WEBVTT 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:03.620 So, uh, episode 21 of Zets sure sucks. I mean, 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:06.440 it's great. Uh, of course it's great. Uh, but 00:00:06.440 --> 00:00:09.160 it sucks because the, uh, the bad guys are winning, 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:12.400 and it's a big deal. Like, not only are the nightmares 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:16.320 winning, but they're winning in pretty much the 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:18.320 worst way possible, which is that they're winning 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:22.339 by manipulating children and, uh, capturing them. 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:25.179 These kids go dead -eyed, and then they walk 00:00:25.179 --> 00:00:26.739 into the nightmare, and then that's it. It's 00:00:26.739 --> 00:00:29.699 over. Boom. I suppose I should back up a little 00:00:29.699 --> 00:00:31.539 bit and talk more about the content of the episode. 00:00:31.699 --> 00:00:35.340 But the thing I want to say is that what this 00:00:35.340 --> 00:00:40.000 episode does really well is it makes a victory 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:42.780 for the bad guys happen. And it makes it matter 00:00:42.780 --> 00:00:46.679 in a very big way. And it's probably, if you 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:47.899 were going to give a victory to the Nightmares, 00:00:48.020 --> 00:00:50.340 it's probably the best way to do it. I don't 00:00:50.340 --> 00:00:53.439 know that Fujimi had to have the, like he was 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:55.799 the best vector for a Nightmare victory from 00:00:55.799 --> 00:00:59.250 episode... Two or three or whatever it was. But 00:00:59.250 --> 00:01:02.549 he's, you know, a decent one. And it sort of 00:01:02.549 --> 00:01:06.930 helps him tie into the overall story. But not 00:01:06.930 --> 00:01:13.810 in a way that... It matters. But it doesn't matter 00:01:13.810 --> 00:01:17.650 as much as these kids getting... turn into getting 00:01:17.650 --> 00:01:19.390 pulled into a nightmare nightmare you know their 00:01:19.390 --> 00:01:22.510 nightmare uh succeeding and then escaping to 00:01:22.510 --> 00:01:24.750 the real world by pulling them into itself and 00:01:24.750 --> 00:01:26.790 then manifesting the real world where it then 00:01:26.790 --> 00:01:31.150 teleports them away so it's really rough it's 00:01:31.150 --> 00:01:33.670 really creepy it's really harsh uh what's going 00:01:33.670 --> 00:01:38.909 on here and i like that because it's extra dramatic 00:01:38.909 --> 00:01:41.250 and it's important that we keep things as dramatic 00:01:41.250 --> 00:01:44.469 as possible so uh yeah i mean this episode is 00:01:44.469 --> 00:01:47.489 really effective at giving us the worst case 00:01:47.489 --> 00:01:51.870 scenario as 3 says at the end, it's a code red, 00:01:51.989 --> 00:01:54.230 that's what he said. Which is funny because they're 00:01:54.230 --> 00:02:03.950 called code too, right? Anyway. So, I don't know 00:02:03.950 --> 00:02:05.189 what I was saying before I got interrupted, but 00:02:05.189 --> 00:02:07.489 it's very effective because these children are 00:02:07.489 --> 00:02:12.680 in danger. And we get to see the... And I keep 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:13.939 thinking of the phrase, you know, won't someone 00:02:13.939 --> 00:02:17.460 please think of the children? But that's exactly 00:02:17.460 --> 00:02:20.340 who's being targeted here. And it's interesting 00:02:20.340 --> 00:02:22.860 because Code targeted children, you could say, 00:02:22.900 --> 00:02:25.919 if you want to be uncharitable, which I'm inclined 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:28.680 to be uncharitable towards Code because I don't 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:31.180 think they really deserve a lot of charity. Baku 00:02:31.180 --> 00:02:34.060 is a Code operative, but he's basically rogue, 00:02:34.219 --> 00:02:36.599 even though he's working within the organization. 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:39.139 And I find that to be interesting versus, you 00:02:39.139 --> 00:02:41.229 know, 5 and 6 who are... very much following 00:02:41.229 --> 00:02:47.930 what the organization says to do, and it's interesting 00:02:47.930 --> 00:02:52.509 because it's that concept, that idea is asking 00:02:52.509 --> 00:02:59.050 bigger questions, and it's making me think there's 00:02:59.050 --> 00:03:00.629 something thematically larger going on here. 00:03:01.689 --> 00:03:05.689 I don't really know what it is. Anyways, let 00:03:05.689 --> 00:03:07.389 me circle back to the children. I think it's 00:03:07.389 --> 00:03:09.919 really interesting that all of these kids had 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:14.919 dealt with some sort of traumatic event. I think 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:16.639 it was like flooding, volcano, whatever. There 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:19.379 were multiple kids, more than just, is his name 00:03:19.379 --> 00:03:22.199 Shota or not? Shota, Sota, something like that. 