Magma Diver – Neon Genesis Evangelion S01E10

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➡ The speaker shares their experiences from school trips, extracurricular activities, and interactions with celebrities like Jimmy Fallon and Carson Daly. They also discuss their role as a vice president of the university union, where they had to drive celebrities around campus. The speaker also mentions a trip to Europe with a county orchestra and compares their school experiences with those of a character named Asuka, who has already graduated college at 14.
➡ The text discusses a scenario where a girl named Asuka is chosen for a mission to retrieve an angel embryo from the bottom of a volcano. She’s embarrassed about wearing a protective suit that makes her look fat, even though no one will see her. The mission goes wrong when the embryo starts to hatch, causing chaos. The text also mentions that if the mission fails, the military has orders to destroy everyone involved.
➡ The text is a conversation about a scene from an anime. The characters discuss the nature of angels, which are based on real organisms like tardigrades and trilobites. They also talk about a battle strategy where they confront the angels at their origin point. The conversation ends with a discussion about a humorous and slightly inappropriate scene at a hot spring, where the characters are naked and there’s a mix-up with a shampoo bottle.
➡ The text discusses a series of events and thoughts, including the sexualization in animation, a promotion involving a Sanrio character, and the ending of an episode that hints at a dark backstory for a character. It also mentions a comic about fighting angels and demons, and a variety of podcasts. The text ends with a promotion for Paranoid American sticker sheets and a rap verse.

If you fail, the military comes in and kills you. And me and everyone that you know see just at what Costco fame. At the Cartoon Cabal. So much for the fighting games. At the Cartoon Cabal. Hello, welcome to the Cartoon Cabal. We’re looking at all the episodes of the original Neon Genesis Evangelion today. It’s Magma Diver. I don’t know. That’s all I can do. I can’t remember what any of the rest of Holy Diver sounds like at the moment in my mind. Nothing against the song. That’s just the only part I can remember. Can you remember some more melody from Holy Diver.

Ronnie James Dio, Magma. Okay, you’re going more of a Dr. Evil vibe there. That’s fine. I don’t do any voices really well, so I’m glad that you picked up on it. I picked up. Also, he’s got volcano layers, right? And sharks with freaking lasers on their heads. Anyways, Matt here, it’s Paranoid American over there keeping it groovy. Diving into some. How old are you? I. Older. That was different, I think. Okay, so Magma Diver, I do have to just throw out. What is your opinion on this episode as far as the. The ones you’ve seen? I.

I liked it. It was goofy. It was like Willy Wonka E. It had a lot of sort of slapstick kind of comedy. But I also. So far this episode reminds you the most like these are 14 year old kids that are trying to do all these crazy things and they’re. They act like 14 year olds. 1. I did keep telling you there’s going to be a hot spring episode when you least expect it. And here it is. Okay, well, yeah, we say we’ll save that for the end, not rush all the way through it. No, no, I’m just like.

I was like. I think I said that somewhere there’s probably gonna be a hot spring episode at some point, right? Here we go. Also, do you think this is the hot spring episode or do you think now hot springs in episodes going forward we will see. I don’t know. Like I said, I was trying to search for the location of this one out of Cure if they tried to base it on a real one, because I think they might have. And I ended up instead finding that there is a Evangelion themed hot spring in Hakone, which is Tokyo 3.

And it has like a. A second impact room or something. It looks all melted and stuff. While you’re in the hot spring. I know. No, I was like, damn, I want to go there. That’s What I thought sounds really cool. Yeah. Japan’s red. Oh, the water is red. Yeah. Okay. Anyway, if I look out my window over here, I can see a house and a little, a little mountain. Right. If I walk over to my parent in law’s room and look out their window, I see Mount Osama. So that kind of endeared me to this episode.

That is actually this episode took place right here, which was exciting for me. Okay. I didn’t even know that. That’s cool. That’s a cool side detail. So I live right next to Mount Osama. It is active. If you want to hike it, there’s often you cannot because there’s too much methane in the air. If you ever hear Mount Asama explodes, you might actually want to send an are you okay? Message because I might not be. That kind of sounds like some of the mountains in Appalachia, except they just have lots of meth in the air up in the myth mountains of Appalachia.

