and one of them has taken another student's wallet, and he's like, I told him I was here. A messy's cousin so he won't mess with me. UK is like, hey, you're not my cousin, and that's fucked up my guy, my bio. And then the teacher comes up, and he's like, oh, yusuke. Trying to bully these kids for their wallets. And I'm like, what the fuck?

This teacher is a full on asshole.

With this bitch ass teacher.

Genuine piece of shit.

Lurch over here. This asshole?

Yeah, he's terrible, and I hate him. So then the principal comes by, and he's like, hey, teach, stop being such a dick hole to this child. Sort of.

Well, uke leaves is kind of like, I'm getting a lot of shit today. I didn't want to be in school anyway. Fuck it. I'm out.

On his way out, because that happens another time.

Yeah. And on his way out, he runs into the principal, who was calling him on the loudspeaker all day, like, come to my office. You're a meshy.

I know you're there.

I know you're here.

I know you're at school today. You're a meshy.

I can sense your angst.

You're the only green child here.

You are quite literally the titular protagonist. I know you're here.

And he gives him a noogie, which is weird.

It's 90s. There's a lot of touching going on that's not allowed anymore these days.

A lot of straight up hitting, because he also just, like, smacks him in the back of the head when he walks up.

Yeah, and he's, like, walking home, and he's like, I hate this school. I hate this town. And I'm like, wow, what a baby. What a punk.

I just got to leave my hometown when my band makes it.

Basically once the green jumpsuit apparatus.

Joke in there. Thank you.

I'm so glad I thought of that just now. I'm so smart.

I was starting to think of my morning jacket, and I couldn't get there.

So he goes home and he sees his mom, who's just laying around watching TV, at which point I was like, oh, hey, mommy. What's up, me? And she taunts him about leaving town because she's like, you can't move out. That's funny. You're 14.

Yeah, we don't really see it here, but she is a chronic alcoholic and just a terrible mother.

Yeah, well, that's a shame. She's still hot. And then he leaves again to just walk around, I guess, to clear his head, his little punk head. And he kicks a can. And then all of these thugs come out, and they're like, hey, you're a messy.

You're a messy.

You're a messy. I feel like everyone's got a cool Bar impression.

Yeah, I saw him, and as soon as I saw him, I was like, he looks like our friend Matt. And Paul was like, oh, no. I mean but he does. I told him, and he was like, hell yeah.

In the dove. This is Chris savage, who does like vegeta. And it's very telling. It sounds like he's doing a vegeta impression and got punched in the throat. And that's what cool.

He do all night, too.

Yeah, he does everybody.

Yeah, so do I. ooh.

Hey. Just kidding.

Just kidding. Paul, I love these.

He gets jumped.

Yeah, he gets jumped by these thugs.

Jump.

He can throw hands, youth, gay fights.

Everyone fights.

He really just punches everyone in the face and they all fall down and then kuwabara, you're messy. He's like a brother now.

He's ruined for me.

Those are two different wrestlers. But he's like, I almost had him. And it's like, okay, honey, sure he did. So he walks away from that altercation and he happens upon a soccer ball, and a little boy runs up to him and he's like, can I have my ball back? And he's like, hey, don't play with balls in the middle of the street because you'll die. And the little boy is just like, Whatever. But then he makes some funny faces at him and does a little stupid monster dance.

I love it.

That's just paul's favorite.

It's one of my favorite scenes. It's very good because it's so out of place up until that point. Yeah, because you're like, oh, yeah, very standard anime. And then he's just dancing around like a monkey with chopsticks in his nose.

And he's like, what?

Okay.

And then he gives him back his ball and he's like, oh, fall else fails. At least I can make kids happy. And I'm like, oh, he is a softie after all. And then he looks both ways before crossing the street, and then he sees the kid kicking his ball around again, and it's like, wow, he just told you not to do that. And then he kicks it into the street, and then the kid goes to get it and almost gets hit by a car, at which point we go back to the beginning and yusuke is hit and killed.

Splat.

Splat. And now he's heck and dead. bye bye, yusuke. And then he's floating in the sky because he's a ghost and can float. And then a cute girl with blue hair shows up named boton and she has the worst British accent I've ever heard.

How dare you?

I'm going to literally kill you.

Can we call it an accent if it's there about half of the time?

No, good point. You can't because you can't. Why?

Stop pulling botanic.

She's beautiful. I mean, British.

Let her be half the time when.

She feels like it.

I love her. She's very cute and I like her a lot, but I just don't understand. If they wanted her to have a British accent, why wouldn't they cast someone who does a better British accent? And if they didn't care about it, why would they let her do that accent?

I'm sorry, are you criticizing the quality of this 90s dub?

Yes, I am.

The answer to both of those is because it's expensive. And because it's expensive, they had about.

$40 to dub this whole season.

Said, is that what you're doing? Sure, why not? We already wasted too much time on this. Let's get recording.

Ever. Oh, is that your choice? What the fuck? Ever here.

All right, here we go.

Sure thing.

But so boton is the Grim reaper? She is. What does she say? The what? Of the river of stitch.

