Bonus Episode 20: Training of the Dead OVA

[00:00:00] Hey y'all, this podcast contains cursing, references to alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs, and thirsty comments about adult characters. Thanks for listening! Hey y'all, this is My Hero Analysis, a podcast about My Hero Academia, aka Boku no Hero Academia.

[00:00:28] We are three grown adults who mind Japanese children's cartoons for serotonin because God knows our brains aren't making it naturally. Hey y'all, I'm Fern and I'm really mad that Halloween is just a couple days away because it went by too quickly. Yes, yes. Spooky season needs to be four months long. Mm-hmm. Fast. Also, summer is stupid. It shouldn't be there. Yeah. We can get rid of summer. Yeah, for real. Who needs food? I like summer though.

[00:00:58] How dare you? Banished. I'm Nicole. I don't know what news I have. If any of our listeners are also plugged in to the romanticcy world, there's a new Janet book, which is my term for the new Sarah J Maas book. Yeah, we call her Janet. We call her Janet because that is her middle name. And I call her Janet whenever I'm mad at her, which is all the time.

[00:01:26] And me and my other friends, my local friends, since y'all don't live near me, we did, we put together a nice little party for the release. And now I am reading it and I am mad that Janet has the lactation kink. I did not consent to this. There were no tags for this. Oh, Janet. Janet. I can't.

[00:01:51] Nobody cares that her tits are full of milk. There is a death god across the river. Can we pay attention to that, please? But the horny. But the horny. Put your tits away. I love Janet from afar. I read the first three or four books and I was like, I can end this here. This is good. You can. You can indeed end it there because I will tell you everything that is happening. And they were pretty fun. Janet.

[00:02:21] Yeah, I didn't even read them. I was like, absolutely not. You're really not missing that much. No. No, I mean, unless you have her specific kinks, in which case you will fucking love it. Yeah, it's it's very it's very straight romantic. See, she's also tried really hard to make the dudes feminists and it's really hard because they're like, yeah, she also likes being dominated. So she's she's she's having a hard time.

[00:02:53] She also will not address the elephant in the room. Janet, I forget what the elephant is. I know we talked about it like last night, the elephant about the pregnancy and oh, yes. Oh, yes. Yeah. The elephant. Yes. Janet, I feel like I could talk about it because the book's been out for like five years now, but also Janet. She loves her paternal protective figures who are stupid. Mm hmm.

[00:03:20] They're hot. Yes, but they're stupid. Also, one of them needs to go to therapy. He's not having a good time. Dear God. Even in the first couple of books, you really know some therapy. He's he's and now he's just spun off the rails. He's he he doesn't want his limbs. Bro, go to therapy. He's trapped in medieval fantasy world. There's no therapy in medieval fantasy world. There could be

[00:03:47] Janet. Yeah, we don't even want to address the elephant. So, you know, that's how I'm spending my my week, folks. I am reading as fast as I can. So I can't. So I don't get spoiled. And I'm mad at the fact that I am enjoying the ride. Every time I hear Janet, all I can think of is damn it,

[00:04:11] Janet. Yes. I love you. Yes. Damn it, Janet. That fits. That fits. Uh, what a fucking weirdo. I love that she's just gotten weirder and weirder, too. This is a podcast. I don't know what we're doing. She's just so Mormon. We can talk. We can make a whole other podcast about how fucking Mormon it is. But but the light is in cake. Please. Damn your tags. They don't exist.

[00:04:40] I'm enjoying this. Maria, how are you? Maria, what are you doing? I okay. I have been obsessed with the game called Meow Doku. With what? What's it called? Meow Doku. Okay, so like Sudoku, but meow. But cats. Yes. It's not really even like Sudoku. It's just a logic game. You have to find the cats, but the cats cannot be

[00:05:07] touching each other. Um, they're like in different colored squares. So there's only one cat for per colored squares. They can't be on the same row or the same column. That sounds like Sudoku. Yeah, it is Sudoku. Yeah. But it's well, that sounds like it's fucking adorable. It's so cute. I'm on level 106. Hell yeah. And it's adorable. And then they make a little meow noises that you know,

[00:05:35] and fucking incredible. So listeners, if you need something to just like kill time, meow Doku. One of my work friends also plays it. Oh my god, can you do like meow Doku battles? Oh, I wish now. Oh, far too stressful. Yeah, that's true. But no, it is very relaxing, you know, and it's free. So. Hell yeah. That's nice. That is my current obsession.

[00:06:04] So listeners, I don't know if I've ever talked about this, but I'm obsessed with phone games. Yes, yes you are. But you're also very good at them. Yes. I like using my brain sometimes for things that do not require me. Okay. I like using my brain when it's things that relax me. Yes. Not work. Yeah. Yeah, work. Yeah, bitch. Screw work. I have to go back to work tomorrow guys. I've been

[00:06:31] off for three days. Oh no. Plus the weekend before that. Everything is awful. I got three days off next week, but it's for the fucking election. So yeah, you're also gonna be working. I'm gonna, I'm gonna be crawling, crawling out of like, I don't know, fucking hell by the end of it. I gotta be responses. But you're doing anyway. Those words work. Yeah, for real. Maria, do you have a recording snack?

