#115.5 Hell's Paradise Clone? Dear Anemone

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[00:00:15] Welcome to Shonen Flop, Jimmy! First Impressions mini-episode where we talk about the first chapter of the series we'll be covering in-depth next week with our guest, the official letterer of the series, Finn K.

[00:00:28] Finn, yeah. Fink. Big Fink. I'm sure he hates being called that. I'm Jordan and with me today as usual is my lovely co-host David. Say hi, David.

[00:00:36] I wish we had done an episode on Hell's Paradise because I would have just repeated my intro for that.

[00:00:40] Uh, what is this? Some kind of Hex Eden? Fucking, I don't know. Hex Heaven? Heaven Ex Machina. Yeah.

[00:00:50] Anyway, we are talking about Dear Anemone. I hope that's how it said right. Almost. Close enough.

[00:00:56] Dear Anemone. Sure. Yep.

[00:00:59] Anemone and Ivory. Best friends through history.

[00:01:02] Uh, just that's what Dante told me.

[00:01:04] Oh, I was about to make that Devil May Cry. But anyway, shall we get into the manga details?

[00:01:09] Uh, you know, uh, David, I've heard that Dante is from the Devil May Cry series.

[00:01:14] Really? And it also features Knuckles.

[00:01:16] Yeah. Anyway, this is Dear Anemone from, uh, Matsui Rin.

[00:01:20] It ran from February 19th, 2024 to June 17th, 2024. Short one.

[00:01:27] Yeah. U19, baby.

[00:01:29] U19 again. 17 chapters, two volumes. We've been hitting. U19 club.

[00:01:35] We've had a lot of U19s lately.

[00:01:37] Yeah. I'm down for it. It means less work for us.

[00:01:40] Yeah.

[00:01:40] Theoretically, at least.

[00:01:42] Yeah.

[00:01:42] Uh, depends how the manga goes. Usually, yes.

[00:01:46] God, what a series this is.

[00:01:48] Oh, man. Okay.

[00:01:50] Let's get to the plot summary of the first chapter of Dear Anemone.

[00:01:53] Sentenced to death, ninja Gabimaru the Hollow finds himself apathetic.

[00:01:57] After leading a blood-soaked life, Gabimaru believes he deserves to die.

[00:02:01] However, every attempt to execute him inexplicitly fails.

[00:02:05] Finally, Sagiri Yamada Aseimon.

[00:02:08] Oh, no, David. I was reading from the My Anime List listing for Hell's Paradise.

[00:02:15] What? What? Oh, my God. Anyway.

[00:02:19] Who would have thought we'd make that joke in this episode?

[00:02:22] Right? Apparently, the Galapagos Islands is home to a bunch of evil man-eating monsters.

[00:02:28] Like, there was, like, a group of researchers or mercenaries or something

[00:02:31] who went there and got brutally eaten by monsters, which, David, they evolved there.

[00:02:36] If I were going to say, turns out man is the real monster.

[00:02:39] Well, we haven't gotten there yet.

[00:02:41] Probably is a good guess for this series.

[00:02:43] That's kind of one of my guesses.

[00:02:45] God damn it.

[00:02:46] Flash forward and Gaka Hachuie, which I assume is how you pronounce that,

[00:02:50] is riding on a boat with a bunch of people, including Ryuichi,

[00:02:54] who has a crazy lip-ringed chain, and befriends Gaka.

[00:02:57] They're there in order to go to Galapagos and find or save the missing group from earlier.

[00:03:03] A kid's like, who the fuck is Charles Darwin?

[00:03:05] And an old guy explains the concept of evolution and the significance of the Galapagos Islands.

[00:03:11] Because, David, the Republican Party's ideology has even infected the schools of Japan.

[00:03:18] Oh, God.

[00:03:18] But Gaka's like, oh, hey, I've heard of evolution.

[00:03:21] I mean, his friend told him about it, though, because he's not, like, a nerd or anything.

