Geek Addicts - Episode 56: Discussing The Live Action Zom 100 Film!

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[00:00:34] Hello and welcome to Geek Addicts, the pop culture podcast where we talk about all sorts of stuff. We spend each week crossing off the list of topics that we want to cover. My name is Matt with me. He is the front two legs of the zombie shark, Bill Barber.

[00:00:56] I don't want to be the front two legs.

[00:00:58] How's it going Bill?

[00:00:59] Huh?

[00:01:00] I said I don't want to be the front two legs.

[00:01:02] You're the face of GNC, so I mean, you're the front of all three shows, so you kind of don't have an option.

[00:01:11] Yeah.

[00:01:12] Oh, I'm doing.

[00:01:15] I'm doing I guess is the best way of saying how this week's been.

[00:01:19] I feel that man.

[00:01:22] It's already fucking November.

[00:01:24] Y'all tell me about it.

[00:01:26] We just friggin had to like you.

[00:01:31] We had to just put some money into friggin getting some stuff on the car fixed and it's just a big mess, man.

[00:01:37] Fucking Christmas is going to be light this year.

[00:01:41] That's all I can say.

[00:01:42] Yeah.

[00:01:44] Yeah.

[00:01:44] I don't even want to think about Christmas right now.

[00:01:47] Nah, I don't know.

[00:01:48] Trust me.

[00:01:50] I found a fucking mouse in my house this week.

[00:01:52] That was wonderful.

[00:01:54] Oh, that's fun.

[00:01:56] Yeah.

[00:01:57] I caught it.

[00:01:58] It's cold.

[00:01:59] I got the one that I think I saw.

[00:02:04] I don't know if there's more.

[00:02:05] I haven't caught any more.

[00:02:06] So I'm hoping it was just a one off.

[00:02:08] But yeah, that sucked.

[00:02:11] Yeah.

[00:02:12] Yeah.

[00:02:12] You can be careful, man.

[00:02:13] Once they catch a hold, it's it's hard to get rid of them.

[00:02:17] Yeah, I think what happened was I left the door open and one got in.

[00:02:20] But yeah, that sucked.

[00:02:23] I gotcha.

[00:02:25] So today is Frankie's birthday.

[00:02:29] He's turned three.

[00:02:29] It's not that I can't believe it's been three years.

[00:02:32] I know it's wild.

[00:02:35] It's wild.

[00:02:35] And it's like.

[00:02:36] So, you know how they say that like women.

[00:02:40] Like after they have have children, they have like this weird like.

[00:02:45] Like short circuit in their brain that makes them forget all the shitty parts of like having a kid and everything.

[00:02:52] I feel like there's some sort of short circuit like that in in everyone who has a kid where like.

[00:02:58] Like once you have the kid.

[00:03:01] And some time goes by and like all of a sudden it's like, wait, did I exist before this kid was born?

[00:03:07] I don't like I don't remember what life was like back then.

[00:03:11] It's like I have a vague idea of what it was like, but feels like the kids are always been there, you know?

[00:03:18] I can't hear it.

[00:03:19] It's it's weird.

[00:03:22] Like the way the world kind of just has been on its.

[00:03:26] The world's been kind of on its head for like years now.

[00:03:29] Mm hmm.

[00:03:31] That's for sure.

[00:03:32] There's like this weird like divide of like.

[00:03:36] You got like everything before 2020 and like everything after 2020, and it's like what what happened?

[00:03:42] Yeah, it's definitely 2020 was like a big water watershed moment.

[00:03:49] Yeah, year, I guess.

[00:03:51] It's so funny walking around like you still see like the relics of it like every now and then like me and Alex.

[00:03:57] We went to five guys after I got to work today.

[00:04:01] And we were we went over to one of the shopping plazas just because we wanted to walk it off a little bit.

[00:04:05] And you still walk by certain places and they still have like the little like dots on the ground where you were supposed to stand outside.

[00:04:13] Oh, yeah.

[00:04:14] And it's like it's they're basically going to be there until they wear away.

[00:04:18] So it's just like we always walk by and we're like relics of the past.

[00:04:22] Well, I guess I'm like that.

[00:04:23] Like at my work, they still have all like the little like claws at the bottom of the doors because it was at a point where like they were like very big.

[00:04:33] But like, oh, don't touch doorknobs or whatever.

[00:04:35] So like the idea was like you're supposed to use your foot to grab the claw at the bottom and open up the door.

[00:04:41] We really turned into a loony society during that period of time.

[00:04:45] For real.

[00:04:47] I still see like the the gas pumps with like the trash bag dispensers on them now.

[00:04:51] And it's like it's like does anybody ever like half of them?

[00:04:54] They're not even replaced.

[00:04:55] I'm like, I don't think anyone used them to begin with.

[00:04:58] Probably not.

[00:05:01] So Halloween was yesterday.

[00:05:04] Did you do anything?

[00:05:05] Anything fun?

[00:05:07] I watched the topic of today's episode and then I did a podcast with Alex.

[00:05:13] That's fun.

[00:05:16] Yeah, I took the kiddies trick or treating.

[00:05:18] Went to my cousin's neighborhood and actually in Carver.

[00:05:22] Yeah, it was cool.

[00:05:24] Frances had a great time.

[00:05:26] She was running all over the place.

[00:05:28] Kept tucking herself out.

[00:05:30] Yeah, Halloween is like I think it's one of those holidays that really.

[00:05:35] Holidays.

[00:05:35] Is that really only I think that you have to be younger for it to really matter because like the older you get the less and less.

[00:05:43] It really.

[00:05:45] Then again, Halloween is weird one because like certain people like it sticks with them and other people like me like lose the interest in it.

[00:05:52] Like when you're still in middle school.

[00:05:54] Hmm.

[00:05:55] Well, I think.

[00:05:56] I mean, I still enjoy Halloween.

[00:05:58] I think I would enjoy it more if I.

[00:06:01] Well, that's not true.

[00:06:02] I enjoy it in a different way now that I have kids because I'm like enjoying it vicariously through them.

[00:06:08] But like I myself would have like I don't want to say a better time, but like I would be able to like, you know, if I didn't have kids, I'd be going out and like, you know, have you going out with friends drinking whatever else, you know, Halloween parties, that kind of thing.

[00:06:26] Yeah, I think what killed the Halloween spirit for me back in the day was.

[00:06:32] You'd go out and get all like the candy and then it would mysteriously disappear after two days.

[00:06:38] Yeah.

[00:06:39] And I after like three years of that, I was just like, what's the point even getting it if it's just going to be gone or you can even enjoy it?

[00:06:47] Yeah.

[00:06:49] Well, that's why when I was a kid, I always used to bring my bag up to my room and like hide out of my bed or something.

[00:06:55] That didn't work in my house.

[00:06:57] Yeah, that's fair.

[00:06:59] Yeah.

[00:07:01] Now we're the ones doing that.

[00:07:03] Yeah.

[00:07:05] So I didn't even I had the light off all night.

[00:07:08] So like no one, no one really comes to our neighborhood anyways, because it's mostly it's mostly an older community.

[00:07:14] So it's not really super hopping.

[00:07:17] So I just leave the light off and I don't even bother.

[00:07:20] I didn't even my ring didn't even go off with activity of people walking around.

[00:07:24] So I just think it's a quiet area.

[00:07:26] Not really.

[00:07:28] A big trick-or-treating spot.

[00:07:32] We just have a bad neighborhood for trick-or-treating because we're like right next to the main road.

[00:07:36] Like there's no sidewalks or anything like that, you know.

[00:07:40] It's funny.

[00:07:40] Like after I stopped trick-or-treating, I was like I took over passing out the candy, which was always an excuse to just get a fire going and chill outside.

