Nerdy News Special #21: Exploring Sonic 3's Box Office Triumph and Future Gaming Adaptations

The episode dives into the box office battles between Sonic 3 and Mufasa, examining audience expectations and critical discrepancies that arise from nostalgia. Discussions include the implications of cinematic adaptations, the effectiveness of storytelling, and how public perception can skew perceptions of creative work.

• Sonic 3 boasts impressive box office numbers and audience approval 
• Mufasa elicits mixed reactions despite its solid performance 
• Discussion on the nature of adaptations in filmmaking 
• Critique of critics regarding family film reviews 
• Future adaptations, including Legend of Zelda, are on the horizon

Chapters

• 0:01 Nerdy News Special With Zone Podcast
• 14:30 Debating Future of Gaming Movie Adaptations
• 28:06 Dragon Ball Daima and Riot Games' Future
• 41:27 Anime Updates and Fan Theories
• 52:43 Anime, DC, and Season Two Updates
• 1:04:51 Game Awards and Future of Gaming
• 1:16:11 Game Awards and Mecha Brave Updates
• 1:27:07 Gaming and Nerdy News Roundup
• 1:43:26 Creative Projects and Future Plans
• 1:48:37 Nerdy Reviews Coming Soon

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

What up, nerds and nerdettes? It's time for another nerdy news special. With the Zone Podcast, I'm Jet Black Extreme, and joining me today is Kokugazu and Talos Gundam. We got a little bit of everything for movies, television, gaming, even some sports news, books, miscellaneous. So let's go ahead and zone in on it, starting with movies. Movies, of course we gotta talk about sonic 3 and mufasa. Now.

Speaker 1: 0:31

Sonic 3 grossed 187.5 million in the us box office and 336 million at the worldwide box office, and this makes the whole trilogy worth a billion dollars. As of now, this also will release on digital platforms on january 21st, one month after jfco released. So it didn't see, that's the thing we were kind of picking on, some um movies going straight to streaming services a month later. But sonic 3 did really good. So I'm starting to think of, uh, maybe I'm picking up a pattern that they're now putting out movies quicker than they normally do. Like, normally we're so used to the three to six month uh window that maybe sometimes like, oh well, they can put it out as soon as a month. I guess I don't know. But uh, meanwhile, mufasa, the lion king, rose 168.6 million in the united states, in canada box office and 307.8 million in other territories for a worldwide growth of 476.4 million.

Speaker 1: 1:41

Now I know a whole bunch of people, including myself, were saying like oh yeah, sonic 3 is going to overshadow Mufasa, but keep in mind that Sonic 3 was released initially US, so it didn't get worldwide, though just now. Meanwhile, mufasa started off worldwide, so Mufasa definitely had a strong start and all that. So so, either way, good, good for both films, good for both films. But, uh, to be fair, like when I was saying all that shit was like, ah, if I knew that that's what the direction it was gonna go. I'm like, yeah, mufasa probably gonna make more money. But the critics in the audience were saying that, oh well, we like sonny three more.

Speaker 1: 2:26

Like, I'm like you know I'm not gonna hate on mufasa, but at the same time, it's like, okay, well, I guess I should have saw this coming with uh, paramount versus disney with the way they're gonna put out the film and their territories and whatnot. But anyways, uh, sitting down with ign, the sonda head talk film trilogy's writer, saying that they're gonna, they're, they want to make a movie based on the legend of zelda the wind waker and honestly, that is a good, that's a very good title to do a movie on. I love playing, playing Wind Waker. Now, honestly, I would say Wind Waker, ocarina of Time, majora's Mask, twilight Princess and obviously, maybe like Breath of the Wild and Tears of Killing. I can imagine those being adapted into movies, but that's just me. And oh yeah, sonic the Hedgehog 4 is coming to theaters in 2027, so that's something to look forward to. Oh um, same year as secret wars, oh okay, oh, real good, okay, okay, uh. So, turning over to the panel, starting with kokugasu, how you feeling about movies?

Speaker 3: 3:44

all right. So I have nothing but criticisms right now. Onto things. So first thing into this I ain't seen sonic 3, so you know I'll just go ahead and put in that aspect. However, when you had mentioned that fans and critics liked sonic more, so the fans absolutely did like sonic more than mufasa, and I understand how the numbers went. Like you said, one one started off globally, the other one started off with just the US. You got to be careful on how you do things onto that. You have a worldwide fan base. It does make sense to not start off worldwide, but hey, that's on them. I don't make the rules. That's a big suggestion. However, critics wise critics is doing the most. Yeah, and I know you saw that short that I sent you because that's the absolute truth like literally sitting here giving Sonic a 6 out of 10 rating, even though across the board right.

Speaker 3: 4:36

But yeah, and across the board, the critics are saying that Sonic 3 was better than Sonic 1 and 2, and I'm talking about like bruh. If it's better, why is it rated lower? And it's like oh well, no one did an Oscar winning performance. Nobody is going to Sonic to watch an Oscar winning performance, except maybe by Jim Carrey, who winds up doing two different roles and from my understanding, he sold fantastically onto it. So I don't see what the problem is. But anyway, we're going for nostalgia. It's a kid's movie. No one goes to a kid's movie and be like oh man, I need to see a performance such Oscar worthy that the adults are standing and clapping like yes, yes. This is amazing.

Speaker 1: 5:21

It's a kid's movie bro.

Speaker 3: 5:24

It's a kid's movie.

Speaker 1: 5:26

Y'all doing too much, see. See, that's how I felt about the Super Mario Bros movie. Like, hey, man, I wasn't like Expecting to like go hype into the theater. It's more like okay, it's gonna be like a little solid. Like okay, as an adult, I'm like okay, I can recommend this to kids. Like yeah, you know what kids? Go ahead and watch this movie. It's pretty good, exactly, ain't nobody like trying to.

Speaker 3: 5:44

You know what kids Go ahead and watch this movie. It's pretty good, it's solid, exactly, exactly. We're not going for no Super Oscar or Emmy winning performance, bro. If it gets an Emmy, it'll get an Emmy Award for best kids animated movie, based upon box office sales or something like that overall, or something I don't know. Best family movie or something. Right, right right as far as Mufasa dude. The only thing I hear From Mufasa right now is the Brother song. I hear that song trending forever. Other than that, I don't hear nothing else.

Speaker 1: 6:17

And we're going to talk about criticism. How about we talk about the fact that with these live action Version of Sim and Mufasa and what not, it doesn't capture the same emotional Faces?

Speaker 3: 6:31

that.

Speaker 1: 6:32

Animated the first. Yeah, like you want to talk about Oscar winning.

Speaker 3: 6:38

Acting, I'm like there's nothing. Oscar winning it's better than cats Say that, but like, but for reals, though, it's just one of those ones Like. This is the same issue. This is the issue we had With the previous Lion King movie, which it was like if you was like. For us, as adults, the nostalgia wasn't quite there, because it was like dang hold on it, kind of like it took away a lot.

Speaker 1: 6:59

Oh shit, there was a previous. Holy shit, I forgot they already.

Speaker 2: 7:03

You forgot. You forgot about that.

Speaker 3: 7:05

Yes, yeah, they.

Speaker 1: 7:05

There was a previous holy shit, I forgot they already you forgot?

Speaker 3: 7:07

you forgot you forgot about that? Yes, yeah, they already. They already did the live act. They already did live action lion king and amongst kids it did well, but amongst adults it did not do well, like adults, absolutely did not like it and even got trolled in the box office it got trolled, and amongst critics there too. But the thing about it is this now you sit here you give mufasa an eight out of ten and then there's no valid reason to it. There's no valid reason to it at all and it's like it really does feel like like the video I sent you like I. I can only agree with what he said. They got an 8 out of 10 because it's a disney movie and disney just disney right now owns most of these nominations, like most of their money going into it. So I'm going to make an example here.

Speaker 1: 7:51

Imagine the people making these articles and these reviews and whatnot. And as soon as they're done making a review and whatnot, someone at Disney is like hunched over at their desk whispering in their ears and then slipping money in their pockets about good.

Speaker 3: 8:08

Exactly. So look, let me put it this way. So I know for a fact Talos has already let us know that he watches it. Rav so Petty. Rav so Petty just released not that long ago on his Hood Enemy Awards, the Paper Chaser Awards and the Paper Chaser Awards.

Speaker 3: 8:27

And in the Paper Chaser Awards we wound up having, like most people like myself, we were just like, oh, gojo's going to win that. Because how he wound up playing Gojo in his little dub Brit Series, you know Gojo's got paper on paper on paper. You know, band for band, and his ultimate curse technique is, uh, limitless bans. He does stuff. And so everyone's like, oh, yeah, gojo gonna win this. And then all of a sudden, you know they brought in the dbz characters. People was like, oh, at that point they're like, oh, no, never mind, boma got this. There's no, this is the. Boma probably won this one. And literally just like the same thing that happened into that one. I can make this a prime example. Boma literally says in the crash out of war, it's like one of the dumb things into it is that hold on. It says you think you're going to win, but let's not forget who paid for this event and who writes all of these people's paychecks. I'm saying at that point you done bought your victory.

Speaker 1: 9:26

At checks. I'm saying at that point you done, bought your victory. At this point you just entertained. But y'all forget that bulma got that batman money.

Speaker 3: 9:31

She got that iron man money no, no, no, that's an insult, that's an insult, I know remember, remember she, she helped, like it's been proven in the cup.

Speaker 3: 9:40

So it's one of those ones that is like in the manga, is not showcased in the anime, like that, um, mostly because we never got the moral arc animated yet, which we already know. We talked about that. But Bulma helps fund the Galactic Patrol, the capsule corps, helps make equipment for the Galactic Patrol for the universe. She got universal money like literally can go to any planet and is rich in every planet in the universe. She's literally that like that's not a oh. I was like there's no way boma was guaranteed to win that. But then even just that line you'd be like it's the same thing. That doesn't do.

Speaker 3: 10:25

Disney is the main. Disney funds these awards. There's no point into it that they're going to wind up. They fund ign. They're one of their biggest funding right now is ign.

Speaker 3: 10:38

Any, every disney movie is guaranteed a high critical review because disney rights, they checks. That's what it is. It's not fair. And so it's like if some people wind up saying, oh, we're gonna go based off of like ign reviews or rotten tomato reviews and stuff like that, it's not really gonna be fair. You're not gonna get a fair criticism on any disney movie from them. That's just not how that works, no more, because disney pay their checks.

Speaker 3: 11:05

Of course you're going to kiss the hand that feeds you. You ain't going to bite the hand that feeds you, you're going to kiss it. Go ahead. You gave me my money, so I'm going to just go ahead and suck it up and do what I got to do to keep it that way. It's nonsense. I'm excited for Sonic 4 coming out as soon as I get a chance to watch Sonic 3. It's already being released on streaming, so I'm going to be watching it. The other thing about it, too, is that I get what you're saying About the Legend of Zelda thing. I personally believe Wind Waker Is the worst starting point.