Yeah, I like that. Okay. See, I’m from Georgia. I can’t be from the. That’s got to be the Kentucky ones, right? Appalachian. They don’t have it in Kentucky, do they? I just made myself Tennessee. The Tennessee people have the meth mountains. Georgia. We’re cool, right? Probably not, but. No, definitely not. No. And this one too. The episode starts out with Oscar, the new 14 year old redhead going bikini shopping with Kanji, the 30 year old playboy. Yes. In Shibuya, which is the place with the crossing. That’s not it. But it was my. I mean, obviously that’s underwater in the show, but it was basically made to look like here is the trendiest place you can shop at.

So that, that, that was very key to Japanese artists audiences, that this is the trendiest place. Ginza would be the expensive place. That’s where you’re gonna, you know, buy the custom suits and stuff. But you know, a teenager, that’s like their haven, you know, it’s. You go there and then it’s a 10 minute walk to Harajuku, which is, you know, the other, other bastion of a teenage fashion. So I’m, I’m getting the feeling too that even though this is late 90s, when it’s shot and I say shot as if it’s like, it’s like a movie. But when it was aired and she comes across as a modern day influencer, like a tick tock influencer, like bubbly appearances, wants to be out seen shopping, like constantly needs attention for everyone.

So the, the archetype, I guess is Evergreen but she, she fits it perfectly. Like she. No one really necessarily was filling that stereotypical of a role. And it would have been Shinji if Shinji just had a little bit of life in him, but he doesn’t. And if Rey had a little bit of life in her, and she definitely doesn’t. So now we’ve got Asuka kind of fills that particular role in this story. Like she, she’s the one that’s going to be the catalyst, you can tell. But she’s. They’re on call, so she’s not going to Okinawa.

And I felt her pain. I’ve been to Okinawa a few times. Our company occasionally has trips if, I guess if around this time of year, if the company’s doing very well, they’re like, we’re going to Okinawa. And one year it was Hokkaido, right. The, the northern island. And just yesterday they had the big company meeting where the announcement was. And for those three days in September, we’re having two days of training and you get one day off. So that was the. No, no Okinawa this year for me. So I put this on like, oh, I feel the pain.

Yeah. I honestly, we have so many new employees, I didn’t really think we were gonna have a trip this year anyway. So it is somewhat, you know, like putting on the airs of disappointment. I would have been surprised if we were going this year. When she talks about it’s a, it’s a class trip and I know this is like a post apocalyptic world that they’re living in, but is this normal that a class of 8th graders would all go on a scuba diving trip together at the end of a school year? Yes, absolutely. My daughter just started high school.

Last year was third year junior high. That’s where these, these people are, right? These kids are. And like every kid in Japan and the third grade of junior high, which is the ninth grade, I think they have a trip to Kyoto and maybe Nara too. So. And it’s crowded as hell in the fall because they also want to go in October for some reason. So if don’t go to Kyoto in the fall is a good travel tip for folks or you will be drowning in school children. And then my daughter’s school, they actually, she went to Australia in March.

The whole school went to Australia. The whole. So that was an even bigger trip that they had. So this one was a tiny trip compared to that. Although they went and they, they were supposed to, I guess go to do a exchange school there for five days. And then that big cyclone came through in March and she well, she got to know her host family pretty well, and they visited us a few weeks ago, so the circle is complete. I’m a little jealous. We. We can’t behave ourselves in America, so we don’t really have anything like this.

This would be an absolute nightmare for the teacher chaperones, especially at the end of middle school, which is probably the worst. The very worst moment to be around kids is when they’re in middle school. Wait, this is interesting. We’re about four years different age, and when I was in the ninth grade now, I went to, like a magnet school. So I guess we were supposed to be better kids or something, but I went to public school. Let me just clarify that. It was public. Mine was public. It was just like the magnet school. Because DeKalb County, Georgia, famously, they.

How did it work? They didn’t want to do forced busing when integration came in. So they’re like, we will make this appealing school where we will have a very balanced ethnic diversity. Which is correct. The school I went to is extremely ethnically diverse. But anyway, the point is, it was a public school. It was DeKalb county trying to get away forced busing, get around forced busing or something. But the result was like, here’s for the smart kids. It’s the smart kids. It’s not just us trying to have a token of everybody, which was actually the case.

