[ANP | S3 | EP2]
Sometimes, the creative spark ignites from the unlikeliest of changes – like trading our spacious master bedroom for a more intimate space to supercharge our podcasting endeavors. That's precisely what we've done, and in this episode, Emily and I unfold the story behind this unconventional switch-up. We divulge how this drastic reshuffle has revolutionized our daily rhythms and productivity. Meanwhile, our manga library continues to swell, and our calendar is marked with the buzz of upcoming conventions. I'm also thrilled to give you a sneak peek into my passion project: a dynamic manga soundtrack that adapts to your reading tempo, a concept Emily ponders over, considering the intricacies of personalizing such an immersive audio experience.
As we pivot to a more somber note, we tackle the underbelly of the anime world, peeling back the layers on the financial woes plaguing animators, and the systemic snags within production committees. We dissect the knots of low project bids, outsourcing, and the troubling descent in animation quality. Engage with us as we confront the piracy debate, and map out how we plan to leverage our platform for constructive industry reform. To lighten the mood, we switch gears to muse over the parenting rollercoaster, drawing parallels and contrasts between generations, and sharing our enthusiasm for 'My Hero Academia's new chapter. We round off the conversation with a glimpse into the post-pandemic societal landscape as seen through the eyes of Generation Alpha – a cohort as wild as they are wise.
[ANP | S3 | EP2]
Sometimes, the creative spark ignites from the unlikeliest of changes – like trading our spacious master bedroom for a more intimate space to supercharge our podcasting endeavors. That's precisely what we've done, and in this episode, Emily and I unfold the story behind this unconventional switch-up. We divulge how this drastic reshuffle has revolutionized our daily rhythms and productivity. Meanwhile, our manga library continues to swell, and our calendar is marked with the buzz of upcoming conventions. I'm also thrilled to give you a sneak peek into my passion project: a dynamic manga soundtrack that adapts to your reading tempo, a concept Emily ponders over, considering the intricacies of personalizing such an immersive audio experience.
As we pivot to a more somber note, we tackle the underbelly of the anime world, peeling back the layers on the financial woes plaguing animators, and the systemic snags within production committees. We dissect the knots of low project bids, outsourcing, and the troubling descent in animation quality. Engage with us as we confront the piracy debate, and map out how we plan to leverage our platform for constructive industry reform. To lighten the mood, we switch gears to muse over the parenting rollercoaster, drawing parallels and contrasts between generations, and sharing our enthusiasm for 'My Hero Academia's new chapter. We round off the conversation with a glimpse into the post-pandemic societal landscape as seen through the eyes of Generation Alpha – a cohort as wild as they are wise.
Hello everyone.
Speaker 2:Hello.
Speaker 1:And welcome back to another episode of the Anime Noise Podcast.
Speaker 2:That A and P.
Speaker 1:That's right. The A and P Oddcast yes.
Speaker 2:That is us Odd. My name is Emily, if you're first joining us.
Speaker 1:And I'm Garrett.
Speaker 2:We are breaking all of the rules.
Speaker 1:You mean our own rules?
Speaker 2:Our own rules. We set the expectation for ourselves in our first episode and now we're like fuck everything, fuck everything. So we're just going to—.
Speaker 1:We've had a lot of curveballs thrown at us.
Speaker 2:We've had a lot of curveballs thrown at us, at us and, most importantly, we are just getting back into a routine of talking and talking about things that we want to talk about, talking about things that we may not have enough information about. But we're going to work toward that and with that we are in a transition period. We finally kind of came down a little bit because, on a whim, we decided to just make a huge change the night before.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so one of the curveballs was actually one of our own doing. Yes from the tiny little extra balcony room that we had in our house to our master bedroom and then move our master bedroom to the tiny room, because we don't really do much in that room other than sleep. It's really not used for, yeah, that and getting dressed, you know, yeah. So we were like we probably need the bigger room if we're going to be spending more time in it.
