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To Be Hero X: The Capitalism of Trust and Fear
Have you ever wondered what would happen if public belief could transform ordinary people into superheroes? To Be Hero X creates a mesmerizing world where faith becomes literal power, and the moment people stop believing in you, your abilities begin to fade. But this isn't just another superhero story – it's a masterclass in innovative storytelling, experimental animation, and corporate intrigue.
Across multiple interconnected character arcs, we explore a system where hero associations function like cutthroat record labels, pushing their stars to maintain rankings at any cost – even if it means assassinating fellow heroes. We follow characters like Nice, whose identity is stolen by Ling Ling after a tragic suicide; Esoul, whose mantle passes from old to young in a spectacular battle; and the mysterious X, whose reality-warping powers might be connected to the audience itself. The series brilliantly employs different animation styles not just as an aesthetic choice but as an integral part of its power system and narrative structure.
What truly elevates To Be Hero X is its non-linear storytelling approach. Episodes jump between time periods and character perspectives, gradually revealing how seemingly unrelated stories connect to form a larger conspiracy involving the former hero Zero and corporate machinations to resurrect his power. As we piece together the chronology (which begins with episodes 17-18, not episode 1!), we uncover layers of meaning that reward multiple viewings. Fan theories abound about X's true identity, potential alien connections, and whether time travel might explain some of the show's mysterious elements.
Ready to experience an anime that breaks all the rules while delivering spectacular fight sequences, compelling character development, and mind-bending plot twists? Watch To Be Hero X now and join us in unraveling its mysteries. What's your theory about who X really is?
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What up, gang? Let's talk about 2b hero X, a new anime series that came out this year and I'm gonna be honest with you, straight up I say it's a 10 out of 10 for me. Like I was watching it. Normally I would like take notes every now and then just to see what I want to talk about, but with this one, nah, like this anime is so wild with how they executed it, like I was thinking like you know what, just put the pin down and just enjoy the show. And I'm just gonna tell you how I'm feeling about it. Uh, playboy, I am so glad that you joining me for this because, honestly, I was gonna save it for anime lightning, but since you were saying that you enjoyed it, so I was like, okay, let's do it together, we'll do a full review on it. And you know what, I'm kind of glad we're kind of doing a full review. Oh, we'll see. Like, um, we'll see.
Speaker 1:Now with 2, with 2B Hero X, you have this world where you have faith, turning people into superheroes, and like, say, for instance, if people believe that you can fly, then you can fly, and if you lose trust with the people, then you also lose your power. So you gotta it's kind of performative, essentially, like you gotta make sure that you don't fail in the eyes of the public, otherwise you'll lose your power and your status and whatnot. Speaking of status, it's kind of corporate and I like how. Whatnot. Speaking of status, it's kind of corporate. And yeah, I just I like how they kind of did it to where you have these multiple hero associations taking on heroes trying to get their ranks up and whatnot. But the thing is just about all of them are corrupt to some degree, to where some of them are like willing to be like all right, I'm gonna need you to take out this hero so that way you can rise up in the ranks. So you have a whole bunch of heroes not only fighting villains, but they're also fighting other heroes, and even crazier is that most of the time when a villain is introduced, they were a former hero that got infected by fear and the thing is with fear, just like how a hero gets his power from trust, fear also has different effects on people.
Speaker 1:Sometimes, with fear, it might have you thinking irrationally or whatnot, but with some of the heroes, it's like a dark version of themselves, where you're just fueled by negative emotions and whatnot? Anger, jealousy, whatever the case may be, and it's crazy how like the villains are normally former heroes. In fact, the first person to become X is called Zero and he's revered as his god, is called zero and he's revered as his god, and let's just say that like ambiguously, like they didn't really fully explain, but it's almost like he was like godlike, but then something went wrong to a point to where he became like this ultimate evil and they say he perished, but as of the season finale, it's like, oh no, he never really perished, so he might be Walking around. There's some fan theories floating around Talking about what's been going on, including Zero. But Before I yap on any further, playboy, tell me how you feel about To be Hero X. How did you enjoy the show?
Speaker 2:man. As a show, I definitely agree with you on giving it a 10 out of 10, because and the story, the animation was already dead just by them swapping animations throughout the show. That itself was just unique and clever, never seen that before. And clever. And then on top of that, the storytelling, right when I thought they threw me off, it was just like another way to lock me in, because by the fourth episode it took a whole nother turn. It went to the past on some other character, and I remember somebody telling me that different parts of the show had different main characters and I just wanted to figure out why. And and as I started watching it more and more, I started seeing some well, at least one character get a highlight from the previous episode. I'm like, okay, these stories tie in together. So there's multiple heroes and we're getting like a glimpse of each of their episodes, their main characters at certain parts in the series or at least throughout the season, and then, I'm assuming, at the end they all come together, which is kind of what happened.
Speaker 2:But throughout the show I started to notice I'd say my favorite thing is one of the heroes. His power was manipulating the dimensions and basically changing the animation of the whole show. So when I realized that, re-watching the show only makes me wonder what he was doing the whole time, since the animation was changing while he wasn't there, you see what I'm saying. Right, considering the fact he used it during combat, I'm sitting here watching the first couple of episodes. Like these characters don't notice the animation change. It's not affecting them in anything, but you can see how, when it gets to him, he's using it to fight like he don't get touched at all you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:So it was a great concept. I honestly think and it's always listen, bro, it's always these white haired characters would just do it on the shit, bro. This man was untouched, just cool as hell. He was just walking Hands in pocket white hair, white suit, like.
Speaker 1:Bro, like he had drip for sale With the glasses and all that. His hair got slicked back and shit. Yeah, the shit was crazy. He was unbothered A whole fucking time.
Speaker 2:To be number one, to be hero, it's I with it, a different. But when the whole power system that was a whole, that was a whole new thing for me too. Like, I kind of like that. Like every time I watch a new anime, I'm always wondering what's the power system here like? What's different, what's what makes them powerful? And so when I'm looking at them, like this trust value, okay, I with that, because, like you say, you can't, once they give you this power or you put they put you on this pedestal, you have to perform. The better you perform, the more trust you get, the more power you get. You see what I'm saying. And, um, as you can see that trust can turn to fear. That's what made the first hero become, you know, evil or not, because he was trusted by everybody in the whole world, but then everybody in the entire world.
