Episode 29
Blue Eye Samurai Ep. 1 Watch ALong
The Southern Senpai's this week watch the first episode of Blue Eye Samurai with for the first-time special guests, tune in find out who they are!
Transcript
Howdy!
Speaker:It's the Southern Senpai Show, where small town Southerners explore big
Speaker:time Japanese entertainment, anime, manga, and everything in between.
Speaker:Here's your hosts, Nicholas and DJ.
Speaker:All Southern Senpais, two Southern guys who explore Japanese culture together.
Speaker:I'm Nicholas.
Speaker:I'm DJ, and today we're not just two Southern guys.
Speaker:We also have two other women with us.
Speaker:I said other women.
Speaker:They're not Southern.
Speaker:They're not Southern, exactly.
Speaker:That's not true.
Speaker:I'm from South Carolina.
Speaker:South, I think she's from the Southern Carolina.
Speaker:Not really South, but yeah.
Speaker:You guys want to introduce yourselves?
Speaker:Hi, I'm Allison Srebnick.
Speaker:I'm a production manager over at Titmouse Animation Studios.
Speaker:That's you.
Speaker:Hi.
Speaker:Hi.
Speaker:I Did you know you had a mic in your hand?
Speaker:Did you have a microphone?
Speaker:Yeah, I just, whoa, okay.
Speaker:Hi, I'm Arielle Freeman.
Speaker:I'm a production coordinator at DreamWorks Animation.
Speaker:I am not from the South.
Speaker:I'm actually from the Midwest.
Speaker:Represent.
Speaker:Hey, somebody asked me This was the special guest that we were
Speaker:telling you guys about last episode.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:They are, they work in animation.
Speaker:They're probably more qualified to do Oh, okay.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:This job than us.
Speaker:XD But today we're gonna be watching Blue Eyes Samurai.
Speaker:Nicholas, have you heard anything about this show?
Speaker:Nope.
Speaker:How about either of you two?
Speaker:What have you heard about this show?
Speaker:Positives?
Speaker:Negatives?
Speaker:Have you seen it before?
Speaker:I have not seen it before, but I have heard very good things about it.
Speaker:Especially considering people I'm working with right now did
Speaker:actually work production on it.
Speaker:And a lot of the artists that we just hired on the show that I'm on are from it.
Speaker:Oh!
Speaker:I'm excited to see if they can what they can do.
Speaker:I hear a lot of weird things about the art and stuff like that.
Speaker:So let's check it out.
Speaker:If you're watching along with us, we're going to start the
Speaker:play in three Two, one and go.
Speaker:Uhoh.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:Hold on.
Speaker:If you're watching, you're gonna have to, you're gonna be mad.
Speaker:Pause real fast.
Speaker:We're gonna go back to zero.
Speaker:I'm gonna go back to zero.
Speaker:. They're gonna be mad if you don't go.
Speaker:They're gonna be, they're gonna be mad if it's off.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:I'm doing it.
Speaker:I'm doing the thing.
Speaker:I'm going with a thing.
Speaker:I'm going back to 0, 0, 0, 0 0, 0.
Speaker:Alright, we're at zero.
Speaker:Zero.
Speaker:Alright, you ready?
Speaker:Alright, now.
Speaker:1, 2, 3.
Speaker:Play.
Speaker:There it is, da dum!
Speaker:The big N sound.
Speaker:Do you know anything about this anime?
Speaker:I know that there's a samurai in here, and apparently they have blue eyes.
Speaker:I've heard this before.
Speaker:Shh, no spoilers.
Speaker:There's
Speaker:some fire, there's some snow.
Speaker:There's some gorgeous map paintings.
Speaker:What is a map painting?
Speaker:A painting of a map.
Speaker:Yeah, I'm so foolish, you're right.
Speaker:Allison can probably explain it better than I can.
Speaker:Oh man, we're watching this thing.
Speaker:Do I really have to go into the details of how we make animation?
Speaker:No, we're supposed to talk about the show.
Speaker:This looks like a very classic intro here.
Speaker:Like a classic Lone Warrior intro.
Speaker:Can you tell us anything about the people that worked on this?
Speaker:Do they prefer their coffee black or sugar in it?
Speaker:Samurai Jack's inspiration?
Speaker:Basically, from what I've heard from them, is the goal was to make an anime.
Speaker:One of the things that you'll notice throughout it, is
Speaker:just perfectly still moments.
Speaker:Where not a lot is happening, not a lot of animation, the
Speaker:visuals speak for themselves.
Speaker:Gotcha.
Speaker:So it's like Demon Slayer a little bit.
Speaker:It's like any anime.
Speaker:Oh, the visuals are really nice and it tells the story as well.
Speaker:There hasn't been any dialogue yet and you already got an idea of just the main
Speaker:character and like what they're like.
Speaker:I need to have one of these in my room.
Speaker:Just like a fish thing.
Speaker:Like this fish entrance thing.
Speaker:I like that.
Speaker:You know what's interesting?
Speaker:Don't they usually draw anime characters with very round eyes?
Speaker:Everyone here has more authentic eye shapes.
Speaker:Go ahead and say it, DJ.
Speaker:The round eyes from anime actually is due to the Disney influence
Speaker:of Bambi and things like that.
Speaker:And they wanted to actually look like the Disney characters because that was
Speaker:the only animation they really knew.
Speaker:But this one is to focus more on the actual culture of Japan.
Speaker:Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker:Oh, he doesn't have any hands.
Speaker:We're gonna know everything about this anime before we're done, huh, Allison?
Speaker:You call him Stumpy, bro?
Speaker:I'll beat your ass with my stump, bro.
Speaker:Allison!
Speaker:So this is not registered to me as something that was rated for children.
Speaker:It's done by prostitutes.
Speaker:I didn't know that.
Speaker:Eat up, girls!
Speaker:Eat it all!
Speaker:Oh!
Speaker:Yeah, I hate that.
Speaker:I think that's really gross.
Speaker:Like, when people eat noodles with their hands, I just can't.
