AWTY 160 - Corpsy the Baby Hater (Corpse Princess)

Hey, folks, Patrick here. I'm living up to my anime idiot name today. In editing the podcast, I accidentally scrambled some of my vocals. So the intro got garbled and sounds terrible. So I'm going to briefly rerecord. But as I go through it, you may hear me cut in and out. We'll see how it goes. Oh, no. A ghost got in my editing software. That's why it is on theme.

I know those women are alive. And me, I'm dead.

Hello and welcome to our web area in exploration and education and anime. I'm your in the future anime idiot, Patrick dugan.

I'm an anime expert, D hollander.

And I'm brenda mccullough, your anime Billy butcherson.

Who?

Dad from hocus Pocus.

Oh, I'm so sorry. I've only seen hocus pocus once.

That's fair.

It was last year.

I've never seen.

If you saw hocus Pocus as a child, all of it is nostalgia. It's a pretty all right movie, but when you watch it for the first time as an adult, you're just kind of like, yeah, okay. Yeah, that's a film.

It's seared into my brain because bett midler scared the fuck out of me in that movie.

She's the best part. I love that song she sings, but.

That is seared in my brain whether I like it or not. And Billy butcherson was played by deep Bradley Baker, who I know way too much. No. Doug Jones.

Doug Jones.

Yeah. Get those mixed up.

We're just off and running when I at a coffee store in my hometown. He also lives there. And he came in one day and I tried to be real cool because I had seen celebrities and relatively famous people before at our old job. So when he came in, I was like, okay, I just have to pretend that I don't know who he is. But I think I still, like, freaked him out a little bit because in my head I was just like, that's the guy. That's a cool guy.

He's the one that's the worst feeling when you're like, no, I can play it cool. I'm going to be so good.

Hello, Mr. Sweet.

No, I could tell that my cheeks were red.

It's like mentally you're like, no, I know this is a normal person. I can act fine. But then you lose all control of your voice and volume and all that.

Yeah.

You're just like, oh, I'm blowing it so hard. I wanted to be nice. I'm sorry.

Yeah.

I love doing Gelbert till the war of movies.

I loved it when he played the exquisitely hot amphibian man in two movies.

Have a good fish butt, sir.

How'S guillermo?

Please tell me, did you get his Christmas card? I know he sends them out.

Yeah. Why are we talking about spooky stuff this week? Well, I'm glad I asked. It's the spooky season. We had a slight pause.

We had a break.

Refreshed and rested.

Were we supposed to do that on the break.

Yeah, I started saying refresh and rested, and I was like, immediately before this, I was tearing apart my office to reorganize it. So rest.

No refresh. Also, no, I haven't paid the three days.

Oh, yeah. God. Just I sure smell like a corpse, so we might as well watch Corpse Princess.

Seamless.

I haven't showered in the last 90 days. I don't think that's the right lyrics, but that's okay.

Now you got it.

Okay.

That segue was seamless, unlike a corpse who's been stitched together Navy frankenstein.

Yeah. So we're watching Corpse Princess recommendation from Jessica gelbart, and the title is Spooky. And that's the information I have. Either of you are familiar?

I guess I've heard the title before, but I don't know anything about it.

Yeah, I don't know anything. I assume it's like Corpse Bride by Tim Burton, which is a narrative movie. It's not great.

I used to be obsessed with that movie, but I'm not going to talk about it because I've already talked enough.

It's fine. I saw it in theaters when it first came out and went, wow, I will think about this again in ten years.

I bought a T shirt for some reason. I think I just owed Hot Topic money, and I just felt like I needed to get something from there. Every year.

They had a family member hostage, so just slowly pay the ransom one cool graphic tee at a time.

All the hot cash.

I was a teenager. I needed some form of identity, so I just latched on to whatever brand I was into, what a dumb idiot child I was, and definitely not still doing that to this day.

Defining your life by Media. Couldn't be us.

No, not this podcast.

We had healthy. Really? World Series. It was based on a manga. 2005. Came out 2008. So has a nice fine decade of eight, but yeah, I guess get into it because yeah. Spooky halloween pumpkin time shirt.

Let's hope it's not another.

Like, a ghost.

I don't care. They're you're a baby. I'll snap your neck like a swig. Welcome back.

I'll kick anybody's ass. Even that baby.

Yeah. This is a real anti baby episode. If you've got a baby in the room, get them out. Kick open out the window. In honor of this episode.

Taking a hard stance, antibaby.

No baby. No babies allowed. No more.

Just stop it.

The human race allowed to stop it. I'm going to say not for this specific episode. Maybe don't let your baby listen to any of our episodes.

Yeah, that's fair. But yeah. So we start out episode one. There's a lot going on in this episode. There's a lot going on in all of these episodes, so it may take a second to get traction. narratively. Okay. We start out at night at a buddhist monastery. They're kids sleeping. They grow up here. It's fine. Yeah. So we see some sleeping kids, and we see a boy is he important?

Kind of debatably.