[00:03:24] Then Lucille Bluth comes out and said that there was a huge explosion 10 years ago,

[00:03:29] which released a virus on Galapagos, and now they got no idea what's going on over there.

[00:03:34] But if this team spends a month on the island looking for the missing group,

[00:03:37] they'll get a ton of money.

[00:03:38] Just big wads of cash.

[00:03:40] Popcorn David.

[00:03:41] Buckets of Dosh.

[00:03:42] Loads of money.

[00:03:43] They get to the whole island and exposit.

[00:03:45] I knew you were going to do loads of money.

[00:03:47] How much they're there for the money when a guy from the research group shows up

[00:03:50] and brutally kills Ryuichi, because it's one of those series where anyone can die.

[00:03:53] Isn't that edgy?

[00:03:55] That's amazing.

[00:03:56] So glad we got to know that character.

[00:03:57] He didn't even get a title card.

[00:03:59] He did, but he got it later.

[00:04:00] Like, after we were introduced to him,

[00:04:02] they were just randomly walking and then they showed it.

[00:04:05] It's like, why are you telling us now?

[00:04:06] Imagine if the monster just burst through the title card and killed him.

[00:04:09] You know, David, it's funny.

[00:04:10] People are like, oh man, anyone can die.

[00:04:13] And it's like, there's a reason why that's not the most common thing.

[00:04:16] And it's that, you know, generally when you have a character that like you care about,

[00:04:20] it's good to have characters like that in your series.

[00:04:24] You also need to make it feel like there's value to the characters before they die.

[00:04:27] Yeah.

[00:04:28] Anyway, the team hears someone calling for help and Haru goes to investigate only to find out it's actually a big chicken monster.

[00:04:33] She shoots a load of bullets from a gun, but it doesn't do anything.

[00:04:36] Gakka then has a flashback to when a kid named Kotaro saves him from bullies and they become best friends,

[00:04:41] even though the author isn't really that good at drawing children.

[00:04:43] So he looks kind of weird.

[00:04:44] No, he is not.

[00:04:45] Kotaro talks very, very part six of Rocky.

[00:04:48] Kotaro talks about a flower metaphor for being strong and how he's obsessed with the island of Galapagos and Charles Darwin.

[00:04:53] Turns out Kotaro was actually part of the missing group, which is a real reason why Gakka came on the mission.

[00:04:57] Gakka charges at the giant chicken monster because he's no chicken,

[00:05:00] which grabs him and ends up spilling his blood all over a flower.

[00:05:03] They jump to the boat where Lucille talks to Buster about how this group is a bunch of sacrifices,

[00:05:07] but they have potential because the island is paradise and a hell.

[00:05:12] Literally though, right?

[00:05:13] Like that's what they say.

[00:05:14] Was it some sort of hell's paradise?

[00:05:16] I know.

[00:05:17] They literally say this island is a paradise and a hell.

[00:05:21] Like I am quoting verbatim right there.

[00:05:24] Just then, a bunch of vines burst out from the flower under Gakka and then turn into a weird monster with a pretty face that saves him.

[00:05:30] And he remembers Kotaro saying it's an enema somehow.

[00:05:34] It's an enema somehow.

[00:05:35] Yeah.

[00:05:36] What are you, my enemy?

[00:05:37] Hey, hey, hey, enema of the state.

[00:05:40] So Jordan, what's your first impressions besides the fact this is literally hell's paradise?

[00:05:43] Oh, the monster designs are cool.

[00:05:46] Oh yeah, this author definitely didn't actually want to plot.

[00:05:48] He just wanted to draw cool monsters.

[00:05:50] He just wanted to draw creepy monsters.

[00:05:52] And you know what, man?

[00:05:53] I respect that.

[00:05:54] I do.

[00:05:55] I mean, drawing creepy weird monsters, it's fucking fun.

[00:05:58] And it's cool if you can do it right.

[00:05:59] This guy, he knows how to draw creepy shit.

[00:06:01] But also the dialogue is a fucking mess.

[00:06:05] Oh my God.

