Rei Beyond the Heart – Neon Genesis Evangelion S01E05

➡ The text is a conversation between two people discussing their experiences with language, specifically Japanese and Spanish. They also talk about their adventures with a Japanese toy vending machine called “gachapon”. One of them bought a toy from a giant gachapon machine and ended up with an embarrassing item, which he plans to sell. They also mention watching an episode of the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion.
➡ The text discusses a person’s experience with gachapon machines, comparing them to a form of gambling. The person recalls spending money on these machines, sometimes winning and sometimes losing. They also discuss their trip to Vegas and their limited interest in gambling. The conversation then shifts to a discussion about the anime series Evangelion, focusing on the characters and plot.
➡ The text discusses the common age of 14 for characters in various anime and Disney princesses, suggesting it might be a formula for these archetypes. It also explores the idea of these shows being aimed at older audiences despite the young characters, due to their complex storylines. The text also mentions a possible misspelling and a term “aural nerves” in an anime, sparking a discussion about the importance of correct spelling and pronunciation in English.
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➡ We visited the Ramen Museum in Yokohama, where we saw old-style ramen shops and had the option to design our own instant ramen. We also discussed ramen hacks, like adding an egg to instant ramen. We debated the quality of instant ramen versus restaurant ramen, and touched on the character Rey from a show, speculating about her disassociated personality and possible backstory. We ended by discussing the TV show Project Monarch, which is about monsters, not the rumored mind control program.
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It was just the. The children’s gambling machine. That’s all they really were. So it’s more fun and games at the Captain Cabal. Beyond what’s Just in the Name at the Cartoon Cabal. See, just at what? Costco’s fame at the Cartoon Cabal. So much for the bad. And games at the Cartoon Cabal. Hello, welcome to the Cartoon Cabal, where we are getting into each and every episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion right now. If you’re keeping track, it’s episode five. It’s Rey one or. Oh, I almost read the Japanese. Ray beyond the heart. Okay, I could do the Japanese, too.

Rei kokoro no mukoni. Okay, we did it in Japanese, too. This is Matt here. Hi. It’s Paranoid American over there. What up? Like I said, we. We did it in Japanese. Like, I had some part in that. I appreciate that, though, because now I feel like I officially speak Japanese through you. Well, I did read the. The one that was in English letters. They did have. In proper Japanese right under that, and I could. Oh, there’s one kanji in there. I don’t know, but I. I could have read that. But that’s the thing. You spend a little longer, like, you know, breaking down the things.

Like, when you’re looking at a menu, even phonetically, Japanese is not easy to read like one. Well, for example, because I watch this one now in English, and sometimes I’ll switch over to the Japanese. I always get the subtitles, and I can see in the. The subtitles are spelled phonetically, but they’re pronounced in ways I would never expect. Oh, right. Yeah, I got. I got what you’re saying. Like, the weird. It is like, I think Spanish and Japanese, it pretty much is what it looks like. You just have to know the pronunciation. Like, I mean, when I see coffee in Japanese, I instantly know it.

But couple years in Japan, you’re at a menu at a restaurant, you’re like, call he, call he. And someone’s like, coffee. I’m like, oh, yeah, it’s coffee. Okay, got it. Because ki just doesn’t sound like coffee to you, right? Well, when I was. When I was stationed in Texas, like, Southern Texas, almost all the areas that I could afford to stay in were, like, predominantly Latin, and all my friends were predominantly Latin for the exact same reason. And over time, they started telling me that I spoke Burger King Spanish, even though I had taken three or four years of Spanish, and I could.

I read Don Quixote and how to, like, write an entire book report in Spanish. So I felt fluent enough to get things done. But yeah, I had. I spoke what you would call Burger King Spanish. Meaning that like when the Burger King commercial came on, when they break to say Burger King, that was how I pronounced all of my words. So it’s. Even though I felt like I knew what I was saying, I guess I stood out. Like you can still. And I’m assuming it’s very similar in Japanese that even if you get it all right, those slight little nuances will just give it away.

And that’s what you need like a lifetime for. Yeah, I think I might have you mentioned here before, but I had a friend visiting and he was talking about Acura. The Acura? The. The anime. Right? It’s a movie. It’s an. It’s a manga. And he was asking a Japanese guy, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, know. Are you into Acura? Acura’s like, what’s Akira? Because he didn’t say Akira. Akira. Once we worked it out that it was Akira, he was like, oh, here’s the original manga from the 80s in my closet. You know, it’s like he. He had the whole thing in his closet.

