AWTY 192 - Toyotathon (Dragon Pilot)

When you are being excreted from an otf, just cross your arms like this to reduce friction. And this will help avoid damaging the esophagus.

Hello and welcome to our we've There Yet in exploration and education and anime. I'm your anime idiot, patrick dugan.

I'm an anime expert, dee hollander.

And I'm brenda mccullough. Your anime unwelcomed awakening into something much worse.

Oh, that's probably the most accurate one you said about yourself.

Yeah, that is fair.

Hello, I'm your anime Mr. Tumnas. And it's going to get real bad. It's just going to get real bad for a while.

But hey, I mean, Mr. Tumbnas kind of well, never mind cutting myself off.

If we're going to talk some furry shit, this isn't the worst episode.

I guess if we're going to talk furry shit, it's not going to be the one from a Christian in algorithm. Veggie tails, though. Hey now.

Hey now.

Bob'S tomato bob's.

Quite a looker.

An eggplant and veggie no. You know what? We're moving on. We're moving on.

What are we watching this week? Please tell me that.

I looked at what we did the last few weeks and I thought we're riding pretty good. We've had a good run of things. I got to challenge that. I got to mess some stuff up.

And this is the only thing that can knock these two down right now.

There's nothing else bad going on, though. And I was saving this show in particular. This is kind of my like, go to like, it's going to be a weird one. It's going to be a weird one. And dugan, you actually showed this to us, I think, like in a TikTok or something. You shared a meme with us. And I was like, ah, cat's out of the bag.

You didn't found out.

It was a situation of seeing a video of a weird looking anime and being like, hey, let me share this with my two good friends. I think they'll get a kick out of this. And I posted it. I'm like, hey, doesn't this seem silly?

And then the responses you factored into my truck. Oh, no, it's begun.

The secrets out. It's no longer contained the floodgate. I was like, what? I'm sorry.

I thought I found something cute and fun.

But what? So here we are.

Here we are.

Despair as usual.

Yeah. So this week, we always beat around the bush because listener, you download the episode. You know what we're watching this week? We're watching Dragon pilot. Are either of you familiar with it?

Not especially. The ice cream truck has arrived.

All right, we're going to pause real quick.

It's not even hot today.

This is why we don't record earlier anymore.

It's literally like 67 degrees outside right now.

Oh, God. I'm so happy. Right?

It's been weird lately. Okay, it's gone for now, but it'll come back.

I didn't even play it, but I immediately got Friday night to freddie's. Like flashbacks, terror well, that's the most.

Entertaining part of this podcast, so we can't cut that out.

Leaving that in dugan. Are you familiar with the Dragon pilot at all?

Only from that TikTok. So truly, when I shared it with you, that was me being like, ah, an interesting concept of vor. vor jets.

Yeah. For anyone that doesn't know it's dragons of vor. That's the anime.

Yay.

There's your warning. Now tap out while you can.

I think we're good. The chances of it coming back are never zero.

I'd hear like, 03:00 A.m., and you just hear like a quick chime.

Paul get to go like, jump scare every once in a while.

Keep us on our toes.

I have one that goes through the back alley behind my building and it plays like a music, but then every now and then it goes it does like a knocking noise and it goes, hello. Part of the music. Awful. Absolutely terrible. That's bad. Yeah.

I always love when I see illegal characters of a company I associated with. That's always the best, where it's like off spec Square, man.

Oh, I guess luigi is Mexican now. All right.

But Dragon vor. Sure, that's it.

That's the whole show.

You would like us to watch it?

Just give it a rough. I was going to sing the Dragon tails opening, but then I remember I don't know it. I wish I was 31.

Dragon tails. Dragons. That's all I know.

Yeah.

It's time for dragon tails. Come along, take my hands.

The further we get into the song, the Saturday it's going to be when we get to this dragon.

Yeah. Sorry, guys. Sorry, listeners.

The vibe.

Today we're recording at 01:00 P.m. On a Saturday, when lately we're recording at 05:00 p.m. On a Sunday. So we're all we're all fucked up.

We're all kinds of fucked up.

I may be on day four of an insomnia train. It's lovely. My brain is pudding. Before I tried some other chemical stuff.

On top of it. I don't have an excuse. It's just how I am all the time. Sorry. Episode one, let's get this over with. Starts off with a girl in school, and she's taking her, like, aptitude tests right now. And we've seen it before in other anime kids, what they aspire to be, what they want their jobs to be. And they pick, like, four dream careers. And all the other kids are talking about what they want to do, something that only they can do, something that makes them special. When we see our main character look out the window. Windows eat, check. Wondering what could she do? What's something special? That one she can do. And she's a fighter. Chip fly overhead. Cut to her in the Air Force. All right, love it. Quick dawn. Moving on.

It's the equivalent of being like, hey, what's your name? Look around for the object in the room. Fighter Steve lamp. Hey, what job do you want? To be fighter pilot. I can't say no. I can't back out now.

Oh, no. We know that's so easy to do, and you can just fall right into it out of high school. It's so simple. So we cut to her in like an office, and it's clear this is like an Air Force base. Everyone's in, like, mostly military guard, but it's not bad. It's like their office clothing. But yeah, air Force Base. We've all seen Top Gun out recently in theaters by you. And we see they're prepping for a flight. We see all the different stations of the Air Force base. Everyone getting ready for the jet, and the opening crowds are going. And we see our main character, the girl from the beginning Hassone Amikasu Amacas. God damn it, I thought I had it protag. We see her boss calls her up and was like, hey, here's the request document. Can you run this over to warehouse wherever and give it to this guy? And she's kind of, like, muttering to herself, like, I don't know where that is. I'm looking. And her boss like, don't worry, take the moped. You'll get there faster. And the boss just kind of walks off and starts talking further, like, you'll do this, and then we get this, and we got that. And then it's kind of trailing on to what she has to do. We see her main girl kind of like, snap. And she's like, I don't know where it is. I don't know why you think a moped will help me to get there faster if I don't know where it is? I'm just going to get lost faster with that and kind of just word vomits on her. All of her anxiety and kind of just unloads it all being like, I don't know why you expect this to work. And it's kind of refreshing that she actually just vents it out pretty quickly instead of following up for 16 episodes. Yeah, that's great.

