Anime Powers for TTRPGs: Can Groundhog Day Death & Turbo Granny Work in D&D?

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They didn't pay me for this. They should have. That's, that's a pretty good ad for something that we did for free also. Yeah. I actually wrote it out 'cause I, I do believe in that product and I like it. But yeah, I fucking pay me crunchy roll. I, I was Isn't crunchy roll already a premium service or is there like a freemium crunchy roll?

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Oh, that's wild. I, yeah, yeah. No, it's, so it shows you how much anime I watched it. I did not know that. Well, I mean, I shared my crunchy roll account with you. Yeah. And you have watched, I think a grand total of three episodes of a thing. So, uh, I have not watched anything on crunchy roll. You have not watched anything on Crutch River?

No. Okay. I have Never Delicious in Dungeon was on Netflix. Yeah. Oh, okay. I, I, all of the anime that I've watched in any, like, aside from like, one time my friend bought this, the, the DVD box set of, uh, uh, what is it, Helsing, something like that. Um, yeah, yeah. Uh, everything else has been on Netflix. I watched one season of Attack on Titan.

I watched one Punch Man. Um, yeah, and then like three episodes of Dnce and Dungeon and like, one episode of one piece. Okay. So, and how did we feel about, um, one piece? Oh, uh, it was awful. I don't know how anyone got through more than one episode of that show. The, the first episode was such a turnoff that I cannot believe it got to 1600 episodes.

I hated every single character. Did you watch the live action? Yeah. Yeah. I really liked the live action. I it, I did not like, I thought it was great The first season, well, they don't even do seasons, I think is kind of the weird thing about one piece. Like they've been releasing one episode a week for like 25 years.

It just goes on forever. Like someone introduced them to the concept of a story arc that has like a satisfying conclusion. Like they're just kind of like, well, no one's over. Let's just roll into the next thing. Like, fuck my life. Yeah, I don't know enough about later one piece to know how that runs. I know that there are arcs that people are very excited about, but I don't know if that's like moments that they're looking forward to or if it's like the, the full arc itself has like a beginning, middle, and end.

That doesn't suck. I genuinely think it's moments. I cannot, I cannot find any reason to enjoy that show. Yeah, I, I watched most of the first arc, like the, a lot of the things that were covered in the live action, which is a surprising number of episodes. Yeah. Of the anime. Like the amount of time that I had to d divulge into like, just getting to where the first few episodes of the TV series got me was really a lot more than I was expecting.

Yeah. It moves so slow. Yeah. And that's comparatively, I mean, I, I understand if there's like a long running thing that's like interesting, but like one piece, well, honestly one piece reminds me of a daytime soap opera where it's just kind of like there and part of your life and nothing interesting happens for 20 years.

Like. Maybe that's part of the draw. Maybe it's just like the, the whole thing of like, I was sick from school and they were doing a one piece marathon and I started watching it and I could never let go. Right, right. And that's what, like why people still watch the days of our lives. I, I don't know anyone who does that.

That's the truth of it. There's one person I know who actually watches one piece religiously, and then everyone else is just like playing the card game. I will say, like in Ryan's defense, he fucking loves one piece. And I like to the point where it doesn't make any sense. Like I, let me, lemme let me explain.

He loves the one piece anime, and I'm like, cool. So like, I watched a live action, it was pretty neat. And he's like, oh. And I'm like, okay. Like I get, it's not gonna be exactly like the enemy. He's like, no, it's fine. Then I was like, oh, cool. One piece Lego's coming out. Those look pretty neat. And he's like, Ugh.

I'm like, do you like one piece or not? He is like, well, it's just, they're more like based on the show than on the, the anime. Like yeah. 'cause the show was popular with Western audiences, just like Lego. I don't know what to tell you, my friend. Like, and also, also to be fair to the, the Lego sets, Ryan, the Lego sets tried to draw like a, a halfway point in a lot of ways.

Yeah. To be fair to Ryan, one piece is incredibly popular in the West. I don't really get the appeal either, but that again, like probably just not for me. Oh, I'm saying like, okay. Compared to other animes. Sure. Compared to like media in general, like no, it's just not right. Like I don't actually know what the numbers are on how popular anime is in the west.

Look, one piece did not enter the cultural ze guess in any like significant way. Until the live action happened, and then it was on everyone's TVs in on Netflix, and I was like, oh, this is, this is interesting. Like, cool. Okay. That's, that's a good entry point for people into one piece. Like, don't be mad at it because it wasn't like a shot for shot remake of a show that had 1600 fucking episodes with lots of filler, like.