How did the car. Acura. That’s right. He thought the. He thought my friend was talking about the car. So that would be awesome though if that. Like that he should have driven an Acura. Like Akira should have drove it in Acura. No, he drove. My father in law’s name’s Akira, but he doesn’t. He doesn’t drive an Acura. He drives a N box, which I guess is a car we just have in Japan. Before we get into the episode, I have an anime related hijink story to share from yesterday. I can’t stop you. I literally have no way of stopping you from.

No way of stopping me. So yesterday I found the giant gachapon machine. You know, Gotcha Pond. Those are they. Yeah, they’re. They’re like little toy things. Little bubbles. Like right. Right now, earlier this week, I found a gachapon that had, excuse me, miniature Gotcha pawns in the balls. That was. I didn’t buy one, but I thought that was kind of exciting. It’s very meta, right? But how far down does it go? Does it stop at the mini gacha balls or. I assume it does, but I didn’t buy it, so I didn’t check. Maybe. Maybe it gets.

Goes down to the quantum level. I hope so. Anyway, I found the giant gachapon machine where you. It was 3,000 yen, which is about 20 bucks now. It’s. But it was put down to 2,000 yen, which is about 13, 14 bucks. Right. I just got my bonus last week. So I’m like, what the hell you put in? It gives you the ball. The ball has a key. The key opens a locker, which gives you something relatively sizable. 80% of it’s like Sanrio Disney. There’s a little bit of Ghibli stuff if you’re real lucky. I guess there was a switch.

Not two, but there’s a switch. There’s a PS5. I was like, yeah, probably won’t get those. And there are like two things that might be embarrassing to get. Right. So which. Which one did I get? Of course one of the embarrassing to get one. Two out of 200. They’re like 200 lockers. Like two of these would be embarrassing. And that’s exactly what I got. This says Dates Alive. What? Date Alive. Glitter and Glamours. Katori Itsuka. Let’s read some of the small print because that’s fun too. This is a large scale figure made with high quality details such as the slightly wrinkled clothing and the flowing hair.

Let’s see. You want to just. I mean, we can just say that. Thoroughly feminine features. That’s right. There you go. That’s horrible. Now, on the plus side, I looked it up after I got it. 1. I’m walking down the street. Like I didn’t bring my backpack, so I’m just like trying to hide under my arms. Like nobody could see what I’m carrying. Right. This is every guy in Japan though. I just assume so. Well, yeah, I guess I know the Akihabara lock now. They don’t care. They’ll just walk around with it anyway. And then. And then I’m going back to work.

Those are my lunch breaks. I’m like, no one’s on the stairs. Okay. Run up the stairs. No one’s around the corner. Go around the corner. Slam in the locker, Lock the locker. Which I never do. I don’t usually lock the locker. I don’t even use it most of the time. I was like, okay, that’s locked up for the day. No one’s going to find that might be extra problematic in the school. Right? Right. So on the plus side, I did a little search and found out that the things actually it sells for like 5 or 6,000 yen.

So if I take it to the U shop, I might actually get my money back. Which of course, then I’ll dump back into the Gotcha palm machine. Or I wanted a big fluffy Kirby or Mickey Mouse. I thought I Might get something like that. Or a little. There was a little setup of the Totoro house. I was like, I could get that. That’d be cool. No, if I got the sex doll, do a quick conversion for me. 6,000 yen to USD, like 45 bucks. Okay. So you can. Hey, if I sell them in America, it’s an import.

Might sell for like 80 bucks if I really want felt. But I’m just going to take it to the used store and hope they maybe give me 2,000 yen. I mean, you know, it’s a gotcha pawn giant. Gotcha pawn machine. It’s an expensive one. So you know you’re taking a gamble. I knew there was like a 2% chance I was going to get something. Extremely embarrassing. I was like, 2%, that’s not bad. So I won the wrong lottery. I guess. I just really like the idea of Donald Trump demanding that the US make anime based sex dolls because we shouldn’t have to be based on.

Now the tariffs are going to go up because we want that work here in the States. We don’t want the Japanese making all the anime sex dolls. And there were. Oh, just to get to today’s topic, they’re both mech scene in this episode were in two of the lockers. So that I was like, hey, that could like, hey, wouldn’t it be cool if I was like, look, I got this Mac from a gachapon machine. That would have been fun. But no, no, no, it would have. It would have worked out. That would have been more. In fact, I think you probably need to keep going back there until you get one of them from Neon Genesis in order fulfill the prophecy, you could put in 10,000 yen, which is like 80 bucks and just do it five times.

Which I was not going to do. So but no, I was like. Because I. I stood there like two minutes. I’m like, this is stupid. I’m like, I just got a bonus. What the hell, let’s go for it. You know. So, you know, I actually really like the. I can’t even remember what they were called when I was a kid. It was just the, the children’s gambling machine. That’s all they really were. It’s most kids first introduction to gambling is where you would stick the quarters in the machine and although also the sticker ones where you would just put money in and sometimes you pull out a trading card or a sticker and you’ve got no idea which one you’re going to end up getting.

