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Welcome to show Joe.
We have just finished wrapping up Angelic layers.
Bonus episode.
Now we have, we've got a bonus episode for you folks.
Bonus.
It's going to be different.
Joe's going to be the one showing me the stuff for the next part.
Welcome to the Angelic Layer manga bonus episode where I bought the manga off of eBay and then
read it.
And we're going to talk about it.
We're going to close out Angelic Layer by talking about the source material and see
what they, what they did to adapt it to an anime and maybe they did a significant amount
of work, which I'm going to talk about.
Exciting stuff.
Yeah, we're also going to do a couple other fun things.
We will rank all the angels.
We will rank the relationship or we'll rate the relationships in there.
Maybe some segments we'll do for some later shows as well.
So obviously we can't rate the angels in community today.
Okay.
I don't think you should be able to.
All right.
So the Angelic Layer manga, which on the back is like in very big letters like as like a
subheader is the prequel to the acclaimed show bits, which is very funny to be like
that's what Angelic Layer is.
It's the prequel to show bits, the story about a guy who wants to fuck a robot.
I have a question.
Yeah.
Was this published before or after show bits like made as a sequel or a prequel after the
fact?
It was before.
Yeah.
Okay.
So it's just set in the same universe, I think.
Gotcha.
So it opens pretty much the same.
Like the opening stuff of the Angelic Layer manga is basically very similar.
One thing I did note is that like in the anime, the only character that gets to be like really
wiggly and like cartoony is Ichan, right?
And this one is everybody.
So like there's a bunch of scenes where like Masaki is drawn as like a little newly character.
I'm showing Sarah the images right now.
We're in the same room, by the way.
I don't know.
We didn't say this, but we are in the same place.
Yes.
We're doing a live, we're recording live together.
I mean, we're not live for the podcast because you're using to recording.
So I can show her these things in real time and she can get her honest reactions to stuff.
But basically, so high level, you know, the Angelic Layer manga is basically just the
fights.
It's very clearly shown in that there just isn't any of the emotional stuff going on
in any of the like the subplots.
It's basically just like back to back.
Masaki battles this person.
Then the men event.
And then there's like a couple of chapters that focus on some of the other stuff.
Actually, like we still get the Masaki watches, Katara, do judo or whatever.
And any of that other stuff.
So I'm just going to walk through some of the main differences in the plot so far.
So just not prepared with sticky notes.
I got sticky notes in this in this thing.
Yeah.
So we get an explanation.
The manga does provide an explanation for why you need to open it in the bath.
Okay.
And what reason is that?
So the instruction book is they said the instruction book is plastic.
Um, and it has the instructions to say your angle, your angle, your angel egg is filled
with a shock absorbent liquid.
Open it in a bathroom or someplace with a drain.
So because there's a liquid inside, they just want you to have like a drain there.
So it didn't like drain out.
Um, yeah.
Also don't drink the shock absorbent liquid.
They also point that out.
So that, you know, we get an explanation for why you need to open it in the bath.
And it like comes out of this like soup.
It looks like in the actual thing.
Uh-huh.
So pretty gross.
Uh-huh.
Uh, but yeah, so then you get the main stuff.
She makes a caroo.
She meets each on each on like, here's the stuff.
She meets Tommy and um, Katara basically the same way.
Um, that's all straightforward.
She does one initial match just like each on signs are up for like a tournament and she
fights a shadow panther.
Same same fight there.
Um, let's see what happens next.
Uh, yeah, so like she wins that first match and gets the like her angel card and it's
actually Shoko who tells her to enter the tournament.
Cause she's like, oh, we cover that on the news sometimes.
You should, you should enter the tournament cause you can do that.
So like Shoko is much more on board with Misaki doing angelic layer in this than she
was in the anime.
So there's no like lingering like, oh, she's going to run into.
That, yeah, there's a little bit of mentions of that.
Um, there's like the stuff.
The sign posting with Katara and um, Tommy, oh, just like kind of doesn't happen.
She's like always shipping them together.
Hey, right.
He's, she's always shipping him and um, Misaki together.
Um, like we don't get that turn at any point in time.
Uh, and we will, we'll get back to that.
But yeah, so everything goes the same.
We see him do a high jump.
Um, she enters the tournament.
Everything, everybody thinks each on is weird.
Each on does all these, you know, entry, the little goofy popping it on screen by like
jumping out of a trash can and stuff like that.
That's all still the same.
Um, the only dev team member we get is Ogata.
We don't get any of the rest of them.
We don't get the inattas.
We don't get Fuji Mori.
Uh, yep, it's just, it's just, um, Ogata.
And also, you know, the thing that's like, if you don't do something, you get a penalty.
And this is just changed to like, Oh, chief, what if I don't do this in time and each on
just tells him to die.
He just says die.
Oh, damn.
Brutal.
So it's pretty brutal.
Also, uh, one thing I didn't mark a page for, but is important is that, um, Hotaco doesn't
always have a hat.
Damn.
Sometimes she just isn't wearing a hat and it's very distracting.
But other times she is, it's like they're inconsistent on whether Hotaco should have
a hat.
Well, I mean, maybe she just doesn't want to wear it sometimes.
I guess that's more normal.
Yeah.
She doesn't wear it when she's in the tournament.
Where is it when she's going to school?
Like when you meet her, she goes to school, she has the hat.
Yeah.
But when she's actually got the, the mask or the goggle thing on, it probably gets in
the way.
Well, it doesn't.
When she's in the show, she's wearing it in the shows.
She, I don't know.
Yeah, I don't know.
But there's a lot of pounds where Hotaco isn't wearing a hat.
I think it looks weird.
Very important.
Yes.
This is a plot critical hat.
Anyway, her first opponent.
So like, no, Zaki joins the tournament.
Her first opponent is Hotaco and she fights Hotaco before they're even like friends.
Like she meets Hotaco and then the next time she sees her, she's fighting her in the tournament.
And she gets her ass what?
And she still loses in the same way.
But it's like a double elimination tournament.
So you lose twice to get kicked out.
So she stays in it.
Interesting.
Yeah.
So then she fights.
What's she doing?
Sorry.
There's like a, let's see.
I have this note here.
Mizaki does a guitarist high jump during the Suzuka fight like before.
That's the kind of thing going on there.
So she was able to put up a fight like it wasn't.
Yeah.
She does a good job.
Okay.
You know, she's had like one other fight.
This is her second fight.
Jesus Christ.
Her second fight is a good thing.
Good God.
Let's see the translation makes a reference to Monty Python.
I did that.
The second fight of the tournament, she fights Ringo.
And basically that goes the same.
So she fights Ringo second in the tournament.
So that's her third fight ever uses air blasts, counters air blasts in the same way.
Pretty good.
Pretty good stuff.
Third fight is also in the manga, Ranga's name is Lanka.
That happens.
That's like in, in, in E New York.
I think it's L's and ours get changed a lot.
Yeah.
Cause it's like Keera or Keelala.
Well, it's just weird cause like remember we like that's like a derogatory term for
red heads.
And now it's something else.
So maybe it wasn't, it wasn't in the manga and they just didn't realize that it would
change to that.
And they, whatever, I don't know, determines when L's go to ours or whatever.
I mean, maybe.
But then, you know, we move on to the next fight.
And the next fight is, um, Madoka.
And we also meet.
So before she has the second fight with, or their, her fight with Madoka, which is our
third fight in the tournament, we meet Ojiro.
This is how we meet Ojiro.
He just like shows up, um, cause she drops her angel card and then he starts talking
to her.
Um, and he mentions that she has the same face as someone, which, you know, is shuko,
but we still haven't heard anything about shuko.
And then he has this panel, which I'm going to have to talk about somehow in the corner
right here.
Oh, what the hell?
What the heck?