He's in a lot of this show.

He's around.

He's really involved, though. We'll get but he sleep. We see a mysterious black cat walk in through the window. Through the glass of the window. ooh, ghost. We'll see actually, we get no clarification.

I'll put that I didn't even know this was happening on the first episode. Yeah.

He'S up and about. He can't sleep. He's going to get a glass of milk or whatever, but walks into the Spooky monk shrine room that's all lit up with candles and just a fully dead girl on the decor just really.

Ties the dead core.

He's like, Holy shit, there's a dead person here. And goes to investigate. But then starts to hear voices coming. So he goes and hides behind the big trot. And we see some buddhist monks walk in, and one of them is injured. So they introduce this character as this injured monk, as Brother Guardian, who then is introduced by another name for, like, the rest of the show.

I just kept calling him J. Michael tatum.

Yeah.

I wrote down literally no one's names.

Me neither.

Yeah, it's fine. His real name is toggamy. Whatever.

Big Brother, man, whoever he is.

Yeah. But they walk in, and this boy in his mind is like, oh, that's this character and that's that other character. We're doing real good with this dub right now. And then the cat is able to read his mind and also starts talking to him. He doesn't seem super freaked out when this happened. Several times.

Yeah, he just also had three episodes. I was somebody to be like, hey, what the fuck? Eager deal, cat?

But the cat is like, oh, yes. You know these guys. But that girl, that's chica bonnet, is that her name? No. Why did you introduce that? That's her name. Okay, but Brother Guardian goes and revives the girl. She was totally dead a second ago.

What the hell?

So brought someone back to life. We can move on. We see. We're in the city now.

Also, take a drink. Every time you hear the word Chicago, you'll die.

You will perish.

So many times.

They say it so many times and just assume that we know what it means. And then even after they explain it, they say it. There was one scene where they said it like, ten times in, like, three sentences. And I was like, you got to stop.

There are other words.

I was keeping track. There were several times and several episodes where Shigabani was in the same sentence at least twice.

There are such a thing as pronouns. You could say it. That might fix it.

Anyway, so we see cops executing a search warrant for a man that killed seven girls. So they find him, and he's like, oh, they disobeyed me. They had to be punished. And then he jumps off the balcony and escape. He's not dead. He'll be dead. So we then see the kids the next morning at the monastery. We see that brother guardian monk tagami, and he's goofing around with the kids, stealing food, all that sort of fun older brother stuff. And then we see the older kid from last night. His name cognie. Are they related? objectively, no.

Technically, no.

Factually incorrect.

But yeah. So he's like, all right. Oh, sorry. Fuck. This isn't the next morning. This is a year later.

What?

Overlook that part.

Hold on.

When they say that.

I'm not dealing yeah.

So first off, they say, cognie, he's moving out. And we see one of the other people who runs this is like, oh, yes. Ever since he saw that dead girl, he started trying to get more independent last year. So they say, like, oh, the events of what seems like the night before was a year.

See, I was going to commend him for seeing a dead girl at his orphanage and immediately being like, I got to get out of here. But now, knowing that it's been a year, now I'm just upset. I didn't even know.

So now I got to ask the guy we saw before who jumped out the window and died and killed all this groupies, was that also a year ago? If so, these guys were bad at their job, which is a serial killer loose for a year.

Yeah. I assume the time jump happened right before the cop search warrant thing. Because immediately as he goes to school, they start talking about that event. Yeah, again, sorry. Narrative is all fucked up. So we needed just a minute to get our footing.

Louise, that caught me off guard.

Yeah. Sogamy dammit, boy boy and priest boy is like, yeah, it's time for me to move out. I'm going to go to school, but I'll be back tonight to get the rest of my and being a monk talk to me is like, oh, look at all this porn in your box. I put it there as a prank to embarrass you in front of all the literal, like, five year old.

What a good one.

But yeah. So they go off. All the kids are sad he's moving out. But what? We see Chicago girl in an empty apartment, and she's naked in the shower of court. And she this is a phone. And then we cut away. Just had to establish she was naked.

Cool.

So we see cognie at school talking with his friends. And he's talking about moving out. And you know the fun stuff of like, oh, will you help me move? And they're like, fuck no. Good friend. So they run out into one of his other friends. I wrote down her name. He says her name. And she's like, hey, don't call me that. Does not give an alternative name. So, you know, girlfriend. So she's like, oh, did you hear about the Harm criminal? And all the friends are like, I want to hear him.

What I wouldn't give.

But they're like, oh, yeah, he escaped. He, like, jumped off the building, didn't find a bot. And that place is in the neighborhood of your new apartment. Be careful.

Good luck.

Oh, now I get why no one wants to help me move. So we see the monks are talking to the Chicobane girl and just infodem Chicobane stuff because surprise, chicagoan is the name of the reanimated court thing. It's kind of like a zombie, kind of like a ghost. Like, if you die with, like, unfinished business or like you have, like an obsession that isn't resolved in some way, you can't rest. So you become a ghoul with magic power. In short, they make up new rules. Every scene that I assume we'll get into, it doesn't matter because I feel.