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:26.099 Anyway, the girl is Tomoko, the karate girl, 00:03:26.259 --> 00:03:31.199 who wants to be the fighter. She's also encountered 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:35.560 some sort of real dangerous thing, and it's funny 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:39.349 because it made me think. that maybe the fact 00:03:39.349 --> 00:03:40.969 that all these kids have experienced something 00:03:40.969 --> 00:03:45.050 dramatic pushed them towards whatever the lady 00:03:45.050 --> 00:03:47.930 is called as a psychologist, and maybe she treated 00:03:47.930 --> 00:03:52.449 them, and maybe she implanted at that time the 00:03:52.449 --> 00:03:54.569 nightmares of the Demon King within them, which 00:03:54.569 --> 00:03:56.349 is very possible, but then that made me think 00:03:56.349 --> 00:03:58.949 further back, is it possible that Baku, after 00:03:58.949 --> 00:04:00.930 being hit by lightning, after his parents died, 00:04:01.129 --> 00:04:02.789 after whatever happened to him, these different 00:04:02.789 --> 00:04:06.090 things, did he go to the lady when he was a boy? 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:09.240 and receive treatment from her, and that's when 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:13.020 Code decided to... Maybe she was working for 00:04:13.020 --> 00:04:14.340 Code at the time, so I'm getting into theory 00:04:14.340 --> 00:04:16.220 territory here. Maybe she was working for Code 00:04:16.220 --> 00:04:19.319 at the time, and she was identifying targets 00:04:19.319 --> 00:04:21.680 for them, or children who would be potential 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:25.259 assets for them in the future, and that's how 00:04:25.259 --> 00:04:26.699 he got assigned to it. That's how the others 00:04:26.699 --> 00:04:28.439 got assigned to it as well, which makes me think, 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:30.759 did Kureha have something bad happen to her back 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:32.360 in the day as well when she was a kid that got 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:34.860 her into this cram school that Hodaka was overseeing, 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:39.069 I guess? If that theory checks out, that's super 00:04:39.069 --> 00:04:40.689 sinister. If that theory doesn't check out and 00:04:40.689 --> 00:04:42.829 she's just traumatizing these kids who have had 00:04:42.829 --> 00:04:44.389 nightmares who've come to see her and given them 00:04:44.389 --> 00:04:46.269 nightmares, that would make a lot of sense. Also, 00:04:46.430 --> 00:04:50.149 if she, as a psychologist or psychiatrist, whatever 00:04:50.149 --> 00:04:53.589 it is, is seeing clients and then injecting nightmares 00:04:53.589 --> 00:04:56.370 into them because possibly people who have had 00:04:56.370 --> 00:05:01.550 trauma or difficulties are easier to birth, it 00:05:01.550 --> 00:05:03.269 makes it easier for them to birth them. Whatever. 00:05:03.370 --> 00:05:05.310 A nightmare is more easily channeled through 00:05:05.310 --> 00:05:07.050 somebody like that who's psychologically compromised, 00:05:07.129 --> 00:05:08.930 you could say. That would be really interesting, 00:05:09.069 --> 00:05:12.149 and that would make her, like, extra evil and 00:05:12.149 --> 00:05:14.430 extra bad, which I find really interesting. And 00:05:14.430 --> 00:05:16.370 I can understand why Code would want to fight 00:05:16.370 --> 00:05:18.389 against her and do whatever they had to, potentially. 00:05:18.490 --> 00:05:22.629 But did she start off as a code agent, or are 00:05:22.629 --> 00:05:25.209 they working against her? And she kind of started 00:05:25.209 --> 00:05:26.670 this whole thing with the nightmares. We don't 00:05:26.670 --> 00:05:29.269 know. It's too early in the show to tell, but... 00:05:29.529 --> 00:05:30.709 These are the kinds of questions that are being 00:05:30.709 --> 00:05:33.569 raised here, and I find it very interesting. 