[00:06:05] Not even just like what's said, just like the way it's laid out.

[00:06:08] Like I was just-

[00:06:09] But the lettering is perfect.

[00:06:10] Yeah, the lettering is amazing.

[00:06:11] But like the layouts and like, it feels like everyone's talking over each other somehow.

[00:06:16] Like, yeah.

[00:06:17] I was trying to read like these pages of them talking and my eyes were just glazing over.

[00:06:22] Like, I don't even know exactly specifically what happened to do that.

[00:06:26] There's a lot going on.

[00:06:27] Also, the paneling is kind of boring.

[00:06:29] Yeah, it's not.

[00:06:30] It's nothing to write home about.

[00:06:31] Yeah, I mean, that's the whole series.

[00:06:32] It's like, oh, anyone can die.

[00:06:34] Enough ever.

[00:06:34] We've seen this before.

[00:06:35] Cool monster designs.

[00:06:36] We've seen that before.

[00:06:37] A cold opening that's horror themed.

[00:06:39] We've seen that before.

[00:06:40] It's just like this guy literally was trying to think of the laziest plot possible that

[00:06:43] would just let him draw cool monsters.

[00:06:45] Yeah, and his idea was to take Hell's Paradise without the buildup episodes.

[00:06:51] Yeah, there are like a bunch of episodes before they go to the island, just like building

[00:06:56] it up and stuff and introducing the characters.

[00:06:59] He's just like, no, that's not necessary.

[00:07:00] That was the coolest part.

[00:07:01] Have you seen Annihilation?

[00:07:02] No, I've heard it's really good.

[00:07:03] Pretty much Annihilation again.

[00:07:04] And that was a great movie.

[00:07:05] Oh, I see.

[00:07:06] Maybe we'll make the parody of that Annihilation.

[00:07:07] Oh, we got to think about the cover art, actually.

[00:07:09] But yeah, everything's just thrown at you.

[00:07:10] The characters are like, oh, look, here's a minimum amount of information about me.

[00:07:14] When I die, I feel like I really channeled Rem in that comment.

[00:07:19] It's not too far off from, oh boy, I'm retiring tomorrow.

[00:07:22] Yeah.

[00:07:23] Oh, man, I need this.

[00:07:24] I need this money to save my sister who's sick.

[00:07:27] Oh, no, I'm dead.

[00:07:28] I'm surprised there wasn't a scene where someone's like, oh, can't eat peanuts.

[00:07:32] I'm allergic.

[00:07:32] And then he gets killed by like a peanut monster or the vegetarian gets murdered by the chicken.

[00:07:37] David, that would have made me like this more.

[00:07:41] That actually sounds keno.

[00:07:42] That's actually fucking awesome.

[00:07:46] Fucking allergic to peanuts dies to a peanut monster.

[00:07:49] That would be fucking great, actually.

[00:07:51] Mr. Peanut just shows up and brutally murders him.

[00:07:54] I was kind of iffy on whether or not I'd read more of this.

[00:07:57] If a peanut monster showed up and ate a kid who was like allergic to peanuts, I would read it.

[00:08:01] I'm like 100 percent.

[00:08:02] Yes, would read it.

[00:08:04] Just three days away from retiring from the peanut farm where I was definitely allergic the whole time.

[00:08:08] Oh, God.

[00:08:09] Yeah.

[00:08:09] No, I mean, like that said, like the designs are really cool.

[00:08:14] Like despite the fact it's like an easy kind of concept, like it still seems like it could be fun.

[00:08:19] Theoretically, at least like, I mean, I think I really just want to see more creepy monsters.

[00:08:24] I think that's the main reason why I'm somewhat interested in this.

[00:08:29] Listen, you can tell there really just isn't anything that happens in this chapter, despite Jordan having a decently long plot summary.

[00:08:33] I also want to say I don't think that the cliffhanger at the end was interesting.

[00:08:37] No, this felt like they needed an authority pages from when that point happens.

[00:08:40] Yeah, no.