I mean this is still blind box culture. That kind of goes in and comes in waves. Right. But I also feel that it’s gambling. This is like every child’s first experience with gambling. Are these gachapon machines? It is. Actually. I. I think we might move in is characters that people don’t know in the States, but my daughter likes Moomin. They had a Moomin Gotcha pond near here. Are these anthropomorphic cows or. No, they look kind of like hippos, but they’re. They’re trolls, but they’re called Moomin. Moomin M O O M I N so yeah, you know, it’s like there’s five different ones you can get.

So of course it’s always a little gamble when you put the money in, right? So we saw one, there was one left in the machine. It was clearly Moomin. So it’s like, let’s do it. So I’ll give it to our daughter and I do it and nothing comes out of the machine. So she goes in a store and the guy there is like, oh, the store has nothing to do with the gadget. Paul Machines. Here’s your money back. And he puts an out order sign on it. And I’m like, it moved to the place where it’s gonna come out the next time though, I’m pretty sure.

So I was like, I did it again. It did come out, but it’s like, I was like, we can’t ask if. Okay. I was like, look, if it doesn’t come out, then sorry, we did lose the 500 yen, which is what, three bucks? So I was like. And it came out. So I was like, so there, there was like that second level of gambling to make it more exciting, I guess. Again, yeah, that, that’s part of gambling is the doubling down. What is that like the, the fallacy of sunken costs where if you. But I’ve seen ju just to advocate for gambling a little bit more, since that’s what everyone needs.

I have seen personally, an old lady in Vegas sit down in a one armed jack and pump in more money than she probably could have afforded to that night. And the second she got up and left and someone else sat down, they hit a jackpot. I was only like 15, so I was outside looking in through like a window, and I was just like stuck in this spot. But anyways, I’ve seen it happen. So all the degenerate gamblers out there, like, just one more crank, like that jackpot’s coming. Okay. Yeah, I’m not, I’m not a gambler.

My. I recently discovered that the. The gachapon with something fuzzy inside is my weakness. And most of them don’t. Most of them have a little ceramic or plastic thing, so it’s often I find those. But yeah, I went to Vegas in 2003. 4. It was actually New Year, so both dates are correct. And I said I’m only going to spend $20 gambling. I got bored after 8, spent the other 12 on cheap martinis and got up the next morning and did Star Trek the Experience because that was still there at the time. So that was my Vegas experience.

Yeah, I just went to Disney a couple days ago for the first time in a while and I got an avocado martini epcot that was like $24. And I don’t have a sex doll to show for it. Not even half of a sex doll. Okay, I’ll talk you back in a little Disney Tokyo Disney then. Because the Teddy Roosevelt Lounge, it’s got bear carvings. It’s in a. It’s a recreation of an old steam, I’m already told. You know, especially since the hall of Presidents is currently closed. And I think it’s. It’s until bad guy is out of office or orange man bad.

They’re gonna wait because he was. That was supposed to be Hillary Clinton all along anyways. Okay. The ones that have been indefinitely closed since COVID and the States. And states in Tokyo. See, my brain’s broken. Is the Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse, which is still there for some reason, but you can’t go in it. And then the Little Mermaid live show, so I don’t get why that’s wild. Because in the States, Swiss Family Robinson. Yeah, that one’s been completely closed. And apparently the Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn island closes in less than two weeks from today. Oh, no.

Turning into Cars Land, though. I, I did dig that as a kid, but where is I going? Oh, yes, Teddy Roosevelt Lounge. You can get a pretty good Manhattan there. 1500 yen, which is 10 bucks on an American credit card. Ten dollar Manhattan for your Disney Day. I feel like Teddy Roosevelt would have a heart attack if you told him how much his own cocktail costs. Maybe. Well, a gift from Teddy is 1800 yen. It’s a little more. It’s a fruitier cocktail, which I didn’t, I didn’t want. I want a Manhattan. So, I mean, when you think Teddy Roosevelt, you think fruity? No, I think of a nice.

I want mahogany in a Manhattan, which is what I do there. Are you telling me they don’t have one called like the Rough Rider. That should be his cocktail name. I. There is another one I’m forgetting the name of. I will look but. And get back to you on that. I guess we have to get into this Evangelion where ironically, things did happen, as opposed to last week where I argued that nothing really happened, though it was a character study. You know, we moved the characters forward, blah, blah. This one has, you know, mechs and not.