Pilot.

Pilot the boat cap boat. The skipper boat pilot, first mate, captain.

Of the river of stitch.

So he she's like, I'm the Grim reaper, and I'm here to show you around because you're dead, but you're still tethered to the Earth. And he's like, can I go see the kid I saved? And she's like, hell yeah, you can. So he's safe. And then she lets him know that he actually didn't need to save the kid because if he didn't actually intervene, he would have ended up with one less scrape because the car would have veered out of the way. So you skate didn't need to die.

At all and in fact, made things worse.

Yeah. So botan is like, hey, if you do this thing, you can come back to life if you want to. And he's like, I don't know. Being dead is pretty chill.

She said they didn't plan on him dying, so there's not really any room for him in the spirit water after life. So this is like the rare circumstance of like, hey, we don't have a place for you. You weren't supposed to die yet. Here's a very rare opportunity for you to come back to life. And he's like, this world sucks anyway. I'm glad it's gone.

Yeah. So she says, go spend some time at your I'm sorry. Go spend some time at your wake and see how you feel after that. And I'll be back. That was too good.

No bullies. No bullies.

No bullies. I love her. I just can't with the voice.

Yeah.

She is one of my favorites in this show so far.

Yeah, but so he does go to his wake, and his mom is just, like, devastated, sitting, leaning against the wall. He sees kiko sobbing about him being dead, and he's like, what the hell? But the part that gets me the most is Kumarbara coming and saying like, you coward. You're supposed to fight me. And he's like, so upset. It makes me so sad.

I know. I'm going to fight. Yeah.

This scene hit me harder than I thought it was going to.

Yeah.

Right at the very end, he tries to punch the picture. And I wrote down the quote, and he says, you're supposed to be the ear for me.

And I just like, yeah, it's so sad.

You're a meshy.

I just wrote, oh, this is so fucking sad.

Episode one gets you.

And then the kid that he saved comes with his mom. I forgot. And his mom sits with Yusuke's mom and gives her her condolences. And he's like, saying a prayer for the yusuke. And then they're walking away and he's like, can I play with him tomorrow, mom? And she's like, oh, God.

Oh, God.

No, he doesn't.

I assumed everyone else was sad because they also wanted to play with him and they couldn't.

And then use Case. Like, maybe I should come back to life. Look at all these people that miss me. This is sad. This is so sad. alexa play smile, bond.

I mean, that screwed me up.

That bop.

We also see two of the teachers, the shittier one we saw earlier. And then one guy who's just literally a personified rat. He's just humanoid.

And they're like, he got what's coming to him. That dumb kid. You scared?

Yeah. And kind of saying, like, oh, he saved the kid and died for it. Now that makes our school look good. Which is even better because now he's dead and just, like, really shitting on him.

It's all fucked up. And then the principal comes and he's like, you guys suck.

Pretty much a child is dead.

I gave him shit, but I thought he could be something. You're just assholes.

Yeah. So he decides that he's going to do the ordeal, as boton says. And she's like, come with me. And he's like, where are we going? And she's like, the spirit world, idiot. And then the narrator says, and that's the way it is. And I was like, it just be like that. And that's episode one. The end is also a bop, but I don't remember it as well as the beginning.

Yeah, it's not as not as memorable a spirit bomb or a Smile bomb, but still some solid 90s anime jazz.

Hell yeah.

So we skipped forward. But the gist of what we miss is he goes on this trial into the spirit world and is granted his place back on Earth with the added job of being a spirit detective and serving this baby man who was like the acting king of the spirit world or whatever.

I don't know.

We didn't watch it.

But I'll brief recap of what we missed, which is good in the 90s animes because they do those previews and recaps at the beginning and the end of the episodes. So it helps us. But yeah, that baby guy is essentially God's son, Kuwinma. Oh, Jesus.

Yeah.

He's anime. Jesus. And that's why he's got the binkie and the Junior written on his forehead.

We have to be more specific about Anime Jesus.

Now. We've seen two.

Yeah, he's baby anime Jesus. Like in the nativity. nativity. Thank you.

We love Baby Jesus.

Yeah. There you go. There you go.

So he's back and he's stopping spirits from coming into Earth and fucking shit up.

Great. He also got an egg, but that's irrelevant. I loved in the coming up when the baby just offers him an egg for you.

That's the only context I need. I am on board.

There you go.

Don't you hate when you die and a baby gives you a gold neck. I could have had that relatable, am I right?

This is the willy wonka tie in.

Well, so we cut back to the spirit world, and we see that three artifacts have been stolen from a palace. We later find out that they are the baby man's dad's palace.

It got a fault. Yeah.

So shit went down. And then we go back to yusuke, who is sleeping, and his mom is crying over him because he looks like he's dead. And he's saying, oh, every day he's been back for, I think, like six days at this point. So it's still pretty fresh. So he's like, oh, my mom keeps crying over me and waking me up. This isn't great. Every damn day as a woman. And then he's walking to school, and we see the bully boys who tried to do the wallet thing walking along. And one's like, oh, check out this sick pen I got. It's got golden dragon on it a good thing you skate is dead or else he tried to steal it. And then he walks up to them and he's like, hey, go fuck yourself. And they run away like they've seen a dead person or something, weird dead or something. And caico also sees him on this walk, and we sort of get a flashback to, like a kiss that she gave him when he was dead. But that doesn't really come up.