[00:07:50] I learned really fast that as the older we got, the lazier kids would get because my parents' house has a not a super long driveway, but it's long enough that we would see so many kids.

[00:08:09] They would walk by.

[00:08:10] They'd look at the driveway and then they just keep walking because it was too long.

[00:08:15] They just were too lazy.

[00:08:16] I was like, the candy is right here, but it's just too much effort.

[00:08:21] Too much effort for them.

[00:08:23] I remember when I was a kid, man, we used to fucking hit every house, sometimes twice.

[00:08:27] Like if it was a house that just like left the bowl.

[00:08:29] And I feel like that's a thing now.

[00:08:30] I've noticed taking the kids out trick-or-treating the past few years.

[00:08:34] Like so many more people are just leaving bowls on the front step.

[00:08:39] But then I feel like back when we were kids, like adults would like actually like get into it and like they'd have their little costumes and they'd hand out the candies and stuff.

[00:08:48] Like I feel like I don't see as much of that anymore.

[00:08:53] Yeah, I've noticed that too.

[00:08:55] Like it's always been kind of a.

[00:08:57] I think it's kind of people just do it out of obligation now, which is weird.

[00:09:01] It's weird that I people will put the bowl out rather than just turning the light off and not even bothering.

[00:09:08] Well, I mean, I'm sure on a level like they don't want to just like abolish the whole concept of trick-or-treating, but they just don't want to be a part of it.

[00:09:17] Yeah, but then that always leaves candy.

[00:09:20] Yeah, yeah, I just whenever I always my whole thing with like leaving the candy out was just kind of like.

[00:09:26] You're just asking for some douchebag to like either take the whole bag or something.

[00:09:31] I was actually really surprised with because like I said, like a lot of the houses that we went to just kind of left the bowl out, but I was actually really surprised.

[00:09:39] There's only like two houses that where the bowl was empty.

[00:09:42] And this is like towards the end of the night.

[00:09:45] So I was actually pleasantly surprised to see the kids were like respecting the whole just take a couple thing.

[00:09:51] See, my favorite not not favored in the sense that this is something I'd condone, but just something that I'd always see and be like, wow, was the classic the sign that said, please take one.

[00:10:01] Do not take the bowl.

[00:10:02] And then you just see the pile of candy on the ground and someone stole the bowl.

[00:10:05] Just be an asshole.

[00:10:09] I remember seeing that a ton back in the day.

[00:10:11] I was like, I'd be like, what a jerk.

[00:10:14] I mean, granted, with a sign like that, you're just asking for it.

[00:10:18] Yeah, there was a couple of like really like fun, like super balls to the wall decorated houses that like Francis would walk up and she wouldn't even care about the candy.

[00:10:28] She just want to hang out there because it looked cool.

[00:10:31] Yeah.

[00:10:33] She had a great time.

[00:10:34] I was happy.

[00:10:35] That's good.

[00:10:39] I did.

[00:10:40] I watched some more stuff this week.

[00:10:44] I watched a show called.

[00:10:49] Bear with me.

[00:10:51] Campfire cooking in another world with my absurd skill.

[00:10:58] There's just so many goddamn titles like that now.

[00:11:01] Like, I think it's just like it's just a competition.

[00:11:03] Like who can have the most absurdly long title?

[00:11:07] For real.

[00:11:08] And it was I honestly I found it pretty fun.

[00:11:10] It was I actually I watched it because I saw that that was the the.

[00:11:16] Slade's like anime corner side show.

[00:11:21] That was the one that they were covering.

[00:11:23] They just released an episode on it.

[00:11:24] And I was like, yeah, it's only a 12 or I'll I'll watch it.

[00:11:27] It was actually it was really fun.

[00:11:29] It was a you know, it was obviously I'm sure you can guess based on the title is an isekai.

[00:11:34] Yeah, most of those are at this point.

[00:11:35] But I liked it because the main character just had no interest in being a fighter or an adventurer.

[00:11:44] But like almost instantly, he gets like an absurdly powerful familiar that just wants him to cook for him.

[00:11:50] And he just keeps like forcing him to go into like these adventurous areas, like forcing him to go into dungeons and whatnot.

[00:11:57] He just has he just wants no part of it, but he just keeps getting dragged into it.

[00:12:01] It's pretty funny.

[00:12:02] That's that must be a leftover because I know Slade's not affiliated with them anymore.

[00:12:08] They must still have a few recorded that they're just trickling out.

[00:12:12] It's possible.

[00:12:15] I'm trying to think.

[00:12:17] I know there's a couple other things I watched.

[00:12:19] I watched Undead Unluck this week.

[00:12:24] Alex has watched that one.

[00:12:25] I think she's that one's I honestly like.

[00:12:30] That one might end up being an answer to one of the questions for the enemy wrap up, because I was honestly like I was not.

[00:12:38] I went into it not really expecting to like it that much.

[00:12:41] And by the end of it, I was like super invested.

[00:12:43] Like I'm really hoping that they continue and do a season two.

[00:12:49] Because it was very fun.

[00:12:52] Nice.

[00:12:52] I like it because one of the main characters, the undead guy is just like Baccano level unhinged.

[00:12:59] Yeah.

[00:13:00] And it's very fun.

[00:13:02] And also the way he uses his power is just absolutely outrageous.

[00:13:06] Like.

[00:13:08] It's like Baccano levels of unhinged, but JoJo's level of like how the fuck did your power do this?

[00:13:15] Yeah.

[00:13:17] Yeah.

[00:13:17] I didn't do very good this week.

[00:13:19] Anime watching because I just had Monday.

[00:13:22] I had the mouse thing.

[00:13:23] Then I podcasts.

[00:13:26] Yeah.

[00:13:27] It's been a been a busy week.

[00:13:28] I'm going to try and get more done this weekend.

[00:13:30] Hopefully.

[00:13:31] I also watch some more ghost stories.

[00:13:34] Nice.

[00:13:35] Which I think I only have like five or six episodes of that left.

[00:13:39] But.

[00:13:40] Yeah.

[00:13:40] That's that's been an interesting.

[00:13:43] An interesting watch.

[00:13:44] I could see that.

[00:13:45] Yeah.

[00:13:47] I played that Casper game on radio.

[00:13:50] That was.

[00:13:51] Game.

[00:13:52] Oh, yeah.

[00:13:53] I listened to that episode.

[00:13:56] Yeah.

[00:13:57] That was our Halloween special for the year.

[00:14:04] That game was weird because it like it was.

[00:14:06] I didn't want to say it was bad, but it.

[00:14:07] Was such a.

[00:14:08] It exists kind of game.

[00:14:11] Yeah.

[00:14:12] That seemed to be like the general consensus between the three.

[00:14:14] Yeah.

[00:14:16] Is it just kind of like it's it's fine.

[00:14:18] It's not offensive, but it's not something I'd go back to play.

[00:14:21] It's it's like one of.

[00:14:23] I really agreed with what Schnickerman said where it was like.

[00:14:26] It's they made a confident enough game, but it has like almost nothing to do with the movie.

[00:14:31] It's based off of.

[00:14:34] Which was a lot of licensed games back in the day, to be honest.

[00:14:38] I was just going to say, I feel like a lot of those kinds of games were like that.

[00:14:42] Like they say it's like based off a movie, but it has like nothing to do with the movie.

[00:14:45] Hmm.

[00:14:47] Hmm.

[00:14:50] I actually right before I came over here, I watched the new episode of Dima for for reference

[00:14:54] point because these come out so late.

[00:14:57] The episode that was released today was episode four.

[00:15:00] And like, so we've only been in the demon realm for two episodes at this point.

