#96.5 First Thoughts on Saint Muscle

[00:00:00] There was a small mess up on this week's chibi due to the website that David and Jordan

[00:00:04] were using misarranging several of the chapters, resulting in them accidentally reading the

[00:00:07] first chapter of volume 3 as opposed to volume 1.

[00:00:11] They'll be reading the series in the proper order for the main episode.

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[00:00:22] patreon.com slash shonenflop and welcome max.ev has been saving this for a special occasion and no it's more special than with fucking Casey Green the man himself. He was like, can I just send you guys some panels from this manga as I read it? We were like, yeah, sure. And he just sent us a spread of the main characters muscular ass.

[00:01:41] Yeah, where'd they get that photo of Jordan?

[00:01:43] Ah, ha ha ha.

[00:01:45] Well, you're the thick one. But anyway, yeah.1. There's a 1.2 and a 1.3. Yeah. It's fun telling people about this very fleshy chapter. About this one third of a chapter that we cover. But I gave it 100%. You know what? I'm glad we're doing one third of a chapter at a time when I have COVID. Uh, let's get in the fucking plot summary.

[00:03:01] A dude is walking through a frozen wasteland when he's attacked by a bear.

[00:03:05] The guy gouges out one of his eyes with a bear and docks him out. like this weird thing where yeah I guess they're fully naked they just all got into really bad fights or had double misactomies yeah yeah but anyway with the fucking first impressions of this motherfucker David my first sentence is fuck yeah this art oh this is some motherfucking art this is some vintage

[00:04:21] ass art I think I've mentioned it before but I remember reading how a lot one is just big and powerful. Their faces are like chiseled out of fucking stone. God, hell yeah. And this is like, you can see where Fist of the North Star came from. This is so interesting. I am very excited to see Maxie B's notes, because I wonder how influential this artist was on, I guess, the generation after him,

[00:05:40] because didn't JoJo start in the 80s?

[00:05:42] Yeah, JoJo started in the 80s.

[00:05:44] I guess I always assumed incorrectly for everyone. Well he had. But sorry Will Eisner, Michael Eisner. Well he had David. Will Eisner is a pretty old comics artist but no, I don't think this guy was super familiar with Will Eisner it seems. Or at least didn't take too much influence from him. Yeah. God Will Eisner's paneling though. God, he only draws panels if he wants to.

[00:07:01] Yeah pretty much.

[00:07:02] I would not be surprised if he unironically invented the diegetic gutter.

[00:07:05] I wouldn't either. Have any other thoughts explicitly about this 30 pages we read? I mean there was very little happened here because again this is part one of three of the first chapter. It's really hard to get a gauge on what's happening. Yeah. It's just so funny to me. The Fiance is like no, let's both cuddle him naked. Now it's not a problem.

[00:08:20] I also think it's really impressive how the old man skinned that bear in like five seconds.

[00:08:26] Yeah. That girl's fiance? Well, he's gonna die. Oh no. And there is a mystical reason why the land is so cold. I like it. Oh, just like fire punch. Yes. How about you? Fuchimoto red saint muscle. That would be amazing. God, so mine is we're gonna have at least three moments where we go,

[00:09:41] hell yeah, motherfucker, while we're reading it.

[00:09:43] I believe that.

[00:09:44] I'm gonna say the main character is a super important figure to his homeland.

[00:09:47] Uh-huh. Justin Rinder, we can get priority. You can submit your questions on our Discord. You can find a link to Discord in the show notes or on our website, shownoflop.com. And we get priority of those who are patrons, haven't asked a question before or haven't had a question answered in a long time. Starting with friend of the show, Holly, if Flop had a bachelor slash bachelorette, who would win? So who do you think would be? What? So who do you think would be the most eligible bachelor

[00:11:03] bachelorette? So here's the thing, Steph that's a really good answer. Oh, what if you

[00:12:22] Transported Luffy to the world of Hunter Hunter. I think he'd have a really interesting time there

[00:13:24] by like 50 distortion pedals feeding back on themselves. I love it.

[00:13:25] Just blows out your eardrums when you hear it.

[00:13:27] Yeah, how about you?

