Step into the spotlight with Jacksonville's musical mavericks, The Limit Breakers, as we explore their symphony of gaming, anime, and hard-hitting beats. Jisun and Dani, the forces behind the band, recount their evolution from virtual anonymity to convention rockstars. They lay down their strategy for nabbing that first gig and stir up the local scene with a fusion of cultural beats that resonate with fans across the nerd spectrum. Fasten your seatbelts for a musical journey that promises to connect and electrify the community through a shared love for all things nerdy.
As we rewind through the treasured archives of video game soundtracks, the Limit Breakers and I get lost in the emotional vistas painted by the tunes of our childhood. Reminisce with us about the days when Final Fantasy 7's score was more than just music; it was an epic narrative that enchanted our gaming experiences. Jisun and Dani invite you to relive the memories and melodies that defined our gaming milestones, like the adventures in the pixelated world of Pokémon Yellow, through their rock-inspired renditions and passionately crafted sounds.
Creators and fans unite in an energetic conclusion filled with games, laughter, and animated discussions. Our Synonym Roll game will have you scratching your head and laughing out loud as we put our collective gaming knowledge to the test. Meanwhile, the Anime Opening Theme Guessing Game turns into a clash of wits and nostalgia, with titles like Cowboy Bebop and Attack on Titan bringing everyone to the edge of their seats. Join us for an episode that not only celebrates the crossroads of music, gaming, and anime but also extends an open invitation to collaborate, connect, and indulge in the passions that unite us all.
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Step into the spotlight with Jacksonville's musical mavericks, The Limit Breakers, as we explore their symphony of gaming, anime, and hard-hitting beats. Jisun and Dani, the forces behind the band, recount their evolution from virtual anonymity to convention rockstars. They lay down their strategy for nabbing that first gig and stir up the local scene with a fusion of cultural beats that resonate with fans across the nerd spectrum. Fasten your seatbelts for a musical journey that promises to connect and electrify the community through a shared love for all things nerdy.
As we rewind through the treasured archives of video game soundtracks, the Limit Breakers and I get lost in the emotional vistas painted by the tunes of our childhood. Reminisce with us about the days when Final Fantasy 7's score was more than just music; it was an epic narrative that enchanted our gaming experiences. Jisun and Dani invite you to relive the memories and melodies that defined our gaming milestones, like the adventures in the pixelated world of Pokémon Yellow, through their rock-inspired renditions and passionately crafted sounds.
Creators and fans unite in an energetic conclusion filled with games, laughter, and animated discussions. Our Synonym Roll game will have you scratching your head and laughing out loud as we put our collective gaming knowledge to the test. Meanwhile, the Anime Opening Theme Guessing Game turns into a clash of wits and nostalgia, with titles like Cowboy Bebop and Attack on Titan bringing everyone to the edge of their seats. Join us for an episode that not only celebrates the crossroads of music, gaming, and anime but also extends an open invitation to collaborate, connect, and indulge in the passions that unite us all.
Find The Limit Breakers here!
The Limit Breakers | Lavender Town | Music Visualizer (Rock Cover)
🔻You can find all important links for the podcast over at https://linktr.ee/waitforitpodcast (which includes our brand new Patreon site!)🔺
🔻BACKGROUND MUSIC PROVIDED BY:
Song : Daystar - SOSO / • ✨샛별 - SOSO✨(Royal...
Instagram: @starryattic
E-mail: byeallim@gmail.com
Support me for better music: (Paypal) https://paypal.me/daystarpj
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Speaker 2:Gaming, wait for it. Anime Plus Ultra. Mr Eric Almighty and Phil the Filipino yeah, they've got you covered, and all you gotta do is Wait for it.
Speaker 3:Hey everybody, welcome back to the Wait for a podcast. I am your co-host, Phil Smith, aka Phil the Filipino, and joining me, as always, is your other co-host, mr Eric. Almighty. And Eric, we are here with the February edition of Creator Spotlight. As this series keeps on rolling, we continue to have just so much fun doing this, and this month is going to be no exception, as we bring in two guests, two local guests that we have cross paths with and, you know, share an affinity for just this community that we continue to build here in Duval County and, you know, outside of that. So super excited to have them and have this conversation here this evening.
Speaker 1:Yeah, very exciting stuff. Obviously, with this particular series it's allowed us to kind of venture out into conversations with people that we have similar interests with, just things that align, and sometimes they're in the vicinity of us. Phil, we've been doing conventions now for a couple of years at this point and it always seemed like we almost crossed paths with this group. So I was very excited at NakamaCon to have the opportunity to finally link up officially and get this set up and scheduled with the Limit Breakers, who you may know if you're in Jacksonville Florida obviously very, very big into the convention scene and a lot of events that are happening locally. So you've probably seen them pop up on our stories. I know we are big fans, phil, but I'd like our audience to get to know two of the members for the Limit Breakers. Thank you both for being here tonight. How are you both doing and are you ready to talk about some pop culture, games and beyond?
Speaker 2:Absolutely. Thank you so much for having us.
Speaker 4:Yeah, thanks so much for having us on the podcast. I'm stoked.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. So why don't we have you both introduce yourself, whoever would like to go first? I'd like our audience to get to know you individually and let us know a little bit about the Limit Breakers, maybe starting off on how both of you guys got into this.
Speaker 2:Sure, hi, I'm G-Soon. I'm the band leader of the Limit Breakers. I also play trumpet.
Speaker 4:And I'm Danny. I am the guitarist and primary kind of primary arranger nowadays and I am assistant band leader, help run stuff.
Speaker 2:So I guess, as far as like how the Limit Breakers started, this kind of started back in 2020, when the pandemic was like in the throes of it and we were searching for a way to connect with each other musically while, you know, we were isolated. And so I came up with, I guess, this idea for a virtual group initially, where people could record their instruments and send me the takes and we would mix it together and basically have it like the band is in the same room together. Then, basically, like April of 2020, we get the very first project those who fight out and then kind of from there we just evolved into a live group. Around a couple years ago is when we started doing live music.
Speaker 4:Right and I came in as the band was still, you know, transitioning to full-time live group. So I joined a little bit over a year ago as the bass player and ended up taking over guitar duties because one of our founding members he actually moved up to Connecticut for his family, so I took over guitar duties from there and we've just been playing a ton of shows and writing a ton of music. So now, a great time.
Speaker 1:I absolutely love that and I think it's really really interesting what both you and the rest of the group does when it comes to the limit breakers. Just the performance in general is always really exciting. You don't see enough of that, I think. In the convention scene, in the nerd scene, wherever you may be, you guys obviously all together we're at Nakama, which is like our favorite place. So anytime we get to plug them, we're happy to do so. But you guys, we're now and thirsty.
Speaker 1:And thirsty. I think it's really really great. Phil, what has been, obviously, your exposure to the limit breakers? I know it's been from afar. You know, what have you kind of seen from afar and what questions do you want to ask?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean. Well, first off, again, it's just such a cool way to connect with people. It's interesting that y'all had first connected through the pandemic and you know a lot of us did that through gaming and through like watch parties and then, like it doesn't even cross my mind that you could also obviously do that through music, which is just so cool and kind of crossing past throughout the convention scene is always great and while we love, like you know, the convention DJ, shout out to our friend, awesome as prime, who does a fantastic job Also at Nakama and other conventions. But it's just so cool to see something different and I was bummed I didn't get to hang out with the guys at Nakama Con. Hopefully this year I'll get to do so.
