AWTY 116 - Iakesi (The Devil is a Part-Timer!)

You propose wheat burgers and fries three.

Times a day until you get paid.

What is this supersize me?

You find eat a high calorie, high.

Cholesterol diet at such a young age.

I'm looking forward to the next ten.

Years, but now I have to hope you don't die for material of a lifestyle related illness before we get home. I'm not my counter. I remember you come to feel just come freaking out. I gotta go to work. Sure.

Me later. Hello and welcome to are we there yet? In exploration and Education in anime, I'm your anime idiot, Patrick dugan.

I'm an anime expert, D hollander.

And I'm brenda mccullough, your anime server. How can I take your order? No, I don't make the prices. Stop yelling at me.

Yeah, can I get no, you can't.

Everyone just pulled out their headphones. Wait, what happens?

I love having a fader.

Fancy mixing skills, I think, like, yeah.

It makes it a little convenient to do recording stuff, but I just love feeling like I'm in, like, the cockpit of the millennium falcon. Just like flipping switches and stuff just to record.

Hey, we've all done that together. Thanks, disneyland. Also fucking for being open. Disney World. And now Main Street on at California Venture. Fuck that. Anyway, I love you, but I hate you.

Anyway, pull around to the complex relationship right now.

Speaking of complex relationships.

This week we are watching The devil is a Part Timer. Yeah, it's a show that I've watched a little bit of with Paul I heard about a long time ago, but I never really it's not that I wasn't interested, I just never got around to watching it.

So yeah, I mean, there's only 10 million other anime out there, so it's fine. It can win.

Yeah, it was on the list.

I remember when we started this, a friend asking, do you think you'll have enough anime to make a podcast of it?

I was like, bro, literally hundreds of anime come out every year.

We could do this till we die.

Yeah, I think we have plenty, you guys.

I'm sorry. Hold on. Anime news. Did you guys see the trailer for the urion Ice movie?

I thought it was out. I have not watched it.

It's just a very nicely animated, I think, like 15 or 17 year old Victor Nakivarov.

Young Victor?

Yeah, the movie is I think it's called Ice adolescence, and it's about his time in, like, the junior circuit, I think, which is not what I wanted it to be. I wanted it to be about, like, after the events of yours, but that's okay.

Want to see a happy day?

Yeah, I think there's still supposed to be a season too, so whatever. But yeah, I just wanted to mention that I forgot about that.

Fantastic.

Yeah. Why would I watch new anime when I could rewatch erie on Ice?

Who cares about this new stuff? Who needs titan? Who cares fuck it.

Fuck.

I mean, quote, new stuff. Season one came out. 2013.

Isn't there the new season coming out?

Yeah, it just took, like, a six year gap between seasons because I guess you can make more money by merchandising the fuck out of your property instead of writing a compelling story.

Anyway, sorry, took a turn. Have either of you heard of The devil as a part timer?

Yes. Netflix will stop shoving it down my third every time I log on. Hey, you like anime? Watch this one. It's like, Why do you get royalties from it? Netflix. Why is this the one you keep pushing on me?

Hey, we just genuinely care about you. Hey, are you doing all right? You seem a little angry.

If you actually cared about me, you put Adventure Time on Netflix and take hannibal away. So I want to stop watching it. For the 7th time, I really am invested in homo rottus as a cannibalist.

That's your brand.

It's a good show.

So, on that note, no, I haven't watched this cartoon.

Well, what a surprise. Actually, when we discussed this before, I was a little surprised that Brendan hadn't watched it.

I've seen it plenty and I was like, it's one of those words. Like, I got the whole premise from the title. I don't need to know more about this, and I just never watched it.

Yeah, well, we can get into it. We're going to watch the first three episodes.

Finally, Netflix will have its quota filled.

Netflix is going to close after this because Brendan watched The devil as a part timer.

We got them.

Everyone.

Seen from NASA when the ship lands. Yes. Wrap it up, boys. We got.

The world is beautiful.

The station at the base of Sazark has all the charm of an industrial seaport and the invasiveness of a busy market.

Life is a gift.

The belabored death of a joyful man is an ugly thing to witness, with.

Kind and giving people.

If you push past an angry sailor in gloucester, it's a transgression worthy of a trip to the bridge.

Adventures everywhere you look.

He knew I never strayed far from gloucester and would rather read about the next town over than visit myself and.

Fun around every corner.

If I fall off my neck, body mangled among the meat, would they notice.

A passenger in there?

So go explore.

I bury my face in the pillow and cross silently to sleep. The party continues. Me off.

Make new friends.

She opened the door crack just enough to be face to face, but not to imply a welcome.

Remember, old one.

He was the only one welcoming in the starlight on its many mile journey.

And see the beauty the world has to offer.

I'm glad I could share with him this moment and return it to its rightful home.

Echoed Locations a traveler's Guide to a Solar punk World a new audio fiction travel show premiering December 9 subscribe now on your podcaster of choice. I think the changes of what we do in this shadow season three have been very big and different. But I I want to see where they take it.

It's a full direction they went with this new season, but kind of a skillmo.

But yeah, it happens.

I haven't watched enough of what we do in the shadows of TV show to really play along with this bit. I'm sorry.

That's okay.

You need to remedy that. It is very good.

I don't have television or premium streaming the packages because, you know, poor dang.

It it's a good one.

Yeah. It's on my list. Anyway, we watched the deadly show.

Anime.

Anime.

Anime.

Anime.

Yes. Let's talk about it. In the beginning of episode one, we are shown the map of a mythical world. But all told, it doesn't matter that much.

Fantastic.

This episode is just very broad, very direct explanations.

Yes.

You know zelda. It's zelda. All right. Moving on.

Yeah. So there's five countries. satan rules the countries along with his four henchmen. The only henchmen that matters is alco. And they attacked the world and took over. And then we see some cool fighting stuff. Like, it's pretty well animated and it looks cool.

I missed the skeleton boy already.

Blood. Evil skeletor.

Yeah.