Speaker 2:That trust turned to fear, which made him very powerful. And the evil aspect kind of like how the um, the devil powers work in chainsaw man, everybody fear it become a real thing. So, right, I was like I fucked with that when that came into play Because it kind of countered the trust thing. And there was something else. I mean I kind of when a dog, what's his name? Ahu? When he got his little awakening and he turned up and got his little one trust power, in my head, just being a fanatic of anime, I was thinking maybe this is a new way of getting power and like motivation or something, like something. Just the way he was explaining it made it seem as if he was he didn't trust the kid but he trusted her trusting him. That's how he explained that he was like I trusted her from the very beginning and she told me he was that third. So he got one trust power and I was like, okay, now hold on.
Speaker 1:I like how you're bringing that up, because I was gonna mention with x. Like there's like some theories going on, well, mainly around him, like with x. Like he's like this mysterious person, like nobody really knows his identity but people know that he's so strong and whatnot. And one of the theories that I like is what if he doesn't really abide by the traditional trust value system, but rather his trust comes from his self-confidence and with himself? In other words, as long as he played cool and know that he can make things happen, he can make it happen. That's why his it happen, that's why his reality-warping abilities make sense to him To where it's like as long as he knows that he can get out any situation, like defeat any opponent, like that makes sense. And also another fan theory that I'm going to tie into what if he's not reliant on the trust value of the people in the show, but the trust from us as an audience? Because we're thinking the number one hero is supposed to be like the best of the best, so we're trusting that he can't lose. So as long as we trust that x can like beat any opponent, get out any situation, he's gonna do it. So it's more like uh, he's like the most meta anime character in a while. Like the very fact that he can like change the animation style and the flow and whatnot should tell you that he's like on the lowest, where he probably knows the fourth wall. That's why, in the final episode, his mission is simply to defy fate and to go up against these corrupt, uh, agencies trying to uncover the truth and whatnot. It makes sense in that aspect to where X is this avatar of a character that we want to believe in. It's really wild because I'm thinking of multiple shows that does this whole hero thing. Capitalism, consumerism type shit, where you got the boys, you have one punch man, you got my hero academia, where they kind of have that thing going on to, where it seemed like hero work is like more corporate, you know, like kind of by the book type shit, rather than just superheroes just doing their thing and they just happen to collaborate with each other. They do, but they don't really, they're not under like government guidance or whatnot. But uh, it's kind of a new thing in modern times and I'm kind of fucked with it by concept. But uh, yeah, speaking of corporations and corruption, let's talk about some of these characters and how some of these characters got set up to be a pawn in all these things, for instance nice.
Speaker 1:Now, nice, you think like, okay, pretty boy who fights elegantly and all that, okay, cool, cool, cool, cool. And it's crazy how Ling Ling's story starts with the real nice. Just walking by, you know, like Lin was just up on the roof, he just got fired, like he just kind of down the dump Next thing. You know he see nice just strolling by and just decide to commit suicide, probably from, probably from like some pressure and some type shit. But like we're going to circle the real Nice for a moment, but like it just like ever since then Lin had to assume Nice's personality and whatnot, because you know he kind of looked like Nice anyways, not because you know he kind of looked like nice anyways. So he got the real nicest trust value and, uh, started to look like him and whatnot. He was, had this parasocial relationship with moon, but moon didn't even want to be a part of this shit and she got out when she could, like they had to stage the whole thing. It was crazy, but like dang, like the moment I realized I had to lock in was at the very last moment, like at episode 4, where Moon got capped, and then you see Iso running behind her and I'm like what the fuck just happened? And then, next thing, you know this, this whole plot.
Speaker 1:I'm finding out that it's like Kingdom Hearts trying to figure this shit out. Like okay, let me tell you. The chronological order for the episodes goes like this it's episodes 17 and 18, or half of the first half of 18. Then episodes 8 and 9, then episode 11, then 5, then 5 through 7, then 10, then 12 through 16, then we go back to the second half of episode 18, 19 through 23, then the first four episodes and then the last episode. I'm sitting like, oh, hell, no, I don't got time for that. Just let it ride, though. Just let it ride, fuck it, hell. No, you got me fucked up. I'm just gonna watch that shit. I gotta keep skipping through shit just to get it in chronological order. Like maybe some youtubers going like clipping together and be like, okay, here it is a chronological.
Speaker 2:Okay, appreciate your service, bro, but I I couldn't do it like nah, nah, nah, but, uh, but how you felt about that nice part man, I ain't gonna lie, because that's what kind of got me into the very first episode, because when he just walked off the fucking roof, I almost didn't think that happened. Like I'm not gonna lie to you, I almost like nah ain't, no way he died just walking off, like I know he didn't. So I played it back and I kept watching. I'm like nah, bro, he gonna come back, something's gonna happen. Like you know it back, and I kept watching. I'm like nah, bro, he gonna come back, something's gonna happen. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Then it kept going on and going on and he really took this man's life. He didn't take his life, but he started impersonating him. Ling Ling started being nice and I'm like what, how they just gonna let that happen. But it took so long for it to get like, get to the conclusion of that, because throughout the show I must have missed it or it's just how they delivered it. I'm thinking the whole time, throughout the show, this was the new nice, like Ling Ling, some of that like well, I want to say like towards the end, like that Ending half of it it was like in the past was the real nice, like when he got hit with the fear and everything, because it wasn't until ling ling was over when he made it a top 10. You know what I'm saying? Because that was nice whole thing trying to make top 10.
Speaker 1:he never made top 10 you know, let me just go ahead and say because, keep in mind, with nice, like for whoever's listening to this episode, uh, it's not until way later into the series if you're like watching it in the like numerical order, like you see more of the real nice later. But you find out that, oh, he's under a lot of pressure under his uh hero agency, where they're trying to pressure him into like killing other heroes in order to make it to the top 10 and whatnot, and he gets a little drop of fear onto him and whatnot. But that's what kind of that's the main theory I got for why you see the real nice showing up with the crack on his face, where maybe that's him being like resurrected or like kind of it's almost like the fear, kind of saving at the last minute. But it's also corrupting him. So we'll see in season two. I like how they did set up season two at the end minute, but it's also corrupting him. So we'll see in season two. I like how they did set up season two at the end, with a little uh ending theme where it was like different heroes and whatnot. So, okay, it's a little taste of what you can expect from season two. Okay, okay, cool, cool. But yeah, like I just thought it was kind of crazy where Nice was just one of those heroes who just wanted to be a hero the right way. But he's come to find out that, oh shit, like he's getting exploited, like some heroes, like in the boys, you know, between the, especially the female characters in the boys they're the main, those are the main characters that get explored for some reason and it's crazy. But speaking of exploitation, let's talk about Esoul Now, now Yon-Chan, I'm calling him Yang Yang.