Speaker 1: 11:38

I get it as far as Fan base, it's not a bad concept, but why that one right out of the gate?

Speaker 3: 11:47

I mean because, even if you're going based onto a kid one, there's not a better kid version than Ocarina of Time. Ocarina of Time, it literally, depending on whichever story you want to go to, you could break it up into parts. You could break it up into the story of the kid who wins. There you go. It's another kid's movie. The kid beats the bad guy. Um, even if he becomes an adult, the hero wins. Congratulations. The hero beat the bad guy. We're not gonna. They're obviously not gonna, wouldn't do. The hero loses. They're not gonna do that unless they want to go lord of rings style. But if it's made by the same people did sonic, they're going to pertain to the kids. So I'm like I have no problem. So I just don't think wind waker is the best starting point for me. I would like highly say that ocarina of time would be the best starting point to be able to kind of do things. Plus, on top of that, you've now jumped into the multiversal, multi-timeline theory. You're already starting there, so that when you make other movies there's not a question into it Versus, you start off in Wind Waker. Then all of a sudden we join in Legend of Zelda, twilight Princess, people who aren't real fans of the Legend of Zelda series is going to think, oh, this is part two, and they'll be like wait, this is a whole different story, what's happening here? Or something like that, and not gonna really get an understanding. Versus with ocarina time, if you do, that's the first movie. In the movie was saying and because of time travel we've wound up breaking off into different timelines, who knows what other stories may wind up being? And boom, like that's how you end the movie, who knows what other stories there might wind up being after this. Boom, now you set yourself up. Set yourself up to be able to put in whatever Legend of Zelda other movie we want to do as a part two, because it's a random branch off of the storyline or something like that.

Speaker 3: 13:34

I'm just like that would just, I say scientifically, but mentally to me that just makes a lot more sense than Wind Waker. To me that just makes a lot more sense than wind waker. Because if you're doing wind waker I'm gonna go back to. I think it was like 2002, the noah movie that they did, where they tried to, where they made a movie about noah but they took god completely out of the movie. So the movie made no sense, starting off with like, oh, we're gonna make a world and everything is underwater and there's a couple islands. So people are gonna be like so is this one piece? Is this Nova? Like I'm confused of what this is supposed to be. It's not a good starting point to me. It doesn't mean personal, so that's what I got from movies gotcha.

Speaker 1: 14:22

So, alos, how you feeling about the movie news?

Speaker 2: 14:27

Well, well, well, it's about time. First and foremost, starting with, I too haven't seen it yet, and what I mean by I haven't seen it, I haven't seen it to the degree that I would like it got spoiled on TikTok for me, so relatively, like you know. That's why I had pushed to see it. I mean by spoiled, like somebody Literally showed me, so it was there already. So it's like hey, you know.

Speaker 1: 15:00

That's why I had to go to see it immediately. Y'all not gonna get to me. I ain't gonna let it get to me.

Speaker 2: 15:07

So right Um the Whole Sonic 3, Sonic Trilogy situations Um One. I'm relatively happy. I like it. I'm liking what they're doing. They got progressively better From Sonic 1 to now. They got progressively better. It's not like they fell off anywhere from what I've seen so far. It's not, you know.

Speaker 1: 15:37

Every path the trilogy curves.

Speaker 2: 15:39

Yeah, it's like you know, they didn't drop the ball, they haven't fumbled the ball. My gripe here is this it's the fact of that fans are trying to give this the Marvel treatment, and what I mean by the Marvel treatment is that they're trying to be like oh no, this needs to go down this timeline. Go the Sonic Advance route, you know. Or go Sonic Heroes Star Axis we're gonna get Amy. Go Sonic Heroes Spoilers for those.

Speaker 1: 16:11

Or like Sonic 06 with Silver.

Speaker 2: 16:15

Yeah, but spoilers for those who don't know yeah, amy showed up, but they're like hey, you know, go to Sonic Heroes route and stuff like that. Like, look, i'ma say it wholeheartedly as a fan, just try to, if you can, encompass everything Since you are going. If you're going the route of but I don't think you're going the route of as far as the games and stuff wise. Now I feel like you're doing what Marvel Did in the sense of, but I don't think you're going the route of as far as the games and stuff wise. Now I feel like you're doing what Marvel did in the sense of creating their own universe. So if you're creating your own universe, cool, I can't wait to see it.

Speaker 2: 16:55

That aside, mufasa, I am going to go see Um. Do I care that Sonic did better than Mufasa? No, because Mufasa is basically it's not even a retelling of the Lion King itself. It's hey, we're going to see what Mufasa actually did, you know. So that's perfectly fine. This is something new, this is something relatively new. And finally, more so of the part that I want to kick on them saying that they want to do a Legend of Zelda Wind Waker. Can we please leave Zelda alone? I'm going to say it now. The only reason why I'm saying it is because of how Coco got to just say it, but in the sense not that oh, folks are going to think this is this and this is that. No, the Legend of Zelda lore goes too many different routes.

Speaker 1: 18:12

Yeah, very true.

Speaker 2: 18:15

Every game ends a different timeline. You have one timeline where the hero lives, one timeline where the hero dies and one timeline where the bad guy actually wins. Note what I said One timeline where the bad guy wins, one timeline where the hero dies and one timeline where the hero lives and actually wins.

Speaker 3: 18:38

Yeah, because there's a big difference into that. Wait a minute.

Speaker 2: 18:43

Before somebody asks wait what you mean to tell us the hero dies, so that means the bad guy won twice right. Big difference into that there is. Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. I know because before somebody asked wait, what you mean? Tell us the hero dies, that means the bad guy won twice right no, no, no, no, because of what comes? After hold on.

Speaker 1: 18:56

See, this makes me thinking like, if anything, if you aren't gonna do legend of zelda, it would have been better off as like an anthology series with hour long um, or something like that. Um because, yeah, it's like so many uh different ways it could have gone about it, uh different storylines, so it's like, in a way, it kind of reads like an anthology series I would say I agree on talos and I probably absolutely not, because they have.

Speaker 3: 19:28

Hollywood has tried legend of zelda multiple times. The the mario brothers we had. There was an animated movie before there was an animated tv series. They tried the animated movie and the animated tv series wasn't that bad. The live action absolute garbage because they completely like switched around the entire story and for no reason whatsoever.

Speaker 2: 19:50

The old mario movie. I want y'all to know something it was good for its time. It was good for its time. It's one of those movies that's like, hey, as much as much gripe as folks give it, it was good for its time. Is it good now? No, because there's a lot of stuff that you look at you're like, okay, hey, yeah, you could fix this. This doesn't relatively go with the mario situation and whatnot, so it seems it doesn't really seem mario-esque, if you will like. But but, I get that. Once again, I relatively get that. It's just like I said before hey, zelda goes too many different ways, there are too many different plots and if you try to merge them for the sake of this universe, this movie universe, you try to merge them. No, that don't work.

Speaker 3: 20:44

No, that don't work, you're going to have a whole other Skyward Sword situation.

Speaker 2: 20:48

You're more liable to mess up Than you do Anything else. So I would say, wholeheartedly, leave it alone. Like I'm going to be real with you. If you want to do anything, sure, I would say you know maybe an anthology route, but do it as far as an animated anthology. Or take the net. You know saying take the arcane route, go, basically how they deal with our team. Like you know what I'm saying Take the arcane route, go, basically how they did with arcane. Like you know what, alright, cool, we're gonna talk about each timeline, but first we're gonna talk about this one. First let's talk about this one.

Speaker 2: 21:33

Then we're gonna talk about this one and just do it as a Netflix thing. Don't take it to the movies, just do it as a Netflix thing. It'll work out better.

Speaker 3: 21:44

Yeah, true, definitely Netflix later It'll work out better. Yeah, true, definitely true. Also, piggybacking really quick. I thought I was saying it, but yeah, there was a whole difference. There is a timeline where Ganon wins and is not where he beat the Hero Time because of what happened afterwards. That all loops back to the whole original Legend of Zelda 1 and Legend of Zelda 2 games. That's where we kind of loop back into that one. Ganon winds up losing horrendously. After that he winds up being overly engulfed in power. So I'm not going to spoil too much into it, just understand it didn't really work out for him in the fact that Link that version of Link, that's important to say, that version of Link died. It didn't work out that well for him. But there is another, yeah, later on that Ganon winds up winning. It's crazy, but yeah, but no, I just, if you do the movie route, I just don't think Wind Waker is a great start, but otherwise, yeah, anthology, I totally fully agree. Into that I'm gonna be real with you.

Speaker 2: 22:45

If you really want to do a Legend of Zelda, just go. Wind Waker is a great start. Anthology I totally agree to that. I'm going to be real with you. If you really want to do a Legend of Zelda, just go Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. That's all you need to do. Just do them two.

Speaker 3: 22:55

The fanbase are roasted just as bad as we did with Sonic. They will roast that entire thing, just as bad as we did with the original Sonic design.

Speaker 2: 23:06

But even if you do that, even if they roast it, they're going to love it, because then it's going to be like okay, you know what this right here is contained within itself. We ain't got to go through all of the rest of it. Don't go If you sit there and be like, no, we want to do Ocarina of Time. Or we want to do Ocarina of Time, or we want to do Wind Waker, or we want to do Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages. No, even my favorite game I'll be telling you A Link to the Packs no, Like no.

Speaker 3: 23:44

What about the newest one? What about the newest one? What about the newest one with Zelda? Echoes of Wisdom. Echoes of Wisdom.

Speaker 2: 23:51

yeah, yeah, Like I said Tears of the Kingdom, Breath of the Wild, echoes of Wisdom, these right here are falling within the same. They're falling within the same relative area. You can do those, or you know what I'm saying, or if you just want it to be about Zelda, just go, you know, just go. Echoes, that's fine, it's going to be about Zelda.

Speaker 1: 24:11

I mean girl power movies are in right now, so but yeah.

Speaker 3: 24:18

I know what they're trying to do. What if they're trying to make a Smash Bros movie? They are.

Speaker 2: 24:25

Let me spoil that real quick, right? They're honestly trying to make.

Speaker 3: 24:29

They're setting up the universe for that hey hey, hey, I would not mind a Kirby movie though.

Speaker 2: 24:34

Yeah, they're setting up the universe for that. I just need for them to do it right. If you're going to set up the universe for a Smash Bros movie, cool beans. However, if I remember correctly, I don't think Sonic was in the first Smash.

Speaker 3: 24:50

I gotta look that up. Sonic didn't come to way after. Melee. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2: 24:59

Sonic didn't come to. Sonic didn't come to Brawl Because Ultimate is the last one. Brawl was thewl Because ultimate is the last one. That's right, sonic on the brawl.

Speaker 3: 25:07

Brawl was the one. Brawl was the one with Sonic. It was the secret DLC. And it got spoiled for everybody after the first couple months Because some people were unlocked. Because you unlock them in the story, like at the very end of the story, he just fills up and he helps defeat.

