Geek Addicts - Episode 36: Lets Discuss Your Name!

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[00:00:51] Well, we'll do it at some point. I don't know. My name is Matt, with me, my co-host. You can't start touching his boobs. Bill Barber. I would be. So go, Bill.

[00:01:04] You know, I was wondering what reference you were going to make and I'm like, yep, there we go. I mean, if we're talking about this movie, it kind of has to be that one, they're just made up.

[00:01:14] Yeah. Well, yeah, we'll leave the audience in suspense for what we're covering in today's episode. Well, if they haven't read the episode title, but um, for real. Yeah. So it's been a couple days. We're in the middle of 4th July weekend. Yeah. It's rained pretty much every day.

[00:01:34] So that's fun. Yeah. Well, I mean, we did fireworks in the third and there was really nice. So that ended up working out pretty well for us. It was raining last night and that didn't stop the fireworks.

[00:01:46] Yeah. And I went to put, put Francis down to bed last night and like almost as soon as I got her to sleep, I later down and I went down that got to the bottom of the stairs and a huge, huge one went off.

[00:01:59] And I looked down to the monitor who we had like one of the little video monitors and she's fucking bolt up right like cut them. I had to go back up and get it back down again. Yeah.

[00:02:11] It was like five o'clock here. I heard the first one go off. I'm like, I'm like, I don't know, like guys, it's not even dark. Oh, yeah. Like what are you doing? For some. It's it's America. They just want to blow shit up. So yeah, America.

[00:02:24] Just thinking of that gift of the guy on like the fucking lawn chair ski. Like skiing and over the lake with a grill in the flag on the pack and I'm like, yep. All right. So how's things with you this week, Bill?

[00:02:40] Um, well, I just got hit by like every bill imaginable. Right at the end of last month. So I'm broke as fuck right now. Yeah, I'm right with you there. And I just got another two in the mail and I was like, great. Like lovely. So it's more.

[00:02:58] Yeah. So I've literally since vacation started, I've not left my house. I left today to go get groceries. So I won't have to the rest of the weekend. And I've spent this entire time basically catching up on anime. That's been my goals. Hey, so we're watching.

[00:03:16] I just finished a. Kimmy need to do OK. It is another. Ramcom romance, slice of life, anime. Because I've realized in my aging that I've outgrown action and like, like, anime is that you think my demographic would be into.

[00:03:38] And now I just watch fucking slice of life because I don't know. That's how it works, I guess. I mean, I understand that I do find a comfort in your stereotypical like battle of shonen anime. But that's just, you know, to be expected. See, I had.

[00:03:59] I just have a hard time getting into them now. Like I'll watch a new one of you like. It's like, I've tried to get into like say like a bleach. Like I fall asleep every time I watch it. Um, I could never get into my hero academia. Um,

[00:04:16] but then you get like exceptions over all like spy family, which like somehow manages to combine like elements of everything. That one I can get super into. That's fair. Um, yeah, I don't know. I mean, I see for me it's like I can,

[00:04:30] I can watch and enjoy like the newer shonen battle anime and stuff. Um, but I don't like get super into it like I used to. Like I'll sit and I'll watch and I'll enjoy. I'll say, oh, that's great animation. It's great choreography.

[00:04:44] Like, oh, that's a cool concept for a power. But once I finish it, I'm like, all right, onto the next thing. You know, it's not, it's hard to find things with the same staying power that I used to, I used to see back in the day. Um,

[00:04:58] I think that's just, I was just going to say maybe that's just me aging or maybe it's just the, the style of stuff that we're getting nowadays. I, I couldn't tell you which it is, but um, maybe kind of where I'm at.

[00:05:11] To me, I think a lot of it had to do with like any Ash having my favorite anime back in the day. Like, I think I just kind of gravitated towards like, those kind of enemies just because of like the proxy of that one. That's fair.

[00:05:25] And it's funny too, because you think I'd be in like the opposite fields, whereas like my biggest ones growing up are like dragon bulls E and you Hockishow, but like, I still like slice of life since stuff. Like, um, my actually, before I came over to do this,

[00:05:42] uh, my wife and I were watching, uh, a free space get she's going through at the first time. And she's actually pretty close to finishing at she's towards the end of season two. So, Oh good. So then she gets to season three where she gets real.

[00:05:54] Yeah, she just what, uh, what I loved, who she just finished watching the like, reading back story stuff. Ah, this is so she got the full on depression going on there. Mm-hmm. Uh, yeah, it's just to tie that bag actually. It may need to do okay.

[00:06:12] It's very similar to fruit baskets. It's just minus the absolute depression. That happens there. Um, that's fair. It's one of those unique ones where the anime was finished, so there's only two seasons of it. The second season finished back in like 2011. Oh, wow.

[00:06:32] It's only just getting a season three now. Like they've announced it for, I believe it comes out in October. That's wild. Um, but also it didn't get a dub until this year. Huh. It's set undubbed for like a decade on Amazon, uh, Netflix.

[00:06:51] And that was one of the reasons why I was hesitant to watch it, just because I just can't. I can watch sub, but I just have such a hard time enjoying a sub-dynamic. Cause it's like, you have to watch the text the entire time.

[00:07:05] It just makes it so much harder to like really absorb it. I understand that take on it. And while I am like primarily at Debbie, I also really desensitized myself at a young age with sub-title. So it isn't bother me really to watch sub-title that's preferred, Dubs. Yeah.

[00:07:24] I mean, I'm at the point now where if an anime that I like that I want to watch doesn't have a dub, I'm actually going out of my way and just reading the manga instead. That's a fair take.

[00:07:35] Honestly, like if there's no dub then reading the manga is probably the best option to go for. I'm actually going to have to, I started reading a community to doke's manga before the dub got announced.

[00:07:49] And then once it got announced I kind of held off just for the dub. But now I'm going to have to watch, start reading again because season two I found out. It ends at like volume 11 of the manga. And it's a 30 volume manga.

[00:08:06] So there's still a lot left that has not been covered. Still at least a good season at two left. Yeah, people are saying that it's finally going to be finished with season three. And I'm sitting here thinking like if unless they're going to cram everything

[00:08:19] into the season and kind of heavily butcher it, I don't think we're going to have one more season for this. So I gotcha. Yeah, I finally finished a Yuhaka Show Tournament Tactics. Nice. Which I've pretty sure I mentioned it recently,

[00:08:40] but I started that when we did a Yuhaka Show episode, which is what like episode four. Something like that. It was a while ago. But you know, it's a good game that you can just jump in and out of, you know, it's not one of that.

[00:08:53] Like requires you to be right there with it. It says, you know, you can go in and out. And I'm, I technically just finished legacy goku too. Um, well, like I went through like the final cut scene where, you know,

[00:09:08] they bring back everybody was killed by sell all that stuff. But I mean, I'm still going to be playing it for a little bit because I got to get Mr. Satan in the max level so I can get the alternate ending.

[00:09:17] Which is just him having an interview about how awesome he is for killing so. Yeah. Mr. Satan shenanigans. For Rho. Um, yeah, after that, I think I still have a couple of games on PSP that I had started that I want to get around to finishing.

[00:09:39] But, um, I, uh, Xander got a, um, what's it called? That Metacwest 2 Frisbert Day. Oh yeah. And I tried that out yesterday. That was actually pretty cool. I've used, so not the Metacwest, but I've used the, the PlayStation VR. I really want to get that one.

[00:09:57] So I used the best by had a setup for it once like the best by back in a planet. Uh, when that thing first got announced, they had a whole like thing like you could try it.