[00:06:57] No, I do not. Because I finished, well, maybe I still have some apple cider. I might have some apple cider, but I don't have no other recording snack because I'm gonna make ramen for dinner. Yep. This is a double recording. So yeah, I did. I have a sip of apple cider. Also listeners go get yourself some apple cider. Worth it. Yes. Delicious. All right. So happy Halloween.

[00:07:23] It's our Halloween episode. Um, I unintentionally lied in the haterade episode. And instead of converting Jason D'Ultima to Mirkoism, this week, we're recovering the My Hero Academia bonus OVA training of the dead, because some angel posted the whole thing to TikTok like the day after we recorded the haterade episode.

[00:07:48] And zombies, Halloween, it was too perfect to pass up. It was made. You just had to. Yes. Yeah. And it was, it was honestly just a complete coincidence. 100%. We even found it. I was up at four because my cats are evil. So I was doing, I was doing my 4am scroll and I, and I was just like, oh, look, it's the zombie episode. We've never been able to find. Why is the TikTok so long? Oh my

[00:08:13] God, it's the whole episode. Yes. It was amazing. It was incredible. And props to Nicole and her cats. Yes. Yes. Keeping her awake enough to find. Yep. And we scrambled to download it before it got taken down. We did. We did. We are, we are very, very naughty internet people, but we didn't post it. So we are from the generation where we pirated and used LimeRide. Everything. Yeah. Also,

[00:08:41] we would pay for it if it was available literally anywhere. Literally anywhere. Just put it on crunchy roll. Like what the fuck? It's not stealing if you weren't making a profit anyway. Yeah. Also, also while we're talking about it, all the video game companies who keep trying to take back their games that are like the virtual console only just because no naughty Sue, how dare you give me my

[00:09:10] game? Yeah. No, yeah. That's stupid. Millionaires. Can you like get on that? You're, you're the only ones of us that can afford to sue. Yeah. Well, there's legislation being passed is the only reason I know. Um, and it's good. Thank God. I don't know if it was like Xbox or PlayStation, but one of those companies, it was PlayStation. Yeah. They like, they did a whole thing where they were like, we know you bought these games quote unquote and like the virtual style, like you didn't get a cartridge,

[00:09:39] but you have the game on your console. Yeah. We're going to take those back and you lose. Um, so yeah, they're like being sued and there's like legislation ongoing and they did a naughty. So now everybody's like, yeah, we're just going to pirate these games because fuck you very much. That's absolutely fucking nonsense. Yep. It is. So yeah, that's us justifying our criminal

[00:10:04] behavior. There's no crime in capitalism. Again, we're millennials. We, uh, pirated. We do what we got to do to watch the zombies, bro. Yep. Yep. I have a clear memory of going. It's not a thing anymore, but go, go anime. Yeah. Yeah. With a lot of titties. I mean, the animes themselves had a

[00:10:27] lot of titties, but a lot of titties. Yep. Watching anime. Fault free. Yep. Did it give my computer a virus? Probably. Probably. Some girl is getting corked in the corner and you're just, you're just watching anime. Yep. You have that window minimized, maybe put like a little sticky note over it. If it's not your thing and you're just watching the anime, it's just like, just give us the content, bro. Anyway. Yeah. Anyway, this is all alleged.

[00:10:58] Yeah. None of us is true. No, it's comedy podcast. That was all a joke. Yes. We want, we found this OVA via completely legal means. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Okay. So this is an older OVA. I think it's like the second one that they put out ever. And I think most of this takes place right after the stain arc, but before the first term final exam, when Izuku and Kasuki get their shit rocked by

[00:11:26] All Might, and it also takes place before the first movie. So the characterization is going to be a lot closer to the beginning of the series than the end. I'm going to double check that. When does MHA zombies OVA? Well, I did check it. You did check it? Yes, I checked it. Then why did you say you think?

[00:11:47] You know. Just in case. You know. Just in case. I think you said you ho. No, I said you know. Don't sell yourself short. It sounded like you said you ho, and I was like, okay. You ho, you did your research. From all the sources I could find, that seems to be the correct placement. Okay. Also, there is a bit that was pulled from chapter 84.5, which is right before the Kamino

[00:12:15] Ward battle, but the bulk of the episode is right after the stain arc. And again, listeners, you'll find out in the next regular episode, but I was blind for a while today, so I did not look at any of the manga that may or may not have contributed to this OVA, so there's no manga differences at all. Yep. If you're wondering why I was blind, you'll find out whenever the next episode drops.