Like when you die, everyone's got regrets that's kind of unavoidable with life. So when they're just like, oh, yeah, it's a reanimated corpus. Yeah, but it's more than that. They got crazy shit going on with them. It's not a zombie.

Yeah, they got a lot of plot, narrative things. unresolved chicobane. If you die before your character arc is up, then you come back as a monster. So we see kogami starts moving out and says goodbye to the director and the kids and all that stuff. And then we see Chicago girl goes, Was this Chicobane girl? They say it was like a woman in the harem goes back, but I thought it was her.

No, it was just like a random groupie that wandered back in.

Yeah. So she goes back and sees the killer is a vampire. Oh, no. And he's reanimating the corpses. Oh, no. These girls are followers. They're into him. So they're like, yeah, this seems cool. And Girl starts, like, shooting at yeah.

She has to kill the guy. But she can't kill any of the women because you can't harm any humans because they do this big, like, monologue about taking human lives and how she's sworn not to. So she can only kill shikabani. But I do like, they also threw out the idea of the shikabani might have hypnotized these girls into being like, his thralls or they're just really into them. And I love the idea that these women are just so into vampire the masquerade role play that they're just like, let's fucking go. Let's go murder that woman because we're vampires and they're really willing to do it.

Your Honor, I object to the felony murder charges. I was larping.

Excuse me. objection. I was out of character. ooc. Thank you.

But, yeah. So Chicvani goes in and starts shooting him up, trying to take him down, and he just transforms into a month. If you play Dark souls Three.

It'S.

The blood dinosaur things that just, like, pop out and it's like a spooky, like black blood mass shoutout creature.

Yeah.

But just picks her up and flies away with her and, yeah, just fully drops her from, like, 300ft in the it, and she crashes down, coincidentally, right next to cognie, who's carrying all his stuff to his new apartment. Convenient. See, he's involved somehow, even though he's.

Tangently.

So he's like, oh, shit, a person fell. Oh, shit, it's the dead lady that I've seen before. And then the cat appears again and just starts I don't know, just being shitty to him. Doesn't come with any helpful info.

But.

He tries to, like, revive and saves. Oh, cool. He restarted her heart that he acknowledged was never beating in the first place and is not beating again, but he was still able to do, like, seat.

Cool.

Sure.

It's the power of love or something.

But she wakes up and is like, hey, get the fuck away from me. Just, like, runs away and just monk on a moped pulls up. Delicious. Exactly what I need. I just love the string of event that this boy is walking. Like all of his furniture on a cart. Woman falls down from the sky. Oh, no, got to start cpr. Does cpr. She pops up, says, Fuck you, jumps on the back of a moped and drives away. Who was she?

A Thursday.

What a manic pixie? Dream girl entrance. Drives away, and the monk starts explaining to her, oh, yeah, we don't think he's an actual vampire, because Shikovani don't work that way. Obviously, we're not making the rules every 10 seconds, but we think these women are either hypnotized or just really down to clown with all his mercy. But either way, we got to kill him. But not the alive girl.

If they are hypnotized, if Shikibani can hypnotize, and if they can drink the blood, they don't need to. And they are immortal and undead, how aren't they vampires? Because this sounds like a vampire.

I don't think that blood for fun.

Yeah, maybe.

Don't worry. By the time you figure out this rule, they will have seven more that you need to discipline. Save your mental energy. So they track down he's on the top of a building because, of course, scenic fight location, and goes up and just starts fighting. And Hagamy didn't get enough. Had to get on his bike and ride past and see the fight. Like, glasses falling onto the street, all that stuff. And chica bonnet girl. She then introduces that she is a Chica bone that kills other Chicabane. A clear point where you're like, yeah, just use a pronoun. You don't need to say chica bonnet. The shikabane Hunter hunt the chica bonnet because I am a shikabane hunter. All right. We needed to match the flaps. All right. But she kicks the monster into the building's big neon light and says, the only way to kill a Chicago is to shoot the shikabane and the chicago's brain. And does so and kills a thought. Cool. But then kagami goes home after all this and sees his friends that blew him off, where they're ready to have a party, to be like, hey, welcome here. We didn't do any of the actual work. We just wanted to get drunk and fall asleep. And then we see shikabane girl in the shower again, of course. And that's where we end episode one.

Great. Okay, I want to try and make this fast. I think I can, because this is one of those shows where it feels like there's a lot happening, but there's not. We get the opening in this one. It's an opening.

Pretty standard.

Yes. We see a crash on a freeway. It was a kindergarten bus. Tragic. Boy is back at the orphanage shrine monastery with the director lady. She says one of the girls in the accident used to come by to play with the orphans, and one of the boys is really upset about it. And Boy is like, it's probably because we're orphans. When people are nice to us, it means a lot. I would like to point out the English voice actor for Boy is Aaron dismuke. And he, I think, is very interesting because he was a little baby child when he started voice acting. He played alphonse in the original Full Metal alchemist? So alfons was played by an actual little boy for a little Bit wild, I think, for the whole series, but then not brotherhood because then he was a teenager.

