AWTY 122 - Time Sniff (BNA)

Hey, you're not weasel. I am not a weasel. I'm a mink. What's the difference?

Hello and welcome to our weebaria in exploration and education and anime. I'm your anime idiot, patrick Dugan.

I am an anime expert, dee hollander.

Shit. I didn't come on with one this week.

I forgot.

I'm verte mccullough, your anime. ooh, your anime.

Damn it. whoop. Well, what a strong start.

Oh, boy.

Having a fun day? Having a good time? I've been awake since 430 this morning.

You love to hear it.

Good stuff, feeling good, don't want to die. It's all great.

Oh, boy. I mean, on your day off, what more can you ask for? You can get so much done. You're so productive early in the morning.

Honestly, that's the only reason I'm able to do this right now, is because I was like, no, you're going to just power through. You're going to be exhausted and in pain, and your eyes just want to, like, weld shut. But you're going to do chores. And then after you record, you can do whatever the hell you want. Yes. Also, the two cups of coffee I've.

Had there he is.

Compensating.

And hey, you get to talk to your two good friends about the one thing you love most anime.

So glad.

Hey, at least part of that's true. At least for your friends.

My one good friend and someone I'm so afraid is going to just walk over here and stab me.

Watch your ass now.

Yeah, I was going to say he can now. I don't know how close you guys are, but I mean, how often you talk about it, it's frightening.

Like, 20.2 miles. General neighbors.

There's, like, an overpass between us, and that is the only barrier.

Oh, God. Watch your back, Dugan.

Heard you talking about Du rawa rah. What's going on here, buddy? What's up?

Oh, no. But the thing is, I know where he sleeps, and he's not great. He hasn't been in here. He doesn't know the layout. I've been into his home to the point preemptive strike is not off the table.

There's nothing here for me. If you come in my apartment, you can burn it. I won't lose a cent. There's nothing. I'm just sitting in a box waiting to die. Bring it on anyway.

But yeah, what's going on? Even before recording, we're just talking around the show. So what's going on this week?

We're talking about muppets.

This week we were talking about muppets, which is yeah, I don't know, adjacent furry creatures. Yeah, yeah. This week we're watching the first three episodes of Brand New Animal, or bna, as it's mostly called.

Pocano animal.

Pocuno animals. I've been on my list for, like, since it was coming out. Like, since I saw the trailer, I was like, this looks like a cool thing. Because it's really pretty. Because it's studio trigger.

Yeah, it looks like it came out July 2020. Yeah, around that point.

Wow.

I know it was one of those shows where the original series came out and then the dub took like a year and a half or something. I remember that everyone was annoyed by how long the dub took to come out. I think it's because it was like licensing rights because it is on Netflix. So I think something was behind the scenes stuff stuff.

But yeah, I just think it looks real good. Lots of cute characters. Lots of hot wolf men. I don't know what could possibly make me want to watch this show. I have no idea.

I mean, going on the track record, dugan will probably get like halfway through it. So he'll probably like, me. Hey, prove me wrong. Prove me wrong. Watch another anime.

Watched more of sweetness and lightning. I finished it because every time I go to sit down to watch it, I'm like, food time. Let me just look at this meal. And then I miss all the dialogue because I forget subtitles. I can't finish this now. I can't multitask. What do you want from me?

The cartoon food is too delicious.

I can't look away. My real food gets cold.

Oh, how fun would that be if you followed the show? Made what they were making every episode.

The dream. Don't threaten me with a good time.

Hope you got a squid supplier. That's episode seven.

Oh, no. patreon idea. Oh, fuck.

Oh, shit.

More content.

Write it down. Write it down.

You're getting up at 04:00 A.m. Anyway. Might as well do something with that time fair.

I'm on a baker's schedule anyway.

I'm the big bread. I remember this coming out around or at least talked about around the same time as beastars. And everyone's like, ooh, two furry anime. Except the ones coated in vapor wave. It's like yeah, kind of. It's a lot of, like neon pink and blue color aesthetic for I keep wanting to say pocono animal now.

Yeah, I remember it being around the same time as B Stars because I was like, oh, it's the summer of furries.

And also, just like all the voice.

Actors I know being like, I'm in either one or both of these shows. I'm like, oh, cool.

Furry central.

Are you in the nuzzle nozzle show? Are you in the uwu show?

Surprise.

They're interchangeable.

Yeah, it's the same thing. Yeah, I know. It's by studio trigger. I know the raccoon girl or like the main character because I love her design. But I haven't watched any of this. And I think she gets a girlfriend at some point. And that's like all I know. I can't tell if it's the canon one or if it's the fandom one, where it's like everyone just says their girlfriends because they just pair so well together. So no promises. But like, that's all I know from, like, fan art.

If it's a mainstream Netflix show, I'm going to say it's just fanon.

They're going to hold my breath. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, let's find out.

Yeah.

To the gamemobile, film school is a curse, not a blessing.

It's ruined so many films and media for you.

Well, hey, if it makes you feel any better, I didn't go to film school, but I can tell how cliche this is.

Yeah, true. I've always been warned, like, hey, you will never watch media after going to film school the same way again. I'm like, no, I couldn't turn it off. I couldn't turn it off. I couldn't turn it off. Oh, no.

Me watching the entire Star Wars quote, skywalker saga while taking a gender and representation class. Gender and race representation.

Oof, fun times.

Anyway, but yeah. So episode one, we start out in a bus station. We see a hooded figure trying to get a ticket, but secret time can't be seen because some human people I should specify that at this point because furries. But, yeah, some humans walk in. They go up to a poster showing like, hey, isn't it great when humans and animal people get along and they vandalize it? ooh, racism.

I like, that. The poster just says, let's hold hands.

Yeah, there's no way, like, join the initiative or something. Or like, National Unity Day. Just like, hey, you want to hold hands?

Hey, hold hands with your animal brethren.

Hey, we all know you all love furries, so, yeah, get on board. But, yeah, they vandalize it, and it's like, death to the beast people.

Yeah, beast.

So the hooded figure doesn't get a ticket, but hops onto the top of a bus and is going to a city. We see they're outside the outskirts, heading into what we find out is the quote unquote beast men zone. We get a little info dump news report of we're celebrating the ten year anniversary of beast men getting their own place because separate but equal, right? But yeah, so this raccoon girl, it's clearly a tanuki, but we watched the dub, so raccoon.