Speaker:I don't know what it is about that.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Can't go a day without breaking dishes.
Speaker:Ringo, clean him!
Speaker:He has no hands!
Speaker:What's wrong with you?
Speaker:Oh?
Speaker:He has the strap.
Speaker:The strap.
Speaker:Oh, and then you got the quiet stranger in the back.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:How do you know someone's a low tier villain?
Speaker:They introduce themselves.
Speaker:And how do you know that there's a hero?
Speaker:They interrupt their introduction.
Speaker:Thanks.
Speaker:Already
Speaker:the staging and the boarding is gorgeous.
Speaker:Like
Speaker:In this time period Japanese traded with the Dutch.
Speaker:Again, with the hands.
Speaker:They give you utensils.
Speaker:Man, cut this mothafucka's hand off.
Speaker:Woohoo.
Speaker:Damn, cut off Both fingers.
Speaker:Yeah, our stranger's very skilled here.
Speaker:Would you still eat here?
Speaker:You just saw the man get his fingers cut off.
Speaker:Would you still eat there?
Speaker:No.
Speaker:I don't know, it makes you kinda hungry, oddly.
Speaker:This art style reminds me of the Arcadia anime.
Speaker:That should make sense.
Speaker:Like the Arcane.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Oh, is it Arcane?
Speaker:Yeah, Arcane.
Speaker:Netflix during this time was in the process of creating shows like Arcane.
Speaker:This is one of their Arcane was dope.
Speaker:I really liked that one.
Speaker:I would.
Speaker:So you'll notice that On the same dish!
Speaker:Interesting.
Speaker:This is not 2D.
Speaker:This is 3D.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So But the backgrounds are not.
Speaker:Yeah, they're all They are So like all of this texturing and
Speaker:all of this kind of stuff, it's supposed to look like a painting.
Speaker:That's the goal.
Speaker:That's what a MAPE painting is.
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:So it's exactly, so all this CG is happening in front of a painting.
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:That's a MAPE painting.
Speaker:So they're taking, it's really high resolution, beautiful painting.
Speaker:So they're taking CG elements, wrapping them in a bit matte texture of a actual
Speaker:Photoshop painting, placing it on there.
Speaker:And this is what you end up with.
Speaker:So see all those the curtain animation of her cloak there?
Speaker:That is, that's all 3D animation, so that's a simulation.
Speaker:But the bamboo and stuff like that's the painting.
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:And see how it's like moving in the back?
Speaker:That's a trick that 2D animators actually use.
Speaker:You'll never catch up on the path!
Speaker:And Disney's the one who actually created it.
Speaker:Where he would have an actual plane of different glass slates of the
Speaker:trees, the forests, all the stuff.
Speaker:Foreground element, middle ground element, background element.
Speaker:The characters are in the middle ground, you have the
Speaker:foreground element blurred out.
Speaker:This is Disney's making.
Speaker:You can fake movement based off how you move that background in those different
Speaker:sections, those different layers.
Speaker:For example, if you're in a car and you're looking out the window, do
Speaker:you see how the very as far as you can see, it feels like it's moving
Speaker:slower than the area closest to you?
Speaker:We have perspective.
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:So it's, they're using those tricks for real life.
Speaker:It's brilliant.
Speaker:It's like Samurai Jack and Arcade together.
Speaker:Okay, why is everyone so mean to this guy with no hand?
Speaker:I feel like this is it also could be a time period thing.
Speaker:This is very particular on this time period.
Speaker:Oh, it is 1633.
Speaker:I do this little wooden hat he has on here.
Speaker:Oh, and of course the reluctant master and the plucky He looks like the
Speaker:same age as this person, but still.
Speaker:I don't know why I can The voice actor for the guy who doesn't
Speaker:have any hands I recognize him.
Speaker:What is he in?
Speaker:Probably a bunch of stuff is in this one.
Speaker:Probably.
Speaker:Oh, look, he's tied up.
Speaker:He's on a tree.
Speaker:Really nice tree.
Speaker:His purpose of being here is the comedic timing that we needed to break up
Speaker:the horrific images that we just saw.
Speaker:Yep, you need some kind of levity in a story to keep people engaged.
Speaker:Although, Tackentine's able to get away with it and do okay,
Speaker:I think it also depends on the type of execution that you want.
Speaker:If you want a more classical story, then yeah, you're gonna
Speaker:have the goofy character.
Speaker:This background here, that was CG.
Speaker:Did you see how it moved differently than the other ones?
Speaker:That was a comp This is a completely formed CG background that this character
Speaker:is probably gonna interact with.
Speaker:You can see that, I can tell the leaves are some
Speaker:incense.
Speaker:Thank you, for I was lost without course so long.
Speaker:Please, let December's light brighten a path from this age
Speaker:as you know to the men I seek.
Speaker:Please, guide my steps until I find them.
Speaker:Please, give me the strength to move on.
Speaker:Or let me die.
Speaker:Or, her family could have been killed due to corruption, and
Speaker:she's actually from a noble line.
Speaker:Nah, like in the intro in the lines it said like being white was like illegal.
Speaker:I don't think that she was probably noble, because she has blue eyes.
Speaker:Where did it say being white was illegal?
Speaker:In the beginning, you weren't reading.
Speaker:It's because you're from Louisiana, and you have 48th ranked education.
Speaker:We all like no words, we like pictures.
Speaker:Oh, here we go, we got backstory.
Speaker:Hey watch, I bet you they're going to be mad because she's white.
Speaker:She's wearing goggles to hide her eyes.
Speaker:Oh, I thought those were like glasses or something,
Speaker:wearing a mask to hide her eyes.
Speaker:Go ahead.
Speaker:Kids can be so cruel.
Speaker:They can.
Speaker:They have no chill.
Speaker:Their parents teach them this way.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Damn, bro.
Speaker:Damn.
Speaker:There we go.
Speaker:We got our answer.
Speaker:This is
Speaker:Like a, she's like a girl.
Speaker:Why are you beating up a girl?
Speaker:I've never seen, I haven't seen that before.
Speaker:Round eyes.