[00:15:06] And like, I am already like really hoping that we get like a sand land style video game

[00:15:11] for this show because they are like, I don't know that the demon realm is just so interesting

[00:15:17] and throwing in so many different kinds of aspects of it that make me want to just like

[00:15:22] jump in and explore it.

[00:15:25] Like, I don't, I, if they do, I, I, I don't want any sort of Z or GT or super, any of that.

[00:15:32] I want it to be just Dima from the beginning of Dima through, and then you just go out and

[00:15:36] like explore like in sand land.

[00:15:41] That'd be cool.

[00:15:41] But for some reason, I feel like they need to give us another retelling of Z.

[00:15:46] That seems to be all we're capable of doing this is these days.

[00:15:50] Well, from what I hear, Sparking Zero really likes playing with the, um, the what ifs.

[00:15:55] And instead of like the way it was with the old Sparking games, where it was like, you know,

[00:16:00] we have the regular story here, and then we have just a couple of little episodes of what ifs.

[00:16:06] Apparently in, in this version, it's like, like there's multiple characters that have their own

[00:16:12] storylines.

[00:16:14] And like, depending on how you do the level, it will like branch the story off.

[00:16:20] And like, uh, you'll get like a, a totally different like timeline direction by, by going

[00:16:27] down that line.

[00:16:28] And it's not just like a one-off kind of a couple of battles and you're done.

[00:16:32] It's like an actual, like, this is what would have happened if this happened, you know,

[00:16:36] kind of thing.

[00:16:37] Yeah.

[00:16:37] So I'm really excited to jump into that once we get it.

[00:16:44] Yeah.

[00:16:45] There's so many games I need to pick up, but I just don't have the money for right now.

[00:16:48] So I'm kind of waiting until an opportunity arises.

[00:16:53] Well, at least with Sparking Zero, I have the excuse that it's a Christmas gift for me and

[00:16:58] for Xander.

[00:16:59] So I can justify it like that.

[00:17:02] I just have to wait a month and a half to actually play it.

[00:17:06] Gotcha.

[00:17:08] Yeah.

[00:17:09] Other than that though, not a ton really going on.

[00:17:13] I haven't really done anything this week.

[00:17:16] This was, this was one of the least productive weeks I think I've had in a while.

[00:17:20] Yeah.

[00:17:20] I worked a lot of overtime this week.

[00:17:22] Although I did take today off because of Francis's birthday and oh, and Francis's

[00:17:26] first day of school is on Monday.

[00:17:27] Oh, nice.

[00:17:28] So that'll be fun.

[00:17:30] I also took that day off because I can't miss that.

[00:17:34] Yeah.

[00:17:35] I getcha.

[00:17:37] But.

[00:17:41] Other than that though, I guess we could probably jump into our topic for today's episode.

[00:17:46] Yeah.

[00:17:46] Yeah.

[00:17:47] Um, so we're doing another live action anime adaption.

[00:17:51] It's been a while.

[00:17:53] It has.

[00:17:54] I think the last one we did was the Fullmetal Alchemist live action, which that was a good

[00:17:59] couple of months back.

[00:18:01] At this rate.

[00:18:03] It was a good one.

[00:18:04] I think I was going to say, I think that was like April or something.

[00:18:07] That was a while ago.

[00:18:10] Yeah.

[00:18:11] It was, it was ironically cold then and it's cold again now.

[00:18:14] So that, that we went through an entire season.

[00:18:18] Yeah.

[00:18:19] Yeah.

[00:18:20] If we had planned this out a little bit better, um, instead of recording it the day after Halloween,

[00:18:25] we could have done it for Halloween, but since it's so cool, we're recording it the day

[00:18:28] after we're going to go ahead and just say it's the Halloween special.

[00:18:31] So yeah, that's why it'll be coming up.

[00:18:34] That's why it'll be coming out almost in December.

[00:18:37] Yeah, exactly.

[00:18:40] Because we are so far ahead with uploads right now.

[00:18:43] Yeah.

[00:18:45] It's at a point now where like, I don't even know like where, like anytime we record an episode,

[00:18:50] I'm like, I have no idea when this is going to come out.

[00:18:53] Yeah.

[00:18:53] We're very, we're very ahead.

[00:18:55] And that being said though, for this episode, we're actually going to be talking about the

[00:19:00] live action adaption of ZOM 100, Plug it List of the Dead, um, which was an anime that

[00:19:06] me and Alex actually covered, uh, this year for one of our anime swaps.

[00:19:11] And it was an Alex pick.

[00:19:13] And I have to say, it was a very interesting show.

[00:19:17] Not enough for me to go full in manga with it, but I am looking forward to its second season

[00:19:23] when that eventually arrives.

[00:19:26] Because there's clearly a lot more to tell with that, um, uh, story.

[00:19:33] The live action film.

[00:19:35] So for a little context, the, um, the manga debuted in 2018.

[00:19:39] It's still going to this day.

[00:19:42] It's at 17 volumes currently.

[00:19:44] Um, the anime was released in 2023.

[00:19:48] Uh, it was a one season, 12 episodes.

[00:19:51] Um, and the live action was also in 2023.

[00:19:56] Uh, produced by Netflix.

[00:19:58] So it's another Netflix live action.

[00:20:00] Um, it is also one of the many live action, uh, anime films that has a dub.

[00:20:07] And I'll say right off the bat, lip sync is not the best.

[00:20:13] They didn't line it up very well in this movie.

[00:20:16] Yeah.

[00:20:17] Why?

[00:20:17] I, it's a lot harder with live action stuff.

[00:20:20] It is.

[00:20:21] I like the Ruroni Kenshin films did a very, do a very good job with it.

[00:20:26] Yeah.

[00:20:26] But those also weren't Netflix films.

[00:20:28] True.

[00:20:29] Um, I'm trying to think of another one.

[00:20:31] Uh, the, uh, the full metal, full metal was pretty bad with, um, lip sync.

[00:20:35] It's very, it's hit or miss.

[00:20:36] It depends on how much effort they put into it.

[00:20:39] Hmm.

[00:20:39] Um, I found it interesting too.

[00:20:42] They didn't use the, uh, the dub, the, the anime dub cast.

[00:20:45] They used completely different actors for this.

[00:20:47] Yeah.

[00:20:48] And they made Todd, Todd Haberquin the villain again.

[00:20:50] Just they did the same thing with the Kenshin movie.

[00:20:54] Hmm.

[00:20:56] Um, well.

[00:21:01] Villain in quotation marks, because there, there's not really a villain in Zom.

[00:21:08] He's more of a, if it's the character I believe you're talking about, he's more of just an inconvenience.

[00:21:13] Well, I mean, he's.

[00:21:15] Yeah.

[00:21:16] I, I see what you're saying, but if you're going to try and like pinpoint like a villain,

[00:21:21] cause there is like a villain, like towards the end of the, the first season of the anime.

[00:21:25] But this, this movie only covers like the first half of that season.

[00:21:29] So it, it covers the first half and it heavily abridges and moves things around.

[00:21:35] Like it, it actually mixes a couple of arcs together, which I found very interesting.

[00:21:39] We'll get into that.

[00:21:41] Um, I feel like it worked really well the way they did it though, for like a movie format.

[00:21:45] It did do a degree.

[00:21:46] I thought a few things felt kind of rushed.

[00:21:49] Um, some of the development wasn't as strong this time around.

[00:21:54] Um, but other than that, pretty good adaption overall.

[00:22:00] I would say I found it a little interesting, the things they did change.

[00:22:03] Like there was a few minor things here and there that, that kind of added up as it went

[00:22:08] on.

