*Intro Theme Plays* [0:23] INTRODUCTIONS VERDANT: Hey everyone, welcome to RandomC summer 2012 retrospective podcast. I’m your host verdant and today we're recording live early in the morning - 8am. So half of us are sick and half of us are sober and half of us are just waking up. Hope we'll still give you a good show to enjoy anyway. STILTS: Actually I think all of us are sober, which is the problem. *some laughter* VERDANT: So since it’s the retrospective post for the summer season we're going to talk about some of our favorite shows. We're going to do it in a more freestyle format this time, less rigid, harsh categories. Hope you'll enjoy. Starting us off we're going to do introductions, anyone wanna start us off? STILTS: I will. Everybody, I’m Stilts. Last season I was blogging Lagrange and Horizon. This coming season I’m doing Chuu2koi..Chuu2koi? (Chuunibyou)...whatever it's early. And Petto (Pet) and what are we doing for our other thing...? Oh random fact? We're doing random facts and my random fact is I‘m sober...I got nothing. MOOMBA: I thought it was moe point? STILTS: Oh was it? *snickers* STILTS: I clearly don't know what we're- MOCHI: Are you sure you're sober? STILTS: It's kind of up in the air STILTS: Moe point will be that..What's my moe point..Oh yes..THIGH HIGHS MOOMBA: So is that thigh highs or zettai ryouiki? STILTS: That's just the advanced form of..I mean..They're not required but that's just beautiful. VERDANT: Alright~ STILTS: Don't judge me! VERDANT: Too late, next. MOOMBA: I’m Moomba you might remember me from blogging Sword Art Online and Space Bros these past seasons and next season I'll also be adding Aoi Sekai No Chuushin De to my list of blogging things and my moe point is rather normal, that like Stilts, is glasses. VERDANT: Does this apply to real life as well? MOOMBA: Sort of. VERDANT: Oh...Alright, sounds good. STILTS: All the ladies are writing that down... *talking over each other* VERDANT: Next ZEPHYR: Hey guys this is Zephyr last season I covered- Total Eclipse, Hagure Yuusha and Tari Tari. I'll be covering Jormungand 2 next season as well and..I’m not really sure (if) this counts as a moe [mole] point but I love my share of gun-slinging girls. MOOMBA: Definitely counts as a moe point. VERDANT: I don't even know what counts as a moe point anymore. STILTS: Most of that can happen in anime, if you twist them right. VERDANT: Twisting huh, alright. Zanibas? ZANIBAS: Hello I’m Zanibas. Last season I covered Oda Nobuna No Yabou, Shirokuma Cafe and Moyashimon Returns and this season..It's a bit iffy but I’m definitely covering Magi, so that's a good thing. ZANIBAS: My moe point would probably have to be either short hair or yanderes. STILTS: Ooh. ZANIBAS: That counts, right? STILTS: That's dangerous. *laughs* ZANIBAS: I like to live dangerous(ly) STILTS: You gotta say it like an action hero - “I like to live..dangerously~” ZANIBAS: Yes.. *Zanibas coughs* *Stilts laughs* VERDANT: Hm, k sounds..I'll accept that. STILTS: Enthusiastic alright, moving on. VERDANT: Alright Mochi. MOCHI: Ok. Hey guys I’m Mochi and I blog Kuroko No Basuke and what else did I blog, oh yeah, Uta Koi last season. *Stilts laughs* MOCHI: I’ve been covering the Reborn manga and next season I'll be blogging K and Hiiro no Kakera Season 2. *laughs* And my moe point is HOT BLONDE GUYS! STILTS: We are surprised! MOCHI: That play basketball really well! VERDANT: Hah, couldn't see that coming from a thousand miles away. MOCHI: Don't judge me! VERDANT: I'm not judging you! ZEPHYR: We're judging- STILTS: Why am I the only one who gets judged then?! VERDANT: That's cause you're easy to judge, which also means easy to so, you know..It's all the same. VERDANT: I’m verdant, I blog Natsuyuki Rendezvous. I'm trying to finish up Hyouka for Takaii. Next season I’ll be blogging PSYCHO-PASS and Initial D. My favorite moe point is probably genki but not to the point of annoying. So really energetic and happy, but not so much that it grates on your nerves. It's a fine line. MOOMBA: So basically Rinne no Lagrange’s Madoka or Marika from Bodacious Space Pirates? VERDANT: Yeah pretty much...or Ohana from Hanasaku Iroha. STILTS: Fair enough~ VERDANT: You know.. STILTS: Hoping you were going to say something judge worthy... VERDANT: *laughs* Oh you can judge me. STILTS: I can't judge you if- VERDANT: Bring it on! STILTS: I can't, not that it matters, cause it involves-- VERDANT: Alright so now we move on to our main dish, main course whatever you want to slice or dice it, call it. We're going to call it the Summer Retrospective, I know..I’m so creative. *Stilts snickers* [6:27] - TARI TARI VERDANT: Yeah, we’re going to talk about summer shows we liked the most, since most of them have ended already or are going to end soon, and since it is so early in the morning we're going to do more of a free fashion, more conversational.. So anyone wanna start us off with any show that you just feel like you really need to rage about, or gush about, or fanboy/fangirl about? STILTS: Save it Mochi, save it for later. Wanna start with Teri Teri then? Tari Tari however you say that. ZEPHYR: TAR-RI TAR-RI STILTS: Whatevs~ VERDANT: So how was it? ZEPHYR: Well Tari Tari was a slice of life and a lot of people discounted it earlier in the season because (of) its resemblance to Hanasaku Iroha that you mentioned before, but it turn out nothing to be..Nothing similar at all and it pretty much - It wasn't the newest thing on the block in terms of innovative ideas or scenario points but the thing that made it really good was that it focused on the slice of life aspects, and it did it right and it didn't drag it too long.. Well arguably it only had like 1 cour so it had less episodes to do stuff with but it was really a good show for the most part. Some people might not like it because it is a pure slice of life and it doesn't do much different but what it does do, it does right and, that’s something.. STILTS: Let me interject there. I sometimes feel like slice of life is a genre that is bandied about a lot when it is not quite so necessary- I always think that to be slice of life usually you would have to have a lot of faffing about and not doing a whole lot and while there is some of that in the show, there is some of that in many shows so I was watching it more for the character drama and stuff like that. And somebody pointed out it was like a J-drama that was animated which made sense to me. So I think slice of life kinda doesn't do it justice for what plot it actually did have. ZEPHYR: Yeah that's true, there's also the music aspect that also doesn't really get accounted for as