Andrew Klavan Show - My Reaction To These Anime Might Shock You
Aired: 2025-09-04
Duration: 14:07


=== Anime Is the Devil's Work (06:12) ===

[00:00:00]  All right, today we're going to look at some anime.
[00:00:02]  I don't know a lot about anime, but I'm just going to find out by looking at some anime.
[00:00:06]  I know that Matt Walsh says anime, all anime is satanic, says Walsh.
[00:00:11]  But right after he said that, a gigantic flaming red hand shot up out of the ground and dragged him down beneath the earth, I believe, for all eternity.
[00:00:19]  We can only hope.
[00:00:20]  But I've seen a little.
[00:00:21]  I've seen Howl's Moving Castle and the other film, I think, made by the same guy, and those were really quite good.
[00:00:28]  So it can't all be satanic.
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[00:00:40]  All right, here's what we're going to look at.
[00:00:42]  I have a list.
[00:00:43]  This is K-pop demon hunters.
[00:00:45]  I'm hearing about it.
[00:00:45]  I'm actually going to watch this.
[00:00:47]  I'm going to watch K-pop Demon Hunters because I hear it's actually pretty funny.
[00:00:50]  This is about a K-pop girl group who balances their lives in the spotlight with their secret identities as demon hunters.
[00:00:56]  I mean, it's kind of a story that happens all the time.
[00:00:59]  This thing is just tearing up Netflix.
[00:01:01]  I think it's the most successful thing they've ever done.
[00:01:04]  Let's take a look at K-pop Demon Hunters.
[00:01:06]  Wait, wait, what is that?
[00:01:32]  My zigo, major brother.
[00:01:34]  Sane da chi ama.
[00:01:36]  Got a feeling that oh yeah, you could be everything that I need.
[00:01:40]  Jason, sweet.
[00:01:41]  And it makes me want more, yeah.
[00:01:43]  Let your links down, cause you gotta like that.
[00:01:45]  Check up your one another bye, yeah.
[00:01:47]  No emotuna, one of the water.
[00:01:52]  When you're in my arms, I hold you so tight, so tight.
[00:01:55]  I can't let go, no not tonight I don't have time for now I'm gonna be there already Cause I need you to need me I'm empty, feeling so refreshing My little soda pop, you're all I can think of.
[00:02:16]  Every drop I drink of, you're my soda pop, my little soda pop.
[00:02:22]  Gay, but not so satanic.
[00:02:24]  Gay.
[00:02:25]  Yeah, gay.
[00:02:26]  I mean, I think, you know, I don't want to speak for the homosexual community here, but I thought that's the kind of thing you want to watch guys dancing around singing about soda pop.
[00:02:37]  Gay.
[00:02:41]  It's terrific.
[00:02:42]  But what makes that anime?
[00:02:43]  That didn't look like I always thought anime was like, you know, that thing.
[00:02:47]  What's the one where they capture monsters inside a ball?
[00:02:50]  Pokemon.
[00:02:50]  Pokemon, yeah, that's right.
[00:02:52]  Pokemon, which my grandson for a while loved.
[00:02:54]  My son, my God, my son used to love this when he was small.
[00:02:57]  I thought that that's what anime looked like.
[00:02:59]  That didn't look, that just looked like kind of no.
[00:03:01]  All right, see, Eli here is running the board.
[00:03:03]  He's shaking his head.
[00:03:04]  He knows this is a man who knows anime.
[00:03:06]  I'm not saying anything about his sexuality.
[00:03:10]  Gay, gay, gay, gay.
[00:03:13]  But, you know, but however, so that was anime gay, I think that we'll call that.
[00:03:17]  Let's take a look at another chainsaw man.
[00:03:19]  Now, that sounds like my kind of thing.
[00:03:21]  Following a betrayal, a young man left for dead is reborn as a powerful devil human.
[00:03:26]  You know, Matt Welsh has a point.
[00:03:28]  These are all about demons.
[00:03:29]  Anime is the work of the devil.
[00:03:31]  And he merges with his pet devil and is soon enlisted into an organization dedicated to hunting devils.
[00:03:38]  All right, let's take a look at Chainsaw Man.
[00:04:41]  So that's anime, right?
[00:04:42]  That's real, yeah, that's real anime.
[00:04:43]  All right, okay, it's guys with chainsaw arms who doesn't like watching guys with chainsaw arms try to kill each other.
[00:04:49]  That looked okay.
[00:04:51]  I have to say, you know, I wrote this J horror film, One Miss Call, which has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
[00:04:59]  It didn't come out as well as I would have liked.
[00:05:02]  The script was excellent.
[00:05:03]  The script would have gotten 100%, but the movie didn't come out so well.
[00:05:07]  And one thing I noticed about Asian storytelling is it's very different from our storytelling.
[00:05:11]  Our storytelling is very tied up in the patterns of the Bible, and obviously Japanese storytelling is not.
[00:05:17]  And it frequently doesn't make any sense to us, which is why I had to rewrite the story just to make it hold together.
[00:05:23]  What anime I've watched, I've noticed frequently just looks kind of ridiculous to me.
[00:05:28]  You've got to be kidding!
[00:05:29]  This guy is making me sick!
[00:05:32]  All right, the next one is Ju Jujutsu, it says, but maybe it's Jiu-Jitsu Kaizen.
[00:05:39]  A boy swallows a cursed talisman, the finger of a demon, another demon.
[00:05:44]  Suspicious, Walsh may be right.
[00:05:46]  The fellow swallows a cursed talisman and becomes cursed himself.
[00:05:49]  He enters a shaman's school to be able to locate the demon's other body parts and thus exercise himself.
[00:05:57]  All right, let's watch a little bit of this Jujutsu Kaisen.
[00:06:01]  You're about to have an interview with the principal.
[00:06:03]  What's this?
[00:06:04]  So you're not the boss?
[00:06:08]  Any hierarchy other than strength is worthless.

