AWTY 100 - Deputymon Ruins Burning Man (Untitled AWTY Project)

Hello, and welcome to our weave. There yet in exploration, in education, in anime. Am your anime idiot, patrick dugan.

I'm an anime expert, dana hollander.

And I'm brenda mccullough. Your anime centurion. Yeah, that's a word.

It's not the horse one. I know that for sure.

Wait, horse legs during your fear.

That's a centaur.

Yeah, close enough. I would never be one listener. You did it. You did it.

You survived.

You're the one.

You gave this garbage. Show your time. And here we are. They said we wouldn't make it. They tried to stop us. zuck had a vendetta against us from the beginning. But, oh, we're here. It's episode 100, baby.

You wasted 100 hours of your life. I'm sorry.

We've made it to another milestone.

And God knows we've wasted way more than 100 hours.

Oh, yeah.

I wouldn't call it wasted because I got to spend time with my friends.

Definitely call it wasted. I could have done a lot of hard things. I could have learned an instrument.

But dear listener, thank you. Thank you for joining us on this, what we can only describe as a new beginning.

Oh, no.

I thought you're going to say this. We can only describe that as a cluster fuck.

Oh, I'm sure it will be. But we're doing something different today.

We're watching sports.

Yes. We're going to take an Sat and see how useless we are in everyday society.

Oh, shit.

Fun fact for my Sat essay I wrote about Patch Adams, I didn't score well, believe it or not.

Shocking, I don't remember anything about the Sat other than I got a good score.

Yeah, that's all that matters. Once you're welcome to block out the.

Rest of the stuff.

Once you have a number on a page in front of you.

Yes. Also, not to get sidetracked too quickly, but too long, it was going to take like an hour longer than we were originally told. And the proctor would not let us text our parents to be like, hey, it's going to take an hour longer. So that was cool and fun.

Oh, great. Good person.

I know, right?

Flawless education system.

Anyway, we have hard scientific data that we need to analyze. But we're not going to use this for good. We're going to use this to make anime.

Yeah.

The ultimate evil.

I compiled some data that we will build upon, but I have taken every show that we have watched and I have said, yeah, let's continue it quick check in.

It's more than I thought there'd be. I'll be honest. Yeah.

I still haven't finished B Stars, but I did start rewatching a Run with the Wind because I started running in my non anime life.

You had to connect it to anime somehow.

Yes. I needed the motivation of pretty boys running. But we have some data that we are going to turn into. What? statistically from the past hundred episodes should be my ideal anime yeah.

What ideal?

Yeah, yeah, we'll love one's ideal anime.

I have specific themes and stuff. First off, I can say, god, I have a laptop and a computer in front of me and data scattered all over.

Do you have like a map with red threads connecting things?

Ah.

Oh god, that would be so much more organizational. But of the at point of recording now we've watched like 96 shows. I oh, I should add another one.

Add another one to the furry list. Baby slice of life, furry workplace.

I already forgot. It's been like 3 hours.

So much can happen in 3 hours.

Well, yeah. Of the 96 shows we have watched, I have said I would continue 43 of them. Oh boy. Oh Bob, I I fucked this up so bad. Oh no.

How many, man? Not even like finished. Because I'm not asking for the sunnier. How many have you just watched? Beyond just the three we covered or how many episodes we covered of that kid? Do you know? Off the top of your head?

Off the top of my head. Oh God. This is I just realized the two of them, what they have in common. But they are Agritzuko and B stars.

I've continued watching and my love story.

Yeah, this is true. But those two I was like, oh, I still have time before we record. Let me get another episode in.

Oh, you were eager for those ones.

Yes.

Which those are the furry shows. Oh god, how exciting.

Fantastic.

But yes, so much more balanced than I thought it was going to be.

Yeah. I feel like if we dig into those numbers, we're going to find a comment thread or something. Like not even the shows, like the themes of the shows. But we listen back to those podcasts. We're going to find a comment thread of you discussing it being like, oh, this one reminds me of a childhood. This one reminds me of my childhood. This one reminds me of high school.

Hey, now I don't like what's happening here.

Nostalgia.

Aren't we all? I look at my canvas wall of digimon prints.

But yeah. So of these 43 shows, I analyzed like the two or three just themes, common denominators of them all. And I came up with a list of the things that are in my ideal anime. Just anything that I listed more than three times or three or more times. That there is what we call a pattern. So I put that into a list that we will now analyze.

Habitual anime.

Some of these things I have realized are just because they are in every anime, they are just the troops. Yeah, I'll just rattle it off. So you know what we're working with, what we're going to try to incorporate into one cohesive anime. We have school, we have super, which I made it supernatural super powers, superheroes, all of that sort of just like all these supernatural fantastic mythical things are under one category. We have slice of life, we have fighting, we have outdoors, romance, furry horror.

Furry.

Horror. Workplace. Gay and sport.

I will be honest, I am both very surprised that Workplace is on there at all. And gay is that low.

Yeah, because there just aren't enough gay.

And there's not much.

Yeah, and some of the ones we watched were otherwise not great shows that I wouldn't continue for other reasons.

But there are supposedly good ones out there. We just haven't watched them because we want to watch them sparingly.

Yes. We went in hot and fast. There's like a gay anime.

There's like four or five in a row or something.

And then we realized that we were going to keep doing this.

We're like, oh, no, it's not common culture. Let's savor it. A lot of these are just because it's anime, like school number one. That's because every anime is set in the school. So some of these things are just if we're making an anime, we have to include it anyways, so might as well, but yeah. So let's talk. What sort of stuff do we want to put into this shell?

Furries.

Furries?

Furries. 100%, of course. Everything on this list. Let's do this. This will help us narrow some stuff down. What are some of the tropes we know we are not putting into our show? There are so many. But let's get some common ones out there.

Well, let's talk about the bingo card incest.

There we go. Yeah, that's a good idea.

Don't need to necessarily need big titties.

I wouldn't be afraid.

Hold on now.

Yeah, pull that up.

Big titties can be involved, but they don't need to be the central focal point of a character.

Yeah, because I feel like the bingo card is kind of, like not necessarily negative tropes.

They're definitely tropes.

These are themes. Sort of.

Yeah.

No cherry blossoms.

Oh, I love cherry. Oh, yeah.

Of course we have to have cherry blossom.

The genre of cherry blossoms.

First off, it's getting warm quicker than I thought. Let me turn my fan back on.

You're welcome to it. If there's background noise, who cares?

Who cares?

It's hot.

This is our victory lap. Okay.

Yeah, we've done it. We deserve it. Well, I'm fine. dugan deserves it.

This is going to be a fast and loose episode.

So I got no nose. We got gratuitous titty.

Technically not incest. Yeah, or just incest. Just do that in general.