Speaker 3:I had to go to Disney World last year for my daughter's birthday. I told her I will not be doing that again this year. So hopefully I'll be able to go to Nakama Con this year. But you know, as far as getting yourselves out there and find yourselves with these convention appearances, how did y'all go about that? Gee, soon I'll throw it to you how did you go about kind of establishing those relationships, as I know a lot of people that listen to. These want to do stuff with conventions, not whether it's music or what we do. How did you go about establishing that relationship?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I basically just kind of shot out a lot of filler emails to the various organizations. I started with Ancient City Con, heard right back from Max Michaels. He was very interested in bringing us on and so a couple years ago was our very first Ancient City Con that we played for. We also played for them last year. So we were kind of just like slowly building our con relations. That way Reached out to Bold Matsuri, got in with Jason Huckleberry and you know we've just kind of been slowly spreading our influence, so to speak.
Speaker 2:And we also belong to this community called the Video Game Music Community, and it's a wider community. Lots of conventions outside of Florida, the biggest one being Music and Games Festival in Maryland, and then Video Game Music Convention or VGM Con, are just some of the big ones that we participate in and have played at. Well, at least I've played at Magfest as a guest, but hopefully the band will get in there. So yeah, we just kind of just started sending our emails, like talking to people, just spreading it out as much as possible, playing at Underbelly 1904. And yeah, we just kind of eventually found our way playing with MegaRan recently this past January. So it's been a wild ride.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think people underestimate just the power of an email, Like that's how we've gotten some of our, some of our guests on. Eric is just shoot them an email. If they've got one in their Instagram or on their Twitter, it means they want to be contacted. You know, like I, it just goes such a very long way. Danny, I want to ask you because, as we were talking about in the pre-show, you know we have we've been through the, you know that corporate grind and while Eric and I are still kind of stuck in there as we try to, you know, maneuver our way out, Get us out I know, literally like like crawling through, Don't worry.
Speaker 4:I still got a day job, yeah, but yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 3:Yeah, how was it? How was it like finding that thing? You know, I don't know what you used to do, a, it was a like a D&D style, like fitness routine. I think that you'd done whenever we would first had met, and then now you have this, like how awesome has it been to just find these outlets, as we, you know, as we need those escapes from, you know, the daily nine to five.
Speaker 4:Yeah, absolutely. I have always kind of had music as a as like a side gig, as something to do, right, because I'm always kind of writing stuff. I've always got something in my head. So I originally played in a band on the local circuit called Nameless Guardian and we ended up our biggest show ended up being the big ticket, which is like the welcome to Rockville in the winter. The big festival, like a core memory, is like playing at the same time as Bush was on the main stage and like in between songs I heard like machine head kick on and I was like dude, this is surreal, like it's crazy, playing on a stage next to them.
Speaker 3:If you time that right Bush opened for you.
Speaker 4:Yeah, technically Machine had actually led into one of our songs.
Speaker 2:So it was actually pretty cool.
Speaker 4:Pretty rad. But after a while I decided to go back to college and stuff and that took up a lot of my free time. And that's when I, you know, because I couldn't just have a job. That's when I developed crit fit, or critical fit, which is the D&D fitness program that I, the company that I own also, and from there you know, as pandemic, affected. That greatly became difficult to hold in person meetups for fitness and stuff, and so I hadn't done much musically in a while and she soon had emailed me, facebook message me, matter of fact.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Facebook messenger.
Speaker 4:Yeah, because she was asking around and everybody kind of knows something, somebody around here and they had initially asked which is another funny story my buddy, jake Cadmus, who you know to play bass, and he wasn't available at the time. So he said, hey, you know, it would be great as a Danny. So I ended up getting the gig that way and it's been a great way to and Jake's actually now in the band. He ended up playing bass with us. But it's been a great way to spend my free time and it kind of it gives me something to look forward to on those difficult days when you know corporate stuff has you pulling your hair out and you know you got a headache, you feel tired and miserable. But I can open up some music editing software, I can talk to G soon about plans for records and and shows and and do that kind of stuff and it brings me a lot of joy and it helps keep a lot of that stuff like bearable.
Speaker 3:Do y'all. I was telling Eric this last year too, I think from like, because we do bold match series. When is that, eric? September or October June?
Speaker 1:or July.
Speaker 3:What am I?
Speaker 2:thinking of oh.
Speaker 3:I'm thinking of. I'm thinking of Ocala Comic Con. It's a good thing when we go to enough that you forget the dates.
Speaker 1:That's a good sign.
Speaker 3:Ocala Comic Con is the last one we do every year, which is like September, october, and we have that lull from like November to the beginning, middle of February where I'm just like God I wish I had a convention to work or to do like, do y'all get that Like just where I'm sure I mean you guys are, you know you're having some I'm not sure the consistency of the gigs that you're having, but I'm just waiting for that lull to end and to get to the next convention to work.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, I mean we had shows in August, september, twice in October and then we had Nacoma Con, which was in early November, and then, you know, then you start getting into what are generally live event slow periods, which is the holidays. So Thanksgiving and Christmas are traditionally incredibly slow live event periods, so what we kind of prepped for that in like July and we were like, hey, over this time we're going to try to take that step back, write some music, figure out what our best next steps were. So that's kind of how we just kept the fire lit, so to speak. It's not necessarily being able to play shows, but also getting ourselves out on the right foot. And that's actually when the Mega Ran collaboration came to fruition was.
Speaker 4:You know, he had contacted us and asked him to open for him in January. So that gave us a lot to do, especially G-Soon. She was the primary arranger for like a lot of the things on that performance. Because taking a primarily like beat focused hip hop album and getting a seven piece rock band with horns to play Mega Ran stuff is it's an undertaking. But why don't you talk about that a little bit, jay?
Speaker 2:Yeah, sure. So Rand hits me up like early December or mid December-ish and basically is like, hey, feel free to turn this down. But I have this wacky idea I've always wanted to play black material with a live band with horns, like Can y'all do it? And I was like, uh, yes. So we, uh, we made it happen. Um, I had to basically uh, within like three weeks, get like seven tracks arranged, some of them actually, I arranged more because we ended up not using some of those tracks on the show. So I I've arranged something close to like 10 or 13 tracks where we only use like seven of them.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, it was, it was pretty wild. And and then we had to record one of our rehearsals to send to him. So he knew like we were, what the quality was and where we were coming from. So it was, it was, um, it was a wild undertaking, but yeah, we uh, we made it work and he, he was very pleased. And so we, uh, we were obviously very pleased to um, when we got through the show and it was a wonderful experience.
Speaker 1:I think it always feels good to feel that way at the end of it, right, Like when you're at the end of it, you like to have that feeling and it's easy to kind of go through. You know, there's a grind of slowness sometimes, but there's also a grind where you're constantly busy. So the fact that you get to do something that you love helps a lot, and that's where I want to uh kind of move the conversation to next. Obviously, you both do so so many things with the limit breakers, but one of those things I found very interesting was, on your social media, seeing things like streams, like fundraisers, things for pride, all these really cool things.
Speaker 1:A lot of it either is video games or music, and those things are intertwined with the band. So I kind of want to ask both of you what is that earliest memory for video games and for music, where it became such a passion that has led to this? And Jesus, we'll start with. We'll start with you and then Danny, if you want to go, but from a video game and a music standpoint, where did it kind of start?
