Chainsaw Minute: Chapter 163: Dream Balls

[00:00:00] Ah, DC, our nation's capital, but you know what also is important? Capital letters. It's

[00:00:03] really interesting that originally the writing systems only made use of- David, I'm sorry

[00:00:07] man, I'm looking at the time right now and it's-

[00:00:10] THE CHAINTS OF LIBOR!

[00:00:34] I'm David and this is your DOSO chainsaw man. You can join us every Friday or we see

[00:00:38] what Masterpiece Fujimoto put out.

[00:00:40] I'm Jordan and if you're looking for regular Shonen Flop goodness, you can find our

[00:00:45] next episode to hear our full thoughts on Marshall Master Asumi with Brody this Monday.

[00:00:52] Can you believe its initials are MMA? Mind blown.

[00:00:55] Ha ha ha ha ha ha anyway.

[00:00:59] And just a reminder, these recordings are open to everyone so listen in and chat along with

[00:01:03] us on the Shonen Flop Discord every Tuesday at 6pm. Eastern when there's a new chapter

[00:01:06] out, find the link to it in the show notes or on our site. And Jordan, what was your

[00:01:09] devil this week?

[00:01:10] Oh the mattress pad devil, David. God, last night it was like over too much on one side

[00:01:17] which created an angle where I was just like constantly falling off the bed and it made

[00:01:22] it really hard to sleep. It sucked.

[00:01:24] I am so sorry to hear that man. Hopefully you get a good night of sleep tonight.

[00:01:27] Yeah well we fixed it so, you know.

[00:01:30] There you go.

[00:01:31] How about you David?

[00:01:32] Mine was the data devil just, you know, at any job learning the data systems always

[00:01:37] of pain just trying to figure out even how do I get started on my projects, you know?

[00:01:40] I think this is a repeat offender David. This is like a constant in your life. I don't mean

[00:01:45] that in the sense where you're pulling from the same pot. I mean this might be a consistent

[00:01:50] enemy of yours.

[00:01:51] It's true. Well how about an alternative is the diet devil where I ate like shit

[00:01:55] this weekend so no I gotta make a fourth this week.

[00:01:58] Yeah I hear that.

[00:02:00] Alright then Jordan enough about that. The plot summary 4.

[00:02:03] Chapter 163.

[00:02:06] Dream Balls

[00:02:08] Kick it off man.

[00:02:09] Ugh.

[00:02:10] Bro Baney watches the news as a woman explains how her and her mother's lives have been ruined

[00:02:16] by the revelations that her favorite idol, Koma Koma Gawa has been having an affair.

[00:02:22] David is Koma Koma Gawa come out at all or is this like supposed to be like a-

[00:02:25] No I think-

[00:02:26] I googled it they didn't have a Wikipedia page when I checked so I think this is

[00:02:28] a brand new mention.

[00:02:29] I figured but you know who the fuck knows. Uh now this is unless the conspiracy

[00:02:34] theories are true and it was all doctored photos. Oh my god can you imagine the rudimentary

[00:02:41] version of Photoshop that was around at this time?

[00:02:44] I think they might have had Photoshop in 1996.

[00:02:47] Yeah but it was rudimentary as fuck. It probably sucked.

[00:02:51] You see me as shocked at how no one seems to give a shit that a bunch of high school

[00:02:56] terrorists broke out of prison. Denji lies in the bed behind them in Fami's apartment

[00:03:01] as Aza reflects on her own short fame and how she too was quickly forgotten popcorn David.

[00:03:08] Katana Man is taking too long in the bath while Fami shovels spaghetti in her mouth when

[00:03:12] Denji wakes up confused as to why Aza has one arm just in the fucking thought Fami.

[00:03:18] Oh my god I fucking love that panel where she's just like going ham on this fucking

[00:03:23] spaghetti just like-

[00:03:25] Knees weak.

[00:03:26] Oh my god.

[00:03:27] And this asks if he's dreaming when Katana Man shows up out of nowhere and stomps Dennis

[00:03:31] in the balls. Aza intervenes saying that the-

[00:03:33] Revenge!

[00:03:34] Saying the deal was that they wouldn't fight until Dennis is brought up to speed. Unfortunately

[00:03:39] Yoru immediately takes over and kicks Dennis in the balls again. She gets real close

[00:03:43] to his face and demands he turn in a chainsaw man so they can fight.

[00:03:46] Oh.

[00:03:47] I didn't really know how to process this chapter this is just Fujimoto cooking.

[00:03:51] Oh yes, yes.

[00:03:52] As we say every week well only Fujimoto could have made a chapter like this.

[00:03:56] God.

[00:03:57] Dude Rock says the Photoshop was created in 1987 but wasn't released until 1990.

[00:04:02] Bam got it.

[00:04:03] This is mid 90s so yeah they had Photoshop at the time.

[00:04:07] But anyway why was this week's chapter a 10 out of 10 David we started getting into

[00:04:11] it?

