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Nerds and gigs. Welcome to another nerdtastically newsworthy edition of the legendary Saturday Nights

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of the Nerd A roundtable yours, truly, King Nerdificent to Wala sharp in

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the building. And if you do not know, I am a die hard

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anime fan. Me and my son. Every Saturday night from like eight pm

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until we are blurry eyed, we are watching every single animation we can on

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crunchy roll and that is just what we do. We've been doing this for

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years now. We will watch every single show that we can, and when

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we get to the end of something or if it's on hiatus, that just

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makes us find another show from Black Clover, you know our favorite, my

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hero Academia Jiu Jitsu Kaizen. I mean, the list goes on and on

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and on. We have been watching one piece probably since the days of Christ.

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This show has been on so long. But that is what we do.

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And so on April fifteenth, we will be celebrating a national holiday for

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us. We will maybe take the day off from school and work and just

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really lose our minds because April fifteenth is national on a May Day, a

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day that celebrates the art form and its impact on broader pop culture. My

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son sometimes dresses up like anime characters. Anime is everywhere. If you did

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not know it, it is. It is a five billion dollar empire,

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so trust and believe it's everywhere. I mean, I don't know if you

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remember, but last year at the Anime Expo, some four hundred thousand fans

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attended from all over the world. So you know this is not a nerd

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thing. Okay, it's not a nerd thing. This is a worldwide thing. So this is not something you can say, whatever, what are you

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all talking about. I know that I consider myself a bit of an expert,

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but I want to bring on two verified experts. I am talking about

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the host of the brand new show on crunchy Roll. Crunchy Role presents The

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Anome Effect, which is a show that spotlights influences and the broader cultural landscape.

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I want to welcome to the show the host of The Anime Effect,

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miss Leah President and Lee Alec Murphy. How are you doing today? And

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that's actually Murray. Yes, there's no p in that. Thank you so

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much for having us on. I mean, that was a great intro. Like you mentioned, Anime Day is coming up on April fifteenth, this coming

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week, and you know we're trying to take over tax Day. Hopefully,

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hopefully we bring a brighter spin on that and can make it, can make

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it anime day. Yeap, that is what's an anime? Happy ending,

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take the stress off of filing and immerse yourself in anime. Uh miss resident.

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First, let me start with you. What is your favorite and I

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mean your favorite anime series? And this will really dictate the course of this

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conversation, oh, without a doubt, And this is something that we talk

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about a ton on crunch on. The anime effect is I will take any

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opportunity whatsoever to talk about Attack on Titan. To me, it is peek

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fiction. It is my favorite anime of all time. I've got an Attack

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on Titan tattoo. I've interviewed the creator a Siama. Yeah, So to

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me, I think that's a clear uh number one okay, And that is

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a show that my son got me into because I'm I'm I'm a Dowdy mcdowdar

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with a lot of series, some of them like man, I don't know, and he's always like, Daddy, just give it the opportunity, give

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it a chance. And we start watching it. After a while, I'm like, oh, this is pure nightmare field. This is this show is

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so intense. But I have got to say, I gotta admit I literally

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was about to take my television off the wall and throw it out the window

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with that series finale. That's the fairiest finale. I gotta tell you.

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It just did me dirty. I was like, wait a minute, we

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did all of that and that is the end. I was, oh,

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okay, breathe, breathe, breathe, yes, okay, but that is

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yes, that is a verified hit. I dig that, all right.