[00:12:39] Yeah. Whenever episode 23 drops. Yeah. Anyway. Time is hard. Time is so hard. Everything is so hard. So I'm going to lead us through a synopsis, and then Nicole is going to jump in for, I don't know, do we even have anything? You're the only one who did the notes today, because again, I was blind. Okay. We're going to do the synopsis, and that's probably going to be it.

[00:13:06] Sorry. Yeah. And we'll make it extra. Oh, yes. Maria has science, so we'll do the synopsis, and then we'll do science. Yay! You're welcome. Maria saves the day once again. Oh my gosh. Sometimes. Not all the time. Every time. But sometimes. Again, why are y'all selling yourselves short? How dare you? I don't want to be the hype friend. It's not a good position for me.

[00:13:30] Because I have impostures. Because I'm the hype friend for everyone else. Yeah. I don't have any more energy. Why does my head still hurt? I took my damn Motrin. It's because we're yelling at each other for no reason. That's true. No, that's fair. How dare you not see yourself as a god among men? Oh, thank you. I feel very hyped. You did a very good job. Thank you. So hard. Went against

[00:13:56] my nature very much. Okay. So getting into the synopsis, Lord, our energy is all over the place. It's because it's Halloween and Mercury is retrograding again. Stupid theory. It's always fucking retrograding. What is it not fucking retrograding? In three months. Also, you, this is not you guys. You fucking TikTok astrologers lied. Y'all lied. It's not Leo season.

[00:14:24] Leos are still going through it, you bitches. You fuckers. I never know whose season it is. It's a fast-fuck. He's according to the TikTok witches. Fuck you, TikTok witches. Are they the same witches who tried to hex the moon? No, it's a different witches. Okay. But also, yes, that was very stupid. Also, don't hex the moon. Why would you do that? Wait, why were we hexing the moon? Because baby witches are stupid. They are. It's unfortunate.

[00:14:54] How did you miss? So that's an opsis. Anyway. How did you miss the moon hexing? Oh, God. Okay, we got to start. So the episode kicks off with an introduction to Sue's family and her life before UA. It's very wholesome. Very domestic. Yes. Classic oldest daughter. She's taking care of her younger siblings while her parents travel for work. And between that and

[00:15:19] her hero course studies, she has like negative free time. So poor sweet baby girl has no friends. Also, one of her classmates makes a comment that her expression never changes, which is like hella autism coded. Yeah, she got that blank face. Why do we need to emote, honestly? She got the most classical presenting tism out of everybody,

[00:15:45] I think. It's so nice when I remember I don't have to move my face. I actually don't have to do that. That's why I like living alone. Yeah, same. Same. I also like having an office. Yes. Yes. Or I can just glare at the computer. Mm-hmm. Not malevolently. It's just I'm just looking. That's why we're never recording a video episode. Yeah. Also, that shit's hard. It's so hard. We don't want to do that. And then we'd have to worry about our faces too. We're not doing it.

[00:16:14] We're not Dan and Phil. God. No, we're not. But then this one snake girl starts lightly stalking her, following her around everywhere. And at first she's like, what? But then she's like, you know what? Let me approach. So she says hi and she's like, do you want to be friends? Is that what this is about? And the girl is like, she immediately flips out because everyone thinks that she's a hideous monster

[00:16:40] because she's a snake girl and no one likes her and she doesn't have any friends. And so she is just astounded that Sue wants to be her friend. And of course she accepts. And they become besties even after they go to different high schools. Gay. Gay. Very gay. Absolutely gay. Gay. And listeners, if you have not had the pleasure of seeing the OVA, this character whose name escapes me, I'm very sorry. Habuko?

[00:17:09] Sure. She is drawn like very realistically like a snake. Yeah. It's not like Sue where she's got some proggish traits, but she mostly looks like a human. She is very lizard. And it's also almost different from the anime drawing style. Because she's so realistically snake. She's adorable. I love her. Also, her hair is amazing. Yep. She's definitely a heteromorph. Like, clearly heteromorphic features.

[00:17:39] She's like the closest to what a heteromorph would look like IRL. That's kind of how they drew her for this episode. So then we get the episode title. And then we cut to class 1A coming back to their first normal school day after their internships and attempted murder. And surprise! It's time for joint training with students from Isami High School, including Sue's BFF! Yay! Very gay. It is weird. Very random. We love it.

[00:18:09] It's so cute, though. It's so cute! Oh my god, I love this episode so much. It's fucking adorable. Also, one of the Isami students is also a grump ass. And Katsuki is not having it. Like, there is only room for one tsundere in this classroom. And he was here first. This is my classroom. I'm the grump. Get out! Extra! Extra! It was fucking hilarious. And they literally both have, like, blondish hair. Yeah.