Yeah.

Anyway, Boy goes and talks to the little boy, who's upset, and he's like, oh, you want to come with me to the little girl's wake? And the little boy is like, no, I don't want to go, because there'll be news crews, and I don't want people to think that she was a loser for hanging out with orphans.

A lot of baggage in the show for being an orphan.

Yeah.

Isn't it weird?

Whoever wrote this hates orphans.

Also, this child is very self away.

Yeah.

I just don't want to deal with the media blitz of a small child dying and being assistant.

She's not raw. Like, it's a good point.

And then Jay mackle tatum brother, comes up and offers Boy a bunch of anime girl figs. Always teasing you're.

Approaching it. I got titties.

Now we're at the wake. A bunch of people are crying. The kids are confused. They're like, what happened to my friend?

Did no one explain this before taking them to awake, where you typically see a dead body?

Nope.

Nope.

They said, hey, kids, we're really sad, but we're not going to tell you why. unpack that in therapy when you're 20.

Field trip. That's all the info we give you.

And then the portrait of the little girl cracks, and the coffin opens. Spooky. She starts climbing out. We see that guests are being, like, ushered out of the building, and the news crews are like, what's going on? Then we see one of the monks at the shrine, like, where the wake is is told to call an ambulance. Then we get Boy making a fool of himself at his job. The boss is watching the news and hears about the little girl coming back to life. Then Boy heads home, and there's a girl that also works there. And after Boy leaves, the girl and the boss are talking about stuff, and they clearly know what's going on. They're like a Chica Bonnet backup team or something like that. And they talk about boy's older brother, jackal tatum. And the boss explains that he was taken in by him, but they changed his name by one letter because they didn't want Boy to be associated with all of this Chica Bonnet business. So that's why he's tagamine, and the other one is Toggamine or whatever it is.

It's so dumb. Jeffrey need to adopt this child, but if I name him Jeffrey, he has to be a monk and fight these things too. So I guess I'll call him Jeffrey. Worked around that loophole.

No one will ever know.

Oh, I also want to point out just this really repulsive line from the manager of that store he's at.

I wish you wouldn't.

No, we can move past it.

He says a really gross pedophilic thing.

All right.

It's really, like, outright it's terrible. No nuance. Boy is looking at the news crews at the hospital. He's passing the hospital. He sees the cat. He follows the cat, sees the corpse princess girl she climbs in through a window. So she's going into the hospital to check out what's going on with the little girl that came back to life, supposedly, and a bunch of spooky stuff is going on. She calls older brother and says it's already on the move. And he tells her to take care of things quickly. And he's with another monk and another woman. We don't really know anything about them. He kind of just hangs out with them.

They're the B team.

Yeah. And Corpse Princess girl is the A team all by herself. Boy follows corpse. Princess girl she goes into a hospital room, and it looks like there's something laying in the bed, but it was a trick. The little girl has actually transformed into a gremlin monster thing. It attacks her pretty bad, and she's, like, bleeding out on the bed, and she gets ready to shoot it. But then boy comes in. So the little girl chica bone transforms back into a little girl, and she begs him for help. And he's a fucking idiot. And he's just like, yeah, okay, I buy this. I'm just like, did he not pay attention to anything that happened in the last episode? Wasn't he around for that stuff? I'm so confused.

When we see them sneaking into the hospital court I'm just calling her court. Princess runs down a hallway, and then Boy runs after her, and we see, like, a flash of lighting outside, light up the hallway as they ran by. And there's just like four or five dead bodies in there. And it's like even if you don't see it because the lighting is bad or whatever, you probably smell with how much blood there was coming out of them. It's mind blowing that he's just like, yeah, I know corpses reanimate. I know that they're evil. I heard about this girl Reanimating. I see this girl that helped me out before bleeding out on the bed. I walk in. I see a small child that was Reanimated. Yeah, I'll trust her.

She's yeah, don't worry. The rule that you can clearly smell who is a monster is introduced in the next episode, so we don't have to worry about it.

God, it was introduced, wasn't it? God damn it.

I just wrote girl. I guess it's corpse princess. She's on the phone with older brother and other kids from the accident have become Chicago bonnet too. So she's like, oh, I'll stick with this one, even though I'm hurt because it's my responsibility that she got out, even though it's not because the boy is a fucking idiot. Little girl is with boy, and he's in a convenience store. So she attacks some man while he's in there, and then they walk away together. He doesn't see that happen. And he's like, why don't you go home? And she's like, I can't. And he's like, all right.

I'll wander around the city in the rain with a small child. I really don't know. And it's like, what are you doing here? What are you doing, man?

