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Henshin Inspection presents Going Ultra.

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This is MJ.

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I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer.

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You can find all my work at MJMunoz.com

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Join me as I talk about Comm Reader Gov, episode 2, Tasty Zaku Zaku Chips.

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I just have to say, right off the bat, I am kind of forcing myself to just roll with it

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because as I'm watching this show, I'm thinking, this is so stupid.

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I don't understand why any of this is going on.

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I don't understand why this is the gimmick.

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In my short, I actually talked about the fact that writer has to gimmick itself in order

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to be successful in today's age, I guess.

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I don't know what success looks like for Comm Reader toys, but I don't know.

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Something like an Evangelion...

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I don't know that Evangelion is a good comparison.

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Yeah, this is what I'm going to talk about.

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First of all, I'm going to get out of the way.

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I did like this episode, so if that's all you want to know about, you can go ahead and

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go.

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The potato chip form is ridiculous, but also kind of...

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I don't like it, but I think it's interesting in the way it's played off, which is that

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if you eat a chip at the wrong angle, it cuts your mouth and it cuts your throat.

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But if you don't eat it at the wrong angle, then it just crunches pleasantly in your mouth.

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That's a ridiculous thing, and the fact that they got emotional buy-in from me with his

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mom explaining to him about potato chips really kind of makes me irritated.

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But it also shows Junko Komura's skills as a writer, because she's been writing tokusatsu

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for a while, and she's making me connect with this guy and his mom over stupid potato chips

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in this ridiculous form.

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That's kind of the power of tokusatsu, and that's why I like it so much.

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But getting back to the whole merchandising thing, I can't believe that I'm watching a

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guy with potato chip superpowers.

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Why is that so much more ridiculous than a guy with spider powers?

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It's not, but if the guy started with spider powers and then he eventually got gummy powers

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from eating gummies, then it would kind of bother me.

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But yeah, Combinator is this weird thing.

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You could say Super Sentai, too.

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It's so strange that it evolves and it had to reiterate itself, and it's relaunching itself,

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and it's putting this new spin on things to keep it fresh, to keep consumerism up in a

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funny way.

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There's a line that Shoma has that says, human happiness is not created for your consumption.

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It's kind of funny, because as a corporation, Bandai and Toei are working together to make

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these stories where the point of making the story is to make the toy line and to sell

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the toy line, which means the toy...

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Well, they operate independently of each other.

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If the toy line is successful enough on its own, it can sell, and it kind of doesn't matter

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what the show's doing.

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But if the show's good enough on its own, it can be a success.

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How do they monetize the effort that went into making that, though?

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I don't really know.

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I guess it's by selling DVDs and Blu-rays.

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If they still do DVDs in Japan, I don't know.

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It's by having people buy figures.

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It's by the merchandise, and that's where the real money from the film is made, to quote

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yogurt, and from Spaceballs, of course.

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If you don't know that, check it out.

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You'll like it.

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If you like this at all, you'll be able to roll with yogurt and Lone Star and everybody

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else and Spaceballs.

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Anyway, so I'm watching this, and I'm enjoying it.

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I'm enjoying it for the story.

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I like what's going on, and then all of a sudden, he gets this potato chip for him,

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and there are chips popping up on the screen, possibly with Japanese sound effects or in

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the shape of Japanese sound effects, for crunchy or crispy or whatever.

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I suspect that, but I don't know that for sure.

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It's just ridiculous.

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It's kind of ridiculous, but I also like it, and I'm enjoying it, so I don't really know

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what to say.

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I don't really know what to say.

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This connection that Shoma has with Sachiko and also with Hajime as well and Honto is

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interesting.

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Honto is this reporter guy.

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He's investigating.

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He's a digital native.

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He's called it by his boss, which is really funny because the guy's older.

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He's probably not that older than me, but it's funny to hear him talk about the kid

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that way or Honto that way.

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Something interesting is happening where I said in episode one that I liked Hajime's

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performance so much I'd love to see him go into further episodes.

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He appeared in this episode in a sort of cameo.

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His mom is there, and Honto's interviewing her because she was attacked by a monster

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Two monsters.

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Hajime clarifies that one of the monsters was trying to save him.

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Hopefully, Honto will remember that because he gets a sketch of the monster from Hajime's

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mother, and it's a sketch, a very rough sketch, of Gov.

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It's interesting that he gets that and then he compares that to the sketch that he has

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from when he was a kid of the monster that attacked and killed his mother.

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He turned her into one of the press.

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She's probably already been eaten by somebody.

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I wouldn't think that he can get her back because I wouldn't think that a human would

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last that long and would be able to provide stomach ink or whatever with the ingredients

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they need for long enough to make anything last years.

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It's been 18 years.

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If she's lasted 18 years, I will be shocked and irritated with the show for doing that.

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You could have made it one year ago.

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It would be much better.

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Like that office meme.

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They have the same picture.

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It's not the same picture at all.

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He saw the guy was very dog-like and I guess Gov has what could be considered ears or antennae

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or whatever, but it's totally not that.

