Episode 47
Watch Along - Fresh Takes: Bungo Stray Dogs
In this special episode, we're changing things up by watching a random anime we've never heard of! Listen in to our fresh take of Bungo Stray Dogs!
Transcript
Howdy, it's the Southern Senpai Show where small town Southerners explore
Speaker:big time Japanese entertainment anime, manga, and everything in between.
Speaker:Here's your hosts, Nicholas and DJ.
Speaker:Southern Senpais, two southern guys who explore Japanese culture together.
Speaker:I'm Nicholas.
Speaker:What are you doing, DJ?
Speaker:And I'm DJ You're such a drama queen What are we doing wait that's you
Speaker:that's your line, yeah, my line is what are we doing today DJ?
Speaker:Well, you know, I thought we'd do something interesting.
Speaker:So we finished solo leveling.
Speaker:Yeah I was like, okay, we usually Choose one out of the one of the rare
Speaker:Animes we actually finished because We didn't even finish Boku no Pico.
Speaker:Uh, not uh, Ippo, Makanouchi Makanouchi!
Speaker:That anime was good though.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:We should probably get back to this sometime.
Speaker:Yeah, but not right now Now I'm gonna make We're gonna have Nicholas choose
Speaker:a random anime that neither of us have seen before and that's what we're gonna
Speaker:review I'm already not a fan of this idea.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Alright, so choose a number one through five four It says that you
Speaker:had to choose a genre in Senen?
Speaker:Senen?
Speaker:S E I N E N.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:That Hey, hey, look.
Speaker:Are you trying to explore or are you just trying to do some shit
Speaker:that everyone else fucking does?
Speaker:We gotta fucking, you know, we're supposed to act like we don't know what's going on.
Speaker:Most times we don't, so it's not like it's any different from what we usually do.
Speaker:Oh, there's a whole bunch of The fuck is that?
Speaker:Alright, hold on, I gotta Well that's the type of anime.
Speaker:Oh, right.
Speaker:This is in the name.
Speaker:Okay, yeah, nah Okay, let me go let me go to go to go to Google.
Speaker:And then type in Sinon.
Speaker:Anime Okay.
Speaker:What is Sinon?
Speaker:Mean.
Speaker:Yeah, well yeah, what is what does that mean?
Speaker:What does it mean?
Speaker:Uh, it means youth or young man.
Speaker:Noun, an anime or manga featuring a young male adult as the protagonist.
Speaker:Isn't that like all of them, but okay.
Speaker:It's mostly adult or mature audience.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Well, that sounds interesting.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Um, all right.
Speaker:So Sennin.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Now I'm going to go to this other one.
Speaker:I'm typing this on my phone.
Speaker:So he doesn't, he doesn't see.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So I don't see.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So we have a list of At least we didn't get on a slice of life type anime.
Speaker:Yeah, I would've told you we'd choose.
Speaker:I ain't got no idea.
Speaker:Oh, no way.
Speaker:So choose 1 through 100.
Speaker:78.
Speaker:Alright, let's see what we got here.
Speaker:You got 78?
Speaker:Hold on.
Speaker:This says that you are choosing I gotta scroll up.
Speaker:I was at 100 and now I gotta scroll up to friggin 78.
Speaker:Okay This I'm not really sure what this is supposed to mean.
Speaker:I don't really know how to Well, tell me.
Speaker:I mean, it says, Bo Bo bo, bo bo bo.
Speaker:Ha ha ha!
Speaker:That one I know!
Speaker:That one I know!
Speaker:Okay, I'm gonna Bun I'm gonna try to pronounce this.
Speaker:Okay, go ahead.
Speaker:Try.
Speaker:Bun go Bun goo Stray dogs.
Speaker:What?
Speaker:I know . I know.
Speaker:What's it about?
Speaker:It says, uh, read
Speaker:more following the conclusion of the organizational war, a
Speaker:government bureaucrat, ongo.
Speaker:Oh, it kind of sounds like gunda a little bit.
Speaker:Um, kind of, so it says a basic summary is that a guy works, it seems like a
Speaker:guy works at a, uh, uh, an agency to hunt down on other people with powers.
Speaker:It looks like.
Speaker:That might actually be kinda dope, man.
Speaker:Yeah, I mean, it sounds pretty cool to me.
Speaker:I'm gonna, I'm gonna Yeah, look it up.
Speaker:I'm gonna look this up real fast.
Speaker:I mean, them's the rules.
Speaker:Them's the rules.
Speaker:By the way, uh, I know this is kinda off brand.
Speaker:The semen anime.
Speaker:The only real life, like, protagonist I've discovered is Oh, wait.
Speaker:No, that's them.
Speaker:No, no, it's this one.
Speaker:This one.
Speaker:Bungo Stray Dogs.