She's very direct.

Yeah, I kind of enjoy that. But she ends up doing it anyway. She gets like, the moped and is riding around the Air Force base and is looking at a map, trying to figure out what hanger she's supposed to deliver these documents to. And while she's looking over to the map, we just see a little lady strolling by saying, like, oh, you look like you're lost. Here's a little yogurt drink. This will come your nerves. It's like, thank you. Strange old lady. Why are you on a military base? How did you get here? And she says, oh, don't worry. What you're looking for, it's up there. And I thought she was pointing off, way off into the mountains. It turns out there's just, like, a very tall hill in the middle of this air Force base that has a hanger built into it.

Great for airplanes, all these hills.

It can be really confusing. So she's like, that's where you're looking for. And our main character is like, all right, great, and runs off. And when she gets there, she finds a hanger, but it's old and dusty and all the power is turned off. And she's looking around me like, ah, this sucks. And I'm terrified. I'm going to take out my flip phone and look at videos of my cat, which is what we were doing before this podcast. And while she's looking at that, we see just a very large creature emerging from this pool of water behind her shadowing, over her, going to limb here and say that's the titular dragon. The title of the show kind of reveals what it is right away.

The titular pilot.

Yeah, there it is. And as she turns around, she sees it, screams understandably, and is eaten. understandably. I get like the opening title card. And then we hear a voiceover going through a montage of old drawings and historical paintings saying that ever since ancient times, advanced nations have worked with beings that were able to fly and take on different forms. They've called these organic transformed flyers dragons, just a more complicated name for dragons. They're dragons, all of them. And they say over the years they've had to disguise them because it's like a secret weapon. If the other nations knew they had that, they would try and get their own or try and take it. So they disguise them as a great many things as like kites, as primitive planes, other things I didn't write down. And now we're in the modern era, so they're disguised as fighter jets. Of course, that's our info dump, getting around this insane premise that no one would be able to casually explain in conversation. And we see an Air Force man. I think he's just like the captain or her captain, someone in charge. And he tells our main girl that since she saw one of those otfs, one of them dragons, he explains what it is and he says like she's in shock. She's in a hospital bed while he's talking about this. And he says, you were eaten by one and then thrown up by it, which is unusual even for dragons. So he got something special to you, and since you weren't supposed to be there, and now you know about this classified thing, you're part of our team. And the man says that he wants her to meet with the dragon again. And then he introduces her to a maintenance manager, pretty much the tech boy guy who takes care of all the parts and stuff.

Hat Boy. I don't know most of the names in this show.

I wrote down three. I can't pronounce any of them. okonogi is his name, but yeah, Hat Boy. And he's the right hand man. He's the go to guy. He's the sidekick. And he says it was very impressive that she was chosen by the Dragon. Like, it's not often the Dragon will be that nice to you, eating you and all that, because everyone wants to be eaten by the dragon. vor. And this particular dragon has kind of been trauma because it hasn't had a pilot in three years. And the dragon's got to fly all the time. It got to be kept up and hasn't been flying in three years. So we're going to kind of decommission a living creature, I guess. And then as they're talking, the dragon emerges from the water again. And it's big and round and darpy and looks like dragonite from pokemon.

Good character design.

It's a great character. But when you think dragon, this one's smooth. This is a round one.

Everybody in this show is extraordinarily round.

Yeah, I do love the animation. The style is cute, but the animation is very well done for the reprehensible content. People are surprised because the dragon is pretty calm around her, which usually is they're like, it's somehow bonded with you immediately, so you got to work with it because you're the only one who can. So they push her closer, gone. You're bonded, make contact with it. And even her captain is like an Et, and he holds out his finger, and his assistant holds out her finger, and they touch fingers like an Et. I'm like oh, I like those two. They're idiots. So she reaches out her finger to touch the dragon, and he eats her again, and she gets spat back out. And then she gets reassigned to a new barracks. And as she's being moved in again, the person she's with is kind of explaining everything, like, you live here. You got to do this, you got to do this. And she's kind of, like, murdered herself. Getting very anxious, being like, I don't know, I don't like being here. And you can see it bottling up again. She's just an actual delinquent in, like, gym ware and attracts you just like, squatting in the hallway. And the delinquent just comes out to her and gets in her face. And our main girl just like, oh, you want a yogurt drink? Here you go. And gives it to her. The lingo still drinks it, and it is mad that it's warm. Find out. This is kazaki. This is our token sundare of the series.

I called her braids.

Yeah, it was when she was introduced, I was like, okay. I like this. This is a fun introduction. What is the tone and plot of this show?

I have good.

We find out. kazaki braids is another dragon pilot, and she says she's going to make our main girl's life a living hell. So charming. And then we see our main girl in class reviewing, like, 80s Aerobic videos, but they're about the dragon and about and there's like a twister map below her that has all the dragon's different body part, like internal organs in it. And she has to be able to control them from inside of it because we saw it a bit when she gets eaten by the dragon. It's not like a mech where you sit in a pilot seat and control from inside it's fleshy, organs and nastiness.

I thought it was going to be a mech. And this it made me feel very claustrophobic.