[00:13:28] Mine is apparently I'm a friend hoarder

[00:13:30] where I just always try and amass a collection of friends.

[00:13:33] And so I had 35 people attend my serial theme birthday party.

[00:13:36] Jesus Christ.

[00:13:37] Oh, it was a great time.

[00:13:38] People were like, what are you doing that again?

[00:13:40] And so my ref weapon would be-

[00:13:43] This is why you have a job and I don't.

[00:13:45] Captain Crunch.

[00:13:46] Just vomiting Captain Crunch. That's fair. And then next up we have from Spook. Out of all the protagonists you've seen, who has the heaviest one rep max? So I guess that is Shonen Flop protagonists. Otherwise it's probably Saitama. It's Saitama or Goku. But in Shonen Flop. I mean we did an episode on MASH. That's true. Um, I don't know.

[00:15:00] Fuck.

[00:15:01] I said Gil is definitely really physically strong.

[00:15:03] The main character of Saint Muscle.

[00:15:05] Oh yeah, there we go.

[00:15:07] Perfect.

[00:15:08] Zero notes. adult focused. Yeah, so I want to give a big thank you to Maxie B for helping me refine my list and also you can check out people submissions there. So the template is two sports manga, two gag manga, one adult focused, one female appeal, one rom com, five battle manga and three free slots to make your ultimate five manga. I also did try and include one

[00:16:21] flop just for the fun of it, but you didn't have to do that if you didn't want to. Alright, would never have said so I'm gonna say hentai came in do you know what hentai came in is? No I don't. It is a manga about a guy who he puts women's panties over his face. Oh I've heard about this. And turns into a superhero. It's so fucking stupid I kind of love it. I hate you. Yeah.

[00:17:40] Well my other one was a classic which was Dr Slump and what was your other pick?

[00:17:44] That was my other pick. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I put blue box. It's very cute. Alright, Jordan, what was your rom-com though? Uh, Witch Watch. Yeah, you can't not do Witch Watch, right? It's Witch Watch, and I knew you were gonna have it too. Well, you know Witch Watch had to be on this list in slow capacity. Witch Watch had to be on the list? That's the thing. I couldn't think of anything better. It's Witch Watch. Yeah. All right.

[00:19:00] Again, how many romantic comedies are there even in Shonen Jump?

[00:19:03] I know, right? So next up though, this is, awesome. Yeah, and then Jordan now for the free slot What was your first free slot series? Fist of the North Star. I fucking love it. I just haven't read it I put Def note that was very close for my adult oriented But I was like I gotta fit it in but I feel time Paris Ghost Rider just felt more interesting to have in that spot Yeah, David, we got on up to some more overlap because I put Sakamoto days for my free slot number two. Yeah

[00:20:24] Well, what was your second free slot? Oh mine was assassination classroom. Nice

[00:21:25] a question I don't count as one of our five question slots so people don't feel like I stole someone's ability to have an actual question answered.

[00:21:28] Oh man, and Jordan, sorry, that was just a lot of fun.

[00:21:31] Jordan, thank you so much for doing this episode despite being sick.

[00:21:34] Thank you so much, David, for putting it all together, my friend.

[00:21:37] No, I hope you get some rest after this.

[00:21:39] Prophecy Shannon for the awesome cover art.

[00:21:41] Find her online in Illuminautique.

[00:21:42] Thanks to Dylan for assistance of editing.

[00:21:44] Find his podcast, Anime Out of Context, at AnimeOut? Yeah. Yeah. REM would get Citizen Kane a 5 out of 10. If Citizen Kane was a manga. Yeah, Citizen Kane was a manga. All right, cool. And then I also want to list, so you also though, on top of that, can be listening to our recordings live or listening to our more audio. You can find it at patreon.com slash show and flop. And I want to read off some of our wonderful patrons. Serving for Dolphin Dads, we have Glormak, her breasts heavy like a stormy

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[00:24:20] Whatever, I'm sick.

[00:24:21] Give me, hey, you know, cut me all the slack in the world.

[00:24:24] You can't blame me for anything.

[00:24:26] I feel like shit.