Info/Introduction + Hunter x Hunter Screenshot Analysis - Media Club Plus S01E00

Hi everyone, my name is Keith Carberry.

I'm very excited to be introducing this new feed to you.

Some of you might know a little bit about this, some of you might not.

So we're going to do a real quick explainer and then I'm going to go.

A few months ago, we pitched the idea to our audience of doing a Hunter Hunter rewatch podcast featuring me, Sylvie Bullitt, Andrew Lee Swan, and Jack DeKeet, who is the one of the four of us who has zero experience with Hunter Hunter and very little, surprisingly little experience with anime in general.

That was maybe going to be a Patreon exclusive show, and then instead it sort of ballooned out into this idea where the Hunter Hunter show was going to be season one of a longer project where different casts are going to be talking about different pieces of media as individual seasons.

With the entirety of the 2011 Hunter Hunter series as season one.

Now, this episode specifically is the audio version of a stream that we did as a teaser when we were first preparing to launch the show, where Jack DeKeet was shown a series of screen caps from Hunter Hunter and was made to analyze them in depth, knowing absolutely nothing.

Just a very long, very fun guessing game.

They did a fantastic job.

It was a ton of fun.

If you haven't watched, I highly recommend that you take a listen to this.

The screen caps are going to be in the episode description so that you can follow along with the images.

The actual first episode of this show is starting very soon, September 5th, and will be releasing every other Tuesday thereafter.

So episode one will be on the 5th, then the 19th, then October 3rd.

While we were preparing everything on the back end, we've done a ton of episodes.

It has been a blast so far.

I have been loving doing this show.

I think you are also going to love it.

This show is supported by the Friends at the Table Patreon.

It wouldn't exist without all of our backers over there at friendsatthetable.cash.

If you want to support the show, I highly recommend going to friendsofthetable.cash, checking it out.

And if you want to do something really amazing for us, you can go to Apple Podcasts and rate the show five stars.

It is unfortunately a really major part of the podcasting game that

I personally tend to ignore to my own detriment.

So

this time I'm saying it.

Go to Apple Podcasts, rate the show five stars, leave a review.

We all really want to do a good job with this show, and that helps.

So thank you.

If you're living in the present of September 2023, like I am, you might be worried about the WGA and SAG strike that's ongoing.

Of course, Hunter Hunter is a Japanese show made in Japan.

They don't work with American unions, obviously.

But the show does have a dub.

If you are worried worried about that, the dub was not a union production.

Maybe in an ideal world, the dub would have been a union production, and this would be struck work.

But as it stands, it's not.

Regardless, if you don't want to engage with the streaming platforms right now, there's plenty of ways to watch Hunter Hunter.

You could even read along with the manga if you wanted to do that instead, get a little bit of a different flavor.

And of course, we talk a lot about the

minute-to-minute realities of what's going on on screen.

You are totally free to not watch Hunter Hunter at all.

If you choose to just listen to this show, that's totally fine.

Okay, before this gets even longer, here it is.

Episode zero of the Hunter Hunter podcast.

Episode Zero of Friends of the Tables Media Club Plus.

Here you go.

Delay our Hunter Hunter show by talking about Dragon Ball Z.

Well, it's a very I mean, it's a very good way to start a thing about Hunter Hunter.

We've sorry, everybody, we've been muted talking about Dragon Ball Z, which is off topic, but it's actually extremely on topic because, and I haven't seen Punch Drunk Love, but if I had to describe Hunter Hunter in any way, which I will have to do for this episode, it would be like

Dragon Ball Z, Punch Drunk Love.

Okay, Punch Drunk Love is a film by Paul Thomas Anderson, not to be confused with the other legendary Paul W.S.

Anderson, maker of

the Resident Evil

pictures.

Yes.

Oh, yeah, my king.

I was genuinely confused about which one.

In their own right.

Same thing happens with

one of the Garfield movies is directed by, I think, some Cohen brothers who are not the Cohen brothers,

which is also

differently spelled also.

Is it Cohen with an H?

I think that it is, yeah.

That's great.

That's extremely funny.

Yeah.

Now, when you say, so Paul, Paul, I nearly did it.

Paul Thomas Anderson

has made films in a variety of genres.

Right.

From the sort of like his takes on romantic comedies like Punch Drunk Love to

big, bleak

neonoir westerns like there will be blood.

When you say Hunter Hunter is

like punch-drunk love,

what are you talking about?

Okay, again, this is super easy to explain.

Do you know Adam Sandler?

I do know Adam Sandler.

Okay, so you know how punch-drunk love is meant to be like a spoof, like a realistic take on the very unrealistic character that Adam Sandler plays in his, you know, Adam Sand in his Happy Madison version.

And it's like, what if we took that guy and like forced

a reality around him?

him

sort of like dunked his head fully into the world of the real right and yeah and hunter hunter is in a lot of ways what if you did that to go

from dragon ball z or from dragon ball zoku is happy gilmore and gone is i haven't seen punch drunk love right gone is the punch drunk lovified goku

that's fascinating yeah i would like to briefly shout out a really great interview in which it's at some Comic-Con or something.

It's at some, you know, where they all sit in a line on a table and people ask them questions that are sort of masked versions of their own theories about film.

And someone stands up and says to Paul Thomas Anderson, you know, what is it that drew you to Adam Sandler?

You know, did you see something in him that you thought you might be able to like make a really interesting movie about?

And Paul Thomas Anderson is just like, he's fucking funny, dude.

He me crack up all the time.

I love this guy and I really love his movies.

And it's just so the this film bro audio, and I use film bro there.

People of any gender can be a film bro.

I'm using a very spending one.

So like, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I also, I have very, I have very strong opinions on the film bro thing anyway, which we maybe maybe this will lead into that.

Just there's this moment where they cannot figure out that the reason that old Thomas Anderson cast Adam Sandler is because he likes his work and thinks he's a good actor.

Right.

And he is a good actor.

He is.

I really liked,

fuck, what's that stupid movie called?

Uncut Gems.

Oh, yeah, I haven't seen that, but I heard almost totally good things about it.

I heard all the hype, and I watched it, and I thought, yeah, this movie's fun.

It's fine.

And then, like,

almost immediately, it settled and it crystallized in my head as, like, yeah, I had a really good time with that movie, and I'd watch it again.

Um, I heard it was, I heard the sort of meme thing about it was how like stressful it was to watch.

I had a very hard time

uh

digesting that, trying to figure out what people meant.

Like,

seeing someone like

sort of like Sylvie, I could feel Sylvie just like developing an opinion here.

Yeah.

What is like Professor Bill Bro?

It's just like, I guess it is stressful.

There's this whole thing going on right now where people react very strongly to things that were going on in film like a couple decades ago or longer ago

because they've been gone for so long.

And I think that's kind of why Uncut Gems got.

the reputation for being this really tense thriller.

Like, it's got a good,

it is stressful.

Like, I'm not taking that away from it.

But, I mean, collateral is also a stressful movie.

That's literally the comparison I was thinking

of.

Collateral.

Clasping your hands, Sylvie.

Yeah, collateral is a Michael Mann movie, I think, which has a super great premise, which is that a taxi driver takes on a client.

Oh, this is a Tom Fullman.

Jamie Fox, yeah.

Yeah, Jimmy Fox, yeah.

I have this this movie.

I just haven't seen it.

Oh, it's great.

I love collateral.

Yeah.

Tell me what I haven't seen.

Should I watch Heat, Sylvie?

I like Heat.

I contend that Heat is.

I can't get into this.

We'll never talk about what we're here to talk about today, but Heat is yaoi to me.

Heat is boys love.

Everything is Yaoi to you.

No, that's not true.

I have.

I can't.

I'm trying to think of an example right now, but there's a lot of things that aren't.

A lot of things are yuri to me.

Is it a 50-50 split?

No, sometimes things just don't have any sauce at all.

Everybody's going to notice, I hope, that the audio just drastically changed.

And that's because I had a button pressed that makes the audio better for me and worse for all of you when I stream.

So I pressed that button.

Oh, my God.

I pressed that button and it made everything better.

Hello, everybody.

We are friends at the table.

We have been friends at the table for nearly the last decade, and we continue to be.

My name is Jack.

You can find me on co-host at JDQ and on Twitter at NotQuiteReal.

I am joined today by Sylvie.

Hello, I'm Sylvie.

You can find me everywhere at Sylvie Bullet.

Also, with me here today.

Oh,

also, we have TikTok Friends Underscore Table, and you're watching this on Twitch if you're watching this live, but twitch.tv slash friends of the table.

How are you doing?

Hello, chat.

Finally,

marshalling the controls of this stream.

I've got the buttons.

The man with the buttons.

Who are you?

Keith Carberry.

Hi, my name is Keith Carberry.

You can find me on Twitter at Keith J Carberry.

You can find the Let's Plays that I do at youtube.com/slash run button.

What are we doing here today?

Um, so, Jack, we are a mere

thousand and change dollars away from our goal of doing a mini watch podcast of

the very long, very good

anime Hunter Hunter, which you have neither seen nor really heard almost anything about.

I want to say this was off air, and I know that it's not about Hunter Hunter, but Jack's unfamiliarity with the genre extends as far as to not having recognized Bulma from Dragon Ball Z,

even when it said Bulma when they bought her from the Fortnite store.

I will say, I looked up the design, and it isn't one of them.

It's the newest, like, Dragon Ball Super design of Bulma, which is definitely less iconic than the DBZ and Dragon Ball look.

It's true, but it's really just a different haircut.

It's really just a different haircut.

And she had different haircuts all the time in

Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z.

Right.

What I will say is that while my unfamiliarity was such that I did not know

Bulma, my taste was good enough that I did purchase the character because I thought I want to run around the Fortnite island looking like whoever this is.

And it was a good decision.

Yeah, it's fun.

Although I have the random thing on Fortnite because part of the fun of it is being like the random character selection because part of it's like, who am I going to be this time?

Oh, I'm going to be that fucker from Dead Space on the Fortnite Island.

Which thing that Fortnite absorbed am I going to morph into?

That is tremendously.

I'm sorry?

Peter Griffin?

Is he in it yet?

I don't think so.

I don't think so, but

I feel like they should put him in it.

Justice for Peter Griffin.

I think that the thing that Fortnite is, is a very particular kind of malicious and a very cruel evil.

You're evolving.

Oh, yeah,

like Keith said, I take a kind of

cold joy in what thing has Fortnite eaten am I going to be when the game loads.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It is.

It's a paint thinner.

You put in everything.

It comes out as a goop, and then you put the goop into a mold, press it down, and then boom, you've got an everything-colored, Peter Griffin-shaped

ever seen

that short-running toy, which allowed you to,

through the production of molten metal, die-cast your own Hot Wheels cars.

No, that sounds really good.

That rules, it does, it rolls.

You were making

you were making, it was like a kiln, basically.

They sold like a kiln to children.

Kiln.

They were helping kids become Smithies.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And they should.

Become Smithies.

It's something we've lost.

Bring back the

metal trades.

Bring back.

Metallurgy is due for a comeback.

Yeah.

Metallurgy is...

Metallurgy still happens, but it is relegated to the realm of the corporation.

Home metallurgy.

Now, that

should return.

Yes.

Failing R1 in the chat says the children yearn for the forges.

It's true.

Now, before we continue, I would like to make an ask of the chat, which is.

I know nothing about Hunter Hunter.

Right.

Keith and Sylvie know a lot about Hunter Hunter.

I am reading the chat during this stream so that I can properly engage.

So I would like everybody to be extremely cautious about not just spoilers, but also coy, fun spoilers.

I don't want to see any of this shit where it's like Jack doesn't know about the orb, you know?

And it's going to be so funny when we get to the orb.

Because

so much of the fun of this is like, I genuinely don't know.

Oh, and no fake spoilers like I did that will make Jack think that you spoiled something, but you actually didn't.

Orb chat will be banned on first sight.

Classic orb.

Okay, so what I said like

a very short time ago was, oh, if we hit a certain sub-goal on the Patreon in order to move towards the Hunter-Hunter show,

Keith and Sylvie will show me a Hunter-Hunter screenshot, and I will interpret it live

for you.

And we hit the goal very quickly,

which was great.

And I'm really excited by

people's interest in this show.

Was it you who pitched this first, Sylvie, or was it Keith?

I thought this was your idea.