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It's just odd.

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What else?

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I don't know.

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I like this very human story, the story of connection that's happening with all these

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weird antics going on.

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I have the show running over here next to me so I can glance at it and hopefully remember

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to say anything that I wanted to talk about.

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Oh my gosh, her friend has a little lighting rig for doing the vlogs and stuff.

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Interesting.

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This is my lighting rig right now, by the way.

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A little flashlight and it's currently charging so that's why things look the way they do.

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Anyway, so yeah, the very human story of Sachiko wants to make people happy and happy is in

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her name and her company is called Something Silly But Fun.

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I don't want to go back to the beginning of the episode to look at it, but I might just

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because I like it that much.

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Anyway, Sachiko, it's cool.

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She writes down and she shows him that the kanji in her name means happy or it has happy

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in it and so she supposes that's part of her character.

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That's why she wants to make people happy, which is really fun.

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She lives in this wild place.

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I don't quite understand the place she lives in.

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Is it a crazy looking apartment building slash office building?

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Handyman Happy Parade is what it's called and it's really cool because the logo looks like

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Kiki's delivery service.

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I may take the time to put it up on the screen here, but I may not.

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But just go look it up for yourself.

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It's at two minutes and 45 seconds into the episode.

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If you look there, you should be able to see it and it's really cute and it's really fun.

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It's a really fun idea and it's cool because she talks about later on in the episode that

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she wants to do things to make people happy.

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Hey, she's going to get paid for it, but like something in her wants to help random people

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be happy with the outcomes that they're experiencing basically in life.

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You know, your toilet, your toilet craps out on you.

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I didn't mean to make a pun there, but you know, your toilet goes bad or whatever happens,

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she's going to come and she's going to do what she can to fix it for you and you're

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going to be happy and she's happy that you're happy.

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And then for her, the her favorite part of the job is when she gets paid.

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That's not what she's saying.

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It's a joke.

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Sorry.

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And I think that's really cool.

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That's really interesting.

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It's a nice way to present market interactions because all interactions are somewhat transactional

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between people and you either transact with your time, your energy, your money, your attention.

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And you can have, we're kind of forced to have interactions and exchanges with people

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all the time and they can either be good or bad.

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They can either be enjoyable or unenjoyable depending upon how we and others around us

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conduct themselves.

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And the highest ethic would be for everybody to act honorably and honestly and positively

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with each other.

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And then we have like a happier life together, right?

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And yet some people choose to act in this predatory way.

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Some people choose to act in a way where they take only from people and they don't give.

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There's no real exchange or it's a very one-sided exchange where they kind of force the other

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party into interacting with them in a certain way.

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And that's kind of what you have symbolized.

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This might sound ridiculous, but it all makes a lot of sense to me because Sachiko is operating

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on like a fair exchange, a value for value kind of exchange.

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And Stomach Ink, which is I guess, is that really what it's called?

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Like, are we good?

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Yeah, Stomach Ink, that's really what it's called.

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Anyway, and Stomach Ink exists not on that level.

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They are some sort of family business who does this thing, but they make the dark confections.

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They prey upon humans and they get them.

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I don't know.

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I'm very unclear as to who they're targeting and how they target them, but they take people

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against their free will.

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They basically, they're hunting humans, basically.

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That's the bottom line.

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It doesn't, a lot of the details don't matter.

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They're hunting humans to use them for ingredients for their dark confections, and those do something.

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I don't know exactly what they do.

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They have employees.

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They have some sort of underground, upside down, black and purple CGI kingdom that they

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live in or whatever.

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I guess that's where Shoma was living with his mother for some time.

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The difference in those worldviews, the difference in those ethics of I'm going to do for people

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and help them and have these fair exchanges with them versus we are going to hunt down

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people and kidnap them and kill them and put them into these possibly addicting food items

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that we'll sell at exorbitant prices or whatever.

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You can see the difference between those things.

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You could say, oh, they're both exchanges.

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But really, are they?

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And at what point does, like, at the very base level though, the Semic Inc, what they're

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doing is immoral because they're murdering humans in order to do it.

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What about food companies that make animals animal products?

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It's a different thing.

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It's a different thing.

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That's almost universally accepted that it's a different thing.

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However, people who agree that eating animals is a good thing to do or an acceptable part

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of life, they frequently would not like the animals to be tortured while they're being

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killed.

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They want them to be killed in as humane way as possible, to have as little pain as possible,

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and for it to be done in a sustainable sort of way.

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The best way is for it to be sustainable and regenerative as well to actually heal the

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plant and help it grow and things like that.

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But that's another story for another time.

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If you want to talk to me about Regenag or anything like that, we can totally do that.

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I'd love to.

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Just let me know.

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So yeah, it's really interesting that there's kind of these two worldviews, or not kind

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of.

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I think that's what's being presented, and my focus is on how it's business interaction

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and voluntary interaction, business exchange and voluntary engagement with the person and

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the product is what's at stake here.

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And Suchico does more of like service industry.