Speaker 2: 25:31

It was either left hand or master hand, depending on where you're at in the story, but yeah, yeah, I think it was lefty, I believe. But, like I said, like legit, right, here's my thing. If you're gonna do this and you're gonna go for, and you're gonna go for smash brothers cool dick I'm I'm all for that, and this is just a side note, because I want us to move on from movies, because movies was lackluster. If you're going to do Smash Bros, do it correctly. That's where I'm going to say go for broke, because if you're going to do Smash Bros, then you can lead into so many other different movies. Not only that, not only that, not only that. But with that in mind and I'm just throwing this out here, folks With that in mind, you know, this could give us an opportunity, if you get that far. It could give us an opportunity to see what it would look like for Sora to actually be on the movie screen. Mmm.

Speaker 2: 26:26

Hint, hint, Hint hint, hint, hint, among other characters. You know, because you have other characters that relatively could be done a lot better. You know, like Minecraft Steve for instance, hint, hint.

Speaker 3: 26:43

No, no, no. The Minecraft movie is absolute trash. Don't even give him a second chance.

Speaker 2: 26:48

Like I'm throwing, in the words of Paul I'm throwing it, you ain't catching it, boy. Like, like, what's this? What the hell? Like, there are so many characters that y'all can get out here. That can get revamped.

Speaker 3: 27:05

You know Lucas Hit hit An Earthbound movie. I don't know that would kind of scare some kids Like that would not be for kids.

Speaker 2: 27:12

It would scare some kids, but guess what Star Fox? Hit, hit Message. Oh, once again.

Speaker 3: 27:23

That right there, I would pay for a Star Fox movie. I absolutely would go see a Star Fox movie.

Speaker 2: 27:31

This is why I say this is why I say Folks, don't pay attention to the money makers, because you don't listen to your fans. When you need to listen to your fans, you listen to the garbage and stans out here, the stans that don't know shit. They don't read the damn thing. No, that's right, bitch, quit listening to them. They ain't making you no money. That's how you failing Listen to your actual fans, who actually give a damn about the product. But I guess, moving on, I'm down with movies too.

Speaker 1: 28:06

Okay, fair enough, alright, tale of Dijon, let me go ahead and get into it. So let's just go ahead and start up hot with Dragon Ball, daima being introduced, like, keep in mind, daima came out back in what was it? October or so, so we've been keeping up. Daima came out back in what was it October or so, so we've been keeping up with Daima. And so far, they not only added more lore into the Demon Realm, the Demekians, the Majin but we finally get Vegeta as Super Saiyan 3, even though it's in Tarou, at Super Saiyan 3, even though it's in Taiwan and despite critical acclaim. Arcane turned out to be a financial failure for Riot Games because they were expecting the game to generate new League of Legends players. And didn't we just say during the Arcane review I'm like, hey man, listen, I love the show, I'm not playing the game. I'm like, hey man, listen, I love the show, I'm not playing the game.

Speaker 1: 29:05

I'm like, I'm like, what do you expect? Like, I mean, arcane is still a success, but we're not going to play the game. I'm sorry, I'm just not into it anymore. But anyways, her Vivian herself. Season three of Helluva Boss is in production, with 15 episodes being considered. But before all that, season 3 of Hell of a Boss is in production, with 15 episodes being considered. But before all that, we're going to get more shorts being released before that. So be on the lookout for those.

Speaker 1: 29:35

Marvel is Going to put out your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, the animated series, in January 29th. Creature Commandos got renewed For season 2. I heard they did pretty good. Hell's Paradise got scheduled for January 2026 for Season 2. My Hero Academia, vigilantes is coming in April. Bleach Thousand Year Blood War Part 4 will have entirely, will have entire episodes with anime original content, so you might get extended fights and what not. All that's coming later on this year, supposedly Danden and season 2 coming in July 2025. We already put out well, we got a review and production. So as soon as you're getting this episode, you're probably going to Hear our review on Dan to Dan anyways, so you're going to hear our two cents on Dan to Dan. We're excited for season two and my address up darling, if you're interested. It's also getting a season two Somewhere this year. That's all I got for television. What do y'all got Anything to add on to that I'm going to let Telo start.

Speaker 3: 30:45

Yeah, I was about to say I'll start got for television. Uh, what do y'all got? Uh anything to add on to that?

Speaker 2: 30:46

oh, I'm gonna tell us start yeah, I'm about to say I saw it, so all right, yeah, I'm. I'm I'm feeling hit too real quick. First off, let's start with dragon ball diamond right. Um, I want you to know, vegeta fans are even good right now. I'm so I happy.

Speaker 3: 31:01

Yes, we are, yes, we are.

Speaker 2: 31:07

We knew he had Super Saiyan 3 form. I'm proud that they show it finally, even if it is in chibi format, because, once again, I don't call them kids, I call them chibis. Even if it's chibi format, I get it. But at the same time, finally which means soon enough in a game, somewhere he's going to get the big Super Saiyan 3 form. It's going to show up. We know it's going to show up, and when it does, by all means it's nice. Yet still, ladies and gentlemen, please remember with all Saiyans, all Saiyans, same thing about the Super Saiyan 3 form it takes so much energy, it looks badass, don't get me wrong. It looks badass, but it takes so much energy. It's an annoyance. But, however, this also leads into the speculations for when Super actually comes back, about why it is that Vegeta got ego. So once again, folks for y'all that was like oh you know, hey, will ego actually be showing up? It shows you that ego will show up, be showing up.

Speaker 3: 32:24

It shows you that ego will show up. I'm actually shocked in the fact that Talos did not say, however comma Just threw me off for a second. Bro, I'm used to certain things happening, I'm not doing it.

Speaker 2: 32:35

No, no, no, we're not done. However, comma, there we go. The focus ain't on Vegeta. I don't really care about Vegeta as far as this goes, don't get me wrong. Vegeta my boy, but I don't really care about Vegeta, it's the Majin.

Speaker 1: 32:53

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 32:57

I'm happy about it and sad about it at the same time, because I want folks to understand I'm Bitch, I'm expecting, and you heard me correctly as I called you bitches, bitch why are the margins not on the same time as fucking Boo? Hmm, and I ain't talking about regular Boo. Hold on, I understand that. They explained it. Don't get me wrong Boo margin. Boo kid Boo was a fucking mistake. He't get me wrong Boo Majin. Boo Kid Boo was a fucking mistake. He was a goddamn mistake. However, he is the definition of Mr Black Air Force.

Speaker 2: 33:35

Energy Majins are supposed to be on that time Majins are all supposed to be on that type of time. So you telling me some of y'all are bitch made. What the fuck Nah Get the fuck out of time. So you telling me some of y'all are bitch made.

Speaker 3: 33:47

What the fuck? Nah, get the fuck out of here. I'm so glad I'm not the only one that thought that, bro, I was sitting here like this is Majidu. And Majidu sitting here like cool, you super smart and intelligent, you can calculate faster than supercomputers.

Speaker 2: 34:00

Sweet, you're behind weed bro Like bitch. No, uh sweet Y'all behind. Weed bro. What the fuck Bitch? No, I need for y'all to go ahead and hit the fusion dance or something and give me a real nigga. A real nigga need to step up. I need for that motherfucker to show up Legit. I can't stand this. Y'all the demons, fuck them. Demons. Them demons are doing a little too damn much for me, and I understand that it's giving fan boys out here hope and shit, because they all was, was was hyping up by demon. Oh, look, see, now the demon's showing up.

Speaker 1: 34:32

See, we told y'all fuck you fuck your demons, fuck all this shit can I just say that I like how even though a lot of people were saying that, oh, we've been doing this the whole time but with Daima they're confirming that, yeah, the Mechians came from the Demon Realm. So, with Piccolo being Demon King Piccolo, like you're thinking, like I mean, you know, in Dragon Ball there are like explanations why he calls himself the Demon King Piccolo, because you know, he was trying to be like the mirror opposite of Kami.

Speaker 3: 35:05

But the fact that he's asked me from the demon realm is like oh, no, no, no, the thing that gets me is the fact that he, like I, like how they, confirmed something that team four star had joked upon forever, aside from the fact, not not necessarily that the that kami is in his brain talking to him or anything like that, but in the fact that, because he fused with Neo and fused with Kami, he retains all the knowledge from King Piccolo. So when the old Namek wound up actually asking, saying that you reminded me of, I can't remember the dude's name, but when he said the name, he was like oh, that's my father.

Speaker 3: 35:41

Yeah, he's like, oh yeah, he said that's my father. Yeah, he's like, oh yeah, that they said that's my father. And I'm like how do you know that? Because, as far as you know, like from back from dragon ball, you only knew piccolo, like literally king piccolo, before he died. Well before he, uh, you know the whole transformation thing. After you spit out piccolo jr was like your name would be piccolo jr, you're gonna, um, do my, you're gonna, you know, avenge me and stuff, and that was it. Like there, nothing. He was not giving no history lesson, he was not told nothing about this. Kami never really talked to him about that either. So how does he retain this knowledge From the fusion? I'm really happy they were able to confirm that in Suicune.

Speaker 2: 36:17

However, kama, going back to Talos, yes, right, I'm going to leave them alone for a minute. Riot Games, riot Games, right. So, because I'm gonna leave them alone for a minute? Um, riot games, all right games, I'm gonna hit you.

Speaker 2: 36:31

I'm gonna hit you in the damn jaw because you stupid, um, honestly think you was fitting to get more people to come back to league of legends. No, your fan, your, your player base, your player base is trash. It's trash because y'all don't go in there and police the people like you're supposed to. Why do I want to go in there and play with these motherfuckers that literally are so toxic? It makes no sense. You have people that throw games on purpose. Y'all don't punish those people. You punish the ones that try to play the games actually correct. So why are folks wanting to do that? We don't want to play that way. No, no, fuck you. I'd rather play something else. I'll play something else before I play with y'all.

Speaker 2: 37:18

Fair enough, arcane is great, don't get me wrong. You can't say as much as they want to say ooh, it's a financial messed up. No, arcane is good. Arcane is good, but it's not going to draw anybody to League of Legends. Switch your style up, find you a better way. Make your game based off of your characters instead of all of them. Wait, I'm sorry, bob.

Speaker 1: 37:44

Aren't they making Make you a game based off of your characters Instead of Are y'all? I'm sorry, but aren't they making a game where you take the character in a fighting game mode? Aren't they working on something like that?

Speaker 2: 37:56

I thought they were, but I don't know.

Speaker 3: 37:58

I thought I heard that too. I seen a lot of little rumors.

Speaker 2: 38:02

You know how developers they'll have a great idea and want to do it, but then all of a sudden, eh nope, our flagship is not great, so we're just going to scrap this. And yes, don't get me wrong, it's not even just gaming. I'm talking about y'all over here in the television division too, because y'all do that shit so much with anime, like, there's so much anime that just literally only has I smell 12 episodes. Ooh, my wife, y'all horrible with that shit. Ooh, I smell angst. I smell 12 episodes. Yes, you only smell 12 episodes, because they act like nobody's gonna watch it.

Speaker 3: 38:45

Smell Delayed season 2.