Yeah, I am claustrophobic and I do not like it because we see in other episodes, there are times where she's piloting it and it's like expanded and open. And then when the dragon's, like nervous or not used to it's, like crushing her, it's like squeezing tightly. I'm like I hate that. I hate everything about this. And yeah, I mean, girls like, hey, this sucks. I don't want to be thrown up again. And her handler is like, cool, there's another option if you don't like the top half, she's like, great, don't like that one either. Cut to them loading up the dragon with all these fighter jet parts and this is their armor. Girl even finds out, she's like, oh, it's kind of like cosplay, like he's wearing a costume, like pretending to be a fighter jet because he's still, like segmented. You can still see big parts of the dragon sticking out and they're like, yeah, it's a secret people don't know about dragons. So we got to keep it covered up so you can fly around disguised. And your first task as his pilot is to be eaten by him and make it so he transforms fully into the fighter jet form and not like this half piece together part form. And she panics, understandably, because she doesn't like to be eaten. And braze gets all pissed off and like everyone's holding her back as braids is very mad, saying it's like wasted on her. She should be the pilot and all this stuff. Basically being like she's mad that her main girl got chosen over her.

She's ostuka and Amaasenji.

Yes. Who's kendall?

The dad.

Is that the dad? I'm bad with names.

The glasses lady, of course.

Yeah, that makes sense. Seeing kendi tartikovsky. He has no business in animate.

Well, anyway, climbing into the moon.

Buy a big weird dragon. Her handler says she's going to decline. If she's going to decline, why is she declining now after they've already made this preparation for her? And again, our main girl snaps, being like, no, I try to decline 15 times now. You've broken a bunch of rules. After I declined it, you kept going forward, which is against this rule and this rule and this rule and there's all this other shit and this and points out, like, all of the flaws and rules that they broke in here. Again, actually speaking her mind. And I enjoy that. It's also funny seeing she's pointing out like she knows the rules of this place and apparently is following it better than everyone else. So she kind of like runs off, breaking away from everyone, being like, I'm done with this shit. And as she's running off she's like, and you know what? On another thing, those yogurt drinks, I like the orange ones, not the strawberry. I know you didn't give them to me, but I feel like saying that.

I'm being assertive today.

Yeah. So she runs off, and then we see Happily goes off to try and find her. And as he finds her, she's on the phone talking to one of her parents, I think her mom. She talks to her another time, basically, Apologizing being like, I didn't expect to be broke into this blah blah. And then halfway shows up. She's like, Sorry for venting, sorry for going off on everyone needed to be said. Half boy is like, yeah, no, I agree with you. Don't worry. And as he does that, he's like, taking out a cigarette.

I thought it was a vape. I was laughing.

I thought so too. I thought he was ripping that fat cotton. Sleep pulls like a cigarette, starts smoking, and she's like, in the corner, apologizing saying, like, I can be very blunt and straightforward sometimes. I know that can be a problem for some people people, but it just builds up and I can't stop myself at certain points. And that's why I kind of, like, snap at people. I'll just point out a bunch of stuff they don't want to hear, like how you have a baby face and you're smoking to try and seem like you're older than you are and it's not helping you and it's just going to give you cancer. And he's like, ah, noted. And he's going to take the cigarette out and, like, throw it away. So he's able to calm her down and bring her back and go back to the office. And we see other officers complaining about the Dragon pilot division and about the handler, the assistant who's, like, in charge of our main girl. And that night, our main girl is trying to leave, trying to sneak out. I can't take it anymore. I got to get out of here. And she's hearing dragon noises from the hanger. So she goes in and sees Halfboy talking to the dragon, saying how they're similar in some ways and how the dragon has amazing powers, but it's holding it back for other sake and stuff, the same way she holds back her opinion and stuff. And then, yeah, I guess Halfway is just, like monologuing to the dragon, like, emotionally. And then he just steps aside. He just leaves. And our main girl, like, walks in when she's alone and puts on the helmet, which I feel like I feel like she's, like, preparing to be. I feel like she's expecting it now. So she puts on that helmet and asks why the dragon picked her. And they just kind of stared at each other for a minute. And she says she gets the feeling that they're bonding a bit, like she's looking into his eyes and it's kind of reflecting, like, something she feels inside of her. And then she reaches out with her finger again. He eats her again.

But doesn't he let her touch him this time? Or is that later?

Yeah, he like he touches his nose to her finger. Like so they do connect.

And how to train your dragon exactly? Literally.

You know, you can touch more surface area if you just climb in my mouth.

And once inside the dragon, it's awful. And he takes off and they start flying. And she's like crashing into buildings and stuff. And we see braids like celebrating, like, yeah, my rival that I hate quit. I made her life hell. I bullied her out of here. And we see the dragon fly by and she's like, ah, shit. So everyone sees the dragon is out and the base starts organizing to try and fly up and catch her. And halfway says she's in danger because she got into the dragon without her suit. She's able to talk to them through her helmet and through her flip phone that she still has on her. So she like, calls them up and is talking to them.

I can't help but feel like this whole flying the dragon thing is not actually extremely beneficial to the Air Force because it's dangerous to be inside of. And also nobody can fly it. We don't know how old she is. Maybe college aged, this young lady at least. Yeah, she shows up first time in three years that anybody can fly this fucking dragon.

Yeah. They say the dragons are like powerful beings and all this stuff. We've yet to really see it do anything that a fighter jet can't also do. Yeah, it's a good point of like, why though?

Why so far it seems much more trouble than it's worth.

Yeah.