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The Alex, what is your favorite automate series? This is such a difficult

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question. They consistently jockey for position, and I'm gonna have to go with

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the Dragon Ball z uh. That's the one that has that started my anime

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journey, and it's one that you know, I consistently go back to,

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like you know, I represent in daily life quite a bit. And then

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also it's it's just it's it's one of those ones because it's it's always been

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a favorite. It's been a very kind of comfort anime for me as well

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too. Yeah, but you mentioned Black Clover. I love Black Clover,

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like I think that series is absolutely fantastic. Full Metal Alchemist is another favorite

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of mine as well too. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, there you

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go. I mean I feel you because a lot of anime for me,

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it depends on the episode that drops on a certain week. Like we started

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watching Spy Family and literally we will be on the ground laughing at episodes,

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and then all of a sudden, the series took a turn and it's turned

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into this over the top action pat thriller, and we're like, what is

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happening right now? That is like, you know, within a single episode,

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it's jumped up to like becoming our favorite. But then you know,

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they'll do something amazing on one piece and then out of nowhere, Jiu Jitsu

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will have an episode that is just mind blowingly good. So yes, it

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goes. It's one of those things where it just depends on the week.

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I mean Mashley Muscle, we started watching that. At first, this is

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like a joke for us, but then you really get into the series and

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we're like, wait a minute, why is Mashley secretly one of the best

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animes out there right now? What are people doing? Okay, and one

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of the best openers too. Yeahs of the season it's a definite like last

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season was it was a definite banger. Well, the way there are TikTok

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videos right now, individuals actually doing dances to ye. It is everywhere.

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And that is why I love anime is because it is really finding its way

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into popular culture. Like I'm seeing every time I've seen a post from Doja

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Cat, she's got some anime style that she's rocking Mega and the Stallion.

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You know, she is going full on ontome. So this is is crossing

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cultures, that crossing genres, is crossing every single thing. What do you

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all try to do with your podcast in particular, Like, what is your

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primary goal for for even doing this podcast? Uh, with the Anime effect,

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the biggest thing is it's community. So we want to make sure that

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you can come and hang out with us on our you know, fictional big

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Orange counch and we're gonna talk about anime, right, We're gonna talk about

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the news, We're gonna talk about everything and anime culture and adjacent cultures.

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I mean, you brought up you know, Dojit Kat and make the Stallion.

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I mean we you know, definitely referenced Meg more than a few times

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on the show because she's been, you know, such a great flag bear

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for the medium. But then we also want to interact with the fans.

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We want to interact with you guys. It's like, what are your questions?

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Like? We love to answer with your questions are We give recommendations every

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week, and we also started calling out to get recommendations from or you know,

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listeners at large as well too, So you know, the anime effect

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is really about you know, us meeting every anime fan where they are,

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whether you're a beginner, whether you're kind of at the midway part of your

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journey, or if you're you know, you've been down the rabbit hole for

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you know, more than a few years, and you know you're looking for something newer. You want to be a part of the bigger conversation. Leab

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let me ask you now, Leam Leah, Leah, let me ask you.

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One thing that's that's most interesting to me is how most individuals that I

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know when I'm talking about anime, they always think that this is just something

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guys are into, and I'm like, are you kidding me? I know

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so many women who are into anime, and that is why it is probably

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grown as much as it has is because it's not just something that guys are

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into. It, Like it's something that just guys are into, it's not

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going to grow. You have to have something that appeals to men and women

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alike. What got you into anime? Yeah, for sure, So,

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whether fortunately or unfortunately, I am a member of gen Z, so growing

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up, you know, anime was a lot more accessible to me. But

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you know, if it's any indication to how the impact of anime is really

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taking over my generation, you know, we're talking about how it's it's you

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know, infiltrating pop culture, infiltrating mainstream culture. Only about twenty five percent

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of people in my generation overall are following the NFL, whereas about forty two

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percent watch anime weekly. So I think, regardless of gender, I think

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there's something for everybody in this storytelling medium because you know, it is it

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is storytelling medium more than it is a genre. Because anything that you already

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like in movies, in film and TV, you can find something that you're

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gonna you know, really connect with and fall in love with an anime.

