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This is a conversation between two friends discussing the characters and plotlines of the anime series "Bungo Stray Dogs." They talk about the different characters and their abilities, as well as their relationships. They also mention that the show is based on real authors and discuss some of the author's other works. Overall, they seem excited about the show and are planning to review and discuss it on their podcast. Fancy, it's started. Are we explaining the characters first? Yeah, do we want to like do a quick explanation of the characters? This is, you can tell this is very planned out. Yeah, it's not planned. So do we have like a character, a plot line, like the character is the plot line, kind of, of the first season? No one knows what the plot line is. The plot line is really funky. Well, then we can't find the groups. Literally no boom-go-shut-out person. I think that's true. I'm sad, though, that when we lost the recording, we also lost my pure reaction to Mori. Like, for my realization that Mori is literally dating someone who's minor. Oh my god. Wait, have you seen the new episode yet? No. Okay, then I can't tell you that. But it is about Yosono's backstory, just to let you know. Yeah, I heard that her backstory is going to get animated. It's very interesting. So our podcast is going to be kind of like explaining and reviews of animes, I guess? Yeah. So we're going to start with one, we have a list of them. And so the first one on our list, they're in alphabetical order, so we have to start with D, because we couldn't find an A. And so we're starting, there's a B, oh, B, sorry, I'm dumb. Listen, okay, it has a D in it, so I'm allowed to mess things up. That's all the way at the end. I'm trying. Anyways, we're starting with B. And it is Bungo Stardogs. It's the most recent one I've watched, and your favorite, right? Yeah. Your favorite, okay. My favorite is the best. The superior. It's supreme. Yes. Supreme, does it with a supreme shirt on. That would be terrifying. No, gee, with a supreme shirt on, it doesn't fit him. It would not, nothing is going to fit him. No, all of, in any of his official art, or in all of the versions of the show, like the actual show, Deadpool 1, all of his pants are curled up at the bottom. Yeah, I mean, I have to do that with a lot of my jeans. Yeah. That's funny. That's funny. You should get children's pants. I buy stuff in the kids' section all the time. He's too embarrassed. He could pass himself as a child. How old is he, like 20? 22. He's 22? He could pass as a child still. He's 5'3". Oh, yeah, no, we're the same height. We could pass as, I mean, people still think I'm, actually, no, people think I'm older. Anyways, we should, I've been mistaken as a 16-year-old before. So, anyways, shall we start with the first, like, shoot, so, with character introductions, because we want to, do you want to do that first? Do you want to go by group they're introduced in, or, and then characters in those groups that are introduced first? So, like, we would start with Azushi and then Dazai, and then we go, like, and then when we get to the Port Mafia, we go, like, for who's introduced. Okay, so, to start, we have the fan favorite, everyone loves him so much, he's never been made fun of before at all. He has, I've seen people. Yeah. Azushi, what's his last name? Nakajima. Nakajima. Tiger Man. Tiger Man. Furry Boy. Kitty Cat. No, he gets mad when you call him Kitty Cat. Yeah, so we're going to call him Kitty Cat. Kitty Cat Boy. Kitty Cat. Meow, meow. Meow, meow. Meow. Was he like 14 when they found him? It said 19 in the manga. It was 19 when they got to his, like, little about section. Well, he's 19 now. Was that a flashback at the beginning of... Um... I feel like he wouldn't have been 14. I... I thought it was 14, though, because I'm pretty sure they get kicked out at 14. But he was kicked out because of the Tiger Rampage. Yeah, because of food. Yeah. Anyways, I think that's a really good way to introduce him. He is... I'm going to move the microphone a little bit, and then I'm going to move it down, because you're sitting on a smaller chair than I am. Small, yeah. Small, small. Um... Okay. Um... His ability... Because I have special abilities at my show. Oh, wait, we didn't start with the introduction to the company. Crap. Oh, yeah. We're so organized right now. Yeah. So, uh, the Armed Detective Agency, otherwise known as the ADA. Um... I think that explains themselves, though. They're just a group of people who have magical powers. They're not magical powers. They're magical. They're not magical. They're Sailor Moons. No, wait. Just, like, imagine that. I've seen that