[00:10:06] And it was like before work because I think I was still working nights at the time and I said, Fuck it, why not I'll give it a shot? Um, I was looking through the games and the games they had were kind of lame, but they had

[00:10:16] Resident Evil 7 as an option. I was like, all right, let's see this. And I played like 20 minutes of Resident Evil 7 and I like took it off and I'm like, That was really awesome. What fuck that? Like, I was like, I was like, ah,

[00:10:31] like, that's a, that's a creepy enough game as it is. Like I don't need to be in VR to play that thing. That was like no thing. I, that's fair. Uh, I think Metacwest has four and eight. Um, but Metacwest has like a really limited like,

[00:10:47] I think a lot of the games are original for specifically for like that kind of thing. It could be cool for that's a, Unless they switch it to first person because fours a third person game. Yeah, I don't know. I'd have to look into it to really know.

[00:11:03] I haven't tried it demo for anything. I did try what's that super hot and uh, Beat Saber, which I think we're both games made specifically for both games made specifically for, both games made specifically for VR. They're both really fun. Um, I like super hot.

[00:11:19] That was really cool. Um, but I know that they have like, there's a walking dead game for it, which I'd really like to try. Uh, and what else does that mean? And what else does that find it to pretty game? Yep.

[00:11:32] Uh, let's do other things that I was kind of interested in, but if I was going to get a VR, I'd want the PlayStation one just so I could have a Skyrim VR. Fair. Got this. I mean, if I'm, if I'm going to go into a,

[00:11:48] a VR world, I'd want it to be something like that. I'd be awesome. See, I'd be big, extremely basic and just play Minecraft. Weirdly enough, not on the metacast. Roblox is but not Minecraft. Interesting.

[00:12:04] I mean, Minecraft would be, uh, honestly, like that would probably be like the thing that would maybe want to play Minecraft as if it was VR. So I just like the builds. Minecraft is like my, I need to kill an hour game.

[00:12:13] I'll pop that and then it'll just build a tower or something for like an hour. That's fair. See, like I understand why people have that draw for Minecraft. It's just never really spoke to me, is that make sense? Hmm.

[00:12:29] I went through a big phase of it towards the end of high school. And during during COVID, COVID, I had another Minecraft. Craft phase. It's not an off kind of game for me. That's fair.

[00:12:44] You know, I think it would be really cool on VR as something like, um, Dragon Quest heroes or like any of those like warrior games. Maybe. I don't really want to hurt the thousand type of games. Yeah, they never redesign them for first person.

[00:12:59] But I can see that. Yeah, I'm sure they get to make it work. Um, but yeah, as I didn't that, uh, I've. I watched some more Marvel stuff this past week. Uh, I watched the turnals. I watched that the newest Spider-Man movie. So finally gotten around to it.

[00:13:17] I love that movie even though like some aspects of it are kind of not great. It's kind of cheesy at points, but I definitely out of like out of the. Um, this current like Tom Holland generation of Spider-Man easily the best one.

[00:13:34] See, I will like Tom Holland is Spider-Man, but I won't lie when I was watching that movie. The whole time I'm sitting here like during the Tom Holland stuff like, okay, come on. Come on, and then the second fucking Andrew Garfield appears.

[00:13:44] I'm just like, fuck yeah, let it go for real. And then, and then when they get to get a Spider-Man. And then when a. Toby McGuire showed up, I was like, okay, this is good. Like I'm happy now. Yeah, now we're in it.

[00:13:59] I love how they show up to like they just like they're like, hey Peter, let me hear and it's like, you're not the guy we thought we were. What? What? Me?

[00:14:08] I also love the line where like Toby McGuire's Spider-Man's like he's like, he does like his web thing and they're like, he's like, what's a web cartridge? He's like, what you mean it's not just part of your arm. Yeah, right. That was the thing at one point.

[00:14:23] That's forgot about that. Yeah, who's like, um, what is it like, how do you like do that? Like, or curious? I just like, I don't know. I don't like do breathing. I just have it. Like, what do you mean? Yeah. Yeah. I like that. I like them.

[00:14:38] They brought back the guy who played Doc Hawk and he fucking nailed it. Like the entire time too, which I thought was great. I mean, everybody that brought back and I love how they gave closure to all those villains.

[00:14:47] Like it kind of makes me want like a continuation to the other iterations of Spider-Man because now everything's different. There's there's been rumors about potentially doing an Spider-Man floor and an amazing Spider-Man 3 just to continue those storylines. I don't know if it'll ever happen but. Yeah.

[00:15:05] Well, that would be fun. Even if they wanted to do like an animated thing, like I'd be into that.

[00:15:10] Just like like a little something to show, like what like the effect that those changes in the timeline has had because especially when you think about like all right we got three major villains from each of them move the children with wire movies and then you got.

[00:15:27] The two from the amazing Spider-Man. And we're changing things with each of them so like I mean, look at this way like the changes you make to green goblin right. Yeah, they made it. That's going to have a cool suit.

[00:15:40] Yeah, but that's going to like directly affect what would have happened in Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3. So it's like how would the changes from the first movie effect the second movie and so on you know what I mean? Hmm.

[00:15:55] They've reformed dark off which I thought was cool touch because. The actor there built blue and away like I think he was like the best guy out of the entire film. For real and I will say I'm a little disappointed that they didn't.

[00:16:12] They can get back to a for grace for Eddie Brock and that one last scene at the end true. I kind of liked Tom Hardy though like I thought his performance was pretty good.

[00:16:24] That's fair but I just thought it would be kind of cool just have him and you know just him sitting at the bar just like, These got him Spider-Man.

[00:16:33] I mean, I'm still trying to figure out the implications of that scene because it basically kind of confirms that Venom's going to happen in the MCU at some point but um. Well, they did Venom movies already are those not part of the end of you.

[00:16:46] Those are part of the Sony verse. It's a completely different universe. That's bizarre. So the reason Tom Hardy was there is because the time the portals were all fucked up so he had got sucked into their universe briefly. That's why he got sucked back at the end.

[00:17:00] So yeah, I picked up on that but I don't know I just thought it was. Now that's a complete the Sony films are all their own standalone thing. Yeah, but the MCU kind of makes all those one and the same right.

[00:17:16] Kind of it's it's basically the parallel universe kind of thing. It's like how there's the but the Toby McGuire universe technically exists and it's on thing in the world. And then the intercarpial universe exists and it's on thing. Hmm.

[00:17:31] Then I have to wonder like because the way it ends. Like obviously like you know obviously Dr. Stranger is a big part of this movie, right? Yeah. The way it ends was set up for the the next Dr. Stranger movie that multiverse of madness or whatever. Um.

[00:17:49] Obviously that that's going to lean more into multiverse stuff. So you get a wonder is he going to be responsible for like. Like the that we'll we'll bring Deadpool movie coming out soon.

[00:18:03] Like and like the X man and the fight that has to do for all that stuff that's coming out in the future. Like. That's a good point I don't really know because I haven't. I haven't been fairly following any of the Marvel movies since the Spider-Man one.

[00:18:16] I'm going to watch Deadpool and Wolverine just because I have to at this point but I understand. It's like the one thing we've all wanted just since like they started doing X man movies. So ever since they first were ever in a state in that first movie.

[00:18:31] Yeah, there's a what do you expect the Ellis Band X. Well, then because when that movie first came out people didn't think. Um, why am I brain farting his name right now. Well, well, yeah, please. Well, I'm having a brain for. Um, he's a he jacket.

[00:18:53] You you jacket. Um, I remember when Hugh Jacklin first got announced everyone thought he was going to suck and then like he just fucking nailed that part. And it's to the point now where nope. I don't think anyone thinks anyone else could do the role at this point.

[00:19:07] Yeah, well, he was a total unknown when he was when he goes cast as Wolverine. You know, actually, like I think I mentioned before I just recently finished listening to.

[00:19:15] Patrick Stewart's memoir and he like he talks a little bit about how he got cast and everything and how Hugh Jacklin came on. It was just like nobody knew we was just some random Australian dude like. At an end that up being like perfect.

[00:19:32] You fucking stole the show. That's for sure for real. Yeah, I got to get back into the Marvel movies at some point. There's too many comic book movies now. I'm so burned down by it.

