Episode 44
Watch Along: Solo Leveling Watch Along Ep 10
Listen in and watch Solo Leveling episode 10 with the Southern Senpais in this week's watch along!
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:What's going on y'all, Southern Senpai here.
Speaker:Senpais here, two southern guys who explore Japanese culture together.
Speaker:I'm Nicholas.
Speaker:I'm DJ.
Speaker:And I want you guys to know that he does actually get nightmares
Speaker:off, uh, messing that up.
Speaker:So now he's, you know, he's, he's been purged.
Speaker:He has a perfect down pat every time.
Speaker:Every time now, now, now he's a, a straight shooter.
Speaker:He's got it down.
Speaker:What is this episode?
Speaker:It doesn't matter.
Speaker:What does matter is what we're doing today.
Speaker:It doesn't matter.
Speaker:Does it matter?
Speaker:No, we're uh, so we're seeing Solo Leveling episode 10.
Speaker:I'm gonna be honest with you man, I don't remember anything that
Speaker:happened, uh, in the last episode.
Speaker:I remember, the last thing I remember is that he's like,
Speaker:completely physically different.
Speaker:Natalie's sister is attracted to him for some reason, ever so slightly.
Speaker:Uh, the annoying person that I hate is back, and he's still,
Speaker:I do, I don't, I don't.
Speaker:You got that little stinger.
Speaker:Yeah, I don't, I don't, I don't fucking get this man.
Speaker:All right, so, bye.
Speaker:His, his superpower is to progress in the story.
Speaker:You know, you know, the crazy part about this is, is that he's got
Speaker:like one punch man power, right?
Speaker:So he like does a hundred push ups and a hundred sit ups and
Speaker:like this, that and the other.
Speaker:And then like, now he's like super powerful, all hot and shit.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And he like grew ten inches.
Speaker:Like he was like, what, like five, six and now he's like, Oh yeah, now I'm six, six.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And it's like.
Speaker:What?
Speaker:And also, I Still, my whole thing is like, oh, okay, my power is
Speaker:to progress through the story.
Speaker:That's like most stories that's supposed to happen.
Speaker:But I'm the only one that can do it though.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:This is like That's how the twist goes.
Speaker:You know who did solo leveling way better?
Speaker:Goku and Dragon Ball Z.
Speaker:This is the poor man's Dragon Ball Z.
Speaker:Super poor.
Speaker:You know who else did it better?
Speaker:Who?
Speaker:Naruto and Naruto.
Speaker:It's literally the basic formula for anime.
Speaker:You know who did it better?
Speaker:Ichigo and Bleach.
Speaker:And like literally both anime protagonists have this ability.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:The only difference is now no one else can get better, which is kind
Speaker:of like That just makes it easier.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:You know who also did this better?
Speaker:Um, what was that?
Speaker:What was that anime?
Speaker:Um, the pretentious one?
Speaker:You know the one I'm talking about.
Speaker:I don't.
Speaker:The one where he's really mad.
Speaker:The Hulk?
Speaker:No.
Speaker:The Hulk.
Speaker:He's mad.
Speaker:Alright.
Speaker:Oh, uh.
Speaker:Name that anime with Nicolas Cage.
Speaker:The Viking.
Speaker:Your first hint is The Viking.
Speaker:He was the Viking and he was the little kid and he was mad.
Speaker:The viking, little kid, and man.
Speaker:If you have an idea what Nicholas is talking about, send us a mail.
Speaker:Send us a mail or DM us on Zipfy's.
Speaker:No, you know what, you were like, uh, um.
Speaker:He's giving us extra hints here.
Speaker:No, the thing was, is like, he gets kidnapped by the, his dad dies.
Speaker:In the valley, and he gets shot up with all the arrows.
Speaker:I'm sure that's so specific, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker:And gets kidnapped.
Speaker:Death, Mad, Anime.
Speaker:You heard it here, folks, first.
Speaker:You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker:You know what, I'm gonna try to guess.