=== Tech Shielding Freedom (02:27) ===

[00:06:12]  I'm sorry about that.
[00:06:14]  Sometimes he just does that.
[00:06:15]  What an amusing body you have now.
[00:06:18]  I do a good favorite.
[00:06:20]  Once I make this punk's body my own, you'll be the first one I kill.
[00:06:25]  It's my honor to be targeted by Sukuna himself.
[00:06:29]  All right, so the talking face appearing through your cheek into your hand, as happens.
[00:06:37]  You know, that's just one of those things.
[00:06:39]  We've all had moments like that.
[00:06:41]  And that was really weird.
[00:06:43]  But, you know, I mean, it just seems to me ordinary horror, spooky stuff.
[00:06:48]  There is an attitude here, like I said, of this kind of Japanese storytelling attitude where crazy things happen and everybody just sort of looks at them like they're just normal that I don't think you see in Western culture, which is why we won the war.
[00:07:05]  All right, let's take a look.
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=== Protecting Your Privacy (05:26) ===

[00:08:40]  Let's take a look at Trigun.
[00:08:42]  Vash the Stampede is the most infamous outlaw on the planet Gunsmoke.
[00:08:46]  Oh, that's the name of the planet.
[00:08:48]  With a 60 billion double dollar price on his head.
[00:08:52]  Okay, let's see it.
[00:08:53]  There's a hostage situation in there.
[00:08:54]  You want to die?
[00:08:57]  He's dancing around too much to even notice.
[00:08:59]  He can't hear a damn thing.
[00:09:01]  That brainless moron, he's gonna upset the criminals!
[00:09:05]  Huh?
[00:09:11]  There's something at him!
[00:09:12]  He's dodging the bullets!
[00:09:13]  Stop, James!
[00:09:14]  That freak doesn't even realize he's being shot at.
[00:09:16]  Looks like he's going inside.
[00:09:19]  Hey, you!
[00:09:20]  Stop it!
[00:09:21]  Get out of there!
[00:09:25]  Who are you supposed to be?
[00:09:27]  Are you suicidal or too stupid to know better?
[00:09:32]  Huh?
[00:09:39]  There is something really weird about these, right?
[00:09:43]  I mean, it's not just me, or maybe it is just me, but there's something really strange about them.
[00:09:48]  There's something about the reactions, all those big eyes and the kind of weird contorted faces.
[00:09:54]  I don't have no clue what's going on in these stories, but it just looks strange.
[00:10:00]  I can't believe that Matt Walsh was right about anything.
[00:10:03]  Anime is satanic.
[00:10:04]  But there is something just a little off about them.
[00:10:06]  You know, people are always asking me, do I like anime?
[00:10:10]  And I'm always saying I don't really know anime.
[00:10:13]  But this is not something I'm really drawn to.
[00:10:16]  I've seen some of these things.
[00:10:17]  There was one show on called something like Men and Robots or something like that on Netflix.
[00:10:22]  I found it difficult to watch.
[00:10:24]  They're strange.
[00:10:24]  They're just alien.
[00:10:25]  They're alien in a way.
[00:10:26]  I mean, that's not necessarily bad.
[00:10:28]  I mean, let's face it, they're not French.
[00:10:29]  It's nothing as bad as that.
[00:10:31]  But they are kind of alien.
[00:10:32]  All right, let's see another Western one: Cowboy Bebop, the futuristic misadventures and tragedies of an easygoing bounty hunter named Spike and his partners.
[00:10:41]  Interesting that so many of these things come from Western culture, really.
[00:10:45]  Their Western culture Japanized.
[00:10:47]  All right, let's watch Cowboy Bebop.