This sort of came about because

I think we just all kind of happened to be like engaged.

I think a big thing was when it came to, to,

they added it to the Shown and Jump app.

And so a lot of like people started talking about it again, and some people started watching it again.

I know that Austin and I talked about the show and like Dre and I have talked about it too.

And then I think we were just kicking around like things we could do.

And it was either Austin or I threw it out there.

And here we are.

Very much had the vibe of like a placeholder name that becomes that you suddenly realize you're really invested in when we were talking about like uh various other limited run shows we can do either you or austin was like like for example a limited run hunter hunter show i think that was austin yeah

we just kept talking about it we were like well shit that might actually that might actually be the show because austin had recently watched it dre had recently watched it every time

They would talk about having seen something, me and Sylvie would both be like, uh-huh, uh-huh.

Well, then I started watching it again, too.

and i had just finished watching it again on my own anyway

it's good it's good and so if you want to help us if you want to help me watch hunter hunter for i think the fourth time

go to friends of the table.cash

What is the specific goal that we're aiming for and how close are we to it?

I know Keith said just shy of $1,000 or something.

Just shy of $1,300.

Do you have the exact number?

Because when I go to look, it will be in Canadian dollars.

Oh, I can't believe it.

The same thing happens to me with great British pounds, despite the fact that I live in Los Angeles.

That's weird.

So it is, the number is 30,000,

and the number we're looking for is

$1,284 more dollars.

That's incredible.

And you can get to that by going to friendsatthetable.cash.

I want to say how much people's support has meant since we revamped the Patreon.

It was a lot of work to make those changes, kind of spearheaded by art.

And

it was kind of scary to make those changes, to be like, how is this going to go down?

And how are folks going to feel about it?

But we are so grateful and so heartened by the response that those changes have gotten.

Yeah, it went really great.

It was definitely nerve-wracking for everybody, especially since we've been kicking around these changes, changes wanting to make them for

like literally years

yeah

yeah well it was very sweet our old patreon was like we've made over 250 episodes

it's like we've made so many episodes of friends at the table now

And I think we've just fully removed that number.

But if you are interested in a number, the number to hit is at the 30k mark.

We will make this limited run.

And we don't know how many episodes that means.

It's not, you know, this isn't like a multi-year long thing where we're going to do, you know,

three episodes and watch.

This is like,

I don't know.

I don't want to put a number on it.

We have to look at the episodes because all the seasons are,

I would say, the difference in length between seasons is comical.

So, yeah, I think

arcs instead of seasons is a sort of thing we should be looking at.

We can talk about it later.

But even then, there's like

I meant arcs.

Yeah.

I mean, we're talking

about okay, yeah, because like

we can't, I can't, I'm going to slip and say,

we got to be careful here.

So we're going to have to go through and look at the episodes and be like, how many episodes does this deserve?

How many does this deserve?

And then well, that'll take actual time to figure out.

But we will do it.

And the episodes will come out, presuming that we get to that 30,000 number.

Now,

how many screenshots have you got for me today?

Well, okay, do you want me to be honest or do you want me to tell you the number you're expecting to hear?

I would like you to be honest.

I think it's important that we are honest.

This is a test that God would have.

This is something someone would say.

Do you want to guess or do you do like, that's an answer someone would give him to in my mind, you know?

So, the answer that you're expecting me to say is three.

The answer that I actually have is six.

What?

Well, I'm not saying that I'm going to give you all of them.

I'm just saying that that's what I have.

Damn, you did.

Oh, my God.

So, I have

mine.

I have Sylvie's.

I have Austin's.

Austin has submitted one.

And then I have three.

Oh, sorry.

It's not six.

I accidentally included

the logo here as one of them.

So I have five.

So I have two.

I have two that I couldn't not at least put on here.

And we'll see if we have a minute to donate to that at the end.

Okay, cool.

I would also like to say that last night I dreamt that we had this conversation.

Yes.

And as part of that, I dreamt a screenshot that was shown to me.

I'm so excited for that.

Yeah, we need to start with this.

Oh, we start with the dream.

I was thinking that maybe.

No, actually, wait, we should close with the dream.

Okay.

I was going to say.

Maybe you can sort of you or me.

Okay.

I was thinking you could use the information you glean from our screen screenshots to sort of interpret

your

like see if anything that you've sussed out.

I don't know.

Yeah, I don't know.

I mean, yeah, I'm a big believer in this sort of thing, astral projection and manga writing in your brain, etc.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The chat is asking if I can interpret the logo real quick.

Obviously, I've seen the Hunter-Hunter logo before, but I don't think I've seen it in this vertical treatment.

I think I've just seen like

them next to each other with the green, with the very striking green X.

Well, I like this one because this one is a little bit thematic to me.

Hmm.

Yes.

Well, well, well.

So, you know, Hunter Hunter is a mirrored title, you know, even spoken with this X in the middle.

It sort of gives the impression of two things being mirrored, and that's really being shown here.

I like that an H looks the same mirrored as it does

the other way around, except here we've got this tall, tall ascender on the left-hand upper H.

Maybe this hunter is the boss

Yeah, maybe that hunter's the boss maybe

taller or yeah, or maybe just is taller and this raises a really interesting question that I wonder if we're going to get to with the screenshots which is

okay, well so firstly, is this show about hunters?

What is the word hunter doing in the title of the show?

I had assumed it was about hunters because it's called Hunter Hunter.

Right.

And if so, are there two hunters or is it

like

a reflection of the self?

Oh,

you know, is it two different?

Did you say no?

Yep, nope, wrong.

Zero introspection on this show.

I'm sorry, that was a joke.

Something I do like is that the you is slightly overlapping the other other U, which doesn't happen in any of the other letters.

I don't think that that has any deep meaning, but I think it's a nice logo treatment.

Does it have happening over?

Yeah, I think I'm going to say no that it has deep meaning.

Yeah.

But I did have to think.

Wait, the U?

Whether the U has deep meaning?

Well, the way the U is slightly overlaps.

I think it's including the other U in a way that none of the letters do.

I can see the interpretation there.

I could see a.

I could see it.

Okay.

Yeah.

When was this show made?

That's a very interesting question, Jack, because it was made twice.

What?

They made

this.

It's exactly what it is.

The first time they made the first hunter.

Oh, it's a man.

They made the second hunter.

No.

So

the manga has been being written since the 90s and is still being written.

The original anime came out in 1999,

and then they basically redid it, and it came out in 2011.

Yes.

I believe that they both cover the exact same period of events.

I think that the new one

goes further because there was more material, I believe.

Yeah, I wasn't sure how much had been done post-1990.

Yeah.

Oh, actually, 2011 has a little extra.

Oh, no, no.

No, no, no.

Yeah, 2011's the one that has more.

2011 has like I just saw the words 2011 and I was like, that's forever ago.

Surely that's the older show, even though I just gave.

Yeah, no, you did say 1998, I believe, or 99.

Original show.

How much more for the chat?

How much more

does 2011 have?

Unless Sylvie, you know.

Hold on, let me look.

Oh, shoot.

I only have the

episode list for the.

But they did really set out to try and make the show again.

Yes.

Yeah.

And, you know, if we get to make this show, I'm sure that we will end up talking about

the kind of double adaptive move, right?

Of first making an anime from a manga and then making that anime again.

And, you know, discussing how intentions might have changed or how the thing they were trying to make might have changed in the remaking.

But it sounds like their initial goal really was not to do anything more complicated than let's make the show again.

Let's make the show again.

Yeah, so I have looking at the show right before the ants.

Yeah, pretty much.

Well, a little bit more, it depends.

So, there, like, the show, there was an OVA.

This is where I'm getting into my anime club shit.

Um, there was an OVA that like sort of gets attended

appended on to the end of

the original one.

So, like, the TV episodes are like 62.

There's like 62 TV episodes of the original Hunter-Hunter, but then these later release things add up to an extra 30 episodes.

Interesting.

Yeah, which does leave us right before ant time.

The infamous ants.

The infamous ants.

The ants are really the only thing I know.

And I'll say this off the top.

And here's what I know.

You don't know anything about them.

You just know about that they they're not.

Yeah, I know.

Here's what I know about Hunter Hunter.

I can have a hazy image of one of the characters in my head.

He wears orange.

I think he wears a headband.

That's the first thing I know.

The second thing I know is that there is a beloved,

renowned arc.

Called the Chimera Ant arc

that makes people very excited.

Jack, are you colorblind?

Jack, you did describe Naruto.

Oh, yes, yes.

Two of Naruto's defining traits is where's the orange and

okay, right?

I'm glad that you caught that it was Naruto and not what I assumed, which is that maybe Jack was colorblind and sees green as orange.

No, that was Naruto.

So, this is his third show that you're not thinking about.

Yes.

Well, no, I know what Naruto looks like.

Well, now you do.

Now I do.

Previously, if you'd asked me if I knew anything about Naruto, I'd say, I don't know shit.

I don't know what that guy looks like.

Austin in the chat says, what if Jack watched all of this and was like, so that's Naruto?

there's so much hunter talk in naruto

yeah yeah yeah all i know is that there is you know a very uh well-regarded arc lengthy arc called the chimera ant arc yeah that's it

that's it i mean and i really believe that that's it

And we're going to make sure it's, that stays it

for now.

Like, you're going to learn eventually when you get to pit.

Right, and we we have these, we have the screenshots, obviously.

I'm just reminding the chat because if people joined late, don't spoil anything.

Nice.

Yeah.

Do we want to go to the first?

I think we should.

Okay.

So, whose is this?

By the way,

I declined to screen share with you because I just, it was too much of a headache.

So I figured that

you'd get it enough from the Twitch thing and it would update fast enough.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm not worried.

Oh, whoa.

Wow, okay, whose screenshot is this?

This is my one.

Wow.

Now, how quickly did you know that this was the screenshot that you would like to choose?

I knew that this was the general

that within this sort of like five or like 10 episode stretch of where I was gonna find a screenshot and then I just sort of scrubbed through a couple until I got to the scenes I was looking for.

Incredible.

We are looking at

a sports court.

Now I would describe this initially as either a basketball court

But the orb that the character is holding is not a basketball.

I would also describe it as potentially a volleyball court, but there is a net missing, there is no net,

or a dodgeball

court.

It could be dodgeball.

That might be the ball that our characters.

So we have a character in the left hand with his back to us.

He's holding.

He's got big hairy arms.

He's got a ring on his index finger, and he's holding up what looks like a black and yellow dodgeball, probably

in his left hand.

He is wearing a sleeveless

maroon sweater with a logo on the back.

And the logo is dark maroon.

It's sort of almost black.

And it is a

how would I describe this?

It looks a little bit like the M of Millennium Break.

It's like a

sort of a weird four-pointed star that has been squished, that has been squashed.

The chat is pointing out.

If you were putting these

pointing out that these might be the shadows of his shoulder blades.

Yeah.

This is something that might be clear in motion, obviously, as the symbol would appear or disappear.

But this could just be a very strong man with very well-defined shoulder blades.

He has spiky.

Well, the chat is wrong.

It is a logo, and if you're putting on your sort of marketer cap, what sort of company do you think this logo might be used for?

Who's the fast food joint that has the star as its logo?

There's nothing that says a Carl Jr.

It has two names: Hardy's or Carl's Jr.

Okay, I was right.

Okay, that's my answer: Hardy's or Carls Jr.

So, this is you're if you were to redesign Carls Jr.

slash Hardee's, maybe a sort of Millennium Break M that gets kind of wonky in the middle.

I suppose, yes.

Yeah, this man is threatening to throw the dodgeball

at

a

child or a very small adult.

This is

a slight figure

who is also wearing a white sleeveless shirt,

grey shorts,

some cute little shoes.

These do not look like suitable shoes.

These look like, I don't know, I don't know what these look like.

This is Sasuke, by the way.

This character's name is Sasuke.

This person has

another Naruto joke, Jack.

I'm sorry.

Oh, I wouldn't have got that.

I thought that this person

everyone in the world besides you.

No fear on this person's face.

In fact, probably no fear because behind this individual.

What pronoun should I be using for this slight person?

He, him.

Okay, behind this person is

a

is a

gorilla

with a human head, sort of,

and

a

very well-defined six-pack.

An eight-pack, if we're counting.

An eighth pack.

An eighth pack.

This figure is leaning forward on his knuckles like a gorilla stands.