I watched the Suffer episode two. They point out the difference.

Yeah. I couldn't tell if it was in the dub. If they're like, hey, yeah, you didn't play Mario. We assume so.

But she starts flying across the level, skipping it all and just going to the war pipes at the end. Fucking bullshit.

Why is she constantly eating dead brown leaves? But we see the gang members followed her, the Mad Max style roll up on this bus and knock her off and chase her out into the woods. And they're very the subtlety in this was just mass so perfectly delicious. Couldn't even tell it was a lynching. allegory. But yeah, just a bunch of humans being like, first skin, you should be dead. We hate you because you're different. But at the last second, some other beast men show up and chase them off. So hooray day is safe.

Sorry. weirdly enough, before they even graffiti the poster and we see, like, these are just super racist assholes. You see the one guy dragging like a pipe, and that would really stuck out to me of like, who the fuck just carries around a pipe? Like, I played Streets of Rage four recently and like, you know, it's a weapon in that and like, it's it and it makes sense in that because it's a size growing fight and beat him up game. If you see anyone just casually walking around with a pipe and they're not like a plumber or a maintenance worker, that's fucking insane. You shouldn't just casually have a pipe on you.

Like, if it's an improvised weapon, like, oh, I'm in a generic industry warehouse facility. Let me grab this pipe to grab whatever you can. Yeah, sure. But when you're like, oh, this is my trusty, reliable pipe. Old rusty, you and me about me, officer.

This is my emotional support.

It's fine, I have my paperwork. But yeah, so get saved by some animal folk. The leader is Mink, and she's like, hey, we'll get out for our kind. But Raccoon girl is like, all right, I know how this goes.

How much money do you want?

And they're like, rob us. robbing you? But yeah, give us all your money. So they take all of her money, wink, and they take her on the boat to the city because they're helping her out. But once they drop her off at the dock, they're like, okay, we're strangers. He never saw us, so we're never going to see him again. Right? Yeah.

I really like the Mink ladies design, though.

Yeah.

Like, for an introductory of the secondary beastman besides the main character, it's like, ooh, that's a good one.

Yeah, I don't like that. It is so trophy and cliche because yeah, it is a very good looking show. Just very well designed, very well animated. There are points where they cheat, but yeah, it looks very good.

It's studio trigger. You can't attach to the story all the time looking at some of their previous work, but it's going to be pretty as far.

Yeah.

So she's dropped off into a new city at night, don't know where she's going. And she walks into a dark, empty courtyard. What's going on here? Oh, no. She sees a silver wolf on top of the building. An enemy. Oh, yes. Because a bunch of other wolf lake creatures are walking towards her. And surprise, all the lights turn on and it's a surprise festival, I guess. It's a big old festival. Everyone's having a good time. They're celebrating the ten year anniversary of the city being founded. So they're like, all right, time to let loose. We see the mayor pop up. I thought she was a sphinx cat.

I don't know what she is.

I looked it up. She's naked, mole rat. Yeah.

Impeccable.

But yeah, our mayor's a nudist.

Yeah, just super bald. So I was like, oh, villain. Cool. I will say that one thing she was wrong about. I did have to look it up because as soon as she popped up and everyone in the crowd was like, we love our mayor. A thing you never hear in a city. I was like, oh, yeah, she's the bad guy. Right? So I will admit I was wrong on that front.

That's a surprise. I thought the same thing to A, because she's bald, and B, she's a politician.

Yeah.

So I'm just like, naturally evil.

But yeah, I mentioned I knew exactly what was happening as soon as we got into this festival and the mayor popped up, I was like, oh, cool. Racism allegories separately equal cities. There's going to be a big conspiracy of eradicating one of them. But yeah, so that's where I was at. And yeah, it seems like that's going.

To be the case.

But yeah. So we see everyone's having a good time at the festival. Raccoon Girl gets a drink and then runs into the minks that robbed her. And seeing that she got a drink, she's like, oh, so you didn't give me all your money. Very sneaky of you, you dick.

How rude of you to not give me all my money when I robbed you.

Yeah, I saved your life and left you for dead in the cities. So as she's talking to her, one of the minks accomplice monkeys pickpockets Raccoon Girl and runs away with her wallet. So she chases trying to get her wallet back, runs under some scaffolding, and loses the monkey, but sees a very suspicious dog. Maintenance man dog. Like, we see a wolf. I thought it was a wolf, but they're different. So I'm going to say coyote.

There you go.

But yeah, it was at this point, I had to message you both and be like, oh, god, when will any furry show realize there are more animals than canines, cats and deer?

Because we do see some in a later episode. There's like an alligator move, but definitely like the prominent ones are mammals that people want to fuck and bird because people want to fly.

Yeah, it's all the wish fulfillment. And no one wants to be like, beluga.

I saw ride your wave oh, yes. That's something that was nice about B. Stars is like the variety of some of the animals that were in him. Like, look at this dirty little, like, baby ass chihuahua. He's so fucking tiny. Like, no one would want to be him. But god, I love that he's here.

But yeah. So suspicious dog, coyote. And oh, coincidentally explosion. So someone tried to sabotage the festival and blow up the scaffolding, which was holding up a video monitor and starts to fall towards the crowd. And Raccoon Girl runs in to save an old man who can't get out of the way. But as they're both about to get crushed, whoosh. The big wolf that we saw earlier.

Swoops in and saves big strong man.

He'S so hot, I can't even hide it.

I can pretend.

But yeah. So saves her, and he's like, I'm Batman.

Did you explode?

And she's like, no, there was a maintenance man. And he like sniffs out the scent because yeah, wolf smells. Remember how dogs work?

He can smell into the past and future.

Yeah. One of my notes at some point is his time lapsing sniffer. Like it's fucking bonkers. I'm sure he's got some plot armor magical bullshit of like he's the chosen one. He's that related to that glowing wolf we saw before. Whatever.

But pretty sure he's like a god.

Like the insanity of his nose of like, yes, I can smell out in the past and future of what will happen. It's just like, you know, that's not.

How smells wear grape.

That's not how any of this works.

But yeah. So he catches the scent and chases after the coyote dog and chases tracks him down into an alley and is like, oh, I caught you, bad evil viewer. I am just literally Batman.

He really is.