[00:22:09] I guess for, so for people who've only seen the anime or have watched the manga, obviously

[00:22:13] spoiler spoilers, but I mean, at this point it's a G and she show.

[00:22:17] So we, we, we spoil everything.

[00:22:19] Um, in terms of timeline for people who've only watched the anime or read the manga, the

[00:22:25] live action kind of ends right after the conclusion of the baseball arc in the anime.

[00:22:35] Um, but it also combines elements of the aquarium arc at the same time.

[00:22:41] So it's kind of in that, that weird, um, area like, um, like, um, we, we don't meet Beatrix

[00:22:51] yet.

[00:22:51] Um, she's not in this film.

[00:22:53] We don't have their journey off to the, uh, uh, the parents village.

[00:22:57] It's very much contained to most of the city stuff.

[00:23:01] Mm-hmm.

[00:23:04] Um, I was really kind of upset that she wasn't involved in this movie and like, I know we

[00:23:10] get kind of jump around a little bit, but like, I don't know if you watched at the end of the

[00:23:13] credits.

[00:23:16] No, I think I might've flipped off.

[00:23:20] Um, well at the end of Chris, like I was waiting just to see if there was like a little

[00:23:23] anchor to the scene.

[00:23:24] Cause I was kind of hoping that the, that was going to be an end credit scene that just

[00:23:27] kind of showed like someone in like full samurai garb, like walking up to like where they're

[00:23:31] hanging out or whatever as like a little, like, you know, hint, you know, Hey, look,

[00:23:35] there she is.

[00:23:36] She's going to be the next one kind of thing.

[00:23:37] But no, it was just the, the asshole boss just kind of walking away from the parking

[00:23:42] lot.

[00:23:43] And then that was it.

[00:23:44] Okay.

[00:23:45] I didn't miss anything.

[00:23:47] No, you didn't miss anything.

[00:23:48] And so I was like, I was really upset about that.

[00:23:50] It was like, it was a perfect opportunity.

[00:23:53] You know, what's weird about the, the asshole boss though.

[00:23:56] So he is somehow more interesting in this movie than he is in the show and the show.

[00:24:02] He's just a straight up soul.

[00:24:03] This one, he kind of is like a, he's kind of like that lovable asshole.

[00:24:08] Cause it's like, you kind of like his, like, cause I think the actor they got for him, um,

[00:24:14] doesn't look anything like the anime version.

[00:24:16] Like it's very different.

[00:24:18] Like, I will say most of the actors are pretty close.

[00:24:21] His wasn't even close.

[00:24:23] Like they just wanted a completely different idea.

[00:24:25] Um, uh, I will say though, I kind of liked his betrayal in this one more.

[00:24:30] Cause he was more just kind of like a smug bastard.

[00:24:32] He wasn't such a jackass as he was in the, um, the original anime.

[00:24:37] Cause in this one, it's more realistic.

[00:24:39] He's just kind of like, he's just that kind of boss, like just exists in Japan.

[00:24:44] I don't know about the one scene.

[00:24:46] Like what, when he's going through like his, his shitty work life before the zombies hit

[00:24:50] and he's just like, Oh, sir.

[00:24:52] Like I had, I had a question about this.

[00:24:54] What is it?

[00:24:54] He's like, figure it out yourself.

[00:24:57] Like, you know, you can make decisions on your own, whatever like that.

[00:25:00] And he's just like, okay, I'll just go with this one.

[00:25:01] He's like, what?

[00:25:02] You can't just do that without me saying it's okay.

[00:25:04] Yeah.

[00:25:05] All in one.

[00:25:08] Very traditional stuff.

[00:25:10] Um, I will also say the zombies are.

[00:25:15] They're because they're not stylized with like the rainbow blood, like they're in the anime.

[00:25:18] They are a bit more creepy, like disturbing, but they're so over the top and goofy that it's

[00:25:25] kind of hard to find them scary.

[00:25:27] I was going to say, like, I, I feel like, like when it comes to like, um, like whatever

[00:25:32] the Japanese try to do, like these kinds of like, like things like zombies and like the

[00:25:37] grudge and stuff like that.

[00:25:38] I always feel like they, they pull it off pretty well.

[00:25:41] Like, like the scene where the, um, the, the chick that he liked from work, when she's

[00:25:49] like going, like turning and it's like showing the whole process.

[00:25:53] Like, I thought that was really well done.

[00:25:55] Oh yeah.

[00:25:55] That was an interesting scene because that was really creepy.

[00:25:58] We actually, that was a pretty interesting change from the anime because in the anime

[00:26:03] and manga, um, she's already turned by the time he gets there.

[00:26:08] And this one, he actually gets a few minutes to talk to her before she turns.

[00:26:12] Um, which was an interesting change.

[00:26:15] Cause I know, I know in the anime, it was a very, one of those kind of like one of those

[00:26:22] really big impact scenes in this version.

[00:26:24] It was a bit more, it didn't hit the same way to me just because like, I don't know

[00:26:33] for some reason, like the fact that she was completely gone by the time he got there in

[00:26:37] the, in the, the original version, like it kind of hit more how hopeless it was.

[00:26:44] Yeah.

[00:26:45] But I mean, I feel like that's not really like the kind of vibe that the, that this

[00:26:49] particular franchise goes for.

[00:26:52] Like, yeah, there's like a lot of bleak stuff.

[00:26:53] There's definitely a lot of like, it's still at the end of the day, it's a zombie apocalypse.

[00:26:57] So it's like, it's not, you know, it's not all fucking shits and giggles, but at the

[00:27:04] same time, it is kind of all shits and giggles because it's like mostly like a comedy series.

[00:27:09] Yeah.

[00:27:10] Comedy slice of life, but in a zombie apocalypse.

[00:27:14] Yeah.

[00:27:14] They kind of, the, a lot of the comedy in the movie, in the live action is kind of lost

[00:27:19] compared to the, um, the anime.

[00:27:21] Like there is a lot of scenes in the, in the, the, the live action that I felt were a bit

[00:27:26] more played straight.

[00:27:29] Like, um, like I found, um, in particular, like the scene.

[00:27:34] So they, they change up his routine a little bit where like in the, um, in the original show,

[00:27:41] he goes to the convenience store to get more beer where he runs.

[00:27:44] Which I like that more.

[00:27:46] Yeah.

[00:27:46] Like when he runs into a Shizuka for the first time, it's, he's just getting beer.

[00:27:51] This one, it's cause he forgot to get sauce for his steak and it's just not nearly as interesting.

[00:27:55] I did think it was funny though.

[00:27:57] He's just like, if I have to eat this delicious steak plain, I'd bear off a zombie food.

[00:28:01] Yeah.

[00:28:02] Yeah.

[00:28:03] That was kind of funny.

[00:28:04] I also liked to the fence that was whole keeping the zombies at bay.

[00:28:06] It was, it was one of those fences that could have very easily been pushed over by the

[00:28:11] zombies.

[00:28:12] Oh yeah.

[00:28:13] Um, yeah.

[00:28:14] When I saw that, I was like, um, when he goes to the convenience store and runs into

[00:28:19] her, um, she was very, a lot more standoffish in this film.

[00:28:24] Like, um, cause there's points later on, like where she's like doing her whole, like, I

[00:28:29] don't want to be a part of a group because being part of a group is dangerous.

[00:28:33] And then she immediately like get fucks herself and gets like, basically like she needs them

[00:28:37] to save her.

[00:28:40] Um, she was a bit more tactical in like the anime.

[00:28:43] So I found that a bit, I think it was all because they were trying to save time and kind

[00:28:48] of squeeze some plot points together.

[00:28:50] I mean, I, I personally felt like she was more standoffish in the anime.