[00:08:41] I'm like, OK, cool.

[00:08:42] What a cliffhanger.

[00:08:43] OK.

[00:08:44] It kind of seemed obvious.

[00:08:46] Yeah.

[00:08:46] Like, no way.

[00:08:47] You mean these like young people being sent into a death trap like the company doing it that's paying them is not on the up and up.

[00:08:56] That's a twist I haven't seen five billion times already.

[00:08:59] I literally has one of my guesses.

[00:09:01] It turns out they never intended them to make it to the end.

[00:09:04] And then they said that midway through.

[00:09:06] And I was like, oh, OK, so we're not trying to even pretend that that's not the plot.

[00:09:10] No, this was a really hard what I read in our 10 chapters of this.

[00:09:14] What did you think?

[00:09:15] I was like, yeah, sure.

[00:09:16] Whatever.

[00:09:17] Again, I kind of just want to see more creepy monster designs because I do like that.

[00:09:21] I think this guy is talented at it.

[00:09:23] And like if he can throw out one or two cool monsters like per chapter or something, I'll read it.

[00:09:30] Fuck.

[00:09:30] All right.

[00:09:31] Yeah.

[00:09:31] But nothing else is doing that for me.

[00:09:33] Like the plot isn't.

[00:09:34] The characters aren't.

[00:09:36] Like there's nothing else.

[00:09:37] The fact that it's a U19 really is saying I would commit to finishing this.

[00:09:41] If this was 35 chapters, I'd probably be like, nah.

[00:09:43] Or actually, it's in our 10 chapters.

[00:09:45] So I guess I would no matter what.

[00:09:47] You mentioned Jordan has like a decently long plot summary.

[00:09:49] I really could have summarized the whole thing as like a bunch of dudes die.

[00:09:54] Kid gets on boat to save his friend and go with a bunch of other dudes to the island of the Galapagos.

[00:10:01] And oh my God, there are monsters there.

[00:10:03] And then it turns out they were sent to be like sacrifices.

[00:10:06] And then the kid like bleeds on a flower and the flower comes.

[00:10:09] Yeah.

[00:10:10] Saves it.

[00:10:10] That's the chapter.

[00:10:11] After our last episode where you said 10, 15 chapters of bullshit happens.

[00:10:16] Was I wrong though?

[00:10:17] No, you weren't wrong.

[00:10:19] I think that episode maybe.

[00:10:20] I'm editing it now.

[00:10:21] I think that episode is in danger of being under 45 minutes.

[00:10:25] There's just nothing to talk about with Psych House, man.

[00:10:29] Yeah.

[00:10:29] What do you say?

[00:10:30] So anyway, yeah.

[00:10:31] So yeah, kind of maybe I guess I'd read it.

[00:10:33] And Jordan though, before we get into what we think will happen next.

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[00:10:49] And I would much rather probably read those chapters than read some of the garbage we've

[00:10:52] read this year.

[00:10:53] God, I don't know though.

[00:10:54] It's Bill King.

[00:10:56] I mean, Bill King's fucking bad.

[00:10:58] I think that we might have forgotten how bad Bill King is because distance makes the heart

[00:11:03] grow fonder.

[00:11:04] But like...

[00:11:05] We're going to find out.

[00:11:06] Yeah.

[00:11:06] Anyway.

[00:11:07] Anyway, what do you think will happen next, Jordan?

[00:11:08] I think there's sacrifices to create a super soldier type thing, which the main character

[00:11:13] is turning into.

[00:11:14] I think that the volcano explosion was related to man's industrialization and pollution and

[00:11:20] stuff like that.

[00:11:21] Didn't that volcano explosion happen millions of years ago?

[00:11:25] No, they said 10 years ago.

[00:11:26] Oh, I'm sorry.

[00:11:27] I thought you meant the volcano that just controlled that, just create the island.

[00:11:30] I was like, what?

[00:11:30] I think I just mean explosion.

[00:11:32] There was...

[00:11:33] I thought it was from a volcano.