Speaker 1:You know, I think Yang just sounds right because it just sounds right. But Yang is like this orphan who's working as the ESO actor because, you know, his parents got killed by some thugs. But the real ESO, the old Esau, excuse me, saved well, took out the bad guys and ever since then he wanted to be just like Esau and then he also wanted to take this girl that he had a crush on to a concert. But the one guy, uh, shane chow, keeps showing up and like kind of stealing his thunder and whatnot, and nothing against shane, like he's, he's a pretty cool dude, but he just damn. Like I kind of felt for yang.
Speaker 1:It's more like one of those things where, okay, you got your typical uh protagonist where he's like not very confident in himself and he's trying to win over this girl, but he also want to be like his hero, easel. And the thing is he got zero trust value. But once, um, the girl's little brother, carmelo, gets kidnapped, yang decides okay, let me just save the kid. And he ended up getting that one trust value. When the kid started to have faith in him, that gave him all he needed to take out those two kidnappers. And every since then he became the new Esau, to a point to where everybody started liking him.
Speaker 1:He was trying to do his thing. Everything was nice, up until Shang-Chao got shot in the head by one of the kidnappers from earlier. That drove Yang to a point to where he needs to lock in and be the best hero he can be and that guy start with taking out the old, each soul, so that way there can be only one, and then he can make sure shit like this doesn't happen again, like he even like forgot all about the girl in order to do all this shit. But, man, let me tell you Two things. Well, yes, two things. And I'm going to ask you, boy, what Two things. One, that fucking fight between old Ezel and new Iso. That was one of those fights where I'm like, bro, this is fucking peak. Especially with Lucky Siam singing her song in background too. I'm like oh, this is so peak.
Speaker 1:That was probably one of the best fights for me, yeah, definitely like top five in the series um so far. But the second thing was, well, hold on one more thing the fact that at the end they just made it like up for speculation on who won that fight, because you know, both Esouls like trust, values merged and whatnot. The armor merged. So it's like make it sound like it could have been either or. But I honestly think it was the new Esoul. He just lost his arm, or maybe that's just part of the whole fusion thing, do we? Oh, you take on the mantle of Esau. You gotta have the prosthetic arm too. So I wanna believe it was the young Esau that won that one, because old Esau don't move like that, you know, with the lightning fast running and shit. So I'm like, yeah, that's definitely new Esau that won that one. So I'm like, yeah, that's definitely a new Esau that one. I'm pretty sure of that. If it's the old one, I'll be so surprised.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the young Esau was the one that was running around. The old one was just kind of standing there using the suit and the powers and stuff.
Speaker 1:I think he had like a shield or something, yeah, like it was like this floating shield it or something, yeah, like it was like this uh, floating shield, like it's like metal sheets that he kind of uses as a shield, and it's also like spears and whatnot, you know, kind of almost like a form of electromagnetic telekinesis, that shit. But uh, oh, one more thing the fact that Uncle Rock of Mighty Glory set up the whole fucking thing. He set up Shane Chow getting shot, the kidnappers, all that shit, just to make sure that Yang gets hyped up to become the new Esau, just because they wanted to get rid of the old ESOL, because, oh, he ain't doing what we tell him to do, like he ain't trying to kill the heroes like we tell him to do. So we gonna need a new guy. So they've been hyping up Yang to become the new ESOL. Take out the old one. So that way, the new guy. Okay, this new guy will play ball, he will do what we tell him to do.
Speaker 2:That would play ball. He would do what we told him. That was crazy for me. But how you feeling about the easel? Honestly, I'd say it was probably. Well, I want to say one of my favorites. I only because of the fight and like the story behind it, but that was where I started to notice how corrupt it was. It was during that. That's when I started to realize all the different like the hero organizations, associations, like how serious it was. That was when I realized, okay, yeah, this is, this is bigger than just fighting villains and saving the world because they're trying to take out people and because the old east soul, he really didn't give a damn bro, he didn't even want to fight the young, he was like I don't care, he was like on some batman he's like I'm iso, like you feel me, I'm the first he's gonna run you.
Speaker 2:So, like, if you want to be impossible, like, but it wanted me. You know what I'm saying. He was the one who threw the final hit against. You know what I'm saying? Zero right, you know what I'm saying. So buddy was really not trying to fight and I seen how his manager was like, yeah, you got to take on this fight, beat this young kid's ass, this down the third. You know what I'm saying. But buddy, like, no, I ain't really tripping, I ain't gonna lie, I kind of sleep. I thought he was gonna win that shit.
Speaker 1:Like I mean, it's one of those uh it's one of those stories where it can honestly go either way. Like they're not really trying to hype up anybody to be like the main protagonist, like there's multiple protagonists, including X, but it's like you're not really supposed to be like too attached to anyone in particular, like, yeah, you can have some favorites, but like it can go either way. Kind of like watching Junie Tyson all over again. I mean, in a way you kind of knew who was going to win, but the fact that at first it was set up to where, oh well, you're not really expecting anyone, like you're not really attached to any of the characters, so it can go either way. Like you kind of like certain characters to an extent but there's like no one they were really focusing on. So it worked that way. To where the fact that the winner won and I'm like okay, cool, I kind of like that to where you can just like a character but don't get too attached because who knows if they might die in this series. But keeping it moving, there's Lucky Cyan, the lucky young girl who's very good with music. She survived the plane crash, she was taken into this orphanage, made friends and what not. She I mean I did mention that she's like revealed to be incredibly lucky, like she gives luck and what not, but she wanted more than that. So she wanted to escape her friend Luo, but the Dean didn't want her to leave like she was. In fact, the Dean was his former hero that wanted to escape Girlfriend Luo, but the Dean didn't want her to leave. In fact, the Dean was his former hero that wanted to raise the orphans Into heroes as well. But you know, once he gets the corruption, he's like okay, I'm just gonna raise y'all To be like kind of having his own Hero association in a way, but using the orphans instead. And Honestly, I want to say that's when the story got kind of dark for me, when cyan had to run away to become a street performer trying to earn money, afford necessities, whatever the case may be uh, do what you need to do. Uh, you see x talks through that coin and that's the start of his uh hero story and I like how it's like kind of loops around to that moment and there was like zombies and everybody was just like mutating whatnot because of the fear. And you see the dean like being the main one, like in control, luo like being warped by his insecurity that cyan left dementia and you see cyan try to fight through all these different zombified inhabitants of the orphanage and whatnot. Queen shows up to help her because you know they kind of buddy buddy and you know they take care of it. Like not to say a whole lot about, um, science, art. I'm gonna try to play through some of these arts anyways. But yeah, it gets dark in this one and you kind of find out that another CEO, DOS Mickey. He masterminded everything to unveil the existence of the power of fear to the public. He set all that shit up for Lucky Cyan and Plan Cras. Uh, it gets crazy. Like bro, it gets crazy. It's one of those anime series where, bro, y'all be better off, just go ahead and watch it. Like we're trying to tell you, just go ahead and watch it.