[00:19:46] I get that but I mean, at least with like obviously when you when you factor in this series on top of the movies, it's a lot, but when it's just movies like you can get through them pretty quickly.

[00:19:57] I'll told you know, it's not like it's not like watching like a 500 episode anime or anything. True. That's true. I don't know maybe at some point. I mean, my anime phase at the moment. Yeah, I'm not gonna divert you from that.

[00:20:13] So, you know, keep doing what you're doing. Yeah, my goal is to knock out a whole bunch of 12 and like 26 years over the next couple months. So that's what I've been trying to do.

[00:20:23] But it's the problem is is like trying to figure out which one, like trying to weed through the crap, you know, Yeah, because I don't like to drop enemies like so like if I start when I have to finish it even if it sucks. I'm the same way.

[00:20:38] I can't help myself. That's why I finished fairy tale. Which for the record like fairy tale had a real strong start. I love the beginning of fairy tale but there's the further on it when it just got worse and worse.

[00:20:52] It got to a point where it was cringy. Like, yeah, it's kind of like the ending not cringy but it's kind of like the ending to a. You hawk a show where you just fucking ends and you're like, huh.

[00:21:05] Do I at least that like I felt satisfied by the end of that? Like there wasn't no point where I was watching that where I was like like actually upset or like grossed out or anything. You know what I mean? The ending itself is fine.

[00:21:18] It's just the whole like that final arc where it's like. You sked just kind of lose the fight and then like he wakes up the next minutes like, oh yeah this random guy won by the way and it's like, oh yeah. It's like cool I guess.

[00:21:32] Like you could tell that the the author really just wanted to be done with it because he wanted to move on to other things but. It's still a very abrupt ending.

[00:21:43] It's still it's not as bad as some enemies but it is I think thankfully the way that the series ends like the final episode makes up for it but that is still kind of an abrupt ending. Yeah, have for sure.

[00:21:57] It'd be like if like full metal alchemist ended with like. They just skip like the final fight. It's like it's knocked out and it's like oh yeah by the way father dead. Yeah, I'm strong killed them just you know he just punched his brains. Punched him off screen.

[00:22:12] Oh now has his body back now. Like here you can make sense of that. Yeah. That's kind of how the first series ended. You'll be like not exactly like the movie kind of fixed a lot of it but like the first anime series just kind of.

[00:22:29] Did this kind of have just like that ending like it just kind of ends. I had like there was like a final confrontation but it wasn't it wasn't nearly to the scale of brotherhood.

[00:22:39] I've watched bits and pieces of the original full metal alchemist anime over the years and the more I watch it now after watching brotherhood and reading the manga.

[00:22:48] The more I'm kind of like they really when she let them basically do whatever they really fucking went in their own direction because my god there is so much edgy shit in the 2003 anime.

[00:22:58] Oh for sure but I mean it's one of those things were like like you give. I'm trying to think of how exactly how much it might have been like the first seven or eight volumes of manga out of like a 30 volume manga.

[00:23:12] And when you get something this like like I'm trying to think of the right way to word it like full metal is a very interwoven like it's a tapestry of events. Yeah and when you just get the beginning of it it could literally go anywhere.

[00:23:28] Oh yeah no I can see exactly where they got their conclusions from but like they could have gone way fucking nutty years and they had gone and it would have been right in line with the way it started you know what I mean.

[00:23:40] It was one of those ones where I could have gone in any direction based on the way it starts. I think to me like the biggest problem with the two full metal series is like you really have to space out your watching of them.

[00:23:54] And I'd honestly say you should watch 2003 first. I car.

[00:23:59] You should watch 2000 3 first then take like a big break then watch brotherhood because I feel like if you watch brotherhood first and then take a break and watch out three you're going to have it's going to be a lot harder to appreciate 2003.

[00:24:13] I would definitely agree with you there as somebody who did watch it that way. I definitely agree with you. It definitely it does cheap it out a little bit.

[00:24:24] Look this is a to detract from what what the people who worked on it did because they did a good job with what they had but.

[00:24:32] But when you have like the vastly I mean obviously it is subjective depending on the person there are people who prefer the first and these series I'm not trying to you know just clue to you but objectively.

[00:24:43] You look at the two one of them is very very much better written than the other. Yeah to me it's like if you've read the manga and then you've watched brotherhood and then you go to 2003 after that you realize.

[00:24:59] It's like this screams early 2000s in so many ways. There's like there is there's a lot of dark for the sake of being dark plot lines in that one that I've noticed over the years and I'm like it's not bad it's just.

[00:25:13] It's one of those things where I kind of wish they just waited till the manga was done but that's it's a different time now now they will actually do that so.

[00:25:23] Yeah now season a anime is a very consistent thing actually I think brotherhood might have been one of the first like big spearheaded versions of season a anime. Well I know it was very a lot of people love to compare.

[00:25:39] They love to compare full metal with food baskets so they're easily enough because they have similar. They kind of have a similar like thing where like the original series came out and it was kind of not.

[00:25:52] Exactly what the author wanted so then they made a better version later on that actually was true to text. Yeah I mean this definitely plenty of examples of that I mean a housing does the same thing. True. I mean I mean we got Ronnie Kenchin right now.

[00:26:09] Yeah we're on a Kenchin uh, uh, trigon is also doing that. Yeah so I mean I think it's becoming one of the more um one of the more common ways to handle some of those. Show us that came out a while ago that didn't really hit the nail.

[00:26:26] Was there a getting in right there anime pretty soon? I think that's a fan project. I saw it. I don't want it a little bit. I don't know how to recheck into that either way. I mean the exact name of the original.

[00:26:41] Yeah well that was supposed to be a continuation from the original and they decided to go full CG and it was really shitty CG like I'm a secret. You compare that to something like sandland or superhero and like even trying to understand.

[00:27:02] Yeah even trying to stand peeing or do her like the the berserk 2016 anime looked like hot garbage. The story was still like the story was still you know because I had read the portion of the manga they had covered years ago and they got that pretty well.

[00:27:19] They skipped over some stuff that was kind of in consequential but make sense in context but overall like you know they hit the story piece they needed to hit. It just looked so shitty.

[00:27:32] Yeah you know and the movies the movies were very heavily done CG too but they were you know and they had a movie budget so they get it a lot better.

[00:27:41] Yeah I will say out of all the remakes though I'm pretty sure the only one that I know of that the author of the original source material absolutely despised was the original fruit basket anime. That's fair.

[00:27:56] Because I know she she basically from what the story is that the an original fruit basket anime was made during a time period where the author and that'suki Tiyaka. She actually had suffered a hand injury and she wasn't able to write for the time being.

[00:28:12] So they were doing that anime in the background and apparently the director just like. Rushed her off basically for every suggestion or like things she would point out that was wrong and he basically just did his own thing.

[00:28:25] Because there's so many points throughout the original fruit baskets where it's like they play up the comedy for no reason on in a scene where it's really not supposed to be comedic. I've said it before like we did a whole G and C episode going over fruit baskets.

[00:28:43] I said that. Yeah, that was one of the. That was our third collab before we just started he Caddix. I believe so.

[00:28:53] But I said it on there like they can they absolutely butcher the final arc of season one because the first anime basically just covers season one at the second anime. Yeah because it was and it would like that Kyoto form mark right.

[00:29:06] Yeah and they absolutely butcher that in the original anime. At least in my opinion I'm sure some people probably defend it but. I do I I intend to get around to watch and the original at some point just. To the sake of completionism, but.

[00:29:22] I'm not expecting a ton from it after watching watching the new version. Yeah if you've watched 20 the 2019 remake it's going to be a fairly hard to go back to the 2000 one anime.

[00:29:37] It'll be like a casual watch kind of thing like not like paying super hard attention to kind of thing. Yeah it's really just the animation is so much worse too, but that's that's an epic. The soundtrack is really good though. That's good.