But in the ninth grade, we had a class trip to Washington, D.C. and New York from Atlanta. So that’s equally. That is significant. No, when I was in school, the only time that anyone went on trips like that was if you were in some specific extracurricular club and it was a, like a special event that, you know, other adults and chaperones willingly did. The only. The only actual class trip that wasn’t a field trip like to a science center was in Florida. When you graduate high school, or at least the year before you graduate, sometimes you’ll get to go to Disney or Universal Studios and there’s no adults allowed.

And it’s all just high schoolers, essentially, in the parks. And sometimes they’ll do it at fairgrounds if it’s middle schoolers. But again, that’s. That’s done during like a regular school day. And it’s just you show up in the morning and you leave in the afternoon. It’s not like, like a full blown trip. Oh, okay. I guess I shouldn’t talk about it. My extracurricular trip. Well, now I have to. Yeah, I played the county orchestra, so it was the same conductor as my Classes in high school. So it was affiliated with the public school system still. But it was like, you know, kids who could actually play their instruments would go play in this orchestra.

And we took a, what, 15 day trip to Europe playing concerts. So that was. That was a pretty. That was a bigger school trip. Yeah. US because trip to Okinawa. That’s small beans compared to plan goal. And that my daughter. You didn’t have to pilot an AVA to save the earth from falling. So they let me go. That’s right. Yeah. Yeah. University. I missed out. I was the vice president of the university union. And there’s a. Every year they go to this convention of things. And it was in Boston. And they had somehow, remember, in the budget, they had put all the department heads in the budget, but they forgot to put the executives in the budget, so the executives had to stay home.

Now, by that, that job was basically just I had to go to all the events and take pictures and I had to drive people around when they are, you know, on campus doing shows. That’s why I think I’ve been talking, I don’t know is this podcast, but I’ve had weird days with people. Like, we talked about Jimmy Fallon because I don’t know what his public Persona is, but I hung out with him for a day because I was driving around campus. So you talked to Jimmy Fallon? I drove him around. I had lunch with them all day.

Yeah. I was in charge of Jimmy Fallon for a day in 2001. Well, that’s why in the early 2000s, I used to work alongside Carson Daly for a number of things because he was always showing up doing like, back backstage stuff at Disney. But the weird thing about that is I hung out with Jimmy Fallon, not his public Persona. And I’ve never watched his show, so that I’ve seen a little bit now. So real, you know, energetic guy. That’s definitely not who I was hanging out with. At the same time a few years ago, they were like, he’s a prick.

Right? Like, apparently just running the Tonight show when he’s not on his adrenochrome. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, my point is, my day with Jimmy Fallon, 2001, he was perfectly nice. We had a good time. He wasn’t a prick, but. But he was not that public Persona either. So that was. It was before he started hitting the sauce real hard. Hitting the sauce. But anyway, so I got to drive around Margaret, show Jimmy Fallon and the Upright Citizens Brigade. But I. Oh, and Philip Glass. But I did not get to go to Boston. So, you know, very Chatty, by the way.

He wouldn’t shut up, which is surprising. Who would? Philip Glass, minimalist composer. Do, do, do, do, do do. You know, you feel like a guy like that would be a very serious, quiet man. And. No, he was. He was telling stories about David Byrne babysitting his kids that were, like, really bizarre. So. I mean, yeah, I don’t know. I could talk some crap about a few people, too, if you want, but I guess I’ll be nice and not do that today. I’m just, you know. You want to tell the celebrities who are nice, you want to talk about the ones that sucked.

Well, let’s. Let’s steer it back before we get you in trouble because. Because you want to be able to drive Jimmy Fallon around again before we talk too much about his adrenochrome habits. You know what one of them that was. We had a wall of shame at the University Union with the. The. It was hidden in a closet of celebrities that were horrible. I will say one. Because his reputation is now as being a grumpy crank, which was. Bill Maher was on our wall of shame. Okay. I mean, I am definitely not surprised. That’s not surprising anyone now, so I can say that, you know, so.