How about, like I don't want to say the word older people and high school people? Relationships.

Got you.

No.

Old Tory.

No old people.

There you go.

Just do we take yeah, none of that. No romance in high school. My teachers. No.

Lollies. No old, young, gross relationships. We're making some ethical, organic animals.

Hold on. Now, grassroots.

I think tapping into the list, I think fighting made it high again, because that's in, like, every anime we, of course need to incorporate fighting into it, but I don't want it to be bloodbath murdery.

I was thinking because I was speculating on shows, like ideas for shows, and I was thinking something akin to be Stars, where it's not Dragon buzzie, where every episode is about fighting it. But if there is a fight scene, they put the budget in that one. That's a good quality scene, but it's not the entire plot of the show.

Yeah, like if there's a rival gang or a bully teen that we need to stand up to, we're not going to shy away from fisty cups, but we don't need to charge up and destroy planets with our mighty muscles.

For sure.

You'd only need three episodes of goku charging up the Spirit Bomb, which does happen.

I don't need that.

No, thank you.

Beach episode or bathhouse episode or hot spring episode. yay.

They must be included.

Tasteful. There are tasteful ones.

I don't know if we'll talk about it today, but they'd have to be in there.

Yeah.

That's an anime staple.

Yeah, it's an anime staple. It like, by itself isn't a bad trope. It's just so common that it's like, oh, yeah. Odds are eight anime have done an episode just like this.

Yeah.

So basically, no pervs, no bloody Murder is basically what we can boil this down to. How does that sound to you all?

I'm going to head out. I'll bring Paul in. He can take my spot.

I'll have to make some adjustments to my pitch, but.

Oh, boy.

I'm looking at either school or workplace. I personally am fine with school.

I was thinking because we were talking about it recently, I forget if it was on an episode or not, but don't see a ton of college anime. And that could resolve a lot of ethical issues real fast.

Yeah. I think what we can do is if we do set it at the college level, it doesn't need to just be like, we're at Florida University, but if it is college level, college age, college environment that is better than another.

High school show, we're going for young adult demographic instead of teens.

Perfect.

Get out of here, teens. No one needs you.

Yeah.

Crazy teens listen to our show.

I hope not. I hope not many. I'm a horrible influence.

Yeah.

If you're a teen, don't take our advice from here. I'm a very smart person in real life, but on the podcast, I'm buck wild and untamed.

Ben, who sends us a lot of recommendations, is a teen. So you're cool. But maybe consider other life choices because we have many regrets.

Yes. Oh, and will fuck you guys.

No. Why not? I was thinking will. Fuck Will. Yeah.

Sorry.

Will fuck. Oh, fuck.

We love you. I love you.

Personally, I know at least two listeners that have children, so I'm pretty sure they're not teens, but it's not impossible.

Yeah. But anyway, anime demographic for us.

For us.

Young adult.

For us. By us.

Yes.

Yeah. Beyond these themes, I'll give you each a little bit of time. What is something you really want to see in anime? Just so we can each have our own perspectives like mine. I'm boiling down to these themes. So these are what I'm looking for. But when you're seeking out a show, if you're trying to find something or something that you've wanted but haven't seen out there, what sort of stuff are you looking at?

I'm biased because I grew up with so much shonen and still read so much shonin. So that's the high schools that's the supernatural fighting was that's the, you know, main character wins the battle through sheer willpower alone or by power of friendship. Like, I am fully aware of all of its flaws and it's not the best, but that's something that's just ingrained to me at this point. And I got a guilty pleasure for it.

I mean, that is most of it's a lot of popular anime, so it is going to be hard to deny that aspect of it.

I'm also just a big comic book nerd too. So it's basically manga in Japan is superhero comics to us. Like, it's just comic books. So it's a lot of the same tropes as in superhero stuff. So I'm just hardwired for that underdog that gets the rising moment and overcomes it all.

It's just like, yes, guys. Found family.

Oh, yes, absolutely.

That's one of our favorites in general, I think.

Yeah, that's one. That's like I feel like these are like tags you would look for to search for one. And that one's no, I guess you could put that one on there. I'm just trying to think that'd be hard to find without watching the entire show. But I guess that's the point of tags is someone watches the entire show and breaks it down by genre. So yeah, that's what they're for. I personally am not thrilled about horror.

But I disagree with you, bud.

It's not up for debate. I'm not a fan of it. That's just my opinion. That's not in discussion. But I feel like it's very lacking. Like, good horror is lacking in anime. There are, yeah, easily notable ones that stand out above like others. But I think by and large, like, the jungi ito collection got animated recently and it sucks. So, like yeah.

Oh, that makes me so sad.

I believe they're retrying to do it. They're doing uzumaki, which I actually have the mango for. They're going to try and do that. And it's with a known reputable studio, so fingers crossed.

But I think that's what I've seen the trailer for.

Yeah, that's the only one I knew of. I didn't know that Collected works were done.

Yeah, there was a previous short story compilation of various animations that wasn't done well because of Genetico mega. It's still images, so he's able to put so much more detail into it that anime loses just within the motion. Or if you do put that much detail into it, it like triples the amount of workload that's already excessive. So his stuff is difficult to work with. But there are some very notable well done horror anime and I'm sure there's a thousand other that I just don't even know about. But I don't see a ton of it, at least in the mainstream of stuff. Whereas I wouldn't necessarily enjoy it. I would enjoy knowing there's more out there.

Me too.

Because it seems like a very unfulfilled genre.

Yeah. The niche that needs to be filled is good quality stuff.

Yeah. But yeah, like it's a sucker for supernatural. Anything like fantasy world, modern day with fantasy elements to it. Just anything super. I'm a sucker. Four slice of life. Sucker for laid back camp. Enjoy. Good romance, but once again a good romance. So many of them are very bad.

It's got to be good.

Yeah, that's what we're doing here.

It's our time to fix the anime industry, baby. We're going to walk into viz Media and be like, hey, I got a show for you. Listen to your fuck.

Oh yeah. It feels cheap to say I don't like bad stuff. Well, no one does.

Yeah, you're looking for a prestige anime, not just your run of the mill, let's pump it out and move on.

Not even that. I got low standards. We all know this.

Yeah. So how do we want to go about this? This is new for everyone.

But that's a good question.

The trick of this is going to be trying to incorporate all of these elements into one thing, which we're going to need to make some modifications. We're going to need to already horror with slice of life are a challenging thing to go up against.

Should we try for all of them or as many as we can?

I have tried, so I'm ready. I'm prepared.

Yeah. I also have something that could work for all of them.

Okay.

But yeah, even if we downgraded horror to spooky, I'm fine with that. I'm willing to make concessions and we can't. Some of the things lower on the list, like sport is the last one. That's the lightest one. I'm fine if sports don't play an element into every episode. But some form of sport needs to appear.