Speaker 2: 38:48

Oh, yes, yes, the delayed season 2 that don't come out until about 12 years later. Then you got to go back and watch season 1 to remember what this was about. To put it together, Not an indefinite hiatus.

Speaker 3: 39:06

And then you can't go back and watch season one because it's not supported on any of the normal platforms.

Speaker 2: 39:12

So you can select for going to pirate. There you go. So like that right now is, but anyway, outside of that, I am proud of Helluva Boss, the fact that they got season 3, which I knew they would. But I'm proud of Helluva Boss. If y'all have not watched it, I want you to understand Once again.

Speaker 3: 39:35

I say wholeheartedly this is not for kids.

Speaker 2: 39:39

Quit, let your kids watch. Helluva Boss. It's not for kids, it's for adults. It's for adults. It has way too much suggested things for it not to be Three. The Marvel animation Yay cool, you got your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. I want you to know something. The Marvel animation Yay cool, you got your friendly neighborhood Spiderman, I want you to know something. It sounds like a Disney Junior type of situation, but I'm going to leave it alone.

Speaker 3: 40:13

Not at all. I know it's not.

Speaker 2: 40:17

But I'm just saying the name of it just sounds like a Disney. But you know, creature, commandos, cool beans. I actually got a chance to see some of season one before I lost my back. I actually got a chance to see some of season one. It's decent. I don't like it. It's decent Hell's Paradise. I have to see what this is going to be because, once again, I've heard of it, I just never really looked into it.

Speaker 1: 40:50

I'm going to have to defend.

Speaker 3: 40:58

Tuck here and defend Mary Jane. Vigilance is not. You cannot call that trash. Like I said, I'm doing Vigilantes specifically. You cannot call that trains.

Speaker 2: 41:06

Like I say, I'm doing it only because of Tuck, because it's just you know, once again, tuck is not here to defend it, and I'm so tired. I'm so tired that all Mike's saying makes no sense.

Speaker 3: 41:17

Shout out to Tuck too. He's handing some personal stuff he wanted to be in. He's handing some personal stuff he wanted to be in. He was handing some personal stuff he couldn't be in today. That part.

Speaker 2: 41:27

The Bleach, part 4. That part, my God Today, my God Today, I want y'all to know what this means, because this stuff is being animated, the way this stuff is being animated. Because the way this stuff is being animated, my God, today, I don't want nobody to say nothing to me when we get back and the manga is back started and we're talking about Ichigo's kid. I don't want nobody to say nothing to me when you see just how bad and broken his child has gotten. Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't say shit to me, because we, finna, eat good Bleach. Bleach fans, not Stan Bleach fans. Finna eat good tonight, we gon' eat good. We gon'. We gon' eat good, dan today. Good, tonight, we gonna eat good, we gonna eat good, damn, today.

Speaker 2: 42:29

This is one that I want to talk about so before I get there, my Dress Up Darling, season two. I'm so happy for Damn. I'm happy for it because I actually like my Dress Up Darling. I didn't think I was going to like it. I'm a beaten, perfectly honest. I didn't think that was in my wheelhouse, but I was like I'll sit here and watch it. Damn, it pulled a how I'm going to say it? It pulled a Sailor Moon on me.

Speaker 2: 42:56

Because, when I first saw Sailor Moon, that was when I was kind of getting into anime of sorts. I didn't think I was going to like sailor moon, but I watched that set and I was like, well damn, now I'm interested so I didn't think I was gonna.

Speaker 2: 43:10

I didn't think I was gonna like it, but I like it. Now, dandy, dandy. Once again, I'm gonna hit y'all with the button of this is not for kids. This ain not for kids. Yeah, this ain't for kids.

Speaker 2: 43:30

At the same time as I say this, though oh, dan, you are really hitting folks with that berserk treatment. You really hitting people with the Berserk treatment, because I want you to know something yes, we gotta get past. I want you to know it will get better and be out there where you know you'll have some great ass things that we can push past and get deeper into the, get deeper into the anime as it is in the manga. But I promise to, but I promise to God, I promise you season one and probably season two and maybe season three will be here. Ooh, ooh. It's going to make you wonder should I be watching this? Is this for me? I don't know if I want to add this to the repertoire. It's going to do that, just how Berserk did. It's going to do that. But I promise you it's good, it's glorious, it is very much so glorious.

Speaker 2: 44:43

I want to add To the simple fact of here with the rumors, while, well, with the tv, I'm gonna add a couple things here called rumors, which we usually do, but as well as several other webtoon novels, because of how good soul leveling has done so, because of how good soul leveling has done, there are a lot of um other uh, webtoons and web novels getting looked at. Um, not just that, however, we're because we're gonna have to offer thanks up to sweet home. Sweet home was one of the first ones that got looked at like this and Sweet Home did well To say it was a horror based web novel, webtoon. It did well.

Speaker 2: 45:53

You mean the.

Speaker 3: 45:53

Netflix show Because I heard that was an absolute horror film, like absolutely horrible for what I've heard.

Speaker 2: 46:00

The Netflix series they say didn't adapt well, but they're saying that it's going to be an animated version that will do better, because they see where they messed up at. They see where they messed up at as far as trying to do it live action. God, I hope so, because that was the problem. Had this been done. They just went on ahead and did it how we did solo leveling. Where, hey, you go and you just animate it. Don't do this live action Just because it's horror. Do it animated. It works out better. So hopefully they go back, try again and revamp.

Speaker 2: 46:45

But there are a lot of ones. There are a lot of stuff that's getting there. I will come back in the next Nerdy News and give y'all an entire list of. I will go through and give you a list of things that got Touched on, because there's Well, I can't give you an entire list of everything. It's too many, but there's a lot of. I can't give you an entire list of everything. There's too many. There's a lot of them that got looked at, so I will definitely put it out there to y'all. Outside of that, I'm done with TV. Call Gus and what you got.

Speaker 3: 47:20

Alright, I'm gonna run them out through real quick. So first off, dragon Ball Diamond Super happy that Vegeta finally got the acknowledgement recognition. As far as super saiyan 3, I will say that happened like some fans have been upset a little bit because, instead of giving an opportunity to focus on the battle, we kept switching back and forth between him and majin um, not do, what's the? What's the other one's name? Who, uhoo? Which made absolutely no damn sense whatsoever. Okay, we got B and then D and I was like okay, so what's going to be next? Majin E, koo or something like that, maybe an F to skip to K? I'm like why, you know what, whatever, we're not talking about that. When we do Daima, review Daima, we will talk about it, but until then, just anyway.

Speaker 3: 48:13

Some fans are actually upset about two things with Vegeta. About one, about the fact that we kept going back and forth with Steph getting an opportunity to really focus on his fight but, you know, kept getting interrupted by. He was fighting the Kraken as well too. It really showcased how strong the Kraken is too. The other thing about it is his Super Saiyan 3 form and the fact that it winds up being a reference to Akira Toriyama's original plan for Super Saiyan 3, which was not going to be an extremely long down the back hairstyle like Goku had. It was originally just supposed to be very similar to Gohan's beast form. So, even though we wound up getting beast form in Super Hero, we finally get a chance to really see it as Super Saiyan 3, and so now it became a whole argument between fan base as far as like. Is this just because he's a kid, because his hair could only grow so so long with him being kid, because he can only house so much power, and if he goes into his adult form, is it going to be the same? Is his hair going to go down longer? And to answer that, we're going to say this uh, we did have a kid form of goku go super saiyan 3 in gt and, as I've already mentioned before GT, even though it wasn't a Toriyama's project, he still helped and assisted into that.

Speaker 3: 49:32

In the kid form of Goku in his Super Saiyan 3 form, his hair still went down his back, which meant that the Super Saiyan 3 form that we see in Vegeta is going to be the same hairstyle that he will have in his adult form. It will not change. The reason being for that is because every person has their own different version as we've ascended further. Vegeta's Super Saiyan 2 form does not look the exact same as Goku or Gohan's Super Saiyan 2 form. There is differences on purpose because each form is a unique form of their rage. Whatever the case may be, there's a whole thing into it if you want to look into it, but in the simplest fact, his is unique. Everyone is unique. Get over it. He doesn't need to have an extreme mohawk going all the way down his back for it to be called Super Saiyan 3.

Speaker 1: 50:25

It is Super.

Speaker 3: 50:25

Saiyan three right now. Chill out, it is fine. He finally got super saiyan 3. You can finally move forward from it. And yes, like talo said, it's a powerhouse. It absorbs so much power all within one. And it makes sense because, in fact, they have mentioned multiple times that in their kid forms they're having a lot of difficulty. So vegeta having to go super saiyan 3, even in the fact that it uses up so much power, is pretty specific about the fact that he was fighting a strong enemy. In his adult form it would not have had to go super saiyan 3. He probably could have beaten it super saiyan, but he had to go Super Saiyan 3 in order to fight this enemy because he's still in his child form, his body's still weaker, still was adjusting. Remember this is his first real fight since he entered the demon realm.

Speaker 1: 51:15

Can I add on to where it kind of calls back to when we were talking about Team Four Star, how even though they wrote it off as a joke where Future Tr trunks going up against cell using you know the ascendant form and like grade three uh, it was grade three, super saiyan.

Speaker 1: 51:36

And uh, cell was like bro, like you're not gonna beat me with that form. It's like um, it's mostly strength, but you're losing speed and hell, like your father could probably do it on too, but he's just not dumb enough to try it. And it's mostly strength, but you're losing speed and hell. Like your father can probably do it on too, but he's just not dumb enough to try it. And it's like the same thing here, to where he knows that super saiyan 3 drains his power. So he probably learned super saiyan 3 off screen but realized, just like he said in on super is like he realized yeah, no, like oh, it's a waste of time To do Super Saiyan 3 unless I absolutely have to. And Dragon Ball Diamond presented that One opportunity to where, okay, I have no choice but to use Super Saiyan 3.

Speaker 3: 52:18

Yep, and have to push that power just a Tad bit further just to kind of see what's Going to happen. So, yeah, exactly, so yeah, so as far as Into that, but yeah, so I mean, just y'all chill out onto that. Um right, we already talked about that. We reviewed arcane. The biggest thing about it is, too, is the fact that you wanted more people to go play the game into it. But there's no lore in the game at all whatsoever. We talked about it, we did the review for it. We did a review on arcane.

Speaker 3: 52:43

Season two is the fact that literally the lore comes from reading the background, and during our time before, we would absolutely do that. Yes, we loved reading background. We used to do that for us all the time before we had our sleep, our phones and stuff. We wound up being able to read the background of our character, of characters and stuff and books when we go to the bathroom, because we didn't have phones to be able to search through. Now we're not going to do that anymore. Now we're trying to sit here. Oh, let's look at our phone. I'm going to read this background. I'm kind of bored. I'm going to youtube. That's what's going to happen. So, like other than that. No, there's no lore to the game, so it's just a simple strategy game itself. No, this is not how that works. Sorry, I should have thought better than that. But just be happy. The fact that it really drove in a fan base of people now build further into this.