And really, you know, by the coloration,

this fella's eight-pack is

pale, it's tan-colored,

to match the color of his chiseled, human-esque face.

What's he doing there?

What is he doing there?

Great fucking question, Keith.

He is protecting this boy, this

slight individual.

I think that he is.

I think we can say he's a boy.

I think that's not a spoiler.

That's not a spoiler.

He is the reason why

the boy

is unafraid

of the dodgeball-wearing

shoulder-bladed, spiky-haired fellow in the foreground.

Is there anyone else here?

Yes, there is the character from the background of a Sailor Moon episode.

In the far distance, behind the...

It's a cameo from the author's wife's show.

Oh,

whoa, did she write Sailor Moon?

Yeah.

She's in.

Wait, the Hunter-Hunter's author's wife was the creator of Sailor Moon?

Sure was.

This fucking girl.

They met after each.

I think she had already made Sailor Moon when they met, and he was making Yu Yu Haka Show at the time.

I think that that's that's...

incredible.

Yeah, that's really cool.

Yeah.

Is there a.

This is a, I mean, this is a whole question, right?

Where it's like, watching the two shows together,

is there some sort of visible overlap, or is it generally just two creators who are interested in their own things, doing their own things?

I think it's more the latter.

Like, I think

they're not interested in each other's things, but there's not.

It's impossible.

It's impossible to deny that the character you've noticed at the back does extremely look like a magical girl.

Yeah, yes.

But I mean, yes, so this character in the background is wearing a sort of Lolita dress.

It's a pink dress with a petticoat or frills.

She also is wearing inappropriate shoes for what I have to assume is Dodgeball.

She has really cool hair.

She has like a magical girl

high ponytail that that descends into a little spiral.

She's got a little pink collar.

She's possibly buttons down her shirt.

This is the dodgeball team of slight boy, sort of gorilla, and magical girl.

Kind of magical girl.

She's not even rendered like I associate a magical girl being rendered.

She's rendered like a character from a magical girl.

like a non-main character from a magical girl.

You know, this isn't, for example, you know, Arya Joy.

This is someone at an Aria Joy show.

Not in terms of the direct aesthetics, but in terms of the, like,

the role of these characters.

In the background, there are two men with four.

Wait, let me zoom in.

Okay, this got more complicated.

One of the men is wearing white.

He's standing on the sidelines and he looks like an umpire, and he has a number four on his shirt.

He's wearing a fucked up hat.

It looks like he's wearing a saucepan on his head.

Oh, now that I look, the saucepan or something also has a four written on it.

I'm gonna call this fellow four.

Okay, fair.

To his left.

We are joined by...

This one's

another fellow in a large blue coverall, wearing a hood, almost like an executioner's hood, that falls down over his shoulders in the same blue.

He's got a, maybe a metal or a white plate on his forehead.

I don't think it's a mask.

I think it's something on his forehead and his actual eyes are below.

And he is wearing white gloves.

I don't know if these two men are part of the game as players or are part of the game as the sort of rules apparatus.

Is there anything else I am missing here in the description before we can sort of move on to talking about the image beyond, you know, what is on the screen.

I don't think so.

You sort of caught the key players.

And yeah.

Yeah, Shoulder Blades Fellow, Slight Boy, sort of gorilla, Magical Girl, NPC 4, and

the suited executioner.

Hold on, we got the suited executioner.

Can we, like, put that in something?

Yeah, the suited executioner is

actually probably Palisade.

I think that somewhere in the paint shop, there is a suited executioner.

Okay.

So this is a game.

There is some sort of a game being played here.

And this is not what I expected to see, which I think is partly why it makes for a good opening screenshot.

I was expecting to see some folks out,

I would say,

in the wilderness, in a forest, you know, by a campfire.

And can you say why you expected to see that?

No, I thought, well, so firstly, I thought that Naruto was in this show.

So anything I say is already.

That doesn't make sense because Naruto is always in the wilderness.

I thought that.

I have so little to go on.

I know that there are ants, and I know that the show is called Hunter Hunt.

So I sort of...

Is there a genre of this show?

I think that this show is a sort of

cities exist and it's probably modern, but I was picturing a sort of like there are

entities called hunters who

go out and sort of do witching, do witcher business in a modern

fantasy-ish world.

That is not crazy to say.

You know, know, so it's like, for example, oh, here's our boy,

maybe, maybe this slight fellow who

is entering into a world to become a sort of hunter of

dangers within the world.

You know, sort of if Sailor Moon, instead of just blundering spectacularly into one or another threat to Tokyo, was like actually being taken care of by the outer planet Senshi from the start and was like, listen,

there are bad things in the world, and we're gonna train you to hunt them down.

So I was expecting to see some outdoors sort of hunter business.

I am not terribly surprised to see a game though, because you know, I feel like I've seen enough anime to know that there are whole sort of, not necessarily arcs, but series of episodes in which our characters engage in a tournament or a game of some kind, you know?

It's like, oh, this is the tennis arc where we all play tennis, or this is the Olympics arc or the like um

swimming races or something you know so I'm not terribly surprised to see the the the dodgeball I'm more surprised by the sort of breakdown of characters

who here do you think is a main character slight fellow

the slight fellow Okay, the white-haired boy.

Actually, maybe

this is a fantastic question, Keith, because if we can establish who the main characters are,

put it this way: if the sort of gorilla was a main character,

that would almost be more plausible than this being a world in which you show up to dodgeball practice.

And this sort of gorilla is like, hi, I'm your teammate.

You know?

Do you see what I mean?

Yeah.

Like, what are normal people within the world

is a really interesting question.

And it's kind of similar to, adjacent to, who do we think are the main characters?

Because you're right.

We have six figures on the screen.

I don't think four or the hooded executioner are main characters.

Okay.

Mm-hmm.

But of the six people on the screen, you would be hard-pressed to describe the makeup of this world.

Is this the world where one out of every six people is a gorilla man?

Yes,

that's a that is a great question.

That's is

that so?

Did you know that one in every five people are gay?

Did you know that every one in every five people are a gorilla?

Like

I so, okay

It's the it's the it's the the shoulder blades dodgeball person with the ring is training.

He is the one who is like, we are, I'm going to help you to, I guess, be good at this.

Well, I don't know.

I don't think that this dodgeball is actually very important.

And then

in the scene, in the episode, or in the show at large?

In the show.

In the show at large.

This slight fellow with the hair is, I think,

very important.

What makes you say that?

Because he's framed like a protagonist.

You know,

he is who we're looking at here.

I mean, this could just be the shot choice, you know, like this could just be like a POV shot, and we could switch back and see the fellow with the dodgeball, and we're like, well, he looks like the protagonist.

But right now, you know, our focus is on the slight fellow and the gorilla man.

And then behind him, world's best dodgeball team, the Sailor Moon NPC.

Right.

I think also he looks like the person that a show would be made about.

You know?

Here's this character who we're going to mold and who is going to become our hero.

Okay.

Do you have, do you have any lingering thoughts, Sylvie?

Do you have any more questions that you want to pose

to Jack?

Jack, do you have any questions for us that you want to pose?

Yeah, because I feel like Jack's done a very good job at sort of like...

Ringing what they can out of this.

Yes.

So

maybe we do we want to do a thing where we will like just like answer yes or no to like one thing for each screenshot that Jack's curious about, or do we want to like not do like that sort of gamification?

Fantastic question.

I think it's let's do one yes or no and one

you're allowed to answer with a single sentence because I trust

spoil things for me.

You know, how do we, how do we find out on the yes or no if Sylvie and I agree?

Or is that not important?

We can both answer independently.

We can both answer independently.

Okay, yeah, yes.

Um,

well, I have to know, I have to know.

The funny thing is, yeah,

before you say, I'm sorry for interrupting, it's funny because

I would say that the

character in here that is a main character usually so much looks like a main character, and just right now, to me, doesn't,

yeah.

And it's funny what it's funny your reading on this, whether you're right or wrong, because of how uniquely

styled the character is currently right here.

That's all I wanted to say.

This is fascinating.

Okay, here's my question.

Is this gorilla dude a main character?

By gorilla dude, you mean the guy standing behind the white-haired boy?

Yes.

I do, yes.

Yeah.

The answer to that question.

This is your yes-no question?

Yes.

No.

No.

What?

Not at all.

No, not even close.

You say not even close.

Wait,

does this fellow have a name in the story, or is he just the guy who's here with Deutschbool?

I don't know if we are able to explain anymore given our rules.

Fair enough.

That could be my sentence question.

Do you want that to be your sentence question?

Because it does have a good answer.

No.

Okay.

Here's my sentence question.

Why is the hooded execution addressed like that?

Huh.

Okay.

That's an easy question to answer, but I don't know how exactly how much to give.

I'm comfortable, but I'm comfortable giving the whole thing.

I have a Keith.

I'm going to message you like a quick, like a very simple sentence.

And you can, if you want to add more to it, that's, but this was my knee-jerk answer.

I don't want to step on it.

Okay, I

think that because

Jack is curious, we should give them a little more, but I will use that as the basis.

Um,

there is a character in this episode that

can

create

sort of puppet figures.

Yeah, that is much better than what I just, what I had.

Oh, that's it?

That's all you're saying?

Yes.

It's one sentence.

That answers who the executioner is.

That does, yeah.

I think that is such a good non- That is such a good okay, so I mean, here's

You've just done a really good proof of concept for how these questions can work for the future screens, which is like that question only invites more questions, which is

which is wonderful.

So, so what we've learned from here is that the sort of gorilla fellow is not even close to a main character.

Correct.

It's just sort of that's Robert, and he's here today.

Maybe it's Robert.

I'll tell you,

I couldn't tell you this gorilla's name if he had a name.

Wow.

Okay.

I don't genuinely don't know.

Remarkable.

And the hooded executioner,

the only information I have about what's that guy's deal is in this episode, there is someone who makes puppets.

Wonderful.

Don't answer these questions.

Is that a puppet?

Or is this some way he can, or they can protect themselves against the person who makes puppets?

Or are they the person who makes these constructs?

And to do so, they have to wear a boiler suit and an executioner's mask wonderful wonderful

should we should we get to the next one uh yeah i think we should uh so i guess

the point of this is i don't know what because you had an idea for what you were doing but you didn't and weren't settled when i saw and that that is here but i have i have decided to save that one for a potential final thing

before you actually

i had been agonized okay go ahead i would like to say at the conclusion of this first screenshot, would you like to see us make a show about this?

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Well, we'll probably be there.

It might even be rotating at some points.

We'll talk about that stuff.

But

okay, please continue, Keith.

Sorry, I just wanted to do the

ad break between, you know.

So,

right.

So, the backstory to this is that

I had

a screenshot that I thought was so good, but like, was maybe just an ounce too

spoilery.

Wow.

And I really for

from the day that I picked my screenshot over a week ago until today was like, I really, really want to send this one,

but I don't know if I, if I can or should.

I have a lot of reasons why I think it's okay to do it, but

I still was like, maybe I shouldn't send that one.

I have it here invisible.

invisible.

And

if we decide we want to do one more at the end, and Jack, you're like, I don't think this will spoil me.

I trust Keith when he says it's not that spoilery.

We can do it.

If not, I have two others that I'm deciding.

One is a fun one without a ton going on visually.

There's stuff going on visually, but it doesn't have as much as the other one, which is

less fun of a scene, but has a lot to chew on.

Interesting.

Interesting.

I feel like it's a big spoiler, but maybe I'm wrong.

Well, then let's not do it.

I think we should trust because I can't really arbitrate this, but

I think that the we should err on the side of caution.

I think it has all of the.

I think it appears as if it were a big spoiler.

I'm gonna

I don't know is it the one you sent me uh last week yes

wait the one no the one you sent me no I sent it to Austin last week I sent it to you today

did Austin think it was too spoilery because if Austin I will I'll defer to if I'm outruled two to one here both were on the opposite side

sorry I ate food at a bad time

No, you both thought it was too spoilery, but neither of you were that definitive about it.

And I'm pretty sure that it's not.

I'll type

my reasoning.

But it's not, but it's at the end anyway, so we don't have to worry about it now.

I want to.

Okay, okay, okay.

Sorry.

I thought we were deciding whether to do that.

No, no, no, no.

That is like my second extra one that I have.

Okay.

Let's, let's,

let's percolate.

