We talk about the new Spring 2024 shows including the hottest new show of all: Drake vs. Kendrick rap beef.
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Show Notes
Returning
0:00 Intro feat. Drake rap beef
8:10 Sound! Euphonium season 3
17:41 Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf
30:58 BARTENDER Glass of God
New
41:08 Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger
49:40 Go Go Loser Ranger
57:09 Girls Band Cry
1:16:42 Astro Note
1:27:40 Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night
1:41:01 Tonari no Youkai san
1:52:08 Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again
1:55:38 Blue Archive
2:05:20 Kaiju No. 8
2:10:34 Train to the End of the World
The Glorio Blog 
I’m with you all, this season is bleak. I think I’m only going to follow Yokai and Dungeon Meshi. Hoping I can end up liking at least one more to have something to talk about.
I bounced off of Astro Note immediately. I wanted to like it, but the jokes wore thin quickly.
Train show is such a Rolling Girls level of terrific premise wasted on terrible characters. I’m almost irrationally angry at it.
At least Rolling Girls had some sick fight scenes
Tired tropes aside, what truly annoys me about Loser Ranger is how blatantly and shamelessly it tries to evoke Tiger & Bunny for reasons I completely fail to understand. It was especially prevalent in the first episode, but even later on the BGM is almost exactly the same (and it’s a fairly specific kind of music you don’t hear often in anime, if ever), the direction style is almost the same, hell, I’m lazy to look it up but I’d bet money that the announcer dude is voiced by the same guy too and is directed to act the exact same way as in T&B. And yes, same director, same composer, but it’s not like they haven’t done things that are very different from T&B, so it has to be intentional. And I really don’t get why they’re doing it, it’s not like the two stories are similar whatsoever aside of both being subversions of the superhero genre. T&B had its problems when it started to take its story seriously, but even so it was an affectionate, warm-hearted and fairly clever take on its themes, while Loser Ranger is just one of those super cynical “superheroes but they’re not heroic at all, they’re DICKS isn’t this EDGY and SUBVERSIVE” stories that not even kids can take seriously anymore I think.
I hadn’t really thought about a T&B connection but I also tried to forget T&B after the last season(s)
Train show is good actually. The girls have great chemistry and their rapid dialogue flows very well.
The other guys watched it so I can’t really comment, but everything I hear about it sounds kind of wild.