Manga by Komiyama, Kenta (Story), Kawada, Yuuya (Art)
Is there much substance to this smokey series? David and Jordan give their first thoughts on the discuss Shonen Jump manga Smoky B.B.. Listen in as they give an overview of the first chapter, where they think it will go from there, and ultimately their "power word" to describe the series so far. They also dive into some listener questions.
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MAL Description: Kuhou Komado tries to scout Haimura Enjirou to the baseball club in Benten High School after hearing that he led Toyosawa to be runner-up in only one year and then suddenly disappearing like a smoke. But he has no time for baseball as he have 100 million yen debt. Benten is in dire situation that makes Kuhou Komado agree to paying his debt in exchange for playing for them.
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[00:00:13] Yeah, that's right, man. We're back.
[00:00:15] Yeah, happy fucking holidays.
[00:00:18] Oh, man, I hope you didn't also have a shitty holidays.
[00:00:22] I'm not going to talk about that now. You're just going to have to wonder what happened.
[00:00:25] But anyway, this is shown in flop ch story was done by Komi Yama Kenta. The art was done by Kawada Yuya. So you know, this is another team, which you can kind of tell. And this ran from May 27, 2013, one of my little sister's birthdays to September 9, 2013,
[00:01:42] two days before the anniversary of the school he's at because he is a famously good pitcher.
[00:03:02] Ayaka's a guy with a tummy ache lot andro flips in the bird and they do a one-on-one match where andro pitches and the yakuza guy hits i also want to say that other yakuza guy threatened to break one of his fingers and he's like how you break
[00:04:22] this finger it's so good and I would feel horrible and terrified if it got worse. But yeah, so I was a little confused how cigarettes have anything to do with this. Like my initial interpretation was that like baseball was like his anti-drug almost. Yeah, where it's like, this is my go sponsored by dare.
[00:05:41] Yeah, where it's like whenever I, when I play baseball,
[00:05:43] I don't need to smoke a cigarette.
[00:05:45] But then I was reading it again and I realized,
[00:05:47] no, what he's saying say that it felt sometimes like their idea of how to play baseball, or imagine me of how in the room they're like, yeah, we'll play football and it's just playing catch. Yeah. And it's like, that's not football.
[00:07:00] I don't understand its sort.
[00:07:01] It seems implied that like the Yakuza baseball team showed up and and Jiro defeated them all that's like, listen, dog, I don't really give a shit about this topic, I just need to make some money, which actually I think was like a trend you started in like 2018 around the starting of chain. So I mean, this is a little ahead of the time of having a main character that is just kind of a piece of shit and owns it. But it's also like, is he a piece of shit? I mean, it's not like he's just greeting anyone who smokes is a bad person, Jordan, didn't you learn that in dare?
[00:08:20] Okay, that's fair.
[00:08:21] But I mean, the money thing is it's like,
[00:08:23] he's not doing it out, oh, that's middle school. Yeah. OK, yeah. Sorry. I feel like we're kind of tracking, because I just don't have a lot to talk about, because the translation was really bad. There wasn't a lot that even happened given the bad translation. The translation, I don't even know if it would have solved all the issues.
[00:09:41] Yeah.
[00:09:41] I mean, we'll see next.
[00:09:42] It's one of those ones where it's like,
[00:09:44] I feel like it's almost OK enough,
[00:09:45] just based on the translation, I could rewrite it.
[00:09:47] Because there was also just grammar and spelling errors That mean I'm actually surprised to have the iconic there's two speech levels But the translation can fit in once we leave the second one blank that you seen a lot of bad translations All right That is the absolute classic bad translation It's so funny because like the translation visually looks pretty good like oh yeah
[00:11:00] It has a really nice font and layout is good
[00:11:02] It's just actual Texas follow. And I don't feel like that was entirely the translation. Yeah, fair. And then Jordan though, what do you think will happen next? So I think that the main character doesn't quit baseball or smoking.
[00:12:23] I think that the series does This is such an 80s they were. It's like, guys, we gotta come together to save the rec center. Yeah. You're like, how much is it? A million dollars. Holy shit. Yeah. That's a lot of bake sales. Oh. All right. And Jordan, what's your power word?
[00:13:40] My dude quitting because he wants to quit baseball and cigarettes.
[00:13:45] That's your.
[00:13:46] You're just about to drop out the rest of that person.
[00:13:47] I just do it all by myself.
[00:13:48] See you, shit. What was it? What was the detective one they really liked? Oh, I. Oi from, uh, I tell see. Yeah, I can see her because she got banned from Twitter. And so she wouldn't have gotten banned from Twitter these days.
[00:15:01] And you know, that's true.
[00:15:03] She got her Twitter account.
[00:15:05] Reinsed.
[00:15:06] She stocked Elon Musk when he was into it. There was actually in the disappearance or the melancholy her was the melancholy of what's your what's your call it? They had a character they wrote off. She was like a robot and they like got rid of her and they told her once she just moved to Canada. Okay, so now I have to think about every country in the world. There is probably unironically some sports manga, hockey manga that's in Canada. Oh yeah. Oh Wikipedia has a page of anime and manga said there's five things on this list.
[00:16:24] Oh. Every band that would best make an album about Vikings has an unpronounceable finish name. But at the same time, Bathory is also not that difficult to pronounce. It's like the Countess Bathory, whatever. Bathory also fucking rules. Everybody listen to Hammerheart, the first Viking Metal album. Arguably the only good Viking Metal album.
[00:17:42] A Viking Metal honestly tires me out.
[00:17:45] Yeah.
[00:17:46] Okay.
[00:17:47] It's just, I get it.
[00:17:48] I get it. But I will actually see my favorite TMNT thing is the last Ronin. Where Jordan, are you familiar with this? I think I told you about it.
[00:19:01] No. It is the Dark Knight Returns of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
[00:19:04] where all but one of the turtles a little kid and had no clue what the fuck it was from. Oh man. I also want to give a shout out to Alumion Mayhem, the Turtles Forever movie which had a crossover of like three different team NT series. That was so good. Remember the original Turtles show up and they start narrating themselves? Yes, it was so good. Oh god, that was awesome.
[00:20:20] Alright, that was a really fun question.
[00:20:22] Thank you, dude rocks.
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