well, the type of choir music instead of the normal pop and rock music you get as inserts. STILTS: Yeah, that was pretty enjoyable, especially the I assume-custom-songs-they-made-of the-characters-made especially. ZEPHYR: Oh yeah they had that, 4 inserts in that last episode alone, that was pretty entertaining. VERDANT: Slice of life is a tough genre to define, for me I always thought slice of life was just a show where it just showed a segment of people’s lives and there wasn't necessarily like an overarching plot to connect it all, that was what I was assuming. STILTS: I think that you can get a little plot like K-On had like a little plot, if just a little. *mochi sneezes* STILTS: I mean it had some kind of archish thing going on but mainly it was just faffing about. VERDANT: Yeah that's I've always considered slice of life to be. STILTS: Yeah I agree, I mean- You don't really have many coming next season I guess Hidamari but there isn't much. I just don't think of it as a slice of life very much when it gets too much plot in it. VERDANT: I think some people use slice of life to describe a show that doesn't fit into other genres, like it’s not an action, it's not a mystery, it's not a drama, therefore slice of life! STILTS: Sometimes it also seems like it is for dramas that aren't hardcore dramatic so.. VERDANT: Light-hearted dramas basically? STILTS: Ya, like the season before - Natsuiro Kiseki - was closer to slice of life than I think Tari Tari was but.. It still did have plot in it so that was more of a borderline, but I don't really feel like Tari Tari was a slice of life, at least in my definitions. VERDANT: So I wanna do with these retrospectives is to just ask people the legacy of the show will be? So what do you think the legacy of this one will be? Tari Tari. STILTS: Anybody wanna go against this and say it had nothing at all and say a pile of crap? *silence* STILTS: Nobody?! ALL THE RANDOMC WRITERS THINK IT WAS AMAZING?! VERDANT: What-you're just ZANIBAS: I didn't watch it. ZEPHYR: Oh god. VERDANT: Run-of-the-mill, average, good, entertaining. MOCHI: I did like it but I don't know if I'll remember it. VERDANT: So..enjoyable but not memorable. STILTS: I think it had some memorable points. MOCHI: It had some memorable points that I’ll probably look back and recall it. As a whole series...I don't know. VERDANT: From just hearing you guys talk about..I'm going to remember one of the girls, Sawa or something, she just never follows any equestrian safety practices. *mass laughter* STILTS: Sawa was amazing. VERDANT: And I remember her, one of the other girls with the archery, she didn't practice proper archery.. STILTS: That was Sawa as well. ZEPHYR: That was the same one. VERDANT: Oh same girl...? ZEPHYR: Same girl. Violating all the safety protocols. STILTS: Sawa does not give a fuck. VERDANT: I’m sure for someone out there that's their moe point - girls who aren't safe. STILTS: Who don't follow safety procedures? VERDANT: They walk on the wild side a bit, you know, a little wild. STILTS: ALRIGHT~ *awkward silence* STILTS: Sorry that was a little weird. *verdant laughs* STILTS: Now I think it will be- I kinda think it’s kinda a little--it is kinda difficult to be really memorable when you watch 20 shows a season like some of us do, but I think it will stand out a lot better than a good half, maybe a majority of the shows that came out this time, at least in my eyes...but I like it more than a decent amount of people so maybe I'm just weird.. STILTS: Well I am weird but shut up. MOCHI: I really didn’t like the background story of...I'm probably going to get staked for that but.. STILTS: Anything else on that one, or can we bugger off to the next comment or show. VERDANT: Go for another slice of life or something. [12:45] KOI CHOCO DISCUSSION STILTS: I want to talk about Koi Choco. ZEPHYR: Oh yeah! STILTS: I was finishing that off last night, talking to Zephyr about it before I went to sleep. That show was really good. ZEPHYR: Right? STILTS: Yeah, I was going to watch it at the beginning, but I didn’t expect it to be quite that good. I think we were talking about this with Enzo at some point. All the politics and the stuff like that was really entertaining. I kinda thought I was going to be ridiculous going into it, because it’s super serious business for a school, but it ended up being really really interesting and you got to see all that intrigue with that good fun visual love novel stuff in there as well. ZEPHYR: Yeah, you go into the series and who names their series after love election and chocolate? You’re like, how the hell does it really link together in the first place? Then you go in and watch the show, and you realize that they actually do a darn good job mixing all the three aspects together. Then, on the surface, it looks like some basic slice-of-life "-ish" show, but then, a few episodes in, you just get how serious everything is and how there's a whole deep political intrigue in the background as well. I think Enzo pointed this out in one of his other posts that sadly this series ended up....It was only one-cour, so it didn't actually.... It was already pretty complex for the 12 episodes that we got? But there was actually a lot more in the original source material that never actually made it. STILTS: Yeah, I was actually thinking that last night when I was finishing up the last few episodes, that some of the other girls didn't, I wouldn't quite say got shafted, but they didn't get as much time as they could. There really wasn't enough time to go through their story fully, so. ZEPHYR: Yep. That's the thing with a visual novel anyway. You're always going to have those different paths you can choose and you can go into so many episodes with that, but– STILTS: Yeah. ZEPHYR: But, sadly, it was one cour, but for one cour it did pretty darn good surprisingly enough. STILTS: Zani, what were you saying earlier about it? ZANIBAS: I haven't watched it, but I feel like this is the precedent for adapting “My Girlfriend is the President”? That one visual novel? STILTS: Oh, I hope so. I heard about th-. Was that you who told me about that? ZANIBAS: No, that wasn't me. STILTS: Oh. I don't remember who I heard about it from, but I saw that a week ago. I was like, that is amazing. I so want to either play that or see that. ZANIBAS: Would you blog it if it were to come out 2 seasons from now? STILTS: Highly likely. Depends on how much actual politics and how much mindless way is there, though I love both of those things so. *ZANIBAS chuckles* ZANIBAS: If not I'll cover it, because it's funny. I think it’s funny. STILTS: We might have