So yeah, she's inside. She's able to get on the phone with them with their helmet on. And they're like, yeah, you're being digested because you're in a dragon stomach, so the acid in there is going to dissolve you without your suit. So you're in trouble. And as she's returning out, she's like hitting different organs in the dragon. And it's like freaking out and moving. And she gets a text from her mom being like, you do what you want, honey, but if you're going to stick it out, like cheering me on from as much as I can, do your best. It's just the motivation she needs. And so she starts on to her handler, apologizing for being rude earlier. And they realize that her helmet that she's wearing. Really, she's wearing the helmet so they can send them out. So they're able to track her because it's got equipment in it. And she's able to see outside of the dragon. She's able to push, I don't know, on his kidneys. And the whole thing is transparent. And she can see into the sky outside convenient. So they're able to talk her down. They're able to get jets out to find her and able to fly her back. But as she's flying, she's able to see out, see the sunrise over the mountains, this beautiful view from within side of a dragon. And she's able to fully transform the dragon into the fighter jet mode before she's able to fly back in lane. And when they get back, she tries to go through the video she watched before. Yeah, the aerobic thing where she's like learning the organs and stuff, right? Yeah. So they're able to get back to the base safely. Everyone calms down. They decommit or wind down and unpack everything. And they know like, oh, you're able to talk to us with your old phone. Oh, yeah. She pulls it out into old flips phone style. They're like, oh, dragon's favorite food are like rare medals, which they don't have a lot in new smartphones these days. So honestly, one of the dragon's favorite foods is old flip phones because that's the easiest way to get rare metals, these. And they're like, oh, and braid starts screaming and yelling, me like, oh. So she was only chosen because she's got an old phone. And that's just the dragon's favorite snack.

He just wanted the cookie in your pocket.

Exactly. And we see everyone else is like, no, there's other reasons. It seems like that's it. And so later, she calls her mom on the phone saying she's back outside to get the map of the base, being like, all right, mom, I'm going to stick with it. I'm going to do my best and see if I can work it out with the dragon. And she sees the old lady walking by with her little card again. And the old lady is like, ah, you're doing better today. Here's another yogurt drink. And just like, no, I learned my lesson. I have to stand up for myself. She goes, you know what, old lady? I don't like the strawberry yogurt drink. I prefer the orange. And the old lady looks her dead in the eye and goes, is that so? Well, then here you go and gives her another fucking strawberry yogurt. You'll eat what I give you in life, stone gold. And she keeps walking. She drinks or strawberry yogurt drink. And it's like, oh, it's actually not that bad. So another thing she learned that she didn't like at first, but maybe she does now. Yogurt drink, getting eaten by dragons.

Same thing.

That's episode one.

Yeah. So episode two starts with a man in a fancy suit. He's riding in a car. The driver's like, where are you coming from? And he's like, I just came from Milan. And he said that he had to return in a hurry because the hands of destiny are in motion. Fuck this guy.

Everything about him is extremely horny in that way.

He's something. So we see Amacasu is practicing flying around in the dragon. And her handler, I kept calling her glasses lady. She asks how it went to, like, one of the crew. And this man on the crew starts complaining that Amicasu isn't his type. And I'm like, well, she's probably like 18, so good. Shut the fuck up, man. And, like, glasses ladies, like, that's not what I meant. Back in the hangar, Amacosu gets barfed up. Aren't we all lucky that we don't have a fear of vomit? Because this show would have been a nightmare. I'm not a fan of it ever, like, as a point of comedy, but this is tame compared to other things.

Metaphobes, I think it is throwing up.

So braids is wearing a necklace of flip phones, still convinced that the whole reason that Amacasu got chosen is because of her flip phone. And she's like, Eat me, dragon. Eat me. Because she's variant the vor. The Dragon puts braids in its mouth, eats the phones, and then spits her out.

Like the candy necklace where you put the whole thing in your mouth and you pull out the string.

Yeah, except it's braided now.

And then fancy suit man shows up. braids is so excited to see him. Like, very excited, if you know what I mean.

He's just so horny.

Yeah. And he just walks right past her and, like, kneels near amakasu and grabs her, like, around her butt and hips and pulls her close. And he can tell her hip measurements just from that. And I was like, is that what.

Is this the salt? That's what that is.

That's what that is. We get the opening. It's very cute. Very chill, cute vibes. So this man, Fancy Suit Man, is Mr. Ikoshima, and he is in specialized clothing development. So he's he's here to make her a suit. The suits have lots of things they got to do between the tech of it all and also keeping the pilot safe from the stunt pilot.

No, you got it, right?

Yes, violet.

So Ikoshima is very excited that the Dragon has taken a pilot. And he's like, now get undressed for me. And she's like, no. And it was at this point I was like, well, I guess this whole thing is being creepy sexy. That's a fun one we haven't seen in a minute. And then we see him leaving a building, and braids goes up to him and she's like, I wrote a report on the last suit you made. And he flips through it. And he's like, nice. Tell me, does amakase like sweets? And she's like, oh, I don't know. And he's like, because her boobs might change size if she eats too.

It's a lot of sighing in this show for us, at least.

Again, at this point, I was like, hey, what are we trying to do with this show? What is the plot that we're building?

What's happening?

I can't tell. So Almacose is hanging out near that map again. The old lady comes up and she's like, well, I guess since I see. You. Whenever I'm feeling upset, I'll talk to you about my feelings.

We can agree this old lady is like either her predecessor or some high ranking person. Like she's special. She ain't just a random old lady wandering the air Force base. Right?

Yeah, she's undercover boss something.

Yeah, something.

So Amicaste says that she met someone and she feels like it's meant to be in reference to the dragon that eats her, which is I think they are just all in divorce, but it's hard because she's also tired and stressed all the time. And then the old lady gives her like a cup of yogurt and says eating it will make her feel better. And then we get a couple of scenes of Braids doing things that she thinks will be to like the detriment of Amicasse, but that's not the case. So we see her switch out her meal with a croquette that she made and she's like ha ha, there's no way Amicas can enjoy that. It's gross. And then she eats it and she's like, oh, this croquette is so yummy. And then she plays an audiobook of The emperor's New Clothes and Amacoste is like, oh, I used to listen to this. She says with goro, but I don't know who goro is.