So, your choices are, Jack,

fun scene,

not as much stuff going on, not as much visually to chew on,

much more to chew on, but less visually fun scene.

Neither spoilery.

Okay,

more to chew on.

More to chew on.

Okay, I can do that.

Delicious.

I'm so excited.

Oh, this is great.

Oh, I'm so happy.

Oh, wow.

Wow.

Sylvie, are you able to describe in a way that isn't a spoiler why you had this reaction to this shot?

I really like

a character in this image.

Just

excited to see them show up.

You know,

I like a few characters in this image, but I'm a freak for one character in this image.

I wonder.

I mean, I have a good idea which one, but

I can reveal it

once Jack goes through them, you know, feel

to the last screenshot.

It is, yes.

It's a much different vibe.

This is, I mean, dark, not necessarily in, I wouldn't describe this as particularly dark tonally, but definitely dark in terms of the image composition.

We have a group of one two three four five six seven eight nine figures facing us arranged in a sort of loose semicircle looking at

we you you did under count by one but you can barely see the last one wait wait one two three

oh gosh

i got jump scared five

Six,

seven, eight, nine.

Are you not counting the one that's facing away from us no no they are they are looking towards a figure okay sorry on the very far right there is one cut off and on the very far left there is one yeah this is i'm this is this is a

beautiful

they are looking at presumably in some sort of meeting or conversation with a figure

facing away from us sitting on something out of focus in the foreground my gut was that this person is sitting on rubble or is sitting on rocks or something, but the composition of this shot suggests that

this meeting is consequential and

the person might just as easily be sitting on some ruined something that has been destroyed or a body covered in a cloth.

Or, you know,

this is not an easy, straightforward meet and chit-chat that is happening here.

Let's start with the figure facing...

Oh, they're in...

It's nighttime, or they are in a an alley with very tall buildings, so the light has not come down very clearly.

There's there's a they could be actually inside a building, um, a ruined building.

Uh, there's a large grey wall in the back with two windows, and yes, I think they are inside a ruined church or something.

You know, you can see that that big open space of the nave of a church or a meeting hall.

Um,

the figure facing away from us is thin, is very angular.

And I'm zooming in to look at it.

At first I thought this person had a big,

two possible options here.

Either this person has a big shock of white hair and they are bending down, they have their heads tilted downwards, so their hair is kind of coming up

behind them.

Or, and this is maybe my other guess, this person has a sort of spiky white fur collar almost like an ermine collar collar,

that you can sort of see the dark shape of their head coming up behind.

They have narrow shoulders.

They are wearing black.

If I zoom in, I can see that they have something.

They look quite relaxed, actually.

They're sitting quite calmly

with their hands in their lap.

They have something in their lap.

I can't make out what it is.

It looks like a piece of fabric and a piece of metal to the right of them.

I'm not sure.

So that is, in many respects, our most straightforward figure, this sort of ominous entity facing away from us.

Can I go left to right?

Because it's going to begin pretty strong, I think.

Yeah.

On the left-hand side of the image is an embalmed person.

She is sitting calmly.

She is not the focus of this scene, which is so fun.

Between the sort of gorilla fellow

in the first image, you know, it turns out not being a main character whatsoever, and this person kind of just framed sideways, you know, at the very edge of the frame.

I really like this.

This person has been wrapped head to toe

in bandages, it looks like.

Alternatively, they could be chitemous.

They could be, this could be plates, almost like a

woodlouse or a beetle or an armadillo, but or a pangolin or other placid animals.

But I do think that this is an embalmed person.

She is wearing lace-up red boots.

She is a fashionable embalmed person.

And what looks like possibly sunglasses, something on her face, some sort of

something on her face.

She's got a sort of Brandon Fraser invisible man type thing.

Oh shit, maybe she's invisible.

Classic way of revealing an invisible person is wrapping yourself up in bandages.

So that's a possibility.

Could also just be an embalmed body.

Can't tell if she's wearing boxing gloves.

do you see that she's got a sort of boxing glove like thing that could be a motorcycle helmet i don't know next to her is a ronin uh

a skinny angular ronin with a uh tall um sort of top knot or ponytail a very sharp face wearing uh pale pink uh sorry sort of dusky pink robes he's got his hand on a katana as though he's getting ready to draw Next to them is a fellow in a racing driver's outfit.

Green racing driver's outfit,

white shoulders on his jacket,

red stripes, green sort of track jacket almost.

Now next to this person, this is interesting.

This is a character I have seen before.

I don't know anything about.

Oh, that's interesting.

But I feel like I have seen a screenshot of this fellow.

This guy's built like a brick shithouse.

He is

wide, wide, wide,

strong, big muscles around his neck.

He,

how am I going to describe this?

He looks like his earlobes are attached to the front of his

vest.

He's wearing

like a

dungarees almost.

Like

overalls.

But

keeping those overalls up

wild

is his earloves

moving on.

Um, partly hidden behind the wait, shit, oh wow, I just noticed a detail.

This fellow with the white shock facing us has an upside-down cross on his back.

Oh, I was gonna mention that you didn't mention that, and then no, that was just the balance of my screen, the light.

That's really cool.

I don't want to dwell on it because you've got a lot of characters to see, but this person is wearing some sort of uniform.

And the upside-down cross imagery is interesting.

We'll get to that.

Behind him is a tough little soldier boy.

This person looks like a town guard in a Dragon Quest game,

wearing a

pink doublet,

sort of just sort of regular person's hair.

Looks like I'm here.

I'm tough.

I'm here to save the kingdom.

Now, here we go.

This person.

For all people in the chat who are agreeing that it's kind of hard to see.

Yeah.

This person.

There you go.

Maybe that'll help a little bit.

Focus of the image.

We have

a very short

person.

Possibly a child.

Wearing...

It looks like

the most natural sort of pair between this.

Sorry, what did you...

Sorry, I didn't hear you start describing this next person.

A very small person,

possibly a child.

And and there's a kind of natural pair going on between this person and the person with the cross on their back you know their their their their eyelines are matching they're looking at each other you know these two characters uh i think that this is our interlocutor you know here this person has got their hands behind their back what pronoun should i be using for this small person

um

i believe i believe he him

but i'm gonna double check like

95% sure.

Yeah,

he him.

Dressed in black, he's wearing almost like a black dress, like a with a with a

really cool neckline, a sort of like a V-shaped neckline with a paler grey fabric underneath to make a collar that rises way up, like a little bowl for his head to sit in,

to just below his nose.

So his whole, you know, the bottom part of his face and his jaw is covered.

On this collar, there is what looks like a skull.

Pretty, pretty spooky.

And this person has black hair that kind of falls down partly over their face.

They've got their hands behind their back.

They seem pretty, pretty calm.

Next to them is

a JRPG character.

She's

got Sheena from Tales of Symphonia.

Truly.

She's got spiky red hair tied up in a ponytail.

She's wearing

a white shirt and

a wide belt, short black shorts.

I think probably the bow from her hair is hanging back behind her in two red things.

She's got these incredible pale pink leg warmers going on.

She looks great.

Crow TRM in the chat says, standard issue ninja lady.

Yeah, absolutely.

And then to her right is another small figure, possibly a child.

This person is wearing a single colored, long sleeved, very long sleeved green dress with two pleats at the bottom.

You can see their feet poking out.

This person has

long

blonde hair that falls forward over

their face, such that only a little tiny sliver of their eye is visible.

And then, person on the right, I can see hair,

one tit,

green,

red,

skirt,

and leg.

Hard to say much about this person.

Sort of just like

a lady here.

Half a lady, a third of a lady.

That's all the people.

That is all the people.

Anything I've sort of missed?

I don't think so.

I think you hit everything.

What's the vibe of this place?

You sort of touched on it when you said that they were

standing over a dead body, but what.

Sinister.

I think they are in a ruined church.

I think that

they are having a meeting.

They are having a parlay.

Maybe this fellow with his back to us is like,

oh,

I'll talk to you.

We can meet.

Come to the ruined church at midnight.

And the person, and he's like, come alone.

And our folks are like, you know, we don't come alone.

I'll bring my nine

weird friends in Barbara's person.

Our folks.

Our folks are the people facing us here.

Okay.

Got it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So,

this is one whole group facing off against the single individual here.

Yes, who I don't know is a villain, but is definitely like a sinister entity.

There's a vibe going on here that is concerning.

And they say, we can't come alone.

You know, you're getting nine of us, or you're getting nobody.

And the person says, huh, alone or all nine of you.

It doesn't matter.

Be at the church.

That's the vibe that I think is going on here.

This is very dark.

This is very,

very sinister.

I got a little bit of that last person's face that I realized was cut off.

Oh, Austin has a good, um,

a good thing in the chat here, because Jack should get to ask for the name of one person in this photo.

We will add that to our trio.

Yes.

Yeah.

I agree.

I agree.

You did ask if the gorilla had a name, so I guess that counts for the first one.

Okay, yeah, sure.

And the answer to that is we don't know, presumably.

We don't know.

No.

No.

No.

Okay, great.

I'm glad to have an answer for that.

Yeah.

Yeah, I should say that the woman who previously was obscured on the right-hand side of the image, we can now see she has a kind of an angular face, a sort of a sharp nose.

She's looking a little sour.

Yep.

And how many tits total?

Huh?

How many tits total?

Both of them.

Both of them.

All.

Full set.

Full set.

Yeah.

Well, yeah, full set.

Because

for most people.

It was 50-50 shot.

Maybe it is just one.

Maybe it's just a picture.

I don't know how the world works.

You know?

Right.

True.

Okay.

Let's see.

Questions to Jack about this.

Yes, yes.

Before we move on to the final questions, you know?

I'd like you to imagine what they're talking about.

I feel like we got a little of that.

It's a parlay.

A parlay, but

I would like a totally hypothetical situation.

That's a great question.

Yeah.

Okay.

I mean, and it's worth saying that there's no way I can extrapolate that from this image.

No amount of reading this image.

So we're just fully in the presence of the.

I wouldn't be able to answer my next question either.

Okay, great.

So these, so

what has happened is that

the nine people who are facing us are sort of like a crew that has been assembled by our heroes.

Maybe for the purposes of this arc, maybe for the purposes of this

episode, you know?

And something has gone down in a big way with this person with the upside-down cross on their back, and our crew thinks that they are involved in some,

you know,

scheme, some sort of evil deed.

But maybe they've been involved in an evil deed in the past, but they need need to get to the bottom of it.

So they arrange this very tense meeting.

You know, it's like, oh, finally, we can get up face to face with this person who's been a thorn in our side for so long.

And it's kind of climactic because,

you know,

this is like, oh, oh, right.

It's...

Well, why don't we go and talk to the demon?

You know?

Not because demons, you can't talk to them very often, but because it's a very, stuff has to be very bad or very tense or very interesting.

Maybe they're trying to recruit this person to their cause is the other thing.

Okay.

Okay.

Sylvie, do you, did you have anything?

No, because I feel like I was going to ask, like, who what like side do you think people like who do you think is the good guys here but that was

a fucking incredible question i i have another answer here right which is none of these people are the good guys and what we've got going on here is like the scene where the anime villain is like now my witch is five you know

i need you to go out and hunt down

like the protagonist

who i still cannot picture right as if at least we know is not a gorilla or not that right right right not that gorilla right

you know Like,

that's one version of this scene, right?

Where it's like, my crew.

I don't know why I'm giving this person this voice.

You know, it's an interesting decision.

Yeah.

But I'm here for it.

Okay.

We need to hunt the hunter.

I've assembled you all.

Embalmed person, ninja, racing driver, weird elope man, guard from Dragon Quest game, short child, ninja girl, small green person with yellow hair, and tall, sexy lady.

I do love

it.

How much it's affecting things that Jack has no idea,

how many hunters there are or aren't really what they do.

Great.

Yeah, I mean, so this, this, um, I've been listening to Homestuck Made This World from Range Touch, which on the one hand is a pretty good touchstone because it's a limited-run podcast about a specific media property.

And on the other hand, you know, what Cameron and Michael do is really

skilled and complicated, and I don't want to sell us by saying, like, we can do a range touch kind of thing with Hunter Hunter because that relies on like years of critical experience.

It's not necessarily a bar I know we can hit.

But

there's a really interesting bit where, you know, Homestuck in the early stages of it is doing this moment where it's like, you thought we were doing one thing, psych, we're actually doing another thing.