Speaker 1:Uh, queen, I do like Queen. You know, obvious Queen Energy. Like she's a prodigy graduates from university at 14. Like she's trying to be the number one hero. Like she has to rival Boa and whatnot. She's trying to win the tournament. But they keep getting watched by X.
Speaker 1:Not a whole lot to say, well, other than than boa getting corrupted by fear and we had to deal with that. But uh, she had to deal with her friend and end up losing her chance to become a number one hero when she was in a coma and can participate In the 18th tournament. So there's that, loli. She's like Iron man, but her main thing is Like I think it's funny how she's like this cute girl and Her stress value thing to it. Every time people think like, oh, she's so cute, her stress value goes down. So it's almost like, oh, they don't want her to like do anything dangerous, like she's so cute, like she don't want don't do any, uh, dangerous missions or whatnot. So that's why it was important for her to make that robot suit so people can like stop noticing how cute she is.
Speaker 1:Not much to say on her other than she was working at Glimmer Lab, and Glimmer Lab once again up to no good with some shady shit. They got going on in the background. Up to no good with some shady shit. They got going on in the background. She had to deal with a former number one hero, shindig, which is crazy how, like, some of them show up as a former number one. But I'm like what happened? Like did you lose a tournament? Like who do you?
Speaker 1:Oh, right, x I mean at some point Like no, no, no, it's like at some point you got to stop and think, okay, there's a tournament, so they got to participate in the tournament and maybe, like they got passed towards whoever wins the tournament. But I'm thinking like, hold on All these former number one heroes, like how did that happen? And I'm thinking like, oh way, that defeats the purpose of X showing up where, like, yeah, he's been winning like three times in a row so far, so it just makes sense for some of them being former number one. But uh, yeah, lowly tried to deal with Shindig, but all that eventually led up to him, uh, shindig getting killed by Ghostblade, which leads right into Ghostblade's story, to where he's like this anti-social assassin type dude who was set up by another association to I think it was FOMO. I think it was FOMO where they try to set him up to be this assassin that takes up other heroes, and I guess that's kind of the point.
Speaker 1:Oh, you don't know it, it wasn't FOMO, it was Mighty Glory with Uncle Rock. Yeah, because, keep in mind, with Uncle Rock, I might as well say this now, because, keep in mind with Uncle Rock, I'm not supposed to say this now he's trying to set up Esoul, ghostblade and Dragon Boy to be like hero hitters, like just going out and killing all the other heroes. But he's setting up Dragon Boy to be the next zero. But aside from that, oh, you had anything to add on to Cyan or Loli or Queen and Ghostblade story. Like I know, I'm kind of blazing through a book. Do you have anything, queen?
Speaker 2:and Ghostblade. I have to say those are my favorite heroes. I like I like the way Ghostblade do things, especially like when his. When he first came in, like um, I think it was yeah, I like how he was first introduced because it was kind of weird. Um, it was with a lowly story like how he was a creep kind of following her, so I ain't gonna. I'm thinking, oh, he was um it was no, no.
Speaker 1:Uh, yeah, it was, because no, no is ghost play's daughter. And it was like oh well, you know, I'm just looking out for my daughter.
Speaker 2:I'm like bro like why don't you just tell her yeah, yeah, but yeah, okay, yeah, that's, that was her name. Yeah, no, no, um, he was fucking following her ass around through the alley and shit. And then, um, lolly come through fighting him with the suit and everything on some little mini diva type shit. Penny parker, that shit was kind of op. She held her own against the old, against the top hero, and didn't even know it. But the funny thing about it, because, like I started to realize, like throughout that piece of the arc I was like, okay, I in the beginning I thought it was gonna be a villain, you know, just by him being in the shadows and and how he kind of like approached lolly with the fight. But then when I seen it from his point of view, it just all started to make sense. Like he wasn't really just being a creep, it's just he was coming off creepy like bro, you could have just said something instead of following this girl around in the shadows and hiding the bush.
Speaker 1:No, did just talk about invincible where, like dude who was responsible for adam eve and he was like stalking her the whole time and he's just sitting there like bro, you look creepy like you, look like you about to get uh put on a list the way you be stalking this girl at like her school and whatnot.
Speaker 2:Like you got good intentions, but but you gotta go about doing that shit another way. Yeah, like you looking real sus dog, you're gonna get locked up before you can do anything. Good. But nah, man, it kind of. I kind of waited till it got like halfway finished before I even started watching it, so I was able to to watch it non-stop without really having to wait for an episode to come out. I can say it's been a while since I've done that with an anime. This was a great-ass anime man. It was better than I expected. I only started watching it because of it's His Trailer. Each hero had a trailer and stuff like that. I was just kind of seeing his and I'm like, damn, he's just fucking up the animation.
Speaker 1:So I, for a minute I'm thinking he was the main character, like that, was it. I didn't think you thought it was like the trailer.
Speaker 2:No, that's his power yeah, and I'm thinking that's the trailer, I'm thinking he's the main character. No, that's his power and you don't get to see him till half of the show is over. So I'm like okay, I'm like I'm waiting for this white suit to do like what's white suit.
Speaker 2:Oh there he is, wait, wait he shows up for half a second and he don't say much. My favorite part was when he balled up. Um, he balled up dragon boy. Ass, was it dragon boy? When he yeah, yeah, no, no, no, no, no it was. Uh, damn, it was dragon boy, wasn't it yeah? Buddy went in here got a fear to him. He had turned fear. He had to turn evil.
Speaker 1:He was fighting smile right, oh, yeah, because he didn't show up. Um, in the middle of that, I was gonna get to that part when we got to dragon board part, but yeah, he didn't show up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah they were fighting and then he had. He said your rank is mine, and then he snapped his finger and turned his ass to 3d and balled his ass up and throw him in the water. I was like yeah, that did happen, this could beat goku. I was like, bro, if that's all he's doing, like no anime could beat him. He could.
Speaker 1:Because I mean straight up, he could. Because even with Ultra Instinct, even with Ultra Instinct, like bro, like Goku tried to swing at him and all, look X doesn't even have to snap his fingers, he still has that 40 aura, so he can just have you doing a whole misdirection and shit.