Speaker 2:Well, it was that, and then also we felt like our creative process was being stunted in that room, like we were stuck kind of in that one area. There wasn't really space to breathe.
Speaker 1:We also have a lot of gear.
Speaker 2:I have a lot of gear, garrett is a hoarder by trade by trade, by trade by trade. I included it, but it was like it really was, and now we're in our master bedroom, which sometimes is really weird to think about that. We used to have a bed in here less than a month ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I think it looks great so far. The only thing that we're waiting for and why we are not doing a video recording this time is because our friends are moving and they got a free TV from work and it's literally the same size as our TV in our living room. That may or may not go out. We're not really sure what it's doing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean I think it's fine. It's just a little slow, it's not the nicest. It's very nice TV, but you know, but just not the nicest model from that company.
Speaker 2:And so we're going to switch out the two TVs. So that way we have it for sure works. It's great, fail safe for when we have guests over. It's a family room. Keep it in the living room and we'll bring the other, slower one that gets mostly used as a monitor and if I want to watch anime while Garrett's sitting at the computer, or vice versa or play retro games in our studio, and so it's just been really nice to be able to accommodate more people and be able to do things in both the family room and the studio.
Speaker 2:we can have the kids in here playing video games and then be at a healthy distance than not right between us and then the dogs want to be on the floor because they can't be on the couch. It's a better situation. It feels nice in here. What?
Speaker 1:do you think, garrett, you think it feels nice in here? Yeah, I can't wait until it's really completely finished and we can put all the cables away and I can put my cable management systems up and all that stuff. I still have to wait a little bit until we get the last piece in here.
Speaker 2:But we're not trying to be pushy because it's a free TV.
Speaker 1:I know that, of course, of course.
Speaker 2:Garrett's been stressing that we haven't gotten the studio done, and while it is a valid stress to have, I'm kind of in this place where I'm just like, I'm just trying, like emily's going with the flow I am which is so out of character for me and him to be in.
Speaker 1:Usually it's me stressing about every little thing but I think it's because I mostly just want to be done cabling things. Sure, getting into tight corners as a relatively large human being, it's a pain in the ass and it's cramped and I don't have the best posture.
Speaker 2:Well, at least there's honesty in that. I yeah, I don't know, I'm excited to show you all once it's all done and once we get kind of like the last details done, like we don't have my altar that we're going to put in the room for our good intentions and manifestation purposes and we need the TV, and then there's just like little spots to fill in for decorations and art.
Speaker 1:That with going to manifest, going to more cons, then we want space to put up art and figurines and manga and really we want a library. We want a manga library in here.
Speaker 2:We're taking Joe and Preston's advice and we are going to start reading more manga.
Speaker 1:That's right For two reasons One, because it's awesome and a good thing to do, because manga's cool, and the second reason is that I've been really wanting to start this project and haven't figured out what manga or where to start, I guess. But I want to create a soundtrack for a manga. I want to create at the same kind of pace or average pace that a person reads for that particular comic book or manga. I want to add music to that as you read yeah, I think that'd be pretty cool I wish you.
Speaker 2:I wonder, like if you can make that happen in a way that is, um, you can control the speed, so like you have an adjustment period, so like you read a passage and like you can adjust the speed, kind of like how you adjust the brightness on like a video game when you first get started, you know.
Speaker 1:Well, technically you can.
Speaker 2:I don't know how I would have to do that, but I feel like it had to be a more incremental than like most of the like.
Speaker 1:The like 1.25, 1.5, right Like that, Maybe. Yeah, I wonder if I could, could, if you could write at the increments that you're given already on the platform and right at that pace and bpm, if you know that it's going to fluctuate wow, this is a whole new like platform idea exactly audio.
Speaker 1:That's like a truly personalized audio experience like if I knew you were going to speed up our podcast, for example, like you're listening to it right now, but you know you have a shorter drive to work today. Sure, and you just sped us up. It would be really cool if we started talking slower. Wouldn't it be fun to do something like that?