We don’t quite get to monsters. I guess we do right at the end. Angels, whatever. But we get two. We get a fight at the end. Well, I don’t even know if the end is necessarily an angel. It’s like a weird hypercube. But we do see them doing an alien autopsy on one of the angels. And. And we find out that the angel is something like 99 point. They’re very specific, at least in the English dubbed version. But they say that the angels have these waveform patterns, which I’m going to just assume is somewhat similar to doing, like, DNA analysis.

And that the angel waveform pattern matches the human waveform pattern 99.89%. And I had to just double check this to look up in context, but that would be like saying humans and chimpanzees share about 98.8% of their DNA. So technically we are. I was gonna ask about chimpanzees. Yeah, so. So they. And we already saw the human hands on the mechs as well, the Avas. So, you know, we’re definitely working on something weird. It’s. It’s not. It’s not the stuff you see in the credits, obviously. Like, that’s kind of fun. Like, hey, maybe that’s a bit of a bait and switch, like, in a fun way.

I’m still on the fence, man. I know what the Director’s Cut said in that first episode, that they were just throwing it in for a little bit of spice. But what does he know? I think that there might actually be something to some of this, but I’m. I’m intentionally trying to stay as blind as I can and not read ahead. The same here. I mean, I see. I see. As I just said, I see Mechs and Gotcha pawn machines, but that’s. That doesn’t really spoil anything. By the way, Cocktail Update, they do not have a Rough Rider.

Sorry. It’s City Serenade, Atlantic Cruise, and a gift from Teddy. So. Oops. None of those sound like something Teddy Roosevelt wouldn’t. Well, Atlantic Cruise makes sense because it is on the Columbia, which is the recreation of the Steamer So. Or the. The ocean going vessel. Excuse me. Steamer’s a smaller ship. I mean. Lost in Translation. Yeah. Okay, moving on. So we start with a flashback because we. Rey is kind of like the icon of the show. I think it’s Shinji’s mech is kind of the icon, but she is. Well, because, I mean, put them next to each other.

Which one you want to look at. Right. So this is the first one where we really get her because the first four episodes she’s just kind of stumbling around in a. Slinging an eye patch, you know. Yeah. We find out that she’s really her. I had. I mean, I guess we should have figured out for ourselves by now that all of These pilots are 14 years old. Like, you can’t pilot one of these mech suits unless you are a 14 year. Although her age was kind of ambiguous to me in the first few episodes because. Yeah, she’s like, totally heard.

She’s in a gurney at one point. I think she’s in slings. I assume that she was sort of the same age as. How do you pronounce her name? The Shinji. Yeah, yeah. Excuse me. So I. I assume that they were the same age, but no, we found out that Ray. Which does make some of these anime figures a little more questionable. But I also had to realize that every single Disney princess, you know, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel Bell’s was like. They’re basically all the exact same age as Rey and Shinji. And I think that that might be part of the formula for these kind of ancient.

I’m going to say ancient at this point. Archetypes. These archetypes that outlive any of us or our grandparents or their grandparents. It all seems to be this exact same age group. Sailor Moon too. I didn’t know that. I. I looked that up. But Sailor Moon, also the exact same age. We’re talking like 14 across the board, essentially. I wonder if that is something that’s a little more western coded that they’re adopting here. Because looking at the other animes, we often find tropes that seem very Japanese. Like there’s all. Even if she’s not grandmother, there’s always the granny.

And so far in here we don’t have that. But we do get the very western hero’s journey and we do get the very western, you know, like right on the line of puberty princess or whatever, you know, And. And Shinji. Yeah, like this the exact same thing. I don’t know. It’s. It’s interesting too, because it’s Seems like it’s made for that age group. But this one, aside from some of the like more adult situations, but this one’s like, is fairly deep. There’s like some very slow episodes. Like you just said, we had a character study in the previous episodes that would have went over my 14 year old head.

So clearly this thing is, is tapping more into an older market to appreciate a lot of the storyline. But it’s a, it’s kind of reconnecting you to your youth and it’s making you tap back into when you were going through this age, which isn’t something you see as often in I guess western cinema of any kind. Unless it’s one of these like coming of age tales. But I, so far I wouldn’t really classify this as a coming of age tale because Shinji is just going to remain a wet noodle, I think. I mean they’re literally just shoving that guy into the machine because they have to.

You know, no one wants him in there and he doesn’t want to be there. Yeah. I wonder if the suit cares at all, if the suit has any say in this matter. I. Well, the suit definitely seem, I mean that’s what we get in the flashback scene that the suit kind of went nuts and you. That’s how Ray got screwed up. Right. So. Well, I don’t know. Because it. They make a comment that Rey had some sort of a mental breakdown while she was in the suit and that’s what caused this. A sort of like unexpected behavior from the suit in which she gets hurt in the process.