I think it's her cat.

Yeah, some so yeah, she just falls asleep really easily. But now Braids can't fall asleep. So the next morning she's really sleepy and grumpy and she leaves the bathroom and Amacase is like, oh, that's so nice that she's doing these things to help me.

I do like this misunderstanding trope where the one person she's trying to scream over the other ones just thinks they're being helpful.

Yeah, they're accidentally being helpful.

Yeah. Most misunderstanding trips are annoying as hell, but this one's actually funny.

Yeah. So they're learning about dragon anatomy. Braids is falling asleep and amakasi nudges her and calls her by her first name and she gets really mad.

Don't call me Braids.

That's my secret name. Glasses lady notices and says, do you know how disappointed this person would be if she knew that you were slacking off? And that really seems to get to Braids. And of course because I wasn't paying attention to the name, I didn't make the connection before they said it. So I'll save it. It'll be a surprise for all of us. So Avacas and the hat guy are washing the dragon and she thinks, oh, I should give him a name. And she suggests oh, tofu like otf. The hat guy is like, I don't know about that one. She asks who the person that Glasses Lady mentioned in class was and it's Braids'mom. So she was like some former higher ranking person. She's like lording that over Braids. Which sucks to be like, do you know how disappointed your mom would be in you?

Your parent and boss would be disappointed in you.

And he says that Braids was the one with the most potential to be a pilot before Amacasse showed up. And Amacasse is like, wow, that's incredible that she's being so supportive of her rival. And she's like, since she's so supportive of me, I'm going to support her, and I'm going to let her fly the dragon. She can be the pilot instead of me. Braids she's standing at the door of the hanger, and she hears this, and it makes her upset that she would give up that position or just hand it to her. So she throws a boot at her and then runs off all angry, but.

Very lopsided because she just lost a boot.

Yes. I was looking at her feet. She has both boots on despite just throwing a boot.

Whose boot was it?

Mystery.

So Amacoste asks the dragon what to do, and he just goes back into his pool. He's like, I'm a dragon. Don't talk to me.

I want to pawn you off to this other girl that you hate. How do I do that?

And then that night, they're laying in their bedroom, and their beds are separated, like, by a curtain. And Amacase thinks about talking to Braids and then decides not to. But because she talks a lot, she has that whole thought process out loud where she's like, maybe I just need to let her cool down. And Braids hears this, and it's just like, now I'm just angrier. What do you mean I need to cool down? What about you? Extremely calm girl who's done nothing? We see that Braids is reading a manga in which one ballet performer sabotages another, and that gives her an idea. The next day, ama Caste is trying on pilot suits. They're all weird, and she's uncomfortable in all of them. And the men say terrible things to her, so that's fun.

I thought there was, like, one horny guy that's going to be annoyingly reoccurring. It's like, all of them.

It's all of them. What a joy.

Yeah.

So they go to test the suit, and once they leave that room, braids sneaks in there and has some scissors, so she's going to cut one up, but the glasses lady is still in there. She stops her and she's like, what did you expect the outcome to be again? Your mom, your mom, your mother? And is like, if you're really unhappy here, you should transfer. And Braids is like, fine, then I quit. We hear some men talk about some more shitty stuff, and Braids comes up to them and steals one of their motorcycles. And I was just like, okay, good.

Finally, some consequence.

Yeah. Even if it's not necessarily for what they were doing, they still deserve it. So, yes, she steals the motorcycle and drives off of the base. And then we hear amakasi narrating saying that Braids didn't come back the next night either, and she's not answering her phone. And then not only do we get uncomfortable, men talk about women's bodies and stuff. This man complains that women are too emotional and that they should not have made all of the pilots for the Dragon Women. And I was like, wow, this is a good show.

I'll also point out having an excuse to have a bunch of women swallowed by dragons also horny. And it's also a check against the horny score on this.

Yeah. Whose idea was this?

It's so hard because they're telling such a rich and interesting story, and then we have stuff like this where it's like, did you really need to? You had so much going for you otherwise.

Yeah, there's one good man in this show and a cat guy, but who knows? He could say some bullshit come out of nowhere. Like, I don't think women should vote. That's an interesting take. Hat man.

Oh, hey, main character. I was just investing in cryptocurrency. Oh, there we go. Shit, he's gone. Yeah. There is an old meme of, like, isn't it funny the way anime choose camera angles? And this show is a textbooks example.

Oh, yeah.

Every angle is like, it didn't need to be just a full last shot of her right now. That's not core to anything.

I haven't been thinking about those, but they're all pretty. Yeah, it's a lot bad. So they're talking about how they haven't organized a manhunt yet because it costs a lot of money and the person who ran away ends up having to pay for it. And then Amacose freaks out, and she's, like, talking through her thoughts. And then she suggests that she goes to look for Braids by flying the dragon. So she runs into Ikoshima in a hallway and takes a suit from him and goes to the Dragon and tries to get it to swallow her, but it won't. And it picks up the boot and tosses it in her direction. The boot that braids through And amakase realizes that she made it feel bad by saying that she didn't even want to be a pilot in the first place earlier. So she apologizes and it gobbles her up. hooray.

Yeah.

Back in its disgusting stomach, she sees a thing that says masotan. So she's like, oh, that must be her name. And I'm like, Is that what how is that line of thinking? Her name tags inside your stomach, but it is its name. It, like, reacts to it. So off they go. Masatan sniffs the air and he flies off. He sniffed out Braids, and we see her on this. She, like, fell down the side of the road and hurt her leg. And he finds her. yay. amakasi gets barfed up and offers to let Masoton take Braids back to the base. She's like, I can walk back, no problem. And Braids is like, no, he wouldn't want to swallow me. Slowly, old me.