Kat, you and I run in different circles 'cause like one piece has been a force to be reckoned with in a lot of my circles. Like there, there are people who have been telling me that I need to watch all of one piece and like binge it. I need to binge a thousand plus episodes of a thing, listen, catch up so that they can talk to me about all of the pieces that they liked.

Christopher, Christopher, I love you, but you need to understand that your circle. Significantly outside of what would be considered like the general norm? Um, oh, I'm a fucking weirdo. No, I, I know. Yeah. I'm just, yeah, I'm just saying like, the people you run with are fringe elements at best and Okay. You know, not that there's, that's anything wrong with that?

Um, I'm just saying like, they're just weird and I should feel shame about it. No, no, you shouldn't. I get out and talk to more like. Call 'em NPCs. Call 'em, you know, civilians, call 'em average Joes. People who don't. Yeah, I didn't want to use the slur, but we don't say the N word in this house, Christopher. So, so people who, um, for lack of a better term, have actually touched some grass once in a while.

And trust me when I say this. You're lucky they're not still calling it Japan animation. Oh, no, I, I know that bit. Yeah. Like, and I mean, you're also living in Alberta, which skews significantly more to the right and like conservatism and more conservative values in media. I feel. So like that might also be part of it, is that I, I live next to a bunch of like.

Weird hippies. You do live in like an artsy fartsy part of Canada, that's for sure. But like I am in the, yeah, like liberal hotbed part of Alberta as well. Like we have an incredible density of hobby and game and, and anime stores. Liberal hot pillow, like there is a gold bed liberal. Hot caught.

Anyway, today, yeah, I wanted to run some stupid anime abilities by you and. Talk a little bit about how we could maybe incorporate those into games for your players or as the dm if you were approached with one of these abilities, how you might handle that. Um, yeah, if the audience, mostly it was just an ex that's just gonna, if the audience hasn't guessed, I have only consumed the most normy uh, animes out there, the most mainstream stuff.

Even then, not the fact that you just called them animes, I think would probably, if anything, it was gonna sell it. I think we've got it established. All right, so the first one I'm gonna start with is actually kind of controversial, okay? It does not come from Japan. It is a Chinese series that came out called To Be Hero X.

And one of the hallmarks of the series is that it has a bunch of different animation styles, so Okay. Every one of the heroes that they follow, and they, it's an anthology series, so you follow several heroes over the course of the series. Every one of them has a different animation style. Okay. And all of it's what they did with the, uh, the anima?

Yeah, a little bit. And, um, I think kind of inspired by like, um. The Spider Verse movies. Oh, yeah. Where like each of the, the characters had a different animation style to them. Yeah. Um, the final boss of that world, his ability is to switch animation styles. Alright. Why would that matter? Uh, because he's able to do things like switch from 3D to 2D.

Okay. So it gets, it gets flat. He can get flat, he can do sudden transformations. He can make other things 3D that are just a picture. Um, he can turn his enemies flat, he can turn his enemies 3D if they're not 3D already. Um, all at the snap of his fingers. I mean, okay. When you were talking about like weird power sets, like this is, is such a like meta power set that it.

Oh yeah. Frankly doesn't make sense to me to be using the context of a role playing game. Like it's, it's certainly an interesting idea for a piece of entertainment, but like how would you even, how would you even recreate this ability functionally other without just like losing all of the flavor behind it?

Right. Yeah. I guess that would maybe be part of the challenge is like it would have to be in a game that had heavy animation influences already. Right. Like you would need to be drawing from things like Disney cartoons into anime and like the old war between like the, the Fox anime and like Disney back when, and, uh, right.

Well, it's, I think, I can't remember his name. Don Bluth. That's it. I, I think the, when Don Bluth split off, I think the thing about that particular power set is that it's so reliant on show, don't tell. And so much of role playing games is telling. Um, okay. Like to, to recreate, first of all, just the idea that there's different, like, well, I'm gonna skip past the idea that like, animation is a thing that happens on your tabletop, but like to ha to put mechanical rules on an animation style.

Then say that he can switch styles or have you switch styles all the time. I mean, I, I guess what it comes down to is like, you just, like, imagine, imagine a DM handed you six completely different character sheets and we're like, yeah, when I snap my fingers, you gotta quickly swap to the next one. And then that's, that's what you're playing right now.