Speaker 2:Then this man popped Infinite Void in like like fourth dimension. You seen that shit? Yeah, bro, the awkward didn't know what was going on. Where are we now? Where are we now? Like one minute you in a fight and the next minute you're on the roof, and the next minute you're in a bar and the next minute you're in outer space and they'll drama the guys.
Speaker 2:Well, you're probably like part of mural on a wall where I'm like damn I play that shit back so much because one of the uh, one of the evil guys tried to like sneak, attack him and he snapped his finger and put his ass in the graffiti in the wall. And I'm like, how did that feel? Like did you kill him? Like is he forever stuck? And then you just snap your fingers and go about your business like you forgot that guy's still on the wall, right?
Speaker 1:uh, no, it didn't even forget. It's like no, he doesn't matter, so like, if anything, people just remember him by being on that wall tough, like what about his kids at home?
Speaker 2:and like he left the light on stuck in the wall this that's crazy. No with it, man. I definitely with it, for like an original movie.
Speaker 1:You should have thought about that ahead of time, before your son came at me.
Speaker 2:I'll fuck with it, man. I'm ready to see what more he got for it. For it to come out of nowhere. Man, I'll fuck with this anime. Hell yeah, 10 out of 10 for sure.
Speaker 1:Now let's keep it going. The Johnnies, now the John now let's keep it going. Uh, the johnny's now. The johnny's were okay, like I don't got a whole lot to say about it.
Speaker 2:I just thought they were an all right thing about him. My only thing about the listen, my only thing I have yet to see the kids ability, it's just, it's the damn dog thing, which I kind of already knew. Well, I assume it'd be the little. Whatever, he is big johnny. I see why I call him big johnny, yeah. Well, no, no, he didn't even know he was that big. But big johnny definitely does fit his fucking name right. But it's crazy because I wanted to see what he could do. I want to see what his ability might be.
Speaker 1:Maybe he's just a pokemon trainer, I don't know now hold on, like there's like a couple theories that I want to throw at you while we're here. Now. It's during the Johnny arc where he starts once again flashing back to Glimmer Lab. You find out that FOMO CEO Zach was assigned the Johnnies to the UFO research team as scouts and whatnot. And you're thinking like with Big Johnny, it's like ain't no way. You're like you're not an average animal, you're not like agu to where, like you're just a dog that just happened to have a trust value system. Now you're like completely something else.
Speaker 1:And the fact that they're introducing ufo alien type shit into this having me thinking that maybe big johnny is an alien companion to little johnny, I mean, yeah, yeah, I'm kind of getting fucked up, uh, mixed up a little bit, but uh, that's one thing. Like one theory is what if? Like keep in mind this is not my, it's just a theory that I heard what if Big Johnny and X are aliens from another planet? And like they just happen to that's why they're so different to where their abilities aren't like others? But I don't know about that theory, but I just thought it was kind of out there. But like, who knows?
Speaker 2:like I've seen the comments saying something about it's being a fucking alien.
Speaker 1:Yeah but, uh, another theory that I want to talk about now that I'm bringing all this up uh, zach, the FOMO CEO. I heard one fan theory that Zach is low key zero, because when they say that zero never really pairs, that's like, okay, it can be possible that some folks might pop up back into the picture later on, so zero could show up. But they're thinking that maybe zach could low-key, be zero in disguise, because zach, he, he's the only CEO out of them all who didn't really age. So they're thinking like, okay, what's going on with you? Why does it seem like you're so young after all these years? And second of all, the fact that Zach and Uncle Rock keep being around each other more than any other CEO and you know, brought the whole agenda to resurrect Zero and make the new Zero out of Dragonborn, whoever the case may be. And Zack just happened to be masquerading as one of the CEOs just to kind kind of observe, play the shit out, whatnot, and he might pull a roach tomorrow and take a new vessel. I don't know like some of these theories are kind of crazy, but, bro, like with how wild this anime gets, I I just wouldn't put it past them like. We'll just have to see. I just don't know about that yet, but I just think hearing some of these fan theories is very interesting. How did you come up with that? It just makes me wonder how they come up with that Johnny's. Other than that, I just thought the Johnny's were okay. There was the whole Bruins Incident With the UFO. You know that was All my shit happened. The 20th Hero Tournament got cancelled and X is still on top. Uh, they of switched around the rankings where Queen became second, ghostblade got the fourth, johnny became fifth, lawley became the sixth. We know the new Knights is part of it and Dragon Ball is going to be there. The crazy part is when the real nice showed up and him getting involved knocked ESO out of the top 10 for the tournament. I thought, damn, all that work just for you to not even be able to participate in the tournament.
Speaker 1:Crazy, uh, speaking of dragon boy, like okay, he's like this wild card type here where I'm thinking like okay, he's got. Uh, I mean okay, to be fair, he was brought up by abusive parents, so I can understand why he like got really strong hatred towards the world and whatnot. You just want to be like zero and just rule over them all, when I rule over the world and, um, maybe destroy, I don't know. But it's almost like dragon boy is like this obvious villain that's masquerading as a hero. It's kind of like Bakugou, in reverse to where Bakugou really do want to be a hero but he just doesn't seem very heroic. Meanwhile, with Dragon Ball it's like he comes off as a villain but he's kind of masquerading as a hero. But I don't know, it's kind of a weird way to word it, but I just figured with Dragon Ball he just gives me this vibe that he's definitely not out to be really heroic. He just, really just wanted to be the next Zero. He doesn't really care for being X, really, he just wanted to be Zero.
Speaker 1:The only thing I would say about the Dragon Boy arc Was that fight with Nice I mean not Nice, uh, smile, because, bro, the way they were throwing hands, like Smile was throwing hands. Also, it didn't help that Smile Looked like a spitting image of all might. To understand, like. I mean, I know, for like copyright reasons they can't make them look exactly like all might, but you know, the vibe was there and it just makes me also wonder.
Speaker 1:No, you would think that, uh, hope, hope would have been a great way to be, like register how people give them power. Like, instead of calling it trust, they called the hope um value system. But if they did that then it would just be too close to my hero academia, because you have the symbol of hope and then you have the symbol of fear. So I'm like, okay, I kind of see why y'all wouldn't trust, because it would have been too on the nose. But uh, yeah, there was a whole thing with Dragon Boy, who has one episode. Then there was the whole thing with Dragon Boy Ahu has one episode. Then there was the season finale with X. Uh, him fighting off all those different dudes and I'm like god damn that was like so much sauce in that last episode and honestly that's pretty much all of it.