Speaker 2:So the band is called the limit breakers. The reason being is because my favorite JRPG of all time is Final Fantasy 7. The limit break for those that don't know is a move set in there where it's like a special attack that each character uses. And so I thought, oh hey, let me name my group the limit breakers. And so back in 1997, Young Jee Soon first got a copy of the of FF7, Black Label Disp, mind you like the original OG and I popped that thing in and I instantly fell in love with the game.
Speaker 2:The music is beautiful, Shoutouts to Niboyu Matsu. It's just wonderful, like orchestrated music that just really gets in your soul. Even that MIDI, like still to this day, gets gets me going. It's such a good, good soundtrack. And so that kind of like started my love of video game music. I didn't have this crazy idea to start a group until like four years ago because I kind of was waiting for the opportunity to present itself to me. But I've been in music since I was like 11. So like music has been a very integral part of my life and then loving the soundtracks as I was growing up Totally spent a journey.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's like you're never going to see this coming. Mine was also Final Fantasy 7. I'd love to pull the old headcard and say, well, I'm interested to video game music. That like I listened to the tunes, like we all played Zelda and stuff and Mario right, but that was just the sounds you heard while you played, like they're iconic. But it really didn't get into my soul until Final Fantasy 7 because the sound chip was so much more advanced than the old SNES days. There was a lot of emotion in it and that was the first soundtrack that I was really like man, this is like. This is hitting me. This is really elevating my experience of playing the video game, and so that even stretches all the way into, like, recent years. Like because you know, final Fantasy 7 remake in 2000,. Rebirth is next week.
Speaker 3:I was going to say y'all's Christmas is coming up. Yeah, like it's wild, it's crazy.
Speaker 4:But like hearing, like I remember telling G-Soon at one point they redid a song called the Air Buster which is a rearrangement of the Final Fantasy 7 boss music, and I describe it always as what it sounded like to me when I was 10 years old, because you go back to listen to those songs you know from the PlayStation era and it's like she was saying those MIDI sounds, those like really computerized, like not very authentic sounding things, and then you hear it with like a full orchestra and rock band just killing it and you're like, oh, this is what it sounded like when we were kids in our heads.
Speaker 4:And so I think music and video gaming is just such an integral part of my life that we geek out all the time about stuff. We'll be like oh man, do you remember that one song from Donkey Kong Country 2? And you know, that's, that's most of our text chains and like sending links and stuff to each other and everybody in the bands like that. We all have those favorites. Me and G-Soon tend to enjoy the old head stuff a little bit more.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean that makes a lot of sense. We all have the game. That's kind of defined our video game journey. You know, obviously for me Phil knows Bioshock was a huge component for me as far as a game. Phil, what is that? What is that game for you?
Speaker 3:Pokemon Yellow. It's definitely Pokemon Yellow. When I especially when I'm when we're having this conversation about music, definitely those are the ones that stick out in my head. And then I went through like like in my early years I kind of went through like a weird where I just played. First off I had a PlayStation and my parents didn't buy me a memory card. So, like every, I just start over everything I played. So I never really progressed that far in games and I was still active. So I played sports, which I can't do anymore. But back then when I could play sports, I was outside. Now outside disgust me. But now that you know much more into into gaming as I got older. But yeah, pokemon was definitely the one that that comes to mind when we're talking about soundtracks and just bringing you back to a time where you know what you. Just you got under the covers, you hid the Game Boy and hope that your parents didn't see the light shining underneath that blanket. So yeah, that's definitely what what came to mind for me.
Speaker 4:Those melodies get in your head, man.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like Pokemon's good.
Speaker 4:Pokemon melodies, especially a lot of those old Game Boy games. They had to do so much with so little because the the chips just couldn't handle a lot of sounds at the same time. So they had to really, really flex their like composing chops, and that's why all these things are so catchy.
Speaker 3:The other one that comes to mind, even though I, if I heard it, I could remember, I would very, very like I would very much remember it. But I had a game gear. I'm dating myself here. I had a game gear and I had Echo, and I had Echo the Dolphin, and that's another one that that comes to mind as well. So, like those handhelds maybe because they were like right in my face, the ones that really stick out oh, and Daytona 500 on the, on the, on the Sega Saturn, yeah, Yep, none of none of what you just said can be real.
Speaker 1:There's no way. I think you made all that up.
Speaker 4:The Sonic game on the game gear was definitely a core memory.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure yeah that thing drained the battery, so much.
Speaker 3:I was going to say that was an FD boy.
Speaker 4:Six, double A's every other hour.
Speaker 3:I literally had like a small briefcase to carry all the accessories. It was insane. I still have mine. Oh man, oh my gosh, I yeah, we have the.
Speaker 4:Game Boy case that looks like a Game Boy like it looks like a big gray Game Boy and it's got the big fake plastic buttons. And then you open it and it's got all your stuff in it with the big, the magnifying glass.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I have a magnifying glass for the game gear too. Yeah, that's not me, and we just unlocked a core memory.
Speaker 4:I love it no idea, what's?
Speaker 1:happening. No, I love it though. I love it and again, that's really the point of having conversations like these. It's just so easy to get naturally into things that we enjoy. Is there anything that the two of you are enjoying now? So obviously, you know you've got Final Fantasy and a lot of that content to look forward to, but just in the last, we'll say, a couple of years you know this year included Is there anything that's kind of caught your eye? You've seen a little bit of that inspiration from some of these older games that you've liked, or have you pretty much kind of stuck with the classics? I'd love to hear from both of you if there's anything that's really caught your eye and that could be from a music or video game standpoint.
Speaker 2:Oh, absolutely 100%. Dave the Diver has been a fantastic game that I think it dropped last year. Beat it on stream. It has a wonderful ending, the music is very tranquil. Some of it has like a little bit of a beatness to it, but like that game really like has a lot of influences of like old style pixel art with like some new additions, like some 3D, 2.5d Kind of features as well. It's really sick. So if you haven't played Dave the Diver, recommend that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and Phil might play it, because there's going to be a Godzilla DLC and he's a huge Godzilla head I saw yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm in my Godzilla, Renaissance era so that's amazing, that's amazing.
Speaker 4:I would say the last several years. Honestly, octopath Traveler has been really high on my list, not only for like the old school JRPG vibes, but the music Composed by the wonderful Yasunori Nishiki, who also helped on the Final Fantasy 7 remake and rebirth soundtracks. I think he's like Square Enix's hidden dark horse and this year, sea of Stars.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Absolutely.
Speaker 4:Absolutely Like Game of the Year. Nails, the Chrono Trigger vibes, the soundtrack composed by Eric Brown, I believe, and he had help from Yasunori Mitsuda, who is the composer for Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, awesome, awesome old Square Enix guy. So, yeah, I'd say those are, like in the last year, what I've been focusing the most on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and Phil, obviously for us it's been just more recently, pow World, hell Divers, having a ton of fun in those realms. But I mean, even in the last couple of years like a Sifu was a big one I think we both really really liked, just from multitude of standpoints, and it feels like gaming in general has been going pretty strong. But you know, not just gaming is the theme for the Limit Breakers Music, obviously equally, if not more, a bigger part. So I'm kind of curious for both of you, danny, we'll throw it to you first this time what is the creative process for you guys when it comes to making music and performing that music? I'm sure there's a lot of interesting elements that our audience would love to hear.