Speaker:Like a doll.
Speaker:Keep in mind also, Japan was cut off from the world at this time period, they barely
Speaker:interacted with anyone from outside.
Speaker:Yeah, I think, okay, this must be a time to, wasn't it I don't know
Speaker:if they were, I guess they were banned, but I forget the reason.
Speaker:They only did trade with the Dutch, only in one specific part of Japan.
Speaker:They did not do any other they had no other communication
Speaker:with the outside world.
Speaker:Completely cut off.
Speaker:So when you're different, it's pretty noticeable.
Speaker:Hence the Blue Eye Samurai.
Speaker:. Wow.
Speaker:It's pride rock.
Speaker:It's great staging.
Speaker:Notice how little dialogue has already been done in this.
Speaker:Most of the story is being told by the images.
Speaker:See, it's a great technique.
Speaker:. It's anime's technique.
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:Cannot waste anything with your visuals.
Speaker:It's also good to have the space to do this.
Speaker:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker:Is he blind?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:How did you get to this meteorite so fast?
Speaker:Yeah, but he must have been in the area.
Speaker:This show's give me like, Dororo vibes.
Speaker:Has anyone seen that one?
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:So good.
Speaker:If anyone's not seen it, I recommend.
Speaker:Especially you both, I feel like you'd like it.
Speaker:Is that the one where they got the masks on?
Speaker:So it's the one about a kid whose father basically sold him to a demon
Speaker:when he was a child, and he lost Oh!
Speaker:And he got all his skin was taken off.
Speaker:Not just his skin, but his organs, his ability to feel, smell
Speaker:Skin, eyes, bones, everything.
Speaker:And as he got older, with every demon he killed, the more senses and feat
Speaker:and his own features that he got back.
Speaker:Yeah, I heard about this.
Speaker:So I haven't seen it, but I have heard about it.
Speaker:It's phenomenal.
Speaker:It was based off of the original show came out in the 60s.
Speaker:And then they basically redid it in this darker retelling and it was brilliant.
Speaker:But wasn't something about Astro, wasn't like the artist who made
Speaker:that also the dude who did Astro Boy or something like that?
Speaker:I think he was trippin I don't know.
Speaker:It might have just been the style from the 60s.
Speaker:You're probably just trippin Yeah, probably.
Speaker:Why is he caressing it like that?
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:To be fair, he can't see it.
Speaker:Because he's probably going to make it out, make like a
Speaker:sword or something out of it.
Speaker:That's why he's dinging on it.
Speaker:Like Sokka's space sword.
Speaker:You know what I'm noticing here?
Speaker:Alright, so when she gets older, I assume this is the same person,
Speaker:but it probably is, right?
Speaker:She's dressed in blue, she's dressed in blue now.
Speaker:The blue eyes, blue this, blue that.
Speaker:So it's probably going to be her sword because it's a blue meteor.
Speaker:I would assume so.
Speaker:And this is probably her mentor.
Speaker:Wow, you use your deductive reasoning that quick?
Speaker:Yeah, man, I told you, bro.
Speaker:I, man, yeah, wow.
Speaker:You gotta give it to the storytellers.
Speaker:They're doing a great job, keeping you engaged.
Speaker:Gotta be all that safety education you got up there.
Speaker:He has these scars on his arm.
Speaker:Probably cause he was a slave.
Speaker:He also might be a blacksmith, and blacksmiths tend to work with their hands.
Speaker:It makes sense.
Speaker:I don't know any other way they would have done it, to be fair, would you?
Speaker:That is very CG.
Speaker:They're terrible at hiding.
Speaker:You can't just scream when you wake up.
Speaker:I can't read kanji.
Speaker:Was that something that was that a prayer or something?
Speaker:I would assume that it was probably a prayer that he would
Speaker:be able to make a good sword.
Speaker:Actually, it would be really nice if someone made tea.
Speaker:I want tea now.
Speaker:Go ahead, DJ.
Speaker:Make some tea.
Speaker:You know what?
Speaker:I will, actually.
Speaker:Alright.
Speaker:I'll see you guys later.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Wow, that's big hands.
Speaker:Or that's a small cup.
Speaker:It's probably both.
Speaker:Aww.
Speaker:There we go.
Speaker:So you got this old man who's by himself.
Speaker:And this little girl who's by herself.
Speaker:And you make a little family.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Would be nice if someone kept proper time.
Speaker:This is also the same
Speaker:method in which Alison and Ariel learned how to animate.
Speaker:They were beat on the head if they messed up one time.
Speaker:No, this is the Miyagi Method.
Speaker:Here I'm going to have you wax on, wax off.
Speaker:But I do like the way that they keep going back and forth
Speaker:between the past and the present.
Speaker:Yeah, it's an interesting choice.
Speaker:Some people they do, some stories they just do only linearly, sometimes
Speaker:you only have one flashback scene.
Speaker:And so they're mirrored for mirrored for right now and I feel like it's gonna be
Speaker:a good payoff of telling it that way.
Speaker:I feel like this is very Asian storytelling.
Speaker:Like lots of Asian storytelling from like Chinese dramas to Korean dramas.
Speaker:And all that kind of thing.
Speaker:And especially if it's an anime, they'll do a back and forth
Speaker:between the past and the present.
Speaker:But it's fascinating because it's like almost impossible to
Speaker:do this in like a novel form.
Speaker:You drive your reader crazy.
Speaker:Where are we?
Speaker:What's going on?
Speaker:Didn't Lord of the Rakes do that a lot?
Speaker:Or I can't feed my children.
Speaker:You know the rules.
Speaker:I don't remember it that much in the novel.
Speaker:I read it too long ago.
Speaker:My mother made me.
Speaker:No, the movies.
Speaker:The movies do it, but I don't remember if the novel did it.
Speaker:Travel pass.
Speaker:Oh, I thought she was going to cut off his fingers.
Speaker:Man!
Speaker:I want to see some more fingers get cut off.
Speaker:Oh yeah.
Speaker:Because they need a man to travel through.