And Cameron has this whole bit where he says, these psych outs don't work on me because

the comic has already established there is no objective reality that I can rely on.

No one event is, you know, stranger or less strange than any other event.

So for the comic to be like, psyched, it's sort of like, I guess I'm being psyched.

I, yeah, a meteor hit the planet at the end of the first, you know,

nothing here is surprising to me.

And so, given that my first encounter was this sort of gorilla fellow,

I, any of these people could be the protagonist, you know?

Even the Elobe man, even the mummy,

they

sure dress like protagonists.

But this is something that, like, I

a lot of animes that I like also

do constantly, which is bit characters or side characters have the fucking coolest costumes that you've ever seen and appear for 45 minutes and then disappear.

I have a question.

This is for this is a question.

This is a fun one.

This one's for the fans.

Who here would be the best boyfriend?

Is there a clear answer here?

No.

No, okay.

And I would like to hear your answers, but you can

describe different versions of yes, half of them say one thing and half of them say

all the other things.

Okay.

I can answer after, but.

Yeah, but you can't say the character's name.

You have to just say.

No, I will not.

I will use the descriptions that you have provided.

Yeah.

Earlobe Man.

Okay.

I think Earlob Man is he's that character trope of like kind of menacing looking, kind of scary.

What's going on with his earlobes?

I cannot pass this image as anything other than his earlobes, and I'm not going to waste a question on that.

I will come to that solution in its own time.

But I think he's got a tender heart.

I think I like your answer.

I have my reasoning for this one is that just in general, for the general populace, the title of best boyfriend in this image goes to the Ronin.

Okay.

Okay.

I have

when we do the show, I can explain my reasoning.

This can also be where I reveal who my favorite character in this image is, which is the guy with the cross jacket.

And I would like him to be my boyfriend.

It wouldn't, you know,

provided, I think, the two sort of canonical fan answers, which is that,

which is

Samurai and upside-down cross.

I love everyone in the chat, chat just being like, oh, yeah, duh, duh.

Yeah, I mean, I mean,

this would have been my pick, Sylvie, and I saw this for you, and I saw this image, you know, eight minutes ago for the first time.

I'm nothing if not consistent.

No, but that, oh, sorry, go ahead.

That tells me something about the image, right?

I can get definition about this character.

Yeah.

Do you now have a more or less positive opinion of this character

what do you mean more or less i like the character more because sylvie likes them okay um i think sylvie has good taste in interesting characters

um but but i don't i can't quantitatively say whether this person is like

has more or less virtue you know

That's quite difficult to do.

I think this person is a villain, but I think this person is a kind of anti-hero character who's going to kind of come up

again and again, you know?

Okay.

Come up meaning

disappear.

Appear in the show, yeah.

And I think we'll probably, because these shows go on for so long,

we'll have portions where we are working with them or working against them or working parallel to them, you know?

Do you want one name?

Yeah, totally.

Give me the upside down crossfella's name.

Sylvie, do you want to say it?

Oh, yeah, I'll say it and then I'll send you how it's spelled canonically in the manga.

So his name is Crolo Lucilpher.

Woo!

And, oh, where is it?

I just.

Crolo Lucilpha.

Yeah.

And then in, this is from volume 34 in the official data book.

Let me just pop this in our chat.

That's how that's spelled.

If you want to just take a peek.

Wait, Austin says, Jack, guess how it's spelled?

Crolo Lusulpha.

Oh, sorry.

Don't look yet.

No, I haven't seen it.

It's spelled C-H-R-O-L-O space L-U-C-I-L-F-E-R.

Crolo Lusilfa.

That is almost 100%.

You missed an L.

That's full marks as far as I can.

Yeah, that is how it is typically spelled by people.

You're kidding me.

What?

You're joking.

Now, if you're looking, am I learning?

Am I drawing learning telling you?

Is it not spelled that way?

In the manga, and like in like extra, like there's a few like extra things.

I'm kind of just like going off the wiki here because I'm behind on the manga.

I haven't reached volume, the volume 34 extras yet, but it is spelled Q-U-W-R-O-F W-R-L-C.

Sorry, after Q-U-W-R-O-F space, W-R-L-C-C-Y, W-R-L-F-H.

It's like Welsh or something.

It's fine.

Oh, so this is sort of a Kate She type thing.

Yeah, definitely.

I truly don't know, but I do love that it's spelled that way.

It is sometimes spelled with an R at the end instead of an H.

That's incredible.

Wow, that is

self-telling.

Typically, it is spelt Crolo, C-H-R-O-L-L-O.

Lucilfa.

What is the way you know?

What is he called in the show?

Crolo.

Crowlo, yeah?

Yeah.

Wow.

Pronounce Crow.

Crowlo, Lucilfair is the pronunciation.

That is fascinating because this is a vibe.

This is a whole vibe.

Having a character called Crollo Lucilpha, that is, I mean, you know, shows of all kinds give their characters fucking incredible weird names.

The fact that it's doing this, this sort of like kind of Welsh spelling,

I do not believe it's Welsh, but it's kind of trying to do a weird thing with its spelling.

Yeah.

Makes me think that there is something sort of like folk magic or

dark magic or, you know, folkloric about this character, which is really interesting.

Lovely.

Okay, time for my questions.

Time for your questions.

I get one yes or no question, and I get one

single sentence answer question.

Ooh.

I'm spoiled for choice.

There's nine fucking, ten fucking weirdos in this.

I've already got my Krello Lusulfa.

I can't focus on him because

you want to get as much information from the image as possible.

You're going wide, not deep.

You're going wide, not deep.

Although I might go deep on future images, you know?

Right.

Let's see.

And I'm not asking about the earlobes.

So.

And it's a yes-no question.

So I want something that.

Is the protagonist or a protagonist in this image?

No.

No.

No.

Does this show have a protagonist?

I'm not asking this.

That could actually be a.

That would be.

God, imagine if this show fully didn't have a protagonist.

And it was just 151 episodes of weirdos.

We were doing the fucking Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber here.

Oh, that would be you.

great god you will

you will be getting new opinions on who you've seen is or isn't a protagonist with the next image interesting interesting all right now it's time for my

okay

i want to say top marks from the sentence question last time perfect answer to the perfect question not necessarily the perfect question question was fine Answer.

Perfect question, Jack.

Full market question asking.

Thanks, Keith.

What is the relationship between Crolo,

Lucilpha, and the short person in black?

I think I can take this one.

Okay.

Crowlo is the leader of the group that

character is a member of.

Keith, do you think I could add any more detail or is that good?

If there's a little detail you're itching to add, then I think go for it.

I don't specifically have one.

I just wanted to, I felt like I went too vague when I was thinking of the first, when I was going to do this last time, and I want to make sure

people are saying no more.

So these two are aligned.

I was right with the very unsubtle costuming similarities between these two.

These are members.

What was your wording?

Did you say that Kroller was this guy's?

Kroller is the leader of the group.

The leader.

Kroller's the leader of the group.

Yeah.

Right.

So this is his subordinate.

Oh, fascinating.

So this makes me think that this person, this short person here with the skull on its

sort of collar piece, really cool costume, is like,

I have assembled these people

to do

the plan.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

To do the plan.

The big plan.

When they're going to hunt the hunter.

Maybe, maybe.

Maybe.

Maybe.

I don't know.

I'm less confident about what hunting is happening in this show.

But that's fine.

Anything else here, or do we want to hit the next image?

I think we're

ready to hit the next one.

This one was lovely.

I had a great time with this one.

Are we doing Austin's one next?

We are doing Austin's one next.

But before we do, do, before we

hear us make a show like this,

don't forget.

I would.

I want to hear this.

It is actually one of the things I want to do most right now is make this show.

I cannot.

Please let us show Jack Hunter Hunter, please.

Because now Jack can't see it until we do this show.

Right, right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

And you're going to, you're going to, you know, you're gonna have to get watching because there's a lot of episodes of this.

Yeah,

yeah, that bit I'm less worried about, but you know, it's it's uh oh, no, less worried about that bit.

I'm less stoked about the actual time, but the it'll be fun, yeah, you know, it'll be time spent doing something fun.

What so go to friends of the table.cash if you'd like to help us with that, Jack.

Before I turn over this page here, you have been you have demonstrated

your lack of knowledge of uh Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, Naruto, and Hunter Hunter today.

I have, yes.

Is there

a shounen that you are familiar with?

Let's see.

List of Shounen shows.

Did you ever watch the Pokemon anime like when you were younger?

No.

Okay.

No.

I've seen a bit oh oh i've seen um like three seasons of jojo's bizarre adventure and i liked it a lot that is a jojo yeah jojo's definitely in that wheelhouse yeah the the

so the while i would definitely not say that i as i demonstrated by talking about uh naruto i am not um

I don't have any degree of fluency in this genre, but I have seen enough of it that I am, that I have a passing familiarity with the genre conventions and with the kind of flow and feel of these kinds of shows.

I had a really good time with Jojo and I

only stopped because of like time.

You know, there was nothing about the show that made me go, oh, I would like to stop watching.

I didn't have time to keep watching it.

And so it sort of fell off there.

Let me see.

What else?

I've read

No, I really keep meaning to get into Chainsaw Man.

Oh, I've seen some My Hero Academia, but not a lot.

So now that is a good one.

That is a good one for this because the thing about

we referenced this at the beginning with the punch drunk love analogy, but the thing that is so interesting to me about

Togashi's work, who did this and also Yuyu Haka Show, is how

much fun he has with

conventions of the genre and

not

just like

subverting them,

but also playing into them and then like taking very seriously what happens as a result of taking them seriously.

And I'm interested in

what because I'm assuming that you're not going to watch 500 episodes of Shonen in preparation of watching Hunter Hunter so I'm interested in what's going to happen when you watch this show that is like knees deep in convention in all the different ways that it is knees deep in convention uh in mostly good ways in some um less interesting ways but uh

uh someone who's less familiar with the the sort of material that it's playing with.

Yeah, I'm I think that's fascinating.

And I think that we are operating on

right now on this stream.

We are operating in a very particular,

in a sort of

very flawed analytical mode where we are, we are,

you two are trying not to say things to me.

You know, we are, we are operating on a level where people are holding cards close to their chest in terms of what's going on analytically.

And I think that when we make the show,

if we're lucky enough to be able to make it, it is going to be really interesting to be able to talk, you know, obviously

we'll try not to spoil things from the end of the show at the beginning, but to be able to talk more openly about like, all right, okay, what is going on here?

And how does this play for you versus how it might be playing for me?

Or, you know,

what to do with the way our own kind of interactions with this media,

how is that affecting the way we're working?

All this is to say, you know,

what you're listening to now is obviously going to have some similarities with the show as we make it, but we are going to try and be a lot more open and honest about the thing we're watching and how we're feeling about it.

Yeah, for sure.

All right, I'm ready to change

time.

This is an Austin Walker special.

Oh, what?

Nothing.

I'm handling it.

Okay.

Good thing.

Good thing.

Okay, good thing.

Huh.

There we go.

Hello.

Hi, do you recognize anyone here?

No.

I

don't.

Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Is this person on the left here the slight white fellow?

That is the slight fellow.

The slight fellow.

That's

a dance.

Hi.

Hi, Austin.

How are you?

Hello.

I'm on the streets.

I'm calling in from the streets.

The streets is watching and also listening and calling in.

I see a sign that says, everyone, everyone, everyone, welcome.

And it's like a rainbow and trans like rights flag color.

That's like a...

a bar, I want to say.

And I see another different bar that says, cocktail lab, seven days.

And I see like a picture of a sort of cartoon dog.

And then I see a thing that says retail medical space for leaf.

And then I see a bridge and the sun.

Describe things we look at.

Yeah.

This is our new show everybody.

This is the next stretch goal for the Patreon is describe the things around us from the wild.

We do this, you know, now that we have...

Now that we've been making the show for a long time and have certain expectations for audio quality, I feel like we do this less.

But years ago, we used to do this much more frequently, and it is always a joy.

It's just someone literally telephoning in.

Talk to me about this picture, Jack.

What I'm looking at is the picture you have sent, Austin.

And this is very interesting in that, you know, we've got close-ups on characters for the first time.

The last two were sort of wide shots.

This is a Dutch angle.

These three characters are kind of accanted slightly.