[00:29:55] That's always good and the voice cast make it bigger series and the voice cast. I mean for the most part it's the same people from the remake because they got most from back, but the voice cast is really good as well.

[00:30:06] It's just the way they handled the original anime is just not great. Fair enough. But yeah, it's already half an hour to this thing we haven't even got to our topic yet.

[00:30:20] So speaking of anime and if you didn't couldn't guess from the start of this show we're talking about your name. The what year did this come it's it's old now at this point. Well old is just over recent in the grand scheme of things.

[00:30:40] It's 20 16 so we're getting close to it. 10 years old my god.

[00:30:47] You know, those are part of me that was really considering just letting this just be like a you know off the cuff just shooting this shit kind of episode and just leaving the audience is spence about why I mentioned you touching your boobs. I would be interesting.

[00:31:07] Oh boy, but um yeah your name. I have curious what what caused you to watch this one just out of the blue.

[00:31:17] Um, I don't know I made I've heard you talk about it a couple times and you know it's been brought up and you know I've seen it in just different anime fans circles and stuff like that.

[00:31:27] I just like I wanted to start watching more movies in general and I know I saw a bunch of jibbles that I have to watch but I don't know like that.

[00:31:36] Like I was thinking of myself like I want to just watch a movie nothing that I do in best super heavily in and that was just the first one that came to mind and so I just search it up and saw it on cruncher roll.

[00:31:46] So that was all was really literally just a spur of the moment decision. Yeah, your name is an interesting one because it really kind of came out of nowhere like I remember like.

[00:31:59] So the way I got into your name was literally like me and Alex were just like hanging out one day she was home from college and I was uh.

[00:32:09] I think it was a weekend so I wasn't working the time and we were just chilling in a Walmart and we were looking through the anime section because that's back when Walmart actually had a decent anime section.

[00:32:24] And she was like oh look it's your name. I saw that movie in the theaters back back in where she went to college and. I was kind of like oh is it good and she's like yeah, it's really good so I said fuck it I bought it.

[00:32:40] There was like 20 bucks for the blueberry and then we went home and watched at that day and I remember. I remember. Not really having any expectations for it and just kind of being blown away by the story and like the animation and just like everything around it.

[00:32:57] It is so I guess for a little backstory it is the. Reation of a director named Makato as Shinkay and the Kato Shinkay has done a bunch of anime films over the years he's kind of like the modern day jibble in a lot of ways like.

[00:33:19] His films have all been like super well received I think your name is actually like his like six film maybe.

[00:33:29] I hit a whole bunch before that I'm that I've still got to watch at some point I'm planning on watching them all because I want to do it G and C for them at some point.

[00:33:39] Okay, but your name was like all his films that kind of been kind of been. They were well received but none of them were like these like smash hits by any means and I think your name was the first one that was like a massive hit.

[00:33:55] Yeah, it was like it was like one of the it was like one of the biggest anime films of all time I want to say. And interestingly enough it's kind of hard to see how well it did but it had a budget of.

[00:34:14] 750 million yen which that sounds like a lot but if you know the conversion right in isn't that isn't actually as much as it sounds. That's probably about 7 million. Yeah, yeah something like that the film made 382.2 million so dollars. Wow, so this film did exceptionally well.

[00:34:43] Both in Japan and in America like America took off like it was like shocking just how well this film did especially considering 2016. Anime still really hadn't hit that mainstream yet where now it's just part of normal culture.

[00:35:03] It was it was definitely reaching up to that point though because I mean by that point we had already had. I think resurrection.

[00:35:14] Yeah, resurrection effort battle of gods it come out I think by that because it came up 2016 you said yes because that by that point super would have started we've already had those big.

[00:35:24] Those big theatrical one piece movies I think we're at the point where it was definitely on the rise it was starting it was starting to peak its head into more mainstream. Yeah, to me it was like.

[00:35:38] This was I think one of the films that really kind of like was the bridge that kind of like connected like all sorts of anime because. This film is a supernatural themed romance film like slice of life romance film and.

[00:35:59] That I think that's the best way to describe it because it's. It's because the supernatural elements to me are the part that I always that I found to be like the most the price seeing when watching at the first time. Yeah, for sure.

[00:36:12] And I'd one thing before we start talking about the plot huge spoiler warning in case anyone hasn't seen this film yet, but the films double as handled by funnipation and. Pre-culture all merger. And it features a bunch of pretty well known VAs including the main cast was a.

[00:36:39] Of it was a Michael sin her necklace I think is how you pronounce that that's probably but you'd. What did he do? I'm sure he's done something that I know of oh he's a bunch of characters in bleach.

[00:36:59] Okay, so he's probably primarily a Viz voice actor. Yes, he was in oh he's Leo in full metal.

[00:37:11] Leo. I don't know who that is but he's somebody is it is it full metal augumers to brother had it just says full metal alchemist or misooming the original probably original and I don't remember Leo. It's been a while I watched that.

[00:37:26] He's in a couple he's a couple voices in one piece he does a whole bunch of I think he's a vis guy I think he's just to kind of a general voice actor does everything.

[00:37:38] He played a don't he played a don't Chris Thorndike and sonic ax hell yeah. What a role. Yeah, but yeah he's been in a whole bunch of stuff but then the female lead of this film is actually a voice actress that I know very well. It's Stephanie.

[00:38:02] I'm not familiar with the name would she play inada. Okay, I do the voices familiar but yeah she's inada among a lot of other voice actor act voice roles over the years but she's most.

[00:38:17] I mean, I think it's a very famous for inada kuga and it's kind of hard to tell though when when he not as the character that I know of the most because what when she's playing her she's does the very like.

[00:38:30] So she inada or to please notice me you know like it's. It's kind of hard to like differentiate when you have that kind of voice inflection you know. Yeah, it's it's a bit tough although there there are points in this.

[00:38:43] When when Mitch you a tox you know that you're like, oh, that's the head of voice I can hear it. Other ones are like Kyle he bare plays one of the characters in this he was the the chicks friend right the tall one yeah Tessie yeah.

[00:39:03] Cassandra Lee Morris, Rachel's. Laura Post I think a whole bunch of modern automation actors like. I think a lot of them this was like their first real thing maybe. He's as. Cause this was definitely late. Funnization because this was right before the merger. Yeah, well.

[00:39:28] I think this is like that weird period of time when they like. Had kind of teamed up but then split back up again before they actually fully merged and then Sony bought both them. And then they said back together you two. Yeah, I know fighting.

[00:39:49] Well he basically basically just got it. Crunchyroll and let's just kept the name and then just put it over funnization. So yeah, but yeah, going into the story of your name what was your first thought like just that opening scene. The opening scene I didn't know what.

[00:40:08] But the fuck was going on honestly because it was it has such a bizarre opening because we had thought at the beginning where they were like. We can't flash in between the two of them and it was showing like the comment and everything and then.

[00:40:22] Me to how wakes up but it's not really meant to how or maybe it is that first that first couple scenes can pieces me with that.

[00:40:29] Yeah, like the opening is like this whole montage which is mostly just so they can have an anime intro song which is really good though the soundtrack for this film is excellent.

[00:40:38] But there's a whole like scene where like it's showing like these progressions between the two main characters talking in Machua and it's like showing them age up and then like the age and like switch switches between the two parallels.

[00:40:50] There's the whole metaphorical registering of fate thing going around and then the comment which are all I'm like watching it now I'm like wow this just kind of spoils like the film entirely.

[00:41:01] Yeah, once you've watched it the first time watching it beginning part again makes so much more sense than it did the first time. Yeah, but then the first scene is literally Mitchell just wakes up and is like bugged out of her mind.

[00:41:15] And I still remember my entire reaction I just looked over at Alex as we were watching it and I'm like is that the dude in the chick's body and she just goes, I don't know maybe. And I'm just like.

[00:41:28] And then he proceeds to do the thing that all dudes do where they well all dudes would probably do in this situation where they immediately grabs the boobs. And then takes the clothes off and has the epiphany and he's like oh my god.