to duel for it. We'll see how the season goes. *STILTS laughs* ZANIBAS: I look forward to it. MOOMBA: I got a semi-related question here, because Zephyr called it slice of life, and we were just talking about slice of life as a genre just a few minutes ago. STILTS: Yeah. MOOMBA: But what actually separates slice of life from school as a genre? I know that we definitely have both categories on Random Curiosity. Why is Koi Choco a slice of life and not just a school? STILTS: Well, I don't really think Koi Choco is a slice of life. I know I was saying earlier, sometimes people say something’s slice of life because occasionally they do normal stuff and that seems kind of nonsense to me. I know there's a love story, a romance, a comedy, and it has some drama and intrigue and stuff like that, but it wasn't too much slice of life. I just think those two are mutually exclusive for me. If it's in school and happens to be slice of life, it would be slice of school life? I don't know. ZEPHYR: Yeah, I think I made a mistake in actually labeling it generally as slice of life, I guess, but when I look at it, you have school and school is part of life and you're focusing most of the series on the school life in general. So, in a way, it's a slice of life. STILTS: It's more school life. ZEPHYR: Yeah, but I guess it's more a general category for everything.. STILTS: Yeah. Meh. Well, other thoughts on that one? VERDANT: What's the legacy then? Legacy, guys? STILTS: It depends on whether you watched it and had expectations for it. For me, I feel kinda like it's going to be Mashiro Symphony, which I know Enzo and I mentioned during one podcast, where I just came in didn't expecting a lot and it turned out to be really good, so albeit it'll be another thing that’ll encourage me to watch every flipping visual novel adaptation that comes out, because I totally have the time to do that! Other than that, it doesn't stand out too much, but I think it was really well done. ZEPHYR: Yeah, I think the big legacy will be determined by whether or not you watched this series in the first place. *STILTS laughs* VERDANT: Isn't it always? ZEPHYR: What? VERDANT: Isn't it the legacy of a show always? ZEPHYR: Yeah, you're probably going to have watch it in its entirety. I know people are going to watch the first few episodes and get misled and maybe drop it or something? But, anyway, the real legacy, I think in my book is that people are going to wanna play the visual novel after this. Big time. While the series itself might not last awhile in terms of memory wise, you're going to wanna play that visual novel, which might eventually lead to that more long lengthwise legacy. But the sad part is that there's no English translation available for the visual novel itself. So people are probably going to be stuck between a rock and a hard place in that respect for a little bit. STILTS: By people, Zephyr means Zephyr. He was crying about this last night. ZEPHYR: Yeah. STILTS: It was heartbreaking. *STILTS chuckles* ZEPHYR: No, I’ve been looking around, and there are a lot of people who really want to play the visual novel but they just can't. I know people who know moon runes are playing it now and going like "oh man, it's amazing", but most other people are just like "darn it". STILTS: Just taunting you. What were you saying, verdant? VERDANT: So it's a legacy where it's a show that makes you want to play the visual novel? ZEPHYR: Yeah, pretty much, because the series is incomplete, you know? It only shows you a bit of the actual novel world unlike a lot of the other visual novel adaptations actually cover most of the stuff. This one is barely covering the surface for the most part. VERDANT: Yeah, I don't really know much about visual novel adaptations. ZANIBAS: So, it's kinda like School Days? Where everyone saw the shock ending and suddenly wanted to play the real game? STILTS: To get the other shock endings? *STILTS laughs quietly* VERDANT: Sure. ZANIBAS: Yeah? STILTS: I don't know if I want to go Koi Choco is like School Days for so many reasons. ZEPHYR: Yeah. *ZANIBAS laughs* STILTS: But I guess that's valid, yes. ZANIBAS: It sparked curiosity, though, at least. [20:53] - SMARTEST SHOWS STILTS: That's true. Bored of this, next show? What else do we have? We could talk about Sword Art Online. I'm sure everybody tuned in wants to hear about that again. VERDANT: I'm just surprised that guy on Kotaku– ZEPHYR: Oh dear god! VERDANT: Called it the smartest show in a long time. MOOMBA: While we’re on the topic, what is the most intelligent or the cleverest rather... Actually, I don’t know how I’m going to rephrase it. VERDANT: The smartest? MOOMBA: Smartest. Yes, that’s the one. What is the smartest anime of the season? ZEPHYR: Wow. STILTS: Can I say Space Bros again? MOOMBA: I’d agree with that, yeah. VERDANT: I’m partial to Hyouka. ZEPHYR: The smartest anime of the season... STILTS: Oh, wait, you wouldn’t say, and I still haven’t gotten into it because I apparently suck, but you wouldn’t say Natsuyuki? Verdant? VERDANT: No. I mean, it’s pretty well written, but there are some times where it gets pretty hard to decipher. It’s a little fairy-tale out there-ish. ZEPHYR: Yeah, and in the end, Natsuyuki, the story was pretty straightforward and there wasn’t much super-smartness to be incorporated into the thing itself. STILTS: All right. Well then, I’m just going to go ahead and throw out there Horizon. I don’t care what anybody says. MOCHI: Boobs in the middle of nowhere? STILTS: That’s not all about boobs, damnit! VERDANT: That’s all your excerpt images show, so... MOCHI: That’s all I see here! STILTS: Okay, that was just because I was trying to get more people to read. MOOMBA: I’m not sure. I mean, I love Horizon as much as anyone else. Okay, that’s not a good compliment because... I love Horizon, and I wouldn’t say it was the smartest anime of the season though. I think part of the complication to understanding Horizon is that so much of the information is really hidden in the scenes. You have to really pay attention to everything that is going on to be able to get the full story since a lot of the material from the light novel is directly adapted, so I wouldn’t really say that it was particularly smart so much as requiring a lot of observation and the ability to put things together. STILTS: I think the source material is probably quite smart, but yeah, it’s just the old “it’s impossible to adapt” so no matter how good Sunrise does, and I think they do quite well - VERDANT: So what are we considering to be a smart show anyway? What makes a show smart? MOOMBA: Something with clever