So the, the running joke with Ojiro is he asks the sake what
color her underwear is, or he speculates on what color it is.
And that is the joke.
Still call him the young nobleman of the layer.
They do.
Oh, well, that doesn't seem to go together.
So this girl's their panty color.
Yeah.
This is, this is like an anime joke, right?
Like it's the, it shows up and stuff.
Like it's, you know, seeing it in the context of being like, wow, you're still wearing panties
with like little characters on it or something like that.
Yeah, there is a weird fixation on underwear in jokes and a lot of these that are, this
is the shonen bullshit that sucks.
This is like the vaguely horny stuff.
It's pretty gross and it shows up with Ojiro, which sucks.
So does she, I guess we'll get into it.
Well, the joke is like, he always speculates on like what color she's wearing.
And then she's always tells Tomio that it's like, that's not right.
And then Tomio says the actual color out loud very loudly and then she gets embarrassed
and that's the dag.
Bad dag.
So that's what's going on there.
But yeah, so like overall, you know, so far the story has really just been a bunch of
tournament fights.
There has been very little emotional content here.
The fact that Misaki's mom isn't there hasn't been mentioned at all.
So like, as far as you a reader would know, this is like, Ojiro is just referencing nothing
because we really haven't gotten anything about Misaki's mom at this point, being like
an absence in her life.
Interesting.
The manga very much is shipping Katara and Misaki, like straight up.
No no conflict about it.
Um, yeah.
So then we get the male fight.
It goes the same way.
She plants a little trigger on her.
The first time she fight like when before the match, so she plans to trigger on her before
the match they like talk before.
Monokam mentions that she's kind of a shrimp.
This is the first time we get anything about Misaki feeling short or being small.
And that's kind of where this originally starts and like, you know, there's kind of a throughline
with it, but not really not as much as in the not as much like what happens is that like,
you know, it gets all the way to the point where, um, Hotoko loses and then Hotoko is
like, you need to show everybody that age and size and experience don't matter.
And then she's like, yeah, I'll do that.
But that's kind of the only reference here.
It's not like a big plot point like it is in the show.
Let's see.
Yeah.
So, you know, Alice also, okay.
So Alice is named a Risu in this, which is relevant because she's later going to, we
get to see her actual angel whose name is Alice.
So very confusing localization decision there.
Um, but yeah, so that's something that's worth mentioning.
Um, yeah.
Anyway, that fight goes, you know, the mouth fight goes normal, right?
Like Hikaru gets lagged out.
Ojiro stops Orisu from doing it and then Hikaru is able to win basically.
Um, let's see here.
But like the Alice being pissed off is more like a big deal in this because she comes
back later.
So that is like quite a little bit more.
Um, it's not until a chat or a page 284 do we get an image of Shuko at all, which is
just her like hiding, like looking at Misaki, not in a wheelchair.
She's standing.
Yep.
Okay.
That entire plot point is gone.
Oh wow.
Yeah.
Oh, damn.
Yep.
Okay.
Not in there at all.
Okay.
So then, you know, she has what's next.
So she's just a bad mom for real.
She's just a bad mom for real.
It is not like there's no real emotional heft in the manga about any of that stuff.
It's all just like, I like to play this game about angels fighting.
Here's a bunch of cool fights.
That's really what this manga is about.
Um, yeah, so let's see.
Then we get the next chapter is like more about Katara and all that stuff.
We get more things of Shuko looking on.
Just always running away.
Yeah.
Just always peeking at Misaki.
We get the mention of Ikaro's weakness.
Let's see here.
No, no peanut gallery.
No, like, we get the peanut gallery.
Like after the ronga fight, but that's the only time we get them because they can't watch
very many fights because they watch the Suzuka fight.
They watch the ronga fight and then they fight Madoka.
So the peanut gallery is exposed at that point, right?
Everybody knows who they are.
Yeah.
Um, you know, they have the, the, let's see, do more each on moments.
She does end up fighting some angel that's like a boxer.
Is it?
I don't recognize this one from the anime.
She's got like head gear on.
There's a Tsubaki has like a big star on her forehead, maybe that got transitioned to that
character.
Maybe.
I don't know.
But she has another fight.
It's like tiny and she just kind of wins.
We got a little montage of her like beating some characters that we hadn't really seen.
So that's pretty good.
We get introduced to Kaede.
Yeah.
We don't get anybody's backstory and stuff.
So we don't get the family backstory for Kaede.
We're not going to get the sister backstory with Sai.
Um, you know, this volume.
So like the whole manga is like 27 chapters or something.
It's only two omnibuses.
Yeah.
And like an episode of the anime, like an episode of anime usually adapts like between
two and four chapters.
So like three.
Yeah.
Three is pretty normal, but like depending on if they're longer or shorter.
So you know, we're talking like a 10 episode series.
If you were to like, link them over nine and what we got was 26 in the show.
So they cut a lot of stuff out or they added a lot of stuff.
Yeah.
That's new.
Um, so they announced everybody in the semi finals, right?
Which is Haruko, Misaki, Sai and Kaede.
We don't get the thing where Sai holds her hand on the way out.
We get it when everybody leaves, but Misaki doesn't know where to go.
And then Sai comes back and like leads her out of the arena.
So we still get the nice thing there.
And that is where Sai is like, anyway, you have a weak point.
You should figure out what's going on.
So that happens at that point.
Yep.
Then we're starting to think about like what she's going to do.
We get the Katara doing judo stuff.
Um, he, we don't get the Tamiyo scene following it up.
So that plot point where she likes him just doesn't happen.
Not a part of the market.
They add that, which is interesting.
Also we get some context for the Yaku ebi joke, which is when she meets him or she meets
Katara and Tamiyo when Shoko meets them, they're like doing this move where she's like grabbing
his legs and that's why she's saying that we get a visual confirmation of that.
So it's not Shibari.
I'm so sorry, Shoko.
Not as cool as we thought you were.
Oh shoot.
Rip Shoko.
We do get her being like, we do get Shoko being like, maybe I should steal your first
kiss kind of thing.
So we still get those jokes, which is not my favorite.
Yep.
But we get them here.
So that's cool.
Uh, let's see.
On page three, what is it, 380, we get Shoko asking for the first time if Misaki remembers
her mom.
That's the first time this is showing up.
It's like an explicit conversation about it.
And she's like, oh yeah, but she's like nearly as beat up about it.
She's like, oh, I haven't seen my mom in a long time.
Um, you know, blah, blah, blah.
Like, yeah, I'd like to see her.
I know she's like around here and Shoko's like, hmm, okay.
Well, what am I going to do with you Shoko?
You're going to see each other in the tournament.
Blah, blah, blah.
Um, later we get more like Tamiyo just like straight up being Katara.
You should be with Misaki.
Uh-huh.
But like genuinely, like before in the show, they did, they played it like kind of two-handed
where it's like, she, that was like an indication that she's feeling not confident in herself.
This is just straight up like Misaki's so great you should be with her kind of thing.
Okay.
Look at that.
But still being kind of joking.
That's because Ojiro is creepy and we don't want her with him.
So Katara has to be the only.
Well, Ojiro does not, does end with somebody at the end of this.
Oh boy.
Oh dear.
Oh no.
Uh, okay.
Anyway, so the final four started doing, we get the Blanche fight.
That basically goes the same way.
Hyper mode.
The, the explanation is a little bit different though.
We don't get like the first generation thing.
We get a thing that's about using the angels emergency circuits.
So it seems like Kayate like hacked into her doll and did this.
Like this is not just like a defect.
Yeah.
So, um, jailbroker.
Yeah.
Something like that.
But like, I guess was like still within the rules technically.
So that's pretty good.
Um, let's see.
And then at the end of every omnibus, they like, cause there's two omnibuses, right?
Which is just like a collection of like half of the thing.