Speaker:Alright, I'm gonna try to guess.
Speaker:So, the clues are He's mad.
Speaker:Uh, his dad is dead.
Speaker:He's constantly wanting to kill the guy.
Speaker:Revenge?
Speaker:This could be a Western, for all I know.
Speaker:But you said Viking, so I feel like it's not a Western.
Speaker:But, if I took out the Viking part, That would mean it's a, uh, It would
Speaker:sound like a, uh, A Western Lin Saga.
Speaker:Ah, ooh.
Speaker:You didn't let me guess.
Speaker:You didn't.
Speaker:Lemme guess.
Speaker:You know what I was thinking either that or there's like a spinoff of the Magi.
Speaker:I was like, I think it's one of these two.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Vilin Saga.
Speaker:Vilin Saga.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Cool.
Speaker:Vilin Saga.
Speaker:Did it better.
Speaker:Well, thank you for playing.
Speaker:If you , if you were able to guess he saw on, yeah.
Speaker:Vilan Saga did did it way better.
Speaker:And the crazy part is he actually gained no powers.
Speaker:He just literally just got better.
Speaker:He just got at fighting.
Speaker:He just got more traumatized.
Speaker:Yeah, he didn't have a video game cheat code to get better.
Speaker:And also, let me ask you this.
Speaker:So before this, he was at a lower power, right?
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:It's also kind of And you get born at this, at this stage.
Speaker:You don't get any better.
Speaker:Right, right, right.
Speaker:So, he was so revolutionary.
Speaker:He was kind of like skinny though, right?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So like, you know, like in real life, you started doing a hundred pushups a day.
Speaker:You would just become like a better person physically.
Speaker:I wonder if he did any physical workout before this, would he probably be better?
Speaker:It's like, okay, I can't get any more powerful, but it doesn't say I can gain.
Speaker:I can't gain any more skills.
Speaker:True.
Speaker:Like in Vinland Saga, he didn't become more powerful per se.
Speaker:He just got more and more Viking skills was better at just killing people.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Alright, well if you like this, uh, if you like this anime series,
Speaker:We've just torn through it.
Speaker:Okay, let's, uh, we're gonna watch this episode 10 now.
Speaker:Um, we don't have any of those, those, uh, studio openings, so if
Speaker:you're watching it online, I see, we see, what are these, rain clouds?
Speaker:Or it's like some sort of water?
Speaker:Whatever.
Speaker:Yeah, it starts at rain clouds.
Speaker:Rain clouds.
Speaker:Water frame falling on my head.
Speaker:Yeah, it's only 23 minutes and 40 seconds.
Speaker:All right, i'm gonna press play in three
Speaker:Oh, I already hate this So now she's on a date with him now that he's that guy
Speaker:and taller than her and better than her
Speaker:And now he's like sasuke and brooding Why are you wearing a hoodie?
Speaker:What like why who are you hiding from bro?
Speaker:Look how sharp her chin is
Speaker:I get why they never hooked up now She's on top of you and she
Speaker:throws her head the wrong way.
Speaker:That's it for you.
Speaker:Stab you in the eye.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:That's
Speaker:Why do you Like, you think it's nice to say those things, but like, you're
Speaker:really roasting me all the time.
Speaker:His chin is kind of sharp too.
Speaker:They have some really sharp chins in this.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Maybe that's the style of the anime.
Speaker:Maybe.
Speaker:It's a sign of their powers.
Speaker:You can't have The sharper the chin, the higher the level.
Speaker:The higher the level.
Speaker:Good.
Speaker:That's great.
Speaker:Also, if you're on a date with some chick, why are you in this school shooter hoodie?
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:With the hood on, by the way.
Speaker:Maybe he's so famous now, he has to.
Speaker:Why does his jacket have a belt on the lower side of it?
Speaker:Why does this jacket have a belt?
Speaker:I'm not getting off this.
Speaker:I've never seen this fashion sense in my life.
Speaker:Maybe that's Japanese, dude.
Speaker:That's incorrect.