[00:11:34] Oh, yes.

[00:11:35] Yes.

[00:11:35] Explosions weren't invented until the Industrial Revolution.

[00:11:37] No, I thought it was volcano, but like it might have just been an explosion.

[00:11:41] Who cares?

[00:11:42] None of this mattered.

[00:11:43] Whatever.

[00:11:43] There was an explosion and it was related to man's industrialization and pollution and

[00:11:48] stuff is my guess.

[00:11:49] Yeah.

[00:11:49] They're going to find Kentaro and he's now possessed by a corpse that is like now an evil

[00:11:54] bad guy.

[00:11:55] Yep.

[00:11:55] I wrote a guess and I crossed it out because it was intentionally stupid.

[00:11:59] Dude, what if they found an ancient superpower, Charles Darwin, who like teaches them stuff?

[00:12:03] Oh, that would be Charles Darwin's like, oh, you found me.

[00:12:07] Just takes out a sword and his health bar shows up.

[00:12:09] OK, but that would happen in Hungry Joker.

[00:12:11] That would be sick as fuck.

[00:12:13] That would be awesome.

[00:12:14] They did have the evolution piece.

[00:12:16] Exactly.

[00:12:17] How about you, David?

[00:12:18] What's going to happen next?

[00:12:19] I think the main character was a psycho the whole time.

[00:12:23] Oh, my God.

[00:12:24] Unreliable narrator.

[00:12:25] Unreliable narrator.

[00:12:26] I think the main character is going to choose to stay on the island in the end and just,

[00:12:30] you know, this is a part of my guess, but maybe he just finds these one with the animals.

[00:12:34] Wow.

[00:12:34] So touching.

[00:12:35] And I think they're going to meet some crazy dude.

[00:12:37] So someone from the original team who has been able to survive.

[00:12:39] Will he be an ally or backstab him so that that's how he survived?

[00:12:43] You're going to have to find out because either of those are going to be probably very

[00:12:46] boringly done.

[00:12:47] Yes.

[00:12:48] I like how ours is both like our last one is both somebody from the original crew survives.

[00:12:53] Mine's a little bit more specific, but yours is like the guy is alive.

[00:12:57] Yeah.

[00:12:57] Listen, Jordan, I'm in for the points.

[00:12:59] Look, I don't blame you.

[00:13:01] Yeah.

[00:13:02] All right.

[00:13:02] And then Jordan, your power word?

[00:13:03] Poison.

[00:13:04] Because David.

[00:13:05] This manga is poison.

[00:13:07] There is poison in this manga and the anemone thing at the end.

[00:13:14] She kind of looks like Poison Ivy.

[00:13:16] And also this manga's box office poison, David.

[00:13:20] Yeah.

[00:13:21] Oh, my.

[00:13:22] How about you?

[00:13:23] Mine's fake.

[00:13:24] This is just like a fucking it's like a fake plant, you know, don't got to water.

[00:13:28] It doesn't provide anything.

[00:13:29] This is just, again, hell's paradise at home.

[00:13:31] Yeah.

[00:13:32] I can't believe we both said that we'd read 10 more chapters of it.

[00:13:35] And we've said like almost nothing good about it.

[00:13:38] I just want to know what the fuck it's going to do.

[00:13:40] Yeah.

[00:13:40] I and again, I literally just want to see this guy's monster design.

[00:13:44] Yeah.

[00:13:45] Maybe I'll just maybe I would just skim 10 chapters and not read anything and just look

[00:13:49] at the drawings.

[00:13:50] Yeah.

[00:13:51] Would you skip 10 chapters of this?

[00:13:52] Would you just look at the drawing?

[00:13:55] Yeah.

[00:13:56] And so the opposite of monsters are people who send us questions in the Q&A.

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[00:14:06] Haven't asked a question before.

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[00:14:09] From Agpa.

[00:14:09] Which series or protagonist have you changed your opinion on the most since you covered

[00:14:12] it on the show?