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That is absolutely true. And people trip sometimes when I tell me that I've

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watched a series that brought me to tears. And I'm dead serious when I

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say, like, when I watch Girl, Login don't know if you've checked

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that one out yet. It got to the end, Oh my god,

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I was bawling. Not just you know, choked up. I was literally

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bawling. I'm sitting here crying as if I lost a friend and I couldn't

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believe it. I'm like, what is going on? Why? Yeah? I would that show series really really messed me up. And there's a few

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series that have, I mean, I swear I don't know how they do

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it, but they always managed to just really just work my emotions with my

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hero. And it is the hero's journey is something that I get into.

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And that is something that we see in a lot of anime series, the

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hero's journey someone who who is an unsuspecting hero who just fights and fights and

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fights them makes their way through the top, but never loses that that that

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goodness in them. And I think that's something that really draws you into animeo.

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What draws you personally into anime? You know, we we talk a

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lot about it being, you know, a great storytelling medium because there's so

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many anime genres that are for everyone. But then you reference you know,

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just to use my hero as an example here. You know, not only

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is it about you know, the hero's journey, but it's also a very

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human story, right, So it's it's got a lot of stuff that you

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can relate to. And I think that's why you know, anime is at

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the peak that it is now, is because it's telling stories that connect with

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people like any other medium does, like whether it be film or music or

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you know, more Western animation or you know, stage plays like all of

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those have you know, very human elements, and anime is really adapted that

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more and more and more over the years. And on the anime effect,

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we talk about that as well too, you know, the stories that not

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only connect us, but you know also connect everybody else and create this and

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create the fandom and the community. So I think for me, that's what

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you know, draws me to like I love my hero. I think,

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you know, Cochi does an amazing job, and it's really about the connection

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and how much I connect with it. So Leah, let me ask you

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for me. Growing up, I found anime easily because it was on television.

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You know, you had be it gotcha min or speed Racer. When

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I was really really young. And then the series that really changed my life

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and begin to introduce me to the concept of storytelling and anime was Robotech.

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Like Robotech is a series that it was literally just the soap opera. It

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may have had, you know, alien attacks and mechacraft that could transform from

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jets to robots, but the soap opera, the love story that it was,

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the fight for humanity. It changed my life as far as what storytelling

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in animation series work is when you watch series like He Man and Gi Joe,

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it transformers back in the day, Yeah, it was part of a

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bigger story, but each episode was isolated. It wasn't necessarily telling one big

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story. But Robotech told a major story across three different arts. How is

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your generation? How is Generation Z even finding animated nowadays? Because it's not

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on after school television anymore like it was for me when I was a kid.

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Yeah, I think streaming is king nowadays, you know, with so

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much technology being available to younger generations. And that's what I love about crunchy

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roll is it takes away the intimidation of trying and finding something new, because

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you know, you're you're talking about these lengthy stories that have like all these

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different elements in it, and I think some people can have the misconception that

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anime is just one thing, like it has you know, tropes and is

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silly and goofy. But you know, like I was saying earlier, there's

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something for everyone. There's stories that you know, connect with every walk of

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life. And that's something that's unique about our podcast as well. The anime

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effect is you know, Lee and I and Nick, who's our third co

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host, we all have different journeys with what connected us to anime and we

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all have you know, different backgrounds in that and that that just shows the

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diversity of our community and how you know, anime it doesn't just reach one

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audience. You know, we're talking about gen Z. I think it's like

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something like for of gen Z watchers have even had crushes on anime characters or

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something wild like that. Yeah. So yeah, it's definitely you know,

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reaching out to anyone who's interested. I love crunchy Role because every time you

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go onto the app, not only will it introduce you to new series based

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on what you've watched, but I love how crunchy Roll breaks down different genres.