00:05:34.850 --> 00:05:40.029 What's going on? And also, she mentioned something 00:05:40.029 --> 00:05:42.009 about children having these, you know, the greatest 00:05:42.009 --> 00:05:44.990 potential for dreams, and that kind of gives 00:05:44.990 --> 00:05:46.990 them the most powerful or most potent nightmares, 00:05:47.170 --> 00:05:49.589 which is an interesting concept. I don't really 00:05:49.589 --> 00:05:52.069 know what that means. I don't really know where 00:05:52.069 --> 00:05:54.029 that's coming from, although, I mean, it makes 00:05:54.029 --> 00:05:57.350 sense intuitively. But, yeah, where does that 00:05:57.350 --> 00:06:00.019 go? I don't really know. I don't really know, 00:06:00.139 --> 00:06:02.579 but it makes me uncomfortable. And it also feels 00:06:02.579 --> 00:06:05.139 like it's also, it's very true, which makes it 00:06:05.139 --> 00:06:09.079 sad that like she would knowingly, like somebody 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:11.360 who has expertise in how the mind works would 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:12.879 know, oh yeah, I can easily manipulate these 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:16.740 kids and turn them into whatever, you know, vectors 00:06:16.740 --> 00:06:19.180 for nightmares to come into the real world or 00:06:19.180 --> 00:06:25.639 whatever it is. One last thing and then I wrap 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:28.550 it up because Whatever. I have things I want 00:06:28.550 --> 00:06:31.829 to say in my bonus material, in my shorts, which 00:06:31.829 --> 00:06:35.009 you can find on the blog at mgmonios .com, yes. 00:06:36.149 --> 00:06:37.889 But anyway, the link will be in the pinned comment 00:06:37.889 --> 00:06:41.069 for that. But I want to say one more thing. Baku 00:06:41.069 --> 00:06:42.649 falls asleep super early, like during the day, 00:06:42.689 --> 00:06:44.769 and then he goes into the dream. We see him in 00:06:44.769 --> 00:06:46.310 the dream next, and the kids are there, but also 00:06:46.310 --> 00:06:49.129 Agents 5 and 6 are there, which would imply that 00:06:49.129 --> 00:06:51.089 it is, you know, a reasonably nighttime when 00:06:51.089 --> 00:06:53.610 they would be asleep as well. And his sister, 00:06:53.689 --> 00:06:55.129 Nami, points out, yeah, the kids aren't going 00:06:55.129 --> 00:06:56.029 to be asleep yet. What are you doing? You're 00:06:56.029 --> 00:06:59.509 sleeping too early. Is it possible that Baku 00:06:59.509 --> 00:07:03.170 might be in danger of becoming a full -time sleeper 00:07:03.170 --> 00:07:05.930 agent where the more he does things in the dream 00:07:05.930 --> 00:07:08.370 world, the more he's just going to be a person 00:07:08.370 --> 00:07:11.310 who's asleep and who is always there, kind of 00:07:11.310 --> 00:07:14.430 like Nem is or whatever. Anyway, I just, I find 00:07:14.430 --> 00:07:17.209 this all very fascinating and I like how we're 00:07:17.209 --> 00:07:19.470 getting forward progression and we're getting 00:07:19.470 --> 00:07:23.649 more questions. raised as well and we don't we 00:07:23.649 --> 00:07:25.350 know we don't have the full shape of the mystery 00:07:25.350 --> 00:07:28.529 and as we get further it turns into this thing 00:07:28.529 --> 00:07:30.649 that's more it's got more arms more tentacles 00:07:30.649 --> 00:07:33.810 and we can't see where they are all going so 00:07:33.810 --> 00:07:35.110 it's very interesting it's like a very enjoyable 00:07:35.110 --> 00:07:36.750 thing that there's this progressive revelation 00:07:36.750 --> 00:07:39.829 forgive my use of that phrase uh that as we get 00:07:39.829 --> 00:07:41.490 revealed more to us we learn that there's also 00:07:41.490 --> 00:07:42.730 more that we don't know so it's very effective 00:07:42.730 --> 00:07:45.050 writing very nice and then of course they went 00:07:45.050 --> 00:07:46.810 for the kids which is horrible especially because 00:07:46.810 --> 00:07:50.209 the way uh It depicts the kids being victimized 00:07:50.209 --> 00:07:52.810 and harmed by the system, which I will talk about 00:07:52.810 --> 00:07:55.569 more in my shorts, which will be included in 00:07:55.569 --> 00:07:57.470 the bonus section at the bottom of the blog post 00:07:57.470 --> 00:08:00.930 over at the website mgmooneynews .com. You can 00:08:00.930 --> 00:08:03.670 find all my stuff there. Find a link for it in 00:08:03.670 --> 00:08:06.750 the pinned comment, as well as links to my playlists 00:08:06.750 --> 00:08:10.810 here on YouTube that have all of my Zets coverage, 00:08:10.970 --> 00:08:13.329 all of my Mega coverage, all of my whatever else 00:08:13.329 --> 00:08:15.170 coverage as well. So until next time, folks, 00:08:15.290 --> 00:08:18.379 take care. This is MJ with... Rider Tears and 00:08:18.379 --> 00:08:20.339 Engine Inspection signing out. Let me know what 00:08:20.339 --> 00:08:22.160 you thought about this episode. Did you think 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:24.800 the horror of hurting these children was like 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:27.879 especially effective or really interesting? Or 00:08:27.879 --> 00:08:30.259 did other aspects of the show of this episode 00:08:30.259 --> 00:08:32.820 stand out more to you? I know I totally basically 00:08:32.820 --> 00:08:35.600 skipped over the Knox fight versus five and six, 00:08:35.659 --> 00:08:37.580 which was interesting, but just this pulled my 00:08:37.580 --> 00:08:38.779 attention. So if you want to talk about that 00:08:38.779 --> 00:08:40.240 stuff, let's talk about it because I'm sure I 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:41.899 have thoughts and opinions on that as well that 00:08:41.899 --> 00:08:42.419 I could share with you.