Speaker:As an American, that's incorrect Japanese.
Speaker:We didn't even know what cricket was until we all found out we were one of the best
Speaker:at it a few days ago All right beating Pakistan Apparently, it's one of those
Speaker:popular sports in the world and we didn't even know it existed And then we just our
Speaker:part timers came up and we're the best.
Speaker:Hey, uh, let's try this.
Speaker:Hmm, right?
Speaker:Also, so is that
Speaker:Oh yeah, yeah, because that guy's brother died.
Speaker:He's like, oh, you probably murdered him.
Speaker:Yeah, but your brother was murdering people too, so I don't
Speaker:really feel bad for you, dawg.
Speaker:But I can understand the confusion, I guess.
Speaker:Huh?
Speaker:Huh?
Speaker:Yeah, you said that two minutes ago at the beginning of this scene.
Speaker:Oh, you mean my one sister?
Speaker:You know what?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Dude, so Did you change voice actors?
Speaker:So, S Ranks can just do whatever they want.
Speaker:Well, I guess you, cause you can't, uh, you can't really kill them, cause
Speaker:there's so much, they're unstoppable, so what are you supposed to do?
Speaker:They're basically gods among men, like, you go fight them.
Speaker:You want to change?
Speaker:You go do it, bro.
Speaker:What was that, uh?
Speaker:You know what, there's a refrigerator behind you there, Nicholas.
Speaker:Why don't you hand me one of those liquid death mangoes out of there?
Speaker:Oh, yeah?
Speaker:Did you want one?
Speaker:Um, sure.
Speaker:There's also a ginger ale in there.
Speaker:I'll take the ginger ale.
Speaker:Canada Dry, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker:We're not using any, uh, scene enhancers.
Speaker:I, I don't know if I could handle this show on a whole bunch of scene enhancers.
Speaker:I think this show is enhanced enough.
Speaker:Heh heh heh heh.
Speaker:To be, to be fair, this was like a Webtoons thing.
Speaker:And that got popular enough for, you know, it to become an anime.
Speaker:And I don't have an anime, so, you know, what do I know?
Speaker:Getcha!
Speaker:Getcha!
Speaker:I'm missing it, hold on.
Speaker:Get up, get up!
Speaker:What's the ending say?
Speaker:Oh, it's still going!
Speaker:You know, it does that fake out thing I forgot!
Speaker:Heh, yeah.
Speaker:It's like, yeah, the song's over!
Speaker:Psych!
Speaker:The headlines!
Speaker:Cheers to Ginger Ale.
Speaker:Oh, actually, I have a beer for you if you want it.
Speaker:I'll have to do that next episode.
Speaker:A scene enhancer?
Speaker:You want a real one?
Speaker:We'll do that next episode.
Speaker:Cheers?
Speaker:Cheers.
Speaker:I have the Mango Chainsaw if I could give and like talk about this real
Speaker:fast while this shit is playing because this scene definitely doesn't matter.
Speaker:Um, as you know, the only parts that matter are the middle of the
Speaker:show and then the last half, the beginning of it's completely useless.
Speaker:We've already figured that out.
Speaker:So, Liquid Death, it says Mango Chainsaw and But don't drink it if you're thirsty.
Speaker:Yeah, like, Nicholas and I, this is our first real thing that, uh, It's
Speaker:not even a soda, it's carbonated water.
Speaker:That we drank plenty of, but like, it's the, It doesn't cure your thirst.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:The carbonation in the water, like, really throws it off.
Speaker:And I have to be frank.
Speaker:It makes you thirsty.
Speaker:Yeah, if I had to be frank, like, A lot of, like, there's some mango
Speaker:taste, no chainsaw taste at all.
Speaker:None whatsoever, I was inspecting oil.
Speaker:Right, I mean, it looks like they write it like it's half drunk.
Speaker:Trust me, I'm from the south, so I know what chainsaw tastes like.
Speaker:Like, if you drink a lemon lime, I'm like, this is a lemon lime soda.