Speaker 2:That would be fun.
Speaker 1:That way, the tempo fluctuates.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, interesting ideas there. Interesting, yeah, yeah, interesting ideas, interesting ideas, interesting ideas um. Speaking of interesting ideas, um, we have been on a research journey oh yeah, I was like, where's this going? All because of starting one piece right. So we started that and, unfortunate to us, I've been very tired. So I will fall asleep, and so what? We've only gotten into episode 20's area 24.
Speaker 1:24. You fell asleep during 24. If you're that far into One Piece and you forget where that is, we're about the moment where Zoro fights Hawkeye.
Speaker 2:We're so behind. We're so behind and it's my fault that we're as behind as we are because we notoriously can binge an anime, but we've been getting started on anime so late in the night and we have other projects.
Speaker 1:We have other projects.
Speaker 2:And also, you know, we have to pick. Do we want to play video games or do we want to watch anime? And usually video games comes first, Otherwise I'm sleeping while running into a rock.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Or punching a rock.
Speaker 1:That was so funny. Emily fell asleep while we were playing Diablo and she's like I could tell she was falling asleep because she kept running into the wall but still clicking a oh man. Well, yeah, so we've been watching one piece, we've been researching uh everything how anime is created and I, so we started this research journey with the my. My hypothesis was going to be I need to find a reason to get people to stop pirating anime so animators could get paid more money, as if that was the cause.
Speaker 1:As if that was part of the cause of animators not getting paid enough and being overworked, has nothing to do with it. Let's just put it that way. The more and more I looked, the more and more dire of a situation it looks like for animators and pretty much anyone who makes the product of an anime. The only people that win are these groups that are formed, called production committees, formed called production committees, and because anime is, you know, a relatively expensive medium to make and it doesn't really make that much money. Uh, you need people and mostly because not all anime does well, a lot of it flops.
Speaker 1:So people don't want to put that much risk on themselves and spend the money on an entire anime by themselves. So they'll split it up between, like, let's just say, 10 people. You know, divide it up a tenth across the board. But of course, corporate greed exists in our economy. So what ends up happening is people are only willing to invest a certain amount but are also unwilling to change the percentage that they want to own of a particular anime. So it boxes in the budget and pay that you do, and it often causes them to shop around or take the lowest bidder for, like, an anime studio has to bid on different anime and say I can do solo leveling for this much money and we can pump it out this fast.
Speaker 2:And they usually take the lowest bidder, like whoever is the cheapest so it's a stock, is basically like anime is just treated like a stock. And so when this idea of like, where we started researching like how anime studios work and how, like you know, we all know about it look at mappa and all of the people coming forward that are animators and how like horribly they're getting paid and how much they're working, and all the freelancers who are coming forward about working on Jujutsu Kaisen and all of these different things, and so we were like, oh, we're starting One Piece. We should talk about pirating and why it's bad, and that's perfect. It's a great transition when we're planning out our episodes and what we're going to talk about and the week finally gets to around, when we're going to start really like diving into it and garrett's like emily, this is too big.
Speaker 2:Like we can't we can't talk about this right now like this is something, uh, that is needs to be explored more. This needs to be something that's a lot more like hands-on in terms of us researching and compiling information, because, at the end of the day, I I think we really found something that we want to advocate for and use our platform to.
Speaker 1:It's an important cause.
Speaker 2:It is especially for the community that we're in. Right, we're a part of the anime community. We talk about anime music, which goes a lot and that's a lot of production costs as well to get these really popular artists and composers on to these anime. That's part of the budget and so that directly affects things that we talk about and the things that we enjoy and what we what inspires us.
Speaker 1:So, spoiler alert, there's a lot more that we have to dive into or clearly and concisely put onto a well-organized show.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I think it's going to take a while to really it's going to take a minute. Because I think it's going to be just a constant investigation, but ideally, like we'd like to make this something where we can figure out a solution If we can make enough noise if we can make enough noise to get to a solution, then maybe we can save what we know as as anime right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because I think that's really what it boils down to, because if they continue the way that they're going, they're, they're going to run themselves into a hole.