drawing some idea of Trump as Sailor Moon. Oh, my God. I think it was either... I saw that on my own. From, like, Attack on Titan, Levi. Wow. That's just amazing. I love that. Ah! Ah! Okay, anyways. Yeah, the ADA, a group of people with special abilities. And, by the way, um, they ingrain these abilities into your head when you watch the show. Because, like, for some reason, the only way they can activate it is by saying it out loud. Every show that has, like, a power thing. I know. It's so weird. I don't understand. Because they don't do that in Marvel. Yeah. I don't think they've done it in any... I don't watch a lot of Marvel. I think it's in their brain. But, no, like, when Sailor Moon's, like, Moon! Moon! Yeah. And, like, no one looks at her, and she, like, does it in public, and she's, like, screaming it in her bedroom. Yeah. And her parents are just like... It's kind of like in musicals, how the character will start singing, and everyone around them is just, like, still... Yeah. Vibing, you know? They're still having, in high school musical, you know, walking down the hallway singing. And then everyone else is just there, I guess. Um... Yeah, so... Anyways, we already introduced Asushi. Do you want to do Dabai? Do you want to, like, switch off characters? Sure. Okay. You get Dabai. Okay, something I have to mention first is JD is hot. Um... Yes! JD from Heathers, by the way. That's what we're gonna... Yes. Um... I didn't mean the actor, but whatever. Jamie Caruso? Yes. Yes, okay, that's who you're saying is hot. Yeah, anyways... You had to introduce Dazai. Um... It's Dazai Osamu. Dazai Osamu is a 22-year-old man. He likes suicide. Yeah. And... Men. And women. Likes them both equally. Yeah. Well, it's very obvious that he likes men. He uses women as a cover. I feel like he does, honestly. He makes it so appar- He tries to make it so cli- Oh! He did that with someone at the door! I didn't! Are you okay? Did I not close it properly, or did it just not close? I don't- wait. I didn't close it prop- I am so sorry! Yeah, okay... Um... Dazai. Yeah. Oh, yeah! The authors are, um... The authors. The characters are based off of authors. I've already told you this. You've actually read, like, a blurb that was at the back of one of the books. We love Tomi. We love Tomi. Yay! Tomi's cool. Tomi is another character, though, from a completely different book series. She's from... Jujito. Yeah, well, she's the actual woman that Dazai committed with. Wait, Tomi is an actual- Yeah, Tomi's a real person. Wow. Wow, we learn new things every day. Yeah. You've seen me reading Dazai Osamu's books, specifically the one that his ability is named after, which is No Longer Human. Yes. I own a few of the books to just them in general. I get the next character, Doko Kunikida. I'm not gonna introduce him, because I think his only point in the show was to be like, My cat. Who's that cat you made yesterday? Anyways. His only point in the show, I think, is to just, like, get mad at everyone. All the time. Whoa. Is that his only point in the show? He was a math teacher, and his ability is called Dopo Poe, right? Yeah. I know, I keep checking that every single time. Dopo. Dopo or Dopo? I think it's Dopo. Dopo Poe. I think his English name is pronounced Dopo. Oh. And then is Dopo in Japanese? I guess. But, yeah, he was a math teacher. I think that describes enough. He's a very strict man. He loves his ideals. Yes, so his ideals is, you're talking about, like, his ideals is in the book? Yes. So his ability, he can, like, write stuff as long as he's seen it before and, like, knows what it is. It's just his ideals in general. Yeah, his ideals in general. It has, like, his entire life story in it, apparently. That includes who he's going to marry in the future, which is really weird. Oh, fuck. Okay. So, yeah, there's that. And, yeah, I don't know. Who's introduced next? Oh, yeah. So then there's, like, a little scene where you get to see the rest of the ADA. And the first one introduced in that one is Aragabo Rompo, right? Yeah, Rompo's the first one to win. So would you like to talk about Rompo? Sure. The actual fan favorite here. Yes. Loved too much. Rompo apparently is a 26-year-old man, even though he acts two. He loves candy. Candy's good, though. Yeah. Yeah, and not doing his work. Yeah. Doing anything but the work he's been assigned. Literally. He'll ask for anything but that. And, again, he's based off a real author. Yes. The actual author, by the way, wrote the book. I don't know if you've ever heard of it. You probably actually haven't. It's literally called The Caterpillar. That's not the name of his ability, though. I'm going to go on about his ability. Okay. So he, the