It's just okay. To me that sounds hilarious. It sounds hilarious, but it also sounds like a one shot. And it sounds Oh, yeah. You know, it sounds like something that's like a, a gimmick more than a, a recurring villain, you know, like, okay, that's fair. Um, from the same series. Um, so the, the series is based on the idea of superheroes, right?

And the superheroes gain power based on how much people trust them. It's like a, a social media score. Your Reddit karma determines how powerful you are. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Your, your it also communist social credit. Yeah. It also restricts the types of things that you're able to do based on what your fans believe you would do.

Right. Right. So you are a, a light side Jedi who is physically incapable of using, you know, force lightning. Yeah. Like, you know, all of the things you need to do to do force lightning. Right. You have all of the, the skills required, but when you go to try and do it, it just fizzles every time. Right. Okay.

Yeah. 'cause your fans just refuse to believe that you are capable of that. Yeah. I, uh. See there. Now we have a compelling skillset. First of all, having to, like, if it's purely social media powered, like having to cultivate a following, um, like I assume when you start life with the power, you don't have a following, so you don't have any level of power to use, right?

Like the world is, you have a very small amount. Well, so like, okay. So you, you got enough to like know that you have powers, but like nothing flashy. Yeah. Like, but you do have like the moral open, you have the trust of your friends and family. Yeah. But you do have like all options available to you. You know, you just haven't put points into either, you know, good guy or bad guy yet or whatever.

Yeah. Like the, the trust of the people around you would have like the same amount of. Force as like the opinions of the people around you in real life at this point, right, where it's just like, I feel some social pressure to not be a dick. Sure or not because these people are trusting me to not be a dick.

Or maybe I'm a dick and that's the thing that they are expecting me to do occasionally. Maybe you're born into a bad crime family, maybe. Um. But like as you begin to gain popularity, and especially for like the, the people who are in like the top 10 echelon of like superhero gods, if you try to do a thing that goes against what people think you would do, um, it is physically painful.

Interesting. Because like, what, what that says to me is that you are forced into the extremes almost automatically. Um mm-hmm. Like. It would be very hard to maintain the idea that you're capable of anything because you're such a, like, I guess you'd have to be just like such a chaotic wild card. That'd be like, well, like literally anything's possible with this guy.

Who knows? Um, oh, the joker would be interesting, right? Because like your whole thing is being unpredictable, right? Predictably unpredictable. So the thing you couldn't do would be the thing that somebody would see coming next. Fuck. That'd be weird. But, but doing that would be, would be the exact like fulfillment of like, they would never suspect you to do that because you'd always do the thing that they never suspect you to do.

Yeah. But even just like be reliable Yeah. For a while, right? Like you just couldn't, yeah. So I just like, and like, I just like got a ride to the airport with the Joker. 'cause he was like available at like 6:00 AM.

And then suddenly his popularity starts to tank. 'cause they're like, that isn't a thing he would do. And that's the other bit is like, as your popularity goes down and as your, your karma ranking, uh, decreases, you lose power. Yeah. So like you, you need to maintain a certain level of following in order to be able to, to be useful in the superhero world.

Um, most people aren't, they're just normal about it. But like you, to be like a professional superhero, you actually have to like cultivate a following. And I thought that was really interesting, huh? Yeah, that's, that's, uh, I mean in, in both ways. Yeah. You gotta, you gotta cultivate a follow following to, you know, there's always obviously gonna be the people who root for the villain, but, uh mm-hmm.

Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. Villains have a different mechanic. It's like a fear-based thing, but, um. I think, I think it should go more ways. Anyway, that's two in the weeds. Yeah, I, I agree. I think like keeping it as a single resource that like people just trust you to be a dick. Yeah. Um, is, is pretty solid. Um, GATA is a series about, um, final Fantasy seven taken to its logical extreme.

So all of the rich people live on floating islands above the world that dump their garbage onto the world itself. Okay? And the poorest of the poor live in a garbage dump world, okay? And the garbage has become sentient and attacks people. The power set that the heroes have is they are able to imbue magical powers into garbage that they have a relationship with, not like a romantic relationship 'cause this is anime and that could absolutely go that direction.

But like something that they have had for a long time, a piece of garbage that they have like become attached to or they've had since childhood, they're able to imbue that with magical abilities. What.