Speaker:You don't have any lemon taste in it.
Speaker:It's just lime, right?
Speaker:Lemon lime soda, but just with, you know, only lime in it.
Speaker:There's no lemon taste, it's just, you know.
Speaker:This is, this is, this is, you should shut up and just let them do that.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Look, all of you are bitch ass pussies who will slow me down, sit your ass
Speaker:right the fuck here, you on the crutch.
Speaker:I invited you because I think it's kind of funny.
Speaker:Stealth.
Speaker:I'm not gonna lie, if I had the, uh, wait, shouldn't you use it when you get inside?
Speaker:Just in case there's a time limit on there?
Speaker:You don't Oh, oh.
Speaker:Oh, he just learned it.
Speaker:This man thinks he's dripped out so hard
Speaker:There's like when your bro shows up and like new shoes like do what you
Speaker:think you're like bro are those Shaq's?
Speaker:Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, no diddy
Speaker:What you mean by that
Speaker:leave him behind do it why
Speaker:cuz you've no armor At least lemme keep the helmets
Speaker:Why did they wait till nighttime to do this?
Speaker:Wasn't it like bright daylight out?
Speaker:Then why?
Speaker:Okay, if you actually believe this, how wouldn't you need
Speaker:to know if they died or not?
Speaker:Or else would you be sitting out there all night?
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:How would you know if they're cleared under?
Speaker:There's no radio, would you wait?
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And how is,
Speaker:wait, so he's an eran, but he's got the power of a B rank, right?
Speaker:Oh, it's only been an hour.
Speaker:And he said it should've took them two hours.
Speaker:You know who actually, you know what?
Speaker:I actually know, dude.
Speaker:I know who they copied this fricking anime from.
Speaker:It was from, uh, I think I told you about that anime I heard of called, uh, Magi?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:In Magi, a whole bunch of dungeons show up out of nowhere.
Speaker:And if you conquer them, you get powers.
Speaker:That 10 years ago.
Speaker:And the main character goes from being a slave to like this super powerful guy.
Speaker:Basically who had no abilities and then gets all these abilities
Speaker:as he like conquers dungeons.
Speaker:You think it's a copy and paste?
Speaker:Not a copy and paste, but it's like, it looks, it's like, they
Speaker:saw that, and it was like, this needs to be more Shonen in this.
Speaker:And then they, they did this.
Speaker:Don't you have school that I'm paying for?
Speaker:Can you shut your ass up about the amount of work that I have to do?
Speaker:You're literally the reason I have to do all this work.
Speaker:Bro, if my job was to sit there and shut the fuck up while I get money, You
Speaker:wouldn't catch me missing a day for it.
Speaker:I'll come in on my days off.
Speaker:Damn man.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:No, dig.
Speaker:Just,
Speaker:and with my increased wrist skill.
Speaker:Why is this man dressed like he has, he's Russian.
Speaker:It was like a Dina's sweatsuit on.
Speaker:And I'd be like, hey, um, did that just fabricate out of thin air?
Speaker:How did you just do that?
Speaker:Do you, I think you, I think you're doing something that I don't know.
Speaker:You think he's ever going to wear some armor or anything?
Speaker:No, no.
Speaker:That would, that would, that would be good.
Speaker:They're not going to do that.
Speaker:Oh.
Speaker:This hoodie, this same hoodie, this is his character outfit.
Speaker:You never see Charlie Brown wear like a plaid shirt, do you?
Speaker:A job change quest, what'd you say?
Speaker:You've never seen Charlie Blad uh, Brad.
Speaker:Charlie Brown wear a plaid shirt, right?
Speaker:This is his, you know, brown shirt with a squiggle on it.
Speaker:That's what he wears.
Speaker:So, here's a real question.
Speaker:You said you never heard of them, but obviously their last
Speaker:name is, like, what do you mean?
Speaker:How is this guy more famous than the other guy who's a multi
Speaker:billionaire who's a son of a multi billionaire that everyone knows?
