Touken Ranbu - Hanamaru season 2 - Anime for Trashdwellers podcast Transcript

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Episode 14 of Anime for Trashdwellers, and we're talking about Touken Ranbu Hanamaru season 2! Do you need to have listened to the podcast about the 1st series to understand this episode better? NO! Because nothing really happens in this show and it's all confusing so yeah, having listened to the last ep of the poddy won't really help you out much anyway!

Hot sword boyos round 2, here we go! Just like the 1st season and in true "cute boys doing cute things" form, there isn't a whole lot of progression plot wise, so I doubt there's going to be much difference between the 1st and 2nd season to the extent that it just feels like 1 long big series. The opening shot is Red Sword talking to the Master, but you don't see the Master so it's that thing where it's like he's talking to you the audience, and he's like "Hey, you don't come down to the porch often." Bitch NEVER leaves her room! Well, so I guess that is the 1st big difference in season 2, that the Master has finally progressed to leaving her room and travelling as far as down a set of stairs. Tight-Ass-chan tells everyone off again for not being serious and focused enough – brah, this is a "cute boys doing cute things" show, like read the room. Some shouta's are introduced to the new foxes, because the one from last season got a promotion – I can't think of a higher promotion than working at the citadel with historically significant swords, like I can't see where you'd go up from there, like historically significant guns? The swords decide that it would be a good idea to celebrate New Year's like humans do. Fucking one sword just off-handily states that they are "Gods that possessed swords" THANK YOU! This was NEVER explained in the 1st season, I guess it's nice to get that clarity as to what exactly the fuck is going on, even if it is half through the fucking series. Mullet guy is getting everyone to sort out all the photos he's taken – even in this day and age cameras are becoming somewhat obsolete due to most phones having camera's inbuilt into them, how the fuck does this guy not have a camera phone in the year 2205 – fuck, at that stage they probably just have camera's inbuilt into people's eyes and shit. And we have more new awakened swords – NO! I've dead-ass only just gotten around to recognising the current like 30 of them, please no more! But one of them did get the name beard cutter cos when his master was trying him out he cut this guy's beard – the fact that they don't play into this by making this guy a barber at the citadel is disappointing – but also, this is a "cute bois doing cute things" show, there's no ruddy facial hair here! Long swords getting ready to run the New Year's ceremony because he's a sacred sword – ah yes, there is nothing more sacred than length. Ghost buster can't be a sacred sword because he killed a CHILD – well, a ghost child, so therefore he didn't actually kill anyone. There's a scene of a group of swords discussing if they can become sacred or not and the general consensus is "Lol no, we've killed too many people!" Each episode is a different month of the year, which means that Blue Sword is currently not in the series yet cos he's still soul searching in the past. So the 2 new swords, Red Sword, Campion of the Elderly Sword, and Lazy-Ass Sword head off on today's battle. Gilf lover takes a yokai along with him, and it's the same type of Yokai in Kamisama Kiss – I can't remember his name and it isn't on Wikipedia but it's the yokai that suck-ups his way into becoming stronger, and he's a little shrub/Grug looking yokai, and I just assumed they were fictitious ones the author created since I hadn't seen them elsewhere, but apparently they're real! And so fucking adorable like Jesus Christ! Grandpa's favourite grandchild explains that this is a good yokai, and not a bad one like his master used to kill – oooooooooooooooooo ok, so basically in order to keep grandpa happy and make him feel needed and like he was making a difference his grandchildren were like "Now here you go grandpa, here's your own special sword so that you can perform the VERY important task of culling the 100% totally real yokai." Like grandpa just had Alzheimer's and just ran around in the dead of night flailing his sword around. The Historical Restoration Army's been spiced up a bit, it's no longer just the same looking grey and black oni, now they have weird little flying skeleton worms and dead soldiers! And Lazy-Ass-Sword just out there DOING shit, like full on fighting with all his might – I thought your special talent was your lack of motivation you lying piece of shit! The 2 new swords fight, and we know they're getting serious because their muscular mid-riff and pecs are showing. It ends with Mullet guy buying an old handheld camera from the local convenience store – WHY is the local store selling antique cameras? I have some bad news guys, todays ending song had NO Japanese instruments – it was actually really cool how all the songs were traditional Japanese inspired, am generally bummed it wasn't the case this ep.