And then we see the hero come to save the day. They go to attack satan after destroying all the other armies. And we see more cool fight stuff. There's, like, some magic going on. And then before the hero attacks satan, alcil swoops in and saves him or defends him, whatever. protects his boyfriends. Yes. And they speak a fantasy language with it, which I think is kind of cool that they came up with a gibberish fantasy language for this.

Yeah. I was thrown for a little bit because I was like, this is just weird Italian. It hit me in waves of, like, weird Italian and mayan stuff.

Yeah.

I don't know what's going on here.

It felt like if you've ever heard someone make fake English in another language, being like, this is what English sounds like to people in, like, Russia or, like, in Japan. And it's like, ah. Like, it sounded like a fake English, sort of with some of the did.

You guys watch this one dubbed?

I watched this one subbed I watched this dubbed.

I wonder if it's different. I wonder if they use different no.

They kept the same source language, fake fantasy language for this. Because I watched the second one dubbed and there was a brief moment of that got you.

Yeah, because I was confused about that. Because in the second episode well, we won't spoil who it is, but one of the people having it just has a very thick American accent coming through the fake language. I wonder what it's like in the Japanese.

Yeah. So they're like, oh, my God, I can't believe we've been brought down by humans. Like, they're super weak. And then they escape through a portal that opens up in the sky to another world.

I wonder what world it will be.

So this is what I'm going to call a reverse isekai because they go from a fantasy world to Japan.

How do you spell these, sorry?

E-K-A-I.

Yeah. Esekai. So they're like, oh, we need to heal. And they're still speaking their foreign tongue. And they look at each other, and they look different, and they're like, oh, God, we're human.

So ugly.

I'm going to barf.

And then alcal tries to do some magic, and satan is like, maybe don't. We don't know about this world. And then the cops show up, and they're just like, hey, a couple of foreigners when they hear them talk and they're not wrong.

No, I do like it. It is this, like, fantasy world where it's like demons, skeletons and lizard fucking. And then the bad guy is just like, satan. Yeah, he's the ultimate satan. One of his generals was lucifer. And just like, huh. Okay.

So the cops assume they're cosplaying, but they're also like, dang, these kids are really injured. We should maybe, like, take them in to keep them safe. And then they take them to the station just to keep them out of trouble. And one of them is with satan, and the other is in a different room with alcl. And he offers satan katsudon, and he's just like, no. And then he hypnotizes the cop to tell him more about the world they're in info dump. Yeah. And then he goes to find Alcio, who is simply enjoying the katsu don he was offered.

I never got a katsutan when I got arrested.

Damn it.

Damn these criminal American prisons.

And yeah, this is when satan explains that they're in Tokyo and the police are the law enforcement of the world. And then alcal is like, and what is this dish that we have been offered? And satan calls it katsu dune. katsu dune, which alcl says has a powerful ring to it.

It's already lured me under its spell. Not man, it's just like chicken, and.

It'S good fried pork with rice and egg. And then satan is like, we can't use magic here because it doesn't exist in this reality. Also, obviously, your magic doesn't work, and mine is super weak. I can feel it. And then they leave the station, and alcohol tries to use his magic again, but he just hails a taxi, and he like, looks at satan. And satan is like, no, he did not summon this.

Check that shit out.

So satan is like, I got to use my magic sparingly because we got to figure out how to find a way home. Until then, we blend in. In order to do this, they hypnotize a woman into giving them legal documents. So they're like citizens now. I guess it was that easy. I don't know, and they open a bank account and then they go to a Real tour and they try to find a home. And their Japanese isn't great, but it's okay because a language barrier is nothing for a powerful being like satan. Satan's got a window. Yeah. He pulls out that owl app and they go to, like, this little house. The realtor takes them to this little house and they're like, oh, at least it has two stories and six rooms. And then the realtor is like, you'll.

Be staying in this one, and it's the same room as the one in St. Young man, I was thinking that.

Just like, literally the same building. Yeah.

And they meet renting out this place. What about it?

It's got a powerful lure.

Wait, I mean, there is a game called unholy Heights where you're satan and you're just a landlord in an apartment complex like this for a bunch of, like, hellish creatures.

Like, that sounds fun.

It's super cute and actually pretty fun. Like, I'd recommend it. It's real cheap, too.

Awesome writing it, too. So they meet the landlady. It's not like she doesn't come back for these next episodes, so whatever.

I was just I really liked her design. Like, they show, like, the witch of.

The Waste from hal's moving castle.

Yeah.

So then it's nighttime and they're just sitting in their empty room, and satan gets emotional and they're like he's like, we just have to be patient. And then he passes out. And then they go to the hospital because he didn't realize that he needed fuel, I mean, food to fuel his body. And they say that the IV drip was a whole month's rent on the castle because they call it a castle because fantasy.

Yeah. whistles that cheap.

Yeah. And he's just like, yeah. Obviously money is a very important part of this human society. So it looks like we have to get jobs. And we see them in their apartment filling out some applications, and then time has passed and alcl is telling satan that he needs to be more careful with spending his money. But satan is like, but we needed all of those things I bought. And then alcl is like, well, you could have done a payment plan. So this is this now?

Yeah.

I was so scared when we first started out because it was just, like, very basic. Like, what is this what they call a police station? I'm like, oh, no, please don't be this tedious. And then to them in the future of like, no, I'm not getting a payment plan. I need a bike right now. And the laundromat, compared to a washing machine, it's just I was like, okay, thank God.

They figure it out pretty quickly. And then alcohol is like, but all we have in the fridge right now is cucumbers and cognac jelly. How are we going to eat until our next paycheck? And then satan is like, well, I get free food from work, and then we see a couple of garbage bags filled with fast food.

The dream the best part of working.

I got ate so much pizza when I work delivery, those dollar slices that you see at a pizza's place, no one takes them. That goes to the staff. Chances are the little stale, but I'll take it.

I used to work at a coffee shop, and we, for a little bit, got way too many breakfast sandwiches, and they could only be sold for two days. So the entire time I worked there, I never paid for breakfast because I just put, like, 30 breakfast sandwiches in my freezer and was like, I'm eating for a month. We couldn't sell these.