Speaker 3: 53:35

Continuing the season. Start up this other game, as you said. What you want to do with this fighting game, that'd be pretty dope at this point. Do what a bunch of every, what even one piece has done? Everybody has done this at this point dynasty warrior style. Just make a dynasty wars version of it. Who cares?

Speaker 3: 53:53

that way it's still technically based on your original game per se, but a slight difference. I'm just saying it probably might sell. Who knows? Um hell of a boss and um, we just did review on to that one and I mentioned to season two. Season two is not my favorite so far. Like it's not. It's not like a huge downgrade per se, but it's one of those ones that you know it did get more serious, but it's one of those ones that, like, there was just some changes that I wasn't necessarily happy with, but that's okay. It's not bad for the fan base per se. That's just me personally. That's okay. But I am pretty excited for season three. I'm very happy vivian has been doing well.

Speaker 3: 54:29

What I'm mostly looking for is going to be has been hotel season two. That's what I'm really excited for, because I really want to see what's going to happen next into that one, especially since we had some really great callbacks between um, satan and lucifer. So I'm really going to see how things play out there. Um, friendly neighborhood spider-man is I. I hear what you're saying. Tell us, yes, the way it sounds. You like disney, like disney jr? No, not at all. Um other thing about this, too, that I want to make sure we mention is that this is not mcu canon. The creators have said they absolutely cannot make an mcu canon whatsoever. So it's not canon, even as far as in what? If it's not canon for multiverse theory is not canon to the to the marvel cinematic universe whatsoever. So this is literally a standalone project in itself and I'm just going to be honest I have.

Speaker 3: 55:20

They released a second teaser trailer for it, like two weeks ago. I'm not excited. The first teaser seemed okay, it seemed a little cool. You know it's got a little quippies and stuff. But the second teaser, it was a fail for me. Second teaser did not deliver to me personally. I just I just didn't like. It's just like I don't.

Speaker 3: 55:40

Um, I haven't seen creature commandos but I have been following up onto it. Um, yeah, I've heard it's okay. Like there's some episodes that are really good, some episodes that are kind of subpar, um, but otherwise it's still pretty, seem to seem like it was pretty good and see how things are going to go from there. Um, it's just one of those ones I don't know what james gunn is going to do. My thing about it is is that I'm happy to have this distraction because while bc is trying to do something for the adults. As far as the kids stuff, they're really just. They're absolutely destroying the dc universe and to our kids, to our future generation, and I have no idea what's going on with that.

Speaker 3: 56:20

So if you're watching creature commandos, you're watching some of the normal dc animated um movies and stuff. You're like, oh, this is all cool. No, go and watch some of the ones that's actually directed to the small children. Uh, bat wheels was whatever. Um, to me, that's honestly. I'm literally just watching this. Like, why, why are we doing this? I keep trying to make a like either friendly version per se, but you can still stick with a story there. There's no, why are we doing this? Like it's not working for me. They just released a Batman Christmas special where the running joke is that Batman has a goatee and decides to keep his. He wants to grow his goatee and Damien is like Ooh, daddy, I want you home for Christmas, I want you home for the holidays, let's do that. And I'm like what that sounds.

Speaker 1: 57:10

So out of character for Damien, but okay.

Speaker 3: 57:13

It's out of character for both of them. I'm sitting here like yo. What is what is that doing to the DC universe for our children? It's about to be? There's literally being two separate things.

Speaker 3: 57:25

James Gunn, are you approving this? What is happening right now? I don't understand. It's like you're distracting the adults while ruining stuff for the kids. I don't understand what's happening here. I'm like fix it, please, the hell. Fix it, please, just no, I just want to make sure I point that that's important to understand. Please fix it.

Speaker 3: 57:46

Talos, I need you to look into Hell's Paradise, bro. Hell's Paradise is fantastic. I highly recommend it, even for you specifically too. Like. This is a really, really great show, and not just the anime, the manga. Like, please read it, it is just fucking fantastic. It's also one of those ones that it dives a little bit into mythology as far as like into religion a little bit too, and it's one of those ones that really, when it dives in religion, it hits that point of how far are you willing to go for your religion per se, like how far are you willing to go for your beliefs, and it's a like just absolutely fantastic.

Speaker 3: 58:24

I have been anticipating season two. We did a review for season one a while back, because obviously we just talked about this. This whole season two delay. What are we sitting at, jb? Are we sitting at like two years? No, like a year and a half, I think, between season one and season two, or two years, by the way. Why are we waiting this long? What is happening? It's better to cook, it's better to be like you. Really, we spent this time cooking versus. Oh, we had it on hiatus and we weren't sure if we were going to do a season two. No, y'all should have been released out season two what is?

Speaker 1: 58:58

yeah, it was like over the course of two years, because season two was just rolling out, like october 2022, and it just concluded um late on last year, 2024. So yeah, about over two years, and that was like between has no tail having on season one, so yeah, exactly like what are y'all doing?

Speaker 3: 59:19

what is happening right now, bro? Like why we have this, all these super delays for good shows and these crappy season releases for these other shows. Like what are you doing? Like just what the fuck, bro? Um, my hero academia, vigilantes. It's about time that we finally got this animated. Um, the manga has actually been really cool. Like it was actually one of the few mangas that I actually read. Um, before I finished really finished reading my hero academia, the regular manga. I'm just being honest on today.

Speaker 3: 59:47

I finished Vigilantes beforehand. I know a lot of people were really upset because when we finally got to the Shigaraki battle, there was a lot of people that was really hoping that we was going to get a crossover from Vigilantes and really be like one of the characters was supposed to help out Deku and it was supposed to be a little push that was supposed to help Deku beat Shigaraki, but the writers decided to say no, never mind, we're not going to do that. So a lot of fans were really upset about that because it was like an item that he had that was like that was in Vigilantes. That would have been the perfect crossover. So I know some people are really upset onto that one, but we're gonna see what happens there.

Speaker 3: 1:00:28

Bleach, thousand year blood war I'm gonna tell us, bro, I'm super excited into this one and for you guys, if you've heard me talk about before and not just on previous bleach reviews, but even on other times we just briefly talked about bleach is the fact that tight kubo has literally been nervous about his health the whole time that he was writing the Thousand Year Blood War arc and there's a bunch of plot holes that even he himself has admitted that he skipped past a bunch of stuff and he was hopeful that when he got a chance to get it animated, that he was going to be able to expand the story and fix those plot holes and fill them in.

Speaker 3: 1:01:04

So we had hopes that this was going to happen and finally understanding that we're going to get straight anime. Only content I'm hopeful is not filler, I'm hopeful it is actually going to be him getting that chance of putting that story, those plot filling in, those plot holes that he had to skip past because he was nervous about his health. I'm hopeful that we could actually just let's get these answers and let's get a full on thousand year blood war story and that would be fantastic. So I'm super excited to answer that one. And then season 2 I'm excited about, but I'm also one of those ones I'm still pissed off at the fact that I'm one of those fans.

Speaker 3: 1:01:38

That's like how the hell you end season 1 on a part 1 episode yeah but anyway, they just released out Netflix anime actually just released out the trailer, the teaser trailer for season 2, two days ago. So if you haven't checked it out, it does give a little bit of showcase of what future episodes we're going to look forward into. It is sticking pretty close from, at least from the teaser. It's looking like it's going to stick pretty close to the manga. So definitely be on the lookout for that.

Speaker 3: 1:02:10

And I have not seen my dress up dark um darling, I don't know. I uh the name kind of put me off onto it. That's why I never tried it. So I mean, y'all say it's cool, I might check it out at a later time, but it's not seeming like something I'm gonna to Watch Per se. The only thing I'm going to add into it I know we have not done a review on the live action Yu Yu Hakusho and I am one of the fans that is very, very pissed off At the live action Yu Yu Hakusho, immensely, immensely pissed off About it. But apparently they Are working on a season 2. So, but apparently they are working on a season two. So Look out for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought that was going to be a redo. It was just like no, we're going to scrap that and redo it. No, it's just going to be a season two. So Pray for me.

Speaker 1: 1:03:10

I'm done. That's all I got. For television. We're going to talk about season two, so pray for me, I'm done. That's all I got. For television we're going to talk about in october. Uh, so that was television.

Speaker 1: 1:03:16

I'm going to try to play through sports and gaming because, uh, um, cook that. So I know you don't have too much time, so I'm going to try to get through the rest of this as quick as possible. In sports, if you can count esports as sports, chess is making history by joining the esports world cup in 2025 and in gaming news, we're going to have NetEase going to finally put out Fantastic 4 in the Marvel Rivals, starting in January 6th upon recording, because that's tomorrow for us, and it's going to have Mr Fantastic, invisible Woman, human Taurus the thing, herbie, the little robot that they have, and there's rumors about other characters like Ultron and Deadpool, emma Frost and a whole bunch of others, and I'm so excited for it. I'm really enjoying Marvel Rivals so far. Magic the Gathering Innistrad remastered it's released on January 24th.

Speaker 1: 1:04:19

And I guess the biggest thing about gaming lately was the 2024 Game Awards. Now I sat through the whole game and I mean I was there mainly for the trailers, like for uh, mecha break, uh, split fiction and whatnot. I'm okay. There's some good games that's been coming out, uh, this year, maybe next year, and I'm okay, cool, cool. But um, that depends on how y'all feel about these nominations and winners. So, for starters, let's just get out of the way. Astro Bot is game of the year. It beat Bellatro, black Mithwool, kong, elden, ring, shadow of the Earth Tree, final Fantasy VII, rebirth and Metaphor Refantasia. So I'm like hmm, okay.

Speaker 1: 1:05:11

Okay, best Game Direction 1, astro Bot 1, metaphor, refantasia Refantasia, excuse me. Won Best Narrative. Same for Art Direction. Final Fantasy, rebirth won. Best Score in Music Hellblade 2, narrative. Uh, same for art direction. Uh, final fantasy, rebirth one. Best score music uh hellblade two one. Best audio design uh, I'm not gonna do all of them. Uh, hell diaries two one. Best ongoing. Uh baldur's gate three one. Best community support uh, who else? Uh black myth wukong won best action game. Uh, astrobot won at best action adventure. Uh metaphor won best rpg tech and a won best fighting game. Astrobot is best winner. Uh, me, I'm best family game. Hell divers 2 is best multiplayer. Fallout 1 best adaptation over arcane. Believe it or not, grant the bottle 6 is the most anticipated League of Legends going. Best esports I'm like wow. I'm like see, riot Games is tripping. That's what I'm talking about but yeah, that's all I got for the game awards.

Speaker 1: 1:06:42

So take it, take it or leave it. That's what it was. At this point I'm like, at this point I'm like, eh, I think I kind of Miss E3 a little bit. I don't know, it just makes me miss E3 a little. But uh, opening up, to the panel. How y'all feeling about gaming?

Speaker 3: 1:07:01

I'm gonna start off because I only got one thing to talk about. I unfortunately don't play Marvel Rivals. My internet sucks. I can't really do all that, unfortunately, um, and I'm not a big magic the gathering player. I'm sorry.