president, so he told him he had an ability a really long time ago, when he was, like, 14. And he started very much believing it and screaming it out into crowds that he had an ability. You'll see that in Season 4. Yeah, this all the way in Season 4. He tries to make himself believe he has an ability. I'm pretty sure he knows he doesn't actually have an ability. Well, he especially knows after Season 2. Not one episode. Yeah, and his quote-unquote glasses make him smart. He's just smart in general. I think he can see with his glasses on. I think that's what's actually happening. He's just smart in general. He's using that excuse because he's blind. Yeah, I mean, he's probably... Oh, he definitely closes his eyes. Because he can... Yeah, I mean, like, I can relate to that because I can see better with my glasses. He's probably, like, in that situation where, like, he can see, but it's like he has to squint when he doesn't have his glasses on, which is why he squints, like, all the time. But when he has his glasses on, he can open them all the way. Unless he's been slapped in the face. But that's another story. What was it? So offended he opened his eyes. Is Yosono or Kenji next? I think Kenji is next. I thought it was Yosono. No, no, it's like how there was no death. Yeah, and then Kenji's like... And then Kenji's just like... He just comes in. Dead bodies. Daddy's not on his cow. How'd it go? Not to be confused with another anime, but... Yeah, I gotta go inside. Anyways, Yosono is Dr. Her name is Dr. Yosono. I don't know her actual first name. And she has, like, a whole crazy storyline that we don't want to get into here. Wow. But her ability is this Thou Shall Not Die. And she basically kills someone and then revives them. That's kind of how it works. Yeah. That's the best way to put it. She's a very traumatized, deeply traumatized human being. That's really all I can say. She worked in the war as a nurse when she was 11 years old. In World War I, the Great War. Otherwise known as... And then Mori traumatized her. Yeah, we can blame... Well, no, because the guy who hung himself in front of her. Oh, okay. Okay, you get to do... Totally the most cosplayed character in the entire show, Kenji. Kenji, um, he's interesting. Farm boy. Farm boy. He's like Louisa. That's her name, right? From Mikanto. With his strength. Yeah, he's like a scrawny little 14-year-old. And he just picks up stuff. Yeah. Like it's a German boy from Fruits Basket. Yeah. Just not as small. Yeah, well, I don't think Mr. Mahan's gonna know. No, no, okay. For context, you have to look up German boy Fruits Basket, because I don't know how to pronounce his name. And you'll see that. And then you look up Kenji from Bungle Stray Dogs. It has a U at the end. I keep forgetting that. That's why I'm telling you that. And you'll see that. And then you can put them side to side. And why are you throwing that up the door? And you'll see, oh my gosh, they do look the same. Anyways... Oh, he died. Anyways, Kenji is Kenji. Yeah, he's not that important, is he? Um, not really. I don't know. We don't know anything about that author. He's based off an actual author. I think he is. I don't know. Is Kyoka? Yes, Kyoka is, I think she's also based off an actual author. Oh, should we add Kyoka into the ADA group? Yeah. Well, actually, she's, first of all, part of the... She's part of the Mori. The Mori Mafia. She's part of the Port Mafia. Yeah. She's 14. Yeah. She's a little baby. She's cool. She's cute. I actually quite like... Oh. Okay, we're back. We just went to lunch. We have Sarah in the room now. Sarah's under the desk. Hi, Sarah. Hi, Sarah. Sarah says hi. We were talking about... I think we were talking about Kyoka, but we didn't finish talking about the snow guy. Oh, yeah. Who has a very weird relationship. Tanizaki? Tanizaki. Do you want to explain him? Because I think you know... So, his ability is called light snow. Yeah. And it allows him and objects I think he touches or chooses to be invisible. Be invisible, obviously. With snow, right? Yeah. Like the way the light reflects on snow. There's got to be some weird scientific thing behind that that we don't know. Do we want to talk about Naomi? Or do we want to just briefly discuss that she's disgusting and we hate her with a burning passion? Yeah, let's just leave it at that. Yeah, don't... I guess the next group we want to talk about is the Mafia. Poor Mafia. Yeah. Okay. This is going to be... Oh, I did not even realize how loud it is. Oops. We're being loud. I'm sorry, Mr. Man. Yeah. We're very sorry. We might fix... I see your eardrum is the Mafia, but in Japan and not in Italy. Yeah. Because the Mafia is, in fact, Italian. You could even say