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Comrade or God episode five did not disappoint. I was a timer right there. Anyway, I really

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liked it. It was good. I want to talk about the story stuff first and then go on from

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there. I was impressed by the fact that this story is continuing to be a little silly and

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a little goofy. And yet, or it has silly and goofy trappings, but has good strong serious

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stuff. Probably the biggest thing and I've seen a lot of discourse about this lately.

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That this is going back to traditional common reader, which I don't know if I called that

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previously in my reviews and I'm not going to claim I did right now because I just don't

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remember if I did or not. But I did notice and I did make note of the fact that people

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were calling him a monster and he was admitting to be a monster in the first episode and how

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I liked that and how you know, now that we've got him getting surgery done to him as he

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was a kid to alter his Gav, which I love that the sisters call him little red gov. That's

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really funny. You know, it's already kind of a, you know, funny, cute, mocking way to

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call him. And anyway, I like that he had the surgery done to him as a kid and that there's

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like this really complex thing going on with his dad, Boche Boche Boosh. And like he doesn't

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understand what happened. Like his understanding, Shum's understanding, which his uncle, great

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uncle Dente seems to contradict a little bit is that his mother was kidnapped and brought

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to that world for some reason. And I almost thought for a second they were going to say

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that she was already pregnant when she was kidnapped. And then maybe they didn't kill

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her because it's like, oh, you know, we can't press a pregnant human. We don't know what

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that will do. But no, it does sound like he's literally like he was born with a Gav, which

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means Boche and Mrs. Uh, what is his mom's name? Anyway, Boche and his mom actually,

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you know, made a baby together. I'm assuming he was in his more humanoid form than his

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last humanoid form. But you know, you know, I've seen both children. Have you seen both

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children? Anyway, so, um, it's a really good movie by the way. Anyway, um, so, uh, you

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know, he's this half breed, let's call it, you know, like Kiva, um, where he's part one

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thing and part human. And, uh, partly because of that, the children, his siblings, his older

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siblings hate him and, uh, partly because he doesn't fit in with them and probably partly

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because the way his mother treated him differently and the way his father treated him differently,

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uh, they have hatred towards him. And it's really interesting. Oh, I did not think about

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this yet. Um, like the way that we see Shoma protecting his mom from his dad, it looks

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like he was abusive. Um, we don't know the full perspective and uncle Dente seems to

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suggest that, uh, his father was just trying to protect him. And that's an interesting

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storyline. It's an interesting concept. Um, I remember back in Combinator Ghost, um, there

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were complaints that like, um, that there were like abusive or bad parents in that,

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that were just forgiven too quickly and too easily. Cause, um, Takaru's father is like

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this great man and he really was, you know, morally good and everything. And he was a

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good father. Um, and that because of that, Takaru only saw parents as being good and

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being deserving of respect and love and care or affection. And when there were real bad

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parents in the story, in the show that showed up, especially towards the end, they were

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looked at, they were kind of papered over. They were, they were seen through his lens

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only through his eye only get it? Comrade Ghost eyes, eye confident. Anyway, um, and

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like it didn't take into account the victim of the week or the guest character, uh, how

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their actual experience was with their actually bad parent. And, um, it was just like, let's

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pretend everything's okay now, which I know people were frustrated by. Uh, I don't remember

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if that, it was like a detective and his daughter got like freaky Friday. They got switched

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their bodies by gun miser. Again, this is like a real late into the show. It's like

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episode 47 or 46 or something like that. Anyway, um, like that was a problem. And yeah, I do

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think it's bad to just suggest that, you know, you know, this is going to hurt me more than

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hurts you when you're going to spank your kids and things like that, like that kind

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of stuff. I don't think it's helpful. I don't think it's healthy. Um, it's like, uh, it's,

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it's almost like teaching to a kid to have like a toxic relationship, which is not good.

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Of course you should, if you're in a toxic relationship, you should get out of there.

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Um, but at the same time, uh, this is a kid's perspective that we're seeing and it could

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be skewed by lots of different things. It can be skewed by the love of his mother, uh,

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or, you know, love for his mother. And I know there's a lot of other things that I could

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say here. And of course the abuse is bad and I'm not saying it was good abuse. I'm saying,

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I wonder what the deeper stories, I wonder if they're going to, I wonder if Kimora is

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going to do more with this or if it is just a simple, he was abused and his mother was

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abused by his father. And you know, it was a good thing that they got out of there. Um,

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I don't know. We, we haven't seen anything around his father's death. We don't know if

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his mother mourned the loss of her husband, um, or whatever. And we don't know how all

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that works. So there'll be interesting to see how that develops, but it sets up a very

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interesting dynamic that, you know, he's wondering, did my father, you know, according to uncle

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denti, he wanted us to be miserable so that we wouldn't get turned into confections.

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Like, how was that? Okay. How was that possible? How is that a just thing to do? And he leaves

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grandpa and grandma or aunt and uncle, whatever from last episode from the farm, because he

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doesn't want to make them happy because he's concerned that if he makes them happy, that

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he will make them ripe for the picking of stomach ink. And he doesn't want to do that.