Speaker 1:Basically, anime is a I don't remember the exact number, but it's like either 24 or 28 billion dollar industry, and it's projected to be, you know, even tens of billions more in the coming future, and there's only a handful of companies making money off of it.
Speaker 2:Which is just fucking sad and it's irritating and frustrating and it makes me so angry like we're reading it all of this stuff and we're watching videos and we're just like blown away, bewildered by the atrocities that are happening to these animators, poor people, yeah, so bad and it's not even.
Speaker 1:You can't even blame the anime studios. It's not entirely their fault. Some directors are certainly overbearing, sure, and want and ask for too much, but as fans a lot of us fans want and ask for too much too. I'm glad that I have seen less of the threats and like threatening acts of violence on people when something gets delayed or maybe it's done wrong. I think people have learned, like of Dragon Ball Super, for example, or some of Naruto. Shippuden has been famously, has famously bad frames of anime in it, like people screenshot it and it's horribly drawn and part of the reason is because they outsource that anime or those frames to different countries because they can pay them pennies to the dollar.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Or pennies to the yen, but it is when that happens the quality goes down in order to meet the deadline that they are forced to be on, and it's I mean once a week. When you're putting out that many frames in a 23-minute episode, you know there's it's a lot of work, it's a lot of work for especially smaller anime studios to do. So. You lose the quality in order to meet a deadline and then people complain, and I think people have started to learn that it's like just wait an extra week.
Speaker 2:I would hope that people will learn. I truly don't believe, and maybe it's just because of my slight lack of humanity, lack in faith in humanity, more so. But I still believe that there are people I mean for, for instance, take the dub, the english dub voice actor for solo leveling and he had to put out a video. That's like if I receive one more threat about how I say awake, awaken but he's not even done it yet.
Speaker 2:He hasn't even done it yet and and he's getting threatened even come out yet not even like it.
Speaker 1:Yet he hasn't even done it yet and he's getting threats the episode that hadn't even come out yet, not even like the episode prior to that. One hadn't even come out yet.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So it's like I just can't believe that there are people not still threatening, like people who are creating this, because it's a bad thing that's happening over there and I really want I'm excited to learn more about it. I'm excited to present the information and so that way, we can open up the conversation, because I think this is going to be something that we're going to have to revolutionize as viewers and lovers of the art.
Speaker 1:Yeah, as fans, we're going to have to do something about it. I don't know how if I don't know how, how it needs to be done, but there something has to change yeah, it's insane. So um this will spoiler alert though uh, piracy has more pros. If you want to pirate your anime, this isn't legal advice, but it's got more pros than cons, in my opinion, at this point it's so hard for me to like, be like, even say that it's like hard.
Speaker 2:For me it's hard for me to say that and and it's also like I I want to do my own research and my own due diligence to like, explore all the options, but at the same time, it's like if anime is a stock right, you, if you continue to view it, with the streaming services who are outrageously priced, I mean, what crunchyroll is going up again at the end of this year? No, my birthday next year your birthday next year, which is I mean january, which is I mean.
Speaker 2:January of 2025. So it's going up outrageously and there's still some things that it's not the best streaming platform.
Speaker 1:If I knew where the money was going to, which it's just in the pockets of the people that are the shareholders of the company. The irony about Crunchyroll, though. This makes me think about it too, because they were originally a piracy site yeah that's what's so funny yeah and now they're stealing from the fans and and really they're stealing from the people that create the anime itself.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that, and that's really where my issue comes comes down to. But I'm gonna do my due diligence. I still don't, I still don't want to advocate for piracy yet either.
Speaker 1:Um, I I don't know. Luffy is looking more and more, uh, like an admirable character. So I, I, who knows?
Speaker 2:you know, speaking speaking of admiral, admirable characters, nami is by far my favorite.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, you fell asleep during a very important part.