Speaker 1:Oh wait, hold on. Uh, esau apparently dropped out of it. Oh wait, hold on. Esau apparently dropped out of the top ten. I mean, I guess, sure. So I guess it wasn't that nice Just somehow just rose up to take his place, he just dropped out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was the old Esau right, the first one.
Speaker 1:No, no, no. This is when they gathered together for the 21st, and whoever this Esau is like, he is not part of the tournament this time. But yeah, that was it. We kind of blazed through this one. But, playboy, you have anything to add on to all this?
Speaker 2:We didn't really get to talk much about what's her name? The one queen fault we didn't really get to talk much about. Uh, what's her name? Um, the one queen fault, uh, boa, yeah, I was kind of having like between their fight. I ain't gonna lie that fight, for that fight for me was probably the best one because it was the longest and I ain't know which way that shit was going.
Speaker 2:I was rooting for Queen, but but bo's fighting style was just impeccable, like this, the way she was using her weapons. I was like man, she's really giving it to queen right now, like I was rooting for both of them, but I wanted queen to win just for the sake of the plot and story to go the way, because bo was giving off very villainous vibes. Man, I mean. So it's hard to be, to be hero, but you're purple and black and you're on some sinister shit right now. But I get it like it's competition, but it's like man, ain't y'all still heroes? Like if you take out more heroes, that just mean well, I don't know, I see how the trust value is, but it's, it's. It's always so corrupt. The way I was looking at it. It was kind of like I, I like to apply real world to the anime sometimes, yeah.
Speaker 2:So, looking at all of these record labels and their top artists. You know what I'm saying. They're like beefing and going at each other, trying to knock out careers so that they could be the next top artist with their album and their singles coming out and have all the fans. You know what I'm saying, saying the more fans you got, the more records, the more numbers you're gonna sell. So that's how I was looking at it, because that's how I was better to understand right when I started hearing fomo and dawes and you know it's all these other agencies. I'm like, damn, this shit sound like regular labels, the way they got these heroes and trying to compete and all this shit. So so that was kind of fun for me to get into, but that was the crazy part about it. I believe, if I remember correctly, queen and Boa was under the same age, babe.
Speaker 1:No hold on. First of all, thank you for reminding me about that fight, because crazy enough. When I was watching that fight I was thinking why is this reminding me about that fight? Because crazy enough. When I was watching that fight I was thinking why is this reminding me of the Fate series? Because the way it was going it just felt like something out of Fate series. But uh, I'm gonna try to review that and re-watch it, give it another chance, because for some reason I just can't power through all of it.
Speaker 2:Same with me too, because I started it like two years ago. I just didn't finish it. I was watching it, I just didn't finish it. Something else happened. I fell off of it. But I was getting through it. Like I kind of, probably if I could go back to the one I was watching I know there's different kinds, but if I can go back to the one I was watching I'm probably like a few episodes from actually finishing it.
Speaker 2:I got through half of it. I know that much. Well, it was just. It was just because you know I like to get into it and really understand exactly what's going on. So I guess that was my thing. I couldn't fully understand because I had to start jujutsu kaisen over. I had to watch that for the third time to actually like go through it. I mean I might have to go through Fate one more time just to grasp what's really going on. I kind of get what's going on with the whole them having summoners or something like that, they fighting for the challenge. I get the concept of it. I just kind of fell off from it. I feel it. I can definitely see the fight scene similarity in there with the whole color of the graphics. The choreography is really what's doing it. There's no still frames in it. It's all animated, it's all motion. I guess that's probably what's intense about it. There's no break, there's no flashback, just talking in hands and talking in hands Right Eight minutes straight, seven minutes straight.
Speaker 1:And another thing is with Boa, it kind of it's kind of that's the kind of thing like they never liked each other to begin with. It was like this rivalry right from jump. And it didn't help that Queen was the CEO's daughter. So Boa felt like, oh, I see what it is Like. She was set up for success to begin with the whole time. So basically I was just set up for failure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she was like I see You're his daughter. I had to play that shit back. I was like uh-oh.
Speaker 1:The insecurity brought in the fear, and that fear made her into a villain. Yeah, and let me go back to Nice real quick where, with Enlighter becoming God Eye, I was like and it felt like it came out of nowhere because, like you're thinking like, okay, what's this guy's problem? Like, why is he beefing with Nice all of a sudden, and I don't know, maybe, maybe, like he just got so sick of the corruption with the uh agency, like he was, like he was really the warning sign to where, okay, there's something more going on with this agency than uh, we know, or you know, like that the public in the audience in the series know. So the fact that he just decided to become a villain and become God, I that should tell you that, okay, there's more to it. To where, like, what's going on? Why was nice? You can't lead a real nice, what's going on, that type of thing?
Speaker 1:And yeah, it's just crazy how sometimes it takes insecurity or suspicion. Sometimes you just gotta be tweaking enough to actually become a villain. You're just so suspicious of what's going on, like you, just you start crashing out and becoming a villain, and that's what makes it sad or nice, to where he's just pretty much being Manipulated the whole time. He was part of the agency and he had to kill people that he didn't even want to kill. He was like, oh, I was just doing my job, but this is not what I wanted. Like here at work, it's not what I thought it was going to be.
Speaker 1:So it's just crazy how anybody could turn to a villain based on what the CEOs who, as far as I know, don't even have powers. So, like crazy, how, like the one thing that pretty much the downfall of all these heroes is their manager getting to the ear I'm telling them what to do. It's like everybody trying to raise somebody to be the next number one hero and that's probably just so that, uh, that company can make their money and whatnot. So they're profiting off having the number one hero under their agency. And some folks, like they just want to make the new Zero so they can like bring forth like world destruction or new world order or some type of shit like that. So each agency has like a different agenda and it's just crazy how, like the real villain is their own people. I wanted to, um is their own people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I wanted to piggyback off of something you said earlier about Zach being zero originally, because the last episode kind of gave me insight to that too, because I was suspicious of him anyway being even incorrect just through the whole insight to that too, because I was suspicious of him and I was suspicious of him anyway being even more incorrect just through the whole Esau arc. Like I was already on his ass and it's always that it's always one person, but it's always gonna be Somebody on the good side. That you gotta watch. That's the plot twist. You gotta be prepared for the plot twist. When, when um X was explaining to Ahu About the history and the truth behind the whole thing and he was explaining the domino effect and it went to him, he was like and zero was not there, did that? Third, it panned to him. That hinted right there to me, yeah, and then it showed like little flashbacks of him growing up or whatever. But what really did it for me was I started to notice, you know, what he was saying.