On the left, we can see

how would I describe this colour?

It's like a very, very pale lilac-haired person who I've referred to as the slight fellow from the Dodgeball game, who is now rendered, you know, in a lot more detail.

Has these beautiful blue eyes, is wearing a sleeveless hoodie.

It's because he's strong, he's working hard, he's training, and a green turtleneck underneath.

His black hoodie has the letters TT

on it in yellow,

which is interesting.

These could be Japanese characters also,

or they could just be symbols.

In the middle,

the focus of this shot, we have

a fellow looking very surprised.

He's wearing a green jacket with double collars, sorry, double

cuffs and a high collar, red piping around the jacket.

He has black hair that has a sort of green coloration kind of coming off it.

And it's up up in big spikes his eyebrows are raised he's looking shocked

and he is holding his hands out like he's like he's doing telekinesis on

a

drinking tumbler on a on a glass that is lifting into the air this boy is levitating this glass

and he looks very shocked that he's able to do this

In the bottom part of the frame is a boy with short brown hair,

very short, spiky brown hair, big eyebrows.

He's also got his mouth open.

He looks like a guard from Pokemon almost.

And he's going...

And what's striking about this is that

the green jacketed boy doing the actual

spell, I suppose, the levitating, looks very shocked.

And the small Pokemon boy

also looks shocked.

But the slight fellow wearing the jacket, wearing the sleeveless hoodie, looks calm and confident, you know?

Yeah, now I appreciate that you've identified they're doing a spell in this image, is what I understand.

But there is something that you've missed about what this spell might be.

Oh, no, I'm not sorry, sorry, sorry.

I was not saying that the spell was happening.

I was saying that's what Jack said was happening.

I appreciate that you've given us your interpretation.

Well, now that I look closer, I can see that the stem of the wine glass is...

You see, the stem was kind of blending into

the piping of his jacket.

Right.

That wine glass, I thought it was like a drinking tumbler, but that wine glass is connected to the table, to the bench.

Which means that this is not levitating.

Right, but they're clearly so in awe of.

That's a good fucking question, Dean.

That's a great question, Keith.

That is a fantastic question.

So in awe of.

Okay, let's quickly run down

some options.

Are there any other details in the photo that you're looking at?

Well, there.

Wait.

Well, so there's a light in the background.

There's a ceiling lamp, you know, like a

I'm sorry to have sent you on a pixel hunt.

Apologies.

Yeah.

This background is really weird.

It's a brown background with, again, this like this canted angle, this black line right through the middle of it.

So I don't quite.

It's like they're in a room with a brown wall and a brown table.

Yeah.

What else is in the image?

Is there something I'm missing here, Austin?

Is that one of your questions?

No, no, it is not one of my questions.

Is there anything in the glass?

No, there is a slight disturbance on the top of the glass, you know?

Which suggests one of my options was they have filled this glass with something magically.

They filled it with a liquid, or they are there in the process.

Or, alternatively, they've emptied the glass of something magically.

Third magical option:

they have made the glass.

There's

previously nothing there.

And then this

spiky-haired chap who's surprised,

bang!

Right.

Now, Charlie's pointing out that he is glowing, but there are...

I barely, I bet.

That was barely worth mentioning to me because that, for me, was part of the visual language of doing a spell.

Right, right, right, sure.

Can I ask you if you think this has anything to do with hunters or hunting, or is this an unconnected, unrelated thing?

Great question.

This guy in green is a hunter, and he is learning that he has an ability that will help him hunt, whatever that is.

So it's like they're at school.

All three of the boys are at hunter school, right?

Where they play dodgeball, presumably with the executioner and the

semi-gorilla.

And

the slight fellow here with the lilac hair knew this was going to happen.

He's like, I believe in you.

You know,

you can do this new thing.

You can make something appear in this wine glass if you just believe.

I suppose.

And so they all gather round on the table, and he puts his hands around the wine glass and

does the magic and he's like

i can do it this is going to be really useful to me as a hunter small pokemon dude also shocked lilac haired fellow is like

i knew it i believed in you

what do you think is useful about the spell

well i mean but

what are we

by what criteria are we classifying utility

yours

okay.

Oh, I have a new thing to add that I'm seeing.

I'm seeing a sort of um like a tram, like a ski lift style tram lifting up above the city.

Where do you think it goes?

That's a mystery.

No one goes to the top of the hill, the ski down.

Yep, oh, right.

Sam's right.

I do not know what city Austin is in right now.

Tiring.

What is the utility utility of this?

Why is making a thing in a wine glass useful to being a hunter?

Is that where you settled that something's being made in the wine glass?

Yes, absolutely.

Okay.

Like that sound.

You know?

He puts his hand down.

Did you redoish?

Yeah, sort of

yeah i don't have a thing near me to make it sound the noise you made just gave me it was giving didgeridoo yeah yeah yeah he makes it in the wine glass how is this useful to being a hunter you know i don't think i think he needs to think broader than the wine glass he's like let's start small let's make the thing in a wine glass let's say for example that he is able to make

sort of airbender or water bender style currents of of air or or water or you know stuff out in the wilds while he's hunting.

That's very useful.

I like that answer.

It's a fun answer.

Yeah,

that is a fun answer.

Is there anything else you have to say about this

scene?

Who is the Pokemon boy?

What kind of a question is is that

I have a question that's similar but maybe a little broader

that could tie in which is like how like

do you how do how do you think this crew's rolling together like what's brought these boys together they're all

they're all sort of like you know when I say studying to be hunters I don't think that there's necessarily like a hunter school I think that these boys have sort of been taken in by this organization one way or another maybe

but these are like classmates.

They're like, you know?

Okay.

They're like links by,

you know, maybe they're all old friends, but

they have like chemistry class together, basically.

Well, yeah, sort of.

But again, I don't think this is like a real school type situation.

I think that they are sort of like loosely affiliated in learning to be hunters.

Okay.

I see, I see.

But they all grew up on the same block, mate, you know, that kind of a vibe, right?

I do like that each of these characters is being drawn kind of differently, which is interesting.

And I don't know anything about small Pokemon Boy's outfit, but the three out well, the two outfits that I can see are very differently, too.

It's true.

Massive spoiler here.

Pokemon Boy is also wearing something

different.

Oh, really?

Yep.

Like, strikingly different.

Are these people from?

Yeah, I would say so.

Yeah, I'd say all three of them have very different clothes on.

Oh, no.

I thought about it.

I suggested, I entertained the idea that these might all have come from different worlds, but I don't think that that's true.

You know?

Like, in a literal sense.

Like, in a literal sense.

Like in an isekai.

Right, right.

Yeah, like in an isekai.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's true.

No.

No.

Yeah, I don't think that's true, though.

I don't think that's real.

Anything else that you want to hit here, or should we move on to questions?

I think.

Let's do questions because I'm going to evaporate in like five minutes.

So, okay, yeah, so I really appreciate you coming in to help guide through this image.

Did you see you were going to evaporate?

Yeah.

Okay.

I'm waiting in the evaporation queue.

I'm waiting to be evaporated.

Are you

being boiled right now?

Are you in the wine glass, Austin?

I'm in the wine.

They made up Austin.

If you zoom in really close, you can see him.

Keep the image up long enough, you'll see me appear.

Actually, the disturbance at the top of the wine glass that you briefly noted, that's Austin being made.

And then we're going to have a tournament arc to see who's the next host of Friends of the Table.

Will you have all your memories, Austin, or will it be a kind of rebirth into a new kind of existence?

Is this your question?

No, no.

Okay, my yes-no yes-no question is.

Okay, yes-no question.

Is

magic happening in this image?

Yes.

Yes.

Yeah, yes, yeah.

15-second pause and then unanimous yes.

But like, let's be honest, yes.

Like, yeah, when get, we get down to the fucking facts of it, yeah.

Right, right, right.

Well, you've given me really good information there, right?

Which is that, like, yes, magic exists, but but it is being presented in some

either semantic context or like actual context that caused you all to pause for that long, you know?

Whether it's a, oh, we don't call it magic in this world, or it's something like, this is actually pseudo-mechanical stuff that we can manipulate or whatever.

You know, there's something going on about the magic that meant you paused and then concluded, you you know?

Yeah.

Very useful.

I'm evaporating right now.

Have a good night.

Bye.

Bye forever.

Wow.

And he's

there.

He goes.

Wow.

Wow.

Who are you rooting for the new GM?

Personally, I'm rooting for Ben Schwartz.

Oh, I thought we were going to have a big

contest and it was going to be one of us.

Yeah, but we're all going to pick our fighter.

And I'm going to pick...

No, I'm not going to pick Ben Schwartz.

I'm going to pick the deceased

art critic, John Berger.

Is this like a...

No, I'm going to also pick John Berger.

Because, yeah, John Berger was my pick, too.

And so this is kind of an awkward role.

This is very awkward.

And frankly, if we can pick deceased people...

Well, no, it's not that Austin is deceased.

It's just that he's been transmuted to the world of Hunter Hunter.

You know what?

And will then shortly be deceased.

Yeah.

Oh, bonus question.

Free question.

Free question.

Would Austin have a good time in the world of Hunter-Hunter?

You know, I feel like Austin would be able to

find a lane in the world of Hunter-Hunter.

I think

so.

Study some cool shit.

This isn't like when people say that they want to go to Star Wars universe and then you have to go.

Well, just think about that for a second.

It would be a nightmare.

Yeah.

Just think about that.

It truly would be a nightmare.

You'd live your whole life on the outer rim, being sort of

totally ignored by

the terrible galactic power, but the only authority in the galaxy.

And then you'd never see a Jedi your whole life, then you'd die.

Yeah,

that's one of old age.

You'd never see a Jedi in your life.

You'd be some sort.

Yeah, ideal.

I like the Jedi so much as nightmare entities.

I think that what they do to any story they step into is fascinating, but I do hate them.

Yeah,

that's the right answer.

Okay,

time for my question that you can answer with a sentence.

Oh, this is a good question.

Not a good question, again, a good opportunity for a question.

There's lots of questions you could ask about this image.

And the question I'm going to ask is.

Where are

these

boys at the time of this event?

That is a fantastic question.

That is a fantastic question.

Are they where I think they are?

You might want to double-check with message me where you think they are

building tension.

Yes, yes, you are correct.

Okay, okay.

I think that we should be very specific about this then.

I think we can use the proper noun name of the place they are at.

Yeah.

Do you want to go for it or should I?

Oh, you can go for it.

You should say it simultaneously.

I'll say the boys are in, and then you say it together.

Okay.

That'll be, that'll, that'll be even more confusing for you then.

Yep.

Okay.

Are we doing this?

Yeah.

The boys are in

the hotel portion.

Okay, hold on.

Wait, hold on.

I thought we were going to say the two-word answer.

No,

I thought we were doing the full-scale.

Okay, Sylvie, Sylvie, Sylvie, Sylvie, you just give it to Sylvie.

Just give it to me.

I'm sorry.

The boys are.

Okay, I'm going to start with your framing, though, of the boys are in.

The boys are in a hotel room

in Heaven's Arena.

Whoa, whoa.

Oh,

yeah, the

hotel portion of Heaven's Arena.

See, I was prepared to just say Heaven's Arena.

That's also, yeah.

The hotel portion of Heaven's Arena.

Yeah.

Now, this is really interesting because, and, you know, we spoke about how I don't have any kind of fluency with Shonen anime,

but I have some understanding of its conventions, having, you know, seen bits of it.

This is a genre, right?

And, you know, I don't know if you feel the same way, Where a place could be named Heaven's Arena and it could be an arena, just a regular person's normal arena.

This is also a genre where a place could be named Heaven's Arena and it is an arena in heaven.

And this puts me in a really, in a real bind, as it were, in terms of interpreting your answer.

Very interesting.

What is the small Pokémon fella's name?

Oh,

his name is Zushi.

Excellent.

Great.

Cool.

Spelt exactly how you think.

Yeah.

Not a cool spelling.

They're kind of his magic.

They're in the hotel portion of Heaven's Arena, and that little dude is Zushi.

Interesting.

I think so.

I think, yeah.

I'm now very excited

for you to see what goes on

with this thing that they're doing here.

Yeah, me too.

Yeah, because to me, they're just magicking.

They're just doing magic in a wine glass.

Right.

He's, he's, he's, he's.

He's utilizing his magic in some respect.

would you like to do a quick one?