Speaker:But That's unfortunate.
Speaker:They should have had some bribe money like she does.
Speaker:She already had her save the cat moment.
Speaker:Why don't you explain that?
Speaker:Okay basically when a new hero is introduced in order to, for the
Speaker:audience to identify with them, you gotta have a moment where they show
Speaker:that they are willing to root for.
Speaker:They show that they're a nice guy by saving someone else, in
Speaker:this case, a man with no hands.
Speaker:With no hands, exactly.
Speaker:Coined by the guy who wrote the book, Save the Cat, and he has, I kinda don't
Speaker:like that book, but that's the story.
Speaker:Do you know where I can find the Shindo Dojo?
Speaker:Shindo?
Speaker:That's our dojo.
Speaker:You're gonna blind?
Speaker:You look like a blind beggar.
Speaker:How would I be a blind beggar if I'm looking at you?
Speaker:If you would please show me how to find your dojo, I'd be grateful.
Speaker:Follow the road to the shrine.
Speaker:Once you go around the gates, you'll see a sign across the puppet show.
Speaker:That's clearly a lie.
Speaker:They obviously don't like you.
Speaker:And they ran away laughing.
Speaker:Is that a whorehouse?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It's what the red lights mean.
Speaker:The real question is, bro, why are you just out there just watching?
Speaker:Either you're gonna buy or you're gonna move on, okay?
Speaker:This is not a, this is not a magazine shop.
Speaker:Back then it was.
Speaker:Hey, you got me there.
Speaker:Oh my god.
Speaker:Man, they just said show a dog and everything.
Speaker:What a dick.
Speaker:So as animators, let me ask you a question does that is that like a style choice?
Speaker:Can't they just, they usually you can animate in such a way where you don't
Speaker:see it, welcome to Netflix, where standards and practices do not apply.
Speaker:Ignore the dicks.
Speaker:Did you walk out in the cold without any pants?
Speaker:How did you hey, how did you untie yourself?
Speaker:I demand an answer to this.
Speaker:You gotta respect that.
Speaker:Somehow he got it.
Speaker:How much for three nights?
Speaker:I thought you weren't gonna stay.
Speaker:Oh.
Speaker:Titties.
Speaker:They're gonna show dick, I think you have to show titties.
Speaker:I think it's like a rule.
Speaker:You have to do both.
Speaker:Gender equality, right?
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:You can be a little rough.
Speaker:These you have to
Speaker:I'm so disturbed right now.
Speaker:. Yeah.
Speaker:This is why Americans shouldn't make anime.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:This wasn't really in any of the reviews.
Speaker:a hundred percent unnecessary.
Speaker:It's it, like you said, it's Netflix.
Speaker:They're gonna show Dick.
Speaker:You gotta show, you gotta show the other one.
Speaker:It's only fair is how can we get actual viewers.
Speaker:Let's put porn in it.
Speaker:Titties!
Speaker:They haven't lost sight of what the audience truly wants.
Speaker:We got royalty, guys.
Speaker:Or, I don't know, someone important.
Speaker:She has to be royalty or else they wouldn't be carrying her, right?
Speaker:Or at least wealthy.
Speaker:She also wouldn't be wearing all of the gold.
Speaker:Maybe she's a concubine.
Speaker:Probably.
Speaker:Yeah, that's true.
Speaker:The Empress would be in the castle.
Speaker:Oh, I thought you were about to say something else.
Speaker:What?
Speaker:What?
Speaker:What?
Speaker:We just saw sex and titties?
Speaker:Come on, that's a logical leap.
Speaker:Oh, she's a princess.
Speaker:Yep, she's a princess.
Speaker:I practiced that speech myself when I told my parents I was not
Speaker:gonna do a doctoring anymore.
Speaker:I don't think she's a princess.
Speaker:The princess would already be at the castle.
Speaker:I don't know, I'm seeing the gold.
Speaker:She's maybe she's the daughter of some lord or something.
Speaker:Yeah, that's probably it.
Speaker:The emperors had Which is like a princess, then.
Speaker:They had many concubines.
Speaker:And usually they were from their cabinet members.
Speaker:What is the daughter of a lord called?
Speaker:A concubine.
Speaker:No, the daughter!
Speaker:Not the one Lady.
Speaker:Conquer the concubines.
Speaker:She's a lady.
Speaker:A lady.
Speaker:He's a lord, she's a lady.
Speaker:a lady, but what is a lady called?
Speaker:I don't know what Japanese is.
Speaker:I only watch Chinese and Korean dramas.
Speaker:I can only give you the stuff in Korean.
Speaker:Or Chinese.
Speaker:We want the stuff in Japanese then.
Speaker:I'm sorry, I can't help you.
Speaker:Hime, maybe.
Speaker:Let's go with that.
Speaker:That's Princess.
Speaker:Alright, cool.
Speaker:We're gonna go with that.
Speaker:She's a possi We don't know yet, though.
Speaker:You think she's a dude?
Speaker:No.
Speaker:I have a feeling that this entire show is really based around
Speaker:the concepts of female power.
Speaker:You gave him that haircut?
Speaker:That should be fucking illegal.
Speaker:That is the hairstyle though.
Speaker:I refuse.
Speaker:Doesn't matter.
Speaker:I will go back in time and beat this guy's ass.
Speaker:What's the idea behind that hairstyle?
Speaker:So she is a princess.
Speaker:Yeah she's a princess.
Speaker:I knew it.
Speaker:It's 'cause she's practicing talking to her father.
Speaker:You get respect from someone.
Speaker:Concubines.
Speaker:They don't really do that.
Speaker:Father, I know your wisdom is beyond your reproach and I submit your
Speaker:real holy, but I would be Remi.
Speaker:You know what happens when you feed a pig?
Speaker:Sweets damn bitch.
Speaker:A pig.
Speaker:Of course you don't.
Speaker:Your life has been roped in silk.
Speaker:You've never seen the mud of the sky.
Speaker:Her father wasn't a pig farm.