But ultimately it sounded like they were blaming it on her for not being mentally stable because they just put a 14 year old girl into a giant mech suit that can like destroy an entire city. So I don’t know. How Many mentally stable 14 year olds would you trust of any gender to operate, you know, heavy machinery, let alone a giant mech suit? Yeah, by the way, I was just, I was trying to figure out like what time of day this aired. It says it, you know, I can find information that tells me it aired from October 1995 to March 1996 on TV Tokyo and its affiliates.

But I’m curious if it was in the afternoon or in the evening or exactly. Or what day it aired, you know, because that would kind of tell us if it was who they were aiming at. A little bit more fair point. I mean this could have been like an Aeon Flux liquid television situation. If it was Saturday or Sunday night, that would have been meant for family viewing almost. You Know which I don’t think they. That I doubt that’s when they put it on. But hey, I don’t know because it doesn’t say I don’t know what these Japanese families are watching together.

I don’t know. Saison son, she’s. She’s the Japanese housewife. It’s like the Simpsons but with no sarcasm or snark. Is this a real show? Yeah, size on sign. It comes on at like 6:30 on Sundays and it’s like the whole family is supposed to watch that. See, now we have to watch one of those. That’s what exactly what all exists for sure. I bet there’s a few on YouTube. We’ll watch some OMP them on, watch some Drymon for sure. I don’t think we have to watch the entire series but a few choice episodes would be nice maybe.

Yeah. Yeah. Well those are ones they. The ones I said all of those have been on TV in various forms or movies or for like 50 plus years. And so you would have to be. That would be like let’s do all of Star Trek. You know, that’s just. Or that’s not going to happen. Well, I know people do that, but they’ve been doing it for 12, 13 years so far and they’re not finished. So I got a couple English questions for you. Yeah. And I, and I feel like one of them I know the answer to.

But when we’re seeing Rey, I think it’s either Ray or Shinji. At one point, before one of the. These mech suits starts operating, they show a whole bunch of computer panels. And on one of these computer panels it’s just whipping by all the different names for bones, all the muscle groups. It’s listing like the different nerve types. And in these lit. I mean I just paused it and that was because I was just meticulously going through this episode and I’m like freeze framing it and reading all the things and two things stood out. One of them I feel is just a straight up misspelling.

It said scenery root. I think it meant to say sensory root but it said I think I caught. I think I noticed a misspelling in there. And I see that stuff all the time. I saw health on a, on a poster spelled H E L T H yesterday. So you know, I’m used to it. Okay. Maybe it’s just more common. I mean I stopped it and I was just thinking the same thing as any other animation. Like someone stared at this thousands of times in order for this thing to make it as far as it did to my eyeballs.

So maybe I just don’t know a word that I had, you know, scenery. So that one I think was a misspelling, but then there was another one, and I really am, I’m truly interested on if they meant oral nerves, as in auditory nerves, because it was spelled a U R a L. And this is just another one of those, like the group. Every other thing on this screen was something like a real bone group, a real, you know, type of a nervous system. But this one said oral nerves, and then that sent me down a rabbit hole because I couldn’t find any other references to oral nerves anywhere.

But technically, if you believed in an aura, and I assume that in a world where 14 year olds are the only ones that can bond with these angelic, you know, fallen demon nephilim bodies, maybe an aura does exist. So therefore, would an, Would an aural nerve exist? Like, is. Are. Are your oral nerves the things that you feel or when something penetrates your aura? Maybe I. You know what? I hope that’s a thing and becomes a thing. I mean, hey, this. We got started on my old podcast called Oral Hygiene because I like the word right? So, yeah, you’re speaking my language.

I mean, is it English? I hope not. The first one I’ll say it is because things get way down the line in Japan. I mean, people put signs that are misspelled as the sign to their business that’s going to stay up there for decades. You know, and just, and just a fair point, I just want to make this as. No, I’m. I love English and I think English is fine. And I actually don’t even look at it like, oh, look at these idiots. They’re misspelling things. I. I’m on the other angle. I think that phonetically is all that really matters.

And even if someone mispronounces something, all it shows is that they’ve read it or they’ve. Sorry, it’s. It shows that they’ve heard it, but they haven’t read it. So sometimes if you read a word that you haven’t heard out loud, you’ll mispronounce it. And sometimes if you try and spell a word you’ve only heard, you might misspell it. But as long as the communication goes through, I don’t know. I’m not a stickler in that way. So I think English is going to be like the common language, just like Spanglish. It’s going to be a combination of Spanglish and English.