[00:28:53] I feel like she came around faster in this version than, than in the anime.

[00:28:58] Um, well she did just because of how it was abridged.

[00:29:02] Um, I just found her like, the thing is in the anime, it took longer, but it felt more

[00:29:08] believable and this one, it felt very abrupt, which I think is more my issue with it, but

[00:29:16] that's, that's more just kind of a problem with this, with abridging a 12 season.

[00:29:22] Well, probably like a six, six episode, six episodes of anime into, um, two hour film.

[00:29:29] Yeah.

[00:29:30] And trying to like, kind of, cause you, you can't just like straight up lift it from the

[00:29:35] anime, like wholesale.

[00:29:36] You kind of have to switch things around to make it work in the different format.

[00:29:40] Well, it's interesting.

[00:29:41] Cause like the first, like 30 minutes of the movie are pretty one-to-one.

[00:29:46] Like there's a few minor changes here and there, but it's pretty much exactly like the

[00:29:49] anime was like, they even have like him running into, uh, the, the, the couple in the, uh,

[00:29:54] the house nearby.

[00:29:56] Yeah.

[00:29:57] Um, although they don't, we don't get to see them like, uh, appear in the credits as like

[00:30:01] they've gone out as a survivors.

[00:30:03] They just kind of disappear in this movie.

[00:30:06] No, they were, they were, uh, they were at the aquarium.

[00:30:10] I didn't even notice it was them.

[00:30:12] So those are the two that they were, they were hanging out with, uh, when, when Tendo

[00:30:16] was off being depressed.

[00:30:21] Yeah.

[00:30:21] I didn't even realize that was them, but that shows, that shows how much it, it wasn't as

[00:30:27] impactful, I guess.

[00:30:30] Um, yeah.

[00:30:33] Other than that though, like after that, it kind of changes it.

[00:30:35] It kind of immediately branches off cause then they get, um, we have, um, Tendo's, uh, friend,

[00:30:43] uh, Kensho.

[00:30:44] Um, we get his whole rescue arc and, uh, yeah.

[00:30:49] And the anime, he was all, he was in the, he was in the love hotel in the live action.

[00:30:55] He's definitely in a love hotel.

[00:30:58] Yeah.

[00:30:59] Like when I was like, yeah, when I was watching, I was like, oh yeah, this was not one to watch

[00:31:03] with the kiddies around.

[00:31:04] That's yeah.

[00:31:05] I wasn't expecting, I wasn't expecting zombie boobs in this movie.

[00:31:08] I wasn't expecting kids everywhere for like a good, like 20 minutes.

[00:31:12] I was like, wow.

[00:31:13] Like, okay.

[00:31:14] Okay.

[00:31:15] Japan, whatever.

[00:31:16] For real.

[00:31:18] Which is ironic.

[00:31:19] Cause then they don't, they don't, um, it felt like this film toned down certain aspects.

[00:31:24] Like they didn't, they didn't like bring up the beer as much as they did in a, the anime.

[00:31:29] Yeah.

[00:31:30] Yeah.

[00:31:31] And they didn't have Kencho get naked every five minutes in this movie, but he didn't get

[00:31:36] naked at all.

[00:31:37] Yeah.

[00:31:37] He didn't.

[00:31:38] He's honestly, he didn't even, he didn't even bring up being a comedian until like the very

[00:31:42] end.

[00:31:43] Yeah.

[00:31:43] Kencho is honestly probably the least developed out of like he, his playboy tendencies are

[00:31:47] still played up.

[00:31:49] Actually.

[00:31:49] I think they're more played up in this, in this version.

[00:31:51] Cause when we get to, uh, the, the flight attendant mall arc, um, they kind of a bridge

[00:31:59] that one significantly.

[00:32:00] And they also add, they kind of can, they kind of, uh, add Shizuka into this one just

[00:32:05] for, uh, basically the best way to explain it is they take the mall arc, the camper arc

[00:32:13] and, uh, some of the Shizuka development arc.

[00:32:16] And they just kind of all squeeze it together into this one scene.

[00:32:22] Um, cause they actually, so they still do the thing where they're in like the set of

[00:32:26] a mall.

[00:32:27] It's like a convenience store now.

[00:32:29] Yeah.

[00:32:30] And they still do the thing where one of the people there is secretly bit and they don't

[00:32:34] realize at first.

[00:32:35] Um, but there's driver or something.

[00:32:38] Yeah.

[00:32:38] The bus, I think he was also, no, it wasn't a bus driver in the, uh, the anime and the

[00:32:42] anime was just some business guy.

[00:32:45] Um, and they got rid of, they cut down the number of flight attendants from three to two

[00:32:50] and they completely removed the one that was like the one that, uh, Tendo had like a kind

[00:32:56] of like moment with instead, instead we just get to kind of like, basically we get two versions

[00:33:02] of the blonde ditzy one.

[00:33:04] Yeah.

[00:33:05] And they both proceed to die very quickly.

[00:33:11] And, yep.

[00:33:12] But, excuse me, um, basically all of that third, um, flight attendants, like character moment

[00:33:21] there, they just kind of gave the Shizuka cause she was there now.

[00:33:26] And they basically end that scene by they escape the convenience store and then they get

[00:33:31] on, they get in an RV, which just happened to be there.

[00:33:34] Yeah.

[00:33:35] Yeah.

[00:33:35] Conveniently.

[00:33:37] Um, I didn't really realize how this film, this film for two hours goes by very quickly.

[00:33:43] Mm-hmm.

[00:33:44] Yeah.

[00:33:44] It's paced very well.

[00:33:46] That's one thing you could definitely give the movie.

[00:33:48] Like it's, um, like it doesn't feel like it drags out very, very much.

[00:33:53] Well, cause in the anime, like the rooftop, like stuff, like you had a Tendo and a Kensho

[00:33:59] on the rooftops, like chilling for like a good, like five episodes.

[00:34:03] This one, like the rooftop stuff is pretty much over, like within like the first like

[00:34:07] hour.

[00:34:09] Hmm.

[00:34:10] Also like, uh, there was a scene where like he was going through like his little montage

[00:34:13] of stuff that he wanted to do, like before he starts meeting up with people.

[00:34:17] And when he was like, Oh, paint a self portrait.

[00:34:19] So his idea of painting a self portrait was painting.

[00:34:23] It was like spray painting a gigantic portrait of himself on the side of a skyscraper.

[00:34:28] Yeah.

[00:34:29] Like a graffiti portrait.

[00:34:30] And it was like fucking amazing.

[00:34:33] Like what the fuck was this guy doing working at an office?

[00:34:36] He should have been an artist.

[00:34:38] Like, yeah, because that whole, I did find that scene kind of fun.

[00:34:43] Um, I, I liked the, him lighting off the fireworks, but it also, it kind of highlighted something

[00:34:48] that I thought about with like, if you were truly alone in a situation like that and you

[00:34:52] just basically had free roam, essentially, you just had to dodge some zombies.

[00:34:57] Like, uh, tender does.

[00:34:58] You will get bored very fast.

[00:35:01] Yeah.

[00:35:02] Which is partially why he wanted to meet up with one to find Ken shows.

[00:35:06] Cause he needed, he wanted a friend basically.

[00:35:08] What?

[00:35:09] Wanted somebody to talk to someone to drink beer with.

[00:35:13] Yeah.

[00:35:14] Cause you will go insane very fast if you're alone like that.

[00:35:18] Hmm.

[00:35:18] Um, so after, so after they get the RV, it's then we get to the, um, one of the more

[00:35:24] interesting combinations.