Speaker:When a farmer feeds his pig too many sweets, its teeth rot, its gums
Speaker:fester, the infection goes to its brain and it must be slaughtered
Speaker:before it reaches full size.
Speaker:The pig can't be blamed.
Speaker:He's a pig and will eat all it can.
Speaker:The fault is with the farmer.
Speaker:Who knows better?
Speaker:Am I a pig, father?
Speaker:You want sugar when there are proper options.
Speaker:More than a few lords have taken notice of you when inquired.
Speaker:Ah!
Speaker:News came just this morning.
Speaker:Lord Saito's wife died in childbirth and he needs a new bride.
Speaker:Fuck.
Speaker:He's an old man!
Speaker:And a drunk and a whore mother!
Speaker:Lord Saito earns a hundred thousand cuckoo.
Speaker:Is that your price for me?
Speaker:If I don't marry you off, you'll end up in a brothel line with him anyway.
Speaker:So would you rather be his wife, or his whore?
Speaker:Father, I know your wisdom is beyond reproach, and I submit
Speaker:to your will wholeheartedly.
Speaker:I spoke from fear, as these men live so far away, and I
Speaker:cannot imagine a life without my father close.
Speaker:Please.
Speaker:Please.
Speaker:Consider someone who lives near, someone you trust to protect me,
Speaker:and the interests of our clan.
Speaker:My dove, I forget you are a simple girl.
Speaker:You know nothing of the world.
Speaker:Perhaps I need a husband who knows the toil of life in the battle as you have.
Speaker:One who has seen the sky.
Speaker:I do know of a fierce and Best swordsman in the best school, he said.
Speaker:Won 24 duels with every opponent dead.
Speaker:I'm not a noble family official, son of Kahama, but
Speaker:his prize reminds me of my own.
Speaker:What was his name again?
Speaker:Taigen, I believe.
Speaker:If his skills matter.
Speaker:Oh yeah, she gets what she wants.
Speaker:Somebody's already seen him.
Speaker:Ooh, she knows what she's doing.
Speaker:Ooh hoo!
Speaker:So who's the simple girl now, you dumb idiot?
Speaker:That's what you wanted from the beginning.
Speaker:That's the thing.
Speaker:He thinks she's a simple girl so she can take advantage of that.
Speaker:I assume this is the Taigen.
Speaker:Yeah,
Speaker:he is Taigen.
Speaker:Aw, this is so sweet.
Speaker:This is going to end so badly.
Speaker:I was just thinking that.
Speaker:I was like, oh.
Speaker:Ah, it's trouble true.
Speaker:Let me just let me just do this good correct me if I'm wrong, so we got
Speaker:a blue eyed samurai, a princess who wants to marry an undefeated samurai.
Speaker:With no high class.
Speaker:Also, I don't think she's a princess.
Speaker:I think her father is a warlord.
Speaker:At the time, throughout Japan, there were multiple warlords.
Speaker:I have a feeling we're about to have a war.
Speaker:And she's looking for a dojo.
Speaker:The same dojo with the same symbol as that guy was wearing.
Speaker:I feel like they're gonna fight.
Speaker:Yes, I have a feeling that she lost somebody very important.
Speaker:And that's why she was looking at the gun.
Speaker:Oh yeah.
Speaker:And she's now on a path of revenge.
Speaker:Will Taigen be the one that she kills?
Speaker:We'll see.
Speaker:I have to say, if she does kill him, it's going to put a little
Speaker:damper in that engagement.
Speaker:It never goes well.
Speaker:Everyone knows that.
Speaker:Characters can't be happy in shows like this.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:And main characters can't have both their parents.
Speaker:It's not allowed.
Speaker:Never.
Speaker:It doesn't do well for the show.
Speaker:I like this design here.
Speaker:But I do think that this show is a concept of female empowerment.
Speaker:She's pretending to be a guy to get what she wants.
Speaker:That woman couldn't get into the area because she didn't have a husband.
Speaker:The women's only way of making money was going to a brothel.
Speaker:Even the lord's daughter is threatened to going into a brothel.
Speaker:All of these people are men.
Speaker:There is no woman around.
Speaker:Period.
Speaker:This is a picture all about Females.
Speaker:You can't have a female, a badass female story and then not do that,
Speaker:you know what this also reminds me of?
Speaker:Kill Bill, for some reason.
Speaker:Yeah, it's Kill Bill mixed with Mulan.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Mixed with Silver Eyed Jack at Arcade.
Speaker:Style wise.
Speaker:Together they form Voltron.
Speaker:Ooh, history.
Speaker:Tingus!
Speaker:And Oni!
Speaker:That has a looks like a bird and has wings!
Speaker:Oni.
Speaker:Demon.
Speaker:How is she a she can see!
Speaker:I don't understand this insult!
Speaker:Cause of the glasses.
Speaker:Ooh.
Speaker:And obviously these people are not around women a lot.
Speaker:She doesn't even sound like a dude.
Speaker:Oh, suspicion of disbelief.
Speaker:Please beat the fuck out of these guys.
Speaker:They're so fucking annoying.
Speaker:His secret, every secret is revealed here.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It makes sense.
Speaker:Oh, if he's a world renowned swordsman, swords like, no, like a
Speaker:blacksmith, he's gonna, this little kid is gonna see every swordsman
Speaker:that comes by looking for a sword.
Speaker:And of course then she would become the best swordsman
Speaker:because she knows all the styles.
Speaker:. And even how to make the swords.
Speaker:The sword is the soul of the Samurai.
Speaker:The sword must match the man.
Speaker:His blade should be rigid and thin.
Speaker:Again, I feel like you're getting more out of this if I read it.
Speaker:Have you guys ever seen Dr.
Speaker:Stone?
Speaker:Oh.
Speaker:So in Dr No, Dr.
Speaker:Stone, it's a basically Magic School Bus, but anime one of the things they go into
Speaker:is how samurai swords are made they would basically fold the metal and fold it like
Speaker:eight times, so they can get a specific kind of density, they were, if you get a
Speaker:actual, if you ever find a real authentic samurai sword, they're like unbreakable.