There's like a little one-off bonus chapter.
Um, this one's just about O'gata having to do a bunch of chorus for each on and like
feeling bad about that.
Or like, you know, it's just kind of goofy times with it.
So that's pretty cute.
That's the first half.
So we get up to the Kayate fight.
I don't think it finishes.
All right.
And now onto.
And then we get the second half, which is very different.
Okay.
Um, well, not very different.
It's pretty significantly different.
Do you have any questions up to this point?
I feel like all I've been doing is modeling this whole time.
Oh, uh, as I have them, I'm asking.
Um, so.
We get a really interesting like full color picture of, um, Hikaru if she was wearing
purple.
I think it's just the color of the setting, like it's cool.
I kind of like Hikaru in purple better than I car when red.
No, I like red.
Okay.
The red looks good.
All right.
So in volume two, we're back in the fight.
We do the Kayate fight.
It's pretty normal.
Um, you know, we still get the like, she's worried that he car is going to get hurt.
Gets over that.
That fight ends up in the same way.
Uh, and this one's like something that's just kind of weird.
I know this happened in the, that anime too, but, um, Si asking Kayate why she didn't
exploit Hikaru's weakness doesn't make sense because her angel type isn't one that can
exploit that weakness.
Well, cause they're both, they both have the same weakness, right?
Yeah.
But how would she, but Si asks Kayate why she doesn't exploit Hikaru's weakness, but
how is Blanche going to do that?
Oh, well, if she's already, she's had the same weakness and learned to overcome it,
then she also knows how to fight against it.
Maybe I don't know.
Obviously this isn't like thinking ahead very much.
It's all in the moment and manga.
I don't know.
It's just interesting that that conversation still happens, even though like in context
doesn't make a lot of sense.
Anyway, we get the, we get the, um, uh, Hado Ko Si fight and in the comic, instead of doing
an entry angel where you throw the angel in, it looks like they just drop them.
Like if you two bottom two panels, it's like they just like, just like drop their angel
in like your third coin and see like a pie and there's something so funny looking.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
They just like talk to me.
So they don't get the little speech either.
Oh no, they do get the speech.
No, they don't.
I'm sorry.
No entry call.
They get, they get an entry by the announcer.
They're gonna announce their names.
Oh, Suzuka looking bad.
Yeah.
They look cool.
I mean, the drawings are really cool.
You know, everybody looks really good.
Yeah.
So it's like the same fight between those two where it's like in a wasteland, the first
way to show down the first one to move loses to all that happens.
Hado Ko loses, um, you know, just as before then Misaki goes and comforts her.
This is like, again, this is like the fourth time they've ever interacted.
So you don't get quite the same amount of space to do that.
Here I marked it because this is, she gets a hat.
So that's good.
We're back to hat.
Good.
Um, and that's where they make the promise to be like, you know, the age size experience
mean nothing in a Jellicle.
This is like when that first comes up early.
Um, and kind of one of the only times that comes up, we get the sigh fight against Misaki
next.
Uh, they do have the panel that says that all of size fans or girls at the top here.
Yeah.
So I marked that.
He looks more fierce.
She's looking more fierce.
Well, she's doesn't have her whole short complex.
I'm assuming she's just a lot more confident or like not having doubts as much as she does
in the anime.
Yeah.
Like, um, you know, and they have the, they have the Shirahime fight on the beach.
Same thing.
You know, she's like looking like she's going to lose because they have fewer characters
that like show up again.
Most of the like strategizing stuff comes through Katara being like, here's what's going
on.
I hope she figures out this thing.
We don't have the whole dev team and like the rest of the Pina gallery doesn't really
come back until like later on, but mostly he's falling to Katara and making him seem
like he's like much better at this.
Well, so he is related to Toko.
Yeah, he's related to Toko.
So it would make sense that he would know a lot since his sister's so good at it.
Yeah.
It's just like, it's all coming from him this time.
Whereas like in the show, they like spaced it out between other characters.
Um, let's see.
Yeah.
That fight goes.
She wins that.
She's like jumping.
So I guess one big difference is that the, um, the specific arena is the Dead Sea, which
is the one with salt in it so that you sink.
And so that's why sinking is a bigger deal.
And what, what, uh, Hikaru actually does is she grabs Shirihime in that one and then
jumps into the water with her and then pushes off.
Okay.
So that was a little bit more explicit.
Uh, let's see here after the fight, uh, she goes to the like three.
Finals, the nationals, cause she wins that final.
Um, she gives Tamiyo and Katara, her tickets that she got for her guardians.
And that's where Tamiyo and Katara have a first conversation about her mom not being
present.
Um, and so that's kind of interesting.
Like they, they keep mentioning this stuff, but it's not like a big concern of Misaki.
Yeah.
Uh, so that is a big difference there.
See.
She does talk about her a little bit, so in a conversation with Ichon, um, she mentions
that like she is naive in the same way that people said that her mom is or goable.
Um, and she has this whole conversation about like, Oh yeah, my mom was always like very
like nervous around people she liked, including like her husband, who she would like panic
around.
First time it's ever referenced in Misaki has a father.
Yeah.
So we get the quote that's like, I heard she was so clumsy and shy even after they'd
been married and we're living together.
She's so blushed whenever my father kissed her.
That's going to be relevant because the thing going on with Shuko different in this goofier.
Anyway, the first time we actually see Shuko is on page 219 of volume two.
We get a full thing of Shuko coming into the control room.
She looks so young in this baby.
She's like tiny.
Well, that makes sense.
Cause Misaki is.
That's true.
She's just walking around.
Yeah.
No wheelchair.
Um, we get the wizard fight.
She has a fight with wizard.
It's the same fight.
More or less.
Uh, let's see.
We get some cool art.
He doesn't say he falls in love with her afterwards.
He does not say that because he does not do that.
Get some good art.
Um, each on so like before she fights wizard, um, instead of it's ok.
They don't have the whole seconds.
The seconds thing does not happen where you have a second.
Oh, yeah.
Like those are stuff.
Yeah.
That stuff is not in there at all.
Um, so she doesn't bond or like Hitoko doesn't show her magic guard.
Each on shows her magic guard and in the book, cause she's, he gives her a DVD, which makes
it really funny that in the show they use a VHS.
That is funny.
Okay.
May Japan was just early adapter of DVD and just wasn't.
I mean, yeah, like a lot of the tech stuff was in there during that time.
Um, in the middle of the wizard fight, we get a like bonus comic.
That's like Misaki's diary.
That's like a little short story about her running to go and get errands and stuff.
And that's where she gets called like a fourth grader.
I like the guy like the fish seller.
Yeah.
But in that, what happens is, um, oh, there's also a mention that she goes to Pithle Princess
and like the receptionist there who like at the very beginning of the series, each on
was like, you got to call me each on and not chief or whatever, um, is there.
And she like almost says the wrong name to Misaki.
Uh, and then she has the line about the chief or about each on being like, he's a little
more than weird, but he's very young and talented.
A lot of women employees here are after him, but he hasn't asked any of them out, which
is very funny to say considering like in the show, everybody like considers him to be kind
of creepy.
Yeah.
But I guess he's cool in the manga.
I mean, they still consider him creepy.
Like when he's out and about, but I guess in the company, he's cool.
Yeah.
Um, anyway, the thing about this like short story is that Misaki is very clear.
He's very clearly into Katara in this.
Like she watches a, um, video.
Yeah.
Tommy O recorded a video of like one of his judo meets and she watches it.
Um, and it was like very into it.
And also we get like a very cute scene of, um, Hikaru being like super into watching
it.
She's still wearing the headset.
Oh, so yeah, it's really cute.
That's so cute.
But yeah.
So she's very into him and this.
Uh, so it is like a mutual thing here.
And then he shows up at the entity finds are like shopping list that she lost and, you
know, they get all that done.