plot, maybe VERDANT: Something that has a plot. MOOMBA: I actually said clever plot. VERDANT: Oh, clever. MOOMBA: Something that pulls something that you don’t really expect and does it in a way that feels natural as opposed to being forced, perhaps. STILTS: Yeah. Intelligently done characters, just a sense of subtleties, just kind of a sense that you’re watching it going “wow, this writer really knows what the hell they’re doing.” VERDANT: I think for me, it’d be something like multiple levels of interpretation. Multiple methods, multiple routes of interpretation. [24:06] - HOrIZON DISCUSSION ZANIBAS: Well actually, I had a question about Horizon. STILTS: I’m okay with that, go ahead. ZEPHYR: Oh man... ZANIBAS: It seems like such a popular show, and I actually haven’t been following it much. So, if you could really distill what makes your post so long, Stilts, like I think that is like historical re-enactments and stuff. Could you just explain that a bit for people who haven’t been watching the show? STILTS: Uh... seeing it will help. MOOMBA: I think, my impression of it was gushing over the boobs to be honest. STILTS: Hey, only parts of the time. No, the reason my posts are so long is because, as Moomba noted - well, for those of us who don’t know - the source material is looong. Take a dictionary and then add another book to it, (is) how much one volume is, and there’s a lot of material in there. And a lot of that. Sunrise, like I’ve said, has been doing a good job putting that in there. And still Always get a sense of the story and the flow, but some of the details are just cut out, so that’s why I put explanation sections in the beginning of my post, because anything that was either maybe slightly confusing and maybe cut out, I try to figure out and explain. Also, there’s gushing, so shut up. ZANIBAS: Works for me. STILTS: But yeah, it’s hard to summarize the story really quickly. It’s one of the few really epic stories that really demands to be called epic instead of just using that word to replace awesome or really neat. I mean, the scale is massive, and you have all this political intrigue between all these different countries, a huge cast that all are really unique and actually are necessary. Like this season has not focused on the “main characters” that much, just they haven’t needed to because there are so many other characters that are awesome, they could spend the whole season doing that. MOOMBA: Using the other meaning for that, really long, as in stacked up next to the books of the entire Wheel of Time, which is generally regarded to be a really long Western series, it’s more than half the length of that, and it’s only a quarter written, or something. STILTS: Yeah, I got a picture of that in my first part one of my retrospective. It’s large. VERDANT: So the original, is it a light novel, or a novel? MOOMBA: Light novel, using the term very loosely. STILTS: Yeah, it has pictures! VERDANT: How is it written? Is it written pretty well, or... STILTS: Moobs, you’re the one who can actually read it, potentially MOOMBA: What I’ve read is generally pretty good, and I hear that it’s well written and that it must be given help (based on) how strong of a following it actually has, although I hear that the following isn’t particularly widespread as opposed to just really loyal. VERDANT: Mm. Loyal and vocal. STILTS: Hey, I’m down with that. Best fans ever. Well, I guess, anybody else have anything to say about Horizon? I mean, I could go on forever but people can read my damn post, so...*chuckles* VERDANT: It does seem that this summer had a lot of similar shows in terms of genre. We had a lot of harem shows, right? STILTS: That’s just...anime. VERDANT: Feels like (there were) a couple more this season. Any of them in particular that stood out to you guys? Did you feel an itch to find out who this sister was every week? STILTS: *Laughing deeply* Oh man! ZEPHYR: Hint hint STILTS: I was wrong! *STILTS makes sobbing sounds* Yeah, that one was pretty entertaining just for that alone. It was a good harem show as well, even if the whole time I didn’t care about the love interest, it was more about who the imouto is. ZEPHYR: Campione was pretty decent. I mean, it wasn’t really exclusively harem per se, but you know, it was pretty entertaining. STILTS: Oh yeah. The spoiler alert for anybody who hasn’t watched the last episode as of our saying this, I guess it was 11 or 12 or some damn shit, I don’t remember. That kiss. That was so... thinly veiled. ZEPHYR: Yeah. But it seems like noone else is watching. STILTS: Yes. Just us. We’re the perverts. MOOMBA: I’m a few episodes behind and need to catch up on that. ZEPHYR: Awkward turtle. [28:45] - KUROKO NO BASUKE DISCUSSION VERDANT: All right, so anyone want to talk about Kuroko no Basuke real fast? MOCHI: Nooo! VERDANT: Oh god. Go, Mochi go! ZEPHYR: Here we go! STILTS: A wild Mochi has appeared! ZEPHYR: Alright, so since Mochi is suffering connection difficulties, I have been volunteered to read her paragraph for you guys about Basugay. MOOMBA: Why don’t we make things a little more interesting, and each of us take a sentence and rotate. *Mochi laughs* STILTS: Okay, I like that. ZEPHYR: Alright, that’s good. VERDANT: This is truly freeform and freestyle. ZEPHYR: This is freeform indeed. VERDANT: I’m hungry. STILTS: Haha, back and forth. ZEPHYR: All right, so Mochi came on just to talk about this. Haha, but alas, her connection difficulties. So here we go. People knock this show so much for the fujoshi vibes, and I won’t lie, there are a lot of things about this show that can be misconstrued for Boys Love, but I think that speaks to the wide variety of audience it can attract. VERDANT: I don’t think that was very Mochi-sounding-like. ZEPHYR: You know what, I can read it in a Chinese accent but that’s just awkward. MOOMBA: Anyway, continuing on Mochi’s thoughts, I think what makes this so, so great is how honest the presentation is. When I started watching it, I admit that I just wanted to watch pretty dudes just to kill time. But before I knew it, this show just hooked me completely with its characters. STILTS: Oh my. I’m never going to.. I love hearing a girl say that. Going on with Mochi’s thoughts. *STILTS talks in a choppy manner* All of them were endearing, and they all turned out to be pretty three-dimensional, and some of them went beyond expectations to be pretty complex. So I was pretty excited when I got to cover the show. Ha. Ha. ZEPHYR: Ha ha. VERDANT: Sounds like something Siri would say. STILTS: Going for William Shatner but that works too. ZEPHYR: Sounds more like a Chinese accent