Speaker 4:Sure. So, yeah, what we always talk about is the concept of like oh, we are a rock band with a horn section and the music should be reflective of that. So the process generally is pick a song, and the process is, for picking is not usually that complicated. I think it normally comes down to this song is rad and I think people would really enjoy listening to it. So it basically starts with a you know a music editing software, open that up and then set it up and just start picking out the sounds or look at transcriptions and things like that of songs that are well loved or the things that we like, and then start to put a twist on it. And sometimes, especially with our band, the twist is in the instruments that we play. So, for instance, we're going to let the cat out of the bag a little bit.
Speaker 4:I did a song from Sonic 2 recently and that song is like it's groovy.
Speaker 4:Man, Like all those old sound sonic soundtracks are groovy, but the old sounds are just like little keyboard sound, little drum, little slap bass.
Speaker 4:You throw the horns on top and instantly it's like 70s tower power, Like it sounds really, really funky, and throw some distorted guitars on there and baby, you got a stew going.
Speaker 4:So that's kind of how the process goes is we'll build up. Sometimes we'll have a core idea of like where we want it to go, Like hey, let's do, let's do those who fight from Final Fantasy 7, but make it Prague Metal. Or like let's do Ring a Bell from Tekken and really rearrange it in a way that really talks to the sadness of the characters, themes and the hope and the glory that comes with victory and stuff. So that's kind of that's kind of how it goes. And then we start to like pick out certain things that we want to focus on and ways that we can change it up from the original in a way that just kind of feels like uniquely limit breakers and I got to say like G-Soon is actually incredible at like changing the feel of songs in a way that is just like really inspiring. Jay, do you want to talk a little bit about that process?
Speaker 2:Sure you were. You like said it so beautifully. I don't know what else I could add to that. First, thanks for the compliment. I really appreciate you. You got to give yourself some credit too. You've written some bangers for the band for sure.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, I don't want to like go like music rocket brain level analysis of the arranging process, but similar like for for Danny. I always think of a concept first to the arrangement and I me and Danny run it back and forth to between each other, and so once we have decided like, yeah, let's do this, let's get on that, we just kind of go to town and whatever comes from that. The most important thing for us is always telling a story. With what we're doing, with the way we arrange, we want the listener to go on a journey with us as if these arrangements were our own we always give credit, of course, but as if these arrangements are our own originals. We want to tell the story and create an atmosphere where people will feel the emotion and what we're doing, and lately we've been writing a lot of emotional stuff, so it's an interesting arc in the band lifespan right now.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I have a question because you know, when we were talking about this creative process, I think, when, with any project, when there are quite a few people, I think sometimes you can run into a situation with too many cooks. Right, eric and I are a team of two and we're not always on the same page. No, we had to have a talk six months ago, late last year. Yeah, we were like we got to fix something. So, yeah, like, how do you all, when it comes to you know, I'm sure everybody has different visions and styles and all that how does that all come together into a cohesive sound?
Speaker 2:Oh, we absolutely do, and we've, like the band in the past has had its issues. We've had our cup to Jesus, but the current yeah, with the current group, though, there's a few things that help us be very successful on staying together and collaborating as a cohesive unit. One is, first of all, we're friends. We acknowledge that we're friends and that we're just doing this because we really love doing it. Secondly, we have set those boundaries of like hey, if you have an issue, come to that person directly and talk it out, because there's nothing worse than people harboring like resentment towards another individual for something that was said or done. So we have this like handle it at the lowest level. If it needs to be escalated, let's escalate it.
Speaker 2:Probably the little thing I got from the military there, but that's kind of like how I run the ship. And then, third, I think, love. We love each other. It's a big thing, like we're a big family. I call them my tribe because they are. I couldn't imagine doing this thing that I'm doing without them. So I think, above all, we trust each other to be mature and lovable, capable and approachable adults.
Speaker 4:From a musical perspective, there are two primary cooks in the kitchen and that's the two of us. But something that has been very important to us is making sure that everybody's voices are heard. So one of my like big, like proud achievements that I have of last year is arranging Lady Maria of the Astral Clock Tower from Bloodborne. And that came about literally because one of our players that are Tenor Saxophonus, lucas, is a just he's a huge souls born guy. He just loves those games, and so I threw it to him. I was like, hey, I think people really want to hear something from Bloodborne or something what would be your pick? And he came back with Lady Maria. So I said, great, you know, and that also goes a long way towards just keeping great goodwill in the band, as we do care and listen to each other with those things.
Speaker 4:Like I wrote a Kingdom Hearts song because there's people in the band who love Kingdom Hearts and I give them you know, I aim to give them like, shine in those songs. Like you write parts that are like, hey, you get a solo here and you're gonna nail it because, like, this is yours and it helps. Like foster ownership of the music and of the experience. And then also everybody in our group is an expert, like professional level performer of their instrument. So sometimes there's things that I'm a guitarist primarily. I don't know of all the intricacies of saxophones and crazy horn instruments and stuff, so I throw that stuff to G soon and our trombonist, ethan, and our other saxophonist, anna. You know like hey, is this realistic or is this something? Is there something better you think could go here and they'll give that feedback and then that's how we kind of keep, instead of like the too many cooks approach is like we incorporate seasoning from every cook instead of having them on over the fire, so to speak.
Speaker 4:You know, yeah, that's a great way to put it Our drummer Paul elevated, you know, sorry, a quick anecdote we did Gerudo Valley from Zelda last year before we went to VGMCon, because it was Legend of Zelda themed, and the way I wrote it was like a fast, like at tempo kind of salsa-y number, and it's supposed to be like Latin rock sort of, and it was a real bear to play. So eventually, what we did was we slowed it down and I was like man, this just doesn't feel right though, and Paul was like can I try something? And then he laid down this nasty, like reggaeton like beat with a tumbao and that's. We've never played it any other way since, and it was an incredible suggestion that I would not have come up with, despite like growing up with salsa music. It was such a. Sometimes you have those eureka moments and that can only come when you have everybody's voice in a collective, equally heard.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and to quickly add to that, because I had time to think, ego being checked at the door is a huge thing, like everyone has a voice and in this group, we want people to be heard, as Danny said, and there's no place for ego, like ego destroys creativity. That's my firm belief, so it's all about teamwork and cooperation and also being able to realize like hey, you don't know everything, so somebody has something useful to add.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think all those ingredients are needed to get that musical epiphany, to get that to actually happen, and it sounds like you guys run a great kitchen. It's probably the opposite of when we get in the kitchen and overcooked me and Phil, because that's usually a nightmare. So complete opposite.
Speaker 3:Love to hear that I was going to say, eric, I don't have any of those feelings towards you, so we're in trouble. Yeah, I heard a key thing in there was love.
Speaker 1:I think we may have taken a wrong turn.
Speaker 2:You guys love each other, I can tell Sure taking that left at Albuquerque, probably yeah.
Speaker 1:But I definitely feel that as well. There are definitely some gives and takes. Even when we're running panels, me and Phil will talk about who's going to take which one who has similar interests. When does it align? Sometimes it's simpler, as in hey, do you need to go eat lunch, I'll do this one. So again, sometimes it's really intricate and then sometimes it's just common currency.
Speaker 3:Sometimes it's. I don't like jujitsu kaizen. You didn't have to say that.
Speaker 1:That was unnecessary. Oh, hold on, jisoo and Klatt, for me Is that disgusting. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:I'm just. I have a hard time with modern animes. Yeah, I tried to watch it. I did give it a chance. It's not my cup. How many episodes did you watch? I watched about four. Ok see, I watched really good 17.
Speaker 3:And Eric still is mad you just finished the first season.
Speaker 1:dude, I just I didn't.