Little side comic, not important.
Uh, we go back to the wizard fight.
The wizard fight happens.
Uh, Hadoke starts making some jokes about her brother.
It's pretty good stuff.
Let's see.
Yeah.
So she beats wizard and then they have the finals of the nationals are actually against
the winner of the B block and nationals, which is, it turns out is a Risu with her.
Oh, with her angel Alice.
So this is the finals.
Are they sister?
They're sisters though, right?
Alice and Madoka.
Yeah.
Madoka is not.
It's just Alice.
So the finals match is between Alice, a Risu slash Alice and Misaki slash Akaru.
That's the files and Alice, the angel is like an Alice in Wonderland looking angel.
She has like the big super cute egg frilly dress and she has a bunny ears and like a
huge hair thing and heels.
And that is, that's the angel that, um, Arisu makes.
So she makes a comeback.
She's like a big deal in the manga.
Okay.
Interesting.
Mm hmm.
That ends up being the final fight of the tournament.
We still get an Athena fight afterwards.
Okay.
I was like, does Athena even exist?
But it's like, it's like a special after fight.
Like, yeah.
So yeah, so Arisu and Alice fight Misaki and Hikaru on a field that's just made of
ice.
It's just an ice field.
And like, I guess, um, Alice's whole thing is that she's very well balanced.
So she's able to traverse the ice very easily while Hikaru has a hard time like slipping
and sliding all around.
Um, Alice just looks cool.
We get some cool things with her like going around, getting into fights, that kind of thing.
Um, yeah, Hikaru eventually wins this by, um, like her whole thing is that she can't
stay on her feet.
So she can't attack.
She can't stay on her feet.
And the thing she does is she's like a sliding attack basically.
So she's not on her feet.
You know, it's like a little clever thing and knocks, um, Alice out.
But yeah, you get some just cool shots of Alice.
Yeah.
Just like running circles around a car.
It's pretty good.
Yep.
Anyway, uh, she wins that.
See.
Yeah.
The rest of the team, like the characters you saw before started like hanging out.
So we get like Ringo and Sai and Kaede.
They're all like sitting together with Hotoko and Kataro and Tommy.
So like we get everybody being friends for a little bit.
So that stuff still generally kind of happens.
Um, but you don't get any like hangouts and stuff.
Basically the entire second volume takes place at the tournament.
Okay.
No bad Choco wall painting.
No badge.
Yeah.
We don't get Choco wall paint.
Uh, let's see.
Yep.
Knocks her out of the layer.
Uh, we get Ojiro saying, uh, Clever girl, which I feel like was a Jurassic Park reference.
Which I thought you would like.
Yeah.
So Choco is very impressed with her daughter.
She has like a thing with Alice at the end where they like make, they like become friends
and it's really nice.
So that pays off there.
I feel like it makes sense why she showed up so much in the anime.
Even though she didn't really do much at the end.
Cause I have like a whole like reckoning and that kind of thing.
Maybe there, there's going to be a second season or something.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Um, yep.
So then Misaki is like the winner of the tournament.
Um, we get a couple of key things where Tommy and, uh, I think, um, I think, um, I think
um, the Toko are like teasing Katara about liking Misaki because that's pretty good.
I like it when they're drawn like little gremlins.
Um, well Chibi, well Chibi, um, Chuko wants to say something to her, but she can't figure
out how to do that.
Cause her whole thing is that she's like shy.
She's just super shy and can't see anybody that she loves because she's shy.
And that's her whole thing.
And each one is basically just like, Oh, we'll have like a special tournament thing, like
a special event where she can fight the champion after winning nationals.
So then there is a, another, a special battle added to the program where she gets to fight
Athena.
And that's how it ends there.
That's how the fight ends up going.
So Chuko does not participate in the tournament.
This is like a special thing.
Everybody's shocked that she gets to fight her.
Um, they're like, Oh, she gets to fight Athena.
That's crazy.
Uh, she fights Athena.
You know, Athena's very good in like is beating her at stuff.
Um, we get things about how Athena is truly an incredible angel and that, you know, Misaki
and Chuko are talking to each other through this fight.
Um, let's see.
Misaki tries to use Katara's advice about like the most impact with the least action
he gave her during the judo thing.
Uh, it kind of doesn't work.
She does land a good hit though.
She lands some good hits, you know, get some two, like two page spreads of some fighting
stuff.
She's like, Oh, I'm good.
And then Athena uses Astral mission and then she wins the fight.
Misaki loses to Athena.
Yeah, that makes sense.
It makes sense.
Different.
So she only up to this point had lost to her.
She lost to a Togo and she lost to Athena because Athena wins the special fight.
Athena looks cool in this.
Yep.
And she finds that.
Okay.
So then she recognizes her mom and then she like calls after her and is like, Hey, you
need to wait.
Like I want to talk to you and Chuko can't talk to her because she's still super shy.
And then basically what happens is, um, Choco has to drag her back to talk to Misaki.
That's funny.
Misaki is like very, it's very much just like, Oh, I'm like so glad to see you all tell this
stuff.
Like there's no hard feelings about it at all.
She's just like, she goes to the little weirdo.
You look cute in this.
Yes.
Um, she looks younger than Choco.
Yeah.
So like, you know, that we just get low conversation.
That's basically like Misaki's glad to see her mom and her mom's super nervous and can't
say things or whatever.
And that's basically how it ends.
We get like a post credit thing.
She still announced the winner of the tournament.
So she gets to wear like the King's Cloak or whatever in a crown.
You know, though she lost to Athena, which is very funny.
Uh, but then we get like one bonus chapter that's basically like a dietary entry of like,
Oh, I'm going to start my next semester.
I live with my mom.
She's still like shy and panicky around me and we get like, she's going to be like ridiculous
and they have to sit down and have a meal and she like can barely do it.
And Choco's like, get it together.
And she's like kind of not getting it together.
Um, and so that's basically how that plotline ends.
And then we get some stuff where they go to school where she talks about how, uh, we
learned two things.
One of the things we learned is that, um, Tommyo's dating Ojiro at the end of the story.
Had they ever talked at all?
It's literally just like, Oh, after the tournament, they like ran into each other and just like
talks or whatever.
That's wild.
Okay.
So they just totally turn just the opposite of that is what happens in the anime.
Opposite.
And then we also get the reveal that, um, Misaki and Katara are dating.
Oh, they start officially dating as of last week in this little thing.
Um, and then she, you know, plays angelic layer and she sees some kid who was just like,
I don't want to play angelic layer.
Just like Ikaru, which is like what she did when she first got there.
Like, oh, I'm gonna play it just like Athena.
That kind of thing.
And then it ends.
And that's the angelic layer.
Wow.
That's wild.
It's so different.
It's way more shown in.
Yeah.
It's almost all fights.
Like it's amazing how like much of it is just battles and none of the like emotional arcs
to those battles.
It's like all of the things I feel like I liked about it.
I just not there.
Uh, which is pretty.
Interesting.
Well, that's cool because normally it feels like if it diverges from the source material,
it's typically not for the better, but it seems like that was the case for this anime.
Yeah.
So that's cool.
So they added a bunch of stuff.
Yeah.
And they changed a lot of things.
All of those changes were good and better.
So I understand why this is a shown in now.
Yeah.
Okay.
But you see what I assumed it was a shojo.
Yeah.
The anime.
Because everything they added was a seemed more shojo stuff.
Yeah.
Right.
Uh huh.
Or like at least more drama and like emotional impact and like the fights became vectorist
for the emotional arc as opposed to like the fight being the main thing.
So yeah, we don't get the reveal that angelic layer was developed to create prosthetics,
which is the thing I loved about this show.
It's not in the manga at all.
I wonder who was behind making all those changes.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
I can believe that this is the predecessor to show bits more than the anime.