It's a mystery. Yeah, she's just leading him around. The three adults, the B team see the guy that she's a text, so they're like, on their trail, but they're like, not doing anything. Corpse Princess stops and sees a poster. It says play nice. Seems relevant. I don't know. They take the time to do it. Little girl takes Boy to a park where the other dead kids are playing. And she's like, about to run over to them. And he grabs her wrist and she's like, let me fucking go, you idiot. And she like, shoves him away.

Don't touch me, you pleb.

And then Corporate Princess shows up and finally explains what a chica bonnet is. But we had talked about before. It's someone who died with intense regret. So they come back to finish their boozeness. She says she kills other chicagne so they can't bring death to anyone else. The kids all transform into little gremlin things. She gets ready to attack, saying that shikabanae aren't dead until their brains or their bodies are completely destroyed. The three children transform into one giant spooky baby. And she's like their regret is that they didn't get to play more. Seems like a normal ghost child thing to me.

Sure, I guess, yes. I don't know. I don't know if I'd ever regretted that much that I would pry open the gates of hell and crawl back onto Earth.

But I want to go down that slide one more time just so fucking bad.

I'll kill anyone who gets in my way.

No. Someone beat my high score immediately before I die. I can't. I hit my initials.

And now it just says ass.

No. That's the worst. So the giant baby grabs corpse. Princess So Boy gets their attention, and he says he has something he wants to give the little girl. So corpse princess they drop her. She gets back on her feet, and she unleashes some bullets on them. She does it. The kids are big dead. ain't coming back now. And then we see the dead times two corpse of the little girl, and he tries to give her something, like a piece of paper. And corpse princess is like hand her over. And he's like, I won't. And she's like, this little girl is just a monster. And he's like, yeah, you are too. And she's like, yeah, let me kill it. What about it?

No, it's my job.

Then I explained it to you. He gets up and turns away while she finishes the job. He thanks her. And then she asks what he was going to give her. And it was something the little boy from the orphanage wanted to put in her coffin. It's a little drawing, cute little drawing of them being pals. He hands it to the Corpse Princess and scoots out of there. He just runs away.

Your problem now. bye.

And then the three adults finally roll up the B team. I say adults. Corpse Princess looks like a high schooler, but it's not super clear.

We didn't get any confirmation, so I didn't check off the ancient being in the body of a child, but can't tell if she died last week or 500 years ago.

Well, it was at least a year ago.

At least a year ago.

The bald guy is like, oh, that kid knows too much. We got to keep an eye on him. But Big Brother is like, it's not a big deal. I'm his brother. I can keep an eye on him. And Corporate Princess is like, you're his older brother. And he's like, oh, you didn't know that? Why are you trying to protect him so hard? She's like, he's just a normal kid. He doesn't deserve this chica bonnet business. And then she and Big Brother are together, and they're walking away, and she thanks him. And he's like, oh, don't thank me. There's nothing to thank me for. And she's like, It's so weird. Boy thanked me after I killed the little girl. And Big Brother explains that it's because Boy was still seeing this little girl, like, as a little girl instead of a zombie zambo. So the reason he thanked the Corpse Princess girl was for helping him realize that she wasn't a normal little girl anymore. So yeah. And that's episode two.

I feel like this happens in a few different shows where anytime someone gets corrupted. Or turned into a demon or a zombie or something. This person is so noble, they can see past that and still see them for the human being that they are. Yeah, this little demon child that killed, like, seven people and shapeshifting.

Cool.

You still have a big heart and stuff. You're a detriment to the team and people's safety at large.

Yeah. Even if you see them as a real person, if a child kills seven people, you're not going to be like.

Oh, no, they're just it was an accident. They're the person that in a zombie apocalypse. When someone gets bit, it's like, no, they're just sick. I can help them. And then they bring them into the group and then everyone gets bitten. It's like, thanks job, asshole.

Idiot.

What I'm saying is, you got a demon kit, put them down. Anyway, episode three opens with, like, a young couple walking home. And as they're walking, they hear a baby crying. And the girl turns around like, hey, you hear that? It's like no, it's nothing. And then it's just a baby scream. It's like, yeah, okay, I hear that now. And the girl turns around and just sees this, like, weird monster slug thing that the cry is coming from. And as they're one to do, they scream and run away. And as they're running, they run in the corpses and she grabs, like, I think, the guy by the counter and say, where's the screaming coming from? What you see, I don't know if she's like, you are yields and throws them. You didn't need to interact with them. Like, they'd probably be safer if you just let them go. Like, you feel like you're dwying people down here. So then they run off, and then when she gets there, the priest is there, bro. Priest. And they say that the shigobani only takes one victim at a time, I guess, and it already vanished by the time they find the body. So while they're there, they find, like, the body of a young woman who's coated in the slug goo, I guess. I don't know. tattoo boy at school talking with this horny friend who's trying to tell him a scary story about, like, high school mothers who have to abandon their child, and then their child comes back as a ghost or something. I wonder if this is foreshadowing.

No.