Speaker 2:Well then.
Speaker 1:It might change your mind Really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, no, what'd she do?
Speaker 1:I'm not going to tell you.
Speaker 2:I'm here for her strong woman.
Speaker 1:I think you maybe didn't, unless I had talked to you about that scene, and maybe you were just asleep and pretending to be awake and you answered my question because I was like I feel like nami is more of a pirate than the pirates that she hates yeah because she's always looting the all of this, the treasure but not just that. You obviously don't remember one of the biggest things that happened in the episode last night.
Speaker 2:Maybe I don't know, garrett, don't judge me.
Speaker 1:It was very shitty of her.
Speaker 2:I started a new job last week and let me just say that this is like it's still service industry. I work at a cidery, but I it's like one of the most chill service industry jobs that I could possibly work at. Like, this place is a no investor. Everything is kind of just like oh, if you want to try that, let's try it, sure. So.
Speaker 1:Very mom and pop.
Speaker 2:Very mom and pop, very chill, but as, like one of the shift leaders, I am also in the production, so I am like helping with the bottling process and capping the bottles and pasteurization and things like that quite a while in the heat. At the eclipse event I did on at Long Center which also, by the way, if you were not in the path of totality here in the United States, that was a beautiful experience I I hope that everybody got to see it, even through the clouds.
Speaker 1:That was an incredible experience I got to. I got to watch it from from our backyard here, which is really cool.
Speaker 2:I got to watch it from the city, uh, from our backyard here, which is really cool. I got to watch it from the city like basically like right next to downtown and right and I don't know if any of y'all have been to Austin but there's the South Congress Bridge has like a bunch of bats that come out and it's like really that's something that Austin's really famous for is like the bats coming out Millions of bats.
Speaker 2:And so, because it got so dark dark, all the bats came out and it was so crazy to like see the bats just flying out it was really weird seeing it become nighttime yeah, so strange in the middle of the day it was so strange, um, but anyway.
Speaker 2:So I had just worked outside, it was super humid, it had rained like all all weekend, all weekend, and then it was supposed to rain again and then. So then I got up and I went to work on Tuesday, yesterday morning, and my whole body is sore from doing all of that. My whole body is sore, my body is exhausted, and so, yeah, I fell asleep.
Speaker 1:You don't have to defend yourself so early, I know, but I but it makes me sad.
Speaker 2:I want to, I want to binge that show. We're so behind, we're so behind yes, and it's okay.
Speaker 1:They only come out. We are technically getting. We're getting ahead much faster than we are getting behind, that's for sure. I mean think it. They put out one episode a week. They often get delayed.
Speaker 2:We're good. We did 24 episodes already. That's a whole season, normally. Yeah, I know, I know, I know, but you know it is what it is. But, yeah, we're going to be talking about piracy probably for about as long as we're watching One Piece.
Speaker 1:I don't think we're going to stop talking about what needs to change in order to make anime a little more of an honorable art form yeah and what. I think you know what I mean by that. It's like everything that goes into creating it is fine, but who makes the money off of it is what's not honorable about it very much so um, but let's not go too far into something we haven't explored in depth you're right, you're right I I want to hear about what you're most excited for for the spring anime that started rolling out.
Speaker 1:Ooh, that's a good question. Let's see, I am a big fan of Konosuba, so I'm really excited for that one that one has. They came out today, right. Yes, cool, so we're going to watch that right after we finish recording Perfect, I'm excited for that, but I think as far as like a brand new anime, that I haven't seen or read the manga, anything like that. Kaiju no 8.
Speaker 2:Yeah, two days.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that one seems pretty cool and I'm sure that there's some I'm forgetting and I could go through, but those two off the top of my head Jobless Reincarnation, excited that that's back too for a continuation.
Speaker 2:If y'all also watched that. Garrett said that one of his concerns was that we were going to stick too far onto the Sylvie love arc.
Speaker 1:The Sylvie love story.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't think so. I predict that Homeslice his cousin that he lost his virginity to.