We'll live as kings.

When I worked at a starbucks kiosk in a grocery store, we weren't allowed to take the expired things, did I? Yes.

Oh, yeah.

We weren't allowed to either.

Ha ha.

Also, if you run a Target, maybe put some cameras in that dry room with the guy with the expiration gun and a box cutter. Just saying.

So alcohol is not happy that all they have to eat is fast food. But then satan doesn't have time to listen to him rant because he has to go to work. So he's off on the bike. I forget what he named the bike, but he gave it a mighty steed name.

Dulahan. Yes, because it's the same as celti from Du. Robert I'll sit in the corner.

Get out of here.

So he's waiting at a crosswalk and it's raining, and a girl with red hair comes up to him, and she doesn't have an umbrella. And he's like, hey, you want mine? It's cool. I work at the mc Ronald nearby. And the first time I watched this, I was just like, mc ronalds.

Mc Ronald.

Mc ronald's.

Mc Ronald. It's MiG Ronald. It's mg. I love that a bingo card has to be just like faux McDonald's food.

Yeah, there's so many, apparently. Paul told me later in the season, there's Kentucky Fried Chicken, mc ronald's, though.

The mg, the harold at the very.

Beginning, it just tickles me. I love it. So she takes the umbrella and he hurries off. He's at work, and he is ready to break the record for selling these black pepper fries. They're going to be number one in the district.

Also with the mc Ronald, at least in the Dubai episode I watched, they say, yeah, can we get order of one big MiG? Just like, hearing that feels just both the silliest thing and also a slur. Like, I don't feel comfortable saying big MiG.

A bunch of guys in south, he followed me around and called me a big MiG.

Yeah.

So, yeah, we just see satan at his job, and he's, like, really good at it, which is interesting. He's, like, really into it and really good at it. And then Alcielle is at the library. And he has a memory of satan getting upset with him for losing a job. But then he's just like, you know what? You should just focus on getting us home and I'll work. And then once we conquer our old world, we can conquer this one too. It's fine, buddy. But now satan is, like, actually interested in his job, and lcl hasn't really been able to find a way home, so they're kind of just living in Japan now.

It happens.

And then there's a small earthquake. Maybe that matters, maybe not. Who knows? And satan and his coworker chi are on break, and chi is lamenting about dropping fries on the floor all the time. She's like, I'm so bad at this. And then the manager comes in and she's like, hey, when you guys come back from break, be ready to work hard because it's busy and we want to break that record. Go team. If we're number one, maybe we could have a pizza for that.

I wish she said something like that.

Give you all an approving nod.

The biggest honor I can give you as a corporate leader a race. No, no. A pat on the back can't touch you. No respect.

Illegal part time workers are getting respect.

Never.

Satan. satan is back on the floor and he takes some fries out of the fryer, but they're not cooked. And that's the black pepper fryer. Oh, no, boy. So he's standing there, like, looking at his hand, being like, should I use magic? This is an emergency. But then the manager snaps him out of it and then he's in the break room again being upset about how the friar is broken. And then the manager calls him back to her office and she offers him a promotion to a level staff. Yeah, and he's excited to get home and tell Alstiel that he gets a raise when he runs into that girl with red hair again. And she's like, hey, I've been watching you at work. I saw that you were going to cast a spell today. I know you're satan. And then we find out that this is Amelia, the hero from the beginning of the episode, a girl. But they don't really make a big deal of that. They don't even really talk about it. That's cool. But yeah, that's episode one.

So we start off with episode two. We get the flashback of satan and just kind of call him boyfriend, because I've already forgotten the name. I wrote it down. I'm reading it. I wrote it correctly. I'm not bothering his boyfriend. Wait, who satan's boyfriend?

Oh, okay. Got it. I thought you mean you were going to call satan boyfriend.

He's my husband. I already got the body pillow. On one side, he's in his work uniform. On the other side is just a big old hamburger. So we get a flashback of them in the esta isles. I wrote that down somewhere too. The fantasy. Homeland, homeland. They're escaping through the big portal. And we see the group of heroes, like in the destroyed castle being like, what do we do? They're escaping. And we see Amelia take off her helmet's, like going after, I'm going to kill them. That's what we're here to do. So we see her lift up a little bit and it's like, oh, she can fly. Or someone there can cast fly on her. And then once we see her floating up towards the portal, bit cuts weight to the opening. And they're pretty standard opening. We see a little going through the daily lives of Amelia and satan. So the little fun shin anigans they get into in the modern world. And when we come back, it's Amelia confronting satan on the street corner. And she pulls out like a pocket knife. She's like, I'm going to kill you here and now. He's like, did you get that from like, Dollar store? She's like, shut up. Yes. Because it's just like a real dinky little knife.

A knife is a knife, satan.

She says, magic is not real here. So she's also very limited in her power. So she's conserving it. And then as they're kind of tussling in the street a bit, it cuts to just them and a little it's not a full on police station. It's those little police boxes.

Outposts.

Outposts that they have in Linked Japan, where it's just like yeah, it's just kind of like a toll booth almost, but just for the police. Just a patrol cop who kind of pulled them into it and be like, hey, if this couple here, if you're having a fight, if you're breaking up, if you want to dump his ass, fine, whatever. Don't bring out knives into this. Don't just start stabbing your ex boyfriend because you can't break out with them, right?

She's like, we're not a couple.

We're not breaking up. And she's all flustered and saint, just like it happens.

This is the third breakup knife fight I've done today. I'm sick and tired of it.

If satan told me that, I'd be like, yeah, that makes sense for satan. And so as they're leaving the little police box, as they leave, Amelia says that she knows where satan lives and one day she'll come and kill him once she's ready to do so. So be on his guard at all times. And like, as they're walking away saying, hey, wait a minute. What about that umbrella I gave you? She's like, oh, you mean Satan's umbrella. I don't want a citizen to come across that evil diabolical weapon, so I dismantled it and throw it away. He's like, what the fuck? I was like, $5?