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So she's interacting with people and doing services for them, which is probably a little

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nobler than just a straight up product, because if products can be scaled, then that means

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that there can be like no care given to the end user, because look, you got your product,

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I got my money, that's it, our relationship is done.

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Whereas in a service business, you actually have to work with the person and you have

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to make sure that they're happy with the service that you've rendered.

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And it's a little more difficult.

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It's harder to scale.

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And when it's scaled, it becomes less good for the end user.

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And it's kind of like I said, it's a little more of a noble business because you're directly

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interacting with people and you're taking care of problems for them, giving them solutions,

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and they give you time.

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Of course, it's harder to become super wealthy off of that thing because you can't scale

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that product because the product is you.

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You're the product offering the service to these people.

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You're the instrument for offering the service and there's only one of you, so you're limited

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in that way.

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So I think I've done a decent job talking about the contrast there between the two types

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of businesses being operated, being shown in operation, this business and how they affect

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other people and what that means.

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One is very immoral, the dark sweets, dark infections business, and the other one, the

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service business, helping people out is very moral.

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Going past that, because I don't want to talk about this for too much longer, I'd like to

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cover a couple more things.

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I find it interesting that Shoma tastes the sushi and nothing happens.

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He eats a gummy again.

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The first thing he has is a gummy of some sort and little items are created for him.

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Creation, destruction, death, life, consumable items, that's something I want to get to in

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a minute, so let me hurry up with this.

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So he is able to get more gummies out of him eating gummies for his belt, for the gov.

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The sushi does nothing for him.

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The potato chips do produce something for him, though.

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He has a positive association, he has an emotional connection with his mother over potato chips,

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and I would assume gummies as well, because it seemed in the first episode like he had

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heard of gummies, but he doesn't really say that.

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It just sounds like that's probably the case.

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So I'm wondering if every food that he eats that produces something out of his gov that

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can go back into his gov, which kind of doesn't make sense, right?

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But whatever, will be something that he has a strong emotional connection to his mother

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or to, and I think a lot of that will come from his mother, and it'd be really interesting

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to see if something that he eats with his friends here, who he's making, Sachiko, probably

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pretty easily, and then Honto maybe, maybe even Hajime, is going to be something that's

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going to give him power versus things that, well, which would be cool because it would

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be showing him having a new strong emotional connection with somebody, not just his dead

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mother, but these new living friends who he has, these new people in his life who give

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meaning to his life and really make the joy.

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It's not that the joy comes from the food, it's the joy comes from who you share the

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idea and the memory of the food with.

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I wouldn't be surprised if that's something that gets worked on here.

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Another thing, so I find it strange that his belt eats stuff and then stuff comes out of

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it.

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Well, at the end of his transformation into the potato chip, the zaku zaku, what are these

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things called?

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I don't know what they're called because I don't really care because it's a toy thing.

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Oh, Gochizo, okay.

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They're slowly becoming characters.

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I might have Gochizo remembered by a couple episodes in, but we'll see.

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The zaku zaku potato chip, Gochizo dies, it gets little wings and flies up to heaven or

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whatever because it's gone.

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He's consumed it.

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So, it's a consumable item.

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Manufacturing use consumable items.

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Your toothbrush is a consumable item, you get rid of it and have to replace it.

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So, he's going to keep eating and his belt is going to keep spitting out these things

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and then he's going to use them and then they're going to have a, they're useful, expire and

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he won't be able to use them again.

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So that's interesting to me that there's this idea that those things are consumable and

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that they go away and he has to get them back.

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I don't know how that's going to be utilized in the show, but it did strike me as interesting

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and I almost wonder if there's like a, if that's tied thematically into the show because

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I'm sure if Komura and company didn't want it to be that way, it wouldn't be that way.

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So I'm wondering what the purpose is behind that.

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Is it supposed to show the ephemerality, the temporariness of things and how we have to

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be thankful for them and not take them for granted or could it be something else?

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I don't really know.

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I really like these monster designs with the stomach in the middle of them and then that

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like bear midsection.

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It's just like this black void type thing, like showing the mouth, representing the mouth.

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I think it's a really cool, clever thing to do and I like it a lot and I don't know, it's

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a weird show, but I'm liking the things that are here and some of the, you know, crazy

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Otoku Satsu elements in it and the modern stuff that I don't like, that's like so commercial

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and so, I don't know, weird.

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I don't really dig, but like at the core, it's something I really like and I find a

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lot of value in.

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And I mean, I'm really liking this.

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So we'll see how it goes going forward.

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I hope to continue liking this show and yeah, if you are liking it, let me know.

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If you're not liking it, let me know.

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Let's talk about some of the things I brought up this episode.

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I'd be curious to hear your opinions on them and that's pretty much all I have to say.

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Remember to like, subscribe, share, leave a comment.

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I want to help, I want this channel to grow and you can help me do that if you're enjoying

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what I'm saying and if you want to help me, you know, keep making this stuff, I would

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really appreciate that.

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So anyway, until next time folks, take care, be well and don't eat people, okay?

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That's not good.

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I hope you enjoyed that.

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Subscribe to keep up with me.

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