I like smooch pretty much. It was part of the ritual to get him back into his body.

So, yeah, it doesn't really factor into these episodes. But crush established check.

Yeah.

He goes to school and everyone's freaking out because he was literally dead for a week. And everyone's confused because that doesn't happen.

Much except for the Bible with Jesus.

This is all just another Jesus anime.

That's why it's my favorite. Guys, I'm catholic.

So kubara also sees him at school. He's like, oh, you punk, now I'm back to trying to fight you. And they scuffle, but and we also see peering from an upstairs window in the most sinister villainy way possible, the mean teacher being like, oh, I must ruin this child who literally came back to life.

Crush him like the cockroach he is, because he's coming back. Has anyone gazed down upon a crowd of people below them and ever had good intentions?

I don't think so. Maybe the pope? I don't know.

Does he still do that?

Is he still on a balcony looking at people?

I don't know.

I don't know. Brandon. You're Catholic.

Like a good Catholic. I don't know what the fuck the pope does.

You're not a good Catholic, unfortunately.

That is a good Catholic. It's a bad religion.

Anyway, so we see yusuke sort of playing with this monocle, and we got a little bit of a flashback of a boton, gave him a couple of tips and tricks for being a spirit detective. And one is this sort of x ray vision monocle. And of course, he immediately tries to use it on her. And she's like, no, fuck you back down. But yeah, he can see through objects. And they discuss, like, the spirit energy that flows through him and is his power for being, you know, a detective.

He lives in you.

So he skips class, sort of playing with this thing because already everyone's freaking out because, oh, it's weird. He died and shit. And he goes to class afterwards and everyone's like, hey, all my stuff's missing. My fancy dragon gold pen is gone. Oh, all my things. Hey, this bad kid who was dead for a week, he probably did it. I just need to hammer home everyone very quickly adjusts to him being dead for a week.

Yeah. And now he's just back. And they're like, I mean, I guess.

Fine, I'll accept it to move the plot forward.

But I mean, they're all scared of him. When he came to school that day, they all ran away from him. So they're still kind of on edge.

Yeah, but still, they also accept it and immediately go to, hey, that zombie boy is stealing shit from us. Let's focus on that rather than him being a zombie boy.

It was a coma shirt, maybe that's kind of like that.

I mean, you're still breathing and stuff. He was dead.

It's anime.

The magic cure all for any plot hole.

It's anime. It's anime.

So yeah, he's taken to the principal because everyone thinks he stole all this stuff. And the mean teacher straight up punches him in the face into the he's. He's getting chewed out because they're saying he stole all this stuff. And then we freeze time and Baby Man shows up. He's back.

It's me.

Sweet baby Jesus. It's me.

Jesus.

Back on the gig before you.

Well, before that, the teacher was insulting a youth case mom saying, you're a naked punk. You're a tramp like your mom.

Oh, he called his mom a tramp.

We hear his inner thoughts saying like, yes, good. Get angry and punch me. Then you'll be expelled from school. So he's trying to set him up purposely to hit him. And then that's when Jesus comes in and freezes.

Time.

Freeze.

Yeah, get out of control.

No more. sonic.

Sonic. sonic.

Anyways, Baby Man shows up, and he has a new mission for him as a spirit detective because all his shit got stolen. And the three great artifacts are on Earth with these monsters that are going to wreak havoc. And he's going through it all with him. Sort of points out, hey, this dude has all the shit in his pocket. Use your monocle, idiot. You know the thing that your only tool at this point. Use it.

You're spirit detective number one spyglass.

So he points out to the principal, hey, he has all the shit in his pocket. It wasn't me.

Peace.

So he's off the hook, but he. Still wants revenge on the Teacher. And Baby Man is like, hey.

You.

Heard of this sick new 90s thing called a finger gun? Well, boy, do I have news for you. You can use that to shoot spirit energy. And it's your spirit gun. You can use it once a day, so use it wisely. And he uses it to basically knock the shit out of the Teacher as he's walking away.

Hell yeah.

So we go through all the artifacts that are missing. We have a sword that when it cuts into humans or things, it turns them into monsters. We have a mirror of forlorn for Lord Hope with some vague full moon magic.

I like how in the explanation of what these things are, even, they say it has cryptic powers. It's like, well, no shit. That doesn't tell me anything.

Guys, it does something.

Thanks, Baby Jesus.

And we also have an orb that is like a soul stealer. It'll just rip out souls, especially for young children. Yeah, get them delicious baby souls.

If only Soul eater existed at this point. And it could have be a cameo too.

That'll be in the reboot. The reboot crossover.

Yeah, don't do that.

Crossover of the century.

The live action remake, your favorite.

No, they'll probably try to.