Also, I wouldn't be confident in a pilot if they couldn't ride a moped.

Point.

Good point. So Amakasa is like, oh, that's not the case. Like, masotan knows your scent. He loves you, and then he just swallows Braids and flies off. Next day, whatever. Glasses lady tells Braids that she can't quit the program because she knows too much. And also, if she leaves, she will have to pay the money for the manhunt. So she pretty much is, like, blackmailing her to stay. And she's like, Why do you want to keep me here so badly? And glass's lady says, well, we need backup pilots. And after being swallowed by Masoton, your training is complete. You're an official pilot now, so now we want you here. I know I told you to transfer.

Before, but now I got one time.

And Glass's Lady is like, I see a lot of myself in you, so I understand your feelings. I hope you do your best. She leaves the classroom, and Amicasse was waiting outside and pretends that she was, like, just standing there playing with these little planes. Then Hat guy is talking to the Captain, Commander Man, and he's like, oh, amakasi found the dragon's name. It's masotan. And the Commander says, Amacasse is calling it by its true names. That must mean she's the chosen priestess. Fun plot. Things happening that we don't get explained to us in this episode or the next. And that's episode two.

Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

It's for good reason. We have to talk about an air show that is much more important.

We have to establish that all the suits she has to wear are very skin tight and skimpy and no. And she doesn't like anyone seeing her in it. And she has to wear it everywhere, publicly, for everyone, all the time.

We also have to be mean to a fat woman.

Yes. Good stuff. So it's time for Omakatsu to finally start flying training with the real pilots. You know, the real Top Gun.

The men.

Yeah, exactly. Also, I thought of it earlier, and I just need to get it in here. Top Gun. mavoric. I'm sorry. It was tickling the back of my brain.

I'm disappointed I didn't think of it sooner.

Me too. So they introduced her to all the guys, hotshot pilots. They're hazing her, just straight up making fun of her and objectifying her. And when she's like, hey, this sucks. I'm going to be your teammate, they're like, but the last girl we worked with, she was fine with it.

It's cool.

Starting out on a real great foot with these fine fellows.

Just no one's redeemable.

And Omakatsu turns to the Commander and is like, who is this? Who is this woman that just eats sexism for breakfast? And she's like, for us, she disappeared.

A long time ago.

Cool. She was one of the best, kid. You'll never live up.

They talk about her with such remembrance. We haven't seen her. She just quit, man. I understand why one of them calls.

It an unfortunate incident. Yeah, so we'll see later. That it was not, in fact, an unfortunate incident.

I mean, it's a standard story of what a woman would do when she has a job. So it's for us to keep saying this. They're outflying actually on a training mission. And they mentioned because we have to train with this new girl, we don't get to do all the fun training for the flight festival this weekend. Oh, man. We have to do homework and not our fun work. That's the same work.

Oh, man, I got to turn left. I really wanted to go right.

I can't do loop de loops in combat encounters. Oh, man. So she does not have the hang of it. She's barely able to keep her drag in the air, almost crashes into some other pilots. And they're all like, oh, we're never going to train. We're never going to rehearse for the big recital now. And she gets the feeling that masterton is trying to tell her something about one of the other planes, but she doesn't understand. So she's like, I got to find this predecessor that I forgot to mention. This predecessor also flew with masotan. What? So there's lots of weird just more weird jealousy thing going on. We resolved the weird jealousy thing about who flies in the last episode. So now we have to set up a new weird jealousy thing for this one.

Yes, because women can't not be jealous. Come on, dugan.

Exactly. Yeah.

Now we got a straw man surrogate who's not even here.

But yeah, she has bad landing. Dragon gets a flip phone dinner. Yeah, there's just truly, like, disparate scenes loosely stitched together here. So Braids is sewing up a dummy for the festival because they're helping out however they can. Cool.

This took a long time to pay off for that one, and it was not worth it. Yes.

Not even a little bit. So she's like, hey, have you heard of forrest, the previous previous Dragon pilot? And she's like, I don't know. It doesn't matter. No one knows. There's a montage where she asks around and people are like, rumors says she disappeared. She quit out of nowhere. There was no signs, like, physically that this could have been coming. And they're all just like, all we know is she had a rock and bod and disappeared. One day, the commander gets a call. Oh, weird. quinky dink. Forest, it's forrest. She called, and she's like, hey, I'll be there at the show this weekend.

Okay? spoilers.

She's not dead. She's still alive.

Yeah, this is how I read it. Like, hey, this is forest. I'll see you this weekend. I did not try to make this, like, a mysterious thing of who could that possibly be? Who is the only mysterious character we talk about in this episode?

Yeah.

So, yeah, we're at the festival, the air show. All the pilots are like, our reputation is at stake. All the other bases are going to make fun of us because we're not that fancy. Again, we have toxic masculinity, but we do not see the irony that we're so worried about this, like, dance routine in the air. So they the dummy that was being worked on was just a waving sign to be like, hey, I dressed up like a pilot.

Cool.

All right, cool. Halfway through the show, things are going fine, but one of the planes gets grounded because oh, no. When they were doing that training exercise where Omakatsu just blew it and almost crashed into planes, actually damaged one of their engines, and she was like, oh, my God. That's that's what Masoutaian was trying to tell me before. It's like, yeah, he since the plane was broken and was like, hey, you know when you almost crashed, that was not great for that plane. Yeah.

Yes.

Cool. Know when you're in a parking lot and you hit a parked car, hit the bumper a little bit? Yeah.

You don't tell someone.

You just keep driving.

Yeah.

What are you doing? Master tongue without drawing.

But of course, they're like, so since this is your fault, even though we know you don't know how to fly in a straight line, you have to do the big finale routine.

And also, even though you're not great at it, keep, like, Masotana secret in front of all these people still.