[00:14:13] I feel we've been feeling more positive about Candy Flurry lately.

[00:14:17] We have.

[00:14:18] I feel like we have.

[00:14:19] Which has been like, oh, that was fun.

[00:14:21] That was fun, you know?

[00:14:22] And I like that character, you know?

[00:14:24] Yeah.

[00:14:24] So I guess that's the one where it's like, I definitely put it on the re-review pile.

[00:14:28] I feel like shortly after we reviewed it, I was like, damn, you know, Dark Mage was actually

[00:14:34] a flop.

[00:14:34] I shouldn't have said it.

[00:14:35] Yeah.

[00:14:36] It's so stupid though.

[00:14:37] I did because at that point it was like, I feel like we'd only reviewed flops and I

[00:14:42] was just like, I was desperate to find something that wasn't a flop.

[00:14:46] Yeah.

[00:14:46] And maybe I was too hard on Matama's security.

[00:14:48] I liked that series.

[00:14:50] That was a good series.

[00:14:51] I did.

[00:14:51] I know you did.

[00:14:52] I thought it was a flop, but who knows?

[00:14:54] Yeah.

[00:14:54] I really did like Service Wars though more than you did.

[00:14:56] Yeah.

[00:14:56] Which is ironic actually, I guess.

[00:14:58] No, I feel like we had very similar complaints for the opposite series.

[00:15:04] All right.

[00:15:04] And then next up, which popular manga had a rough first chapter?

[00:15:08] Popular as in a hundred plus chapters and or an anime adaption.

[00:15:10] I think Jordan, I kind of see this one because I think we both know the answer to what manga

[00:15:14] did we really like that had a very rough first chapter?

[00:15:16] What?

[00:15:17] You mean like Cool Frog and Dolphin?

[00:15:20] What?

[00:15:20] Harbo Cop.

[00:15:21] Yes.

[00:15:21] You're actually right.

[00:15:22] Harbo Cop and Dolphin.

[00:15:23] But that's not a hundred chapters.

[00:15:25] Yeah.

[00:15:25] I was thinking.

[00:15:26] Don to Don.

[00:15:26] Yeah.

[00:15:27] Don to Don is the answer.

[00:15:28] I just really hate that first chapter for having a sexual assault scene.

[00:15:32] It literally starts out with really intense violence against women.

[00:15:38] I get it's explained later on and that's the reason Turbo Granny shows up as explained

[00:15:42] in like episode four.

[00:15:43] But I'm still like, oh, did you really need that?

[00:15:45] You really didn't.

[00:15:46] That first episode completely turned Steph off of like the whole thing.

[00:15:49] Yeah.

[00:15:50] And it's a shame.

[00:15:51] But also like that was really bad.

[00:15:53] I don't blame you for not wanting to stick around.

[00:15:55] Yeah.

[00:15:55] My other one is and I've mentioned this over and over and over and over and over again.

[00:16:00] But can you come on?

[00:16:01] Yeah.

[00:16:01] That has a rough like 30 chapters, right?

[00:16:03] It's kind of like a rough, maybe not that long, like maybe like 14 chapters, like long

[00:16:09] enough.

[00:16:09] Yeah.

[00:16:10] Next up.

[00:16:11] What is your favorite unmixed drink?

[00:16:13] I don't drink a lot of mixed drinks.

[00:16:15] So like, I don't know.

[00:16:16] Well, it's unmixed.

[00:16:17] I feel like this is trashy and embarrassing, but I am a gamer.

[00:16:20] I do drink Mountain Dew.

[00:16:22] How about you?

[00:16:22] I'm all about water.

[00:16:23] God fucking health nut.

[00:16:25] I just drank from an empty water bottle approval point that I don't know what point was

[00:16:28] made by that.

[00:16:28] Anyway, moving on from Red Blade.

[00:16:32] If you could invite a character from a flop manga to be on the podcast for their manga

[00:16:36] relook episode, who would you choose?

[00:16:39] Um, the girl from Candy Flurry.