Speaker:They're incredibly dense.
Speaker:So she's folding in the metal.
Speaker:But also the concept of that the impurities can make you stronger.
Speaker:And she's mixed.
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:But it's also a concept of, we ourselves are like swords.
Speaker:We work very hard, fight through all of adversity.
Speaker:And through those adversities and those impurities, we become steel.
Speaker:peanut gallery.
Speaker:A
Speaker:sharp stick.
Speaker:Oh, I was wrong.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Thanos, he has before cuts the line.
Speaker:Whoa hey, this skill.
Speaker:So I bet you he, I bet you he was a, probably a fighter before.
Speaker:Before he was blind.
Speaker:Good enough for cookies because I don't know any blacks that they
Speaker:have scars like that far up is their arm, they a thousand kitchen knives.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:There we go.
Speaker:Miyagi style.
Speaker:You got a, it's gotta be second nature.
Speaker:Ooh, a smith signs his name.
Speaker:I like how all their like, like signatures and logos, they're all in a circle.
Speaker:I don't know why.
Speaker:That's cool.
Speaker:Whoa.
Speaker:Hey, we're all just out of kitchen knives.
Speaker:Oh, it's the meteor.
Speaker:Maybe a woman can in this case.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:She'll probably find the weak spot in The super fire.
Speaker:Now you need the weak spot in the metal itself, at least in this one.
Speaker:Will she find it after he dies or before he dies?
Speaker:Yeah, that is the question.
Speaker:Oh, look, she's practicing.
Speaker:Wait a minute, is he just getting a steady streak with these meteorites?
Speaker:No, it's just the same one.
Speaker:Then you suck, you can't even hold it.
Speaker:Yeah you will.
Speaker:And you're gonna kill everybody.
Speaker:That's what I'm into.
Speaker:Revenge.
Speaker:Protection.
Speaker:Damn, that's not what she said.
Speaker:Nicholas Killian was one of them.
Speaker:I was going around slanging it as much as I could.
Speaker:And now she's gonna come and kill you.
Speaker:She's been told this her entire life.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:Pure, and it may be something shameful.
Speaker:It may also be strong.
Speaker:Very rock lee of her right
Speaker:Whoa.
Speaker:Can I just cut a blade of grass?
Speaker:Hey, come on.
Speaker:Beg boy.
Speaker:Move it.
Speaker:It'll be much simpler if you wanted to speak with your master.
Speaker:No one sees the master.
Speaker:No one sees the master.
Speaker:I cannot leave here until I speak to the master of this dojo.
Speaker:Good.
Speaker:We get to kill the others.
Speaker:Aw, three on one, that's not fair.
Speaker:That's also not very monk like of you, I don't think you're
Speaker:supposed to want to kill people.
Speaker:They're not monks, they're samurai.
Speaker:That's true.
Speaker:Oof!
Speaker:Are they?
Speaker:Oh yes, humbling them.
Speaker:There you go.
Speaker:Keep it up.
Speaker:Oh no.
Speaker:Ooh!
Speaker:So
Speaker:I'm curious, they actually brought in Kung Fu and like Taekwondo masters?
Speaker:To actually have authentic moves anime.
Speaker:But Kendo.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Oh!
Speaker:It's a wooden sword, everybody.
Speaker:It's a wooden sword.
Speaker:No, it's a little much.
Speaker:So you don't want her to take out the blade.
Speaker:It's just a regular wooden sword.
Speaker:They're not worth her blade.
Speaker:Broke their ankles.
Speaker:You know what Hawkeye says You don't hunt rabbits with a cannon.
Speaker:That is true.
Speaker:Hey, rip his tooth out.
Speaker:Yeah!
Speaker:Dude, I am really vibing with this show.
Speaker:Tarantino would be proud.
Speaker:The school of hard knocks, bitch.
Speaker:Oh!
Speaker:And that happened to me, I could not show my face again.
Speaker:They're like, oh, how did she defeat you?
Speaker:She threw her at the ground?
Speaker:Better yet, they don't even know she's a woman.
Speaker:Eh?
Speaker:Oh!
Speaker:Oh my gosh, damn!
Speaker:They are not hiding anything.
Speaker:Can you imagine being the board artist for this?
Speaker:Oh, goodness.
Speaker:Oh, it's in his eye!
Speaker:Oh, my god.
Speaker:Didn't expect any of this.
Speaker:It's a little much.
Speaker:They are full grown men who tried to kill me.
Speaker:Put down that toy, and draw your sword.
Speaker:Who?
Speaker:That sleeping ass.
Speaker:The lord's daughter, this beautiful daughter, not even ugly.
Speaker:Oh no, he's an asshole.
Speaker:Look
Speaker:at this man's face, bro.
Speaker:Is that a mole or a front tooth?
Speaker:Who knows?
Speaker:Does it matter?
Speaker:Next time we'll have a dentist expert on here, apparently.
Speaker:Damn.
Speaker:Ooh.
Speaker:Yeah, I didn't see you wearing that when you were hanging out
Speaker:with those prostitutes, but okay.
Speaker:Oooh.
Speaker:Oh yeah, you do.
Speaker:You've climbed some hides.
Speaker:Tiken is won 24 dues.
Speaker:How many of you?
Speaker:All of them?
Speaker:I've been counting . Oh, a bitch.
Speaker:Tigan.
Speaker:Teach him to respect.
Speaker:I've come to speak with your master and we'll go on my way.
Speaker:Once I have no one sees the master, you won't be accepted.
Speaker:The funeral cart, this is this at Zu.
Speaker:Who is this voice actor?
Speaker:No, it's not Zuko.
Speaker:No, that is definitely not Zuko.
Speaker:Who is this person?
Speaker:Oh, a challenge.
Speaker:Finally.
Speaker:Is it?
Speaker:Or is she playing him?
Speaker:It's possible.
Speaker:She probably wants to She hasn't taken out the sword yet.
Speaker:She probably wants to savor this.
Speaker:Usually you can tell if they're struggling is if somebody starts sweating.