[00:18:39] Yep. They were clearly drawn to be mirrors of each other. Yeah. More comedic effect. Yep. And they're both... And they nailed it. It's like Tetsu Jetsu, Tetsu Tetsu and... Kirishima, yeah. Kirishima, yeah. Kirishima Shima Kiri. So, cut to the kids in the lockers putting on their costumes. Sue introduces her definitely not girlfriend, just best friend to everyone while they literally hold hands and stare into each other's eyes. No, I'm not kidding.

[00:19:09] I'm not exaggerating in the slightest. Gay. It's so gay. They're staring into each other's souls. Literally. It's so... It's so lesbian. It's lesbian. It's so sapphic. Ah, it's beautiful. It's sapphic and lizards and amphibians. It's gorgeous. It's gorgeous. It's literally perfect. Also, Kazuki and the other grumpy kid turn the exercise into a competition, because of course they do. And then Momo meets her doppelganger. Yes.

[00:19:37] Because character creation is hard. Yep. And also, these OVAs are kind of silly. So it's like... Yeah. They're supposed to be. They're filler. They're just a breath of fresh air. And we'll get to... There's a fourth guy. We'll get to him. Because what the fuck? Also, why was he in their underwear? Why does it have to draw him in his underwear? That was my thought. I was so angry. I was so dazzled by the lesbianism.

[00:20:07] I just kind of forgot that that guy exists. I'm not gonna lie. He does not come up in my notes. He was trying to be pretty forgettable. But also, why would he in his underwear? Sir, put your clothes on. Oh, man. So we cut to ground Omega. Izala and All Might, who appears from out of the sky and smashes into the ground. Just the absolute goober. They explain the exercise. It's survival training. There's gonna be six groups of four students each.

[00:20:36] They all try to capture each other. The last surviving team wins. They can survive by fighting or by hiding. Doesn't matter. Yeah, it's like a pared down version of the season five training with Shinso. Yeah. It's like a melee free fall kind of thing instead of two teams going against each other. Yeah. Yeah. It's like Hunger Games, but don't actually kill each other, please. Thank you. Katsuki.

[00:21:05] So Izuku, Sue, Ochako, and Mina are all on the same team. And Sue convinces them to hide since they don't have anyone who could do surveillance. Lame. Boring. And then we cut to Aizawa and All Might. And All Might worries that the exercise is going to be too boring. But Aizawa is like, no, things have been kind of crazy lately. Children tried to commit murder. Like, they need to remember that patience and self-control exist.

[00:21:33] Aizawa doesn't know Eda tried to commit murder. Let me have this. Not on the books. I genuinely can't remember who knows about that. Nobody. None of the adults know. Oh my god. Except the dog man that Shoto calls a slur. Oh god. Oh wait. Manuel does technically know. And I think Gran Torino might also know.

[00:21:59] There's no way that Aizawa and All Might don't know. Yeah, because you know Manuel is now in Aizawa's nightly drink. Oh yeah. Like every week they go out drinking and Manuel is there. Yep. Yep, yep, yep. Okay. We fixed the cannon. We're good. So then we cut to Kasuki, who is running around alone, exploding everything. And Team Jiro, Denki, Aoyama, Mineta attack him. Kasuki captures them like immediately.

[00:22:30] And then he goes up against Team Ida, Tokoyami, Sato, Serro and captures them right away too. But his real target is the Isami kids who are on their own team because he wants to beat the other grumpy kid. Yes. Yes. He must. There can only be one. There can only be one. And poor Momo, Kirishima and Shoji, who are supposed to be on his team, are struggling to keep up with him. Like stop running so fast, you crazy twink. He is speed.

[00:23:00] He is backpack leash. He does. He's like, what a... Have you seen like those drawings of like... It's like not really a stick figure, but it's just like a circle with a body. And he has a leash and then it's the other body, like a feral cat. Yep. Yes. Yep. That's him. Yep. So... Kind of... Can a leash really keep him? No, he'll bite through it. No, see what's happened.

[00:23:28] What'll happen is that he'll be so distracted trying to bite through the leash that it'll keep him out of trouble. And it'll be like one of those leashes that like even pit bulls can't chew through. So it's a fidget. He needs a fidget leash. He needs a fidget leash. So the Isami kids attack, but Shoji hears it in time and he protects his teammates. And then Su's BFF tries to paralyze them all because she has this like paralyzing gaze or whatever. But it doesn't last very long.

[00:23:58] It's just a couple seconds. So the grumpy kid lets off a bunch of gas and Aizawa is freaked out and he wants to end the exercise. But All Might's like, nah, I'll handle it if it gets out of hand. Also at this point, we don't know what the gas does. Yes, yes. So Izuku, Su, Mina, and Ochako are running from the gas alongside Shoto, Koda, Ojiro, and Hagakure.