Anyways, he's on the case and he sees a kid faint and remembering literally like 30 seconds before that. They say that it steals the souls of kids. He's like, ha ha. A lead. And he sees the soul fly out through the air and he chases it down and it leads him into this seedy alley where naturally all the rough folk hang out.

Yeah, he literally goes around a corner, and then all of a sudden it's just icky.

There's a bandage of cars, oil drums, and just like, how do they get a car down there?

And he says something baffling. He says, wow, uptown? Really returned to downtown. What does that mean?

Stereotypes, I guess.

So he walks past all the people hanging out in like burnt out cars and stuff, and he sees with his magical eyeglass that this big dude sitting in the corner. He actually has hidden horns on his head. So he's a monster and he sees the artifact in his pocket. So he has his first suspect he's.

Just carrying around with him.

Yeah, just pretty much literally in his pocket, this valuable solar artifact. So being the cd alley yusuke, naturally gets jumped, but quickly fights them all off because he's the strongest kid alive in the competition in the scuffle. He loses this suspect.

I want to point out though, imagine you're some sleazeball in a cd alleyway in the middle of the daytime, and you see some punk ass middle schooler walking down in a bright green suit with a fucking monocle. I'd probably jump them too.

This drama nerd, we got to teach him a lesson or two.

You're probably here for some acting research.

He's doing West Side Story. Got to see all the gang violence. We'll give it to him.

He's got monocle money. He's got something to burn.

We flash into the spirit world where we see Baby Man sort of going through the list of the villains who did this. Heist it just goes through who they are. I did not write down their names, so I will not go through it. But we got this beefy dude who was our suspect, and two very anime boys. Two beautiful anime boys.

Very red, very handsome. And sasuke photosque.

This is presofuke. He's the original. sasuke copied him. Yeah.

Every anime has an emo boy. Calm down.

I mean, it's true.

So boton comes in, is like, hey, you stupid baby man. You gave this very difficult assignment to our rookiest of rookies. What are you doing? Thank God.

What the fuck?

I want to tell him, I'm storming into your office so I can yell at you, God. And Botan is like, Let me go train him. Let me help him a little bit. And he's like, oh, well, there's not much you can do in a week, because in a week, my dad gets back from vacation, and if he sees all the artifacts gone, holy shit. He will wreak havoc on Earth until he gets them back, he may sink continents, like that level of bullshit. So it's very important that we get these back as quickly as possible.

Hey, guys, where do you think God goes on vacation?

Molly.

He'S ready.

He knew.

If we learned anything from st young men, they go to a small city in Japan. Yeah, true.

They just want to chill.

Yeah. See the cherry blossoms bloom, go to a hot spring. Oh, we missed that episode.

Anyway.

The three demons are talking in, like, the woods. They're having a little POW out to talk about their plans and to gloat about the artifacts they got away with.

Yeah, sort of the email ones cutting down trees and turning them into demons to demonstrate the monsterification power it has. But the red one, karama, is like, hey, this is fun, but I got a dip.

I'm out.

At this point, you scale comes out. He's like, hey, maybe don't hang out in the one spot it's not raining when it's raining everywhere else, because that's a pretty clear sign there's something magic going on, you idiots. So I attract you into the woods, and I'm going to kick your asses. And Krama's like, yeah, peace.

I don't have time to be arrested. Goodbye.

I have bigger fish to fry.

Wow.

He's not hoyty toy. He's just very mysterious and beautiful.

He's aloof he's so pretty.

Yeah.

And the emo one is also like, you're so weak. I can just feel the lack of soul energy coming off you. Goodbye. But the monstrous one that had the orb that we saw earlier is like, hey, I'm not rude. I'll kick your ass. Yeah, I'm done to fight.

I'm a gentleman. I'll beat the shit out of you.

So he is about to fight this dude. He's going to die again. Yeah, he punches him, and he's like, oh, okay. Let me show you my final four, who transforms into a I think Q kunki is the monster name. Just a very strong demon fellow.

Yeah. O'whatever.

And that's where we leave off on a cliffhanger for episode six.

Yeah. And in that, at the end of that very scene, we hear you talking about, like, oh, use my spirit gun on him. Oh, shit. I already used it today to punch my teacher in the back of the head from a distance. So he kind of like, well, there goes my trump card. So he started off on a bad foot. So episode seven, it's still in the middle of that fight. We see east gate fighting. Goki. I believe his name was getting his asset. Go figure. The only show I actually remember everyone's names is the show I've seen, like, five times already. So yeah, Goki still kicking his ass and just beating him around because he's a giant fucking demon. And use case 14. Despite how good of a fighter is, he's still a child. And after beating him around a bit, Goki just picks him up by throat and just strangling them. He's like, you can't beat him up too much. He got to tenderize the meat without ruining the soul. And he's all about eating souls, and that's why he stole the orb, because he's a child eater.

I did love his justification of, like, I don't have time to cook anymore. I just need a soul on the go.

I just need to slurp it up, wipe off these kids souls.