That's excessive. I think you watched that one dubbed. Yeah, I feel like in the sub, she's just kind of like, I threw it away.

Yeah, I wrote down that she specifically says I disassembled it. And I was like, Why?

That's a lot yeah, it's less dramatic in the Japanese.

Yeah, but he does that when he gives it to her to episode one. He's like, hey, you just throw it away. I don't care. And it's like, you can't be mad now, man. He did tell her to do that.

It's truly binding.

Yeah. We all know how demons loved contracts, so we see the next day, we just follow Amelia and, like, her daily life. We see her working at a call center for customer support and course, like, a call center, everyone at their desk. You just see rows of women with brown hair, and you just see the one redhead glowing. I wonder who's important here. And it's just following her life and serve one friendly like, we got to go out some time for after work drink. She's like, nah, I'm busy. I got to go home. And we see her just having, like, a microwave meal or, like, a meal from, like, a 711 and watching, like I don't even know what you'd call it. It was a guy running into people's houses, being like, what do you got going on here? And it's like, this is a show.

Just a wacky Japanese quote reality show.

Unquote, just to do with can we.

Really comment that American reality TV is much better?

No, I think this looked fun.

No, I just had no idea what's happening. It just seems like a home invasion on camera. Like, what's going on? Who are you? I don't like this.

Why are you trying to kind of genuinely wanted to watch this? Because what are you having for dinner? Okay, cool.

I mean, with all TV meals with all TV. Like, if they signed waivers and they were probably warned ahead of time, but it's just like, the concept of, like, I'm living my life in some do with a giant spoon kick to my apartment door and be like, how do you live your life? It's like, sadly, go away.

We're talking about the ethics of a reality show that's in an Internet.

Listen, no, come on. We have to break this down. We're here to ask the questions that everyone else is afraid to ask. Where did he get that giant spoon?

Who gave that to him?

That's too much power.

That's where he tells we all already.

Agreed this caught our attention more than the chefs love it. So she's watching that reality show, and she's just like, wait a minute. My life is just as sad as Satan's life. She's not saying I can't judge him, but it's more like, I got to do something about this. I can't be living the same sad life as satan is. So we see her go to their apartment. So she said she knows where they live. So she goes and tracks them down and goes to the door and, like, knocks. And then a boyfriend just goes on. It's like, oh, who is it? It's like, Amelia. It's like, cool. Lock, like chain lock. Lock it again.

I love that it was unlocked and she could have just felt that compelled.

She's a vampire. She can't she's invited in.

So when he locks the door, he turns. He's like, satan, the hero is here to kill us. He's like, nah, I met her earlier. She's just lame, but she's cool. Don't worry about it. And the whole time him and satan are talking, amelia just outside, like, banging the door like her, and eventually he's just like, she's cool. Just failing to let her in, but we don't want the landlord hearing her causing a commotion. So when she's inside, she says, like, yeah, we came through the portal with the head priest that we're going to come and try and vanguard you once for all. But everyone got cut off, both sides may. So everyone in my adventure party is left back in the fantasy world. And then satan talks about how he's got these grandiose plans to work his way up the corporate ladder and take over this world. And then they'll go back to the fantasy world with a new army and then take over that world again. And he highlights the point that sometimes if a part timer does well enough, they'll be promoted to full time. That's my goal. That's the plan here. And then Amelia says, like, well, I can kill you easily, but then I don't have a way to summon a portal to get back home, so I'm serving my power. So I won't kill you yet, but I will someday have my eyes on you, touching you. The next day we see her coworker, asked her, like, hey, let's go out for drinks. She's like, no, I'm busy. I'm like, what are you doing? And then we just see her stalking.

I want her to make friends. This girl seems so nice, and she is never a bitch about it. She's always just like, okay, I mean, if you ever want to hang out.

I'm bored at home. You're probably bored at home. We can be friends.

This is free all the time.

We both work at home and we need companionship. But if you want to keep blowing me off, that's fine.

Do you want to hold hands? Do you want to cuddle?

Hang out? We can get, like, go to the cafe or something. We can talk about galsby and pals, go to the aquarium, kiss a little bit. We can get shopping. What was that second one? What?

We can get matching rings that go together.

You can have a lifelong partnership and life insurance benefits for each other. Hey, wait a minute.

If it's not inconvenient.

So we just heard the next day stalking satan and his boyfriend, just seeing what they do, and she's like, they're up to something. They're plotting something to take over. Well, now they're just shopping at the grocery store during, like, the sales hour to get, like, discount eggs and. Stuff and talking about, like, oh, we got to get there. We got to get there quick before the bath is over. She's like a blood bath.

A dollar for a carton of eggs.

Yo, fuck you. Hit me off. I'll grow hell yeah. And then say it's like, oh, we got to get there before the bath is over. She's like a blood bath. No, it's a bath house check. Got that on the list at least. So she's just following them around every day after work, and yet her coworkers kind of getting more annoyed. I'm like, dude, the fuck. Come on. Come on. And I wrote down what she said. Mrs before sisters. Oh, God. At least in the dump she says that. I was like, that's awful.

Yeah, she doesn't say anything like that.

But she just thinks, like, you're just going out on, like, a date with the guy. She's like, if you are just telling me, that's cool, but give me a real excuse for blowing me off. Yeah, and then we see. She's, like, sitting outside their apartment with time, eating dropping and saying it's like, come on. It tastes just like melon. It's great. And his boyfriend's ending yelling, like, why did you waste money on honey and put it on cucumbers when he could have just fucking bought melon if you wanted to taste melon? I was like, he's got a point here. Honey ain't the cheapest. And if you just wanted melon, it's probably not that much more expensive than just the honey itself. It's just like, yeah, she's just seeing them live their lives. They're not doing anything weird. Well, weird and stuff. They're doing weird stuff, but it's just weird. It's poor weird.

It's poor people not, like, planning to take over the world weird. Yeah, that's on the back burner.

It's more like, hey, I found this weird scrap at the supermarket, and they gave it to me for free. What do you think it smells like? We were all in college and poor. At one point, she confronts satan at work.

You mean you're not poor and in college?