So follows and confronts the gang of people who were behind this attack. And using his power of scent, he can smell the scent of humans on them. So he's like, oh, you're working for the humans. And they're like, it doesn't matter. A box of bulk will kill whoever the fuck we have no allegiance.

Do they ride? Yes.

They are sharks. And they just start snapping and dancing at them.

How great it would be if there's an actual gang of sharks in this show.

God, if you're going to be cliche, just lean into it.

Just go full cheese. Just lean into it.

Yeah. Cliche without camp is crap. But yeah. So naturally they fight. They just go into big like, oh, I don't respect you because you betrayed your people. So I'm not going to use my claws. I'm going to use my fists. Because we also look down on humans in both sides'great. Cool. Good stuff. So they fight, rips the antlers off a deer. It's pretty fucking gnarly. But as he's about to, like, kill him, raccoon girls like, no, stop it. You can't kill these terrorists. And she there are also there are.

Problems on both sides.

But yeah, so in defending them, she activates some unknown power and stops him from killing them. They tie him up, leave him there. But as they're leaving, he says, oh, yeah, humans are the enemy again, both sides. But she's like, no, stop it. You can't say that because I used to be human. Big shock. And then the episode ends.

Wow.

Literal furry being introduced to the plot. Great. Cool.

So in the beginning of episode two, we pick up where we left off. She's saying she used to be a human, whatever. And then Wolf Man says it's time to go. And they leave the bombers behind with a note that says, these are the.

Guys who did it captured by your local friendly hood wolf Ben. Not bad, man or spiderman.

Please don't see what?

Spiderman or other animal man. Or animal man. That's also one.

And then the cops show up and the one that we see is a hound dog. And I love that classic. Just like in my hero academia with that one police dog.

Bokono animal.

Bokuno animal.

His name was McGrath.

They're running through the city and they stop in an alley. And Wolf Man drops his persona showing his human form. And he's hot. He's hot in both surprise persona and man. Former with the moody white hair.

Anime boy with the choker. Yeah. All right.

We need to bring in a second bingo card. We're hitting all the classics.

The horny bingo card. Shit. It's not ready for the suite.

He tells her to hide her tail, but she can't. And they go out into the street and everyone is in their human form. And she's like, what the heck? I thought this was supposed to be the place where all of the animals can be in their animal form all the time. And he's like, no, this is normal. Everyone was just in their animal form for the festival.

But like, why? If he hates human so much, why is he ever a human? Like, why?

It's weird.

Because conforming to a society you don't belong to. Back to Races mallegories, you love it.

And Raccoon girl is disappointed. And then they go to see this dude, and I love this guy, like in his human form. I was like, I don't know what he could be. And I love him.

Yeah, he was great.

His name is Jim.

Jim and the holograms.

Ha ha. And he does a test on Raccoon Girl and it shows that she's a beastman. It's like one of those things, like a PH balance checker.

Yeah, just pee onto the strip and we'll tell you if you're an animal or not.

Basically it was he said, if it's a blue, you're a beast, man. If it's another color, you're human. It's like, did you need my pizza? What?

No, this just goes on your face. And she's like, no, I was a human until about a year ago. And then one day I woke up as a raccoon. And then Wolf Guy is like, that's impossible. You're either one or the other. You can't be both.

Peacebam puberty.

You're going to bridge the gap between the two. What?

You can fix the races. What?

And she's convinced that there must be more. Like her gem suggests that it's a mental issue, but she's confident that it's not that. And then a woman named Melissa, who I also love, we don't see her again in these episodes, but I don't know. She's just good.

But she's a dog.

She comes out, oh, maybe she's in the opening, but I forget what she was.

Her hair was like big and it looked like floppy ears. Like a conquer spaniel or something.

Like isabel.

Yeah, like most of the animals we see, I'm assuming a dog mammal that.

People enjoy looking at and not a fucking iguana.

I'll have to look it up. But she comes out and she's like, hey, Jim, you shouldn't say that. That's me. I'm sorry that he said that. You have to fill out this form for City hall to be a citizen here or something. And Raccoon Girl is like, oh, my species and my blood type are on my ID. And that'll prove that I'm human because humans and beesmen have different blood types. But that monkey took my wallet, so she no dice. So it's time for her to get some rest. Melissa takes her to a room and gives her a bed, saying that if she has any questions, she can talk to Shiro. Who's the wolf guy? His name is Shiro ogami. And I will tell you right now, I just looked it up to double check, okami with a K. His is with a G, but it's a pun. That means wolf because the kanji is the same or the kanji is different, but it sounds the same. It means wolf, but also means great deity. This man's a god, but it turns out he's a social worker, and that makes me love him even more.

He's got his sensitive side.

Is he? Because what we've seen, he's just a hard boiled detective who just beats the ever loving Christ out of people. I want to see him doing social worker work.

He cares. Well, yeah, we haven't seen him do much social worker stuff, but like, he cares about, like, the Raccoon Girl a lot. Like, he wants to keep her safe. Her name is miki ru. But I'll keep calling her Raccoon girl.

Yeah, it was not introduced in the first episode, so I was like, Did I miss it? Did I miss it? And then in episode two, they said and I was like, okay, I didn't.

Cool.

My honor is restored.

Yeah. Also, Shiro means white, so he's white wolf god, white wolf. And then he has a bird named kuro, which means black, and it's a crow.

So animal sidekick, everything about the show is black and white.

Get it?

I like to go.

He's like, I'll take you to city hall in the morning. It's the next day. He takes her and leaves her in line. He's like, I got stuff to do. The line is really long, and some big dudes get into a fight and they go into their animal forms. And Raccoon Girl is like, are there any rules here? And shero is just like, no, only the strongest survive.

Yeah, survival of the fittest. Isn't that directly contradictory of being a social worker and then downhill, he's also a cop.

We also see police.

Yeah. He wins by his own rules, but also sometimes the rules of the police.

Whenever it's convenient for him.

So he leaves her in line. She notices the pickpocket from before, and she leaves the line. And then we see Shiro talking to the mayor about the terrorists, that they were fellow beast men hired by humans. And before he leaves, she's like, all right, well, I have another request of you. And then Raccoon Girl catches the pickpocket, and then the mink shows up. Her name is Marie. And she distracts Raccoon Girl, and then the monkey gets away, and she's like, I knew it. You guys were working together. And then Marie is like, well, all lost belongings end up in rabbit Town. Go visit grand grandma. And I was like, what the fuck is happening?