While they're talking, a boy is getting sick and the two other responsible friends come over and they're like, hey, you're sick of shit. Go home. So they'll take him home and they take care of him for a bit, and they see like, the two guy friends kind of mooching off his food and stuff and going through his fridge. He's like, all right, everyone, get the fuck out of here. He's got a rest. You're not helping him. So the girl drags them all out and then he falls asleep, and he wakes up in a haze looking for water. He can't find water and he sees priestspro there who gives him a glass of water. But I thought he's supposed to be living on his own. What's Priest Pro doing there? And then he wakes up again and he's not there. It felt like they tried to make the scene more dramatic than it was. Like Brother just stopped in to help him out. Didn't seem as impactful as it need to be, but so Boy wakes up again later, calls into work saying he's out sick, and once he gets off the phone, he hears like, the baby crying. And he kind of just like, sighs, like, oh, God, this shit again. I haven't really got to listen to this baby crying. He just seems so annoyed by it and jaded already and doesn't even question, like, yeah, it's probably a ghost baby thing. That's when he turns around and sees the cat faze through the window into his apartment. And the cat says, like, ah, the baby's crying for help. And he's like, oh, yeah, I did. So then we cut to we see the priests. Yeah, priest, individual priests, but they all have this weird sharp rod thing that I guess is used for like a shigibani detector, because we see like, the multiple priests and all their things start moving on their own. So, like, we got a case. And then we see Corpsey hunting after the ghost baby, and as she's running around after, she loses track of it, and they find another victim. And it's the core princess from the B team. Apparently there's a lot of priests, but apparently only the core princesses can fight them. And they're all teenage girls, I guess, or something. We don't learn much about this other.

Character the buffy system got, basically.

So they find another victim and it's like, Damn it, we lost it again. It's like, I didn't take my eyes off for a second. It's like, clearly it did. It's gone now. And then while they're looking over the dead body, the camera zooms out. We see an old man on a balcony going like and walks away. And then that night Priest talks. All the priests get together to talk and trying to come up with a plan or like, what's going on with this? Is there any connection? All the victims seem to be young women. Most recent one used to work at an OB GYN clinic. It's like a really run down clinic and stuff. So this is the only thing they do, and it's real low maintenance. And they're like, I wonder if there's a connection to this baby ghost. And someone's just like, oh, maybe it was a baby that died at birth. And it's like, what kind of regrets does a baby have if it didn't even live?

No, you can't have aspirations. Baby dial it back. Too ambitious.

Unless you're Ray from Promised neverland, who remembers everything from when he was in utero. Because that makes fucking anyway. That always bugged me. Meanwhile, Boy is out chasing the cat around town while he's still sick. And as he's chasing the cat, the cat leaves him up to a building. He's like, what's this about? I'm going to sit down and just passes out. Immediately. It turns out he passed out in front of the clinic that the old man is working at. As the old man walks out carrying a crying baby, he's like, oh, another one. So he adopts this new son because it does what that old man does, apparently. Cut to dream sequence. We see Boy in a weird technicolored field. And we see bro priests there killing a bunch of monsters. Zombies. Not clear. He's awake. Moving on. So Boy wakes up in the clinic, and he's like an IV drip. And he overhears the old man talking to someone. As he wanders out, he sees the old man talking to Corpsey. And she's pretending like, I don't know. My boyfriend can't come to me and I'm in a desperate situation. It feels like she's implying she's a pregnant high schooler. But they don't really get into it because then Boy shows up. And he's like, oh, yeah. The doctor is like, I'll take care of you on the lady. I'm the only one that works here, so I got to do everything myself. So give me a minute to prep the room. And he walks away. And as he walks away, he get a shot of his face going like he knows they're on something. And then Corpsey drags Boy away and just starts yelling at him.

Corpses so good. I'm so mad I didn't think of it earlier.

I refuse to learn anyone's name in the show. She drags him away, being like, hey, the fuck are you doing on my chica? bonnie Hunt? Why are you here? Every time there's a shikabani here? Shikabana chica boekaba. And she's like, who's? Who's giving you information? Who's your inside man? Like, what's your source? He's like, I don't know. I just showed up here neglecting to talk about the telepathic cat. She's like, yeah, fucking whatever. And throws him against the wall and walks away. And then like, scooby Do esque walks back out from the other side of the hallway. I was kind of confused by this. And I guess they start exploring the whole clinic together. And they find it's pretty empty and abandoned because only the doctors working here. And they find one newborn baby by itself in the nursery. corpse. He's like, hey, cool. There's that baby. Let me kill that baby. And boys like, no. Why? And she's like, she could find you're. You know, undead reanimated. They all smell like corpses. Go on, smell that baby. He probably stinks. Like, I do, like fucking death and garbage. I'm a smelly girl. Like, really? Just kind of hit him. Like they stink. The scene went on for too long. So Boy goes over and picks up the baby. No, it smells like milk and like tauk powder. It smells like a baby. It smells like diapers and stuff. And it's like, that doesn't matter. I'm going to kill it anyway. Didn't you just say that if it was a Chicago, bonnie would smell like death? And it doesn't, so proving it's not. Why are you trying to kill this baby still? And while they're arguing about that, the doctor goes into a room and unchains it and asks the real Chica bonnie for assistance. We cut back to the boy trying to stop Corpsey from killing a baby, which is proving to be a harder task than should be, even though she said she wouldn't kill humans and it's supposed to be the good guy.