Oh, God.
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
So no Ichon or Shuko.
Nope.
We don't get Ichon and Shuko together either.
No Inatas.
Damn.
No Ojiro and Misaki.
Wild.
Nothing.
It's crazy how much the stuff that they added is like integral to what I think about this
series.
You know what I mean?
Like the fact that Shuko, the reveal that Shuko is just shy is so goofy.
Like it's very cartoon-y.
It's like, it's not like you're drunk.
And like it seems like Misaki isn't like upset about it at all.
She's just like, oh, hey, my mom's here.
That's great.
I missed her.
Like she hadn't seen her for like a month or something.
It hasn't been years.
That is.
And no explanation for why she wasn't with her mom.
Nope.
Just, just happened.
Just weird.
We're supposed to believe that Shuko is like panics and is blushing around people she
loves and somehow she was able to have a kid.
Yeah.
Hard to believe.
Yep.
Wild.
Oh my God.
Okay.
That's Angelic Layer the Manga.
Sorry, I just talked for like 30 minutes nonstop.
Mind's blown.
Okay.
But we get Alice.
We get Alice.
Yeah, Alice.
The angel.
Cool as hell.
So freaking cute.
She was cute.
Okay.
That was like me and my brain to process all of that.
I know.
It's like, this was crazy while I was reading it because I'm just like, oh, we're just
going into the next fight, huh?
And I'm just like, oh, I finished the first volume on this, huh?
Okay.
And I'm just like, it's weird that Shuko is staying up.
I, yeah.
They're like, oh, that was crazy.
And the second time she meets Hitoko was when they were having a fight against each other.
Yeah, that's great.
Okay.
So she doesn't steal everyone's shit in this one at least.
Oh, she does.
God damn it.
But that's like, that's like my sign posted as like her thing is like she's observant
and can like collect all the information and stuff.
Yeah.
Okay.
So people act like it's an asset as opposed to like a big surprise thing.
So she does use Rolling Fender.
Okay.
Crazy.
Well, I'm glad she lost to Zima.
That seems more reasonable.
You're glad she lost with him.
But okay.
I'm glad she's just the Athena in action and all to prove to that point like a thing
to know.
Okay.
But like in the show, like in the final, like the part where they all like she yell it
and hard to get up is so good.
And we don't get that.
Is it?
I'm like, I don't like that doll.
She can't hear you.
Oh my God.
This is like the spirit bomb.
It's so good.
It's, you know, everything coming together.
We love that here.
Okay.
I guess so.
Um, I guess do you want to get into we decided we were going to rank our business.
This is going back to anime based and not the manga now.
So thank you for the manga.
Yeah.
Do you have any other questions about it or move on for me?
Are you good?
Is there anything you like in the manga more than Glowshine and the anime?
Um, I like that every character could be a little bit more cartoony, like draw a cartoony.
You know what I mean?
Like that's pretty awesome.
Instead of just each on being the one weird character.
Yeah.
It's a lot more visual comedy.
I feel like in the, in the manga, um, it's a little bit more light hired in that way.
Yeah.
That's pretty good.
Cool.
And then yeah, back to, right.
So this is our, this is our wrap up angelic layer.
Yes.
So that's going to tail doing so we have two segments.
We have two added segments.
We're going to go over for the show.
Uh huh.
Uh, first, what do you want to do first?
Do you want to do the angel rankings first?
Or do you want to do the romance rankings?
Let's do the angel rankings.
Okay.
I feel like that whole transition between the two.
Okay.
So are we going to be, I wonder if we're going to be in agreement on a lot of things.
Okay.
Yeah.
So we ranked all of the angels that had a wiki entry.
So we can get a picture.
There's a total of 25.
I think you grouped together all of Rio's.
Yep.
I did that.
Angels.
I did not.
So we're going to go from the bottom to the top.
Do you want to go through all of them?
Like our worst angels to top angels.
Worst angels to top angels.
I think we should just go through all of them.
All right.
So the worst one.
Angel is TJ.
Is TJ?
Okay.
That's my 22nd out of 25.
Just TJ letters on your helmet is lame as hell.
It's pretty bad.
Who's TJ?
I don't even remember which angel that one is.
Basically she was just there for Masaki.
Be like, oh damn, that's my first opponent.
She's so big and strong and I'm so tiny.
So she's just the one who lost to Vasquez.
Okay.
I have for my, so I broke apart all of Rio's.
I can combine them together.
I'll just put them in the best one.
So my bottom one is Masaki Chi, the one that Ryu makes.
Because she just looks like generic.
Hold on.
Let me see the.
Well, she looks like Masaki.
No, no, just hand me all of them.
Okay.
Yeah.
Try the one.
Yeah.
She looks very generic.
Well, because she's based off of generic girls.
She is based off of the dumbass hair.
Like she looks like Zizia and I don't know.
It's that radio or something, but like not good.
Yeah.
I don't like her.
She's very basic.
Very basic.
Anyway, that's my bottom one.
Okay.
My next one was just all, I mean, I kept her separated.
So I didn't lump her with the, it's because you had her on one page and then his other
angels on different pages.
Oh yeah.
I mean, so the ones that Ryu's use is what, Ace, Mark II and Tri.
Yeah.
Those are my second.
I.
Worst.
Second.
I think I'm like two at the bottom at the block worst two and then I would try much
higher.
I would try as a drill arm.
Yeah.
So yeah, I'll put those all together at the second worst also.
Okay.
So Rio sucks at making angels.
Yeah.
I'm getting that for me.
All right.
Third worst.
Colossus.
Okay.
Colossus is pretty low too.
Yeah.
The name is cool and that's about it.
Yeah.
It just doesn't look good.
No.
Just kind of like generic.
I think like a big strong lady angel without it being like so like, you know, unoriginal.
Yeah.
Just like a luchador with like a shoulder spikes.
Not that she's going at Athena fights at the very beginning.
Yeah.
Right.
I'm doing it for me.
My third worst was TJ.
Okay.
Yeah.
I said.
Fourth worst.
Vasquez.
Yeah.
Okay.
Very similar to Colossus.
I feel like just like.
Yeah.
I'm like with the duo tone of the hair.
My third worst was or fourth worst was Tsubaki.
Okay.
Who is, I don't even remember who Tsubaki is.
She's.
A lot of these are angels that were fought for.
She is.
Remember because she's like my parents gave me a shitty name so I'm going to get my angel
on.
Oh, you're bad.
Because Tsubaki is a cool name.
Oh, you're like, because she kind of just looks like a, like what a mage would be like
in a generic RGT or something.
Yeah.
I'm not super interesting.
Not super interesting.
Got cucked as though.
You liked Maria.
I like Maria.
I just drove Tsubaki.
Tsubaki is that good.
Okay.
My next one is Usari who I like don't remember.
Usari.
At all.
Who's Usari?
I don't know who that is.
Did you put them on the list?
Yeah, they're on the list.
I just don't remember what they look like.
So random ass person.
I've been a minute.
I've like never seen before.
I feel like.
I guess when it gets blanched in some fire.
She okay.
Yeah.
Usari I think loses to blanch.
Zero memory of that.
She looks like she belongs in Sword Art online.
Yeah.
Like basically.
I have her a little bit higher online, but she's like less.
She's bottom tier.
My fifth worst was Nightingale.
He was the one that's a nurse.
Yeah.
Mine's Tsubaki.
Because there's another nurse.
Yes.
Blanch who looks way better.
Yes.
100%.
So get wrecked.
I don't know.
Yeah.
You're like the pale imitation.
Pale, but blanch means pale, but the imitation to the pale thing.
Not good enough.
All right.
Who do you have next?
Yeah.
Tsubaki was mine for that.
And then the following one is Nightingale for me.
Okay.
Yeah.
