Gonna keep shouting this from the rooftops, Cheng Xiaoshi didn’t lose his parents in the earthquake. His parents *left* and when the earthquake happened he thought they *might* have been there.
As a Percy Jackson fan, I feel the need to provide some clarifying info on the books and what they're about. 1st series is Percy Jackson and the Olympians. It's 5 books following Percy and his actions in what would be called The Titan War. 2nd series is Heroes of Olympus, a 5 book sequel series to Percy Jackson that's sort of like a Shippuden. New characters, powers, and threats, and it takes place about a year after the first series. Spin off 1 is The Kane Chronicles. It follows two siblings, Sadie and Carter Kane, who are descendants of the Pharaohs of Egypt. This grants them magical powers that allow them to bond with the gods instead of being the children of the gods Spin off 2 is Magnus Chase and the gods of Asgard. Magnus is the son of a Norse god who must stop Ragnorok These all take place in the same universe, and there is even some crossover between them. The OG author, Rick RIordan, is currently using his platform and success to help lesser known authors publish similar stories centered on different mythologies.
I’m so glad I saw this comment because they were talking about the Percy Jackson series incorrectly I felt so much rage. I was about to throw my phone across my room. Thank you for this comment.❤
When Danny does Link Click season 2 I think you two should watch it and react to episodes together for the emotional support and maybe Danny should have those emotional support stuffies from his Oshi No Ko reaction just by his side for all of season 2
Apothecary Dairies is for sure an anime Danny’s fandom would enjoy. Also just my two cents but I feel like the GFs would enjoy A Sign of Affection this season.
Link click is an anime original actually! And 5.5 is only a .5 episode because it doesn’t take place between those 2 episodes chronologically (it takes place after the earthquake thing but before the police thing), but it’s still the best place to put that episode
38:23 Now hold on a damn second there, Nick. Poseidon is not simply Aquaman. Apart from the sea, he's the god of earthquakes, storms, and all things water in general. Basically he's the ruler of more than 80% of the planet, and the responsible for every single cataclism that isn't a volcanic eruption. Also, fun fact, historians theorise that in the Mycenean culture (pre-classical Greece, basically the timeline when the Troy War happens) Poseidon was also ruler of the Underworld and King of the Gods. If anything, it's Zeus the one who's basically a flying powerbank. Put some respect on my guy's name! [sowwy if I came out harsh but being a southern italian this is basicaly my people's history]
So glad the boys love Madoka Magica! I NEED to hear them talk about the Rebellion movie. That movie singlehandedly moved the show from my top 20 to my 6th Favorite anime of all time!!!
side note i as someone caught up to the one piece anime and manga i cant wait for the "The One Piece".... that being said there is nothing AND I MEAN NOTHING that WIT can do that will ever surpass One Piece episode 1015. My single favorite episode of anime ever!! And i doubt theyll be able to contend with the best of modern OP. WIT is good, but they arent modern peak Toei OP animation good. Nick you'll get there soon enough
Iirc, in Percy's fight against the sons of Ares, he only wins because at the final point he was standing in water, and therefore, stronger, because of this father's blessing. He seems to be standing in the water in the show too, but it's never explicitly acknowledged, that would explain why Annabeth made him fall in the lake on purpose, because she noticed why he was suddenly "good". Assuming that is correct, I like how he was still obiviously out of his element (inronically), so he didn't just become a War machine while fighting, he was clunky, and did things out of desperation and luck. That made the scene so much better for me.
The hard thing about a story like jjk, is that it's hard to tell a story from the perspective of fully developed, fully integrated, and incredibly powerful characters because they have less arc and are less relatable. Yuji is the perfect protagonist because he is relatable to us, but he's not relevant in the power scale often, because the power scale is so insane.
OK like I get it wasn't explicitly said but she is shown before kenjaku talking about those who are possessed and like even if its unclear the fact she is possessed isn't inheritly a spoiler as she was gonna be one of the two and it's linked to other things that would have to be spoiled first but it's a fair point should've probably put a warning
29:30 annabeth was never said to be a good fighter whereas Luke is said to be the best swordsman in 100 yrs and maybe they didn't show in the series but it is written in the books that Percy trained with Luke a lot
The issue though is that the show is an alternate story and has flaws with the break neck pacing due to the low number of episodes and short actual content time in terms of episode length. This leads to percy in the show having little to no training or fighting experience leading to him doing things he shouldn't be capable of
@@aidanwentz6450sad to hear that after the disasterous Peter Johnson movies I have a friend who said the same thing And rick himself worked on it as well don't understand how this happened
Is it spoiling we see in the episode that she was possessed, kenjaku even says that when he fed people the cursed objects they were put into a coma and we see his sister wake up from said coma with the idle transfiguration mark on her forehead
@@justinpehala2740 we don't see that she was posessed, he says some of them were in deep sleep but he doesn't that it's one type of these two. and he says he used idle transfiguration in both types so yeah it is a spoiler
I can't believe I'm all caught up with your podcast 😭 It's been my constant companion recently, love listening to you guys giving each other shit you really crack me up 💕
Thank you guys for the JJK S2 content these past few months cause this podcast episode made me laugh so damn hard while you discussed the final episode; ergo finalizing it as my favorite anime/anime of the year.