[00:35:27] So it's earlier in the film, uh, they mentioned that like one of the, the only safe havens is

[00:35:32] the aquarium where there's like a group of people apparently, uh, in safety.

[00:35:37] Hmm.

[00:35:38] And essentially what they do here is they actually combine the aquarium arc from the

[00:35:45] anime with the, uh, the baseball, like citizen, the baseball, like town basically, uh, run

[00:35:53] by the former boss.

[00:35:54] They combine those together.

[00:35:56] So now it's the, the, the, the boss is now running.

[00:36:01] It's it's, he's still running the village, but it's not baseball themed anymore, but they're

[00:36:05] now in the aquarium, which is, which I do actually like his reference to like, Oh, we'll never

[00:36:11] run out of food.

[00:36:13] It's like, yeah, I guess.

[00:36:14] Yeah.

[00:36:14] Yeah.

[00:36:16] Um, I will say like, there was a, like, as I was watching this movie, I got like maybe

[00:36:21] halfway through and I was like, I like, I wonder if they're going to do the shark thing and

[00:36:26] if they are, how are they going to do it?

[00:36:27] And then they get to the aquarium and they're doing the whole, um, like survivor village

[00:36:32] thing.

[00:36:32] And I remember at one point they were, I think we was talking to the boss or something and

[00:36:35] you see the shark swimming in the aquarium, the background.

[00:36:38] I'm like, Oh yeah, they're, they're doing it.

[00:36:39] Like there's no fucking question.

[00:36:41] I will say we actually get to see the shark transform in this movie, which was interesting

[00:36:47] because in the anime, it just literally, it shows up in a closet and you're like dark.

[00:36:52] Yeah.

[00:36:53] That was fucking bizarre, which is the fun, one of the funniest scenes in the anime, like

[00:36:56] regardless, like I love the shark scene.

[00:36:58] Cause it's, they literally open the door and the shark just walks up and they're just

[00:37:01] like, is that a shark?

[00:37:07] In the live action though, they actually do something interesting because similar to the

[00:37:12] village arc in, um, well the, the, the baseball arc as I'll call it in the, in the anime, what

[00:37:17] happens is one of the people doing a supply run gets lazy and a zombie gets in the truck.

[00:37:23] So when they come back here, predictably the zombie gets out and attacks a bunch of people.

[00:37:28] What they do, I find interesting is the zombies then break into the aquarium where the shark

[00:37:33] tank is.

[00:37:34] And they knock a couple of the divers into the tank that have been infected.

[00:37:39] And you actually see the shark eat the infected people.

[00:37:42] Hmm.

[00:37:43] And I was like, ah, that's how it's going to happen.

[00:37:46] Yep.

[00:37:47] That scene was pretty dark too.

[00:37:48] Like you just see the shark just come up and just straight up one bite of person.

[00:37:51] And I'm like, holy shit.

[00:37:53] Yeah.

[00:37:53] Just crunch.

[00:37:55] Um, cause eventually when they're going through the, um, fighting off the zombie horde, they

[00:37:59] eventually get to the tank with the shark and the shark breaks out.

[00:38:02] And it's just kind of flopping around on the ground.

[00:38:04] And they're like, don't worry guys.

[00:38:06] It's safe.

[00:38:07] It can't get us on dry land.

[00:38:10] And I'm just like, you fools.

[00:38:12] Cause then they cut over, they cut over to this very poorly CGI shark.

[00:38:17] Like I won't lie.

[00:38:18] This shark is supposed to be scary.

[00:38:19] And this is the most hilarious thing in the film.

[00:38:22] Yeah.

[00:38:22] Cause it, it, it is so jarringly out of place.

[00:38:25] Cause the CG is not great.

[00:38:28] Um, the thing starts as they're like, oh, like, don't worry.

[00:38:30] It's perfectly fine.

[00:38:31] It can't get us.

[00:38:32] The thing just sprouts legs and just starts chasing them.

[00:38:35] And I'm like, yeah.

[00:38:36] The legs just start coming out the belly.

[00:38:38] Like, yeah.

[00:38:38] I was like, I'm like, if this wasn't, if the CG wasn't crap, that would have been a

[00:38:42] very terrifying scene probably.

[00:38:45] Yeah.

[00:38:46] But because it's so uncanny looking, it's just kind of like, this is more funny than

[00:38:50] it should be.

[00:38:51] Cause now you just got like this weird, like shark that's like spindling around in

[00:38:55] the corner.

[00:38:57] Um, what'd you think of the climax?

[00:39:02] With like, um, uh, what was it?

[00:39:07] It was the, with like the shock punch thing.

[00:39:10] Well, Tendo gets like the shark suit.

[00:39:13] Yeah.

[00:39:13] Which I was waiting for the whole time.

[00:39:15] Like, cause that was like the whole reason they were going to the aquarium in the first

[00:39:18] place.

[00:39:18] Cause he wanted the shark suit so he could be a superhero.

[00:39:21] I will say the one thing about that, that pissed me off was the scene where they made,

[00:39:26] they have to do the joke where, uh, he gets bit by the zombies, but it doesn't hurt him,

[00:39:30] but it still hurts because it's there.

[00:39:32] It protects him from getting bit, but it's still, it's not like armor.

[00:39:36] Yeah.

[00:39:38] Um, when that seems happening, the thing that annoyed the hell out of me was it's an effective

[00:39:44] scene.

[00:39:45] It's pretty much one-to-one for the enemy, except his damn helmets open.

[00:39:47] I'm like, his face is right there.

[00:39:49] Like open.

[00:39:50] Yeah.

[00:39:51] I was like, oh my God.

[00:39:52] I'm like, shit like that bothers me.

[00:39:54] Cause I'm always like, I'm like, I get, cause they want the actor's face present and

[00:39:59] with the mask on, it probably wouldn't, they wouldn't be able to do it the same way the

[00:40:02] animated, but it just, the whole time I'm sitting, I'm like, I'm like, your face is

[00:40:06] exposed to like, it easily bite you.

[00:40:09] Yeah.

[00:40:10] Cause I don't remember.

[00:40:12] I'd have to look it up.

[00:40:13] I don't remember what the, like the, what kind of face covering he had in the anime, but

[00:40:18] I don't, I don't feel like it was like a sentai helmet.

[00:40:20] Like there was here.

[00:40:21] No, it was a, um, it was a helmet, but it had a, it was like a clear, um, it was kind

[00:40:28] of like an astronaut's helmet.

[00:40:29] Kind of, it was like a dive helmet.

[00:40:30] Like it went down.

[00:40:31] You could, you could still see his face.

[00:40:33] Well, so that makes more sense because if you're going to dive with a fucking suit on,

[00:40:36] you need some sort of, you know, you got to block the water from going out.

[00:40:41] So I thought it was weird that it was just kind of like a, he looked like a power ranger

[00:40:44] kind of like, it was because they wanted to show the actor's face more than anything.

[00:40:49] It was just one of those things, right?

[00:40:50] Where, when you think about it, you're like, this is stupid.

[00:40:53] I'm honestly surprised that I surprised he didn't do some like sentai poses.

[00:41:01] Usually with stuff like this, especially if it's like a, somebody like trying to be

[00:41:04] like a superhero in Japan, they got to do some sentai poses, power rangers.

[00:41:10] So I have to ask.

[00:41:11] So also, uh, Kendo, Kendo doesn't get his, uh, blonde hair until like right at the end

[00:41:16] when they kind of do their like road trip going, um, around trying to do more bucket list

[00:41:21] stuff while they're going to the, uh, aquarium.

[00:41:23] Mm.

[00:41:25] Uh, they did parody though.

[00:41:26] The, uh, the, the, the water yoga scene, which I thought was kind of fun.