My above that I have Colossus and Vaska as above those two.
So it's basically the same.
I just don't.
Yeah.
Just like, cause I will get into it, but like somehow you can be a heavyweight angel,
but not have like a thick ass build like that.
Yeah.
So I don't love that.
Colossus, I don't know cooler.
We're making like muscley people, but they're not like, they're not cool looking.
So it's like professional wrestlers, right?
Like they could be looking like pro wrestlers.
You can have be built and have like a little more glam or going to you.
So this is what 16?
Sure.
16.
I don't know.
Okay.
Who do you have?
Except, well, I haven't marked a 17.
Okay.
17.
Sure.
I have a 17.
That was three.
So mine.
I put Catalina.
Oh, me too.
I have Catalina.
Yeah.
The ice skates are cool, but the rest of her super basic.
It's just like a whatever.
Yeah.
Ice skater.
Ice skating outfit.
With old hair tie.
Yeah.
Which is fine.
You know, it's, it's cool.
And like the gimmick is fun, but.
Yeah.
But that's it.
Whatever.
Yeah.
And then for 16, I have Misaki Chi there.
Oh, you do?
She's cute.
She's simple and not fun, but cute.
Yeah.
I have you.
Sorry.
There's the sort of online one.
All right.
So I think there's like pretty much mashed who's in the bottom at this point, right?
Yeah.
I mean, we're all, they're all in the bottom.
Solid.
Yeah.
Now we're at 15.
Yeah.
Mine's Natasha, who I like vaguely remember, but she has a cute outfit.
Her outfit is so good.
I have a really high up.
Okay.
I mean, it's just because we barely saw her that I don't like.
Yeah.
We barely saw her.
She's like a, like a little Amelia Earhart kind of.
Yeah.
She's cool.
She's got like a cool outfit.
It's cool.
She's got the goggles.
She's got like the little thing.
We just didn't.
She doesn't do that much.
It's just something that loses against wizard.
Like, I think so.
Yeah.
Because I remember us in the episode, I was like, yeah, they have a cool outfit.
She looks like a, like a spy a little bit.
It's pretty good.
Yeah.
I like this one a lot.
Yeah.
I think Tan from Borderlands was cuter because she's got like the goggles like that too
with the little neck scarfy thing.
My number 14.
15.
15 is Elaine.
Oh, okay.
Who's the tall girl.
Yeah.
Who like looks fine.
She has a cool ponytail, but like otherwise not that, not that particularly noticeable
to me.
14.
I have Queen, which I like Queen.
I like the like buckle things coming out of her cape in the back, but like any of these
angels with like the kneecaps exposed, like it just makes them look cheap.
Like I don't like it when the kneecaps are exposed like that.
You don't like the kneecaps expensive?
Yeah.
Because it looks so real other than that.
Yeah.
She's whatever to me.
I hate the mask.
I have her high up.
It looks cheap.
Okay.
At 14, I have Mao.
Okay.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
Listen, the thing with Mao is that there's just a better version of her.
No, shadow panther's just a cooler version of Mao.
Don't say that yet.
We're not there yet.
I mean, it's true.
Okay.
So Mao's pretty low for me.
Okay.
Uh, my next number 13 for me is Elaine.
Okay.
Yeah.
Cause I did like that.
She was a taller angel.
Um, she had pretty hair that like flew out when she used that weird power.
Um, yeah, she just didn't, didn't, oh, I forgot one episode.
Well you know who else had one episode and was higher than Elaine for me?
My number 13 new type SI 174.
Yeah.
Looks like a bug.
Looks like a Dragon Balls E minion.
Pretty good, but like not that good.
Not expressive.
Nice.
Um, my number 12 is Eagle.
Okay.
The one that like fly.
That's 11 for me.
And that's 12 for me.
We tied.
We both have that.
Yeah.
The one with the mono eye.
Yeah.
Um, and then for me, number 11 is the SI 174.
Okay.
Uh, I like the color palette a lot on the angel.
Yeah.
That's a pretty good angel color palette.
Uh, my number 11 wizard loser doesn't even look like a wizard.
Damn.
Hate that guy.
Okay.
See our bottom were the same, but our tops are going to be very different.
Yeah.
But so yeah.
So for 11, I have wizard doesn't even make the top 10.
No.
Get wrecked.
Okay.
So my number 10 is Athena.
Wow.
Really low on Athena.
I hadn't seen the manga version of her.
She's pretty cool in the manga.
She looks the same.
I don't know.
Something is because she's got like, we don't get to see her eyes.
So I feel like that like limits how much I can like.
Yeah.
It's cool.
It's like a veil.
I guess.
She's above you.
You don't get to see her eyes.
Okay.
She wins.
Okay.
Well, who's your number 10?
My number 10 is Blanche.
What?
Oh my God.
Blanche?
She's like got big boots and she wears all white and she kind of glides around.
But you know, I'm really doing much else for me.
Okay.
It's giving me very little personality out of Blanche here.
What are you talking about?
She's talking all the time.
Okay.
How's her yam and all this?
That's true.
She does fan trail for it.
But not when she's moving around in the water.
You know?
Okay.
My number nine is Ronga.
Wow.
Okay.
Like I like the design a lot and I like because I feel like she's the only busty angel.
We get.
That is not true.
There are several busty angels.
The only one exposing her bust at all because she has it's like a it's like a what do you
talk like Natasha's taint out like I don't I'm okay.
Queen.
But like because she's got well, she's like the only like not also something to do with
no okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Her outfit's cool.
I love the little wispy things.
Okay.
Yeah.
But you ranked her number nine.
I don't like hoops.
I don't like hoop earrings.
You don't like hoop earrings?
Okay.
Fine.
Okay.
It's like good.
She's wrong.
My number nine is Natasha.
She made it.
She looks like a cool spy.
She's got like the body suit like zipped open a little bit.
She's got the scarf.
It's good.
It's a good outfit.
It is a good outfit.
She should have been in the show more.
Yeah.
Like five seconds.
I know.
She's looked nothing in there.
Okay.
My number eight is shadow panther.
Okay.
It's pretty sweet looking.
Shadow panther looks cool.
Because you, well when we, in the very first episode you're like, what the hell is she
wearing?
She's like confused.
She's a cat or a future person.
But I really, it's a cool outfit.
It's good outfit.
Like, because all of these angels are cool maybe because like the hair helps contribute
but she doesn't need that because it's just a full buy suit where you see like a bit of
the face and the boob window as you called it.
And she's got huge shoulder pads.
Yeah.
Good.
I have her high.
I have her, I have her high up.
You got never ending story the book.
Yes.
I mentioned this before.
I think it really is your book.
I'm looking at my bookcase.
We're running out of time.
Okay.
My number nine.
My number eight.
My number eight is Ikaru.
I like Ikaru.
Kind of looks like a toy.
Well there are toys.
Little bit.
I mean she looks like a toy.
Well she's also one of the flatter angels I guess.
Oh it's because she has a big gear on her like screw on her chest.
Yeah.
She's got a big gear on her.
She has a big gear on her like screw on her chest.
Yeah.
Looks like you can screw it.
She's my number seven.
He calls my number seven.
Yeah.
Because it's simple but I feel like because sometimes things can be over designed and
then it's too many things working against each other.
Like queen.
Queen has too much going on.
Queen has a good, I like the part where I think that has something going on.
But yeah.
She's got her nice.
It's good.
The red and white looks good together.
Yeah.
Number six.
Wizard.
Similar.
I have fun wizards.
You know wizard is better than shadow panther.
The dude version of um.
The cargo.
Yeah.
He's cool.
Yeah but like a race.
We don't get a lot of male angels.
Yeah.
We shouldn't.
Maybe we shouldn't.
Turns out they're not that good.
Yeah.
I saw your angel.
We'll get to that.