Also, we're strangers, and we'll never talk again. It is the fourth time we bump into each other, 24 hours.

So she goes to rabbit Town, and the people are not welcoming. And one girl explains that in the gangs in anima City, being in your animal form, like, showing up on a turf with your animal form is like asking for a fight. And she's like, I'm not here to fight.

This is my only outfit.

I can't do it. And she explains she doesn't know how to change, but she can prove she's a human. But her wallet was stolen. And grand grandma has it, but she won't get it back so easily. She takes the Raccoon girl to a room with a bunch of kids in it, and she wants to teach the kids to read and write.

We need to establish a school to teach animals to count and spell.

Oh, shit.

That's no good.

So grand grandma explains that rabbitown is where all she says, like, anyone betrayed by men, but she doesn't mean humans. Like, she means, like, males. Yeah, and I'm pretty sure she means females.

Anyone'S welcome except for the men.

It's like, well, fuck, man. So she's like, yeah. These kids have only known pain and struggle in their lives, but if they can read and write, maybe they'll have a brighter future. So we see Raccoon Girl trying to teach them how to write by teaching them how to write their names, and they're into it. And then we see Shiro. He's on patrol, and he's sniffing around, and he's near rabbit Town. Crazy. And he notices her there, and she's still teaching. One of the kids is drawing, and he says that he's drawing the silver wolf. It comes to help anybody in trouble. And she looks out the window and notices him on the roof. And then, like, blinks, and he's gone. Because he's fast. He's Batman. And then we see some nasty dude there to get money from the lady's running rabbit Town. He's really smarmy. And then kingpin From Into the spiderman shows up, and he's like, Got to pay my respects to the grand grandma, but also, money, please. And she's like, I don't have the money. And he says, if you sell my new if you sell your new valuables. You'll have the money. And she's like, how do you know about that? And he's like, well, I don't know, but you better sell them faster. They won't be worth anything because girls.

Are bad at crime.

Got to spell out everything for you. And shiro overhears this. He's like, standing outside the window. And then we cut to the kids and the Raccoon girl in a cage on a dock. And it turns out the kids are.

The valuables beast man trafficking.

Oh, man. And they'd be worth more if they could read and write. So that's why they were teaching them. They wanted her to teach them how to do that. And they're kids that got separated from their parents when they got to anima City. How could it be more on the nose? I just don't know. So they're scared, being like, oh, this silver wolf will come save us. And then Raccoon girl is like, no, we got to save themselves.

Can't rely on anyone here.

Fucking sucks. I do like that she has that attitude of like, I've only been here a day, and that's fucking horrible.

This place.

Stop.

Take care of yourself.

She uses her tail power from before, but that doesn't really help. They're like being lifted into the air by, like a crane thing. So she reaches up and another power, her arms stretch really long. So she reaches up into the control room and grabs the lever. And she's like, whoa, I didn't know I could do that.

She's like, oh, my arm's got all freaky. And one of the kids was like, yeah, you got freaking. She's like, don't call them freaky.

What you just said, they are gross. They're like 20.

They're weird.

So she shakes them loose. They fall in, the cage breaks. They all try to run away but doesn't really work out. And then Shiro shows up. He beats up grand grandma's henchwoman. And then grand grandma surrenders. The police show up and thank Shiro. And he's like, don't thank me. It was a favor for the mayor. Oh, no. He's like cl phantom high from black butler because that's what he does. He works for the queen, not the police.

He's filthy rich and connected to underground dealings with the government.

Yeah, well, this guy doesn't seem rich.

But see, all Batman are, they're all the same.

So a Raccoon girl asks if the kids will be okay. And one of the officers is like, yeah, we'll keep them safe and then send them to an orphanage. And she runs up to grand grandma and yells at her for selling children. And grand grandma is like, you don't understand what it's like living as a woman in anima City, yet you'll change your tune. And then Raccoon girl yells at Shiro for not helping the kids sooner because she saw him on the roof. So she knows that he knew what was going on. And he was like, well, I. Had to catch them in the act because otherwise I had no real proof. And then he said something.

There are no rules in the city except explicit warrant rules.

He says that he protects everyone. Like, he says, I protect beesmen, women, and children. And then she gets really upset. Like she's like, oh, so you think women and children are weak? And I was like, he said that he would protect anybody. Wait a minute. Which I thought was weird. I was like, why? It was weird for him to say beast men, women, and children. But also he said everybody but except humans.

But I guess just male humans. I don't know. There's no rules. But so many goddamn rules that are just implied.

She shows him her ID because she has her wallet now, proving she's human. And she's so angry that she says she hates beastmen and she's going to fix whatever is wrong with her and leave the city. And that's the ending. And I like the ending song and the ending animation very much.

We didn't talk about that.

Probably the best part.

Opening and ending both look pretty, and the song is pretty catchy. They slapped.

Yeah.

Listened to a few times before I even saw the show. And I didn't realize that's what the opening and ending songs were. Fun fact, I like to go on YouTube and just hit the anime playlist where I just list all those songs because I am a one no character.

I mean, it's hype.

They're good for a reason. Opening songs for a reason. They're catchy.

Yeah. I mean, I only listen to what is it, like cafe jazz, hop, live stream? That's pretty much all I listen to.

And I just build playlists. And eventually I'm shocked I don't have a broader music sense because I'm like, oh, I like these songs and only listen to these songs.

These songs. How many times can I listen to superman by goldfingers on the Tony hawk soundtrack? I'll tell you how many. It's a fucking lot.

There's high replayability with that.

It's catchy and nostalgic for me.

I'm doing everything I can. Goddamn.

Episode three opens up with a bomb going off on a truck.

Yay.

More domestic terrorism. We love it. In 2021 topic. And the next morning, shiro is huffing on that ID that. Yeah, I wrote her name down. I'm not going to pretend like I'm going to be able to pronounce it raccoon girl tanuki. Like I said in the subtitles of episode two, he does point out he's like, you're a tanooki. She's like, no, I'm like Raccoon. He's like, no, raccoons would have stripes on their tail like, you're a Tanoki. And I'm thinking that did you do.

That in the dub?