[00:24:21] And they learn that the gas has turned Kasuki, Kirishima, Momo, and Shoji into zombies. Literal zombies, guys. Literal zombies. It's amazing. It's so bonkers. And everyone's talking about how dangerous Grumpy Kid's quirk is. You know what? Fuck that. I think this is awesome. That's awesome. Imagine just zombifying a gang committing random violence.

[00:24:49] They can't commit random violence if they're zombies. What are they going to do? Run into the wall? We'll ignore the fact that their quirks go off randomly. Yeah. It's still awesome. It's still awesome. He just needs to not be so hot-headed about it. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. He needs to figure out how to control the quirk aspect, and then he's going to be all-powerful. Yes. Yes. Put him in Tartarus from a... Oh, what's it called? The thing.

[00:25:19] The pre-crime. Oh, yeah. They would totally put him in Tartarus for having too dangerous of a quirk. Yeah, the whole pre-crime element. Yeah. What is that show? Movie. When they're... Hold on. Agnor? No. No, it's an older future crime movie. Minority Report. Oh, Lord. They would definitely Minority Report him if this was Minority Report. Yeah. They would.

[00:25:48] God, I haven't watched that since college. I don't know if I even remember it. Tom Cruise is in it. I was just about to ask if that was the one with Tom Cruise. I haven't watched that one, but they did a TV show spinoff of it that was before or after the movie. Hmm. Hmm. That's how I know it. Interesting. There was a bath. Things are happening in the bath. No. Don't arrest people for things they haven't done yet. Yeah. That's not cool. That's not how things work. Yeah, no. That's not cool. No. No, it's not. It's in therapy.

[00:26:19] Take... Capture them. Don't arrest them. We have other preventative methods that work significantly better and don't violate people's basic human rights. Yeah. Yeah. That's fucking rude, honestly. So Grumpy Kid basks in victory for all of 10 seconds before Katsuki bites him and turns him into a zombie too. And A, it's kind of wild that he's not immune to his own quirk. I do love when that happens. Yeah.

[00:26:46] But like, is he immune to the gas only? I guess. With a bite. That's very interesting. Yeah. We'll get into that. Yes. Thank God. Oh, good. Also, trust Katsuki to be a menace even when he's a zombie. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. He's still got a bite. He's still bite. He's just going to bite. He's like, I don't care what's happening. I need to bite. Yep. Yep.

[00:27:13] So Shoto tries freezing the zombies in place, but they're too strong. And then one by one, everyone is revealed to be zombified some way or other, except Shoto, Izuku, Sue, Ochako, and Mia. So it's just five of them. Against all the zombies. Against all the zombies whose quirks are just randomly going off. So the last five run, but Sue trips and her zombiffle catches up to her, but she doesn't bite her.

[00:27:42] Because she remembers her even when she's a zombie. And there's more hand-holding and staring into each other's eyes. And it's so very gay and beautiful. It's so gay. If you did not know, Sue was a lesbian. Now you know. Oh, yeah. You know. Oh, yeah. But then Sue gets bitten by Aoyama and she turns into a zombie. But it's okay. Because now there's zombie besties. I wanted Aoyama to be glittering even as a zombie. Yes.

[00:28:11] I wanted him to be at Edward Cullen level glitter. Yes. Oh, my God. That would be so good. Genius. Yeah. So now they're both zombies. But it's cool. They're still besties. And I just I cannot emphasize enough how delightfully and adorably sapphic this all is. We're not exaggerating anything. No. It's very gay. It's so gay. Lesbianism at its peak. Oh, it's so good.

[00:28:40] So All Might falls from the sky again to come to the rescue. But turns back into his small might form, which I guess most of the kids haven't seen yet. Because this is before Camino Ward. Because they think he's a zombie and they run away. That part gets me. That was so good. Because he does look like a zombie. Bro's a skeleton. He just blends in. He does.

[00:29:10] And the zombies also think he's a zombie. The poor guy. Don't try to bite him. I wonder if this was a reference to World War Z. I don't know the release timelines if they match up. I have not seen that. Well, spoiler for a movie that came out 10 fucking years ago or whatever it was. The zombies in World War Z, if I'm even remembering the right title. There's so many fucking zombie movies.

[00:29:36] They don't bite you if you are already sick. Oh. Yeah, yeah. I think it's World War Z or something. There's so many. They're like, that one's already half dead. That's close enough to undead. It's like, he's already one of us. We don't need to waste our energy. Yep. This is why. If a zombie apocalypse happening, take me out. Just take me out. Just take me out. Why are we trying to survive? We can survive. See, the thing is, listeners.

[00:30:06] I'd probably give it a go. Enjoy my last final days finally free of capitalism. Yeah, that would be nice. It would be nice. But also, no, just take me out. I don't want to survive. I want to survive long enough to get my cats somewhere where they can hang out and then take me out. Yep. I'm going to steal a mansion. Yes. That's my zombie survival plan. New plan. I'm going to steal.