Speaker:So far they look like they're evenly matched.
Speaker:Ooh.
Speaker:Oh.
Speaker:There we go.
Speaker:Reveal.
Speaker:Oh, it's Darren Barnett.
Speaker:I don't know who that is.
Speaker:I
Speaker:can't look at this man's face, bro.
Speaker:It's
Speaker:about time.
Speaker:This is also an emotional battle.
Speaker:Darren Barnett was also in Samurai Rabbit.
Speaker:Ooh.
Speaker:It is also blue.
Speaker:Hey, there we go.
Speaker:Someone figured out how to break the rock.
Speaker:Themselves, it looks like.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:Nah, that's Sage.
Speaker:She did that.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Oh, they're reading each other's moves before they do it.
Speaker:That's cool.
Speaker:Oh.
Speaker:Yeah, so he changes what he's gonna do.
Speaker:It's like chess.
Speaker:Nope, they're seeing that they both die, no matter what they do.
Speaker:This is very interesting.
Speaker:Ayy.
Speaker:He didn't fall for it.
Speaker:Ooh.
Speaker:Oh,
Speaker:she gonna hit him with the rock lead.
Speaker:Oh, wow.
Speaker:Ooh.
Speaker:Ooh.
Speaker:Should've killed her when you had the chance.
Speaker:That hilt is very nice too.
Speaker:This blade is gorgeous.
Speaker:Has little waves at the bottom of it.
Speaker:I wonder how many iterations they went through to get it.
Speaker:Oh boy.
Speaker:You're the master.
Speaker:You heard all this bullshit going on outside and you didn't do anything?
Speaker:Where may I find your brother, the black market merchant, Heiji Shindo?
Speaker:You did all this, to find my brother?
Speaker:Why?
Speaker:Heiji Shindo is in the fortress on Tanabe Island, protected by the Gengen Clan.
Speaker:Whatever business you have with him, you will never reach him.
Speaker:See, wasn't that so hard?
Speaker:I didn't have to beat up all these people for this.
Speaker:Still.
Speaker:Dog.
Speaker:May I kill this son of a bitch?
Speaker:Thank you.
Speaker:Oh, wow.
Speaker:Okay, so that's the limitation?
Speaker:Beheading?
Speaker:How many teeth did we see pulled out?
Speaker:I don't think she beheaded him.
Speaker:Or they also would have shown it if she did it, right?
Speaker:Because they showed everything else?
Speaker:She's probably going to cut off his hands or something.
Speaker:I think she blinded him.
Speaker:I'm going to say she did something to dishonor him.
Speaker:Like to show shame or something.
Speaker:Or she cut his hair.
Speaker:Oh yeah, she probably cut his top knot.
Speaker:She probably did?
Speaker:Oh no.
Speaker:Almost.
Speaker:No, they're like freezing to death.
Speaker:Oh, the gold comb!
Speaker:She cut his topknot!
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Super disrespect.
Speaker:So that way they can pay their way in.
Speaker:Yeah, if you cut someone's topknot, it's like you basically, they're,
Speaker:it's complete defeat to you.
Speaker:They are under complete defeat to you.
Speaker:Even in modern times, most balding men feel shame.
Speaker:You guys don't have anything to worry about for a number of years.
Speaker:Yeah, I have pretty long dreads.
Speaker:So this is gonna affect her.
Speaker:She does feel pain.
Speaker:Maybe she should have a companion.
Speaker:Poe sounds like a pretty good companion.
Speaker:She said Poe.
Speaker:Is that the guy's name, Poe?
Speaker:No, I just, he reminds me of Poe.
Speaker:I'm sure he had a name.
Speaker:Unfortunately, we talked and missed it.
Speaker:Oh.
Speaker:If people didn't want to hear people talking, they
Speaker:wouldn't be listening to this.
Speaker:True.
Speaker:Ugh, the black teeth.
Speaker:Oh, they used to do that back then.
Speaker:Yeah, that was a sign of beauty.
Speaker:Why?
Speaker:I do not understand.
Speaker:It's another culture.
Speaker:It's just the way they do OHHH!
Speaker:You're right!
Speaker:Oh, bro!
Speaker:You ball, bro!
Speaker:Every man who reaches 40 has gone through this transition.
Speaker:Oh no.
Speaker:Are they gonna turn their back on him because it was a complete defeat?
Speaker:Oh yeah, and he's full of shame.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:That's what she said.
Speaker:Huh.
Speaker:Sounds familiar.
Speaker:That's a very villain looking position.
Speaker:It's the white guy.
Speaker:Done with it.
Speaker:The white man!
Speaker:Ah!
Speaker:Ah!
Speaker:Ah!
Speaker:Number four!
Speaker:Ah!
Speaker:The white man!
Speaker:Ah!
Speaker:Ah!
Speaker:I'm getting Lord of the Rings vibes.
Speaker:That's some Mulan stuff right there.
Speaker:Unfortunately, there's no Mushu.
Speaker:That's the thing, she's by herself, so she needs some kind of companion.
Speaker:She cannot do this alone.
Speaker:It's true.
Speaker:I wonder who!
Speaker:Yes!
Speaker:I wonder who's gonna show up!
Speaker:I wonder who!
Speaker:Facts.
Speaker:Aww.
Speaker:She got herself a great surrogate father.
Speaker:He's so sad.
Speaker:Aww.
Speaker:I don't know, ways it's a pretty it right now.
Speaker:Yeah, but this is like in 1633 and exclusively in Japan.
Speaker:They, they're banned and evil and men beat her up.
Speaker:Three fifths of a person.
Speaker:Oh, jeez, oh god, I can't.
Speaker:At least she learned how to sew.
Speaker:It's just very useful to her.
Speaker:Oh, come on.
Speaker:Oh, it's a joke, All thanks to white dudes.
Speaker:Is there a scary villain in this or what, man?
Speaker:That's funny.
Speaker:Does he not know that she's he can't see, and it's not like he's been touching her.
Speaker:Yes, but he can hear her.
Speaker:Hit it on the ground.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Make sure it works.