[00:41:43] Oh my god, I have boobs moment yeah he's like I don't know what to do. Yeah. Yeah and it's the the films whole premise is very interesting where it's essentially it has this weird. So it's really confusing because.

[00:42:04] Mitchell is older than talking but when they switch it's like he's going to like that time period when she's like in there and then he's still in his it's really it's weird how they do it like it's like.

[00:42:19] It's like their minds of the same age but they're their bodies whopping through time so like technically mid to high is like three years older than him.

[00:42:30] Yeah because there is a scene later on where Mitchell goes to the city and runs into talk he but he has no idea who the fuck she is.

[00:42:37] And it's because there's a time different it's really it's it's a very bizarre way of telling a story but it works as it goes on. Yeah, it's a really interesting twist of the whole freaky Friday concept. Yeah you can say that again.

[00:42:56] But it's interesting because like the plot will kind of like so we get like. I think.

[00:43:03] In Mitchell is body's perspective first and he's kind of trying to get through the day and he's going he's kind of learning about Mitchell is life where she's part of this like really traditional family in the city called I think the city's name is a mori.

[00:43:18] That sounds right well it's. I watched it I watched it a few hours ago but what it comes to things like this keeping track of I mean I'm hard at keeping track of real people's names in my real life so. I'm not used to it's even harder.

[00:43:39] Yeah I can remember talking in Mitchell because they're the main characters but at the rest of the cast off to look up because I can't remember their names I can remember their character traits but that's how did. Yeah, remember with you there.

[00:43:52] So talking kind of goes through an entire day and Mitchell is body and he's kind of like. He's basically like they're all like wow you're acting really strange today like you're not like at all like how you used to be.

[00:44:05] Mitchell is a very proper girl like she has like her like fancy hairdo and everything and like she's basically tries to be like. Normal basically and talk he's a dude and he doesn't time for any of that.

[00:44:19] But what's funny is then we cut to a it cuts over to Mitchell and she's in talk he's body and we get basically the exact same thing only it's now reversed.

[00:44:29] And you get the whole perspective of it and I just find it really amusing how like they basically kind of improve each other's lives in their bodies as it goes on.

[00:44:40] Yeah like um like later on, it's a high gets talk he had date with this girl he's been crushing on just. Just by nature of being herself and his body.

[00:44:51] Yeah, because like this so the girl in question is she works at the restaurant retockey works and there's some rowdy customers and they end up. Slicing like a hole in the skirt of like the older women's a.

[00:45:05] Like a uniform so like talk he will mention when talk he's body like goes and like fixes it for and she finds that very attractive in a man which is hilarious because it's actually a woman.

[00:45:16] And I think the whole time is like, Mitchell was like making this like dream date in her head and I think the whole time Mitchell was I think attracted to the girl more than talk he was.

[00:45:26] Which is really funny but eventually they start realizing what's going on and they their way of communicating to each other as they draw messages on their faces. That's how they got.

[00:45:37] Yeah, they do it on their faces as like memo pads on their phones. They write notebooks is also different ways of like kind of keeping track of like you know trying to like cooperate to. Not be considered crazy living their day to day lives.

[00:45:54] Yeah, and as they go through the whole thing it's kind of like it builds up to that whole.

[00:46:00] The date happens and like it ends up being kind of a bust where it's like talk talk he's not really into that she really look up her name she is kind of an important character.

[00:46:11] But yeah, talk he's not actually into her that much as he thought he was so the date ends up kind of being a dud with end up becoming closer friends because of it. Yeah.

[00:46:24] Which is pretty cool because she ends up like helping him later on with his like you know his quest to find the village. Yes, because the woman's name is a Mickey by the way.

[00:46:36] But yeah, so like eventually like he starts like doing research into because he's because he's going through the village all the time. Like there's one point where they go and do some sort of ritual thing in the. This weird abandoned like field thing and.

[00:46:54] It's all like part of Japanese like meco culture and stuff that I don't really understand but it's there. So there's a point where like he's trying to find like this village and like they end up going on this whole like. Road trip essentially.

[00:47:11] Just to find out that this is where like you get the reveal that there's a huge time skip he finds out that the village of Emoji has been destroyed by a meteorite.

[00:47:20] Yeah, like three years previous and everybody died like it's one of those things were like he's essentially talking to a dead girl. The dead girl through time it's. It's weird how they um explain it. Is this Star Trek episode about that. There is really it's.

[00:47:46] What was your thought on like their whole reveal that a she was been dead this whole time. I thought it was pretty wild.

[00:47:54] It was definitely not what I was expecting at all. I mean, I didn't know what I was expecting because at this point it's about like me to go through the movie where.

[00:48:03] Because after the date that he goes on the body swap thing just stops altogether and he's like super confused about why it stopped. I think it has some to do with the the heartbreak between the two of them because.

[00:48:20] The two of thought this is what he wanted but by by this point they're getting close to each other despite not actually having met yet.

[00:48:29] I mean, I assumed that the reason why it was separate was because I mean if time was passing like one to one for both of them.

[00:48:41] Like despite the three year separation then because she when she was setting up the day forms like she was saying like oh by the end of the date you guys should be able to see the.

[00:48:50] All of the time it was going to be a very important thing, you know, because I think that's why we just had a moment in the sky whatever you're doing true. So that was the day she died. That would make sense.

[00:49:01] It gets my thought was she died so the connection was separate. Yeah, it gets kind of muddied there with like the fact that like he manages that. So the part that I got confused with was. It was like what goes on with me to a fair bit.

[00:49:19] Because honestly it's a lot less interesting than what's going on with. Well, I should say what should say talking in Mitch was body because it's a lot less interesting than what's going on with Mitchu and talk he's body because like there's like.

[00:49:33] Basically he just kind of goes around her town and stuff and acts extremely out of character for Mitchu because Mitchu is not exactly popular. I'm around her town because her dad is a big politician or something like that.

[00:49:46] Yeah, it's like a whole backstory about how like her mom died and then he just kind of like lost his shit and ran for politics for some reason. Yeah, and he's kind of a devig the entire film.

[00:49:58] And like he does ultimately come around because you know, he does kind of eventually back her up with the whole thing that happens later but we'll get there. Because then like also like her two friends are Tessian I forget the girls name.

[00:50:13] But there they're like kind of a big trio I know Tessie's father owns a construction company and the other girl kind is it's just there.

[00:50:25] But there's like points where like you see like they're like wow Mitchu was like the star of the basketball team now because to talk he's just being himself in her body. Yeah, right.

[00:50:37] Also like to like the little play where like when Mitchu was in her own body she's got her hair that fancy ponytail thing. When when talk is in her body he's too lazy to do that so he just leaves her hair down. Or like a basic ponytail.

[00:50:52] And she has a much more like delinquent look to her. I love like the I obviously we haven't gotten quite to that point yet but I love how it's a plot point where they both have the same.

[00:51:05] Like threaded string the whole time like he uses it bracelet and she uses it as a hair tie.

[00:51:13] Yes, because the the one part where that transfer happens is she when she goes to visit him in the city she actually gives him her hair tie and that's how the shift happens.

[00:51:27] Yeah, because if you remember later on she cuts her hair off and just has a bob but she no longer has the hair tie. Yeah.

[00:51:36] There's so many aspects to this movie that I want to touch on just it's it's such a well done like I can't imagine any way to improve on on the story. It's one of those films that's really hard to explain but like watching it like.

[00:51:55] As you watch it, it just makes it makes more and more sense the more goes. Yeah, well that's why like because I have my wife watched the movie with me earlier today.

[00:52:04] Because I wanted her to watch it anyway but I knew like we were going to be doing it for the show so.

[00:52:09] Once we had the opportunity we sat down and watched it and I just didn't say anything about it at all because I couldn't even begin to try and explain the the consequences. It's one of those things you kind of just have to experience. Yeah.