Speaker:Then why did the, uh I don't know.
Speaker:The actual title here says it's something different.
Speaker:Okay, cool.
Speaker:Uh Go to our secret website.
Speaker:That's legal!
Speaker:That's legal.
Speaker:That's legal.
Speaker:That's it's legal.
Speaker:My god.
Speaker:I guess not.
Speaker:They already took it down.
Speaker:They heard the episode and was like, nope, nope.
Speaker:Okay, okay, here we go.
Speaker:So It looks, it's, it looks really cool.
Speaker:I wonder if they have it dubbed.
Speaker:That's the real question.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That's the only thing because, you know, we might have to, we might
Speaker:have to redraw if it's not dubbed.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Because you know, we do this random stuff.
Speaker:That's the Right, that's something that could happen.
Speaker:That's why I was like, oh, I don't have no idea.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Hold on.
Speaker:Oh no.
Speaker:There it is.
Speaker:Bungo Straight Dogs, Bungo Stray Dogs Wine.
Speaker:Straight d Well, I mean just do the regular straight dog.
Speaker:If it has an extra word in it, I'm sure it's SEASON 5 Wait a minute, hold on.
Speaker:Wait a minute.
Speaker:They have 5 seasons?
Speaker:Let's see what this first episode's doing first.
Speaker:Okay, let's watch the first episode.
Speaker:I feel like that's fair, we're not gonna watch all 5 seasons right now anyway.
Speaker:It Is this I feel like I would've heard about it, it has 5 seasons.
Speaker:Wait, is it, are we on the first season?
Speaker:Oh yeah, this is first season, episode one.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:And I feel like, I don't know if it just has five seasons, but you know there's
Speaker:a lot of animes out there that have been going on since like the 90s, who
Speaker:have no, you've never heard of them, and everyone's like, oh it's the greatest
Speaker:thing ever, and you're just like, dude.
Speaker:It's like, you know, in America, if you tell someone, yeah, you know the
Speaker:Sopranos, and they're like, what?
Speaker:And you're like, bro.
Speaker:The Sopranos?
Speaker:The Sopranos, like, did you not hear what I ate?
Speaker:Maybe not, that's being cleared up.
Speaker:The Sopranos!
Speaker:What was that?
Speaker:Although guaranteed anyone born after 2005 has no idea what the fuck that is.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:Which is crazy.
Speaker:Like, to be fair with you, I honestly, is there a studio intro to this?
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:Hey, you know what, this is a silence of bias first, because actually,
Speaker:yeah, 24 minutes and 46 seconds, so it does have a studio intro.
Speaker:Instead of it being, you know, Yeah, cool.
Speaker:Uh, so guys, this is gonna be, uh, Bungo Stray Dogs.
Speaker:Yeah, so what's going on here?
Speaker:Let's start the episode.
Speaker:We, uh, rolled the dice and this is what we came up with.
Speaker:Right, so I'm gonna start this episode in 3, 2, 1.
Speaker:I am gonna get a bit of a scene enhancer.
Speaker:Hold on.
Speaker:I don't feel like, you know.
Speaker:Oh wow, pulling out the jack, huh?
Speaker:Yep, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker:Tennessee is in the house.
Speaker:One Oh, I was gonna read that, but it read it for me.
Speaker:So he knows how to make food.
Speaker:No, he's saying he stole it.
Speaker:Oh, he stole it?
Speaker:He was stealing it at the orphanage.
Speaker:Oh.
Speaker:Damn.
Speaker:This is a crazy way to start.
Speaker:You got that at the orphanage, and now you tune it up on the side of the road?
Speaker:M Miz got to read that?
Speaker:Damn.
Speaker:What the fuck?
Speaker:What kind of orphanages are these?
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:No orphanage wants someone like you.
Speaker:What the fuck?
Speaker:I didn't know you had a choice.
Speaker:Oh dude, you could make that mango liquid death.
Speaker:A chaser.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:How's that?
Speaker:They actually go together pretty well.
Speaker:Like, like, like, like the uh, mango chainsaw in the,
Speaker:in the like, Jack Daniels.
Speaker:Like brings it out more, which is crazy.
Speaker:The police carry wallets while they're in training.
Speaker:Next time, and this time I really mean it.
Speaker:Good night, man!
Speaker:Yeah, I'll let that one pass, thanks.
Speaker:You're hungry.
Speaker:Oh, he's trying to kill himself.
Speaker:Do
Speaker:you kill yourself everyday?
Speaker:What's the stuff on the side?
Speaker:The stuff being written down.
Speaker:Those are the words up top.
Speaker:Oh.
Speaker:Cause in the dub they're translating it for you.
Speaker:They're like, you motherfuckers can't speak Japanese.
Speaker:We know your ass ain't reading that shit.