in the middle, man STILTS: Ehh, kind of spaced it in and out. VERDANT: Okay, so my, as in Mochi’s earlier posts, aren’t that great or comprehensive, so I don’t think it does this show justice, but I’m pretty proud of my last couple of posts for this show, and I think I did a decent job in getting across my love for this show and what made it so good. STILTS: So humble. VERDANT: And my and I, it’s Mochi. But they were good posts. I read them. ZANIBAS: (In a terrible non-descriptive accent) Hopefully, more people will be compelled to watch it now. It’s a popular show, you can’t deny those DVD/BR discs sales. Yay. VERDANT: So, I don’t think there’s any way we can top that. STILTS: Kinda hard, yeah. ZEPHYR: Yeah, that was just embarrassing. STILTS: That leaves things off on a high note? Low note? I’m not really sure which one that was. VERDANT: An epic note. STILTS: Epic note. ZEPHYR: Epic fail. [32:19] BINBOUGAMI GA DISCUSSION MOOMBA: We haven’t actually talked about the sleeper of this season yet. VERDANT: Oh yea... *Distant oh yea...* STILTS: Moomba, would you like to start us off with an awesome show? MOOMBA: Yea, I really enjoyed that. It was a great show but maybe I should clarify the fact that we are actually talking about Binbougami ga! here. STILTS: WOO! MOOMBA: Since a lot of people thought Jintai (Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita) is the sleeper but, eh anyway... STILTS: Enzo is not here to defend that, moving on! MOOMBA: Okay, so basically I think the reason Binbougami ga gets status as a sleeper because it was consistently good. I mean, there are up and downs in a lot of shows this season, SAO is evident of that if you look at the comment section on my post for example, but Binbougami ga has been consistently good all the way through even to its finale which was surprisingly touching given the fact that it was a comedy and parody for most part. ZANIBAS: I cried, I cried at the end. I really did. STILTS: That was just beautiful, there was even some character arcs that grew up, and pissed off HanaKana .That was so amazing. MOOMBA: Definitely! MOCHI: Wait, can I say something before I leave? MOCHI: Chichiko Banzai! *Cast laughter* STILTS: What were you saying about, Moomba? MOOMBA: Which side of the fan? Chichiko or Binbouda? STILTS: Both? ZEPHYR: Can we go with Ranmaru instead? ZANIBAS: Ranmaru camp for the win. MOOMBA: Yea, I will agree with Ranmaru. STILTS: I thought, man, Tomato (Tomatsu Haruka) did a really good job with Ranmaru. Actually all the main seiyuus did really well. I don’t know, I think would probably still be on Chichiko’s side because HanaKana. (Hanazawa Kana) Mochi: Aww STILTS: But I also liked the minor characters like Bobby and Momou which is fillipin’ hilarious every single time. MOOMBA: It’s kind of a pity that we will probably never see a second season. I mean sales for it haven’t been that great and even though I can’t remember now, there was something about it - but I mean we had that fake trailer in the end of the season that looked like it could be a pretty entertaining second season if it was ever made. STILTS: Yea, the Binbougami ga! Darkness (Q!). MOOMBA: Now that is not a parody of a well-known series by any means is it? STILTS: Not-at-all. I would watch that. ZEPHYR: You guys remember that Death Note reference a couple episodes back? That lasted like 5 minutes. STILTS: Yea, that was pretty good. ZEPHYR: That was good. ZANIBAS: I like the North Star (Fist of the Northern Star) reference better. That was pretty funny. STILTS: Is that the one where they randomly just started getting super serious in the middle of school. ZANIBAS: Right, yeah... *Background laughters* STILTS: I lost my shit on that one ZANIBAS: Slowly spreading it says. MOOMBA: I think we can compare Binbougami to Nyaruko from last season. Might have done this already but they both had large amounts of references in there but I think on the surface the Binbougami ones were better because they were easier to understand whereas some of the Nyaruko ones were really obscure and referred to much much older material. ZEPHYR: Yea, that’s true. That is true. STILTS: Yeah, plus the, it does seem like Binbougami was more like using references occasionally as opposed to depending on them for comedy, whereas Nyaruko was (depending on it). It was awesome at times for sure, by the way, isn’t there a second season coming out? Wooo! ZEPHYR: Yes, there is. STILTS: Exciting, but yeah Binbougami doesn’t seem to depend on them as much. References are always fun as a little sprinkling, a little flavouring but they get kinda tiresome if you have to hear them constantly. VERDANT: So what is the legacy for this show going to be? STILTS: Flipping hilarious. VERDANT: And KanaHana being completely different than we were used to? STILTS: I don’t know, I think it is going to have a pretty good legacy. VERDANT: That does sound really good yea. STILTS: It was really really funny and yea that’s one of the ones I wish there was a second season, probably won’t be but I wish. VERDANT: What do you say Zanibas? ZANIBAS: I would say it ties as one of the best comedies of the season if not maybe Joshiraku. But that all depends on people’s personal taste. I like the high energy that Binbougami always brought to the table and so, it’s been one of the favourite comedy in a long while actually. I think it will have that kind of legacy. STILTS: Yea, I agree. What do you think Mooms? MOOMBA: I definitely agree it is probably one of the best comedy we had so far this year with the other being Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou Zephyr: Yeaaaaaah! MOOMBA: Which definitely takes the place as the top comedy of the year. Zanibas brought up Joshiraku which is also a really good comedy but I think that depends a lot more on understanding Japanese culture and word-play and that sort of stuff so it is much harder to appeal to a wider audience than Binbougami ga! is. ZANIBAS: But the slapstick in Joshiraku is actually pretty universal if I may say so. MOOMBA: Well, I definitely agree Joshiraku is an entertaining comedy but there is a lot of stuff you miss out on if you are not familiar with how Kanji is read differently in different circumstances or the word-play and it is not really. It is not an anime that translates very well to English, especially not in a literal sense. STILTS: Yea, I watched a couple of episode of that and it just didn’t grab me so it is not particularly accessible. VERDANT: I like the ending song. STILTS: The OP and ED, awesome though. That’s way too much *chuckle* But yea, I forgot about Danshi Koukousei, that was really