It's like the fighting. It doesn't have to be the entire plot, but the moments it does have are well done.

Right. Let me get my bad pitch out of the way. Because one of the biggest things in trying to brainstorm some stuff is a lot of these are just existing anime because there's so much, so many ideas. I was thinking of like has this been oh, this has been done 20 times.

Okay, cool. I had that problem as well.

Who's to say it can't be done one more then?

True. But this first one I have was I realized it was a good idea. I was liking it until I realized it was something else. So I was thinking about a way to incorporate schools and spooky supernatural stuff. Was I was thinking of some sort of like ghost school, some like Ghost Academy where you learn how to be a better spooky poltergeist and things like that. But I then realized school where you learn how to be scary. This is Monsters University. This is a major motion film.

There is also an anime called rosario Vampire about a school that monsters go to.

So there's also scooby doo in the ghoul school.

Also, rosario vampire is like semi etchy. So it'd be nice if it was done not that way.

So I don't know. Like I was I was just so excited to be like Danny phantom. The anime basically where he's competing to be like the best spooky scarer. I know that's not Danny phantom. Just like that format of like, oh, learn how to use ghost powers. Cool. But yeah, then realized it's just a big pixar movie. So I scrapped that.

I got one I can just throw out right away because I know it's going to be a no. The daily life of Deputy Bond. Deputy Bond is just a gun. He's just a sentient gun. And I'm really curious of how he just exists. How do you get pants on?

So you're saying we take a big franchise and make a spin off just.

A slice of life for one Digimon in particular. I just want to see how he exists. What's going on here?

Just sheriff of a small town. He got out of the Digimon game and found a small Nevada city that he can rule over.

Joshua Tree.

Deputy Mon brings a law to Burning Man. Oh, god.

It should be called Deputy Mon ruins Burning.

I felt like that was implied.

Hey, he's probably not going to be the only person dressed in gun.

He probably wouldn't stand out that much.

Fair.

I got Speed Round if we just go through them because I got a few that are just yeah, I only.

Have the one and I actually like it. So I'm saving it. Yeah, we talk about the real option.

Another 100 good deeds for Eddie mcdowell. But anime.

Oh my god.

It's a nickelodeon sitcom from 2001 where a bully gets turned into a dog and has to perform 100 good deeds as a dog until he gets back to a human form.

Wow.

It's just such a dumb, wild idea. I want to see it back.

That's cute, though.

Wasn't seth Green involved in some way? I always thought he was the main kid. I don't think he was maybe in just like the pilot or something. But I specifically remember seth Green being involved. But I forget how.

Oh, shit, you're right. He's eddie mcdowell preferred 19 out of the 39 episodes. But then there's a few people that he might have been the voice or he might have been the actual character. I'm not sure he is involved though. That could be interesting. We've uncovered a new mystery.

The child career is seth Green showrunner. seth Green.

What else is there? Reverse isoki. It's a mage from a fantasy world that gets thrown in the modern Japan and has to adopt our world while also trying to learn the magic of our world. It's magic the whole time.

That's kind of just the devil is a part timer though.

In it probably is.

I haven't seen it, so I figured that's one. That was already done.

I thought you would have watched that. It seems like your kind of show.

That's our booth to it. Is it pervy? Probably my kind of show. Anime business trip. It's the worktrip vacation where all anime protagonist parents go for all the shows.

I love that it gets into the.

Weird supernatural nonsense of the shows. So all the shit in anime usually happens when the parents are gone. So the parents don't have an idea of what their kids are in. They're like, oh yeah, my kid Tommy, he's just back home doing his homework or whatever. Not aware that he's housing 14 monster girls that are trying to suck his dick all day.

It's just beach episode, the anime.

Yeah. And it can either revolve around I got two ideas. It revolves around either two parents that are trying to make their kid a protagonist and are trying to get advice from all the other parents.

Because my layman son like, we don't appreciate this kid. He scores average grades. He just plays video games. When he gets home, I want him to go out and fight monsters. He's not saving any cities. What's wrong with this kid?

What gives?

What gives? There are some anime parents who are aware of their kids and are just bliss later. Yeah, they're having fun when the kid's fighting to save the world. Or it turns out the parents are trapped on this island and it's like a tournament style most dangerous game where they have to improve their parenting skills in order to get out alive.

And that would explain why there's so many anime protagonists without parents. They lost the tournament.

Yeah. And they're just shitty parents for banning the other kid for a week at a time or something with no contact.

See, I actually like that first slice of lifey idea, but it would be hard to incorporate all of our things.

Yeah, I didn't know we were incorporating everything.

That is a good idea though. I do like that though. Keep that in your back pocket.

I got one I'll save onto that I think. Includes most topics or most tags. The other two are also ezekie because that is a dime a dozen. Those are easy to make. They're popular for some fucking reason. One of them is furry eseki where a guy is at a furry convention and somehow gets transported to a magical world in his first suit.

Yes.

And he basically has to do the superhero dual identity thing where people think he's a monster in the first suit. And then when he's not in the first suit, he can just be an average villager. And the twist is he can hang out with the monsters and stuff in his first suit and the villagers in it without it, and he's in love with someone in the village who hates him. The Sunday ra, like playing hard to get.

Meanwhile, you just fucking made my Peter B. Parker fan fiction into an ambassador.

Meanwhile, there's a monster who's in love with him and it's very obvious to everybody except for him.

I would watch that a million percent.

So you're rooting for the monster romance underdog.

Wow, I'm into that one. I love that. Actually got jokes. And then he has like actual good ones.

It's not so much jokes as I can no longer tell what quality is anime is four kids has row into me, so it might be good, but I just am not aware. My other one is laid back isicki where if a kid gets sucked into a fancy world or video game or whatever, but the evil monster overlord whatever is already defeated. So they're just in a new world and they just have to learn to adapt. And they find a trade or a career and just dedicate themselves to it. And we just see a very in depth, beautiful take on the details of this career path. Either it's like a baker or blacksmith or a calligrapher. And while writing that, I realized this is just how it's made the anime and I'm fucking super abortion. Yeah.

I love that.

I'm so glad.

It's like The chronicles of narnia post White witch. Plus how it's made into that?

I just love the idea of like oh, all of the chosen ones were transported to this world at the pivotal moment to defeat this great evil, and just one kid gets put onto, like, a different continent. During the battle. There was no chance of me making it there. I guess I'm silversmith now.

I live here.

I will say there is a story by DC pearson, who's a comedian called crap Kingdom, where the kid gets taken to a fantasy world, finds out he's the chosen one, but the world sucks, so he leaves. And then he finds out his best friend gets taken there and is the new chosen one, and his best friend embraces it. And if it gets better, so it's a shitty kid who misses out on being the chosen one. So if you like that idea, there is a story out there.