Speaker 3: 1:07:14

Um, the only reason astrobot wound up winning, and this is one of those ones for me is the fact that, like I like playstation, I follow playstation access, um, which is the european company that actually like is the main leading for playstation, where there's playstation news, new games and stuff like that. Um, probably, it's like really funny to me. It's pretty cool. I love the whole playstation actions crew, but, um, one of the things for me is the fact that I personally feel astrobot only one, because it's a copy, like understanding the game. Every level is based off of another game. Like there's a game for that, they have a segment there for god of war, they have a segment from horizon. Uh, forbidden west, there's a segment for shifu, and it's like every level is a steal from every other game. So, me personally, I really think it's actually unfair that Astro Bot actually won because there's nothing original.

Speaker 1: 1:08:16

Every level is stolen from every other game but that's just the thing they saying, that the Game Wars and Sony like going together, like it's like what I said earlier about their IGN, the way they review Disney movies and Sony just slipping into their pockets like good.

Speaker 3: 1:08:39

But it's not fair to me in the fact that we live in a world now that plagiarism wins. That's not fair to me. You know I'm already a big thing of AI against art, ai against artists and stuff like artists against AI and like I'm a big supporter on the artists at being an artist myself. So it's like for me understanding that I put in all this work. I made this original game, I made these specialized levels, I spent time in doing this and you copied and pasted it. This original game, I made these specialized levels, I spent time in doing this, you copied and pasted it into your game and then you won. It's not fair to me. Personally, I'm frustrated into that. I really think it's not fair. That's the only thing I really have to mention.

Speaker 1: 1:09:25

I'm like bro, you know what, tell us what you got.

Speaker 2: 1:09:30

Cool beans. So first things first. Hey, I'm happy that Chess is hitting the esports scene. Good job. Good job, chess. Good job Because legit. I'm surprised that it hadn't been in there this long, but you know it is. I'm surprised that it hadn't been in there at all, but you know it is. I'm going to be nice and save the lighter stuff for last, because Magic, the Gathering and freaking Marvel Rivals are the lighter of this.

Speaker 2: 1:10:05

The heavy, first and foremost, astro Bot With Game of the Year, coke got you. I'm going to have to go against you on this one. The reason why I got to go against you on this one is simply put right, astro Bot is basically Little Big Planet is basically LittleBigPlanet. Yeah, if nobody, if you ain't ever played it or you don't know, it's LittleBigPlanet. There's a reason why I say that.

Speaker 2: 1:10:37

It's because, hey, sony literally took all of those, as much as folks are like, oh, they took spots from other games. They asked those kinds of these are games that, if you look at, they took spots from other games. They asked those companies these are games that, if you look at, they were PlayStation exclusives Before they went anywhere else, they were PlayStation exclusives and they literally asked them hey, we're going to throw, and the company that made it, they're going to throw this all in here and make it where the little things that you're going to have to go save. You have to save them in their own world. You save Kratos where In the God of War stage, like so understand, I get that you may be like, oh, it's a copy-paste, yeah, but it's a copy-paste that worked and was given permission. It worked because it's literally a game where, hey, you ain't got to sit there and think Once again. We live in a time where people don't want to do puzzles. That's too hard. Crybaby, crybaby bitch made Don't figure what.

Speaker 3: 1:11:45

Chess making into your sports? Now Just saying Don't figure Chess making into your sports. Now Just saying, go figure, chess makes it there. We live in a world where nobody wants to think. But no, I do agree on that one.

Speaker 2: 1:11:52

I'm saying we live in a world where people don't want to think they don't. Do you not see how much they cried when Elden Ring literally came? When Elden Ring was coming out?

Speaker 1: 1:12:06

They cried when.

Speaker 2: 1:12:07

Elden Ring was coming out. They cry every single time on certain bosses. They cry every single time.

Speaker 1: 1:12:13

I'm still rolling at the fact that people were like still, well, not still, but they made a whole stink about Grade 8 Vegeta from Sparking Zero being. Oh, he's so hard. But I'm like, bro, I thought y'all liked challenging games.

Speaker 2: 1:12:29

That point they bitched about Grand Ape Vegeta. And Grand Ape Vegeta was, Y'all hadn't even got to Frieza or Cell yet. What are you complaining about?

Speaker 3: 1:12:46

I should be able to just punch, punch, kick, kick, blast, blast, blast and be good. But I have to plan out, I have to dodge, I have to do this.

Speaker 2: 1:12:55

Once again, these are the Call of Duty kids, and I ain't talking about those Call of Duty fans that came up with Call of Duty. These are the Call of Duty kids that came up and hit with Fortnite. Pubg is cool Because all they're PUBG is through, because all they're used to is online. That's it. And even now they gotta try to get exploits for that, because majority of the people who are having made freaking records and stuff, they're not getting their records looked at. Oh look, you used aimbot, you used aim assist. We're not gonna let you have that once again. Like I said, cry babies. But at the same time, though and I only say this because of because it is what it is um, relatively, folks are getting mad. Folks would be even madder if Elden Ring hasn't won because, oh look, no, it's DLC. Why is DLC up there winning? First and foremost, it's a part of the game, it's the game itself. So you gonna be mad that the game itself won. I will. That's crazy work for me. Like I said, you can't give everybody something that they Folks complained too much for me as far as it went Like legit, we know we get it. Hey, I too miss E3, because with E3 it wasn't.

Speaker 2: 1:14:28

Even the gaming awards used to be on the back burner. It used to, because when E3 was out, man, what did we look for? We looked for those new games that was coming out. That's the only thing I liked about this. I didn't care nothing about these awards. Why? Because these awards didn't mean a damn thing. I didn't care nothing about these awards why? Because these awards didn't mean a damn thing. They didn't.

Speaker 2: 1:14:51

Everybody in the moment was complaining about these awards. Oh look, this game didn't win. Here you go. Tekken 8 won. That's the typical, usual. Why Sparking Zero didn't win? Because Sparky Zero is an actual couch co-op and what killed it is fucking internet, because playing it over the internet it does not work. That's why FighterZ is a lot better in that aspect. Yeah, its netcode is trash, but guess what? If they fix the netcode code, that game would relatively be great. Like I said, you can't appease everybody and with the awards and stuff, relatively, anybody who actually has sex Doesn't give a damn about the awards. Let me be grand and truthful and I don't care who watched our podcast. I love you dearly. Thank you for watching, thank you for listening in, but I'm going to tell you wholeheartedly no one cares about the awards, the awards are the awards. Cool, it's a nice trophy. Half the time half of y'all are half-assing it anyway.

Speaker 1: 1:16:11

I guess you can say that the main thing about this Game Awards is how people were like surprised that Astro Bot won. But in actuality there were like a whole bunch of people saying that oh well, you know, astro Bot, that's kind of fun. Like I didn't play it, like I wasn't interested, but like I'm not going to complain too hard, like hey, man, it was just not my bad. But at the same time I'm not going to be mad that it won. I'm like, hey, a lot of people like it, so fair game.

Speaker 2: 1:16:38

Hey, I'm going to say it like you did. Right, I'm the person who relatively only it a little bit as far as like a demo wise, because I know somebody that had it and I just played it off of their thing. It is pretty decent. It's decent enough to be like okay, hey, you know how you've been eating certain foods and you need something to wash your palate. That's what that is. It's a palate cleanser game.

Speaker 2: 1:17:03

Where you sit there and you plug this maybe once or twice to get yourself over the monotony of playing a game that you're trying to speed run or playing games like like fortnite or something like that, and then it's a game for everyone, yeah, and then after that you go back to your other, but that's.

Speaker 1: 1:17:23

That's relatively what it is that's marvel rival for me right now, like if I'm getting into other games that have like a strong narrative, like I'm trying to get through the story and all that, I'm like, okay, uh, in meantime I'll play like marvel rivals or maybe first descent or something like something that I know is gonna be like a good five, ten minutes or maybe an hour, like I mean not even that short of time, but I'm just saying, like some twitter, I'm gonna be in and out, but like not like I have to really lock in for hours and hours of time, like not always, but like maybe on a day off, like I'll just do those, but like, say, for instance, I'm getting off work, I'm just trying to unwind. I'll probably just play marvel right which, because I know for a fact that I'll just play a little bit just to blow off some steam, and then I'll either play some more or I'll just move on to something else. No pressure.

Speaker 2: 1:18:17

You know. But, like I said, that's just relatively how I look at it. Like the Game Awards if you honestly honest to god, was looking at it because of the awards, the actual awards. I feel sorry for you, I'm gonna be real I'm gonna be real and I know most folks might be like damn, tell those guys I just need to know when mecca break on goes out and it's like okay, springtime, that's it, that's all I can'm there. That's it. That's all I care about. Hey, I'm telling you, that's all I care about.

Speaker 1: 1:18:53

That's the only reason why I took around like, hey man, just tell me when Mecca Brave released. That's all I came here for. Just tell me when that's coming out.

Speaker 3: 1:19:00

Some of you watched for the Witcher 4 too. When is the Witcher 4 coming out?

Speaker 2: 1:19:05

Yeah, that's it. Let me see when Witcher's coming out. Let me see this. Give me some dates, Like that's all I want to see.

Speaker 1: 1:19:12

The Elden Ring Night Reign thing Like okay, cool, cool, cool, like my nigga, do y'all not realize.

Speaker 2: 1:19:18

When we got back, we got the name of this king back. We finna have monsters from the other side of the freaking universes. So that tells you right there that all the Soulsborne games are connected. So if all the Soulsborne games are connected, that gives you a very bad. And when I say all of them, literally all it takes for the, I'm going to be real with you. Right, and this is just my side, this is just my side track. If you, if somehow, some way they say, yes, all the Soulsborne Universes are connected, I want folks to know what that means. I want you to know what that means. That means Even the and it's on the tip of my damn tongue. God damn it. What is the game? The Mecha game? That's uh, god damn it, not Crisis Core. I don't know why the fuck I want to say Crisis Core. Um, oh Jesus, the name of the game slips me. Is it one of the Final Fantasy?

Speaker 3: 1:20:21

7 games.

Speaker 2: 1:20:22

No, no, no, no. It's not one of the Final Fantasy 7 games, it's a Soulsborne game. Well, it's kind of like a Soulsborne game, but it's a Gundam-like game. Armor Corps yeah, I'm trying to think.

Speaker 1: 1:20:36

Describe it for me a little bit. Okay, I got you.

Speaker 2: 1:20:40

You said Crisis Corps, so I was like You're thinking.

Speaker 1: 1:20:43

Armor Corps.