[00:04:12] I don't really have to deal with the fact that Fami is just shoveling spaghetti

[00:04:15] in her mouth nonchalantly.

[00:04:18] Incredible panel.

[00:04:19] It's not even anything weird she's just eating spaghetti with her hand I mean

[00:04:22] she it's what she's eating isn't weird.

[00:04:24] I mean it's more than just spaghetti though she has like a ton of spaghetti but I think

[00:04:29] she also has like a lot of meat there.

[00:04:31] We just see her in the middle of just grabbing handfuls of spaghetti and just like smashing

[00:04:38] them into her face.

[00:04:39] Got a Carbo load.

[00:04:40] Oh yes I mean hey I've been there David.

[00:04:43] You know Fujimoto spent the entire week drawing that panel of her just eating spaghetti?

[00:04:48] Fujimoto has 10,000 hours of drawing people eating spaghetti.

[00:04:54] It's a secret fetish.

[00:04:55] I wouldn't be surprised if he had like chat GBT be like trots, Japanese schoolgirl eating

[00:05:00] spaghetti with her hands and then he drew that.

[00:05:02] Oh my god.

[00:05:03] Cut yeah this is just I don't even just-

[00:05:06] I love the revenge after like three fucking years.

[00:05:10] Ball stomping revenge.

[00:05:12] I shall bang the gong of revenge.

[00:05:15] He specifically like I made sure that your balls were back in your sack so that

[00:05:19] I could kick you in the balls.

[00:05:23] God what a fucking stupid thing.

[00:05:25] I really liked how um oh my god what whiplash like fucking because from Denji's perspective

[00:05:32] Aza was just like stop kicking him in the balls and then turned around and just kicked

[00:05:36] him in the balls.

[00:05:37] Yeah like we know oh that's Yoru but Denji does not.

[00:05:42] Denji definitely does not know that.

[00:05:44] No.

[00:05:45] I do feel like the pacing was kind of weird which I think was on purpose because it

[00:05:48] felt like a lot of simultaneous conversations were happening so it just felt kind of disjointed.

[00:05:52] But I don't know Jordan was that a bug or a feature?

[00:05:54] Uh I thought it was kind of interesting.

[00:05:56] I mean part of the reason the pacing might feel weird is because like sort of the

[00:05:59] first third of the chat is like a fake out.

[00:06:02] Yeah.

[00:06:03] Where it's like you're just kind of watching TV.

[00:06:05] Yeah with characters we've never heard of.

[00:06:08] And then it turns out to be completely irrelevant but the fact that it's irrelevant

[00:06:12] is relevant.

[00:06:13] Yeah I just love how Bro Baini is just literally fearing for their life the world

[00:06:17] is nothing but they're still worried about their idol.

[00:06:19] Yeah which you know it might just be like an example of you know when things go to shit

[00:06:24] let's find things to distract us.

[00:06:26] Yeah.

[00:06:27] I don't even know this is like yeah also did you notice the font in the first few pages

[00:06:32] is super weird it makes the ease look like the euro symbol?

[00:06:34] I did it was a strange font.

[00:06:36] Yeah I honestly didn't like that font but maybe it has a reason it just obviously

[00:06:39] wasn't explained in this chapter I don't think.

[00:06:41] Yeah unless it's a reference to capitalism.

[00:06:44] I think that was just to show that it was from the TV as opposed to one of the characters

[00:06:48] saying you know.

[00:06:49] Yeah we also got to mention that Nail is there.

[00:06:52] Nail.

[00:06:53] Nooo.

[00:06:54] He will quote me in everything I say is hilarious.

[00:06:59] Nooo.

[00:07:00] I love that show it was so great having Masiko Exxon.

[00:07:05] Oh my god it was so good.

[00:07:06] No but like the the nail hybrid or whatever is there and he's just like aw Danji he's

[00:07:13] so cute when he's asleep.

[00:07:14] Yeah.

[00:07:15] You know what he's right Danji is really cute when he's asleep David he's adorable.

[00:07:19] You're adorable Jordan.

[00:07:21] Thank you.

[00:07:22] Oh man and then do you have any other thoughts for this chapter?

[00:07:24] Nah good chapter though I really liked it.

[00:07:27] Good soup.

[00:07:28] Good soup.

[00:07:29] I'm just waiting for Fujimoto to actually have shit happening you know.

[00:07:32] Yeah.

[00:07:33] It's so weird how so much has happened yet so little.

[00:07:35] I know what you mean.

[00:07:36] All right well Jordan I want to say thank you so much for all your hard work on

[00:07:39] the show.

[00:07:40] Thank you David brother worthy you do on this show.

[00:07:42] And thank you everyone who's been listening in live.

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[00:08:00] Marshall master assuming with Brody it was a lot of fun and you know what

[00:08:04] else is fun Jordan I think you know who's going to also enjoy eating a

[00:08:07] bunch of spaghetti is a little lady that we call Riz a and you know here's

[00:08:11] how if you look at the strands god David David I'm looking at the clock it

[00:08:15] looks like the chainsaw minute has passed by bye