Speaker 3:She says I didn't give it a shot and I gave it a watch, so you gave it the solid five episode anime trial period.
Speaker 4:right, Like it should hook you in the first five, right? Jjk is a slow burn, so you got to let him. You got to let GG cook man.
Speaker 2:I might try to go back on brother. I do like that one guy. I do like that one guy with the little tiny glasses Like, and he's tall Anonymy With the amp.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's got like the suit, I like the bear and he's, he's red.
Speaker 2:I do like him, anonymy's cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's. It is definitely interesting whenever me and Phil have to have anime conversations because he is very, very picky. But JJK, I have given him some some, I've given him some leeway on that, just because it is. It is a lot. There is a character problem. I think there's too many of them, I think it's. It's hard to understand the power scaling to a point you kind of just have to roll with it. Yeah, I enjoy it. I think a lot of people have a disservice that they didn't get to see it prior to JJK zero. I think if they had started with the movie, I think it actually may have kind of gotten them slowly into it, right. And then you know, yeah, but that's just kind of JJK in general, it's going to be very controversial.
Speaker 4:It's a I'm curious.
Speaker 1:I'm curious what are there any like animes in general? Obviously, we talked a lot about games and music, but any animes in general that you guys kind of have that same, maybe that final fantasy level anime is there something out there like that for either of you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm an old head when it comes to anime, so Gundam Wing is like my stuff. I mean, I think it's so funny now that I'm referring to Gundam Wing as an old head anime, but it basically is. I like I like mecha animes, you know what I mean. Like. So like Macross, robo Tech, full Metal Panic I'm huge in mecha and like military animes. Those are my, those are my things.
Speaker 4:Mine is the, the venerable cowboy we bought. I could rewatch it at any point. Eric's pave yeah.
Speaker 1:OK, you said that like really just I said I had watched it for the first time in the last like two years and I said I understand it's nice. Sure, I don't know that it aged well for a new, a new watcher. Hmm, but it's, it's, it's good. You ain't even supposed to. I'm sorry, listen, I've already got it. Listen, ok, I'll fight with a friend, so B-Bop.
Speaker 4:Sorry, b-bop is is. It can be a frustrating show because there are only slivers of back story and sometimes the goofy stuff just kind of rains in certain episodes. And I understand that. You know, it's my level of don't tell the viewer anything and respect the viewer and let them kind of think about it, because we don't get that enough in media now. We get beat over the head with exposition and like power explanations. So that was actually where my wife fell off of. Jujutsu kaizen was with panda where he had to explain his power seven freaking times and she's like I'm tired of this, I hate this. Can we go back to where, like, the people were exploding and stuff? But yeah, that I'd say be bop you. You hawker show Is another god tier old anime recently, I'd say love that welcome his brother.
Speaker 4:More recently it's ten years old at this point.
Speaker 1:Older, yeah, but that's a classic, though yeah, no, I don't know that I've really heard anyone make a real argument as to not liking that show, and it's definitely top ten for me. I'm pretty sure it's like skirting top five. Maybe in the top five, definitely a great one mecha anime, as well as definitely something I've kind of been getting into throughout my anime journey. So, like code geos is definitely a top ten for me. I have a very soft spot for a show called darling in the Franks, which the Kyle starts very strong despite it's clear.
Speaker 3:Very explain this thing to me and I was like what it was like very early in his anime journey to like we just started. He just started watching anime with like the last four or five years and he explained what was happening in this. I was like what the hell are you watching?
Speaker 4:Except the girls bent over the whole time.
Speaker 3:You never explained it as Pacific Rim, but this there's two pilots.
Speaker 1:Oh, my kind of do suggest yeah, you still have to be drift compatible, or does it just?
Speaker 2:It's yeah, it's more suggestive than ghosts in the shell, though, yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean it's, it's, it's, it goes off the rails is my issue with it? But you know that that one holds a secret, you know, like special place in my heart. And then the most recent one is my first Gundam experience. I've always loved it from afar, but the witch from Mercury, fantastic, which is really great.
Speaker 4:That is one of the best Gundam series they've ever made so good yeah, it definitely.
Speaker 1:I think it does get a little stale towards the end, but I enjoyed the journey so much I didn't even really care and I really want to explore it some more. So hesitant, but I excited to.
Speaker 4:So when you say things went off the rails, this is a pet theory of mine. I called the Japanese water theory Because this happens so much in anime that where it gets to a certain point and then stuff goes off the rails, right, and this happens in like video games to like Final Fantasies, there's always like, hey, we're having this fun fantasy adventure, I saved a cat. Oh god, I'm killing God in space. You know what I mean. So it's like what do you experience with Darling in the Franks? It's just so common. Another, yeah, mecha anime that I really liked, that did that, was Erica seven.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah was awesome, until you find out that everybody is like An alien coral or something and I'm just like this is the Japanese water moment. Man, like what were they on when? They wrote this. It made sense until now. Like last exile is another, that's kind of an older anime. But yeah, there's just a ton of examples. You just you're like what, where did this come from? What happened?
Speaker 3:yeah, and a lot of things have that the thing that comes to mind whenever you you have that theory there. Danny Eric, this is so recent, but it was the random alien episode of Mob Psycho.
Speaker 1:It almost definitely hurt the same show.
Speaker 3:yeah, right that I accidentally start something else like a spin off. Yeah, I was very confused and I get confused by anime very easily, so so I held on me, to me too that I held on and it was. It was a miracle, but yeah, we're I'm.
Speaker 4:I like to go and rewatch old anime a lot. I check out new stuff every so often. The remake of Urisayatsura has been really popular in the household. I've also been enjoying all this isn't new but Madoka Magica as a magical girl thing, because I grew up watching Sailor Moon so I have a soft spot for for magical girl stuff and that one was a great subversive kind of deconstruction of a genre. So it was a lot of fun. And oh gosh, what besides JJ K? I'm still watching my hero academia. I'm not sure why.
Speaker 1:The right team. My hero, the yeah, I kind of likes my hero.
Speaker 3:if you guys didn't notice that his wall is, yeah, like all might throw up in his wall.
Speaker 4:No shame, I see that all my back there filled. I have an all right now.
Speaker 3:I also have. It's not up in here but I have like a concerning amount of like big three artwork and I didn't realize that I was buying too much of it until like Last year I was like why, do I have so much deck? You told me. And it's like they're all like different variations, but they're all also kind of the same. Like I got. I got to stop by.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I'm back ago on the back of my Jeep like it's Listen it's a lot of my hero.
Speaker 1:My hero is great. It's got great moments right. I will argue that to the end as a show cohesively. There are some problems and some of it is also outside issues like with how the studio is handled, stuff like they just announced another movie so now I get to watch another season that isn't going to reach its full animation potential because they put all the money in time into another movie. Correct and like you know, my, my villain academia arc is where it pissed me off, I think, the most. So it's definitely fallen off a bit, but I think, when it's all said and done, I think it's just still too good to ignore and we'll kind of see where that goes. But I don't know. Is it going to be looked at as one of the classics like 20 years from now? I'm not sure.
Speaker 4:I think it could, almost ironically, on the back of the music. I think you say run is the most that is one of the most poignant and like important, shown in themes of all time.
