(upbeat rock music)
Do you wanna be the very best, like no one ever was?
Is catching them your real test
and training them your cause?
Well, if not, I mean, no worries.
Leaving the house forever at age 10
sounds like a (bleep) ton of work,
and honestly, not something I'm down for.
For the rest of us, that means
there's plenty of time to chill at home
and watch a heaping helping of brand new anime.
But with so many titles coming out, how can you choose?
How? Please, tell me.
Don't worry, I'm here to help.
On today's episode of The Dan Cave,
I've got the best new fall anime
you need to put in your eyeballs.
Bungo Stray Dogs.
A followup to this spring's first season,
Bungo Stray Dogs follows the members
of the Armed Detective Agency.
A group of people with supernatural abilities
who work together to solve mysteries
and carry out missions from the mafia.
This is basically like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
meets Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
by way of your AP English class,
which is to say, it's delightfully bonkers
but smarter than you'd expect,
like a crumpet with glasses.
Drifters.
Alright, quick history lesson, guys.
The Battle of Sekigahara was a real life conflict
in the year 1600 that many view as the beginning
of the Tokugawa shogunate, or bakufu if you're nasty.
One of the real samurai who fought and died there
was someone named Shimazu Toyohisa.
In Drifters, though, Toyohisa didn't die.
He was transported to a magical realm
where he and other famous warriors from across history
are forced to do endless battle.
You know, that old chestnut.
That old, hey, help me, I'm a samurai,
thought I died a peaceful death, but oh, no,
I'm stuck battling people for all eternity chestnut.
Which is actually how I wanna go too
except replace do endless battle
with eat a (bleep) ton of buffalo wings.
That'd be sick.
Occultic Nine.
Nine oddballs are linked together
by the Chojo Kagaku Kirikiri Basara,
a blog that collects and summarizes occult events.
Behind this blog is a 17 year old
highschooler named Yuta Gamon.
Soon though, seemingly inconspicuous events begin happening
around these nine people, which leads to a massive,
potentially paranormal event that,
according to the show's description, may alter
what is considered common sense in this world.
What? That sounds like the origin story of Nerdist News.
Wait, Jessica,
is this anime about you?
Trickster.
In the 2030's, which is to say,
the not-too-distant future, Jesus,
a group of enterprising youngsters
called the Boy Detectives Club assembles
to tackle mysteries great and small
using the power of deductive reasoning.
One day, though, they meet a boy named Yoshio Kobayashi
who cannot die thanks to the effects
of an unidentifiable mist.
Vaping.
What follows sends them down a terrifying path
leading to a criminal named The Fiend With 20 Faces.
Now considering how terrifying Two Face is,
I don't even wanna speculate about how scary this guy is.
You'll just have to watch and find out.
Spoilers, probably pretty scary.
Days.
Now you might think it's a little silly<
but I actually have a real soft spot for sports anime.
From Kuroko's Basketball to Hajime No Ippo
to Prince of Tennis, there's just something special
about seeing someone push their body and their mind
to the limit in athletic competition.
Plus, it's anime so usually
these people also have crazy powers
or like hilariously deep conversations with themselves
that would never happen in real life.
Anyways, Days looks like it'll scratch that itch
with its story of a shy, clumsy high school kid
who meets a weirdo reclusive soccer genius
that fights off bullies with nunchucks,
and together, this unexpectedly dynamic duo
plays on one of the most elite soccer clubs in the country.
Now, see, don't you already feel better?
Don't you feel better already?
Don't you just wanna dump Gatorade on someone?
You do, don't lie to me.
You wanna dump Gatorade on someone.
Nanbaka.
Whoever said you can't have fun in prison
clearly never learned how to make toilet wine.
Or maybe they did and that's the problem.
Maybe what they should have done is just watch Nanbaka,
a new brightly-colored anime about inmates and guards
at a quote, "unique prison," where inmates are divided
into special groups and numbers.
That sounds like a regular prison,
I don't know, whatever.
Jugo, one of the inmates there,
leads a pretty carefree life behind bars
which is saying something.
That is, until he learns about something
from his past that he'd forgotten about.
And so far I gotta say this anime looks like
a far less dystopian version of SuperJail,
but that might only be due to the color palette
and the fact that it's in a jail,
but hey, that's enough for me.
Luger Code 1951.
Alright alright maybe I'm just
a sucker for occult alt-history
but Luger Code 1951 sounds absolutely insane
in all the right ways.
It's basically World War II
but with humans fighting werewolves.
Now the story follows a brilliant
youngling linguistics professor named Testa Lielbelle,
I hope that's how it's pronounced,
who begins working with the
Allied Cryptanalysis Department.
Cryptanalysis? (bleep) you anime.
They're each tasked with breaking
the enemy werewolves radio code.
Hahaha werewolves using radios, that's silly.
What he deciphers though is nothing but wolves howling, duh.
So what he does next is what any one of us would do.
He captures a live female werewolf.
Guys, file this one under oh hell yeah.
No, no not like that.
No, No.
Put that fan art away. No.
(text message alert)
You sent me the fan art.
Classicaloid, when a small rural town
tries to revitalize itself through music,
they get a lot more than they bargained for.
Namely two weirdos calling themselves
Beethoven and Mozart who claim to be quote, "classicaloids."
I don't know what it means either.
There's a strange power though
to the music that they make
and soon after their arrival
stars begin falling from the sky
and giant robots appear wreaking havoc on this small town.
And because two wasn't enough
more classicaloids like Bach, Schubert,
and Chopin begin appearing as well.
Are they human or are they dancer?
Are they friend or are they foe?
Are they robots or are they aliens?
I don't know but ask Kyle Hill on Twitter,
tweet @Sci_Phile using the hashtag #LoidRage.
Now that is just a smattering of the awesome
anime coming your way this fall.
Guys tell me which of these are you most excited for?
What other shows would you add to this list?
Let me know in the comments below
and while you're there
give me a highly animated thumbs up.
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in which we talk about a pair of mice from the
Rescue Aid Society venturing to Australia
to save a golden eagle from poachers
only to find out that they're actually
part of a centuries-old war between vampires and werewolves
in the Rescuers Down Underworld.
Until next time,
keep on digging.