That’s the future. I. It depends for me, like, if it’s like, like the business I just talked about, it’s like a small business and they just put out a misspelled sign that’s going to be there for, like, ever. That’s. I mean, no, that’s. That’s where I forgive it. They don’t know who are they going to ask. But the sign says like. Like brain surgery and they spell sur jury wrong. The. But if it’s like, hey, let’s take the misspelling here. I’m not sure, but I. I’m guessing there probably is someone that is a native English speaker somewhere in that animation building.

Maybe. I mean, I work at English schools and they put out things that are horribly misspelled sometimes. They could have asked any of us. I’m in America and I’ve seen some things come through our schools where you would expect everything in English would be proper. But the first thought that went through my head. Sorry, you’re gonna. It looks like I elicited a response there. Yeah, sorry. I think I’m so used to it. I think I missed the punchline when I said I might make some money selling this figure back. Did I tell you where I was going to sell the figure? I’ve been going to the store for so long, it didn’t even occur to me that the name’s funny anymore.

The name of the store where I’ll probably go to sell that. They got guitars, they got a lot of figures, and then they got clothing and stuff. It’s called the Hard Off. Okay, I’m gonna sell that. I’m gonna sell that at the Hard off, which sounds horrible. I think that actually counts as irony because I would expect it to be called the Hard On. Right. Yeah, yeah. Well, I. I guess it’s like you buy. And I was like, oh, how nice. I don’t know. I don’t think I. I think it’s like it’s hard goods that you’re getting for cheap is what they mean.

There’s also the Book off, which is just like books and, you know, DVDs and CD. CDs. That one’s called the Book off, which is also weird, but. And then neither of those translate very well. Oh, and this is. Yeah, the one that I go to, the guitars. That one’s. It’s got several on the sign because it’s like a combined of several of their businesses. So it’s Hard off, book off, hobby off. And I, for this one never occurred to me because I just seen Off. So Many times. The last one is close off. So there. That’s some serious English that like, that’s so baked into like my everyday life now.

I’m just like, do. But going to the hard off, you know? Well, what are my first thoughts when I was seeing some of that Engrish, when I saw the. The century route, I was like, well, there’s the problem right there. That’s why. That’s why Ray got so messed up in this suit. Clearly they just like forgot a letter on the overlay. And if you’re forgetting something as easy as a letter on the overlay, like you don’t want to jack something into your spinal cord called century root, right? No, that. Hey, that. Maybe that’s it. Maybe the tight.

It’s like you forget to put the zero in and it screws up the whole system, you know, and it is unit zero. And then this Unit zero thing goes out of control. And I guess their only solution is that they abort the process. They cut the power supply and then these suits run on, I guess a backup. No one knows how this power supply works, right? Yeah. And then they run for about 20 to 30 seconds. I assuming it’s not like lithium ion batteries or anything, it’s going to be some kind of angelic power source. So I’m also going to assume that this is the American in me.

But we’re going to figure out a way to tap into this dark angel fallen energy and use it somehow to like, I don’t know, run your ac. Yeah, they’re trying to reverse engineer the. The quote unquote, you know, monsters, right? Which that happens was A Day of the Dead. The, the guys down in the underground bunker trying to, you know, tame zombies. Honestly, man, what if you just put a bunch of zombies and little hamster wheels and then you connect that to the power grid. I feel like you could lure at least the dumb zombies like the.

Not the alphas from the 28 years later, whatever, but just like the regular run of the mill, Walking Dead dummies. You just put them in big hamster wheels and you dangle like a severed hand in front of them and you’ve got free energy forever. Maybe. Except. Yeah, well, do they starve? What are you gonna do? What if you died of starvation? You would still come back as a zombie. Okay, maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Or is it the rage virus like in those movies? Is that a different thing? I guess we’re not here to talk about that. I haven’t seen the movie yet either, so.

Well, even better if they got Rage, I would assume more power output. That’s. Those are the ones. Oh, yeah. Now they’re running. Yeah. Okay. There you go. Well, they got two sequels. Maybe we’ll get to that. I think that the next one’s the Bone Temple. That’s pretty exciting. Just the type. The titles. Well, I. I think it’s related just because we’re seeing that these. These fallen angel shells, we don’t really know what they are yet. We’ve both agree that they’re either organic or etheric, but either way, they’re not just 100% cyborg or cybernetic. They’ve got some sort of an organic or ethereal quality to them, yet we’re just using them for our own good.

And they seem to animate on their own in some ways, too. I don’t know. Are we, like, enslaving Angels? Is that the entire point of this? One thing that I. I’m definitely going to say is a pro move of the show is they’re dripping the information at a really good rate, I think. Like, it’s not Mystery Box annoying, right? It’s not like you’re watching Lost or anything. But at the same time, it is kind of mysterious, though. And, like, you just get a little bit like this one, like, oh, it’s got this power source. It’s kind of got a mind of its own, which I guess we got a little bit of a hint before when it takes.