Speaker 2:Zero started to do. What made the bear rise for him was he started to kill. He killed a hero because he went against his will, like his order on him, on his belief and then he killed another one. Then he killed another one. It was a domino effect and so, as he was explaining it, I'm like you know that's exactly what just happened. Like all these heroes were dying one by one, by one, and there was a domino effect behind it. Like this hero died during this fight. This hero died during this fight. Heroes were hero died during this fight, fighting this hero. You know what I'm saying Heroes were killing heroes. He just had it going about a different way, like he wasn't doing it but he was orchestrating the death of heroes.
Speaker 2:Still, you know what I'm saying. So in a sense, I'm like you know what, y'all starting to come together and make some sense. And that last part, where X walked out as himself I think that's his way of it. I honestly believe this is my, this is my opinion of what might happen. I feel like he's gonna give up his number one spot with him. I feel like he's gonna be like, fuck it only because, like you say, like we believe he's number one because of who he is, kind of like, are you the strongest figure? Go to, or you know, go, just take it strong, like he's number one because he said he's not it because he's number one. He's number one because the world believe gonna be it. So if he walked out there who he is, he's not it and he won't be number one because the world believes he's going to be it. So if he walks out there who he is and he's not it, then he won't be number one. People are going to be like, who is that guy? I don't know him, that's not it, that's not who we know.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying, right? So he might stand out there right before this happens, right before the tournament starts. So you know, I feel like he's going to go out there and they're going to look at him. He's going to lose that trust. I'm not sure what will happen. Something is going to happen for sure, but I don't I think he's going to lose that spot. Because of that, he become a villain. They fear him Lose the ranking. I don't think it may take away from his power, I'm not sure. But that right there was very significant and that was a good cliffhanger to leave off on, in my opinion, because we just started to get action of this guy and he comes in and the first thing he does is shows us exactly who he is, and it ain't, but he's on some Peter Parker shit man, it would be crazy as hell if X actually happened to be Zero, to where, like bro, like that's kind of where like, okay, he has enough power to like warp reality, like Zero was revered as a god.
Speaker 1:So, like the fact that X can warp reality, that's like saying Like, okay, it's possible that I mean Shit. Like, because you know, you know how, with Quirk and my Hero Academia, like people are just Born with their quirks, like they just can't help that. They were born with it, so they just make't help that. Uh, they were born with it, so they just make um the best of it and, depending on what their quirk is, they can't reach like godlike, um stature with it. So I'm looking at this series like who knows, like the main thing is with x who is he really? How did he get his power? It's like Saitama all over again. To where did Saitama really just exercise to a point to where he just became super strong? Or did his power originate from somewhere else? Did that strength come from somewhere else? Or did he really train to get that strong? And that's just how it is. Like that's the thing.
Speaker 1:The mystery is, what really eats at you is like it makes you want a second season, or to see the story to the end, to where, like, uh-uh, like, y'all are bringing up way too much mystery in there and you know it's already set up for season two, to where, okay, we might get some more answers, but we might also get more questions than answers yeah, because even when he was explaining that he was, he said I like to think I got my powers when he talked to the coin.
Speaker 2:But he was like I also believe like everything was just a twist of fate, like everything was put in place like already as far as fate wise, because he was still talking about the domino effect, but, like you say, cause he flipped that coin. I forgot exactly what happened, I just watched it, but he had flipped the fucking coin. Oh, it was when he, he gave the coin to um Siam girl on the side of the street. You know what I'm saying. He said, like the thing, my power started there. You see what I'm saying. Like how the, how the heroes part, like stories connect. Like gay saiyan girl fucking coin when she was on the side of the road playing her music like the number one hero and it's lucky girl, like all types of shit was going on. So he's like he said I like to think my powers came at that moment.
Speaker 2:But it was, you know, saying probably all just a twist of fate, like it was, like it was supposed to be this way from the beginning and looking at the show, it's kind of that's how it would. Probably it looks like that's how it was given because everything started to play out like. It started to play out all the scenes like here is this, here's this, this is after that, that's after that and you know, saying she crashed, this guy found her, she played music, it was just playing everything and that was a lot of information to take in. Just like he told ahu and I'm sorry, that's a lot of information to take in for a dog to set and start, I'm like yeah, because I might have to play that shit back. I'm like that, would you summarize 20 episodes in like 30 seconds? Yeah, I gotta go back and figure out because even when it ended, it ended on some attack on titan shit, with nice spazzing out, tripping, going crazy, like I got fear on me.
Speaker 2:I can't, I can't, I can't do this, and then you snap out of it, and then you see ling ling. I'm like, oh shit, here we go.
Speaker 1:I've seen this before yeah, now one more thing, one more theory about x, and we're gonna go ahead and close this out. This one. I'm I'm like you know what. It would be crazy if this was the case, but it would also kind of sort of make sense, like, imagine in the future heroes falling like the villains, born like the world's in turmoil and whatnot, and the people need a hero to save them from this outcome, like from this tyranny and whatnot.
Speaker 1:So this guy go back in time to try to be the number one hero to prevent that fate. And that is the story of x, where his hero story began. When he put that coin towards ian, uh, he knew the event's happening. So he just got manipulated to a point to where stop something, a certain event, from happening. So that way the downfall of heroes can't stop. But like, okay, if he's from the future, okay, but that's just one of those things that this gives me more questions than answers. Like, okay, what event are you trying to stop? Why is it that you were totally cool with If you knew everything that was going to happen? Like you could have saved more heroes than you know what I mean. Like you could have prevented more shit happening if that was the case. But maybe it's one of those things where something just had to happen for a reason and like some people are just going to have to die. But that's a sacrifice he's pulling. But I don't know.
Speaker 2:Like not to say that I wholeheartedly believe in all these theories, because, once again, they're theories, but when you think about them it's like okay the theories be theories until they're proven facts or debunked, though, like they be theories because of the hints and the foreshadows, like I think this is that because you gotta think, I don't think the whole future thing is out of question, because I've just seen somebody like point out a detail and it's crazy Because it didn't even take the last episode to point this out Between one and four, remember when Lemony took over life I mean nice new life and he was with Moon, and like I think it was the second episode, second episode, third episode he woke up in a bed and she was dead yeah, I know it and everything.
Speaker 2:And then, like she wasn't dead, she was just fucking working out like he was tripping. Yeah, now I knew that detail had some significance to it, because why did you just picture her dead? Like why did you wake up and she was dead? And then, a couple episodes later, we see the same blood stain and she's laid out in the same position on a beach. Like he saw her dead, but not right there, just somewhere. But then, when I think about it, could that have been just him being accidentally swapped to another dimension due to Ed's power, because you know he mentioned it with the animation, and both things did happen under different animations, like he saw her it's like on Deja Vu, to where you have false memories.