Yeah, he's talking about how, like, fear and pain is, like, the best seasoning for the souls and stuff. But you don't want to kill them because that'll ruin the soul. So you want to extract them while they're still alive.

He's like, pennywise, I guess.

He eats the fear.

A less sexy pennywise. And yes, I knew Daniel was backing up on that.

We're all clownfuckers here. Just kidding. That's not true.

And so while he's sharing Brendan what? No. Only Mark hamill's joker. That's my only exception. Anyway, he's strangling youth k, and at that time, we start seeing orbs in the distance, like in the woods, and we're hearing a bunch of voices like, my dogs want to hunt down this monster and be like, oh, can I stop carrying all these heavy weapons? And a bunch of people talking.

Yeah, a bunch of people sounds like a bunch of people.

So many people who are really good at accents and throwing their voice. And this is when Goki is just kind of like, fuck, this doesn't work. That he just drops yusuke. He's like, Stay out of my way and just let me eat children's souls and runs off. And that's when yusuke wakes up in his room after getting the shit kicked out of him. And as he wakes up, his mom's there, and she hits him again because it's not enough he died, and it's not enough he got into another fight, but now she has to hit him too, and basically saying, like, don't stop getting into these dumb fights. You already died once. Like, I'm not risking it again.

We can't keep doing this.

Gay heaven. Now.

She became a much more attentive mother after her child died. So we see more of that. And that's when we see boton walks into the room. And he's like, oh, I guess that's how I got back. And his mom's like, yeah, this young lady carried you all the way back, and it dropped you off. And his mom sees Botan now, so Botan got a human form. She has got to whip one off for her so she could help Yuskay or at least track these demons. And she said, like, Yusky says, like, oh, how are you able to find me? And that's when she pulls out spirit Detectives item number two. And the neighbor says this every time. And there's a finite amount. I like how they have seven. Yeah, they specifically say the amount of items you'll get, and it's a demon compass that's able to pinpoint on a demon and track them. So she was able to find Goki, which led her to yusuke. And the whole time, Kuyma is watching them, and he's talking about kind of recapping, like, you got to hurry up. My dad's going to be real pissed, and it's going to fuck up a lot of things, and he's going to beat my ass red. And it's like, okay, I know this.

Is my fault, but you're the one that has to fix it.

And he's also comparing, like, continents sinking into the Earth and him being spanked as equal punishments. So it's like, okay, I see where your heads at.

Baby Jesus, my sweet baby, asked. He pretty much says that he says something about his beautiful backside.

Can we just beautiful backside. Can we just isolate that clip and have it as the cold open?

I'll try.

No, expose me.

Conveniently. There's a news bulletin, special report. A bunch of kids in the next town over are falling into comas randomly, and no one really knows why.

And the TV is flashing so much.

It's early in the 90s before people learned what epilepsy was.

So they're just going, what paul said while we were watching, he was like, flashing was allowed. And it was like, it's weird how that's true.

And so that's where they find out that that's where Goki is now. And yusuke basically gets them, and it's like, well, I guess I'd go back right back out there to hunt him down again. And both baton and his mom are like, what are you doing? He's like, I can't let him keep eating children's souls. And even baton says, like, oh, maybe it takes like a day for him to digest the souls that he's already eaten. So he's like, I'm on a smaller time frame than a week. So he's like, I got to go out there now and save these kids. And while him and Botan are talking, his mom kind of jumps back in. And it's like, oh, boton can stay. No, that's later. Never mind. I'm skipping ahead.

You're getting too excited.

I'm getting too excited. And right before he leaves, boton gives him detective item number three. And it's a concentration ring that she's.

Like two in one episode?

Yeah. Wow, we got to speed through this. And she's saying, like, I was going to give this to you later, but it seems like you might need it now. It's a concentration ring, and it's gaudy shit, by the way. And she's basically saying it'll supercharge your spear gun, but it'll leave you physically exhausted afterwards to use it as an absolute last resort because you'll be vulnerable. And that's when we cut to Goki rolling the orb on the ground. And a little girl picks it up. And she's like, oh, you dropped your ball. I missed her. He's like, oh, thanks very much, yoink. And steals her soul.

Oh, don't need this soul anymore, child.

This is saying, like, oh, you're a sweet kid. You're going to be even sweeter when I consume your life essence. Oh, Jesus.

He said, you're going to be even sweeter in my stomach. And that made me want to die. That was terrible.

Don't worry. The girl died for you. And that's when use case shows up. And he's kind of like, hey, dick balls, stop eating kids, dick balls.

That's one way to put it.

It's a good insult.

And Go keep kind of like, fuck this again. Fine. And he just hulks out, specifically hulk, because he breaks all of his clothes off, which is very wasteful, except for the jean shorts. Jeans rip open. But stay conveniently in a sensory area. Got to hide those good. And husky just lays into him, tries to punch him. And he hurts his hand. And he's like, you dumb idiot. I'm a demon. My skin's as hard as a rock. Like, nothing you do is going to work. He like, throwski, gets a tree. And Hughes just picks it up. He just picks up this big ass.