[00:30:35] We all meet at Fern's stolen mansion with all our cats. Yep. So meanwhile, Aizawa is like, no, it's your turn with the circus. These are your monkeys now. I'm just going to stay up here and let you handle it. Like, he is just fully not even about to do anything. He's playing Meowdoku. He is. He is. Oh, God. Honestly, he is. He is. Because he loves cats. I just, oh, God.

[00:31:01] You know, like, in those scenes where it's just, like, someone on top of a cliff, like, staring out into the sky. And then there's those little lines and you just see them. And it's just, like, they don't give a fuck. Like, they're fighting in their peace or something. Yep. That's Aizawa. That's Aizawa. He's done. With his Meowdoku. Yeah. Yeah. So, Aizuku, Shoto, Mina, and Ochako hide in the cave and seal the door with ice.

[00:31:29] But the zombies find them and start punching through the ice. But Aizuku figured out that they can't be injured in zombie form. So, Shoto melts some of the ice and Aizuku bursts through right as everyone else becomes unzombified because the quirk wore off. Of course. Your timing is terrible, Aizuku. And, of course, Kazuki doesn't even miss a beat. He sees Aizuku. He sees that he's powered up.

[00:31:57] And he's like, oh, you're trying to fight. And so he just immediately sends an explosion at Aizuku. No questions asked. No. No. And Aizuku screams like a little girl. And it's amazing. It's amazing. Oh, my God. And then we cut to the end of the school day. Everyone apologizes for how crazy things got. Minus Kazuki and the grumpy kid who are still literally bumping heads. Yeah. But first, real quick. The other random kid. He had a mecha suit?

[00:32:26] That was his quirk? What is happening? I don't know. I need more information. I don't know. I was not paying attention to him. Even after he set off all those bombs. His quirk, I think, was some sort of tracking quirk. Yeah, but why did he have a mecha suit? His quirk was an explosion. Yeah, because he set off all those bombs. Yeah, his quirk was the explosion thing. I guess that's the heroes who he requested and they just didn't ask questions.

[00:32:53] Yeah, I'm guessing his quirk is kind of like Kotsky's or like it's some sort of concentration of whatever and he just explodes. Yeah, but why is his suit Voltron? Because it is. Sir. Anyways. Because he was the only one smart enough to ask for it. Yeah, but like he had the most badass suit out of all of them and we never got to see it in action. I'm just I'm upset. OVAs need to be three hours long.

[00:33:25] That's just another movie, ma'am. Yeah, I agree. Oh, man. So Sue and Habuko say a touching goodbye and hug it out, promising to become great heroes together. Gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay. Absolutely. It's the gayest thing ever. And they definitely have like in the future, they have a hero agency. Agency together. Absolutely.

[00:33:55] For like amphibious creatures. Yeah. And they go home together and then they have a house together. And then they're just. And when. And then they fertilize each other's eggs and it's beautiful. Yeah. They have tiny amphibian babies. There's terrestrial eggs. There's tadpoles. Yeah. They all look like it's beautiful and gorgeous. Spinner is there because he's the uncle. Yeah. Their house is one giant, beautiful aquarium. Or not aquarium. Terrarium. Terrarium. Terrarium. Terrarium. Terrarium. Yeah.

[00:34:25] Also, I feel like Spinner is Uncle Spinner because they like have very similar quirks, just different hair. He's, you know what? Yes. Yes. They're related. We've decided. We've decided. Yep. We are correct in every way possible. When Spinner gets let out on good behavior, he moves next door. Yep. And he helps them take care of their 30 babies. He's the de facto babysitter. Bakes cake for them. Yep. Teaches them about. Or whatever amphibians eat.

[00:34:53] Teaches them about League of Legends or whatever fucking game he and Shiggy play. Yep. So, then we cut to Izuku in a full body cast. Again. Again. He's not a zombie anymore. Now he's a mummy. Yeah. He's just a mummy. He's a mummy. Toshi brings him a bunch of cupcakes as an apology for not being able to stop the exercise in time. But he can't eat them because he's in a full body cast. Toshi.

[00:35:22] And that's the end of Training of the Dead. It's so beautiful. It was delightful. It was definitely a palate cleanser we needed. Uh-huh. 100%. The science. Yes. Science time. Okay. So, we're going to talk about what's-his-face is quirk. Pomerania number two. Yes. What is his name? Zombie gas guy. Zombie. I don't remember. Me neither. I'm going to pull it up.

[00:35:49] And it was more fun to call him Grumpy Kid. So, that's what I did. Because I'm like Katsuki. I like the nicknames. Anyways. So, his quirk is gas-based. So, it looks like it would be kind of like Katsuki's a little bit, or it's pheromone-based, I'm guessing. Ooh, what about spores? Spores. Hmm. It wouldn't be quite spores. Okay. Darn. I know. Unfortunate. It's more of a gas.