No, I'm still poor.

Yeah, we're all still I'm just not.

Eating stuff off the floor anymore.

I'm in college. Anyway.

She eventually just confronts satan at work of like, all right, I'm fucking sick of talking to you and you guys not doing anything. And the whole time she's talking to him, he's at work, so he's got the customer facing personality. So he's like, hello, how can I help you? One big man coming right up. Please stand over here while we get your he's very diligent at his job and treating her like a customer, while she's just like, I know you're, you know? I know you're playing Tiger World. I plan on killing you one day, like, out in the open. And one thing I did enjoy about this show is they do point out how crazy it is for these characters to either be talking about this weird shit in public or just screaming in public, where she's like, I'm going to fucking kill you. And everyone in the street is like, whoa, what? They point out that other people can hear them and react to them, which I appreciated. And while he's at work, his coworker, she sees her. And after she leaves, the coworker comes up. It's like, oh, who's that? She's pretty. Do you got a history with her? She's like he's saying just like, yeah, I fucking know her. It's like, ah, so you do have a history together. Interesting. I was like, Chris, here we go. And as she leaves, she has a thing about the earthquake. Okay. As they're leaving at the end of their shift, she asked, saying, like, hey, do you feel that earthquake? The other thing? He's like, I heard about it. I didn't really feel anything. She's like, oh, it was really powerful where I was, but no one else felt it. So I guess it was just wherever I was living, it was, like, localized to that area. And saints like, yeah, my roommate system about it. And she's like, roommate? She's like, girl roommate? No, we're just poor shits. It's a buddy of mine. Okay.

Work part time at McDonald's with you. Do you think I can afford to live alone?

Yeah, pretty much.

I like that it feels like it's this girl trying to force the romantic plot.

It's very much her. It's like, yeah, she's the starry eyed high school. Or like, oh, my. An older man, he talks to me. Like, he doesn't talk down to me and he respects me and oh, my whatever. It works.

To me, it was just reading as like, we get it in a lot of things, but it's usually like, the protagonist is so good, so amazing. They're the best at this and this school. And I just love them so much and sort of hit me in that. Like, no, you only talk about work.

Yeah.

It's not like you're very close outside of work.

Yeah, he's very diligent.

He's, like, aware of that. He's just like, you're my child.

Coworker pats are on the head. Good day, child. Farewell.

I'm uncomfortable with how large your breasts are dropped.

I can't believe they've done this to you.

I didn't check off titties on you, which animators hurt.

You point to them in the credits. I didn't check off titties on the bingo card until episode three when they point out, hey, she's got some big old titties. I was like, all right, well, if you're going to point them out like that, I guess I have to acknowledge it. And then, yeah. After work, satan goes to meet amelia. And she asked, like, hey, you're just like living your life here, man. You're not trying to get back, or do you want to stay here forever? And he's like, what? No. Why would I ever want to live here? Forever in this glorious paradise where I can just fucking chill with my buddy bacca. I'm not trying to do that. And she says, you're living a simple life, but you're taking it seriously. You're working hard at it. I mean, he's working hard at work. I don't know about any other aspect of his life if he's actually putting in the effort.

It was in this episode that I realized the Devil is a billionaire mindset guy where he just has, like, a very average job. But he's like, no, if I hustle, if I scheme, if I just keep on saving, I'm going to be a billionaire in two years.

And it's like, oh, very much. That honey capitalism.

That's not how this works. Everyone knows elon Musk worked his way up from Walmart and his family didn't own a fucking diamond mine in Africa.

Hey, it was an emerald mine, sir.

Sorry. Yeah, she calls him out for and you're like, hey, you're not trying to get back to your own world like the other guy is, but you're not. And he says like, oh. She says, if you're just going to stay here forever, I'm not going to kill you. I'll just go back to our world and I'll live out my life there without you. But if you want to stay here, just tell me and I'll dip. I'll leave you guys alone.

Yeah, because thinking about it, the only reason she's there is to kill him. Because back home, everything's fine. But now that satan is gone, yeah.

She'S just doing the end game. She's doing the dlc pack where she's just following him to a new world. And while they're talking, satan's on his bike and he gets a flat tire. And he's like, oh god, a flat tire. I'm fucked my life's. rude. He's like, probably just like, you can get that patched up real easy and real cheap so easily. He's like, what? Really? You got to let me know. And that's when we realized the flat tire happened because someone's shooting at them. We just see little light shooting down. And magical bullets are being shot from somewhere, aiming at both satan and amelia. So they do that classic thing where satan tackles amelia to get her down to protect her. And then he's like, has his arms up against the ground, like, pressed up above her, like, talking to her, and an intimate moment. And then while they're talking, more bulls come out. So then amelia pushes him over, covers for him to try and protect him as they do. And they're not totally falling in love with each other. paca.

And they just sit still talking to each other like, no, you tackled me. No, you tackled me. And the sniper is like, no, I'm going to let it play out.

They're a terrible shot. Horrible.

A sad. In the opening sequence, we get a shot of chi, like doing like a bow and arrow at a range I'm just like, is it her? She doing it. I don't know. But whoever it is is a fucking terrible shot. Like they're just standing there. Sitting there. They're missing everything.

What star Wars stormtrooper was hired to go.

It feels like that. So once the snapper misses enough, they're like, hey, what if we just fucking ran? What if we just weren't talking here and talk anywhere else? So they run to the train station to talk and be like, yeah, that's someone's shooting at us. And they had magical bullets so they know we're satan and the hero. So someone knows our shit. And it's coming after both of us for some reason. So we'll have to figure out what's going on there. And they're like, well, it's likely an enemy from the end to aisles. And I got work in the morning, so I'm going to dip. See you. She's like, what? You're just going to leave? He's like, yeah, I got a fucking early shift. I'm going home. Get off my ass. And as he goes home, she ends up following him back to his apartment. He's like, fight what? My landlord's right there. Don't make a scene. Like, what do you want? She's like, can I she dropped her wallet when they were running from the sniper. So she has to ask him to crash the night. But they drove it out a bit. Wrap this one up faster. So, yeah, she ends up having to stay the night. And they throw her like a blanket and some bus fare. And her say, here, sleep with this and get the fuck out of our apartment tomorrow with this. Get out. So despite them trying to kill each other, they're awfully, awfully. I don't know the words. I don't know. Chummy, chummy, chummy towards each other.