they're the gay Mafia because most of them are gay. Yeah, most of them are very gay. Bless you. Bless you, Queen. So, do we want to start with Dr. Gabba and then Dean and then like... Sure. Whatever her name is, blonde-haired lady. Higuchi? Yeah, her. I think that's her name. So, Akagawa, I've told you about him a few times, I think. He has no eyebrows. Yeah, no eyebrows, man. And his ability is... I mean, he works for the Part Mafia. And his ability is Rasshaimon, which it goes on... Like, it's a weird shadow thing that comes from his cape. His cape, his coat. And it's only on his coat. And we've discussed this before about how a lot of people think that it's part of him and not only on his coat. So, if he takes his coat off, he doesn't have the ability anymore. But a lot of people think he still has the ability. It's really funny. Do you want to talk about Dean? His sister? I don't really know much about Dean. Dean is an assassin who is a queen. Yes. You don't really know that she's a girl until one of the last episodes in season 2. I remember when you were this tall, just a little less. That part was kind of cute, though. And then she's like, oh, stop it. And the girl who has a very obsessive crush on... Aka? Akagawa. She's like, wait, Dean is a girl. That was funny. It was actually really cute and really funny. I like that. I'm pretty sure Higuchi also... Oh, Higuchi. Yes. They can be pronounced either way. I think Higuchi actually kind of likes Dean. Because I've seen them like blush around each other. Well, maybe Dean likes her. There's no way Dean is... After that, we got Higuchi. She's queen. She's also really weird, though. She's very obsessive. I actually kind of like her character. Yeah, I like her character design. What was really funny was when they introduced her in the... You would think that Dazai would know. Because he is an ex-Port Mafia executive. I know we didn't talk about that around 19 minutes ago, but he is. And so I feel like he would know, and he didn't know. Well, he knew that she was part of the Port Mafia, but you would think that he would tell everyone. I mean, he's not maybe the smartest person to do that. And so, like, hey, don't talk to her. She's going to try and kill us right after this. But there was this funny part in the alleyway when they had the first really big fight scene, and she put her hair up. And I was just like... And you didn't see she was a Port Mafia member before that. She went from normal citizen with hair down to the second she puts her hair up, still dressed the exact same, by the way, she's now a Port Mafia member. That was funny and really confusing. And then after that, we have... Would you like to talk about Chuya? Yes. Okay, so we're going to talk about Chuya. Yeah, you have the honors of talking about Chuya. Yes, greatest man on earth. Chuya is a 5'3 chihuahua. He's a ginger with a ponytail. Yes, he has a ponytail. Yeah, he has a really funky ponytail. He dresses really fancy, and he's also quite canonly gay. Oh, yes. Yeah, very. He has some extreme anger issues. He's also the ex-best friend of Dazai Osamu. They weren't best friends. They didn't seem like best friends. Well, they were kind of like best friends in like a... They fight all the time. Oh, okay. Yeah, they don't love each other. Yeah. The best kind of relationship. Oh, yeah. Did you know a few... It is? Yeah, it is. Okay. We had a conversation about this last week. Yeah. I remember that. Oh, that's nice. That's something really cute. It's kind of canon. The art is really canon. Yes. I would say the art is canon. Either that or he's just doing what Hasbro did in that One My Little Pony episode where they just gave a lot of fan service. I would say it's a 2B canon because the author actually ships them. They were meant... They were designed for each other. Dazai and Chuyo. Yeah. Chuyo was originally designed in the show to be Dazai's boyfriend. Yes. But I'm not going to talk about the author for a lot here, but the author is a very interesting person who wrote this. But the author has... I've seen clips and stuff. At least from my knowledge of the weird stuff he's posted onto Twitter and things. There was this one really funny time where he broke an old phone or something and he was like, I finally did it. Finally. He's a very interesting man. Do we want to talk about Mori? Man. Or should we just say Mori is disgusting Mori is disgusting in dating his child. Well, she's not really his daughter since she's like 54. So Mori's disability is literally a child? Yeah. She's 54. That's why she acts like that in the show. Yeah. She's 54, but Mori has the ability to change her shape. Like the age looking... Yeah, but she's still the same age.