good too. From my personal preference I would probably put Binbougami tied with or maybe ahead. There are some awesome stuff in Danshi Koukousei too. VERDANT: Alright, any other shows? Any other fanservice moments you guys wanna talk about? STILTS: Nah, I think we got all the shows. [39:00] INTERMISSION VERDANT: So we have our intermission theme which is a song of Stilts’ choice, wanna introduce it? STILTS: Yes! Make My Day by Piko *intermission theme plays* [39:45] FAVORITE “THING” OF SEASON VERDANT: Fun song, at least what I imagine I had, stuff gets added, post production. STILTS: It’s a fun song, don’t worry. You are not lying. VERDANT: I never lie. Bonus topic, we are just going to go through our one favourite thing and it can be anything about the summer season. Can be your favourite couple, your favourite opening, your favourite ending, soundtrack, animation, characters, fanservice scene, fight scene, make out sessions. STILTS: The make out sessions, that just makes me talk about Campione again. VERDANT: Oh is that all about make out sessions? STILTS: No, it just had really epic ones. VERDANT: Oh really? I heard that unlisted told Dakara (Dakara Boku wa H Dekinai) has some pretty interesting ones too. STILTS: That does not surprise me. ZEPHYR: Oh, you mean the show that pretty much turned into a hentei midway? Oh, towards the end. STILTS: I’ma go back to watch that...I mean what!? ZANIBAS: Hentei? ZEPHYR: HenTAI. STILTS: Zephyr is a clean and pure soul. He doesn’t know such things. ZEPHYR: Unlike Stilts. STILTS: I don’t know what you are talking about... ZEPHYR: You are probably watching it right now. VERDANT: One of the writers is sending us a screencap. ZEPHYR: Oh it’s that scene. VERDANT: It looks like... ZEPHYR: Campione rape scene. STILTS: That’s completely consensual! VERDANT: Is that your favourite scene this season? STILTS: Nah, I like some of the fight scenes but that particular scene was kinda heavy on the subtext, but it was right the hell there.. MOOMBA: I am going to quickly ninja away Stilts’ (fav scene). At the Horizon scene, with Mary and Tenzo. STILTS: Damn! That was supposed to be-- MOOMBA: Yes! Got it. I think that is probably my favourite thing in the season so far. I say so far because it is basically over, but you get the picture. ZEPHYR: Yea, that was a pretty epic scene. VERDANT: My favourite ending song was the Natsuyuki ending song. It has got a name that I can’t pronounce, but it’s good. ZEPHYR: I got this. ZANIBAS: On that note, the Natsuyuki PV was pretty saucy...and yuri...Did you get a chance to watch the PV? VERDANT: For the ending? ZANIBAS: Yeah, for the ending. VERDANT: I’ll have to check that out. ZEPHYR: The ending theme that you just mentioned was. Anata ni (something). ←- Anata ni Deawanakereba. VERDANT: Told you it’s hard to say. ZEPHYR: We need Enzo, what the heck. Moving on. STILTS: Just because Moomba ninja-ed away what I have decided my favourite scene, I am going to go for favourite couple, still be able to say Mary and Tenzo. Oh so awesome. I should probably explain why shouldn’t I? Hocchan (Horie Yui) being adorable and Ono Daisuke being all vulnerable and heroic and getting put down a lot by people. Basically like verdant. VERDANT: Hmm. MOOMBA: So does that mean verdant is going to eventually stand up and sweep away the girl of his dreams? VERDANT: I’ve already done that. MOOMBA: As he approaches execution preferably. STILTS: We could probably arrange that...I mean what? I think in that example, that would make me be Toori so yea, okay, I am okay with it. VERDANT: I have no idea what is this... MOOMBA: You can imagine this happening, Stilts walking around half naked with seaweed as the only clothing he has on. STILTS: Who said I can’t do that now. Sure! MOOMBA: I know you’ll do that now... STILTS: Hehe. Oh my reputation is going down the drain again. VERDANT: So any other favourites? Zanibas? ZANIBAS: I have a favourite comment, so on Oda Nobuna no Yabou’s finale, the top comments were pretty interesting. Basically in the show, the main protagonist comes from the future and bring to the Sengoku Era an iPhone and the iPhone is like a superhuman iPhone, although it is not really. So basically this iPhone, it stops a bullet and it also stops a sword slash, and it still survives. VERDANT: How can it be an iPhone then? Aren’t those things pretty fragile? ZANIBAS: Well *held laughter* the comments say that it must have been a Nokia instead. *Cast laughter* ZANIBAS: But then, MrRei said it’s an iPhone, Nokia would have bounced the bullet and shattered the sword and then like bring on the rage Apple fan. Bring it on! I will just stop there but its pretty funny. ZEPHYR: Oh, so that was what you guys were talking about! I remember reading this on IRC and like what the heck are these guys talking about. VERDANT: So basically, our comment section is turning into Reddit? *Group agreement* MOOMBA: Oh god, please no. *Group laughter* MOOMBA: Please no. STILTS: You found Moomba’s darkest nightmare. VERDANT: hehe. Alright.. STILTS: Well this went by pretty quickly, anybody else wants to throw out some more favourite crap out? ZEPHYR: I am not sure if this counts as a favourite crap but in general I felt like the season was actually bit more enjoyable than I thought it would be. STILTS: Yea, coming into it I thought it was surprisingly strong like what other people said but it turned out to be. VERDANT: Feel like seasons are always going to turn out better than you expect it to be because you always come in with pretty unknown and low expectations. It is easy to be surprised that way. STILTS: That’s true. Best way to do it. [46:00] SHOWS TO LOOK FORWARD TO NEXT SEASON VERDANT: Sleepers everywhere. Alright, so now, since this the Summer Retrospective, we’re going to look forward to some of the fall shows too. Anyone want to start us off with the one show they’re looking forward to the most? STILTS: verdant, I think you should start us off! VERDANT: What am I looking forward to? Hmmm, where’s that poll? Looking forward to-- STILTS: You’re just going to pull the first thing off that poll, aren’t you? *VERDANT laughs* ZANIBAS: Aikatsu! STILTS: Nooo. VERDANT: I’m looking forward to shows I’m blogging, PSYCHO-PASS, Initial D. I’m also looking forward to checking out JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. People seem to really be excited for that. The trailers look pretty nice looking. STILTS: I wonder if I’ve even seen the trailer for that. I’ll have to check it out. VERDANT: The animation is definitely a lot better than I expected, so I’ll be looking forward to that. Going to see what Zetsuen