Like don't, I'm genuinely trying to follow along what the hell you just said, but like, so, okay. All right, so your dad gives you a good stick. I understand the setting. If you have to throw out like your favorite pen, you can then imbue it with magical powers. Um, your favorite pen is already garbage. Oh, right.

Because the only things you have are garbage. Yeah. So you already have a relationship with that. And people are trying to like actively build relationships with items by taking good care of them and like doting on them and having them on them at all times to try and like gain the ability to imbue them with magic so that they're able to fight the garbage monsters.

Right. So you like, you see a fresh, sexy piece of trash just laying on top of the pile, eyeing you up, alluring, and you're like, oh, man. The potential that piece of trash has to, you know, uh, be a formidable weapon. I'm gonna just drag it around with me for a while until it decides it's in love with me enough that I can give it superpowers.

Yeah. Yeah. You find an anime body pillow just like lying on top of the trash heap uhhuh when you're like seven. Okay. You just bring it with you everywhere until you're able to bring it to life or something, I guess. Okay. Um, neat. Need, need, need burrito. I don't. Okay. Um, mechanically this would be actually, I think, fairly straightforward to port into any sort of, um.

Uh, role playing game. Uh, it's like, I know there's a word for this thing I'm about to describe that I've been talking about for two years now. Yeah. Um, anyways, yeah, like I, I guess the easiest one would be like, Hey, it's, it's almost like, um, attunement, right? Like, you see an item, you're drawn to it. Only when you spend four hours focusing on it though you like fully unlock its potential, except this time it's like 40 years.

Um, yeah. Yeah. So I could see how, how it'd be incorporated. I think it's an interesting idea to, like, if you, if this is your whole setting where it's like, look, find doodads on the ground, keep a list of doodads, and I will keep a timer running on each of them. And, and, uh, when you hit certain milestones on the timer.

I will tell you, like you're able to imbue it with either, either you keep like a list of things you wanna do to them, or like I'll just tell you what you unlocked. Yeah. I think it'd be kind of interesting to have like a quote unquote magic item that isn't magic yet. Yeah. Right. Like you, you have the magic item, it's got all of its stats, you just can't unlock them yet.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. In the way that like you got like a mace, that it's always gonna be a mace, but like maybe it gets better. Yeah. Yeah. I just thought that was kind of cool. As like a, an equipment as powers mechanic, the, the main character in it is able to imbue any garbage that he finds with its maximum potential because he's obviously the specialist boy.

Yeah. Um, but like most normal people just have like one piece of equipment that they've had with them for a very long time that they really care about, that they're able to like, get special magical powers from Right. Which I thought was pretty cool. Uh, my hero academia is again a superhero thing. And one of the characters in that has hair that is like a purple ball.

Like he's just got purple balls on his head and he can take them off. Okay. And they regrow instantly. Okay. And they are very sticky and he can throw them at people. Oh. This is just, uh. What's her name? Gogo from, uh, big Hero six, kind of. I forgot that movie existed. Oh, you shouldn't. It's great. I love it.

It's one of my favorite Disney movies. It's pretty fun. Yeah, no, it's basically that, except that it's like literally the guy's hair and he's pulling it off of his head to Yeah, like throw at people. Yeah. Just firing sticky balls on people. Yeah, that's, I mean, of all the ones you've described so far, this is definitely just the tamest like.

Yeah, it's just a weird, like, manifestation of the ability. I could just cast, what is it, glue or something like over and over and over. Okay. Um, so let's get significantly weirder then. Okay. Um, Madoka Magica is a send up of the magical girl genre, so like Sailor Moon type shit. Okay. Um, and somebody's ability is to become a literal concept that rewrites fate and erases suffering at the cost of her own existence.

Huh? So she, she can choose to give up her life and existence and any memory of herself, right? To rewrite all of history like once per day or. Once ever.

Okay. Well that's not, like, that's not a superpower, that's just an event. Yeah. I, I'm just wondering, like, how, how would you, how would you frame that, right? Like if that was a thing that you, one of your players came to you with and was like, this is a thing that I want for a power for myself. Like I, I think the cost is significant enough Uhhuh that I would probably at least consider it.

Yeah. Right. Because like the character fucking dies. Yeah. Um, but like, it's kind of like just saying when you die, you get a wish. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe sort of it's like, okay. So, um, last week our group ended our long running campaign. Oh shit. Yeah. And congrats. Uh, thank you. The, our long national nightmare is finally over.