Well, big hint, it takes over and fights the first fight with Shinji, doesn’t it? I do like that this series doesn’t treat the viewers like idiots, both intellectually and morally. Like, the. Almost everything they do is kind of right on the line, but they’re not spelling anything out for you, so I don’t know. I really do. I’m starting to enjoy the show. So now when the credits roll, like, I’m excited. Like, I’m excited I’m about to watch another episode of a good cartoon, and we’re only on episode five, which I think is good. Well, not a controversial take to say it’s a good anime, but, hey, neither of us have seen the whole thing.

That’s why we’re doing this. I will continue to go in my bugaboo about they’re 15 years into the post apocalypse. Okay, yeah. 28 years later is 28 years into the post apocalypse. They still have these consumer goods. They have, like, a long conversation about, like, instant ramen. I’m like, if this is, like, the only functioning city left or one of the few functioning cities Left. We’re still making instant ramen, Are we? Okay, I guess that’s nice in a way, but it is just a weird dissonance for me. So in the show. Well, I mean, I just assume that there’s so many preservatives in instant ramen that kind of like the.

What’s again? To bring up the zombie in Zombieland. Right. Woody Harrelson is always on a hunt for Twinkies, because Twinkies are the only food that has enough preservatives to last through an apocalypse. I think I’m getting that right. It’s one of those movies. Yeah. Twinkies, really? I feel like they go stale. I. I believe that’s what. Well, that’s the joke, though. The joke, though, is that it is such an a. Inorganic food. It basically plastic. The same thing where they used to have that live camera feed of a McDonald’s burger and fries from, I want to say, like the late 90s.

And it just doesn’t age, you know? So I. I feel like instant ramen is up there. If. If the world ended and you found a warehouse full of instant ramen 40 years from now, you’d be a lot happier than finding a warehouse full of almost any other kind of food product. MREs or even Twinkies. I would. I would vote instant ramen over Twinkie. You can tell me if I made a mistake a few months ago. It’s the same touring thing where we went to disneysea, but we went to the Ramen Museum in Yokohama, which has a bunch of ramen shops, like some recreations from like 50 years ago.

That’s kind of a cool idea. Is it really the ramen from 50 years? I don’t know. But we ate our ramen. How to look around. There’s a room where you could go in and design your own instant ramen, which we opted not to do because it looked like it would take too long. But, yeah, you could design your own instant ramen. So it’s ironic that it takes too long to make instant ramen. Well, you’re designing it though, right? So it’s instant when you eat it. It takes time to design. Design, though. It’s ramen and you throw some toppings in there.

I don’t know. Yeah, I guess that’s basically what it is. I don’t know. It looked too annoying. Also, there’s a language gap, right? So we’d have to like, my Japanese is getting better. But it’s. That would have been stressful. So. Yeah. Well, we also find out that Apparently, Shinji is the best chef at creating instant ramen. And I do wonder if we’ll find out what his ramen hacks are, because ramen hacks are pretty popular. I don’t know how many ramen hacks you know, but like, for example, do you mean like in the eating of it or the making of it? In the making of it.

In the making of the ramen. Like, one of the facts that I’ve heard is that you just after it’s done cooking and you put. After you put the boiling water in it, you also just throw a whole egg in there and just mix it up. Or some people just let the egg kind of sit there and poach a little bit. But that’s. That’s like one really popular ramen hack. And I think these are specific to cheap grocery store ramens that you find on the bottom shelf. Like six for a dollar type of hacks. Because I guess the assumption is that upper shelf or upper class ramen doesn’t need these hacks.

Yeah, see, I’m coming from the wrong angle because I always go to the the ramen shop. I never buy instant ramen or very rarely buy instant ramen. So as. As having an Italian background. It’s a very controversial take and I’ve proven myself wrong on this. But I just hate eating Italian food because I just imagine how much am I paying? Or I go going out and eating Italian, how much did I pay you to boil water? But that’s only because so many restaurants and so many other places that make Italian food all pretty much source the exact same pasta or similar too.

But when you go to a place that actually makes like their own custom pasta, it’ll change your life in a way. But it’s such a gamble. It’s. That’s like the next big version of learning how to gamble is picking a good Italian, or I assume in a ramen restaurant. In this case, my favorite ramen is the one that makes their own noodles. Yes. Gotcha. So I do not want the instant ramen in this one that looks. That looks terrible. In that Shinji might be adding some kind of magical flair that you don’t know. I guess we should start wrapping up.