Yeah.
OCs.
Let's see.
So my number six is shadow panther.
Yeah.
Good picture.
Cool.
Yeah.
Very cool looking character.
Looks cool.
I'm a bully.
Kind of mean.
A little mean.
Yeah.
Deas.
Is that what they call them in the manga?
They're called Deas.
Yeah.
Um.
Alright.
Are we in the top?
We're in number five.
Number five.
Mal.
I like Mal.
I think it's just the worst version of shadow panther.
They have the same like silhouette.
It's just that she wears a man.
The shadow panther is like sci-fi.
Mal is like kung fu, Chinese.
I like, I don't know.
I like it.
It's, I like Mal.
Okay.
That's cool.
That's fine.
Number five.
Queen.
Jeez.
She looks like a Sailor Moon villain.
No, she's totally not.
Oh, good.
She does.
It's so weird.
She has the huge mask.
She's got the like the, the garter.
Yeah.
The garter is on.
She's got the belt.
She's got like a weird little tiny cape.
Yeah.
It's ridiculous.
She looks ridiculous.
It's so good.
She's like a weird dominatrix villain from Sailor Moon.
It's good.
Yeah.
Queen is fun to me.
Number four.
Blanche.
Blanche is for, she's so fucking cute.
Yeah.
And I really like, she's got the really like, the boots are fun.
The skirt that's like, oh, see that's not twangy, that's the flattering fitted torso flare skirt.
Okay, but it's like a futuristic flare skirt.
I know.
She's so freaking cute and hyper mode's cool.
Hyper mode's cool.
I like, and her little bangs that like kind of go into her cheeks.
Yeah.
She's fun.
She doesn't like.
Basically I like, Nurse Angel Rear Rapop, which is like an older anime.
Yeah.
Like a magical girl that's nurse themed.
Ah.
My number four.
Mm-hmm.
Athena.
Okay.
Avinna looks cool.
She's got the big, she's got the armor.
Yes.
Very.
Huge shoulders.
Mm-hmm.
Big alien helmet.
I like that we don't see her eyes.
I don't want to see her eyes.
I mean, like a malicious like where there's just like a red sheen from under it show
that she's like, brrr.
I don't think she needs it.
I think I like being a like suit of armor is cool.
Silent protagonist.
Yes.
To the max.
It makes the part where Shuka was like, I want to seem cool for Masaki and she totally
just comes off like a villain.
Very funny.
Mm-hmm.
So that's my number four.
Okay.
My number three is Alice.
That's pretty good.
Alice is so cute.
Yeah.
So freaking cute.
Oh, that's why I forgot to rank.
I didn't rank Alice.
That's how I'm not feeling.
Damn.
Well, she wasn't in the show.
So I didn't rank her.
You printed her out.
I did print her out.
She was in the show for like two seconds.
Okay.
Well, I'll tell you her for number three.
It's easy.
My number three, Tide, is Alice and Ranga.
Too very, they look the same basically.
No.
I really like.
They look like wispy things going on.
Yeah.
Both have long hair.
I really like Ranga.
I think she looks cool.
Yeah.
I think she's got a lot going on.
It's flowy and also fits the like wind attack stuff.
Yeah.
Very much so.
Yeah.
So I think that's good.
She's themed well.
Her hair is crazy.
Yeah.
I like it.
I just don't like Ringo that much.
I didn't like Ranga that much.
Yeah.
I mean, she's like big and loud.
It's good.
No, I like Ranga a lot.
I think it's a really good design.
Yeah.
Alice also looks cool.
So I'm slotting her in here.
This is where we go.
Okay.
Number two, Shira Heyman.
I also share Heyman as number two.
Shira Heyman.
Hey.
Cool.
I think for the big dumbass rope thing coming over her head.
Yeah.
Her hair is evil work.
She's got the she's got the kimono that she takes off when she's getting serious.
Yeah.
Her whole thing is like.
Stoic.
Cool.
Yes.
Bells.
Yep.
Good.
We love bells.
We love bells here.
Yeah.
Because our number one is Suzuka.
Yeah.
Suzuka is the best one.
She always has been, always will be.
The cool ninja.
Yeah.
She's freaking awesome.
Konnoichi.
Yeah.
Yep.
So those are the angels.
Can't believe you like wizard that much.
I see it some.
You know how to buy candy in that show.
Okay.
All right.
There's our ranking.
Okay.
Do you agree with us?
Email us your rankings.
Rank all of them.
I feel like we didn't need to like go through all of them.
We did it, but that's good.
You know, he'll just be well.
Okay.
You have a much more.
You like the flair for flamboyant design.
Yes.
And I typically like simplistic.
But yeah.
So if you want to share it, your ranking with us, we can see how, who has the more, who,
who you identify with more.
I don't think anybody's going to do this.
Shut up.
You said your dream is for us to get an email.
So I'm trying to hear.
Okay.
I don't know.
Yeah.
So if you have a ranking, feel free to chime in at show joe pod at gmail.com share with
us your ranking.
And if you want to draw your own angels and that too.
And we're also again, still waiting for that.
Sayadee fan art of sign.
Kayate is coupling.
What?
Okay.
Now we're going to move on.
Shut up.
We're moving on to ranking.
Ranking.
Um, all right.
So this is something we'll probably do for multiple shows.
We're going to rate each relationship that romantic relationship or hinted.
We're going to, we're going to rate all these out of five.
So we throw in the weird ass one out of five.
Now I need to add fucking zero and no.
Yeah.
Weird.
That's a zero for me.
You can't just be like, anyway, off screen, these characters bonded and are going out.
Cause it's the epilogue.
Yeah.
She can't just be happy on her own.
She has to end up with some dude.
This ended up with some dude.
Some dude.
It's about panties.
They're both obsessed with panties.
So funny that those characters never interact almost ever.
No.
Okay.
So first couple we're going to rank on a scale of one to five.
Shuko and Ichan who have nothing going on in the manga.
They have nothing on.
It also is never confirmed what's going on at the end of the anime.
I didn't even think it's true.
Like normally I'd be like, this is great.
They're a great relationship.
They work together to do life changing research.
He goes out of his way to help her connect with her daughter because she's stupid.
And she is cool and like, is just like a makes the sport popular and like brings all that
to the table.
They're great.
I would give it a five, except you don't get any confirmation at the end.
So it's a four.
Okay.
Um, yeah, I guess I'll give it a four to honestly, none of these are like incredibly
remarkable.
No, no, they were that good.
Well, no, there's one couple that deserves a five.
Okay.
I even see the list.
You wrote the list.
I don't know what's on here.
Okay.
Number two, Misaki Kotaro coupling.
No, I've already talked about this.
This is like a two for me.
Okay.
I'll give it three.
It's such a nothing because it feels like even at the end of the anime, it felt like
they were still in playing because they had like him think back on like a few memory flashes
of their time together fondly.
Yeah.
That's kind of the time when everybody's reflecting on.
Yeah, I guess.
Weird.
Okay.
Misaki Odrio.
I hate this.
Let's see.
Her uncle, her future uncle, maybe depending on how our first couple ends up.
The fact that I had to like retcon the like end of the thing being like, hi, my people
are looking for you, sake.
I think he's joking.
I don't think he's serious.
One, one, this gets a one for me.
Bad.
I don't like it.
He's no, you like your mom.
Yeah, I'll give it a one.
Oh, fuck.
Did you forget one?
Yeah.
Okay.
I'll just do it next because it'll make sense.
Okay.
Shuko Odrio coupling.
Zero.
Impossible.
The show even though Odrio knows it's impossible.
Yeah.
Like it's one of those things that I'm glad is in the show is like a thing to talk about,
but like that's not a real ship.
Yeah.
I told you, I told me they were in some kind of.
Not the manga.