So one of the other things that happens because we find out that she’s not allowed to go on a trip because she has to pilot an ava. She has to be on standby, and Asuka is not very happy about that. And then she looks to Shinji. Big mistake. But she looks to Shinji like Shinji’s gonna speak up on her behalf or that he’s even gonna speak up on his own behalf. And he says, like, oh, yeah, I pretty much figured that we weren’t going to go on this. This trip because we are AVAs. Like, we’re trying to protect the world.

And she calls him housebroken. She screams at him and says, act like a man. And then MGO shows up drunk as always, and slams with a different beer. She has a new beer, by the way, which. Yeah, I don’t know what that. What that means. I. I actually have a note here, so I’ll get back to you on that. But I. I have a note about that. She’s switching beer brands around, you know, mid episode sometimes. And we basically find out at that point that Asuka, even though she’s only 14, she’s already been to college, she’s graduated, she is incredibly smart, and she sees that Shinji is doing homework about thermal expansion.

And for some reason, her explanation of how thermal Expansion works is she says, if I were to warm up my breasts with my hands, would they grow or would they shrink? And Shinji, like, freaks out. He doesn’t know what to say. He’s like, I don’t think about things like that. And my note was, until now. Oh, and after that. So let’s keep in mind, first she sticks her breasts into Shinji’s face. Then she asks that. And then she goes. Flops back into the pool, going back door entry, which I’m like, I wouldn’t have read into it except for the previous two bits, you know? And that point too, it was.

It was funny because Shenji is. He’s at the pool hanging out. And then like, Ray’s over there, and he’s not even paying attention to Asuka. You know, like, she. Even though she always needs to be the center attention, he’s not paying any attention to her. And then when she notices that he’s not paying attention, that’s when it’s like, look at me. Back door entry. And, like, jumps into the pool again. Maybe it’s another Kashi. It just. It will kind of emphasizes how completely different she and Shinji are. Even though they’re supposed to be like, the pair, now they’re.

The state is forcing them to become a pair. This is almost like the Oneida Cult, if you know anything about them. I want to do a couple. Just the beer, the boa. Because it was a reference to the boa juice that appears in the anime movie Flying Phantom Ship. And one of the reasons that stood out to me is because she’s been drinking Nibisu the whole time. She doesn’t change brands, and she did change brands in this episode, so that stood out to me. What else? Oh, yes, the fact that Oscar’s like, I already finished college.

This is a recurring nightmare, I guess. You know what? It is a nightmare. I have things I often dream of. The apocalypse. I put an album by that name, you know, I have monsters chasing me. But the dreams that make me feel the worst when I wake up are the ones where I’m in school again. And then I realized I’m stressed now. I’m like, wait a minute, I have a university degree. What am I doing here? I’m like, oh, my God, she’s living my actual nightmare. Like, weirdly, because nightmares emotionally affect you weirdly, right? The monster chasing you.

It’s like, oh, that was actually kind of fun. But this one I always like, you know? And. And actually it sometimes goes lucid in that case, because I. If In a good case, it goes lucid because then I realize I. I finished university. But yeah, I was just like, it’s weird that this references like who, who go. Who’s in junior high after they finish college. There’s never a reason for that. Unless you’re what, Cameron Crow? Right. Well, and this is what like they need that this is her only form of socialization is by, I guess, going and being around other kids her own age.

But yeah, and I have, I also have a reoccurring nightmare that’s kind of like that. But I, I am back in boot camp and. Or just military. And I sometimes do go lucid too. It’s like, wait a minute, I’ve already, I already did this. Like I graduated from all this. So when she screams at Masato, really, who cares about grade? She’s 100% correct. She should go out of her way to like just get Fs and everything. Why not? Who cares about grades? She has a freaking, you know, like physics university degree or something. But. But she doesn’t have good grades because she doesn’t.

Yes. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Oh, everyone thinks that she’s like a ditzy idiot because she’s not doing well on her. Her Japanese schoolwork not realizing that she’s an. A literal genius. Yeah, okay, that’s a good point. But yeah, yeah, yeah. Nightmares. Let’s see. Oh, so then we move on. So we got the school stuff. They’re hanging out at a pool, also a place I. That gave me flashbacks. My high school did have a pool. I couldn’t go in there much because of the chlorine levels. I get a headache within five minutes. So watching that scene and I was like, I hope the scene doesn’t go on for five minutes or it’s going to give me a virtual migraine.