Speaker 1:Which is a weird thing to say, and also caused the yeah.
Speaker 2:well, I'm going to try and remember what time this all happened in and roll with that one.
Speaker 1:He's a reincarnated guy anyway, it doesn't matter for him, I guess.
Speaker 2:He's not truly. But yeah, I also. That rolled right off my tongue far too easily.
Speaker 1:Yes, it sure did. It sure did Well. Here we are. I'm here to call you out on it, don't worry, here we are. It sure did Well, here we are. I'm here to call you out on it, don't worry here we are.
Speaker 2:I think that she's going to come back and she's going to like put a whole, a little bumpy road in there for him.
Speaker 1:Well, definitely, that's kind of obvious.
Speaker 2:I feel like that's you think so you think it's obvious, I think it's obvious what?
Speaker 1:Because she left in the first place, yeah, and he got erectile dysfunction.
Speaker 2:That's so funny, it's so funny, it's horrible for everybody who has experienced it.
Speaker 1:Spoiler alert for everybody, I know. Spoiler alert for everybody. Spoiler alert for everybody else.
Speaker 2:We gotta put that in the description.
Speaker 1:It's really like not the main part of the story? I don't feel bad about spoiling that. It's a funny little take on it. It has nothing to do, it does not spoil the story for you and it is still a good story, even though we've let those weird details fly unhinged.
Speaker 2:It is. Please watch it. Please watch it. Please don't let that discourage you. It's really not the main point of the story that he's with his cousin. It is, but it isn't they don't make it weird.
Speaker 1:Nobody's going to watch Jada's reincarnation anymore.
Speaker 2:They don't make it weird.
Speaker 1:They don't make it weird, no, they don't.
Speaker 2:It's funny, but yeah, I'm excited for that to continue. I can't get back to that one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what are you most excited for, Emily?
Speaker 2:I'm excited for my Hero Academia coming out next month. I don't know, I'm not a big my Hero Academia stan. I am a fan of the show, but I'm it's gotten really good. It has, and I want to know, because I obviously didn't read the manga so I don't know what happens. It's all very new when it's animated for me, but I am very excited to see where this darker version of Deku goes.
Speaker 1:Yeah me too.
Speaker 2:And I'm ready for it. I got to get the kids caught up.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:I think the kids next week are going to be on the podcast, right?
Speaker 1:They are. Yes, they asked to be on the podcast, so we're going to bring them on.
Speaker 2:Interview with the kids.
Speaker 1:They're going to talk about their favorite anime, which is kind of an interesting take because one seems obvious. The other one doesn't, you know, like their decisions.
Speaker 2:And if they still stick with that, because they told me, they will say one thing one day and they'll say something completely different than that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you should hear Mabry talk about what foods she likes or doesn't like oh my gosh, it changes in the moment.
Speaker 2:It changes like so suddenly. I don't know how many of you have kids, but you, I empathize with everything. My daughter comes home, for instance.
Speaker 1:She's also nine, by the way.
Speaker 2:She's nine, she comes home and she has. I pack her a Bento lunchbox and it's got a sandwich and it's got some fruit and chips and fruit snacks and stuff. But in the Bento box I pack just sandwich fruit and then like a dried fruit of some kind and like or goldfish, I don't know. I'll just try and fill up in the gaps with things that she likes. I've been packing her vanilla covered or yogurt covered raisins for I don't know how long now and she eats them years.
Speaker 2:You've been packing them for years yeah, and like she comes home and sometimes they're not eaten. But I'm like, just eat your fruit and your sandwich first, please, I don't want to save those. The cut strawberries just don't last, okay, just don't. So then she keeps coming back and coming back with more and more yogurt covered raisins, and so one day I'm like mabry eat those and she's like I just don't like. Day I'm like Mabry eat those and she's like I just don't like them. I'm like, since when?
Speaker 1:And why is this the first we're?