Speaker 4:I mean, I've watched a YouTube video of Shaggy going Super Saiyan and it fit perfectly. I've watched who saved ticker and like the Winnie the Pooh movie and it fit to. You say run. When you write something like that, that's that incredible and can go with everything. You've nailed it. I actually managed. I met the composer for MHA and Hikyu and and all those. I went to Otacon a couple years ago and they had a concert where they had like a small orchestra and the rock band and he actually came out and played keyboards on you say run. And then we got to like do a meet and greet after it was. It was fantastic. He's a really cool guy. Also met the composer for Inuyasha. Did you guys ever watch Inuyasha?
Speaker 1:I've seen it, I did, I've seen it as a kid, but never like religiously, it was like one. It was also like Yu-Gi-Oh, like I watched it to a certain point. Inuyasha was like that for me and I barely remember it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they have a composer for for that out as well, and he's actually like a really a really great like classical composer. He came out and played with the orchestra. It was, it was a real, it was a core memory. But yeah, inuyasha is another show that gets away with a lot of stuff, because the music is just too dang good man.
Speaker 3:Well, we talked about this at at Brook City Anime Festival with a lot of our guests, with a lot of the voice actors. Eric, I mean, anime, I think, is in its in its healthiest spot that it's ever been. It's more accessible than it has ever been. It has so many choices as far as people that are even casuals. I mean, we talk about this all the time. My daughter swore she would never find an anime that she likes and while it has dipped in quality recently, even though I'm not all caught up, she loves by ex family. You know there's something for everybody. So it's to get to be in the forefront when we get to do these conventions and like, meet all these people. You know, just super grateful for that.
Speaker 4:So there's a reason we keep anime tunes in the cycle in our set list, like when we do cons and stuff. People just love to hear them. So far we've done like departure from Hunter Hunter. We've done a Sailor Moon medley, done the world from Death Note, like the first opening.
Speaker 2:That probably really from Attack on Titan.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we're next con we do, we'll bring the world back, and I'm actually going to do Smile Bomb from you. You hawker show coming up so that we're going to have a, we're going to have a good old time. I don't watch death note, man. You really should, you should.
Speaker 3:It's just one of those things I just put off because I know it's there, so like I'm going to watch other stuff, so I need to get on.
Speaker 4:It's a short watch. Overall it's worth it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the Netflix movie. Right, that's what I need to know.
Speaker 4:No, no, no, no no no, oh no, no, you're not going to do that. It's good. That's good for a laugh.
Speaker 3:Just like we're average are. Stop watching the animated, I'll just watch the the moon. Let's not do that. I'm three up like four episodes into the animated and I'm like this is great, but now I can just watch Negative.
Speaker 4:Negative goes right at the pattern. Same. Thing. Like wow, I'm going to give you the Vince McMahon.
Speaker 1:Oh my god. Well, before this goes off the rails, phil, was there any other questions you wanted to ask our guests before we? We kind of start to wrap up with a little bit of a fun at the end of the episode here.
Speaker 3:No, I don't think so. We covered a lot of great topics and you know just, these always naturally flow to other conversations, and it's, it's great. So no, I'm ready for the game.
Speaker 1:All right, so we've got at least one game. I think I might even fit another one with our conversation of anime. I think it'd be really interesting, so to watch Phil struggle. But we'll start with the game I had planned, which is a video game based game, and we steal this like we steal many things from our fellow podcasters. Your friendly neighborhood gamers were big fans of their show and they played this game with us. It is called synonym role, and I have five characters and five games, and I am going to say the synonym allegedly, because that's what Google told me. So if it's an antonym, I don't want to be yelled at. I searched it on Google, but I have the synonyms up and you just need to guess the character It'll be first to do it. So it'll be the three of you all host the game and we'll see who walks out victorious. So, with that being said, our first character, first synonym synonym roll auditory the urchin.
Speaker 4:And Sonic the Hedgehog.
Speaker 1:Very good. Oh it is a character, it is Sonic the Hedgehog. We'll go all characters to start off, so we've got four more characters before we transition to games. Our next character is stiff constrictor.
Speaker 4:Solid snake. That's solid snake. All right, I did good on this part of the SAT.
Speaker 1:Coming out to a lead here, all right, this one next one, protection monarch.
Speaker 2:Would that be Noctis?
Speaker 4:No, Protection monarch.
Speaker 1:I had a feeling this one might stump us a little bit. Phil, I'd be shocked if you get this Protection monarch oh shield hero. No, that's not a bad guess though OK. Shovel knight. No, also not also not too bad Protection. What Protection monarch?
Speaker 3:monarch OK.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm stumped on this.
Speaker 1:This one, I can tell you, is a character from a very popular fighting game, armour King. It is Armour King from Tekken.
Speaker 3:Oh, come on. Yeah, definitely, Definitely wasn't getting that.
Speaker 4:I was like I mean, my first thought was King and I was like, why is the protection come in? I completely forgot about Armour King.
Speaker 1:That is great. All right, let's go ahead and jump into the next one Noble apricot.
Speaker 4:Princess Peach.
Speaker 1:It is Princess Peach, that is correct.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we are not doing great. You're a monster. It is a it is a team up so far.
Speaker 2:Yeah, seriously Phil. Seriously Phil, like my own, my I'm getting done in by my own teammate.
Speaker 1:I own band member. I think the real question is do you guys want to lose individually or as a team? Yeah, that's what we're looking at right now. That's true, that's true. Ok, last character, sizable patriarch, King Dedede no big daddy. It is big daddy from. Yeah, I thought about the bio shock.
Speaker 4:I was like what did Eric talk about earlier? Oh, bio shock there. It is why that is it?
Speaker 1:That? Is it All right? Well, listen, we can absolutely tie here. You've got five more and five games, so it's not over, but you know it's kind of over, so we're going to move to five games to finish the day. Well, the first game outstanding impact allies.
Speaker 4:Super Smash Brothers.
Speaker 1:It is. Come on, brothers, listen, I'm just good at the music. All right Now. I don't think Meta like this. Now, now Danny is pretty much one, so I'm going to put Danny on a five second timer to answer, All right? So the next one province tickers Times splitters.
Speaker 3:No province tickers.
Speaker 1:And Danny can jump in. Yeah, I got to think about this. This one's going to be interesting.
Speaker 3:World of Warcraft. Province like world.
Speaker 1:No, not a bad guess, though with world Not bad. Yes, one's a challenging one. So again, what are you?
Speaker 2:thinking.
Speaker 4:Tickers, tickers. Can we get a hint this?
Speaker 1:Yep, this is a classic game that has been brought up on this episode. Final Fantasy Seven no, not Final Fantasy Seven, OK mon Not Pokemon.
Speaker 2:Dave the diver.
Speaker 4:No, so no, remember, it's a word, right. So province, another word that is similar to province, and then another word that is similar to tickers the tickers Yep.
Speaker 2:Oh, ok, now I'm understanding, right.
Speaker 1:This game is also known for the music and its characters.
Speaker 4:My God.
Speaker 1:Sea of Stars, no.
Speaker 3:Focusing on province. Oh my gosh Mm. Hmm.
Speaker 1:Let me see I'm. Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 4:I feel so silly, because you mentioned it, that we we talked about it.
Speaker 1:Another synonym for province that would work here, let's say colony Helldivers. No, you guys are going to be mad. How? No you guys are going to be mad. Now you're just guessing games that I am.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I'm ready to throw in the towel on this one, yeah me too, All right, the answer is Kingdom Hearts.
Speaker 1:Oh gosh.
Speaker 4:Yeah, oh my gosh, think McFly.
Speaker 3:Come on.
Speaker 2:Oh, Paul would have gotten that right.
Speaker 1:Take your heart Got it.