But I got one topic that I just. We gotta throw out because it’s important in this episode. How screwed up is Rey? And how screwed up was she before her mech experience? Because she’s got a weird ass disconnect now. She’s, you know, just. She’s got Shinji falling on top of her while she’s naked. She’s like, whatever. Oh, did that happen? You know, like she’s super disassociated at this point? Yeah, no, she. She is so MK Ultra out of her own personality that I wonder if we ever have or ever will meet the actual Rey that’s somewhere under this weird shell.

Because I guess the main thing that happens in this episode, aside from getting some of that background on Rey going through this traumatic experience. But yeah, the big thing is just that she’s clearly in the viewer’s mind, I think the director’s mind. She’s the most appropriate love interest for Shinji. But again, she’s completely disassociated from reality to the point where he accidentally falls down on her while she’s naked. Grabs. Grabs a little breast and then she’s completely unfazed. But then 10 seconds later, in the. In the actual animation, Shinji is talking bad about his own dad for abandoning him.

And that’s what causes Rey to slap Shinji. It’s like, don’t talk about your dad like that. And that makes it even weirder now. Now, not only is she disassociated, but she has such utter respect for the guy that abandoned his child that she will get, you know, emotional over that. But nothing that happened prior to that. So on the scale from zero to. To 10, she’s a ray, which is a 10. And when she’s about to get into the mech for the second time, having recovered, we see that, you know, he sees them having the conversation, which we hear nothing of, of course.

Right. So, like, what are they talking about? Is he using programming words there before she gets in? You know, I feel I’m gonna make a prediction here, but I almost feel that she has been sort of created for this. And I mean created in that she has one of the, I guess the deeper conspiracy angles of the whole Project Monarch program. If you even believe in Monarch, we’re not talking about MK Ultra, but the rumored Monarch, which I don’t believe has any unclassified files. This one might be all fabricated, but the idea is that they are trying to use almost a eugenic style program to identify certain family lines that can transition and disassociate in and out of consciousness at the drop of a hat, or I just had a code word and that this somehow is a desirable trait.

So that is Ray Ray is this ultra desirable rh, negative, red haired, you know, sort of mystical property that allows her to associate. And that is what you would need. And if you wanted to put them Inside the shell of a fallen angel to control their body. Not the gold dress. Blue dress it. But what color is her hair? It’s blue. Blue. Okay, I thought you said red there for a second. Wait a minute. Red hair because that’s another part of the Project Monarch. Sort of. Okay, yeah. The RH negative red haired bloodlines are the most desirable in trying to create this perfect Illuminati mind control puppet.

It’s just one. It’s just one of the rumors. I don’t know the science behind that, but that apparently redheads. Maybe it is also related to them having a higher pain tolerance, I think. Which also means that they have to deal with more pain because a lot of times the like things that would numb you to pain, they. They also need more of that, which sometimes goes above what you’re allowed to get. There’s a whole angle of like the redheads, but yeah, in my mind. And plus who is born with blue hair? Although technically everyone in Japan would just have black hair.

Right? You don’t have a lot of redheads, do you? People dye their hair a lot. A lot of people, right? No, but I mean like straight out the womb. Oh yeah, yeah. That’s gonna be. That’s gonna be black hair. Yeah. So I’m trying to think of if there’s any really young kids sometimes do have lighter hair, but by the time they’re 14, I mean it’s not gonna look like this. I’m just assuming she dyed her hair or something, which. Or she. Like you said, maybe she’s like test from a test tube or something. That’s a weird, you know, side effect of that.

That’s my prediction. So we’ll leave it at that. Okay. Oh, by the way, just what happens if you Google Project Monarch now? You get a whole bunch about a monster, a bad monster show. Just saying Project Monarch is a TV show and it’s nothing about what you’re talking about. Project Monarch is a TV show and America. Monarch. Let me do the actual search here. But yeah, there’s a. The monsterverse, you know, Godzilla, King Kong, I believe. Monarch. Let’ me check the actual name. I haven’t watched it because my friends told me it was bad. This is Disney Frozen all over again where Disney makes an entire movie just to obscure the search results from people looking into the.

The cryostasis of Walt Disney. Monarch Legacy of Monsters. Okay. They didn’t actually put project on it, but it is called Monster Monarch Legacy of Monsters. Okay. All right. They’re slowly eroding it with Kurt Russell And Wyatt Russell. Okay, I guess it’s sunny. And that’s for the battle between Godzilla and the Titans, which are angels, aren’t they revealing that monsters are real and a legacy linking them to Monarch? But in this case, Monarch’s about monsters, so. Yeah, but we can make it about Monarch. And that sounds like another perfect addition to the cartoon cabal. I guess we’ll wrap this one up then.

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