Part of me thinks that this pool that they’re in isn’t necessarily like a school pool recreation style. Because we see Shinji’s there, Asuka’s there, and Rey is there and all doing laps. Yeah. And these are the 14 year old AVA pilots that I’m gonna say, you know, Project Monarch, MK Ultra victims on the side. Right. And I just kept thinking of Minority Report and the Precogs and how the Precogs, you send these three people into the water and they float there like an, like an isolation tank. John C. Lily, Joe Rogan style. And that’s how they kind of hone some of their abilities.

So I wonder if all three of them being in this pool and being all these AVA pilots Has some deeper meaning than like, they’re just swimming for fun and exercise. That is one thing. They’re in the plug suits and they’re filled with liquid. I’m still confused a few episodes ago where Shinji gets in. Into Asuka’s machine. Does that mean both of them are like, in liquid when they’re in there? I guess so. I don’t know. Yeah, I believe so. Yeah. It’s only with this. This ambiotic fluid that keeps them like, sustained. It’s almost like the. The things in the cars and Demolition man when.

When a car smashes somewhere, the entire car fills up with like a gel that then hardens to protect you from impact. I think that’s part of what this amniotic fluid is that they put the Avas in. Yeah, I guess because they mention it and then that makes it confusing. And after that it’s just kind of like we’re just. I guess we’re just supposed to be smart and assume that they’re in it when they’re in the Avas. So. And we. We also get a really good idea of you’re talking in the previous episode, how these are supposed to be silly and like a parody.

And we find out this one, not so much of a parody. It’s still supposed to be more light hearted. But the last one was the specific parody. Like, yeah, the scene at the Ultraman for our American audience who didn’t get my weird pronunciation thing from last episode. But yeah, the fight scene at the end specifically was supposed to be kind of a mech parody where this one is definitely more. I would almost say this one’s in like kind of standard AVA style, you know, disregarding the method. Okay. So. So when I’m watching this one, I felt like it was the parody of Willy Wonka because the.

The first thing we find out is Oscar is all excited that she gets to show everyone up. They pick her. She like, she’s a pick me and they pick her. So she’s in her world right now and she’s like, yeah, I’m gonna show you all what’s up. And then we find out that in. She’s gonna be. And this is the namesake of the title Magma Diver. Right. Well, we find out that they have discovered an egg that is at the bottom. I’m just gonna make some stuff up here to. To simplify it. But they found like an egg in the bottom of a volcano, essentially.

And the egg is. Has the embryo of an angel. And they want to grab this. This angel embryo egg from the bottom of the magma before it hatches and turns into a demon, essentially. So they send Asuka down into this volcano or this magma pit. But in order to shield her from the heat, she has to press this button on her suit. When she presses the button on her suit, it turns into like a fat suit. Like a. Just like a standard fat suit. And she looks like the Blueberry girl from Willy Wonka essentially. And now she’s so embarrassed because she cares so much about appearances that she doesn’t want anyone to see her wearing this fat suit.

But the fat suit is there to. To shield her from the heat of the magma. And it’s. And it’s kind of doubly funny because no one’s even going to see her because she goes from being in this fat suit to go sees her neck. And the Ava itself is also in kind of a fat suit or it’s like a, like an extra thick metal suit. So I don’t. I didn’t really get why she was. She was ready to not even go because she was so embarrassed that this shielding made her look big. But who’s even seeing her? There was no one even seeing her.

I have a 16 year old daughter. These things happen. Okay, 14 year old girl that’s like this Ava suit makes me look fat so I’m not going to school today. Yeah, exactly. These, these things happen. Although the funny thing is I was like, haha, it’s funny. Who cares? Just like you. But then a minute later I looked away from it, I looked back and oh, I remember I was starting to type a note and every once or off my mouse is in the wrong place. It’ll kind of make my media player do something weird and pause or whatever.