Log that's already sharpened.

Yeah, it's already kind of pointed. And he's like, what about a big wooden stake? And stabs it into Goki. And it just breaks. And he's just like, yeah, I just said I'm a rock.

We just went over this for you.

Not listening to me. I'm a fucking demon.

It's like you're established as a bad student or something. All my options are gone.

Well, now what? And so Goki keeps, like, hitting him around a bit. And so boton comes up and throws a rock at him or breaks a stick off of his bag. She hits him from behind.

She's there?

Yeah, she's there. And that kind of draws his attention away from yusuke for a bit. And then when he comes back, yusuke is beating up and on the ground, and boton still hiding behind him. Like, take him first. But this is when Goki starts like monologuing. And use Gate while he's holding usgate. And use skate grabs a part of the log he had earlier and just crams it into his mouth. And that way it's just like his mouth is just pried open and escapes. Like, well, your skin is hard. Let me just shoot inside of you. And just shoots his spear gun full blast right into his mouth and defeats them.

It's like in the end of how to Train Your Dragon. You ever see that?

I did. I don't remember it, though.

Okay, never mind.

It's been years.

Yeah, it's been about a decade.

Better rewatch it. The next one comes out soon. No, not sponsored.

It could be dreamworks.

It is dreamworks.

Give us a call.

And when he's defeated, we see all the souls escaping and going back up. And we see the little girl from earlier get her soul back. And there's a bunch of people around her just like, oh, I wonder what happened. And she waits until a bunch of strange people around her and starts crying. switches.

I thought they were all old men, but there was one old woman.

I think they're just people in the park, but yeah, she's kind of like, oh, a girl passed out. Like, don't call an Amazon or anything. People just stare at her awkwardly.

Stand and stare and wait until she wakes up. And then she's like, what the fuck?

And cries, which is an appropriate reaction to that.

Yeah.

So A boton and UK are walking back, and boton is just like, Let me carry you. He's like, no, that'd be embarrassing. And he's hobbling with a stick, like, through downtown in a very busy time and looks like he's a wreck. And it's like, yeah, God forbid he gets you know, he leans on the shoulder of someone else at this time, a girl with a flawless British accent. And that's when the demon compass goes off. And he's like, oh, shit. One of them is nearby. And so we see karama walk by, and as he walks by, he kind of, like, pauses and everything goes gray. And I don't know if this is like telepathy or like it was just him whispering to it and they just didn't want to animate it, but this.

Was still I think it was supposed to be telepathy. Maybe.

They never cover that, so I wasn't sure. And then they show him talking later. I don't know. It was weird that they chose this part not to animate and just to do the splash pages instead. Anyway, karama says, like, hey, I don't want to fight you. Guys, actually, I'm here asking for a favor. Let me have this artifact mirror for three days and then I'll give it back to you. I'll surrender. Like, no fight needed. We can be cool about this. And Yusukey kind of trusts him and lets him go because he's super beaten up. He can't fight him right now anyway. And that's when yusuke and Botan go back to his place. And they're talking over like, well, we got the orb now. Can we really trust karama to keep his end of the bargain and not use this cryptic mirror that we still really don't understand? We just know the full moon, it will be more powerful. In his case, kind of like lamenting. And like, nah, I trust him because he tried bailing out earlier. And like, I don't know, I got a gut feeling about this. And she's like and bouton says like, well, in three days, that's when the full moon is. So if we don't stop him, he's going to use it to do whatever. And that's when use Case mom comes in and it's kind of talking like, oh, bouton, why don't you stay for dinner? And he's like, mom, we're having a very important conversation. That's when I wrote down the code. I was like, hey, what important conversation can't be held around your mother? She was like, what happened to kiko? I thought she was your girlfriend. I was like, oh mama yusuke, you crazy.

Mom, you're a messy.

You're a messy. You got to say it like you're thrown off.

You're a mommy. That's a bad one.

The next day, a botan flies off saying like, I'm going to go talk to Kuyma and we're going to try and figure this out. And yusuke goes to me, karama at the hospital like they agreed on.

Wait, is that Baby Jesus?

That's baby Jesus. Yeah.

Okay, Koimma, you can't use real names here.

I do not remember what his name was.

I baby Jesus to write it down.

And so yusuke goes to me, karama at the hospital like they agreed on. And we get there, Karama's walking up and we see he's there for his mom who's sick and in bed. And she calls him suici. Yeah, and he's just kind of there like just dumbfounded about this whole situation. And it just cuts them up on the roof real quick. Right after that, karama is basically giving the backstory of like, yeah, suici is my human name. Back in the spear world, I was a demon fox. And I break into shit all the time and learned codes and all this stuff and just stole a bunch of shit. One time I got caught and got really injured. So I ran away to the human world.

Karama's a furry.

Well, what is the opposite of a furry? Because he's actually an animal but chooses a human form.

I was going to say skinny.

A fleshy.

I'm glad you thought of something worse.

Please do not say it.

I'd argue that he's not a furry, but there is later episodes where he does get more furry. Like, he doesn't go full animal, and he just gets, like, fox ears. He's so exciting, gorgeous.