[00:52:24] So yeah, the whole time though like once we get to this point now we're talking knows about the fate of it morey in the media or he suddenly he's like on this quest now we're like he's got he has to like.

[00:52:38] Somehow stop it because he knows exactly the day to it is but he can't get in touch with me to any more. So he ends up going to the he finds the ruins of the little. Shrime thing where they put away their.

[00:52:54] I'd had some weird name it's some pretty sure as ultimately just old school sake. Yeah, which was essentially they chewed the rice themselves and spit it into a bottle. One of those things we were like ah yes culture. I'm. Today's episode of how it's made.

[00:53:14] It's preferred to is who I'm going to butcher this who she come like ask you something I apologize and advance that's the best I'm going to be able to do. But yeah, it's like it's a special ceremonial thing like they don't actually. They can't like that anymore obviously.

[00:53:34] But unless it's doing like a traditional like like in the context of this movie where it was. Yeah, that's the whole like a traditional kind of thing which actually was kind of a plot point where while she was doing it like a bunch of her.

[00:53:46] Schoolmates were like passing by like making fun of her and stuff. Yeah and you can tell to the she's really she's doing it for the family but she's not into that lifestyle at all.

[00:53:57] Yeah, like she wants to live in the city and like kind of like have that kind of busy lifestyle. Yeah, meanwhile, talkie in the opposite wants to be more free and not have to live in the deal with the city stuff.

[00:54:13] Yeah, but what what ends up happening is he drinks the basaki from the thing and which in high side is really gross, but that's besides the point. And it's how they did it back in the day.

[00:54:27] Way back when all sake was like that, so I mean it is what it is.

[00:54:31] Let's just this 30 stuff that he found in like a mud pit basically but I mean what's worse like you know drinking sake that was fermented in somebody's spit or right in this particular case, I pretty girl spit. Which I mean whatever. Or why.

[00:54:48] Or why and that was made with by crushing grapes with dirty as feet, I mean you know either way it's pretty gross. I will say Mitch was reaction to him drinking it when she finds out is about the same as mine so.

[00:55:03] Yeah, but yeah he drinks the the sake and it somehow triggers another switch sort of. It's unclear exactly what happens here. So like what happens next is like they end up. Meeting in the past because they find this like weird point that like the two timelines converge essentially.

[00:55:33] Because before that we see this shot of Mitch who at this like festival that they're having and. You see the media split and then it cuts and shows the aftermath of the. How the village got destroyed essentially.

[00:55:49] Yeah, which it was a very shocking scene and I was like wow that's dark. But because. I'm talking somehow got into his like this weird parallel spot where the two of them were.

[00:56:06] Me, could meet they both meet based a face for the first time and aren't able to finally. And that's where. Sock that sock is it sake. And tocky gives back a gives Mitch to a back her.

[00:56:24] Or a chord break thing and they both kind of are our chatting but they're both like. Saying like. They should write each other's names down on their hands so they can remember. But.

[00:56:40] Mitch who it doesn't have enough time to write because she only writes a line and she later looks down and finds out that talk you just wrote I love you instead of. His name. Which is a great job talking like that totally helps.

[00:56:54] I see I I missed that entirely because watching it on Crunchyroll there's no translation there so I thought that was the I thought you wrote his name. No, he did not write his name that's why she's. That's why she's so confused.

[00:57:11] But it she ends up is now she knows about the media or she ends up going back to try and stop it.

[00:57:17] And basically she gets her friends and they're like we need to cause a distraction like in like get people out of you because she knows her dad isn't going to stop it.

[00:57:28] So she gets testy to get break into his dad's construction company and basically cause a fucking it's storm of the power grid and stuff. Yeah, like set off plastic explosives there. Yeah, it's fucking metal. But then during this scene they switch again and it's like okay.

[00:57:46] Like all right, it's it's just happening whatever now. So talkie has to essentially go out of his way and he he's the one that goes to her father and essentially. Berates him and he brushes her off until he realizes really fast that it's not.

[00:58:05] His daughter in there because there's a heavy implication that this has happened in the past with that family because their mistakes enough.

[00:58:16] It seems like it's a generational thing because the grandmother insinuates that it happened to her and her daughter which would be the which would be Mitch who has mother.

[00:58:25] Yeah, so it's like continuous thing that happens and my way for now actually just talking about this over dinner after we've watched it like. Is that how all of the like marriages hat like because the father picked up on it so it makes you wonder okay like.

[00:58:43] Did Mitch to has mother and her father have this body swapping thing like when they were younger and that's how they got together because it seems like every time this happens. And once it's resolved they forget that it happened until it happens at the next generation.

[00:58:56] Yeah, it's kind of implied there it's not it's not confirmed by any means because I think this is mostly just kind of like. Shinkai transformation. Yeah, I think Shinkai is just trying to make us think. I will say though it's very obvious like the grandmother is.

[00:59:13] She doesn't ever explicitly say anything but she's very unsettled about how speaking tell when. Pockies and Mitch was body like she very met well notes. Yeah, but yeah so eventually like.

[00:59:27] Whatever talk he does he convinces Mitch was dead just in time for Mitch who had a regain control and. Basically they all evacuate the city right before the meteor comes and they basically change history.

[00:59:42] Yeah, which makes me kind of wonder is like is the forgetting thing part of the mystical part of it or is it because they changed history that they forgot. That's a good question that I don't think will ever get an answer to unfortunately but that is actually really.

[01:00:00] Interesting way of thinking about it. I always assume just it was just something that they would forget about like because I was assume the only reason they remembered at all is because of the notebooks and stuff.

[01:00:14] The FedEx guy was something to hurry back there but yeah, they always are here anyways. So then after this it kind of leaves you on a bit of an ambiguous ending well final. Final.

[01:00:30] I should say where we're now back in talkies a body like let's talk East POV entirely and he's now an adult and he's trying to get into the working world but he's kind of five years after I believe there's been at least a decent time skip.

[01:00:48] He's definitely an adult now. Because he's he's going from job to job he's essentially job hunting but he's kind of in this weird like. He basically he's obsessed with a mori and he doesn't know why.

[01:01:04] And he wants to be like an architect essentially but his itch to all the potential jobs is pretty or because. I don't even think he knows exactly what he's trying to say.

[01:01:14] Yeah, because it's one of those things where like he has this thing that he's trying to see he's trying to find something. That makes him have that emotion that he remembers having the emotion when he was younger but he's understand why he had it.

[01:01:29] And he has trouble can bang it because of that. Yeah and he basically kind of get like his his buddies like he runs into his so we didn't mention his buddies but one of his friends that joined.

[01:01:42] And he's a little early quest along with the meki earlier on in the film he he's talking with him at like a cafe and he's essentially kind of like.

[01:01:52] He's like I don't know I can't seem to get a job and he's like maybe she could have better suit that one looks pretty shit. She's getting on you. I thought it's true. Yeah, entire time then he runs into meki and apparently she's recently gotten married.

[01:02:08] I didn't actually notice that until this most recent watch. Yeah, if you notice closely, I think she has a way to waves and she's got a wedding ring. Which is nice. I mean she wasn't adults like she's it's unsurprising.

[01:02:23] But yeah, so she it's nice though that they're still in touch which is nice. Mm-hmm. Then that we also get another scene, which is a very blink of a miss it's seen but we also cut to a scene of.

[01:02:37] Tessie and the other girl are sitting in a cafe talking about their upcoming marriage. Which is another thing that's kind of nice it's showing that it that basically confirms that the people of you more you did survive. Yeah, see I um.

[01:02:53] I missed that the first time. I thought he was just hearing a regular conversation and then when I watched it earlier today. I didn't like it didn't cross my mind until after like right.

[01:03:06] Like right when it moves in the next scene, I'm like wait a minute was that you know like. Yep, I just didn't catch it like in the moment but after fact there's a wait a minute.