So I start playing again. It’s got the heat effect now. And I said, oh, it’s starting to play again with the wrong aspect ratio. And I was like oh no, that’s the fat suit. So I got fooled by the fat suit. It and it pretty much worked. So they go, they lure her down in the magma and there’s a lot of these like trope style. All right, she’s. She’s too far. The pressure’s too. That’s right. Feeling the abyss. The abyss is, you know, cold and wet. This is hot and dry. But otherwise I was definitely getting the best vibes.

Yeah, but it’s the same difference because in this case, because of the heat effect, she can’t see the same as if you’re going into a dark abyss like in the middle of the ocean. And they keep going deeper and deeper. And Masago is just like, I don’t care. Keep going deeper. Like, oh, my God, she could implode. And she’s like, we’re here for a reason. So. Well, dad did give the death order for Shinji and her if necessary, so. Right. That. That was other. I don’t really fully understand this concept. So if this goes wrong, them retrieving an angel embryo at the bottom of this volcano.

If this goes wrong, the Air Force and the UN have orders to just destroy them and destroy all of Nerve, I guess. And that was my house too. That was a pretty serious implication that I. There was no build up to it. It’s like, oh, yeah, by the way, if you fail, this is new rules. This is a new thing that we haven’t done before. If you fail, the military comes in and kills you and me and everyone that you know. Yeah, that’s hardcore for the military, so. And then when they’re coming up, they very quickly start paying themselves on the back.

Way too soon. So of course everything goes south at that point. Yeah. So after they get it and ask is like, oh, this is so easy. This. This was easy as pie. And then it shows Mitsago and everyone else at Nerve Headquarters and they’re like, oh, wow, this what a cakewalk. And I looked at the play time, I was like, oh, we got another 10 minutes left. This is absolutely going to go sideways. And then it does, because the angel embryo starts to give birth inside this little egg as they’re trying to like, teleport it, and they’ve got it enclosed in an electromagnetic cage that is essentially just the scaffolding, like the skeleton of a cage.

But then the walls are formed by electromagnetism, I guess, but it’s too strong and it can break out of this. Electromagnetism. Yeah. And so what do we get? They. They toss. Oh, she just drops her sword, which makes sense because she just has that weird claw thing, you know, And Shinji drops his. Which I. That they’re kind of a knife. Are they? Did I say knife in this one? Seems like a sword to me. It’s a sword. Okay. I just. I was like, knife. That seems too small. And that’s in like that casing. It’s definitely a sword, right? Yeah, Well, I guess it’s like a katana set.

There’s the bigger one. The smaller ones I can’t remember the name of, but yeah, they might say that’s the knife. That’s a sword. If they were doing it in English. So now that the, the angel in this one, I was thinking a tardigrade, which I don’t know if that was a thing in 1996. This is mentioning trilobites like the angel’s model. The angel in this one’s modeled after a trilobite. Well, I think a tardigrade is, is also a real thing, isn’t it? They’re based on the little water. What the hell do they call those little water animals? Well, they can live in the volcanic vents at the bottom of the ocean, which is pretty hardcore.

Right. Apparently they can survive in space. There’s a Star Trek episode with a giant tardigrade. So, you know, I’m thinking tardigrades, but I guess trilobites are. Well, that’s a little, I guess more old school, isn’t it? They’re like trilobite are like the little hard insect looking things that you find in fossils all the time, right? So I guess, yeah, because we get the big weird tentacly mouth. Honestly, it looks like a sarlacc if anything. I guess. But from Return of the Jedi. Yeah, so. So tardigrades are real things. It’s an actual organism, it’s not just fictional.

So I think it was a straight up tardigrade. I don’t know if we actually get the name of the angel in the episode, do we? But it’s a sandalfon. Oh, where’d you get that from? I’m sitting here looking a wiki. So you’re cheating. I’m cheating, yeah. And it was water bear. That’s, that’s the other name for a tardigrade is a water bear. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But so, well, so okay, I’m cheating. I’m looking at wiki here, but links it with a biblical book of Enoch in which the word heaven, the abode of angels, actually exists as an earthly location.