[00:41:31] Yeah.

[00:41:31] Yeah.

[00:41:32] I also liked, um, the, the scene where Tendo was like doing a bunch of like random stuff

[00:41:37] and he dyed his hair, like the multicolor.

[00:41:38] I feel like that was supposed to be like a reference to the anime with like all the

[00:41:41] rainbow blood and everything.

[00:41:44] I think so.

[00:41:45] Like it was, I did like the scene where he like goes, he put, he makes his hair orange.

[00:41:49] He's like, Oh, and then he met at rainbow and he just looks in the mirror and he goes,

[00:41:52] this is dumb.

[00:41:53] And he just goes right back to black.

[00:41:54] Yeah.

[00:41:56] Yeah.

[00:41:56] Like some of the little things, like I thought this film did a lot better.

[00:42:00] Like there was a lot of charm.

[00:42:01] Like they really kind of played with a lot of stuff that the, obviously the bug in the

[00:42:04] anime couldn't do due to like time constraints.

[00:42:08] Yeah.

[00:42:09] Uh, that being said though, one thing that kind of bugged me is I felt like Kencho was

[00:42:13] just very underused in this movie.

[00:42:16] Yeah.

[00:42:17] They like really didn't go into his, like, um, because in the anime, it like goes into

[00:42:21] how, like, uh, they, they had their, their little, um, argument when, when Tendo was,

[00:42:27] was getting overworked and everything.

[00:42:29] And he was, he had a short fuse and everything.

[00:42:31] And then, um, like in the anime later on, you learned that Kendo was actually like just

[00:42:37] as miserable at his job.

[00:42:38] And like, you know, he had just many issues and he was just trying to hiding it better,

[00:42:42] but they didn't really touch on that at all in this movie.

[00:42:45] They just kind of made it like, yeah, we made up.

[00:42:47] We're cool.

[00:42:48] Like, yeah.

[00:42:49] And he doesn't like get any of his cool character quirks, like the getting naked

[00:42:53] every five minutes in the anime or his like pink pants, blue open shirt, Hawaiian shirt

[00:42:59] and blonde hair.

[00:43:00] Like he gets the blonde hair later, but that's about it.

[00:43:03] Yeah.

[00:43:04] And that was like literally like right at the end.

[00:43:07] Yeah.

[00:43:08] Even a Shizuka doesn't do it on in this movie.

[00:43:12] Like she has some of her early stuff, but then after like during the whole, the aquarium

[00:43:16] stuff, it's like, she's just kind of there.

[00:43:18] Yeah.

[00:43:19] Actually, you know what come to think of it, they didn't really play around with much of

[00:43:22] her backstory either.

[00:43:23] It's like Tendo is the only one they really focused on in this movie as far as like getting

[00:43:29] more like background of the character.

[00:43:31] And even then they don't go into his real backstory either with his family.

[00:43:35] Like they just kind of.

[00:43:36] Well, that's more of that.

[00:43:38] That would be in the next movie, like canonically.

[00:43:40] So because they didn't really he didn't really think much on his parents until the point

[00:43:45] where he was like, you know what?

[00:43:46] I want to go see them.

[00:43:47] Hmm.

[00:43:49] So if they're if they do end up making a second movie that will probably see it then.

[00:43:54] Probably.

[00:43:55] I'm not 100% sure there's going to be a second movie.

[00:43:58] I feel like this might be a one and done.

[00:44:01] Which is kind of a shame, though, because I feel like as far like, yeah, like some of the

[00:44:05] CG may have been a little doofy, but like overall, like I as far as like capturing the

[00:44:10] essence of of the anime, I feel like this movie far and away surpasses a lot of other

[00:44:17] live action adaptations.

[00:44:19] It does.

[00:44:20] They just the way they tie it off just makes it kind of feel like.

[00:44:25] It's going to be a one and done.

[00:44:28] Hmm.

[00:44:28] Hmm.

[00:44:29] Because it didn't they didn't really give a stinger that there's going to be more.

[00:44:32] They kind of ends off basically like very much like.

[00:44:36] Kind of in a final kind of way where it's like, yeah, OK, we're going off and whatever

[00:44:41] our next adventure is.

[00:44:42] It kind of ends the way Zombieland does, actually.

[00:44:45] Hmm.

[00:44:47] Yeah, it's very it's a very just like kind of they don't even like leave it like an ambiguous

[00:44:51] kind of thing.

[00:44:52] It just kind of ends, which.

[00:44:55] I thought was interesting.

[00:44:58] What do you think of the soundtrack?

[00:45:00] There's a lot of like musical montages throughout this movie.

[00:45:03] It was good.

[00:45:04] Like it didn't none of it was unfitting.

[00:45:07] Excuse me.

[00:45:08] It was very.

[00:45:11] None of it was unpleasant.

[00:45:12] It was mostly all fitting, but I couldn't tell you anything I remember off the top of

[00:45:18] my head.

[00:45:19] Yeah.

[00:45:19] Well, I mean, it was all, you know, like J-pop stuff.

[00:45:22] Yeah.

[00:45:23] Yeah.

[00:45:26] Yeah.

[00:45:26] I did like I did like Tendo doing the shark suit, you know, fighting off a bunch of zombies

[00:45:31] and eventually taking on the shark, which is really cool.

[00:45:34] It had spirit.

[00:45:36] It just kind of like to me, it suffered a lot from a lot of the stuff that a lot of these

[00:45:41] live action films does where.

[00:45:43] Well, it has like the spirit and a lot of the essence.

[00:45:47] It just kind of.

[00:45:49] Because they have to fit a specific amount into a film.

[00:45:54] It feels rushed at times, but it's weird because the film is paced.

[00:46:00] Well, it's more just kind of like you have to look at it as a standalone thing and not

[00:46:04] compare it to the anime of the whole time, I think is the best way.

[00:46:08] Yeah.

[00:46:09] And that's what I was trying to do when I watched it, even though it really hasn't been that

[00:46:14] long since I watched the anime.

[00:46:15] So I, you know, I kind of had that in the back of my mind the whole time.

[00:46:19] And I mean, honestly, I didn't even know that this this live action existed until about

[00:46:23] two weeks ago.

[00:46:25] Yeah, it's.

[00:46:27] It's interesting, too, because like because I'd mentioned like Kensho doesn't get his

[00:46:33] pink pants, blue shirt combo that that's very iconic.

[00:46:35] But like Tendo doesn't get like his green tracksuit either or like.

[00:46:42] Shizuka kind of has her outfit from the anime, but it's like not nearly as flashy.

[00:46:48] Mm hmm.

[00:46:49] I just say I noticed that they've kind of didn't have like the same flashiness that

[00:46:52] the anime did.

[00:46:54] But granted, it wasn't as stylized.

[00:46:56] Yeah, because it looked the zombies alone.

[00:46:58] Like, honestly, I get they were going for more realistic, but I kind of would have liked

[00:47:02] if they tried to like replicate the flashy blood like zombie goo everywhere.

[00:47:08] I mean, I mean, based on the.

[00:47:12] The shark stuff, I'm going to go ahead and say that it was a budget problem.

[00:47:16] So it's probably probably fake blood than it is to.

[00:47:22] Yeah.

[00:47:22] You know, plus, you know, it was either, you know, they didn't have to get like all the

[00:47:28] multicolored blood or like make it or they'd have to CG it, which.

[00:47:33] I mean, I feel like a lot of their budget was just going into like makeup.

[00:47:38] Yeah, I think there's a lot of extras.

[00:47:41] Yes, there was.

[00:47:43] Yes, there was.