Did they? Okay. And I'm thinking that's what's giving her her magical weird, tail shifting, arm stretching powers. Because tanuki is her common, like, Japanese myth where they have like magical abilities and stuff and gigantic testicles unless it's like one piece where it's like, yeah, some people are animals and then some people are magical animals. It's like, all right, fucking cool. I'm a giraffe and I got souls.

Over there's a phoenix pitching this show. And they're like, so the main character is a tanooki. And everyone's like, oh, no. And they're like, no, don't worry, girl. tanuki.

Oh, thank God.

Her testicles are just kind of bitch.

Just promise me we're not going to have it in a kidnapping. The show and will green light it.

We're good. Number five. Imagine the male clink edit the document. A wolf, weird digs. Do that. Imagine a male sneaky and those basketball shorts, those like, short shorts.

Oh, my god.

You're leading this conversation. You have to see the change you want to see in this world.

That was your first mistake. Don't give me any kind of power. I can't be trusted. Yeah. So she wrote just huffing away at her ID because he's got magical time sniffing powers so he can see the past and find out. He will get like a bunch of flashbacks of her in high school playing basketball, talking with their friend nasua, and they're having a good times. gals being pals.

Check.

I'm pretty sure that's the girlfriend, but we haven't seen anything in these three episodes to canonical prove that. So I'm not going to say the gay yet, but a birdie church the gay. And we just see flash away from the hanging out. And she's like, I got the audition. So it's like, all right. She's like a singer and actress. mikiru is like a basketball jock. Great. Love this dynamic. And then we see nasuna start changing. Like when she's talking, we see her hair turn like a brighter shade of pink and like ears sprout out of it. Her snap kind of get extended and then it cuts to her being kidnapped and put into a van by some strange men. And then we see mikira walking down the street being like, oh, I wonder what's happening down there. Like, clearly just missing that her friend got kidnapped. It's like, great, love it. So we see she gets taken away by the men and then we see the next day mikiru transforming into her tiny keys form. And she's just kind of like a reckless for a while because they don't know what's happening. And then eventually she just runs away from home, like leaving a note to her parents. So the parents aren't dead, but they're dead to her.

Do we count it? Will we see them?

No, it's got to be explicitly one dead bearing. So we see she's waking up in her new apartment. It's a place the social workers set up, JeM and Melissa set up for her. So it's a little like rooftop spot. She gets woken up by crowing. And when she opens up the window and looks out, it's Jim in his full rooster form, just waking up, retreating the sun.

I love him.

Yeah, I think we see, like, a bit of him in the opening, like the rooster form. And as soon as I saw Jim with his big, like, red goatee, I was like, that's all like, waddle. That's like the waddle. Yeah, I was like, that's the boy. So she talks to him for a bit. It's like, oh, how do you like your apartment? She's like, oh, it's pretty great. Like, what's going on in hannibal City? It's like, oh, you know, just trucks being bombed in a hospital, being threatened. It's like, oh, great, a bunch of bullshit. Welcome to your new home, basically. And we see sherry just, like, walks in, grabs her, pulls her out of her apartment, drags her back to his office, and then throws her in the closet she was in before, and then he barricades it with all this furniture, like, in front of it so she can't get out. And she's like, reasonably she's like, hey, the fuck? And he's like, yeah, I believe that you're a human. I got changed to obese. Man, that shit's wild. No one can know about that. I'm not letting you out of here. She's like, okay, you like rad, but like, the fuck?

Also, already several people know about it at this point.

I tell everybody.

I literally can't hide it.

And he's saying it's dangerous if the humans find out about this, because separately and he says he'll kill her if she leaves the storage closet. And that's right when the mayor shows up. And the mayor is talking to shiro, saying, like, odd, the medical center that Mirror Raccoon girl wants to go to to get, like, tested, turns out their truck was the one that got bombed earlier. And they feel like it's terroristic threats against a specific institute, if I can write the name down. sylvania Medical Institute. Sylvasta.

It's a pharmaceutical company. And I'm also under the impression that they started this city, which is really sass.

Yeah.

Why would you go to a city started by a pharmaceutical company?

Why do pharmaceutical companies ever done anything bad? Crack epidemic.

That couldn't be the conspiracy I saw in the second scene coming, right? No.

We do get a little info dump about that. Like, the city was founded by the pharmaceutical company, and they're treating, like, beast men, and people are humans attacking them for treating beast men. And beast men think that the pharmaceutical company is, like, treating beast men and then selling the information to humans to use. It's like conspiracy theory. Obviously there's some shading under daily scaling with the pharmaceutical company in this medical center.

You can assume that about every pharmaceutical company in and out of media. Also, sorry, real quick, I just want to amend. I don't want that to come off as antivaxxered opinion. I got real self conscious as soon as I said it. Yeah, get taxing. They're great.

So the medicine that's bad is the corporations that are exploited profiting off it. That's the word.

Selling it.

Anyway. Yeah. The mayor says, like, you got tracked down the terrorists because you're better at it than all the incompetent police. And he's like, cool, let me just get my time sniffing ability that we can get going. And this one raccoon girls in the closet was screaming, like, hey there's. The mayor. Let me scream my lungs out. And when she does, her math turns to a beak, I think. Yeah. I don't know if it was just exaggerated for, like, emphasis or if she actually shapeshifts, because we've seen her do it three times now. Yeah, it was so she screams to get the mayor's attention. The mayor hears and let her out. What's happening here? And she tells the mayor everything. Like, oh, I'm actually a human. The mayor's, like yeah, I know. It's like, how do you know already? It's like, I don't reveal my sources. She's like, Great grandma, the criminal we just arrested yesterday. Who knows about her being a human? It's like, I'll never tell. Your poker face is a garbage bear.

It was minor, grandpa. That's my source.

He's not a rabbit. He's a jackalope. So Rick girl says, like, I want to help stop the terrorists because I want to go to the medical center and get treated and have them figure out what that was happening with me. So I'll help out, and the mayor says, like, ah, you can help out, and you'll be the new contact for kuro the Crow. I love that little boy. And she's like, oh, cool. And but her being human has to be a secret. They can't let anyone know. It's like, cool. The criminal underground already does. And wink. They might have had a hand in it. wink, wink, wink, wink. So she gives her a new phone, and she tells her, yeah, the pharmaceutical company helped fund the city, and it's against beastman and blah, blah. Yeah, we already talked about that. So he takes a piece of the truck that was blown up earlier that day and sniffs it. And then we zoom out, like, I don't know, let's just say 30 miles, see the whole city, and he's able to pinpoint the exact locations of, like, eight bombs across that whole radius. It's like, what are you? Because it's not a wolf.