Speaker 2: 1:20:44

Crisis Corps keeps coming to my mind, but it was Armor Corps. Armor Corps is a Soulsborne You're thinking Armored Core? Crisis Core keeps coming to my mind, but it was Armored Core. Armored Core is a Soulsborne method game. Folks don't realize this. Folks hadn't realized this until the most recent one, when you saw oh wait, shit, these bosses actually go, just like the bosses in Elden Ring and the other games. Yes, these are the other games. Yes, these are Soulsborne games. I want you to understand if that is the case, and all of these games are connected. The strongest boss in the Soulsborne game is Raven 1. If you don't know who Raven 1 is, ladies and gentlemen, you might want to look it up. I promise you that mech and this is how it is and folks because folks who are dumb enough to even try to put this together like, oh no, wait, the protagonist you know the protagonist from any of the other Soulsborne games would be a beat-em right. No, no, because just because you can be revived, you're not gonna be able to outspeed that mech. You as a human can't outspeed that mech. That's gonna be funny for you to get carpet bombed.

Speaker 2: 1:21:59

I am millennia bloody the middle of oh cool, hey, missiles, huh bye. This is why I say what I say I love when that hey Missiles huh Bye. This is why I say what I say I love when that type of stuff happens. That's why I say the Game Awards didn't mean shit. That was trash. The only thing we were there for was to see what new games came out, what dates were dropping for the games that y'all already told us about. That's it. That's all I care about, that, all I ever care about for for that part.

Speaker 2: 1:22:34

Now, outside of that, getting to the lighter stuff, mad together, yay, I'm not gonna stay on it long. Y'all will hear my rants when we get ready to do this, because when we, when me and jet black talk about this once again, folks, y'all are going to hear hey, these are what cards I'm looking at, these are what combos I'm looking at. Don't talk to me about none of that shit, because half of y'all in here that's still listening. Y'all know good and well. Y'all, y'all mofos, be like me and spend three times your rent money for decks out here, don't get me started on you Don't get me started on you Spend $2,500 for a 60-card deck for command.

Speaker 2: 1:23:16

How dare you? I'm talking about. That's crazy work. Oh look, we're going to spend this much. How many cards is in there? 120? Okay. So how much did you spend? I spent 5,000 for the whole thing. Why they had to be all rares. They had to be the hologres, they had to be holographic. Are you selling this deck? No, never. It's going to stay with me forever and a day. Anyway, I digress.

Speaker 3: 1:23:58

Let me say this this reminds me back when Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon, the old school Pokemon card games and stuff. I remember one of those days. For me it's one of those things into this Cool, you got this red card, but you're still a trash player, You're still losing.

Speaker 2: 1:24:12

That boy Spent so much and still can't. But anyway, go out to Marvel Rivals and I'm going to leave it alone because I want to move on, so that way Coco Gatsu can at least be up here for the whole thing. I want to move on so that way Coco Gotsu can at least be up here for the whole thing. Um, I bit the bullet, coco Gotsu, I'm gonna tell you right now. I bit the bullet, don't get me wrong. I wasn't even going.

Speaker 2: 1:24:33

I wasn't supposed to be playing Marvel Rivals at first, right, because, hey, I'm, I'm the Gundam that doesn't have a PS5. Right now, I'm working on it. Don't, don, don't, don't, bug me. However, common, I bit the bullet and got it for free on PC. Now, mind you, mind you, yes, you can play it with a controller on PC. Yes, it sometimes makes you mad a little bit. I ain't going to even front you, but I know why mine does that. It would speed up a lot more, but I use my computer for work too, so understandable. However, common, right, let me explain this game here for y'all. It's fantastic, it's sensational. I say again for the people in the back it's sensational the fact that you don't have to worry about losing a battle pass. You can just go buy the battle pass. You don't miss out on damn one.

Speaker 1: 1:25:46

Yeah, honestly, the battle Pass is like $5. I bought it and I'm like, okay, Got some skins and all that shit and I like the pretty good skins.

Speaker 2: 1:25:53

Not even that, though, especially with PC, which is why I'm going to continuously play on PC. But Even with PC, right, I want folks to know they tell you Feel free to mod, feel free to mod, mod the skins.

Speaker 3: 1:26:14

Yes go ahead. Thank you for reminding me One of the details about Marvel Rivals. I don't know if y'all talked about this before or not, but the data miners Dived into the PC and found that they purposely Over detailed each character Almost, making it Like. The data miners dived into the PC and found that they purposely over detailed Each character Almost, making it Purposeful for them to do yes.

Speaker 1: 1:26:36

I mentioned it in my segment of Marvel Rivals, but I'm going to get everybody else on their Perspective of the game later on, so I already spoke on it.

Speaker 2: 1:26:46

Yes, but see, here's the thing right and I want this to be known. Folks, you can mine own Character skins. I watched some gameplay when they put Optimus In this damn game. They put the Entirety of Transformers in here.

Speaker 3: 1:27:07

When I tell you, we finally got competition for Fortnite.

Speaker 2: 1:27:11

When I tell you we finally throw Fortnite out, the window when I tell you, ooh, if Overwatch just had done this correctly, ooh, overwatch would be great. But Overwatch, you fail. You fail by the wayside. Not only that, ooh, ooh, but Overwatch, you failed. You failed by the wayside. Not only that who? Who? There's a spawn skin. I ain't gonna tell you who it go for. There's a spawn skin.

Speaker 1: 1:27:40

Actually, you know what? I can imagine who it go for. I'm not gonna say anything, but I can imagine one person.

Speaker 2: 1:27:47

Sweet Jesus Glory to date. I'm going to want y'all to know something. And then For some of the people out here, these Spider-Man skin that I saw in question, that somebody might have owned the pure king in black, peter Parker. That ain't even out that nigga. We're not even sure we're going to get that, but it's only in the comic books. Somebody put that picture. Who, who, if I ever get it, if I ever decide that I'm just going to go to Mars and I ever get it, don't ask me no questions. Don't ask me why it is. I'm in your face. Don't ask me nothing, jesus. Don't ask me nothing. I can't even talk about Mara Barra. Mara Barra was just gonna be One of the boys and I only have been Just practicing the character. I ran maybe one or two matches. I've only practiced Majority of the character man. I have some stuff to tell. I ran maybe one or two matches. I've only practiced Majority of the characters man. I have some stuff to tell y'all. But we gonna get there. I'm good, I'm good. I'm good on that.

Speaker 1: 1:28:59

Alrighty Cookie. I see, Did you. No you already said what you had to say on all. I just wanted to make sure you went first, Okay cool. Yeah, yeah, I told you I you. No, you already said what you had to say on all. I just wanted to make sure you went first, Okay cool.

Speaker 3: 1:29:09

Yeah, I told you, I only had Game Awards Go ahead.

Speaker 1: 1:29:12

You have to. Alright, so that was gaming. So I'm going to blaze through the rest of them because, honestly, there were a whole bunch in a whole bunch in music or anything else anyway. So in music, the writer of the famous sonic adventure 2 song, live and learn, is suing sega claiming that they've used the track and projects without his permission over the last 20 years. And book news there's actually two pieces of news, but there was like one piece of news that I kind of uh blocked out my memory up until like the very last minute. I'm just now remembering that it was a thing. And, kogagatsu, I fucking hate you that you brought it up to me because I didn't need to know this information. But first of all, dragon Ball Super Manga returns on February 20th. That one I'm excited about. What I'm not excited about is hearing about a Harley Quinn comic book run about her.

Speaker 1: 1:30:11

I'm like man. What the fuck?

Speaker 3: 1:30:15

this is an actual comic book the flashbacks, yes, and they're making a scratch and sniff version of it as well too last thing, one last thing on the miscellaneous, and that's on all the nerdy news that we got.

Speaker 1: 1:30:30

The Pokemon trading card game has grown so valuable that Japanese prom syndicates are using it for money laundering.

Speaker 2: 1:30:40

Yeah, uh-huh, alright.

Speaker 3: 1:30:44

Alright Hold on.

Speaker 3: 1:30:45

I'm gonna breeze through this one real quick because I'm going to give it straight to you, talos. So look, as far as the Harley Quinn thing, like I told you I don't know what DC, I don't know what's happening. I told you they're ruining stuff for our kids about DC. I don't know what's happening right now. James Gunn, I don't know what's happening. I don't know what's happening to James Gunn's DC, but this is not my dc, just like we had this whole thing about not my minecraft, not my press, not my dc. This is what this is right now. Like I don't know what's happening, I'm not following with it. This is not my dc, I can't do this. My mom, I was just saying, uh, one other book thing to also add in too as well.

Speaker 3: 1:31:21

Um, it actually just came out that last year, but just kind of new. Sorry, sorry, I forgot to mention into it. They finally have released actual print publication now of the Deadpool and the Deadpool manga. So Deadpool has already had been working on a Deadpool manga where Deadpool, iron man, captain America are now in a manga and you know, deadpool is the main hero of course, the main character of course, and he's like living it up, making all different types of references to various different other animes, other mangas and stuff like that. And joking in the fact that he knows he's in a manga taking advantage of ads. It's extremely hilarious. But they finally have a printed um manga copy of it out now. So book one is already out. Book two should be out soon. It's supposed to be out this year, if I'm correct um, so I wanted to add on to that one. As far as the money laundering, so this is things by and see they've been doing this. This is not. This is only new news in media Because They've only now caught it.

Speaker 3: 1:32:30

But the mafia had already been doing this for a long time. They had already Been doing this. The mafia had been doing it. Literally, the Tons of gangs had been doing it. I promise you, there was one thing specifically when a lot of these gangs were like all, all of a sudden, like, let's say, crypts. Like this actually did happen years, like not even that long ago. It was years ago. Crypts had all the water-type Pokemon and it became a whole thing of like, oh yeah, water-type Pokemon is Crypts, fire-type Pokemon is Bloods, you know, like every single type had a whole different gang affiliation into it.

Speaker 3: 1:33:09

It was actually proven that they had been using super valuable manga, let not say super valuable cards, in order to transfer money because of the pricing of how much these cars were valued into. This isn't new. They just now are catching up into. This is the problem. It's hilarious to me Because the thing about it is wait till they find out what they've been doing, as far as the manga sales too, and I'm going to leave it at that.

Speaker 1: 1:33:42

All right, tell us what you got.

Speaker 2: 1:33:45

Cool beans. So to add to books. Ladies and gentlemen, if you have not checked out two apps, there's a DC app where you can go and read comics I forget the name of it but there's an app for Marvel as well where you can go and read their comics and they're free apps Marvel's on, I believe. If I remember it's called the Marvel Unlimited app. If you need to definitely look it up, go check out King Lion. Go check out King Lion's TikTok account.

Speaker 2: 1:34:19

I know some of y'all be like eh, I don't follow, just check it out. Understand, if you really want to actually read comics and you don't have the cash at the current moment to read those hard comics, to get the books go, you can read some of the good runs and actually learn something for once, just like, oh, outside of that Dragon Ball Super, ha ha, we're back in the saddle again. I'm ready, I'm relatively ready and waiting. Can't wait for the saddle again. I'm ready, I'm relatively ready and waiting. Can't wait for the anime either, because once the anime comes back and hits back out, ooh, it's going to be some problems for y'all Just saying, anyway, sonic 2, I'm going to be real with you.