no Tempest is like. It’s BONES, so we’ll see, we’ll probably have good action scenes at least. ZEPHYR: Oh yeah, that it should have. I know the source material, the first three volumes, have some pretty good action at least. I think that would be a pretty good match with BONES. STILTS: Hopefully BONES can pull out of their recent nosedive and give a good show and stuff. MOOMBA: Oh that’d definitely be nice. VERDANT: Looking forward to K. Just listening to all those voice actors and actresses doing their thing despite what show... ZEPHYR: Where’s Mochi for this? Where’s her when we need her for this moment? VERDANT: Oh, she had to leave. ZEPHYR: Darnit! STILTS: Zephyr, what are you looking forward to? ZEPHYR: I think everyone knows by now, Shin Sekai Yori. Definitely. It has a great source material with the winner of the Sci-Fi Taisho Award. There’s a lot to look forward to, because considering what other epic shows have won that award before--Evangelion won it before and Madoka Magica is being considered for it this past year. STILTS: Wait, isn’t it a Sci-Fi award? ZEPHYR: Yeah, it’s a Science Fiction, kind of Taisho Prize. STILTS: Whuut. VERDANT: Wait, you say Madoka? Madoka’s not really Sci-Fi... ZEPHYR: Well apparently it’s considered loosely related enough to be considered... MOOMBA: Well it’s about entropy, and entropy...Sci-Fi! ZEPHYR: Right, yes. It was the entropy. Delta S I think. Or something, Delta H STILTS: Didn’t have much contention this year, gotcha. ZEPHYR: No, Madoka was pretty darn good...what can you say. STILTS: You know what I’m looking forward to? Jormungand(r). ZEPHYR: Say, say, say that again. VERDANT: Jörmungandr. That sound pretty good? MOOMBA: I wanna hear Stilts say it in a really good voice. ZEPHYR: Yeah, I’m waiting for Stilts to say it again. STILTS: Jörmungandr. ZEPHYR: Well done, well done. Yeah, well Jormungand, it’s a given. I mean, really? At this point, if you watched the first season you’re definitely going to be watching the second season. ZANIBAS: We all want to know why Koko is loco! ZEPHYR: I think we actually know why she’s loco. ZANIBAS: Really? ZEPHYR: We just want to see more. VERDANT: No one is looking forward to Little Busters? Or Magi? ZEPHYR: What is Little Busters? ZANIBAS: What is this? I don’t know what Magi is! Magi? Is it like a magical girl show? STILTS: Haha, you just threw darts at a dartboard. Oh, I guess we’ll take that one. ZANIBAS: Yeah.. STILTS: Yeah, Little Busters has a lot...I always love Key adaptations...I mention them in my StiltsOutLoud columns--shameless plug--every other week, so I’ll be looking forward to that, looking forward to his posts. VERDANT: It looks like we’ve got a good season coming up I think... STILTS: Indeed. ZEPHYR: Yeah, fall season is usually pretty good. MOOMBA: We never actually picked a sleeper during the preview. Does anyone have anything actually in mind? Anything for what might be considered a sleeper for the season? STILTS: Aikatsu! Calling it! VERDANT: How about the, I dunno, I guess I don’t know enough about hype, about publicity, about popularity, to know what a sleeper hit is going to be... STILTS: We could probably use the poll. MOOMBA: Girls Und Panzer might be a sleeper hit this season...potentially. It seems to be combining cute girls doing cute things with giant tanks. I mean, what more can you possibly ever want from anime? VERDANT: Glasses. MOOMBA: True, true. STILTS: I’m going to go ahead and throw out, Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo, just mostly out of hope, ‘cause I’m blogging it. But, it also makes me think of Toradora, I see the animation, so that makes me hope it’s something awesome. VERDANT: Is it J.C. Staff? STILTS: Yeah, and they’re giving it two-cour, and usually, you don’t give two cour to something that’s going to be bad unless you pull off a Guilty Crown and...god I hope that’s not the case! [51:23] SHOWS WE’RE NOT COVERING AND WHY VERDANT: Should we talk about things that people aren’t blogging on the schedule...about the shows that we’re not covering and maybe why we’re not covering them? STILTS: Um, we can cover that pretty quickly. We’re previewing, uh introing damn near everything. VERDANT: Yeah. It’s not like we’re knocking Gintama or anything, it’s just none of us have ever really gotten into it. STILTS: Oh yeah yeah. ZEPHYR: Oh yeah, catching up, slowly. VERDANT: Also with Hidamari Sketch, we’re not saying it’s a show not worth watching...but... STILTS: My problem with Hidamari, although I hear it’s really good, is that I watch too much crap each season, so I always have like two or three shows that get filtered into my backlog and never go back in, so catching up... MOOMBA: It’s because the faces aren’t wide enough, isn’t it... STILTS: Well, it’s kind of true. They were like, mega sized, I’d be all over that. VERDANT: I see you’re really into wide faces, huh. STILTS: Newest moe point. VERDANT: Alright. STILTS: And my reputation drops again anyways. [52:28] SHOUTOUTS VERDANT: Should probably shift gears to the bonus--err shoutout section? STILTS: We can do some shoutouts...who wants to do some shoutouts? VERDANT: I have a shoutout from Stereoman. Stereoman says that the current arc of Fairy Tail is ending and the next episode will be coinciding with the manga’s latest arc. Does that sound right? STILTS: Oh, that’s also anime original junk and stuff. VERDANT: Yeah, we’re back into the final stretch of the manga, which I totally finally caught up on. STILTS: Yeah, I need to catch up on the past few chapters...good stuff so far though. Well I have a shoutout to everybody who reads my StiltsOutLoud articles, and also an apology...some people thought I was quitting due to the title of my last one. Not the case! VERDANT: You’re not quitting? Dammit! STILTS: None of your crap, verdant! I know you’re just tsundere for me. So yeah, sorry about that. I’ll be a little more careful with my titles...or troll harder! One of the two, depending on how I feel, but uh, I’m not going anywhere, so no worries. Shoutouts? VERDANT: Thanks to all the readers, thanks to everyone who pitched into the preview. STILTS: Oh yeah, definitely that. That took us what, four people, five people, to do what Divine used to do by himself. VERDANT: So yeah, we’re starting on the Winter Preview now, right? STILTS: Uhufuwuafuuu~ ZEPHYR: Whatcha talking about? We’ve already finished that already; we’re already starting on the Spring Preview! VERDANT: Yeah, that’s right. ZANIBAS: We’re actually queued all the way up to 2014, so... VERDANT: We’re actually just throwing in some of our own shows we want to see in the next