Speaker:Oh, no, he knows exactly what it's made from.
Speaker:Because the sound, yeah.
Speaker:He's yeah, I even surpass your blacksmithing skills.
Speaker:The question is she gonna fight naked?
Speaker:I, what I've seen so far, I wouldn't put it past him.
Speaker:Oh.
Speaker:Oh my.
Speaker:Full frontal.
Speaker:Full frontal.
Speaker:Bush it all.
Speaker:Peaches.
Speaker:Oh, this guy.
Speaker:Oh god.
Speaker:Really?
Speaker:Next episode of Blue Eyed Samurai.
Speaker:Next time on Dragon Balls!
Speaker:We're gonna see some heading!
Speaker:Ah, there's a white guy!
Speaker:Ah!
Speaker:Ah!
Speaker:Oh, the devil!
Speaker:I do relate to this.
Speaker:I relate to this concept a lot.
Speaker:I do not!
Speaker:I do not!
Speaker:I'll never ever tell anyone that you're a girl!
Speaker:If I see you again I'll kill you.
Speaker:I'm so clean.
Speaker:It's not so bad.
Speaker:We'll be married.
Speaker:Your father will never allow enough.
Speaker:It wasn't even a dual.
Speaker:Therefore, you never lost.
Speaker:He must have left a trail.
Speaker:Oh.
Speaker:Oh, I love it.
Speaker:It cost me my station.
Speaker:And my honor,
Speaker:I've been to a stranger.
Speaker:I just have to find Tigan.
Speaker:I have a feeling Ty's gonna fall in love with the Blue Eye Samurai.
Speaker:Yeah, probably.
Speaker:You can be great.
Speaker:I've actually seen what weakness looks like.
Speaker:You don't want revenge?
Speaker:Revenge does not hesitate.
Speaker:There's something I need to tell you.
Speaker:Oh, look at the sexual tension.
Speaker:Two warriors.
Speaker:Yeah!
Speaker:Cause he's Scottish!
Speaker:What?
Speaker:Hey!
Speaker:Oh shit!
Speaker:Oh yeah!
Speaker:Oh man!
Speaker:Only satisfying.
Speaker:How's that ghost in shell feel, doesn't it?
Speaker:That was hardcore.
Speaker:That was the first episode.
Speaker:Well done.
Speaker:Directed by Jane Wu.
Speaker:Jane.
Speaker:Excellent job.
Speaker:Fantastic job.
Speaker:Good job.
Speaker:We got an excellent character to follow.
Speaker:Man.
Speaker:Brilliant.
Speaker:Alright.
Speaker:Here we go.
Speaker:We're gonna go around.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:What is your first thoughts?
Speaker:That's some dark shit.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I really liked a lot of the art.
Speaker:Yay, go Nick!
Speaker:And the Yay!
Speaker:I appreciate that.
Speaker:I appreciate that.
Speaker:They're shouting out people they know in the credits.
Speaker:We don't know a number of them.
Speaker:But yeah.
Speaker:Yay, co production!
Speaker:We love you!
Speaker:Yeah, I don't know We thought you wouldn't be made.
Speaker:She knows you guys.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:Yeah, she does.
Speaker:She knows them.
Speaker:I actually don't, but I think they did an excellent job.
Speaker:Quebec!
Speaker:Looks great.
Speaker:It's beautiful.
Speaker:They take this 3D animation and they're, like, doing A great job with medium.
Speaker:It's really come a long way.
Speaker:Do you guys ever watch the 3d berserk anime?
Speaker:Not the 3d it's in the 2d one.
Speaker:Yeah, don't watch the 3d one.
Speaker:It's right It just looks so beautiful in this one.
Speaker:They really took like the painting the artistry and Put it all together
Speaker:and made something pretty fantastic and we got a great arc to look
Speaker:forward to with our main character.
Speaker:I think CG, 3D anime and CGI has come a long way in this form of media.
Speaker:I remember seeing it when I was younger.
Speaker:You could tell the difference.
Speaker:You're like, Oh God, it's 3D.
Speaker:Oh yeah.
Speaker:It's blinding.
Speaker:It's horrible.
Speaker:It's bad to look at.
Speaker:But nowadays I think people are starting to get the hang of it.
Speaker:It's either the tell of I don't think that it was the technology's fault.
Speaker:I think it's that people, they just don't know how to use it
Speaker:yet at that point earlier on.
Speaker:Because the technology has always been there.
Speaker:It's just like, how you use it to express yourself, I think has really changed.
Speaker:Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker:Nick, what do you think?
Speaker:I thought the 3D was pretty cool in Spy Kids.
Speaker:Oh my goodness.
Speaker:One thing that's interesting I don't even know.
Speaker:I have to say, I'm very impressed with Netflix.
Speaker:Every single time I think that Oh, all this company is good for is buying
Speaker:other people's properties, then they come out with something like this.
Speaker:And it shows that there is creativity.
Speaker:There is something still there that is thriving and is alive.
Speaker:And I think other studios need to pay attention.
Speaker:To the fact that we don't need to just do American storytelling.
Speaker:There's a ton of different storytellings all around the world
Speaker:from Indian to Japanese, to even the way that the Europeans do it.
Speaker:Disney has invested a lot more money into anime.
Speaker:Not because they care, because it makes money.
Speaker:Let's be honest.
Speaker:And it makes money for a reason.
Speaker:This is like a unique, fascinating story.
Speaker:And you got this perspective, like a woman's perspective at this
Speaker:particular time is not exactly as told.
Speaker:It's so good.
Speaker:Mulan was incredible growing up.
Speaker:So you to be able to have a more serious version of that is exciting.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Guys, we hope you enjoyed this.
Speaker:Watch along.
Speaker:I'm dj.
Speaker:I'm Nicholas.
Speaker:I'm Ariel.
Speaker:And I'm Allison.
Speaker:And we'll see you next time.
Speaker:See ya.
Speaker:This has been Southern Sin Pies on Comic-Con Radio.
Speaker:Check out our previous episodes, Comic-Con radio.com.
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