[00:16:42] Yeah, I knew you were going to say that.

[00:16:44] That's why I didn't say anything.

[00:16:45] I also think the dude from Time Paradox Ghost Rider literally is a manga artist.

[00:16:49] So he would be amazing.

[00:16:50] He would be really good.

[00:16:51] He would both critique his fictional manga in the manga itself.

[00:16:53] So I think that would be my slam dunk pick.

[00:16:55] Especially if we got him from the end of the manga where he became like a successful manga

[00:17:00] artist on his own.

[00:17:01] Yeah, man.

[00:17:02] That manga is very like very inspiring on an artistic level.

[00:17:06] Yeah, it's a good we need to re-review it at some point.

[00:17:09] Yeah.

[00:17:09] I'm so mad at the next three ones, but go ahead.

[00:17:12] From Resident Warhammer Nerd.

[00:17:13] What is the average airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

[00:17:16] African or European?

[00:17:17] I don't know.

[00:17:22] And then, Grapewater asks, will quoting Monty Python's Holy Grail ever go out of fashion?

[00:17:26] It has never been in fashion, so it can't go out of fashion.

[00:17:29] And, would you ever expect the Spanish Inquisition?

[00:17:34] I saw it coming!

[00:17:35] Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

[00:17:38] No, but David, as soon as I saw the question, I expected it.

[00:17:41] So I mean, like, I already expected it.

[00:17:43] Like, after I saw the first two Monty Python questions, I immediately expected the Spanish

[00:17:49] Inquisition.

[00:17:49] Okay?

[00:17:50] So take that.

[00:17:51] Can you imagine if, like, I had just driven to Philly and was, like, recording this in

[00:17:55] my car outside your house?

[00:17:56] And you're like, yeah, but I know what you won't expect.

[00:17:58] You just hear a knock on the door.

[00:17:59] It sounds like, David, what the fuck are you doing here?

[00:18:02] Hey, bitch.

[00:18:02] Bet you thought you'd seen the last of me.

[00:18:06] Surprise, bitch.

[00:18:07] That's what it is.

[00:18:07] Surprise, bitch.

[00:18:08] Anyway, Jordan, I want to say, speaking of bitches, thank you so much for all your hard

[00:18:11] work on the show.

[00:18:12] Hey!

[00:18:13] Got him.

[00:18:14] Oh, my God.

[00:18:15] Whatever.

[00:18:16] Thanks, David.

[00:18:16] Whatever.

[00:18:17] I also say props to Shanna for the awesome cover art.

[00:18:19] You can find her online at Illuminati.

[00:18:20] Thank you, Dylan, for assistance with editing.

[00:18:22] You can find his podcast at AnimeOutOfContext at AnimeOutOfContext.com.

[00:18:26] Thanks to Tucker and Maxie B for assistance with pronunciation, translation, other miscellaneous

[00:18:29] research.

[00:18:29] Find us on Twitter at ShonanFlopCast, Tumblr at Shonan-Flop, and our website, ShonanFlop.com.

[00:18:33] We're on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, wherever else you get your podcast.

[00:18:37] If you want more weekly David and Jordan content, you can find us every Friday on the Chainsaw

[00:18:40] Minute, where we talk about the latest chapter of Chainsaw Man.

[00:18:42] Find it at csm.libson.com or wherever else you listen to ShonanFlop.

[00:18:46] And come join the ShonanFlop Discord.

[00:18:47] So open to everyone.

[00:18:48] Hang out for us.

[00:18:48] Talk about anime games or whatever else is on your mind.

[00:18:50] We even have a manga book club and movie nights.

[00:18:52] We're doing an extra special manga book club with Xander Cannon, former guest, was on a

[00:18:56] Patreon.

[00:18:57] We're going to be talking about history sleep.

[00:18:58] That's going to be really fun.

[00:18:59] And also, we have some really awesome upcoming movie nights.

[00:19:02] In December, we have Look Back, Gun to War in the Pocket, and Claws.

[00:19:05] Claws, in particular, one of my favorite Christmas movies of all time.