[00:47:45] If I was going to if I was going to pinpoint one scene where I feel like a lot of the budget

[00:47:48] went, it was probably when the the girl that he liked from work was was turning.

[00:47:52] Like, because I feel like that particular scene was done very well.

[00:47:55] It was very creepy.

[00:47:57] Yeah.

[00:47:58] Yeah.

[00:47:58] Honestly, I think a lot of the most iconic scenes like the best done scenes were towards

[00:48:04] the first half of the film.

[00:48:07] Yeah, for sure.

[00:48:08] I think towards the second half, it kind of runs out of steam to a degree.

[00:48:15] Overall, I'd say.

[00:48:18] It's definitely not the worst.

[00:48:20] It's honestly probably one of the better live action adaptions.

[00:48:24] I definitely will put it over.

[00:48:26] The Fullmetal Alchemist live action that.

[00:48:30] That one was kind of.

[00:48:33] Yeah, definitely above Fullmetal is definitely above evolution.

[00:48:36] Yeah.

[00:48:38] I don't want to say Death Note just because that damn movie is a masterpiece.

[00:48:42] I don't care what anyone says.

[00:48:45] The Netflix Death Note that is.

[00:48:49] That movie is a masterpiece for all the wrong reasons.

[00:48:52] Yeah, that's fair.

[00:48:54] But like when to me, like the gold standard right now for live action adaptions is like

[00:48:59] obviously like one piece.

[00:49:02] Yu Yu Hakusho supposedly is really good.

[00:49:04] I still haven't seen it, but I've heard really good things.

[00:49:06] I enjoyed it.

[00:49:07] It has its problems.

[00:49:09] And I feel like part of that was trying to smush every single arc and do five episodes.

[00:49:14] But yeah, the typical.

[00:49:16] Which was a little much.

[00:49:18] Like they definitely could have tried to stretch it out and, you know, do a couple arcs individually.

[00:49:23] Even if they wanted to combine elements from different ones.

[00:49:26] Five episodes is just really short.

[00:49:28] It didn't really give the characters a whole lot of time to breathe.

[00:49:31] But overall, I think that was a good adaptation.

[00:49:34] I still think to me like the pinnacle of live action adaptions is definitely Kenshin.

[00:49:39] Like they just really got that one right.

[00:49:42] Well, I feel like that one had the benefit of like supernatural stuff wasn't really like there's no like crazy superpowers or supernatural stuff.

[00:49:53] Like it's it's very much rooted in reality.

[00:49:56] And I feel like that is a big plus for them because they don't have to focus on special effects as much and just kind of focus on the storytelling and stuff.

[00:50:05] Kind of like what we thought we were going to be getting with bebop, you know.

[00:50:08] So I'm going to say like I can't judge that one harshly because I haven't actually watched it.

[00:50:12] I'm just going based off of what I've heard.

[00:50:15] Eventually we'll end up covering that one.

[00:50:18] That's a matter of time, though, because that's a longer series than like like say Yu Yu Hakusho would be like somewhat reasonable to cover.

[00:50:27] Yeah.

[00:50:29] I think I think bebop is like twice the length.

[00:50:32] Yeah, I think one week we'll cover live action series.

[00:50:36] Maybe that's probably going to be a next year project.

[00:50:40] Mm hmm.

[00:50:42] Yeah, because like when I think of the Kenshin films and the fantastical elements, like.

[00:50:47] The most like outrageous thing in that movie to me is like the giant golden fucking Gatling gun.

[00:50:54] Yeah.

[00:50:56] That and maybe some of the costumes were a little goofy, like they got the Slipknot extra there.

[00:51:04] But other than that, though, those films do a very good job.

[00:51:08] Yeah.

[00:51:09] For all.

[00:51:12] Yeah.

[00:51:13] Zom, though, I'd give it I'd give it a B.

[00:51:15] I don't I won't say it's an A, but it's not like anything worse than a B.

[00:51:19] Yeah, I'd give it like a solid seven point five.

[00:51:22] Like it hits the points it's supposed to.

[00:51:25] It's not fantastic, but it's it's definitely watchable.

[00:51:32] Yeah.

[00:51:33] Like there wasn't a point watching this film where I was like looking at how much longer

[00:51:38] there was because I was like, how when is the stamping over?

[00:51:41] I made it through and I was like, oh, good.

[00:51:43] It's that was that was fine.

[00:51:45] It wasn't like the full metal actors movie where the whole time I'm like, it's done

[00:51:48] yet.

[00:51:49] Decent enough movie to watch on Halloween.

[00:51:52] Yeah.

[00:51:53] Just not with the kiddos.

[00:51:55] Yeah.

[00:51:56] And I traumatized them with zombie boobs.

[00:51:58] They'll be asking questions.

[00:52:01] Yeah.

[00:52:01] Like, why is that lady strapped to that wheel?

[00:52:04] Yeah.

[00:52:06] Yeah.

[00:52:07] Many are many a question.

[00:52:10] Yeah.

[00:52:12] Yeah.

[00:52:12] Um, why is that shark running?

[00:52:16] Yeah.

[00:52:21] Yeah.

[00:52:22] Other than that, though, not this.

[00:52:24] There wasn't really a lot to say with this movie because it's really kind of plot wise.

[00:52:28] It's very straightforward.

[00:52:29] Yeah, it's very beat for beat in a lot of ways.

[00:52:32] Like with the exception of like how we mentioned, like they cut out some some background stuff

[00:52:37] on some of the characters, which was a bit of a bummer because it definitely fleshed out

[00:52:40] those characters a lot more in the anime.

[00:52:42] That's why that's why I do kind of hope they do end up doing a second one, because then

[00:52:46] hopefully they could they could put a little bit of time on that stuff.

[00:52:49] Probably not Kendo, because I feel like they kind of missed the point where that would have

[00:52:53] been relevant.

[00:52:55] Yeah.

[00:52:56] But I forget the girl's name, but like, yeah, they can probably find a way to, you know, squeeze

[00:53:03] in her backstory if they did a sequel.

[00:53:06] But I don't know.

[00:53:08] We'll see.

[00:53:08] To be fair, though, the anime still hasn't even gone full into Shizuka's backstory yet.

[00:53:14] So that's the thing.

[00:53:15] I think I'm so surprised that this movie came out so quickly after the anime.

[00:53:19] That might be part of the reason why the dub, the dub catch wasn't in it.

[00:53:24] Like, was the dub even out for Zon 100 by the time this movie came out?

[00:53:28] There are two different production companies.

[00:53:29] Like, I believe Viz did the dub for the anime, and then I believe Netflix handled the dub for

[00:53:39] the Netflix film, obviously.

[00:53:42] I gotcha.

[00:53:46] Yeah, that's that's really about it, though.

[00:53:50] Yeah.

[00:53:51] Overall, is it an enjoyable watch?

[00:53:55] I might go back and watch it again at some point, maybe in a couple of years.

[00:53:59] It's not something it's going to be like a, you know, yearly watch or anything, but it's

[00:54:04] good enough.

[00:54:04] It's good enough.

[00:54:05] I will say it's good enough, although I will say it doesn't.

[00:54:09] If you're going to watch Zon 100, you haven't seen anything from Zon.

[00:54:13] Like you haven't read the manga, haven't seen the anime, haven't seen this.

[00:54:16] I wouldn't recommend this being your first taste of the series.

[00:54:20] I'd recommend watching the anime.

[00:54:22] Yeah, the anime is definitely the more enjoyable experience overall.

[00:54:26] Yeah.

[00:54:26] And if because if you if you don't like the anime, you're not gonna like this movie.

[00:54:30] If you don't like this movie, you might still like the anime.

[00:54:33] So I'd say watch the anime.

[00:54:35] For sure.

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