Nice. I'm glad it exists.

Those were kind of my just throw out goof them up premises. Oh, one more digit stars.

Okay.

It's digimon and B stars, so it's just horny digimon.

That's going to be a no from me, dog.

Just like super horny. Digimon.

They're already pretty horny, boy. Horny design wise.

Super horny already. I agree. But now it's like now in content. Yeah. The scripts, horny as well as the designers. That's all I got.

Incredible. I'm nervous. I'm nervous to talk about mine.

Yeah.

Do you want me to go first?

Sure.

All right.

But if it's too good, then will I even get a chance? You go. You go. I'm nervous.

Like, we won't decide anything until both of our ideas are out there because okay. Yeah. We'll make it fair real quick.

I'm sure we can combine elements.

I do still have one I thought was actually good.

Okay, we'll all go.

Yeah.

All right. So yeah, I'll go first. So my main thinking with combining the elements, school slice of life and outdoors, or school workplace and outdoors is like, what's? Training for an outdoor job? What's? Like an outdoorsy thing that can incorporate a lot of these elements. And I realize that there's one key factor that can make this all work. Dropping it into the chat.

Oh, boy.

Visuals.

Hold on, hold on.

Who's Prince?

For the listeners, I dropped a picture of our main man, our lord and savior, hagrid.

All right, hold on. Is it hagrid or is it PlayStation One? Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets? hagrid. Because that's what you dropped.

Absolutely. It's PS one.

PS One.

But I realize I am out of all of Harry Potter, the thing I really latched on to, the thing I just wanted it all to be, is the scene introducing buckbeak, where it's just, hey, here's a mythical creature. Let's learn how to take care of it. And I want this anime. My pitch is basically, if hagrid took over hogwarts and had a preserve for mythical animals, and all the students learn how to take care of them all. Because I don't know if you know this, but the environment is fucking dying. So let's protect some animals, shall we? But let's make it fun and magical.

Yeah.

Well, looking at the list of tags we have for common themes, that really does hit like that's really good.

That is why I was so excited, because I was like, oh, school.

Yes.

They're learning supernatural. We got our mythical creatures slice of life. It's going to be super chill.

Fighting.

Fighting. My idea. I don't want to get too latched on to this, but yeah, basically, we can incorporate all of these elements into it pretty easily.

Wow.

So once I came up with that idea, my brain was like, no, stop. You can't think of anything else. So that is why it was my one idea.

Massive, already existing franchise turned into an anime dunk. Yeah, that's a massive idea.

It doesn't need to be Harry Potter licensed because God, no, we won't give jk. rowling any more money.

Agree.

Just like, the idea of, like, this is nature ground. Magic Animal School.

Just fantasy Steve irwin, but, like, reserve crikey.

Look at that beak. That's great. All right.

I do like that.

Well, I've gone a different direction of young adult novels. Here's my idea in a sentence. Gay, furry Hunger Games, the anime.

Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

Yeah, that's a fantastic.

I wouldn't say I latched on to fighting because that's not what I really wanted here's. Okay. To go at it from the perspective of taking one aspect of Harry Potter, I have taken the aspect of District Two in The Hunger Games, which is the district where the kids kind of take pride in volunteering to be tributes. So the setting is a school where the students train to be put into this big fight. And we see the school aspect of it first, get attached to the characters, and then we get to see the big fight.

So in the context of we're getting attached to these characters, at the end, we're having them all fight each other to be the winner. Or are we then following our quote unquote hero into the main Hunger Games esque battle?

So I have four main characters, one of which does not want to be involved in The Games, three of which do. I was trying to decide the logistics of that all. Like, how many people would get picked. What I decided is that it is only quote. I was thinking of it as a high school, but final year students, like, graduating students, they go in. A select few go in and do this fight. Like, I was thinking, like, 50. I don't want to do 24. Because that's The Hunger Game.

Yeah. If we do it, it has to be legally dissimilar.

Especially if people are excited to do it. I feel like it should be a higher number, but, yeah. I have made characters written out. But, yeah, that's the loose idea that I had. I could go into more detail, elaborate.

On how the furry aspects come together.

Yeah, that one kind of stuck out to me.

The characters are furries. Like, yeah, they're anthropomorphic animals.

Got you.

And it's gay. It's got romance, like a star crossed lovers thing.

I feel like with all the pictures I wrote, like gay and romance, I didn't specify because I feel like those could just be worked with anything that has characters.

Yeah. We'll shoehorn games into any shows.

We'll do anything. I, like, wrote a list of everything. It incorporated. I got school fighting. Obviously, outdoors would come into play, like, when they go to the fight, romance, furry. And then horror could come in as well, once they're not only the gore of it, but I had an idea that was kind of lame, but also I kind of loved it. That could come in later as well.

Someone who's a baker who uses their cake decorating skills to camouflage themselves into the wild rock.

Don't. Hold on a second.

What have you done in front of me.

I love that boy. That is the wackiest part of his whole deal. But that is the wackiest part of a trilogy about kids being forced to kill each other.

Am I right?

I saw the least of two movies. That one still stands out as it like, the fuck is this?

It's not hilarious. Where did he even get the supplies for that? But yeah, that's the general idea I have. I'd be happy to talk more, but let's let Brendan do his.

Peter, why are you going into the hunker games with £5 of fondant? Don't worry about it, mom.

That's going to make sense. Worry about it, catniss.

Oh, really?

He just found a camera and turned it into his only fan so he would get all the supplies donated for him.

Oh, my God.

He doesn't have to worry. He has that magical knife that he cuts into anything in his cake. He's fine. Peter invented that little topical reference for anyone listening three weeks from when this is no longer topical. Yeah. Thinking about it now, we tried to incur it, as many themes as we could into a show. I'm realizing, like, yeah, all of our shows are going to be kind of similar. The one I had is basically cryptid college capers Fun. Imagine scooby doo in the ghoul school, but in college. So it's a college of bunch of various students and they all look human, but they're also all cryptids. But they have a human disguise, like glamour, charm, if you will, where they can walk around in day to day life, whatever.

Did you ever listen to Adventures on Amnesty?

Yes, similar to that. Like I said, everything's been done before. This is going to be very similar to the last two.

Again, we're talking about anime. Every anime has been made originality is dead true.

Yes.

So it's various cryptids or mythical figures or fantasy creatures, however far you want to extend that breach with human forms all go to a college. So we got school, we got supernatural, we got a slice of life, like you said, with fighting, like with bstars, they can have a sports moment and it's high intensity. Or there could be an actual fight. Who knows? The bigfoot and the yeti get pissy about technicalities and there could be an actual fight there. And they got outdoors because a lot of them are going to be critters. They're going to be running around the.