[00:19:07] If you've been enjoying the podcast and help us keep going, subscribe to our Patreon at

[00:19:10] patreon.com slash ShonanFlop.

[00:19:12] Along with that warm and fuzzy feeling of helping us out, you also get access to monthly bonus

[00:19:15] episodes, including Shonan Drop, where Jordan and I look back at the previous

[00:19:18] month's episode and open the mystery box.

[00:19:20] Jordan, what was our bonus episode this month?

[00:19:22] And what did we talk about in the mystery box?

[00:19:24] Well, David, I made you and Xander Cannon read Get It Robo Go!

[00:19:28] To the polls.

[00:19:29] To the...

[00:19:30] Ugh, don't remind me.

[00:19:31] And the mystery box content.

[00:19:33] Well, we looked at the first 25 artworks that we had for our episodes, and we ranked them.

[00:19:40] Hell yeah.

[00:19:41] You'll love to hear it.

[00:19:42] And if that's not enough, other perks include picking a manga for us to cover on our main

[00:19:45] episode.

[00:19:45] Episodes up to a week in advance and behind-the-scenes content like warm-up audio or recording

[00:19:49] notes.

[00:19:49] And I also want to read off some of our wonderful patrons.

[00:19:51] Starting with our dolphin dads, we have Gloranac.

[00:19:53] Rachel, my wonderful wife.

[00:19:54] She got me not one, but two packs of magic cards on our trip to Saratoga Springs.

[00:19:59] And Sean, how many potatoes would having your baby cost me?

[00:20:01] Moving on down to the ravioli tier, where you get weekly pictures of my adorable goblin

[00:20:06] dog.

[00:20:07] She was sunbathing today, but she just had her paws out in the sun, because you know, sometimes

[00:20:10] you got to balance it out.

[00:20:11] We have Chris, Eva, Jeanette Davis, Lady T, Matt, Scar, Mimitan, T, Tiffany, and Trevor

[00:20:16] Schechner.

[00:20:17] Moving on down to the king of the forest, we have 090Z, Bandit Stoof, my girlfriend, Brad,

[00:20:21] Chad, Ivan, Jacob, Justin, Kirbymont, Marty, Riley, Sarah, T. Wolfwood, and Tommy Boy.

[00:20:25] Moving on down to the Galactic Ball Federation officers, we have Mid-Size Sedan, Ages, Andrew,

[00:20:29] Andy, Aura, Biza, Blobby Moo, Brandon M, Cole, David, Dennis, Don't Dox Me, Dadderson,

[00:20:34] Drogo, Drew, Dylan, Nigel, Fax, Flash Carbon, Funky Green Overdrive, Generic Man, Hey Randall,

[00:20:38] Ian McConnell, Jory, Keanu, Lay, Manly P.

[00:20:40] Lee Hall, Marabara, My Dad, Matt, Mike, Obscure Reference, Ah, Ah, Don't Forget About

[00:20:44] Those Tubular Bells.

[00:20:45] Oh, yeah, I love Possessed.

[00:20:49] Resident Warhammer Nerd, Savia, Scott Fishlet, Sybil, Silly Rookie, Simping for Senpai Ash,

[00:20:53] Stackhorn, Taper Clip, True Tactician, Tucker, Wright, and ZZ Digital, and a big thank you to

[00:20:57] our beast children as well.

[00:20:59] Yes, thank you, I love all of you.

[00:21:00] You're all my children.

[00:21:01] All right, thank you so much for listening.

[00:21:02] Tune in next Monday for our full episode on Dear Animone, featuring the official series

[00:21:06] letter, Finn K.

[00:21:07] Oh, that was actually the closest you've been, whatever.

[00:21:09] Oh, this has been Jordan.

[00:21:10] This has been David.

[00:21:11] And you've been listening to the show to Flop, David.

[00:21:13] Say it.

[00:21:13] Keep on flopping floppers.

[00:21:14] Bye.

[00:21:15] Bye.