[00:36:18] So, it looks like he releases the gas from his skin, the way it got powered up. And it just, it expands with the air around it. And it's pink. Which, I mean, it's great. So, you inhale it. And then, when you inhale stuff, it gets into your system really, really quickly. Hmm. Hence, nicotine. And, you know, weed. It kind of works like that.

[00:36:48] Like, it'll get into your bloodstream really, really quickly. I'm assuming that, what's his face? Pomerania number two has like a coating in his lungs that allows him to be immune to it. So, it doesn't get into his bloodstream. Yeah. Not via his lungs anyway. Yeah. Not via his lungs. But, if he gets bit, it's getting the saliva.

[00:37:14] It's already in the host's bloodstream at this point. Because, again, it goes into your blood. When you inhale things and you don't have that immunity, it gets into your bloodstream really, really quickly. Mm-hmm. So, by the time he's bit and Katsuki's moving around like crazy, obviously. Yeah. So, it gets into his even quicker because he's going off and doing his Katsuki things.

[00:37:39] So, when he bites down, it breaks skin and it injects it directly into his bloodstream, causing him to also be zombified. Whereas, if it's in gas form, it can't get into his lungs. Makes sense. Makes sense. So, yeah. You're science. Woo! Okay. He does have a page on the My Hero wiki. His name is Romero. Sure. That's hilarious.

[00:38:05] But, also, it's a reference to George Romero, who's the filmmaker who made the Night of the Living Dead series. Oh, that's awesome. Go to bed. Poor Koshi, I love you. Oh, that's awesome. Also, the wiki mentions that he wears a breathing mask just like Mustard does. So, he probably is. He might be vulnerable to the gas. Interesting. I like Maria's science better.

[00:38:31] I do like when Horikoshi does that sometimes where, like, some people's bodies are more compatible with their quirks than others. Yeah, but I like Maria's better. I do like yours better, Maria. It's more science-based. Yes. Horikoshi got lazy. Well, it's an OVA. Yeah. Yeah. Who knows if he even wrote it, honestly. He didn't put his full Horikoshi into it. Yeah. It's a lacquer. I forgot that we used to refer to it as his Horikoshi. I'm bringing it back. Yeah. Just like 9-11, it will never die.

[00:39:04] Horikoshi. We will never forget. That's why never forget. We're horrible people and we're all going to hell. It's fine. We're going to get those. It's warm, at least. Listen. Listen. If you can't satirize your own tragedies, what are you even doing? Okay. I don't think... Again, discussion topics. Delightfully gay. That's about it. Yeah. There really wasn't that much to discuss. Manga differences.

[00:39:34] Nothing. Because it's an OVA. I couldn't read. It's fine. Easter eggs. Nothing. Yeah. Again, OVA. Big spoiler section. Gay. Gay. Spinner is the uncle after he gets out of prison, even though he's also now the Hulk somehow. It's fine. Oh, shit. He went to... Okay. Our bonus episode is usually pretty spoilery. Yeah. He went to Shinzo to Afghanistan. It's fine.

[00:40:03] Yeah, it's fine. Also, Spinner probably was in prison at some point before he joined the league because he was being naughty. He got out of prison and now he's back with the children, with the tadpoles. Mm-hmm. Yes. Also gay. I almost Googled, can snakes and frogs make hybrid babies? And immediately was like, no, they fucking can't. They're not even close. Yeah, man. But these are people with snake and frog quirks and therefore anything I say goes.

[00:40:34] And they fertilized each other's eggs. They fertilized... Okay. Theoretically, an amphibian... Yes. There are certain amphibians that can grow the male equipment needed to... Mm-hmm. That's true. ...procreate if there is no male present. Yep. Yes. So Sue's going to grow a dick. Snakes aren't amphibians, are they? No, snakes are lizards. No.

[00:41:04] Reptiles. Reptiles. Snakes are reptiles. Yeah, so Sue's going to grow a dick. Yeah. Sue's going to grow a dick. Sue's going to grow a dick. She's going to put it in Habuko's cloaca vagina. Mm-hmm. And then a couple years later, they're going to reverse it. Put the thing down, flip it, and reverse it. And it'll be... And they'll be done having kids. Yeah. Yep. Yep. And they'll have like 40 children and it'll be great. Yeah. They'll have their own little army. Mm-hmm. Yep. Their own little...

[00:41:33] Their beautiful, severely autistic army. They can't go to regular school. They need extra support. Okay. A fun fact. Again, I was blind, so I couldn't do anything to research. But we can do just like zombie stuff because Halloween. Yeah. It's true. Yeah. Zombies. Zombies. I actually do have a zombie fun fact.