Mashle Hells Paradise Oshi no Ko Demon Slayer Eminence in Shadow All Deserve Shoutouts and they didn't get it Also Shoutout to romance as there was an unreasonable amount of good romance anime this year and it was insane ALSO BUNGOU STRAY DOGS HAD 2 SEASONS IN 2023 SO WTF DANNY
Listen too the first 50 mins while driving too school, amaizng and so funny, felt like i was included and gave my takes. 1st time listing too the podcast ❤, been following on TikTok for a minute. Y’all funny af 😂🎉🎉
i think some changes to Percy Jackson have made it feel less effective but there are also some I enjoy, particularly the presentation of Medusa as a more sympathetic character 😁 Also - within the world of JJK I’d 100% pick Hakari’s technique Outside of that, probably Yuta’s LOL
After finishing S2 of JJK, I went back and watched it in chronological order (hidden inventory, jjk 0, season 1, then shibuya) in dub. It made the things I was confused about soo much clearer. Love the show, but it can be a lot to follow on first watch.
I mean it got a lot of issues in its story like how Geto got to the point of "genocide" which makes no sense considering his solution is the star religous group, which would have made his goal as a character more grey than evil, but then he got body swapt offscreen after the movie to do the same stuff he did before in a way. 🙄 Maximum uzimaki which was mentioned in this podcast was originally just a destructive curse attack, but suddenly its a retconned plot convenience tool towards the end of S2. It also makes no sense too because why didn't kenjaku seal Mahito earlier after the targets were marked? It shouldn't have anything with Mahito being stronger as he is already an special grade cursed spirit, etc. This is just some few stuff that was annoying in this jjk season, so its understandable if people missed out on stuff when watching it first time.
I was waiting SPECIFICALLY for THIS episode so that Nick can explain this last episode aka the whole season because I didn't get none of that Host information during the season hahaha
About like an hour in I noticed that when Danny talks the mic in front of him lights up green, so like the entire rest of the pod I was just staring at that light- aNyWaYs. GrEaT ePiSoDe.
On the Picking cursed techniques the mahito suggestion was actually great just become a Back alley plastic surgeon and fix people Up Like He did for mechamaru.
I love the Trigun Stampede respect. I like that the show didn't try to be the original. I came in watching it without having seen the original (later watching the og) and it honestly did a great job showcasing the world and characters in such a limited time. Edit: one thing I hated about the reception of the show was how it was kind of obvious a prequel and people hated that it didn't follow the original series.
12 minutes of specifics from Link Click, no "I'm about to spoil something". Briefest spoiler for an OLD anime, "I'm about to spoil something". What are the rules? lol
@Danny is right at 1:01:00 where he's talking about the bit with hanami, @Nick did talk about in a previous pod, that Hanami vs Gojo had like 1 image, then splat the next page in the manga, but in the anime there was the whole walk down and pressure bit which didn't exist as details in the manga.
Nick misunderstood the sentence to mean the event, of the squishening, didn't happen, but danny meant the details, of the squishening didn't happen, and that attributes to being able to tell how good the anime is going to be because of the manga, when the anime is adding / taking liberties with these details.
@@christiancoates214 I mean there are full of issues with the season 2. Maximum uzimaki was originally just a destructive curse attack, but suddenly its a retconned plot convenience tool in S2 which is not good. It also makes no sense too because that means Kenjaku could have sealed Mahito earlier after the targets were already marked.. Not to mention how badly Geto was handled as a character given there is no reason for him to go evil "genocide" when the "time vessel association" is actually his enemy/obstacle to achieve his goal. It would have made his character morally more grey than pure evil and then get body swapped offscreen with another evil character. 🙄 Unfortunately the anime is not going to get around the manga other than adding some small stuff to it, and right now Mappa is in a dire situation with animators (several people have left the studio) so who knows what is going to happen with the culling game.
Eight-Handled Sword Divergent Sila Divine General Mahoraga is the most powerful shikigami of the Ten Shadows Technique. Mahoraga isn't a curse spirit. Sorry to correct you Nick. Love the podcast.
I really loved todays ep lads. But I hate to say it but man that JJK section has heavy spoilers. Multiple for anime onlys. If you are reading this before getting there. Skip that section. Thankfully I read most of it the other day. And knew the things revealed.
49:01 It’s sour grapes-induced gatekeeping, and it’s silly. I’ve not read the manga yet, but I felt like Baratie took WAY too long, even in the One Pace version. I can’t imagine the manga was that slow. There was a lot of standing around and repetition without a lot of progress. I feel like that could have been truncated to maybe 3-4 episodes without losing much or feeling rushed.
