The BOYS Are Back With BAD Anime Takes & Brackets

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Shimoneta is like a stand-up comedian whose jokes are just okay, but delivered so rapid-fire that they land anyway.

1. Rant Café Anime Podcast stages a bracket of the 16 shows Anime Recon recommended to his co-hosts over the previous four to six months. 2. Recon hosts alongside Briggs of Old Day Anime and Jordan, and Briggs says the bracket is a way to rank "all the trash" while he and Jordan watch Fate/Apocrypha for next week. 3. The core premise is that the co-hosts vote on each matchup first, so Recon casts the deciding vote and often disagrees with them. 4. In round one, Illya beats Gushing Over Magical Girls 2-1, with Jordan praising an "Excalibur versus Excalibur" finish and Recon calling Gushing's ecchi and masochism "exciting." 5. King's Avatar beats Strike the Blood after Briggs admits he "absolutely hated" it but would rather watch something he dislikes than something he is bored by, while Recon likes the overpowered "smurfing" protagonist. 6. Wistoria: Wand and Sword loses to The Daily Life of the Immortal King 2-1, with Jordan voting for Wistoria and Briggs saying he watched the entire first season of Immortal King and nearly re-watched it on stream. 7. Gamers beats Helck after Briggs and Jordan back Helck as a series a single character could carry, while Recon says Gamers becomes "Misunderstandings the anime" and calls it his nostalgic favorite. 8. Shimoneta beats The Great Jahi, and Jordan compares its rapid-fire jokes to a stand-up comedian, while Nokotan beats Gabriel Dropout on its viral opening, boss music, and CGI deer gags. 9. In round two, King's Avatar and Yandere Dark Elf are eliminated, and the closing segment turns to the lowest-rated One Punch Man episode, where Briggs argues the 1.5 score is partly a hate train and the others blame JC Staff's production schedule. 10. Anime fans who enjoy bracket debates and comedy-anime arguments.

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