Yeah, totally.

Okay, are we ready to move on?

Do we have anything else about this one?

I don't think so.

Okay, no, just that if you want to have us do a full show about Hunter Hunter, you should go to friends of the table.cash, patreon.com/slash friends underscore table.

We'll also take you there and help us reach our goal.

This is a fucking incredible one.

Was this you, Keith?

This one's incredible.

I'm so happy.

I'm so happy.

This is great.

God, what a great image.

This is why people invented animation to be able to make images like this.

Okay.

All right.

I'm going to start broad here.

The whole room is lit

in a sort of pink color or a pale lilac color.

This pink color has appeared in almost every shot.

It's really cool.

I say this because the whole thing has this kind of like vaguely dream-like vibe going on, which is a really fun contrast to what else is happening in the image.

In the middle of the frame, sitting on stools at what I can only describe as the platonic ideal of a wooden table, is a

extremely buff person wearing a sleeveless shirt.

Is sleeveless shirts a big part of this show?

You can say yes to this.

This doesn't feel like a spoiler.

I feel like

they're not sleeveless shirts.

They're not an uncommon aspect of the character design.

I would say they don't stand out more than any other type of shirt.

There's definitely a much higher percentage of them in Hunter Hunter than in the real world, but they're not thematically important.

Yeah.

Right, right, right, right, right.

Sure.

This person's buff, buff as hell, wears a big bronze sort of bracelet and has just lost arm wrestling to a thin little squirt with pointy black hair, spiky black hair.

Very possibly the person who was doing magic in the previous image.

I think actually we have two characters from the previous image here, but that's fine.

This person is very slim, is wearing nice little boots with a nice cuff on the boots, also wearing a sleeveless shirt, and has beaten the buff fella at

arm wrestling.

Seems like put some exertion in, you know, head down, you know,

not looking utterly calm, but did it.

In the background of the image is a deeply surprised businessman wearing tiny perfect glasses.

This businessman has seen the,

you know, maybe was betting on the fight, you know, maybe was

like,

you know, oh, I'll pick the buff man to win.

And he's lost.

And he's got that great, you know, cartoon pose of like, what, shock?

He has very cool little glasses.

He's wearing a suit and a tie, a green tie.

You can see the whites of his cuffs, of his shirt cuffs under his suit.

Behind him are

another.

Wait, is two other men in suits.

We can see their legs, two pairs of legs behind.

I guess these are people who are watching.

And in the foreground, we have the

pink-haired, the slight fellow from the very first image that we saw in the last slight image.

Whose name is the slight fellow, who is looking direct, well, not quite, but sort of peering at the camera and smirking with the biggest sort of shit-eating grin on his face.

He knew that the pointy-haired one was going to,

you know,

win this arm wrestling fight.

No problem.

And

I don't think he's.

I don't know how this shot is situated with other shots around it, but I wonder if he's turning to talk to another character and be like, yeah, you know,

I knew that would happen.

He is dressed like a little fancy lad.

He looks great.

He's wearing a white shirt with a big wide collar, sort of popped collar almost.

He is wearing a very snazzy pink V-neck

with a little tiny white sort of pinstripe banding around the V.

And this is very interesting, he is wearing a

necklace or pendant which is golden with an X in the middle.

Notable because of the you know the X in the show's logo and in a lot of its marketing.

This I think is probably a hunter's mark.

That's what I'm going to call it.

And this is something hunters.

Yeah.

This is something hunters.

Seek the pale blood.

Seek.

Seek the pale blood hunter.

Yeah, he gets this mark and when he wears it, he has been sort of like...

Does this word mean what I think it means?

No, it doesn't, so I won't use it.

He has been sort of uh brought into the hunters' organization and gets to wear this little

mark.

But really, what's going on here is the slight, uh, the skinny boy with the spiky hair has beaten a buff due to arm wrestling.

A businessman is shocked, and the slight fellow is turning to the camera and smirking like I knew that would happen.

Anything I'm missing here?

There is actually a third businessman between the two legs that you can see.

Oh, yeah.

One additional.

So there's a small detail.

Perhaps a bigger crowd is here.

Yeah, well, I think that that's consistent.

This is like an arm wrestling display and maybe betting.

So I think there's a little crowd kind of going on, you know.

Now, you said that you said that this is the slight fellow.

You said that the spiky-haired boy is maybe the spiky-haired boy from the last picture.

Do you want to decide one way or the other on that?

Yes, he is.

He is the spiky-haired boy.

And here we have two protagonists.

Okay.

The slight fellow and the spiky haired boy.

Now, that's a great question.

How many people in this scene do you think are protagonists?

Two.

Okay.

Okay.

Two is my answer.

What's going on here, sort of on a broader level?

Well, you know, the spiky haired boy is very strong, despite looking very weak, probably because of his magic, you know?

So we're being told that there's like a sort of like a subversion of expectations here for the two characters on the left of the image, you know.

Oh, I can do the arm wrestling, but I'm actually

really strong.

I just watched

Twilight Breaking Dawn part two yesterday.

Oh, that's very

similar.

I uh, God, I this is my first time

Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2.

It was my first time watching the Twilight movies.

I had such a good time.

I thought that they were so, such a weird, such a weird series of wars.

I had a really phenomenal time with the only one of them that I saw, which was the last one in theaters, one of my all-time favorite theater experiences.

Yeah, yeah.

They are, they go beyond.

They do go beyond.

They do go beyond.

They go beyond ironic appreciation of a bad movie, which is, you know, it is what it is.

I feel like people have been,

me included, doing that kind of watching of movies forever.

You know, it is what it is.

The goals and execution of the five Twilight movies across

their run is a fucking thing to behold

in terms of what those movies set out to do and the ways they fall short

in them, the ways they kind of get occasionally very interested in a thing that is interesting and just botch it spectacularly.

I cannot recommend enough the sensation of sitting down to watch the five Twilight movies with someone you like talking about media with.

It was really, really a good time.

This is the Sonic 06 problem to me, which is that a lot of times, you know, people like to watch bad movies.

A lot of the famously bad movies that people like to watch and make fun of, to me,

are too boring to be fun, even in how bad they are.

Sonic 06

is so bad, but it also is really interesting and funny,

which makes it fun to play through.

And I feel the same way about the Twilight movie that I watched, is that all of the ways that it was bad,

sometimes included, sometimes aside, it was really an interesting watch and a ton of fun.

Where something like

that famous

bird movie

that people that's that's animated or no, no, it's live action.

Oh, Birdemic?

Birdemic, right?

Oh, yeah, it's not even interesting, trash.

Yes, it's it is trash to such a degree that it's not an enjoyable watch versus um

uh

ah shit where that the uve bol movie um a house of the Dead, House of the Dead, is

a phenomenal watch.

I recommend to anybody to watch House of the Dead, an outrageously fun, terrible, terrible, terrible movie.

Yeah.

I mean, we talked about the Resident Evil movies earlier.

I think those are really fun and interesting, schlocky films.

Those are great.

I think also, and we talked about this a bit when we made the Batman podcast.

I really like Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, and I think that they have both gone on to become like genuinely very skilled actors.

And over the course of these five movies, it is so much fun watching them kind of like figure out what and how acting is and how acting with each other kind of works.

It's really, really fun.

Have you seen House of the Dead?

No.

I have not seen House of the Dead.

Someone mentioned Jupiter Ascending in chat, and I fucking love Jupiter Ascending.

Yeah,

the Wachowskis make is...

I've never had a bad time watching a Wachowski movie.

Same, but I've never seen Cloud Atlas.

I had a bad time watching Cloud Atlas.

Okay, well, right, fine.

I think that I could find some stuff.

It wasn't totally,

it wasn't, it's not totally their fault that I had a bad time watching it.

Someone tell Tom Hanks that he doesn't have to do an accent in every fucking movie.

He can talk like himself.

People want to see Tom Hanks.

I quite like Tom Hanks.

I don't want to see Tom Hanks.

Oh, sorry.

Sylvie, we cancel each other out.

Yeah, we do.

I have strong feelings that I shouldn't get into.

It's controversial.

Oh, so you're saying Tom Hanks is making movies where you're doing a goofy, bad accent that makes the movie worse?

I think he should keep it up because it's at least given him

something, you know?

Yeah.

Someone in chat said, is Jack reading surprise on the businessman because they are mistaking mistaking the mouth for a mustache?

No, I know that's a mustache.

Oh, sorry, wait.

I know that's a mouth.

I'm reading that as, like, what?

How is he doing that, that face, you know?

Um,

but yeah, so that's that's that's where we're at.

Um, should we do questions here?

Uh,

yeah, sure, yeah.

Do you, do you, before, before you ask your questions, questions

is the is the um the the um

is the

arm wrestle victim anyone and is the businessman anyone

do you think I mean the the fact that you're asking this makes me think that they are you know I described what I thought was a perfectly normal businessman and everybody

thought that that was great.

So presumably I hope that you'll believe me.

I'm I'm going to tell you this: I would ask, no matter what, just for you to read into something that's nothing for fun.

Yeah, yeah,

okay.

My gut says I don't think either of these people,

the businessman or the

Strong Failure,

are main characters.

Strong Failure, good name.

But

I think it's a very interesting show.

I could plausibly see the strong failure being a main character, right?

You know, it's like, oh,

characters are all squaring off against each other, etc.

If this businessman is the main character, that's really interesting because this dude has a character design that we have not seen before.

And in every image, I've seen a new fucked-up character design.

This is just a guy in a suit.

And like two screenshots ago, I was looking at like an actual mummy, you know?

And three ago, you were looking at an actual monkey.

An actual monkey.

So that's interesting.

But yeah, out of

main character protagonist, not necessarily protagonists out of main character, sort of most to least likely, I would say slight fellow, spiky haired fellow, strong failure businessman.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

Questions?

Okay.

So I get one yes, no question.

I get a name and I get

a question with a sentence.

Yeah.

I can't guarantee that the slight fellow is going to be in any of the other screenshots.

So I'm going to ask what his name is.

His name is Kilua.

Kilua?

Kilua Zoldeck.

Kilua.

Kilua.

Kilua Zold.

Kildek.

Yeah.

Great name.

Good name, Rain.

Oh, yeah, a lot of good names.

We have Krolo, Lucilfa

Zusis.

What was that?

Zushi, Zushi

Zushi, and Kilua Zoldic.

Great,

excellent.

Yes, no question.

Yeah, as pointed out by Jao underscore Twitch, I think that's Jiao.

It all could just be J-A-U underscore Twitch in the chat.

We also know the gorilla does not have a name.

Yes,

the gorilla does not have a name.

Okay.

Is the strong failure

friends

with Killiwa and the spiky-haired head person?

No.

That was your yes-no?

Yep.

Okay, yeah.

Okay.

No.

Okay.

Why is Kilua dressed so fancily?

Can I take this one?

Yeah, go right ahead.

Kilua's family has a lot of money, and he is always wearing fancy new clothes.

Oh,

Wow.

I would not have picked that.

No, as pointed out in the chat, Killo is drippy.

Wow.

Wow.

He's a little rich boy.

Yeah.

I will say that I do think that the pink shirt, I think this is my favorite Kilo outfit, but he's constantly changing outfits.

He has a lot of outfits.

Yeah.

Wow.

Wow.

I think like probably like 20 or something.

Like it's crazy.

Well, this is something that I love about Sailor Moon is that like

everybody in Sailor Moon wears a different outfit every episode.

Occasionally multiple outfits every episode.

And it is the amount of labor to do that is wild.

And you can see where they've made specific production decisions to allow for, you know, like, oh, we're going to turn the detail down on certain shots just so that we can make sure that, you know, Sailor Venus has a cool new sweater in this scene that she's going to appear in, you know, for 10 seconds.

It's one of my favorite things about that show: the wardrobes just keep changing.

There's a lot of attention paid to outfits in the show.

And I think some of the chat says, it's almost like the two authors are similarly minded.

Married minds, even.

Really cool.

Yeah, okay.

I think I'm ready for the.

do we have another one, or are we just fully spoiler?

We've we've decided to,

I think we decided to not do the potentially spoilery one.

Yeah.

I think, okay.

And I think that the more we talk about it maybe being a spoiler, the more spoilery it becomes.

That's, I think, the problem.

If no one had ever said anything about it maybe being a spoiler, I think it would have been fine.