Forest and such campus has got to be in an enchanted forest.

At least I'm part of it. Like I said, romance. Gay. You could fit that in anywhere. Easy. bigfoot's a lesbian, also a lady. That's fact. That's just facts. That's it furry. Horror, I think could be dependent upon the cryptids and mythical figures, because I know there's a lot of Japanese folklore and stuff where it's like actual horror creatures, where it's like, oh, if you lock eyes with it, she steals your eyes out of one lady who has, like, a pair of scissors and cut down children that night and stuff. So it's more of like horror stories than like the Jersey devil. But then there's so many. I know where I grew up, we had a place called the devil's Road. And if you go on it and you see someone flashing their high beams on you, it's a big truck and it's going to run your ass over. So like cryptids folklore, myth, however far you want to extend that, that's fun. College. So you can do workplace. Their college students, part time and part time, they're working somewhere else. And that could be the human element of it, like when they're in their disguise. And the twist of it is they're all cryptids, except for one of them is just a human that got transferred there by mistake and they're trying to keep that hidden from everyone else.

Delightful. That's also in rosario vampire.

Oh, I have not seen it. That's my genuine pitch along my other bullshit ones.

I do like that. That would be relatively easy to combine with dugan's idea.

Yeah. The ground keeper of the school. bam.

I think I can find a way to incorporate these things all into one. Here's my pitch.

Okay.

Repeat.

Yeah. With all the options available. Let's flip them origami turn it into a beautiful flower.

Flowers combined.

So there is a school where kids go to train to learn how to fight mythical creatures. Sort of like gearing up for your if we're going Harry Potter, your tri wizards tournament. Like that dragon fighting thing. This is where they go to learn how to fight those dragons so he can keep dana's. Like, these are all combat ready kids just going in. Going to battle combat kids. Yeah. Who can be the ultimate champion, who can basically turn into the witcher, can destroy any mythical creature.

I was thinking witcher.

So my thinking is like brendan's idea. There is a student who isn't supposed to be there isn't a warrior at all, doesn't want to fight all these creatures. I'm a nerd. No. I love Me saman Monols.

I'm vegetarian.

And is that what leads into yours, dugan?

Yeah. My thinking is if you have a school where you have to learn how to fight all these animals, you can't just kill a bunch of centaurs every time you teach centaur killing class. My thinking is there is some sort of groundskeeper, your hat grids, if you will, that takes care of the targets. And the student gets in good with them and starts learning, oh, these aren't the terrible, crazy monsters that all the students think they are. So we have our main population of the school wants to fight and kill all these monsters, but our core group learns, oh, no, they're pretty chill if you don't stab them a bunch.

Who would have thought?

I'm into it.

So, yeah. How are you all feeling. I feel like this still incorporates all of our elements. It has our fighting element. But since that's going to be the big work around, how do we have them? Like, I don't want to do some bullshit. It's a simulation. You're not fighting a real center because we need them on the premises, but some non lethal way to do combat with them.

I think probably for the first few years of this school, it would be training. Like, it wouldn't be actually fighting and killing these things. I think it would be more about, like, the tactics involved and then maybe like, combat skills. And then maybe their final test when it's time to graduate is like a randomized test where their skills are evaluated against one such mythical monster creature.

I think we made ruby. We might have made ruby.

Kind of made how to train your.

I was about to say that as soon as you're like, oh, yeah, learn specialize. Oh, no, wait. Yes, that's how to train your dragon once again. And it is different enough that it does stand on its own. It's not like, oh, you know how to train your dragon. This is a riff on that. The comparisons come afterwards.

Also, are the students furry?

How do furries come into this?

Yeah.

Is that part of it?

That is going to be something we need to figure out because my thinking of the furry aspect is there's going to be, like, your Centaur type creatures where they are a little bit more sentient, a little bit more can be characters to interact with. Maybe there's like a Centaur teacher that's like, yeah, most Centaurs are bullshit. Here's how you kill my brothers.

That's like chiron. chiron. The Greek.

Yeah, mythical.

Sorry.

Yeah.

I was like, I'm not familiar with Hunger Games.

Greek mythology.

Centaur from The Hunger Games. Yeah, we keep going back to Centaurs. I'm thinking like, I can't imagine a bunch of Centaurs in the cage being like, hey, bra, can you not fucking murder me? Like a self aware sentient creature.

A rough cell.

Yeah, that was my immediate jump of like, what's something that you can talk to and be like, hey, buddy, what's up?

You're like, oh man, I sure don't want to kill you. It's like, oh, that sucks because I'm definitely going to kill you.

I got it. Sorry.

I'm wondering because yeah, the mythical creatures that comes into play, I'm wondering I like the idea of them training for the first few years and then it's like the real battle, the graduation, like senior class. I'm wondering if it could be the core group of kids are the ones thinking of a new way, like the current groundskeepers, like a gruff, these dumb beasts that are just a plague on society. Like, let them kill them. And it's the main core group of kids are developing a new system on how to make it ethical, where the battles wouldn't be simulations, but it would be like they go to throw a javelin at just for the sake of a manticore and before it reaches the spell happens. Where javelin is either an illusion or teleports away or some sort of safety system where it's not killing them every single time.

What if they started out trying to think of an ethical way to do the tests, but along the way, then they were like, oh, fuck, we shouldn't be doing this at all. And then there's a fun Hunger Games rebellion aspect.

Yeah, that was my thinking of like, it is going to be hard with how to train your dragon. Being like, oh, yeah, if you want to have this thing not want to murder you anymore, just give it a ham sandwich and do those, like, bullshit things. That's why I was thinking like a friendly hagrid type of like, oh, yeah, let me show you a trick. Like, after class, this is how I calm them down after they get hit with swords a bunch. But yeah, if I do, like, the idea of there is like a magical element where a teacher watching the fights can be like, yeah, that would have been a death bloat. Let me stop it right there. Like stopping things at like, skin surface level.

What if here we go, here we go. What if oh, man. isa key go into a fantasy world in a video game. They're the ones that are training the monsters. The adventures go out and hunt and battle and stuff. I think we've gone too deep, but.

Instead of want to go is the key with it.

God, that's easy anime, though.

We're not trying to make an easy anime.

I'm trying to think of one because it's hard to be like, oh, they're a groundskeeper that cares for the animals. And there's also fighting, so we have to fight the animals. Like, that feels like it immediately contradicts itself. So I'm trying to think of a way where it's like, either it's animals, they're not afraid to just let go and something happens off camera, or the fighting is something else of like, they're taming the animals. And the budget for the fight sequences is going to be in the taming sequence where it's like, it's a big monster creature and they have to somehow tame it to bring it in to take care of and it's going to be like an epic it's not going to be a fight. It's going to be epic. Like taming the creature, taming the dragon sort of sequence.