Yeah. There are two stakes going on here, and they're way out of proportion. One is, hey, we had a routine and a killer finale. Other hand, we have a top secret military operation with centuries of history that we've been able to keep it a secret from the general population, but we really got to do that. We really want to make the rounds at the Christmas party this year. So get up in the air.

You got to nail that triple axle. You got to nail it.

So they're like, yeah, they keep teasing. I'm sorry. This whole time, they're talking about their call signs. This should have been set up at the beginning. I apologize when they're all like, Top Gun pilots includes like, hey, I'm the demon. I'm turtle Hat. Just standard call signs.

Call me Apple Jack.

So this whole time, they're like, what is Omakasu's call sign going to be? She has to get it from a superior, so what could it be? And we keep getting, like, little teases of what we think it's going to be, but no. So at this point, they're like, hey, we're at Air Force Base. You're the face of Gippu. You have to go out there and represent us. And she's like, I'm all encouraged now. So they go to the hangar, and Masatan not having it isn't showing up. Ever since they mentioned Forest, he's like, oh, yeah, that last pilot, I vibed with a lot more. I'm only going to vibe with her now. So he's being shy. And of course, Omakasu is like, you chose me, dude. Why not pick me. She's freaking out because she's this anyways, you get it?

She's really talking to him. Like it's her ex, and it's weird.

So, yeah, we see a mysterious woman walk up to the dummy pilot, and she's like, oh, haven't been here in a long time. Oh, my son, you are so enamored by this dummy pilot. What a cutie. Oh, I hear that sound. That sounds like my old dragon mount. Let me go investigate. I wonder who this could be. Again, they try to tease it like it's a secret.

There's only one new character, this episode.

So she gets the hanger, walks in, and everyone is like, oh, my God. Who is this mysterious old woman? Who can this be? This is clearly a mom and not someone's face. I would recognize being, like, comrades and defending each other like military camaraderie. And they're all like, Wait, but no, this looks like forest. But she's a mom now. She quit because she had a kid.

God, what the fuck? How could she? And she got fat. Disgusting.

The absolute gall.

You betrayed your teammates. You betrayed your dinosaur. How could you betrayed your country?

She's like, not at all fat. Like, one of them is like, what happens to your rocking bod? And I'm like, she fully still has an amazing body. Like, what the fuck is wrong with you?

Yeah, I'm not great with faces. If I worked with someone for years and then three years later, I saw them a little, like, they had a haircut. I'd still know them. It just further shows how shitty these people are. I don't recognize you because your tits are different now.

Yeah, because it's been, like, several years, and she has a child and is not keeping up with military exercise. So in their eyes, they're like, hey, you aren't the same exact figure, because as a woman, that's all you have going for you. Never mind that bond with a dragon that's foretold by prophecies or whatever. You aren't as hot. So what is wrong with you? Good stuff. But again, we're telling a really important story.

So it's all real plot heavy.

Yeah, just the threads in the quilt, if you will. She's back in omakatsu's upset that she's the second favorite, and she's sad, but they're like, hey, get out there, kid. anyways, and masotan is like, yes, we're going to do it. Swallows her and goes out dressed up like a jet. Everyone's like, oh, boy. Awesome. This is great. Does that thing have an eyeball? Don't worry about it.

Don't worry about that.

Masutan gets all nervous to perform in front of a crowd. That was his big hang up all along. forrest was able to diagnose him because they have such a better relationship. So they get in the air, masutan gets all jittery and loses their nerve. And Omakasu is like, oh, my God. You chose me. I didn't need to do this. But you told me we had a bond, but if we don't, then just let us fall from the sky and motivates her. Yeah, so they do the show. It's fine. Again, the stakes. What are we even talking about here anymore? So, yeah, she lands. She did it great. Good job. The predecessor says old Oscar here. That was her name for the Dragon. She doesn't know the real name, so you can tell they aren't that legit.

Yeah, she's not the true priestess or.

Whatever the heck, whatever the boy that was about.

So she's like, oh, that girl finally did it. I think I'll give her a call name. What do you think about Sweet? Could that be a good call name? Yeah, that's, like, unique enough. I want to do a riff off, like, her last name, because that's what I did with Forest with Mine, because it's like the translation of the Japanese word for us. Okay, so they all land. The show went great, and they're like, all right, we're going to reveal your call name. Are you ready, everyone? Are you ready for the call name of our pilot whose full legal name is Omakasu?

I can hardly wait.

Her call name is haese. Her first name?

Well, I thought maybe it might have been a thing where it's like they're going for what the literal translation of her first name is. Let me look at what that is.

I look that up as well.

Okay, I'll let you go then.

Oh, no, sorry, I don't want to step on it. I just want to really emphasize, this is a really quality nickname after she really saved all their asses. What does that great name translate to?

Yeah, so the first half of her name, he, so it translates to Saturpathetic, given to her by her former pilot of the Dragon that she just bonded with and connected with. She's excited. She's jazzed to get that name.

Wow. I'm glad I didn't look it up.

It's real bad.

That's so good.

God, this episode is just a real big win for feminism. They're like, hey, you really saved our ass. We did nothing but harass you and compare you to the last woman who we then harassed again to her face. And we're so happy to have you on the team. pathetic.

Also, just again, her actual name. Like, that's just her actual name.

I thought Sweet was going to be like I was like, that's so cute and perfect for her.

Yeah, that made sense. That's why they didn't go with it.

Because the thing is, they're like, oh, she wants to riff off her last name, but couldn't come up with anything. You came up with a better name the second before you had that other thought. You're like sweet. No, I have to be punny. I can't think of anything good. Let's throw all the ideas I had away, guys.

It's her mom brain. She can't it just doesn't work the way it used to.

She could only think of baby names. That had to be a first name.