But since since we've

done that, right?

I feel like it would, you would remember it in the process of watching the show, and that would be the spoiler.

You know, that's true.

Whereas these images are going to be so fun because you're going to hit them in the process of watching the show, and I'm going to go, oh, huh.

Yeah, yeah.

I don't think anything here has

spoiled anything, even kind of

dreamtime, dreamtime.

Okay,

so last night I dreamt that we had this conversation.

I don't do this very often.

I don't dream about

work very often, which is quite nice.

Instead, I dream about failing a history exam, you know, from a decade ago or something.

Well, actually, I think

that in our case, work is more fun than a history exam.

It's not always the case, but I think I'd rather dream about Friends of the Table than history class.

Yeah, what I tend to actually dream about is doing things with my friends from Friends of the Table.

Like, oh, we're, we, like, oh, we're exploring a city or something and you all are there.

Rather than it being like, oh, I have to get this done for Friends of the Table or whatever, which is nice.

But this was, we were, we were recording this, and

in it, you showed me, I don't know which of it was, I think you had both selected a screenshot.

together, you know, unanimously.

And the screenshot that you selected shows.

Let me pull up my notes so I make sure I get this right.

Okay.

It was a mid-shot of someone traveling through the water on a kind of chariot engine.

So there was like a lot, it was almost like a speeder bike from Star Wars, but it was in the water, it was surfing on top of the water.

It was like a large yellow engine that looked almost like the tanks from like the scream tanks from Monsters Inc., you know, that kind of yellow.

All stacked together to make the engine.

And coming off it was like a

seat and two sort of long, almost like

reins for a horse, you know, like whip-like

leather ropes almost that the character sitting in was controlling this

sort of water chariot with these two leather ropes.

Sitting in the chair was what I can only describe as a professor.

He had a big white coat, you know, he had big glasses, he had sort of wild professor hair, he had like a little pocket protector with pens in,

and his white coat and hair was sort of like billowing out behind him as he was driving this sort of water chariot at speed across the water.

He was laughing, he was he was excited, he was happy.

I think this is like a shot from, you know, from, you know, he's going like, wee, ha, ha, ha, you know, this guy is driving around in this in this chariot thing.

The water, the waves were kind of coming up around the chariot.

It was blue water.

It was a sunny day outside.

It seemed pretty cool.

He was in a sort of like a science fiction fantasy cross between

a water ski device and a chariot.

Right.

Now you get to interpret that, I suppose.

Well, we get one name.

Hunter, Hunter.

Yeah.

What is the name of the professor?

This professor's name is Gilroy.

Gilroy.

He seems like

maybe not a good guy, but he seems like

definitely a protagonist.

Okay.

How big is this?

Is the vehicle?

About the size of a small car.

Meme sharm the chat says, Now, Keith, guess how you spell it?

It's Q-Y-L-L.

Yeah,

H-F-O-U-G-H.

You said it's about the size of an elephant?

No, no, about the size of a small car.

Small car?

Clearly, I misheard.

Is this the kind of thing?

Also, the size of a small elephant.

A very small elephant.

Yeah.

Elephants are fucking huge, aren't they?

What vehicle, human vehicle, do you think is most comparable to the size of an elephant?

A trumpet.

Like a hummer, right?

A hummer.

Or, or smaller.

I can swerve, and I could say a double-decker bus.

That's too big, I think.

Well, but the Hummer is too small, yeah.

There is no, there's no car that is the size of an elephant, and that's how they're gonna get us.

Wow, but well, luckily, we vastly outnumber them car-wise.

Thank God, thank God for that,

and thank God for that.

I suppose my question is: this:

Is this image of Gilroy

consistent in any way with what I can expect to see in Hunter Hunter?

I'm struggling to think of many vehicles that we see.

Hunter Hunter doesn't have a ton of, they have like transports.

We see everybody.

I mean there will be like there is definitely moments where it's like, oh yeah, that's just a that is a

bus.

That is a bus people go get on at the bus stop, but it's not really a thing the characters engage with outside of like

people in the chat are saying yes um there are cars um we see different like bigger transports like sylvie said buses and we see there's ships and stuff like that um

but i i don't think we see a lot of because this this vehicle to me spells or it reads as like a sort of like a sci-fi vehicle or uh i know this isn't really a touchstone for you jack but it sounds like we were talking right before we started sounds like a a Capsule Corp vehicle, honestly, is what it sounds like.

Yeah.

This sounds like Bulma's dad

on a vehicle to me.

And there's not a lot of that kind of sort of like modern fantasy personal vehicles.

But,

you know, weird scientists, what's the scientist doing?

Is he wearing like a, or no, it's not a scientist, professor.

Is he wearing like a coat?

What is he?

Yeah, he's wearing like a white coat.

Lethal sweet in the chest says, this feels like more like Nausica.

Yeah, definitely.

Like, that's where I was about to say it, feels like a very gibbly image.

Um,

whether it's Nausicaa or Ponyo or something, you know, I definitely picture the water as having that kind of Ponyo quality of like all these beautiful different shades in it.

I was picturing

sort of like forest situation in uh Nausica, that sort of like

tranquil but weirdly empty vibe that they get going,

like it's a lot like there's like like there's like little like dust flecks and like light flecks in the air and it's like um I can try and find an image of like the specific

is Nausicaa the one with that fucking incredible old pirate granny

or is that castle in the sky wait yeah I think oh shit that might um

I don't remember she might be

I don't remember I've seen Nausuka.

It's been a while.

That's Castle in the Sky, apparently.

Yeah.

That's such a good character.

Because there are like Chasers.

There is like an airship thing in Nosuka, but I don't think.

I don't know if they have a fun leader.

Oh, Nosuka is the one with the bugs, the cool bugs.

Yes, there's the massive.

Wow.

Yeah.

Well,

does this about wrap it up for us today, do you think?

Or is there anything else that we want to hit?

We still have our sentence question.

Oh, about the dream.

Yes, you're right.

I have a sort of question unless Sylvie, you have a.

No, I please.

I am.

I'm happy to defer.

What is the professor going to do once he gets across the water?

Wow, great question.

Let's see.

So, what he's done actually is he has built this device and he didn't know if it was going to work.

So, what he's doing is he's taken it out onto the water as like a, what he's having is he's having like a Eureka moment, you know, like a, aha, it did, it does it, the device works.

Yeah, you know, so I think what he's going to do is he's going to do doughnuts in the water

and then he's going to bring it back to his lab because he's

because he's delighted.

Yeah.

You know, they didn't think he could build it.

But he did.

He did.

But he could, and he did.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right.

I think that wraps us up.

Diero Anna in the chat says.

Maybe Diro Anna in the chat says, they never explained whether Jack was right or not.

Is that going to happen at a later date?

Or do they just live with the uncertainty?

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This is something that we are genuinely, you know, close to being able to make.

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Choir Esma in the chat says, any plans to finish that Wildermyth campaign?

Absolutely.

That's something we're really excited to do.

It's just a case of um making sure that our schedules kind of align along with the ongoing production of Palisade.

Yeah, one of the things is that starting the new season recently, like all of the time that we had that could have maybe been uh scheduled for that had to go to Palisade stuff.

So, like, a couple of things with more people

were sitting waiting to be done.

Uh,

but yeah, I want to do that soon.

Also,

I have a a thought that i would love to discuss with the two of you who who have actually seen hunter hunter

i need to think about music for this show if we make it like a theme

oh that

i would like to send you music from the show but

my initial thought was what happens if i try and write the hunter hunter theme having only heard it once um god but that i don't know what the theme is like.

You know, for example, there are themes that I could probably get a handle on after hearing them once, and there are themes that I would just have no chance whatsoever.

Is that something that is viable and entertaining, or

is that just would be extremely difficult?

Oh, just another Otto says, just describe the music and make Jack write it based on that.

Alhamdulillah.

It, yeah, it is

genre-wise, it's kind of

like a pop ballad, I guess.

It's a fun theme.

I really like it.

Yeah, and it's the theme for the entire run of the show, which is not usually the case with anime.

Right, yeah.

Like the song

also

does the same thing, which is funny that

both of his shows had the same opener.

Yu Yu Hakenjo price best opening theme song in an anime of all time.

Yeah, smile bomb, right?

Yep, yep, yep.

Oh, it's so good.

We should think about it.

There'll be music, and I want to do something fun with it.

I've always loved the idea of trying to interpret a piece of music that you only have a very vague understanding of, you know, of like hearing music through a wall and producing a version of it, you know.

But it might be impossible.

I don't know.

I could probably do it in two listens, but at that point, it might not be as fun.

I think that you, I think that you should do it.

It's got lyrics.

It's very lyrical.

I can't do that.

I couldn't do that.

But you could just interpret the lyric as an instrumental melody.

I think that you should do this.

I think that you should listen to it one time

and then

do your take on that.

I think that's a good idea.

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But don't listen to that.

Go back and listen to.

Oh, yeah, listen to partisan first.

I mean, you know,

listen to your heart.

Listen to partisan.

Listen to your heart.

Listen to partisan.

That's our new tagline.

I just turned into Peggy from Mad Men.

What's what is does Peggy pitch advertising taglines?

I haven't seen Mad Men.

Yeah.

Media Club plus Mad Men.

Yeah.

Oh, that would be a good one.

I'd do that.

I like that show.

We're just going to do shows that I like have hyper-focused on.

Media Club.

We'll do that.

We'll do Hannibal.

I didn't realize you were a big madman.

Yeah, I watched all of it

a couple months back and really, really fell in love with it.

That's good.

I like media about terrible people.

Yeah.

So.

Have you seen the terror?

Oh my god.

This was recommended to me on a date.

Oh wow.

That's a vibe.

I haven't seen it, but I really want to.

I've heard it's good.

Yeah.

I don't know what it is.

It looks scary.

The terror.

It's like about.

Here, you go ahead.

You're probably a little more familiar.

It is a fictionalized story of a real

disastrous Arctic expedition.

in the late 19th century, I believe.

I believe

Scott

stars Jared Harris, who is in Mad Men.

Brought it back around.

Wait, Jared Harris was in Mad Man.

Jared Harris was in Mad Man for a few seasons.

Yeah, he's

watch anything Jared Harris is in, except Chernobyl, because that seems utterly miserable.

Yeah, he's how many seasons of Mad Man is he in?

He was on it for like three years.

26 episodes.

And he directed an episode, too.

He's really good in the expanse, too.

Good for Gerald Harold.

Good.

Yeah.

Good for Jared Harold.

Yep, Jared Harold.

Gerald Harold.

Jerry Harold.

Thank you for joining us, everybody.

Thank you very much for Harold X.

Harold.

Thank you, Jack.

Thank you, Jack, for giving it your best shot with those.

Oh, thank you so so much for that.

And Jack, you really did put your mouth where your mouth was when you said that you would actually analyze them.

Actually try and read the images.

Yeah.

I really, I'm so glad we dove so deep on the.

Yeah.

This was so much fun.

Yeah.

And we'll see you soon.

One final question.

Here's here we're going to close it out.

Is there something that you saw today that you're most interested in learning more about or seeing more of?

Absolutely.

I think that those nine fucking weirdos talking to

Selfer

were so much fun.

And I would love to get to know them better.

Okay, great answer.

Fantastic answer.

Is there something you saw today that you are excited for me to encounter?

So that would have been my answer.

Oh, good.

But I think outside of that, it is.

I'm excited for you to learn about the magic.

I think the magic in this show is pretty good.

I think that's true.

I'm excited for you to learn about the ants.

Yeah, of course.

I'm excited about the ants.

Yeah.

I was wrong.

Did I see any ants stuff today?

Who knows?

Yes, we'll never tell.

I didn't ask.

Yeah.

You could have.

You could have used.

I was actually.

We should have made that a question, actually.

I

answered

an ant in this image.

I was so sure,

Jack, that you were going to ask if everything was an ant.

I was like positive that you were going to be like, is that an ant?

Is that an ant?

But I didn't.

But you didn't.

Wow.

Yeah.

And I think

you ended up learning more because you didn't.

People fall into, it's an ant trap and not in the way that those are usually

right, right?

It's where you go looking for ants and then you get trapped.

Right.

Yes.

Yes.

Absolutely.

Well.

Have a good night, everybody.

Yeah.

Bye.

Thanks for watching.

Bye.

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