Because sandal fon is discovered in the magma chamber of a volcano. Angels exist in the same world as ours. Okay. It’s kind of implied they’re coming from space or something before or from the. Well, okay, so that, that’s another one of the things that came up either in this episode or in the previous one where they. Antarctica. Yeah, that. Well, they said they don’t have. They didn’t have as much military shielding from all the previous battles. We’re kind of whittling down the defenses and the resources that we’ve got here. So now they’re basically doing the equivalent of camping out at a spawn point.

They’re going to meet these angels where they originally make contact, which is at the. What they say the edge of the water, the edge of the ocean, which might be from Antarctica maybe, but they. They’re going all the way out and then fighting these angels at their spawn point instead of allowing them to come closer to Tokyo. 3. The ice wall surrounds us, and there are angels in it, like, just, like, lined up. And for the. The full. It’s. Yes. It’s not the military keeping us out of the lands outside of Arctic Wall. It’s angels. Hey, you know, if you did want to go that route, that would make a pretty good plot.

We’re all being kept in here by then. Then we’d have Gnosticism and. Yeah, that. That could work. Well, if, you know, if it was, like, if it was legit to make a major anime based on flat Earth concepts, that would be the worst job as an angel, though. It’s just like you’re just gonna act as a bouncer to the Arctic Wall, and that’s all you’re here for. Well, they don’t seem to have a lot of personality so far, so. Fair. Fair point. You know, just lots of eyeballs. Yeah, let’s see. So, yeah, of course they. They succeed because there’s more episodes after this kind of succeed.

I guess they didn’t succeed because they didn’t get a live angel, though, huh? Well, we don’t really know because it said to be continued. Like, it usually. Yeah, yeah, that’s an assumption. Although. But before the to be continued, this is where we get to the hot springs that you’ve been predicting since day one. Yes. Yeah. Well, hey, you know what? You’re not gonna. It is funny because, yeah, the town I go to, it’s like, near Asama, and there’s like, four different onsens on day use ones. Now, they clearly went to a Rokan, a traditional, and they’re staying overnight because they put their name on the.

On the door. So if you go to a day use, it’s definitely not happening. But yeah, and. And I guess this episode toward. Especially at the end of it, they, like, lean all the way. And we were joking the previous episode, like, oh, this is the horniest episode. So this is clearly the horniest episode. I won’t ruin all of, like, the funny kind of lines that come up at the very end, but there is a joke where Shinji’s like, oh, no, thermal expansion. And he’s. He’s kind of getting aroused. And the penguin points it out. The penguin, like, yells at him because he’s getting a little frisky.

And this. This is kind of like towards the very end of it, except they. They then pan over to the other side of this, like, bamboo fence that I guess it’s like a privacy fence between the boys and the girls at the. The falls or at, you know, in this, like, hot. This hot spring. And when we see it, it’s actually Metsago and Asuka and they’re together. And the entire scene, we’re like a half inch away from this being, like an adult hentai the entire time. It’s. Yeah, it’s because, you know, I. I go. I often go to the deus ones on Monday and, like, I can hear the ladies talking to their side now.

I’m sitting in there with a bunch of old men, so it’s very easy to conjecture that I probably don’t want to see the lady side in this case. I mean, this, again, was just like, I get it all you freaking anime nerds. This is why you like this freaking series so much. But there are signs, like, you know, do not wear a swimsuit into hot springs. You’re not allowed to wear a swimsuit in there. So. Yeah. Oh, really? That’s. That’s a requirement? Yeah, yeah. No, everyone has to run around naked. You. You can. I guess you can carry, like, a handheld.

And like, if you really feel like covering your drunk with the towel when you’re out of the water, you can do that. But there’s nothing extra horny about the fact that they’re all running around naked. That’s. That’s simply. That’s not. But there’s a specific sequence of events that happens here when they’re like, shinji, throw me the shampoo bottle. And he throws it over the fence. And at least in the English version, it’s like, oh, you hit me in my private part. And then one of the other girls. I’ll get it for you. And like, oh, you’re tickling me.