Your call name is brayden.

It's not even like a different it's just her name. It's just her actual name. She just did it again. I really wish Masutan isn't the dragon's name. I really wish that was just like a car at eight and, like, digesting still. And it's like your name is Mishubisi or like Toyota. Toyota pons and dragon. Yeah, I really wish it was just some weird shit at eight earlier that day and not at all this weird priest of shit.

Well, that's the show. So when you were sitting on this, were you like, this is going to be a real gem? Did you have any sort of idea how disappointing this would be? Or that it would not live up to even the fun that the mimi Press premise has? Or what was your thinking on this one? Just double checking.

Brendan gets to go first this episode.

We're all waiting with Beta Press. Remind me. I had a great time talking about this. Didn't care for watching it at all, but recapping it just now, I had a lot of fun. I was laughing a lot. You can go back and listen to it. Once I knew the basic premise, I refused to look anything else up, because I'm like, that's good enough. And if there was more stuff to dunk on, if there's more memes, I'm sure the Internet would have filtered it out to me by now. And I figured there's a reason this isn't wildly popular, why I don't see fandoms clamoring for this show. So I figured it'd be like, mediocre. I was not prepared for a totally spies level of just subliminal hornyness throughout the entire thing. And episode three contest that super liminal it's in your face so aggressively. Episode three, at the beginning, she's in her suit that was made specifically to combat the digestive acids of this dragon's stomach, and her suit slowly starts dissolving, rendering her nude. Check that out for another fetish, because, God, there's just so much like the.

Shapes on the suit itself is like it looks like a thong, but it's like a thong. And they also do that thing it's terrible to say. It's horrid disgusting. They do the emphasized vagina, like whenever she's, like, straddling something and we get that angle. I hate that. It's really the worst.

And it's specifically, like, with her. It's not like the dude riding his moped where we just get a real taint shot on him and why not? Equality? I don't know. I swipe. How did you guys lord, I don't.

Think I processed enough of it while I was watching it.

Yeah, it does.

Yeah, because some of it can be so interesting and cool. Whatever.

I like the style.

Yeah, the animation and the style itself is, like, really nice, but most of it is just weird sexist horny bullshit. Why is this happening? Who did this? Why is this a show? blah.

Sorry. Go ahead.

No, again, fun to talk about. Fun to talk through and realize how bad it is.

I wasn't expecting it to be good.

I was going to say it's not even, like, fun bad with the Khan ti collection. That was just silly, weird bullshit. This is just, like, legitimately bad in terms of, like I said before, sexist horny bullshit.

Yeah.

It'S like okay.

It'S a lot.

If you're going to do a premise like this where the wax paper of a veil, not like a big roll of wax paper you would use in, like, I don't know, like, an industrial kitchen, but the kind of wax paper you put in a kazoo to cover up that. This is just straight up for kinks. You got to at least have, like, a plot through line to, like, mask that. Yeah, we're here for other stuff, but there's, like, a story happening, and we did not get that. And it was not fun because she's the priestess. She just happened to randomly choose to go into the Air Force at the beginning, but oh, no, she happened to be her destiny. Okay.

She didn't see a baker walking down the street. Like, I guess I'm going into the baking now.

And now it's food for us because we had to keep the same level of same level.

Yeah, you're right. Don't worry, darling. And frank's is out there also unapologetically horny. We'll get there something we need a break, though.

Oh, boy, I can't wait. But, yeah, this is a no for me. Yeah, if you didn't guess already.

Well, hold on. What if I show you the toys? Because we all know good anime has good merchandise.

Brendan, I do not want to see what toys came from this ship.

It's fun. No, it's fine. So there's the dragon we all know and love and the toy stop it.

Why this?

Do I dare?

Why that?

The toy is just the dragon in full, like, jet fighter armor vomiting straight down, which is like a pillar of vomit. Like, that's the toy to really emphasize that's all the show is about.

I'm sorry.

That pillar of vomit is more in line with the type of toy I was thinking of related to this show, but it's very valid shaped. But yeah, it's not as good.

I didn't even think about it that way. Oh, no.

Freud would have a field day with this show.

We're having a field day with this show. I'm a bad one. A field day in Southern California now, where it's 110 outside and there's just dirt. There's no grass, there's no field. It's just dirt.

Yeah, this was very strange. I went into it with very little expectations and was still disappointed, still let down. It's so weird because it's not like.

The we've watched actual porn on this podcast, and it still felt worse, but.

This feels dirtier somehow.

Like the characters. There's such a good potential for Amacasse and braids to have a really nice girlfriend relationship, but they just don't want to focus on that. They want to focus on the pussy shape and the vomiting and vor and men saying terrible things to an 18 year old girl.

It's not one redeemable thing. They said, what a hoot.

What a hoot and a half. I will never watch this again. Google, tell me what she's the priestess of.

Oh, God, what a time. Thank you for tolerating me.

Yeah, you're not welcome. If there's a show you can expect us to tolerate, at most, you can send those recommendations to our email arwibariat@gmail.com, or you can reach out to us on Instagram or Twitter at rweeariat on both.

You can find me on Instagram or TikTok at honey d or on Twitter at honey d eight and honey d art and honey is spelled H-U-N-N-I-E. You.

Can'T find me anywhere. I don't need this heat. After this, I'm done.

Yeah, we'll follow that up with everyone. Don't be online right now. In general, that's a good place to be, but if you're going to be online one, you can look at the beautiful artwork for this podcast by camille ruley. Thank you. And thank you to Louis zong for theme song stories. If you're going to be on the Internet, be on bandcamp louisong bandcamp.com. I try to get fancy and mix it up, and if I don't follow the script, my brain doesn't work. Thank you for joining us. We hope you join us next week as we learn to live with anime.

Amphibia was a better anime than this.