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Oct 22, 2022 10:13 AM
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Haha, starting off with a Ranma 1/2 Super Famicom/SNES game reference? That's gold.

The train battle, I wanna know the reference so badly though, it's very reminiscent. No wonder, it's Doctor Yellow, the Shinkansen's maintenance train.

Got a laugh out of the Bob Epic Team segment, that was some rhyming shit goodness. The Megaman reference was good too, and so is the Haiku segment. NOICE.

The dumbass personality facial fight was so weird though.

Overall, I felt that this wasn't quite the episode of balls-off-the-wall insanity. Oh well, try again next week.
KANLen09Oct 22, 2022 11:12 AM
Oct 22, 2022 10:17 AM
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Okay, so Train Battle is the theme for this week's episode, and who knew that Shinkansen were outfitted with the technology for this sort of eventuality? I just love how it's so intense for no apparent reason other than it's a fight on a train with the appropriate BG music and a reference to Doctor Yellow (the Shinkansen's track maintenance vehicle) out of nowhere. What's funny to me is how they used the normal male voice that usually announces stations on the JR metro system as the announcer for this fight, with its nasal and monotone voice to boot.

Anyways, the normal episode with the common Bobunemimi and B-Side segments aside from the 4-koma adaptations. I don't understand why the facial fight for the ED was necessary, but whatever, it's their nature of messing around anyways.

Here's this week's seiyuus:

Female VA's
- Popuko - Megumi Han
- Pipimi - Mariya Ise

Male VA's Rebroadcast
- Popuko - Hiroya Ishimaru
- Pipimi - Yuu Mizushima

NekOniiChanOct 22, 2022 11:37 AM
Oct 22, 2022 10:17 AM
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This week's seiyuu duos reprise theirs from Pop Team Epic mobile games.

Former part: Han Megumi and Ise Mariya, best known as Gon and Killua from Hunter x Hunter

Latter part: Ishimaru Hiroya and Mizushima Yu, Japanese dub voice actors for Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung
Oct 22, 2022 10:32 AM
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The ED of male half has a blooper. Because it's Jackie Chan's episode, of course!
Oct 22, 2022 11:09 AM
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🥊 CHAMPION 🥊

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B-Side the best short!!! kekeke
Oct 22, 2022 11:16 AM
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Another good episode, especially loved the Megaman 2 reference
Oct 22, 2022 11:18 AM
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I really didn't fit it funny at all this time
Oct 22, 2022 11:19 AM
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The Train Battle part was the best parody of any series that is about fighting in general.
Oct 22, 2022 4:23 PM
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Dragon Ball Z SNES games, Medabots, Mega Man 2. This one was full of classics
Gon and Killua's actresses were priceless even in the closing statements
Oct 22, 2022 5:11 PM
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Not sure if it is coincidental or not, but Pop Team Epic episode with Hunter x Hunter MC seiyuus on premiered on the same day a new HxH manga chapter being released after a usual long hiatus.
Oct 22, 2022 7:34 PM

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That train battle scene was just genuinely well done.
Oct 22, 2022 11:40 PM

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Which reference is the train battle coming from? That was epic XD
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Oct 23, 2022 5:43 AM

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naahh! this ep...i wasn't able to figure-out any of the VAs...
but the visuals for the train battle before it starts was a bit nice!
5/5.


Oct 23, 2022 7:07 AM

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Great way to pay homage to HxH return. This episode also featured another GOAT of battle shounen.

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Oct 23, 2022 8:06 AM
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Train scene looks better than the entirety of Chainsaw Man and Bleach, proving once again why Pop ateam Epic is the one and only peak fiction
Oct 23, 2022 8:58 AM

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Wasn't Train Battle just a parody of Shinkai movies in general?
I wonder how well the discussion about HxH and Togashi being active on Twitter is going to age.
Oct 23, 2022 9:09 AM

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The art and animation this episode were really on point.

A masterpiece if I've ever seen one:
"Shut the fuck up, you.
I said, shut the fuck up, you.
Shut the fuck up, you."

Otherwise, it was nice to see a Mega Man reference, and the bit with the interrogation was highly amusing.

"...Is your mother worried? Would you like us to assign someone to worry your mother?"

Oct 23, 2022 2:46 PM

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Train battle got SASORI level of trueness!
Oct 23, 2022 3:13 PM

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Ravarae said:
Which reference is the train battle coming from? That was epic XD


imo its a references to recently released hollywood movie called Bullet Train but i may be wrong
Oct 23, 2022 4:02 PM
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Welp, now we had both nanachi and Reg on pop team epic. I wonder if we'll have Riko seiyuu too.
Oct 23, 2022 5:44 PM

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Like the VAs said, it was great timing to have the Gon and Killua voice actresses here on the same day that the manga restarted.

The animation for the train battle was really good.
Oct 23, 2022 8:16 PM
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Trains Blatters podem ser insanos...
Oct 24, 2022 12:21 AM

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Loved the Portopia skit
Oct 24, 2022 11:15 AM

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Meh. Needed more Nanachi and more King Records trash-talk.
Oct 25, 2022 1:25 AM
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Literally because of Gon and Killua VA was in it
Oct 25, 2022 4:53 AM
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DBZ start.
Omg the sakuga lol. The better it is the funnier it gets.
Ice cream→wife cream
The bloopers lol
Oct 25, 2022 10:29 AM
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Salvando a industria como sempre
Oct 26, 2022 2:28 AM

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Anyone have an idea of who the studio for Train Battle was? It's listed as ?????
Oct 28, 2022 12:08 AM

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I don't even know what to say! This show is fucking crazy! Hahaha :D
Oct 29, 2022 10:25 AM
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LemmaEOF said:
Anyone have an idea of who the studio for Train Battle was? It's listed as ?????

FLAT STUDIO, a relatively new studio found by a renowned anime designer and illustrator loudraw.
Nov 15, 2022 6:21 PM
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The concept of train battling being this huge spectacle of a fight's really funny to me.
Nov 21, 2022 10:25 AM

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train battle was brilliant, ngl. comedy is often hit or miss and this one was a hit. like, for every 100 jokes you tell only a handful will be any good. people don't realize that, but a lot of work goes into good comedy.

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