I like that. lcl hates amelia. He's like, fuck you. Get out of here. But satan's just like, she can't afford a taxi home and she's scared. Just let her stay here. It's fine. She's not going to kill us.

Yeah, that gives more credit to amelia, calling him up, being like, you've adapted to this place super fast. And you seem to actually be enjoying it here rather than I see all being like, get out of here, beast. And it's like, fucking chill, man. We got an extra blanket. Just give it to her. She stays the night. And where was that that night? While they're all going to sleep, the demons start chatting. And satan mentions, hell, at least they had each other when they came to this new world. And amelia's all alone. Yeah. And then satan gets two text messages saying like, hey, an earthquake is about to happen soon. From like a random number. He's like, who the fuck is this? And he gets text message from chi. Hey, an earthquake is about to happen soon. He's like, what the fuck?

Huh?

So he's in a group text about earthquakes now with his young coworker and a range stranger. And that's it. That's the end. Episode two. And then we had the ending. And I don't know about you guys, at least I watched the next episode. stubbed the ending was just the slow pan up of chi at the beach.

Yeah, I wasn't paying attention to it in this episode. I definitely noticed it in the third episode. What's the first very extremely detailed thing? Start on? Do you mind just letting me know what that is, Brendan?

It's just a teenage girl's foot for like a solid 20 seconds. Like, it's just a slow pan. And like, I'm going to say a good 40% of the image because it's just a static image. It's not like she's moving or anything. It's just a static image. And it's just a slow pan upwards. I'm going to say maybe 40% of that image is just foot. Just like teen girl foot. And I'm like, what?

I think we need to contact whoever drew this one.

Yeah.

I have some concerns. Just even the detail put into the foot is like, you knew exactly what you were doing. It's not like, oh, no, it's just a fun still shot from the beach episode. It's like, no, you drew a curvy.

Asset, put a lot of attention. We all follow a bunch of artists on Twitter and stuff and appreciate good artwork. Have you ever seen someone do artwork online and you're just like, yo, this person draws porn? I could tell this image isn't porn, but I could tell by their art style how much detail they're putting in. This person draws a lot of buttholes in their day. That's what I got from this, where I'm like, this person put too much detail into this. Anyway, the ending just was really weird and I had to put them like, hey, what the fuck? Yeah, no, I was going to comment on it.

I didn't register it at this point.

Yeah, it's episode two and three. We got the opening and endings. But yeah, that's episode two.

Yes. So starting in my notes for episode two wait a minute, wait a minute. Wait a minute.

I fucked up.

I did bad. I did a very bad thing. I took notes on the wrong episode.

I love that because you're the one who picked episode three.

And I got to the last three minutes of episode three and was like, another watch successfully done. And then I was like, wait, let me go check my messages. Sure enough, I kind of have paid attention to the episode I was supposed to take notes on. So thank you to whoever wrote the synopsis of this episode on the very legal streaming site I'm watching it on.

But Netflix on Netflix.

So yeah, I'm going to just read some of that synopsis. If my notes aren't detailed, blame the writer of this and not me, who this one simple.

But you did watch it, though. It's not like you're just reading this and no context. You did watch the episode, right? Right.

I didn't like pay much attention. Anyway, so starting out the next day, we start seeing news reports about the shooting downtown. So they're getting attention with all the magical violence. And also chio and satan are going on a date.

We skipped a lot.

If you feel it's necessary to win some of these cracks. But yeah, they're going to go on a date. It doesn't work out that she goes wrong. But yeah, it's going to happen.

I did wrote down when we see the news report, it's at her home and her mom's doing the dishes. I wrote down, holy shit. It's an anime mom. It's a fully actual anime mom. Like she's alive and there it has dialogue. Just because it's been so long since we've had any parents in the show.

I mean, the jacks the position of her being named right after a shooting, that doesn't bode well.

She didn't have the anime mom's side ponytail, which is the biggest red flag in existence, where it's like, you got that side ponytail, you're super dead. She's good.

She's good for like she might be.

Safe at least for like five episodes maybe.

Yeah, we'll see. But yeah. So emmy is at work at the call center and I'm just getting a weird call and just I know what you did last summer.

Yeah, for your secret.

So yeah, the shooter calls and is like, hey, I know your secret. I know you're from a different world. Doesn't matter to me. Doesn't matter if you're the good guy. I'm going to kill both of you. It's like, hold on. Any explanation?

No, because she's like not super sure who it is. Because they're like, I can't believe you would side with satan. But also she's like, this feels like a demon. But they're all dead. So I don't know.

But I mean, if you do have a character who's supposed to be just like overwhelmingly evil, like demons, yeah, it makes sense if one of them would screw over their higher up to steal that position of power. So I'm like, it's probably a demon. It's probably skeletor. We saw from the beginning. I love that kid.

God, I hope so.

When will my boy return from the fantasy war?

But yeah, having a good day over here. Investigating the crime scene, a big clue was that a shitty bike was left there and the owner was traced back to satan. So he and the lieutenant are brought in for questioning because they're the only lead for this shooting.

We also saw amelia's watching the news report on her TV and she sees satan and osio, a boyfriend, just standing there in the crowd outside the police perimeter tape. So it's like, we knew it was you because you were dumb enough to come back to get your bike after it was watered.

His bike.

So it's like we were standing over the bike. And we said, Whose bike is this? And you said mine. So we took you in for questioning. Book him. Get them.

So naturally, they have to call someone to post bail for him. And who's the only other person in this world? So they call their rival emmy.

It's a person trying to kill them.

So she is furious. She's like, do you think me a hero, is bailing out? satan is good for my image.