Okay. Yeah, because that was my original thought when we were going like, oh, yeah, this is like a sanctuary for these creatures, was like, oh, no, the fence between the dragons and the werewolves fell down. We got to separate them.

The sun's out. So the werewolves are just dudes.

Yeah, just keep them in a field.

Hold the phone. Hold on. To lean more into dugan's idea, maybe the school could be training for the caring of mythical creatures, but there could still be combat training in case something like that happens where God forbid, these students have to kill a mythical creature.

Yeah, Brendan said something. I want to get it out there because I feel like this will resolve that. It's kind of a weird thing. I feel like rather than training to just straight up murder, I think like, this is how to capture and subdue creatures.

Yeah.

Tamers monster hunter, but pacifist rung it's all sex.

Like you're King Kong on the island, they are trying to capture the monkey, not, oh, let's murder this big, very bullshit thing. So if it is like, yeah, this is how you tie down a dragon's wings and sort of not quite like trophies, but you can get renowned for being someone who will I don't want to say taming because I feel like that's where we can have our groundskeeper come in. Of like, I feel like most of the I keep imagining, like the villain of this is like an upperclassman student who doesn't care about these animals, just wants to is fine if they die on every mission. That is sort of the bad side of what the school does is if you want to go be a monster slayer, you can do that. But another aspect is the, hey, let's oh, there's a giant terrorizing this village. How can we incapacitate it? Non lethally. Take care of this problem. So I feel like there's going to be like two schools within this school of like, here's how you can incapacitate a monster and here's how you can kill a monster.

Shit.

That really is just what you're killing. Just is it like underground or is it like out there?

Is it part of society or is it frowned upon?

If you're a villager, if a giant is attacking you, you don't care how it gets fixed. But I feel like there are going to be the students that are like, okay, the quickest way, let me just shoot this thing in the brain and put it down. But then there are the more ethical people of like, oh, this thing escaped its natural habitat, let's bring it back. Let's bring it back to the mountains and not this lakeside town where it's looking for food.

I'm into this.

Have either of you played witcher?

Not a little bit.

Okay, because this is very much the case of like, your job as a witcher is to kill any various amount of creatures, curses or like, any monsters that are affecting people that pay to kill them. And gerald having the main character, Heart of Gold trope, he does as much as he can to resolve it. So, for instance, there's a hag that's cursed and she's killing a bunch of creatures and you can just straight up killer done, moving on. Or you can figure out what curse it is and undo it. And turn her back to normal.

There you go. Switch.

Are the anime perfect?

I'm fine with that.

Let's go over it. What on the list do we have covered now?

All right, so we have school. That's where we're learning. Main setting. Got it. Super. We got our mythical creatures and magic and that sort of stuff. Got it. Slice of life. I feel like if we are having our main group lean into thee, not murdering them, learning more about the creatures, that covers that. We got our fighting through the training and actual incapacitating of the monsters and.

Maybe fighting the other group that's trying to kill all of them.

That'D be fun.

You're a draco. malfoy who is like, fuck these things.

You're big game hunters.

Yeah. Outdoors, that's where the animals are. Romance that we can easily fit in furry. We're basically there one of the I.

Still want the characters to be furry.

Yeah, we can find a way to make that happen. Oh, don't you worry.

One of the creatures is a werewolf or one of the students. It's it's that's also tough. It's like, oh, they're all anthropomorphic animals. And then all the creatures are fighting are also animals. So it's like, that's where it would get tricky.

But these are normal animals.

I mean, racism, subplot or I'm thinking, like, with certain elements, like, maybe not everyone's afraid. Maybe there's a group, a specific sect of people that are like, in ruby, it's our protagonist. vor. Got it. Love it. Sorry. No, but, like, in ruby, there's a specific race of people that just have, like, animal parts. Like, someone has a rabbit ear, someone has a cat tail, someone has, you know, antlers. Like but they're all one race of people, but they just have a random animal part. So maybe not everyone in the show is a furry, but maybe there's some.

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Like, characters can be furries. We're not going to rule that out. But I don't want everyone to be a furry and just have it be like, oh, these are civilized animals versus uncivilized animals. Because that's getting into zootopia territory.

Fine.

Zootopia, hunting, other sorry, different show, but yeah, horror. We can have some gnarly, nasty creatures that they can fight or train against, quote unquote workplace. They're learning how to work. They can have their part time jobs, like the weapons locker or whatever.

Work study.

Their work study program. Gay, of course, will make it gay, of course. And sport, I feel like how we can do it is not specifically like, there's an organized sport around this, but we can incorporate sports elements into the score system. leaderboards of who's the best at this type of hunting, blah, blah, blah. So we can have those sports things represented. But it doesn't need to be like we're playing wolf ball where we kick a wolf soccer ball with our wolf feet.

Maybe the bigger hunters are seen as athletes like, instead of athletes, like, in our world, they're athletes in that world where they're the ones that have billboards or product deals or famous sponsorship.

All these people want to be heroes. Some of them want to be heroes so they can be famous. Others want to help these amenals.

There's some adventures and monster hunters that get a ton of money early on and have no idea how to spend it properly and go bankrupt within the five years of their career and then are shit out of luck after they retire. Anyway.

I like it.

I'm on board with it, but I'm trying to think of it. Yeah, we talked about how it already is because I'm just thinking it's witcher school or master hunter school.

And I'm just like, but what about anime?

Yeah. One thing I did want to try to work on is not just have it be like Western fantasy based, which gives us our witcher Harry Potter things. We can have it set outside of there's an elf race, there's a dwarf race. Like your tokenized version of fantasy. Like, we can have some fun with it.

You fight a capa.

Yeah, like incorporate more worldly things. Like in our dnd game, I started playing with stuff like this of like, oh, what if you fight the Filipino tick belong, stuff like that.

What if you kill its whole family and adopt a small one as your own? It will sometimes kill you in your sleep. Fine to worry about it, but yeah.

So we can start to incorporate other things, not just be, yes, we're in probably Germany forest, let's fight only Western fantasy stuff.

Yeah, I'm on board for that. Sorry. I'm just thinking it's mostly I just don't know any I don't know a ton. I'm wondering where the line would be. Are we doing just mythical creatures or doing cryptos like I talked about? Are we doing like haunted stuff, like ghosts and stuff? Because that adds a whole other element of monsters and myths and stuff.

Yeah, I am fine. If we do have like, there's a bigfoot species out there, they are not common like your dragons and stuff, but if you come across one, you need to know how to take it down. So we can have things like that of your, like, oh, this is my mothman training of just like mothman like creatures. So we can incorporate those cryptids and we can have ghosts and things like that. Get into like you're a general all around creepy crawley critter expert. Expert. Yeah.