He's beautiful.

So he's basically saying, yeah. So I ran away to the humor world, and I hid inside the body of a baby to heal up. And I figured if I could be here for ten years, I'll be fully healed and I can go back to the spirit world. And he said, unfortunately, within those ten years, I grew to love. My father died early on, so I didn't spend much time with him. But after ten years, I decided to stick around even longer. And then that's when my mother started getting sick. So I'm sticking around to help her out. And that's what I want to use the artifact for. And you see, is kind of like, yeah, man, I get it. That's cool.

That's the problem of going undercover. You get in too deep, you get attached. You fall in love.

Attached to your mom. That's the number one rule. Don't get attached to your mom.

And it's around this time his mom started getting more sick. And it's around that time he recruited him to do the big heist, one big heist and stealing from God's vault. And karama agreed because he knew he's like, I could get this artifact and help my mother. And when it's the full moon, you essentially make a wish when it's at the full moon, and it grants you the wish, but it cost a price, like equal value to what you're wishing for.

Equivalent exchange.

We'll get there one day. karama says, I'm not leaving until then. And after that, you can take the mirror back and we'll be cool. Cut to nighttime now. It's full moon. No, they go back downstairs and find out his mother's doing worse. And they're basically like, it's endgame for her. She's going to die soon. Within the week.

I like, the doctor says she's about to die. And then Karama's like, how long? And then I'm like, soon.

She's about to die now. Fairly immediate, if you listen to the words.

Yeah. And then while he's talking to the doctor, that's when it's the hard cut to use. Getting trauma on the roof. And it's nighttime now, full moon. And it's like, oh, shit. Did we lose like two days? What happens? ritual. Yeah. Convenient. And that's what karama tells yuskay. Like, I'm going to give up my life to save hers. And he skates kind of like, what?

That's nuts.

You can't do that. Like, you're a demon. And like, she's a human. Like, people can't die. Can't do that. And he basically asks karama, like, why are you willing to do this? He's like, karama monologue is kind of saying, like, I don't know. I feel like her disease or her sickness is kind of my fault. I don't know exactly why, but I feel like it's my fault that she's just sick and it's my duty to make her better because she gave her whole life for me the last 1516 years. He's like, I guess it just got attached to it. He's like, Why are you telling me all this? He's like, I don't know. Maybe I just wanted to say it out loud. Out really kind of aloof, and she kind of like, Karama's playing that, like, four dimensional chess. He knows what's up. So full moon, they're getting the energy, and the mirror pretty much like, what is your wish? And Karama's like, I want my mom to be happy and live, and I'll pay whatever price it is. And this time is like, what? No, that's dumb. And it kind of pushes him out of the way and reaches his hand in, and he's like, Mirror, my wish is to take my life instead of Karamas. That way, he can spend time with his mom. That way, his mom does have to be sad. And he kind of says, I've already seen what it's like for a mom to deal with the death of her only child. I'm not going through that again. So you got to live with your mom, too.

You just met this furry.

That's the power of the furry. You get attached immediately.

You got a yes no two weeks ago.

What happens next? Brendan yes.

Now the mirror just streams. Your desire shall be fulfilled. And lightning sprays out, and we see karama and newscape both passed out on the ground.

Bring me the diamond in the rough.

Basically, it's more like the Cave of Wonders rather than jafar, but yes.

It's like the Mirror of Araced in Harry Potter, except it actually does the things you want.

Jocelyn has a cool voice.

Justin I understand Harry Potter. She wouldn't get that reference.

No, they would not.

No call back to Lassops.

Anyway, they're both hats on the ground, and boton comes flying down or before the karama gets up. It's like, shit, I'm alive. Shit, my mother. And runs downstairs, and that's when boton flies down. It's like u skay. No, he's thinking he's dead because she knows the price it had to pay. And when you skate, like, garage rolls over and gets up, he's like, I'm alive.

Neat. Cool.

You hear the mirror I also love.

He's like, oh, wow. Yeah, that was a really dumb idea.

Yeah.

Yeah, it would still be a mom without a child.

Weird.

That was stupid. This thing I just did, the self.

Reflection immediately after, like, I fucked up there, didn't I?

That made no sense. That saved nothing and no one.

God, self awareness and anime character. It's so rare. It's so rare. And that's when the mirror, like, booming voice comes out, and it's like, your sacrifice was so noble. I did not take a price.

That's stupid. That it's just like, you know what? Never mind.

Just kidding.

I know I'm dark magic, but I know when someone does a solid.

I am a dark evil demon artifact that could destroy the world. But I appreciate the bro code.

You're a true bro to your friend karama.

Then a fist comes out and fist bumps he's getting. And then as we see karama downstairs and his mom's waking up and the doctor is like yeah, she's just magically better. We have no fucking idea what happened. But we're pretty confident she'll be good for now and live forever. It's like for a doctor who didn't know why she was sick and doesn't know why she's better. You're awfully cocky right now.

He is an okay doctor.