Yeah, that is a good point. I didn't even think about that. Now I'm extra matte.

I mean, she thinks it's a chico bonnie, but she has literally no proof. She has more evidence that it's human than it isn't. So she's just really dead set on killing a baby, which I get sometimes, but like, no, it's weird. And then while they're arguing, the doctor appears saying like, no, that baby is not a shikagami. It's fucking obvious, Corpsey, you dip shit. And she grabs it and runs out the room with it anyway. And while she's running away, the real Chica bonnie bursts into the wall like the kool Aid Man and grabs her and the baby. And the baby is like, hell yeah. And then the boy chases after him and sees the real Chica bonnie is like, oh, no, what's going to happen here, clunk? The doctor knocks him out because the doctor's just a metal baseball bat now. And elsewhere, we see the Priest bros learning about shigabani cells that were implanted in all of the victims so far. That's what they think emerged from the victims when they died, which was that grossly slug thing. And the slug thing was like trying to go back to the source of its cells like it's parent and someone was injecting them with it, and that's what killed them. And this helpful information and plot driven progression was brought to you by the thankful, unnecessarily, bikini cladded and hot pants wearing dr priests.

That was wild. I looked up at the screen and saw what she was wearing, and I was like, what the fuck?

Yeah, she's wearing just a real small bikini top, like daisy Duke hot pants and a full lab coat. And that's it.

Yeah, a lab coat. You got to keep it professed.

Got it's. Like yoko from The Girl and Leg on Casual Friday, tit out Friday. And so like, they talk about like, what rank she's in. She is, and I think she's higher than him, but she's like, why don't you move up in the organization? She's like, no, I like being here. I don't know. It seems like she's part of this priesthood organization thing and not just like a random doctor or something. Anyway, as he leaves, he gets a call from Corpsey who is being healthcasted by the doctor, and it's chained up. How do you get a call from ernie speaking.

What?

I already forgot.

Chained up. But Doctor forgot about cell phones. It is 2008 after all the iphones.

They're new, but yeah. So he basically gets a call like, hey, we found the Chicago bonnie and we got captured by the doctor. And we see the doctor chaining up the shikabani back up against the wall again, and they're like, what's this? So we've never seen a Chicagoani working with a person and let alone obeying it. And he's like, oh yeah, this is the mother of the baby. She died while giving birth to the baby. So it's not the baby that has the regrets, it's the mother. And he said the doctor just take off a big slab of skin from the Chicago body and put it in just like a glass of water. And it just dissolves like instantly. It turns like green. And he's like, ah, the elixir. This dude is not doing anything. He's just she is chucking off laid, man. She made a beverage, just condensed powder formed into a body.

It's just her I hate this tasty video.

So he just dissolves it into this vial and then puts it in a syringe and injects the syringe into Corpsey. And he's like, this is what I did with all the other women to try and give them immortality too. And she's like, oh, it doesn't work on me because I'm already dead. That's why they call me Corpsey overshot of Miami. Scream.

I'm going to be dead and kill.

Babies and I'm already dead. And he's like, I don't even know what happened. She's restrained on, like a table. And after she gets infected, she breaks out of it somehow. And I genuinely have no idea how, but she's able to get off the restraints and she gives like a backstory because he says, like, oh, I think Boy says her name at some point. And Doctor is like, are you related to this family who all burnt down in a fire? She's like, yeah, that was my family, but don't worry, I died in that fire too. What's happening right now? And she runs up and just starts unloading on the Chicago body and killing it while it's still chained against the wall. And the Doctor was like, you can't kill a chica body. They're immortal. Dead. It's already dead. By the time he's done talking, it's already dead.

If you shoot it enough, it dies.

He's fine with just this big demon thing that he's been experimenting on and like ghosts and shit, but then he's like someone that knows how to fight them unheard of. It's like you're already at this point, man, you got to expect someone's fighting him.

Yeah, I just love that they really spend so much time setting up all the unique powers of shikabane. And she just has two uzis. And she's like, yeah, don't pay too much attention to it. I'm just going to shoot some stuff. It's fine.

The other course, princess is just like tiffa from Final Fantasy. She just has, like, gauntlets and just punches them to death. Apparently they're very brittle.

I mean, they are dead.

They are dead. We've all seen scuba doing Zombie Island. We know how brutally yet.

Yeah, you can just flake off their skin and make koolaids.

So.

A lot of resistance there.