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And he also hesitates helping the child in this episode who's lost his little toy, his

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vinyl figure, uh, in this great, that his mom can't lift up. Um, and he hesitates helping

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the kid. Cause if he makes him happy, is he going to make him a target for stomach ink?

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And he comes up to, he ends up having this resolve that he doesn't, it isn't being happy.

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It isn't being happy. It isn't making people happy. That is the problem. It's stomach ink

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choosing to victimize happy humans and turn them into, uh, depressed and turn them into,

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uh, spices for their product, for the dark confections. That's the problem. And that's

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true. Lots of people like to look at things that aren't good or that could be better.

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And they say that thing shouldn't be happening anymore because that thing in and of itself

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is evil. However, common writer, the show is literally about the mong is about it. The

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anime is about it or not the anime. I wish there was a common writer among it. It'd be

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amazing. Anyway, it could be amazing. Maybe not. I don't know. We'll see. Uh, it depends

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who was doing it. Anyway, um, uh, man, we'd get some serious life of action in that. I

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think is the problem. There's the common reader anime. There's the, you know, common rate

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double enemy, the food to PI anyway. Um, so, um, common writer is literally about using

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things that are evil for good. It's taking the power of evil for good. And I love that

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concept because it, it means that no matter what happens to you, you have the power and

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you have the agency, you have the ability to take what was done to you and to use that

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as fuel to help you help other people, which I think based on the people for next episode,

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that's kind of what we're going to see happen. That's exactly where the show's going. And

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Shoma has resolved that he will make people happy as many people as he can make happy.

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And when some king comes to victimize those who are happy, he will destroy them if he

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has to, to stop them. And I love that. I think that's beautiful. And he doesn't have to kill

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them. He just has to have them or make them stop making dark confections being that uncle

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denting is the inventor of dark confections. And yet he's living happily in the human world.

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And he's eating human snacks, not snacks made of humans, but snacks made by humans, but

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like, you know, Doritos and hot Cheetos and stuff. Um, it's possible that like, there's

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no need for, um, dark confections to exist because they only existed for a hundred years.

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I'll say it the most. We don't know how long live these guys are, but let's just throw

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it out a hundred years. They've only existed for that long. And the authorities apparently

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want to shut down potentially stomaching for what they're doing with their dark confections.

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And Lengo wants to get the rich hooked on, on them so that they will not allow the granute

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government to make laws against it because like, Oh man, you know, you want to allow

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cocaine? I love cocaine. I'm the richest man in the world. And I love cocaine. You, Mr.

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president are going to make cocaine legal. I mean, that would make sense. Um, I mean,

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not that I advise doing cocaine, but I get the logic of where Lengo is going and I get

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what the show is saying. I get what Kamura is saying by this idea that like the corruption

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of the government, the corruption of the government by the wealthy is leading this crime family

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to do more crimes so they can hook the wealthy who in turn will, uh, alter the course of

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the evil corrupt government that they have. Um, so what's my point? Government is evil.

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Oh, is that my point? I don't know if that's my point, but it's true anyway. So moving

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on. Um, but I really like how we got to see this, this whole arc, um, this whole, uh,

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forming of the resolution of Shoma to be happy and to make people as happy as possible. And

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then at the end he goes back to such a, and he goes to join her business and she says,

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you know, you can live here and all this stuff. And so it's great. It's like, he's gone on

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this little journey. He's had this little arc about like running and being scared and

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not wanting to be connected to people. I compared him to Spider-Man last time. Cause like, you

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know, no matter who I love, no matter who I'm close to, like they will become a hurt.

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They'll become a vector for it to attack me, to get to me. And I don't want to put anybody

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at risk and Shoma's been through that and he's processed that and he's rejecting it.

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And he's saying, no, I'm going to go and I'm going to be strong as I can. I'm going to

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help as many people as I can. And I'm going to do the best I can to stop these guys from

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hurting other people. And I think that's good. And I think it's beautiful. I think it's noble.

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It's it's fantastic. It's really fantastic. Yeah. It's like the show has such heart. It's

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really entertaining. The fights are really good. Getting the understanding that his little

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goat cheese goat cheese, his little helpers, those little munchkins. I can see why they

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went with munchkins and I don't know who subs those were. I think that was a geo subs. Anyway,

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I can see why they went with munchkins. But like the munchkins being his little minions

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and then they call the agents bunch in some into because they're not tiny little guys.

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But anyway, whatever. Well, like those agents coming out of their belts, like that makes

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sense. Like, so they eat something and then their stomach pushes out something because

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it converts whatever into whatever. And that is an agent for them who can work and do stuff,

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which is a pretty interesting concept. And I didn't really get it at first, but now it

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kind of makes it makes a lot more sense to me. And if they're consumable and they can

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do things on their own, it would make sense that you have these agents out there in the

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world that would come from, I guess, your monster stomach thing that you've got going

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on here. And it's just kind of an interesting concept. I hope you enjoyed that. Please remember

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