Is just so pissed off. I do like how they've say, like, oh, I guess we could have called my manager from work. No, we don't want to bother her with dumb shit like this. But you want to bother me with dumb shit like this. It's like, yeah, we're d, man. That's my whole thing.

I'm satan. I can do what I want to fuck your life over.

And I like how she's like, exasperated of like, you got me there. She's mad. But she's like, you make a compelling point of that.

I understand the reason for not wanting to call your manager to pick you up from jail.

We've all done that, right?

So she also warns them about the strange phone call. And someone is definitely gunning for all of them. And they're all in this together a little bit.

We're all in this together.

Watch High School Musical last week. Don't worry about it.

That's a good movie. I was thinking about that the other day. The second one is immaculate.

Anyway, I haven't seen any of them anyway. So good.

They're fun.

So they get picked up from jail and satan goes on his date with gl.

Yeah, there's even an outfit, montage. lcl buys him a new outfit.

I like how he says, how can you fork these clothes? He's like, I stashed away a secret, like, cash of money in case of emergencies. And he's like, shopping montage emergencies. And ozzy. I was like, yes, exactly. I respect that.

So, yeah, they all get dressed up. They meet in, like the mall restaurant place.

Ruby tuesdays. Yes.

Canonically. They're at ruby tuesdays.

You can't prove they're not.

Excuse me. Emerald wednesdays.

This is emmy.

So, yeah, the friend and emmy are watching eavesdropping, making sure nothing bad happens. And of course emmy is like, look at her. She's trying so hard. She has a new dress and haircut and all of those big titties. My titties are so small. Why don't I have big titties?

I don't know why. I feel like maybe it's just the way that they do it in the dub. I have no idea. I feel like it's not like emmy trying to get with satan. I feel like it's her trying to protect chi. She's like, why is she trying so hard? This poor girl and her huge titty.

This poor girl on her poor back. Yeah, I watched the dub of this as well. So yeah, it's definitely emmy's coming from the angle of protecting her of like, don't date the Lord of Hell. Don't date a literal devil versus like, he's a billion years old and you're 15. Question mark.

Yeah, that's but yeah, it's interesting too.

Because satan like, at the beginning of the date, I think satan calls it a date. And she's like, so what is a date? And he's just like, I mean, I.

Guess, yeah, he's very chill with everything. My roommate want me to get dressed up for our date. She's like, it's a day. He's like, yeah, I guess so. Yeah, fucking whatever. Yeah.

Interesting angles in this show.

Yeah.

I think what really when she's trying to justify her small titties and it's like, oh, it's easier to put an armor because good for all. It's cheaper to get it's like so there is some, like, jealousy stuff happening. It's not just purely protective.

When you see a dude in an anime with just the the fattest hog you've ever seen in your life, like, you you got to draw attention to it, right, and talk about it with your homies being like, I don't know.

We do see some of satan's true form at the end of this one. So I mean, I don't know. He's probably packing.

Do you think it's barb? Like a cat?

It's corkscrew like a duck.

It's four pronged. Like anyway, in this episode of our week 38, we talk about demonic penis. Also, don't let your kids listen to this podcast. No.

Explicit for all reasons.

So, yeah, during the date, chio is talking about how she got some strange phone calls where it's a language that she didn't understand. And the earthquakes are affecting her harder than they're affecting anyone else. So there's something screwy going on. And satan's like, oh, this sounds like some magic from our world. That's basically sonar. So someone is definitely trying to track us. And for some reason, this girl is really getting the brunt of it.

Where it's like any teenagers listening, a, you shouldn't be. We're terrible influences. But B, don't ask out your much older co worker on a date and ask only them about the voices you're hearing in your head. Don't confide in them.

Yeah, that's a red flag.

Red flag. Asks a professional, someone else.

Yeah. emmy, of course, has to go break up the date and goes to confront him. And of course, gio is like, you are seeing other girls. Romantic triangle, really important plot stuff.

Who's this fluisy?

So, yeah, they all fight or not fight fight, like anime fight, but they have an argument. But then oh, earthquake. Oh, no, big earthquake.

Fucking huge earthquake.

So, yeah, it like wrecks them all. They're caught in the rubble. She and emmy are like, together in the rubble, and they sort of put the competitive boy love past them.

Hey, we might die.

Let's put a different I get what you're saying, and I can see that. I mean, that's probably where the show is leading. But at this point, Me does say, just be careful of him, okay? I want you to understand that. And she is just like, yeah, all right.

Yeah, I'm saying that. But she, of course is like, no, any girl in your life is your romantic interest and I'm competing with them. And just any woman is going to ultimately lead to you marrying them and not me. It's like it's very tiring. We see it in so many shows.

I think we see the refreshing take of it from satan himself because he's not a teenage boy in this anime. Because most animals are about teenagers who are very hormonal and impulsive, like we're seeing with chi. Right? So I think it was like that refreshing take we got from satan as well. He's also a bajillion years old and a demon from another world. But also he's just like, yeah, I don't care. He's not over the little teenager high school shit.

So, yeah, she puts G back to sleep with a sleep spell to hide what's about to happen, which is satan comes out in his true demon form and he's just all fucking jacked symbolication. So emmy is like, okay, he's gone evil. He's going rogue. This is my time. This is my chance to kill him. And he is like, okay, I will get us all out of here. I will save you all. And she's like, why would you're satan?

Though hopefully there's not a lot of fatalities here. We can help everyone else that's trapped under the rubble. It's like, what?

Why?

But you evil. Me good.

Also, I like how she waited until he's in his full out demon devil form. He's using all of his power now. Now I can kill him. What about the loser who's eating honey cucumbers? Like, you kill him easy.

Just pop a grenade in there.

You're death snap his neck. You could probably snap him like a twig.

You probably put a toothpick in one of the cucumbers. I know. Just choke on it. Like, he seems really easy. I don't know why you're waiting till now to fight him.

Yeah, because she keeps saying like, oh, I have to save my energy to get him. Yeah, you pulled a knife on him the first time you met. I think that will get the job done.

He almost died his first day there because he didn't know you were to eat food.

But yeah, so we go and save people and that's where we end up. Sorry I fucked up.