Speaker 2:hearing of? And why didn't you say that Like I could have stopped packing these for you and I could have taken them for snacks, like good thing people. Other people like them in this house. But I'm sure that you have also gone through that. So if you have, I feel for you.
Speaker 2:I have um, I feel for you. I feel for you also. What is it with this generation these days? What do you mean? Like? This new generation of children is a wild beast that I'm not sure I know where it's going, oh yeah what was that?
Speaker 1:it's funny that that you say that, because I, like recently saw a headline that says uh, this generation, which the name of the generation I forget, is it.
Speaker 2:Alpha, it's Generation Alpha, or the Polar Generation.
Speaker 1:The Polar Generation, it said. Generation Alpha is feral and uneducated. That's what it was.
Speaker 2:I mean, they are certainly feral. I can't say that they're not educated. I think that a lot of this comes from like parent I my. This is my take on it is and I know because I'm guilty of it as well, because we all went through the pandemic together. We all went through the pandemic.
Speaker 1:I feel like talking about this, we're going to sound like old people, like what's wrong with kids these days?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know, I know, and I'm not saying it because I'm like, oh my God, what kind of decisions are they making? Because, I get it, they're nine and their world is like revolving around them and they are just in their own worlds. Like I am not trying to be that old person, I promise, I promise, but truly like I can't keep keep up. I thought that this point of being a parent was going to come much later.
Speaker 2:I really didn't expect it to be at nine and six years old yeah like what some of the things they say is just outrageous it's insane, it's insane, it's insane what they say. And then they're saying words that mean something completely different in definition by me and what I know.
Speaker 1:Can you give an example?
Speaker 2:Fudge. What was one that recently came out? Was it glizzy?
Speaker 1:Glizzy.
Speaker 2:Glizzy. This girl said glizzy.
Speaker 1:And most of you listeners out there will probably think one thing Penis right, Correct.
Speaker 2:No, is it what that means in their term? No, that's not what that means. It means cool. It means cool it means cool, like they heard a word and they just decided to give it a meeting.
Speaker 1:Which one of you assholes is trolling?
Speaker 2:the next generation.
Speaker 1:Which one is it?
Speaker 2:It's gotta be it.
Speaker 1:Oh my, my gosh which one of you's doing it it is honestly so hard as I'm.
Speaker 2:I'm a young parent like I'm. I'm not the oldest or the average parent age of like my daughter's parents yeah, or my daughter's friends parents.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're, they're all they're all like about a decade older.
Speaker 2:They're all in their upper 30s or in their early 40s, and I'm going to be 33 this year and it's hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that I am feeling this way as a 32-year-old.
Speaker 1:It's going to be interesting, but I think what's even more interesting, though, is Dax is technically in her generation right, yeah, yeah, and he's a different. He doesn't act like that at all.
Speaker 2:It seems to be the girls man, I don't know, but no, that's not true either.
Speaker 1:That's not true, because You've read the group chats Freaking group chats.
Speaker 2:man, they have like six of them and they Make new ones. They're just learning about phones. It is hard. It's a hard world out here. Wish all the moms. If you see a mom or dad hell, even an aunt, uncle, grandparent, you see a family member, you just give them a big hug. They probably deserve it and need it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It might make their day.
Speaker 1:Spread some love. I wonder if it's happening, it must be happening everywhere, otherwise I wouldn't have seen that, you wouldn't have seen that headline because it is and, and I get it.
Speaker 2:They all sat during the pandemic. We were all bored, all of us. We were all fucking bored in our home with the same people. I know that they hated me. I was like get out of my face. We all, we all were having a feeling some type of way.
Speaker 1:That is interesting that you say that, because in Mabry and Dax's particular case, mabry went to kindergarten. The very first experience she had with school at all was on an iPad. That's so crazy.
Speaker 2:And she hated it.
Speaker 1:She still hates school.
Speaker 2:That totally projected her whole view of school, that is a core memory for her.