Okay.

I like it. I think we've done something here.

I mean, I'm already instantly imagining the character designs and stuff, so my mind.

Is railing, let's start getting into our cast of characters and who we're going to see in every day. Like, who is our found family.

I've got them. Don't even worry about it. I've done the research. I know what the people want. And by people I mean. So our main character, she will be a big, strong girl, confident, very stoic, and then comes in the love interest. She's got very natural abilities. She just comes to the school ready for anything. She comes from a school that didn't even do this stuff. She's just like but, like, in a nice way. And the main character is just like, oh, I've never met anyone like her.

Oh, wow.

And then we've got the rival. This is a big, strong boy who has been competing with big, strong girls since they were children. And he also has a crush on the love interest, of course, because according to my premise, you know, every good young adult novel has a love triangle, but this one's gay.

It's a gay triangle.

And then we have a best friend character who I wanted to be non binary, and I do just want to say this because I picked a name. It's aquito and it means bright person, one who is like Autumn. And I just love that. I think that's so sweet.

I like that.

Yeah. And I think this character would be, like, very passive, but very supportive of the main character. Like, they're just like, oh, you want to go fight the thing? Cool. I'm proud of you. I'm good right here.

Maybe not necessarily, like, wise, but the kind of quiet, reserved, wise friend that always supportive like that.

Yeah. Kind of dumb, though. Not wise.

Not wise. But that role of, like, I'm here.

For a pep talk if you need it, but I will not give you one unprompted.

Yes, exactly. Those are the big four that I came up with.

All right. I think a way we can tie these characters well into our narrative and the dilemma of this school. I like stoic fighter, main character, fought super hard, wants to be the best, like, monster hunter. Like, going into it with the mindset of, I was always taught these things got to die. Most of the time, they die in combat. That's just the rules of the road. So with Rival, they can have sort of like a pokemon Gary rivalry of yeah, like the bully of like, yeah. I'm always trying to one up you. I'm going to be the best champion. You can't beat me. I think Lively Crush is going to be our introduction into the softer, nonlethal side of it. Coming into the school and being like, oh, she just really does not want these creatures to die. She's firmly on the, oh, let's just put this thing back into the environment where it belongs and not in civilization.

I love it.

We can have that strong pull of, oh, I thought I was just here to fight everyone, but thanks to the support of my crush and wanting to be closer with her, I'm learning. Oh, I don't need to kill every monster.

I love it. Wow.

Maybe the love interest got to the school on a scholarship or something for her athletic prowess or whatever and her skill and not knowing what the school actually was like, oh, you kill everything like that. You don't need to. She went to the school because of her ability, not necessarily the philosophy of the school, maybe.

Yeah, like very knowledgeable about all these things. Sort of like the book smarts versus street smarts. Of like, oh, I know the facts of all these creatures. I know. Oh, this thing should be in this environment. It may act out if it is put in this environment instead and has all the non practical things and then is like, oh, I don't want to kill them because I just think they're all super cool.

Yeah, I like that.

If I may recommend one character, the level of importance of this character does not matter. Really popular, absolutely nothing background character, just random jew character. I just want a very passionate, energetic idiot. Just a big dumb idiot. Maybe a hymbo. Doesn't even have to be attractive, doesn't have to be strong. Just high energy. I've been watching a lot of high cue, got Kirashima vibes from my hero academia. Just like super passionate and well, intentional. Maybe does something to apply, maybe does absolutely fucking nothing. I just want them to just dumb and high. Just a golden retriever of a person.

Yeah, I'm into that. I also realized my favorite character, trope, is a father figure. So if we could work a father, I'd be more than happy.

He got very sultry when he said.

I love father figure.

Yeah, I think this can be our incapacitate nonlethal teacher, our hagrid ish character.

But he's forgiven the monster that gave it to him.

Yes, just strong Uncle iro energy of like, I used to be a warrior, but I know that's not the way anymore. Yes, I can still kick your ass if I need to, but I don't want to.

What about you, Duke? You got any specific requests for a character?

The Uncle iro hagrid type was going to be my okay, perfect. Yeah, the rival combined. I like your version of it more. I was thinking more of the upper classmate, draco. malfoy type of like, yeah, fuck these things. I'm just going to murder a bunch and become rich and famous. But I do like your side of it more of like, they have a history. They're not just meeting for the first time. They're going to stay firmly in the no, these things got to die. They kill a lot of people. Sort of camp.

Yeah, they're playful rivals at first, but then as it gets more serious, they become a villain type. Bump. Bump.

Yeah.

Wow, I love that.

Wondering if there's a way, like, you were thinking of like, oh, these monsters kill a lot of things. Maybe if there's a way to skew that, to make it, like to garner sympathy with the main characters and their goal so that it's. Like, oh, the monsters don't actually kill these people. Or those incidences were, you know, not as they were reported. So it's like, oh, man, that polar bear that German zoo killed like three tourists. It's like, yes, because those three tourists got drunk and jumped into the polar bear exhibit. That's what happens when you jump into a polar bear. Something works like, yes, tangley killed them, but it's not the animal's fault sort of situation where, yeah, I think that's probably the direction.

I don't want to do that for all of them because there are going to be your dragons that just want to fuck shit up. There are going to be creatures, but not every creature. My thinking is sort of like the news sensation of like, you can sell a story about how a giant stepped on a village and crushed everyone in it, but you're not going to hear the story about the giant that lives peacefully in the mountains and doesn't fuck with anyone.

It's like hilda. There's an episode of hilda where hilda steps on a small village and crushes a bunch of stuff because she can't.

See because they're invisible.

But once she sees them, she doesn't do it anymore. hilda.

Yeah, that sort of like, oh, no, if those tiny things fucking murdered hilda, that would be a much different show.

Oliver'S Travels yeah, but this manscore destroyed a bus. It didn't know what a bus was. Yeah, that's going to happen.

Yeah. Why is it in the middle of New York City? Let it there and then you're like, oh, no, an exotic animal trader had it as a pet. It escaped. It's a bunch of shit. So, yeah, we can have those elements of like, no, there were some shitty people. They're truly at fault. But I don't want that to be every storyline.

You don't want to burn that out.

Sort of go into the like, oh, wild animals are just friendly. They go up in pet and mousse. It's like, no, they will fuck you up because that's what they know how to do. That's not their only goal, though.

Yeah.

I always forget how truly terrifying muses are mooses are until there's a video someone say, nice and it's like, they're just enormous.

That's a huge thing.

That's a big bitch.

I didn't want to be the one to say it. Well, what else is there? We've got a core cast of characters.

We've got the plot ish got a motley crew. We got the setting. We've got the general plot tropes.