And right as she kills the Shigobani, priest Broke kicks open the door like, what's going on in here? And then conveniently, boy starts passing out again from his fever. And when he wakes up, he's back at the orphanage with the priest. And like, the caretaker of the orphanage, they're like, oh, you got sick. This is the first time we ever heard of someone being so sick. They go to an ogbyn clinic to try and get help. obgyn, that's where we found you. And he's like, oh, what about the Chicagoani and the doctor? And I was like, what are you talking about? None of that happened. We're gaslighting you porn. And he pulls out a porn. Now meg and priest goes on to talk about goes outside to talk to Corpsey, who's asking about like, why is the boy keep popping up on all my husband? He's like, he's my brother. Anyway, bye. He just dips out of her as well. And then the priest goes off to talk to the old man doctor, and he's in, like, a hospital room with a woman in bed, like, dying. And he's like, you wanted to get the shika, bonnie. It's like immortality. So you can keep your wife alive who's dying from a disease hell. Noble of you, but you did kill seven other women to do it, so that's kind of fucked up. But I got to ask you, how did you come up with this idea? Because you definitely didn't. Someone told you to do this, so who's your source? Who's telling you what? Come on, old man. Give me the information. When he touches the old man, the old man, like, slumps over and sees, like, the weird spike rod that they use to detect when Shikobani appear is just stabbed into his chest. And the old man's been dead for who knows how long. And I guess his sick wife, who's still alive in the bed, just watched him be murdered and couldn't do anything. So that's a horrifying implication.

Yeah.

And then it just cuts to another priest outside of the hospital looking very sly and evil as he licks the blood off his hands and just walks away a treat. A shitty man that we stand. And that's episode three.

Wow.

I don't know what happened here. Like you said, dugan, I don't even know if the protagonist is involved in this show because it's just like, yeah, it's wild.

Even if they were to adopt him into the group and be like, oh, yeah, you're part of the shigigami fighting thing. Still doesn't matter. He has no personality. His main thing is, oh, let me just be around places and maybe stuff will happen nearby.

He keeps getting toyed around by this cat who he feels like it's self explanatory and doesn't need any explanation. I certainly would love one, but I guess his telepathic cats and face their walls is like dope and cool and definitely not evil and luring them to these things.

He saw coraline once and he was like, yeah, I'll follow the talking cat that walks through walls.

When is this ever backfired? Are we there yet? Legally asking.

Yeah, there's just so much going on. The tone is taking itself way too seriously, except for the points where they're like, oh, you got poured in your stuffy. Horny this. All right, back to the beep. And it's like, I don't know. For me, you're trying to do a whole lot. Like the show assumes you are immediately on board with whatever and doesn't put in the effort to be like, oh, yeah, this next thing will really get you here's. The intrigue, it's just like, no, yeah, you're here for some zombie fighting stuff. Yeah, you get don't think about it too hard. You're here for the fights that are about 2 minutes every episode and just lots of plots set up around. So it's not like it's a heavy action show where you're like, yeah, the plot is a little thin, but oh, they fight and it's real cool. It doesn't really do either thing well. So, yeah, it's me.

Yeah, I don't know. It has some interesting things going on. But as Brendan was talking about episode three, I was like, damn, I really hardly any of this. Like, I remember at the end, but other than that, I was just like, I don't know. Are you sure you watched the same show?

I watched this immediately before recording, and just the speed it left my brain, like the teflon of my brain, it just did not stick. It was like, no immediately out. So going through my notes, I was like, oh, yeah, that did happen.

Yeah, we got, like, the temporary storage box in our brain for just, like, anime we watch in the show. It's like, good chances. Once we're done this recording, that box is empty again.

Yeah, this just like I don't know. It just felt like nothing so much and yet nothing at all.

It tried to do so much instead of the core thing. What if we focused on one thing that we can do well? They're like, no, there's monks and there's zombies with a billion rules and all babies and intrigue, and there's a plot that someone is from the inside is trying to take a death.

I'd say it's probably a comment of trope. And like, most overall media or storytelling, but definitely would animate the trope of we're an organization that's fighting against these evil beings, and our best candidate to fight against these evil beings is one of those evil beings where half of those evil beings, like hellboy, chainsaw Man, blade. Yeah, there's probably plenty of them, but I feel like it's really prevalent in anime a lot of the time, and it's just like, we've seen it before. We've seen this organization ship before. The whole time I was watching it, I was just thinking, I'm like, this is just like a watered down Blue exorcist. If you want this, if you want the Secret priest organization that's fighting against evil and that, like, is actually a pretty decent story to it, and characters just watch Blue exorcist because it just does it fits, but just does everything better. So it's just like knowing that, I was kind of like, yeah, this show got nothing for me.

Well, there you have it, folks.

Yeah.

We got a checkmark for a spooky show in the spooky time. Hope you all have a recommendation. Yeah. Thank you, Jessica.

Sorry.

So what do we have going on next?

I'll tell you next week. We're watching Hoshii no sora or Stars align, which is a sports anime about tennis a little bit. I think it's gay. I heard it's good, so that's what I've picked.

Interesting.

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