Speaker 4:Got it, yeah, ok.
Speaker 1:That was a tough out. The next one concluding illusion.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's final.
Speaker 1:Final fantasy.
Speaker 4:There we go. Phil gets it because I'm still in the timer. Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1:That's right, so Phil gets it, I feel Angie's team.
Speaker 2:Team up. Yeah, we're team, that's right. Good job, phil, all right.
Speaker 1:Next one is Protect Deuce, protect, protect.
Speaker 3:Deuce, deuce, like a dump, like a poo Danny's back in.
Speaker 4:OK, sorry, phil got me. I feel like.
Speaker 1:I'm going to Damn it. Just what is the synonym of Deuce, Phil? Please, that one's the gimme. Well, I'm thinking of you said protect right. That was the first one. The second word is Deuce.
Speaker 3:Portal to.
Speaker 1:No, but you've got one of the synonyms right. Ah, the two.
Speaker 4:I felt like that wasn't.
Speaker 1:Portal to get away from the poo.
Speaker 3:Protect Mm. Hmm, help, no, no, I've heard. I've risen to protect.
Speaker 1:You know, although we are protecting, protecting the galaxy and super Earth. Yes, but yeah, no, that's not.
Speaker 2:I'm doing my, I'm doing my. Yes, see, my brain doesn't work this way All.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 3:We another.
Speaker 1:Another synonym, according to the Internet, would be guard.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that doesn't help what kind of we get a tip about the game.
Speaker 1:An actual hint. Yeah, this is a game that people can play now, and people actively play online with their friends. Phil, we have played this game. Actually, I know for a fact someone on the limit breakers has played it, because you guys also posted about it. So everyone here probably everybody here knows this game.
Speaker 4:Oh no.
Speaker 3:Oh, titanfall too. That's not a thing. No, that's not protect.
Speaker 1:No, it is also. It's kind of like two words put into one. You wouldn't normally say this word, but if you think of guard like think about what you would be doing and that might help.
Speaker 3:I'm just going through every game we played with the two in it.
Speaker 1:No hearts to. Yeah, we are. No, I didn't go to the hearts to. I'm trying to think of what else was Is a man to? This is a online multiplayer game that you can play.
Speaker 2:Oh, I play.
Speaker 1:I heard it recently had some I'm not Updates to like its characters and stuff. Battlefront no no.
Speaker 4:All right.
Speaker 3:Split game. You guys ready to give in? No, that's not. That's not. It's not a no, that's like oh yeah, what am I talking about?
Speaker 1:I've not known that we barely played the first one. All right, here we go. Another one you might get mad at. It is overwatch to oh my God, you know where are you.
Speaker 2:You know it is overwatch.
Speaker 3:Overwatch that game.
Speaker 1:All right, this is the. This is the last synonym roll. This one is called Wallop Blade and we're going to wall up the blade, wall up blade.
Speaker 2:Ok, danny said I'm not even I'm not even soaring Bothering something Skyward Sword.
Speaker 1:No, I was unsure about the word wallop. I'm not going to lie to you, so I may change that. Yeah, let's let's do a different synonym.
Speaker 3:Blade.
Speaker 1:I didn't, I didn't love that, but I'm going to stick with blade. Do I have sword right? No, you do not. Let's say thrash, thrash, blade.
Speaker 3:But you said it wasn't blade, you said it's thrash blade is the.
Speaker 4:the synonyms Sword is not correct.
Speaker 3:Oh, so OK. That's why I said sword OK, thrash blade.
Speaker 4:My gosh, these are so hard. These are harder than the characters. Yeah.
Speaker 1:There's definitely, there's definitely chicken yeah right.
Speaker 3:Does that knife in it? Is it knife?
Speaker 4:is knife. It's not knife, not knife. No, it's not Dagger. Oh no, what type of what?
Speaker 1:type of blades are there. It is a rhythm game.
Speaker 4:Hmm.
Speaker 1:Specifically a VR rhythm game Beat Saber. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3:What's the name of that beat?
Speaker 1:Saber Beat Saber.
Speaker 4:I don't see my, my hands.
Speaker 3:I don't know why it's the name of that game.
Speaker 1:I didn't love that Because that's how you play it, all right, well. Well, some of those hurt at the end, but it did.
Speaker 3:It was a year we were having a good time.
Speaker 2:I am deflating now, so you OK, danny, I hope you're proud of yourself oh.
Speaker 1:God, all right. Well, how about we end on a good note that I do have a quick secondary game? We talked about anime, some of the classics, some of the new ones, but everything that we love with music. That means we have to talk about anime openings. So I have a top 10 list. It's really a top 20 list. We're only going to do the top 10 for best anime opening themes of all time, ranked by CBR. So you do not have to necessarily name the song.
Speaker 1:I guess we'll say bonus points if you do, but I do want to know the animes that have it in the top 10. So whoever wants to guess first, we'll see who ends up with the most and I'll tell you where they were placed.
Speaker 3:Tank attack on Titan. Cowboy is like three.
Speaker 1:So, phil, attack on Titan is number one oh, ok Is the first opening, and tank from Cowboy Bebop is number six. So, we've got you you have a smile bomb which one?
Speaker 2:You? You have a show smile bomb you.
Speaker 1:you have a show is outside of the top 10.
Speaker 4:These, these reviewers tripping, who wrote this art? They are. I just see our eyes.
Speaker 3:I just want to be like wild.
Speaker 1:Yes, the.
Speaker 3:R has some crazy lists.
Speaker 1:And I should mention, this was updated February 11th, so literally like two weeks ago.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they're OK to be wrong.
Speaker 1:Updated by Chelsea Steel so.
Speaker 4:Chelsea. I just want to talk. That's it, the hero, one punch man.
Speaker 1:The hero, one punch man is number eight. Full metal alchemist, again by in full metal alchemist is number nine, very good.
Speaker 4:How about the spy family? And true, I feel like people really love that spy family is not in the top 10.
Speaker 1:Not a bad guess.
Speaker 2:Do somebody say my hero?
Speaker 1:already they did not because the day is number 10 for my hero, academia, all right.
Speaker 4:How about? What is it? Kitai Kitan Demon Slayer from. Oh yeah, Gorenga from Demon Slayer.
Speaker 1:Surprisingly, no, it is not in the top 10, which is a shocker.
Speaker 2:I'm going to take a guess and say any Asha.
Speaker 1:No, not in your Asha. They are outside of the top 10 as well. What do we have so far? We have one, yep, you guys have one, six, eight, nine, nine and ten eight, nine and ten, so we need the middle two through five. Yep, and then number seven, oh seven, and I'll tell you, out of the ones that are left, I would say they are all on the older side. One is an argument, but I would say all are on the older side now.
Speaker 2:OK.
Speaker 1:Gundam wing. No, no Gundam wing in the top 10. What?
Speaker 3:I'm going to go. Just based off of mainstream Hype, is Pokemon in there.
Speaker 1:Pokemon. The Pokemon theme is number five.
Speaker 4:Ok over tank, killing me over tank. Yes, I'm in hell. It's fortunate.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's right, Pokemon is an anime, technically.
Speaker 4:Hmm.
Speaker 3:Well, the rest same.
Speaker 1:The rest are going to be obvious anime.
Speaker 3:OK, ok, naruto, I don't know, does that have? I've never seen Naruto. Does that have a?
Speaker 1:No, people love Bluebird, but it is not here.
Speaker 4:How about the songs from Bleach? Anything, no, bleach OK.