The unfortunate thing is that's about it, though. I don't really know what else.

If I had seen more of this show, I would have skipped this episode because I'm sure something better, more relevant happens later on or even in the next episode.

And I don't know if it's just me and my claustrophobia, but when they got buried alive and she and amelia are talking, they're very casual of like, hey, you just so calm. What's going on? I feel like, what the fuck? Get me out. I'd lose my mind. And they're just like, hey, sorry about that little disagreement we had, like, five minutes ago. We cool. Like, yeah, gal pals. And it's like, no, you guys should be losing my mind.

Think about your oxygen.

This is like a sleepover.

For me. It's satan, obviously separating each other's hair. roble fight. Ha ha.

That's where we are.

So yeah. Are we there yet? Yeah.

So this was a roller coaster ride in terms of me liking it. So we started out just very exposition, heavy. Very you call this a food? No, this sucks. So once we got past that and we're like, okay, no, it's tapping into some, like, saint young men. Like, yeah, I'm satan, but my grocery budget is very limited this week in.

Taxes, am I right?

So when we got the hero coming back in and vowing to kill him, I was like, okay, are we going to go back into just, like, a cat and mouse thing? And then we got into them working together and like, hey, can I stay at your house? I'm like, okay, if we just have a slice of life where you just saved the fantasy of the hero that wants to kill him, like, joining together because of budgetary needs, that would be great. Yeah. Capitalism sucks, right?

We fight the true enemy, capitalism.

But then it became anime because we had a mysterious stranger vow to kill them both. I'm like, oh, okay. On par for anime, not particularly something I'm interested in because I was so invested in the lighter version of them just hanging out and banding together. But all right. Yeah, fine. So, yeah, I enjoyed myself.

That's good.

I'll take that as a win.

Yeah, I'll say I'll make it official.

I'll probably finish watching this because I'm sure Paul would like to keep watching it again. And it's so short. And I'm interested in seeing if they do continue on a romantic storyline with emmy and satan, because that logistically don't make sense.

I don't want it to happen.

It's anime.

So it's going to happen.

It's going to happen.

I don't know. I get what you're saying, but I feel like I don't know, I'm probably giving it too much credit. But at this point in the show, I was not convinced that emmy feels that way for him. I think she just is in a weird place.

It's less that she likes him and more that she doesn't know anyone else in this entire world besides him. So it's like, yeah.

So she's very like, what is he doing?

I got to know everything about him because I got nothing else going on in my life. Yeah.

For me, it was the police station of like, oh, you had a bad breakup. He's not my boyfriend. Okay. I've seen this before. I know that means you're going to fall. In love by the end.

See, that's the thing too. Maybe it's the dub, but I didn't read it as flustered. I read it as like, shut the fuck up. Maybe he's not my boyfriend. I hate him.

Yeah, but even the intention, like, the purpose of that scene is, oh, let's really firmly establish that she would never date satan. This will be ironic by the end of the show.

I won't be like, super upset if it happens. But I mean, I don't know.

We've seen some stuff to kind of give a sense of like, they're not following just the textbook. Sort of like romcom anime plot stuff. At least enough to be like, maybe this will surprise us rather than some other anime as we watch, where it's like, this is fine. textbook. We don't have to watch anymore. We could probably pinpoint exactly what happens. Yeah.

We're ten minutes into the first episode and I can tell you the whole season arc. I can't see where it's going, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's the route it takes.

Yeah, we got a general idea, but they might surprise us. And that's enough to keep you watching.

Yeah.

Black pepper fries. Like, I'm sure it's just fries with pepper on it, but you're at Black Pepper Chicken. Just imagine that on friesman.

Yeah, like a black pepper sauce.

Yeah. Guys, food is good.

I have some leftover pizza that I'm so excited to eat.

I got enough.

I've only eaten fruit leather today, so I'm going to go eat lunch. So moving things along wrapped us on. What do we have going on next week?

Next week? tis the season.

Tis the season.

So we're doing a Christmas episode because we're not doing it for a month long because we burnt through all of the anime. So we learned our lesson. And we're doing it to just once a week or one week of the year.

One Christmas episode a year. That's all we can afford. Yeah, we burned all our Christmas stuff. We burned all our gay shit.

We burned two French.

I'm using it sparing.

We just went hard on the gay shit in year one.

There's a lot of gay anime out there. I want a good gay anime out there. So we got to be careful with it.

Really got a secret.

Well, for next week, for the Christmas episode, we got recommended a series and specifically episodes one, four and five, which I believe deal with Christmas in particular. So it's at least a Christmas episodes without having to go to episode 27 out of a series for Christmas. But we're going to be watching oh My goddess, which is a classic. I've seen I haven't seen it, but I've seen it around. And like, I've seen a pop up, but tons of time. So it was a popular one back in the day. And it's also recommended by Rubenquest, someone who interacts with us frequently online. So special episode yeah.

Thank you, rubin Quest.

Yeah.

Thank Rachel.

Thank you.

If there's a show you would like us to watch, you can send your anime recommendations to our email arwibaria@gmail.com, or you can reach out to us on Twitter or Instagram. Are we there yet? On both. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at mrpatrick. dugan. And also, I have a new podcast coming out. You've probably heard it me. Sad breaks. But I have a new audio fiction show called Echoed Locations, and it premieres December 9, so by the time this episode comes out, it's already out. So I'd really appreciate it if you subscribed and listened.

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Honestly, if you make it this far, you at least subscribed, because if you didn't make it to the end of one episode, we're not getting you back. I don't blame you, but we're not holding your attention.

Also, spotify, like Top Lists came out this week, so if we're in your top five podcast, thank you and we appreciate you.

Yeah, it truly made my day that a few people posted, like, hey, we're in your top five podcasts on spotify. I was like, Anyone listens to this bullshit?

Thank you so much.

I'm so touched and honored.

I've said a lot of dumb shit. This is going out to the public. They said, this is a private project. I said a lot of dumb stuff. I've said a lot of incriminating stuff just on this episode.

Released this podcast 50 years after my death.

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