Speaker:And you guys supposedly work in the same industry.
Speaker:And he's the top honcho, but you don't know who he is.
Speaker:There's a top honcho son that's taking over his apart his, like, company.
Speaker:You don't know who that is, but you know who the weakest guy is.
Speaker:That doesn't make any sense at all.
Speaker:Then shut your bitch ass up!
Speaker:Stop looking at me!
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:What do you want?
Speaker:I'm doing all the work!
Speaker:Right, stop looking at me like that!
Speaker:Do you not want to get paid?
Speaker:We can arrange that.
Speaker:If it's a big deal to you.
Speaker:And again, the whole premise of the show is, what?
Speaker:That they can't level up?
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:But then there's a whole thing in there, like, oh, people
Speaker:can actually, uh, reawaken.
Speaker:Okay, well then, guess what?
Speaker:That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker:But it's super rare, though.
Speaker:Okay, it's just as rare as being born into a rich family, but how many
Speaker:rich people are there in this world?
Speaker:Okay, thank you.
Speaker:Yeah, it's 1 percent of the population.
Speaker:But there's still a lot of people.
Speaker:Enough to where you can't just be like, oh, it never happens.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:You don't know what a gate looks like?
Speaker:You work at a gate facility place with the heroes?
Speaker:You don't need a gate?
Speaker:And it's your fucking job.
Speaker:Who are you?
Speaker:What is going on?
Speaker:He could be Wumbo.
Speaker:Well, I guess, I'm not really, I'm not really asking you.
Speaker:Wait, I'm not doing that tomorrow.
Speaker:What's going on?
Speaker:Fire, I guess.
Speaker:This is cool.
Speaker:Ten dollars this isn't as cool as it actually looks.
Speaker:And they ruined it.
Speaker:Ten dollars.
Speaker:Want to take a bet?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It's a dream.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah, probably something of the past.
Speaker:Probably some memory of his.
Speaker:But here's the issue.
Speaker:They clearly hired a different studio to animate that part.
Speaker:Because that was like some Castlevania dummy cool looking stuff.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:And how many people nowadays are just like, Oh, the animation's cool.
Speaker:That's why this is my favorite anime.
Speaker:It's like the pro.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It's like, now it's Of Jiju Island?
Speaker:That's the I Nicholas, if I ever die in a place called Jiju Island,
Speaker:just tell them it was I died in Nashville eating a hot chicken wing.
Speaker:That would be less embarrassing.
Speaker:White Tigers, isn't that guy trying to be a Power Ranger?
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:We made him wait outside.
Speaker:Is this the same booth you were just in like a few episodes ago?
Speaker:No?
Speaker:It is the exact same, yeah it's the exact same place.
Speaker:He's gonna tell you to go fuck yourself.
Speaker:Bruh,
Speaker:Amazon does way better than that and you guys have alien dungeons?
Speaker:Bruh.
Speaker:I'm that kind of guy.
Speaker:No!
Speaker:Yeah, he said, you're broke.
Speaker:Hey o!
Speaker:Do I have
Speaker:to kill this guy?
Speaker:Wait, is the guy outside controlling him?
Speaker:Why do you know the value of a shopping channel?
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:But it's already 9pm.
Speaker:How am I supposed to do that?
Speaker:Huh?
Speaker:Huh?
Speaker:Wait, what?
Speaker:What?
Speaker:What's up, Harvey Weinstein?
Speaker:Oh!
Speaker:What is going on, bro?
Speaker:What did you just
Speaker:That was a potion.
Speaker:Nah, dawg.
Speaker:I can't close my eyes, open my mouth, and you pour some liquid in there.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So when does this episode get good?
Speaker:I thought it was halfway through.
Speaker:Oh, he
Speaker:made more gates?
Speaker:How is that possible?
Speaker:How did you know there would be more gates?
Speaker:How is he relieved about this?
Speaker:I'm so confused.
Speaker:Okay, now there's a bunch of sea gates.
Speaker:Did they get rid of all their gates?