[00:10:50]  Asimov Solensen, he's our next target.
[00:10:55]  Listen, Jed.
[00:10:57]  This guy's a major player in the syndicate, operates all around the asteroids.
[00:11:01]  You said bell peppers and beef.
[00:11:02]  His name's Asimov Solensen.
[00:11:04]  Are you listening to me?
[00:11:06]  There's no beef in here.
[00:11:08]  So you wouldn't really call it Bell Peppers and Beef now, would you?
[00:11:13]  Yes, I would.
[00:11:15]  Well, it's not!
[00:11:16]  It is when you're broke, all right?
[00:11:18]  What happened to the million Woolong reward we got for that last guy?
[00:11:22]  The repair bill for that cruiser you wrecked, and the one from that shop you trashed, and the medical bill from the cop you injured.
[00:11:30]  Kill the doe!
[00:11:32]  Again, weird, strange, kind of just this weird foreign atmosphere in a story that could be a regular cowboy kind of story.
[00:11:42]  One more death note.
[00:11:44]  An intelligent high school student goes on a secret crusade to eliminate criminals from the world after discovering a notebook capable of killing anyone whose name is written into it.
[00:11:53]  All right, I like that.
[00:11:55]  Look around.
[00:11:56]  There are plenty of things this world could do without.
[00:11:59]  Immorality.
[00:12:01]  Sin.
[00:12:03]  Crime.
[00:12:05]  It's time for a change.
[00:12:07]  I have the power to make the world, to make people better.
[00:12:11]  And I'm not afraid to use it.
[00:12:13]  I'm not afraid to kill.
[00:12:15]  How and when it happens is entirely in my hands.
[00:12:18]  All I need is a name, a face, a pen, and this notebook.
[00:12:24]  No one can stop me.
[00:12:27]  I'm chasing someone without a name or face.
[00:12:30]  Someone who believes he's on a righteous path, ridding the world of criminals.
[00:12:34]  But his brand of justice is misaligned.
[00:12:37]  By acting as a god, he himself has become the criminal.
[00:12:41]  It's my duty.
[00:12:42]  No, my calling to find him and show him what justice truly means.
[00:12:48]  You hear me, but you'll never see me coming.
[00:12:51]  And when I find him, his capture will be the world's liberation.
[00:12:55]  I'll uncover Kier's being worried if it's the last thing I do.
[00:13:00]  I swear I am justice.
[00:13:04]  Kill me.
[00:13:12]  Okay, I like that one.
[00:13:13]  That was like...
[00:13:14]  That was like a ring of power one, right?
[00:13:15]  That's like, you know, you've got this incredible power and you want to use it for good, but the use of it is already corrupting.
[00:13:21]  So I like that one.
[00:13:23]  You know, there's nothing inherently bad about this.
[00:13:25]  I mean, I know it's just a form of art.
[00:13:27]  And so if you tell good stories and they're interesting, and, you know, I'm only half joking about Japanese storytelling.
[00:13:35]  I like it, actually.
[00:13:37]  I just think there is a disconnect sometimes in the way they think, we think the story has to make sense.
[00:13:42]  And there's a way in which they don't, they're following a different train of logic, which I find sometimes off-putting, but always interesting.
[00:13:49]  So I would watch some of this.
[00:13:51]  Yeah, I would definitely take a look at that death note.
[00:13:53]  And I'm going to look at this K-pop just because Demon Hunters, just because everybody says it's so popular.
[00:13:59]  So all right.
[00:13:59]  Well, I will say non-demonic, not inherently demonic.
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