He's a god.

He has deus mucusna.

Cool.

Effort.

You get a participation that's all I can ask for.

I'm fine with him clearly being the silver wolf god deity, because wait, I'm sorry.

Participation damage.

That was better than my initial joke.

Um, fine with him being like, clearly the silver wolf god thing, because he said, like, beastsmen have wanted to come to this festival for thousands of years. It's like, all right, so clearly you're immortal or some shit, but, like, definitely don't just try and play it off. Like, this is just what wolves can do. Like, it's super fucking not. He is some sort of god.

Odds are we're going to run into 18,000 other dog creatures. So let me just ask them how good their sense of smell is.

Not great. There's a lot of smells in this weird city full of animals.

Yeah, we see a bloodhound. The dog most known for being able to sniff out stuff. And they aren't on the scene at all times, so don't pull that shit.

So he alerts the cops to all the locations of the bombs across the city, and he goes up to help them. Meanwhile, he sends Raccoon girl out to the hospital to check out on them to make sure there's nothing slipping by, since that's clearly the target to keep an eye on them. And while she does, she sees kiro fly down on top of a truck. She's like, oh, what are you doing? Oh, I'm going to sneak in with it. Clearly security is that lax, where she can just walk alongside the truck into this giant medical center. So she sneaks in. The people in the truck get out. And it's the same criminals we saw before. The like, hyena sleazeball in the suit that was talking to grand grandma. He's talking to a doctor down at the loading dock saying like, ah, is the shipment ready? She's like, oh, I got an eavesdrop on this. If only I could hear them a little better. And we see her ears shoot up into like rabid ears. Then she leans them out alongside the truck to get hear them better. And while they're talking about all the shady underdealings going on, the hayne, man just turns to his left and sees gigantic rabbit ears sticking out from behind the truck and say, hey, wait a minute. Hey, wait a minute. What the fuck is that with that?

I clearly see you invited that.

So he's like, all right, I get them boys. And we see them shapeshifting. One of them is like a big crow. One of them is like an alligator, man. And one of those bebop and rocksteady from ninja turtles. And they get chasing after her. And when she starts running away, the doctor is like, hey, wait a minute. I've seen her before. Suspicious hints of the past. And we see sheridan disarming the bombs of all the cops. And Rick and girls like texting him and calling him. It's like, why is he not answering? And he's just like, dum dum DA dum. I'm doing something that could easily be interrupted by a phone call. But it's not for some reason.

No, it's my brooding hour.

Don't bother me.

I have to be alone at my quiet place. ripper dances in the forest for a while. That's a hot rock. Anyway, we see Rick and Girl get cornered by the gang members. And it's like, all right, I guess just beat the shit. They don't really say it, but it's clear. Like, what are we going to do here. We clearly can't let you go away and tell the cops about this and frightens you go into attack. shiro appears to stop some. He's conveniently right next to her despite him not being there. I cut scene ago, or I cut away ago. So he beats up some of the goons and says, I get out of here, scum. I don't want to see you around here. It's like, you could have stopped them, and we could have interrogated them and found out what the fuck's happening. But I guess it's cool that you let them let them go like they are criminals. You do that last yesterday when he dropped on their criminal dealings, and you just let them go. Like, okay, you tried killing a bunch of other guys two days ago, but I guess this is where you draw the line. Okay? So they talked about, oh, God, where I jumped around a bit. And then while they're doing all that, we see the doctor run back in, and he runs to his boss, who's like, the head of the medical center. And he's like, yeah, that's the girl. We see them pull up the security camera footage and see the Raccoon girl on the cameras again. It's like that's her. And she's like, the head of the medical center. It's her, the one from before. It's like, yeah, established she encountered her before. And we see shearer sniffs through time and reveals the secret about the bomb in the area. He's like, I don't even know what that note was for. It reveals the bomb secret, and I guess it was him, I guess realizing, like, the bomb was all tied to the truck from before, and there were same bombs scattered throughout the city, so it was the same plant target. Meanwhile, the chairman of the pharmaceutical company calls the head of the medical center, saying he has to move the experiment and has to leave no trace of it behind. And then the gang comes into talk of the gang of Rikuirl shiro policeman. They were all investigated.

Not the gang.

Not the gang. Criminals.

The gang.

Too many gangs.

So many animal gangs. They were talking to the head of medical before, saying, oh, that's right. There was an explosion in the medical facility after they're done dealing with the gang in the loading docks. So they run upstairs with the head of chief police. They talked to the head of the medical center. Be like, what happened? He's like, I don't know. Bob just went off, and I guess all of our secrets are ruined. Oh, well, see you later.

Oops.

And that's when he talks to the head of the medical center, who's like, you got to clear out the experiment. And then shiro and the police chief and the rugby girl come in later being like, hey. So we sniffed around the crime scene. Turns out there's no sense at all, and I'm really good with sense. I can see scents in the past, in the future. I'm the doctor. Manhattan of scent. And he's like, it's really suspicious that there's no scent at all. And we're in a medical facility that I assume just has rubbing alcohol and can get rid of the scent in germs. So it's really suspicious that you got rid of any scent. And the only other thing in this place that has no scent is your hands. So you got rid of the evidence, doctor. And he's like, oh, shit. They proved me by a very easy method of tracing animals.

It was an inside job that was.

Done five minutes before they got here.

God, we're animals. I should always factor in smell.

It's always a factor at hearing and night vision and other weird things that only animals have that people don't. You think we'd be accustomed to living in an animal city? Anyway, they accuse him of bobbing the lab and covering up the evidence of something. They don't know what. But it's clear he was trying to hide something. And he's like, what an excuted observer now? And he attacks them. So he just transforms into a rhino and attacks and sheer fights them. Meanwhile, the other doctor appears behind them and kidnaps or a true girl because he's a chameleon. Only the ugly animals are the bad ones. All the good characters are the ones you want to fuck.

Shocking soft and hurry.

They're chameleon.

If they're slightly or scaly, they're evil.