Yeah. Any other specifics that we may be overlooking? We have room to build on this. I don't want to go like, oh, yeah, in episode two, blah, blah, blah. But is there anything that we may be overlooking? We haven't talked too deeply about the setting of the school beyond. It has to be like an enchanted forest type place. But do we want to get into stuff like that? We don't need to paint too much detail.

We don't have the world build, but we have to have a setting, at least like one location of like, the story takes place at blah, blah, blah.

I think for this, I would prefer not medieval like not saying it takes place in medieval times, but like a non technology kind of world, I think.

Not a modern day alternate dimension or something.

Not an onward situation.

Yeah, we can definitely have like we don't need to be like, oh, we don't know what any technology is. But there can be like trains, but we don't need like high speed maglev trains going on and stuff like that.

Turn of the 19th century maybe.

Yeah, I was thinking like solar punk esque of like eco, where we know technology can fuck stuff up. Let's have the more ecological side of things. Like ecological society type stuff.

I'm into it.

Sorry. I'm just wondering if the ecological if society was environmentally conscious, would these creatures be a problem per se? Take care of the animals as well.

It doesn't need to be like a green utopia, but we need to justify that there's going to be remote villages where people are like, yeah, we're a small fishing town. This is all we need. So we can have our bigger cities of like, okay, this is a bigger collective. We have more resources, but we can go to our remote locations and have those interactions.

Ie. Legend of korra?

Kind of. Yeah, I don't want to go full steampunky, but we don't need to kneecap ourselves with how much technology we're putting in.

Very likely it won't contribute at all to what we're actually making.

Yeah, your adventure zone. Why is their elevators fuck you, that's why sort of thing.

Yeah. Now we're just getting bogged down in the actual world building of it rather than what our product will be.

This episode is going to be 6 hours long.

Yeah.

Good luck editing.

Yes, but yeah. So we basically have our framework. We have our premise, we have our characters, but yeah, anything else we need?

I mean, title, maybe if we want to try.

I feel like maybe don't put us under the gun on that. Right.

Because those are hard.

Turtles are hard.

We'll get there.

It won't factor in it anyway. At least nothing that we're doing. But there's going to be an animal sidekick. You got to merchandise that shit. You don't have to think about one, but there will be one.

Well, of course they're fighting mythical creatures.

They adopt a smaller one that they can travel around with.

Maybe like a land shark feet.

We went two ways with that.

Well, technically we went one.

We went the same way, but it's nothing the audience will understand.

Yeah, let's not get too in the weeds. But yeah, lively crush, of course, is going to have like a cute animal sidekick.

Just doesn't it from just a separate hand no. Was that thing thing was a separate hand. Oh, God. Why? It's just pennywise, you don't have a pocket. pennywise. What?

I have a nightmare in my pocket. That would be really cute, though. Oh, some little creature has a little nightmare.

Okay, dana, I suggest you don't tell anyone else you have a nightmare in your pocket. I feel like that's going to break bad real quick.

Yay.

I said it at the bar and I got slapped. I don't know why. That's just what I call my dick.

Oh, boy.

Cute little, like, black cloud with eyes.

I was thinking of like, those, like, invisible skeleton horses from Harry Potter. Those are kind of cute.

Yeah.

But yeah. Before we wrap up this portion, anything else we want to add? Any elements, any major anime tropes or items that we are overlooking.

I can think of a lot of.

Animate tropes rooftop garden where they all.

Hang out the rooftop area. Window seat. They'll have a window seat. I mean, that's not going to be relevant, but no, they will sit in the classroom. I can think of a lot of anime tropes we're not including, but it's for good reason. Because they're bad tropes.

We did the no nos already.

Yeah.

Any that can be incorporated into this. Any elements that like, oh, we'd be stupid not to put something like this in a show of this type.

We don't want to regret it. I don't know.

I mean, we got the hymbo, so I'm happy.

Yeah, that's all we need.

All I can think of.

All right, if you listen or think of something that we may have left out, feel free to tweet at us in all caps. Don't actually yell at us.

It'll be a month after we actually recorded this. So we'll say what?

Okay, sure. But yeah, then I think that'll do it for our brainstorm session. Folks, I now present to you the world premiere of the first and only trailer for untitled. Are we there yet? Project.

Mankind has always feared the unknown, and with good reason. camara yetis, whatever that is. defenseless. Villagers worldwide need a line of defense from deadly creatures that come calling. That's where I come in, or will, after I complete my training. I'm yori, the best monster hunter, exorcist warrior, or anything else you need to slay a beast. I'm starting my first year at Surrey Bond University, the number one school for monster slayers in the world. The plan was to put my nose and swords to the grindstone and walk out of these doors primed for victory and a hero for humanity. But that idea didn't get past my first class. Can anyone tell me the most vulnerable.

Part of a griffin?

It's wing feathers.

Precisely.

The wing.

I'm sorry?

Feathers.

A griffin's tough skin means that feathers crack but don't completely fall out, leading to irritation and aggressive outbursts. They are one of the few creatures that are more likely to start a fight.

When injured, this gentle country girl, kazumi, walks into a monster hunting school with a perfect bestiology test score and a full scholarship, but insists on using it more like a zookeeper than a warrior.

Are you crazy? Silver is the deadliest thing for a werewolf. You can't just swing that thing around. You'll get someone killed.

But that's the point.

There is a person in there. Would you slay a riled up kid that had too much sugar?

I tried to go over the training in my mind, but she was always there. Any time I pulled back to strike, I could only see the disappointment in her eyes, and I couldn't do that to her.

Well, look at what we have here. Someone's gone soft since placement trials. Getting sloppy in the big league gets you killed. We're better yet, in second place. You have to admit, she gets the job done, though. Sure, she doesn't have a severed head.

To present to the mayor, but if.

The monster is no longer a threat.

Then what's the difference?

It's nice that we ended up working in the stables together. You aren't the brute you make yourself out to be. You know, there is a caring heart somewhere under all that armor.

Would I throw all my hard work away to make kazumi happy? Would I sacrifice the future I had planned for the future I found?

You students can't be in here.

I can't hold it back much longer. It's an eat or be eaten world.

How long are you going to hide from the tree? They start out cute, but don't stay that way. I'm furry, too. Am I next on your list? You're a monster, just like them.

Mother Nature doesn't make mistakes.

I still have four more years here. I have time to find my path or our path.

A very special thank you to Jackie LASTRA ride chase, brian Anderson, coy Dow, and, as always, camille ruley and Louis zong for all of your help in this trailer and being guests and being incredible people. And most of all, thank you, listener, for joining us on our hundredth episode. We hope to be here with you for at least a hundred more. Oh, no. That's 100 more hours of anime.