[01:03:13] And I think it's also because they looked different you know like the dudes got facial hair the chick doesn't have the pointy tails anymore so like. See the only reason I knew it was them was because Kyle he bears like I picked up on that right away.

[01:03:26] Yeah, it's kind of our name as that. Um, I did find that interesting though because they really didn't have any romantic like connection before I think this was literally just trying to pair the spares. Yeah, as they say.

[01:03:39] They say because I don't know well, Tessie had interest in midsuele before which is. Where I found it I assume he just realized that was never going to happen and he just kind of went with the other girl. That's possible.

[01:03:55] I think I think part of it was just because there was like a scene when they were trying to figure out how to save the town but when talk he was still in midsueh's body. Where he as midsueh was kind of ribbing him.

[01:04:08] You know like yeah, make it fun of them for like you know oh you're alone with a girl. Like elbow and a munchet like a dude would but like yeah, you know obviously what he does.

[01:04:19] He does have no concept of what's going on so he's just a weird thing for him. Yeah plus he also doesn't have talk he doesn't have the awareness to really season a girl's body while he's doing that.

[01:04:28] So yeah just I don't know there's so many elements to this movie that just make it so interesting. Yeah, well I'm actually realizing now we didn't have any even mentioned we didn't even well she's coming up again but we didn't mention Mitch who is little sister at all.

[01:04:45] Oh yeah because it was a running joke where every time he would wake up in midsueh's body he would be touching the boobs and every single time she would open the door. And just see him doing it and just be like what the fuck's wrong with you.

[01:04:59] My favorite was the very last one though when he asked me to stop and he wakes up and he's just like we both. He's touching himself. Yeah, this is like what the hell's wrong with you? She's totally lost it.

[01:05:14] Well because the sister doesn't realize like that there's the switching going on which is hilarious because the grandmother totally does. But my favorite part about that though is.

[01:05:24] That's another blanket or miss it scene is they show that girl in like going getting ready for high school that's that's supposed to be midsueh's sister. Oh right I didn't know it's that yeah she's all grown up too.

[01:05:37] But then we get the most iconic scene I think from this entire movie is the scene of them both on the train where he looks out the window and sees the other train and it's it's literally.

[01:05:49] Hockey's on one side and then it's midsueh on the other and she's all grown up now. Yeah and it's kind of like that whole like.

[01:05:56] They're like oh shit we gotta get I need to meet I need to meet this person I don't know why but I just need to so it's like there's the whole kind of. He's getting off his train to go figure out where she went and.

[01:06:09] He eventually does run into her as she's going up the staircase and they both kind of interact and they look each other in the eyes and they're both kind of like. They don't know each other but they do.

[01:06:26] And this is the most ambiguous part of the film because it's never really explained what happened here but. Basically the two of them kind of just break down and they realize.

[01:06:39] They're kind of like they don't exactly know what to say to each other but then it ends with the famous line of Mitsuase. Can I ask you one question can I ask you your name and then it goes to credits there.

[01:06:52] Yeah it's it's kind of left in the US whether she recognized him like they like their memories get recovered or. They just this is them meeting essentially for the first time and they just have that connection. The way I read it.

[01:07:08] To me I don't think they remembered I think there was just some sort of like instinctual. Gravity between them like it was like a they recognize each other on a subconscious level like not on a surface level.

[01:07:21] And that's why like like they both obviously needed to ask what their names were but they were also like crying as like both of them are crying as they were asking.

[01:07:31] So it was one of those things were like like um like lovers in the next life kind of thing you know like the whole. The whole journey lovers reuniting like a twin flame kind of thing like that's the way I took it.

[01:07:47] It's the whole anime concept of the registering of fate kind of. Yeah the red pink he's drink of love. Yeah because like. Mitshu was like red cord is supposed to be like a whole.

[01:08:00] Metaphorical part of like the whole registering of fate it's kind of like in art of the last where the scarf and not a mix for Naruto supposed to be the registering of fate thing. Yeah where it's it's just a Japanese kind of like. Trop with romance that um.

[01:08:15] Some things do much more effectively than others I think this film does it very effectively. I mean the wind the handle where are they they both for keepers of that string for a while so it was.

[01:08:25] I don't know there's so many so many interesting avenues you could go down with this movie.

[01:08:32] Um yeah on a slug more than you would think for just an hour and a half you know like it's not a it's not an extremely long movie by any means but it's like jam packed. It's it's a very quick watch I'm surprised how fast it goes by.

[01:08:46] Hmm but it's one of those films that you have to watch a couple. Excuse me a couple times because like. There's just so much going on and there's little things like everywhere. Yeah my wife loved it.

[01:09:04] There's funny too because when we were talking about it over dinner today. She was saying like how we watched the like first couple scenes with like you know it's like an app and touching the boobs and stand at front of the mirror and all that of the stuff.

[01:09:16] She was like I don't know. I feel about this movie is one of those weird anime movies or is it like a good movie like she was kind of like on the fence which I get because I kind of had a similar.

[01:09:28] A similar mindset about it when I first started watching it and then as it goes along and you start putting the pieces together you realize like how well fought out and like.

[01:09:39] Deep this story is ironically the boobs thing is like to really the only like weird part of that.

[01:09:46] It's like a tiger movie when you think about it and it's really just it's just there for a chocolate you know it's not it's it's a chuckle but it's also something that like let's be real anybody in this situation would probably do.

[01:09:59] Yeah 100% it's it's one of those like no matter what like somebody says if you somehow switched bodies with. Someone like that you're probably going to do it like it's just it's gonna happen. To be fair she was doing it too.

[01:10:14] Yeah well yeah hers was about she was a lot more embarrassed though I love it she was just like oh no. I have to pee. She didn't know what did how do I do this. Yeah that's true.

[01:10:31] Yeah that though like the film is incredibly well structured the animation is beautiful. The art style in general is is gore like any scene where like really show this guy with a comet was absolutely stunning.

[01:10:45] Even the comet kind of is an illusion to that whole registering of fate thing like it's the whole art overarching theme. The entire soundtrack it works so well to it was done by a group known as. I just had a red wimps.

[01:11:04] There apparently a group their japanies band they've been around since 2001. There their name was was was was coined from the English slang terms rad and whimps for them. And it's supposed to mean excellent weekling or superlative coward. That's great that's fun.

[01:11:33] Yeah this film would go on to be like a massive success to the point where she and Kai apparently kind of resented it for a while because. It ended up overshadowing everything else he ever worked on.

[01:11:49] I mean everyone kind of has that that one thing that they did they had to feel that way about like for Stephen King I feel like he feels that way but it like.

[01:11:59] That pretty sure he said on record before like long past the day when everybody forgets my name they'll always remember that fucking clown. I think another thing to is I've only seen a handful of his previous films but from what I've read.

[01:12:17] His other work like your name was kind of like the black sheep of his category when he uh for cat of his like a discord like filmography when he. When it first came out because like.

[01:12:28] All of his films have a supernatural element to them but like your name was like the one that was like the first like full on like romantic kind of thing like this. And I feel like.

[01:12:42] I think I feel like he had some issues with it when it first came out just because it kind of like. Me it kind of like just like it meant that like he was going to have a hard time topping it. Yeah.

[01:12:55] Which to be fair I think he did a perfectly good job with his next film because the follow up was a film called weathering with you which. Is also a romance story to a degree but it's much more the supernatural elements are way more prevalent.

[01:13:13] And it doesn't actually end on a positive positive note kind of. I'm not going to spoil it because I know you haven't seen it yet so I want you to watch that eventually.

[01:13:26] That in a it takes place before the end of your name because talking in mid shoe of both appear at one point in the film which is a really nice call back.

[01:13:38] I like when when creators do that kind of thing it's always a fun little nod to the you know the faithful. Watchers for years etc. Yeah it's I want to say it's before the end of your name just because it's implied that talking mature have not met yet.

[01:13:56] We'll re-remet I should say. But they're both adults so it definitely happens at some point during that five year times skip. Or a year depending on your point of view. True. But mature is mature is the older one but um.