Speaker:I don't think so.
Speaker:They only treat three of them, right?
Speaker:Even though they bought up all the rest.
Speaker:They were only going to get three gates and they were going to take the rest.
Speaker:That's what he said.
Speaker:They were supposed to only get three.
Speaker:But now there's so many gates, they didn't need to buy any.
Speaker:So how was that even possible?
Speaker:How would you know that this happens before, bro?
Speaker:And then, of course, the episode ends.
Speaker:Oh, my gosh.
Speaker:So this was like a filler episode.
Speaker:I this episode probably got it done in like one or two scenes where this videos.
Speaker:I know your secret.
Speaker:You do, I'll kill you if you say anything.
Speaker:Okay, then I won't tell anyone.
Speaker:And then that's it.
Speaker:Right, hehehehehehe.
Speaker:That was, that was the important part.
Speaker:Hehehehehe.
Speaker:Did I just waste 20 minutes of my life on this?
Speaker:Oh my god.
Speaker:Ah.
Speaker:Ah.
Speaker:Ah.
Speaker:I'm like watching the end credits hoping something changes, but it won't.
Speaker:It won't change, will it?
Speaker:It will not change anything, DJ.
Speaker:God.
Speaker:Alright guys, well this has been episode 10.
Speaker:Heh heh heh heh.
Speaker:What did you think, DJ?
Speaker:You know,
Speaker:I would say this was a waste of time.
Speaker:That was my initial reaction, but now that I think about it, This wasn't
Speaker:really a waste of time because I wanted to drink this liquid death
Speaker:anyway Right, so only because of the liquid death is it not a waste of time?
Speaker:I mean, yeah, I want I wanted to do this.
Speaker:Anyway, I went to have a drink of water today anyway, so, you know
Speaker:Hey Actually a goal of mine got accomplished so You know, hey you gotta
Speaker:Take the wins No matter how small.
Speaker:Uh, I feel like this, I feel like the actual webcomic this based off, which
Speaker:I have not read and I probably will never will, is probably like really
Speaker:more like 5 episodes long, and they because like most animes come out in
Speaker:like 12 and like 24 episode lengths, they just had to make it 12 somehow.
Speaker:I feel like, um, most of the things that have happened, like that
Speaker:are important could have happened like the first couple of episodes.
Speaker:Well, the thing is, is also like, so there's, there's levels of filler, right?
Speaker:There's filler episodes of anime that have that.
Speaker:Improve the character development of the anime, right?
Speaker:And then there's some filler episodes that just almost have almost nothing to
Speaker:do with the show So this is the reason why people like naruto so much is because
Speaker:naruto's filler episodes Or actually they're kind of good like and I mean
Speaker:like there's a lot of filler but like someone makes you have purposes Yeah a
Speaker:lot of a lot of a lot of the anime like what I'm going to do is watch all the
Speaker:filler and then watch the Series again on the second channel called Louisiana
Speaker:Senpai starring only Nicholas And then you then you'll see all the character.
Speaker:I'll see all the character development See, 'cause I feel like,
Speaker:what was his name?
Speaker:Ky Maru.
Speaker:Mm-Hmm.
Speaker:teacher when he died.
Speaker:Asima.
Speaker:Asima.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:There was a whole filler arc before that happened that, 'cause I honestly,
Speaker:I wasn't really that invested in Asima, but then after this fill arc with him,
Speaker:I was like, dude, Osama was awesome.
Speaker:Osama was great, and then he died.
Speaker:So then when he died.
Speaker:I felt more impacted by it, but even though it was filler
Speaker:it was filler for a reason.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:This filler feels like it's here because I have to make it to 12 episodes.
Speaker:It's a contractual obligation to make 12 episodes.
Speaker:You know what?
Speaker:I think I'm gonna need that scene enhancer for the next one.
Speaker:All right guys, that's it for 7 Senpais.
Speaker:I'm DJ.
Speaker:I'm Nicholas.
Speaker:And we'll see you later.
Speaker:See ya.
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