I saw some videos showing chameleons will grab anything you put in front of them. You can fucking shut up. So he kidnaps Raccoon girl, and we see shira fighting with the rhino. And they plummet off like a fucking bridge inside the building and drop like three stories for some reason. So it's an epic showdown. And, like, once again, I'm fine with studio trigger. You love the like Duncan said before, if it's cliche without camp, it's not great. If you're going to lean into it, lean into a full force. Get a real campy way.

You know what you're doing, so just know what you're doing.

Enough of it. Yeah. And they did it fucking from air. We're going to get there someday, above and beyond. But I guess with a series, you got stretched out a little more over 13 episodes. Anyway, he's fighting the rhino, and he's like, you go ahead and use your claws on me. You can't go through my thick hide. I'm a rhino. It's like, you can claw rhino. They get killed by the lions all the time. And she was like, no, you're not good enough for me to use my claws on. They're divine or some bullshit. I'm going to use my fist like a disgusting human. It's like a weird hangout where he's like, I'm going to use my fist on Lowear criminals. And only the righteous deserve to be clawed to death by my claws. Anyway, he shatters the rhino's horn, which is kind of fucked up for a rhino, but I guess that's enough to knock him out pretty savage. Meanwhile, up on the roof, the chameleon's dangling Raccoon girl off the edge with his tail. And he's like, Back off, coppers. I need a helicopter. ¥10 million. It's like you got wild accusations for someone who has no plan B. Like, how do you think this is going to play out? We can wait you out. Also, her tail can turn into, like, a protective ball of her and she'll be fine if she drops. This ain't working. You're not getting out of here. And karo sees her on the rooftop and goes down to fly down to help her because he's a good little crow boy. And the chameleon's like, don't, you know, never sneak up on an animal with a crazy peripheral vision like a chameleon. It's like, that was a weird okay? You could have just shown the eye. We didn't need dialogue to discuss that.

Also, every animal has extended vision like that, so it's not like chameleons are unique in that way, but whatever.

Makes you feel special, dude.

What makes you feel better about this haasa situation you put yourself into? And her cougar is like, only I could stretch my arms to get out of the situation. And her body is like Stretch Armstrong. Okay, that's all I needed to hear. And her arms get all stretchy and it freaks out the chameleon guy who drops her off the roof, that played back.

I don't know what she thought would happen.

Maybe she could have grabbed the ledge or something on the roof to pull herself in, but not be dangling off the edge. But she just slapped around a bit and got scared. So he drops her and as she's falling and of course, it's a big pharmaceutical company that are building in the center of the city. So it's like, let's say 200 stories tall. And we see shira fly off the roof after her to catch her as they're falling down this 200 story building. And he slams into the building at, like, story 20 or something, and then they keep falling in and slam into the ground. And he takes the brunt of it instead of her using her tail to protect them like she did with the kids. Last Episode once again, God Wolf. Because he walks it off like he just sprained his ankle, like, oh, I'm okay, but my back's a little tender. It's like you plummeted 200 stories.

Yeah. Everyone else around is like, hey, dude, we're at a hospital. You can just come inside. No, I can brood it away.

I heal when I broke.

If I frown hard enough, I will regenerate.

But now I got blood across my face because when I get injured, blood just sprays out of everywhere out of my forehead. Yeah. So I'm good now. Okay? I'll spend my disability for the time sniffing stuff, but like you would have been just mush. Like you wouldn't have bowens left after that fall. The next day, they're at sheer's office and he's got a bandage over his head because he hurt his head from falling 1000 million feet to his back. And he should have just shot his spine out of his throat. And the mayor recaps all the crime that happened. She's like, yeah, the Rhino and Chameleon Doctor were selling resources and assets and information to the underground, to the gang who you guys let get away. But we got the doctors. So I guess that's something. And Ricoviro mentions like, yeah, the Chameleon Doctor looked like, especially pissed off at me. Like he said he saw her before. And it's like, yeah. The mayor says, yeah, we'll be looking for a cure to find out if there's a way to refer you back to being a human. I'll look into it myself because I'm also a world renowned doctorate in genetics. It's like, oh, cool.

Okay.

Everyone has a secret skill that is hyper specific, just waiting for someone to ask about it.

And they're like, cool, you're going to help us find a cure for my condition and turn it back to him. She said, no, I'm a mayor now. I'm not a geneticist anymore. But I was one. It's like, all right, fucking I lost my doctorate.

I did something real fucked up screen.

I maybe might have turned a human into tanukii. I don't know. Just ballpark hypothetically.

Also, I don't have time to help you. I just need to personally do police business. I guess that ties up all my marital time.

So she says, I'll have people looking into a cure. And then after just that, we cut away to the chairman of the pharmaceutical brand who is a human, or at least in human form. And he says, we're picking up stuff and moving everything. I'll finally get to Animal, the beastman city I always wanted to see for it, for myself. So I'm going to just speculate crazy here. Human racist. By the end of it, at the big showdown against shiro, he's going to become a Bspan with whatever thing he is manufacturing. And he's going to say I'm going to just say a tiger. Because that's always a staple of these things. And he's going to have a big epic showdown with shiro. Yeah, that's episode three and the rest of the season if I can. fitch here's the thing. I can't argue with all the predictable bullshit we pointed out because it is but it is studio trigger. So I am enjoying the visual feast that is the show of furry's in vaporwave. Aesthetic, it is very pretty to watch. I love mickey Rose design. Like, I fucking love her design. I think it's adorable shit. And it's really cool. shiro he's batman.

He's hot as fuck.

He's just beachy Batman. I love it.

Visually, I hate that I'm going to say it of the two leading man, hot wolves. I think he loses to Lagoshi. I don't think he's as interesting or.

Lagoshi's got more of a character.

Yeah, more of a character. And even design wise, I feel like this one is designed to just be brooding Batman. So you lose some of that element. See, I see him more as like.

What'S the problem?

But don't make me say the other wolf is hotter. We'll leave it.

You can say Lagosi's personality is better, but this guy's hotter. And that's just the truth. Physically, this guy's hotter.

It's the difference between like, you either want a burger, you know, that tastes good and you've had a thousand times, or you get the weird charcuterie board at a place that shouldn't have charcuterie. They're like, hey, that candle is made of animal fat. You can eat that candle. It's like, I shouldn't, but I'm going to try it. And I might like, eating candles now and like, that's legoshi. That might be like, a little weird, palate change of like, I learned something about myself, though. I will say, having watched the rest of B Stars that season, he kind of becomes John mcclain. He gets very Die Hard at the end of it. So you do want that badass. You will get there. But he is very nervous at the end.