Speaker:I'm kind of, I kind of like this art style, I'm not going to lie.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:What's wrong with his haircut?
Speaker:Let me tell you something, man.
Speaker:When it comes to anime, I've stopped questioning haircuts a long time ago.
Speaker:In real life, I question some people's haircuts.
Speaker:I leave that shit go.
Speaker:Because this whole lopsided to one thing cut, you see it, right?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Bro, I, I, I don't know what's going on with this, but I know
Speaker:white girls who do shit like that, they're, they're interesting.
Speaker:Really?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:What does that mean?
Speaker:Apparently it's significant, because the wind blew after they said his name.
Speaker:Okay, man, I don't know what that means.
Speaker:And I'm Derek Johnson II.
Speaker:Nicholas Killian.
Speaker:Pleasure to meet you.
Speaker:Your haircut?
Speaker:Whack!
Speaker:Your style?
Speaker:Whack!
Speaker:Your suicide?
Speaker:Whack!
Speaker:Tea on rice?
Speaker:That must be a Japanese thing.
Speaker:I've never even conceived of that in my entire life.
Speaker:Tea on rice?
Speaker:Who puts rice in fucking tea?
Speaker:Oh, I get it.
Speaker:This is pretty Japanese.
Speaker:As long as Japanese is a guess and I don't think about it.
Speaker:For a good ten years.
Speaker:In your past you showed little credit for that.
Speaker:I'm straight from the orphanage.
Speaker:I haven't been able to sleep since.
Speaker:I thought I'd starve to death.
Speaker:You're from the orphanage?
Speaker:I was, yes.
Speaker:But they kicked me out.
Speaker:Sounds like a
Speaker:real philanthropic organization.
Speaker:Of course not, Zai.
Speaker:We're not a couple of do gooders going around helping hard luck cases.
Speaker:We've got a job to do.
Speaker:That reminds me.
Speaker:You said that your current job involves the military.
Speaker:What kind of work do you do?
Speaker:We're private investigators.
Speaker:Of course you are.
Speaker:But we handle more than lost pets and cheating spouses.
Speaker:Damn, the man roasted everybody.
Speaker:We're armed detective agencies.
Speaker:Those were just stories.
Speaker:Tales of the police or the military.
Speaker:Armed force that straddled the natural and supernatural world.
Speaker:Nice.
Speaker:Let's see him.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:Well, yeah.
Speaker:Now, now you have my interest.
Speaker:What is up with this guy?
Speaker:Why is he keep trying to kill himself?
Speaker:So I guess he can survive killing himself or else he wouldn't be fucking doing it.
Speaker:Is it?
Speaker:Yeah, it's fine.
Speaker:I see the weeds.
Speaker:A
Speaker:tiger?
Speaker:Yes, a ferocious man eater who was once a Alright, fingers crossed,
Speaker:they come across, uh, Mike Tyson.
Speaker:Yeah!
Speaker:And his white Bengal tiger.
Speaker:You clearly don't know anything about the thing we just said.
Speaker:Tell us something you're not sure.
Speaker:Tell us
Speaker:what you know about it.
Speaker:It's after me.
Speaker:It almost killed me.
Speaker:If it's been seen around here, I You'll need to pay for the food with your armor.
Speaker:Tell us everything.
Speaker:Now, now.
Speaker:How is breaking his armor gonna get
Speaker:you your money back?
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Oh, that's why he got kicked out.
Speaker:He must have something to do with it.
Speaker:Oh, I guess not.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Well, we've talked about this before how Japanese have a
Speaker:theme of like, they hate kids.
Speaker:Yeah, you know a lot of anime they have straight adults just beating
Speaker:on children and we're seeing this as Americans and they're just like They're
Speaker:just knocking the shit out of the dude and like cutting off their hands.
Speaker:Remember they cut the kid's hands?
Speaker:Oh, it shows it's, it's like following him.
Speaker:Oh dear.
Speaker:This is not a bad anime.
Speaker:It's going to be a slow burn.
Speaker:It's very interesting.
Speaker:I'm definitely involved in this.
Speaker:Yeah, just going to use this bait.
Speaker:Right, it's a great way to kill a tiger.
Speaker:Currently penniless.
Speaker:Well, I don't know how much that is.
Speaker:I d I don't That's Japanese letters, or numbers.
Speaker:Uh, I I I'm assuming it's a lot of money.
Speaker:Yeah, clearly.
Speaker:The complete guide to suicide.
Speaker:So what's this guy's deal with trying to kill himself?
Speaker:What's the deal with his suicide?
Speaker:Hey look man, some people are into gardening.
Speaker:Some people are into, you know, rollerblading.
Speaker:Some people are into audio asphyxiation.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:He, um, he's kind of like more into like a death kind of thing.