[00:42:03] Yes. Tell me everything. So, according to researchers, if we were to have a zombie apocalypse, they would be... Oh, God. Which ones are the really fast zombies? Yeah. The runners. The runners. Yeah. I'm pretty... That would be the most... That was 28 days later, right? Yeah. I think so. Yeah. That would be the most likely type of zombie we would have. So, you know, just take me out. I will not survive. I can't run.

[00:42:33] I'm very slow. See, this is where being in Chicago comes in handy because, yes, there's a lot of people, but there's also a lot of infrastructure. True. But also, on top of that, the zombie apocalypse would only last as long as the decaying body is alive. So, or like functional. So, a decaying body usually takes about... Hmm. Like, they start falling apart pretty quickly, right?

[00:43:02] 20 days. It would be like about a month. So, if you can survive the month without getting dead... I can survive a month. You theoretically could survive the zombie apocalypse. It wouldn't last like a year. Yeah. Or however much. It would be until all the bodies start decaying. Yeah. Until they stop being able to run around and bite. But we'd also need to make sure to neutralize whatever caused the zombie apocalypse. Yes. Whether it was... That's the other thing. What quarantine is for...

[00:43:31] Or... Yeah. And burn the bodies. But you know. Yeah. You gotta burn the bodies. But theoretically, if you could survive a month during the zombie apocalypse... We'll call it two months of quarantine to make sure that the virus or whatever it is that infects everyone also has enough time to just completely die out after it's taken over the population. Yeah.

[00:43:56] But the problem is, if the original virus isn't studied by epidemiologists, we're not going to know where it came from. So, it could just be floating around in a bunch of puppies. And the puppies are just carriers. And then everybody's in quarantine for two months. And then they come out. It's like, oh, puppies! More zombies. So, like... We need to go into quarantine. Also, save the epidemiology. Yeah. I guess it depends how many people can be carriers. Yes. It depends on the carrier. Because if the carrier number is zero, like, if you get infected, then you

[00:44:25] you show symptoms, then we're good. Right. But yeah. We got to make sure there's no typhoid Mary zombies with the puppies. I'm just saying, this sounds like two months of vacation. I mean, yeah. Except... But also, you don't have to be... I'm talking delusional. It's fine. We got to make sure the power stays on so we can watch TV. I'll figure it out. I have books. True. And also, you know, make sure you don't have glass windows. I would die anyways. It's like... Yeah.

[00:44:54] No, I'm going to die because I'm not fast. I'm going to board up my entire apartment building. And we'll have to figure out the food situation. That's going to be the biggest part is the food situation. But I think we can make it happen. Yeah. Probably. You have the roughest time because of your gluten and stuff. But yeah. Anyways. Theoretically. I just need to make sure that I have enough rice to last me for two months.

[00:45:23] I'll have like fucking rickets or something when I come out. But I can solve that afterwards. Just have a bunch of spices. Rickets is reversible. You'll be fine. Yeah, exactly. Whatever fucking... Not discrepancies. Deficiencies I have can be fixed. I won't die from those in two months. Anyway. Even if I get scurvy. There you go. That's your fun fact of zombies. Yay. Fern is planning to survive.

[00:45:51] Fern will be surviving by themselves. Fern is delusional. Nicole would be like, where's the closest gun? I'm not going to do it right off. But like, I'm going to get a gun just in case. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no. There will be guns and like traps involved and shit. If the horde is coming, I'm not going to wait for it to get to me. But if I don't see the horde coming, I'm going to just try to hang low. Hang low.

[00:46:20] That was a testicle joke, everybody. Oh, I definitely went to... Do the flutter chain hang low? Do the wobble to the floor? Which is also... About testicles. Yeah, it's also about testicles. Put your testicles away. Or freeball it. You can do whatever you want after the zombie apocalypse. Please don't freeball it where I can see them. Put them away. Put a skirt on. Put your dick. Away.

[00:46:48] Put a maxi skirt on and learn how to cross your legs demurely. I don't care if it squishes your testicles. I don't want to see the ball sack. Anyway. Anyway, does that count as a fun death fact? Yes. Okay. Also, listeners, you should be scared of cordyceps, but only in the sense that they have the ability, like every other living creature, to mutate.

[00:47:18] They don't... They can't infect you right now. We're okay. Last of us is very scary, but we're not there yet. No. Also, chances of that actually happening are kind of low. Very low. Yeah. But also... Not impossible. I know. Not impossible, but low. We have more immediate problems. You don't need to worry about things that don't exist yet. You have plenty of other shit to worry about. I mean, first of all, let's get past this election season. Go vote! Go vote, you bitches!

[00:47:48] I'm going on Friday. Vote. And then tell us who voted and we'll give you a shout out. Yes. We'll give you your virtual... Gold star. You'll hear more about it in the episode that comes out like two days after this one. Yeah. Yeah. We'll get to it. Where are we? Are we... We're done. We're at the bottom. Yes. Because it's fun. It was a fun death act with Maria because she is the science lady. Okay.

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