Oh, your skin. So, like, it gets into, like, a very. And it reminded me of this scene in Dirty Work. I don’t know if you’ve seen Dirty Work. If not, you absolutely should have did a very long time ago. And Arnie, whatever his name is from Mad tv that had, like, his, like, face collapse from coke or whatever. But anyways, there’s a scene in there where they’re trying to punish this family that ends up being a bunch of drug dealers, but they hide like dead fish inside this. This house of these people that they think are.

They’re just like doing a prank on. And it turns out it’s like a cartel. But the scene, they’re hiding in the other room and they’re like, this is going to be so funny when this family comes home and they smell all this dead fish. They’re gonna freak out, man. It’s gonna be hilarious. And it turns out is they’re doing a drug deal next door. It’s not just some random family. And one of the guys is like, smells like dead fish in here. Like, is that a sign? Are you working for the dea? And it turns into like this big shootout.

And since they didn’t have the budget, they’re not showing this like all this crazy stuff happening in the room next door, but they’re screaming it out. So one of the guys is like, oh no, he got a chainsaw. And you hear, he’s like, oh my God, he cut off my arms. But now he took the chainsaw and he’s using it on me. So they’re like describing everything that’s happening. And this is like a perverted version of that one where like every single event that’s happening, they’re all like getting real pervy with it. And Shinji just over here.

And that’s when the penguins like, yeah, yeah, there is. It is too horny and weird. And it does make you think too much of, you know, I’m hanging out in Akihabara, which is geek central. But. But there is a certain line like we are animating, you know, two ladies sitting around completely nude, like, where you’re just almost seeing parts, you know, that. That’s horny. You know, there’s no way around that. So. But there. There are ladies just sitting around naked at hot springs too. So that’s not. That’s not weird. Yeah, yeah. And I’m. We’re. I don’t think we’re like over sexualizing this.

I guess the ultimate point is now if I see someone wearing a Neon Genesis Evangelion shirt in public, like, I keep my eye on you, bud. Well, that. Now you. That’s why I just bought it for. For today too. I’m didn’t even put it on. But I haven’t worn that shirt in public. Partly because of that. But hey, 711 just had a big Ivan Gallian promotion. You buy a ticket for 800 yen and then you pull a thing out and there’s like A, B, C, D and you get whatever that is. I didn’t do that one.

I. I did the tickets for Hanamaro Obake san, which is A Sanrio character. It’s a ghost that goes around giving you like teacher good job symbols. Okay. Well, I mean, this series. I have the pen in my pocket. Oh, you have it on you? Yeah, I got also folders for my daughter. But yeah, there’s Hanamaro Obakesan. You see the red pencil? Right? So Hanamaro Bake san just goes around and gives you good job things. So not a popular Sanrio character. By the way, it’s hard to find materials about that character, which is one of the good teacher that gives out students.

This is. Well, now the kids think it’s funny because I start doing the Hanamaru thing on and they’re looking at the pen and they think that’s funny, so. But it’s not a popular sandwich. It’s. It’s not like Cinema Roll or hello Kitty or. Or Palm. I can’t actually. I. I. Kuromi. Okay. I don’t. I don’t. I can’t name that many Sanrio characters, to be honest, but I can do Hanamaro Bake san. So. Got that one down. Oh, okay. Go ahead. I have an even dumber one. That’s it. The. The. It basically shows Asuka and Mitsagua at the hot springs.

And then it pans out and it just says to be continued. So that’s. Well, we do need to throw. And they do throw in a bit of development there because Misato has like this horrible scar in her belly. It’s like there’s a story there, probably. She says it happened during the Second Impact. And then Oscar is like, you know, I have this like dark, disturbing story, you know, that we don’t want people to know about. So that’s got to be a plot point later on. Yeah. She said something like, you probably know everything about me. But she says it in an ominous way, like there’s some.

Yeah. Big secrets. And Metsago is just kind of like, well, it’s my job to know and don’t worry about it. Or specifically she says, it’s all ancient history. You really ought to let it go. And then it’s to be continued. Yeah. But I guess that’s what the tonal shifts of the show that makes it interesting, but also weird that we go from this practical like, oh, Jesus, I feel like I shouldn’t be watching this as an adult man to, you know, like, heavy stuff. Yeah, it goes from like, like porkies to the. Or something. Right. Hey, that’s the end of the episode.

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