season... *STAFF laughs* STILTS: Standards are falling everywhere. Any other shoutouts? ZEPHYR: I think half of us are asleep right now. STILTS: Should we start saying awkward turtle stuff now? ZEPHYR: I think it got awkward a long time ago. STILTS: Always awkward when you’re around, Xumbra. ZEPHYR: Of course! VERDANT: Alright, so thanks for listening everyone. Hope you all enjoyed-- ZEPHYR: Awkward pun. VERDANT: --unstructured podcast. STILTS: One more freeform will stop that. VERDANT: Call it live. Doing it live. O’Reilly style. Right, so I hope you all enjoy our ending theme. It’s chosen by Moomba. Want to take it away Moomba? [54:52] ENDING THEME MOOMBA: Well, in honor of Lelouch and being four years since the end of Code Geass, we have the Zero Theme from Ace Combat Zero. VERDANT: Sounds good. Catch you later. ZEPHYR: All hail Brittania! MOOMBA: I think you mean, All Hail Lelouch! ZEPHYR: Close enough. ZANIBAS: Lelouch is still alive! VERDANT: Alright. ZEPHYR: He probably is. VERDANT: With that, we’re out! STILTS: Bye all! *outro theme plays* [56:00] BLOOPERS ZEPHYR: There’s nothing like eating Pocky sticks for breakfast. STILTS: That is true, I guess. MOCHI: Huh? STILTS: Are we really talking about Kuroko no Basuke? Is anybody— ZEPHYR: Basugay... STILTS: — has anyone watched that other than Mochi and, obviously, verdant because verdant likes pretty boys? MOCHI: People watched it! (laughs) Just not anyone on staff. Hey, who wrote Basugay, was that you Moomba? MOOMBA: No, that actually wasn’t me. MOCHI: Who was that? ZEPHYR: I didn’t do anything. MOCHI: Zephyr was that you? I’m gonna kill you! ZEPHYR: Hey, if you kill me, I can’t get you some Basugay stuff from Comic Con. MOCHI: Oh, you were going to? Okay, I won’t kill you. MOCHI: Well I’m the only one who watched it. STILTS: We’re giving you three minutes to rant! Go! MOCHI: Fine, I’ll see we’ll just talk about this! Okay, people knock this show so much for the fujoshi vibes, and I’m not gonna lie, there are a lot of things about this show that can be misconstrued... Huh? ...What? (long silence) STILTS: So do we start saying bad things about Mochi? ZEPHYR: All day. MOCHI: No, don’t do that! STILTS: Aw, she can hear! Damn! Mochi uses Curse Word! STILTS: Mochi! Say something fujoshi-ish! MOCHI: Hi? (long silence) ZEPHYR: Oh, this is hilarious. STILTS: Start from the top, Mochi, we’ll just cut out all that bullshit. VERDANT: Alright, go ahead. Go. MOCHI: Oh my god again! Wait no, hopefully I don’t get disconnected again. I came just to talk about this. Anyway, people knock Kuroko no Basuke so much for the fujoshi vibes, and I’m not gonna lie, there are a lot of things about this show that can be misconstrued as BL, but I think — (long silence) ZEPHYR: Quite hopeless indeed today, it seems! STILTS: (laughs) Oh, it’s hilarious! Do we want to give her a take four now or are we just skipping Kuroko now? VERDANT: Nah, I mean I want to give it to her. ZEPHYR: Meanwhile, twenty minutes of editing later... VERDANT: Yeah, it’s gonna be a pain to edit. ZEPHYR: We’ll be all like, “Oh right, Xumbra, cut out this 15 minute section in the middle!” STILTS: It’s gonna be a real easy edit, just cut it out, throw it somewhere else, pull it out for a blooper. MOCHI: Oh my god this is terrible! ZEPHYR: Wait, you can just type it out— MOCHI: It’s like Skype hates BL or something... ZEPHYR: Type it out and I’ll say it for you — in a Chinese accent. STILTS: Ooh, that’s fun! Do it! MOCHI: Really? Okay, I’m gonna— VERDANT: Just say it right now and see...just try it right now. ZEPHYR: Alright, take four, let’s go! VERDANT: Go for it. (silence) ZEPHYR: Mission failed! STILTS: (laughter) Oh, it’s hilarious! ZEPHYR: There isn’t even a chance for take four! MOCHI: Wait, Google doc! In the Google doc! VERDANT: Mochi, you can just talk about it. STILTS: Yeah, you’re still connected. VERDANT: You’re still here. MOCHI: Okay, what if I get cut again? VERDANT: Then we’ll just— ZEPHYR: Oh god, she typed a lot. Wow. STILTS: Holy shi— ZEPHYR: Holy shit, when did she write this? MOCHI: While you guys were talking about boobs in the middle of nowhere. STILTS: Dang. MOCHI: Quick, someone read it! MOOMBA: We could try talking about Kuroko no Basuke. STILTS: Let’s do that, that sounds fun! Alright, so what did you guys think of the show? ZEPHYR: You know, I think there’s a reason why they call it Basugay. But, you know. STILTS: HEYOOOO! MOOMBA: I can definitely agree with that based on my impressions from Mochi’s excerpts. MOCHI: This is terrible! VERDANT: Oops. ZEPHYR: Awkward! Super awkward! We’re gonna have to do a lot of editing today. STILTS: Yup. MOCHI: Huh? Hello? Am I back? VERDANT: Mmhmm. (long silence) ZEPHYR: Massive editing. MOCHI: Hello? VERDANT: You’re back. STILTS: Can you hear us, Mochi? MOCHI: Were you guys making fun of the show while I was gone? Oh you guys suck. ZEPHYR: What are you talking about? We would never do such a thing! STILTS: The blonde guy is so creepy! (squeal) MOCHI: Okay, okay, lemme start it again. I can hear you guys. VERDANT: Okay, go ahead. MOCHI: Okay. No, I kept cutting off though, so I couldn’t hear anything, so. STILTS: Standards are falling everywhere. VERDANT: No worries, go ahead. MOCHI: Anyways, as I was saying— (silence) VERDANT: And... (laughter) VERDANT: Wow. It just gets all awkward in the most inopportune times. STILTS: “As I was saying”! ZEPHYR: I think this is a sign. STILTS: I don’t think the Internet gods don’t want her to talk about Kuroko no Basuke. MOCHI: (inaudible) Ugh! STILTS: Oh yeah, you’re right! MOCHI: I hate you guys! I hate you guys! STILTS: Granted. We got it. MOOMBA: So which side are we actually on? MOCHI: CHICHIKO BANZAIIIII! MOOMBA: Chichiko or— MOCHI: Okay, bye guys! VERDANT: See ya. MOCHI: Thanks for ruining my little spiel. STILTS: No problem, Mochi. ZEPHYR: No problem. VERDANT: Alright, who’s eating? (suppressed giggles) STILTS: (whispering) Nobody knows! (car alarm goes off) ZEPHYR: Oh, that car alarm. MOOMBA: I thought it was a bird of some kind. ZANIBAS: It was a lyre bird! VERDANT: You guys have interesting birds over there. STILTS: Yeah, seriously. English birds, I dunno man. VERDANT: I’d be scared to walk outside, it might hit me, in the middle of the street. VERDANT: Um. ZEPHYR: Oh god. VERDANT: I don’t know how much... At least transcribing this part is pretty easy. MOCHI: That was terrible! ZEPHYR: That was terrible. Just...that was terrible. STILTS: That’s okay, it’ll be entertaining, right? VERDANT: So bad it’s good. MOOMBA: Yeah, I’ll drink to that. VERDANT: Wow, Xumbra just missed the entire thing. ZEPHYR: Wow, seriously. Missing out in style.