Um, we'll talk about that at a, at a different time. Um, but, uh, we were, we got a, got a little bit of a behind the curtain look. It's some of the other ways the game could have ended. 'cause there's a few different, um, ways that the campaign could wrap up. And one of them was. You find a device with it. So the end of the campaign happens for a little while within this like crashed magical city used to float in the sky and then it crashed to the ground.

Um, and you find a few cool devices, and then at the bottom, apparently you can find this like crystal pylon of some sort, and it will give you the ability to just send the entire city and yourselves. 2000 years into the past to, so like the, the, the thrust of the whole adventure has been how do we stop this eternal winter?

Um, and one of the options to do that is to send yourselves 2000 years into the past so that the city never crashes and causes the winter. Um, obviously everyone you've ever known and loved you just vanish from their existence. So like that's over with. Yeah. You're just dead to them. Yeah. You're dead. Um.

That it gives me this ability, gives me that kind of vibe where it's like, if you wanna be the biggest hero, you basically have to like, you know, off yourself functionally. Um, yeah. One of the things I think is interesting about it is the idea that like, you've never existed, right? Right. So, like, the world will not know the sacrifice you made.

The world won't know the sacrifice you made. None of the things that you've done. Other than this matter. Yeah. Right. Because none of it ever happened. Yeah. So like any relationships that you built, any like communication that you had with people, any times that you helped, any times that you hindered, all of that is just gone.

Yeah. So like butterfly affect, how does that actually play out? Yeah, right. If you have saved the world multiple times up until now, and now you rewrite history by removing yourself from it. Yeah. Is the world fucked, right? Like what? Uh, um, all right. So one that I wanna talk about. This one also involves player death, but it's a, a much not weirder, like I think conceptually madoka Magica is about as fucking weird as it gets, but this one is like.

When your character dies, they reset to a previous time. And this is actually like an entire genre Okay. Of like Groundhog Day type bullshit where whenever you die, you come back, uh, at a specific time. Okay. Safe points type shit. Um, and the one that started me on this was actually a, uh, Korean manu, um, I cannot remember what it's called.

It's like SSS Hunt or something. Sure. W where the guy's only ability is that when he is killed, he gets to copy the ability of the person who killed him. Okay. Which doesn't seem great 'cause you're dead all by itself. Yeah, you're dead. But you've got a swanky new ability, which you can't use because you're dead.

But the first guy who kills him has this reset ability. Gotcha. So he's killed, he resets now he has the reset ability. He's killed the next time by somebody else. He gains that person's powers. Okay. But like does he, when he resets, does he know he's got a new ability? Yes. Yes. He knows. He has the new ability of the person who, 'cause like the first time he died, he was pretty much expecting to just be dead.

Right. Now he has the ability to die and come back a day before, but does. Okay. So that's what I'm, does he know that he has reset? Yes. Oh, he's aware of that. And very early. And in this story, apparently, uh, he kills himself 4,000 times because every time he dies, he goes back in time one day. So he goes back in time, 4,000 days.

How does that work? Wouldn't he just like vanish? No, he, he, he kills himself and then he comes back the day before and then he kills himself and he goes back the day before. Hold on. Lemme do some math. Just every time you wake up, kill yourself. Wake up the day before. Yeah. So he erased 11 years off of his life.

Yeah. Now he has 11 years to train, to kill the person that killed him the first time. Yeah. But how old was he when it happened the first time? I don't know. I, I, I haven't actually read it. I just read the ability and I was like, that is fucking stupid. And I love it.

But yeah, this whole like, regeneration thing, this like Groundhogs Day, like death thing comes back a bunch of times. There was one that I was watching, um, re zero where like the save point changes at like. Not random times, but like after something significant has happened, okay? The reset point is now after that significant event, right?

So like you have as many tries to reach that event as you need, but once you've passed it, you can't go back any further than that. So like if something has gotten fucked up in your last run at this thing, then that thing just stays fucked up, right? Which is interesting. But I wish that there was more clarification on like.

What types of events trigger the reset so that he can like, strategize around it. Uhhuh, but it doesn't do that. He, it just seems pretty fucking random. Uh, so surface level, this seems like very interesting ability. I don't, I don't understand the mechanics of it, where it's like he knows that he's reset and he knows the powers he got when he reset, I guess like.

He's just resetting time at his like body, but his, his memory is still intact. Yeah. Like he is still experiencing continuity of forward time. Right. But he has gone back in time by one day. Right. Okay. So he remembers dying. Right. He remembers the fight that killed him. Yes. Yeah. And the person who killed him, even when that person was himself 4,000 times.