I don't care whatsoever about Percy Jackson, but I think its success would help push forward Eragon. I never read that either but my wife asks me like once a month if they're still planning to do it 😂
As a Percy fan. I gotta correct Nick. Poseidon isn’t just “The Aquaman” he presides over the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses. He’s the father of all cyclops except the Elder ones and horse creatures is a child of Poseidon centaurs, hippocampus, Pegasus, Charybdis, King Triton; making Percy Ariel’s uncle. Don’t sleep of Poseidon
Ik which poketuber they are talking about and he is doing it as a celebration of 15 years on RU-vid as well as 500k on both of his channels. Its been pretty hype
Idle transfiguration could get you rich cuz imagine giving cosmetic surgery thats perfectly on point every time and doesnt have negative side effects/health complications
I think the issue with the PJO show is that Disney only gave them 8 episodes to make the show, if it was 12 episodes I feel that the pacing would have been way better.
Nick saying that he didn't spoil anything about jjk is hilarous. Maybe Danny will forget his explanation till season 3. Kinda spoiler alert They didn't know which type of people are in coma, that was new for the characters when they learn about it around chapter 200
Also he didn't mention that maximum uzimaki was originally just a destructive curse attack, but suddenly its a retconned plot convenience tool in S2 which is kinda bullshit to be honest. It makes no sense too because that means kenjaku could have sealed Mahito earlier after the targets were already marked.. It shouldn't have anything with Mahito being stronger as he is already an special grade cursed spirit, etc. Storywise I feel the plot fell flat with unnecessary convoluted stuff that is begging the question.
Jjk is hype, thats about it. I was excited to read shibuya cause people claimed its the best new gen arc. It was just fight after fight and unsatisfactory character conclusions. Yuji finally got his first (and only) great character moment 130 chapters into the manga. I cant even place it in top 5 new gen arcs
1:20:39 I wanna hope Danny or Nick brings up the rest of the fight that todo helped with cuase what?!!!! This is why I love Danny cause his takes are outrageously debatable
Okay, I love JJK, but I do feel like we needed more small moments to build up the cast as characters. JJK has cool desgins but I dont care much for them. It's more battle and less character development. I think we need more scenes with just the characters interacting. A few slice of life in between would help build these characters up.
Hopefully the anime keeps doing what it's doing and adds a few small non-managa scenes showing the cast hanging out/doing shit other than trying not to die.
I absolutely love JJK, but 2023 in my heart belongs to One piece, between the anime and gear 5, the live action, the remake, and especially the manga with egghead and Kumas backstory, it has been the best year of one piece
Real true One Piece fans are stoked for The One Piece. Not only is it a better way to rewatch the series for us longtime fans, its an easy way to get our loved ones into it. My wife said she would watch The One Piece with me because its gonna be better paced and more manageable.
Love y'all content though I did have issues with the Percy Jackson stuff specifically Nick take on making the characters older was just awful. For one the series was made by the author for younger kids with disabilities such as dyslexia and ADHD so that would basically defeat the purpose of the series and also would screw up the entire story as the first 5 books are about how Percy will ether save or Raze Olympus when he turns 16. Another thing is like Danny saying to make Percy bad at fighting while admittedly I do think it could have been done better like how it was done in the books as Percy spends months at camp before going on the quest. There is a lore explanation for why Percy can fight at least decently well and that is his ADHD in the book the author essentially turned it into a superpower so it's like oh you like having problems sitting still your just naturally built to fight he has fighting skill built into his bones literally though I do agree that they should have shown that better. Another thing for Nick for his Outrageously disrespectful take on Poseidon is that how dare you with that Aqua man comment that is God. All the tsunamis and storms and earthquakes of the World half the disasters in the world are caused by Both Zeus and Poseidon. Love y'all's podcast lord knows Danny is one of my favorite reaction channels and I agree on a lot of your takes but as a Percy Jackson fan I couldn't help but feel the need to defend the series
so there's this manga thing going on in jump rn. or hopefully it is, but there is this badass hansel and gretal manga that came out you guys should check it out cuz its like soul eater meets fables and stuff and they fight n shit. its cool
JJK S2 truly was special and had so much great things to it besides all the animator stuff but hopefully that gets fixed. Also 2023 was such a damn dope year for anime it's ridiculous to me Vinland Saga S2 was the best and my favourite for sure
Spoiler warning: I cannot wait to see Maki's awakening animated. With the level of animation and music we got in this season, that moment is gonna break the internet. And of course Sukuna vs. Gojo is gonna be insane too. It's gonna be like Sukuna vs. Mahoraga on bath salts.
Nick casually revealing a twist that won’t come up until season four drops in 2030. Most of what he said was in the episode though. Just not one of the biggest reveals that will happen in 2030.
This might start a fight but whatever. The college loan analogy is close. I dropped out because I didn't want to take on the debt for the degree I was going for. If it's forgiven that then feels like I made the wrong choice. But I dropped out so I know the situation is horrible. If they were to fix colleges and I go, "well that's not fair because it wasn't fixed when I was going to school." Is the same as the people against the one piece remake. As the older fan you got to enjoy it as it was coming out and saw the growth of one of the big 3, you had your college and sunk that expense in. Let the next generation not have to pay that same price to enjoy the same product. (We all agree college is too expensive and we also agree that one piece anime is too long, fix both please)