It is a love triangle because because Misaki likes Odrio, Odrio likes Shuko and Shuko just
like should at least want the love of her daughter.
So it is a love triangle.
Okay, sure.
Yeah.
Okay.
Tamoyo Kotaro.
I like this one.
This one's good.
I mean, Katara is kind of like a.
Friends can be.
Like a loser at the end of it.
Why?
Because he doesn't want to hand him bite.
Yeah.
Because he's like, oh, like how that resolved.
It's not like he realizes that like she's important to him.
It's like he said he has to, it's like you need to perform like a, like a girly girl for
me or I'm not going to be able to take it seriously.
Week.
Yeah.
Week.
So this gets up, this gets a four.
It's, yeah, it's still mostly like it.
Because I like Tamoyo a lot.
Yeah.
She's cool.
I'll give it a three.
It's weird.
And they're constantly being interrupted by Hitoko.
So.
It's going to take forever for that relationship to progress.
Yeah.
Okay.
Next one.
Psychei Eide.
Yeah.
Psychei Eide.
Let's go.
Show it up to your sister's grave with your, with your GF.
God.
The show doesn't agree.
Yeah.
It's disappointing.
Yeah.
Psychei Eide.
Man.
Okay.
Ready for the next one?
Yeah.
This is a little harsh talking about earlier one after the other.
Tall girl and short guy.
Okay.
Well, he sure does say that the moral of the episode, load bearing short, short can.
Tall girl.
Oh, my towering goddess.
You're here.
That's like a two.
It's funny.
I don't care.
I think a three with a neutral.
Is that three middle of the road?
No, he looks bad.
He gets a two.
The two.
He's Alvin sucks.
Yeah.
Alvin's terrible.
He's terrible.
Who is his sister that she is good enough to make it to like the national games?
Yeah.
I don't know.
We never see her.
And I didn't even rate Eileen very high.
So, you know.
You mean Elaine?
Elaine, sorry, Elaine.
Yeah.
If she had.
If she had made Natasha, it would have been high.
Yeah.
Doesn't have doesn't have that kind of sensibility.
Okay.
Oh, God, that Fuji Mori.
And they're like, whatever.
This is like a three to me where I'm like, yeah, okay.
Yeah.
Sure.
He's like a goofy guy and she's like a she likes to tease goofy guys.
Yeah.
I guess.
He's fine.
Especially sold on it.
Like, yeah, but whatever.
Okay.
Here's the one I actually in my mind was saying it was a five, but I guess we have two fives
up in here.
Okay.
Yuko and Shugi the Yanadas.
Oh, yeah, the Yanadas.
Yeah.
I guess we just don't see them together very much.
They don't do.
Because they're already married.
So, I just like them separately.
Yeah.
Okay.
I do think that Yuko should go to her kids birthday and not work late.
Yes.
Oh, she's got like a lunatic she has to worry about.
Shuko.
Okay.
So that's what?
Like a four?
That's fine.
Shugi's a ten.
Shugi's so funny.
It's so funny they make him be a deus.
Oh my God.
So good.
Um, he's just some guy.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
That's all I got.
Okay.
I can't think of any others.
Um, relationships now.
Yeah.
Okay.
So there we go.
I think in the future what we'll do like ranking characters.
Yeah.
But because we've only covered one show and it's very clearly that it's the best character.
It's the best character.
It kind of seems like a waste of time.
Yeah.
I like, well, it's the same.
Like Hotoko, Suzuka at the top and then for me next it's Sai and Shirakime.
Yeah.
Hotoko's good.
Yeah.
Sai is good.
Mm-hmm.
I like each on Shoko.
Yeah.
Shoko.
Shugi.
Oh, man.
Like we're pretty, it's pretty easy with this.
So I think when we have more shows we can do more character stuff going on.
Yeah.
I think we can do favorite sundry.
We can speculate and we'd hang out.
Yeah.
That would be good.
Yeah.
Cool.
So.
Yeah.
So that wraps up Angelic Layer.
I think we're done with this show.
Yeah.
I think that's the end.
We've done it for real.
Good show.
Oh, do you want to rate the overall show?
Look at it.
10.
Did we do that?
We already did that.
I don't remember.
Do you appreciate it more after having read the source material?
I appreciate the writing and the anime more.
Like I think they did a lot of work to do the adaptation.
Like I'm always worried that adaptations are going to make the original thing worse.
And I feel like this is an example where it makes it way better by adding stuff.
This is like the opposite of filler.
Yeah.
I mean, it's like we added a bunch of content that makes it better to that rules.
Yeah.
They should be doing that.
Yeah.
Whoever did that needs to get on it and do some more stuff for the world since we're
just revisiting IPs a lot.
Let's just make the IP better.
Yeah.
What a thought.
You prove things when you have the opportunity.
Yeah.
So that's that.
We see now I'm just looking at all of your stuff.
You have Avatar box set.
You do.
You are into the digital media situation.
I like owning physical copies of things.
Like the angelic layer manga.
Yep.
So now you have that.
I have it.
And yeah.
That works pretty good.
You know, goodbye.
I don't know if you should really go out of your way to get it.
If it's convenient to you, you can read it.
I don't think like you need to read the manga for this one.
No.
I don't think it gives you anything new.
It's not like anyone listening.
Watch the anime either.
I mean, someone might.
I mean, you know, it'll get licensed by somebody.
It'll get picked up at some point.
Thanks for listening.
Moms and grandma and friends and aunts and all the things.
Well, somebody can listen to it in the future.
Thank you.
Future listener.
Well, then I was so likeable that our family's supporting us.
Okay.
That's that.
Do you want to say anything else you want to say about angelic layer before we sign
them off?
I'm glad I revisited it because it's been it's been a while since I watched it.
So I enjoyed rewatching it.
Pretty good.
Yeah.
This is a solid show.
I was expecting it to be way worse.
I don't know what my expectations were, but yeah.
It being pretty good.
I didn't remember like the action so much.
So now I'm like reconsidering like, do I like show Joe?
Do I even like show Joe?
What am I showing you Joe?
No.
No, I do.
Just you wait.
Kimmy me to doke.
I'm just going to like clutch at my chest like, oh, I can't real life be this sweet.
That's what that's what's going to happen for that, which I guess will be recording in
a week or so.
Yeah.
We haven't recorded it yet.
I haven't even watched it in the first episode yet.
Yeah.
So that should be coming out by the time you hear this.
Also, I'm re-releasing a different bonus episode that I've already scheduled, but you don't
know about, but I'm just re-releasing the demo thing we did just pulling the show audio
out from it.
Okay.
So just like a fun bonus.
Yeah.
All right, people.
All right.
Thank you for joining us through Angelic Layer.
We look forward to Kimmy needs it.
Okay.
Next.
Yep.
Until next time.
Don't get so shy with your family that you can't even see with the family you love.
I can't believe I've been changing my motivation to.
It's so goofy.
Yeah.
Don't get so shy around your kid who you raised.
Yeah.
Popped out.
For some part of it at least.
Yeah.
Question mark, question mark, question mark.
Yeah.
Don't do that.
Okay.
But if you do lose very early on, get a vendetta and show up as the final boss.
Yeah.
That's good.
I'm going to kick the ass in there is the fact that she just shows back up and she's
like, it's me.
You thought you were done with me.
No, I'm the final boss.
Cool fight.
Yeah.
Always show up in the last act as the final boss.
All right.
You may think you're a side character, but you could be the person.
Ultimate kick.
Yeah.
You could be the second to last fight in the show.
You know, and the story.
Yeah.
Oh, good shit.
Yep.
All right.
Bye.
All right.
Welcome to super duper special.
Shit.
You're opening with super duper episode.
Welcome to.
God, I'm going to be okay.
I can't touch the paper.
I just want to crinkle everything.
I'm just going to look at you.