Right. So fucking dumb. So he is, he's like, okay to everyone else if he just dies once a day. He, like, his age just jumps every once in a while. Like, like if he, if he's trying to go back in time. 11 years. Yeah. 11-year-old. 11 years back I looked very different than I do now. Let's like, because does his, his body doesn't like reset.

Like it doesn't de-age it just like, it's just him. But 24 hours ago, I don't know. I mean, I assume because like stupid anime logic, he looks like he did 11 years ago. Um, but his, but his, his soul has aged or whatever, so. Okay. So there's two ways that this goes either. He is functionally immortal. Yep. Um, or

he kind of like, well when I say reverse Benjamin Buttons, it means he just ages, but like he does it like in spurts. So like he runs into a particularly bad villain and the next day someone's like, you look like you've aged like 10 years. And he is like, yeah.

I've been training Goku style after the veto was really tough or whatever. Like, uh, what a great stupid ability. Um, okay, so that one. And then, um, one of my favorite weird ones recently is a series called Dan Dadan. Dan Dadan. Where the main characters, one of them has been possessed by a turbo. Granny define turbo, which is a, uh, she real fast.

She real heck and fast. Oh, she just has like the, the speed force. But grandmother, yes. And this is a real crypted from Japan. Okay. Um, and so the, the setup is that he is a guy who believes in UFOs and he meets a girl who believes in spirits and ghosts. Okay? And they swap ghost stories, and it turns out they're both right.

Oh, no. So she gets abducted by aliens and he gets possessed by a speed granny. And hilarity ensues. And so part of his ability set is that he is able to, uh, harness the turbo granny's powers. He's able to go real fast. Uhhuh, uh, the cost of this is that he lost his testicles. Oh, well, they're probably slowing 'em down.

This is for, you know, aerodynamics. Yes. His testicles have become magical golden balls that imbue other people with mystical powers. What that's a, is this what Lamps Armstrong was attempting to do with all of those drugs? Yes. This is exactly what he was having to do with all of those drugs. Lose both testicles and view other people with magical powers.

I got one ball left. I'm gonna make sure this thing's fucking supernatural. Um, one of the other characters that shows up a little later is possessed by the spirit of a dead 10-year-old boy who wants to soccer kick the world to oblivion. Alright. And so he just has like horrifying ghost spirit soccer balls that he kicks all over the place and they cause like explosions and shit.

It's a weird fucking series. Oh, mostly I just wanna talk to more people about Dan. To Dan. He's like, he's like ghost shall in soccer. Yeah. Yeah. He is also quite fast, but very strong and is consistently dressed in nothing but underwear and. He kicks horrifying ghost balls at people all the time, and he's one of the good guys.

Horrifying. Ghost Balls is my wrestling name in high school.

All right. I could talk about this literally all day. Um, yeah, you keep naming anime. I've like literally never heard of him. I think, I think I have heard of Deda then, but have I seen any episodes? Yeah, no, for the, you've heard of Dan to Dan because I have talked about Dan to Dun a lot. Um, sure. And also there's like a homeless guy in Japan that is a big fan of it, that I watch his videos once in a while.

It would be uniquely painful for you to watch. I feel. Um, it would just assault me with its anima out of all of the other things that we've talked about. I think like Donda Don is probably the biggest love letter to anime. Like it has so many fucking references in it. Yeah. That unless you're already steeped in it, you're gonna miss most of them.

Gotcha. Like one of the. The newer characters is able to look, okay. So their house gets destroyed. They replace it with like shape, shifting material from an alien. Okay? And then they get attacked by Godzilla. Um, so a new character is able to turn their house into a Gundam mech through the force of imagination and weeb ness.

Oh my God. And. The entire transformation sequence and everything about the fights and the music choices that they use is just shit that they've stolen from other Mecca anime and like stuffed into this show. And for somebody who's watched a lot of anime is just like an orgasmic level of stupid fucking references.

And for somebody who hasn't, they're like, I don't fucking get what's going on,

Christopher, you've. Ruined it. This is, this is your one time a year. You're allowed to talk about anime this much with me. I'm getting a headache. Hey, thanks for making it all the way through this episode of No Plot only lore. If you're looking for more, you can always find us at no plot, only lore.com, and at all the very best podcast platforms.

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