[01:14:16] He's also done another film that just came out that I still need to watch called a Susan May which I've heard is also kind of bizarre and wacky. I've heard of that one.

[01:14:26] I don't know I know nothing about it but I know I've heard the name before it's also on crunchy roll. I know that the the trailer for it played a full bunch of anime films that came out. A couple years back so you might have seen it there.

[01:14:41] It's impossible. But um yeah other than that like the only other things I didn't have time to read them so I can't really talk to them fully but um there is a manga adaption of your name as well. Which is apparently very very nice.

[01:14:59] There's also a single volume or no it's it's actually three volumes it's um okay so it tells the full story. There's a novel adaption like a light novel adaption of it. And there is also a second manga which is an alternative.

[01:15:16] I believe it is a game in alternate viewpoint of the story through like the people surrounding talking in mid you. Okay. But um there so there's five manga's in total essentially and then a light novel if you really are interested in more your name content.

[01:15:35] I might not have to check out some of that stuff. You can find them at any bookstore they're pretty always in stock bookstore what's that. Alright they don't have those messages and I'm spoiled because they're fucking everywhere down here.

[01:15:52] Now to those I want to go for an hour long drive. Yeah I mean there's new very comics I'm sure it's there probably.

[01:16:00] I've seen them that they have some of that stuff not they don't you have like a ton of variety with that I know have seen there's like an obelization of total row and a couple of things there but you know they cycle stuff out so.

[01:16:13] I'll have to go by there at some point soon and see what they got.

[01:16:18] Yeah um I love that I still think they're like the ending might be one of my favorite parts of this film just because it's it's a happy ending but it also it's such an ambiguous ending and I kind of like that.

[01:16:29] Yeah because I mean sometimes like you know kind of touching on how I yeah I mentioned fruits basket's earlier where fruits baskets has like the epilogue where it shows them like happily married and their grandparents you know what I mean like.

[01:16:45] It's just too much like I would have preferred it if it was just like okay we're off it's the first day of the the rest of our lives and just ended there you know kind of like hopefully monolocomested where.

[01:16:55] You know they went on their perspective journeys and you see like a little tiny snippet of the future but like not like you know maybe like a couple two three four years in the future like not like so far as they're at the end of their lives you know I mean like.

[01:17:10] I like having that kind of like okay you know the story and now they get to live their lives as they would have you know I mean like. I just feel like that is a more satisfying conclusion.

[01:17:23] I mean if you want to be a pessimist technically like for all we know like they could like go from here and never talk again so. It's entirely possible but it's a very important.

[01:17:35] I was gonna say that's part of what makes the ambiguous ending good is because you know it's up to. The person consuming it to decide where that goes I mean me personally I feel like it's probably just going to continue on like they're gonna date whatever like.

[01:17:52] That's probably what is gonna end up happening but I like not knowing if that makes sense. See I just wanted to talk you ever find a job. Yeah right.

[01:18:02] Because we we find out in a weathering with you that midsue has a job not plot twist they get married they get married and he goes into politics. I don't be. Obviously because talk he's obsessed with the fucking painting for most of the film. For real.

[01:18:20] We do we're making kind of jokes a lot but this is an excellent film like over. Absolutely like if you know obviously if you're not into animated medium then I don't know why or I'm listening to this show but. Anyone who you know likes that kind of.

[01:18:41] That kind of genre or medium like this is this is fantastic honestly I give it like.

[01:18:47] You know I don't think I really have any problems with it I probably give it a solid 10 out of 10 the music is perfect for for the tone that's going for the animation and art. The animation and art direction is perfect.

[01:19:00] The acting is spot on they I can't think of a single wasted moment in this film. Yeah there isn't even like a slow part like on rewatches where you're just like get on with it it's like everything is so well structured and.

[01:19:17] I also love to that they they didn't really. They didn't really follow up on it at all they kind of like immediately just kind of left it as is which I like.

[01:19:26] I will say though I'm a little worried because there is a live action adaption in development right now. Oh, there is Cindy was actually just saying that she kind of wants that everyone so we'll see it's an American adaption so I'm already not.

[01:19:42] So it's an American adaption of early being produced by JJ Abrams of all the people. Go either way my only it's a quite flip see I'm hesitant mostly just because they've been through three directors already.

[01:19:59] Which is not a great which is not a great sign but I mean it's one of those things where I've seen good eight movies and I've seen bad eight movies so yeah it's also the track record for American. Adaptions of anime is very.

[01:20:16] Hit or miss like one piece is like the exception that we'll always bring up there's also the Veroni can't you films one of those Japanese one missing. Those are good. Yeah it's like. Never mind forget I said that. There's there's one piece and that's about it.

[01:20:38] I mean I love to take the Pikachu is all right, but that was that was technically a video game movie yeah I don't I'm count that as an am so much.

[01:20:47] It's a me like I mean I love the net the netflix one feet no the netflix death note not because it's good just because it's fucking amazing. Yeah. That's for sure. That film's great for all the wrong reasons.

[01:21:05] No, okay not but yeah it's um we'll have to wait and see on that I mean I'll probably go see it. Yeah I probably will too honestly.

[01:21:16] I don't know if it's it is it gonna be theaters or is it just gonna go straight to streaming you know I don't I mean there's not enough about it at this point I mean they haven't even started filming it so that's fair so it's probably at least a few years out.

[01:21:30] Yeah if it even gets that far because I mean for all we know this could get. Can't sold quietly in the background and no one will ever think of it again true.

[01:21:40] Um, I'm not 100% sure I need to look into it but I think the boy in the haram might be on Netflix now. I gotta watch that because I want to do a follow up for GNC because we um.

[01:21:53] So we did that we did the whole retrospective there on GNC and I I'd like to reach out to Rick I'm not sure if he's doing that. I'm not sure if he's doing co-led right now because I know he's on a break but um.

[01:22:03] I'd like to watch that movie and have Rick back on to cover it so. That's something far the down the line. Well I mean obviously I don't know him personally I don't know his big forum but.

[01:22:17] I feel like like a one off with with somebody you you like in respect is different than kind of running your own things so sure.

[01:22:24] You know you're chances are probably better than you know no so yeah I mean I have no idea when me now so get around to that anyway. They split that's just a thought for the future. Well I'll craft my fingers and hope to see that in the future.

[01:22:38] Yeah or here at I guess. Yeah and as the car goes by. Um anything else we want to cover before we sign off for. I'm not pretty much covers it if you haven't watched it please go and do so because it's totally worth it.

[01:22:56] Oh yeah this it's honestly like a kind of a gateway if anime film that really will get you into the whole idea of anime movie like standalone anime movies. Yeah because there's a ton of them out there and they're really good it's just you kind of have to.

[01:23:12] You kind of have to just be in the mindset for something like that.

[01:23:15] Yeah it's kind of like a hard thing for me though the anime movies is because like a lot of times like like I said with this movie like I was satisfied with the way that they. Handled the ending.

[01:23:27] But at the same time I want more information about the world and how it works and how the how the magic works and everything like like a prequel like I want to know what was going on with grandma there like you know what I mean like.

[01:23:43] Just I don't know there's a part of me and I end up feeling that way about a lot of those standalone anime movies. Like like spirit of the way what the fuck is going on there like.

[01:23:54] You know what I mean like an amazing there's got to be more to that like. It's an amazing mind fuck that's exactly correct. Like that was like the biggest fucking acid trip of a movie I've ever seen in my life.

[01:24:08] That's still that's still my second favorite jibli film. Now it's a great movie it just like it threw me for a loop and spoiler the boy in the harron doesn't similar thing it throws you for a total loop like. I'm looking forward to watching it.

[01:24:24] I'm curious if it's going to top the wind rises because I still think the wind rises is a perfect film but. Hmm that's for another that's for another podcast discussion. Fair um yeah but anyways guys that's that's about it for this one so once again.

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