And that's when yusuf gets two out of the three artifacts and we see just it ends with koema saying like they all be so cocky now. yusuke and bowton because the last one's even harder to get a little preview of karama helping out yusuke against hea. And that's the next episode that we will not watch because we're already going a little long in a faceless town.

I need to feel in touch of friends.

Anyway, I got the lyrics up still.

So those were the three episodes we watched you hockey show.

Yeah. And I was digging it.

Yes. So happy.

I'm seeing now. This is our 2nd 90s anime that we've seen this in sailor Moon. I love that they don't take themselves as seriously as most of the other anime we watch because a lot of it I don't know if it's the dubbing or just the tones of the shows themselves. Just being like, yeah, it's not all that serious. I'll talk to you like a human being. Like when Goki is like oh yeah, those other dudes are rude. I'll kick your ass. Just like very casually. I'll throw hands over.

They do a really good job with the dubbing. Despite what dana has to say about.

Boton, I think everything else is fine. And I love boton as a character, I just can't with that.

But I think it's also the show itself because we see UK like trying to cheer up the kid, just giving him back the ball and he's got the two pics in his mouth and he's just doing a weird dance. The show itself not the dumbing. So I think it was parts of both really contribute to that because also a lot of the super serious power charging like screaming tropes that you especially hate in anime kind of came from this era, particularly one show specifically. So it was a lot of stuff after that. Yeah.

It also helps that his main moon is just a finger gun.

That's the funniest thing Paul has ever.

Said in my life.

Did you guys hear that?

Will be copyrighted.

Comey ham a copyright.

I'm sorry we talked it over.

I won't take credit. That's so funny. I'm starting to know dugan so well because after we. Watched it, paul was like, do you think dug will like it? And I was like, I don't know, but I think he will really appreciate how cheesy it is. Like, I think he'll be into that. And I'm just like, I feel so good about myself.

You got it.

I love knowing friends. I love knowing people's taste that anime.

Cheese that just ripens with the ages and is a good like, there's a good 25 year anime cheese and just wow, just fantastic pairs. Nice with a nice kiate.

Very acidic.

Also, what's with these early 90s shows of just like oh, yes, the one high schooler that has to stop the monsters from coming over from the monster world. Because this also was giving me buffy vibe.

I mean, the Chosen One is a big trope that happens in a lot of fancy stuff.

True. But still, just like the high schooler that has to fight the monsters with the help of a British mentor.

Oh, yeah. whoa.

High schooler is just cooler.

Yeah, especially an anime. Well, he's a middle schooler.

He's 14.

It's the weird. We don't know how Japanese schools work.

Yeah.

I will say, though, this was like, he's a spirit detective. But they even admit that. They're like, hey, this is a much bigger case than what we expected from you. We expect you to catch, like, little he was supposed to be a spirit beat cop, and instead he got immediately thrown into Spirit World saving Commissioner.

Big times.

Yeah. And we do see in later, much later seasons, there is, like, other spirit detectives and spiritual people. So he's not the only one. But at least right now, as far as we know, he is. Well, no, they talk about also, like, buffy. Yeah. Shit. It is all buffy, isn't it? But I'll also say it's tough because these, like, the old 90s enemies we pick are some of the best. So, like, there's a lot of shit back then, too. We'll get to those.

Yeah. Well, you guys did it.

We bar there yet.

We bar there. And it's all thanks to Paul and Brendan.

We've made it. We've made it.

We've made it. That's even better.

Looks like we've made it. That's also copyrighted.

Anyway, thank you for joining us this week. What do we have going on next week.

Actually? Is it? elphin lied. It's not my pick, I don't think.

Because these are both my picks. So I got confused. But I think jumped this one ahead because I paul got this out. Don't worry about it. I sound like an idiot. Yes. Next episode is elphin line or elphin Lee. I don't really know how to pronounce it. I don't talk about it with other people that often. But that is the next show and it is my pick.

This is neat.

Like I said, we watched a lot of the good 90s anime now.

Oh, no.

Boy, is there. Paul, have you already watched this one.

I know about it. What do I know about it? Oh, no.

That's the right reaction.

You're not reinforcing my faith in this show. Sorry.

I actually don't know it very well. Here we go.

It's going to be interesting right off the bat.

I know, like, one thing about it.

Good. Fantastic. Let's all go in as blind as possible.

Great.

It's going to be great. And if you listener at home, have a show you want us to watch, you can tweet it to us at arwibariat. We're also on Instagram at arwibariat. Or you can send submissions to our gmail arwibariat@gmail.com. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at mrpatrick. dugan.

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You can find me on Twitter at aBTS brendan. Which stands for almost better than silence. The other podcast I have.

Paul, you got anything?

If you want to see pictures of me, you can just go to dana's. I guess.

What a good boyfriend.

He likes a lot of super smash brothers things on Twitter.

That's true. Who do you name true love?

The boy.

She loved the boy.

I like twitter.

Big fan of incinerative. I love wrestling.

Because you're a furry.

Because I'm a furry. This all come out right now.

Yes.

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