Speaker 1:It's a core memory that is a soul, shaping personality, shaping memory for her and experience for her. Yeah, it was. It was dax, he didn't have to do that so wild.
Speaker 2:It was so wild and I I just think that that was really impactful to their personalities and who they are. So we just recently had to cut screen time yes, like a lot and uh came through with some great feet like great. Um, what's that word I'm looking for? Advice no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. How their reaction?
Speaker 1:Oh reception.
Speaker 2:Receptive. They were very receptive and they didn't argue too much.
Speaker 1:It's working so far.
Speaker 2:So far.
Speaker 1:But we probably shouldn't continue to bore you guys with our kids. This is the Anime Noise.
Speaker 2:Podcast. This is true, we are making noise.
Speaker 1:We are certainly making noise.
Speaker 2:But I think that's pretty much it. I'm excited for this new anime season. I'm excited to research piracy and watch some pirates.
Speaker 1:Yes, fuck, yeah, also really quick. Before we let them go, I want to know what was your favorite winter anime.
Speaker 2:Winter my favorite winter anime.
Speaker 1:Since we're now in the spring.
Speaker 2:Since we're now in the spring, what ended up being my favorite season? I really liked solo leveling. I think that that was my most anticipated each week.
Speaker 1:You're sitting on the edge of your seat.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it did, can't wait for this comeback. It kept me really interested and then I think after that I think the wrong way to use healing magic. I think that was a really good one for the for the winter anime yeah, that one was a good one.
Speaker 1:I really enjoyed.
Speaker 2:Uh, unwanted undead adventure oh yeah, yeah, that one was good too. That was like a real toss-up, but I think I it's kind of like.
Speaker 1:I'm still curious where the story is going to end up. I like the trajectory that it's on. It does have a few slower parts than I would prefer, but I do enjoy putting the puzzle together with the main character.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know yeah.
Speaker 1:And it's got some cool fight scenes and it's pretty interesting. It's a pretty interesting anime and I have a feeling it's about pacing rather than we'll see what the next season is like, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I also watched A Sign of Affection and I was a little turned off from it at the beginning because I thought it was just going to be like I don't know kind of similar to like Tonikawa, how it was, like just mushy and gushy the whole time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:But there was like just mushy and gushy the whole time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there was like conflict in it that really like let me enjoy it. And I finished it and I was like, okay, I like where this is going. That was a nice relationship to watch bloom, but I don't know if that was a fall or winter. I'm pretty sure it was winter and I just got a late start.
Speaker 1:I'm pretty sure it was winter, I think so too.
Speaker 2:So those are my top three.
Speaker 1:I'll say yeah, this one doesn't count because it's not winter, but Freyrin was awesome, if you haven't started Freyrin.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, so good.
Speaker 1:Go watch it. It's fantastic.
Speaker 2:It's a good blend of wholesome and dungeon-y and fantasy world.
Speaker 1:Do I agree that it's better than Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood?
Speaker 2:I haven't decided yet. It is really good, it is fantastic though. It is, it is, and the music's really good in it too. That was the one where I was like I want to hear it. The transitions for that were really good. See, we brought it back to anime music. Look at us.
Speaker 1:Look at that Fuck yeah, we did it Ho. Look at that Fuck yeah, we did it. Hooray yeah. So I think that's all I had for today.
Speaker 2:Well, what was your favorite winter?
Speaker 1:anime my favorite winter anime Solo Leveling.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, I figured I knew the answer, but I figured I'd ask.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's Solo Leveling, for sure, okay.
Speaker 2:All right, all right, okay, well, with that, with that, I think we can let our beautiful audience go and let them enjoy the rest of their day.
Speaker 1:Shall we yes, or night, or morning, or afternoon, or whatever time of day it is for you. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2:Thank you.
Speaker 1:And tune in next week maybe. Actually, I can't promise that it's going to be next week. I'll just say next time, tune in next time.
Speaker 2:Tune in next time. Tune in next time For another episode of Anime Noise.
Speaker 1:Bye, everybody Bye.