Lagos, she has it all.

The perfect package.

But, yeah, it is definitely very good to look at. It is very beautiful. But, yeah, like, we're saying everything super trophy. Just immediately going into, like, yes, extremely thinly veiled racism metaphors, literally have a lynching in, like, the second scene. So it's like but, yeah. So I going back to film school. Brain couldn't turn off. I was like, hey, can I look into clearly, every furry show runner is like, yes, let's talk about racism. So I found an article that I thought was really good, breaking down different aspects of furry and allegory stuff. Because, yeah, this article is on Soulrad Co. It's literary magazine for comics. It's called Flawed and Furry anthropomorphism allegory and oppression by Angela M. Sanchez. It just really goes into breaking down. It gives different examples of, like, zootopia, b Stars, blacksat, mouse and stuff like that, and sort of going into, like, what is good uses of anthropomorphism. Because, like, fables and stories, it's just human nature to be like, yeah, people are animals. Yes, we've been doing this for all of time, but specifically getting into racism discussions and a lot of the stuff doesn't really match up. Like, when we talk about zootopia of like, predators are the minorities, but also not because they do coding for both predators and prey animals are minorities in different places and just stuff like that. And, yeah, this falls into a not great thing of, yeah, it's racism, both sideism, all that stuff. So I'm going to link it in the notes because it is a very interesting read. It also is like. Yeah. B Stars is like, the prime example of this because they don't do racism. They're just like, yes. We know that there are already strains between prey and predator animals, so we don't need to add an extra layer of human society on that. We can just build it out there. But yeah, I thought it was really helpful in just getting my thoughts into I was kind of immediately turned off by another racism allegory and what's something that is not actually going to address racism, they're just going to use it for set dressing, which feels kind of icky to me.

Yeah. Overall, this show, like, story wise, I feel like it has a lot going on, but also is really boring because it's like a bunch of stuff that's already been done. And I'm interested in seeing what tanuki Girls deal is, like, what's going on with her. But also, I know watching all 13 episodes won't be worth it. It's probably not going to be that interesting.

Yeah. Some sort of generic experiment that went wrong, trying to either eradicate BEASTARS beast men either eradicate them or just, like, give people the option to choose some sort of eugenics metaphor and it's not going to pay off.

Well, that's why I thought this was at first I thought everyone was going to be like her, where it's like, yeah, I'm beast all the time.

Well, I thought every character in this show was going to be a furry. I didn't think humans would be involved except human forms.

That's the thing. I was surprised when they're just like, yeah, during the day, we switch back to human forms. Why?

Yeah, during daylight, where it's brightly lit, we're going to do boring character designs. Is that cool with you?

Cool. Yeah. And it's also weird when it's like, if you're in your beast form, it means you're like aggression, like around gangs. It means you're ready to fight. It's like, well, weren't we all in beast form at the festival? What does that mean in the society? And if it is going to go with the racism allegory again, it doesn't work when you can just change forms in between the thing that is accepted and the thing that isn't accepted. Because then it's like, yeah, if everyone can just shift forms, who's to say beast men aren't who's to say they aren't only in the city, they could be out in the world and just never shift. Or if they get angry, they'll shift or something, and then it's a scandal. But it doesn't work great when you can just blend in with everyone else.

Especially the additional thing of having the quote unquote minority group being the animals and then outright saying, yeah, if you are in animal form, we assume you're aggressive because you're an aggressor minority. Is this racist? Oh, God, we stumbled into this. Who could have seen this coming?

Yeah. None of these statements, I think, are new because there was a lot of attention for Brand New Animal when it was announced. It's due to triggers. They do a lot of great work. People got really hyped before you got teasers and people were excited because it looked amazing. And then it came out and there's kind of nothing. I see a lot of fan art and fan art, that's what I was.

Going to say, fan art. The hype surrounding it was like so much and then you just never heard of it again.

The fan art is always great because it's based around design. So I see a lot of the raccoon girl because she has a great design. So I see a lot of fan art of that. But then like, yeah, that's kind of it. No one's really talking about it. And it does kind of hurt that it came came out, at least in Japan, it came out around the same time as B stars. And then the dubs kind of gave it a secondary boost with both being on Netflix. So it's tough because it's one of those things where two things came out around the same time that deal with very similar things and one of them is going to be grossly overshadowed by another thing. Recently Croquetobasket came to Netflix and people were talking about like this might give it a second revival because it kind of got over. No, we're talking about with ping pong. Ping pong Gun got overshadowed by haiq because it came out around the same time, both like sports and stuff. And I think this is the same thing where a Brand New Animal kind of got overshadowed by bsrs and probably would have probably had a decent following. People enjoyed stuff and that's fine. There's stuff here to enjoy. I'll probably finish it just for the visual feast of it. But yeah, the story elements really kind of fall flat in a lot of places.

Yeah, I feel like the difference between B stars and B stars in this and haiku and ping pong is that haiku and ping pong are both actually good and B stars is good. But this is not. So it like rightfully got overshadowed by.

B stars in a way.

But yeah, visually, again, visually, bottom line is very nice to look at everything else.

You've seen it before. Watch zootopia. You'll get the gist. It's fine.

Yeah, watch zootopia if you want the racism. Allegory watch B stars if you want to see hot animals. Well, hold on.

Well, wait a minute.

Feeling wild and that big tide.

If you want to see anyway, birthday, sexual in the media, watch you want.

To see rabbit cities, be stars all you need.

Anyway, so what we have going on.

Next week, next week is my pick.

Fuck.

We all know what we have going.

On the week after that. Thanks, Patrick.

No, this is a good one. This is a promise. It's a good one. It's a show that also got a lot of hype, and rightfully so, I watched it, and I fucking fell off with the show immediately. It's called keep your hands off the esa key. And the reason I pick it for this special date is because it's roughly about a year since our Shirobacco episode. And this also is about this is a group is a club of girls doing a fun activity, and it's about making an anime.

Okay?

It's in tandem with Shirobacco. And I also really enjoy also, speaking.

Of ping pong, this is another masaki was a joint.

It's good. So that'll be a fun time.

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Debatable thanks, but yeah.

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