Speaker 1:So it might have been one of those things, to where maybe he had a false memory of her dying on that bed, but since things have changed this time around like that didn't actually happen, but you still have that memory for some reason. And then, when she died later mysteriously, because once again, like I need to look at that scene over and over it's one of those scenes where you have to like have like this detective level of observations where I want to hold on y'all, like run that scene back at like half speed or some shit, because like hold on, like it didn't. It didn't look like esol killed her, like it just he just happened to be there. But even then, how did he even know they were there?
Speaker 2:yeah, that was another crazy part, because nobody knew they were there. It was kind of hard to get there. She told us but yeah, that was the next thing I would never explain. Like that should have at least been explained from his point of view, or something like we don't even know which ethos that was. Yeah, I would assume that the young one, because they had him doing all types of shit. But still, like, what was the motive?
Speaker 1:so it just got you wondering what if it's like a matter of time traveled to where they just have this hero from the future trying to prevent what was happening, the whole thing with defying fate? That's the thing. Maybe his mission is to prevent whatever was supposed to happen from happening and instead of him, maybe just keeping the title X he just finds someone, he him maybe like just keeping the title X, like he just finds someone, like he's going to be like, oh Mike, just somebody. Where like okay, I'm going to choose you to be the number one hero and you're going to have to keep this title on you for as much as you can, kind of like Afro Samurais, where once you have that number one headband, people are going to be gunning for you and you're just going to have to fight for your life, not just against villains, but other heroes that want that spot.
Speaker 1:That's what I like about this anime too. There's so many layers to this shit to where you can look at it in different angles, and it's so entertaining either way you can see it from. Are you here for just the boxing, like the fighting and whatnot? Are you here for the mystery behind it? Are you here for the different animation styles, like from an artistic point of view, like do you love the music? Like it just got a lot going on to it. That's why I say it's like a five-star anime.
Speaker 1:It just had a lot going on but it didn't feel too convoluted. It's just mysterious. Right now there's just a bunch of missing pieces that are probably going to be put into play in later seasons, later down the line, but right now it's fast paced but also not too busy, with a lot of shit going on. Everybody have their own little art for like maybe one, two, three, four episodes. So I think it's like fairly balanced. But it just had a lot going on, but like in a balanced way that I like, like I I fucks with it. What can I say?
Speaker 1:Yeah it's a great anime, man. That's all I have. What?
Speaker 2:are you sure that's all you have? Yeah, I'm good on it so far. Might go back and give it another watch now that I got all these fucking stories and episodes all over the place.
Speaker 1:Hell yeah. Yeah. See, once we do season two, we might do a more detailed review on season one. You know, like recap season one, but more detailed, like as we do, like an actual breakdown. But really, this time around I was just based on first impression. I'm like damn dog, this is good, this is is so good.
Speaker 2:One of them animates where, if you're gonna give like an in-depth review, you're gonna have to go back and see something. You can't just go straight through it because the stories are all in a line and then, like you know, even if you like watch all the episodes, you would have to like go back and see, to like, remember to like. It's like it's piece and puzzles together. Bro, these episodes are all over the place. Like the character from the first episode you don't see him from episode five to ten. Like you see what I'm saying. Like he's gone, so and then he comes back into the same story at the end of the series. And like all these characters, all over.
Speaker 1:I almost thought it was an anthology series until you saw some of the characters coming back and you think like wait, hold on what's going on here. And like, oh wait, is what in different orders? Like hell see, that's another thing with X, like one of his abilities is he's the one that's fucking up the episode count. So you can't just it isn't like, oh, it isn't clear, cut, like because if you look at like that, I think the Johnny's was like the first story. Uh, hold on, let me check real quick, because I did say it was like started at uh, 70, 17 and 18.
Speaker 2:Right, all right, so 17, 18, uh, yep, that was like the johnny's story was like supposed to be the first yeah, because he was still a little kid so it couldn't have been anything when he was in a, when he was a teenager, so it had to be when he was still a little kid, so it couldn't have been anything when he was, when he was a teenager, so it had to be when he was a little baby boy. It had to be his story, at least, either his story. Yeah, it had to be his story because when he met Ghostblade he was of age, so it was before Ghostblade's story. Yeah, yeah, his story had to be the first one. He was the first back in history at least. Yeah, yeah, his story had to be the first one.
Speaker 1:He was the first in the back in history at least.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. See, then that only makes more sense about these aliens because his daddy came from another planet. That's where he got Big Johnny from. You see what I'm saying, so?
Speaker 2:it's not out of question. It's not like out the ballpark. This man did come from outer space and got Big Johnny from some alien planet, no telling what that power system might lead to. I mean that's, you know what I'm saying. That's when fear really got incorporated, because fear was around through Johnny's episode, even though we didn't get to it until later on. It got introduced before his story, but it was around since then. See what I'm saying. Fear was introduced before his story came up, but we know Fear has been around. It's been around since he was a kid. Well, I don't know if it was a kid, but I know when he got older.
Speaker 1:I think I mean there was like two jumps, like he was like a little kid and then it was like preteen and then, oh yeah, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, boy went through evolution, yeah.
Speaker 1:I just like the way this anime was structured to, where, once again, they tried to make it to where, okay, let's not make it too boring by having all the pieces laid out in a chronological order, like, let's just kind of jump around a little bit. And it really depends on how it's tied together, because notice how, even though they jumped around, like each arc ended with another hero being introduced. So I just like the way it's like the misdirection of it all it's kind of added on to the mystery, all just kind of added on to the mystery, like because, even though it's like an action superhero story, the fact that there's like a bunch of mystery behind it all, I guess that's what makes it easier for me to like accept the fact that, okay, it was like jump around a little bit, because, uh, if you're trying to figure out the mystery behind it all, then it would be kind of it'll make the series more boring for it. So that's why there's all these theories going on, all these theories that YouTube are talking about right now. That's where it just got so frenzied up trying to figure out what the hell is going on. Then the series is doing the job by making us wonder how all this is playing out.
Speaker 1:But, yeah, I'm just going to go ahead and end it on that note. Five out of five, I mean five stars, 10 out of 10. I love it. I love it. Watch it, just go love it. Watch it. Just go watch it. See it for yourself. With that being said, let's just go ahead and close this out. Playboy, I do thank you for being on the show with me. Go ahead and have yourself a good morning, good afternoon, good evening, good night, whatever the case may be. But ultimately, dude, take it easy. We're going to go ahead and zone out here. Stay nerdy and remember that great things are coming. Let's go.
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