Speaker:He's wearing a bolo, so I assume that that's probably the reason
Speaker:why he wants to kill himself.
Speaker:Right, I would want to kill myself if I had that on.
Speaker:I mean, you could've just kicked me out.
Speaker:You didn't have to say all that other shit.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:You could've just said, leave.
Speaker:Because the tiger's stalking you.
Speaker:Not like, Yo mama's fat.
Speaker:Yo daddy fat.
Speaker:You get no bitches.
Speaker:And your brother's poor.
Speaker:Uh, don't you deal with magic?
Speaker:Facts.
Speaker:That is true.
Speaker:This guy's smart.
Speaker:Oh!
Speaker:Yeah, it's following you.
Speaker:Nah.
Speaker:Oh!
Speaker:I think he is a tiger.
Speaker:What's that?
Speaker:The X Men.
Speaker:Oh.
Speaker:He turns into the tiger.
Speaker:Yeah!
Speaker:This is like the X Men, the people with powers.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:This
Speaker:is pretty badass.
Speaker:The animation is good.
Speaker:Oh!
Speaker:What you got?
Speaker:The fuck does that mean?
Speaker:I
Speaker:like how instead of it being called like nullify.
Speaker:It's no longer human.
Speaker:That's a unique name Yeah, like you would never have guessed what that ability does
Speaker:I called him gay
Speaker:Take it off me Like that bro.
Speaker:I'll swing that way
Speaker:Ability thou shall not die.
Speaker:I have no idea what that means Deduction
Speaker:be not defeated by the rain.
Speaker:What is the name of these powers?
Speaker:These are interesting abilities.
Speaker:A poet?
Speaker:He's gonna join us.
Speaker:Let's cook him and eat him.
Speaker:Make him back into a tiger and just eat tigers.
Speaker:The fucking crazy part is like, I like the names of these, you have
Speaker:no idea what they could possibly be.
Speaker:Told
Speaker:you.
Speaker:So it is like the X Men.
Speaker:He really likes to be tooted up.
Speaker:It's a bit zesty.
Speaker:Dude, I like this Dazzo guy.
Speaker:He's like, bro, I have ability.
Speaker:I know what's going on.
Speaker:Don't touch me like that, dawg.
Speaker:You're just being weird.
Speaker:But,
Speaker:This guy's cool.
Speaker:Beast beneath the moonlight.
Speaker:That's cool.
Speaker:These names are cool.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Armed detective agency.
Speaker:Is that it?
Speaker:Uh, I,
Speaker:No, no, there's stuff after this.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:This must just be the intro.
Speaker:But dude, that's, that, I'm, I'm down with this.
Speaker:This is a good choice.
Speaker:I'm, I'm down with this, uh, I'm down with this anime.
Speaker:What was his number, 78?
Speaker:What number did you choose, Ian?
Speaker:78.
Speaker:This man's gonna watch the whole anime before Ha ha ha ha ha.
Speaker:That's what he does every time.
Speaker:Oh, I actually like this.
Speaker:I'm gonna binge watch this.
Speaker:This is just the end credits, man.
Speaker:These are the greatest end credits I've ever seen in my frickin life.
Speaker:This end There's a Well, aren't end credits usually
Speaker:like something like slow paced?
Speaker:These are good end credits.
Speaker:I'm pretty sure this is one of those things where like, they play the
Speaker:intro at the end of the first episode.
Speaker:They do that every Anyway.
Speaker:The theme is trash candy.
Speaker:I don't I don't I have I have to say about that.
Speaker:It's me, trash candy.
Speaker:You sound like the cheapest hooker.
Speaker:Well, I get reckless reward yet
Speaker:produced by,
Speaker:yeah, I guess that was the end.
Speaker:The end credits.
Speaker:Yeah, that was it then.
Speaker:Whys there so much time after this?
Speaker:Look, there's like two minutes of this left after this.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Uh, see this looks like more like an ending.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Alright, well, uh, I don't know.
Speaker:What'd you think?
Speaker:Yeah, I like it.
Speaker:Yeah, I think it's pretty cool.
Speaker:It's got a futuristic, um, Full Metal Alchemist vibe to it.
Speaker:Yeah, I'm picking up a lot of like the X Men where it's like, okay, We're an
Speaker:agency of superpowers and we start with people with superpowers, but also at the
Speaker:same time It seems like it's own thing.
Speaker:I like the art style a lot.
Speaker:The animation is pretty good.
Speaker:Yeah, I like the art style, animation.
Speaker:Alright, Nicholas, are we going to do a second episode of this eventually or not?
Speaker:Yeah, eventually.
Speaker:Alright, cool.
Speaker:Well guys, this has been Southern Senpais.
Speaker:I'm DJ.
Speaker:I'm Nicholas.
Speaker:And we'll see you next time.
Speaker:See ya.
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