Speaker 3:Oh, blue Exorcist, Then the.
Speaker 1:Danny, jason, anything you guys want to have here, I'm just not going to entertain that.
Speaker 2:You said they're older, right?
Speaker 4:Yep, Like we say older because some of our idea of older is different. Right yeah, what years are we talking? One piece.
Speaker 1:So I would say I think the only one on here that I have to double check, and I'm pretty sure I can say this oh, that one did come out more recent. Ok, well, so the old, the newest one, came out in like 2014. Ok, the newest one, but the other three are are fairly older, like pre 2000. Pretty, I believe it's try gun on there. Try gun is not on here.
Speaker 3:Did you hear me say one piece here?
Speaker 1:I did not, which was a shock, and I lied about pre 2000. There are some in the early 2000s. Ok yeah, no one piece, which is unfortunate because we are as number one, but it's fine Ghost in the Shell standalone complex. No, not Ghost in the Shell, though I will say two of the four that are up here we have talked about on this episode.
Speaker 4:Wonderful. So no gun to wing, no, any ocean, no.
Speaker 3:Do we say JJ, oh you said across 2014.
Speaker 1:Do you know which one was that?
Speaker 2:Was. That is more, is a Macross on there.
Speaker 4:No, our crosses not on here Is the witch for Mercury, on there it is not to say that is a banger, the banger.
Speaker 1:No, these are all older, all older than than which for Mercury Sure.
Speaker 4:Wow, Gosh this is hard.
Speaker 3:Are these things that I would even know, eric, or should I just chill?
Speaker 1:You would, everybody here would know these four shows by name. Yes, ok, death Note, the World. Death Note is number four.
Speaker 4:That was a real goal, yep.
Speaker 1:You guys were literally talking about rocking that one out. I was surprised to see it last.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Departure.
Speaker 4:Hunter Hunter.
Speaker 1:No, no, Hunter Hunter. Hmm, Not a bad guess though. Sailor Moon no, Sailor Moon no we have on crack. We have number two number three and number seven Did you? Mom left on the board, didn't know. If you don't want to play, just tell me. You don't want to play, it's fine, you don't have to do that. Listen man, you're going to help, or not One of the digital monsters One of these are a very popular Mecca anime.
Speaker 4:Oh.
Speaker 1:OK, oh, voltron, not Voltron. You said code guess. It is code, guess it is colors, and that is number seven. So now you have two and number three. One of these two is also a Mecca anime and the other is the one that came out like 2014. So it's the more newer one out of the two. So we're in like old Mecca, not green login. It's not a bad guess. Vivi is an older Mecca and then one is a newer anime, kind of in the horror, horror space. Oh, never mind.
Speaker 4:A newer anime.
Speaker 3:In the horror space.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and maybe horrors may be the wrong way to describe it, but it is kind of like a dark. It is a very dark anime. We'll say dark thriller. The promise never late. I almost said that. No, that's, that's a great guess, though I'd say it's kind of in that spirit.
Speaker 2:You said there's an old one in there too, right on the list.
Speaker 1:Old, classic Mecca. This is one of the biggest Meccas that anybody could name. That's not good.
Speaker 4:Oh yes, sorry. Ok, robotech, angel's thesis, yes, neon Genesis, even jelly, I mean so that is that is the only one made that up.
Speaker 3:I don't even know that was number three, it's a panger.
Speaker 4:That's that's that's.
Speaker 1:that's a legit one. That's it. The next one is just number two left on the board. Again, this comes from an anime that everyone here would know the name of. Not sure if everyone has seen it, but it is probably like on list of anime, like opening themes it is. It is huge, big O.
Speaker 4:No it's newer, newer, oh, newer. Ok, yeah, we got the old one, that was Evangelion this got it.
Speaker 1:This was the opening song of the first season that came out in 2014. It was a 12 episode anime series.
Speaker 4:The hell is the name of that. It's not Blue Exorcist, no, it's a crisis the sequel season.
Speaker 1:The sequel season was highly criticized from straying away from the manga, and then the final season returned back to the manga, which confused a lot of viewers. I'm confused. Tokyo Ghoul it is Tokyo Ghoul unravel, and that is our list here, and somehow I frustrated us more than the first one. So this is great, this is awesome. Now, specifically, I'm feeling and my light fell like.
Speaker 3:It took the sound away for a minute. What was it? Tokyo Ghoul.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I hate that I thought you did that on purpose. I thought you just know my light. I thought it was just very dramatic, and then something happened and and yeah, I couldn't hear everybody for a little bit. No, those were our games for Creator Spotlight. Thank you guys for entertaining us on that, and I think Danny won both of them.
Speaker 2:I got by its life and I get three.
Speaker 1:You said Blue Exorcist.
Speaker 3:I stopped listening to that. No, I said Pokemon, I said attack on Titan, and then didn't I get one more, it's two, that's 20 percent. Wait, yeah, 40. No, never mind, continue, yeah.
Speaker 4:Matthew Well without all that 40 percent is 20 percent.
Speaker 1:The math is not nothing, you step into the ring with some of it.
Speaker 4:You got a 50 percent chance of winning.
Speaker 3:I'm not a normal man. I get freaks nine days out of the week. There's only seven days. Pop a pop.
Speaker 4:But if you step in the ring with me, I got a 66 percent chance of winning. So, you have a mojo is 50 percent and you divided by my 66. Oh, man.
Speaker 3:Oh, on the video version. I'm totally cropping that, that I'm totally cropping.
Speaker 4:I'm definitely going to put Stynermath in oh my gosh yeah.
Speaker 1:Phil taking over the editing has been entertaining, to say the least. Well, before this episode gets any more unhinged, I think this was an absolute success. This was so much fun. I want to thank both of you for showing up tonight being on the episode with us again. Me and Phil have had a lot of fun with this series, getting to just build connections with people about stuff that we love, and it was just really overdue once again for us to be able to connect in this way, and I'm sure it won't be the last time.
Speaker 1:Phil, I think of what did I miss? Our bonus episode would love to see the both of you and other members of the limit breakers come back on to discuss pop culture news, so we'll probably talk a little bit about that in the after show. With that being said, I know that the limit breakers are kind of taking a little bit of a break at the moment, but if I could ask you guys to plug just anything that you have upcoming or any goals that you have for 2024 that people that check out the limit breakers should know, sure thing.
Speaker 2:We are currently working on a secret EP. I will say that it involves a certain young Hylian character in the Nintendo realm, and that's all I will say as far as that's concerned. But we also have a bunch of tracks we're working on behind the scenes recording stuff, and we are working on a our very first full length album, which should be coming out sometime next year. So the the EP is coming out this summer, though, so be on the lookout for that. It's going to be real fun, and then we should be returning to live music in a couple months, yep.
Speaker 4:And if you're unfamiliar with our stuff, check us out on all the major streaming platforms, including Spotify, apple Music, all that fun stuff and check us out on YouTube. We have an awesome video that we made for Lavender Town from Pokemon Red and Blue, so if you haven't checked that out so far, check that out. We also had our live performance with Megaran recorded, so that should be dropping on the YouTube channel on Gaku Overdrive sometime in this next week.
Speaker 1:Awesome, absolutely love it. And we'll have a ton of the links that were just mentioned thrown into the show notes of this episode, phil, in addition to their links, please let our audience know especially if they're new, coming from the limit breakers to listen to us where they can find more of our content and we'll close this up, yeah definitely G-Soon.
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