Speaker 2: 1:35:04

I hope he sues you, I hope he wins Because legit, we know they used it. We know they used it. Once you hear the too, I'm being real with you. I hope he sues you. I hope he wins Because legit, legit, we know they used it. We know they used it. Once you hear the song, you have to realize wait, oh yeah, this has been used. Hey, it's over with. It's over now. It's over now. Sega, it's over. I hope he wins, I do. And for the last one, like Coach Gossum said, they've been doing this forever. I mean, the Mafia did it. The Mafia did it here with baseball cards. They did it here with baseball and football cards Money line through baseball, football, you know the basketball cards and everything else, getting those high value cards and everything.

Speaker 1: 1:35:49

Meanwhile, while we're talking about Magic, the Gathering cards. I wouldn't be surprised if they're doing the same thing with those.

Speaker 2: 1:35:54

Man, if they did that with Magic the Gathering, they're going to lose more money than they put in for that. But, like you know, like legit, yeah, japanese crime scene kids will do it with Pokemon and Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh. They do it with every card game that's over there, like Pokemon, yu-gi-oh, like they do it with all the TCT card games. So that's nothing new. That's nothing new. Like Kogasa said, though, hey, y'all need to see what they do with the actual video games and the and the mangas and such.

Speaker 3: 1:36:33

The mangas and the comic books, yeah.

Speaker 2: 1:36:36

Y'all don't. I'm surprised Y'all. So just saying, for real though, it's there, it's there, look, be on the street. Got me a red chart.

Speaker 3: 1:36:54

I do have a break. I got a breaking news, if you just depending, just go ahead and mention it. So apparently there's a new virus going around in China now. It's called HPMV virus. Right now is mostly just affecting little children, but they just released national news Onto it yesterday. So just be aware. Oh and in case y'all didn't know, for all y'all astrologers, this year is actually the year of the snake as well, so there's a lot of crazy bad omens that's been happening in the news lately. I mean, you know what Just like with 2020 and 2019.

Speaker 1: 1:37:36

Nah, all I'm gonna say is ever since November I knew some bullshit was gonna happen eventually.

Speaker 3: 1:37:44

Unfortunately.

Speaker 2: 1:37:45

Unfortunately, All I'm saying is if folks trying to keep me in the house, understandable, but hit me with a stimulus check so I can at least do something yeah. Oh man.

Speaker 1: 1:37:58

You know what To be fair? It's like last time. Yeah, you know what like to be fair. It's like last time. I'm like, oh yeah, you know people were um passed away from um the thing, and that's unfortunate, but at the same time, like I, that was the first time I ever felt glad to be non-essential. So I'm like, hey yo, listen, I'm just sitting up in the house getting paid just to stay home. I do not feel bad about that at all exactly like yo.

Speaker 2: 1:38:30

I just need for you to just pay me. Sit me at the house, pay me and I stay home. I stay home the first time. Uh, I didn't know to go nowhere, I'll stay home.

Speaker 1: 1:38:41

The first time I didn't know how to act with all that money coming in, but this time, if it happens again, I'm like, hey, I'm prepared this time we smart with it. Yeah.

Speaker 2: 1:38:51

I'll be real smart with it this time. Oh no See, I was smart with it this time. Oh no, I ain't do for me.

Speaker 3: 1:39:02

I'm a family man with multiple kids, so I didn't have a choice of being smart with it. I had to be smart with it, Otherwise that thing would have been gone within like two days. I think I got to stuff my kids Hold on.

Speaker 1: 1:39:15

I was able to build up my video game Cool, oh yeah, what game do? Able to build up my video game cool, as with all that money, oh yeah, what game I'll get this time, but that's it for me.

Speaker 2: 1:39:26

Like if you got anything, jet black, it's up to you. But uh, other than that, that's, that's it for me. I don't, I won't y'all know, I won't y'all folks, I hit a note as we get ready to close this out stop being that's it. Folks out here to know, as we get ready to close this out, stop being fools. That's it. That's all I'm going to say. That's the best thing I can say. Stop being fools, that's it, that's it.

Speaker 1: 1:39:50

Yeah, any final words you want to spit out?

Speaker 3: 1:39:55

Well, I know you have something as far as in Darzone development, so I will just put this out into it. Definitely, look out. We have some new updates that are coming through. Jb will get further to explain that into you. As far as into me personally, a couple of things that I'll be working on so you guys can be looking out for.

Speaker 3: 1:40:12

So the newest Dragon Prince season did finally drop. I have already watched it, I have already pre-written out my notes, so we'll'll go ahead and get that recorded so we can go ahead and get that out. Go ahead and get that A personal podcast for that out for you guys Also. Be on the lookout. So Netflix is actually Removing some good shows again. So they're finally getting rid of the live action versions Of Full Metal Alchemist After having been on there for I couldn't even tell you how long it's been years over five years since the live action Fullmetal Alchemist series has actually been on Netflix. They're actually older than that, but that's at least as far as I can remember, how long they've just been on Netflix and Netflix is getting rid of them at the end of this month so go ahead and check those out.

Speaker 1: 1:41:06

I forgot to add them but I didn't think it was going to matter that much. But then again I guess you could say it could matter to a bunch of people to where okay, paramount Plus is going to get rid of cartoons like Doug and my Life as a Teenage Robot, meanwhile HBO Max is getting rid of shows like Teen Titans. So I'm like I'm just disappointed.

Speaker 3: 1:41:34

I'm like you know what I'm just I'm telling you not my DC, I'm telling you this DC, I'm telling you this, bro, I'm just saying Wholeheartedly.

Speaker 2: 1:41:44

While we're on the subject, ladies and gentlemen, mecca Manager has Some news for y'all, this year as well. So, under development at the current moment, I myself Will be Undertaking a couple of projects this year. I'm definitely going to be undertaking those, one of which is I'm going to be showcasing, or getting ready to showcase, a campaign. I'm going to go and make that relatively something for you all to watch. Mind you, ladies and gentlemen, I do say this wholeheartedly In order to watch this campaign, because, in order to get there, the episodes will be posted to the YouTube, but at the same time, they will be posted, more so, towards our Discord. So in order to get there, for anybody that's not already in, you will need to hit up the Patreon, because this is not going to be something that's just going to be freely shown, because, once again, this is not for kids, because these are for adults. I mean the suggestion, things is not going to be that wise, but it's just like you know, hey, because I relatively Am going to say hey, look, I'm not going to be Blamed for you being like oh, my kids Cussing because of y'all, your kids shouldn't be watching this thing. So therein lies that.

Speaker 2: 1:43:26

Uh, also, two, your mecca manager is working on a couple of uh personal projects, one of which is a book I'm I'm in the works of uh working on well, not even I ain't gonna even say it's a book I'm in the works of working on well, not even I ain't gonna even say it's a book, it's more so a manga. I'm working on my own manga at this current point. So so there lies that. That's just that's starting to be in the works. As of now. I'm not gonna tell y'all what's happening, when it's going to drop or whatever, but you've heard it here first there is a manga that's being brainstormed and worked on, so understand.

Speaker 3: 1:44:08

That is what's up.

Speaker 2: 1:44:09

You know what I'm saying, so understand that legit, when it comes out, hey, don't be looking crazy, but when it comes out, it comes out. Good, you look crazy, but you know it comes out.

Speaker 1: 1:44:20

It comes out Good Good.

Speaker 3: 1:44:22

Well, on my end, I'm not doing what you Were trying to do With your publications, because I'm actually Trying to see if I can get Some of my books Published this year too, so At least like two of them. So I understand, hit you up on that.

Speaker 2: 1:44:34

I most definitely Got you one of the places and I'm going to let Jet Black you one of the places and I'm gonna let jet black go. But one of the places is uh. That I was told to do is try to do self-publication first when you're just starting out.

Speaker 1: 1:44:44

Try to see about doing it on, uh, amazon yeah, yeah well, what you got, what you, what you working on well, on my end, with the website ZoneAlliancecom, we are adding stuff to the merch store. We got debt boxes, we got tokens, I'm working on miniatures for D&D. We're going to be working on dices and dice towers. Pop culture items we decided to do giveaways on those Anything from, let's say, pokemon, uh, megaman, uh, anime, whatever you know. Whatever comes to mind. We might make something like that, but you're just gonna have to follow us on facebook, instagram, twitter, uh, wherever we are located, so you can always um be notified when we're going to do giveaways on some of those things. Like say, for instance, we're going to do the summer games sometime in July and some people can get little prizes for participating and whatnot. Some people are going to get prizes for winning some of the games. Excuse me participating, whatnot? Some people gonna get prizes for winning some of the games? Excuse me.

Speaker 1: 1:46:12

Not only that, but I decided to revisit my whole game development journey and I'm learning some things about game design and all that. I'm currently trying to learn unreal engine and character creation using blender. So this year I got some projects to work on too, to where I'm trying to get a game development flow going, so that way, I'll learn how to make games on my own and then maybe, just maybe, depart my knowledge to other people so we can kind of get a game studio going. But who knows where that goes Like for right now. At the very least, I'm glad to know that I'm able to learn how to make games so I can always do something I always want to do and tell stories in the form of gaming. Outside of that, that's pretty much it, or at least that's pretty much it, or at least that's it for now.

Speaker 3: 1:47:03

So, with all that being said, I'm going to throw in one last special thing for you people who are listening to this specific podcast only. I'm going to go ahead and give you guys an early, early heads up onto this. This upcoming June, your boy, coco Gasu, is running his own competition specifically for you guys. I want to feature our fans, those who have been supporting us, listening to us and have been such great fans of us for all these years. I want to feature you on our website. Give you guys your public chance to go ahead and showcase exactly what it is that you can do. Public chance to go ahead and showcase exactly what it is that you can do. Be on the lookout for this June there will be a specialized competition specifically for you fans, to where we're going to go ahead and get at least one of you featured directly on our website. So this is a special announcement only for the people listening to this particular podcast episode. No one else is going to get this heads up.

Speaker 1: 1:47:59

Gotcha With. That being said, we got a whole bunch of reviews and coming up in works. We got Squid Game, we got Blue Law, we got Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer. I know we've been putting that up For a while but like, and this thing just kept popping up and I just need to lock In all those two things. But we're gonna Get to them eventually. We'll get to them. We're gonna do a Legend of Zelda Retrospective. We're gonna talk about Magic Gathering In a Trap, remastered Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie. I'm gonna get the gang together for that.

Speaker 1: 1:48:37

We're gonna start a whole bunch of Extreme reviews this year with One Piece Naruto Mobile Suit Gundam Well, not really Mobile Suit Gundam. We're going to compress that one to where we're just going to talk about our favorite titles from that and go from there. I don't know if it's going to be an extreme review, but maybe like one, two parts. I don't know, we'll see. But yeah, we two parts. I don't know, I will see. But yeah, we're gonna have a whole bunch of stuff coming up this year. But until then, you stay tuned and remember to stay nerdy and that great things are coming. Have yourself a good morning, good afternoon and good night, but, above all else, you take it easy. Thank you, outro Music.