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You know, for whether you want action or if it's love stories or

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you know, comedic do us. I mean, I love how Crunchy Role

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really tries to introduce you based on something that you may like. And when

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I say something you may like, not a title, but just a genre

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of entertainment that you may like. What do you think is the biggest selling

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point overall for Crunchy Role, LEI, The biggest selling point is that there

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is something for everybody. So, like you said, you log into the

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crenchy Roll app and you know, the the more that you watch, the

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more it's going to start recommending to you. So you know, for instance,

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mine, you know when I log in, mine is all over the

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place because what's so many different genres. But you know that's the cool thing

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is that because you know there's as an anime fan, like, you can't

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watch everything, right, so you know the stuff that you know maybe kind

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of in your your blind spot that you haven't watched, or you see a

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show that's you know, really you know interesting that you want to give a

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shot to. That's the beautiful part about the platform is that you're going to

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once you really dig in and you're like, I'm going to start I may

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just start watching the stuff that I know, and then gradually, you know,

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the platform is going to grow with you. You're going to start finding

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a lot of different stuff that you're going to like, even if it's genres

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that you're not really familiar with. You know, I started watching a lot

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more you know, Slice of Life titles recently, just because you know,

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a lot of the action titles that are coming out are very dense and very

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heavy, and I need a break. Yeah, yeah, that's the that's

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you know, that's and I think that's great. Yeah, it's definitely easier

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to branch out into unfamiliar territory, you know, more and more when everything

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is just in one place like that. Because we're talking about like anime origin

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stories. I did start with more of like a Slice of Life romantic comedy,

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and now my favorite anime is Attack on Titan. So if it's any

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show of you know, how how unique the the medium is. I think

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that's a testament to that. I bury the lead because the reason that I

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have you two on is because of your podcast Crunch role presents the anime effect.

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Where can our listeners find your podcast? When does it air? You

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know, how many years has it been on? Tell me? Okay,

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We're everywhere, so anyway your podcast, so whether it be Spotify and Apple

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Music, if you want to watch the vision usual episode, we're up on

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YouTube and on the Crunchy World platform actually, so every Friday you can get

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audio and video and then you know, on Saturdays, we're also on you

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know, the our Crunchy Rold Winning your channel as well too, So that's,

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uh, you can find us just about everywhere. We dropped off Friday.

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We dropped an episode yesterday which was we actually dug into the mail bag.

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We had an oops all mail bag episode because people are really interacting with

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the show and we you know, want to make sure that we see what

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you guys are, you know, asking and recommending. So it's it's it's

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it's been absolutely great, Like we're only we're only in you know, the

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first inning of the show right now, like we just started this year, but you know we've got we've got a lot more game to go. I

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love it. I absolutely love it. And where can our listeners follow you?

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Personally? Uh? Leah? And you know, I know it's always

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like I don't want to put my socials out there, but where can our

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listeners find you? So I think that I am a unicorn within my generation

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because I barely use social media, to be honest, I know, right

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a gen z that isn't on that iPhone. But but yeah, I don't

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think i've posted on socials in like three years or something crazy like that.

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No personal following. Yeah, yeah, Like I think something that's also unique

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about our podcast is like we are not influencers, like we work in anime.

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It's something that we're super passionate about and I think it's just I speak

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on behalf of Lee here also, but it's kind of like a dream come

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true. It's like being able to make your passions into your livelihood, which

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rarely ever happens. So yeah, super grateful for that. Oh well,

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then the best way to find you all is by watching the podcast crunchy Roll.

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Since the anome effect you said, New episodes drop every Friday, correct

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every Friday, every Friday, available on all platforms where you can find a

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podcast, but you can also find it by downloading the crunchy Roll app.

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I actually suggest that I talk about all these shows all the time that I'm

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watching on my own show, and where I'm watching them all is on crunchy

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Roll. And of all the streaming apps that I have, crunchy roll is

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the one that I am most invested in. If like, if I have

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to cut every other app, you know, if I'm looking at finances,

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I'm like, oh, I'm abot to cut this app. Crunchy Role is

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not going anywhere. It is not going anywhere. It is my life's blood.

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So I thank YouTube for keeping everyone to know with everything out of may

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I salute you and what you do, and I thank you for joining me

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today. Oh it was a pleasure. Thank you for having us for sure.

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